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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, Vol. 13, Issue 350, January 3, 1829, by Various
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13,
+Issue 350, January 3, 1829
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+Author: Various
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+Release Date: January 26, 2004  [eBook #10838]
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 13, No. 350.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1829. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+BRUCE CASTLE, TOTTENHAM.
+
+[Illustration: BRUCE CASTLE, TOTTENHAM.]
+
+
+The engraving represents this interesting structure, as it appeared in
+the year 1686; being copied from a print, after a picture by Wolridge.
+
+The original castle was very ancient, as appears by the foundations, and
+an old brick tower over a deep well, the upper part of which has been
+used as a dairy. The castle is said to have been built by Earl Waltheof,
+who, in 1069 married Judith, niece to William the Conqueror, who gave
+him the earldom of Northampton and Huntingdon for her portion. Matilda
+or Maud, their only child, after the death of Simon St. Liz, her first
+husband, married David, first of the name, king of Scotland; and Maud,
+being heiress of Huntingdon, had in her own right, as an appendix to
+that honour, the manor of Tottenham in Middlesex.
+
+Robert Bruce, grandson of David, Earl of Huntingdon, and grandfather to
+Robert I. of Scotland, memorable as the restorer of the independence of
+his country, became one of the competitors for the crown of Scotland in
+1290, but being superseded by John Baliol, Bruce retired to England, and
+settled at his grandfather's estate at Tottenham, repaired the castle,
+and acquiring another manor, called it and the castle after his own
+name. Shakspeare says,
+
+  Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns,
+
+and the fortunes of the two Bruces are "confirmation strong as holy
+writ."
+
+The estate being forfeited to the crown, it had different proprietors,
+till 1631, when it was in the possession of Hugh Hare, Lord Coleraine.
+Henry Hare, the last Lord Coleraine of that family, having been deserted
+by his wife, who obstinately refused, for twenty years, to return to
+him, formed a connexion with Miss Roze Duplessis, a French lady, by whom
+he had a daughter, born in Italy, whom he named Henrietta Roza
+Peregrina, and to whom he left all his estates. This lady married the
+late Mr. Alderman Townsend; but, being an alien, she could not take the
+estates; and the will being legally made, barred the heirs at law; so
+that the estate escheated to the crown. However, a grant of these
+estates, confirmed by act of parliament, was made to Mr. Townsend and
+his lady, whose son, Henry Hare Townsend, Esq. in 1792, voluntarily sold
+the property for the payment of the family debts; and "although the
+castle may soon be levelled with the ground, yet the destruction of this
+ancient fabric will acquire him more honour, than if the prudence of his
+ancestors had enabled him to restore the three towers, of which now only
+one remains."[1]
+
+    [1] Gough's Camden.
+
+The present mansion is partly ancient, and partly modern, and was very
+lately the property of Sir William Curtis, Bart. Up to the period at
+which the castle is represented in the engraving, the building must have
+undergone many alterations, as the tower on the left, and the two
+octagonal and centre towers, will prove. The grounds there appear laid
+out in the trim fashion of the seventeenth century, and ornamented with
+fountains, vases, &c.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEW YEAR'S CUSTOM.
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+BROMLEY PAGETS, Staffordshire, is 129 miles from London, and is a pretty
+town on the skirts of Derbyshire. This place is remarkable, or was
+lately, for a sport on New Year's Day and Twelfth Day, called _The
+Hobby-Horse Dance_, from a person who rode upon the image of a horse,
+with a bow and arrow in his hands, with which he made a snapping noise,
+and kept time to the music, while six men danced the hay and other
+country dances, with as many deer's heads on their shoulders. To this
+hobby-horse belonged a pot, which the reeves of the town kept filled
+with cakes and ale, towards which the spectators contributed a penny,
+and with the remainder they maintained their poor and repaired the
+church.
+
+HALBERT H.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE BARON'S TRUMPET.
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+      Thou blowest for Hector.
+            TROILUS and CRESSIDA.
+
+
+  Sound, sound the charge, when the wassel bowl
+    Is lifted with songs, let the trumpets shrill blast
+  Awaken like fire in the warrior's soul,
+    The bright recollections of chivalry past;
+  Let the lute or the lyre the soft stripling rejoice,
+  No music on earth is so sweet as thy voice.
+
+  Sound, sound the charge when the foe is before us,
+    When the visors are closed and the lances are down,
+  If we fall, let the banner of victory o'er us
+    Dance time to thy clarion that sings our renown:
+  To the souls of the valiant no requiem is given,
+  So fit as thine echoes, to soothe them in heaven.
+
+LEON.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE NEW YEAR
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+  Twenty-nine, Father Janus! and can it be true,
+  That your _double-fac'd_ sconce is again in our view?
+  Take a chair, my old boy--while our glasses we fill,
+  And tell us, "what news"--for you can if you will.
+
+  Shall we have any war? or will there be peace?
+  Will swindlers, as usual, the credulous fleece?
+  Will the season produce us a _deluge_ of rain?
+  Did the comet bring coughs and catarrhs in his train?
+
+  Will gas, so delicious, _perfume_ our abodes?
+  Will McAdam continue "Colossus of _roads?_"
+  Will Venus's boy be abroad with his bow,
+  And make the dear girls over bachelors crow?
+
+  Will _quid-nuncs_ from scandalous whispers refrain?
+  Will poets the pent of Parnassus attain?
+  Will travellers' tomes touch the truth to a T?
+  Will critics from caustic coercion be free?
+
+  Shall we check crafty care in his cunning career?
+  In short--shall we welcome a happy new year?
+  What, _mum_, Father Janus?--egad I suppose,
+  Not one of our queries you mean to disclose.
+
+  Let us, therefore, the blessings which Providence sends,
+  To our country, to us, our relations and friends,
+  With gratitude own--and employ the supplies,
+  As prudence suggests, "to be merry and wise."
+
+  Nor ever, too curious the future to pry,
+  Presume on our own feeble strength to rely;
+  But, taught by the _past;_ for the _future_, depend
+  Where the wise and the good all their wishes extend.
+
+JACOBUS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FALLING STONES.
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+Of these bodies, the most general opinion now is, that they are really
+of _celestial_ origin. But a few years ago, nothing could have appeared
+more absurd than the idea that we should ever be able to examine the
+most minute fragment of the siderial system; and it must, no doubt, be
+reckoned among the wonders of the age in which we live, that
+considerable portions of these heavenly bodies are now known to have
+descended to the earth. An event so wonderful and unexpected was at
+first received with incredulity and ridicule; but we may now venture to
+consider the fact as well established as any other hypothesis of natural
+philosophy, which does not actually admit of mathematical demonstration.
+The attention of our philosophers was first called to this subject by
+the falling of one of these masses of matter near Flamborough Head, in
+Yorkshire; it weighed about 50 pounds, and for some years after its
+descent did not excite the interest it deserved, nor would perhaps that
+attention have been paid to it which was required for the investigation
+of the truth, if a similar and more striking phenomenon had not happened
+a few years afterwards at Benares, in the East Indies. Some fragments of
+the stones which fell in India were brought to Sir Joseph Banks by Major
+Williams; and Sir Joseph being desirous of knowing if there might not be
+some truth in these repeated accounts of falling stones, gave them to be
+analyzed, when it was found by a very skilful analysis, published in the
+Transactions, 1802, that the stones collected in various countries, and
+to which a similar history is attached, contained very peculiar
+ingredients, and all of the same kind. The earthy parts were silex and
+magnesia, in which were interspersed small grains of metallic iron.
+Since these investigations, the subject has attracted very general
+attention, and most of the fragments of stones said to have fallen from
+heaven, and which have been preserved in the cabinets of the curious, on
+account of this tradition, have been analyzed, and found to consist of
+the same ingredients, varying only in their different proportions.
+
+Pliny relates, that a great stone fell near Egos Potamos, in the
+Thracian Chersonese, in the second year of the 78th Olympiad. In the
+year 1706, another large stone is, on the authority of Paul Lucas, then
+at Larissa, said to have fallen in Macedonia. It weighed 72 pounds.
+Cardan assures us, that a shower of at least 1,200 stones fell in Italy,
+the largest of which weighed 120 pounds; and their fall was accompanied
+by a great light in the air.
