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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/11486-0.txt b/11486-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd14843 --- /dev/null +++ b/11486-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1593 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11486 *** + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 11486-h.htm or 11486-h.zip: + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/4/8/11486/11486-h/11486-h.htm) + or + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/4/8/11486/11486-h.zip) + + + + +THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + +VOL. 14. NO. 386.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1829. [PRICE 2d. + + + + * * * * * + + + + +ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO. + + +[Illustration: St. Peter's Church, Pimlico.] + + +The engraving represents the new church on the eastern side of Wilton +Place, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square. It is a chaste +building of the Ionic order, from the designs of Mr. Henry Hakewill, of +whose architectural attainments we have frequently had occasion to speak. + +The plan of St. Peter's is a parallelogram, placed east and west, without +aisles; the east being increased by the addition of a small chancel +flanked by vestries. The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an +hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns. The floor is +approached by a bold flight of steps, and in the wall, at the back are +three entrances to the church. The columns are surmounted by their +entablature and a pediment, behind which a low attic rises from the roof +of the church to the height of the apex of the pediment; it is crowned +with a cornice and blocking-course, and surmounted by an acroterium of +nearly its own height, but in breadth only equalling two-thirds of it; +this is finished with a sub-cornice and blocking-course, and is surmounted +by the tower, which rises from the middle. The addition of a steeple to a +Grecian church forms a stumbling-block to our modern architects, forcing +them to have recourse to many shifts to convert a Grecian temple into an +English church, a forcible argument for the rejection of the classical +styles altogether in this species of buildings.[1] Mr. Hakewill has, +however, in part surmounted this difficulty, and the effect produced is +not bad, as great value is given to the front elevation by it. + +The tower consists of a square in plan, in elevation consisting of a +pedestal, the dado pieced for the dials of a clock, sustaining a cubical +story, with an arched window in each face, at the sides of which are Ionic +columns, the angles being finished in antis. This story is crowned with an +entablature, above which rises a small enriched circular temple; the whole +is crowned with a spherical dome, surmounted by a cross. + +The body of the church is built of brick, with stone dressings. The +interior is chastely fitted up. The altarpiece is Mr. Hilton's splendid +picture of "Christ crowned with thorns," exhibited at Somerset House, in +1825, and presented to this church by the British Institution in 1827. + +The ground for the site was given by Lord Grosvenor, and the sum of +5,555_l_. 11_s_. 1_d_. was granted by the Royal Commissioners towards the +building. It will accommodate 1,657 persons. The first stone was laid +September 4, 1824, and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, +(Dr. Howley,) July 20, 1827. + + + [1] See Gentlemen's Magazine, April, 1829. + + * * * * * + + +PSALMODY. + +(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) + + +I have lately made a journey to the metropolis for the purpose of +inquiring by my own personal attention and otherwise, whether any +improvement had been made in the Psalmody of any of the numerous new +churches and chapels in and near London. I have visited by far the greater +part of them. In many of them I find no improvement, but there are two or +three which merit distinction. + +In the majority of the churches, I observe the singing of psalms or hymns +(for I have not yet, after three months, heard an anthem) is confined +generally to about three verses, and those more ordinarily of the common +metre; the singing is very little of it congregational, but is chiefly +performed by the schools of charity children, and there does not appear to +have been any instruction for their singing in any other than the _treble_. +The organists in general are very good performers, but, however well that +office is filled, the voices of the congregation are wanting, by which a +great improvement would be given to the harmony. In two of the +congregations I happen to have a more numerous acquaintance, and know that +numbers of the congregation have excellent judgment and good voices, and +many are good performers on the piano-forte and harp. In conversing with +several of them on this interesting and (to me) sublime subject, I have +heard as an objection to their joining in the psalmody with any extensive +power, that there are no persons, exclusively of the organist, to lead the +voices, whether treble, counter, tenor, or bass, and yet what a delightful +opportunity do these new churches afford; in general the sound is well and +equally distributed. + +The sublimity of this part of divine worship has been well expressed by +many of our poets, translators, and versifiers of the Psalms--one of them +speaks the feelings of a sincere congregation when he says, + + Arise my heart! my soul arise! + Jehovah praise! sing till the skies + Re-echo his ascending fame! + Rejoice and celebrate his name! + +this does not admit of a deadly silence in the churches; and another +excellent appeal to the true believer is made in the following beautiful +and sublime act of devotion:-- + + Salvation! let the echo fly! + The spacious earth around! + While all the armies of the sky! + Conspire to raise the sound. + +It is the conviction not only of myself but of others who are in the same +order of the musical profession, that the means of drawing forth the +universal voices of congregations is by a number, not less than four, nor +more than twelve, being _appointed_ by the authority of the clergyman or +minister, to sing with correct harmony, and with rather a louder tone than +they might do if only an ordinary singer in the worship of the day as a +congregational attendant. Those four (or more) voices would have the +effect, in a few months, of producing a great improvement in the singing +by the congregation at large; but such an _appointment_ must not be +alienated from its main purpose. These voices, scientifically as they will +be exercised, must not sing in solos, duos, trios, or quartettes; they +must be faithful to their institution, and must _lead the congregation;_ +not merely exhibit themselves, like the professional singers in the Roman +Catholic chapels, but direct the voices of all that may feel the animating +force of the 89th Psalm-- + + Lord God of hosts thy wond'rous ways, + _Are sung by saints above!_ + And saints on earth their honours raise + To thy unchanging love! + +The only instance I have met with in any of the London churches or chapels +of the Church of England (there may be others) is at the St. James's +Chapel, near Mornington Place, on the road to Hampstead. I attended at +that place of worship lately, and was delighted with the whole of the +services, wishing only that greater numbers of the congregation had joined +in the singing, which was conducted precisely on the principle of four +being appointed to lead the congregation: the four voices were excellent, +and naturally and easily led many to join, and I cannot doubt, but that +this superior arrangement, whoever was the author, will tend to make the +singing in that chapel an example to many others. + +I lament that I am obliged to leave town, and may not be here again for +several months, but when I do, I shall humbly offer my services to the +clergyman of the chapel, for the improvement of so judicious a plan, and +extending it to other chapels of the same parish. + +I should offer some apology for not having noticed the discourses, though +my remarks originate and have been chiefly confined to the psalmody. I +will not, however, let this opportunity pass of saying the sermons, both +morning and evening, were excellent, the attention of every part of the +congregation was great; throughout all the services there was, while the +minister was speaking, and the people not required to join, a most +interesting but attentive silence, and in the evening I retired with a +sympathetic feeling which I cannot describe. + +In my next (should this receive your attention) I shall send you a few +remarks on the psalmody of the new churches of Marylebone and Trinity. + +CHRISTIANUS, +_A Cathedral Chorister_. + + * * * * * + + +THE LAY FROM HOME. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Its music beareth o'er my widow'd heart + A tale of vanish'd innocence and love, + And bliss that screw'd around the ark of life + Sweet flow'rs of summer hue. It hath the tone, + The very tone which wrapt my spirit up, + In silent dreams mid visions. Oft, at eve, + I heard it wandering thro' the silver air, + As if some sylph had witch'd the stringed shell + Of woods and lonely fountains:--and the birds + That sang in the blue glow of heaven, the trees + That whisper'd like a timid maiden's lips, + The bees that kiss'd their bride-flow'rs into sleep, + All breath'd the spell of that enchanting lay! + + Whence came it now? perchance from yonder dell, + O'er which the skies, in sunny beauty fix'd, + Their sapphire mantle hang. Its Eden home + Is in some beauteous place where faces beam + In loveliness and joy! To hail the morn, + The infant pours it from his rosy mouth, + Ere, o'er the fields, with blissful heart he roams, + To watch the syren lark, or mark the sun + Surround with golden light the rainbow clouds. + + That music-lay awak'd within my heart + Thoughts, that had wept themselves to death, like clouds + In summer hours.--It brought before mine eyes + The haunts so often worshipped, the forms + Revealing heav'n and holiness in vain. + Alas, sweet lay, the freshness of the heart + Is wasted, like an unfed stream, away; + And dreams of Home, by Fancy treasurd up, + Remain as wrecks around the tomb of Being! + +REGINALD AUGUSTINE. +_Deal_. + + * * * * * + + +TYRE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +"And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy +harps shall be no more heard"--_Ezekiel_, chap. xxvi. verse 13. + +"It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." +_Ezekiel_, chap xxvi. verse 5. + + + Thy harps are silent, mighty one! + Thy melody no more: + For ocean's mourning dirge alone + Breaks on thy rocky shore. + + The fisher there his net has spread, + Thy prophecy to show; + Nor dreams he that thy doom was read, + Two thousand years ago. + + On Chebar's banks the captive seer, + Thy future ruin told: + Visions of woe, how true and clear, + With power divine unroll'd! + + The tall ship there no more is riding, + Of Lebanon's proud cedars made; + But the wild waves ne'er cease their chiding, + Where Tyre's past pomp and splendour fade. + + The traveller to thy desert shore + No cherish'd record found of thee; + But fragments rude are scatter'd o'er + Thy dreary land's blank misery. + + The sounds of busy life were hush'd, + But still the moaning blast, + That o'er the rocky barrier rush'd, + Sang wildly as it pass'd:-- + Spirit of Time, thine echoes woke, + And thus the mighty Genius spoke:-- + + "Seek no more, seek no more, + Splendour past and glories o'er, + Here bleak ruin ever reigns; + See him scatter o'er the plains, + Arches broken, temples strew'd, + O'er the dreary solitude! + Long ago the words were spoken, + Words which never can be broken. + Where are now thy riches spread? + Where wilt thou thy commerce spread? + Thou shalt be sought but found no more! + Wanderers to thy desert shore + Former splendours bring thee never, + Tyre is fallen, fallen forever!" + + +_Kirton Lindsey_. +ANNIE R. + + * * * * * + + +LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.[2] + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Let science weep and droop her head, + Her favourite champion, Davy's dead! + The brightest star among the bright, + Alas! has ceased to shed its _light_. + Yet say not darkness reigns alone, + While "Safety Lamps" are burning on, + And shedding _life_ that never dies. + Around the tomb where Davy lies + + +J.F.C. + + + [2] See vol. xiii. MIRROR. + + * * * * * + + +HAMPTON COURT: + +BIRTH OF EDWARD THE SIXTH, AND DEATH OF QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Every hint, every ray of light, which tends, in the most distant manner, +to illustrate an obscure passage in the history of our country, cannot we +presume, while it affords great pleasure and satisfaction to the student +attentively employed in such researches, be deemed either insignificant or +uninteresting by the general reader. + +The birth of Edward the Sixth must always be regarded as a bright star in +the horizon of the Reformation, and one, which tended greatly to blast the +prospects of those who were inimical to that glorious change in our +religious constitution. + +The marriage of Henry the Eighth, with the Lady Jane Seymour,[3] +immediately after the death of his former Queen, Anne Boleyn, is so well +known as to render it superfluous, if not presuming in us to enlarge upon +it in this place: suffice it to say, that the nuptials were celebrated on +the day following the execution of Anne, the twentieth of May, 1536, the +King "not thinking it fit to mourn long, or much, for one the law had +declared criminall."[4] Old Fuller says, "it is currantly traditioned, +that at her [Jane's] first coming to court, Queen _Anne Bolen_ espying a +jewell pendant about her neck, snatched thereat, (desirous to see, the +other unwilling to show it,) and casually hurt her _hand_ with her own +violence; but it grieved her _heart_ more, when she perceived it the +King's picture by himself bestowed upon her, who from this day forward +dated her own _declining_ and the other's _ascending_ in her husband's +affection."[5] About seventeen months after her marriage at the Palace of +Hampton Court, Queen Jane gave birth to a son, Edward the Sixth. + +The precise period of the birth of this prince has been variously stated +by historians. Sir John Hayward,[6] who bestowed considerable labour upon +writing his life, places it on the seventeenth of October, 1537; while +Sanders,[7] on the other hand, fixes it on the tenth. Herbert, Godwin,[8] +and Stow, whom, all[9] his more modern biographers have followed, agree +that it happened on the twelfth of the same month, and their testimony is +fully corroborated by the following official letter, addressed to Cromwell, +Lord Privy Seal, informing him of the birth of a prince:-- + +_By the Quene_. + +"Right trustie and right welbeloved, wee grete you well; and, forasmuche +as by the inestimable goodnes and grace of Almighty God wee be delivered +and brought in childbed of a Prince, conceived in most lawfull matrimonie +between my Lord the King's Majestie and us; doubtinge not but, for the +love and affection which ye beare unto us, and to the commonwealth of this +realme, the knowledge thereof should be joyous and glad tydeings unto you, +we have thought good to certifie you of the same, to th' intent you might +not onely render unto God condigne thanks and praise for soe greate a +benefit but alsoe continuallie praie for the longe continuance and +preservacion of the same here in this life, to the honour of God, joy and +pleasure of my Lord the Kinge and us, and the universall weale, quiett, +and tranquillitie of this hole realm." + +"Given under our Signet, att my Lord's Mannor of Hampton Courte, the xii +daie of October."[10] + +Edward was christened with great state, on the Monday following, in the +chapel at Hampton Court, Archbishop Cranmer, and the Duke of Norfolk being +the godfathers, and his sister, the Princess Mary, godmother.[11] "At his +birth," says Hall, "was great fires made through the whole realme, and +great joye made with thankesgeuyng to Almightie God which had sent so +noble a prince to succeed to the crowne of this realme."[12] + +The joy, however, which the birth of a son and heir to the throne, excited +in the mind of Henry was soon dispelled by the death of his queen. It was +deemed necessary, both for the preservation of her life, and that of her +offspring, to bring the latter into the world by means of the Caesarian +operation, a mode which in the greater number of cases proves fatal to the +mother. It has been maliciously, and without the least appearance of truth, +asserted by Sanders,[13] one of the most bitter writers of the opposite +party, that the question was put to the King by the physicians, whether +the life of the Queen or the child should be saved, for it was judged +impossible to preserve both? "The child's," he replied, "for I shall be +able to find wives enough." Whether, however, her death originated from +that terrible cause, we cannot, at this distant period, pretend to affirm, +but from the report to the Privy Council of the birth of Edward the Sixth, +still extant, it would appear not, as it informs us she was "happily" +delivered, and died afterwards of a distemper incidental to women in that +condition. + +The death of Jane Seymour, like the birth of her son, is involved in +considerable obscurity. Most of the chroniclers who appear to have +followed Herbert[14] in this particular, fix it on the fourteenth of +October, two days after the birth of Edward; Hayward, on the contrary, +states that "shee dyed of the incision on the fourth day following," while +Edward the Sixth, in his journal, written by himself, informs us, but +without stating any precise period, that it happened "within a few dayes +after the birth of her soone."[15] We shall, however, see from the +following letter, that this event did not take place on either of the +abovementioned days, nor until "duodecimo post die," as George Lilly truly +informs us, the day also mentioned in the journal of Cecil.[16] This +original document respecting the health of the Queen, which is still +extant, is signed by Thomas Rutland, and five other medical men, is dated +on a Wednesday, which if it were only the following Wednesday, and we +shall presently prove that it was not, would, at least, make it five days +afterwards. + +"These shal be to advertise yor lordship of the Quenes estate. Yesterdaie +afternonne she had an naturall laxe, by reason whereof she beganne sumwhat +to lyghten, and (as it appeared,) to amende; and so contynued till towards +night. All this night she hath bene very syck, and doth rather appaire +than amend. Her Confessor hath bene with her grace this morning, and hath +done [all] that to his office apperteyneth, and even now is preparing to +minister to her grace the sacrament of unction. At Hampton Court, this +Wednesday mornyng, at viii of the clock."[17] + +As a further and additional proof of the date of her decease, we shall +refer our readers to a manuscript, preserved in the Herald's College, the +preamble of which runs as follows:--"An ordre taken and made for the +interrement of the most high, most excellent, and most Chrysten Pryncess, +Jane, Quene of England, and of France, Lady of Ireland, and mother of the +most noble and puyssant Prynce Edward; which deceasyd at Hampton Courte, +the xxixth yere of the reigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord Kyng Henry +the eight, her most dearest husband, the xxiiiith day of Octobre, beyng +Wedynsday, at nyght, xii of the clock; which departyng was the twelf day +after the byrthe of the said Prynce her Grace beying in childbed." By this +document it is fixed on the second Wednesday after the birth of the prince, +on the morning of which day, the abovementioned letter of her physicians +was undoubtedly written, as the ministering of the holy unction would show +that her death was fast approaching. + +The remains of Jane Seymour were conveyed with great solemnity to Windsor, +and interred in the choir of St. George's Chapel, on the 12th of November. +The following epitaph was inscribed to her memory:-- + + Phoenix Jana iacet, nato Phoenice dolendum, + Secala Phoenices nulla tulisse duas. + +Of which Fuller gives this quaint translation-- + + Soon as her Phoenix Bud was blown, + Root-Phoenix Jane did wither, + Sad, that no age a brace had shown + Of Phoenixes together. + +The funeral rites were solemnized according to the forms of the Catholic +faith. The original letter[18] from Richard Gresham to the Lord Privy Seal, +dated "Thurssdaye the viiith day of Novbr." is still preserved, proposing +that a solemn dirge, and masses should be said for the soul of the late +Queen Jane, in St. Paul's, in presence of the Mayor, Alderman, and +Commoners, which were accordingly performed, as appears from the following +passage in Holinshed:--"There was a solemne hearse made for her in Paule's +Church, and funerall exequies celebrated, as well as in all other churches +within the Citie of London."[19] + +S.I.B. + + + [3] Jane Seymour, or as is sometimes written de Sancto Mauro, eldest + daughter of Sir John Seymour, Knight, and Margaret, daughter of + Sir Thomas Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk was born at her + father's seat of Wolf Hall, in Wiltshire. From her great + accomplishments, and her father's connexions at court, (he being + Governor of Bristol Castle, and Groom of the Chamber to Henry + VIII.) she was appointed Maid of Honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, in + which situation, her beauty attracted the notice of Henry, who + soon found means to gratify his desires, by making her his wife. + The family of the Seymours had since the time of Henry II. been + keepers of the neighbouring Forest of Savernac, "in memory + whereof," says Camden, "their great hunting horn, tipped with + silver, is still preserved." + + [4] Herbert, p. 386. + + [5] Fuller's "Worthies." + + [6] "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1. + + [7] Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122. + + [8] "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem + edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris + excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario + percundum compertum esset."--"Annales," p. 64. + + [9] "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631. + + [10] Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers + of State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are + preserved in the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., + Nos. 283, and 2131; and one, from which the above is copied, + Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x. + + [11] Holinshed, v. ii. p. 944. edit. 1587.--"At the bishopping the + Duke of Suffolke was his godfather." + + [12] "Chronicle," fol. 232, edit. 1548. + + [13] This aspersion of Sanders, has been copied, greatly to the + detriment of the character of Henry VIII. by several French + writers; vide Mariceau "Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses," + tom. i. p. 358.--and Dionis "Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie," + p. 137. + + [14] Herbert, p. 430. Fox, Hall, Stow, Holinshed, and Speed, all + agree in placing it on the twelfth. Hume, in his _History of + England_, has made a singular mistake with regard to this date: + he says "two days afterwards," and quotes Strype as his + authority, while that author, who fully investigated the + subject, says, "she died on Wednesday night, the + twenty-fourth."--"Memorials," v. iii. p. 1. + + [15] Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x--A copy of this Journal will be found + printed entire in Burnet's "History," v. ii. + + [16] Vide Burnet, v. iii, p 1. + + [17] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. x. + + [18] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. 10. + + [19] "Chronicle," v. ii. p. 944. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NOVELIST. + + * * * * * + +THE HEARTHSTONE.--A GERMAN TRADITIONAL TALE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Frantz did not at all like his new benefice; his parishioners were +evidently idle, ill-disposed people, doing no credit to the ministry of +the deceased incumbent; and looking with eyes any thing but respectful +and affectionate upon their new pastor. In short, he foresaw a host of +troubles; although he had not taken possession of his living for more than +two days. Neither did he admire the lonely situation of his house, which, +gloomy and old fashioned, needed (at least so thought the polished Frantz, +just emerged from the puny restraints and unlimited licenses of college) +nothing less than a total rebuilding to render it inhabitable. His own +sleeping apartment he liked less than all; but what could be done? It was +decidedly the only decent dormitory in the house--had been that of the +late pastor--and there was no help for it--could not but be his own. The +young minister was wretched--lamented without ceasing the enjoyments of +Leipzig--missed the society of his fellow students, and actually began to +meditate taking a wife. But upon whom should his election fall? He caused +all his female acquaintances to pass in mental review before him; some +were fair--some wealthy--some altogether angelic; but Frantz was not Grand +Seignior, and he allowed himself to be puzzled in a matter where every +sentiment of love and honour ought to have, without hesitation, determined +his choice; for in his rainbow visions of bright beauty and ethereal +perfection, appeared the lonely and lovely Adelinda. Adelinda, the poor, +the fond, the devoted, and, but for him, the innocent. No; beautiful and +loving as she was, connected with her were the brooding shadows of guilt, +and the lurid clouds of fiery vengeance; and Frantz had rather not think +of Adelinda. + +On the morning of the third day of his residence at Steingart, he happened +to awake very early; being summertime it was broad daylight, and a bright +sun was endeavouring to beam upon his countenance through the small +lozenges of almost opaque glass which filled the high, narrow, and many +paned window. Not feeling inclined to sleep, nor for the present to rise, +Frantz laid for some time in deep reverie, with his eyes fixed, as some +would have deemed, upon the door; and as others, more justly, would have +thought upon vacancy. As he gazed, however, he was suddenly conscious that +the door slowly and sullenly swung open, and admitted three strangers; a +man of tall and graceful figure, and of a comely but melancholy aspect, +arrayed in a long, loose and dark morning gown; he led two young and +lovely children, whose burnished golden hair, pale, clear, tranquil +countenances and snow-white garments gave them the appearance of celestial +intelligences. Frantz, terrified and confounded, followed with his eyes +those whom he could but fancy to be apparitions, as with noiseless steps +they walked, or rather glided, towards a table which stood near the +fireplace; upon this laid the parish register, coming in front of which, +the man opened it with a solemn air, and turning over a few pages, pointed +with his finger to some record, upon which the fair children seemed to +gaze with interest and attention. The trio smiled mournfully at each other, +then moving so that they stood upon the hearth immediately opposite the +foot of Frantz's bed, and facing the affrighted young minister, he had +full leisure to contemplate his strange visiters. That they were of a +superhuman nature, he was warranted in concluding from their appearance +in so solitary a place as Steingart--from their unceremonious _entrĂ©e_ at +that unusual hour into his dormitory, and from their movements, actions, +and awful silence. Frantz endeavoured to recollect the form of adjuration, +and also that of exorcism, commonly employed to tranquillize the turbulent +departed, but vainly; his brain was giddy; his thoughts distracted; his +heart throbbed to agony with terror, and his tongue refused its office. +With a violent effort he sprang up in his bed, and in his address to the +speechless trio, had proceeded as far as--"In the name of--" when the +children sank down into the very hearthstone upon which they stood, and +the man--Frantz saw not whither _he_ went--perhaps up the chimney--but go +he certainly did. + +The terrified young man leapt in a state of desperation from his bed, and +searched the apartment narrowly, as people commonly, but foolishly, are +wont to do in similar cases. His search, as might have been expected, was +useless; but not liking at present to alarm his domestics with a report +of the house being haunted, he resolved to await further evidences of +the supernatural visitation. Next morning at about the same hour, the +apparitions again entered his apartment; and acting as they had previously +done, gazed earnestly at him for some seconds ere they vanished. On the +morning of the third day the trio appeared again, when the gentleman of +the long robe, looking most earnestly at Frantz, pointed to the register, +the children, and the hearthstone; and then, as usual, disappeared under +the same circumstances as before. + +Frantz was much distressed; he could not exactly comprehend the meaning of +this dumb show; and yet felt that some dire mystery was connected with +these phantoms, which he was called upon to unravel. After breakfast he +wandered out, and lost in the maze of thought, sauntered, ere he was aware +of it, into the churchyard. Shortly afterwards the church-door was opened +by the sexton, who kept his pickaxe and mattock in a corner of the belfry, +and Frantz remembering that as yet he had not entered the church, followed +him in, and was struck with the appearance of many portraits which hung +round the walls. + +"What are these?" said he. + +"The pictures, sir, of all your predecessors; know you not, that in some +of our country churches it is the custom to hang up the likenesses of all +the gentlemen who ever held the living?" + +Frantz, in a tone of indifference, replied, that he fancied he had heard +of such a thing. + +"'Tis, sir," continued the man, "a custom with which you must comply at +any rate. Why, bad as was our last pastor Herr Von Weetzer, he honoured us +so far, that there hangs _his_ picture." + +Frantz advanced to view a newly painted portrait, which hung last in the +line of his predecessors; and then the young man started back, changed +colour, and the deadly faintness of terror seized his relaxing frame; for +in it he recognised, exact in costume and features, the perfect likeness +of his adult spectral visiter! + +"Good God!" cried Frantz, "how very extraordinary!" + +"A nice looking man, sir," said the sexton, not noticing his emotion; +"pity 'tis that he was so wicked." + +"Wicked!" exclaimed Frantz, almost unconscious of what he said; "how +wicked?" + +"Oh, sir, I can't exactly say how wicked; but a bad gentleman was Mr. Von +Weetzer, that's certain." + +"Wicked! well--was he married?" asked Frantz, with apparent unconcern. + +"Why, no, sir;" replied the sexton, with a significant look; "people do +say he was not; but if all tales be true that are rife about him, 'tis a +sure thing he ought to have been." + +"Hah! hum!" muttered Frantz, and a slight blush tinged his fine +countenance. "His children you say--" + +"Lord, sir! I said nothing about them--who told you? Few folks at +Steingart, I guess, knew he had any but myself. 'Tis thought the poor +things did not come fairly by their ends; and for certain, I never buried +them!" + +Frantz stood for some minutes absorbed in thought; at length he said-- +"were they baptized? I have a reason for asking." + +"Perhaps sir, it is, that you are thinking if the poor, little, innocent +creatures were not christened, they'd no right to be laid in consecrated +ground." + +"No matter what I think; I believe I have the register." + +"You have, sir; please then to look at page 197, line 19, and I fancy +you'll find the names of Gertrude and Erhard Dow, ('twas their poor +_misfortunate_ mother's sirname,) down as baptized." + +"I have," interrupted Frantz, with an air of extreme solemnity, "seen, as +I believe, those children and their father!" + +"Mein Gott!" cried the sexton in excessive alarm--"_seen_ them?--Seen +_Herr Von Weetzer!_ They do say he walks--dear, dear!--and after the +shocking unchristian death that he died too! Where, sir? Where and when?" + +"No matter, I also have my suspicions." + +"He murdered them himself, sir--the wicked man! 'Twasn't their mother, my +poor niece, God rest her soul! She died as easy as a lamb. Indeed, indeed, +it wasn't her." + +"Bring your tools," said Frantz, "and come with me." + +He led the sexton to his chamber--desired him to raise the mysterious +hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it. This was accordingly done, +and in a few minutes, with sentiments of unspeakable pity and horror, +Frantz beheld the fleshless remains of two children, who apparently from +the size of the bones must have been about the age and figure, when +deposited there, of the little phantoms. He found also upon turning to the +register, that it laid open at the very page named by the sexton; and on +the very spot which the apparition of the wretched Von Weetzer had +indicated by his finger, was duly entered the baptism of the murdered +children; and the sexton readily turned to the entries of their birth in +other parts of the volume. Frantz interred the remains of these +unfortunate beings in consecrated ground--immediately quitted Steingart-- +resigned a preferment which had (from the singularly terrible incident +thus connected with his possession of it) equally alarmed and disgusted +him--_married Adelinda_ upon his return to Leipzig--and gradually became +an exemplary member of Society. + +M.L.B. + + * * * * * + + +Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.--_Swift_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NATURALIST. + + * * * * * + +NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD. + +[Illustration: Nest of the Taylor Bird.] + + +This is one of the most interesting objects in the whole compass of +Natural History. The little architect is called the _Taylor Bird, Taylor +Wren_, or _Taylor Warbler_, from the art with which it makes its nest, +sewing some dry leaves to a green one at the extremity of a twig, and thus +forming a hollow cone, which it afterwards lines. The general construction +of the nest, as well as a description of a specimen in Dr. Latham's +collection, will be found at page 180, of vol. xiii. of the MIRROR. + +The Taylor Bird is only about three and a half inches in length, and +weighs, it is said, three-sixteenths of an ounce; the plumage above is +pale olive yellow; chin and throat yellow; breast and belly dusky white. +It inhabits India, and particularly the Islands of Ceylon. The eggs are +white, and not much larger than what are called ant's eggs.[1] + +In constructing the nest, the beak performs the office of drilling in the +leaves the necessary holes, and passing the fibres through them with the +dexterity of a tailor. Even such parts in the rear as are not sufficiently +firm are sewed in like manner. + + [20] Notes to Jennings's _Ornithologia_, p. 324. + + * * * * * + + +IVY. + + +Mr. Gilbert Burnett thus beautifully illustrates the transitorial +metamorphosis of ivy:-- + +"The ivy, in its infant or very young state, has stalks trailing upon the +ground, and protruding rootlets throughout their whole extent; its leaves +are spear-shaped, and it bears neither flower nor fruit; this is termed +_ivy creeping on the ground_. The same plant, when more advanced, quits +the ground, and climbs on walls and trees, its rootlets becoming holdfasts +only; its leaves are generally three or five lobed, and it is still barren; +this is the _greater barren ivy_. In its next, or more mature state, it +disdains all props, and rising by its own strength above the walls on +which it grew, occasionally puts on the appearance of a tree; in this the +flower of its age, the branches are smooth, devoid of radicles and +holdfasts; and it is loaded with blossoms and with fruit; the lobulations +of the leaves are likewise less; this is the _war-poet's ivy_. But when +old, the ivy again becomes barren, again the suckers appear upon the stem, +and the leaves are no longer lobed, but egg-shaped; this is the +_Bacchanalian ivy_." + + * * * * * + + +MICROSCOPIC AMUSEMENT. + + +Mr. Carpenter, in _Gill's Repository_, speaking of the fine displays of +anatomy and wonderful construction of insects, creatures so much "despised, +and which are, indeed, but too often made the subject of wanton sport by +many persons, who amuse their children by passing a pin through the bottom +of their abdomen, in order to excite pain and long-suffering in the insect, +and thus making them spin, as they ignorantly term it," has the following +most humane and benevolent observations:--"Many of these cruel sports +might undoubtedly be effectively checked, if the teachers of schools were +occasionally to exhibit to their pupils, under the microscope, the various +parts of an insect with which they are familiar; and, by interesting +lectures of instruction, to point out the uses to which those parts are +applied by the insect, for its preservation and comfort; and that, when +they are deprived of them, or they are even injured, a degree of suffering +takes place in the creature, which the children at present seem to be +wholly uninformed of. I certainly think that, if the abovementioned useful +lessons were inculcated, they would afford a check to those cruel +propensities in many children, which they at present indulge in, for want +of being better instructed." + + * * * * * + + + + +NOTES OF A READER. + + * * * * * + + +ROYAL PROGRESSES, OR VISITS. + + +The celebrity attendant on a royal visit adhered long to places as well as +persons. A chamber in the decayed tower of Hoghton, in Lancashire, still +bears the name of James the First's room. Elizabeth's apartment, and that +of her maids of honour, are still known at Weston House, in Warwickshire; +her walk "marked by old thorn-bushes," at Hengrave, in Norfolk; near +Harefield, the farm-house where she was welcomed by allegorical personages; +at Bisham Abbey, the well in which she bathed; and at Beddington, in +Surrey, her favourite oak. She often shot with a cross-bow in the paddock +at Oatlands. At Hawsted, in Suffolk, she is reported to have dropped a +silver-handled fan into the moat; and an old approach to Kenninghall Place, +in Norfolk, is called Queen Bess's Lane, because she was scratched by the +brambles in riding through it.--_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + +SHAKSPEARE'S MACBETH. + + +During one of the progresses of James I. on passing the gate of St. John's +College, at Oxford, his majesty was saluted by three youths, representing +the weird sisters (sibyllae,) who, in Latin hexameters, bade the +descendant of Banquo hail, as king of Scotland, king of England, and king +of Ireland; and his queen as daughter, sister, wife, and mother of kings. +The occasion is memorable in dramatic history, if it be true that this +address, or a translation of it, led Shakspeare to write on the story of +Macbeth. Much has been said for the probability of this supposition; but +surely the legend of Macbeth and Banquo must have been abundantly +discoursed of in England between James's accession and the year when this +pageant was exhibited; and Shakspeare could find every circumstance +alluded to by the Oxford speakers, and many more in Holinshed's Chronicle, +which, through a great part of Macbeth, he has undoubtedly taken for his +guide.--_Ibid_. + + * * * * * + + +CHINESE DRAMA. + + +The Chinese themselves make no technical distinctions between _tragedy_ +and _comedy_ in their stage pieces;--the dialogue of which is composed in +ordinary prose, while the principal performer now and then chants forth, +in unison with music, a species of song or vaudeville, and the name of the +tune or air is always inserted at the top of the passage to be sung.-- +_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + +THE HAWTHORN. + + +The trunk of an old hawthorn is more gnarled and rough than, perhaps, that +of any other tree; and this, with its hoary appearance, and its fragrance, +renders it a favourite tree with pastoral and rustic poets, and with those +to whom they address their songs. Milton, in his L'Allegro, has not +forgotten this favourite of the village:-- + + + "Every shepherd tells his tale + Under the hawthorn in the dale." + + +When Burns, with equal force and delicacy, delineates the pure and +unsophisticated affection of young, intelligent, and innocent country +people, as the most enchanting of human feelings, he gives additional +sweetness to the picture by placing his lovers + + + "Beneath the milk-white thorn, that scents the evening gale." + + +There is something about the tree, which one bred in the country cannot +soon forget, and which a visiter learns, perhaps, sooner than any +association of placid delight connected with rural scenery. When, too, the +traveller, or the man of the world, after a life spent in other pursuits, +returns to the village of his nativity, the old hawthorn is the only +playfellow of his boyhood that has not changed. His seniors are in the +grave; his contemporaries are scattered; the hearths at which he found a +welcome are in the possession of those who know him not; the roads are +altered; the houses rebuilt; and the common trees have grown out of his +knowledge: but be it half a century or more, if man spare the old hawthorn, +it is just the same--not a limb, hardly a twig, has altered from, the +picture that memory traces of his early years.--_Library of Entertaining +Knowledge_. + + * * * * * + + +TURKISH JOKE. + + +When the Caliph Haroun el Raschid (who was the friend of the great +Charlemagne,) entertained Ebn Oaz at his court in the quality of jester, +he desired him one day, in the presence of the Sultana and all her +followers, to make an excuse worse than the crime it was intended to +extenuate: the Caliph walked about, waiting for a reply. Alter a long +pause, Ebn Oaz skulked behind the throne, and pinched his highness in the +rear. The rage of the Caliph was unbounded. "I beg a thousand pardons of +your Majesty," said Ebn Oaz, "but I thought it was her Highness the +Sultana." This was the excuse worse than the crime; and of course the +jester was pardoned. + + * * * * * + + +FUND AND REFUND. + + +Disappointment at the theatre is a bad thing: but the manager returning +admission money is worse. Sheridan, who understood professional feelings +on this subject in the most acute degree, was in the habit of saying that +he could give words to the chagrin of a conqueror, on seeing the fruit of +his victories snatched from him; or the miseries of a broken down minister, +turned out in the moment when he thought the cabinet at his mercy; or a +felon listening to a long winded sermon from the ordinary; or a debtor +just fallen into the claws of a dun; but that he never could find words to +express the sensibilities of a manager compelled to disgorge money once +taken at his doors. "_Fund_," says this experienced ornament of the art of +living by one's wits, "_fund_ is an excellent word; but _re-fund_ is the +very worst in the language."_Monthly Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + +COURT SQUABBLES. + + +Mr. Crawfurd, in his _Embassy_, describes the following ludicrous scene +arising from a misunderstanding between the sovereign of Birmah and his +ministers:--"The ministers last night reported to the king the progress of +the negotiation. His majesty was highly indignant, said his confidence had +been abused, and that now, for the first time, he was made acquainted with +the real state of affairs. He accused the ministers of falsehoods, +malversations, and all kinds of offences. His displeasure did not end in +mere words; he drew his DĂ , or sword, and sallied forth in pursuit of the +offending courtiers. These took to immediate flight, some leaping over the +balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience, but the +greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it; and in the +confusion which attended their endeavours, (tumbling head over heels,) one +on top of another. Such royal paroxysms are pretty frequent, and, although +attended with considerable sacrifices of the kingly dignity, are always +bloodless. The late king was less subject to these fits of anger than his +present majesty, but he also occasionally forgot himself. Towards the +close of his reign, and when on a pilgrimage to the great temple of +Mengwan, a circumstance of this description took place, which was +described by an European gentleman, himself present, and one of the +courtiers. The king had detected something flagitious, which would not +have been very difficult. His anger rose; he seized his spear, and +attacked the false ministers. These, with the exception of the European, +who was not a party to the offence, fled tumultuously. One hapless +courtier had his heels tripped up in his flight; the king overtook him, +and wounded him slightly in the calf of the leg with his spear, but took +no farther vengeance." + + * * * * * + + +LULLABY. + + +SHAKSPEARE, in _Titus Andronicus_, says, + + "Be unto us, as is a nurse's song + Of _Lullaby_ to bring her babe to sleep." + +A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on +this. + +"The verb _to lull_, means to sing Gently, and it is connected with the +Greek [Greek: laleo], loquor, or [Greek: lala], the sound made by the +beach of the sea. The Roman nurses used the word _lalla_, to quiet their +children, and they feigned a deity called _Lullus_, whom they invoked on +that occasion; the lullaby, or tune itself was called by the same name."-- +_Douce_. + +_Lullaby_ is supposed a contraction for _Lull-a-baby_. The Welsh are +celebrated for their Lullaby songs, and a good Welsh nurse, with a +pleasing voice, has been sometimes found more soporific in the nursery, +than the midwife's anodyne. The contrary effects of Swift's song, "Here we +go up, up, up," and the smile-provoking melody of "Hey diddle, diddle," +_cum multis aliis_, are too well known to be enumerated or disputed. "The +Good Nurse" give us a chapter on the advantage of employing music in +certain stages of protracted illness. + + * * * * * + + +GOOD NIGHT. + + +In northern Europe we may, without impropriety, say good night! to +departing friends at any hour of darkness; but the Italians utter their +Felicissima Notte only once. The arrival of candles marks the division +between day and night, and when they are brought in, the Italians thus +salute each other. How impossible it is to convey the exact properties of +a foreign language by translation! Every word, from the highest to the +lowest, has a peculiar significance, determinable only by an accurate +knowledge of national and local attributes and peculiarites. + +GOETHE.