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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11516 ***
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 14, No. 380.]   SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1829.   [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+
+MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE
+
+
+[Illustration: Mercers' Hall, and Cheapside]
+
+The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture of the
+metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its local
+association with names illustrious in historical record.
+
+In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated together in
+some particular street, the mercers principally assembled in West Cheap,
+now called Cheapside, near where the above hall stands, and thence
+called by the name of "the Mercery." In Lydgate's _London Lyckpenny_,
+are the following lines alluding to this custom:
+
+  Then to Chepe I began me drawne,
+  When much people I saw for to stand;
+  One offered me velvet, silk and lawne
+  And another he taketh me by the hand.
+  Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land.
+
+Pennant thus describes the principal historical data of the spot:
+
+"On the north side of Cheapside, (between Ironmonger Lane and Old
+Jewry,) stood the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, founded by Thomas
+Fitz-Theobald de Helles, and his wife Agnes, sister to the turbulent
+Thomas Becket, who was born in the house of his father, Gilbert,
+situated on this spot. The mother of our meek saint was a fair Saracen,
+whom his father had married in the Holy Land. On the site of this house
+rose the hospital, built within twenty years after the murder of Thomas;
+yet such was the repute of his sanctity, that it was dedicated to him,
+in conjunction with the blessed Virgin, without waiting for his
+canonization. The hospital consisted of a master and several brethren,
+professing the rule of St. Austin. The church, cloisters, &c. were
+granted by Henry VIII. to the Mercers' Company, who had the gift of the
+mastership.[1]
+
+    [1] Tanner.
+
+"In the old church were several monuments; among others, one to James
+Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Joan his wife, living in the beginning of
+the reign of Henry VI. The whole pile was destroyed in the great fire,
+but was very handsomely rebuilt by the Mercers' Company, who have their
+Hall here.
+
+"In this chapel the celebrated, but unsteady, archbishop of Spalato,
+preached his first sermon in 1617, in Italian, before the Archbishop of
+Canterbury, and a splendid audience; and continued his discourses in the
+same place several times, after he had embraced our religion; but having
+the folly to return to his ancient faith, and trust himself among his
+old friends at Rome, he was shut up in the Castle of St. Angelo, where
+he died in 1625."
+
+"The Mercers' Company is the first of the twelve. The name by no means
+implied, originally, a dealer in silks: for _mercery_ included all sorts
+of small wares, toys, and haberdashery; but, as several of this opulent
+company were merchants, and imported great quantities of rich silks from
+Italy, the name became applied to the Company, and all dealers in silk.
+Not fewer than sixty-two mayors were of this Company, between the years
+1214 and 1762; among which were Sir John Coventry, Sir Richard
+Whittington, and Sir Richard and Sir John Gresham."
+
+The front in Cheapside, which alone can be seen, is narrow, but floridly
+adorned with carvings and architectural ornaments. The door is enriched
+with the figures of two cupids, mantling the arms, festoons, &c. and
+above the balcony, it is adorned with two pilasters, entablature, and
+pediment of the Ionic order; the intercolumns are the figures of Faith
+and Hope, and that of Charity, in a niche under the cornice of the
+pediment, with other enrichments. The interior is very handsome. The
+hall and great parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic
+pilasters. The ceiling is of fret-work, and the stately piazzas are
+constituted by large columns, and their entablature of the Doric order.
+
+The arms of the Mercers, as they are sculptured over the gateway,
+present for their distinguishing feature a demi-virgin with dishevelled
+hair: it was in allusion to this circumstance, that in the days of
+pageantry, at the election of Lord Mayor, a richly ornamented chariot
+was produced, in which was seated a young and beautiful virgin, most
+sumptuously arrayed, her hair flowing in ringlets over her neck and
+shoulders, and a crown upon her head. When the day's diversions were
+over, she was liberally rewarded and dismissed, claiming as her own the
+rich attire she had worn.
+
+From this place likewise was formerly a solemn procession by the Lord
+Mayor, who, in the afternoon of the day he was sworn at the Exchequer,
+met the Aldermen; whence they repaired together to St. Paul's, and there
+prayed for the soul of their benefactor, William, Bishop of London, in
+the time of William the Conqueror, at his tomb. They then went to the
+churchyard to a place where lay the parents of Thomas â Becket, and
+prayed for all souls departed. They then returned to the chapel, and
+both Mayor and Aldermen offered each a penny.
+
+Attached to the original foundation or hospital was a grammar-school,
+which has been subsequently continued at the expense of the Mercers'
+Company, though not on the same spot. It was for some time kept in the
+Old Jewry, whence it has been removed to College Hill, Upper Thames
+Street. Among the masters may be mentioned William Baxter, nephew to the
+non-conformist, Richard Baxter, and author of two Dictionaries of
+British and Roman Antiquities.
+
+Nearly opposite the entrance to Mercers' Hall, is a handsome
+stone-fronted house, built by Sir Christopher Wren. The houses adjoining
+the Hall were of similar ornamental character; although the unenclosed
+shop-fronts present a strange contrast with some of the improvements and
+superfluities of modern times. The Hall front has lately been renovated,
+and presents a rich display of architectural ornament.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE LONE GRAVES.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  Why should their sleep thus silent be, from streams and flow'rs away,
+  While wanders thro' the sunny air the cuckoo's mellow lay;
+  Those forms, whose eyes reflected heaven in their mild depth of blue,
+  Whose hair was like the wave that shines o'er sands of golden hue?
+
+  Are these the altars of their rest, the pure and sacred shrines;
+  Where Memory, rapt o'er visions fled, her holy spell combines?
+  The sire, the child, oh, waft them back to their delightful dell,
+  When, like a voice from heavenly lands, awakes the curfew bell.
+
+  And have they no remembrance here, the cheeks that softly glow'd,
+  The amber hair, that, on the breeze, in gleaming tresses flow'd,
+  The hymn which hail'd the Sabbath morn,--the fix'd and fervid eye;
+  Must these sweet treasures of the heart in shade and silence lie?
+
+  Oh, no! thou place of sanctities! a ray has from thee gone,
+  Dearer than noontide's gorgeous light, or Sabbath's music tone;
+  A spirit! whose bright ark is far beyond the clouds and waves,
+  Albeit there is a sunless gloom on these, their lonely graves!
+
+  REGINALD AUGUSTINE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BAGLEY WOOD.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Bagley is situated about two miles and a half from Oxford, on the
+Abingdon-road, and affords an agreeable excursion to the Oxonians, who,
+leaving the city of learning, pass over the old bridge, where the
+observatory of the celebrated Friar Bacon was formerly standing. The
+wood is large, extending itself to the summit of a hill, which commands
+a charming panoramic view of Oxford, and of the adjacent country. The
+scene is richly diversified with hill and dale, while the spires,
+turrets, and towers of the university, rise high above the clustering
+trees, filling the beholder with the utmost awe and veneration. During
+the summer, this rustic spot presents many cool retreats, and
+love-embowering shades; and here many an amour is carried on, free from
+suspicion's eye, beneath the wide umbrageous canopy of nature.
+
+Gipsies, or _fortune-tellers_, are constantly to be found in Bagley
+Wood; and many a gay Oxonian may be seen in the company of some
+wandering Egyptian beauty. So partial, indeed, are several of the young
+men of the university to the tawny tribe, that they are frequently
+observed in their _academicals_, lounging round the picturesque tents,
+having _their_ fortunes told; though, it must be remarked, their
+countenances usually evince a waggish incredulity on those occasions,
+and they appear much more amused with the novel scene around them than
+gratified with the favourable predictions of the wily Egyptians.
+
+The merry gipsies of Bagley Wood might well sing with _Herrick_
+
+  "Here we securely live, and eat
+  The cream of meat;
+  And keep eternal fires
+  By which we sit, _and do divine_."
+
+G.W.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EATING "MUTTON COLD."
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+A correspondent in a late number asks for a solution of the expression,
+"eating mutton cold." If the following one is worth printing, it is much
+at your service and that of the readers of the MIRROR.
+
+I consider then that it has simply the same meaning as that of "coming a
+day after the fair." To come at the end of a feast when the various
+viands (always including mutton as being easy of digestion for dyspeptic
+people) were still warm, though cut pretty near to the bone, would, by
+most persons, particularly aldermanic "bodies," be considered
+sufficiently vexatious; how doubly annoying then must it be to come so
+late as to find the meats more than half cold, and, perhaps, but little
+of them left even in that anti-epicurean state! Whoever has been
+unfortunate enough to miss a fine fat haunch either of venison or
+mutton, which, smoking on the board, even Dr. Kitchiner would have
+pronounced fit for an emperor, cannot but enter deeply and feelingly
+into the disappointment of that guest who, arriving, through some
+misdate of the invitation card, on the day subsequent to the feast,
+finds but, _horribile dictu_, cold lean ham, cold pea-soup, cold
+potatoes, and finally, _cold mutton_. Goldsmith's idea certainly was
+that Burke was never able to say, in the words of the Roman adage, _in
+tempore veni quod rerum omnium est primum_; but rather in plain English,
+"confound my ill luck, I never yet was invited to a feast but I either
+missed it in toto, or came so late as to be obliged to eat my mutton
+cold, a thing, which of all others, I most abhor." HEN. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POOL'S HOLE, DERBYSHIRE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+This cave is said to have taken its title from a notorious robber of
+that name, who being declared an outlaw, found in this hole a refuge
+from justice, where he carried on his nocturnal depredations with
+impunity. Others insist that this dismal hole was the habitation of a
+hermit or anchorite, of the name of Pool. Of the two traditions, I
+prefer the former. It is situated at the bottom of _Coitmos_, a lofty
+mountain near Buxton. The entrance is by a small arch, so low that you
+are forced to creep on hands and knees to gain admission; but it
+gradually opens into a vault above a quarter of a mile in length, and as
+some assert, a quarter of a mile high. It is certainly very lofty, and
+resembles the roof of a Gothic edifice. In a cavern to the right called
+Pool's Chamber, there is a fine echo, and the dashing of a current of
+water, which flows along the middle of the great vault, very much
+heightens the wonder.
+
+On the floor are great ridges of stone--water is perpetually distilling
+from the roof and sides of this vault, and the drops before they fall
+produce a very pleasing effect, by reflecting numberless rays from the
+candles carried by the guides. They also form their quality from
+crystallizations of various flakes like figures of fret work, and in
+some places, having long accumulated upon one another, into large
+masses, bearing a rude resemblance to various animals.
+
+In the same cavity is a column as clear as alabaster, called _Mary Queen
+of Scots'_ column, because it is said she reached so far; beyond which
+is a steep ascent for nearly a quarter of a mile, which terminates in a
+hollow in the roof, called the Needle's-eye, in which, when the guide
+places his candle, it looks like a star in the firmament. You only
+wonder when you get out how you attained such an achievement. W.H.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Happening to look at No. 229, of your valuable Miscellany, in which you
+have given rather a lengthy account of Canterbury Cathedral, I was
+surprised to find no notice taken of the beautiful STONE SCREEN in the
+interior of the cathedral, which is considered by many, one of the
+finest specimens of florid Gothic in the kingdom. The following is a
+brief description of this ancient specimen of architecture:
+
+This fine piece of Gothic carved work was built by Prior Hen. de Estria,
+in 1304. It is rich in flutings, pyramids, and canopied niches, in which
+stand six statues crowned, five of which hold globes in their hands, and
+the sixth a church. Various have been the conjectures as to the
+individuals intended by these statues. That holding the church is
+supposed to represent King Ethelbert, being a very ancient man with a
+long beard. The next figure appears more feminine, and may probably
+intend his queen, Bertha.
+
+Before the havoc made in Charles's reign, there were thirteen figures
+representing Christ and his Apostles in the niches which are round the
+arch-doorway, and also twelve mitred Saints aloft along the stone work,
+where is now placed an organ.
+
+At the National Repository, Charing Cross, there is exhibited a very
+correct model of this screen, in which the likenesses of the ancient
+kings are admirably imitated. P.T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANCIENT STONE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+There formerly stood about three miles from Carmarthen, at a place
+called New Church, a stone about eight feet long and two broad. The only
+distinguishable words upon it were "_Severus filius Severi_." The
+remainder of the inscription, by dilapidation and time, was defaced. It
+is supposed that there had been a battle fought here, and that Severus
+fell. About a quarter of a mile from this was another with the name of
+some other individual. The above stone was removed by the owner of the
+land on which it stood, and is now used instead of a gate-post by him. I
+should imagine it was the son of Severus the Roman, who founded the
+great wall and ditch called after him, Severus' Wall and Ditch, and as
+there was a Roman road from St. David's, in Wales, to Southampton, it is
+not improbable that the Romans should come from thence to Carmarthen.
+W.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE COSMOPOLITE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DIET OF VARIOUS NATIONS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+To the artist, the amateur, the traveller, and man of taste in general,
+the following gleanings respecting the diet of various nations, are, in
+the spirit of English hospitality, cordially inscribed. The breakfast of
+the _Icelanders_ consists of _skyr_, a kind of sour, coagulated milk,
+sometimes mixed with fresh milk or cream, and flavoured with the juice
+of certain berries; their usual dinner is dried fish, skyr, and rancid
+butter; and skyr, cheese, or porridge, made of Iceland moss, forms their
+supper; bread is rarely tasted by many of the Icelanders, but appears as
+a dainty at their rural feasts with mutton, and milk-porridge. They
+commonly drink a kind of whey mixed with water. As the cattle of this
+people are frequently, during winter, reduced to the miserable necessity
+of subsisting on dried fish, we can scarcely conceive their fresh meat
+to be so great a luxury as it is there esteemed. The poor of _Sweden_
+live on hard bread, salted or dried fish, water-gruel, and beer. The
+_Norwegian_ nobility and merchants fare sumptuously, but the lower
+classes chiefly subsist on the following articles:--oatmeal-bread, made
+in thin cakes (strongly resembling the havver-bread of Scotland) and
+baked only twice a-year. The oatmeal for this bread is, in times of
+scarcity, which in Norway frequently occur, mixed with the bark of elm
+or fir tree, ground, after boiling and drying, into a sort of flour;
+sometimes in the vicinity of fisheries, the roes of cod kneaded with the
+meal of oats or barley, are made into a kind of hasty-pudding, and soup,
+which is enriched with a pickled herring or mackerel. The flesh of the
+shark, and thin slices of meat salted and dried in the wind, are much
+esteemed. Fresh fish are plentiful on the coasts, but for lack of
+conveyances, unknown in the interior; the deficiency however, is there
+amply supplied by an abundance of game. The flesh of cattle pickled,
+smoked, or dry-salted, is laid by for winter store; and after making
+cheese, the sour whey is converted into a liquor called _syre_, which,
+mixed with water, constitutes the ordinary beverage of the Norwegians;
+but for festive occasions they brew strong beer, and with it intoxicate
+themselves, as also with brandy, when procurable. The maritime
+_Laplanders_ feed on fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog,
+fish-livers, and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty
+provision; they are even aspiring to the rank of the interior
+inhabitants, whose nutriment is of a more delicate description, being
+the flesh of all kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and
+birds of prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty. Rein-deer
+flesh is commonly boiled in a large iron kettle, and when done, torn to
+pieces by the fingers of the _major domo_, and by him portioned out to
+his family and friends; the broth remaining in the kettle is boiled into
+soup with rye or oat-meal, and sometimes seasoned with salt. Rein-deer
+blood is also a viand with these people, and being boiled, either by
+itself or mixed with wild berries, in the stomach of the animal from
+whence it was taken, forms a kind of black-pudding. The beverage of the
+Laplanders is milk and water, broths, and fish-soups; brandy, of which
+they are extremely fond, is a great rarity, and a glass of it will warm
+their hearts towards the weary sojourner, who, but for the precious
+gift, might ask hospitality at their huts in vain. The diet of the
+_Samoides_, resembles that of the Laplanders, save that they devour raw
+the flesh of fish and reindeer. For this people, all animals taken in
+the chase, and even those found dead, afford food, with the exception of
+dogs, cats, ermines, and squirrels. They have no regular time for meals,
+but the members of a family help themselves when they please from the
+boiler which always hangs over the fire. It is scarcely possible to name
+the variety of diet to be found among the Russian tribes; but even in
+cities, and at the tables of the opulent and civilized, late accounts
+mention the appearance of several strange and disgusting dishes,
+compounded of pastry, grain, pulse, vinegar, honey, fish, flesh, fruits,
+&c., not at all creditable to Russian gastronomic science. The diet of
+the _Polish_ peasantry is meagre in the extreme; they seldom taste
+animal food, and both sexes swallow a prodigious quantity of _schnaps_,
+an ardent spirit resembling whiskey. The _Dutch_ of all ranks are fond
+of butter, and seldom is a journey taken without a butter-box in the
+pocket. The boors feed on roots, pulse, herbs, sour milk, and
+water-souchie, a kind of fish-broth. In _England_, the edible produce of
+the world appears at the tables of the nobility, gentry, and opulent
+commercial classes; and upon comparison with that of other nations, it
+will be seen that the diet of English artisans, peasantry, and even
+paupers, is far superior in variety and nourishment; bread, (white and
+brown) vegetables, meat, broth, soup, fish, fruit, roots, herbs, cheese,
+milk, butter, and, not rarely, sugar and tea, with fermented liquors and
+ardent spirits, are all, or most of them, procured as articles of daily
+subsistence by the English inferior classes. In Scotland, the higher
+ranks live abstemiously, save on festive occasions; but animal food and
+wheaten bread is seldom tasted by the lower orders, who chiefly subsist
+on rye, barley, and oatmeal, prepared in bread, thin cakes, and
+porridge; this last termed _stirabout_, is simply oatmeal mixed with
+water and boiled (being stirred about with a wooden skether or spoon
+when on the fire) to the consistency of flour-paste, not very stiff;
+this, eaten with milk, forms the chief diet of the Scottish artisans and
+peasantry, and, indeed, many of superior stations prefer it for
+breakfast to bread of the finest flour which can be procured. Both high
+and low are partial to the following national dishes. The _haggis_, a
+kind of pudding, made of the offals or interior of a sheep, and boiled
+in the integument of its stomach; this dish, both in odour and flavour,
+is usually excessively offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's
+head, water-souchie, Scotch soup, (an _olla podrida_ of meats and
+vegetables,) chicken-broth and sowens. _Laver_, a sauce made from a
+peculiar kind of sea-weed, and _caviar_, introduced from Russia, appear
+at the tables of the opulent, and by many are much esteemed. The diet of
+the higher ranks of _Irish_ varies but little from that of the same
+classes in England and Scotland. Amongst national dishes appear the
+_staggering bob_, a calf only two days old, delicately dressed;
+hodge-podge, a soup answering to that of Scotland; colcannon, a mixture
+of potatoes and greens, seasoned with onions, salt, and pepper, finely
+braided together after boiling; and a sea-weed sauce, either laver or
+some other, the name of which we do not happen to remember. Potatoes,
+fish, (fresh and salted) eggs, milk, and butter-milk, form the principal
+support of the inferior class, of Irish; and whiskey the national ardent
+spirit of Ireland and Scotland, is but too often, as is gin in England,
+the sole support of a host of besotted beings, who drop into untimely
+graves, from the _habit of intoxication_.
+
+(_To be continued_.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
+
+
+At Susa, Alexander collected all the nobles of the empire, and
+celebrated the most magnificent nuptials recorded in history. He married
+Barcinè, or Stateira, the daughter of the late king, and thus, in the
+eyes of his Persian subjects, confirmed his title to the throne. His
+father, Philip, was a polygamist in practice, although it would be very
+difficult to prove that the Macedonians in general were allowed a
+plurality of wives; but Alexander was now the King of Kings, and is more
+likely to have been guided by Persian than Greek opinions upon the
+subject. Eighty of his principal officers followed his example, and were
+united to the daughters of the chief nobility of Persia.
+
+The marriages, in compliment to the brides, were celebrated after the
+Persian fashion, and during the vernal equinox. For at no other period,
+by the ancient laws of Persia, could nuptials be legally celebrated.
+Such an institution is redolent of the poetry and freshness of the new
+world, and of an attention to the voice of nature, and the analogies of
+physical life. The young couple would marry in time to sow their field,
+to reap the harvest, and gather their stores, before the season of cold
+and scarcity overtook them. It is difficult to say how far this custom
+prevailed among primitive nations, but it can scarcely be doubted that
+we still retain lingering traces of it in the harmless amusements of St.
+Valentine's day.
+
+On the wedding-day Alexander feasted the eighty bridegrooms in a
+magnificent hall prepared for the purpose. Eighty separate couches were
+placed for the guests, and on each a magnificent wedding-robe for every
+individual. At the conclusion of the banquet, and while the wine and the
+dessert were on the table, the eighty brides were introduced; Alexander
+first rose, received the princess, took her by the hand, kissed her, and
+placed her on the couch close to himself. This example was followed by
+all, till every lady was seated by her betrothed. This formed the whole
+of the Persian ceremony--the salute being regarded as the seal of
+appropriation. The Macedonian form was still more simple and symbolical.
+The bridegroom, dividing a small loaf with his sword, presented one-half
+to the bride; wine was then poured as a libation on both portions, and
+the contracting parties tasted of the bread. Cake and wine, as nuptial
+refreshments, may thus claim a venerable antiquity. In due time the
+bridegrooms conducted their respective brides to chambers prepared for
+them within the precincts of the royal palace.
+
+The festivities continued for five days, and all the amusements of the
+age were put into requisition for the entertainment of the company.
+Athenaeus has quoted from Charas, a list of the chief performers, which
+I transcribe more for the sake of the performances and of the states
+where these lighter arts were brought to the greatest perfection, than
+of the names, which are now unmeaning sounds. Scymnus from Tarentum,
+Philistides from Syracuse, and Heracleitus from Mytylenè, were the great
+jugglers, or as the Greek word intimates, the wonder-workers of the day.
+After them, Alexis, the Tarentine, displayed his excellence as a
+rhapsodist, or repeater, to appropriate music, of the soul-stirring
+poetry of Homer. Cratinus the Methymnoean, Aristonymus the Athenian,
+Athenodorus the Teian, played on the harp--without being accompanied by
+the voice. On the contrary, Heracleitus the Tarentine, and Aristocrates
+the Theban, accompanied their harps with lyric songs. The performers on
+wind instruments were divided on a similar, although it could not be on
+the same principle. Dionysius from Heracleia, and Hyperbolus from
+Cyzicum, sang to the flute, or some such instrument; while Timotheus,
+Phrynichus, Scaphisius, Diophantus, and Evius, the Chalcidian, first
+performed the Pythian overture, and then, accompanied by chorusses,
+displayed the full power of wind instruments in masterly hands. There
+was also a peculiar class called eulogists of Bacchus; these acquitted
+themselves so well on this occasion, applying to Alexander those praises
+which in their extemporaneous effusions had hitherto been confined to
+the god, that they acquired the name of Eulogists of Alexander. Nor did
+their reward fail them. The stage, of course, was not without its
+representatives:--Thessalus, Athenodorus, Aristocritus, in
+tragedy--Lycon, Phormion, and Ariston, in comedy--exerted their utmost
+skill, and contended for the prize of superior excellence. Phasimelus,
+the dancer was also present.
+
+It is yet undecided whether the Persians admitted their matrons to their
+public banquets and private parties;--but if we can believe the positive
+testimony of Herodotus, such was the case: and the summons of Vashti to
+the annual festival, and the admission of Haman to the queen's table,
+are facts which support the affirmation of that historian. The doubts
+upon the subject appear to have arisen from confounding the manners of
+Assyrians, Medes, and Parthians, with those of the more Scythian tribes
+of Persis. We read in Xenophon that the Persian women were so well made
+and beautiful, that their attractions might easily have seduced the
+affections of the Ten Thousand, and have caused them, like the
+lotus-eating companions of Ulysses, to forget their native land. Some
+little hints as to the mode in which their beauty was enhanced and their
+persons decorated, may be expected in the Life of Alexander, who,
+victorious over their fathers and brothers, yet submitted to their
+charms.
+
+The Persian ladies wore the tiara or turban richly adorned with jewels.
+They wore their hair long, and both plaited and curled it; nor, if the
+natural failed, did they scruple to use false locks. They pencilled the
+eyebrows, and tinged the eyelid, with a dye that was supposed to add a
+peculiar brilliancy to the eyes. They were fond of perfumes, and their
+delightful ottar was the principal favourite. Their tunic and drawers
+were of fine linen, the robe or gown of silk--the train of this was
+long, and on state occasions required a supporter. Round the waist they
+wore a broad zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered
+and jewelled in the centre. They also wore stockings and gloves, but
+history has not recorded their materials. They used no sandals; a light
+and ornamented shoe was worn in the house; and for walking they had a
+kind of coarse half boot. They used shawls and wrappers for the person,
+and veils for the head; the veil was large and square, and when thrown
+over the head descended low on all sides. They were fond of glowing
+colours, especially of purple, scarlet, and light-blue dresses. Their
+favourite ornaments were pearls; they wreathed these in their hair, wore
+them as necklaces, ear-drops, armlets, bracelets, anklets, and worked
+them into conspicuous parts of their dresses. Of the precious stones
+they preferred emeralds, rubies, and turquoises, which were set in gold
+and worn like the pearls.
+
+Alexander did not limit his liberality to the wedding festivities, but
+presented every bride with a handsome marriage portion. He also ordered
+the names of all the soldiers who had married Asiatic wives to be
+registered; their number exceeded 10,000; and each received a handsome
+present, under the name of marriage gift.--_Williams's Life of
+Alexander, Family Library, No. 3_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POEMS, BY W.T. MONCRIEFF.
+
+
+This is a pretty little volume of graceful poems, printed "at the
+author's private press, for private distribution only." They are,
+however, entitled by their merits, to more extensive, or public
+circulation; for many of them evince the good taste and pure feelings of
+the writer. Some of the pieces relate to domestic circumstances, others
+are calculated to cheat "sorrow of a smile," whilst all are, to use a
+set phrase, highly honourable to the head and heart of the author. In
+proof of this, we could detach several pages; but we have only space for
+a few:
+
+
+SONG.
+
+  As flowers, that seem the light to shun
+  At evening's dusk and morning's haze,
+  Expand beneath the noon-tide sun,
+  And bloom to beauty in his rays,
+  So maidens, in a lover's eyes,
+  A thousand times more lovely grow,
+  Yield added sweetness to his sighs,
+  And with unwonted graces glow.
+
+  As gems from light their brilliance gain,
+  And brightest shine when shone upon,
+  Nor half their orient rays retain,
+  When light wanes dim and day is gone:
+  So Beauty beams, for one dear one!
+  Acquires fresh splendour in his sight,
+  Her life--her light--her day--her sun--
+  Her harbinger of all that's bright![2]
+
+    [2] "There is nothing new under the sun;" Solomon was right. I
+    had written these lines from experiencing the truth of them, and
+    really imagined I had been the first to express, what so many
+    must have felt; but on looking over Rogers's delicious little
+    volume of Poems, some time after this was penned, I find he has,
+    with his usual felicity, noted the same effect. I give his Text
+    and Commentary; they occur in his beautiful poem, "Human Life,"
+    speaking of a girl in love, he says:
+
+      "--soon her looks the rapturous truth avow,
+      Lovely before, oh, say how lovely now!"
+
+    On which he afterwards remarks:
+
+    "Is it not true that the young not only appear to be, but really
+    are, most beautiful in the presence of those they love? It calls
+    forth all their beauty."
+
+    Such a coincidence might almost induce me to exclaim with the
+    plagiarising pedant of antiquity, "_Pereant qui ante nos nostra
+    dixerunt_!"
+
+
+ANECDOTE VERSIFIED.
+
+_Lord Albemarle to Mademoiselle Gaucher, on seeing her look very
+earnestly at the Evening Star_.
+
+  Oh! do not gaze upon that star,
+  That distant star, so earnestly,
+  If thou would'st not my pleasure mar--
+  For ah! I cannot give it thee.[3]
+
+  And, such is my unbounded love,
+  Thou should'st not gaze upon a thing
+  I would not make thee mistress of,
+  And prove in love, at least, a _King_!
+
+    [3] Lord Albemarle, when advanced in years, was the lover and
+    protector of Mademoiselle Gaucher. Her name of infancy, and that
+    by which she was more endeared to her admirer, was Lolotte. One
+    evening, as they were walking together, perceiving her eyes
+    fixed on a star, he said to her, "Do not look at it so
+    earnestly, my dear, I cannot give it you!"--Never, says
+    Marmontel, did love express itself more delicately.
+
+
+STANZAS TO THE SHADE OF ----
+
+_In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on
+men,--an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a
+voice_. JOB iv. 13.
+
+  Reproach me not, beloved shade!
+  Nor think thy memory less I prize;
+  The smiles that o'er my features play'd,
+  But hid my pangs from vulgar eyes.
+  I acted like the worldling boy,
+  With heart to every feeling vain:
+  I smil'd with all, yet felt no joy;
+  I wept with all, yet felt no pain,
+
+  No--though, to veil thoughts of gloom,
+  I seem'd to twine Joy's rosy wreath,
+  'Twas but as flowerets o'er a tomb.
+  Which only hide the woe beneath.
+  I lose no portion of my woes,
+  Although my tears in secret flow;
+  More green and fresh the verdure grows,
+  Where the cold streams run hid below.
+
+
+A MODEST ODE TO FORTUNE.
+
+"_Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat_." HOR.
+
+  O Goddess Fortune, hear my prayer,
+  And make a bard for once thy care!
+  I do not ask, in houses splendid,
+  To be by liveried slaves attended;
+  I ask not for estates, nor land,
+  Nor host of vassals at command;
+  I ask not for a handsome wife--
+  Though I dislike a single life;
+  I ask not friends, nor fame, nor power,
+  Nor courtly rank, nor leisure's hour;
+  I ask not books, nor wine, nor plate.
+  Nor yet acquaintance with the great;
+  Nor dance, nor sons, nor mirth, nor jest,
+  Nor treasures of the East or West;
+  I ask not beauty, wit, nor ease,
+  Nor qualities more blest than these--
+  Learning nor genius, skill nor art,
+  Nor valour for the hero's part;
+  These, though I much desire to have,
+  I do not, dearest goddess, crave.--
+  I modestly for MONEY call--
+  For _money_ will procure them _all_!
+
+
+ANACREONTIC.
+
+  Come fill the bowl!--one summer's day,
+  Some hearts, that had been wreck'd and sever'd,
+  Again to tempt the liquid way,
+  And join their former mates endeavour'd;
+  But then arose this serious question.
+  Which best to kindred hearts would guide?
+  Water, was Prudence' pure suggestion,
+  But that they thought too cool a tide!
+
+  Peace bade them try the milky way,
+  But they were fearful 'twould becalm them;
+  Cried Love, on dews of morning stray,--
+  They deem'd 'twould from their purpose charm them.
+  Cried Friendship, try the ruby tide,--
+  They did--each obstacle departs;
+  'Tis still with wine 'reft hearts will glide
+  Most surely unto kindred hearts.
+
+
+THE PILGRIM PRINCE.--BALLAD.
+
+  At blush of morn, the silver horn
+  Was loudly blown at the castle gate;
+  And, from the wall, the Seneschal
+  Saw there a weary pilgrim wait.
+  "What news--what news, thou stranger bold?
+  Thy looks are rough, thy raiment old!
+  And little does Lady Isabel care
+  To know how want and poverty fare."
+  "Ah let me straight that lady see,
+  For far I come from the North Country!"
+
+  "And who art thou, bold wight, I trow,
+  That would to Lady Isabel speak!"
+  "One who, long since shone as a prince,
+  And kiss'd her damask cheek:
+  But oh, my trusty sword has fail'd,
+  The cruel Paynim has prevail'd,
+  My lands are lost, my friends are few,
+  Trifles all, if my lady's true!"
+  "Poor prince! ah when did woman's truth,
+  Outlive the loss of lands and youth!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+THE SPLENDID ANNUAL.
+
+_By the Author of "Sayings and Doings_."
+
+
+Literature, even in this literary age, is not the ordinary pursuit of
+the citizens of London, although every merchant is necessarily a man of
+letters, and underwriters are as common as cucumbers. Notwithstanding,
+however, my being a citizen, I am tempted to disclose the miseries and
+misfortunes of my life in these pages, because having heard the
+"ANNIVERSARY" called a splendid annual, I hope for sympathy from its
+readers, seeing that I have been a "_splendid annual_" myself.
+
+My name is Scropps--I _am_ an Alderman--I _was_ Sheriff--I _have been_
+Lord Mayor--and the three great eras of my existence were the year of my
+shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it. Until I had
+passed through this ordeal I had no conception of the extremes of
+happiness and wretchedness to which a human being may be carried, nor
+ever believed that society presented to its members an eminence so
+exalted as that which I once touched, or imagined a fall so great as
+that which I experienced. I came originally from that place to which
+persons of bad character are said to be sent--I mean Coventry, where my
+father for many years contributed his share to the success of
+parliamentary candidates, the happiness of new married couples, and even
+the gratification of ambitious courtiers, by taking part in the
+manufacture of ribands for election cockades, wedding favours, and
+cordons of chivalry; but trade failed, and, like his betters, he became
+bankrupt, but, unlike his betters, without any consequent advantage to
+himself; and I, at the age of fifteen, was thrown upon the world with
+nothing but a strong constitution, a moderate education, and fifteen
+shillings and eleven pence three farthings in my pocket.
+
+With these qualifications I started from my native town on a pedestrian
+excursion to London; and although I fell into none of those romantic
+adventures of which I had read at school, I met with more kindness than
+the world generally gets credit for, and on the fourth day after my
+departure, having slept soundly, if not magnificently, every night, and
+eaten with an appetite which my mode of travelling was admirably
+calculated to stimulate, reached the great metropolis, having preserved
+of my patrimony, no less a sum than nine shillings and seven pence.
+
+The bells of one of the churches in the city were ringing merrily as I
+descended the heights of Islington; and were it not that my patronymic
+Scropps never could, under the most improved system of campanology, be
+jingled into any thing harmonious, I have no doubt I, like my great
+predecessor Whittington, might have heard in that peal a prediction of
+my future exaltation; certain it is I did not; and, wearied with my
+journey, I took up my lodging for the night at a very humble house near
+Smithfield, to which I had been kindly recommended by the driver of a
+return postchaise, of whose liberal offer of the moiety of his bar to
+town I had availed myself at Barnet.
+
+As it is not my intention to deduce a moral from my progress in the
+world at this period of my life, I need not here dilate upon the good
+policy of honesty, or the advantages of temperance and perseverance, by
+which I worked my way upwards, until after meriting the confidence of an
+excellent master, I found myself enjoying it fully. To his business I
+succeeded at his death, having several years before, with his sanction,
+married a young and deserving woman, about my own age, of whose prudence
+and skill in household matters I had long had a daily experience.
+
+To be brief, Providence blessed my efforts and increased my means; I
+became a wholesale dealer in every thing, from barrels of gunpowder down
+to pickled herrings; in the civic acceptation of the word I was a
+merchant, amongst the vulgar I am called a dry-salter. I accumulated
+wealth; with my fortune my family also grew, and one male Scropps, and
+four female ditto, grace my board at least once in every week.
+
+Passing over the minor gradations of my life, the removal from one
+residence to another, the enlargement of this warehouse, the rebuilding
+of that, the anxiety of a canvass for common council man, activity in
+the company of which I am liveryman, inquests, and vestries, and ward
+meetings, and all the other pleasing toils to which an active citizen is
+subject, let us come at once to the first marked epoch of my life--the
+year of my Shrievalty. The announcement of my nomination and election
+filled Mrs. S. with delight; and when I took my children to Great Queen
+Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to look at the gay chariot brushing up for
+me, I confess I felt proud and happy to be able to show my progeny the
+arms of London, those of the Spectacle Makers' Company, and those of the
+Scroppses (recently found at a trivial expense) all figuring upon the
+same panels. They looked magnificent upon the pea-green ground, and the
+wheels, "white picked out crimson," looked so chaste, and the
+hammercloth, and the fringe, and the festoons, and the Scropps' crests
+all looked so rich, and the silk linings and white tassels, and the
+squabs and the yellow cushions and the crimson carpet looked so
+comfortable, that, as I stood contemplating the equipage, I said to
+myself, "What have I done to deserve _this_?--O that my poor father were
+alive to see his boy Jack going down to Westminster, to chop sticks and
+count hobnails, in a carriage like this!" My children were like mad
+things: and in the afternoon, when I put on my first new brown court
+suit (lined, like my chariot, with white silk) and fitted up with cut
+steel buttons, just to try the effect, it all appeared like a dream; the
+sword, which I tried on every night for half an hour after I went up to
+bed, to practise walking with it, was very inconvenient at first; but
+use is second nature; and so by rehearsing and rehearsing, I made myself
+perfect before that auspicious day when Sheriffs flourish and geese
+prevail--namely, the twenty-ninth of September.
+
+The twelve months which followed were very delightful; for independently
+of the _positive_ honour and _éclat_ they produced, I had the Mayoralty
+in _prospectû_ (having attained my aldermanic gown by an immense
+majority the preceding year), and as I used during the sessions to sit
+in my box at the Old Bailey, with my bag at my back and my bouquet on my
+book, my thoughts were wholly devoted to one object of contemplation;
+culprits stood trembling to hear the verdict of a jury, and I regarded
+them not; convicts knelt to receive the fatal fiat of the Recorder, and
+I heeded not their sufferings, as I watched the Lord Mayor seated in the
+centre of the bench, with the sword of justice stuck up in a goblet over
+his head--there, thought I, if I live two years, shall _I_ sit--however,
+even as it was, it was very agreeable. When executions, the chief
+drawbacks to my delight, happened, I found, after a little seasoning, I
+took the thing coolly, and enjoyed my toast and tea after the patients
+were turned off, just as if nothing had happened; for, in _my_ time, we
+hanged at eight and breakfasted at a quarter after, so that without much
+hurry we were able to finish our muffins just in time for the cutting
+down at nine. I had to go to the House of Commons with a petition, and
+to Court with an address--trying situations for one of the
+Scroppses--however, the want of state in parliament, and the very little
+attention paid to us by the members, put me quite at my ease at
+Westminster; while the gracious urbanity of our accomplished monarch on
+his throne made me equally comfortable at St. James's. Still I was but a
+secondary person, or rather only one of two secondary persons--the chief
+of bailiffs and principal Jack Ketch; there _was_ a step to gain--and,
+as I often mentioned in confidence to Mrs. Scropps, I was sure my heart
+would never be still until I had reached the pinnacle.
+
+Behold at length the time arrived!--Guildhall crowded to excess--the
+hustings thronged--the aldermen retire--they return--their choice is
+announced to the people--it has fallen upon John Ebenezer Scropps, Esq.,
+Alderman and spectacle maker--a sudden shout is heard--"Scropps for
+ever!" resounds--the whole assembly seems to vanish from my sight--I
+come forward--am invested with the chain--I bow--make a speech--tumble
+over the train of the Recorder, and tread upon the tenderest toe of Mr.
+Deputy Pod--leave the hall in ecstasy, and drive home to Mrs. Scropps in
+a state of mind bordering upon insanity.
+
+The days wore on, each one seemed as long as a week, until at length the
+eighth of November arrived, and then did it seem certain that I should
+be Lord Mayor--I was sworn in--the civic insignia were delivered to
+me--I returned them to the proper officers--my chaplain was near me--the
+esquires of my household were behind me--the thing was done--never shall
+I forget the tingling sensation I felt in my ear when I was first called
+"My Lord"--I even doubted if it were addressed to me, and hesitated to
+answer--but it was so--the reign of splendour had begun, and, after
+going through the accustomed ceremonies, I got home and retired to bed
+early, in order to be fresh for the fatigues of the ensuing day.
+
+Sleep I did not--how was it to be expected?--Some part of the night I
+was in consultation with Mrs. Scropps upon the different arrangements;
+settling about the girls, their places at the banquet, and their
+partners at the ball; the wind down the chimney sounded like the shouts
+of the people; the cocks crowing in the mews at the back of the house I
+took for trumpets sounding my approach; and the ordinary incidental
+noises in the family I fancied the pop-guns at Stangate, announcing my
+disembarkation at Westminster--thus I tossed and tumbled until the long
+wished-for day dawned, and I jumped up anxiously to realize the visions
+of the night. I was not long at my toilet--I was soon shaved and
+dressed--but just as I was settling myself comfortably into my beautiful
+brown broadcloth inexpressibles, crack went something, and I discovered
+that a seam had ripped half a foot long. Had it been consistent with the
+dignity of a Lord Mayor to swear, I should, I believe, at that moment,
+have anathematized the offending tailor;--as it was, what was to be
+done?--I heard trumpets in earnest, carriages drawing up and setting
+down; sheriffs, and chaplains, mace bearers, train bearers, sword
+bearers, water bailiffs, remembrancers, Mr. Common Hunt, the town clerk,
+and the deputy town clerk, all bustling about--the bells ringing--and
+_I_ late, with a hole in my inexpressibles! There was but one remedy--my
+wife's maid, kind, intelligent creature, civil and obliging, and ready
+to turn her hand to any thing, came to my aid, and in less than fifteen
+minutes her activity, exerted in the midst of the confusion, repaired
+the injury, and turned me out fit to be seen by the whole corporation of
+London.
+
+When I was dressed, I tapped at Mrs. Scropps's door, went in, and asked
+her if she thought I should do; the dear soul, after settling my point
+lace frill (which she had been good enough to pick off her own petticoat
+on purpose) and putting my bag straight, gave me the sweetest salute
+imaginable.
+
+"I wish your lordship health and happiness," said she.
+
+"Sally," said I, "your ladyship is an angel;" and so, having kissed each
+of my daughters, who were in progress of dressing, I descended the
+stairs, to begin the auspicious day in which I reached the apex of my
+greatness.--Never shall I forget the bows--the civilities--the
+congratulations--sheriffs bending before me--the Recorder smiling--the
+Common Sergeant at my feet--the pageant was intoxicating; and when,
+after having breakfasted, I stepped into that glazed and gilded house
+upon wheels, called the state coach, and saw my sword bearer pop himself
+into one of the boots, with the sword of state in his hand, I was lost
+in ecstasy, I threw myself back upon the seat of the vehicle with all
+imaginable dignity, but not without damage, for in the midst of my ease
+and elegance I snapped off the cut steel hilt of my sword, by
+accidentally bumping the whole weight of my body right, or rather wrong,
+directly upon the top of it.
+
+But what was a sword hilt or a bruise to _me_? I was _the_ Lord
+Mayor--the greatest man of the greatest city of the greatest nation in
+the world. The people realized my anticipations, and "Bravo, Scropps!"
+and "Scropps for ever!" again resounded, as we proceeded slowly and
+majestically towards the river, through a fog, which prevented our being
+advantageously seen, and which got down the throat of the sword bearer,
+who coughed incessantly during our progress, much to my annoyance, not
+to speak of the ungraceful movements which his convulsive barkings gave
+to the red velvet scabbard of the official glave as it stuck out of the
+window of the coach.
+
+We embarked in _my_ barge; a new scene of splendour awaited me, guns,
+shouts, music, flags, banners, in short, every thing that fancy could
+paint or a water bailiff provide; there, in the gilded bark, was
+prepared a cold collation--I ate, but tasted nothing--fowls, _patés_,
+tongue, game, beef, ham, all had the same flavour; champagne, hock, and
+Madeira were all alike to _me_--Lord Mayor was all I saw, all I heard,
+all I swallowed; every thing was pervaded by the one captivating word,
+and the repeated appeal to "my lordship" was sweeter than nectar.
