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PRICE 2d."> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="30%"><b>VOL 13. No. 367.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="30%"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"> + <a href="images/367-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/367-1.png" alt= + "A line drawing of Sussex Place, Regent's park" /></a> <h3>SUSSEX PLACE, REGENT'S PARK.</h3> + +</div> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page274" id="page274"></a>[pg 274]</span><h3>SUSSEX + PLACE,</h3> + + +<p>Is said to have been erected from the designs of Mr. Nash, but is +considered as one of the least successful of his productions. It was among +the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with +the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for +critical pasquinade.</p> + +<p>It consists of an extensive range of residences, a centre with a pediment, +with two octagonal towers, and wings with four other towers in each, all +the towers being finished with cupola tops and minarets. Probably the +architect was tempted to this introduction for the sake of picturesque +variety, since it is not justifiable on the score of architectural beauty +or good taste. Indeed, it is an attempt at magnificence which, on so small +a scale, is not deserving of imitation, and has not been followed. The +general effect is far from pleasing; but the eye of the landscape painter +will probably enjoy an assemblage of picturesque outlines in grouping +Sussex Place with its adjacent scenery and accessories. The gardens to this +terrace are tastefully disposed, and the situation commands some of the +most fascinating prospects of the Park. Before the facade the lake spreads +its silvery sheet, and reflects the oriental cupolas with charming effect; +and the varied plantations of the Park, especially on the opposite margin +of the lake, group with peculiar felicity, and render Sussex Place one of +the most delightful sites in this paradisaical region.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>TRANSLATION OF AN IRISH DEED OF GIFT.</h3> + +<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<p>The original deed, of which the subjoined is a translation, was found among +some old records in Birmingham Tower, Castle of Dublin, when that building +was taken down in the year 1772. It is in Irish, neatly written on a long +scroll of parchment; forty-two seals are attached to the side, but the only +signature is that of the chief at bottom. This document, among other +curious matter, furnishes us with a proof, that the chiefs of clans were +<i>elective</i>, contrary to the opinions of modern authors, and more especially +of our modern historical novelists; which latter speak of them as +<i>hereditary feudal lords</i>, and even talk of their estates descending to +their daughters; although under the system of clanship, females could not +inherit, and no man could have more than a life interest in his estate. +Here we have an instance of a chief divesting himself of the dignity of +office, and joining in the transfer of it to another, when such transfer +was considered likely to further the interests of the clan. It is also +interesting, as showing the manner in which the English government in +Dublin proceeded in the subjugation of Ireland, by embroiling its septs +with one another.</p> + +<p>The <i>Mac Ranalds</i>, or <i>Magranals</i>, (as the name was usually written,) in +English, Reynolds, the principal parties to the deed, were a clan who +possessed the territory of <i>Munterolish</i>, in the county of Leitrim, +subordinate to O'Rourke, who was lord paramount of the county; and the +lords justices having, by this deed, detached them from the interest of the +latter, immediately marched an army into his country. O'Rourke, after a +protracted, but ineffectual resistance, was made prisoner and sent to +London, where he was executed, in the early part of the reign of Queen +Elizabeth; "going to death," says Camden, "with as little concern as if he +had been merely a spectator." The county was then declared a forfeiture to +the crown, and the estates of its old proprietors (including those of the +Magranals among the rest) parcelled out among a colony of English settlers, +then for the first time seated in the county. This is the first document +known, in which Leitrim is spoken of as a county; and it is generally said +not to have been made such till the time of James I.; it was more anciently +known as the territory of <i>Briefné O'Rourke</i>.</p> + +<p>Although Henry II. is said to have conquered Ireland, the dominion of the English + monarchs there was little better than nominal prior to the reign of James I. + Great pains had been taken by different sovereigns to reduce the Irish to a + perfect submission to the English crown; and English colonies had, from time + to time, been planted, with that view, in different parts of the country; these + colonies, however, in a generation or two, had uniformly "degenerated," + as the phrase was; that is, had become Irish, both in manners and feelings, + using the Irish tongue, and even coining for themselves Irish surnames, as if + desirous of forgetting their English origin. Henry VIII. was the first English + monarch who assumed the title of <i>king of Ireland</i>; and his daughter Mary + set about the conquest of the country in earnest, by reducing the countries + of <i>Ive Faily and Leix</i>, which were formed into the King's and Queen's + Counties, so called in compliment to the queen, and her husband, Philip of Spain. + Her lord deputy, Sir Anthony Bellingham, writing on this occasion to her highness, + says that he "had made good progress <span class="pagenum"><a name="page275" id="page275"></a>[pg + 275]</span>in <i>civilizing</i> the barbarous inhabitants of those counties, + having reduced their numbers to less than one hundred fighting men."