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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11330 ***
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. X, NO. 274.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+No. II.
+
+
+[Illustration: THE TEMPLE CHURCH.]
+
+
+The Temple Church,[1] London, was erected in the twelfth century; but
+among antiquarians considerable difference of opinion at various times
+prevailed as to who were the original builders of these round churches,
+which form the most striking and beautiful specimens of the architectural
+skill of our Anglo-Norman ancestors. In England there are four examples of
+round churches, almost in perfect preservation, namely, the church of St.
+Mary, Temple; St. Sepulchre, Northampton; St. Mary, Cambridge; and that of
+Little Maplestead, Essex. It was long thought that they were of Jewish
+origin; but through the ingenious and learned essays of Mr. Essex and of
+Mr. Britton, this erroneous notion has been entirely removed. Mr. Essex, in
+his Essay, observes, in support of his opinion, that "their Temple at
+Jerusalem was not of a circular form, neither was the Tabernacle of Moses;
+nor do we find the modern Jews affect that figure in building their
+synagogues. It has, however, been generally supposed that the round church
+at Cambridge, that at Northampton, and some others, were built for
+synagogues by the Jews while they were permitted to dwell in those places.
+But as no probable reason can be assigned for this supposition, and I think
+it is very certain that the Jews who were settled in Cambridge had their
+synagogue, and probably dwelled together in a part of the town now called
+the Jewry, so we may reasonably conclude the round churches we find in
+other parts of this kingdom were not built by the Jews for synagogues,
+whatever the places may be called in which they stand."--It has been
+generally allowed by these and other writers on archaeology, that the
+primitive church of this form was that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,
+and that the Temple Church at London was built by the Knights' Templars,
+whose occupation was the protection of Christian pilgrims against the
+Saracens. It has been further urged by a correspondent (Charles Clarke,
+Esq. F.S.A.) in the first volume of Britton's "Architectural Antiquities,"
+that two of the before-mentioned round churches, namely, Northampton and
+Cambridge, were in fact built by "affluent crusaders, in imitation of that
+of the Holy Sepulchre;" and in support of his opinion he cites several
+historical notices.
+
+    [1] The circular part.
+
+The late perfect restoration of the Temple Church ought to be proudly
+recorded in our architectural annals. The excellence of the workmanship,
+and the native purity of the detail, evince not only scientific skill, but
+also a laudable motive of preserving this antique specimen of pure
+Anglo-Norman architecture from the ravages of time. Let the architect's
+attention be directed to the western doorway, and also to the interior of
+the church; and here, in good preservation, he will see excellent specimens
+of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by the cable, the lozenge, the
+cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &c. &c., ornaments peculiar to the
+_round style_. The circular-headed windows, with their slender columns,
+also show, that in the restoration the style has not been tampered with;
+but substantial authorities have been quoted to perfect this praiseworthy
+attempt of the architect. That part of the church which has been added at a
+later date than the circular part, and for the convenience of divine
+worship, is lighted by the beautiful proportioned triple lancet-shaped
+windows, so justly admired. A writer in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for May,
+1827, after making some judicious remarks, seems to think the crosses on
+the ends of the building, "as not in character with the building." Now as
+to architectural propriety in the decorations of a Christian church, no
+ornament could be better devised; and if we proceed to the antiquity of
+such ornament, I would observe, that the adoption would be equally correct,
+that being the insignia of the banner under which the Knights' Templars
+originally fought.
+
+C. DAVY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BRIDGET TROT AND TIMOTHY GREEN.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+    "'Tis a common tale,
+    An ordinary sorrow of man's life;
+    A tale of silent sufferings, hardly clothed
+    In bodily form."
+
+WORDSWORTH.
+
+
+  Miss Bridget _Trot_, a "_wo_"-man was,
+    Of excellent repute,
+  Who _kept a stand_ in Leadenhall,
+    And there disposed of fruit.
+
+  And though in features rather _dark_,
+    No _fairer_ could be found;
+  For what she sold, like _ringing_ gold,
+    When _peeled_, was always _sound_!
+
+  She had moreover notions _high_,
+    And thought herself above
+  The very _low_-ly common way
+    Of _falling_ into love.
+
+  And therefore when to her his _suit_
+    A _Snip_ did often press
+  With vows of love, she _cut_ him _short_
+    At _length_, without _re-dress_.
+
+  Yet nothing odd was there in this
+    One case, it must be said;
+  For who that wish'd a _perfect_ man
+    Could with a _ninth part_ wed?
+
+  Not she for one, whatever he
+    Might do to make him _smart_,
+  And howsoe'er her saying "Nay"
+    Might add it to his heart.
+
+  'Tis very strange, (yet so it is,)
+    That vows should go for naught.
+  But she who _strove_ to 'scape love's _toils_
+    Quite unawares was caught!
+
+  For though so _hard_ to Snip _at first_,
+    _At last_ it chanced that she
+  A sort of soft emotion felt
+    Towards one Timothy,
+
+  A butcher--_Green_ by name, but _red_
+    In face, as was his cap,
+  And though he seldom tasted _wine_,
+    A _port_-ly sort of chap.
+
+  This man one day in passing by,
+    In taste for what she'd got,
+  Saw Biddy's stall--and 'twas her _fate_
+    To sell to him a _lot!_
+
+  She thought his manners very sweet,
+    He gave so fond a gaze;
+  (But dashing _blades_ of such like trades
+    Have ever _killing_ ways!)
+
+  And whilst he paid the _coppers_ down,
+    He had the _brass_ to say
+  Her _fruit_ was sweet, but sweeter still
+    The _apple_ of her eye.
+
+  Besides all this, he looked so neat
+    Whilst shouldering his tray;
+  So what with _steel, et cetera,_
+    Her heart was _stole_ away!
+
+  Lo! _shortly after_ both agreed,
+    They fixed the wedding day,
+  But _long before_ that day arriv'd
+    He took to stop away!
+
+  From that same time her peace of mind
+    And comfort were at _steak_--
+  She did so _lean_ to Mr. Green,
+    Her heart was like to break!
+
+  At last she went one morn to see
+    What he could be about,
+  And hoped, alone, to find him _in_,
+    But he had just popt _out_.
+
+  She ax'd, "Is Mr. Green at home?"
+    Of one who, with a laugh,
+  Replied, "He's not! but if you please
+    I'll fetch _his better half_."
+
+  "His what?" scarce _uttered_ Bridget out,
+    With _utter_most dismay;
+  And _there_ she stopt, she could no more,
+    And nearly swoon'd _away!_
+
+  But when at length she was herself,
+    And saw her faithless clown.
+  She straightway went to blow him _up_,
+    But got a good set _down_!
+
+  "Oh, cold and faithless Tim," quoth she,
+    "You vowed you couldn't _smother_
+  Your _burning_ love for me, but now
+    You're married to another!"
+
+  "Is this the way you treat me, sir?
+    Too _cheaply_ was I bought!
+  I loved you _dearly_, but it seems
+    That that _all went for naught_."
+
+  She sighed, and gave one parting look,
+    Then tore herself away
+  From her false swain and Mrs. Green,
+    For ever and a day!
+
+  And _very_ soon got _very_ ill,
+    And _very_ quick did die,
+  And _very_ truly _veri_fied
+    Her love for Timothy!
+
+W.R.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+GREAT BELL OF GLASGOW.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+In the steeple of Glasgow is a great bell, which is twelve feet one inch in
+circumference, and has a grave and deep tone. In 1789, it was accidentally
+cracked by some persons who got admission to the steeple. It was,
+therefore, sent to London, and cast anew. On the outside of it is the
+following inscription:--
+
+    In the year of grace
+    1594,
+    Marcus Knox,
+    a merchant of Glasgow,
+    zealous for the interests of the reformed religion,
+    caused me to be fabricated in Holland
+    for the use of his fellow citizens in Glasgow,
+    and placed me with solemnity
+    in the tower of their cathedral.
+    My function
+    was to announce, by the impress on my bosom,
+    (Me audito venias doctrinam sanctam ut discas;[2])
+    and
+    I was taught to proclaim the hours of unheeded time.
+    195 years had I sounded these awful warnings,
+    when I was broken
+    by the hands of inconsiderate and
+    unskilful men.
+    In the year 1790,
+    I was cast into the furnace,
+    refounded at London,
+    and returned to my sacred vocation.
+    Reader,
+    thou also shall know a resurrection,
+    may it be to eternal life.
+
+MALVINA.
+
+    [2] Come, that ye may learn holy doctrine.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ FANCY.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  _Me_, oft hath Fancy, in her fitful dream,
+  Seated within a far sequestered dell,
+  What time upon the noiseless waters fell,
+  Mingled with length'ning leafy shade, a gleam
+  Of the departing sun's environ'd beam;
+  While all was hush'd, save that the lone death-bell
+  Would seem to beat, and pensive smite mine ear
+  Like spirit's wail, now distant far, now near:
+  Then the night-breeze would seem to chill my cheek,
+  And viewless beings flitting round, to _speak!_
+  And then, a throng of mournful thoughts would press
+  On this, my wild-ideal loneliness.
+
+  Me, oft hath Fancy too, in musing hour
+  Seated (what time the blithesome summer-day
+  Was burning 'neath the fierce meridian ray)
+  Within that self-same lonely woodland bow'r
+  So sultry and still; but _then_, the tower,
+  The hamlet tow'r, sent forth a roundelay;
+  I seem'd to hear, till feelings o'er me stole
+  Faintly and sweet, enwrapping all my soul,
+  Joy, grief, were strangely blended in the sound.
+  The light, warm sigh of summer, was around,
+  But ne'er may speech, _such_ thoughts, _such_ visions tell,
+  Then, perfect most, when _indescribable!_
+
+M.L.B.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+FINE ARTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN FRANCE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Whether the French were first indebted to the Roman school for their
+knowledge of the art of painting is a matter of some doubt; indeed, several
+celebrated French writers affirm, that they first had recourse to the
+Florentine and Lombard schools; while others very strenuously declare, on
+the other hand, that the Venetian artists were alone resorted to, on
+account of the remarkable splendour of their colouring. A late author,
+however, observes, that the French do not appear to have imitated any
+school whatever, but to have adopted a style peculiar to themselves, which
+though perhaps not a noble one, is nevertheless pleasing. Though it is
+acknowledged that the French have a particular style, (i.e. a style of
+their own,) yet their progress in the arts has been exceedingly fluctuating
+and uncertain, so that it is actually impossible to ascertain who was the
+first reputable artist amongst them. Cousin was a painter on glass, and
+certainly obtained a good reputation amongst his countrymen. But he in fact
+possessed very little merit, and his name would not doubtless have been
+known to posterity had he not lived in a barbarous age, when the people
+knew not how to discriminate his errors and defects. He was supposed to be
+the best artist of his day, and consequently gained a reputation as such,
+though his works are far beneath mediocrity.
+
+Francis I. was a great encourager of the fine arts, and the artists
+themselves were liberally paid for their productions, until that king was
+unfortunately taken prisoner at the battle of Pavia, in the year 1525.
+After the death of Francis, the kingdom was distracted with civil wars, so
+that painting was entirely neglected by his immediate successors. In the
+year 1610, however, Louis XIII. recovered the arts from their languid
+state. In his reign, Jaques Blanchard was the most flourishing painter;
+although Francis Perier, Simon Voüet, C.A. Du Fresnoy, and Peter Mignard,
+were equally gifted.
+
+Of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, author of a Latin poem, entitled _De Arte
+Graphica_, I shall attempt a little account. This painter was born at Paris
+in the year 1611. His father, intending him for the profession of physic,
+sent him to the university of Paris, where he made great progress in his
+studies, and obtained several prizes in poetry. He had a great inclination
+for painting as well as for poetry, and, though much against his father's
+desire, resolved to leave off the study of physic, and commence that of
+drawing. The force of his inclination subduing every measure adopted to
+suppress it, he took every opportunity of cultivating his favourite study.
+Leaving college, he placed himself under Francis Perier, from whom he
+learned the art of designing. He afterwards thought fit to travel into
+Italy, where he arrived in 1633. Being abandoned by his parents, who were
+highly incensed at his having rejected the study of physic, he was reduced
+to the utmost distress on his arrival at Rome, and was compelled to paint
+trifling pieces for his daily subsistence. After two years of extreme toil
+and difficulty, he was relieved by the arrival of Mignard, the artist, who
+had formerly been the companion of his studies. Mignard evinced the warmest
+regard for his friend, and they were afterwards known in Rome by the name
+of the _inseparables_, for they lived in the same house, worked together,
+and united the produce of their labours. They were employed to copy all the
+best pictures in the Farnese Palace, and every evening attended an academy
+of drawing. Mignard was superior in practice, while Fresnoy was perfect
+master of the rules, history, and theory of his profession. They
+communicated their sentiments to each other, Fresnoy furnishing his friend
+with noble ideas, and the latter instructing the former to paint with more
+ease and dispatch. Fresnoy painted several fine pictures in Rome, and, in
+1653, he left that city, in company with his friend, travelled to Venice,
+and then to Lombardy. Here the two friends parted,[3] Mignard returning to
+Rome, and Fresnoy to his native city. After his arrival in Paris, he
+painted some beautiful historical pictures, which established his
+reputation. He perfectly understood architecture, and drew designs for many
+elegant mansions in Paris. During his travels in Italy, he planned and
+composed his _De Arte Graphica_, an excellent poem, full of valuable
+information, and containing unerring rules for the painter. This poem was
+twenty years in hand, and was not published until three years[4] after the
+author's death, which took place in 1665. It has been observed, that
+Fresnoy possessed the genius requisite for forming a great master; and had
+he applied himself more strictly to painting, and educated pupils, he would
+doubtless have proved one of the greatest painters France ever produced.
+But, possessing high literary talents, he chose to lay down _precepts_ for
+his countrymen, rather than to present them with _examples_ of his art. He
+adhered too closely to the theory of painting, neglecting the more
+essential part--practice.
+
+   [3] When Mignard returned to Paris in 1658, he again went to reside
+       with his friend.
+
+   [4] It appeared at Paris, in 12mo., with a French translation by
+       Mons. Du Piles, 1668.
+
+In the reign of Louis XIV., Nicholas Poussin distinguished himself as a
+painter, by displaying exquisite knowledge and great skill in composition.
+He generally painted ancient ruins, landscapes, and historical figures. He
+was likewise well acquainted with the manners and customs of the ancients;
+and, though he educated no pupils, and never had any imitators, his
+pictures are universally admired in every European country. Charles le
+Brun[5] established the French school,--an undertaking which Voüet had
+previously attempted. Le Brun drew well, had a ready conception, and a
+fertile imagination. His compositions are vast, but, in various instances,
+they may justly be termed _outre_. He possessed the animation, but not the
+inspiration of Raphael; and his design is not so pure as that of
+Domenichino, nor so lively as that of Annibale Caracci. Eustache le Seur,
+Le Brun's rival, possessed remarkable dignity, and wonderful correctness of
+style. Indeed, by some he has been called the Raphael of France. Had he
+lived longer, (for he died at the age of thirty-eight,) the French school,
+under his direction, would most probably have adopted a manner which might
+have been imitated, and which might have established the arts on an
+eminence to vie with even imperial Rome. But, by the concurrence of
+extraordinary circumstances, Le Brun was the fashionable painter of the
+time, and it therefore became necessary to imitate _his_ manner, rather
+than the more simple and more refined one of his rival. As Le Brun's
+imitators wanted his genius, his faults not only became current, but more
+glaring and deformed.
+
+    [5] Le Brun was the pupil of Simon Voüet, and afterwards of Poussin.
+
+After Le Brun's death, which took place in 1690, the French artists
+degenerated greatly, their productions being decorated in a gaudy and
+theatrical way, without due regard to taste or decorum. Their school, some
+years ago, altered its principles, under the auspices of the spirited Count
+de Caylus, who possessed considerable merit as an artist. The count, by his
+high rank and fortune, had the means of encouraging the imitators of the
+ancients, and of procuring the best models in Italy for study. He, in
+conjunction with Monsieur Vien, first formed the design of restoring a pure
+taste in France; and if his countrymen had followed the path thus marked
+out for them, they would now have been equal to the greatest of the Greek
+painters. But it appears that they are incapable of rising to any very
+extraordinary height in the arts, for, with the exception of Le Seur, and
+one or two others, they have ever wanted that elevation of mind which so
+eminently distinguished the Romans. Though De Caylus greatly purified
+painting in his time, yet his precepts and examples had little or no weight
+after his death, for the art again retrograded into its original state--a
+state from which the French professors, as before observed, seem incapable
+of rising.
+
+In our own days some few French artists have distinguished themselves,
+particularly Lefevre, who was the chief painter to Napoleon. A full-length
+portrait of the emperor in his coronation robes, for which Lefevre received
+the sum of five thousand Napoleons, and which I have lately had the
+pleasure of seeing, is very correct in drawing, and extremely rich and
+harmonious in colour; but it wants freedom and boldness of execution.
+
+To conclude--the French are acknowledged to do pretty well within the
+precincts of their own country, though few of their pictures will stand in
+competition with those of the Italians, or with those produced in our own
+school.
+
+G.W.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.
+
+No. XIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SINGULAR JEWISH CUSTOM.
+
+
+Burckhardt, in his "Travels through Syria," &c. informs us, that at
+Tiberias, one of the four holy cities of the Talmud, the Jews observe a
+singular custom in praying. While the rabbin recites the Psalms of David,
+or the prayers extracted from them, the congregation frequently imitate, by
+their voice or gestures, the meaning of some remarkable passages; for
+example, when the rabbin pronounces the words, "Praise the Lord with the
+sound of the trumpet," they imitate the sound of the trumpet through their
+closed fists. When "a horrible tempest" occurs, they puff and blow to
+represent a storm; or should he mention "the cries of the righteous in
+distress," they all set up a loud screaming; and it not unfrequently
+happens, that while some are still blowing the storm, others have already
+begun the cries of the righteous, thus forming a concert which it is
+difficult for any but a zealous Hebrew to hear with gravity.
+
+
+CHARACTER OF THE KARPIANS, (ARABS.)
+
+
+They are such consummate thieves and rogues, that, according to an ancient
+tradition still current among them, they once tricked the devil himself.
+The story is as follows:--The devil had acquired a right to their fields,
+on which they agreed with him, that when their crops were ripe, they should
+retain the upper part and the devil should have the lower. They sowed all
+their lands with wheat, and the devil of course had nothing but the straw
+for his share. Next year the old gentleman, fully determined not to be
+again so bamboozled, stipulated that the upper part should belong to him
+and the lower to the Karpians; but then they sowed all their grounds with
+beet, turnips, and other esculent roots, and so the devil got nothing but
+the green tops for his portion.
+
+_Memoirs of Artemi._
+
+
+THE MODERN WELSH.
+
+
+The people of the principality are clean and industrious; there is,
+however, in the nature of a Welshman such a hurriness of manner and want of
+method, that he does nothing well; for his mind is over anxious, diverted
+from one labour to another, and hence every thing is incomplete, and leaves
+the appearance of confusion and negligence. The common exercises of the
+Welsh are running, leaping, swimming, wrestling, throwing the bar,
+dancing, hunting, fishing, and playing at fives against the church or
+tower; and they constitute the joy of youth, and the admiration of old age.
+The convivial amusements are singing and versification. In these favourite
+exercises the performers are of humble merit; the singing is mere roar and
+squeak; and the poetical effusions are nonsense, vested in the rags of
+language; and always slanderous, because the mind of the bard is not
+fertile in the production of topics. The Welsh character is the echo of
+natural feeling, and acts from instantaneous motives. The fine arts are
+strangers to the principality; and the Welshman seldom professes the
+buskin, or the use of the mallet, the graver, or the chisel; but although
+deficient in taste, he excels in duties and in intellect.
+
+_Jones's History of Wales._
+
+
+ITALIAN WOMEN.
+
+
+Italy and England are undoubtedly possessed of a greater share of female
+beauty than any other country in Europe. But the English and Italian
+beauties, although both interesting, are very different from one another.
+The former are unrivalled for the delicacy and bloom of their complexions,
+the smoothness and mild expression of their features, their modest
+carriage, and the cleanliness of their persons and dress; these are
+qualities which strike every foreigner at his landing. On my first arrival
+in England, I was asked by a friend how I liked the English women; to which
+I replied that I thought them all handsome. This is the first impression
+they produce. There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them, which
+surprises and interests particularly a native of the south. They seem to
+look, if I may apply to them the fine lines of one of their living poets--
+
+  "With eyes so pure, that from the ray
+  Dark vice would turn abash'd away;
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Yet fill'd with all youth's sweet desires,
+  Mingling the meek and vestal fires
+  Of other worlds, with all the bliss
+  The fond weak tenderness of this."
+
+The Italian beauties are of a different kind. Their features are more
+regular, more animated; their complexions bear the marks of a warmer sun,
+and their eyes seem to participate of its fires; their carriage is graceful
+and noble; they have generally good figures; they are not indeed angelic
+forms, but they are earthly Venuses. It has been supposed by some, that the
+habitual view of those models of ideal beauty, the Greek statues, with
+which Italy abounds, may be an indirect cause conducing to the general
+beauty of the sex; be that as it may, I think the fine features and
+beautiful forms of the Italian fair have a great influence upon the minds
+of young artists, and this is perhaps one of the principal reasons why
+Italy has so long excelled in figure painters. A handsome female
+countenance, animated by the expression of the soul, is among the finest
+works of nature; the sight of it elevates the mind, and kindles the sparks
+of genius. Raphael took the models of his charming Madonnas from nature.
+Titian, Guido, Caracci, and others, derived their ideas of female beauty
+from the exquisite countenances so frequent in their native country.
+
+_Italy in the Nineteenth Century._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK.
+
+No. XXII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A LINNET AT SEA.
+
+
+It has been often observed, that birds, in the course of their flight from
+one country to another, will frequently resort to the rigging of a ship, as
+a resting-place in their transit across the wide ocean. Mr. Gray, in his
+"Letters on Canada," gives the following instance:--Among the extraordinary
+things, he observes, one meets with at sea, it is not one of the least
+surprising to observe small _land birds_ several hundred miles from land. I
+was sitting on deck, when, to my great surprise, my attention was arrested
+by the warbling of a bird. I looked up, and saw a _linnet_ perched on the
+rigging, and whistling with as much ardour as if on a bush in a green
+meadow. It is not a little astonishing how these little birds should be
+able to continue on the wing so long as is necessary to fly several
+hundreds of miles, particularly when the usual shortness of their flight is
+considered. They continue sometimes with a vessel several days, and are
+frequently caught by the sailors; but it is remarked that they seldom live,
+though every care is taken to give them proper food. When the vessel rolls
+much, they find it difficult to retain their footing on the rigging, and
+you see them forced, as it were, to resume their flight in search of a
+better resting-place.
+
+
+THE ADVANTAGES OF AFFLICTION.
+
+
+    Behold this vine,
+  I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength
+  Had swollen into irregular twigs
+  And bold excrescences,
+  And spent itself in leaves and little rings;
+  So in the flourish of its outwardness
+  Wasting the sap and strength
+  That should have given forth fruit;
+  But when I pruned the tree,
+  Then it grew temperate in its vain expanse
+  Of useless leaves, and knotted, as thou seest,
+  Into these full, clear clusters, to repay
+  The hand that wisely wounded it.
+  Repine not, O my son!
+  In wisdom and in mercy heaven indicts,
+  Like a wise leech, its painful remedies.
+
+SOUTHEY.
+
+
+WEATHERCOCKS.
+
+
+Weathercocks do not always show the real direction of a very gentle wind.
+The strange figures of them, usually the productions of capricious fancy,
+is one cause of their imperfection as vanes to indicate the wind. Griffins,
+half-moons, foxes, or figures of St. Margaret and the dragon, are not good
+shapes for weathercocks, which ought to be plain fans, the large surface of
+one side being counterbalanced against the weight of the other.
+
+
+THE VALUE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
+
+
+A general, though superficial acquaintance with such subjects as
+well-educated men and women talk about in mixed society is absolutely
+necessary. A practised eye will easily distinguish the silence of modest
+attention from the mute weariness of ignorance. The most inveterate talker,
+if he be not quite a fool, desires to be listened to as well as heard; and
+a "yes" or a "no" may be placed and accented so as to show intelligence, or
+betray stupidity. Grace in action and deportment is so essential, that it
+may almost be said to make all that is beautiful in beauty. We do not mean
+that a lady should, in dancing, walking, or sitting, display attitudes
+worthy of a painter's model. In walking we, however, recommend something
+between the listless saunter of a she-dandy, and the bustling gait of a
+notable body, who perhaps saves three minutes out of four-and-twenty hours,
+by doing every thing throughout the day with a jerk and a toss.--Dancing,
+unless it be done quietly and gracefully, without the fatal results of a
+shining face, and red neck and arms, it is far better to forbear
+altogether, it being a very superfluous quality in a gentlewoman; whereas
+_to please_ by all honest means is her proper calling and occupation. A
+high degree of _positive_ grace is very rare, especially in northern
+climates, where the form is degraded and spoiled by ligatures and by cold;
+but every woman may attain to _negative_ grace, by avoiding awkward and
+unmeaning habits. The incessant twirling of a reticule, the assiduous
+pulling of the fingers of a glove, opening and shutting a book, swinging a
+bell-rope, &c. betray either impatience and weariness of the conversation,
+disrespect of the speakers, or a want of ease and self-possession by no
+means inseparably connected with modesty and humility; those persons who
+are most awkward and shy among their superiors in rank or information being
+generally most over-bearing and peremptory with their equals or inferiors.
+We are almost ashamed, in the nineteenth century, to say any thing
+concerning personal neatness; but cannot forbear hinting, that clean gloves
+and neat shoes aid the captivating powers of a lady much more certainly
+than pearl ear-rings or gold chains--that clean muslin is more bewitching
+than dirty _blond lace_--and that a pocket-handkerchief should be like a
+basilisk, a thing heard of, but never seen; we mean in the capacity in
+which our cold-catching, rheum-exciting climate calls it into action.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SELECT BIOGRAPHY.
+
+No. LVII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+KARL THEODORE KORNER.
+
+
+Korner is one of the poets of whom modern Germany is justly proud. His was
+not the mere theoretic heroism which contents itself with celebrating the
+deeds of others. His own conduct embodied the most noble conceptions of his
+imagination, and his life and death exhibited a splendid example of the
+patriotism which breathed throughout his verse. He was born at Dresden in
+1791. His education was of the most careful kind. He was not only
+instructed in various branches of learning, but the elegant accomplishments
+of the fine arts were added, and the exercises of the body were not less
+attended to than those of the mind. Called upon to choose some occupation,
+he determined to apply himself to mining, and took up his residence at
+Vienna, where he enjoyed the advantage of a familiar intercourse with
+William Von Humboldt, the Prussian ambassador, Frederic Schlegel, and other
+eminent literary and scientific men. Here, within the short space of
+fifteen months, he produced a rapid succession of dramas, operas, and
+farces, as well as several small poems. The success of his works obtained
+him the appointment of poet to the court. He was now in the enjoyment of
+all that could render life happy--competence, distinction, esteem,
+friendship and love; but he resolved to sacrifice them all "for that
+greatest mortal blessing, his country's freedom."
+
+"Could I," says he, in a letter to his father, "could I, think you, stand
+aloof, contented to celebrate with weak inspiration the success of my
+conquering brethren? I am aware that you will suffer much anxiety,--My
+mother too will weep--may God be her comfort!--I cannot spare you this
+trial. That I simply offer my life is of little import; but that I offer
+it, crowned as it is with all the flowery wreaths of love, of friendship,
+and of joy,--that I cast away the sweet sensations which lived in the
+conviction that I have caused you no inquietude, no anguish,--this indeed
+is a sacrifice which can only be opposed to such a prize!"
+
+He left Vienna in March 1813, and joined the free corps which Major Von
+Lutzow was then forming. This was a voluntary association, and the corps
+was remarkable throughout the war for its valour and enterprise. In the
+midst of the most active campaigns, Korner continued to pour forth his
+verses. Other poets have written of battles in the retirement of the
+closet, but he sang his song of war on the tented field, and amid the din
+of conflict. Nor was this all: he collected too the strains of other poets,
+and adapted them to appropriate airs, to animate the ardour of his
+companions in arms. We cannot follow him through his career, brief as it
+was; but the subjoined incident is too striking to be omitted, and is
+especially adapted to our purpose, as it affords an opportunity of giving a
+passage of his unpremeditated verse in a moment of pain and danger.
+
+On the 28th of May, Major Von Lutzow had determined on setting out on an
+expedition towards Thuringia, with four squadrons of his cavalry, and fifty
+cossacks. Korner earnestly entreated permission to accompany him, and his
+desire was fulfilled by his being appointed adjutant by Major Von Lutzow,
+who highly esteemed him, and wished to have him near his person.
+
+The expedition passed in ten days through Halberstadt, Eisleben, Buttstadt,
+and Schlaitz, to Plauen, though not without encountering great danger from
+the enemy, who were dispersed throughout these districts, but, also, not
+without effecting some important results. Intelligence and information were
+procured, ammunition was captured and seized, and couriers on missions of
+importance were taken prisoners. The gallant troop acquired considerable
+renown, and harassed the enemy much, especially by cutting off his
+communications. A plan was in consequence laid by the French emperor for
+the extirpation of the corps, that, as a deterring example, no man should
+be left alive. The armistice, concluded at this moment, afforded an
+opportunity for putting it in practice. (The Duke of Padua, it is
+observable, particularly profited by this armistice; for being shut up in
+Leipzig by Generals Woronzow and Czernichef, with the co-operation of two
+battalions of the Lutzow infantry, he was only saved by this cessation of
+hostilities.)
+
+Major Von Lutzow had received official information of the armistice at
+Plauen. Without expecting to meet with any opposition, he chose the
+shortest route to rejoin the infantry of his corps, having received the
+most confidential assurances of safety from the enemy's commanding
+officers, and proceeded along the high road, without interruption, to
+Kitzen, a village in the neighbourhood of Leipzig; but here he found
+himself surrounded and menaced by a very superior force. Theodore Korner
+was despatched to demand an explanation; but, instead of replying, the
+commander of the enemy struck at him with his sword; and it being now
+twilight, a general attack was made on the three squadrons of the Lutzow
+cavalry before they had drawn a sabre. Several were wounded and taken, and
+others dispersed in the surrounding country; but Major Von Lutzow himself
+was saved by the assistance of a squadron of Uhlans, who being in advance
+with the Cossacks, formed the van-guard, and consequently were not assailed
+at the same moment. He reached, with a considerable body of his troops, the
+right bank of the Elbe, where the infantry of his corps, and a squadron of
+its cavalry, were already collected.
+
+Korner received the first blow, which he was not prepared to parry, as he
+approached close to the enemy's commanding officer to deliver his message
+without drawing his sabre, and was thus severely wounded in the head: the
+second blow only inflicted a slight injury. He fell back, but speedily
+recovered himself, and his spirited steed bore him in safety to a
+neighbouring wood. He was here occupied, at the first moment, with the
+assistance of a comrade, in binding up his wounds, when he perceived a
+troop of the enemy, who were in pursuit, riding towards him. His presence
+of mind did not forsake him, but turning towards the wood, he called with a
+loud voice, "Fourth squadron,--Advance!"--His stratagem succeeded--the
+enemy were appalled, drew back, and thus afforded him time to conceal
+himself deeper in the wood. It had now become dark, and he found a place in
+the thicket where he could remain undiscovered.
+
+The pain of the deeper wound became very severe, his strength was
+exhausted, and his last hope was gone. It was in this extremity that he
+composed the beautiful sonnet, of which the following is a translation:--
+
+FAREWELL TO LIFE.
+
+[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely
+wounded and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.]
+
+  "My deep wound burns;--my pale lips quake in death,--
+  I feel my fainting heart resign its strife,
+  And reaching now the limit of my life,
+  Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!
+
+  Yet many a dream hath charm'd my youthful eye;
+  And must life's fairy visions all depart;
+  Oh surely no! for all that fired my heart
+  To rapture here, shall live with me on high.
+
+  And that fair form that won my earliest vow,
+  That my young spirit prized all else above,
+  And now adored as freedom, now as love,
+  Stands in seraphic guise, before me now.
+
+  And as my fading senses fade away,
+  It beckons me, on high, to realms of endless day!"
+
+During the night he heard the enemy searching the wood near him, but
+afterwards fell asleep, and was saved in the morning by two peasants. He
+was conveyed secretly into Leipsic, which was then under the French yoke,
+and where the concealment of any of the Lutzow free corps was prohibited,
+under severe punishment. He subsequently travelled in safety to Berlin, and
+having recovered from his wound, rejoined the corps of Lutzow on the right
+bank of the Elbe. Hostilities recommenced on the 17th of August; and on the
+28th an engagement took place near Rosenberg, in which Korner fell. He was
+in pursuit of a body of the enemy, when the riflemen, who had found a
+rallying-place in some under-wood, sent forth a shower of balls upon their
+pursuers. By one of these Korner was wounded in the abdomen, the liver and
+spine were injured, and he was immediately deprived of speech and
+consciousness. He was carried to a neighbouring wood, but all medical aid
+was vain. He was buried under an oak in the village of Wobbelin, about a
+mile from Ludwigslust. A tomb has since been placed over his remains, and
+enclosed by a wall. He died at the early age of twenty-two.
+
+_From a Critical Notice of The Life of Korner, New Monthly Mag._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Cannot he that wisely declines walking upon the ice for fear of falling,
+though possibly it might carry him sooner to his journey's end, as wisely
+forbear drinking more wine than is necessary, for fear of being drunk and
+the ill-consequences thereof?--_Lord Clarendon._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+No. CX.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RESCUE.
+
+_By Miss Roberts._
+
+    "King Stephen was a worthy peer."
+
+
+The hall was lofty, sculptured round with armorial devices, and hung with
+gaily-embroidered banners, which waved in the wind streaming from the
+crannies in windows which had suffered some dilapidation from the hand of
+time. Minstrel harps rang throughout the wide apartment, and at a board
+well covered with smoking viands--haunches of the red deer, bustards,
+cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning heads of wild boars,--and
+flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of foaming ale, sat King
+Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles, whose voices had
+placed him on the English throne. In the midst of the feast, the jovial
+glee of the wassailers was interrupted by the entrance of a page, who,
+forcing his way through the yeomen and lacqueys crowding at the door, flew
+with breathless haste to the feet of the king, and falling down on his
+knees, in faltering accents delivered the message with which he had been
+intrusted. "Up, gallants," exclaimed the martial monarch, "don your
+harness, and ride as lightly as you may to the relief of the Countess of
+Clare, she lies in peril of her life and honour, beleaguered by a rabble of
+unnurtured Welsh savages, who, lacking respect for beauty, have directed
+their arms against a woman. Swollen with vain pride at their late victory,
+(the fiend hang the coward loons who fled before them,) they have sworn to
+make this noble lady serve them barefoot in their camp. By St. Dennis and
+my good sword, were I not hampered by this pestilent invasion of the Scots,
+I would desire no better pastime than to drive the ill-conditioned serfs
+howling from the walls. Say, who amongst you will undertake the
+enterprise?--What, all silent? are ye knights? are ye men? do I reign over
+christian warriors, valiant captains who have been sworn to protect beauty
+in distress; or are ye like the graceless dogs of Mahomed, insensible to
+female honour?" "My ranks are wonderous scant," returned Milo Fitzwalter,
+"I may not reckon twenty men at arms in the whole train, and varlets have I
+none; but it boots not to number spears when danger presses; so to horse
+and away. Beshrew me, were it the termagant Queen Maude herself, I'd do my
+best to rescue her in this extremity."--"Thou art a true knight,
+Fitzwalter," replied the king, "and wilt prosper: the Saint's benizon be
+with thee, for thou must speed on this errand with such tall men as thou
+canst muster of thine own proper followers: the Scots, whom the devil
+confound, leave me too much work, to spare a single lance from mine own
+array. We will drink to thy success, and to the health of the fair
+countess, in a flask of the right Bourdeaux: and tell the lady that thy
+monarch grudges thee this glorious deed; for by my Halidom, an thou winnest
+her unscathed from the hands of these Welsh churls, thou wilt merit a niche
+beside the most renowned of Charlemagne's paladins." Fitzwalter made no
+answer, but he armed in haste, and, leaping into his saddle, gave the spur
+to his gallant steed, and followed by his esquires and men at arms, rested
+not either night or day, until he reached the marches of Wales. The lions
+of England still proudly flying over the castle walls, assured him that the
+countess had been enabled to hold out against the savage horde, who
+surrounded it on all sides. The besiegers set up a furious yell as the
+knight and his party approached their encampment. Half naked, their eyes
+glaring wildly from beneath a mass of yellow hair, and scantily armed with
+the rudest species of offensive and defensive weapons, their numbers alone
+made them terrible; and had the castle been manned and victualled, it might
+have long defied their utmost strength. Drawing their falchions, the knight
+and his party keeping closely together, and thus forming an impenetrable
+wedge, cut their desperate path through the fierce swarm of opposing foes,
+who, like incarnate demons, rushed to the onslaught, and fell in heaps
+before the biting steel of these experienced soldiers. Pressing forward
+with unyielding bravery, Fitzwalter won the castle walls; whence, with the
+assistance of such frail aid as the living spectres on the battlements
+could give, he beat back the Welsh host, and in another quarter of an hour,
+having dispersed the enemy with frightful loss, gained free entrance to the
+castle. Feeble was the shout of triumph which welcomed Fitzwalter and his
+brave companions; the corpses of the unburied dead lay strewed upon the
+pavement; the heroic countess, and her attendant damsels, clad in the
+armour of the slain, weakened by famine, and hopeless of succour, yet still
+striving to deceive the besiegers by the display of living warriors, by
+this stratagem retarded the assault which they could not repel. Fitzwalter
+took advantage of the darkness of the night, and the panic of the
+Welshmen, to withdraw from a fortress which was destitute of all the
+implements of war; and with the rescued ladies mounted behind them, the
+brave band returned to the court of King Stephen; and the charms of the
+fair one, and the valour of her chivalric defender, formed the theme of the
+minstrel in every knightly hall and lady's bower throughout Christendom.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH NOVEL READER.
+
+
+How shall I describe the emotions with which I read the first novel I ever
+perused! A school-fellow had secretly brought with him from home after the
+holidays, the novel of Peregrine Pickle, which he carefully concealed in
+his trunk. He at first lent it to some of the elder boys, who read it, and
+enlarging on some of the most despicable incidents to be found, disgusted
+my meek spirit of it, by their report. It seemed to violate all my
+cherished ideas of beauty and soft luxury. I was then about fourteen years
+of age, and my companions persuaded me to a perusal. I took it up
+listlessly, expecting but little pleasure, but what language can paint the
+manner in which I was entranced by it? I read it over and over with
+increased delight, my entire soul and frame of mind and passions seemed to
+be suddenly changed and remodelled. I forgot Ariadne and Telemachus, and
+Tom Pipes and Hatchway became my idols, the undivided objects of my
+admiration.
+
+I had hitherto been a remarkably quiet and inoffensive boy; Telemachus I
+considered never took delight in robbing orchards. I had the confidence of
+my teachers from my uniform rejection of any participation in the rude
+affrays, the catastrophe of which dramas was in general an almost universal
+flogging match. My admiration naturally led to its probable result, a
+desire to imitate--I firmly resolved to become a Peregrine. I soon promoted
+myself to be the leader of every mad prank that the wit of a spirit
+suddenly excited to activity could devise. In the first fortnight I got
+flogged for tying a huge mass of brown paper to the tail of the favourite
+cat of the master's lady, with which she rushed with an insane and
+terrifying distraction into the drawing-room. We owed a spite to a
+neighbouring milkman for tale-bearing, and we rendered his pump, the great
+source of profit, useless, by filling it with soot and mire. The old woman
+who served the school with tarts, and who, in her endeavours to please all
+palates, brought some varieties heated over a charcoal fire, had her
+apparatus blown to atoms by an ounce of gunpowder, insinuated with so much
+art, that although done before her face, she could attach no one with the
+offence. All became riot, waste, and destruction under the guidance of my
+beloved Peregrine.
+
+But, ah! the poor Count--amiable, patient, and long-suffering Gaul! He was
+an unhappy refugee, who had sought a home, by becoming the reviled,
+insulted teacher of his native tongue to a mob of heartless ruffians. How
+well do I remember his neat but thread-bare coat and pigtail; his stooping
+gait, not the decrepitude of age, but as though it sprang from the
+abasement of his fortune; his endurance of injury to a certain point, when
+patience suddenly forsook him, and his, to us, irresistibly comic rage and
+exasperation! What would that generous seaman Pipes have thought a
+defenceless Frenchman fit for, but as the object of spirited and
+well-conducted pranks? Nothing cruel or revengeful, but only to show our
+own superior wit and address in concerted and premeditated annoyance.
+
+I had gained with a most surprising rapidity upon the confidence of the
+most conspicuous rioters in the school. There was something so noble and
+daring in all my designs, that they seemed to yield willingly to so
+superior a spirit. The sudden alteration in my manners had been noticed
+with secret wonder by the masters, and they, thinking to check my fatal
+tendencies at the outset, had inflicted on me several severe and
+well-merited chastisements. I converted even these into means of extending
+my influence. I had borne them like a hero, a very Peregrine. No groan--no
+sigh--no bellowing promise of amendment, had lessened my dignity. Under the
+torture, I was sullen and silent. The stoutest heart in the school envied
+my manhood and composure.
+
+The poor French teacher had been the hereditary object of annoyance for
+several generations of boys. The meekest and most chicken-hearted scrubs in
+the school tried their apprenticeship to mischief upon him, and were
+tutored to more noble game by beginning with the Count. They split and cut
+his pens into a thousand fantastic shapes during a momentary absence; they
+filled his snuff with the most odious pulverulents. They placed on his desk
+rude, but expressive designs of a guillotine, with a meagre fellow in
+ruffles and no shirt, running in the extremity of speed from the spot.