--_Blackwood's Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + + * * * * * + + +THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. + +(_For The Mirror_.) + + +In the year 1696, Mr. Henry Winstanley, undertook to build the Eddystone +Lighthouse, and in 1700 he completed it. So confident was this ingenious +mechanic of the stability of his edifice, that he declared his wish to be +in it during the most tremendous storm that could arise. This wish he +unfortunately obtained, for he perished in it during the dreadful storm +which destroyed it, November 27th, 1703. While he was there with his +workmen and light-keepers, that dreadful storm began, which raged most +violently on the night of the 26th of the month, and appears to have been +one of the most tremendous ever experienced in Great Britain, for its vast +and extensive devastation. The next morning, at daybreak, the hurricane +increased to a degree unparalleled; and the lighthouse no longer able to +sustain its fury, was swept into the bosom of the deep, with all its +ill-fated inmates. When the storm abated, about the 29th, people went off +to see if any thing remained, but nothing was left save a few large irons, +whereby the work had been so fastened into a clink, that it could never +afterwards be disengaged, till it was cut out in the year 1756. The +lighthouse had not long been destroyed, before the Winchelsea, a +Virginiaman, laden with tobacco, for Plymouth, was wrecked on the +Eddystone rocks in the night, and every soul perished. + +Smeaton, in his Narrative of the _Construction of the Eddystone +Lighthouse_, says, "Winstanley had distinguished himself in a certain +branch of mechanics, the tendency of which is to excite wonder and +surprise. He had at his house at Littlebury, in Essex, a set of +contrivances, such as the following:--Being taken into one particular room +of his house, and there observing an old slipper carelessly lying in the +middle of the floor, if, as was natural, you gave it a kick with your foot, +up started a ghost before you; if you sat down in a certain chair, a +couple of arms would immediately clasp you in, so as to render it +impossible for you to disengage yourself till your attendant set you at +liberty; and if you sat down in a certain arbour by the side of a canal, +you were forthwith sent out afloat into the middle, from whence it was +impossible for you to escape till the manager returned you to your former +place." + +Mr. John Smeaton, who erected the Eddystone Lighthouse, in the years +1757-58 and 59, was born on the 28th, of May, 1724, at Ansthorpe, near +Leeds. The strength of his understanding, and the originality of his +genius, (says his biographer) appeared at an early age: his playthings +were not the playthings of children, but the tools which men employ, and +when he was a mere child he appeared to take greater pleasure in seeing +the operations of workmen, and asking them questions, than in any thing +else. Before he was six years old, he was once discovered at the top of +his father's barn, fixing up what he called a windmill of his own +construction, and at another time, while he was about the same age, he +attended some men fixing a pump, and observing them cut off a piece of a +bored part, he procured it, and actually made a pump, with which he raised +water. When he was under fifteen years of age, he made an engine for +turning, and worked several things in ivory and wood. He made all his own +tools for working in wood and metals, and he constructed a lathe, by which +he cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing but little known, and which was +the invention of Mr. Henry Hendley of York. His father was an attorney, +and being desirous to bring up his son to the same profession, he brought +him up to London with him in 1724, and attended the courts in Westminster +Hall; but after some time, finding that the law was not suited to his +disposition, he wrote a strong memorial to his father on the subject, who +immediately desired the young man to follow the bent of his inclination. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + + + +SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS + + * * * * * + + +LINES + +_To a Friend who had spent some days at a Country Inn, in order to be +near the Writer._ + +BY MISS MITFORD + + + The village inn, the woodfire burning bright, + The solitary taper's flickering light, + The lowly couch, the casement swinging free,-- + My noblest friend, was this a place for thee? + No fitting place! Yet there, from all apart, + We poured forth mind for mind and heart for heart, + Ranging from idle words and tales of mirth + To the deep mysteries of heaven and earth + Yet there thine own sweet voice, in accents low, + First breathed Iphigenias tale of wee, + The glorious tale, by Goethe fitly told, + And cast as finely in an English mould + By Taylor's kindred spirit, high and bold:[21] + No fitting place! yet that delicious hour + Fell on my soul, like dewdrops on a flower + Freshening and nourishing and making bright + The plant, decaying less from time than blight, + Flinging Hope's sunshine o'er the faint dim aim, + Thy praise my motive, thine applause my fame. + No fitting place! yet (inconsistent strain + And selfish!) come, I prithee, come again! + +Three Mile Cross, Feb 1829. +_Sharpe's Magazine_. + + + [21] Mr. Taylor's transition of Goethe's _Iphigenia in Tauris_; one + of the finest plays out of Shakspeare, and now extremely rare. + + * * * * * + + +ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLIES. + + +We have been amused with a light pattering paper in Nos. 1. and 2. of +Sharpe's London Magazine--entitled "_Illustrious Visiters_." Its only +fault is extreme length, it being nearly thirty pages, and, as some people +would say, "all about nothing." But some will think otherwise, and smile +at the sly shafts which are let fly at our national follies, of which, it +must be owned, we have a very great share. We ought to premise that the +framework of the satire is a visit of the Court Cards to our metropolis, a +pretty considerable hit at some recent royal visits. Of course, they see +every thing worth seeing, and some of their remarks are truly piquant. The +spirit, or fun, of the article would evaporate in an abridgment, so we +will endeavour to give a few of the narrator's best points:-- + + +_The Arrival_. + +"On the day of their landing, the town of Dover was in a state of general +excitement; bells were ringing, colours flying, artillery saluting; and +the loyal inhabitants crowded forth to peep at the illustrious potentates. +Often and often, even from our earliest years, have we heard of the fame +of these kings and queens. Their pictures have been familiar to every eye; +_dealers_ transmitted them into every _hand_; their colourless +extraordinary faces, their shapeless robes of every tint in the rainbow, +and their sky-blue wigs, are as well known to every Englishman, as the +head of his own revered monarch on a two-and-six-penny piece. Whenever +there is any thing to be seen, an Englishman must go and see it; and, in +the eager warmth of excited spirits, he will run after any vehicle, no +matter whether caravan or carriage; no matter whence it comes or whither +it goes; no matter whether its contents be a kangaroo or a cannibal chief, +a giraffe or a Princess Rusty Fusty. He hears of an arrival from foreign +parts, that is sufficient; a crowd is collected, and the 'interesting +stranger' is cheered with enthusiasm, and speeds from town to town, graced +with all the honours of extemporaneous popularity." + +"I have already hinted that I consider it no business of _mine_ to inquire +_why_ these potentates came to England; perhaps it was no business of +_theirs_ that brought them, but rather a party of pleasure; one of the +results of a general peace, which is very far from producing general +_quietness_; for when the sovereigns of remote countries become upon +visiting terms, hospitality throws wide her gates, and loyalty is +uproarious. They came, no doubt, like all our other royal exotics, from +the unfortunate sovereigns of the Sandwiches down to the Don of yesterday, +to see and to be seen; so, whilst the inhabitants of Dover shouted round +their carriages, they condescendingly acknowledged the greetings they +received, and proceeded on their journey towards the metropolis." + + +_Visit to the Theatre_. + +"Precisely at seven o'clock the party entered their box, which was +tastefully fitted up for their reception. They were received by the +proprietors, and managers, and acting managers, with the customary +etiquette, backing most adroitly up stairs, and holding wax candles in +their hands (which circumstance was properly stated in the papers the next +morning, for fear it should be supposed that tallow had been used on the +occasion.) + +"Far be it from ME, their most humble chronicler, to speak slightingly of +their Majesties of Hearts and Diamonds; on the contrary, I would maintain +a paper war with any one who dared to insinuate that these honours were +not dealt most fairly: but, on _some_ occasions, I cannot help thinking +that these distinctions have been lavished rather injudiciously, and that +royalty has been made too common. I have seen our own beloved monarch in +public received with acclamations, ay, and with more than mouth honour-- +with waving handkerchiefs, and full hearts, and eyes that overflowed. The +enthusiasm of such a welcome is honourable to the monarch who receives it, +and the subjects who bestow it; and let levellers say what they will, the +best feelings of our nature are brought into play on such occasions. There +is a _meaning_ in such a welcome; and long, very long, may our monarch +live to witness proofs of attachment, which his heart well knows how to +appreciate. But there is no meaning whatever in placing a tattooed chief, +or a Hottentot Venus of the blood royal, on the same eminence: it is +_infra dig_.--can answer no good purpose, and brings the genuine +enthusiasm of loyalty into contempt. There is too much of the Dollalolla +in such an exhibition. When his majesty squats uneasily, as if he +considered his chair an inconvenience, and the queen wipes her ebony nose +with her illustrious white satin play bill. When the royal party entered, +the people seemed unable to contain their rapture, and God save the King +was called for. This is the established custom: whenever we look upon the +king of _another country_, we always stand up and sing, God save +_our own_!" + + +_Club-House Comforts_. + +"Far more cheap, and far more commodious than hotels _used to be_, they +assuredly are; and country curates, poor poets, and gentlemen who live on +very small means, may now take a slice off _the_ joint, with a quarter of +a pint of sherry, for next to nothing at all; sitting, at the same time, +with their feet on a Turkey carpet, lighted by ormolu chandeliers, +surrounded by gold and marble, and waited upon by liveried domestics, with +the additional glory of walking away, and 'giving nothing to the waiter.' +Nay, the more dainty gentleman may order his _cotelette aux tomates_ and +his _omelette soufflĂ©_, at a moderate expense." + +"Men, in most countries, owe what they possess of suavity of manners to +their intercourse with female society; after the drudgery of a +professional morning, young men used to brush themselves up for their +evening flirtations; but now few feminine drawing-rooms can tempt them to +leave their luxurious palaces, where evening surtouts, and black +neckcloths, and boots, may be freely indulged in. The wife takes her chop, +and a half boiled potato at home, while her husband, who always has some +excuse for dining at his club, is sure to enjoy every thing, the best of +its kind, and cooked _Ă merveille_. The unmarried ladies lack partners at +balls; the beaux fall asleep after dinner on the downy cushions of the +sofas at _the_ Club, or vote it a bore to dress of an evening, when they +are sure to meet pleasant fellows at the Alma Mater. As to the young +gentlemen who reap the advantages of these cheap and gilded houses of +accommodation, it may be questioned whether they are thus enabled +hereafter properly to appreciate the comforts of a home, the decorations +of the farm-house residence of a curate, or the plain cookery of the +farmer's wife, who dresses his dinner without even _professing_ to be a +cook." + + * * * * * + +"The King of Spades went his rounds, accompanied by the most eminent +architects and engineers of the day. He dug deeply into the secret +histories of the foundations of our national buildings, saw through the +_dis_orders of the egg-shell school of architecture, kept clear of the +tottering lath and plaster of some of the new buildings, acknowledging +that if such materials _did_ ever tumble down, it was a comfort to know +that they were considerably lighter than stone and cast iron. He felt a +great respect for such persons of rank as professed to be _supporters_ of +the drama, trusting that they would keep the ceilings of the theatres from +tumbling into the pits. He spent great part of his time in the Thames +Tunnel, and if he ever felt a doubt respecting the ultimate success of +that _under_taking, he did justice to the enterprise and skill of its +projector, that illustrious mole, and sincerely wished that zeal and +talent might ultimately be crowned with success. He took shares in many +mining speculations, and, in many instances, lived to repent it; for he +got into troubled waters, and sought for his _ore_ in vain. He attended +agricultural meetings, and endeavoured to comprehend that debatable query, +the corn question; he argued the point, like other great people, as if he +_did_ understand it, and got into repute with the leading Chiropodists, or +corn cutters, of the day. He went to Cheltenham, and became proprietor of +an acre of ground, on which he dug a score wells, and professed to find at +the bottom of each of them, a spring of water sufficiently saline to +pickle the constitutions of all valetudinarians. He was horticultural to a +most praiseworthy extent, offering prizes to the ingenious young Meadowses +who bring forth gigantic gooseberries, supernatural strawberries, and +miraculous melons. He went into the country, and endeavoured to penetrate +beyond the mere surface of things, listening to the speeches of county +members, and dining diligently in warm weather with mayors, and people +with _corporations_. He endeavoured to detect the root of all evil, +investigated the ramifications of radical reform, and exposed the +ephemeral bulbous roots of speculation. Prejudice he found too deeply +rooted to be dug up very easily, whilst the fashions and follies of the +day seemed to him to lie so entirely on the surface of the soil, and to be +so shortlived, that to throw away any manual labour in an attempt to +eradicate them, would be absurd." + +_"Impossible" Amusements_. + +"At many of your amusements, the chief attraction consists in the extreme +bodily peril in which the exhibiter is placed. You took me to see a man +walk up a rope, to an immense height, and had his foot slipped, he must +have been dashed to pieces: the place was crowded with persons who were in +raptures; yet had the man been dancing on level ground, he would have +danced far better; and the merit of the dancer seemed to consist in his +giving the audience a _chance_ of seeing him break his neck or dash his +brains out! If a foreigner were to announce that he would dance on a +pack-thread, he would ruin the ropedancer; because, as the thread would in +all probability break, his danger would be greater, and therefore his +exhibition would be incomparable! Then you all delight in distortions; if +a man can bend his back bone, or sit upon his head, you are in raptures, +and seem to think it a good joke to see a fellow creature shortening his +life. Then if any man will ride a dozen horses at once, without saddle or +bridle; or go into an oven and be baked brown, or eat a fire shovel full +of burning coals, or drink deadly poison, or fly off a church steeple, or +thrust a pointed instrument down his throat, or walk on a ceiling with his +head downwards, or go to sea in a washing tub, you would not lose the +sight for the world; you clap your hands, shout with delight, and hold up +your little children, that they may share papa and mamma's rational +amusement! and yet you tell me your national characteristic is humanity!" + + +_A Man of Honour_. + +"Is Mr. Rabbitts a man of honour?" + +"In the strictest sense of the word." + +"Living at the rate of thousands a year, when his income is just so many +hundreds! furnishing his house magnificently without ever intending to pay +for a pipkin, and at last making a sudden disappearance, which closely +resembles what I have heard described as an Irish 'moonlight flitting,' +where a tenant, who is unable to pay his rent, departs at dead of night +with his wife and other _movables_, having previously thrashed his grain, +and left the straw in its place _to keep up appearances!_ The flittings of +some of your 'leading stars in the hemisphere of fashion' are very similar; +yet afterwards you may see them at some watering-place, as gay and as +expensive as ever! Have they mislaid their bills, and forgotten the names +of their creditors? If so, let them call for the Gazette, and look over +the list of bankrupts. _Such_ is the honour of Mr. Rabbitts!" + + +_To want Style_. + +"It is difficult for me to explain, because your majesty has not seen +specimens of that class of the community which is devoid of style, tact, +and taste; but we have them in town, and we meet with them at +watering-places; _there_ indeed it is less in our power to keep quite +clear of them. They are to be seen all day and all night; if the sun +shines, they are promenading in its beams; if a house is lighted up, they +will enter its open door; if a fiddle is heard, they are dancing to its +squeaking; if petticoats are worn short, theirs are up to their knees; +they are never out of sight, never in repose; summer and winter, day and +night, they seem in a state of fearful excitement, flirting, philandering, +raffling, racing, practising, and patronizing; they are great people in a +small way, and only considered great because nothing greater is at hand; +they prefer reigning in hell (excuse the word, I quote Milton) to serving +in heaven; in London they would be nothing, at Hogs Norton Spa, or +Pumpington Wells, they are every thing; making difficulties about +admissions to Lilliputian Almack's." + + +_To have Style_. + +"To _have_ style is to be always dressed to perfection, without appearing +to care about the fashion; and to take the station and precedence which +you are entitled to, without seeming to be solicitous about it. I have +seen dowagers at watering-places in a fever of anxiety about their rank +and their consequence! patronizing puppetshows, seizing conspicuous seats, +and withholding the sunshine of their smiles from commoners allied to +older nobility than their own! How I should enjoy seeing them lost in a +London crowd, where not an eye would notice their aristocracy unless they +wore their coronets on the tops of their bonnets!" + + +_The Popular Complaint_. + +"I am afraid of catching the popular complaint: all the professedly sane +people in London are so evidently mad, that I am led to conclude that all +the supposed lunatics are in their sound senses. + +"For instance, your gay people, who toil through nominal pleasures, +dressing by rule and compass, lacing, bracing, patching, painting, +plastering, penciling, curling, pinching, and all to go out and be looked +at: going from party to party in the middle of the night, pretending not +to be sleepy, suppressing each rising yawn, and trying to make the lips +smile and the eyes twinkle, and to look animated in spite of fatigue: and +all this for no earthly purpose--too old to care about lovers, and without +daughters to marry. Why should an ugly old maid of sixty-six take all +these pains, or leave her own snug fireside, if she had not a touch of the +popular complaint. + +"Then your man of pleasure, risking his life at every corner in a cab, +with a restive horse; wearing all his clothes painfully tight to show off +his figure, confining his neck in a bandage, pouring liquids down his +throat, though he knows they will give him a headache, sitting up all +night shaking bits of bone together for the mere purpose of giving +somebody a chance of winning all his money, or offering bets on racehorses +to afford himself and family an opportunity of changing opulence for +beggary! He has the popular complaint of course. + +"Then your man of business: your public servant, toiling, and striving and +figetting about matters of state, sacrificing health, and the snug +comforts of a private gentleman, for the sake of popularity! _His_ +complaint _is_ popular indeed. Then your physician, courting extensive +practice, and ambitious of the honour of never having time to eat a +comfortable meal, and proud of being called out of bed the moment he is +composing himself to sleep! _He_ must be raving. Then your barrister, +fagging over dull books, and wearing a three-tailed wig, and talking for +hours, that his client, right or wrong, may be successful! All these +people appear to me to be awfully excited: the popular complaint is strong +upon them, and I would put them all into the straightest waistcoats I +could procure." + + +_Patriotic Follies_. + +"It is delightful to hear English men and women talk of their dear country. +There is nothing like Old England, say they; yet paramount as their love +of country appears to be, their love of French frippery is a stronger +passion! They will lament the times, the stagnation of trade, the scarcity +of money, the ruin of manufacturers, but they will wear Parisian +productions. It is a comfort, however, to know that they are often +deceived, and benefit their suffering countrymen without knowing it--as +lace, silks, and gloves have frequently been exported from this country, +and sold to English women on the coast of France as genuine French +articles. How little does Mrs. Alderman Popkins dream, when she returns to +her residence in Bloomsbury, that her Parisian pelisse is of Spitalfields +manufacture, and that her French lace veil came originally from Honiton." + + * * * * * + + + + +THE GATHERER. + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. + +SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + + +BULL AND NO BULL. + + +"I was going," said an Irishman, "over Westminster Bridge the other day, +and I met Pat Hewins--'Hewins,' says I, 'how are you?'--'Pretty well,' says +he, 'thank you, Donnelly.'--'Donnelly,' says I, 'that's not _my_ name.'-- +'Faith, no more is mine Hewins,' says he. So we looked at each other again, +and sure it turned out to be neither of us--and where's the bull of _that_ +now?" + + * * * * * + + +BAD HABIT. + + +Sir Frederick Flood had a droll habit of which he could never effectually +break himself (at least in Ireland.) Whenever a person at his back +whispered or suggested any thing to him whilst he was speaking in public, +without a moment's reflection, he always repeated the suggestion +_literatim_. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish +Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on +a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep +down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring +"that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord +Lieutenant's favour,"--John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting +behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."-- +"And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, +amidst peals of uncontrollable laughter. + + * * * * * + + +CURIOUS POST OFFICE. + + +It is said, as the Isle of Ascension is visited by the homeward-bound +ships on account of its sea fowls, fish, turtle, and goats, there is in a +crevice of the rock a place called the "_Post Office_," where letters are +deposited, shut up in a well-corked bottle, for the ships that next visit +the island.[22] + +P.T.W. + + +[22] Our correspondent calls this a "curious Post Office;" we should say it + was merely an inland post. + + * * * * * + + +AMERICAN COURTSHIP. + + +The young ladies of Medina county, among other means of preventing the too +frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved that they will not receive +the addresses of any young gentleman who is in the habit of using +spirituous liquors. The young gentlemen in the same neighbourhood, by way +of retaliation, have resolved that they will not _seriously_ pay their +addresses to any young lady who wears corsets. This is right. If whiskey +has slain its thousands--corsets have slain their tens of thousands.--_N.Y. +American_. + + * * * * * + + +What colours were the _winds_ and _waves_ the last tempest at sea? + +_Answer_.--The winds _blew_ and the waves _rose_. + +C.K.W. + + * * * * * + + +LIGHT EVIL. + + +A good natured citizen, on retiring from a large house of business, took a +neat little country box at Laytonstone, and going with his wife to see it, +she was very sulky and displeased; which "Gilpin" observing, said, "my +dear Judy, don't you like the place?" "Like it indeed! no, why there isn't +room to swing a cat in it." 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XIII. NO. 386.</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + + + + +<h2>ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO.</h2> + +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/386-001.png"> +<img width = "100%" src="images/386-001.png" alt="ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO." /></a></div> + + +<p>The engraving represents the new church on the eastern side of Wilton +Place, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square. It is a chaste +building of the Ionic order, from the designs of Mr. Henry Hakewill, of +whose architectural attainments we have frequently had occasion to speak.</p> + +<p>The plan of St. Peter's is a parallelogram, placed east and west, without +aisles; the east being increased by the addition of a small chancel +flanked by vestries. The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an +hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns. The floor is +approached by a bold flight of steps, and in the wall, at the back are +three entrances to the church. The columns are surmounted by their +entablature and a pediment, behind which a low attic rises from the roof +of the church to the height of the apex of the pediment; it is crowned +with a cornice and blocking-course, and surmounted by an acroterium of +nearly its own height, but in breadth only equalling two-thirds of it; +this is finished with a sub-cornice and blocking-course, and is surmounted +by the tower, which rises from the middle. The addition of a steeple to a +Grecian church forms a stumbling-block to our modern architects, forcing +them to have recourse to many shifts to convert a Grecian + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page114" name="page114"></a>[pg 114]</span> temple into an +English church, a forcible argument for the rejection of the classical +styles altogether in this species of buildings. +<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> + Mr. Hakewill has, +however, in part surmounted this difficulty, and the effect produced is +not bad, as great value is given to the front elevation by it.</p> + +<p>The tower consists of a square in plan, in elevation consisting of a +pedestal, the dado pieced for the dials of a clock, sustaining a cubical +story, with an arched window in each face, at the sides of which are Ionic +columns, the angles being finished in antis. This story is crowned with an +entablature, above which rises a small enriched circular temple; the whole +is crowned with a spherical dome, surmounted by a cross.</p> + +<p>The body of the church is built of brick, with stone dressings. The +interior is chastely fitted up. The altarpiece is Mr. Hilton's splendid +picture of "Christ crowned with thorns," exhibited at Somerset House, in +1825, and presented to this church by the British Institution in 1827.</p> + +<p>The ground for the site was given by Lord Grosvenor, and the sum of +5,555<i>l</i>. 11<i>s</i>. 1<i>d</i>. was granted by the Royal Commissioners towards the +building. It will accommodate 1,657 persons. The first stone was laid +September 4, 1824, and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, +(Dr. Howley,) July 20, 1827.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>PSALMODY.</h3> + +<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>I have lately made a journey to the metropolis for the purpose of +inquiring by my own personal attention and otherwise, whether any +improvement had been made in the Psalmody of any of the numerous new +churches and chapels in and near London. I have visited by far the greater +part of them. In many of them I find no improvement, but there are two or +three which merit distinction.</p> + +<p>In the majority of the churches, I observe the singing of psalms or hymns +(for I have not yet, after three months, heard an anthem) is confined +generally to about three verses, and those more ordinarily of the common +metre; the singing is very little of it congregational, but is chiefly +performed by the schools of charity children, and there does not appear to +have been any instruction for their singing in any other than the <i>treble</i>. +The organists in general are very good performers, but, however well that +office is filled, the voices of the congregation are wanting, by which a +great improvement would be given to the harmony. In two of the +congregations I happen to have a more numerous acquaintance, and know that +numbers of the congregation have excellent judgment and good voices, and +many are good performers on the piano-forte and harp. In conversing with +several of them on this interesting and (to me) sublime subject, I have +heard as an objection to their joining in the psalmody with any extensive +power, that there are no persons, exclusively of the organist, to lead the +voices, whether treble, counter, tenor, or bass, and yet what a delightful +opportunity do these new churches afford; in general the sound is well and +equally distributed.</p> + +<p>The sublimity of this part of divine worship has been well expressed by +many of our poets, translators, and versifiers of the Psalms—one of them +speaks the feelings of a sincere congregation when he says,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Arise my heart! my soul arise!</p> + <p>Jehovah praise! sing till the skies</p> + <p>Re-echo his ascending fame!</p> + <p>Rejoice and celebrate his name!</p> +</div></div> + +<p>this does not admit of a deadly silence in the churches; and another +excellent appeal to the true believer is made in the following beautiful +and sublime act of devotion:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Salvation! let the echo fly!</p> + <p>The spacious earth around!</p> + <p>While all the armies of the sky!</p> + <p>Conspire to raise the sound.</p> +</div></div> + +<p>It is the conviction not only of myself but of others who are in the same +order of the musical profession, that the means of drawing forth the +universal voices of congregations is by a number, not less than four, nor +more than twelve, being <i>appointed</i> by the authority of the clergyman or +minister, to sing with correct harmony, and with rather a louder tone than +they might do if only an ordinary singer in the worship of the day as a +congregational attendant. Those four (or more) voices would have the +effect, in a few months, of producing a great improvement in the singing +by the congregation at large; but such an <i>appointment</i> must not be +alienated from its main purpose. These voices, scientifically as they will +be exercised, must not sing in solos, duos, trios, or quartettes; they +must be faithful to their institution, and must <i>lead the congregation;</i> +not merely exhibit themselves, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page115" name="page115"></a>[pg 115]</span> + like the professional singers in the Roman +Catholic chapels, but direct the voices of all that may feel the animating +force of the 89th Psalm—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Lord God of hosts thy wond'rous ways,</p> + <p class="i2"><i>Are sung by saints above!</i></p> + <p>And saints on earth their honours raise</p> + <p class="i2">To thy unchanging love!</p> +</div></div> + +<p>The only instance I have met with in any of the London churches or chapels +of the Church of England (there may be others) is at the St. James's +Chapel, near Mornington Place, on the road to Hampstead. I attended at +that place of worship lately, and was delighted with the whole of the +services, wishing only that greater numbers of the congregation had joined +in the singing, which was conducted precisely on the principle of four +being appointed to lead the congregation: the four voices were excellent, +and naturally and easily led many to join, and I cannot doubt, but that +this superior arrangement, whoever was the author, will tend to make the +singing in that chapel an example to many others.</p> + +<p>I lament that I am obliged to leave town, and may not be here again for +several months, but when I do, I shall humbly offer my services to the +clergyman of the chapel, for the improvement of so judicious a plan, and +extending it to other chapels of the same parish.</p> + +<p>I should offer some apology for not having noticed the discourses, though +my remarks originate and have been chiefly confined to the psalmody. I +will not, however, let this opportunity pass of saying the sermons, both +morning and evening, were excellent, the attention of every part of the +congregation was great; throughout all the services there was, while the +minister was speaking, and the people not required to join, a most +interesting but attentive silence, and in the evening I retired with a +sympathetic feeling which I cannot describe.</p> + +<p>In my next (should this receive your attention) I shall send you a few +remarks on the psalmody of the new churches of Marylebone and Trinity.</p> + +<p>CHRISTIANUS,</p> +<p><i>A Cathedral Chorister</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>THE LAY FROM HOME.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Its music beareth o'er my widow'd heart</p> + <p>A tale of vanish'd innocence and love,</p> + <p>And bliss that screw'd around the ark of life</p> + <p>Sweet flow'rs of summer hue. It hath the tone,</p> + <p>The very tone which wrapt my spirit up,</p> + <p>In silent dreams mid visions. Oft, at eve,</p> + <p>I heard it wandering thro' the silver air,</p> + <p>As if some sylph had witch'd the stringed shell</p> + <p>Of woods and lonely fountains:—and the birds</p> + <p>That sang in the blue glow of heaven, the trees</p> + <p>That whisper'd like a timid maiden's lips,</p> + <p>The bees that kiss'd their bride-flow'rs into sleep,</p> + <p>All breath'd the spell of that enchanting lay!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>Whence came it now? perchance from yonder dell,</p> + <p>O'er which the skies, in sunny beauty fix'd,</p> + <p>Their sapphire mantle hang. Its Eden home</p> + <p>Is in some beauteous place where faces beam</p> + <p>In loveliness and joy! To hail the morn,</p> + <p>The infant pours it from his rosy mouth,</p> + <p>Ere, o'er the fields, with blissful heart he roams,</p> + <p>To watch the syren lark, or mark the sun</p> + <p>Surround with golden light the rainbow clouds.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>That music-lay awak'd within my heart</p> + <p>Thoughts, that had wept themselves to death, like clouds</p> + <p>In summer hours.—It brought before mine eyes</p> + <p>The haunts so often worshipped, the forms</p> + <p>Revealing heav'n and holiness in vain.</p> + <p>Alas, sweet lay, the freshness of the heart</p> + <p>Is wasted, like an unfed stream, away;</p> + <p>And dreams of Home, by Fancy treasurd up,</p> + <p>Remain as wrecks around the tomb of Being!</p> + </div></div> + +<p>REGINALD AUGUSTINE.</p> +<p><i>Deal</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TYRE.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>"And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy +harps shall be no more heard"—<i>Ezekiel</i>, chap. xxvi. verse 13.</p> + +<p>"It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." +<i>Ezekiel</i>, chap xxvi. verse 5.</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Thy harps are silent, mighty one!</p> + <p class="i2">Thy melody no more:</p> + <p>For ocean's mourning dirge alone</p> + <p class="i2">Breaks on thy rocky shore.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The fisher there his net has spread,</p> + <p class="i2">Thy prophecy to show;</p> + <p>Nor dreams he that thy doom was read,</p> + <p class="i2">Two thousand years ago.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>On Chebar's banks the captive seer,</p> + <p class="i2">Thy future ruin told:</p> + <p>Visions of woe, how true and clear,</p> + <p class="i2">With power divine unroll'd!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The tall ship there no more is riding,</p> + <p class="i2">Of Lebanon's proud cedars made;</p> + <p>But the wild waves ne'er cease their chiding,</p> + <p class="i2">Where Tyre's past pomp and splendour fade.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The traveller to thy desert shore</p> + <p class="i2">No cherish'd record found of thee;</p> + <p>But fragments rude are scatter'd o'er</p> + <p class="i2">Thy dreary land's blank misery.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The sounds of busy life were hush'd,</p> + <p class="i2">But still the moaning blast,</p> + <p>That o'er the rocky barrier rush'd,</p> + <p class="i2">Sang wildly as it pass'd:—</p> + <p>Spirit of Time, thine echoes woke,</p> + <p>And thus the mighty Genius spoke:—</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>"Seek no more, seek no more,</p> + <p>Splendour past and glories o'er,</p> + <p>Here bleak ruin ever reigns;</p> + <p>See him scatter o'er the plains,</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page116" name="page116"></a>[pg 116]</span> + <p>Arches broken, temples strew'd,</p> + <p>O'er the dreary solitude!</p> + <p>Long ago the words were spoken,</p> + <p>Words which never can be broken.</p> + <p>Where are now thy riches spread?</p> + <p>Where wilt thou thy commerce spread?</p> + <p>Thou shalt be sought but found no more!</p> + <p>Wanderers to thy desert shore</p> + <p>Former splendours bring thee never,</p> + <p>Tyre is fallen, fallen forever!"</p> +</div></div> + +<p><i>Kirton Lindsey</i>.</p> +<p> +ANNIE R.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART. +<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a> +<a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Let science weep and droop her head,</p> + <p>Her favourite champion, Davy's dead!</p> + <p>The brightest star among the bright,</p> + <p>Alas! has ceased to shed its <i>light</i>.</p> + <p>Yet say not darkness reigns alone,</p> + <p>While "Safety Lamps" are burning on,</p> + <p>And shedding <i>life</i> that never dies.</p> + <p>Around the tomb where Davy lies</p> +</div></div> + +<p>J.F.C.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HAMPTON COURT:<br /> + +BIRTH OF EDWARD THE SIXTH, AND DEATH OF QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>Every hint, every ray of light, which tends, in the most distant manner, +to illustrate an obscure passage in the history of our country, cannot we +presume, while it affords great pleasure and satisfaction to the student +attentively employed in such researches, be deemed either insignificant or +uninteresting by the general reader.</p> + +<p>The birth of Edward the Sixth must always be regarded as a bright star in +the horizon of the Reformation, and one, which tended greatly to blast the +prospects of those who were inimical to that glorious change in our +religious constitution.</p> + +<p>The marriage of Henry the Eighth, with the Lady Jane Seymour, +<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a> +<a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> +immediately after the death of his former Queen, Anne Boleyn, is so well +known as to render it superfluous, if not presuming in us to enlarge upon +it in this place: suffice it to say, that the nuptials were celebrated on +the day following the execution of Anne, the twentieth of May, 1536, the +King "not thinking it fit to mourn long, or much, for one the law had +declared criminall."<a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a> +<a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> Old Fuller says, "it is currantly traditioned, +that at her [Jane's] first coming to court, Queen <i>Anne Bolen</i> espying a +jewell pendant about her neck, snatched thereat, (desirous to see, the +other unwilling to show it,) and casually hurt her <i>hand</i> with her own +violence; but it grieved her <i>heart</i> more, when she perceived it the +King's picture by himself bestowed upon her, who from this day forward +dated her own <i>declining</i> and the other's <i>ascending</i> in her husband's +affection."<a id="footnotetag5" name="footnotetag5"></a> +<a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> About seventeen months after her marriage at the Palace of +Hampton Court, Queen Jane gave birth to a son, Edward the Sixth.</p> + +<p>The precise period of the birth of this prince has been variously stated +by historians. Sir John Hayward,<a id="footnotetag6" name="footnotetag6"></a> +<a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a> who bestowed considerable labour upon +writing his life, places it on the seventeenth of October, 1537; while +Sanders,<a id="footnotetag7" name="footnotetag7"></a> +<a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a> on the other hand, fixes it on the tenth. Herbert, Godwin, +<a id="footnotetag8" name="footnotetag8"></a> +<a href="#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a> +and Stow, whom, all +<a id="footnotetag9" name="footnotetag9"></a> +<a href="#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a> his more modern biographers have followed, agree +that it happened on the twelfth of the same month, and their testimony is +fully corroborated by the following official letter, addressed to Cromwell, +Lord Privy Seal, informing him of the birth of a prince:—</p> + +<center><i>By the Quene</i>.</center> + +<p>"Right trustie and right welbeloved, wee grete you well; and, forasmuche +as by the inestimable goodnes and grace of Almighty God wee be delivered +and brought in childbed of a Prince, conceived in most lawfull matrimonie +between my Lord the King's Majestie and us; doubtinge not but, for the +love and affection which ye beare unto us, and to the commonwealth of this +realme, the knowledge thereof should be joyous and glad tydeings unto you, +we have thought good to certifie you of the same, to th' intent you might +not onely render unto God condigne + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page117" name="page117"></a>[pg 117]</span> + thanks and praise for soe greate a +benefit but alsoe continuallie praie for the longe continuance and +preservacion of the same here in this life, to the honour of God, joy and +pleasure of my Lord the Kinge and us, and the universall weale, quiett, +and tranquillitie of this hole realm."</p> + +<p>"Given under our Signet, att my Lord's Mannor of Hampton Courte, the xii +daie of October."<a id="footnotetag10" name="footnotetag10"></a> +<a href="#footnote10"><sup>10</sup></a></p> + +<p>Edward was christened with great state, on the Monday following, in the +chapel at Hampton Court, Archbishop Cranmer, and the Duke of Norfolk being +the godfathers, and his sister, the Princess Mary, godmother. +<a id="footnotetag11" name="footnotetag11"></a> +<a href="#footnote11"><sup>11</sup></a> "At his +birth," says Hall, "was great fires made through the whole realme, and +great joye made with thankesgeuyng to Almightie God which had sent so +noble a prince to succeed to the crowne of this realme." +<a id="footnotetag12" name="footnotetag12"></a> +<a href="#footnote12"><sup>12</sup></a></p> + +<p>The joy, however, which the birth of a son and heir to the throne, excited +in the mind of Henry was soon dispelled by the death of his queen. It was +deemed necessary, both for the preservation of her life, and that of her +offspring, to bring the latter into the world by means of the Caesarian +operation, a mode which in the greater number of cases proves fatal to the +mother. It has been maliciously, and without the least appearance of truth, +asserted by Sanders, +<a id="footnotetag13" name="footnotetag13"></a> +<a href="#footnote13"><sup>13</sup></a> one of the most bitter writers of the opposite +party, that the question was put to the King by the physicians, whether +the life of the Queen or the child should be saved, for it was judged +impossible to preserve both? "The child's," he replied, "for I shall be +able to find wives enough." Whether, however, her death originated from +that terrible cause, we cannot, at this distant period, pretend to affirm, +but from the report to the Privy Council of the birth of Edward the Sixth, +still extant, it would appear not, as it informs us she was "happily" +delivered, and died afterwards of a distemper incidental to women in that +condition.</p> + +<p>The death of Jane Seymour, like the birth of her son, is involved in +considerable obscurity. Most of the chroniclers who appear to have +followed Herbert +<a id="footnotetag14" name="footnotetag14"></a> +<a href="#footnote14"><sup>14</sup></a> in this particular, fix it on the fourteenth of +October, two days after the birth of Edward; Hayward, on the contrary, +states that "shee dyed of the incision on the fourth day following," while +Edward the Sixth, in his journal, written by himself, informs us, but +without stating any precise period, that it happened "within a few dayes +after the birth of her soone." +<a id="footnotetag15" name="footnotetag15"></a> +<a href="#footnote15"><sup>15</sup></a> We shall, however, see from the +following letter, that this event did not take place on either of the +abovementioned days, nor until "duodecimo post die," as George Lilly truly +informs us, the day also mentioned in the journal of Cecil. +<a id="footnotetag16" name="footnotetag16"></a> +<a href="#footnote16"><sup>16</sup></a> This +original document respecting the health of the Queen, which is still +extant, is signed by Thomas Rutland, and five other medical men, is dated +on a Wednesday, which if it were only the following Wednesday, and we +shall presently prove that it was not, would, at least, make it five days +afterwards.</p> + +<p>"These shal be to advertise yor lordship of the Quenes estate. Yesterdaie +afternonne she had an naturall laxe, by reason whereof she beganne sumwhat +to lyghten, and (as it appeared,) to amende; and so contynued till towards +night. All this night she hath bene very syck, and doth rather appaire +than amend. Her Confessor hath bene with her grace this morning, and hath +done [all] that to his office apperteyneth, and even now is preparing to +minister to her grace the sacrament of unction. At Hampton Court, this +Wednesday mornyng, at viii of the clock." +<a id="footnotetag17" name="footnotetag17"></a> +<a href="#footnote17"><sup>17</sup></a></p> + +<p>As a further and additional proof of the date of her decease, we shall +refer our readers to a manuscript, preserved in the Herald's College, the +preamble of which runs as follows:—"An ordre taken and made for the +interrement of the most high, most excellent, and most Chrysten Pryncess, +Jane, Quene of England, and of France, Lady of Ireland, and mother of the +most noble and puyssant Prynce Edward; which +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page118" name="page118"></a>[pg 118]</span> + deceasyd at Hampton Courte, +the xxixth yere of the reigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord Kyng Henry +the eight, her most dearest husband, the xxiiiith day of Octobre, beyng +Wedynsday, at nyght, xii of the clock; which departyng was the twelf day +after the byrthe of the said Prynce her Grace beying in childbed." By this +document it is fixed on the second Wednesday after the birth of the prince, +on the morning of which day, the abovementioned letter of her physicians +was undoubtedly written, as the ministering of the holy unction would show +that her death was fast approaching.</p> + +<p>The remains of Jane Seymour were conveyed with great solemnity to Windsor, +and interred in the choir of St. George's Chapel, on the 12th of November. +The following epitaph was inscribed to her memory:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> Phoenix Jana iacet, nato Phoenice dolendum,</p> +<p> Secala Phoenices nulla tulisse duas.