</p> + +<p>The territory of Leitrim, though as yet uninvaded, was at the same time +declared a county; and the Magranals, who had probably no wish to be +"civilized" on Sir Anthony's plan, appear to have endeavoured to avert the +coming storm, by employing an agent in Dublin, at an immense expense, +considering the scarcity of money in Ireland in those days, "to advocate +their cause with the lords justices and council:" or, in plain English, to +crave permission to be allowed to remain in quiet. The person chosen was +one of their own sept, John Magranal, a soldier of fortune, who, having +served in the English army in the subjugation of the King's and Queen's +counties, had been rewarded with a grant of the forfeited lands of Claduff, +in the former county, and was supposed to stand well with the lords +justices. Him they elected their chief. With what success he advocated +their cause has been already stated.</p> + +<p>The late George Nugent Reynolds, the dramatist, was a member of the sept of +the Magranals; as was the notorious Tom Reynolds, the informer, well known +in the history of the rebellion of 1798.</p> + +<p>There is a copy of this deed in the library of the Duke of Buckingham, at +Stow.</p> + +<p class="source">H.S.</p> + +<h4>TRANSLATION.</h4> + +<div class="quote"> + <p class="indinv">This is the deed of gift of the two<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> + Mac Ranalds; to wit, Cahal, son of Conachar Mac Ranald, Toraylach and Gerald + Magranal, heads and chiefs of their kindred, with the consent of their brethren + and followers in Munterolish, to John Magranal, of Claduff, in the King's + county, and to his heirs:—</p> +</div> + +<div class="quote"> + <p>Know all men, now and in the time that is yet to come, that we, Cahal, son + of Conachar Magranal, of the Hill of Innis Morrin, in the county of Leitrim; + Toraylach Magranal, of Drumard, <i>chiefs of our kindred</i>; Ferdorcha Magranal, + of Drumsna, and of Lochdaw; Melachlin, son of Hubert Magranal, of Corsparrow; + Moroch, son of Teig, of Cloondaa; Ir, son of Donal, of Dulach; Teig, son of + William, of Screbach; Toraylach Magranal, of Loch Connow; Owen Magranal, of + Loch Scur; Toraylach O'Mulvey, of Loch Crew, <i>chief of his kindred</i>; + Teig, son of John, of Acha Cashel; Dermid Magranal, of Cool Cadarna; Cormac + Magranal, of Loch Cool da 'Iach; Dermid Magranal, of Mongoarsach; Edmond Magranal, + of Mohill; Jeffrey, son of Conachar, of Anagh Kinca; Toraylach Magranal, of + Loch Irill; Brian Gruama, the son of Hugh, of Drumlara; Farrell Duff, the + son of Hugh, of Corleih; Donacha Grana, son of Giolla Gruama, of Stookisha; + Conachar, son of Giolla Gruama, of Duffcarrick; Rurie Og O'Moran, of Ty Rurie; + Toraylach O'Beirne, of Mullanmoy; Gerald, son of Moylan Magranal, of Clooncalry; + Melachlin, son of Conachar Magranal, of Cloonclyfa; Cahal, son of Dermid Magranal, + of Rusc, <i>alias</i> Gort an Yure; Ir, son of Edmond, of Rathbeh; Melachlin + Modara Magranal, of the Point; Edmond Mac Shanly, of Drumode Mac Shanly; Moroch, + son of Melachlin, of Drumkeely; Dermid, son of the Prior, of Clonee and of + Innis Rusc; Moroch Magranal, of Drumherk; Teig O'Histellan, of Drumeen; Teig + Roe Magarry, of Towlag; with the consent of our kinsmen and followers in Munterolish, + for many reasons, for ourselves and our heirs, <span class="scaps">Have Given</span> + to John Magranal, of Claduff, in the King's county, and to his heirs for ever, + the yearly sum of forty-two pounds, money of England, to be raised and levied + upon our aforesaid lands in Munterolish, and upon any other lands claimed + by us, or in our occupation, to be paid at two terms in the year, to wit, + one half on the first of May, <i>(Beiltin,)</i> and the other half at All + Hallowntide, <i>(Samhan;)</i> and in case of any delay occurring as to the + full payment of the aforesaid sum at the time specified, then this is our + agreement with the said John, for ourselves and our heirs, with John and his + heirs, that he and they, or the attorneys sent by them, shall have power to + enter into our said country of Munterolish, and into our aforesaid lands, + and to levy a distress, (pledge,) and to take the same with them, and to keep + it until full payment is made, to wit, of forty-two pounds, and of arrears, + if any such should be—<span class="scaps">On condition</span>, that + he, the said John, shall be our protector <i>and chieftain over us;</i> and + also that he shall repair from time to time to Dublin, to advocate our cause + before the lords justices and council, at our sole charge, over and above + the aforesaid sum, which we give him on account of his services; and on condition + that the said John shall not put any of us out of our lands; and we promise + to behave ourselves most dutifully to him, and <i>not to</i> <span class="pagenum"><a name="page276" id="page276"></a>[pg + 276]</span> <i>adhere to any of the O'Rourkes</i>. In witness whereof we have + put our hands and seals to this writing the 5th day of December. 1556. </p> + <p> <span class="scaps">Cahal Mac Conochar</span>. </p> +<p> +There were present at this agreement, when it was ratified, and when +it was interchanged, and when the seals were put upon it, to wit, +God in the first place; Richard O'Hivganane; Anlan O'Molloy; +Toraylach Mac Ranald; the two sons of Teig, the son of Ayan, to wit, +Owen and William; Kiruah Mac Manus; Gerald, deacon of Feana; Cormac, +deacon of Cloon; Conachar Mac Giolla Sooly; Manus Mac Giolla Roe; +Owen O'Colla. +</p> +</div> +<hr /> + +<p>From the avowed object of the above deed, to detach the Magranals from the +interest of O'Rourke, against whom war was at that time in preparation, as +well as from the deed itself having been found <i>in the Castle of Dublin</i>, +more than two hundred years afterwards, there can be little doubt that the +whole affair was got up by the lords justices, and that Magranal of Claduff +was an agent in their pay. The Magranals, however, <i>took nothing by their +motion</i>; for although they were arrayed under their new chief against +O'Rourke in the war which followed, their estates were confiscated at the +same time with his, the lawyers having discovered, that as O'Rourke was +their feudal lord, they were partakers in the guilt of his rebellion, +although they had been fighting against him.