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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11389 ***
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 12, No. 330.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+
+WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?
+
+
+    We cannot help it.--_Massinger's Roman Actor._
+
+Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating topics of the day;
+on the second of these heads we have thrown together a few hints, which
+may, probably prove entertaining to our readers.
+
+The English are not--you know, reflective public--a musical people; this
+has been said over and over again in the musical and dramatic critiques
+of the newspapers. True it is that we have no _national music_, like our
+neighbours the Welsh, the Irish, or the Scotch; for our music, like out
+language, is a mere _riccifamento_, stolen from every nation in Europe.
+But our king (God bless him) is an excellent musician, and plays the
+violoncello most delightfully; and we have an Academy of Music. Then we
+have an Italian Theatre that burns the feet and fingers of all who
+meddle with its management--witness, Mr. Ebers, who, by being "married"
+to sweet sounds, lost the enormous sum of 47,000_l_.--it must be owned,
+an unfortunate match, or as Dr. Franklin would have said, "paying rather
+too dear for his whistle." We have too an _English Opera House_, where
+scarcely any but _foreign_ music is heard, and which, to the
+ever-lasting credit of its management, has transplanted from the warm
+climes of the south to our ungenial atmosphere, some of the finest
+compositions in the continental schools of modern music. Success has,
+however, attended most of their enterprises; for the taste of the
+English for foreign music is by no means a modern mania. From Pepys's
+_Diary_ we learn that the first company of Italian singers came here in
+the reign of Charles II.: they were brought by Killigrew from Venice,
+about 1688; but they did not perform whole operas, only detached scenes
+in recitative, and not in any public theatre, but in the houses of the
+nobility. Thus, Italian music was loved and cultivated very early in
+England, and London was the next capital, after Vienna, which
+established and supported an Italian Opera. But, as we never do things
+by halves, we had soon afterwards, two opposition houses. This proves
+that the English have a _taste for music_; indeed they have much more
+judgment than some of their neighbours, which makes it still more to be
+regretted that nothing is done in England towards the advancement of
+music as a science. Is the world of sound and the soul of song
+exhausted? Why should we, who are marching in every other direction,
+stand still in this? But no; what Orpheus did with _music_, we are
+striving to accomplish by _steam_; what he effected by quietly touching
+his lyre, we study with the atmospheres and condensers of high and low
+pressure engines.
+
+The writer of a delightful paper in the _Foreign Review_, No. 3, in
+tracing the rise and progress of music, inquires what has become of "its
+loftier pretensions, its celestial attributes, its moral and political
+influence." He then facetiously observes, "How should we marvel to see
+the Duke of Wellington, like another Epaminondas, take his flute out of
+his pocket to still the clamour of the opposition, or Mr. Peel reply to
+the arguments of Mr. Huskisson with an allegro on the fiddle."
+
+The Greeks were not such grave people as some may be inclined to think
+them. Among them, poetry and music were so intimately connected, that
+they were in fact one and the same. It is not so with us; we have Byron
+and Moore, in poetry; but where are their parallels in English music!
+
+"Music," says Plutarch, "was the universal language of Greece, the
+sacred vehicle of history, philosophy, laws, and morals;" but in England
+it is little more than a mere amusement to while away the evening, or at
+best, but a branch of _female_ education. Pianos are become articles of
+furniture to be met with in almost every other genteel house; Miss and
+her sisters sit down by turns, and screw themselves up to _Ah vous
+dirai_, or "I'd be a butterfly"--till some handsome young fellow who has
+stood behind her chair for six months, turned over her music, or
+accompanied her through a few liquorish airs, vows his tender passion,
+brings her the last new song, and at length swears to be her
+accompaniment throughout life. The piano is then locked up, the music
+sent to Bath or _Canterbury_, and the lady is married and cannot sing.
+
+But the Greek poets sang their own verses: "Homer literally _sang_ the
+wrath of Achilles, and the woes of Greece;" would it were so in England.
+Then, my poetical public, we should have Anacreon Moore singing his
+"Rich and rare were the gems she wore," in some such place as the
+Quadrant, or Opera Colonnade; and Sir Walter Scott celebrating the Field
+of Waterloo, not in the broad-margined octavos of Paternoster-row, but
+about the purlieus of the Horse Guards. Wordsworth would be his own
+Skylark. The laureate, Southey, would perch himself on the dome of the
+New Palace. Campbell would step out of New Burlingtonstreet into the
+Park; Miss Mitford would keep a Covent-Garden audience awake with her
+own tragedies, and Planché would no longer entrust his rhymes to Paton
+or Vestris. On the other hand, Braham would no longer be indebted to
+Moore for his songs, Bishop would write, compose, and sing his own
+operas, and all our vocalists enter, like Dryden's king and two
+fiddlers, _solus_!
+
+Could we but once become a musical people, we should no longer marvel at
+the effect of music in ancient times; for who knows but that if an
+Englishman were to play like Orpheus, the River Thames might cease to
+flow; the disposal of Mr. Cross's menagerie be no longer a question,
+since the animals might be allowed to ramble about the Strand; and
+Snowdon or Cader Idris journey to the King's Theatre to listen to his
+inspirations.
+
+It is, however, impossible to calculate the benefits which this
+acquisition of musical skill might prove to the English people. What
+bloodshed and tribulation it would prevent. Weare, or Maria Marten, like
+Stradella, might have disarmed their assassins; the Insolvent Act would
+be obsolete, and duns defeated; since hundreds of improvident wights,
+like Palma, might, by their strains, soften the hearts of their
+creditors, and draw tears from sheriff's officers. Chancery-lane would
+be depopulated, and Cursitor-street be left to the fowls of the air;
+locks would fall 50 per cent, and Mr. Bramah might betake himself to Van
+Dieman's Land. What a pleasant thing would a public dinner be; for,
+instead of a gentleman in a dress coat singing as from the orchestra of
+an oratorio, he would throw a more impassioned energy into his own
+compositions than he could possibly impart to those of another, and
+proportionally enhance the delight of his company. All the mechanism of
+professional singing would then give way to "the feast of reason and the
+flow of soul."
+
+We know not how to have done with these pleasures of "linked
+sweetness"--this "mosaic of the air," as Marvell quaintly calls it. We
+have a decided aversion to the system of borrowing, which, in the
+absence of our own musical resources, seems to be universally adopted.
+Thus, as Charles Mathews says, "every footman whistles _Frieschutz_;"
+and the barrel organ which does not play two or three of its airs may be
+consigned to the brokers. A few months since every bachelor hummed or
+whistled "_C'est l'amour_," and the French, to return the compliment,
+have made our "Robin Adair," one of the claptraps of the music of their
+_La Dame Blanche_. Next, when will Mr. Bishop's _Home, sweet home_, be
+forgotten, although the original is a Sicilian air of considerable
+antiquity. All the baker's and butcher's boys in London can go through
+"_Di tanti pal_"--where they leave off, answer a question, and take up
+the "_piti_," with the skill of a musician; and as readily fall into the
+sympathetic melodies of "_Oh no we never mention her_," or the "_Light
+Guitar_." But to atone for these vulgarisms, who that has heard the
+syren strains of Stephens or Paton, or the Anglo-Italian style of
+Braham, but has envied them the pleasurable monopoly of delighting
+thousands, and sending them home with the favourite air still echoing in
+their ears, and lulling them to soft slumbers! Who is there that has
+enjoyed his circle of friends without regretting a thousand times that
+he had not a fiftieth part of such talent to enliven the festive hour,
+and lend a charm, however, fleeting, to what may be termed the poetry of
+life.
+
+As we have noticed the taste of the Greeks for music, it is but fair
+that we should allude to that of their successors. In ancient Rome,
+music was never popular. Combats of gladiators and wild beasts filled
+their theatres with streams of blood, instead of their resounding with
+music; and after the death of Nero,[1] that beautiful art was declared
+infamous, and by a public decree, banished from the city. In our
+theatres, however, heroes fight to music, from the Richard III. and
+Richmond of Shakspeare to the "terrific combats" of modern melodrame.
+
+    [1] "When Nero exhibited himself as a singer and flute-player on
+    the stage at Naples, the musicians of that province assembled to
+    hear him; and Suetonius tells us that the emperor selected _five
+    thousand_ among the best to be his household musicians, and
+    clothed them in a rich and uniform dress."
+
+Anything is, however, better than despair, and let us hope that
+something may be done towards the amendment of our musical reputation.
+We have too much of what Cobbett would call the "dead-weight" in us to
+become adopted by Apollo as the "children of song;" but what with the
+school of music in Tenterden-street, and numberless juvenile prodigies,
+we may indulge the expectation of rising in the diatonic scale, and that
+too at no very distant period. Burney and Crotch were remarkable
+instances of precocious musical skill; and in the present day, children
+from eight to twelve sing the most popular Italian airs on the English
+stage, with remarkable accuracy.
+
+Apropos, we hear of constitutions being set to music, for says the
+_Foreign Review_, "during the short revolution at Naples, in 1820, a
+Neapolitan was heard to swear that if the government intended that the
+new constitution should be understood or accepted by the people, they
+must first have it set to music by Rossini."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+
+[Illustration: GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.]
+
+We are again in the _Regents Park_; but we must leave its architectural
+splendour for the present, and request our readers to accompany us
+towards the eastern verge of the Park, to the Gardens of the Zoological
+Society, established in 1826, and whose members now amount to _eleven
+hundred_! The grounds are daily filled with fashionable company,
+notwithstanding the great migrations which usually take place at this
+season of the year, and almost depopulate the western hemisphere of
+fashion. The gardens, independent of their zoological attractions, are a
+delightful promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres
+boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The animals, too, are seen to
+much greater advantage than when shut up in a menagerie, and have the
+luxury of fresh air, instead of unwholesome respiration in a room or
+caravan.[2]
+
+    [2] It should, however, be noticed, that the object of the
+    _Zoological Society_ is not the mere exhibition of animals. In
+    the original prospectus it is observed, that "Animals brought
+    from every part of the globe to be applied to some _useful_
+    purpose as objects of scientific research, not of vulgar
+    admiration; and upon such an institution, a philosophy of
+    zoology founded, pointing out the comparative anatomy, the
+    habits of life, the improvement and the methods of multiplying
+    those races of animals which are most useful to man, and thus
+    fixing a most beautiful and important branch of knowledge on the
+    permanent basis of direct utility." The Secretary of the Society
+    is N.A. Vigors, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., &c. who, from his extensive
+    attainments in the science of zoology, fills the office with
+    honor to himself, and peculiar advantage to the public.
+
+At page 413 of our last volume, the reader will find an abstract of the
+second anniversary of the Society, since which the Gardens in the
+Regent's Park have been opened for public inspection. We have
+accordingly availed ourselves of this privilege, and our draughtsman has
+been at some pains in the annexed sketch, together with the vignette
+_portraits_ accompanying it. The "_Bird's-Eye View_" will be better
+explained by reference to the figures; thus,
+
+  1. Entrance Gate and Pay Hut.
+  2. Ditto Check Hut.
+  3. House and Ground for _Emus_:
+
+Two awkward land birds, resembling ostriches. Their incapability of
+flying is compensated by the exceeding speed with which they run. They
+are natives of New Holland.
+
+  4. Central Walk.
+  5. Sloping Shrubbery of Defence.
+  6. Fields for Horses and Cattle.
+  7. Building for _Bears,_,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+communicating with their pit, in the centre of which is a pole with
+steps for the animals to ascend and descend. At the extremity of the
+upper walk, the pit is surrounded with a dwarf wall and coping, to which
+(since our sketch was taken) have been added iron rails. There are here
+two Arctic bears, and a small black bear, the latter brought from
+Russia,[3] and presented to the Society, by the Marquess of Hertford.
+There is usually a crowd of visiters about this spot, and the sagacity
+and antics of our four-footed friends ensure them liberal supplies of
+cakes and fruit, handed to them on a pole. We were much interested with
+their tricks, especially with the vexation betrayed by one of them, at
+the top of the pole, when he saw his companion below seize a cake which
+the former had previously eyed with great _gout_. His wringing and
+biting his paws reminded us of many scenes out of a bear-pit. Then the
+snorting and snarling of the old bear below, when the young one
+attempted to obtain a cake thrown to him; and above all, the small share
+which our black friend _Toby_ enjoyed, probably from his docility
+over-much,--like good-natured men who are mastered by those of rough
+natures. We could have staid here a whole hour, watching their antics,
+and likening them to the little trickery of human nature.
+
+    [3] He was previously at Sudborne, the seat of the Marquess of
+    Hertford, where Toby, as our Russian friend was christened,
+    became equally sagacious with bipeds, in distinguishing strong
+    ale from small beer. To the former beverage, Toby became freely
+    attached; but when we saw him at the Gardens in the Regent's
+    Park, he appeared too docile for his companions.
+
+  8 and 9. Ground enclosed for _Kangaroos_,
+
+of which there is a little herd, large and small. They are natives of
+New Holland. The fore legs are seldom more than twenty inches in length,
+whilst the hinder ones are sometimes three feet and a half long. They
+rest on the whole length of the hind feet, supporting themselves by the
+base of the tail, which, in truth, acts as a fifth leg, and is sometimes
+used as a weapon, being of such strength as to break a man's leg at a
+single blow. They move by leaps, which have been known to exceed twenty
+feet. Several kangaroos have been kept in the park at Richmond, and
+where they have produced young ones.
+
+  10. _Dens_
+
+containing two fine _leopards, a porcupine_, and _racoons_. In an
+adjoining den are three _wolves._
+
+  11. Gothic House for _Lamas_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This is one of the most picturesque objects in the grounds. It contains
+two lamas. These animals are common in South America, particularly in
+the mountainous parts of Peru, where they are employed as beasts of
+burthen. One of the lamas was presented to the Society by the Duke of
+Bedford.
+
+  12. Circular Aviary for _Birds of Prey_
+
+containing a _fine griffon vulture_, a white-headed _North American
+eagle, hawks, falcons_, and _owls_; among the latter is the _great
+horned owl_. This is supposed by Linnaeus, and many antiquaries, to have
+been the bird of Minerva. The collection is remarkably splendid.
+
+  13. Hut for _Beavers_.
+  14. Hut for _Foreign Goats._
+  15. Enclosed Area and Fountain for _Aquatic Birds_, as pelicans,
+  Solan geese, China geese, black swans, &c.
+  16. Aviary.
+
+Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills, together
+with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose brilliant plumage
+outvies the gayest robe of art, and three curassos.
+
+  17. Grove and Huts for _Esquimaux Dogs_
+
+of which there are three fine specimens.
+
+  18. Fountain, &c. for _Water Fowl_.
+  19. Enclosure for _Zebras, Indian Cows, &c_.
+  20. Houses on poles for _Monkeys_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+These are distributed beside the walks. The monkey is attached by a
+chain to a ring loosely round the pole, by which means he ascends and
+descends at pleasure.
+
+  21. Intended Aviary, (supposed for _Eagles, Vultures_, &c.).
+  22. Twenty acres about to be added.
+  23. House for _Monkeys, &c_.
+
+Here are double rows of cages, containing a fine South American ocelot,
+a lynx, a puma, coatamondis, an ichneumon, and several monkeys; the last
+affording an excellent opportunity of appreciating the fidelity of Mr.
+Landseer's _Monkeyana,_ and illustrating the vraisemblance of men and
+monkeys.
+
+  24. Intended Aviary.
+  25. Mexican _Hogs,_ &c.
+  26. Huts for _Jackalls,_ &c.
+  27. Unfinished Houses.
+
+The carriage-road is formed of the outer side of the Park.
+
+There is likewise an enclosure for _Tortoises_, of which there are three
+large and several small ones. We saw one of them devouring pumpkin as a
+gourmand would turtle, and this voracity is by weather-wise people
+considered as a sure indication of rain. This turtle is believed to be
+very old; he is of stupendous size, but buried as he was (except his
+neck) with shell, he soon became aware of the approach of his companion,
+nearly as large, and accordingly ate with increased greediness. Among
+the birds, too, should be mentioned several beautiful varieties of
+pheasants, partridges, &c. which are well worth the attention of the
+visiter.
+
+We have probably passed over many animals, our object being merely to
+mention a few of the most interesting for their habits and
+peculiarities. Of course the collection is as yet incomplete, there
+being neither lion, tiger, hyaena, elephant, nor rhinoceros; but when it
+is considered that the Society has been established little more than two
+years, in which time a Museum has been formed, and 1,100 subscribers
+obtained, besides the arrangement of the Gardens--it will be
+acknowledged that much has been done in a short time, and judging from
+the excellent organization of the Society and their past success, we
+anticipate the utmost realization of their plan.
+
+Our readers need not be told that the Zoological Society is partly on
+the plan of the Museum of Natural History at Paris, except that the
+latter is supported by the Government, the Gardens are indiscriminately
+opened to the public, free of cost, and the Museum on stated days; and
+when we add that the names of Fagon, Duverney, Tournefort, Vaillant, De
+Jussieu, Buffon, Daubenton, Fourcroy, Desfontaines, De Lamarck, and
+Cuvier, occur in its list of professors, they will not be surprised at
+the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle being the richest of its kind in the
+world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As acceptable information, we subjoin the regulations for the admission
+of members and visiters to the Gardens in the Regent's Park, and the
+_Museum_, in Bruton-street; to the latter we shall allude at an early
+opportunity:--
+
+Every member shall have personal admission to the gardens and museum,
+with two companions. If accompanied by more than two, he shall pay one
+shilling for each extra person.
+
+A member, on payment of one guinea annually, may obtain an ivory ticket,
+which will admit one named person with a companion to both
+establishments; or a transferable ivory ticket which will admit one
+person. He may obtain two or more such tickets at the same rate.
+
+Any member who may find it inconvenient to attend personally at the
+gardens or museum, may, upon application to the council, have his
+privileges transferred, within the present year, to any individual of
+his family, whom he may name.
+
+Every member will be expected to give his name on entering the gardens
+and museum.
+
+The gardens will be open to members from eight o'clock, A.M.; but they
+will be in complete readiness for the reception of visiters only from
+ten o'clock to sunset. The museum will be open from ten o'clock to six.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Your article on the "Patrons of Astronomy," in the Mirror, No. 328,
+brought to my recollection the following anecdote, for the truth of
+which I can answer, having received it from Mr. Watson, well known as
+the most celebrated private optical instrument maker in Europe, and at
+the time living on intimate terms with the late Mr. Arnold, the most
+eminent watchmaker of the day. When the late Sir William Herschel's
+great telescope was first exhibited at Slough, among other scientific
+men who went to see it was Mr. Arnold, who took Mr. W. with him. Neither
+of them thought much of it, though it was praised by the multitude; as
+it was, with its constructor, patronized by the late king and his
+consort, for Herschel was a German, as you well know. A few astronomical
+amateurs, who thought as Mr. Arnold did, proposed to Mr. Adams, of
+Fleet-street, then astronomical instrument maker to the king, (by whom
+Mr. Watson was employed,) to get Watson to make an instrument in
+opposition to Herschel's. The order being given by Adams, Watson set
+about the work, and had made some progress in the construction of the
+instrument, when the circumstance found its way to the ears of royalty.
+Orders were immediately sent to Mr. Adams to put a stop to the work, or
+he should no longer be optician to the king. Watson did not proceed, but
+could never learn the cause of the counter-order, till after a lapse of
+several years, when a stranger called on him, in Valentine-place,
+Blackfriars-road, and after putting several questions to him about his
+instruments, related to him the cause of the counter-order; upon which
+Mr. Watson showed him the progress he had made, and which I have also
+seen. This story I heard related by Mr. Watson at a dinner party at Mr.
+Arnold's, at Well Hall, near Eltham, where were also Mr. Dollonds, and
+Mr. J. R. Arnold, the son.
+
+A Constant Reader.
+
+August, 24, 1828.
+
+Our Correspondent will perceive that we have qualified some phrases of
+his letter, but that all the facts appear.
+
+The _Quarterly Review_, No. 75, from which our notice was taken, is
+tolerably plain upon the lack of patronage towards astronomy in this
+country, and seems disposed, in enumerating the state of astronomical
+knowledge in civilized Europe, to place Great Britain beside Spain or
+Turkey![4] We chance to know that one of the most able and enterprising
+astronomers of the present day relinquished a lucrative profession, that
+he might be more at leisure to indulge his philosophical pursuits; so
+that, if patrons be wanting, this apathy does not appear to have
+entirely destroyed the taste for the divine study. This gentleman, in
+concert with another, ascertained, in the course of three years, the
+position and apparent distances of 380 double and triple stars, the
+result of about 10,000 individual measurements, and for their Memoir,
+they received the astronomical prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
+In the following year, the former individual communicated to the Royal
+Society the apparent distances and positions of 458 double stars, of
+which 160 had never before been observed.
+
+    [4] We feel as if it were a species of treason to record the
+    fact, that, within the wide range of the British islands, _there
+    is only one observatory, and scarcely one, supported by the
+    government_! We say scarcely one, because we believe that some
+    of the instruments in the observatory of Greenwich were
+    purchased out of the private funds of the Royal Society of
+    London. The observatories of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin,
+    Edinburgh (except a grant of 2,000_l_.), Armagh, and Glasgow,
+    are all private establishments, to the support of which
+    government contributes nothing. The consequence of this is, that
+    many of them are in a state of comparative inactivity; and none
+    of them, but that of Dublin, have acquired any celebrity in the
+    astronomical world. Such, indeed, was the state of practical
+    astronomy in Scotland, that within these few years, a Danish
+    vessel, which arrived at Leith, could not obtain, even in
+    Edinburgh, the time of the day for the purpose of setting its
+    chronometers.--_Q. Rev._
+
+Of course, our correspondent does not impeach the talent of HERSCHEL;
+but it is lamentable to reflect that no attempt has been made to repeat
+or extend the labours of that indefatigable astronomer.--ED.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE KELPIE.
+
+A SCOTTISH LEGEND.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  "Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"
+    Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,
+  For though I mind not in the least the nod
+    Of these same critics, still I'll not defy 'em;
+  But that you may know more of this same god,
+    (Though I can't sing as Homer sung of Priam,)
+  I'll write a very pretty little poem,
+  Of which this present stanza's but the proem.
+
+  But to begin, for though 'tis rather long,
+    My poem I'll comprise into twelve stanzas,
+  Or fourteen at the furthest, if my song
+    Don't run to twenty--I'll offend no man, sirs,
+  If I can help it. So now I'm along
+    The road, and beg you'll notice these two lancers,
+  Who, on the backs of horses full of mettle
+  Hold a dispute, which we'll leave them to settle,
+
+  While you go with me, reader, kind and good,
+    To a small tributary stream from Tweed,
+  Which, if you don't know, as I'm in the mood,
+    I'll do my best to teach you, if you'll read;
+  I'll introduce you to the stream Glenrude--
+    This name will do--'twas in a glen--indeed,
+  'Twas not its proper name--'twill do quite well,
+  Why I choose so to call it I shan't tell,
+
+  But still it was a very pretty river,
+    Or rather stream, as ever could be seen--
+  If not so wide as the great Guadalquiver,
+    Its banks were nearly always clothed in green,
+  (Save when in winter the winds made you shiver,)
+    While the waves, bickering so bright and sheen,
+  Put you in mind of Avon, Rhine, or Hellespont,
+  Or any other stream to admire you're wont.
+
+  And round about the stream there were huge hillocks,
+    And firs and mountains, houses too and farms;
+  A maid lay on the grass--her light and fair locks
+    Were gently wound around her folded arms,
+  While softly grazing near there stood a huge ox,
+    And o'er her head an old oak threw its arms.
+  She was asleep, when, lo! the sound of horses'
+  Feet woke her, and, behold, she saw two corses.
+
+  At least she thought so--but at last thought better
+    'Twould be for her to get up and go home;
+  She got up quickly, and would soon have made her
+    Way home, but that the men who had just come
+  Spurr'd past her, and alighted when they met her,
+    While she with her surprise was almost dumb;
+  But soon spoke she, and bade them both disclose
+  Their names--to which one said, "I'm Richard Groze."
+
+  The next spoke not at first, but soon replied,
+    "Pray wherefore are you so surprised, my dear?
+  And wherefore, likewise, have you not complied
+    With my request, which I have sent in near
+  Some good score letters? which you did deride,
+    When they were forwarded by this man here."
+  He pointed then to Groze, and then he sighed,
+  "My dear, dear Jeannie, will you be my bride?"
+
+  The which words when our Jeannie heard, she stared,
+    And said, "What do you mean, John Fitzadree?
+  You talk of letters, but of them the laird
+    Has never brought a single one to me;
+  But when I've seen him I have never cared
+    How soon he went, for he told me that ye
+  Were either dead or faithless--so he said
+  I'd better wed the live, than mourn the dead.
+
+  "And then he promis'd I should have six horses,
+    Besides a coach, if I would be his bride;
+  But I refus'd--and he swore all his crosses
+    Should soon be o'er, and something else beside
+  And that's the reason why I thought ye corses,
+    When o'er the green this way I saw ye ride.
+  But now I see you've both served in the Lancers,
+  Though on my word you look much more like dancers."
+
+  To which John answer'd, "Oh, the filthy fellow,
+    I gave him letters to you, which he said
+  He would deliver, were you ill or well. Oh!
+    How I should like to knock him on the head,
+  And would, but that would show I was quite mellow--
+    Besides, I see the coward has just fled,
+  Has ta'en to horse, and got across the ford--
+  Hang him, that I should with him be so bored!"
+
+  But Jeannie said, "John, thou shall do no murder."
+    To which he answer'd, "I will not do so;"
+  Then bounded off as though he had not heard her,
+    And reached a fording-place, but not so low
+  As where Groze cross'd, and who had now got further
+    Than John would have thought possible, although
+  He'd a good-horse, and nearly half an hour
+  In start--but now the clouds began to lower.
+
+  Now Fitzadree's good charger was all mettle,
+    And soon won to the middle of the stream--
+  But then the sky grew black as a tea kettle;
+    It rained, too, quite as fast as ever steam
+  Rose. But the thing which did at last unsettle
+    The balance of John's steed, was what you'll deem
+  A being that was nearly supernatural--
+  But here the waves John's clothes began to spatter all.
+
+  A form rose up from out the waves' abyss--
+    A monstrous little man with a black hide,
+  Scarce four feet high, yet he was not remiss,
+    But dash'd the waves about--and then he cried,
+  With a demoniac laugh, or rather hiss,
+    "Die, mortal, die!" and John sank down and died,
+  The which, when Jeannie saw, she only sigh'd,
+  "I come, my John, I come, to be thy bride."
+
+  The figure was the Kelpie--that she knew,
+    And madly she rush'd on towards the shore;
+  The Kelpie roar'd, "Come, mortal, come thou too."
+    Ere he'd done speaking, Jeannie was no more;
+  She'd dash'd into the waves, and left no clue,
+    More than a steamer leaves just left the Nore,
+  By which you might discover where she lay,
+  And drag her upwards to the realms of day.
+
+  But what befel the cause of all these woes?
+    That's what I never heard, so cannot tell;
+  But this I know, that this same Richard Groze
+    Return'd no more to bonnie Scotland. Well,
+  I only hope he may in bed repose,
+    And that he may at last escape from hell.
+  And this I know, that if you do not smother
+  This poem, when I choose I'll write another.
+                                J.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SUGAR AND WATER CRITICISM.
+
+
+In one of the critiques on the last _Monthly Magazine_, some verses by
+Mrs. Hemans are said to be "elegant and lady-like."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH BOOK
+
+A DAY AT ST. CLOUD.
+
+_September_ 24, 1826.
+
+
+    I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and
+    looking through the glass, saw all the world in yellow, blue,
+    and green, running at the ring of pleasure.--STERNE.
+
+St. Cloud is the Richmond of France; or rather, it is to Paris what
+Richmond, in the days of its regal splendour, was to London--the summer
+palace of the court. In this comparison, allowance must be made for the
+opposite building taste of each nation; especially as Richmond has an
+appearance of substantial comfort in its massive brick mansions and
+rusticated cottage groups. The French _Sheen_ is, on the contrary,
+gayer; the exterior of the residences being whitened, or what is still
+more artificial, coloured and decorated in tawdry French taste. Such, at
+least, is the character of the _auberges_, or inns, and _restaurateurs_,
+with which St. Cloud is even better supplied than our Richmond. In
+situation, however, they strongly assimilate; the former being placed on
+an acclivity overlooking the Seine, as the latter is on the banks of the
+Thames.
+
+St. Cloud, as I have already said, is the usual summer residence of the
+French court; and with a royal liberality which might be less politic
+elsewhere, the park is granted for three fairs--September 7, and the
+three following Sundays, on the last of which I resolved to visit the
+fête of St. Cloud. It was a glowing September day. The sun shone with
+more than mellow warmth through the groves of the Tuilleries, and on the
+little southern terrace, which was unusually crowded with groups of rosy
+children, with here and there a valetudinarian, who seemed to have
+emerged from his chamber to enjoy the parting glories of the season.
+Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the mall, or
+principal walk, and some few were not incuriously lingering about the
+enclosed parterres of the garden, whose beauties would soon be
+transported to a milder atmosphere. There was a general stir in the
+neighbouring streets; it did not resemble the bustle of business, but
+had more of the gaiety of a holiday scene. The _Pont Royal_ was thronged
+with passengers, and just beneath it, were several hundreds, many of
+whom were embarking in the steam-boat for St. Cloud. But the Seine is at
+all times less inviting for such an excursion than our Thames; and in
+the summer months many insulated spots may be seen in the centre of the
+French river. At the next bridge (Louis XVI.) there was a general muster
+of carriages, each adapted for six or eight passengers, and drawn by one
+or two horses. Here was a loud clamour of "St. Cloud" and "Versailles"
+among the drivers, some of whom were even more officious than the Jehus
+of Greenwich, or the wights of Charing Cross or Piccadilly. I resisted
+all their importunities, and passed on through the _Champs Elysées_, or
+a dusty road through a grove, intersected with ill-formed paths, with a
+few gaudy cafés bearing pompous inscriptions--for Voltaire has made the
+French too fond of nomenclature to say with our Shakspeare, "what's in a
+name?" The road presented a strange specimen of the insubordination of
+French driving, notwithstanding police superintendants affected much
+concern in the matter. Diligences, fiacres, and carriages resembling
+large, covered cabriolets, might be seen loaded with gaily-dressed women
+and children, with a due proportion of young Parisians, all just in the
+hey-day of mirth, drawn by dust-provoking Flanders horses, their drivers
+slashing almost indiscriminately, and, with their clamour and confusion,
+far exceeding the Epsom road on a raceday.
+
+At length, escaping from the dust and din of the French Elysium, I
+halted to enjoy the distant view of the city of Paris, from the gate of
+the barrier. It was indeed an interesting scene. Through the avenue,
+whose area presented a living stream of traffic, might be seen the
+terraces and groves of the Tuilleries, and the spacious and irregular
+palace, with its cupola tops; the tarnished dome of the Invalides; the
+cupola of St. Genevieve; the gray towers of Nôtre Dame; then the winding
+Seine, with its bridges, quays, and terraces, flanked with the long line
+of the Tuilleries, and the Luxembourg, and Louvre galleries, on the one
+side; and on the other by the noble façade of the Chamber of Deputies;
+the courtly mansions of St. Germain, and the blackened front and dome of
+the Institute. What a multitude of associations flitted across the
+memory, by a single glance at PARIS--the capital of that gay,
+light-hearted, and mercurial people--the French nation--the focus of
+European luxury, and the grand political arena of modern history, the
+very calendar of whose events, within the last half century, will form
+one of the most interesting episodes that ever glowed among the records
+of human character. In the chain might be traced the vain-glory of
+conquest linked with defeated ambition, and the sullied splendour of
+royalty just breaking through the clouds of discontent, and slowly
+dispelling the mists of disaffection and political prejudice. What an
+unenviable contrast to the man who has "no enemy but wind and rough
+weather." The same objects that prompted these discordant reflections
+gave rise to others of the most opposite character; and within the
+walls, where treaties, abdications, and warrants, by turns, settled and
+resettled, exiled and condemned--were the store-houses of art, with all
+her proud and peaceful labours of sculpture, painting, and architecture,
+through galleries and saloons, on whose contents the chisel and the
+pencil had lingered many a life, and reduced the compass of its fond
+designs to the cubits of a statue, the fame of a picture, or the glory
+of a pillar or ceiling--such are the frail elements of human art.
+
+The road now began to exhibit the usual appearance of an approach to a
+country fête or fair. Scores of pedestrians, overcome with the heat and
+dust of the day, might be seen at the little boxes or shops of the
+_traiteurs_, or cooks, and at the houses of the _marchands de vin et de
+la biacre_; these by their anticipated anxiety caused the line from
+Paris to St. Cloud to resemble a road-side fair. Cheerfulness and
+vivacity were upper-most in the passengers; and the elastic pace of
+dozens of gaily-dressed _soubrettes_ not a little enhanced the interest
+of the scene. Neither were these charms impaired by that species of
+vulgarity which not unfrequently characterizes the road to our suburban
+fairs; and, what is still more creditable to humanity, there was no
+brutality towards jaded horses or hacks sinking beneath their loads.
+
+Historians attach some antiquarian importance to the village of St.
+Cloud, it being historically confounded with the earliest times of the
+French monarchy; for, from the beginning of the first race, the kings of
+France had a country-seat here.[5]
+
+    [5] For an engraving and account of the Palace of St. Cloud, see
+    MIRROR, vol. ii. page 225.
+
+I now reached the bridge of St. Cloud, an elegant modern structure which
+crosses the Seine, near the entrance to the village. Here the river
+loses much of its importance; and in summer, the steam-boats are not
+unfrequently delayed in their _voyage_ (if it may be so designated) for
+lack of water. The prospect of the château, or palace, embosomed in
+trees, and the park variegated with natural and artificial beauties,
+with the adjoining village on a steep, shelving hill--is unusually
+picturesque. On the present occasion, however, the principal attraction
+was the fête, which reminded me more forcibly of John Bunyan's Vanity
+Fair, than any other exhibition I had ever witnessed.
+
+The entrance to this motley scene was by the principal gate, where the
+carriages set down their company, and at a short distance along the bank
+of the river, the steam-boat in like manner contributed its visiters. On
+entering the park, I was first struck with a long row of boxes,
+(somewhat in the style of those at Vauxhall) but on a raised bank, and
+attached to a _restaurateur_. Here were tables for dinner, and as many
+others were laid in the open air--with the usual _carte_ of 2 or 300
+articles, and the economical elegancies of silver, napkins, and china,
+and this, too, in style little inferior to Verey's in the Palais Royal.
+Promenaders of the better description appeared in the mall, or principal
+walk, and it being the last fête of the season, their attendance was
+very numerous. The stalls and exhibitions were chiefly on the left side
+of this walk; at the former was displayed an almost indescribable
+variety of wares, which were the adjudged prizes in a lottery; but, from
+the decisions which I witnessed, they resembled the _stationary_
+capitals in an English scheme--the nominal Stock in trade of the
+office-keepers. Many of these little gambling shops were superintended
+by women, who proved themselves far from deficient in loquacious
+inducements for adventurers; and by their dexterous settlement of the
+chances, left little time for losers to reflect on their folly.
+Provisions of various descriptions were to be purchased at every turn,
+and among their _marchands_, it was not incurious, to see some humble
+professors of gastronomy over smoking viands, fritters, and goffers or
+indented wafers baked on cast-iron stoves _à la minute_--it must be
+owned, unseasonable luxuries for a September day. The _spectacles_, or
+shows, in noise and absurdity, exceeded the English trumpery of that
+order; and to judge from the gaping crowds which they attracted, we are
+not the only credulous nation in the world. Among the games was a
+machine resembling an English round-a-bout, with wooden horses for the
+players, each of whom was furnished with a foil, with which he strove to
+seize the greatest number of rings from the centre; this was, indeed, a
+chivalrous exhibition. Stilt-walkers, mountebank families, and jugglers,
+"chequered in bulk and brains," lent their aid to amuse the crowd; and,
+occasionally, two or three fellows contrived to enact scenes from plays,
+and with their vulgar wit to merit the applause of their audience.
+Portable clock-work exhibitions swarmed, and mummeries or mysteries,
+representing the Life and Death of our Saviour and the blessed Virgin,
+appeared to be ritual accompaniments of the day, and represented each
+stage of the holy lives. The bearers of the latter machinery enlivened
+their exhibitions with a grinding organ, which they accompanied with
+appropriate ditties or carols. Crosses and other religious emblems were
+hung about the theatrical boxes or shows, which, with their
+representations, could only be compared with the nursery toys of Noah's
+ark, with which most of us have been amused. Accordingly, here were
+models of Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Mount Calvary, in the characteristic
+accuracy of biblical topography, and from the zeal of the spectators,
+the ingenuity of the inventors was unsparingly rewarded.
+
+I turned from these sights to the natural beauties of the park, which,
+aided by the happy inequalities of the ground, (which French artists
+imagined would be such an obstacle to its perfection,) possesses far
+more variety than is usually found in the pleasure-grounds of France.
+The original plantation of the park was the work of La Nôtre, who, it
+will be recollected, planned the garden of Versailles; but St. Cloud is
+considered his _chef-d'oeuvre_, and proves, that with the few natural
+advantages which it afforded him, he was enabled to effect more here
+than millions have accomplished at Versailles--where art is fairly
+overmatched with her own wasteful and ridiculous excess. This alone
+ought to make the French blush for that monument of royal folly.
+
+The situation of the château is its greatest attraction. It possesses a
+fine view of Paris, which is indeed a splendid item in the prospect of
+the princely occupants; and the sight of the capital may, perhaps, be a
+pleasant relief to the natural seclusion of the palace.
+
+One of the most remarkable objects in the park is a kind of square
+tower, surmounted with an exact copy, in _terra cotta_, of the lantern
+of Diogenes at Athens, ornamented with six Corinthian columns. It is
+used as an observatory, and, like its original, is associated with the
+name of the illustrious Grecian--it being also called the lantern of
+Diogenes. Its view of the subjacent plain overlooks the city of Paris by
+a distance of twenty miles.
+
+The fountains and _jets d'eau_ are entitled to special notice, although
+in extent and variety they are far exceeded by those of Versailles. The
+arrangement of the principal cascade is well contrived, and I had the
+good fortune to be present at the moment the water commenced flowing,
+which continued but a short time. This struck me as a singular piece of
+mimicry, and compared with those truly-sublime spectacles--the cascades
+of Nature--the boasted works of St. Cloud seemed mere playthings, like
+the little falls which children contrive in running brooks; or at best
+resembling hydraulic exhibitions on an extensive scale. The playing
+commenced by a jet bursting from a point almost secluded by trees, which
+appeared on a level with the first story of the palace; the stream then
+fell into stone basins, and by turns threw itself aloft, or gushed from
+the mouths of numberless marine animals, and descended by glassy falls
+into a basin, whence it found its way into several vase-shaped forms,
+and again descended by magnificent cascades, discharging themselves into
+a large, circular tank or basin, with two strong jets throwing their
+limpid streams many feet high. In the sculptured forms there is some
+display of classic design; and the effect of many mouths and forms
+gushing forth almost instantaneously was altogether that of magic art,
+not unaided by the lines of trees on two sides being clipped or cut into
+semi-arched forms. The most powerful of the fountains is, however, a
+grand jet, characteristically named the _Geant_, or giant, for the
+incredible force with which it springs from its basin, and rises 125
+feet high, being more than the elevation of Napoleon's triumphal column,
+in the Place Vendôme, at Paris. An uninterrupted view of these
+exhibitions may be enjoyed from the river, which runs parallel with the
+road adjoining the park. Crowds flocked from all directions to witness
+the first gush of the fountains; but their attention soon became
+directed to a royal party attended by footmen, from the palace, who came
+to witness the sights of the fair, and appeared especially amused with a
+family of vaulters and stilt-walkers. They were received with a slight
+buzz of curiosity, but without that enthusiasm with which the English
+are accustomed to recognise, and, not unfrequently, to annoy royalty;
+for here
+
+  No man cried, God save them.
+
+I now began to make a more minute survey of the preparations for
+amusement, for the fête was not yet in its equinoctial splendour. The
+most prominent of these were plots of the raised bank on one side, and
+at the termination of the principal walk, which were enclosed with
+hurdles or frames, a platform being elevated and decorated with
+festooned curtains, &c. for an orchestra, and the whole hung round with
+illumination lamps. Towards evening, but long before dark, these
+enclosures were blazing with variegated splendour; the bands commenced
+playing several lively French airs, and the area was occupied with
+groups of waltzing and quadrilling votaries. As the evening darkened,
+lamps began to glisten in every direction, and the well-lighted cafés
+resembled so many Chinese lanterns; and these, aided by the discordant
+sounds of scores of instruments, gave the whole scene an air of
+enchantment, or rather a slight resemblance to one of its exorcisms. The
+effect was, however, improved by distance. Accordingly, I stole through
+a solitary shrubbery walk, which wound round the hill, and at length led
+me to a forest-like spot, or straggling wood, which flanked the whole of
+the carnival. Viewed from hence, it was, indeed, a fantastical
+illustration of French gaiety, and it momentarily reminded me of some of
+Shakspeare's scenes of sylvan romance, with all their fays and fairy
+population.
+
+The English reader who has not witnessed one of the fêtes of St. Cloud,
+may probably associate them with his own Vauxhall; but the resemblance
+is very slight. At one of these entertainments in France, there is much
+less attempted, but considerably more effected, than in England; and all
+this is accomplished by that happy knack which the French possess of
+making much of a little. Of what did this fête consist--a few hundred
+lamps--a few score of fidlers, and about as much decoration as an
+English showman would waste on the exterior of his exhibition, or
+assemble within a few square yards. There were no long illuminated
+vistas, or temples and saloons red hot with oil and gas--but a few
+slender materials, so scattered and intermixed with the natural beauties
+of the park, as to fascinate, and not fatigue the eye and ear. Even the
+pell-mell frolics of St. Cloud were better idealities of enjoyment, than
+the splendid promenade of Vauxhall, in the days of its olden celebrity;
+for diamonds and feathers are often mere masquerade finery in such
+scenes--so distant are the heads and hearts of their wearers.[6]
+
+    [6] We are not permitted to allude to the fête of St. Cloud as a
+    scene of _pastoral_ amusement, or of the primitive simplicity
+    which is associated with that epithet. The French are not a
+    pastoral people, although they are not less so than the English;
+    neither are the suburbs of a metropolis rural life. They are too
+    near the pride of human art for pastoral pleasures, and no
+    aristocracy is more infested with little tyrants than the
+    neighbourhood of great cities, the oppressors being too timid to
+    trust themselves far out of the verge of public haunts, in the
+    midst of which they would be equally suspicious.
+
+    Amusements are at all times among the best indications of
+    national character; a truth which the ancients seem to have
+    exaggerated into their maxim _in vino veritas_. Here the
+    national comparison is not "odious." Three Sunday fairs are held
+    within six miles of Paris, in a park, as was once the custom at
+    Greenwich: the latter, though a royal park, does not boast of
+    the residence of royalty, as does St Cloud. The objection to the
+    day of the French fêtes is cleared by another argument. But what
+    would be the character of a week-day fair, or fête, in
+    Kensington Gardens? The intuitive answer will make the moral
+    observer regret that man should so often place the interdict on
+    his own happiness, and then peevishly repine at his uncheery
+    lot.
