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This theatre was in Golden +Lane, Barbican, and was built by that celebrated and benevolent actor +Edward Alleyn, the pious founder of Dulwich College, in 1599. It was +burnt in 1624, but rebuilt in 1629. A story is told of a large treasure +being found in digging for the foundation, and it is probable that the +whole sum fell to Alleyn. Upon equal probability, is the derivation of +the name "The Fortune." The theatre was a spacious brick building, and +exhibited the royal arms in plaster on its front. These are retained in +the Engraving; where the disposal of the lower part on the building into +shops, &c. is a sorry picture of the "base purposes" to which a temple +of the Drama has been converted. + +According to the testimony of Ben Jonson and others, Alleyn was the +first actor of his time, and of course played leading characters in the +plays of Shakspeare and Jonson. He was probably the Kemble of his day, +for his biographers tell us such was his celebrity, that he drew crowds +of spectators after him wherever he performed; so that possessing some +private patrimony, with a careful and provident disposition, he soon +became master of an establishment of his own--and this was the +_Fortune_. Although Alleyn left behind him a large sum, it is hardly +probable that he made it here; for in his diary, which, we believe is +extant, he records that he once had so slender an audience, that the +whole receipts of the house amounted to no more than three pounds and a +few odd shillings--a sum which would not pay the expenses; for it +appears by the MS. of Lord Stanhope, treasurer to James I. that the +customary sum paid for the performance of a play at court, was 20 +nobles, or 6l. 12s. 4d.[1] Alleyn was likewise proprietor of the +Blackfriars' Theatre, near what is still called Playhouse Yard. However +he might have gathered laurels on the stage, he must have gained his +fortune by other means. He was keeper of the King's Bear Garden and +Menagerie, which were frequented by thousands, and produced Alleyn, the +then great sum of 500_l_. per annum. He was also thrice married, and +received portions with his two first wives; and we need not insist upon +the turn which matrimony gives to a man's fortune. + + + [1] The nightly expenses of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres + in these days, are upwards of 200_l_. + + +Among the theatrico-antiquarian gossip of _The Fortune_ is, that it was +once the nursery for Henry VIII.'s children--but "no scandal about +the"--we hope. + + * * * * * + + + + +FINE ARTS + + * * * * * + + +EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. + + +All men are critics, in a greater or less degree. They can generalize +upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they cannot point out +the details of the defects, or in what the beauty of a picture consists; +and to prove this, only let the reader visit the Exhibition at Somerset +House, and watch the little critical _coteries_ that collect round the +most attractive paintings. Could all these criticisms be embodied, but +in "terms of art," what a fine lecture would they make for the Royal +Academy. + +Our discursive notice would, probably, contribute but little to this +joint-stock production; but as even comparing notes is not always +unprofitable, we venture to give our own. + +The present Exhibition is much superior to that of last year. There are +more works of imagination, and consequently greater attractions for the +lover of painting; for life-breathing as have been many of the portraits +in recent exhibitions, the interest which they created was of quite a +different nature to that which we take in not a few of the pictures of +the present collection. Portraits still superabound, and finely painted +portraits too; but, strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in +the present than in any recent exhibition. + +But the _elite_ are seven pictures by Mr. Wilkie, who has reappeared, as +it were, in British art, after an absence from England; during which he +appears to have studied manners and costume with beautiful effect; and +the paintings to which we allude, are triumphant proofs of his success. +They are embodiments or realizations of character, manners, and scenery, +with which the painter has been wont to mix, and thus to transfer them +to his canvass with vividness and fidelity--merits of the highest order +in all successes of art. We shall touch upon these pictures in our +ramble through the rooms-- + +4. _Subject from the Revelations_.--F. Danby--A sublime composition. + +10. _The Fountain_: morning.--A.W. Callcott. A delightful picture. + +14. _Rubens and the Philosopher_.--G. Clint. The anecdote of Rubens and +Brondel, the alchemist, remarkably well told. + +16. _Benaiah_.--W. Etty--The line in 2 Samuel xxiii. 20., "he slew two +lion-like men of Moab," has furnished Mr. Etty with the subject of this +picture. It is a surprising rather than a pleasing composition; but the +strength of colouring is very extraordinary. The disproportions of parts +of the principal figure will, however, be recognised by the most casual +beholder: although as a fine display of muscular energy, this picture is +truly valuable, and is a proud specimen of the powerful genius of the +painter. + +28. _Waterfall near Vatlagunta, in the peninsula of India, in the +mountains that divide the Coasts of Coromandel and Malabar: its height +between 500 and 600 feet_.--W. Daniell.--The sublime and stupendous +character of the scenery will enable the reader to form some idea of the +difficulty with which the artist had to contend. + +43. _The Lady in St. Swithin's Chair_ from vol. i. Waverley.--Sir W. +Beechey.--We confess ourselves far from pleased with this picture. There +is a want of freedom in it which is any thing but characteristic of the +incident which it is intended to portray. + +56. _The Spanish Posado_.--D. Wilkie.--We must describe this picture in +the words of the catalogue:-- + +This represents a Guerrilla council of war, at which three reverend +fathers--a Dominican, a monk of the Escurial, and a Jesuit, are +deliberating on some expedient of national defence, with an emissary in +the costume of Valencia. Behind them is the posadera, or landlady, +serving her guests with chocolate, and the begging student of Salamanca, +with his lexicon and cigar, making love to her. On the right of the +picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front +of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a +Spanish guitar. On the floor are seated the goatherd and his sister, +with the muzzled house-dog and pet lamb of the family, and through the +open portal in the background is a distant view of the Guadarama +mountains--It is next to impossible for us to do justice to the +diversified character of this picture. The deliberation of the fathers, +and the little bit of episode between the landlady and student are +extremely interesting. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + + +SPITTLE-FIELDS, AND WEAVING IN FORMER DAYS. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Stowe says, "On the east side of the churchyard of St. Mary Spittle, +lyeth a large field, of old time called _Lolesworth_, now +_Spittle-Field_, which about the year 1576, was broken up for clay to +make bricke; in digging thereof many earthen pots called urnae, were +found full of ashes and the bones of men, to wit of the Romans that +inhabited here. For it was the custom of the Romans to burne their dead, +to put their ashes in an urne, and then bury the same with certain +ceremonies, in some field appointed for the purpose neere unto their +city. Every one of these pots had in them (with the ashes of the dead) +one piece of copper money, with an inscription of the emperor then +reigning. Some of them were of Claudius, some of Vespasian, some of +Nero, &c. There hath also been found (in the same field) divers coffins +of stone, containing the bones of men; these I suppose to be the bones +of some speciall persons, in the time of the Brittons, or Saxons, after +that the Romans had left to govern here. + +"The priory and hospital of St. Mary Spittle, was founded (says Pennant) +in 1197, by Walter Brune, Sheriff of London, and his wife, Rosia, for +canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. It was remarkable for its +pulpit cross, at which a preacher used to preach a sermon consolidated +out of four others, which had been preached at St. Paul's Cross, on Good +Friday, and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter week; giving +afterwards a sermon of his own. At these sermons the mayor and aldermen +attended, dressed in different coloured robes on each occasion. This +custom continued till the destruction of church government in the civil +wars. They have since been transferred to St. Bride's Church. Queen +Elizabeth, in April, 1559, visited St. Mary Spittal, in great state, +probably to hear a sermon delivered from the cross. This princess was +attended by a thousand men in harness with shirts of mail and corslets, +and morice pikes, and ten great pieces carried through London unto the +court, with drums and trumpets sounding, and two morice-dancers, and in +a cart two white bears." + +The priory of St. Mary, of St. Mary Spittle, contained at its +dissolution, about the year 1536, no less than 180 beds for the +reception of sick persons and travellers. Richard Tarleton, the famous +comedian, at the Curtain Theatre, it is said, "kept an ordinary in +Spittle-fields, pleasant fields for the citizens to walk in;" and the +row called Paternoster Row, as the name implies, was formerly a few +houses, where they sold rosaries, relics, &c. The once celebrated +herbalist and astrologer, Nicholas Culpepper, was another inhabitant of +this spot. He died in 1654, in a house he had some time occupied, very +pleasantly situated in the fields; but now a public house at the corner +of Red Lion Court, Red Lion Street, east of Spittlefields market. The +house, though it has undergone several repairs, still exhibits the +appearance of one of those that formed a part of old London. The weaving +art, which has arrived at such an astonishing perfection, was patronized +by the wise and liberal Edward III., who encouraged the art by the most +advantageous offers of reward and encouragement to weavers who would +come and settle in England. In 1331, two weavers came from Brabant and +settled at York. The superior skill and dexterity of these men, who +communicated their knowledge to others, soon manifested itself in the +improvement and spread of the art of weaving in this island. Many +Flemish weavers were driven from their native country by the cruel +persecutions of the Duke d'Alva, in 1567. They settled in different +parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, +serges, crapes, &c. The arts of spinning, throwing, and weaving silk, +were brought into England about the middle of the fifteenth century, and +were practised by a company of women in London, called silk women. About +1480, men began to engage in the silk manufacture, and in the year 1686, +nearly 50,000 manufacturers, of various descriptions, took refuge in +England, in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, by +Louis le Grand, who sent thousands (says Pennant) of the most +industrious of his subjects into this kingdom to present his bitterest +enemies with the arts and manufactures of his kingdom; hence the origin +of the silk trade in Spittlefields. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + +THE BIRD OF THE TOMB. + +BY LEIGH CLIFFE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +In "Lyon's attempt to reach Repulse Bay," the following passage, which +suggested these verses, may be met with. "Near the large grave was a +third pile of stones, covering the body of a child. A Snow-Buntin (the +Red-Breast of the Arctic Regions) had found its way through the loose +stones which composed this little tomb, and its now forsaken, neatly +built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child." + + + Beneath the chilly Arctic clime, + Where Nature reigns severe, sublime, + Enthron'd upon eternal snows, + Or rides the waves on icy floes-- + Where fierce tremendous tempests sweep + The bosom of the rolling deep, + And beating rain, and drifting hail + Swell the wild fury of the gale; + There is a little, humble tomb, + Not deckt with sculpture's pageant pride, + Nor labour'd verse to tell by whom + The habitant was lov'd who died! + No trophied 'scutcheon marks the grave-- + No blazon'd banners round it wave-- + 'Tis but a simple pile of stones + Rais'd o'er a hapless infant's bones; + Perchance a mother's tears have dew'd + This sepulchre, so frail and rude;-- + A father mourn'd in accents wild, + His offspring lost--his only child-- + Who might, in after years, have spread + A ray of honour round his head, + Nor thought, as stone on stone he threw, + His child would meet a stranger's view. + + But, lo! upon its clay-cold breast, + The Arctic Robin rais'd its nest, + And rear'd its little fluttering young, + Where Death in awful quiet slept, + And fearless chirp'd, and gaily sung + Around the babe its parents wept. + It was the guardian of the grave, + And thus its chirping seem'd to say:-- + "Tho' naught from Death's chill grasp could save, + Tho' naught could chase his power away-- + As round this humble spot I wing, + My thrilling voice shall daily sing + A requiem o'er the faded flower, + That bloom'd and wither'd in an hour, + And prov'd life is, in every view, + Naught but a rose-bud twin'd with rue. + A blossom born at day's first light, + And fading with the earliest night; + Nor stranger's step, nor shrieking loom, + Shall scare the warbler from the tomb'" + + + * * * * * + + +CURING THE "KING'S EVIL." + +(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) + + +About five miles from Sturminster Newton, and near the village of +Hazlebury, resides a Dr. B----, who has attained a reputation, far +extended, for curing, in a miraculous manner, the king's evil; and as +the method he employs is very different from that of most modern +practitioners, a short account of it may, perhaps, be acceptable to the +readers of the MIRROR. + +I had long known that the doctor used some particular season for his +operations, but was unable to say precisely the time, until a few days +since I had a conversation with a person who is well acquainted with the +doctor and his yearly "_fair, or feast_," as it is termed. Exactly +twenty-four hours before the new moon, in the month of May, every year, +whether it happens by night or by day, the afflicted persons assemble at +the doctor's residence, where they are supplied, by him, with the hind +legs of a _toad!_ yes, gentle reader a toad--don't start--enclosed in a +small bag (accompanied, I believe, with some verbal charm, or +incantation,) and also a lotion and salve of the doctor's preparation. +The bag containing the legs of the reptile is worn suspended from the +neck of the patient, and the lotion and salve applied in the usual +manner, until the cure is completed, or until the next year's "_fair_." + +One would think that such a mysterious routine of doctoring, would +attract but few, and those the most illiterate; but I can assure my +readers the case is different. The number of carts, chaises, and other +conveyances laden with the afflicted which passed through this place on +the 2nd instant, bore ample testimony to the number of the doctor's +applicants; and the appearance of many of them corroborated the opinion +that they moved in a respectable sphere of life. + +The new moon happening this year on the 3rd instant, at 57 minutes past +7 o'clock in the morning, the "fair" took place at the same hour the +preceding day. + +My readers, no doubt, have heard of the efficacy of the stone in the +toad's head, alluded to by Shakspeare,[2] for curing the cramp, &c. by +application to the afflicted part; but it was left for Dr. B---- to +discover the virtues of a toad's leg. Apropos, an eccentric friend of +mine, once gravely told me he intended to procure this precious Bufonian +jewel; and as probably some reader may feel a wish to possess it, I will +furnish him with the proper method of obtaining it, as communicated by +my scientific friend. Voici--Cut off poor bufo's head and enclose it in +a small box pierced with many holes; place it in an ant hill, and let it +remain some ten or twelve days, in which time, or a little longer, the +ants will have entered and eaten up every part except the stone. RURIS. + + + [2] "Sweet are the uses of Adversity, + Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, + Wears yet, a precious jewel in his head." + + + * * * * * + + +"THE MORNING STAR." + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Queen of celestial beauty! Morning Star! + Accept a humble bard's untut'red lay; + To him, thy loveliness, surpasseth far + The silv'ry moon, and eke the God of day. + The world with all its pride cannot display + A form so fair, so beautiful as thine; + Its glories fade, its proudest beauties die; + But you fair star! as first created shine, + In never fading immortality! + Like vice, from virtue's glance, yon clouds retire, + Before the smile of one benignant ray, + Sleepless and sad, my soul would fain aspire, + Promethean like, to snatch ethereal fire, + And draw relief from thee! bright harbinger of day! + + +JNO. JONES. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE SKETCH-BOOK + + * * * * * + + +SCHINDERHANNES, THE GERMAN ROBBER. + + +At the commencement of the French Revolution, and for some time after, +the two banks of the Rhine were the theatre of continual wars. Commerce +was interrupted, industry destroyed, the fields ravaged, and the barns +and cottages plundered; farmers and merchants became bankrupts, and +journeymen and labourers thieves. Robbery was the only mechanical art +which was worth pursuing, and the only exercises followed were assault +and battery. These enterprises were carried on at first by individuals +trading on their own capital of skill and courage; but when the French +laws came into more active operation in the seat of their exploits, +the desperadoes formed themselves, for mutual protection, into +copartnerships, which were the terror of the country. Men soon arose +among them whose talents, or prowess, attracted the confidence of +their comrades, and chiefs were elected, and laws and institutions +established. Different places of settlement were chosen by different +societies; the famous Pickard carried his band into Belgium and Holland; +while on the confines of Germany, where the wild provinces of Kirn, +Simmerm, and Birkenfield offered a congenial field, the banditti were +concentrated, whose last and most celebrated chief, the redoubted +Schinderhannes, is the subject of this brief notice. + +His predecessors, indeed, Finck, Peter the Black, Zughetto, and Seibert +were long before renowned among those who square their conduct by the +good old rule of clubs; they were brave men, and stout and pitiless +robbers. But Schinderhannes, the boldest of the bold, young, active +and subtle, converted the obscure exploits of banditti into the +comparatively magnificent ravages of "the outlaw and his men;" and +sometimes marched at the head of sixty or eighty of his troop to the +attack of whole villages. Devoted to pleasure, no fear ever crossed him +in its pursuit; he walked publicly with his mistress, a beautiful girl +of nineteen, in the very place which the evening before had been the +scene of one of his criminal exploits; he frequented the fairs and +taverns, which were crowded with his victims; and such was the terror +he had inspired, that these audacious exposures were made with perfect +impunity. Free, generous, handsome, and jovial, it may even be conceived +that sometime he gained the protection from love which could not have +been extorted by force. + +It is scarcely a wonder that with the admirable regulations of the +robbers, they should have succeeded even to so great an extent as they +did in that unsettled country. Not more than two or three of them were +allowed to reside in the same town or village; they were scattered over +the whole face of the district, and apparently connected with each other +only by some mysterious free-masonry of their craft. When a blow was +to be struck, a messenger was sent round by the chief to warn his +followers; and at the mustering place the united band rose up, like the +clan of Roderick Dhu from the heather, to disappear as suddenly again +in darkness when the object was accomplished. Their clothing, names and +nations were changed perpetually; a Jew broker at Cologne would figure +some days after at Aix-la-Chapelle or Spa as a German baron, or a Dutch +merchant, keeping open table, and playing a high game; and the next week +he might be met with in a forest at the head of his troop. Young and +beautiful women were always in their suite, who, particularly in the +task of obtaining or falsifying passports, did more by their address +than their lovers could have effected by their courage. Spies, +principally Jews, were employed throughout the whole country, to give +notice where a booty might be obtained. Spring and autumn were the +principal seasons of their harvest; in winter the roads were almost +impassable, and in summer the days were too long; the light of the moon, +in particular, was always avoided, and so were the betraying foot prints +in the snow. They seldom marched in a body to the place of attack, but +went thither two or three in a party, some on foot, some on horseback, +and some even in carriages. As soon as they had entered a village, their +first care was to muffle the church bell, so as to prevent an alarm +being rung; or to commence a heavy fire, to give the inhabitants an +exaggerated idea of their numbers, and impress them with the feeling +that it would be more prudent to stay at home than to venture out into +the fray. + +John Buckler, _alias_ Schinderhannes, the worthy whose youthful arm +wielded with such force a power constituted in this manner, was the son +of a currier, and born at Muhlen, near Nastoeten, on the right bank of +the Rhine. The family intended to emigrate to Poland, but on the way the +father entered the Imperial service at Olmutz, in Moravia. He deserted, +and his wife and child followed him to the frontiers of Prussia, and +subsequently the travellers took up their abode again in the environs +of the Rhine. + +At the age of fifteen, Schinderhannes commenced his career of crime by +spending a louis, with which he had been entrusted, in a tavern. Afraid +to return home, he wandered about the fields till hunger compelled him +to steal a horse, which he sold. Sheep stealing was his next vocation, +but in this he was caught and transferred to prison. He made his escape, +however, the first night, and returned in a very business-like manner to +receive two crowns which were due to him on account of the sheep he had +stolen. After being associated with the band as their chief, he went to +buy a piece of linen, but thinking, from the situation of the premises, +that it might be obtained without any exchange of coin on his part, he +returned the same evening, and stealing a ladder in the neighbourhood, +placed it at a window of the warehouse, and got in. A man was writing in +the interior, but the robber looked at him steadily, and shouldering his +booty, withdrew. He was taken a second time, but escaped as before on +the same night. + +His third escape was from a dark and damp vault in the prison of +Schneppenbach, where, having succeeded in penetrating to the kitchen, +he tore an iron bar from the window by main force, and leaped out at +hazard. He broke his leg in the fall, but finding a stick, managed +to drag himself along, in the course of three nights, to Birkenmuhl, +without a morsel of food, but on the contrary, having left some ounces +of skin and flesh of his own on the road. + +Marianne Schoeffer was the first avowed mistress of Schinderhannes. +She was a young girl of fourteen, of ravishing beauty, and always +"se mettait avec une élégance extreme." Blacken Klos, one of the band, +an unsuccessful suitor of the lady, one day, after meeting with a +repulse, out of revenge carried off her clothes. When the outrage was +communicated to Schinderhannes, he followed the ruffian to a cave where +he had concealed himself, and slew him. It was Julia Blaesius, however, +who became the permanent companion of the young chief. The account +given by her of the manner in which she was united to the destiny of the +robber is altogether improbable. A person came to her, she said, and +mentioned that somebody wished to speak to her in the forest of Dolbach; +she kept the assignation, and found there a handsome young man who told +her that she must follow him--an invitation which she was obliged at +length by threats to accede to. It appears sufficiently evident, +however, that the personal attractions of Schinderhannes, who was then +not twenty-two, had been sufficient of themselves to tempt poor Julia +to her fate, and that of her own accord + + + "She fled to the forest to hear a love tale." + + +It may be, indeed, as she affirmed, that she was at first ignorant of +the profession of her mysterious lover, who might address her somewhat +in the words of the Scottish free-booter-- + + + "A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien-- + A bonnet of the blue, + A doublet of the Lincoln green, + 'Twas all of me you knew." + + +But it is known that afterwards she even accompanied him personally in +some of his adventures dressed in men's clothes. + +The robberies of this noted chief became more audacious and extensive +every day, and at last he established a kind of "black mail" among the +Jews, at their own request. Accompanied one day by only two of his +comrades, he did not hesitate to attack a cavalcade of forty-five Jews +and five Christian peasants. The booty taken was only two bundles of +tobacco, the robbers returning some provisions on a remonstrance from +one of the Jews, who pleaded poverty. Schinderhannes then ordered them +to take off their shoes and stockings, which he threw into a heap, +leaving to every one the care of finding his own property. The affray +that ensued was tremendous; the forty-five Jews who had patiently +allowed themselves to be robbed by three men, fought furiously with each +other about their old shoes; and the robber, in contempt of their +cowardice, gave his carbine to one of them to hold while he looked on. + +His daring career at length drew to a close, and he and his companions +were arrested by the French authorities, and brought to trial. The +chief, with nineteen others, were condemned to death in November, 1803, +and Julia Blaesius to two years' imprisonment. The former met his fate +with characteristic intrepidity, occupied to the last moment with his +cares about Julia and his father.--_From the Foreign Quarterly +Review.--An excellent work_. + + * * * * * + + + + +RESTROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS. + + * * * * * + + +OLD MANSIONS. + + +We are in the habit of passing by our old stone manor houses without +knowing that they were important village fortresses, and substitutes for +castles. That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, for Margaret Paston, +writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw +and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis and wydses (windlasses to strain +cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows with square heads) for zr howsis her +ben low, yat yer may non man schet owt wt no long bowe." From hence we +learn that the service of the long bow was connected with elevation in +the building. + + * * * * * + + +LEGAL CRUSHING TO DEATH. + + +At the assizes in Sussex, August, 1735, a man who pretended to be dumb +and lame, was indicted for a barbarous murder and robbery. He had been +taken up upon suspicion, several spots of blood, and part of the +property being found upon him. When he was brought to the bar, he would +not speak or plead, though often urged to it, and the sentence to be +inflicted on such as stand mute, read to him, in vain. Four or five +persons in the court, swore that they had heard him speak, and the boy +who was his accomplice, and apprehended, was there to be a witness +against him; yet he continued mute; whereupon he was carried back to +Horsham gaol, to be pressed to death, if he would not plead--when they +laid on him 100 weight, then added 100 more, and he still continued +obstinate; they then added 100 more, which made 300 lb. weight, yet he +would not speak; 50 lb. more was added, when he was nearly dead, having +all the agonies of death upon him; then the executioner, who weighed +about 16 or 17 stone, laid down upon the board which was over him, and, +adding to the weight, killed him in an instant. G.K. + + * * * * * + + +LATE INSTRUCTION. + + +Socrates in his old age, learned to play upon a musical instrument. +Cato, aged 80, began to learn Greek; and Plutarch, in his old age, +acquired Latin. John Gelida, of Valentia, in Spain, did not begin the +study of _belles-lettres_, until he was 40 years old. + +Henry Spelman, having in his youth neglected the sciences, resumed them +at the age of 50, with extraordinary success. + +Fairfax, after having been the general of the parliamentary army in +England, went to Oxford, and took his degree as Doctor-of-Law. Colbert, +when minister, and almost 60 years of age, returned to his Latin and his +law, in a situation where the neglect of one, if not both, might have +been thought excusable; and Mons. Le Tellier, chancellor of France, +reverted to the learning of logic that he might dispute with his +grand-children. + +Sir John Davies, at the age of 25, produced a poem on "The Immortality +of the Soul," and in his 62nd year, as Mr. Thomas Campbell facetiously +observes, when a judge and a statesman, another on _dancing_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NOVELIST. + + * * * * * + + +ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. + + +[As Sir Walter Scott's new work has not reached us in time to enable us +to fill in the outline of the story in our present Number, we give a few +sketchy extracts, or portraits,--such as will increase the interest for +the appearance of the Narrative. + +There are some admirable specimens of Swiss scenery, which have the +effect of sublime painting: witness the following attempt of two +travellers, father and son, who with their guide, are bewildered in the +mountains by a sudden storm. The younger attempts to scale a broken path +on the side of the precipice:] + +Thus estimating the extent of his danger by the measure of sound sense +and reality, and supported by some degree of practice in such exercise, +the brave youth went forward on his awful journey, step by step, winning +his way with a caution, and fortitude, and presence of mind, which alone +could have saved him from instant destruction. At length he gained a +point where a projecting rock formed the angle of the precipice, so far +as it had been visible to him from the platform. This, therefore, was +the critical point of his undertaking; but it was also the most perilous +part of it. The rock projected more than six feet forward over the +torrent, which he heard raging at the depth of a hundred yards beneath, +with a noise like subterranean thunder. He examined the spot with the +utmost care, and was led by the existence of shrubs, grass, and even +stunted trees, to believe that this rock marked the farthest extent of +the slip, or slide of earth, and that, could he but round the angle of +which it was the termination, he might hope to attain the continuation +of the path which had been so strangely interrupted by this convulsion +of nature. But the crag jutted out so much as to afford no possibility +of passing either under or around it; and as it rose several feet above +the position which Arthur had attained, it was no easy matter to climb +over it. This was, however, the course which he chose, as the only mode +of surmounting what he hoped might prove the last obstacle to his voyage +of discovery. A projecting tree afforded him the means of raising and +swinging himself up to the top of the crag. But he had scarcely planted +himself on it, had scarcely a moment to congratulate himself, on seeing, +amid a wild chaos of cliffs and woods, the gloomy ruins of Geierstein, +with smoke arising, and indicating something like a human habitation +beside them, when, to his extreme terror, he felt the huge cliff on +which he stood tremble, stoop slowly forward, and gradually sink from +its position. Projecting as it was, and shaken as its equilibrium had +been by the recent earthquake, it lay now so insecurely poised, that its +balance was entirely destroyed, even by the addition of the young man's +weight. Aroused by the imminence of the danger, Arthur, by an +instinctive attempt at self-preservation, drew cautiously back from the +falling crag into the tree by which he had ascended, and turned his head +back as if spell-bound, to watch the descent of the fatal rock from +which he had just retreated. It tottered for two or three seconds, as if +uncertain which way to fall; and had it taken a sidelong direction, must +have dashed the adventurer from his place of refuge, or borne both the +tree and him headlong down into the river. After a moment of horrible +uncertainty, the power of gravitation determined a direct and forward +descent. Down went the huge fragment, which must have weighed at least +twenty tons, rending and splintering in its precipitate course the trees +and bushes which it encountered, and settling at length in the channel +of the torrent, with a din equal to the discharge of a hundred pieces of +artillery. The sound was re-echoed from bank to bank, from precipice to +precipice, with emulative thunders; nor was the tumult silent till it +rose into the region of eternal snows, which, equally insensible to +terrestrial sounds, and unfavourable to animal life, heard the roar in +their majestic solitude, but suffered it to die away without a +responsive voice. + +The solid rock had trembled and rent beneath his footsteps; and +although, by an effort rather mechanical than voluntary, he had +withdrawn himself from the instant ruin attending its descent, he felt +as if the better part of him, his firmness of mind and strength of body, +had been rent away with the descending rock, as it fell thundering, +with clouds of dust and smoke, into the torrents and whirlpools of the +vexed gulf beneath. In fact, the seaman swept from the deck of a wrecked +vessel, drenched in the waves, and battered against the rocks on +the shore, does not differ more from the same mariner, when, at the +commencement of the gale, he stood upon the deck of his favourite +ship, proud of her strength and his own dexterity, than Arthur, when +commencing his journey, from the same Arthur, while clinging to the +decayed trunk of an old tree, from which, suspended between heaven and +earth, he saw the fall of the crag which he had so nearly accompanied. +The effects of his terror, indeed, were physical as well as moral, for +a thousand colours played before his eyes; he was attacked by a sick +dizziness, and deprived at once of the obedience of those limbs which +had hitherto served him so admirably; his arms and hands, as if no +longer at his own command, now clung to the branches of the tree, with a +cramp-like tenacity, over which he seemed to possess no power, and now +trembled in a state of such complete nervous relaxation, as led him to +fear that they were becoming unable to support him longer in his +position. + +[We must leave the reader here, although in dire suspense--and we regret +to do so, because a beautiful incident follows--to give the following +exquisite sketch of the heroine--a Swiss maiden. We will endeavour to +connect these passages with our abridgment of the narrative.] + +An upper vest, neither so close as to display the person--a habit +forbidden by the sumptuary laws of the canton--nor so loose as to be an +encumbrance in walking or climbing, covered a close tunic of a different +colour, and came down beneath the middle of the leg, but suffered the +ancle, in all its fine proportions, to be completely visible. The foot +was defended by a sandal, the point of which was turned upwards, and the +crossings and knots of the strings which secured it on the front of the +leg were garnished with silver rings. The upper vest was gathered round +the middle by a sash of parti-coloured silk, ornamented with twisted +threads of gold; while the tunic, open at the throat, permitted the +shape and exquisite whiteness of a well-formed neck to be visible at the +collar, and for an inch or two beneath. The small portion of the throat +and bosom thus exposed was even more brilliantly fair than was promised +by the countenance, which last bore some marks of having been freely +exposed to the sun and air--by no means in a degree to diminish its +beauty, but just so far as to show that the maiden possessed the health +which is purchased by habits of rural exercise. Her long, fair hair fell +down in a profusion of curls on each side of a face whose blue eyes, +lovely features, and dignified simplicity of expression, implied at once +a character of gentleness, and of the self-relying resolution of a mind +too virtuous to suspect evil, and too noble to fear it. Above these +locks beauty's natural and most beseeming ornament--or rather, I should +say, amongst them--was placed the small bonnet, which, from its size, +little answered the purpose of protecting the head, but served to +exercise the ingenuity of the fair wearer, who had not failed, according +to the prevailing custom of the mountain maidens, to decorate the tiny +cap with a heron's feather, and the then unusual luxury of a small and +thin chain of gold, long enough to encircle the cap four or five times, +and having the ends secured under a broad medal of the same costly +metal. I have only to add, that the stature of the young person was +something above the common size, and that the whole contour of her form, +without being in the slightest degree masculine, resembled that of +Minerva, rather than the proud beauties of Juno, or the yielding graces +of Venus. The noble brow, the well-formed and active limbs, the firm and +yet light step; above all, the total absence of any thing resembling the +consciousness of personal beauty, and the open and candid look, which +seemed desirous of knowing nothing that was hidden, and conscious that +she herself had nothing to hide, were traits not unworthy of the goddess +of wisdom and of chastity. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_. + + * * * * * + + +FRENCH COOKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. + + +Monsieur Ude, who is, unquestionably, the prince of gastronomers, has +just published the tenth edition of his _French Cook_, of which, line +upon line, we may say, _Decies repelita placebit_; and Jarrin, the +celebrated _artiste en sucre_, has also revised his _Italian +Confectioner_, in a fourth edition. We should think both these works +must be the literary furniture of every good kitchen, or they ought +to be; for there is just enough of the science in them to make them +extremely useful, whilst all must allow them to be entertaining. + +A few years ago, Mrs. Glasse ruled the roast of cookery, and not a +stew was made without consulting her invaluable book. Whilst we were +embroiled in war, her instructions were standing orders, but with the +peace came a host of foreign luxuries and fashions, among these, +_Cookery from France_. Hence the French system became introduced into +the establishments of the wealthy of this country, to which may be +attributed the sale of nine editions of M. Ude's work; for it is +strictly what it professes to be, "A System of Fashionable and +Economical Cookery, adapted to the use of English Families." The tenth +edition, before us, is a bulky _tome_ of about 500 pages, with an +appendix of observations on the meals of the day; mode of giving suppers +at Routs and soirées, as practised when the author was in the employ of +Lord Sefton; and above all, a brief history of the rise and progress of +Cookery, from an admirable French treatise. This is literally the _sauce +piquante_ of the volume, and we serve a little to our readers:-- + +It appears that the science of Cookery was in a very inferior state +under the first and second race of the French kings. Gregory of Tours +has preserved the account of a repast of French warriors, at which, +in this refined age, we should be absolutely astounded. According to +Eginhard, Charlemagne lived poorly, and ate but little--however, this +trait of resemblance in Charlemagne and Napoleon, the modern Eginhards +have forgotten in their comparison of these two great men. Philippe le +Bel was hardly half an hour at table, and Francis I. thought more of +women than of eating and drinking; nevertheless, it was under this +gallant monarch that the science of gastronomy took rise in France. + +Few have heard the name of Gonthier d'Andernach. What Bacon was to +philosophy, Dante and Petrarch to poetry, Michael Angelo and Raphael +to painting, Columbus and Gama to geography, Copernicus and Galileo to +astronomy, Gonthier was in France to the art of cookery. Before him, +their code of eating was formed only of loose scraps picked up here and +there; the names of dishes were strange and barbarous, like the dishes +themselves. + +Gonthier is the father of cookery, as Descartes, of French philosophy. +It is said that Gonthier, in less than ten years, invented seven +cullises, nine ragoûts, thirty-one sauces, and twenty-one soups. + +A woman opened the gates of an enlightened age; it was Catherine, the +daughter of the celebrated Lorenzo de Medici, niece of Leo the Tenth, +then in all the bloom of beauty. Accompanied by a troop of perfumers, +painters, astrologers, poets, and cooks, she crossed the Alps, and +whilst Bullan planned the Tuileries, Berini recovered from oblivion +those sauces which, for many ages, had been lost. Endowed with all the +gifts of fortune, the mother and the wife of kings, nature had also +gifted her with a palate, whose intuitive sensibility seldom falls to +the lot of sovereigns. In consequence of which, after having driven +before her this troop of male and female soothsayers, who pretended to +foretel the future, she consulted her _maître d'hôtel_, about some roast +meat brought from luxurious Florence; and dipped in a rich sauce the +same hand that held the reins of the empire, and which Roussard compared +to the rosy fingers of Aurora! Let the foolish vulgar laugh at the +importance which the queen-mother seems to place in the art of cooking; +but they have not considered that it is at table, in the midst of the +fumes of Burgundy, and the savoury odour of rich dishes, that she +meditated the means of quelling a dangerous faction, or the destruction +of a man, who disturbed her repose. It was during dinner she had an +interview with the Duke of Alba, with whom she resolved on the massacre +of St. Bartholomew. + +Not long after the massacre of St. Bartholomew the throne was occupied +by Henry de Valois, brother to Charles the Ninth, and son of Catherine. +He was a prince of good appetite, a lover of wine and good cheer, +qualities which his mother had carefully fostered and cultivated, that +she alone might hold the reigns of government. Henry de Valois spent +whole days at table, and the constellations of the kitchen shone with +the greatest splendour under this gourmand king. We date from the +beginning of his reign the invention of the fricandeau, generally +attributed to a Swiss. Now the fricandeau having its Columbus, its +discovery appears not more wonderful than that of America, and yet +it required _une grande force de tête_. + +Though we acknowledge the immense influence this monarch had over +cookery, we must not conceal that he brought in fashion aromatic sauces, +tough macaroni, cullises, and brown sauces calcined by a process like +that of roasted coffee. These sauces gave the dishes a corrosive +acidity, and as Jourdan le Cointe remarks, far from nourishing the body, +communicated to it a feverish sensation, which baffled all the skill of +physicians, in their attempts to cure it. They were positive poisons +which the Italians had introduced into France, a taste for which spread +through every class of society. + +Under the reign of Henry III. a taste for warm drinks was joined to +that of spicy dishes. Hippocrates recommends hot water in fevers, +Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in loathings, Aetius +in strangury,--whence we conclude that warm water, having so many +different qualities, must have been a very useful article at table, had +it only been to assist digestion, considering that people ate copiously +in the reign of the Valois. They made not one single repast without a +jug full of hot water, and even wine was drunk lukewarm. + +If the poor have preserved the memory of Henry IV., we cannot say as +much of his cooks. That monarch did nothing for them;--either Nature +had not endowed him with a good appetite, (for what prince ever was +perfect,) or he looked upon them, as, in the last century, we looked +upon soups, as things of hardly any use; but in return they also did +nothing for him. + +It is very remarkable, that in France, where there is but one religion, +the sauces are infinitely varied, whilst in England, where the different +sects are innumerable, there is, we may say, but one single sauce. +Melted butter, in English cookery, plays nearly the same part as the +Lord Mayor's coach at civic ceremonies, calomel in modern medicine, or +silver forks in the fashionable novels. Melted butter and anchovies, +melted butter and capers, melted butter and parsley, melted butter and +eggs, and melted butter for ever: this is a sample of the national +cookery of this country. We may date the art of making sauces from the +age of Louis XIV. Under Louis XIII. meat was either roasted or broiled: +every baker had a stove where the citizen, as well as the great lord, +sent his meat to be dressed; but, by degrees, they began to feel the +necessity of sauces. + +It appears that the great wits of the age of Louis XIV. had not that +contempt for cookery which some idealists of our days affect to have. +Boileau has described a bad repast like a man who has often seen better; +he liked the pleasures of the table, which have never been incompatible +with the gifts of genius, or the investigations of the understanding. "I +cannot conceive," says Doctor Johnson, "the folly of those, who, when at +table, think of every thing but eating; for my part, when I am there I +think of nothing else; and whosoever does not trouble himself with this +important affair at dinner, or supper, will do no good at any other +time." Boswell affirms that he never knew a man who dispatched a dinner +better than the great moralist. But what avails it to defend cooks and +gourmands? It is an axiom in political economy, according to Malthus, +that _he who makes two blades of grass grow, where before there was but +one, ought to be considered as the benefactor of his country, and of +mankind_. Is not this a service which the epicure and the cook every day +do their country? Addison thought differently from Johnson on this +subject: "Every time," says he, "that I see a splendid dinner, I fancy +fever, gout, and dropsy, are lying in ambush for me, with the whole race +of maladies which attack mankind: in my opinion an epicure is a fool." +What does this blustering of Addison prove? Boswell also asserts, that +Addison often complained of indigestion. And in the present times, the +first chemist of the day, Sir Humphry Davy, passes for a finished +gourmand. + +Roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, do not alone constitute the arc of +cooking, otherwise the savage of the Oronoco might be _maître d'hôtel_ +with Prince Esterhazy. + +The science of gastronomy made great progress under Louis XV., a +brilliant epoch for the literature of gastronomy: together with the +fashions, customs, freedom of opinion, and taste for equipages and +horses brought from Great Britain--some new dishes taken from the +culinary code of this country, such as puddings and beef-steaks, were +also introduced into France. Thanks to the increasing progress and +discoveries in chemistry, and to the genius of our artists, the art of +cookery rose to the greatest height towards the end of the last century. +What a famous age was that of Mezelier, l'Asne, Jouvent, Richaud, Chaud, +and Robert. + +History will never forget that great man, who aspired to all kinds +of glory, and would have been, if he had wished, as great a cook as +he was a statesman--I mean the Prince de Talleyrand, who rekindled the +sacred flame in France. The first clouds of smoke, which announced the +resurrection of the science of cookery in the capital, appeared from +the kitchen of an ancient bishop. + +A revolution like the French, which presented to their eyes such +terrible spectacles, must have left some traces in their physical or +intellectual constitution. At the end of this bloody drama, the mind, +bewildered by the late dreadful scenes, was unable to feel those sweet +and peaceable emotions, in which it had formerly delighted; as the +palate, having long been at rest, and now become blunted, must require +high-seasoned dishes, to excite an appetite. The reign of the Directory, +therefore is that of Romances à la Radcliffe, as well as of Sauces à la +Provençale. Fortunately, the eighth of Brumaire pulled down the five +Directors, together with their saucepans. + +Under the Consulship, and during the empire, the art of cooking, thanks +to the labours of Beauvilliers, Balaine, and other artists, made new and +remarkable improvements. Among the promoters of the gastric science, the +name of a simple amateur makes a distinguished figure--it is Grisnod +de la Reynière, whose almanac the late Duke of York called the most +delightful book that ever issued from the press. We may affirm, that the +_Almanach des Gourmands_ made a complete revolution in the language and +usages of the country. + +We are yet too near the restoration to determine the degree of influence +it had on cookery in France. The restoration has introduced into +monarchy the representative forms friendly to epicurism, and in this +respect it is a true blessing--a new era opened _to those_ who are +hungry. + +M. Jarrin's fourth edition contains upwards of 500 receipts in Italian +confectionery, with plates of improvements, &c. like a cyclopaedian +treatise on mechanics; and when our readers know there are "seven +essential degrees of boiling sugar," they will pardon the details of the +business of this volume. The "degrees" are--1. _Le lissé_, or thread, +large or small; 2. _Le perlé_, or pearl, _le soufflet_, or blow; 4. _La +plume_, the feather; 5. _Le boulet_, the ball, large or small; 6. _Le +cassé_, the crack; and, 7. the _caramel_. So complete is M. Jarrin's +system of confectionery, that he is "independent of every other artist;" +for he even explains engraving on steel and on wood. What a host of +disappointments this must prevent! + +If we look further into, or "drink deep" of the art of confectionery, +we shall find it to be a perfect Microcosm--a little creation; for our +artist talks familiarly of "producing picturesque scenery, with trees, +lakes, rocks, &c.; gum paste, and modelling flowers, animals, figures, +&c." with astonishing mimic strife. We must abridge one of these +receipts for a "_Rock Piece Montée_ in a lake." + +"Roll out confectionery paste, the size of the dish intended to receive +it; put into a mould representing your _pond_ a lining of almond paste, +coloured pale pink, and place in the centre a sort of pedestal of almond +paste, supported by lumps of the same paste baked; when dry put it into +the stove. Prepare _syrup_ to fill the hollow of the _lake_, to +represent the _water_; having previously modelled in gum paste little +_swans_, place them in various parts of the _syrup_; put it into the +stove for three hours, then make a small hole through the paste, under +your _lake_, to drain off the syrup; a crust will remain with the +_swans_ fixed in it, representing the _water_. Next build the _rock_ on +the pedestal with rock sugar, biscuits, and other appropriate articles +in sugar, fixed to one another, supported by the confectionery paste you +have put in the middle, the whole being cemented together with caramel, +and ornamented. The moulding and heads should then be pushed in almond +paste, coloured red; the _cascades_ and other ornaments must be _spun in +sugar_." + +These are, indeed, romantic secrets. Spinning nets and cages with sugar +is another fine display of confectionery skill--we say nothing of the +nets and cages which our fair friends are sometimes spinning--for the +sugar compared with their bonds--are weak as the cords of the +Philistines. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NATURALIST. + + * * * * * + + +ROOKS. + + +We glean the following interesting facts from the _Essex Herald_, as +they merit the record of a _Naturalist_. + +"The voracious habits of the rook, and the vast increase of these birds +of late years in certain parts of Essex, has been productive of great +mischief, especially in the vicinity of Writtle and of Waltham. Since +February last, notwithstanding a vigilant watch, the rooks have stolen +sets of potatoes from a considerable breadth of ground at Widford Hall. +On the same farm, during the sowing of a field of 16 acres with peas, +the number of rooks seen at one time on its surface has been estimated +at 1,000, which is accounted for by there being a preserve near, which, +at a moderate computation, contains 1,000 nests. But the damage done by +rooks at Navestock and Kelvedon Hatch, and their vicinities, within a +small circle, has been estimated at £2,000. annually. Many farmers pay +from 8_s_. to 10_s_. per week, to preserve their seed and plants by +watching; but notwithstanding such precautions, acre after acre of +beans, when in leaf and clear from the soil, have been pulled up, and +the crop lost. The late hurricane proved some interruption to their +breeding; and particularly at the estate of Lord Waldegrave, at +Navestock, where the young ones were thrown from their nests, and were +found under trees in myriads; the very nests blown down, it is said, +would have furnished the poor with fuel for a short period." + +The writer attributes this alarming increase of rooks to "a desire on +the part of gentlemen to cause them to be preserved with the same +watchfulness they do their game." The most effectual means of deterring +the rook from their depredations, is, he says, "to obtain several of +these birds at a period of the year when they can be more easily taken; +then cut them open, and preserve them by salt. In the spring, during the +seed time, these rooks are to be fastened down to the ground with their +wings spread, and their mouths extended by a pebble, as if in great +torture. This plan has been found so effectual, that even in the +vicinity of large preserves, the fields where the dead birds have been +so placed, have not been visited by a single rook." + +The scarcity of the rook in France, and the antipathy which the French +have to that bird is thus accounted for:-- + +"The fact has been often related by a very respectable Catholic Priest, +who resided many years at Chipping-hill, in Witham, that such was the +arbitrary conduct of the owners of abbeys and monasteries in France, in +preserving and cultivating the rook and the pigeon, that they increased +to such numbers as to become so great a pest, as to destroy the seed +when sown, and the young plants as soon as they appeared above the +ground; insomuch, that the farmer, despairing of a reward for his +labour, besides the loss of his seed, the fields were left barren, and +the supply of bread corn was, in consequence, insufficient to meet the +necessities of so rapidly increasing a people. The father of the +gentleman to whom we have alluded, was, for this offence, one of the +first victims to his imprudence. The revolutionary mob proceeded to his +residence, from whence they took him, and hung his body upon a gibbet; +they next proceeded to destroy the rooks and pigeons which he had +cultivated in great numbers, and strived to preserve with the same +tenacity as others do in this country. We are told by the son of this +martyr to his own folly, that the mob continued to shoot the birds +amidst the loudest acclamations, and that they exulted in the idea that +in each victim they witnessed the fall of an aristocrat." + + * * * * * + + +THE BANANA TREE. + + +The amount and rapidity of produce of this plant probably exceed that of +any other in the known world. In eight or nine months after the sucker +has been planted, clusters of fruit are formed; and in about two months +more they may be gathered. The stem is then cut down, and a fresh plant, +about two-thirds of the height of the parent stem, succeeds, and bears +fruit in about three months more. The only care necessary is to dig once +or twice a year round the roots. According to our author, on 1,076 +square feet, from 30 to 40 banana trees may be planted in Mexico, which +will yield in the space of the year 4,414 lbs. avoirdupois of fruit; +while the same space would yield only 33 lbs. avoirdupois of wheat, and +99 of potatoes. The immediate effect of this facility of supplying the +wants of nature is, that the man who can, by labouring two days in the +week, maintain himself and family, will devote the remaining five to +idleness or dissipation. The same regions that produce the banana, also +yield the two species of manioc, the bitter and the sweet: both of which +appear to have been cultivated before the conquest.--_Foreign Quarterly +Review._ + + * * * * * + + +INDIAN CORN. + + +The most valuable article in South American agriculture, is +unquestionably the maize, or Indian corn, which is cultivated with +nearly uniform success in every part of the republic. It appears to +be a true American grain, notwithstanding many crude conjectures to +the contrary. Sometimes it has been known to yield, in hot and humid +regions, 800 fold; fertile lands return from 300 to 400; and a return of +130 to 150 fold is considered bad--the least fertile soils giving 60 to +80. The maize forms the great bulk of food of the inhabitants, as well +as of the domestic animals; hence the dreadful consequences of a failure +of this crop. It is eaten either in the form of unfermented bread or +_tortillas_ (a sort of bannock, as it is called in Scotland;) and, +reduced to flour, is mingled with water, forming either _atolle_ or +various kinds of _chicha_. Maize will yield, in very favourable +situations, two or three crops per year; though it is but seldom that +more than one is gathered. + +The introduction of wheat is said to have been owing to the accidental +discovery, by a negro slave of Cortez, of three or four grains, among +some rice which had been issued to the soldiers. About the year 1530, +these grains were sown; and from this insignificant source has flowed +all the enormous produce of the upper lands of Mexico. Water is the only +element necessary to ensure success to the Mexican wheat grower; but it +is very difficult to attain this--and irrigation affords the most steady +supply. + +_Ibid._ + + * * * * * + + +THE AGAVE AMERICANA. + + +On Maguey, is an object of great value in the table land of the interior +of Mexico; from this plant is obtained the favourite liquor, the +_pulque_. At the moment of efflorescence, the flower stalk is +extirpated, and the juice destined to form the fruit flows into the +cavity thus produced, and is taken out two or three times a day for four +or five months; each day's produce is fermented for ten or fifteen days; +after which the _pulque_ is fit to drink, and before it has travelled in +skins, it is a very pleasant, refreshing liquor, to which the Mexicans +ascribe as many good qualities as the Highlander does to whiskey. The +stems of the _maguey_ can supply the place of hemp, and may be converted +into paper. The prickles too are used as pins by the Indians.--_Ibid_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + + * * * * * + + +DOCTOR PARR. + +_Concluded from page 334_. + + +Parr was evidently fond of living in troubled waters; accordingly, on +his removal to Colchester, he got into a quarrel with the trustees of +the school on the subject of a lease. He printed a pamphlet about it, +which he never published; restrained perhaps by the remarks of Sir +W. Jones, who constantly noted the pages submitted to him, with "too +violent," "too strong;" and probably thought the whole affair a battle +of kites and crows, which Parr had swelled into importance; or, it might +be, he suppressed it, influenced by the prospect of succeeding to +Norwich school, for which he was now a candidate, and by the shrewd +observation of Dr. Foster, "that Norwich might be touched by a fellow +feeling for Colchester; and the crape-makers of the one place sympathize +with the bag-makers of the other." If the latter consideration weighed +with him, it was the first and last time that any such consideration +did, Parr being apparently of the opinion of John Wesley, that there +could be no fitter subject for a Christian man's prayers, than that he +might be delivered from what the world calls "prudence." However it +happened, the pamphlet was withheld, and Parr was elected to the school +at Norwich. + +At Norwich, Parr ventured on his first publications, and obtained his +first preferment. The publications consisted of a sermon on "The Truth +of Christianity," "A Discourse on Education," and "A Discourse on the +Late Fast;" the last of which opens with a mistake singular in Parr, +who confounds the sedition of Judas Gaulonitis, mentioned in Josephus, +(_Antiq_. xviii. 1. 1.) with that under Pilate, mentioned in St. Luke, +(xiii. 1, 2, 3.); whereas the former probably preceded the latter by +twenty years, or nearly. The preferment which he gained was the living +of Asterby, presented to him by Lady Jane Trafford, the mother of one of +his pupils; which, in 1783, he exchanged for the perpetual curacy of +Hatton, in Warwickshire, the same lady being still his patron neither +was of much value. Lord Dartmouth, whose sons had also been under his +care, endeavoured to procure something for him from Lord Thurlow, but +the chancellor is reported to have said "No," with an oath. The great +and good Bishop Lowth, however, at the request of the same nobleman, +gave him a prebend in St. Paul's, which, though a trifle at the time, +eventually became, on the expiration of leases, a source of affluence to +Parr in his old age. How far he was from such a condition at this period +of his life, is seen by the following incident given by Mr. Field. The +doctor was one day in this gentleman's library, when his eye was caught +by the title of "Stephens' Greek Thesaurus." Suddenly turning about and +striking vehemently the arm of Mr. Field, whom he addressed in a manner +very usual with him; he said, "Ah! my friend, my friend, may you never +be forced, as I was at Norwich, to sell that work, to me so precious, +from absolute and urgent necessity." + +But we must on with the Doctor in his career. In 1785, for some reason +unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at Norwich, and in +the year following went to reside at Hatton. "I have an excellent house, +(he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, and a Poor, ignorant, +dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond all example. _I like +Warwickshire very much_. I have made great regulations, viz. bells chime +three times as long; Athanasian creed; communion service at the altar; +swearing act; children catechized first Sunday in the month; private +baptisms discouraged; public performed after second lesson; recovered a +100_l_. a year left the poor, with interest amounting to 115_l_., all of +which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining all +the charities." + +Here Warwickshire pleases Parr; but Parr's taste in this, and in many +other matters, (as we shall have occasion to show by and by,) was +subject to change. He soon, therefore, becomes convinced of the superior +intellect of the men of Norfolk. He finds Warwickshire, the Boeotia of +England, two centuries behind in civilization. He is anxious, however, +to be in the commission of the peace for this ill-fated county, and +applies to Lord Hertford, then Lord Lieutenant; but the application +fails; and again, on a subsequent occasion, to Lord Warwick, and again +he is disappointed. What motives operated upon their lordships' minds +to his exclusion, they did not think it necessary to avow. + +Providence has so obviously drawn a circle about every man, within +which, for the most part, he is compelled to walk, by furnishing him +with natural affections, evidently intended to fasten upon individuals; +by urging demands upon him which the very preservation of himself and +those about him compels him to listen to; by withholding from him any +considerable knowledge of what is distant, and hereby proclaiming that +his more proper sphere lies in what is near;--by compassing, him about +with physical obstacles, with mountains, with rivers, with seas +"dissociable," with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; +that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be +resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his +first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence +of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care +to the whole circuit of the city walls. + +The close of Parr's life grew brighter, The increased value of his stall +at St. Paul's set him abundantly at his ease: he can even indulge his +love of pomp--_ardetque cupidine currûs_, he encumbers himself with a +coach and four. In 1816, he married a second wife, Miss Eyre, the sister +of his friend the Rev. James Eyre; he became reconciled to his two +grand-daughters, now grown up to woman's estate; he received them into +his family, and kept them as his own, till one of them became the wife +of the Rev. John Lynes. + +In the latter years of his life, Parr had been subject to erysipelas; +once he had suffered by a carbuncle, and once by a mortification in the +hand. Owing to this tendency to diseased action in the skin, he was +easily affected by cold, and on Sunday, the 16th of January, 1825, +having, in addition to the usual duties of the day, buried a corpse, +he was, on the following night, seized with a long-continued rigor, +attended by fever and delirium, and never effectually rallied again. +There is a note, however, dated November 2, 1824, addressed by him to +Archdeacon Butler, which proves that he felt his end approaching, even +before this crisis. + +"Dear and Learned Namesake,--This letter is important, and strictly +confidential. I have given J. Lynes minute and plenary directions for my +funeral. I desire you, if you can, to preach a short, unadorned funeral +sermon. Rann Kennedy is to read the lesson and grave service, though I +could wish you to read the grave service also. Say little of me, but you +are sure to say it _well_." + +Dr. Butler complied with his request, and amply made good the opinion +here expressed. He spoke of him like a warm and stedfast friend, but not +like that worst of enemies, an indiscreet one; he did not challenge a +scrutiny by the extravagance of his praise, nor break, by his precious +balms, the head he was most anxious to honour. Dr. Parr's death was +tedious, and his faculties, except at intervals, disturbed. He took +an opportunity, however, afforded him by one of these intervals, of +summoning about his bed his wife, grand-children, and servants; +confessed to them his weaknesses and errors, asked their forgiveness for +any pain he might have caused them by petulance and haste, and professed +"his trust in God, through Christ, for the pardon of his sins." One +expression, which Dr. Johnstone reports him to have used on this +occasion, is extraordinary--that "from the beginning of his life he was +not conscious of having fallen into a crime." Far be it from us to +scrutinize the words of a delirious death-bed--These must have been +uttered (if, indeed, they are accurately given) either in some peculiar +and very limited sense, or else at a moment when a man is no longer +accountable to God for what he utters. The latter was, probably, the +case: for in the same breath in which he declares "his life, even his +early life, to have been pure," he sues for pardon at the hands of his +Maker, and acknowledges a Redeemer, as the instrument through which he +is to obtain it. + +That quickness of feeling and disposition to abandon himself to +its guidance, which made Parr an inconsistent man, made him also a +benevolent one. Benevolence he loved as a subject for his contemplation, +and the practical extension of it as a rule for his conduct. He could +scarcely bear to regard the Deity under any other aspect. He would have +children taught, in the first instance, to regard him under that aspect +alone; simply as a being who displayed infinite goodness in the +creation, in the government, and in the redemption of the world. +Language itself indicates, that the whole system of moral rectitude is +comprised in it--_[Greek: energetein], benefacere_, beneficencethe +generic term being, in common parlance, emphatically restricted to works +of charity. Nor was this mere theory in Parr. Most men who have been +economical from necessity in their youth, continue to be so, from habit, +in their age--but Parr's hand was ever open as day. Poverty had vexed, +but had never contracted his spirit; money he despised, except as it +gave him power--power to ride in his state coach, to throw wide his +doors to hospitality, to load his table with plate, and his shelves with +learning; power to adorn his church with chandeliers and painted +windows; to make glad the cottages of his poor; to grant a loan, to a +tottering farmer; to rescue from want a forlorn patriot, or a thriftless +scholar. Whether misfortune, or mismanagement, or folly, or vice, had +brought its victim low, his want was a passport to Parr's pity, and the +dew of his bounty fell alike upon the evil and the good, upon the just +and the unjust. It is told of Boerhaave, that, whenever he saw a +criminal led out to execution, he would say, "May not this man be better +than I? If otherwise, the praise is due, not to me, but to the grace of +God." Parr quotes the saying with applause. Such, we doubt not, would +have been his own feelings on such an occasion.--_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE GATHERER + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. +SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + + +SONG FROM THE ITALIAN OF P. ROLLI. + + + Babbling current, would you know + Why I turn to thee again, + 'Tis to find relief from woe, + Respite short from ceaseless pain. + + I and Sylvio on a day + Were upon thy bank reclin'd, + When dear Sylvio swore to me, + And thus spoke in accents kind: + + First this flowing tide shall turn + Backward to its fountain head, + Dearest nymph, ere thou shall mourn, + Thy too easy faith betray'd. + + Babbling current, backward turn, + Hide thee in thy fountain head; + For alas, I'm left to mourn + My too easy faith betray'd. + + Love and life pursu'd the swain, + Both must have the self-same date, + But mine only he could mean, + Since his love is turn'd to hate. + + Sure some fairer nymph than I, + From me lures the lovely youth, + Haply she receives like me, + Vows of everlasting truth. + + Babbling current should the fair + Stop to listen on thy shore, + Bid her, Sylvio, to beware, + Love and truth he oft had sworn. + +T.H. + + * * * * * + + +THE SPRING AND THE MORNING, + +_A Ballad._ + + + _Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart._ + _Inscribed to Miss Foote_. + + When the frosts of the Winter, in mildness were ending, + To April I gave half the welcome of May; + While the Spring, fresh in youth, came delightfully blending + The buds that are sweet, and the songs that are gay. + As the eyes fixed the heart on a vision so fair, + Not doubting, but trusting what magic was there; + Aloud I exclaim'd, with augmented desire, + I thought 'twas the Spring, when In truth, 'tis Maria. + + When the fading of stars, in the regions of splendour, + Announc'd that the morning was young in the East, + On the upland I rov'd, admiration to render, + Where freshness, and beauty, and lustre increas'd. + Whilst the beams of the morning new pleasures bestow'd, + While fondly I gaz'd, while with rapture I glow'd; + In sweetness commanding, in elegance bright, + Maria arose! a more beautiful light! + +_Gentleman's Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + +UNEXPECTED REPROOF. + + +The celebrated scholar, Muretus, was taken ill upon the road as he was +travelling from Paris to Lyons, and as his appearance was not much in +his favour, he was carried to an hospital. Two physicians attended him, +and his disease not being a very common one, they thought it right to +try something new, and out of the usual road of practice, upon him. +One of them, not knowing that their patient knew Latin, said in that +language to the other, "We may surely venture to try an experiment upon +the body of so mean a man as our patient is." "Mean, sir!" replied +Muretus, in Latin, to their astonishment, "can you pretend to call any +man so, sir, for whom the Saviour of the world did not think it beneath +him to die?" + +IRELAND. + +The following is the territorial surface of Ireland:-- + + Acres. + + Arable land, gardens, meadows, pastures, and marshes 12,125,280 + + Uncultivated lands, and bogs capable of improvement ... 4,900,000 + + Surface incapable of any kind of improvement[3]........ 2,416,664 + __________ + Total of acres 19,441,944 + + + [3] Parliamentary Report. + + * * * * * + + +ROUGE ET NOIR. + + + When jovial Barras was the Monarch of France, + And its women all lived in the light of his glance, + One eve, when tall Tallien and plump Josephine + Were trying the question, of which should be Queen, + Dame Josephine hung on one side of his chair, + With her West Indian bosom as brown as 'twas bare; + Dame Tallien as fondly on t'other side hung, + With a blush that might burn up the spot where she clung. + Old Sieyes stalked in; saw my lord at his wine, + Now toasting the copper-skin, now the carmine; + Then starting away, cried, "Barras, _le bon soir_; + 'Twas for business _I_ came; I leave _you Rouge et Noir_." + + * * * * * + + +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. 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This theatre was +in Golden Lane, Barbican, and was built by that celebrated and +benevolent actor Edward Alleyn, the pious founder of Dulwich +College, in 1599. It was burnt in 1624, but rebuilt in 1629. A +story is told of a large treasure being found in digging for the +foundation, and it is probable that the whole sum fell to Alleyn. +Upon equal probability, is the derivation of the name "The +Fortune." The theatre was a spacious brick building, and exhibited +the royal arms in plaster on its front. These are retained in the +Engraving; where the disposal of the lower part on the building +into shops, &c. is a sorry picture of the "base purposes" to +which a temple of the Drama has been converted.</p> +<p>According to the testimony of Ben Jonson and others, Alleyn was +the first actor of his time, and of course played leading +characters in the plays of Shakspeare and Jonson. He was probably +the Kemble of his day, for his biographers tell us such was his +celebrity, that he drew crowds of spectators after him wherever he +performed; so that possessing some private patrimony, with a +careful and provident disposition, he soon became master of an +establishment of his own—and this was the <i>Fortune</i>. +Although Alleyn left behind him a large sum, it is hardly probable +that he made it here; for in his diary, which, we believe is +extant, he records that he once had so slender an audience, that +the whole receipts of the house amounted to no more than three +pounds and a few odd shillings—a sum which would not pay the +expenses; for it appears by the MS. of Lord Stanhope, treasurer to +James I. that the customary sum paid for the performance of a play +at court, was 20 nobles, or 6l. 12s. 4d.<a id="footnotetag1" + href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> Alleyn was likewise + proprietor of the Blackfriars' Theatre, near what is still + called Playhouse Yard. However he might have gathered laurels on + the stage, he must have gained his fortune by other means. He + was keeper of the King's Bear Garden and Menagerie, which were + frequented by thousands, and produced Alleyn, the then great sum + of <span class="pagenum"><a id="page338" name="page338"></a>[pg + 338]</span> 500<i>l</i>. per annum. He was also thrice married, + and received portions with his two first wives; and we need not + insist upon the turn which matrimony gives to a man's + fortune.</p> +<p>Among the theatrico-antiquarian gossip of <i>The Fortune</i> is, +that it was once the nursery for Henry VIII.'s children—but +"no scandal about the"—we hope.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>FINE ARTS</h2> +<h3>EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.</h3> +<p>All men are critics, in a greater or less degree. They can +generalize upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they +cannot point out the details of the defects, or in what the beauty +of a picture consists; and to prove this, only let the reader visit +the Exhibition at Somerset House, and watch the little critical +<i>coteries</i> that collect round the most attractive paintings. +Could all these criticisms be embodied, but in "terms of art," what +a fine lecture would they make for the Royal Academy.</p> +<p>Our discursive notice would, probably, contribute but little to +this joint-stock production; but as even comparing notes is not +always unprofitable, we venture to give our own.</p> +<p>The present Exhibition is much superior to that of last year. +There are more works of imagination, and consequently greater +attractions for the lover of painting; for life-breathing as have +been many of the portraits in recent exhibitions, the interest +which they created was of quite a different nature to that which we +take in not a few of the pictures of the present collection. +Portraits still superabound, and finely painted portraits too; but, +strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in the present +than in any recent exhibition.</p> +<p>But the <i>elite</i> are seven pictures by Mr. Wilkie, who has +reappeared, as it were, in British art, after an absence from +England; during which he appears to have studied manners and +costume with beautiful effect; and the paintings to which we +allude, are triumphant proofs of his success. They are embodiments +or realizations of character, manners, and scenery, with which the +painter has been wont to mix, and thus to transfer them to his +canvass with vividness and fidelity—merits of the highest +order in all successes of art. We shall touch upon these pictures +in our ramble through the rooms—</p> +<p>4. <i>Subject from the Revelations</i>.—F. Danby—A +sublime composition.</p> +<p>10. <i>The Fountain</i>: morning.—A.W. Callcott. A +delightful picture.</p> +<p>14. <i>Rubens and the Philosopher</i>.—G. Clint. The +anecdote of Rubens and Brondel, the alchemist, remarkably well +told.</p> +<p>16. <i>Benaiah</i>.—W. Etty—The line in 2 Samuel +xxiii. 20., "he slew two lion-like men of Moab," has furnished Mr. +Etty with the subject of this picture. It is a surprising rather +than a pleasing composition; but the strength of colouring is very +extraordinary. The disproportions of parts of the principal figure +will, however, be recognised by the most casual beholder: although +as a fine display of muscular energy, this picture is truly +valuable, and is a proud specimen of the powerful genius of the +painter.</p> +<p>28. <i>Waterfall near Vatlagunta, in the peninsula of India, in +the mountains that divide the Coasts of Coromandel and Malabar: its +height between 500 and 600 feet</i>.—W. Daniell.—The +sublime and stupendous character of the scenery will enable the +reader to form some idea of the difficulty with which the artist +had to contend.</p> +<p>43. <i>The Lady in St. Swithin's Chair</i> from vol. i. +Waverley.—Sir W. Beechey.—We confess ourselves far from +pleased with this picture. There is a want of freedom in it which +is any thing but characteristic of the incident which it is +intended to portray.</p> +<p>56. <i>The Spanish Posado</i>.—D. Wilkie.—We must +describe this picture in the words of the catalogue:—</p> +<p>This represents a Guerrilla council of war, at which three +reverend fathers—a Dominican, a monk of the Escurial, and a +Jesuit, are deliberating on some expedient of national defence, +with an emissary in the costume of Valencia. Behind them is the +posadera, or landlady, serving her guests with chocolate, and the +begging student of Salamanca, with his lexicon and cigar, making +love to her. On the right of the picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa +enters, upon his mule, and in front of him is an athletic Castilian +armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a Spanish guitar. On the floor +are seated the goatherd and his sister, with the muzzled house-dog +and pet lamb of the family, and through the open portal in the +background is a distant view of the Guadarama mountains—It is +next to impossible for us to do justice to the diversified +character of this picture. The deliberation of the fathers, and the +little bit of episode between the landlady and student are +extremely interesting.</p> +<h4>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</h4> +<hr> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page339" name="page339"></a>[pg +339]</span></p> +<h3>SPITTLE-FIELDS, AND WEAVING IN FORMER DAYS.</h3> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>Stowe says, "On the east side of the churchyard of St. Mary +Spittle, lyeth a large field, of old time called <i>Lolesworth</i>, +now <i>Spittle-Field</i>, which about the year 1576, was broken up +for clay to make bricke; in digging thereof many earthen pots +called urnae, were found full of ashes and the bones of men, to wit +of the Romans that inhabited here. For it was the custom of the +Romans to burne their dead, to put their ashes in an urne, and then +bury the same with certain ceremonies, in some field appointed for +the purpose neere unto their city. Every one of these pots had in +them (with the ashes of the dead) one piece of copper money, with +an inscription of the emperor then reigning. Some of them were of +Claudius, some of Vespasian, some of Nero, &c. There hath also +been found (in the same field) divers coffins of stone, containing +the bones of men; these I suppose to be the bones of some speciall +persons, in the time of the Brittons, or Saxons, after that the +Romans had left to govern here.</p> +<p>"The priory and hospital of St. Mary Spittle, was founded (says +Pennant) in 1197, by Walter Brune, Sheriff of London, and his wife, +Rosia, for canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. It was +remarkable for its pulpit cross, at which a preacher used to preach +a sermon consolidated out of four others, which had been preached +at St. Paul's Cross, on Good Friday, and the Monday, Tuesday, and +Wednesday in Easter week; giving afterwards a sermon of his own. At +these sermons the mayor and aldermen attended, dressed in different +coloured robes on each occasion. This custom continued till the +destruction of church government in the civil wars. They have since +been transferred to St. Bride's Church. Queen Elizabeth, in April, +1559, visited St. Mary Spittal, in great state, probably to hear a +sermon delivered from the cross. This princess was attended by a +thousand men in harness with shirts of mail and corslets, and +morice pikes, and ten great pieces carried through London unto the +court, with drums and trumpets sounding, and two morice-dancers, +and in a cart two white bears."</p> +<p>The priory of St. Mary, of St. Mary Spittle, contained at its +dissolution, about the year 1536, no less than 180 beds for the +reception of sick persons and travellers. Richard Tarleton, the +famous comedian, at the Curtain Theatre, it is said, "kept an +ordinary in Spittle-fields, pleasant fields for the citizens to +walk in;" and the row called Paternoster Row, as the name implies, +was formerly a few houses, where they sold rosaries, relics, +&c. The once celebrated herbalist and astrologer, Nicholas +Culpepper, was another inhabitant of this spot. He died in 1654, in +a house he had some time occupied, very pleasantly situated in the +fields; but now a public house at the corner of Red Lion Court, Red +Lion Street, east of Spittlefields market. The house, though it has +undergone several repairs, still exhibits the appearance of one of +those that formed a part of old London. The weaving art, which has +arrived at such an astonishing perfection, was patronized by the +wise and liberal Edward III., who encouraged the art by the most +advantageous offers of reward and encouragement to weavers who +would come and settle in England. In 1331, two weavers came from +Brabant and settled at York. The superior skill and dexterity of +these men, who communicated their knowledge to others, soon +manifested itself in the improvement and spread of the art of +weaving in this island. Many Flemish weavers were driven from their +native country by the cruel persecutions of the Duke d'Alva, in +1567. They settled in different parts of England, and introduced +and promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, &c. The +arts of spinning, throwing, and weaving silk, were brought into +England about the middle of the fifteenth century, and were +practised by a company of women in London, called silk women. About +1480, men began to engage in the silk manufacture, and in the year +1686, nearly 50,000 manufacturers, of various descriptions, took +refuge in England, in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of +Nantz, by Louis le Grand, who sent thousands (says Pennant) of the +most industrious of his subjects into this kingdom to present his +bitterest enemies with the arts and manufactures of his kingdom; +hence the origin of the silk trade in Spittlefields.</p> +<h4>P. T. W.</h4> +<hr> +<h2>THE BIRD OF THE TOMB.</h2> +<h4>BY LEIGH CLIFFE.</h4> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>In "Lyon's attempt to reach Repulse Bay," the following passage, +which suggested these verses, may be met with. "Near the large +grave was a third pile of stones, covering the body of a child. A +Snow-Buntin (the Red-Breast of the Arctic Regions) had found its +way through the loose stones which composed <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page340" name="page340"></a>[pg 340]</span> this +little tomb, and its now forsaken, neatly built nest, was found +placed on the neck of the child."</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Beneath the chilly Arctic clime,</p> +<p>Where Nature reigns severe, sublime,</p> +<p>Enthron'd upon eternal snows,</p> +<p>Or rides the waves on icy floes—</p> +<p>Where fierce tremendous tempests sweep</p> +<p>The bosom of the rolling deep,</p> +<p>And beating rain, and drifting hail</p> +<p>Swell the wild fury of the gale;</p> +<p>There is a little, humble tomb,</p> +<p>Not deckt with sculpture's pageant pride,</p> +<p>Nor labour'd verse to tell by whom</p> +<p>The habitant was lov'd who died!</p> +<p>No trophied 'scutcheon marks the grave—</p> +<p>No blazon'd banners round it wave—</p> +<p>'Tis but a simple pile of stones</p> +<p>Rais'd o'er a hapless infant's bones;</p> +<p>Perchance a mother's tears have dew'd</p> +<p>This sepulchre, so frail and rude;—</p> +<p>A father mourn'd in accents wild,</p> +<p>His offspring lost—his only child—</p> +<p>Who might, in after years, have spread</p> +<p>A ray of honour round his head,</p> +<p>Nor thought, as stone on stone he threw,</p> +<p>His child would meet a stranger's view.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>But, lo! upon its clay-cold breast,</p> +<p>The Arctic Robin rais'd its nest,</p> +<p>And rear'd its little fluttering young,</p> +<p>Where Death in awful quiet slept,</p> +<p>And fearless chirp'd, and gaily sung</p> +<p>Around the babe its parents wept.</p> +<p>It was the guardian of the grave,</p> +<p>And thus its chirping seem'd to say:—</p> +<p>"Tho' naught from Death's chill grasp could save,</p> +<p>Tho' naught could chase his power away—</p> +<p>As round this humble spot I wing,</p> +<p>My thrilling voice shall daily sing</p> +<p>A requiem o'er the faded flower,</p> +<p>That bloom'd and wither'd in an hour,</p> +<p>And prov'd life is, in every view,</p> +<p>Naught but a rose-bud twin'd with rue.</p> +<p>A blossom born at day's first light,</p> +<p>And fading with the earliest night;</p> +<p>Nor stranger's step, nor shrieking loom,</p> +<p>Shall scare the warbler from the tomb'"</p></div></div> +<hr> +<h2>CURING THE "KING'S EVIL."</h2> +<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>About five miles from Sturminster Newton, and near the village +of Hazlebury, resides a Dr. B——, who has attained a +reputation, far extended, for curing, in a miraculous manner, the +king's evil; and as the method he employs is very different from +that of most modern practitioners, a short account of it may, +perhaps, be acceptable to the readers of the MIRROR.</p> +<p>I had long known that the doctor used some particular season for +his operations, but was unable to say precisely the time, until a +few days since I had a conversation with a person who is well +acquainted with the doctor and his yearly "<i>fair, or feast</i>," +as it is termed. Exactly twenty-four hours before the new moon, in +the month of May, every year, whether it happens by night or by +day, the afflicted persons assemble at the doctor's residence, +where they are supplied, by him, with the hind legs of a +<i>toad!</i> yes, gentle reader a toad—don't +start—enclosed in a small bag (accompanied, I believe, with +some verbal charm, or incantation,) and also a lotion and salve of +the doctor's preparation. The bag containing the legs of the +reptile is worn suspended from the neck of the patient, and the +lotion and salve applied in the usual manner, until the cure is +completed, or until the next year's "<i>fair</i>."</p> +<p>One would think that such a mysterious routine of doctoring, +would attract but few, and those the most illiterate; but I can +assure my readers the case is different. The number of carts, +chaises, and other conveyances laden with the afflicted which +passed through this place on the 2nd instant, bore ample testimony +to the number of the doctor's applicants; and the appearance of +many of them corroborated the opinion that they moved in a +respectable sphere of life.</p> +<p>The new moon happening this year on the 3rd instant, at 57 +minutes past 7 o'clock in the morning, the "fair" took place at the +same hour the preceding day.</p> +<p>My readers, no doubt, have heard of the efficacy of the stone in +the toad's head, alluded to by Shakspeare, <a id="footnotetag2" +href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>for curing the cramp, &c. by +application to the afflicted part; but it was left for Dr. +B—— to discover the virtues of a toad's leg. Apropos, +an eccentric friend of mine, once gravely told me he intended to +procure this precious Bufonian jewel; and as probably some reader +may feel a wish to possess it, I will furnish him with the proper +method of obtaining it, as communicated by my scientific friend. +Voici—Cut off poor bufo's head and enclose it in a small box +pierced with many holes; place it in an ant hill, and let it remain +some ten or twelve days, in which time, or a little longer, the +ants will have entered and eaten up every part except the stone. +RURIS.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>"THE MORNING STAR."</h2> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Queen of celestial beauty! Morning Star!</p> +<p>Accept a humble bard's untut'red lay;</p> +<p>To him, thy loveliness, surpasseth far</p> +<p>The silv'ry moon, and eke the God of day.</p> +<p>The world with all its pride cannot display</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page341" name="page341"></a>[pg +341]</span> +<p>A form so fair, so beautiful as thine;</p> +<p>Its glories fade, its proudest beauties die;</p> +<p>But you fair star! as first created shine,</p> +<p>In never fading immortality!</p> +<p>Like vice, from virtue's glance, yon clouds retire,</p> +<p>Before the smile of one benignant ray,</p> +<p>Sleepless and sad, my soul would fain aspire,</p> +<p>Promethean like, to snatch ethereal fire,</p> +<p>And draw relief from thee! bright harbinger of +day!</p></div></div> +<h4>JNO. JONES.</h4> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>The Sketch-Book.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>SCHINDERHANNES, THE GERMAN ROBBER.</h3> +<p>At the commencement of the French Revolution, and for some time +after, the two banks of the Rhine were the theatre of continual +wars. Commerce was interrupted, industry destroyed, the fields +ravaged, and the barns and cottages plundered; farmers and +merchants became bankrupts, and journeymen and labourers thieves. +Robbery was the only mechanical art which was worth pursuing, and +the only exercises followed were assault and battery. These +enterprises were carried on at first by individuals trading on +their own capital of skill and courage; but when the French laws +came into more active operation in the seat of their exploits, the +desperadoes formed themselves, for mutual protection, into +copartnerships, which were the terror of the country. Men soon +arose among them whose talents, or prowess, attracted the +confidence of their comrades, and chiefs were elected, and laws and +institutions established. Different places of settlement were +chosen by different societies; the famous Pickard carried his band +into Belgium and Holland; while on the confines of Germany, where +the wild provinces of Kirn, Simmerm, and Birkenfield offered a +congenial field, the banditti were concentrated, whose last and +most celebrated chief, the redoubted Schinderhannes, is the subject +of this brief notice.</p> +<p>His predecessors, indeed, Finck, Peter the Black, Zughetto, and +Seibert were long before renowned among those who square their +conduct by the good old rule of clubs; they were brave men, and +stout and pitiless robbers. But Schinderhannes, the boldest of the +bold, young, active and subtle, converted the obscure exploits of +banditti into the comparatively magnificent ravages of "the outlaw +and his men;" and sometimes marched at the head of sixty or eighty +of his troop to the attack of whole villages. Devoted to pleasure, +no fear ever crossed him in its pursuit; he walked publicly with +his mistress, a beautiful girl of nineteen, in the very place which +the evening before had been the scene of one of his criminal +exploits; he frequented the fairs and taverns, which were crowded +with his victims; and such was the terror he had inspired, that +these audacious exposures were made with perfect impunity. Free, +generous, handsome, and jovial, it may even be conceived that +sometime he gained the protection from love which could not have +been extorted by force.