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>DISCOVERY OF THE MINES OF HAYNA,</h3> + +<h4>FROM AN INCIDENT IN IRVING'S LIFE OF COLUMBUS.</h4> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh, go not yet, my lord, my love, lie down by Zenia's side,</p> +<p>And think not for thy white men friends, to leave thy Indian bride,</p> +<p>For she will steer thy light canoe across Ozuma's lake,</p> +<p>To where the fragrant citron groves perfume the banyan brake;</p> +<p>And wouldst thou chase the nimble deer, or dark-eyed antelope,</p> +<p>She'll lend thee to their woody haunts, behind the mountain's slope,</p> +<p>And when thy hunter task is done, and spent thy spirit's force,</p> +<p>She'll weave for thee a plantain bower, beside a streamlet's course,</p> +<p>Where the sweet music of the leaves shall lull thee to repose.</p> +<p>Hence in Zenia's watchful love, from harmful beast, or foes,</p> +<p>And when the spirit of the storm, in wild tornades rides by,</p> +<p>She'll hide thee in a cave, beneath a rocky panoply.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Look, Zenia look, the fleecy clouds move on the western gales,</p> +<p>And see the white men's moving home, unfurls her swelling sails,</p> +<p>So farewell India's spicy groves, farewell its burning clime,</p> +<p>And farewell Zenia, but to love, no farewell can be mine;</p> +<p>Not for the brightest Spanish maid, shall Diez' vow be riven,</p> +<p>So if we meet no more on earth, I will be thine in heaven.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh, go not yet, my godlike love, stay but a moment more</p> +<p>And Zenia's step shall lead thee on, to Hayna's golden shore,</p> +<p>No white man's foot has ever trod, the vale that slumbers there,</p> +<p>Or forced the gold bird from its nest, or Gato from his lair;</p> +<p>But cradled round by giant hills, lies many a golden mine,</p> +<p>And all the treasure they contain, shall be my Diez thine,</p> +<p>And all my tribe will be thy friends, our warrior chief thy guard,</p> +<p>With Zenia's breast thy faithful shield, thy love her sweet reward.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>The valley's won, the friends are true, revealed the golden tide.</p> +<p>And Diez for Hispania's shore, quits not his Indian bride.</p> +</div></div> + +<p class="source">D.A.H.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>RECENT VISIT TO POMPEII.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<div class="quote"> +<p>For the following details respecting a city, accounts of which, + (although so many are already before the public,) are always + interesting, I am indebted to the oral communication of a friend + which I immediately committed to paper.</p> + +<p> M.L.B.</p></div> + +<p>My object in visiting Naples was to view that celebrated relic of antiquity—the + city of Pompeii, of which, about one half is now supposed to be cleared. The + workmen proceed but slowly, nevertheless something is always being done, and + some new remnant of antiquity is almost daily brought to light; indeed, a fine + statue was discovered, almost immediately after my visit to this interesting + place, but as I had quitted Naples I could not return to see it. A stranger, + is I think, apt to be much disappointed in the size of Pompeii; it was on the + whole, not more than three miles through, and is rather to be considered the + model of a town, than one in itself. In fact, it is merely an Italian villa, + or properly, a collection of villas; and the extreme smallness of what we may + justly term the citizens' <i>boxes</i>, is another source of astonishment to + those who have been used to contemplate Roman architecture <span class="pagenum"><a name="page277" id="page277"></a>[pg + 277]</span>in the magnificence of magnitude. Pompeii however, must always interest + the intelligent observer, not more on account of its awful and melancholy associations, + than for the opportunity which it affords, of remarking the extreme similarity + existing between the modes of living <i>then</i>, and <i>now</i>. "'Tis + Greece, but living Greece no more!" for in truth, we are enabled to surmise, + from the relics of this buried and disinterred town, that manners and customs, + arts, sciences, and trades, have undergone but little change in Italy since + the period of its inhumation until now. In Pompeii, the shops of the baker and + chemist are particularly worthy of attention, for you might really fancy yourself + stepped into a modern <i>bottéga</i> in each of these; but, the museum + of Naples, wherein are deposited most of the articles dug from Pompeii, Herculaneum, + and Pæstum, is a most extraordinary lion, and one which cannot fail to + affect very deeply the spectators; there you may behold furniture, arms, and + trinkets; and the jewellery is, I can assure you, both in materials, pattern, + and workmanship, very similar indeed to that at present in fashion, and little + injured by the lapse of years, and the hot ashes under which it was buried.