+
+At Westminster, having been presented and received, I desired--I--John
+Ebenezer Scropps, of Coventry--I desired the Recorder to invite the
+judges to dine with me--I--who remember when two of the oldest and most
+innocent of the twelve, came the circuit, trembling at the sight of
+them, and believing them some extraordinary creatures upon whom all the
+hair and fur I saw, grew naturally--I, not only to ask these formidable
+beings to dine with me, but, as if I thought it beneath my dignity to do
+so in my proper person, deputing a judge of my own to do it for me; I
+never shall forget their bows in return--Chinese mandarins on a
+chimney-piece are fools to them.
+
+Then came the return--we landed once more in the scene of my dignity--at
+the corner of Fleet Street we found the Lady Mayoress waiting for the
+procession--there she was--Sally Scropps (her maiden name was
+Snob)--there was my own Sally, with a plume of feathers that half filled
+the coach, and Jenny and Maria and young Sally, all with their backs to
+_my_ horses, which were pawing the mud and snorting and smoking like
+steam engines, with nostrils like safety valves, and four of _my_
+footmen hanging behind the coach, like bees in a swarm. There had not
+been so much riband in my family since my poor father's failure at
+Coventry--and yet how often, over and over again, although he had been
+dead more than twenty years, did I, during that morning, in the midst of
+my splendour, think of _him_, and wish that he could see me in my
+greatness--yes, even in the midst of my triumph I seemed to defer to my
+good, kind parent--in heaven, as I hope and trust--as if I were anxious
+for _his_ judgment and _his_ opinion as to how I should perform the
+arduous and manifold duties of the day.
+
+Up Ludgate Hill we moved--the fog grew thicker and thicker--but then the
+beautiful women at the windows--those up high could only see my knees
+and the paste buckles in my shoes; every now and then, I bowed
+condescendingly to people I had never seen before, in order to show my
+courtesy and my chain and collar, which I had discovered during the
+morning shone the better for being shaken.
+
+At length we reached Guildhall--as I crossed the beautiful building,
+lighted splendidly, and filled with well dressed company, and heard the
+deafening shouts which rent the fane as I entered it, I really was
+overcome--I retired to a private room--refreshed my dress, rubbed up my
+chain, which the damp had tarnished, and prepared to receive my guests.
+They came, and--shall I ever forget it?--dinner was announced; the bands
+played "O the roast beef of Old England." Onwards we went, a Prince of
+the blood, of the blood royal of my country, led out _my_ Sally--my own
+Sally--the Lady Mayoress! the Lord High Chancellor handed out young
+Sally--I saw it done--I thought I should have choked; the Prime Minister
+took Maria; the Lord Privy Seal gave his arm to Jenny; and my wife's
+mother, Mrs. Snob, was honoured by the protection of the Right
+Honourable the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.--Oh, if my poor
+father could have but seen _that_!
+
+It would be tiresome to dwell upon the pleasures of the happy year, thus
+auspiciously begun, in detail; each month brought its delights, each
+week its festival; public meetings under the sanction of the Right
+Honourable the Lord Mayor; concerts and balls under the patronage of the
+Lady Mayoress; Easter and its dinner, Blue-coat boys and buns;
+processions here, excursions there.--Summer came, and then we had
+swan-hopping _up_ the river, and white-baiting _down_ the river; Yantlet
+Creek below, the navigation barge above; music, flags, streamers, guns,
+and company; turtle every day in the week; peas at a pound a pint, and
+grapes at a guinea a pound; dabbling in rosewater served in gold, not to
+speak of the loving cup, with Mr. Common Hunt, in full dress, at my
+elbow; my dinners were talked of, Ude grew jealous, and I was idolized.
+
+The days, which before seemed like weeks, were now turned to minutes:
+scarcely had I swallowed my breakfast before I was in my justice-room;
+and before I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for beggary, I was
+called away to luncheon; this barely over, in comes a deputation or a
+dispatch, and so on till dinner, which was barely ended before supper
+was announced. We all became enchanted with the Mansion House; my girls
+grew graceful by the confidence their high station gave them; Maria
+refused a good offer because her lover chanced to have an ill sounding
+name; we had all got settled in our rooms, the establishment had begun
+to know and appreciate us; we had just become in fact easy in our
+dignity and happy in our position, when lo and behold! the ninth of
+November came again--the anniversary of my exaltation, the consummation
+of my downfall.
+
+Again did we go in state to Guildhall, again were we toasted and
+addressed, again were we handed in, and led out, again flirted with
+cabinet ministers and danced with ambassadors, and at two o'clock in the
+morning drove home from the scene of gaiety to our old residence in
+Budge Row.--Never in this world did pickled herrings and turpentine
+smell so powerfully as on that night when we entered the house; and
+although my wife and the young ones stuck to the drinkables at
+Guildhall, their natural feelings would have way, and a sort of
+shuddering disgust seemed to fill their minds on their return home--the
+passage looked so narrow--the drawing-rooms looked so small--the
+staircase seemed so dark--our apartments appeared so low--however, being
+tired, we all slept well, at least I did, for I was in no humour to talk
+to Sally, and the only topic I could think upon before I dropped into my
+slumber, was a calculation of the amount of expense which I had incurred
+during the just expired year of my greatness.
+
+In the morning we assembled at breakfast--a note lay on the table,
+addressed--"Mrs. Scropps, Budge Row." The girls, one after the other,
+took it up, read the superscription, and laid it down again. A visiter
+was announced--a neighbour and kind friend, a man of wealth and
+importance--what were his first words?--they were the first I had heard
+from a stranger since my job,--"How are you, Scropps, done up, eh?"
+
+Scropps! no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;--no "my lord, I
+hope your lordship passed an agreeable night--and how is her ladyship
+and your lordship's amiable daughters?"--not a bit of it--"How's Mrs. S.
+and the _gals_?" This was quite natural, all as it _had_ been, all
+perhaps as it should be--but how unlike what it _was_, only one day
+before! The very servants, who, when amidst the strapping, stall-fed,
+gold-laced lacqueys of the Mansion House, (transferred with the chairs
+and tables from one Lord Mayor to another) dared not speak nor look, nor
+say their lives were their own, strutted about the house, and banged the
+doors, and talked of their "_Missis_," as if she had been an apple
+woman.
+
+So much for domestic miseries;--I went out--I was shoved about in
+Cheapside in the most remorseless manner; my right eye had a narrow
+escape of being poked out by the tray of a brawny butcher's boy, who,
+when I civilly remonstrated, turned round, and said, "Vy, I say, who are
+_you_, I vonder, as is so partiklar about your _hysight_." I felt an
+involuntary shudder--to-day, thought I, I _am_ John Ebenezer
+Scropps--two days ago I was Lord Mayor; and so the rencontre ended,
+evidently to the advantage of the bristly brute. It was however too much
+for me--the effect of contrast was too powerful, the change was too
+sudden--and I determined to go to Brighton for a few weeks to refresh
+myself, and be weaned from my dignity.
+
+We went--we drove to the Royal Hotel; in the hall stood one of his
+Majesty's ministers, one of my former guests, speaking to his lady and
+daughter: my girls passed close to him--he had handed one of them to
+dinner the year before, but he appeared entirely to have forgotten her.
+By and by, when we were going out in a fly to take the air, one of the
+waiters desired the fly man to pull off, because Sir Something
+Somebody's carriage could not come up--it was clear that the name of
+Scropps had lost its influence.
+
+We secluded ourselves in a private house, where we did nothing but sigh
+and look at the sea. We had been totally spoiled for our proper sphere,
+and could not get into a better; the indifference of our inferiors
+mortified us, and the familiarity of our equals disgusted us--our
+potentiality was gone, and we were so much degraded that a puppy of a
+fellow had the impertinence to ask Jenny if she was going to one of the
+Old Ship balls. "Of course," said the coxcomb, "I don't mean the
+'Almacks,' for they are uncommonly select."
+
+In short, do what we would, go where we might, we were outraged and
+annoyed, or at least thought ourselves so; and beyond all bitterness was
+the reflection, that the days of our dignity and delight never might
+return. There were at Brighton no less than three men who called me
+Jack, and _that_, out of flies or in libraries, and one of these, chose
+occasionally, by way of making himself particularly agreeable, to
+address me by the familiar appellation of Jacky. At length, and that
+only three weeks after my fall, an overgrown tallow-chandler met us on
+the Steyne, and stopped our party to observe, "as how he thought he owed
+me for two barrels of coal tar, for doing over his pigsties." This
+settled it--we departed from Brighton, and made a tour of the coast; but
+we never rallied; and business, which must be minded, drove us before
+Christmas to Budge Row, where we are again settled down.
+
+Maria has grown thin--Sarah has turned methodist--and Jenny, who danced
+with his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, who was called angelic by
+the Right Honourable the Lord Privy Seal, and who moreover refused a man
+of fortune because he had an ugly name, is going to be married to
+Lieutenant Stodge, on the half pay of the Royal Marines--and what
+then?--I am sure if it were not for the females of my family I should be
+perfectly at my ease in my proper sphere, out of which the course of our
+civic constitution raised me. It was unpleasant at first:--but I have
+toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and Providence has
+blessed my works. If we were discomposed at the sudden change in our
+station, I it is who was to blame for having aspired to honours which I
+knew were not to last. However the ambition was not dishonourable, nor
+did I disgrace the station while I held it; and when I see, as in the
+present year, _that_ station filled by a man of education and talent, of
+high character and ample fortune, I discover no cause to repent of
+having been one of his predecessors. Indeed I ought to apologize for
+making public the weakness by which we were all affected; especially as
+I have myself already learned to laugh at what we all severely felt at
+first--the miseries of a SPLENDID ANNUAL.--_Sharpe's London Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A CHAPTER ON HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY
+
+
+    "Ut sunt divorum, Mars, Bacchus, Apollo."
+                   _Latin Grammar_.
+
+  Did you ever look
+  In Mr. Tooke,
+  For Homer's gods and goddesses?
+  The males in the air,
+  So big and so bare,
+  And the girls without their bodices.
+
+  There was Jupiter Zeus,
+  Who play'd the deuce,
+  A rampant blade and a tough one;
+  But Denis bold,
+  Stole his coat of gold,
+  And rigg'd him out in a stuff one,
+
+  Juno, when old,
+  Was a bit of a scold,
+  And rul'd Jove _jure divino_;
+  When he went gallivaunting,
+  His steps she kept haunting,[4]
+  And she play'd, too, the devil with Ino.
+
+  Minerva bright
+  Was a blue-stocking wight,
+  Who lodg'd among the Attics;
+  And, like Lady V.
+  From the men did flee,
+  To study the mathematics.
+
+  Great Mars, we're told,
+  Was a grenadier bold,
+  Who Vulcan sorely cuckold;
+  When to Rome he went,
+  He his children sent
+  To a she-wolf to be suckled.
+
+  _Midas_.
+
+  Sol, the rat-catcher,[5]
+  Was a great body-snatcher,
+  And with his bow and arrows
+  He _Burked_, through the trees,
+  Master Niobes,
+  As though they had been cock sparrows.
+
+  Diana, his sister,
+  When nobody kiss'd her,
+  Was a saint, (at least a semi one,)
+  Yet the vixen Scandal
+  Made a terrible handle
+  Of her friendship for Eudymion.
+
+  Full many a feat
+  Did Hercules neat,
+  The least our credit draws on;
+  Jesting Momus, so sly,
+  Said, "'Tis all my eye,"
+  And he call'd him Baron Munchausen.
+
+  Fair Bacchus's face
+  Many signs did grace,
+  (They were not painted by Zeuxis:)
+  Of his brewing trade
+  He a mystery made,[6]
+  Like our Calverts and our Meuxes.
+
+  There was Mistress Venus,
+  (I say it between us,)
+  For virtue cared not a farden:
+  There never was seen
+  Such a drabbish quean
+  In the parish of Covent Garden.
+
+  Hermes cunning
+  Poor Argus funning,
+  He made him drink like a buffer;
+  To his great surprise
+  Sew'd up all his eyes,
+  And stole away his heifer.
+
+  A bar-maid's place
+  Was Hebe's grace,
+  Till Jupiter did trick her;
+  He turn'd her away,
+  And made Ganimede stay
+  To pour him out his liquor.
+
+  Ceres in life
+  Was a farmer's wife,
+  But she doubtless kept a jolly house;
+  For Rumour speaks,
+  She was had by the Beaks
+  To swear her son Triptolemus.[7]
+
+  Miss Proserpine
+  She thought herself fine,
+  But when all her plans miscarried,
+  She the Devil did wed,
+  And took him to bed,
+  Sooner than not be married.
+
+  But the worst of the gods,
+  Beyond all odds,
+  It cannot be denied, oh!
+  Is that first of matchmakers,
+  That prince of housebreakers,
+  The urchin, Dan Cupido.
+
+           _New Monthly Magazine_.
+
+    [4] "I'll search out the haunts
+        Of your fav'rite gallants,
+        And into cows metamorphose 'em."
+
+    [5] Apollo Smintheus. He destroyed a great many rats in Phrygia,
+    and was probably the first "rat-catcher to the King."--_Vet.
+    Schol_.
+
+    [6] "Mystica vannus Isacchi." This was either a porter-brewer's
+    dray, or more probably the _Van_ of his druggist.--_Scriblerus_.
+
+    [7] There is some difference of opinion concerning this fact:
+    the lady, like so many others in her interesting situation,
+    passed through the adventure under an _alias_. But that Ceres
+    and Terra were the same, no reasonable person will doubt: and
+    there can be no _serious_ objection to the little _trip_ being
+    thus ascribed to the goddess in question.--_Scriblerus_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"THE SEASON" IN TOWN.
+
+
+_Theodore_.--I don't know how you could prevent people from living half
+the year in town.
+
+_Tickler_.--I have no objection to their living half the year in town,
+as you call it, if they can live in such a hell upon earth, of dust,
+noise, and misery. Only think of the Dolphin water in the solar
+microscope!
+
+_Theodore_.--I know nothing of the water of London personally.
+
+_Odoherty_.--Nor I; but I take it, we both have a notion of its brandy
+and water.
+
+_Tickler_.--'Tis, in fact, their duty to be a good deal in London. But
+I'll tell you what I do object to, and what I rather think are evils of
+modern date, or at any rate, of very rapid recent growth. First, I
+object to their living those months of the year in which it is _contra
+bonos mores_ to be in London, not in their paternal mansions, but at
+those little bastardly abortions, which they call watering-places--their
+Leamingtons, their Cheltenhams, their Brighthelmstones.
+
+_Theodore_.--Brighton, my dear rustic Brighton!
+
+_Odoherty_.--Synopicé.
+
+_Shepherd_.--What's your wull, Sir Morgan? It does no staun' wi' me.
+
+_Theodore_.--A horrid spot, certainly--but possessing large
+conveniences, sir, for particular purposes. For example, sir, the
+balcony on the drawing-room floor commonly runs on the same level all
+round the square--which in the Brighthelmstonic dialect, sir, means a
+three-sided figure. The advantage is obvious,
+
+_Shepherd_.--Och, sirs! och, sirs! what wull this world come to!
+
+_Theodore_.--The truth is, sir, that people _comme il faut_ cannot well
+submit to the total change of society and manners implied in a removal
+from Whitehall or Mayfair to some absurd old antediluvian chateau, sir,
+boxed up among beeches and rooks. Sir, only think of the small Squires
+with the red faces, sir, and the grand white waistcoats down to their
+hips--and the dames, sir, with their wigs, and their simpers, and their
+visible pockets--and the damsels, blushing things in white muslin, with
+sky-blue sashes and ribbons, and mufflers and things--and the sons, sir,
+the promising young gentlemen, sir--and the doctor, and the lawyer--and
+the parson. So you disapprove of Brighton, Mr. Tickler?
+
+_Tickler_.--Brighthelmstone, when I knew it, was a pleasant fishing
+village--what like it is now, I know not; but what I detest in the great
+folks of your time, is, that insane selfishness which makes them prefer
+any place, however abominable, where they can herd together in their
+little exquisite coteries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the
+noblest domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less
+exposed to the company of people not exactly belonging to their own
+particular sect. How can society hang together long in a country where
+the Corinthian capital takes so much pains to unrift itself from the
+pillar? Now-a-day, sir, your great lord, commonly speaking, spends but a
+month or six weeks in his ancestral abode; and even when he is there, he
+surrounds himself studiously with a cursed town-crew, a pack of St.
+James's Street fops, and Mayfair chatterers and intriguers, who give
+themselves airs enough to turn the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and
+their womankind, and render a visit to the castle a perfect nuisance.
+
+_Theodore (aside to Mullion.)_--A prejudiced old prig!
+
+_Tickler_.--They seem to spare no pains to show that they consider the
+country as valuable merely for rent and game--the duties of the
+magistracy are a bore--county meetings are a bore--a farce, I believe,
+was the word--the assizes are a cursed bore--fox-hunting itself is a
+bore, unless in Leicestershire, where the noble sportsmen, from all the
+winds of heaven cluster together, and think with ineffable contempt of
+the old-fashioned chase, in which the great man mingled with gentle and
+simple, and all comers--sporting is a bore, unless in a regular
+_battue_, when a dozen lordlings murder pheasants by the thousand,
+without hearing the cock of one impatrician fowling-piece--except indeed
+some dandy poet, or philosopher, or punster, has been admitted to make
+sport to the Philistines. In short, every thing is a bore that brings
+the dons into personal collision of any kind with people that don't
+belong to the world.
+
+_Odoherty_.--The world is getting pretty distinct from the nation, I
+admit, and I doubt if much love is lost between them.--_Blackwood's
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HOPKINSONIAN JOKE.
+
+
+My friend Hertford, walking one day near his own shop in Piccadilly,
+happened to meet one Mr. Hopkinson, an eminent brewer, I believe--and
+the conversation naturally enough turned upon some late dinner at the
+Albion, Aldersgate Street--nobody appreciates a real city dinner better
+than Monsieur le Marquess--and so on, till the old brewer mentioned,
+_par hazard_, that he had just received a noble specimen of wild pig
+from a friend in Frankfort, adding, that he had a very particular party,
+God knows how many aldermen, to dinner--half the East India direction, I
+believe--and that he was something puzzled touching the cookery. "Pooh!"
+says Hertford, "send in your porker to my man, and he'll do it for you
+_à merveille_." The brewer was a grateful man--the pork came and went
+back again. Well, a week after my lord met his friend, and, by the way,
+"Hopkinson," says he, "how did the boar concern go off?"--"O,
+beautifully," says the brewer; "I can never sufficiently thank your
+lordship; nothing could do better. We should never have got on at all
+without your lordship's kind assistance."--"The thing gave satisfaction
+then, Hopkinson?"--"O, great satisfaction, my lord marquess.--To be sure
+we did think it rather queer at first--in fact, not being up to them
+there things, we considered it as deucedly stringy--to say the truth, we
+should never have thought of eating it cold."--"Cold!" says Hertford;
+"did you eat the ham cold?"--"O dear, yes, my lord, to be sure we
+did--we eat it just as your lordship's gentleman sent it."--"Why, my
+dear Mr. Alderman," says Hertford, "my cook only prepared it for the
+spit." Well, I shall never forget how the poor dear Duke of York
+laughed!--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+
+    A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+                      SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SEALING WAX AND WAFERS.
+
+
+Francis Rousseau, a native of Auxerres, who travelled a long time in
+Persia, Pegu, and other parts of the East Indies, and who, in 1692,
+resided at St. Domingo, was the inventer of sealing-wax. A lady, of the
+name of Longueville, made this wax known at court, and caused Louis
+XIII. to use it; after which it was purchased and used throughout Paris.
+By this article Rousseau, before the expiration of a year, gained 50,000
+livres. The oldest seal with a red wafer ever yet found, is on a letter
+written by Dr. Krapf, at Spires, in the year 1624, to the government at
+Bareuth.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I was in company some time since with George Colman, "the younger," as
+the old fellow still styles himself. It was shortly after the death of
+Mrs. ----, the wife of a popular actor, and at that time an unpopular
+manager. Some one at table observed that, "Mr. ---- had suffered a loss
+in the death of his wife, which he would not soon be able to make
+up."--"I don't know how that may be," replied George, drily, "but to
+tell you the truth, I don't think he has _quarrelled_ with his loss
+yet."--_Monthly Mag_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SHERIDAN.
+
+
+Bob Mitchell, one of Sheridan's intimate friends, and once in great
+prosperity, became--like a great many other people, Sheridan's
+creditor--in fact Sheridan owed Bob nearly three thousand pounds--this
+circumstance amongst others contributed so very much to reduce Bob's
+finances, that he was driven to great straits, and in the course of his
+uncomfortable wanderings he called upon Sheridan; the conversation
+turned upon his financial difficulties, but not upon the principal cause
+of them, which was Sheridan's debt; but which of course, as an able
+tactician, he contrived to keep out of the discussion; at last, Bob, in
+a sort of agony, exclaimed--"I have not a guinea left, and by heaven I
+don't know where to get one." Sheridan jumped up, and thrusting a piece
+of gold into his hand, exclaimed with tears in his eyes--"It never shall
+be said that Bob Mitchell wanted a guinea while his friend Sheridan had
+one to give him."--_Sharpe's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES
+
+
+_On the window of Thorny Down Inn, about seven miles from Blandford, on
+the Salisbury road_.
+
+  Death, reader, pallid death!! with woe or bliss
+  Will shortly be thy lot. Think then, my friend,
+  Ere yet it be too late--what are thy hopes
+  And what thy anxious fears--when the thin veil
+  That keeps thy soul from seeing Israel's GOD
+  Shall drop.    (Signed) [Greek: parepidemos].
+                          RURIS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring bricklayer
+was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his lordship said
+to him--
+
+"Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it is your
+bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your appearance."
+
+"Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to that, I'm
+thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your lordship."
+
+"How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.
+
+"Why, faith," said the labourer, "_you_ come here in _your_ working
+clothes and _I'm_ come in _mine_."--_Sharpe's Mag_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FRIENDSHIP.
+
+
+Dr. Johnson most beautifully remarks, that "When a friend is carried to
+his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations
+of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided
+off our minds without impression, a thousand favours unrepaid, a
+thousand duties unperformed, and wish, vainly wish for his return, not
+so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and
+recompense that kindness which before we never understood."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOT TUESDAY.
+
+
+Derham, in his _Physico-Theology,_ says, "July 8th, 1707, (called for
+some time after the _hot Tuesday,_) was so excessively hot and
+suffocating, by reason there was no wind stirring, that divers persons
+died, or were in great danger of death, in their harvest work.
+Particularly one who had formerly been my servant, a healthy, lusty
+young man, was killed by the heat; and several horses on the road
+dropped down and died the same day."
+
+P.T.W.
+
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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11516 ***</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>[pg
+17]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+OF<br />
+LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+<tr>
+<td align="left"><b>Vol. 14. No. 380.]</b></td>
+<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1829</b></td>
+<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE</h2>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/380-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/380-1.png" alt=
+"Mercer's Hall, and Cheapside" /></a></div>
+<p>The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture
+of the metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its
+local association with names illustrious in historical record.</p>
+<p>In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated
+together in some particular street, the mercers principally
+assembled in West Cheap, now called Cheapside, near where the above
+hall stands, and thence called by the name of "the Mercery." In
+Lydgate's <i>London Lyckpenny</i>, are the following lines alluding
+to this custom:</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Then to Chepe I began me drawne,</p>
+<p>When much people I saw for to stand;</p>
+<p>One offered me velvet, silk and lawne</p>
+<p>And another he taketh me by the hand.</p>
+<p>Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Pennant thus describes the principal historical data of the
+spot:</p>
+<p>"On the north side of Cheapside, (between Ironmonger Lane and
+Old Jewry,) stood the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, founded by
+Thomas Fitz-Theobald de Helles, and his wife Agnes, sister to the
+turbulent Thomas Becket, who was born in the house of his father,
+Gilbert, situated on this spot. The mother of our meek saint was a
+fair Saracen, whom his father had married in the Holy Land. On the
+site of this house rose the hospital, built within twenty years
+after the murder of Thomas; yet such was the repute of his
+sanctity, that it was dedicated to him, in conjunction with the
+blessed Virgin, without waiting for his canonization. The hospital
+consisted of a master and several brethren, professing the rule of
+St. Austin. The church, cloisters, &amp;c. were granted by Henry
+VIII. to the Mercers' Company, who had the gift of the
+mastership.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p>
+<p>"In the old church were several monuments; among others, one to
+James Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Joan his wife, living in the
+beginning of the reign of Henry VI. The whole pile was destroyed in
+the great fire, but was very handsomely rebuilt by the Mercers'
+Company, who have their Hall here.</p>
+<p>"In this chapel the celebrated, but unsteady, archbishop of
+Spalato, preached his first sermon in 1617, in Italian, before the
+Archbishop of Canterbury, and a splendid audience; and continued
+his discourses in the same place several <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>[pg 18]</span> times,
+after he had embraced our religion; but having the folly to return
+to his ancient faith, and trust himself among his old friends at
+Rome, he was shut up in the Castle of St. Angelo, where he died in
+1625."</p>
+<p>"The Mercers' Company is the first of the twelve. The name by no
+means implied, originally, a dealer in silks: for <i>mercery</i>
+included all sorts of small wares, toys, and haberdashery; but, as
+several of this opulent company were merchants, and imported great
+quantities of rich silks from Italy, the name became applied to the
+Company, and all dealers in silk. Not fewer than sixty-two mayors
+were of this Company, between the years 1214 and 1762; among which
+were Sir John Coventry, Sir Richard Whittington, and Sir Richard
+and Sir John Gresham."</p>
+<p>The front in Cheapside, which alone can be seen, is narrow, but
+floridly adorned with carvings and architectural ornaments. The
+door is enriched with the figures of two cupids, mantling the arms,
+festoons, &amp;c. and above the balcony, it is adorned with two
+pilasters, entablature, and pediment of the Ionic order; the
+intercolumns are the figures of Faith and Hope, and that of
+Charity, in a niche under the cornice of the pediment, with other
+enrichments. The interior is very handsome. The hall and great
+parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic pilasters.
+The ceiling is of fret-work, and the stately piazzas are
+constituted by large columns, and their entablature of the Doric
+order.</p>
+<p>The arms of the Mercers, as they are sculptured over the
+gateway, present for their distinguishing feature a demi-virgin
+with dishevelled hair: it was in allusion to this circumstance,
+that in the days of pageantry, at the election of Lord Mayor, a
+richly ornamented chariot was produced, in which was seated a young
+and beautiful virgin, most sumptuously arrayed, her hair flowing in
+ringlets over her neck and shoulders, and a crown upon her head.
+When the day's diversions were over, she was liberally rewarded and
+dismissed, claiming as her own the rich attire she had worn.</p>
+<p>From this place likewise was formerly a solemn procession by the
+Lord Mayor, who, in the afternoon of the day he was sworn at the
+Exchequer, met the Aldermen; whence they repaired together to St.
+Paul's, and there prayed for the soul of their benefactor, William,
+Bishop of London, in the time of William the Conqueror, at his
+tomb. They then went to the churchyard to a place where lay the
+parents of Thomas &acirc; Becket, and prayed for all souls
+departed. They then returned to the chapel, and both Mayor and
+Aldermen offered each a penny.</p>
+<p>Attached to the original foundation or hospital was a
+grammar-school, which has been subsequently continued at the
+expense of the Mercers' Company, though not on the same spot. It
+was for some time kept in the Old Jewry, whence it has been removed
+to College Hill, Upper Thames Street. Among the masters may be
+mentioned William Baxter, nephew to the non-conformist, Richard
+Baxter, and author of two Dictionaries of British and Roman
+Antiquities.</p>
+<p>Nearly opposite the entrance to Mercers' Hall, is a handsome
+stone-fronted house, built by Sir Christopher Wren. The houses
+adjoining the Hall were of similar ornamental character; although
+the unenclosed shop-fronts present a strange contrast with some of
+the improvements and superfluities of modern times. The Hall front
+has lately been renovated, and presents a rich display of
+architectural ornament.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE LONE GRAVES.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Why should their sleep thus silent be, from streams and flow'rs
+away,</p>
+<p>While wanders thro' the sunny air the cuckoo's mellow lay;</p>
+<p>Those forms, whose eyes reflected heaven in their mild depth of
+blue,</p>
+<p>Whose hair was like the wave that shines o'er sands of golden
+hue?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Are these the altars of their rest, the pure and sacred
+shrines;</p>
+<p>Where Memory, rapt o'er visions fled, her holy spell
+combines?</p>
+<p>The sire, the child, oh, waft them back to their delightful
+dell,</p>
+<p>When, like a voice from heavenly lands, awakes the curfew
+bell.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>And have they no remembrance here, the cheeks that softly
+glow'd,</p>
+<p>The amber hair, that, on the breeze, in gleaming tresses
+flow'd,</p>
+<p>The hymn which hail'd the Sabbath morn,&mdash;the fix'd and
+fervid eye;</p>
+<p>Must these sweet treasures of the heart in shade and silence
+lie?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh, no! thou place of sanctities! a ray has from thee gone,</p>
+<p>Dearer than noontide's gorgeous light, or Sabbath's music
+tone;</p>
+<p>A spirit! whose bright ark is far beyond the clouds and
+waves,</p>
+<p>Albeit there is a sunless gloom on these, their lonely
+graves!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em">REGINALD AUGUSTINE.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>[pg
+19]</span>
+<h3>BAGLEY WOOD.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>Bagley is situated about two miles and a half from Oxford, on
+the Abingdon-road, and affords an agreeable excursion to the
+Oxonians, who, leaving the city of learning, pass over the old
+bridge, where the observatory of the celebrated Friar Bacon was
+formerly standing. The wood is large, extending itself to the
+summit of a hill, which commands a charming panoramic view of
+Oxford, and of the adjacent country. The scene is richly
+diversified with hill and dale, while the spires, turrets, and
+towers of the university, rise high above the clustering trees,
+filling the beholder with the utmost awe and veneration. During the
+summer, this rustic spot presents many cool retreats, and
+love-embowering shades; and here many an amour is carried on, free
+from suspicion's eye, beneath the wide umbrageous canopy of
+nature.</p>
+<p>Gipsies, or <i>fortune-tellers</i>, are constantly to be found
+in Bagley Wood; and many a gay Oxonian may be seen in the company
+of some wandering Egyptian beauty. So partial, indeed, are several
+of the young men of the university to the tawny tribe, that they
+are frequently observed in their <i>academicals</i>, lounging round
+the picturesque tents, having <i>their</i> fortunes told; though,
+it must be remarked, their countenances usually evince a waggish
+incredulity on those occasions, and they appear much more amused
+with the novel scene around them than gratified with the favourable
+predictions of the wily Egyptians.</p>
+<p>The merry gipsies of Bagley Wood might well sing with
+<i>Herrick</i></p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Here we securely live, and eat</p>
+<p>The cream of meat;</p>
+<p>And keep eternal fires</p>
+<p>By which we sit, <i>and do divine</i>."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>G.W.N.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>EATING "MUTTON COLD."</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>A correspondent in a late number asks for a solution of the
+expression, "eating mutton cold." If the following one is worth
+printing, it is much at your service and that of the readers of the
+MIRROR.</p>
+<p>I consider then that it has simply the same meaning as that of
+"coming a day after the fair." To come at the end of a feast when
+the various viands (always including mutton as being easy of
+digestion for dyspeptic people) were still warm, though cut pretty
+near to the bone, would, by most persons, particularly aldermanic
+"bodies," be considered sufficiently vexatious; how doubly annoying
+then must it be to come so late as to find the meats more than half
+cold, and, perhaps, but little of them left even in that
+anti-epicurean state! Whoever has been unfortunate enough to miss a
+fine fat haunch either of venison or mutton, which, smoking on the
+board, even Dr. Kitchiner would have pronounced fit for an emperor,
+cannot but enter deeply and feelingly into the disappointment of
+that guest who, arriving, through some misdate of the invitation
+card, on the day subsequent to the feast, finds but, <i>horribile
+dictu</i>, cold lean ham, cold pea-soup, cold potatoes, and
+finally, <i>cold mutton</i>. Goldsmith's idea certainly was that
+Burke was never able to say, in the words of the Roman adage, <i>in
+tempore veni quod rerum omnium est primum</i>; but rather in plain
+English, "confound my ill luck, I never yet was invited to a feast
+but I either missed it in toto, or came so late as to be obliged to
+eat my mutton cold, a thing, which of all others, I most abhor."
+HEN. B.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>POOL'S HOLE, DERBYSHIRE.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>This cave is said to have taken its title from a notorious
+robber of that name, who being declared an outlaw, found in this
+hole a refuge from justice, where he carried on his nocturnal
+depredations with impunity. Others insist that this dismal hole was
+the habitation of a hermit or anchorite, of the name of Pool. Of
+the two traditions, I prefer the former. It is situated at the
+bottom of <i>Coitmos</i>, a lofty mountain near Buxton. The
+entrance is by a small arch, so low that you are forced to creep on
+hands and knees to gain admission; but it gradually opens into a
+vault above a quarter of a mile in length, and as some assert, a
+quarter of a mile high. It is certainly very lofty, and resembles
+the roof of a Gothic edifice. In a cavern to the right called
+Pool's Chamber, there is a fine echo, and the dashing of a current
+of water, which flows along the middle of the great vault, very
+much heightens the wonder.</p>
+<p>On the floor are great ridges of stone&mdash;water is
+perpetually distilling from the roof and sides of this vault, and
+the drops before they fall produce a very pleasing effect, by
+reflecting numberless rays from the candles carried by <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>[pg 20]</span> the
+guides. They also form their quality from crystallizations of
+various flakes like figures of fret work, and in some places,
+having long accumulated upon one another, into large masses,
+bearing a rude resemblance to various animals.</p>
+<p>In the same cavity is a column as clear as alabaster, called
+<i>Mary Queen of Scots'</i> column, because it is said she reached
+so far; beyond which is a steep ascent for nearly a quarter of a
+mile, which terminates in a hollow in the roof, called the
+Needle's-eye, in which, when the guide places his candle, it looks
+like a star in the firmament. You only wonder when you get out how
+you attained such an achievement. W.H.H.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>Happening to look at No. 229, of your valuable Miscellany, in
+which you have given rather a lengthy account of Canterbury
+Cathedral, I was surprised to find no notice taken of the beautiful
+STONE SCREEN in the interior of the cathedral, which is considered
+by many, one of the finest specimens of florid Gothic in the
+kingdom. The following is a brief description of this ancient
+specimen of architecture:</p>
+<p>This fine piece of Gothic carved work was built by Prior Hen. de
+Estria, in 1304. It is rich in flutings, pyramids, and canopied
+niches, in which stand six statues crowned, five of which hold
+globes in their hands, and the sixth a church. Various have been
+the conjectures as to the individuals intended by these statues.
+That holding the church is supposed to represent King Ethelbert,
+being a very ancient man with a long beard. The next figure appears
+more feminine, and may probably intend his queen, Bertha.</p>
+<p>Before the havoc made in Charles's reign, there were thirteen
+figures representing Christ and his Apostles in the niches which
+are round the arch-doorway, and also twelve mitred Saints aloft
+along the stone work, where is now placed an organ.</p>
+<p>At the National Repository, Charing Cross, there is exhibited a
+very correct model of this screen, in which the likenesses of the
+ancient kings are admirably imitated. P.T.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ANCIENT STONE.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>There formerly stood about three miles from Carmarthen, at a
+place called New Church, a stone about eight feet long and two
+broad. The only distinguishable words upon it were "<i>Severus
+filius Severi</i>." The remainder of the inscription, by
+dilapidation and time, was defaced. It is supposed that there had
+been a battle fought here, and that Severus fell. About a quarter
+of a mile from this was another with the name of some other
+individual. The above stone was removed by the owner of the land on
+which it stood, and is now used instead of a gate-post by him. I
+should imagine it was the son of Severus the Roman, who founded the
+great wall and ditch called after him, Severus' Wall and Ditch, and
+as there was a Roman road from St. David's, in Wales, to
+Southampton, it is not improbable that the Romans should come from
+thence to Carmarthen. W.H.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE COSMOPOLITE.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>DIET OF VARIOUS NATIONS.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<p>To the artist, the amateur, the traveller, and man of taste in
+general, the following gleanings respecting the diet of various
+nations, are, in the spirit of English hospitality, cordially
+inscribed. The breakfast of the <i>Icelanders</i> consists of
+<i>skyr</i>, a kind of sour, coagulated milk, sometimes mixed with
+fresh milk or cream, and flavoured with the juice of certain
+berries; their usual dinner is dried fish, skyr, and rancid butter;
+and skyr, cheese, or porridge, made of Iceland moss, forms their
+supper; bread is rarely tasted by many of the Icelanders, but
+appears as a dainty at their rural feasts with mutton, and
+milk-porridge. They commonly drink a kind of whey mixed with water.
+As the cattle of this people are frequently, during winter, reduced
+to the miserable necessity of subsisting on dried fish, we can
+scarcely conceive their fresh meat to be so great a luxury as it is
+there esteemed. The poor of <i>Sweden</i> live on hard bread,
+salted or dried fish, water-gruel, and beer. The <i>Norwegian</i>
+nobility and merchants fare sumptuously, but the lower classes
+chiefly subsist on the following articles:&mdash;oatmeal-bread,
+made in thin cakes (strongly resembling the havver-bread of
+Scotland) and baked only twice a-year. The oatmeal for this bread
+is, in times of scarcity, which in Norway frequently occur, mixed
+with the bark of elm or fir tree, ground, after boiling and drying,
+into a sort of flour; sometimes in the vicinity of fisheries, the
+roes of cod kneaded with the meal <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page21" name="page21"></a>[pg 21]</span> of oats or barley, are
+made into a kind of hasty-pudding, and soup, which is enriched with
+a pickled herring or mackerel. The flesh of the shark, and thin
+slices of meat salted and dried in the wind, are much esteemed.
+Fresh fish are plentiful on the coasts, but for lack of
+conveyances, unknown in the interior; the deficiency however, is
+there amply supplied by an abundance of game. The flesh of cattle
+pickled, smoked, or dry-salted, is laid by for winter store; and
+after making cheese, the sour whey is converted into a liquor
+called <i>syre</i>, which, mixed with water, constitutes the
+ordinary beverage of the Norwegians; but for festive occasions they
+brew strong beer, and with it intoxicate themselves, as also with
+brandy, when procurable. The maritime <i>Laplanders</i> feed on
+fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog, fish-livers,
+and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty provision; they
+are even aspiring to the rank of the interior inhabitants, whose
+nutriment is of a more delicate description, being the flesh of all
+kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and birds of
+prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty. Rein-deer flesh is
+commonly boiled in a large iron kettle, and when done, torn to
+pieces by the fingers of the <i>major domo</i>, and by him
+portioned out to his family and friends; the broth remaining in the
+kettle is boiled into soup with rye or oat-meal, and sometimes
+seasoned with salt. Rein-deer blood is also a viand with these
+people, and being boiled, either by itself or mixed with wild
+berries, in the stomach of the animal from whence it was taken,
+forms a kind of black-pudding. The beverage of the Laplanders is
+milk and water, broths, and fish-soups; brandy, of which they are
+extremely fond, is a great rarity, and a glass of it will warm
+their hearts towards the weary sojourner, who, but for the precious
+gift, might ask hospitality at their huts in vain. The diet of the
+<i>Samoides</i>, resembles that of the Laplanders, save that they
+devour raw the flesh of fish and reindeer. For this people, all
+animals taken in the chase, and even those found dead, afford food,
+with the exception of dogs, cats, ermines, and squirrels. They have
+no regular time for meals, but the members of a family help
+themselves when they please from the boiler which always hangs over
+the fire. It is scarcely possible to name the variety of diet to be
+found among the Russian tribes; but even in cities, and at the
+tables of the opulent and civilized, late accounts mention the
+appearance of several strange and disgusting dishes, compounded of
+pastry, grain, pulse, vinegar, honey, fish, flesh, fruits, &amp;c.,
+not at all creditable to Russian gastronomic science. The diet of
+the <i>Polish</i> peasantry is meagre in the extreme; they seldom
+taste animal food, and both sexes swallow a prodigious quantity of
+<i>schnaps</i>, an ardent spirit resembling whiskey. The
+<i>Dutch</i> of all ranks are fond of butter, and seldom is a
+journey taken without a butter-box in the pocket. The boors feed on
+roots, pulse, herbs, sour milk, and water-souchie, a kind of
+fish-broth. In <i>England</i>, the edible produce of the world
+appears at the tables of the nobility, gentry, and opulent
+commercial classes; and upon comparison with that of other nations,
+it will be seen that the diet of English artisans, peasantry, and
+even paupers, is far superior in variety and nourishment; bread,
+(white and brown) vegetables, meat, broth, soup, fish, fruit,
+roots, herbs, cheese, milk, butter, and, not rarely, sugar and tea,
+with fermented liquors and ardent spirits, are all, or most of
+them, procured as articles of daily subsistence by the English
+inferior classes. In Scotland, the higher ranks live abstemiously,
+save on festive occasions; but animal food and wheaten bread is
+seldom tasted by the lower orders, who chiefly subsist on rye,
+barley, and oatmeal, prepared in bread, thin cakes, and porridge;
+this last termed <i>stirabout</i>, is simply oatmeal mixed with
+water and boiled (being stirred about with a wooden skether or
+spoon when on the fire) to the consistency of flour-paste, not very
+stiff; this, eaten with milk, forms the chief diet of the Scottish
+artisans and peasantry, and, indeed, many of superior stations
+prefer it for breakfast to bread of the finest flour which can be
+procured. Both high and low are partial to the following national
+dishes. The <i>haggis</i>, a kind of pudding, made of the offals or
+interior of a sheep, and boiled in the integument of its stomach;
+this dish, both in odour and flavour, is usually excessively
+offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's head, water-souchie,
+Scotch soup, (an <i>olla podrida</i> of meats and vegetables,)
+chicken-broth and sowens. <i>Laver</i>, a sauce made from a
+peculiar kind of sea-weed, and <i>caviar</i>, introduced from
+Russia, appear at the tables of the opulent, and by many are much
+esteemed. The diet of the higher ranks of <i>Irish</i> varies but
+little from that of the same classes in England and Scotland.
+Amongst national dishes appear the <i>staggering bob</i>, a calf
+only two days old, delicately dressed; hodge-podge, a soup
+answering to <span class="pagenum"><a id="page22" name=
+"page22"></a>[pg 22]</span> that of Scotland; colcannon, a mixture
+of potatoes and greens, seasoned with onions, salt, and pepper,
+finely braided together after boiling; and a sea-weed sauce, either
+laver or some other, the name of which we do not happen to
+remember. Potatoes, fish, (fresh and salted) eggs, milk, and
+butter-milk, form the principal support of the inferior class, of
+Irish; and whiskey the national ardent spirit of Ireland and
+Scotland, is but too often, as is gin in England, the sole support
+of a host of besotted beings, who drop into untimely graves, from
+the <i>habit of intoxication</i>.</p>
+<p>(<i>To be continued</i>.)</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.</h3>
+<p>At Susa, Alexander collected all the nobles of the empire, and
+celebrated the most magnificent nuptials recorded in history. He
+married Barcin&egrave;, or Stateira, the daughter of the late king,
+and thus, in the eyes of his Persian subjects, confirmed his title
+to the throne. His father, Philip, was a polygamist in practice,
+although it would be very difficult to prove that the Macedonians
+in general were allowed a plurality of wives; but Alexander was now
+the King of Kings, and is more likely to have been guided by
+Persian than Greek opinions upon the subject. Eighty of his
+principal officers followed his example, and were united to the
+daughters of the chief nobility of Persia.</p>
+<p>The marriages, in compliment to the brides, were celebrated
+after the Persian fashion, and during the vernal equinox. For at no
+other period, by the ancient laws of Persia, could nuptials be
+legally celebrated. Such an institution is redolent of the poetry
+and freshness of the new world, and of an attention to the voice of
+nature, and the analogies of physical life. The young couple would
+marry in time to sow their field, to reap the harvest, and gather
+their stores, before the season of cold and scarcity overtook them.