+
+Night, with her poetic glooms, only served to heighten the lustre of the
+fairy fête; and as I receded through the wood, the little shoal of light
+gleamed and twinkled through "branches overgrown," and the distant
+sounds began to fall into solitary silence--even saddening to
+meditation--so fast do the dying glories of festive mirth sink into
+melancholy--till at once, with the last gleam and echo, I found myself
+in a pleasant little glade on the brow of the hill. The day had been
+unusually hot--all was hushed stillness. But the darkening clouds were
+fast gathering into black masses:--
+
+  The rapid lightning flames along the sky.
+  What terrible event does this portend?
+
+The stifling heat of the atmosphere was, however, soon changed by slight
+gusts of wind; the leaves trembled; and a few heavy drops of rain fell
+as harbingers of the coming storm; the pattering ceased; an impressive
+pause succeeded--broken by the deepening roar of thunder.
+
+The threatening storm hastened my return to the focus of the carnival.
+The partial sprinkling had already caused many of the dancers to
+withdraw to the cafés, and to the most sheltered parts of the park. The
+lightning became more and more vivid; and, at length, the thousands who
+had lingered in these groups of gaiety, were fairly routed by pelting
+rain; and the park, with a few lamps flickering out, and decorative
+finery drenched with rain, presented a miserable contrast with the
+festivities of the previous hour. The crowd streamed through the
+park-gate into the village, where hundreds of competitors shouted
+"Paris, Paris;" and their swarms of diligences, cabriolets, and
+curtained carts, were soon freighted. One of these charioteers engaged
+to convey me to Paris for half a franc, in a large, covered cart, with
+oil-skin curtains to protect the passengers in front. To my surprise I
+found the vehicle pre-occupied by twelve or fourteen well-dressed
+persons--male and female, who appeared to forget their inconvenient
+situation in sallies of laughter, which sometimes bordered on boisterous
+mirth. The storm increased; lamps gleamed and flitted across the road;
+many of the horses plunged with their heavy loads, and swept along the
+line in resistless confusion; for nothing can be less characteristic of
+timidity than French driving.
+
+On reaching Paris, the streets resembled so many torrents, and in most
+places were not fordable, notwithstanding scores of persons, with the
+alacrity of mushrooms after rain, had placed themselves at the narrowest
+parts of the streams, with raised planks, or temporary bridges for
+crossing. Our load was _landed_ under the arcade of the Hotel de Ville;
+but the driver, in the genuine spirit of a London hackney-coachman, did
+not forget to turn the "ill-wind" to his own account, by importuning me
+for a double fare.
+
+I learned that the storm had been less tremendous in its consequences at
+St. Cloud and Paris than at Versailles, the lightning having consumed a
+farm-house and barns near that town. It is an event worthy of notice,
+from its being part of the phenomenon of what is termed a returning
+stroke of lightning, the circumstances of which are recorded in a recent
+number of Brande's philosophical journal.--_Abridged from "Cameleon
+Sketches," by the author of the "Promenade round Dorking."_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALFREDE AND MATYLDA.
+
+WRITTEN BY ROBERT HAIEWOODE, OF CHEPING-TORITON, IN 1520.
+
+
+  The bryghtt enamell of the mornyng's gleame
+  Begann to daunce onn bobblynge Avonn's streame,
+  As yothefull Alfrede and Matylda fayre
+  Stoode sorowynge bie, ennobledd bie despayre:
+  Att tymes theyr lypps the tynts of Autumpe wore,
+  Att tymes a palerr hewe thann wynterr bore;
+  And faste the rayne of love bedew'dd theyr eyne,
+  As thos, in earnefull[7] strayns, theyr tenes[8] theie dyd
+    bewreene.[9]
+
+  ALFREDE.
+
+  Ah! iff we parte, ne moe to meete agayne,
+  Wythyn thie wydow'dd berte wyll everr brenn
+  The frostie vygyls of a cloysterr'd nun,
+  Insteade of faerie[10] love's effulgentt sonne!
+  Ne moe with myne wyll carolynge[11] beatt hie,
+  Gyve throbb for throbb, and sygh returne forr sygh,
+  Butt bee bie nyghtt congeall'dd bie lethall feares,
+  Bie daie consum'dd awaie inn unavaylynge teares!
+
+  MATYLDA.
+
+  Alas! howe soone is happlesse love ondonne,
+  Wytherr'd and deadde almostt beforre begunn:
+  Lych Marchh's openyng flowrs thatt sygh'dd forr Maie,
+  Which Apryll's teares inn angerr wash'dd awaie.
+  Onr tenes alych, alych our domes shall bee,
+  Where'err thou wander'stt I wyll followe thee;
+  And whann our sprytes throughe feere are purg'dd fromm claie,
+  Inn pees theie shalle repose upponn the mylkie waie.
+
+  ALFREDE.
+
+  The raynbowe hewes that payntt the laughyng mees,[12]
+  The gule-stayn'dd[13] folyage of the okenn trees,
+  The starrie spangells of the mornynge dewe,
+  The laverock's matyn songes and skies of blewe,
+  Maie weel the thotes of gentill shepherdds joie.
+  Whose hertes ne hopelesse loves or cares alloie;
+  Butt whatt cann seeme to teneful loverrs fayre.
+  Whose hopes butt darkenns moe the mydnyghtt of despayre?
+
+  MATYLDA.
+
+  To thotelesse swayns itt maie bee blyss indeede,
+  To marke the yeare through alle hys ages speede,
+  Butt everie seasone seemes alych to mee,
+  Eternall wynterr whann awaie from thee!
+  Fromm howrr to howrr I oftt beweepe ourr love,
+  Wyth all the happie sorowe of the dove,
+  And fancie, as itts sylentt waterrs flowe,
+  Mie bosome's swetestt joies mustt thos bee mientt[14] wyth woe.
+
+  Palerr thann cloudes thatt stayne the azure nyghtt,
+  Or starrs thatt shoote beneathe theyr feeble lyghtt,
+  And eke as crymson as the mornyng's rode,[15]
+  The lornlie[16] payre inn dumbe dystracyon stoode
+  Whann onn the banke Matylda sonke and dyed,
+  And Alfrede plong'dd hys daggerr inn hys syde:
+  Hys purpell soule came roshynge fromm the wounde,
+  And o'err the lyfeless claie deathe's ensygns stream'dd arownde.
+
+  _Literary Gazette._
+
+    [7] Tender.
+    [8] Woes.
+    [9] Express.
+    [10] Fiery.
+    [11] Dancing.
+    [12] Meadows.
+    [13] Blood-coloured.
+    [14] Mingled.
+    [15] Complexion.
+    [16] Forlorn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+
+FOX HUNTING.
+
+
+"Well, do you know, that after all you have said, Mr. North, I cannot
+understand the passion and the pleasure of fox-hunting. It seems to me
+both cruel and dangerous."
+
+Cruelty! Is there cruelty in laying the rein on their necks, and
+delivering them up to the transport of their high condition--for every
+throbbing vein is visible--at the first full burst of that maddening
+cry, and letting loose to their delight the living thunderbolts? Danger!
+What danger but breaking their own legs, necks, or backs, and those of
+their riders? And what right have you to complain of that, lying all
+your length, a huge hulking fellow snoring and snorting half asleep on a
+sofa, sufficient to sicken a whole street? What though it be but a
+smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears, and
+passionately fond of poultry, that they pursue? After the first tallyho,
+Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon--once perhaps in the
+whole run, skirting a wood, or crossing a common. It is an idea that is
+pursued, on a whirlwind of horses to a storm of canine music,--worthy,
+both, of the largest lion that ever leaped among a band of Moors,
+sleeping at midnight by an extinguished fire on the African sands. There
+is, we verily believe it, nothing foxy in the fancy of one man in all
+that glorious field of three hundred. Once off and away--while wood and
+welkin rings--and nothing is felt--nothing is imaged in that hurricane
+flight, but scorn of all obstructions, dikes, ditches, drains, brooks,
+palings, canals, rivers, and all the impediments reared in the way of so
+many rejoicing madmen, by nature, art, and science, in an enclosed,
+cultivated, civilized, and Christian country. There they go--prince and
+peer, baronet and squire,--the nobility and gentry of England, the
+flower of the men of the earth, each on such steed as Pollux never
+reined, nor Philip's warlike son--for could we imagine Bucephalus here,
+ridden by his own tamer, Alexander would be thrown out during the very
+first burst, and glad to find his way dismounted to a village alehouse
+for a pail of meal and water. Hedges, trees, groves, gardens, orchards,
+woods, farm-houses, huts, halls, mansions, palaces, spires, steeples,
+towers, and temples, all go wavering by, each demigod seeing, or seeing
+them not, as his winged steed skims or labours along, to the swelling or
+sinking music, now loud as a near regimental band, now faint as an echo.
+Far and wide over the country are dispersed the scarlet runners--and a
+hundred villages pour forth their admiring swarms, as the main current
+of the chase roars by, or disparted runlets float wearied and all
+astray, lost at last in the perplexing woods. Crash goes the top-timber
+of the five-barred gate--away over the ears flies the ex-rough-rider in
+a surprising somerset--after a succession of stumbles, down is the
+gallant Grey on knees and nose, making sad work among the
+fallow--Friendship is a fine thing, and the story of Damon and Pythias
+most affecting indeed--but Pylades eyes Orestes on his back sorely
+drowned in sludge, and tenderly leaping over him as he lies, claps his
+hand to his ear, and with a "hark forward, tan-tivy!" leaves him to
+remount, lame and at leisure--and ere the fallen has risen and shook
+himself, is round the corner of the white village-church, down the dell,
+over the brook, and close on the heels of the straining pack, all a-yell
+up the hill crowned by the Squire's Folly. "Every man for himself, and
+God for us all," is the devout and ruling apothegm of the day. If death
+befall, what wonder? since man and horse are mortal; but death loves
+better a wide soft bed with quiet curtains and darkened windows in a
+still room, the clergyman in the one corner with his prayers, and the
+physician in another with his pills, making assurance doubly sure, and
+preventing all possibility of the dying Christian's escape. Let oak
+branches smite the too slowly stooping skull, or rider's back not timely
+levelled with his steed's; let faithless bank give way, and bury in the
+brook; let hidden drain yield to fore feet and work a sudden wreck; let
+old coal-pit, with briery mouth, betray; and roaring river bear down man
+and horse, to banks unscaleable by the very Welsh goat; let duke's or
+earl's son go sheer over a quarry fifty feet deep, and as many high;
+yet, "without stop or stay, down the rocky way," the hunter train flows
+on; for the music grows fiercer and more savage,--lo! all that remains
+together of the pack, in far more dreadful madness than hydrophobia,
+leaping out of their skins, under insanity from the scent, now strong as
+stink, for Vulpes can hardly now make a crawl of it; and ere he, they,
+whipper-in, or any one of the other three demoniacs, have time to look
+in one another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand pieces,
+gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, and
+warm, and cozey, as he was an hour and twenty-five minutes ago exactly,
+in his furze bush in the cover,--he is now piece-meal, in about thirty
+distinct stomachs; and is he not, pray, well off for sepulture?--
+_Blackwood's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BLIND BEAUTY OF THE MOOR.
+
+(_A Fragment._)
+
+
+To thee--O palest phantom--clothed in white raiment, not like unto a
+ghost risen with its grave-clothes to appal, but like a seraph
+descending from the skies to bless--unto thee will we dare to speak, as
+through the mist of years back comes thy yet unfaded beauty, charming
+us, while we cannot choose but weep, with the self-same vision that
+often glided before us long, long ago in the wilderness, and at the
+sound of our voice would pause for a little while, and then pass by,
+like a white bird from the sea, floating unscared close by the
+shepherd's head, or alighting to trim its plumes on a knoll far up an
+inland glen! Death seems not to have touched that face, pale though it
+be--life-like is the waving of those gentle hands--and the soft, sweet,
+low music which now we hear, steals not sure from lips hushed by the
+burial-mould! Restored by the power of love, she stands before us as she
+stood of yore. Not one of all the hairs of her golden head was singed by
+the lightning that shivered the tree under which the child had run for
+shelter from the flashing sky. But in a moment the blue light in her
+dewy eyes was dimmed--and never again did she behold either flower or
+star. Yet all the images of all the things she had loved remained in her
+memory, clear and distinct as the things themselves before
+unextinguished eyes--and ere three summers had flown over head, which,
+like the blossom of some fair perennial flower, in heaven's gracious dew
+and sunshine each season lifted its loveliness higher and higher in the
+light--she could trip her singing way through the wide wilderness, all
+by her joyful self, led, as all believed, nor erred they in so
+believing, by an angel's hand! When the primroses peeped through the
+reviving grass upon the vernal braes, they seemed to give themselves
+into her hand; and 'twas thought they hung longer unfaded round her neck
+or forehead than if they had been left to drink the dew on their native
+bed. The linnets ceased not their lays, though her garment touched the
+broomstalk on which they sung. The cushat, as she thrid her way through
+the wood, continued to croon in her darksome tree--and the lark,
+although just dropped from the cloud, was cheered by her presence into a
+new passion of song, and mounted over her head, as if it were his first
+matin hymn. All the creatures of earth and air manifestly loved the
+Wanderer of the Wilderness--and as for human beings, she was named, in
+their pity, their wonder, and their delight, the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!
+
+She was an only child, and her mother had died in giving her birth. And
+now her father, stricken by one of the many cruel diseases that shorten
+the lives of shepherds on the hills, was bed-ridden--and he was poor. Of
+all words ever syllabled by human lips, the most blessed is--Charity. No
+manna now in the wilderness is rained from heaven--for the mouths of the
+hungry need it not in this our Christian land. A few goats feeding among
+the rocks gave them milk, and there was bread for them in each
+neighbour's house--neighbour though miles afar--as the sacred duty came
+round--and the unrepining poor sent the grateful child away with their
+prayers.
+
+One evening, returning to the hut with her usual song, she danced up to
+her father's face on his rushy bed, and it was cold in death. If she
+shrieked--if she fainted--there was but one ear that heard, one eye that
+saw her in her swoon. Not now floating light like a small moving cloud
+unwilling to leave the flowery braes, though it be to melt in heaven,
+but driven along like a shroud of flying mist before the tempest, she
+came upon us in the midst of that dreary moss; and at the sound of our
+quaking voice, fell down with clasped hands at our feet--"My father's
+dead!" Had the hut put already on the strange, dim, desolate look of
+mortality? For people came walking fast down the braes, and in a little
+while there was a group round us, and we bore her back again to her
+dwelling in our arms. As for us, we had been on our way to bid the fair
+creature and her father farewell. How could she have lived--an utter
+orphan--in such a world! The holy power that is in Innocence would for
+ever have remained with her; but Innocence longs to be away, when her
+sister Joy has departed; and 'tis sorrowful to see the one on earth,
+when the other has gone to heaven! This sorrow none of us had long to
+see; for though a flower, when withered at the root, and doomed ere eve
+to perish, may yet look to the careless eye the same as when it
+blossomed in its pride,--its leaves, still green, are not as once they
+were,--its bloom, though fair, is faded--and at set of sun, the dews
+shall find it in decay, and fall unfelt on all its petals. Ere Sabbath
+came, the orphan child was dead. Methinks we see now her little funeral.
+Her birth had been the humblest of the humble; and though all in life
+had loved her, it was thought best that none should be asked to the
+funeral of her and her father, but two or three friends; the old
+clergyman himself walked at the head of the father's coffin--we at the
+head of the daughter's--for this was granted unto our exceeding
+love;--and thus passed away for ever the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+  A snapper up of unconsidered trifles,
+  SHAKSPEARE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EPICURISM.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+At a public dinner, Captain R. commencing a conversation with a
+gentleman next to him, was astonished at not being able to elicit one
+word in answer. At length his silent neighbour turned to him, and said,
+with a look and tone suitable to the _importance_ of the communication,
+"Sir, whenever you are at a venison feast, let me advise you _never to
+speak during dinner_. In endeavouring to reply to you, I have actually
+at this moment swallowed _entire_ a fine piece of fat, _without tasting
+it_!"
+
+J.G.R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An Englishman, named _Drinkwater_, was nearly drowned the other day off
+Boulogne; on hearing which, a wag observed that he had "almost taken a
+drop too much."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FLY WATER.
+
+
+Prussic Acid has been obtained from the leaves of _green tea_, in so
+concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog almost instantaneously.
+A strong infusion of Souchong tea, sweetened with sugar, is as effectual
+in poisoning flies as the solution of arsenic, generally sold for that
+purpose.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There may now be seen, written on a board on a new house in the
+Blackfriars-road, the following words:--"Hird robeish may be had heare."
+
+BILLY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NO JOKE OR RIDDLE.
+
+
+  A house with wings extended wide,
+    A racket-ground to play in,
+  Two porters' lodges there beside,
+    And porters always staying
+  To guard the inmates there within,
+    And keep them from the town;
+  From duns as free as saints from sin,
+    And sheriffs of renown.
+  To get white wash'd it is their plan,
+    'Tis such a cleansing thing--
+  Then out they come with blacker hands
+    Than when they first went in.
+
+P.H.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park, written in
+chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to have been written
+by one who meditated suicide:--
+
+  Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,
+  Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,
+  Oh! damn'd despair to shun the living light,
+  And plunge thy guilty soul to endless night.
+
+Written also in the same hand:--Charlotte Rumpling, you did not use me
+well, but I forgive you--God bless you.
+
+EDWIN W----.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+WANTS A WIFE.
+
+
+She must bee middel eaged and good tempered widdow, or a Maid, and
+pursest of propertey, and I wood far reather have a Wife that is ever so
+plain then a fine Lady that think herself hansom; the Advertiser is not
+rich nor young, old nor poor, and in a very few years he will have a
+good incumb. Can be hiley reckamended for onestey, sobrieaty, and good
+temperd, and has no in combranc, is very actif, but not a treadesman,
+have been as Butler and Bailiff for meney years in most respectable
+families, and shood I not be so luckey as to get me a wife, wood be most
+willing to take a sitteyeashan once moor, wood prefer living in the
+countrey, under stands Brewing feamosley, is well adapted for a inn or
+publick hous. Please to derect W.W., 268, Berwick-street, Oxford-roade,
+or aney Ladey may call and have a interview with the widdow that keeps
+the hous, and say wher and when we can meet each other. All letters must
+be pd, no Ofice-keeper to applygh. My fameley ar verey well off and
+welthey, far above the midling order.
+
+This is a good joke upon _Matrimonial Advertising_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Jack Bannister visited the Haymarket theatre on Wednesday night, August
+20, and made in the free-list book the following entry:--"Fifty years
+ago, in the year 1778, I made my first appearance at this theatre. Half
+a century is not bad. Hurra!! John Bannister."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT.
+
+
+In reading over an agreement, for letting a house, the other day, the
+initials of the party letting it were A.B., of the party taking C.D.,
+and of the witness to the signatures E.F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE.
+
+
+Obstinacy and perseverance, though often confounded, are two very
+different things; a man may be very obstinate, and yet not persevere in
+his opinion ten minutes. Obstinacy is resistance to truth; perseverance
+is a continuance in truth or error.
+
+T.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+IDOLATRY.
+
+
+The origin of idolatry is by many attributed to the age of Eber, though
+most of the fathers place it no higher than that of Serug; but it
+appears to me certain, that image worship existed in the time of Jacob,
+from the account of Rachel taking images along with her on leaving her
+father's house, which is given in the book of Genesis.
+
+T.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ORIGIN OF THE WORD GALLIMATHIAS.
+
+
+This word, which signifies nonsense, _alias_ talk without meaning, is
+supposed to have first arisen at the time when all pleadings at the bar
+were in Latin. There was a cause, it seems, about a cock, belonging to
+the plaintiff Matthias; the counsel, in the heat of the harangue, by
+often repeating the words _gallus_ and _Matthias_, happened to blunder,
+and, instead of saying _gallus Matthiae_, said _galli Matthias_, which
+at length became a general name for all confused, embroiled language and
+discourse.
+
+P.T.W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SALLIE TO JOHN.
+
+
+  Changed ere long shall my fortunes be,
+  Yet my faith is firm--I will go with thee.
+  I yield not weakly to fancy's trance,
+  Or the fitful flame of young romance;
+  I dwell with a calm, unshrinking mind
+  On the scenes that I seek and leave behind;
+  My future fate spread forth I see,
+  And my choice is fix'd--I will go with thee.
+
+  I have thought on this hour with many a tear,
+  In the timid weakness of woman's fear;
+  It comes, and I rise, the test above,
+  In the dauntless strength of woman's love.
+  Gaze not upon me with looks so sad--
+  My step is firm, and my heart is glad;
+  This last, last sigh for my home shall be--
+  Past is the trial--I go with thee.
+
+_Dublin_.
+
+JAN RHI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Diogenes was not in the wrong, who, when the great Alexander, finding
+him in the charnel-house, asked him what he was seeking for, answered,
+"I am seeking for your father's bones, and those of my slave; but I
+cannot find them, because there is no difference between them."
+
+G.K.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GETTING A JOURNEY.
+
+_By Dr. Kitchiner_.
+
+
+I GOT on horseback within ten minutes after I received your letter. When
+I GOT to Canterbury, I GOT a chaise for town. But I GOT wet through
+before I GOT to Canterbury, and I have GOT such a cold as I shall not be
+able to GET rid of in a hurry. I GOT to the Treasury about noon, but
+first of all I GOT shaved and drest. I soon GOT into the secret of
+GETTING a memorial before the board, but I could not GET an answer then;
+however, I GOT intelligence from the messenger that I should most likely
+GET one next morning. As soon as I GOT back to my inn, I GOT my supper
+and GOT to bed. It was not long before I GOT to sleep. When I GOT up in
+the morning, I GOT my breakfast, and then GOT myself drest, that I might
+GET out in time, to GET an answer to my memorial. As soon as I GOT it, I
+GOT into the chaise, and GOT home by three o'clock.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement,
+and Instruction, by Various
+
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+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page145" name="page145"></a>[pg
+145]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+OF<br />
+LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+<tr>
+<td align="left"><b>Vol. 12. No. 330.]</b></td>
+<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828</b></td>
+<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page146" name="page146"></a>[pg
+146]</span>
+<h2>WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?</h2>
+<blockquote>
+<p>We cannot help it.&mdash;<i>Massinger's Roman Actor.</i></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating topics of
+the day; on the second of these heads we have thrown together a few
+hints, which may, probably prove entertaining to our readers.</p>
+<p>The English are not&mdash;you know, reflective public&mdash;a
+musical people; this has been said over and over again in the
+musical and dramatic critiques of the newspapers. True it is that
+we have no <i>national music</i>, like our neighbours the Welsh,
+the Irish, or the Scotch; for our music, like out language, is a
+mere <i>riccifamento</i>, stolen from every nation in Europe. But
+our king (God bless him) is an excellent musician, and plays the
+violoncello most delightfully; and we have an Academy of Music.
+Then we have an Italian Theatre that burns the feet and fingers of
+all who meddle with its management&mdash;witness, Mr. Ebers, who,
+by being "married" to sweet sounds, lost the enormous sum of
+47,000<i>l</i>.&mdash;it must be owned, an unfortunate match, or as
+Dr. Franklin would have said, "paying rather too dear for his
+whistle." We have too an <i>English Opera House</i>, where scarcely
+any but <i>foreign</i> music is heard, and which, to the
+ever-lasting credit of its management, has transplanted from the
+warm climes of the south to our ungenial atmosphere, some of the
+finest compositions in the continental schools of modern music.
+Success has, however, attended most of their enterprises; for the
+taste of the English for foreign music is by no means a modern
+mania. From Pepys's <i>Diary</i> we learn that the first company of
+Italian singers came here in the reign of Charles II.: they were
+brought by Killigrew from Venice, about 1688; but they did not
+perform whole operas, only detached scenes in recitative, and not
+in any public theatre, but in the houses of the nobility. Thus,
+Italian music was loved and cultivated very early in England, and
+London was the next capital, after Vienna, which established and
+supported an Italian Opera. But, as we never do things by halves,
+we had soon afterwards, two opposition houses. This proves that the
+English have a <i>taste for music</i>; indeed they have much more
+judgment than some of their neighbours, which makes it still more
+to be regretted that nothing is done in England towards the
+advancement of music as a science. Is the world of sound and the
+soul of song exhausted? Why should we, who are marching in every
+other direction, stand still in this? But no; what Orpheus did with
+<i>music</i>, we are striving to accomplish by <i>steam</i>; what
+he effected by quietly touching his lyre, we study with the
+atmospheres and condensers of high and low pressure engines.</p>
+<p>The writer of a delightful paper in the <i>Foreign Review</i>,
+No. 3, in tracing the rise and progress of music, inquires what has
+become of "its loftier pretensions, its celestial attributes, its
+moral and political influence." He then facetiously observes, "How
+should we marvel to see the Duke of Wellington, like another
+Epaminondas, take his flute out of his pocket to still the clamour
+of the opposition, or Mr. Peel reply to the arguments of Mr.
+Huskisson with an allegro on the fiddle."</p>
+<p>The Greeks were not such grave people as some may be inclined to
+think them. Among them, poetry and music were so intimately
+connected, that they were in fact one and the same. It is not so
+with us; we have Byron and Moore, in poetry; but where are their
+parallels in English music!</p>
+<p>"Music," says Plutarch, "was the universal language of Greece,
+the sacred vehicle of history, philosophy, laws, and morals;" but
+in England it is little more than a mere amusement to while away
+the evening, or at best, but a branch of <i>female</i> education.
+Pianos are become articles of furniture to be met with in almost
+every other genteel house; Miss and her sisters sit down by turns,
+and screw themselves up to <i>Ah vous dirai</i>, or "I'd be a
+butterfly"&mdash;till some handsome young fellow who has stood
+behind her chair for six months, turned over her music, or
+accompanied her through a few liquorish airs, vows his tender
+passion, brings her the last new song, and at length swears to be
+her accompaniment throughout life. The piano is then locked up, the
+music sent to Bath or <i>Canterbury</i>, and the lady is married
+and cannot sing.</p>
+<p>But the Greek poets sang their own verses: "Homer literally
+<i>sang</i> the wrath of Achilles, and the woes of Greece;" would
+it were so in England. Then, my poetical public, we should have
+Anacreon Moore singing his "Rich and rare were the gems she wore,"
+in some such place as the Quadrant, or Opera Colonnade; and Sir
+Walter Scott celebrating the Field of Waterloo, not in the
+broad-margined octavos of Paternoster-row, but about the purlieus
+of the Horse Guards. Wordsworth would be his own Skylark. The
+laureate, Southey, would perch himself on the dome of the New
+Palace. Campbell would step out of New Burlingtonstreet into the
+Park; Miss Mitford would <span class="pagenum"><a id="page147"
+name="page147"></a>[pg 147]</span> keep a Covent-Garden audience
+awake with her own tragedies, and Planch&eacute; would no longer
+entrust his rhymes to Paton or Vestris. On the other hand, Braham
+would no longer be indebted to Moore for his songs, Bishop would
+write, compose, and sing his own operas, and all our vocalists
+enter, like Dryden's king and two fiddlers, <i>solus</i>!</p>
+<p>Could we but once become a musical people, we should no longer
+marvel at the effect of music in ancient times; for who knows but
+that if an Englishman were to play like Orpheus, the River Thames
+might cease to flow; the disposal of Mr. Cross's menagerie be no
+longer a question, since the animals might be allowed to ramble
+about the Strand; and Snowdon or Cader Idris journey to the King's
+Theatre to listen to his inspirations.</p>
+<p>It is, however, impossible to calculate the benefits which this
+acquisition of musical skill might prove to the English people.
+What bloodshed and tribulation it would prevent. Weare, or Maria
+Marten, like Stradella, might have disarmed their assassins; the
+Insolvent Act would be obsolete, and duns defeated; since hundreds
+of improvident wights, like Palma, might, by their strains, soften
+the hearts of their creditors, and draw tears from sheriff's
+officers. Chancery-lane would be depopulated, and Cursitor-street
+be left to the fowls of the air; locks would fall 50 per cent, and
+Mr. Bramah might betake himself to Van Dieman's Land. What a
+pleasant thing would a public dinner be; for, instead of a
+gentleman in a dress coat singing as from the orchestra of an
+oratorio, he would throw a more impassioned energy into his own
+compositions than he could possibly impart to those of another, and
+proportionally enhance the delight of his company. All the
+mechanism of professional singing would then give way to "the feast
+of reason and the flow of soul."</p>
+<p>We know not how to have done with these pleasures of "linked
+sweetness"&mdash;this "mosaic of the air," as Marvell quaintly
+calls it. We have a decided aversion to the system of borrowing,
+which, in the absence of our own musical resources, seems to be
+universally adopted. Thus, as Charles Mathews says, "every footman
+whistles <i>Frieschutz</i>;" and the barrel organ which does not
+play two or three of its airs may be consigned to the brokers. A
+few months since every bachelor hummed or whistled "<i>C'est
+l'amour</i>," and the French, to return the compliment, have made
+our "Robin Adair," one of the claptraps of the music of their <i>La
+Dame Blanche</i>. Next, when will Mr. Bishop's <i>Home, sweet
+home</i>, be forgotten, although the original is a Sicilian air of
+considerable antiquity. All the baker's and butcher's boys in
+London can go through "<i>Di tanti pal</i>"&mdash;where they leave
+off, answer a question, and take up the "<i>piti</i>," with the
+skill of a musician; and as readily fall into the sympathetic
+melodies of "<i>Oh no we never mention her</i>," or the "<i>Light
+Guitar</i>." But to atone for these vulgarisms, who that has heard
+the syren strains of Stephens or Paton, or the Anglo-Italian style
+of Braham, but has envied them the pleasurable monopoly of
+delighting thousands, and sending them home with the favourite air
+still echoing in their ears, and lulling them to soft slumbers! Who
+is there that has enjoyed his circle of friends without regretting
+a thousand times that he had not a fiftieth part of such talent to
+enliven the festive hour, and lend a charm, however, fleeting, to
+what may be termed the poetry of life.</p>
+<p>As we have noticed the taste of the Greeks for music, it is but
+fair that we should allude to that of their successors. In ancient
+Rome, music was never popular. Combats of gladiators and wild
+beasts filled their theatres with streams of blood, instead of
+their resounding with music; and after the death of Nero,<a id=
+"footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> that beautiful art was declared
+infamous, and by a public decree, banished from the city. In our
+theatres, however, heroes fight to music, from the Richard III. and
+Richmond of Shakspeare to the "terrific combats" of modern
+melodrame.</p>
+<p>Anything is, however, better than despair, and let us hope that
+something may be done towards the amendment of our musical
+reputation. We have too much of what Cobbett would call the
+"dead-weight" in us to become adopted by Apollo as the "children of
+song;" but what with the school of music in Tenterden-street, and
+numberless juvenile prodigies, we may indulge the expectation of
+rising in the diatonic scale, and that too at no very distant
+period. Burney and Crotch were remarkable instances of precocious
+musical skill; and in the present day, children from eight to
+twelve sing the most popular Italian airs on the English stage,
+with remarkable accuracy.</p>
+<p>Apropos, we hear of constitutions being set to music, for says
+the <i>Foreign Review</i>, <span class="pagenum"><a id="page148"
+name="page148"></a>[pg 148]</span> "during the short revolution at
+Naples, in 1820, a Neapolitan was heard to swear that if the
+government intended that the new constitution should be understood
+or accepted by the people, they must first have it set to music by
+Rossini."</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.</h2>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/330-1.png" alt=
+"Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park" /></a></div>
+<p>We are again in the <i>Regents Park</i>; but we must leave its
+architectural splendour for the present, and request our readers to
+accompany us towards the eastern verge of the Park, to the Gardens
+of the Zoological Society, established in 1826, and whose members
+now amount to <i>eleven hundred</i>! The grounds are daily filled
+with fashionable company, notwithstanding the great migrations
+which usually take place at this season of the year, and almost
+depopulate the western hemisphere of fashion. The gardens,
+independent of their zoological attractions, are a delightful
+promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres
+boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The animals, too, are seen
+to much greater advantage than when shut up in a menagerie, and
+have the luxury of fresh air, instead of unwholesome respiration in
+a room or caravan.<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+"footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
+<p>At page 413 of our last volume, the reader will find an abstract
+of the second anniversary of the Society, since which the Gardens
+in the Regent's Park have been opened for public inspection. We
+have accordingly availed ourselves of this privilege, and our
+draughtsman has been at some pains in the annexed sketch, together
+with the vignette <i>portraits</i> accompanying it. The
+"<i>Bird's-Eye View</i>" will be better explained by reference to
+the figures; thus,</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>1. Entrance Gate and Pay Hut.</p>
+<p>2. Ditto Check Hut.</p>
+<p>3. House and Ground for <i>Emus</i>:</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Two awkward land birds, resembling ostriches. Their incapability
+of flying is compensated by the exceeding speed with which they
+run. They are natives of New Holland.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>4. Central Walk.</p>
+<p>5. Sloping Shrubbery of Defence.</p>
+<p>6. Fields for Horses and Cattle.</p>
+<p>7. Building for <i>Bears,</i>,</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-2.png"><img width="50%" src="images/330-2.png" alt=
+"Building for Bears" /></a></div>
+<p>communicating with their pit, in the centre of which is a pole
+with steps for the animals to ascend and descend. At the extremity
+of the upper walk, the pit is surrounded with a dwarf wall and
+coping, to which (since our sketch was taken) have been added iron
+rails. There are here two Arctic bears, and a small black bear, the
+latter brought from Russia,<a id="footnotetag3" name=
+"footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> and
+presented to the Society, by the Marquess of Hertford. There is
+usually a crowd of visiters about this spot, and the sagacity and
+antics of our four-footed friends ensure them liberal supplies of
+cakes and fruit, handed to them on a pole. We were much interested
+with their tricks, especially with the vexation betrayed by one of
+them, at the top of the pole, when he saw his companion below seize
+a cake which the former had previously eyed with great <i>gout</i>.
+His wringing and biting his paws reminded us of many scenes out of
+a bear-pit. Then the snorting and snarling of the old bear below,
+when the young one attempted to obtain a cake thrown to him; and
+above all, the small share which our black friend <i>Toby</i>
+enjoyed, probably from his docility over-much,&mdash;like
+good-natured men who are mastered by those of rough natures. We
+could have staid here a whole hour, watching their antics, and
+likening them to the little trickery of human nature.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>8 and 9. Ground enclosed for <i>Kangaroos</i>,</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page149" name="page149"></a>[pg
+149]</span>
+<p>of which there is a little herd, large and small. They are
+natives of New Holland. The fore legs are seldom more than twenty
+inches in length, whilst the hinder ones are sometimes three feet
+and a half long. They rest on the whole length of the hind feet,
+supporting themselves by the base of the tail, which, in truth,
+acts as a fifth leg, and is sometimes used as a weapon, being of
+such strength as to break a man's leg at a single blow. They move
+by leaps, which have been known to exceed twenty feet. Several
+kangaroos have been kept in the park at Richmond, and where they
+have produced young ones.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>10. <i>Dens</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>containing two fine <i>leopards, a porcupine</i>, and
+<i>racoons</i>. In an adjoining den are three <i>wolves.</i></p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>11. Gothic House for <i>Lamas</i>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-3.png"><img width="60%" src="images/330-3.png" alt=
+"Gothic House for Lamas" /></a></div>
+<p>This is one of the most picturesque objects in the grounds. It
+contains two lamas. These animals are common in South America,
+particularly in the mountainous parts of Peru, where they are
+employed as beasts of burthen. One of the lamas was presented to
+the Society by the Duke of Bedford.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>12. Circular Aviary for <i>Birds of Prey</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>containing a <i>fine griffon vulture</i>, a white-headed
+<i>North American eagle, hawks, falcons</i>, and <i>owls</i>; among
+the latter is the <i>great horned owl</i>. This is supposed by
+Linnaeus, and many antiquaries, to have been the bird of Minerva.
+The collection is remarkably splendid.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>13. Hut for <i>Beavers</i>.</p>
+<p>14. Hut for <i>Foreign Goats.</i></p>
+<p>15. Enclosed Area and Fountain for <i>Aquatic Birds</i>, as
+pelicans,</p>
+<p>Solan geese, China geese, black swans, &amp;c.</p>
+<p>16. Aviary.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills,
+together with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose
+brilliant plumage outvies the gayest robe of art, and three
+curassos.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>17. Grove and Huts for <i>Esquimaux Dogs</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>of which there are three fine specimens.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>18. Fountain, &amp;c. for <i>Water Fowl</i>.</p>
+<p>19. Enclosure for <i>Zebras, Indian Cows, &amp;c</i>.</p>
+<p>20. Houses on poles for <i>Monkeys</i>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-4.png"><img width="50%" src="images/330-4.png" alt=
+"Houses on poles for Monkeys" /></a></div>
+<p>These are distributed beside the walks. The monkey is attached
+by a chain to a ring loosely round the pole, by which means he
+ascends and descends at pleasure.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>21. Intended Aviary, (supposed for <i>Eagles, Vultures</i>,
+&amp;c.).</p>
+<p>22. Twenty acres about to be added.</p>
+<p>23. House for <i>Monkeys, &amp;c</i>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Here are double rows of cages, containing a fine South American
+ocelot, a lynx, a puma, coatamondis, an ichneumon, and several
+monkeys; the last affording an excellent opportunity of
+appreciating the fidelity of Mr. Landseer's <i>Monkeyana,</i> and
+illustrating the vraisemblance of men and monkeys.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>24. Intended Aviary.</p>
+<p>25. Mexican <i>Hogs,</i> &amp;c.</p>
+<p>26. Huts for <i>Jackalls,</i> &amp;c.</p>
+<p>27. Unfinished Houses.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The carriage-road is formed of the outer side of the Park.</p>
+<p>There is likewise an enclosure for <i>Tortoises</i>, of which
+there are three large and several small ones. We saw one of them
+devouring pumpkin as a gourmand would turtle, and this voracity is
+by weather-wise <span class="pagenum"><a id="page150" name=
+"page150"></a>[pg 150]</span> people considered as a sure
+indication of rain. This turtle is believed to be very old; he is
+of stupendous size, but buried as he was (except his neck) with
+shell, he soon became aware of the approach of his companion,
+nearly as large, and accordingly ate with increased greediness.
+Among the birds, too, should be mentioned several beautiful
+varieties of pheasants, partridges, &amp;c. which are well worth
+the attention of the visiter.</p>
+<p>We have probably passed over many animals, our object being
+merely to mention a few of the most interesting for their habits
+and peculiarities. Of course the collection is as yet incomplete,
+there being neither lion, tiger, hyaena, elephant, nor rhinoceros;
+but when it is considered that the Society has been established
+little more than two years, in which time a Museum has been formed,
+and 1,100 subscribers obtained, besides the arrangement of the
+Gardens&mdash;it will be acknowledged that much has been done in a
+short time, and judging from the excellent organization of the
+Society and their past success, we anticipate the utmost
+realization of their plan.</p>
+<p>Our readers need not be told that the Zoological Society is
+partly on the plan of the Museum of Natural History at Paris,
+except that the latter is supported by the Government, the Gardens
+are indiscriminately opened to the public, free of cost, and the
+Museum on stated days; and when we add that the names of Fagon,
+Duverney, Tournefort, Vaillant, De Jussieu, Buffon, Daubenton,
+Fourcroy, Desfontaines, De Lamarck, and Cuvier, occur in its list
+of professors, they will not be surprised at the Mus&eacute;e
+d'Histoire Naturelle being the richest of its kind in the
+world.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>As acceptable information, we subjoin the regulations for the
+admission of members and visiters to the Gardens in the Regent's
+Park, and the <i>Museum</i>, in Bruton-street; to the latter we
+shall allude at an early opportunity:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Every member shall have personal admission to the gardens and
+museum, with two companions. If accompanied by more than two, he
+shall pay one shilling for each extra person.</p>
+<p>A member, on payment of one guinea annually, may obtain an ivory
+ticket, which will admit one named person with a companion to both
+establishments; or a transferable ivory ticket which will admit one
+person. He may obtain two or more such tickets at the same
+rate.</p>
+<p>Any member who may find it inconvenient to attend personally at
+the gardens or museum, may, upon application to the council, have
+his privileges transferred, within the present year, to any
+individual of his family, whom he may name.</p>
+<p>Every member will be expected to give his name on entering the
+gardens and museum.</p>
+<p>The gardens will be open to members from eight o'clock, A.M.;
+but they will be in complete readiness for the reception of
+visiters only from ten o'clock to sunset. The museum will be open
+from ten o'clock to six.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<p>Your article on the "Patrons of Astronomy," in the Mirror, No.
+328, brought to my recollection the following anecdote, for the
+truth of which I can answer, having received it from Mr. Watson,
+well known as the most celebrated private optical instrument maker
+in Europe, and at the time living on intimate terms with the late
+Mr. Arnold, the most eminent watchmaker of the day. When the late
+Sir William Herschel's great telescope was first exhibited at
+Slough, among other scientific men who went to see it was Mr.
+Arnold, who took Mr. W. with him. Neither of them thought much of
+it, though it was praised by the multitude; as it was, with its
+constructor, patronized by the late king and his consort, for
+Herschel was a German, as you well know. A few astronomical
+amateurs, who thought as Mr. Arnold did, proposed to Mr. Adams, of
+Fleet-street, then astronomical instrument maker to the king, (by
+whom Mr. Watson was employed,) to get Watson to make an instrument
+in opposition to Herschel's. The order being given by Adams, Watson
+set about the work, and had made some progress in the construction
+of the instrument, when the circumstance found its way to the ears
+of royalty. Orders were immediately sent to Mr. Adams to put a stop
+to the work, or he should no longer be optician to the king. Watson
+did not proceed, but could never learn the cause of the
+counter-order, till after a lapse of several years, when a stranger
+called on him, in Valentine-place, Blackfriars-road, and after
+putting several questions to him about his instruments, related to
+him the cause of the counter-order; upon which Mr. Watson showed
+him the progress he had made, and which I have also seen. This
+story I heard related by Mr. Watson at a dinner party at Mr.
