“The frog he came a-swimming, a-swimming, to
          land, oh,
  And the crow, he came a-hopping to lend him his
          hand, oh;
  Sir, I thank you; Sir, I thank you, said the frog to
          the crow, and then, oh;
  Sir, you’re welcome; Sir, you’re welcome, said the
          crow to the frog again, oh.

  “But where is the music on yonder green hill, oh;
  And where are the dancers, the dancers in yellow,
  All in yellow, all in yellow? said the frog to the
          crow, and then, oh;
  Sir, they’re here; Sir, they’re here, said the crow to
          the frog, and eat him all up, Oh,” (screamed.)

The moral is obvious, and the diction too recent for the song to have any great antiquity.  I have never seen it in print.

T.I.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

It would, we think, be extremely difficult to find any subject upon which persons, otherwise well informed, were so entirely ignorant, until the appearance of Mrs. Jameson’s Sacred and Legendary Art, as the one upon which that lady treated in those ably written and beautifully illustrated volumes.  It seemed as if the Act of Henry VIII., which declared that the name and remembrance of Thomas a Becket should be erased from all documents, had had the effect of obliterating from all memories not only the often puerile, often offensive stories of the legend-mongers, but, with them, all remembrance of those holy men of old, whose piety towards God, and love for their fellow men, furnished example for all succeeding ages.  To readers of all classes Mrs. Jameson opened up a new and most interesting subject:  to lovers of Art almost a new world, from the light which her learning and criticism threw upon its master-pieces.  What wonder is it, then, that the success of her Sacred and Legendary Art, confined as the two volumes necessarily were to legends of angels and archangels, evangelists and apostles, the Fathers, the Magdalene, the patron saints, the virgin patronesses, the martyrs, bishops and hermits, and the patron saints of christendom, should have led Mrs. Jameson to continue her labours?  The first part of such continuation is now before us, under the title of Legends of the Monastic Orders:  and most fitting it is that the three great divisions of the regular ecclesiastics should be thus commemorated, since of them Mrs. Jameson aptly remarks, that while each had a distinct vocation, there was one vocation common to all:—­“The Benedictine Monks instituted schools of learning; the Augustines built noble cathedrals; the Mendicant Orders founded hospitals:  all became patrons of the Fine Arts on such a scale of munificence, that the protection of the most renowned princes has been mean and insignificant in comparison.”  Nor