+
+The caaba, or great black stone, preserved by the Mahometans in the
+Temple of Mecca, had probably a celestial origin. It is said to have
+been brought from heaven by the angel Gabriel. Some astronomers imagine
+that these stones have been thrown from a lunar volcano. There is
+nothing, perhaps, philosophically inconsistent in this theory, for
+volcanic appearances have been seen in the moon; and a force such as our
+volcanoes exert would be sufficient to project fragments that might
+possibly arrive at the surface of the earth. But probability is
+certainly against it, and it seems more likely that they are fragments
+of comets. For those bodies, from their own nature, must be subject to
+chemical changes of a very violent nature; add to this, that from the
+smallness of their dimensions, a fragment projected from them with a
+very slight velocity would never return to the mass to which it
+originally belonged; but would traverse the celestial regions till it
+met with some planetary or other body sufficiently ponderous to attract
+it to itself.
+
+We have numerous other instances of these phenomena, which are attested
+by many very credible witnesses, but I will not at present monopolize
+more of your valuable pages with this subject, though one of
+considerable interest; yet I may, perhaps, at some future period, if
+agreeable, send you a few rather more circumstantial and more
+interesting accounts than the above.
+
+_Near Sheffield._
+
+J.M.C----D.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE POET, CHATTERTON.
+
+_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_
+
+
+Should the following notice of Chatterton, which I copy from a _small
+handkerchief_ in my possession, be thought worthy of a place in the
+MIRROR, you will oblige me by inserting it. The handkerchief has been in
+my possession about twenty-five years, and was probably printed soon
+after the poet's death; he is represented sitting at a table, writing,
+in a miserable apartment; behind him the bed turned up, &c.
+
+SUFFOLK.
+
+
+_The Distressed Poet, or a true representation of the unfortunate
+Chatterton._
+
+The painting from which the engraving was taken of the distressed poet,
+was the work of a friend of the unfortunate Chatterton. This friend drew
+him in the situation in which he is represented in this plate. Anxieties
+and cares had advanced his life, and given him an older look than was
+suited to his age. The sorry apartment portrayed in the print, the
+folded bed, the broken utensil below it, the bottle, the farthing
+candle, and the disorderly raiment of the bard, are not inventions of
+fancy. They were realities; and a satire upon an age and a nation of
+which generosity is doubtless a conspicuous characteristic. But poor
+Chatterton was born under a bad star: his passions were too impetuous,
+and in a distracted moment he deprived himself of an existence, which
+his genius, and the fostering care of the public would undoubtedly have
+rendered comfortable and happy. Unknown and miserable while alive, he
+now calls forth curiosity and attention. Men of wit and learning employ
+themselves to celebrate his talents, and to express their approbation of
+his writings. Hard indeed was his fate, born to adorn the times in which
+he lived, yet compelled to fall a victim to pride and poverty! His
+destiny, cruel as it was, gives a charm to his verses; and while the
+bright thought excites admiration, the recollection of his miseries
+awakens a tender sympathy and sorrow. Who would not wish that he had
+been so fortunate as to relieve a fellow creature so accomplished, from
+wretchedness, despair, and suicide?
+
+
+WRITTEN ON VIEWING THE PORTRAIT OF CHATTERTON.
+
+  Ah! what a contrast in that face portray'd,
+  Where care and study cast alternate shade;
+  But view it well, and ask thy heart the cause,
+  Then chide, with honest warmth, that cold applause
+  Which counteracts the fostering breath of praise,
+  And shades with cypress the young poet's bays:
+  Pale and dejected, mark, how genius strives
+  With poverty, and mark, how well it thrives;
+  The shabby cov'ring of the gentle bard,
+  Regard it well, 'tis worthy thy regard,
+  The friendly cobweb, serving for a screen,
+  The chair, a part of what it once had been;
+  The bed, whereon th' unhappy victim slept
+  And oft unseen, in silent anguish, wept,
+  Or spent in dear delusive dreams, the night,
+  To wake, next morning, but to curse the light,
+  Too deep distress the artist's hand reveals;
+  But like a friend's the black'ning deed conceals;
+  Thus justice, to mild complacency bends,
+  And candour, all harsh influence, suspends.
+  Enthron'd, supreme in judgment, mercy sits,
+  And, in one breath condemns, applauds, acquits:
+  Whoe'er thou art, that shalt this face survey,
+  And turn, with cold disgust, thine eyes away.
+  Then bless thyself, that sloth and ignorance bred
+  Thee up in safety, and with plenty fed,
+  Peace to thy mem'ry! may the sable plume
+  Of dulness, round thy forehead ever bloom;
+  May'st thou, nor can I wish a greater curse;
+  Live full despis'd, and die without a nurse;
+  Or, if same wither'd hag, for sake of hire,
+  Should wash thy sheets, and cleanse thee from the mire,
+  Let her, when hunger peevishly demands
+  The dainty morsel from her barb'rous hands,
+  Insult, with hellish mirth, thy craving maw
+  And snatch it to herself, and call it law,
+  Till pinching famine waste thee to the bone
+  And break, at last, that solid heart of stone.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LAY OF THE WANDERING ARAB.
+
+
+  "Away, away, my barb and I,"
+    As free as wave, as fleet as wind,
+  We sweep the sands of Araby,
+    And leave a world of slaves behind.
+
+  'Tis mine to range in this wild garb,
+    Nor e'er feel lonely though alone;
+  I would not change my Arab barb,
+    To mount a drowsy Sultan's throne.
+
+  Where the pale stranger dares not come,
+    Proud o'er my native sands I rove;
+  An Arab tent my only home,
+    An Arab maid my only love.
+
+  Here freedom dwells without a fear--
+    Coy to the world, she loves the wild;
+  Whoever brings a fetter here,
+    To chain the desert's fiery child.
+
+  What though the Frank may name with scorn,
+    Our barren clime, our realm of sand,
+  There were our thousand fathers born--
+    Oh, who would scorn his father's land?
+
+  It is not sands that form a waste,
+    Nor laughing fields a happy clime;
+  The spot, the most by Freedom graced,
+    Is where a man feels most sublime!
+
+  "Away, away, my barb and I."
+    As free as wave as fleet as wind,
+  We sweep the sands of Araby,
+    And leave a world of slaves behind!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOSTALGIA--MALADIE DE PAYS--CALENTURE.
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+This disease, according to Dr. Darwin, is an unconquerable desire of
+returning to one's native country, frequent in long voyages, in which
+the patients become so insane, as to throw themselves into the sea,
+mistaking it for green fields or meadows:--
+
+  "So, by a _calenture_ misled,
+    The mariner with rapture sees,
+  On the smooth ocean's azure bed,
+    Enamell'd fields and verdant trees.
+  With eager haste he longs to rove
+    In that fantastic scene, and thinks
+  It must be some enchanting grove,
+    And in he leaps, and down he sinks."
+
+SWIFT.
+
+
+The Swiss are said to be particularly liable to this disease, and when
+taken into foreign service, frequently to desert from this cause, and
+especially after hearing or singing a particular tune, which was used in
+their village dances, in their native country, on which account the
+playing or singing this tune was forbidden by the punishment of death.
+
+  "Dear is that shed, to which his soul conforms,
+  And dear that hill, which lifts him to the storms."
+
+GOLDSMITH.
+
+
+Rousseau says, "The celebrated Swiss tune, called the _Rans des Vaches_,
+is an air, so dear to the Swiss, that it was forbidden under the pain of
+death to play it to the troops, as it immediately drew tears from them,
+and made those who heard it desert, or die of what is called _la maladie
+de pays_, so ardent a desire did it excite to return to their native
+country. It is in vain to seek in this air for energetic accents capable
+of producing such astonishing effects, for which strangers are unable to
+account from the music, which is in itself uncouth and wild. But it is
+from habit, recollections, and a thousand circumstances retraced in this
+tune by those natives who hear it, and reminding them of their country,
+former pleasures of their youth, and all those ways of living, which
+occasion a bitter reflection at having lost them. Music, then, does not
+affect them as music, but as a reminiscence. This air, though always
+the same, no longer produces the same effects at present as it did upon
+the Swiss formerly; for having lost their taste for their first
+simplicity, they no longer regret its loss when reminded of it. So true
+it is, that we must not seek in physical causes the great effects of
+sound upon the human heart."
+
+This disease (says Dr. Winterbottom) affects the natives of Africa as
+strongly as it does those of Switzerland; it is even more violent in its
+effects on the Africans, and often impels them to dreadful acts of
+suicide. Sometimes it plunges them into a deep melancholy, which induces
+the unhappy sufferers to end a miserable existence by a more tedious,
+though equally certain method, that of dirt eating.
+
+Such is the powerful influence of the lore of one's native country.
+
+P.T.W.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SINGULAR CUSTOM OF THE SULTAN OF TURKEY.