+It is difficult to say how far this custom prevailed among
+primitive nations, but it can scarcely be doubted that we still
+retain lingering traces of it in the harmless amusements of St.
+Valentine's day.</p>
+<p>On the wedding-day Alexander feasted the eighty bridegrooms in a
+magnificent hall prepared for the purpose. Eighty separate couches
+were placed for the guests, and on each a magnificent wedding-robe
+for every individual. At the conclusion of the banquet, and while
+the wine and the dessert were on the table, the eighty brides were
+introduced; Alexander first rose, received the princess, took her
+by the hand, kissed her, and placed her on the couch close to
+himself. This example was followed by all, till every lady was
+seated by her betrothed. This formed the whole of the Persian
+ceremony&mdash;the salute being regarded as the seal of
+appropriation. The Macedonian form was still more simple and
+symbolical. The bridegroom, dividing a small loaf with his sword,
+presented one-half to the bride; wine was then poured as a libation
+on both portions, and the contracting parties tasted of the bread.
+Cake and wine, as nuptial refreshments, may thus claim a venerable
+antiquity. In due time the bridegrooms conducted their respective
+brides to chambers prepared for them within the precincts of the
+royal palace.</p>
+<p>The festivities continued for five days, and all the amusements
+of the age were put into requisition for the entertainment of the
+company. Athenaeus has quoted from Charas, a list of the chief
+performers, which I transcribe more for the sake of the
+performances and of the states where these lighter arts were
+brought to the greatest perfection, than of the names, which are
+now unmeaning sounds. Scymnus from Tarentum, Philistides from
+Syracuse, and Heracleitus from Mytylen&egrave;, were the great
+jugglers, or as the Greek word intimates, the wonder-workers of the
+day. After them, Alexis, the Tarentine, displayed his excellence as
+a rhapsodist, or repeater, to appropriate music, of the
+soul-stirring poetry of Homer. Cratinus the Methymnoean,
+Aristonymus the Athenian, Athenodorus the Teian, played on the
+harp&mdash;without being accompanied by the voice. On the contrary,
+Heracleitus the Tarentine, and Aristocrates the Theban, accompanied
+their harps with lyric songs. The performers on wind instruments
+were divided on a similar, although it could not be on the same
+principle. Dionysius from Heracleia, and Hyperbolus from Cyzicum,
+sang to the flute, or some such instrument; while Timotheus,
+Phrynichus, Scaphisius, Diophantus, and Evius, the Chalcidian,
+first performed the Pythian overture, and then, accompanied by
+chorusses, displayed the full power of wind instruments in masterly
+hands. There was also a peculiar class called eulogists of Bacchus;
+these acquitted themselves so well on this occasion, applying to
+Alexander <span class="pagenum"><a id="page23" name=
+"page23"></a>[pg 23]</span> those praises which in their
+extemporaneous effusions had hitherto been confined to the god,
+that they acquired the name of Eulogists of Alexander. Nor did
+their reward fail them. The stage, of course, was not without its
+representatives:&mdash;Thessalus, Athenodorus, Aristocritus, in
+tragedy&mdash;Lycon, Phormion, and Ariston, in comedy&mdash;exerted
+their utmost skill, and contended for the prize of superior
+excellence. Phasimelus, the dancer was also present.</p>
+<p>It is yet undecided whether the Persians admitted their matrons
+to their public banquets and private parties;&mdash;but if we can
+believe the positive testimony of Herodotus, such was the case: and
+the summons of Vashti to the annual festival, and the admission of
+Haman to the queen's table, are facts which support the affirmation
+of that historian. The doubts upon the subject appear to have
+arisen from confounding the manners of Assyrians, Medes, and
+Parthians, with those of the more Scythian tribes of Persis. We
+read in Xenophon that the Persian women were so well made and
+beautiful, that their attractions might easily have seduced the
+affections of the Ten Thousand, and have caused them, like the
+lotus-eating companions of Ulysses, to forget their native land.
+Some little hints as to the mode in which their beauty was enhanced
+and their persons decorated, may be expected in the Life of
+Alexander, who, victorious over their fathers and brothers, yet
+submitted to their charms.</p>
+<p>The Persian ladies wore the tiara or turban richly adorned with
+jewels. They wore their hair long, and both plaited and curled it;
+nor, if the natural failed, did they scruple to use false locks.
+They pencilled the eyebrows, and tinged the eyelid, with a dye that
+was supposed to add a peculiar brilliancy to the eyes. They were
+fond of perfumes, and their delightful ottar was the principal
+favourite. Their tunic and drawers were of fine linen, the robe or
+gown of silk&mdash;the train of this was long, and on state
+occasions required a supporter. Round the waist they wore a broad
+zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered and
+jewelled in the centre. They also wore stockings and gloves, but
+history has not recorded their materials. They used no sandals; a
+light and ornamented shoe was worn in the house; and for walking
+they had a kind of coarse half boot. They used shawls and wrappers
+for the person, and veils for the head; the veil was large and
+square, and when thrown over the head descended low on all sides.
+They were fond of glowing colours, especially of purple, scarlet,
+and light-blue dresses. Their favourite ornaments were pearls; they
+wreathed these in their hair, wore them as necklaces, ear-drops,
+armlets, bracelets, anklets, and worked them into conspicuous parts
+of their dresses. Of the precious stones they preferred emeralds,
+rubies, and turquoises, which were set in gold and worn like the
+pearls.</p>
+<p>Alexander did not limit his liberality to the wedding
+festivities, but presented every bride with a handsome marriage
+portion. He also ordered the names of all the soldiers who had
+married Asiatic wives to be registered; their number exceeded
+10,000; and each received a handsome present, under the name of
+marriage gift.&mdash;<i>Williams's Life of Alexander, Family
+Library, No. 3</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>POEMS, BY W.T. MONCRIEFF.</h3>
+<p>This is a pretty little volume of graceful poems, printed "at
+the author's private press, for private distribution only." They
+are, however, entitled by their merits, to more extensive, or
+public circulation; for many of them evince the good taste and pure
+feelings of the writer. Some of the pieces relate to domestic
+circumstances, others are calculated to cheat "sorrow of a smile,"
+whilst all are, to use a set phrase, highly honourable to the head
+and heart of the author. In proof of this, we could detach several
+pages; but we have only space for a few:</p>
+<h3>SONG.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>As flowers, that seem the light to shun</p>
+<p>At evening's dusk and morning's haze,</p>
+<p>Expand beneath the noon-tide sun,</p>
+<p>And bloom to beauty in his rays,</p>
+<p>So maidens, in a lover's eyes,</p>
+<p>A thousand times more lovely grow,</p>
+<p>Yield added sweetness to his sighs,</p>
+<p>And with unwonted graces glow.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>As gems from light their brilliance gain,</p>
+<p>And brightest shine when shone upon,</p>
+<p>Nor half their orient rays retain,</p>
+<p>When light wanes dim and day is gone:</p>
+<p>So Beauty beams, for one dear one!</p>
+<p>Acquires fresh splendour in his sight,</p>
+<p>Her life&mdash;her light&mdash;her day&mdash;her sun&mdash;</p>
+<p>Her harbinger of all that's bright!<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+"footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page24" name="page24"></a>[pg
+24]</span>
+<h3>ANECDOTE VERSIFIED.</h3>
+<h4><i>Lord Albemarle to Mademoiselle Gaucher, on seeing her look
+very earnestly at the Evening Star</i>.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh! do not gaze upon that star,</p>
+<p>That distant star, so earnestly,</p>
+<p>If thou would'st not my pleasure mar&mdash;</p>
+<p>For ah! I cannot give it thee.<a id="footnotetag3" name=
+"footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>And, such is my unbounded love,</p>
+<p>Thou should'st not gaze upon a thing</p>
+<p>I would not make thee mistress of,</p>
+<p>And prove in love, at least, a <i>King</i>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>STANZAS TO THE SHADE OF &mdash;&mdash;</h3>
+<blockquote><i>In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
+sleep falleth on men,&mdash;an image was before mine eyes; there
+was silence, and I heard a voice</i>. JOB iv. 13.</blockquote>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Reproach me not, beloved shade!</p>
+<p>Nor think thy memory less I prize;</p>
+<p>The smiles that o'er my features play'd,</p>
+<p>But hid my pangs from vulgar eyes.</p>
+<p>I acted like the worldling boy,</p>
+<p>With heart to every feeling vain:</p>
+<p>I smil'd with all, yet felt no joy;</p>
+<p>I wept with all, yet felt no pain,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>No&mdash;though, to veil thoughts of gloom,</p>
+<p>I seem'd to twine Joy's rosy wreath,</p>
+<p>'Twas but as flowerets o'er a tomb.</p>
+<p>Which only hide the woe beneath.</p>
+<p>I lose no portion of my woes,</p>
+<p>Although my tears in secret flow;</p>
+<p>More green and fresh the verdure grows,</p>
+<p>Where the cold streams run hid below.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>A MODEST ODE TO FORTUNE.</h3>
+<blockquote>"<i>Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat</i>."
+HOR.</blockquote>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>O Goddess Fortune, hear my prayer,</p>
+<p>And make a bard for once thy care!</p>
+<p>I do not ask, in houses splendid,</p>
+<p>To be by liveried slaves attended;</p>
+<p>I ask not for estates, nor land,</p>
+<p>Nor host of vassals at command;</p>
+<p>I ask not for a handsome wife&mdash;</p>
+<p>Though I dislike a single life;</p>
+<p>I ask not friends, nor fame, nor power,</p>
+<p>Nor courtly rank, nor leisure's hour;</p>
+<p>I ask not books, nor wine, nor plate.</p>
+<p>Nor yet acquaintance with the great;</p>
+<p>Nor dance, nor sons, nor mirth, nor jest,</p>
+<p>Nor treasures of the East or West;</p>
+<p>I ask not beauty, wit, nor ease,</p>
+<p>Nor qualities more blest than these&mdash;</p>
+<p>Learning nor genius, skill nor art,</p>
+<p>Nor valour for the hero's part;</p>
+<p>These, though I much desire to have,</p>
+<p>I do not, dearest goddess, crave.&mdash;</p>
+<p>I modestly for MONEY call&mdash;</p>
+<p>For <i>money</i> will procure them <i>all</i>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>ANACREONTIC.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Come fill the bowl!&mdash;one summer's day,</p>
+<p>Some hearts, that had been wreck'd and sever'd,</p>
+<p>Again to tempt the liquid way,</p>
+<p>And join their former mates endeavour'd;</p>
+<p>But then arose this serious question.</p>
+<p>Which best to kindred hearts would guide?</p>
+<p>Water, was Prudence' pure suggestion,</p>
+<p>But that they thought too cool a tide!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Peace bade them try the milky way,</p>
+<p>But they were fearful 'twould becalm them;</p>
+<p>Cried Love, on dews of morning stray,&mdash;</p>
+<p>They deem'd 'twould from their purpose charm them.</p>
+<p>Cried Friendship, try the ruby tide,&mdash;</p>
+<p>They did&mdash;each obstacle departs;</p>
+<p>'Tis still with wine 'reft hearts will glide</p>
+<p>Most surely unto kindred hearts.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>THE PILGRIM PRINCE.&mdash;BALLAD.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>At blush of morn, the silver horn</p>
+<p>Was loudly blown at the castle gate;</p>
+<p>And, from the wall, the Seneschal</p>
+<p>Saw there a weary pilgrim wait.</p>
+<p>"What news&mdash;what news, thou stranger bold?</p>
+<p>Thy looks are rough, thy raiment old!</p>
+<p>And little does Lady Isabel care</p>
+<p>To know how want and poverty fare."</p>
+<p>"Ah let me straight that lady see,</p>
+<p>For far I come from the North Country!"</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"And who art thou, bold wight, I trow,</p>
+<p>That would to Lady Isabel speak!"</p>
+<p>"One who, long since shone as a prince,</p>
+<p>And kiss'd her damask cheek:</p>
+<p>But oh, my trusty sword has fail'd,</p>
+<p>The cruel Paynim has prevail'd,</p>
+<p>My lands are lost, my friends are few,</p>
+<p>Trifles all, if my lady's true!"</p>
+<p>"Poor prince! ah when did woman's truth,</p>
+<p>Outlive the loss of lands and youth!"</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK.</h2>
+<h3>THE SPLENDID ANNUAL.</h3>
+<h4><i>By the Author of "Sayings and Doings</i>."</h4>
+<p>Literature, even in this literary age, is not the ordinary
+pursuit of the citizens of London, although every merchant is
+necessarily a man of letters, and underwriters are as common as
+cucumbers. Notwithstanding, however, my being a citizen, I am
+tempted to disclose the miseries and misfortunes of my life in
+these pages, because having heard the "ANNIVERSARY" called a
+splendid annual, I hope for sympathy from its readers, seeing that
+I have been a "<i>splendid annual</i>" myself.</p>
+<p>My name is Scropps&mdash;I <i>am</i> an Alderman&mdash;I
+<i>was</i> Sheriff&mdash;I <i>have been</i> Lord Mayor&mdash;and
+the three great eras of my existence were the year of my
+shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it. Until
+I had passed through this ordeal I had no conception of the
+extremes of happiness and wretchedness to which a human being may
+be carried, nor ever believed that society presented to its members
+an eminence so exalted as that which I once touched, or imagined a
+fall so great as that which I experienced. I came originally from
+that place to which persons of bad character are said to be
+sent&mdash;I mean Coventry, where my <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page25" name="page25"></a>[pg 25]</span> father for many years
+contributed his share to the success of parliamentary candidates,
+the happiness of new married couples, and even the gratification of
+ambitious courtiers, by taking part in the manufacture of ribands
+for election cockades, wedding favours, and cordons of chivalry;
+but trade failed, and, like his betters, he became bankrupt, but,
+unlike his betters, without any consequent advantage to himself;
+and I, at the age of fifteen, was thrown upon the world with
+nothing but a strong constitution, a moderate education, and
+fifteen shillings and eleven pence three farthings in my
+pocket.</p>
+<p>With these qualifications I started from my native town on a
+pedestrian excursion to London; and although I fell into none of
+those romantic adventures of which I had read at school, I met with
+more kindness than the world generally gets credit for, and on the
+fourth day after my departure, having slept soundly, if not
+magnificently, every night, and eaten with an appetite which my
+mode of travelling was admirably calculated to stimulate, reached
+the great metropolis, having preserved of my patrimony, no less a
+sum than nine shillings and seven pence.</p>
+<p>The bells of one of the churches in the city were ringing
+merrily as I descended the heights of Islington; and were it not
+that my patronymic Scropps never could, under the most improved
+system of campanology, be jingled into any thing harmonious, I have
+no doubt I, like my great predecessor Whittington, might have heard
+in that peal a prediction of my future exaltation; certain it is I
+did not; and, wearied with my journey, I took up my lodging for the
+night at a very humble house near Smithfield, to which I had been
+kindly recommended by the driver of a return postchaise, of whose
+liberal offer of the moiety of his bar to town I had availed myself
+at Barnet.</p>
+<p>As it is not my intention to deduce a moral from my progress in
+the world at this period of my life, I need not here dilate upon
+the good policy of honesty, or the advantages of temperance and
+perseverance, by which I worked my way upwards, until after
+meriting the confidence of an excellent master, I found myself
+enjoying it fully. To his business I succeeded at his death, having
+several years before, with his sanction, married a young and
+deserving woman, about my own age, of whose prudence and skill in
+household matters I had long had a daily experience.</p>
+<p>To be brief, Providence blessed my efforts and increased my
+means; I became a wholesale dealer in every thing, from barrels of
+gunpowder down to pickled herrings; in the civic acceptation of the
+word I was a merchant, amongst the vulgar I am called a dry-salter.
+I accumulated wealth; with my fortune my family also grew, and one
+male Scropps, and four female ditto, grace my board at least once
+in every week.</p>
+<p>Passing over the minor gradations of my life, the removal from
+one residence to another, the enlargement of this warehouse, the
+rebuilding of that, the anxiety of a canvass for common council
+man, activity in the company of which I am liveryman, inquests, and
+vestries, and ward meetings, and all the other pleasing toils to
+which an active citizen is subject, let us come at once to the
+first marked epoch of my life&mdash;the year of my Shrievalty. The
+announcement of my nomination and election filled Mrs. S. with
+delight; and when I took my children to Great Queen Street,
+Lincoln's Inn Fields, to look at the gay chariot brushing up for
+me, I confess I felt proud and happy to be able to show my progeny
+the arms of London, those of the Spectacle Makers' Company, and
+those of the Scroppses (recently found at a trivial expense) all
+figuring upon the same panels. They looked magnificent upon the
+pea-green ground, and the wheels, "white picked out crimson,"
+looked so chaste, and the hammercloth, and the fringe, and the
+festoons, and the Scropps' crests all looked so rich, and the silk
+linings and white tassels, and the squabs and the yellow cushions
+and the crimson carpet looked so comfortable, that, as I stood
+contemplating the equipage, I said to myself, "What have I done to
+deserve <i>this</i>?&mdash;O that my poor father were alive to see
+his boy Jack going down to Westminster, to chop sticks and count
+hobnails, in a carriage like this!" My children were like mad
+things: and in the afternoon, when I put on my first new brown
+court suit (lined, like my chariot, with white silk) and fitted up
+with cut steel buttons, just to try the effect, it all appeared
+like a dream; the sword, which I tried on every night for half an
+hour after I went up to bed, to practise walking with it, was very
+inconvenient at first; but use is second nature; and so by
+rehearsing and rehearsing, I made myself perfect before that
+auspicious day when Sheriffs flourish and geese
+prevail&mdash;namely, the twenty-ninth of September.</p>
+<p>The twelve months which followed were very delightful; for
+independently <span class="pagenum"><a id="page26" name=
+"page26"></a>[pg 26]</span> of the <i>positive</i> honour and
+<i>&eacute;clat</i> they produced, I had the Mayoralty in
+<i>prospect&ucirc;</i> (having attained my aldermanic gown by an
+immense majority the preceding year), and as I used during the
+sessions to sit in my box at the Old Bailey, with my bag at my back
+and my bouquet on my book, my thoughts were wholly devoted to one
+object of contemplation; culprits stood trembling to hear the
+verdict of a jury, and I regarded them not; convicts knelt to
+receive the fatal fiat of the Recorder, and I heeded not their
+sufferings, as I watched the Lord Mayor seated in the centre of the
+bench, with the sword of justice stuck up in a goblet over his
+head&mdash;there, thought I, if I live two years, shall <i>I</i>
+sit&mdash;however, even as it was, it was very agreeable. When
+executions, the chief drawbacks to my delight, happened, I found,
+after a little seasoning, I took the thing coolly, and enjoyed my
+toast and tea after the patients were turned off, just as if
+nothing had happened; for, in <i>my</i> time, we hanged at eight
+and breakfasted at a quarter after, so that without much hurry we
+were able to finish our muffins just in time for the cutting down
+at nine. I had to go to the House of Commons with a petition, and
+to Court with an address&mdash;trying situations for one of the
+Scroppses&mdash;however, the want of state in parliament, and the
+very little attention paid to us by the members, put me quite at my
+ease at Westminster; while the gracious urbanity of our
+accomplished monarch on his throne made me equally comfortable at
+St. James's. Still I was but a secondary person, or rather only one
+of two secondary persons&mdash;the chief of bailiffs and principal
+Jack Ketch; there <i>was</i> a step to gain&mdash;and, as I often
+mentioned in confidence to Mrs. Scropps, I was sure my heart would
+never be still until I had reached the pinnacle.</p>
+<p>Behold at length the time arrived!&mdash;Guildhall crowded to
+excess&mdash;the hustings thronged&mdash;the aldermen
+retire&mdash;they return&mdash;their choice is announced to the
+people&mdash;it has fallen upon John Ebenezer Scropps, Esq.,
+Alderman and spectacle maker&mdash;a sudden shout is
+heard&mdash;"Scropps for ever!" resounds&mdash;the whole assembly
+seems to vanish from my sight&mdash;I come forward&mdash;am
+invested with the chain&mdash;I bow&mdash;make a
+speech&mdash;tumble over the train of the Recorder, and tread upon
+the tenderest toe of Mr. Deputy Pod&mdash;leave the hall in
+ecstasy, and drive home to Mrs. Scropps in a state of mind
+bordering upon insanity.</p>
+<p>The days wore on, each one seemed as long as a week, until at
+length the eighth of November arrived, and then did it seem certain
+that I should be Lord Mayor&mdash;I was sworn in&mdash;the civic
+insignia were delivered to me&mdash;I returned them to the proper
+officers&mdash;my chaplain was near me&mdash;the esquires of my
+household were behind me&mdash;the thing was done&mdash;never shall
+I forget the tingling sensation I felt in my ear when I was first
+called "My Lord"&mdash;I even doubted if it were addressed to me,
+and hesitated to answer&mdash;but it was so&mdash;the reign of
+splendour had begun, and, after going through the accustomed
+ceremonies, I got home and retired to bed early, in order to be
+fresh for the fatigues of the ensuing day.</p>
+<p>Sleep I did not&mdash;how was it to be expected?&mdash;Some part
+of the night I was in consultation with Mrs. Scropps upon the
+different arrangements; settling about the girls, their places at
+the banquet, and their partners at the ball; the wind down the
+chimney sounded like the shouts of the people; the cocks crowing in
+the mews at the back of the house I took for trumpets sounding my
+approach; and the ordinary incidental noises in the family I
+fancied the pop-guns at Stangate, announcing my disembarkation at
+Westminster&mdash;thus I tossed and tumbled until the long
+wished-for day dawned, and I jumped up anxiously to realize the
+visions of the night. I was not long at my toilet&mdash;I was soon
+shaved and dressed&mdash;but just as I was settling myself
+comfortably into my beautiful brown broadcloth inexpressibles,
+crack went something, and I discovered that a seam had ripped half
+a foot long. Had it been consistent with the dignity of a Lord
+Mayor to swear, I should, I believe, at that moment, have
+anathematized the offending tailor;&mdash;as it was, what was to be
+done?&mdash;I heard trumpets in earnest, carriages drawing up and
+setting down; sheriffs, and chaplains, mace bearers, train bearers,
+sword bearers, water bailiffs, remembrancers, Mr. Common Hunt, the
+town clerk, and the deputy town clerk, all bustling about&mdash;the
+bells ringing&mdash;and <i>I</i> late, with a hole in my
+inexpressibles! There was but one remedy&mdash;my wife's maid,
+kind, intelligent creature, civil and obliging, and ready to turn
+her hand to any thing, came to my aid, and in less than fifteen
+minutes her activity, exerted in the midst of the confusion,
+repaired the injury, and turned me out fit to be seen by the whole
+corporation of London.</p>
+<p>When I was dressed, I tapped at Mrs. Scropps's door, went in,
+and asked her if she thought I should do; the dear <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page27" name="page27"></a>[pg 27]</span> soul,
+after settling my point lace frill (which she had been good enough
+to pick off her own petticoat on purpose) and putting my bag
+straight, gave me the sweetest salute imaginable.</p>
+<p>"I wish your lordship health and happiness," said she.</p>
+<p>"Sally," said I, "your ladyship is an angel;" and so, having
+kissed each of my daughters, who were in progress of dressing, I
+descended the stairs, to begin the auspicious day in which I
+reached the apex of my greatness.&mdash;Never shall I forget the
+bows&mdash;the civilities&mdash;the congratulations&mdash;sheriffs
+bending before me&mdash;the Recorder smiling&mdash;the Common
+Sergeant at my feet&mdash;the pageant was intoxicating; and when,
+after having breakfasted, I stepped into that glazed and gilded
+house upon wheels, called the state coach, and saw my sword bearer
+pop himself into one of the boots, with the sword of state in his
+hand, I was lost in ecstasy, I threw myself back upon the seat of
+the vehicle with all imaginable dignity, but not without damage,
+for in the midst of my ease and elegance I snapped off the cut
+steel hilt of my sword, by accidentally bumping the whole weight of
+my body right, or rather wrong, directly upon the top of it.</p>
+<p>But what was a sword hilt or a bruise to <i>me</i>? I was
+<i>the</i> Lord Mayor&mdash;the greatest man of the greatest city
+of the greatest nation in the world. The people realized my
+anticipations, and "Bravo, Scropps!" and "Scropps for ever!" again
+resounded, as we proceeded slowly and majestically towards the
+river, through a fog, which prevented our being advantageously
+seen, and which got down the throat of the sword bearer, who
+coughed incessantly during our progress, much to my annoyance, not
+to speak of the ungraceful movements which his convulsive barkings
+gave to the red velvet scabbard of the official glave as it stuck
+out of the window of the coach.</p>
+<p>We embarked in <i>my</i> barge; a new scene of splendour awaited
+me, guns, shouts, music, flags, banners, in short, every thing that
+fancy could paint or a water bailiff provide; there, in the gilded
+bark, was prepared a cold collation&mdash;I ate, but tasted
+nothing&mdash;fowls, <i>pat&eacute;s</i>, tongue, game, beef, ham,
+all had the same flavour; champagne, hock, and Madeira were all
+alike to <i>me</i>&mdash;Lord Mayor was all I saw, all I heard, all
+I swallowed; every thing was pervaded by the one captivating word,
+and the repeated appeal to "my lordship" was sweeter than
+nectar.</p>
+<p>At Westminster, having been presented and received, I
+desired&mdash;I&mdash;John Ebenezer Scropps, of Coventry&mdash;I
+desired the Recorder to invite the judges to dine with
+me&mdash;I&mdash;who remember when two of the oldest and most
+innocent of the twelve, came the circuit, trembling at the sight of
+them, and believing them some extraordinary creatures upon whom all
+the hair and fur I saw, grew naturally&mdash;I, not only to ask
+these formidable beings to dine with me, but, as if I thought it
+beneath my dignity to do so in my proper person, deputing a judge
+of my own to do it for me; I never shall forget their bows in
+return&mdash;Chinese mandarins on a chimney-piece are fools to
+them.</p>
+<p>Then came the return&mdash;we landed once more in the scene of
+my dignity&mdash;at the corner of Fleet Street we found the Lady
+Mayoress waiting for the procession&mdash;there she was&mdash;Sally
+Scropps (her maiden name was Snob)&mdash;there was my own Sally,
+with a plume of feathers that half filled the coach, and Jenny and
+Maria and young Sally, all with their backs to <i>my</i> horses,
+which were pawing the mud and snorting and smoking like steam
+engines, with nostrils like safety valves, and four of <i>my</i>
+footmen hanging behind the coach, like bees in a swarm. There had
+not been so much riband in my family since my poor father's failure
+at Coventry&mdash;and yet how often, over and over again, although
+he had been dead more than twenty years, did I, during that
+morning, in the midst of my splendour, think of <i>him</i>, and
+wish that he could see me in my greatness&mdash;yes, even in the
+midst of my triumph I seemed to defer to my good, kind
+parent&mdash;in heaven, as I hope and trust&mdash;as if I were
+anxious for <i>his</i> judgment and <i>his</i> opinion as to how I
+should perform the arduous and manifold duties of the day.</p>
+<p>Up Ludgate Hill we moved&mdash;the fog grew thicker and
+thicker&mdash;but then the beautiful women at the
+windows&mdash;those up high could only see my knees and the paste
+buckles in my shoes; every now and then, I bowed condescendingly to
+people I had never seen before, in order to show my courtesy and my
+chain and collar, which I had discovered during the morning shone
+the better for being shaken.</p>
+<p>At length we reached Guildhall&mdash;as I crossed the beautiful
+building, lighted splendidly, and filled with well dressed company,
+and heard the deafening shouts which rent the fane as I entered it,
+I really was overcome&mdash;I retired to a private
+room&mdash;refreshed my dress, rubbed up my chain, which the damp
+had tarnished, and prepared to receive my <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page28" name="page28"></a>[pg 28]</span> guests.
+They came, and&mdash;shall I ever forget it?&mdash;dinner was
+announced; the bands played "O the roast beef of Old England."
+Onwards we went, a Prince of the blood, of the blood royal of my
+country, led out <i>my</i> Sally&mdash;my own Sally&mdash;the Lady
+Mayoress! the Lord High Chancellor handed out young Sally&mdash;I
+saw it done&mdash;I thought I should have choked; the Prime
+Minister took Maria; the Lord Privy Seal gave his arm to Jenny; and
+my wife's mother, Mrs. Snob, was honoured by the protection of the
+Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice of the King's
+Bench.&mdash;Oh, if my poor father could have but seen
+<i>that</i>!</p>
+<p>It would be tiresome to dwell upon the pleasures of the happy
+year, thus auspiciously begun, in detail; each month brought its
+delights, each week its festival; public meetings under the
+sanction of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor; concerts and balls
+under the patronage of the Lady Mayoress; Easter and its dinner,
+Blue-coat boys and buns; processions here, excursions
+there.&mdash;Summer came, and then we had swan-hopping <i>up</i>
+the river, and white-baiting <i>down</i> the river; Yantlet Creek
+below, the navigation barge above; music, flags, streamers, guns,
+and company; turtle every day in the week; peas at a pound a pint,
+and grapes at a guinea a pound; dabbling in rosewater served in
+gold, not to speak of the loving cup, with Mr. Common Hunt, in full
+dress, at my elbow; my dinners were talked of, Ude grew jealous,
+and I was idolized.</p>
+<p>The days, which before seemed like weeks, were now turned to
+minutes: scarcely had I swallowed my breakfast before I was in my
+justice-room; and before I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for
+beggary, I was called away to luncheon; this barely over, in comes
+a deputation or a dispatch, and so on till dinner, which was barely
+ended before supper was announced. We all became enchanted with the
+Mansion House; my girls grew graceful by the confidence their high
+station gave them; Maria refused a good offer because her lover
+chanced to have an ill sounding name; we had all got settled in our
+rooms, the establishment had begun to know and appreciate us; we
+had just become in fact easy in our dignity and happy in our
+position, when lo and behold! the ninth of November came
+again&mdash;the anniversary of my exaltation, the consummation of
+my downfall.</p>
+<p>Again did we go in state to Guildhall, again were we toasted and
+addressed, again were we handed in, and led out, again flirted with
+cabinet ministers and danced with ambassadors, and at two o'clock
+in the morning drove home from the scene of gaiety to our old
+residence in Budge Row.&mdash;Never in this world did pickled
+herrings and turpentine smell so powerfully as on that night when
+we entered the house; and although my wife and the young ones stuck
+to the drinkables at Guildhall, their natural feelings would have
+way, and a sort of shuddering disgust seemed to fill their minds on
+their return home&mdash;the passage looked so narrow&mdash;the
+drawing-rooms looked so small&mdash;the staircase seemed so
+dark&mdash;our apartments appeared so low&mdash;however, being
+tired, we all slept well, at least I did, for I was in no humour to
+talk to Sally, and the only topic I could think upon before I
+dropped into my slumber, was a calculation of the amount of expense
+which I had incurred during the just expired year of my
+greatness.</p>
+<p>In the morning we assembled at breakfast&mdash;a note lay on the
+table, addressed&mdash;"Mrs. Scropps, Budge Row." The girls, one
+after the other, took it up, read the superscription, and laid it
+down again. A visiter was announced&mdash;a neighbour and kind
+friend, a man of wealth and importance&mdash;what were his first
+words?&mdash;they were the first I had heard from a stranger since
+my job,&mdash;"How are you, Scropps, done up, eh?"</p>
+<p>Scropps! no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;&mdash;no
+"my lord, I hope your lordship passed an agreeable night&mdash;and
+how is her ladyship and your lordship's amiable
+daughters?"&mdash;not a bit of it&mdash;"How's Mrs. S. and the
+<i>gals</i>?" This was quite natural, all as it <i>had</i> been,
+all perhaps as it should be&mdash;but how unlike what it
+<i>was</i>, only one day before! The very servants, who, when
+amidst the strapping, stall-fed, gold-laced lacqueys of the Mansion
+House, (transferred with the chairs and tables from one Lord Mayor
+to another) dared not speak nor look, nor say their lives were
+their own, strutted about the house, and banged the doors, and
+talked of their "<i>Missis</i>," as if she had been an apple
+woman.</p>
+<p>So much for domestic miseries;&mdash;I went out&mdash;I was
+shoved about in Cheapside in the most remorseless manner; my right
+eye had a narrow escape of being poked out by the tray of a brawny
+butcher's boy, who, when I civilly remonstrated, turned round, and
+said, "Vy, I say, who are <i>you</i>, I vonder, as is so partiklar
+about your <i>hysight</i>." I felt an involuntary
+shudder&mdash;to-day, thought I, I <i>am</i> John Ebenezer
+Scropps&mdash;two <span class="pagenum"><a id="page29" name=
+"page29"></a>[pg 29]</span> days ago I was Lord Mayor; and so the
+rencontre ended, evidently to the advantage of the bristly brute.
+It was however too much for me&mdash;the effect of contrast was too
+powerful, the change was too sudden&mdash;and I determined to go to
+Brighton for a few weeks to refresh myself, and be weaned from my
+dignity.</p>
+<p>We went&mdash;we drove to the Royal Hotel; in the hall stood one
+of his Majesty's ministers, one of my former guests, speaking to
+his lady and daughter: my girls passed close to him&mdash;he had
+handed one of them to dinner the year before, but he appeared
+entirely to have forgotten her. By and by, when we were going out
+in a fly to take the air, one of the waiters desired the fly man to
+pull off, because Sir Something Somebody's carriage could not come
+up&mdash;it was clear that the name of Scropps had lost its
+influence.</p>
+<p>We secluded ourselves in a private house, where we did nothing
+but sigh and look at the sea. We had been totally spoiled for our
+proper sphere, and could not get into a better; the indifference of
+our inferiors mortified us, and the familiarity of our equals
+disgusted us&mdash;our potentiality was gone, and we were so much
+degraded that a puppy of a fellow had the impertinence to ask Jenny
+if she was going to one of the Old Ship balls. "Of course," said
+the coxcomb, "I don't mean the 'Almacks,' for they are uncommonly
+select."</p>
+<p>In short, do what we would, go where we might, we were outraged
+and annoyed, or at least thought ourselves so; and beyond all
+bitterness was the reflection, that the days of our dignity and
+delight never might return. There were at Brighton no less than
+three men who called me Jack, and <i>that</i>, out of flies or in
+libraries, and one of these, chose occasionally, by way of making
+himself particularly agreeable, to address me by the familiar
+appellation of Jacky. At length, and that only three weeks after my
+fall, an overgrown tallow-chandler met us on the Steyne, and
+stopped our party to observe, "as how he thought he owed me for two
+barrels of coal tar, for doing over his pigsties." This settled
+it&mdash;we departed from Brighton, and made a tour of the coast;
+but we never rallied; and business, which must be minded, drove us
+before Christmas to Budge Row, where we are again settled down.</p>
+<p>Maria has grown thin&mdash;Sarah has turned methodist&mdash;and
+Jenny, who danced with his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador,
+who was called angelic by the Right Honourable the Lord Privy Seal,
+and who moreover refused a man of fortune because he had an ugly
+name, is going to be married to Lieutenant Stodge, on the half pay
+of the Royal Marines&mdash;and what then?&mdash;I am sure if it
+were not for the females of my family I should be perfectly at my
+ease in my proper sphere, out of which the course of our civic
+constitution raised me. It was unpleasant at first:&mdash;but I
+have toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and
+Providence has blessed my works. If we were discomposed at the
+sudden change in our station, I it is who was to blame for having
+aspired to honours which I knew were not to last. However the
+ambition was not dishonourable, nor did I disgrace the station
+while I held it; and when I see, as in the present year,
+<i>that</i> station filled by a man of education and talent, of
+high character and ample fortune, I discover no cause to repent of
+having been one of his predecessors. Indeed I ought to apologize
+for making public the weakness by which we were all affected;
+especially as I have myself already learned to laugh at what we all
+severely felt at first&mdash;the miseries of a SPLENDID
+ANNUAL.&mdash;<i>Sharpe's London Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>A CHAPTER ON HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Ut sunt divorum, Mars, Bacchus, Apollo."</p>
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>Latin Grammar</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Did you ever look</p>
+<p>In Mr. Tooke,</p>
+<p>For Homer's gods and goddesses?</p>
+<p>The males in the air,</p>
+<p>So big and so bare,</p>
+<p>And the girls without their bodices.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>There was Jupiter Zeus,</p>
+<p>Who play'd the deuce,</p>
+<p>A rampant blade and a tough one;</p>
+<p>But Denis bold,</p>
+<p>Stole his coat of gold,</p>
+<p>And rigg'd him out in a stuff one,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Juno, when old,</p>
+<p>Was a bit of a scold,</p>
+<p>And rul'd Jove <i>jure divino</i>;</p>
+<p>When he went gallivaunting,</p>
+<p>His steps she kept haunting,<a id="footnotetag4" name=
+"footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a></p>
+<p>And she play'd, too, the devil with Ino.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Minerva bright</p>
+<p>Was a blue-stocking wight,</p>
+<p>Who lodg'd among the Attics;</p>
+<p>And, like Lady V.</p>
+<p>From the men did flee,</p>
+<p>To study the mathematics.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Great Mars, we're told,</p>
+<p>Was a grenadier bold,</p>
+<p>Who Vulcan sorely cuckold;</p>
+<p>When to Rome he went,</p>
+<p>He his children sent</p>
+<p>To a she-wolf to be suckled.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>Midas</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="page30" name=
+"page30"></a>[pg 30]</span>
+<p>Sol, the rat-catcher,<a id="footnotetag5" name=
+"footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a></p>
+<p>Was a great body-snatcher,</p>
+<p>And with his bow and arrows</p>
+<p>He <i>Burked</i>, through the trees,</p>
+<p>Master Niobes,</p>
+<p>As though they had been cock sparrows.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Diana, his sister,</p>
+<p>When nobody kiss'd her,</p>
+<p>Was a saint, (at least a semi one,)</p>
+<p>Yet the vixen Scandal</p>
+<p>Made a terrible handle</p>
+<p>Of her friendship for Eudymion.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Full many a feat</p>
+<p>Did Hercules neat,</p>
+<p>The least our credit draws on;</p>
+<p>Jesting Momus, so sly,</p>
+<p>Said, "'Tis all my eye,"</p>
+<p>And he call'd him Baron Munchausen.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Fair Bacchus's face</p>
+<p>Many signs did grace,</p>
+<p>(They were not painted by Zeuxis:)</p>
+<p>Of his brewing trade</p>
+<p>He a mystery made,<a id="footnotetag6" name=
+"footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p>
+<p>Like our Calverts and our Meuxes.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>There was Mistress Venus,</p>
+<p>(I say it between us,)</p>
+<p>For virtue cared not a farden:</p>
+<p>There never was seen</p>
+<p>Such a drabbish quean</p>
+<p>In the parish of Covent Garden.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Hermes cunning</p>
+<p>Poor Argus funning,</p>
+<p>He made him drink like a buffer;</p>
+<p>To his great surprise</p>
+<p>Sew'd up all his eyes,</p>
+<p>And stole away his heifer.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A bar-maid's place</p>
+<p>Was Hebe's grace,</p>
+<p>Till Jupiter did trick her;</p>
+<p>He turn'd her away,</p>
+<p>And made Ganimede stay</p>
+<p>To pour him out his liquor.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Ceres in life</p>
+<p>Was a farmer's wife,</p>
+<p>But she doubtless kept a jolly house;</p>
+<p>For Rumour speaks,</p>
+<p>She was had by the Beaks</p>
+<p>To swear her son Triptolemus.<a id="footnotetag7" name=
+"footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Miss Proserpine</p>
+<p>She thought herself fine,</p>
+<p>But when all her plans miscarried,</p>
+<p>She the Devil did wed,</p>
+<p>And took him to bed,</p>
+<p>Sooner than not be married.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But the worst of the gods,</p>
+<p>Beyond all odds,</p>
+<p>It cannot be denied, oh!</p>
+<p>Is that first of matchmakers,</p>
+<p>That prince of housebreakers,</p>
+<p>The urchin, Dan Cupido.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>New Monthly
+Magazine</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>"THE SEASON" IN TOWN.</h3>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;I don't know how you could prevent people
+from living half the year in town.</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;I have no objection to their living half
+the year in town, as you call it, if they can live in such a hell
+upon earth, of dust, noise, and misery. Only think of the Dolphin
+water in the solar microscope!</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;I know nothing of the water of London
+personally.</p>
+<p><i>Odoherty</i>.&mdash;Nor I; but I take it, we both have a
+notion of its brandy and water.</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;'Tis, in fact, their duty to be a good
+deal in London. But I'll tell you what I do object to, and what I
+rather think are evils of modern date, or at any rate, of very
+rapid recent growth. First, I object to their living those months
+of the year in which it is <i>contra bonos mores</i> to be in
+London, not in their paternal mansions, but at those little
+bastardly abortions, which they call watering-places&mdash;their
+Leamingtons, their Cheltenhams, their Brighthelmstones.</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;Brighton, my dear rustic Brighton!</p>
+<p><i>Odoherty</i>.&mdash;Synopic&eacute;.</p>
+<p><i>Shepherd</i>.&mdash;What's your wull, Sir Morgan? It does no
+staun' wi' me.</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;A horrid spot, certainly&mdash;but
+possessing large conveniences, sir, for particular purposes. For
+example, sir, the balcony on the drawing-room floor commonly runs
+on the same level all round the square&mdash;which in the
+Brighthelmstonic dialect, sir, means a three-sided figure. The
+advantage is obvious,</p>
+<p><i>Shepherd</i>.&mdash;Och, sirs! och, sirs! what wull this
+world come to!</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;The truth is, sir, that people <i>comme
+il faut</i> cannot well submit to the total change of society and
+manners implied in a removal from Whitehall or Mayfair to some
+absurd old antediluvian chateau, sir, boxed up among beeches and
+rooks. Sir, only think of the small Squires with the red faces,
+sir, and the grand white waistcoats down to their hips&mdash;and
+the dames, sir, with their wigs, and their simpers, and their
+visible pockets&mdash;and the damsels, blushing things in white
+muslin, with sky-blue sashes and ribbons, and mufflers and
+things&mdash;and the sons, sir, the promising young gentlemen,
+sir&mdash;and the doctor, and the lawyer&mdash;and the parson. So
+you disapprove of Brighton, Mr. Tickler?</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;Brighthelmstone, when I knew it, was a
+pleasant fishing village&mdash;what like it is now, I know not; but
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page31" name="page31"></a>[pg
+31]</span> what I detest in the great folks of your time, is, that
+insane selfishness which makes them prefer any place, however
+abominable, where they can herd together in their little exquisite
+coteries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the noblest
+domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less exposed
+to the company of people not exactly belonging to their own
+particular sect. How can society hang together long in a country
+where the Corinthian capital takes so much pains to unrift itself
+from the pillar? Now-a-day, sir, your great lord, commonly
+speaking, spends but a month or six weeks in his ancestral abode;
+and even when he is there, he surrounds himself studiously with a
+cursed town-crew, a pack of St. James's Street fops, and Mayfair
+chatterers and intriguers, who give themselves airs enough to turn
+the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and their womankind, and
+render a visit to the castle a perfect nuisance.</p>
+<p><i>Theodore (aside to Mullion.)</i>&mdash;A prejudiced old
+prig!</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;They seem to spare no pains to show that
+they consider the country as valuable merely for rent and
+game&mdash;the duties of the magistracy are a bore&mdash;county
+meetings are a bore&mdash;a farce, I believe, was the
+word&mdash;the assizes are a cursed bore&mdash;fox-hunting itself
+is a bore, unless in Leicestershire, where the noble sportsmen,
+from all the winds of heaven cluster together, and think with
+ineffable contempt of the old-fashioned chase, in which the great
+man mingled with gentle and simple, and all comers&mdash;sporting
+is a bore, unless in a regular <i>battue</i>, when a dozen
+lordlings murder pheasants by the thousand, without hearing the
+cock of one impatrician fowling-piece&mdash;except indeed some
+dandy poet, or philosopher, or punster, has been admitted to make
+sport to the Philistines. In short, every thing is a bore that
+brings the dons into personal collision of any kind with people
+that don't belong to the world.</p>
+<p><i>Odoherty</i>.&mdash;The world is getting pretty distinct from
+the nation, I admit, and I doubt if much love is lost between
+them.&mdash;<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE HOPKINSONIAN JOKE.</h3>
+<p>My friend Hertford, walking one day near his own shop in
+Piccadilly, happened to meet one Mr. Hopkinson, an eminent brewer,
+I believe&mdash;and the conversation naturally enough turned upon
+some late dinner at the Albion, Aldersgate Street&mdash;nobody
+appreciates a real city dinner better than Monsieur le
+Marquess&mdash;and so on, till the old brewer mentioned, <i>par
+hazard</i>, that he had just received a noble specimen of wild pig
+from a friend in Frankfort, adding, that he had a very particular
+party, God knows how many aldermen, to dinner&mdash;half the East
+India direction, I believe&mdash;and that he was something puzzled
+touching the cookery. "Pooh!" says Hertford, "send in your porker
+to my man, and he'll do it for you <i>&agrave; merveille</i>." The
+brewer was a grateful man&mdash;the pork came and went back again.