</p> +<p>It is scarcely a wonder that with the admirable regulations of +the robbers, they should have succeeded even to so great an extent +as they did in that unsettled country. Not more than two or three +of them were allowed to reside in the same town or village; they +were scattered over the whole face of the district, and apparently +connected with each other only by some mysterious free-masonry of +their craft. When a blow was to be struck, a messenger was sent +round by the chief to warn his followers; and at the mustering +place the united band rose up, like the clan of Roderick Dhu from +the heather, to disappear as suddenly again in darkness when the +object was accomplished. Their clothing, names and nations were +changed perpetually; a Jew broker at Cologne would figure some days +after at Aix-la-Chapelle or Spa as a German baron, or a Dutch +merchant, keeping open table, and playing a high game; and the next +week he might be met with in a forest at the head of his troop. +Young and beautiful women were always in their suite, who, +particularly in the task of obtaining or falsifying passports, did +more by their address than their lovers could have effected by +their courage. Spies, principally Jews, were employed throughout +the whole country, to give notice where a booty might be obtained. +Spring and autumn were the principal seasons of their harvest; in +winter the roads were almost impassable, and in summer the days +were too long; the light of the moon, in particular, was always +avoided, and so were the betraying foot prints in the snow. They +seldom marched in a body to the place of attack, but went thither +two or three in a party, some on foot, some on horseback, and some +even in carriages. As soon as they had entered a village, their +first care was to muffle the church bell, so as to prevent an alarm +being rung; or to commence a heavy fire, to give the inhabitants an +exaggerated idea of their numbers, and impress them with the +feeling that it would be more prudent to stay at home than to +venture out into the fray.</p> +<p>John Buckler, <i>alias</i> Schinderhannes, <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page342" name="page342"></a>[pg 342]</span> the +worthy whose youthful arm wielded with such force a power +constituted in this manner, was the son of a currier, and born at +Muhlen, near Nastoeten, on the right bank of the Rhine. The family +intended to emigrate to Poland, but on the way the father entered +the Imperial service at Olmutz, in Moravia. He deserted, and his +wife and child followed him to the frontiers of Prussia, and +subsequently the travellers took up their abode again in the +environs of the Rhine.</p> +<p>At the age of fifteen, Schinderhannes commenced his career of +crime by spending a louis, with which he had been entrusted, in a +tavern. Afraid to return home, he wandered about the fields till +hunger compelled him to steal a horse, which he sold. Sheep +stealing was his next vocation, but in this he was caught and +transferred to prison. He made his escape, however, the first +night, and returned in a very business-like manner to receive two +crowns which were due to him on account of the sheep he had stolen. +After being associated with the band as their chief, he went to buy +a piece of linen, but thinking, from the situation of the premises, +that it might be obtained without any exchange of coin on his part, +he returned the same evening, and stealing a ladder in the +neighbourhood, placed it at a window of the warehouse, and got in. +A man was writing in the interior, but the robber looked at him +steadily, and shouldering his booty, withdrew. He was taken a +second time, but escaped as before on the same night.</p> +<p>His third escape was from a dark and damp vault in the prison of +Schneppenbach, where, having succeeded in penetrating to the +kitchen, he tore an iron bar from the window by main force, and +leaped out at hazard. He broke his leg in the fall, but finding a +stick, managed to drag himself along, in the course of three +nights, to Birkenmuhl, without a morsel of food, but on the +contrary, having left some ounces of skin and flesh of his own on +the road.</p> +<p>Marianne Schoeffer was the first avowed mistress of +Schinderhannes. She was a young girl of fourteen, of ravishing +beauty, and always "se mettait avec une élégance +extreme." Blacken Klos, one of the band, an unsuccessful suitor of +the lady, one day, after meeting with a repulse, out of revenge +carried off her clothes. When the outrage was communicated to +Schinderhannes, he followed the ruffian to a cave where he had +concealed himself, and slew him. It was Julia Blaesius, however, +who became the permanent companion of the young chief. The account +given by her of the manner in which she was united to the destiny +of the robber is altogether improbable. A person came to her, she +said, and mentioned that somebody wished to speak to her in the +forest of Dolbach; she kept the assignation, and found there a +handsome young man who told her that she must follow him—an +invitation which she was obliged at length by threats to accede to. +It appears sufficiently evident, however, that the personal +attractions of Schinderhannes, who was then not twenty-two, had +been sufficient of themselves to tempt poor Julia to her fate, and +that of her own accord</p> +<blockquote>"She fled to the forest to hear a love +tale."</blockquote> +<p>It may be, indeed, as she affirmed, that she was at first +ignorant of the profession of her mysterious lover, who might +address her somewhat in the words of the Scottish +free-booter—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien—</p> +<p>A bonnet of the blue,</p> +<p>A doublet of the Lincoln green,</p> +<p>'Twas all of me you knew."</p></div></div> +<p>But it is known that afterwards she even accompanied him +personally in some of his adventures dressed in men's clothes.</p> +<p>The robberies of this noted chief became more audacious and +extensive every day, and at last he established a kind of "black +mail" among the Jews, at their own request. Accompanied one day by +only two of his comrades, he did not hesitate to attack a cavalcade +of forty-five Jews and five Christian peasants. The booty taken was +only two bundles of tobacco, the robbers returning some provisions +on a remonstrance from one of the Jews, who pleaded poverty. +Schinderhannes then ordered them to take off their shoes and +stockings, which he threw into a heap, leaving to every one the +care of finding his own property. The affray that ensued was +tremendous; the forty-five Jews who had patiently allowed +themselves to be robbed by three men, fought furiously with each +other about their old shoes; and the robber, in contempt of their +cowardice, gave his carbine to one of them to hold while he looked +on.</p> +<p>His daring career at length drew to a close, and he and his +companions were arrested by the French authorities, and brought to +trial. The chief, with nineteen others, were condemned to death in +November, 1803, and Julia Blaesius to two years' imprisonment. The +former met his fate with characteristic intrepidity, occupied to +the last moment with his cares about Julia and his +father.—<i>From the Foreign Quarterly Review.—An +excellent work</i>.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page343" name="page343"></a>[pg +343]</span> +<h2>RESTROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>OLD MANSIONS.</h3> +<p>We are in the habit of passing by our old stone manor houses +without knowing that they were important village fortresses, and +substitutes for castles. That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, +for Margaret Paston, writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful +hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis +and wydses (windlasses to strain cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows +with square heads) for zr howsis her ben low, yat yer may non man +schet owt wt no long bowe." From hence we learn that the service of +the long bow was connected with elevation in the building.</p> +<hr> +<h3>LEGAL CRUSHING TO DEATH.</h3> +<p>At the assizes in Sussex, August, 1735, a man who pretended to +be dumb and lame, was indicted for a barbarous murder and robbery. +He had been taken up upon suspicion, several spots of blood, and +part of the property being found upon him. When he was brought to +the bar, he would not speak or plead, though often urged to it, and +the sentence to be inflicted on such as stand mute, read to him, in +vain. Four or five persons in the court, swore that they had heard +him speak, and the boy who was his accomplice, and apprehended, was +there to be a witness against him; yet he continued mute; whereupon +he was carried back to Horsham gaol, to be pressed to death, if he +would not plead—when they laid on him 100 weight, then added +100 more, and he still continued obstinate; they then added 100 +more, which made 300 lb. weight, yet he would not speak; 50 lb. +more was added, when he was nearly dead, having all the agonies of +death upon him; then the executioner, who weighed about 16 or 17 +stone, laid down upon the board which was over him, and, adding to +the weight, killed him in an instant. G.K.</p> +<hr> +<h3>LATE INSTRUCTION.</h3> +<p>Socrates in his old age, learned to play upon a musical +instrument. Cato, aged 80, began to learn Greek; and Plutarch, in +his old age, acquired Latin. John Gelida, of Valentia, in Spain, +did not begin the study of <i>belles-lettres</i>, until he was 40 +years old.</p> +<p>Henry Spelman, having in his youth neglected the sciences, +resumed them at the age of 50, with extraordinary success.</p> +<p>Fairfax, after having been the general of the parliamentary army +in England, went to Oxford, and took his degree as Doctor-of-Law. +Colbert, when minister, and almost 60 years of age, returned to his +Latin and his law, in a situation where the neglect of one, if not +both, might have been thought excusable; and Mons. Le Tellier, +chancellor of France, reverted to the learning of logic that he +might dispute with his grand-children.</p> +<p>Sir John Davies, at the age of 25, produced a poem on "The +Immortality of the Soul," and in his 62nd year, as Mr. Thomas +Campbell facetiously observes, when a judge and a statesman, +another on <i>dancing</i>.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>The Novelist</h2> +<hr> +<h3>ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN.</h3> +<p>[As Sir Walter Scott's new work has not reached us in time to +enable us to fill in the outline of the story in our present +Number, we give a few sketchy extracts, or portraits,—such as +will increase the interest for the appearance of the Narrative.</p> +<p>There are some admirable specimens of Swiss scenery, which have +the effect of sublime painting: witness the following attempt of +two travellers, father and son, who with their guide, are +bewildered in the mountains by a sudden storm. The younger attempts +to scale a broken path on the side of the precipice:]</p> +<p>Thus estimating the extent of his danger by the measure of sound +sense and reality, and supported by some degree of practice in such +exercise, the brave youth went forward on his awful journey, step +by step, winning his way with a caution, and fortitude, and +presence of mind, which alone could have saved him from instant +destruction. At length he gained a point where a projecting rock +formed the angle of the precipice, so far as it had been visible to +him from the platform. This, therefore, was the critical point of +his undertaking; but it was also the most perilous part of it. The +rock projected more than six feet forward over the torrent, which +he heard raging at the depth of a hundred yards beneath, with a +noise like subterranean thunder. He examined the spot with the +utmost care, and was led by the existence of shrubs, grass, and +even stunted trees, to believe that this rock marked the farthest +extent of the slip, or slide of earth, and that, could he but round +the angle of which it was the termination, he might hope to attain +the continuation of the path which had been so strangely +interrupted by this convulsion of nature. But the crag jutted out +so much as to afford no possibility of <span class= + "pagenum"><a id="page344" name="page344"></a>[pg 344]</span> + passing either under or around it; and as it rose several feet + above the position which Arthur had attained, it was no easy + matter to climb over it. This was, however, the course which he + chose, as the only mode of surmounting what he hoped might prove + the last obstacle to his voyage of discovery. A projecting tree + afforded him the means of raising and swinging himself up to the + top of the crag. But he had scarcely planted himself on it, had + scarcely a moment to congratulate himself, on seeing, amid a + wild chaos of cliffs and woods, the gloomy ruins of Geierstein, + with smoke arising, and indicating something like a human + habitation beside them, when, to his extreme terror, he felt the + huge cliff on which he stood tremble, stoop slowly forward, and + gradually sink from its position. Projecting as it was, and + shaken as its equilibrium had been by the recent earthquake, it + lay now so insecurely poised, that its balance was entirely + destroyed, even by the addition of the young man's weight. + Aroused by the imminence of the danger, Arthur, by an + instinctive attempt at self-preservation, drew cautiously back + from the falling crag into the tree by which he had ascended, + and turned his head back as if spell-bound, to watch the descent + of the fatal rock from which he had just retreated. It tottered + for two or three seconds, as if uncertain which way to fall; and + had it taken a sidelong direction, must have dashed the + adventurer from his place of refuge, or borne both the tree and + him headlong down into the river. After a moment of horrible + uncertainty, the power of gravitation determined a direct and + forward descent. Down went the huge fragment, which must have + weighed at least twenty tons, rending and splintering in its + precipitate course the trees and bushes which it encountered, + and settling at length in the channel of the torrent, with a din + equal to the discharge of a hundred pieces of artillery. The + sound was re-echoed from bank to bank, from precipice to + precipice, with emulative thunders; nor was the tumult silent + till it rose into the region of eternal snows, which, equally + insensible to terrestrial sounds, and unfavourable to animal + life, heard the roar in their majestic solitude, but suffered it + to die away without a responsive voice.</p> +<p>The solid rock had trembled and rent beneath his footsteps; and +although, by an effort rather mechanical than voluntary, he had +withdrawn himself from the instant ruin attending its descent, he +felt as if the better part of him, his firmness of mind and +strength of body, had been rent away with the descending rock, as +it fell thundering, with clouds of dust and smoke, into the +torrents and whirlpools of the vexed gulf beneath. In fact, the +seaman swept from the deck of a wrecked vessel, drenched in the +waves, and battered against the rocks on the shore, does not differ +more from the same mariner, when, at the commencement of the gale, +he stood upon the deck of his favourite ship, proud of her strength +and his own dexterity, than Arthur, when commencing his journey, +from the same Arthur, while clinging to the decayed trunk of an old +tree, from which, suspended between heaven and earth, he saw the +fall of the crag which he had so nearly accompanied. The effects of +his terror, indeed, were physical as well as moral, for a thousand +colours played before his eyes; he was attacked by a sick +dizziness, and deprived at once of the obedience of those limbs +which had hitherto served him so admirably; his arms and hands, as +if no longer at his own command, now clung to the branches of the +tree, with a cramp-like tenacity, over which he seemed to possess +no power, and now trembled in a state of such complete nervous +relaxation, as led him to fear that they were becoming unable to +support him longer in his position.</p> +<p>[We must leave the reader here, although in dire +suspense—and we regret to do so, because a beautiful incident +follows—to give the following exquisite sketch of the +heroine—a Swiss maiden. We will endeavour to connect these +passages with our abridgment of the narrative.]</p> +<p>An upper vest, neither so close as to display the person—a +habit forbidden by the sumptuary laws of the canton—nor so +loose as to be an encumbrance in walking or climbing, covered a +close tunic of a different colour, and came down beneath the middle +of the leg, but suffered the ancle, in all its fine proportions, to +be completely visible. The foot was defended by a sandal, the point +of which was turned upwards, and the crossings and knots of the +strings which secured it on the front of the leg were garnished +with silver rings. The upper vest was gathered round the middle by +a sash of parti-coloured silk, ornamented with twisted threads of +gold; while the tunic, open at the throat, permitted the shape and +exquisite whiteness of a well-formed neck to be visible at the +collar, and for an inch or two beneath. The small portion of the +throat and bosom thus exposed was even more brilliantly fair than +was promised by the countenance, which last bore some marks of +having been freely exposed to the sun and air—by no means in +a degree to diminish its beauty, but just so far as to + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page345" name="page345"></a>[pg + 345]</span> show that the maiden possessed the health which + is purchased by habits of rural exercise. Her long, fair hair + fell down in a profusion of curls on each side of a face + whose blue eyes, lovely features, and dignified simplicity of + expression, implied at once a character of gentleness, and of + the self-relying resolution of a mind too virtuous to suspect + evil, and too noble to fear it. Above these locks beauty's + natural and most beseeming ornament—or rather, I should + say, amongst them—was placed the small bonnet, which, + from its size, little answered the purpose of protecting the + head, but served to exercise the ingenuity of the fair + wearer, who had not failed, according to the prevailing + custom of the mountain maidens, to decorate the tiny cap with + a heron's feather, and the then unusual luxury of a small and + thin chain of gold, long enough to encircle the cap four or + five times, and having the ends secured under a broad medal + of the same costly metal. I have only to add, that the + stature of the young person was something above the common + size, and that the whole contour of her form, without being + in the slightest degree masculine, resembled that of Minerva, + rather than the proud beauties of Juno, or the yielding + graces of Venus. The noble brow, the well-formed and active + limbs, the firm and yet light step; above all, the total + absence of any thing resembling the consciousness of personal + beauty, and the open and candid look, which seemed desirous + of knowing nothing that was hidden, and conscious that she + herself had nothing to hide, were traits not unworthy of the + goddess of wisdom and of chastity.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>FRENCH COOKERY AND CONFECTIONERY.</h3> +<p>Monsieur Ude, who is, unquestionably, the prince of +gastronomers, has just published the tenth edition of his <i>French +Cook</i>, of which, line upon line, we may say, <i>Decies repelita +placebit</i>; and Jarrin, the celebrated <i>artiste en sucre</i>, +has also revised his <i>Italian Confectioner</i>, in a fourth +edition. We should think both these works must be the literary +furniture of every good kitchen, or they ought to be; for there is +just enough of the science in them to make them extremely useful, +whilst all must allow them to be entertaining.</p> +<p>A few years ago, Mrs. Glasse ruled the roast of cookery, and not +a stew was made without consulting her invaluable book. Whilst we +were embroiled in war, her instructions were standing orders, but +with the peace came a host of foreign luxuries and fashions, among +these, <i>Cookery from France</i>. Hence the French system became +introduced into the establishments of the wealthy of this country, +to which may be attributed the sale of nine editions of M. Ude's +work; for it is strictly what it professes to be, "A System of +Fashionable and Economical Cookery, adapted to the use of English +Families." The tenth edition, before us, is a bulky <i>tome</i> of +about 500 pages, with an appendix of observations on the meals of +the day; mode of giving suppers at Routs and soirées, as +practised when the author was in the employ of Lord Sefton; and +above all, a brief history of the rise and progress of Cookery, +from an admirable French treatise. This is literally the <i>sauce +piquante</i> of the volume, and we serve a little to our +readers:—</p> +<p>It appears that the science of Cookery was in a very inferior +state under the first and second race of the French kings. Gregory +of Tours has preserved the account of a repast of French warriors, +at which, in this refined age, we should be absolutely astounded. +According to Eginhard, Charlemagne lived poorly, and ate but +little—however, this trait of resemblance in Charlemagne and +Napoleon, the modern Eginhards have forgotten in their comparison +of these two great men. Philippe le Bel was hardly half an hour at +table, and Francis I. thought more of women than of eating and +drinking; nevertheless, it was under this gallant monarch that the +science of gastronomy took rise in France.</p> +<p>Few have heard the name of Gonthier d'Andernach. What Bacon was +to philosophy, Dante and Petrarch to poetry, Michael Angelo and +Raphael to painting, Columbus and Gama to geography, Copernicus and +Galileo to astronomy, Gonthier was in France to the art of cookery. +Before him, their code of eating was formed only of loose scraps +picked up here and there; the names of dishes were strange and +barbarous, like the dishes themselves.</p> +<p>Gonthier is the father of cookery, as Descartes, of French +philosophy. It is said that Gonthier, in less than ten years, +invented seven cullises, nine ragoûts, thirty-one sauces, and +twenty-one soups.</p> +<p>A woman opened the gates of an enlightened age; it was +Catherine, the daughter of the celebrated Lorenzo de Medici, niece +of Leo the Tenth, then in all the bloom of beauty. Accompanied +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page346" name="page346"></a>[pg +346]</span> by a troop of perfumers, painters, astrologers, poets, +and cooks, she crossed the Alps, and whilst Bullan planned the +Tuileries, Berini recovered from oblivion those sauces which, for +many ages, had been lost. Endowed with all the gifts of fortune, +the mother and the wife of kings, nature had also gifted her with a +palate, whose intuitive sensibility seldom falls to the lot of +sovereigns. In consequence of which, after having driven before her +this troop of male and female soothsayers, who pretended to foretel +the future, she consulted her <i>maître d'hôtel</i>, +about some roast meat brought from luxurious Florence; and dipped +in a rich sauce the same hand that held the reins of the empire, +and which Roussard compared to the rosy fingers of Aurora! Let the +foolish vulgar laugh at the importance which the queen-mother seems +to place in the art of cooking; but they have not considered that +it is at table, in the midst of the fumes of Burgundy, and the +savoury odour of rich dishes, that she meditated the means of +quelling a dangerous faction, or the destruction of a man, who +disturbed her repose. It was during dinner she had an interview +with the Duke of Alba, with whom she resolved on the massacre of +St. Bartholomew.</p> +<p>Not long after the massacre of St. Bartholomew the throne was +occupied by Henry de Valois, brother to Charles the Ninth, and son +of Catherine. He was a prince of good appetite, a lover of wine and +good cheer, qualities which his mother had carefully fostered and +cultivated, that she alone might hold the reigns of government. +Henry de Valois spent whole days at table, and the constellations +of the kitchen shone with the greatest splendour under this +gourmand king. We date from the beginning of his reign the +invention of the fricandeau, generally attributed to a Swiss. Now +the fricandeau having its Columbus, its discovery appears not more +wonderful than that of America, and yet it required <i>une grande +force de tête</i>.</p> +<p>Though we acknowledge the immense influence this monarch had +over cookery, we must not conceal that he brought in fashion +aromatic sauces, tough macaroni, cullises, and brown sauces +calcined by a process like that of roasted coffee. These sauces +gave the dishes a corrosive acidity, and as Jourdan le Cointe +remarks, far from nourishing the body, communicated to it a +feverish sensation, which baffled all the skill of physicians, in +their attempts to cure it. They were positive poisons which the +Italians had introduced into France, a taste for which spread +through every class of society.</p> +<p>Under the reign of Henry III. a taste for warm drinks was joined +to that of spicy dishes. Hippocrates recommends hot water in +fevers, Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in +loathings, AEtius in strangury,—whence we conclude that warm +water, having so many different qualities, must have been a very +useful article at table, had it only been to assist digestion, +considering that people ate copiously in the reign of the Valois. +They made not one single repast without a jug full of hot water, +and even wine was drunk lukewarm.</p> +<p>If the poor have preserved the memory of Henry IV., we cannot +say as much of his cooks. That monarch did nothing for +them;—either Nature had not endowed him with a good appetite, +(for what prince ever was perfect,) or he looked upon them, as, in +the last century, we looked upon soups, as things of hardly any +use; but in return they also did nothing for him.</p> +<p>It is very remarkable, that in France, where there is but one +religion, the sauces are infinitely varied, whilst in England, +where the different sects are innumerable, there is, we may say, +but one single sauce. Melted butter, in English cookery, plays +nearly the same part as the Lord Mayor's coach at civic ceremonies, +calomel in modern medicine, or silver forks in the fashionable +novels. Melted butter and anchovies, melted butter and capers, +melted butter and parsley, melted butter and eggs, and melted +butter for ever: this is a sample of the national cookery of this +country. We may date the art of making sauces from the age of Louis +XIV. Under Louis XIII. meat was either roasted or broiled: every +baker had a stove where the citizen, as well as the great lord, +sent his meat to be dressed; but, by degrees, they began to feel +the necessity of sauces.</p> +<p>It appears that the great wits of the age of Louis XIV. had not +that contempt for cookery which some idealists of our days affect +to have. Boileau has described a bad repast like a man who has +often seen better; he liked the pleasures of the table, which have +never been incompatible with the gifts of genius, or the +investigations of the understanding. "I cannot conceive," says +Doctor Johnson, "the folly of those, who, when at table, think of +every thing but eating; for my part, when I am there I think of +nothing else; and whosoever does not trouble himself with this +important affair at dinner, or supper, will do no good at any other +time." Boswell affirms that he never knew a man who dispatched a +dinner better than the great moralist. But what <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page347" name="page347"></a>[pg 347]</span> avails +it to defend cooks and gourmands? It is an axiom in political +economy, according to Malthus, that <i>he who makes two blades of +grass grow, where before there was but one, ought to be considered +as the benefactor of his country, and of mankind</i>. Is not this a +service which the epicure and the cook every day do their country? +Addison thought differently from Johnson on this subject: "Every +time," says he, "that I see a splendid dinner, I fancy fever, gout, +and dropsy, are lying in ambush for me, with the whole race of +maladies which attack mankind: in my opinion an epicure is a fool." +What does this blustering of Addison prove? Boswell also asserts, +that Addison often complained of indigestion. And in the present +times, the first chemist of the day, Sir Humphry Davy, passes for a +finished gourmand.</p> +<p>Roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, do not alone constitute the +arc of cooking, otherwise the savage of the Oronoco might be +<i>maître d'hôtel</i> with Prince Esterhazy.</p> +<p>The science of gastronomy made great progress under Louis XV., a +brilliant epoch for the literature of gastronomy: together with the +fashions, customs, freedom of opinion, and taste for equipages and +horses brought from Great Britain—some new dishes taken from +the culinary code of this country, such as puddings and +beef-steaks, were also introduced into France. Thanks to the +increasing progress and discoveries in chemistry, and to the genius +of our artists, the art of cookery rose to the greatest height +towards the end of the last century. What a famous age was that of +Mezelier, l'Asne, Jouvent, Richaud, Chaud, and Robert.</p> +<p>History will never forget that great man, who aspired to all +kinds of glory, and would have been, if he had wished, as great a +cook as he was a statesman—I mean the Prince de Talleyrand, +who rekindled the sacred flame in France. The first clouds of +smoke, which announced the resurrection of the science of cookery +in the capital, appeared from the kitchen of an ancient bishop.</p> +<p>A revolution like the French, which presented to their eyes such +terrible spectacles, must have left some traces in their physical +or intellectual constitution. At the end of this bloody drama, the +mind, bewildered by the late dreadful scenes, was unable to feel +those sweet and peaceable emotions, in which it had formerly +delighted; as the palate, having long been at rest, and now become +blunted, must require high-seasoned dishes, to excite an appetite. +The reign of the Directory, therefore is that of Romances à +la Radcliffe, as well as of Sauces à la Provençale. +Fortunately, the eighth of Brumaire pulled down the five Directors, +together with their saucepans.</p> +<p>Under the Consulship, and during the empire, the art of cooking, +thanks to the labours of Beauvilliers, Balaine, and other artists, +made new and remarkable improvements. Among the promoters of the +gastric science, the name of a simple amateur makes a distinguished +figure—it is Grisnod de la Reynière, whose almanac the +late Duke of York called the most delightful book that ever issued +from the press. We may affirm, that the <i>Almanach des +Gourmands</i> made a complete revolution in the language and usages +of the country.</p> +<p>We are yet too near the restoration to determine the degree of +influence it had on cookery in France. The restoration has +introduced into monarchy the representative forms friendly to +epicurism, and in this respect it is a true blessing—a new +era opened <i>to those</i> who are hungry.</p> +<p>M. Jarrin's fourth edition contains upwards of 500 receipts in +Italian confectionery, with plates of improvements, &c. like a +cyclopaedian treatise on mechanics; and when our readers know there +are "seven essential degrees of boiling sugar," they will pardon +the details of the business of this volume. The "degrees" +are—1. <i>Le lissé</i>, or thread, large or small; 2. +<i>Le perlé</i>, or pearl, <i>le soufflet</i>, or blow; 4. +<i>La plume</i>, the feather; 5. <i>Le boulet</i>, the ball, large +or small; 6. <i>Le cassé</i>, the crack; and, 7. the +<i>caramel</i>. So complete is M. Jarrin's system of confectionery, +that he is "independent of every other artist;" for he even +explains engraving on steel and on wood. What a host of +disappointments this must prevent!</p> +<p>If we look further into, or "drink deep" of the art of +confectionery, we shall find it to be a perfect Microcosm—a +little creation; for our artist talks familiarly of "producing +picturesque scenery, with trees, lakes, rocks, &c.; gum paste, +and modelling flowers, animals, figures, &c." with astonishing +mimic strife. We must abridge one of these receipts for a "<i>Rock +Piece Montée</i> in a lake."</p> +<p>"Roll out confectionery paste, the size of the dish intended to +receive it; put into a mould representing your <i>pond</i> a lining +of almond paste, coloured pale pink, and place in the centre a sort +of pedestal of almond paste, supported by lumps of the same paste +baked; when dry put it into the stove. Prepare <i>syrup</i> to fill +the hollow of the <i>lake</i>, to represent <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page348" name="page348"></a>[pg 348]</span> the +<i>water</i>; having previously modelled in gum paste little +<i>swans</i>, place them in various parts of the <i>syrup</i>; put +it into the stove for three hours, then make a small hole through +the paste, under your <i>lake</i>, to drain off the syrup; a crust +will remain with the <i>swans</i> fixed in it, representing the +<i>water</i>. Next build the <i>rock</i> on the pedestal with rock +sugar, biscuits, and other appropriate articles in sugar, fixed to +one another, supported by the confectionery paste you have put in +the middle, the whole being cemented together with caramel, and +ornamented. The moulding and heads should then be pushed in almond +paste, coloured red; the <i>cascades</i> and other ornaments must +be <i>spun in sugar</i>."</p> +<p>These are, indeed, romantic secrets. Spinning nets and cages +with sugar is another fine display of confectionery skill—we +say nothing of the nets and cages which our fair friends are +sometimes spinning—for the sugar compared with their +bonds—are weak as the cords of the Philistines.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>ROOKS.</h3> +<p>We glean the following interesting facts from the <i>Essex +Herald</i>, as they merit the record of a <i>Naturalist</i>.</p> +<p>"The voracious habits of the rook, and the vast increase of +these birds of late years in certain parts of Essex, has been +productive of great mischief, especially in the vicinity of Writtle +and of Waltham. Since February last, notwithstanding a vigilant +watch, the rooks have stolen sets of potatoes from a considerable +breadth of ground at Widford Hall. On the same farm, during the +sowing of a field of 16 acres with peas, the number of rooks seen +at one time on its surface has been estimated at 1,000, which is +accounted for by there being a preserve near, which, at a moderate +computation, contains 1,000 nests. But the damage done by rooks at +Navestock and Kelvedon Hatch, and their vicinities, within a small +circle, has been estimated at £2,000. annually. Many farmers +pay from 8<i>s</i>. to 10<i>s</i>. per week, to preserve their seed +and plants by watching; but notwithstanding such precautions, acre +after acre of beans, when in leaf and clear from the soil, have +been pulled up, and the crop lost. The late hurricane proved some +interruption to their breeding; and particularly at the estate of +Lord Waldegrave, at Navestock, where the young ones were thrown +from their nests, and were found under trees in myriads; the very +nests blown down, it is said, would have furnished the poor with +fuel for a short period."</p> +<p>The writer attributes this alarming increase of rooks to "a +desire on the part of gentlemen to cause them to be preserved with +the same watchfulness they do their game." The most effectual means +of deterring the rook from their depredations, is, he says, "to +obtain several of these birds at a period of the year when they can +be more easily taken; then cut them open, and preserve them by +salt. In the spring, during the seed time, these rooks are to be +fastened down to the ground with their wings spread, and their +mouths extended by a pebble, as if in great torture. This plan has +been found so effectual, that even in the vicinity of large +preserves, the fields where the dead birds have been so placed, +have not been visited by a single rook."</p> +<p>The scarcity of the rook in France, and the antipathy which the +French have to that bird is thus accounted for:—</p> +<p>"The fact has been often related by a very respectable Catholic +Priest, who resided many years at Chipping-hill, in Witham, that +such was the arbitrary conduct of the owners of abbeys and +monasteries in France, in preserving and cultivating the rook and +the pigeon, that they increased to such numbers as to become so +great a pest, as to destroy the seed when sown, and the young +plants as soon as they appeared above the ground; insomuch, that +the farmer, despairing of a reward for his labour, besides the loss +of his seed, the fields were left barren, and the supply of bread +corn was, in consequence, insufficient to meet the necessities of +so rapidly increasing a people. The father of the gentleman to whom +we have alluded, was, for this offence, one of the first victims to +his imprudence. The revolutionary mob proceeded to his residence, +from whence they took him, and hung his body upon a gibbet; they +next proceeded to destroy the rooks and pigeons which he had +cultivated in great numbers, and strived to preserve with the same +tenacity as others do in this country. We are told by the son of +this martyr to his own folly, that the mob continued to shoot the +birds amidst the loudest acclamations, and that they exulted in the +idea that in each victim they witnessed the fall of an +aristocrat."</p> +<hr> +<h3>THE BANANA TREE.</h3> +<p>The amount and rapidity of produce of this plant probably exceed +that of any other in the known world. In eight or nine months after +the sucker has been planted, clusters of fruit are formed; and +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page349" name="page349"></a>[pg +349]</span> in about two months more they may be gathered. The stem +is then cut down, and a fresh plant, about two-thirds of the height +of the parent stem, succeeds, and bears fruit in about three months +more. The only care necessary is to dig once or twice a year round +the roots. According to our author, on 1,076 square feet, from 30 +to 40 banana trees may be planted in Mexico, which will yield in +the space of the year 4,414 lbs. avoirdupois of fruit; while the +same space would yield only 33 lbs. avoirdupois of wheat, and 99 of +potatoes. The immediate effect of this facility of supplying the +wants of nature is, that the man who can, by labouring two days in +the week, maintain himself and family, will devote the remaining +five to idleness or dissipation. The same regions that produce the +banana, also yield the two species of manioc, the bitter and the +sweet: both of which appear to have been cultivated before the +conquest.</p> +<h4>—<i>Foreign Quarterly Review.</i></h4> +<hr> +<h3>INDIAN CORN.</h3> +<p>The most valuable article in South American agriculture, is +unquestionably the maize, or Indian corn, which is cultivated with +nearly uniform success in every part of the republic. It appears to +be a true American grain, notwithstanding many crude conjectures to +the contrary. Sometimes it has been known to yield, in hot and +humid regions, 800 fold; fertile lands return from 300 to 400; and +a return of 130 to 150 fold is considered bad—the least +fertile soils giving 60 to 80. The maize forms the great bulk of +food of the inhabitants, as well as of the domestic animals; hence +the dreadful consequences of a failure of this crop. It is eaten +either in the form of unfermented bread or <i>tortillas</i> (a sort +of bannock, as it is called in Scotland;) and, reduced to flour, is +mingled with water, forming either <i>atolle</i> or various kinds +of <i>chicha</i>. Maize will yield, in very favourable situations, +two or three crops per year; though it is but seldom that more than +one is gathered.</p> +<p>The introduction of wheat is said to have been owing to the +accidental discovery, by a negro slave of Cortez, of three or four +grains, among some rice which had been issued to the soldiers. +About the year 1530, these grains were sown; and from this +insignificant source has flowed all the enormous produce of the +upper lands of Mexico. Water is the only element necessary to +ensure success to the Mexican wheat grower; but it is very +difficult to attain this—and irrigation affords the most +steady supply.</p> +<h4><i>Ibid.</i></h4> +<hr> +<h3>THE AGAVE AMERICANA,</h3> +<p>On Maguey, is an object of great value in the table land of the +interior of Mexico; from this plant is obtained the favourite +liquor, the <i>pulque</i>. At the moment of efflorescence, the +flower stalk is extirpated, and the juice destined to form the +fruit flows into the cavity thus produced, and is taken out two or +three times a day for four or five months; each day's produce is +fermented for ten or fifteen days; after which the <i>pulque</i> is +fit to drink, and before it has travelled in skins, it is a very +pleasant, refreshing liquor, to which the Mexicans ascribe as many +good qualities as the Highlander does to whiskey. The stems of the +<i>maguey</i> can supply the place of hemp, and may be converted +into paper. The prickles too are used as pins by the Indians.</p> +<h4>—<i>Ibid</i>.</h4> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>DOCTOR PARR.</h3> +<h4><i>Concluded from page 334</i>.</h4> +<p>Parr was evidently fond of living in troubled waters; +accordingly, on his removal to Colchester, he got into a quarrel +with the trustees of the school on the subject of a lease. He +printed a pamphlet about it, which he never published; restrained +perhaps by the remarks of Sir W. Jones, who constantly noted the +pages submitted to him, with "too violent," "too strong;" and +probably thought the whole affair a battle of kites and crows, +which Parr had swelled into importance; or, it might be, he +suppressed it, influenced by the prospect of succeeding to Norwich +school, for which he was now a candidate, and by the shrewd +observation of Dr. Foster, "that Norwich might be touched by a +fellow feeling for Colchester; and the crape-makers of the one +place sympathize with the bag-makers of the other." If the latter +consideration weighed with him, it was the first and last time that +any such consideration did, Parr being apparently of the opinion of +John Wesley, that there could be no fitter subject for a Christian +man's prayers, than that he might be delivered from what the world +calls "prudence." However it happened, the pamphlet was withheld, +and Parr was elected to the school at Norwich.</p> +<p>At Norwich, Parr ventured on his first publications, and +obtained his first preferment. The publications consisted of a +sermon on "The Truth of Christianity," "A Discourse on Education," +and "A Discourse on the Late Fast;" the last of which opens with a +mistake singular in <span class="pagenum"><a id="page350" name= +"page350"></a>[pg 350]</span> Parr, who confounds the sedition of +Judas Gaulonitis, mentioned in Josephus, (<i>Antiq</i>. xviii. 1. +1.) with that under Pilate, mentioned in St. Luke, (xiii. 1, 2, +3.); whereas the former probably preceded the latter by twenty +years, or nearly. The preferment which he gained was the living of +Asterby, presented to him by Lady Jane Trafford, the mother of one +of his pupils; which, in 1783, he exchanged for the perpetual +curacy of Hatton, in Warwickshire, the same lady being still his +patron neither was of much value. Lord Dartmouth, whose sons had +also been under his care, endeavoured to procure something for him +from Lord Thurlow, but the chancellor is reported to have said +"No," with an oath. The great and good Bishop Lowth, however, at +the request of the same nobleman, gave him a prebend in St. Paul's, +which, though a trifle at the time, eventually became, on the +expiration of leases, a source of affluence to Parr in his old age. +How far he was from such a condition at this period of his life, is +seen by the following incident given by Mr. Field. The doctor was +one day in this gentleman's library, when his eye was caught by the +title of "Stephens' Greek Thesaurus." Suddenly turning about and +striking vehemently the arm of Mr. Field, whom he addressed in a +manner very usual with him; he said, "Ah! my friend, my friend, may +you never be forced, as I was at Norwich, to sell that work, to me +so precious, from absolute and urgent necessity."</p> +<p>But we must on with the Doctor in his career. In 1785, for some +reason unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at +Norwich, and in the year following went to reside at Hatton. "I +have an excellent house, (he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, +and a Poor, ignorant, dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond +all example. <i>I like Warwickshire very much</i>. I have made +great regulations, viz. bells chime three times as long; Athanasian +creed; communion service at the altar; swearing act; children +catechized first Sunday in the month; private baptisms discouraged; +public performed after second lesson; recovered a 100<i>l</i>. a +year left the poor, with interest amounting to 115<i>l</i>., all of +which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining +all the charities."</p> +<p>Here Warwickshire pleases Parr; but Parr's taste in this, and in +many other matters, (as we shall have occasion to show by and by,) +was subject to change. He soon, therefore, becomes convinced of the +superior intellect of the men of Norfolk. He finds Warwickshire, +the Boeotia of England, two centuries behind in civilization. He is +anxious, however, to be in the commission of the peace for this +ill-fated county, and applies to Lord Hertford, then Lord +Lieutenant; but the application fails; and again, on a subsequent +occasion, to Lord Warwick, and again he is disappointed. What +motives operated upon their lordships' minds to his exclusion, they +did not think it necessary to avow.</p> +<p>Providence has so obviously drawn a circle about every man, +within which, for the most part, he is compelled to walk, by +furnishing him with natural affections, evidently intended to +fasten upon individuals; by urging demands upon him which the very +preservation of himself and those about him compels him to listen +to; by withholding from him any considerable knowledge of what is +distant, and hereby proclaiming that his more proper sphere lies in +what is near;—by compassing, him about with physical +obstacles, with mountains, with rivers, with seas "dissociable," +with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; that, +like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be +resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is +his first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the +defence of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without +extending his care to the whole circuit of the city walls.</p> +<p>The close of Parr's life grew brighter, The increased value of +his stall at St. Paul's set him abundantly at his ease: he can even +indulge his love of pomp—<i>ardetque cupidine +currûs</i>, he encumbers himself with a coach and four. In +1816, he married a second wife, Miss Eyre, the sister of his friend +the Rev. James Eyre; he became reconciled to his two +grand-daughters, now grown up to woman's estate; he received them +into his family, and kept them as his own, till one of them became +the wife of the Rev. John Lynes.