</p> +</div></div> + +<p>Of which Fuller gives this quaint translation—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> Soon as her Phoenix Bud was blown,</p> +<p> Root-Phoenix Jane did wither,</p> +<p> Sad, that no age a brace had shown</p> +<p> Of Phoenixes together.</p> +</div></div> + +<p>The funeral rites were solemnized according to the forms of the Catholic +faith. The original letter +<a id="footnotetag18" name="footnotetag18"></a> +<a href="#footnote18"><sup>18</sup></a> from Richard Gresham to the Lord Privy Seal, +dated "Thurssdaye the viiith day of Novbr." is still preserved, proposing +that a solemn dirge, and masses should be said for the soul of the late +Queen Jane, in St. Paul's, in presence of the Mayor, Alderman, and +Commoners, which were accordingly performed, as appears from the following +passage in Holinshed:—"There was a solemne hearse made for her in Paule's +Church, and funerall exequies celebrated, as well as in all other churches +within the Citie of London." +<a id="footnotetag19" name="footnotetag19"></a> +<a href="#footnote19"><sup>19</sup></a></p> + +<p>S.I.B.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<h2>THE NOVELIST.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE HEARTHSTONE.—A GERMAN TRADITIONAL TALE.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>Frantz did not at all like his new benefice; his parishioners were +evidently idle, ill-disposed people, doing no credit to the ministry of +the deceased incumbent; and looking with eyes any thing but respectful and +affectionate upon their new pastor. In short, he foresaw a host of +troubles; although he had not taken possession of his living for more than +two days. Neither did he admire the lonely situation of his house, which, +gloomy and old fashioned, needed (at least so thought the polished Frantz, +just emerged from the puny restraints and unlimited licenses of college) +nothing less than a total rebuilding to render it inhabitable. His own +sleeping apartment he liked less than all; but what could be done? It was +decidedly the only decent dormitory in the house—had been that of the +late pastor—and there was no help for it—could not but be his own. The +young minister was wretched—lamented without ceasing the enjoyments of +Leipzig—missed the society of his fellow students, and actually began to +meditate taking a wife. But upon whom should his election fall? He caused +all his female acquaintances to pass in mental review before him; some +were fair—some wealthy—some altogether angelic; but Frantz was not Grand +Seignior, and he allowed himself to be puzzled in a matter where every +sentiment of love and honour ought to have, without hesitation, determined +his choice; for in his rainbow visions of bright beauty and ethereal +perfection, appeared the lonely and lovely Adelinda. Adelinda, the poor, +the fond, the devoted, and, but for him, the innocent. No; beautiful and +loving as she was, connected with her were the brooding shadows of guilt, +and the lurid clouds of fiery vengeance; and Frantz had rather not think +of Adelinda.</p> + +<p>On the morning of the third day of his residence at Steingart, he happened +to awake very early; being summertime it was broad daylight, and a bright +sun was endeavouring to beam upon his countenance through the small +lozenges of almost opaque glass which filled the high, narrow, and many +paned window. Not feeling inclined to sleep, nor for the present to rise, +Frantz laid for some time in deep reverie, with his eyes fixed, as some +would have deemed, upon the door; and as others, more justly, would have +thought upon vacancy. As he gazed, however, he was suddenly conscious that +the door slowly and sullenly swung open, and admitted three strangers; a +man of tall and graceful figure, and of a comely but melancholy aspect, +arrayed in a long, loose and dark morning gown; he led two young and +lovely children, whose burnished golden hair, pale, clear, tranquil +countenances and snow-white garments gave them the appearance of celestial +intelligences. Frantz, terrified and confounded, followed with his eyes +those whom he could +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page119" name="page119"></a>[pg 119]</span> + but fancy to be apparitions, as with noiseless steps +they walked, or rather glided, towards a table which stood near the +fireplace; upon this laid the parish register, coming in front of which, +the man opened it with a solemn air, and turning over a few pages, pointed +with his finger to some record, upon which the fair children seemed to +gaze with interest and attention. The trio smiled mournfully at each other, +then moving so that they stood upon the hearth immediately opposite the +foot of Frantz's bed, and facing the affrighted young minister, he had +full leisure to contemplate his strange visiters. That they were of a +superhuman nature, he was warranted in concluding from their appearance in +so solitary a place as Steingart—from their unceremonious <i>entrĂ©e</i> at +that unusual hour into his dormitory, and from their movements, actions, +and awful silence. Frantz endeavoured to recollect the form of adjuration, +and also that of exorcism, commonly employed to tranquillize the turbulent +departed, but vainly; his brain was giddy; his thoughts distracted; his +heart throbbed to agony with terror, and his tongue refused its office. +With a violent effort he sprang up in his bed, and in his address to the +speechless trio, had proceeded as far as—"In the name of—" when the +children sank down into the very hearthstone upon which they stood, and +the man—Frantz saw not whither <i>he</i> went—perhaps up the chimney—but go +he certainly did.</p> + +<p>The terrified young man leapt in a state of desperation from his bed, and +searched the apartment narrowly, as people commonly, but foolishly, are +wont to do in similar cases. His search, as might have been expected, was +useless; but not liking at present to alarm his domestics with a report of +the house being haunted, he resolved to await further evidences of the +supernatural visitation. Next morning at about the same hour, the +apparitions again entered his apartment; and acting as they had previously +done, gazed earnestly at him for some seconds ere they vanished. On the +morning of the third day the trio appeared again, when the gentleman of +the long robe, looking most earnestly at Frantz, pointed to the register, +the children, and the hearthstone; and then, as usual, disappeared under +the same circumstances as before.</p> + +<p>Frantz was much distressed; he could not exactly comprehend the meaning of +this dumb show; and yet felt that some dire mystery was connected with +these phantoms, which he was called upon to unravel. After breakfast he +wandered out, and lost in the maze of thought, sauntered, ere he was aware +of it, into the churchyard. Shortly afterwards the church-door was opened +by the sexton, who kept his pickaxe and mattock in a corner of the belfry, +and Frantz remembering that as yet he had not entered the church, followed +him in, and was struck with the appearance of many portraits which hung +round the walls.</p> + +<p>"What are these?" said he.</p> + +<p>"The pictures, sir, of all your predecessors; know you not, that in some +of our country churches it is the custom to hang up the likenesses of all +the gentlemen who ever held the living?"</p> + +<p>Frantz, in a tone of indifference, replied, that he fancied he had heard +of such a thing.</p> + +<p>"'Tis, sir," continued the man, "a custom with which you must comply at +any rate. Why, bad as was our last pastor Herr Von Weetzer, he honoured us +so far, that there hangs <i>his</i> picture."</p> + +<p>Frantz advanced to view a newly painted portrait, which hung last in the +line of his predecessors; and then the young man started back, changed +colour, and the deadly faintness of terror seized his relaxing frame; for +in it he recognised, exact in costume and features, the perfect likeness +of his adult spectral visiter!</p> + +<p>"Good God!" cried Frantz, "how very extraordinary!"</p> + +<p>"A nice looking man, sir," said the sexton, not noticing his emotion; +"pity 'tis that he was so wicked."</p> + +<p>"Wicked!" exclaimed Frantz, almost unconscious of what he said; "how +wicked?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, sir, I can't exactly say how wicked; but a bad gentleman was Mr. Von +Weetzer, that's certain."</p> + +<p>"Wicked! well—was he married?" asked Frantz, with apparent unconcern.</p> + +<p>"Why, no, sir;" replied the sexton, with a significant look; "people do +say he was not; but if all tales be true that are rife about him, 'tis a +sure thing he ought to have been."</p> + +<p>"Hah! hum!" muttered Frantz, and a slight blush tinged his fine +countenance. "His children you say—"</p> + +<p>"Lord, sir! I said nothing about them—who told you? Few folks at +Steingart, I guess, knew he had any but myself. 'Tis thought the poor +things did not come fairly by their ends; and for certain, I never buried +them!"</p> + +<p>Frantz stood for some minutes absorbed in thought; at length he said— +"were they baptized? I have a reason for asking."</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page120" name="page120"></a>[pg 120]</span> +<p>"Perhaps sir, it is, that you are thinking if the poor, little, innocent +creatures were not christened, they'd no right to be laid in consecrated +ground."</p> + +<p>"No matter what I think; I believe I have the register."</p> + +<p>"You have, sir; please then to look at page 197, line 19, and I fancy +you'll find the names of Gertrude and Erhard Dow, ('twas their poor +<i>misfortunate</i> mother's sirname,) down as baptized."</p> + +<p>"I have," interrupted Frantz, with an air of extreme solemnity, "seen, as +I believe, those children and their father!"</p> + +<p>"Mein Gott!" cried the sexton in excessive alarm—"<i>seen</i> them?—Seen +<i>Herr Von Weetzer!</i> They do say he walks—dear, dear!—and after the +shocking unchristian death that he died too! Where, sir? Where and when?"</p> + +<p>"No matter, I also have my suspicions."</p> + +<p>"He murdered them himself, sir—the wicked man! 'Twasn't their mother, my +poor niece, God rest her soul! She died as easy as a lamb. Indeed, indeed, +it wasn't her."</p> + +<p>"Bring your tools," said Frantz, "and come with me."</p> + +<p>He led the sexton to his chamber—desired him to raise the mysterious +hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it. This was accordingly done, +and in a few minutes, with sentiments of unspeakable pity and horror, +Frantz beheld the fleshless remains of two children, who apparently from +the size of the bones must have been about the age and figure, when +deposited there, of the little phantoms. He found also upon turning to the +register, that it laid open at the very page named by the sexton; and on +the very spot which the apparition of the wretched Von Weetzer had +indicated by his finger, was duly entered the baptism of the murdered +children; and the sexton readily turned to the entries of their birth in +other parts of the volume. Frantz interred the remains of these +unfortunate beings in consecrated ground—immediately quitted Steingart— +resigned a preferment which had (from the singularly terrible incident +thus connected with his possession of it) equally alarmed and disgusted +him—<i>married Adelinda</i> upon his return to Leipzig—and gradually became +an exemplary member of Society.</p> +<p> +M.L.B. +</p> +<hr /> + +<p>Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.—<i>Swift</i>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD.</h3> + +<div class="figure" style="width:50%; float: right;"><a href="images/386-002.png"> +<img width = "50%" src="images/386-002.png" alt="NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD." /></a></div> + +<p>This is one of the most interesting objects in the whole compass of +Natural History. The little architect is called the <i>Taylor Bird, Taylor +Wren</i>, or <i>Taylor Warbler</i>, from the art with which it makes its nest, +sewing some dry leaves to a green one at the extremity of a twig, and thus +forming a hollow cone, which it afterwards lines. The general construction +of the nest, as well as a description of a specimen in Dr. Latham's +collection, will be found at page 180, of vol. xiii. of the MIRROR.</p> + +<p>The Taylor Bird is only about three and a half inches in length, and +weighs, it is said, three-sixteenths of an ounce; the plumage above is +pale olive yellow; chin and throat yellow; breast and belly dusky white. +It inhabits India, and particularly the Islands of Ceylon. The eggs are +white, and not much larger than what are called ant's eggs. +<a id="footnotetag20" name="footnotetag20"></a> +<a href="#footnote20"><sup>20</sup></a></p> + +<p>In constructing the nest, the beak performs the office of drilling in the +leaves the necessary holes, and passing the fibres through them with the +dexterity of a tailor. Even such parts in the rear as are not sufficiently +firm are sewed in like manner.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>IVY.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Gilbert Burnett thus beautifully illustrates the transitorial +metamorphosis of ivy:—</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page121" name="page121"></a>[pg 121]</span> +<p>"The ivy, in its infant or very young state, has stalks trailing upon the +ground, and protruding rootlets throughout their whole extent; its leaves +are spear-shaped, and it bears neither flower nor fruit; this is termed +<i>ivy creeping on the ground</i>. The same plant, when more advanced, quits +the ground, and climbs on walls and trees, its rootlets becoming holdfasts +only; its leaves are generally three or five lobed, and it is still barren; +this is the <i>greater barren ivy</i>. In its next, or more mature state, it +disdains all props, and rising by its own strength above the walls on +which it grew, occasionally puts on the appearance of a tree; in this the +flower of its age, the branches are smooth, devoid of radicles and +holdfasts; and it is loaded with blossoms and with fruit; the lobulations +of the leaves are likewise less; this is the <i>war-poet's ivy</i>. But when +old, the ivy again becomes barren, again the suckers appear upon the stem, +and the leaves are no longer lobed, but egg-shaped; this is the +<i>Bacchanalian ivy</i>."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>MICROSCOPIC AMUSEMENT.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Carpenter, in <i>Gill's Repository</i>, speaking of the fine displays of +anatomy and wonderful construction of insects, creatures so much "despised, +and which are, indeed, but too often made the subject of wanton sport by +many persons, who amuse their children by passing a pin through the bottom +of their abdomen, in order to excite pain and long-suffering in the insect, +and thus making them spin, as they ignorantly term it," has the following +most humane and benevolent observations:—"Many of these cruel sports +might undoubtedly be effectively checked, if the teachers of schools were +occasionally to exhibit to their pupils, under the microscope, the various +parts of an insect with which they are familiar; and, by interesting +lectures of instruction, to point out the uses to which those parts are +applied by the insect, for its preservation and comfort; and that, when +they are deprived of them, or they are even injured, a degree of suffering +takes place in the creature, which the children at present seem to be +wholly uninformed of. I certainly think that, if the abovementioned useful +lessons were inculcated, they would afford a check to those cruel +propensities in many children, which they at present indulge in, for want +of being better instructed."</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ROYAL PROGRESSES, OR VISITS.</h3> + +<p>The celebrity attendant on a royal visit adhered long to places as well as +persons. A chamber in the decayed tower of Hoghton, in Lancashire, still +bears the name of James the First's room. Elizabeth's apartment, and that +of her maids of honour, are still known at Weston House, in Warwickshire; +her walk "marked by old thorn-bushes," at Hengrave, in Norfolk; near +Harefield, the farm-house where she was welcomed by allegorical personages; +at Bisham Abbey, the well in which she bathed; and at Beddington, in +Surrey, her favourite oak. She often shot with a cross-bow in the paddock +at Oatlands. At Hawsted, in Suffolk, she is reported to have dropped a +silver-handled fan into the moat; and an old approach to Kenninghall Place, +in Norfolk, is called Queen Bess's Lane, because she was scratched by the +brambles in riding through it.—<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>SHAKSPEARE'S MACBETH.</h3> + +<p>During one of the progresses of James I. on passing the gate of St. John's +College, at Oxford, his majesty was saluted by three youths, representing +the weird sisters (sibyllae,) who, in Latin hexameters, bade the +descendant of Banquo hail, as king of Scotland, king of England, and king +of Ireland; and his queen as daughter, sister, wife, and mother of kings. +The occasion is memorable in dramatic history, if it be true that this +address, or a translation of it, led Shakspeare to write on the story of +Macbeth. Much has been said for the probability of this supposition; but +surely the legend of Macbeth and Banquo must have been abundantly +discoursed of in England between James's accession and the year when this +pageant was exhibited; and Shakspeare could find every circumstance +alluded to by the Oxford speakers, and many more in Holinshed's Chronicle, +which, through a great part of Macbeth, he has undoubtedly taken for his +guide.—<i>Ibid</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>CHINESE DRAMA.</h3> + +<p>The Chinese themselves make no technical distinctions between <i>tragedy</i> +and <i>comedy</i> in their stage pieces;—the dialogue of which is composed in +ordinary prose, while the principal performer now and then chants forth, +in unison with music, a species of song or vaudeville, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page122" name="page122"></a>[pg 122]</span> + and the name of the +tune or air is always inserted at the top of the passage to be sung.— +<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE HAWTHORN.</h3> + +<p>The trunk of an old hawthorn is more gnarled and rough than, perhaps, that +of any other tree; and this, with its hoary appearance, and its fragrance, +renders it a favourite tree with pastoral and rustic poets, and with those +to whom they address their songs. Milton, in his L'Allegro, has not +forgotten this favourite of the village:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Every shepherd tells his tale</p> + <p>Under the hawthorn in the dale."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>When Burns, with equal force and delicacy, delineates the pure and +unsophisticated affection of young, intelligent, and innocent country +people, as the most enchanting of human feelings, he gives additional +sweetness to the picture by placing his lovers</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Beneath the milk-white thorn, that scents the evening gale."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>There is something about the tree, which one bred in the country cannot +soon forget, and which a visiter learns, perhaps, sooner than any +association of placid delight connected with rural scenery. When, too, the +traveller, or the man of the world, after a life spent in other pursuits, +returns to the village of his nativity, the old hawthorn is the only +playfellow of his boyhood that has not changed. His seniors are in the +grave; his contemporaries are scattered; the hearths at which he found a +welcome are in the possession of those who know him not; the roads are +altered; the houses rebuilt; and the common trees have grown out of his +knowledge: but be it half a century or more, if man spare the old hawthorn, +it is just the same—not a limb, hardly a twig, has altered from, the +picture that memory traces of his early years.—<i>Library of Entertaining +Knowledge</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TURKISH JOKE.</h3> + +<p>When the Caliph Haroun el Raschid (who was the friend of the great +Charlemagne,) entertained Ebn Oaz at his court in the quality of jester, +he desired him one day, in the presence of the Sultana and all her +followers, to make an excuse worse than the crime it was intended to +extenuate: the Caliph walked about, waiting for a reply. Alter a long +pause, Ebn Oaz skulked behind the throne, and pinched his highness in the +rear. The rage of the Caliph was unbounded. "I beg a thousand pardons of +your Majesty," said Ebn Oaz, "but I thought it was her Highness the +Sultana." This was the excuse worse than the crime; and of course the +jester was pardoned.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>FUND AND REFUND.</h3> + +<p>Disappointment at the theatre is a bad thing: but the manager returning +admission money is worse. Sheridan, who understood professional feelings +on this subject in the most acute degree, was in the habit of saying that +he could give words to the chagrin of a conqueror, on seeing the fruit of +his victories snatched from him; or the miseries of a broken down minister, +turned out in the moment when he thought the cabinet at his mercy; or a +felon listening to a long winded sermon from the ordinary; or a debtor +just fallen into the claws of a dun; but that he never could find words to +express the sensibilities of a manager compelled to disgorge money once +taken at his doors. "<i>Fund</i>," says this experienced ornament of the art of +living by one's wits, "<i>fund</i> is an excellent word; but <i>re-fund</i> is the +very worst in the language."—<i>Monthly Magazine</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>COURT SQUABBLES.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Crawfurd, in his <i>Embassy</i>, describes the following ludicrous scene +arising from a misunderstanding between the sovereign of Birmah and his +ministers:—"The ministers last night reported to the king the progress of +the negotiation. His majesty was highly indignant, said his confidence had +been abused, and that now, for the first time, he was made acquainted with +the real state of affairs. He accused the ministers of falsehoods, +malversations, and all kinds of offences. His displeasure did not end in +mere words; he drew his DĂ , or sword, and sallied forth in pursuit of the +offending courtiers. These took to immediate flight, some leaping over the +balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience, but the +greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it; and in the +confusion which attended their endeavours, (tumbling head over heels,) one +on top of another. Such royal paroxysms are pretty frequent, and, although +attended with considerable sacrifices of the kingly dignity, are always +bloodless. The late king was less subject to these fits of anger than his +present majesty, but he also occasionally forgot himself. Towards the +close of his reign, and when on a pilgrimage to the great temple of +Mengwan, a circumstance of this description +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page123" name="page123"></a>[pg 123]</span> + took place, which was +described by an European gentleman, himself present, and one of the +courtiers. The king had detected something flagitious, which would not +have been very difficult. His anger rose; he seized his spear, and +attacked the false ministers. These, with the exception of the European, +who was not a party to the offence, fled tumultuously. One hapless +courtier had his heels tripped up in his flight; the king overtook him, +and wounded him slightly in the calf of the leg with his spear, but took +no farther vengeance."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>LULLABY.</h3> + +<p>SHAKSPEARE, in <i>Titus Andronicus</i>, says,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Be unto us, as is a nurse's song</p> + <p>Of <i>Lullaby</i> to bring her babe to sleep."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on +this.</p> + +<p>"The verb <i>to lull</i>, means to sing Gently, and it is connected with the +Greek λαλεω [Greek: laleo], loquor, or λαλα [Greek: lala], the sound made by the +beach of the sea. The Roman nurses used the word <i>lalla</i>, to quiet their +children, and they feigned a deity called <i>Lullus</i>, whom they invoked on +that occasion; the lullaby, or tune itself was called by the same name."— +<i>Douce</i>.</p> + +<p><i>Lullaby</i> is supposed a contraction for <i>Lull-a-baby</i>. The Welsh are +celebrated for their Lullaby songs, and a good Welsh nurse, with a +pleasing voice, has been sometimes found more soporific in the nursery, +than the midwife's anodyne. The contrary effects of Swift's song, "Here we +go up, up, up," and the smile-provoking melody of "Hey diddle, diddle," +<i>cum multis aliis</i>, are too well known to be enumerated or disputed. "The +Good Nurse" give us a chapter on the advantage of employing music in +certain stages of protracted illness.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>GOOD NIGHT.</h3> + +<p>In northern Europe we may, without impropriety, say good night! to +departing friends at any hour of darkness; but the Italians utter their +Felicissima Notte only once. The arrival of candles marks the division +between day and night, and when they are brought in, the Italians thus +salute each other. How impossible it is to convey the exact properties of +a foreign language by translation! Every word, from the highest to the +lowest, has a peculiar significance, determinable only by an accurate +knowledge of national and local attributes and peculiarites.</p> + +GOETHE.—<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For The Mirror</i>.)</h4> + +<p>In the year 1696, Mr. Henry Winstanley, undertook to build the Eddystone +Lighthouse, and in 1700 he completed it. So confident was this ingenious +mechanic of the stability of his edifice, that he declared his wish to be +in it during the most tremendous storm that could arise. This wish he +unfortunately obtained, for he perished in it during the dreadful storm +which destroyed it, November 27th, 1703. While he was there with his +workmen and light-keepers, that dreadful storm began, which raged most +violently on the night of the 26th of the month, and appears to have been +one of the most tremendous ever experienced in Great Britain, for its vast +and extensive devastation. The next morning, at daybreak, the hurricane +increased to a degree unparalleled; and the lighthouse no longer able to +sustain its fury, was swept into the bosom of the deep, with all its +ill-fated inmates. When the storm abated, about the 29th, people went off +to see if any thing remained, but nothing was left save a few large irons, +whereby the work had been so fastened into a clink, that it could never +afterwards be disengaged, till it was cut out in the year 1756. The +lighthouse had not long been destroyed, before the Winchelsea, a +Virginiaman, laden with tobacco, for Plymouth, was wrecked on the +Eddystone rocks in the night, and every soul perished.</p> + +<p>Smeaton, in his Narrative of the <i>Construction of the Eddystone +Lighthouse</i>, says, "Winstanley had distinguished himself in a certain +branch of mechanics, the tendency of which is to excite wonder and +surprise. He had at his house at Littlebury, in Essex, a set of +contrivances, such as the following:—Being taken into one particular room +of his house, and there observing an old slipper carelessly lying in the +middle of the floor, if, as was natural, you gave it a kick with your foot, +up started a ghost before you; if you sat down in a certain chair, a +couple of arms would immediately clasp you in, so as to render it +impossible for you to disengage yourself till your attendant set you at +liberty; and if you sat down in a certain arbour by the side of a canal, +you were +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page124" name="page124"></a>[pg 124]</span> + forthwith sent out afloat into the middle, from whence it was +impossible for you to escape till the manager returned you to your former +place."</p> + +<p>Mr. John Smeaton, who erected the Eddystone Lighthouse, in the years +1757-58 and 59, was born on the 28th, of May, 1724, at Ansthorpe, near +Leeds. The strength of his understanding, and the originality of his +genius, (says his biographer) appeared at an early age: his playthings +were not the playthings of children, but the tools which men employ, and +when he was a mere child he appeared to take greater pleasure in seeing +the operations of workmen, and asking them questions, than in any thing +else. Before he was six years old, he was once discovered at the top of +his father's barn, fixing up what he called a windmill of his own +construction, and at another time, while he was about the same age, he +attended some men fixing a pump, and observing them cut off a piece of a +bored part, he procured it, and actually made a pump, with which he raised +water. When he was under fifteen years of age, he made an engine for +turning, and worked several things in ivory and wood. He made all his own +tools for working in wood and metals, and he constructed a lathe, by which +he cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing but little known, and which was +the invention of Mr. Henry Hendley of York. His father was an attorney, +and being desirous to bring up his son to the same profession, he brought +him up to London with him in 1724, and attended the courts in Westminster +Hall; but after some time, finding that the law was not suited to his +disposition, he wrote a strong memorial to his father on the subject, who +immediately desired the young man to follow the bent of his inclination.</p> +<p> +P.T.W. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LINES</h3> + +<center><i>To a Friend who had spent some days at a Country Inn, in order to be +near the Writer.</i></center> + +<h4>BY MISS MITFORD</h4> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>The village inn, the woodfire burning bright,</p> + <p>The solitary taper's flickering light,</p> + <p>The lowly couch, the casement swinging free,—</p> + <p>My noblest friend, was this a place for thee?</p> + <p>No fitting place! Yet there, from all apart,</p> + <p>We poured forth mind for mind and heart for heart,</p> + <p>Ranging from idle words and tales of mirth</p> + <p>To the deep mysteries of heaven and earth</p> + <p>Yet there thine own sweet voice, in accents low,</p> + <p>First breathed Iphigenias tale of wee,</p> + <p>The glorious tale, by Goethe fitly told,</p> + <p>And cast as finely in an English mould</p> + <p>By Taylor's kindred spirit, high and bold: + <a id="footnotetag21" name="footnotetag21"></a> +<a href="#footnote21"><sup>21</sup></a></p> + <p>No fitting place! yet that delicious hour</p> + <p>Fell on my soul, like dewdrops on a flower</p> + <p>Freshening and nourishing and making bright</p> + <p>The plant, decaying less from time than blight,</p> + <p>Flinging Hope's sunshine o'er the faint dim aim,</p> + <p>Thy praise my motive, thine applause my fame.</p> + <p>No fitting place! yet (inconsistent strain</p> + <p>And selfish!) come, I prithee, come again!</p> +</div></div> + +<p>Three Mile Cross, Feb 1829.</p> +<p><i>Sharpe's Magazine</i>.</p> + + + +<hr /> + +<h3>ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLIES.</h3> + +<p>We have been amused with a light pattering paper in Nos. 1. and 2. of +Sharpe's London Magazine—entitled "<i>Illustrious Visiters</i>." Its only +fault is extreme length, it being nearly thirty pages, and, as some people +would say, "all about nothing." But some will think otherwise, and smile +at the sly shafts which are let fly at our national follies, of which, it +must be owned, we have a very great share. We ought to premise that the +framework of the satire is a visit of the Court Cards to our metropolis, a +pretty considerable hit at some recent royal visits. Of course, they see +every thing worth seeing, and some of their remarks are truly piquant. The +spirit, or fun, of the article would evaporate in an abridgment, so we +will endeavour to give a few of the narrator's best points:—</p> + +<center> +<i>The Arrival</i>. +</center> + +<p>"On the day of their landing, the town of Dover was in a state of general +excitement; bells were ringing, colours flying, artillery saluting; and +the loyal inhabitants crowded forth to peep at the illustrious potentates. +Often and often, even from our earliest years, have we heard of the fame +of these kings and queens. Their pictures have been familiar to every eye; +<i>dealers</i> transmitted them into every <i>hand</i>; their colourless +extraordinary faces, their shapeless robes of every tint in the rainbow, +and their sky-blue wigs, are as well known to every Englishman, as the +head of his own revered monarch on a two-and-six-penny piece. Whenever +there is any thing to be seen, an Englishman must go and see it; and, in +the eager warmth of excited spirits, he will run after any vehicle, no +matter whether caravan or carriage; no matter whence it comes or whither +it goes; no matter whether its contents be a kangaroo or a cannibal chief, +a giraffe or a Princess Rusty Fusty. He hears of an arrival from foreign +parts, that is sufficient; a crowd is collected, and the 'interesting +stranger' is cheered +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page125" name="page125"></a>[pg 125]</span> + with enthusiasm, and speeds from town to town, graced +with all the honours of extemporaneous popularity."</p> + +<p>"I have already hinted that I consider it no business of <i>mine</i> to inquire +<i>why</i> these potentates came to England; perhaps it was no business of +<i>theirs</i> that brought them, but rather a party of pleasure; one of the +results of a general peace, which is very far from producing general +<i>quietness</i>; for when the sovereigns of remote countries become upon +visiting terms, hospitality throws wide her gates, and loyalty is +uproarious. They came, no doubt, like all our other royal exotics, from +the unfortunate sovereigns of the Sandwiches down to the Don of yesterday, +to see and to be seen; so, whilst the inhabitants of Dover shouted round +their carriages, they condescendingly acknowledged the greetings they +received, and proceeded on their journey towards the metropolis."</p> + +<center> +<i>Visit to the Theatre</i>. +</center> +<p>"Precisely at seven o'clock the party entered their box, which was +tastefully fitted up for their reception. They were received by the +proprietors, and managers, and acting managers, with the customary +etiquette, backing most adroitly up stairs, and holding wax candles in +their hands (which circumstance was properly stated in the papers the next +morning, for fear it should be supposed that tallow had been used on the +occasion.)</p> + +<p>"Far be it from ME, their most humble chronicler, to speak slightingly of +their Majesties of Hearts and Diamonds; on the contrary, I would maintain +a paper war with any one who dared to insinuate that these honours were +not dealt most fairly: but, on <i>some</i> occasions, I cannot help thinking +that these distinctions have been lavished rather injudiciously, and that +royalty has been made too common. I have seen our own beloved monarch in +public received with acclamations, ay, and with more than mouth honour— +with waving handkerchiefs, and full hearts, and eyes that overflowed. The +enthusiasm of such a welcome is honourable to the monarch who receives it, +and the subjects who bestow it; and let levellers say what they will, the +best feelings of our nature are brought into play on such occasions. There +is a <i>meaning</i> in such a welcome; and long, very long, may our monarch +live to witness proofs of attachment, which his heart well knows how to +appreciate. But there is no meaning whatever in placing a tattooed chief, +or a Hottentot Venus of the blood royal, on the same eminence: it is +<i>infra dig</i>.—can answer no good purpose, and brings the genuine +enthusiasm of loyalty into contempt. There is too much of the Dollalolla +in such an exhibition. When his majesty squats uneasily, as if he +considered his chair an inconvenience, and the queen wipes her ebony nose +with her illustrious white satin play bill. When the royal party entered, +the people seemed unable to contain their rapture, and God save the King +was called for. This is the established custom: whenever we look upon the +king of <i>another country</i>, we always stand up and sing, God save +<i>our own</i>!"</p> +<center> +<i>Club-House Comforts</i>. +</center> +<p>"Far more cheap, and far more commodious than hotels <i>used to be</i>, they +assuredly are; and country curates, poor poets, and gentlemen who live on +very small means, may now take a slice off <i>the</i> joint, with a quarter of +a pint of sherry, for next to nothing at all; sitting, at the same time, +with their feet on a Turkey carpet, lighted by ormolu chandeliers, +surrounded by gold and marble, and waited upon by liveried domestics, with +the additional glory of walking away, and 'giving nothing to the waiter.' +Nay, the more dainty gentleman may order his <i>cotelette aux tomates</i> and +his <i>omelette soufflĂ©</i>, at a moderate expense."</p> + +<p>"Men, in most countries, owe what they possess of suavity of manners to +their intercourse with female society; after the drudgery of a +professional morning, young men used to brush themselves up for their +evening flirtations; but now few feminine drawing-rooms can tempt them to +leave their luxurious palaces, where evening surtouts, and black +neckcloths, and boots, may be freely indulged in. The wife takes her chop, +and a half boiled potato at home, while her husband, who always has some +excuse for dining at his club, is sure to enjoy every thing, the best of +its kind, and cooked <i>Ă merveille</i>. The unmarried ladies lack partners at +balls; the beaux fall asleep after dinner on the downy cushions of the +sofas at <i>the</i> Club, or vote it a bore to dress of an evening, when they +are sure to meet pleasant fellows at the Alma Mater. As to the young +gentlemen who reap the advantages of these cheap and gilded houses of +accommodation, it may be questioned whether they are thus enabled +hereafter properly to appreciate the comforts of a home, the decorations +of the farm-house residence of a curate, or the plain cookery of the +farmer's wife, who +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page126" name="page126"></a>[pg 126]</span> + dresses his dinner without even <i>professing</i> to be a +cook."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>"The King of Spades went his rounds, accompanied by the most eminent +architects and engineers of the day. He dug deeply into the secret +histories of the foundations of our national buildings, saw through the +<i>dis</i>orders of the egg-shell school of architecture, kept clear of the +tottering lath and plaster of some of the new buildings, acknowledging +that if such materials <i>did</i> ever tumble down, it was a comfort to know +that they were considerably lighter than stone and cast iron. He felt a +great respect for such persons of rank as professed to be <i>supporters</i> of +the drama, trusting that they would keep the ceilings of the theatres from +tumbling into the pits. He spent great part of his time in the Thames +Tunnel, and if he ever felt a doubt respecting the ultimate success of +that <i>under</i>taking, he did justice to the enterprise and skill of its +projector, that illustrious mole, and sincerely wished that zeal and +talent might ultimately be crowned with success. He took shares in many +mining speculations, and, in many instances, lived to repent it; for he +got into troubled waters, and sought for his <i>ore</i> in vain. He attended +agricultural meetings, and endeavoured to comprehend that debatable query, +the corn question; he argued the point, like other great people, as if he +<i>did</i> understand it, and got into repute with the leading Chiropodists, or +corn cutters, of the day. He went to Cheltenham, and became proprietor of +an acre of ground, on which he dug a score wells, and professed to find at +the bottom of each of them, a spring of water sufficiently saline to +pickle the constitutions of all valetudinarians. He was horticultural to a +most praiseworthy extent, offering prizes to the ingenious young Meadowses +who bring forth gigantic gooseberries, supernatural strawberries, and +miraculous melons. He went into the country, and endeavoured to penetrate +beyond the mere surface of things, listening to the speeches of county +members, and dining diligently in warm weather with mayors, and people +with <i>corporations</i>. He endeavoured to detect the root of all evil, +investigated the ramifications of radical reform, and exposed the +ephemeral bulbous roots of speculation. Prejudice he found too deeply +rooted to be dug up very easily, whilst the fashions and follies of the +day seemed to him to lie so entirely on the surface of the soil, and to be +so shortlived, that to throw away any manual labour in an attempt to +eradicate them, would be absurd."</p> +<center> +<i>"Impossible" Amusements</i>. +</center> +<p>"At many of your amusements, the chief attraction consists in the extreme +bodily peril in which the exhibiter is placed. You took me to see a man +walk up a rope, to an immense height, and had his foot slipped, he must +have been dashed to pieces: the place was crowded with persons who were in +raptures; yet had the man been dancing on level ground, he would have +danced far better; and the merit of the dancer seemed to consist in his +giving the audience a <i>chance</i> of seeing him break his neck or dash his +brains out! If a foreigner were to announce that he would dance on a +pack-thread, he would ruin the ropedancer; because, as the thread would in +all probability break, his danger would be greater, and therefore his +exhibition would be incomparable! Then you all delight in distortions; if +a man can bend his back bone, or sit upon his head, you are in raptures, +and seem to think it a good joke to see a fellow creature shortening his +life. Then if any man will ride a dozen horses at once, without saddle or +bridle; or go into an oven and be baked brown, or eat a fire shovel full +of burning coals, or drink deadly poison, or fly off a church steeple, or +thrust a pointed instrument down his throat, or walk on a ceiling with his +head downwards, or go to sea in a washing tub, you would not lose the +sight for the world; you clap your hands, shout with delight, and hold up +your little children, that they may share papa and mamma's rational +amusement! and yet you tell me your national characteristic is humanity!"</p> +<center> +<i>A Man of Honour</i>. +</center> +<p>"Is Mr. Rabbitts a man of honour?"</p> + +<p>"In the strictest sense of the word."</p> + +<p>"Living at the rate of thousands a year, when his income is just so many +hundreds! furnishing his house magnificently without ever intending to pay +for a pipkin, and at last making a sudden disappearance, which closely +resembles what I have heard described as an Irish 'moonlight flitting,' +where a tenant, who is unable to pay his rent, departs at dead of night +with his wife and other <i>movables</i>, having previously thrashed his grain, +and left the straw in its place <i>to keep up appearances!</i> The flittings of +some of your 'leading stars in the hemisphere of fashion' are very similar; +yet afterwards you may see them at some watering-place, as gay +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page127" name="page127"></a>[pg 127]</span> + and as +expensive as ever! Have they mislaid their bills, and forgotten the names +of their creditors? If so, let them call for the Gazette, and look over +the list of bankrupts. <i>Such</i> is the honour of Mr. Rabbitts!"</p> +<center> +<i>To want Style</i>. +</center> +<p>"It is difficult for me to explain, because your majesty has not seen +specimens of that class of the community which is devoid of style, tact, +and taste; but we have them in town, and we meet with them at +watering-places; <i>there</i> indeed it is less in our power to keep quite +clear of them. They are to be seen all day and all night; if the sun +shines, they are promenading in its beams; if a house is lighted up, they +will enter its open door; if a fiddle is heard, they are dancing to its +squeaking; if petticoats are worn short, theirs are up to their knees; +they are never out of sight, never in repose; summer and winter, day and +night, they seem in a state of fearful excitement, flirting, philandering, +raffling, racing, practising, and patronizing; they are great people in a +small way, and only considered great because nothing greater is at hand; +they prefer reigning in hell (excuse the word, I quote Milton) to serving +in heaven; in London they would be nothing, at Hogs Norton Spa, or +Pumpington Wells, they are every thing; making difficulties about +admissions to Lilliputian Almack's."</p> +<center> +<i>To have Style</i>. +</center> +<p>"To <i>have</i> style is to be always dressed to perfection, without appearing +to care about the fashion; and to take the station and precedence which +you are entitled to, without seeming to be solicitous about it. I have +seen dowagers at watering-places in a fever of anxiety about their rank +and their consequence! patronizing puppetshows, seizing conspicuous seats, +and withholding the sunshine of their smiles from commoners allied to +older nobility than their own! How I should enjoy seeing them lost in a +London crowd, where not an eye would notice their aristocracy unless they +wore their coronets on the tops of their bonnets!"</p> +<center> +<i>The Popular Complaint</i>. +</center> +<p>"I am afraid of catching the popular complaint: all the professedly sane +people in London are so evidently mad, that I am led to conclude that all +the supposed lunatics are in their sound senses.</p> + +<p>"For instance, your gay people, who toil through nominal pleasures, +dressing by rule and compass, lacing, bracing, patching, painting, +plastering, penciling, curling, pinching, and all to go out and be looked +at: going from party to party in the middle of the night, pretending not +to be sleepy, suppressing each rising yawn, and trying to make the lips +smile and the eyes twinkle, and to look animated in spite of fatigue: and +all this for no earthly purpose—too old to care about lovers, and without +daughters to marry. Why should an ugly old maid of sixty-six take all +these pains, or leave her own snug fireside, if she had not a touch of the +popular complaint.</p> + +<p>"Then your man of pleasure, risking his life at every corner in a cab, +with a restive horse; wearing all his clothes painfully tight to show off +his figure, confining his neck in a bandage, pouring liquids down his +throat, though he knows they will give him a headache, sitting up all +night shaking bits of bone together for the mere purpose of giving +somebody a chance of winning all his money, or offering bets on racehorses +to afford himself and family an opportunity of changing opulence for +beggary! He has the popular complaint of course.</p> + +<p>"Then your man of business: your public servant, toiling, and striving and +figetting about matters of state, sacrificing health, and the snug +comforts of a private gentleman, for the sake of popularity! <i>His</i> +complaint <i>is</i> popular indeed. Then your physician, courting extensive +practice, and ambitious of the honour of never having time to eat a +comfortable meal, and proud of being called out of bed the moment he is +composing himself to sleep! <i>He</i> must be raving. Then your barrister, +fagging over dull books, and wearing a three-tailed wig, and talking for +hours, that his client, right or wrong, may be successful! All these +people appear to me to be awfully excited: the popular complaint is strong +upon them, and I would put them all into the straightest waistcoats I +could procure."