he shrine to which their bleeding feet,
Day after day, in voiceless penance turn;
Silence the holy cell and calm retreat
In which unseen their meek devotions burn;
Life is to them a vigil that none share,
Their hopes a sacrifice, their love a prayer.

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'OUR Ancient,' the editor of the handsome 'Lady's and Gentleman's
Magazine' hight '_The Columbian_,' (which is to run a brisk competition,
as we learn, with the other 'pictorials,' GODEY'S, GRAHAM'S, and
SNOWDEN'S,) should have enabled us to speak of it from an examination of
_our own copy_, instead of being obliged to filch an idea of its merits
from the counter of those most obliging gentlemen, Messrs. BURGESS AND
STRINGER. The work is a gay one externally, and spirited internally;
having several good articles from good writers, male and female. One of
the best things in it, however, is the paper on '_Magazine Literature_,'
by the Editor. How many writers, now well known both at home and abroad,
who began and continue their literary career in the KNICKERBOCKER, can
bear testimony to the truth of the following remarks:

'WE have said that this is the age of magazines; adverting not
merely to their number, but even more especially to their
excellence. They are the field, chiefly, in which literary
reputation is won. Who ever thinks of JOHN WILSON as the learned
professor, or as the author of bound volumes? Who does not, when
WILSON'S name is mentioned, instantly call to mind the splendid
article-writer, the CHRISTOPHER NORTH of Blackwood? CHARLES LAMB
was long known only as the ELIA of the New Monthly. Most of the
modern French celebrities; SUE, JANIN, and half a hundred others,
have made their fame in the _feuilletons_ of the Parisian
journals; a more decided graft, by the way, than is elsewhere
seen, of the magazine upon the newspaper. In our own country, how
many there are whose names are known from the St. Lawrence to the
Gulf of Mexico, that are as yet innocent of books, but have
nevertheless contributed largely and well to the growing stock of
American literature. How many more who are bringing themselves
into notice by their monthly efforts in the pages of some popular
magazine. In fact, the magazine is the true channel into which
talent should direct itself for the acquisition of literary fame.
The newspaper is too ephemeral; t