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+After the opening of the Bairam,[2] a ceremony among the Turks, attended
+with more than ordinary magnificence; the Sultan, accompanied by the
+Grand Signior and all the principal officers of state, goes to exhibit
+himself to the people in a kiosk, or tent near the seraglio point,
+seated on a sofa of silver, brought out for the occasion. It is a very
+large, wooden couch covered with thick plates of massive silver, highly
+burnished, and there is little doubt from the form of it, and the style
+in which it is ornamented that it constituted part of the treasury of
+the Greek emperors when Constantinople was taken by the Turks.
+
+INA.
+
+    [2] The Bairam of the Turks answers to our Easter, as their Ramadan
+    does to our Lent.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EL BORRACHO.[3]
+
+    [3] The Drunkard; the Spanish origin of this title is endeavoured to
+    to be recognised in its title.
+
+
+Not long since, a couple resided in the suburbs of Madrid, named Perez
+and Juana Donilla; and a happy couple they might have been, had not
+Perez contracted a sad habit of drinking, which became more and more
+confirmed after every draught of good wine; and such draughts were
+certainly more frequent than his finances were in a state to allow.
+Night after night was spent at the tavern; fairly might he be said to
+_swallow_ all that he earned by his daily labour; and Juana and himself
+(fortunately they had no children to maintain) must have been reduced
+to absolute mendicity, but for the exemplary conduct of the former, who
+contrived to support her spouse and herself upon the scanty produce of
+her unwearied industry. If ever a sentiment of gratitude for undeserved
+favours animated the bosom of Perez Donilla, he took, it must be
+confessed, a strange method of declaring it; not only would he, upon his
+return from his lawless carousals, grumble over that humble fare, the
+possession of which at all he ought to have considered as scarce less
+than a miracle, but, in his madness, unmerciful strappings were sure to
+be the portion of his miserable wife. Poor Juana bore these cruelties
+with a patience that ought to have canonized her under the title of St.
+Grizzle: she could not, indeed, forbear crying out, under these frequent
+and severe castigations; nor could she refrain from soliciting the aid
+of three or four favourite gentlemen saints, who, little to the credit
+of their gallantry and good-nature, always turned a deaf ear upon her
+plaints and entreaties; not a word, however, of the inhuman conduct of
+her _worser_ half did she breathe to _mortal_ ear. Neighbours, however,
+have auricular organs like walls and little pitchers, tongues like
+bells, and a spice of meddling and mischief in them like asses; so that
+no wise person will suppose the conduct of Perez Donilla to his wife was
+long a secret in Madrid. Juana had two brothers and a cousin resident in
+the city--Gomez Arias, chief cook to his reverence the Canon Fernando;
+Hernan Arias, head groom to Don Miguel de Corcoba, a knight of
+Calatrava; and Pedro Pedrillo, a young barber-surgeon, in business for
+himself. Gomez and Hernan, hearing of Juana's misfortunes, said, like
+affectionate brothers. "God help our poor sister, and may her own
+relations help her also; for if _they_ do not, nobody else will, and she
+certainly can't help herself." The like words they repeated to Pedro
+Pedrillo, until he, being a sharp, handsome young fellow, and
+particularly fond of showing forth his fine person and finer wit, agreed
+to visit his cousin, and contrive some plan to extricate her from the
+cruelty of Perez. Making himself, therefore, as fascinating as possible,
+he marched directly to the house, or rather cabin, of Juana Donilla, and
+stood before her, smiling and watching her small, thin fingers plaitting
+straw for hats, some minutes ere she was aware of his presence. "Pedro!"
+exclaimed she, with a countenance and voice of pleasure, as she
+recognised the intruder.--"Ay, _Pedro_ it is, indeed, Juana; but,
+improved as _I_ am. O, mercy upon me, how black _you_ are
+looking!"--"_Black_, cousin? Nay, then, I'm sure 'tis not for want of
+washing. Come, come, Pedro, no jokes, if you please."--"By St. Jago,
+fair cousin, I'm as far from a joke as I am from a diploma; and my
+business in this house, as in most houses, is no _jest_, I assure you.
+In a word, the cries which you utter when suffering from the insane fury
+of your sottish husband have reached even me, and I'm come to offer you
+a little advice and assistance. No denial of the fact, Juana; those
+black bruises avouch it without a tongue."--Juana held down her head,
+colour mounted into her cheeks, tears suffused her eyes, her bosom
+heaved convulsively, and for some moments she was silent from confusion,
+shame, grief, and gratitude. At length, withdrawing her hand from the
+affectionate grasp of Pedro, and dashing it athwart her eyes, she looked
+up and said mildly, "Thanks, many thanks, dear cousin, for your
+kindness. I cannot dissemble with you; what would you have me do? I
+could not _beat_ him in return; and, oh! save him from the arm of
+my brothers!"--"What have you always done?"--"Borne his stripes, and
+called for help upon St. Jago, St. Francis Xavier, St. Benedict, and
+St. Nicholas!"--"And did you never invoke the three holy Maries?"--
+"Never."--"Then that's what you ought to have done," returned Senor
+Pedrillo, with the utmost gravity. "Now mind me,--call upon _them_
+for aid next time your husband maltreats you."--"Alas!" sighed the
+afflicted wife, "_that_ will most surely be to-night. I've not much
+faith in your remedy, Pedro; but may be there's no harm in trying
+it."--"Farewell, then, my poor, pretty, patient, black-bruised cousin,"
+cried Pedrillo; "next time you see the _doctor_, let him know how his
+remedy has sped;" and with a comical expression of countenance, half
+melancholy, half mirthful, the "trusty and well-beloved cousin"
+departed.
+
+Late that night, Perez Donilla entered his own habitation as intoxicated
+and belligerent as ever. "Where's my supper?"--"Here," said his wife,
+trembling, as she placed before him a few heads of garlic, a piece of
+salted trout, a little oil, and a crust of barley bread. "What's all
+this, woman?" exclaimed Perez, in a voice of thunder; and with glaring
+eyes and demoniacal fury he dashed the fish at her head, and the rest of
+his supper upon the floor. "Wretch! how durst _you_ fatten upon olios
+and ragouts, and set trash like _this_ before your _husband?_"--"My
+dear," replied Juana, meekly, "I am starving; nothing have I tasted
+since breakfast."--"Don't lie, you jade! Where's the wild-fowl and the
+Bologna sausage sent you by that rogue, Gomez? Stolen were they from
+the canon's kitchen, and you know it! And where's the skin of excellent
+Calcavella, from the Caballero's overflowing vaults? Give it to me this
+_instant_, you hussy, you vixen, you--"--"Indeed, _indeed_," cried the
+unfortunate wife in deep anguish, "I take all the saints in heaven to
+witness--."--"That, and that, and _that_," interrupted the furious
+tyrant, lashing her severely, according to custom, with a thick thong of
+leather, and now and then adding a blow with his fist; "let's see if
+_that_ will bring me a supper fit for a Christian, and a draught of Don
+Miguel's Calcavella!" Juana remembered Pedrillo's advice, and after
+roaring out more loudly than usual for aid from St. Jago, St. Francis,
+St. Benedict, and St. Nicholas, shrieked at the highest pitch of her
+voice, "May the three blessed Maries help me!" No sooner were the words
+uttered, than in rushed three apparitions, arrayed in white, but so
+enfolded in lined, that it was impossible to determine whether they
+represented men or women; of their visages, only their eyes were
+visible, peering frightfully from the white covering of their heads;
+each brandished a good stout cudgel, and each, without uttering a word,
+falling quick as thought upon Perez Donilla, repaid him the blows he had
+lavished on his unhappy wife with such interest, as would have sealed
+his fate indubitably, had not she interposed; but upon the entreaties of
+that exemplary wife, the three holy Maries remitted the remainder of
+their flagellation, and retired, leaving Perez senseless on the floor.