</p> +<center> +<i>Patriotic Follies</i>. +</center> +<p>"It is delightful to hear English men and women talk of their dear country. +There is nothing like Old England, say they; yet paramount as their love +of country appears to be, their love of French frippery is a stronger +passion! They will lament the times, the stagnation of trade, the scarcity +of money, the ruin of manufacturers, but they will wear Parisian +productions. It is a comfort, however, to know that they are often +deceived, and benefit their suffering countrymen without knowing it—as +lace, silks, and gloves have frequently +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page128" name="page128"></a>[pg 128]</span> +been exported from this country, +and sold to English women on the coast of France as genuine French +articles. How little does Mrs. Alderman Popkins dream, when she returns to +her residence in Bloomsbury, that her Parisian pelisse is of Spitalfields +manufacture, and that her French lace veil came originally from Honiton."</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."</p> +<p>SHAKSPEARE.</p> +</div></div> + + +<hr /> + +<h3>BULL AND NO BULL.</h3> + +<p>"I was going," said an Irishman, "over Westminster Bridge the other day, +and I met Pat Hewins—'Hewins,' says I, 'how are you?'—'Pretty well,' says +he, 'thank you, Donnelly.'—'Donnelly,' says I, 'that's not <i>my</i> name.'— +'Faith, no more is mine Hewins,' says he. So we looked at each other again, +and sure it turned out to be neither of us—and where's the bull of <i>that</i> +now?"</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>BAD HABIT.</h3> + +<p>Sir Frederick Flood had a droll habit of which he could never effectually +break himself (at least in Ireland.) Whenever a person at his back +whispered or suggested any thing to him whilst he was speaking in public, +without a moment's reflection, he always repeated the suggestion +<i>literatim</i>. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish +Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on +a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep +down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring +"that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord +Lieutenant's favour,"—John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting +behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."— +"And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, +amidst peals of uncontrollable laughter.</p> + + <hr /> + +<h3>CURIOUS POST OFFICE</h3>. + +<p>It is said, as the Isle of Ascension is visited by the homeward-bound +ships on account of its sea fowls, fish, turtle, and goats, there is in a +crevice of the rock a place called the "<i>Post Office</i>," where letters are +deposited, shut up in a well-corked bottle, for the ships that next visit +the island.<a id="footnotetag22" name="footnotetag22"></a> +<a href="#footnote22"><sup>22</sup></a></p> +<p>P.T.W.</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<h3>AMERICAN COURTSHIP.</h3> + +<p>The young ladies of Medina county, among other means of preventing the too +frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved that they will not receive +the addresses of any young gentleman who is in the habit of using +spirituous liquors. The young gentlemen in the same neighbourhood, by way +of retaliation, have resolved that they will not <i>seriously</i> pay their +addresses to any young lady who wears corsets. This is right. If whiskey +has slain its thousands—corsets have slain their tens of thousands.—<i>N.Y. +American</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p>What colours were the <i>winds</i> and <i>waves</i> the last tempest at sea?</p> + +<p><i>Answer</i>.—The winds <i>blew</i> and the waves <i>rose</i>.</p> +<p> +C.K.W. +</p> +<hr /> + + +<h3>LIGHT EVIL.</h3> + +<p>A good natured citizen, on retiring from a large house of business, took a +neat little country box at Laytonstone, and going with his wife to see it, +she was very sulky and displeased; which "Gilpin" observing, said, "my +dear Judy, don't you like the place?" "Like it indeed! no, why there isn't +room to swing a cat in it." "Well, but my dear Judy, you know we never +have any occasion to swing cats."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p>*** The signature <i>C.C.</i> to the <i>Minstrel Ballad</i>, in our last, merely +implies the correspondent who sent it "for the MIRROR." The writer of the +Ballad is Sir Walter Scott. It appears in the Notes to the New Edition of +"Waverley," but was hitherto unpublished in Sir Walter's works.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3><i>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS</i></h3>. + +<p>CHEAP and POPULAR WORKS published at the MIRROR OFFICE in the Strand, near +Somerset House.</p> + +<p>The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Embellished with nearly 150 Engravings. +In 6 Parts, 1s. each.</p> + +<p>The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s.</p> + +<p>The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. 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Price 1s. 8d.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1"> (return)</a> +See Gentlemen's Magazine, April, 1829. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2"> (return)</a> +See vol. xiii. MIRROR. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag3"> (return)</a> + Jane Seymour, or as is sometimes written de Sancto Mauro, eldest + daughter of Sir John Seymour, Knight, and Margaret, daughter of Sir + Thomas Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk was born at her father's + seat of Wolf Hall, in Wiltshire. From her great accomplishments, and + her father's connexions at court, (he being Governor of Bristol Castle, + and Groom of the Chamber to Henry VIII.) she was appointed Maid of + Honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, in which situation, her beauty attracted + the notice of Henry, who soon found means to gratify his desires, by + making her his wife. The family of the Seymours had since the time of + Henry II. been keepers of the neighbouring Forest of Savernac, "in + memory whereof," says Camden, "their great hunting horn, tipped with + silver, is still preserved." +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag4"> (return)</a> + Herbert, p. 386. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag5"> (return)</a> + Fuller's "Worthies." +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote6" name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag6"> (return)</a> + "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote7" name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag7"> (return)</a> + Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote8" name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag8"> (return)</a> + "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem + edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris + excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario + percundum compertum esset."—"Annales," p. 64. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote9" name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag9"> (return)</a> + "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote10" name="footnote10"></a><b>Footnote 10</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag10"> (return)</a> + Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers of + State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are preserved in + the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., Nos. 283, and 2131; + and one, from which the above is copied, Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote11" name="footnote11"></a><b>Footnote 11</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag11"> (return)</a> + Holinshed, v. ii. p. 944. edit. 1587.—"At the bishopping the Duke of + Suffolke was his godfather." +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote12" name="footnote12"></a><b>Footnote 12</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag12"> (return)</a> + "Chronicle," fol. 232, edit. 1548. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote13" name="footnote13"></a><b>Footnote 13</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag13"> (return)</a> + This aspersion of Sanders, has been copied, greatly to the detriment + of the character of Henry VIII. by several French writers; vide + Mariceau "Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses," tom. i. p. 358.— + and Dionis "Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie," p. 137. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote14" name="footnote14"></a><b>Footnote 14</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag14"> (return)</a> + Herbert, p. 430. Fox, Hall, Stow, Holinshed, and Speed, all agree in + placing it on the twelfth. Hume, in his <i>History of England</i>, has made + a singular mistake with regard to this date: he says "two days + afterwards," and quotes Strype as his authority, while that author, + who fully investigated the subject, says, "she died on Wednesday night, + the twenty-fourth."—"Memorials," v. iii. p. 1. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote15" name="footnote15"></a><b>Footnote 15</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag15"> (return)</a> + Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x—A copy of this Journal will be found printed + entire in Burnet's "History," v. ii. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote16" name="footnote16"></a><b>Footnote 16</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag16"> (return)</a> + Vide Burnet, v. iii, p 1. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote17" name="footnote17"></a><b>Footnote 17</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag17"> (return)</a> + Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. x. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote18" name="footnote18"></a><b>Footnote 18</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag18"> (return)</a> + Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. 10. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote19" name="footnote19"></a><b>Footnote 19</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag19"> (return)</a> + "Chronicle," v. ii. p. 944. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote20" name="footnote20"></a><b>Footnote 20</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag20"> (return)</a> + Notes to Jennings's <i>Ornithologia</i>, p. 324. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote21" name="footnote21"></a><b>Footnote 21</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag21"> (return)</a> + Mr. Taylor's transition of Goethe's <i>Iphigenia in Tauris</i>; one of the + finest plays out of Shakspeare, and now extremely rare. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote22" name="footnote22"></a><b>Footnote 22</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag22"> (return)</a> + Our correspondent calls this a "curious Post Office;" we should say it + was merely an inland post. +</blockquote> + + + + <hr class="full" /> +<i>Printed and Published by J. 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NO. 386.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1829. [PRICE 2d. + + + + * * * * * + + + + +ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO. + + +[Illustration: St. Peter's Church, Pimlico.] + + +The engraving represents the new church on the eastern side of Wilton +Place, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square. It is a chaste +building of the Ionic order, from the designs of Mr. Henry Hakewill, of +whose architectural attainments we have frequently had occasion to speak. + +The plan of St. Peter's is a parallelogram, placed east and west, without +aisles; the east being increased by the addition of a small chancel +flanked by vestries. The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an +hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns. The floor is +approached by a bold flight of steps, and in the wall, at the back are +three entrances to the church. The columns are surmounted by their +entablature and a pediment, behind which a low attic rises from the roof +of the church to the height of the apex of the pediment; it is crowned +with a cornice and blocking-course, and surmounted by an acroterium of +nearly its own height, but in breadth only equalling two-thirds of it; +this is finished with a sub-cornice and blocking-course, and is surmounted +by the tower, which rises from the middle. The addition of a steeple to a +Grecian church forms a stumbling-block to our modern architects, forcing +them to have recourse to many shifts to convert a Grecian temple into an +English church, a forcible argument for the rejection of the classical +styles altogether in this species of buildings.[1] Mr. Hakewill has, +however, in part surmounted this difficulty, and the effect produced is +not bad, as great value is given to the front elevation by it. + +The tower consists of a square in plan, in elevation consisting of a +pedestal, the dado pieced for the dials of a clock, sustaining a cubical +story, with an arched window in each face, at the sides of which are Ionic +columns, the angles being finished in antis. This story is crowned with an +entablature, above which rises a small enriched circular temple; the whole +is crowned with a spherical dome, surmounted by a cross. + +The body of the church is built of brick, with stone dressings. The +interior is chastely fitted up. The altarpiece is Mr. Hilton's splendid +picture of "Christ crowned with thorns," exhibited at Somerset House, in +1825, and presented to this church by the British Institution in 1827. + +The ground for the site was given by Lord Grosvenor, and the sum of +5,555_l_. 11_s_. 1_d_. was granted by the Royal Commissioners towards the +building. It will accommodate 1,657 persons. The first stone was laid +September 4, 1824, and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, +(Dr. Howley,) July 20, 1827. + + + [1] See Gentlemen's Magazine, April, 1829. + + * * * * * + + +PSALMODY. + +(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) + + +I have lately made a journey to the metropolis for the purpose of +inquiring by my own personal attention and otherwise, whether any +improvement had been made in the Psalmody of any of the numerous new +churches and chapels in and near London. I have visited by far the greater +part of them. In many of them I find no improvement, but there are two or +three which merit distinction. + +In the majority of the churches, I observe the singing of psalms or hymns +(for I have not yet, after three months, heard an anthem) is confined +generally to about three verses, and those more ordinarily of the common +metre; the singing is very little of it congregational, but is chiefly +performed by the schools of charity children, and there does not appear to +have been any instruction for their singing in any other than the _treble_. +The organists in general are very good performers, but, however well that +office is filled, the voices of the congregation are wanting, by which a +great improvement would be given to the harmony. In two of the +congregations I happen to have a more numerous acquaintance, and know that +numbers of the congregation have excellent judgment and good voices, and +many are good performers on the piano-forte and harp. In conversing with +several of them on this interesting and (to me) sublime subject, I have +heard as an objection to their joining in the psalmody with any extensive +power, that there are no persons, exclusively of the organist, to lead the +voices, whether treble, counter, tenor, or bass, and yet what a delightful +opportunity do these new churches afford; in general the sound is well and +equally distributed. + +The sublimity of this part of divine worship has been well expressed by +many of our poets, translators, and versifiers of the Psalms--one of them +speaks the feelings of a sincere congregation when he says, + + Arise my heart! my soul arise! + Jehovah praise! sing till the skies + Re-echo his ascending fame! + Rejoice and celebrate his name! + +this does not admit of a deadly silence in the churches; and another +excellent appeal to the true believer is made in the following beautiful +and sublime act of devotion:-- + + Salvation! let the echo fly! + The spacious earth around! + While all the armies of the sky! + Conspire to raise the sound. + +It is the conviction not only of myself but of others who are in the same +order of the musical profession, that the means of drawing forth the +universal voices of congregations is by a number, not less than four, nor +more than twelve, being _appointed_ by the authority of the clergyman or +minister, to sing with correct harmony, and with rather a louder tone than +they might do if only an ordinary singer in the worship of the day as a +congregational attendant. Those four (or more) voices would have the +effect, in a few months, of producing a great improvement in the singing +by the congregation at large; but such an _appointment_ must not be +alienated from its main purpose. These voices, scientifically as they will +be exercised, must not sing in solos, duos, trios, or quartettes; they +must be faithful to their institution, and must _lead the congregation;_ +not merely exhibit themselves, like the professional singers in the Roman +Catholic chapels, but direct the voices of all that may feel the animating +force of the 89th Psalm-- + + Lord God of hosts thy wond'rous ways, + _Are sung by saints above!_ + And saints on earth their honours raise + To thy unchanging love! + +The only instance I have met with in any of the London churches or chapels +of the Church of England (there may be others) is at the St. James's +Chapel, near Mornington Place, on the road to Hampstead. I attended at +that place of worship lately, and was delighted with the whole of the +services, wishing only that greater numbers of the congregation had joined +in the singing, which was conducted precisely on the principle of four +being appointed to lead the congregation: the four voices were excellent, +and naturally and easily led many to join, and I cannot doubt, but that +this superior arrangement, whoever was the author, will tend to make the +singing in that chapel an example to many others. + +I lament that I am obliged to leave town, and may not be here again for +several months, but when I do, I shall humbly offer my services to the +clergyman of the chapel, for the improvement of so judicious a plan, and +extending it to other chapels of the same parish. + +I should offer some apology for not having noticed the discourses, though +my remarks originate and have been chiefly confined to the psalmody. I +will not, however, let this opportunity pass of saying the sermons, both +morning and evening, were excellent, the attention of every part of the +congregation was great; throughout all the services there was, while the +minister was speaking, and the people not required to join, a most +interesting but attentive silence, and in the evening I retired with a +sympathetic feeling which I cannot describe. + +In my next (should this receive your attention) I shall send you a few +remarks on the psalmody of the new churches of Marylebone and Trinity. + +CHRISTIANUS, +_A Cathedral Chorister_. + + * * * * * + + +THE LAY FROM HOME. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Its music beareth o'er my widow'd heart + A tale of vanish'd innocence and love, + And bliss that screw'd around the ark of life + Sweet flow'rs of summer hue. It hath the tone, + The very tone which wrapt my spirit up, + In silent dreams mid visions. Oft, at eve, + I heard it wandering thro' the silver air, + As if some sylph had witch'd the stringed shell + Of woods and lonely fountains:--and the birds + That sang in the blue glow of heaven, the trees + That whisper'd like a timid maiden's lips, + The bees that kiss'd their bride-flow'rs into sleep, + All breath'd the spell of that enchanting lay! + + Whence came it now? perchance from yonder dell, + O'er which the skies, in sunny beauty fix'd, + Their sapphire mantle hang. Its Eden home + Is in some beauteous place where faces beam + In loveliness and joy! To hail the morn, + The infant pours it from his rosy mouth, + Ere, o'er the fields, with blissful heart he roams, + To watch the syren lark, or mark the sun + Surround with golden light the rainbow clouds. + + That music-lay awak'd within my heart + Thoughts, that had wept themselves to death, like clouds + In summer hours.--It brought before mine eyes + The haunts so often worshipped, the forms + Revealing heav'n and holiness in vain. + Alas, sweet lay, the freshness of the heart + Is wasted, like an unfed stream, away; + And dreams of Home, by Fancy treasurd up, + Remain as wrecks around the tomb of Being! + +REGINALD AUGUSTINE. +_Deal_. + + * * * * * + + +TYRE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +"And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy +harps shall be no more heard"--_Ezekiel_, chap. xxvi. verse 13. + +"It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." +_Ezekiel_, chap xxvi. verse 5. + + + Thy harps are silent, mighty one! + Thy melody no more: + For ocean's mourning dirge alone + Breaks on thy rocky shore. + + The fisher there his net has spread, + Thy prophecy to show; + Nor dreams he that thy doom was read, + Two thousand years ago. + + On Chebar's banks the captive seer, + Thy future ruin told: + Visions of woe, how true and clear, + With power divine unroll'd! + + The tall ship there no more is riding, + Of Lebanon's proud cedars made; + But the wild waves ne'er cease their chiding, + Where Tyre's past pomp and splendour fade. + + The traveller to thy desert shore + No cherish'd record found of thee; + But fragments rude are scatter'd o'er + Thy dreary land's blank misery. + + The sounds of busy life were hush'd, + But still the moaning blast, + That o'er the rocky barrier rush'd, + Sang wildly as it pass'd:-- + Spirit of Time, thine echoes woke, + And thus the mighty Genius spoke:-- + + "Seek no more, seek no more, + Splendour past and glories o'er, + Here bleak ruin ever reigns; + See him scatter o'er the plains, + Arches broken, temples strew'd, + O'er the dreary solitude! + Long ago the words were spoken, + Words which never can be broken. + Where are now thy riches spread? + Where wilt thou thy commerce spread? + Thou shalt be sought but found no more! + Wanderers to thy desert shore + Former splendours bring thee never, + Tyre is fallen, fallen forever!" + + +_Kirton Lindsey_. +ANNIE R. + + * * * * * + + +LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.[2] + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Let science weep and droop her head, + Her favourite champion, Davy's dead! + The brightest star among the bright, + Alas! has ceased to shed its _light_. + Yet say not darkness reigns alone, + While "Safety Lamps" are burning on, + And shedding _life_ that never dies. + Around the tomb where Davy lies + + +J.F.C. + + + [2] See vol. xiii. MIRROR. + + * * * * * + + +HAMPTON COURT: + +BIRTH OF EDWARD THE SIXTH, AND DEATH OF QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Every hint, every ray of light, which tends, in the most distant manner, +to illustrate an obscure passage in the history of our country, cannot we +presume, while it affords great pleasure and satisfaction to the student +attentively employed in such researches, be deemed either insignificant or +uninteresting by the general reader. + +The birth of Edward the Sixth must always be regarded as a bright star in +the horizon of the Reformation, and one, which tended greatly to blast the +prospects of those who were inimical to that glorious change in our +religious constitution. + +The marriage of Henry the Eighth, with the Lady Jane Seymour,[3] +immediately after the death of his former Queen, Anne Boleyn, is so well +known as to render it superfluous, if not presuming in us to enlarge upon +it in this place: suffice it to say, that the nuptials were celebrated on +the day following the execution of Anne, the twentieth of May, 1536, the +King "not thinking it fit to mourn long, or much, for one the law had +declared criminall."[4] Old Fuller says, "it is currantly traditioned, +that at her [Jane's] first coming to court, Queen _Anne Bolen_ espying a +jewell pendant about her neck, snatched thereat, (desirous to see, the +other unwilling to show it,) and casually hurt her _hand_ with her own +violence; but it grieved her _heart_ more, when she perceived it the +King's picture by himself bestowed upon her, who from this day forward +dated her own _declining_ and the other's _ascending_ in her husband's +affection."[5] About seventeen months after her marriage at the Palace of +Hampton Court, Queen Jane gave birth to a son, Edward the Sixth. + +The precise period of the birth of this prince has been variously stated +by historians. Sir John Hayward,[6] who bestowed considerable labour upon +writing his life, places it on the seventeenth of October, 1537; while +Sanders,[7] on the other hand, fixes it on the tenth. Herbert, Godwin,[8] +and Stow, whom, all[9] his more modern biographers have followed, agree +that it happened on the twelfth of the same month, and their testimony is +fully corroborated by the following official letter, addressed to Cromwell, +Lord Privy Seal, informing him of the birth of a prince:-- + +_By the Quene_. + +"Right trustie and right welbeloved, wee grete you well; and, forasmuche +as by the inestimable goodnes and grace of Almighty God wee be delivered +and brought in childbed of a Prince, conceived in most lawfull matrimonie +between my Lord the King's Majestie and us; doubtinge not but, for the +love and affection which ye beare unto us, and to the commonwealth of this +realme, the knowledge thereof should be joyous and glad tydeings unto you, +we have thought good to certifie you of the same, to th' intent you might +not onely render unto God condigne thanks and praise for soe greate a +benefit but alsoe continuallie praie for the longe continuance and +preservacion of the same here in this life, to the honour of God, joy and +pleasure of my Lord the Kinge and us, and the universall weale, quiett, +and tranquillitie of this hole realm." + +"Given under our Signet, att my Lord's Mannor of Hampton Courte, the xii +daie of October."[10] + +Edward was christened with great state, on the Monday following, in the +chapel at Hampton Court, Archbishop Cranmer, and the Duke of Norfolk being +the godfathers, and his sister, the Princess Mary, godmother.[11] "At his +birth," says Hall, "was great fires made through the whole realme, and +great joye made with thankesgeuyng to Almightie God which had sent so +noble a prince to succeed to the crowne of this realme."[12] + +The joy, however, which the birth of a son and heir to the throne, excited +in the mind of Henry was soon dispelled by the death of his queen. It was +deemed necessary, both for the preservation of her life, and that of her +offspring, to bring the latter into the world by means of the Caesarian +operation, a mode which in the greater number of cases proves fatal to the +mother. It has been maliciously, and without the least appearance of truth, +asserted by Sanders,[13] one of the most bitter writers of the opposite +party, that the question was put to the King by the physicians, whether +the life of the Queen or the child should be saved, for it was judged +impossible to preserve both? "The child's," he replied, "for I shall be +able to find wives enough." Whether, however, her death originated from +that terrible cause, we cannot, at this distant period, pretend to affirm, +but from the report to the Privy Council of the birth of Edward the Sixth, +still extant, it would appear not, as it informs us she was "happily" +delivered, and died afterwards of a distemper incidental to women in that +condition. + +The death of Jane Seymour, like the birth of her son, is involved in +considerable obscurity. Most of the chroniclers who appear to have +followed Herbert[14] in this particular, fix it on the fourteenth of +October, two days after the birth of Edward; Hayward, on the contrary, +states that "shee dyed of the incision on the fourth day following," while +Edward the Sixth, in his journal, written by himself, informs us, but +without stating any precise period, that it happened "within a few dayes +after the birth of her soone."[15] We shall, however, see from the +following letter, that this event did not take place on either of the +abovementioned days, nor until "duodecimo post die," as George Lilly truly +informs us, the day also mentioned in the journal of Cecil.[16] This +original document respecting the health of the Queen, which is still +extant, is signed by Thomas Rutland, and five other medical men, is dated +on a Wednesday, which if it were only the following Wednesday, and we +shall presently prove that it was not, would, at least, make it five days +afterwards. + +"These shal be to advertise yor lordship of the Quenes estate. Yesterdaie +afternonne she had an naturall laxe, by reason whereof she beganne sumwhat +to lyghten, and (as it appeared,) to amende; and so contynued till towards +night. All this night she hath bene very syck, and doth rather appaire +than amend. Her Confessor hath bene with her grace this morning, and hath +done [all] that to his office apperteyneth, and even now is preparing to +minister to her grace the sacrament of unction. At Hampton Court, this +Wednesday mornyng, at viii of the clock."[17] + +As a further and additional proof of the date of her decease, we shall +refer our readers to a manuscript, preserved in the Herald's College, the +preamble of which runs as follows:--"An ordre taken and made for the +interrement of the most high, most excellent, and most Chrysten Pryncess, +Jane, Quene of England, and of France, Lady of Ireland, and mother of the +most noble and puyssant Prynce Edward; which deceasyd at Hampton Courte, +the xxixth yere of the reigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord Kyng Henry +the eight, her most dearest husband, the xxiiiith day of Octobre, beyng +Wedynsday, at nyght, xii of the clock; which departyng was the twelf day +after the byrthe of the said Prynce her Grace beying in childbed." By this +document it is fixed on the second Wednesday after the birth of the prince, +on the morning of which day, the abovementioned letter of her physicians +was undoubtedly written, as the ministering of the holy unction would show +that her death was fast approaching. + +The remains of Jane Seymour were conveyed with great solemnity to Windsor, +and interred in the choir of St. George's Chapel, on the 12th of November. +The following epitaph was inscribed to her memory:-- + + Phoenix Jana iacet, nato Phoenice dolendum, + Secala Phoenices nulla tulisse duas. + +Of which Fuller gives this quaint translation-- + + Soon as her Phoenix Bud was blown, + Root-Phoenix Jane did wither, + Sad, that no age a brace had shown + Of Phoenixes together. + +The funeral rites were solemnized according to the forms of the Catholic +faith. The original letter[18] from Richard Gresham to the Lord Privy Seal, +dated "Thurssdaye the viiith day of Novbr." is still preserved, proposing +that a solemn dirge, and masses should be said for the soul of the late +Queen Jane, in St. Paul's, in presence of the Mayor, Alderman, and +Commoners, which were accordingly performed, as appears from the following +passage in Holinshed:--"There was a solemne hearse made for her in Paule's +Church, and funerall exequies celebrated, as well as in all other churches +within the Citie of London."[19] + +S.I.B. + + + [3] Jane Seymour, or as is sometimes written de Sancto Mauro, eldest + daughter of Sir John Seymour, Knight, and Margaret, daughter of + Sir Thomas Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk was born at her + father's seat of Wolf Hall, in Wiltshire. From her great + accomplishments, and her father's connexions at court, (he being + Governor of Bristol Castle, and Groom of the Chamber to Henry + VIII.) she was appointed Maid of Honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, in + which situation, her beauty attracted the notice of Henry, who + soon found means to gratify his desires, by making her his wife. + The family of the Seymours had since the time of Henry II. been + keepers of the neighbouring Forest of Savernac, "in memory + whereof," says Camden, "their great hunting horn, tipped with + silver, is still preserved." + + [4] Herbert, p. 386. + + [5] Fuller's "Worthies." + + [6] "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1. + + [7] Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122. + + [8] "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem + edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris + excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario + percundum compertum esset."--"Annales," p. 64. + + [9] "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631. + + [10] Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers + of State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are + preserved in the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., + Nos. 283, and 2131; and one, from which the above is copied, + Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x. + + [11] Holinshed, v. ii. p. 944. edit. 1587.--"At the bishopping the + Duke of Suffolke was his godfather." + + [12] "Chronicle," fol. 232, edit. 1548. + + [13] This aspersion of Sanders, has been copied, greatly to the + detriment of the character of Henry VIII. by several French + writers; vide Mariceau "Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses," + tom. i. p. 358.--and Dionis "Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie," + p. 137. + + [14] Herbert, p. 430. Fox, Hall, Stow, Holinshed, and Speed, all + agree in placing it on the twelfth. Hume, in his _History of + England_, has made a singular mistake with regard to this date: + he says "two days afterwards," and quotes Strype as his + authority, while that author, who fully investigated the + subject, says, "she died on Wednesday night, the + twenty-fourth."--"Memorials," v. iii. p. 1. + + [15] Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x--A copy of this Journal will be found + printed entire in Burnet's "History," v. ii. + + [16] Vide Burnet, v. iii, p 1. + + [17] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. x. + + [18] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. 10. + + [19] "Chronicle," v. ii. p. 944. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NOVELIST. + + * * * * * + +THE HEARTHSTONE.--A GERMAN TRADITIONAL TALE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Frantz did not at all like his new benefice; his parishioners were +evidently idle, ill-disposed people, doing no credit to the ministry of +the deceased incumbent; and looking with eyes any thing but respectful +and affectionate upon their new pastor. In short, he foresaw a host of +troubles; although he had not taken possession of his living for more than +two days. Neither did he admire the lonely situation of his house, which, +gloomy and old fashioned, needed (at least so thought the polished Frantz, +just emerged from the puny restraints and unlimited licenses of college) +nothing less than a total rebuilding to render it inhabitable. His own +sleeping apartment he liked less than all; but what could be done? It was +decidedly the only decent dormitory in the house--had been that of the +late pastor--and there was no help for it--could not but be his own. The +young minister was wretched--lamented without ceasing the enjoyments of +Leipzig--missed the society of his fellow students, and actually began to +meditate taking a wife. But upon whom should his election fall? He caused +all his female acquaintances to pass in mental review before him; some +were fair--some wealthy--some altogether angelic; but Frantz was not Grand +Seignior, and he allowed himself to be puzzled in a matter where every +sentiment of love and honour ought to have, without hesitation, determined +his choice; for in his rainbow visions of bright beauty and ethereal +perfection, appeared the lonely and lovely Adelinda. Adelinda, the poor, +the fond, the devoted, and, but for him, the innocent. No; beautiful and +loving as she was, connected with her were the brooding shadows of guilt, +and the lurid clouds of fiery vengeance; and Frantz had rather not think +of Adelinda. + +On the morning of the third day of his residence at Steingart, he happened +to awake very early; being summertime it was broad daylight, and a bright +sun was endeavouring to beam upon his countenance through the small +lozenges of almost opaque glass which filled the high, narrow, and many +paned window. Not feeling inclined to sleep, nor for the present to rise, +Frantz laid for some time in deep reverie, with his eyes fixed, as some +would have deemed, upon the door; and as others, more justly, would have +thought upon vacancy. As he gazed, however, he was suddenly conscious that +the door slowly and sullenly swung open, and admitted three strangers; a +man of tall and graceful figure, and of a comely but melancholy aspect, +arrayed in a long, loose and dark morning gown; he led two young and +lovely children, whose burnished golden hair, pale, clear, tranquil +countenances and snow-white garments gave them the appearance of celestial +intelligences. Frantz, terrified and confounded, followed with his eyes +those whom he could but fancy to be apparitions, as with noiseless steps +they walked, or rather glided, towards a table which stood near the +fireplace; upon this laid the parish register, coming in front of which, +the man opened it with a solemn air, and turning over a few pages, pointed +with his finger to some record, upon which the fair children seemed to +gaze with interest and attention. The trio smiled mournfully at each other, +then moving so that they stood upon the hearth immediately opposite the +foot of Frantz's bed, and facing the affrighted young minister, he had +full leisure to contemplate his strange visiters. That they were of a +superhuman nature, he was warranted in concluding from their appearance +in so solitary a place as Steingart--from their unceremonious _entrée_ at +that unusual hour into his dormitory, and from their movements, actions, +and awful silence. Frantz endeavoured to recollect the form of adjuration, +and also that of exorcism, commonly employed to tranquillize the turbulent +departed, but vainly; his brain was giddy; his thoughts distracted; his +heart throbbed to agony with terror, and his tongue refused its office. +With a violent effort he sprang up in his bed, and in his address to the +speechless trio, had proceeded as far as--"In the name of--" when the +children sank down into the very hearthstone upon which they stood, and +the man--Frantz saw not whither _he_ went--perhaps up the chimney--but go +he certainly did. + +The terrified young man leapt in a state of desperation from his bed, and +searched the apartment narrowly, as people commonly, but foolishly, are +wont to do in similar cases. His search, as might have been expected, was +useless; but not liking at present to alarm his domestics with a report +of the house being haunted, he resolved to await further evidences of +the supernatural visitation. Next morning at about the same hour, the +apparitions again entered his apartment; and acting as they had previously +done, gazed earnestly at him for some seconds ere they vanished. On the +morning of the third day the trio appeared again, when the gentleman of +the long robe, looking most earnestly at Frantz, pointed to the register, +the children, and the hearthstone; and then, as usual, disappeared under +the same circumstances as before. + +Frantz was much distressed; he could not exactly comprehend the meaning of +this dumb show; and yet felt that some dire mystery was connected with +these phantoms, which he was called upon to unravel. After breakfast he +wandered out, and lost in the maze of thought, sauntered, ere he was aware +of it, into the churchyard. Shortly afterwards the church-door was opened +by the sexton, who kept his pickaxe and mattock in a corner of the belfry, +and Frantz remembering that as yet he had not entered the church, followed +him in, and was struck with the appearance of many portraits which hung +round the walls. + +"What are these?" said he. + +"The pictures, sir, of all your predecessors; know you not, that in some +of our country churches it is the custom to hang up the likenesses of all +the gentlemen who ever held the living?" + +Frantz, in a tone of indifference, replied, that he fancied he had heard +of such a thing. + +"'Tis, sir," continued the man, "a custom with which you must comply at +any rate. Why, bad as was our last pastor Herr Von Weetzer, he honoured us +so far, that there hangs _his_ picture." + +Frantz advanced to view a newly painted portrait, which hung last in the +line of his predecessors; and then the young man started back, changed +colour, and the deadly faintness of terror seized his relaxing frame; for +in it he recognised, exact in costume and features, the perfect likeness +of his adult spectral visiter! + +"Good God!" cried Frantz, "how very extraordinary!" + +"A nice looking man, sir," said the sexton, not noticing his emotion; +"pity 'tis that he was so wicked." + +"Wicked!" exclaimed Frantz, almost unconscious of what he said; "how +wicked?" + +"Oh, sir, I can't exactly say how wicked; but a bad gentleman was Mr. Von +Weetzer, that's certain." + +"Wicked! well--was he married?" asked Frantz, with apparent unconcern. + +"Why, no, sir;" replied the sexton, with a significant look; "people do +say he was not; but if all tales be true that are rife about him, 'tis a +sure thing he ought to have been." + +"Hah! hum!" muttered Frantz, and a slight blush tinged his fine +countenance. "His children you say--" + +"Lord, sir! I said nothing about them--who told you? Few folks at +Steingart, I guess, knew he had any but myself. 'Tis thought the poor +things did not come fairly by their ends; and for certain, I never buried +them!" + +Frantz stood for some minutes absorbed in thought; at length he said-- +"were they baptized? I have a reason for asking." + +"Perhaps sir, it is, that you are thinking if the poor, little, innocent +creatures were not christened, they'd no right to be laid in consecrated +ground." + +"No matter what I think; I believe I have the register." + +"You have, sir; please then to look at page 197, line 19, and I fancy +you'll find the names of Gertrude and Erhard Dow, ('twas their poor +_misfortunate_ mother's sirname,) down as baptized." + +"I have," interrupted Frantz, with an air of extreme solemnity, "seen, as +I believe, those children and their father!" + +"Mein Gott!" cried the sexton in excessive alarm--"_seen_ them?--Seen +_Herr Von Weetzer!_ They do say he walks--dear, dear!--and after the +shocking unchristian death that he died too! Where, sir? Where and when?" + +"No matter, I also have my suspicions." + +"He murdered them himself, sir--the wicked man! 'Twasn't their mother, my +poor niece, God rest her soul! She died as easy as a lamb. Indeed, indeed, +it wasn't her." + +"Bring your tools," said Frantz, "and come with me." + +He led the sexton to his chamber--desired him to raise the mysterious +hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it. This was accordingly done, +and in a few minutes, with sentiments of unspeakable pity and horror, +Frantz beheld the fleshless remains of two children, who apparently from +the size of the bones must have been about the age and figure, when +deposited there, of the little phantoms. He found also upon turning to the +register, that it laid open at the very page named by the sexton; and on +the very spot which the apparition of the wretched Von Weetzer had +indicated by his finger, was duly entered the baptism of the murdered +children; and the sexton readily turned to the entries of their birth in +other parts of the volume. Frantz interred the remains of these +unfortunate beings in consecrated ground--immediately quitted Steingart-- +resigned a preferment which had (from the singularly terrible incident +thus connected with his possession of it) equally alarmed and disgusted +him--_married Adelinda_ upon his return to Leipzig--and gradually became +an exemplary member of Society. + +M.L.B. + + * * * * * + + +Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.--_Swift_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NATURALIST. + + * * * * * + +NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD. + +[Illustration: Nest of the Taylor Bird.] + + +This is one of the most interesting objects in the whole compass of +Natural History. The little architect is called the _Taylor Bird, Taylor +Wren_, or _Taylor Warbler_, from the art with which it makes its nest, +sewing some dry leaves to a green one at the extremity of a twig, and thus +forming a hollow cone, which it afterwards lines. The general construction +of the nest, as well as a description of a specimen in Dr. Latham's +collection, will be found at page 180, of vol. xiii. of the MIRROR. + +The Taylor Bird is only about three and a half inches in length, and +weighs, it is said, three-sixteenths of an ounce; the plumage above is +pale olive yellow; chin and throat yellow; breast and belly dusky white. +It inhabits India, and particularly the Islands of Ceylon. The eggs are +white, and not much larger than what are called ant's eggs.[1] + +In constructing the nest, the beak performs the office of drilling in the +leaves the necessary holes, and passing the fibres through them with the +dexterity of a tailor. Even such parts in the rear as are not sufficiently +firm are sewed in like manner. + + [20] Notes to Jennings's _Ornithologia_, p. 324. + + * * * * * + + +IVY. + + +Mr. Gilbert Burnett thus beautifully illustrates the transitorial +metamorphosis of ivy:-- + +"The ivy, in its infant or very young state, has stalks trailing upon the +ground, and protruding rootlets throughout their whole extent; its leaves +are spear-shaped, and it bears neither flower nor fruit; this is termed +_ivy creeping on the ground_. The same plant, when more advanced, quits +the ground, and climbs on walls and trees, its rootlets becoming holdfasts +only; its leaves are generally three or five lobed, and it is still barren; +this is the _greater barren ivy_. In its next, or more mature state, it +disdains all props, and rising by its own strength above the walls on +which it grew, occasionally puts on the appearance of a tree; in this the +flower of its age, the branches are smooth, devoid of radicles and +holdfasts; and it is loaded with blossoms and with fruit; the lobulations +of the leaves are likewise less; this is the _war-poet's ivy_. But when +old, the ivy again becomes barren, again the suckers appear upon the stem, +and the leaves are no longer lobed, but egg-shaped; this is the +_Bacchanalian ivy_." + + * * * * * + + +MICROSCOPIC AMUSEMENT. + + +Mr. Carpenter, in _Gill's Repository_, speaking of the fine displays of +anatomy and wonderful construction of insects, creatures so much "despised, +and which are, indeed, but too often made the subject of wanton sport by +many persons, who amuse their children by passing a pin through the bottom +of their abdomen, in order to excite pain and long-suffering in the insect, +and thus making them spin, as they ignorantly term it," has the following +most humane and benevolent observations:--"Many of these cruel sports +might undoubtedly be effectively checked, if the teachers of schools were +occasionally to exhibit to their pupils, under the microscope, the various +parts of an insect with which they are familiar; and, by interesting +lectures of instruction, to point out the uses to which those parts are +applied by the insect, for its preservation and comfort; and that, when +they are deprived of them, or they are even injured, a degree of suffering +takes place in the creature, which the children at present seem to be +wholly uninformed of. I certainly think that, if the abovementioned useful +lessons were inculcated, they would afford a check to those cruel +propensities in many children, which they at present indulge in, for want +of being better instructed." + + * * * * * + + + + +NOTES OF A READER. + + * * * * * + + +ROYAL PROGRESSES, OR VISITS. + + +The celebrity attendant on a royal visit adhered long to places as well as +persons. A chamber in the decayed tower of Hoghton, in Lancashire, still +bears the name of James the First's room. Elizabeth's apartment, and that +of her maids of honour, are still known at Weston House, in Warwickshire; +her walk "marked by old thorn-bushes," at Hengrave, in Norfolk; near +Harefield, the farm-house where she was welcomed by allegorical personages; +at Bisham Abbey, the well in which she bathed; and at Beddington, in +Surrey, her favourite oak. She often shot with a cross-bow in the paddock +at Oatlands. At Hawsted, in Suffolk, she is reported to have dropped a +silver-handled fan into the moat; and an old approach to Kenninghall Place, +in Norfolk, is called Queen Bess's Lane, because she was scratched by the +brambles in riding through it.