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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, +Issue 350, January 3, 1829 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 26, 2004 [eBook #10838] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: iso-8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, +AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 13, ISSUE 350, JANUARY 3, 1829*** + + +E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram and Project Gutenberg Distributed +Proofreaders + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 10838-h.htm or 10838-h.zip: + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/8/3/10838/10838-h/10838-h.htm) + or + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/8/3/10838/10838-h.zip) + + + + +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of the independence of +his country, became one of the competitors for the crown of Scotland in +1290, but being superseded by John Baliol, Bruce retired to England, and +settled at his grandfather's estate at Tottenham, repaired the castle, +and acquiring another manor, called it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. 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