+These, and a thousand exhibitions of budding genius, and original sin, were
+our daily subjects of merriment and applause. I taught them nobler arts, or
+rather the spirit of Pickle which spake within me. It was nothing to annoy
+on such a petty and momentary scale; let the art and forethought of
+Hatchway be exhibited.
+
+The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals
+always received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the
+neighbourhood, an invitation to visit him. On these occasions his dress was
+the most ludicrous imaginable, being compounded of remnants of pristine
+finery, such as his wardrobe could afford, without attention to uniformity,
+or consistency of colour. Above all, he possessed a pair of light pea-green
+small clothes, on which he much prided himself, and I swore by old Trunnion
+to be their murderer. His custom on the aforesaid visits was to dress
+early, and then hastily to dismiss his lessons, and proceed immediately.
+
+Having gained intelligence of an approaching field day, we prepared a
+strong solution of gum, with which we varnished the bottom of a leather
+chair upon which he sat in the school. The morning came, his green _media_
+and white silk stockings were hailed with the most extravagant but secret
+exultation. He seated himself, and let us run as we pleased through our
+tasks, with an unusual portion of smiles and pleasantries, and then looking
+at his watch, he attempted hastily to rise! in vain--there seemed an
+indissoluble bond of union between him and the chair; the most grotesque
+series of strugglings ensued, and by one desperate effort he was erect, a
+thin coating of the black leather which he had torn off, firmly adhering to
+his dress! Nothing abated my delight at my success, but the thought that my
+magnus Apollo, Pickle, was not there to enjoy it; to see the poor Count
+stand mute with a mixed passion of rage and distress for several seconds,
+and then to witness his fruitless attempts to view the full extent of the
+injury, which, notwithstanding the surprising flexibility of his vertebrae,
+he was unable to compass. Tom Pipes I felt certain would have died on the
+spot, he must have split.
+
+_The Inspector_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONTRAST OF CLIMATE.
+
+
+Suppose yourself to have spent the first half of a foggy, sleety, chill,
+moist, melancholy, English winter at some miserable country village in
+Kent. Suppose about the first of February, while the whole landscape around
+is still floating in mud, buried in snow, or fast bound by frost, and the
+atmosphere so thick with fog, that one can scarcely point at mid-day to the
+spot where the sun stands in the heavens,--that your catarrh grows so
+alarming, that in a fit of despondency you trundle yourself aboard a ship
+in the Downs getting under way for a warmer climate. Suppose, that after a
+smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the whole of
+which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you awake
+one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal; and
+the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a
+mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window. It seems
+downright enchantment! You leap up as if there was a new soul in your body.
+You hurry ashore in the first boat. Your cough, lassitude, and qualmishness
+have altogether left you. Your step is elastic, and your spirits as buoyant
+as a lark in spring. You luxuriate amidst beautiful gardens glowing with
+roses, jessamines, honey-suckles, and a thousand other odoriferous shrubs
+and flowers in full bloom. You wander through a boundless maze of rising
+vineries curling their budding tendrils around the trellis-work, and
+terrace above terrace up the declivities of the mountains. You recline
+among orange-groves bending under the load of ripe golden fruit; and as you
+stretch yourself at ease by some clear, gurgling rill, in the midst of all
+this loveliness, you ask yourself, is this a dream--or are these indeed the
+gardens of the Hesperides? Reader, if you have the blue devils at
+Christmas, you may realize all this, and reach Madeira, as I have done, in
+eight days from the Downs.
+
+_London Weekly Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANECDOTES OF THE FACULTY.
+
+
+_Quacks._
+
+
+We are not without plenty of ignorant and impudent pretenders at the
+present day; but the celebrated Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter of Epsom,
+surpasses them all. She was the daughter of a man named Wallis, a
+bone-setter at Hindon, in Wiltshire, and sister to the celebrated "Polly
+Peachem," who married the Duke of Bolton. Upon some _family quarrel_,
+Sally Wallis left her professional parent, and wandered up and down the
+country in a miserable manner, calling herself "Crazy Sally," and pursuing,
+in her perambulations, a course that fairly justified the title. Arriving
+at last at Epsom, she succeeded in humbugging the worthy bumpkins of that
+place, so decidedly, that a subscription was set on foot to keep her among
+them; but her fame extending to the metropolis, the dupes of London, a
+numerous class then as well as now, thought it no trouble to go ten miles
+to see the conjuror, till at length, she was pleased to bless the afflicted
+of London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian
+Coffee-house, in a coach and six with out-riders! and all the appearance of
+nobility. It was in one of these journeys, passing through Kent-street, in
+the Borough, that being taken for a certain woman of quality from the
+Electorate in Germany, a great mob followed, and bestowed on her many
+bitter reproaches, till madame, perceiving some mistake, looked out of the
+window, and accosted them in this gentle manner, "D----n your bloods, don't
+you know me? I am Mrs. Mapp, the _bone-setter!_" Upon which, they instantly
+changed their revilings into loud huzzas.
+
+_Wadd's Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs._
+
+
+_Dr. Radcliffe._
+
+
+Among the many singularities related of Radcliffe, it has been noticed,
+that when he was in a convivial party, he was unwilling to leave it, even
+though sent for by persons of the highest distinction. Whilst he was thus
+deeply engaged at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired
+his immediate attendance on his _colonel_; but no entreaties could prevail
+on the disciple of Esculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus. "Sir,"
+quoth the soldier, "_my orders are to bring you._" And being a very
+powerful man, he took him up in his arms, and carried him off per force.
+After traversing some dirty lanes, the doctor and his escort arrived at a
+narrow alley--"What the D----l is all this," said Radcliffe, "your colonel
+don't live here?"--"No," said his military friend,--"no, my _colonel_ does
+not live here--but my _comrade_ does, and he's worth _two_ of the
+_colonel_,--so, by G----d, doctor, if you don't do your _best_ for _him_,
+it will be the _worst_ for _you!_"
+
+
+_Duels._
+
+
+Many medical duels have been prevented by the difficulty of arranging the
+"methodus pugnandi." In the instance of Dr. Brocklesby, the number of
+paces could not be agreed upon; and in the affair between Akenside and
+Ballow, one had determined never to fight in the morning, and the other
+that he would never fight in the afternoon. John Wilkes, who did not stand
+upon ceremony in these little affairs, when asked by Lord Talbot, "How many
+times they were to fire?" replied, "just as often as your Lordship pleases;
+I have brought _a bag of bullets and a flask of gunpowder_."
+
+
+_William Hunter._
+
+
+Dr. William Hunter used to relate the following anecdote:--During the
+American war, he was consulted by the daughter of a peer, who confessed
+herself pregnant, and requested his assistance; he advised her to retire
+for a time to the house of some confidential friend; she said that was
+impossible, as her father would not suffer her to be absent from him a
+single day. Some of the servants were, therefore, let into the secret, and
+the doctor made his arrangement with the treasurer of the Foundling
+Hospital for the reception of the child, for which he was to pay
+190l.--The lady was desired to weigh well if she could bear pain without
+alarming the family by her cries; she said "Yes,"--and she kept her word.
+At the usual period she was delivered, not of one child only, but of twins.
+The doctor, bearing the two children, was conducted by a French servant
+through the kitchen, and left to ascend the area steps into the street.
+Luckily the lady's maid recollected that the door of the area might perhaps
+be locked; and she followed the doctor just in time to prevent his being
+detained at the gate. He deposited the children at the Foundling Hospital,
+and paid for each 100l. The father of the children was a colonel of the
+army, who went with his regiment to America, and died there. The mother
+afterwards married a person of her own rank.
+
+
+_John Hunter._
+
+
+Hunter was a philosopher in more senses than one; he had philosophy enough
+to bear prosperity, as well as adversity, and with a rough exterior was a
+very kind man. The poor could command his services more than the rich. He
+would see an industrious tradesman before a duke, when his house was full
+of grandees, "you have no time to spare," he would say, "you live by it;
+most of these can wait, they have nothing to do when they go home." No man
+cared less for the profits of the profession, or more for the honour of
+it. He cared not for money himself, and wished the Doctor [his brother
+William] to estimate it by the same scale, when he sent a poor man with
+this laconic note:--
+
+    "Dear Brother,--The bearer wants your advice. I do not know the
+    nature of the case. He has no money, and you have plenty, so you are
+    well met."
+
+    "Yours, J. HUNTER."
+
+He was applied to once to perform a serious operation on a tradesman's
+wife; the fee agreed upon was twenty guineas. He heard no more of the case
+for two months; at the end of which time he was called upon to perform it.
+In the course of his attendance, he found out that the cause of the delay
+had been the difficulty under which the patient's husband had laboured to
+raise the money; and that they were worthy people, who had been
+unfortunate, and were by no means able to support the expense of such an
+affliction. "I sent back to the husband nineteen guineas, and kept the
+twentieth," said he, "that they might not be hurt with an idea of too great
+obligation. It somewhat more than paid me for the expense I had been at in
+the business."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BURMESE BOATS.
+
+
+The Burman war-boat is formed of the trunk of the magnificent teak tree,
+first roughly shaped, and then expanded by means of fire, until it attains
+sufficient width to admit two people, sitting abreast. On this a gunwale,
+rising a foot above the water, is fixed, and the stem and stern taper to a
+point, the latter being much higher than the other, and ornamented with
+fret-work and gilding. On the bow is placed a gun, sometimes of a
+nine-pounder calibre, but generally smaller, and the centre of the boat is
+occupied by the rowers, varying in number from twenty to a hundred, who in
+the large boats use the oar, and in the small ones the paddle. A war-boat
+in motion is a very pleasing object. The rapidity with which it moves, its
+lightness, and small surface above the water, the uniform pulling of the
+oar falling in cadence with the songs of the boatmen, who, taking the lead
+from one of their number, join in chorus, and keep time with the dip of
+their oars; the rich gilding which adorns the boat, and the neat, uniform
+dress of the crew, place it, to the eye of a stranger, in a curious and
+interesting point of view: and in regard to appearance, induces him, when
+contrasting it with an English boat, to give the former the preference. In
+point of swiftness, our best men-of-war boats could not compete with them;
+and of this superiority they generally availed themselves when an action
+was impending.
+
+The boats we had captured at Rangoon, and were cutting down for the
+transport of the army, were totally of a different nature. These, built on
+the same plan as ours are, but with flat bottoms, belonged to traders, and
+were solely adapted to the transport of merchandise. The stern, fancifully
+ornamented, rises two or three stages above the deck, and is the seat of
+the helmsman. The inside of the boat is filled with goods, and thatched
+over, leaving sufficient room underneath to accommodate two or three
+families--men, women, and children--who promiscuously take up their abode
+there.
+
+This description of boat is not propelled by oars, but by long poles, the
+ends of which being placed against the shoulders of the boatmen, they run
+the whole length of the boat, and push her forward with considerable
+velocity. The space on which they act is formed by strong outriggers on
+either side of the boat, which answer the twofold purpose of preventing her
+upsetting, which she otherwise would do from the excess of top-weight, and
+of increasing her width and accommodation.
+
+The third class of boat is that used throughout the country, and which, to
+those who inhabit the banks of rivers, becomes a necessary appendage, and
+to many a home. It is a mere canoe, decked with split bamboo, and partly
+covered in with mats, so as to afford shelter from the sun by day, and the
+dews by night. One man steers, and two others either row or paddle; but,
+when the wind is favourable, they use a sail. This is generally made at the
+moment, with the scarfs they wear over their shoulders, tied together. Two
+bamboos constitute the mast and yard, the sail being fastened between them;
+yet, with this fragile rigging, and with the gunwale of the boat almost
+under water with every puff of wind, they stem the most rapid currents at
+all seasons of the year, and, such is their skill in steering, seldom meet
+with an accident. It was in these boats that the majority of the
+inhabitants of Rangoon, and the adjacent villages, fled upon our approach;
+and these formed their only habitation during the many months they kept
+aloof from us.
+
+_Two Years in Ava_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SONNET.
+
+
+ON A YOUTH WHO DIED OF EXCESSIVE FRUIT-PIE.
+
+
+  Currants have check'd the current of my blood,
+    And berries brought me to be buried here;
+  Pears have pared off my body's hardihood,
+    And plums and plumbers spare not one so spare.
+  Fain would I feign my fall, so fair a fare
+    Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good:
+  Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware
+    Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued.
+  Grave on my grave some sentence grave and terse,
+    That lies not as it lies upon my clay,
+  But, in a gentle strain of unstrained verse,
+    Prays all to pity a poor patty's prey--
+  Rehearses I was fruitful to my hearse,
+    Tell that my days are told, and soon I'm toll'd away!
+
+
+THE VEIL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
+
+
+Maria Stuart has been canonized, and placed among the martyrs by the
+Jesuits. Of course there are relics of hers. Her prayer-book was long shown
+in France; and her apologist published in an English journal a sonnet which
+she was said to have composed, and to have written with her own hand in
+this book. A celebrated German actress, Mrs. Hendel-Schutz, who excited
+admiration by her attitudes, and also performed Schiller's "Maria" with
+great applause in several cities of Germany, affirmed that a cross which
+she wore on her neck was the very same that once belonged to the
+unfortunate queen. Relics of this description have never yet been subjected
+to the proof of their authenticity. But if there is anything which may be
+reasonably believed to have been once the property of the queen, _it is the
+veil with which she covered her head on the scaffold, after the
+executioner_, whether from awkwardness or confusion is uncertain, _had
+wounded the unfortunate victim in the shoulder by a false blow_. This veil
+still exists, and is in the possession of Sir J.C. Hippisley, who claims to
+be descended from the Stuart's by the mother's side. He had an engraving
+made from it by Matteo Diottavi, in Rome, 1818, and gave copies to his
+friends.
+
+The veil is embroidered with gold spangles by (as is said) the queen's own
+hand, in regular rows crossing each other, so as to form small squares, and
+edged with a gold border, to which another border has been subsequently
+joined, in which the following words are embroidered in letters of gold:--
+
+    "Velum Serenissimae Mariae, Scotiae et Galliae Reginae Martyris, quo
+    induebatur dum ab Heretica ad mortem iniustissimam condemnata fuit.
+    Anno Sal. MDLXXXVI. a nobilissima matrona Anglicana diu conservatum
+    et tandem, donationis ergo Deo, et Societati Jesu consecratum."
+
+On the plate there is an inscription, with a double certificate of its
+authenticity, which states, that this veil, a family treasure of the
+expelled house of Stuart, was finally in possession of the last branch of
+that family, the cardinal of York, who preserved it for many years in his
+private chapel, among the most precious relics, and at his death bequeathed
+it to Sir J. Hippisley, together with a valuable Plutarch, and a Codex with
+painted (illuminated) letters, and a gold coin struck in Scotland in the
+reign of queen Mary; and it was specially consecrated by Pope Pius VII. in
+his palace on the Quirinal, April 29, 1818. Sir John Hippisley, during a
+former residence at Rome, had been very intimate with the cardinal of York,
+and was instrumental in obtaining for him, when he with the other cardinals
+emigrated to Venice in 1798, a pension of £4,000. a-year from the Prince of
+Wales, now King George IV.; but for which, the fugitive cardinal, all whose
+revenues were seized by the French, would have been exposed to the greatest
+distress. The cardinal desired to requite this service by the bequest of
+what he considered so valuable. According to a note on the plate, the veil
+is eighty-nine English inches long, and forty-three broad, so that it seems
+to have been rather a kind of shawl or scarf than a veil. If we remember
+rightly, Melville in his Memoirs, which Schiller had read, speaks of a
+handkerchief belonging to the queen, which she gave away before her death,
+and Schiller founds upon this anecdote the well-known words of the farewell
+scene, addressed to Hannah Kennedy.
+
+    "Accept this handkerchief! with my own hand
+    For thee I've work'd it in my hours of sadness
+    And interwoven with my scalding tears:
+    With this thou'lt bind my eyes."
+
+
+DREAMS.
+
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of early youth,
+    And it never comes again;
+  'Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth,
+    That flits across the brain:
+  And love is the theme of that early dream.
+    So wild, so warm, so new,
+  That in all our after years I deem,
+    That early dream we rue.
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of maturer years,
+    More turbulent by far;
+  'Tis a vision of blood, and of woman's tears,
+    For the theme of that dream is war:
+  And we toil in the field of danger and death,
+    And shout in the battle array,
+  Till we find that fame is a bodyless breath,
+    That vanisheth away.
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of hoary age,
+    'Tis a vision of gold in store--
+  Of sums noted down on the figured page,
+    To be counted o'er and o'er:
+  And we fondly trust in our glittering dust,
+    As a refuge from grief and pain,
+  Till our limbs are laid on that last dark bed,
+    Where the wealth of the world is vain.
+
+  And is it thus, from man's birth to his grave--
+    In the path which all are treading?
+  Is there naught in that long career to save
+    From remorse and self-upbraiding?
+  O yes, there's a dream so pure, so bright,
+    That the being to whom it is given,
+  Hath bathed in a sea of living light--
+    And the theme of that dream is Heaven.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE LECTURER
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+AN EXCERP FROM ABERNETHY'S LECTURES.
+
+
+When I was speaking of the cure of the digestive organs, I spoke of
+stomachic irritation, and said it was occasioned by some morbid
+peculiarity. It is difficult to find out the exigents; it must be done by
+experiment. We give a medicine, it answers. The digestive organs have such
+a sympathy with contiguous organs, that no wonder if such contiguous organs
+are affected. The liver, for instance, cannot perform its office aright if
+the bowels are uncomfortable. Violent drastics are wrong, they do not do
+good; you cannot go on giving physic every day, this will teaze the bowels
+and not tranquilize them, The cure is to repeat the excitement of
+progressive action. People in general will not find out that what may be an
+adequate excitement one day, may not be an adequate excitement on another
+day. As to these things, they are easily managed, and you should attend to
+them. Every person advanced in life knows this, and attends to it. Doctor
+Curry, whom I used to call the poetical doctor, says, very justly, "It is
+in medicine as it is in morals, you must break bad habits, and establish
+good ones."
+
+Where the liver is primarily affected, small doses of quicksilver act in a
+wonderful and a prodigious manner. How the stomach, when wrong, disturbs
+the head, is apparent to every one. How a faulty action of the liver
+disturbs the head is also well known; but the liver, in an especial manner,
+disturbs the head.
+
+A Yorkshireman came three hundred miles, as he told me, on purpose to see
+me, and he said he was going back again by the mail the same night. I asked
+him what could induce him to come so far. His reply was, "Why you once set
+up a friend of mine, and I thought you could set me up too."
+
+I would have you keep your eyes open to this, that we are perpetually
+putting wrong our digestive organs by our absurdities in diet. These
+organs, if long wrong, will affect the spinal chord, producing lumbar
+numbness. Now, then, I have surveyed the influence of local maladies in
+disturbing the nervous energies, and now I say there is a reflected action
+in them, and they become a fruitful source of a numerous and dissimilar
+progeny of local diseases.
+
+People are disposed to say I am apt to exaggerate too much; but I merely
+relate what I have seen in my time, and you will all have numerous
+instances by and by of making the same observations, and I think at last
+you will come to the same conclusions.
+
+I now speak of local diseases; and, first, of phlegmonous inflammation. I
+do not much like the term phlegmonous inflammation, because phlegmon alone
+is inflammation. That the vessels, particularly the arteries, of inflamed
+parts are disposed to receive more blood, is manifest. Mr. Hunter froze the
+ears of rabbits, and the arteries inflamed and were filled with blood,
+throbbing, and pain. When there is great disturbance of the arterious
+system, with throbbing, there is always acute pain. In common whitlow of
+the finger, how the arteries of the arm, the brachial in particular, throb,
+is well known. In proportion as arteries are excited to vehement action,
+some difficulty occurs to the transmission of the blood into the veins. Dr.
+Phillips found that inflamed blood is slower in cooling than common blood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--_Wotton_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Sir Boyle Roche, was arguing for the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, in
+Ireland:--"It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker," said he, "to give up
+not only a _part_, but, if necessary, even the _whole_, of our
+constitution, to preserve _the remainder!_"
+
+_Barrington's Sketches_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A short time since the manager of Sadler's Wells, wishing to make an
+alteration in his bills, sent an old one with the corrections made in the
+margin, to the printer. In a few days a proof was forwarded to Mr. T.
+Dibdin, when it read thus--"Under the patronage of his Royal Highness the
+Duke of Clarence, Lord High _Patron of England and Admiral of this
+Theatre_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A WELSH INVITATION.
+
+
+Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys' compliments to Mr.
+Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess
+whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not
+recollect, and Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
+request the favour of the company of Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, to dinner on
+Monday week next. Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
+beg to inform Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles
+Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton,
+and Miss Sandys do not recollect, that Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter
+Norton, and Miss Sandys can accommodate Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, with beds, if
+remaining the night is agreeable to Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect.
+
+Llandillon Castle.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  Bob sick--thought life was drawing to its end,
+    His cheek grew pale, his tongue began to falter,
+  Justly alarmed, he begg'd a rev'rend friend
+    Would send him "_a companion to the altar._"
+  His friend forgot, Bob grew from worse to worse,
+    (A state to which he's always sure to alter,)
+  When he received a _night-cap_ from his nurse,
+    Who thought it a _companion to the halter_!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had
+drowned herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a
+verdict of _wilful murder against herself_.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page193" id="page193"></a>[pg 193]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+  OF<br />
+  LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<table width="100%" summary="VOL. 10 No. 274 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827. PRICE 2d.">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="30%"><b>VOL 10. No. 274.]</b></td>
+    <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827.</b></td>
+    <td align="right" width="30%"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2>
+<h2>No. II.</h2>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/274-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/274-1.png" alt=
+    "THE TEMPLE CHURCH" /></a> <h3>THE TEMPLE CHURCH.</h3></div>
+<p>The Temple Church,<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+  London, was erected in the twelfth century; but among antiquarians considerable
+  difference of opinion at various times prevailed as to who were the original
+  builders of these round churches, which form the most striking and beautiful
+  specimens of the architectural skill of our Anglo-Norman ancestors. In England
+  there are four examples of round churches, almost in perfect preservation, namely,
+  the church of St. Mary, Temple; St. Sepulchre, Northampton; St. Mary, Cambridge;
+  and that of Little Maplestead, Essex. It was long thought that they were of
+  Jewish origin; but through the ingenious and learned essays of Mr. Essex and
+  of Mr. Britton, this erroneous notion has been entirely removed. Mr. Essex,
+  in his Essay, observes, in support of his opinion, that &quot;their Temple at
+  Jerusalem was not of a circular form, neither was the Tabernacle of Moses; nor
+  do we find the modern Jews affect that figure in building their synagogues.
+  It has, however, been generally supposed that the round church at Cambridge,
+  that at Northampton, and some others, were built for synagogues by the Jews
+  while they were permitted to dwell in those places. But as no probable reason
+  can be assigned for this supposition, and I think it is very certain that the
+  Jews who were settled in Cambridge had their synagogue, and probably dwelled
+  together in a part of the town now called the Jewry, so we may reasonably conclude
+  the round churches we find in other parts of this kingdom were not built by
+  the Jews for synagogues, whatever the places may be called in which they stand.&quot;&mdash;It
+  has been generally allowed by these and other writers on archaeology, that the
+  primitive church of this form was that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and
+  that the Temple Church at London was built by the Knights' Templars, whose occupation
+  was the protection of Christian pilgrims against the Saracens. It has been further
+  urged by <span class="pagenum"><a name="page194" id="page194"></a>[pg 194]</span>
+a correspondent (Charles Clarke, Esq. F.S.A.) in the first volume of
+  Britton's &quot;Architectural Antiquities,&quot; that two of the before-mentioned
+  round churches, namely, Northampton and Cambridge, were in fact built by &quot;affluent
+  crusaders, in imitation of that of the Holy Sepulchre;&quot; and in support
+  of his opinion he cites several historical notices.</p>
+<p>The late perfect restoration of the Temple Church ought to be proudly recorded
+  in our architectural annals. The excellence of the workmanship, and the native
+  purity of the detail, evince not only scientific skill, but also a laudable
+  motive of preserving this antique specimen of pure Anglo-Norman architecture
+  from the ravages of time. Let the architect's attention be directed to the western
+  doorway, and also to the interior of the church; and here, in good preservation,
+  he will see excellent specimens of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by
+  the cable, the lozenge, the cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &amp;c. &amp;c., ornaments
+  peculiar to the <i>round style</i>. The circular-headed windows, with their
+  slender columns, also show, that in the restoration the style has not been tampered
+  with; but substantial authorities have been quoted to perfect this praiseworthy
+  attempt of the architect. That part of the church which has been added at a
+  later date than the circular part, and for the convenience of divine worship,
+  is lighted by the beautiful proportioned triple lancet-shaped windows, so justly
+  admired. A writer in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for May, 1827, after making
+  some judicious remarks, seems to think the crosses on the ends of the building,
+  &quot;as not in character with the building.&quot; Now as to architectural propriety
+  in the decorations of a Christian church, no ornament could be better devised;
+  and if we proceed to the antiquity of such ornament, I would observe, that the
+  adoption would be equally correct, that being the insignia of the banner under
+  which the Knights' Templars originally fought.</p>
+<p class="source">C. DAVY.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>BRIDGET TROT AND TIMOTHY GREEN.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+<p class="quote"> &quot;'Tis a common tale,<br />
+  An ordinary sorrow of man's life;<br />
+  A tale of silent sufferings, hardly clothed<br />
+  In bodily form.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="quote"> WORDSWORTH. </p>
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Miss Bridget <i>Trot</i>, a &quot;<i>wo</i>&quot;-man was,</p>
+    <p class="i2">Of excellent repute,</p>
+    <p>Who <i>kept a stand</i> in Leadenhall,</p>
+    <p class="i2">And there disposed of fruit.</p>
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="stanza">
+  <p>And though in features rather <i>dark</i>,</p>
+  <p class="i2">No <i>fairer</i> could be found;</p>
+  <p>For what she sold, like <i>ringing</i> gold,</p>
+  <p class="i2">When <i>peeled</i>, was always <i>sound!</i></p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She had moreover notions <i>high</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And thought herself above</p>
+    <p>The very <i>low</i>-ly common way </p>
+    <p class="i2">Of <i>falling</i> into love.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And therefore when to her his <i>suit</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">A <i>Snip</i> did often press</p>
+    <p>With vows of love, she <i>cut</i> him <i>short</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">At <i>length</i>, without <i>re-dress</i>.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Yet nothing odd was there in this </p>
+    <p class="i2">One case, it must be said;</p>
+    <p>For who that wish'd a <i>perfect</i> man </p>
+    <p class="i2">Could with a <i>ninth part</i> wed?</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Not she for one, whatever he </p>
+    <p class="i2">Might do to make him <i>smart</i>,</p>
+    <p>And howsoe'er her saying &quot;Nay&quot; </p>
+    <p class="i2">Might add it to his heart.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>'Tis very strange, (yet so it is,) </p>
+    <p class="i2">That vows should go for naught.</p>
+    <p>But she who <i>strove</i> to 'scape love's <i>toils</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">Quite unawares was caught!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>For though so <i>hard</i> to Snip <i>at first</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2"><i>At last</i> it chanced that she</p>
+    <p>A sort of soft emotion felt </p>
+    <p class="i2">Towards one Timothy,</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>A butcher&mdash;<i>Green</i> by name, but <i>red</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">In face, as was his cap,</p>
+    <p>And though he seldom tasted <i>wine</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">A <i>port</i>-ly sort of chap.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>This man one day in passing by, </p>
+    <p class="i2">In taste for what she'd got,</p>
+    <p>Saw Biddy's stall&mdash;and 'twas her <i>fate</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">To sell to him a <i>lot!</i></p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She thought his manners very sweet, </p>
+    <p class="i2">He gave so fond a gaze;</p>
+    <p>(But dashing <i>blades</i> of such like trades </p>
+    <p class="i2">Have ever <i>killing</i> ways!)</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And whilst he paid the <i>coppers</i> down, </p>
+    <p class="i2">He had the <i>brass</i> to say</p>
+    <p>Her <i>fruit</i> was sweet, but sweeter still </p>
+    <p class="i2">The <i>apple</i> of her eye.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Besides all this, he looked so neat </p>
+    <p class="i2">Whilst shouldering his tray;</p>
+    <p>So what with <i>steel, et cetera,</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">Her heart was <i>stole</i> away!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Lo! <i>shortly after</i> both agreed, </p>
+    <p class="i2">They fixed the wedding day,</p>
+    <p>But <i>long before</i> that day arriv'd </p>
+    <p class="i2">He took to stop away!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>From that same time her peace of mind </p>
+    <p class="i2">And comfort were at <i>steak</i>&mdash;</p>
+    <p>She did so <i>lean</i> to Mr. Green, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Her heart was like to break!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>At last she went one morn to see </p>
+    <p class="i2">What he could be about,</p>
+    <p>And hoped, alone, to find him <i>in</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">But he had just popt <i>out</i>.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She ax'd, &quot;Is Mr. Green at home?&quot; </p>
+    <p class="i2">Of one who, with a laugh,</p>
+    <p>Replied, &quot;He's not! but if you please </p>
+    <p class="i2">I'll fetch <i>his better half</i>.&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>&quot;His what?&quot; scarce <i>uttered</i> Bridget out, </p>
+    <p class="i2">With <i>utter</i>most dismay;</p>
+    <p>And <i>there</i> she stopt, she could no more, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And nearly swoon'd <i>away!</i></p>
+  </div>
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page195" id="page195"></a>[pg 195]</span>
+ <div class="stanza">
+    <p>But when at length she was herself, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And saw her faithless clown.</p>
+    <p>She straightway went to blow him <i>up</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">But got a good set <i>down</i>!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>&quot;Oh, cold and faithless Tim,&quot; quoth she, </p>
+    <p class="i2">&quot;You vowed you couldn't <i>smother</i></p>
+    <p>Your <i>burning</i> love for me, but now </p>
+    <p class="i2">You're married to another!&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>&quot;Is this the way you treat me, sir? </p>
+    <p class="i2">Too <i>cheaply</i> was I bought!</p>
+    <p>I loved you <i>dearly</i>, but it seems </p>
+    <p class="i2">That that <i>all went for naught</i>.&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She sighed, and gave one parting look, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Then tore herself away</p>
+    <p>From her false swain and Mrs. Green, </p>
+    <p class="i2">For ever and a day!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And <i>very</i> soon got <i>very</i> ill, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And <i>very</i> quick did die,</p>
+    <p>And <i>very</i> truly <i>veri</i>fied </p>
+    <p class="i2">Her love for Timothy!</p>
+  </div>
+</div>
+<p class="source">W.R.H.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>GREAT BELL OF GLASGOW.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+
+<p>In the steeple of Glasgow is a great bell, which is twelve feet one inch in
+  circumference, and has a grave and deep tone. In 1789, it was accidentally cracked
+  by some persons who got admission to the steeple. It was, therefore, sent to
+  London, and cast anew. On the outside of it is the following inscription:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p align="center" class="center"> In the year of grace<br />
+  1594,<br />
+  Marcus Knox,<br />
+  a merchant of Glasgow,<br />
+  zealous for the interests of the reformed religion,<br />
+  caused me to be fabricated in Holland<br />
+  for the use of his fellow citizens in Glasgow,<br />
+  and placed me with solemnity<br />
+  in the tower of their cathedral.<br />
+  My function<br />
+  was to announce, by the impress on my bosom,<br />
+  (Me audito venias doctrinam sanctam ut discas;<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>)<br />
+  and<br />
+  I was taught to proclaim the hours of unheeded time.<br />
+  195 years had I sounded these awful warnings,<br />
+  when I was broken<br />
+  by the hands of inconsiderate and<br />
+  unskilful men.<br />
+  In the year 1790,<br />
+  I was cast into the furnace,<br />
+  refounded at London,<br />
+  and returned to my sacred vocation.<br />
+  Reader,<br />
+  thou also shall know a resurrection,<br />
+  may it be to eternal life.<br />
+  </p>
+<p class="source">MALVINA.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>FANCY.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><i>Me</i>, oft hath Fancy, in her fitful dream,</p>
+<p> Seated within a far sequestered dell,</p>
+<p> What time upon the noiseless waters fell, </p>
+<p> Mingled with length'ning leafy shade, a gleam </p>
+<p> Of the departing sun's environ'd beam; </p>
+<p> While all was hush'd, save that the lone death-bell </p>
+<p> Would seem to beat, and pensive smite mine ear </p>
+<p> Like spirit's wail, now distant far, now near: </p>
+<p> Then the night-breeze would seem to chill my cheek, </p>
+<p> And viewless beings flitting round, to <i>speak!</i> </p>
+<p> And then, a throng of mournful thoughts would press </p>
+<p> On this, my wild-ideal loneliness. </p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Me, oft hath Fancy too, in musing hour</p>
+<p>Seated (what time the blithesome summer-day </p>
+<p> Was burning 'neath the fierce meridian ray) </p>
+<p> Within that self-same lonely woodland bow'r </p>
+<p> So sultry and still; but <i>then</i>, the tower, </p>
+<p> The hamlet tow'r, sent forth a roundelay; </p>
+<p> I seem'd to hear, till feelings o'er me stole </p>
+<p> Faintly and sweet, enwrapping all my soul, </p>
+<p> Joy, grief, were strangely blended in the sound. </p>
+<p> The light, warm sigh of summer, was around, </p>
+<p> But ne'er may speech, <i>such</i> thoughts, <i>such</i> visions tell, </p>
+<p> Then, perfect most, when <i>indescribable!</i> </p>
+</div> </div>
+<p class="source">M.L.B.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>FINE ARTS</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>THE PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN FRANCE.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+
+<p>Whether the French were first indebted to the Roman school for their knowledge
+  of the art of painting is a matter of some doubt; indeed, several celebrated
+  French writers affirm, that they first had recourse to the Florentine and Lombard
+  schools; while others very strenuously declare, on the other hand, that the
+  Venetian artists were alone resorted to, on account of the remarkable splendour
+  of their colouring. A late author, however, observes, that the French do not
+  appear to have imitated any school whatever, but to have adopted a style peculiar
+  to themselves, which though perhaps not a noble one, is nevertheless pleasing.
+  Though it is acknowledged that the French have a particular style, (i.e. a style
+  of their own,) yet their progress in the arts has been exceedingly fluctuating
+  and uncertain, so that it is actually impossible to ascertain who was the first
+  reputable artist amongst them. Cousin was a painter on glass, and certainly
+  obtained a good reputation amongst his countrymen. But he in fact possessed
+  very little merit, and his name would not doubtless have been known to posterity
+  had he not lived in a barbarous age, when the people knew not how to
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page196" id="page196"></a>[pg 196]</span>
+discriminate
+  his errors and defects. He was supposed to be the best artist of his day, and
+  consequently gained a reputation as such, though his works are far beneath mediocrity.</p>
+<p>Francis I. was a great encourager of the fine arts, and the artists themselves
+  were liberally paid for their productions, until that king was unfortunately
+  taken prisoner at the battle of Pavia, in the year 1525. After the death of
+  Francis, the kingdom was distracted with civil wars, so that painting was entirely
+  neglected by his immediate successors. In the year 1610, however, Louis XIII.
+  recovered the arts from their languid state. In his reign, Jaques Blanchard
+  was the most flourishing painter; although Francis Perier, Simon Vo&uuml;et,
+  C.A. Du Fresnoy, and Peter Mignard, were equally gifted.</p>
+<p>Of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, author of a Latin poem, entitled <i>De Arte
+  Graphica</i>, I shall attempt a little account. This painter was born at Paris
+  in the year 1611. His father, intending him for the profession of physic, sent
+  him to the university of Paris, where he made great progress in his studies,
+  and obtained several prizes in poetry. He had a great inclination for painting
+  as well as for poetry, and, though much against his father's desire, resolved
+  to leave off the study of physic, and commence that of drawing. The force of
+  his inclination subduing every measure adopted to suppress it, he took every
+  opportunity of cultivating his favourite study. Leaving college, he placed himself
+  under Francis Perier, from whom he learned the art of designing. He afterwards
+  thought fit to travel into Italy, where he arrived in 1633. Being abandoned
+  by his parents, who were highly incensed at his having rejected the study of
+  physic, he was reduced to the utmost distress on his arrival at Rome, and was
+  compelled to paint trifling pieces for his daily subsistence. After two years
+  of extreme toil and difficulty, he was relieved by the arrival of Mignard, the
+  artist, who had formerly been the companion of his studies. Mignard evinced
+  the warmest regard for his friend, and they were afterwards known in Rome by
+  the name of the <i>inseparables</i>, for they lived in the same house, worked
+  together, and united the produce of their labours. They were employed to copy
+  all the best pictures in the Farnese Palace, and every evening attended an academy
+  of drawing. Mignard was superior in practice, while Fresnoy was perfect master
+  of the rules, history, and theory of his profession. They communicated their
+  sentiments to each other, Fresnoy furnishing his friend with noble ideas, and
+  the latter instructing the former to paint with more ease and dispatch. Fresnoy
+  painted several fine pictures in Rome, and, in 1653, he left that city, in company
+  with his friend, travelled to Venice, and then to Lombardy. Here the two friends
+  parted,<a name="footnotetag3" id="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a>
+  Mignard returning to Rome, and Fresnoy to his native city. After his arrival
+  in Paris, he painted some beautiful historical pictures, which established his
+  reputation. He perfectly understood architecture, and drew designs for many
+  elegant mansions in Paris. During his travels in Italy, he planned and composed
+  his <i>De Arte Graphica</i>, an excellent poem, full of valuable information,
+  and containing unerring rules for the painter. This poem was twenty years in
+  hand, and was not published until three years<a name="footnotetag4" id="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a>
+  after the author's death, which took place in 1665. It has been observed, that
+  Fresnoy possessed the genius requisite for forming a great master; and had he
+  applied himself more strictly to painting, and educated pupils, he would doubtless
+  have proved one of the greatest painters France ever produced. But, possessing
+  high literary talents, he chose to lay down <i>precepts</i> for his countrymen,
+  rather than to present them with <i>examples</i> of his art. He adhered too
+  closely to the theory of painting, neglecting the more essential part&mdash;practice.</p>
+<p>In the reign of Louis XIV., Nicholas Poussin distinguished himself as a painter,
+  by displaying exquisite knowledge and great skill in composition. He generally
+  painted ancient ruins, landscapes, and historical figures. He was likewise well
+  acquainted with the manners and customs of the ancients; and, though he educated
+  no pupils, and never had any imitators, his pictures are universally admired
+  in every European country. Charles le Brun<a name="footnotetag5" id="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a>
+  established the French school,&mdash;an undertaking which Vo&uuml;et had previously
+  attempted. Le Brun drew well, had a ready conception, and a fertile imagination.
+  His compositions are vast, but, in various instances, they may justly be termed
+  <i>outre</i>. He possessed the animation, but not the inspiration of Raphael;
+  and his design is not so pure as that of Domenichino, nor so lively as that
+  of Annibale Caracci. Eustache le Seur, Le Brun's rival, possessed remarkable
+  dignity, and wonderful correctness of style. Indeed, by some he has been called
+  the Raphael of France. Had he lived longer, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page197" id="page197"></a>[pg 197]</span>
+(for he died at the age of thirty-eight,)
+  the French school, under his direction, would most probably have adopted a manner
+  which might have been imitated, and which might have established the arts on
+  an eminence to vie with even imperial Rome. But, by the concurrence of extraordinary
+  circumstances, Le Brun was the fashionable painter of the time, and it therefore
+  became necessary to imitate <i>his</i> manner, rather than the more simple and
+  more refined one of his rival. As Le Brun's imitators wanted his genius, his
+  faults not only became current, but more glaring and deformed.</p>
+<p>After Le Brun's death, which took place in 1690, the French artists degenerated
+  greatly, their productions being decorated in a gaudy and theatrical way, without
+  due regard to taste or decorum. Their school, some years ago, altered its principles,
+  under the auspices of the spirited Count de Caylus, who possessed considerable
+  merit as an artist. The count, by his high rank and fortune, had the means of
+  encouraging the imitators of the ancients, and of procuring the best models
+  in Italy for study. He, in conjunction with Monsieur Vien, first formed the
+  design of restoring a pure taste in France; and if his countrymen had followed
+  the path thus marked out for them, they would now have been equal to the greatest
+  of the Greek painters. But it appears that they are incapable of rising to any
+  very extraordinary height in the arts, for, with the exception of Le Seur, and
+  one or two others, they have ever wanted that elevation of mind which so eminently
+  distinguished the Romans. Though De Caylus greatly purified painting in his
+  time, yet his precepts and examples had little or no weight after his death,
+  for the art again retrograded into its original state&mdash;a state from which
+  the French professors, as before observed, seem incapable of rising.</p>
+<p>In our own days some few French artists have distinguished themselves, particularly
+  Lefevre, who was the chief painter to Napoleon. A full-length portrait of the
+  emperor in his coronation robes, for which Lefevre received the sum of five
+  thousand Napoleons, and which I have lately had the pleasure of seeing, is very
+  correct in drawing, and extremely rich and harmonious in colour; but it wants
+  freedom and boldness of execution.</p>
+<p>To conclude&mdash;the French are acknowledged to do pretty well within the
+  precincts of their own country, though few of their pictures will stand in competition
+  with those of the Italians, or with those produced in our own school.</p>
+<p class="source">G.W.N.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>MANNERS &amp; CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.</h2>
+<h2>No. XIII.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>SINGULAR JEWISH CUSTOM.</h3>
+
+<p>Burckhardt, in his &quot;Travels through Syria,&quot; &amp;c. informs us, that
+  at Tiberias, one of the four holy cities of the Talmud, the Jews observe a singular
+  custom in praying. While the rabbin recites the Psalms of David, or the prayers
+  extracted from them, the congregation frequently imitate, by their voice or
+  gestures, the meaning of some remarkable passages; for example, when the rabbin
+  pronounces the words, &quot;Praise the Lord with the sound of the trumpet,&quot;
+  they imitate the sound of the trumpet through their closed fists. When &quot;a
+  horrible tempest&quot; occurs, they puff and blow to represent a storm; or should
+  he mention &quot;the cries of the righteous in distress,&quot; they all set
+  up a loud screaming; and it not unfrequently happens, that while some are still
+  blowing the storm, others have already begun the cries of the righteous, thus
+  forming a concert which it is difficult for any but a zealous Hebrew to hear
+  with gravity.</p>
+
+<h3>CHARACTER OF THE KARPIANS, (ARABS.)</h3>
+
+<p>They are such consummate thieves and rogues, that, according to an ancient
+  tradition still current among them, they once tricked the devil himself. The
+  story is as follows:&mdash;The devil had acquired a right to their fields, on
+  which they agreed with him, that when their crops were ripe, they should retain
+  the upper part and the devil should have the lower. They sowed all their lands
+  with wheat, and the devil of course had nothing but the straw for his share.