+Well, a week after my lord met his friend, and, by the way,
+"Hopkinson," says he, "how did the boar concern go off?"&mdash;"O,
+beautifully," says the brewer; "I can never sufficiently thank your
+lordship; nothing could do better. We should never have got on at
+all without your lordship's kind assistance."&mdash;"The thing gave
+satisfaction then, Hopkinson?"&mdash;"O, great satisfaction, my
+lord marquess.&mdash;To be sure we did think it rather queer at
+first&mdash;in fact, not being up to them there things, we
+considered it as deucedly stringy&mdash;to say the truth, we should
+never have thought of eating it cold."&mdash;"Cold!" says Hertford;
+"did you eat the ham cold?"&mdash;"O dear, yes, my lord, to be sure
+we did&mdash;we eat it just as your lordship's gentleman sent
+it."&mdash;"Why, my dear Mr. Alderman," says Hertford, "my cook
+only prepared it for the spit." Well, I shall never forget how the
+poor dear Duke of York laughed!&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p>
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em">SHAKSPEARE.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>SEALING WAX AND WAFERS.</h3>
+<p>Francis Rousseau, a native of Auxerres, who travelled a long
+time in Persia, Pegu, and other parts of the East Indies, and who,
+in 1692, resided at St. Domingo, was the inventer of sealing-wax. A
+lady, of the name of Longueville, made this wax known at court, and
+caused Louis XIII. to use it; after which it was purchased and used
+throughout Paris. By this article Rousseau, before the expiration
+of a year, gained 50,000 livres. The oldest seal with a red wafer
+ever yet found, is on a letter written by Dr. Krapf, at Spires, in
+the year 1624, to the government at Bareuth.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>I was in company some time since with George Colman, "the
+younger," as the old fellow still styles himself. It was
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page32" name="page32"></a>[pg
+32]</span> shortly after the death of Mrs. &mdash;&mdash;, the wife
+of a popular actor, and at that time an unpopular manager. Some one
+at table observed that, "Mr. &mdash;&mdash; had suffered a loss in
+the death of his wife, which he would not soon be able to make
+up."&mdash;"I don't know how that may be," replied George, drily,
+"but to tell you the truth, I don't think he has <i>quarrelled</i>
+with his loss yet."&mdash;<i>Monthly Mag</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>SHERIDAN.</h3>
+<p>Bob Mitchell, one of Sheridan's intimate friends, and once in
+great prosperity, became&mdash;like a great many other people,
+Sheridan's creditor&mdash;in fact Sheridan owed Bob nearly three
+thousand pounds&mdash;this circumstance amongst others contributed
+so very much to reduce Bob's finances, that he was driven to great
+straits, and in the course of his uncomfortable wanderings he
+called upon Sheridan; the conversation turned upon his financial
+difficulties, but not upon the principal cause of them, which was
+Sheridan's debt; but which of course, as an able tactician, he
+contrived to keep out of the discussion; at last, Bob, in a sort of
+agony, exclaimed&mdash;"I have not a guinea left, and by heaven I
+don't know where to get one." Sheridan jumped up, and thrusting a
+piece of gold into his hand, exclaimed with tears in his
+eyes&mdash;"It never shall be said that Bob Mitchell wanted a
+guinea while his friend Sheridan had one to give
+him."&mdash;<i>Sharpe's Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>LINES</h3>
+<p><i>On the window of Thorny Down Inn, about seven miles from
+Blandford, on the Salisbury road</i>.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Death, reader, pallid death!! with woe or bliss</p>
+<p>Will shortly be thy lot. Think then, my friend,</p>
+<p>Ere yet it be too late&mdash;what are thy hopes</p>
+<p>And what thy anxious fears&mdash;when the thin veil</p>
+<p>That keeps thy soul from seeing Israel's GOD</p>
+<p>Shall drop. (Signed) [Greek: parepidemos].</p>
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em">RURIS.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring
+bricklayer was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his
+lordship said to him&mdash;</p>
+<p>"Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it
+is your bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your
+appearance."</p>
+<p>"Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to
+that, I'm thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your
+lordship."</p>
+<p>"How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.</p>
+<p>"Why, faith," said the labourer, "<i>you</i> come here in
+<i>your</i> working clothes and <i>I'm</i> come in
+<i>mine</i>."&mdash;<i>Sharpe's Mag</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>FRIENDSHIP.</h3>
+<p>Dr. Johnson most beautifully remarks, that "When a friend is
+carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness,
+and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand
+endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression,
+a thousand favours unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed, and
+wish, vainly wish for his return, not so much that we may receive
+as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which
+before we never understood."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>HOT TUESDAY.</h3>
+<p>Derham, in his <i>Physico-Theology,</i> says, "July 8th, 1707,
+(called for some time after the <i>hot Tuesday,</i>) was so
+excessively hot and suffocating, by reason there was no wind
+stirring, that divers persons died, or were in great danger of
+death, in their harvest work. Particularly one who had formerly
+been my servant, a healthy, lusty young man, was killed by the
+heat; and several horses on the road dropped down and died the same
+day."</p>
+<p>P.T.W.</p>
+<hr />
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+<hr class="full" />
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name=
+"footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>Tanner.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name=
+"footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p>"There is nothing new under the sun;" Solomon was right. I had
+written these lines from experiencing the truth of them, and really
+imagined I had been the first to express, what so many must have
+felt; but on looking over Rogers's delicious little volume of
+Poems, some time after this was penned, I find he has, with his
+usual felicity, noted the same effect. I give his Text and
+Commentary; they occur in his beautiful poem, "Human Life,"
+speaking of a girl in love, he says:</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"&mdash;soon her looks the rapturous truth avow,</p>
+<p>Lovely before, oh, say how lovely now!"</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>On which he afterwards remarks:</p>
+<p>"Is it not true that the young not only appear to be, but really
+are, most beautiful in the presence of those they love? It calls
+forth all their beauty."</p>
+<p>Such a coincidence might almost induce me to exclaim with the
+plagiarising pedant of antiquity, "<i>Pereant qui ante nos nostra
+dixerunt</i>!"</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name=
+"footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+<p>Lord Albemarle, when advanced in years, was the lover and
+protector of Mademoiselle Gaucher. Her name of infancy, and that by
+which she was more endeared to her admirer, was Lolotte. One
+evening, as they were walking together, perceiving her eyes fixed
+on a star, he said to her, "Do not look at it so earnestly, my
+dear, I cannot give it you!"&mdash;Never, says Marmontel, did love
+express itself more delicately.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name=
+"footnote4"></a> <b>Footnote 4</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"I'll search out the haunts</p>
+<p>Of your fav'rite gallants,</p>
+<p>And into cows metamorphose 'em."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name=
+"footnote5"></a> <b>Footnote 5</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+<p>Apollo Smintheus. He destroyed a great many rats in Phrygia, and
+was probably the first "rat-catcher to the King."&mdash;<i>Vet.
+Schol</i>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote6" name=
+"footnote6"></a> <b>Footnote 6</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+<p>"Mystica vannus Isacchi." This was either a porter-brewer's
+dray, or more probably the <i>Van</i> of his
+druggist.&mdash;<i>Scriblerus</i>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote7" name=
+"footnote7"></a> <b>Footnote 7</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+<p>There is some difference of opinion concerning this fact: the
+lady, like so many others in her interesting situation, passed
+through the adventure under an <i>alias</i>. But that Ceres and
+Terra were the same, no reasonable person will doubt: and there can
+be no <i>serious</i> objection to the little <i>trip</i> being thus
+ascribed to the goddess in question.&mdash;<i>Scriblerus</i>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<hr class="full" />
+
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+Instruction, by Various
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 14, Issue 380, July 11, 1829
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 8, 2004 [EBook #11516]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 380 ***
+
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 14, No. 380.]   SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1829.   [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+
+MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE
+
+
+[Illustration: Mercers' Hall, and Cheapside]
+
+The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture of the
+metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its local
+association with names illustrious in historical record.
+
+In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated together in
+some particular street, the mercers principally assembled in West Cheap,
+now called Cheapside, near where the above hall stands, and thence
+called by the name of "the Mercery." In Lydgate's _London Lyckpenny_,
+are the following lines alluding to this custom:
+
+  Then to Chepe I began me drawne,
+  When much people I saw for to stand;
+  One offered me velvet, silk and lawne
+  And another he taketh me by the hand.
+  Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land.
+
+Pennant thus describes the principal historical data of the spot:
+
+"On the north side of Cheapside, (between Ironmonger Lane and Old
+Jewry,) stood the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, founded by Thomas
+Fitz-Theobald de Helles, and his wife Agnes, sister to the turbulent
+Thomas Becket, who was born in the house of his father, Gilbert,
+situated on this spot. The mother of our meek saint was a fair Saracen,
+whom his father had married in the Holy Land. On the site of this house
+rose the hospital, built within twenty years after the murder of Thomas;
+yet such was the repute of his sanctity, that it was dedicated to him,
+in conjunction with the blessed Virgin, without waiting for his
+canonization. The hospital consisted of a master and several brethren,
+professing the rule of St. Austin. The church, cloisters, &c. were
+granted by Henry VIII. to the Mercers' Company, who had the gift of the
+mastership.[1]
+
+    [1] Tanner.
+
+"In the old church were several monuments; among others, one to James
+Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Joan his wife, living in the beginning of
+the reign of Henry VI. The whole pile was destroyed in the great fire,
+but was very handsomely rebuilt by the Mercers' Company, who have their
+Hall here.
+
+"In this chapel the celebrated, but unsteady, archbishop of Spalato,
+preached his first sermon in 1617, in Italian, before the Archbishop of
+Canterbury, and a splendid audience; and continued his discourses in the
+same place several times, after he had embraced our religion; but having
+the folly to return to his ancient faith, and trust himself among his
+old friends at Rome, he was shut up in the Castle of St. Angelo, where
+he died in 1625."
+
+"The Mercers' Company is the first of the twelve. The name by no means
+implied, originally, a dealer in silks: for _mercery_ included all sorts
+of small wares, toys, and haberdashery; but, as several of this opulent
+company were merchants, and imported great quantities of rich silks from
+Italy, the name became applied to the Company, and all dealers in silk.
+Not fewer than sixty-two mayors were of this Company, between the years
+1214 and 1762; among which were Sir John Coventry, Sir Richard
+Whittington, and Sir Richard and Sir John Gresham."
+
+The front in Cheapside, which alone can be seen, is narrow, but floridly
+adorned with carvings and architectural ornaments. The door is enriched
+with the figures of two cupids, mantling the arms, festoons, &c. and
+above the balcony, it is adorned with two pilasters, entablature, and
+pediment of the Ionic order; the intercolumns are the figures of Faith
+and Hope, and that of Charity, in a niche under the cornice of the
+pediment, with other enrichments. The interior is very handsome. The
+hall and great parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic
+pilasters. The ceiling is of fret-work, and the stately piazzas are
+constituted by large columns, and their entablature of the Doric order.
+
+The arms of the Mercers, as they are sculptured over the gateway,
+present for their distinguishing feature a demi-virgin with dishevelled
+hair: it was in allusion to this circumstance, that in the days of
+pageantry, at the election of Lord Mayor, a richly ornamented chariot
+was produced, in which was seated a young and beautiful virgin, most
+sumptuously arrayed, her hair flowing in ringlets over her neck and
+shoulders, and a crown upon her head. When the day's diversions were
+over, she was liberally rewarded and dismissed, claiming as her own the
+rich attire she had worn.
+
+From this place likewise was formerly a solemn procession by the Lord
+Mayor, who, in the afternoon of the day he was sworn at the Exchequer,
+met the Aldermen; whence they repaired together to St. Paul's, and there
+prayed for the soul of their benefactor, William, Bishop of London, in
+the time of William the Conqueror, at his tomb. They then went to the
+churchyard to a place where lay the parents of Thomas â Becket, and
+prayed for all souls departed. They then returned to the chapel, and
+both Mayor and Aldermen offered each a penny.
+
+Attached to the original foundation or hospital was a grammar-school,
+which has been subsequently continued at the expense of the Mercers'
+Company, though not on the same spot. It was for some time kept in the
+Old Jewry, whence it has been removed to College Hill, Upper Thames
+Street. Among the masters may be mentioned William Baxter, nephew to the
+non-conformist, Richard Baxter, and author of two Dictionaries of
+British and Roman Antiquities.
+
+Nearly opposite the entrance to Mercers' Hall, is a handsome
+stone-fronted house, built by Sir Christopher Wren. The houses adjoining
+the Hall were of similar ornamental character; although the unenclosed
+shop-fronts present a strange contrast with some of the improvements and
+superfluities of modern times. The Hall front has lately been renovated,
+and presents a rich display of architectural ornament.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE LONE GRAVES.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  Why should their sleep thus silent be, from streams and flow'rs away,
+  While wanders thro' the sunny air the cuckoo's mellow lay;
+  Those forms, whose eyes reflected heaven in their mild depth of blue,
+  Whose hair was like the wave that shines o'er sands of golden hue?
+
+  Are these the altars of their rest, the pure and sacred shrines;
+  Where Memory, rapt o'er visions fled, her holy spell combines?
+  The sire, the child, oh, waft them back to their delightful dell,
+  When, like a voice from heavenly lands, awakes the curfew bell.
+
+  And have they no remembrance here, the cheeks that softly glow'd,
+  The amber hair, that, on the breeze, in gleaming tresses flow'd,
+  The hymn which hail'd the Sabbath morn,--the fix'd and fervid eye;
+  Must these sweet treasures of the heart in shade and silence lie?
+
+  Oh, no! thou place of sanctities! a ray has from thee gone,
+  Dearer than noontide's gorgeous light, or Sabbath's music tone;
+  A spirit! whose bright ark is far beyond the clouds and waves,
+  Albeit there is a sunless gloom on these, their lonely graves!
+
+  REGINALD AUGUSTINE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BAGLEY WOOD.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Bagley is situated about two miles and a half from Oxford, on the
+Abingdon-road, and affords an agreeable excursion to the Oxonians, who,
+leaving the city of learning, pass over the old bridge, where the
+observatory of the celebrated Friar Bacon was formerly standing. The
+wood is large, extending itself to the summit of a hill, which commands
+a charming panoramic view of Oxford, and of the adjacent country. The
+scene is richly diversified with hill and dale, while the spires,
+turrets, and towers of the university, rise high above the clustering
+trees, filling the beholder with the utmost awe and veneration. During
+the summer, this rustic spot presents many cool retreats, and
+love-embowering shades; and here many an amour is carried on, free from
+suspicion's eye, beneath the wide umbrageous canopy of nature.
+
+Gipsies, or _fortune-tellers_, are constantly to be found in Bagley
+Wood; and many a gay Oxonian may be seen in the company of some
+wandering Egyptian beauty. So partial, indeed, are several of the young
+men of the university to the tawny tribe, that they are frequently
+observed in their _academicals_, lounging round the picturesque tents,
+having _their_ fortunes told; though, it must be remarked, their
+countenances usually evince a waggish incredulity on those occasions,
+and they appear much more amused with the novel scene around them than
+gratified with the favourable predictions of the wily Egyptians.
+
+The merry gipsies of Bagley Wood might well sing with _Herrick_
+
+  "Here we securely live, and eat
+  The cream of meat;
+  And keep eternal fires
+  By which we sit, _and do divine_."
+
+G.W.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EATING "MUTTON COLD."
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+A correspondent in a late number asks for a solution of the expression,
+"eating mutton cold." If the following one is worth printing, it is much
+at your service and that of the readers of the MIRROR.
+
+I consider then that it has simply the same meaning as that of "coming a
+day after the fair." To come at the end of a feast when the various
+viands (always including mutton as being easy of digestion for dyspeptic
+people) were still warm, though cut pretty near to the bone, would, by
+most persons, particularly aldermanic "bodies," be considered
+sufficiently vexatious; how doubly annoying then must it be to come so
+late as to find the meats more than half cold, and, perhaps, but little
+of them left even in that anti-epicurean state! Whoever has been
+unfortunate enough to miss a fine fat haunch either of venison or
+mutton, which, smoking on the board, even Dr. Kitchiner would have
+pronounced fit for an emperor, cannot but enter deeply and feelingly
+into the disappointment of that guest who, arriving, through some
+misdate of the invitation card, on the day subsequent to the feast,
+finds but, _horribile dictu_, cold lean ham, cold pea-soup, cold
+potatoes, and finally, _cold mutton_. Goldsmith's idea certainly was
+that Burke was never able to say, in the words of the Roman adage, _in
+tempore veni quod rerum omnium est primum_; but rather in plain English,
+"confound my ill luck, I never yet was invited to a feast but I either
+missed it in toto, or came so late as to be obliged to eat my mutton
+cold, a thing, which of all others, I most abhor." HEN. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POOL'S HOLE, DERBYSHIRE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+This cave is said to have taken its title from a notorious robber of
+that name, who being declared an outlaw, found in this hole a refuge
+from justice, where he carried on his nocturnal depredations with
+impunity. Others insist that this dismal hole was the habitation of a
+hermit or anchorite, of the name of Pool. Of the two traditions, I
+prefer the former. It is situated at the bottom of _Coitmos_, a lofty
+mountain near Buxton. The entrance is by a small arch, so low that you
+are forced to creep on hands and knees to gain admission; but it
+gradually opens into a vault above a quarter of a mile in length, and as
+some assert, a quarter of a mile high. It is certainly very lofty, and
+resembles the roof of a Gothic edifice. In a cavern to the right called
+Pool's Chamber, there is a fine echo, and the dashing of a current of
+water, which flows along the middle of the great vault, very much
+heightens the wonder.
+
+On the floor are great ridges of stone--water is perpetually distilling
+from the roof and sides of this vault, and the drops before they fall
+produce a very pleasing effect, by reflecting numberless rays from the
+candles carried by the guides. They also form their quality from
+crystallizations of various flakes like figures of fret work, and in
+some places, having long accumulated upon one another, into large
+masses, bearing a rude resemblance to various animals.
+
+In the same cavity is a column as clear as alabaster, called _Mary Queen
+of Scots'_ column, because it is said she reached so far; beyond which
+is a steep ascent for nearly a quarter of a mile, which terminates in a
+hollow in the roof, called the Needle's-eye, in which, when the guide
+places his candle, it looks like a star in the firmament. You only
+wonder when you get out how you attained such an achievement. W.H.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Happening to look at No. 229, of your valuable Miscellany, in which you
+have given rather a lengthy account of Canterbury Cathedral, I was
+surprised to find no notice taken of the beautiful STONE SCREEN in the
+interior of the cathedral, which is considered by many, one of the
+finest specimens of florid Gothic in the kingdom. The following is a
+brief description of this ancient specimen of architecture:
+
+This fine piece of Gothic carved work was built by Prior Hen. de Estria,
+in 1304. It is rich in flutings, pyramids, and canopied niches, in which
+stand six statues crowned, five of which hold globes in their hands, and
+the sixth a church. Various have been the conjectures as to the
+individuals intended by these statues. That holding the church is
+supposed to represent King Ethelbert, being a very ancient man with a
+long beard. The next figure appears more feminine, and may probably
+intend his queen, Bertha.
+
+Before the havoc made in Charles's reign, there were thirteen figures
+representing Christ and his Apostles in the niches which are round the
+arch-doorway, and also twelve mitred Saints aloft along the stone work,
+where is now placed an organ.
+
+At the National Repository, Charing Cross, there is exhibited a very
+correct model of this screen, in which the likenesses of the ancient
+kings are admirably imitated. P.T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANCIENT STONE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+There formerly stood about three miles from Carmarthen, at a place
+called New Church, a stone about eight feet long and two broad. The only
+distinguishable words upon it were "_Severus filius Severi_." The
+remainder of the inscription, by dilapidation and time, was defaced. It
+is supposed that there had been a battle fought here, and that Severus
+fell. About a quarter of a mile from this was another with the name of
+some other individual. The above stone was removed by the owner of the
+land on which it stood, and is now used instead of a gate-post by him. I
+should imagine it was the son of Severus the Roman, who founded the
+great wall and ditch called after him, Severus' Wall and Ditch, and as
+there was a Roman road from St. David's, in Wales, to Southampton, it is
+not improbable that the Romans should come from thence to Carmarthen.
+W.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE COSMOPOLITE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DIET OF VARIOUS NATIONS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+To the artist, the amateur, the traveller, and man of taste in general,
+the following gleanings respecting the diet of various nations, are, in
+the spirit of English hospitality, cordially inscribed. The breakfast of
+the _Icelanders_ consists of _skyr_, a kind of sour, coagulated milk,
+sometimes mixed with fresh milk or cream, and flavoured with the juice
+of certain berries; their usual dinner is dried fish, skyr, and rancid
+butter; and skyr, cheese, or porridge, made of Iceland moss, forms their
+supper; bread is rarely tasted by many of the Icelanders, but appears as
+a dainty at their rural feasts with mutton, and milk-porridge. They
+commonly drink a kind of whey mixed with water. As the cattle of this
+people are frequently, during winter, reduced to the miserable necessity
+of subsisting on dried fish, we can scarcely conceive their fresh meat
+to be so great a luxury as it is there esteemed. The poor of _Sweden_
+live on hard bread, salted or dried fish, water-gruel, and beer. The
+_Norwegian_ nobility and merchants fare sumptuously, but the lower
+classes chiefly subsist on the following articles:--oatmeal-bread, made
+in thin cakes (strongly resembling the havver-bread of Scotland) and
+baked only twice a-year. The oatmeal for this bread is, in times of
+scarcity, which in Norway frequently occur, mixed with the bark of elm
+or fir tree, ground, after boiling and drying, into a sort of flour;
+sometimes in the vicinity of fisheries, the roes of cod kneaded with the
+meal of oats or barley, are made into a kind of hasty-pudding, and soup,
+which is enriched with a pickled herring or mackerel. The flesh of the
+shark, and thin slices of meat salted and dried in the wind, are much
+esteemed. Fresh fish are plentiful on the coasts, but for lack of
+conveyances, unknown in the interior; the deficiency however, is there
+amply supplied by an abundance of game. The flesh of cattle pickled,
+smoked, or dry-salted, is laid by for winter store; and after making
+cheese, the sour whey is converted into a liquor called _syre_, which,
+mixed with water, constitutes the ordinary beverage of the Norwegians;
+but for festive occasions they brew strong beer, and with it intoxicate
+themselves, as also with brandy, when procurable. The maritime
+_Laplanders_ feed on fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog,
+fish-livers, and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty
+provision; they are even aspiring to the rank of the interior
+inhabitants, whose nutriment is of a more delicate description, being
+the flesh of all kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and
+birds of prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty. Rein-deer
+flesh is commonly boiled in a large iron kettle, and when done, torn to
+pieces by the fingers of the _major domo_, and by him portioned out to
+his family and friends; the broth remaining in the kettle is boiled into
+soup with rye or oat-meal, and sometimes seasoned with salt. Rein-deer
+blood is also a viand with these people, and being boiled, either by
+itself or mixed with wild berries, in the stomach of the animal from
+whence it was taken, forms a kind of black-pudding. The beverage of the
+Laplanders is milk and water, broths, and fish-soups; brandy, of which
+they are extremely fond, is a great rarity, and a glass of it will warm
+their hearts towards the weary sojourner, who, but for the precious
+gift, might ask hospitality at their huts in vain. The diet of the
+_Samoides_, resembles that of the Laplanders, save that they devour raw
+the flesh of fish and reindeer. For this people, all animals taken in
+the chase, and even those found dead, afford food, with the exception of
+dogs, cats, ermines, and squirrels. They have no regular time for meals,
+but the members of a family help themselves when they please from the
+boiler which always hangs over the fire. It is scarcely possible to name
+the variety of diet to be found among the Russian tribes; but even in
+cities, and at the tables of the opulent and civilized, late accounts
+mention the appearance of several strange and disgusting dishes,
+compounded of pastry, grain, pulse, vinegar, honey, fish, flesh, fruits,
+&c., not at all creditable to Russian gastronomic science. The diet of
+the _Polish_ peasantry is meagre in the extreme; they seldom taste
+animal food, and both sexes swallow a prodigious quantity of _schnaps_,
+an ardent spirit resembling whiskey. The _Dutch_ of all ranks are fond
+of butter, and seldom is a journey taken without a butter-box in the
+pocket. The boors feed on roots, pulse, herbs, sour milk, and
+water-souchie, a kind of fish-broth. In _England_, the edible produce of
+the world appears at the tables of the nobility, gentry, and opulent
+commercial classes; and upon comparison with that of other nations, it
+will be seen that the diet of English artisans, peasantry, and even
+paupers, is far superior in variety and nourishment; bread, (white and
+brown) vegetables, meat, broth, soup, fish, fruit, roots, herbs, cheese,
+milk, butter, and, not rarely, sugar and tea, with fermented liquors and
+ardent spirits, are all, or most of them, procured as articles of daily
+subsistence by the English inferior classes. In Scotland, the higher
+ranks live abstemiously, save on festive occasions; but animal food and
+wheaten bread is seldom tasted by the lower orders, who chiefly subsist
+on rye, barley, and oatmeal, prepared in bread, thin cakes, and
+porridge; this last termed _stirabout_, is simply oatmeal mixed with
+water and boiled (being stirred about with a wooden skether or spoon
+when on the fire) to the consistency of flour-paste, not very stiff;
+this, eaten with milk, forms the chief diet of the Scottish artisans and
+peasantry, and, indeed, many of superior stations prefer it for
+breakfast to bread of the finest flour which can be procured. Both high
+and low are partial to the following national dishes. The _haggis_, a
+kind of pudding, made of the offals or interior of a sheep, and boiled
+in the integument of its stomach; this dish, both in odour and flavour,
+is usually excessively offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's
+head, water-souchie, Scotch soup, (an _olla podrida_ of meats and
+vegetables,) chicken-broth and sowens. _Laver_, a sauce made from a
+peculiar kind of sea-weed, and _caviar_, introduced from Russia, appear
+at the tables of the opulent, and by many are much esteemed. The diet of
+the higher ranks of _Irish_ varies but little from that of the same
+classes in England and Scotland. Amongst national dishes appear the
+_staggering bob_, a calf only two days old, delicately dressed;
+hodge-podge, a soup answering to that of Scotland; colcannon, a mixture
+of potatoes and greens, seasoned with onions, salt, and pepper, finely
+braided together after boiling; and a sea-weed sauce, either laver or
+some other, the name of which we do not happen to remember. Potatoes,
+fish, (fresh and salted) eggs, milk, and butter-milk, form the principal
+support of the inferior class, of Irish; and whiskey the national ardent
+spirit of Ireland and Scotland, is but too often, as is gin in England,
+the sole support of a host of besotted beings, who drop into untimely
+graves, from the _habit of intoxication_.
+
+(_To be continued_.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
+
+
+At Susa, Alexander collected all the nobles of the empire, and
+celebrated the most magnificent nuptials recorded in history. He married
+Barcinè, or Stateira, the daughter of the late king, and thus, in the
+eyes of his Persian subjects, confirmed his title to the throne. His
+father, Philip, was a polygamist in practice, although it would be very
+difficult to prove that the Macedonians in general were allowed a
+plurality of wives; but Alexander was now the King of Kings, and is more
+likely to have been guided by Persian than Greek opinions upon the
+subject. Eighty of his principal officers followed his example, and were
+united to the daughters of the chief nobility of Persia.
+
+The marriages, in compliment to the brides, were celebrated after the
+Persian fashion, and during the vernal equinox. For at no other period,
+by the ancient laws of Persia, could nuptials be legally celebrated.
+Such an institution is redolent of the poetry and freshness of the new
+world, and of an attention to the voice of nature, and the analogies of
+physical life. The young couple would marry in time to sow their field,
+to reap the harvest, and gather their stores, before the season of cold
+and scarcity overtook them. It is difficult to say how far this custom
+prevailed among primitive nations, but it can scarcely be doubted that
+we still retain lingering traces of it in the harmless amusements of St.
+Valentine's day.
+
+On the wedding-day Alexander feasted the eighty bridegrooms in a
+magnificent hall prepared for the purpose. Eighty separate couches were
+placed for the guests, and on each a magnificent wedding-robe for every
+individual. At the conclusion of the banquet, and while the wine and the
+dessert were on the table, the eighty brides were introduced; Alexander
+first rose, received the princess, took her by the hand, kissed her, and
+placed her on the couch close to himself. This example was followed by
+all, till every lady was seated by her betrothed. This formed the whole
+of the Persian ceremony--the salute being regarded as the seal of
+appropriation. The Macedonian form was still more simple and symbolical.
+The bridegroom, dividing a small loaf with his sword, presented one-half
+to the bride; wine was then poured as a libation on both portions, and
+the contracting parties tasted of the bread. Cake and wine, as nuptial
+refreshments, may thus claim a venerable antiquity. In due time the
+bridegrooms conducted their respective brides to chambers prepared for
+them within the precincts of the royal palace.
+
+The festivities continued for five days, and all the amusements of the
+age were put into requisition for the entertainment of the company.
+Athenaeus has quoted from Charas, a list of the chief performers, which
+I transcribe more for the sake of the performances and of the states
+where these lighter arts were brought to the greatest perfection, than
+of the names, which are now unmeaning sounds. Scymnus from Tarentum,
+Philistides from Syracuse, and Heracleitus from Mytylenè, were the great
+jugglers, or as the Greek word intimates, the wonder-workers of the day.
+After them, Alexis, the Tarentine, displayed his excellence as a
+rhapsodist, or repeater, to appropriate music, of the soul-stirring
+poetry of Homer. Cratinus the Methymnoean, Aristonymus the Athenian,
+Athenodorus the Teian, played on the harp--without being accompanied by
+the voice. On the contrary, Heracleitus the Tarentine, and Aristocrates
+the Theban, accompanied their harps with lyric songs. The performers on
+wind instruments were divided on a similar, although it could not be on
+the same principle. Dionysius from Heracleia, and Hyperbolus from
+Cyzicum, sang to the flute, or some such instrument; while Timotheus,
+Phrynichus, Scaphisius, Diophantus, and Evius, the Chalcidian, first
+performed the Pythian overture, and then, accompanied by chorusses,
+displayed the full power of wind instruments in masterly hands. There
+was also a peculiar class called eulogists of Bacchus; these acquitted
+themselves so well on this occasion, applying to Alexander those praises
+which in their extemporaneous effusions had hitherto been confined to
+the god, that they acquired the name of Eulogists of Alexander. Nor did
+their reward fail them. The stage, of course, was not without its
+representatives:--Thessalus, Athenodorus, Aristocritus, in
+tragedy--Lycon, Phormion, and Ariston, in comedy--exerted their utmost
+skill, and contended for the prize of superior excellence. Phasimelus,
+the dancer was also present.
+
+It is yet undecided whether the Persians admitted their matrons to their
+public banquets and private parties;--but if we can believe the positive
+testimony of Herodotus, such was the case: and the summons of Vashti to
+the annual festival, and the admission of Haman to the queen's table,
+are facts which support the affirmation of that historian. The doubts
+upon the subject appear to have arisen from confounding the manners of
+Assyrians, Medes, and Parthians, with those of the more Scythian tribes
+of Persis. We read in Xenophon that the Persian women were so well made
+and beautiful, that their attractions might easily have seduced the
+affections of the Ten Thousand, and have caused them, like the
+lotus-eating companions of Ulysses, to forget their native land. Some
+little hints as to the mode in which their beauty was enhanced and their
+persons decorated, may be expected in the Life of Alexander, who,
+victorious over their fathers and brothers, yet submitted to their
+charms.
+
+The Persian ladies wore the tiara or turban richly adorned with jewels.
+They wore their hair long, and both plaited and curled it; nor, if the
+natural failed, did they scruple to use false locks. They pencilled the
+eyebrows, and tinged the eyelid, with a dye that was supposed to add a
+peculiar brilliancy to the eyes. They were fond of perfumes, and their
+delightful ottar was the principal favourite. Their tunic and drawers
+were of fine linen, the robe or gown of silk--the train of this was
+long, and on state occasions required a supporter. Round the waist they
+wore a broad zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered
+and jewelled in the centre. They also wore stockings and gloves, but
+history has not recorded their materials. They used no sandals; a light
+and ornamented shoe was worn in the house; and for walking they had a
+kind of coarse half boot. They used shawls and wrappers for the person,
+and veils for the head; the veil was large and square, and when thrown
+over the head descended low on all sides. They were fond of glowing
+colours, especially of purple, scarlet, and light-blue dresses. Their
+favourite ornaments were pearls; they wreathed these in their hair, wore
+them as necklaces, ear-drops, armlets, bracelets, anklets, and worked
+them into conspicuous parts of their dresses. Of the precious stones
+they preferred emeralds, rubies, and turquoises, which were set in gold
+and worn like the pearls.
+
+Alexander did not limit his liberality to the wedding festivities, but
+presented every bride with a handsome marriage portion. He also ordered
+the names of all the soldiers who had married Asiatic wives to be
+registered; their number exceeded 10,000; and each received a handsome
+present, under the name of marriage gift.--_Williams's Life of
+Alexander, Family Library, No. 3_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POEMS, BY W.T. MONCRIEFF.
+
+
+This is a pretty little volume of graceful poems, printed "at the
+author's private press, for private distribution only." They are,
+however, entitled by their merits, to more extensive, or public
+circulation; for many of them evince the good taste and pure feelings of
+the writer. Some of the pieces relate to domestic circumstances, others
+are calculated to cheat "sorrow of a smile," whilst all are, to use a
+set phrase, highly honourable to the head and heart of the author. In
+proof of this, we could detach several pages; but we have only space for
+a few:
+
+
+SONG.
+
+  As flowers, that seem the light to shun
+  At evening's dusk and morning's haze,
+  Expand beneath the noon-tide sun,
+  And bloom to beauty in his rays,
+  So maidens, in a lover's eyes,
+  A thousand times more lovely grow,
+  Yield added sweetness to his sighs,
+  And with unwonted graces glow.
+
+  As gems from light their brilliance gain,
+  And brightest shine when shone upon,
+  Nor half their orient rays retain,
+  When light wanes dim and day is gone:
+  So Beauty beams, for one dear one!
+  Acquires fresh splendour in his sight,
+  Her life--her light--her day--her sun--
+  Her harbinger of all that's bright![2]
+
+    [2] "There is nothing new under the sun;" Solomon was right. I
+    had written these lines from experiencing the truth of them, and
+    really imagined I had been the first to express, what so many
+    must have felt; but on looking over Rogers's delicious little
+    volume of Poems, some time after this was penned, I find he has,
+    with his usual felicity, noted the same effect. I give his Text
+    and Commentary; they occur in his beautiful poem, "Human Life,"
+    speaking of a girl in love, he says:
+
+      "--soon her looks the rapturous truth avow,
+      Lovely before, oh, say how lovely now!"
+
+    On which he afterwards remarks:
+
+    "Is it not true that the young not only appear to be, but really
+    are, most beautiful in the presence of those they love? It calls
+    forth all their beauty."
+
+    Such a coincidence might almost induce me to exclaim with the
+    plagiarising pedant of antiquity, "_Pereant qui ante nos nostra
+    dixerunt_!"
+
+
+ANECDOTE VERSIFIED.
+
+_Lord Albemarle to Mademoiselle Gaucher, on seeing her look very
+earnestly at the Evening Star_.
+
+  Oh! do not gaze upon that star,
+  That distant star, so earnestly,
+  If thou would'st not my pleasure mar--
+  For ah! I cannot give it thee.[3]
+
+  And, such is my unbounded love,
+  Thou should'st not gaze upon a thing
+  I would not make thee mistress of,
+  And prove in love, at least, a _King_!
+
+    [3] Lord Albemarle, when advanced in years, was the lover and
+    protector of Mademoiselle Gaucher. Her name of infancy, and that
+    by which she was more endeared to her admirer, was Lolotte. One
+    evening, as they were walking together, perceiving her eyes
+    fixed on a star, he said to her, "Do not look at it so
+    earnestly, my dear, I cannot give it you!"--Never, says
+    Marmontel, did love express itself more delicately.
+
+
+STANZAS TO THE SHADE OF ----
+
+_In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on
+men,--an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a
+voice_. JOB iv. 13.
+
+  Reproach me not, beloved shade!
+  Nor think thy memory less I prize;
+  The smiles that o'er my features play'd,
+  But hid my pangs from vulgar eyes.
+  I acted like the worldling boy,
+  With heart to every feeling vain:
+  I smil'd with all, yet felt no joy;
+  I wept with all, yet felt no pain,
+
+  No--though, to veil thoughts of gloom,
+  I seem'd to twine Joy's rosy wreath,
+  'Twas but as flowerets o'er a tomb.
+  Which only hide the woe beneath.
+  I lose no portion of my woes,
+  Although my tears in secret flow;
+  More green and fresh the verdure grows,
+  Where the cold streams run hid below.
+
+
+A MODEST ODE TO FORTUNE.
+
+"_Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat_." HOR.
+
+  O Goddess Fortune, hear my prayer,
+  And make a bard for once thy care!
+  I do not ask, in houses splendid,
+  To be by liveried slaves attended;
+  I ask not for estates, nor land,
+  Nor host of vassals at command;
+  I ask not for a handsome wife--
+  Though I dislike a single life;
+  I ask not friends, nor fame, nor power,
+  Nor courtly rank, nor leisure's hour;
+  I ask not books, nor wine, nor plate.
+  Nor yet acquaintance with the great;
+  Nor dance, nor sons, nor mirth, nor jest,
+  Nor treasures of the East or West;
+  I ask not beauty, wit, nor ease,
+  Nor qualities more blest than these--
+  Learning nor genius, skill nor art,
+  Nor valour for the hero's part;
+  These, though I much desire to have,
+  I do not, dearest goddess, crave.--
+  I modestly for MONEY call--
+  For _money_ will procure them _all_!
+
+
+ANACREONTIC.
+
+  Come fill the bowl!--one summer's day,
+  Some hearts, that had been wreck'd and sever'd,
+  Again to tempt the liquid way,
+  And join their former mates endeavour'd;
+  But then arose this serious question.
+  Which best to kindred hearts would guide?
+  Water, was Prudence' pure suggestion,
+  But that they thought too cool a tide!
+
+  Peace bade them try the milky way,
+  But they were fearful 'twould becalm them;
+  Cried Love, on dews of morning stray,--
+  They deem'd 'twould from their purpose charm them.
+  Cried Friendship, try the ruby tide,--
+  They did--each obstacle departs;
+  'Tis still with wine 'reft hearts will glide
+  Most surely unto kindred hearts.
+
+
+THE PILGRIM PRINCE.--BALLAD.
+
+  At blush of morn, the silver horn
+  Was loudly blown at the castle gate;
+  And, from the wall, the Seneschal
+  Saw there a weary pilgrim wait.
+  "What news--what news, thou stranger bold?
+  Thy looks are rough, thy raiment old!
+  And little does Lady Isabel care
+  To know how want and poverty fare."
+  "Ah let me straight that lady see,
+  For far I come from the North Country!"
+
+  "And who art thou, bold wight, I trow,
+  That would to Lady Isabel speak!"
+  "One who, long since shone as a prince,
+  And kiss'd her damask cheek:
+  But oh, my trusty sword has fail'd,
+  The cruel Paynim has prevail'd,
+  My lands are lost, my friends are few,
+  Trifles all, if my lady's true!"
+  "Poor prince! ah when did woman's truth,
+  Outlive the loss of lands and youth!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+THE SPLENDID ANNUAL.
+
+_By the Author of "Sayings and Doings_."
+
+
+Literature, even in this literary age, is not the ordinary pursuit of
+the citizens of London, although every merchant is necessarily a man of
+letters, and underwriters are as common as cucumbers. Notwithstanding,
+however, my being a citizen, I am tempted to disclose the miseries and
+misfortunes of my life in these pages, because having heard the
+"ANNIVERSARY" called a splendid annual, I hope for sympathy from its
+readers, seeing that I have been a "_splendid annual_" myself.
+
+My name is Scropps--I _am_ an Alderman--I _was_ Sheriff--I _have been_
+Lord Mayor--and the three great eras of my existence were the year of my
+shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it. Until I had
+passed through this ordeal I had no conception of the extremes of
+happiness and wretchedness to which a human being may be carried, nor
+ever believed that society presented to its members an eminence so
+exalted as that which I once touched, or imagined a fall so great as
+that which I experienced. I came originally from that place to which
+persons of bad character are said to be sent--I mean Coventry, where my
+father for many years contributed his share to the success of
+parliamentary candidates, the happiness of new married couples, and even
+the gratification of ambitious courtiers, by taking part in the
+manufacture of ribands for election cockades, wedding favours, and
+cordons of chivalry; but trade failed, and, like his betters, he became
+bankrupt, but, unlike his betters, without any consequent advantage to
+himself; and I, at the age of fifteen, was thrown upon the world with
+nothing but a strong constitution, a moderate education, and fifteen
+shillings and eleven pence three farthings in my pocket.
+
+With these qualifications I started from my native town on a pedestrian
+excursion to London; and although I fell into none of those romantic
+adventures of which I had read at school, I met with more kindness than
+the world generally gets credit for, and on the fourth day after my
+departure, having slept soundly, if not magnificently, every night, and
+eaten with an appetite which my mode of travelling was admirably
+calculated to stimulate, reached the great metropolis, having preserved
+of my patrimony, no less a sum than nine shillings and seven pence.