<a name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> + There too, you may behold various domestic and culinary utensils; and there + it is quite curious to observe various jars and bottles of fruits, and pickles, + evidently preserved then, the same as they are by our notable housekeepers now; + of course they are blackened and incinerated, nevertheless, the forms of pears, + apples, chestnuts, cherries, medlars, &c. &c. are still distinguishable. + Very little furniture has been found in Pompeii; probably, because it was only + occasionally resorted to as a place of residence, like our own summer haunts + of the drinkers of sea and mineral waters; or, the inhabitants might have had + warning of the coming misfortune, and conveyed most of their effects to a safer + place; a surmise strengthened by the circumstance of so few human skeletons + having been found hitherto in the town; in the museum, however, is a specimen + of the inclined couch or sofa, used at meals, with tables, and other articles + of furniture. The method of warming apartments by flues, and ventilating them, + as now practised, was known to the inhabitants of Pompeii. Of this town, amongst + public buildings, the Forum, the Theatre, and the Temple of Isis, have been + discovered; and the latter has revealed, in a curious manner, the iniquitous + jugglery of the heathen priests. The statue of Isis, was, it seems, oracular, + and stood on a very high pedestal, or kind of altar in the temple of the goddess. + Within this pedestal a flight of steps has been discovered, ascending to a metal + tube or pipe; which, fixed in the hollow body of the statue, and attached to + its lips, the priest of Isis was enabled by speaking through this tube, to make + the poor deluded multitude believe that their idol gave articulate answers to + their anxious queries! We have heard of similar delusions being practised by + <i>Christian</i> priests, in days comparatively modern! But, only let us conceive, + the shame and dismay which would <i>now</i> suffuse the countenance of one of + these worshippers of Pompeian Isis, could he but behold the deception which + had been practised upon him unsuspectedly! I have said, that but few skeletons + have been found in Pompeii; all that have been met with are covered with ornaments, + and appear as in the act of escaping from their hapless town, with what they + could carry off of their most valuable possessions; from which death would not + relinquish his hold. More wealth is supposed to have been buried in Herculaneum, + from that which has already been found therein; but owing to the excessive difficulty, + time, and expense, which the attempt to bring it to light would occasion, excavations + in this city, are now almost, if not entirely, abandoned; for it is to be remembered, + that Herculaneum was destroyed by a flood of liquid lava, which as it cools, + hardens into solid and impenetrable <i>rock</i>; whereas the hot ashes of Vesuvius + overwhelmed Pompeii, and consequently it is much less difficult to clear.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE CONVICT'S DREAM.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + +<div class="quote"> + <p class="indinv">"A wreck of crime upon his stony bed."<br /> + <span class="scaps">R. Montgomery</span>.</p> + </div> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>He who would learn the true remorse for crime</p> +<p>Should watch (when slumbers innocence, and guilt</p> +<p>Or wakes in sleepless pain, or dreams of blood)</p> +<p>The convict stretched on his reposeless bed.</p> +<p>Then conscience plays th' accusing angel;</p> +<p>Spectres of murder'd victims flit before</p> +<p>His eyes, with soul-appalling vividness;</p> +<p>Hideous phantasma shadow o'er his mind;</p> +<p>Guilt, incubus-like, sits on his soul</p> +<p>With leaden weight,—types of the pangs of hell.</p> +<p>His memory to the scene of blood reverts;</p> +<p>He hears the echo of his victims' cry,</p> +<p>Whose agonizing eyes again are fixed</p> +<p>Upon his face, pleading for mercy.</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page278" id="page278"></a>[pg 278]</span><p>See! + how he writhes in speechless agony!</p> +<p>As morning dew-drops on the face of nature,</p> +<p>So hangs upon his brow the clammy sweat.</p> + <p>Each feature of his face, each limb, each nerve,</p> +<p>Distorted with remorse and agony,</p> +<p>Is fraught with nature's speechless eloquence,</p> +<p>And is a faithful witness to his sin.</p> +<p>It is not <i>all</i> a dream, but memory holds</p> +<p>Before the sleeper's eyes her magic glass,</p> +<p>In which he sees the image of the past.</p> +</div></div> + +<p class="quote"><i>Huddersfield.</i> S.J.</p> + + +<hr /> + +<h3>ANTICIPATION.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>'Twixt the appointment and the day</p> +<p>Ages seem to roll away—</p> +<p>Lingering doubts and cares arise,</p> +<p>Fancy glows with sweet surmise;</p> +<p>Now a hope—and now a fear,</p> + <p>First a smile—and then a tear;</p> +<p>But that day may never come,</p> +<p>Death may seal thine earthly doom.</p> +<p>Or that day may prove unkind,</p> +<p>Thine anticipation blind!</p> +<p>The best pleasure thou wilt know</p> +<p>May be to brood upon thy woe:</p> +<p>Wailing happy days gone by,</p> +<p>When fancied pleasures mock'd thine eye:</p> +<p>Days that never shall return.</p> +<p>Mortal, then, this lesson learn—</p> +<p>Struggle not against thy fate,</p> +<p>For thy last day hath its date!</p> +<p>It is written in the skies,</p> +<p>And a guardian angel cries,</p> +<p>Dream no more of earthly joys,</p> +<p>They are fleeting, fickle toys.</p> +</div></div> + +<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Cymbeline</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>THE TOPOGRAPHER</h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>ROAD BOOK OF SCOTLAND.