+Poor Juana was agonized at beholding the state to which her graceless
+partner was reduced, and hauling him, as well as her own exhausted
+strength would permit, upon his miserable pallet, washed the blood and
+dust from his wounds, and watched his return to consciousness with
+unexampled tenderness and dutiful fidelity. Perez at length opened his
+eyes, and said, in the mild voice which was natural to him when sober,
+"My poor Juana, I wish you could fetch your cousin Pedro to see me; I
+think I shall die." Juana was half distracted at this speech; and
+running to the next house, bribed a neighbour's child by the promise of
+a broad-brimmed straw hat, to shade his complexion from the sun, to run
+for Doctor Pedrillo. Pedro soon arrived, and was evidently more puzzled
+respecting his deportment than the case of his patient. Sundry "nods,
+and becks, and wreathed smiles," and sundry eloquent glances of his
+bright black eyes, were covertly bestowed upon his _fair_ cousin; anon,
+with ludicrous solemnity, he felt the pulse of Perez, shook his head,
+and, in short, imitated with inimitable exactness all the technical
+airs and graces of a regular graduate of Salamanca.--"Cousin," cried he
+at length, with a sly look at Juana, "I pity your plight--from my soul I
+do; but your case is, I am grieved to say, desperate, unless I am
+informed of the _cause_ of these monstrous weals, bruises, slashes, and
+chafings, in order that my prescription, may--"--"The _cause_ of them,"
+said Perez, almost frightened to death, "is, having to my cost a _saint_
+of a wife."--"How! that a _misfortune?_ explain yourself, my poor
+fellow."--"Readily," replied Donilla, "if that will help to heal
+me."--He then explained minutely the circumstances of the case,
+concluding thus:--"Not but what I am, after all, remarkably indebted to
+Juana, for had she only called the eleven thousand Virgins to her
+assistance, their zeal would undoubtedly have divided my body amongst
+them; since, then, my wife has such friends in heaven; I shall
+henceforth be careful how I enrage them again."--Perez Donilla kept to
+his resolution, and the _Three Maries_, whom, without doubt, the
+intelligent reader has recognised through their disguise, lived for many
+years to rejoice in the blessed effects of a severe, but merited
+infliction.      M.L.B.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THEATRICAL BILL.
+
+
+At a play acted in 1511, on the Feast of St. Margaret, the following
+disbursements were made as the charges of the exhibition:--
+
+                                     _£.   s.   d._
+  To musicians, for which, however,
+    they were bound to
+    perform three nights              0    5    6
+  For players, in bread and ale       0    3    1
+  For decorations, dresses, and
+    play-books                        1    0    0
+  To John Hobbard, priest, and
+    author of the piece               0    2    8
+  For the place in which the
+    representation was held           0    1    0
+  For furniture                       0    1    4
+  For fish and bread                  0    0    4
+  For painting three phantoms
+    and devils                        0    0    6
+  And for four chickens for the
+    hero                              0    0    4
+
+H. B. A.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.
+
+
+The United States ship, Vincennes, visited the island of Juan Fernandez,
+off the coast of Chili, a few months since, and remained there three
+days. There were two Yankees and six Otaheitans on the island. The
+former had formed a settlement for the purpose of supplying whale-ships
+with water, poultry, and vegetables. The soil is said to be
+astonishingly fertile.
+
+_--New York Shipping List, 1366._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE LETTER H.
+
+_From an old History of England._
+
+
+  "Not superstitiously I speak, but H his letter still
+  Hath been observed ominous to England's good or ill."
+
+  Humber the Hun, with foreign arms, did first the brutes invade;
+  Helen to Rome's imperial throne the British crown convey'd;
+  Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this isle;
+  Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes, that sway'd here a long while;
+  At Harold had the Saxon end at Hardy Knute the Dane;
+  Henries the First and Second did restore the English reign;
+  Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did England's crown obtain;
+  Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace;
+  Henry the Eighth did happily Rome's irreligion cease.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHURCH OF AUSTIN FRIARS.
+
+
+The church of Austin Friars is one of the most ancient Gothic remains in
+the City of London. It belonged to a priory dedicated to St. Augustine,
+and was founded for the friars Eremites of the order of Hippo, in
+Africa, by Humphry Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, 1253. A part of
+this once spacious building was granted by Edward VI. to a congregation
+of Germans and other strangers, who fled hither from religious
+persecutions. Several successive princes have confirmed it to the Dutch,
+by whom it has been used as a place of worship. J.M.C.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DAUPHIN OF FRANCE.
+
+The heir apparent of the crown of France derives his title of Dauphin
+from the following very singular circumstance. In 1349, Hubert, second
+Count of Dauphiny, being inconsolable for the loss of his heir and only
+child, who had leaped from his arms through a window of his palace at
+Grenoble into the river Isere, entered into a convent of jacobins, and
+ceded Dauphiny to Philip, a younger son of Philip of Valois (for 120,000
+florins of gold each of the value of twenty sols or ten pence English,)
+on condition that the eldest son of the king of France should be always
+after styled "the Dauphin," from the name of the province thus ceded.
+Charles V., grandson to Philip of Valois, was the first who bore the
+title in 1530.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE OLD ELEPHANT, FENCHURCH-STREET.
+
+[Illustration: THE OLD ELEPHANT, FENCHURCH-STREET.]
+
+
+Everything connected with the name of HOGARTH is interesting to the
+English reader. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, and from cutting
+cyphers on silver spoons, he rose to be sergeant painter to the
+king--and from engraving arms and shop-bills, to painting kings and
+queens--the very top of the artist's ladder. The soul-breathing impulses
+of genius enabled him to effect all this, and his example, (in support
+of the maxim, that "every man is the architect of his own fortune,")
+will be respected and cherished, at home and abroad, as long as
+self-advancement continues to be the great stimulus to aspiring
+industry.
+
+The old Elephant public-house therefore merits the attention of all
+lovers of painting and genius; for in it, previous to his celebrity,
+lodged WILLIAM HOGARTH. It was built before the fire of London, and
+although so near, escaped its ravages; but the house was pulled down a
+short time since, and another of more commodious construction erected on
+its site. On the wall of the tap-room, in the old house, were four
+paintings by Hogarth: one representing the Hudson's Bay Company's
+Porters; another, his first idea for the Modern Midnight Conversation,
+(differing from the print in a circumstance too broad in its humour for
+the graver,) and another of Harlequin and Pierot seeming to be laughing
+at the figure in the last picture. On the first floor was a picture of
+Harlow Bush Fair, covered over with paint. This information is copied
+from an old print picked up in our "collecting" rambles, at the foot of
+which it is stated to have been obtained from "Mrs. Hibbert, who has
+kept the house between thirty and forty years, and received her
+information relating to Mr. Hogarth from persons at that time well
+acquainted with him." The paintings were, we believe, removed previous
+to the destruction of the old house.
+
+To the searchers into life and manners, Hogarth's moral paintings, to
+which branch of art the above belong, are treasures of great prize; and
+whether over his originals at the gallery in Pall Mall, or their copies
+at the printsellers--the Elephant in Fenchurch-street, or the "painting
+moralist's" tomb in Chiswick churchyard--Englishmen have just cause to
+be proud of his name.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SELECTOR
+
+AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DAYS DEPARTED; OR, BANWELL HILL:
+
+_A Lay of the Severn Sea, by the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles._
+
+
+This is a delightful volume--full of nature and truth--and in every
+respect worthy of "one of the most elegant, pathetic, and original
+living poets of England." Moreover, it is just such a book as we
+expected from the worthy vicar of Bremhill; dedicated to the Bishop of
+Bath and Wells; and dated from Bremhill Parsonage, of which interesting
+abode we inserted an unique description in our last volume.
+
+As our principal object is to give a few of the _poetical pictures_, we
+shall be very brief with the prose, and merely quote an outline of the
+poem. Mr. Bowles, it appears, is a native of the district in which he
+resides, and this circumstance introduces some beautiful retrospective
+feelings:--
+
+                               But awhile,
+  Here let me stand, and gaze upon the scene,
+  Array'd in living light around, and mark
+  The morning sunshine,--on that very shore
+  Where once a child I wander'd,--Oh! return
+  (I sigh,) "return a moment, days of youth,
+  Of childhood,--oh, return!"  How vain the thought,
+  Vain as unmanly! yet the pensive Muse,
+  Unblam'd, may dally with imaginings;
+  For this wide view is like the scene of life,
+  Once travers'd o'er with carelessness and glee,
+  And we look back upon the vale of years,
+  And hear remembered voices, and behold,
+  In blended colours, images and shades
+  Long pass'd, now rising, as at Memory's call,
+  Again in softer light.
+
+The poem then proceeds with a description of an antediluvian cave at
+Banwell, and a brief sketch of events since the deposit; but, as Mr.
+Bowles observes, poetry and geological inquiry do not very amicably
+travel together; we must, therefore, soon get out of the cave:--
+
+    But issuing from the Cave--look round--behold
+  How proudly the majestic Severn rides
+  On the sea,--how gloriously in light
+  It rides! Along this solitary ridge,
+  Where smiles, but rare, the blue Campanula,
+  Among the thistles, and grey stones, that peep
+  Through the thin herbage--to the highest point
+  Of elevation, o'er the vale below,
+  Slow let us climb. First, look upon that flow'r
+  The lowly heath-bell, smiling at our feet.