+  Next year the old gentleman, fully determined not to be again so bamboozled,
+  stipulated that the upper part should belong to him and the lower to the Karpians;
+  but then they sowed all their grounds with beet, turnips, and other esculent
+  roots, and so the devil got nothing but the green tops for his portion.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Memoirs of Artemi.</i></p>
+
+<h3>THE MODERN WELSH.</h3>
+
+<p>The people of the principality are clean and industrious; there is, however,
+  in the nature of a Welshman such a hurriness of manner and want of method, that
+  he does nothing well; for his mind is over anxious, diverted from one labour
+  to another, and hence every thing is incomplete, and leaves the appearance of
+  confusion and negligence. The common exercises of the Welsh are running, leaping,
+  swimming, wrestling, throwing the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page198" id="page198"></a>[pg 198]</span>
+bar, dancing, hunting, fishing, and playing
+  at fives against the church or tower; and they constitute the joy of youth,
+  and the admiration of old age. The convivial amusements are singing and versification.
+  In these favourite exercises the performers are of humble merit; the singing
+  is mere roar and squeak; and the poetical effusions are nonsense, vested in
+  the rags of language; and always slanderous, because the mind of the bard is
+  not fertile in the production of topics. The Welsh character is the echo of
+  natural feeling, and acts from instantaneous motives. The fine arts are strangers
+  to the principality; and the Welshman seldom professes the buskin, or the use
+  of the mallet, the graver, or the chisel; but although deficient in taste, he
+  excels in duties and in intellect.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Jones's History of Wales.</i></p>
+
+<h3>ITALIAN WOMEN.</h3>
+
+<p>Italy and England are undoubtedly possessed of a greater share of female beauty
+  than any other country in Europe. But the English and Italian beauties, although
+  both interesting, are very different from one another. The former are unrivalled
+  for the delicacy and bloom of their complexions, the smoothness and mild expression
+  of their features, their modest carriage, and the cleanliness of their persons
+  and dress; these are qualities which strike every foreigner at his landing.
+  On my first arrival in England, I was asked by a friend how I liked the English
+  women; to which I replied that I thought them all handsome. This is the first
+  impression they produce. There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them,
+  which surprises and interests particularly a native of the south. They seem
+  to look, if I may apply to them the fine lines of one of their living poets&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza"><p>&quot;With eyes so pure, that from the ray</p>
+<p>Dark vice would turn abash'd away;</p>
+</div>
+  <hr class="poem"  />
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>Yet fill'd with all youth's sweet desires,</p>
+<p>Mingling the meek and vestal fires</p>
+<p>Of other worlds, with all the bliss</p>
+<p>The fond weak tenderness of this.&quot;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The Italian beauties are of a different kind. Their features are more regular,
+  more animated; their complexions bear the marks of a warmer sun, and their eyes
+  seem to participate of its fires; their carriage is graceful and noble; they
+  have generally good figures; they are not indeed angelic forms, but they are
+  earthly Venuses. It has been supposed by some, that the habitual view of those
+  models of ideal beauty, the Greek statues, with which Italy abounds, may be
+  an indirect cause conducing to the general beauty of the sex; be that as it
+  may, I think the fine features and beautiful forms of the Italian fair have
+  a great influence upon the minds of young artists, and this is perhaps one of
+  the principal reasons why Italy has so long excelled in figure painters. A handsome
+  female countenance, animated by the expression of the soul, is among the finest
+  works of nature; the sight of it elevates the mind, and kindles the sparks of
+  genius. Raphael took the models of his charming Madonnas from nature. Titian,
+  Guido, Caracci, and others, derived their ideas of female beauty from the exquisite
+  countenances so frequent in their native country.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Italy in the Nineteenth Century.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK.</h2>
+<h2>No. XXII.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A LINNET AT SEA.</h3>
+
+<p>It has been often observed, that birds, in the course of their flight from
+  one country to another, will frequently resort to the rigging of a ship, as
+  a resting-place in their transit across the wide ocean. Mr. Gray, in his &quot;Letters
+  on Canada,&quot; gives the following instance:&mdash;Among the extraordinary
+  things, he observes, one meets with at sea, it is not one of the least surprising
+  to observe small <i>land birds</i> several hundred miles from land. I was sitting
+  on deck, when, to my great surprise, my attention was arrested by the warbling
+  of a bird. I looked up, and saw a <i>linnet</i> perched on the rigging, and
+  whistling with as much ardour as if on a bush in a green meadow. It is not a
+  little astonishing how these little birds should be able to continue on the
+  wing so long as is necessary to fly several hundreds of miles, particularly
+  when the usual shortness of their flight is considered. They continue sometimes
+  with a vessel several days, and are frequently caught by the sailors; but it
+  is remarked that they seldom live, though every care is taken to give them proper
+  food. When the vessel rolls much, they find it difficult to retain their footing
+  on the rigging, and you see them forced, as it were, to resume their flight
+  in search of a better resting-place.</p>
+
+<h3>THE ADVANTAGES OF AFFLICTION.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">Behold this vine,</p>
+<p>I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength</p>
+    <p>Had swollen into irregular twigs</p>
+<p>And bold excrescences,</p>
+<p>And spent itself in leaves and little rings;</p>
+<p>So in the flourish of its outwardness</p>
+<p>Wasting the sap and strength</p>
+<p>That should have given forth fruit;</p>
+<p>But when I pruned the tree,</p>
+<p>Then it grew temperate in its vain expanse</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page199" id="page199"></a>[pg 199]</span><p>Of useless leaves, and knotted, as thou seest,</p>
+<p>Into these full, clear clusters, to repay</p>
+<p>The hand that wisely wounded it.</p>
+<p>Repine not, O my son!</p>
+<p>In wisdom and in mercy heaven indicts,</p>
+<p>Like a wise leech, its painful remedies.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p class="source">SOUTHEY.</p>
+
+<h3>WEATHERCOCKS.</h3>
+
+<p>Weathercocks do not always show the real direction of a very gentle wind. The
+  strange figures of them, usually the productions of capricious fancy, is one
+  cause of their imperfection as vanes to indicate the wind. Griffins, half-moons,
+  foxes, or figures of St. Margaret and the dragon, are not good shapes for weathercocks,
+  which ought to be plain fans, the large surface of one side being counterbalanced
+  against the weight of the other.</p>
+
+<h3>THE VALUE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.</h3>
+
+<p>A general, though superficial acquaintance with such subjects as well-educated
+  men and women talk about in mixed society is absolutely necessary. A practised
+  eye will easily distinguish the silence of modest attention from the mute weariness
+  of ignorance. The most inveterate talker, if he be not quite a fool, desires
+  to be listened to as well as heard; and a &quot;yes&quot; or a &quot;no&quot;
+  may be placed and accented so as to show intelligence, or betray stupidity.
+  Grace in action and deportment is so essential, that it may almost be said to
+  make all that is beautiful in beauty. We do not mean that a lady should, in
+  dancing, walking, or sitting, display attitudes worthy of a painter's model.
+  In walking we, however, recommend something between the listless saunter of
+  a she-dandy, and the bustling gait of a notable body, who perhaps saves three
+  minutes out of four-and-twenty hours, by doing every thing throughout the day
+  with a jerk and a toss.&mdash;Dancing, unless it be done quietly and gracefully,
+  without the fatal results of a shining face, and red neck and arms, it is far
+  better to forbear altogether, it being a very superfluous quality in a gentlewoman;
+  whereas <i>to please</i> by all honest means is her proper calling and occupation.
+  A high degree of <i>positive</i> grace is very rare, especially in northern
+  climates, where the form is degraded and spoiled by ligatures and by cold; but
+  every woman may attain to <i>negative</i> grace, by avoiding awkward and unmeaning
+  habits. The incessant twirling of a reticule, the assiduous pulling of the fingers
+  of a glove, opening and shutting a book, swinging a bell-rope, &amp;c. betray
+  either impatience and weariness of the conversation, disrespect of the speakers,
+  or a want of ease and self-possession by no means inseparably connected with
+  modesty and humility; those persons who are most awkward and shy among their
+  superiors in rank or information being generally most over-bearing and peremptory
+  with their equals or inferiors. We are almost ashamed, in the nineteenth century,
+  to say any thing concerning personal neatness; but cannot forbear hinting, that
+  clean gloves and neat shoes aid the captivating powers of a lady much more certainly
+  than pearl ear-rings or gold chains&mdash;that clean muslin is more bewitching
+  than dirty <i>blond lace</i>&mdash;and that a pocket-handkerchief should be
+  like a basilisk, a thing heard of, but never seen; we mean in the capacity in
+  which our cold-catching, rheum-exciting climate calls it into action.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>SELECT BIOGRAPHY.</h2>
+<h2>No. LVII.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>KARL THEODORE KORNER.</h3>
+
+<p>Korner is one of the poets of whom modern Germany is justly proud. His was
+  not the mere theoretic heroism which contents itself with celebrating the deeds
+  of others. His own conduct embodied the most noble conceptions of his imagination,
+  and his life and death exhibited a splendid example of the patriotism which
+  breathed throughout his verse. He was born at Dresden in 1791. His education
+  was of the most careful kind. He was not only instructed in various branches
+  of learning, but the elegant accomplishments of the fine arts were added, and
+  the exercises of the body were not less attended to than those of the mind.
+  Called upon to choose some occupation, he determined to apply himself to mining,
+  and took up his residence at Vienna, where he enjoyed the advantage of a familiar
+  intercourse with William Von Humboldt, the Prussian ambassador, Frederic Schlegel,
+  and other eminent literary and scientific men. Here, within the short space
+  of fifteen months, he produced a rapid succession of dramas, operas, and farces,
+  as well as several small poems. The success of his works obtained him the appointment
+  of poet to the court. He was now in the enjoyment of all that could render life
+  happy&mdash;competence, distinction, esteem, friendship and love; but he resolved
+  to sacrifice them all &quot;for that greatest mortal blessing, his country's
+  freedom.&quot;</p>
+<p>&quot;Could I,&quot; says he, in a letter to his father, &quot;could I, think
+  you, stand aloof, contented to celebrate with weak inspiration the success of
+  my conquering bre<span class="pagenum"><a name="page200" id="page200"></a>[pg
+  200]</span>thren? I am aware that you will suffer much anxiety,&mdash;My mother
+  too will weep&mdash;may God be her comfort!&mdash;I cannot spare you this trial.
+  That I simply offer my life is of little import; but that I offer it, crowned
+  as it is with all the flowery wreaths of love, of friendship, and of joy,&mdash;that
+  I cast away the sweet sensations which lived in the conviction that I have caused
+  you no inquietude, no anguish,&mdash;this indeed is a sacrifice which can only
+  be opposed to such a prize!&quot;</p>
+<p>He left Vienna in March 1813, and joined the free corps which Major Von Lutzow
+  was then forming. This was a voluntary association, and the corps was remarkable
+  throughout the war for its valour and enterprise. In the midst of the most active
+  campaigns, Korner continued to pour forth his verses. Other poets have written
+  of battles in the retirement of the closet, but he sang his song of war on the
+  tented field, and amid the din of conflict. Nor was this all: he collected too
+  the strains of other poets, and adapted them to appropriate airs, to animate
+  the ardour of his companions in arms. We cannot follow him through his career,
+  brief as it was; but the subjoined incident is too striking to be omitted, and
+  is especially adapted to our purpose, as it affords an opportunity of giving
+  a passage of his unpremeditated verse in a moment of pain and danger.</p>
+<p>On the 28th of May, Major Von Lutzow had determined on setting out on an expedition
+  towards Thuringia, with four squadrons of his cavalry, and fifty cossacks. Korner
+  earnestly entreated permission to accompany him, and his desire was fulfilled
+  by his being appointed adjutant by Major Von Lutzow, who highly esteemed him,
+  and wished to have him near his person.</p>
+<p>The expedition passed in ten days through Halberstadt, Eisleben, Buttstadt,
+  and Schlaitz, to Plauen, though not without encountering great danger from the
+  enemy, who were dispersed throughout these districts, but, also, not without
+  effecting some important results. Intelligence and information were procured,
+  ammunition was captured and seized, and couriers on missions of importance were
+  taken prisoners. The gallant troop acquired considerable renown, and harassed
+  the enemy much, especially by cutting off his communications. A plan was in
+  consequence laid by the French emperor for the extirpation of the corps, that,
+  as a deterring example, no man should be left alive. The armistice, concluded
+  at this moment, afforded an opportunity for putting it in practice. (The Duke
+  of Padua, it is observable, particularly profited by this armistice; for being
+  shut up in Leipzig by Generals Woronzow and Czernichef, with the co-operation
+  of two battalions of the Lutzow infantry, he was only saved by this cessation
+  of hostilities.)</p>
+<p>Major Von Lutzow had received official information of the armistice at Plauen.
+  Without expecting to meet with any opposition, he chose the shortest route to
+  rejoin the infantry of his corps, having received the most confidential assurances
+  of safety from the enemy's commanding officers, and proceeded along the high
+  road, without interruption, to Kitzen, a village in the neighbourhood of Leipzig;
+  but here he found himself surrounded and menaced by a very superior force. Theodore
+  Korner was despatched to demand an explanation; but, instead of replying, the
+  commander of the enemy struck at him with his sword; and it being now twilight,
+  a general attack was made on the three squadrons of the Lutzow cavalry before
+  they had drawn a sabre. Several were wounded and taken, and others dispersed
+  in the surrounding country; but Major Von Lutzow himself was saved by the assistance
+  of a squadron of Uhlans, who being in advance with the Cossacks, formed the
+  van-guard, and consequently were not assailed at the same moment. He reached,
+  with a considerable body of his troops, the right bank of the Elbe, where the
+  infantry of his corps, and a squadron of its cavalry, were already collected.</p>
+<p>Korner received the first blow, which he was not prepared to parry, as he approached
+  close to the enemy's commanding officer to deliver his message without drawing
+  his sabre, and was thus severely wounded in the head: the second blow only inflicted
+  a slight injury. He fell back, but speedily recovered himself, and his spirited
+  steed bore him in safety to a neighbouring wood. He was here occupied, at the
+  first moment, with the assistance of a comrade, in binding up his wounds, when
+  he perceived a troop of the enemy, who were in pursuit, riding towards him.
+  His presence of mind did not forsake him, but turning towards the wood, he called
+  with a loud voice, &quot;Fourth squadron,&mdash;Advance!&quot;&mdash;His stratagem
+  succeeded&mdash;the enemy were appalled, drew back, and thus afforded him time
+  to conceal himself deeper in the wood. It had now become dark, and he found
+  a place in the thicket where he could remain undiscovered.</p>
+<p>The pain of the deeper wound became very severe, his strength was exhausted,
+  and his last hope was gone. It was in this extremity that he composed the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page201" id="page201"></a>[pg 201]</span>beautiful
+  sonnet, of which the following is a translation:&mdash;</p>
+<h4>FAREWELL TO LIFE.</h4>
+<p>[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely wounded
+  and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.]</p>
+  <div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;My deep wound burns;&mdash;my pale lips quake in death,&mdash;</p>
+<p>I feel my fainting heart resign its strife,</p>
+<p>And reaching now the limit of my life,</p>
+<p>Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>Yet many a dream hath charm'd my youthful eye;</p>
+<p>And must life's fairy visions all depart;</p>
+<p>Oh surely no! for all that fired my heart</p>
+<p>To rapture here, shall live with me on high.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>And that fair form that won my earliest vow,</p>
+<p>That my young spirit prized all else above,</p>
+<p>And now adored as freedom, now as love,</p>
+<p>Stands in seraphic guise, before me now.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>And as my fading senses fade away,</p>
+<p>It beckons me, on high, to realms of endless day!&quot;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>During the night he heard the enemy searching the wood near him, but afterwards
+  fell asleep, and was saved in the morning by two peasants. He was conveyed secretly
+  into Leipsic, which was then under the French yoke, and where the concealment
+  of any of the Lutzow free corps was prohibited, under severe punishment. He
+  subsequently travelled in safety to Berlin, and having recovered from his wound,
+  rejoined the corps of Lutzow on the right bank of the Elbe. Hostilities recommenced
+  on the 17th of August; and on the 28th an engagement took place near Rosenberg,
+  in which Korner fell. He was in pursuit of a body of the enemy, when the riflemen,
+  who had found a rallying-place in some under-wood, sent forth a shower of balls
+  upon their pursuers. By one of these Korner was wounded in the abdomen, the
+  liver and spine were injured, and he was immediately deprived of speech and
+  consciousness. He was carried to a neighbouring wood, but all medical aid was
+  vain. He was buried under an oak in the village of Wobbelin, about a mile from
+  Ludwigslust. A tomb has since been placed over his remains, and enclosed by
+  a wall. He died at the early age of twenty-two.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>From a Critical Notice of The Life of Korner, New Monthly
+  Mag.</i></p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>Cannot he that wisely declines walking upon the ice for fear of falling, though
+  possibly it might carry him sooner to his journey's end, as wisely forbear drinking
+  more wine than is necessary, for fear of being drunk and the ill-consequences
+  thereof?&mdash;<i>Lord Clarendon.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE NOVELIST.</h2>
+<h2>No. CX.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>THE RESCUE.</h3>
+<h4><i>By Miss Roberts.</i></h4>
+<p class="quote">
+&quot;King Stephen was a worthy peer.&quot;
+</p>
+<p>The hall was lofty, sculptured round with armorial devices, and hung with gaily-embroidered
+  banners, which waved in the wind streaming from the crannies in windows which
+  had suffered some dilapidation from the hand of time. Minstrel harps rang throughout
+  the wide apartment, and at a board well covered with smoking viands&mdash;haunches
+  of the red deer, bustards, cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning
+  heads of wild boars,&mdash;and flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of
+  foaming ale, sat King Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles,
+  whose voices had placed him on the English throne. In the midst of the feast,
+  the jovial glee of the wassailers was interrupted by the entrance of a page,
+  who, forcing his way through the yeomen and lacqueys crowding at the door, flew
+  with breathless haste to the feet of the king, and falling down on his knees,
+  in faltering accents delivered the message with which he had been intrusted.
+  &quot;Up, gallants,&quot; exclaimed the martial monarch, &quot;don your harness,
+  and ride as lightly as you may to the relief of the Countess of Clare, she lies
+  in peril of her life and honour, beleaguered by a rabble of unnurtured Welsh
+  savages, who, lacking respect for beauty, have directed their arms against a
+  woman. Swollen with vain pride at their late victory, (the fiend hang the coward
+  loons who fled before them,) they have sworn to make this noble lady serve them
+  barefoot in their camp. By St. Dennis and my good sword, were I not hampered
+  by this pestilent invasion of the Scots, I would desire no better pastime than
+  to drive the ill-conditioned serfs howling from the walls. Say, who amongst
+  you will undertake the enterprise?&mdash;What, all silent? are ye knights? are
+  ye men? do I reign over christian warriors, valiant captains who have been sworn
+  to protect beauty in distress; or are ye like the graceless dogs of Mahomed,
+  insensible to female honour?&quot; &quot;My ranks are wonderous scant,&quot;
+  returned Milo Fitzwalter, &quot;I may not reckon twenty men at arms in the whole
+  train, and varlets have I none; but it boots not to number spears when danger
+  presses; so to horse and away. Beshrew me, were it the termagant Queen Maude
+  herself, I'd do my <span class="pagenum"><a name="page202" id="page202"></a>[pg
+  202]</span>best to rescue her in this extremity.&quot;&mdash;&quot;Thou art
+  a true knight, Fitzwalter,&quot; replied the king, &quot;and wilt prosper: the
+  Saint's benizon be with thee, for thou must speed on this errand with such tall
+  men as thou canst muster of thine own proper followers: the Scots, whom the
+  devil confound, leave me too much work, to spare a single lance from mine own
+  array. We will drink to thy success, and to the health of the fair countess,
+  in a flask of the right Bourdeaux: and tell the lady that thy monarch grudges
+  thee this glorious deed; for by my Halidom, an thou winnest her unscathed from
+  the hands of these Welsh churls, thou wilt merit a niche beside the most renowned
+  of Charlemagne's paladins.&quot; Fitzwalter made no answer, but he armed in
+  haste, and, leaping into his saddle, gave the spur to his gallant steed, and
+  followed by his esquires and men at arms, rested not either night or day, until
+  he reached the marches of Wales. The lions of England still proudly flying over
+  the castle walls, assured him that the countess had been enabled to hold out
+  against the savage horde, who surrounded it on all sides. The besiegers set
+  up a furious yell as the knight and his party approached their encampment. Half
+  naked, their eyes glaring wildly from beneath a mass of yellow hair, and scantily
+  armed with the rudest species of offensive and defensive weapons, their numbers
+  alone made them terrible; and had the castle been manned and victualled, it
+  might have long defied their utmost strength. Drawing their falchions, the knight
+  and his party keeping closely together, and thus forming an impenetrable wedge,
+  cut their desperate path through the fierce swarm of opposing foes, who, like
+  incarnate demons, rushed to the onslaught, and fell in heaps before the biting
+  steel of these experienced soldiers. Pressing forward with unyielding bravery,
+  Fitzwalter won the castle walls; whence, with the assistance of such frail aid
+  as the living spectres on the battlements could give, he beat back the Welsh
+  host, and in another quarter of an hour, having dispersed the enemy with frightful
+  loss, gained free entrance to the castle. Feeble was the shout of triumph which
+  welcomed Fitzwalter and his brave companions; the corpses of the unburied dead
+  lay strewed upon the pavement; the heroic countess, and her attendant damsels,
+  clad in the armour of the slain, weakened by famine, and hopeless of succour,
+  yet still striving to deceive the besiegers by the display of living warriors,
+  by this stratagem retarded the assault which they could not repel. Fitzwalter
+  took advantage of the darkness of the night, and the panic of the Welshmen,
+  to withdraw from a fortress which was destitute of all the implements of war;
+  and with the rescued ladies mounted behind them, the brave band returned to
+  the court of King Stephen; and the charms of the fair one, and the valour of
+  her chivalric defender, formed the theme of the minstrel in every knightly hall
+  and lady's bower throughout Christendom.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH NOVEL READER.</h3>
+
+<p>How shall I describe the emotions with which I read the first novel I ever
+  perused! A school-fellow had secretly brought with him from home after the holidays,
+  the novel of Peregrine Pickle, which he carefully concealed in his trunk. He
+  at first lent it to some of the elder boys, who read it, and enlarging on some
+  of the most despicable incidents to be found, disgusted my meek spirit of it,
+  by their report. It seemed to violate all my cherished ideas of beauty and soft
+  luxury. I was then about fourteen years of age, and my companions persuaded
+  me to a perusal. I took it up listlessly, expecting but little pleasure, but
+  what language can paint the manner in which I was entranced by it? I read it
+  over and over with increased delight, my entire soul and frame of mind and passions
+  seemed to be suddenly changed and remodelled. I forgot Ariadne and Telemachus,
+  and Tom Pipes and Hatchway became my idols, the undivided objects of my admiration.</p>
+<p>I had hitherto been a remarkably quiet and inoffensive boy; Telemachus I considered
+  never took delight in robbing orchards. I had the confidence of my teachers
+  from my uniform rejection of any participation in the rude affrays, the catastrophe
+  of which dramas was in general an almost universal flogging match. My admiration
+  naturally led to its probable result, a desire to imitate&mdash;I firmly resolved
+  to become a Peregrine. I soon promoted myself to be the leader of every mad
+  prank that the wit of a spirit suddenly excited to activity could devise. In
+  the first fortnight I got flogged for tying a huge mass of brown paper to the
+  tail of the favourite cat of the master's lady, with which she rushed with an
+  insane and terrifying distraction into the drawing-room. We owed a spite to
+  a neighbouring milkman for tale-bearing, and we rendered his pump, the great
+  source <span class="pagenum"><a name="page203" id="page203"></a>[pg 203]</span>of
+  profit, useless, by filling it with soot and mire. The old woman who served
+  the school with tarts, and who, in her endeavours to please all palates, brought
+  some varieties heated over a charcoal fire, had her apparatus blown to atoms
+  by an ounce of gunpowder, insinuated with so much art, that although done before
+  her face, she could attach no one with the offence. All became riot, waste,
+  and destruction under the guidance of my beloved Peregrine.</p>
+<p>But, ah! the poor Count&mdash;amiable, patient, and long-suffering Gaul! He
+  was an unhappy refugee, who had sought a home, by becoming the reviled, insulted
+  teacher of his native tongue to a mob of heartless ruffians. How well do I remember
+  his neat but thread-bare coat and pigtail; his stooping gait, not the decrepitude
+  of age, but as though it sprang from the abasement of his fortune; his endurance
+  of injury to a certain point, when patience suddenly forsook him, and his, to
+  us, irresistibly comic rage and exasperation! What would that generous seaman
+  Pipes have thought a defenceless Frenchman fit for, but as the object of spirited
+  and well-conducted pranks? Nothing cruel or revengeful, but only to show our
+  own superior wit and address in concerted and premeditated annoyance.</p>
+<p>I had gained with a most surprising rapidity upon the confidence of the most
+  conspicuous rioters in the school. There was something so noble and daring in
+  all my designs, that they seemed to yield willingly to so superior a spirit.
+  The sudden alteration in my manners had been noticed with secret wonder by the
+  masters, and they, thinking to check my fatal tendencies at the outset, had
+  inflicted on me several severe and well-merited chastisements. I converted even
+  these into means of extending my influence. I had borne them like a hero, a
+  very Peregrine. No groan&mdash;no sigh&mdash;no bellowing promise of amendment,
+  had lessened my dignity. Under the torture, I was sullen and silent. The stoutest
+  heart in the school envied my manhood and composure.</p>
+<p>The poor French teacher had been the hereditary object of annoyance for several
+  generations of boys. The meekest and most chicken-hearted scrubs in the school
+  tried their apprenticeship to mischief upon him, and were tutored to more noble
+  game by beginning with the Count. They split and cut his pens into a thousand
+  fantastic shapes during a momentary absence; they filled his snuff with the
+  most odious pulverulents. They placed on his desk rude, but expressive designs
+  of a guillotine, with a meagre fellow in ruffles and no shirt, running in the
+  extremity of speed from the spot. These, and a thousand exhibitions of budding
+  genius, and original sin, were our daily subjects of merriment and applause.
+  I taught them nobler arts, or rather the spirit of Pickle which spake within
+  me. It was nothing to annoy on such a petty and momentary scale; let the art
+  and forethought of Hatchway be exhibited.</p>
+<p>The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals always
+  received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the neighbourhood,
+  an invitation to visit him. On these occasions his dress was the most ludicrous
+  imaginable, being compounded of remnants of pristine finery, such as his wardrobe
+  could afford, without attention to uniformity, or consistency of colour. Above
+  all, he possessed a pair of light pea-green small clothes, on which he much
+  prided himself, and I swore by old Trunnion to be their murderer. His custom
+  on the aforesaid visits was to dress early, and then hastily to dismiss his
+  lessons, and proceed immediately.</p>
+<p>Having gained intelligence of an approaching field day, we prepared a strong
+  solution of gum, with which we varnished the bottom of a leather chair upon
+  which he sat in the school. The morning came, his green <i>media</i> and white
+  silk stockings were hailed with the most extravagant but secret exultation.
+  He seated himself, and let us run as we pleased through our tasks, with an unusual
+  portion of smiles and pleasantries, and then looking at his watch, he attempted
+  hastily to rise! in vain&mdash;there seemed an indissoluble bond of union between
+  him and the chair; the most grotesque series of strugglings ensued, and by one
+  desperate effort he was erect, a thin coating of the black leather which he
+  had torn off, firmly adhering to his dress! Nothing abated my delight at my
+  success, but the thought that my magnus Apollo, Pickle, was not there to enjoy
+  it; to see the poor Count stand mute with a mixed passion of rage and distress
+  for several seconds, and then to witness his fruitless attempts to view the
+  full extent of the injury, which, notwithstanding the surprising flexibility
+  of his vertebrae, he was unable to compass. Tom Pipes I felt certain would have
+  died on the spot, he must have split.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>The Inspector</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>CONTRAST OF CLIMATE.</h3>
+
+<p>Suppose yourself to have spent the first half of a foggy, sleety, chill, moist,
+  melancholy, English winter at some misera<span class="pagenum"><a name="page204" id="page204"></a>[pg
+  204]</span>ble country village in Kent. Suppose about the first of February,
+  while the whole landscape around is still floating in mud, buried in snow, or
+  fast bound by frost, and the atmosphere so thick with fog, that one can scarcely
+  point at mid-day to the spot where the sun stands in the heavens,&mdash;that
+  your catarrh grows so alarming, that in a fit of despondency you trundle yourself
+  aboard a ship in the Downs getting under way for a warmer climate. Suppose,
+  that after a smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the
+  whole of which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you
+  awake one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal;
+  and the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a
+  mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window. It seems downright
+  enchantment! You leap up as if there was a new soul in your body. You hurry
+  ashore in the first boat. Your cough, lassitude, and qualmishness have altogether
+  left you. Your step is elastic, and your spirits as buoyant as a lark in spring.
+  You luxuriate amidst beautiful gardens glowing with roses, jessamines, honey-suckles,
+  and a thousand other odoriferous shrubs and flowers in full bloom. You wander
+  through a boundless maze of rising vineries curling their budding tendrils around
+  the trellis-work, and terrace above terrace up the declivities of the mountains.
+  You recline among orange-groves bending under the load of ripe golden fruit;
+  and as you stretch yourself at ease by some clear, gurgling rill, in the midst
+  of all this loveliness, you ask yourself, is this a dream&mdash;or are these
+  indeed the gardens of the Hesperides? Reader, if you have the blue devils at
+  Christmas, you may realize all this, and reach Madeira, as I have done, in eight
+  days from the Downs.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>London Weekly Review.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>ANECDOTES OF THE FACULTY.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>Quacks.</i></h4>
+
+<p>We are not without plenty of ignorant and impudent pretenders at the present
+  day; but the celebrated Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter of Epsom, surpasses them
+  all. She was the daughter of a man named Wallis, a bone-setter at Hindon, in
+  Wiltshire, and sister to the celebrated &quot;Polly Peachem,&quot; who married
+  the Duke of Bolton. Upon some <i>family quarrel</i>, Sally Wallis left her professional
+  parent, and wandered up and down the country in a miserable manner, calling
+  herself &quot;Crazy Sally,&quot; and pursuing, in her perambulations, a course
+  that fairly justified the title. Arriving at last at Epsom, she succeeded in
+  humbugging the worthy bumpkins of that place, so decidedly, that a subscription
+  was set on foot to keep her among them; but her fame extending to the metropolis,
+  the dupes of London, a numerous class then as well as now, thought it no trouble
+  to go ten miles to see the conjuror, till at length, she was pleased to bless
+  the afflicted of London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian
+  Coffee-house, in a coach and six with out-riders! and all the appearance of
+  nobility. It was in one of these journeys, passing through Kent-street, in the
+  Borough, that being taken for a certain woman of quality from the Electorate
+  in Germany, a great mob followed, and bestowed on her many bitter reproaches,
+  till madame, perceiving some mistake, looked out of the window, and accosted
+  them in this gentle manner, &quot;D&mdash;&mdash;n your bloods, don't you know me? I am
+  Mrs. Mapp, the <i>bone-setter!</i>&quot; Upon which, they instantly changed
+  their revilings into loud huzzas.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Wadd's Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs.</i></p>
+
+<h4><i>Dr. Radcliffe.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Among the many singularities related of Radcliffe, it has been noticed, that
+  when he was in a convivial party, he was unwilling to leave it, even though
+  sent for by persons of the highest distinction. Whilst he was thus deeply engaged
+  at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired his immediate attendance
+  on his <i>colonel</i>; but no entreaties could prevail on the disciple of Esculapius
+  to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus. &quot;Sir,&quot; quoth the soldier, &quot;<i>my
+  orders are to bring you.</i>&quot; And being a very powerful man, he took him
+  up in his arms, and carried him off per force. After traversing some dirty lanes,
+  the doctor and his escort arrived at a narrow alley&mdash;&quot;What the D&mdash;&mdash;l
+  is all this,&quot; said Radcliffe, &quot;your colonel don't live here?&quot;&mdash;&quot;No,&quot;
+  said his military friend,&mdash;&quot;no, my <i>colonel</i> does not live here&mdash;but
+  my <i>comrade</i> does, and he's worth <i>two</i> of the <i>colonel</i>,&mdash;so,
+  by G&mdash;d, doctor, if you don't do your <i>best</i> for <i>him</i>, it will
+  be the <i>worst</i> for <i>you!</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<h4><i>Duels.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Many medical duels have been prevented by the difficulty of arranging the &quot;me<span class="pagenum"><a name="page205" id="page205"></a>[pg
+  205]</span>thodus pugnandi.&quot; In the instance of Dr. Brocklesby, the number
+  of paces could not be agreed upon; and in the affair between Akenside and Ballow,
+  one had determined never to fight in the morning, and the other that he would
+  never fight in the afternoon. John Wilkes, who did not stand upon ceremony in
+  these little affairs, when asked by Lord Talbot, &quot;How many times they were
+  to fire?&quot; replied, &quot;just as often as your Lordship pleases; I have
+  brought <i>a bag of bullets and a flask of gunpowder</i>.&quot;</p>
+
+<h4><i>William Hunter.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Dr. William Hunter used to relate the following anecdote:&mdash;During the
+  American war, he was consulted by the daughter of a peer, who confessed herself
+  pregnant, and requested his assistance; he advised her to retire for a time
+  to the house of some confidential friend; she said that was impossible, as her
+  father would not suffer her to be absent from him a single day. Some of the
+  servants were, therefore, let into the secret, and the doctor made his arrangement
+  with the treasurer of the Foundling Hospital for the reception of the child,
+  for which he was to pay 190<i>l</i>.&mdash;The lady was desired to weigh well
+  if she could bear pain without alarming the family by her cries; she said &quot;Yes,&quot;&mdash;and
+  she kept her word. At the usual period she was delivered, not of one child only,
+  but of twins. The doctor, bearing the two children, was conducted by a French
+  servant through the kitchen, and left to ascend the area steps into the street.
+  Luckily the lady's maid recollected that the door of the area might perhaps
+  be locked; and she followed the doctor just in time to prevent his being detained
+  at the gate. He deposited the children at the Foundling Hospital, and paid for
+  each 100<i>l</i>. The father of the children was a colonel of the army, who
+  went with his regiment to America, and died there. The mother afterwards married
+  a person of her own rank.</p>
+
+<h4><i>John Hunter.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Hunter was a philosopher in more senses than one; he had philosophy enough
+  to bear prosperity, as well as adversity, and with a rough exterior was a very
+  kind man. The poor could command his services more than the rich. He would see
+  an industrious tradesman before a duke, when his house was full of grandees,
+  &quot;you have no time to spare,&quot; he would say, &quot;you live by it; most
+  of these can wait, they have nothing to do when they go home.&quot; No man cared
+  less for the profits of the profession, or more for the honour of it. He cared
+  not for money himself, and wished the Doctor [his brother William] to estimate
+  it by the same scale, when he sent a poor man with this laconic note:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="quote">
+&quot;Dear Brother,&mdash;The bearer wants
+your advice. I do not know the nature of case. He has no money, and you
+have plenty, so are well met.&quot;</p>
+<p class="quote">&quot;Yours, J. HUNTER.&quot; </p>
+<p>He was applied to once to perform a serious operation on a tradesman's wife;
+  the fee agreed upon was twenty guineas. He heard no more of the case for two
+  months; at the end of which time he was called upon to perform it. In the course
+  of his attendance, he found out that the cause of the delay had been the difficulty
+  under which the patient's husband had laboured to raise the money; and that
+  they were worthy people, who had been unfortunate, and were by no means able
+  to support the expense of such an affliction. &quot;I sent back to the husband
+  nineteen guineas, and kept the twentieth,&quot; said he, &quot;that they might
+  not be hurt with an idea of too great obligation. It somewhat more than paid
+  me for the expense I had been at in the business.&quot;</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>BURMESE BOATS.</h3>
+
+<p>The Burman war-boat is formed of the trunk of the magnificent teak tree, first
+  roughly shaped, and then expanded by means of fire, until it attains sufficient
+  width to admit two people, sitting abreast. On this a gunwale, rising a foot
+  above the water, is fixed, and the stem and stern taper to a point, the latter
+  being much higher than the other, and ornamented with fret-work and gilding.
+  On the bow is placed a gun, sometimes of a nine-pounder calibre, but generally
+  smaller, and the centre of the boat is occupied by the rowers, varying in number
+  from twenty to a hundred, who in the large boats use the oar, and in the small
+  ones the paddle. A war-boat in motion is a very pleasing object. The rapidity
+  with which it moves, its lightness, and small surface above the water, the uniform
+  pulling of the oar falling in cadence with the songs of the boatmen, who, taking
+  the lead from one of their number, join in chorus, and keep time with the dip
+  of their oars; the rich gilding which adorns the boat, and the neat, uniform
+  dress of the crew, place it, to the eye of a stranger, in a curious and interesting
+  point of view: and in regard to appearance, induces him, when contrasting it
+  with an English boat, to give the former the preference. In point of swiftness,
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page206" id="page206"></a>[pg 206]</span>our
+  best men-of-war boats could not compete with them; and of this superiority they
+  generally availed themselves when an action was impending.</p>
+<p>The boats we had captured at Rangoon, and were cutting down for the transport
+  of the army, were totally of a different nature. These, built on the same plan
+  as ours are, but with flat bottoms, belonged to traders, and were solely adapted
+  to the transport of merchandise. The stern, fancifully ornamented, rises two
+  or three stages above the deck, and is the seat of the helmsman. The inside
+  of the boat is filled with goods, and thatched over, leaving sufficient room
+  underneath to accommodate two or three families&mdash;men, women, and children&mdash;who
+  promiscuously take up their abode there.</p>
+<p>This description of boat is not propelled by oars, but by long poles, the ends
+  of which being placed against the shoulders of the boatmen, they run the whole
+  length of the boat, and push her forward with considerable velocity. The space
+  on which they act is formed by strong outriggers on either side of the boat,
+  which answer the twofold purpose of preventing her upsetting, which she otherwise
+  would do from the excess of top-weight, and of increasing her width and accommodation.</p>
+<p>The third class of boat is that used throughout the country, and which, to
+  those who inhabit the banks of rivers, becomes a necessary appendage, and to
+  many a home. It is a mere canoe, decked with split bamboo, and partly covered
+  in with mats, so as to afford shelter from the sun by day, and the dews by night.
+  One man steers, and two others either row or paddle; but, when the wind is favourable,
+  they use a sail. This is generally made at the moment, with the scarfs they
+  wear over their shoulders, tied together. Two bamboos constitute the mast and
+  yard, the sail being fastened between them; yet, with this fragile rigging,
+  and with the gunwale of the boat almost under water with every puff of wind,
+  they stem the most rapid currents at all seasons of the year, and, such is their
+  skill in steering, seldom meet with an accident. It was in these boats that
+  the majority of the inhabitants of Rangoon, and the adjacent villages, fled
+  upon our approach; and these formed their only habitation during the many months
+  they kept aloof from us.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Two Years in Ava</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>SONNET.</h3>
+
+<h4>ON A YOUTH WHO DIED OF EXCESSIVE FRUIT-PIE.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">Currants have check'd the current of my blood,
+<p class="i2">And berries brought me to be buried here;</p>
+    <p>Pears have pared off my body's hardihood, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And plums and plumbers spare not one so spare.</p>
+    <p>Fain would I feign my fall, so fair a fare </p>
+    <p class="i2">Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good:</p>
+    <p>Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware </p>
+    <p class="i2">Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued.</p>
+    <p>Grave on my grave some sentence grave and terse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That lies not as it lies upon my clay,</p>
+    <p>But, in a gentle strain of unstrained verse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Prays all to pity a poor patty's prey&mdash;</p>
+    <p>Rehearses I was fruitful to my hearse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Tell that my days are told, and soon I'm toll'd
+away!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>THE VEIL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.</h3>
+
+<p>Maria Stuart has been canonized, and placed among the martyrs by the Jesuits.