+Arnold's, at Well Hall, near Eltham, where were also Mr. Dollonds,
+and Mr. J. R. Arnold, the son.</p>
+<p>A Constant Reader.</p>
+<p>August, 24, 1828.</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page151" name="page151"></a>[pg
+151]</span>
+<p>Our Correspondent will perceive that we have qualified some
+phrases of his letter, but that all the facts appear.</p>
+<p>The <i>Quarterly Review</i>, No. 75, from which our notice was
+taken, is tolerably plain upon the lack of patronage towards
+astronomy in this country, and seems disposed, in enumerating the
+state of astronomical knowledge in civilized Europe, to place Great
+Britain beside Spain or Turkey!<a id="footnotetag4" name=
+"footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> We chance
+to know that one of the most able and enterprising astronomers of
+the present day relinquished a lucrative profession, that he might
+be more at leisure to indulge his philosophical pursuits; so that,
+if patrons be wanting, this apathy does not appear to have entirely
+destroyed the taste for the divine study. This gentleman, in
+concert with another, ascertained, in the course of three years,
+the position and apparent distances of 380 double and triple stars,
+the result of about 10,000 individual measurements, and for their
+Memoir, they received the astronomical prize of the French Academy
+of Sciences. In the following year, the former individual
+communicated to the Royal Society the apparent distances and
+positions of 458 double stars, of which 160 had never before been
+observed.</p>
+<p>Of course, our correspondent does not impeach the talent of
+HERSCHEL; but it is lamentable to reflect that no attempt has been
+made to repeat or extend the labours of that indefatigable
+astronomer.&mdash;ED.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE KELPIE.</h2>
+<h3>A SCOTTISH LEGEND.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"</p>
+<p class="i2">Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,</p>
+<p>For though I mind not in the least the nod</p>
+<p class="i2">Of these same critics, still I'll not defy 'em;</p>
+<p>But that you may know more of this same god,</p>
+<p class="i2">(Though I can't sing as Homer sung of Priam,)</p>
+<p>I'll write a very pretty little poem,</p>
+<p>Of which this present stanza's but the proem.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But to begin, for though 'tis rather long,</p>
+<p class="i2">My poem I'll comprise into twelve stanzas,</p>
+<p>Or fourteen at the furthest, if my song</p>
+<p class="i2">Don't run to twenty&mdash;I'll offend no man,
+sirs,</p>
+<p>If I can help it. So now I'm along</p>
+<p class="i2">The road, and beg you'll notice these two
+lancers,</p>
+<p>Who, on the backs of horses full of mettle</p>
+<p>Hold a dispute, which we'll leave them to settle,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>While you go with me, reader, kind and good,</p>
+<p class="i2">To a small tributary stream from Tweed,</p>
+<p>Which, if you don't know, as I'm in the mood,</p>
+<p class="i2">I'll do my best to teach you, if you'll read;</p>
+<p>I'll introduce you to the stream Glenrude&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">This name will do&mdash;'twas in a
+glen&mdash;indeed,</p>
+<p>'Twas not its proper name&mdash;'twill do quite well,</p>
+<p>Why I choose so to call it I shan't tell,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But still it was a very pretty river,</p>
+<p class="i2">Or rather stream, as ever could be seen&mdash;</p>
+<p>If not so wide as the great Guadalquiver,</p>
+<p class="i2">Its banks were nearly always clothed in green,</p>
+<p>(Save when in winter the winds made you shiver,)</p>
+<p class="i2">While the waves, bickering so bright and sheen,</p>
+<p>Put you in mind of Avon, Rhine, or Hellespont,</p>
+<p>Or any other stream to admire you're wont.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>And round about the stream there were huge hillocks,</p>
+<p class="i2">And firs and mountains, houses too and farms;</p>
+<p>A maid lay on the grass&mdash;her light and fair locks</p>
+<p class="i2">Were gently wound around her folded arms,</p>
+<p>While softly grazing near there stood a huge ox,</p>
+<p class="i2">And o'er her head an old oak threw its arms.</p>
+<p>She was asleep, when, lo! the sound of horses'</p>
+<p>Feet woke her, and, behold, she saw two corses.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>At least she thought so&mdash;but at last thought better</p>
+<p class="i2">'Twould be for her to get up and go home;</p>
+<p>She got up quickly, and would soon have made her</p>
+<p class="i2">Way home, but that the men who had just come</p>
+<p>Spurr'd past her, and alighted when they met her,</p>
+<p class="i2">While she with her surprise was almost dumb;</p>
+<p>But soon spoke she, and bade them both disclose</p>
+<p>Their names&mdash;to which one said, "I'm Richard Groze."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The next spoke not at first, but soon replied,</p>
+<p class="i2">"Pray wherefore are you so surprised, my dear?</p>
+<p>And wherefore, likewise, have you not complied</p>
+<p class="i2">With my request, which I have sent in near</p>
+<p>Some good score letters? which you did deride,</p>
+<p class="i2">When they were forwarded by this man here."</p>
+<p>He pointed then to Groze, and then he sighed,</p>
+<p>"My dear, dear Jeannie, will you be my bride?"</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The which words when our Jeannie heard, she stared,</p>
+<p class="i2">And said, "What do you mean, John Fitzadree?</p>
+<p>You talk of letters, but of them the laird</p>
+<p class="i2">Has never brought a single one to me;</p>
+<p>But when I've seen him I have never cared</p>
+<p class="i2">How soon he went, for he told me that ye</p>
+<p>Were either dead or faithless&mdash;so he said</p>
+<p>I'd better wed the live, than mourn the dead.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"And then he promis'd I should have six horses,</p>
+<p class="i2">Besides a coach, if I would be his bride;</p>
+<p>But I refus'd&mdash;and he swore all his crosses</p>
+<p class="i2">Should soon be o'er, and something else beside</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page152" name="page152"></a>[pg
+152]</span>
+<p>And that's the reason why I thought ye corses,</p>
+<p class="i2">When o'er the green this way I saw ye ride.</p>
+<p>But now I see you've both served in the Lancers,</p>
+<p>Though on my word you look much more like dancers."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>To which John answer'd, "Oh, the filthy fellow,</p>
+<p class="i2">I gave him letters to you, which he said</p>
+<p>He would deliver, were you ill or well. Oh!</p>
+<p class="i2">How I should like to knock him on the head,</p>
+<p>And would, but that would show I was quite mellow&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">Besides, I see the coward has just fled,</p>
+<p>Has ta'en to horse, and got across the ford&mdash;</p>
+<p>Hang him, that I should with him be so bored!"</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But Jeannie said, "John, thou shall do no murder."</p>
+<p class="i2">To which he answer'd, "I will not do so;"</p>
+<p>Then bounded off as though he had not heard her,</p>
+<p class="i2">And reached a fording-place, but not so low</p>
+<p>As where Groze cross'd, and who had now got further</p>
+<p class="i2">Than John would have thought possible, although</p>
+<p>He'd a good-horse, and nearly half an hour</p>
+<p>In start&mdash;but now the clouds began to lower.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Now Fitzadree's good charger was all mettle,</p>
+<p class="i2">And soon won to the middle of the stream&mdash;</p>
+<p>But then the sky grew black as a tea kettle;</p>
+<p class="i2">It rained, too, quite as fast as ever steam</p>
+<p>Rose. But the thing which did at last unsettle</p>
+<p class="i2">The balance of John's steed, was what you'll deem</p>
+<p>A being that was nearly supernatural&mdash;</p>
+<p>But here the waves John's clothes began to spatter all.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A form rose up from out the waves' abyss&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">A monstrous little man with a black hide,</p>
+<p>Scarce four feet high, yet he was not remiss,</p>
+<p class="i2">But dash'd the waves about&mdash;and then he
+cried,</p>
+<p>With a demoniac laugh, or rather hiss,</p>
+<p class="i2">"Die, mortal, die!" and John sank down and died,</p>
+<p>The which, when Jeannie saw, she only sigh'd,</p>
+<p>"I come, my John, I come, to be thy bride."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The figure was the Kelpie&mdash;that she knew,</p>
+<p class="i2">And madly she rush'd on towards the shore;</p>
+<p>The Kelpie roar'd, "Come, mortal, come thou too."</p>
+<p class="i2">Ere he'd done speaking, Jeannie was no more;</p>
+<p>She'd dash'd into the waves, and left no clue,</p>
+<p class="i2">More than a steamer leaves just left the Nore,</p>
+<p>By which you might discover where she lay,</p>
+<p>And drag her upwards to the realms of day.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But what befel the cause of all these woes?</p>
+<p class="i2">That's what I never heard, so cannot tell;</p>
+<p>But this I know, that this same Richard Groze</p>
+<p class="i2">Return'd no more to bonnie Scotland. Well,</p>
+<p>I only hope he may in bed repose,</p>
+<p class="i2">And that he may at last escape from hell.</p>
+<p>And this I know, that if you do not smother</p>
+<p>This poem, when I choose I'll write another.</p>
+<p class="i10">J.S.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>SUGAR AND WATER CRITICISM.</h3>
+<p>In one of the critiques on the last <i>Monthly Magazine</i>,
+some verses by Mrs. Hemans are said to be "elegant and
+lady-like."</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SKETCH BOOK</h2>
+<h3>A DAY AT ST. CLOUD.</h3>
+<h4><i>September</i> 24, 1826.</h4>
+<blockquote>
+<p>I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and
+looking through the glass, saw all the world in yellow, blue, and
+green, running at the ring of pleasure.&mdash;STERNE.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>St. Cloud is the Richmond of France; or rather, it is to Paris
+what Richmond, in the days of its regal splendour, was to
+London&mdash;the summer palace of the court. In this comparison,
+allowance must be made for the opposite building taste of each
+nation; especially as Richmond has an appearance of substantial
+comfort in its massive brick mansions and rusticated cottage
+groups. The French <i>Sheen</i> is, on the contrary, gayer; the
+exterior of the residences being whitened, or what is still more
+artificial, coloured and decorated in tawdry French taste. Such, at
+least, is the character of the <i>auberges</i>, or inns, and
+<i>restaurateurs</i>, with which St. Cloud is even better supplied
+than our Richmond. In situation, however, they strongly assimilate;
+the former being placed on an acclivity overlooking the Seine, as
+the latter is on the banks of the Thames.</p>
+<p>St. Cloud, as I have already said, is the usual summer residence
+of the French court; and with a royal liberality which might be
+less politic elsewhere, the park is granted for three
+fairs&mdash;September 7, and the three following Sundays, on the
+last of which I resolved to visit the f&ecirc;te of St. Cloud. It
+was a glowing September day. The sun shone with more than mellow
+warmth through the groves of the Tuilleries, and on the little
+southern terrace, which was unusually crowded with groups of rosy
+children, with here and there a valetudinarian, who seemed to have
+emerged from his chamber to enjoy the parting glories of the
+season. Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the
+mall, or principal walk, and some few were not incuriously
+lingering about the enclosed parterres of the garden, whose
+beauties would soon be transported to a milder atmosphere. There
+was a general stir in the neighbouring streets; it did not resemble
+the bustle of business, but had more of the gaiety of a holiday
+scene. The <i>Pont Royal</i> was thronged with passengers, and just
+beneath it, were several hundreds, many of whom were embarking in
+the steam-boat for St. Cloud. But the Seine is at all times less
+inviting for such an excursion than our Thames; and in the summer
+months many insulated spots may be seen in the centre of the French
+river. At the next bridge (Louis XVI.) there was a general muster
+of carriages, <span class="pagenum"><a id="page153" name=
+"page153"></a>[pg 153]</span> each adapted for six or eight
+passengers, and drawn by one or two horses. Here was a loud clamour
+of "St. Cloud" and "Versailles" among the drivers, some of whom
+were even more officious than the Jehus of Greenwich, or the wights
+of Charing Cross or Piccadilly. I resisted all their importunities,
+and passed on through the <i>Champs Elys&eacute;es</i>, or a dusty
+road through a grove, intersected with ill-formed paths, with a few
+gaudy caf&eacute;s bearing pompous inscriptions&mdash;for Voltaire
+has made the French too fond of nomenclature to say with our
+Shakspeare, "what's in a name?" The road presented a strange
+specimen of the insubordination of French driving, notwithstanding
+police superintendants affected much concern in the matter.
+Diligences, fiacres, and carriages resembling large, covered
+cabriolets, might be seen loaded with gaily-dressed women and
+children, with a due proportion of young Parisians, all just in the
+hey-day of mirth, drawn by dust-provoking Flanders horses, their
+drivers slashing almost indiscriminately, and, with their clamour
+and confusion, far exceeding the Epsom road on a raceday.</p>
+<p>At length, escaping from the dust and din of the French Elysium,
+I halted to enjoy the distant view of the city of Paris, from the
+gate of the barrier. It was indeed an interesting scene. Through
+the avenue, whose area presented a living stream of traffic, might
+be seen the terraces and groves of the Tuilleries, and the spacious
+and irregular palace, with its cupola tops; the tarnished dome of
+the Invalides; the cupola of St. Genevieve; the gray towers of
+N&ocirc;tre Dame; then the winding Seine, with its bridges, quays,
+and terraces, flanked with the long line of the Tuilleries, and the
+Luxembourg, and Louvre galleries, on the one side; and on the other
+by the noble fa&ccedil;ade of the Chamber of Deputies; the courtly
+mansions of St. Germain, and the blackened front and dome of the
+Institute. What a multitude of associations flitted across the
+memory, by a single glance at PARIS&mdash;the capital of that gay,
+light-hearted, and mercurial people&mdash;the French
+nation&mdash;the focus of European luxury, and the grand political
+arena of modern history, the very calendar of whose events, within
+the last half century, will form one of the most interesting
+episodes that ever glowed among the records of human character. In
+the chain might be traced the vain-glory of conquest linked with
+defeated ambition, and the sullied splendour of royalty just
+breaking through the clouds of discontent, and slowly dispelling
+the mists of disaffection and political prejudice. What an
+unenviable contrast to the man who has "no enemy but wind and rough
+weather." The same objects that prompted these discordant
+reflections gave rise to others of the most opposite character; and
+within the walls, where treaties, abdications, and warrants, by
+turns, settled and resettled, exiled and condemned&mdash;were the
+store-houses of art, with all her proud and peaceful labours of
+sculpture, painting, and architecture, through galleries and
+saloons, on whose contents the chisel and the pencil had lingered
+many a life, and reduced the compass of its fond designs to the
+cubits of a statue, the fame of a picture, or the glory of a pillar
+or ceiling&mdash;such are the frail elements of human art.</p>
+<p>The road now began to exhibit the usual appearance of an
+approach to a country f&ecirc;te or fair. Scores of pedestrians,
+overcome with the heat and dust of the day, might be seen at the
+little boxes or shops of the <i>traiteurs</i>, or cooks, and at the
+houses of the <i>marchands de vin et de la biacre</i>; these by
+their anticipated anxiety caused the line from Paris to St. Cloud
+to resemble a road-side fair. Cheerfulness and vivacity were
+upper-most in the passengers; and the elastic pace of dozens of
+gaily-dressed <i>soubrettes</i> not a little enhanced the interest
+of the scene. Neither were these charms impaired by that species of
+vulgarity which not unfrequently characterizes the road to our
+suburban fairs; and, what is still more creditable to humanity,
+there was no brutality towards jaded horses or hacks sinking
+beneath their loads.</p>
+<p>Historians attach some antiquarian importance to the village of
+St. Cloud, it being historically confounded with the earliest times
+of the French monarchy; for, from the beginning of the first race,
+the kings of France had a country-seat here.<a id="footnotetag5"
+name="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a></p>
+<p>I now reached the bridge of St. Cloud, an elegant modern
+structure which crosses the Seine, near the entrance to the
+village. Here the river loses much of its importance; and in
+summer, the steam-boats are not unfrequently delayed in their
+<i>voyage</i> (if it may be so designated) for lack of water. The
+prospect of the ch&acirc;teau, or palace, embosomed in trees, and
+the park variegated with natural and artificial beauties, with the
+adjoining village on a steep, shelving hill&mdash;is unusually
+picturesque. On the present occasion, however, the principal
+attraction was the f&ecirc;te, which reminded me more forcibly of
+John Bunyan's Vanity Fair, than any other exhibition I had ever
+witnessed.</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page154" name="page154"></a>[pg
+154]</span>
+<p>The entrance to this motley scene was by the principal gate,
+where the carriages set down their company, and at a short distance
+along the bank of the river, the steam-boat in like manner
+contributed its visiters. On entering the park, I was first struck
+with a long row of boxes, (somewhat in the style of those at
+Vauxhall) but on a raised bank, and attached to a
+<i>restaurateur</i>. Here were tables for dinner, and as many
+others were laid in the open air&mdash;with the usual <i>carte</i>
+of 2 or 300 articles, and the economical elegancies of silver,
+napkins, and china, and this, too, in style little inferior to
+Verey's in the Palais Royal. Promenaders of the better description
+appeared in the mall, or principal walk, and it being the last
+f&ecirc;te of the season, their attendance was very numerous. The
+stalls and exhibitions were chiefly on the left side of this walk;
+at the former was displayed an almost indescribable variety of
+wares, which were the adjudged prizes in a lottery; but, from the
+decisions which I witnessed, they resembled the <i>stationary</i>
+capitals in an English scheme&mdash;the nominal Stock in trade of
+the office-keepers. Many of these little gambling shops were
+superintended by women, who proved themselves far from deficient in
+loquacious inducements for adventurers; and by their dexterous
+settlement of the chances, left little time for losers to reflect
+on their folly. Provisions of various descriptions were to be
+purchased at every turn, and among their <i>marchands</i>, it was
+not incurious, to see some humble professors of gastronomy over
+smoking viands, fritters, and goffers or indented wafers baked on
+cast-iron stoves <i>&agrave; la minute</i>&mdash;it must be owned,
+unseasonable luxuries for a September day. The <i>spectacles</i>,
+or shows, in noise and absurdity, exceeded the English trumpery of
+that order; and to judge from the gaping crowds which they
+attracted, we are not the only credulous nation in the world. Among
+the games was a machine resembling an English round-a-bout, with
+wooden horses for the players, each of whom was furnished with a
+foil, with which he strove to seize the greatest number of rings
+from the centre; this was, indeed, a chivalrous exhibition.
+Stilt-walkers, mountebank families, and jugglers, "chequered in
+bulk and brains," lent their aid to amuse the crowd; and,
+occasionally, two or three fellows contrived to enact scenes from
+plays, and with their vulgar wit to merit the applause of their
+audience. Portable clock-work exhibitions swarmed, and mummeries or
+mysteries, representing the Life and Death of our Saviour and the
+blessed Virgin, appeared to be ritual accompaniments of the day,
+and represented each stage of the holy lives. The bearers of the
+latter machinery enlivened their exhibitions with a grinding organ,
+which they accompanied with appropriate ditties or carols. Crosses
+and other religious emblems were hung about the theatrical boxes or
+shows, which, with their representations, could only be compared
+with the nursery toys of Noah's ark, with which most of us have
+been amused. Accordingly, here were models of Nazareth, Jerusalem,
+and Mount Calvary, in the characteristic accuracy of biblical
+topography, and from the zeal of the spectators, the ingenuity of
+the inventors was unsparingly rewarded.</p>
+<p>I turned from these sights to the natural beauties of the park,
+which, aided by the happy inequalities of the ground, (which French
+artists imagined would be such an obstacle to its perfection,)
+possesses far more variety than is usually found in the
+pleasure-grounds of France. The original plantation of the park was
+the work of La N&ocirc;tre, who, it will be recollected, planned
+the garden of Versailles; but St. Cloud is considered his
+<i>chef-d'oeuvre</i>, and proves, that with the few natural
+advantages which it afforded him, he was enabled to effect more
+here than millions have accomplished at Versailles&mdash;where art
+is fairly overmatched with her own wasteful and ridiculous excess.
+This alone ought to make the French blush for that monument of
+royal folly.</p>
+<p>The situation of the ch&acirc;teau is its greatest attraction.
+It possesses a fine view of Paris, which is indeed a splendid item
+in the prospect of the princely occupants; and the sight of the
+capital may, perhaps, be a pleasant relief to the natural seclusion
+of the palace.</p>
+<p>One of the most remarkable objects in the park is a kind of
+square tower, surmounted with an exact copy, in <i>terra cotta</i>,
+of the lantern of Diogenes at Athens, ornamented with six
+Corinthian columns. It is used as an observatory, and, like its
+original, is associated with the name of the illustrious
+Grecian&mdash;it being also called the lantern of Diogenes. Its
+view of the subjacent plain overlooks the city of Paris by a
+distance of twenty miles.</p>
+<p>The fountains and <i>jets d'eau</i> are entitled to special
+notice, although in extent and variety they are far exceeded by
+those of Versailles. The arrangement of the principal cascade is
+well contrived, and I had the good fortune to be present at the
+moment the water commenced flowing, which continued but a short
+time. This struck me as a singular piece of mimicry, and compared
+with those truly-sublime spectacles&mdash;the cascades of
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page155" name="page155"></a>[pg
+155]</span> Nature&mdash;the boasted works of St. Cloud seemed mere
+playthings, like the little falls which children contrive in
+running brooks; or at best resembling hydraulic exhibitions on an
+extensive scale. The playing commenced by a jet bursting from a
+point almost secluded by trees, which appeared on a level with the
+first story of the palace; the stream then fell into stone basins,
+and by turns threw itself aloft, or gushed from the mouths of
+numberless marine animals, and descended by glassy falls into a
+basin, whence it found its way into several vase-shaped forms, and
+again descended by magnificent cascades, discharging themselves
+into a large, circular tank or basin, with two strong jets throwing
+their limpid streams many feet high. In the sculptured forms there
+is some display of classic design; and the effect of many mouths
+and forms gushing forth almost instantaneously was altogether that
+of magic art, not unaided by the lines of trees on two sides being
+clipped or cut into semi-arched forms. The most powerful of the
+fountains is, however, a grand jet, characteristically named the
+<i>Geant</i>, or giant, for the incredible force with which it
+springs from its basin, and rises 125 feet high, being more than
+the elevation of Napoleon's triumphal column, in the Place
+Vend&ocirc;me, at Paris. An uninterrupted view of these exhibitions
+may be enjoyed from the river, which runs parallel with the road
+adjoining the park. Crowds flocked from all directions to witness
+the first gush of the fountains; but their attention soon became
+directed to a royal party attended by footmen, from the palace, who
+came to witness the sights of the fair, and appeared especially
+amused with a family of vaulters and stilt-walkers. They were
+received with a slight buzz of curiosity, but without that
+enthusiasm with which the English are accustomed to recognise, and,
+not unfrequently, to annoy royalty; for here</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>No man cried, God save them.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>I now began to make a more minute survey of the preparations for
+amusement, for the f&ecirc;te was not yet in its equinoctial
+splendour. The most prominent of these were plots of the raised
+bank on one side, and at the termination of the principal walk,
+which were enclosed with hurdles or frames, a platform being
+elevated and decorated with festooned curtains, &amp;c. for an
+orchestra, and the whole hung round with illumination lamps.
+Towards evening, but long before dark, these enclosures were
+blazing with variegated splendour; the bands commenced playing
+several lively French airs, and the area was occupied with groups
+of waltzing and quadrilling votaries. As the evening darkened,
+lamps began to glisten in every direction, and the well-lighted
+caf&eacute;s resembled so many Chinese lanterns; and these, aided
+by the discordant sounds of scores of instruments, gave the whole
+scene an air of enchantment, or rather a slight resemblance to one
+of its exorcisms. The effect was, however, improved by distance.
+Accordingly, I stole through a solitary shrubbery walk, which wound
+round the hill, and at length led me to a forest-like spot, or
+straggling wood, which flanked the whole of the carnival. Viewed
+from hence, it was, indeed, a fantastical illustration of French
+gaiety, and it momentarily reminded me of some of Shakspeare's
+scenes of sylvan romance, with all their fays and fairy
+population.</p>
+<p>The English reader who has not witnessed one of the f&ecirc;tes
+of St. Cloud, may probably associate them with his own Vauxhall;
+but the resemblance is very slight. At one of these entertainments
+in France, there is much less attempted, but considerably more
+effected, than in England; and all this is accomplished by that
+happy knack which the French possess of making much of a little. Of
+what did this f&ecirc;te consist&mdash;a few hundred lamps&mdash;a
+few score of fidlers, and about as much decoration as an English
+showman would waste on the exterior of his exhibition, or assemble
+within a few square yards. There were no long illuminated vistas,
+or temples and saloons red hot with oil and gas&mdash;but a few
+slender materials, so scattered and intermixed with the natural
+beauties of the park, as to fascinate, and not fatigue the eye and
+ear. Even the pell-mell frolics of St. Cloud were better idealities
+of enjoyment, than the splendid promenade of Vauxhall, in the days
+of its olden celebrity; for diamonds and feathers are often mere
+masquerade finery in such scenes&mdash;so distant are the heads and
+hearts of their wearers.<a id="footnotetag6" name=
+"footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page156" name="page156"></a>[pg
+156]</span>
+<p>Night, with her poetic glooms, only served to heighten the
+lustre of the fairy f&ecirc;te; and as I receded through the wood,
+the little shoal of light gleamed and twinkled through "branches
+overgrown," and the distant sounds began to fall into solitary
+silence&mdash;even saddening to meditation&mdash;so fast do the
+dying glories of festive mirth sink into melancholy&mdash;till at
+once, with the last gleam and echo, I found myself in a pleasant
+little glade on the brow of the hill. The day had been unusually
+hot&mdash;all was hushed stillness. But the darkening clouds were
+fast gathering into black masses:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The rapid lightning flames along the sky.</p>
+<p>What terrible event does this portend?</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The stifling heat of the atmosphere was, however, soon changed
+by slight gusts of wind; the leaves trembled; and a few heavy drops
+of rain fell as harbingers of the coming storm; the pattering
+ceased; an impressive pause succeeded&mdash;broken by the deepening
+roar of thunder.</p>
+<p>The threatening storm hastened my return to the focus of the
+carnival. The partial sprinkling had already caused many of the
+dancers to withdraw to the caf&eacute;s, and to the most sheltered
+parts of the park. The lightning became more and more vivid; and,
+at length, the thousands who had lingered in these groups of
+gaiety, were fairly routed by pelting rain; and the park, with a
+few lamps flickering out, and decorative finery drenched with rain,
+presented a miserable contrast with the festivities of the previous
+hour. The crowd streamed through the park-gate into the village,
+where hundreds of competitors shouted "Paris, Paris;" and their
+swarms of diligences, cabriolets, and curtained carts, were soon
+freighted. One of these charioteers engaged to convey me to Paris
+for half a franc, in a large, covered cart, with oil-skin curtains
+to protect the passengers in front. To my surprise I found the
+vehicle pre-occupied by twelve or fourteen well-dressed
+persons&mdash;male and female, who appeared to forget their
+inconvenient situation in sallies of laughter, which sometimes
+bordered on boisterous mirth. The storm increased; lamps gleamed
+and flitted across the road; many of the horses plunged with their
+heavy loads, and swept along the line in resistless confusion; for
+nothing can be less characteristic of timidity than French
+driving.</p>
+<p>On reaching Paris, the streets resembled so many torrents, and
+in most places were not fordable, notwithstanding scores of
+persons, with the alacrity of mushrooms after rain, had placed
+themselves at the narrowest parts of the streams, with raised
+planks, or temporary bridges for crossing. Our load was
+<i>landed</i> under the arcade of the Hotel de Ville; but the
+driver, in the genuine spirit of a London hackney-coachman, did not
+forget to turn the "ill-wind" to his own account, by importuning me
+for a double fare.</p>
+<p>I learned that the storm had been less tremendous in its
+consequences at St. Cloud and Paris than at Versailles, the
+lightning having consumed a farm-house and barns near that town. It
+is an event worthy of notice, from its being part of the phenomenon
+of what is termed a returning stroke of lightning, the
+circumstances of which are recorded in a recent number of Brande's
+philosophical journal.&mdash;<i>Abridged from "Cameleon Sketches,"
+by the author of the "Promenade round Dorking."</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>ALFREDE AND MATYLDA.</h3>
+<h4>WRITTEN BY ROBERT HAIEWOODE, OF CHEPING-TORITON, IN 1520.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The bryghtt enamell of the mornyng's gleame</p>
+<p>Begann to daunce onn bobblynge Avonn's streame,</p>
+<p>As yothefull Alfrede and Matylda fayre</p>
+<p>Stoode sorowynge bie, ennobledd bie despayre:</p>
+<p>Att tymes theyr lypps the tynts of Autumpe wore,</p>
+<p>Att tymes a palerr hewe thann wynterr bore;</p>
+<p>And faste the rayne of love bedew'dd theyr eyne,</p>
+<p>As thos, in earnefull<a id="footnotetag7" name=
+"footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a> strayns,
+theyr tenes<a id="footnotetag8" name="footnotetag8"></a><a href=
+"#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a> theie dyd bewreene.<a id=
+"footnotetag9" name="footnotetag9"></a><a href=
+"#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>ALFREDE.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Ah! iff we parte, ne moe to meete agayne,</p>
+<p>Wythyn thie wydow'dd berte wyll everr brenn</p>
+<p>The frostie vygyls of a cloysterr'd nun,</p>
+<p>Insteade of faerie<a id="footnotetag10" name=
+"footnotetag10"></a><a href="#footnote10"><sup>10</sup></a> love's
+effulgentt sonne!</p>
+<p>Ne moe with myne wyll carolynge<a id="footnotetag11" name=
+"footnotetag11"></a><a href="#footnote11"><sup>11</sup></a> beatt
+hie,</p>
+<p>Gyve throbb for throbb, and sygh returne forr sygh,</p>
+<p>Butt bee bie nyghtt congeall'dd bie lethall feares,</p>
+<p>Bie daie consum'dd awaie inn unavaylynge teares!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>MATYLDA.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Alas! howe soone is happlesse love ondonne,</p>
+<p>Wytherr'd and deadde almostt beforre begunn:</p>
+<p>Lych Marchh's openyng flowrs thatt sygh'dd forr Maie,</p>
+<p>Which Apryll's teares inn angerr wash'dd awaie.</p>
+<p>Onr tenes alych, alych our domes shall bee,</p>
+<p>Where'err thou wander'stt I wyll followe thee;</p>
+<p>And whann our sprytes throughe feere are purg'dd fromm
+claie,</p>
+<p>Inn pees theie shalle repose upponn the mylkie waie.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="page157" name=
+"page157"></a>[pg 157]</span>
+<p>ALFREDE.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The raynbowe hewes that payntt the laughyng mees,<a id=
+"footnotetag12" name="footnotetag12"></a><a href=
+"#footnote12"><sup>12</sup></a></p>
+<p>The gule-stayn'dd<a id="footnotetag13" name=
+"footnotetag13"></a><a href="#footnote13"><sup>13</sup></a> folyage
+of the okenn trees,</p>
+<p>The starrie spangells of the mornynge dewe,</p>
+<p>The laverock's matyn songes and skies of blewe,</p>
+<p>Maie weel the thotes of gentill shepherdds joie.</p>
+<p>Whose hertes ne hopelesse loves or cares alloie;</p>
+<p>Butt whatt cann seeme to teneful loverrs fayre.</p>
+<p>Whose hopes butt darkenns moe the mydnyghtt of despayre?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>MATYLDA.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>To thotelesse swayns itt maie bee blyss indeede,</p>
+<p>To marke the yeare through alle hys ages speede,</p>
+<p>Butt everie seasone seemes alych to mee,</p>
+<p>Eternall wynterr whann awaie from thee!</p>
+<p>Fromm howrr to howrr I oftt beweepe ourr love,</p>
+<p>Wyth all the happie sorowe of the dove,</p>
+<p>And fancie, as itts sylentt waterrs flowe,</p>
+<p>Mie bosome's swetestt joies mustt thos bee mientt<a id=
+"footnotetag14" name="footnotetag14"></a><a href=
+"#footnote14"><sup>14</sup></a> wyth woe.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Palerr thann cloudes thatt stayne the azure nyghtt,</p>
+<p>Or starrs thatt shoote beneathe theyr feeble lyghtt,</p>
+<p>And eke as crymson as the mornyng's rode,<a id="footnotetag15"
+name="footnotetag15"></a><a href=
+"#footnote15"><sup>15</sup></a></p>
+<p>The lornlie<a id="footnotetag16" name=
+"footnotetag16"></a><a href="#footnote16"><sup>16</sup></a> payre
+inn dumbe dystracyon stoode</p>
+<p>Whann onn the banke Matylda sonke and dyed,</p>
+<p>And Alfrede plong'dd hys daggerr inn hys syde:</p>
+<p>Hys purpell soule came roshynge fromm the wounde,</p>
+<p>And o'err the lyfeless claie deathe's ensygns stream'dd
+arownde.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><i>Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+<h3>FOX HUNTING.</h3>
+<p>"Well, do you know, that after all you have said, Mr. North, I
+cannot understand the passion and the pleasure of fox-hunting. It
+seems to me both cruel and dangerous."</p>
+<p>Cruelty! Is there cruelty in laying the rein on their necks, and
+delivering them up to the transport of their high
+condition&mdash;for every throbbing vein is visible&mdash;at the
+first full burst of that maddening cry, and letting loose to their
+delight the living thunderbolts? Danger! What danger but breaking
+their own legs, necks, or backs, and those of their riders? And
+what right have you to complain of that, lying all your length, a
+huge hulking fellow snoring and snorting half asleep on a sofa,
+sufficient to sicken a whole street? What though it be but a
+smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears,
+and passionately fond of poultry, that they pursue? After the first
+tallyho, Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon&mdash;once
+perhaps in the whole run, skirting a wood, or crossing a common. It
+is an idea that is pursued, on a whirlwind of horses to a storm of
+canine music,&mdash;worthy, both, of the largest lion that ever
+leaped among a band of Moors, sleeping at midnight by an
+extinguished fire on the African sands. There is, we verily believe
+it, nothing foxy in the fancy of one man in all that glorious field
+of three hundred. Once off and away&mdash;while wood and welkin
+rings&mdash;and nothing is felt&mdash;nothing is imaged in that
+hurricane flight, but scorn of all obstructions, dikes, ditches,
+drains, brooks, palings, canals, rivers, and all the impediments
+reared in the way of so many rejoicing madmen, by nature, art, and
+science, in an enclosed, cultivated, civilized, and Christian
+country. There they go&mdash;prince and peer, baronet and
+squire,&mdash;the nobility and gentry of England, the flower of the
+men of the earth, each on such steed as Pollux never reined, nor
+Philip's warlike son&mdash;for could we imagine Bucephalus here,
+ridden by his own tamer, Alexander would be thrown out during the
+very first burst, and glad to find his way dismounted to a village
+alehouse for a pail of meal and water. Hedges, trees, groves,
+gardens, orchards, woods, farm-houses, huts, halls, mansions,
+palaces, spires, steeples, towers, and temples, all go wavering by,
+each demigod seeing, or seeing them not, as his winged steed skims
+or labours along, to the swelling or sinking music, now loud as a
+near regimental band, now faint as an echo. Far and wide over the
+country are dispersed the scarlet runners&mdash;and a hundred
+villages pour forth their admiring swarms, as the main current of
+the chase roars by, or disparted runlets float wearied and all
+astray, lost at last in the perplexing woods. Crash goes the
+top-timber of the five-barred gate&mdash;away over the ears flies
+the ex-rough-rider in a surprising somerset&mdash;after a
+succession of stumbles, down is the gallant Grey on knees and nose,
+making sad work among the fallow&mdash;Friendship is a fine thing,
+and the story of Damon and Pythias most affecting indeed&mdash;but
+Pylades eyes Orestes on his back sorely drowned in sludge, and
+tenderly leaping over him as he lies, claps his hand to his ear,
+and with a "hark forward, tan-tivy!" leaves him to remount, lame
+and at leisure&mdash;and ere the fallen has risen and shook
+himself, is round the corner of the white village-church, down the
+dell, over the brook, and close on the heels of the straining pack,
+all a-yell up the hill crowned by the Squire's Folly. "Every man
+for himself, and God for us all," is the devout and ruling apothegm
+of the day. If death befall, what wonder? since man and horse are
+mortal; but death loves better a wide soft bed with quiet curtains
+and darkened windows in a still room, the clergyman in the one
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page158" name="page158"></a>[pg
+158]</span> corner with his prayers, and the physician in another
+with his pills, making assurance doubly sure, and preventing all
+possibility of the dying Christian's escape. Let oak branches smite
+the too slowly stooping skull, or rider's back not timely levelled
+with his steed's; let faithless bank give way, and bury in the
+brook; let hidden drain yield to fore feet and work a sudden wreck;
+let old coal-pit, with briery mouth, betray; and roaring river bear
+down man and horse, to banks unscaleable by the very Welsh goat;
+let duke's or earl's son go sheer over a quarry fifty feet deep,
+and as many high; yet, "without stop or stay, down the rocky way,"
+the hunter train flows on; for the music grows fiercer and more
+savage,&mdash;lo! all that remains together of the pack, in far
+more dreadful madness than hydrophobia, leaping out of their skins,
+under insanity from the scent, now strong as stink, for Vulpes can
+hardly now make a crawl of it; and ere he, they, whipper-in, or any
+one of the other three demoniacs, have time to look in one
+another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand pieces,
+gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, and
+warm, and cozey, as he was an hour and twenty-five minutes ago
+exactly, in his furze bush in the cover,&mdash;he is now
+piece-meal, in about thirty distinct stomachs; and is he not, pray,
+well off for sepulture?&mdash;<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE BLIND BEAUTY OF THE MOOR.</h2>
+<h3>(<i>A Fragment.</i>)</h3>
+<p>To thee&mdash;O palest phantom&mdash;clothed in white raiment,
+not like unto a ghost risen with its grave-clothes to appal, but
+like a seraph descending from the skies to bless&mdash;unto thee
+will we dare to speak, as through the mist of years back comes thy
+yet unfaded beauty, charming us, while we cannot choose but weep,
+with the self-same vision that often glided before us long, long
+ago in the wilderness, and at the sound of our voice would pause
+for a little while, and then pass by, like a white bird from the
+sea, floating unscared close by the shepherd's head, or alighting
+to trim its plumes on a knoll far up an inland glen! Death seems
+not to have touched that face, pale though it be&mdash;life-like is
+the waving of those gentle hands&mdash;and the soft, sweet, low
+music which now we hear, steals not sure from lips hushed by the
+burial-mould! Restored by the power of love, she stands before us
+as she stood of yore. Not one of all the hairs of her golden head
+was singed by the lightning that shivered the tree under which the
+child had run for shelter from the flashing sky. But in a moment
+the blue light in her dewy eyes was dimmed&mdash;and never again
+did she behold either flower or star. Yet all the images of all the
+things she had loved remained in her memory, clear and distinct as
+the things themselves before unextinguished eyes&mdash;and ere
+three summers had flown over head, which, like the blossom of some
+fair perennial flower, in heaven's gracious dew and sunshine each
+season lifted its loveliness higher and higher in the
+light&mdash;she could trip her singing way through the wide
+wilderness, all by her joyful self, led, as all believed, nor erred
+they in so believing, by an angel's hand! When the primroses peeped
+through the reviving grass upon the vernal braes, they seemed to
+give themselves into her hand; and 'twas thought they hung longer
+unfaded round her neck or forehead than if they had been left to
+drink the dew on their native bed. The linnets ceased not their
+lays, though her garment touched the broomstalk on which they sung.
+The cushat, as she thrid her way through the wood, continued to
+croon in her darksome tree&mdash;and the lark, although just
+dropped from the cloud, was cheered by her presence into a new
+passion of song, and mounted over her head, as if it were his first
+matin hymn. All the creatures of earth and air manifestly loved the
+Wanderer of the Wilderness&mdash;and as for human beings, she was
+named, in their pity, their wonder, and their delight, the Blind
+Beauty of the Moor!</p>
+<p>She was an only child, and her mother had died in giving her
+birth. And now her father, stricken by one of the many cruel
+diseases that shorten the lives of shepherds on the hills, was
+bed-ridden&mdash;and he was poor. Of all words ever syllabled by
+human lips, the most blessed is&mdash;Charity. No manna now in the
+wilderness is rained from heaven&mdash;for the mouths of the hungry
+need it not in this our Christian land. A few goats feeding among
+the rocks gave them milk, and there was bread for them in each
+neighbour's house&mdash;neighbour though miles afar&mdash;as the
+sacred duty came round&mdash;and the unrepining poor sent the
+grateful child away with their prayers.</p>
+<p>One evening, returning to the hut with her usual song, she
+danced up to her father's face on his rushy bed, and it was cold in
+death. If she shrieked&mdash;if she fainted&mdash;there was but one
+ear that heard, one eye that saw her in her swoon. Not now floating
+light like a small moving cloud unwilling to leave the flowery
+braes, though it be to melt in heaven, but <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page159" name="page159"></a>[pg 159]</span> driven
+along like a shroud of flying mist before the tempest, she came
+upon us in the midst of that dreary moss; and at the sound of our
+quaking voice, fell down with clasped hands at our feet&mdash;"My
+father's dead!" Had the hut put already on the strange, dim,
+desolate look of mortality? For people came walking fast down the
+braes, and in a little while there was a group round us, and we
+bore her back again to her dwelling in our arms. As for us, we had
+been on our way to bid the fair creature and her father farewell.