</p> +<p>In the latter years of his life, Parr had been subject to +erysipelas; once he had suffered by a carbuncle, and once by a +mortification in the hand. Owing to this tendency to diseased +action in the skin, he was easily affected by cold, and on Sunday, +the 16th of January, 1825, having, in addition to the usual duties +of the day, buried a corpse, he was, on the following night, seized +with a long-continued rigor, attended by fever and delirium, and +never effectually rallied again. There is a note, however, dated +November 2, 1824, addressed by him to Archdeacon Butler, which +proves that he felt his end approaching, even before this +crisis.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page351" name="page351"></a>[pg +351]</span> +<p>"Dear and Learned Namesake,—This letter is important, and +strictly confidential. I have given J. Lynes minute and plenary +directions for my funeral. I desire you, if you can, to preach a +short, unadorned funeral sermon. Rann Kennedy is to read the lesson +and grave service, though I could wish you to read the grave +service also. Say little of me, but you are sure to say it +<i>well</i>."</p> +<p>Dr. Butler complied with his request, and amply made good the +opinion here expressed. He spoke of him like a warm and stedfast +friend, but not like that worst of enemies, an indiscreet one; he +did not challenge a scrutiny by the extravagance of his praise, nor +break, by his precious balms, the head he was most anxious to +honour. Dr. Parr's death was tedious, and his faculties, except at +intervals, disturbed. He took an opportunity, however, afforded him +by one of these intervals, of summoning about his bed his wife, +grand-children, and servants; confessed to them his weaknesses and +errors, asked their forgiveness for any pain he might have caused +them by petulance and haste, and professed "his trust in God, +through Christ, for the pardon of his sins." One expression, which +Dr. Johnstone reports him to have used on this occasion, is +extraordinary—that "from the beginning of his life he was not +conscious of having fallen into a crime." Far be it from us to +scrutinize the words of a delirious death-bed—These must have +been uttered (if, indeed, they are accurately given) either in some +peculiar and very limited sense, or else at a moment when a man is +no longer accountable to God for what he utters. The latter was, +probably, the case: for in the same breath in which he declares +"his life, even his early life, to have been pure," he sues for +pardon at the hands of his Maker, and acknowledges a Redeemer, as +the instrument through which he is to obtain it.</p> +<p>That quickness of feeling and disposition to abandon himself to +its guidance, which made Parr an inconsistent man, made him also a +benevolent one. Benevolence he loved as a subject for his +contemplation, and the practical extension of it as a rule for his +conduct. He could scarcely bear to regard the Deity under any other +aspect. He would have children taught, in the first instance, to +regard him under that aspect alone; simply as a being who displayed +infinite goodness in the creation, in the government, and in the +redemption of the world. Language itself indicates, that the whole +system of moral rectitude is comprised in it—<i>[Greek: +energetein], benefacere</i>, beneficencethe generic term being, in +common parlance, emphatically restricted to works of charity. Nor +was this mere theory in Parr. Most men who have been economical +from necessity in their youth, continue to be so, from habit, in +their age—but Parr's hand was ever open as day. Poverty had +vexed, but had never contracted his spirit; money he despised, +except as it gave him power—power to ride in his state coach, +to throw wide his doors to hospitality, to load his table with +plate, and his shelves with learning; power to adorn his church +with chandeliers and painted windows; to make glad the cottages of +his poor; to grant a loan, to a tottering farmer; to rescue from +want a forlorn patriot, or a thriftless scholar. Whether +misfortune, or mismanagement, or folly, or vice, had brought its +victim low, his want was a passport to Parr's pity, and the dew of +his bounty fell alike upon the evil and the good, upon the just and +the unjust. It is told of Boerhaave, that, whenever he saw a +criminal led out to execution, he would say, "May not this man be +better than I? If otherwise, the praise is due, not to me, but to +the grace of God." Parr quotes the saying with applause. Such, we +doubt not, would have been his own feelings on such an +occasion.</p> +<h4>—<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</h4> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE GATHERER</h2> +<blockquote>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</blockquote> +<hr> +<h3>SONG FROM THE ITALIAN OF P. ROLLI.</h3> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Babbling current, would you know</p> +<p>Why I turn to thee again,</p> +<p>'Tis to find relief from woe,</p> +<p>Respite short from ceaseless pain.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>I and Sylvio on a day</p> +<p>Were upon thy bank reclin'd,</p> +<p>When dear Sylvio swore to me,</p> +<p>And thus spoke in accents kind:</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>First this flowing tide shall turn</p> +<p>Backward to its fountain head,</p> +<p>Dearest nymph, ere thou shall mourn,</p> +<p>Thy too easy faith betray'd.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Babbling current, backward turn,</p> +<p>Hide thee in thy fountain head;</p> +<p>For alas, I'm left to mourn</p> +<p>My too easy faith betray'd.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Love and life pursu'd the swain,</p> +<p>Both must have the self-same date,</p> +<p>But mine only he could mean,</p> +<p>Since his love is turn'd to hate.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Sure some fairer nymph than I,</p> +<p>From me lures the lovely youth,</p> +<p>Haply she receives like me,</p> +<p>Vows of everlasting truth.</p></div> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page352" name="page352"></a>[pg +352]</span> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Babbling current should the fair</p> +<p>Stop to listen on thy shore,</p> +<p>Bid her, Sylvio, to beware,</p> +<p>Love and truth he oft had sworn.</p></div></div> +<h4>T.H.</h4> +<hr> +<h3>THE SPRING AND THE MORNING,</h3> +<h4><i>A Ballad.</i> <i>Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington, +Bart.</i> <i>Inscribed to Miss Foote</i>.</h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When the frosts of the Winter, in mildness were ending,</p> +<p>To April I gave half the welcome of May;</p> +<p>While the Spring, fresh in youth, came delightfully blending</p> +<p>The buds that are sweet, and the songs that are gay.</p> +<p>As the eyes fixed the heart on a vision so fair,</p> +<p>Not doubting, but trusting what magic was there;</p> +<p>Aloud I exclaim'd, with augmented desire,</p> +<p>I thought 'twas the Spring, when In truth, 'tis Maria.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When the fading of stars, in the regions of splendour,</p> +<p>Announc'd that the morning was young in the East,</p> +<p>On the upland I rov'd, admiration to render,</p> +<p>Where freshness, and beauty, and lustre increas'd.</p> +<p>Whilst the beams of the morning new pleasures bestow'd,</p> +<p>While fondly I gaz'd, while with rapture I glow'd;</p> +<p>In sweetness commanding, in elegance bright,</p> +<p>Maria arose! a more beautiful light!</p></div></div> +<h4><i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>.</h4> +<hr> +<h3>UNEXPECTED REPROOF.</h3> +<p>The celebrated scholar, Muretus, was taken ill upon the road as +he was travelling from Paris to Lyons, and as his appearance was +not much in his favour, he was carried to an hospital. Two +physicians attended him, and his disease not being a very common +one, they thought it right to try something new, and out of the +usual road of practice, upon him. One of them, not knowing that +their patient knew Latin, said in that language to the other, "We +may surely venture to try an experiment upon the body of so mean a +man as our patient is." "Mean, sir!" replied Muretus, in Latin, to +their astonishment, "can you pretend to call any man so, sir, for +whom the Saviour of the world did not think it beneath him to +die?"</p> +<h3>IRELAND.</h3> +<p>The following is the territorial surface of Ireland:—</p> +<pre> + Acres. + + Arable land, gardens, meadows, pastures, and marshes 12,125,280 + + Uncultivated lands, and bogs capable of improvement ... 4,900,000 + + Surface incapable of any kind of improvement<a id="footnotetag3" +href="#footnote3"><b>3</b></a>.......... 2,416,664 + __________ + Total of acres 19,441,944 +</pre> +<hr> +<h3>ROUGE ET NOIR.</h3> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When jovial Barras was the Monarch of France,</p> +<p>And its women all lived in the light of his glance,</p> +<p>One eve, when tall Tallien and plump Josephine</p> +<p>Were trying the question, of which should be Queen,</p> +<p>Dame Josephine hung on one side of his chair,</p> +<p>With her West Indian bosom as brown as 'twas bare;</p> +<p>Dame Tallien as fondly on t'other side hung,</p> +<p>With a blush that might burn up the spot where she clung.</p> +<p>Old Sieyes stalked in; saw my lord at his wine,</p> +<p>Now toasting the copper-skin, now the carmine;</p> +<p>Then starting away, cried, "Barras, <i>le bon soir</i>;</p> +<p>'Twas for business <i>I</i> came; I leave <i>you Rouge et +Noir</i>."</p></div></div> +<hr class="full"> +<h3>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS.</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. 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[PRICE 2d. + + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE FORTUNE PLAYHOUSE. + + +[Illustration: The Fortune Playhouse.] + + +The Engraving represents one of the playhouses of Shakspeare's time, +as the premises appeared a few years since. This theatre was in Golden +Lane, Barbican, and was built by that celebrated and benevolent actor +Edward Alleyn, the pious founder of Dulwich College, in 1599. It was +burnt in 1624, but rebuilt in 1629. A story is told of a large treasure +being found in digging for the foundation, and it is probable that the +whole sum fell to Alleyn. Upon equal probability, is the derivation of +the name "The Fortune." The theatre was a spacious brick building, and +exhibited the royal arms in plaster on its front. These are retained in +the Engraving; where the disposal of the lower part on the building into +shops, &c. is a sorry picture of the "base purposes" to which a temple +of the Drama has been converted. + +According to the testimony of Ben Jonson and others, Alleyn was the +first actor of his time, and of course played leading characters in the +plays of Shakspeare and Jonson. He was probably the Kemble of his day, +for his biographers tell us such was his celebrity, that he drew crowds +of spectators after him wherever he performed; so that possessing some +private patrimony, with a careful and provident disposition, he soon +became master of an establishment of his own--and this was the +_Fortune_. Although Alleyn left behind him a large sum, it is hardly +probable that he made it here; for in his diary, which, we believe is +extant, he records that he once had so slender an audience, that the +whole receipts of the house amounted to no more than three pounds and a +few odd shillings--a sum which would not pay the expenses; for it +appears by the MS. of Lord Stanhope, treasurer to James I. that the +customary sum paid for the performance of a play at court, was 20 +nobles, or 6l. 12s. 4d.[1] Alleyn was likewise proprietor of the +Blackfriars' Theatre, near what is still called Playhouse Yard. However +he might have gathered laurels on the stage, he must have gained his +fortune by other means. He was keeper of the King's Bear Garden and +Menagerie, which were frequented by thousands, and produced Alleyn, the +then great sum of 500_l_. per annum. He was also thrice married, and +received portions with his two first wives; and we need not insist upon +the turn which matrimony gives to a man's fortune. + + + [1] The nightly expenses of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres + in these days, are upwards of 200_l_. + + +Among the theatrico-antiquarian gossip of _The Fortune_ is, that it was +once the nursery for Henry VIII.'s children--but "no scandal about +the"--we hope. + + * * * * * + + + + +FINE ARTS + + * * * * * + + +EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. + + +All men are critics, in a greater or less degree. They can generalize +upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they cannot point out +the details of the defects, or in what the beauty of a picture consists; +and to prove this, only let the reader visit the Exhibition at Somerset +House, and watch the little critical _coteries_ that collect round the +most attractive paintings. Could all these criticisms be embodied, but +in "terms of art," what a fine lecture would they make for the Royal +Academy. + +Our discursive notice would, probably, contribute but little to this +joint-stock production; but as even comparing notes is not always +unprofitable, we venture to give our own. + +The present Exhibition is much superior to that of last year. There are +more works of imagination, and consequently greater attractions for the +lover of painting; for life-breathing as have been many of the portraits +in recent exhibitions, the interest which they created was of quite a +different nature to that which we take in not a few of the pictures of +the present collection. Portraits still superabound, and finely painted +portraits too; but, strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in +the present than in any recent exhibition. + +But the _elite_ are seven pictures by Mr. Wilkie, who has reappeared, as +it were, in British art, after an absence from England; during which he +appears to have studied manners and costume with beautiful effect; and +the paintings to which we allude, are triumphant proofs of his success. +They are embodiments or realizations of character, manners, and scenery, +with which the painter has been wont to mix, and thus to transfer them +to his canvass with vividness and fidelity--merits of the highest order +in all successes of art. We shall touch upon these pictures in our +ramble through the rooms-- + +4. _Subject from the Revelations_.--F. Danby--A sublime composition. + +10. _The Fountain_: morning.--A.W. Callcott. A delightful picture. + +14. _Rubens and the Philosopher_.--G. Clint. The anecdote of Rubens and +Brondel, the alchemist, remarkably well told. + +16. _Benaiah_.--W. Etty--The line in 2 Samuel xxiii. 20., "he slew two +lion-like men of Moab," has furnished Mr. Etty with the subject of this +picture. It is a surprising rather than a pleasing composition; but the +strength of colouring is very extraordinary. The disproportions of parts +of the principal figure will, however, be recognised by the most casual +beholder: although as a fine display of muscular energy, this picture is +truly valuable, and is a proud specimen of the powerful genius of the +painter. + +28. _Waterfall near Vatlagunta, in the peninsula of India, in the +mountains that divide the Coasts of Coromandel and Malabar: its height +between 500 and 600 feet_.--W. Daniell.--The sublime and stupendous +character of the scenery will enable the reader to form some idea of the +difficulty with which the artist had to contend. + +43. _The Lady in St. Swithin's Chair_ from vol. i. Waverley.--Sir W. +Beechey.--We confess ourselves far from pleased with this picture. There +is a want of freedom in it which is any thing but characteristic of the +incident which it is intended to portray. + +56. _The Spanish Posado_.--D. Wilkie.--We must describe this picture in +the words of the catalogue:-- + +This represents a Guerrilla council of war, at which three reverend +fathers--a Dominican, a monk of the Escurial, and a Jesuit, are +deliberating on some expedient of national defence, with an emissary in +the costume of Valencia. Behind them is the posadera, or landlady, +serving her guests with chocolate, and the begging student of Salamanca, +with his lexicon and cigar, making love to her. On the right of the +picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front +of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a +Spanish guitar. On the floor are seated the goatherd and his sister, +with the muzzled house-dog and pet lamb of the family, and through the +open portal in the background is a distant view of the Guadarama +mountains--It is next to impossible for us to do justice to the +diversified character of this picture. The deliberation of the fathers, +and the little bit of episode between the landlady and student are +extremely interesting. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + + +SPITTLE-FIELDS, AND WEAVING IN FORMER DAYS. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Stowe says, "On the east side of the churchyard of St. Mary Spittle, +lyeth a large field, of old time called _Lolesworth_, now +_Spittle-Field_, which about the year 1576, was broken up for clay to +make bricke; in digging thereof many earthen pots called urnae, were +found full of ashes and the bones of men, to wit of the Romans that +inhabited here. For it was the custom of the Romans to burne their dead, +to put their ashes in an urne, and then bury the same with certain +ceremonies, in some field appointed for the purpose neere unto their +city. Every one of these pots had in them (with the ashes of the dead) +one piece of copper money, with an inscription of the emperor then +reigning. Some of them were of Claudius, some of Vespasian, some of +Nero, &c. There hath also been found (in the same field) divers coffins +of stone, containing the bones of men; these I suppose to be the bones +of some speciall persons, in the time of the Brittons, or Saxons, after +that the Romans had left to govern here. + +"The priory and hospital of St. Mary Spittle, was founded (says Pennant) +in 1197, by Walter Brune, Sheriff of London, and his wife, Rosia, for +canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. It was remarkable for its +pulpit cross, at which a preacher used to preach a sermon consolidated +out of four others, which had been preached at St. Paul's Cross, on Good +Friday, and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter week; giving +afterwards a sermon of his own. At these sermons the mayor and aldermen +attended, dressed in different coloured robes on each occasion. This +custom continued till the destruction of church government in the civil +wars. They have since been transferred to St. Bride's Church. Queen +Elizabeth, in April, 1559, visited St. Mary Spittal, in great state, +probably to hear a sermon delivered from the cross. This princess was +attended by a thousand men in harness with shirts of mail and corslets, +and morice pikes, and ten great pieces carried through London unto the +court, with drums and trumpets sounding, and two morice-dancers, and in +a cart two white bears." + +The priory of St. Mary, of St. Mary Spittle, contained at its +dissolution, about the year 1536, no less than 180 beds for the +reception of sick persons and travellers. Richard Tarleton, the famous +comedian, at the Curtain Theatre, it is said, "kept an ordinary in +Spittle-fields, pleasant fields for the citizens to walk in;" and the +row called Paternoster Row, as the name implies, was formerly a few +houses, where they sold rosaries, relics, &c. The once celebrated +herbalist and astrologer, Nicholas Culpepper, was another inhabitant of +this spot. He died in 1654, in a house he had some time occupied, very +pleasantly situated in the fields; but now a public house at the corner +of Red Lion Court, Red Lion Street, east of Spittlefields market. The +house, though it has undergone several repairs, still exhibits the +appearance of one of those that formed a part of old London. The weaving +art, which has arrived at such an astonishing perfection, was patronized +by the wise and liberal Edward III., who encouraged the art by the most +advantageous offers of reward and encouragement to weavers who would +come and settle in England. In 1331, two weavers came from Brabant and +settled at York. The superior skill and dexterity of these men, who +communicated their knowledge to others, soon manifested itself in the +improvement and spread of the art of weaving in this island. Many +Flemish weavers were driven from their native country by the cruel +persecutions of the Duke d'Alva, in 1567. They settled in different +parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, +serges, crapes, &c. The arts of spinning, throwing, and weaving silk, +were brought into England about the middle of the fifteenth century, and +were practised by a company of women in London, called silk women. About +1480, men began to engage in the silk manufacture, and in the year 1686, +nearly 50,000 manufacturers, of various descriptions, took refuge in +England, in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, by +Louis le Grand, who sent thousands (says Pennant) of the most +industrious of his subjects into this kingdom to present his bitterest +enemies with the arts and manufactures of his kingdom; hence the origin +of the silk trade in Spittlefields. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + +THE BIRD OF THE TOMB. + +BY LEIGH CLIFFE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +In "Lyon's attempt to reach Repulse Bay," the following passage, which +suggested these verses, may be met with. "Near the large grave was a +third pile of stones, covering the body of a child. A Snow-Buntin (the +Red-Breast of the Arctic Regions) had found its way through the loose +stones which composed this little tomb, and its now forsaken, neatly +built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child." + + + Beneath the chilly Arctic clime, + Where Nature reigns severe, sublime, + Enthron'd upon eternal snows, + Or rides the waves on icy floes-- + Where fierce tremendous tempests sweep + The bosom of the rolling deep, + And beating rain, and drifting hail + Swell the wild fury of the gale; + There is a little, humble tomb, + Not deckt with sculpture's pageant pride, + Nor labour'd verse to tell by whom + The habitant was lov'd who died! + No trophied 'scutcheon marks the grave-- + No blazon'd banners round it wave-- + 'Tis but a simple pile of stones + Rais'd o'er a hapless infant's bones; + Perchance a mother's tears have dew'd + This sepulchre, so frail and rude;-- + A father mourn'd in accents wild, + His offspring lost--his only child-- + Who might, in after years, have spread + A ray of honour round his head, + Nor thought, as stone on stone he threw, + His child would meet a stranger's view. + + But, lo! upon its clay-cold breast, + The Arctic Robin rais'd its nest, + And rear'd its little fluttering young, + Where Death in awful quiet slept, + And fearless chirp'd, and gaily sung + Around the babe its parents wept. + It was the guardian of the grave, + And thus its chirping seem'd to say:-- + "Tho' naught from Death's chill grasp could save, + Tho' naught could chase his power away-- + As round this humble spot I wing, + My thrilling voice shall daily sing + A requiem o'er the faded flower, + That bloom'd and wither'd in an hour, + And prov'd life is, in every view, + Naught but a rose-bud twin'd with rue. + A blossom born at day's first light, + And fading with the earliest night; + Nor stranger's step, nor shrieking loom, + Shall scare the warbler from the tomb'" + + + * * * * * + + +CURING THE "KING'S EVIL." + +(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) + + +About five miles from Sturminster Newton, and near the village of +Hazlebury, resides a Dr. B----, who has attained a reputation, far +extended, for curing, in a miraculous manner, the king's evil; and as +the method he employs is very different from that of most modern +practitioners, a short account of it may, perhaps, be acceptable to the +readers of the MIRROR. + +I had long known that the doctor used some particular season for his +operations, but was unable to say precisely the time, until a few days +since I had a conversation with a person who is well acquainted with the +doctor and his yearly "_fair, or feast_," as it is termed. Exactly +twenty-four hours before the new moon, in the month of May, every year, +whether it happens by night or by day, the afflicted persons assemble at +the doctor's residence, where they are supplied, by him, with the hind +legs of a _toad!_ yes, gentle reader a toad--don't start--enclosed in a +small bag (accompanied, I believe, with some verbal charm, or +incantation,) and also a lotion and salve of the doctor's preparation. +The bag containing the legs of the reptile is worn suspended from the +neck of the patient, and the lotion and salve applied in the usual +manner, until the cure is completed, or until the next year's "_fair_." + +One would think that such a mysterious routine of doctoring, would +attract but few, and those the most illiterate; but I can assure my +readers the case is different. The number of carts, chaises, and other +conveyances laden with the afflicted which passed through this place on +the 2nd instant, bore ample testimony to the number of the doctor's +applicants; and the appearance of many of them corroborated the opinion +that they moved in a respectable sphere of life. + +The new moon happening this year on the 3rd instant, at 57 minutes past +7 o'clock in the morning, the "fair" took place at the same hour the +preceding day. + +My readers, no doubt, have heard of the efficacy of the stone in the +toad's head, alluded to by Shakspeare,[2] for curing the cramp, &c. by +application to the afflicted part; but it was left for Dr. B---- to +discover the virtues of a toad's leg. Apropos, an eccentric friend of +mine, once gravely told me he intended to procure this precious Bufonian +jewel; and as probably some reader may feel a wish to possess it, I will +furnish him with the proper method of obtaining it, as communicated by +my scientific friend. Voici--Cut off poor bufo's head and enclose it in +a small box pierced with many holes; place it in an ant hill, and let it +remain some ten or twelve days, in which time, or a little longer, the +ants will have entered and eaten up every part except the stone. RURIS. + + + [2] "Sweet are the uses of Adversity, + Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, + Wears yet, a precious jewel in his head." + + + * * * * * + + +"THE MORNING STAR." + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Queen of celestial beauty! Morning Star! + Accept a humble bard's untut'red lay; + To him, thy loveliness, surpasseth far + The silv'ry moon, and eke the God of day. + The world with all its pride cannot display + A form so fair, so beautiful as thine; + Its glories fade, its proudest beauties die; + But you fair star! as first created shine, + In never fading immortality! + Like vice, from virtue's glance, yon clouds retire, + Before the smile of one benignant ray, + Sleepless and sad, my soul would fain aspire, + Promethean like, to snatch ethereal fire, + And draw relief from thee! bright harbinger of day! + + +JNO. JONES. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE SKETCH-BOOK + + * * * * * + + +SCHINDERHANNES, THE GERMAN ROBBER. + + +At the commencement of the French Revolution, and for some time after, +the two banks of the Rhine were the theatre of continual wars. Commerce +was interrupted, industry destroyed, the fields ravaged, and the barns +and cottages plundered; farmers and merchants became bankrupts, and +journeymen and labourers thieves. Robbery was the only mechanical art +which was worth pursuing, and the only exercises followed were assault +and battery. These enterprises were carried on at first by individuals +trading on their own capital of skill and courage; but when the French +laws came into more active operation in the seat of their exploits, +the desperadoes formed themselves, for mutual protection, into +copartnerships, which were the terror of the country. Men soon arose +among them whose talents, or prowess, attracted the confidence of +their comrades, and chiefs were elected, and laws and institutions +established. Different places of settlement were chosen by different +societies; the famous Pickard carried his band into Belgium and Holland; +while on the confines of Germany, where the wild provinces of Kirn, +Simmerm, and Birkenfield offered a congenial field, the banditti were +concentrated, whose last and most celebrated chief, the redoubted +Schinderhannes, is the subject of this brief notice. + +His predecessors, indeed, Finck, Peter the Black, Zughetto, and Seibert +were long before renowned among those who square their conduct by the +good old rule of clubs; they were brave men, and stout and pitiless +robbers. But Schinderhannes, the boldest of the bold, young, active +and subtle, converted the obscure exploits of banditti into the +comparatively magnificent ravages of "the outlaw and his men;" and +sometimes marched at the head of sixty or eighty of his troop to the +attack of whole villages. Devoted to pleasure, no fear ever crossed him +in its pursuit; he walked publicly with his mistress, a beautiful girl +of nineteen, in the very place which the evening before had been the +scene of one of his criminal exploits; he frequented the fairs and +taverns, which were crowded with his victims; and such was the terror +he had inspired, that these audacious exposures were made with perfect +impunity. Free, generous, handsome, and jovial, it may even be conceived +that sometime he gained the protection from love which could not have +been extorted by force. + +It is scarcely a wonder that with the admirable regulations of the +robbers, they should have succeeded even to so great an extent as they +did in that unsettled country. Not more than two or three of them were +allowed to reside in the same town or village; they were scattered over +the whole face of the district, and apparently connected with each other +only by some mysterious free-masonry of their craft. When a blow was +to be struck, a messenger was sent round by the chief to warn his +followers; and at the mustering place the united band rose up, like the +clan of Roderick Dhu from the heather, to disappear as suddenly again +in darkness when the object was accomplished. Their clothing, names and +nations were changed perpetually; a Jew broker at Cologne would figure +some days after at Aix-la-Chapelle or Spa as a German baron, or a Dutch +merchant, keeping open table, and playing a high game; and the next week +he might be met with in a forest at the head of his troop. Young and +beautiful women were always in their suite, who, particularly in the +task of obtaining or falsifying passports, did more by their address +than their lovers could have effected by their courage. Spies, +principally Jews, were employed throughout the whole country, to give +notice where a booty might be obtained. Spring and autumn were the +principal seasons of their harvest; in winter the roads were almost +impassable, and in summer the days were too long; the light of the moon, +in particular, was always avoided, and so were the betraying foot prints +in the snow. They seldom marched in a body to the place of attack, but +went thither two or three in a party, some on foot, some on horseback, +and some even in carriages. As soon as they had entered a village, their +first care was to muffle the church bell, so as to prevent an alarm +being rung; or to commence a heavy fire, to give the inhabitants an +exaggerated idea of their numbers, and impress them with the feeling +that it would be more prudent to stay at home than to venture out into +the fray. + +John Buckler, _alias_ Schinderhannes, the worthy whose youthful arm +wielded with such force a power constituted in this manner, was the son +of a currier, and born at Muhlen, near Nastoeten, on the right bank of +the Rhine. The family intended to emigrate to Poland, but on the way the +father entered the Imperial service at Olmutz, in Moravia. He deserted, +and his wife and child followed him to the frontiers of Prussia, and +subsequently the travellers took up their abode again in the environs +of the Rhine. + +At the age of fifteen, Schinderhannes commenced his career of crime by +spending a louis, with which he had been entrusted, in a tavern. Afraid +to return home, he wandered about the fields till hunger compelled him +to steal a horse, which he sold. Sheep stealing was his next vocation, +but in this he was caught and transferred to prison. He made his escape, +however, the first night, and returned in a very business-like manner to +receive two crowns which were due to him on account of the sheep he had +stolen. After being associated with the band as their chief, he went to +buy a piece of linen, but thinking, from the situation of the premises, +that it might be obtained without any exchange of coin on his part, he +returned the same evening, and stealing a ladder in the neighbourhood, +placed it at a window of the warehouse, and got in. A man was writing in +the interior, but the robber looked at him steadily, and shouldering his +booty, withdrew. He was taken a second time, but escaped as before on +the same night. + +His third escape was from a dark and damp vault in the prison of +Schneppenbach, where, having succeeded in penetrating to the kitchen, +he tore an iron bar from the window by main force, and leaped out at +hazard. He broke his leg in the fall, but finding a stick, managed +to drag himself along, in the course of three nights, to Birkenmuhl, +without a morsel of food, but on the contrary, having left some ounces +of skin and flesh of his own on the road. + +Marianne Schoeffer was the first avowed mistress of Schinderhannes. +She was a young girl of fourteen, of ravishing beauty, and always +"se mettait avec une élégance extreme." Blacken Klos, one of the band, +an unsuccessful suitor of the lady, one day, after meeting with a +repulse, out of revenge carried off her clothes. When the outrage was +communicated to Schinderhannes, he followed the ruffian to a cave where +he had concealed himself, and slew him. It was Julia Blaesius, however, +who became the permanent companion of the young chief. The account +given by her of the manner in which she was united to the destiny of the +robber is altogether improbable. A person came to her, she said, and +mentioned that somebody wished to speak to her in the forest of Dolbach; +she kept the assignation, and found there a handsome young man who told +her that she must follow him--an invitation which she was obliged at +length by threats to accede to. It appears sufficiently evident, +however, that the personal attractions of Schinderhannes, who was then +not twenty-two, had been sufficient of themselves to tempt poor Julia +to her fate, and that of her own accord + + + "She fled to the forest to hear a love tale." + + +It may be, indeed, as she affirmed, that she was at first ignorant of +the profession of her mysterious lover, who might address her somewhat +in the words of the Scottish free-booter-- + + + "A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien-- + A bonnet of the blue, + A doublet of the Lincoln green, + 'Twas all of me you knew." + + +But it is known that afterwards she even accompanied him personally in +some of his adventures dressed in men's clothes. + +The robberies of this noted chief became more audacious and extensive +every day, and at last he established a kind of "black mail" among the +Jews, at their own request. Accompanied one day by only two of his +comrades, he did not hesitate to attack a cavalcade of forty-five Jews +and five Christian peasants. The booty taken was only two bundles of +tobacco, the robbers returning some provisions on a remonstrance from +one of the Jews, who pleaded poverty. Schinderhannes then ordered them +to take off their shoes and stockings, which he threw into a heap, +leaving to every one the care of finding his own property. The affray +that ensued was tremendous; the forty-five Jews who had patiently +allowed themselves to be robbed by three men, fought furiously with each +other about their old shoes; and the robber, in contempt of their +cowardice, gave his carbine to one of them to hold while he looked on. + +His daring career at length drew to a close, and he and his companions +were arrested by the French authorities, and brought to trial. The +chief, with nineteen others, were condemned to death in November, 1803, +and Julia Blaesius to two years' imprisonment. The former met his fate +with characteristic intrepidity, occupied to the last moment with his +cares about Julia and his father.--_From the Foreign Quarterly +Review.--An excellent work_. + + * * * * * + + + + +RESTROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS. + + * * * * * + + +OLD MANSIONS. + + +We are in the habit of passing by our old stone manor houses without +knowing that they were important village fortresses, and substitutes for +castles. That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, for Margaret Paston, +writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw +and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis and wydses (windlasses to strain +cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows with square heads) for zr howsis her +ben low, yat yer may non man schet owt wt no long bowe." From hence we +learn that the service of the long bow was connected with elevation in +the building. + + * * * * * + + +LEGAL CRUSHING TO DEATH. + + +At the assizes in Sussex, August, 1735, a man who pretended to be dumb +and lame, was indicted for a barbarous murder and robbery. He had been +taken up upon suspicion, several spots of blood, and part of the +property being found upon him. When he was brought to the bar, he would +not speak or plead, though often urged to it, and the sentence to be +inflicted on such as stand mute, read to him, in vain. Four or five +persons in the court, swore that they had heard him speak, and the boy +who was his accomplice, and apprehended, was there to be a witness +against him; yet he continued mute; whereupon he was carried back to +Horsham gaol, to be pressed to death, if he would not plead--when they +laid on him 100 weight, then added 100 more, and he still continued +obstinate; they then added 100 more, which made 300 lb. weight, yet he +would not speak; 50 lb. more was added, when he was nearly dead, having +all the agonies of death upon him; then the executioner, who weighed +about 16 or 17 stone, laid down upon the board which was over him, and, +adding to the weight, killed him in an instant. G.K. + + * * * * * + + +LATE INSTRUCTION. + + +Socrates in his old age, learned to play upon a musical instrument. +Cato, aged 80, began to learn Greek; and Plutarch, in his old age, +acquired Latin. John Gelida, of Valentia, in Spain, did not begin the +study of _belles-lettres_, until he was 40 years old. + +Henry Spelman, having in his youth neglected the sciences, resumed them +at the age of 50, with extraordinary success. + +Fairfax, after having been the general of the parliamentary army in +England, went to Oxford, and took his degree as Doctor-of-Law. Colbert, +when minister, and almost 60 years of age, returned to his Latin and his +law, in a situation where the neglect of one, if not both, might have +been thought excusable; and Mons. Le Tellier, chancellor of France, +reverted to the learning of logic that he might dispute with his +grand-children. + +Sir John Davies, at the age of 25, produced a poem on "The Immortality +of the Soul," and in his 62nd year, as Mr. Thomas Campbell facetiously +observes, when a judge and a statesman, another on _dancing_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NOVELIST. + + * * * * * + + +ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. + + +[As Sir Walter Scott's new work has not reached us in time to enable us +to fill in the outline of the story in our present Number, we give a few +sketchy extracts, or portraits,--such as will increase the interest for +the appearance of the Narrative. + +There are some admirable specimens of Swiss scenery, which have the +effect of sublime painting: witness the following attempt of two +travellers, father and son, who with their guide, are bewildered in the +mountains by a sudden storm. The younger attempts to scale a broken path +on the side of the precipice:] + +Thus estimating the extent of his danger by the measure of sound sense +and reality, and supported by some degree of practice in such exercise, +the brave youth went forward on his awful journey, step by step, winning +his way with a caution, and fortitude, and presence of mind, which alone +could have saved him from instant destruction. At length he gained a +point where a projecting rock formed the angle of the precipice, so far +as it had been visible to him from the platform. This, therefore, was +the critical point of his undertaking; but it was also the most perilous +part of it. The rock projected more than six feet forward over the +torrent, which he heard raging at the depth of a hundred yards beneath, +with a noise like subterranean thunder. He examined the spot with the +utmost care, and was led by the existence of shrubs, grass, and even +stunted trees, to believe that this rock marked the farthest extent of +the slip, or slide of earth, and that, could he but round the angle of +which it was the termination, he might hope to attain the continuation +of the path which had been so strangely interrupted by this convulsion +of nature. But the crag jutted out so much as to afford no possibility +of passing either under or around it; and as it rose several feet above +the position which Arthur had attained, it was no easy matter to climb +over it. This was, however, the course which he chose, as the only mode +of surmounting what he hoped might prove the last obstacle to his voyage +of discovery. A projecting tree afforded him the means of raising and +swinging himself up to the top of the crag. But he had scarcely planted +himself on it, had scarcely a moment to congratulate himself, on seeing, +amid a wild chaos of cliffs and woods, the gloomy ruins of Geierstein, +with smoke arising, and indicating something like a human habitation +beside them, when, to his extreme terror, he felt the huge cliff on +which he stood tremble, stoop slowly forward, and gradually sink from +its position. Projecting as it was, and shaken as its equilibrium had +been by the recent earthquake, it lay now so insecurely poised, that its +balance was entirely destroyed, even by the addition of the young man's +weight. Aroused by the imminence of the danger, Arthur, by an +instinctive attempt at self-preservation, drew cautiously back from the +falling crag into the tree by which he had ascended, and turned his head +back as if spell-bound, to watch the descent of the fatal rock from +which he had just retreated. It tottered for two or three seconds, as if +uncertain which way to fall; and had it taken a sidelong direction, must +have dashed the adventurer from his place of refuge, or borne both the +tree and him headlong down into the river. After a moment of horrible +uncertainty, the power of gravitation determined a direct and forward +descent. Down went the huge fragment, which must have weighed at least +twenty tons, rending and splintering in its precipitate course the trees +and bushes which it encountered, and settling at length in the channel +of the torrent, with a din equal to the discharge of a hundred pieces of +artillery. The sound was re-echoed from bank to bank, from precipice to +precipice, with emulative thunders; nor was the tumult silent till it +rose into the region of eternal snows, which, equally insensible to +terrestrial sounds, and unfavourable to animal life, heard the roar in +their majestic solitude, but suffered it to die away without a +responsive voice. + +The solid rock had trembled and rent beneath his footsteps; and +although, by an effort rather mechanical than voluntary, he had +withdrawn himself from the instant ruin attending its descent, he felt +as if the better part of him, his firmness of mind and strength of body, +had been rent away with the descending rock, as it fell thundering, +with clouds of dust and smoke, into the torrents and whirlpools of the +vexed gulf beneath. In fact, the seaman swept from the deck of a wrecked +vessel, drenched in the waves, and battered against the rocks on +the shore, does not differ more from the same mariner, when, at the +commencement of the gale, he stood upon the deck of his favourite +ship, proud of her strength and his own dexterity, than Arthur, when +commencing his journey, from the same Arthur, while clinging to the +decayed trunk of an old tree, from which, suspended between heaven and +earth, he saw the fall of the crag which he had so nearly accompanied. +The effects of his terror, indeed, were physical as well as moral, for +a thousand colours played before his eyes; he was attacked by a sick +dizziness, and deprived at once of the obedience of those limbs which +had hitherto served him so admirably; his arms and hands, as if no +longer at his own command, now clung to the branches of the tree, with a +cramp-like tenacity, over which he seemed to possess no power, and now +trembled in a state of such complete nervous relaxation, as led him to +fear that they were becoming unable to support him longer in his +position. + +[We must leave the reader here, although in dire suspense--and we regret +to do so, because a beautiful incident follows--to give the following +exquisite sketch of the heroine--a Swiss maiden. We will endeavour to +connect these passages with our abridgment of the narrative.] + +An upper vest, neither so close as to display the person--a habit +forbidden by the sumptuary laws of the canton--nor so loose as to be an +encumbrance in walking or climbing, covered a close tunic of a different +colour, and came down beneath the middle of the leg, but suffered the +ancle, in all its fine proportions, to be completely visible. The foot +was defended by a sandal, the point of which was turned upwards, and the +crossings and knots of the strings which secured it on the front of the +leg were garnished with silver rings. The upper vest was gathered round +the middle by a sash of parti-coloured silk, ornamented with twisted +threads of gold; while the tunic, open at the throat, permitted the +shape and exquisite whiteness of a well-formed neck to be visible at the +collar, and for an inch or two beneath. The small portion of the throat +and bosom thus exposed was even more brilliantly fair than was promised +by the countenance, which last bore some marks of having been freely +exposed to the sun and air--by no means in a degree to diminish its +beauty, but just so far as to show that the maiden possessed the health +which is purchased by habits of rural exercise. Her long, fair hair fell +down in a profusion of curls on each side of a face whose blue eyes, +lovely features, and dignified simplicity of expression, implied at once +a character of gentleness, and of the self-relying resolution of a mind +too virtuous to suspect evil, and too noble to fear it. Above these +locks beauty's natural and most beseeming ornament--or rather, I should +say, amongst them--was placed the small bonnet, which, from its size, +little answered the purpose of protecting the head, but served to +exercise the ingenuity of the fair wearer, who had not failed, according +to the prevailing custom of the mountain maidens, to decorate the tiny +cap with a heron's feather, and the then unusual luxury of a small and +thin chain of gold, long enough to encircle the cap four or five times, +and having the ends secured under a broad medal of the same costly +metal. I have only to add, that the stature of the young person was +something above the common size, and that the whole contour of her form, +without being in the slightest degree masculine, resembled that of +Minerva, rather than the proud beauties of Juno, or the yielding graces +of Venus. The noble brow, the well-formed and active limbs, the firm and +yet light step; above all, the total absence of any thing resembling the +consciousness of personal beauty, and the open and candid look, which +seemed desirous of knowing nothing that was hidden, and conscious that +she herself had nothing to hide, were traits not unworthy of the goddess +of wisdom and of chastity. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_. + + * * * * * + + +FRENCH COOKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. + + +Monsieur Ude, who is, unquestionably, the prince of gastronomers, has +just published the tenth edition of his _French Cook_, of which, line +upon line, we may say, _Decies repelita placebit_; and Jarrin, the +celebrated _artiste en sucre_, has also revised his _Italian +Confectioner_, in a fourth edition. We should think both these works +must be the literary furniture of every good kitchen, or they ought +to be; for there is just enough of the science in them to make them +extremely useful, whilst all must allow them to be entertaining. + +A few years ago, Mrs. Glasse ruled the roast of cookery, and not a +stew was made without consulting her invaluable book. Whilst we were +embroiled in war, her instructions were standing orders, but with the +peace came a host of foreign luxuries and fashions, among these, +_Cookery from France_. Hence the French system became introduced into +the establishments of the wealthy of this country, to which may be +attributed the sale of nine editions of M. Ude's work; for it is +strictly what it professes to be, "A System of Fashionable and +Economical Cookery, adapted to the use of English Families." The tenth +edition, before us, is a bulky _tome_ of about 500 pages, with an +appendix of observations on the meals of the day; mode of giving suppers +at Routs and soirées, as practised when the author was in the employ of +Lord Sefton; and above all, a brief history of the rise and progress of +Cookery, from an admirable French treatise. This is literally the _sauce +piquante_ of the volume, and we serve a little to our readers:-- + +It appears that the science of Cookery was in a very inferior state +under the first and second race of the French kings. Gregory of Tours +has preserved the account of a repast of French warriors, at which, +in this refined age, we should be absolutely astounded. According to +Eginhard, Charlemagne lived poorly, and ate but little--however, this +trait of resemblance in Charlemagne and Napoleon, the modern Eginhards +have forgotten in their comparison of these two great men. Philippe le +Bel was hardly half an hour at table, and Francis I. thought more of +women than of eating and drinking; nevertheless, it was under this +gallant monarch that the science of gastronomy took rise in France. + +Few have heard the name of Gonthier d'Andernach. What Bacon was to +philosophy, Dante and Petrarch to poetry, Michael Angelo and Raphael +to painting, Columbus and Gama to geography, Copernicus and Galileo to +astronomy, Gonthier was in France to the art of cookery. Before him, +their code of eating was formed only of loose scraps picked up here and +there; the names of dishes were strange and barbarous, like the dishes +themselves. + +Gonthier is the father of cookery, as Descartes, of French philosophy. +It is said that Gonthier, in less than ten years, invented seven +cullises, nine ragoûts, thirty-one sauces, and twenty-one soups. + +A woman opened the gates of an enlightened age; it was Catherine, the +daughter of the celebrated Lorenzo de Medici, niece of Leo the Tenth, +then in all the bloom of beauty. Accompanied by a troop of perfumers, +painters, astrologers, poets, and cooks, she crossed the Alps, and +whilst Bullan planned the Tuileries, Berini recovered from oblivion +those sauces which, for many ages, had been lost. Endowed with all the +gifts of fortune, the mother and the wife of kings, nature had also +gifted her with a palate, whose intuitive sensibility seldom falls to +the lot of sovereigns. In consequence of which, after having driven +before her this troop of male and female soothsayers, who pretended to +foretel the future, she consulted her _maître d'hôtel_, about some roast +meat brought from luxurious Florence; and dipped in a rich sauce the +same hand that held the reins of the empire, and which Roussard compared +to the rosy fingers of Aurora! Let the foolish vulgar laugh at the +importance which the queen-mother seems to place in the art of cooking; +but they have not considered that it is at table, in the midst of the +fumes of Burgundy, and the savoury odour of rich dishes, that she +meditated the means of quelling a dangerous faction, or the destruction +of a man, who disturbed her repose. It was during dinner she had an +interview with the Duke of Alba, with whom she resolved on the massacre +of St. Bartholomew. + +Not long after the massacre of St. Bartholomew the throne was occupied +by Henry de Valois, brother to Charles the Ninth, and son of Catherine. +He was a prince of good appetite, a lover of wine and good cheer, +qualities which his mother had carefully fostered and cultivated, that +she alone might hold the reigns of government. Henry de Valois spent +whole days at table, and the constellations of the kitchen shone with +the greatest splendour under this gourmand king. We date from the +beginning of his reign the invention of the fricandeau, generally +attributed to a Swiss. Now the fricandeau having its Columbus, its +discovery appears not more wonderful than that of America, and yet +it required _une grande force de tête_. + +Though we acknowledge the immense influence this monarch had over +cookery, we must not conceal that he brought in fashion aromatic sauces, +tough macaroni, cullises, and brown sauces calcined by a process like +that of roasted coffee. These sauces gave the dishes a corrosive +acidity, and as Jourdan le Cointe remarks, far from nourishing the body, +communicated to it a feverish sensation, which baffled all the skill of +physicians, in their attempts to cure it. They were positive poisons +which the Italians had introduced into France, a taste for which spread +through every class of society. + +Under the reign of Henry III. a taste for warm drinks was joined to +that of spicy dishes. Hippocrates recommends hot water in fevers, +Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in loathings, Aetius +in strangury,--whence we conclude that warm water, having so many +different qualities, must have been a very useful article at table, had +it only been to assist digestion, considering that people ate copiously +in the reign of the Valois. They made not one single repast without a +jug full of hot water, and even wine was drunk lukewarm. + +If the poor have preserved the memory of Henry IV., we cannot say as +much of his cooks. That monarch did nothing for them;--either Nature +had not endowed him with a good appetite, (for what prince ever was +perfect,) or he looked upon them, as, in the last century, we looked +upon soups, as things of hardly any use; but in return they also did +nothing for him. + +It is very remarkable, that in France, where there is but one religion, +the sauces are infinitely varied, whilst in England, where the different +sects are innumerable, there is, we may say, but one single sauce. +Melted butter, in English cookery, plays nearly the same part as the +Lord Mayor's coach at civic ceremonies, calomel in modern medicine, or +silver forks in the fashionable novels. Melted butter and anchovies, +melted butter and capers, melted butter and parsley, melted butter and +eggs, and melted butter for ever: this is a sample of the national +cookery of this country. We may date the art of making sauces from the +age of Louis XIV. Under Louis XIII. meat was either roasted or broiled: +every baker had a stove where the citizen, as well as the great lord, +sent his meat to be dressed; but, by degrees, they began to feel the +necessity of sauces. + +It appears that the great wits of the age of Louis XIV. had not that +contempt for cookery which some idealists of our days affect to have. +Boileau has described a bad repast like a man who has often seen better; +he liked the pleasures of the table, which have never been incompatible +with the gifts of genius, or the investigations of the understanding. "I +cannot conceive," says Doctor Johnson, "the folly of those, who, when at +table, think of every thing but eating; for my part, when I am there I +think of nothing else; and whosoever does not trouble himself with this +important affair at dinner, or supper, will do no good at any other +time." Boswell affirms that he never knew a man who dispatched a dinner +better than the great moralist. But what avails it to defend cooks and +gourmands? It is an axiom in political economy, according to Malthus, +that _he who makes two blades of grass grow, where before there was but +one, ought to be considered as the benefactor of his country, and of +mankind_. Is not this a service which the epicure and the cook every day +do their country? Addison thought differently from Johnson on this +subject: "Every time," says he, "that I see a splendid dinner, I fancy +fever, gout, and dropsy, are lying in ambush for me, with the whole race +of maladies which attack mankind: in my opinion an epicure is a fool." +What does this blustering of Addison prove? Boswell also asserts, that +Addison often complained of indigestion. And in the present times, the +first chemist of the day, Sir Humphry Davy, passes for a finished +gourmand. + +Roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, do not alone constitute the arc of +cooking, otherwise the savage of the Oronoco might be _maître d'hôtel_ +with Prince Esterhazy. + +The science of gastronomy made great progress under Louis XV., a +brilliant epoch for the literature of gastronomy: together with the +fashions, customs, freedom of opinion, and taste for equipages and +horses brought from Great Britain--some new dishes taken from the +culinary code of this country, such as puddings and beef-steaks, were +also introduced into France. Thanks to the increasing progress and +discoveries in chemistry, and to the genius of our artists, the art of +cookery rose to the greatest height towards the end of the last century. +What a famous age was that of Mezelier, l'Asne, Jouvent, Richaud, Chaud, +and Robert. + +History will never forget that great man, who aspired to all kinds +of glory, and would have been, if he had wished, as great a cook as +he was a statesman--I mean the Prince de Talleyrand, who rekindled the +sacred flame in France. The first clouds of smoke, which announced the +resurrection of the science of cookery in the capital, appeared from +the kitchen of an ancient bishop. + +A revolution like the French, which presented to their eyes such +terrible spectacles, must have left some traces in their physical or +intellectual constitution. At the end of this bloody drama, the mind, +bewildered by the late dreadful scenes, was unable to feel those sweet +and peaceable emotions, in which it had formerly delighted; as the +palate, having long been at rest, and now become blunted, must require +high-seasoned dishes, to excite an appetite. The reign of the Directory, +therefore is that of Romances à la Radcliffe, as well as of Sauces à la +Provençale. Fortunately, the eighth of Brumaire pulled down the five +Directors, together with their saucepans. + +Under the Consulship, and during the empire, the art of cooking, thanks +to the labours of Beauvilliers, Balaine, and other artists, made new and +remarkable improvements. Among the promoters of the gastric science, the +name of a simple amateur makes a distinguished figure--it is Grisnod +de la Reynière, whose almanac the late Duke of York called the most +delightful book that ever issued from the press. We may affirm, that the +_Almanach des Gourmands_ made a complete revolution in the language and +usages of the country. + +We are yet too near the restoration to determine the degree of influence +it had on cookery in France. The restoration has introduced into +monarchy the representative forms friendly to epicurism, and in this +respect it is a true blessing--a new era opened _to those_ who are +hungry. + +M. Jarrin's fourth edition contains upwards of 500 receipts in Italian +confectionery, with plates of improvements, &c. like a cyclopaedian +treatise on mechanics; and when our readers know there are "seven +essential degrees of boiling sugar," they will pardon the details of the +business of this volume. The "degrees" are--1. _Le lissé_, or thread, +large or small; 2. _Le perlé_, or pearl, _le soufflet_, or blow; 4. _La +plume_, the feather; 5. _Le boulet_, the ball, large or small; 6. _Le +cassé_, the crack; and, 7. the _caramel_. So complete is M. Jarrin's +system of confectionery, that he is "independent of every other artist;" +for he even explains engraving on steel and on wood. What a host of +disappointments this must prevent! + +If we look further into, or "drink deep" of the art of confectionery, +we shall find it to be a perfect Microcosm--a little creation; for our +artist talks familiarly of "producing picturesque scenery, with trees, +lakes, rocks, &c.; gum paste, and modelling flowers, animals, figures, +&c." with astonishing mimic strife. We must abridge one of these +receipts for a "_Rock Piece Montée_ in a lake." + +"Roll out confectionery paste, the size of the dish intended to receive +it; put into a mould representing your _pond_ a lining of almond paste, +coloured pale pink, and place in the centre a sort of pedestal of almond +paste, supported by lumps of the same paste baked; when dry put it into +the stove. Prepare _syrup_ to fill the hollow of the _lake_, to +represent the _water_; having previously modelled in gum paste little +_swans_, place them in various parts of the _syrup_; put it into the +stove for three hours, then make a small hole through the paste, under +your _lake_, to drain off the syrup; a crust will remain with the +_swans_ fixed in it, representing the _water_. Next build the _rock_ on +the pedestal with rock sugar, biscuits, and other appropriate articles +in sugar, fixed to one another, supported by the confectionery paste you +have put in the middle, the whole being cemented together with caramel, +and ornamented. The moulding and heads should then be pushed in almond +paste, coloured red; the _cascades_ and other ornaments must be _spun in +sugar_." + +These are, indeed, romantic secrets. Spinning nets and cages with sugar +is another fine display of confectionery skill--we say nothing of the +nets and cages which our fair friends are sometimes spinning--for the +sugar compared with their bonds--are weak as the cords of the +Philistines. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NATURALIST. + + * * * * * + + +ROOKS. + + +We glean the following interesting facts from the _Essex Herald_, as +they merit the record of a _Naturalist_. + +"The voracious habits of the rook, and the vast increase of these birds +of late years in certain parts of Essex, has been productive of great +mischief, especially in the vicinity of Writtle and of Waltham. Since +February last, notwithstanding a vigilant watch, the rooks have stolen +sets of potatoes from a considerable breadth of ground at Widford Hall. +On the same farm, during the sowing of a field of 16 acres with peas, +the number of rooks seen at one time on its surface has been estimated +at 1,000, which is accounted for by there being a preserve near, which, +at a moderate computation, contains 1,000 nests. But the damage done by +rooks at Navestock and Kelvedon Hatch, and their vicinities, within a +small circle, has been estimated at £2,000. annually. Many farmers pay +from 8_s_. to 10_s_. per week, to preserve their seed and plants by +watching; but notwithstanding such precautions, acre after acre of +beans, when in leaf and clear from the soil, have been pulled up, and +the crop lost. The late hurricane proved some interruption to their +breeding; and particularly at the estate of Lord Waldegrave, at +Navestock, where the young ones were thrown from their nests, and were +found under trees in myriads; the very nests blown down, it is said, +would have furnished the poor with fuel for a short period." + +The writer attributes this alarming increase of rooks to "a desire on +the part of gentlemen to cause them to be preserved with the same +watchfulness they do their game." The most effectual means of deterring +the rook from their depredations, is, he says, "to obtain several of +these birds at a period of the year when they can be more easily taken; +then cut them open, and preserve them by salt. In the spring, during the +seed time, these rooks are to be fastened down to the ground with their +wings spread, and their mouths extended by a pebble, as if in great +torture. This plan has been found so effectual, that even in the +vicinity of large preserves, the fields where the dead birds have been +so placed, have not been visited by a single rook." + +The scarcity of the rook in France, and the antipathy which the French +have to that bird is thus accounted for:-- + +"The fact has been often related by a very respectable Catholic Priest, +who resided many years at Chipping-hill, in Witham, that such was the +arbitrary conduct of the owners of abbeys and monasteries in France, in +preserving and cultivating the rook and the pigeon, that they increased +to such numbers as to become so great a pest, as to destroy the seed +when sown, and the young plants as soon as they appeared above the +ground; insomuch, that the farmer, despairing of a reward for his +labour, besides the loss of his seed, the fields were left barren, and +the supply of bread corn was, in consequence, insufficient to meet the +necessities of so rapidly increasing a people. The father of the +gentleman to whom we have alluded, was, for this offence, one of the +first victims to his imprudence. The revolutionary mob proceeded to his +residence, from whence they took him, and hung his body upon a gibbet; +they next proceeded to destroy the rooks and pigeons which he had +cultivated in great numbers, and strived to preserve with the same +tenacity as others do in this country. We are told by the son of this +martyr to his own folly, that the mob continued to shoot the birds +amidst the loudest acclamations, and that they exulted in the idea that +in each victim they witnessed the fall of an aristocrat." + + * * * * * + + +THE BANANA TREE. + + +The amount and rapidity of produce of this plant probably exceed that of +any other in the known world. In eight or nine months after the sucker +has been planted, clusters of fruit are formed; and in about two months +more they may be gathered. The stem is then cut down, and a fresh plant, +about two-thirds of the height of the parent stem, succeeds, and bears +fruit in about three months more. The only care necessary is to dig once +or twice a year round the roots. According to our author, on 1,076 +square feet, from 30 to 40 banana trees may be planted in Mexico, which +will yield in the space of the year 4,414 lbs. avoirdupois of fruit; +while the same space would yield only 33 lbs. avoirdupois of wheat, and +99 of potatoes. The immediate effect of this facility of supplying the +wants of nature is, that the man who can, by labouring two days in the +week, maintain himself and family, will devote the remaining five to +idleness or dissipation. The same regions that produce the banana, also +yield the two species of manioc, the bitter and the sweet: both of which +appear to have been cultivated before the conquest.--_Foreign Quarterly +Review._ + + * * * * * + + +INDIAN CORN. + + +The most valuable article in South American agriculture, is +unquestionably the maize, or Indian corn, which is cultivated with +nearly uniform success in every part of the republic. It appears to +be a true American grain, notwithstanding many crude conjectures to +the contrary. Sometimes it has been known to yield, in hot and humid +regions, 800 fold; fertile lands return from 300 to 400; and a return of +130 to 150 fold is considered bad--the least fertile soils giving 60 to +80. The maize forms the great bulk of food of the inhabitants, as well +as of the domestic animals; hence the dreadful consequences of a failure +of this crop. It is eaten either in the form of unfermented bread or +_tortillas_ (a sort of bannock, as it is called in Scotland;) and, +reduced to flour, is mingled with water, forming either _atolle_ or +various kinds of _chicha_. Maize will yield, in very favourable +situations, two or three crops per year; though it is but seldom that +more than one is gathered. + +The introduction of wheat is said to have been owing to the accidental +discovery, by a negro slave of Cortez, of three or four grains, among +some rice which had been issued to the soldiers. About the year 1530, +these grains were sown; and from this insignificant source has flowed +all the enormous produce of the upper lands of Mexico. Water is the only +element necessary to ensure success to the Mexican wheat grower; but it +is very difficult to attain this--and irrigation affords the most steady +supply. + +_Ibid._ + + * * * * * + + +THE AGAVE AMERICANA. + + +On Maguey, is an object of great value in the table land of the interior +of Mexico; from this plant is obtained the favourite liquor, the +_pulque_. At the moment of efflorescence, the flower stalk is +extirpated, and the juice destined to form the fruit flows into the +cavity thus produced, and is taken out two or three times a day for four +or five months; each day's produce is fermented for ten or fifteen days; +after which the _pulque_ is fit to drink, and before it has travelled in +skins, it is a very pleasant, refreshing liquor, to which the Mexicans +ascribe as many good qualities as the Highlander does to whiskey. The +stems of the _maguey_ can supply the place of hemp, and may be converted +into paper. The prickles too are used as pins by the Indians.--_Ibid_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + + * * * * * + + +DOCTOR PARR. + +_Concluded from page 334_. + + +Parr was evidently fond of living in troubled waters; accordingly, on +his removal to Colchester, he got into a quarrel with the trustees of +the school on the subject of a lease. He printed a pamphlet about it, +which he never published; restrained perhaps by the remarks of Sir +W. Jones, who constantly noted the pages submitted to him, with "too +violent," "too strong;" and probably thought the whole affair a battle +of kites and crows, which Parr had swelled into importance; or, it might +be, he suppressed it, influenced by the prospect of succeeding to +Norwich school, for which he was now a candidate, and by the shrewd +observation of Dr. Foster, "that Norwich might be touched by a fellow +feeling for Colchester; and the crape-makers of the one place sympathize +with the bag-makers of the other." If the latter consideration weighed +with him, it was the first and last time that any such consideration +did, Parr being apparently of the opinion of John Wesley, that there +could be no fitter subject for a Christian man's prayers, than that he +might be delivered from what the world calls "prudence." However it +happened, the pamphlet was withheld, and Parr was elected to the school +at Norwich. + +At Norwich, Parr ventured on his first publications, and obtained his +first preferment. The publications consisted of a sermon on "The Truth +of Christianity," "A Discourse on Education," and "A Discourse on the +Late Fast;" the last of which opens with a mistake singular in Parr, +who confounds the sedition of Judas Gaulonitis, mentioned in Josephus, +(_Antiq_. xviii. 1. 1.) with that under Pilate, mentioned in St. Luke, +(xiii. 1, 2, 3.); whereas the former probably preceded the latter by +twenty years, or nearly. The preferment which he gained was the living +of Asterby, presented to him by Lady Jane Trafford, the mother of one of +his pupils; which, in 1783, he exchanged for the perpetual curacy of +Hatton, in Warwickshire, the same lady being still his patron neither +was of much value. Lord Dartmouth, whose sons had also been under his +care, endeavoured to procure something for him from Lord Thurlow, but +the chancellor is reported to have said "No," with an oath. The great +and good Bishop Lowth, however, at the request of the same nobleman, +gave him a prebend in St. Paul's, which, though a trifle at the time, +eventually became, on the expiration of leases, a source of affluence to +Parr in his old age. How far he was from such a condition at this period +of his life, is seen by the following incident given by Mr. Field. The +doctor was one day in this gentleman's library, when his eye was caught +by the title of "Stephens' Greek Thesaurus." Suddenly turning about and +striking vehemently the arm of Mr. Field, whom he addressed in a manner +very usual with him; he said, "Ah! my friend, my friend, may you never +be forced, as I was at Norwich, to sell that work, to me so precious, +from absolute and urgent necessity." + +But we must on with the Doctor in his career. In 1785, for some reason +unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at Norwich, and in +the year following went to reside at Hatton. "I have an excellent house, +(he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, and a Poor, ignorant, +dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond all example. _I like +Warwickshire very much_. I have made great regulations, viz. bells chime +three times as long; Athanasian creed; communion service at the altar; +swearing act; children catechized first Sunday in the month; private +baptisms discouraged; public performed after second lesson; recovered a +100_l_. a year left the poor, with interest amounting to 115_l_., all of +which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining all +the charities." + +Here Warwickshire pleases Parr; but Parr's taste in this, and in many +other matters, (as we shall have occasion to show by and by,) was +subject to change. He soon, therefore, becomes convinced of the superior +intellect of the men of Norfolk. He finds Warwickshire, the Boeotia of +England, two centuries behind in civilization. He is anxious, however, +to be in the commission of the peace for this ill-fated county, and +applies to Lord Hertford, then Lord Lieutenant; but the application +fails; and again, on a subsequent occasion, to Lord Warwick, and again +he is disappointed. What motives operated upon their lordships' minds +to his exclusion, they did not think it necessary to avow. + +Providence has so obviously drawn a circle about every man, within +which, for the most part, he is compelled to walk, by furnishing him +with natural affections, evidently intended to fasten upon individuals; +by urging demands upon him which the very preservation of himself and +those about him compels him to listen to; by withholding from him any +considerable knowledge of what is distant, and hereby proclaiming that +his more proper sphere lies in what is near;--by compassing, him about +with physical obstacles, with mountains, with rivers, with seas +"dissociable," with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; +that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be +resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his +first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence +of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care +to the whole circuit of the city walls. + +The close of Parr's life grew brighter, The increased value of his stall +at St. Paul's set him abundantly at his ease: he can even indulge his +love of pomp--_ardetque cupidine currûs_, he encumbers himself with a +coach and four. In 1816, he married a second wife, Miss Eyre, the sister +of his friend the Rev. James Eyre; he became reconciled to his two +grand-daughters, now grown up to woman's estate; he received them into +his family, and kept them as his own, till one of them became the wife +of the Rev. John Lynes. + +In the latter years of his life, Parr had been subject to erysipelas; +once he had suffered by a carbuncle, and once by a mortification in the +hand. Owing to this tendency to diseased action in the skin, he was +easily affected by cold, and on Sunday, the 16th of January, 1825, +having, in addition to the usual duties of the day, buried a corpse, +he was, on the following night, seized with a long-continued rigor, +attended by fever and delirium, and never effectually rallied again. +There is a note, however, dated November 2, 1824, addressed by him to +Archdeacon Butler, which proves that he felt his end approaching, even +before this crisis. + +"Dear and Learned Namesake,--This letter is important, and strictly +confidential. I have given J. Lynes minute and plenary directions for my +funeral. I desire you, if you can, to preach a short, unadorned funeral +sermon. Rann Kennedy is to read the lesson and grave service, though I +could wish you to read the grave service also. Say little of me, but you +are sure to say it _well_." + +Dr. Butler complied with his request, and amply made good the opinion +here expressed. He spoke of him like a warm and stedfast friend, but not +like that worst of enemies, an indiscreet one; he did not challenge a +scrutiny by the extravagance of his praise, nor break, by his precious +balms, the head he was most anxious to honour. Dr. Parr's death was +tedious, and his faculties, except at intervals, disturbed. He took +an opportunity, however, afforded him by one of these intervals, of +summoning about his bed his wife, grand-children, and servants; +confessed to them his weaknesses and errors, asked their forgiveness for +any pain he might have caused them by petulance and haste, and professed +"his trust in God, through Christ, for the pardon of his sins." One +expression, which Dr. Johnstone reports him to have used on this +occasion, is extraordinary--that "from the beginning of his life he was +not conscious of having fallen into a crime." Far be it from us to +scrutinize the words of a delirious death-bed--These must have been +uttered (if, indeed, they are accurately given) either in some peculiar +and very limited sense, or else at a moment when a man is no longer +accountable to God for what he utters. The latter was, probably, the +case: for in the same breath in which he declares "his life, even his +early life, to have been pure," he sues for pardon at the hands of his +Maker, and acknowledges a Redeemer, as the instrument through which he +is to obtain it. + +That quickness of feeling and disposition to abandon himself to +its guidance, which made Parr an inconsistent man, made him also a +benevolent one. Benevolence he loved as a subject for his contemplation, +and the practical extension of it as a rule for his conduct. He could +scarcely bear to regard the Deity under any other aspect. He would have +children taught, in the first instance, to regard him under that aspect +alone; simply as a being who displayed infinite goodness in the +creation, in the government, and in the redemption of the world. +Language itself indicates, that the whole system of moral rectitude is +comprised in it--_[Greek: energetein], benefacere_, beneficencethe +generic term being, in common parlance, emphatically restricted to works +of charity. Nor was this mere theory in Parr. Most men who have been +economical from necessity in their youth, continue to be so, from habit, +in their age--but Parr's hand was ever open as day. Poverty had vexed, +but had never contracted his spirit; money he despised, except as it +gave him power--power to ride in his state coach, to throw wide his +doors to hospitality, to load his table with plate, and his shelves with +learning; power to adorn his church with chandeliers and painted +windows; to make glad the cottages of his poor; to grant a loan, to a +tottering farmer; to rescue from want a forlorn patriot, or a thriftless +scholar. Whether misfortune, or mismanagement, or folly, or vice, had +brought its victim low, his want was a passport to Parr's pity, and the +dew of his bounty fell alike upon the evil and the good, upon the just +and the unjust. It is told of Boerhaave, that, whenever he saw a +criminal led out to execution, he would say, "May not this man be better +than I? If otherwise, the praise is due, not to me, but to the grace of +God." Parr quotes the saying with applause. Such, we doubt not, would +have been his own feelings on such an occasion.--_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE GATHERER + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. +SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + + +SONG FROM THE ITALIAN OF P. ROLLI. + + + Babbling current, would you know + Why I turn to thee again, + 'Tis to find relief from woe, + Respite short from ceaseless pain. + + I and Sylvio on a day + Were upon thy bank reclin'd, + When dear Sylvio swore to me, + And thus spoke in accents kind: + + First this flowing tide shall turn + Backward to its fountain head, + Dearest nymph, ere thou shall mourn, + Thy too easy faith betray'd. + + Babbling current, backward turn, + Hide thee in thy fountain head; + For alas, I'm left to mourn + My too easy faith betray'd. + + Love and life pursu'd the swain, + Both must have the self-same date, + But mine only he could mean, + Since his love is turn'd to hate. + + Sure some fairer nymph than I, + From me lures the lovely youth, + Haply she receives like me, + Vows of everlasting truth. + + Babbling current should the fair + Stop to listen on thy shore, + Bid her, Sylvio, to beware, + Love and truth he oft had sworn. + +T.H. + + * * * * * + + +THE SPRING AND THE MORNING, + +_A Ballad._ + + + _Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart._ + _Inscribed to Miss Foote_. + + When the frosts of the Winter, in mildness were ending, + To April I gave half the welcome of May; + While the Spring, fresh in youth, came delightfully blending + The buds that are sweet, and the songs that are gay. + As the eyes fixed the heart on a vision so fair, + Not doubting, but trusting what magic was there; + Aloud I exclaim'd, with augmented desire, + I thought 'twas the Spring, when In truth, 'tis Maria. + + When the fading of stars, in the regions of splendour, + Announc'd that the morning was young in the East, + On the upland I rov'd, admiration to render, + Where freshness, and beauty, and lustre increas'd. + Whilst the beams of the morning new pleasures bestow'd, + While fondly I gaz'd, while with rapture I glow'd; + In sweetness commanding, in elegance bright, + Maria arose! a more beautiful light! + +_Gentleman's Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + +UNEXPECTED REPROOF. + + +The celebrated scholar, Muretus, was taken ill upon the road as he was +travelling from Paris to Lyons, and as his appearance was not much in +his favour, he was carried to an hospital. Two physicians attended him, +and his disease not being a very common one, they thought it right to +try something new, and out of the usual road of practice, upon him. +One of them, not knowing that their patient knew Latin, said in that +language to the other, "We may surely venture to try an experiment upon +the body of so mean a man as our patient is." "Mean, sir!" replied +Muretus, in Latin, to their astonishment, "can you pretend to call any +man so, sir, for whom the Saviour of the world did not think it beneath +him to die?" + +IRELAND. + +The following is the territorial surface of Ireland:-- + + Acres. + + Arable land, gardens, meadows, pastures, and marshes 12,125,280 + + Uncultivated lands, and bogs capable of improvement ... 4,900,000 + + Surface incapable of any kind of improvement[3]........ 2,416,664 + __________ + Total of acres 19,441,944 + + + [3] Parliamentary Report. + + * * * * * + + +ROUGE ET NOIR. + + + When jovial Barras was the Monarch of France, + And its women all lived in the light of his glance, + One eve, when tall Tallien and plump Josephine + Were trying the question, of which should be Queen, + Dame Josephine hung on one side of his chair, + With her West Indian bosom as brown as 'twas bare; + Dame Tallien as fondly on t'other side hung, + With a blush that might burn up the spot where she clung. + Old Sieyes stalked in; saw my lord at his wine, + Now toasting the copper-skin, now the carmine; + Then starting away, cried, "Barras, _le bon soir_; + 'Twas for business _I_ came; I leave _you Rouge et Noir_." + + * * * * * + + +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. 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This theatre was +in Golden Lane, Barbican, and was built by that celebrated and +benevolent actor Edward Alleyn, the pious founder of Dulwich +College, in 1599. It was burnt in 1624, but rebuilt in 1629. A +story is told of a large treasure being found in digging for the +foundation, and it is probable that the whole sum fell to Alleyn. +Upon equal probability, is the derivation of the name "The +Fortune." The theatre was a spacious brick building, and exhibited +the royal arms in plaster on its front. These are retained in the +Engraving; where the disposal of the lower part on the building +into shops, &c. is a sorry picture of the "base purposes" to +which a temple of the Drama has been converted.</p> +<p>According to the testimony of Ben Jonson and others, Alleyn was +the first actor of his time, and of course played leading +characters in the plays of Shakspeare and Jonson. He was probably +the Kemble of his day, for his biographers tell us such was his +celebrity, that he drew crowds of spectators after him wherever he +performed; so that possessing some private patrimony, with a +careful and provident disposition, he soon became master of an +establishment of his own—and this was the <i>Fortune</i>. +Although Alleyn left behind him a large sum, it is hardly probable +that he made it here; for in his diary, which, we believe is +extant, he records that he once had so slender an audience, that +the whole receipts of the house amounted to no more than three +pounds and a few odd shillings—a sum which would not pay the +expenses; for it appears by the MS. of Lord Stanhope, treasurer to +James I. that the customary sum paid for the performance of a play +at court, was 20 nobles, or 6l. 12s. 4d.<a id="footnotetag1" + href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> Alleyn was likewise + proprietor of the Blackfriars' Theatre, near what is still + called Playhouse Yard. However he might have gathered laurels on + the stage, he must have gained his fortune by other means. He + was keeper of the King's Bear Garden and Menagerie, which were + frequented by thousands, and produced Alleyn, the then great sum + of <span class="pagenum"><a id="page338" name="page338"></a>[pg + 338]</span> 500<i>l</i>. per annum. He was also thrice married, + and received portions with his two first wives; and we need not + insist upon the turn which matrimony gives to a man's + fortune.</p> +<p>Among the theatrico-antiquarian gossip of <i>The Fortune</i> is, +that it was once the nursery for Henry VIII.'s children—but +"no scandal about the"—we hope.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>FINE ARTS</h2> +<h3>EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.</h3> +<p>All men are critics, in a greater or less degree. They can +generalize upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they +cannot point out the details of the defects, or in what the beauty +of a picture consists; and to prove this, only let the reader visit +the Exhibition at Somerset House, and watch the little critical +<i>coteries</i> that collect round the most attractive paintings. +Could all these criticisms be embodied, but in "terms of art," what +a fine lecture would they make for the Royal Academy.</p> +<p>Our discursive notice would, probably, contribute but little to +this joint-stock production; but as even comparing notes is not +always unprofitable, we venture to give our own.</p> +<p>The present Exhibition is much superior to that of last year. +There are more works of imagination, and consequently greater +attractions for the lover of painting; for life-breathing as have +been many of the portraits in recent exhibitions, the interest +which they created was of quite a different nature to that which we +take in not a few of the pictures of the present collection. +Portraits still superabound, and finely painted portraits too; but, +strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in the present +than in any recent exhibition.</p> +<p>But the <i>elite</i> are seven pictures by Mr. Wilkie, who has +reappeared, as it were, in British art, after an absence from +England; during which he appears to have studied manners and +costume with beautiful effect; and the paintings to which we +allude, are triumphant proofs of his success. They are embodiments +or realizations of character, manners, and scenery, with which the +painter has been wont to mix, and thus to transfer them to his +canvass with vividness and fidelity—merits of the highest +order in all successes of art. We shall touch upon these pictures +in our ramble through the rooms—</p> +<p>4. <i>Subject from the Revelations</i>.—F. Danby—A +sublime composition.</p> +<p>10. <i>The Fountain</i>: morning.—A.W. Callcott. A +delightful picture.</p> +<p>14. <i>Rubens and the Philosopher</i>.—G. Clint. The +anecdote of Rubens and Brondel, the alchemist, remarkably well +told.</p> +<p>16. <i>Benaiah</i>.—W. Etty—The line in 2 Samuel +xxiii. 20., "he slew two lion-like men of Moab," has furnished Mr. +Etty with the subject of this picture. It is a surprising rather +than a pleasing composition; but the strength of colouring is very +extraordinary. The disproportions of parts of the principal figure +will, however, be recognised by the most casual beholder: although +as a fine display of muscular energy, this picture is truly +valuable, and is a proud specimen of the powerful genius of the +painter.</p> +<p>28. <i>Waterfall near Vatlagunta, in the peninsula of India, in +the mountains that divide the Coasts of Coromandel and Malabar: its +height between 500 and 600 feet</i>.—W. Daniell.—The +sublime and stupendous character of the scenery will enable the +reader to form some idea of the difficulty with which the artist +had to contend.</p> +<p>43. <i>The Lady in St. Swithin's Chair</i> from vol. i. +Waverley.—Sir W. Beechey.—We confess ourselves far from +pleased with this picture. There is a want of freedom in it which +is any thing but characteristic of the incident which it is +intended to portray.</p> +<p>56. <i>The Spanish Posado</i>.—D. Wilkie.—We must +describe this picture in the words of the catalogue:—</p> +<p>This represents a Guerrilla council of war, at which three +reverend fathers—a Dominican, a monk of the Escurial, and a +Jesuit, are deliberating on some expedient of national defence, +with an emissary in the costume of Valencia. Behind them is the +posadera, or landlady, serving her guests with chocolate, and the +begging student of Salamanca, with his lexicon and cigar, making +love to her. On the right of the picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa +enters, upon his mule, and in front of him is an athletic Castilian +armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a Spanish guitar. On the floor +are seated the goatherd and his sister, with the muzzled house-dog +and pet lamb of the family, and through the open portal in the +background is a distant view of the Guadarama mountains—It is +next to impossible for us to do justice to the diversified +character of this picture. The deliberation of the fathers, and the +little bit of episode between the landlady and student are +extremely interesting.</p> +<h4>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</h4> +<hr> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page339" name="page339"></a>[pg +339]</span></p> +<h3>SPITTLE-FIELDS, AND WEAVING IN FORMER DAYS.</h3> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>Stowe says, "On the east side of the churchyard of St. Mary +Spittle, lyeth a large field, of old time called <i>Lolesworth</i>, +now <i>Spittle-Field</i>, which about the year 1576, was broken up +for clay to make bricke; in digging thereof many earthen pots +called urnae, were found full of ashes and the bones of men, to wit +of the Romans that inhabited here. For it was the custom of the +Romans to burne their dead, to put their ashes in an urne, and then +bury the same with certain ceremonies, in some field appointed for +the purpose neere unto their city. Every one of these pots had in +them (with the ashes of the dead) one piece of copper money, with +an inscription of the emperor then reigning. Some of them were of +Claudius, some of Vespasian, some of Nero, &c. There hath also +been found (in the same field) divers coffins of stone, containing +the bones of men; these I suppose to be the bones of some speciall +persons, in the time of the Brittons, or Saxons, after that the +Romans had left to govern here.</p> +<p>"The priory and hospital of St. Mary Spittle, was founded (says +Pennant) in 1197, by Walter Brune, Sheriff of London, and his wife, +Rosia, for canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. It was +remarkable for its pulpit cross, at which a preacher used to preach +a sermon consolidated out of four others, which had been preached +at St. Paul's Cross, on Good Friday, and the Monday, Tuesday, and +Wednesday in Easter week; giving afterwards a sermon of his own. At +these sermons the mayor and aldermen attended, dressed in different +coloured robes on each occasion. This custom continued till the +destruction of church government in the civil wars. They have since +been transferred to St. Bride's Church. Queen Elizabeth, in April, +1559, visited St. Mary Spittal, in great state, probably to hear a +sermon delivered from the cross. This princess was attended by a +thousand men in harness with shirts of mail and corslets, and +morice pikes, and ten great pieces carried through London unto the +court, with drums and trumpets sounding, and two morice-dancers, +and in a cart two white bears."</p> +<p>The priory of St. Mary, of St. Mary Spittle, contained at its +dissolution, about the year 1536, no less than 180 beds for the +reception of sick persons and travellers. Richard Tarleton, the +famous comedian, at the Curtain Theatre, it is said, "kept an +ordinary in Spittle-fields, pleasant fields for the citizens to +walk in;" and the row called Paternoster Row, as the name implies, +was formerly a few houses, where they sold rosaries, relics, +&c. The once celebrated herbalist and astrologer, Nicholas +Culpepper, was another inhabitant of this spot. He died in 1654, in +a house he had some time occupied, very pleasantly situated in the +fields; but now a public house at the corner of Red Lion Court, Red +Lion Street, east of Spittlefields market. The house, though it has +undergone several repairs, still exhibits the appearance of one of +those that formed a part of old London. The weaving art, which has +arrived at such an astonishing perfection, was patronized by the +wise and liberal Edward III., who encouraged the art by the most +advantageous offers of reward and encouragement to weavers who +would come and settle in England. In 1331, two weavers came from +Brabant and settled at York. The superior skill and dexterity of +these men, who communicated their knowledge to others, soon +manifested itself in the improvement and spread of the art of +weaving in this island. Many Flemish weavers were driven from their +native country by the cruel persecutions of the Duke d'Alva, in +1567. They settled in different parts of England, and introduced +and promoted the manufacture of baizes, serges, crapes, &c. The +arts of spinning, throwing, and weaving silk, were brought into +England about the middle of the fifteenth century, and were +practised by a company of women in London, called silk women. About +1480, men began to engage in the silk manufacture, and in the year +1686, nearly 50,000 manufacturers, of various descriptions, took +refuge in England, in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of +Nantz, by Louis le Grand, who sent thousands (says Pennant) of the +most industrious of his subjects into this kingdom to present his +bitterest enemies with the arts and manufactures of his kingdom; +hence the origin of the silk trade in Spittlefields.