+  Of course there are relics of hers. Her prayer-book was long shown in France;
+  and her apologist published in an English journal a sonnet which she was said
+  to have composed, and to have written with her own hand in this book. A celebrated
+  German actress, Mrs. Hendel-Schutz, who excited admiration by her attitudes,
+  and also performed Schiller's &quot;Maria&quot; with great applause in several
+  cities of Germany, affirmed that a cross which she wore on her neck was the
+  very same that once belonged to the unfortunate queen. Relics of this description
+  have never yet been subjected to the proof of their authenticity. But if there
+  is anything which may be reasonably believed to have been once the property
+  of the queen, <i>it is the veil with which she covered her head on the scaffold,
+  after the executioner</i>, whether from awkwardness or confusion is uncertain,
+  <i>had wounded the unfortunate victim in the shoulder by a false blow</i>. This
+  veil still exists, and is in the possession of Sir J.C. Hippisley, who claims
+  to be descended from the Stuart's by the mother's side. He had an engraving
+  made from it by Matteo Diottavi, in Rome, 1818, and gave copies to his friends.</p>
+<p>The veil is embroidered with gold spangles by (as is said) the queen's own
+  hand, in regular rows crossing each other, so as to form small squares, and
+  edged with a gold border, to which another border has been subsequently joined,
+  in which the following words are embroidered in letters of gold:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="quote"> &quot;Velum Serenissim&aelig; Mari&aelig;, Scoti&aelig; <span class="pagenum"><a name="page207" id="page207"></a>[pg
+  207]</span>et Galli&aelig; Regin&aelig; Martyris, quo induebatur dum ab Heretica
+  ad mortem iniustissimam condemnata fuit. Anno Sal. MDLXXXVI. a nobilissima matrona
+  Anglicana diu conservatum et tandem, donationis ergo Deo, Societati Jesu consecratum.&quot;
+</p>
+<p>On the plate there is an inscription, with a double certificate of its authenticity,
+  which states, that this veil, a family treasure of the expelled house of Stuart,
+  was finally in possession of the last branch of that family, the cardinal of
+  York, who preserved it for many years in his private chapel, among the most
+  precious relics, and at his death bequeathed it to Sir J. Hippisley, together
+  with a valuable Plutarch, and a Codex with painted (illuminated) letters, and
+  a gold coin struck in Scotland in the reign of queen Mary; and it was specially
+  consecrated by Pope Pius VII. in his palace on the Quirinal, April 29, 1818.
+  Sir John Hippisley, during a former residence at Rome, had been very intimate
+  with the cardinal of York, and was instrumental in obtaining for him, when he
+  with the other cardinals emigrated to Venice in 1798, a pension of &pound;4,000.
+  a-year from the Prince of Wales, now King George IV.; but for which, the fugitive
+  cardinal, all whose revenues were seized by the French, would have been exposed
+  to the greatest distress. The cardinal desired to requite this service by the
+  bequest of what he considered so valuable. According to a note on the plate,
+  the veil is eighty-nine English inches long, and forty-three broad, so that
+  it seems to have been rather a kind of shawl or scarf than a veil. If we remember
+  rightly, Melville in his Memoirs, which Schiller had read, speaks of a handkerchief
+  belonging to the queen, which she gave away before her death, and Schiller founds
+  upon this anecdote the well-known words of the farewell scene, addressed to
+  Hannah Kennedy.</p>
+<p class="quote">&quot;Accept this handkerchief! with my own hand<br />
+For thee I've work'd it in my hours of sadness<br />
+And interwoven with my scalding tears:<br />
+With this thou'lt bind my eyes.&quot;</p>
+
+<h3>DREAMS.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Oh! there is a dream of early youth, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And it never comes again;</p>
+    <p>'Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That flits across the brain:</p>
+    <p>And love is the theme of that early dream. </p>
+    <p class="i2">So wild, so warm, so new,</p>
+    <p>That in all our after years I deem, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That early dream we rue.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Oh! there is a dream of maturer years, </p>
+    <p class="i2">More turbulent by far;</p>
+    <p>'Tis a vision of blood, and of woman's tears, </p>
+    <p class="i2">For the theme of that dream is war:</p>
+    <p>And we toil in the field of danger and death, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And shout in the battle array,</p>
+    <p>Till we find that fame is a bodyless breath, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That vanisheth away.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Oh! there is a dream of hoary age, </p>
+    <p class="i2">'Tis a vision of gold in store&mdash;</p>
+    <p>Of sums noted down on the figured page, </p>
+    <p class="i2">To be counted o'er and o'er:</p>
+    <p>And we fondly trust in our glittering dust, </p>
+    <p class="i2">As a refuge from grief and pain,</p>
+    <p>Till our limbs are laid on that last dark bed, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Where the wealth of the world is vain.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And is it thus, from man's birth to his grave&mdash; </p>
+    <p class="i2">In the path which all are treading?</p>
+    <p>Is there naught in that long career to save </p>
+    <p class="i2">From remorse and self-upbraiding?</p>
+    <p>O yes, there's a dream so pure, so bright, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That the being to whom it is given,</p>
+    <p>Hath bathed in a sea of living light&mdash; </p>
+    <p class="i2">And the theme of that dream is Heaven.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE LECTURER</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>AN EXCERP FROM ABERNETHY'S LECTURES.</h3>
+
+<p>When I was speaking of the cure of the digestive organs, I spoke of stomachic
+  irritation, and said it was occasioned by some morbid peculiarity. It is difficult
+  to find out the exigents; it must be done by experiment. We give a medicine,
+  it answers. The digestive organs have such a sympathy with contiguous organs,
+  that no wonder if such contiguous organs are affected. The liver, for instance,
+  cannot perform its office aright if the bowels are uncomfortable. Violent drastics
+  are wrong, they do not do good; you cannot go on giving physic every day, this
+  will teaze the bowels and not tranquilize them, The cure is to repeat the excitement
+  of progressive action. People in general will not find out that what may be
+  an adequate excitement one day, may not be an adequate excitement on another
+  day. As to these things, they are easily managed, and you should attend to them.
+  Every person advanced in life knows this, and attends to it. Doctor Curry, whom
+  I used to call the poetical doctor, says, very justly, &quot;It is in medicine
+  as it is in morals, you must break bad habits, and establish good ones.&quot;</p>
+<p>Where the liver is primarily affected, small doses of quicksilver act in a
+  wonderful and a prodigious manner. How the stomach, when wrong, disturbs the
+  head, is apparent to every one. How a faulty action of the liver disturbs the
+  head is also well known; but the liver, in an especial manner, disturbs the
+  head.</p>
+<p>A Yorkshireman came three hundred miles, as he told me, on purpose to see me,
+  and he said he was going back again by the mail the same night. I asked him
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page208" id="page208"></a>[pg 208]</span>what
+  could induce him to come so far. His reply was, &quot;Why you once set up a
+  friend of mine, and I thought you could set me up too.&quot;</p>
+<p>I would have you keep your eyes open to this, that we are perpetually putting
+  wrong our digestive organs by our absurdities in diet. These organs, if long
+  wrong, will affect the spinal chord, producing lumbar numbness. Now, then, I
+  have surveyed the influence of local maladies in disturbing the nervous energies,
+  and now I say there is a reflected action in them, and they become a fruitful
+  source of a numerous and dissimilar progeny of local diseases.</p>
+<p>People are disposed to say I am apt to exaggerate too much; but I merely relate
+  what I have seen in my time, and you will all have numerous instances by and
+  by of making the same observations, and I think at last you will come to the
+  same conclusions.</p>
+<p>I now speak of local diseases; and, first, of phlegmonous inflammation. I do
+  not much like the term phlegmonous inflammation, because phlegmon alone is inflammation.
+  That the vessels, particularly the arteries, of inflamed parts are disposed
+  to receive more blood, is manifest. Mr. Hunter froze the ears of rabbits, and
+  the arteries inflamed and were filled with blood, throbbing, and pain. When
+  there is great disturbance of the arterious system, with throbbing, there is
+  always acute pain. In common whitlow of the finger, how the arteries of the
+  arm, the brachial in particular, throb, is well known. In proportion as arteries
+  are excited to vehement action, some difficulty occurs to the transmission of
+  the blood into the veins. Dr. Phillips found that inflamed blood is slower in
+  cooling than common blood.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+<p class="quote"> &quot;I am but a <i>Gatherer</i> and disposer of other men's stuff.&quot;&mdash;<i>Wotton</i>.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+<p>Sir Boyle Roche, was arguing for the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, in Ireland:&mdash;&quot;It
+  would surely be better, Mr. Speaker,&quot; said he, &quot;to give up not only
+  a <i>part</i>, but, if necessary, even the <i>whole</i>, of our constitution,
+  to preserve <i>the remainder!</i>&quot;</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Barrington's Sketches</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>A short time since the manager of Sadler's Wells, wishing to make an alteration
+  in his bills, sent an old one with the corrections made in the margin, to the
+  printer. In a few days a proof was forwarded to Mr. T. Dibdin, when it read
+  thus&mdash;&quot;Under the patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence,
+  Lord High <i>Patron of England and Admiral of this Theatre</i>.&quot;</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A WELSH INVITATION.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys' compliments to Mr.
+  Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess
+  whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect,
+  and Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys request the favour
+  of the company of Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles
+  Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton,
+  and Miss Sandys do not recollect, to dinner on Monday week next. Mr. Walter
+  Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys beg to inform Mr. Charles Morgan,
+  Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr.
+  Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, that Mr.
+  Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys can accommodate Mr. Charles
+  Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose
+  name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect,
+  with beds, if remaining the night is agreeable to Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+  Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton,
+  Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect.</p>
+<p>Llandillon Castle.</p>
+<hr />
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Bob sick&mdash;thought life was drawing to its end, </p>
+    <p class="i2">His cheek grew pale, his tongue began to falter,</p>
+    <p>Justly alarmed, he begg'd a rev'rend friend </p>
+    <p class="i2">Would send him &quot;<i>a companion to the altar.</i>&quot;</p>
+    <p>His friend forgot, Bob grew from worse to worse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">(A state to which he's always sure to alter,)</p>
+    <p>When he received a <i>night-cap</i> from his nurse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Who thought it a <i>companion to the halter</i>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+
+<p>An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had drowned
+  herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a verdict
+  of <i>wilful murder against herself</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<div class="quote">
+<div class="footnote">
+  <p ><a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a></p>
+  <p >The circular part.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>Come, that ye may learn holy doctrine.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>When Mignard returned to Paris in 1658, he again went to reside with his
+    friend.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: <a href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p> It appeared at Paris, in 12mo., with a French translation by
+    Mons. Du Piles, 1668.</p>
+  <p><a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: <a href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a></p>
+  <p> Le Brun was the pupil of Simon Vo&uuml;et, and afterwards of
+    Poussin.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. X, NO. 274.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+No. II.
+
+
+[Illustration: THE TEMPLE CHURCH.]
+
+
+The Temple Church,[1] London, was erected in the twelfth century; but
+among antiquarians considerable difference of opinion at various times
+prevailed as to who were the original builders of these round churches,
+which form the most striking and beautiful specimens of the architectural
+skill of our Anglo-Norman ancestors. In England there are four examples of
+round churches, almost in perfect preservation, namely, the church of St.
+Mary, Temple; St. Sepulchre, Northampton; St. Mary, Cambridge; and that of
+Little Maplestead, Essex. It was long thought that they were of Jewish
+origin; but through the ingenious and learned essays of Mr. Essex and of
+Mr. Britton, this erroneous notion has been entirely removed. Mr. Essex, in
+his Essay, observes, in support of his opinion, that "their Temple at
+Jerusalem was not of a circular form, neither was the Tabernacle of Moses;
+nor do we find the modern Jews affect that figure in building their
+synagogues. It has, however, been generally supposed that the round church
+at Cambridge, that at Northampton, and some others, were built for
+synagogues by the Jews while they were permitted to dwell in those places.
+But as no probable reason can be assigned for this supposition, and I think
+it is very certain that the Jews who were settled in Cambridge had their
+synagogue, and probably dwelled together in a part of the town now called
+the Jewry, so we may reasonably conclude the round churches we find in
+other parts of this kingdom were not built by the Jews for synagogues,
+whatever the places may be called in which they stand."--It has been
+generally allowed by these and other writers on archaeology, that the
+primitive church of this form was that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,
+and that the Temple Church at London was built by the Knights' Templars,
+whose occupation was the protection of Christian pilgrims against the
+Saracens. It has been further urged by a correspondent (Charles Clarke,
+Esq. F.S.A.) in the first volume of Britton's "Architectural Antiquities,"
+that two of the before-mentioned round churches, namely, Northampton and
+Cambridge, were in fact built by "affluent crusaders, in imitation of that
+of the Holy Sepulchre;" and in support of his opinion he cites several
+historical notices.
+
+    [1] The circular part.
+
+The late perfect restoration of the Temple Church ought to be proudly
+recorded in our architectural annals. The excellence of the workmanship,
+and the native purity of the detail, evince not only scientific skill, but
+also a laudable motive of preserving this antique specimen of pure
+Anglo-Norman architecture from the ravages of time. Let the architect's
+attention be directed to the western doorway, and also to the interior of
+the church; and here, in good preservation, he will see excellent specimens
+of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by the cable, the lozenge, the
+cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &c. &c., ornaments peculiar to the
+_round style_. The circular-headed windows, with their slender columns,
+also show, that in the restoration the style has not been tampered with;
+but substantial authorities have been quoted to perfect this praiseworthy
+attempt of the architect. That part of the church which has been added at a
+later date than the circular part, and for the convenience of divine
+worship, is lighted by the beautiful proportioned triple lancet-shaped
+windows, so justly admired. A writer in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for May,
+1827, after making some judicious remarks, seems to think the crosses on
+the ends of the building, "as not in character with the building." Now as
+to architectural propriety in the decorations of a Christian church, no
+ornament could be better devised; and if we proceed to the antiquity of
+such ornament, I would observe, that the adoption would be equally correct,
+that being the insignia of the banner under which the Knights' Templars
+originally fought.
+
+C. DAVY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BRIDGET TROT AND TIMOTHY GREEN.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+    "'Tis a common tale,
+    An ordinary sorrow of man's life;
+    A tale of silent sufferings, hardly clothed
+    In bodily form."
+
+WORDSWORTH.
+
+
+  Miss Bridget _Trot_, a "_wo_"-man was,
+    Of excellent repute,
+  Who _kept a stand_ in Leadenhall,
+    And there disposed of fruit.
+
+  And though in features rather _dark_,
+    No _fairer_ could be found;
+  For what she sold, like _ringing_ gold,
+    When _peeled_, was always _sound_!
+
+  She had moreover notions _high_,
+    And thought herself above
+  The very _low_-ly common way
+    Of _falling_ into love.
+
+  And therefore when to her his _suit_
+    A _Snip_ did often press
+  With vows of love, she _cut_ him _short_
+    At _length_, without _re-dress_.
+
+  Yet nothing odd was there in this
+    One case, it must be said;
+  For who that wish'd a _perfect_ man
+    Could with a _ninth part_ wed?
+
+  Not she for one, whatever he
+    Might do to make him _smart_,
+  And howsoe'er her saying "Nay"
+    Might add it to his heart.
+
+  'Tis very strange, (yet so it is,)
+    That vows should go for naught.
+  But she who _strove_ to 'scape love's _toils_
+    Quite unawares was caught!
+
+  For though so _hard_ to Snip _at first_,
+    _At last_ it chanced that she
+  A sort of soft emotion felt
+    Towards one Timothy,
+
+  A butcher--_Green_ by name, but _red_
+    In face, as was his cap,
+  And though he seldom tasted _wine_,
+    A _port_-ly sort of chap.
+
+  This man one day in passing by,
+    In taste for what she'd got,
+  Saw Biddy's stall--and 'twas her _fate_
+    To sell to him a _lot!_
+
+  She thought his manners very sweet,
+    He gave so fond a gaze;
+  (But dashing _blades_ of such like trades
+    Have ever _killing_ ways!)
+
+  And whilst he paid the _coppers_ down,
+    He had the _brass_ to say
+  Her _fruit_ was sweet, but sweeter still
+    The _apple_ of her eye.
+
+  Besides all this, he looked so neat
+    Whilst shouldering his tray;
+  So what with _steel, et cetera,_
+    Her heart was _stole_ away!
+
+  Lo! _shortly after_ both agreed,
+    They fixed the wedding day,
+  But _long before_ that day arriv'd
+    He took to stop away!
+
+  From that same time her peace of mind
+    And comfort were at _steak_--
+  She did so _lean_ to Mr. Green,
+    Her heart was like to break!
+
+  At last she went one morn to see
+    What he could be about,
+  And hoped, alone, to find him _in_,
+    But he had just popt _out_.
+
+  She ax'd, "Is Mr. Green at home?"
+    Of one who, with a laugh,
+  Replied, "He's not! but if you please
+    I'll fetch _his better half_."
+
+  "His what?" scarce _uttered_ Bridget out,
+    With _utter_most dismay;
+  And _there_ she stopt, she could no more,
+    And nearly swoon'd _away!_
+
+  But when at length she was herself,
+    And saw her faithless clown.
+  She straightway went to blow him _up_,
+    But got a good set _down_!
+
+  "Oh, cold and faithless Tim," quoth she,
+    "You vowed you couldn't _smother_
+  Your _burning_ love for me, but now
+    You're married to another!"
+
+  "Is this the way you treat me, sir?
+    Too _cheaply_ was I bought!
+  I loved you _dearly_, but it seems
+    That that _all went for naught_."
+
+  She sighed, and gave one parting look,
+    Then tore herself away
+  From her false swain and Mrs. Green,
+    For ever and a day!
+
+  And _very_ soon got _very_ ill,
+    And _very_ quick did die,
+  And _very_ truly _veri_fied
+    Her love for Timothy!
+
+W.R.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+GREAT BELL OF GLASGOW.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+In the steeple of Glasgow is a great bell, which is twelve feet one inch in
+circumference, and has a grave and deep tone. In 1789, it was accidentally
+cracked by some persons who got admission to the steeple. It was,
+therefore, sent to London, and cast anew. On the outside of it is the
+following inscription:--
+
+    In the year of grace
+    1594,
+    Marcus Knox,
+    a merchant of Glasgow,
+    zealous for the interests of the reformed religion,
+    caused me to be fabricated in Holland
+    for the use of his fellow citizens in Glasgow,
+    and placed me with solemnity
+    in the tower of their cathedral.
+    My function
+    was to announce, by the impress on my bosom,
+    (Me audito venias doctrinam sanctam ut discas;[2])
+    and
+    I was taught to proclaim the hours of unheeded time.
+    195 years had I sounded these awful warnings,
+    when I was broken
+    by the hands of inconsiderate and
+    unskilful men.
+    In the year 1790,
+    I was cast into the furnace,
+    refounded at London,
+    and returned to my sacred vocation.
+    Reader,
+    thou also shall know a resurrection,
+    may it be to eternal life.
+
+MALVINA.
+
+    [2] Come, that ye may learn holy doctrine.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ FANCY.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  _Me_, oft hath Fancy, in her fitful dream,
+  Seated within a far sequestered dell,
+  What time upon the noiseless waters fell,
+  Mingled with length'ning leafy shade, a gleam
+  Of the departing sun's environ'd beam;
+  While all was hush'd, save that the lone death-bell
+  Would seem to beat, and pensive smite mine ear
+  Like spirit's wail, now distant far, now near:
+  Then the night-breeze would seem to chill my cheek,
+  And viewless beings flitting round, to _speak!_
+  And then, a throng of mournful thoughts would press
+  On this, my wild-ideal loneliness.
+
+  Me, oft hath Fancy too, in musing hour
+  Seated (what time the blithesome summer-day
+  Was burning 'neath the fierce meridian ray)
+  Within that self-same lonely woodland bow'r
+  So sultry and still; but _then_, the tower,
+  The hamlet tow'r, sent forth a roundelay;
+  I seem'd to hear, till feelings o'er me stole
+  Faintly and sweet, enwrapping all my soul,
+  Joy, grief, were strangely blended in the sound.
+  The light, warm sigh of summer, was around,
+  But ne'er may speech, _such_ thoughts, _such_ visions tell,
+  Then, perfect most, when _indescribable!_
+
+M.L.B.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+FINE ARTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN FRANCE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Whether the French were first indebted to the Roman school for their
+knowledge of the art of painting is a matter of some doubt; indeed, several
+celebrated French writers affirm, that they first had recourse to the
+Florentine and Lombard schools; while others very strenuously declare, on
+the other hand, that the Venetian artists were alone resorted to, on
+account of the remarkable splendour of their colouring. A late author,
+however, observes, that the French do not appear to have imitated any
+school whatever, but to have adopted a style peculiar to themselves, which
+though perhaps not a noble one, is nevertheless pleasing. Though it is
+acknowledged that the French have a particular style, (i.e. a style of
+their own,) yet their progress in the arts has been exceedingly fluctuating
+and uncertain, so that it is actually impossible to ascertain who was the
+first reputable artist amongst them. Cousin was a painter on glass, and
+certainly obtained a good reputation amongst his countrymen. But he in fact
+possessed very little merit, and his name would not doubtless have been
+known to posterity had he not lived in a barbarous age, when the people
+knew not how to discriminate his errors and defects. He was supposed to be
+the best artist of his day, and consequently gained a reputation as such,
+though his works are far beneath mediocrity.
+
+Francis I. was a great encourager of the fine arts, and the artists
+themselves were liberally paid for their productions, until that king was
+unfortunately taken prisoner at the battle of Pavia, in the year 1525.
+After the death of Francis, the kingdom was distracted with civil wars, so
+that painting was entirely neglected by his immediate successors. In the
+year 1610, however, Louis XIII. recovered the arts from their languid
+state. In his reign, Jaques Blanchard was the most flourishing painter;
+although Francis Perier, Simon Voüet, C.A. Du Fresnoy, and Peter Mignard,
+were equally gifted.
+
+Of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, author of a Latin poem, entitled _De Arte
+Graphica_, I shall attempt a little account. This painter was born at Paris
+in the year 1611. His father, intending him for the profession of physic,
+sent him to the university of Paris, where he made great progress in his
+studies, and obtained several prizes in poetry. He had a great inclination
+for painting as well as for poetry, and, though much against his father's
+desire, resolved to leave off the study of physic, and commence that of
+drawing. The force of his inclination subduing every measure adopted to
+suppress it, he took every opportunity of cultivating his favourite study.
+Leaving college, he placed himself under Francis Perier, from whom he
+learned the art of designing. He afterwards thought fit to travel into
+Italy, where he arrived in 1633. Being abandoned by his parents, who were
+highly incensed at his having rejected the study of physic, he was reduced
+to the utmost distress on his arrival at Rome, and was compelled to paint
+trifling pieces for his daily subsistence. After two years of extreme toil
+and difficulty, he was relieved by the arrival of Mignard, the artist, who
+had formerly been the companion of his studies. Mignard evinced the warmest
+regard for his friend, and they were afterwards known in Rome by the name
+of the _inseparables_, for they lived in the same house, worked together,
+and united the produce of their labours. They were employed to copy all the
+best pictures in the Farnese Palace, and every evening attended an academy
+of drawing. Mignard was superior in practice, while Fresnoy was perfect
+master of the rules, history, and theory of his profession. They
+communicated their sentiments to each other, Fresnoy furnishing his friend
+with noble ideas, and the latter instructing the former to paint with more
+ease and dispatch. Fresnoy painted several fine pictures in Rome, and, in
+1653, he left that city, in company with his friend, travelled to Venice,
+and then to Lombardy. Here the two friends parted,[3] Mignard returning to
+Rome, and Fresnoy to his native city. After his arrival in Paris, he
+painted some beautiful historical pictures, which established his
+reputation. He perfectly understood architecture, and drew designs for many
+elegant mansions in Paris. During his travels in Italy, he planned and
+composed his _De Arte Graphica_, an excellent poem, full of valuable
+information, and containing unerring rules for the painter. This poem was
+twenty years in hand, and was not published until three years[4] after the
+author's death, which took place in 1665. It has been observed, that
+Fresnoy possessed the genius requisite for forming a great master; and had
+he applied himself more strictly to painting, and educated pupils, he would
+doubtless have proved one of the greatest painters France ever produced.
+But, possessing high literary talents, he chose to lay down _precepts_ for
+his countrymen, rather than to present them with _examples_ of his art. He
+adhered too closely to the theory of painting, neglecting the more
+essential part--practice.
+
+   [3] When Mignard returned to Paris in 1658, he again went to reside
+       with his friend.
+
+   [4] It appeared at Paris, in 12mo., with a French translation by
+       Mons. Du Piles, 1668.
+
+In the reign of Louis XIV., Nicholas Poussin distinguished himself as a
+painter, by displaying exquisite knowledge and great skill in composition.
+He generally painted ancient ruins, landscapes, and historical figures. He
+was likewise well acquainted with the manners and customs of the ancients;
+and, though he educated no pupils, and never had any imitators, his
+pictures are universally admired in every European country. Charles le
+Brun[5] established the French school,--an undertaking which Voüet had
+previously attempted. Le Brun drew well, had a ready conception, and a
+fertile imagination. His compositions are vast, but, in various instances,
+they may justly be termed _outre_. He possessed the animation, but not the
+inspiration of Raphael; and his design is not so pure as that of
+Domenichino, nor so lively as that of Annibale Caracci. Eustache le Seur,
+Le Brun's rival, possessed remarkable dignity, and wonderful correctness of
+style. Indeed, by some he has been called the Raphael of France. Had he
+lived longer, (for he died at the age of thirty-eight,) the French school,
+under his direction, would most probably have adopted a manner which might
+have been imitated, and which might have established the arts on an
+eminence to vie with even imperial Rome. But, by the concurrence of
+extraordinary circumstances, Le Brun was the fashionable painter of the
+time, and it therefore became necessary to imitate _his_ manner, rather
+than the more simple and more refined one of his rival. As Le Brun's
+imitators wanted his genius, his faults not only became current, but more
+glaring and deformed.
+
+    [5] Le Brun was the pupil of Simon Voüet, and afterwards of Poussin.
+
+After Le Brun's death, which took place in 1690, the French artists
+degenerated greatly, their productions being decorated in a gaudy and
+theatrical way, without due regard to taste or decorum. Their school, some
+years ago, altered its principles, under the auspices of the spirited Count
+de Caylus, who possessed considerable merit as an artist. The count, by his
+high rank and fortune, had the means of encouraging the imitators of the
+ancients, and of procuring the best models in Italy for study. He, in
+conjunction with Monsieur Vien, first formed the design of restoring a pure
+taste in France; and if his countrymen had followed the path thus marked
+out for them, they would now have been equal to the greatest of the Greek
+painters. But it appears that they are incapable of rising to any very
+extraordinary height in the arts, for, with the exception of Le Seur, and
+one or two others, they have ever wanted that elevation of mind which so
+eminently distinguished the Romans. Though De Caylus greatly purified
+painting in his time, yet his precepts and examples had little or no weight
+after his death, for the art again retrograded into its original state--a
+state from which the French professors, as before observed, seem incapable
+of rising.
+
+In our own days some few French artists have distinguished themselves,
+particularly Lefevre, who was the chief painter to Napoleon. A full-length
+portrait of the emperor in his coronation robes, for which Lefevre received
+the sum of five thousand Napoleons, and which I have lately had the
+pleasure of seeing, is very correct in drawing, and extremely rich and
+harmonious in colour; but it wants freedom and boldness of execution.
+
+To conclude--the French are acknowledged to do pretty well within the
+precincts of their own country, though few of their pictures will stand in
+competition with those of the Italians, or with those produced in our own
+school.
+
+G.W.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.
+
+No. XIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SINGULAR JEWISH CUSTOM.
+
+
+Burckhardt, in his "Travels through Syria," &c. informs us, that at
+Tiberias, one of the four holy cities of the Talmud, the Jews observe a
+singular custom in praying. While the rabbin recites the Psalms of David,
+or the prayers extracted from them, the congregation frequently imitate, by
+their voice or gestures, the meaning of some remarkable passages; for
+example, when the rabbin pronounces the words, "Praise the Lord with the
+sound of the trumpet," they imitate the sound of the trumpet through their
+closed fists. When "a horrible tempest" occurs, they puff and blow to
+represent a storm; or should he mention "the cries of the righteous in
+distress," they all set up a loud screaming; and it not unfrequently
+happens, that while some are still blowing the storm, others have already
+begun the cries of the righteous, thus forming a concert which it is
+difficult for any but a zealous Hebrew to hear with gravity.
+
+
+CHARACTER OF THE KARPIANS, (ARABS.)
+
+
+They are such consummate thieves and rogues, that, according to an ancient
+tradition still current among them, they once tricked the devil himself.
+The story is as follows:--The devil had acquired a right to their fields,
+on which they agreed with him, that when their crops were ripe, they should
+retain the upper part and the devil should have the lower. They sowed all
+their lands with wheat, and the devil of course had nothing but the straw
+for his share. Next year the old gentleman, fully determined not to be
+again so bamboozled, stipulated that the upper part should belong to him
+and the lower to the Karpians; but then they sowed all their grounds with
+beet, turnips, and other esculent roots, and so the devil got nothing but
+the green tops for his portion.
+
+_Memoirs of Artemi._
+
+
+THE MODERN WELSH.
+
+
+The people of the principality are clean and industrious; there is,
+however, in the nature of a Welshman such a hurriness of manner and want of
+method, that he does nothing well; for his mind is over anxious, diverted
+from one labour to another, and hence every thing is incomplete, and leaves
+the appearance of confusion and negligence. The common exercises of the
+Welsh are running, leaping, swimming, wrestling, throwing the bar,
+dancing, hunting, fishing, and playing at fives against the church or
+tower; and they constitute the joy of youth, and the admiration of old age.
+The convivial amusements are singing and versification. In these favourite
+exercises the performers are of humble merit; the singing is mere roar and
+squeak; and the poetical effusions are nonsense, vested in the rags of
+language; and always slanderous, because the mind of the bard is not
+fertile in the production of topics. The Welsh character is the echo of
+natural feeling, and acts from instantaneous motives. The fine arts are
+strangers to the principality; and the Welshman seldom professes the
+buskin, or the use of the mallet, the graver, or the chisel; but although
+deficient in taste, he excels in duties and in intellect.
+
+_Jones's History of Wales._
+
+
+ITALIAN WOMEN.
+
+
+Italy and England are undoubtedly possessed of a greater share of female
+beauty than any other country in Europe. But the English and Italian
+beauties, although both interesting, are very different from one another.
+The former are unrivalled for the delicacy and bloom of their complexions,
+the smoothness and mild expression of their features, their modest
+carriage, and the cleanliness of their persons and dress; these are
+qualities which strike every foreigner at his landing. On my first arrival
+in England, I was asked by a friend how I liked the English women; to which
+I replied that I thought them all handsome. This is the first impression
+they produce. There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them, which
+surprises and interests particularly a native of the south. They seem to
+look, if I may apply to them the fine lines of one of their living poets--
+
+  "With eyes so pure, that from the ray
+  Dark vice would turn abash'd away;
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Yet fill'd with all youth's sweet desires,
+  Mingling the meek and vestal fires
+  Of other worlds, with all the bliss
+  The fond weak tenderness of this."
+
+The Italian beauties are of a different kind. Their features are more
+regular, more animated; their complexions bear the marks of a warmer sun,
+and their eyes seem to participate of its fires; their carriage is graceful
+and noble; they have generally good figures; they are not indeed angelic
+forms, but they are earthly Venuses. It has been supposed by some, that the
+habitual view of those models of ideal beauty, the Greek statues, with
+which Italy abounds, may be an indirect cause conducing to the general
+beauty of the sex; be that as it may, I think the fine features and
+beautiful forms of the Italian fair have a great influence upon the minds
+of young artists, and this is perhaps one of the principal reasons why
+Italy has so long excelled in figure painters. A handsome female
+countenance, animated by the expression of the soul, is among the finest
+works of nature; the sight of it elevates the mind, and kindles the sparks
+of genius. Raphael took the models of his charming Madonnas from nature.
+Titian, Guido, Caracci, and others, derived their ideas of female beauty
+from the exquisite countenances so frequent in their native country.
+
+_Italy in the Nineteenth Century._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK.
+
+No. XXII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A LINNET AT SEA.
+
+
+It has been often observed, that birds, in the course of their flight from
+one country to another, will frequently resort to the rigging of a ship, as
+a resting-place in their transit across the wide ocean. Mr. Gray, in his
+"Letters on Canada," gives the following instance:--Among the extraordinary
+things, he observes, one meets with at sea, it is not one of the least
+surprising to observe small _land birds_ several hundred miles from land. I
+was sitting on deck, when, to my great surprise, my attention was arrested
+by the warbling of a bird. I looked up, and saw a _linnet_ perched on the
+rigging, and whistling with as much ardour as if on a bush in a green
+meadow. It is not a little astonishing how these little birds should be
+able to continue on the wing so long as is necessary to fly several
+hundreds of miles, particularly when the usual shortness of their flight is
+considered. They continue sometimes with a vessel several days, and are
+frequently caught by the sailors; but it is remarked that they seldom live,
+though every care is taken to give them proper food. When the vessel rolls
+much, they find it difficult to retain their footing on the rigging, and
+you see them forced, as it were, to resume their flight in search of a
+better resting-place.
+
+
+THE ADVANTAGES OF AFFLICTION.
+
+
+    Behold this vine,
+  I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength
+  Had swollen into irregular twigs
+  And bold excrescences,
+  And spent itself in leaves and little rings;
+  So in the flourish of its outwardness
+  Wasting the sap and strength
+  That should have given forth fruit;
+  But when I pruned the tree,
+  Then it grew temperate in its vain expanse
+  Of useless leaves, and knotted, as thou seest,
+  Into these full, clear clusters, to repay
+  The hand that wisely wounded it.
+  Repine not, O my son!
+  In wisdom and in mercy heaven indicts,
+  Like a wise leech, its painful remedies.
+
+SOUTHEY.
+
+
+WEATHERCOCKS.
+
+
+Weathercocks do not always show the real direction of a very gentle wind.
+The strange figures of them, usually the productions of capricious fancy,
+is one cause of their imperfection as vanes to indicate the wind. Griffins,
+half-moons, foxes, or figures of St. Margaret and the dragon, are not good
+shapes for weathercocks, which ought to be plain fans, the large surface of
+one side being counterbalanced against the weight of the other.
+
+
+THE VALUE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
+
+
+A general, though superficial acquaintance with such subjects as
+well-educated men and women talk about in mixed society is absolutely
+necessary. A practised eye will easily distinguish the silence of modest
+attention from the mute weariness of ignorance. The most inveterate talker,
+if he be not quite a fool, desires to be listened to as well as heard; and
+a "yes" or a "no" may be placed and accented so as to show intelligence, or
+betray stupidity. Grace in action and deportment is so essential, that it
+may almost be said to make all that is beautiful in beauty. We do not mean
+that a lady should, in dancing, walking, or sitting, display attitudes
+worthy of a painter's model. In walking we, however, recommend something
+between the listless saunter of a she-dandy, and the bustling gait of a
+notable body, who perhaps saves three minutes out of four-and-twenty hours,
+by doing every thing throughout the day with a jerk and a toss.--Dancing,
+unless it be done quietly and gracefully, without the fatal results of a
+shining face, and red neck and arms, it is far better to forbear
+altogether, it being a very superfluous quality in a gentlewoman; whereas
+_to please_ by all honest means is her proper calling and occupation. A
+high degree of _positive_ grace is very rare, especially in northern
+climates, where the form is degraded and spoiled by ligatures and by cold;
+but every woman may attain to _negative_ grace, by avoiding awkward and
+unmeaning habits. The incessant twirling of a reticule, the assiduous
+pulling of the fingers of a glove, opening and shutting a book, swinging a
+bell-rope, &c. betray either impatience and weariness of the conversation,
+disrespect of the speakers, or a want of ease and self-possession by no
+means inseparably connected with modesty and humility; those persons who
+are most awkward and shy among their superiors in rank or information being
+generally most over-bearing and peremptory with their equals or inferiors.
+We are almost ashamed, in the nineteenth century, to say any thing
+concerning personal neatness; but cannot forbear hinting, that clean gloves
+and neat shoes aid the captivating powers of a lady much more certainly
+than pearl ear-rings or gold chains--that clean muslin is more bewitching
+than dirty _blond lace_--and that a pocket-handkerchief should be like a
+basilisk, a thing heard of, but never seen; we mean in the capacity in
+which our cold-catching, rheum-exciting climate calls it into action.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SELECT BIOGRAPHY.
+
+No. LVII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+KARL THEODORE KORNER.
+
+
+Korner is one of the poets of whom modern Germany is justly proud. His was
+not the mere theoretic heroism which contents itself with celebrating the
+deeds of others. His own conduct embodied the most noble conceptions of his
+imagination, and his life and death exhibited a splendid example of the
+patriotism which breathed throughout his verse. He was born at Dresden in
+1791. His education was of the most careful kind. He was not only
+instructed in various branches of learning, but the elegant accomplishments
+of the fine arts were added, and the exercises of the body were not less
+attended to than those of the mind. Called upon to choose some occupation,
+he determined to apply himself to mining, and took up his residence at
+Vienna, where he enjoyed the advantage of a familiar intercourse with
+William Von Humboldt, the Prussian ambassador, Frederic Schlegel, and other
+eminent literary and scientific men. Here, within the short space of
+fifteen months, he produced a rapid succession of dramas, operas, and
+farces, as well as several small poems. The success of his works obtained
+him the appointment of poet to the court. He was now in the enjoyment of
+all that could render life happy--competence, distinction, esteem,
+friendship and love; but he resolved to sacrifice them all "for that
+greatest mortal blessing, his country's freedom."
+
+"Could I," says he, in a letter to his father, "could I, think you, stand
+aloof, contented to celebrate with weak inspiration the success of my
+conquering brethren? I am aware that you will suffer much anxiety,--My
+mother too will weep--may God be her comfort!--I cannot spare you this
+trial. That I simply offer my life is of little import; but that I offer
+it, crowned as it is with all the flowery wreaths of love, of friendship,
+and of joy,--that I cast away the sweet sensations which lived in the
+conviction that I have caused you no inquietude, no anguish,--this indeed
+is a sacrifice which can only be opposed to such a prize!"
+
+He left Vienna in March 1813, and joined the free corps which Major Von
+Lutzow was then forming. This was a voluntary association, and the corps
+was remarkable throughout the war for its valour and enterprise. In the
+midst of the most active campaigns, Korner continued to pour forth his
+verses. Other poets have written of battles in the retirement of the
+closet, but he sang his song of war on the tented field, and amid the din
+of conflict. Nor was this all: he collected too the strains of other poets,
+and adapted them to appropriate airs, to animate the ardour of his
+companions in arms. We cannot follow him through his career, brief as it
+was; but the subjoined incident is too striking to be omitted, and is
+especially adapted to our purpose, as it affords an opportunity of giving a
+passage of his unpremeditated verse in a moment of pain and danger.
+
+On the 28th of May, Major Von Lutzow had determined on setting out on an
+expedition towards Thuringia, with four squadrons of his cavalry, and fifty
+cossacks. Korner earnestly entreated permission to accompany him, and his
+desire was fulfilled by his being appointed adjutant by Major Von Lutzow,
+who highly esteemed him, and wished to have him near his person.
+
+The expedition passed in ten days through Halberstadt, Eisleben, Buttstadt,
+and Schlaitz, to Plauen, though not without encountering great danger from
+the enemy, who were dispersed throughout these districts, but, also, not
+without effecting some important results. Intelligence and information were
+procured, ammunition was captured and seized, and couriers on missions of
+importance were taken prisoners. The gallant troop acquired considerable
+renown, and harassed the enemy much, especially by cutting off his
+communications. A plan was in consequence laid by the French emperor for
+the extirpation of the corps, that, as a deterring example, no man should
+be left alive. The armistice, concluded at this moment, afforded an
+opportunity for putting it in practice. (The Duke of Padua, it is
+observable, particularly profited by this armistice; for being shut up in
+Leipzig by Generals Woronzow and Czernichef, with the co-operation of two
+battalions of the Lutzow infantry, he was only saved by this cessation of
+hostilities.)
+
+Major Von Lutzow had received official information of the armistice at
+Plauen. Without expecting to meet with any opposition, he chose the
+shortest route to rejoin the infantry of his corps, having received the
+most confidential assurances of safety from the enemy's commanding
+officers, and proceeded along the high road, without interruption, to
+Kitzen, a village in the neighbourhood of Leipzig; but here he found
+himself surrounded and menaced by a very superior force. Theodore Korner
+was despatched to demand an explanation; but, instead of replying, the
+commander of the enemy struck at him with his sword; and it being now
+twilight, a general attack was made on the three squadrons of the Lutzow
+cavalry before they had drawn a sabre. Several were wounded and taken, and
+others dispersed in the surrounding country; but Major Von Lutzow himself
+was saved by the assistance of a squadron of Uhlans, who being in advance
+with the Cossacks, formed the van-guard, and consequently were not assailed
+at the same moment. He reached, with a considerable body of his troops, the
+right bank of the Elbe, where the infantry of his corps, and a squadron of
+its cavalry, were already collected.
+
+Korner received the first blow, which he was not prepared to parry, as he
+approached close to the enemy's commanding officer to deliver his message
+without drawing his sabre, and was thus severely wounded in the head: the
+second blow only inflicted a slight injury. He fell back, but speedily
+recovered himself, and his spirited steed bore him in safety to a
+neighbouring wood. He was here occupied, at the first moment, with the
+assistance of a comrade, in binding up his wounds, when he perceived a
+troop of the enemy, who were in pursuit, riding towards him. His presence
+of mind did not forsake him, but turning towards the wood, he called with a
+loud voice, "Fourth squadron,--Advance!"--His stratagem succeeded--the
+enemy were appalled, drew back, and thus afforded him time to conceal
+himself deeper in the wood. It had now become dark, and he found a place in
+the thicket where he could remain undiscovered.
+
+The pain of the deeper wound became very severe, his strength was
+exhausted, and his last hope was gone. It was in this extremity that he
+composed the beautiful sonnet, of which the following is a translation:--
+
+FAREWELL TO LIFE.
+
+[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely
+wounded and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.]
+
+  "My deep wound burns;--my pale lips quake in death,--
+  I feel my fainting heart resign its strife,
+  And reaching now the limit of my life,
+  Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!