+  How beautiful it smiles alone! The Pow'r,
+  that bade the great sea roar--that spread the Heav'ns--
+  That call'd the sun from darkness--deck'd that flow'r,
+  And bade it grace this bleak and barren hill.
+  Imagination, in her playful mood,
+  Might liken it to a poor village maid,
+  Lowly, but smiling in her lowliness,
+  And dress'd so neatly, as if ev'ry day
+  Were Sunday. And some melancholy Bard
+  Might, idly musing, thus discourse to it:--
+  "Daughter of Summer, who dost linger here.
+  Decking the thistly turf, and arid hill,
+  Unseen--let the majestic Dahlia
+  Glitter, an Empress, in her blazonry
+  Of beauty; let the stately Lily shine,
+  As snow-white as the breast of the proud Swan,
+  Sailing upon the blue lake silently,
+  That lifts her tall neck higher, as she views
+  The shadow in the stream! Such ladies bright
+  May reign unrivall'd, in their proud parterres!
+  Thou would'st not live with them; but if a voice,
+  Fancy, in shaping mood, might give to thee,
+  To the forsaken Primrose, thou would'st say,
+  'Come, live with me, and we two will rejoice:--
+  Nor want I company; for when the sea
+  Shines in the silent moonlight, elves and fays,
+  Gentle and delicate as Ariel,
+  That do their spiritings on these wild bolts--
+  Circle me in their dance, and sing such songs
+  As human ear ne'er heard!'"--But cease the strain,
+  Lest Wisdom, and severer Truth, should chide.
+
+Next is a sketch of Steep Holms, introducing the following exquisite
+episode:
+
+                          Dreary; but on its steep
+  There is one native flower--the Piony.
+  She sits companionless, but yet not sad:
+  She has no sister of the summer-field,
+  That may rejoice with her when spring returns.
+  None, that in sympathy, may bend its head,
+  When the bleak winds blow hollow o'er the rock,
+  In autumn's gloom!--So Virtue, a fair flow'r,
+  Blooms on the rock of care, and though unseen,
+  It smiles in cold seclusion, and remote
+  From the world's flaunting fellowship, it wears
+  Like hermit Piety, that smile of peace,
+  In sickness, or in health, in joy or tears,
+  In summer-days, or cold adversity;
+  And still it feels Heav'n's breath, reviving, steal
+  On its lone breast--feels the warm blessedness
+  Of Heaven's own light about it, though its leaves
+  Are wet with ev'ning tears!
+                              So smiles this flow'r:
+  And if, perchance, my lay has dwelt too long.
+  Upon one flower which blooms in privacy,
+  I may a pardon find from human hearts,
+  For such was my poor Mother![4]
+
+    [4] Daughter of Dr. Grey, author of Memoria Technica, &c. rector of
+    Hinton, Northamptonshire, and prebendary of St. Paul's.
+
+We pass over some marine sketches, which are worthy of the _Vernet_ of
+poets, a touching description of the sinking of a packet-boat, and the
+first sound and sight of the sea--the author's childhood at Uphill
+Parsonage--his reminiscences of the clock of Wells Cathedral--and some
+real villatic sketches--a portrait of a _Workhouse Girl_--some caustic
+remarks on prosing and prig parsons, commentators, and puritanical
+excrescences of sects--to some unaffected lines on the village school
+children of Castle-Combe, and their annual festival. This is so charming
+a picture of rural joy, that we must copy it:--
+
+    If we would see the fruits of charity.
+  Look at that village group, and paint the scene.
+  Surrounded by a clear and silent stream,
+  Where the swift trout shoots from the sudden ray,
+  A rural mansion, on the level lawn,
+  Uplifts its ancient gables, whose slant shade
+  Is drawn, as with a line, from roof to porch,
+  Whilst all the rest is sunshine. O'er the trees
+  In front, the village-church, with pinnacles,
+  And light grey tow'r, appears, while to the right
+  An amphitheatre of oaks extends
+  Its sweep, till, more abrupt, a wooded knoll,
+  Where once a castle frown'd, closes the scene.
+  And see, an infant troop, with flags and drum,
+  Are marching o'er that bridge, beneath the woods,
+  On--to the table spread upon the lawn,
+  Raising their little hands when grace is said;
+  Whilst she, who taught them to lift up their hearts
+  In prayer, and to "remember, in their youth,"
+  God, "their Creator,"--mistress of the scene,
+  (Whom I remember once, as young,) looks on,
+  Blessing them in the silence of her heart.
+
+  And, children, now rejoice,--
+  Now--for the holidays of life are few;
+  Nor let the rustic minstrel tune, in vain,
+  The crack'd church-viol, resonant to-day,
+  Of mirth, though humble! Let the fiddle scrape
+  Its merriment, and let the joyous group
+  Dance, in a round, for soon the ills of life
+  Will come! Enough, if one day in the year,
+  If one brief day, of this brief life, be given
+  To mirth as innocent as yours!
+
+Then we have an "aged widow" reading "GOD'S own Word" at her
+cottage-door, with her daughter kneeling beside her--a sketch from those
+halcyon days, when, in the beautiful allegory of Scripture, "every man
+sat under his own fig-tree." This is followed by the "Elysian Tempe of
+Stourhead," the seat of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, to whose talents and
+benevolence Mr. Bowles pays a merited tribute. Longleat, the residence
+of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, succeeds; and Marston, the abode of the
+Rev. Mr. Skurray, a friend of the author from his "youthful days,"
+introduces the following beautiful descriptive snatch:--
+
+    And witness thou,
+  Marston, the seat of my kind, honour'd friend--
+  My kind and honour'd friend, from youthful days.
+  Then wand'ring on the banks of Rhine, we saw
+  Cities and spires, beneath the mountains blue,
+  Gleaming; or vineyards creep from rock to rock;
+  Or unknown castles hang, as if in clouds;
+  Or heard the roaring of the cataract.
+  Far off,[5] beneath the dark defile or gloom
+  Of ancient forests--till behold, in light,
+  Foaming and flashing, with enormous sweep,
+  Through the rent rocks--where, o'er the mist of spray,
+  The rainbow, like a fairy in her bow'r,
+  Is sleeping while it roars--that volume vast,
+  White, and with thunder's deaf'ning roar, comes down.
+
+    [5] At Shaffhausen.
+
+Part III. opens with the following metaphorical gem:--
+
+  The show'r is past--the heath-bell, at our feet,
+  Looks up, as with a smile, though the cold dew
+  Hangs yet within its cup, like Pity's tear
+  Upon the eye-lids of a village-child!
+
+This is succeeded by a poetic panorama of views from the Severn to
+Bristol, introducing a solitary ship at sea--and the "solitary sand:"--
+
+    No sound was heard,
+  Save of the sea-gull warping on the wind,
+  Or of the surge that broke along the shore,
+  Sad as the seas.
+
+A picture of Bristol is succeeded by some scenes of great picturesque
+beauty--as Wrington, the birth-place of the immortal Locke; Blagdon, the
+rural rectory of
+
+  Langhorne, a pastor and a poet too;
+
+and Barley-Wood, the seat of Mrs. Hannah More. Mr. Bowles also tells us
+that the music of "Auld Robin Gray" was composed by Mr. Leaver, rector
+of Wrington; and then adds a complimentary ballad to Miss Stephens on
+the above air--
+
+  Sung by a maiden of the South, whose look--
+  (Although her song be sweet)--whose look, whose life,
+  Is sweeter than her song.
+
+The last Part (IV.) contains some exquisite Sonnets, and the poem
+concludes with a "Vision of the Deluge," and the ascent of the Dove of
+the ark--in which are many sublime touches of the mastery of poetry.
+There are nearly forty pages of Notes, for whose "lightness" and
+garrulity Mr. Bowles apologizes.
+
+Altogether, we have been much gratified with the present work. It
+contains poetry after our own heart--the poetry of nature and of
+truth--abounding with tasteful and fervid imagery, but never drawing too
+freely on the stores of fancy for embellishment. We could detach many
+passages that have charmed and fascinated us in out reading; but one
+must suffice for an epigrammatic exit:--
+
+  _--Hope's still light beyond the storms of Time._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SCENERY OF THE OHIO.