</p> +<h4>P. T. W.</h4> +<hr> +<h2>THE BIRD OF THE TOMB.</h2> +<h4>BY LEIGH CLIFFE.</h4> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>In "Lyon's attempt to reach Repulse Bay," the following passage, +which suggested these verses, may be met with. "Near the large +grave was a third pile of stones, covering the body of a child. A +Snow-Buntin (the Red-Breast of the Arctic Regions) had found its +way through the loose stones which composed <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page340" name="page340"></a>[pg 340]</span> this +little tomb, and its now forsaken, neatly built nest, was found +placed on the neck of the child."</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Beneath the chilly Arctic clime,</p> +<p>Where Nature reigns severe, sublime,</p> +<p>Enthron'd upon eternal snows,</p> +<p>Or rides the waves on icy floes—</p> +<p>Where fierce tremendous tempests sweep</p> +<p>The bosom of the rolling deep,</p> +<p>And beating rain, and drifting hail</p> +<p>Swell the wild fury of the gale;</p> +<p>There is a little, humble tomb,</p> +<p>Not deckt with sculpture's pageant pride,</p> +<p>Nor labour'd verse to tell by whom</p> +<p>The habitant was lov'd who died!</p> +<p>No trophied 'scutcheon marks the grave—</p> +<p>No blazon'd banners round it wave—</p> +<p>'Tis but a simple pile of stones</p> +<p>Rais'd o'er a hapless infant's bones;</p> +<p>Perchance a mother's tears have dew'd</p> +<p>This sepulchre, so frail and rude;—</p> +<p>A father mourn'd in accents wild,</p> +<p>His offspring lost—his only child—</p> +<p>Who might, in after years, have spread</p> +<p>A ray of honour round his head,</p> +<p>Nor thought, as stone on stone he threw,</p> +<p>His child would meet a stranger's view.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>But, lo! upon its clay-cold breast,</p> +<p>The Arctic Robin rais'd its nest,</p> +<p>And rear'd its little fluttering young,</p> +<p>Where Death in awful quiet slept,</p> +<p>And fearless chirp'd, and gaily sung</p> +<p>Around the babe its parents wept.</p> +<p>It was the guardian of the grave,</p> +<p>And thus its chirping seem'd to say:—</p> +<p>"Tho' naught from Death's chill grasp could save,</p> +<p>Tho' naught could chase his power away—</p> +<p>As round this humble spot I wing,</p> +<p>My thrilling voice shall daily sing</p> +<p>A requiem o'er the faded flower,</p> +<p>That bloom'd and wither'd in an hour,</p> +<p>And prov'd life is, in every view,</p> +<p>Naught but a rose-bud twin'd with rue.</p> +<p>A blossom born at day's first light,</p> +<p>And fading with the earliest night;</p> +<p>Nor stranger's step, nor shrieking loom,</p> +<p>Shall scare the warbler from the tomb'"</p></div></div> +<hr> +<h2>CURING THE "KING'S EVIL."</h2> +<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>About five miles from Sturminster Newton, and near the village +of Hazlebury, resides a Dr. B——, who has attained a +reputation, far extended, for curing, in a miraculous manner, the +king's evil; and as the method he employs is very different from +that of most modern practitioners, a short account of it may, +perhaps, be acceptable to the readers of the MIRROR.</p> +<p>I had long known that the doctor used some particular season for +his operations, but was unable to say precisely the time, until a +few days since I had a conversation with a person who is well +acquainted with the doctor and his yearly "<i>fair, or feast</i>," +as it is termed. Exactly twenty-four hours before the new moon, in +the month of May, every year, whether it happens by night or by +day, the afflicted persons assemble at the doctor's residence, +where they are supplied, by him, with the hind legs of a +<i>toad!</i> yes, gentle reader a toad—don't +start—enclosed in a small bag (accompanied, I believe, with +some verbal charm, or incantation,) and also a lotion and salve of +the doctor's preparation. The bag containing the legs of the +reptile is worn suspended from the neck of the patient, and the +lotion and salve applied in the usual manner, until the cure is +completed, or until the next year's "<i>fair</i>."</p> +<p>One would think that such a mysterious routine of doctoring, +would attract but few, and those the most illiterate; but I can +assure my readers the case is different. The number of carts, +chaises, and other conveyances laden with the afflicted which +passed through this place on the 2nd instant, bore ample testimony +to the number of the doctor's applicants; and the appearance of +many of them corroborated the opinion that they moved in a +respectable sphere of life.</p> +<p>The new moon happening this year on the 3rd instant, at 57 +minutes past 7 o'clock in the morning, the "fair" took place at the +same hour the preceding day.</p> +<p>My readers, no doubt, have heard of the efficacy of the stone in +the toad's head, alluded to by Shakspeare, <a id="footnotetag2" +href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>for curing the cramp, &c. by +application to the afflicted part; but it was left for Dr. +B—— to discover the virtues of a toad's leg. Apropos, +an eccentric friend of mine, once gravely told me he intended to +procure this precious Bufonian jewel; and as probably some reader +may feel a wish to possess it, I will furnish him with the proper +method of obtaining it, as communicated by my scientific friend. +Voici—Cut off poor bufo's head and enclose it in a small box +pierced with many holes; place it in an ant hill, and let it remain +some ten or twelve days, in which time, or a little longer, the +ants will have entered and eaten up every part except the stone. +RURIS.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>"THE MORNING STAR."</h2> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Queen of celestial beauty! Morning Star!</p> +<p>Accept a humble bard's untut'red lay;</p> +<p>To him, thy loveliness, surpasseth far</p> +<p>The silv'ry moon, and eke the God of day.</p> +<p>The world with all its pride cannot display</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page341" name="page341"></a>[pg +341]</span> +<p>A form so fair, so beautiful as thine;</p> +<p>Its glories fade, its proudest beauties die;</p> +<p>But you fair star! as first created shine,</p> +<p>In never fading immortality!</p> +<p>Like vice, from virtue's glance, yon clouds retire,</p> +<p>Before the smile of one benignant ray,</p> +<p>Sleepless and sad, my soul would fain aspire,</p> +<p>Promethean like, to snatch ethereal fire,</p> +<p>And draw relief from thee! bright harbinger of +day!</p></div></div> +<h4>JNO. JONES.</h4> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>The Sketch-Book.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>SCHINDERHANNES, THE GERMAN ROBBER.</h3> +<p>At the commencement of the French Revolution, and for some time +after, the two banks of the Rhine were the theatre of continual +wars. Commerce was interrupted, industry destroyed, the fields +ravaged, and the barns and cottages plundered; farmers and +merchants became bankrupts, and journeymen and labourers thieves. +Robbery was the only mechanical art which was worth pursuing, and +the only exercises followed were assault and battery. These +enterprises were carried on at first by individuals trading on +their own capital of skill and courage; but when the French laws +came into more active operation in the seat of their exploits, the +desperadoes formed themselves, for mutual protection, into +copartnerships, which were the terror of the country. Men soon +arose among them whose talents, or prowess, attracted the +confidence of their comrades, and chiefs were elected, and laws and +institutions established. Different places of settlement were +chosen by different societies; the famous Pickard carried his band +into Belgium and Holland; while on the confines of Germany, where +the wild provinces of Kirn, Simmerm, and Birkenfield offered a +congenial field, the banditti were concentrated, whose last and +most celebrated chief, the redoubted Schinderhannes, is the subject +of this brief notice.</p> +<p>His predecessors, indeed, Finck, Peter the Black, Zughetto, and +Seibert were long before renowned among those who square their +conduct by the good old rule of clubs; they were brave men, and +stout and pitiless robbers. But Schinderhannes, the boldest of the +bold, young, active and subtle, converted the obscure exploits of +banditti into the comparatively magnificent ravages of "the outlaw +and his men;" and sometimes marched at the head of sixty or eighty +of his troop to the attack of whole villages. Devoted to pleasure, +no fear ever crossed him in its pursuit; he walked publicly with +his mistress, a beautiful girl of nineteen, in the very place which +the evening before had been the scene of one of his criminal +exploits; he frequented the fairs and taverns, which were crowded +with his victims; and such was the terror he had inspired, that +these audacious exposures were made with perfect impunity. Free, +generous, handsome, and jovial, it may even be conceived that +sometime he gained the protection from love which could not have +been extorted by force.</p> +<p>It is scarcely a wonder that with the admirable regulations of +the robbers, they should have succeeded even to so great an extent +as they did in that unsettled country. Not more than two or three +of them were allowed to reside in the same town or village; they +were scattered over the whole face of the district, and apparently +connected with each other only by some mysterious free-masonry of +their craft. When a blow was to be struck, a messenger was sent +round by the chief to warn his followers; and at the mustering +place the united band rose up, like the clan of Roderick Dhu from +the heather, to disappear as suddenly again in darkness when the +object was accomplished. Their clothing, names and nations were +changed perpetually; a Jew broker at Cologne would figure some days +after at Aix-la-Chapelle or Spa as a German baron, or a Dutch +merchant, keeping open table, and playing a high game; and the next +week he might be met with in a forest at the head of his troop. +Young and beautiful women were always in their suite, who, +particularly in the task of obtaining or falsifying passports, did +more by their address than their lovers could have effected by +their courage. Spies, principally Jews, were employed throughout +the whole country, to give notice where a booty might be obtained. +Spring and autumn were the principal seasons of their harvest; in +winter the roads were almost impassable, and in summer the days +were too long; the light of the moon, in particular, was always +avoided, and so were the betraying foot prints in the snow. They +seldom marched in a body to the place of attack, but went thither +two or three in a party, some on foot, some on horseback, and some +even in carriages. As soon as they had entered a village, their +first care was to muffle the church bell, so as to prevent an alarm +being rung; or to commence a heavy fire, to give the inhabitants an +exaggerated idea of their numbers, and impress them with the +feeling that it would be more prudent to stay at home than to +venture out into the fray.</p> +<p>John Buckler, <i>alias</i> Schinderhannes, <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page342" name="page342"></a>[pg 342]</span> the +worthy whose youthful arm wielded with such force a power +constituted in this manner, was the son of a currier, and born at +Muhlen, near Nastoeten, on the right bank of the Rhine. The family +intended to emigrate to Poland, but on the way the father entered +the Imperial service at Olmutz, in Moravia. He deserted, and his +wife and child followed him to the frontiers of Prussia, and +subsequently the travellers took up their abode again in the +environs of the Rhine.</p> +<p>At the age of fifteen, Schinderhannes commenced his career of +crime by spending a louis, with which he had been entrusted, in a +tavern. Afraid to return home, he wandered about the fields till +hunger compelled him to steal a horse, which he sold. Sheep +stealing was his next vocation, but in this he was caught and +transferred to prison. He made his escape, however, the first +night, and returned in a very business-like manner to receive two +crowns which were due to him on account of the sheep he had stolen. +After being associated with the band as their chief, he went to buy +a piece of linen, but thinking, from the situation of the premises, +that it might be obtained without any exchange of coin on his part, +he returned the same evening, and stealing a ladder in the +neighbourhood, placed it at a window of the warehouse, and got in. +A man was writing in the interior, but the robber looked at him +steadily, and shouldering his booty, withdrew. He was taken a +second time, but escaped as before on the same night.</p> +<p>His third escape was from a dark and damp vault in the prison of +Schneppenbach, where, having succeeded in penetrating to the +kitchen, he tore an iron bar from the window by main force, and +leaped out at hazard. He broke his leg in the fall, but finding a +stick, managed to drag himself along, in the course of three +nights, to Birkenmuhl, without a morsel of food, but on the +contrary, having left some ounces of skin and flesh of his own on +the road.</p> +<p>Marianne Schoeffer was the first avowed mistress of +Schinderhannes. She was a young girl of fourteen, of ravishing +beauty, and always "se mettait avec une élégance +extreme." Blacken Klos, one of the band, an unsuccessful suitor of +the lady, one day, after meeting with a repulse, out of revenge +carried off her clothes. When the outrage was communicated to +Schinderhannes, he followed the ruffian to a cave where he had +concealed himself, and slew him. It was Julia Blaesius, however, +who became the permanent companion of the young chief. The account +given by her of the manner in which she was united to the destiny +of the robber is altogether improbable. A person came to her, she +said, and mentioned that somebody wished to speak to her in the +forest of Dolbach; she kept the assignation, and found there a +handsome young man who told her that she must follow him—an +invitation which she was obliged at length by threats to accede to. +It appears sufficiently evident, however, that the personal +attractions of Schinderhannes, who was then not twenty-two, had +been sufficient of themselves to tempt poor Julia to her fate, and +that of her own accord</p> +<blockquote>"She fled to the forest to hear a love +tale."</blockquote> +<p>It may be, indeed, as she affirmed, that she was at first +ignorant of the profession of her mysterious lover, who might +address her somewhat in the words of the Scottish +free-booter—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien—</p> +<p>A bonnet of the blue,</p> +<p>A doublet of the Lincoln green,</p> +<p>'Twas all of me you knew."</p></div></div> +<p>But it is known that afterwards she even accompanied him +personally in some of his adventures dressed in men's clothes.</p> +<p>The robberies of this noted chief became more audacious and +extensive every day, and at last he established a kind of "black +mail" among the Jews, at their own request. Accompanied one day by +only two of his comrades, he did not hesitate to attack a cavalcade +of forty-five Jews and five Christian peasants. The booty taken was +only two bundles of tobacco, the robbers returning some provisions +on a remonstrance from one of the Jews, who pleaded poverty. +Schinderhannes then ordered them to take off their shoes and +stockings, which he threw into a heap, leaving to every one the +care of finding his own property. The affray that ensued was +tremendous; the forty-five Jews who had patiently allowed +themselves to be robbed by three men, fought furiously with each +other about their old shoes; and the robber, in contempt of their +cowardice, gave his carbine to one of them to hold while he looked +on.</p> +<p>His daring career at length drew to a close, and he and his +companions were arrested by the French authorities, and brought to +trial. The chief, with nineteen others, were condemned to death in +November, 1803, and Julia Blaesius to two years' imprisonment. The +former met his fate with characteristic intrepidity, occupied to +the last moment with his cares about Julia and his +father.—<i>From the Foreign Quarterly Review.—An +excellent work</i>.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page343" name="page343"></a>[pg +343]</span> +<h2>RESTROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>OLD MANSIONS.</h3> +<p>We are in the habit of passing by our old stone manor houses +without knowing that they were important village fortresses, and +substitutes for castles. That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, +for Margaret Paston, writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful +hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis +and wydses (windlasses to strain cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows +with square heads) for zr howsis her ben low, yat yer may non man +schet owt wt no long bowe." From hence we learn that the service of +the long bow was connected with elevation in the building.</p> +<hr> +<h3>LEGAL CRUSHING TO DEATH.</h3> +<p>At the assizes in Sussex, August, 1735, a man who pretended to +be dumb and lame, was indicted for a barbarous murder and robbery. +He had been taken up upon suspicion, several spots of blood, and +part of the property being found upon him. When he was brought to +the bar, he would not speak or plead, though often urged to it, and +the sentence to be inflicted on such as stand mute, read to him, in +vain. Four or five persons in the court, swore that they had heard +him speak, and the boy who was his accomplice, and apprehended, was +there to be a witness against him; yet he continued mute; whereupon +he was carried back to Horsham gaol, to be pressed to death, if he +would not plead—when they laid on him 100 weight, then added +100 more, and he still continued obstinate; they then added 100 +more, which made 300 lb. weight, yet he would not speak; 50 lb. +more was added, when he was nearly dead, having all the agonies of +death upon him; then the executioner, who weighed about 16 or 17 +stone, laid down upon the board which was over him, and, adding to +the weight, killed him in an instant. G.K.</p> +<hr> +<h3>LATE INSTRUCTION.</h3> +<p>Socrates in his old age, learned to play upon a musical +instrument. Cato, aged 80, began to learn Greek; and Plutarch, in +his old age, acquired Latin. John Gelida, of Valentia, in Spain, +did not begin the study of <i>belles-lettres</i>, until he was 40 +years old.</p> +<p>Henry Spelman, having in his youth neglected the sciences, +resumed them at the age of 50, with extraordinary success.</p> +<p>Fairfax, after having been the general of the parliamentary army +in England, went to Oxford, and took his degree as Doctor-of-Law. +Colbert, when minister, and almost 60 years of age, returned to his +Latin and his law, in a situation where the neglect of one, if not +both, might have been thought excusable; and Mons. Le Tellier, +chancellor of France, reverted to the learning of logic that he +might dispute with his grand-children.</p> +<p>Sir John Davies, at the age of 25, produced a poem on "The +Immortality of the Soul," and in his 62nd year, as Mr. Thomas +Campbell facetiously observes, when a judge and a statesman, +another on <i>dancing</i>.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>The Novelist</h2> +<hr> +<h3>ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN.</h3> +<p>[As Sir Walter Scott's new work has not reached us in time to +enable us to fill in the outline of the story in our present +Number, we give a few sketchy extracts, or portraits,—such as +will increase the interest for the appearance of the Narrative.</p> +<p>There are some admirable specimens of Swiss scenery, which have +the effect of sublime painting: witness the following attempt of +two travellers, father and son, who with their guide, are +bewildered in the mountains by a sudden storm. The younger attempts +to scale a broken path on the side of the precipice:]</p> +<p>Thus estimating the extent of his danger by the measure of sound +sense and reality, and supported by some degree of practice in such +exercise, the brave youth went forward on his awful journey, step +by step, winning his way with a caution, and fortitude, and +presence of mind, which alone could have saved him from instant +destruction. At length he gained a point where a projecting rock +formed the angle of the precipice, so far as it had been visible to +him from the platform. This, therefore, was the critical point of +his undertaking; but it was also the most perilous part of it. The +rock projected more than six feet forward over the torrent, which +he heard raging at the depth of a hundred yards beneath, with a +noise like subterranean thunder. He examined the spot with the +utmost care, and was led by the existence of shrubs, grass, and +even stunted trees, to believe that this rock marked the farthest +extent of the slip, or slide of earth, and that, could he but round +the angle of which it was the termination, he might hope to attain +the continuation of the path which had been so strangely +interrupted by this convulsion of nature. But the crag jutted out +so much as to afford no possibility of <span class= + "pagenum"><a id="page344" name="page344"></a>[pg 344]</span> + passing either under or around it; and as it rose several feet + above the position which Arthur had attained, it was no easy + matter to climb over it. This was, however, the course which he + chose, as the only mode of surmounting what he hoped might prove + the last obstacle to his voyage of discovery. A projecting tree + afforded him the means of raising and swinging himself up to the + top of the crag. But he had scarcely planted himself on it, had + scarcely a moment to congratulate himself, on seeing, amid a + wild chaos of cliffs and woods, the gloomy ruins of Geierstein, + with smoke arising, and indicating something like a human + habitation beside them, when, to his extreme terror, he felt the + huge cliff on which he stood tremble, stoop slowly forward, and + gradually sink from its position. Projecting as it was, and + shaken as its equilibrium had been by the recent earthquake, it + lay now so insecurely poised, that its balance was entirely + destroyed, even by the addition of the young man's weight. + Aroused by the imminence of the danger, Arthur, by an + instinctive attempt at self-preservation, drew cautiously back + from the falling crag into the tree by which he had ascended, + and turned his head back as if spell-bound, to watch the descent + of the fatal rock from which he had just retreated. It tottered + for two or three seconds, as if uncertain which way to fall; and + had it taken a sidelong direction, must have dashed the + adventurer from his place of refuge, or borne both the tree and + him headlong down into the river. After a moment of horrible + uncertainty, the power of gravitation determined a direct and + forward descent. Down went the huge fragment, which must have + weighed at least twenty tons, rending and splintering in its + precipitate course the trees and bushes which it encountered, + and settling at length in the channel of the torrent, with a din + equal to the discharge of a hundred pieces of artillery. The + sound was re-echoed from bank to bank, from precipice to + precipice, with emulative thunders; nor was the tumult silent + till it rose into the region of eternal snows, which, equally + insensible to terrestrial sounds, and unfavourable to animal + life, heard the roar in their majestic solitude, but suffered it + to die away without a responsive voice.</p> +<p>The solid rock had trembled and rent beneath his footsteps; and +although, by an effort rather mechanical than voluntary, he had +withdrawn himself from the instant ruin attending its descent, he +felt as if the better part of him, his firmness of mind and +strength of body, had been rent away with the descending rock, as +it fell thundering, with clouds of dust and smoke, into the +torrents and whirlpools of the vexed gulf beneath. In fact, the +seaman swept from the deck of a wrecked vessel, drenched in the +waves, and battered against the rocks on the shore, does not differ +more from the same mariner, when, at the commencement of the gale, +he stood upon the deck of his favourite ship, proud of her strength +and his own dexterity, than Arthur, when commencing his journey, +from the same Arthur, while clinging to the decayed trunk of an old +tree, from which, suspended between heaven and earth, he saw the +fall of the crag which he had so nearly accompanied. The effects of +his terror, indeed, were physical as well as moral, for a thousand +colours played before his eyes; he was attacked by a sick +dizziness, and deprived at once of the obedience of those limbs +which had hitherto served him so admirably; his arms and hands, as +if no longer at his own command, now clung to the branches of the +tree, with a cramp-like tenacity, over which he seemed to possess +no power, and now trembled in a state of such complete nervous +relaxation, as led him to fear that they were becoming unable to +support him longer in his position.</p> +<p>[We must leave the reader here, although in dire +suspense—and we regret to do so, because a beautiful incident +follows—to give the following exquisite sketch of the +heroine—a Swiss maiden. We will endeavour to connect these +passages with our abridgment of the narrative.]</p> +<p>An upper vest, neither so close as to display the person—a +habit forbidden by the sumptuary laws of the canton—nor so +loose as to be an encumbrance in walking or climbing, covered a +close tunic of a different colour, and came down beneath the middle +of the leg, but suffered the ancle, in all its fine proportions, to +be completely visible. The foot was defended by a sandal, the point +of which was turned upwards, and the crossings and knots of the +strings which secured it on the front of the leg were garnished +with silver rings. The upper vest was gathered round the middle by +a sash of parti-coloured silk, ornamented with twisted threads of +gold; while the tunic, open at the throat, permitted the shape and +exquisite whiteness of a well-formed neck to be visible at the +collar, and for an inch or two beneath. The small portion of the +throat and bosom thus exposed was even more brilliantly fair than +was promised by the countenance, which last bore some marks of +having been freely exposed to the sun and air—by no means in +a degree to diminish its beauty, but just so far as to + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page345" name="page345"></a>[pg + 345]</span> show that the maiden possessed the health which + is purchased by habits of rural exercise. Her long, fair hair + fell down in a profusion of curls on each side of a face + whose blue eyes, lovely features, and dignified simplicity of + expression, implied at once a character of gentleness, and of + the self-relying resolution of a mind too virtuous to suspect + evil, and too noble to fear it. Above these locks beauty's + natural and most beseeming ornament—or rather, I should + say, amongst them—was placed the small bonnet, which, + from its size, little answered the purpose of protecting the + head, but served to exercise the ingenuity of the fair + wearer, who had not failed, according to the prevailing + custom of the mountain maidens, to decorate the tiny cap with + a heron's feather, and the then unusual luxury of a small and + thin chain of gold, long enough to encircle the cap four or + five times, and having the ends secured under a broad medal + of the same costly metal. I have only to add, that the + stature of the young person was something above the common + size, and that the whole contour of her form, without being + in the slightest degree masculine, resembled that of Minerva, + rather than the proud beauties of Juno, or the yielding + graces of Venus. The noble brow, the well-formed and active + limbs, the firm and yet light step; above all, the total + absence of any thing resembling the consciousness of personal + beauty, and the open and candid look, which seemed desirous + of knowing nothing that was hidden, and conscious that she + herself had nothing to hide, were traits not unworthy of the + goddess of wisdom and of chastity.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>FRENCH COOKERY AND CONFECTIONERY.</h3> +<p>Monsieur Ude, who is, unquestionably, the prince of +gastronomers, has just published the tenth edition of his <i>French +Cook</i>, of which, line upon line, we may say, <i>Decies repelita +placebit</i>; and Jarrin, the celebrated <i>artiste en sucre</i>, +has also revised his <i>Italian Confectioner</i>, in a fourth +edition. We should think both these works must be the literary +furniture of every good kitchen, or they ought to be; for there is +just enough of the science in them to make them extremely useful, +whilst all must allow them to be entertaining.</p> +<p>A few years ago, Mrs. Glasse ruled the roast of cookery, and not +a stew was made without consulting her invaluable book. Whilst we +were embroiled in war, her instructions were standing orders, but +with the peace came a host of foreign luxuries and fashions, among +these, <i>Cookery from France</i>. Hence the French system became +introduced into the establishments of the wealthy of this country, +to which may be attributed the sale of nine editions of M. Ude's +work; for it is strictly what it professes to be, "A System of +Fashionable and Economical Cookery, adapted to the use of English +Families." The tenth edition, before us, is a bulky <i>tome</i> of +about 500 pages, with an appendix of observations on the meals of +the day; mode of giving suppers at Routs and soirées, as +practised when the author was in the employ of Lord Sefton; and +above all, a brief history of the rise and progress of Cookery, +from an admirable French treatise. This is literally the <i>sauce +piquante</i> of the volume, and we serve a little to our +readers:—</p> +<p>It appears that the science of Cookery was in a very inferior +state under the first and second race of the French kings. Gregory +of Tours has preserved the account of a repast of French warriors, +at which, in this refined age, we should be absolutely astounded. +According to Eginhard, Charlemagne lived poorly, and ate but +little—however, this trait of resemblance in Charlemagne and +Napoleon, the modern Eginhards have forgotten in their comparison +of these two great men. Philippe le Bel was hardly half an hour at +table, and Francis I. thought more of women than of eating and +drinking; nevertheless, it was under this gallant monarch that the +science of gastronomy took rise in France.</p> +<p>Few have heard the name of Gonthier d'Andernach. What Bacon was +to philosophy, Dante and Petrarch to poetry, Michael Angelo and +Raphael to painting, Columbus and Gama to geography, Copernicus and +Galileo to astronomy, Gonthier was in France to the art of cookery. +Before him, their code of eating was formed only of loose scraps +picked up here and there; the names of dishes were strange and +barbarous, like the dishes themselves.</p> +<p>Gonthier is the father of cookery, as Descartes, of French +philosophy. It is said that Gonthier, in less than ten years, +invented seven cullises, nine ragoûts, thirty-one sauces, and +twenty-one soups.</p> +<p>A woman opened the gates of an enlightened age; it was +Catherine, the daughter of the celebrated Lorenzo de Medici, niece +of Leo the Tenth, then in all the bloom of beauty. Accompanied +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page346" name="page346"></a>[pg +346]</span> by a troop of perfumers, painters, astrologers, poets, +and cooks, she crossed the Alps, and whilst Bullan planned the +Tuileries, Berini recovered from oblivion those sauces which, for +many ages, had been lost. Endowed with all the gifts of fortune, +the mother and the wife of kings, nature had also gifted her with a +palate, whose intuitive sensibility seldom falls to the lot of +sovereigns. In consequence of which, after having driven before her +this troop of male and female soothsayers, who pretended to foretel +the future, she consulted her <i>maître d'hôtel</i>, +about some roast meat brought from luxurious Florence; and dipped +in a rich sauce the same hand that held the reins of the empire, +and which Roussard compared to the rosy fingers of Aurora! Let the +foolish vulgar laugh at the importance which the queen-mother seems +to place in the art of cooking; but they have not considered that +it is at table, in the midst of the fumes of Burgundy, and the +savoury odour of rich dishes, that she meditated the means of +quelling a dangerous faction, or the destruction of a man, who +disturbed her repose. It was during dinner she had an interview +with the Duke of Alba, with whom she resolved on the massacre of +St. Bartholomew.</p> +<p>Not long after the massacre of St. Bartholomew the throne was +occupied by Henry de Valois, brother to Charles the Ninth, and son +of Catherine. He was a prince of good appetite, a lover of wine and +good cheer, qualities which his mother had carefully fostered and +cultivated, that she alone might hold the reigns of government. +Henry de Valois spent whole days at table, and the constellations +of the kitchen shone with the greatest splendour under this +gourmand king. We date from the beginning of his reign the +invention of the fricandeau, generally attributed to a Swiss. Now +the fricandeau having its Columbus, its discovery appears not more +wonderful than that of America, and yet it required <i>une grande +force de tête</i>.</p> +<p>Though we acknowledge the immense influence this monarch had +over cookery, we must not conceal that he brought in fashion +aromatic sauces, tough macaroni, cullises, and brown sauces +calcined by a process like that of roasted coffee. These sauces +gave the dishes a corrosive acidity, and as Jourdan le Cointe +remarks, far from nourishing the body, communicated to it a +feverish sensation, which baffled all the skill of physicians, in +their attempts to cure it. They were positive poisons which the +Italians had introduced into France, a taste for which spread +through every class of society.</p> +<p>Under the reign of Henry III. a taste for warm drinks was joined +to that of spicy dishes. Hippocrates recommends hot water in +fevers, Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in +loathings, AEtius in strangury,—whence we conclude that warm +water, having so many different qualities, must have been a very +useful article at table, had it only been to assist digestion, +considering that people ate copiously in the reign of the Valois. +They made not one single repast without a jug full of hot water, +and even wine was drunk lukewarm.</p> +<p>If the poor have preserved the memory of Henry IV., we cannot +say as much of his cooks. That monarch did nothing for +them;—either Nature had not endowed him with a good appetite, +(for what prince ever was perfect,) or he looked upon them, as, in +the last century, we looked upon soups, as things of hardly any +use; but in return they also did nothing for him.</p> +<p>It is very remarkable, that in France, where there is but one +religion, the sauces are infinitely varied, whilst in England, +where the different sects are innumerable, there is, we may say, +but one single sauce. Melted butter, in English cookery, plays +nearly the same part as the Lord Mayor's coach at civic ceremonies, +calomel in modern medicine, or silver forks in the fashionable +novels. Melted butter and anchovies, melted butter and capers, +melted butter and parsley, melted butter and eggs, and melted +butter for ever: this is a sample of the national cookery of this +country. We may date the art of making sauces from the age of Louis +XIV. Under Louis XIII. meat was either roasted or broiled: every +baker had a stove where the citizen, as well as the great lord, +sent his meat to be dressed; but, by degrees, they began to feel +the necessity of sauces.</p> +<p>It appears that the great wits of the age of Louis XIV. had not +that contempt for cookery which some idealists of our days affect +to have. Boileau has described a bad repast like a man who has +often seen better; he liked the pleasures of the table, which have +never been incompatible with the gifts of genius, or the +investigations of the understanding. "I cannot conceive," says +Doctor Johnson, "the folly of those, who, when at table, think of +every thing but eating; for my part, when I am there I think of +nothing else; and whosoever does not trouble himself with this +important affair at dinner, or supper, will do no good at any other +time." Boswell affirms that he never knew a man who dispatched a +dinner better than the great moralist. But what <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page347" name="page347"></a>[pg 347]</span> avails +it to defend cooks and gourmands? It is an axiom in political +economy, according to Malthus, that <i>he who makes two blades of +grass grow, where before there was but one, ought to be considered +as the benefactor of his country, and of mankind</i>. Is not this a +service which the epicure and the cook every day do their country? +Addison thought differently from Johnson on this subject: "Every +time," says he, "that I see a splendid dinner, I fancy fever, gout, +and dropsy, are lying in ambush for me, with the whole race of +maladies which attack mankind: in my opinion an epicure is a fool." +What does this blustering of Addison prove? Boswell also asserts, +that Addison often complained of indigestion. And in the present +times, the first chemist of the day, Sir Humphry Davy, passes for a +finished gourmand.</p> +<p>Roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, do not alone constitute the +arc of cooking, otherwise the savage of the Oronoco might be +<i>maître d'hôtel</i> with Prince Esterhazy.</p> +<p>The science of gastronomy made great progress under Louis XV., a +brilliant epoch for the literature of gastronomy: together with the +fashions, customs, freedom of opinion, and taste for equipages and +horses brought from Great Britain—some new dishes taken from +the culinary code of this country, such as puddings and +beef-steaks, were also introduced into France. Thanks to the +increasing progress and discoveries in chemistry, and to the genius +of our artists, the art of cookery rose to the greatest height +towards the end of the last century. What a famous age was that of +Mezelier, l'Asne, Jouvent, Richaud, Chaud, and Robert.</p> +<p>History will never forget that great man, who aspired to all +kinds of glory, and would have been, if he had wished, as great a +cook as he was a statesman—I mean the Prince de Talleyrand, +who rekindled the sacred flame in France. The first clouds of +smoke, which announced the resurrection of the science of cookery +in the capital, appeared from the kitchen of an ancient bishop.</p> +<p>A revolution like the French, which presented to their eyes such +terrible spectacles, must have left some traces in their physical +or intellectual constitution. At the end of this bloody drama, the +mind, bewildered by the late dreadful scenes, was unable to feel +those sweet and peaceable emotions, in which it had formerly +delighted; as the palate, having long been at rest, and now become +blunted, must require high-seasoned dishes, to excite an appetite. +The reign of the Directory, therefore is that of Romances à +la Radcliffe, as well as of Sauces à la Provençale. +Fortunately, the eighth of Brumaire pulled down the five Directors, +together with their saucepans.</p> +<p>Under the Consulship, and during the empire, the art of cooking, +thanks to the labours of Beauvilliers, Balaine, and other artists, +made new and remarkable improvements. Among the promoters of the +gastric science, the name of a simple amateur makes a distinguished +figure—it is Grisnod de la Reynière, whose almanac the +late Duke of York called the most delightful book that ever issued +from the press. We may affirm, that the <i>Almanach des +Gourmands</i> made a complete revolution in the language and usages +of the country.</p> +<p>We are yet too near the restoration to determine the degree of +influence it had on cookery in France. The restoration has +introduced into monarchy the representative forms friendly to +epicurism, and in this respect it is a true blessing—a new +era opened <i>to those</i> who are hungry.</p> +<p>M. Jarrin's fourth edition contains upwards of 500 receipts in +Italian confectionery, with plates of improvements, &c. like a +cyclopaedian treatise on mechanics; and when our readers know there +are "seven essential degrees of boiling sugar," they will pardon +the details of the business of this volume. The "degrees" +are—1. <i>Le lissé</i>, or thread, large or small; 2. +<i>Le perlé</i>, or pearl, <i>le soufflet</i>, or blow; 4. +<i>La plume</i>, the feather; 5. <i>Le boulet</i>, the ball, large +or small; 6. <i>Le cassé</i>, the crack; and, 7. the +<i>caramel</i>. So complete is M. Jarrin's system of confectionery, +that he is "independent of every other artist;" for he even +explains engraving on steel and on wood. What a host of +disappointments this must prevent!</p> +<p>If we look further into, or "drink deep" of the art of +confectionery, we shall find it to be a perfect Microcosm—a +little creation; for our artist talks familiarly of "producing +picturesque scenery, with trees, lakes, rocks, &c.; gum paste, +and modelling flowers, animals, figures, &c." with astonishing +mimic strife. We must abridge one of these receipts for a "<i>Rock +Piece Montée</i> in a lake."</p> +<p>"Roll out confectionery paste, the size of the dish intended to +receive it; put into a mould representing your <i>pond</i> a lining +of almond paste, coloured pale pink, and place in the centre a sort +of pedestal of almond paste, supported by lumps of the same paste +baked; when dry put it into the stove. Prepare <i>syrup</i> to fill +the hollow of the <i>lake</i>, to represent <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page348" name="page348"></a>[pg 348]</span> the +<i>water</i>; having previously modelled in gum paste little +<i>swans</i>, place them in various parts of the <i>syrup</i>; put +it into the stove for three hours, then make a small hole through +the paste, under your <i>lake</i>, to drain off the syrup; a crust +will remain with the <i>swans</i> fixed in it, representing the +<i>water</i>. Next build the <i>rock</i> on the pedestal with rock +sugar, biscuits, and other appropriate articles in sugar, fixed to +one another, supported by the confectionery paste you have put in +the middle, the whole being cemented together with caramel, and +ornamented. The moulding and heads should then be pushed in almond +paste, coloured red; the <i>cascades</i> and other ornaments must +be <i>spun in sugar</i>."</p> +<p>These are, indeed, romantic secrets. Spinning nets and cages +with sugar is another fine display of confectionery skill—we +say nothing of the nets and cages which our fair friends are +sometimes spinning—for the sugar compared with their +bonds—are weak as the cords of the Philistines.</p> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>ROOKS.</h3> +<p>We glean the following interesting facts from the <i>Essex +Herald</i>, as they merit the record of a <i>Naturalist</i>.</p> +<p>"The voracious habits of the rook, and the vast increase of +these birds of late years in certain parts of Essex, has been +productive of great mischief, especially in the vicinity of Writtle +and of Waltham. Since February last, notwithstanding a vigilant +watch, the rooks have stolen sets of potatoes from a considerable +breadth of ground at Widford Hall. On the same farm, during the +sowing of a field of 16 acres with peas, the number of rooks seen +at one time on its surface has been estimated at 1,000, which is +accounted for by there being a preserve near, which, at a moderate +computation, contains 1,000 nests. But the damage done by rooks at +Navestock and Kelvedon Hatch, and their vicinities, within a small +circle, has been estimated at £2,000. annually. Many farmers +pay from 8<i>s</i>. to 10<i>s</i>. per week, to preserve their seed +and plants by watching; but notwithstanding such precautions, acre +after acre of beans, when in leaf and clear from the soil, have +been pulled up, and the crop lost. The late hurricane proved some +interruption to their breeding; and particularly at the estate of +Lord Waldegrave, at Navestock, where the young ones were thrown +from their nests, and were found under trees in myriads; the very +nests blown down, it is said, would have furnished the poor with +fuel for a short period."</p> +<p>The writer attributes this alarming increase of rooks to "a +desire on the part of gentlemen to cause them to be preserved with +the same watchfulness they do their game." The most effectual means +of deterring the rook from their depredations, is, he says, "to +obtain several of these birds at a period of the year when they can +be more easily taken; then cut them open, and preserve them by +salt. In the spring, during the seed time, these rooks are to be +fastened down to the ground with their wings spread, and their +mouths extended by a pebble, as if in great torture. This plan has +been found so effectual, that even in the vicinity of large +preserves, the fields where the dead birds have been so placed, +have not been visited by a single rook."</p> +<p>The scarcity of the rook in France, and the antipathy which the +French have to that bird is thus accounted for:—</p> +<p>"The fact has been often related by a very respectable Catholic +Priest, who resided many years at Chipping-hill, in Witham, that +such was the arbitrary conduct of the owners of abbeys and +monasteries in France, in preserving and cultivating the rook and +the pigeon, that they increased to such numbers as to become so +great a pest, as to destroy the seed when sown, and the young +plants as soon as they appeared above the ground; insomuch, that +the farmer, despairing of a reward for his labour, besides the loss +of his seed, the fields were left barren, and the supply of bread +corn was, in consequence, insufficient to meet the necessities of +so rapidly increasing a people. The father of the gentleman to whom +we have alluded, was, for this offence, one of the first victims to +his imprudence. The revolutionary mob proceeded to his residence, +from whence they took him, and hung his body upon a gibbet; they +next proceeded to destroy the rooks and pigeons which he had +cultivated in great numbers, and strived to preserve with the same +tenacity as others do in this country. We are told by the son of +this martyr to his own folly, that the mob continued to shoot the +birds amidst the loudest acclamations, and that they exulted in the +idea that in each victim they witnessed the fall of an +aristocrat."