+
+  Yet many a dream hath charm'd my youthful eye;
+  And must life's fairy visions all depart;
+  Oh surely no! for all that fired my heart
+  To rapture here, shall live with me on high.
+
+  And that fair form that won my earliest vow,
+  That my young spirit prized all else above,
+  And now adored as freedom, now as love,
+  Stands in seraphic guise, before me now.
+
+  And as my fading senses fade away,
+  It beckons me, on high, to realms of endless day!"
+
+During the night he heard the enemy searching the wood near him, but
+afterwards fell asleep, and was saved in the morning by two peasants. He
+was conveyed secretly into Leipsic, which was then under the French yoke,
+and where the concealment of any of the Lutzow free corps was prohibited,
+under severe punishment. He subsequently travelled in safety to Berlin, and
+having recovered from his wound, rejoined the corps of Lutzow on the right
+bank of the Elbe. Hostilities recommenced on the 17th of August; and on the
+28th an engagement took place near Rosenberg, in which Korner fell. He was
+in pursuit of a body of the enemy, when the riflemen, who had found a
+rallying-place in some under-wood, sent forth a shower of balls upon their
+pursuers. By one of these Korner was wounded in the abdomen, the liver and
+spine were injured, and he was immediately deprived of speech and
+consciousness. He was carried to a neighbouring wood, but all medical aid
+was vain. He was buried under an oak in the village of Wobbelin, about a
+mile from Ludwigslust. A tomb has since been placed over his remains, and
+enclosed by a wall. He died at the early age of twenty-two.
+
+_From a Critical Notice of The Life of Korner, New Monthly Mag._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Cannot he that wisely declines walking upon the ice for fear of falling,
+though possibly it might carry him sooner to his journey's end, as wisely
+forbear drinking more wine than is necessary, for fear of being drunk and
+the ill-consequences thereof?--_Lord Clarendon._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+No. CX.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RESCUE.
+
+_By Miss Roberts._
+
+    "King Stephen was a worthy peer."
+
+
+The hall was lofty, sculptured round with armorial devices, and hung with
+gaily-embroidered banners, which waved in the wind streaming from the
+crannies in windows which had suffered some dilapidation from the hand of
+time. Minstrel harps rang throughout the wide apartment, and at a board
+well covered with smoking viands--haunches of the red deer, bustards,
+cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning heads of wild boars,--and
+flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of foaming ale, sat King
+Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles, whose voices had
+placed him on the English throne. In the midst of the feast, the jovial
+glee of the wassailers was interrupted by the entrance of a page, who,
+forcing his way through the yeomen and lacqueys crowding at the door, flew
+with breathless haste to the feet of the king, and falling down on his
+knees, in faltering accents delivered the message with which he had been
+intrusted. "Up, gallants," exclaimed the martial monarch, "don your
+harness, and ride as lightly as you may to the relief of the Countess of
+Clare, she lies in peril of her life and honour, beleaguered by a rabble of
+unnurtured Welsh savages, who, lacking respect for beauty, have directed
+their arms against a woman. Swollen with vain pride at their late victory,
+(the fiend hang the coward loons who fled before them,) they have sworn to
+make this noble lady serve them barefoot in their camp. By St. Dennis and
+my good sword, were I not hampered by this pestilent invasion of the Scots,
+I would desire no better pastime than to drive the ill-conditioned serfs
+howling from the walls. Say, who amongst you will undertake the
+enterprise?--What, all silent? are ye knights? are ye men? do I reign over
+christian warriors, valiant captains who have been sworn to protect beauty
+in distress; or are ye like the graceless dogs of Mahomed, insensible to
+female honour?" "My ranks are wonderous scant," returned Milo Fitzwalter,
+"I may not reckon twenty men at arms in the whole train, and varlets have I
+none; but it boots not to number spears when danger presses; so to horse
+and away. Beshrew me, were it the termagant Queen Maude herself, I'd do my
+best to rescue her in this extremity."--"Thou art a true knight,
+Fitzwalter," replied the king, "and wilt prosper: the Saint's benizon be
+with thee, for thou must speed on this errand with such tall men as thou
+canst muster of thine own proper followers: the Scots, whom the devil
+confound, leave me too much work, to spare a single lance from mine own
+array. We will drink to thy success, and to the health of the fair
+countess, in a flask of the right Bourdeaux: and tell the lady that thy
+monarch grudges thee this glorious deed; for by my Halidom, an thou winnest
+her unscathed from the hands of these Welsh churls, thou wilt merit a niche
+beside the most renowned of Charlemagne's paladins." Fitzwalter made no
+answer, but he armed in haste, and, leaping into his saddle, gave the spur
+to his gallant steed, and followed by his esquires and men at arms, rested
+not either night or day, until he reached the marches of Wales. The lions
+of England still proudly flying over the castle walls, assured him that the
+countess had been enabled to hold out against the savage horde, who
+surrounded it on all sides. The besiegers set up a furious yell as the
+knight and his party approached their encampment. Half naked, their eyes
+glaring wildly from beneath a mass of yellow hair, and scantily armed with
+the rudest species of offensive and defensive weapons, their numbers alone
+made them terrible; and had the castle been manned and victualled, it might
+have long defied their utmost strength. Drawing their falchions, the knight
+and his party keeping closely together, and thus forming an impenetrable
+wedge, cut their desperate path through the fierce swarm of opposing foes,
+who, like incarnate demons, rushed to the onslaught, and fell in heaps
+before the biting steel of these experienced soldiers. Pressing forward
+with unyielding bravery, Fitzwalter won the castle walls; whence, with the
+assistance of such frail aid as the living spectres on the battlements
+could give, he beat back the Welsh host, and in another quarter of an hour,
+having dispersed the enemy with frightful loss, gained free entrance to the
+castle. Feeble was the shout of triumph which welcomed Fitzwalter and his
+brave companions; the corpses of the unburied dead lay strewed upon the
+pavement; the heroic countess, and her attendant damsels, clad in the
+armour of the slain, weakened by famine, and hopeless of succour, yet still
+striving to deceive the besiegers by the display of living warriors, by
+this stratagem retarded the assault which they could not repel. Fitzwalter
+took advantage of the darkness of the night, and the panic of the
+Welshmen, to withdraw from a fortress which was destitute of all the
+implements of war; and with the rescued ladies mounted behind them, the
+brave band returned to the court of King Stephen; and the charms of the
+fair one, and the valour of her chivalric defender, formed the theme of the
+minstrel in every knightly hall and lady's bower throughout Christendom.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH NOVEL READER.
+
+
+How shall I describe the emotions with which I read the first novel I ever
+perused! A school-fellow had secretly brought with him from home after the
+holidays, the novel of Peregrine Pickle, which he carefully concealed in
+his trunk. He at first lent it to some of the elder boys, who read it, and
+enlarging on some of the most despicable incidents to be found, disgusted
+my meek spirit of it, by their report. It seemed to violate all my
+cherished ideas of beauty and soft luxury. I was then about fourteen years
+of age, and my companions persuaded me to a perusal. I took it up
+listlessly, expecting but little pleasure, but what language can paint the
+manner in which I was entranced by it? I read it over and over with
+increased delight, my entire soul and frame of mind and passions seemed to
+be suddenly changed and remodelled. I forgot Ariadne and Telemachus, and
+Tom Pipes and Hatchway became my idols, the undivided objects of my
+admiration.
+
+I had hitherto been a remarkably quiet and inoffensive boy; Telemachus I
+considered never took delight in robbing orchards. I had the confidence of
+my teachers from my uniform rejection of any participation in the rude
+affrays, the catastrophe of which dramas was in general an almost universal
+flogging match. My admiration naturally led to its probable result, a
+desire to imitate--I firmly resolved to become a Peregrine. I soon promoted
+myself to be the leader of every mad prank that the wit of a spirit
+suddenly excited to activity could devise. In the first fortnight I got
+flogged for tying a huge mass of brown paper to the tail of the favourite
+cat of the master's lady, with which she rushed with an insane and
+terrifying distraction into the drawing-room. We owed a spite to a
+neighbouring milkman for tale-bearing, and we rendered his pump, the great
+source of profit, useless, by filling it with soot and mire. The old woman
+who served the school with tarts, and who, in her endeavours to please all
+palates, brought some varieties heated over a charcoal fire, had her
+apparatus blown to atoms by an ounce of gunpowder, insinuated with so much
+art, that although done before her face, she could attach no one with the
+offence. All became riot, waste, and destruction under the guidance of my
+beloved Peregrine.
+
+But, ah! the poor Count--amiable, patient, and long-suffering Gaul! He was
+an unhappy refugee, who had sought a home, by becoming the reviled,
+insulted teacher of his native tongue to a mob of heartless ruffians. How
+well do I remember his neat but thread-bare coat and pigtail; his stooping
+gait, not the decrepitude of age, but as though it sprang from the
+abasement of his fortune; his endurance of injury to a certain point, when
+patience suddenly forsook him, and his, to us, irresistibly comic rage and
+exasperation! What would that generous seaman Pipes have thought a
+defenceless Frenchman fit for, but as the object of spirited and
+well-conducted pranks? Nothing cruel or revengeful, but only to show our
+own superior wit and address in concerted and premeditated annoyance.
+
+I had gained with a most surprising rapidity upon the confidence of the
+most conspicuous rioters in the school. There was something so noble and
+daring in all my designs, that they seemed to yield willingly to so
+superior a spirit. The sudden alteration in my manners had been noticed
+with secret wonder by the masters, and they, thinking to check my fatal
+tendencies at the outset, had inflicted on me several severe and
+well-merited chastisements. I converted even these into means of extending
+my influence. I had borne them like a hero, a very Peregrine. No groan--no
+sigh--no bellowing promise of amendment, had lessened my dignity. Under the
+torture, I was sullen and silent. The stoutest heart in the school envied
+my manhood and composure.
+
+The poor French teacher had been the hereditary object of annoyance for
+several generations of boys. The meekest and most chicken-hearted scrubs in
+the school tried their apprenticeship to mischief upon him, and were
+tutored to more noble game by beginning with the Count. They split and cut
+his pens into a thousand fantastic shapes during a momentary absence; they
+filled his snuff with the most odious pulverulents. They placed on his desk
+rude, but expressive designs of a guillotine, with a meagre fellow in
+ruffles and no shirt, running in the extremity of speed from the spot.
+These, and a thousand exhibitions of budding genius, and original sin, were
+our daily subjects of merriment and applause. I taught them nobler arts, or
+rather the spirit of Pickle which spake within me. It was nothing to annoy
+on such a petty and momentary scale; let the art and forethought of
+Hatchway be exhibited.
+
+The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals
+always received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the
+neighbourhood, an invitation to visit him. On these occasions his dress was
+the most ludicrous imaginable, being compounded of remnants of pristine
+finery, such as his wardrobe could afford, without attention to uniformity,
+or consistency of colour. Above all, he possessed a pair of light pea-green
+small clothes, on which he much prided himself, and I swore by old Trunnion
+to be their murderer. His custom on the aforesaid visits was to dress
+early, and then hastily to dismiss his lessons, and proceed immediately.
+
+Having gained intelligence of an approaching field day, we prepared a
+strong solution of gum, with which we varnished the bottom of a leather
+chair upon which he sat in the school. The morning came, his green _media_
+and white silk stockings were hailed with the most extravagant but secret
+exultation. He seated himself, and let us run as we pleased through our
+tasks, with an unusual portion of smiles and pleasantries, and then looking
+at his watch, he attempted hastily to rise! in vain--there seemed an
+indissoluble bond of union between him and the chair; the most grotesque
+series of strugglings ensued, and by one desperate effort he was erect, a
+thin coating of the black leather which he had torn off, firmly adhering to
+his dress! Nothing abated my delight at my success, but the thought that my
+magnus Apollo, Pickle, was not there to enjoy it; to see the poor Count
+stand mute with a mixed passion of rage and distress for several seconds,
+and then to witness his fruitless attempts to view the full extent of the
+injury, which, notwithstanding the surprising flexibility of his vertebrae,
+he was unable to compass. Tom Pipes I felt certain would have died on the
+spot, he must have split.
+
+_The Inspector_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONTRAST OF CLIMATE.
+
+
+Suppose yourself to have spent the first half of a foggy, sleety, chill,
+moist, melancholy, English winter at some miserable country village in
+Kent. Suppose about the first of February, while the whole landscape around
+is still floating in mud, buried in snow, or fast bound by frost, and the
+atmosphere so thick with fog, that one can scarcely point at mid-day to the
+spot where the sun stands in the heavens,--that your catarrh grows so
+alarming, that in a fit of despondency you trundle yourself aboard a ship
+in the Downs getting under way for a warmer climate. Suppose, that after a
+smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the whole of
+which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you awake
+one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal; and
+the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a
+mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window. It seems
+downright enchantment! You leap up as if there was a new soul in your body.
+You hurry ashore in the first boat. Your cough, lassitude, and qualmishness
+have altogether left you. Your step is elastic, and your spirits as buoyant
+as a lark in spring. You luxuriate amidst beautiful gardens glowing with
+roses, jessamines, honey-suckles, and a thousand other odoriferous shrubs
+and flowers in full bloom. You wander through a boundless maze of rising
+vineries curling their budding tendrils around the trellis-work, and
+terrace above terrace up the declivities of the mountains. You recline
+among orange-groves bending under the load of ripe golden fruit; and as you
+stretch yourself at ease by some clear, gurgling rill, in the midst of all
+this loveliness, you ask yourself, is this a dream--or are these indeed the
+gardens of the Hesperides? Reader, if you have the blue devils at
+Christmas, you may realize all this, and reach Madeira, as I have done, in
+eight days from the Downs.
+
+_London Weekly Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANECDOTES OF THE FACULTY.
+
+
+_Quacks._
+
+
+We are not without plenty of ignorant and impudent pretenders at the
+present day; but the celebrated Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter of Epsom,
+surpasses them all. She was the daughter of a man named Wallis, a
+bone-setter at Hindon, in Wiltshire, and sister to the celebrated "Polly
+Peachem," who married the Duke of Bolton. Upon some _family quarrel_,
+Sally Wallis left her professional parent, and wandered up and down the
+country in a miserable manner, calling herself "Crazy Sally," and pursuing,
+in her perambulations, a course that fairly justified the title. Arriving
+at last at Epsom, she succeeded in humbugging the worthy bumpkins of that
+place, so decidedly, that a subscription was set on foot to keep her among
+them; but her fame extending to the metropolis, the dupes of London, a
+numerous class then as well as now, thought it no trouble to go ten miles
+to see the conjuror, till at length, she was pleased to bless the afflicted
+of London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian
+Coffee-house, in a coach and six with out-riders! and all the appearance of
+nobility. It was in one of these journeys, passing through Kent-street, in
+the Borough, that being taken for a certain woman of quality from the
+Electorate in Germany, a great mob followed, and bestowed on her many
+bitter reproaches, till madame, perceiving some mistake, looked out of the
+window, and accosted them in this gentle manner, "D----n your bloods, don't
+you know me? I am Mrs. Mapp, the _bone-setter!_" Upon which, they instantly
+changed their revilings into loud huzzas.
+
+_Wadd's Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs._
+
+
+_Dr. Radcliffe._
+
+
+Among the many singularities related of Radcliffe, it has been noticed,
+that when he was in a convivial party, he was unwilling to leave it, even
+though sent for by persons of the highest distinction. Whilst he was thus
+deeply engaged at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired
+his immediate attendance on his _colonel_; but no entreaties could prevail
+on the disciple of Esculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus. "Sir,"
+quoth the soldier, "_my orders are to bring you._" And being a very
+powerful man, he took him up in his arms, and carried him off per force.
+After traversing some dirty lanes, the doctor and his escort arrived at a
+narrow alley--"What the D----l is all this," said Radcliffe, "your colonel
+don't live here?"--"No," said his military friend,--"no, my _colonel_ does
+not live here--but my _comrade_ does, and he's worth _two_ of the
+_colonel_,--so, by G----d, doctor, if you don't do your _best_ for _him_,
+it will be the _worst_ for _you!_"
+
+
+_Duels._
+
+
+Many medical duels have been prevented by the difficulty of arranging the
+"methodus pugnandi." In the instance of Dr. Brocklesby, the number of
+paces could not be agreed upon; and in the affair between Akenside and
+Ballow, one had determined never to fight in the morning, and the other
+that he would never fight in the afternoon. John Wilkes, who did not stand
+upon ceremony in these little affairs, when asked by Lord Talbot, "How many
+times they were to fire?" replied, "just as often as your Lordship pleases;
+I have brought _a bag of bullets and a flask of gunpowder_."
+
+
+_William Hunter._
+
+
+Dr. William Hunter used to relate the following anecdote:--During the
+American war, he was consulted by the daughter of a peer, who confessed
+herself pregnant, and requested his assistance; he advised her to retire
+for a time to the house of some confidential friend; she said that was
+impossible, as her father would not suffer her to be absent from him a
+single day. Some of the servants were, therefore, let into the secret, and
+the doctor made his arrangement with the treasurer of the Foundling
+Hospital for the reception of the child, for which he was to pay
+190l.--The lady was desired to weigh well if she could bear pain without
+alarming the family by her cries; she said "Yes,"--and she kept her word.
+At the usual period she was delivered, not of one child only, but of twins.
+The doctor, bearing the two children, was conducted by a French servant
+through the kitchen, and left to ascend the area steps into the street.
+Luckily the lady's maid recollected that the door of the area might perhaps
+be locked; and she followed the doctor just in time to prevent his being
+detained at the gate. He deposited the children at the Foundling Hospital,
+and paid for each 100l. The father of the children was a colonel of the
+army, who went with his regiment to America, and died there. The mother
+afterwards married a person of her own rank.
+
+
+_John Hunter._
+
+
+Hunter was a philosopher in more senses than one; he had philosophy enough
+to bear prosperity, as well as adversity, and with a rough exterior was a
+very kind man. The poor could command his services more than the rich. He
+would see an industrious tradesman before a duke, when his house was full
+of grandees, "you have no time to spare," he would say, "you live by it;
+most of these can wait, they have nothing to do when they go home." No man
+cared less for the profits of the profession, or more for the honour of
+it. He cared not for money himself, and wished the Doctor [his brother
+William] to estimate it by the same scale, when he sent a poor man with
+this laconic note:--
+
+    "Dear Brother,--The bearer wants your advice. I do not know the
+    nature of the case. He has no money, and you have plenty, so you are
+    well met."
+
+    "Yours, J. HUNTER."
+
+He was applied to once to perform a serious operation on a tradesman's
+wife; the fee agreed upon was twenty guineas. He heard no more of the case
+for two months; at the end of which time he was called upon to perform it.
+In the course of his attendance, he found out that the cause of the delay
+had been the difficulty under which the patient's husband had laboured to
+raise the money; and that they were worthy people, who had been
+unfortunate, and were by no means able to support the expense of such an
+affliction. "I sent back to the husband nineteen guineas, and kept the
+twentieth," said he, "that they might not be hurt with an idea of too great
+obligation. It somewhat more than paid me for the expense I had been at in
+the business."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BURMESE BOATS.
+
+
+The Burman war-boat is formed of the trunk of the magnificent teak tree,
+first roughly shaped, and then expanded by means of fire, until it attains
+sufficient width to admit two people, sitting abreast. On this a gunwale,
+rising a foot above the water, is fixed, and the stem and stern taper to a
+point, the latter being much higher than the other, and ornamented with
+fret-work and gilding. On the bow is placed a gun, sometimes of a
+nine-pounder calibre, but generally smaller, and the centre of the boat is
+occupied by the rowers, varying in number from twenty to a hundred, who in
+the large boats use the oar, and in the small ones the paddle. A war-boat
+in motion is a very pleasing object. The rapidity with which it moves, its
+lightness, and small surface above the water, the uniform pulling of the
+oar falling in cadence with the songs of the boatmen, who, taking the lead
+from one of their number, join in chorus, and keep time with the dip of
+their oars; the rich gilding which adorns the boat, and the neat, uniform
+dress of the crew, place it, to the eye of a stranger, in a curious and
+interesting point of view: and in regard to appearance, induces him, when
+contrasting it with an English boat, to give the former the preference. In
+point of swiftness, our best men-of-war boats could not compete with them;
+and of this superiority they generally availed themselves when an action
+was impending.
+
+The boats we had captured at Rangoon, and were cutting down for the
+transport of the army, were totally of a different nature. These, built on
+the same plan as ours are, but with flat bottoms, belonged to traders, and
+were solely adapted to the transport of merchandise. The stern, fancifully
+ornamented, rises two or three stages above the deck, and is the seat of
+the helmsman. The inside of the boat is filled with goods, and thatched
+over, leaving sufficient room underneath to accommodate two or three
+families--men, women, and children--who promiscuously take up their abode
+there.
+
+This description of boat is not propelled by oars, but by long poles, the
+ends of which being placed against the shoulders of the boatmen, they run
+the whole length of the boat, and push her forward with considerable
+velocity. The space on which they act is formed by strong outriggers on
+either side of the boat, which answer the twofold purpose of preventing her
+upsetting, which she otherwise would do from the excess of top-weight, and
+of increasing her width and accommodation.
+
+The third class of boat is that used throughout the country, and which, to
+those who inhabit the banks of rivers, becomes a necessary appendage, and
+to many a home. It is a mere canoe, decked with split bamboo, and partly
+covered in with mats, so as to afford shelter from the sun by day, and the
+dews by night. One man steers, and two others either row or paddle; but,
+when the wind is favourable, they use a sail. This is generally made at the
+moment, with the scarfs they wear over their shoulders, tied together. Two
+bamboos constitute the mast and yard, the sail being fastened between them;
+yet, with this fragile rigging, and with the gunwale of the boat almost
+under water with every puff of wind, they stem the most rapid currents at
+all seasons of the year, and, such is their skill in steering, seldom meet
+with an accident. It was in these boats that the majority of the
+inhabitants of Rangoon, and the adjacent villages, fled upon our approach;
+and these formed their only habitation during the many months they kept
+aloof from us.
+
+_Two Years in Ava_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SONNET.
+
+
+ON A YOUTH WHO DIED OF EXCESSIVE FRUIT-PIE.
+
+
+  Currants have check'd the current of my blood,
+    And berries brought me to be buried here;
+  Pears have pared off my body's hardihood,
+    And plums and plumbers spare not one so spare.
+  Fain would I feign my fall, so fair a fare
+    Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good:
+  Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware
+    Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued.
+  Grave on my grave some sentence grave and terse,
+    That lies not as it lies upon my clay,
+  But, in a gentle strain of unstrained verse,
+    Prays all to pity a poor patty's prey--
+  Rehearses I was fruitful to my hearse,
+    Tell that my days are told, and soon I'm toll'd away!
+
+
+THE VEIL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
+
+
+Maria Stuart has been canonized, and placed among the martyrs by the
+Jesuits. Of course there are relics of hers. Her prayer-book was long shown
+in France; and her apologist published in an English journal a sonnet which
+she was said to have composed, and to have written with her own hand in
+this book. A celebrated German actress, Mrs. Hendel-Schutz, who excited
+admiration by her attitudes, and also performed Schiller's "Maria" with
+great applause in several cities of Germany, affirmed that a cross which
+she wore on her neck was the very same that once belonged to the
+unfortunate queen. Relics of this description have never yet been subjected
+to the proof of their authenticity. But if there is anything which may be
+reasonably believed to have been once the property of the queen, _it is the
+veil with which she covered her head on the scaffold, after the
+executioner_, whether from awkwardness or confusion is uncertain, _had
+wounded the unfortunate victim in the shoulder by a false blow_. This veil
+still exists, and is in the possession of Sir J.C. Hippisley, who claims to
+be descended from the Stuart's by the mother's side. He had an engraving
+made from it by Matteo Diottavi, in Rome, 1818, and gave copies to his
+friends.
+
+The veil is embroidered with gold spangles by (as is said) the queen's own
+hand, in regular rows crossing each other, so as to form small squares, and
+edged with a gold border, to which another border has been subsequently
+joined, in which the following words are embroidered in letters of gold:--
+
+    "Velum Serenissimae Mariae, Scotiae et Galliae Reginae Martyris, quo
+    induebatur dum ab Heretica ad mortem iniustissimam condemnata fuit.
+    Anno Sal. MDLXXXVI. a nobilissima matrona Anglicana diu conservatum
+    et tandem, donationis ergo Deo, et Societati Jesu consecratum."
+
+On the plate there is an inscription, with a double certificate of its
+authenticity, which states, that this veil, a family treasure of the
+expelled house of Stuart, was finally in possession of the last branch of
+that family, the cardinal of York, who preserved it for many years in his
+private chapel, among the most precious relics, and at his death bequeathed
+it to Sir J. Hippisley, together with a valuable Plutarch, and a Codex with
+painted (illuminated) letters, and a gold coin struck in Scotland in the
+reign of queen Mary; and it was specially consecrated by Pope Pius VII. in
+his palace on the Quirinal, April 29, 1818. Sir John Hippisley, during a
+former residence at Rome, had been very intimate with the cardinal of York,
+and was instrumental in obtaining for him, when he with the other cardinals
+emigrated to Venice in 1798, a pension of £4,000. a-year from the Prince of
+Wales, now King George IV.; but for which, the fugitive cardinal, all whose
+revenues were seized by the French, would have been exposed to the greatest
+distress. The cardinal desired to requite this service by the bequest of
+what he considered so valuable. According to a note on the plate, the veil
+is eighty-nine English inches long, and forty-three broad, so that it seems
+to have been rather a kind of shawl or scarf than a veil. If we remember
+rightly, Melville in his Memoirs, which Schiller had read, speaks of a
+handkerchief belonging to the queen, which she gave away before her death,
+and Schiller founds upon this anecdote the well-known words of the farewell
+scene, addressed to Hannah Kennedy.
+
+    "Accept this handkerchief! with my own hand
+    For thee I've work'd it in my hours of sadness
+    And interwoven with my scalding tears:
+    With this thou'lt bind my eyes."
+
+
+DREAMS.
+
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of early youth,
+    And it never comes again;
+  'Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth,
+    That flits across the brain:
+  And love is the theme of that early dream.
+    So wild, so warm, so new,
+  That in all our after years I deem,
+    That early dream we rue.
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of maturer years,
+    More turbulent by far;
+  'Tis a vision of blood, and of woman's tears,
+    For the theme of that dream is war:
+  And we toil in the field of danger and death,
+    And shout in the battle array,
+  Till we find that fame is a bodyless breath,
+    That vanisheth away.
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of hoary age,
+    'Tis a vision of gold in store--
+  Of sums noted down on the figured page,
+    To be counted o'er and o'er:
+  And we fondly trust in our glittering dust,
+    As a refuge from grief and pain,
+  Till our limbs are laid on that last dark bed,
+    Where the wealth of the world is vain.
+
+  And is it thus, from man's birth to his grave--
+    In the path which all are treading?
+  Is there naught in that long career to save
+    From remorse and self-upbraiding?
+  O yes, there's a dream so pure, so bright,
+    That the being to whom it is given,
+  Hath bathed in a sea of living light--
+    And the theme of that dream is Heaven.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE LECTURER
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+AN EXCERP FROM ABERNETHY'S LECTURES.
+
+
+When I was speaking of the cure of the digestive organs, I spoke of
+stomachic irritation, and said it was occasioned by some morbid
+peculiarity. It is difficult to find out the exigents; it must be done by
+experiment. We give a medicine, it answers. The digestive organs have such
+a sympathy with contiguous organs, that no wonder if such contiguous organs
+are affected. The liver, for instance, cannot perform its office aright if
+the bowels are uncomfortable. Violent drastics are wrong, they do not do
+good; you cannot go on giving physic every day, this will teaze the bowels
+and not tranquilize them, The cure is to repeat the excitement of
+progressive action. People in general will not find out that what may be an
+adequate excitement one day, may not be an adequate excitement on another
+day. As to these things, they are easily managed, and you should attend to
+them. Every person advanced in life knows this, and attends to it. Doctor
+Curry, whom I used to call the poetical doctor, says, very justly, "It is
+in medicine as it is in morals, you must break bad habits, and establish
+good ones."
+
+Where the liver is primarily affected, small doses of quicksilver act in a
+wonderful and a prodigious manner. How the stomach, when wrong, disturbs
+the head, is apparent to every one. How a faulty action of the liver
+disturbs the head is also well known; but the liver, in an especial manner,
+disturbs the head.
+
+A Yorkshireman came three hundred miles, as he told me, on purpose to see
+me, and he said he was going back again by the mail the same night. I asked
+him what could induce him to come so far. His reply was, "Why you once set
+up a friend of mine, and I thought you could set me up too."
+
+I would have you keep your eyes open to this, that we are perpetually
+putting wrong our digestive organs by our absurdities in diet. These
+organs, if long wrong, will affect the spinal chord, producing lumbar
+numbness. Now, then, I have surveyed the influence of local maladies in
+disturbing the nervous energies, and now I say there is a reflected action
+in them, and they become a fruitful source of a numerous and dissimilar
+progeny of local diseases.
+
+People are disposed to say I am apt to exaggerate too much; but I merely
+relate what I have seen in my time, and you will all have numerous
+instances by and by of making the same observations, and I think at last
+you will come to the same conclusions.
+
+I now speak of local diseases; and, first, of phlegmonous inflammation. I
+do not much like the term phlegmonous inflammation, because phlegmon alone
+is inflammation. That the vessels, particularly the arteries, of inflamed
+parts are disposed to receive more blood, is manifest. Mr. Hunter froze the
+ears of rabbits, and the arteries inflamed and were filled with blood,
+throbbing, and pain. When there is great disturbance of the arterious
+system, with throbbing, there is always acute pain. In common whitlow of
+the finger, how the arteries of the arm, the brachial in particular, throb,
+is well known. In proportion as arteries are excited to vehement action,
+some difficulty occurs to the transmission of the blood into the veins. Dr.
+Phillips found that inflamed blood is slower in cooling than common blood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--_Wotton_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Sir Boyle Roche, was arguing for the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, in
+Ireland:--"It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker," said he, "to give up
+not only a _part_, but, if necessary, even the _whole_, of our
+constitution, to preserve _the remainder!_"
+
+_Barrington's Sketches_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A short time since the manager of Sadler's Wells, wishing to make an
+alteration in his bills, sent an old one with the corrections made in the
+margin, to the printer. In a few days a proof was forwarded to Mr. T.
+Dibdin, when it read thus--"Under the patronage of his Royal Highness the
+Duke of Clarence, Lord High _Patron of England and Admiral of this
+Theatre_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A WELSH INVITATION.
+
+
+Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys' compliments to Mr.
+Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess
+whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not
+recollect, and Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
+request the favour of the company of Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, to dinner on
+Monday week next. Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
+beg to inform Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles
+Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton,
+and Miss Sandys do not recollect, that Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter
+Norton, and Miss Sandys can accommodate Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, with beds, if
+remaining the night is agreeable to Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect.
+
+Llandillon Castle.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  Bob sick--thought life was drawing to its end,
+    His cheek grew pale, his tongue began to falter,
+  Justly alarmed, he begg'd a rev'rend friend
+    Would send him "_a companion to the altar._"
+  His friend forgot, Bob grew from worse to worse,
+    (A state to which he's always sure to alter,)
+  When he received a _night-cap_ from his nurse,
+    Who thought it a _companion to the halter_!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had
+drowned herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a
+verdict of _wilful murder against herself_.
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827
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+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page193" id="page193"></a>[pg 193]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+  OF<br />
+  LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<table width="100%" summary="VOL. 10 No. 274 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827. PRICE 2d.">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="30%"><b>VOL 10. No. 274.]</b></td>
+    <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827.</b></td>
+    <td align="right" width="30%"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2>
+<h2>No. II.</h2>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/274-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/274-1.png" alt=
+    "THE TEMPLE CHURCH" /></a> <h3>THE TEMPLE CHURCH.</h3></div>
+<p>The Temple Church,<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+  London, was erected in the twelfth century; but among antiquarians considerable
+  difference of opinion at various times prevailed as to who were the original
+  builders of these round churches, which form the most striking and beautiful
+  specimens of the architectural skill of our Anglo-Norman ancestors. In England
+  there are four examples of round churches, almost in perfect preservation, namely,
+  the church of St. Mary, Temple; St. Sepulchre, Northampton; St. Mary, Cambridge;
+  and that of Little Maplestead, Essex. It was long thought that they were of
+  Jewish origin; but through the ingenious and learned essays of Mr. Essex and
+  of Mr. Britton, this erroneous notion has been entirely removed. Mr. Essex,
+  in his Essay, observes, in support of his opinion, that &quot;their Temple at
+  Jerusalem was not of a circular form, neither was the Tabernacle of Moses; nor
+  do we find the modern Jews affect that figure in building their synagogues.
+  It has, however, been generally supposed that the round church at Cambridge,
+  that at Northampton, and some others, were built for synagogues by the Jews
+  while they were permitted to dwell in those places. But as no probable reason
+  can be assigned for this supposition, and I think it is very certain that the
+  Jews who were settled in Cambridge had their synagogue, and probably dwelled
+  together in a part of the town now called the Jewry, so we may reasonably conclude
+  the round churches we find in other parts of this kingdom were not built by
+  the Jews for synagogues, whatever the places may be called in which they stand.&quot;&mdash;It
+  has been generally allowed by these and other writers on archaeology, that the
+  primitive church of this form was that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and
+  that the Temple Church at London was built by the Knights' Templars, whose occupation
+  was the protection of Christian pilgrims against the Saracens. It has been further
+  urged by <span class="pagenum"><a name="page194" id="page194"></a>[pg 194]</span>
+a correspondent (Charles Clarke, Esq. F.S.A.) in the first volume of
+  Britton's &quot;Architectural Antiquities,&quot; that two of the before-mentioned
+  round churches, namely, Northampton and Cambridge, were in fact built by &quot;affluent
+  crusaders, in imitation of that of the Holy Sepulchre;&quot; and in support
+  of his opinion he cites several historical notices.</p>
+<p>The late perfect restoration of the Temple Church ought to be proudly recorded
+  in our architectural annals. The excellence of the workmanship, and the native
+  purity of the detail, evince not only scientific skill, but also a laudable
+  motive of preserving this antique specimen of pure Anglo-Norman architecture
+  from the ravages of time. Let the architect's attention be directed to the western
+  doorway, and also to the interior of the church; and here, in good preservation,
+  he will see excellent specimens of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by
+  the cable, the lozenge, the cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &amp;c. &amp;c., ornaments
+  peculiar to the <i>round style</i>. The circular-headed windows, with their
+  slender columns, also show, that in the restoration the style has not been tampered
+  with; but substantial authorities have been quoted to perfect this praiseworthy
+  attempt of the architect. That part of the church which has been added at a
+  later date than the circular part, and for the convenience of divine worship,
+  is lighted by the beautiful proportioned triple lancet-shaped windows, so justly
+  admired. A writer in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for May, 1827, after making
+  some judicious remarks, seems to think the crosses on the ends of the building,
+  &quot;as not in character with the building.&quot; Now as to architectural propriety
+  in the decorations of a Christian church, no ornament could be better devised;
+  and if we proceed to the antiquity of such ornament, I would observe, that the
+  adoption would be equally correct, that being the insignia of the banner under
+  which the Knights' Templars originally fought.</p>
+<p class="source">C. DAVY.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>BRIDGET TROT AND TIMOTHY GREEN.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+<p class="quote"> &quot;'Tis a common tale,<br />
+  An ordinary sorrow of man's life;<br />
+  A tale of silent sufferings, hardly clothed<br />
+  In bodily form.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="quote"> WORDSWORTH. </p>
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Miss Bridget <i>Trot</i>, a &quot;<i>wo</i>&quot;-man was,</p>
+    <p class="i2">Of excellent repute,</p>
+    <p>Who <i>kept a stand</i> in Leadenhall,</p>
+    <p class="i2">And there disposed of fruit.</p>
+  </div>
+
+  <div class="stanza">
+  <p>And though in features rather <i>dark</i>,</p>
+  <p class="i2">No <i>fairer</i> could be found;</p>
+  <p>For what she sold, like <i>ringing</i> gold,</p>
+  <p class="i2">When <i>peeled</i>, was always <i>sound!</i></p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She had moreover notions <i>high</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And thought herself above</p>
+    <p>The very <i>low</i>-ly common way </p>
+    <p class="i2">Of <i>falling</i> into love.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And therefore when to her his <i>suit</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">A <i>Snip</i> did often press</p>
+    <p>With vows of love, she <i>cut</i> him <i>short</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">At <i>length</i>, without <i>re-dress</i>.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Yet nothing odd was there in this </p>
+    <p class="i2">One case, it must be said;</p>
+    <p>For who that wish'd a <i>perfect</i> man </p>
+    <p class="i2">Could with a <i>ninth part</i> wed?</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Not she for one, whatever he </p>
+    <p class="i2">Might do to make him <i>smart</i>,</p>
+    <p>And howsoe'er her saying &quot;Nay&quot; </p>
+    <p class="i2">Might add it to his heart.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>'Tis very strange, (yet so it is,) </p>
+    <p class="i2">That vows should go for naught.</p>
+    <p>But she who <i>strove</i> to 'scape love's <i>toils</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">Quite unawares was caught!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>For though so <i>hard</i> to Snip <i>at first</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2"><i>At last</i> it chanced that she</p>
+    <p>A sort of soft emotion felt </p>
+    <p class="i2">Towards one Timothy,</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>A butcher&mdash;<i>Green</i> by name, but <i>red</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">In face, as was his cap,</p>
+    <p>And though he seldom tasted <i>wine</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">A <i>port</i>-ly sort of chap.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>This man one day in passing by, </p>
+    <p class="i2">In taste for what she'd got,</p>
+    <p>Saw Biddy's stall&mdash;and 'twas her <i>fate</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">To sell to him a <i>lot!</i></p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She thought his manners very sweet, </p>
+    <p class="i2">He gave so fond a gaze;</p>
+    <p>(But dashing <i>blades</i> of such like trades </p>
+    <p class="i2">Have ever <i>killing</i> ways!)</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And whilst he paid the <i>coppers</i> down, </p>
+    <p class="i2">He had the <i>brass</i> to say</p>
+    <p>Her <i>fruit</i> was sweet, but sweeter still </p>
+    <p class="i2">The <i>apple</i> of her eye.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Besides all this, he looked so neat </p>
+    <p class="i2">Whilst shouldering his tray;</p>
+    <p>So what with <i>steel, et cetera,</i> </p>
+    <p class="i2">Her heart was <i>stole</i> away!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Lo! <i>shortly after</i> both agreed, </p>
+    <p class="i2">They fixed the wedding day,</p>
+    <p>But <i>long before</i> that day arriv'd </p>
+    <p class="i2">He took to stop away!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>From that same time her peace of mind </p>
+    <p class="i2">And comfort were at <i>steak</i>&mdash;</p>
+    <p>She did so <i>lean</i> to Mr. Green, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Her heart was like to break!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>At last she went one morn to see </p>
+    <p class="i2">What he could be about,</p>
+    <p>And hoped, alone, to find him <i>in</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">But he had just popt <i>out</i>.</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She ax'd, &quot;Is Mr. Green at home?&quot; </p>
+    <p class="i2">Of one who, with a laugh,</p>
+    <p>Replied, &quot;He's not! but if you please </p>
+    <p class="i2">I'll fetch <i>his better half</i>.&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>&quot;His what?&quot; scarce <i>uttered</i> Bridget out, </p>
+    <p class="i2">With <i>utter</i>most dismay;</p>
+    <p>And <i>there</i> she stopt, she could no more, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And nearly swoon'd <i>away!</i></p>
+  </div>
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page195" id="page195"></a>[pg 195]</span>
+ <div class="stanza">
+    <p>But when at length she was herself, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And saw her faithless clown.</p>
+    <p>She straightway went to blow him <i>up</i>, </p>
+    <p class="i2">But got a good set <i>down</i>!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>&quot;Oh, cold and faithless Tim,&quot; quoth she, </p>
+    <p class="i2">&quot;You vowed you couldn't <i>smother</i></p>
+    <p>Your <i>burning</i> love for me, but now </p>
+    <p class="i2">You're married to another!&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>&quot;Is this the way you treat me, sir? </p>
+    <p class="i2">Too <i>cheaply</i> was I bought!</p>
+    <p>I loved you <i>dearly</i>, but it seems </p>
+    <p class="i2">That that <i>all went for naught</i>.&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>She sighed, and gave one parting look, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Then tore herself away</p>
+    <p>From her false swain and Mrs. Green, </p>
+    <p class="i2">For ever and a day!</p>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And <i>very</i> soon got <i>very</i> ill, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And <i>very</i> quick did die,</p>
+    <p>And <i>very</i> truly <i>veri</i>fied </p>
+    <p class="i2">Her love for Timothy!</p>
+  </div>
+</div>
+<p class="source">W.R.H.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>GREAT BELL OF GLASGOW.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+
+<p>In the steeple of Glasgow is a great bell, which is twelve feet one inch in
+  circumference, and has a grave and deep tone. In 1789, it was accidentally cracked
+  by some persons who got admission to the steeple. It was, therefore, sent to
+  London, and cast anew. On the outside of it is the following inscription:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p align="center" class="center"> In the year of grace<br />
+  1594,<br />
+  Marcus Knox,<br />
+  a merchant of Glasgow,<br />
+  zealous for the interests of the reformed religion,<br />
+  caused me to be fabricated in Holland<br />
+  for the use of his fellow citizens in Glasgow,<br />
+  and placed me with solemnity<br />
+  in the tower of their cathedral.<br />
+  My function<br />
+  was to announce, by the impress on my bosom,<br />
+  (Me audito venias doctrinam sanctam ut discas;<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>)<br />
+  and<br />
+  I was taught to proclaim the hours of unheeded time.<br />
+  195 years had I sounded these awful warnings,<br />
+  when I was broken<br />
+  by the hands of inconsiderate and<br />
+  unskilful men.<br />
+  In the year 1790,<br />
+  I was cast into the furnace,<br />
+  refounded at London,<br />
+  and returned to my sacred vocation.<br />
+  Reader,<br />
+  thou also shall know a resurrection,<br />
+  may it be to eternal life.<br />
+  </p>
+<p class="source">MALVINA.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>FANCY.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><i>Me</i>, oft hath Fancy, in her fitful dream,</p>
+<p> Seated within a far sequestered dell,</p>
+<p> What time upon the noiseless waters fell, </p>
+<p> Mingled with length'ning leafy shade, a gleam </p>
+<p> Of the departing sun's environ'd beam; </p>
+<p> While all was hush'd, save that the lone death-bell </p>
+<p> Would seem to beat, and pensive smite mine ear </p>
+<p> Like spirit's wail, now distant far, now near: </p>
+<p> Then the night-breeze would seem to chill my cheek, </p>
+<p> And viewless beings flitting round, to <i>speak!</i> </p>
+<p> And then, a throng of mournful thoughts would press </p>
+<p> On this, my wild-ideal loneliness. </p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Me, oft hath Fancy too, in musing hour</p>
+<p>Seated (what time the blithesome summer-day </p>
+<p> Was burning 'neath the fierce meridian ray) </p>
+<p> Within that self-same lonely woodland bow'r </p>
+<p> So sultry and still; but <i>then</i>, the tower, </p>
+<p> The hamlet tow'r, sent forth a roundelay; </p>
+<p> I seem'd to hear, till feelings o'er me stole </p>
+<p> Faintly and sweet, enwrapping all my soul, </p>
+<p> Joy, grief, were strangely blended in the sound. </p>
+<p> The light, warm sigh of summer, was around, </p>
+<p> But ne'er may speech, <i>such</i> thoughts, <i>such</i> visions tell, </p>
+<p> Then, perfect most, when <i>indescribable!</i> </p>
+</div> </div>
+<p class="source">M.L.B.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>FINE ARTS</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>THE PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN FRANCE.</h3>
+<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+
+<p>Whether the French were first indebted to the Roman school for their knowledge
+  of the art of painting is a matter of some doubt; indeed, several celebrated
+  French writers affirm, that they first had recourse to the Florentine and Lombard
+  schools; while others very strenuously declare, on the other hand, that the
+  Venetian artists were alone resorted to, on account of the remarkable splendour
+  of their colouring. A late author, however, observes, that the French do not
+  appear to have imitated any school whatever, but to have adopted a style peculiar
+  to themselves, which though perhaps not a noble one, is nevertheless pleasing.