--_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + +SHAKSPEARE'S MACBETH. + + +During one of the progresses of James I. on passing the gate of St. John's +College, at Oxford, his majesty was saluted by three youths, representing +the weird sisters (sibyllae,) who, in Latin hexameters, bade the +descendant of Banquo hail, as king of Scotland, king of England, and king +of Ireland; and his queen as daughter, sister, wife, and mother of kings. +The occasion is memorable in dramatic history, if it be true that this +address, or a translation of it, led Shakspeare to write on the story of +Macbeth. Much has been said for the probability of this supposition; but +surely the legend of Macbeth and Banquo must have been abundantly +discoursed of in England between James's accession and the year when this +pageant was exhibited; and Shakspeare could find every circumstance +alluded to by the Oxford speakers, and many more in Holinshed's Chronicle, +which, through a great part of Macbeth, he has undoubtedly taken for his +guide.--_Ibid_. + + * * * * * + + +CHINESE DRAMA. + + +The Chinese themselves make no technical distinctions between _tragedy_ +and _comedy_ in their stage pieces;--the dialogue of which is composed in +ordinary prose, while the principal performer now and then chants forth, +in unison with music, a species of song or vaudeville, and the name of the +tune or air is always inserted at the top of the passage to be sung.-- +_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + +THE HAWTHORN. + + +The trunk of an old hawthorn is more gnarled and rough than, perhaps, that +of any other tree; and this, with its hoary appearance, and its fragrance, +renders it a favourite tree with pastoral and rustic poets, and with those +to whom they address their songs. Milton, in his L'Allegro, has not +forgotten this favourite of the village:-- + + + "Every shepherd tells his tale + Under the hawthorn in the dale." + + +When Burns, with equal force and delicacy, delineates the pure and +unsophisticated affection of young, intelligent, and innocent country +people, as the most enchanting of human feelings, he gives additional +sweetness to the picture by placing his lovers + + + "Beneath the milk-white thorn, that scents the evening gale." + + +There is something about the tree, which one bred in the country cannot +soon forget, and which a visiter learns, perhaps, sooner than any +association of placid delight connected with rural scenery. When, too, the +traveller, or the man of the world, after a life spent in other pursuits, +returns to the village of his nativity, the old hawthorn is the only +playfellow of his boyhood that has not changed. His seniors are in the +grave; his contemporaries are scattered; the hearths at which he found a +welcome are in the possession of those who know him not; the roads are +altered; the houses rebuilt; and the common trees have grown out of his +knowledge: but be it half a century or more, if man spare the old hawthorn, +it is just the same--not a limb, hardly a twig, has altered from, the +picture that memory traces of his early years.--_Library of Entertaining +Knowledge_. + + * * * * * + + +TURKISH JOKE. + + +When the Caliph Haroun el Raschid (who was the friend of the great +Charlemagne,) entertained Ebn Oaz at his court in the quality of jester, +he desired him one day, in the presence of the Sultana and all her +followers, to make an excuse worse than the crime it was intended to +extenuate: the Caliph walked about, waiting for a reply. Alter a long +pause, Ebn Oaz skulked behind the throne, and pinched his highness in the +rear. The rage of the Caliph was unbounded. "I beg a thousand pardons of +your Majesty," said Ebn Oaz, "but I thought it was her Highness the +Sultana." This was the excuse worse than the crime; and of course the +jester was pardoned. + + * * * * * + + +FUND AND REFUND. + + +Disappointment at the theatre is a bad thing: but the manager returning +admission money is worse. Sheridan, who understood professional feelings +on this subject in the most acute degree, was in the habit of saying that +he could give words to the chagrin of a conqueror, on seeing the fruit of +his victories snatched from him; or the miseries of a broken down minister, +turned out in the moment when he thought the cabinet at his mercy; or a +felon listening to a long winded sermon from the ordinary; or a debtor +just fallen into the claws of a dun; but that he never could find words to +express the sensibilities of a manager compelled to disgorge money once +taken at his doors. "_Fund_," says this experienced ornament of the art of +living by one's wits, "_fund_ is an excellent word; but _re-fund_ is the +very worst in the language."_Monthly Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + +COURT SQUABBLES. + + +Mr. Crawfurd, in his _Embassy_, describes the following ludicrous scene +arising from a misunderstanding between the sovereign of Birmah and his +ministers:--"The ministers last night reported to the king the progress of +the negotiation. His majesty was highly indignant, said his confidence had +been abused, and that now, for the first time, he was made acquainted with +the real state of affairs. He accused the ministers of falsehoods, +malversations, and all kinds of offences. His displeasure did not end in +mere words; he drew his Dà, or sword, and sallied forth in pursuit of the +offending courtiers. These took to immediate flight, some leaping over the +balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience, but the +greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it; and in the +confusion which attended their endeavours, (tumbling head over heels,) one +on top of another. Such royal paroxysms are pretty frequent, and, although +attended with considerable sacrifices of the kingly dignity, are always +bloodless. The late king was less subject to these fits of anger than his +present majesty, but he also occasionally forgot himself. Towards the +close of his reign, and when on a pilgrimage to the great temple of +Mengwan, a circumstance of this description took place, which was +described by an European gentleman, himself present, and one of the +courtiers. The king had detected something flagitious, which would not +have been very difficult. His anger rose; he seized his spear, and +attacked the false ministers. These, with the exception of the European, +who was not a party to the offence, fled tumultuously. One hapless +courtier had his heels tripped up in his flight; the king overtook him, +and wounded him slightly in the calf of the leg with his spear, but took +no farther vengeance." + + * * * * * + + +LULLABY. + + +SHAKSPEARE, in _Titus Andronicus_, says, + + "Be unto us, as is a nurse's song + Of _Lullaby_ to bring her babe to sleep." + +A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on +this. + +"The verb _to lull_, means to sing Gently, and it is connected with the +Greek [Greek: laleo], loquor, or [Greek: lala], the sound made by the +beach of the sea. The Roman nurses used the word _lalla_, to quiet their +children, and they feigned a deity called _Lullus_, whom they invoked on +that occasion; the lullaby, or tune itself was called by the same name."-- +_Douce_. + +_Lullaby_ is supposed a contraction for _Lull-a-baby_. The Welsh are +celebrated for their Lullaby songs, and a good Welsh nurse, with a +pleasing voice, has been sometimes found more soporific in the nursery, +than the midwife's anodyne. The contrary effects of Swift's song, "Here we +go up, up, up," and the smile-provoking melody of "Hey diddle, diddle," +_cum multis aliis_, are too well known to be enumerated or disputed. "The +Good Nurse" give us a chapter on the advantage of employing music in +certain stages of protracted illness. + + * * * * * + + +GOOD NIGHT. + + +In northern Europe we may, without impropriety, say good night! to +departing friends at any hour of darkness; but the Italians utter their +Felicissima Notte only once. The arrival of candles marks the division +between day and night, and when they are brought in, the Italians thus +salute each other. How impossible it is to convey the exact properties of +a foreign language by translation! Every word, from the highest to the +lowest, has a peculiar significance, determinable only by an accurate +knowledge of national and local attributes and peculiarites. + +GOETHE.--_Blackwood's Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + + * * * * * + + +THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. + +(_For The Mirror_.) + + +In the year 1696, Mr. Henry Winstanley, undertook to build the Eddystone +Lighthouse, and in 1700 he completed it. So confident was this ingenious +mechanic of the stability of his edifice, that he declared his wish to be +in it during the most tremendous storm that could arise. This wish he +unfortunately obtained, for he perished in it during the dreadful storm +which destroyed it, November 27th, 1703. While he was there with his +workmen and light-keepers, that dreadful storm began, which raged most +violently on the night of the 26th of the month, and appears to have been +one of the most tremendous ever experienced in Great Britain, for its vast +and extensive devastation. The next morning, at daybreak, the hurricane +increased to a degree unparalleled; and the lighthouse no longer able to +sustain its fury, was swept into the bosom of the deep, with all its +ill-fated inmates. When the storm abated, about the 29th, people went off +to see if any thing remained, but nothing was left save a few large irons, +whereby the work had been so fastened into a clink, that it could never +afterwards be disengaged, till it was cut out in the year 1756. The +lighthouse had not long been destroyed, before the Winchelsea, a +Virginiaman, laden with tobacco, for Plymouth, was wrecked on the +Eddystone rocks in the night, and every soul perished. + +Smeaton, in his Narrative of the _Construction of the Eddystone +Lighthouse_, says, "Winstanley had distinguished himself in a certain +branch of mechanics, the tendency of which is to excite wonder and +surprise. He had at his house at Littlebury, in Essex, a set of +contrivances, such as the following:--Being taken into one particular room +of his house, and there observing an old slipper carelessly lying in the +middle of the floor, if, as was natural, you gave it a kick with your foot, +up started a ghost before you; if you sat down in a certain chair, a +couple of arms would immediately clasp you in, so as to render it +impossible for you to disengage yourself till your attendant set you at +liberty; and if you sat down in a certain arbour by the side of a canal, +you were forthwith sent out afloat into the middle, from whence it was +impossible for you to escape till the manager returned you to your former +place." + +Mr. John Smeaton, who erected the Eddystone Lighthouse, in the years +1757-58 and 59, was born on the 28th, of May, 1724, at Ansthorpe, near +Leeds. The strength of his understanding, and the originality of his +genius, (says his biographer) appeared at an early age: his playthings +were not the playthings of children, but the tools which men employ, and +when he was a mere child he appeared to take greater pleasure in seeing +the operations of workmen, and asking them questions, than in any thing +else. Before he was six years old, he was once discovered at the top of +his father's barn, fixing up what he called a windmill of his own +construction, and at another time, while he was about the same age, he +attended some men fixing a pump, and observing them cut off a piece of a +bored part, he procured it, and actually made a pump, with which he raised +water. When he was under fifteen years of age, he made an engine for +turning, and worked several things in ivory and wood. He made all his own +tools for working in wood and metals, and he constructed a lathe, by which +he cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing but little known, and which was +the invention of Mr. Henry Hendley of York. His father was an attorney, +and being desirous to bring up his son to the same profession, he brought +him up to London with him in 1724, and attended the courts in Westminster +Hall; but after some time, finding that the law was not suited to his +disposition, he wrote a strong memorial to his father on the subject, who +immediately desired the young man to follow the bent of his inclination. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + + + +SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS + + * * * * * + + +LINES + +_To a Friend who had spent some days at a Country Inn, in order to be +near the Writer._ + +BY MISS MITFORD + + + The village inn, the woodfire burning bright, + The solitary taper's flickering light, + The lowly couch, the casement swinging free,-- + My noblest friend, was this a place for thee? + No fitting place! Yet there, from all apart, + We poured forth mind for mind and heart for heart, + Ranging from idle words and tales of mirth + To the deep mysteries of heaven and earth + Yet there thine own sweet voice, in accents low, + First breathed Iphigenias tale of wee, + The glorious tale, by Goethe fitly told, + And cast as finely in an English mould + By Taylor's kindred spirit, high and bold:[21] + No fitting place! yet that delicious hour + Fell on my soul, like dewdrops on a flower + Freshening and nourishing and making bright + The plant, decaying less from time than blight, + Flinging Hope's sunshine o'er the faint dim aim, + Thy praise my motive, thine applause my fame. + No fitting place! yet (inconsistent strain + And selfish!) come, I prithee, come again! + +Three Mile Cross, Feb 1829. +_Sharpe's Magazine_. + + + [21] Mr. Taylor's transition of Goethe's _Iphigenia in Tauris_; one + of the finest plays out of Shakspeare, and now extremely rare. + + * * * * * + + +ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLIES. + + +We have been amused with a light pattering paper in Nos. 1. and 2. of +Sharpe's London Magazine--entitled "_Illustrious Visiters_." Its only +fault is extreme length, it being nearly thirty pages, and, as some people +would say, "all about nothing." But some will think otherwise, and smile +at the sly shafts which are let fly at our national follies, of which, it +must be owned, we have a very great share. We ought to premise that the +framework of the satire is a visit of the Court Cards to our metropolis, a +pretty considerable hit at some recent royal visits. Of course, they see +every thing worth seeing, and some of their remarks are truly piquant. The +spirit, or fun, of the article would evaporate in an abridgment, so we +will endeavour to give a few of the narrator's best points:-- + + +_The Arrival_. + +"On the day of their landing, the town of Dover was in a state of general +excitement; bells were ringing, colours flying, artillery saluting; and +the loyal inhabitants crowded forth to peep at the illustrious potentates. +Often and often, even from our earliest years, have we heard of the fame +of these kings and queens. Their pictures have been familiar to every eye; +_dealers_ transmitted them into every _hand_; their colourless +extraordinary faces, their shapeless robes of every tint in the rainbow, +and their sky-blue wigs, are as well known to every Englishman, as the +head of his own revered monarch on a two-and-six-penny piece. Whenever +there is any thing to be seen, an Englishman must go and see it; and, in +the eager warmth of excited spirits, he will run after any vehicle, no +matter whether caravan or carriage; no matter whence it comes or whither +it goes; no matter whether its contents be a kangaroo or a cannibal chief, +a giraffe or a Princess Rusty Fusty. He hears of an arrival from foreign +parts, that is sufficient; a crowd is collected, and the 'interesting +stranger' is cheered with enthusiasm, and speeds from town to town, graced +with all the honours of extemporaneous popularity." + +"I have already hinted that I consider it no business of _mine_ to inquire +_why_ these potentates came to England; perhaps it was no business of +_theirs_ that brought them, but rather a party of pleasure; one of the +results of a general peace, which is very far from producing general +_quietness_; for when the sovereigns of remote countries become upon +visiting terms, hospitality throws wide her gates, and loyalty is +uproarious. They came, no doubt, like all our other royal exotics, from +the unfortunate sovereigns of the Sandwiches down to the Don of yesterday, +to see and to be seen; so, whilst the inhabitants of Dover shouted round +their carriages, they condescendingly acknowledged the greetings they +received, and proceeded on their journey towards the metropolis." + + +_Visit to the Theatre_. + +"Precisely at seven o'clock the party entered their box, which was +tastefully fitted up for their reception. They were received by the +proprietors, and managers, and acting managers, with the customary +etiquette, backing most adroitly up stairs, and holding wax candles in +their hands (which circumstance was properly stated in the papers the next +morning, for fear it should be supposed that tallow had been used on the +occasion.) + +"Far be it from ME, their most humble chronicler, to speak slightingly of +their Majesties of Hearts and Diamonds; on the contrary, I would maintain +a paper war with any one who dared to insinuate that these honours were +not dealt most fairly: but, on _some_ occasions, I cannot help thinking +that these distinctions have been lavished rather injudiciously, and that +royalty has been made too common. I have seen our own beloved monarch in +public received with acclamations, ay, and with more than mouth honour-- +with waving handkerchiefs, and full hearts, and eyes that overflowed. The +enthusiasm of such a welcome is honourable to the monarch who receives it, +and the subjects who bestow it; and let levellers say what they will, the +best feelings of our nature are brought into play on such occasions. There +is a _meaning_ in such a welcome; and long, very long, may our monarch +live to witness proofs of attachment, which his heart well knows how to +appreciate. But there is no meaning whatever in placing a tattooed chief, +or a Hottentot Venus of the blood royal, on the same eminence: it is +_infra dig_.--can answer no good purpose, and brings the genuine +enthusiasm of loyalty into contempt. There is too much of the Dollalolla +in such an exhibition. When his majesty squats uneasily, as if he +considered his chair an inconvenience, and the queen wipes her ebony nose +with her illustrious white satin play bill. When the royal party entered, +the people seemed unable to contain their rapture, and God save the King +was called for. This is the established custom: whenever we look upon the +king of _another country_, we always stand up and sing, God save +_our own_!" + + +_Club-House Comforts_. + +"Far more cheap, and far more commodious than hotels _used to be_, they +assuredly are; and country curates, poor poets, and gentlemen who live on +very small means, may now take a slice off _the_ joint, with a quarter of +a pint of sherry, for next to nothing at all; sitting, at the same time, +with their feet on a Turkey carpet, lighted by ormolu chandeliers, +surrounded by gold and marble, and waited upon by liveried domestics, with +the additional glory of walking away, and 'giving nothing to the waiter.' +Nay, the more dainty gentleman may order his _cotelette aux tomates_ and +his _omelette soufflé_, at a moderate expense." + +"Men, in most countries, owe what they possess of suavity of manners to +their intercourse with female society; after the drudgery of a +professional morning, young men used to brush themselves up for their +evening flirtations; but now few feminine drawing-rooms can tempt them to +leave their luxurious palaces, where evening surtouts, and black +neckcloths, and boots, may be freely indulged in. The wife takes her chop, +and a half boiled potato at home, while her husband, who always has some +excuse for dining at his club, is sure to enjoy every thing, the best of +its kind, and cooked _à merveille_. The unmarried ladies lack partners at +balls; the beaux fall asleep after dinner on the downy cushions of the +sofas at _the_ Club, or vote it a bore to dress of an evening, when they +are sure to meet pleasant fellows at the Alma Mater. As to the young +gentlemen who reap the advantages of these cheap and gilded houses of +accommodation, it may be questioned whether they are thus enabled +hereafter properly to appreciate the comforts of a home, the decorations +of the farm-house residence of a curate, or the plain cookery of the +farmer's wife, who dresses his dinner without even _professing_ to be a +cook." + + * * * * * + +"The King of Spades went his rounds, accompanied by the most eminent +architects and engineers of the day. He dug deeply into the secret +histories of the foundations of our national buildings, saw through the +_dis_orders of the egg-shell school of architecture, kept clear of the +tottering lath and plaster of some of the new buildings, acknowledging +that if such materials _did_ ever tumble down, it was a comfort to know +that they were considerably lighter than stone and cast iron. He felt a +great respect for such persons of rank as professed to be _supporters_ of +the drama, trusting that they would keep the ceilings of the theatres from +tumbling into the pits. He spent great part of his time in the Thames +Tunnel, and if he ever felt a doubt respecting the ultimate success of +that _under_taking, he did justice to the enterprise and skill of its +projector, that illustrious mole, and sincerely wished that zeal and +talent might ultimately be crowned with success. He took shares in many +mining speculations, and, in many instances, lived to repent it; for he +got into troubled waters, and sought for his _ore_ in vain. He attended +agricultural meetings, and endeavoured to comprehend that debatable query, +the corn question; he argued the point, like other great people, as if he +_did_ understand it, and got into repute with the leading Chiropodists, or +corn cutters, of the day. He went to Cheltenham, and became proprietor of +an acre of ground, on which he dug a score wells, and professed to find at +the bottom of each of them, a spring of water sufficiently saline to +pickle the constitutions of all valetudinarians. He was horticultural to a +most praiseworthy extent, offering prizes to the ingenious young Meadowses +who bring forth gigantic gooseberries, supernatural strawberries, and +miraculous melons. He went into the country, and endeavoured to penetrate +beyond the mere surface of things, listening to the speeches of county +members, and dining diligently in warm weather with mayors, and people +with _corporations_. He endeavoured to detect the root of all evil, +investigated the ramifications of radical reform, and exposed the +ephemeral bulbous roots of speculation. Prejudice he found too deeply +rooted to be dug up very easily, whilst the fashions and follies of the +day seemed to him to lie so entirely on the surface of the soil, and to be +so shortlived, that to throw away any manual labour in an attempt to +eradicate them, would be absurd." + +_"Impossible" Amusements_. + +"At many of your amusements, the chief attraction consists in the extreme +bodily peril in which the exhibiter is placed. You took me to see a man +walk up a rope, to an immense height, and had his foot slipped, he must +have been dashed to pieces: the place was crowded with persons who were in +raptures; yet had the man been dancing on level ground, he would have +danced far better; and the merit of the dancer seemed to consist in his +giving the audience a _chance_ of seeing him break his neck or dash his +brains out! If a foreigner were to announce that he would dance on a +pack-thread, he would ruin the ropedancer; because, as the thread would in +all probability break, his danger would be greater, and therefore his +exhibition would be incomparable! Then you all delight in distortions; if +a man can bend his back bone, or sit upon his head, you are in raptures, +and seem to think it a good joke to see a fellow creature shortening his +life. Then if any man will ride a dozen horses at once, without saddle or +bridle; or go into an oven and be baked brown, or eat a fire shovel full +of burning coals, or drink deadly poison, or fly off a church steeple, or +thrust a pointed instrument down his throat, or walk on a ceiling with his +head downwards, or go to sea in a washing tub, you would not lose the +sight for the world; you clap your hands, shout with delight, and hold up +your little children, that they may share papa and mamma's rational +amusement! and yet you tell me your national characteristic is humanity!" + + +_A Man of Honour_. + +"Is Mr. Rabbitts a man of honour?" + +"In the strictest sense of the word." + +"Living at the rate of thousands a year, when his income is just so many +hundreds! furnishing his house magnificently without ever intending to pay +for a pipkin, and at last making a sudden disappearance, which closely +resembles what I have heard described as an Irish 'moonlight flitting,' +where a tenant, who is unable to pay his rent, departs at dead of night +with his wife and other _movables_, having previously thrashed his grain, +and left the straw in its place _to keep up appearances!_ The flittings of +some of your 'leading stars in the hemisphere of fashion' are very similar; +yet afterwards you may see them at some watering-place, as gay and as +expensive as ever! Have they mislaid their bills, and forgotten the names +of their creditors? If so, let them call for the Gazette, and look over +the list of bankrupts. _Such_ is the honour of Mr. Rabbitts!" + + +_To want Style_. + +"It is difficult for me to explain, because your majesty has not seen +specimens of that class of the community which is devoid of style, tact, +and taste; but we have them in town, and we meet with them at +watering-places; _there_ indeed it is less in our power to keep quite +clear of them. They are to be seen all day and all night; if the sun +shines, they are promenading in its beams; if a house is lighted up, they +will enter its open door; if a fiddle is heard, they are dancing to its +squeaking; if petticoats are worn short, theirs are up to their knees; +they are never out of sight, never in repose; summer and winter, day and +night, they seem in a state of fearful excitement, flirting, philandering, +raffling, racing, practising, and patronizing; they are great people in a +small way, and only considered great because nothing greater is at hand; +they prefer reigning in hell (excuse the word, I quote Milton) to serving +in heaven; in London they would be nothing, at Hogs Norton Spa, or +Pumpington Wells, they are every thing; making difficulties about +admissions to Lilliputian Almack's." + + +_To have Style_. + +"To _have_ style is to be always dressed to perfection, without appearing +to care about the fashion; and to take the station and precedence which +you are entitled to, without seeming to be solicitous about it. I have +seen dowagers at watering-places in a fever of anxiety about their rank +and their consequence! patronizing puppetshows, seizing conspicuous seats, +and withholding the sunshine of their smiles from commoners allied to +older nobility than their own! How I should enjoy seeing them lost in a +London crowd, where not an eye would notice their aristocracy unless they +wore their coronets on the tops of their bonnets!" + + +_The Popular Complaint_. + +"I am afraid of catching the popular complaint: all the professedly sane +people in London are so evidently mad, that I am led to conclude that all +the supposed lunatics are in their sound senses. + +"For instance, your gay people, who toil through nominal pleasures, +dressing by rule and compass, lacing, bracing, patching, painting, +plastering, penciling, curling, pinching, and all to go out and be looked +at: going from party to party in the middle of the night, pretending not +to be sleepy, suppressing each rising yawn, and trying to make the lips +smile and the eyes twinkle, and to look animated in spite of fatigue: and +all this for no earthly purpose--too old to care about lovers, and without +daughters to marry. Why should an ugly old maid of sixty-six take all +these pains, or leave her own snug fireside, if she had not a touch of the +popular complaint. + +"Then your man of pleasure, risking his life at every corner in a cab, +with a restive horse; wearing all his clothes painfully tight to show off +his figure, confining his neck in a bandage, pouring liquids down his +throat, though he knows they will give him a headache, sitting up all +night shaking bits of bone together for the mere purpose of giving +somebody a chance of winning all his money, or offering bets on racehorses +to afford himself and family an opportunity of changing opulence for +beggary! He has the popular complaint of course. + +"Then your man of business: your public servant, toiling, and striving and +figetting about matters of state, sacrificing health, and the snug +comforts of a private gentleman, for the sake of popularity! _His_ +complaint _is_ popular indeed. Then your physician, courting extensive +practice, and ambitious of the honour of never having time to eat a +comfortable meal, and proud of being called out of bed the moment he is +composing himself to sleep! _He_ must be raving. Then your barrister, +fagging over dull books, and wearing a three-tailed wig, and talking for +hours, that his client, right or wrong, may be successful! All these +people appear to me to be awfully excited: the popular complaint is strong +upon them, and I would put them all into the straightest waistcoats I +could procure." + + +_Patriotic Follies_. + +"It is delightful to hear English men and women talk of their dear country. +There is nothing like Old England, say they; yet paramount as their love +of country appears to be, their love of French frippery is a stronger +passion! They will lament the times, the stagnation of trade, the scarcity +of money, the ruin of manufacturers, but they will wear Parisian +productions. It is a comfort, however, to know that they are often +deceived, and benefit their suffering countrymen without knowing it--as +lace, silks, and gloves have frequently been exported from this country, +and sold to English women on the coast of France as genuine French +articles. How little does Mrs. Alderman Popkins dream, when she returns to +her residence in Bloomsbury, that her Parisian pelisse is of Spitalfields +manufacture, and that her French lace veil came originally from Honiton." + + * * * * * + + + + +THE GATHERER. + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. + +SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + + +BULL AND NO BULL. + + +"I was going," said an Irishman, "over Westminster Bridge the other day, +and I met Pat Hewins--'Hewins,' says I, 'how are you?'--'Pretty well,' says +he, 'thank you, Donnelly.'--'Donnelly,' says I, 'that's not _my_ name.'-- +'Faith, no more is mine Hewins,' says he. So we looked at each other again, +and sure it turned out to be neither of us--and where's the bull of _that_ +now?" + + * * * * * + + +BAD HABIT. + + +Sir Frederick Flood had a droll habit of which he could never effectually +break himself (at least in Ireland.) Whenever a person at his back +whispered or suggested any thing to him whilst he was speaking in public, +without a moment's reflection, he always repeated the suggestion +_literatim_. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish +Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on +a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep +down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring +"that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord +Lieutenant's favour,"--John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting +behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."-- +"And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, +amidst peals of uncontrollable laughter. + + * * * * * + + +CURIOUS POST OFFICE. + + +It is said, as the Isle of Ascension is visited by the homeward-bound +ships on account of its sea fowls, fish, turtle, and goats, there is in a +crevice of the rock a place called the "_Post Office_," where letters are +deposited, shut up in a well-corked bottle, for the ships that next visit +the island.[22] + +P.T.W. + + +[22] Our correspondent calls this a "curious Post Office;" we should say it + was merely an inland post. + + * * * * * + + +AMERICAN COURTSHIP. + + +The young ladies of Medina county, among other means of preventing the too +frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved that they will not receive +the addresses of any young gentleman who is in the habit of using +spirituous liquors. The young gentlemen in the same neighbourhood, by way +of retaliation, have resolved that they will not _seriously_ pay their +addresses to any young lady who wears corsets. This is right. If whiskey +has slain its thousands--corsets have slain their tens of thousands.--_N.Y. +American_. + + * * * * * + + +What colours were the _winds_ and _waves_ the last tempest at sea? + +_Answer_.--The winds _blew_ and the waves _rose_. + +C.K.W. + + * * * * * + + +LIGHT EVIL. + + +A good natured citizen, on retiring from a large house of business, took a +neat little country box at Laytonstone, and going with his wife to see it, +she was very sulky and displeased; which "Gilpin" observing, said, "my +dear Judy, don't you like the place?" "Like it indeed! no, why there isn't +room to swing a cat in it." 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, Issue 386, August 22, 1829</p> +<p>Author: Various</p> +<p>Release Date: March 6, 2004 [eBook #11486]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: iso-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 14, ISSUE 386, AUGUST 22, 1829***</p> +<br /> +<br /> +<center><b>E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle, David Garcia,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</b></center> +<br /> +<br /> + <hr class="full" /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page113" name="page113"></a>[pg 113]</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. XIII. NO. 386.</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + + + + +<h2>ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO.</h2> + +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/386-001.png"> +<img width = "100%" src="images/386-001.png" alt="ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO." /></a></div> + + +<p>The engraving represents the new church on the eastern side of Wilton +Place, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square. It is a chaste +building of the Ionic order, from the designs of Mr. Henry Hakewill, of +whose architectural attainments we have frequently had occasion to speak.</p> + +<p>The plan of St. Peter's is a parallelogram, placed east and west, without +aisles; the east being increased by the addition of a small chancel +flanked by vestries. The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an +hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns. The floor is +approached by a bold flight of steps, and in the wall, at the back are +three entrances to the church. The columns are surmounted by their +entablature and a pediment, behind which a low attic rises from the roof +of the church to the height of the apex of the pediment; it is crowned +with a cornice and blocking-course, and surmounted by an acroterium of +nearly its own height, but in breadth only equalling two-thirds of it; +this is finished with a sub-cornice and blocking-course, and is surmounted +by the tower, which rises from the middle. The addition of a steeple to a +Grecian church forms a stumbling-block to our modern architects, forcing +them to have recourse to many shifts to convert a Grecian + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page114" name="page114"></a>[pg 114]</span> temple into an +English church, a forcible argument for the rejection of the classical +styles altogether in this species of buildings. +<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> + Mr. Hakewill has, +however, in part surmounted this difficulty, and the effect produced is +not bad, as great value is given to the front elevation by it.</p> + +<p>The tower consists of a square in plan, in elevation consisting of a +pedestal, the dado pieced for the dials of a clock, sustaining a cubical +story, with an arched window in each face, at the sides of which are Ionic +columns, the angles being finished in antis. This story is crowned with an +entablature, above which rises a small enriched circular temple; the whole +is crowned with a spherical dome, surmounted by a cross.</p> + +<p>The body of the church is built of brick, with stone dressings. The +interior is chastely fitted up. The altarpiece is Mr. Hilton's splendid +picture of "Christ crowned with thorns," exhibited at Somerset House, in +1825, and presented to this church by the British Institution in 1827.</p> + +<p>The ground for the site was given by Lord Grosvenor, and the sum of +5,555<i>l</i>. 11<i>s</i>. 1<i>d</i>. was granted by the Royal Commissioners towards the +building. It will accommodate 1,657 persons. The first stone was laid +September 4, 1824, and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, +(Dr. Howley,) July 20, 1827.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>PSALMODY.</h3> + +<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>I have lately made a journey to the metropolis for the purpose of +inquiring by my own personal attention and otherwise, whether any +improvement had been made in the Psalmody of any of the numerous new +churches and chapels in and near London. I have visited by far the greater +part of them. In many of them I find no improvement, but there are two or +three which merit distinction.</p> + +<p>In the majority of the churches, I observe the singing of psalms or hymns +(for I have not yet, after three months, heard an anthem) is confined +generally to about three verses, and those more ordinarily of the common +metre; the singing is very little of it congregational, but is chiefly +performed by the schools of charity children, and there does not appear to +have been any instruction for their singing in any other than the <i>treble</i>. +The organists in general are very good performers, but, however well that +office is filled, the voices of the congregation are wanting, by which a +great improvement would be given to the harmony. In two of the +congregations I happen to have a more numerous acquaintance, and know that +numbers of the congregation have excellent judgment and good voices, and +many are good performers on the piano-forte and harp. In conversing with +several of them on this interesting and (to me) sublime subject, I have +heard as an objection to their joining in the psalmody with any extensive +power, that there are no persons, exclusively of the organist, to lead the +voices, whether treble, counter, tenor, or bass, and yet what a delightful +opportunity do these new churches afford; in general the sound is well and +equally distributed.</p> + +<p>The sublimity of this part of divine worship has been well expressed by +many of our poets, translators, and versifiers of the Psalms—one of them +speaks the feelings of a sincere congregation when he says,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Arise my heart! my soul arise!</p> + <p>Jehovah praise! sing till the skies</p> + <p>Re-echo his ascending fame!</p> + <p>Rejoice and celebrate his name!</p> +</div></div> + +<p>this does not admit of a deadly silence in the churches; and another +excellent appeal to the true believer is made in the following beautiful +and sublime act of devotion:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Salvation! let the echo fly!</p> + <p>The spacious earth around!</p> + <p>While all the armies of the sky!</p> + <p>Conspire to raise the sound.</p> +</div></div> + +<p>It is the conviction not only of myself but of others who are in the same +order of the musical profession, that the means of drawing forth the +universal voices of congregations is by a number, not less than four, nor +more than twelve, being <i>appointed</i> by the authority of the clergyman or +minister, to sing with correct harmony, and with rather a louder tone than +they might do if only an ordinary singer in the worship of the day as a +congregational attendant. Those four (or more) voices would have the +effect, in a few months, of producing a great improvement in the singing +by the congregation at large; but such an <i>appointment</i> must not be +alienated from its main purpose. These voices, scientifically as they will +be exercised, must not sing in solos, duos, trios, or quartettes; they +must be faithful to their institution, and must <i>lead the congregation;</i> +not merely exhibit themselves, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page115" name="page115"></a>[pg 115]</span> + like the professional singers in the Roman +Catholic chapels, but direct the voices of all that may feel the animating +force of the 89th Psalm—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Lord God of hosts thy wond'rous ways,</p> + <p class="i2"><i>Are sung by saints above!</i></p> + <p>And saints on earth their honours raise</p> + <p class="i2">To thy unchanging love!</p> +</div></div> + +<p>The only instance I have met with in any of the London churches or chapels +of the Church of England (there may be others) is at the St. James's +Chapel, near Mornington Place, on the road to Hampstead. I attended at +that place of worship lately, and was delighted with the whole of the +services, wishing only that greater numbers of the congregation had joined +in the singing, which was conducted precisely on the principle of four +being appointed to lead the congregation: the four voices were excellent, +and naturally and easily led many to join, and I cannot doubt, but that +this superior arrangement, whoever was the author, will tend to make the +singing in that chapel an example to many others.</p> + +<p>I lament that I am obliged to leave town, and may not be here again for +several months, but when I do, I shall humbly offer my services to the +clergyman of the chapel, for the improvement of so judicious a plan, and +extending it to other chapels of the same parish.</p> + +<p>I should offer some apology for not having noticed the discourses, though +my remarks originate and have been chiefly confined to the psalmody. I +will not, however, let this opportunity pass of saying the sermons, both +morning and evening, were excellent, the attention of every part of the +congregation was great; throughout all the services there was, while the +minister was speaking, and the people not required to join, a most +interesting but attentive silence, and in the evening I retired with a +sympathetic feeling which I cannot describe.</p> + +<p>In my next (should this receive your attention) I shall send you a few +remarks on the psalmody of the new churches of Marylebone and Trinity.</p> + +<p>CHRISTIANUS,</p> +<p><i>A Cathedral Chorister</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>THE LAY FROM HOME.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Its music beareth o'er my widow'd heart</p> + <p>A tale of vanish'd innocence and love,</p> + <p>And bliss that screw'd around the ark of life</p> + <p>Sweet flow'rs of summer hue. It hath the tone,</p> + <p>The very tone which wrapt my spirit up,</p> + <p>In silent dreams mid visions. Oft, at eve,</p> + <p>I heard it wandering thro' the silver air,</p> + <p>As if some sylph had witch'd the stringed shell</p> + <p>Of woods and lonely fountains:—and the birds</p> + <p>That sang in the blue glow of heaven, the trees</p> + <p>That whisper'd like a timid maiden's lips,</p> + <p>The bees that kiss'd their bride-flow'rs into sleep,</p> + <p>All breath'd the spell of that enchanting lay!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>Whence came it now? perchance from yonder dell,</p> + <p>O'er which the skies, in sunny beauty fix'd,</p> + <p>Their sapphire mantle hang. Its Eden home</p> + <p>Is in some beauteous place where faces beam</p> + <p>In loveliness and joy! To hail the morn,</p> + <p>The infant pours it from his rosy mouth,</p> + <p>Ere, o'er the fields, with blissful heart he roams,</p> + <p>To watch the syren lark, or mark the sun</p> + <p>Surround with golden light the rainbow clouds.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>That music-lay awak'd within my heart</p> + <p>Thoughts, that had wept themselves to death, like clouds</p> + <p>In summer hours.—It brought before mine eyes</p> + <p>The haunts so often worshipped, the forms</p> + <p>Revealing heav'n and holiness in vain.</p> + <p>Alas, sweet lay, the freshness of the heart</p> + <p>Is wasted, like an unfed stream, away;</p> + <p>And dreams of Home, by Fancy treasurd up,</p> + <p>Remain as wrecks around the tomb of Being!</p> + </div></div> + +<p>REGINALD AUGUSTINE.</p> +<p><i>Deal</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TYRE.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>"And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy +harps shall be no more heard"—<i>Ezekiel</i>, chap. xxvi. verse 13.</p> + +<p>"It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." +<i>Ezekiel</i>, chap xxvi. verse 5.</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Thy harps are silent, mighty one!</p> + <p class="i2">Thy melody no more:</p> + <p>For ocean's mourning dirge alone</p> + <p class="i2">Breaks on thy rocky shore.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The fisher there his net has spread,</p> + <p class="i2">Thy prophecy to show;</p> + <p>Nor dreams he that thy doom was read,</p> + <p class="i2">Two thousand years ago.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>On Chebar's banks the captive seer,</p> + <p class="i2">Thy future ruin told:</p> + <p>Visions of woe, how true and clear,</p> + <p class="i2">With power divine unroll'd!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The tall ship there no more is riding,</p> + <p class="i2">Of Lebanon's proud cedars made;</p> + <p>But the wild waves ne'er cease their chiding,</p> + <p class="i2">Where Tyre's past pomp and splendour fade.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The traveller to thy desert shore</p> + <p class="i2">No cherish'd record found of thee;</p> + <p>But fragments rude are scatter'd o'er</p> + <p class="i2">Thy dreary land's blank misery.