+How could she have lived&mdash;an utter orphan&mdash;in such a
+world! The holy power that is in Innocence would for ever have
+remained with her; but Innocence longs to be away, when her sister
+Joy has departed; and 'tis sorrowful to see the one on earth, when
+the other has gone to heaven! This sorrow none of us had long to
+see; for though a flower, when withered at the root, and doomed ere
+eve to perish, may yet look to the careless eye the same as when it
+blossomed in its pride,&mdash;its leaves, still green, are not as
+once they were,&mdash;its bloom, though fair, is faded&mdash;and at
+set of sun, the dews shall find it in decay, and fall unfelt on all
+its petals. Ere Sabbath came, the orphan child was dead. Methinks
+we see now her little funeral. Her birth had been the humblest of
+the humble; and though all in life had loved her, it was thought
+best that none should be asked to the funeral of her and her
+father, but two or three friends; the old clergyman himself walked
+at the head of the father's coffin&mdash;we at the head of the
+daughter's&mdash;for this was granted unto our exceeding
+love;&mdash;and thus passed away for ever the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles,</p>
+<p>SHAKSPEARE.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>EPICURISM.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>At a public dinner, Captain R. commencing a conversation with a
+gentleman next to him, was astonished at not being able to elicit
+one word in answer. At length his silent neighbour turned to him,
+and said, with a look and tone suitable to the <i>importance</i> of
+the communication, "Sir, whenever you are at a venison feast, let
+me advise you <i>never to speak during dinner</i>. In endeavouring
+to reply to you, I have actually at this moment swallowed
+<i>entire</i> a fine piece of fat, <i>without tasting it</i>!"</p>
+<p>J.G.R.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>An Englishman, named <i>Drinkwater</i>, was nearly drowned the
+other day off Boulogne; on hearing which, a wag observed that he
+had "almost taken a drop too much."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>FLY WATER.</h3>
+<p>Prussic Acid has been obtained from the leaves of <i>green
+tea</i>, in so concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog
+almost instantaneously. A strong infusion of Souchong tea,
+sweetened with sugar, is as effectual in poisoning flies as the
+solution of arsenic, generally sold for that purpose.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>There may now be seen, written on a board on a new house in the
+Blackfriars-road, the following words:&mdash;"Hird robeish may be
+had heare."</p>
+<p>BILLY.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>NO JOKE OR RIDDLE.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A house with wings extended wide,</p>
+<p class="i2">A racket-ground to play in,</p>
+<p>Two porters' lodges there beside,</p>
+<p class="i2">And porters always staying</p>
+<p>To guard the inmates there within,</p>
+<p class="i2">And keep them from the town;</p>
+<p>From duns as free as saints from sin,</p>
+<p class="i2">And sheriffs of renown.</p>
+<p>To get white wash'd it is their plan,</p>
+<p class="i2">'Tis such a cleansing thing&mdash;</p>
+<p>Then out they come with blacker hands</p>
+<p class="i2">Than when they first went in.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>P.H.H.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park,
+written in chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to
+have been written by one who meditated suicide:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,</p>
+<p>Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,</p>
+<p>Oh! damn'd despair to shun the living light,</p>
+<p>And plunge thy guilty soul to endless night.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Written also in the same hand:&mdash;Charlotte Rumpling, you did
+not use me well, but I forgive you&mdash;God bless you.</p>
+<p>EDWIN W&mdash;&mdash;.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>WANTS A WIFE.</h3>
+<p>She must bee middel eaged and good tempered widdow, or a Maid,
+and pursest of propertey, and I wood far reather have a Wife that
+is ever so plain then a fine Lady that think herself hansom; the
+Advertiser is not rich nor young, old nor poor, and in a very few
+years he will have a good incumb. Can be hiley reckamended for
+onestey, sobrieaty, and good temperd, and has no in combranc, is
+very actif, but not a treadesman, have <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page160" name="page160"></a>[pg 160]</span> been as Butler and
+Bailiff for meney years in most respectable families, and shood I
+not be so luckey as to get me a wife, wood be most willing to take
+a sitteyeashan once moor, wood prefer living in the countrey, under
+stands Brewing feamosley, is well adapted for a inn or publick
+hous. Please to derect W.W., 268, Berwick-street, Oxford-roade, or
+aney Ladey may call and have a interview with the widdow that keeps
+the hous, and say wher and when we can meet each other. All letters
+must be pd, no Ofice-keeper to applygh. My fameley ar verey well
+off and welthey, far above the midling order.</p>
+<p>This is a good joke upon <i>Matrimonial Advertising</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>Jack Bannister visited the Haymarket theatre on Wednesday night,
+August 20, and made in the free-list book the following
+entry:&mdash;"Fifty years ago, in the year 1778, I made my first
+appearance at this theatre. Half a century is not bad. Hurra!! John
+Bannister."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT.</h3>
+<p>In reading over an agreement, for letting a house, the other
+day, the initials of the party letting it were A.B., of the party
+taking C.D., and of the witness to the signatures E.F.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE.</h3>
+<p>Obstinacy and perseverance, though often confounded, are two
+very different things; a man may be very obstinate, and yet not
+persevere in his opinion ten minutes. Obstinacy is resistance to
+truth; perseverance is a continuance in truth or error.</p>
+<p>T.C.C.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>IDOLATRY.</h3>
+<p>The origin of idolatry is by many attributed to the age of Eber,
+though most of the fathers place it no higher than that of Serug;
+but it appears to me certain, that image worship existed in the
+time of Jacob, from the account of Rachel taking images along with
+her on leaving her father's house, which is given in the book of
+Genesis.</p>
+<p>T.C.C.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ORIGIN OF THE WORD GALLIMATHIAS.</h3>
+<p>This word, which signifies nonsense, <i>alias</i> talk without
+meaning, is supposed to have first arisen at the time when all
+pleadings at the bar were in Latin. There was a cause, it seems,
+about a cock, belonging to the plaintiff Matthias; the counsel, in
+the heat of the harangue, by often repeating the words
+<i>gallus</i> and <i>Matthias</i>, happened to blunder, and,
+instead of saying <i>gallus Matthiae</i>, said <i>galli
+Matthias</i>, which at length became a general name for all
+confused, embroiled language and discourse.</p>
+<p>P.T.W.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>SALLIE TO JOHN.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Changed ere long shall my fortunes be,</p>
+<p>Yet my faith is firm&mdash;I will go with thee.</p>
+<p>I yield not weakly to fancy's trance,</p>
+<p>Or the fitful flame of young romance;</p>
+<p>I dwell with a calm, unshrinking mind</p>
+<p>On the scenes that I seek and leave behind;</p>
+<p>My future fate spread forth I see,</p>
+<p>And my choice is fix'd&mdash;I will go with thee.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>I have thought on this hour with many a tear,</p>
+<p>In the timid weakness of woman's fear;</p>
+<p>It comes, and I rise, the test above,</p>
+<p>In the dauntless strength of woman's love.</p>
+<p>Gaze not upon me with looks so sad&mdash;</p>
+<p>My step is firm, and my heart is glad;</p>
+<p>This last, last sigh for my home shall be&mdash;</p>
+<p>Past is the trial&mdash;I go with thee.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><i>Dublin</i>.</p>
+<p>JAN RHI.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>Diogenes was not in the wrong, who, when the great Alexander,
+finding him in the charnel-house, asked him what he was seeking
+for, answered, "I am seeking for your father's bones, and those of
+my slave; but I cannot find them, because there is no difference
+between them."</p>
+<p>G.K.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>GETTING A JOURNEY.</h3>
+<h4><i>By Dr. Kitchiner</i>.</h4>
+<p>I GOT on horseback within ten minutes after I received your
+letter. When I GOT to Canterbury, I GOT a chaise for town. But I
+GOT wet through before I GOT to Canterbury, and I have GOT such a
+cold as I shall not be able to GET rid of in a hurry. I GOT to the
+Treasury about noon, but first of all I GOT shaved and drest. I
+soon GOT into the secret of GETTING a memorial before the board,
+but I could not GET an answer then; however, I GOT intelligence
+from the messenger that I should most likely GET one next morning.
+As soon as I GOT back to my inn, I GOT my supper and GOT to bed. It
+was not long before I GOT to sleep. When I GOT up in the morning, I
+GOT my breakfast, and then GOT myself drest, that I might GET out
+in time, to GET an answer to my memorial. As soon as I GOT it, I
+GOT into the chaise, and GOT home by three o'clock.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name=
+"footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>"When Nero exhibited himself as a singer and flute-player on the
+stage at Naples, the musicians of that province assembled to hear
+him; and Suetonius tells us that the emperor selected <i>five
+thousand</i> among the best to be his household musicians, and
+clothed them in a rich and uniform dress."</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name=
+"footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p>It should, however, be noticed, that the object of the
+<i>Zoological Society</i> is not the mere exhibition of animals. In
+the original prospectus it is observed, that "Animals brought from
+every part of the globe to be applied to some <i>useful</i> purpose
+as objects of scientific research, not of vulgar admiration; and
+upon such an institution, a philosophy of zoology founded, pointing
+out the comparative anatomy, the habits of life, the improvement
+and the methods of multiplying those races of animals which are
+most useful to man, and thus fixing a most beautiful and important
+branch of knowledge on the permanent basis of direct utility." The
+Secretary of the Society is N.A. Vigors, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.,
+&amp;c. who, from his extensive attainments in the science of
+zoology, fills the office with honor to himself, and peculiar
+advantage to the public.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name=
+"footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+<p>He was previously at Sudborne, the seat of the Marquess of
+Hertford, where Toby, as our Russian friend was christened, became
+equally sagacious with bipeds, in distinguishing strong ale from
+small beer. To the former beverage, Toby became freely attached;
+but when we saw him at the Gardens in the Regent's Park, he
+appeared too docile for his companions.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name=
+"footnote4"></a> <b>Footnote 4</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+<p>We feel as if it were a species of treason to record the fact,
+that, within the wide range of the British islands, <i>there is
+only one observatory, and scarcely one, supported by the
+government</i>! We say scarcely one, because we believe that some
+of the instruments in the observatory of Greenwich were purchased
+out of the private funds of the Royal Society of London. The
+observatories of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh (except a
+grant of 2,000<i>l</i>.), Armagh, and Glasgow, are all private
+establishments, to the support of which government contributes
+nothing. The consequence of this is, that many of them are in a
+state of comparative inactivity; and none of them, but that of
+Dublin, have acquired any celebrity in the astronomical world.
+Such, indeed, was the state of practical astronomy in Scotland,
+that within these few years, a Danish vessel, which arrived at
+Leith, could not obtain, even in Edinburgh, the time of the day for
+the purpose of setting its chronometers.&mdash;<i>Q. Rev.</i></p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name=
+"footnote5"></a> <b>Footnote 5</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+<p>For an engraving and account of the Palace of St. Cloud, see
+MIRROR, vol. ii. page 225.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote6" name=
+"footnote6"></a> <b>Footnote 6</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+<p>We are not permitted to allude to the f&ecirc;te of St. Cloud as
+a scene of <i>pastoral</i> amusement, or of the primitive
+simplicity which is associated with that epithet. The French are
+not a pastoral people, although they are not less so than the
+English; neither are the suburbs of a metropolis rural life. They
+are too near the pride of human art for pastoral pleasures, and no
+aristocracy is more infested with little tyrants than the
+neighbourhood of great cities, the oppressors being too timid to
+trust themselves far out of the verge of public haunts, in the
+midst of which they would be equally suspicious.</p>
+<p>Amusements are at all times among the best indications of
+national character; a truth which the ancients seem to have
+exaggerated into their maxim <i>in vino veritas</i>. Here the
+national comparison is not "odious." Three Sunday fairs are held
+within six miles of Paris, in a park, as was once the custom at
+Greenwich: the latter, though a royal park, does not boast of the
+residence of royalty, as does St Cloud. The objection to the day of
+the French f&ecirc;tes is cleared by another argument. But what
+would be the character of a week-day fair, or f&ecirc;te, in
+Kensington Gardens? The intuitive answer will make the moral
+observer regret that man should so often place the interdict on his
+own happiness, and then peevishly repine at his uncheery lot.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote7" name=
+"footnote7"></a> <b>Footnote 7</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+<p>Tender.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote8" name=
+"footnote8"></a> <b>Footnote 8</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag8">(return)</a>
+<p>Woes.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote9" name=
+"footnote9"></a> <b>Footnote 9</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag9">(return)</a>
+<p>Express.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote10" name=
+"footnote10"></a> <b>Footnote 10</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag10">(return)</a>
+<p>Fiery.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote11" name=
+"footnote11"></a> <b>Footnote 11</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag11">(return)</a>
+<p>Dancing.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote12" name=
+"footnote12"></a> <b>Footnote 12</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag12">(return)</a>
+<p>Meadows.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote13" name=
+"footnote13"></a> <b>Footnote 13</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag13">(return)</a>
+<p>Blood-coloured.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote14" name=
+"footnote14"></a> <b>Footnote 14</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag14">(return)</a>
+<p>Mingled.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote15" name=
+"footnote15"></a> <b>Footnote 15</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag15">(return)</a>
+<p>Complexion.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote16" name=
+"footnote16"></a> <b>Footnote 16</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag16">(return)</a>
+<p>Forlorn.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset House,} London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market,
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 12, No. 330.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+
+WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?
+
+
+    We cannot help it.--_Massinger's Roman Actor._
+
+Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating topics of the day;
+on the second of these heads we have thrown together a few hints, which
+may, probably prove entertaining to our readers.
+
+The English are not--you know, reflective public--a musical people; this
+has been said over and over again in the musical and dramatic critiques
+of the newspapers. True it is that we have no _national music_, like our
+neighbours the Welsh, the Irish, or the Scotch; for our music, like out
+language, is a mere _riccifamento_, stolen from every nation in Europe.
+But our king (God bless him) is an excellent musician, and plays the
+violoncello most delightfully; and we have an Academy of Music. Then we
+have an Italian Theatre that burns the feet and fingers of all who
+meddle with its management--witness, Mr. Ebers, who, by being "married"
+to sweet sounds, lost the enormous sum of 47,000_l_.--it must be owned,
+an unfortunate match, or as Dr. Franklin would have said, "paying rather
+too dear for his whistle." We have too an _English Opera House_, where
+scarcely any but _foreign_ music is heard, and which, to the
+ever-lasting credit of its management, has transplanted from the warm
+climes of the south to our ungenial atmosphere, some of the finest
+compositions in the continental schools of modern music. Success has,
+however, attended most of their enterprises; for the taste of the
+English for foreign music is by no means a modern mania. From Pepys's
+_Diary_ we learn that the first company of Italian singers came here in
+the reign of Charles II.: they were brought by Killigrew from Venice,
+about 1688; but they did not perform whole operas, only detached scenes
+in recitative, and not in any public theatre, but in the houses of the
+nobility. Thus, Italian music was loved and cultivated very early in
+England, and London was the next capital, after Vienna, which
+established and supported an Italian Opera. But, as we never do things
+by halves, we had soon afterwards, two opposition houses. This proves
+that the English have a _taste for music_; indeed they have much more
+judgment than some of their neighbours, which makes it still more to be
+regretted that nothing is done in England towards the advancement of
+music as a science. Is the world of sound and the soul of song
+exhausted? Why should we, who are marching in every other direction,
+stand still in this? But no; what Orpheus did with _music_, we are
+striving to accomplish by _steam_; what he effected by quietly touching
+his lyre, we study with the atmospheres and condensers of high and low
+pressure engines.
+
+The writer of a delightful paper in the _Foreign Review_, No. 3, in
+tracing the rise and progress of music, inquires what has become of "its
+loftier pretensions, its celestial attributes, its moral and political
+influence." He then facetiously observes, "How should we marvel to see
+the Duke of Wellington, like another Epaminondas, take his flute out of
+his pocket to still the clamour of the opposition, or Mr. Peel reply to
+the arguments of Mr. Huskisson with an allegro on the fiddle."
+
+The Greeks were not such grave people as some may be inclined to think
+them. Among them, poetry and music were so intimately connected, that
+they were in fact one and the same. It is not so with us; we have Byron
+and Moore, in poetry; but where are their parallels in English music!
+
+"Music," says Plutarch, "was the universal language of Greece, the
+sacred vehicle of history, philosophy, laws, and morals;" but in England
+it is little more than a mere amusement to while away the evening, or at
+best, but a branch of _female_ education. Pianos are become articles of
+furniture to be met with in almost every other genteel house; Miss and
+her sisters sit down by turns, and screw themselves up to _Ah vous
+dirai_, or "I'd be a butterfly"--till some handsome young fellow who has
+stood behind her chair for six months, turned over her music, or
+accompanied her through a few liquorish airs, vows his tender passion,
+brings her the last new song, and at length swears to be her
+accompaniment throughout life. The piano is then locked up, the music
+sent to Bath or _Canterbury_, and the lady is married and cannot sing.
+
+But the Greek poets sang their own verses: "Homer literally _sang_ the
+wrath of Achilles, and the woes of Greece;" would it were so in England.
+Then, my poetical public, we should have Anacreon Moore singing his
+"Rich and rare were the gems she wore," in some such place as the
+Quadrant, or Opera Colonnade; and Sir Walter Scott celebrating the Field
+of Waterloo, not in the broad-margined octavos of Paternoster-row, but
+about the purlieus of the Horse Guards. Wordsworth would be his own
+Skylark. The laureate, Southey, would perch himself on the dome of the
+New Palace. Campbell would step out of New Burlingtonstreet into the
+Park; Miss Mitford would keep a Covent-Garden audience awake with her
+own tragedies, and Planché would no longer entrust his rhymes to Paton
+or Vestris. On the other hand, Braham would no longer be indebted to
+Moore for his songs, Bishop would write, compose, and sing his own
+operas, and all our vocalists enter, like Dryden's king and two
+fiddlers, _solus_!
+
+Could we but once become a musical people, we should no longer marvel at
+the effect of music in ancient times; for who knows but that if an
+Englishman were to play like Orpheus, the River Thames might cease to
+flow; the disposal of Mr. Cross's menagerie be no longer a question,
+since the animals might be allowed to ramble about the Strand; and
+Snowdon or Cader Idris journey to the King's Theatre to listen to his
+inspirations.
+
+It is, however, impossible to calculate the benefits which this
+acquisition of musical skill might prove to the English people. What
+bloodshed and tribulation it would prevent. Weare, or Maria Marten, like
+Stradella, might have disarmed their assassins; the Insolvent Act would
+be obsolete, and duns defeated; since hundreds of improvident wights,
+like Palma, might, by their strains, soften the hearts of their
+creditors, and draw tears from sheriff's officers. Chancery-lane would
+be depopulated, and Cursitor-street be left to the fowls of the air;
+locks would fall 50 per cent, and Mr. Bramah might betake himself to Van
+Dieman's Land. What a pleasant thing would a public dinner be; for,
+instead of a gentleman in a dress coat singing as from the orchestra of
+an oratorio, he would throw a more impassioned energy into his own
+compositions than he could possibly impart to those of another, and
+proportionally enhance the delight of his company. All the mechanism of
+professional singing would then give way to "the feast of reason and the
+flow of soul."
+
+We know not how to have done with these pleasures of "linked
+sweetness"--this "mosaic of the air," as Marvell quaintly calls it. We
+have a decided aversion to the system of borrowing, which, in the
+absence of our own musical resources, seems to be universally adopted.
+Thus, as Charles Mathews says, "every footman whistles _Frieschutz_;"
+and the barrel organ which does not play two or three of its airs may be
+consigned to the brokers. A few months since every bachelor hummed or
+whistled "_C'est l'amour_," and the French, to return the compliment,
+have made our "Robin Adair," one of the claptraps of the music of their
+_La Dame Blanche_. Next, when will Mr. Bishop's _Home, sweet home_, be
+forgotten, although the original is a Sicilian air of considerable
+antiquity. All the baker's and butcher's boys in London can go through
+"_Di tanti pal_"--where they leave off, answer a question, and take up
+the "_piti_," with the skill of a musician; and as readily fall into the
+sympathetic melodies of "_Oh no we never mention her_," or the "_Light
+Guitar_." But to atone for these vulgarisms, who that has heard the
+syren strains of Stephens or Paton, or the Anglo-Italian style of
+Braham, but has envied them the pleasurable monopoly of delighting
+thousands, and sending them home with the favourite air still echoing in
+their ears, and lulling them to soft slumbers! Who is there that has
+enjoyed his circle of friends without regretting a thousand times that
+he had not a fiftieth part of such talent to enliven the festive hour,
+and lend a charm, however, fleeting, to what may be termed the poetry of
+life.
+
+As we have noticed the taste of the Greeks for music, it is but fair
+that we should allude to that of their successors. In ancient Rome,
+music was never popular. Combats of gladiators and wild beasts filled
+their theatres with streams of blood, instead of their resounding with
+music; and after the death of Nero,[1] that beautiful art was declared
+infamous, and by a public decree, banished from the city. In our
+theatres, however, heroes fight to music, from the Richard III. and
+Richmond of Shakspeare to the "terrific combats" of modern melodrame.
+
+    [1] "When Nero exhibited himself as a singer and flute-player on
+    the stage at Naples, the musicians of that province assembled to
+    hear him; and Suetonius tells us that the emperor selected _five
+    thousand_ among the best to be his household musicians, and
+    clothed them in a rich and uniform dress."
+
+Anything is, however, better than despair, and let us hope that
+something may be done towards the amendment of our musical reputation.
+We have too much of what Cobbett would call the "dead-weight" in us to
+become adopted by Apollo as the "children of song;" but what with the
+school of music in Tenterden-street, and numberless juvenile prodigies,
+we may indulge the expectation of rising in the diatonic scale, and that
+too at no very distant period. Burney and Crotch were remarkable
+instances of precocious musical skill; and in the present day, children
+from eight to twelve sing the most popular Italian airs on the English
+stage, with remarkable accuracy.
+
+Apropos, we hear of constitutions being set to music, for says the
+_Foreign Review_, "during the short revolution at Naples, in 1820, a
+Neapolitan was heard to swear that if the government intended that the
+new constitution should be understood or accepted by the people, they
+must first have it set to music by Rossini."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+
+[Illustration: GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.]
+
+We are again in the _Regents Park_; but we must leave its architectural
+splendour for the present, and request our readers to accompany us
+towards the eastern verge of the Park, to the Gardens of the Zoological
+Society, established in 1826, and whose members now amount to _eleven
+hundred_! The grounds are daily filled with fashionable company,
+notwithstanding the great migrations which usually take place at this
+season of the year, and almost depopulate the western hemisphere of
+fashion. The gardens, independent of their zoological attractions, are a
+delightful promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres
+boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The animals, too, are seen to
+much greater advantage than when shut up in a menagerie, and have the
+luxury of fresh air, instead of unwholesome respiration in a room or
+caravan.[2]
+
+    [2] It should, however, be noticed, that the object of the
+    _Zoological Society_ is not the mere exhibition of animals. In
+    the original prospectus it is observed, that "Animals brought
+    from every part of the globe to be applied to some _useful_
+    purpose as objects of scientific research, not of vulgar
+    admiration; and upon such an institution, a philosophy of
+    zoology founded, pointing out the comparative anatomy, the
+    habits of life, the improvement and the methods of multiplying
+    those races of animals which are most useful to man, and thus
+    fixing a most beautiful and important branch of knowledge on the
+    permanent basis of direct utility." The Secretary of the Society
+    is N.A. Vigors, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., &c. who, from his extensive
+    attainments in the science of zoology, fills the office with
+    honor to himself, and peculiar advantage to the public.
+
+At page 413 of our last volume, the reader will find an abstract of the
+second anniversary of the Society, since which the Gardens in the
+Regent's Park have been opened for public inspection. We have
+accordingly availed ourselves of this privilege, and our draughtsman has
+been at some pains in the annexed sketch, together with the vignette
+_portraits_ accompanying it. The "_Bird's-Eye View_" will be better
+explained by reference to the figures; thus,
+
+  1. Entrance Gate and Pay Hut.
+  2. Ditto Check Hut.
+  3. House and Ground for _Emus_:
+
+Two awkward land birds, resembling ostriches. Their incapability of
+flying is compensated by the exceeding speed with which they run. They
+are natives of New Holland.
+
+  4. Central Walk.
+  5. Sloping Shrubbery of Defence.
+  6. Fields for Horses and Cattle.
+  7. Building for _Bears,_,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+communicating with their pit, in the centre of which is a pole with
+steps for the animals to ascend and descend. At the extremity of the
+upper walk, the pit is surrounded with a dwarf wall and coping, to which
+(since our sketch was taken) have been added iron rails. There are here
+two Arctic bears, and a small black bear, the latter brought from
+Russia,[3] and presented to the Society, by the Marquess of Hertford.
+There is usually a crowd of visiters about this spot, and the sagacity
+and antics of our four-footed friends ensure them liberal supplies of
+cakes and fruit, handed to them on a pole. We were much interested with
+their tricks, especially with the vexation betrayed by one of them, at
+the top of the pole, when he saw his companion below seize a cake which
+the former had previously eyed with great _gout_. His wringing and
+biting his paws reminded us of many scenes out of a bear-pit. Then the
+snorting and snarling of the old bear below, when the young one
+attempted to obtain a cake thrown to him; and above all, the small share
+which our black friend _Toby_ enjoyed, probably from his docility
+over-much,--like good-natured men who are mastered by those of rough
+natures. We could have staid here a whole hour, watching their antics,
+and likening them to the little trickery of human nature.
+
+    [3] He was previously at Sudborne, the seat of the Marquess of
+    Hertford, where Toby, as our Russian friend was christened,
+    became equally sagacious with bipeds, in distinguishing strong
+    ale from small beer. To the former beverage, Toby became freely
+    attached; but when we saw him at the Gardens in the Regent's
+    Park, he appeared too docile for his companions.
+
+  8 and 9. Ground enclosed for _Kangaroos_,
+
+of which there is a little herd, large and small. They are natives of
+New Holland. The fore legs are seldom more than twenty inches in length,
+whilst the hinder ones are sometimes three feet and a half long. They
+rest on the whole length of the hind feet, supporting themselves by the
+base of the tail, which, in truth, acts as a fifth leg, and is sometimes
+used as a weapon, being of such strength as to break a man's leg at a
+single blow. They move by leaps, which have been known to exceed twenty
+feet. Several kangaroos have been kept in the park at Richmond, and
+where they have produced young ones.
+
+  10. _Dens_
+
+containing two fine _leopards, a porcupine_, and _racoons_. In an
+adjoining den are three _wolves._
+
+  11. Gothic House for _Lamas_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This is one of the most picturesque objects in the grounds. It contains
+two lamas. These animals are common in South America, particularly in
+the mountainous parts of Peru, where they are employed as beasts of
+burthen. One of the lamas was presented to the Society by the Duke of
+Bedford.
+
+  12. Circular Aviary for _Birds of Prey_
+
+containing a _fine griffon vulture_, a white-headed _North American
+eagle, hawks, falcons_, and _owls_; among the latter is the _great
+horned owl_. This is supposed by Linnaeus, and many antiquaries, to have
+been the bird of Minerva. The collection is remarkably splendid.
+
+  13. Hut for _Beavers_.
+  14. Hut for _Foreign Goats._
+  15. Enclosed Area and Fountain for _Aquatic Birds_, as pelicans,
+  Solan geese, China geese, black swans, &c.
+  16. Aviary.
+
+Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills, together
+with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose brilliant plumage
+outvies the gayest robe of art, and three curassos.
+
+  17. Grove and Huts for _Esquimaux Dogs_
+
+of which there are three fine specimens.
+
+  18. Fountain, &c. for _Water Fowl_.
+  19. Enclosure for _Zebras, Indian Cows, &c_.
+  20. Houses on poles for _Monkeys_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+These are distributed beside the walks. The monkey is attached by a
+chain to a ring loosely round the pole, by which means he ascends and
+descends at pleasure.
+
+  21. Intended Aviary, (supposed for _Eagles, Vultures_, &c.).
+  22. Twenty acres about to be added.
+  23. House for _Monkeys, &c_.
+
+Here are double rows of cages, containing a fine South American ocelot,
+a lynx, a puma, coatamondis, an ichneumon, and several monkeys; the last
+affording an excellent opportunity of appreciating the fidelity of Mr.
+Landseer's _Monkeyana,_ and illustrating the vraisemblance of men and
+monkeys.
+
+  24. Intended Aviary.
+  25. Mexican _Hogs,_ &c.
+  26. Huts for _Jackalls,_ &c.
+  27. Unfinished Houses.
+
+The carriage-road is formed of the outer side of the Park.
+
+There is likewise an enclosure for _Tortoises_, of which there are three
+large and several small ones. We saw one of them devouring pumpkin as a
+gourmand would turtle, and this voracity is by weather-wise people
+considered as a sure indication of rain. This turtle is believed to be
+very old; he is of stupendous size, but buried as he was (except his
+neck) with shell, he soon became aware of the approach of his companion,
+nearly as large, and accordingly ate with increased greediness. Among
+the birds, too, should be mentioned several beautiful varieties of
+pheasants, partridges, &c. which are well worth the attention of the
+visiter.
+
+We have probably passed over many animals, our object being merely to
+mention a few of the most interesting for their habits and
+peculiarities. Of course the collection is as yet incomplete, there
+being neither lion, tiger, hyaena, elephant, nor rhinoceros; but when it
+is considered that the Society has been established little more than two
+years, in which time a Museum has been formed, and 1,100 subscribers
+obtained, besides the arrangement of the Gardens--it will be
+acknowledged that much has been done in a short time, and judging from
+the excellent organization of the Society and their past success, we
+anticipate the utmost realization of their plan.
+
+Our readers need not be told that the Zoological Society is partly on
+the plan of the Museum of Natural History at Paris, except that the
+latter is supported by the Government, the Gardens are indiscriminately
+opened to the public, free of cost, and the Museum on stated days; and
+when we add that the names of Fagon, Duverney, Tournefort, Vaillant, De
+Jussieu, Buffon, Daubenton, Fourcroy, Desfontaines, De Lamarck, and
+Cuvier, occur in its list of professors, they will not be surprised at
+the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle being the richest of its kind in the
+world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As acceptable information, we subjoin the regulations for the admission
+of members and visiters to the Gardens in the Regent's Park, and the
+_Museum_, in Bruton-street; to the latter we shall allude at an early
+opportunity:--
+
+Every member shall have personal admission to the gardens and museum,
+with two companions. If accompanied by more than two, he shall pay one
+shilling for each extra person.
+
+A member, on payment of one guinea annually, may obtain an ivory ticket,
+which will admit one named person with a companion to both
+establishments; or a transferable ivory ticket which will admit one
+person. He may obtain two or more such tickets at the same rate.
+
+Any member who may find it inconvenient to attend personally at the
+gardens or museum, may, upon application to the council, have his
+privileges transferred, within the present year, to any individual of
+his family, whom he may name.
+
+Every member will be expected to give his name on entering the gardens
+and museum.
+
+The gardens will be open to members from eight o'clock, A.M.; but they
+will be in complete readiness for the reception of visiters only from
+ten o'clock to sunset. The museum will be open from ten o'clock to six.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Your article on the "Patrons of Astronomy," in the Mirror, No. 328,
+brought to my recollection the following anecdote, for the truth of
+which I can answer, having received it from Mr. Watson, well known as
+the most celebrated private optical instrument maker in Europe, and at
+the time living on intimate terms with the late Mr. Arnold, the most
+eminent watchmaker of the day. When the late Sir William Herschel's
+great telescope was first exhibited at Slough, among other scientific
+men who went to see it was Mr. Arnold, who took Mr. W. with him. Neither
+of them thought much of it, though it was praised by the multitude; as
+it was, with its constructor, patronized by the late king and his
+consort, for Herschel was a German, as you well know. A few astronomical
+amateurs, who thought as Mr. Arnold did, proposed to Mr. Adams, of
+Fleet-street, then astronomical instrument maker to the king, (by whom
+Mr. Watson was employed,) to get Watson to make an instrument in
+opposition to Herschel's. The order being given by Adams, Watson set
+about the work, and had made some progress in the construction of the
+instrument, when the circumstance found its way to the ears of royalty.
+Orders were immediately sent to Mr. Adams to put a stop to the work, or
+he should no longer be optician to the king. Watson did not proceed, but
+could never learn the cause of the counter-order, till after a lapse of
+several years, when a stranger called on him, in Valentine-place,
+Blackfriars-road, and after putting several questions to him about his
+instruments, related to him the cause of the counter-order; upon which
+Mr. Watson showed him the progress he had made, and which I have also
+seen. This story I heard related by Mr. Watson at a dinner party at Mr.
+Arnold's, at Well Hall, near Eltham, where were also Mr. Dollonds, and
+Mr. J. R. Arnold, the son.
+
+A Constant Reader.
+
+August, 24, 1828.
+
+Our Correspondent will perceive that we have qualified some phrases of
+his letter, but that all the facts appear.
+
+The _Quarterly Review_, No. 75, from which our notice was taken, is
+tolerably plain upon the lack of patronage towards astronomy in this
+country, and seems disposed, in enumerating the state of astronomical
+knowledge in civilized Europe, to place Great Britain beside Spain or
+Turkey![4] We chance to know that one of the most able and enterprising
+astronomers of the present day relinquished a lucrative profession, that
+he might be more at leisure to indulge his philosophical pursuits; so
+that, if patrons be wanting, this apathy does not appear to have
+entirely destroyed the taste for the divine study. This gentleman, in
+concert with another, ascertained, in the course of three years, the
+position and apparent distances of 380 double and triple stars, the
+result of about 10,000 individual measurements, and for their Memoir,
+they received the astronomical prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
+In the following year, the former individual communicated to the Royal
+Society the apparent distances and positions of 458 double stars, of
+which 160 had never before been observed.
+
+    [4] We feel as if it were a species of treason to record the
+    fact, that, within the wide range of the British islands, _there
+    is only one observatory, and scarcely one, supported by the
+    government_! We say scarcely one, because we believe that some
+    of the instruments in the observatory of Greenwich were
+    purchased out of the private funds of the Royal Society of
+    London. The observatories of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin,
+    Edinburgh (except a grant of 2,000_l_.), Armagh, and Glasgow,
+    are all private establishments, to the support of which
+    government contributes nothing. The consequence of this is, that
+    many of them are in a state of comparative inactivity; and none
+    of them, but that of Dublin, have acquired any celebrity in the
+    astronomical world. Such, indeed, was the state of practical
+    astronomy in Scotland, that within these few years, a Danish
+    vessel, which arrived at Leith, could not obtain, even in
+    Edinburgh, the time of the day for the purpose of setting its
+    chronometers.--_Q. Rev._
+
+Of course, our correspondent does not impeach the talent of HERSCHEL;
+but it is lamentable to reflect that no attempt has been made to repeat
+or extend the labours of that indefatigable astronomer.--ED.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE KELPIE.
+
+A SCOTTISH LEGEND.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  "Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"
+    Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,
+  For though I mind not in the least the nod
+    Of these same critics, still I'll not defy 'em;
+  But that you may know more of this same god,
+    (Though I can't sing as Homer sung of Priam,)
+  I'll write a very pretty little poem,
+  Of which this present stanza's but the proem.
+
+  But to begin, for though 'tis rather long,
+    My poem I'll comprise into twelve stanzas,
+  Or fourteen at the furthest, if my song
+    Don't run to twenty--I'll offend no man, sirs,
+  If I can help it. So now I'm along
+    The road, and beg you'll notice these two lancers,
+  Who, on the backs of horses full of mettle
+  Hold a dispute, which we'll leave them to settle,
+
+  While you go with me, reader, kind and good,
+    To a small tributary stream from Tweed,
+  Which, if you don't know, as I'm in the mood,
+    I'll do my best to teach you, if you'll read;
+  I'll introduce you to the stream Glenrude--
+    This name will do--'twas in a glen--indeed,
+  'Twas not its proper name--'twill do quite well,
+  Why I choose so to call it I shan't tell,
+
+  But still it was a very pretty river,
+    Or rather stream, as ever could be seen--
+  If not so wide as the great Guadalquiver,
+    Its banks were nearly always clothed in green,
+  (Save when in winter the winds made you shiver,)
+    While the waves, bickering so bright and sheen,
+  Put you in mind of Avon, Rhine, or Hellespont,
+  Or any other stream to admire you're wont.
+
+  And round about the stream there were huge hillocks,
+    And firs and mountains, houses too and farms;
+  A maid lay on the grass--her light and fair locks
+    Were gently wound around her folded arms,
+  While softly grazing near there stood a huge ox,
+    And o'er her head an old oak threw its arms.
+  She was asleep, when, lo! the sound of horses'
+  Feet woke her, and, behold, she saw two corses.
+
+  At least she thought so--but at last thought better
+    'Twould be for her to get up and go home;
+  She got up quickly, and would soon have made her
+    Way home, but that the men who had just come
+  Spurr'd past her, and alighted when they met her,
+    While she with her surprise was almost dumb;
+  But soon spoke she, and bade them both disclose
+  Their names--to which one said, "I'm Richard Groze."
+
+  The next spoke not at first, but soon replied,
+    "Pray wherefore are you so surprised, my dear?
+  And wherefore, likewise, have you not complied
+    With my request, which I have sent in near
+  Some good score letters? which you did deride,
+    When they were forwarded by this man here."
+  He pointed then to Groze, and then he sighed,
+  "My dear, dear Jeannie, will you be my bride?"
+
+  The which words when our Jeannie heard, she stared,
+    And said, "What do you mean, John Fitzadree?
+  You talk of letters, but of them the laird
+    Has never brought a single one to me;
+  But when I've seen him I have never cared
+    How soon he went, for he told me that ye
+  Were either dead or faithless--so he said
+  I'd better wed the live, than mourn the dead.
+
+  "And then he promis'd I should have six horses,
+    Besides a coach, if I would be his bride;
+  But I refus'd--and he swore all his crosses
+    Should soon be o'er, and something else beside
+  And that's the reason why I thought ye corses,
+    When o'er the green this way I saw ye ride.
+  But now I see you've both served in the Lancers,
+  Though on my word you look much more like dancers."
+
+  To which John answer'd, "Oh, the filthy fellow,
+    I gave him letters to you, which he said
+  He would deliver, were you ill or well. Oh!
+    How I should like to knock him on the head,
+  And would, but that would show I was quite mellow--
+    Besides, I see the coward has just fled,
+  Has ta'en to horse, and got across the ford--
+  Hang him, that I should with him be so bored!"
+
+  But Jeannie said, "John, thou shall do no murder."
+    To which he answer'd, "I will not do so;"
+  Then bounded off as though he had not heard her,
+    And reached a fording-place, but not so low
+  As where Groze cross'd, and who had now got further
+    Than John would have thought possible, although
+  He'd a good-horse, and nearly half an hour
+  In start--but now the clouds began to lower.
+
+  Now Fitzadree's good charger was all mettle,
+    And soon won to the middle of the stream--
+  But then the sky grew black as a tea kettle;
+    It rained, too, quite as fast as ever steam
+  Rose. But the thing which did at last unsettle
+    The balance of John's steed, was what you'll deem
+  A being that was nearly supernatural--
+  But here the waves John's clothes began to spatter all.
+
+  A form rose up from out the waves' abyss--
+    A monstrous little man with a black hide,
+  Scarce four feet high, yet he was not remiss,
+    But dash'd the waves about--and then he cried,
+  With a demoniac laugh, or rather hiss,
+    "Die, mortal, die!" and John sank down and died,
+  The which, when Jeannie saw, she only sigh'd,
+  "I come, my John, I come, to be thy bride."
+
+  The figure was the Kelpie--that she knew,
+    And madly she rush'd on towards the shore;
+  The Kelpie roar'd, "Come, mortal, come thou too."
+    Ere he'd done speaking, Jeannie was no more;
+  She'd dash'd into the waves, and left no clue,
+    More than a steamer leaves just left the Nore,
+  By which you might discover where she lay,
+  And drag her upwards to the realms of day.
+
+  But what befel the cause of all these woes?
+    That's what I never heard, so cannot tell;
+  But this I know, that this same Richard Groze
+    Return'd no more to bonnie Scotland. Well,
+  I only hope he may in bed repose,
+    And that he may at last escape from hell.
+  And this I know, that if you do not smother
+  This poem, when I choose I'll write another.
+                                J.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SUGAR AND WATER CRITICISM.
+
+
+In one of the critiques on the last _Monthly Magazine_, some verses by
+Mrs. Hemans are said to be "elegant and lady-like."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH BOOK
+
+A DAY AT ST. CLOUD.
+
+_September_ 24, 1826.
+
+
+    I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and
+    looking through the glass, saw all the world in yellow, blue,
+    and green, running at the ring of pleasure.--STERNE.
+
+St. Cloud is the Richmond of France; or rather, it is to Paris what
+Richmond, in the days of its regal splendour, was to London--the summer
+palace of the court. In this comparison, allowance must be made for the
+opposite building taste of each nation; especially as Richmond has an
+appearance of substantial comfort in its massive brick mansions and
+rusticated cottage groups. The French _Sheen_ is, on the contrary,
+gayer; the exterior of the residences being whitened, or what is still
+more artificial, coloured and decorated in tawdry French taste. Such, at
+least, is the character of the _auberges_, or inns, and _restaurateurs_,
+with which St. Cloud is even better supplied than our Richmond. In
+situation, however, they strongly assimilate; the former being placed on
+an acclivity overlooking the Seine, as the latter is on the banks of the
+Thames.
+
+St. Cloud, as I have already said, is the usual summer residence of the
+French court; and with a royal liberality which might be less politic
+elsewhere, the park is granted for three fairs--September 7, and the
+three following Sundays, on the last of which I resolved to visit the
+fête of St. Cloud. It was a glowing September day. The sun shone with
+more than mellow warmth through the groves of the Tuilleries, and on the
+little southern terrace, which was unusually crowded with groups of rosy
+children, with here and there a valetudinarian, who seemed to have
+emerged from his chamber to enjoy the parting glories of the season.
+Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the mall, or
+principal walk, and some few were not incuriously lingering about the
+enclosed parterres of the garden, whose beauties would soon be
+transported to a milder atmosphere. There was a general stir in the
+neighbouring streets; it did not resemble the bustle of business, but
+had more of the gaiety of a holiday scene. The _Pont Royal_ was thronged
+with passengers, and just beneath it, were several hundreds, many of
+whom were embarking in the steam-boat for St. Cloud. But the Seine is at
+all times less inviting for such an excursion than our Thames; and in
+the summer months many insulated spots may be seen in the centre of the
+French river. At the next bridge (Louis XVI.) there was a general muster
+of carriages, each adapted for six or eight passengers, and drawn by one
+or two horses. Here was a loud clamour of "St. Cloud" and "Versailles"
+among the drivers, some of whom were even more officious than the Jehus
+of Greenwich, or the wights of Charing Cross or Piccadilly. I resisted
+all their importunities, and passed on through the _Champs Elysées_, or
+a dusty road through a grove, intersected with ill-formed paths, with a
+few gaudy cafés bearing pompous inscriptions--for Voltaire has made the
+French too fond of nomenclature to say with our Shakspeare, "what's in a
+name?" The road presented a strange specimen of the insubordination of
+French driving, notwithstanding police superintendants affected much
+concern in the matter. Diligences, fiacres, and carriages resembling
+large, covered cabriolets, might be seen loaded with gaily-dressed women
+and children, with a due proportion of young Parisians, all just in the
+hey-day of mirth, drawn by dust-provoking Flanders horses, their drivers
+slashing almost indiscriminately, and, with their clamour and confusion,
+far exceeding the Epsom road on a raceday.
+
+At length, escaping from the dust and din of the French Elysium, I
+halted to enjoy the distant view of the city of Paris, from the gate of
+the barrier. It was indeed an interesting scene. Through the avenue,
+whose area presented a living stream of traffic, might be seen the
+terraces and groves of the Tuilleries, and the spacious and irregular
+palace, with its cupola tops; the tarnished dome of the Invalides; the
+cupola of St. Genevieve; the gray towers of Nôtre Dame; then the winding
+Seine, with its bridges, quays, and terraces, flanked with the long line
+of the Tuilleries, and the Luxembourg, and Louvre galleries, on the one
+side; and on the other by the noble façade of the Chamber of Deputies;
+the courtly mansions of St. Germain, and the blackened front and dome of
+the Institute. What a multitude of associations flitted across the
+memory, by a single glance at PARIS--the capital of that gay,
+light-hearted, and mercurial people--the French nation--the focus of
+European luxury, and the grand political arena of modern history, the
+very calendar of whose events, within the last half century, will form
+one of the most interesting episodes that ever glowed among the records
+of human character. In the chain might be traced the vain-glory of
+conquest linked with defeated ambition, and the sullied splendour of
+royalty just breaking through the clouds of discontent, and slowly
+dispelling the mists of disaffection and political prejudice. What an
+unenviable contrast to the man who has "no enemy but wind and rough
+weather." The same objects that prompted these discordant reflections
+gave rise to others of the most opposite character; and within the
+walls, where treaties, abdications, and warrants, by turns, settled and
+resettled, exiled and condemned--were the store-houses of art, with all
+her proud and peaceful labours of sculpture, painting, and architecture,
+through galleries and saloons, on whose contents the chisel and the
+pencil had lingered many a life, and reduced the compass of its fond
+designs to the cubits of a statue, the fame of a picture, or the glory
+of a pillar or ceiling--such are the frail elements of human art.