+
+The bells of one of the churches in the city were ringing merrily as I
+descended the heights of Islington; and were it not that my patronymic
+Scropps never could, under the most improved system of campanology, be
+jingled into any thing harmonious, I have no doubt I, like my great
+predecessor Whittington, might have heard in that peal a prediction of
+my future exaltation; certain it is I did not; and, wearied with my
+journey, I took up my lodging for the night at a very humble house near
+Smithfield, to which I had been kindly recommended by the driver of a
+return postchaise, of whose liberal offer of the moiety of his bar to
+town I had availed myself at Barnet.
+
+As it is not my intention to deduce a moral from my progress in the
+world at this period of my life, I need not here dilate upon the good
+policy of honesty, or the advantages of temperance and perseverance, by
+which I worked my way upwards, until after meriting the confidence of an
+excellent master, I found myself enjoying it fully. To his business I
+succeeded at his death, having several years before, with his sanction,
+married a young and deserving woman, about my own age, of whose prudence
+and skill in household matters I had long had a daily experience.
+
+To be brief, Providence blessed my efforts and increased my means; I
+became a wholesale dealer in every thing, from barrels of gunpowder down
+to pickled herrings; in the civic acceptation of the word I was a
+merchant, amongst the vulgar I am called a dry-salter. I accumulated
+wealth; with my fortune my family also grew, and one male Scropps, and
+four female ditto, grace my board at least once in every week.
+
+Passing over the minor gradations of my life, the removal from one
+residence to another, the enlargement of this warehouse, the rebuilding
+of that, the anxiety of a canvass for common council man, activity in
+the company of which I am liveryman, inquests, and vestries, and ward
+meetings, and all the other pleasing toils to which an active citizen is
+subject, let us come at once to the first marked epoch of my life--the
+year of my Shrievalty. The announcement of my nomination and election
+filled Mrs. S. with delight; and when I took my children to Great Queen
+Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to look at the gay chariot brushing up for
+me, I confess I felt proud and happy to be able to show my progeny the
+arms of London, those of the Spectacle Makers' Company, and those of the
+Scroppses (recently found at a trivial expense) all figuring upon the
+same panels. They looked magnificent upon the pea-green ground, and the
+wheels, "white picked out crimson," looked so chaste, and the
+hammercloth, and the fringe, and the festoons, and the Scropps' crests
+all looked so rich, and the silk linings and white tassels, and the
+squabs and the yellow cushions and the crimson carpet looked so
+comfortable, that, as I stood contemplating the equipage, I said to
+myself, "What have I done to deserve _this_?--O that my poor father were
+alive to see his boy Jack going down to Westminster, to chop sticks and
+count hobnails, in a carriage like this!" My children were like mad
+things: and in the afternoon, when I put on my first new brown court
+suit (lined, like my chariot, with white silk) and fitted up with cut
+steel buttons, just to try the effect, it all appeared like a dream; the
+sword, which I tried on every night for half an hour after I went up to
+bed, to practise walking with it, was very inconvenient at first; but
+use is second nature; and so by rehearsing and rehearsing, I made myself
+perfect before that auspicious day when Sheriffs flourish and geese
+prevail--namely, the twenty-ninth of September.
+
+The twelve months which followed were very delightful; for independently
+of the _positive_ honour and _éclat_ they produced, I had the Mayoralty
+in _prospectû_ (having attained my aldermanic gown by an immense
+majority the preceding year), and as I used during the sessions to sit
+in my box at the Old Bailey, with my bag at my back and my bouquet on my
+book, my thoughts were wholly devoted to one object of contemplation;
+culprits stood trembling to hear the verdict of a jury, and I regarded
+them not; convicts knelt to receive the fatal fiat of the Recorder, and
+I heeded not their sufferings, as I watched the Lord Mayor seated in the
+centre of the bench, with the sword of justice stuck up in a goblet over
+his head--there, thought I, if I live two years, shall _I_ sit--however,
+even as it was, it was very agreeable. When executions, the chief
+drawbacks to my delight, happened, I found, after a little seasoning, I
+took the thing coolly, and enjoyed my toast and tea after the patients
+were turned off, just as if nothing had happened; for, in _my_ time, we
+hanged at eight and breakfasted at a quarter after, so that without much
+hurry we were able to finish our muffins just in time for the cutting
+down at nine. I had to go to the House of Commons with a petition, and
+to Court with an address--trying situations for one of the
+Scroppses--however, the want of state in parliament, and the very little
+attention paid to us by the members, put me quite at my ease at
+Westminster; while the gracious urbanity of our accomplished monarch on
+his throne made me equally comfortable at St. James's. Still I was but a
+secondary person, or rather only one of two secondary persons--the chief
+of bailiffs and principal Jack Ketch; there _was_ a step to gain--and,
+as I often mentioned in confidence to Mrs. Scropps, I was sure my heart
+would never be still until I had reached the pinnacle.
+
+Behold at length the time arrived!--Guildhall crowded to excess--the
+hustings thronged--the aldermen retire--they return--their choice is
+announced to the people--it has fallen upon John Ebenezer Scropps, Esq.,
+Alderman and spectacle maker--a sudden shout is heard--"Scropps for
+ever!" resounds--the whole assembly seems to vanish from my sight--I
+come forward--am invested with the chain--I bow--make a speech--tumble
+over the train of the Recorder, and tread upon the tenderest toe of Mr.
+Deputy Pod--leave the hall in ecstasy, and drive home to Mrs. Scropps in
+a state of mind bordering upon insanity.
+
+The days wore on, each one seemed as long as a week, until at length the
+eighth of November arrived, and then did it seem certain that I should
+be Lord Mayor--I was sworn in--the civic insignia were delivered to
+me--I returned them to the proper officers--my chaplain was near me--the
+esquires of my household were behind me--the thing was done--never shall
+I forget the tingling sensation I felt in my ear when I was first called
+"My Lord"--I even doubted if it were addressed to me, and hesitated to
+answer--but it was so--the reign of splendour had begun, and, after
+going through the accustomed ceremonies, I got home and retired to bed
+early, in order to be fresh for the fatigues of the ensuing day.
+
+Sleep I did not--how was it to be expected?--Some part of the night I
+was in consultation with Mrs. Scropps upon the different arrangements;
+settling about the girls, their places at the banquet, and their
+partners at the ball; the wind down the chimney sounded like the shouts
+of the people; the cocks crowing in the mews at the back of the house I
+took for trumpets sounding my approach; and the ordinary incidental
+noises in the family I fancied the pop-guns at Stangate, announcing my
+disembarkation at Westminster--thus I tossed and tumbled until the long
+wished-for day dawned, and I jumped up anxiously to realize the visions
+of the night. I was not long at my toilet--I was soon shaved and
+dressed--but just as I was settling myself comfortably into my beautiful
+brown broadcloth inexpressibles, crack went something, and I discovered
+that a seam had ripped half a foot long. Had it been consistent with the
+dignity of a Lord Mayor to swear, I should, I believe, at that moment,
+have anathematized the offending tailor;--as it was, what was to be
+done?--I heard trumpets in earnest, carriages drawing up and setting
+down; sheriffs, and chaplains, mace bearers, train bearers, sword
+bearers, water bailiffs, remembrancers, Mr. Common Hunt, the town clerk,
+and the deputy town clerk, all bustling about--the bells ringing--and
+_I_ late, with a hole in my inexpressibles! There was but one remedy--my
+wife's maid, kind, intelligent creature, civil and obliging, and ready
+to turn her hand to any thing, came to my aid, and in less than fifteen
+minutes her activity, exerted in the midst of the confusion, repaired
+the injury, and turned me out fit to be seen by the whole corporation of
+London.
+
+When I was dressed, I tapped at Mrs. Scropps's door, went in, and asked
+her if she thought I should do; the dear soul, after settling my point
+lace frill (which she had been good enough to pick off her own petticoat
+on purpose) and putting my bag straight, gave me the sweetest salute
+imaginable.
+
+"I wish your lordship health and happiness," said she.
+
+"Sally," said I, "your ladyship is an angel;" and so, having kissed each
+of my daughters, who were in progress of dressing, I descended the
+stairs, to begin the auspicious day in which I reached the apex of my
+greatness.--Never shall I forget the bows--the civilities--the
+congratulations--sheriffs bending before me--the Recorder smiling--the
+Common Sergeant at my feet--the pageant was intoxicating; and when,
+after having breakfasted, I stepped into that glazed and gilded house
+upon wheels, called the state coach, and saw my sword bearer pop himself
+into one of the boots, with the sword of state in his hand, I was lost
+in ecstasy, I threw myself back upon the seat of the vehicle with all
+imaginable dignity, but not without damage, for in the midst of my ease
+and elegance I snapped off the cut steel hilt of my sword, by
+accidentally bumping the whole weight of my body right, or rather wrong,
+directly upon the top of it.
+
+But what was a sword hilt or a bruise to _me_? I was _the_ Lord
+Mayor--the greatest man of the greatest city of the greatest nation in
+the world. The people realized my anticipations, and "Bravo, Scropps!"
+and "Scropps for ever!" again resounded, as we proceeded slowly and
+majestically towards the river, through a fog, which prevented our being
+advantageously seen, and which got down the throat of the sword bearer,
+who coughed incessantly during our progress, much to my annoyance, not
+to speak of the ungraceful movements which his convulsive barkings gave
+to the red velvet scabbard of the official glave as it stuck out of the
+window of the coach.
+
+We embarked in _my_ barge; a new scene of splendour awaited me, guns,
+shouts, music, flags, banners, in short, every thing that fancy could
+paint or a water bailiff provide; there, in the gilded bark, was
+prepared a cold collation--I ate, but tasted nothing--fowls, _patés_,
+tongue, game, beef, ham, all had the same flavour; champagne, hock, and
+Madeira were all alike to _me_--Lord Mayor was all I saw, all I heard,
+all I swallowed; every thing was pervaded by the one captivating word,
+and the repeated appeal to "my lordship" was sweeter than nectar.
+
+At Westminster, having been presented and received, I desired--I--John
+Ebenezer Scropps, of Coventry--I desired the Recorder to invite the
+judges to dine with me--I--who remember when two of the oldest and most
+innocent of the twelve, came the circuit, trembling at the sight of
+them, and believing them some extraordinary creatures upon whom all the
+hair and fur I saw, grew naturally--I, not only to ask these formidable
+beings to dine with me, but, as if I thought it beneath my dignity to do
+so in my proper person, deputing a judge of my own to do it for me; I
+never shall forget their bows in return--Chinese mandarins on a
+chimney-piece are fools to them.
+
+Then came the return--we landed once more in the scene of my dignity--at
+the corner of Fleet Street we found the Lady Mayoress waiting for the
+procession--there she was--Sally Scropps (her maiden name was
+Snob)--there was my own Sally, with a plume of feathers that half filled
+the coach, and Jenny and Maria and young Sally, all with their backs to
+_my_ horses, which were pawing the mud and snorting and smoking like
+steam engines, with nostrils like safety valves, and four of _my_
+footmen hanging behind the coach, like bees in a swarm. There had not
+been so much riband in my family since my poor father's failure at
+Coventry--and yet how often, over and over again, although he had been
+dead more than twenty years, did I, during that morning, in the midst of
+my splendour, think of _him_, and wish that he could see me in my
+greatness--yes, even in the midst of my triumph I seemed to defer to my
+good, kind parent--in heaven, as I hope and trust--as if I were anxious
+for _his_ judgment and _his_ opinion as to how I should perform the
+arduous and manifold duties of the day.
+
+Up Ludgate Hill we moved--the fog grew thicker and thicker--but then the
+beautiful women at the windows--those up high could only see my knees
+and the paste buckles in my shoes; every now and then, I bowed
+condescendingly to people I had never seen before, in order to show my
+courtesy and my chain and collar, which I had discovered during the
+morning shone the better for being shaken.
+
+At length we reached Guildhall--as I crossed the beautiful building,
+lighted splendidly, and filled with well dressed company, and heard the
+deafening shouts which rent the fane as I entered it, I really was
+overcome--I retired to a private room--refreshed my dress, rubbed up my
+chain, which the damp had tarnished, and prepared to receive my guests.
+They came, and--shall I ever forget it?--dinner was announced; the bands
+played "O the roast beef of Old England." Onwards we went, a Prince of
+the blood, of the blood royal of my country, led out _my_ Sally--my own
+Sally--the Lady Mayoress! the Lord High Chancellor handed out young
+Sally--I saw it done--I thought I should have choked; the Prime Minister
+took Maria; the Lord Privy Seal gave his arm to Jenny; and my wife's
+mother, Mrs. Snob, was honoured by the protection of the Right
+Honourable the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.--Oh, if my poor
+father could have but seen _that_!
+
+It would be tiresome to dwell upon the pleasures of the happy year, thus
+auspiciously begun, in detail; each month brought its delights, each
+week its festival; public meetings under the sanction of the Right
+Honourable the Lord Mayor; concerts and balls under the patronage of the
+Lady Mayoress; Easter and its dinner, Blue-coat boys and buns;
+processions here, excursions there.--Summer came, and then we had
+swan-hopping _up_ the river, and white-baiting _down_ the river; Yantlet
+Creek below, the navigation barge above; music, flags, streamers, guns,
+and company; turtle every day in the week; peas at a pound a pint, and
+grapes at a guinea a pound; dabbling in rosewater served in gold, not to
+speak of the loving cup, with Mr. Common Hunt, in full dress, at my
+elbow; my dinners were talked of, Ude grew jealous, and I was idolized.
+
+The days, which before seemed like weeks, were now turned to minutes:
+scarcely had I swallowed my breakfast before I was in my justice-room;
+and before I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for beggary, I was
+called away to luncheon; this barely over, in comes a deputation or a
+dispatch, and so on till dinner, which was barely ended before supper
+was announced. We all became enchanted with the Mansion House; my girls
+grew graceful by the confidence their high station gave them; Maria
+refused a good offer because her lover chanced to have an ill sounding
+name; we had all got settled in our rooms, the establishment had begun
+to know and appreciate us; we had just become in fact easy in our
+dignity and happy in our position, when lo and behold! the ninth of
+November came again--the anniversary of my exaltation, the consummation
+of my downfall.
+
+Again did we go in state to Guildhall, again were we toasted and
+addressed, again were we handed in, and led out, again flirted with
+cabinet ministers and danced with ambassadors, and at two o'clock in the
+morning drove home from the scene of gaiety to our old residence in
+Budge Row.--Never in this world did pickled herrings and turpentine
+smell so powerfully as on that night when we entered the house; and
+although my wife and the young ones stuck to the drinkables at
+Guildhall, their natural feelings would have way, and a sort of
+shuddering disgust seemed to fill their minds on their return home--the
+passage looked so narrow--the drawing-rooms looked so small--the
+staircase seemed so dark--our apartments appeared so low--however, being
+tired, we all slept well, at least I did, for I was in no humour to talk
+to Sally, and the only topic I could think upon before I dropped into my
+slumber, was a calculation of the amount of expense which I had incurred
+during the just expired year of my greatness.
+
+In the morning we assembled at breakfast--a note lay on the table,
+addressed--"Mrs. Scropps, Budge Row." The girls, one after the other,
+took it up, read the superscription, and laid it down again. A visiter
+was announced--a neighbour and kind friend, a man of wealth and
+importance--what were his first words?--they were the first I had heard
+from a stranger since my job,--"How are you, Scropps, done up, eh?"
+
+Scropps! no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;--no "my lord, I
+hope your lordship passed an agreeable night--and how is her ladyship
+and your lordship's amiable daughters?"--not a bit of it--"How's Mrs. S.
+and the _gals_?" This was quite natural, all as it _had_ been, all
+perhaps as it should be--but how unlike what it _was_, only one day
+before! The very servants, who, when amidst the strapping, stall-fed,
+gold-laced lacqueys of the Mansion House, (transferred with the chairs
+and tables from one Lord Mayor to another) dared not speak nor look, nor
+say their lives were their own, strutted about the house, and banged the
+doors, and talked of their "_Missis_," as if she had been an apple
+woman.
+
+So much for domestic miseries;--I went out--I was shoved about in
+Cheapside in the most remorseless manner; my right eye had a narrow
+escape of being poked out by the tray of a brawny butcher's boy, who,
+when I civilly remonstrated, turned round, and said, "Vy, I say, who are
+_you_, I vonder, as is so partiklar about your _hysight_." I felt an
+involuntary shudder--to-day, thought I, I _am_ John Ebenezer
+Scropps--two days ago I was Lord Mayor; and so the rencontre ended,
+evidently to the advantage of the bristly brute. It was however too much
+for me--the effect of contrast was too powerful, the change was too
+sudden--and I determined to go to Brighton for a few weeks to refresh
+myself, and be weaned from my dignity.
+
+We went--we drove to the Royal Hotel; in the hall stood one of his
+Majesty's ministers, one of my former guests, speaking to his lady and
+daughter: my girls passed close to him--he had handed one of them to
+dinner the year before, but he appeared entirely to have forgotten her.
+By and by, when we were going out in a fly to take the air, one of the
+waiters desired the fly man to pull off, because Sir Something
+Somebody's carriage could not come up--it was clear that the name of
+Scropps had lost its influence.
+
+We secluded ourselves in a private house, where we did nothing but sigh
+and look at the sea. We had been totally spoiled for our proper sphere,
+and could not get into a better; the indifference of our inferiors
+mortified us, and the familiarity of our equals disgusted us--our
+potentiality was gone, and we were so much degraded that a puppy of a
+fellow had the impertinence to ask Jenny if she was going to one of the
+Old Ship balls. "Of course," said the coxcomb, "I don't mean the
+'Almacks,' for they are uncommonly select."
+
+In short, do what we would, go where we might, we were outraged and
+annoyed, or at least thought ourselves so; and beyond all bitterness was
+the reflection, that the days of our dignity and delight never might
+return. There were at Brighton no less than three men who called me
+Jack, and _that_, out of flies or in libraries, and one of these, chose
+occasionally, by way of making himself particularly agreeable, to
+address me by the familiar appellation of Jacky. At length, and that
+only three weeks after my fall, an overgrown tallow-chandler met us on
+the Steyne, and stopped our party to observe, "as how he thought he owed
+me for two barrels of coal tar, for doing over his pigsties." This
+settled it--we departed from Brighton, and made a tour of the coast; but
+we never rallied; and business, which must be minded, drove us before
+Christmas to Budge Row, where we are again settled down.
+
+Maria has grown thin--Sarah has turned methodist--and Jenny, who danced
+with his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, who was called angelic by
+the Right Honourable the Lord Privy Seal, and who moreover refused a man
+of fortune because he had an ugly name, is going to be married to
+Lieutenant Stodge, on the half pay of the Royal Marines--and what
+then?--I am sure if it were not for the females of my family I should be
+perfectly at my ease in my proper sphere, out of which the course of our
+civic constitution raised me. It was unpleasant at first:--but I have
+toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and Providence has
+blessed my works. If we were discomposed at the sudden change in our
+station, I it is who was to blame for having aspired to honours which I
+knew were not to last. However the ambition was not dishonourable, nor
+did I disgrace the station while I held it; and when I see, as in the
+present year, _that_ station filled by a man of education and talent, of
+high character and ample fortune, I discover no cause to repent of
+having been one of his predecessors. Indeed I ought to apologize for
+making public the weakness by which we were all affected; especially as
+I have myself already learned to laugh at what we all severely felt at
+first--the miseries of a SPLENDID ANNUAL.--_Sharpe's London Magazine_.
+
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+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A CHAPTER ON HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY
+
+
+    "Ut sunt divorum, Mars, Bacchus, Apollo."
+                   _Latin Grammar_.
+
+  Did you ever look
+  In Mr. Tooke,
+  For Homer's gods and goddesses?
+  The males in the air,
+  So big and so bare,
+  And the girls without their bodices.
+
+  There was Jupiter Zeus,
+  Who play'd the deuce,
+  A rampant blade and a tough one;
+  But Denis bold,
+  Stole his coat of gold,
+  And rigg'd him out in a stuff one,
+
+  Juno, when old,
+  Was a bit of a scold,
+  And rul'd Jove _jure divino_;
+  When he went gallivaunting,
+  His steps she kept haunting,[4]
+  And she play'd, too, the devil with Ino.
+
+  Minerva bright
+  Was a blue-stocking wight,
+  Who lodg'd among the Attics;
+  And, like Lady V.
+  From the men did flee,
+  To study the mathematics.
+
+  Great Mars, we're told,
+  Was a grenadier bold,
+  Who Vulcan sorely cuckold;
+  When to Rome he went,
+  He his children sent
+  To a she-wolf to be suckled.
+
+  _Midas_.
+
+  Sol, the rat-catcher,[5]
+  Was a great body-snatcher,
+  And with his bow and arrows
+  He _Burked_, through the trees,
+  Master Niobes,
+  As though they had been cock sparrows.
+
+  Diana, his sister,
+  When nobody kiss'd her,
+  Was a saint, (at least a semi one,)
+  Yet the vixen Scandal
+  Made a terrible handle
+  Of her friendship for Eudymion.
+
+  Full many a feat
+  Did Hercules neat,
+  The least our credit draws on;
+  Jesting Momus, so sly,
+  Said, "'Tis all my eye,"
+  And he call'd him Baron Munchausen.
+
+  Fair Bacchus's face
+  Many signs did grace,
+  (They were not painted by Zeuxis:)
+  Of his brewing trade
+  He a mystery made,[6]
+  Like our Calverts and our Meuxes.
+
+  There was Mistress Venus,
+  (I say it between us,)
+  For virtue cared not a farden:
+  There never was seen
+  Such a drabbish quean
+  In the parish of Covent Garden.
+
+  Hermes cunning
+  Poor Argus funning,
+  He made him drink like a buffer;
+  To his great surprise
+  Sew'd up all his eyes,
+  And stole away his heifer.
+
+  A bar-maid's place
+  Was Hebe's grace,
+  Till Jupiter did trick her;
+  He turn'd her away,
+  And made Ganimede stay
+  To pour him out his liquor.
+
+  Ceres in life
+  Was a farmer's wife,
+  But she doubtless kept a jolly house;
+  For Rumour speaks,
+  She was had by the Beaks
+  To swear her son Triptolemus.[7]
+
+  Miss Proserpine
+  She thought herself fine,
+  But when all her plans miscarried,
+  She the Devil did wed,
+  And took him to bed,
+  Sooner than not be married.
+
+  But the worst of the gods,
+  Beyond all odds,
+  It cannot be denied, oh!
+  Is that first of matchmakers,
+  That prince of housebreakers,
+  The urchin, Dan Cupido.
+
+           _New Monthly Magazine_.
+
+    [4] "I'll search out the haunts
+        Of your fav'rite gallants,
+        And into cows metamorphose 'em."
+
+    [5] Apollo Smintheus. He destroyed a great many rats in Phrygia,
+    and was probably the first "rat-catcher to the King."--_Vet.
+    Schol_.
+
+    [6] "Mystica vannus Isacchi." This was either a porter-brewer's
+    dray, or more probably the _Van_ of his druggist.--_Scriblerus_.
+
+    [7] There is some difference of opinion concerning this fact:
+    the lady, like so many others in her interesting situation,
+    passed through the adventure under an _alias_. But that Ceres
+    and Terra were the same, no reasonable person will doubt: and
+    there can be no _serious_ objection to the little _trip_ being
+    thus ascribed to the goddess in question.--_Scriblerus_.
+
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+
+
+"THE SEASON" IN TOWN.
+
+
+_Theodore_.--I don't know how you could prevent people from living half
+the year in town.
+
+_Tickler_.--I have no objection to their living half the year in town,
+as you call it, if they can live in such a hell upon earth, of dust,
+noise, and misery. Only think of the Dolphin water in the solar
+microscope!
+
+_Theodore_.--I know nothing of the water of London personally.
+
+_Odoherty_.--Nor I; but I take it, we both have a notion of its brandy
+and water.
+
+_Tickler_.--'Tis, in fact, their duty to be a good deal in London. But
+I'll tell you what I do object to, and what I rather think are evils of
+modern date, or at any rate, of very rapid recent growth. First, I
+object to their living those months of the year in which it is _contra
+bonos mores_ to be in London, not in their paternal mansions, but at
+those little bastardly abortions, which they call watering-places--their
+Leamingtons, their Cheltenhams, their Brighthelmstones.
+
+_Theodore_.--Brighton, my dear rustic Brighton!
+
+_Odoherty_.--Synopicé.
+
+_Shepherd_.--What's your wull, Sir Morgan? It does no staun' wi' me.
+
+_Theodore_.--A horrid spot, certainly--but possessing large
+conveniences, sir, for particular purposes. For example, sir, the
+balcony on the drawing-room floor commonly runs on the same level all
+round the square--which in the Brighthelmstonic dialect, sir, means a
+three-sided figure. The advantage is obvious,
+
+_Shepherd_.--Och, sirs! och, sirs! what wull this world come to!
+
+_Theodore_.--The truth is, sir, that people _comme il faut_ cannot well
+submit to the total change of society and manners implied in a removal
+from Whitehall or Mayfair to some absurd old antediluvian chateau, sir,
+boxed up among beeches and rooks. Sir, only think of the small Squires
+with the red faces, sir, and the grand white waistcoats down to their
+hips--and the dames, sir, with their wigs, and their simpers, and their
+visible pockets--and the damsels, blushing things in white muslin, with
+sky-blue sashes and ribbons, and mufflers and things--and the sons, sir,
+the promising young gentlemen, sir--and the doctor, and the lawyer--and
+the parson. So you disapprove of Brighton, Mr. Tickler?
+
+_Tickler_.--Brighthelmstone, when I knew it, was a pleasant fishing
+village--what like it is now, I know not; but what I detest in the great
+folks of your time, is, that insane selfishness which makes them prefer
+any place, however abominable, where they can herd together in their
+little exquisite coteries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the
+noblest domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less
+exposed to the company of people not exactly belonging to their own
+particular sect. How can society hang together long in a country where
+the Corinthian capital takes so much pains to unrift itself from the
+pillar? Now-a-day, sir, your great lord, commonly speaking, spends but a
+month or six weeks in his ancestral abode; and even when he is there, he
+surrounds himself studiously with a cursed town-crew, a pack of St.
+James's Street fops, and Mayfair chatterers and intriguers, who give
+themselves airs enough to turn the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and
+their womankind, and render a visit to the castle a perfect nuisance.
+
+_Theodore (aside to Mullion.)_--A prejudiced old prig!
+
+_Tickler_.--They seem to spare no pains to show that they consider the
+country as valuable merely for rent and game--the duties of the
+magistracy are a bore--county meetings are a bore--a farce, I believe,
+was the word--the assizes are a cursed bore--fox-hunting itself is a
+bore, unless in Leicestershire, where the noble sportsmen, from all the
+winds of heaven cluster together, and think with ineffable contempt of
+the old-fashioned chase, in which the great man mingled with gentle and
+simple, and all comers--sporting is a bore, unless in a regular
+_battue_, when a dozen lordlings murder pheasants by the thousand,
+without hearing the cock of one impatrician fowling-piece--except indeed
+some dandy poet, or philosopher, or punster, has been admitted to make
+sport to the Philistines. In short, every thing is a bore that brings
+the dons into personal collision of any kind with people that don't
+belong to the world.
+
+_Odoherty_.--The world is getting pretty distinct from the nation, I
+admit, and I doubt if much love is lost between them.--_Blackwood's
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HOPKINSONIAN JOKE.
+
+
+My friend Hertford, walking one day near his own shop in Piccadilly,
+happened to meet one Mr. Hopkinson, an eminent brewer, I believe--and
+the conversation naturally enough turned upon some late dinner at the
+Albion, Aldersgate Street--nobody appreciates a real city dinner better
+than Monsieur le Marquess--and so on, till the old brewer mentioned,
+_par hazard_, that he had just received a noble specimen of wild pig
+from a friend in Frankfort, adding, that he had a very particular party,
+God knows how many aldermen, to dinner--half the East India direction, I
+believe--and that he was something puzzled touching the cookery. "Pooh!"
+says Hertford, "send in your porker to my man, and he'll do it for you
+_à merveille_." The brewer was a grateful man--the pork came and went
+back again. Well, a week after my lord met his friend, and, by the way,
+"Hopkinson," says he, "how did the boar concern go off?"--"O,
+beautifully," says the brewer; "I can never sufficiently thank your
+lordship; nothing could do better. We should never have got on at all
+without your lordship's kind assistance."--"The thing gave satisfaction
+then, Hopkinson?"--"O, great satisfaction, my lord marquess.--To be sure
+we did think it rather queer at first--in fact, not being up to them
+there things, we considered it as deucedly stringy--to say the truth, we
+should never have thought of eating it cold."--"Cold!" says Hertford;
+"did you eat the ham cold?"--"O dear, yes, my lord, to be sure we
+did--we eat it just as your lordship's gentleman sent it."--"Why, my
+dear Mr. Alderman," says Hertford, "my cook only prepared it for the
+spit." Well, I shall never forget how the poor dear Duke of York
+laughed!--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+
+    A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+                      SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SEALING WAX AND WAFERS.
+
+
+Francis Rousseau, a native of Auxerres, who travelled a long time in
+Persia, Pegu, and other parts of the East Indies, and who, in 1692,
+resided at St. Domingo, was the inventer of sealing-wax. A lady, of the
+name of Longueville, made this wax known at court, and caused Louis
+XIII. to use it; after which it was purchased and used throughout Paris.
+By this article Rousseau, before the expiration of a year, gained 50,000
+livres. The oldest seal with a red wafer ever yet found, is on a letter
+written by Dr. Krapf, at Spires, in the year 1624, to the government at
+Bareuth.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I was in company some time since with George Colman, "the younger," as
+the old fellow still styles himself. It was shortly after the death of
+Mrs. ----, the wife of a popular actor, and at that time an unpopular
+manager. Some one at table observed that, "Mr. ---- had suffered a loss
+in the death of his wife, which he would not soon be able to make
+up."--"I don't know how that may be," replied George, drily, "but to
+tell you the truth, I don't think he has _quarrelled_ with his loss
+yet."--_Monthly Mag_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SHERIDAN.
+
+
+Bob Mitchell, one of Sheridan's intimate friends, and once in great
+prosperity, became--like a great many other people, Sheridan's
+creditor--in fact Sheridan owed Bob nearly three thousand pounds--this
+circumstance amongst others contributed so very much to reduce Bob's
+finances, that he was driven to great straits, and in the course of his
+uncomfortable wanderings he called upon Sheridan; the conversation
+turned upon his financial difficulties, but not upon the principal cause
+of them, which was Sheridan's debt; but which of course, as an able
+tactician, he contrived to keep out of the discussion; at last, Bob, in
+a sort of agony, exclaimed--"I have not a guinea left, and by heaven I
+don't know where to get one." Sheridan jumped up, and thrusting a piece
+of gold into his hand, exclaimed with tears in his eyes--"It never shall
+be said that Bob Mitchell wanted a guinea while his friend Sheridan had
+one to give him."--_Sharpe's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES
+
+
+_On the window of Thorny Down Inn, about seven miles from Blandford, on
+the Salisbury road_.
+
+  Death, reader, pallid death!! with woe or bliss
+  Will shortly be thy lot. Think then, my friend,
+  Ere yet it be too late--what are thy hopes
+  And what thy anxious fears--when the thin veil
+  That keeps thy soul from seeing Israel's GOD
+  Shall drop.    (Signed) [Greek: parepidemos].
+                          RURIS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring bricklayer
+was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his lordship said
+to him--
+
+"Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it is your
+bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your appearance."
+
+"Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to that, I'm
+thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your lordship."
+
+"How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.
+
+"Why, faith," said the labourer, "_you_ come here in _your_ working
+clothes and _I'm_ come in _mine_."--_Sharpe's Mag_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FRIENDSHIP.
+
+
+Dr. Johnson most beautifully remarks, that "When a friend is carried to
+his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations
+of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided
+off our minds without impression, a thousand favours unrepaid, a
+thousand duties unperformed, and wish, vainly wish for his return, not
+so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and
+recompense that kindness which before we never understood."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOT TUESDAY.
+
+
+Derham, in his _Physico-Theology,_ says, "July 8th, 1707, (called for
+some time after the _hot Tuesday,_) was so excessively hot and
+suffocating, by reason there was no wind stirring, that divers persons
+died, or were in great danger of death, in their harvest work.
+Particularly one who had formerly been my servant, a healthy, lusty
+young man, was killed by the heat; and several horses on the road
+dropped down and died the same day."
+
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+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>[pg
+17]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+OF<br />
+LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<hr class="full" />
+<table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+<tr>
+<td align="left"><b>Vol. 14. No. 380.]</b></td>
+<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1829</b></td>
+<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE</h2>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href=
+"images/380-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/380-1.png" alt=
+"Mercer's Hall, and Cheapside" /></a></div>
+<p>The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture
+of the metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its
+local association with names illustrious in historical record.</p>
+<p>In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated
+together in some particular street, the mercers principally
+assembled in West Cheap, now called Cheapside, near where the above
+hall stands, and thence called by the name of "the Mercery." In
+Lydgate's <i>London Lyckpenny</i>, are the following lines alluding
+to this custom:</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Then to Chepe I began me drawne,</p>
+<p>When much people I saw for to stand;</p>
+<p>One offered me velvet, silk and lawne</p>
+<p>And another he taketh me by the hand.</p>
+<p>Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Pennant thus describes the principal historical data of the
+spot:</p>
+<p>"On the north side of Cheapside, (between Ironmonger Lane and
+Old Jewry,) stood the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, founded by
+Thomas Fitz-Theobald de Helles, and his wife Agnes, sister to the
+turbulent Thomas Becket, who was born in the house of his father,
+Gilbert, situated on this spot. The mother of our meek saint was a
+fair Saracen, whom his father had married in the Holy Land. On the
+site of this house rose the hospital, built within twenty years
+after the murder of Thomas; yet such was the repute of his
+sanctity, that it was dedicated to him, in conjunction with the
+blessed Virgin, without waiting for his canonization. The hospital
+consisted of a master and several brethren, professing the rule of
+St. Austin. The church, cloisters, &amp;c. were granted by Henry
+VIII. to the Mercers' Company, who had the gift of the
+mastership.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+"#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p>
+<p>"In the old church were several monuments; among others, one to
+James Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Joan his wife, living in the
+beginning of the reign of Henry VI. The whole pile was destroyed in
+the great fire, but was very handsomely rebuilt by the Mercers'
+Company, who have their Hall here.</p>
+<p>"In this chapel the celebrated, but unsteady, archbishop of
+Spalato, preached his first sermon in 1617, in Italian, before the
+Archbishop of Canterbury, and a splendid audience; and continued
+his discourses in the same place several <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>[pg 18]</span> times,
+after he had embraced our religion; but having the folly to return
+to his ancient faith, and trust himself among his old friends at
+Rome, he was shut up in the Castle of St. Angelo, where he died in
+1625."</p>
+<p>"The Mercers' Company is the first of the twelve. The name by no
+means implied, originally, a dealer in silks: for <i>mercery</i>
+included all sorts of small wares, toys, and haberdashery; but, as
+several of this opulent company were merchants, and imported great
+quantities of rich silks from Italy, the name became applied to the
+Company, and all dealers in silk. Not fewer than sixty-two mayors
+were of this Company, between the years 1214 and 1762; among which
+were Sir John Coventry, Sir Richard Whittington, and Sir Richard
+and Sir John Gresham."</p>
+<p>The front in Cheapside, which alone can be seen, is narrow, but
+floridly adorned with carvings and architectural ornaments. The
+door is enriched with the figures of two cupids, mantling the arms,
+festoons, &amp;c. and above the balcony, it is adorned with two
+pilasters, entablature, and pediment of the Ionic order; the
+intercolumns are the figures of Faith and Hope, and that of
+Charity, in a niche under the cornice of the pediment, with other
+enrichments. The interior is very handsome. The hall and great
+parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic pilasters.
+The ceiling is of fret-work, and the stately piazzas are
+constituted by large columns, and their entablature of the Doric
+order.</p>
+<p>The arms of the Mercers, as they are sculptured over the
+gateway, present for their distinguishing feature a demi-virgin
+with dishevelled hair: it was in allusion to this circumstance,
+that in the days of pageantry, at the election of Lord Mayor, a
+richly ornamented chariot was produced, in which was seated a young
+and beautiful virgin, most sumptuously arrayed, her hair flowing in
+ringlets over her neck and shoulders, and a crown upon her head.
+When the day's diversions were over, she was liberally rewarded and
+dismissed, claiming as her own the rich attire she had worn.</p>
+<p>From this place likewise was formerly a solemn procession by the
+Lord Mayor, who, in the afternoon of the day he was sworn at the
+Exchequer, met the Aldermen; whence they repaired together to St.
+Paul's, and there prayed for the soul of their benefactor, William,
+Bishop of London, in the time of William the Conqueror, at his
+tomb. They then went to the churchyard to a place where lay the
+parents of Thomas &acirc; Becket, and prayed for all souls
+departed. They then returned to the chapel, and both Mayor and
+Aldermen offered each a penny.</p>
+<p>Attached to the original foundation or hospital was a
+grammar-school, which has been subsequently continued at the
+expense of the Mercers' Company, though not on the same spot. It
+was for some time kept in the Old Jewry, whence it has been removed
+to College Hill, Upper Thames Street. Among the masters may be
+mentioned William Baxter, nephew to the non-conformist, Richard
+Baxter, and author of two Dictionaries of British and Roman
+Antiquities.</p>
+<p>Nearly opposite the entrance to Mercers' Hall, is a handsome
+stone-fronted house, built by Sir Christopher Wren. The houses
+adjoining the Hall were of similar ornamental character; although
+the unenclosed shop-fronts present a strange contrast with some of
+the improvements and superfluities of modern times. The Hall front
+has lately been renovated, and presents a rich display of
+architectural ornament.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE LONE GRAVES.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Why should their sleep thus silent be, from streams and flow'rs
+away,</p>
+<p>While wanders thro' the sunny air the cuckoo's mellow lay;</p>
+<p>Those forms, whose eyes reflected heaven in their mild depth of
+blue,</p>
+<p>Whose hair was like the wave that shines o'er sands of golden
+hue?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Are these the altars of their rest, the pure and sacred
+shrines;</p>
+<p>Where Memory, rapt o'er visions fled, her holy spell
+combines?</p>
+<p>The sire, the child, oh, waft them back to their delightful
+dell,</p>
+<p>When, like a voice from heavenly lands, awakes the curfew
+bell.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>And have they no remembrance here, the cheeks that softly
+glow'd,</p>
+<p>The amber hair, that, on the breeze, in gleaming tresses
+flow'd,</p>
+<p>The hymn which hail'd the Sabbath morn,&mdash;the fix'd and
+fervid eye;</p>
+<p>Must these sweet treasures of the heart in shade and silence
+lie?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh, no! thou place of sanctities! a ray has from thee gone,</p>
+<p>Dearer than noontide's gorgeous light, or Sabbath's music
+tone;</p>
+<p>A spirit! whose bright ark is far beyond the clouds and
+waves,</p>
+<p>Albeit there is a sunless gloom on these, their lonely
+graves!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em">REGINALD AUGUSTINE.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>[pg
+19]</span>
+<h3>BAGLEY WOOD.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>Bagley is situated about two miles and a half from Oxford, on
+the Abingdon-road, and affords an agreeable excursion to the
+Oxonians, who, leaving the city of learning, pass over the old
+bridge, where the observatory of the celebrated Friar Bacon was
+formerly standing. The wood is large, extending itself to the
+summit of a hill, which commands a charming panoramic view of
+Oxford, and of the adjacent country. The scene is richly
+diversified with hill and dale, while the spires, turrets, and
+towers of the university, rise high above the clustering trees,
+filling the beholder with the utmost awe and veneration. During the
+summer, this rustic spot presents many cool retreats, and
+love-embowering shades; and here many an amour is carried on, free
+from suspicion's eye, beneath the wide umbrageous canopy of
+nature.</p>
+<p>Gipsies, or <i>fortune-tellers</i>, are constantly to be found
+in Bagley Wood; and many a gay Oxonian may be seen in the company
+of some wandering Egyptian beauty. So partial, indeed, are several
+of the young men of the university to the tawny tribe, that they
+are frequently observed in their <i>academicals</i>, lounging round
+the picturesque tents, having <i>their</i> fortunes told; though,
+it must be remarked, their countenances usually evince a waggish
+incredulity on those occasions, and they appear much more amused
+with the novel scene around them than gratified with the favourable
+predictions of the wily Egyptians.</p>
+<p>The merry gipsies of Bagley Wood might well sing with
+<i>Herrick</i></p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Here we securely live, and eat</p>
+<p>The cream of meat;</p>
+<p>And keep eternal fires</p>
+<p>By which we sit, <i>and do divine</i>."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>G.W.N.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>EATING "MUTTON COLD."</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>A correspondent in a late number asks for a solution of the
+expression, "eating mutton cold." If the following one is worth
+printing, it is much at your service and that of the readers of the
+MIRROR.</p>
+<p>I consider then that it has simply the same meaning as that of
+"coming a day after the fair." To come at the end of a feast when
+the various viands (always including mutton as being easy of
+digestion for dyspeptic people) were still warm, though cut pretty
+near to the bone, would, by most persons, particularly aldermanic
+"bodies," be considered sufficiently vexatious; how doubly annoying
+then must it be to come so late as to find the meats more than half
+cold, and, perhaps, but little of them left even in that
+anti-epicurean state! Whoever has been unfortunate enough to miss a
+fine fat haunch either of venison or mutton, which, smoking on the
+board, even Dr. Kitchiner would have pronounced fit for an emperor,
+cannot but enter deeply and feelingly into the disappointment of
+that guest who, arriving, through some misdate of the invitation
+card, on the day subsequent to the feast, finds but, <i>horribile
+dictu</i>, cold lean ham, cold pea-soup, cold potatoes, and
+finally, <i>cold mutton</i>. Goldsmith's idea certainly was that
+Burke was never able to say, in the words of the Roman adage, <i>in
+tempore veni quod rerum omnium est primum</i>; but rather in plain
+English, "confound my ill luck, I never yet was invited to a feast
+but I either missed it in toto, or came so late as to be obliged to
+eat my mutton cold, a thing, which of all others, I most abhor."
+HEN. B.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>POOL'S HOLE, DERBYSHIRE.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>This cave is said to have taken its title from a notorious
+robber of that name, who being declared an outlaw, found in this
+hole a refuge from justice, where he carried on his nocturnal
+depredations with impunity. Others insist that this dismal hole was
+the habitation of a hermit or anchorite, of the name of Pool. Of
+the two traditions, I prefer the former. It is situated at the
+bottom of <i>Coitmos</i>, a lofty mountain near Buxton. The
+entrance is by a small arch, so low that you are forced to creep on
+hands and knees to gain admission; but it gradually opens into a
+vault above a quarter of a mile in length, and as some assert, a
+quarter of a mile high. It is certainly very lofty, and resembles
+the roof of a Gothic edifice. In a cavern to the right called
+Pool's Chamber, there is a fine echo, and the dashing of a current
+of water, which flows along the middle of the great vault, very
+much heightens the wonder.</p>
+<p>On the floor are great ridges of stone&mdash;water is
+perpetually distilling from the roof and sides of this vault, and
+the drops before they fall produce a very pleasing effect, by
+reflecting numberless rays from the candles carried by <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>[pg 20]</span> the
+guides. They also form their quality from crystallizations of
+various flakes like figures of fret work, and in some places,
+having long accumulated upon one another, into large masses,
+bearing a rude resemblance to various animals.</p>
+<p>In the same cavity is a column as clear as alabaster, called
+<i>Mary Queen of Scots'</i> column, because it is said she reached
+so far; beyond which is a steep ascent for nearly a quarter of a
+mile, which terminates in a hollow in the roof, called the
+Needle's-eye, in which, when the guide places his candle, it looks
+like a star in the firmament. You only wonder when you get out how
+you attained such an achievement. W.H.H.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>Happening to look at No. 229, of your valuable Miscellany, in
+which you have given rather a lengthy account of Canterbury
+Cathedral, I was surprised to find no notice taken of the beautiful
+STONE SCREEN in the interior of the cathedral, which is considered
+by many, one of the finest specimens of florid Gothic in the
+kingdom. The following is a brief description of this ancient
+specimen of architecture:</p>
+<p>This fine piece of Gothic carved work was built by Prior Hen. de
+Estria, in 1304. It is rich in flutings, pyramids, and canopied
+niches, in which stand six statues crowned, five of which hold
+globes in their hands, and the sixth a church. Various have been
+the conjectures as to the individuals intended by these statues.