</h3> +<p>Tourists will never cease to remember their obligations to Mr. Leigh, the +publisher of this pretty little volume. He has done so much for their +gratification in his New Pocket Road Books, (of which series the present +work is one,) that their success ought to be toasted in all the delightful +retreats to which they act as <i>ciceroni</i>. In his Road Book of England and +Wales, he has done what Mr. Peel is now doing with our old Acts of +Parliament—consolidating their worth, and rejecting their obsoleteness. +For our own part, one of the greatest bugbears of books is the Road Book on +the old system: it is all long columns of small type, in which we lose our +way as in the cross-roads of the last century—all direction-posts and +"<i>Vides</i>," puzzle upon puzzle, Pelion on Ossa, and Ossa on Pelion—crabbed +and complex abbreviations, with which we get acquainted at the end of our +journey. They contain nothing like direct information, and the only people +who appear to understand them are postmasters and innkeepers, and some +old-established bagmen, whose interests and heads will give you a clearer +view of the roads than all the itineraries ever printed. It was, however, +but reasonable to expect that the Macadamization of roads, or the mending +of ways, should be followed up by the improvement of Road Books, since +greater facilities and inducements were thereby afforded to the tourist for +the detection and exposure of blunders—such as placing a hall on the wrong +side of the road, or recording some relic which had never existed but in +the book.</p> + +<p>The arrangement of the <i>Road Book of Scotland</i> is clear and intelligible, +and, moreover, it is a book which may be read in the post-chaise or the +parlour, on or off the road, before or after the journey, with equal +pleasure. It is so portable, that the pedestrian will not complain of its +weight, for it bears the same proportion to an old Road Book that a Prayer +Book does to a Family Bible. The picturesque charms of Scotland, and its +connexion with eminent individuals, and memorable events of love, war, and +chivalric renown, all combine to render a Scottish Road Book attractive and +interesting; but the editor prudently observes, that "long descriptions of +scenery, except in some few cases, have not been introduced, as they are +totally inadequate to convey to the reader any definite idea of the +beauties they attempt to portray." Plans of Pleasure Tours are likewise +appended, together with a useful Appendix; and, what is indispensable in a +work of this description, a good Index, is added.</p> + +<p>As might be expected, nearly every page bears the record of some spot +consecrated by hoar antiquity, or in the inspirations of olden or modern +genius. Sir Walter Scott has probably monopolized every inch of his native +country, and invested each memorable spot with the enchantment of his pen; +so that little more than reference is necessary to enable the tourist to +identify such sites as the novelist has not distinguished in his writings +by actual name. Such information is requisite, for as we are reminded by +Kett, who observes, "We are told of a noble Roman, who could recollect all +the articles that had been purchased at an auction, and the names of the +several buyers. The memory of our travellers ought to be of equal capacity +and retentiveness, considering the short time they allow themselves for the +inspection of curiosities." As books and broad-cloth are now bought by the +pattern, we cannot do better than substantiate what we have said by a few +quotations from the <i>Road Book of Scotland</i>:—</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page279" id="page279"></a>[pg 279]</span> +<h4><i>Falkirk.</i></h4> + +<p>The view from the hill of Falkirk, immediately behind the town, is +remarkably extensive, varied, and beautiful. Hence, the spectator may +behold the Ochil Hills, forming part of the ridge which extends from the +German Ocean to the banks of the Clyde; and through an opening in the chain +for the passage of the Forth, may discover, in fine weather, several +isolated rocks, on the highest of which stands Stirling Castle. Beyond, +over the Vale of Monteith, appear the Grampian Hills, including the +conical-shaped summit of Benledi, as well as Benvoirlich; and further to +the west, the lofty Benlomond. To the north are seen the rich valley of the +Carse, the Forth, with the towns of Culross, Kincardine, Clackmannan, and +Alloa, on the opposite shore, and the country reaching to the foot of the +Ochils. To the north also may be seen the village of Larbert, as well as +several seats, the most conspicuous of which are Carron Hall, Carron Park, +Kinnaird, which once belonged to Bruce the traveller, Stenhouse, the +property of Sir W. Bruce, and Dunmore House, belonging to the earl of that +name. Immediately below the spectator is Falkirk, and beyond it, the Carron +Iron Works. At the further extremity of the valley may be seen the shipping +of Grangemouth, and lower down, that of Bo' Ness.</p> + +<p>The church of Falkirk was founded in 1057, by Malcolm Canmore, but rebuilt +in 1809. In the churchyard are the graves of Sir John Graham and Sir John +Stewart, both of whom were killed in 1298, when Edward I. obtained the +famous victory over the Scots, under Sir W. Wallace. The battle took place +halfway between Falkirk and the river Carron. A stone, called Wallace's +Stone, denotes the spot which his division occupied previous to the +contest. The tomb of Sir J. Graham bears an inscription. Here also is the +monument of Sir R. Munro, who was killed in 1746, when General Hawley was +defeated by the Pretender. The scene of this second battle was the Moor of +Falkirk, about a mile S.W. of the town.</p> +<h4><i>Immense Plane Tree.</i></h4> + +<p>At Kippenross is an immense plane tree. It is 27 feet in circumference at +the ground, and 30 at the part from which the branches shoot out.</p> + +<h4><i>Environs of Callander.