No words can describe the loveliness of its fair fields, and vainly has the present writer tried to catch the spirit of those splendid pictures, which the valley unrolls in autumn days.

The morning splendors and magnificent sunsets--the noble river and blue battlements, forever escape him.

It is in the midst of these scenes that he has endeavored to place a young hunter--a child of the woods--and to show how his wild nature was impressed by the new life and advancing civilization around him.

The process of his mental development is the chief aim of the book.
Of the other personages of the story it is not necessary here to speak--they will relieve the author of that trouble; yet he cannot refrain from asking in advance a friendly consideration for Miss Redbud.

He trusts that her simplicity and innocence will gain for her the hearts of all who admire those qualities; and that in consideration of her liking for her friend Verty, that these friends of her own will bestow a portion of their approbation upon the young woodman: pity him when he incurs the displeasure of Mr., Jinks: sympathise with him when he is overwhelmed by the reproaches of Mr.Roundjacket, and rejoice with him when, in accordance with the strictest rules of poetic justice, he is rewarded for his kindness and honesty by the possession of the two things which he coveted the most in the world.
RICHMOND, _June_, 1856.
THE LAST OF THE FORESTERS.
"_If we shadows have offended, Think but this, (and all is mended,) That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear; And this weak and idle theme No more yielding than a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend_." MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM.
THE LAST OF THE FORESTERS,.