+That holding the church is supposed to represent King Ethelbert,
+being a very ancient man with a long beard. The next figure appears
+more feminine, and may probably intend his queen, Bertha.</p>
+<p>Before the havoc made in Charles's reign, there were thirteen
+figures representing Christ and his Apostles in the niches which
+are round the arch-doorway, and also twelve mitred Saints aloft
+along the stone work, where is now placed an organ.</p>
+<p>At the National Repository, Charing Cross, there is exhibited a
+very correct model of this screen, in which the likenesses of the
+ancient kings are admirably imitated. P.T.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ANCIENT STONE.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+<p>There formerly stood about three miles from Carmarthen, at a
+place called New Church, a stone about eight feet long and two
+broad. The only distinguishable words upon it were "<i>Severus
+filius Severi</i>." The remainder of the inscription, by
+dilapidation and time, was defaced. It is supposed that there had
+been a battle fought here, and that Severus fell. About a quarter
+of a mile from this was another with the name of some other
+individual. The above stone was removed by the owner of the land on
+which it stood, and is now used instead of a gate-post by him. I
+should imagine it was the son of Severus the Roman, who founded the
+great wall and ditch called after him, Severus' Wall and Ditch, and
+as there was a Roman road from St. David's, in Wales, to
+Southampton, it is not improbable that the Romans should come from
+thence to Carmarthen. W.H.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE COSMOPOLITE.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>DIET OF VARIOUS NATIONS.</h3>
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+<p>To the artist, the amateur, the traveller, and man of taste in
+general, the following gleanings respecting the diet of various
+nations, are, in the spirit of English hospitality, cordially
+inscribed. The breakfast of the <i>Icelanders</i> consists of
+<i>skyr</i>, a kind of sour, coagulated milk, sometimes mixed with
+fresh milk or cream, and flavoured with the juice of certain
+berries; their usual dinner is dried fish, skyr, and rancid butter;
+and skyr, cheese, or porridge, made of Iceland moss, forms their
+supper; bread is rarely tasted by many of the Icelanders, but
+appears as a dainty at their rural feasts with mutton, and
+milk-porridge. They commonly drink a kind of whey mixed with water.
+As the cattle of this people are frequently, during winter, reduced
+to the miserable necessity of subsisting on dried fish, we can
+scarcely conceive their fresh meat to be so great a luxury as it is
+there esteemed. The poor of <i>Sweden</i> live on hard bread,
+salted or dried fish, water-gruel, and beer. The <i>Norwegian</i>
+nobility and merchants fare sumptuously, but the lower classes
+chiefly subsist on the following articles:&mdash;oatmeal-bread,
+made in thin cakes (strongly resembling the havver-bread of
+Scotland) and baked only twice a-year. The oatmeal for this bread
+is, in times of scarcity, which in Norway frequently occur, mixed
+with the bark of elm or fir tree, ground, after boiling and drying,
+into a sort of flour; sometimes in the vicinity of fisheries, the
+roes of cod kneaded with the meal <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page21" name="page21"></a>[pg 21]</span> of oats or barley, are
+made into a kind of hasty-pudding, and soup, which is enriched with
+a pickled herring or mackerel. The flesh of the shark, and thin
+slices of meat salted and dried in the wind, are much esteemed.
+Fresh fish are plentiful on the coasts, but for lack of
+conveyances, unknown in the interior; the deficiency however, is
+there amply supplied by an abundance of game. The flesh of cattle
+pickled, smoked, or dry-salted, is laid by for winter store; and
+after making cheese, the sour whey is converted into a liquor
+called <i>syre</i>, which, mixed with water, constitutes the
+ordinary beverage of the Norwegians; but for festive occasions they
+brew strong beer, and with it intoxicate themselves, as also with
+brandy, when procurable. The maritime <i>Laplanders</i> feed on
+fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog, fish-livers,
+and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty provision; they
+are even aspiring to the rank of the interior inhabitants, whose
+nutriment is of a more delicate description, being the flesh of all
+kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and birds of
+prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty. Rein-deer flesh is
+commonly boiled in a large iron kettle, and when done, torn to
+pieces by the fingers of the <i>major domo</i>, and by him
+portioned out to his family and friends; the broth remaining in the
+kettle is boiled into soup with rye or oat-meal, and sometimes
+seasoned with salt. Rein-deer blood is also a viand with these
+people, and being boiled, either by itself or mixed with wild
+berries, in the stomach of the animal from whence it was taken,
+forms a kind of black-pudding. The beverage of the Laplanders is
+milk and water, broths, and fish-soups; brandy, of which they are
+extremely fond, is a great rarity, and a glass of it will warm
+their hearts towards the weary sojourner, who, but for the precious
+gift, might ask hospitality at their huts in vain. The diet of the
+<i>Samoides</i>, resembles that of the Laplanders, save that they
+devour raw the flesh of fish and reindeer. For this people, all
+animals taken in the chase, and even those found dead, afford food,
+with the exception of dogs, cats, ermines, and squirrels. They have
+no regular time for meals, but the members of a family help
+themselves when they please from the boiler which always hangs over
+the fire. It is scarcely possible to name the variety of diet to be
+found among the Russian tribes; but even in cities, and at the
+tables of the opulent and civilized, late accounts mention the
+appearance of several strange and disgusting dishes, compounded of
+pastry, grain, pulse, vinegar, honey, fish, flesh, fruits, &amp;c.,
+not at all creditable to Russian gastronomic science. The diet of
+the <i>Polish</i> peasantry is meagre in the extreme; they seldom
+taste animal food, and both sexes swallow a prodigious quantity of
+<i>schnaps</i>, an ardent spirit resembling whiskey. The
+<i>Dutch</i> of all ranks are fond of butter, and seldom is a
+journey taken without a butter-box in the pocket. The boors feed on
+roots, pulse, herbs, sour milk, and water-souchie, a kind of
+fish-broth. In <i>England</i>, the edible produce of the world
+appears at the tables of the nobility, gentry, and opulent
+commercial classes; and upon comparison with that of other nations,
+it will be seen that the diet of English artisans, peasantry, and
+even paupers, is far superior in variety and nourishment; bread,
+(white and brown) vegetables, meat, broth, soup, fish, fruit,
+roots, herbs, cheese, milk, butter, and, not rarely, sugar and tea,
+with fermented liquors and ardent spirits, are all, or most of
+them, procured as articles of daily subsistence by the English
+inferior classes. In Scotland, the higher ranks live abstemiously,
+save on festive occasions; but animal food and wheaten bread is
+seldom tasted by the lower orders, who chiefly subsist on rye,
+barley, and oatmeal, prepared in bread, thin cakes, and porridge;
+this last termed <i>stirabout</i>, is simply oatmeal mixed with
+water and boiled (being stirred about with a wooden skether or
+spoon when on the fire) to the consistency of flour-paste, not very
+stiff; this, eaten with milk, forms the chief diet of the Scottish
+artisans and peasantry, and, indeed, many of superior stations
+prefer it for breakfast to bread of the finest flour which can be
+procured. Both high and low are partial to the following national
+dishes. The <i>haggis</i>, a kind of pudding, made of the offals or
+interior of a sheep, and boiled in the integument of its stomach;
+this dish, both in odour and flavour, is usually excessively
+offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's head, water-souchie,
+Scotch soup, (an <i>olla podrida</i> of meats and vegetables,)
+chicken-broth and sowens. <i>Laver</i>, a sauce made from a
+peculiar kind of sea-weed, and <i>caviar</i>, introduced from
+Russia, appear at the tables of the opulent, and by many are much
+esteemed. The diet of the higher ranks of <i>Irish</i> varies but
+little from that of the same classes in England and Scotland.
+Amongst national dishes appear the <i>staggering bob</i>, a calf
+only two days old, delicately dressed; hodge-podge, a soup
+answering to <span class="pagenum"><a id="page22" name=
+"page22"></a>[pg 22]</span> that of Scotland; colcannon, a mixture
+of potatoes and greens, seasoned with onions, salt, and pepper,
+finely braided together after boiling; and a sea-weed sauce, either
+laver or some other, the name of which we do not happen to
+remember. Potatoes, fish, (fresh and salted) eggs, milk, and
+butter-milk, form the principal support of the inferior class, of
+Irish; and whiskey the national ardent spirit of Ireland and
+Scotland, is but too often, as is gin in England, the sole support
+of a host of besotted beings, who drop into untimely graves, from
+the <i>habit of intoxication</i>.</p>
+<p>(<i>To be continued</i>.)</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.</h3>
+<p>At Susa, Alexander collected all the nobles of the empire, and
+celebrated the most magnificent nuptials recorded in history. He
+married Barcin&egrave;, or Stateira, the daughter of the late king,
+and thus, in the eyes of his Persian subjects, confirmed his title
+to the throne. His father, Philip, was a polygamist in practice,
+although it would be very difficult to prove that the Macedonians
+in general were allowed a plurality of wives; but Alexander was now
+the King of Kings, and is more likely to have been guided by
+Persian than Greek opinions upon the subject. Eighty of his
+principal officers followed his example, and were united to the
+daughters of the chief nobility of Persia.</p>
+<p>The marriages, in compliment to the brides, were celebrated
+after the Persian fashion, and during the vernal equinox. For at no
+other period, by the ancient laws of Persia, could nuptials be
+legally celebrated. Such an institution is redolent of the poetry
+and freshness of the new world, and of an attention to the voice of
+nature, and the analogies of physical life. The young couple would
+marry in time to sow their field, to reap the harvest, and gather
+their stores, before the season of cold and scarcity overtook them.
+It is difficult to say how far this custom prevailed among
+primitive nations, but it can scarcely be doubted that we still
+retain lingering traces of it in the harmless amusements of St.
+Valentine's day.</p>
+<p>On the wedding-day Alexander feasted the eighty bridegrooms in a
+magnificent hall prepared for the purpose. Eighty separate couches
+were placed for the guests, and on each a magnificent wedding-robe
+for every individual. At the conclusion of the banquet, and while
+the wine and the dessert were on the table, the eighty brides were
+introduced; Alexander first rose, received the princess, took her
+by the hand, kissed her, and placed her on the couch close to
+himself. This example was followed by all, till every lady was
+seated by her betrothed. This formed the whole of the Persian
+ceremony&mdash;the salute being regarded as the seal of
+appropriation. The Macedonian form was still more simple and
+symbolical. The bridegroom, dividing a small loaf with his sword,
+presented one-half to the bride; wine was then poured as a libation
+on both portions, and the contracting parties tasted of the bread.
+Cake and wine, as nuptial refreshments, may thus claim a venerable
+antiquity. In due time the bridegrooms conducted their respective
+brides to chambers prepared for them within the precincts of the
+royal palace.</p>
+<p>The festivities continued for five days, and all the amusements
+of the age were put into requisition for the entertainment of the
+company. Athenaeus has quoted from Charas, a list of the chief
+performers, which I transcribe more for the sake of the
+performances and of the states where these lighter arts were
+brought to the greatest perfection, than of the names, which are
+now unmeaning sounds. Scymnus from Tarentum, Philistides from
+Syracuse, and Heracleitus from Mytylen&egrave;, were the great
+jugglers, or as the Greek word intimates, the wonder-workers of the
+day. After them, Alexis, the Tarentine, displayed his excellence as
+a rhapsodist, or repeater, to appropriate music, of the
+soul-stirring poetry of Homer. Cratinus the Methymnoean,
+Aristonymus the Athenian, Athenodorus the Teian, played on the
+harp&mdash;without being accompanied by the voice. On the contrary,
+Heracleitus the Tarentine, and Aristocrates the Theban, accompanied
+their harps with lyric songs. The performers on wind instruments
+were divided on a similar, although it could not be on the same
+principle. Dionysius from Heracleia, and Hyperbolus from Cyzicum,
+sang to the flute, or some such instrument; while Timotheus,
+Phrynichus, Scaphisius, Diophantus, and Evius, the Chalcidian,
+first performed the Pythian overture, and then, accompanied by
+chorusses, displayed the full power of wind instruments in masterly
+hands. There was also a peculiar class called eulogists of Bacchus;
+these acquitted themselves so well on this occasion, applying to
+Alexander <span class="pagenum"><a id="page23" name=
+"page23"></a>[pg 23]</span> those praises which in their
+extemporaneous effusions had hitherto been confined to the god,
+that they acquired the name of Eulogists of Alexander. Nor did
+their reward fail them. The stage, of course, was not without its
+representatives:&mdash;Thessalus, Athenodorus, Aristocritus, in
+tragedy&mdash;Lycon, Phormion, and Ariston, in comedy&mdash;exerted
+their utmost skill, and contended for the prize of superior
+excellence. Phasimelus, the dancer was also present.</p>
+<p>It is yet undecided whether the Persians admitted their matrons
+to their public banquets and private parties;&mdash;but if we can
+believe the positive testimony of Herodotus, such was the case: and
+the summons of Vashti to the annual festival, and the admission of
+Haman to the queen's table, are facts which support the affirmation
+of that historian. The doubts upon the subject appear to have
+arisen from confounding the manners of Assyrians, Medes, and
+Parthians, with those of the more Scythian tribes of Persis. We
+read in Xenophon that the Persian women were so well made and
+beautiful, that their attractions might easily have seduced the
+affections of the Ten Thousand, and have caused them, like the
+lotus-eating companions of Ulysses, to forget their native land.
+Some little hints as to the mode in which their beauty was enhanced
+and their persons decorated, may be expected in the Life of
+Alexander, who, victorious over their fathers and brothers, yet
+submitted to their charms.</p>
+<p>The Persian ladies wore the tiara or turban richly adorned with
+jewels. They wore their hair long, and both plaited and curled it;
+nor, if the natural failed, did they scruple to use false locks.
+They pencilled the eyebrows, and tinged the eyelid, with a dye that
+was supposed to add a peculiar brilliancy to the eyes. They were
+fond of perfumes, and their delightful ottar was the principal
+favourite. Their tunic and drawers were of fine linen, the robe or
+gown of silk&mdash;the train of this was long, and on state
+occasions required a supporter. Round the waist they wore a broad
+zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered and
+jewelled in the centre. They also wore stockings and gloves, but
+history has not recorded their materials. They used no sandals; a
+light and ornamented shoe was worn in the house; and for walking
+they had a kind of coarse half boot. They used shawls and wrappers
+for the person, and veils for the head; the veil was large and
+square, and when thrown over the head descended low on all sides.
+They were fond of glowing colours, especially of purple, scarlet,
+and light-blue dresses. Their favourite ornaments were pearls; they
+wreathed these in their hair, wore them as necklaces, ear-drops,
+armlets, bracelets, anklets, and worked them into conspicuous parts
+of their dresses. Of the precious stones they preferred emeralds,
+rubies, and turquoises, which were set in gold and worn like the
+pearls.</p>
+<p>Alexander did not limit his liberality to the wedding
+festivities, but presented every bride with a handsome marriage
+portion. He also ordered the names of all the soldiers who had
+married Asiatic wives to be registered; their number exceeded
+10,000; and each received a handsome present, under the name of
+marriage gift.&mdash;<i>Williams's Life of Alexander, Family
+Library, No. 3</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>POEMS, BY W.T. MONCRIEFF.</h3>
+<p>This is a pretty little volume of graceful poems, printed "at
+the author's private press, for private distribution only." They
+are, however, entitled by their merits, to more extensive, or
+public circulation; for many of them evince the good taste and pure
+feelings of the writer. Some of the pieces relate to domestic
+circumstances, others are calculated to cheat "sorrow of a smile,"
+whilst all are, to use a set phrase, highly honourable to the head
+and heart of the author. In proof of this, we could detach several
+pages; but we have only space for a few:</p>
+<h3>SONG.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>As flowers, that seem the light to shun</p>
+<p>At evening's dusk and morning's haze,</p>
+<p>Expand beneath the noon-tide sun,</p>
+<p>And bloom to beauty in his rays,</p>
+<p>So maidens, in a lover's eyes,</p>
+<p>A thousand times more lovely grow,</p>
+<p>Yield added sweetness to his sighs,</p>
+<p>And with unwonted graces glow.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>As gems from light their brilliance gain,</p>
+<p>And brightest shine when shone upon,</p>
+<p>Nor half their orient rays retain,</p>
+<p>When light wanes dim and day is gone:</p>
+<p>So Beauty beams, for one dear one!</p>
+<p>Acquires fresh splendour in his sight,</p>
+<p>Her life&mdash;her light&mdash;her day&mdash;her sun&mdash;</p>
+<p>Her harbinger of all that's bright!<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+"footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page24" name="page24"></a>[pg
+24]</span>
+<h3>ANECDOTE VERSIFIED.</h3>
+<h4><i>Lord Albemarle to Mademoiselle Gaucher, on seeing her look
+very earnestly at the Evening Star</i>.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh! do not gaze upon that star,</p>
+<p>That distant star, so earnestly,</p>
+<p>If thou would'st not my pleasure mar&mdash;</p>
+<p>For ah! I cannot give it thee.<a id="footnotetag3" name=
+"footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>And, such is my unbounded love,</p>
+<p>Thou should'st not gaze upon a thing</p>
+<p>I would not make thee mistress of,</p>
+<p>And prove in love, at least, a <i>King</i>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>STANZAS TO THE SHADE OF &mdash;&mdash;</h3>
+<blockquote><i>In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
+sleep falleth on men,&mdash;an image was before mine eyes; there
+was silence, and I heard a voice</i>. JOB iv. 13.</blockquote>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Reproach me not, beloved shade!</p>
+<p>Nor think thy memory less I prize;</p>
+<p>The smiles that o'er my features play'd,</p>
+<p>But hid my pangs from vulgar eyes.</p>
+<p>I acted like the worldling boy,</p>
+<p>With heart to every feeling vain:</p>
+<p>I smil'd with all, yet felt no joy;</p>
+<p>I wept with all, yet felt no pain,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>No&mdash;though, to veil thoughts of gloom,</p>
+<p>I seem'd to twine Joy's rosy wreath,</p>
+<p>'Twas but as flowerets o'er a tomb.</p>
+<p>Which only hide the woe beneath.</p>
+<p>I lose no portion of my woes,</p>
+<p>Although my tears in secret flow;</p>
+<p>More green and fresh the verdure grows,</p>
+<p>Where the cold streams run hid below.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>A MODEST ODE TO FORTUNE.</h3>
+<blockquote>"<i>Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat</i>."
+HOR.</blockquote>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>O Goddess Fortune, hear my prayer,</p>
+<p>And make a bard for once thy care!</p>
+<p>I do not ask, in houses splendid,</p>
+<p>To be by liveried slaves attended;</p>
+<p>I ask not for estates, nor land,</p>
+<p>Nor host of vassals at command;</p>
+<p>I ask not for a handsome wife&mdash;</p>
+<p>Though I dislike a single life;</p>
+<p>I ask not friends, nor fame, nor power,</p>
+<p>Nor courtly rank, nor leisure's hour;</p>
+<p>I ask not books, nor wine, nor plate.</p>
+<p>Nor yet acquaintance with the great;</p>
+<p>Nor dance, nor sons, nor mirth, nor jest,</p>
+<p>Nor treasures of the East or West;</p>
+<p>I ask not beauty, wit, nor ease,</p>
+<p>Nor qualities more blest than these&mdash;</p>
+<p>Learning nor genius, skill nor art,</p>
+<p>Nor valour for the hero's part;</p>
+<p>These, though I much desire to have,</p>
+<p>I do not, dearest goddess, crave.&mdash;</p>
+<p>I modestly for MONEY call&mdash;</p>
+<p>For <i>money</i> will procure them <i>all</i>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>ANACREONTIC.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Come fill the bowl!&mdash;one summer's day,</p>
+<p>Some hearts, that had been wreck'd and sever'd,</p>
+<p>Again to tempt the liquid way,</p>
+<p>And join their former mates endeavour'd;</p>
+<p>But then arose this serious question.</p>
+<p>Which best to kindred hearts would guide?</p>
+<p>Water, was Prudence' pure suggestion,</p>
+<p>But that they thought too cool a tide!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Peace bade them try the milky way,</p>
+<p>But they were fearful 'twould becalm them;</p>
+<p>Cried Love, on dews of morning stray,&mdash;</p>
+<p>They deem'd 'twould from their purpose charm them.</p>
+<p>Cried Friendship, try the ruby tide,&mdash;</p>
+<p>They did&mdash;each obstacle departs;</p>
+<p>'Tis still with wine 'reft hearts will glide</p>
+<p>Most surely unto kindred hearts.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<h3>THE PILGRIM PRINCE.&mdash;BALLAD.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>At blush of morn, the silver horn</p>
+<p>Was loudly blown at the castle gate;</p>
+<p>And, from the wall, the Seneschal</p>
+<p>Saw there a weary pilgrim wait.</p>
+<p>"What news&mdash;what news, thou stranger bold?</p>
+<p>Thy looks are rough, thy raiment old!</p>
+<p>And little does Lady Isabel care</p>
+<p>To know how want and poverty fare."</p>
+<p>"Ah let me straight that lady see,</p>
+<p>For far I come from the North Country!"</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"And who art thou, bold wight, I trow,</p>
+<p>That would to Lady Isabel speak!"</p>
+<p>"One who, long since shone as a prince,</p>
+<p>And kiss'd her damask cheek:</p>
+<p>But oh, my trusty sword has fail'd,</p>
+<p>The cruel Paynim has prevail'd,</p>
+<p>My lands are lost, my friends are few,</p>
+<p>Trifles all, if my lady's true!"</p>
+<p>"Poor prince! ah when did woman's truth,</p>
+<p>Outlive the loss of lands and youth!"</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK.</h2>
+<h3>THE SPLENDID ANNUAL.</h3>
+<h4><i>By the Author of "Sayings and Doings</i>."</h4>
+<p>Literature, even in this literary age, is not the ordinary
+pursuit of the citizens of London, although every merchant is
+necessarily a man of letters, and underwriters are as common as
+cucumbers. Notwithstanding, however, my being a citizen, I am
+tempted to disclose the miseries and misfortunes of my life in
+these pages, because having heard the "ANNIVERSARY" called a
+splendid annual, I hope for sympathy from its readers, seeing that
+I have been a "<i>splendid annual</i>" myself.</p>
+<p>My name is Scropps&mdash;I <i>am</i> an Alderman&mdash;I
+<i>was</i> Sheriff&mdash;I <i>have been</i> Lord Mayor&mdash;and
+the three great eras of my existence were the year of my
+shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it. Until
+I had passed through this ordeal I had no conception of the
+extremes of happiness and wretchedness to which a human being may
+be carried, nor ever believed that society presented to its members
+an eminence so exalted as that which I once touched, or imagined a
+fall so great as that which I experienced. I came originally from
+that place to which persons of bad character are said to be
+sent&mdash;I mean Coventry, where my <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+"page25" name="page25"></a>[pg 25]</span> father for many years
+contributed his share to the success of parliamentary candidates,
+the happiness of new married couples, and even the gratification of
+ambitious courtiers, by taking part in the manufacture of ribands
+for election cockades, wedding favours, and cordons of chivalry;
+but trade failed, and, like his betters, he became bankrupt, but,
+unlike his betters, without any consequent advantage to himself;
+and I, at the age of fifteen, was thrown upon the world with
+nothing but a strong constitution, a moderate education, and
+fifteen shillings and eleven pence three farthings in my
+pocket.</p>
+<p>With these qualifications I started from my native town on a
+pedestrian excursion to London; and although I fell into none of
+those romantic adventures of which I had read at school, I met with
+more kindness than the world generally gets credit for, and on the
+fourth day after my departure, having slept soundly, if not
+magnificently, every night, and eaten with an appetite which my
+mode of travelling was admirably calculated to stimulate, reached
+the great metropolis, having preserved of my patrimony, no less a
+sum than nine shillings and seven pence.</p>
+<p>The bells of one of the churches in the city were ringing
+merrily as I descended the heights of Islington; and were it not
+that my patronymic Scropps never could, under the most improved
+system of campanology, be jingled into any thing harmonious, I have
+no doubt I, like my great predecessor Whittington, might have heard
+in that peal a prediction of my future exaltation; certain it is I
+did not; and, wearied with my journey, I took up my lodging for the
+night at a very humble house near Smithfield, to which I had been
+kindly recommended by the driver of a return postchaise, of whose
+liberal offer of the moiety of his bar to town I had availed myself
+at Barnet.</p>
+<p>As it is not my intention to deduce a moral from my progress in
+the world at this period of my life, I need not here dilate upon
+the good policy of honesty, or the advantages of temperance and
+perseverance, by which I worked my way upwards, until after
+meriting the confidence of an excellent master, I found myself
+enjoying it fully. To his business I succeeded at his death, having
+several years before, with his sanction, married a young and
+deserving woman, about my own age, of whose prudence and skill in
+household matters I had long had a daily experience.</p>
+<p>To be brief, Providence blessed my efforts and increased my
+means; I became a wholesale dealer in every thing, from barrels of
+gunpowder down to pickled herrings; in the civic acceptation of the
+word I was a merchant, amongst the vulgar I am called a dry-salter.
+I accumulated wealth; with my fortune my family also grew, and one
+male Scropps, and four female ditto, grace my board at least once
+in every week.</p>
+<p>Passing over the minor gradations of my life, the removal from
+one residence to another, the enlargement of this warehouse, the
+rebuilding of that, the anxiety of a canvass for common council
+man, activity in the company of which I am liveryman, inquests, and
+vestries, and ward meetings, and all the other pleasing toils to
+which an active citizen is subject, let us come at once to the
+first marked epoch of my life&mdash;the year of my Shrievalty. The
+announcement of my nomination and election filled Mrs. S. with
+delight; and when I took my children to Great Queen Street,
+Lincoln's Inn Fields, to look at the gay chariot brushing up for
+me, I confess I felt proud and happy to be able to show my progeny
+the arms of London, those of the Spectacle Makers' Company, and
+those of the Scroppses (recently found at a trivial expense) all
+figuring upon the same panels. They looked magnificent upon the
+pea-green ground, and the wheels, "white picked out crimson,"
+looked so chaste, and the hammercloth, and the fringe, and the
+festoons, and the Scropps' crests all looked so rich, and the silk
+linings and white tassels, and the squabs and the yellow cushions
+and the crimson carpet looked so comfortable, that, as I stood
+contemplating the equipage, I said to myself, "What have I done to
+deserve <i>this</i>?&mdash;O that my poor father were alive to see
+his boy Jack going down to Westminster, to chop sticks and count
+hobnails, in a carriage like this!" My children were like mad
+things: and in the afternoon, when I put on my first new brown
+court suit (lined, like my chariot, with white silk) and fitted up
+with cut steel buttons, just to try the effect, it all appeared
+like a dream; the sword, which I tried on every night for half an
+hour after I went up to bed, to practise walking with it, was very
+inconvenient at first; but use is second nature; and so by
+rehearsing and rehearsing, I made myself perfect before that
+auspicious day when Sheriffs flourish and geese
+prevail&mdash;namely, the twenty-ninth of September.</p>
+<p>The twelve months which followed were very delightful; for
+independently <span class="pagenum"><a id="page26" name=
+"page26"></a>[pg 26]</span> of the <i>positive</i> honour and
+<i>&eacute;clat</i> they produced, I had the Mayoralty in
+<i>prospect&ucirc;</i> (having attained my aldermanic gown by an
+immense majority the preceding year), and as I used during the
+sessions to sit in my box at the Old Bailey, with my bag at my back
+and my bouquet on my book, my thoughts were wholly devoted to one
+object of contemplation; culprits stood trembling to hear the
+verdict of a jury, and I regarded them not; convicts knelt to
+receive the fatal fiat of the Recorder, and I heeded not their
+sufferings, as I watched the Lord Mayor seated in the centre of the
+bench, with the sword of justice stuck up in a goblet over his
+head&mdash;there, thought I, if I live two years, shall <i>I</i>
+sit&mdash;however, even as it was, it was very agreeable. When
+executions, the chief drawbacks to my delight, happened, I found,
+after a little seasoning, I took the thing coolly, and enjoyed my
+toast and tea after the patients were turned off, just as if
+nothing had happened; for, in <i>my</i> time, we hanged at eight
+and breakfasted at a quarter after, so that without much hurry we
+were able to finish our muffins just in time for the cutting down
+at nine. I had to go to the House of Commons with a petition, and
+to Court with an address&mdash;trying situations for one of the
+Scroppses&mdash;however, the want of state in parliament, and the
+very little attention paid to us by the members, put me quite at my
+ease at Westminster; while the gracious urbanity of our
+accomplished monarch on his throne made me equally comfortable at
+St. James's. Still I was but a secondary person, or rather only one
+of two secondary persons&mdash;the chief of bailiffs and principal
+Jack Ketch; there <i>was</i> a step to gain&mdash;and, as I often
+mentioned in confidence to Mrs. Scropps, I was sure my heart would
+never be still until I had reached the pinnacle.</p>
+<p>Behold at length the time arrived!&mdash;Guildhall crowded to
+excess&mdash;the hustings thronged&mdash;the aldermen
+retire&mdash;they return&mdash;their choice is announced to the
+people&mdash;it has fallen upon John Ebenezer Scropps, Esq.,
+Alderman and spectacle maker&mdash;a sudden shout is
+heard&mdash;"Scropps for ever!" resounds&mdash;the whole assembly
+seems to vanish from my sight&mdash;I come forward&mdash;am
+invested with the chain&mdash;I bow&mdash;make a
+speech&mdash;tumble over the train of the Recorder, and tread upon
+the tenderest toe of Mr. Deputy Pod&mdash;leave the hall in
+ecstasy, and drive home to Mrs. Scropps in a state of mind
+bordering upon insanity.</p>
+<p>The days wore on, each one seemed as long as a week, until at
+length the eighth of November arrived, and then did it seem certain
+that I should be Lord Mayor&mdash;I was sworn in&mdash;the civic
+insignia were delivered to me&mdash;I returned them to the proper
+officers&mdash;my chaplain was near me&mdash;the esquires of my
+household were behind me&mdash;the thing was done&mdash;never shall
+I forget the tingling sensation I felt in my ear when I was first
+called "My Lord"&mdash;I even doubted if it were addressed to me,
+and hesitated to answer&mdash;but it was so&mdash;the reign of
+splendour had begun, and, after going through the accustomed
+ceremonies, I got home and retired to bed early, in order to be
+fresh for the fatigues of the ensuing day.</p>
+<p>Sleep I did not&mdash;how was it to be expected?&mdash;Some part
+of the night I was in consultation with Mrs. Scropps upon the
+different arrangements; settling about the girls, their places at
+the banquet, and their partners at the ball; the wind down the
+chimney sounded like the shouts of the people; the cocks crowing in
+the mews at the back of the house I took for trumpets sounding my
+approach; and the ordinary incidental noises in the family I
+fancied the pop-guns at Stangate, announcing my disembarkation at
+Westminster&mdash;thus I tossed and tumbled until the long
+wished-for day dawned, and I jumped up anxiously to realize the
+visions of the night. I was not long at my toilet&mdash;I was soon
+shaved and dressed&mdash;but just as I was settling myself
+comfortably into my beautiful brown broadcloth inexpressibles,
+crack went something, and I discovered that a seam had ripped half
+a foot long. Had it been consistent with the dignity of a Lord
+Mayor to swear, I should, I believe, at that moment, have
+anathematized the offending tailor;&mdash;as it was, what was to be
+done?&mdash;I heard trumpets in earnest, carriages drawing up and
+setting down; sheriffs, and chaplains, mace bearers, train bearers,
+sword bearers, water bailiffs, remembrancers, Mr. Common Hunt, the
+town clerk, and the deputy town clerk, all bustling about&mdash;the
+bells ringing&mdash;and <i>I</i> late, with a hole in my
+inexpressibles! There was but one remedy&mdash;my wife's maid,
+kind, intelligent creature, civil and obliging, and ready to turn
+her hand to any thing, came to my aid, and in less than fifteen
+minutes her activity, exerted in the midst of the confusion,
+repaired the injury, and turned me out fit to be seen by the whole
+corporation of London.</p>
+<p>When I was dressed, I tapped at Mrs. Scropps's door, went in,
+and asked her if she thought I should do; the dear <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page27" name="page27"></a>[pg 27]</span> soul,
+after settling my point lace frill (which she had been good enough
+to pick off her own petticoat on purpose) and putting my bag
+straight, gave me the sweetest salute imaginable.</p>
+<p>"I wish your lordship health and happiness," said she.</p>
+<p>"Sally," said I, "your ladyship is an angel;" and so, having
+kissed each of my daughters, who were in progress of dressing, I
+descended the stairs, to begin the auspicious day in which I
+reached the apex of my greatness.&mdash;Never shall I forget the
+bows&mdash;the civilities&mdash;the congratulations&mdash;sheriffs
+bending before me&mdash;the Recorder smiling&mdash;the Common
+Sergeant at my feet&mdash;the pageant was intoxicating; and when,
+after having breakfasted, I stepped into that glazed and gilded
+house upon wheels, called the state coach, and saw my sword bearer
+pop himself into one of the boots, with the sword of state in his
+hand, I was lost in ecstasy, I threw myself back upon the seat of
+the vehicle with all imaginable dignity, but not without damage,
+for in the midst of my ease and elegance I snapped off the cut
+steel hilt of my sword, by accidentally bumping the whole weight of
+my body right, or rather wrong, directly upon the top of it.</p>
+<p>But what was a sword hilt or a bruise to <i>me</i>? I was
+<i>the</i> Lord Mayor&mdash;the greatest man of the greatest city
+of the greatest nation in the world. The people realized my
+anticipations, and "Bravo, Scropps!" and "Scropps for ever!" again
+resounded, as we proceeded slowly and majestically towards the
+river, through a fog, which prevented our being advantageously
+seen, and which got down the throat of the sword bearer, who
+coughed incessantly during our progress, much to my annoyance, not
+to speak of the ungraceful movements which his convulsive barkings
+gave to the red velvet scabbard of the official glave as it stuck
+out of the window of the coach.</p>
+<p>We embarked in <i>my</i> barge; a new scene of splendour awaited
+me, guns, shouts, music, flags, banners, in short, every thing that
+fancy could paint or a water bailiff provide; there, in the gilded
+bark, was prepared a cold collation&mdash;I ate, but tasted
+nothing&mdash;fowls, <i>pat&eacute;s</i>, tongue, game, beef, ham,
+all had the same flavour; champagne, hock, and Madeira were all
+alike to <i>me</i>&mdash;Lord Mayor was all I saw, all I heard, all
+I swallowed; every thing was pervaded by the one captivating word,
+and the repeated appeal to "my lordship" was sweeter than
+nectar.</p>
+<p>At Westminster, having been presented and received, I
+desired&mdash;I&mdash;John Ebenezer Scropps, of Coventry&mdash;I
+desired the Recorder to invite the judges to dine with
+me&mdash;I&mdash;who remember when two of the oldest and most
+innocent of the twelve, came the circuit, trembling at the sight of
+them, and believing them some extraordinary creatures upon whom all
+the hair and fur I saw, grew naturally&mdash;I, not only to ask
+these formidable beings to dine with me, but, as if I thought it
+beneath my dignity to do so in my proper person, deputing a judge
+of my own to do it for me; I never shall forget their bows in
+return&mdash;Chinese mandarins on a chimney-piece are fools to
+them.</p>
+<p>Then came the return&mdash;we landed once more in the scene of
+my dignity&mdash;at the corner of Fleet Street we found the Lady
+Mayoress waiting for the procession&mdash;there she was&mdash;Sally
+Scropps (her maiden name was Snob)&mdash;there was my own Sally,
+with a plume of feathers that half filled the coach, and Jenny and
+Maria and young Sally, all with their backs to <i>my</i> horses,
+which were pawing the mud and snorting and smoking like steam
+engines, with nostrils like safety valves, and four of <i>my</i>
+footmen hanging behind the coach, like bees in a swarm. There had
+not been so much riband in my family since my poor father's failure
+at Coventry&mdash;and yet how often, over and over again, although
+he had been dead more than twenty years, did I, during that
+morning, in the midst of my splendour, think of <i>him</i>, and
+wish that he could see me in my greatness&mdash;yes, even in the
+midst of my triumph I seemed to defer to my good, kind
+parent&mdash;in heaven, as I hope and trust&mdash;as if I were
+anxious for <i>his</i> judgment and <i>his</i> opinion as to how I
+should perform the arduous and manifold duties of the day.</p>
+<p>Up Ludgate Hill we moved&mdash;the fog grew thicker and
+thicker&mdash;but then the beautiful women at the
+windows&mdash;those up high could only see my knees and the paste
+buckles in my shoes; every now and then, I bowed condescendingly to
+people I had never seen before, in order to show my courtesy and my
+chain and collar, which I had discovered during the morning shone
+the better for being shaken.</p>
+<p>At length we reached Guildhall&mdash;as I crossed the beautiful
+building, lighted splendidly, and filled with well dressed company,
+and heard the deafening shouts which rent the fane as I entered it,
+I really was overcome&mdash;I retired to a private
+room&mdash;refreshed my dress, rubbed up my chain, which the damp
+had tarnished, and prepared to receive my <span class=
+"pagenum"><a id="page28" name="page28"></a>[pg 28]</span> guests.
+They came, and&mdash;shall I ever forget it?&mdash;dinner was
+announced; the bands played "O the roast beef of Old England."
+Onwards we went, a Prince of the blood, of the blood royal of my
+country, led out <i>my</i> Sally&mdash;my own Sally&mdash;the Lady
+Mayoress! the Lord High Chancellor handed out young Sally&mdash;I
+saw it done&mdash;I thought I should have choked; the Prime
+Minister took Maria; the Lord Privy Seal gave his arm to Jenny; and
+my wife's mother, Mrs. Snob, was honoured by the protection of the
+Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice of the King's
+Bench.&mdash;Oh, if my poor father could have but seen
+<i>that</i>!</p>
+<p>It would be tiresome to dwell upon the pleasures of the happy
+year, thus auspiciously begun, in detail; each month brought its
+delights, each week its festival; public meetings under the
+sanction of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor; concerts and balls
+under the patronage of the Lady Mayoress; Easter and its dinner,
+Blue-coat boys and buns; processions here, excursions
+there.&mdash;Summer came, and then we had swan-hopping <i>up</i>
+the river, and white-baiting <i>down</i> the river; Yantlet Creek
+below, the navigation barge above; music, flags, streamers, guns,
+and company; turtle every day in the week; peas at a pound a pint,
+and grapes at a guinea a pound; dabbling in rosewater served in
+gold, not to speak of the loving cup, with Mr. Common Hunt, in full
+dress, at my elbow; my dinners were talked of, Ude grew jealous,
+and I was idolized.</p>
+<p>The days, which before seemed like weeks, were now turned to
+minutes: scarcely had I swallowed my breakfast before I was in my
+justice-room; and before I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for
+beggary, I was called away to luncheon; this barely over, in comes
+a deputation or a dispatch, and so on till dinner, which was barely
+ended before supper was announced. We all became enchanted with the
+Mansion House; my girls grew graceful by the confidence their high
+station gave them; Maria refused a good offer because her lover
+chanced to have an ill sounding name; we had all got settled in our
+rooms, the establishment had begun to know and appreciate us; we
+had just become in fact easy in our dignity and happy in our
+position, when lo and behold! the ninth of November came
+again&mdash;the anniversary of my exaltation, the consummation of
+my downfall.</p>
+<p>Again did we go in state to Guildhall, again were we toasted and
+addressed, again were we handed in, and led out, again flirted with
+cabinet ministers and danced with ambassadors, and at two o'clock
+in the morning drove home from the scene of gaiety to our old
+residence in Budge Row.&mdash;Never in this world did pickled
+herrings and turpentine smell so powerfully as on that night when
+we entered the house; and although my wife and the young ones stuck
+to the drinkables at Guildhall, their natural feelings would have
+way, and a sort of shuddering disgust seemed to fill their minds on
+their return home&mdash;the passage looked so narrow&mdash;the
+drawing-rooms looked so small&mdash;the staircase seemed so
+dark&mdash;our apartments appeared so low&mdash;however, being
+tired, we all slept well, at least I did, for I was in no humour to
+talk to Sally, and the only topic I could think upon before I
+dropped into my slumber, was a calculation of the amount of expense
+which I had incurred during the just expired year of my
+greatness.</p>
+<p>In the morning we assembled at breakfast&mdash;a note lay on the
+table, addressed&mdash;"Mrs. Scropps, Budge Row." The girls, one
+after the other, took it up, read the superscription, and laid it
+down again. A visiter was announced&mdash;a neighbour and kind
+friend, a man of wealth and importance&mdash;what were his first
+words?&mdash;they were the first I had heard from a stranger since
+my job,&mdash;"How are you, Scropps, done up, eh?"</p>
+<p>Scropps! no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;&mdash;no
+"my lord, I hope your lordship passed an agreeable night&mdash;and
+how is her ladyship and your lordship's amiable
+daughters?"&mdash;not a bit of it&mdash;"How's Mrs. S. and the
+<i>gals</i>?" This was quite natural, all as it <i>had</i> been,
+all perhaps as it should be&mdash;but how unlike what it
+<i>was</i>, only one day before! The very servants, who, when
+amidst the strapping, stall-fed, gold-laced lacqueys of the Mansion
+House, (transferred with the chairs and tables from one Lord Mayor
+to another) dared not speak nor look, nor say their lives were
+their own, strutted about the house, and banged the doors, and
+talked of their "<i>Missis</i>," as if she had been an apple
+woman.</p>
+<p>So much for domestic miseries;&mdash;I went out&mdash;I was
+shoved about in Cheapside in the most remorseless manner; my right
+eye had a narrow escape of being poked out by the tray of a brawny
+butcher's boy, who, when I civilly remonstrated, turned round, and
+said, "Vy, I say, who are <i>you</i>, I vonder, as is so partiklar
+about your <i>hysight</i>." I felt an involuntary
+shudder&mdash;to-day, thought I, I <i>am</i> John Ebenezer
+Scropps&mdash;two <span class="pagenum"><a id="page29" name=
+"page29"></a>[pg 29]</span> days ago I was Lord Mayor; and so the
+rencontre ended, evidently to the advantage of the bristly brute.