</i></h4> + +<p>The vicinity of Callander is famous as the scene of Sir W. Scott's "Lady of +the Lake." The prospects are beautiful, and there are several objects +worthy of being visited. On the banks of the Teith, about a quarter of a +mile below the village is the Camp, a villa supposed to occupy the site of +a Roman intrenchment. Hence there is a magnificent prospect of Ben Ledi, +which rises 3,000 feet above the level of the sea, and bounds the horizon +to the N.W. Its name signifies <i>Hill of God</i>, and it is probable that it +was formerly the scene of Druidical rites. According to tradition, it was +held sacred by the inhabitants of the surrounding country, who annually +assembled on the first of May to kindle the sacred fire in honour of the +sun, on its summit. Near the summit of Ben Ledi is a small lake, called +Loch-au-nan Corp, the Lake of Dead Bodies, a name which it derived from an +accident which happened to a funeral here. The lake was frozen and covered +with snow; and when the funeral was crossing it, the ice gave way, and all +the attendants perished.</p> + +<p>About a mile N.E. of Callander is Bracklin Bridge, a rustic work only three +feet broad, thrown across a deep chasm, along the bottom of which rolls the +river Keltie. The torrent, after making several successive cataracts, at +length falls in one sheet about 50 feet in height, presenting from the +bridge an appalling spectacle.</p> + +<p>Another curiosity near Callander is the Pass of Leney, a narrow ravine, +skirted with woods, and hemmed in with rocks, through which a stream, +issuing from Loch Lubnaig, rushes with amazing force, forming a series of +cascades.</p> + +<h4><i>Linlithgow.</i></h4> + +<p>The palace, which forms the chief object of curiosity in Linlithgow, is a +majestic ruin, situated on the margin of a beautiful lake, and covering +more than an acre. It is entered by a detached archway, on which were +formerly sculptured the four orders borne by James V., the Thistle, Garter, +Holy Ghost, and Golden Fleece; but these are now nearly effaced. The palace +itself is a massive quadrangular edifice of polished stone, the greater +part being five stories in height. A plain archway leads to the interior +court, in the centre of which are the ruins of the well.</p> + +<p>The west side of the quadrangle, which is the most ancient, was originally + built and inhabited by Edward I., and is also interesting as the birth-place + of Queen Mary. The room in which she first saw the light is on the second story. + Her father, James V., then dying of a broken heart at Falkland, on account of + the disaster at Solway Frith, prophetically exclaimed, "It came with a + lass," alluding to his family having obtained the crown by marriage, "and + it will go with a lass." </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page280" id="page280"></a>[pg 280]</span>The + east side, begun by James III., and completed by James V., contains the Parliament + Hall. This was formerly the front of the palace, and the porch was adorned with + a statue of Pope Julius II., who presented James V. with a consecrated sword + and helmet for his resistance to the Reformation. This statue escaped the iconoclastic + zeal of the Reformers; but at the beginning of the last century was destroyed + by a blacksmith, whose anger against the Papal power had been excited by a sermon.</p> +<br /> + +<p>On an inn-window at Tarbet, in Dunbartonshire, is perhaps the longest +specimen of brittle rhymes ever written. They are signed "Thomas Russell, +Oct. 3, 1771," and extend to thirty-six lines, being a poetical description +of the ascent to Ben Lomond. What would Dr. Watts have said to such a +string of inn-window rhymes!</p> + +<h4><i>Ossian.</i></h4> + +<p>The principal curiosity in the environs of Dunkeld is the Cascade of the +Bran at Ossian's Hall, about a mile distant. This hermitage, or +summer-house, is placed on the top of a perpendicular cliff, 40 feet above +the bottom of the fall, and is so constructed, that the stranger, in +approaching the cascade, is entirely ignorant of his vicinity to it. Upon +entering the building is seen a painting, representing Ossian playing on +his harp, and singing to a group of females; beside him is his hunting +spear, bow and quiver, and his dog Bran. This picture suddenly disappears, +and the whole cataract foams at once before you, reflected in several +mirrors, and roaring with the noise of thunder. A spectacle more striking +it is hardly possible to conceive. The stream is compressed within a small +space, and at the bottom of the fall has hollowed out a deep abyss, in +which its waters are driven round with great velocity. A little below the +hall is a simple arch thrown across the chasm of the rocks, and hence there +is a good view of the fall.</p> + +<p>Half a mile further up the Bran is Ossian's Cave, part of which has been +artificially made; and about a mile higher is the Rumbling Bridge, thrown +across a chasm of granite about 15 feet wide. The river for several hundred +feet above the arch is crowded with massive fragments of rock, over which +it foams and roars; and, approaching the bridge, precipitates itself with +great fury through the chasm, making a fall of nearly 50 feet.</p> + +<p>Returning to Ossian's Hall, the tourist may continue his excursion along +the face of Craig Vinean, the summit of which commands one of the finest +prospects in this vicinity. Hence he may form some idea of the extent to +which the Duke of Atholl has carried his system of planting. His Grace is +said to have planted more than thirty millions of trees in the +neighbourhood of Dunkeld.</p> + +<h4><i>Loch Katrine.