</p> +<hr> +<h3>THE BANANA TREE.</h3> +<p>The amount and rapidity of produce of this plant probably exceed +that of any other in the known world. In eight or nine months after +the sucker has been planted, clusters of fruit are formed; and +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page349" name="page349"></a>[pg +349]</span> in about two months more they may be gathered. The stem +is then cut down, and a fresh plant, about two-thirds of the height +of the parent stem, succeeds, and bears fruit in about three months +more. The only care necessary is to dig once or twice a year round +the roots. According to our author, on 1,076 square feet, from 30 +to 40 banana trees may be planted in Mexico, which will yield in +the space of the year 4,414 lbs. avoirdupois of fruit; while the +same space would yield only 33 lbs. avoirdupois of wheat, and 99 of +potatoes. The immediate effect of this facility of supplying the +wants of nature is, that the man who can, by labouring two days in +the week, maintain himself and family, will devote the remaining +five to idleness or dissipation. The same regions that produce the +banana, also yield the two species of manioc, the bitter and the +sweet: both of which appear to have been cultivated before the +conquest.</p> +<h4>—<i>Foreign Quarterly Review.</i></h4> +<hr> +<h3>INDIAN CORN.</h3> +<p>The most valuable article in South American agriculture, is +unquestionably the maize, or Indian corn, which is cultivated with +nearly uniform success in every part of the republic. It appears to +be a true American grain, notwithstanding many crude conjectures to +the contrary. Sometimes it has been known to yield, in hot and +humid regions, 800 fold; fertile lands return from 300 to 400; and +a return of 130 to 150 fold is considered bad—the least +fertile soils giving 60 to 80. The maize forms the great bulk of +food of the inhabitants, as well as of the domestic animals; hence +the dreadful consequences of a failure of this crop. It is eaten +either in the form of unfermented bread or <i>tortillas</i> (a sort +of bannock, as it is called in Scotland;) and, reduced to flour, is +mingled with water, forming either <i>atolle</i> or various kinds +of <i>chicha</i>. Maize will yield, in very favourable situations, +two or three crops per year; though it is but seldom that more than +one is gathered.</p> +<p>The introduction of wheat is said to have been owing to the +accidental discovery, by a negro slave of Cortez, of three or four +grains, among some rice which had been issued to the soldiers. +About the year 1530, these grains were sown; and from this +insignificant source has flowed all the enormous produce of the +upper lands of Mexico. Water is the only element necessary to +ensure success to the Mexican wheat grower; but it is very +difficult to attain this—and irrigation affords the most +steady supply.</p> +<h4><i>Ibid.</i></h4> +<hr> +<h3>THE AGAVE AMERICANA,</h3> +<p>On Maguey, is an object of great value in the table land of the +interior of Mexico; from this plant is obtained the favourite +liquor, the <i>pulque</i>. At the moment of efflorescence, the +flower stalk is extirpated, and the juice destined to form the +fruit flows into the cavity thus produced, and is taken out two or +three times a day for four or five months; each day's produce is +fermented for ten or fifteen days; after which the <i>pulque</i> is +fit to drink, and before it has travelled in skins, it is a very +pleasant, refreshing liquor, to which the Mexicans ascribe as many +good qualities as the Highlander does to whiskey. The stems of the +<i>maguey</i> can supply the place of hemp, and may be converted +into paper. The prickles too are used as pins by the Indians.</p> +<h4>—<i>Ibid</i>.</h4> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2> +<hr> +<h3>DOCTOR PARR.</h3> +<h4><i>Concluded from page 334</i>.</h4> +<p>Parr was evidently fond of living in troubled waters; +accordingly, on his removal to Colchester, he got into a quarrel +with the trustees of the school on the subject of a lease. He +printed a pamphlet about it, which he never published; restrained +perhaps by the remarks of Sir W. Jones, who constantly noted the +pages submitted to him, with "too violent," "too strong;" and +probably thought the whole affair a battle of kites and crows, +which Parr had swelled into importance; or, it might be, he +suppressed it, influenced by the prospect of succeeding to Norwich +school, for which he was now a candidate, and by the shrewd +observation of Dr. Foster, "that Norwich might be touched by a +fellow feeling for Colchester; and the crape-makers of the one +place sympathize with the bag-makers of the other." If the latter +consideration weighed with him, it was the first and last time that +any such consideration did, Parr being apparently of the opinion of +John Wesley, that there could be no fitter subject for a Christian +man's prayers, than that he might be delivered from what the world +calls "prudence." However it happened, the pamphlet was withheld, +and Parr was elected to the school at Norwich.</p> +<p>At Norwich, Parr ventured on his first publications, and +obtained his first preferment. The publications consisted of a +sermon on "The Truth of Christianity," "A Discourse on Education," +and "A Discourse on the Late Fast;" the last of which opens with a +mistake singular in <span class="pagenum"><a id="page350" name= +"page350"></a>[pg 350]</span> Parr, who confounds the sedition of +Judas Gaulonitis, mentioned in Josephus, (<i>Antiq</i>. xviii. 1. +1.) with that under Pilate, mentioned in St. Luke, (xiii. 1, 2, +3.); whereas the former probably preceded the latter by twenty +years, or nearly. The preferment which he gained was the living of +Asterby, presented to him by Lady Jane Trafford, the mother of one +of his pupils; which, in 1783, he exchanged for the perpetual +curacy of Hatton, in Warwickshire, the same lady being still his +patron neither was of much value. Lord Dartmouth, whose sons had +also been under his care, endeavoured to procure something for him +from Lord Thurlow, but the chancellor is reported to have said +"No," with an oath. The great and good Bishop Lowth, however, at +the request of the same nobleman, gave him a prebend in St. Paul's, +which, though a trifle at the time, eventually became, on the +expiration of leases, a source of affluence to Parr in his old age. +How far he was from such a condition at this period of his life, is +seen by the following incident given by Mr. Field. The doctor was +one day in this gentleman's library, when his eye was caught by the +title of "Stephens' Greek Thesaurus." Suddenly turning about and +striking vehemently the arm of Mr. Field, whom he addressed in a +manner very usual with him; he said, "Ah! my friend, my friend, may +you never be forced, as I was at Norwich, to sell that work, to me +so precious, from absolute and urgent necessity."</p> +<p>But we must on with the Doctor in his career. In 1785, for some +reason unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at +Norwich, and in the year following went to reside at Hatton. "I +have an excellent house, (he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, +and a Poor, ignorant, dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond +all example. <i>I like Warwickshire very much</i>. I have made +great regulations, viz. bells chime three times as long; Athanasian +creed; communion service at the altar; swearing act; children +catechized first Sunday in the month; private baptisms discouraged; +public performed after second lesson; recovered a 100<i>l</i>. a +year left the poor, with interest amounting to 115<i>l</i>., all of +which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining +all the charities."</p> +<p>Here Warwickshire pleases Parr; but Parr's taste in this, and in +many other matters, (as we shall have occasion to show by and by,) +was subject to change. He soon, therefore, becomes convinced of the +superior intellect of the men of Norfolk. He finds Warwickshire, +the Boeotia of England, two centuries behind in civilization. He is +anxious, however, to be in the commission of the peace for this +ill-fated county, and applies to Lord Hertford, then Lord +Lieutenant; but the application fails; and again, on a subsequent +occasion, to Lord Warwick, and again he is disappointed. What +motives operated upon their lordships' minds to his exclusion, they +did not think it necessary to avow.</p> +<p>Providence has so obviously drawn a circle about every man, +within which, for the most part, he is compelled to walk, by +furnishing him with natural affections, evidently intended to +fasten upon individuals; by urging demands upon him which the very +preservation of himself and those about him compels him to listen +to; by withholding from him any considerable knowledge of what is +distant, and hereby proclaiming that his more proper sphere lies in +what is near;—by compassing, him about with physical +obstacles, with mountains, with rivers, with seas "dissociable," +with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; that, +like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be +resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is +his first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the +defence of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without +extending his care to the whole circuit of the city walls.</p> +<p>The close of Parr's life grew brighter, The increased value of +his stall at St. Paul's set him abundantly at his ease: he can even +indulge his love of pomp—<i>ardetque cupidine +currûs</i>, he encumbers himself with a coach and four. In +1816, he married a second wife, Miss Eyre, the sister of his friend +the Rev. James Eyre; he became reconciled to his two +grand-daughters, now grown up to woman's estate; he received them +into his family, and kept them as his own, till one of them became +the wife of the Rev. John Lynes.</p> +<p>In the latter years of his life, Parr had been subject to +erysipelas; once he had suffered by a carbuncle, and once by a +mortification in the hand. Owing to this tendency to diseased +action in the skin, he was easily affected by cold, and on Sunday, +the 16th of January, 1825, having, in addition to the usual duties +of the day, buried a corpse, he was, on the following night, seized +with a long-continued rigor, attended by fever and delirium, and +never effectually rallied again. There is a note, however, dated +November 2, 1824, addressed by him to Archdeacon Butler, which +proves that he felt his end approaching, even before this +crisis.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page351" name="page351"></a>[pg +351]</span> +<p>"Dear and Learned Namesake,—This letter is important, and +strictly confidential. I have given J. Lynes minute and plenary +directions for my funeral. I desire you, if you can, to preach a +short, unadorned funeral sermon. Rann Kennedy is to read the lesson +and grave service, though I could wish you to read the grave +service also. Say little of me, but you are sure to say it +<i>well</i>."</p> +<p>Dr. Butler complied with his request, and amply made good the +opinion here expressed. He spoke of him like a warm and stedfast +friend, but not like that worst of enemies, an indiscreet one; he +did not challenge a scrutiny by the extravagance of his praise, nor +break, by his precious balms, the head he was most anxious to +honour. Dr. Parr's death was tedious, and his faculties, except at +intervals, disturbed. He took an opportunity, however, afforded him +by one of these intervals, of summoning about his bed his wife, +grand-children, and servants; confessed to them his weaknesses and +errors, asked their forgiveness for any pain he might have caused +them by petulance and haste, and professed "his trust in God, +through Christ, for the pardon of his sins." One expression, which +Dr. Johnstone reports him to have used on this occasion, is +extraordinary—that "from the beginning of his life he was not +conscious of having fallen into a crime." Far be it from us to +scrutinize the words of a delirious death-bed—These must have +been uttered (if, indeed, they are accurately given) either in some +peculiar and very limited sense, or else at a moment when a man is +no longer accountable to God for what he utters. The latter was, +probably, the case: for in the same breath in which he declares +"his life, even his early life, to have been pure," he sues for +pardon at the hands of his Maker, and acknowledges a Redeemer, as +the instrument through which he is to obtain it.</p> +<p>That quickness of feeling and disposition to abandon himself to +its guidance, which made Parr an inconsistent man, made him also a +benevolent one. Benevolence he loved as a subject for his +contemplation, and the practical extension of it as a rule for his +conduct. He could scarcely bear to regard the Deity under any other +aspect. He would have children taught, in the first instance, to +regard him under that aspect alone; simply as a being who displayed +infinite goodness in the creation, in the government, and in the +redemption of the world. Language itself indicates, that the whole +system of moral rectitude is comprised in it—<i>[Greek: +energetein], benefacere</i>, beneficencethe generic term being, in +common parlance, emphatically restricted to works of charity. Nor +was this mere theory in Parr. Most men who have been economical +from necessity in their youth, continue to be so, from habit, in +their age—but Parr's hand was ever open as day. Poverty had +vexed, but had never contracted his spirit; money he despised, +except as it gave him power—power to ride in his state coach, +to throw wide his doors to hospitality, to load his table with +plate, and his shelves with learning; power to adorn his church +with chandeliers and painted windows; to make glad the cottages of +his poor; to grant a loan, to a tottering farmer; to rescue from +want a forlorn patriot, or a thriftless scholar. Whether +misfortune, or mismanagement, or folly, or vice, had brought its +victim low, his want was a passport to Parr's pity, and the dew of +his bounty fell alike upon the evil and the good, upon the just and +the unjust. It is told of Boerhaave, that, whenever he saw a +criminal led out to execution, he would say, "May not this man be +better than I? If otherwise, the praise is due, not to me, but to +the grace of God." Parr quotes the saying with applause. Such, we +doubt not, would have been his own feelings on such an +occasion.</p> +<h4>—<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</h4> +<hr class="full"> +<h2>THE GATHERER</h2> +<blockquote>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</blockquote> +<hr> +<h3>SONG FROM THE ITALIAN OF P. ROLLI.</h3> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Babbling current, would you know</p> +<p>Why I turn to thee again,</p> +<p>'Tis to find relief from woe,</p> +<p>Respite short from ceaseless pain.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>I and Sylvio on a day</p> +<p>Were upon thy bank reclin'd,</p> +<p>When dear Sylvio swore to me,</p> +<p>And thus spoke in accents kind:</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>First this flowing tide shall turn</p> +<p>Backward to its fountain head,</p> +<p>Dearest nymph, ere thou shall mourn,</p> +<p>Thy too easy faith betray'd.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Babbling current, backward turn,</p> +<p>Hide thee in thy fountain head;</p> +<p>For alas, I'm left to mourn</p> +<p>My too easy faith betray'd.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Love and life pursu'd the swain,</p> +<p>Both must have the self-same date,</p> +<p>But mine only he could mean,</p> +<p>Since his love is turn'd to hate.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Sure some fairer nymph than I,</p> +<p>From me lures the lovely youth,</p> +<p>Haply she receives like me,</p> +<p>Vows of everlasting truth.</p></div> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page352" name="page352"></a>[pg +352]</span> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Babbling current should the fair</p> +<p>Stop to listen on thy shore,</p> +<p>Bid her, Sylvio, to beware,</p> +<p>Love and truth he oft had sworn.</p></div></div> +<h4>T.H.</h4> +<hr> +<h3>THE SPRING AND THE MORNING,</h3> +<h4><i>A Ballad.</i> <i>Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington, +Bart.</i> <i>Inscribed to Miss Foote</i>.</h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When the frosts of the Winter, in mildness were ending,</p> +<p>To April I gave half the welcome of May;</p> +<p>While the Spring, fresh in youth, came delightfully blending</p> +<p>The buds that are sweet, and the songs that are gay.</p> +<p>As the eyes fixed the heart on a vision so fair,</p> +<p>Not doubting, but trusting what magic was there;</p> +<p>Aloud I exclaim'd, with augmented desire,</p> +<p>I thought 'twas the Spring, when In truth, 'tis Maria.</p></div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When the fading of stars, in the regions of splendour,</p> +<p>Announc'd that the morning was young in the East,</p> +<p>On the upland I rov'd, admiration to render,</p> +<p>Where freshness, and beauty, and lustre increas'd.</p> +<p>Whilst the beams of the morning new pleasures bestow'd,</p> +<p>While fondly I gaz'd, while with rapture I glow'd;</p> +<p>In sweetness commanding, in elegance bright,</p> +<p>Maria arose! a more beautiful light!</p></div></div> +<h4><i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>.</h4> +<hr> +<h3>UNEXPECTED REPROOF.</h3> +<p>The celebrated scholar, Muretus, was taken ill upon the road as +he was travelling from Paris to Lyons, and as his appearance was +not much in his favour, he was carried to an hospital. Two +physicians attended him, and his disease not being a very common +one, they thought it right to try something new, and out of the +usual road of practice, upon him. One of them, not knowing that +their patient knew Latin, said in that language to the other, "We +may surely venture to try an experiment upon the body of so mean a +man as our patient is." "Mean, sir!" replied Muretus, in Latin, to +their astonishment, "can you pretend to call any man so, sir, for +whom the Saviour of the world did not think it beneath him to +die?"</p> +<h3>IRELAND.</h3> +<p>The following is the territorial surface of Ireland:—</p> +<pre> + Acres. + + Arable land, gardens, meadows, pastures, and marshes 12,125,280 + + Uncultivated lands, and bogs capable of improvement ... 4,900,000 + + Surface incapable of any kind of improvement<a id="footnotetag3" +href="#footnote3"><b>3</b></a>.......... 2,416,664 + __________ + Total of acres 19,441,944 +</pre> +<hr> +<h3>ROUGE ET NOIR.</h3> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When jovial Barras was the Monarch of France,</p> +<p>And its women all lived in the light of his glance,</p> +<p>One eve, when tall Tallien and plump Josephine</p> +<p>Were trying the question, of which should be Queen,</p> +<p>Dame Josephine hung on one side of his chair,</p> +<p>With her West Indian bosom as brown as 'twas bare;</p> +<p>Dame Tallien as fondly on t'other side hung,</p> +<p>With a blush that might burn up the spot where she clung.</p> +<p>Old Sieyes stalked in; saw my lord at his wine,</p> +<p>Now toasting the copper-skin, now the carmine;</p> +<p>Then starting away, cried, "Barras, <i>le bon soir</i>;</p> +<p>'Twas for business <i>I</i> came; I leave <i>you Rouge et +Noir</i>."</p></div></div> +<hr class="full"> +<h3>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS.</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. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, +Issue 371, May 23, 1829 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 6, 2004 [eBook #11487] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, +AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 13, ISSUE 371, MAY 23, 1829*** + + +E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Margaret, and the Project Gutenberg +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustration. + See 11487-h.htm or 11487-h.zip: + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/4/8/11487/11487-h/11487-h.htm) + or + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/4/8/11487/11487-h.zip) + + + + +THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + +VOL. 13, NO. 371.] SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1829. [PRICE 2d. + + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE FORTUNE PLAYHOUSE. + + +[Illustration: The Fortune Playhouse.] + + +The Engraving represents one of the playhouses of Shakspeare's time, +as the premises appeared a few years since. This theatre was in Golden +Lane, Barbican, and was built by that celebrated and benevolent actor +Edward Alleyn, the pious founder of Dulwich College, in 1599. It was +burnt in 1624, but rebuilt in 1629. A story is told of a large treasure +being found in digging for the foundation, and it is probable that the +whole sum fell to Alleyn. Upon equal probability, is the derivation of +the name "The Fortune." The theatre was a spacious brick building, and +exhibited the royal arms in plaster on its front. These are retained in +the Engraving; where the disposal of the lower part on the building into +shops, &c. is a sorry picture of the "base purposes" to which a temple +of the Drama has been converted. + +According to the testimony of Ben Jonson and others, Alleyn was the +first actor of his time, and of course played leading characters in the +plays of Shakspeare and Jonson. He was probably the Kemble of his day, +for his biographers tell us such was his celebrity, that he drew crowds +of spectators after him wherever he performed; so that possessing some +private patrimony, with a careful and provident disposition, he soon +became master of an establishment of his own--and this was the +_Fortune_. Although Alleyn left behind him a large sum, it is hardly +probable that he made it here; for in his diary, which, we believe is +extant, he records that he once had so slender an audience, that the +whole receipts of the house amounted to no more than three pounds and a +few odd shillings--a sum which would not pay the expenses; for it +appears by the MS. of Lord Stanhope, treasurer to James I. that the +customary sum paid for the performance of a play at court, was 20 +nobles, or 6l. 12s. 4d.[1] Alleyn was likewise proprietor of the +Blackfriars' Theatre, near what is still called Playhouse Yard. However +he might have gathered laurels on the stage, he must have gained his +fortune by other means. He was keeper of the King's Bear Garden and +Menagerie, which were frequented by thousands, and produced Alleyn, the +then great sum of 500_l_. per annum. He was also thrice married, and +received portions with his two first wives; and we need not insist upon +the turn which matrimony gives to a man's fortune. + + + [1] The nightly expenses of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres + in these days, are upwards of 200_l_. + + +Among the theatrico-antiquarian gossip of _The Fortune_ is, that it was +once the nursery for Henry VIII.'s children--but "no scandal about +the"--we hope. + + * * * * * + + + + +FINE ARTS + + * * * * * + + +EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. + + +All men are critics, in a greater or less degree. They can generalize +upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they cannot point out +the details of the defects, or in what the beauty of a picture consists; +and to prove this, only let the reader visit the Exhibition at Somerset +House, and watch the little critical _coteries_ that collect round the +most attractive paintings. Could all these criticisms be embodied, but +in "terms of art," what a fine lecture would they make for the Royal +Academy. + +Our discursive notice would, probably, contribute but little to this +joint-stock production; but as even comparing notes is not always +unprofitable, we venture to give our own. + +The present Exhibition is much superior to that of last year. There are +more works of imagination, and consequently greater attractions for the +lover of painting; for life-breathing as have been many of the portraits +in recent exhibitions, the interest which they created was of quite a +different nature to that which we take in not a few of the pictures of +the present collection. Portraits still superabound, and finely painted +portraits too; but, strange to say, there are fewer female portraits in +the present than in any recent exhibition. + +But the _elite_ are seven pictures by Mr. Wilkie, who has reappeared, as +it were, in British art, after an absence from England; during which he +appears to have studied manners and costume with beautiful effect; and +the paintings to which we allude, are triumphant proofs of his success. +They are embodiments or realizations of character, manners, and scenery, +with which the painter has been wont to mix, and thus to transfer them +to his canvass with vividness and fidelity--merits of the highest order +in all successes of art. We shall touch upon these pictures in our +ramble through the rooms-- + +4. _Subject from the Revelations_.--F. Danby--A sublime composition. + +10. _The Fountain_: morning.--A.W. Callcott. A delightful picture. + +14. _Rubens and the Philosopher_.--G. Clint. The anecdote of Rubens and +Brondel, the alchemist, remarkably well told. + +16. _Benaiah_.--W. Etty--The line in 2 Samuel xxiii. 20., "he slew two +lion-like men of Moab," has furnished Mr. Etty with the subject of this +picture. It is a surprising rather than a pleasing composition; but the +strength of colouring is very extraordinary. The disproportions of parts +of the principal figure will, however, be recognised by the most casual +beholder: although as a fine display of muscular energy, this picture is +truly valuable, and is a proud specimen of the powerful genius of the +painter. + +28. _Waterfall near Vatlagunta, in the peninsula of India, in the +mountains that divide the Coasts of Coromandel and Malabar: its height +between 500 and 600 feet_.--W. Daniell.--The sublime and stupendous +character of the scenery will enable the reader to form some idea of the +difficulty with which the artist had to contend. + +43. _The Lady in St. Swithin's Chair_ from vol. i. Waverley.--Sir W. +Beechey.--We confess ourselves far from pleased with this picture. There +is a want of freedom in it which is any thing but characteristic of the +incident which it is intended to portray. + +56. _The Spanish Posado_.--D. Wilkie.--We must describe this picture in +the words of the catalogue:-- + +This represents a Guerrilla council of war, at which three reverend +fathers--a Dominican, a monk of the Escurial, and a Jesuit, are +deliberating on some expedient of national defence, with an emissary in +the costume of Valencia. Behind them is the posadera, or landlady, +serving her guests with chocolate, and the begging student of Salamanca, +with his lexicon and cigar, making love to her. On the right of the +picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front +of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a +Spanish guitar. On the floor are seated the goatherd and his sister, +with the muzzled house-dog and pet lamb of the family, and through the +open portal in the background is a distant view of the Guadarama +mountains--It is next to impossible for us to do justice to the +diversified character of this picture. The deliberation of the fathers, +and the little bit of episode between the landlady and student are +extremely interesting. + +(_To be continued._) + + * * * * * + + +SPITTLE-FIELDS, AND WEAVING IN FORMER DAYS. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +Stowe says, "On the east side of the churchyard of St. Mary Spittle, +lyeth a large field, of old time called _Lolesworth_, now +_Spittle-Field_, which about the year 1576, was broken up for clay to +make bricke; in digging thereof many earthen pots called urnae, were +found full of ashes and the bones of men, to wit of the Romans that +inhabited here. For it was the custom of the Romans to burne their dead, +to put their ashes in an urne, and then bury the same with certain +ceremonies, in some field appointed for the purpose neere unto their +city. Every one of these pots had in them (with the ashes of the dead) +one piece of copper money, with an inscription of the emperor then +reigning. Some of them were of Claudius, some of Vespasian, some of +Nero, &c. There hath also been found (in the same field) divers coffins +of stone, containing the bones of men; these I suppose to be the bones +of some speciall persons, in the time of the Brittons, or Saxons, after +that the Romans had left to govern here. + +"The priory and hospital of St. Mary Spittle, was founded (says Pennant) +in 1197, by Walter Brune, Sheriff of London, and his wife, Rosia, for +canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. It was remarkable for its +pulpit cross, at which a preacher used to preach a sermon consolidated +out of four others, which had been preached at St. Paul's Cross, on Good +Friday, and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter week; giving +afterwards a sermon of his own. At these sermons the mayor and aldermen +attended, dressed in different coloured robes on each occasion. This +custom continued till the destruction of church government in the civil +wars. They have since been transferred to St. Bride's Church. Queen +Elizabeth, in April, 1559, visited St. Mary Spittal, in great state, +probably to hear a sermon delivered from the cross. This princess was +attended by a thousand men in harness with shirts of mail and corslets, +and morice pikes, and ten great pieces carried through London unto the +court, with drums and trumpets sounding, and two morice-dancers, and in +a cart two white bears." + +The priory of St. Mary, of St. Mary Spittle, contained at its +dissolution, about the year 1536, no less than 180 beds for the +reception of sick persons and travellers. Richard Tarleton, the famous +comedian, at the Curtain Theatre, it is said, "kept an ordinary in +Spittle-fields, pleasant fields for the citizens to walk in;" and the +row called Paternoster Row, as the name implies, was formerly a few +houses, where they sold rosaries, relics, &c. The once celebrated +herbalist and astrologer, Nicholas Culpepper, was another inhabitant of +this spot. He died in 1654, in a house he had some time occupied, very +pleasantly situated in the fields; but now a public house at the corner +of Red Lion Court, Red Lion Street, east of Spittlefields market. The +house, though it has undergone several repairs, still exhibits the +appearance of one of those that formed a part of old London. The weaving +art, which has arrived at such an astonishing perfection, was patronized +by the wise and liberal Edward III., who encouraged the art by the most +advantageous offers of reward and encouragement to weavers who would +come and settle in England. In 1331, two weavers came from Brabant and +settled at York. The superior skill and dexterity of these men, who +communicated their knowledge to others, soon manifested itself in the +improvement and spread of the art of weaving in this island. Many +Flemish weavers were driven from their native country by the cruel +persecutions of the Duke d'Alva, in 1567. They settled in different +parts of England, and introduced and promoted the manufacture of baizes, +serges, crapes, &c. The arts of spinning, throwing, and weaving silk, +were brought into England about the middle of the fifteenth century, and +were practised by a company of women in London, called silk women. About +1480, men began to engage in the silk manufacture, and in the year 1686, +nearly 50,000 manufacturers, of various descriptions, took refuge in +England, in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, by +Louis le Grand, who sent thousands (says Pennant) of the most +industrious of his subjects into this kingdom to present his bitterest +enemies with the arts and manufactures of his kingdom; hence the origin +of the silk trade in Spittlefields. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + +THE BIRD OF THE TOMB. + +BY LEIGH CLIFFE. + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + +In "Lyon's attempt to reach Repulse Bay," the following passage, which +suggested these verses, may be met with. "Near the large grave was a +third pile of stones, covering the body of a child. A Snow-Buntin (the +Red-Breast of the Arctic Regions) had found its way through the loose +stones which composed this little tomb, and its now forsaken, neatly +built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child." + + + Beneath the chilly Arctic clime, + Where Nature reigns severe, sublime, + Enthron'd upon eternal snows, + Or rides the waves on icy floes-- + Where fierce tremendous tempests sweep + The bosom of the rolling deep, + And beating rain, and drifting hail + Swell the wild fury of the gale; + There is a little, humble tomb, + Not deckt with sculpture's pageant pride, + Nor labour'd verse to tell by whom + The habitant was lov'd who died! + No trophied 'scutcheon marks the grave-- + No blazon'd banners round it wave-- + 'Tis but a simple pile of stones + Rais'd o'er a hapless infant's bones; + Perchance a mother's tears have dew'd + This sepulchre, so frail and rude;-- + A father mourn'd in accents wild, + His offspring lost--his only child-- + Who might, in after years, have spread + A ray of honour round his head, + Nor thought, as stone on stone he threw, + His child would meet a stranger's view. + + But, lo! upon its clay-cold breast, + The Arctic Robin rais'd its nest, + And rear'd its little fluttering young, + Where Death in awful quiet slept, + And fearless chirp'd, and gaily sung + Around the babe its parents wept. + It was the guardian of the grave, + And thus its chirping seem'd to say:-- + "Tho' naught from Death's chill grasp could save, + Tho' naught could chase his power away-- + As round this humble spot I wing, + My thrilling voice shall daily sing + A requiem o'er the faded flower, + That bloom'd and wither'd in an hour, + And prov'd life is, in every view, + Naught but a rose-bud twin'd with rue. + A blossom born at day's first light, + And fading with the earliest night; + Nor stranger's step, nor shrieking loom, + Shall scare the warbler from the tomb'" + + + * * * * * + + +CURING THE "KING'S EVIL." + +(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) + + +About five miles from Sturminster Newton, and near the village of +Hazlebury, resides a Dr. B----, who has attained a reputation, far +extended, for curing, in a miraculous manner, the king's evil; and as +the method he employs is very different from that of most modern +practitioners, a short account of it may, perhaps, be acceptable to the +readers of the MIRROR. + +I had long known that the doctor used some particular season for his +operations, but was unable to say precisely the time, until a few days +since I had a conversation with a person who is well acquainted with the +doctor and his yearly "_fair, or feast_," as it is termed. Exactly +twenty-four hours before the new moon, in the month of May, every year, +whether it happens by night or by day, the afflicted persons assemble at +the doctor's residence, where they are supplied, by him, with the hind +legs of a _toad!_ yes, gentle reader a toad--don't start--enclosed in a +small bag (accompanied, I believe, with some verbal charm, or +incantation,) and also a lotion and salve of the doctor's preparation. +The bag containing the legs of the reptile is worn suspended from the +neck of the patient, and the lotion and salve applied in the usual +manner, until the cure is completed, or until the next year's "_fair_." + +One would think that such a mysterious routine of doctoring, would +attract but few, and those the most illiterate; but I can assure my +readers the case is different. The number of carts, chaises, and other +conveyances laden with the afflicted which passed through this place on +the 2nd instant, bore ample testimony to the number of the doctor's +applicants; and the appearance of many of them corroborated the opinion +that they moved in a respectable sphere of life. + +The new moon happening this year on the 3rd instant, at 57 minutes past +7 o'clock in the morning, the "fair" took place at the same hour the +preceding day. + +My readers, no doubt, have heard of the efficacy of the stone in the +toad's head, alluded to by Shakspeare,[2] for curing the cramp, &c. by +application to the afflicted part; but it was left for Dr. B---- to +discover the virtues of a toad's leg. Apropos, an eccentric friend of +mine, once gravely told me he intended to procure this precious Bufonian +jewel; and as probably some reader may feel a wish to possess it, I will +furnish him with the proper method of obtaining it, as communicated by +my scientific friend. Voici--Cut off poor bufo's head and enclose it in +a small box pierced with many holes; place it in an ant hill, and let it +remain some ten or twelve days, in which time, or a little longer, the +ants will have entered and eaten up every part except the stone. RURIS. + + + [2] "Sweet are the uses of Adversity, + Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, + Wears yet, a precious jewel in his head." + + + * * * * * + + +"THE MORNING STAR." + +(_For the Mirror_.) + + + Queen of celestial beauty! Morning Star! + Accept a humble bard's untut'red lay; + To him, thy loveliness, surpasseth far + The silv'ry moon, and eke the God of day. + The world with all its pride cannot display + A form so fair, so beautiful as thine; + Its glories fade, its proudest beauties die; + But you fair star! as first created shine, + In never fading immortality! + Like vice, from virtue's glance, yon clouds retire, + Before the smile of one benignant ray, + Sleepless and sad, my soul would fain aspire, + Promethean like, to snatch ethereal fire, + And draw relief from thee! bright harbinger of day! + + +JNO. JONES. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE SKETCH-BOOK + + * * * * * + + +SCHINDERHANNES, THE GERMAN ROBBER. + + +At the commencement of the French Revolution, and for some time after, +the two banks of the Rhine were the theatre of continual wars. Commerce +was interrupted, industry destroyed, the fields ravaged, and the barns +and cottages plundered; farmers and merchants became bankrupts, and +journeymen and labourers thieves. Robbery was the only mechanical art +which was worth pursuing, and the only exercises followed were assault +and battery. These enterprises were carried on at first by individuals +trading on their own capital of skill and courage; but when the French +laws came into more active operation in the seat of their exploits, +the desperadoes formed themselves, for mutual protection, into +copartnerships, which were the terror of the country. Men soon arose +among them whose talents, or prowess, attracted the confidence of +their comrades, and chiefs were elected, and laws and institutions +established. Different places of settlement were chosen by different +societies; the famous Pickard carried his band into Belgium and Holland; +while on the confines of Germany, where the wild provinces of Kirn, +Simmerm, and Birkenfield offered a congenial field, the banditti were +concentrated, whose last and most celebrated chief, the redoubted +Schinderhannes, is the subject of this brief notice. + +His predecessors, indeed, Finck, Peter the Black, Zughetto, and Seibert +were long before renowned among those who square their conduct by the +good old rule of clubs; they were brave men, and stout and pitiless +robbers. But Schinderhannes, the boldest of the bold, young, active +and subtle, converted the obscure exploits of banditti into the +comparatively magnificent ravages of "the outlaw and his men;" and +sometimes marched at the head of sixty or eighty of his troop to the +attack of whole villages. Devoted to pleasure, no fear ever crossed him +in its pursuit; he walked publicly with his mistress, a beautiful girl +of nineteen, in the very place which the evening before had been the +scene of one of his criminal exploits; he frequented the fairs and +taverns, which were crowded with his victims; and such was the terror +he had inspired, that these audacious exposures were made with perfect +impunity. Free, generous, handsome, and jovial, it may even be conceived +that sometime he gained the protection from love which could not have +been extorted by force. + +It is scarcely a wonder that with the admirable regulations of the +robbers, they should have succeeded even to so great an extent as they +did in that unsettled country. Not more than two or three of them were +allowed to reside in the same town or village; they were scattered over +the whole face of the district, and apparently connected with each other +only by some mysterious free-masonry of their craft. When a blow was +to be struck, a messenger was sent round by the chief to warn his +followers; and at the mustering place the united band rose up, like the +clan of Roderick Dhu from the heather, to disappear as suddenly again +in darkness when the object was accomplished. Their clothing, names and +nations were changed perpetually; a Jew broker at Cologne would figure +some days after at Aix-la-Chapelle or Spa as a German baron, or a Dutch +merchant, keeping open table, and playing a high game; and the next week +he might be met with in a forest at the head of his troop. Young and +beautiful women were always in their suite, who, particularly in the +task of obtaining or falsifying passports, did more by their address +than their lovers could have effected by their courage. Spies, +principally Jews, were employed throughout the whole country, to give +notice where a booty might be obtained. Spring and autumn were the +principal seasons of their harvest; in winter the roads were almost +impassable, and in summer the days were too long; the light of the moon, +in particular, was always avoided, and so were the betraying foot prints +in the snow. They seldom marched in a body to the place of attack, but +went thither two or three in a party, some on foot, some on horseback, +and some even in carriages. As soon as they had entered a village, their +first care was to muffle the church bell, so as to prevent an alarm +being rung; or to commence a heavy fire, to give the inhabitants an +exaggerated idea of their numbers, and impress them with the feeling +that it would be more prudent to stay at home than to venture out into +the fray. + +John Buckler, _alias_ Schinderhannes, the worthy whose youthful arm +wielded with such force a power constituted in this manner, was the son +of a currier, and born at Muhlen, near Nastoeten, on the right bank of +the Rhine. The family intended to emigrate to Poland, but on the way the +father entered the Imperial service at Olmutz, in Moravia. He deserted, +and his wife and child followed him to the frontiers of Prussia, and +subsequently the travellers took up their abode again in the environs +of the Rhine. + +At the age of fifteen, Schinderhannes commenced his career of crime by +spending a louis, with which he had been entrusted, in a tavern. Afraid +to return home, he wandered about the fields till hunger compelled him +to steal a horse, which he sold. Sheep stealing was his next vocation, +but in this he was caught and transferred to prison. He made his escape, +however, the first night, and returned in a very business-like manner to +receive two crowns which were due to him on account of the sheep he had +stolen. After being associated with the band as their chief, he went to +buy a piece of linen, but thinking, from the situation of the premises, +that it might be obtained without any exchange of coin on his part, he +returned the same evening, and stealing a ladder in the neighbourhood, +placed it at a window of the warehouse, and got in. A man was writing in +the interior, but the robber looked at him steadily, and shouldering his +booty, withdrew. He was taken a second time, but escaped as before on +the same night. + +His third escape was from a dark and damp vault in the prison of +Schneppenbach, where, having succeeded in penetrating to the kitchen, +he tore an iron bar from the window by main force, and leaped out at +hazard. He broke his leg in the fall, but finding a stick, managed +to drag himself along, in the course of three nights, to Birkenmuhl, +without a morsel of food, but on the contrary, having left some ounces +of skin and flesh of his own on the road. + +Marianne Schoeffer was the first avowed mistress of Schinderhannes. +She was a young girl of fourteen, of ravishing beauty, and always +"se mettait avec une elegance extreme." Blacken Klos, one of the band, +an unsuccessful suitor of the lady, one day, after meeting with a +repulse, out of revenge carried off her clothes. When the outrage was +communicated to Schinderhannes, he followed the ruffian to a cave where +he had concealed himself, and slew him. It was Julia Blaesius, however, +who became the permanent companion of the young chief. The account +given by her of the manner in which she was united to the destiny of the +robber is altogether improbable. A person came to her, she said, and +mentioned that somebody wished to speak to her in the forest of Dolbach; +she kept the assignation, and found there a handsome young man who told +her that she must follow him--an invitation which she was obliged at +length by threats to accede to. It appears sufficiently evident, +however, that the personal attractions of Schinderhannes, who was then +not twenty-two, had been sufficient of themselves to tempt poor Julia +to her fate, and that of her own accord + + + "She fled to the forest to hear a love tale." + + +It may be, indeed, as she affirmed, that she was at first ignorant of +the profession of her mysterious lover, who might address her somewhat +in the words of the Scottish free-booter-- + + + "A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien-- + A bonnet of the blue, + A doublet of the Lincoln green, + 'Twas all of me you knew." + + +But it is known that afterwards she even accompanied him personally in +some of his adventures dressed in men's clothes. + +The robberies of this noted chief became more audacious and extensive +every day, and at last he established a kind of "black mail" among the +Jews, at their own request. Accompanied one day by only two of his +comrades, he did not hesitate to attack a cavalcade of forty-five Jews +and five Christian peasants. The booty taken was only two bundles of +tobacco, the robbers returning some provisions on a remonstrance from +one of the Jews, who pleaded poverty. Schinderhannes then ordered them +to take off their shoes and stockings, which he threw into a heap, +leaving to every one the care of finding his own property. The affray +that ensued was tremendous; the forty-five Jews who had patiently +allowed themselves to be robbed by three men, fought furiously with each +other about their old shoes; and the robber, in contempt of their +cowardice, gave his carbine to one of them to hold while he looked on. + +His daring career at length drew to a close, and he and his companions +were arrested by the French authorities, and brought to trial. The +chief, with nineteen others, were condemned to death in November, 1803, +and Julia Blaesius to two years' imprisonment. The former met his fate +with characteristic intrepidity, occupied to the last moment with his +cares about Julia and his father.--_From the Foreign Quarterly +Review.