+  Though it is acknowledged that the French have a particular style, (i.e. a style
+  of their own,) yet their progress in the arts has been exceedingly fluctuating
+  and uncertain, so that it is actually impossible to ascertain who was the first
+  reputable artist amongst them. Cousin was a painter on glass, and certainly
+  obtained a good reputation amongst his countrymen. But he in fact possessed
+  very little merit, and his name would not doubtless have been known to posterity
+  had he not lived in a barbarous age, when the people knew not how to
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page196" id="page196"></a>[pg 196]</span>
+discriminate
+  his errors and defects. He was supposed to be the best artist of his day, and
+  consequently gained a reputation as such, though his works are far beneath mediocrity.</p>
+<p>Francis I. was a great encourager of the fine arts, and the artists themselves
+  were liberally paid for their productions, until that king was unfortunately
+  taken prisoner at the battle of Pavia, in the year 1525. After the death of
+  Francis, the kingdom was distracted with civil wars, so that painting was entirely
+  neglected by his immediate successors. In the year 1610, however, Louis XIII.
+  recovered the arts from their languid state. In his reign, Jaques Blanchard
+  was the most flourishing painter; although Francis Perier, Simon Vo&uuml;et,
+  C.A. Du Fresnoy, and Peter Mignard, were equally gifted.</p>
+<p>Of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, author of a Latin poem, entitled <i>De Arte
+  Graphica</i>, I shall attempt a little account. This painter was born at Paris
+  in the year 1611. His father, intending him for the profession of physic, sent
+  him to the university of Paris, where he made great progress in his studies,
+  and obtained several prizes in poetry. He had a great inclination for painting
+  as well as for poetry, and, though much against his father's desire, resolved
+  to leave off the study of physic, and commence that of drawing. The force of
+  his inclination subduing every measure adopted to suppress it, he took every
+  opportunity of cultivating his favourite study. Leaving college, he placed himself
+  under Francis Perier, from whom he learned the art of designing. He afterwards
+  thought fit to travel into Italy, where he arrived in 1633. Being abandoned
+  by his parents, who were highly incensed at his having rejected the study of
+  physic, he was reduced to the utmost distress on his arrival at Rome, and was
+  compelled to paint trifling pieces for his daily subsistence. After two years
+  of extreme toil and difficulty, he was relieved by the arrival of Mignard, the
+  artist, who had formerly been the companion of his studies. Mignard evinced
+  the warmest regard for his friend, and they were afterwards known in Rome by
+  the name of the <i>inseparables</i>, for they lived in the same house, worked
+  together, and united the produce of their labours. They were employed to copy
+  all the best pictures in the Farnese Palace, and every evening attended an academy
+  of drawing. Mignard was superior in practice, while Fresnoy was perfect master
+  of the rules, history, and theory of his profession. They communicated their
+  sentiments to each other, Fresnoy furnishing his friend with noble ideas, and
+  the latter instructing the former to paint with more ease and dispatch. Fresnoy
+  painted several fine pictures in Rome, and, in 1653, he left that city, in company
+  with his friend, travelled to Venice, and then to Lombardy. Here the two friends
+  parted,<a name="footnotetag3" id="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a>
+  Mignard returning to Rome, and Fresnoy to his native city. After his arrival
+  in Paris, he painted some beautiful historical pictures, which established his
+  reputation. He perfectly understood architecture, and drew designs for many
+  elegant mansions in Paris. During his travels in Italy, he planned and composed
+  his <i>De Arte Graphica</i>, an excellent poem, full of valuable information,
+  and containing unerring rules for the painter. This poem was twenty years in
+  hand, and was not published until three years<a name="footnotetag4" id="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a>
+  after the author's death, which took place in 1665. It has been observed, that
+  Fresnoy possessed the genius requisite for forming a great master; and had he
+  applied himself more strictly to painting, and educated pupils, he would doubtless
+  have proved one of the greatest painters France ever produced. But, possessing
+  high literary talents, he chose to lay down <i>precepts</i> for his countrymen,
+  rather than to present them with <i>examples</i> of his art. He adhered too
+  closely to the theory of painting, neglecting the more essential part&mdash;practice.</p>
+<p>In the reign of Louis XIV., Nicholas Poussin distinguished himself as a painter,
+  by displaying exquisite knowledge and great skill in composition. He generally
+  painted ancient ruins, landscapes, and historical figures. He was likewise well
+  acquainted with the manners and customs of the ancients; and, though he educated
+  no pupils, and never had any imitators, his pictures are universally admired
+  in every European country. Charles le Brun<a name="footnotetag5" id="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a>
+  established the French school,&mdash;an undertaking which Vo&uuml;et had previously
+  attempted. Le Brun drew well, had a ready conception, and a fertile imagination.
+  His compositions are vast, but, in various instances, they may justly be termed
+  <i>outre</i>. He possessed the animation, but not the inspiration of Raphael;
+  and his design is not so pure as that of Domenichino, nor so lively as that
+  of Annibale Caracci. Eustache le Seur, Le Brun's rival, possessed remarkable
+  dignity, and wonderful correctness of style. Indeed, by some he has been called
+  the Raphael of France. Had he lived longer, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page197" id="page197"></a>[pg 197]</span>
+(for he died at the age of thirty-eight,)
+  the French school, under his direction, would most probably have adopted a manner
+  which might have been imitated, and which might have established the arts on
+  an eminence to vie with even imperial Rome. But, by the concurrence of extraordinary
+  circumstances, Le Brun was the fashionable painter of the time, and it therefore
+  became necessary to imitate <i>his</i> manner, rather than the more simple and
+  more refined one of his rival. As Le Brun's imitators wanted his genius, his
+  faults not only became current, but more glaring and deformed.</p>
+<p>After Le Brun's death, which took place in 1690, the French artists degenerated
+  greatly, their productions being decorated in a gaudy and theatrical way, without
+  due regard to taste or decorum. Their school, some years ago, altered its principles,
+  under the auspices of the spirited Count de Caylus, who possessed considerable
+  merit as an artist. The count, by his high rank and fortune, had the means of
+  encouraging the imitators of the ancients, and of procuring the best models
+  in Italy for study. He, in conjunction with Monsieur Vien, first formed the
+  design of restoring a pure taste in France; and if his countrymen had followed
+  the path thus marked out for them, they would now have been equal to the greatest
+  of the Greek painters. But it appears that they are incapable of rising to any
+  very extraordinary height in the arts, for, with the exception of Le Seur, and
+  one or two others, they have ever wanted that elevation of mind which so eminently
+  distinguished the Romans. Though De Caylus greatly purified painting in his
+  time, yet his precepts and examples had little or no weight after his death,
+  for the art again retrograded into its original state&mdash;a state from which
+  the French professors, as before observed, seem incapable of rising.</p>
+<p>In our own days some few French artists have distinguished themselves, particularly
+  Lefevre, who was the chief painter to Napoleon. A full-length portrait of the
+  emperor in his coronation robes, for which Lefevre received the sum of five
+  thousand Napoleons, and which I have lately had the pleasure of seeing, is very
+  correct in drawing, and extremely rich and harmonious in colour; but it wants
+  freedom and boldness of execution.</p>
+<p>To conclude&mdash;the French are acknowledged to do pretty well within the
+  precincts of their own country, though few of their pictures will stand in competition
+  with those of the Italians, or with those produced in our own school.</p>
+<p class="source">G.W.N.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>MANNERS &amp; CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.</h2>
+<h2>No. XIII.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>SINGULAR JEWISH CUSTOM.</h3>
+
+<p>Burckhardt, in his &quot;Travels through Syria,&quot; &amp;c. informs us, that
+  at Tiberias, one of the four holy cities of the Talmud, the Jews observe a singular
+  custom in praying. While the rabbin recites the Psalms of David, or the prayers
+  extracted from them, the congregation frequently imitate, by their voice or
+  gestures, the meaning of some remarkable passages; for example, when the rabbin
+  pronounces the words, &quot;Praise the Lord with the sound of the trumpet,&quot;
+  they imitate the sound of the trumpet through their closed fists. When &quot;a
+  horrible tempest&quot; occurs, they puff and blow to represent a storm; or should
+  he mention &quot;the cries of the righteous in distress,&quot; they all set
+  up a loud screaming; and it not unfrequently happens, that while some are still
+  blowing the storm, others have already begun the cries of the righteous, thus
+  forming a concert which it is difficult for any but a zealous Hebrew to hear
+  with gravity.</p>
+
+<h3>CHARACTER OF THE KARPIANS, (ARABS.)</h3>
+
+<p>They are such consummate thieves and rogues, that, according to an ancient
+  tradition still current among them, they once tricked the devil himself. The
+  story is as follows:&mdash;The devil had acquired a right to their fields, on
+  which they agreed with him, that when their crops were ripe, they should retain
+  the upper part and the devil should have the lower. They sowed all their lands
+  with wheat, and the devil of course had nothing but the straw for his share.
+  Next year the old gentleman, fully determined not to be again so bamboozled,
+  stipulated that the upper part should belong to him and the lower to the Karpians;
+  but then they sowed all their grounds with beet, turnips, and other esculent
+  roots, and so the devil got nothing but the green tops for his portion.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Memoirs of Artemi.</i></p>
+
+<h3>THE MODERN WELSH.</h3>
+
+<p>The people of the principality are clean and industrious; there is, however,
+  in the nature of a Welshman such a hurriness of manner and want of method, that
+  he does nothing well; for his mind is over anxious, diverted from one labour
+  to another, and hence every thing is incomplete, and leaves the appearance of
+  confusion and negligence. The common exercises of the Welsh are running, leaping,
+  swimming, wrestling, throwing the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page198" id="page198"></a>[pg 198]</span>
+bar, dancing, hunting, fishing, and playing
+  at fives against the church or tower; and they constitute the joy of youth,
+  and the admiration of old age. The convivial amusements are singing and versification.
+  In these favourite exercises the performers are of humble merit; the singing
+  is mere roar and squeak; and the poetical effusions are nonsense, vested in
+  the rags of language; and always slanderous, because the mind of the bard is
+  not fertile in the production of topics. The Welsh character is the echo of
+  natural feeling, and acts from instantaneous motives. The fine arts are strangers
+  to the principality; and the Welshman seldom professes the buskin, or the use
+  of the mallet, the graver, or the chisel; but although deficient in taste, he
+  excels in duties and in intellect.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Jones's History of Wales.</i></p>
+
+<h3>ITALIAN WOMEN.</h3>
+
+<p>Italy and England are undoubtedly possessed of a greater share of female beauty
+  than any other country in Europe. But the English and Italian beauties, although
+  both interesting, are very different from one another. The former are unrivalled
+  for the delicacy and bloom of their complexions, the smoothness and mild expression
+  of their features, their modest carriage, and the cleanliness of their persons
+  and dress; these are qualities which strike every foreigner at his landing.
+  On my first arrival in England, I was asked by a friend how I liked the English
+  women; to which I replied that I thought them all handsome. This is the first
+  impression they produce. There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them,
+  which surprises and interests particularly a native of the south. They seem
+  to look, if I may apply to them the fine lines of one of their living poets&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza"><p>&quot;With eyes so pure, that from the ray</p>
+<p>Dark vice would turn abash'd away;</p>
+</div>
+  <hr class="poem"  />
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>Yet fill'd with all youth's sweet desires,</p>
+<p>Mingling the meek and vestal fires</p>
+<p>Of other worlds, with all the bliss</p>
+<p>The fond weak tenderness of this.&quot;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The Italian beauties are of a different kind. Their features are more regular,
+  more animated; their complexions bear the marks of a warmer sun, and their eyes
+  seem to participate of its fires; their carriage is graceful and noble; they
+  have generally good figures; they are not indeed angelic forms, but they are
+  earthly Venuses. It has been supposed by some, that the habitual view of those
+  models of ideal beauty, the Greek statues, with which Italy abounds, may be
+  an indirect cause conducing to the general beauty of the sex; be that as it
+  may, I think the fine features and beautiful forms of the Italian fair have
+  a great influence upon the minds of young artists, and this is perhaps one of
+  the principal reasons why Italy has so long excelled in figure painters. A handsome
+  female countenance, animated by the expression of the soul, is among the finest
+  works of nature; the sight of it elevates the mind, and kindles the sparks of
+  genius. Raphael took the models of his charming Madonnas from nature. Titian,
+  Guido, Caracci, and others, derived their ideas of female beauty from the exquisite
+  countenances so frequent in their native country.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Italy in the Nineteenth Century.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK.</h2>
+<h2>No. XXII.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A LINNET AT SEA.</h3>
+
+<p>It has been often observed, that birds, in the course of their flight from
+  one country to another, will frequently resort to the rigging of a ship, as
+  a resting-place in their transit across the wide ocean. Mr. Gray, in his &quot;Letters
+  on Canada,&quot; gives the following instance:&mdash;Among the extraordinary
+  things, he observes, one meets with at sea, it is not one of the least surprising
+  to observe small <i>land birds</i> several hundred miles from land. I was sitting
+  on deck, when, to my great surprise, my attention was arrested by the warbling
+  of a bird. I looked up, and saw a <i>linnet</i> perched on the rigging, and
+  whistling with as much ardour as if on a bush in a green meadow. It is not a
+  little astonishing how these little birds should be able to continue on the
+  wing so long as is necessary to fly several hundreds of miles, particularly
+  when the usual shortness of their flight is considered. They continue sometimes
+  with a vessel several days, and are frequently caught by the sailors; but it
+  is remarked that they seldom live, though every care is taken to give them proper
+  food. When the vessel rolls much, they find it difficult to retain their footing
+  on the rigging, and you see them forced, as it were, to resume their flight
+  in search of a better resting-place.</p>
+
+<h3>THE ADVANTAGES OF AFFLICTION.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">Behold this vine,</p>
+<p>I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength</p>
+    <p>Had swollen into irregular twigs</p>
+<p>And bold excrescences,</p>
+<p>And spent itself in leaves and little rings;</p>
+<p>So in the flourish of its outwardness</p>
+<p>Wasting the sap and strength</p>
+<p>That should have given forth fruit;</p>
+<p>But when I pruned the tree,</p>
+<p>Then it grew temperate in its vain expanse</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page199" id="page199"></a>[pg 199]</span><p>Of useless leaves, and knotted, as thou seest,</p>
+<p>Into these full, clear clusters, to repay</p>
+<p>The hand that wisely wounded it.</p>
+<p>Repine not, O my son!</p>
+<p>In wisdom and in mercy heaven indicts,</p>
+<p>Like a wise leech, its painful remedies.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p class="source">SOUTHEY.</p>
+
+<h3>WEATHERCOCKS.</h3>
+
+<p>Weathercocks do not always show the real direction of a very gentle wind. The
+  strange figures of them, usually the productions of capricious fancy, is one
+  cause of their imperfection as vanes to indicate the wind. Griffins, half-moons,
+  foxes, or figures of St. Margaret and the dragon, are not good shapes for weathercocks,
+  which ought to be plain fans, the large surface of one side being counterbalanced
+  against the weight of the other.</p>
+
+<h3>THE VALUE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.</h3>
+
+<p>A general, though superficial acquaintance with such subjects as well-educated
+  men and women talk about in mixed society is absolutely necessary. A practised
+  eye will easily distinguish the silence of modest attention from the mute weariness
+  of ignorance. The most inveterate talker, if he be not quite a fool, desires
+  to be listened to as well as heard; and a &quot;yes&quot; or a &quot;no&quot;
+  may be placed and accented so as to show intelligence, or betray stupidity.
+  Grace in action and deportment is so essential, that it may almost be said to
+  make all that is beautiful in beauty. We do not mean that a lady should, in
+  dancing, walking, or sitting, display attitudes worthy of a painter's model.
+  In walking we, however, recommend something between the listless saunter of
+  a she-dandy, and the bustling gait of a notable body, who perhaps saves three
+  minutes out of four-and-twenty hours, by doing every thing throughout the day
+  with a jerk and a toss.&mdash;Dancing, unless it be done quietly and gracefully,
+  without the fatal results of a shining face, and red neck and arms, it is far
+  better to forbear altogether, it being a very superfluous quality in a gentlewoman;
+  whereas <i>to please</i> by all honest means is her proper calling and occupation.
+  A high degree of <i>positive</i> grace is very rare, especially in northern
+  climates, where the form is degraded and spoiled by ligatures and by cold; but
+  every woman may attain to <i>negative</i> grace, by avoiding awkward and unmeaning
+  habits. The incessant twirling of a reticule, the assiduous pulling of the fingers
+  of a glove, opening and shutting a book, swinging a bell-rope, &amp;c. betray
+  either impatience and weariness of the conversation, disrespect of the speakers,
+  or a want of ease and self-possession by no means inseparably connected with
+  modesty and humility; those persons who are most awkward and shy among their
+  superiors in rank or information being generally most over-bearing and peremptory
+  with their equals or inferiors. We are almost ashamed, in the nineteenth century,
+  to say any thing concerning personal neatness; but cannot forbear hinting, that
+  clean gloves and neat shoes aid the captivating powers of a lady much more certainly
+  than pearl ear-rings or gold chains&mdash;that clean muslin is more bewitching
+  than dirty <i>blond lace</i>&mdash;and that a pocket-handkerchief should be
+  like a basilisk, a thing heard of, but never seen; we mean in the capacity in
+  which our cold-catching, rheum-exciting climate calls it into action.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>SELECT BIOGRAPHY.</h2>
+<h2>No. LVII.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>KARL THEODORE KORNER.</h3>
+
+<p>Korner is one of the poets of whom modern Germany is justly proud. His was
+  not the mere theoretic heroism which contents itself with celebrating the deeds
+  of others. His own conduct embodied the most noble conceptions of his imagination,
+  and his life and death exhibited a splendid example of the patriotism which
+  breathed throughout his verse. He was born at Dresden in 1791. His education
+  was of the most careful kind. He was not only instructed in various branches
+  of learning, but the elegant accomplishments of the fine arts were added, and
+  the exercises of the body were not less attended to than those of the mind.
+  Called upon to choose some occupation, he determined to apply himself to mining,
+  and took up his residence at Vienna, where he enjoyed the advantage of a familiar
+  intercourse with William Von Humboldt, the Prussian ambassador, Frederic Schlegel,
+  and other eminent literary and scientific men. Here, within the short space
+  of fifteen months, he produced a rapid succession of dramas, operas, and farces,
+  as well as several small poems. The success of his works obtained him the appointment
+  of poet to the court. He was now in the enjoyment of all that could render life
+  happy&mdash;competence, distinction, esteem, friendship and love; but he resolved
+  to sacrifice them all &quot;for that greatest mortal blessing, his country's
+  freedom.&quot;</p>
+<p>&quot;Could I,&quot; says he, in a letter to his father, &quot;could I, think
+  you, stand aloof, contented to celebrate with weak inspiration the success of
+  my conquering bre<span class="pagenum"><a name="page200" id="page200"></a>[pg
+  200]</span>thren? I am aware that you will suffer much anxiety,&mdash;My mother
+  too will weep&mdash;may God be her comfort!&mdash;I cannot spare you this trial.
+  That I simply offer my life is of little import; but that I offer it, crowned
+  as it is with all the flowery wreaths of love, of friendship, and of joy,&mdash;that
+  I cast away the sweet sensations which lived in the conviction that I have caused
+  you no inquietude, no anguish,&mdash;this indeed is a sacrifice which can only
+  be opposed to such a prize!&quot;</p>
+<p>He left Vienna in March 1813, and joined the free corps which Major Von Lutzow
+  was then forming. This was a voluntary association, and the corps was remarkable
+  throughout the war for its valour and enterprise. In the midst of the most active
+  campaigns, Korner continued to pour forth his verses. Other poets have written
+  of battles in the retirement of the closet, but he sang his song of war on the
+  tented field, and amid the din of conflict. Nor was this all: he collected too
+  the strains of other poets, and adapted them to appropriate airs, to animate
+  the ardour of his companions in arms. We cannot follow him through his career,
+  brief as it was; but the subjoined incident is too striking to be omitted, and
+  is especially adapted to our purpose, as it affords an opportunity of giving
+  a passage of his unpremeditated verse in a moment of pain and danger.</p>
+<p>On the 28th of May, Major Von Lutzow had determined on setting out on an expedition
+  towards Thuringia, with four squadrons of his cavalry, and fifty cossacks. Korner
+  earnestly entreated permission to accompany him, and his desire was fulfilled
+  by his being appointed adjutant by Major Von Lutzow, who highly esteemed him,
+  and wished to have him near his person.</p>
+<p>The expedition passed in ten days through Halberstadt, Eisleben, Buttstadt,
+  and Schlaitz, to Plauen, though not without encountering great danger from the
+  enemy, who were dispersed throughout these districts, but, also, not without
+  effecting some important results. Intelligence and information were procured,
+  ammunition was captured and seized, and couriers on missions of importance were
+  taken prisoners. The gallant troop acquired considerable renown, and harassed
+  the enemy much, especially by cutting off his communications. A plan was in
+  consequence laid by the French emperor for the extirpation of the corps, that,
+  as a deterring example, no man should be left alive. The armistice, concluded
+  at this moment, afforded an opportunity for putting it in practice. (The Duke
+  of Padua, it is observable, particularly profited by this armistice; for being
+  shut up in Leipzig by Generals Woronzow and Czernichef, with the co-operation
+  of two battalions of the Lutzow infantry, he was only saved by this cessation
+  of hostilities.)</p>
+<p>Major Von Lutzow had received official information of the armistice at Plauen.
+  Without expecting to meet with any opposition, he chose the shortest route to
+  rejoin the infantry of his corps, having received the most confidential assurances
+  of safety from the enemy's commanding officers, and proceeded along the high
+  road, without interruption, to Kitzen, a village in the neighbourhood of Leipzig;
+  but here he found himself surrounded and menaced by a very superior force. Theodore
+  Korner was despatched to demand an explanation; but, instead of replying, the
+  commander of the enemy struck at him with his sword; and it being now twilight,
+  a general attack was made on the three squadrons of the Lutzow cavalry before
+  they had drawn a sabre. Several were wounded and taken, and others dispersed
+  in the surrounding country; but Major Von Lutzow himself was saved by the assistance
+  of a squadron of Uhlans, who being in advance with the Cossacks, formed the
+  van-guard, and consequently were not assailed at the same moment. He reached,
+  with a considerable body of his troops, the right bank of the Elbe, where the
+  infantry of his corps, and a squadron of its cavalry, were already collected.</p>
+<p>Korner received the first blow, which he was not prepared to parry, as he approached
+  close to the enemy's commanding officer to deliver his message without drawing
+  his sabre, and was thus severely wounded in the head: the second blow only inflicted
+  a slight injury. He fell back, but speedily recovered himself, and his spirited
+  steed bore him in safety to a neighbouring wood. He was here occupied, at the
+  first moment, with the assistance of a comrade, in binding up his wounds, when
+  he perceived a troop of the enemy, who were in pursuit, riding towards him.
+  His presence of mind did not forsake him, but turning towards the wood, he called
+  with a loud voice, &quot;Fourth squadron,&mdash;Advance!&quot;&mdash;His stratagem
+  succeeded&mdash;the enemy were appalled, drew back, and thus afforded him time
+  to conceal himself deeper in the wood. It had now become dark, and he found
+  a place in the thicket where he could remain undiscovered.</p>
+<p>The pain of the deeper wound became very severe, his strength was exhausted,
+  and his last hope was gone. It was in this extremity that he composed the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page201" id="page201"></a>[pg 201]</span>beautiful
+  sonnet, of which the following is a translation:&mdash;</p>
+<h4>FAREWELL TO LIFE.</h4>
+<p>[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely wounded
+  and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.]</p>
+  <div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;My deep wound burns;&mdash;my pale lips quake in death,&mdash;</p>
+<p>I feel my fainting heart resign its strife,</p>
+<p>And reaching now the limit of my life,</p>
+<p>Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>Yet many a dream hath charm'd my youthful eye;</p>
+<p>And must life's fairy visions all depart;</p>
+<p>Oh surely no! for all that fired my heart</p>
+<p>To rapture here, shall live with me on high.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>And that fair form that won my earliest vow,</p>
+<p>That my young spirit prized all else above,</p>
+<p>And now adored as freedom, now as love,</p>
+<p>Stands in seraphic guise, before me now.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+<p>And as my fading senses fade away,</p>
+<p>It beckons me, on high, to realms of endless day!&quot;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>During the night he heard the enemy searching the wood near him, but afterwards
+  fell asleep, and was saved in the morning by two peasants. He was conveyed secretly
+  into Leipsic, which was then under the French yoke, and where the concealment
+  of any of the Lutzow free corps was prohibited, under severe punishment. He
+  subsequently travelled in safety to Berlin, and having recovered from his wound,
+  rejoined the corps of Lutzow on the right bank of the Elbe. Hostilities recommenced
+  on the 17th of August; and on the 28th an engagement took place near Rosenberg,
+  in which Korner fell. He was in pursuit of a body of the enemy, when the riflemen,
+  who had found a rallying-place in some under-wood, sent forth a shower of balls
+  upon their pursuers. By one of these Korner was wounded in the abdomen, the
+  liver and spine were injured, and he was immediately deprived of speech and
+  consciousness. He was carried to a neighbouring wood, but all medical aid was
+  vain. He was buried under an oak in the village of Wobbelin, about a mile from
+  Ludwigslust. A tomb has since been placed over his remains, and enclosed by
+  a wall. He died at the early age of twenty-two.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>From a Critical Notice of The Life of Korner, New Monthly
+  Mag.</i></p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>Cannot he that wisely declines walking upon the ice for fear of falling, though
+  possibly it might carry him sooner to his journey's end, as wisely forbear drinking
+  more wine than is necessary, for fear of being drunk and the ill-consequences
+  thereof?&mdash;<i>Lord Clarendon.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE NOVELIST.</h2>
+<h2>No. CX.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>THE RESCUE.</h3>
+<h4><i>By Miss Roberts.</i></h4>
+<p class="quote">
+&quot;King Stephen was a worthy peer.&quot;
+</p>
+<p>The hall was lofty, sculptured round with armorial devices, and hung with gaily-embroidered
+  banners, which waved in the wind streaming from the crannies in windows which
+  had suffered some dilapidation from the hand of time. Minstrel harps rang throughout
+  the wide apartment, and at a board well covered with smoking viands&mdash;haunches
+  of the red deer, bustards, cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning
+  heads of wild boars,&mdash;and flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of
+  foaming ale, sat King Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles,
+  whose voices had placed him on the English throne. In the midst of the feast,
+  the jovial glee of the wassailers was interrupted by the entrance of a page,
+  who, forcing his way through the yeomen and lacqueys crowding at the door, flew
+  with breathless haste to the feet of the king, and falling down on his knees,
+  in faltering accents delivered the message with which he had been intrusted.
+  &quot;Up, gallants,&quot; exclaimed the martial monarch, &quot;don your harness,
+  and ride as lightly as you may to the relief of the Countess of Clare, she lies
+  in peril of her life and honour, beleaguered by a rabble of unnurtured Welsh
+  savages, who, lacking respect for beauty, have directed their arms against a
+  woman. Swollen with vain pride at their late victory, (the fiend hang the coward
+  loons who fled before them,) they have sworn to make this noble lady serve them
+  barefoot in their camp. By St. Dennis and my good sword, were I not hampered
+  by this pestilent invasion of the Scots, I would desire no better pastime than
+  to drive the ill-conditioned serfs howling from the walls. Say, who amongst
+  you will undertake the enterprise?&mdash;What, all silent? are ye knights? are
+  ye men? do I reign over christian warriors, valiant captains who have been sworn
+  to protect beauty in distress; or are ye like the graceless dogs of Mahomed,
+  insensible to female honour?&quot; &quot;My ranks are wonderous scant,&quot;
+  returned Milo Fitzwalter, &quot;I may not reckon twenty men at arms in the whole
+  train, and varlets have I none; but it boots not to number spears when danger
+  presses; so to horse and away. Beshrew me, were it the termagant Queen Maude
+  herself, I'd do my <span class="pagenum"><a name="page202" id="page202"></a>[pg
+  202]</span>best to rescue her in this extremity.&quot;&mdash;&quot;Thou art
+  a true knight, Fitzwalter,&quot; replied the king, &quot;and wilt prosper: the
+  Saint's benizon be with thee, for thou must speed on this errand with such tall
+  men as thou canst muster of thine own proper followers: the Scots, whom the
+  devil confound, leave me too much work, to spare a single lance from mine own
+  array. We will drink to thy success, and to the health of the fair countess,
+  in a flask of the right Bourdeaux: and tell the lady that thy monarch grudges
+  thee this glorious deed; for by my Halidom, an thou winnest her unscathed from
+  the hands of these Welsh churls, thou wilt merit a niche beside the most renowned
+  of Charlemagne's paladins.&quot; Fitzwalter made no answer, but he armed in
+  haste, and, leaping into his saddle, gave the spur to his gallant steed, and
+  followed by his esquires and men at arms, rested not either night or day, until
+  he reached the marches of Wales. The lions of England still proudly flying over
+  the castle walls, assured him that the countess had been enabled to hold out
+  against the savage horde, who surrounded it on all sides. The besiegers set
+  up a furious yell as the knight and his party approached their encampment. Half
+  naked, their eyes glaring wildly from beneath a mass of yellow hair, and scantily
+  armed with the rudest species of offensive and defensive weapons, their numbers
+  alone made them terrible; and had the castle been manned and victualled, it
+  might have long defied their utmost strength. Drawing their falchions, the knight
+  and his party keeping closely together, and thus forming an impenetrable wedge,
+  cut their desperate path through the fierce swarm of opposing foes, who, like
+  incarnate demons, rushed to the onslaught, and fell in heaps before the biting
+  steel of these experienced soldiers. Pressing forward with unyielding bravery,
+  Fitzwalter won the castle walls; whence, with the assistance of such frail aid
+  as the living spectres on the battlements could give, he beat back the Welsh
+  host, and in another quarter of an hour, having dispersed the enemy with frightful
+  loss, gained free entrance to the castle. Feeble was the shout of triumph which
+  welcomed Fitzwalter and his brave companions; the corpses of the unburied dead
+  lay strewed upon the pavement; the heroic countess, and her attendant damsels,
+  clad in the armour of the slain, weakened by famine, and hopeless of succour,
+  yet still striving to deceive the besiegers by the display of living warriors,
+  by this stratagem retarded the assault which they could not repel. Fitzwalter
+  took advantage of the darkness of the night, and the panic of the Welshmen,
+  to withdraw from a fortress which was destitute of all the implements of war;
+  and with the rescued ladies mounted behind them, the brave band returned to
+  the court of King Stephen; and the charms of the fair one, and the valour of
+  her chivalric defender, formed the theme of the minstrel in every knightly hall
+  and lady's bower throughout Christendom.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH NOVEL READER.</h3>
+
+<p>How shall I describe the emotions with which I read the first novel I ever
+  perused! A school-fellow had secretly brought with him from home after the holidays,
+  the novel of Peregrine Pickle, which he carefully concealed in his trunk. He
+  at first lent it to some of the elder boys, who read it, and enlarging on some
+  of the most despicable incidents to be found, disgusted my meek spirit of it,
+  by their report. It seemed to violate all my cherished ideas of beauty and soft
+  luxury. I was then about fourteen years of age, and my companions persuaded
+  me to a perusal. I took it up listlessly, expecting but little pleasure, but
+  what language can paint the manner in which I was entranced by it? I read it
+  over and over with increased delight, my entire soul and frame of mind and passions
+  seemed to be suddenly changed and remodelled. I forgot Ariadne and Telemachus,
+  and Tom Pipes and Hatchway became my idols, the undivided objects of my admiration.</p>
+<p>I had hitherto been a remarkably quiet and inoffensive boy; Telemachus I considered
+  never took delight in robbing orchards. I had the confidence of my teachers
+  from my uniform rejection of any participation in the rude affrays, the catastrophe
+  of which dramas was in general an almost universal flogging match. My admiration
+  naturally led to its probable result, a desire to imitate&mdash;I firmly resolved
+  to become a Peregrine. I soon promoted myself to be the leader of every mad
+  prank that the wit of a spirit suddenly excited to activity could devise. In
+  the first fortnight I got flogged for tying a huge mass of brown paper to the
+  tail of the favourite cat of the master's lady, with which she rushed with an
+  insane and terrifying distraction into the drawing-room. We owed a spite to
+  a neighbouring milkman for tale-bearing, and we rendered his pump, the great
+  source <span class="pagenum"><a name="page203" id="page203"></a>[pg 203]</span>of
+  profit, useless, by filling it with soot and mire. The old woman who served
+  the school with tarts, and who, in her endeavours to please all palates, brought
+  some varieties heated over a charcoal fire, had her apparatus blown to atoms
+  by an ounce of gunpowder, insinuated with so much art, that although done before
+  her face, she could attach no one with the offence. All became riot, waste,
+  and destruction under the guidance of my beloved Peregrine.</p>
+<p>But, ah! the poor Count&mdash;amiable, patient, and long-suffering Gaul! He
+  was an unhappy refugee, who had sought a home, by becoming the reviled, insulted
+  teacher of his native tongue to a mob of heartless ruffians. How well do I remember
+  his neat but thread-bare coat and pigtail; his stooping gait, not the decrepitude
+  of age, but as though it sprang from the abasement of his fortune; his endurance
+  of injury to a certain point, when patience suddenly forsook him, and his, to
+  us, irresistibly comic rage and exasperation! What would that generous seaman
+  Pipes have thought a defenceless Frenchman fit for, but as the object of spirited
+  and well-conducted pranks? Nothing cruel or revengeful, but only to show our
+  own superior wit and address in concerted and premeditated annoyance.</p>
+<p>I had gained with a most surprising rapidity upon the confidence of the most
+  conspicuous rioters in the school. There was something so noble and daring in
+  all my designs, that they seemed to yield willingly to so superior a spirit.
+  The sudden alteration in my manners had been noticed with secret wonder by the
+  masters, and they, thinking to check my fatal tendencies at the outset, had
+  inflicted on me several severe and well-merited chastisements. I converted even
+  these into means of extending my influence. I had borne them like a hero, a
+  very Peregrine. No groan&mdash;no sigh&mdash;no bellowing promise of amendment,
+  had lessened my dignity. Under the torture, I was sullen and silent. The stoutest
+  heart in the school envied my manhood and composure.</p>
+<p>The poor French teacher had been the hereditary object of annoyance for several
+  generations of boys. The meekest and most chicken-hearted scrubs in the school
+  tried their apprenticeship to mischief upon him, and were tutored to more noble
+  game by beginning with the Count. They split and cut his pens into a thousand
+  fantastic shapes during a momentary absence; they filled his snuff with the
+  most odious pulverulents. They placed on his desk rude, but expressive designs
+  of a guillotine, with a meagre fellow in ruffles and no shirt, running in the
+  extremity of speed from the spot. These, and a thousand exhibitions of budding
+  genius, and original sin, were our daily subjects of merriment and applause.
+  I taught them nobler arts, or rather the spirit of Pickle which spake within
+  me. It was nothing to annoy on such a petty and momentary scale; let the art
+  and forethought of Hatchway be exhibited.</p>
+<p>The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals always
+  received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the neighbourhood,
+  an invitation to visit him. On these occasions his dress was the most ludicrous
+  imaginable, being compounded of remnants of pristine finery, such as his wardrobe
+  could afford, without attention to uniformity, or consistency of colour. Above
+  all, he possessed a pair of light pea-green small clothes, on which he much
+  prided himself, and I swore by old Trunnion to be their murderer. His custom
+  on the aforesaid visits was to dress early, and then hastily to dismiss his
+  lessons, and proceed immediately.</p>
+<p>Having gained intelligence of an approaching field day, we prepared a strong
+  solution of gum, with which we varnished the bottom of a leather chair upon
+  which he sat in the school. The morning came, his green <i>media</i> and white
+  silk stockings were hailed with the most extravagant but secret exultation.
+  He seated himself, and let us run as we pleased through our tasks, with an unusual
+  portion of smiles and pleasantries, and then looking at his watch, he attempted
+  hastily to rise! in vain&mdash;there seemed an indissoluble bond of union between
+  him and the chair; the most grotesque series of strugglings ensued, and by one
+  desperate effort he was erect, a thin coating of the black leather which he
+  had torn off, firmly adhering to his dress! Nothing abated my delight at my
+  success, but the thought that my magnus Apollo, Pickle, was not there to enjoy
+  it; to see the poor Count stand mute with a mixed passion of rage and distress
+  for several seconds, and then to witness his fruitless attempts to view the
+  full extent of the injury, which, notwithstanding the surprising flexibility
+  of his vertebrae, he was unable to compass. Tom Pipes I felt certain would have
+  died on the spot, he must have split.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>The Inspector</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>CONTRAST OF CLIMATE.</h3>
+
+<p>Suppose yourself to have spent the first half of a foggy, sleety, chill, moist,
+  melancholy, English winter at some misera<span class="pagenum"><a name="page204" id="page204"></a>[pg
+  204]</span>ble country village in Kent. Suppose about the first of February,
+  while the whole landscape around is still floating in mud, buried in snow, or
+  fast bound by frost, and the atmosphere so thick with fog, that one can scarcely
+  point at mid-day to the spot where the sun stands in the heavens,&mdash;that
+  your catarrh grows so alarming, that in a fit of despondency you trundle yourself
+  aboard a ship in the Downs getting under way for a warmer climate. Suppose,
+  that after a smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the
+  whole of which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you
+  awake one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal;
+  and the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a
+  mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window. It seems downright
+  enchantment! You leap up as if there was a new soul in your body. You hurry
+  ashore in the first boat. Your cough, lassitude, and qualmishness have altogether
+  left you. Your step is elastic, and your spirits as buoyant as a lark in spring.
+  You luxuriate amidst beautiful gardens glowing with roses, jessamines, honey-suckles,
+  and a thousand other odoriferous shrubs and flowers in full bloom. You wander
+  through a boundless maze of rising vineries curling their budding tendrils around
+  the trellis-work, and terrace above terrace up the declivities of the mountains.