</i></h4> + +<p>We need scarcely remind the tourist, that the scene of Sir Walter Scott's +"Lady of the Lake" is laid in this spot. The following description is from +the pen of Dr. Graham, the minister of the parish:—"When you enter the +Trosachs there is such an assemblage of wildness and of rude grandeur, as +fills the mind with the most sublime conceptions. It seems as if a whole +mountain had been torn in pieces, and frittered down by a convulsion of the +earth, and the huge fragments of rocks, woods, and hills scattered in +confusion at the east end, and on the sides of Loch Katrine. The access to +the lake is through a narrow pass of half a mile in length. The rocks are +of stupendous height, and seem ready to close above the traveller's head, +and to fall down and bury him in the ruins. A huge column of these rocks +was, some years ago, torn with lightning, and lies in very large blocks +near the road. Where there is any soil, their sides are covered with aged +weeping birches, which hang down their venerable locks in waving ringlets, +as if to cover the nakedness of the rocks."</p> + +<p>"Travellers who wish to see all they can of this singular phenomenon, + generally sail westward, on the south side of the lake, to the Rock and Den + of the Ghost, whose dark recesses, from their gloomy appearance, the imagination + of superstition conceived to be the habitation of supernatural beings. In sailing, + you discover many arms of the lake;—here, a bold headland, where black + rocks dip into unfathomable water;—there, the white sand in the bottom + of a bay, bleached for ages by the waves. In walking on the north side, the + road is sometimes cut through the face of a solid rock, which rises upwards + of 200 feet perpendicular above the lake. Sometimes the view of the lake is + lost, then it bursts suddenly on the eye, and a cluster of islands and capes + appear at different distances, which give them an apparent motion, of different + degrees of velocity, as the spectator rides along the opposite beach. At other + times his road is at the foot of rugged and stupendous cliffs, and trees are + growing where no earth is to be seen. Every rock has its echo; every grove is + vocal, by the melodious harmony of birds, or by the sweet airs of women and + children gather<span class="pagenum"><a name="page281" id="page281"></a>[pg + 281]</span>ing filberts in their season. Down the side of the mountain, after + a shower of rain, flow a hundred white streams, which rush with incredible velocity + and noise into the lake, and spread their froth upon its surface. On one side, + the water-eagle sits in majesty, undisturbed, on his well-known rock, in sight + of his nest, on the face of Ben Venue; the heron stalks among the reeds in search + of his prey; and the sportive ducks gambol on the waters or dive below. On the + other, the wild goats climb, where they have scarce ground for the soles of + their feet; and the wild fowl, perched on the trees, or on the pinnacle of a + rock, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, + there are so many turnings and windings, so many heights and hollows, so many + glens, capes, and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having + the prospect changed by the continual appearance of new objects, while others + are retiring out of sight. The scene is closed by a west view of the lake, for + several miles, having its sides lined with alternate clumps of wood and arable + fields, and the smoke rising in spiral columns through the air from villages + which are concealed by the intervening woods; the prospect is bounded by the + towering Alps of Arrochar, which are checkered with snow, or hide their heads + in the clouds."</p> + +<p>"In one of the defiles of the Trosachs, two or three of the natives met a +band of Cromwell's soldiers coming to plunder them, and shot one of the +party dead, whose grave marks the scene of action, and gives name to the +pass. In revenge for this, the soldiers resolved to attack an island in the +lake, on which the wives and children of the men had taken refuge. They +could not come at it, however, without a boat; one of the most daring of +the party undertook to swim to the island and bring away the boat; when, +just as he was catching hold of a rock to get ashore, a heroine, called +Helen Stuart, met him and cut off his head with a sword; upon which the +party, seeing the fate of their comrade, thought proper to withdraw."</p> + +<p>Loch Katrine is about ten miles long, and one broad. Its depth in some +parts is nearly 500 feet. Its temperature, at the surface, is 62°, and at +the bottom 40°. The lake never freezes, and in winter is much resorted to +by swans.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>PORTRAIT-PAINTING.</h3> + +<p>Painters of history make the dead live, and do not live themselves till they + are dead, I paint the living, and they make me live.—<cite>Sir Godfrey + Kneller.</cite></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>THE SELECTOR; <br />AND <br />LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>PRACTICE OF COOKERY,</h3> + +<h4><i>Adapted to the Business of every day Life. By Mrs. Dalgairns.</i></h4> + +<p>We like the title of this book—there is promise in it, for practice is +better than profession in any thing but the law of arrest. We are gross +enough too, in our hearts, not to like the name of a professed cook—thank +our stars, now nearly forgotten. There is so much science implied in the +name, so much theory, than which alone in cookery, at least, nothing is +less inviting. We should conceive the intention of this book to bring +cookery home to the business of every man's mouth—his breakfast, luncheon, +dinner, and supper practice, and heartily do we wish that all mankind were +in a condition to avail themselves of these four quotidian opportunities of +testing Mrs. Dalgairns's book.