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>The sounds of busy life were hush'd,</p> + <p class="i2">But still the moaning blast,</p> + <p>That o'er the rocky barrier rush'd,</p> + <p class="i2">Sang wildly as it pass'd:—</p> + <p>Spirit of Time, thine echoes woke,</p> + <p>And thus the mighty Genius spoke:—</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> + <p>"Seek no more, seek no more,</p> + <p>Splendour past and glories o'er,</p> + <p>Here bleak ruin ever reigns;</p> + <p>See him scatter o'er the plains,</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page116" name="page116"></a>[pg 116]</span> + <p>Arches broken, temples strew'd,</p> + <p>O'er the dreary solitude!</p> + <p>Long ago the words were spoken,</p> + <p>Words which never can be broken.</p> + <p>Where are now thy riches spread?</p> + <p>Where wilt thou thy commerce spread?</p> + <p>Thou shalt be sought but found no more!</p> + <p>Wanderers to thy desert shore</p> + <p>Former splendours bring thee never,</p> + <p>Tyre is fallen, fallen forever!"</p> +</div></div> + +<p><i>Kirton Lindsey</i>.</p> +<p> +ANNIE R.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART. +<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a> +<a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>Let science weep and droop her head,</p> + <p>Her favourite champion, Davy's dead!</p> + <p>The brightest star among the bright,</p> + <p>Alas! has ceased to shed its <i>light</i>.</p> + <p>Yet say not darkness reigns alone,</p> + <p>While "Safety Lamps" are burning on,</p> + <p>And shedding <i>life</i> that never dies.</p> + <p>Around the tomb where Davy lies</p> +</div></div> + +<p>J.F.C.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HAMPTON COURT:<br /> + +BIRTH OF EDWARD THE SIXTH, AND DEATH OF QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>Every hint, every ray of light, which tends, in the most distant manner, +to illustrate an obscure passage in the history of our country, cannot we +presume, while it affords great pleasure and satisfaction to the student +attentively employed in such researches, be deemed either insignificant or +uninteresting by the general reader.</p> + +<p>The birth of Edward the Sixth must always be regarded as a bright star in +the horizon of the Reformation, and one, which tended greatly to blast the +prospects of those who were inimical to that glorious change in our +religious constitution.</p> + +<p>The marriage of Henry the Eighth, with the Lady Jane Seymour, +<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a> +<a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> +immediately after the death of his former Queen, Anne Boleyn, is so well +known as to render it superfluous, if not presuming in us to enlarge upon +it in this place: suffice it to say, that the nuptials were celebrated on +the day following the execution of Anne, the twentieth of May, 1536, the +King "not thinking it fit to mourn long, or much, for one the law had +declared criminall."<a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a> +<a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> Old Fuller says, "it is currantly traditioned, +that at her [Jane's] first coming to court, Queen <i>Anne Bolen</i> espying a +jewell pendant about her neck, snatched thereat, (desirous to see, the +other unwilling to show it,) and casually hurt her <i>hand</i> with her own +violence; but it grieved her <i>heart</i> more, when she perceived it the +King's picture by himself bestowed upon her, who from this day forward +dated her own <i>declining</i> and the other's <i>ascending</i> in her husband's +affection."<a id="footnotetag5" name="footnotetag5"></a> +<a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> About seventeen months after her marriage at the Palace of +Hampton Court, Queen Jane gave birth to a son, Edward the Sixth.</p> + +<p>The precise period of the birth of this prince has been variously stated +by historians. Sir John Hayward,<a id="footnotetag6" name="footnotetag6"></a> +<a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a> who bestowed considerable labour upon +writing his life, places it on the seventeenth of October, 1537; while +Sanders,<a id="footnotetag7" name="footnotetag7"></a> +<a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a> on the other hand, fixes it on the tenth. Herbert, Godwin, +<a id="footnotetag8" name="footnotetag8"></a> +<a href="#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a> +and Stow, whom, all +<a id="footnotetag9" name="footnotetag9"></a> +<a href="#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a> his more modern biographers have followed, agree +that it happened on the twelfth of the same month, and their testimony is +fully corroborated by the following official letter, addressed to Cromwell, +Lord Privy Seal, informing him of the birth of a prince:—</p> + +<center><i>By the Quene</i>.</center> + +<p>"Right trustie and right welbeloved, wee grete you well; and, forasmuche +as by the inestimable goodnes and grace of Almighty God wee be delivered +and brought in childbed of a Prince, conceived in most lawfull matrimonie +between my Lord the King's Majestie and us; doubtinge not but, for the +love and affection which ye beare unto us, and to the commonwealth of this +realme, the knowledge thereof should be joyous and glad tydeings unto you, +we have thought good to certifie you of the same, to th' intent you might +not onely render unto God condigne + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page117" name="page117"></a>[pg 117]</span> + thanks and praise for soe greate a +benefit but alsoe continuallie praie for the longe continuance and +preservacion of the same here in this life, to the honour of God, joy and +pleasure of my Lord the Kinge and us, and the universall weale, quiett, +and tranquillitie of this hole realm."</p> + +<p>"Given under our Signet, att my Lord's Mannor of Hampton Courte, the xii +daie of October."<a id="footnotetag10" name="footnotetag10"></a> +<a href="#footnote10"><sup>10</sup></a></p> + +<p>Edward was christened with great state, on the Monday following, in the +chapel at Hampton Court, Archbishop Cranmer, and the Duke of Norfolk being +the godfathers, and his sister, the Princess Mary, godmother. +<a id="footnotetag11" name="footnotetag11"></a> +<a href="#footnote11"><sup>11</sup></a> "At his +birth," says Hall, "was great fires made through the whole realme, and +great joye made with thankesgeuyng to Almightie God which had sent so +noble a prince to succeed to the crowne of this realme." +<a id="footnotetag12" name="footnotetag12"></a> +<a href="#footnote12"><sup>12</sup></a></p> + +<p>The joy, however, which the birth of a son and heir to the throne, excited +in the mind of Henry was soon dispelled by the death of his queen. It was +deemed necessary, both for the preservation of her life, and that of her +offspring, to bring the latter into the world by means of the Caesarian +operation, a mode which in the greater number of cases proves fatal to the +mother. It has been maliciously, and without the least appearance of truth, +asserted by Sanders, +<a id="footnotetag13" name="footnotetag13"></a> +<a href="#footnote13"><sup>13</sup></a> one of the most bitter writers of the opposite +party, that the question was put to the King by the physicians, whether +the life of the Queen or the child should be saved, for it was judged +impossible to preserve both? "The child's," he replied, "for I shall be +able to find wives enough." Whether, however, her death originated from +that terrible cause, we cannot, at this distant period, pretend to affirm, +but from the report to the Privy Council of the birth of Edward the Sixth, +still extant, it would appear not, as it informs us she was "happily" +delivered, and died afterwards of a distemper incidental to women in that +condition.</p> + +<p>The death of Jane Seymour, like the birth of her son, is involved in +considerable obscurity. Most of the chroniclers who appear to have +followed Herbert +<a id="footnotetag14" name="footnotetag14"></a> +<a href="#footnote14"><sup>14</sup></a> in this particular, fix it on the fourteenth of +October, two days after the birth of Edward; Hayward, on the contrary, +states that "shee dyed of the incision on the fourth day following," while +Edward the Sixth, in his journal, written by himself, informs us, but +without stating any precise period, that it happened "within a few dayes +after the birth of her soone." +<a id="footnotetag15" name="footnotetag15"></a> +<a href="#footnote15"><sup>15</sup></a> We shall, however, see from the +following letter, that this event did not take place on either of the +abovementioned days, nor until "duodecimo post die," as George Lilly truly +informs us, the day also mentioned in the journal of Cecil. +<a id="footnotetag16" name="footnotetag16"></a> +<a href="#footnote16"><sup>16</sup></a> This +original document respecting the health of the Queen, which is still +extant, is signed by Thomas Rutland, and five other medical men, is dated +on a Wednesday, which if it were only the following Wednesday, and we +shall presently prove that it was not, would, at least, make it five days +afterwards.</p> + +<p>"These shal be to advertise yor lordship of the Quenes estate. Yesterdaie +afternonne she had an naturall laxe, by reason whereof she beganne sumwhat +to lyghten, and (as it appeared,) to amende; and so contynued till towards +night. All this night she hath bene very syck, and doth rather appaire +than amend. Her Confessor hath bene with her grace this morning, and hath +done [all] that to his office apperteyneth, and even now is preparing to +minister to her grace the sacrament of unction. At Hampton Court, this +Wednesday mornyng, at viii of the clock." +<a id="footnotetag17" name="footnotetag17"></a> +<a href="#footnote17"><sup>17</sup></a></p> + +<p>As a further and additional proof of the date of her decease, we shall +refer our readers to a manuscript, preserved in the Herald's College, the +preamble of which runs as follows:—"An ordre taken and made for the +interrement of the most high, most excellent, and most Chrysten Pryncess, +Jane, Quene of England, and of France, Lady of Ireland, and mother of the +most noble and puyssant Prynce Edward; which +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page118" name="page118"></a>[pg 118]</span> + deceasyd at Hampton Courte, +the xxixth yere of the reigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord Kyng Henry +the eight, her most dearest husband, the xxiiiith day of Octobre, beyng +Wedynsday, at nyght, xii of the clock; which departyng was the twelf day +after the byrthe of the said Prynce her Grace beying in childbed." By this +document it is fixed on the second Wednesday after the birth of the prince, +on the morning of which day, the abovementioned letter of her physicians +was undoubtedly written, as the ministering of the holy unction would show +that her death was fast approaching.</p> + +<p>The remains of Jane Seymour were conveyed with great solemnity to Windsor, +and interred in the choir of St. George's Chapel, on the 12th of November. +The following epitaph was inscribed to her memory:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> Phoenix Jana iacet, nato Phoenice dolendum,</p> +<p> Secala Phoenices nulla tulisse duas.</p> +</div></div> + +<p>Of which Fuller gives this quaint translation—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> Soon as her Phoenix Bud was blown,</p> +<p> Root-Phoenix Jane did wither,</p> +<p> Sad, that no age a brace had shown</p> +<p> Of Phoenixes together.</p> +</div></div> + +<p>The funeral rites were solemnized according to the forms of the Catholic +faith. The original letter +<a id="footnotetag18" name="footnotetag18"></a> +<a href="#footnote18"><sup>18</sup></a> from Richard Gresham to the Lord Privy Seal, +dated "Thurssdaye the viiith day of Novbr." is still preserved, proposing +that a solemn dirge, and masses should be said for the soul of the late +Queen Jane, in St. Paul's, in presence of the Mayor, Alderman, and +Commoners, which were accordingly performed, as appears from the following +passage in Holinshed:—"There was a solemne hearse made for her in Paule's +Church, and funerall exequies celebrated, as well as in all other churches +within the Citie of London." +<a id="footnotetag19" name="footnotetag19"></a> +<a href="#footnote19"><sup>19</sup></a></p> + +<p>S.I.B.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<h2>THE NOVELIST.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE HEARTHSTONE.—A GERMAN TRADITIONAL TALE.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>Frantz did not at all like his new benefice; his parishioners were +evidently idle, ill-disposed people, doing no credit to the ministry of +the deceased incumbent; and looking with eyes any thing but respectful and +affectionate upon their new pastor. In short, he foresaw a host of +troubles; although he had not taken possession of his living for more than +two days. Neither did he admire the lonely situation of his house, which, +gloomy and old fashioned, needed (at least so thought the polished Frantz, +just emerged from the puny restraints and unlimited licenses of college) +nothing less than a total rebuilding to render it inhabitable. His own +sleeping apartment he liked less than all; but what could be done? It was +decidedly the only decent dormitory in the house—had been that of the +late pastor—and there was no help for it—could not but be his own. The +young minister was wretched—lamented without ceasing the enjoyments of +Leipzig—missed the society of his fellow students, and actually began to +meditate taking a wife. But upon whom should his election fall? He caused +all his female acquaintances to pass in mental review before him; some +were fair—some wealthy—some altogether angelic; but Frantz was not Grand +Seignior, and he allowed himself to be puzzled in a matter where every +sentiment of love and honour ought to have, without hesitation, determined +his choice; for in his rainbow visions of bright beauty and ethereal +perfection, appeared the lonely and lovely Adelinda. Adelinda, the poor, +the fond, the devoted, and, but for him, the innocent. No; beautiful and +loving as she was, connected with her were the brooding shadows of guilt, +and the lurid clouds of fiery vengeance; and Frantz had rather not think +of Adelinda.</p> + +<p>On the morning of the third day of his residence at Steingart, he happened +to awake very early; being summertime it was broad daylight, and a bright +sun was endeavouring to beam upon his countenance through the small +lozenges of almost opaque glass which filled the high, narrow, and many +paned window. Not feeling inclined to sleep, nor for the present to rise, +Frantz laid for some time in deep reverie, with his eyes fixed, as some +would have deemed, upon the door; and as others, more justly, would have +thought upon vacancy. As he gazed, however, he was suddenly conscious that +the door slowly and sullenly swung open, and admitted three strangers; a +man of tall and graceful figure, and of a comely but melancholy aspect, +arrayed in a long, loose and dark morning gown; he led two young and +lovely children, whose burnished golden hair, pale, clear, tranquil +countenances and snow-white garments gave them the appearance of celestial +intelligences. Frantz, terrified and confounded, followed with his eyes +those whom he could +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page119" name="page119"></a>[pg 119]</span> + but fancy to be apparitions, as with noiseless steps +they walked, or rather glided, towards a table which stood near the +fireplace; upon this laid the parish register, coming in front of which, +the man opened it with a solemn air, and turning over a few pages, pointed +with his finger to some record, upon which the fair children seemed to +gaze with interest and attention. The trio smiled mournfully at each other, +then moving so that they stood upon the hearth immediately opposite the +foot of Frantz's bed, and facing the affrighted young minister, he had +full leisure to contemplate his strange visiters. That they were of a +superhuman nature, he was warranted in concluding from their appearance in +so solitary a place as Steingart—from their unceremonious <i>entrée</i> at +that unusual hour into his dormitory, and from their movements, actions, +and awful silence. Frantz endeavoured to recollect the form of adjuration, +and also that of exorcism, commonly employed to tranquillize the turbulent +departed, but vainly; his brain was giddy; his thoughts distracted; his +heart throbbed to agony with terror, and his tongue refused its office. +With a violent effort he sprang up in his bed, and in his address to the +speechless trio, had proceeded as far as—"In the name of—" when the +children sank down into the very hearthstone upon which they stood, and +the man—Frantz saw not whither <i>he</i> went—perhaps up the chimney—but go +he certainly did.</p> + +<p>The terrified young man leapt in a state of desperation from his bed, and +searched the apartment narrowly, as people commonly, but foolishly, are +wont to do in similar cases. His search, as might have been expected, was +useless; but not liking at present to alarm his domestics with a report of +the house being haunted, he resolved to await further evidences of the +supernatural visitation. Next morning at about the same hour, the +apparitions again entered his apartment; and acting as they had previously +done, gazed earnestly at him for some seconds ere they vanished. On the +morning of the third day the trio appeared again, when the gentleman of +the long robe, looking most earnestly at Frantz, pointed to the register, +the children, and the hearthstone; and then, as usual, disappeared under +the same circumstances as before.</p> + +<p>Frantz was much distressed; he could not exactly comprehend the meaning of +this dumb show; and yet felt that some dire mystery was connected with +these phantoms, which he was called upon to unravel. After breakfast he +wandered out, and lost in the maze of thought, sauntered, ere he was aware +of it, into the churchyard. Shortly afterwards the church-door was opened +by the sexton, who kept his pickaxe and mattock in a corner of the belfry, +and Frantz remembering that as yet he had not entered the church, followed +him in, and was struck with the appearance of many portraits which hung +round the walls.</p> + +<p>"What are these?" said he.</p> + +<p>"The pictures, sir, of all your predecessors; know you not, that in some +of our country churches it is the custom to hang up the likenesses of all +the gentlemen who ever held the living?"</p> + +<p>Frantz, in a tone of indifference, replied, that he fancied he had heard +of such a thing.</p> + +<p>"'Tis, sir," continued the man, "a custom with which you must comply at +any rate. Why, bad as was our last pastor Herr Von Weetzer, he honoured us +so far, that there hangs <i>his</i> picture."</p> + +<p>Frantz advanced to view a newly painted portrait, which hung last in the +line of his predecessors; and then the young man started back, changed +colour, and the deadly faintness of terror seized his relaxing frame; for +in it he recognised, exact in costume and features, the perfect likeness +of his adult spectral visiter!</p> + +<p>"Good God!" cried Frantz, "how very extraordinary!"</p> + +<p>"A nice looking man, sir," said the sexton, not noticing his emotion; +"pity 'tis that he was so wicked."</p> + +<p>"Wicked!" exclaimed Frantz, almost unconscious of what he said; "how +wicked?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, sir, I can't exactly say how wicked; but a bad gentleman was Mr. Von +Weetzer, that's certain."</p> + +<p>"Wicked! well—was he married?" asked Frantz, with apparent unconcern.</p> + +<p>"Why, no, sir;" replied the sexton, with a significant look; "people do +say he was not; but if all tales be true that are rife about him, 'tis a +sure thing he ought to have been."</p> + +<p>"Hah! hum!" muttered Frantz, and a slight blush tinged his fine +countenance. "His children you say—"</p> + +<p>"Lord, sir! I said nothing about them—who told you? Few folks at +Steingart, I guess, knew he had any but myself. 'Tis thought the poor +things did not come fairly by their ends; and for certain, I never buried +them!"</p> + +<p>Frantz stood for some minutes absorbed in thought; at length he said— +"were they baptized? I have a reason for asking."</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page120" name="page120"></a>[pg 120]</span> +<p>"Perhaps sir, it is, that you are thinking if the poor, little, innocent +creatures were not christened, they'd no right to be laid in consecrated +ground."</p> + +<p>"No matter what I think; I believe I have the register."</p> + +<p>"You have, sir; please then to look at page 197, line 19, and I fancy +you'll find the names of Gertrude and Erhard Dow, ('twas their poor +<i>misfortunate</i> mother's sirname,) down as baptized."</p> + +<p>"I have," interrupted Frantz, with an air of extreme solemnity, "seen, as +I believe, those children and their father!"</p> + +<p>"Mein Gott!" cried the sexton in excessive alarm—"<i>seen</i> them?—Seen +<i>Herr Von Weetzer!</i> They do say he walks—dear, dear!—and after the +shocking unchristian death that he died too! Where, sir? Where and when?"</p> + +<p>"No matter, I also have my suspicions."</p> + +<p>"He murdered them himself, sir—the wicked man! 'Twasn't their mother, my +poor niece, God rest her soul! She died as easy as a lamb. Indeed, indeed, +it wasn't her."</p> + +<p>"Bring your tools," said Frantz, "and come with me."</p> + +<p>He led the sexton to his chamber—desired him to raise the mysterious +hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it. This was accordingly done, +and in a few minutes, with sentiments of unspeakable pity and horror, +Frantz beheld the fleshless remains of two children, who apparently from +the size of the bones must have been about the age and figure, when +deposited there, of the little phantoms. He found also upon turning to the +register, that it laid open at the very page named by the sexton; and on +the very spot which the apparition of the wretched Von Weetzer had +indicated by his finger, was duly entered the baptism of the murdered +children; and the sexton readily turned to the entries of their birth in +other parts of the volume. Frantz interred the remains of these +unfortunate beings in consecrated ground—immediately quitted Steingart— +resigned a preferment which had (from the singularly terrible incident +thus connected with his possession of it) equally alarmed and disgusted +him—<i>married Adelinda</i> upon his return to Leipzig—and gradually became +an exemplary member of Society.</p> +<p> +M.L.B. +</p> +<hr /> + +<p>Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.—<i>Swift</i>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD.</h3> + +<div class="figure" style="width:50%; float: right;"><a href="images/386-002.png"> +<img width = "50%" src="images/386-002.png" alt="NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD." /></a></div> + +<p>This is one of the most interesting objects in the whole compass of +Natural History. The little architect is called the <i>Taylor Bird, Taylor +Wren</i>, or <i>Taylor Warbler</i>, from the art with which it makes its nest, +sewing some dry leaves to a green one at the extremity of a twig, and thus +forming a hollow cone, which it afterwards lines. The general construction +of the nest, as well as a description of a specimen in Dr. Latham's +collection, will be found at page 180, of vol. xiii. of the MIRROR.</p> + +<p>The Taylor Bird is only about three and a half inches in length, and +weighs, it is said, three-sixteenths of an ounce; the plumage above is +pale olive yellow; chin and throat yellow; breast and belly dusky white. +It inhabits India, and particularly the Islands of Ceylon. The eggs are +white, and not much larger than what are called ant's eggs. +<a id="footnotetag20" name="footnotetag20"></a> +<a href="#footnote20"><sup>20</sup></a></p> + +<p>In constructing the nest, the beak performs the office of drilling in the +leaves the necessary holes, and passing the fibres through them with the +dexterity of a tailor. Even such parts in the rear as are not sufficiently +firm are sewed in like manner.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>IVY.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Gilbert Burnett thus beautifully illustrates the transitorial +metamorphosis of ivy:—</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page121" name="page121"></a>[pg 121]</span> +<p>"The ivy, in its infant or very young state, has stalks trailing upon the +ground, and protruding rootlets throughout their whole extent; its leaves +are spear-shaped, and it bears neither flower nor fruit; this is termed +<i>ivy creeping on the ground</i>. The same plant, when more advanced, quits +the ground, and climbs on walls and trees, its rootlets becoming holdfasts +only; its leaves are generally three or five lobed, and it is still barren; +this is the <i>greater barren ivy</i>. In its next, or more mature state, it +disdains all props, and rising by its own strength above the walls on +which it grew, occasionally puts on the appearance of a tree; in this the +flower of its age, the branches are smooth, devoid of radicles and +holdfasts; and it is loaded with blossoms and with fruit; the lobulations +of the leaves are likewise less; this is the <i>war-poet's ivy</i>. But when +old, the ivy again becomes barren, again the suckers appear upon the stem, +and the leaves are no longer lobed, but egg-shaped; this is the +<i>Bacchanalian ivy</i>."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>MICROSCOPIC AMUSEMENT.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Carpenter, in <i>Gill's Repository</i>, speaking of the fine displays of +anatomy and wonderful construction of insects, creatures so much "despised, +and which are, indeed, but too often made the subject of wanton sport by +many persons, who amuse their children by passing a pin through the bottom +of their abdomen, in order to excite pain and long-suffering in the insect, +and thus making them spin, as they ignorantly term it," has the following +most humane and benevolent observations:—"Many of these cruel sports +might undoubtedly be effectively checked, if the teachers of schools were +occasionally to exhibit to their pupils, under the microscope, the various +parts of an insect with which they are familiar; and, by interesting +lectures of instruction, to point out the uses to which those parts are +applied by the insect, for its preservation and comfort; and that, when +they are deprived of them, or they are even injured, a degree of suffering +takes place in the creature, which the children at present seem to be +wholly uninformed of. I certainly think that, if the abovementioned useful +lessons were inculcated, they would afford a check to those cruel +propensities in many children, which they at present indulge in, for want +of being better instructed."</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ROYAL PROGRESSES, OR VISITS.</h3> + +<p>The celebrity attendant on a royal visit adhered long to places as well as +persons. A chamber in the decayed tower of Hoghton, in Lancashire, still +bears the name of James the First's room. Elizabeth's apartment, and that +of her maids of honour, are still known at Weston House, in Warwickshire; +her walk "marked by old thorn-bushes," at Hengrave, in Norfolk; near +Harefield, the farm-house where she was welcomed by allegorical personages; +at Bisham Abbey, the well in which she bathed; and at Beddington, in +Surrey, her favourite oak. She often shot with a cross-bow in the paddock +at Oatlands. At Hawsted, in Suffolk, she is reported to have dropped a +silver-handled fan into the moat; and an old approach to Kenninghall Place, +in Norfolk, is called Queen Bess's Lane, because she was scratched by the +brambles in riding through it.—<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>SHAKSPEARE'S MACBETH.</h3> + +<p>During one of the progresses of James I. on passing the gate of St. John's +College, at Oxford, his majesty was saluted by three youths, representing +the weird sisters (sibyllae,) who, in Latin hexameters, bade the +descendant of Banquo hail, as king of Scotland, king of England, and king +of Ireland; and his queen as daughter, sister, wife, and mother of kings. +The occasion is memorable in dramatic history, if it be true that this +address, or a translation of it, led Shakspeare to write on the story of +Macbeth. Much has been said for the probability of this supposition; but +surely the legend of Macbeth and Banquo must have been abundantly +discoursed of in England between James's accession and the year when this +pageant was exhibited; and Shakspeare could find every circumstance +alluded to by the Oxford speakers, and many more in Holinshed's Chronicle, +which, through a great part of Macbeth, he has undoubtedly taken for his +guide.—<i>Ibid</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>CHINESE DRAMA.</h3> + +<p>The Chinese themselves make no technical distinctions between <i>tragedy</i> +and <i>comedy</i> in their stage pieces;—the dialogue of which is composed in +ordinary prose, while the principal performer now and then chants forth, +in unison with music, a species of song or vaudeville, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page122" name="page122"></a>[pg 122]</span> + and the name of the +tune or air is always inserted at the top of the passage to be sung.— +<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE HAWTHORN.</h3> + +<p>The trunk of an old hawthorn is more gnarled and rough than, perhaps, that +of any other tree; and this, with its hoary appearance, and its fragrance, +renders it a favourite tree with pastoral and rustic poets, and with those +to whom they address their songs. Milton, in his L'Allegro, has not +forgotten this favourite of the village:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Every shepherd tells his tale</p> + <p>Under the hawthorn in the dale."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>When Burns, with equal force and delicacy, delineates the pure and +unsophisticated affection of young, intelligent, and innocent country +people, as the most enchanting of human feelings, he gives additional +sweetness to the picture by placing his lovers</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Beneath the milk-white thorn, that scents the evening gale."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>There is something about the tree, which one bred in the country cannot +soon forget, and which a visiter learns, perhaps, sooner than any +association of placid delight connected with rural scenery. When, too, the +traveller, or the man of the world, after a life spent in other pursuits, +returns to the village of his nativity, the old hawthorn is the only +playfellow of his boyhood that has not changed. His seniors are in the +grave; his contemporaries are scattered; the hearths at which he found a +welcome are in the possession of those who know him not; the roads are +altered; the houses rebuilt; and the common trees have grown out of his +knowledge: but be it half a century or more, if man spare the old hawthorn, +it is just the same—not a limb, hardly a twig, has altered from, the +picture that memory traces of his early years.—<i>Library of Entertaining +Knowledge</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TURKISH JOKE.</h3> + +<p>When the Caliph Haroun el Raschid (who was the friend of the great +Charlemagne,) entertained Ebn Oaz at his court in the quality of jester, +he desired him one day, in the presence of the Sultana and all her +followers, to make an excuse worse than the crime it was intended to +extenuate: the Caliph walked about, waiting for a reply. Alter a long +pause, Ebn Oaz skulked behind the throne, and pinched his highness in the +rear. The rage of the Caliph was unbounded. "I beg a thousand pardons of +your Majesty," said Ebn Oaz, "but I thought it was her Highness the +Sultana." This was the excuse worse than the crime; and of course the +jester was pardoned.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>FUND AND REFUND.</h3> + +<p>Disappointment at the theatre is a bad thing: but the manager returning +admission money is worse. Sheridan, who understood professional feelings +on this subject in the most acute degree, was in the habit of saying that +he could give words to the chagrin of a conqueror, on seeing the fruit of +his victories snatched from him; or the miseries of a broken down minister, +turned out in the moment when he thought the cabinet at his mercy; or a +felon listening to a long winded sermon from the ordinary; or a debtor +just fallen into the claws of a dun; but that he never could find words to +express the sensibilities of a manager compelled to disgorge money once +taken at his doors. "<i>Fund</i>," says this experienced ornament of the art of +living by one's wits, "<i>fund</i> is an excellent word; but <i>re-fund</i> is the +very worst in the language."—<i>Monthly Magazine</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>COURT SQUABBLES.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Crawfurd, in his <i>Embassy</i>, describes the following ludicrous scene +arising from a misunderstanding between the sovereign of Birmah and his +ministers:—"The ministers last night reported to the king the progress of +the negotiation. His majesty was highly indignant, said his confidence had +been abused, and that now, for the first time, he was made acquainted with +the real state of affairs. He accused the ministers of falsehoods, +malversations, and all kinds of offences. His displeasure did not end in +mere words; he drew his Dà, or sword, and sallied forth in pursuit of the +offending courtiers. These took to immediate flight, some leaping over the +balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience, but the +greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it; and in the +confusion which attended their endeavours, (tumbling head over heels,) one +on top of another. Such royal paroxysms are pretty frequent, and, although +attended with considerable sacrifices of the kingly dignity, are always +bloodless. The late king was less subject to these fits of anger than his +present majesty, but he also occasionally forgot himself. Towards the +close of his reign, and when on a pilgrimage to the great temple of +Mengwan, a circumstance of this description +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page123" name="page123"></a>[pg 123]</span> + took place, which was +described by an European gentleman, himself present, and one of the +courtiers. The king had detected something flagitious, which would not +have been very difficult. His anger rose; he seized his spear, and +attacked the false ministers. These, with the exception of the European, +who was not a party to the offence, fled tumultuously. One hapless +courtier had his heels tripped up in his flight; the king overtook him, +and wounded him slightly in the calf of the leg with his spear, but took +no farther vengeance."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>LULLABY.</h3> + +<p>SHAKSPEARE, in <i>Titus Andronicus</i>, says,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Be unto us, as is a nurse's song</p> + <p>Of <i>Lullaby</i> to bring her babe to sleep."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on +this.</p> + +<p>"The verb <i>to lull</i>, means to sing Gently, and it is connected with the +Greek λαλεω [Greek: laleo], loquor, or λαλα [Greek: lala], the sound made by the +beach of the sea. The Roman nurses used the word <i>lalla</i>, to quiet their +children, and they feigned a deity called <i>Lullus</i>, whom they invoked on +that occasion; the lullaby, or tune itself was called by the same name."— +<i>Douce</i>.</p> + +<p><i>Lullaby</i> is supposed a contraction for <i>Lull-a-baby</i>. The Welsh are +celebrated for their Lullaby songs, and a good Welsh nurse, with a +pleasing voice, has been sometimes found more soporific in the nursery, +than the midwife's anodyne. The contrary effects of Swift's song, "Here we +go up, up, up," and the smile-provoking melody of "Hey diddle, diddle," +<i>cum multis aliis</i>, are too well known to be enumerated or disputed. "The +Good Nurse" give us a chapter on the advantage of employing music in +certain stages of protracted illness.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>GOOD NIGHT.</h3> + +<p>In northern Europe we may, without impropriety, say good night! to +departing friends at any hour of darkness; but the Italians utter their +Felicissima Notte only once. The arrival of candles marks the division +between day and night, and when they are brought in, the Italians thus +salute each other. How impossible it is to convey the exact properties of +a foreign language by translation! Every word, from the highest to the +lowest, has a peculiar significance, determinable only by an accurate +knowledge of national and local attributes and peculiarites.</p> + +GOETHE.—<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For The Mirror</i>.)</h4> + +<p>In the year 1696, Mr. Henry Winstanley, undertook to build the Eddystone +Lighthouse, and in 1700 he completed it. So confident was this ingenious +mechanic of the stability of his edifice, that he declared his wish to be +in it during the most tremendous storm that could arise. This wish he +unfortunately obtained, for he perished in it during the dreadful storm +which destroyed it, November 27th, 1703. While he was there with his +workmen and light-keepers, that dreadful storm began, which raged most +violently on the night of the 26th of the month, and appears to have been +one of the most tremendous ever experienced in Great Britain, for its vast +and extensive devastation. The next morning, at daybreak, the hurricane +increased to a degree unparalleled; and the lighthouse no longer able to +sustain its fury, was swept into the bosom of the deep, with all its +ill-fated inmates. When the storm abated, about the 29th, people went off +to see if any thing remained, but nothing was left save a few large irons, +whereby the work had been so fastened into a clink, that it could never +afterwards be disengaged, till it was cut out in the year 1756. The +lighthouse had not long been destroyed, before the Winchelsea, a +Virginiaman, laden with tobacco, for Plymouth, was wrecked on the +Eddystone rocks in the night, and every soul perished.</p> + +<p>Smeaton, in his Narrative of the <i>Construction of the Eddystone +Lighthouse</i>, says, "Winstanley had distinguished himself in a certain +branch of mechanics, the tendency of which is to excite wonder and +surprise. He had at his house at Littlebury, in Essex, a set of +contrivances, such as the following:—Being taken into one particular room +of his house, and there observing an old slipper carelessly lying in the +middle of the floor, if, as was natural, you gave it a kick with your foot, +up started a ghost before you; if you sat down in a certain chair, a +couple of arms would immediately clasp you in, so as to render it +impossible for you to disengage yourself till your attendant set you at +liberty; and if you sat down in a certain arbour by the side of a canal, +you were +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page124" name="page124"></a>[pg 124]</span> + forthwith sent out afloat into the middle, from whence it was +impossible for you to escape till the manager returned you to your former +place."</p> + +<p>Mr. John Smeaton, who erected the Eddystone Lighthouse, in the years +1757-58 and 59, was born on the 28th, of May, 1724, at Ansthorpe, near +Leeds. The strength of his understanding, and the originality of his +genius, (says his biographer) appeared at an early age: his playthings +were not the playthings of children, but the tools which men employ, and +when he was a mere child he appeared to take greater pleasure in seeing +the operations of workmen, and asking them questions, than in any thing +else. Before he was six years old, he was once discovered at the top of +his father's barn, fixing up what he called a windmill of his own +construction, and at another time, while he was about the same age, he +attended some men fixing a pump, and observing them cut off a piece of a +bored part, he procured it, and actually made a pump, with which he raised +water. When he was under fifteen years of age, he made an engine for +turning, and worked several things in ivory and wood. He made all his own +tools for working in wood and metals, and he constructed a lathe, by which +he cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing but little known, and which was +the invention of Mr. Henry Hendley of York. His father was an attorney, +and being desirous to bring up his son to the same profession, he brought +him up to London with him in 1724, and attended the courts in Westminster +Hall; but after some time, finding that the law was not suited to his +disposition, he wrote a strong memorial to his father on the subject, who +immediately desired the young man to follow the bent of his inclination.</p> +<p> +P.T.W. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LINES</h3> + +<center><i>To a Friend who had spent some days at a Country Inn, in order to be +near the Writer.</i></center> + +<h4>BY MISS MITFORD</h4> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> + <p>The village inn, the woodfire burning bright,</p> + <p>The solitary taper's flickering light,</p> + <p>The lowly couch, the casement swinging free,—</p> + <p>My noblest friend, was this a place for thee?</p> + <p>No fitting place! Yet there, from all apart,</p> + <p>We poured forth mind for mind and heart for heart,</p> + <p>Ranging from idle words and tales of mirth</p> + <p>To the deep mysteries of heaven and earth</p> + <p>Yet there thine own sweet voice, in accents low,</p> + <p>First breathed Iphigenias tale of wee,</p> + <p>The glorious tale, by Goethe fitly told,</p> + <p>And cast as finely in an English mould</p> + <p>By Taylor's kindred spirit, high and bold: + <a id="footnotetag21" name="footnotetag21"></a> +<a href="#footnote21"><sup>21</sup></a></p> + <p>No fitting place! yet that delicious hour</p> + <p>Fell on my soul, like dewdrops on a flower</p> + <p>Freshening and nourishing and making bright</p> + <p>The plant, decaying less from time than blight,</p> + <p>Flinging Hope's sunshine o'er the faint dim aim,</p> + <p>Thy praise my motive, thine applause my fame.</p> + <p>No fitting place! yet (inconsistent strain</p> + <p>And selfish!) come, I prithee, come again!</p> +</div></div> + +<p>Three Mile Cross, Feb 1829.</p> +<p><i>Sharpe's Magazine</i>.</p> + + + +<hr /> + +<h3>ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLIES.</h3> + +<p>We have been amused with a light pattering paper in Nos. 1. and 2. of +Sharpe's London Magazine—entitled "<i>Illustrious Visiters</i>." Its only +fault is extreme length, it being nearly thirty pages, and, as some people +would say, "all about nothing." But some will think otherwise, and smile +at the sly shafts which are let fly at our national follies, of which, it +must be owned, we have a very great share. We ought to premise that the +framework of the satire is a visit of the Court Cards to our metropolis, a +pretty considerable hit at some recent royal visits. Of course, they see +every thing worth seeing, and some of their remarks are truly piquant. The +spirit, or fun, of the article would evaporate in an abridgment, so we +will endeavour to give a few of the narrator's best points:—</p> + +<center> +<i>The Arrival</i>. +</center> + +<p>"On the day of their landing, the town of Dover was in a state of general +excitement; bells were ringing, colours flying, artillery saluting; and +the loyal inhabitants crowded forth to peep at the illustrious potentates. +Often and often, even from our earliest years, have we heard of the fame +of these kings and queens. Their pictures have been familiar to every eye; +<i>dealers</i> transmitted them into every <i>hand</i>; their colourless +extraordinary faces, their shapeless robes of every tint in the rainbow, +and their sky-blue wigs, are as well known to every Englishman, as the +head of his own revered monarch on a two-and-six-penny piece. Whenever +there is any thing to be seen, an Englishman must go and see it; and, in +the eager warmth of excited spirits, he will run after any vehicle, no +matter whether caravan or carriage; no matter whence it comes or whither +it goes; no matter whether its contents be a kangaroo or a cannibal chief, +a giraffe or a Princess Rusty Fusty. He hears of an arrival from foreign +parts, that is sufficient; a crowd is collected, and the 'interesting +stranger' is cheered +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page125" name="page125"></a>[pg 125]</span> + with enthusiasm, and speeds from town to town, graced +with all the honours of extemporaneous popularity."</p> + +<p>"I have already hinted that I consider it no business of <i>mine</i> to inquire +<i>why</i> these potentates came to England; perhaps it was no business of +<i>theirs</i> that brought them, but rather a party of pleasure; one of the +results of a general peace, which is very far from producing general +<i>quietness</i>; for when the sovereigns of remote countries become upon +visiting terms, hospitality throws wide her gates, and loyalty is +uproarious. They came, no doubt, like all our other royal exotics, from +the unfortunate sovereigns of the Sandwiches down to the Don of yesterday, +to see and to be seen; so, whilst the inhabitants of Dover shouted round +their carriages, they condescendingly acknowledged the greetings they +received, and proceeded on their journey towards the metropolis."</p> + +<center> +<i>Visit to the Theatre</i>. +</center> +<p>"Precisely at seven o'clock the party entered their box, which was +tastefully fitted up for their reception. They were received by the +proprietors, and managers, and acting managers, with the customary +etiquette, backing most adroitly up stairs, and holding wax candles in +their hands (which circumstance was properly stated in the papers the next +morning, for fear it should be supposed that tallow had been used on the +occasion.)</p> + +<p>"Far be it from ME, their most humble chronicler, to speak slightingly of +their Majesties of Hearts and Diamonds; on the contrary, I would maintain +a paper war with any one who dared to insinuate that these honours were +not dealt most fairly: but, on <i>some</i> occasions, I cannot help thinking +that these distinctions have been lavished rather injudiciously, and that +royalty has been made too common. I have seen our own beloved monarch in +public received with acclamations, ay, and with more than mouth honour— +with waving handkerchiefs, and full hearts, and eyes that overflowed. The +enthusiasm of such a welcome is honourable to the monarch who receives it, +and the subjects who bestow it; and let levellers say what they will, the +best feelings of our nature are brought into play on such occasions. There +is a <i>meaning</i> in such a welcome; and long, very long, may our monarch +live to witness proofs of attachment, which his heart well knows how to +appreciate. But there is no meaning whatever in placing a tattooed chief, +or a Hottentot Venus of the blood royal, on the same eminence: it is +<i>infra dig</i>.—can answer no good purpose, and brings the genuine +enthusiasm of loyalty into contempt. There is too much of the Dollalolla +in such an exhibition. When his majesty squats uneasily, as if he +considered his chair an inconvenience, and the queen wipes her ebony nose +with her illustrious white satin play bill. When the royal party entered, +the people seemed unable to contain their rapture, and God save the King +was called for. This is the established custom: whenever we look upon the +king of <i>another country</i>, we always stand up and sing, God save +<i>our own</i>!"