+  You recline among orange-groves bending under the load of ripe golden fruit;
+  and as you stretch yourself at ease by some clear, gurgling rill, in the midst
+  of all this loveliness, you ask yourself, is this a dream&mdash;or are these
+  indeed the gardens of the Hesperides? Reader, if you have the blue devils at
+  Christmas, you may realize all this, and reach Madeira, as I have done, in eight
+  days from the Downs.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>London Weekly Review.</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>ANECDOTES OF THE FACULTY.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>Quacks.</i></h4>
+
+<p>We are not without plenty of ignorant and impudent pretenders at the present
+  day; but the celebrated Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter of Epsom, surpasses them
+  all. She was the daughter of a man named Wallis, a bone-setter at Hindon, in
+  Wiltshire, and sister to the celebrated &quot;Polly Peachem,&quot; who married
+  the Duke of Bolton. Upon some <i>family quarrel</i>, Sally Wallis left her professional
+  parent, and wandered up and down the country in a miserable manner, calling
+  herself &quot;Crazy Sally,&quot; and pursuing, in her perambulations, a course
+  that fairly justified the title. Arriving at last at Epsom, she succeeded in
+  humbugging the worthy bumpkins of that place, so decidedly, that a subscription
+  was set on foot to keep her among them; but her fame extending to the metropolis,
+  the dupes of London, a numerous class then as well as now, thought it no trouble
+  to go ten miles to see the conjuror, till at length, she was pleased to bless
+  the afflicted of London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian
+  Coffee-house, in a coach and six with out-riders! and all the appearance of
+  nobility. It was in one of these journeys, passing through Kent-street, in the
+  Borough, that being taken for a certain woman of quality from the Electorate
+  in Germany, a great mob followed, and bestowed on her many bitter reproaches,
+  till madame, perceiving some mistake, looked out of the window, and accosted
+  them in this gentle manner, &quot;D&mdash;&mdash;n your bloods, don't you know me? I am
+  Mrs. Mapp, the <i>bone-setter!</i>&quot; Upon which, they instantly changed
+  their revilings into loud huzzas.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Wadd's Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs.</i></p>
+
+<h4><i>Dr. Radcliffe.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Among the many singularities related of Radcliffe, it has been noticed, that
+  when he was in a convivial party, he was unwilling to leave it, even though
+  sent for by persons of the highest distinction. Whilst he was thus deeply engaged
+  at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired his immediate attendance
+  on his <i>colonel</i>; but no entreaties could prevail on the disciple of Esculapius
+  to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus. &quot;Sir,&quot; quoth the soldier, &quot;<i>my
+  orders are to bring you.</i>&quot; And being a very powerful man, he took him
+  up in his arms, and carried him off per force. After traversing some dirty lanes,
+  the doctor and his escort arrived at a narrow alley&mdash;&quot;What the D&mdash;&mdash;l
+  is all this,&quot; said Radcliffe, &quot;your colonel don't live here?&quot;&mdash;&quot;No,&quot;
+  said his military friend,&mdash;&quot;no, my <i>colonel</i> does not live here&mdash;but
+  my <i>comrade</i> does, and he's worth <i>two</i> of the <i>colonel</i>,&mdash;so,
+  by G&mdash;d, doctor, if you don't do your <i>best</i> for <i>him</i>, it will
+  be the <i>worst</i> for <i>you!</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<h4><i>Duels.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Many medical duels have been prevented by the difficulty of arranging the &quot;me<span class="pagenum"><a name="page205" id="page205"></a>[pg
+  205]</span>thodus pugnandi.&quot; In the instance of Dr. Brocklesby, the number
+  of paces could not be agreed upon; and in the affair between Akenside and Ballow,
+  one had determined never to fight in the morning, and the other that he would
+  never fight in the afternoon. John Wilkes, who did not stand upon ceremony in
+  these little affairs, when asked by Lord Talbot, &quot;How many times they were
+  to fire?&quot; replied, &quot;just as often as your Lordship pleases; I have
+  brought <i>a bag of bullets and a flask of gunpowder</i>.&quot;</p>
+
+<h4><i>William Hunter.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Dr. William Hunter used to relate the following anecdote:&mdash;During the
+  American war, he was consulted by the daughter of a peer, who confessed herself
+  pregnant, and requested his assistance; he advised her to retire for a time
+  to the house of some confidential friend; she said that was impossible, as her
+  father would not suffer her to be absent from him a single day. Some of the
+  servants were, therefore, let into the secret, and the doctor made his arrangement
+  with the treasurer of the Foundling Hospital for the reception of the child,
+  for which he was to pay 190<i>l</i>.&mdash;The lady was desired to weigh well
+  if she could bear pain without alarming the family by her cries; she said &quot;Yes,&quot;&mdash;and
+  she kept her word. At the usual period she was delivered, not of one child only,
+  but of twins. The doctor, bearing the two children, was conducted by a French
+  servant through the kitchen, and left to ascend the area steps into the street.
+  Luckily the lady's maid recollected that the door of the area might perhaps
+  be locked; and she followed the doctor just in time to prevent his being detained
+  at the gate. He deposited the children at the Foundling Hospital, and paid for
+  each 100<i>l</i>. The father of the children was a colonel of the army, who
+  went with his regiment to America, and died there. The mother afterwards married
+  a person of her own rank.</p>
+
+<h4><i>John Hunter.</i></h4>
+
+<p>Hunter was a philosopher in more senses than one; he had philosophy enough
+  to bear prosperity, as well as adversity, and with a rough exterior was a very
+  kind man. The poor could command his services more than the rich. He would see
+  an industrious tradesman before a duke, when his house was full of grandees,
+  &quot;you have no time to spare,&quot; he would say, &quot;you live by it; most
+  of these can wait, they have nothing to do when they go home.&quot; No man cared
+  less for the profits of the profession, or more for the honour of it. He cared
+  not for money himself, and wished the Doctor [his brother William] to estimate
+  it by the same scale, when he sent a poor man with this laconic note:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="quote">
+&quot;Dear Brother,&mdash;The bearer wants
+your advice. I do not know the nature of case. He has no money, and you
+have plenty, so are well met.&quot;</p>
+<p class="quote">&quot;Yours, J. HUNTER.&quot; </p>
+<p>He was applied to once to perform a serious operation on a tradesman's wife;
+  the fee agreed upon was twenty guineas. He heard no more of the case for two
+  months; at the end of which time he was called upon to perform it. In the course
+  of his attendance, he found out that the cause of the delay had been the difficulty
+  under which the patient's husband had laboured to raise the money; and that
+  they were worthy people, who had been unfortunate, and were by no means able
+  to support the expense of such an affliction. &quot;I sent back to the husband
+  nineteen guineas, and kept the twentieth,&quot; said he, &quot;that they might
+  not be hurt with an idea of too great obligation. It somewhat more than paid
+  me for the expense I had been at in the business.&quot;</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>BURMESE BOATS.</h3>
+
+<p>The Burman war-boat is formed of the trunk of the magnificent teak tree, first
+  roughly shaped, and then expanded by means of fire, until it attains sufficient
+  width to admit two people, sitting abreast. On this a gunwale, rising a foot
+  above the water, is fixed, and the stem and stern taper to a point, the latter
+  being much higher than the other, and ornamented with fret-work and gilding.
+  On the bow is placed a gun, sometimes of a nine-pounder calibre, but generally
+  smaller, and the centre of the boat is occupied by the rowers, varying in number
+  from twenty to a hundred, who in the large boats use the oar, and in the small
+  ones the paddle. A war-boat in motion is a very pleasing object. The rapidity
+  with which it moves, its lightness, and small surface above the water, the uniform
+  pulling of the oar falling in cadence with the songs of the boatmen, who, taking
+  the lead from one of their number, join in chorus, and keep time with the dip
+  of their oars; the rich gilding which adorns the boat, and the neat, uniform
+  dress of the crew, place it, to the eye of a stranger, in a curious and interesting
+  point of view: and in regard to appearance, induces him, when contrasting it
+  with an English boat, to give the former the preference. In point of swiftness,
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page206" id="page206"></a>[pg 206]</span>our
+  best men-of-war boats could not compete with them; and of this superiority they
+  generally availed themselves when an action was impending.</p>
+<p>The boats we had captured at Rangoon, and were cutting down for the transport
+  of the army, were totally of a different nature. These, built on the same plan
+  as ours are, but with flat bottoms, belonged to traders, and were solely adapted
+  to the transport of merchandise. The stern, fancifully ornamented, rises two
+  or three stages above the deck, and is the seat of the helmsman. The inside
+  of the boat is filled with goods, and thatched over, leaving sufficient room
+  underneath to accommodate two or three families&mdash;men, women, and children&mdash;who
+  promiscuously take up their abode there.</p>
+<p>This description of boat is not propelled by oars, but by long poles, the ends
+  of which being placed against the shoulders of the boatmen, they run the whole
+  length of the boat, and push her forward with considerable velocity. The space
+  on which they act is formed by strong outriggers on either side of the boat,
+  which answer the twofold purpose of preventing her upsetting, which she otherwise
+  would do from the excess of top-weight, and of increasing her width and accommodation.</p>
+<p>The third class of boat is that used throughout the country, and which, to
+  those who inhabit the banks of rivers, becomes a necessary appendage, and to
+  many a home. It is a mere canoe, decked with split bamboo, and partly covered
+  in with mats, so as to afford shelter from the sun by day, and the dews by night.
+  One man steers, and two others either row or paddle; but, when the wind is favourable,
+  they use a sail. This is generally made at the moment, with the scarfs they
+  wear over their shoulders, tied together. Two bamboos constitute the mast and
+  yard, the sail being fastened between them; yet, with this fragile rigging,
+  and with the gunwale of the boat almost under water with every puff of wind,
+  they stem the most rapid currents at all seasons of the year, and, such is their
+  skill in steering, seldom meet with an accident. It was in these boats that
+  the majority of the inhabitants of Rangoon, and the adjacent villages, fled
+  upon our approach; and these formed their only habitation during the many months
+  they kept aloof from us.</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Two Years in Ava</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>SONNET.</h3>
+
+<h4>ON A YOUTH WHO DIED OF EXCESSIVE FRUIT-PIE.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">Currants have check'd the current of my blood,
+<p class="i2">And berries brought me to be buried here;</p>
+    <p>Pears have pared off my body's hardihood, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And plums and plumbers spare not one so spare.</p>
+    <p>Fain would I feign my fall, so fair a fare </p>
+    <p class="i2">Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good:</p>
+    <p>Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware </p>
+    <p class="i2">Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued.</p>
+    <p>Grave on my grave some sentence grave and terse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That lies not as it lies upon my clay,</p>
+    <p>But, in a gentle strain of unstrained verse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Prays all to pity a poor patty's prey&mdash;</p>
+    <p>Rehearses I was fruitful to my hearse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Tell that my days are told, and soon I'm toll'd
+away!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>THE VEIL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.</h3>
+
+<p>Maria Stuart has been canonized, and placed among the martyrs by the Jesuits.
+  Of course there are relics of hers. Her prayer-book was long shown in France;
+  and her apologist published in an English journal a sonnet which she was said
+  to have composed, and to have written with her own hand in this book. A celebrated
+  German actress, Mrs. Hendel-Schutz, who excited admiration by her attitudes,
+  and also performed Schiller's &quot;Maria&quot; with great applause in several
+  cities of Germany, affirmed that a cross which she wore on her neck was the
+  very same that once belonged to the unfortunate queen. Relics of this description
+  have never yet been subjected to the proof of their authenticity. But if there
+  is anything which may be reasonably believed to have been once the property
+  of the queen, <i>it is the veil with which she covered her head on the scaffold,
+  after the executioner</i>, whether from awkwardness or confusion is uncertain,
+  <i>had wounded the unfortunate victim in the shoulder by a false blow</i>. This
+  veil still exists, and is in the possession of Sir J.C. Hippisley, who claims
+  to be descended from the Stuart's by the mother's side. He had an engraving
+  made from it by Matteo Diottavi, in Rome, 1818, and gave copies to his friends.</p>
+<p>The veil is embroidered with gold spangles by (as is said) the queen's own
+  hand, in regular rows crossing each other, so as to form small squares, and
+  edged with a gold border, to which another border has been subsequently joined,
+  in which the following words are embroidered in letters of gold:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="quote"> &quot;Velum Serenissim&aelig; Mari&aelig;, Scoti&aelig; <span class="pagenum"><a name="page207" id="page207"></a>[pg
+  207]</span>et Galli&aelig; Regin&aelig; Martyris, quo induebatur dum ab Heretica
+  ad mortem iniustissimam condemnata fuit. Anno Sal. MDLXXXVI. a nobilissima matrona
+  Anglicana diu conservatum et tandem, donationis ergo Deo, Societati Jesu consecratum.&quot;
+</p>
+<p>On the plate there is an inscription, with a double certificate of its authenticity,
+  which states, that this veil, a family treasure of the expelled house of Stuart,
+  was finally in possession of the last branch of that family, the cardinal of
+  York, who preserved it for many years in his private chapel, among the most
+  precious relics, and at his death bequeathed it to Sir J. Hippisley, together
+  with a valuable Plutarch, and a Codex with painted (illuminated) letters, and
+  a gold coin struck in Scotland in the reign of queen Mary; and it was specially
+  consecrated by Pope Pius VII. in his palace on the Quirinal, April 29, 1818.
+  Sir John Hippisley, during a former residence at Rome, had been very intimate
+  with the cardinal of York, and was instrumental in obtaining for him, when he
+  with the other cardinals emigrated to Venice in 1798, a pension of &pound;4,000.
+  a-year from the Prince of Wales, now King George IV.; but for which, the fugitive
+  cardinal, all whose revenues were seized by the French, would have been exposed
+  to the greatest distress. The cardinal desired to requite this service by the
+  bequest of what he considered so valuable. According to a note on the plate,
+  the veil is eighty-nine English inches long, and forty-three broad, so that
+  it seems to have been rather a kind of shawl or scarf than a veil. If we remember
+  rightly, Melville in his Memoirs, which Schiller had read, speaks of a handkerchief
+  belonging to the queen, which she gave away before her death, and Schiller founds
+  upon this anecdote the well-known words of the farewell scene, addressed to
+  Hannah Kennedy.</p>
+<p class="quote">&quot;Accept this handkerchief! with my own hand<br />
+For thee I've work'd it in my hours of sadness<br />
+And interwoven with my scalding tears:<br />
+With this thou'lt bind my eyes.&quot;</p>
+
+<h3>DREAMS.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Oh! there is a dream of early youth, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And it never comes again;</p>
+    <p>'Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That flits across the brain:</p>
+    <p>And love is the theme of that early dream. </p>
+    <p class="i2">So wild, so warm, so new,</p>
+    <p>That in all our after years I deem, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That early dream we rue.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Oh! there is a dream of maturer years, </p>
+    <p class="i2">More turbulent by far;</p>
+    <p>'Tis a vision of blood, and of woman's tears, </p>
+    <p class="i2">For the theme of that dream is war:</p>
+    <p>And we toil in the field of danger and death, </p>
+    <p class="i2">And shout in the battle array,</p>
+    <p>Till we find that fame is a bodyless breath, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That vanisheth away.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Oh! there is a dream of hoary age, </p>
+    <p class="i2">'Tis a vision of gold in store&mdash;</p>
+    <p>Of sums noted down on the figured page, </p>
+    <p class="i2">To be counted o'er and o'er:</p>
+    <p>And we fondly trust in our glittering dust, </p>
+    <p class="i2">As a refuge from grief and pain,</p>
+    <p>Till our limbs are laid on that last dark bed, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Where the wealth of the world is vain.</p>
+</div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>And is it thus, from man's birth to his grave&mdash; </p>
+    <p class="i2">In the path which all are treading?</p>
+    <p>Is there naught in that long career to save </p>
+    <p class="i2">From remorse and self-upbraiding?</p>
+    <p>O yes, there's a dream so pure, so bright, </p>
+    <p class="i2">That the being to whom it is given,</p>
+    <p>Hath bathed in a sea of living light&mdash; </p>
+    <p class="i2">And the theme of that dream is Heaven.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE LECTURER</h2>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>AN EXCERP FROM ABERNETHY'S LECTURES.</h3>
+
+<p>When I was speaking of the cure of the digestive organs, I spoke of stomachic
+  irritation, and said it was occasioned by some morbid peculiarity. It is difficult
+  to find out the exigents; it must be done by experiment. We give a medicine,
+  it answers. The digestive organs have such a sympathy with contiguous organs,
+  that no wonder if such contiguous organs are affected. The liver, for instance,
+  cannot perform its office aright if the bowels are uncomfortable. Violent drastics
+  are wrong, they do not do good; you cannot go on giving physic every day, this
+  will teaze the bowels and not tranquilize them, The cure is to repeat the excitement
+  of progressive action. People in general will not find out that what may be
+  an adequate excitement one day, may not be an adequate excitement on another
+  day. As to these things, they are easily managed, and you should attend to them.
+  Every person advanced in life knows this, and attends to it. Doctor Curry, whom
+  I used to call the poetical doctor, says, very justly, &quot;It is in medicine
+  as it is in morals, you must break bad habits, and establish good ones.&quot;</p>
+<p>Where the liver is primarily affected, small doses of quicksilver act in a
+  wonderful and a prodigious manner. How the stomach, when wrong, disturbs the
+  head, is apparent to every one. How a faulty action of the liver disturbs the
+  head is also well known; but the liver, in an especial manner, disturbs the
+  head.</p>
+<p>A Yorkshireman came three hundred miles, as he told me, on purpose to see me,
+  and he said he was going back again by the mail the same night. I asked him
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page208" id="page208"></a>[pg 208]</span>what
+  could induce him to come so far. His reply was, &quot;Why you once set up a
+  friend of mine, and I thought you could set me up too.&quot;</p>
+<p>I would have you keep your eyes open to this, that we are perpetually putting
+  wrong our digestive organs by our absurdities in diet. These organs, if long
+  wrong, will affect the spinal chord, producing lumbar numbness. Now, then, I
+  have surveyed the influence of local maladies in disturbing the nervous energies,
+  and now I say there is a reflected action in them, and they become a fruitful
+  source of a numerous and dissimilar progeny of local diseases.</p>
+<p>People are disposed to say I am apt to exaggerate too much; but I merely relate
+  what I have seen in my time, and you will all have numerous instances by and
+  by of making the same observations, and I think at last you will come to the
+  same conclusions.</p>
+<p>I now speak of local diseases; and, first, of phlegmonous inflammation. I do
+  not much like the term phlegmonous inflammation, because phlegmon alone is inflammation.
+  That the vessels, particularly the arteries, of inflamed parts are disposed
+  to receive more blood, is manifest. Mr. Hunter froze the ears of rabbits, and
+  the arteries inflamed and were filled with blood, throbbing, and pain. When
+  there is great disturbance of the arterious system, with throbbing, there is
+  always acute pain. In common whitlow of the finger, how the arteries of the
+  arm, the brachial in particular, throb, is well known. In proportion as arteries
+  are excited to vehement action, some difficulty occurs to the transmission of
+  the blood into the veins. Dr. Phillips found that inflamed blood is slower in
+  cooling than common blood.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+<p class="quote"> &quot;I am but a <i>Gatherer</i> and disposer of other men's stuff.&quot;&mdash;<i>Wotton</i>.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+<p>Sir Boyle Roche, was arguing for the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, in Ireland:&mdash;&quot;It
+  would surely be better, Mr. Speaker,&quot; said he, &quot;to give up not only
+  a <i>part</i>, but, if necessary, even the <i>whole</i>, of our constitution,
+  to preserve <i>the remainder!</i>&quot;</p>
+<p class="source"><i>Barrington's Sketches</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>A short time since the manager of Sadler's Wells, wishing to make an alteration
+  in his bills, sent an old one with the corrections made in the margin, to the
+  printer. In a few days a proof was forwarded to Mr. T. Dibdin, when it read
+  thus&mdash;&quot;Under the patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence,
+  Lord High <i>Patron of England and Admiral of this Theatre</i>.&quot;</p>
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A WELSH INVITATION.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys' compliments to Mr.
+  Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess
+  whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect,
+  and Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys request the favour
+  of the company of Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles
+  Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton,
+  and Miss Sandys do not recollect, to dinner on Monday week next. Mr. Walter
+  Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys beg to inform Mr. Charles Morgan,
+  Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr.
+  Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, that Mr.
+  Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys can accommodate Mr. Charles
+  Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose
+  name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect,
+  with beds, if remaining the night is agreeable to Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+  Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton,
+  Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect.</p>
+<p>Llandillon Castle.</p>
+<hr />
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <p>Bob sick&mdash;thought life was drawing to its end, </p>
+    <p class="i2">His cheek grew pale, his tongue began to falter,</p>
+    <p>Justly alarmed, he begg'd a rev'rend friend </p>
+    <p class="i2">Would send him &quot;<i>a companion to the altar.</i>&quot;</p>
+    <p>His friend forgot, Bob grew from worse to worse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">(A state to which he's always sure to alter,)</p>
+    <p>When he received a <i>night-cap</i> from his nurse, </p>
+    <p class="i2">Who thought it a <i>companion to the halter</i>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+
+<p>An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had drowned
+  herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a verdict
+  of <i>wilful murder against herself</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<div class="quote">
+<div class="footnote">
+  <p ><a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a></p>
+  <p >The circular part.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>Come, that ye may learn holy doctrine.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>When Mignard returned to Paris in 1658, he again went to reside with his
+    friend.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: <a href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p> It appeared at Paris, in 12mo., with a French translation by
+    Mons. Du Piles, 1668.</p>
+  <p><a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: <a href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a></p>
+  <p> Le Brun was the pupil of Simon Vo&uuml;et, and afterwards of
+    Poussin.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, by Various
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 274 ***
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. X, NO. 274.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
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+
+ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+No. II.
+
+
+[Illustration: THE TEMPLE CHURCH.]
+
+
+The Temple Church,[1] London, was erected in the twelfth century; but
+among antiquarians considerable difference of opinion at various times
+prevailed as to who were the original builders of these round churches,
+which form the most striking and beautiful specimens of the architectural
+skill of our Anglo-Norman ancestors. In England there are four examples of
+round churches, almost in perfect preservation, namely, the church of St.
+Mary, Temple; St. Sepulchre, Northampton; St. Mary, Cambridge; and that of
+Little Maplestead, Essex. It was long thought that they were of Jewish
+origin; but through the ingenious and learned essays of Mr. Essex and of
+Mr. Britton, this erroneous notion has been entirely removed. Mr. Essex, in
+his Essay, observes, in support of his opinion, that "their Temple at
+Jerusalem was not of a circular form, neither was the Tabernacle of Moses;
+nor do we find the modern Jews affect that figure in building their
+synagogues. It has, however, been generally supposed that the round church
+at Cambridge, that at Northampton, and some others, were built for
+synagogues by the Jews while they were permitted to dwell in those places.
+But as no probable reason can be assigned for this supposition, and I think
+it is very certain that the Jews who were settled in Cambridge had their
+synagogue, and probably dwelled together in a part of the town now called
+the Jewry, so we may reasonably conclude the round churches we find in
+other parts of this kingdom were not built by the Jews for synagogues,
+whatever the places may be called in which they stand."--It has been
+generally allowed by these and other writers on archaeology, that the
+primitive church of this form was that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,
+and that the Temple Church at London was built by the Knights' Templars,
+whose occupation was the protection of Christian pilgrims against the
+Saracens. It has been further urged by a correspondent (Charles Clarke,
+Esq. F.S.A.) in the first volume of Britton's "Architectural Antiquities,"
+that two of the before-mentioned round churches, namely, Northampton and
+Cambridge, were in fact built by "affluent crusaders, in imitation of that
+of the Holy Sepulchre;" and in support of his opinion he cites several
+historical notices.
+
+    [1] The circular part.
+
+The late perfect restoration of the Temple Church ought to be proudly
+recorded in our architectural annals. The excellence of the workmanship,
+and the native purity of the detail, evince not only scientific skill, but
+also a laudable motive of preserving this antique specimen of pure
+Anglo-Norman architecture from the ravages of time. Let the architect's
+attention be directed to the western doorway, and also to the interior of
+the church; and here, in good preservation, he will see excellent specimens
+of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by the cable, the lozenge, the
+cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &c. &c., ornaments peculiar to the
+_round style_. The circular-headed windows, with their slender columns,
+also show, that in the restoration the style has not been tampered with;
+but substantial authorities have been quoted to perfect this praiseworthy
+attempt of the architect. That part of the church which has been added at a
+later date than the circular part, and for the convenience of divine
+worship, is lighted by the beautiful proportioned triple lancet-shaped
+windows, so justly admired. A writer in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for May,
+1827, after making some judicious remarks, seems to think the crosses on
+the ends of the building, "as not in character with the building." Now as
+to architectural propriety in the decorations of a Christian church, no
+ornament could be better devised; and if we proceed to the antiquity of
+such ornament, I would observe, that the adoption would be equally correct,
+that being the insignia of the banner under which the Knights' Templars
+originally fought.
+
+C. DAVY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BRIDGET TROT AND TIMOTHY GREEN.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+    "'Tis a common tale,
+    An ordinary sorrow of man's life;
+    A tale of silent sufferings, hardly clothed
+    In bodily form."
+
+WORDSWORTH.
+
+
+  Miss Bridget _Trot_, a "_wo_"-man was,
+    Of excellent repute,
+  Who _kept a stand_ in Leadenhall,
+    And there disposed of fruit.
+
+  And though in features rather _dark_,
+    No _fairer_ could be found;
+  For what she sold, like _ringing_ gold,
+    When _peeled_, was always _sound_!
+
+  She had moreover notions _high_,
+    And thought herself above
+  The very _low_-ly common way
+    Of _falling_ into love.
+
+  And therefore when to her his _suit_
+    A _Snip_ did often press
+  With vows of love, she _cut_ him _short_
+    At _length_, without _re-dress_.
+
+  Yet nothing odd was there in this
+    One case, it must be said;
+  For who that wish'd a _perfect_ man
+    Could with a _ninth part_ wed?
+
+  Not she for one, whatever he
+    Might do to make him _smart_,
+  And howsoe'er her saying "Nay"
+    Might add it to his heart.
+
+  'Tis very strange, (yet so it is,)
+    That vows should go for naught.
+  But she who _strove_ to 'scape love's _toils_
+    Quite unawares was caught!
+
+  For though so _hard_ to Snip _at first_,
+    _At last_ it chanced that she
+  A sort of soft emotion felt
+    Towards one Timothy,
+
+  A butcher--_Green_ by name, but _red_
+    In face, as was his cap,
+  And though he seldom tasted _wine_,
+    A _port_-ly sort of chap.
+
+  This man one day in passing by,
+    In taste for what she'd got,
+  Saw Biddy's stall--and 'twas her _fate_
+    To sell to him a _lot!_
+
+  She thought his manners very sweet,
+    He gave so fond a gaze;
+  (But dashing _blades_ of such like trades
+    Have ever _killing_ ways!)
+
+  And whilst he paid the _coppers_ down,
+    He had the _brass_ to say
+  Her _fruit_ was sweet, but sweeter still
+    The _apple_ of her eye.
+
+  Besides all this, he looked so neat
+    Whilst shouldering his tray;
+  So what with _steel, et cetera,_
+    Her heart was _stole_ away!
+
+  Lo! _shortly after_ both agreed,
+    They fixed the wedding day,
+  But _long before_ that day arriv'd
+    He took to stop away!
+
+  From that same time her peace of mind
+    And comfort were at _steak_--
+  She did so _lean_ to Mr. Green,
+    Her heart was like to break!
+
+  At last she went one morn to see
+    What he could be about,
+  And hoped, alone, to find him _in_,
+    But he had just popt _out_.
+
+  She ax'd, "Is Mr. Green at home?"
+    Of one who, with a laugh,
+  Replied, "He's not! but if you please
+    I'll fetch _his better half_."
+
+  "His what?" scarce _uttered_ Bridget out,
+    With _utter_most dismay;
+  And _there_ she stopt, she could no more,
+    And nearly swoon'd _away!_
+
+  But when at length she was herself,
+    And saw her faithless clown.
+  She straightway went to blow him _up_,
+    But got a good set _down_!
+
+  "Oh, cold and faithless Tim," quoth she,
+    "You vowed you couldn't _smother_
+  Your _burning_ love for me, but now
+    You're married to another!"
+
+  "Is this the way you treat me, sir?
+    Too _cheaply_ was I bought!
+  I loved you _dearly_, but it seems
+    That that _all went for naught_."
+
+  She sighed, and gave one parting look,
+    Then tore herself away
+  From her false swain and Mrs. Green,
+    For ever and a day!
+
+  And _very_ soon got _very_ ill,
+    And _very_ quick did die,
+  And _very_ truly _veri_fied
+    Her love for Timothy!
+
+W.R.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+GREAT BELL OF GLASGOW.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+In the steeple of Glasgow is a great bell, which is twelve feet one inch in
+circumference, and has a grave and deep tone. In 1789, it was accidentally
+cracked by some persons who got admission to the steeple. It was,
+therefore, sent to London, and cast anew. On the outside of it is the
+following inscription:--
+
+    In the year of grace
+    1594,
+    Marcus Knox,
+    a merchant of Glasgow,
+    zealous for the interests of the reformed religion,
+    caused me to be fabricated in Holland
+    for the use of his fellow citizens in Glasgow,
+    and placed me with solemnity
+    in the tower of their cathedral.
+    My function
+    was to announce, by the impress on my bosom,
+    (Me audito venias doctrinam sanctam ut discas;[2])
+    and
+    I was taught to proclaim the hours of unheeded time.
+    195 years had I sounded these awful warnings,
+    when I was broken
+    by the hands of inconsiderate and
+    unskilful men.
+    In the year 1790,
+    I was cast into the furnace,
+    refounded at London,
+    and returned to my sacred vocation.
+    Reader,
+    thou also shall know a resurrection,
+    may it be to eternal life.
+
+MALVINA.
+
+    [2] Come, that ye may learn holy doctrine.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ FANCY.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  _Me_, oft hath Fancy, in her fitful dream,
+  Seated within a far sequestered dell,
+  What time upon the noiseless waters fell,
+  Mingled with length'ning leafy shade, a gleam
+  Of the departing sun's environ'd beam;
+  While all was hush'd, save that the lone death-bell
+  Would seem to beat, and pensive smite mine ear
+  Like spirit's wail, now distant far, now near:
+  Then the night-breeze would seem to chill my cheek,
+  And viewless beings flitting round, to _speak!_
+  And then, a throng of mournful thoughts would press
+  On this, my wild-ideal loneliness.
+
+  Me, oft hath Fancy too, in musing hour
+  Seated (what time the blithesome summer-day
+  Was burning 'neath the fierce meridian ray)
+  Within that self-same lonely woodland bow'r
+  So sultry and still; but _then_, the tower,
+  The hamlet tow'r, sent forth a roundelay;
+  I seem'd to hear, till feelings o'er me stole
+  Faintly and sweet, enwrapping all my soul,
+  Joy, grief, were strangely blended in the sound.
+  The light, warm sigh of summer, was around,
+  But ne'er may speech, _such_ thoughts, _such_ visions tell,
+  Then, perfect most, when _indescribable!_
+
+M.L.B.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+FINE ARTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE PROGRESS OF PAINTING IN FRANCE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Whether the French were first indebted to the Roman school for their
+knowledge of the art of painting is a matter of some doubt; indeed, several
+celebrated French writers affirm, that they first had recourse to the
+Florentine and Lombard schools; while others very strenuously declare, on
+the other hand, that the Venetian artists were alone resorted to, on
+account of the remarkable splendour of their colouring. A late author,
+however, observes, that the French do not appear to have imitated any
+school whatever, but to have adopted a style peculiar to themselves, which
+though perhaps not a noble one, is nevertheless pleasing. Though it is
+acknowledged that the French have a particular style, (i.e. a style of
+their own,) yet their progress in the arts has been exceedingly fluctuating
+and uncertain, so that it is actually impossible to ascertain who was the
+first reputable artist amongst them. Cousin was a painter on glass, and
+certainly obtained a good reputation amongst his countrymen. But he in fact
+possessed very little merit, and his name would not doubtless have been
+known to posterity had he not lived in a barbarous age, when the people
+knew not how to discriminate his errors and defects. He was supposed to be
+the best artist of his day, and consequently gained a reputation as such,
+though his works are far beneath mediocrity.
+
+Francis I. was a great encourager of the fine arts, and the artists
+themselves were liberally paid for their productions, until that king was
+unfortunately taken prisoner at the battle of Pavia, in the year 1525.
+After the death of Francis, the kingdom was distracted with civil wars, so
+that painting was entirely neglected by his immediate successors. In the
+year 1610, however, Louis XIII. recovered the arts from their languid
+state. In his reign, Jaques Blanchard was the most flourishing painter;
+although Francis Perier, Simon Voueet, C.A. Du Fresnoy, and Peter Mignard,
+were equally gifted.
+
+Of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, author of a Latin poem, entitled _De Arte
+Graphica_, I shall attempt a little account. This painter was born at Paris
+in the year 1611. His father, intending him for the profession of physic,
+sent him to the university of Paris, where he made great progress in his
+studies, and obtained several prizes in poetry. He had a great inclination
+for painting as well as for poetry, and, though much against his father's
+desire, resolved to leave off the study of physic, and commence that of
+drawing. The force of his inclination subduing every measure adopted to
+suppress it, he took every opportunity of cultivating his favourite study.
+Leaving college, he placed himself under Francis Perier, from whom he
+learned the art of designing. He afterwards thought fit to travel into
+Italy, where he arrived in 1633. Being abandoned by his parents, who were
+highly incensed at his having rejected the study of physic, he was reduced
+to the utmost distress on his arrival at Rome, and was compelled to paint
+trifling pieces for his daily subsistence. After two years of extreme toil
+and difficulty, he was relieved by the arrival of Mignard, the artist, who
+had formerly been the companion of his studies. Mignard evinced the warmest
+regard for his friend, and they were afterwards known in Rome by the name
+of the _inseparables_, for they lived in the same house, worked together,
+and united the produce of their labours. They were employed to copy all the
+best pictures in the Farnese Palace, and every evening attended an academy
+of drawing. Mignard was superior in practice, while Fresnoy was perfect
+master of the rules, history, and theory of his profession. They
+communicated their sentiments to each other, Fresnoy furnishing his friend
+with noble ideas, and the latter instructing the former to paint with more
+ease and dispatch. Fresnoy painted several fine pictures in Rome, and, in
+1653, he left that city, in company with his friend, travelled to Venice,
+and then to Lombardy. Here the two friends parted,[3] Mignard returning to
+Rome, and Fresnoy to his native city. After his arrival in Paris, he
+painted some beautiful historical pictures, which established his
+reputation. He perfectly understood architecture, and drew designs for many
+elegant mansions in Paris. During his travels in Italy, he planned and
+composed his _De Arte Graphica_, an excellent poem, full of valuable
+information, and containing unerring rules for the painter. This poem was
+twenty years in hand, and was not published until three years[4] after the
+author's death, which took place in 1665. It has been observed, that
+Fresnoy possessed the genius requisite for forming a great master; and had
+he applied himself more strictly to painting, and educated pupils, he would
+doubtless have proved one of the greatest painters France ever produced.
+But, possessing high literary talents, he chose to lay down _precepts_ for
+his countrymen, rather than to present them with _examples_ of his art. He
+adhered too closely to the theory of painting, neglecting the more
+essential part--practice.
+
+   [3] When Mignard returned to Paris in 1658, he again went to reside
+       with his friend.
+
+   [4] It appeared at Paris, in 12mo., with a French translation by
+       Mons. Du Piles, 1668.
+
+In the reign of Louis XIV., Nicholas Poussin distinguished himself as a
+painter, by displaying exquisite knowledge and great skill in composition.
+He generally painted ancient ruins, landscapes, and historical figures. He
+was likewise well acquainted with the manners and customs of the ancients;
+and, though he educated no pupils, and never had any imitators, his
+pictures are universally admired in every European country. Charles le
+Brun[5] established the French school,--an undertaking which Voueet had
+previously attempted. Le Brun drew well, had a ready conception, and a
+fertile imagination. His compositions are vast, but, in various instances,
+they may justly be termed _outre_. He possessed the animation, but not the
+inspiration of Raphael; and his design is not so pure as that of
+Domenichino, nor so lively as that of Annibale Caracci. Eustache le Seur,
+Le Brun's rival, possessed remarkable dignity, and wonderful correctness of
+style. Indeed, by some he has been called the Raphael of France. Had he
+lived longer, (for he died at the age of thirty-eight,) the French school,
+under his direction, would most probably have adopted a manner which might
+have been imitated, and which might have established the arts on an
+eminence to vie with even imperial Rome. But, by the concurrence of
+extraordinary circumstances, Le Brun was the fashionable painter of the
+time, and it therefore became necessary to imitate _his_ manner, rather
+than the more simple and more refined one of his rival. As Le Brun's
+imitators wanted his genius, his faults not only became current, but more
+glaring and deformed.
+
+    [5] Le Brun was the pupil of Simon Voueet, and afterwards of Poussin.
+
+After Le Brun's death, which took place in 1690, the French artists
+degenerated greatly, their productions being decorated in a gaudy and
+theatrical way, without due regard to taste or decorum. Their school, some
+years ago, altered its principles, under the auspices of the spirited Count
+de Caylus, who possessed considerable merit as an artist. The count, by his
+high rank and fortune, had the means of encouraging the imitators of the
+ancients, and of procuring the best models in Italy for study. He, in
+conjunction with Monsieur Vien, first formed the design of restoring a pure
+taste in France; and if his countrymen had followed the path thus marked
+out for them, they would now have been equal to the greatest of the Greek
+painters. But it appears that they are incapable of rising to any very
+extraordinary height in the arts, for, with the exception of Le Seur, and
+one or two others, they have ever wanted that elevation of mind which so
+eminently distinguished the Romans. Though De Caylus greatly purified
+painting in his time, yet his precepts and examples had little or no weight
+after his death, for the art again retrograded into its original state--a
+state from which the French professors, as before observed, seem incapable
+of rising.
+
+In our own days some few French artists have distinguished themselves,
+particularly Lefevre, who was the chief painter to Napoleon. A full-length
+portrait of the emperor in his coronation robes, for which Lefevre received
+the sum of five thousand Napoleons, and which I have lately had the
+pleasure of seeing, is very correct in drawing, and extremely rich and
+harmonious in colour; but it wants freedom and boldness of execution.
+
+To conclude--the French are acknowledged to do pretty well within the
+precincts of their own country, though few of their pictures will stand in
+competition with those of the Italians, or with those produced in our own
+school.
+
+G.W.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.
+
+No. XIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SINGULAR JEWISH CUSTOM.
+
+
+Burckhardt, in his "Travels through Syria," &c. informs us, that at
+Tiberias, one of the four holy cities of the Talmud, the Jews observe a
+singular custom in praying. While the rabbin recites the Psalms of David,
+or the prayers extracted from them, the congregation frequently imitate, by
+their voice or gestures, the meaning of some remarkable passages; for
+example, when the rabbin pronounces the words, "Praise the Lord with the
+sound of the trumpet," they imitate the sound of the trumpet through their
+closed fists. When "a horrible tempest" occurs, they puff and blow to
+represent a storm; or should he mention "the cries of the righteous in
+distress," they all set up a loud screaming; and it not unfrequently
+happens, that while some are still blowing the storm, others have already
+begun the cries of the righteous, thus forming a concert which it is
+difficult for any but a zealous Hebrew to hear with gravity.
+
+
+CHARACTER OF THE KARPIANS, (ARABS.)
+
+
+They are such consummate thieves and rogues, that, according to an ancient
+tradition still current among them, they once tricked the devil himself.
+The story is as follows:--The devil had acquired a right to their fields,
+on which they agreed with him, that when their crops were ripe, they should
+retain the upper part and the devil should have the lower. They sowed all
+their lands with wheat, and the devil of course had nothing but the straw
+for his share. Next year the old gentleman, fully determined not to be
+again so bamboozled, stipulated that the upper part should belong to him
+and the lower to the Karpians; but then they sowed all their grounds with
+beet, turnips, and other esculent roots, and so the devil got nothing but
+the green tops for his portion.
+
+_Memoirs of Artemi._
+
+
+THE MODERN WELSH.
+
+
+The people of the principality are clean and industrious; there is,
+however, in the nature of a Welshman such a hurriness of manner and want of
+method, that he does nothing well; for his mind is over anxious, diverted
+from one labour to another, and hence every thing is incomplete, and leaves
+the appearance of confusion and negligence. The common exercises of the
+Welsh are running, leaping, swimming, wrestling, throwing the bar,
+dancing, hunting, fishing, and playing at fives against the church or
+tower; and they constitute the joy of youth, and the admiration of old age.
+The convivial amusements are singing and versification. In these favourite
+exercises the performers are of humble merit; the singing is mere roar and
+squeak; and the poetical effusions are nonsense, vested in the rags of
+language; and always slanderous, because the mind of the bard is not
+fertile in the production of topics. The Welsh character is the echo of
+natural feeling, and acts from instantaneous motives. The fine arts are
+strangers to the principality; and the Welshman seldom professes the
+buskin, or the use of the mallet, the graver, or the chisel; but although
+deficient in taste, he excels in duties and in intellect.
+
+_Jones's History of Wales._
+
+
+ITALIAN WOMEN.
+
+
+Italy and England are undoubtedly possessed of a greater share of female
+beauty than any other country in Europe. But the English and Italian
+beauties, although both interesting, are very different from one another.
+The former are unrivalled for the delicacy and bloom of their complexions,
+the smoothness and mild expression of their features, their modest
+carriage, and the cleanliness of their persons and dress; these are
+qualities which strike every foreigner at his landing. On my first arrival
+in England, I was asked by a friend how I liked the English women; to which
+I replied that I thought them all handsome. This is the first impression
+they produce. There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them, which
+surprises and interests particularly a native of the south. They seem to
+look, if I may apply to them the fine lines of one of their living poets--
+
+  "With eyes so pure, that from the ray
+  Dark vice would turn abash'd away;
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Yet fill'd with all youth's sweet desires,
+  Mingling the meek and vestal fires
+  Of other worlds, with all the bliss
+  The fond weak tenderness of this."
+
+The Italian beauties are of a different kind. Their features are more
+regular, more animated; their complexions bear the marks of a warmer sun,
+and their eyes seem to participate of its fires; their carriage is graceful
+and noble; they have generally good figures; they are not indeed angelic
+forms, but they are earthly Venuses. It has been supposed by some, that the
+habitual view of those models of ideal beauty, the Greek statues, with
+which Italy abounds, may be an indirect cause conducing to the general
+beauty of the sex; be that as it may, I think the fine features and
+beautiful forms of the Italian fair have a great influence upon the minds
+of young artists, and this is perhaps one of the principal reasons why
+Italy has so long excelled in figure painters. A handsome female
+countenance, animated by the expression of the soul, is among the finest
+works of nature; the sight of it elevates the mind, and kindles the sparks
+of genius. Raphael took the models of his charming Madonnas from nature.
+Titian, Guido, Caracci, and others, derived their ideas of female beauty
+from the exquisite countenances so frequent in their native country.