+
+The road now began to exhibit the usual appearance of an approach to a
+country fête or fair. Scores of pedestrians, overcome with the heat and
+dust of the day, might be seen at the little boxes or shops of the
+_traiteurs_, or cooks, and at the houses of the _marchands de vin et de
+la biacre_; these by their anticipated anxiety caused the line from
+Paris to St. Cloud to resemble a road-side fair. Cheerfulness and
+vivacity were upper-most in the passengers; and the elastic pace of
+dozens of gaily-dressed _soubrettes_ not a little enhanced the interest
+of the scene. Neither were these charms impaired by that species of
+vulgarity which not unfrequently characterizes the road to our suburban
+fairs; and, what is still more creditable to humanity, there was no
+brutality towards jaded horses or hacks sinking beneath their loads.
+
+Historians attach some antiquarian importance to the village of St.
+Cloud, it being historically confounded with the earliest times of the
+French monarchy; for, from the beginning of the first race, the kings of
+France had a country-seat here.[5]
+
+    [5] For an engraving and account of the Palace of St. Cloud, see
+    MIRROR, vol. ii. page 225.
+
+I now reached the bridge of St. Cloud, an elegant modern structure which
+crosses the Seine, near the entrance to the village. Here the river
+loses much of its importance; and in summer, the steam-boats are not
+unfrequently delayed in their _voyage_ (if it may be so designated) for
+lack of water. The prospect of the château, or palace, embosomed in
+trees, and the park variegated with natural and artificial beauties,
+with the adjoining village on a steep, shelving hill--is unusually
+picturesque. On the present occasion, however, the principal attraction
+was the fête, which reminded me more forcibly of John Bunyan's Vanity
+Fair, than any other exhibition I had ever witnessed.
+
+The entrance to this motley scene was by the principal gate, where the
+carriages set down their company, and at a short distance along the bank
+of the river, the steam-boat in like manner contributed its visiters. On
+entering the park, I was first struck with a long row of boxes,
+(somewhat in the style of those at Vauxhall) but on a raised bank, and
+attached to a _restaurateur_. Here were tables for dinner, and as many
+others were laid in the open air--with the usual _carte_ of 2 or 300
+articles, and the economical elegancies of silver, napkins, and china,
+and this, too, in style little inferior to Verey's in the Palais Royal.
+Promenaders of the better description appeared in the mall, or principal
+walk, and it being the last fête of the season, their attendance was
+very numerous. The stalls and exhibitions were chiefly on the left side
+of this walk; at the former was displayed an almost indescribable
+variety of wares, which were the adjudged prizes in a lottery; but, from
+the decisions which I witnessed, they resembled the _stationary_
+capitals in an English scheme--the nominal Stock in trade of the
+office-keepers. Many of these little gambling shops were superintended
+by women, who proved themselves far from deficient in loquacious
+inducements for adventurers; and by their dexterous settlement of the
+chances, left little time for losers to reflect on their folly.
+Provisions of various descriptions were to be purchased at every turn,
+and among their _marchands_, it was not incurious, to see some humble
+professors of gastronomy over smoking viands, fritters, and goffers or
+indented wafers baked on cast-iron stoves _à la minute_--it must be
+owned, unseasonable luxuries for a September day. The _spectacles_, or
+shows, in noise and absurdity, exceeded the English trumpery of that
+order; and to judge from the gaping crowds which they attracted, we are
+not the only credulous nation in the world. Among the games was a
+machine resembling an English round-a-bout, with wooden horses for the
+players, each of whom was furnished with a foil, with which he strove to
+seize the greatest number of rings from the centre; this was, indeed, a
+chivalrous exhibition. Stilt-walkers, mountebank families, and jugglers,
+"chequered in bulk and brains," lent their aid to amuse the crowd; and,
+occasionally, two or three fellows contrived to enact scenes from plays,
+and with their vulgar wit to merit the applause of their audience.
+Portable clock-work exhibitions swarmed, and mummeries or mysteries,
+representing the Life and Death of our Saviour and the blessed Virgin,
+appeared to be ritual accompaniments of the day, and represented each
+stage of the holy lives. The bearers of the latter machinery enlivened
+their exhibitions with a grinding organ, which they accompanied with
+appropriate ditties or carols. Crosses and other religious emblems were
+hung about the theatrical boxes or shows, which, with their
+representations, could only be compared with the nursery toys of Noah's
+ark, with which most of us have been amused. Accordingly, here were
+models of Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Mount Calvary, in the characteristic
+accuracy of biblical topography, and from the zeal of the spectators,
+the ingenuity of the inventors was unsparingly rewarded.
+
+I turned from these sights to the natural beauties of the park, which,
+aided by the happy inequalities of the ground, (which French artists
+imagined would be such an obstacle to its perfection,) possesses far
+more variety than is usually found in the pleasure-grounds of France.
+The original plantation of the park was the work of La Nôtre, who, it
+will be recollected, planned the garden of Versailles; but St. Cloud is
+considered his _chef-d'oeuvre_, and proves, that with the few natural
+advantages which it afforded him, he was enabled to effect more here
+than millions have accomplished at Versailles--where art is fairly
+overmatched with her own wasteful and ridiculous excess. This alone
+ought to make the French blush for that monument of royal folly.
+
+The situation of the château is its greatest attraction. It possesses a
+fine view of Paris, which is indeed a splendid item in the prospect of
+the princely occupants; and the sight of the capital may, perhaps, be a
+pleasant relief to the natural seclusion of the palace.
+
+One of the most remarkable objects in the park is a kind of square
+tower, surmounted with an exact copy, in _terra cotta_, of the lantern
+of Diogenes at Athens, ornamented with six Corinthian columns. It is
+used as an observatory, and, like its original, is associated with the
+name of the illustrious Grecian--it being also called the lantern of
+Diogenes. Its view of the subjacent plain overlooks the city of Paris by
+a distance of twenty miles.
+
+The fountains and _jets d'eau_ are entitled to special notice, although
+in extent and variety they are far exceeded by those of Versailles. The
+arrangement of the principal cascade is well contrived, and I had the
+good fortune to be present at the moment the water commenced flowing,
+which continued but a short time. This struck me as a singular piece of
+mimicry, and compared with those truly-sublime spectacles--the cascades
+of Nature--the boasted works of St. Cloud seemed mere playthings, like
+the little falls which children contrive in running brooks; or at best
+resembling hydraulic exhibitions on an extensive scale. The playing
+commenced by a jet bursting from a point almost secluded by trees, which
+appeared on a level with the first story of the palace; the stream then
+fell into stone basins, and by turns threw itself aloft, or gushed from
+the mouths of numberless marine animals, and descended by glassy falls
+into a basin, whence it found its way into several vase-shaped forms,
+and again descended by magnificent cascades, discharging themselves into
+a large, circular tank or basin, with two strong jets throwing their
+limpid streams many feet high. In the sculptured forms there is some
+display of classic design; and the effect of many mouths and forms
+gushing forth almost instantaneously was altogether that of magic art,
+not unaided by the lines of trees on two sides being clipped or cut into
+semi-arched forms. The most powerful of the fountains is, however, a
+grand jet, characteristically named the _Geant_, or giant, for the
+incredible force with which it springs from its basin, and rises 125
+feet high, being more than the elevation of Napoleon's triumphal column,
+in the Place Vendôme, at Paris. An uninterrupted view of these
+exhibitions may be enjoyed from the river, which runs parallel with the
+road adjoining the park. Crowds flocked from all directions to witness
+the first gush of the fountains; but their attention soon became
+directed to a royal party attended by footmen, from the palace, who came
+to witness the sights of the fair, and appeared especially amused with a
+family of vaulters and stilt-walkers. They were received with a slight
+buzz of curiosity, but without that enthusiasm with which the English
+are accustomed to recognise, and, not unfrequently, to annoy royalty;
+for here
+
+  No man cried, God save them.
+
+I now began to make a more minute survey of the preparations for
+amusement, for the fête was not yet in its equinoctial splendour. The
+most prominent of these were plots of the raised bank on one side, and
+at the termination of the principal walk, which were enclosed with
+hurdles or frames, a platform being elevated and decorated with
+festooned curtains, &c. for an orchestra, and the whole hung round with
+illumination lamps. Towards evening, but long before dark, these
+enclosures were blazing with variegated splendour; the bands commenced
+playing several lively French airs, and the area was occupied with
+groups of waltzing and quadrilling votaries. As the evening darkened,
+lamps began to glisten in every direction, and the well-lighted cafés
+resembled so many Chinese lanterns; and these, aided by the discordant
+sounds of scores of instruments, gave the whole scene an air of
+enchantment, or rather a slight resemblance to one of its exorcisms. The
+effect was, however, improved by distance. Accordingly, I stole through
+a solitary shrubbery walk, which wound round the hill, and at length led
+me to a forest-like spot, or straggling wood, which flanked the whole of
+the carnival. Viewed from hence, it was, indeed, a fantastical
+illustration of French gaiety, and it momentarily reminded me of some of
+Shakspeare's scenes of sylvan romance, with all their fays and fairy
+population.
+
+The English reader who has not witnessed one of the fêtes of St. Cloud,
+may probably associate them with his own Vauxhall; but the resemblance
+is very slight. At one of these entertainments in France, there is much
+less attempted, but considerably more effected, than in England; and all
+this is accomplished by that happy knack which the French possess of
+making much of a little. Of what did this fête consist--a few hundred
+lamps--a few score of fidlers, and about as much decoration as an
+English showman would waste on the exterior of his exhibition, or
+assemble within a few square yards. There were no long illuminated
+vistas, or temples and saloons red hot with oil and gas--but a few
+slender materials, so scattered and intermixed with the natural beauties
+of the park, as to fascinate, and not fatigue the eye and ear. Even the
+pell-mell frolics of St. Cloud were better idealities of enjoyment, than
+the splendid promenade of Vauxhall, in the days of its olden celebrity;
+for diamonds and feathers are often mere masquerade finery in such
+scenes--so distant are the heads and hearts of their wearers.[6]
+
+    [6] We are not permitted to allude to the fête of St. Cloud as a
+    scene of _pastoral_ amusement, or of the primitive simplicity
+    which is associated with that epithet. The French are not a
+    pastoral people, although they are not less so than the English;
+    neither are the suburbs of a metropolis rural life. They are too
+    near the pride of human art for pastoral pleasures, and no
+    aristocracy is more infested with little tyrants than the
+    neighbourhood of great cities, the oppressors being too timid to
+    trust themselves far out of the verge of public haunts, in the
+    midst of which they would be equally suspicious.
+
+    Amusements are at all times among the best indications of
+    national character; a truth which the ancients seem to have
+    exaggerated into their maxim _in vino veritas_. Here the
+    national comparison is not "odious." Three Sunday fairs are held
+    within six miles of Paris, in a park, as was once the custom at
+    Greenwich: the latter, though a royal park, does not boast of
+    the residence of royalty, as does St Cloud. The objection to the
+    day of the French fêtes is cleared by another argument. But what
+    would be the character of a week-day fair, or fête, in
+    Kensington Gardens? The intuitive answer will make the moral
+    observer regret that man should so often place the interdict on
+    his own happiness, and then peevishly repine at his uncheery
+    lot.
+
+Night, with her poetic glooms, only served to heighten the lustre of the
+fairy fête; and as I receded through the wood, the little shoal of light
+gleamed and twinkled through "branches overgrown," and the distant
+sounds began to fall into solitary silence--even saddening to
+meditation--so fast do the dying glories of festive mirth sink into
+melancholy--till at once, with the last gleam and echo, I found myself
+in a pleasant little glade on the brow of the hill. The day had been
+unusually hot--all was hushed stillness. But the darkening clouds were
+fast gathering into black masses:--
+
+  The rapid lightning flames along the sky.
+  What terrible event does this portend?
+
+The stifling heat of the atmosphere was, however, soon changed by slight
+gusts of wind; the leaves trembled; and a few heavy drops of rain fell
+as harbingers of the coming storm; the pattering ceased; an impressive
+pause succeeded--broken by the deepening roar of thunder.
+
+The threatening storm hastened my return to the focus of the carnival.
+The partial sprinkling had already caused many of the dancers to
+withdraw to the cafés, and to the most sheltered parts of the park. The
+lightning became more and more vivid; and, at length, the thousands who
+had lingered in these groups of gaiety, were fairly routed by pelting
+rain; and the park, with a few lamps flickering out, and decorative
+finery drenched with rain, presented a miserable contrast with the
+festivities of the previous hour. The crowd streamed through the
+park-gate into the village, where hundreds of competitors shouted
+"Paris, Paris;" and their swarms of diligences, cabriolets, and
+curtained carts, were soon freighted. One of these charioteers engaged
+to convey me to Paris for half a franc, in a large, covered cart, with
+oil-skin curtains to protect the passengers in front. To my surprise I
+found the vehicle pre-occupied by twelve or fourteen well-dressed
+persons--male and female, who appeared to forget their inconvenient
+situation in sallies of laughter, which sometimes bordered on boisterous
+mirth. The storm increased; lamps gleamed and flitted across the road;
+many of the horses plunged with their heavy loads, and swept along the
+line in resistless confusion; for nothing can be less characteristic of
+timidity than French driving.
+
+On reaching Paris, the streets resembled so many torrents, and in most
+places were not fordable, notwithstanding scores of persons, with the
+alacrity of mushrooms after rain, had placed themselves at the narrowest
+parts of the streams, with raised planks, or temporary bridges for
+crossing. Our load was _landed_ under the arcade of the Hotel de Ville;
+but the driver, in the genuine spirit of a London hackney-coachman, did
+not forget to turn the "ill-wind" to his own account, by importuning me
+for a double fare.
+
+I learned that the storm had been less tremendous in its consequences at
+St. Cloud and Paris than at Versailles, the lightning having consumed a
+farm-house and barns near that town. It is an event worthy of notice,
+from its being part of the phenomenon of what is termed a returning
+stroke of lightning, the circumstances of which are recorded in a recent
+number of Brande's philosophical journal.--_Abridged from "Cameleon
+Sketches," by the author of the "Promenade round Dorking."_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALFREDE AND MATYLDA.
+
+WRITTEN BY ROBERT HAIEWOODE, OF CHEPING-TORITON, IN 1520.
+
+
+  The bryghtt enamell of the mornyng's gleame
+  Begann to daunce onn bobblynge Avonn's streame,
+  As yothefull Alfrede and Matylda fayre
+  Stoode sorowynge bie, ennobledd bie despayre:
+  Att tymes theyr lypps the tynts of Autumpe wore,
+  Att tymes a palerr hewe thann wynterr bore;
+  And faste the rayne of love bedew'dd theyr eyne,
+  As thos, in earnefull[7] strayns, theyr tenes[8] theie dyd
+    bewreene.[9]
+
+  ALFREDE.
+
+  Ah! iff we parte, ne moe to meete agayne,
+  Wythyn thie wydow'dd berte wyll everr brenn
+  The frostie vygyls of a cloysterr'd nun,
+  Insteade of faerie[10] love's effulgentt sonne!
+  Ne moe with myne wyll carolynge[11] beatt hie,
+  Gyve throbb for throbb, and sygh returne forr sygh,
+  Butt bee bie nyghtt congeall'dd bie lethall feares,
+  Bie daie consum'dd awaie inn unavaylynge teares!
+
+  MATYLDA.
+
+  Alas! howe soone is happlesse love ondonne,
+  Wytherr'd and deadde almostt beforre begunn:
+  Lych Marchh's openyng flowrs thatt sygh'dd forr Maie,
+  Which Apryll's teares inn angerr wash'dd awaie.
+  Onr tenes alych, alych our domes shall bee,
+  Where'err thou wander'stt I wyll followe thee;
+  And whann our sprytes throughe feere are purg'dd fromm claie,
+  Inn pees theie shalle repose upponn the mylkie waie.
+
+  ALFREDE.
+
+  The raynbowe hewes that payntt the laughyng mees,[12]
+  The gule-stayn'dd[13] folyage of the okenn trees,
+  The starrie spangells of the mornynge dewe,
+  The laverock's matyn songes and skies of blewe,
+  Maie weel the thotes of gentill shepherdds joie.
+  Whose hertes ne hopelesse loves or cares alloie;
+  Butt whatt cann seeme to teneful loverrs fayre.
+  Whose hopes butt darkenns moe the mydnyghtt of despayre?
+
+  MATYLDA.
+
+  To thotelesse swayns itt maie bee blyss indeede,
+  To marke the yeare through alle hys ages speede,
+  Butt everie seasone seemes alych to mee,
+  Eternall wynterr whann awaie from thee!
+  Fromm howrr to howrr I oftt beweepe ourr love,
+  Wyth all the happie sorowe of the dove,
+  And fancie, as itts sylentt waterrs flowe,
+  Mie bosome's swetestt joies mustt thos bee mientt[14] wyth woe.
+
+  Palerr thann cloudes thatt stayne the azure nyghtt,
+  Or starrs thatt shoote beneathe theyr feeble lyghtt,
+  And eke as crymson as the mornyng's rode,[15]
+  The lornlie[16] payre inn dumbe dystracyon stoode
+  Whann onn the banke Matylda sonke and dyed,
+  And Alfrede plong'dd hys daggerr inn hys syde:
+  Hys purpell soule came roshynge fromm the wounde,
+  And o'err the lyfeless claie deathe's ensygns stream'dd arownde.
+
+  _Literary Gazette._
+
+    [7] Tender.
+    [8] Woes.
+    [9] Express.
+    [10] Fiery.
+    [11] Dancing.
+    [12] Meadows.
+    [13] Blood-coloured.
+    [14] Mingled.
+    [15] Complexion.
+    [16] Forlorn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+
+FOX HUNTING.
+
+
+"Well, do you know, that after all you have said, Mr. North, I cannot
+understand the passion and the pleasure of fox-hunting. It seems to me
+both cruel and dangerous."
+
+Cruelty! Is there cruelty in laying the rein on their necks, and
+delivering them up to the transport of their high condition--for every
+throbbing vein is visible--at the first full burst of that maddening
+cry, and letting loose to their delight the living thunderbolts? Danger!
+What danger but breaking their own legs, necks, or backs, and those of
+their riders? And what right have you to complain of that, lying all
+your length, a huge hulking fellow snoring and snorting half asleep on a
+sofa, sufficient to sicken a whole street? What though it be but a
+smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears, and
+passionately fond of poultry, that they pursue? After the first tallyho,
+Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon--once perhaps in the
+whole run, skirting a wood, or crossing a common. It is an idea that is
+pursued, on a whirlwind of horses to a storm of canine music,--worthy,
+both, of the largest lion that ever leaped among a band of Moors,
+sleeping at midnight by an extinguished fire on the African sands. There
+is, we verily believe it, nothing foxy in the fancy of one man in all
+that glorious field of three hundred. Once off and away--while wood and
+welkin rings--and nothing is felt--nothing is imaged in that hurricane
+flight, but scorn of all obstructions, dikes, ditches, drains, brooks,
+palings, canals, rivers, and all the impediments reared in the way of so
+many rejoicing madmen, by nature, art, and science, in an enclosed,
+cultivated, civilized, and Christian country. There they go--prince and
+peer, baronet and squire,--the nobility and gentry of England, the
+flower of the men of the earth, each on such steed as Pollux never
+reined, nor Philip's warlike son--for could we imagine Bucephalus here,
+ridden by his own tamer, Alexander would be thrown out during the very
+first burst, and glad to find his way dismounted to a village alehouse
+for a pail of meal and water. Hedges, trees, groves, gardens, orchards,
+woods, farm-houses, huts, halls, mansions, palaces, spires, steeples,
+towers, and temples, all go wavering by, each demigod seeing, or seeing
+them not, as his winged steed skims or labours along, to the swelling or
+sinking music, now loud as a near regimental band, now faint as an echo.
+Far and wide over the country are dispersed the scarlet runners--and a
+hundred villages pour forth their admiring swarms, as the main current
+of the chase roars by, or disparted runlets float wearied and all
+astray, lost at last in the perplexing woods. Crash goes the top-timber
+of the five-barred gate--away over the ears flies the ex-rough-rider in
+a surprising somerset--after a succession of stumbles, down is the
+gallant Grey on knees and nose, making sad work among the
+fallow--Friendship is a fine thing, and the story of Damon and Pythias
+most affecting indeed--but Pylades eyes Orestes on his back sorely
+drowned in sludge, and tenderly leaping over him as he lies, claps his
+hand to his ear, and with a "hark forward, tan-tivy!" leaves him to
+remount, lame and at leisure--and ere the fallen has risen and shook
+himself, is round the corner of the white village-church, down the dell,
+over the brook, and close on the heels of the straining pack, all a-yell
+up the hill crowned by the Squire's Folly. "Every man for himself, and
+God for us all," is the devout and ruling apothegm of the day. If death
+befall, what wonder? since man and horse are mortal; but death loves
+better a wide soft bed with quiet curtains and darkened windows in a
+still room, the clergyman in the one corner with his prayers, and the
+physician in another with his pills, making assurance doubly sure, and
+preventing all possibility of the dying Christian's escape. Let oak
+branches smite the too slowly stooping skull, or rider's back not timely
+levelled with his steed's; let faithless bank give way, and bury in the
+brook; let hidden drain yield to fore feet and work a sudden wreck; let
+old coal-pit, with briery mouth, betray; and roaring river bear down man
+and horse, to banks unscaleable by the very Welsh goat; let duke's or
+earl's son go sheer over a quarry fifty feet deep, and as many high;
+yet, "without stop or stay, down the rocky way," the hunter train flows
+on; for the music grows fiercer and more savage,--lo! all that remains
+together of the pack, in far more dreadful madness than hydrophobia,
+leaping out of their skins, under insanity from the scent, now strong as
+stink, for Vulpes can hardly now make a crawl of it; and ere he, they,
+whipper-in, or any one of the other three demoniacs, have time to look
+in one another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand pieces,
+gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, and
+warm, and cozey, as he was an hour and twenty-five minutes ago exactly,
+in his furze bush in the cover,--he is now piece-meal, in about thirty
+distinct stomachs; and is he not, pray, well off for sepulture?--
+_Blackwood's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BLIND BEAUTY OF THE MOOR.
+
+(_A Fragment._)
+
+
+To thee--O palest phantom--clothed in white raiment, not like unto a
+ghost risen with its grave-clothes to appal, but like a seraph
+descending from the skies to bless--unto thee will we dare to speak, as
+through the mist of years back comes thy yet unfaded beauty, charming
+us, while we cannot choose but weep, with the self-same vision that
+often glided before us long, long ago in the wilderness, and at the
+sound of our voice would pause for a little while, and then pass by,
+like a white bird from the sea, floating unscared close by the
+shepherd's head, or alighting to trim its plumes on a knoll far up an
+inland glen! Death seems not to have touched that face, pale though it
+be--life-like is the waving of those gentle hands--and the soft, sweet,
+low music which now we hear, steals not sure from lips hushed by the
+burial-mould! Restored by the power of love, she stands before us as she
+stood of yore. Not one of all the hairs of her golden head was singed by
+the lightning that shivered the tree under which the child had run for
+shelter from the flashing sky. But in a moment the blue light in her
+dewy eyes was dimmed--and never again did she behold either flower or
+star. Yet all the images of all the things she had loved remained in her
+memory, clear and distinct as the things themselves before
+unextinguished eyes--and ere three summers had flown over head, which,
+like the blossom of some fair perennial flower, in heaven's gracious dew
+and sunshine each season lifted its loveliness higher and higher in the
+light--she could trip her singing way through the wide wilderness, all
+by her joyful self, led, as all believed, nor erred they in so
+believing, by an angel's hand! When the primroses peeped through the
+reviving grass upon the vernal braes, they seemed to give themselves
+into her hand; and 'twas thought they hung longer unfaded round her neck
+or forehead than if they had been left to drink the dew on their native
+bed. The linnets ceased not their lays, though her garment touched the
+broomstalk on which they sung. The cushat, as she thrid her way through
+the wood, continued to croon in her darksome tree--and the lark,
+although just dropped from the cloud, was cheered by her presence into a
+new passion of song, and mounted over her head, as if it were his first
+matin hymn. All the creatures of earth and air manifestly loved the
+Wanderer of the Wilderness--and as for human beings, she was named, in
+their pity, their wonder, and their delight, the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!
+
+She was an only child, and her mother had died in giving her birth. And
+now her father, stricken by one of the many cruel diseases that shorten
+the lives of shepherds on the hills, was bed-ridden--and he was poor. Of
+all words ever syllabled by human lips, the most blessed is--Charity. No
+manna now in the wilderness is rained from heaven--for the mouths of the
+hungry need it not in this our Christian land. A few goats feeding among
+the rocks gave them milk, and there was bread for them in each
+neighbour's house--neighbour though miles afar--as the sacred duty came
+round--and the unrepining poor sent the grateful child away with their
+prayers.
+
+One evening, returning to the hut with her usual song, she danced up to
+her father's face on his rushy bed, and it was cold in death. If she
+shrieked--if she fainted--there was but one ear that heard, one eye that
+saw her in her swoon. Not now floating light like a small moving cloud
+unwilling to leave the flowery braes, though it be to melt in heaven,
+but driven along like a shroud of flying mist before the tempest, she
+came upon us in the midst of that dreary moss; and at the sound of our
+quaking voice, fell down with clasped hands at our feet--"My father's
+dead!" Had the hut put already on the strange, dim, desolate look of
+mortality? For people came walking fast down the braes, and in a little
+while there was a group round us, and we bore her back again to her
+dwelling in our arms. As for us, we had been on our way to bid the fair
+creature and her father farewell. How could she have lived--an utter
+orphan--in such a world! The holy power that is in Innocence would for
+ever have remained with her; but Innocence longs to be away, when her
+sister Joy has departed; and 'tis sorrowful to see the one on earth,
+when the other has gone to heaven! This sorrow none of us had long to
+see; for though a flower, when withered at the root, and doomed ere eve
+to perish, may yet look to the careless eye the same as when it
+blossomed in its pride,--its leaves, still green, are not as once they
+were,--its bloom, though fair, is faded--and at set of sun, the dews
+shall find it in decay, and fall unfelt on all its petals. Ere Sabbath
+came, the orphan child was dead. Methinks we see now her little funeral.
+Her birth had been the humblest of the humble; and though all in life
+had loved her, it was thought best that none should be asked to the
+funeral of her and her father, but two or three friends; the old
+clergyman himself walked at the head of the father's coffin--we at the
+head of the daughter's--for this was granted unto our exceeding
+love;--and thus passed away for ever the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+  A snapper up of unconsidered trifles,
+  SHAKSPEARE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EPICURISM.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+At a public dinner, Captain R. commencing a conversation with a
+gentleman next to him, was astonished at not being able to elicit one
+word in answer. At length his silent neighbour turned to him, and said,
+with a look and tone suitable to the _importance_ of the communication,
+"Sir, whenever you are at a venison feast, let me advise you _never to
+speak during dinner_. In endeavouring to reply to you, I have actually
+at this moment swallowed _entire_ a fine piece of fat, _without tasting
+it_!"
+
+J.G.R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An Englishman, named _Drinkwater_, was nearly drowned the other day off
+Boulogne; on hearing which, a wag observed that he had "almost taken a
+drop too much."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FLY WATER.
+
+
+Prussic Acid has been obtained from the leaves of _green tea_, in so
+concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog almost instantaneously.
+A strong infusion of Souchong tea, sweetened with sugar, is as effectual
+in poisoning flies as the solution of arsenic, generally sold for that
+purpose.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There may now be seen, written on a board on a new house in the
+Blackfriars-road, the following words:--"Hird robeish may be had heare."
+
+BILLY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NO JOKE OR RIDDLE.
+
+
+  A house with wings extended wide,
+    A racket-ground to play in,
+  Two porters' lodges there beside,
+    And porters always staying
+  To guard the inmates there within,
+    And keep them from the town;
+  From duns as free as saints from sin,
+    And sheriffs of renown.
+  To get white wash'd it is their plan,
+    'Tis such a cleansing thing--
+  Then out they come with blacker hands
+    Than when they first went in.
+
+P.H.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park, written in
+chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to have been written
+by one who meditated suicide:--
+
+  Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,
+  Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,
+  Oh! damn'd despair to shun the living light,
+  And plunge thy guilty soul to endless night.
+
+Written also in the same hand:--Charlotte Rumpling, you did not use me
+well, but I forgive you--God bless you.
+
+EDWIN W----.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+WANTS A WIFE.
+
+
+She must bee middel eaged and good tempered widdow, or a Maid, and
+pursest of propertey, and I wood far reather have a Wife that is ever so
+plain then a fine Lady that think herself hansom; the Advertiser is not
+rich nor young, old nor poor, and in a very few years he will have a
+good incumb. Can be hiley reckamended for onestey, sobrieaty, and good
+temperd, and has no in combranc, is very actif, but not a treadesman,
+have been as Butler and Bailiff for meney years in most respectable
+families, and shood I not be so luckey as to get me a wife, wood be most
+willing to take a sitteyeashan once moor, wood prefer living in the
+countrey, under stands Brewing feamosley, is well adapted for a inn or
+publick hous. Please to derect W.W., 268, Berwick-street, Oxford-roade,
+or aney Ladey may call and have a interview with the widdow that keeps
+the hous, and say wher and when we can meet each other. All letters must
+be pd, no Ofice-keeper to applygh. My fameley ar verey well off and
+welthey, far above the midling order.
+
+This is a good joke upon _Matrimonial Advertising_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Jack Bannister visited the Haymarket theatre on Wednesday night, August
+20, and made in the free-list book the following entry:--"Fifty years
+ago, in the year 1778, I made my first appearance at this theatre. Half
+a century is not bad. Hurra!! John Bannister."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT.
+
+
+In reading over an agreement, for letting a house, the other day, the
+initials of the party letting it were A.B., of the party taking C.D.,
+and of the witness to the signatures E.F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE.
+
+
+Obstinacy and perseverance, though often confounded, are two very
+different things; a man may be very obstinate, and yet not persevere in
+his opinion ten minutes. Obstinacy is resistance to truth; perseverance
+is a continuance in truth or error.
+
+T.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+IDOLATRY.
+
+
+The origin of idolatry is by many attributed to the age of Eber, though
+most of the fathers place it no higher than that of Serug; but it
+appears to me certain, that image worship existed in the time of Jacob,
+from the account of Rachel taking images along with her on leaving her
+father's house, which is given in the book of Genesis.
+
+T.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ORIGIN OF THE WORD GALLIMATHIAS.
+
+
+This word, which signifies nonsense, _alias_ talk without meaning, is
+supposed to have first arisen at the time when all pleadings at the bar
+were in Latin. There was a cause, it seems, about a cock, belonging to
+the plaintiff Matthias; the counsel, in the heat of the harangue, by
+often repeating the words _gallus_ and _Matthias_, happened to blunder,
+and, instead of saying _gallus Matthiae_, said _galli Matthias_, which
+at length became a general name for all confused, embroiled language and
+discourse.
+
+P.T.W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SALLIE TO JOHN.
+
+
+  Changed ere long shall my fortunes be,
+  Yet my faith is firm--I will go with thee.
+  I yield not weakly to fancy's trance,
+  Or the fitful flame of young romance;
+  I dwell with a calm, unshrinking mind
+  On the scenes that I seek and leave behind;
+  My future fate spread forth I see,
+  And my choice is fix'd--I will go with thee.
+
+  I have thought on this hour with many a tear,
+  In the timid weakness of woman's fear;
+  It comes, and I rise, the test above,
+  In the dauntless strength of woman's love.
+  Gaze not upon me with looks so sad--
+  My step is firm, and my heart is glad;
+  This last, last sigh for my home shall be--
+  Past is the trial--I go with thee.
+
+_Dublin_.
+
+JAN RHI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Diogenes was not in the wrong, who, when the great Alexander, finding
+him in the charnel-house, asked him what he was seeking for, answered,
+"I am seeking for your father's bones, and those of my slave; but I
+cannot find them, because there is no difference between them."
+
+G.K.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GETTING A JOURNEY.
+
+_By Dr. Kitchiner_.
+
+
+I GOT on horseback within ten minutes after I received your letter. When
+I GOT to Canterbury, I GOT a chaise for town. But I GOT wet through
+before I GOT to Canterbury, and I have GOT such a cold as I shall not be
+able to GET rid of in a hurry. I GOT to the Treasury about noon, but
+first of all I GOT shaved and drest. I soon GOT into the secret of
+GETTING a memorial before the board, but I could not GET an answer then;
+however, I GOT intelligence from the messenger that I should most likely
+GET one next morning. As soon as I GOT back to my inn, I GOT my supper
+and GOT to bed. It was not long before I GOT to sleep. When I GOT up in
+the morning, I GOT my breakfast, and then GOT myself drest, that I might
+GET out in time, to GET an answer to my memorial. As soon as I GOT it, I
+GOT into the chaise, and GOT home by three o'clock.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page145" name="page145"></a>[pg
+145]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+OF<br />
+LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+<tr>
+<td align="left"><b>Vol. 12. No. 330.]</b></td>
+<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828</b></td>
+<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page146" name="page146"></a>[pg
+146]</span>
+<h2>WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?</h2>
+<blockquote>
+<p>We cannot help it.&mdash;<i>Massinger's Roman Actor.</i></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating topics of
+the day; on the second of these heads we have thrown together a few
+hints, which may, probably prove entertaining to our readers.</p>
+<p>The English are not&mdash;you know, reflective public&mdash;a
+musical people; this has been said over and over again in the
+musical and dramatic critiques of the newspapers. True it is that
+we have no <i>national music</i>, like our neighbours the Welsh,
+the Irish, or the Scotch; for our music, like out language, is a
+mere <i>riccifamento</i>, stolen from every nation in Europe. But
+our king (God bless him) is an excellent musician, and plays the
+violoncello most delightfully; and we have an Academy of Music.
+Then we have an Italian Theatre that burns the feet and fingers of
+all who meddle with its management&mdash;witness, Mr. Ebers, who,
+by being "married" to sweet sounds, lost the enormous sum of
+47,000<i>l</i>.&mdash;it must be owned, an unfortunate match, or as
+Dr. Franklin would have said, "paying rather too dear for his
+whistle." We have too an <i>English Opera House</i>, where scarcely
+any but <i>foreign</i> music is heard, and which, to the
+ever-lasting credit of its management, has transplanted from the
+warm climes of the south to our ungenial atmosphere, some of the
+finest compositions in the continental schools of modern music.
+Success has, however, attended most of their enterprises; for the
+taste of the English for foreign music is by no means a modern
+mania. From Pepys's <i>Diary</i> we learn that the first company of
+Italian singers came here in the reign of Charles II.: they were
+brought by Killigrew from Venice, about 1688; but they did not
+perform whole operas, only detached scenes in recitative, and not
+in any public theatre, but in the houses of the nobility. Thus,
+Italian music was loved and cultivated very early in England, and
+London was the next capital, after Vienna, which established and
+supported an Italian Opera. But, as we never do things by halves,
+we had soon afterwards, two opposition houses. This proves that the
+English have a <i>taste for music</i>; indeed they have much more
+judgment than some of their neighbours, which makes it still more
+to be regretted that nothing is done in England towards the
+advancement of music as a science. Is the world of sound and the
+soul of song exhausted? Why should we, who are marching in every
+other direction, stand still in this? But no; what Orpheus did with
+<i>music</i>, we are striving to accomplish by <i>steam</i>; what
+he effected by quietly touching his lyre, we study with the
+atmospheres and condensers of high and low pressure engines.</p>
+<p>The writer of a delightful paper in the <i>Foreign Review</i>,
+No. 3, in tracing the rise and progress of music, inquires what has
+become of "its loftier pretensions, its celestial attributes, its
+moral and political influence." He then facetiously observes, "How
+should we marvel to see the Duke of Wellington, like another
+Epaminondas, take his flute out of his pocket to still the clamour
+of the opposition, or Mr. Peel reply to the arguments of Mr.
+Huskisson with an allegro on the fiddle."</p>
+<p>The Greeks were not such grave people as some may be inclined to
+think them. Among them, poetry and music were so intimately
+connected, that they were in fact one and the same. It is not so
+with us; we have Byron and Moore, in poetry; but where are their
+parallels in English music!</p>
+<p>"Music," says Plutarch, "was the universal language of Greece,
+the sacred vehicle of history, philosophy, laws, and morals;" but
+in England it is little more than a mere amusement to while away
+the evening, or at best, but a branch of <i>female</i> education.
+Pianos are become articles of furniture to be met with in almost
+every other genteel house; Miss and her sisters sit down by turns,
+and screw themselves up to <i>Ah vous dirai</i>, or "I'd be a
+butterfly"&mdash;till some handsome young fellow who has stood
+behind her chair for six months, turned over her music, or
+accompanied her through a few liquorish airs, vows his tender
+passion, brings her the last new song, and at length swears to be
+her accompaniment throughout life. The piano is then locked up, the
+music sent to Bath or <i>Canterbury</i>, and the lady is married
+and cannot sing.</p>
+<p>But the Greek poets sang their own verses: "Homer literally
+<i>sang</i> the wrath of Achilles, and the woes of Greece;" would
+it were so in England. Then, my poetical public, we should have
+Anacreon Moore singing his "Rich and rare were the gems she wore,"
+in some such place as the Quadrant, or Opera Colonnade; and Sir
+Walter Scott celebrating the Field of Waterloo, not in the
+broad-margined octavos of Paternoster-row, but about the purlieus
+of the Horse Guards. Wordsworth would be his own Skylark. The
+laureate, Southey, would perch himself on the dome of the New
+Palace. Campbell would step out of New Burlingtonstreet into the
+Park; Miss Mitford would <span class="pagenum"><a id="page147"
+name="page147"></a>[pg 147]</span> keep a Covent-Garden audience
+awake with her own tragedies, and Planch&eacute; would no longer
+entrust his rhymes to Paton or Vestris. On the other hand, Braham
+would no longer be indebted to Moore for his songs, Bishop would
+write, compose, and sing his own operas, and all our vocalists
+enter, like Dryden's king and two fiddlers, <i>solus</i>!</p>
+<p>Could we but once become a musical people, we should no longer
+marvel at the effect of music in ancient times; for who knows but
+that if an Englishman were to play like Orpheus, the River Thames
+might cease to flow; the disposal of Mr. Cross's menagerie be no
+longer a question, since the animals might be allowed to ramble
+about the Strand; and Snowdon or Cader Idris journey to the King's
+Theatre to listen to his inspirations.</p>
+<p>It is, however, impossible to calculate the benefits which this
+acquisition of musical skill might prove to the English people.
+What bloodshed and tribulation it would prevent. Weare, or Maria
+Marten, like Stradella, might have disarmed their assassins; the
+Insolvent Act would be obsolete, and duns defeated; since hundreds
+of improvident wights, like Palma, might, by their strains, soften
+the hearts of their creditors, and draw tears from sheriff's
+officers. Chancery-lane would be depopulated, and Cursitor-street
+be left to the fowls of the air; locks would fall 50 per cent, and
+Mr. Bramah might betake himself to Van Dieman's Land. What a
+pleasant thing would a public dinner be; for, instead of a
+gentleman in a dress coat singing as from the orchestra of an
+oratorio, he would throw a more impassioned energy into his own
+compositions than he could possibly impart to those of another, and
+proportionally enhance the delight of his company. All the
+mechanism of professional singing would then give way to "the feast
+of reason and the flow of soul."</p>
+<p>We know not how to have done with these pleasures of "linked
+sweetness"&mdash;this "mosaic of the air," as Marvell quaintly
+calls it. We have a decided aversion to the system of borrowing,
+which, in the absence of our own musical resources, seems to be
+universally adopted. Thus, as Charles Mathews says, "every footman
+whistles <i>Frieschutz</i>;" and the barrel organ which does not
+play two or three of its airs may be consigned to the brokers. A
+few months since every bachelor hummed or whistled "<i>C'est
+l'amour</i>," and the French, to return the compliment, have made
+our "Robin Adair," one of the claptraps of the music of their <i>La
+Dame Blanche</i>. Next, when will Mr. Bishop's <i>Home, sweet
+home</i>, be forgotten, although the original is a Sicilian air of
+considerable antiquity. All the baker's and butcher's boys in
+London can go through "<i>Di tanti pal</i>"&mdash;where they leave
+off, answer a question, and take up the "<i>piti</i>," with the
+skill of a musician; and as readily fall into the sympathetic
+melodies of "<i>Oh no we never mention her</i>," or the "<i>Light
+Guitar</i>." But to atone for these vulgarisms, who that has heard
+the syren strains of Stephens or Paton, or the Anglo-Italian style
+of Braham, but has envied them the pleasurable monopoly of
+delighting thousands, and sending them home with the favourite air
+still echoing in their ears, and lulling them to soft slumbers! Who
+is there that has enjoyed his circle of friends without regretting
+a thousand times that he had not a fiftieth part of such talent to
+enliven the festive hour, and lend a charm, however, fleeting, to
+what may be termed the poetry of life.</p>
+<p>As we have noticed the taste of the Greeks for music, it is but
+fair that we should allude to that of their successors. In ancient
+Rome, music was never popular. Combats of gladiators and wild
+beasts filled their theatres with streams of blood, instead of
+their resounding with music; and after the death of Nero,<a id=
+"footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> that beautiful art was declared
+infamous, and by a public decree, banished from the city. In our
+theatres, however, heroes fight to music, from the Richard III. and
+Richmond of Shakspeare to the "terrific combats" of modern
+melodrame.</p>
+<p>Anything is, however, better than despair, and let us hope that
+something may be done towards the amendment of our musical
+reputation. We have too much of what Cobbett would call the
+"dead-weight" in us to become adopted by Apollo as the "children of
+song;" but what with the school of music in Tenterden-street, and
+numberless juvenile prodigies, we may indulge the expectation of
+rising in the diatonic scale, and that too at no very distant
+period. Burney and Crotch were remarkable instances of precocious
+musical skill; and in the present day, children from eight to
+twelve sing the most popular Italian airs on the English stage,
+with remarkable accuracy.</p>
+<p>Apropos, we hear of constitutions being set to music, for says
+the <i>Foreign Review</i>, <span class="pagenum"><a id="page148"
+name="page148"></a>[pg 148]</span> "during the short revolution at
+Naples, in 1820, a Neapolitan was heard to swear that if the
+government intended that the new constitution should be understood
+or accepted by the people, they must first have it set to music by
+Rossini."</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.</h2>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/330-1.png" alt=
+"Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park" /></a></div>
+<p>We are again in the <i>Regents Park</i>; but we must leave its
+architectural splendour for the present, and request our readers to
+accompany us towards the eastern verge of the Park, to the Gardens
+of the Zoological Society, established in 1826, and whose members
+now amount to <i>eleven hundred</i>! The grounds are daily filled
+with fashionable company, notwithstanding the great migrations
+which usually take place at this season of the year, and almost
+depopulate the western hemisphere of fashion. The gardens,
+independent of their zoological attractions, are a delightful
+promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres
+boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The animals, too, are seen
+to much greater advantage than when shut up in a menagerie, and
+have the luxury of fresh air, instead of unwholesome respiration in
+a room or caravan.<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+"footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
+<p>At page 413 of our last volume, the reader will find an abstract
+of the second anniversary of the Society, since which the Gardens
+in the Regent's Park have been opened for public inspection. We
+have accordingly availed ourselves of this privilege, and our
+draughtsman has been at some pains in the annexed sketch, together
+with the vignette <i>portraits</i> accompanying it. The
+"<i>Bird's-Eye View</i>" will be better explained by reference to
+the figures; thus,</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>1. Entrance Gate and Pay Hut.</p>
+<p>2. Ditto Check Hut.</p>
+<p>3. House and Ground for <i>Emus</i>:</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Two awkward land birds, resembling ostriches. Their incapability
+of flying is compensated by the exceeding speed with which they
+run. They are natives of New Holland.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>4. Central Walk.</p>
+<p>5. Sloping Shrubbery of Defence.</p>
+<p>6. Fields for Horses and Cattle.</p>
+<p>7. Building for <i>Bears,</i>,</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-2.png"><img width="50%" src="images/330-2.png" alt=
+"Building for Bears" /></a></div>
+<p>communicating with their pit, in the centre of which is a pole
+with steps for the animals to ascend and descend. At the extremity
+of the upper walk, the pit is surrounded with a dwarf wall and
+coping, to which (since our sketch was taken) have been added iron
+rails. There are here two Arctic bears, and a small black bear, the
+latter brought from Russia,<a id="footnotetag3" name=
+"footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> and
+presented to the Society, by the Marquess of Hertford. There is
+usually a crowd of visiters about this spot, and the sagacity and
+antics of our four-footed friends ensure them liberal supplies of
+cakes and fruit, handed to them on a pole. We were much interested
+with their tricks, especially with the vexation betrayed by one of
+them, at the top of the pole, when he saw his companion below seize
+a cake which the former had previously eyed with great <i>gout</i>.