+
+
+The heart must indeed be cold that would not glow among scenes like
+these. Rightly did the French call this stream _La Belle Rivière_, (the
+beautiful river.) The sprightly Canadian, plying his oar in cadence with
+the wild notes of the boat-song, could not fail to find his heart
+enlivened by the beautiful symmetry of the Ohio. Its current is always
+graceful, and its shores every where romantic. Every thing here is on a
+large scale. The eye of the traveller is continually regaled with
+magnificent scenes. Here are no pigmy mounds dignified with the name of
+mountains, no rivulets swelled into rivers. Nature has worked with a
+rapid but masterly hand; every touch is bold, and the whole is grand as
+well as beautiful; while room is left for art to embellish and fertilize
+that which nature has created with a thousand capabilities. There is
+much sameness in the character of the scenery; but that sameness is in
+itself delightful, as it consists in the recurrence of noble traits,
+which are too pleasing ever to be viewed with indifference; like the
+regular features which we sometimes find in the face of a lovely woman,
+their charm consists in their own intrinsic gracefulness, rather than in
+the variety of their expressions. The Ohio has not the sprightly,
+fanciful wildness of the Niagara, the St. Lawrence, or the Susquehanna,
+whose impetuous torrents, rushing over beds of rocks, or dashing against
+the jutting cliffs, arrest the ear by their murmurs, and delight the eye
+with their eccentric wanderings. Neither is it like the Hudson, margined
+at one spot by the meadow and the village, and overhung at another by
+threatening precipices and stupendous mountains. It has a wild, solemn,
+silent sweetness, peculiar to itself. The noble stream, clear, smooth,
+and unruffled, swept onward with regular majestic force. Continually
+changing its course, as it rolls from vale to vale, it always winds with
+dignity, and avoiding those acute angles, which are observable in less
+powerful streams, sweeps round in graceful bends, as if disdaining the
+opposition to which nature forces it to submit. On each side rise the
+romantic hills, piled on each other to a tremendous height; and between
+them are deep, abrupt, silent glens, which at a distance seem
+inaccessible to the human foot; while the whole is covered with timber
+of a gigantic size, and a luxuriant foliage of the deepest hues.
+Throughout this scene there is a pleasing solitariness, that speaks
+peace to the mind, and invites the fancy to soar abroad, among the
+tranquil haunts of meditation. Sometimes the splashing of the oar is
+heard, and the boatman's song awakens the surrounding echoes; but the
+most usual music is that of the native songsters, whose melody steals
+pleasingly on the ear, with every modulation, at all hours, and in every
+change of situation.--_Hon. Judge Hall's Letters from the West_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SNOW-WOMAN'S STORY.
+
+By Miss Edgeworth.
+
+
+"Yes, madam, I bees an Englishwoman, though so low now and untidy
+like--it's a shame to think of it--a Manchester woman, ma'am--and my
+people was once in a bettermost sort of way--but sore pinched latterly."
+She sighed, and paused.
+
+"I married an Irishman, madam," continued she, and sighed again.
+
+"I hope he gave you no reason to sigh," said Gerald's father.
+
+"Ah, no, sir, never!" answered the Englishwoman, with a faint sweet
+smile. "Brian Dermody is a good man, and was always a koind husband to
+me, as far and as long as ever he could, I will say that--but my friends
+misliked him--no help for it. He is a soldier, sir,--of the
+forty-fifth. So I followed my husband's fortins, as nat'ral, through the
+world, till he was ordered to Ireland. Then he brought the children
+over, and settled us down there at Bogafin in a little shop with his
+mother--a widow. She was very koind too. But no need to tire you with
+telling all. She married again, ma'am, a man young enough to be her
+son--a nice man he was to look at too--a gentleman's servant he had
+been. Then they set up in a public-house. Then the whiskey, ma'am, that
+they bees all so fond of--he took to drinking it in the morning even,
+ma'am--and that was bad, to my thinking."
+
+"Ay, indeed!" said Molly, with a groan of sympathy; "oh the whiskey! if
+men could keep from it!"
+
+"And if women could!" said Mr. Crofton in a low voice.
+
+The Englishwoman looked up at him, and then looked down, refraining from
+assent to his smile.
+
+"My mother-in-law," continued she, "was very koind to me all along, as
+far as she could. But one thing she could not do; that was, to pay me
+back the money of husband's and mine that I lent her. I thought this odd
+of her--and hard. But then I did not know the ways of the country in
+regard to never paying debts."
+
+"Sure it's not the ways of all Ireland, my dear," said Molly; "and it's
+only them that has not that can't pay--how can they?"
+
+"I don't know--it's not for me to say," said the Englishwoman,
+reservedly; "I am a stranger. But I thought if they could not pay me,
+they need not have kept a jaunting-car."
+
+"Is it a jaunting-car?" cried Molly. She pushed from her the chair on
+which she was leaning--"Jaunting-car bodies! and not to pay you!--I give
+them up intirely. Ill-used you were, my poor Mrs. Dermody--and a shame!
+and you a stranger! But them were Connaught people. I ask your
+pardon--finish your story."
+
+"It is finished, ma'am. They were ruined, and all sold; and I could not
+stay with my children to be a burthen. I wrote to husband, and he wrote
+me word to make my way to Dublin, if I could, to a cousin of his in
+Pill-lane--here's the direction--and that if he can get leave from his
+colonel, who is a good gentleman, he will be over to settle me
+somewhere, to get my bread honest in a little shop, or some way. I am
+used to work and hardship; so I don't mind. Brian was very koind in
+his letter, and sent me all he had--a pound, ma'am--and I set out on my
+journey on foot, with the three children. The people on the road were
+very koind and hospitable indeed; I have nothing to say against the
+Irish for that; they are more hospitabler a deal than in England, though
+not always so honest. Stranger as I was, I got on very well till I came
+to the little village here hard by, where my poor boy that is gone first
+fell sick of the measles. His sickness, and the 'pot'ecary' stuff and
+all, and the lodging and living ran me very low. But I paid all, every
+farthing; and let none know how poor I was, for I was ashamed, you know,
+ma'am, or I am sure they would have helped me, for they are a koind
+people, I will say that for them, and ought so to do, I am sure. Well, I
+pawned some of my things, my cloak even, and my silk bonnet, to pay
+honest; and as I could not do no otherwise, I left them in pawn, and,
+with the little money I raised, I set out forwards on my road to Dublin
+again, so soon as I thought my boy was able to travel. I reckoned too
+much upon his strength. We had got but a few miles from the village when
+he dropped, and could not get on; and I was unwilling and ashamed to
+turn back, having so little to pay for lodgings. I saw a kind of hut, or
+shed, by the side of a hill. There was nobody in it. It was empty of
+every thing but some straw, and a few turf, the remains of a fire. I
+thought there would be no harm in taking shelter in it for my children
+and myself for the night. The people never came back to whom it
+belonged, and the next day my poor boy was worse; he had a fever this
+time. Then the snow came on. We had some little store of provisions that
+had been made up for us for the journey to Dublin, else we must have
+perished when we were snowed up. I am sure the people in the village
+never know'd that we were in that hut, or they would have come to help
+us, for they bees very koind people. There must have been a day and a
+night that passed, I think, of which I know nothing. It was all a dream.
+When I got up from my illness, I found my boy dead--and the others with
+famished looks. Then I had to see them faint with hunger."
+
+The poor woman had told her story without any attempt to make it
+pathetic, and thus far without apparent emotion or change of voice; but
+when she came to this part, and spoke of her children, her voice changed
+and failed--she could only add, looking at Gerald, "You know the rest,
+master; Heaven bless you!"
+
+_The Christmas Box_
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE COSMOPOLITE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ENGLISH GARDENS.
+
+
+We are veritable sticklers for old customs; and accordingly at this
+season of the year, have our room decorated with holly and other
+characteristic evergreens. For the last hour we have been seated before
+a fine bundle of these festive trophies; and, strange as it may seem,
+this circumstance gave rise to the following paper. The holly reminded
+us of the Czar Peter spoiling the garden-hedge at Sayes Court; this led
+us to John Evelyn, the father of English gardening: and the laurels
+drove us into shrubbery nooks, and all the retrospections of our early
+days, and above all to our early love of gardens. Our enthusiasm was
+then unaffected and uninfluenced by great examples; we had neither heard
+nor read of Lord Bacon nor Sir William Temple, nor any other illustrious
+writer on gardening; but this love was the pure offspring of our own
+mind and heart. Planting and transplanting were our delight; the seed
+which our tiny hands let fall into the bosom of the earth, we almost
+watched peeping through little clods, after the kind and quickening
+showers of spring; and we regarded the germinating of an upturned bean
+with all the surprise and curiosity of our nature. As we grew in mind
+and stature, we learned the loftier lessons of philosophy, and threw
+aside the "Pocket Gardener," for the sublime chapters of Bacon and
+Temple; and as the stream of life carried us into its vortex, we learned
+to contemplate their pages as the living parterres of a garden, and
+their bright imageries as fascinating flowers. As we journeyed onward
+through the busy herds of crowded cities, we learned the holier
+influences of gardens in reflecting that a garden has been the scene of
+man's birth--his fall--and proffered redemption.