+It was however too much for me&mdash;the effect of contrast was too
+powerful, the change was too sudden&mdash;and I determined to go to
+Brighton for a few weeks to refresh myself, and be weaned from my
+dignity.</p>
+<p>We went&mdash;we drove to the Royal Hotel; in the hall stood one
+of his Majesty's ministers, one of my former guests, speaking to
+his lady and daughter: my girls passed close to him&mdash;he had
+handed one of them to dinner the year before, but he appeared
+entirely to have forgotten her. By and by, when we were going out
+in a fly to take the air, one of the waiters desired the fly man to
+pull off, because Sir Something Somebody's carriage could not come
+up&mdash;it was clear that the name of Scropps had lost its
+influence.</p>
+<p>We secluded ourselves in a private house, where we did nothing
+but sigh and look at the sea. We had been totally spoiled for our
+proper sphere, and could not get into a better; the indifference of
+our inferiors mortified us, and the familiarity of our equals
+disgusted us&mdash;our potentiality was gone, and we were so much
+degraded that a puppy of a fellow had the impertinence to ask Jenny
+if she was going to one of the Old Ship balls. "Of course," said
+the coxcomb, "I don't mean the 'Almacks,' for they are uncommonly
+select."</p>
+<p>In short, do what we would, go where we might, we were outraged
+and annoyed, or at least thought ourselves so; and beyond all
+bitterness was the reflection, that the days of our dignity and
+delight never might return. There were at Brighton no less than
+three men who called me Jack, and <i>that</i>, out of flies or in
+libraries, and one of these, chose occasionally, by way of making
+himself particularly agreeable, to address me by the familiar
+appellation of Jacky. At length, and that only three weeks after my
+fall, an overgrown tallow-chandler met us on the Steyne, and
+stopped our party to observe, "as how he thought he owed me for two
+barrels of coal tar, for doing over his pigsties." This settled
+it&mdash;we departed from Brighton, and made a tour of the coast;
+but we never rallied; and business, which must be minded, drove us
+before Christmas to Budge Row, where we are again settled down.</p>
+<p>Maria has grown thin&mdash;Sarah has turned methodist&mdash;and
+Jenny, who danced with his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador,
+who was called angelic by the Right Honourable the Lord Privy Seal,
+and who moreover refused a man of fortune because he had an ugly
+name, is going to be married to Lieutenant Stodge, on the half pay
+of the Royal Marines&mdash;and what then?&mdash;I am sure if it
+were not for the females of my family I should be perfectly at my
+ease in my proper sphere, out of which the course of our civic
+constitution raised me. It was unpleasant at first:&mdash;but I
+have toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and
+Providence has blessed my works. If we were discomposed at the
+sudden change in our station, I it is who was to blame for having
+aspired to honours which I knew were not to last. However the
+ambition was not dishonourable, nor did I disgrace the station
+while I held it; and when I see, as in the present year,
+<i>that</i> station filled by a man of education and talent, of
+high character and ample fortune, I discover no cause to repent of
+having been one of his predecessors. Indeed I ought to apologize
+for making public the weakness by which we were all affected;
+especially as I have myself already learned to laugh at what we all
+severely felt at first&mdash;the miseries of a SPLENDID
+ANNUAL.&mdash;<i>Sharpe's London Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>A CHAPTER ON HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"Ut sunt divorum, Mars, Bacchus, Apollo."</p>
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>Latin Grammar</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Did you ever look</p>
+<p>In Mr. Tooke,</p>
+<p>For Homer's gods and goddesses?</p>
+<p>The males in the air,</p>
+<p>So big and so bare,</p>
+<p>And the girls without their bodices.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>There was Jupiter Zeus,</p>
+<p>Who play'd the deuce,</p>
+<p>A rampant blade and a tough one;</p>
+<p>But Denis bold,</p>
+<p>Stole his coat of gold,</p>
+<p>And rigg'd him out in a stuff one,</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Juno, when old,</p>
+<p>Was a bit of a scold,</p>
+<p>And rul'd Jove <i>jure divino</i>;</p>
+<p>When he went gallivaunting,</p>
+<p>His steps she kept haunting,<a id="footnotetag4" name=
+"footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a></p>
+<p>And she play'd, too, the devil with Ino.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Minerva bright</p>
+<p>Was a blue-stocking wight,</p>
+<p>Who lodg'd among the Attics;</p>
+<p>And, like Lady V.</p>
+<p>From the men did flee,</p>
+<p>To study the mathematics.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Great Mars, we're told,</p>
+<p>Was a grenadier bold,</p>
+<p>Who Vulcan sorely cuckold;</p>
+<p>When to Rome he went,</p>
+<p>He his children sent</p>
+<p>To a she-wolf to be suckled.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>Midas</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="page30" name=
+"page30"></a>[pg 30]</span>
+<p>Sol, the rat-catcher,<a id="footnotetag5" name=
+"footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a></p>
+<p>Was a great body-snatcher,</p>
+<p>And with his bow and arrows</p>
+<p>He <i>Burked</i>, through the trees,</p>
+<p>Master Niobes,</p>
+<p>As though they had been cock sparrows.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Diana, his sister,</p>
+<p>When nobody kiss'd her,</p>
+<p>Was a saint, (at least a semi one,)</p>
+<p>Yet the vixen Scandal</p>
+<p>Made a terrible handle</p>
+<p>Of her friendship for Eudymion.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Full many a feat</p>
+<p>Did Hercules neat,</p>
+<p>The least our credit draws on;</p>
+<p>Jesting Momus, so sly,</p>
+<p>Said, "'Tis all my eye,"</p>
+<p>And he call'd him Baron Munchausen.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Fair Bacchus's face</p>
+<p>Many signs did grace,</p>
+<p>(They were not painted by Zeuxis:)</p>
+<p>Of his brewing trade</p>
+<p>He a mystery made,<a id="footnotetag6" name=
+"footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p>
+<p>Like our Calverts and our Meuxes.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>There was Mistress Venus,</p>
+<p>(I say it between us,)</p>
+<p>For virtue cared not a farden:</p>
+<p>There never was seen</p>
+<p>Such a drabbish quean</p>
+<p>In the parish of Covent Garden.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Hermes cunning</p>
+<p>Poor Argus funning,</p>
+<p>He made him drink like a buffer;</p>
+<p>To his great surprise</p>
+<p>Sew'd up all his eyes,</p>
+<p>And stole away his heifer.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A bar-maid's place</p>
+<p>Was Hebe's grace,</p>
+<p>Till Jupiter did trick her;</p>
+<p>He turn'd her away,</p>
+<p>And made Ganimede stay</p>
+<p>To pour him out his liquor.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Ceres in life</p>
+<p>Was a farmer's wife,</p>
+<p>But she doubtless kept a jolly house;</p>
+<p>For Rumour speaks,</p>
+<p>She was had by the Beaks</p>
+<p>To swear her son Triptolemus.<a id="footnotetag7" name=
+"footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Miss Proserpine</p>
+<p>She thought herself fine,</p>
+<p>But when all her plans miscarried,</p>
+<p>She the Devil did wed,</p>
+<p>And took him to bed,</p>
+<p>Sooner than not be married.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>But the worst of the gods,</p>
+<p>Beyond all odds,</p>
+<p>It cannot be denied, oh!</p>
+<p>Is that first of matchmakers,</p>
+<p>That prince of housebreakers,</p>
+<p>The urchin, Dan Cupido.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>New Monthly
+Magazine</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>"THE SEASON" IN TOWN.</h3>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;I don't know how you could prevent people
+from living half the year in town.</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;I have no objection to their living half
+the year in town, as you call it, if they can live in such a hell
+upon earth, of dust, noise, and misery. Only think of the Dolphin
+water in the solar microscope!</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;I know nothing of the water of London
+personally.</p>
+<p><i>Odoherty</i>.&mdash;Nor I; but I take it, we both have a
+notion of its brandy and water.</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;'Tis, in fact, their duty to be a good
+deal in London. But I'll tell you what I do object to, and what I
+rather think are evils of modern date, or at any rate, of very
+rapid recent growth. First, I object to their living those months
+of the year in which it is <i>contra bonos mores</i> to be in
+London, not in their paternal mansions, but at those little
+bastardly abortions, which they call watering-places&mdash;their
+Leamingtons, their Cheltenhams, their Brighthelmstones.</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;Brighton, my dear rustic Brighton!</p>
+<p><i>Odoherty</i>.&mdash;Synopic&eacute;.</p>
+<p><i>Shepherd</i>.&mdash;What's your wull, Sir Morgan? It does no
+staun' wi' me.</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;A horrid spot, certainly&mdash;but
+possessing large conveniences, sir, for particular purposes. For
+example, sir, the balcony on the drawing-room floor commonly runs
+on the same level all round the square&mdash;which in the
+Brighthelmstonic dialect, sir, means a three-sided figure. The
+advantage is obvious,</p>
+<p><i>Shepherd</i>.&mdash;Och, sirs! och, sirs! what wull this
+world come to!</p>
+<p><i>Theodore</i>.&mdash;The truth is, sir, that people <i>comme
+il faut</i> cannot well submit to the total change of society and
+manners implied in a removal from Whitehall or Mayfair to some
+absurd old antediluvian chateau, sir, boxed up among beeches and
+rooks. Sir, only think of the small Squires with the red faces,
+sir, and the grand white waistcoats down to their hips&mdash;and
+the dames, sir, with their wigs, and their simpers, and their
+visible pockets&mdash;and the damsels, blushing things in white
+muslin, with sky-blue sashes and ribbons, and mufflers and
+things&mdash;and the sons, sir, the promising young gentlemen,
+sir&mdash;and the doctor, and the lawyer&mdash;and the parson. So
+you disapprove of Brighton, Mr. Tickler?</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;Brighthelmstone, when I knew it, was a
+pleasant fishing village&mdash;what like it is now, I know not; but
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page31" name="page31"></a>[pg
+31]</span> what I detest in the great folks of your time, is, that
+insane selfishness which makes them prefer any place, however
+abominable, where they can herd together in their little exquisite
+coteries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the noblest
+domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less exposed
+to the company of people not exactly belonging to their own
+particular sect. How can society hang together long in a country
+where the Corinthian capital takes so much pains to unrift itself
+from the pillar? Now-a-day, sir, your great lord, commonly
+speaking, spends but a month or six weeks in his ancestral abode;
+and even when he is there, he surrounds himself studiously with a
+cursed town-crew, a pack of St. James's Street fops, and Mayfair
+chatterers and intriguers, who give themselves airs enough to turn
+the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and their womankind, and
+render a visit to the castle a perfect nuisance.</p>
+<p><i>Theodore (aside to Mullion.)</i>&mdash;A prejudiced old
+prig!</p>
+<p><i>Tickler</i>.&mdash;They seem to spare no pains to show that
+they consider the country as valuable merely for rent and
+game&mdash;the duties of the magistracy are a bore&mdash;county
+meetings are a bore&mdash;a farce, I believe, was the
+word&mdash;the assizes are a cursed bore&mdash;fox-hunting itself
+is a bore, unless in Leicestershire, where the noble sportsmen,
+from all the winds of heaven cluster together, and think with
+ineffable contempt of the old-fashioned chase, in which the great
+man mingled with gentle and simple, and all comers&mdash;sporting
+is a bore, unless in a regular <i>battue</i>, when a dozen
+lordlings murder pheasants by the thousand, without hearing the
+cock of one impatrician fowling-piece&mdash;except indeed some
+dandy poet, or philosopher, or punster, has been admitted to make
+sport to the Philistines. In short, every thing is a bore that
+brings the dons into personal collision of any kind with people
+that don't belong to the world.</p>
+<p><i>Odoherty</i>.&mdash;The world is getting pretty distinct from
+the nation, I admit, and I doubt if much love is lost between
+them.&mdash;<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE HOPKINSONIAN JOKE.</h3>
+<p>My friend Hertford, walking one day near his own shop in
+Piccadilly, happened to meet one Mr. Hopkinson, an eminent brewer,
+I believe&mdash;and the conversation naturally enough turned upon
+some late dinner at the Albion, Aldersgate Street&mdash;nobody
+appreciates a real city dinner better than Monsieur le
+Marquess&mdash;and so on, till the old brewer mentioned, <i>par
+hazard</i>, that he had just received a noble specimen of wild pig
+from a friend in Frankfort, adding, that he had a very particular
+party, God knows how many aldermen, to dinner&mdash;half the East
+India direction, I believe&mdash;and that he was something puzzled
+touching the cookery. "Pooh!" says Hertford, "send in your porker
+to my man, and he'll do it for you <i>&agrave; merveille</i>." The
+brewer was a grateful man&mdash;the pork came and went back again.
+Well, a week after my lord met his friend, and, by the way,
+"Hopkinson," says he, "how did the boar concern go off?"&mdash;"O,
+beautifully," says the brewer; "I can never sufficiently thank your
+lordship; nothing could do better. We should never have got on at
+all without your lordship's kind assistance."&mdash;"The thing gave
+satisfaction then, Hopkinson?"&mdash;"O, great satisfaction, my
+lord marquess.&mdash;To be sure we did think it rather queer at
+first&mdash;in fact, not being up to them there things, we
+considered it as deucedly stringy&mdash;to say the truth, we should
+never have thought of eating it cold."&mdash;"Cold!" says Hertford;
+"did you eat the ham cold?"&mdash;"O dear, yes, my lord, to be sure
+we did&mdash;we eat it just as your lordship's gentleman sent
+it."&mdash;"Why, my dear Mr. Alderman," says Hertford, "my cook
+only prepared it for the spit." Well, I shall never forget how the
+poor dear Duke of York laughed!&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p>
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em">SHAKSPEARE.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>SEALING WAX AND WAFERS.</h3>
+<p>Francis Rousseau, a native of Auxerres, who travelled a long
+time in Persia, Pegu, and other parts of the East Indies, and who,
+in 1692, resided at St. Domingo, was the inventer of sealing-wax. A
+lady, of the name of Longueville, made this wax known at court, and
+caused Louis XIII. to use it; after which it was purchased and used
+throughout Paris. By this article Rousseau, before the expiration
+of a year, gained 50,000 livres. The oldest seal with a red wafer
+ever yet found, is on a letter written by Dr. Krapf, at Spires, in
+the year 1624, to the government at Bareuth.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>I was in company some time since with George Colman, "the
+younger," as the old fellow still styles himself. It was
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page32" name="page32"></a>[pg
+32]</span> shortly after the death of Mrs. &mdash;&mdash;, the wife
+of a popular actor, and at that time an unpopular manager. Some one
+at table observed that, "Mr. &mdash;&mdash; had suffered a loss in
+the death of his wife, which he would not soon be able to make
+up."&mdash;"I don't know how that may be," replied George, drily,
+"but to tell you the truth, I don't think he has <i>quarrelled</i>
+with his loss yet."&mdash;<i>Monthly Mag</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>SHERIDAN.</h3>
+<p>Bob Mitchell, one of Sheridan's intimate friends, and once in
+great prosperity, became&mdash;like a great many other people,
+Sheridan's creditor&mdash;in fact Sheridan owed Bob nearly three
+thousand pounds&mdash;this circumstance amongst others contributed
+so very much to reduce Bob's finances, that he was driven to great
+straits, and in the course of his uncomfortable wanderings he
+called upon Sheridan; the conversation turned upon his financial
+difficulties, but not upon the principal cause of them, which was
+Sheridan's debt; but which of course, as an able tactician, he
+contrived to keep out of the discussion; at last, Bob, in a sort of
+agony, exclaimed&mdash;"I have not a guinea left, and by heaven I
+don't know where to get one." Sheridan jumped up, and thrusting a
+piece of gold into his hand, exclaimed with tears in his
+eyes&mdash;"It never shall be said that Bob Mitchell wanted a
+guinea while his friend Sheridan had one to give
+him."&mdash;<i>Sharpe's Magazine</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>LINES</h3>
+<p><i>On the window of Thorny Down Inn, about seven miles from
+Blandford, on the Salisbury road</i>.</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Death, reader, pallid death!! with woe or bliss</p>
+<p>Will shortly be thy lot. Think then, my friend,</p>
+<p>Ere yet it be too late&mdash;what are thy hopes</p>
+<p>And what thy anxious fears&mdash;when the thin veil</p>
+<p>That keeps thy soul from seeing Israel's GOD</p>
+<p>Shall drop. (Signed) [Greek: parepidemos].</p>
+<p><span style="margin-left:3em">RURIS.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring
+bricklayer was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his
+lordship said to him&mdash;</p>
+<p>"Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it
+is your bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your
+appearance."</p>
+<p>"Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to
+that, I'm thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your
+lordship."</p>
+<p>"How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.</p>
+<p>"Why, faith," said the labourer, "<i>you</i> come here in
+<i>your</i> working clothes and <i>I'm</i> come in
+<i>mine</i>."&mdash;<i>Sharpe's Mag</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>FRIENDSHIP.</h3>
+<p>Dr. Johnson most beautifully remarks, that "When a friend is
+carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness,
+and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand
+endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression,
+a thousand favours unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed, and
+wish, vainly wish for his return, not so much that we may receive
+as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which
+before we never understood."</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>HOT TUESDAY.</h3>
+<p>Derham, in his <i>Physico-Theology,</i> says, "July 8th, 1707,
+(called for some time after the <i>hot Tuesday,</i>) was so
+excessively hot and suffocating, by reason there was no wind
+stirring, that divers persons died, or were in great danger of
+death, in their harvest work. Particularly one who had formerly
+been my servant, a healthy, lusty young man, was killed by the
+heat; and several horses on the road dropped down and died the same
+day."</p>
+<p>P.T.W.</p>
+<hr />
+<p><i>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS</i>.</p>
+<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. Price 6s. 6d. boards.</p>
+<p>The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s.</p>
+<p>The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. Canning. &amp;c. Price
+2s.</p>
+<p>PLUTARCH'S LIVES, with Fifty Portraits, 2 vols. price 13s.
+boards.</p>
+<p>COWPER'S POEMS, with 12 Engravings, price 3s. 6d. boards.</p>
+<p>COOK'S VOYAGES, 2 vols. price 8s. boards.</p>
+<p>The CABINET of CURIOSITIES: or, Wonders of the World Displayed.
+Price 5s. boards.</p>
+<p>BEAUTIES of SCOTT. 2 vols. price 7s. boards.</p>
+<p>The ARCANA of SCIENCE for 1828. Price 4s. 6d.</p>
+<p>*** Any of the above Works can be purchased in Parts.</p>
+<p>GOLDSMITH'S ESSAYS. Price 8d. DR. FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS. Price 1s.
+2d. BACON'S ESSAYS Price 8d. SALMAGUNDI. Price 1s. 8d.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name=
+"footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>Tanner.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name=
+"footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p>"There is nothing new under the sun;" Solomon was right. I had
+written these lines from experiencing the truth of them, and really
+imagined I had been the first to express, what so many must have
+felt; but on looking over Rogers's delicious little volume of
+Poems, some time after this was penned, I find he has, with his
+usual felicity, noted the same effect. I give his Text and
+Commentary; they occur in his beautiful poem, "Human Life,"
+speaking of a girl in love, he says:</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"&mdash;soon her looks the rapturous truth avow,</p>
+<p>Lovely before, oh, say how lovely now!"</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>On which he afterwards remarks:</p>
+<p>"Is it not true that the young not only appear to be, but really
+are, most beautiful in the presence of those they love? It calls
+forth all their beauty."</p>
+<p>Such a coincidence might almost induce me to exclaim with the
+plagiarising pedant of antiquity, "<i>Pereant qui ante nos nostra
+dixerunt</i>!"</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name=
+"footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+<p>Lord Albemarle, when advanced in years, was the lover and
+protector of Mademoiselle Gaucher. Her name of infancy, and that by
+which she was more endeared to her admirer, was Lolotte. One
+evening, as they were walking together, perceiving her eyes fixed
+on a star, he said to her, "Do not look at it so earnestly, my
+dear, I cannot give it you!"&mdash;Never, says Marmontel, did love
+express itself more delicately.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name=
+"footnote4"></a> <b>Footnote 4</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>"I'll search out the haunts</p>
+<p>Of your fav'rite gallants,</p>
+<p>And into cows metamorphose 'em."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name=
+"footnote5"></a> <b>Footnote 5</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+<p>Apollo Smintheus. He destroyed a great many rats in Phrygia, and
+was probably the first "rat-catcher to the King."&mdash;<i>Vet.
+Schol</i>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote6" name=
+"footnote6"></a> <b>Footnote 6</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+<p>"Mystica vannus Isacchi." This was either a porter-brewer's
+dray, or more probably the <i>Van</i> of his
+druggist.&mdash;<i>Scriblerus</i>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote7" name=
+"footnote7"></a> <b>Footnote 7</b>:<a href=
+"#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+<p>There is some difference of opinion concerning this fact: the
+lady, like so many others in her interesting situation, passed
+through the adventure under an <i>alias</i>. But that Ceres and
+Terra were the same, no reasonable person will doubt: and there can
+be no <i>serious</i> objection to the little <i>trip</i> being thus
+ascribed to the goddess in question.&mdash;<i>Scriblerus</i>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<hr class="full" />
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 14, Issue 380, July 11, 1829
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 8, 2004 [EBook #11516]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 380 ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lazar Liveanu, David King, and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team
+
+
+
+
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 14, No. 380.]   SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1829.   [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+
+MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE
+
+
+[Illustration: Mercers' Hall, and Cheapside]
+
+The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture of the
+metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its local
+association with names illustrious in historical record.
+
+In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated together in
+some particular street, the mercers principally assembled in West Cheap,
+now called Cheapside, near where the above hall stands, and thence
+called by the name of "the Mercery." In Lydgate's _London Lyckpenny_,
+are the following lines alluding to this custom:
+
+  Then to Chepe I began me drawne,
+  When much people I saw for to stand;
+  One offered me velvet, silk and lawne
+  And another he taketh me by the hand.
+  Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land.
+
+Pennant thus describes the principal historical data of the spot:
+
+"On the north side of Cheapside, (between Ironmonger Lane and Old
+Jewry,) stood the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, founded by Thomas
+Fitz-Theobald de Helles, and his wife Agnes, sister to the turbulent
+Thomas Becket, who was born in the house of his father, Gilbert,
+situated on this spot. The mother of our meek saint was a fair Saracen,
+whom his father had married in the Holy Land. On the site of this house
+rose the hospital, built within twenty years after the murder of Thomas;
+yet such was the repute of his sanctity, that it was dedicated to him,
+in conjunction with the blessed Virgin, without waiting for his
+canonization. The hospital consisted of a master and several brethren,
+professing the rule of St. Austin. The church, cloisters, &c. were
+granted by Henry VIII. to the Mercers' Company, who had the gift of the
+mastership.[1]
+
+    [1] Tanner.
+
+"In the old church were several monuments; among others, one to James
+Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Joan his wife, living in the beginning of
+the reign of Henry VI. The whole pile was destroyed in the great fire,
+but was very handsomely rebuilt by the Mercers' Company, who have their
+Hall here.
+
+"In this chapel the celebrated, but unsteady, archbishop of Spalato,
+preached his first sermon in 1617, in Italian, before the Archbishop of
+Canterbury, and a splendid audience; and continued his discourses in the
+same place several times, after he had embraced our religion; but having
+the folly to return to his ancient faith, and trust himself among his
+old friends at Rome, he was shut up in the Castle of St. Angelo, where
+he died in 1625."
+
+"The Mercers' Company is the first of the twelve. The name by no means
+implied, originally, a dealer in silks: for _mercery_ included all sorts
+of small wares, toys, and haberdashery; but, as several of this opulent
+company were merchants, and imported great quantities of rich silks from
+Italy, the name became applied to the Company, and all dealers in silk.
+Not fewer than sixty-two mayors were of this Company, between the years
+1214 and 1762; among which were Sir John Coventry, Sir Richard
+Whittington, and Sir Richard and Sir John Gresham."
+
+The front in Cheapside, which alone can be seen, is narrow, but floridly
+adorned with carvings and architectural ornaments. The door is enriched
+with the figures of two cupids, mantling the arms, festoons, &c. and
+above the balcony, it is adorned with two pilasters, entablature, and
+pediment of the Ionic order; the intercolumns are the figures of Faith
+and Hope, and that of Charity, in a niche under the cornice of the
+pediment, with other enrichments. The interior is very handsome. The
+hall and great parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic
+pilasters. The ceiling is of fret-work, and the stately piazzas are
+constituted by large columns, and their entablature of the Doric order.
+
+The arms of the Mercers, as they are sculptured over the gateway,
+present for their distinguishing feature a demi-virgin with dishevelled
+hair: it was in allusion to this circumstance, that in the days of
+pageantry, at the election of Lord Mayor, a richly ornamented chariot
+was produced, in which was seated a young and beautiful virgin, most
+sumptuously arrayed, her hair flowing in ringlets over her neck and
+shoulders, and a crown upon her head. When the day's diversions were
+over, she was liberally rewarded and dismissed, claiming as her own the
+rich attire she had worn.
+
+From this place likewise was formerly a solemn procession by the Lord
+Mayor, who, in the afternoon of the day he was sworn at the Exchequer,
+met the Aldermen; whence they repaired together to St. Paul's, and there
+prayed for the soul of their benefactor, William, Bishop of London, in
+the time of William the Conqueror, at his tomb. They then went to the
+churchyard to a place where lay the parents of Thomas a Becket, and
+prayed for all souls departed. They then returned to the chapel, and
+both Mayor and Aldermen offered each a penny.
+
+Attached to the original foundation or hospital was a grammar-school,
+which has been subsequently continued at the expense of the Mercers'
+Company, though not on the same spot. It was for some time kept in the
+Old Jewry, whence it has been removed to College Hill, Upper Thames
+Street. Among the masters may be mentioned William Baxter, nephew to the
+non-conformist, Richard Baxter, and author of two Dictionaries of
+British and Roman Antiquities.
+
+Nearly opposite the entrance to Mercers' Hall, is a handsome
+stone-fronted house, built by Sir Christopher Wren. The houses adjoining
+the Hall were of similar ornamental character; although the unenclosed
+shop-fronts present a strange contrast with some of the improvements and
+superfluities of modern times. The Hall front has lately been renovated,
+and presents a rich display of architectural ornament.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE LONE GRAVES.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  Why should their sleep thus silent be, from streams and flow'rs away,
+  While wanders thro' the sunny air the cuckoo's mellow lay;
+  Those forms, whose eyes reflected heaven in their mild depth of blue,
+  Whose hair was like the wave that shines o'er sands of golden hue?
+
+  Are these the altars of their rest, the pure and sacred shrines;
+  Where Memory, rapt o'er visions fled, her holy spell combines?
+  The sire, the child, oh, waft them back to their delightful dell,
+  When, like a voice from heavenly lands, awakes the curfew bell.
+
+  And have they no remembrance here, the cheeks that softly glow'd,
+  The amber hair, that, on the breeze, in gleaming tresses flow'd,
+  The hymn which hail'd the Sabbath morn,--the fix'd and fervid eye;
+  Must these sweet treasures of the heart in shade and silence lie?
+
+  Oh, no! thou place of sanctities! a ray has from thee gone,
+  Dearer than noontide's gorgeous light, or Sabbath's music tone;
+  A spirit! whose bright ark is far beyond the clouds and waves,
+  Albeit there is a sunless gloom on these, their lonely graves!
+
+  REGINALD AUGUSTINE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BAGLEY WOOD.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Bagley is situated about two miles and a half from Oxford, on the
+Abingdon-road, and affords an agreeable excursion to the Oxonians, who,
+leaving the city of learning, pass over the old bridge, where the
+observatory of the celebrated Friar Bacon was formerly standing. The
+wood is large, extending itself to the summit of a hill, which commands
+a charming panoramic view of Oxford, and of the adjacent country. The
+scene is richly diversified with hill and dale, while the spires,
+turrets, and towers of the university, rise high above the clustering
+trees, filling the beholder with the utmost awe and veneration. During
+the summer, this rustic spot presents many cool retreats, and
+love-embowering shades; and here many an amour is carried on, free from
+suspicion's eye, beneath the wide umbrageous canopy of nature.
+
+Gipsies, or _fortune-tellers_, are constantly to be found in Bagley
+Wood; and many a gay Oxonian may be seen in the company of some
+wandering Egyptian beauty. So partial, indeed, are several of the young
+men of the university to the tawny tribe, that they are frequently
+observed in their _academicals_, lounging round the picturesque tents,
+having _their_ fortunes told; though, it must be remarked, their
+countenances usually evince a waggish incredulity on those occasions,
+and they appear much more amused with the novel scene around them than
+gratified with the favourable predictions of the wily Egyptians.
+
+The merry gipsies of Bagley Wood might well sing with _Herrick_
+
+  "Here we securely live, and eat
+  The cream of meat;
+  And keep eternal fires
+  By which we sit, _and do divine_."
+
+G.W.N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EATING "MUTTON COLD."
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+A correspondent in a late number asks for a solution of the expression,
+"eating mutton cold." If the following one is worth printing, it is much
+at your service and that of the readers of the MIRROR.
+
+I consider then that it has simply the same meaning as that of "coming a
+day after the fair." To come at the end of a feast when the various
+viands (always including mutton as being easy of digestion for dyspeptic
+people) were still warm, though cut pretty near to the bone, would, by
+most persons, particularly aldermanic "bodies," be considered
+sufficiently vexatious; how doubly annoying then must it be to come so
+late as to find the meats more than half cold, and, perhaps, but little
+of them left even in that anti-epicurean state! Whoever has been
+unfortunate enough to miss a fine fat haunch either of venison or
+mutton, which, smoking on the board, even Dr. Kitchiner would have
+pronounced fit for an emperor, cannot but enter deeply and feelingly
+into the disappointment of that guest who, arriving, through some
+misdate of the invitation card, on the day subsequent to the feast,
+finds but, _horribile dictu_, cold lean ham, cold pea-soup, cold
+potatoes, and finally, _cold mutton_. Goldsmith's idea certainly was
+that Burke was never able to say, in the words of the Roman adage, _in
+tempore veni quod rerum omnium est primum_; but rather in plain English,
+"confound my ill luck, I never yet was invited to a feast but I either
+missed it in toto, or came so late as to be obliged to eat my mutton
+cold, a thing, which of all others, I most abhor." HEN. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POOL'S HOLE, DERBYSHIRE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+This cave is said to have taken its title from a notorious robber of
+that name, who being declared an outlaw, found in this hole a refuge
+from justice, where he carried on his nocturnal depredations with
+impunity. Others insist that this dismal hole was the habitation of a
+hermit or anchorite, of the name of Pool. Of the two traditions, I
+prefer the former. It is situated at the bottom of _Coitmos_, a lofty
+mountain near Buxton. The entrance is by a small arch, so low that you
+are forced to creep on hands and knees to gain admission; but it
+gradually opens into a vault above a quarter of a mile in length, and as
+some assert, a quarter of a mile high. It is certainly very lofty, and
+resembles the roof of a Gothic edifice. In a cavern to the right called
+Pool's Chamber, there is a fine echo, and the dashing of a current of
+water, which flows along the middle of the great vault, very much
+heightens the wonder.
+
+On the floor are great ridges of stone--water is perpetually distilling
+from the roof and sides of this vault, and the drops before they fall
+produce a very pleasing effect, by reflecting numberless rays from the
+candles carried by the guides. They also form their quality from
+crystallizations of various flakes like figures of fret work, and in
+some places, having long accumulated upon one another, into large
+masses, bearing a rude resemblance to various animals.
+
+In the same cavity is a column as clear as alabaster, called _Mary Queen
+of Scots'_ column, because it is said she reached so far; beyond which
+is a steep ascent for nearly a quarter of a mile, which terminates in a
+hollow in the roof, called the Needle's-eye, in which, when the guide
+places his candle, it looks like a star in the firmament. You only
+wonder when you get out how you attained such an achievement. W.H.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Happening to look at No. 229, of your valuable Miscellany, in which you
+have given rather a lengthy account of Canterbury Cathedral, I was
+surprised to find no notice taken of the beautiful STONE SCREEN in the
+interior of the cathedral, which is considered by many, one of the
+finest specimens of florid Gothic in the kingdom. The following is a
+brief description of this ancient specimen of architecture:
+
+This fine piece of Gothic carved work was built by Prior Hen. de Estria,
+in 1304. It is rich in flutings, pyramids, and canopied niches, in which
+stand six statues crowned, five of which hold globes in their hands, and
+the sixth a church. Various have been the conjectures as to the
+individuals intended by these statues. That holding the church is
+supposed to represent King Ethelbert, being a very ancient man with a
+long beard. The next figure appears more feminine, and may probably
+intend his queen, Bertha.
+
+Before the havoc made in Charles's reign, there were thirteen figures
+representing Christ and his Apostles in the niches which are round the
+arch-doorway, and also twelve mitred Saints aloft along the stone work,
+where is now placed an organ.
+
+At the National Repository, Charing Cross, there is exhibited a very
+correct model of this screen, in which the likenesses of the ancient
+kings are admirably imitated. P.T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANCIENT STONE.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+There formerly stood about three miles from Carmarthen, at a place
+called New Church, a stone about eight feet long and two broad. The only
+distinguishable words upon it were "_Severus filius Severi_." The
+remainder of the inscription, by dilapidation and time, was defaced. It
+is supposed that there had been a battle fought here, and that Severus
+fell. About a quarter of a mile from this was another with the name of
+some other individual. The above stone was removed by the owner of the
+land on which it stood, and is now used instead of a gate-post by him. I
+should imagine it was the son of Severus the Roman, who founded the
+great wall and ditch called after him, Severus' Wall and Ditch, and as
+there was a Roman road from St. David's, in Wales, to Southampton, it is
+not improbable that the Romans should come from thence to Carmarthen.
+W.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE COSMOPOLITE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DIET OF VARIOUS NATIONS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+To the artist, the amateur, the traveller, and man of taste in general,
+the following gleanings respecting the diet of various nations, are, in
+the spirit of English hospitality, cordially inscribed. The breakfast of
+the _Icelanders_ consists of _skyr_, a kind of sour, coagulated milk,
+sometimes mixed with fresh milk or cream, and flavoured with the juice
+of certain berries; their usual dinner is dried fish, skyr, and rancid
+butter; and skyr, cheese, or porridge, made of Iceland moss, forms their
+supper; bread is rarely tasted by many of the Icelanders, but appears as
+a dainty at their rural feasts with mutton, and milk-porridge. They
+commonly drink a kind of whey mixed with water. As the cattle of this
+people are frequently, during winter, reduced to the miserable necessity
+of subsisting on dried fish, we can scarcely conceive their fresh meat
+to be so great a luxury as it is there esteemed. The poor of _Sweden_
+live on hard bread, salted or dried fish, water-gruel, and beer. The
+_Norwegian_ nobility and merchants fare sumptuously, but the lower
+classes chiefly subsist on the following articles:--oatmeal-bread, made
+in thin cakes (strongly resembling the havver-bread of Scotland) and
+baked only twice a-year. The oatmeal for this bread is, in times of
+scarcity, which in Norway frequently occur, mixed with the bark of elm
+or fir tree, ground, after boiling and drying, into a sort of flour;
+sometimes in the vicinity of fisheries, the roes of cod kneaded with the
+meal of oats or barley, are made into a kind of hasty-pudding, and soup,
+which is enriched with a pickled herring or mackerel. The flesh of the
+shark, and thin slices of meat salted and dried in the wind, are much
+esteemed. Fresh fish are plentiful on the coasts, but for lack of
+conveyances, unknown in the interior; the deficiency however, is there
+amply supplied by an abundance of game. The flesh of cattle pickled,
+smoked, or dry-salted, is laid by for winter store; and after making
+cheese, the sour whey is converted into a liquor called _syre_, which,
+mixed with water, constitutes the ordinary beverage of the Norwegians;
+but for festive occasions they brew strong beer, and with it intoxicate
+themselves, as also with brandy, when procurable. The maritime
+_Laplanders_ feed on fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog,
+fish-livers, and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty
+provision; they are even aspiring to the rank of the interior
+inhabitants, whose nutriment is of a more delicate description, being
+the flesh of all kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and
+birds of prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty. Rein-deer
+flesh is commonly boiled in a large iron kettle, and when done, torn to
+pieces by the fingers of the _major domo_, and by him portioned out to
+his family and friends; the broth remaining in the kettle is boiled into
+soup with rye or oat-meal, and sometimes seasoned with salt. Rein-deer
+blood is also a viand with these people, and being boiled, either by
+itself or mixed with wild berries, in the stomach of the animal from
+whence it was taken, forms a kind of black-pudding. The beverage of the
+Laplanders is milk and water, broths, and fish-soups; brandy, of which
+they are extremely fond, is a great rarity, and a glass of it will warm
+their hearts towards the weary sojourner, who, but for the precious
+gift, might ask hospitality at their huts in vain. The diet of the
+_Samoides_, resembles that of the Laplanders, save that they devour raw
+the flesh of fish and reindeer. For this people, all animals taken in
+the chase, and even those found dead, afford food, with the exception of
+dogs, cats, ermines, and squirrels. They have no regular time for meals,
+but the members of a family help themselves when they please from the
+boiler which always hangs over the fire. It is scarcely possible to name
+the variety of diet to be found among the Russian tribes; but even in
+cities, and at the tables of the opulent and civilized, late accounts
+mention the appearance of several strange and disgusting dishes,
+compounded of pastry, grain, pulse, vinegar, honey, fish, flesh, fruits,
+&c., not at all creditable to Russian gastronomic science. The diet of
+the _Polish_ peasantry is meagre in the extreme; they seldom taste
+animal food, and both sexes swallow a prodigious quantity of _schnaps_,
+an ardent spirit resembling whiskey. The _Dutch_ of all ranks are fond
+of butter, and seldom is a journey taken without a butter-box in the
+pocket. The boors feed on roots, pulse, herbs, sour milk, and
+water-souchie, a kind of fish-broth. In _England_, the edible produce of
+the world appears at the tables of the nobility, gentry, and opulent
+commercial classes; and upon comparison with that of other nations, it
+will be seen that the diet of English artisans, peasantry, and even
+paupers, is far superior in variety and nourishment; bread, (white and
+brown) vegetables, meat, broth, soup, fish, fruit, roots, herbs, cheese,
+milk, butter, and, not rarely, sugar and tea, with fermented liquors and
+ardent spirits, are all, or most of them, procured as articles of daily
+subsistence by the English inferior classes. In Scotland, the higher
+ranks live abstemiously, save on festive occasions; but animal food and
+wheaten bread is seldom tasted by the lower orders, who chiefly subsist
+on rye, barley, and oatmeal, prepared in bread, thin cakes, and
+porridge; this last termed _stirabout_, is simply oatmeal mixed with
+water and boiled (being stirred about with a wooden skether or spoon
+when on the fire) to the consistency of flour-paste, not very stiff;
+this, eaten with milk, forms the chief diet of the Scottish artisans and
+peasantry, and, indeed, many of superior stations prefer it for
+breakfast to bread of the finest flour which can be procured. Both high
+and low are partial to the following national dishes. The _haggis_, a
+kind of pudding, made of the offals or interior of a sheep, and boiled
+in the integument of its stomach; this dish, both in odour and flavour,
+is usually excessively offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's
+head, water-souchie, Scotch soup, (an _olla podrida_ of meats and
+vegetables,) chicken-broth and sowens. _Laver_, a sauce made from a
+peculiar kind of sea-weed, and _caviar_, introduced from Russia, appear
+at the tables of the opulent, and by many are much esteemed. The diet of
+the higher ranks of _Irish_ varies but little from that of the same
+classes in England and Scotland. Amongst national dishes appear the
+_staggering bob_, a calf only two days old, delicately dressed;
+hodge-podge, a soup answering to that of Scotland; colcannon, a mixture
+of potatoes and greens, seasoned with onions, salt, and pepper, finely
+braided together after boiling; and a sea-weed sauce, either laver or
+some other, the name of which we do not happen to remember. Potatoes,
+fish, (fresh and salted) eggs, milk, and butter-milk, form the principal
+support of the inferior class, of Irish; and whiskey the national ardent
+spirit of Ireland and Scotland, is but too often, as is gin in England,
+the sole support of a host of besotted beings, who drop into untimely
+graves, from the _habit of intoxication_.
+
+(_To be continued_.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
+
+
+At Susa, Alexander collected all the nobles of the empire, and
+celebrated the most magnificent nuptials recorded in history. He married
+Barcine, or Stateira, the daughter of the late king, and thus, in the
+eyes of his Persian subjects, confirmed his title to the throne. His
+father, Philip, was a polygamist in practice, although it would be very
+difficult to prove that the Macedonians in general were allowed a
+plurality of wives; but Alexander was now the King of Kings, and is more
+likely to have been guided by Persian than Greek opinions upon the
+subject. Eighty of his principal officers followed his example, and were
+united to the daughters of the chief nobility of Persia.
+
+The marriages, in compliment to the brides, were celebrated after the
+Persian fashion, and during the vernal equinox. For at no other period,
+by the ancient laws of Persia, could nuptials be legally celebrated.
+Such an institution is redolent of the poetry and freshness of the new
+world, and of an attention to the voice of nature, and the analogies of
+physical life. The young couple would marry in time to sow their field,
+to reap the harvest, and gather their stores, before the season of cold
+and scarcity overtook them. It is difficult to say how far this custom
+prevailed among primitive nations, but it can scarcely be doubted that
+we still retain lingering traces of it in the harmless amusements of St.
+Valentine's day.
+
+On the wedding-day Alexander feasted the eighty bridegrooms in a
+magnificent hall prepared for the purpose. Eighty separate couches were
+placed for the guests, and on each a magnificent wedding-robe for every
+individual. At the conclusion of the banquet, and while the wine and the
+dessert were on the table, the eighty brides were introduced; Alexander
+first rose, received the princess, took her by the hand, kissed her, and
+placed her on the couch close to himself. This example was followed by
+all, till every lady was seated by her betrothed. This formed the whole
+of the Persian ceremony--the salute being regarded as the seal of
+appropriation. The Macedonian form was still more simple and symbolical.
+The bridegroom, dividing a small loaf with his sword, presented one-half
+to the bride; wine was then poured as a libation on both portions, and
+the contracting parties tasted of the bread. Cake and wine, as nuptial
+refreshments, may thus claim a venerable antiquity. In due time the
+bridegrooms conducted their respective brides to chambers prepared for
+them within the precincts of the royal palace.
+
+The festivities continued for five days, and all the amusements of the
+age were put into requisition for the entertainment of the company.
+Athenaeus has quoted from Charas, a list of the chief performers, which
+I transcribe more for the sake of the performances and of the states
+where these lighter arts were brought to the greatest perfection, than
+of the names, which are now unmeaning sounds. Scymnus from Tarentum,
+Philistides from Syracuse, and Heracleitus from Mytylene, were the great
+jugglers, or as the Greek word intimates, the wonder-workers of the day.
+After them, Alexis, the Tarentine, displayed his excellence as a
+rhapsodist, or repeater, to appropriate music, of the soul-stirring
+poetry of Homer. Cratinus the Methymnoean, Aristonymus the Athenian,
+Athenodorus the Teian, played on the harp--without being accompanied by
+the voice. On the contrary, Heracleitus the Tarentine, and Aristocrates
+the Theban, accompanied their harps with lyric songs. The performers on
+wind instruments were divided on a similar, although it could not be on
+the same principle. Dionysius from Heracleia, and Hyperbolus from
+Cyzicum, sang to the flute, or some such instrument; while Timotheus,
+Phrynichus, Scaphisius, Diophantus, and Evius, the Chalcidian, first
+performed the Pythian overture, and then, accompanied by chorusses,
+displayed the full power of wind instruments in masterly hands. There
+was also a peculiar class called eulogists of Bacchus; these acquitted
+themselves so well on this occasion, applying to Alexander those praises
+which in their extemporaneous effusions had hitherto been confined to
+the god, that they acquired the name of Eulogists of Alexander. Nor did
+their reward fail them. The stage, of course, was not without its
+representatives:--Thessalus, Athenodorus, Aristocritus, in
+tragedy--Lycon, Phormion, and Ariston, in comedy--exerted their utmost
+skill, and contended for the prize of superior excellence. Phasimelus,
+the dancer was also present.