--An excellent work_. + + * * * * * + + + + +RESTROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS. + + * * * * * + + +OLD MANSIONS. + + +We are in the habit of passing by our old stone manor houses without +knowing that they were important village fortresses, and substitutes for +castles. That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, for Margaret Paston, +writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw +and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis and wydses (windlasses to strain +cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows with square heads) for zr howsis her +ben low, yat yer may non man schet owt wt no long bowe." From hence we +learn that the service of the long bow was connected with elevation in +the building. + + * * * * * + + +LEGAL CRUSHING TO DEATH. + + +At the assizes in Sussex, August, 1735, a man who pretended to be dumb +and lame, was indicted for a barbarous murder and robbery. He had been +taken up upon suspicion, several spots of blood, and part of the +property being found upon him. When he was brought to the bar, he would +not speak or plead, though often urged to it, and the sentence to be +inflicted on such as stand mute, read to him, in vain. Four or five +persons in the court, swore that they had heard him speak, and the boy +who was his accomplice, and apprehended, was there to be a witness +against him; yet he continued mute; whereupon he was carried back to +Horsham gaol, to be pressed to death, if he would not plead--when they +laid on him 100 weight, then added 100 more, and he still continued +obstinate; they then added 100 more, which made 300 lb. weight, yet he +would not speak; 50 lb. more was added, when he was nearly dead, having +all the agonies of death upon him; then the executioner, who weighed +about 16 or 17 stone, laid down upon the board which was over him, and, +adding to the weight, killed him in an instant. G.K. + + * * * * * + + +LATE INSTRUCTION. + + +Socrates in his old age, learned to play upon a musical instrument. +Cato, aged 80, began to learn Greek; and Plutarch, in his old age, +acquired Latin. John Gelida, of Valentia, in Spain, did not begin the +study of _belles-lettres_, until he was 40 years old. + +Henry Spelman, having in his youth neglected the sciences, resumed them +at the age of 50, with extraordinary success. + +Fairfax, after having been the general of the parliamentary army in +England, went to Oxford, and took his degree as Doctor-of-Law. Colbert, +when minister, and almost 60 years of age, returned to his Latin and his +law, in a situation where the neglect of one, if not both, might have +been thought excusable; and Mons. Le Tellier, chancellor of France, +reverted to the learning of logic that he might dispute with his +grand-children. + +Sir John Davies, at the age of 25, produced a poem on "The Immortality +of the Soul," and in his 62nd year, as Mr. Thomas Campbell facetiously +observes, when a judge and a statesman, another on _dancing_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NOVELIST. + + * * * * * + + +ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. + + +[As Sir Walter Scott's new work has not reached us in time to enable us +to fill in the outline of the story in our present Number, we give a few +sketchy extracts, or portraits,--such as will increase the interest for +the appearance of the Narrative. + +There are some admirable specimens of Swiss scenery, which have the +effect of sublime painting: witness the following attempt of two +travellers, father and son, who with their guide, are bewildered in the +mountains by a sudden storm. The younger attempts to scale a broken path +on the side of the precipice:] + +Thus estimating the extent of his danger by the measure of sound sense +and reality, and supported by some degree of practice in such exercise, +the brave youth went forward on his awful journey, step by step, winning +his way with a caution, and fortitude, and presence of mind, which alone +could have saved him from instant destruction. At length he gained a +point where a projecting rock formed the angle of the precipice, so far +as it had been visible to him from the platform. This, therefore, was +the critical point of his undertaking; but it was also the most perilous +part of it. The rock projected more than six feet forward over the +torrent, which he heard raging at the depth of a hundred yards beneath, +with a noise like subterranean thunder. He examined the spot with the +utmost care, and was led by the existence of shrubs, grass, and even +stunted trees, to believe that this rock marked the farthest extent of +the slip, or slide of earth, and that, could he but round the angle of +which it was the termination, he might hope to attain the continuation +of the path which had been so strangely interrupted by this convulsion +of nature. But the crag jutted out so much as to afford no possibility +of passing either under or around it; and as it rose several feet above +the position which Arthur had attained, it was no easy matter to climb +over it. This was, however, the course which he chose, as the only mode +of surmounting what he hoped might prove the last obstacle to his voyage +of discovery. A projecting tree afforded him the means of raising and +swinging himself up to the top of the crag. But he had scarcely planted +himself on it, had scarcely a moment to congratulate himself, on seeing, +amid a wild chaos of cliffs and woods, the gloomy ruins of Geierstein, +with smoke arising, and indicating something like a human habitation +beside them, when, to his extreme terror, he felt the huge cliff on +which he stood tremble, stoop slowly forward, and gradually sink from +its position. Projecting as it was, and shaken as its equilibrium had +been by the recent earthquake, it lay now so insecurely poised, that its +balance was entirely destroyed, even by the addition of the young man's +weight. Aroused by the imminence of the danger, Arthur, by an +instinctive attempt at self-preservation, drew cautiously back from the +falling crag into the tree by which he had ascended, and turned his head +back as if spell-bound, to watch the descent of the fatal rock from +which he had just retreated. It tottered for two or three seconds, as if +uncertain which way to fall; and had it taken a sidelong direction, must +have dashed the adventurer from his place of refuge, or borne both the +tree and him headlong down into the river. After a moment of horrible +uncertainty, the power of gravitation determined a direct and forward +descent. Down went the huge fragment, which must have weighed at least +twenty tons, rending and splintering in its precipitate course the trees +and bushes which it encountered, and settling at length in the channel +of the torrent, with a din equal to the discharge of a hundred pieces of +artillery. The sound was re-echoed from bank to bank, from precipice to +precipice, with emulative thunders; nor was the tumult silent till it +rose into the region of eternal snows, which, equally insensible to +terrestrial sounds, and unfavourable to animal life, heard the roar in +their majestic solitude, but suffered it to die away without a +responsive voice. + +The solid rock had trembled and rent beneath his footsteps; and +although, by an effort rather mechanical than voluntary, he had +withdrawn himself from the instant ruin attending its descent, he felt +as if the better part of him, his firmness of mind and strength of body, +had been rent away with the descending rock, as it fell thundering, +with clouds of dust and smoke, into the torrents and whirlpools of the +vexed gulf beneath. In fact, the seaman swept from the deck of a wrecked +vessel, drenched in the waves, and battered against the rocks on +the shore, does not differ more from the same mariner, when, at the +commencement of the gale, he stood upon the deck of his favourite +ship, proud of her strength and his own dexterity, than Arthur, when +commencing his journey, from the same Arthur, while clinging to the +decayed trunk of an old tree, from which, suspended between heaven and +earth, he saw the fall of the crag which he had so nearly accompanied. +The effects of his terror, indeed, were physical as well as moral, for +a thousand colours played before his eyes; he was attacked by a sick +dizziness, and deprived at once of the obedience of those limbs which +had hitherto served him so admirably; his arms and hands, as if no +longer at his own command, now clung to the branches of the tree, with a +cramp-like tenacity, over which he seemed to possess no power, and now +trembled in a state of such complete nervous relaxation, as led him to +fear that they were becoming unable to support him longer in his +position. + +[We must leave the reader here, although in dire suspense--and we regret +to do so, because a beautiful incident follows--to give the following +exquisite sketch of the heroine--a Swiss maiden. We will endeavour to +connect these passages with our abridgment of the narrative.] + +An upper vest, neither so close as to display the person--a habit +forbidden by the sumptuary laws of the canton--nor so loose as to be an +encumbrance in walking or climbing, covered a close tunic of a different +colour, and came down beneath the middle of the leg, but suffered the +ancle, in all its fine proportions, to be completely visible. The foot +was defended by a sandal, the point of which was turned upwards, and the +crossings and knots of the strings which secured it on the front of the +leg were garnished with silver rings. The upper vest was gathered round +the middle by a sash of parti-coloured silk, ornamented with twisted +threads of gold; while the tunic, open at the throat, permitted the +shape and exquisite whiteness of a well-formed neck to be visible at the +collar, and for an inch or two beneath. The small portion of the throat +and bosom thus exposed was even more brilliantly fair than was promised +by the countenance, which last bore some marks of having been freely +exposed to the sun and air--by no means in a degree to diminish its +beauty, but just so far as to show that the maiden possessed the health +which is purchased by habits of rural exercise. Her long, fair hair fell +down in a profusion of curls on each side of a face whose blue eyes, +lovely features, and dignified simplicity of expression, implied at once +a character of gentleness, and of the self-relying resolution of a mind +too virtuous to suspect evil, and too noble to fear it. Above these +locks beauty's natural and most beseeming ornament--or rather, I should +say, amongst them--was placed the small bonnet, which, from its size, +little answered the purpose of protecting the head, but served to +exercise the ingenuity of the fair wearer, who had not failed, according +to the prevailing custom of the mountain maidens, to decorate the tiny +cap with a heron's feather, and the then unusual luxury of a small and +thin chain of gold, long enough to encircle the cap four or five times, +and having the ends secured under a broad medal of the same costly +metal. I have only to add, that the stature of the young person was +something above the common size, and that the whole contour of her form, +without being in the slightest degree masculine, resembled that of +Minerva, rather than the proud beauties of Juno, or the yielding graces +of Venus. The noble brow, the well-formed and active limbs, the firm and +yet light step; above all, the total absence of any thing resembling the +consciousness of personal beauty, and the open and candid look, which +seemed desirous of knowing nothing that was hidden, and conscious that +she herself had nothing to hide, were traits not unworthy of the goddess +of wisdom and of chastity. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_. + + * * * * * + + +FRENCH COOKERY AND CONFECTIONERY. + + +Monsieur Ude, who is, unquestionably, the prince of gastronomers, has +just published the tenth edition of his _French Cook_, of which, line +upon line, we may say, _Decies repelita placebit_; and Jarrin, the +celebrated _artiste en sucre_, has also revised his _Italian +Confectioner_, in a fourth edition. We should think both these works +must be the literary furniture of every good kitchen, or they ought +to be; for there is just enough of the science in them to make them +extremely useful, whilst all must allow them to be entertaining. + +A few years ago, Mrs. Glasse ruled the roast of cookery, and not a +stew was made without consulting her invaluable book. Whilst we were +embroiled in war, her instructions were standing orders, but with the +peace came a host of foreign luxuries and fashions, among these, +_Cookery from France_. Hence the French system became introduced into +the establishments of the wealthy of this country, to which may be +attributed the sale of nine editions of M. Ude's work; for it is +strictly what it professes to be, "A System of Fashionable and +Economical Cookery, adapted to the use of English Families." The tenth +edition, before us, is a bulky _tome_ of about 500 pages, with an +appendix of observations on the meals of the day; mode of giving suppers +at Routs and soirees, as practised when the author was in the employ of +Lord Sefton; and above all, a brief history of the rise and progress of +Cookery, from an admirable French treatise. This is literally the _sauce +piquante_ of the volume, and we serve a little to our readers:-- + +It appears that the science of Cookery was in a very inferior state +under the first and second race of the French kings. Gregory of Tours +has preserved the account of a repast of French warriors, at which, +in this refined age, we should be absolutely astounded. According to +Eginhard, Charlemagne lived poorly, and ate but little--however, this +trait of resemblance in Charlemagne and Napoleon, the modern Eginhards +have forgotten in their comparison of these two great men. Philippe le +Bel was hardly half an hour at table, and Francis I. thought more of +women than of eating and drinking; nevertheless, it was under this +gallant monarch that the science of gastronomy took rise in France. + +Few have heard the name of Gonthier d'Andernach. What Bacon was to +philosophy, Dante and Petrarch to poetry, Michael Angelo and Raphael +to painting, Columbus and Gama to geography, Copernicus and Galileo to +astronomy, Gonthier was in France to the art of cookery. Before him, +their code of eating was formed only of loose scraps picked up here and +there; the names of dishes were strange and barbarous, like the dishes +themselves. + +Gonthier is the father of cookery, as Descartes, of French philosophy. +It is said that Gonthier, in less than ten years, invented seven +cullises, nine ragouts, thirty-one sauces, and twenty-one soups. + +A woman opened the gates of an enlightened age; it was Catherine, the +daughter of the celebrated Lorenzo de Medici, niece of Leo the Tenth, +then in all the bloom of beauty. Accompanied by a troop of perfumers, +painters, astrologers, poets, and cooks, she crossed the Alps, and +whilst Bullan planned the Tuileries, Berini recovered from oblivion +those sauces which, for many ages, had been lost. Endowed with all the +gifts of fortune, the mother and the wife of kings, nature had also +gifted her with a palate, whose intuitive sensibility seldom falls to +the lot of sovereigns. In consequence of which, after having driven +before her this troop of male and female soothsayers, who pretended to +foretel the future, she consulted her _maitre d'hotel_, about some roast +meat brought from luxurious Florence; and dipped in a rich sauce the +same hand that held the reins of the empire, and which Roussard compared +to the rosy fingers of Aurora! Let the foolish vulgar laugh at the +importance which the queen-mother seems to place in the art of cooking; +but they have not considered that it is at table, in the midst of the +fumes of Burgundy, and the savoury odour of rich dishes, that she +meditated the means of quelling a dangerous faction, or the destruction +of a man, who disturbed her repose. It was during dinner she had an +interview with the Duke of Alba, with whom she resolved on the massacre +of St. Bartholomew. + +Not long after the massacre of St. Bartholomew the throne was occupied +by Henry de Valois, brother to Charles the Ninth, and son of Catherine. +He was a prince of good appetite, a lover of wine and good cheer, +qualities which his mother had carefully fostered and cultivated, that +she alone might hold the reigns of government. Henry de Valois spent +whole days at table, and the constellations of the kitchen shone with +the greatest splendour under this gourmand king. We date from the +beginning of his reign the invention of the fricandeau, generally +attributed to a Swiss. Now the fricandeau having its Columbus, its +discovery appears not more wonderful than that of America, and yet +it required _une grande force de tete_. + +Though we acknowledge the immense influence this monarch had over +cookery, we must not conceal that he brought in fashion aromatic sauces, +tough macaroni, cullises, and brown sauces calcined by a process like +that of roasted coffee. These sauces gave the dishes a corrosive +acidity, and as Jourdan le Cointe remarks, far from nourishing the body, +communicated to it a feverish sensation, which baffled all the skill of +physicians, in their attempts to cure it. They were positive poisons +which the Italians had introduced into France, a taste for which spread +through every class of society. + +Under the reign of Henry III. a taste for warm drinks was joined to +that of spicy dishes. Hippocrates recommends hot water in fevers, +Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in loathings, Aetius +in strangury,--whence we conclude that warm water, having so many +different qualities, must have been a very useful article at table, had +it only been to assist digestion, considering that people ate copiously +in the reign of the Valois. They made not one single repast without a +jug full of hot water, and even wine was drunk lukewarm. + +If the poor have preserved the memory of Henry IV., we cannot say as +much of his cooks. That monarch did nothing for them;--either Nature +had not endowed him with a good appetite, (for what prince ever was +perfect,) or he looked upon them, as, in the last century, we looked +upon soups, as things of hardly any use; but in return they also did +nothing for him. + +It is very remarkable, that in France, where there is but one religion, +the sauces are infinitely varied, whilst in England, where the different +sects are innumerable, there is, we may say, but one single sauce. +Melted butter, in English cookery, plays nearly the same part as the +Lord Mayor's coach at civic ceremonies, calomel in modern medicine, or +silver forks in the fashionable novels. Melted butter and anchovies, +melted butter and capers, melted butter and parsley, melted butter and +eggs, and melted butter for ever: this is a sample of the national +cookery of this country. We may date the art of making sauces from the +age of Louis XIV. Under Louis XIII. meat was either roasted or broiled: +every baker had a stove where the citizen, as well as the great lord, +sent his meat to be dressed; but, by degrees, they began to feel the +necessity of sauces. + +It appears that the great wits of the age of Louis XIV. had not that +contempt for cookery which some idealists of our days affect to have. +Boileau has described a bad repast like a man who has often seen better; +he liked the pleasures of the table, which have never been incompatible +with the gifts of genius, or the investigations of the understanding. "I +cannot conceive," says Doctor Johnson, "the folly of those, who, when at +table, think of every thing but eating; for my part, when I am there I +think of nothing else; and whosoever does not trouble himself with this +important affair at dinner, or supper, will do no good at any other +time." Boswell affirms that he never knew a man who dispatched a dinner +better than the great moralist. But what avails it to defend cooks and +gourmands? It is an axiom in political economy, according to Malthus, +that _he who makes two blades of grass grow, where before there was but +one, ought to be considered as the benefactor of his country, and of +mankind_. Is not this a service which the epicure and the cook every day +do their country? Addison thought differently from Johnson on this +subject: "Every time," says he, "that I see a splendid dinner, I fancy +fever, gout, and dropsy, are lying in ambush for me, with the whole race +of maladies which attack mankind: in my opinion an epicure is a fool." +What does this blustering of Addison prove? Boswell also asserts, that +Addison often complained of indigestion. And in the present times, the +first chemist of the day, Sir Humphry Davy, passes for a finished +gourmand. + +Roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, do not alone constitute the arc of +cooking, otherwise the savage of the Oronoco might be _maitre d'hotel_ +with Prince Esterhazy. + +The science of gastronomy made great progress under Louis XV., a +brilliant epoch for the literature of gastronomy: together with the +fashions, customs, freedom of opinion, and taste for equipages and +horses brought from Great Britain--some new dishes taken from the +culinary code of this country, such as puddings and beef-steaks, were +also introduced into France. Thanks to the increasing progress and +discoveries in chemistry, and to the genius of our artists, the art of +cookery rose to the greatest height towards the end of the last century. +What a famous age was that of Mezelier, l'Asne, Jouvent, Richaud, Chaud, +and Robert. + +History will never forget that great man, who aspired to all kinds +of glory, and would have been, if he had wished, as great a cook as +he was a statesman--I mean the Prince de Talleyrand, who rekindled the +sacred flame in France. The first clouds of smoke, which announced the +resurrection of the science of cookery in the capital, appeared from +the kitchen of an ancient bishop. + +A revolution like the French, which presented to their eyes such +terrible spectacles, must have left some traces in their physical or +intellectual constitution. At the end of this bloody drama, the mind, +bewildered by the late dreadful scenes, was unable to feel those sweet +and peaceable emotions, in which it had formerly delighted; as the +palate, having long been at rest, and now become blunted, must require +high-seasoned dishes, to excite an appetite. The reign of the Directory, +therefore is that of Romances a la Radcliffe, as well as of Sauces a la +Provencale. Fortunately, the eighth of Brumaire pulled down the five +Directors, together with their saucepans. + +Under the Consulship, and during the empire, the art of cooking, thanks +to the labours of Beauvilliers, Balaine, and other artists, made new and +remarkable improvements. Among the promoters of the gastric science, the +name of a simple amateur makes a distinguished figure--it is Grisnod +de la Reyniere, whose almanac the late Duke of York called the most +delightful book that ever issued from the press. We may affirm, that the +_Almanach des Gourmands_ made a complete revolution in the language and +usages of the country. + +We are yet too near the restoration to determine the degree of influence +it had on cookery in France. The restoration has introduced into +monarchy the representative forms friendly to epicurism, and in this +respect it is a true blessing--a new era opened _to those_ who are +hungry. + +M. Jarrin's fourth edition contains upwards of 500 receipts in Italian +confectionery, with plates of improvements, &c. like a cyclopaedian +treatise on mechanics; and when our readers know there are "seven +essential degrees of boiling sugar," they will pardon the details of the +business of this volume. The "degrees" are--1. _Le lisse_, or thread, +large or small; 2. _Le perle_, or pearl, _le soufflet_, or blow; 4. _La +plume_, the feather; 5. _Le boulet_, the ball, large or small; 6. _Le +casse_, the crack; and, 7. the _caramel_. So complete is M. Jarrin's +system of confectionery, that he is "independent of every other artist;" +for he even explains engraving on steel and on wood. What a host of +disappointments this must prevent! + +If we look further into, or "drink deep" of the art of confectionery, +we shall find it to be a perfect Microcosm--a little creation; for our +artist talks familiarly of "producing picturesque scenery, with trees, +lakes, rocks, &c.; gum paste, and modelling flowers, animals, figures, +&c." with astonishing mimic strife. We must abridge one of these +receipts for a "_Rock Piece Montee_ in a lake." + +"Roll out confectionery paste, the size of the dish intended to receive +it; put into a mould representing your _pond_ a lining of almond paste, +coloured pale pink, and place in the centre a sort of pedestal of almond +paste, supported by lumps of the same paste baked; when dry put it into +the stove. Prepare _syrup_ to fill the hollow of the _lake_, to +represent the _water_; having previously modelled in gum paste little +_swans_, place them in various parts of the _syrup_; put it into the +stove for three hours, then make a small hole through the paste, under +your _lake_, to drain off the syrup; a crust will remain with the +_swans_ fixed in it, representing the _water_. Next build the _rock_ on +the pedestal with rock sugar, biscuits, and other appropriate articles +in sugar, fixed to one another, supported by the confectionery paste you +have put in the middle, the whole being cemented together with caramel, +and ornamented. The moulding and heads should then be pushed in almond +paste, coloured red; the _cascades_ and other ornaments must be _spun in +sugar_." + +These are, indeed, romantic secrets. Spinning nets and cages with sugar +is another fine display of confectionery skill--we say nothing of the +nets and cages which our fair friends are sometimes spinning--for the +sugar compared with their bonds--are weak as the cords of the +Philistines. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE NATURALIST. + + * * * * * + + +ROOKS. + + +We glean the following interesting facts from the _Essex Herald_, as +they merit the record of a _Naturalist_. + +"The voracious habits of the rook, and the vast increase of these birds +of late years in certain parts of Essex, has been productive of great +mischief, especially in the vicinity of Writtle and of Waltham. Since +February last, notwithstanding a vigilant watch, the rooks have stolen +sets of potatoes from a considerable breadth of ground at Widford Hall. +On the same farm, during the sowing of a field of 16 acres with peas, +the number of rooks seen at one time on its surface has been estimated +at 1,000, which is accounted for by there being a preserve near, which, +at a moderate computation, contains 1,000 nests. But the damage done by +rooks at Navestock and Kelvedon Hatch, and their vicinities, within a +small circle, has been estimated at L2,000. annually. Many farmers pay +from 8_s_. to 10_s_. per week, to preserve their seed and plants by +watching; but notwithstanding such precautions, acre after acre of +beans, when in leaf and clear from the soil, have been pulled up, and +the crop lost. The late hurricane proved some interruption to their +breeding; and particularly at the estate of Lord Waldegrave, at +Navestock, where the young ones were thrown from their nests, and were +found under trees in myriads; the very nests blown down, it is said, +would have furnished the poor with fuel for a short period." + +The writer attributes this alarming increase of rooks to "a desire on +the part of gentlemen to cause them to be preserved with the same +watchfulness they do their game." The most effectual means of deterring +the rook from their depredations, is, he says, "to obtain several of +these birds at a period of the year when they can be more easily taken; +then cut them open, and preserve them by salt. In the spring, during the +seed time, these rooks are to be fastened down to the ground with their +wings spread, and their mouths extended by a pebble, as if in great +torture. This plan has been found so effectual, that even in the +vicinity of large preserves, the fields where the dead birds have been +so placed, have not been visited by a single rook." + +The scarcity of the rook in France, and the antipathy which the French +have to that bird is thus accounted for:-- + +"The fact has been often related by a very respectable Catholic Priest, +who resided many years at Chipping-hill, in Witham, that such was the +arbitrary conduct of the owners of abbeys and monasteries in France, in +preserving and cultivating the rook and the pigeon, that they increased +to such numbers as to become so great a pest, as to destroy the seed +when sown, and the young plants as soon as they appeared above the +ground; insomuch, that the farmer, despairing of a reward for his +labour, besides the loss of his seed, the fields were left barren, and +the supply of bread corn was, in consequence, insufficient to meet the +necessities of so rapidly increasing a people. The father of the +gentleman to whom we have alluded, was, for this offence, one of the +first victims to his imprudence. The revolutionary mob proceeded to his +residence, from whence they took him, and hung his body upon a gibbet; +they next proceeded to destroy the rooks and pigeons which he had +cultivated in great numbers, and strived to preserve with the same +tenacity as others do in this country. We are told by the son of this +martyr to his own folly, that the mob continued to shoot the birds +amidst the loudest acclamations, and that they exulted in the idea that +in each victim they witnessed the fall of an aristocrat." + + * * * * * + + +THE BANANA TREE. + + +The amount and rapidity of produce of this plant probably exceed that of +any other in the known world. In eight or nine months after the sucker +has been planted, clusters of fruit are formed; and in about two months +more they may be gathered. The stem is then cut down, and a fresh plant, +about two-thirds of the height of the parent stem, succeeds, and bears +fruit in about three months more. The only care necessary is to dig once +or twice a year round the roots. According to our author, on 1,076 +square feet, from 30 to 40 banana trees may be planted in Mexico, which +will yield in the space of the year 4,414 lbs. avoirdupois of fruit; +while the same space would yield only 33 lbs. avoirdupois of wheat, and +99 of potatoes. The immediate effect of this facility of supplying the +wants of nature is, that the man who can, by labouring two days in the +week, maintain himself and family, will devote the remaining five to +idleness or dissipation. The same regions that produce the banana, also +yield the two species of manioc, the bitter and the sweet: both of which +appear to have been cultivated before the conquest.--_Foreign Quarterly +Review._ + + * * * * * + + +INDIAN CORN. + + +The most valuable article in South American agriculture, is +unquestionably the maize, or Indian corn, which is cultivated with +nearly uniform success in every part of the republic. It appears to +be a true American grain, notwithstanding many crude conjectures to +the contrary. Sometimes it has been known to yield, in hot and humid +regions, 800 fold; fertile lands return from 300 to 400; and a return of +130 to 150 fold is considered bad--the least fertile soils giving 60 to +80. The maize forms the great bulk of food of the inhabitants, as well +as of the domestic animals; hence the dreadful consequences of a failure +of this crop. It is eaten either in the form of unfermented bread or +_tortillas_ (a sort of bannock, as it is called in Scotland;) and, +reduced to flour, is mingled with water, forming either _atolle_ or +various kinds of _chicha_. Maize will yield, in very favourable +situations, two or three crops per year; though it is but seldom that +more than one is gathered. + +The introduction of wheat is said to have been owing to the accidental +discovery, by a negro slave of Cortez, of three or four grains, among +some rice which had been issued to the soldiers. About the year 1530, +these grains were sown; and from this insignificant source has flowed +all the enormous produce of the upper lands of Mexico. Water is the only +element necessary to ensure success to the Mexican wheat grower; but it +is very difficult to attain this--and irrigation affords the most steady +supply. + +_Ibid._ + + * * * * * + + +THE AGAVE AMERICANA. + + +On Maguey, is an object of great value in the table land of the interior +of Mexico; from this plant is obtained the favourite liquor, the +_pulque_. At the moment of efflorescence, the flower stalk is +extirpated, and the juice destined to form the fruit flows into the +cavity thus produced, and is taken out two or three times a day for four +or five months; each day's produce is fermented for ten or fifteen days; +after which the _pulque_ is fit to drink, and before it has travelled in +skins, it is a very pleasant, refreshing liquor, to which the Mexicans +ascribe as many good qualities as the Highlander does to whiskey. The +stems of the _maguey_ can supply the place of hemp, and may be converted +into paper. The prickles too are used as pins by the Indians.--_Ibid_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + + * * * * * + + +DOCTOR PARR. + +_Concluded from page 334_. + + +Parr was evidently fond of living in troubled waters; accordingly, on +his removal to Colchester, he got into a quarrel with the trustees of +the school on the subject of a lease. He printed a pamphlet about it, +which he never published; restrained perhaps by the remarks of Sir +W. Jones, who constantly noted the pages submitted to him, with "too +violent," "too strong;" and probably thought the whole affair a battle +of kites and crows, which Parr had swelled into importance; or, it might +be, he suppressed it, influenced by the prospect of succeeding to +Norwich school, for which he was now a candidate, and by the shrewd +observation of Dr. Foster, "that Norwich might be touched by a fellow +feeling for Colchester; and the crape-makers of the one place sympathize +with the bag-makers of the other." If the latter consideration weighed +with him, it was the first and last time that any such consideration +did, Parr being apparently of the opinion of John Wesley, that there +could be no fitter subject for a Christian man's prayers, than that he +might be delivered from what the world calls "prudence." However it +happened, the pamphlet was withheld, and Parr was elected to the school +at Norwich. + +At Norwich, Parr ventured on his first publications, and obtained his +first preferment. The publications consisted of a sermon on "The Truth +of Christianity," "A Discourse on Education," and "A Discourse on the +Late Fast;" the last of which opens with a mistake singular in Parr, +who confounds the sedition of Judas Gaulonitis, mentioned in Josephus, +(_Antiq_. xviii. 1. 1.) with that under Pilate, mentioned in St. Luke, +(xiii. 1, 2, 3.); whereas the former probably preceded the latter by +twenty years, or nearly. The preferment which he gained was the living +of Asterby, presented to him by Lady Jane Trafford, the mother of one of +his pupils; which, in 1783, he exchanged for the perpetual curacy of +Hatton, in Warwickshire, the same lady being still his patron neither +was of much value. Lord Dartmouth, whose sons had also been under his +care, endeavoured to procure something for him from Lord Thurlow, but +the chancellor is reported to have said "No," with an oath. The great +and good Bishop Lowth, however, at the request of the same nobleman, +gave him a prebend in St. Paul's, which, though a trifle at the time, +eventually became, on the expiration of leases, a source of affluence to +Parr in his old age. How far he was from such a condition at this period +of his life, is seen by the following incident given by Mr. Field. The +doctor was one day in this gentleman's library, when his eye was caught +by the title of "Stephens' Greek Thesaurus." Suddenly turning about and +striking vehemently the arm of Mr. Field, whom he addressed in a manner +very usual with him; he said, "Ah! my friend, my friend, may you never +be forced, as I was at Norwich, to sell that work, to me so precious, +from absolute and urgent necessity." + +But we must on with the Doctor in his career. In 1785, for some reason +unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at Norwich, and in +the year following went to reside at Hatton. "I have an excellent house, +(he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, and a Poor, ignorant, +dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond all example. _I like +Warwickshire very much_. I have made great regulations, viz. bells chime +three times as long; Athanasian creed; communion service at the altar; +swearing act; children catechized first Sunday in the month; private +baptisms discouraged; public performed after second lesson; recovered a +100_l_. a year left the poor, with interest amounting to 115_l_., all of +which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining all +the charities." + +Here Warwickshire pleases Parr; but Parr's taste in this, and in many +other matters, (as we shall have occasion to show by and by,) was +subject to change. He soon, therefore, becomes convinced of the superior +intellect of the men of Norfolk. He finds Warwickshire, the Boeotia of +England, two centuries behind in civilization. He is anxious, however, +to be in the commission of the peace for this ill-fated county, and +applies to Lord Hertford, then Lord Lieutenant; but the application +fails; and again, on a subsequent occasion, to Lord Warwick, and again +he is disappointed. What motives operated upon their lordships' minds +to his exclusion, they did not think it necessary to avow. + +Providence has so obviously drawn a circle about every man, within +which, for the most part, he is compelled to walk, by furnishing him +with natural affections, evidently intended to fasten upon individuals; +by urging demands upon him which the very preservation of himself and +those about him compels him to listen to; by withholding from him any +considerable knowledge of what is distant, and hereby proclaiming that +his more proper sphere lies in what is near;--by compassing, him about +with physical obstacles, with mountains, with rivers, with seas +"dissociable," with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; +that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be +resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his +first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence +of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care +to the whole circuit of the city walls. + +The close of Parr's life grew brighter, The increased value of his stall +at St. Paul's set him abundantly at his ease: he can even indulge his +love of pomp--_ardetque cupidine currus_, he encumbers himself with a +coach and four. In 1816, he married a second wife, Miss Eyre, the sister +of his friend the Rev. James Eyre; he became reconciled to his two +grand-daughters, now grown up to woman's estate; he received them into +his family, and kept them as his own, till one of them became the wife +of the Rev. John Lynes. + +In the latter years of his life, Parr had been subject to erysipelas; +once he had suffered by a carbuncle, and once by a mortification in the +hand. Owing to this tendency to diseased action in the skin, he was +easily affected by cold, and on Sunday, the 16th of January, 1825, +having, in addition to the usual duties of the day, buried a corpse, +he was, on the following night, seized with a long-continued rigor, +attended by fever and delirium, and never effectually rallied again. +There is a note, however, dated November 2, 1824, addressed by him to +Archdeacon Butler, which proves that he felt his end approaching, even +before this crisis. + +"Dear and Learned Namesake,--This letter is important, and strictly +confidential. I have given J. Lynes minute and plenary directions for my +funeral. I desire you, if you can, to preach a short, unadorned funeral +sermon. Rann Kennedy is to read the lesson and grave service, though I +could wish you to read the grave service also. Say little of me, but you +are sure to say it _well_." + +Dr. Butler complied with his request, and amply made good the opinion +here expressed. He spoke of him like a warm and stedfast friend, but not +like that worst of enemies, an indiscreet one; he did not challenge a +scrutiny by the extravagance of his praise, nor break, by his precious +balms, the head he was most anxious to honour. Dr. Parr's death was +tedious, and his faculties, except at intervals, disturbed. He took +an opportunity, however, afforded him by one of these intervals, of +summoning about his bed his wife, grand-children, and servants; +confessed to them his weaknesses and errors, asked their forgiveness for +any pain he might have caused them by petulance and haste, and professed +"his trust in God, through Christ, for the pardon of his sins." One +expression, which Dr. Johnstone reports him to have used on this +occasion, is extraordinary--that "from the beginning of his life he was +not conscious of having fallen into a crime." Far be it from us to +scrutinize the words of a delirious death-bed--These must have been +uttered (if, indeed, they are accurately given) either in some peculiar +and very limited sense, or else at a moment when a man is no longer +accountable to God for what he utters. The latter was, probably, the +case: for in the same breath in which he declares "his life, even his +early life, to have been pure," he sues for pardon at the hands of his +Maker, and acknowledges a Redeemer, as the instrument through which he +is to obtain it. + +That quickness of feeling and disposition to abandon himself to +its guidance, which made Parr an inconsistent man, made him also a +benevolent one. Benevolence he loved as a subject for his contemplation, +and the practical extension of it as a rule for his conduct. He could +scarcely bear to regard the Deity under any other aspect. He would have +children taught, in the first instance, to regard him under that aspect +alone; simply as a being who displayed infinite goodness in the +creation, in the government, and in the redemption of the world. +Language itself indicates, that the whole system of moral rectitude is +comprised in it--_[Greek: energetein], benefacere_, beneficencethe +generic term being, in common parlance, emphatically restricted to works +of charity. Nor was this mere theory in Parr. Most men who have been +economical from necessity in their youth, continue to be so, from habit, +in their age--but Parr's hand was ever open as day. Poverty had vexed, +but had never contracted his spirit; money he despised, except as it +gave him power--power to ride in his state coach, to throw wide his +doors to hospitality, to load his table with plate, and his shelves with +learning; power to adorn his church with chandeliers and painted +windows; to make glad the cottages of his poor; to grant a loan, to a +tottering farmer; to rescue from want a forlorn patriot, or a thriftless +scholar. Whether misfortune, or mismanagement, or folly, or vice, had +brought its victim low, his want was a passport to Parr's pity, and the +dew of his bounty fell alike upon the evil and the good, upon the just +and the unjust. It is told of Boerhaave, that, whenever he saw a +criminal led out to execution, he would say, "May not this man be better +than I? If otherwise, the praise is due, not to me, but to the grace of +God." Parr quotes the saying with applause. Such, we doubt not, would +have been his own feelings on such an occasion.--_Quarterly Review_. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE GATHERER + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. +SHAKSPEARE. + + * * * * * + + +SONG FROM THE ITALIAN OF P. ROLLI. + + + Babbling current, would you know + Why I turn to thee again, + 'Tis to find relief from woe, + Respite short from ceaseless pain. + + I and Sylvio on a day + Were upon thy bank reclin'd, + When dear Sylvio swore to me, + And thus spoke in accents kind: + + First this flowing tide shall turn + Backward to its fountain head, + Dearest nymph, ere thou shall mourn, + Thy too easy faith betray'd. + + Babbling current, backward turn, + Hide thee in thy fountain head; + For alas, I'm left to mourn + My too easy faith betray'd. + + Love and life pursu'd the swain, + Both must have the self-same date, + But mine only he could mean, + Since his love is turn'd to hate. + + Sure some fairer nymph than I, + From me lures the lovely youth, + Haply she receives like me, + Vows of everlasting truth. + + Babbling current should the fair + Stop to listen on thy shore, + Bid her, Sylvio, to beware, + Love and truth he oft had sworn. + +T.H. + + * * * * * + + +THE SPRING AND THE MORNING, + +_A Ballad._ + + + _Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart._ + _Inscribed to Miss Foote_. + + When the frosts of the Winter, in mildness were ending, + To April I gave half the welcome of May; + While the Spring, fresh in youth, came delightfully blending + The buds that are sweet, and the songs that are gay. + As the eyes fixed the heart on a vision so fair, + Not doubting, but trusting what magic was there; + Aloud I exclaim'd, with augmented desire, + I thought 'twas the Spring, when In truth, 'tis Maria. + + When the fading of stars, in the regions of splendour, + Announc'd that the morning was young in the East, + On the upland I rov'd, admiration to render, + Where freshness, and beauty, and lustre increas'd. + Whilst the beams of the morning new pleasures bestow'd, + While fondly I gaz'd, while with rapture I glow'd; + In sweetness commanding, in elegance bright, + Maria arose! a more beautiful light! + +_Gentleman's Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + +UNEXPECTED REPROOF. + + +The celebrated scholar, Muretus, was taken ill upon the road as he was +travelling from Paris to Lyons, and as his appearance was not much in +his favour, he was carried to an hospital. Two physicians attended him, +and his disease not being a very common one, they thought it right to +try something new, and out of the usual road of practice, upon him. +One of them, not knowing that their patient knew Latin, said in that +language to the other, "We may surely venture to try an experiment upon +the body of so mean a man as our patient is." "Mean, sir!" replied +Muretus, in Latin, to their astonishment, "can you pretend to call any +man so, sir, for whom the Saviour of the world did not think it beneath +him to die?" + +IRELAND. + +The following is the territorial surface of Ireland:-- + + Acres. + + Arable land, gardens, meadows, pastures, and marshes 12,125,280 + + Uncultivated lands, and bogs capable of improvement ... 4,900,000 + + Surface incapable of any kind of improvement[3]........ 2,416,664 + __________ + Total of acres 19,441,944 + + + [3] Parliamentary Report. + + * * * * * + + +ROUGE ET NOIR. + + + When jovial Barras was the Monarch of France, + And its women all lived in the light of his glance, + One eve, when tall Tallien and plump Josephine + Were trying the question, of which should be Queen, + Dame Josephine hung on one side of his chair, + With her West Indian bosom as brown as 'twas bare; + Dame Tallien as fondly on t'other side hung, + With a blush that might burn up the spot where she clung. + Old Sieyes stalked in; saw my lord at his wine, + Now toasting the copper-skin, now the carmine; + Then starting away, cried, "Barras, _le bon soir_; + 'Twas for business _I_ came; I leave _you Rouge et Noir_." + + * * * * * + + +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. 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