</p> +<center> +<i>Club-House Comforts</i>. +</center> +<p>"Far more cheap, and far more commodious than hotels <i>used to be</i>, they +assuredly are; and country curates, poor poets, and gentlemen who live on +very small means, may now take a slice off <i>the</i> joint, with a quarter of +a pint of sherry, for next to nothing at all; sitting, at the same time, +with their feet on a Turkey carpet, lighted by ormolu chandeliers, +surrounded by gold and marble, and waited upon by liveried domestics, with +the additional glory of walking away, and 'giving nothing to the waiter.' +Nay, the more dainty gentleman may order his <i>cotelette aux tomates</i> and +his <i>omelette soufflé</i>, at a moderate expense."</p> + +<p>"Men, in most countries, owe what they possess of suavity of manners to +their intercourse with female society; after the drudgery of a +professional morning, young men used to brush themselves up for their +evening flirtations; but now few feminine drawing-rooms can tempt them to +leave their luxurious palaces, where evening surtouts, and black +neckcloths, and boots, may be freely indulged in. The wife takes her chop, +and a half boiled potato at home, while her husband, who always has some +excuse for dining at his club, is sure to enjoy every thing, the best of +its kind, and cooked <i>à merveille</i>. The unmarried ladies lack partners at +balls; the beaux fall asleep after dinner on the downy cushions of the +sofas at <i>the</i> Club, or vote it a bore to dress of an evening, when they +are sure to meet pleasant fellows at the Alma Mater. As to the young +gentlemen who reap the advantages of these cheap and gilded houses of +accommodation, it may be questioned whether they are thus enabled +hereafter properly to appreciate the comforts of a home, the decorations +of the farm-house residence of a curate, or the plain cookery of the +farmer's wife, who +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page126" name="page126"></a>[pg 126]</span> + dresses his dinner without even <i>professing</i> to be a +cook."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>"The King of Spades went his rounds, accompanied by the most eminent +architects and engineers of the day. He dug deeply into the secret +histories of the foundations of our national buildings, saw through the +<i>dis</i>orders of the egg-shell school of architecture, kept clear of the +tottering lath and plaster of some of the new buildings, acknowledging +that if such materials <i>did</i> ever tumble down, it was a comfort to know +that they were considerably lighter than stone and cast iron. He felt a +great respect for such persons of rank as professed to be <i>supporters</i> of +the drama, trusting that they would keep the ceilings of the theatres from +tumbling into the pits. He spent great part of his time in the Thames +Tunnel, and if he ever felt a doubt respecting the ultimate success of +that <i>under</i>taking, he did justice to the enterprise and skill of its +projector, that illustrious mole, and sincerely wished that zeal and +talent might ultimately be crowned with success. He took shares in many +mining speculations, and, in many instances, lived to repent it; for he +got into troubled waters, and sought for his <i>ore</i> in vain. He attended +agricultural meetings, and endeavoured to comprehend that debatable query, +the corn question; he argued the point, like other great people, as if he +<i>did</i> understand it, and got into repute with the leading Chiropodists, or +corn cutters, of the day. He went to Cheltenham, and became proprietor of +an acre of ground, on which he dug a score wells, and professed to find at +the bottom of each of them, a spring of water sufficiently saline to +pickle the constitutions of all valetudinarians. He was horticultural to a +most praiseworthy extent, offering prizes to the ingenious young Meadowses +who bring forth gigantic gooseberries, supernatural strawberries, and +miraculous melons. He went into the country, and endeavoured to penetrate +beyond the mere surface of things, listening to the speeches of county +members, and dining diligently in warm weather with mayors, and people +with <i>corporations</i>. He endeavoured to detect the root of all evil, +investigated the ramifications of radical reform, and exposed the +ephemeral bulbous roots of speculation. Prejudice he found too deeply +rooted to be dug up very easily, whilst the fashions and follies of the +day seemed to him to lie so entirely on the surface of the soil, and to be +so shortlived, that to throw away any manual labour in an attempt to +eradicate them, would be absurd."</p> +<center> +<i>"Impossible" Amusements</i>. +</center> +<p>"At many of your amusements, the chief attraction consists in the extreme +bodily peril in which the exhibiter is placed. You took me to see a man +walk up a rope, to an immense height, and had his foot slipped, he must +have been dashed to pieces: the place was crowded with persons who were in +raptures; yet had the man been dancing on level ground, he would have +danced far better; and the merit of the dancer seemed to consist in his +giving the audience a <i>chance</i> of seeing him break his neck or dash his +brains out! If a foreigner were to announce that he would dance on a +pack-thread, he would ruin the ropedancer; because, as the thread would in +all probability break, his danger would be greater, and therefore his +exhibition would be incomparable! Then you all delight in distortions; if +a man can bend his back bone, or sit upon his head, you are in raptures, +and seem to think it a good joke to see a fellow creature shortening his +life. Then if any man will ride a dozen horses at once, without saddle or +bridle; or go into an oven and be baked brown, or eat a fire shovel full +of burning coals, or drink deadly poison, or fly off a church steeple, or +thrust a pointed instrument down his throat, or walk on a ceiling with his +head downwards, or go to sea in a washing tub, you would not lose the +sight for the world; you clap your hands, shout with delight, and hold up +your little children, that they may share papa and mamma's rational +amusement! and yet you tell me your national characteristic is humanity!"</p> +<center> +<i>A Man of Honour</i>. +</center> +<p>"Is Mr. Rabbitts a man of honour?"</p> + +<p>"In the strictest sense of the word."</p> + +<p>"Living at the rate of thousands a year, when his income is just so many +hundreds! furnishing his house magnificently without ever intending to pay +for a pipkin, and at last making a sudden disappearance, which closely +resembles what I have heard described as an Irish 'moonlight flitting,' +where a tenant, who is unable to pay his rent, departs at dead of night +with his wife and other <i>movables</i>, having previously thrashed his grain, +and left the straw in its place <i>to keep up appearances!</i> The flittings of +some of your 'leading stars in the hemisphere of fashion' are very similar; +yet afterwards you may see them at some watering-place, as gay +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page127" name="page127"></a>[pg 127]</span> + and as +expensive as ever! Have they mislaid their bills, and forgotten the names +of their creditors? If so, let them call for the Gazette, and look over +the list of bankrupts. <i>Such</i> is the honour of Mr. Rabbitts!"</p> +<center> +<i>To want Style</i>. +</center> +<p>"It is difficult for me to explain, because your majesty has not seen +specimens of that class of the community which is devoid of style, tact, +and taste; but we have them in town, and we meet with them at +watering-places; <i>there</i> indeed it is less in our power to keep quite +clear of them. They are to be seen all day and all night; if the sun +shines, they are promenading in its beams; if a house is lighted up, they +will enter its open door; if a fiddle is heard, they are dancing to its +squeaking; if petticoats are worn short, theirs are up to their knees; +they are never out of sight, never in repose; summer and winter, day and +night, they seem in a state of fearful excitement, flirting, philandering, +raffling, racing, practising, and patronizing; they are great people in a +small way, and only considered great because nothing greater is at hand; +they prefer reigning in hell (excuse the word, I quote Milton) to serving +in heaven; in London they would be nothing, at Hogs Norton Spa, or +Pumpington Wells, they are every thing; making difficulties about +admissions to Lilliputian Almack's."</p> +<center> +<i>To have Style</i>. +</center> +<p>"To <i>have</i> style is to be always dressed to perfection, without appearing +to care about the fashion; and to take the station and precedence which +you are entitled to, without seeming to be solicitous about it. I have +seen dowagers at watering-places in a fever of anxiety about their rank +and their consequence! patronizing puppetshows, seizing conspicuous seats, +and withholding the sunshine of their smiles from commoners allied to +older nobility than their own! How I should enjoy seeing them lost in a +London crowd, where not an eye would notice their aristocracy unless they +wore their coronets on the tops of their bonnets!"</p> +<center> +<i>The Popular Complaint</i>. +</center> +<p>"I am afraid of catching the popular complaint: all the professedly sane +people in London are so evidently mad, that I am led to conclude that all +the supposed lunatics are in their sound senses.</p> + +<p>"For instance, your gay people, who toil through nominal pleasures, +dressing by rule and compass, lacing, bracing, patching, painting, +plastering, penciling, curling, pinching, and all to go out and be looked +at: going from party to party in the middle of the night, pretending not +to be sleepy, suppressing each rising yawn, and trying to make the lips +smile and the eyes twinkle, and to look animated in spite of fatigue: and +all this for no earthly purpose—too old to care about lovers, and without +daughters to marry. Why should an ugly old maid of sixty-six take all +these pains, or leave her own snug fireside, if she had not a touch of the +popular complaint.</p> + +<p>"Then your man of pleasure, risking his life at every corner in a cab, +with a restive horse; wearing all his clothes painfully tight to show off +his figure, confining his neck in a bandage, pouring liquids down his +throat, though he knows they will give him a headache, sitting up all +night shaking bits of bone together for the mere purpose of giving +somebody a chance of winning all his money, or offering bets on racehorses +to afford himself and family an opportunity of changing opulence for +beggary! He has the popular complaint of course.</p> + +<p>"Then your man of business: your public servant, toiling, and striving and +figetting about matters of state, sacrificing health, and the snug +comforts of a private gentleman, for the sake of popularity! <i>His</i> +complaint <i>is</i> popular indeed. Then your physician, courting extensive +practice, and ambitious of the honour of never having time to eat a +comfortable meal, and proud of being called out of bed the moment he is +composing himself to sleep! <i>He</i> must be raving. Then your barrister, +fagging over dull books, and wearing a three-tailed wig, and talking for +hours, that his client, right or wrong, may be successful! All these +people appear to me to be awfully excited: the popular complaint is strong +upon them, and I would put them all into the straightest waistcoats I +could procure."</p> +<center> +<i>Patriotic Follies</i>. +</center> +<p>"It is delightful to hear English men and women talk of their dear country. +There is nothing like Old England, say they; yet paramount as their love +of country appears to be, their love of French frippery is a stronger +passion! They will lament the times, the stagnation of trade, the scarcity +of money, the ruin of manufacturers, but they will wear Parisian +productions. It is a comfort, however, to know that they are often +deceived, and benefit their suffering countrymen without knowing it—as +lace, silks, and gloves have frequently +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page128" name="page128"></a>[pg 128]</span> +been exported from this country, +and sold to English women on the coast of France as genuine French +articles. How little does Mrs. Alderman Popkins dream, when she returns to +her residence in Bloomsbury, that her Parisian pelisse is of Spitalfields +manufacture, and that her French lace veil came originally from Honiton."</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."</p> +<p>SHAKSPEARE.</p> +</div></div> + + +<hr /> + +<h3>BULL AND NO BULL.</h3> + +<p>"I was going," said an Irishman, "over Westminster Bridge the other day, +and I met Pat Hewins—'Hewins,' says I, 'how are you?'—'Pretty well,' says +he, 'thank you, Donnelly.'—'Donnelly,' says I, 'that's not <i>my</i> name.'— +'Faith, no more is mine Hewins,' says he. So we looked at each other again, +and sure it turned out to be neither of us—and where's the bull of <i>that</i> +now?"</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>BAD HABIT.</h3> + +<p>Sir Frederick Flood had a droll habit of which he could never effectually +break himself (at least in Ireland.) Whenever a person at his back +whispered or suggested any thing to him whilst he was speaking in public, +without a moment's reflection, he always repeated the suggestion +<i>literatim</i>. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish +Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on +a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep +down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring +"that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord +Lieutenant's favour,"—John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting +behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."— +"And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, +amidst peals of uncontrollable laughter.</p> + + <hr /> + +<h3>CURIOUS POST OFFICE</h3>. + +<p>It is said, as the Isle of Ascension is visited by the homeward-bound +ships on account of its sea fowls, fish, turtle, and goats, there is in a +crevice of the rock a place called the "<i>Post Office</i>," where letters are +deposited, shut up in a well-corked bottle, for the ships that next visit +the island.<a id="footnotetag22" name="footnotetag22"></a> +<a href="#footnote22"><sup>22</sup></a></p> +<p>P.T.W.</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<h3>AMERICAN COURTSHIP.</h3> + +<p>The young ladies of Medina county, among other means of preventing the too +frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved that they will not receive +the addresses of any young gentleman who is in the habit of using +spirituous liquors. The young gentlemen in the same neighbourhood, by way +of retaliation, have resolved that they will not <i>seriously</i> pay their +addresses to any young lady who wears corsets. This is right. If whiskey +has slain its thousands—corsets have slain their tens of thousands.—<i>N.Y. +American</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p>What colours were the <i>winds</i> and <i>waves</i> the last tempest at sea?</p> + +<p><i>Answer</i>.—The winds <i>blew</i> and the waves <i>rose</i>.</p> +<p> +C.K.W. +</p> +<hr /> + + +<h3>LIGHT EVIL.</h3> + +<p>A good natured citizen, on retiring from a large house of business, took a +neat little country box at Laytonstone, and going with his wife to see it, +she was very sulky and displeased; which "Gilpin" observing, said, "my +dear Judy, don't you like the place?" "Like it indeed! no, why there isn't +room to swing a cat in it." "Well, but my dear Judy, you know we never +have any occasion to swing cats."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p>*** The signature <i>C.C.</i> to the <i>Minstrel Ballad</i>, in our last, merely +implies the correspondent who sent it "for the MIRROR." The writer of the +Ballad is Sir Walter Scott. It appears in the Notes to the New Edition of +"Waverley," but was hitherto unpublished in Sir Walter's works.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3><i>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS</i></h3>. + +<p>CHEAP and POPULAR WORKS published at the MIRROR OFFICE in the Strand, near +Somerset House.</p> + +<p>The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Embellished with nearly 150 Engravings. +In 6 Parts, 1s. each.</p> + +<p>The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s.</p> + +<p>The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. CANNING. &c. 4 Parts, 6d. each.</p> + +<p>PLUTARCH'S LIVES, with Fifty Portraits, 12 Parts, 1s. each.</p> + +<p>COWPER'S POEMS, with 12 Engravings, 12 Numbers, 3d. each.</p> + +<p>COOK'S VOYAGES, 28 Numbers, 3d. each.</p> + +<p>The CABINET of CURIOSITIES: or, WONDERS of the WORLD DISPLAYED. 27 Nos. 2d. +each.</p> + +<p>BEAUTIES of SCOTT, 2 vols. price 7s. boards.</p> + +<p>The ARCANA of SCIENCE for 1828. Price 4s. 6d.</p> + +<p>*** Any of the above Works can be purchased in Parts.</p> + +<p>GOLDSMITH'S ESSAYS. Price 8d.</p> + +<p>DR. FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS. Price 1s. 2d.</p> + +<p>BACON'S ESSAYS. Price 8d.</p> + +<p>SALMAGUNDI. Price 1s. 8d.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1"> (return)</a> +See Gentlemen's Magazine, April, 1829. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2"> (return)</a> +See vol. xiii. MIRROR. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag3"> (return)</a> + Jane Seymour, or as is sometimes written de Sancto Mauro, eldest + daughter of Sir John Seymour, Knight, and Margaret, daughter of Sir + Thomas Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk was born at her father's + seat of Wolf Hall, in Wiltshire. From her great accomplishments, and + her father's connexions at court, (he being Governor of Bristol Castle, + and Groom of the Chamber to Henry VIII.) she was appointed Maid of + Honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, in which situation, her beauty attracted + the notice of Henry, who soon found means to gratify his desires, by + making her his wife. The family of the Seymours had since the time of + Henry II. been keepers of the neighbouring Forest of Savernac, "in + memory whereof," says Camden, "their great hunting horn, tipped with + silver, is still preserved." +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag4"> (return)</a> + Herbert, p. 386. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag5"> (return)</a> + Fuller's "Worthies." +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote6" name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag6"> (return)</a> + "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote7" name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag7"> (return)</a> + Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote8" name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag8"> (return)</a> + "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem + edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris + excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario + percundum compertum esset."—"Annales," p. 64. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote9" name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag9"> (return)</a> + "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote10" name="footnote10"></a><b>Footnote 10</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag10"> (return)</a> + Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers of + State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are preserved in + the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., Nos. 283, and 2131; + and one, from which the above is copied, Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote11" name="footnote11"></a><b>Footnote 11</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag11"> (return)</a> + Holinshed, v. ii. p. 944. edit. 1587.—"At the bishopping the Duke of + Suffolke was his godfather." +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote12" name="footnote12"></a><b>Footnote 12</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag12"> (return)</a> + "Chronicle," fol. 232, edit. 1548. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote13" name="footnote13"></a><b>Footnote 13</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag13"> (return)</a> + This aspersion of Sanders, has been copied, greatly to the detriment + of the character of Henry VIII. by several French writers; vide + Mariceau "Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses," tom. i. p. 358.— + and Dionis "Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie," p. 137. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote14" name="footnote14"></a><b>Footnote 14</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag14"> (return)</a> + Herbert, p. 430. Fox, Hall, Stow, Holinshed, and Speed, all agree in + placing it on the twelfth. Hume, in his <i>History of England</i>, has made + a singular mistake with regard to this date: he says "two days + afterwards," and quotes Strype as his authority, while that author, + who fully investigated the subject, says, "she died on Wednesday night, + the twenty-fourth."—"Memorials," v. iii. p. 1. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote15" name="footnote15"></a><b>Footnote 15</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag15"> (return)</a> + Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x—A copy of this Journal will be found printed + entire in Burnet's "History," v. ii. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote16" name="footnote16"></a><b>Footnote 16</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag16"> (return)</a> + Vide Burnet, v. iii, p 1. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote17" name="footnote17"></a><b>Footnote 17</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag17"> (return)</a> + Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. x. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote18" name="footnote18"></a><b>Footnote 18</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag18"> (return)</a> + Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. 10. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote19" name="footnote19"></a><b>Footnote 19</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag19"> (return)</a> + "Chronicle," v. ii. p. 944. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote20" name="footnote20"></a><b>Footnote 20</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag20"> (return)</a> + Notes to Jennings's <i>Ornithologia</i>, p. 324. +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote21" name="footnote21"></a><b>Footnote 21</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag21"> (return)</a> + Mr. Taylor's transition of Goethe's <i>Iphigenia in Tauris</i>; one of the + finest plays out of Shakspeare, and now extremely rare. +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote22" name="footnote22"></a><b>Footnote 22</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag22"> (return)</a> + Our correspondent calls this a "curious Post Office;" we should say it + was merely an inland post. +</blockquote> + + + + <hr class="full" /> +<i>Printed and Published by J. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, +Issue 386, August 22, 1829 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 6, 2004 [eBook #11486] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, +AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 14, ISSUE 386, AUGUST 22, 1829*** + + +E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle, David Garcia, and the +Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 11486-h.htm or 11486-h.zip: + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/4/8/11486/11486-h/11486-h.htm) + or + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/4/8/11486/11486-h.zip) + + + + +THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + +VOL. 14. NO. 386.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1829. [PRICE 2d. + + + + * * * * * + + + + +ST. PETER'S CHURCH, PIMLICO. + + +[Illustration: St. Peter's Church, Pimlico.] + + +The engraving represents the new church on the eastern side of Wilton +Place, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square. It is a chaste +building of the Ionic order, from the designs of Mr. Henry Hakewill, of +whose architectural attainments we have frequently had occasion to speak. + +The plan of St. Peter's is a parallelogram, placed east and west, without +aisles; the east being increased by the addition of a small chancel +flanked by vestries. The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an +hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns. The floor is +approached by a bold flight of steps, and in the wall, at the back are +three entrances to the church. The columns are surmounted by their +entablature and a pediment, behind which a low attic rises from the roof +of the church to the height of the apex of the pediment; it is crowned +with a cornice and blocking-course, and surmounted by an acroterium of +nearly its own height, but in breadth only equalling two-thirds of it; +this is finished with a sub-cornice and blocking-course, and is surmounted +by the tower, which rises from the middle. The addition of a steeple to a +Grecian church forms a stumbling-block to our modern architects, forcing +them to have recourse to many shifts to convert a Grecian temple into an +English church, a forcible argument for the rejection of the classical +styles altogether in this species of buildings.[1] Mr. Hakewill has, +however, in part surmounted this difficulty, and the effect produced is +not bad, as great value is given to the front elevation by it. + +The tower consists of a square in plan, in elevation consisting of a +pedestal, the dado pieced for the dials of a clock, sustaining a cubical +story, with an arched window in each face, at the sides of which are Ionic +columns, the angles being finished in antis. This story is crowned with an +entablature, above which rises a small enriched circular temple; the whole +is crowned with a spherical dome, surmounted by a cross. + +The body of the church is built of brick, with stone dressings. The +interior is chastely fitted up. The altarpiece is Mr. Hilton's splendid +picture of "Christ crowned with thorns," exhibited at Somerset House, in +1825, and presented to this church by the British Institution in 1827. + +The ground for the site was given by Lord Grosvenor, and the sum of +5,555_l_. 11_s_. 1_d_. was granted by the Royal Commissioners towards the +building. It will accommodate 1,657 persons. The first stone was laid +September 4, 1824, and the church was consecrated by the Bishop of London, +(Dr. Howley,) July 20, 1827. + + + [1] See Gentlemen's Magazine, April, 1829. + + * * * * * + + +PSALMODY. + +(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) + + +I have lately made a journey to the metropolis for the purpose of +inquiring by my own personal attention and otherwise, whether any +improvement had been made in the Psalmody of any of the numerous new +churches and chapels in and near London. I have visited by far the greater +part of them. In many of them I find no improvement, but there are two or +three which merit distinction. + +In the majority of the churches, I observe the singing of psalms or hymns +(for I have not yet, after three months, heard an anthem) is confined +generally to about three verses, and those more ordinarily of the common +metre; the singing is very little of it congregational, but is chiefly +performed by the schools of charity children, and there does not appear to +have been any instruction for their singing in any other than the _treble_. +The organists in general are very good performers, but, however well that +office is filled, the voices of the congregation are wanting, by which a +great improvement would be given to the harmony. In two of the +congregations I happen to have a more numerous acquaintance, and know that +numbers of the congregation have excellent judgment and good voices, and +many are good performers on the piano-forte and harp. In conversing with +several of them on this interesting and (to me) sublime subject, I have +heard as an objection to their joining in the psalmody with any extensive +power, that there are no persons, exclusively of the organist, to lead the +voices, whether treble, counter, tenor, or bass, and yet what a delightful +opportunity do these new churches afford; in general the sound is well and +equally distributed. + +The sublimity of this part of divine worship has been well expressed by +many of our poets, translators, and versifiers of the Psalms--one of them +speaks the feelings of a sincere congregation when he says, + + Arise my heart! my soul arise! + Jehovah praise! sing till the skies + Re-echo his ascending fame! + Rejoice and celebrate his name! + +this does not admit of a deadly silence in the churches; and another +excellent appeal to the true believer is made in the following beautiful +and sublime act of devotion:-- + + Salvation! let the echo fly! + The spacious earth around! + While all the armies of the sky! + Conspire to raise the sound. + +It is the conviction not only of myself but of others who are in the same +order of the musical profession, that the means of drawing forth the +universal voices of congregations is by a number, not less than four, nor +more than twelve, being _appointed_ by the authority of the clergyman or +minister, to sing with correct harmony, and with rather a louder tone than +they might do if only an ordinary singer in the worship of the day as a +congregational attendant. Those four (or more) voices would have the +effect, in a few months, of producing a great improvement in the singing +by the congregation at large; but such an _appointment_ must not be +alienated from its main purpose. These voices, scientifically as they will +be exercised, must not sing in solos, duos, trios, or quartettes; they +must be faithful to their institution, and must _lead the congregation;_ +not merely exhibit themselves, like the professional singers in the Roman +Catholic chapels, but direct the voices of all that may feel the animating +force of the 89th Psalm-- + + Lord God of hosts thy wond'rous ways, + _Are sung by saints above!_ + And saints on earth their honours raise + To thy unchanging love! + +The only instance I have met with in any of the London churches or chapels +of the Church of England (there may be others) is at the St. James's +Chapel, near Mornington Place, on the road to Hampstead. I attended at +that place of worship lately, and was delighted with the whole of the +services, wishing only that greater numbers of the congregation had joined +in the singing, which was conducted precisely on the principle of four +being appointed to lead the congregation: the four voices were excellent, +and naturally and easily led many to join, and I cannot doubt, but that +this superior arrangement, whoever was the author, will tend to make the +singing in that chapel an example to many others. + +I lament that I am obliged to leave town, and may not be here again for +several months, but when I do, I shall humbly offer my services to the +clergyman of the chapel, for the improvement of so judicious a plan, and +extending it to other chapels of the same parish. + +I should offer some apology for not having noticed the discourses, though +my remarks originate and have been chiefly confined to the psalmody. I +will not, however, let this opportunity pass of saying the sermons, both +morning and evening, were excellent, the attention of every part of the +congregation was great; throughout all the services there was, while the +minister was speaking, and the people not required to join, a most +interesting but attentive silence, and in the evening I retired with a +sympathetic feeling which I cannot describe. + +In my next (should this receive your attention) I shall send you a few +remarks on the psalmody of the new churches of Marylebone and Trinity. + +CHRISTIANUS, +_A Cathedral Chorister_. + + * * * * * + + +THE LAY FROM HOME. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Its music beareth o'er my widow'd heart + A tale of vanish'd innocence and love, + And bliss that screw'd around the ark of life + Sweet flow'rs of summer hue. It hath the tone, + The very tone which wrapt my spirit up, + In silent dreams mid visions. Oft, at eve, + I heard it wandering thro' the silver air, + As if some sylph had witch'd the stringed shell + Of woods and lonely fountains:--and the birds + That sang in the blue glow of heaven, the trees + That whisper'd like a timid maiden's lips, + The bees that kiss'd their bride-flow'rs into sleep, + All breath'd the spell of that enchanting lay! + + Whence came it now? perchance from yonder dell, + O'er which the skies, in sunny beauty fix'd, + Their sapphire mantle hang. Its Eden home + Is in some beauteous place where faces beam + In loveliness and joy! To hail the morn, + The infant pours it from his rosy mouth, + Ere, o'er the fields, with blissful heart he roams, + To watch the syren lark, or mark the sun + Surround with golden light the rainbow clouds. + + That music-lay awak'd within my heart + Thoughts, that had wept themselves to death, like clouds + In summer hours.--It brought before mine eyes + The haunts so often worshipped, the forms + Revealing heav'n and holiness in vain. + Alas, sweet lay, the freshness of the heart + Is wasted, like an unfed stream, away; + And dreams of Home, by Fancy treasurd up, + Remain as wrecks around the tomb of Being! + +REGINALD AUGUSTINE. +_Deal_. + + * * * * * + + +TYRE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +"And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy +harps shall be no more heard"--_Ezekiel_, chap. xxvi. verse 13. + +"It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." +_Ezekiel_, chap xxvi. verse 5. + + + Thy harps are silent, mighty one! + Thy melody no more: + For ocean's mourning dirge alone + Breaks on thy rocky shore. + + The fisher there his net has spread, + Thy prophecy to show; + Nor dreams he that thy doom was read, + Two thousand years ago. + + On Chebar's banks the captive seer, + Thy future ruin told: + Visions of woe, how true and clear, + With power divine unroll'd! + + The tall ship there no more is riding, + Of Lebanon's proud cedars made; + But the wild waves ne'er cease their chiding, + Where Tyre's past pomp and splendour fade. + + The traveller to thy desert shore + No cherish'd record found of thee; + But fragments rude are scatter'd o'er + Thy dreary land's blank misery. + + The sounds of busy life were hush'd, + But still the moaning blast, + That o'er the rocky barrier rush'd, + Sang wildly as it pass'd:-- + Spirit of Time, thine echoes woke, + And thus the mighty Genius spoke:-- + + "Seek no more, seek no more, + Splendour past and glories o'er, + Here bleak ruin ever reigns; + See him scatter o'er the plains, + Arches broken, temples strew'd, + O'er the dreary solitude! + Long ago the words were spoken, + Words which never can be broken. + Where are now thy riches spread? + Where wilt thou thy commerce spread? + Thou shalt be sought but found no more! + Wanderers to thy desert shore + Former splendours bring thee never, + Tyre is fallen, fallen forever!" + + +_Kirton Lindsey_. +ANNIE R. + + * * * * * + + +LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.[2] + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Let science weep and droop her head, + Her favourite champion, Davy's dead! + The brightest star among the bright, + Alas! has ceased to shed its _light_. + Yet say not darkness reigns alone, + While "Safety Lamps" are burning on, + And shedding _life_ that never dies. + Around the tomb where Davy lies + + +J.F.C. + + + [2] See vol. xiii. MIRROR. + + * * * * * + + +HAMPTON COURT: + +BIRTH OF EDWARD THE SIXTH, AND DEATH OF QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Every hint, every ray of light, which tends, in the most distant manner, +to illustrate an obscure passage in the history of our country, cannot we +presume, while it affords great pleasure and satisfaction to the student +attentively employed in such researches, be deemed either insignificant or +uninteresting by the general reader. + +The birth of Edward the Sixth must always be regarded as a bright star in +the horizon of the Reformation, and one, which tended greatly to blast the +prospects of those who were inimical to that glorious change in our +religious constitution. + +The marriage of Henry the Eighth, with the Lady Jane Seymour,[3] +immediately after the death of his former Queen, Anne Boleyn, is so well +known as to render it superfluous, if not presuming in us to enlarge upon +it in this place: suffice it to say, that the nuptials were celebrated on +the day following the execution of Anne, the twentieth of May, 1536, the +King "not thinking it fit to mourn long, or much, for one the law had +declared criminall."[4] Old Fuller says, "it is currantly traditioned, +that at her [Jane's] first coming to court, Queen _Anne Bolen_ espying a +jewell pendant about her neck, snatched thereat, (desirous to see, the +other unwilling to show it,) and casually hurt her _hand_ with her own +violence; but it grieved her _heart_ more, when she perceived it the +King's picture by himself bestowed upon her, who from this day forward +dated her own _declining_ and the other's _ascending_ in her husband's +affection."[5] About seventeen months after her marriage at the Palace of +Hampton Court, Queen Jane gave birth to a son, Edward the Sixth. + +The precise period of the birth of this prince has been variously stated +by historians. Sir John Hayward,[6] who bestowed considerable labour upon +writing his life, places it on the seventeenth of October, 1537; while +Sanders,[7] on the other hand, fixes it on the tenth. Herbert, Godwin,[8] +and Stow, whom, all[9] his more modern biographers have followed, agree +that it happened on the twelfth of the same month, and their testimony is +fully corroborated by the following official letter, addressed to Cromwell, +Lord Privy Seal, informing him of the birth of a prince:-- + +_By the Quene_. + +"Right trustie and right welbeloved, wee grete you well; and, forasmuche +as by the inestimable goodnes and grace of Almighty God wee be delivered +and brought in childbed of a Prince, conceived in most lawfull matrimonie +between my Lord the King's Majestie and us; doubtinge not but, for the +love and affection which ye beare unto us, and to the commonwealth of this +realme, the knowledge thereof should be joyous and glad tydeings unto you, +we have thought good to certifie you of the same, to th' intent you might +not onely render unto God condigne thanks and praise for soe greate a +benefit but alsoe continuallie praie for the longe continuance and +preservacion of the same here in this life, to the honour of God, joy and +pleasure of my Lord the Kinge and us, and the universall weale, quiett, +and tranquillitie of this hole realm." + +"Given under our Signet, att my Lord's Mannor of Hampton Courte, the xii +daie of October."[10] + +Edward was christened with great state, on the Monday following, in the +chapel at Hampton Court, Archbishop Cranmer, and the Duke of Norfolk being +the godfathers, and his sister, the Princess Mary, godmother.[11] "At his +birth," says Hall, "was great fires made through the whole realme, and +great joye made with thankesgeuyng to Almightie God which had sent so +noble a prince to succeed to the crowne of this realme."[12] + +The joy, however, which the birth of a son and heir to the throne, excited +in the mind of Henry was soon dispelled by the death of his queen. It was +deemed necessary, both for the preservation of her life, and that of her +offspring, to bring the latter into the world by means of the Caesarian +operation, a mode which in the greater number of cases proves fatal to the +mother. It has been maliciously, and without the least appearance of truth, +asserted by Sanders,[13] one of the most bitter writers of the opposite +party, that the question was put to the King by the physicians, whether +the life of the Queen or the child should be saved, for it was judged +impossible to preserve both? "The child's," he replied, "for I shall be +able to find wives enough." Whether, however, her death originated from +that terrible cause, we cannot, at this distant period, pretend to affirm, +but from the report to the Privy Council of the birth of Edward the Sixth, +still extant, it would appear not, as it informs us she was "happily" +delivered, and died afterwards of a distemper incidental to women in that +condition. + +The death of Jane Seymour, like the birth of her son, is involved in +considerable obscurity. Most of the chroniclers who appear to have +followed Herbert[14] in this particular, fix it on the fourteenth of +October, two days after the birth of Edward; Hayward, on the contrary, +states that "shee dyed of the incision on the fourth day following," while +Edward the Sixth, in his journal, written by himself, informs us, but +without stating any precise period, that it happened "within a few dayes +after the birth of her soone."[15] We shall, however, see from the +following letter, that this event did not take place on either of the +abovementioned days, nor until "duodecimo post die," as George Lilly truly +informs us, the day also mentioned in the journal of Cecil.[16] This +original document respecting the health of the Queen, which is still +extant, is signed by Thomas Rutland, and five other medical men, is dated +on a Wednesday, which if it were only the following Wednesday, and we +shall presently prove that it was not, would, at least, make it five days +afterwards. + +"These shal be to advertise yor lordship of the Quenes estate. Yesterdaie +afternonne she had an naturall laxe, by reason whereof she beganne sumwhat +to lyghten, and (as it appeared,) to amende; and so contynued till towards +night. All this night she hath bene very syck, and doth rather appaire +than amend. Her Confessor hath bene with her grace this morning, and hath +done [all] that to his office apperteyneth, and even now is preparing to +minister to her grace the sacrament of unction. At Hampton Court, this +Wednesday mornyng, at viii of the clock."[17] + +As a further and additional proof of the date of her decease, we shall +refer our readers to a manuscript, preserved in the Herald's College, the +preamble of which runs as follows:--"An ordre taken and made for the +interrement of the most high, most excellent, and most Chrysten Pryncess, +Jane, Quene of England, and of France, Lady of Ireland, and mother of the +most noble and puyssant Prynce Edward; which deceasyd at Hampton Courte, +the xxixth yere of the reigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord Kyng Henry +the eight, her most dearest husband, the xxiiiith day of Octobre, beyng +Wedynsday, at nyght, xii of the clock; which departyng was the twelf day +after the byrthe of the said Prynce her Grace beying in childbed." By this +document it is fixed on the second Wednesday after the birth of the prince, +on the morning of which day, the abovementioned letter of her physicians +was undoubtedly written, as the ministering of the holy unction would show +that her death was fast approaching. + +The remains of Jane Seymour were conveyed with great solemnity to Windsor, +and interred in the choir of St. George's Chapel, on the 12th of November. +The following epitaph was inscribed to her memory:-- + + Phoenix Jana iacet, nato Phoenice dolendum, + Secala Phoenices nulla tulisse duas. + +Of which Fuller gives this quaint translation-- + + Soon as her Phoenix Bud was blown, + Root-Phoenix Jane did wither, + Sad, that no age a brace had shown + Of Phoenixes together. + +The funeral rites were solemnized according to the forms of the Catholic +faith. The original letter[18] from Richard Gresham to the Lord Privy Seal, +dated "Thurssdaye the viiith day of Novbr." is still preserved, proposing +that a solemn dirge, and masses should be said for the soul of the late +Queen Jane, in St. Paul's, in presence of the Mayor, Alderman, and +Commoners, which were accordingly performed, as appears from the following +passage in Holinshed:--"There was a solemne hearse made for her in Paule's +Church, and funerall exequies celebrated, as well as in all other churches +within the Citie of London."[19] + +S.I.B. + + + [3] Jane Seymour, or as is sometimes written de Sancto Mauro, eldest + daughter of Sir John Seymour, Knight, and Margaret, daughter of + Sir Thomas Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk was born at her + father's seat of Wolf Hall, in Wiltshire. From her great + accomplishments, and her father's connexions at court, (he being + Governor of Bristol Castle, and Groom of the Chamber to Henry + VIII.) she was appointed Maid of Honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, in + which situation, her beauty attracted the notice of Henry, who + soon found means to gratify his desires, by making her his wife. + The family of the Seymours had since the time of Henry II. been + keepers of the neighbouring Forest of Savernac, "in memory + whereof," says Camden, "their great hunting horn, tipped with + silver, is still preserved." + + [4] Herbert, p. 386. + + [5] Fuller's "Worthies." + + [6] "Life and Raigne of K. Edward the Sixth," p. 1. + + [7] Sanders', de Schism Anglic, p. 122. + + [8] "Octobris 12 Regina cum partus difficultate diu luctata, in lucem + edidit, qui post patrem regnauit, Edvvardum, sed ex vtero matris + excisum cum alterutri, aut parturienti nempe aut partui necessario + percundum compertum esset."--"Annales," p. 64. + + [9] "Chronicles," p. 575, edit. 1631. + + [10] Of this letter, which was a circular to the Principal Officers + of State, Sheriffs of Counties, &c. four original copies are + preserved in the British Museum; three among the Harleian MSS., + Nos. 283, and 2131; and one, from which the above is copied, + Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x. + + [11] Holinshed, v. ii. p. 944. edit. 1587.--"At the bishopping the + Duke of Suffolke was his godfather." + + [12] "Chronicle," fol. 232, edit. 1548. + + [13] This aspersion of Sanders, has been copied, greatly to the + detriment of the character of Henry VIII. by several French + writers; vide Mariceau "Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses," + tom. i. p. 358.--and Dionis "Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie," + p. 137. + + [14] Herbert, p. 430. Fox, Hall, Stow, Holinshed, and Speed, all + agree in placing it on the twelfth. Hume, in his _History of + England_, has made a singular mistake with regard to this date: + he says "two days afterwards," and quotes Strype as his + authority, while that author, who fully investigated the + subject, says, "she died on Wednesday night, the + twenty-fourth."--"Memorials," v. iii. p. 1. + + [15] Cotton. MSS, Nero, C. x--A copy of this Journal will be found + printed entire in Burnet's "History," v. ii. + + [16] Vide Burnet, v. iii, p 1. + + [17] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. x. + + [18] Cotton. MSS. Nero, C. 10. + + [19] "Chronicle," v. ii. p. 944. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NOVELIST. + + * * * * * + +THE HEARTHSTONE.