+
+It is yet undecided whether the Persians admitted their matrons to their
+public banquets and private parties;--but if we can believe the positive
+testimony of Herodotus, such was the case: and the summons of Vashti to
+the annual festival, and the admission of Haman to the queen's table,
+are facts which support the affirmation of that historian. The doubts
+upon the subject appear to have arisen from confounding the manners of
+Assyrians, Medes, and Parthians, with those of the more Scythian tribes
+of Persis. We read in Xenophon that the Persian women were so well made
+and beautiful, that their attractions might easily have seduced the
+affections of the Ten Thousand, and have caused them, like the
+lotus-eating companions of Ulysses, to forget their native land. Some
+little hints as to the mode in which their beauty was enhanced and their
+persons decorated, may be expected in the Life of Alexander, who,
+victorious over their fathers and brothers, yet submitted to their
+charms.
+
+The Persian ladies wore the tiara or turban richly adorned with jewels.
+They wore their hair long, and both plaited and curled it; nor, if the
+natural failed, did they scruple to use false locks. They pencilled the
+eyebrows, and tinged the eyelid, with a dye that was supposed to add a
+peculiar brilliancy to the eyes. They were fond of perfumes, and their
+delightful ottar was the principal favourite. Their tunic and drawers
+were of fine linen, the robe or gown of silk--the train of this was
+long, and on state occasions required a supporter. Round the waist they
+wore a broad zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered
+and jewelled in the centre. They also wore stockings and gloves, but
+history has not recorded their materials. They used no sandals; a light
+and ornamented shoe was worn in the house; and for walking they had a
+kind of coarse half boot. They used shawls and wrappers for the person,
+and veils for the head; the veil was large and square, and when thrown
+over the head descended low on all sides. They were fond of glowing
+colours, especially of purple, scarlet, and light-blue dresses. Their
+favourite ornaments were pearls; they wreathed these in their hair, wore
+them as necklaces, ear-drops, armlets, bracelets, anklets, and worked
+them into conspicuous parts of their dresses. Of the precious stones
+they preferred emeralds, rubies, and turquoises, which were set in gold
+and worn like the pearls.
+
+Alexander did not limit his liberality to the wedding festivities, but
+presented every bride with a handsome marriage portion. He also ordered
+the names of all the soldiers who had married Asiatic wives to be
+registered; their number exceeded 10,000; and each received a handsome
+present, under the name of marriage gift.--_Williams's Life of
+Alexander, Family Library, No. 3_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POEMS, BY W.T. MONCRIEFF.
+
+
+This is a pretty little volume of graceful poems, printed "at the
+author's private press, for private distribution only." They are,
+however, entitled by their merits, to more extensive, or public
+circulation; for many of them evince the good taste and pure feelings of
+the writer. Some of the pieces relate to domestic circumstances, others
+are calculated to cheat "sorrow of a smile," whilst all are, to use a
+set phrase, highly honourable to the head and heart of the author. In
+proof of this, we could detach several pages; but we have only space for
+a few:
+
+
+SONG.
+
+  As flowers, that seem the light to shun
+  At evening's dusk and morning's haze,
+  Expand beneath the noon-tide sun,
+  And bloom to beauty in his rays,
+  So maidens, in a lover's eyes,
+  A thousand times more lovely grow,
+  Yield added sweetness to his sighs,
+  And with unwonted graces glow.
+
+  As gems from light their brilliance gain,
+  And brightest shine when shone upon,
+  Nor half their orient rays retain,
+  When light wanes dim and day is gone:
+  So Beauty beams, for one dear one!
+  Acquires fresh splendour in his sight,
+  Her life--her light--her day--her sun--
+  Her harbinger of all that's bright![2]
+
+    [2] "There is nothing new under the sun;" Solomon was right. I
+    had written these lines from experiencing the truth of them, and
+    really imagined I had been the first to express, what so many
+    must have felt; but on looking over Rogers's delicious little
+    volume of Poems, some time after this was penned, I find he has,
+    with his usual felicity, noted the same effect. I give his Text
+    and Commentary; they occur in his beautiful poem, "Human Life,"
+    speaking of a girl in love, he says:
+
+      "--soon her looks the rapturous truth avow,
+      Lovely before, oh, say how lovely now!"
+
+    On which he afterwards remarks:
+
+    "Is it not true that the young not only appear to be, but really
+    are, most beautiful in the presence of those they love? It calls
+    forth all their beauty."
+
+    Such a coincidence might almost induce me to exclaim with the
+    plagiarising pedant of antiquity, "_Pereant qui ante nos nostra
+    dixerunt_!"
+
+
+ANECDOTE VERSIFIED.
+
+_Lord Albemarle to Mademoiselle Gaucher, on seeing her look very
+earnestly at the Evening Star_.
+
+  Oh! do not gaze upon that star,
+  That distant star, so earnestly,
+  If thou would'st not my pleasure mar--
+  For ah! I cannot give it thee.[3]
+
+  And, such is my unbounded love,
+  Thou should'st not gaze upon a thing
+  I would not make thee mistress of,
+  And prove in love, at least, a _King_!
+
+    [3] Lord Albemarle, when advanced in years, was the lover and
+    protector of Mademoiselle Gaucher. Her name of infancy, and that
+    by which she was more endeared to her admirer, was Lolotte. One
+    evening, as they were walking together, perceiving her eyes
+    fixed on a star, he said to her, "Do not look at it so
+    earnestly, my dear, I cannot give it you!"--Never, says
+    Marmontel, did love express itself more delicately.
+
+
+STANZAS TO THE SHADE OF ----
+
+_In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on
+men,--an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a
+voice_. JOB iv. 13.
+
+  Reproach me not, beloved shade!
+  Nor think thy memory less I prize;
+  The smiles that o'er my features play'd,
+  But hid my pangs from vulgar eyes.
+  I acted like the worldling boy,
+  With heart to every feeling vain:
+  I smil'd with all, yet felt no joy;
+  I wept with all, yet felt no pain,
+
+  No--though, to veil thoughts of gloom,
+  I seem'd to twine Joy's rosy wreath,
+  'Twas but as flowerets o'er a tomb.
+  Which only hide the woe beneath.
+  I lose no portion of my woes,
+  Although my tears in secret flow;
+  More green and fresh the verdure grows,
+  Where the cold streams run hid below.
+
+
+A MODEST ODE TO FORTUNE.
+
+"_Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat_." HOR.
+
+  O Goddess Fortune, hear my prayer,
+  And make a bard for once thy care!
+  I do not ask, in houses splendid,
+  To be by liveried slaves attended;
+  I ask not for estates, nor land,
+  Nor host of vassals at command;
+  I ask not for a handsome wife--
+  Though I dislike a single life;
+  I ask not friends, nor fame, nor power,
+  Nor courtly rank, nor leisure's hour;
+  I ask not books, nor wine, nor plate.
+  Nor yet acquaintance with the great;
+  Nor dance, nor sons, nor mirth, nor jest,
+  Nor treasures of the East or West;
+  I ask not beauty, wit, nor ease,
+  Nor qualities more blest than these--
+  Learning nor genius, skill nor art,
+  Nor valour for the hero's part;
+  These, though I much desire to have,
+  I do not, dearest goddess, crave.--
+  I modestly for MONEY call--
+  For _money_ will procure them _all_!
+
+
+ANACREONTIC.
+
+  Come fill the bowl!--one summer's day,
+  Some hearts, that had been wreck'd and sever'd,
+  Again to tempt the liquid way,
+  And join their former mates endeavour'd;
+  But then arose this serious question.
+  Which best to kindred hearts would guide?
+  Water, was Prudence' pure suggestion,
+  But that they thought too cool a tide!
+
+  Peace bade them try the milky way,
+  But they were fearful 'twould becalm them;
+  Cried Love, on dews of morning stray,--
+  They deem'd 'twould from their purpose charm them.
+  Cried Friendship, try the ruby tide,--
+  They did--each obstacle departs;
+  'Tis still with wine 'reft hearts will glide
+  Most surely unto kindred hearts.
+
+
+THE PILGRIM PRINCE.--BALLAD.
+
+  At blush of morn, the silver horn
+  Was loudly blown at the castle gate;
+  And, from the wall, the Seneschal
+  Saw there a weary pilgrim wait.
+  "What news--what news, thou stranger bold?
+  Thy looks are rough, thy raiment old!
+  And little does Lady Isabel care
+  To know how want and poverty fare."
+  "Ah let me straight that lady see,
+  For far I come from the North Country!"
+
+  "And who art thou, bold wight, I trow,
+  That would to Lady Isabel speak!"
+  "One who, long since shone as a prince,
+  And kiss'd her damask cheek:
+  But oh, my trusty sword has fail'd,
+  The cruel Paynim has prevail'd,
+  My lands are lost, my friends are few,
+  Trifles all, if my lady's true!"
+  "Poor prince! ah when did woman's truth,
+  Outlive the loss of lands and youth!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+THE SPLENDID ANNUAL.
+
+_By the Author of "Sayings and Doings_."
+
+
+Literature, even in this literary age, is not the ordinary pursuit of
+the citizens of London, although every merchant is necessarily a man of
+letters, and underwriters are as common as cucumbers. Notwithstanding,
+however, my being a citizen, I am tempted to disclose the miseries and
+misfortunes of my life in these pages, because having heard the
+"ANNIVERSARY" called a splendid annual, I hope for sympathy from its
+readers, seeing that I have been a "_splendid annual_" myself.
+
+My name is Scropps--I _am_ an Alderman--I _was_ Sheriff--I _have been_
+Lord Mayor--and the three great eras of my existence were the year of my
+shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it. Until I had
+passed through this ordeal I had no conception of the extremes of
+happiness and wretchedness to which a human being may be carried, nor
+ever believed that society presented to its members an eminence so
+exalted as that which I once touched, or imagined a fall so great as
+that which I experienced. I came originally from that place to which
+persons of bad character are said to be sent--I mean Coventry, where my
+father for many years contributed his share to the success of
+parliamentary candidates, the happiness of new married couples, and even
+the gratification of ambitious courtiers, by taking part in the
+manufacture of ribands for election cockades, wedding favours, and
+cordons of chivalry; but trade failed, and, like his betters, he became
+bankrupt, but, unlike his betters, without any consequent advantage to
+himself; and I, at the age of fifteen, was thrown upon the world with
+nothing but a strong constitution, a moderate education, and fifteen
+shillings and eleven pence three farthings in my pocket.
+
+With these qualifications I started from my native town on a pedestrian
+excursion to London; and although I fell into none of those romantic
+adventures of which I had read at school, I met with more kindness than
+the world generally gets credit for, and on the fourth day after my
+departure, having slept soundly, if not magnificently, every night, and
+eaten with an appetite which my mode of travelling was admirably
+calculated to stimulate, reached the great metropolis, having preserved
+of my patrimony, no less a sum than nine shillings and seven pence.
+
+The bells of one of the churches in the city were ringing merrily as I
+descended the heights of Islington; and were it not that my patronymic
+Scropps never could, under the most improved system of campanology, be
+jingled into any thing harmonious, I have no doubt I, like my great
+predecessor Whittington, might have heard in that peal a prediction of
+my future exaltation; certain it is I did not; and, wearied with my
+journey, I took up my lodging for the night at a very humble house near
+Smithfield, to which I had been kindly recommended by the driver of a
+return postchaise, of whose liberal offer of the moiety of his bar to
+town I had availed myself at Barnet.
+
+As it is not my intention to deduce a moral from my progress in the
+world at this period of my life, I need not here dilate upon the good
+policy of honesty, or the advantages of temperance and perseverance, by
+which I worked my way upwards, until after meriting the confidence of an
+excellent master, I found myself enjoying it fully. To his business I
+succeeded at his death, having several years before, with his sanction,
+married a young and deserving woman, about my own age, of whose prudence
+and skill in household matters I had long had a daily experience.
+
+To be brief, Providence blessed my efforts and increased my means; I
+became a wholesale dealer in every thing, from barrels of gunpowder down
+to pickled herrings; in the civic acceptation of the word I was a
+merchant, amongst the vulgar I am called a dry-salter. I accumulated
+wealth; with my fortune my family also grew, and one male Scropps, and
+four female ditto, grace my board at least once in every week.
+
+Passing over the minor gradations of my life, the removal from one
+residence to another, the enlargement of this warehouse, the rebuilding
+of that, the anxiety of a canvass for common council man, activity in
+the company of which I am liveryman, inquests, and vestries, and ward
+meetings, and all the other pleasing toils to which an active citizen is
+subject, let us come at once to the first marked epoch of my life--the
+year of my Shrievalty. The announcement of my nomination and election
+filled Mrs. S. with delight; and when I took my children to Great Queen
+Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to look at the gay chariot brushing up for
+me, I confess I felt proud and happy to be able to show my progeny the
+arms of London, those of the Spectacle Makers' Company, and those of the
+Scroppses (recently found at a trivial expense) all figuring upon the
+same panels. They looked magnificent upon the pea-green ground, and the
+wheels, "white picked out crimson," looked so chaste, and the
+hammercloth, and the fringe, and the festoons, and the Scropps' crests
+all looked so rich, and the silk linings and white tassels, and the
+squabs and the yellow cushions and the crimson carpet looked so
+comfortable, that, as I stood contemplating the equipage, I said to
+myself, "What have I done to deserve _this_?--O that my poor father were
+alive to see his boy Jack going down to Westminster, to chop sticks and
+count hobnails, in a carriage like this!" My children were like mad
+things: and in the afternoon, when I put on my first new brown court
+suit (lined, like my chariot, with white silk) and fitted up with cut
+steel buttons, just to try the effect, it all appeared like a dream; the
+sword, which I tried on every night for half an hour after I went up to
+bed, to practise walking with it, was very inconvenient at first; but
+use is second nature; and so by rehearsing and rehearsing, I made myself
+perfect before that auspicious day when Sheriffs flourish and geese
+prevail--namely, the twenty-ninth of September.
+
+The twelve months which followed were very delightful; for independently
+of the _positive_ honour and _eclat_ they produced, I had the Mayoralty
+in _prospectu_ (having attained my aldermanic gown by an immense
+majority the preceding year), and as I used during the sessions to sit
+in my box at the Old Bailey, with my bag at my back and my bouquet on my
+book, my thoughts were wholly devoted to one object of contemplation;
+culprits stood trembling to hear the verdict of a jury, and I regarded
+them not; convicts knelt to receive the fatal fiat of the Recorder, and
+I heeded not their sufferings, as I watched the Lord Mayor seated in the
+centre of the bench, with the sword of justice stuck up in a goblet over
+his head--there, thought I, if I live two years, shall _I_ sit--however,
+even as it was, it was very agreeable. When executions, the chief
+drawbacks to my delight, happened, I found, after a little seasoning, I
+took the thing coolly, and enjoyed my toast and tea after the patients
+were turned off, just as if nothing had happened; for, in _my_ time, we
+hanged at eight and breakfasted at a quarter after, so that without much
+hurry we were able to finish our muffins just in time for the cutting
+down at nine. I had to go to the House of Commons with a petition, and
+to Court with an address--trying situations for one of the
+Scroppses--however, the want of state in parliament, and the very little
+attention paid to us by the members, put me quite at my ease at
+Westminster; while the gracious urbanity of our accomplished monarch on
+his throne made me equally comfortable at St. James's. Still I was but a
+secondary person, or rather only one of two secondary persons--the chief
+of bailiffs and principal Jack Ketch; there _was_ a step to gain--and,
+as I often mentioned in confidence to Mrs. Scropps, I was sure my heart
+would never be still until I had reached the pinnacle.
+
+Behold at length the time arrived!--Guildhall crowded to excess--the
+hustings thronged--the aldermen retire--they return--their choice is
+announced to the people--it has fallen upon John Ebenezer Scropps, Esq.,
+Alderman and spectacle maker--a sudden shout is heard--"Scropps for
+ever!" resounds--the whole assembly seems to vanish from my sight--I
+come forward--am invested with the chain--I bow--make a speech--tumble
+over the train of the Recorder, and tread upon the tenderest toe of Mr.
+Deputy Pod--leave the hall in ecstasy, and drive home to Mrs. Scropps in
+a state of mind bordering upon insanity.
+
+The days wore on, each one seemed as long as a week, until at length the
+eighth of November arrived, and then did it seem certain that I should
+be Lord Mayor--I was sworn in--the civic insignia were delivered to
+me--I returned them to the proper officers--my chaplain was near me--the
+esquires of my household were behind me--the thing was done--never shall
+I forget the tingling sensation I felt in my ear when I was first called
+"My Lord"--I even doubted if it were addressed to me, and hesitated to
+answer--but it was so--the reign of splendour had begun, and, after
+going through the accustomed ceremonies, I got home and retired to bed
+early, in order to be fresh for the fatigues of the ensuing day.
+
+Sleep I did not--how was it to be expected?--Some part of the night I
+was in consultation with Mrs. Scropps upon the different arrangements;
+settling about the girls, their places at the banquet, and their
+partners at the ball; the wind down the chimney sounded like the shouts
+of the people; the cocks crowing in the mews at the back of the house I
+took for trumpets sounding my approach; and the ordinary incidental
+noises in the family I fancied the pop-guns at Stangate, announcing my
+disembarkation at Westminster--thus I tossed and tumbled until the long
+wished-for day dawned, and I jumped up anxiously to realize the visions
+of the night. I was not long at my toilet--I was soon shaved and
+dressed--but just as I was settling myself comfortably into my beautiful
+brown broadcloth inexpressibles, crack went something, and I discovered
+that a seam had ripped half a foot long. Had it been consistent with the
+dignity of a Lord Mayor to swear, I should, I believe, at that moment,
+have anathematized the offending tailor;--as it was, what was to be
+done?--I heard trumpets in earnest, carriages drawing up and setting
+down; sheriffs, and chaplains, mace bearers, train bearers, sword
+bearers, water bailiffs, remembrancers, Mr. Common Hunt, the town clerk,
+and the deputy town clerk, all bustling about--the bells ringing--and
+_I_ late, with a hole in my inexpressibles! There was but one remedy--my
+wife's maid, kind, intelligent creature, civil and obliging, and ready
+to turn her hand to any thing, came to my aid, and in less than fifteen
+minutes her activity, exerted in the midst of the confusion, repaired
+the injury, and turned me out fit to be seen by the whole corporation of
+London.
+
+When I was dressed, I tapped at Mrs. Scropps's door, went in, and asked
+her if she thought I should do; the dear soul, after settling my point
+lace frill (which she had been good enough to pick off her own petticoat
+on purpose) and putting my bag straight, gave me the sweetest salute
+imaginable.
+
+"I wish your lordship health and happiness," said she.
+
+"Sally," said I, "your ladyship is an angel;" and so, having kissed each
+of my daughters, who were in progress of dressing, I descended the
+stairs, to begin the auspicious day in which I reached the apex of my
+greatness.--Never shall I forget the bows--the civilities--the
+congratulations--sheriffs bending before me--the Recorder smiling--the
+Common Sergeant at my feet--the pageant was intoxicating; and when,
+after having breakfasted, I stepped into that glazed and gilded house
+upon wheels, called the state coach, and saw my sword bearer pop himself
+into one of the boots, with the sword of state in his hand, I was lost
+in ecstasy, I threw myself back upon the seat of the vehicle with all
+imaginable dignity, but not without damage, for in the midst of my ease
+and elegance I snapped off the cut steel hilt of my sword, by
+accidentally bumping the whole weight of my body right, or rather wrong,
+directly upon the top of it.
+
+But what was a sword hilt or a bruise to _me_? I was _the_ Lord
+Mayor--the greatest man of the greatest city of the greatest nation in
+the world. The people realized my anticipations, and "Bravo, Scropps!"
+and "Scropps for ever!" again resounded, as we proceeded slowly and
+majestically towards the river, through a fog, which prevented our being
+advantageously seen, and which got down the throat of the sword bearer,
+who coughed incessantly during our progress, much to my annoyance, not
+to speak of the ungraceful movements which his convulsive barkings gave
+to the red velvet scabbard of the official glave as it stuck out of the
+window of the coach.
+
+We embarked in _my_ barge; a new scene of splendour awaited me, guns,
+shouts, music, flags, banners, in short, every thing that fancy could
+paint or a water bailiff provide; there, in the gilded bark, was
+prepared a cold collation--I ate, but tasted nothing--fowls, _pates_,
+tongue, game, beef, ham, all had the same flavour; champagne, hock, and
+Madeira were all alike to _me_--Lord Mayor was all I saw, all I heard,
+all I swallowed; every thing was pervaded by the one captivating word,
+and the repeated appeal to "my lordship" was sweeter than nectar.
+
+At Westminster, having been presented and received, I desired--I--John
+Ebenezer Scropps, of Coventry--I desired the Recorder to invite the
+judges to dine with me--I--who remember when two of the oldest and most
+innocent of the twelve, came the circuit, trembling at the sight of
+them, and believing them some extraordinary creatures upon whom all the
+hair and fur I saw, grew naturally--I, not only to ask these formidable
+beings to dine with me, but, as if I thought it beneath my dignity to do
+so in my proper person, deputing a judge of my own to do it for me; I
+never shall forget their bows in return--Chinese mandarins on a
+chimney-piece are fools to them.
+
+Then came the return--we landed once more in the scene of my dignity--at
+the corner of Fleet Street we found the Lady Mayoress waiting for the
+procession--there she was--Sally Scropps (her maiden name was
+Snob)--there was my own Sally, with a plume of feathers that half filled
+the coach, and Jenny and Maria and young Sally, all with their backs to
+_my_ horses, which were pawing the mud and snorting and smoking like
+steam engines, with nostrils like safety valves, and four of _my_
+footmen hanging behind the coach, like bees in a swarm. There had not
+been so much riband in my family since my poor father's failure at
+Coventry--and yet how often, over and over again, although he had been
+dead more than twenty years, did I, during that morning, in the midst of
+my splendour, think of _him_, and wish that he could see me in my
+greatness--yes, even in the midst of my triumph I seemed to defer to my
+good, kind parent--in heaven, as I hope and trust--as if I were anxious
+for _his_ judgment and _his_ opinion as to how I should perform the
+arduous and manifold duties of the day.
+
+Up Ludgate Hill we moved--the fog grew thicker and thicker--but then the
+beautiful women at the windows--those up high could only see my knees
+and the paste buckles in my shoes; every now and then, I bowed
+condescendingly to people I had never seen before, in order to show my
+courtesy and my chain and collar, which I had discovered during the
+morning shone the better for being shaken.
+
+At length we reached Guildhall--as I crossed the beautiful building,
+lighted splendidly, and filled with well dressed company, and heard the
+deafening shouts which rent the fane as I entered it, I really was
+overcome--I retired to a private room--refreshed my dress, rubbed up my
+chain, which the damp had tarnished, and prepared to receive my guests.
+They came, and--shall I ever forget it?--dinner was announced; the bands
+played "O the roast beef of Old England." Onwards we went, a Prince of
+the blood, of the blood royal of my country, led out _my_ Sally--my own
+Sally--the Lady Mayoress! the Lord High Chancellor handed out young
+Sally--I saw it done--I thought I should have choked; the Prime Minister
+took Maria; the Lord Privy Seal gave his arm to Jenny; and my wife's
+mother, Mrs. Snob, was honoured by the protection of the Right
+Honourable the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.--Oh, if my poor
+father could have but seen _that_!
+
+It would be tiresome to dwell upon the pleasures of the happy year, thus
+auspiciously begun, in detail; each month brought its delights, each
+week its festival; public meetings under the sanction of the Right
+Honourable the Lord Mayor; concerts and balls under the patronage of the
+Lady Mayoress; Easter and its dinner, Blue-coat boys and buns;
+processions here, excursions there.--Summer came, and then we had
+swan-hopping _up_ the river, and white-baiting _down_ the river; Yantlet
+Creek below, the navigation barge above; music, flags, streamers, guns,
+and company; turtle every day in the week; peas at a pound a pint, and
+grapes at a guinea a pound; dabbling in rosewater served in gold, not to
+speak of the loving cup, with Mr. Common Hunt, in full dress, at my
+elbow; my dinners were talked of, Ude grew jealous, and I was idolized.
+
+The days, which before seemed like weeks, were now turned to minutes:
+scarcely had I swallowed my breakfast before I was in my justice-room;
+and before I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for beggary, I was
+called away to luncheon; this barely over, in comes a deputation or a
+dispatch, and so on till dinner, which was barely ended before supper
+was announced. We all became enchanted with the Mansion House; my girls
+grew graceful by the confidence their high station gave them; Maria
+refused a good offer because her lover chanced to have an ill sounding
+name; we had all got settled in our rooms, the establishment had begun
+to know and appreciate us; we had just become in fact easy in our
+dignity and happy in our position, when lo and behold! the ninth of
+November came again--the anniversary of my exaltation, the consummation
+of my downfall.
+
+Again did we go in state to Guildhall, again were we toasted and
+addressed, again were we handed in, and led out, again flirted with
+cabinet ministers and danced with ambassadors, and at two o'clock in the
+morning drove home from the scene of gaiety to our old residence in
+Budge Row.--Never in this world did pickled herrings and turpentine
+smell so powerfully as on that night when we entered the house; and
+although my wife and the young ones stuck to the drinkables at
+Guildhall, their natural feelings would have way, and a sort of
+shuddering disgust seemed to fill their minds on their return home--the
+passage looked so narrow--the drawing-rooms looked so small--the
+staircase seemed so dark--our apartments appeared so low--however, being
+tired, we all slept well, at least I did, for I was in no humour to talk
+to Sally, and the only topic I could think upon before I dropped into my
+slumber, was a calculation of the amount of expense which I had incurred
+during the just expired year of my greatness.
+
+In the morning we assembled at breakfast--a note lay on the table,
+addressed--"Mrs. Scropps, Budge Row." The girls, one after the other,
+took it up, read the superscription, and laid it down again. A visiter
+was announced--a neighbour and kind friend, a man of wealth and
+importance--what were his first words?--they were the first I had heard
+from a stranger since my job,--"How are you, Scropps, done up, eh?"
+
+Scropps! no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;--no "my lord, I
+hope your lordship passed an agreeable night--and how is her ladyship
+and your lordship's amiable daughters?"--not a bit of it--"How's Mrs. S.
+and the _gals_?" This was quite natural, all as it _had_ been, all
+perhaps as it should be--but how unlike what it _was_, only one day
+before! The very servants, who, when amidst the strapping, stall-fed,
+gold-laced lacqueys of the Mansion House, (transferred with the chairs
+and tables from one Lord Mayor to another) dared not speak nor look, nor
+say their lives were their own, strutted about the house, and banged the
+doors, and talked of their "_Missis_," as if she had been an apple
+woman.
+
+So much for domestic miseries;--I went out--I was shoved about in
+Cheapside in the most remorseless manner; my right eye had a narrow
+escape of being poked out by the tray of a brawny butcher's boy, who,
+when I civilly remonstrated, turned round, and said, "Vy, I say, who are
+_you_, I vonder, as is so partiklar about your _hysight_." I felt an
+involuntary shudder--to-day, thought I, I _am_ John Ebenezer
+Scropps--two days ago I was Lord Mayor; and so the rencontre ended,
+evidently to the advantage of the bristly brute. It was however too much
+for me--the effect of contrast was too powerful, the change was too
+sudden--and I determined to go to Brighton for a few weeks to refresh
+myself, and be weaned from my dignity.
+
+We went--we drove to the Royal Hotel; in the hall stood one of his
+Majesty's ministers, one of my former guests, speaking to his lady and
+daughter: my girls passed close to him--he had handed one of them to
+dinner the year before, but he appeared entirely to have forgotten her.
+By and by, when we were going out in a fly to take the air, one of the
+waiters desired the fly man to pull off, because Sir Something
+Somebody's carriage could not come up--it was clear that the name of
+Scropps had lost its influence.
+
+We secluded ourselves in a private house, where we did nothing but sigh
+and look at the sea. We had been totally spoiled for our proper sphere,
+and could not get into a better; the indifference of our inferiors
+mortified us, and the familiarity of our equals disgusted us--our
+potentiality was gone, and we were so much degraded that a puppy of a
+fellow had the impertinence to ask Jenny if she was going to one of the
+Old Ship balls. "Of course," said the coxcomb, "I don't mean the
+'Almacks,' for they are uncommonly select."
+
+In short, do what we would, go where we might, we were outraged and
+annoyed, or at least thought ourselves so; and beyond all bitterness was
+the reflection, that the days of our dignity and delight never might
+return. There were at Brighton no less than three men who called me
+Jack, and _that_, out of flies or in libraries, and one of these, chose
+occasionally, by way of making himself particularly agreeable, to
+address me by the familiar appellation of Jacky. At length, and that
+only three weeks after my fall, an overgrown tallow-chandler met us on
+the Steyne, and stopped our party to observe, "as how he thought he owed
+me for two barrels of coal tar, for doing over his pigsties." This
+settled it--we departed from Brighton, and made a tour of the coast; but
+we never rallied; and business, which must be minded, drove us before
+Christmas to Budge Row, where we are again settled down.
+
+Maria has grown thin--Sarah has turned methodist--and Jenny, who danced
+with his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, who was called angelic by
+the Right Honourable the Lord Privy Seal, and who moreover refused a man
+of fortune because he had an ugly name, is going to be married to
+Lieutenant Stodge, on the half pay of the Royal Marines--and what
+then?--I am sure if it were not for the females of my family I should be
+perfectly at my ease in my proper sphere, out of which the course of our
+civic constitution raised me. It was unpleasant at first:--but I have
+toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and Providence has
+blessed my works. If we were discomposed at the sudden change in our
+station, I it is who was to blame for having aspired to honours which I
+knew were not to last. However the ambition was not dishonourable, nor
+did I disgrace the station while I held it; and when I see, as in the
+present year, _that_ station filled by a man of education and talent, of
+high character and ample fortune, I discover no cause to repent of
+having been one of his predecessors. Indeed I ought to apologize for
+making public the weakness by which we were all affected; especially as
+I have myself already learned to laugh at what we all severely felt at
+first--the miseries of a SPLENDID ANNUAL.--_Sharpe's London Magazine_.
+
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+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A CHAPTER ON HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY
+
+
+    "Ut sunt divorum, Mars, Bacchus, Apollo."
+                   _Latin Grammar_.
+
+  Did you ever look
+  In Mr. Tooke,
+  For Homer's gods and goddesses?
+  The males in the air,
+  So big and so bare,
+  And the girls without their bodices.
+
+  There was Jupiter Zeus,
+  Who play'd the deuce,
+  A rampant blade and a tough one;
+  But Denis bold,
+  Stole his coat of gold,
+  And rigg'd him out in a stuff one,
+
+  Juno, when old,
+  Was a bit of a scold,
+  And rul'd Jove _jure divino_;
+  When he went gallivaunting,
+  His steps she kept haunting,[4]
+  And she play'd, too, the devil with Ino.
+
+  Minerva bright
+  Was a blue-stocking wight,
+  Who lodg'd among the Attics;
+  And, like Lady V.
+  From the men did flee,
+  To study the mathematics.
+
+  Great Mars, we're told,
+  Was a grenadier bold,
+  Who Vulcan sorely cuckold;
+  When to Rome he went,
+  He his children sent
+  To a she-wolf to be suckled.
+
+  _Midas_.
+
+  Sol, the rat-catcher,[5]
+  Was a great body-snatcher,
+  And with his bow and arrows
+  He _Burked_, through the trees,
+  Master Niobes,
+  As though they had been cock sparrows.
+
+  Diana, his sister,
+  When nobody kiss'd her,
+  Was a saint, (at least a semi one,)
+  Yet the vixen Scandal
+  Made a terrible handle
+  Of her friendship for Eudymion.
+
+  Full many a feat
+  Did Hercules neat,
+  The least our credit draws on;
+  Jesting Momus, so sly,
+  Said, "'Tis all my eye,"
+  And he call'd him Baron Munchausen.
+
+  Fair Bacchus's face
+  Many signs did grace,
+  (They were not painted by Zeuxis:)
+  Of his brewing trade
+  He a mystery made,[6]
+  Like our Calverts and our Meuxes.
+
+  There was Mistress Venus,
+  (I say it between us,)
+  For virtue cared not a farden:
+  There never was seen
+  Such a drabbish quean
+  In the parish of Covent Garden.
+
+  Hermes cunning
+  Poor Argus funning,
+  He made him drink like a buffer;
+  To his great surprise
+  Sew'd up all his eyes,
+  And stole away his heifer.
+
+  A bar-maid's place
+  Was Hebe's grace,
+  Till Jupiter did trick her;
+  He turn'd her away,
+  And made Ganimede stay
+  To pour him out his liquor.
+
+  Ceres in life
+  Was a farmer's wife,
+  But she doubtless kept a jolly house;
+  For Rumour speaks,
+  She was had by the Beaks
+  To swear her son Triptolemus.[7]
+
+  Miss Proserpine
+  She thought herself fine,
+  But when all her plans miscarried,
+  She the Devil did wed,
+  And took him to bed,
+  Sooner than not be married.
+
+  But the worst of the gods,
+  Beyond all odds,
+  It cannot be denied, oh!
+  Is that first of matchmakers,
+  That prince of housebreakers,
+  The urchin, Dan Cupido.
+
+           _New Monthly Magazine_.
+
+    [4] "I'll search out the haunts
+        Of your fav'rite gallants,
+        And into cows metamorphose 'em."
+
+    [5] Apollo Smintheus. He destroyed a great many rats in Phrygia,
+    and was probably the first "rat-catcher to the King."--_Vet.
+    Schol_.
+
+    [6] "Mystica vannus Isacchi." This was either a porter-brewer's
+    dray, or more probably the _Van_ of his druggist.--_Scriblerus_.
+
+    [7] There is some difference of opinion concerning this fact:
+    the lady, like so many others in her interesting situation,
+    passed through the adventure under an _alias_. But that Ceres
+    and Terra were the same, no reasonable person will doubt: and
+    there can be no _serious_ objection to the little _trip_ being
+    thus ascribed to the goddess in question.--_Scriblerus_.
+
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+
+
+"THE SEASON" IN TOWN.
+
+
+_Theodore_.--I don't know how you could prevent people from living half
+the year in town.
+
+_Tickler_.--I have no objection to their living half the year in town,
+as you call it, if they can live in such a hell upon earth, of dust,
+noise, and misery. Only think of the Dolphin water in the solar
+microscope!
+
+_Theodore_.--I know nothing of the water of London personally.
+
+_Odoherty_.--Nor I; but I take it, we both have a notion of its brandy
+and water.
+
+_Tickler_.--'Tis, in fact, their duty to be a good deal in London. But
+I'll tell you what I do object to, and what I rather think are evils of
+modern date, or at any rate, of very rapid recent growth. First, I
+object to their living those months of the year in which it is _contra
+bonos mores_ to be in London, not in their paternal mansions, but at
+those little bastardly abortions, which they call watering-places--their
+Leamingtons, their Cheltenhams, their Brighthelmstones.
+
+_Theodore_.--Brighton, my dear rustic Brighton!
+
+_Odoherty_.--Synopice.
+
+_Shepherd_.--What's your wull, Sir Morgan? It does no staun' wi' me.
+
+_Theodore_.--A horrid spot, certainly--but possessing large
+conveniences, sir, for particular purposes. For example, sir, the
+balcony on the drawing-room floor commonly runs on the same level all
+round the square--which in the Brighthelmstonic dialect, sir, means a
+three-sided figure. The advantage is obvious,
+
+_Shepherd_.--Och, sirs! och, sirs! what wull this world come to!
+
+_Theodore_.--The truth is, sir, that people _comme il faut_ cannot well
+submit to the total change of society and manners implied in a removal
+from Whitehall or Mayfair to some absurd old antediluvian chateau, sir,
+boxed up among beeches and rooks. Sir, only think of the small Squires
+with the red faces, sir, and the grand white waistcoats down to their
+hips--and the dames, sir, with their wigs, and their simpers, and their
+visible pockets--and the damsels, blushing things in white muslin, with
+sky-blue sashes and ribbons, and mufflers and things--and the sons, sir,
+the promising young gentlemen, sir--and the doctor, and the lawyer--and
+the parson. So you disapprove of Brighton, Mr. Tickler?
+
+_Tickler_.--Brighthelmstone, when I knew it, was a pleasant fishing
+village--what like it is now, I know not; but what I detest in the great
+folks of your time, is, that insane selfishness which makes them prefer
+any place, however abominable, where they can herd together in their
+little exquisite coteries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the
+noblest domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less
+exposed to the company of people not exactly belonging to their own
+particular sect. How can society hang together long in a country where
+the Corinthian capital takes so much pains to unrift itself from the
+pillar? Now-a-day, sir, your great lord, commonly speaking, spends but a
+month or six weeks in his ancestral abode; and even when he is there, he
+surrounds himself studiously with a cursed town-crew, a pack of St.
+James's Street fops, and Mayfair chatterers and intriguers, who give
+themselves airs enough to turn the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and
+their womankind, and render a visit to the castle a perfect nuisance.
+
+_Theodore (aside to Mullion.)_--A prejudiced old prig!
+
+_Tickler_.--They seem to spare no pains to show that they consider the
+country as valuable merely for rent and game--the duties of the
+magistracy are a bore--county meetings are a bore--a farce, I believe,
+was the word--the assizes are a cursed bore--fox-hunting itself is a
+bore, unless in Leicestershire, where the noble sportsmen, from all the
+winds of heaven cluster together, and think with ineffable contempt of
+the old-fashioned chase, in which the great man mingled with gentle and
+simple, and all comers--sporting is a bore, unless in a regular
+_battue_, when a dozen lordlings murder pheasants by the thousand,
+without hearing the cock of one impatrician fowling-piece--except indeed
+some dandy poet, or philosopher, or punster, has been admitted to make
+sport to the Philistines. In short, every thing is a bore that brings
+the dons into personal collision of any kind with people that don't
+belong to the world.
+
+_Odoherty_.--The world is getting pretty distinct from the nation, I
+admit, and I doubt if much love is lost between them.--_Blackwood's
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HOPKINSONIAN JOKE.
+
+
+My friend Hertford, walking one day near his own shop in Piccadilly,
+happened to meet one Mr. Hopkinson, an eminent brewer, I believe--and
+the conversation naturally enough turned upon some late dinner at the
+Albion, Aldersgate Street--nobody appreciates a real city dinner better
+than Monsieur le Marquess--and so on, till the old brewer mentioned,
+_par hazard_, that he had just received a noble specimen of wild pig
+from a friend in Frankfort, adding, that he had a very particular party,
+God knows how many aldermen, to dinner--half the East India direction, I
+believe--and that he was something puzzled touching the cookery. "Pooh!"
+says Hertford, "send in your porker to my man, and he'll do it for you
+_a merveille_." The brewer was a grateful man--the pork came and went
+back again. Well, a week after my lord met his friend, and, by the way,
+"Hopkinson," says he, "how did the boar concern go off?"--"O,
+beautifully," says the brewer; "I can never sufficiently thank your
+lordship; nothing could do better. We should never have got on at all
+without your lordship's kind assistance."--"The thing gave satisfaction
+then, Hopkinson?"--"O, great satisfaction, my lord marquess.--To be sure
+we did think it rather queer at first--in fact, not being up to them
+there things, we considered it as deucedly stringy--to say the truth, we
+should never have thought of eating it cold."--"Cold!" says Hertford;
+"did you eat the ham cold?"--"O dear, yes, my lord, to be sure we
+did--we eat it just as your lordship's gentleman sent it."--"Why, my
+dear Mr. Alderman," says Hertford, "my cook only prepared it for the
+spit." Well, I shall never forget how the poor dear Duke of York
+laughed!--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+
+    A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+                      SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SEALING WAX AND WAFERS.
+
+
+Francis Rousseau, a native of Auxerres, who travelled a long time in
+Persia, Pegu, and other parts of the East Indies, and who, in 1692,
+resided at St. Domingo, was the inventer of sealing-wax. A lady, of the
+name of Longueville, made this wax known at court, and caused Louis
+XIII. to use it; after which it was purchased and used throughout Paris.
+By this article Rousseau, before the expiration of a year, gained 50,000
+livres. The oldest seal with a red wafer ever yet found, is on a letter
+written by Dr. Krapf, at Spires, in the year 1624, to the government at
+Bareuth.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I was in company some time since with George Colman, "the younger," as
+the old fellow still styles himself. It was shortly after the death of
+Mrs. ----, the wife of a popular actor, and at that time an unpopular
+manager. Some one at table observed that, "Mr. ---- had suffered a loss
+in the death of his wife, which he would not soon be able to make
+up."--"I don't know how that may be," replied George, drily, "but to
+tell you the truth, I don't think he has _quarrelled_ with his loss
+yet."--_Monthly Mag_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SHERIDAN.
+
+
+Bob Mitchell, one of Sheridan's intimate friends, and once in great
+prosperity, became--like a great many other people, Sheridan's
+creditor--in fact Sheridan owed Bob nearly three thousand pounds--this
+circumstance amongst others contributed so very much to reduce Bob's
+finances, that he was driven to great straits, and in the course of his
+uncomfortable wanderings he called upon Sheridan; the conversation
+turned upon his financial difficulties, but not upon the principal cause
+of them, which was Sheridan's debt; but which of course, as an able
+tactician, he contrived to keep out of the discussion; at last, Bob, in
+a sort of agony, exclaimed--"I have not a guinea left, and by heaven I
+don't know where to get one." Sheridan jumped up, and thrusting a piece
+of gold into his hand, exclaimed with tears in his eyes--"It never shall
+be said that Bob Mitchell wanted a guinea while his friend Sheridan had
+one to give him."--_Sharpe's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES
+
+
+_On the window of Thorny Down Inn, about seven miles from Blandford, on
+the Salisbury road_.
+
+  Death, reader, pallid death!! with woe or bliss
+  Will shortly be thy lot. Think then, my friend,
+  Ere yet it be too late--what are thy hopes
+  And what thy anxious fears--when the thin veil
+  That keeps thy soul from seeing Israel's GOD
+  Shall drop.    (Signed) [Greek: parepidemos].
+                          RURIS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring bricklayer
+was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his lordship said
+to him--
+
+"Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it is your
+bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your appearance."
+
+"Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to that, I'm
+thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your lordship."
+
+"How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.
+
+"Why, faith," said the labourer, "_you_ come here in _your_ working
+clothes and _I'm_ come in _mine_."--_Sharpe's Mag_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FRIENDSHIP.
+
+
+Dr. Johnson most beautifully remarks, that "When a friend is carried to
+his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations
+of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided
+off our minds without impression, a thousand favours unrepaid, a
+thousand duties unperformed, and wish, vainly wish for his return, not
+so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and
+recompense that kindness which before we never understood."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOT TUESDAY.
+
+
+Derham, in his _Physico-Theology,_ says, "July 8th, 1707, (called for
+some time after the _hot Tuesday,_) was so excessively hot and
+suffocating, by reason there was no wind stirring, that divers persons
+died, or were in great danger of death, in their harvest work.
+Particularly one who had formerly been my servant, a healthy, lusty
+young man, was killed by the heat; and several horses on the road
+dropped down and died the same day."
+
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