+
+It would be difficult to find a subject which has been more fervently
+treated by poets and philosophers, than the _love of gardens_. In old
+Rome, poets sung of their gardens. Ovid is so fond of flowers, that in
+his account of the Rape of Proserpine, in his Fasti, he devotes several
+lines to the enumeration of flowers gathered by her attendants. But the
+passion for gardening, which evidently came from the East, never
+prevailed much in Europe till the times of the religious orders, who
+greatly improved it.
+
+Our anecdotical recollections of the taste for gardens must be but few,
+or they will carry us beyond our limits. Lord Bacon appears to have done
+more towards their encouragement than any other writer, and his essay
+on gardens is too well known to admit of quotation. Sir William Temple
+has, however, many eloquent passages in his writings, in one of which he
+calls _gardening_ the "inclination of kings, the choice of philosophers,
+and the common favourite of public and private men; a pleasure of the
+greatest, and the care of the meanest; and, indeed, an employment and a
+possession, for which no man is too high or too low." Perhaps John
+Evelyn did more than either of these philosophers. Temple's garden at
+Moor Park was one of the most beautiful of its kind; but at the time
+when Evelyn introduced ornamental gardening into England, there were no
+examples for imitation. All was devised by his own active mind; and in
+the political storms of his time, his garden and plantations became
+subjects of popular conversation; while the intervals of his secession
+from public life were filled up in writing several practical treatises
+on his favourite science. At Wotton, in Surrey, may be seen the large,
+enclosed flower-garden, which was to have formed one of the principal
+objects in his "Elysium Britannicum;" and this idea has been partly
+realized by one of his successors.
+
+Andrew Marvell has, however, anathematized gardens with much severity,
+in some lines entitled "The Mower against Gardens;" and commencing
+thus:--
+
+  Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use,
+    Did after him the world seduce,
+  And from the fields the flowers and plants allure,
+    Where nature was most plain and pure.
+  He first enclos'd within the garden's square
+    A dead and standing pool of air;
+  And a more luscious earth from them did knead,
+    Which stupify'd them while it fed, &c.,
+
+On the other side, old Gerarde asks his courteous and well-willing
+readers--"Whither do all men walk for their honest recreation, but where
+the earth has most beneficially painted her face with flourishing
+colours? and what season of the year more longed for than the spring,
+whose gentle breath entices forth the kindly sweets, and makes them
+yield their fragrant smells." Lord Bacon, too, thus fondly dwells on
+part of its allurements:--"That flower, which above all others yields
+the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet. Next to that is the
+musk-rose, then the strawberry leaves, dying with a most excellent
+cordial smell. Then sweet briars, then wall flowers, which are very
+delightful to be set under a parlour, or lower chamber window. But those
+which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but
+being trodden upon and crushed, are three, that is burner, wild thyme,
+and water mints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to
+have the pleasure where you walk or tread." Sir William Temple says
+Epicurus studied, exercised, and taught his philosophy in his garden.
+Milton, we know, passed many hours together in his garden at Chalfont;
+Cowley poured forth the greatness of his soul in his rural retreat
+at Chertsey; and Lord Shaftesbury wrote his "Characteristics," at
+a delightful spot near Reigate. Pope, in one of his letters, says,
+"I am in my garden, amused and easy; this is a scene where one finds no
+disappointment;"--and within the same neighbourhood, Thomson
+
+  "Sung the Seasons and their change."
+
+England can likewise boast of very great names who have been attached to
+this art, though they have not written on the subject. Lord Burleigh,
+Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Capell, William III--for Switzer tells us, that
+"in the least interval of ease, gardening took up a great part of his
+time, in which he was not only a delighter, but likewise a great
+judge,"--the Earl of Essex, whom Lord William Russell said "was the
+worthiest, the justest, the sincerest, and the most concerned for the
+public, of any man he ever knew;" Lord William Russell too, who, as
+Switzer tells us, "made Stratton, about seven miles from Winchester, his
+seat, and his gardens there were some of the best that were made in
+those early days, such indeed as have mocked some that have been done
+since, and the gardens at Southampton House, in Bloomsbury Square, were
+also of his making." Henry, Earl of Danby, the Earl of Gainsborough,
+"the _Maecenas_ of his age," the Earl of Halifax, the friend of Addison,
+Swift, Pope, and Steele; Lord Weymouth, of Longleate; Dr. Sherard, of
+Eltham; the Earl of Scarborough, an accomplished nobleman, immortalized
+by Pope, and by the fine pen of Chesterfield; and the Duke of Argyle,
+with numerous other men of rank and science, have highly assisted in
+elevating gardening to the station it has long since held.[6]
+
+   [6] "Portraits of English Authors on Gardening."
+
+Beauty and health are the attributes of gardening. In illustration of
+the former, we remember a passage from Gervase Markham, thus: "As in the
+composition of a delicate woman the grace of her cheeke is the mixture
+of red and white, the wonder of her eye blacke and white, and the beauty
+of her hand blew and white, any of which is not said to be beautifull if
+it consist of single or simple colours; and so in walkes or alleyes,
+the all greene, nor the all yellow, cannot be said to be most
+beautifull; but the greene and yellow, (that is to say the untroade
+grasse, and the well-knit gravelle) being equally mixt, give the eye
+both lustre and delight beyond comparison." Abercrombie lived to the age
+of _eighty_, when he died by a fall down stairs in the dark. He was
+present at the battle of Preston Pans, which was fought close to his
+father's garden walls. For the last twenty years he lived chiefly on
+tea, using it three times a-day; his pipe was his first companion in the
+morning, and last at night. He never remembered to have taken a dose of
+physic in his life; prior to his last fatal accident, nor of having a
+day's illness but once.
+
+The association of gardening with pastoral poetry, was exemplified in
+Shenstone's design of the Leasowes--as Mr. Whately observes--a perfect
+picture of his mind, simple, elegant, and amiable, and which will always
+suggest a doubt whether the spot inspired his verses, or whether in the
+scenes which he formed, he only realized the pastoral images which
+abound in his songs. That elegant trifler, Horace Walpole, was
+enthusiastically fond of gardening. One day telling his nurseryman that
+he would have his trees planted irregularly, he replied, "Yes, sir, I
+understand; you would have them hung down--somewhat _poetical_."
+
+PHILO.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTES OF A READER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
+
+
+Appended to a fine portrait of Sir Walter Scott, in the _Literary
+Souvenir_ for 1829, is the following--by _Barry Cornwall_:--
+
+We can scarcely imagine a thing much more pleasant indeed, to an artist,
+than to be brought face to face with some famous person, and permitted
+to examine and scrutinize his features, with that careful and intense
+curiosity, that seems necessary to the perfecting a likeness. It must
+have been to Raffaelle, at once a relaxation from his ordinary study,
+and a circumstance interesting in itself, thus to look into faces so
+full of meaning as those of Julius and Leo--and to say, "That look--that
+glance, which seems so transient, will I fix for ever. Thus shall he be
+seen, with that exact expression (although it lasted but for an instant)
+five hundred years after he shall be dust and ashes!"
+
+This was probably the feeling of Raffaelle; and it must have been with a
+somewhat similar pride that our excellent artist, Mr. Leslie,
+accomplished his portrait of Sir Walter Scott, which the reader will
+have already admired in this volume. It is surely a perfect work. No
+one, who has once seen the great author, can forget that strange and
+peculiar look (so full of meaning, and shrewd and cautious
+observation--so entirely characteristic, in short, of the mind within)
+which Mr. Leslie has succeeded in catching. One may gaze on it for ever,
+and contemplate an exhaustless subject--all that the capacious
+imagination has produced and is producing,--the populous, endless world
+of fancy.
+
+Let the reader look, and be assured that _there_ is the strange spirit
+that has discovered and wrought all the fine shapes that he has been
+accustomed to look upon with wonder--Claverhouse, and Burley, and
+Bothwell,--Meg Merrilies and Elspeth--the high and the low--the fierce
+and the fair--Cavaliers and Covenanters, and the rest--presenting an
+assemblage of character that is absolutely unequalled, except in the
+pages of Shakspeare alone. There is no other writer, be he Greek, or
+Goth, or Roman, who has ever astonished the world by creations so
+infinitely diversified. The mind of the author appears so free from
+egotism, so large and serene, so clear of all images of self, that it
+receives, as in a lucid mirror, all the varieties of nature.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ON A GIRL SLEEPING.