+His wringing and biting his paws reminded us of many scenes out of
+a bear-pit. Then the snorting and snarling of the old bear below,
+when the young one attempted to obtain a cake thrown to him; and
+above all, the small share which our black friend <i>Toby</i>
+enjoyed, probably from his docility over-much,&mdash;like
+good-natured men who are mastered by those of rough natures. We
+could have staid here a whole hour, watching their antics, and
+likening them to the little trickery of human nature.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>8 and 9. Ground enclosed for <i>Kangaroos</i>,</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page149" name="page149"></a>[pg
+149]</span>
+<p>of which there is a little herd, large and small. They are
+natives of New Holland. The fore legs are seldom more than twenty
+inches in length, whilst the hinder ones are sometimes three feet
+and a half long. They rest on the whole length of the hind feet,
+supporting themselves by the base of the tail, which, in truth,
+acts as a fifth leg, and is sometimes used as a weapon, being of
+such strength as to break a man's leg at a single blow. They move
+by leaps, which have been known to exceed twenty feet. Several
+kangaroos have been kept in the park at Richmond, and where they
+have produced young ones.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>10. <i>Dens</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>containing two fine <i>leopards, a porcupine</i>, and
+<i>racoons</i>. In an adjoining den are three <i>wolves.</i></p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>11. Gothic House for <i>Lamas</i>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-3.png"><img width="60%" src="images/330-3.png" alt=
+"Gothic House for Lamas" /></a></div>
+<p>This is one of the most picturesque objects in the grounds. It
+contains two lamas. These animals are common in South America,
+particularly in the mountainous parts of Peru, where they are
+employed as beasts of burthen. One of the lamas was presented to
+the Society by the Duke of Bedford.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>12. Circular Aviary for <i>Birds of Prey</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>containing a <i>fine griffon vulture</i>, a white-headed
+<i>North American eagle, hawks, falcons</i>, and <i>owls</i>; among
+the latter is the <i>great horned owl</i>. This is supposed by
+Linnaeus, and many antiquaries, to have been the bird of Minerva.
+The collection is remarkably splendid.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>13. Hut for <i>Beavers</i>.</p>
+<p>14. Hut for <i>Foreign Goats.</i></p>
+<p>15. Enclosed Area and Fountain for <i>Aquatic Birds</i>, as
+pelicans,</p>
+<p>Solan geese, China geese, black swans, &amp;c.</p>
+<p>16. Aviary.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills,
+together with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose
+brilliant plumage outvies the gayest robe of art, and three
+curassos.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>17. Grove and Huts for <i>Esquimaux Dogs</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>of which there are three fine specimens.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>18. Fountain, &amp;c. for <i>Water Fowl</i>.</p>
+<p>19. Enclosure for <i>Zebras, Indian Cows, &amp;c</i>.</p>
+<p>20. Houses on poles for <i>Monkeys</i>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/330-4.png"><img width="50%" src="images/330-4.png" alt=
+"Houses on poles for Monkeys" /></a></div>
+<p>These are distributed beside the walks. The monkey is attached
+by a chain to a ring loosely round the pole, by which means he
+ascends and descends at pleasure.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>21. Intended Aviary, (supposed for <i>Eagles, Vultures</i>,
+&amp;c.).</p>
+<p>22. Twenty acres about to be added.</p>
+<p>23. House for <i>Monkeys, &amp;c</i>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Here are double rows of cages, containing a fine South American
+ocelot, a lynx, a puma, coatamondis, an ichneumon, and several
+monkeys; the last affording an excellent opportunity of
+appreciating the fidelity of Mr. Landseer's <i>Monkeyana,</i> and
+illustrating the vraisemblance of men and monkeys.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>24. Intended Aviary.</p>
+<p>25. Mexican <i>Hogs,</i> &amp;c.</p>
+<p>26. Huts for <i>Jackalls,</i> &amp;c.</p>
+<p>27. Unfinished Houses.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The carriage-road is formed of the outer side of the Park.</p>
+<p>There is likewise an enclosure for <i>Tortoises</i>, of which
+there are three large and several small ones. We saw one of them
+devouring pumpkin as a gourmand would turtle, and this voracity is
+by weather-wise <span class="pagenum"><a id="page150" name=
+"page150"></a>[pg 150]</span> people considered as a sure
+indication of rain. This turtle is believed to be very old; he is
+of stupendous size, but buried as he was (except his neck) with
+shell, he soon became aware of the approach of his companion,
+nearly as large, and accordingly ate with increased greediness.
+Among the birds, too, should be mentioned several beautiful
+varieties of pheasants, partridges, &amp;c. which are well worth
+the attention of the visiter.</p>
+<p>We have probably passed over many animals, our object being
+merely to mention a few of the most interesting for their habits
+and peculiarities. Of course the collection is as yet incomplete,
+there being neither lion, tiger, hyaena, elephant, nor rhinoceros;
+but when it is considered that the Society has been established
+little more than two years, in which time a Museum has been formed,
+and 1,100 subscribers obtained, besides the arrangement of the
+Gardens&mdash;it will be acknowledged that much has been done in a
+short time, and judging from the excellent organization of the
+Society and their past success, we anticipate the utmost
+realization of their plan.</p>
+<p>Our readers need not be told that the Zoological Society is
+partly on the plan of the Museum of Natural History at Paris,
+except that the latter is supported by the Government, the Gardens
+are indiscriminately opened to the public, free of cost, and the
+Museum on stated days; and when we add that the names of Fagon,
+Duverney, Tournefort, Vaillant, De Jussieu, Buffon, Daubenton,
+Fourcroy, Desfontaines, De Lamarck, and Cuvier, occur in its list
+of professors, they will not be surprised at the Mus&eacute;e
+d'Histoire Naturelle being the richest of its kind in the
+world.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>As acceptable information, we subjoin the regulations for the
+admission of members and visiters to the Gardens in the Regent's
+Park, and the <i>Museum</i>, in Bruton-street; to the latter we
+shall allude at an early opportunity:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Every member shall have personal admission to the gardens and
+museum, with two companions. If accompanied by more than two, he
+shall pay one shilling for each extra person.</p>
+<p>A member, on payment of one guinea annually, may obtain an ivory
+ticket, which will admit one named person with a companion to both
+establishments; or a transferable ivory ticket which will admit one
+person. He may obtain two or more such tickets at the same
+rate.</p>
+<p>Any member who may find it inconvenient to attend personally at
+the gardens or museum, may, upon application to the council, have
+his privileges transferred, within the present year, to any
+individual of his family, whom he may name.</p>
+<p>Every member will be expected to give his name on entering the
+gardens and museum.</p>
+<p>The gardens will be open to members from eight o'clock, A.M.;
+but they will be in complete readiness for the reception of
+visiters only from ten o'clock to sunset. The museum will be open
+from ten o'clock to six.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<p>Your article on the "Patrons of Astronomy," in the Mirror, No.
+328, brought to my recollection the following anecdote, for the
+truth of which I can answer, having received it from Mr. Watson,
+well known as the most celebrated private optical instrument maker
+in Europe, and at the time living on intimate terms with the late
+Mr. Arnold, the most eminent watchmaker of the day. When the late
+Sir William Herschel's great telescope was first exhibited at
+Slough, among other scientific men who went to see it was Mr.
+Arnold, who took Mr. W. with him. Neither of them thought much of
+it, though it was praised by the multitude; as it was, with its
+constructor, patronized by the late king and his consort, for
+Herschel was a German, as you well know. A few astronomical
+amateurs, who thought as Mr. Arnold did, proposed to Mr. Adams, of
+Fleet-street, then astronomical instrument maker to the king, (by
+whom Mr. Watson was employed,) to get Watson to make an instrument
+in opposition to Herschel's. The order being given by Adams, Watson
+set about the work, and had made some progress in the construction
+of the instrument, when the circumstance found its way to the ears
+of royalty. Orders were immediately sent to Mr. Adams to put a stop
+to the work, or he should no longer be optician to the king. Watson
+did not proceed, but could never learn the cause of the
+counter-order, till after a lapse of several years, when a stranger
+called on him, in Valentine-place, Blackfriars-road, and after
+putting several questions to him about his instruments, related to
+him the cause of the counter-order; upon which Mr. Watson showed
+him the progress he had made, and which I have also seen. This
+story I heard related by Mr. Watson at a dinner party at Mr.
+Arnold's, at Well Hall, near Eltham, where were also Mr. Dollonds,
+and Mr. J. R. Arnold, the son.</p>
+<p>A Constant Reader.</p>
+<p>August, 24, 1828.</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page151" name="page151"></a>[pg
+151]</span>
+<p>Our Correspondent will perceive that we have qualified some
+phrases of his letter, but that all the facts appear.</p>
+<p>The <i>Quarterly Review</i>, No. 75, from which our notice was
+taken, is tolerably plain upon the lack of patronage towards
+astronomy in this country, and seems disposed, in enumerating the
+state of astronomical knowledge in civilized Europe, to place Great
+Britain beside Spain or Turkey!<a id="footnotetag4" name=
+"footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> We chance
+to know that one of the most able and enterprising astronomers of
+the present day relinquished a lucrative profession, that he might
+be more at leisure to indulge his philosophical pursuits; so that,
+if patrons be wanting, this apathy does not appear to have entirely
+destroyed the taste for the divine study. This gentleman, in
+concert with another, ascertained, in the course of three years,
+the position and apparent distances of 380 double and triple stars,
+the result of about 10,000 individual measurements, and for their
+Memoir, they received the astronomical prize of the French Academy
+of Sciences. In the following year, the former individual
+communicated to the Royal Society the apparent distances and
+positions of 458 double stars, of which 160 had never before been
+observed.</p>
+<p>Of course, our correspondent does not impeach the talent of
+HERSCHEL; but it is lamentable to reflect that no attempt has been
+made to repeat or extend the labours of that indefatigable
+astronomer.&mdash;ED.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE KELPIE.</h2>
+<h3>A SCOTTISH LEGEND.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"</p>
+<p class="i2">Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,</p>
+<p>For though I mind not in the least the nod</p>
+<p class="i2">Of these same critics, still I'll not defy 'em;</p>
+<p>But that you may know more of this same god,</p>
+<p class="i2">(Though I can't sing as Homer sung of Priam,)</p>
+<p>I'll write a very pretty little poem,</p>
+<p>Of which this present stanza's but the proem.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But to begin, for though 'tis rather long,</p>
+<p class="i2">My poem I'll comprise into twelve stanzas,</p>
+<p>Or fourteen at the furthest, if my song</p>
+<p class="i2">Don't run to twenty&mdash;I'll offend no man,
+sirs,</p>
+<p>If I can help it. So now I'm along</p>
+<p class="i2">The road, and beg you'll notice these two
+lancers,</p>
+<p>Who, on the backs of horses full of mettle</p>
+<p>Hold a dispute, which we'll leave them to settle,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>While you go with me, reader, kind and good,</p>
+<p class="i2">To a small tributary stream from Tweed,</p>
+<p>Which, if you don't know, as I'm in the mood,</p>
+<p class="i2">I'll do my best to teach you, if you'll read;</p>
+<p>I'll introduce you to the stream Glenrude&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">This name will do&mdash;'twas in a
+glen&mdash;indeed,</p>
+<p>'Twas not its proper name&mdash;'twill do quite well,</p>
+<p>Why I choose so to call it I shan't tell,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But still it was a very pretty river,</p>
+<p class="i2">Or rather stream, as ever could be seen&mdash;</p>
+<p>If not so wide as the great Guadalquiver,</p>
+<p class="i2">Its banks were nearly always clothed in green,</p>
+<p>(Save when in winter the winds made you shiver,)</p>
+<p class="i2">While the waves, bickering so bright and sheen,</p>
+<p>Put you in mind of Avon, Rhine, or Hellespont,</p>
+<p>Or any other stream to admire you're wont.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>And round about the stream there were huge hillocks,</p>
+<p class="i2">And firs and mountains, houses too and farms;</p>
+<p>A maid lay on the grass&mdash;her light and fair locks</p>
+<p class="i2">Were gently wound around her folded arms,</p>
+<p>While softly grazing near there stood a huge ox,</p>
+<p class="i2">And o'er her head an old oak threw its arms.</p>
+<p>She was asleep, when, lo! the sound of horses'</p>
+<p>Feet woke her, and, behold, she saw two corses.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>At least she thought so&mdash;but at last thought better</p>
+<p class="i2">'Twould be for her to get up and go home;</p>
+<p>She got up quickly, and would soon have made her</p>
+<p class="i2">Way home, but that the men who had just come</p>
+<p>Spurr'd past her, and alighted when they met her,</p>
+<p class="i2">While she with her surprise was almost dumb;</p>
+<p>But soon spoke she, and bade them both disclose</p>
+<p>Their names&mdash;to which one said, "I'm Richard Groze."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The next spoke not at first, but soon replied,</p>
+<p class="i2">"Pray wherefore are you so surprised, my dear?</p>
+<p>And wherefore, likewise, have you not complied</p>
+<p class="i2">With my request, which I have sent in near</p>
+<p>Some good score letters? which you did deride,</p>
+<p class="i2">When they were forwarded by this man here."</p>
+<p>He pointed then to Groze, and then he sighed,</p>
+<p>"My dear, dear Jeannie, will you be my bride?"</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The which words when our Jeannie heard, she stared,</p>
+<p class="i2">And said, "What do you mean, John Fitzadree?</p>
+<p>You talk of letters, but of them the laird</p>
+<p class="i2">Has never brought a single one to me;</p>
+<p>But when I've seen him I have never cared</p>
+<p class="i2">How soon he went, for he told me that ye</p>
+<p>Were either dead or faithless&mdash;so he said</p>
+<p>I'd better wed the live, than mourn the dead.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"And then he promis'd I should have six horses,</p>
+<p class="i2">Besides a coach, if I would be his bride;</p>
+<p>But I refus'd&mdash;and he swore all his crosses</p>
+<p class="i2">Should soon be o'er, and something else beside</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page152" name="page152"></a>[pg
+152]</span>
+<p>And that's the reason why I thought ye corses,</p>
+<p class="i2">When o'er the green this way I saw ye ride.</p>
+<p>But now I see you've both served in the Lancers,</p>
+<p>Though on my word you look much more like dancers."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>To which John answer'd, "Oh, the filthy fellow,</p>
+<p class="i2">I gave him letters to you, which he said</p>
+<p>He would deliver, were you ill or well. Oh!</p>
+<p class="i2">How I should like to knock him on the head,</p>
+<p>And would, but that would show I was quite mellow&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">Besides, I see the coward has just fled,</p>
+<p>Has ta'en to horse, and got across the ford&mdash;</p>
+<p>Hang him, that I should with him be so bored!"</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But Jeannie said, "John, thou shall do no murder."</p>
+<p class="i2">To which he answer'd, "I will not do so;"</p>
+<p>Then bounded off as though he had not heard her,</p>
+<p class="i2">And reached a fording-place, but not so low</p>
+<p>As where Groze cross'd, and who had now got further</p>
+<p class="i2">Than John would have thought possible, although</p>
+<p>He'd a good-horse, and nearly half an hour</p>
+<p>In start&mdash;but now the clouds began to lower.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Now Fitzadree's good charger was all mettle,</p>
+<p class="i2">And soon won to the middle of the stream&mdash;</p>
+<p>But then the sky grew black as a tea kettle;</p>
+<p class="i2">It rained, too, quite as fast as ever steam</p>
+<p>Rose. But the thing which did at last unsettle</p>
+<p class="i2">The balance of John's steed, was what you'll deem</p>
+<p>A being that was nearly supernatural&mdash;</p>
+<p>But here the waves John's clothes began to spatter all.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A form rose up from out the waves' abyss&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">A monstrous little man with a black hide,</p>
+<p>Scarce four feet high, yet he was not remiss,</p>
+<p class="i2">But dash'd the waves about&mdash;and then he
+cried,</p>
+<p>With a demoniac laugh, or rather hiss,</p>
+<p class="i2">"Die, mortal, die!" and John sank down and died,</p>
+<p>The which, when Jeannie saw, she only sigh'd,</p>
+<p>"I come, my John, I come, to be thy bride."</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The figure was the Kelpie&mdash;that she knew,</p>
+<p class="i2">And madly she rush'd on towards the shore;</p>
+<p>The Kelpie roar'd, "Come, mortal, come thou too."</p>
+<p class="i2">Ere he'd done speaking, Jeannie was no more;</p>
+<p>She'd dash'd into the waves, and left no clue,</p>
+<p class="i2">More than a steamer leaves just left the Nore,</p>
+<p>By which you might discover where she lay,</p>
+<p>And drag her upwards to the realms of day.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But what befel the cause of all these woes?</p>
+<p class="i2">That's what I never heard, so cannot tell;</p>
+<p>But this I know, that this same Richard Groze</p>
+<p class="i2">Return'd no more to bonnie Scotland. Well,</p>
+<p>I only hope he may in bed repose,</p>
+<p class="i2">And that he may at last escape from hell.</p>
+<p>And this I know, that if you do not smother</p>
+<p>This poem, when I choose I'll write another.</p>
+<p class="i10">J.S.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>SUGAR AND WATER CRITICISM.</h3>
+<p>In one of the critiques on the last <i>Monthly Magazine</i>,
+some verses by Mrs. Hemans are said to be "elegant and
+lady-like."</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SKETCH BOOK</h2>
+<h3>A DAY AT ST. CLOUD.</h3>
+<h4><i>September</i> 24, 1826.</h4>
+<blockquote>
+<p>I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and
+looking through the glass, saw all the world in yellow, blue, and
+green, running at the ring of pleasure.&mdash;STERNE.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>St. Cloud is the Richmond of France; or rather, it is to Paris
+what Richmond, in the days of its regal splendour, was to
+London&mdash;the summer palace of the court. In this comparison,
+allowance must be made for the opposite building taste of each
+nation; especially as Richmond has an appearance of substantial
+comfort in its massive brick mansions and rusticated cottage
+groups. The French <i>Sheen</i> is, on the contrary, gayer; the
+exterior of the residences being whitened, or what is still more
+artificial, coloured and decorated in tawdry French taste. Such, at
+least, is the character of the <i>auberges</i>, or inns, and
+<i>restaurateurs</i>, with which St. Cloud is even better supplied
+than our Richmond. In situation, however, they strongly assimilate;
+the former being placed on an acclivity overlooking the Seine, as
+the latter is on the banks of the Thames.</p>
+<p>St. Cloud, as I have already said, is the usual summer residence
+of the French court; and with a royal liberality which might be
+less politic elsewhere, the park is granted for three
+fairs&mdash;September 7, and the three following Sundays, on the
+last of which I resolved to visit the f&ecirc;te of St. Cloud. It
+was a glowing September day. The sun shone with more than mellow
+warmth through the groves of the Tuilleries, and on the little
+southern terrace, which was unusually crowded with groups of rosy
+children, with here and there a valetudinarian, who seemed to have
+emerged from his chamber to enjoy the parting glories of the
+season. Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the
+mall, or principal walk, and some few were not incuriously
+lingering about the enclosed parterres of the garden, whose
+beauties would soon be transported to a milder atmosphere. There
+was a general stir in the neighbouring streets; it did not resemble
+the bustle of business, but had more of the gaiety of a holiday
+scene. The <i>Pont Royal</i> was thronged with passengers, and just
+beneath it, were several hundreds, many of whom were embarking in
+the steam-boat for St. Cloud. But the Seine is at all times less
+inviting for such an excursion than our Thames; and in the summer
+months many insulated spots may be seen in the centre of the French
+river. At the next bridge (Louis XVI.) there was a general muster
+of carriages, <span class="pagenum"><a id="page153" name=
+"page153"></a>[pg 153]</span> each adapted for six or eight
+passengers, and drawn by one or two horses. Here was a loud clamour
+of "St. Cloud" and "Versailles" among the drivers, some of whom
+were even more officious than the Jehus of Greenwich, or the wights
+of Charing Cross or Piccadilly. I resisted all their importunities,
+and passed on through the <i>Champs Elys&eacute;es</i>, or a dusty
+road through a grove, intersected with ill-formed paths, with a few
+gaudy caf&eacute;s bearing pompous inscriptions&mdash;for Voltaire
+has made the French too fond of nomenclature to say with our
+Shakspeare, "what's in a name?" The road presented a strange
+specimen of the insubordination of French driving, notwithstanding
+police superintendants affected much concern in the matter.
+Diligences, fiacres, and carriages resembling large, covered
+cabriolets, might be seen loaded with gaily-dressed women and
+children, with a due proportion of young Parisians, all just in the
+hey-day of mirth, drawn by dust-provoking Flanders horses, their
+drivers slashing almost indiscriminately, and, with their clamour
+and confusion, far exceeding the Epsom road on a raceday.</p>
+<p>At length, escaping from the dust and din of the French Elysium,
+I halted to enjoy the distant view of the city of Paris, from the
+gate of the barrier. It was indeed an interesting scene. Through
+the avenue, whose area presented a living stream of traffic, might
+be seen the terraces and groves of the Tuilleries, and the spacious
+and irregular palace, with its cupola tops; the tarnished dome of
+the Invalides; the cupola of St. Genevieve; the gray towers of
+N&ocirc;tre Dame; then the winding Seine, with its bridges, quays,
+and terraces, flanked with the long line of the Tuilleries, and the
+Luxembourg, and Louvre galleries, on the one side; and on the other
+by the noble fa&ccedil;ade of the Chamber of Deputies; the courtly
+mansions of St. Germain, and the blackened front and dome of the
+Institute. What a multitude of associations flitted across the
+memory, by a single glance at PARIS&mdash;the capital of that gay,
+light-hearted, and mercurial people&mdash;the French
+nation&mdash;the focus of European luxury, and the grand political
+arena of modern history, the very calendar of whose events, within
+the last half century, will form one of the most interesting
+episodes that ever glowed among the records of human character. In
+the chain might be traced the vain-glory of conquest linked with
+defeated ambition, and the sullied splendour of royalty just
+breaking through the clouds of discontent, and slowly dispelling
+the mists of disaffection and political prejudice. What an
+unenviable contrast to the man who has "no enemy but wind and rough
+weather." The same objects that prompted these discordant
+reflections gave rise to others of the most opposite character; and
+within the walls, where treaties, abdications, and warrants, by
+turns, settled and resettled, exiled and condemned&mdash;were the
+store-houses of art, with all her proud and peaceful labours of
+sculpture, painting, and architecture, through galleries and
+saloons, on whose contents the chisel and the pencil had lingered
+many a life, and reduced the compass of its fond designs to the
+cubits of a statue, the fame of a picture, or the glory of a pillar
+or ceiling&mdash;such are the frail elements of human art.</p>
+<p>The road now began to exhibit the usual appearance of an
+approach to a country f&ecirc;te or fair. Scores of pedestrians,
+overcome with the heat and dust of the day, might be seen at the
+little boxes or shops of the <i>traiteurs</i>, or cooks, and at the
+houses of the <i>marchands de vin et de la biacre</i>; these by
+their anticipated anxiety caused the line from Paris to St. Cloud
+to resemble a road-side fair. Cheerfulness and vivacity were
+upper-most in the passengers; and the elastic pace of dozens of
+gaily-dressed <i>soubrettes</i> not a little enhanced the interest
+of the scene. Neither were these charms impaired by that species of
+vulgarity which not unfrequently characterizes the road to our
+suburban fairs; and, what is still more creditable to humanity,
+there was no brutality towards jaded horses or hacks sinking
+beneath their loads.</p>
+<p>Historians attach some antiquarian importance to the village of
+St. Cloud, it being historically confounded with the earliest times
+of the French monarchy; for, from the beginning of the first race,
+the kings of France had a country-seat here.<a id="footnotetag5"
+name="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a></p>
+<p>I now reached the bridge of St. Cloud, an elegant modern
+structure which crosses the Seine, near the entrance to the
+village. Here the river loses much of its importance; and in
+summer, the steam-boats are not unfrequently delayed in their
+<i>voyage</i> (if it may be so designated) for lack of water. The
+prospect of the ch&acirc;teau, or palace, embosomed in trees, and
+the park variegated with natural and artificial beauties, with the
+adjoining village on a steep, shelving hill&mdash;is unusually
+picturesque. On the present occasion, however, the principal
+attraction was the f&ecirc;te, which reminded me more forcibly of
+John Bunyan's Vanity Fair, than any other exhibition I had ever
+witnessed.</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page154" name="page154"></a>[pg
+154]</span>
+<p>The entrance to this motley scene was by the principal gate,
+where the carriages set down their company, and at a short distance
+along the bank of the river, the steam-boat in like manner
+contributed its visiters. On entering the park, I was first struck
+with a long row of boxes, (somewhat in the style of those at
+Vauxhall) but on a raised bank, and attached to a
+<i>restaurateur</i>. Here were tables for dinner, and as many
+others were laid in the open air&mdash;with the usual <i>carte</i>
+of 2 or 300 articles, and the economical elegancies of silver,
+napkins, and china, and this, too, in style little inferior to
+Verey's in the Palais Royal. Promenaders of the better description
+appeared in the mall, or principal walk, and it being the last
+f&ecirc;te of the season, their attendance was very numerous. The
+stalls and exhibitions were chiefly on the left side of this walk;
+at the former was displayed an almost indescribable variety of
+wares, which were the adjudged prizes in a lottery; but, from the
+decisions which I witnessed, they resembled the <i>stationary</i>
+capitals in an English scheme&mdash;the nominal Stock in trade of
+the office-keepers. Many of these little gambling shops were
+superintended by women, who proved themselves far from deficient in
+loquacious inducements for adventurers; and by their dexterous
+settlement of the chances, left little time for losers to reflect
+on their folly. Provisions of various descriptions were to be
+purchased at every turn, and among their <i>marchands</i>, it was
+not incurious, to see some humble professors of gastronomy over
+smoking viands, fritters, and goffers or indented wafers baked on
+cast-iron stoves <i>&agrave; la minute</i>&mdash;it must be owned,
+unseasonable luxuries for a September day. The <i>spectacles</i>,
+or shows, in noise and absurdity, exceeded the English trumpery of
+that order; and to judge from the gaping crowds which they
+attracted, we are not the only credulous nation in the world. Among
+the games was a machine resembling an English round-a-bout, with
+wooden horses for the players, each of whom was furnished with a
+foil, with which he strove to seize the greatest number of rings
+from the centre; this was, indeed, a chivalrous exhibition.
+Stilt-walkers, mountebank families, and jugglers, "chequered in
+bulk and brains," lent their aid to amuse the crowd; and,
+occasionally, two or three fellows contrived to enact scenes from
+plays, and with their vulgar wit to merit the applause of their
+audience. Portable clock-work exhibitions swarmed, and mummeries or
+mysteries, representing the Life and Death of our Saviour and the
+blessed Virgin, appeared to be ritual accompaniments of the day,
+and represented each stage of the holy lives. The bearers of the
+latter machinery enlivened their exhibitions with a grinding organ,
+which they accompanied with appropriate ditties or carols. Crosses
+and other religious emblems were hung about the theatrical boxes or
+shows, which, with their representations, could only be compared
+with the nursery toys of Noah's ark, with which most of us have
+been amused. Accordingly, here were models of Nazareth, Jerusalem,
+and Mount Calvary, in the characteristic accuracy of biblical
+topography, and from the zeal of the spectators, the ingenuity of
+the inventors was unsparingly rewarded.</p>
+<p>I turned from these sights to the natural beauties of the park,
+which, aided by the happy inequalities of the ground, (which French
+artists imagined would be such an obstacle to its perfection,)
+possesses far more variety than is usually found in the
+pleasure-grounds of France. The original plantation of the park was
+the work of La N&ocirc;tre, who, it will be recollected, planned
+the garden of Versailles; but St. Cloud is considered his
+<i>chef-d'oeuvre</i>, and proves, that with the few natural
+advantages which it afforded him, he was enabled to effect more
+here than millions have accomplished at Versailles&mdash;where art
+is fairly overmatched with her own wasteful and ridiculous excess.
+This alone ought to make the French blush for that monument of
+royal folly.</p>
+<p>The situation of the ch&acirc;teau is its greatest attraction.
+It possesses a fine view of Paris, which is indeed a splendid item
+in the prospect of the princely occupants; and the sight of the
+capital may, perhaps, be a pleasant relief to the natural seclusion
+of the palace.</p>
+<p>One of the most remarkable objects in the park is a kind of
+square tower, surmounted with an exact copy, in <i>terra cotta</i>,
+of the lantern of Diogenes at Athens, ornamented with six
+Corinthian columns. It is used as an observatory, and, like its
+original, is associated with the name of the illustrious
+Grecian&mdash;it being also called the lantern of Diogenes. Its
+view of the subjacent plain overlooks the city of Paris by a
+distance of twenty miles.</p>
+<p>The fountains and <i>jets d'eau</i> are entitled to special
+notice, although in extent and variety they are far exceeded by
+those of Versailles. The arrangement of the principal cascade is
+well contrived, and I had the good fortune to be present at the
+moment the water commenced flowing, which continued but a short
+time. This struck me as a singular piece of mimicry, and compared
+with those truly-sublime spectacles&mdash;the cascades of
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page155" name="page155"></a>[pg
+155]</span> Nature&mdash;the boasted works of St. Cloud seemed mere
+playthings, like the little falls which children contrive in
+running brooks; or at best resembling hydraulic exhibitions on an
+extensive scale. The playing commenced by a jet bursting from a
+point almost secluded by trees, which appeared on a level with the
+first story of the palace; the stream then fell into stone basins,
+and by turns threw itself aloft, or gushed from the mouths of
+numberless marine animals, and descended by glassy falls into a
+basin, whence it found its way into several vase-shaped forms, and
+again descended by magnificent cascades, discharging themselves
+into a large, circular tank or basin, with two strong jets throwing
+their limpid streams many feet high. In the sculptured forms there
+is some display of classic design; and the effect of many mouths
+and forms gushing forth almost instantaneously was altogether that
+of magic art, not unaided by the lines of trees on two sides being
+clipped or cut into semi-arched forms. The most powerful of the
+fountains is, however, a grand jet, characteristically named the
+<i>Geant</i>, or giant, for the incredible force with which it
+springs from its basin, and rises 125 feet high, being more than
+the elevation of Napoleon's triumphal column, in the Place
+Vend&ocirc;me, at Paris. An uninterrupted view of these exhibitions
+may be enjoyed from the river, which runs parallel with the road
+adjoining the park. Crowds flocked from all directions to witness
+the first gush of the fountains; but their attention soon became
+directed to a royal party attended by footmen, from the palace, who
+came to witness the sights of the fair, and appeared especially
+amused with a family of vaulters and stilt-walkers. They were
+received with a slight buzz of curiosity, but without that
+enthusiasm with which the English are accustomed to recognise, and,
+not unfrequently, to annoy royalty; for here</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>No man cried, God save them.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>I now began to make a more minute survey of the preparations for
+amusement, for the f&ecirc;te was not yet in its equinoctial
+splendour. The most prominent of these were plots of the raised
+bank on one side, and at the termination of the principal walk,
+which were enclosed with hurdles or frames, a platform being
+elevated and decorated with festooned curtains, &amp;c. for an
+orchestra, and the whole hung round with illumination lamps.
+Towards evening, but long before dark, these enclosures were
+blazing with variegated splendour; the bands commenced playing
+several lively French airs, and the area was occupied with groups
+of waltzing and quadrilling votaries. As the evening darkened,
+lamps began to glisten in every direction, and the well-lighted
+caf&eacute;s resembled so many Chinese lanterns; and these, aided
+by the discordant sounds of scores of instruments, gave the whole
+scene an air of enchantment, or rather a slight resemblance to one
+of its exorcisms. The effect was, however, improved by distance.
+Accordingly, I stole through a solitary shrubbery walk, which wound
+round the hill, and at length led me to a forest-like spot, or
+straggling wood, which flanked the whole of the carnival. Viewed
+from hence, it was, indeed, a fantastical illustration of French
+gaiety, and it momentarily reminded me of some of Shakspeare's
+scenes of sylvan romance, with all their fays and fairy
+population.</p>
+<p>The English reader who has not witnessed one of the f&ecirc;tes
+of St. Cloud, may probably associate them with his own Vauxhall;
+but the resemblance is very slight. At one of these entertainments
+in France, there is much less attempted, but considerably more
+effected, than in England; and all this is accomplished by that
+happy knack which the French possess of making much of a little. Of
+what did this f&ecirc;te consist&mdash;a few hundred lamps&mdash;a
+few score of fidlers, and about as much decoration as an English
+showman would waste on the exterior of his exhibition, or assemble
+within a few square yards. There were no long illuminated vistas,
+or temples and saloons red hot with oil and gas&mdash;but a few
+slender materials, so scattered and intermixed with the natural
+beauties of the park, as to fascinate, and not fatigue the eye and
+ear. Even the pell-mell frolics of St. Cloud were better idealities
+of enjoyment, than the splendid promenade of Vauxhall, in the days
+of its olden celebrity; for diamonds and feathers are often mere
+masquerade finery in such scenes&mdash;so distant are the heads and
+hearts of their wearers.<a id="footnotetag6" name=
+"footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page156" name="page156"></a>[pg
+156]</span>
+<p>Night, with her poetic glooms, only served to heighten the
+lustre of the fairy f&ecirc;te; and as I receded through the wood,
+the little shoal of light gleamed and twinkled through "branches
+overgrown," and the distant sounds began to fall into solitary
+silence&mdash;even saddening to meditation&mdash;so fast do the
+dying glories of festive mirth sink into melancholy&mdash;till at
+once, with the last gleam and echo, I found myself in a pleasant
+little glade on the brow of the hill. The day had been unusually
+hot&mdash;all was hushed stillness. But the darkening clouds were
+fast gathering into black masses:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The rapid lightning flames along the sky.</p>
+<p>What terrible event does this portend?</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>The stifling heat of the atmosphere was, however, soon changed
+by slight gusts of wind; the leaves trembled; and a few heavy drops
+of rain fell as harbingers of the coming storm; the pattering
+ceased; an impressive pause succeeded&mdash;broken by the deepening
+roar of thunder.</p>
+<p>The threatening storm hastened my return to the focus of the
+carnival. The partial sprinkling had already caused many of the
+dancers to withdraw to the caf&eacute;s, and to the most sheltered
+parts of the park. The lightning became more and more vivid; and,
+at length, the thousands who had lingered in these groups of
+gaiety, were fairly routed by pelting rain; and the park, with a
+few lamps flickering out, and decorative finery drenched with rain,
+presented a miserable contrast with the festivities of the previous
+hour. The crowd streamed through the park-gate into the village,
+where hundreds of competitors shouted "Paris, Paris;" and their
+swarms of diligences, cabriolets, and curtained carts, were soon
+freighted. One of these charioteers engaged to convey me to Paris
+for half a franc, in a large, covered cart, with oil-skin curtains
+to protect the passengers in front. To my surprise I found the
+vehicle pre-occupied by twelve or fourteen well-dressed
+persons&mdash;male and female, who appeared to forget their
+inconvenient situation in sallies of laughter, which sometimes
+bordered on boisterous mirth. The storm increased; lamps gleamed
+and flitted across the road; many of the horses plunged with their
+heavy loads, and swept along the line in resistless confusion; for
+nothing can be less characteristic of timidity than French
+driving.</p>
+<p>On reaching Paris, the streets resembled so many torrents, and
+in most places were not fordable, notwithstanding scores of
+persons, with the alacrity of mushrooms after rain, had placed
+themselves at the narrowest parts of the streams, with raised
+planks, or temporary bridges for crossing. Our load was
+<i>landed</i> under the arcade of the Hotel de Ville; but the
+driver, in the genuine spirit of a London hackney-coachman, did not
+forget to turn the "ill-wind" to his own account, by importuning me
+for a double fare.</p>
+<p>I learned that the storm had been less tremendous in its
+consequences at St. Cloud and Paris than at Versailles, the
+lightning having consumed a farm-house and barns near that town. It
+is an event worthy of notice, from its being part of the phenomenon
+of what is termed a returning stroke of lightning, the
+circumstances of which are recorded in a recent number of Brande's
+philosophical journal.&mdash;<i>Abridged from "Cameleon Sketches,"
+by the author of the "Promenade round Dorking."</i></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>ALFREDE AND MATYLDA.</h3>
+<h4>WRITTEN BY ROBERT HAIEWOODE, OF CHEPING-TORITON, IN 1520.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The bryghtt enamell of the mornyng's gleame</p>
+<p>Begann to daunce onn bobblynge Avonn's streame,</p>
+<p>As yothefull Alfrede and Matylda fayre</p>
+<p>Stoode sorowynge bie, ennobledd bie despayre:</p>
+<p>Att tymes theyr lypps the tynts of Autumpe wore,</p>
+<p>Att tymes a palerr hewe thann wynterr bore;</p>
+<p>And faste the rayne of love bedew'dd theyr eyne,</p>
+<p>As thos, in earnefull<a id="footnotetag7" name=
+"footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a> strayns,
+theyr tenes<a id="footnotetag8" name="footnotetag8"></a><a href=
+"#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a> theie dyd bewreene.<a id=
+"footnotetag9" name="footnotetag9"></a><a href=
+"#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>ALFREDE.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Ah! iff we parte, ne moe to meete agayne,</p>
+<p>Wythyn thie wydow'dd berte wyll everr brenn</p>
+<p>The frostie vygyls of a cloysterr'd nun,</p>
+<p>Insteade of faerie<a id="footnotetag10" name=
+"footnotetag10"></a><a href="#footnote10"><sup>10</sup></a> love's
+effulgentt sonne!</p>
+<p>Ne moe with myne wyll carolynge<a id="footnotetag11" name=
+"footnotetag11"></a><a href="#footnote11"><sup>11</sup></a> beatt
+hie,</p>
+<p>Gyve throbb for throbb, and sygh returne forr sygh,</p>
+<p>Butt bee bie nyghtt congeall'dd bie lethall feares,</p>
+<p>Bie daie consum'dd awaie inn unavaylynge teares!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>MATYLDA.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Alas! howe soone is happlesse love ondonne,</p>
+<p>Wytherr'd and deadde almostt beforre begunn:</p>
+<p>Lych Marchh's openyng flowrs thatt sygh'dd forr Maie,</p>
+<p>Which Apryll's teares inn angerr wash'dd awaie.</p>
+<p>Onr tenes alych, alych our domes shall bee,</p>
+<p>Where'err thou wander'stt I wyll followe thee;</p>
+<p>And whann our sprytes throughe feere are purg'dd fromm
+claie,</p>
+<p>Inn pees theie shalle repose upponn the mylkie waie.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="page157" name=
+"page157"></a>[pg 157]</span>
+<p>ALFREDE.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The raynbowe hewes that payntt the laughyng mees,<a id=
+"footnotetag12" name="footnotetag12"></a><a href=
+"#footnote12"><sup>12</sup></a></p>
+<p>The gule-stayn'dd<a id="footnotetag13" name=
+"footnotetag13"></a><a href="#footnote13"><sup>13</sup></a> folyage
+of the okenn trees,</p>
+<p>The starrie spangells of the mornynge dewe,</p>
+<p>The laverock's matyn songes and skies of blewe,</p>
+<p>Maie weel the thotes of gentill shepherdds joie.</p>
+<p>Whose hertes ne hopelesse loves or cares alloie;</p>
+<p>Butt whatt cann seeme to teneful loverrs fayre.</p>
+<p>Whose hopes butt darkenns moe the mydnyghtt of despayre?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>MATYLDA.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>To thotelesse swayns itt maie bee blyss indeede,</p>
+<p>To marke the yeare through alle hys ages speede,</p>
+<p>Butt everie seasone seemes alych to mee,</p>
+<p>Eternall wynterr whann awaie from thee!</p>
+<p>Fromm howrr to howrr I oftt beweepe ourr love,</p>
+<p>Wyth all the happie sorowe of the dove,</p>
+<p>And fancie, as itts sylentt waterrs flowe,</p>
+<p>Mie bosome's swetestt joies mustt thos bee mientt<a id=
+"footnotetag14" name="footnotetag14"></a><a href=
+"#footnote14"><sup>14</sup></a> wyth woe.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Palerr thann cloudes thatt stayne the azure nyghtt,</p>
+<p>Or starrs thatt shoote beneathe theyr feeble lyghtt,</p>
+<p>And eke as crymson as the mornyng's rode,<a id="footnotetag15"
+name="footnotetag15"></a><a href=
+"#footnote15"><sup>15</sup></a></p>
+<p>The lornlie<a id="footnotetag16" name=
+"footnotetag16"></a><a href="#footnote16"><sup>16</sup></a> payre
+inn dumbe dystracyon stoode</p>
+<p>Whann onn the banke Matylda sonke and dyed,</p>
+<p>And Alfrede plong'dd hys daggerr inn hys syde:</p>
+<p>Hys purpell soule came roshynge fromm the wounde,</p>
+<p>And o'err the lyfeless claie deathe's ensygns stream'dd
+arownde.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><i>Literary Gazette.</i></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+<h3>FOX HUNTING.</h3>
+<p>"Well, do you know, that after all you have said, Mr. North, I
+cannot understand the passion and the pleasure of fox-hunting. It
+seems to me both cruel and dangerous."</p>
+<p>Cruelty! Is there cruelty in laying the rein on their necks, and
+delivering them up to the transport of their high
+condition&mdash;for every throbbing vein is visible&mdash;at the
+first full burst of that maddening cry, and letting loose to their
+delight the living thunderbolts? Danger! What danger but breaking
+their own legs, necks, or backs, and those of their riders? And
+what right have you to complain of that, lying all your length, a
+huge hulking fellow snoring and snorting half asleep on a sofa,
+sufficient to sicken a whole street? What though it be but a
+smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears,
+and passionately fond of poultry, that they pursue? After the first
+tallyho, Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon&mdash;once
+perhaps in the whole run, skirting a wood, or crossing a common. It
+is an idea that is pursued, on a whirlwind of horses to a storm of
+canine music,&mdash;worthy, both, of the largest lion that ever
+leaped among a band of Moors, sleeping at midnight by an
+extinguished fire on the African sands. There is, we verily believe
+it, nothing foxy in the fancy of one man in all that glorious field
+of three hundred. Once off and away&mdash;while wood and welkin
+rings&mdash;and nothing is felt&mdash;nothing is imaged in that
+hurricane flight, but scorn of all obstructions, dikes, ditches,
+drains, brooks, palings, canals, rivers, and all the impediments
+reared in the way of so many rejoicing madmen, by nature, art, and
+science, in an enclosed, cultivated, civilized, and Christian
+country. There they go&mdash;prince and peer, baronet and
+squire,&mdash;the nobility and gentry of England, the flower of the
+men of the earth, each on such steed as Pollux never reined, nor
+Philip's warlike son&mdash;for could we imagine Bucephalus here,
+ridden by his own tamer, Alexander would be thrown out during the
+very first burst, and glad to find his way dismounted to a village
+alehouse for a pail of meal and water. Hedges, trees, groves,
+gardens, orchards, woods, farm-houses, huts, halls, mansions,
+palaces, spires, steeples, towers, and temples, all go wavering by,
+each demigod seeing, or seeing them not, as his winged steed skims
+or labours along, to the swelling or sinking music, now loud as a
+near regimental band, now faint as an echo. Far and wide over the
+country are dispersed the scarlet runners&mdash;and a hundred
+villages pour forth their admiring swarms, as the main current of
+the chase roars by, or disparted runlets float wearied and all
+astray, lost at last in the perplexing woods. Crash goes the
+top-timber of the five-barred gate&mdash;away over the ears flies
+the ex-rough-rider in a surprising somerset&mdash;after a
+succession of stumbles, down is the gallant Grey on knees and nose,
+making sad work among the fallow&mdash;Friendship is a fine thing,
+and the story of Damon and Pythias most affecting indeed&mdash;but
+Pylades eyes Orestes on his back sorely drowned in sludge, and
+tenderly leaping over him as he lies, claps his hand to his ear,
+and with a "hark forward, tan-tivy!" leaves him to remount, lame
+and at leisure&mdash;and ere the fallen has risen and shook
+himself, is round the corner of the white village-church, down the
+dell, over the brook, and close on the heels of the straining pack,
+all a-yell up the hill crowned by the Squire's Folly. "Every man
+for himself, and God for us all," is the devout and ruling apothegm
+of the day. If death befall, what wonder? since man and horse are
+mortal; but death loves better a wide soft bed with quiet curtains
+and darkened windows in a still room, the clergyman in the one
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page158" name="page158"></a>[pg
+158]</span> corner with his prayers, and the physician in another
+with his pills, making assurance doubly sure, and preventing all
+possibility of the dying Christian's escape. Let oak branches smite
+the too slowly stooping skull, or rider's back not timely levelled
+with his steed's; let faithless bank give way, and bury in the
+brook; let hidden drain yield to fore feet and work a sudden wreck;
+let old coal-pit, with briery mouth, betray; and roaring river bear
+down man and horse, to banks unscaleable by the very Welsh goat;
+let duke's or earl's son go sheer over a quarry fifty feet deep,
+and as many high; yet, "without stop or stay, down the rocky way,"
+the hunter train flows on; for the music grows fiercer and more
+savage,&mdash;lo! all that remains together of the pack, in far
+more dreadful madness than hydrophobia, leaping out of their skins,
+under insanity from the scent, now strong as stink, for Vulpes can
+hardly now make a crawl of it; and ere he, they, whipper-in, or any
+one of the other three demoniacs, have time to look in one
+another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand pieces,
+gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, and
+warm, and cozey, as he was an hour and twenty-five minutes ago
+exactly, in his furze bush in the cover,&mdash;he is now
+piece-meal, in about thirty distinct stomachs; and is he not, pray,
+well off for sepulture?&mdash;<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE BLIND BEAUTY OF THE MOOR.</h2>
+<h3>(<i>A Fragment.</i>)</h3>
+<p>To thee&mdash;O palest phantom&mdash;clothed in white raiment,
+not like unto a ghost risen with its grave-clothes to appal, but
+like a seraph descending from the skies to bless&mdash;unto thee
+will we dare to speak, as through the mist of years back comes thy
+yet unfaded beauty, charming us, while we cannot choose but weep,
+with the self-same vision that often glided before us long, long
+ago in the wilderness, and at the sound of our voice would pause
+for a little while, and then pass by, like a white bird from the
+sea, floating unscared close by the shepherd's head, or alighting
+to trim its plumes on a knoll far up an inland glen! Death seems
+not to have touched that face, pale though it be&mdash;life-like is
+the waving of those gentle hands&mdash;and the soft, sweet, low
+music which now we hear, steals not sure from lips hushed by the
+burial-mould! Restored by the power of love, she stands before us
+as she stood of yore. Not one of all the hairs of her golden head
+was singed by the lightning that shivered the tree under which the
+child had run for shelter from the flashing sky. But in a moment
+the blue light in her dewy eyes was dimmed&mdash;and never again
+did she behold either flower or star. Yet all the images of all the
+things she had loved remained in her memory, clear and distinct as
+the things themselves before unextinguished eyes&mdash;and ere
+three summers had flown over head, which, like the blossom of some
+fair perennial flower, in heaven's gracious dew and sunshine each
+season lifted its loveliness higher and higher in the
+light&mdash;she could trip her singing way through the wide
+wilderness, all by her joyful self, led, as all believed, nor erred
+they in so believing, by an angel's hand! When the primroses peeped
+through the reviving grass upon the vernal braes, they seemed to
+give themselves into her hand; and 'twas thought they hung longer
+unfaded round her neck or forehead than if they had been left to
+drink the dew on their native bed. The linnets ceased not their
+lays, though her garment touched the broomstalk on which they sung.
