uary number of "Godey" was a decided "_hit_;" but
our Georgia correspondent seems to have got the tallest kind of a
"smite" from one of our fair poetesses. If _one_ can do such execution,
what may be expected of a broadside from a whole solid column of such
charming contributors as the "Lady's Book" can boast? Hear him:--

"MR GODEY--DEAR SIR: I did not think to trouble you so soon again, but
the singular beauty of the 'sylphs' and the 'sonnets' inspired my muse
to utter the following:--

"THE 'SYLPHS' AND THE 'SONNETS.'

"As the sylphs of the seasons tripped their round,
In a sacred grove of laurel trees
Another fair sylph of the season they found,
And they crowned her 'Mary Spenser Pease.'

"So wild, so sweet was her sylvan song,
They, listening, delayed the passing years
Till, floating away, they bore her along,
To sing her sonnets in brighter spheres.

"_La Fayette, Walker Co., Ga._, January 22d, 1851."

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WE are happy to find that the ladies have their husbands' _interest_ so
much at heart. Several orders have been received since our last for
"Breban's Interest Tables," the advertisement of which appears on our
cover.

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WE have been favored with an engraving representing the "Family Seat of
George C. Sibley, Esq.," at Linden Wood, near St. Charles, Mo. It must
be a place of exceeding beauty.

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CAMEOS.--We have on several occasions called the attention of our
readers to the perfect likenesses produced in cameo by Mr. Peabody,
whose room is in Chestnut Street near Fifth. One of the most perfect
specimens of his cutting, which we recently had the pleasure to examine,
is the likeness of GENERAL PATTERSON, our well-known fellow-citizen.
Heretofore, we fear our friends have not paid sufficient attention to
this beautiful art, or given it that encouragement it so richly merits.
We hope, however, that the time is at hand when the able and persevering
artist will be fully appreciated and rewarded for all his skill and
labor in the introduction of these accurate and beautiful memorials of
love and friendship.

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IMPURE MILK.--A lawsuit was recently brought, in New York, against our
friend Howard, of the Irving House, to recover the sum of two hundred
dollars, alleged to be due for milk deliv