+
+_Italy in the Nineteenth Century._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK.
+
+No. XXII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A LINNET AT SEA.
+
+
+It has been often observed, that birds, in the course of their flight from
+one country to another, will frequently resort to the rigging of a ship, as
+a resting-place in their transit across the wide ocean. Mr. Gray, in his
+"Letters on Canada," gives the following instance:--Among the extraordinary
+things, he observes, one meets with at sea, it is not one of the least
+surprising to observe small _land birds_ several hundred miles from land. I
+was sitting on deck, when, to my great surprise, my attention was arrested
+by the warbling of a bird. I looked up, and saw a _linnet_ perched on the
+rigging, and whistling with as much ardour as if on a bush in a green
+meadow. It is not a little astonishing how these little birds should be
+able to continue on the wing so long as is necessary to fly several
+hundreds of miles, particularly when the usual shortness of their flight is
+considered. They continue sometimes with a vessel several days, and are
+frequently caught by the sailors; but it is remarked that they seldom live,
+though every care is taken to give them proper food. When the vessel rolls
+much, they find it difficult to retain their footing on the rigging, and
+you see them forced, as it were, to resume their flight in search of a
+better resting-place.
+
+
+THE ADVANTAGES OF AFFLICTION.
+
+
+    Behold this vine,
+  I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength
+  Had swollen into irregular twigs
+  And bold excrescences,
+  And spent itself in leaves and little rings;
+  So in the flourish of its outwardness
+  Wasting the sap and strength
+  That should have given forth fruit;
+  But when I pruned the tree,
+  Then it grew temperate in its vain expanse
+  Of useless leaves, and knotted, as thou seest,
+  Into these full, clear clusters, to repay
+  The hand that wisely wounded it.
+  Repine not, O my son!
+  In wisdom and in mercy heaven indicts,
+  Like a wise leech, its painful remedies.
+
+SOUTHEY.
+
+
+WEATHERCOCKS.
+
+
+Weathercocks do not always show the real direction of a very gentle wind.
+The strange figures of them, usually the productions of capricious fancy,
+is one cause of their imperfection as vanes to indicate the wind. Griffins,
+half-moons, foxes, or figures of St. Margaret and the dragon, are not good
+shapes for weathercocks, which ought to be plain fans, the large surface of
+one side being counterbalanced against the weight of the other.
+
+
+THE VALUE OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
+
+
+A general, though superficial acquaintance with such subjects as
+well-educated men and women talk about in mixed society is absolutely
+necessary. A practised eye will easily distinguish the silence of modest
+attention from the mute weariness of ignorance. The most inveterate talker,
+if he be not quite a fool, desires to be listened to as well as heard; and
+a "yes" or a "no" may be placed and accented so as to show intelligence, or
+betray stupidity. Grace in action and deportment is so essential, that it
+may almost be said to make all that is beautiful in beauty. We do not mean
+that a lady should, in dancing, walking, or sitting, display attitudes
+worthy of a painter's model. In walking we, however, recommend something
+between the listless saunter of a she-dandy, and the bustling gait of a
+notable body, who perhaps saves three minutes out of four-and-twenty hours,
+by doing every thing throughout the day with a jerk and a toss.--Dancing,
+unless it be done quietly and gracefully, without the fatal results of a
+shining face, and red neck and arms, it is far better to forbear
+altogether, it being a very superfluous quality in a gentlewoman; whereas
+_to please_ by all honest means is her proper calling and occupation. A
+high degree of _positive_ grace is very rare, especially in northern
+climates, where the form is degraded and spoiled by ligatures and by cold;
+but every woman may attain to _negative_ grace, by avoiding awkward and
+unmeaning habits. The incessant twirling of a reticule, the assiduous
+pulling of the fingers of a glove, opening and shutting a book, swinging a
+bell-rope, &c. betray either impatience and weariness of the conversation,
+disrespect of the speakers, or a want of ease and self-possession by no
+means inseparably connected with modesty and humility; those persons who
+are most awkward and shy among their superiors in rank or information being
+generally most over-bearing and peremptory with their equals or inferiors.
+We are almost ashamed, in the nineteenth century, to say any thing
+concerning personal neatness; but cannot forbear hinting, that clean gloves
+and neat shoes aid the captivating powers of a lady much more certainly
+than pearl ear-rings or gold chains--that clean muslin is more bewitching
+than dirty _blond lace_--and that a pocket-handkerchief should be like a
+basilisk, a thing heard of, but never seen; we mean in the capacity in
+which our cold-catching, rheum-exciting climate calls it into action.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SELECT BIOGRAPHY.
+
+No. LVII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+KARL THEODORE KORNER.
+
+
+Korner is one of the poets of whom modern Germany is justly proud. His was
+not the mere theoretic heroism which contents itself with celebrating the
+deeds of others. His own conduct embodied the most noble conceptions of his
+imagination, and his life and death exhibited a splendid example of the
+patriotism which breathed throughout his verse. He was born at Dresden in
+1791. His education was of the most careful kind. He was not only
+instructed in various branches of learning, but the elegant accomplishments
+of the fine arts were added, and the exercises of the body were not less
+attended to than those of the mind. Called upon to choose some occupation,
+he determined to apply himself to mining, and took up his residence at
+Vienna, where he enjoyed the advantage of a familiar intercourse with
+William Von Humboldt, the Prussian ambassador, Frederic Schlegel, and other
+eminent literary and scientific men. Here, within the short space of
+fifteen months, he produced a rapid succession of dramas, operas, and
+farces, as well as several small poems. The success of his works obtained
+him the appointment of poet to the court. He was now in the enjoyment of
+all that could render life happy--competence, distinction, esteem,
+friendship and love; but he resolved to sacrifice them all "for that
+greatest mortal blessing, his country's freedom."
+
+"Could I," says he, in a letter to his father, "could I, think you, stand
+aloof, contented to celebrate with weak inspiration the success of my
+conquering brethren? I am aware that you will suffer much anxiety,--My
+mother too will weep--may God be her comfort!--I cannot spare you this
+trial. That I simply offer my life is of little import; but that I offer
+it, crowned as it is with all the flowery wreaths of love, of friendship,
+and of joy,--that I cast away the sweet sensations which lived in the
+conviction that I have caused you no inquietude, no anguish,--this indeed
+is a sacrifice which can only be opposed to such a prize!"
+
+He left Vienna in March 1813, and joined the free corps which Major Von
+Lutzow was then forming. This was a voluntary association, and the corps
+was remarkable throughout the war for its valour and enterprise. In the
+midst of the most active campaigns, Korner continued to pour forth his
+verses. Other poets have written of battles in the retirement of the
+closet, but he sang his song of war on the tented field, and amid the din
+of conflict. Nor was this all: he collected too the strains of other poets,
+and adapted them to appropriate airs, to animate the ardour of his
+companions in arms. We cannot follow him through his career, brief as it
+was; but the subjoined incident is too striking to be omitted, and is
+especially adapted to our purpose, as it affords an opportunity of giving a
+passage of his unpremeditated verse in a moment of pain and danger.
+
+On the 28th of May, Major Von Lutzow had determined on setting out on an
+expedition towards Thuringia, with four squadrons of his cavalry, and fifty
+cossacks. Korner earnestly entreated permission to accompany him, and his
+desire was fulfilled by his being appointed adjutant by Major Von Lutzow,
+who highly esteemed him, and wished to have him near his person.
+
+The expedition passed in ten days through Halberstadt, Eisleben, Buttstadt,
+and Schlaitz, to Plauen, though not without encountering great danger from
+the enemy, who were dispersed throughout these districts, but, also, not
+without effecting some important results. Intelligence and information were
+procured, ammunition was captured and seized, and couriers on missions of
+importance were taken prisoners. The gallant troop acquired considerable
+renown, and harassed the enemy much, especially by cutting off his
+communications. A plan was in consequence laid by the French emperor for
+the extirpation of the corps, that, as a deterring example, no man should
+be left alive. The armistice, concluded at this moment, afforded an
+opportunity for putting it in practice. (The Duke of Padua, it is
+observable, particularly profited by this armistice; for being shut up in
+Leipzig by Generals Woronzow and Czernichef, with the co-operation of two
+battalions of the Lutzow infantry, he was only saved by this cessation of
+hostilities.)
+
+Major Von Lutzow had received official information of the armistice at
+Plauen. Without expecting to meet with any opposition, he chose the
+shortest route to rejoin the infantry of his corps, having received the
+most confidential assurances of safety from the enemy's commanding
+officers, and proceeded along the high road, without interruption, to
+Kitzen, a village in the neighbourhood of Leipzig; but here he found
+himself surrounded and menaced by a very superior force. Theodore Korner
+was despatched to demand an explanation; but, instead of replying, the
+commander of the enemy struck at him with his sword; and it being now
+twilight, a general attack was made on the three squadrons of the Lutzow
+cavalry before they had drawn a sabre. Several were wounded and taken, and
+others dispersed in the surrounding country; but Major Von Lutzow himself
+was saved by the assistance of a squadron of Uhlans, who being in advance
+with the Cossacks, formed the van-guard, and consequently were not assailed
+at the same moment. He reached, with a considerable body of his troops, the
+right bank of the Elbe, where the infantry of his corps, and a squadron of
+its cavalry, were already collected.
+
+Korner received the first blow, which he was not prepared to parry, as he
+approached close to the enemy's commanding officer to deliver his message
+without drawing his sabre, and was thus severely wounded in the head: the
+second blow only inflicted a slight injury. He fell back, but speedily
+recovered himself, and his spirited steed bore him in safety to a
+neighbouring wood. He was here occupied, at the first moment, with the
+assistance of a comrade, in binding up his wounds, when he perceived a
+troop of the enemy, who were in pursuit, riding towards him. His presence
+of mind did not forsake him, but turning towards the wood, he called with a
+loud voice, "Fourth squadron,--Advance!"--His stratagem succeeded--the
+enemy were appalled, drew back, and thus afforded him time to conceal
+himself deeper in the wood. It had now become dark, and he found a place in
+the thicket where he could remain undiscovered.
+
+The pain of the deeper wound became very severe, his strength was
+exhausted, and his last hope was gone. It was in this extremity that he
+composed the beautiful sonnet, of which the following is a translation:--
+
+FAREWELL TO LIFE.
+
+[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely
+wounded and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.]
+
+  "My deep wound burns;--my pale lips quake in death,--
+  I feel my fainting heart resign its strife,
+  And reaching now the limit of my life,
+  Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!
+
+  Yet many a dream hath charm'd my youthful eye;
+  And must life's fairy visions all depart;
+  Oh surely no! for all that fired my heart
+  To rapture here, shall live with me on high.
+
+  And that fair form that won my earliest vow,
+  That my young spirit prized all else above,
+  And now adored as freedom, now as love,
+  Stands in seraphic guise, before me now.
+
+  And as my fading senses fade away,
+  It beckons me, on high, to realms of endless day!"
+
+During the night he heard the enemy searching the wood near him, but
+afterwards fell asleep, and was saved in the morning by two peasants. He
+was conveyed secretly into Leipsic, which was then under the French yoke,
+and where the concealment of any of the Lutzow free corps was prohibited,
+under severe punishment. He subsequently travelled in safety to Berlin, and
+having recovered from his wound, rejoined the corps of Lutzow on the right
+bank of the Elbe. Hostilities recommenced on the 17th of August; and on the
+28th an engagement took place near Rosenberg, in which Korner fell. He was
+in pursuit of a body of the enemy, when the riflemen, who had found a
+rallying-place in some under-wood, sent forth a shower of balls upon their
+pursuers. By one of these Korner was wounded in the abdomen, the liver and
+spine were injured, and he was immediately deprived of speech and
+consciousness. He was carried to a neighbouring wood, but all medical aid
+was vain. He was buried under an oak in the village of Wobbelin, about a
+mile from Ludwigslust. A tomb has since been placed over his remains, and
+enclosed by a wall. He died at the early age of twenty-two.
+
+_From a Critical Notice of The Life of Korner, New Monthly Mag._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Cannot he that wisely declines walking upon the ice for fear of falling,
+though possibly it might carry him sooner to his journey's end, as wisely
+forbear drinking more wine than is necessary, for fear of being drunk and
+the ill-consequences thereof?--_Lord Clarendon._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+No. CX.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RESCUE.
+
+_By Miss Roberts._
+
+    "King Stephen was a worthy peer."
+
+
+The hall was lofty, sculptured round with armorial devices, and hung with
+gaily-embroidered banners, which waved in the wind streaming from the
+crannies in windows which had suffered some dilapidation from the hand of
+time. Minstrel harps rang throughout the wide apartment, and at a board
+well covered with smoking viands--haunches of the red deer, bustards,
+cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning heads of wild boars,--and
+flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of foaming ale, sat King
+Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles, whose voices had
+placed him on the English throne. In the midst of the feast, the jovial
+glee of the wassailers was interrupted by the entrance of a page, who,
+forcing his way through the yeomen and lacqueys crowding at the door, flew
+with breathless haste to the feet of the king, and falling down on his
+knees, in faltering accents delivered the message with which he had been
+intrusted. "Up, gallants," exclaimed the martial monarch, "don your
+harness, and ride as lightly as you may to the relief of the Countess of
+Clare, she lies in peril of her life and honour, beleaguered by a rabble of
+unnurtured Welsh savages, who, lacking respect for beauty, have directed
+their arms against a woman. Swollen with vain pride at their late victory,
+(the fiend hang the coward loons who fled before them,) they have sworn to
+make this noble lady serve them barefoot in their camp. By St. Dennis and
+my good sword, were I not hampered by this pestilent invasion of the Scots,
+I would desire no better pastime than to drive the ill-conditioned serfs
+howling from the walls. Say, who amongst you will undertake the
+enterprise?--What, all silent? are ye knights? are ye men? do I reign over
+christian warriors, valiant captains who have been sworn to protect beauty
+in distress; or are ye like the graceless dogs of Mahomed, insensible to
+female honour?" "My ranks are wonderous scant," returned Milo Fitzwalter,
+"I may not reckon twenty men at arms in the whole train, and varlets have I
+none; but it boots not to number spears when danger presses; so to horse
+and away. Beshrew me, were it the termagant Queen Maude herself, I'd do my
+best to rescue her in this extremity."--"Thou art a true knight,
+Fitzwalter," replied the king, "and wilt prosper: the Saint's benizon be
+with thee, for thou must speed on this errand with such tall men as thou
+canst muster of thine own proper followers: the Scots, whom the devil
+confound, leave me too much work, to spare a single lance from mine own
+array. We will drink to thy success, and to the health of the fair
+countess, in a flask of the right Bourdeaux: and tell the lady that thy
+monarch grudges thee this glorious deed; for by my Halidom, an thou winnest
+her unscathed from the hands of these Welsh churls, thou wilt merit a niche
+beside the most renowned of Charlemagne's paladins." Fitzwalter made no
+answer, but he armed in haste, and, leaping into his saddle, gave the spur
+to his gallant steed, and followed by his esquires and men at arms, rested
+not either night or day, until he reached the marches of Wales. The lions
+of England still proudly flying over the castle walls, assured him that the
+countess had been enabled to hold out against the savage horde, who
+surrounded it on all sides. The besiegers set up a furious yell as the
+knight and his party approached their encampment. Half naked, their eyes
+glaring wildly from beneath a mass of yellow hair, and scantily armed with
+the rudest species of offensive and defensive weapons, their numbers alone
+made them terrible; and had the castle been manned and victualled, it might
+have long defied their utmost strength. Drawing their falchions, the knight
+and his party keeping closely together, and thus forming an impenetrable
+wedge, cut their desperate path through the fierce swarm of opposing foes,
+who, like incarnate demons, rushed to the onslaught, and fell in heaps
+before the biting steel of these experienced soldiers. Pressing forward
+with unyielding bravery, Fitzwalter won the castle walls; whence, with the
+assistance of such frail aid as the living spectres on the battlements
+could give, he beat back the Welsh host, and in another quarter of an hour,
+having dispersed the enemy with frightful loss, gained free entrance to the
+castle. Feeble was the shout of triumph which welcomed Fitzwalter and his
+brave companions; the corpses of the unburied dead lay strewed upon the
+pavement; the heroic countess, and her attendant damsels, clad in the
+armour of the slain, weakened by famine, and hopeless of succour, yet still
+striving to deceive the besiegers by the display of living warriors, by
+this stratagem retarded the assault which they could not repel. Fitzwalter
+took advantage of the darkness of the night, and the panic of the
+Welshmen, to withdraw from a fortress which was destitute of all the
+implements of war; and with the rescued ladies mounted behind them, the
+brave band returned to the court of King Stephen; and the charms of the
+fair one, and the valour of her chivalric defender, formed the theme of the
+minstrel in every knightly hall and lady's bower throughout Christendom.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH NOVEL READER.
+
+
+How shall I describe the emotions with which I read the first novel I ever
+perused! A school-fellow had secretly brought with him from home after the
+holidays, the novel of Peregrine Pickle, which he carefully concealed in
+his trunk. He at first lent it to some of the elder boys, who read it, and
+enlarging on some of the most despicable incidents to be found, disgusted
+my meek spirit of it, by their report. It seemed to violate all my
+cherished ideas of beauty and soft luxury. I was then about fourteen years
+of age, and my companions persuaded me to a perusal. I took it up
+listlessly, expecting but little pleasure, but what language can paint the
+manner in which I was entranced by it? I read it over and over with
+increased delight, my entire soul and frame of mind and passions seemed to
+be suddenly changed and remodelled. I forgot Ariadne and Telemachus, and
+Tom Pipes and Hatchway became my idols, the undivided objects of my
+admiration.
+
+I had hitherto been a remarkably quiet and inoffensive boy; Telemachus I
+considered never took delight in robbing orchards. I had the confidence of
+my teachers from my uniform rejection of any participation in the rude
+affrays, the catastrophe of which dramas was in general an almost universal
+flogging match. My admiration naturally led to its probable result, a
+desire to imitate--I firmly resolved to become a Peregrine. I soon promoted
+myself to be the leader of every mad prank that the wit of a spirit
+suddenly excited to activity could devise. In the first fortnight I got
+flogged for tying a huge mass of brown paper to the tail of the favourite
+cat of the master's lady, with which she rushed with an insane and
+terrifying distraction into the drawing-room. We owed a spite to a
+neighbouring milkman for tale-bearing, and we rendered his pump, the great
+source of profit, useless, by filling it with soot and mire. The old woman
+who served the school with tarts, and who, in her endeavours to please all
+palates, brought some varieties heated over a charcoal fire, had her
+apparatus blown to atoms by an ounce of gunpowder, insinuated with so much
+art, that although done before her face, she could attach no one with the
+offence. All became riot, waste, and destruction under the guidance of my
+beloved Peregrine.
+
+But, ah! the poor Count--amiable, patient, and long-suffering Gaul! He was
+an unhappy refugee, who had sought a home, by becoming the reviled,
+insulted teacher of his native tongue to a mob of heartless ruffians. How
+well do I remember his neat but thread-bare coat and pigtail; his stooping
+gait, not the decrepitude of age, but as though it sprang from the
+abasement of his fortune; his endurance of injury to a certain point, when
+patience suddenly forsook him, and his, to us, irresistibly comic rage and
+exasperation! What would that generous seaman Pipes have thought a
+defenceless Frenchman fit for, but as the object of spirited and
+well-conducted pranks? Nothing cruel or revengeful, but only to show our
+own superior wit and address in concerted and premeditated annoyance.
+
+I had gained with a most surprising rapidity upon the confidence of the
+most conspicuous rioters in the school. There was something so noble and
+daring in all my designs, that they seemed to yield willingly to so
+superior a spirit. The sudden alteration in my manners had been noticed
+with secret wonder by the masters, and they, thinking to check my fatal
+tendencies at the outset, had inflicted on me several severe and
+well-merited chastisements. I converted even these into means of extending
+my influence. I had borne them like a hero, a very Peregrine. No groan--no
+sigh--no bellowing promise of amendment, had lessened my dignity. Under the
+torture, I was sullen and silent. The stoutest heart in the school envied
+my manhood and composure.
+
+The poor French teacher had been the hereditary object of annoyance for
+several generations of boys. The meekest and most chicken-hearted scrubs in
+the school tried their apprenticeship to mischief upon him, and were
+tutored to more noble game by beginning with the Count. They split and cut
+his pens into a thousand fantastic shapes during a momentary absence; they
+filled his snuff with the most odious pulverulents. They placed on his desk
+rude, but expressive designs of a guillotine, with a meagre fellow in
+ruffles and no shirt, running in the extremity of speed from the spot.
+These, and a thousand exhibitions of budding genius, and original sin, were
+our daily subjects of merriment and applause. I taught them nobler arts, or
+rather the spirit of Pickle which spake within me. It was nothing to annoy
+on such a petty and momentary scale; let the art and forethought of
+Hatchway be exhibited.
+
+The amiable Frenchman was a zealous Catholic, and upon certain festivals
+always received from a Catholic gentleman of rank and fortune in the
+neighbourhood, an invitation to visit him. On these occasions his dress was
+the most ludicrous imaginable, being compounded of remnants of pristine
+finery, such as his wardrobe could afford, without attention to uniformity,
+or consistency of colour. Above all, he possessed a pair of light pea-green
+small clothes, on which he much prided himself, and I swore by old Trunnion
+to be their murderer. His custom on the aforesaid visits was to dress
+early, and then hastily to dismiss his lessons, and proceed immediately.
+
+Having gained intelligence of an approaching field day, we prepared a
+strong solution of gum, with which we varnished the bottom of a leather
+chair upon which he sat in the school. The morning came, his green _media_
+and white silk stockings were hailed with the most extravagant but secret
+exultation. He seated himself, and let us run as we pleased through our
+tasks, with an unusual portion of smiles and pleasantries, and then looking
+at his watch, he attempted hastily to rise! in vain--there seemed an
+indissoluble bond of union between him and the chair; the most grotesque
+series of strugglings ensued, and by one desperate effort he was erect, a
+thin coating of the black leather which he had torn off, firmly adhering to
+his dress! Nothing abated my delight at my success, but the thought that my
+magnus Apollo, Pickle, was not there to enjoy it; to see the poor Count
+stand mute with a mixed passion of rage and distress for several seconds,
+and then to witness his fruitless attempts to view the full extent of the
+injury, which, notwithstanding the surprising flexibility of his vertebrae,
+he was unable to compass. Tom Pipes I felt certain would have died on the
+spot, he must have split.
+
+_The Inspector_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONTRAST OF CLIMATE.
+
+
+Suppose yourself to have spent the first half of a foggy, sleety, chill,
+moist, melancholy, English winter at some miserable country village in
+Kent. Suppose about the first of February, while the whole landscape around
+is still floating in mud, buried in snow, or fast bound by frost, and the
+atmosphere so thick with fog, that one can scarcely point at mid-day to the
+spot where the sun stands in the heavens,--that your catarrh grows so
+alarming, that in a fit of despondency you trundle yourself aboard a ship
+in the Downs getting under way for a warmer climate. Suppose, that after a
+smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the whole of
+which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you awake
+one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal; and
+the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a
+mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window. It seems
+downright enchantment! You leap up as if there was a new soul in your body.
+You hurry ashore in the first boat. Your cough, lassitude, and qualmishness
+have altogether left you. Your step is elastic, and your spirits as buoyant
+as a lark in spring. You luxuriate amidst beautiful gardens glowing with
+roses, jessamines, honey-suckles, and a thousand other odoriferous shrubs
+and flowers in full bloom. You wander through a boundless maze of rising
+vineries curling their budding tendrils around the trellis-work, and
+terrace above terrace up the declivities of the mountains. You recline
+among orange-groves bending under the load of ripe golden fruit; and as you
+stretch yourself at ease by some clear, gurgling rill, in the midst of all
+this loveliness, you ask yourself, is this a dream--or are these indeed the
+gardens of the Hesperides? Reader, if you have the blue devils at
+Christmas, you may realize all this, and reach Madeira, as I have done, in
+eight days from the Downs.
+
+_London Weekly Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANECDOTES OF THE FACULTY.
+
+
+_Quacks._
+
+
+We are not without plenty of ignorant and impudent pretenders at the
+present day; but the celebrated Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter of Epsom,
+surpasses them all. She was the daughter of a man named Wallis, a
+bone-setter at Hindon, in Wiltshire, and sister to the celebrated "Polly
+Peachem," who married the Duke of Bolton. Upon some _family quarrel_,
+Sally Wallis left her professional parent, and wandered up and down the
+country in a miserable manner, calling herself "Crazy Sally," and pursuing,
+in her perambulations, a course that fairly justified the title. Arriving
+at last at Epsom, she succeeded in humbugging the worthy bumpkins of that
+place, so decidedly, that a subscription was set on foot to keep her among
+them; but her fame extending to the metropolis, the dupes of London, a
+numerous class then as well as now, thought it no trouble to go ten miles
+to see the conjuror, till at length, she was pleased to bless the afflicted
+of London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian
+Coffee-house, in a coach and six with out-riders! and all the appearance of
+nobility. It was in one of these journeys, passing through Kent-street, in
+the Borough, that being taken for a certain woman of quality from the
+Electorate in Germany, a great mob followed, and bestowed on her many
+bitter reproaches, till madame, perceiving some mistake, looked out of the
+window, and accosted them in this gentle manner, "D----n your bloods, don't
+you know me? I am Mrs. Mapp, the _bone-setter!_" Upon which, they instantly
+changed their revilings into loud huzzas.
+
+_Wadd's Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs._
+
+
+_Dr. Radcliffe._
+
+
+Among the many singularities related of Radcliffe, it has been noticed,
+that when he was in a convivial party, he was unwilling to leave it, even
+though sent for by persons of the highest distinction. Whilst he was thus
+deeply engaged at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired
+his immediate attendance on his _colonel_; but no entreaties could prevail
+on the disciple of Esculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus. "Sir,"
+quoth the soldier, "_my orders are to bring you._" And being a very
+powerful man, he took him up in his arms, and carried him off per force.
+After traversing some dirty lanes, the doctor and his escort arrived at a
+narrow alley--"What the D----l is all this," said Radcliffe, "your colonel
+don't live here?"--"No," said his military friend,--"no, my _colonel_ does
+not live here--but my _comrade_ does, and he's worth _two_ of the
+_colonel_,--so, by G----d, doctor, if you don't do your _best_ for _him_,
+it will be the _worst_ for _you!_"
+
+
+_Duels._
+
+
+Many medical duels have been prevented by the difficulty of arranging the
+"methodus pugnandi." In the instance of Dr. Brocklesby, the number of
+paces could not be agreed upon; and in the affair between Akenside and
+Ballow, one had determined never to fight in the morning, and the other
+that he would never fight in the afternoon. John Wilkes, who did not stand
+upon ceremony in these little affairs, when asked by Lord Talbot, "How many
+times they were to fire?" replied, "just as often as your Lordship pleases;
+I have brought _a bag of bullets and a flask of gunpowder_."
+
+
+_William Hunter._
+
+
+Dr. William Hunter used to relate the following anecdote:--During the
+American war, he was consulted by the daughter of a peer, who confessed
+herself pregnant, and requested his assistance; he advised her to retire
+for a time to the house of some confidential friend; she said that was
+impossible, as her father would not suffer her to be absent from him a
+single day. Some of the servants were, therefore, let into the secret, and
+the doctor made his arrangement with the treasurer of the Foundling
+Hospital for the reception of the child, for which he was to pay
+190l.--The lady was desired to weigh well if she could bear pain without
+alarming the family by her cries; she said "Yes,"--and she kept her word.
+At the usual period she was delivered, not of one child only, but of twins.
+The doctor, bearing the two children, was conducted by a French servant
+through the kitchen, and left to ascend the area steps into the street.
+Luckily the lady's maid recollected that the door of the area might perhaps
+be locked; and she followed the doctor just in time to prevent his being
+detained at the gate. He deposited the children at the Foundling Hospital,
+and paid for each 100l. The father of the children was a colonel of the
+army, who went with his regiment to America, and died there. The mother
+afterwards married a person of her own rank.
+
+
+_John Hunter._
+
+
+Hunter was a philosopher in more senses than one; he had philosophy enough
+to bear prosperity, as well as adversity, and with a rough exterior was a
+very kind man. The poor could command his services more than the rich. He
+would see an industrious tradesman before a duke, when his house was full
+of grandees, "you have no time to spare," he would say, "you live by it;
+most of these can wait, they have nothing to do when they go home." No man
+cared less for the profits of the profession, or more for the honour of
+it. He cared not for money himself, and wished the Doctor [his brother
+William] to estimate it by the same scale, when he sent a poor man with
+this laconic note:--
+
+    "Dear Brother,--The bearer wants your advice. I do not know the
+    nature of the case. He has no money, and you have plenty, so you are
+    well met."
+
+    "Yours, J. HUNTER."
+
+He was applied to once to perform a serious operation on a tradesman's
+wife; the fee agreed upon was twenty guineas. He heard no more of the case
+for two months; at the end of which time he was called upon to perform it.
+In the course of his attendance, he found out that the cause of the delay
+had been the difficulty under which the patient's husband had laboured to
+raise the money; and that they were worthy people, who had been
+unfortunate, and were by no means able to support the expense of such an
+affliction. "I sent back to the husband nineteen guineas, and kept the
+twentieth," said he, "that they might not be hurt with an idea of too great
+obligation. It somewhat more than paid me for the expense I had been at in
+the business."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BURMESE BOATS.
+
+
+The Burman war-boat is formed of the trunk of the magnificent teak tree,
+first roughly shaped, and then expanded by means of fire, until it attains
+sufficient width to admit two people, sitting abreast. On this a gunwale,
+rising a foot above the water, is fixed, and the stem and stern taper to a
+point, the latter being much higher than the other, and ornamented with
+fret-work and gilding. On the bow is placed a gun, sometimes of a
+nine-pounder calibre, but generally smaller, and the centre of the boat is
+occupied by the rowers, varying in number from twenty to a hundred, who in
+the large boats use the oar, and in the small ones the paddle. A war-boat
+in motion is a very pleasing object. The rapidity with which it moves, its
+lightness, and small surface above the water, the uniform pulling of the
+oar falling in cadence with the songs of the boatmen, who, taking the lead
+from one of their number, join in chorus, and keep time with the dip of
+their oars; the rich gilding which adorns the boat, and the neat, uniform
+dress of the crew, place it, to the eye of a stranger, in a curious and
+interesting point of view: and in regard to appearance, induces him, when
+contrasting it with an English boat, to give the former the preference. In
+point of swiftness, our best men-of-war boats could not compete with them;
+and of this superiority they generally availed themselves when an action
+was impending.
+
+The boats we had captured at Rangoon, and were cutting down for the
+transport of the army, were totally of a different nature. These, built on
+the same plan as ours are, but with flat bottoms, belonged to traders, and
+were solely adapted to the transport of merchandise. The stern, fancifully
+ornamented, rises two or three stages above the deck, and is the seat of
+the helmsman. The inside of the boat is filled with goods, and thatched
+over, leaving sufficient room underneath to accommodate two or three
+families--men, women, and children--who promiscuously take up their abode
+there.
+
+This description of boat is not propelled by oars, but by long poles, the
+ends of which being placed against the shoulders of the boatmen, they run
+the whole length of the boat, and push her forward with considerable
+velocity. The space on which they act is formed by strong outriggers on
+either side of the boat, which answer the twofold purpose of preventing her
+upsetting, which she otherwise would do from the excess of top-weight, and
+of increasing her width and accommodation.
+
+The third class of boat is that used throughout the country, and which, to
+those who inhabit the banks of rivers, becomes a necessary appendage, and
+to many a home. It is a mere canoe, decked with split bamboo, and partly
+covered in with mats, so as to afford shelter from the sun by day, and the
+dews by night. One man steers, and two others either row or paddle; but,
+when the wind is favourable, they use a sail. This is generally made at the
+moment, with the scarfs they wear over their shoulders, tied together. Two
+bamboos constitute the mast and yard, the sail being fastened between them;
+yet, with this fragile rigging, and with the gunwale of the boat almost
+under water with every puff of wind, they stem the most rapid currents at
+all seasons of the year, and, such is their skill in steering, seldom meet
+with an accident. It was in these boats that the majority of the
+inhabitants of Rangoon, and the adjacent villages, fled upon our approach;
+and these formed their only habitation during the many months they kept
+aloof from us.
+
+_Two Years in Ava_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SONNET.
+
+
+ON A YOUTH WHO DIED OF EXCESSIVE FRUIT-PIE.
+
+
+  Currants have check'd the current of my blood,
+    And berries brought me to be buried here;
+  Pears have pared off my body's hardihood,
+    And plums and plumbers spare not one so spare.
+  Fain would I feign my fall, so fair a fare
+    Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good:
+  Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware
+    Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued.
+  Grave on my grave some sentence grave and terse,
+    That lies not as it lies upon my clay,
+  But, in a gentle strain of unstrained verse,
+    Prays all to pity a poor patty's prey--
+  Rehearses I was fruitful to my hearse,
+    Tell that my days are told, and soon I'm toll'd away!
+
+
+THE VEIL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
+
+
+Maria Stuart has been canonized, and placed among the martyrs by the
+Jesuits. Of course there are relics of hers. Her prayer-book was long shown
+in France; and her apologist published in an English journal a sonnet which
+she was said to have composed, and to have written with her own hand in
+this book. A celebrated German actress, Mrs. Hendel-Schutz, who excited
+admiration by her attitudes, and also performed Schiller's "Maria" with
+great applause in several cities of Germany, affirmed that a cross which
+she wore on her neck was the very same that once belonged to the
+unfortunate queen. Relics of this description have never yet been subjected
+to the proof of their authenticity. But if there is anything which may be
+reasonably believed to have been once the property of the queen, _it is the
+veil with which she covered her head on the scaffold, after the
+executioner_, whether from awkwardness or confusion is uncertain, _had
+wounded the unfortunate victim in the shoulder by a false blow_. This veil
+still exists, and is in the possession of Sir J.C. Hippisley, who claims to
+be descended from the Stuart's by the mother's side. He had an engraving
+made from it by Matteo Diottavi, in Rome, 1818, and gave copies to his
+friends.
+
+The veil is embroidered with gold spangles by (as is said) the queen's own
+hand, in regular rows crossing each other, so as to form small squares, and
+edged with a gold border, to which another border has been subsequently
+joined, in which the following words are embroidered in letters of gold:--
+
+    "Velum Serenissimae Mariae, Scotiae et Galliae Reginae Martyris, quo
+    induebatur dum ab Heretica ad mortem iniustissimam condemnata fuit.
+    Anno Sal. MDLXXXVI. a nobilissima matrona Anglicana diu conservatum
+    et tandem, donationis ergo Deo, et Societati Jesu consecratum."
+
+On the plate there is an inscription, with a double certificate of its
+authenticity, which states, that this veil, a family treasure of the
+expelled house of Stuart, was finally in possession of the last branch of
+that family, the cardinal of York, who preserved it for many years in his
+private chapel, among the most precious relics, and at his death bequeathed
+it to Sir J. Hippisley, together with a valuable Plutarch, and a Codex with
+painted (illuminated) letters, and a gold coin struck in Scotland in the
+reign of queen Mary; and it was specially consecrated by Pope Pius VII. in
+his palace on the Quirinal, April 29, 1818. Sir John Hippisley, during a
+former residence at Rome, had been very intimate with the cardinal of York,
+and was instrumental in obtaining for him, when he with the other cardinals
+emigrated to Venice in 1798, a pension of L4,000. a-year from the Prince of
+Wales, now King George IV.; but for which, the fugitive cardinal, all whose
+revenues were seized by the French, would have been exposed to the greatest
+distress. The cardinal desired to requite this service by the bequest of
+what he considered so valuable. According to a note on the plate, the veil
+is eighty-nine English inches long, and forty-three broad, so that it seems
+to have been rather a kind of shawl or scarf than a veil. If we remember
+rightly, Melville in his Memoirs, which Schiller had read, speaks of a
+handkerchief belonging to the queen, which she gave away before her death,
+and Schiller founds upon this anecdote the well-known words of the farewell
+scene, addressed to Hannah Kennedy.
+
+    "Accept this handkerchief! with my own hand
+    For thee I've work'd it in my hours of sadness
+    And interwoven with my scalding tears:
+    With this thou'lt bind my eyes."
+
+
+DREAMS.
+
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of early youth,
+    And it never comes again;
+  'Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth,
+    That flits across the brain:
+  And love is the theme of that early dream.
+    So wild, so warm, so new,
+  That in all our after years I deem,
+    That early dream we rue.
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of maturer years,
+    More turbulent by far;
+  'Tis a vision of blood, and of woman's tears,
+    For the theme of that dream is war:
+  And we toil in the field of danger and death,
+    And shout in the battle array,
+  Till we find that fame is a bodyless breath,
+    That vanisheth away.
+
+  Oh! there is a dream of hoary age,
+    'Tis a vision of gold in store--
+  Of sums noted down on the figured page,
+    To be counted o'er and o'er:
+  And we fondly trust in our glittering dust,
+    As a refuge from grief and pain,
+  Till our limbs are laid on that last dark bed,
+    Where the wealth of the world is vain.
+
+  And is it thus, from man's birth to his grave--
+    In the path which all are treading?
+  Is there naught in that long career to save
+    From remorse and self-upbraiding?
+  O yes, there's a dream so pure, so bright,
+    That the being to whom it is given,
+  Hath bathed in a sea of living light--
+    And the theme of that dream is Heaven.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE LECTURER
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+AN EXCERP FROM ABERNETHY'S LECTURES.
+
+
+When I was speaking of the cure of the digestive organs, I spoke of
+stomachic irritation, and said it was occasioned by some morbid
+peculiarity. It is difficult to find out the exigents; it must be done by
+experiment. We give a medicine, it answers. The digestive organs have such
+a sympathy with contiguous organs, that no wonder if such contiguous organs
+are affected. The liver, for instance, cannot perform its office aright if
+the bowels are uncomfortable. Violent drastics are wrong, they do not do
+good; you cannot go on giving physic every day, this will teaze the bowels
+and not tranquilize them, The cure is to repeat the excitement of
+progressive action. People in general will not find out that what may be an
+adequate excitement one day, may not be an adequate excitement on another
+day. As to these things, they are easily managed, and you should attend to
+them. Every person advanced in life knows this, and attends to it. Doctor
+Curry, whom I used to call the poetical doctor, says, very justly, "It is
+in medicine as it is in morals, you must break bad habits, and establish
+good ones."
+
+Where the liver is primarily affected, small doses of quicksilver act in a
+wonderful and a prodigious manner. How the stomach, when wrong, disturbs
+the head, is apparent to every one. How a faulty action of the liver
+disturbs the head is also well known; but the liver, in an especial manner,
+disturbs the head.
+
+A Yorkshireman came three hundred miles, as he told me, on purpose to see
+me, and he said he was going back again by the mail the same night. I asked
+him what could induce him to come so far. His reply was, "Why you once set
+up a friend of mine, and I thought you could set me up too."
+
+I would have you keep your eyes open to this, that we are perpetually
+putting wrong our digestive organs by our absurdities in diet. These
+organs, if long wrong, will affect the spinal chord, producing lumbar
+numbness. Now, then, I have surveyed the influence of local maladies in
+disturbing the nervous energies, and now I say there is a reflected action
+in them, and they become a fruitful source of a numerous and dissimilar
+progeny of local diseases.
+
+People are disposed to say I am apt to exaggerate too much; but I merely
+relate what I have seen in my time, and you will all have numerous
+instances by and by of making the same observations, and I think at last
+you will come to the same conclusions.
+
+I now speak of local diseases; and, first, of phlegmonous inflammation. I
+do not much like the term phlegmonous inflammation, because phlegmon alone
+is inflammation. That the vessels, particularly the arteries, of inflamed
+parts are disposed to receive more blood, is manifest. Mr. Hunter froze the
+ears of rabbits, and the arteries inflamed and were filled with blood,
+throbbing, and pain. When there is great disturbance of the arterious
+system, with throbbing, there is always acute pain. In common whitlow of
+the finger, how the arteries of the arm, the brachial in particular, throb,
+is well known. In proportion as arteries are excited to vehement action,
+some difficulty occurs to the transmission of the blood into the veins. Dr.
+Phillips found that inflamed blood is slower in cooling than common blood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--_Wotton_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Sir Boyle Roche, was arguing for the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, in
+Ireland:--"It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker," said he, "to give up
+not only a _part_, but, if necessary, even the _whole_, of our
+constitution, to preserve _the remainder!_"
+
+_Barrington's Sketches_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A short time since the manager of Sadler's Wells, wishing to make an
+alteration in his bills, sent an old one with the corrections made in the
+margin, to the printer. In a few days a proof was forwarded to Mr. T.
+Dibdin, when it read thus--"Under the patronage of his Royal Highness the
+Duke of Clarence, Lord High _Patron of England and Admiral of this
+Theatre_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A WELSH INVITATION.
+
+
+Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys' compliments to Mr.
+Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess
+whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not
+recollect, and Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
+request the favour of the company of Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, to dinner on
+Monday week next. Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
+beg to inform Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan, and Miss Charles
+Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton,
+and Miss Sandys do not recollect, that Mr. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter
+Norton, and Miss Sandys can accommodate Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect, with beds, if
+remaining the night is agreeable to Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles
+Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan, and the governess whose name Mr. Walter
+Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not recollect.
+
+Llandillon Castle.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  Bob sick--thought life was drawing to its end,
+    His cheek grew pale, his tongue began to falter,
+  Justly alarmed, he begg'd a rev'rend friend
+    Would send him "_a companion to the altar._"
+  His friend forgot, Bob grew from worse to worse,
+    (A state to which he's always sure to alter,)
+  When he received a _night-cap_ from his nurse,
+    Who thought it a _companion to the halter_!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had
+drowned herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a
+verdict of _wilful murder against herself_.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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