+The cushat, as she thrid her way through the wood, continued to
+croon in her darksome tree&mdash;and the lark, although just
+dropped from the cloud, was cheered by her presence into a new
+passion of song, and mounted over her head, as if it were his first
+matin hymn. All the creatures of earth and air manifestly loved the
+Wanderer of the Wilderness&mdash;and as for human beings, she was
+named, in their pity, their wonder, and their delight, the Blind
+Beauty of the Moor!</p>
+<p>She was an only child, and her mother had died in giving her
+birth. And now her father, stricken by one of the many cruel
+diseases that shorten the lives of shepherds on the hills, was
+bed-ridden&mdash;and he was poor. Of all words ever syllabled by
+human lips, the most blessed is&mdash;Charity. No manna now in the
+wilderness is rained from heaven&mdash;for the mouths of the hungry
+need it not in this our Christian land. A few goats feeding among
+the rocks gave them milk, and there was bread for them in each
+neighbour's house&mdash;neighbour though miles afar&mdash;as the
+sacred duty came round&mdash;and the unrepining poor sent the
+grateful child away with their prayers.</p>
+<p>One evening, returning to the hut with her usual song, she
+danced up to her father's face on his rushy bed, and it was cold in
+death. If she shrieked&mdash;if she fainted&mdash;there was but one
+ear that heard, one eye that saw her in her swoon. Not now floating
+light like a small moving cloud unwilling to leave the flowery
+braes, though it be to melt in heaven, but <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page159" name="page159"></a>[pg 159]</span> driven
+along like a shroud of flying mist before the tempest, she came
+upon us in the midst of that dreary moss; and at the sound of our
+quaking voice, fell down with clasped hands at our feet&mdash;"My
+father's dead!" Had the hut put already on the strange, dim,
+desolate look of mortality? For people came walking fast down the
+braes, and in a little while there was a group round us, and we
+bore her back again to her dwelling in our arms. As for us, we had
+been on our way to bid the fair creature and her father farewell.
+How could she have lived&mdash;an utter orphan&mdash;in such a
+world! The holy power that is in Innocence would for ever have
+remained with her; but Innocence longs to be away, when her sister
+Joy has departed; and 'tis sorrowful to see the one on earth, when
+the other has gone to heaven! This sorrow none of us had long to
+see; for though a flower, when withered at the root, and doomed ere
+eve to perish, may yet look to the careless eye the same as when it
+blossomed in its pride,&mdash;its leaves, still green, are not as
+once they were,&mdash;its bloom, though fair, is faded&mdash;and at
+set of sun, the dews shall find it in decay, and fall unfelt on all
+its petals. Ere Sabbath came, the orphan child was dead. Methinks
+we see now her little funeral. Her birth had been the humblest of
+the humble; and though all in life had loved her, it was thought
+best that none should be asked to the funeral of her and her
+father, but two or three friends; the old clergyman himself walked
+at the head of the father's coffin&mdash;we at the head of the
+daughter's&mdash;for this was granted unto our exceeding
+love;&mdash;and thus passed away for ever the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles,</p>
+<p>SHAKSPEARE.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>EPICURISM.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>At a public dinner, Captain R. commencing a conversation with a
+gentleman next to him, was astonished at not being able to elicit
+one word in answer. At length his silent neighbour turned to him,
+and said, with a look and tone suitable to the <i>importance</i> of
+the communication, "Sir, whenever you are at a venison feast, let
+me advise you <i>never to speak during dinner</i>. In endeavouring
+to reply to you, I have actually at this moment swallowed
+<i>entire</i> a fine piece of fat, <i>without tasting it</i>!"</p>
+<p>J.G.R.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>An Englishman, named <i>Drinkwater</i>, was nearly drowned the
+other day off Boulogne; on hearing which, a wag observed that he
+had "almost taken a drop too much."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>FLY WATER.</h3>
+<p>Prussic Acid has been obtained from the leaves of <i>green
+tea</i>, in so concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog
+almost instantaneously. A strong infusion of Souchong tea,
+sweetened with sugar, is as effectual in poisoning flies as the
+solution of arsenic, generally sold for that purpose.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>There may now be seen, written on a board on a new house in the
+Blackfriars-road, the following words:&mdash;"Hird robeish may be
+had heare."</p>
+<p>BILLY.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>NO JOKE OR RIDDLE.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A house with wings extended wide,</p>
+<p class="i2">A racket-ground to play in,</p>
+<p>Two porters' lodges there beside,</p>
+<p class="i2">And porters always staying</p>
+<p>To guard the inmates there within,</p>
+<p class="i2">And keep them from the town;</p>
+<p>From duns as free as saints from sin,</p>
+<p class="i2">And sheriffs of renown.</p>
+<p>To get white wash'd it is their plan,</p>
+<p class="i2">'Tis such a cleansing thing&mdash;</p>
+<p>Then out they come with blacker hands</p>
+<p class="i2">Than when they first went in.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>P.H.H.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park,
+written in chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to
+have been written by one who meditated suicide:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,</p>
+<p>Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,</p>
+<p>Oh! damn'd despair to shun the living light,</p>
+<p>And plunge thy guilty soul to endless night.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Written also in the same hand:&mdash;Charlotte Rumpling, you did
+not use me well, but I forgive you&mdash;God bless you.</p>
+<p>EDWIN W&mdash;&mdash;.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>WANTS A WIFE.</h3>
+<p>She must bee middel eaged and good tempered widdow, or a Maid,
+and pursest of propertey, and I wood far reather have a Wife that
+is ever so plain then a fine Lady that think herself hansom; the
+Advertiser is not rich nor young, old nor poor, and in a very few
+years he will have a good incumb. Can be hiley reckamended for
+onestey, sobrieaty, and good temperd, and has no in combranc, is
+very actif, but not a treadesman, have <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page160" name="page160"></a>[pg 160]</span> been as Butler and
+Bailiff for meney years in most respectable families, and shood I
+not be so luckey as to get me a wife, wood be most willing to take
+a sitteyeashan once moor, wood prefer living in the countrey, under
+stands Brewing feamosley, is well adapted for a inn or publick
+hous. Please to derect W.W., 268, Berwick-street, Oxford-roade, or
+aney Ladey may call and have a interview with the widdow that keeps
+the hous, and say wher and when we can meet each other. All letters
+must be pd, no Ofice-keeper to applygh. My fameley ar verey well
+off and welthey, far above the midling order.</p>
+<p>This is a good joke upon <i>Matrimonial Advertising</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>Jack Bannister visited the Haymarket theatre on Wednesday night,
+August 20, and made in the free-list book the following
+entry:&mdash;"Fifty years ago, in the year 1778, I made my first
+appearance at this theatre. Half a century is not bad. Hurra!! John
+Bannister."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT.</h3>
+<p>In reading over an agreement, for letting a house, the other
+day, the initials of the party letting it were A.B., of the party
+taking C.D., and of the witness to the signatures E.F.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE.</h3>
+<p>Obstinacy and perseverance, though often confounded, are two
+very different things; a man may be very obstinate, and yet not
+persevere in his opinion ten minutes. Obstinacy is resistance to
+truth; perseverance is a continuance in truth or error.</p>
+<p>T.C.C.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>IDOLATRY.</h3>
+<p>The origin of idolatry is by many attributed to the age of Eber,
+though most of the fathers place it no higher than that of Serug;
+but it appears to me certain, that image worship existed in the
+time of Jacob, from the account of Rachel taking images along with
+her on leaving her father's house, which is given in the book of
+Genesis.</p>
+<p>T.C.C.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ORIGIN OF THE WORD GALLIMATHIAS.</h3>
+<p>This word, which signifies nonsense, <i>alias</i> talk without
+meaning, is supposed to have first arisen at the time when all
+pleadings at the bar were in Latin. There was a cause, it seems,
+about a cock, belonging to the plaintiff Matthias; the counsel, in
+the heat of the harangue, by often repeating the words
+<i>gallus</i> and <i>Matthias</i>, happened to blunder, and,
+instead of saying <i>gallus Matthiae</i>, said <i>galli
+Matthias</i>, which at length became a general name for all
+confused, embroiled language and discourse.</p>
+<p>P.T.W.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>SALLIE TO JOHN.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Changed ere long shall my fortunes be,</p>
+<p>Yet my faith is firm&mdash;I will go with thee.</p>
+<p>I yield not weakly to fancy's trance,</p>
+<p>Or the fitful flame of young romance;</p>
+<p>I dwell with a calm, unshrinking mind</p>
+<p>On the scenes that I seek and leave behind;</p>
+<p>My future fate spread forth I see,</p>
+<p>And my choice is fix'd&mdash;I will go with thee.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>I have thought on this hour with many a tear,</p>
+<p>In the timid weakness of woman's fear;</p>
+<p>It comes, and I rise, the test above,</p>
+<p>In the dauntless strength of woman's love.</p>
+<p>Gaze not upon me with looks so sad&mdash;</p>
+<p>My step is firm, and my heart is glad;</p>
+<p>This last, last sigh for my home shall be&mdash;</p>
+<p>Past is the trial&mdash;I go with thee.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><i>Dublin</i>.</p>
+<p>JAN RHI.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>Diogenes was not in the wrong, who, when the great Alexander,
+finding him in the charnel-house, asked him what he was seeking
+for, answered, "I am seeking for your father's bones, and those of
+my slave; but I cannot find them, because there is no difference
+between them."</p>
+<p>G.K.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>GETTING A JOURNEY.</h3>
+<h4><i>By Dr. Kitchiner</i>.</h4>
+<p>I GOT on horseback within ten minutes after I received your
+letter. When I GOT to Canterbury, I GOT a chaise for town. But I
+GOT wet through before I GOT to Canterbury, and I have GOT such a
+cold as I shall not be able to GET rid of in a hurry. I GOT to the
+Treasury about noon, but first of all I GOT shaved and drest. I
+soon GOT into the secret of GETTING a memorial before the board,
+but I could not GET an answer then; however, I GOT intelligence
+from the messenger that I should most likely GET one next morning.
+As soon as I GOT back to my inn, I GOT my supper and GOT to bed. It
+was not long before I GOT to sleep. When I GOT up in the morning, I
+GOT my breakfast, and then GOT myself drest, that I might GET out
+in time, to GET an answer to my memorial. As soon as I GOT it, I
+GOT into the chaise, and GOT home by three o'clock.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name=
+"footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>"When Nero exhibited himself as a singer and flute-player on the
+stage at Naples, the musicians of that province assembled to hear
+him; and Suetonius tells us that the emperor selected <i>five
+thousand</i> among the best to be his household musicians, and
+clothed them in a rich and uniform dress."</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name=
+"footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p>It should, however, be noticed, that the object of the
+<i>Zoological Society</i> is not the mere exhibition of animals. In
+the original prospectus it is observed, that "Animals brought from
+every part of the globe to be applied to some <i>useful</i> purpose
+as objects of scientific research, not of vulgar admiration; and
+upon such an institution, a philosophy of zoology founded, pointing
+out the comparative anatomy, the habits of life, the improvement
+and the methods of multiplying those races of animals which are
+most useful to man, and thus fixing a most beautiful and important
+branch of knowledge on the permanent basis of direct utility." The
+Secretary of the Society is N.A. Vigors, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.,
+&amp;c. who, from his extensive attainments in the science of
+zoology, fills the office with honor to himself, and peculiar
+advantage to the public.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name=
+"footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+<p>He was previously at Sudborne, the seat of the Marquess of
+Hertford, where Toby, as our Russian friend was christened, became
+equally sagacious with bipeds, in distinguishing strong ale from
+small beer. To the former beverage, Toby became freely attached;
+but when we saw him at the Gardens in the Regent's Park, he
+appeared too docile for his companions.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name=
+"footnote4"></a> <b>Footnote 4</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+<p>We feel as if it were a species of treason to record the fact,
+that, within the wide range of the British islands, <i>there is
+only one observatory, and scarcely one, supported by the
+government</i>! We say scarcely one, because we believe that some
+of the instruments in the observatory of Greenwich were purchased
+out of the private funds of the Royal Society of London. The
+observatories of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh (except a
+grant of 2,000<i>l</i>.), Armagh, and Glasgow, are all private
+establishments, to the support of which government contributes
+nothing. The consequence of this is, that many of them are in a
+state of comparative inactivity; and none of them, but that of
+Dublin, have acquired any celebrity in the astronomical world.
+Such, indeed, was the state of practical astronomy in Scotland,
+that within these few years, a Danish vessel, which arrived at
+Leith, could not obtain, even in Edinburgh, the time of the day for
+the purpose of setting its chronometers.&mdash;<i>Q. Rev.</i></p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name=
+"footnote5"></a> <b>Footnote 5</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+<p>For an engraving and account of the Palace of St. Cloud, see
+MIRROR, vol. ii. page 225.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote6" name=
+"footnote6"></a> <b>Footnote 6</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+<p>We are not permitted to allude to the f&ecirc;te of St. Cloud as
+a scene of <i>pastoral</i> amusement, or of the primitive
+simplicity which is associated with that epithet. The French are
+not a pastoral people, although they are not less so than the
+English; neither are the suburbs of a metropolis rural life. They
+are too near the pride of human art for pastoral pleasures, and no
+aristocracy is more infested with little tyrants than the
+neighbourhood of great cities, the oppressors being too timid to
+trust themselves far out of the verge of public haunts, in the
+midst of which they would be equally suspicious.</p>
+<p>Amusements are at all times among the best indications of
+national character; a truth which the ancients seem to have
+exaggerated into their maxim <i>in vino veritas</i>. Here the
+national comparison is not "odious." Three Sunday fairs are held
+within six miles of Paris, in a park, as was once the custom at
+Greenwich: the latter, though a royal park, does not boast of the
+residence of royalty, as does St Cloud. The objection to the day of
+the French f&ecirc;tes is cleared by another argument. But what
+would be the character of a week-day fair, or f&ecirc;te, in
+Kensington Gardens? The intuitive answer will make the moral
+observer regret that man should so often place the interdict on his
+own happiness, and then peevishly repine at his uncheery lot.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote7" name=
+"footnote7"></a> <b>Footnote 7</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+<p>Tender.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote8" name=
+"footnote8"></a> <b>Footnote 8</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag8">(return)</a>
+<p>Woes.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote9" name=
+"footnote9"></a> <b>Footnote 9</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag9">(return)</a>
+<p>Express.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote10" name=
+"footnote10"></a> <b>Footnote 10</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag10">(return)</a>
+<p>Fiery.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote11" name=
+"footnote11"></a> <b>Footnote 11</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag11">(return)</a>
+<p>Dancing.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote12" name=
+"footnote12"></a> <b>Footnote 12</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag12">(return)</a>
+<p>Meadows.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote13" name=
+"footnote13"></a> <b>Footnote 13</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag13">(return)</a>
+<p>Blood-coloured.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote14" name=
+"footnote14"></a> <b>Footnote 14</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag14">(return)</a>
+<p>Mingled.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote15" name=
+"footnote15"></a> <b>Footnote 15</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag15">(return)</a>
+<p>Complexion.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote16" name=
+"footnote16"></a> <b>Footnote 16</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag16">(return)</a>
+<p>Forlorn.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset House,} London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market,
+Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.</i></p>
+<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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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 12, Issue 330, September 6, 1828
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 1, 2004 [EBook #11389]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 330 ***
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 12, No. 330.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+
+WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?
+
+
+    We cannot help it.--_Massinger's Roman Actor._
+
+Astronomy, music, and architecture, are the floating topics of the day;
+on the second of these heads we have thrown together a few hints, which
+may, probably prove entertaining to our readers.
+
+The English are not--you know, reflective public--a musical people; this
+has been said over and over again in the musical and dramatic critiques
+of the newspapers. True it is that we have no _national music_, like our
+neighbours the Welsh, the Irish, or the Scotch; for our music, like out
+language, is a mere _riccifamento_, stolen from every nation in Europe.
+But our king (God bless him) is an excellent musician, and plays the
+violoncello most delightfully; and we have an Academy of Music. Then we
+have an Italian Theatre that burns the feet and fingers of all who
+meddle with its management--witness, Mr. Ebers, who, by being "married"
+to sweet sounds, lost the enormous sum of 47,000_l_.--it must be owned,
+an unfortunate match, or as Dr. Franklin would have said, "paying rather
+too dear for his whistle." We have too an _English Opera House_, where
+scarcely any but _foreign_ music is heard, and which, to the
+ever-lasting credit of its management, has transplanted from the warm
+climes of the south to our ungenial atmosphere, some of the finest
+compositions in the continental schools of modern music. Success has,
+however, attended most of their enterprises; for the taste of the
+English for foreign music is by no means a modern mania. From Pepys's
+_Diary_ we learn that the first company of Italian singers came here in
+the reign of Charles II.: they were brought by Killigrew from Venice,
+about 1688; but they did not perform whole operas, only detached scenes
+in recitative, and not in any public theatre, but in the houses of the
+nobility. Thus, Italian music was loved and cultivated very early in
+England, and London was the next capital, after Vienna, which
+established and supported an Italian Opera. But, as we never do things
+by halves, we had soon afterwards, two opposition houses. This proves
+that the English have a _taste for music_; indeed they have much more
+judgment than some of their neighbours, which makes it still more to be
+regretted that nothing is done in England towards the advancement of
+music as a science. Is the world of sound and the soul of song
+exhausted? Why should we, who are marching in every other direction,
+stand still in this? But no; what Orpheus did with _music_, we are
+striving to accomplish by _steam_; what he effected by quietly touching
+his lyre, we study with the atmospheres and condensers of high and low
+pressure engines.
+
+The writer of a delightful paper in the _Foreign Review_, No. 3, in
+tracing the rise and progress of music, inquires what has become of "its
+loftier pretensions, its celestial attributes, its moral and political
+influence." He then facetiously observes, "How should we marvel to see
+the Duke of Wellington, like another Epaminondas, take his flute out of
+his pocket to still the clamour of the opposition, or Mr. Peel reply to
+the arguments of Mr. Huskisson with an allegro on the fiddle."
+
+The Greeks were not such grave people as some may be inclined to think
+them. Among them, poetry and music were so intimately connected, that
+they were in fact one and the same. It is not so with us; we have Byron
+and Moore, in poetry; but where are their parallels in English music!
+
+"Music," says Plutarch, "was the universal language of Greece, the
+sacred vehicle of history, philosophy, laws, and morals;" but in England
+it is little more than a mere amusement to while away the evening, or at
+best, but a branch of _female_ education. Pianos are become articles of
+furniture to be met with in almost every other genteel house; Miss and
+her sisters sit down by turns, and screw themselves up to _Ah vous
+dirai_, or "I'd be a butterfly"--till some handsome young fellow who has
+stood behind her chair for six months, turned over her music, or
+accompanied her through a few liquorish airs, vows his tender passion,
+brings her the last new song, and at length swears to be her
+accompaniment throughout life. The piano is then locked up, the music
+sent to Bath or _Canterbury_, and the lady is married and cannot sing.
+
+But the Greek poets sang their own verses: "Homer literally _sang_ the
+wrath of Achilles, and the woes of Greece;" would it were so in England.
+Then, my poetical public, we should have Anacreon Moore singing his
+"Rich and rare were the gems she wore," in some such place as the
+Quadrant, or Opera Colonnade; and Sir Walter Scott celebrating the Field
+of Waterloo, not in the broad-margined octavos of Paternoster-row, but
+about the purlieus of the Horse Guards. Wordsworth would be his own
+Skylark. The laureate, Southey, would perch himself on the dome of the
+New Palace. Campbell would step out of New Burlingtonstreet into the
+Park; Miss Mitford would keep a Covent-Garden audience awake with her
+own tragedies, and Planche would no longer entrust his rhymes to Paton
+or Vestris. On the other hand, Braham would no longer be indebted to
+Moore for his songs, Bishop would write, compose, and sing his own
+operas, and all our vocalists enter, like Dryden's king and two
+fiddlers, _solus_!
+
+Could we but once become a musical people, we should no longer marvel at
+the effect of music in ancient times; for who knows but that if an
+Englishman were to play like Orpheus, the River Thames might cease to
+flow; the disposal of Mr. Cross's menagerie be no longer a question,
+since the animals might be allowed to ramble about the Strand; and
+Snowdon or Cader Idris journey to the King's Theatre to listen to his
+inspirations.
+
+It is, however, impossible to calculate the benefits which this
+acquisition of musical skill might prove to the English people. What
+bloodshed and tribulation it would prevent. Weare, or Maria Marten, like
+Stradella, might have disarmed their assassins; the Insolvent Act would
+be obsolete, and duns defeated; since hundreds of improvident wights,
+like Palma, might, by their strains, soften the hearts of their
+creditors, and draw tears from sheriff's officers. Chancery-lane would
+be depopulated, and Cursitor-street be left to the fowls of the air;
+locks would fall 50 per cent, and Mr. Bramah might betake himself to Van
+Dieman's Land. What a pleasant thing would a public dinner be; for,
+instead of a gentleman in a dress coat singing as from the orchestra of
+an oratorio, he would throw a more impassioned energy into his own
+compositions than he could possibly impart to those of another, and
+proportionally enhance the delight of his company. All the mechanism of
+professional singing would then give way to "the feast of reason and the
+flow of soul."
+
+We know not how to have done with these pleasures of "linked
+sweetness"--this "mosaic of the air," as Marvell quaintly calls it. We
+have a decided aversion to the system of borrowing, which, in the
+absence of our own musical resources, seems to be universally adopted.
+Thus, as Charles Mathews says, "every footman whistles _Frieschutz_;"
+and the barrel organ which does not play two or three of its airs may be
+consigned to the brokers. A few months since every bachelor hummed or
+whistled "_C'est l'amour_," and the French, to return the compliment,
+have made our "Robin Adair," one of the claptraps of the music of their
+_La Dame Blanche_. Next, when will Mr. Bishop's _Home, sweet home_, be
+forgotten, although the original is a Sicilian air of considerable
+antiquity. All the baker's and butcher's boys in London can go through
+"_Di tanti pal_"--where they leave off, answer a question, and take up
+the "_piti_," with the skill of a musician; and as readily fall into the
+sympathetic melodies of "_Oh no we never mention her_," or the "_Light
+Guitar_." But to atone for these vulgarisms, who that has heard the
+syren strains of Stephens or Paton, or the Anglo-Italian style of
+Braham, but has envied them the pleasurable monopoly of delighting
+thousands, and sending them home with the favourite air still echoing in
+their ears, and lulling them to soft slumbers! Who is there that has
+enjoyed his circle of friends without regretting a thousand times that
+he had not a fiftieth part of such talent to enliven the festive hour,
+and lend a charm, however, fleeting, to what may be termed the poetry of
+life.
+
+As we have noticed the taste of the Greeks for music, it is but fair
+that we should allude to that of their successors. In ancient Rome,
+music was never popular. Combats of gladiators and wild beasts filled
+their theatres with streams of blood, instead of their resounding with
+music; and after the death of Nero,[1] that beautiful art was declared
+infamous, and by a public decree, banished from the city. In our
+theatres, however, heroes fight to music, from the Richard III. and
+Richmond of Shakspeare to the "terrific combats" of modern melodrame.
+
+    [1] "When Nero exhibited himself as a singer and flute-player on
+    the stage at Naples, the musicians of that province assembled to
+    hear him; and Suetonius tells us that the emperor selected _five
+    thousand_ among the best to be his household musicians, and
+    clothed them in a rich and uniform dress."
+
+Anything is, however, better than despair, and let us hope that
+something may be done towards the amendment of our musical reputation.
+We have too much of what Cobbett would call the "dead-weight" in us to
+become adopted by Apollo as the "children of song;" but what with the
+school of music in Tenterden-street, and numberless juvenile prodigies,
+we may indulge the expectation of rising in the diatonic scale, and that
+too at no very distant period. Burney and Crotch were remarkable
+instances of precocious musical skill; and in the present day, children
+from eight to twelve sing the most popular Italian airs on the English
+stage, with remarkable accuracy.
+
+Apropos, we hear of constitutions being set to music, for says the
+_Foreign Review_, "during the short revolution at Naples, in 1820, a
+Neapolitan was heard to swear that if the government intended that the
+new constitution should be understood or accepted by the people, they
+must first have it set to music by Rossini."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+
+[Illustration: GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.]
+
+We are again in the _Regents Park_; but we must leave its architectural
+splendour for the present, and request our readers to accompany us
+towards the eastern verge of the Park, to the Gardens of the Zoological
+Society, established in 1826, and whose members now amount to _eleven
+hundred_! The grounds are daily filled with fashionable company,
+notwithstanding the great migrations which usually take place at this
+season of the year, and almost depopulate the western hemisphere of
+fashion. The gardens, independent of their zoological attractions, are a
+delightful promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres
+boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The animals, too, are seen to
+much greater advantage than when shut up in a menagerie, and have the
+luxury of fresh air, instead of unwholesome respiration in a room or
+caravan.[2]
+
+    [2] It should, however, be noticed, that the object of the
+    _Zoological Society_ is not the mere exhibition of animals. In
+    the original prospectus it is observed, that "Animals brought
+    from every part of the globe to be applied to some _useful_
+    purpose as objects of scientific research, not of vulgar
+    admiration; and upon such an institution, a philosophy of
+    zoology founded, pointing out the comparative anatomy, the
+    habits of life, the improvement and the methods of multiplying
+    those races of animals which are most useful to man, and thus
+    fixing a most beautiful and important branch of knowledge on the
+    permanent basis of direct utility." The Secretary of the Society
+    is N.A. Vigors, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., &c. who, from his extensive
+    attainments in the science of zoology, fills the office with
+    honor to himself, and peculiar advantage to the public.
+
+At page 413 of our last volume, the reader will find an abstract of the
+second anniversary of the Society, since which the Gardens in the
+Regent's Park have been opened for public inspection. We have
+accordingly availed ourselves of this privilege, and our draughtsman has
+been at some pains in the annexed sketch, together with the vignette
+_portraits_ accompanying it. The "_Bird's-Eye View_" will be better
+explained by reference to the figures; thus,
+
+  1. Entrance Gate and Pay Hut.
+  2. Ditto Check Hut.
+  3. House and Ground for _Emus_:
+
+Two awkward land birds, resembling ostriches. Their incapability of
+flying is compensated by the exceeding speed with which they run. They
+are natives of New Holland.
+
+  4. Central Walk.
+  5. Sloping Shrubbery of Defence.
+  6. Fields for Horses and Cattle.
+  7. Building for _Bears,_,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+communicating with their pit, in the centre of which is a pole with
+steps for the animals to ascend and descend. At the extremity of the
+upper walk, the pit is surrounded with a dwarf wall and coping, to which
+(since our sketch was taken) have been added iron rails. There are here
+two Arctic bears, and a small black bear, the latter brought from
+Russia,[3] and presented to the Society, by the Marquess of Hertford.
+There is usually a crowd of visiters about this spot, and the sagacity
+and antics of our four-footed friends ensure them liberal supplies of
+cakes and fruit, handed to them on a pole. We were much interested with
+their tricks, especially with the vexation betrayed by one of them, at
+the top of the pole, when he saw his companion below seize a cake which
+the former had previously eyed with great _gout_. His wringing and
+biting his paws reminded us of many scenes out of a bear-pit. Then the
+snorting and snarling of the old bear below, when the young one
+attempted to obtain a cake thrown to him; and above all, the small share
+which our black friend _Toby_ enjoyed, probably from his docility
+over-much,--like good-natured men who are mastered by those of rough
+natures. We could have staid here a whole hour, watching their antics,
+and likening them to the little trickery of human nature.
+
+    [3] He was previously at Sudborne, the seat of the Marquess of
+    Hertford, where Toby, as our Russian friend was christened,
+    became equally sagacious with bipeds, in distinguishing strong
+    ale from small beer. To the former beverage, Toby became freely
+    attached; but when we saw him at the Gardens in the Regent's
+    Park, he appeared too docile for his companions.
+
+  8 and 9. Ground enclosed for _Kangaroos_,
+
+of which there is a little herd, large and small. They are natives of
+New Holland. The fore legs are seldom more than twenty inches in length,
+whilst the hinder ones are sometimes three feet and a half long. They
+rest on the whole length of the hind feet, supporting themselves by the
+base of the tail, which, in truth, acts as a fifth leg, and is sometimes
+used as a weapon, being of such strength as to break a man's leg at a
+single blow. They move by leaps, which have been known to exceed twenty
+feet. Several kangaroos have been kept in the park at Richmond, and
+where they have produced young ones.
+
+  10. _Dens_
+
+containing two fine _leopards, a porcupine_, and _racoons_. In an
+adjoining den are three _wolves._
+
+  11. Gothic House for _Lamas_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This is one of the most picturesque objects in the grounds. It contains
+two lamas. These animals are common in South America, particularly in
+the mountainous parts of Peru, where they are employed as beasts of
+burthen. One of the lamas was presented to the Society by the Duke of
+Bedford.
+
+  12. Circular Aviary for _Birds of Prey_
+
+containing a _fine griffon vulture_, a white-headed _North American
+eagle, hawks, falcons_, and _owls_; among the latter is the _great
+horned owl_. This is supposed by Linnaeus, and many antiquaries, to have
+been the bird of Minerva. The collection is remarkably splendid.
+
+  13. Hut for _Beavers_.
+  14. Hut for _Foreign Goats._
+  15. Enclosed Area and Fountain for _Aquatic Birds_, as pelicans,
+  Solan geese, China geese, black swans, &c.
+  16. Aviary.
+
+Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills, together
+with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose brilliant plumage
+outvies the gayest robe of art, and three curassos.
+
+  17. Grove and Huts for _Esquimaux Dogs_
+
+of which there are three fine specimens.
+
+  18. Fountain, &c. for _Water Fowl_.
+  19. Enclosure for _Zebras, Indian Cows, &c_.
+  20. Houses on poles for _Monkeys_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+These are distributed beside the walks. The monkey is attached by a
+chain to a ring loosely round the pole, by which means he ascends and
+descends at pleasure.
+
+  21. Intended Aviary, (supposed for _Eagles, Vultures_, &c.).
+  22. Twenty acres about to be added.
+  23. House for _Monkeys, &c_.
+
+Here are double rows of cages, containing a fine South American ocelot,
+a lynx, a puma, coatamondis, an ichneumon, and several monkeys; the last
+affording an excellent opportunity of appreciating the fidelity of Mr.
+Landseer's _Monkeyana,_ and illustrating the vraisemblance of men and
+monkeys.
+
+  24. Intended Aviary.
+  25. Mexican _Hogs,_ &c.
+  26. Huts for _Jackalls,_ &c.
+  27. Unfinished Houses.
+
+The carriage-road is formed of the outer side of the Park.
+
+There is likewise an enclosure for _Tortoises_, of which there are three
+large and several small ones. We saw one of them devouring pumpkin as a
+gourmand would turtle, and this voracity is by weather-wise people
+considered as a sure indication of rain. This turtle is believed to be
+very old; he is of stupendous size, but buried as he was (except his
+neck) with shell, he soon became aware of the approach of his companion,
+nearly as large, and accordingly ate with increased greediness. Among
+the birds, too, should be mentioned several beautiful varieties of
+pheasants, partridges, &c. which are well worth the attention of the
+visiter.
+
+We have probably passed over many animals, our object being merely to
+mention a few of the most interesting for their habits and
+peculiarities. Of course the collection is as yet incomplete, there
+being neither lion, tiger, hyaena, elephant, nor rhinoceros; but when it
+is considered that the Society has been established little more than two
+years, in which time a Museum has been formed, and 1,100 subscribers
+obtained, besides the arrangement of the Gardens--it will be
+acknowledged that much has been done in a short time, and judging from
+the excellent organization of the Society and their past success, we
+anticipate the utmost realization of their plan.
+
+Our readers need not be told that the Zoological Society is partly on
+the plan of the Museum of Natural History at Paris, except that the
+latter is supported by the Government, the Gardens are indiscriminately
+opened to the public, free of cost, and the Museum on stated days; and
+when we add that the names of Fagon, Duverney, Tournefort, Vaillant, De
+Jussieu, Buffon, Daubenton, Fourcroy, Desfontaines, De Lamarck, and
+Cuvier, occur in its list of professors, they will not be surprised at
+the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle being the richest of its kind in the
+world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As acceptable information, we subjoin the regulations for the admission
+of members and visiters to the Gardens in the Regent's Park, and the
+_Museum_, in Bruton-street; to the latter we shall allude at an early
+opportunity:--
+
+Every member shall have personal admission to the gardens and museum,
+with two companions. If accompanied by more than two, he shall pay one
+shilling for each extra person.
+
+A member, on payment of one guinea annually, may obtain an ivory ticket,
+which will admit one named person with a companion to both
+establishments; or a transferable ivory ticket which will admit one
+person. He may obtain two or more such tickets at the same rate.
+
+Any member who may find it inconvenient to attend personally at the
+gardens or museum, may, upon application to the council, have his
+privileges transferred, within the present year, to any individual of
+his family, whom he may name.
+
+Every member will be expected to give his name on entering the gardens
+and museum.
+
+The gardens will be open to members from eight o'clock, A.M.; but they
+will be in complete readiness for the reception of visiters only from
+ten o'clock to sunset. The museum will be open from ten o'clock to six.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Your article on the "Patrons of Astronomy," in the Mirror, No. 328,
+brought to my recollection the following anecdote, for the truth of
+which I can answer, having received it from Mr. Watson, well known as
+the most celebrated private optical instrument maker in Europe, and at
+the time living on intimate terms with the late Mr. Arnold, the most
+eminent watchmaker of the day. When the late Sir William Herschel's
+great telescope was first exhibited at Slough, among other scientific
+men who went to see it was Mr. Arnold, who took Mr. W. with him. Neither
+of them thought much of it, though it was praised by the multitude; as
+it was, with its constructor, patronized by the late king and his
+consort, for Herschel was a German, as you well know. A few astronomical
+amateurs, who thought as Mr. Arnold did, proposed to Mr. Adams, of
+Fleet-street, then astronomical instrument maker to the king, (by whom
+Mr. Watson was employed,) to get Watson to make an instrument in
+opposition to Herschel's. The order being given by Adams, Watson set
+about the work, and had made some progress in the construction of the
+instrument, when the circumstance found its way to the ears of royalty.
+Orders were immediately sent to Mr. Adams to put a stop to the work, or
+he should no longer be optician to the king. Watson did not proceed, but
+could never learn the cause of the counter-order, till after a lapse of
+several years, when a stranger called on him, in Valentine-place,
+Blackfriars-road, and after putting several questions to him about his
+instruments, related to him the cause of the counter-order; upon which
+Mr. Watson showed him the progress he had made, and which I have also
+seen. This story I heard related by Mr. Watson at a dinner party at Mr.
+Arnold's, at Well Hall, near Eltham, where were also Mr. Dollonds, and
+Mr. J. R. Arnold, the son.
+
+A Constant Reader.
+
+August, 24, 1828.
+
+Our Correspondent will perceive that we have qualified some phrases of
+his letter, but that all the facts appear.
+
+The _Quarterly Review_, No. 75, from which our notice was taken, is
+tolerably plain upon the lack of patronage towards astronomy in this
+country, and seems disposed, in enumerating the state of astronomical
+knowledge in civilized Europe, to place Great Britain beside Spain or
+Turkey![4] We chance to know that one of the most able and enterprising
+astronomers of the present day relinquished a lucrative profession, that
+he might be more at leisure to indulge his philosophical pursuits; so
+that, if patrons be wanting, this apathy does not appear to have
+entirely destroyed the taste for the divine study. This gentleman, in
+concert with another, ascertained, in the course of three years, the
+position and apparent distances of 380 double and triple stars, the
+result of about 10,000 individual measurements, and for their Memoir,
+they received the astronomical prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
+In the following year, the former individual communicated to the Royal
+Society the apparent distances and positions of 458 double stars, of
+which 160 had never before been observed.
+
+    [4] We feel as if it were a species of treason to record the
+    fact, that, within the wide range of the British islands, _there
+    is only one observatory, and scarcely one, supported by the
+    government_! We say scarcely one, because we believe that some
+    of the instruments in the observatory of Greenwich were
+    purchased out of the private funds of the Royal Society of
+    London. The observatories of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin,
+    Edinburgh (except a grant of 2,000_l_.), Armagh, and Glasgow,
+    are all private establishments, to the support of which
+    government contributes nothing. The consequence of this is, that
+    many of them are in a state of comparative inactivity; and none
+    of them, but that of Dublin, have acquired any celebrity in the
+    astronomical world. Such, indeed, was the state of practical
+    astronomy in Scotland, that within these few years, a Danish
+    vessel, which arrived at Leith, could not obtain, even in
+    Edinburgh, the time of the day for the purpose of setting its
+    chronometers.--_Q. Rev._
+
+Of course, our correspondent does not impeach the talent of HERSCHEL;
+but it is lamentable to reflect that no attempt has been made to repeat
+or extend the labours of that indefatigable astronomer.--ED.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE KELPIE.
+
+A SCOTTISH LEGEND.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  "Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"
+    Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,
+  For though I mind not in the least the nod
+    Of these same critics, still I'll not defy 'em;
+  But that you may know more of this same god,
+    (Though I can't sing as Homer sung of Priam,)
+  I'll write a very pretty little poem,
+  Of which this present stanza's but the proem.