+
+
+  Thou liv'st! yet how profoundly deep
+  The silence of thy tranquil sleep!
+    Like death it almost seems:
+  So all unbroke the sighs which flow
+  From thy calm breast of spotless snow,
+    Like music heard in dreams.
+
+  Thy soul is filled with gentle thought,
+  Unto its shrine by angels brought
+    From Heaven's supreme abode;
+  Thy dreams are not of earthly things,
+  But, borne upon Religion's wings,
+    They lift thee up to God.
+
+_Blackwood's Magazine._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A species of _fames canina_ is to be met with amongst schoolboys, which
+affects the _juveniles_ most when most in health. We remember a
+gentleman offering a wager, that a boy taken promiscuously from any of
+the public charity-schools, should, five minutes after his dinner, eat a
+pound of beef-steaks.--_Brande's Jour._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE GIPSY'S MALISON.
+
+
+  Suck, baby, suck, mother's love grows by giving,
+  Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting;
+  Black manhood comes, when riotous guilty living
+  Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.
+  Kiss, baby, kiss, mother's lips shine by kisses,
+  Choke the warm breath that else would fail in blessings;
+  Black manhood comes, when turbulent guilty blisses
+  Tender thee the kiss that poisons 'mid caressings.
+  Hang, baby, hang, mother's love loves such forces,
+  Strain the fond neck that bends still to thy clinging:
+  Black manhood comes, when violent lawless courses
+  Leave thee a spectacle in rude air swinging.--
+
+  So sang a wither'd Sibyl energetical,
+  And bann'd the ungiving door with lips prophetical.
+
+C. LAMB. _Blackwood's Magazine._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EPICURES.
+
+
+As a mere untravelled practical Englishman, and, moreover, of the old
+school, Quin, no doubt, ranks high in the lists of gastronomy: but he is
+completely distanced by many moderns, both in love for and knowledge of
+the science. Among the most noted of the moderns we beg to introduce our
+readers to Mr. Rogerson, an enthusiast and a martyr. He, as may be
+presumed, was educated at that University where the rudiments of palatic
+science are the most thoroughly impressed on the ductile organs of
+youth. His father, a gentleman of Gloucestershire, sent him abroad to
+make the grand tour, upon which journey, says our informant, young
+Rogerson attended to nothing but the various modes of cookery, and
+methods of eating and drinking luxuriously. Before his return his father
+died, and he entered into the possession of a very large monied fortune,
+and a small landed estate. He was now able to look over his notes of
+epicurism, and to discover where the most exquisite dishes were to be
+had, and the best cooks procured. He had no other servants in his house
+than men cooks; his butler, footman, housekeeper, coachman, and grooms,
+were all cooks. He had three Italian cooks, one from Florence, another
+from Sienna, and a third from Viterbo, for dressing one dish, the _docce
+piccante_ of Florence. He had a messenger constantly on the road between
+Brittany and London, to bring him the eggs of a certain sort of plover,
+found near St. Maloes. He has eaten a single dinner at the expense of
+fifty-eight pounds, though himself only sat down to it, and there were
+but two dishes. He counted the minutes between meals, and seemed totally
+absorbed in the idea, or in the action of eating, yet his stomach was
+very small; it was the exquisite flavour alone, that he sought. In nine
+years he found his table dreadfully abridged by the ruin of his fortune;
+and himself hastening to poverty. This made him melancholy, and brought
+on disease. When totally ruined, having spent near 150,000 l., a
+friend gave him a guinea to keep him from starving; and he was found in
+a garret soon after roasting an ortolan with his own hands. We regret to
+add, that a few days afterwards, this extraordinary youth shot himself.
+We hope that his notes are not lost to the dining world.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+COLLEGE DREAMS.
+
+
+How often in senior common-rooms may be marked the gradual dropping
+asleep of the learned and venerable members! First, after a few rounds
+of the bottle, the tongues, which are tired of eulogizing or
+vituperating the various dishes which had smoked upon the board,
+gradually begin to be still,--soon conversation comes absolutely to a
+stand,--the candles grow alarmingly long in the wick,--comparative
+darkness involves the sage assembly,--and first one, then another, drops
+off into a placid and harmonious repose. Then what dreams float before
+the eyes of their imagination! Blue silk pelisses jostling shovel hats,
+church spires dancing in most admired disorder, fat incumbents falling
+down in a fit, neat clerical-looking gigs standing at vicarage doors,
+and these all incongruously commingled with white veils, lawn sleeves,
+roast beef, pulpit cushions, bright eyes, and small black sarsnet shoes.
+Suddenly the chapel bell dissolves the fleeting fabric of the vision;
+and, behold! the white veil is a poet's imagination, the church spire is
+still at a miserable distance, the vicarage is a Utopian nonentity, and
+the fat incumbent, in a state of the ruddiest health, is the only
+reality of the dream.
+
+_--Blackwood's Magazine._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WOMAN
+
+
+Nothing sets so wide a mark "between the vulgar and the noble seed" as
+the respect and reverential love of womanhood. A man who is always
+sneering at woman is generally a coarse profligate, or a coarse bigot,
+no matter which.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANGLING.
+
+We have often thought that angling alone offers to man the degree of
+half-business, half-idleness, which the fair sex find in their
+needle-work or knitting, which, employing the hands, leaves the mind at
+liberty, and occupying the attention so far as is necessary to remove
+the painful sense of a vacuity, yet yields room for contemplation,
+whether upon things heavenly or earthly, cheerful or melancholy.
+                                  --_Quarterly Rev._
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+  "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
+                              SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LAUGHTER.
+
+
+"Laugh and grow fat," is an old adage; and Sterne tells us, that every
+time a man laughs, he adds something to his life. An eccentric
+philosopher, of the last century, used to say, that he liked not only to
+laugh himself, but to see laughter, and hear laughter. "Laughter, Sir,
+laughter is good for health; it is a provocative to the appetite, and a
+friend to digestion. Dr. Sydenham, Sir, said the arrival of a
+merry-andrew in a town was more beneficial to the health of the
+inhabitants than twenty asses loaded with medicine." Mr. Pott used to
+say that he never saw the "Tailor riding to Brentford," without feeling
+better for a week afterwards.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEGAL PEARL-DIVERS.
+
+
+Every barrister can "shake his head," and too often, like Sheridan's
+Lord Burleigh, it is the only proof he vouchsafes of his wisdom. Curran
+used to call these fellows "legal pearl-divers."--"You may observe
+them," he would say, "their heads barely under water--their eyes shut,
+and an index floating behind them, displaying the precise degree of
+their purity and their depth."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GRAMMATICAL LEARNING.
+
+
+An author left a comedy with Foote for perusal; and on the next visit
+asked for his judgment on it, with rather an ignorant degree of
+assurance. "If you looked a little more to the grammar of it, I think,"
+said Foote, "it would be better."--"To the grammar of it, Sir! What!
+would you send me to school again?"--"And pray, Sir," replied Foote,
+very gravely, "would that do you any harm?"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SWEARING BY PROXY.
+
+
+Cardinal Dubois used frequently, in searching after any thing he wanted,
+to swear excessively. One of his clerks told him, "Your eminence had
+better hire a man to swear for you, and then you will gain so much
+time."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE MUNIFICENT SAINT.
+
+
+A devout lady offered up a prayer to St. Ignatius for the conversion of
+her husband; a few days after, the man died; "What a good saint is our
+Ignatius!" exclaimed the consolable widow, "he bestows on us more
+benefits than we ask for!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PRODIGALITY.
+
+
+A petty journalist was boasting in company, that he was a dispenser of
+fame to those on whom he wrote. "Yes, Sir," replied an individual
+present, "you dispense it so liberally, that you leave none for
+yourself."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PHYSIOGNOMISTS.
+
+
+Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without
+having read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a
+highwayman for a philosopher, and a philosopher for a highwayman.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EPITAPH
+
+
+In the Broadway churchyard, Westminster, on three children, who all died
+very early, the eldest being little more than three years of age:--
+
+  Three children, not dead, but sleeping lies,
+  With Christ they live above the skies,
+  Wash'd in his blood, and for his dress,
+  Christ's glorious robe of righteousness,
+  In which they shine more bright by far
+  Than sun, or moon, or morning star;
+  In Paradise they wing their way,
+  Blooming in one eternal day.
+
+G.W.N.
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