--A GERMAN TRADITIONAL TALE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Frantz did not at all like his new benefice; his parishioners were +evidently idle, ill-disposed people, doing no credit to the ministry of +the deceased incumbent; and looking with eyes any thing but respectful +and affectionate upon their new pastor. In short, he foresaw a host of +troubles; although he had not taken possession of his living for more than +two days. Neither did he admire the lonely situation of his house, which, +gloomy and old fashioned, needed (at least so thought the polished Frantz, +just emerged from the puny restraints and unlimited licenses of college) +nothing less than a total rebuilding to render it inhabitable. His own +sleeping apartment he liked less than all; but what could be done? It was +decidedly the only decent dormitory in the house--had been that of the +late pastor--and there was no help for it--could not but be his own. The +young minister was wretched--lamented without ceasing the enjoyments of +Leipzig--missed the society of his fellow students, and actually began to +meditate taking a wife. But upon whom should his election fall? He caused +all his female acquaintances to pass in mental review before him; some +were fair--some wealthy--some altogether angelic; but Frantz was not Grand +Seignior, and he allowed himself to be puzzled in a matter where every +sentiment of love and honour ought to have, without hesitation, determined +his choice; for in his rainbow visions of bright beauty and ethereal +perfection, appeared the lonely and lovely Adelinda. Adelinda, the poor, +the fond, the devoted, and, but for him, the innocent. No; beautiful and +loving as she was, connected with her were the brooding shadows of guilt, +and the lurid clouds of fiery vengeance; and Frantz had rather not think +of Adelinda. + +On the morning of the third day of his residence at Steingart, he happened +to awake very early; being summertime it was broad daylight, and a bright +sun was endeavouring to beam upon his countenance through the small +lozenges of almost opaque glass which filled the high, narrow, and many +paned window. Not feeling inclined to sleep, nor for the present to rise, +Frantz laid for some time in deep reverie, with his eyes fixed, as some +would have deemed, upon the door; and as others, more justly, would have +thought upon vacancy. As he gazed, however, he was suddenly conscious that +the door slowly and sullenly swung open, and admitted three strangers; a +man of tall and graceful figure, and of a comely but melancholy aspect, +arrayed in a long, loose and dark morning gown; he led two young and +lovely children, whose burnished golden hair, pale, clear, tranquil +countenances and snow-white garments gave them the appearance of celestial +intelligences. Frantz, terrified and confounded, followed with his eyes +those whom he could but fancy to be apparitions, as with noiseless steps +they walked, or rather glided, towards a table which stood near the +fireplace; upon this laid the parish register, coming in front of which, +the man opened it with a solemn air, and turning over a few pages, pointed +with his finger to some record, upon which the fair children seemed to +gaze with interest and attention. The trio smiled mournfully at each other, +then moving so that they stood upon the hearth immediately opposite the +foot of Frantz's bed, and facing the affrighted young minister, he had +full leisure to contemplate his strange visiters. That they were of a +superhuman nature, he was warranted in concluding from their appearance +in so solitary a place as Steingart--from their unceremonious _entree_ at +that unusual hour into his dormitory, and from their movements, actions, +and awful silence. Frantz endeavoured to recollect the form of adjuration, +and also that of exorcism, commonly employed to tranquillize the turbulent +departed, but vainly; his brain was giddy; his thoughts distracted; his +heart throbbed to agony with terror, and his tongue refused its office. +With a violent effort he sprang up in his bed, and in his address to the +speechless trio, had proceeded as far as--"In the name of--" when the +children sank down into the very hearthstone upon which they stood, and +the man--Frantz saw not whither _he_ went--perhaps up the chimney--but go +he certainly did. + +The terrified young man leapt in a state of desperation from his bed, and +searched the apartment narrowly, as people commonly, but foolishly, are +wont to do in similar cases. His search, as might have been expected, was +useless; but not liking at present to alarm his domestics with a report +of the house being haunted, he resolved to await further evidences of +the supernatural visitation. Next morning at about the same hour, the +apparitions again entered his apartment; and acting as they had previously +done, gazed earnestly at him for some seconds ere they vanished. On the +morning of the third day the trio appeared again, when the gentleman of +the long robe, looking most earnestly at Frantz, pointed to the register, +the children, and the hearthstone; and then, as usual, disappeared under +the same circumstances as before. + +Frantz was much distressed; he could not exactly comprehend the meaning of +this dumb show; and yet felt that some dire mystery was connected with +these phantoms, which he was called upon to unravel. After breakfast he +wandered out, and lost in the maze of thought, sauntered, ere he was aware +of it, into the churchyard. Shortly afterwards the church-door was opened +by the sexton, who kept his pickaxe and mattock in a corner of the belfry, +and Frantz remembering that as yet he had not entered the church, followed +him in, and was struck with the appearance of many portraits which hung +round the walls. + +"What are these?" said he. + +"The pictures, sir, of all your predecessors; know you not, that in some +of our country churches it is the custom to hang up the likenesses of all +the gentlemen who ever held the living?" + +Frantz, in a tone of indifference, replied, that he fancied he had heard +of such a thing. + +"'Tis, sir," continued the man, "a custom with which you must comply at +any rate. Why, bad as was our last pastor Herr Von Weetzer, he honoured us +so far, that there hangs _his_ picture." + +Frantz advanced to view a newly painted portrait, which hung last in the +line of his predecessors; and then the young man started back, changed +colour, and the deadly faintness of terror seized his relaxing frame; for +in it he recognised, exact in costume and features, the perfect likeness +of his adult spectral visiter! + +"Good God!" cried Frantz, "how very extraordinary!" + +"A nice looking man, sir," said the sexton, not noticing his emotion; +"pity 'tis that he was so wicked." + +"Wicked!" exclaimed Frantz, almost unconscious of what he said; "how +wicked?" + +"Oh, sir, I can't exactly say how wicked; but a bad gentleman was Mr. Von +Weetzer, that's certain." + +"Wicked! well--was he married?" asked Frantz, with apparent unconcern. + +"Why, no, sir;" replied the sexton, with a significant look; "people do +say he was not; but if all tales be true that are rife about him, 'tis a +sure thing he ought to have been." + +"Hah! hum!" muttered Frantz, and a slight blush tinged his fine +countenance. "His children you say--" + +"Lord, sir! I said nothing about them--who told you? Few folks at +Steingart, I guess, knew he had any but myself. 'Tis thought the poor +things did not come fairly by their ends; and for certain, I never buried +them!" + +Frantz stood for some minutes absorbed in thought; at length he said-- +"were they baptized? I have a reason for asking." + +"Perhaps sir, it is, that you are thinking if the poor, little, innocent +creatures were not christened, they'd no right to be laid in consecrated +ground." + +"No matter what I think; I believe I have the register." + +"You have, sir; please then to look at page 197, line 19, and I fancy +you'll find the names of Gertrude and Erhard Dow, ('twas their poor +_misfortunate_ mother's sirname,) down as baptized." + +"I have," interrupted Frantz, with an air of extreme solemnity, "seen, as +I believe, those children and their father!" + +"Mein Gott!" cried the sexton in excessive alarm--"_seen_ them?--Seen +_Herr Von Weetzer!_ They do say he walks--dear, dear!--and after the +shocking unchristian death that he died too! Where, sir? Where and when?" + +"No matter, I also have my suspicions." + +"He murdered them himself, sir--the wicked man! 'Twasn't their mother, my +poor niece, God rest her soul! She died as easy as a lamb. Indeed, indeed, +it wasn't her." + +"Bring your tools," said Frantz, "and come with me." + +He led the sexton to his chamber--desired him to raise the mysterious +hearthstone, and dig up the ground beneath it. This was accordingly done, +and in a few minutes, with sentiments of unspeakable pity and horror, +Frantz beheld the fleshless remains of two children, who apparently from +the size of the bones must have been about the age and figure, when +deposited there, of the little phantoms. He found also upon turning to the +register, that it laid open at the very page named by the sexton; and on +the very spot which the apparition of the wretched Von Weetzer had +indicated by his finger, was duly entered the baptism of the murdered +children; and the sexton readily turned to the entries of their birth in +other parts of the volume. Frantz interred the remains of these +unfortunate beings in consecrated ground--immediately quitted Steingart-- +resigned a preferment which had (from the singularly terrible incident +thus connected with his possession of it) equally alarmed and disgusted +him--_married Adelinda_ upon his return to Leipzig--and gradually became +an exemplary member of Society. + +M.L.B. + + * * * * * + + +Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.--_Swift_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NATURALIST. + + * * * * * + +NEST OF THE TAYLOR BIRD. + +[Illustration: Nest of the Taylor Bird.] + + +This is one of the most interesting objects in the whole compass of +Natural History. The little architect is called the _Taylor Bird, Taylor +Wren_, or _Taylor Warbler_, from the art with which it makes its nest, +sewing some dry leaves to a green one at the extremity of a twig, and thus +forming a hollow cone, which it afterwards lines. The general construction +of the nest, as well as a description of a specimen in Dr. Latham's +collection, will be found at page 180, of vol. xiii. of the MIRROR. + +The Taylor Bird is only about three and a half inches in length, and +weighs, it is said, three-sixteenths of an ounce; the plumage above is +pale olive yellow; chin and throat yellow; breast and belly dusky white. +It inhabits India, and particularly the Islands of Ceylon. The eggs are +white, and not much larger than what are called ant's eggs.[1] + +In constructing the nest, the beak performs the office of drilling in the +leaves the necessary holes, and passing the fibres through them with the +dexterity of a tailor. Even such parts in the rear as are not sufficiently +firm are sewed in like manner. + + [20] Notes to Jennings's _Ornithologia_, p. 324. + + * * * * * + + +IVY. + + +Mr. Gilbert Burnett thus beautifully illustrates the transitorial +metamorphosis of ivy:-- + +"The ivy, in its infant or very young state, has stalks trailing upon the +ground, and protruding rootlets throughout their whole extent; its leaves +are spear-shaped, and it bears neither flower nor fruit; this is termed +_ivy creeping on the ground_. The same plant, when more advanced, quits +the ground, and climbs on walls and trees, its rootlets becoming holdfasts +only; its leaves are generally three or five lobed, and it is still barren; +this is the _greater barren ivy_. In its next, or more mature state, it +disdains all props, and rising by its own strength above the walls on +which it grew, occasionally puts on the appearance of a tree; in this the +flower of its age, the branches are smooth, devoid of radicles and +holdfasts; and it is loaded with blossoms and with fruit; the lobulations +of the leaves are likewise less; this is the _war-poet's ivy_. But when +old, the ivy again becomes barren, again the suckers appear upon the stem, +and the leaves are no longer lobed, but egg-shaped; this is the +_Bacchanalian ivy_." + + * * * * * + + +MICROSCOPIC AMUSEMENT. + + +Mr. Carpenter, in _Gill's Repository_, speaking of the fine displays of +anatomy and wonderful construction of insects, creatures so much "despised, +and which are, indeed, but too often made the subject of wanton sport by +many persons, who amuse their children by passing a pin through the bottom +of their abdomen, in order to excite pain and long-suffering in the insect, +and thus making them spin, as they ignorantly term it," has the following +most humane and benevolent observations:--"Many of these cruel sports +might undoubtedly be effectively checked, if the teachers of schools were +occasionally to exhibit to their pupils, under the microscope, the various +parts of an insect with which they are familiar; and, by interesting +lectures of instruction, to point out the uses to which those parts are +applied by the insect, for its preservation and comfort; and that, when +they are deprived of them, or they are even injured, a degree of suffering +takes place in the creature, which the children at present seem to be +wholly uninformed of. I certainly think that, if the abovementioned useful +lessons were inculcated, they would afford a check to those cruel +propensities in many children, which they at present indulge in, for want +of being better instructed." + + * * * * * + + + + +NOTES OF A READER. + + * * * * * + + +ROYAL PROGRESSES, OR VISITS. + + +The celebrity attendant on a royal visit adhered long to places as well as +persons. A chamber in the decayed tower of Hoghton, in Lancashire, still +bears the name of James the First's room. Elizabeth's apartment, and that +of her maids of honour, are still known at Weston House, in Warwickshire; +her walk "marked by old thorn-bushes," at Hengrave, in Norfolk; near +Harefield, the farm-house where she was welcomed by allegorical personages; +at Bisham Abbey, the well in which she bathed; and at Beddington, in +Surrey, her favourite oak. She often shot with a cross-bow in the paddock +at Oatlands. At Hawsted, in Suffolk, she is reported to have dropped a +silver-handled fan into the moat; and an old approach to Kenninghall Place, +in Norfolk, is called Queen Bess's Lane, because she was scratched by the +brambles in riding through it.--_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + +SHAKSPEARE'S MACBETH. + + +During one of the progresses of James I. on passing the gate of St. John's +College, at Oxford, his majesty was saluted by three youths, representing +the weird sisters (sibyllae,) who, in Latin hexameters, bade the +descendant of Banquo hail, as king of Scotland, king of England, and king +of Ireland; and his queen as daughter, sister, wife, and mother of kings. +The occasion is memorable in dramatic history, if it be true that this +address, or a translation of it, led Shakspeare to write on the story of +Macbeth. Much has been said for the probability of this supposition; but +surely the legend of Macbeth and Banquo must have been abundantly +discoursed of in England between James's accession and the year when this +pageant was exhibited; and Shakspeare could find every circumstance +alluded to by the Oxford speakers, and many more in Holinshed's Chronicle, +which, through a great part of Macbeth, he has undoubtedly taken for his +guide.--_Ibid_. + + * * * * * + + +CHINESE DRAMA. + + +The Chinese themselves make no technical distinctions between _tragedy_ +and _comedy_ in their stage pieces;--the dialogue of which is composed in +ordinary prose, while the principal performer now and then chants forth, +in unison with music, a species of song or vaudeville, and the name of the +tune or air is always inserted at the top of the passage to be sung.-- +_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + +THE HAWTHORN. + + +The trunk of an old hawthorn is more gnarled and rough than, perhaps, that +of any other tree; and this, with its hoary appearance, and its fragrance, +renders it a favourite tree with pastoral and rustic poets, and with those +to whom they address their songs. Milton, in his L'Allegro, has not +forgotten this favourite of the village:-- + + + "Every shepherd tells his tale + Under the hawthorn in the dale." + + +When Burns, with equal force and delicacy, delineates the pure and +unsophisticated affection of young, intelligent, and innocent country +people, as the most enchanting of human feelings, he gives additional +sweetness to the picture by placing his lovers + + + "Beneath the milk-white thorn, that scents the evening gale." + + +There is something about the tree, which one bred in the country cannot +soon forget, and which a visiter learns, perhaps, sooner than any +association of placid delight connected with rural scenery. When, too, the +traveller, or the man of the world, after a life spent in other pursuits, +returns to the village of his nativity, the old hawthorn is the only +playfellow of his boyhood that has not changed. His seniors are in the +grave; his contemporaries are scattered; the hearths at which he found a +welcome are in the possession of those who know him not; the roads are +altered; the houses rebuilt; and the common trees have grown out of his +knowledge: but be it half a century or more, if man spare the old hawthorn, +it is just the same--not a limb, hardly a twig, has altered from, the +picture that memory traces of his early years.--_Library of Entertaining +Knowledge_. + + * * * * * + + +TURKISH JOKE. + + +When the Caliph Haroun el Raschid (who was the friend of the great +Charlemagne,) entertained Ebn Oaz at his court in the quality of jester, +he desired him one day, in the presence of the Sultana and all her +followers, to make an excuse worse than the crime it was intended to +extenuate: the Caliph walked about, waiting for a reply. Alter a long +pause, Ebn Oaz skulked behind the throne, and pinched his highness in the +rear. The rage of the Caliph was unbounded. "I beg a thousand pardons of +your Majesty," said Ebn Oaz, "but I thought it was her Highness the +Sultana." This was the excuse worse than the crime; and of course the +jester was pardoned. + + * * * * * + + +FUND AND REFUND. + + +Disappointment at the theatre is a bad thing: but the manager returning +admission money is worse. Sheridan, who understood professional feelings +on this subject in the most acute degree, was in the habit of saying that +he could give words to the chagrin of a conqueror, on seeing the fruit of +his victories snatched from him; or the miseries of a broken down minister, +turned out in the moment when he thought the cabinet at his mercy; or a +felon listening to a long winded sermon from the ordinary; or a debtor +just fallen into the claws of a dun; but that he never could find words to +express the sensibilities of a manager compelled to disgorge money once +taken at his doors. "_Fund_," says this experienced ornament of the art of +living by one's wits, "_fund_ is an excellent word; but _re-fund_ is the +very worst in the language."_Monthly Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + +COURT SQUABBLES. + + +Mr. Crawfurd, in his _Embassy_, describes the following ludicrous scene +arising from a misunderstanding between the sovereign of Birmah and his +ministers:--"The ministers last night reported to the king the progress of +the negotiation. His majesty was highly indignant, said his confidence had +been abused, and that now, for the first time, he was made acquainted with +the real state of affairs. He accused the ministers of falsehoods, +malversations, and all kinds of offences. His displeasure did not end in +mere words; he drew his Da, or sword, and sallied forth in pursuit of the +offending courtiers. These took to immediate flight, some leaping over the +balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience, but the +greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it; and in the +confusion which attended their endeavours, (tumbling head over heels,) one +on top of another. Such royal paroxysms are pretty frequent, and, although +attended with considerable sacrifices of the kingly dignity, are always +bloodless. The late king was less subject to these fits of anger than his +present majesty, but he also occasionally forgot himself. Towards the +close of his reign, and when on a pilgrimage to the great temple of +Mengwan, a circumstance of this description took place, which was +described by an European gentleman, himself present, and one of the +courtiers. The king had detected something flagitious, which would not +have been very difficult. His anger rose; he seized his spear, and +attacked the false ministers. These, with the exception of the European, +who was not a party to the offence, fled tumultuously. One hapless +courtier had his heels tripped up in his flight; the king overtook him, +and wounded him slightly in the calf of the leg with his spear, but took +no farther vengeance." + + * * * * * + + +LULLABY. + + +SHAKSPEARE, in _Titus Andronicus_, says, + + "Be unto us, as is a nurse's song + Of _Lullaby_ to bring her babe to sleep." + +A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on +this. + +"The verb _to lull_, means to sing Gently, and it is connected with the +Greek [Greek: laleo], loquor, or [Greek: lala], the sound made by the +beach of the sea. The Roman nurses used the word _lalla_, to quiet their +children, and they feigned a deity called _Lullus_, whom they invoked on +that occasion; the lullaby, or tune itself was called by the same name."-- +_Douce_. + +_Lullaby_ is supposed a contraction for _Lull-a-baby_. The Welsh are +celebrated for their Lullaby songs, and a good Welsh nurse, with a +pleasing voice, has been sometimes found more soporific in the nursery, +than the midwife's anodyne. The contrary effects of Swift's song, "Here we +go up, up, up," and the smile-provoking melody of "Hey diddle, diddle," +_cum multis aliis_, are too well known to be enumerated or disputed. "The +Good Nurse" give us a chapter on the advantage of employing music in +certain stages of protracted illness. + + * * * * * + + +GOOD NIGHT. + + +In northern Europe we may, without impropriety, say good night! to +departing friends at any hour of darkness; but the Italians utter their +Felicissima Notte only once. The arrival of candles marks the division +between day and night, and when they are brought in, the Italians thus +salute each other. How impossible it is to convey the exact properties of +a foreign language by translation! Every word, from the highest to the +lowest, has a peculiar significance, determinable only by an accurate +knowledge of national and local attributes and peculiarites. + +GOETHE.--_Blackwood's Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + + * * * * * + + +THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. + +(_For The Mirror_.) + + +In the year 1696, Mr. Henry Winstanley, undertook to build the Eddystone +Lighthouse, and in 1700 he completed it. So confident was this ingenious +mechanic of the stability of his edifice, that he declared his wish to be +in it during the most tremendous storm that could arise. This wish he +unfortunately obtained, for he perished in it during the dreadful storm +which destroyed it, November 27th, 1703. While he was there with his +workmen and light-keepers, that dreadful storm began, which raged most +violently on the night of the 26th of the month, and appears to have been +one of the most tremendous ever experienced in Great Britain, for its vast +and extensive devastation. The next morning, at daybreak, the hurricane +increased to a degree unparalleled; and the lighthouse no longer able to +sustain its fury, was swept into the bosom of the deep, with all its +ill-fated inmates. When the storm abated, about the 29th, people went off +to see if any thing remained, but nothing was left save a few large irons, +whereby the work had been so fastened into a clink, that it could never +afterwards be disengaged, till it was cut out in the year 1756. The +lighthouse had not long been destroyed, before the Winchelsea, a +Virginiaman, laden with tobacco, for Plymouth, was wrecked on the +Eddystone rocks in the night, and every soul perished. + +Smeaton, in his Narrative of the _Construction of the Eddystone +Lighthouse_, says, "Winstanley had distinguished himself in a certain +branch of mechanics, the tendency of which is to excite wonder and +surprise. He had at his house at Littlebury, in Essex, a set of +contrivances, such as the following:--Being taken into one particular room +of his house, and there observing an old slipper carelessly lying in the +middle of the floor, if, as was natural, you gave it a kick with your foot, +up started a ghost before you; if you sat down in a certain chair, a +couple of arms would immediately clasp you in, so as to render it +impossible for you to disengage yourself till your attendant set you at +liberty; and if you sat down in a certain arbour by the side of a canal, +you were forthwith sent out afloat into the middle, from whence it was +impossible for you to escape till the manager returned you to your former +place." + +Mr. John Smeaton, who erected the Eddystone Lighthouse, in the years +1757-58 and 59, was born on the 28th, of May, 1724, at Ansthorpe, near +Leeds. The strength of his understanding, and the originality of his +genius, (says his biographer) appeared at an early age: his playthings +were not the playthings of children, but the tools which men employ, and +when he was a mere child he appeared to take greater pleasure in seeing +the operations of workmen, and asking them questions, than in any thing +else. Before he was six years old, he was once discovered at the top of +his father's barn, fixing up what he called a windmill of his own +construction, and at another time, while he was about the same age, he +attended some men fixing a pump, and observing them cut off a piece of a +bored part, he procured it, and actually made a pump, with which he raised +water. When he was under fifteen years of age, he made an engine for +turning, and worked several things in ivory and wood. He made all his own +tools for working in wood and metals, and he constructed a lathe, by which +he cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing but little known, and which was +the invention of Mr. Henry Hendley of York. His father was an attorney, +and being desirous to bring up his son to the same profession, he brought +him up to London with him in 1724, and attended the courts in Westminster +Hall; but after some time, finding that the law was not suited to his +disposition, he wrote a strong memorial to his father on the subject, who +immediately desired the young man to follow the bent of his inclination. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + + + +SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS + + * * * * * + + +LINES + +_To a Friend who had spent some days at a Country Inn, in order to be +near the Writer._ + +BY MISS MITFORD + + + The village inn, the woodfire burning bright, + The solitary taper's flickering light, + The lowly couch, the casement swinging free,-- + My noblest friend, was this a place for thee? + No fitting place! Yet there, from all apart, + We poured forth mind for mind and heart for heart, + Ranging from idle words and tales of mirth + To the deep mysteries of heaven and earth + Yet there thine own sweet voice, in accents low, + First breathed Iphigenias tale of wee, + The glorious tale, by Goethe fitly told, + And cast as finely in an English mould + By Taylor's kindred spirit, high and bold:[21] + No fitting place! yet that delicious hour + Fell on my soul, like dewdrops on a flower + Freshening and nourishing and making bright + The plant, decaying less from time than blight, + Flinging Hope's sunshine o'er the faint dim aim, + Thy praise my motive, thine applause my fame. + No fitting place! yet (inconsistent strain + And selfish!) come, I prithee, come again! + +Three Mile Cross, Feb 1829. +_Sharpe's Magazine_. + + + [21] Mr. Taylor's transition of Goethe's _Iphigenia in Tauris_; one + of the finest plays out of Shakspeare, and now extremely rare. + + * * * * * + + +ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLIES. + + +We have been amused with a light pattering paper in Nos. 1. and 2. of +Sharpe's London Magazine--entitled "_Illustrious Visiters_." Its only +fault is extreme length, it being nearly thirty pages, and, as some people +would say, "all about nothing." But some will think otherwise, and smile +at the sly shafts which are let fly at our national follies, of which, it +must be owned, we have a very great share. We ought to premise that the +framework of the satire is a visit of the Court Cards to our metropolis, a +pretty considerable hit at some recent royal visits. Of course, they see +every thing worth seeing, and some of their remarks are truly piquant. The +spirit, or fun, of the article would evaporate in an abridgment, so we +will endeavour to give a few of the narrator's best points:-- + + +_The Arrival_. + +"On the day of their landing, the town of Dover was in a state of general +excitement; bells were ringing, colours flying, artillery saluting; and +the loyal inhabitants crowded forth to peep at the illustrious potentates. +Often and often, even from our earliest years, have we heard of the fame +of these kings and queens. Their pictures have been familiar to every eye; +_dealers_ transmitted them into every _hand_; their colourless +extraordinary faces, their shapeless robes of every tint in the rainbow, +and their sky-blue wigs, are as well known to every Englishman, as the +head of his own revered monarch on a two-and-six-penny piece. Whenever +there is any thing to be seen, an Englishman must go and see it; and, in +the eager warmth of excited spirits, he will run after any vehicle, no +matter whether caravan or carriage; no matter whence it comes or whither +it goes; no matter whether its contents be a kangaroo or a cannibal chief, +a giraffe or a Princess Rusty Fusty. He hears of an arrival from foreign +parts, that is sufficient; a crowd is collected, and the 'interesting +stranger' is cheered with enthusiasm, and speeds from town to town, graced +with all the honours of extemporaneous popularity." + +"I have already hinted that I consider it no business of _mine_ to inquire +_why_ these potentates came to England; perhaps it was no business of +_theirs_ that brought them, but rather a party of pleasure; one of the +results of a general peace, which is very far from producing general +_quietness_; for when the sovereigns of remote countries become upon +visiting terms, hospitality throws wide her gates, and loyalty is +uproarious. They came, no doubt, like all our other royal exotics, from +the unfortunate sovereigns of the Sandwiches down to the Don of yesterday, +to see and to be seen; so, whilst the inhabitants of Dover shouted round +their carriages, they condescendingly acknowledged the greetings they +received, and proceeded on their journey towards the metropolis." + + +_Visit to the Theatre_. + +"Precisely at seven o'clock the party entered their box, which was +tastefully fitted up for their reception. They were received by the +proprietors, and managers, and acting managers, with the customary +etiquette, backing most adroitly up stairs, and holding wax candles in +their hands (which circumstance was properly stated in the papers the next +morning, for fear it should be supposed that tallow had been used on the +occasion.) + +"Far be it from ME, their most humble chronicler, to speak slightingly of +their Majesties of Hearts and Diamonds; on the contrary, I would maintain +a paper war with any one who dared to insinuate that these honours were +not dealt most fairly: but, on _some_ occasions, I cannot help thinking +that these distinctions have been lavished rather injudiciously, and that +royalty has been made too common. I have seen our own beloved monarch in +public received with acclamations, ay, and with more than mouth honour-- +with waving handkerchiefs, and full hearts, and eyes that overflowed. The +enthusiasm of such a welcome is honourable to the monarch who receives it, +and the subjects who bestow it; and let levellers say what they will, the +best feelings of our nature are brought into play on such occasions. There +is a _meaning_ in such a welcome; and long, very long, may our monarch +live to witness proofs of attachment, which his heart well knows how to +appreciate. But there is no meaning whatever in placing a tattooed chief, +or a Hottentot Venus of the blood royal, on the same eminence: it is +_infra dig_.--can answer no good purpose, and brings the genuine +enthusiasm of loyalty into contempt. There is too much of the Dollalolla +in such an exhibition. When his majesty squats uneasily, as if he +considered his chair an inconvenience, and the queen wipes her ebony nose +with her illustrious white satin play bill. When the royal party entered, +the people seemed unable to contain their rapture, and God save the King +was called for. This is the established custom: whenever we look upon the +king of _another country_, we always stand up and sing, God save +_our own_!" + + +_Club-House Comforts_. + +"Far more cheap, and far more commodious than hotels _used to be_, they +assuredly are; and country curates, poor poets, and gentlemen who live on +very small means, may now take a slice off _the_ joint, with a quarter of +a pint of sherry, for next to nothing at all; sitting, at the same time, +with their feet on a Turkey carpet, lighted by ormolu chandeliers, +surrounded by gold and marble, and waited upon by liveried domestics, with +the additional glory of walking away, and 'giving nothing to the waiter.' +Nay, the more dainty gentleman may order his _cotelette aux tomates_ and +his _omelette souffle_, at a moderate expense." + +"Men, in most countries, owe what they possess of suavity of manners to +their intercourse with female society; after the drudgery of a +professional morning, young men used to brush themselves up for their +evening flirtations; but now few feminine drawing-rooms can tempt them to +leave their luxurious palaces, where evening surtouts, and black +neckcloths, and boots, may be freely indulged in. The wife takes her chop, +and a half boiled potato at home, while her husband, who always has some +excuse for dining at his club, is sure to enjoy every thing, the best of +its kind, and cooked _a merveille_. The unmarried ladies lack partners at +balls; the beaux fall asleep after dinner on the downy cushions of the +sofas at _the_ Club, or vote it a bore to dress of an evening, when they +are sure to meet pleasant fellows at the Alma Mater. As to the young +gentlemen who reap the advantages of these cheap and gilded houses of +accommodation, it may be questioned whether they are thus enabled +hereafter properly to appreciate the comforts of a home, the decorations +of the farm-house residence of a curate, or the plain cookery of the +farmer's wife, who dresses his dinner without even _professing_ to be a +cook." + + * * * * * + +"The King of Spades went his rounds, accompanied by the most eminent +architects and engineers of the day. He dug deeply into the secret +histories of the foundations of our national buildings, saw through the +_dis_orders of the egg-shell school of architecture, kept clear of the +tottering lath and plaster of some of the new buildings, acknowledging +that if such materials _did_ ever tumble down, it was a comfort to know +that they were considerably lighter than stone and cast iron. He felt a +great respect for such persons of rank as professed to be _supporters_ of +the drama, trusting that they would keep the ceilings of the theatres from +tumbling into the pits. He spent great part of his time in the Thames +Tunnel, and if he ever felt a doubt respecting the ultimate success of +that _under_taking, he did justice to the enterprise and skill of its +projector, that illustrious mole, and sincerely wished that zeal and +talent might ultimately be crowned with success. He took shares in many +mining speculations, and, in many instances, lived to repent it; for he +got into troubled waters, and sought for his _ore_ in vain. He attended +agricultural meetings, and endeavoured to comprehend that debatable query, +the corn question; he argued the point, like other great people, as if he +_did_ understand it, and got into repute with the leading Chiropodists, or +corn cutters, of the day. He went to Cheltenham, and became proprietor of +an acre of ground, on which he dug a score wells, and professed to find at +the bottom of each of them, a spring of water sufficiently saline to +pickle the constitutions of all valetudinarians. He was horticultural to a +most praiseworthy extent, offering prizes to the ingenious young Meadowses +who bring forth gigantic gooseberries, supernatural strawberries, and +miraculous melons. He went into the country, and endeavoured to penetrate +beyond the mere surface of things, listening to the speeches of county +members, and dining diligently in warm weather with mayors, and people +with _corporations_. He endeavoured to detect the root of all evil, +investigated the ramifications of radical reform, and exposed the +ephemeral bulbous roots of speculation. Prejudice he found too deeply +rooted to be dug up very easily, whilst the fashions and follies of the +day seemed to him to lie so entirely on the surface of the soil, and to be +so shortlived, that to throw away any manual labour in an attempt to +eradicate them, would be absurd." + +_"Impossible" Amusements_. + +"At many of your amusements, the chief attraction consists in the extreme +bodily peril in which the exhibiter is placed. You took me to see a man +walk up a rope, to an immense height, and had his foot slipped, he must +have been dashed to pieces: the place was crowded with persons who were in +raptures; yet had the man been dancing on level ground, he would have +danced far better; and the merit of the dancer seemed to consist in his +giving the audience a _chance_ of seeing him break his neck or dash his +brains out! If a foreigner were to announce that he would dance on a +pack-thread, he would ruin the ropedancer; because, as the thread would in +all probability break, his danger would be greater, and therefore his +exhibition would be incomparable! Then you all delight in distortions; if +a man can bend his back bone, or sit upon his head, you are in raptures, +and seem to think it a good joke to see a fellow creature shortening his +life. Then if any man will ride a dozen horses at once, without saddle or +bridle; or go into an oven and be baked brown, or eat a fire shovel full +of burning coals, or drink deadly poison, or fly off a church steeple, or +thrust a pointed instrument down his throat, or walk on a ceiling with his +head downwards, or go to sea in a washing tub, you would not lose the +sight for the world; you clap your hands, shout with delight, and hold up +your little children, that they may share papa and mamma's rational +amusement! and yet you tell me your national characteristic is humanity!" + + +_A Man of Honour_. + +"Is Mr. Rabbitts a man of honour?" + +"In the strictest sense of the word." + +"Living at the rate of thousands a year, when his income is just so many +hundreds! furnishing his house magnificently without ever intending to pay +for a pipkin, and at last making a sudden disappearance, which closely +resembles what I have heard described as an Irish 'moonlight flitting,' +where a tenant, who is unable to pay his rent, departs at dead of night +with his wife and other _movables_, having previously thrashed his grain, +and left the straw in its place _to keep up appearances!_ The flittings of +some of your 'leading stars in the hemisphere of fashion' are very similar; +yet afterwards you may see them at some watering-place, as gay and as +expensive as ever! Have they mislaid their bills, and forgotten the names +of their creditors? If so, let them call for the Gazette, and look over +the list of bankrupts. _Such_ is the honour of Mr. Rabbitts!" + + +_To want Style_. + +"It is difficult for me to explain, because your majesty has not seen +specimens of that class of the community which is devoid of style, tact, +and taste; but we have them in town, and we meet with them at +watering-places; _there_ indeed it is less in our power to keep quite +clear of them. They are to be seen all day and all night; if the sun +shines, they are promenading in its beams; if a house is lighted up, they +will enter its open door; if a fiddle is heard, they are dancing to its +squeaking; if petticoats are worn short, theirs are up to their knees; +they are never out of sight, never in repose; summer and winter, day and +night, they seem in a state of fearful excitement, flirting, philandering, +raffling, racing, practising, and patronizing; they are great people in a +small way, and only considered great because nothing greater is at hand; +they prefer reigning in hell (excuse the word, I quote Milton) to serving +in heaven; in London they would be nothing, at Hogs Norton Spa, or +Pumpington Wells, they are every thing; making difficulties about +admissions to Lilliputian Almack's." + + +_To have Style_. + +"To _have_ style is to be always dressed to perfection, without appearing +to care about the fashion; and to take the station and precedence which +you are entitled to, without seeming to be solicitous about it. I have +seen dowagers at watering-places in a fever of anxiety about their rank +and their consequence! patronizing puppetshows, seizing conspicuous seats, +and withholding the sunshine of their smiles from commoners allied to +older nobility than their own! How I should enjoy seeing them lost in a +London crowd, where not an eye would notice their aristocracy unless they +wore their coronets on the tops of their bonnets!" + + +_The Popular Complaint_. + +"I am afraid of catching the popular complaint: all the professedly sane +people in London are so evidently mad, that I am led to conclude that all +the supposed lunatics are in their sound senses. + +"For instance, your gay people, who toil through nominal pleasures, +dressing by rule and compass, lacing, bracing, patching, painting, +plastering, penciling, curling, pinching, and all to go out and be looked +at: going from party to party in the middle of the night, pretending not +to be sleepy, suppressing each rising yawn, and trying to make the lips +smile and the eyes twinkle, and to look animated in spite of fatigue: and +all this for no earthly purpose--too old to care about lovers, and without +daughters to marry. Why should an ugly old maid of sixty-six take all +these pains, or leave her own snug fireside, if she had not a touch of the +popular complaint. + +"Then your man of pleasure, risking his life at every corner in a cab, +with a restive horse; wearing all his clothes painfully tight to show off +his figure, confining his neck in a bandage, pouring liquids down his +throat, though he knows they will give him a headache, sitting up all +night shaking bits of bone together for the mere purpose of giving +somebody a chance of winning all his money, or offering bets on racehorses +to afford himself and family an opportunity of changing opulence for +beggary! He has the popular complaint of course. + +"Then your man of business: your public servant, toiling, and striving and +figetting about matters of state, sacrificing health, and the snug +comforts of a private gentleman, for the sake of popularity! _His_ +complaint _is_ popular indeed. Then your physician, courting extensive +practice, and ambitious of the honour of never having time to eat a +comfortable meal, and proud of being called out of bed the moment he is +composing himself to sleep! _He_ must be raving. Then your barrister, +fagging over dull books, and wearing a three-tailed wig, and talking for +hours, that his client, right or wrong, may be successful! All these +people appear to me to be awfully excited: the popular complaint is strong +upon them, and I would put them all into the straightest waistcoats I +could procure." + + +_Patriotic Follies_. + +"It is delightful to hear English men and women talk of their dear country. +There is nothing like Old England, say they; yet paramount as their love +of country appears to be, their love of French frippery is a stronger +passion! They will lament the times, the stagnation of trade, the scarcity +of money, the ruin of manufacturers, but they will wear Parisian +productions. It is a comfort, however, to know that they are often +deceived, and benefit their suffering countrymen without knowing it--as +lace, silks, and gloves have frequently been exported from this country, +and sold to English women on the coast of France as genuine French +articles. How little does Mrs. Alderman Popkins dream, when she returns to +her residence in Bloomsbury, that her Parisian pelisse is of Spitalfields +manufacture, and that her French lace veil came originally from Honiton." + + * * * * * + + + + +THE GATHERER. + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. + +SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + + +BULL AND NO BULL. + + +"I was going," said an Irishman, "over Westminster Bridge the other day, +and I met Pat Hewins--'Hewins,' says I, 'how are you?'--'Pretty well,' says +he, 'thank you, Donnelly.'--'Donnelly,' says I, 'that's not _my_ name.'-- +'Faith, no more is mine Hewins,' says he. So we looked at each other again, +and sure it turned out to be neither of us--and where's the bull of _that_ +now?" + + * * * * * + + +BAD HABIT. + + +Sir Frederick Flood had a droll habit of which he could never effectually +break himself (at least in Ireland.) Whenever a person at his back +whispered or suggested any thing to him whilst he was speaking in public, +without a moment's reflection, he always repeated the suggestion +_literatim_. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish +Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on +a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep +down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring +"that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord +Lieutenant's favour,"--John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting +behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."-- +"And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, +amidst peals of uncontrollable laughter. + + * * * * * + + +CURIOUS POST OFFICE. + + +It is said, as the Isle of Ascension is visited by the homeward-bound +ships on account of its sea fowls, fish, turtle, and goats, there is in a +crevice of the rock a place called the "_Post Office_," where letters are +deposited, shut up in a well-corked bottle, for the ships that next visit +the island.[22] + +P.T.W. + + +[22] Our correspondent calls this a "curious Post Office;" we should say it + was merely an inland post. + + * * * * * + + +AMERICAN COURTSHIP. + + +The young ladies of Medina county, among other means of preventing the too +frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved that they will not receive +the addresses of any young gentleman who is in the habit of using +spirituous liquors. The young gentlemen in the same neighbourhood, by way +of retaliation, have resolved that they will not _seriously_ pay their +addresses to any young lady who wears corsets. This is right. If whiskey +has slain its thousands--corsets have slain their tens of thousands.--_N.Y. +American_. + + * * * * * + + +What colours were the _winds_ and _waves_ the last tempest at sea? + +_Answer_.--The winds _blew_ and the waves _rose_. + +C.K.W. + + * * * * * + + +LIGHT EVIL. + + +A good natured citizen, on retiring from a large house of business, took a +neat little country box at Laytonstone, and going with his wife to see it, +she was very sulky and displeased; which "Gilpin" observing, said, "my +dear Judy, don't you like the place?" "Like it indeed! no, why there isn't +room to swing a cat in it." "Well, but my dear Judy, you know we never +have any occasion to swing cats." + + * * * * * + + +*** The signature _C.C._ to the _Minstrel Ballad_, in our last, merely +implies the correspondent who sent it "for the MIRROR." The writer of the +Ballad is Sir Walter Scott. It appears in the Notes to the New Edition of +"Waverley," but was hitherto unpublished in Sir Walter's works. + + * * * * * + + +_LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS_. + +CHEAP and POPULAR WORKS published at the MIRROR OFFICE in the Strand, near +Somerset House. + +The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Embellished with nearly 150 Engravings. +In 6 Parts, 1s. each. + +The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s. + +The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. 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