+
+  But to begin, for though 'tis rather long,
+    My poem I'll comprise into twelve stanzas,
+  Or fourteen at the furthest, if my song
+    Don't run to twenty--I'll offend no man, sirs,
+  If I can help it. So now I'm along
+    The road, and beg you'll notice these two lancers,
+  Who, on the backs of horses full of mettle
+  Hold a dispute, which we'll leave them to settle,
+
+  While you go with me, reader, kind and good,
+    To a small tributary stream from Tweed,
+  Which, if you don't know, as I'm in the mood,
+    I'll do my best to teach you, if you'll read;
+  I'll introduce you to the stream Glenrude--
+    This name will do--'twas in a glen--indeed,
+  'Twas not its proper name--'twill do quite well,
+  Why I choose so to call it I shan't tell,
+
+  But still it was a very pretty river,
+    Or rather stream, as ever could be seen--
+  If not so wide as the great Guadalquiver,
+    Its banks were nearly always clothed in green,
+  (Save when in winter the winds made you shiver,)
+    While the waves, bickering so bright and sheen,
+  Put you in mind of Avon, Rhine, or Hellespont,
+  Or any other stream to admire you're wont.
+
+  And round about the stream there were huge hillocks,
+    And firs and mountains, houses too and farms;
+  A maid lay on the grass--her light and fair locks
+    Were gently wound around her folded arms,
+  While softly grazing near there stood a huge ox,
+    And o'er her head an old oak threw its arms.
+  She was asleep, when, lo! the sound of horses'
+  Feet woke her, and, behold, she saw two corses.
+
+  At least she thought so--but at last thought better
+    'Twould be for her to get up and go home;
+  She got up quickly, and would soon have made her
+    Way home, but that the men who had just come
+  Spurr'd past her, and alighted when they met her,
+    While she with her surprise was almost dumb;
+  But soon spoke she, and bade them both disclose
+  Their names--to which one said, "I'm Richard Groze."
+
+  The next spoke not at first, but soon replied,
+    "Pray wherefore are you so surprised, my dear?
+  And wherefore, likewise, have you not complied
+    With my request, which I have sent in near
+  Some good score letters? which you did deride,
+    When they were forwarded by this man here."
+  He pointed then to Groze, and then he sighed,
+  "My dear, dear Jeannie, will you be my bride?"
+
+  The which words when our Jeannie heard, she stared,
+    And said, "What do you mean, John Fitzadree?
+  You talk of letters, but of them the laird
+    Has never brought a single one to me;
+  But when I've seen him I have never cared
+    How soon he went, for he told me that ye
+  Were either dead or faithless--so he said
+  I'd better wed the live, than mourn the dead.
+
+  "And then he promis'd I should have six horses,
+    Besides a coach, if I would be his bride;
+  But I refus'd--and he swore all his crosses
+    Should soon be o'er, and something else beside
+  And that's the reason why I thought ye corses,
+    When o'er the green this way I saw ye ride.
+  But now I see you've both served in the Lancers,
+  Though on my word you look much more like dancers."
+
+  To which John answer'd, "Oh, the filthy fellow,
+    I gave him letters to you, which he said
+  He would deliver, were you ill or well. Oh!
+    How I should like to knock him on the head,
+  And would, but that would show I was quite mellow--
+    Besides, I see the coward has just fled,
+  Has ta'en to horse, and got across the ford--
+  Hang him, that I should with him be so bored!"
+
+  But Jeannie said, "John, thou shall do no murder."
+    To which he answer'd, "I will not do so;"
+  Then bounded off as though he had not heard her,
+    And reached a fording-place, but not so low
+  As where Groze cross'd, and who had now got further
+    Than John would have thought possible, although
+  He'd a good-horse, and nearly half an hour
+  In start--but now the clouds began to lower.
+
+  Now Fitzadree's good charger was all mettle,
+    And soon won to the middle of the stream--
+  But then the sky grew black as a tea kettle;
+    It rained, too, quite as fast as ever steam
+  Rose. But the thing which did at last unsettle
+    The balance of John's steed, was what you'll deem
+  A being that was nearly supernatural--
+  But here the waves John's clothes began to spatter all.
+
+  A form rose up from out the waves' abyss--
+    A monstrous little man with a black hide,
+  Scarce four feet high, yet he was not remiss,
+    But dash'd the waves about--and then he cried,
+  With a demoniac laugh, or rather hiss,
+    "Die, mortal, die!" and John sank down and died,
+  The which, when Jeannie saw, she only sigh'd,
+  "I come, my John, I come, to be thy bride."
+
+  The figure was the Kelpie--that she knew,
+    And madly she rush'd on towards the shore;
+  The Kelpie roar'd, "Come, mortal, come thou too."
+    Ere he'd done speaking, Jeannie was no more;
+  She'd dash'd into the waves, and left no clue,
+    More than a steamer leaves just left the Nore,
+  By which you might discover where she lay,
+  And drag her upwards to the realms of day.
+
+  But what befel the cause of all these woes?
+    That's what I never heard, so cannot tell;
+  But this I know, that this same Richard Groze
+    Return'd no more to bonnie Scotland. Well,
+  I only hope he may in bed repose,
+    And that he may at last escape from hell.
+  And this I know, that if you do not smother
+  This poem, when I choose I'll write another.
+                                J.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SUGAR AND WATER CRITICISM.
+
+
+In one of the critiques on the last _Monthly Magazine_, some verses by
+Mrs. Hemans are said to be "elegant and lady-like."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH BOOK
+
+A DAY AT ST. CLOUD.
+
+_September_ 24, 1826.
+
+
+    I walked up gravely to the window in my dusty black coat, and
+    looking through the glass, saw all the world in yellow, blue,
+    and green, running at the ring of pleasure.--STERNE.
+
+St. Cloud is the Richmond of France; or rather, it is to Paris what
+Richmond, in the days of its regal splendour, was to London--the summer
+palace of the court. In this comparison, allowance must be made for the
+opposite building taste of each nation; especially as Richmond has an
+appearance of substantial comfort in its massive brick mansions and
+rusticated cottage groups. The French _Sheen_ is, on the contrary,
+gayer; the exterior of the residences being whitened, or what is still
+more artificial, coloured and decorated in tawdry French taste. Such, at
+least, is the character of the _auberges_, or inns, and _restaurateurs_,
+with which St. Cloud is even better supplied than our Richmond. In
+situation, however, they strongly assimilate; the former being placed on
+an acclivity overlooking the Seine, as the latter is on the banks of the
+Thames.
+
+St. Cloud, as I have already said, is the usual summer residence of the
+French court; and with a royal liberality which might be less politic
+elsewhere, the park is granted for three fairs--September 7, and the
+three following Sundays, on the last of which I resolved to visit the
+fete of St. Cloud. It was a glowing September day. The sun shone with
+more than mellow warmth through the groves of the Tuilleries, and on the
+little southern terrace, which was unusually crowded with groups of rosy
+children, with here and there a valetudinarian, who seemed to have
+emerged from his chamber to enjoy the parting glories of the season.
+Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the mall, or
+principal walk, and some few were not incuriously lingering about the
+enclosed parterres of the garden, whose beauties would soon be
+transported to a milder atmosphere. There was a general stir in the
+neighbouring streets; it did not resemble the bustle of business, but
+had more of the gaiety of a holiday scene. The _Pont Royal_ was thronged
+with passengers, and just beneath it, were several hundreds, many of
+whom were embarking in the steam-boat for St. Cloud. But the Seine is at
+all times less inviting for such an excursion than our Thames; and in
+the summer months many insulated spots may be seen in the centre of the
+French river. At the next bridge (Louis XVI.) there was a general muster
+of carriages, each adapted for six or eight passengers, and drawn by one
+or two horses. Here was a loud clamour of "St. Cloud" and "Versailles"
+among the drivers, some of whom were even more officious than the Jehus
+of Greenwich, or the wights of Charing Cross or Piccadilly. I resisted
+all their importunities, and passed on through the _Champs Elysees_, or
+a dusty road through a grove, intersected with ill-formed paths, with a
+few gaudy cafes bearing pompous inscriptions--for Voltaire has made the
+French too fond of nomenclature to say with our Shakspeare, "what's in a
+name?" The road presented a strange specimen of the insubordination of
+French driving, notwithstanding police superintendants affected much
+concern in the matter. Diligences, fiacres, and carriages resembling
+large, covered cabriolets, might be seen loaded with gaily-dressed women
+and children, with a due proportion of young Parisians, all just in the
+hey-day of mirth, drawn by dust-provoking Flanders horses, their drivers
+slashing almost indiscriminately, and, with their clamour and confusion,
+far exceeding the Epsom road on a raceday.
+
+At length, escaping from the dust and din of the French Elysium, I
+halted to enjoy the distant view of the city of Paris, from the gate of
+the barrier. It was indeed an interesting scene. Through the avenue,
+whose area presented a living stream of traffic, might be seen the
+terraces and groves of the Tuilleries, and the spacious and irregular
+palace, with its cupola tops; the tarnished dome of the Invalides; the
+cupola of St. Genevieve; the gray towers of Notre Dame; then the winding
+Seine, with its bridges, quays, and terraces, flanked with the long line
+of the Tuilleries, and the Luxembourg, and Louvre galleries, on the one
+side; and on the other by the noble facade of the Chamber of Deputies;
+the courtly mansions of St. Germain, and the blackened front and dome of
+the Institute. What a multitude of associations flitted across the
+memory, by a single glance at PARIS--the capital of that gay,
+light-hearted, and mercurial people--the French nation--the focus of
+European luxury, and the grand political arena of modern history, the
+very calendar of whose events, within the last half century, will form
+one of the most interesting episodes that ever glowed among the records
+of human character. In the chain might be traced the vain-glory of
+conquest linked with defeated ambition, and the sullied splendour of
+royalty just breaking through the clouds of discontent, and slowly
+dispelling the mists of disaffection and political prejudice. What an
+unenviable contrast to the man who has "no enemy but wind and rough
+weather." The same objects that prompted these discordant reflections
+gave rise to others of the most opposite character; and within the
+walls, where treaties, abdications, and warrants, by turns, settled and
+resettled, exiled and condemned--were the store-houses of art, with all
+her proud and peaceful labours of sculpture, painting, and architecture,
+through galleries and saloons, on whose contents the chisel and the
+pencil had lingered many a life, and reduced the compass of its fond
+designs to the cubits of a statue, the fame of a picture, or the glory
+of a pillar or ceiling--such are the frail elements of human art.
+
+The road now began to exhibit the usual appearance of an approach to a
+country fete or fair. Scores of pedestrians, overcome with the heat and
+dust of the day, might be seen at the little boxes or shops of the
+_traiteurs_, or cooks, and at the houses of the _marchands de vin et de
+la biacre_; these by their anticipated anxiety caused the line from
+Paris to St. Cloud to resemble a road-side fair. Cheerfulness and
+vivacity were upper-most in the passengers; and the elastic pace of
+dozens of gaily-dressed _soubrettes_ not a little enhanced the interest
+of the scene. Neither were these charms impaired by that species of
+vulgarity which not unfrequently characterizes the road to our suburban
+fairs; and, what is still more creditable to humanity, there was no
+brutality towards jaded horses or hacks sinking beneath their loads.
+
+Historians attach some antiquarian importance to the village of St.
+Cloud, it being historically confounded with the earliest times of the
+French monarchy; for, from the beginning of the first race, the kings of
+France had a country-seat here.[5]
+
+    [5] For an engraving and account of the Palace of St. Cloud, see
+    MIRROR, vol. ii. page 225.
+
+I now reached the bridge of St. Cloud, an elegant modern structure which
+crosses the Seine, near the entrance to the village. Here the river
+loses much of its importance; and in summer, the steam-boats are not
+unfrequently delayed in their _voyage_ (if it may be so designated) for
+lack of water. The prospect of the chateau, or palace, embosomed in
+trees, and the park variegated with natural and artificial beauties,
+with the adjoining village on a steep, shelving hill--is unusually
+picturesque. On the present occasion, however, the principal attraction
+was the fete, which reminded me more forcibly of John Bunyan's Vanity
+Fair, than any other exhibition I had ever witnessed.
+
+The entrance to this motley scene was by the principal gate, where the
+carriages set down their company, and at a short distance along the bank
+of the river, the steam-boat in like manner contributed its visiters. On
+entering the park, I was first struck with a long row of boxes,
+(somewhat in the style of those at Vauxhall) but on a raised bank, and
+attached to a _restaurateur_. Here were tables for dinner, and as many
+others were laid in the open air--with the usual _carte_ of 2 or 300
+articles, and the economical elegancies of silver, napkins, and china,
+and this, too, in style little inferior to Verey's in the Palais Royal.
+Promenaders of the better description appeared in the mall, or principal
+walk, and it being the last fete of the season, their attendance was
+very numerous. The stalls and exhibitions were chiefly on the left side
+of this walk; at the former was displayed an almost indescribable
+variety of wares, which were the adjudged prizes in a lottery; but, from
+the decisions which I witnessed, they resembled the _stationary_
+capitals in an English scheme--the nominal Stock in trade of the
+office-keepers. Many of these little gambling shops were superintended
+by women, who proved themselves far from deficient in loquacious
+inducements for adventurers; and by their dexterous settlement of the
+chances, left little time for losers to reflect on their folly.
+Provisions of various descriptions were to be purchased at every turn,
+and among their _marchands_, it was not incurious, to see some humble
+professors of gastronomy over smoking viands, fritters, and goffers or
+indented wafers baked on cast-iron stoves _a la minute_--it must be
+owned, unseasonable luxuries for a September day. The _spectacles_, or
+shows, in noise and absurdity, exceeded the English trumpery of that
+order; and to judge from the gaping crowds which they attracted, we are
+not the only credulous nation in the world. Among the games was a
+machine resembling an English round-a-bout, with wooden horses for the
+players, each of whom was furnished with a foil, with which he strove to
+seize the greatest number of rings from the centre; this was, indeed, a
+chivalrous exhibition. Stilt-walkers, mountebank families, and jugglers,
+"chequered in bulk and brains," lent their aid to amuse the crowd; and,
+occasionally, two or three fellows contrived to enact scenes from plays,
+and with their vulgar wit to merit the applause of their audience.
+Portable clock-work exhibitions swarmed, and mummeries or mysteries,
+representing the Life and Death of our Saviour and the blessed Virgin,
+appeared to be ritual accompaniments of the day, and represented each
+stage of the holy lives. The bearers of the latter machinery enlivened
+their exhibitions with a grinding organ, which they accompanied with
+appropriate ditties or carols. Crosses and other religious emblems were
+hung about the theatrical boxes or shows, which, with their
+representations, could only be compared with the nursery toys of Noah's
+ark, with which most of us have been amused. Accordingly, here were
+models of Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Mount Calvary, in the characteristic
+accuracy of biblical topography, and from the zeal of the spectators,
+the ingenuity of the inventors was unsparingly rewarded.
+
+I turned from these sights to the natural beauties of the park, which,
+aided by the happy inequalities of the ground, (which French artists
+imagined would be such an obstacle to its perfection,) possesses far
+more variety than is usually found in the pleasure-grounds of France.
+The original plantation of the park was the work of La Notre, who, it
+will be recollected, planned the garden of Versailles; but St. Cloud is
+considered his _chef-d'oeuvre_, and proves, that with the few natural
+advantages which it afforded him, he was enabled to effect more here
+than millions have accomplished at Versailles--where art is fairly
+overmatched with her own wasteful and ridiculous excess. This alone
+ought to make the French blush for that monument of royal folly.
+
+The situation of the chateau is its greatest attraction. It possesses a
+fine view of Paris, which is indeed a splendid item in the prospect of
+the princely occupants; and the sight of the capital may, perhaps, be a
+pleasant relief to the natural seclusion of the palace.
+
+One of the most remarkable objects in the park is a kind of square
+tower, surmounted with an exact copy, in _terra cotta_, of the lantern
+of Diogenes at Athens, ornamented with six Corinthian columns. It is
+used as an observatory, and, like its original, is associated with the
+name of the illustrious Grecian--it being also called the lantern of
+Diogenes. Its view of the subjacent plain overlooks the city of Paris by
+a distance of twenty miles.
+
+The fountains and _jets d'eau_ are entitled to special notice, although
+in extent and variety they are far exceeded by those of Versailles. The
+arrangement of the principal cascade is well contrived, and I had the
+good fortune to be present at the moment the water commenced flowing,
+which continued but a short time. This struck me as a singular piece of
+mimicry, and compared with those truly-sublime spectacles--the cascades
+of Nature--the boasted works of St. Cloud seemed mere playthings, like
+the little falls which children contrive in running brooks; or at best
+resembling hydraulic exhibitions on an extensive scale. The playing
+commenced by a jet bursting from a point almost secluded by trees, which
+appeared on a level with the first story of the palace; the stream then
+fell into stone basins, and by turns threw itself aloft, or gushed from
+the mouths of numberless marine animals, and descended by glassy falls
+into a basin, whence it found its way into several vase-shaped forms,
+and again descended by magnificent cascades, discharging themselves into
+a large, circular tank or basin, with two strong jets throwing their
+limpid streams many feet high. In the sculptured forms there is some
+display of classic design; and the effect of many mouths and forms
+gushing forth almost instantaneously was altogether that of magic art,
+not unaided by the lines of trees on two sides being clipped or cut into
+semi-arched forms. The most powerful of the fountains is, however, a
+grand jet, characteristically named the _Geant_, or giant, for the
+incredible force with which it springs from its basin, and rises 125
+feet high, being more than the elevation of Napoleon's triumphal column,
+in the Place Vendome, at Paris. An uninterrupted view of these
+exhibitions may be enjoyed from the river, which runs parallel with the
+road adjoining the park. Crowds flocked from all directions to witness
+the first gush of the fountains; but their attention soon became
+directed to a royal party attended by footmen, from the palace, who came
+to witness the sights of the fair, and appeared especially amused with a
+family of vaulters and stilt-walkers. They were received with a slight
+buzz of curiosity, but without that enthusiasm with which the English
+are accustomed to recognise, and, not unfrequently, to annoy royalty;
+for here
+
+  No man cried, God save them.
+
+I now began to make a more minute survey of the preparations for
+amusement, for the fete was not yet in its equinoctial splendour. The
+most prominent of these were plots of the raised bank on one side, and
+at the termination of the principal walk, which were enclosed with
+hurdles or frames, a platform being elevated and decorated with
+festooned curtains, &c. for an orchestra, and the whole hung round with
+illumination lamps. Towards evening, but long before dark, these
+enclosures were blazing with variegated splendour; the bands commenced
+playing several lively French airs, and the area was occupied with
+groups of waltzing and quadrilling votaries. As the evening darkened,
+lamps began to glisten in every direction, and the well-lighted cafes
+resembled so many Chinese lanterns; and these, aided by the discordant
+sounds of scores of instruments, gave the whole scene an air of
+enchantment, or rather a slight resemblance to one of its exorcisms. The
+effect was, however, improved by distance. Accordingly, I stole through
+a solitary shrubbery walk, which wound round the hill, and at length led
+me to a forest-like spot, or straggling wood, which flanked the whole of
+the carnival. Viewed from hence, it was, indeed, a fantastical
+illustration of French gaiety, and it momentarily reminded me of some of
+Shakspeare's scenes of sylvan romance, with all their fays and fairy
+population.
+
+The English reader who has not witnessed one of the fetes of St. Cloud,
+may probably associate them with his own Vauxhall; but the resemblance
+is very slight. At one of these entertainments in France, there is much
+less attempted, but considerably more effected, than in England; and all
+this is accomplished by that happy knack which the French possess of
+making much of a little. Of what did this fete consist--a few hundred
+lamps--a few score of fidlers, and about as much decoration as an
+English showman would waste on the exterior of his exhibition, or
+assemble within a few square yards. There were no long illuminated
+vistas, or temples and saloons red hot with oil and gas--but a few
+slender materials, so scattered and intermixed with the natural beauties
+of the park, as to fascinate, and not fatigue the eye and ear. Even the
+pell-mell frolics of St. Cloud were better idealities of enjoyment, than
+the splendid promenade of Vauxhall, in the days of its olden celebrity;
+for diamonds and feathers are often mere masquerade finery in such
+scenes--so distant are the heads and hearts of their wearers.[6]
+
+    [6] We are not permitted to allude to the fete of St. Cloud as a
+    scene of _pastoral_ amusement, or of the primitive simplicity
+    which is associated with that epithet. The French are not a
+    pastoral people, although they are not less so than the English;
+    neither are the suburbs of a metropolis rural life. They are too
+    near the pride of human art for pastoral pleasures, and no
+    aristocracy is more infested with little tyrants than the
+    neighbourhood of great cities, the oppressors being too timid to
+    trust themselves far out of the verge of public haunts, in the
+    midst of which they would be equally suspicious.
+
+    Amusements are at all times among the best indications of
+    national character; a truth which the ancients seem to have
+    exaggerated into their maxim _in vino veritas_. Here the
+    national comparison is not "odious." Three Sunday fairs are held
+    within six miles of Paris, in a park, as was once the custom at
+    Greenwich: the latter, though a royal park, does not boast of
+    the residence of royalty, as does St Cloud. The objection to the
+    day of the French fetes is cleared by another argument. But what
+    would be the character of a week-day fair, or fete, in
+    Kensington Gardens? The intuitive answer will make the moral
+    observer regret that man should so often place the interdict on
+    his own happiness, and then peevishly repine at his uncheery
+    lot.
+
+Night, with her poetic glooms, only served to heighten the lustre of the
+fairy fete; and as I receded through the wood, the little shoal of light
+gleamed and twinkled through "branches overgrown," and the distant
+sounds began to fall into solitary silence--even saddening to
+meditation--so fast do the dying glories of festive mirth sink into
+melancholy--till at once, with the last gleam and echo, I found myself
+in a pleasant little glade on the brow of the hill. The day had been
+unusually hot--all was hushed stillness. But the darkening clouds were
+fast gathering into black masses:--
+
+  The rapid lightning flames along the sky.
+  What terrible event does this portend?
+
+The stifling heat of the atmosphere was, however, soon changed by slight
+gusts of wind; the leaves trembled; and a few heavy drops of rain fell
+as harbingers of the coming storm; the pattering ceased; an impressive
+pause succeeded--broken by the deepening roar of thunder.
+
+The threatening storm hastened my return to the focus of the carnival.
+The partial sprinkling had already caused many of the dancers to
+withdraw to the cafes, and to the most sheltered parts of the park. The
+lightning became more and more vivid; and, at length, the thousands who
+had lingered in these groups of gaiety, were fairly routed by pelting
+rain; and the park, with a few lamps flickering out, and decorative
+finery drenched with rain, presented a miserable contrast with the
+festivities of the previous hour. The crowd streamed through the
+park-gate into the village, where hundreds of competitors shouted
+"Paris, Paris;" and their swarms of diligences, cabriolets, and
+curtained carts, were soon freighted. One of these charioteers engaged
+to convey me to Paris for half a franc, in a large, covered cart, with
+oil-skin curtains to protect the passengers in front. To my surprise I
+found the vehicle pre-occupied by twelve or fourteen well-dressed
+persons--male and female, who appeared to forget their inconvenient
+situation in sallies of laughter, which sometimes bordered on boisterous
+mirth. The storm increased; lamps gleamed and flitted across the road;
+many of the horses plunged with their heavy loads, and swept along the
+line in resistless confusion; for nothing can be less characteristic of
+timidity than French driving.
+
+On reaching Paris, the streets resembled so many torrents, and in most
+places were not fordable, notwithstanding scores of persons, with the
+alacrity of mushrooms after rain, had placed themselves at the narrowest
+parts of the streams, with raised planks, or temporary bridges for
+crossing. Our load was _landed_ under the arcade of the Hotel de Ville;
+but the driver, in the genuine spirit of a London hackney-coachman, did
+not forget to turn the "ill-wind" to his own account, by importuning me
+for a double fare.
+
+I learned that the storm had been less tremendous in its consequences at
+St. Cloud and Paris than at Versailles, the lightning having consumed a
+farm-house and barns near that town. It is an event worthy of notice,
+from its being part of the phenomenon of what is termed a returning
+stroke of lightning, the circumstances of which are recorded in a recent
+number of Brande's philosophical journal.--_Abridged from "Cameleon
+Sketches," by the author of the "Promenade round Dorking."_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALFREDE AND MATYLDA.
+
+WRITTEN BY ROBERT HAIEWOODE, OF CHEPING-TORITON, IN 1520.
+
+
+  The bryghtt enamell of the mornyng's gleame
+  Begann to daunce onn bobblynge Avonn's streame,
+  As yothefull Alfrede and Matylda fayre
+  Stoode sorowynge bie, ennobledd bie despayre:
+  Att tymes theyr lypps the tynts of Autumpe wore,
+  Att tymes a palerr hewe thann wynterr bore;
+  And faste the rayne of love bedew'dd theyr eyne,
+  As thos, in earnefull[7] strayns, theyr tenes[8] theie dyd
+    bewreene.[9]
+
+  ALFREDE.
+
+  Ah! iff we parte, ne moe to meete agayne,
+  Wythyn thie wydow'dd berte wyll everr brenn
+  The frostie vygyls of a cloysterr'd nun,
+  Insteade of faerie[10] love's effulgentt sonne!
+  Ne moe with myne wyll carolynge[11] beatt hie,
+  Gyve throbb for throbb, and sygh returne forr sygh,
+  Butt bee bie nyghtt congeall'dd bie lethall feares,
+  Bie daie consum'dd awaie inn unavaylynge teares!
+
+  MATYLDA.
+
+  Alas! howe soone is happlesse love ondonne,
+  Wytherr'd and deadde almostt beforre begunn:
+  Lych Marchh's openyng flowrs thatt sygh'dd forr Maie,
+  Which Apryll's teares inn angerr wash'dd awaie.
+  Onr tenes alych, alych our domes shall bee,
+  Where'err thou wander'stt I wyll followe thee;
+  And whann our sprytes throughe feere are purg'dd fromm claie,
+  Inn pees theie shalle repose upponn the mylkie waie.
+
+  ALFREDE.
+
+  The raynbowe hewes that payntt the laughyng mees,[12]
+  The gule-stayn'dd[13] folyage of the okenn trees,
+  The starrie spangells of the mornynge dewe,
+  The laverock's matyn songes and skies of blewe,
+  Maie weel the thotes of gentill shepherdds joie.
+  Whose hertes ne hopelesse loves or cares alloie;
+  Butt whatt cann seeme to teneful loverrs fayre.
+  Whose hopes butt darkenns moe the mydnyghtt of despayre?
+
+  MATYLDA.
+
+  To thotelesse swayns itt maie bee blyss indeede,
+  To marke the yeare through alle hys ages speede,
+  Butt everie seasone seemes alych to mee,
+  Eternall wynterr whann awaie from thee!
+  Fromm howrr to howrr I oftt beweepe ourr love,
+  Wyth all the happie sorowe of the dove,
+  And fancie, as itts sylentt waterrs flowe,
+  Mie bosome's swetestt joies mustt thos bee mientt[14] wyth woe.
+
+  Palerr thann cloudes thatt stayne the azure nyghtt,
+  Or starrs thatt shoote beneathe theyr feeble lyghtt,
+  And eke as crymson as the mornyng's rode,[15]
+  The lornlie[16] payre inn dumbe dystracyon stoode
+  Whann onn the banke Matylda sonke and dyed,
+  And Alfrede plong'dd hys daggerr inn hys syde:
+  Hys purpell soule came roshynge fromm the wounde,
+  And o'err the lyfeless claie deathe's ensygns stream'dd arownde.
+
+  _Literary Gazette._
+
+    [7] Tender.
+    [8] Woes.
+    [9] Express.
+    [10] Fiery.
+    [11] Dancing.
+    [12] Meadows.
+    [13] Blood-coloured.
+    [14] Mingled.
+    [15] Complexion.
+    [16] Forlorn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+
+FOX HUNTING.
+
+
+"Well, do you know, that after all you have said, Mr. North, I cannot
+understand the passion and the pleasure of fox-hunting. It seems to me
+both cruel and dangerous."
+
+Cruelty! Is there cruelty in laying the rein on their necks, and
+delivering them up to the transport of their high condition--for every
+throbbing vein is visible--at the first full burst of that maddening
+cry, and letting loose to their delight the living thunderbolts? Danger!
+What danger but breaking their own legs, necks, or backs, and those of
+their riders? And what right have you to complain of that, lying all
+your length, a huge hulking fellow snoring and snorting half asleep on a
+sofa, sufficient to sicken a whole street? What though it be but a
+smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears, and
+passionately fond of poultry, that they pursue? After the first tallyho,
+Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon--once perhaps in the
+whole run, skirting a wood, or crossing a common. It is an idea that is
+pursued, on a whirlwind of horses to a storm of canine music,--worthy,
+both, of the largest lion that ever leaped among a band of Moors,
+sleeping at midnight by an extinguished fire on the African sands. There
+is, we verily believe it, nothing foxy in the fancy of one man in all
+that glorious field of three hundred. Once off and away--while wood and
+welkin rings--and nothing is felt--nothing is imaged in that hurricane
+flight, but scorn of all obstructions, dikes, ditches, drains, brooks,
+palings, canals, rivers, and all the impediments reared in the way of so
+many rejoicing madmen, by nature, art, and science, in an enclosed,
+cultivated, civilized, and Christian country. There they go--prince and
+peer, baronet and squire,--the nobility and gentry of England, the
+flower of the men of the earth, each on such steed as Pollux never
+reined, nor Philip's warlike son--for could we imagine Bucephalus here,
+ridden by his own tamer, Alexander would be thrown out during the very
+first burst, and glad to find his way dismounted to a village alehouse
+for a pail of meal and water. Hedges, trees, groves, gardens, orchards,
+woods, farm-houses, huts, halls, mansions, palaces, spires, steeples,
+towers, and temples, all go wavering by, each demigod seeing, or seeing
+them not, as his winged steed skims or labours along, to the swelling or
+sinking music, now loud as a near regimental band, now faint as an echo.
+Far and wide over the country are dispersed the scarlet runners--and a
+hundred villages pour forth their admiring swarms, as the main current
+of the chase roars by, or disparted runlets float wearied and all
+astray, lost at last in the perplexing woods. Crash goes the top-timber
+of the five-barred gate--away over the ears flies the ex-rough-rider in
+a surprising somerset--after a succession of stumbles, down is the
+gallant Grey on knees and nose, making sad work among the
+fallow--Friendship is a fine thing, and the story of Damon and Pythias
+most affecting indeed--but Pylades eyes Orestes on his back sorely
+drowned in sludge, and tenderly leaping over him as he lies, claps his
+hand to his ear, and with a "hark forward, tan-tivy!" leaves him to
+remount, lame and at leisure--and ere the fallen has risen and shook
+himself, is round the corner of the white village-church, down the dell,
+over the brook, and close on the heels of the straining pack, all a-yell
+up the hill crowned by the Squire's Folly. "Every man for himself, and
+God for us all," is the devout and ruling apothegm of the day. If death
+befall, what wonder? since man and horse are mortal; but death loves
+better a wide soft bed with quiet curtains and darkened windows in a
+still room, the clergyman in the one corner with his prayers, and the
+physician in another with his pills, making assurance doubly sure, and
+preventing all possibility of the dying Christian's escape. Let oak
+branches smite the too slowly stooping skull, or rider's back not timely
+levelled with his steed's; let faithless bank give way, and bury in the
+brook; let hidden drain yield to fore feet and work a sudden wreck; let
+old coal-pit, with briery mouth, betray; and roaring river bear down man
+and horse, to banks unscaleable by the very Welsh goat; let duke's or
+earl's son go sheer over a quarry fifty feet deep, and as many high;
+yet, "without stop or stay, down the rocky way," the hunter train flows
+on; for the music grows fiercer and more savage,--lo! all that remains
+together of the pack, in far more dreadful madness than hydrophobia,
+leaping out of their skins, under insanity from the scent, now strong as
+stink, for Vulpes can hardly now make a crawl of it; and ere he, they,
+whipper-in, or any one of the other three demoniacs, have time to look
+in one another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand pieces,
+gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, and
+warm, and cozey, as he was an hour and twenty-five minutes ago exactly,
+in his furze bush in the cover,--he is now piece-meal, in about thirty
+distinct stomachs; and is he not, pray, well off for sepulture?--
+_Blackwood's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BLIND BEAUTY OF THE MOOR.
+
+(_A Fragment._)
+
+
+To thee--O palest phantom--clothed in white raiment, not like unto a
+ghost risen with its grave-clothes to appal, but like a seraph
+descending from the skies to bless--unto thee will we dare to speak, as
+through the mist of years back comes thy yet unfaded beauty, charming
+us, while we cannot choose but weep, with the self-same vision that
+often glided before us long, long ago in the wilderness, and at the
+sound of our voice would pause for a little while, and then pass by,
+like a white bird from the sea, floating unscared close by the
+shepherd's head, or alighting to trim its plumes on a knoll far up an
+inland glen! Death seems not to have touched that face, pale though it
+be--life-like is the waving of those gentle hands--and the soft, sweet,
+low music which now we hear, steals not sure from lips hushed by the
+burial-mould! Restored by the power of love, she stands before us as she
+stood of yore. Not one of all the hairs of her golden head was singed by
+the lightning that shivered the tree under which the child had run for
+shelter from the flashing sky. But in a moment the blue light in her
+dewy eyes was dimmed--and never again did she behold either flower or
+star. Yet all the images of all the things she had loved remained in her
+memory, clear and distinct as the things themselves before
+unextinguished eyes--and ere three summers had flown over head, which,
+like the blossom of some fair perennial flower, in heaven's gracious dew
+and sunshine each season lifted its loveliness higher and higher in the
+light--she could trip her singing way through the wide wilderness, all
+by her joyful self, led, as all believed, nor erred they in so
+believing, by an angel's hand! When the primroses peeped through the
+reviving grass upon the vernal braes, they seemed to give themselves
+into her hand; and 'twas thought they hung longer unfaded round her neck
+or forehead than if they had been left to drink the dew on their native
+bed. The linnets ceased not their lays, though her garment touched the
+broomstalk on which they sung. The cushat, as she thrid her way through
+the wood, continued to croon in her darksome tree--and the lark,
+although just dropped from the cloud, was cheered by her presence into a
+new passion of song, and mounted over her head, as if it were his first
+matin hymn. All the creatures of earth and air manifestly loved the
+Wanderer of the Wilderness--and as for human beings, she was named, in
+their pity, their wonder, and their delight, the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!
+
+She was an only child, and her mother had died in giving her birth. And
+now her father, stricken by one of the many cruel diseases that shorten
+the lives of shepherds on the hills, was bed-ridden--and he was poor. Of
+all words ever syllabled by human lips, the most blessed is--Charity. No
+manna now in the wilderness is rained from heaven--for the mouths of the
+hungry need it not in this our Christian land. A few goats feeding among
+the rocks gave them milk, and there was bread for them in each
+neighbour's house--neighbour though miles afar--as the sacred duty came
+round--and the unrepining poor sent the grateful child away with their
+prayers.
+
+One evening, returning to the hut with her usual song, she danced up to
+her father's face on his rushy bed, and it was cold in death. If she
+shrieked--if she fainted--there was but one ear that heard, one eye that
+saw her in her swoon. Not now floating light like a small moving cloud
+unwilling to leave the flowery braes, though it be to melt in heaven,
+but driven along like a shroud of flying mist before the tempest, she
+came upon us in the midst of that dreary moss; and at the sound of our
+quaking voice, fell down with clasped hands at our feet--"My father's
+dead!" Had the hut put already on the strange, dim, desolate look of
+mortality? For people came walking fast down the braes, and in a little
+while there was a group round us, and we bore her back again to her
+dwelling in our arms. As for us, we had been on our way to bid the fair
+creature and her father farewell. How could she have lived--an utter
+orphan--in such a world! The holy power that is in Innocence would for
+ever have remained with her; but Innocence longs to be away, when her
+sister Joy has departed; and 'tis sorrowful to see the one on earth,
+when the other has gone to heaven! This sorrow none of us had long to
+see; for though a flower, when withered at the root, and doomed ere eve
+to perish, may yet look to the careless eye the same as when it
+blossomed in its pride,--its leaves, still green, are not as once they
+were,--its bloom, though fair, is faded--and at set of sun, the dews
+shall find it in decay, and fall unfelt on all its petals. Ere Sabbath
+came, the orphan child was dead. Methinks we see now her little funeral.
+Her birth had been the humblest of the humble; and though all in life
+had loved her, it was thought best that none should be asked to the
+funeral of her and her father, but two or three friends; the old
+clergyman himself walked at the head of the father's coffin--we at the
+head of the daughter's--for this was granted unto our exceeding
+love;--and thus passed away for ever the Blind Beauty of the
+Moor!--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+  A snapper up of unconsidered trifles,
+  SHAKSPEARE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EPICURISM.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+At a public dinner, Captain R. commencing a conversation with a
+gentleman next to him, was astonished at not being able to elicit one
+word in answer. At length his silent neighbour turned to him, and said,
+with a look and tone suitable to the _importance_ of the communication,
+"Sir, whenever you are at a venison feast, let me advise you _never to
+speak during dinner_. In endeavouring to reply to you, I have actually
+at this moment swallowed _entire_ a fine piece of fat, _without tasting
+it_!"
+
+J.G.R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An Englishman, named _Drinkwater_, was nearly drowned the other day off
+Boulogne; on hearing which, a wag observed that he had "almost taken a
+drop too much."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FLY WATER.
+
+
+Prussic Acid has been obtained from the leaves of _green tea_, in so
+concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog almost instantaneously.
+A strong infusion of Souchong tea, sweetened with sugar, is as effectual
+in poisoning flies as the solution of arsenic, generally sold for that
+purpose.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There may now be seen, written on a board on a new house in the
+Blackfriars-road, the following words:--"Hird robeish may be had heare."
+
+BILLY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NO JOKE OR RIDDLE.
+
+
+  A house with wings extended wide,
+    A racket-ground to play in,
+  Two porters' lodges there beside,
+    And porters always staying
+  To guard the inmates there within,
+    And keep them from the town;
+  From duns as free as saints from sin,
+    And sheriffs of renown.
+  To get white wash'd it is their plan,
+    'Tis such a cleansing thing--
+  Then out they come with blacker hands
+    Than when they first went in.
+
+P.H.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park, written in
+chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to have been written
+by one who meditated suicide:--
+
+  Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,
+  Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,
+  Oh! damn'd despair to shun the living light,
+  And plunge thy guilty soul to endless night.
+
+Written also in the same hand:--Charlotte Rumpling, you did not use me
+well, but I forgive you--God bless you.
+
+EDWIN W----.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+WANTS A WIFE.
+
+
+She must bee middel eaged and good tempered widdow, or a Maid, and
+pursest of propertey, and I wood far reather have a Wife that is ever so
+plain then a fine Lady that think herself hansom; the Advertiser is not
+rich nor young, old nor poor, and in a very few years he will have a
+good incumb. Can be hiley reckamended for onestey, sobrieaty, and good
+temperd, and has no in combranc, is very actif, but not a treadesman,
+have been as Butler and Bailiff for meney years in most respectable
+families, and shood I not be so luckey as to get me a wife, wood be most
+willing to take a sitteyeashan once moor, wood prefer living in the
+countrey, under stands Brewing feamosley, is well adapted for a inn or
+publick hous. Please to derect W.W., 268, Berwick-street, Oxford-roade,
+or aney Ladey may call and have a interview with the widdow that keeps
+the hous, and say wher and when we can meet each other. All letters must
+be pd, no Ofice-keeper to applygh. My fameley ar verey well off and
+welthey, far above the midling order.
+
+This is a good joke upon _Matrimonial Advertising_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Jack Bannister visited the Haymarket theatre on Wednesday night, August
+20, and made in the free-list book the following entry:--"Fifty years
+ago, in the year 1778, I made my first appearance at this theatre. Half
+a century is not bad. Hurra!! John Bannister."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT.
+
+
+In reading over an agreement, for letting a house, the other day, the
+initials of the party letting it were A.B., of the party taking C.D.,
+and of the witness to the signatures E.F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE.
+
+
+Obstinacy and perseverance, though often confounded, are two very
+different things; a man may be very obstinate, and yet not persevere in
+his opinion ten minutes. Obstinacy is resistance to truth; perseverance
+is a continuance in truth or error.
+
+T.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+IDOLATRY.
+
+
+The origin of idolatry is by many attributed to the age of Eber, though
+most of the fathers place it no higher than that of Serug; but it
+appears to me certain, that image worship existed in the time of Jacob,
+from the account of Rachel taking images along with her on leaving her
+father's house, which is given in the book of Genesis.
+
+T.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ORIGIN OF THE WORD GALLIMATHIAS.
+
+
+This word, which signifies nonsense, _alias_ talk without meaning, is
+supposed to have first arisen at the time when all pleadings at the bar
+were in Latin. There was a cause, it seems, about a cock, belonging to
+the plaintiff Matthias; the counsel, in the heat of the harangue, by
+often repeating the words _gallus_ and _Matthias_, happened to blunder,
+and, instead of saying _gallus Matthiae_, said _galli Matthias_, which
+at length became a general name for all confused, embroiled language and
+discourse.
+
+P.T.W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SALLIE TO JOHN.
+
+
+  Changed ere long shall my fortunes be,
+  Yet my faith is firm--I will go with thee.
+  I yield not weakly to fancy's trance,
+  Or the fitful flame of young romance;
+  I dwell with a calm, unshrinking mind
+  On the scenes that I seek and leave behind;
+  My future fate spread forth I see,
+  And my choice is fix'd--I will go with thee.
+
+  I have thought on this hour with many a tear,
+  In the timid weakness of woman's fear;
+  It comes, and I rise, the test above,
+  In the dauntless strength of woman's love.
+  Gaze not upon me with looks so sad--
+  My step is firm, and my heart is glad;
+  This last, last sigh for my home shall be--
+  Past is the trial--I go with thee.
+
+_Dublin_.
+
+JAN RHI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Diogenes was not in the wrong, who, when the great Alexander, finding
+him in the charnel-house, asked him what he was seeking for, answered,
+"I am seeking for your father's bones, and those of my slave; but I
+cannot find them, because there is no difference between them."
+
+G.K.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GETTING A JOURNEY.
+
+_By Dr. Kitchiner_.
+
+
+I GOT on horseback within ten minutes after I received your letter. When
+I GOT to Canterbury, I GOT a chaise for town. But I GOT wet through
+before I GOT to Canterbury, and I have GOT such a cold as I shall not be
+able to GET rid of in a hurry. I GOT to the Treasury about noon, but
+first of all I GOT shaved and drest. I soon GOT into the secret of
+GETTING a memorial before the board, but I could not GET an answer then;
+however, I GOT intelligence from the messenger that I should most likely
+GET one next morning. As soon as I GOT back to my inn, I GOT my supper
+and GOT to bed. It was not long before I GOT to sleep. When I GOT up in
+the morning, I GOT my breakfast, and then GOT myself drest, that I might
+GET out in time, to GET an answer to my memorial. As soon as I GOT it, I
+GOT into the chaise, and GOT home by three o'clock.
+
+
+
+
+
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