</p> + +<p>"A perfectly original book of Cookery," says Mrs. D. "would + neither meet with, nor deserve, much attention; because, what is wanted in this + matter, is not receipts for new dishes, but clear instructions how to make those + already established in public favour." This reasoning is very just, for + none but the most thankless of <i>gourmands</i>, or the <i>gourmet</i> who wished + to affect the sorrows of the great man of antiquity,—would sit down and + weep for new worlds of luxury. Good cookery is too rarely understood and practised + to justify any such wishes; and to prove this, let the sceptic go through Mrs. + Dalgairns's 1,434 receipts, and then "tire and begin again." Our respected + editress assures us that "every receipt has either been actually tried + by the author, or by persons whose accuracy in the various <i>manipulations</i><a name="footnotetag3" id="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> + could be safely relied on."</p> +<p>From a table of contents we learn that among them there are the following methods:— +</p> +<div class="quote"> + <table border="0" width="300" summary="Numbers of each method"> + <tr> + <td width="270">Soups</td> + <td align="right">105</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Fish</td> + <td align="right">115</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Beef</td> + <td align="right">70</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Mutton</td> + <td align="right">31</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Veal</td> + <td align="right">60</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td><span class="pagenum"><a name="page282" id="page282"></a>[pg 282]</span>Gravies, + Sauces, &c.</td> + <td align="right">104</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Puddings, Pies, and Tarts</td> + <td align="right">263</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Creams, Custards, &c.</td> + <td align="right">134</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Cakes and Preserves</td> + <td align="right">182</td> + </tr> +</table> +</div> +<p>—what more can mortal man desire, "nay, or women either." Appended to them +is much valuable information concerning the poultry-yard, dairy, brewery, +kitchen-garden, bees, pigs, &c. so as to render this <i>Practice of Cookery</i> +a truly useful and treasurable system of domestic management, and a book of +matters-of-fact and experience. The subject is too melting—too tempting +for us to resist paying this tribute to Mrs. Dalgairns's volume.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>"CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE."</h3> + +<p>An appropriate <i>April</i> book, too controversial for extensive quotation in +our pages, as the enumeration of its contents will prove. They are +half-a-dozen gracefully written sketches, viz. the Gipsy Girl, Religious +Offices, Enthusiasm, Romanism, Rashness, and De Lawrence. Half of these +papers, as will readily be guessed from their titles, bear upon "the +question," and are consequently, as the publishers say, "not in our way." +We are, nevertheless, proud to aver that the sentiments of these chapters +are highly honourable to the heart of the writer as they are creditable to +his good taste and ability. He is, to judge from his book, a good man, one +who is not so willing as the majority of us, to let his philanthropy remain +</p> +<p class="quote">"Like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall;" </p> +<p>and we hope the forcible positions of the truths he has here inculcated, +will bestir others from their laxity. The most attractive sketches in the +series are the Gipsy Girl and De Lawrence. In the latter there are scenes +of considerable energy and polish. The hero, a profligate, after abusing +all the advantages of fortune, commits a forgery, and is executed. The +sympathies of an affectionate wife, in his misery and degradation, tend to +heighten the interest, and point the moral of the story; his last interview +with the partner of his woe is admirably drawn, as are some caustic +observations on that most disgusting of all scenes—a public execution and +its repulsive orgies. We give a portion of the interview, which appears to +us to contain some fine touches of deep remorse:—</p> +<p>"Accompanied by her parents and her infant, she alighted at the tavern + which adjoined the prison-house. Her father went immediately to arrange for + the interview; which, as the time of execution drew nigh, must take place instantly + or not at all. Habited in deep black, which, from the contrast, made the pale + primrose of her cheek still paler, entered his drooping wife; bearing on her + bosom, "cradled on her arm," their child, happily unconscious alike + of its father's ignominy—its mother's sorrows. With uncertain steps she + tottered towards him. He advanced to her embrace, at first, with coolness and + deliberation; but when her altered look, on which care had engraven an accusation + that smote with the chill of death his guilty heart—her lack-lustre eye—her + form almost reduced to a shadow—met his glance, his resolution dissolved + before them: the better feelings of his nature, long lulled by habitual vice, + and fixed in inertion by the flattering commendations of his spiritual guide, + burst forth afresh like a stream long pent up, and overwhelmed him with their + gush. He sank upon one knee, and received his wife and child falling into his + embrace. His haughty spirit was humbled, was softened. He could have borne her + curses with indifference, he could have returned a formal adieu with equal formality—he + had expected to encounter a scene, and was made up accordingly: but to look + upon her thus—her days gone like a shadow—to witness her sunken + eye filled with beamings in which he alone was enshrined—to see her meek + and forgiving, whose light heart had been turned to sorrow, whose gay morning + dreams had been turned to sad realities, whose confidence had been abused and + happiness wrecked,—all, all by his baseness and treachery:—to behold + his forsaken wife, superior to all this, clinging to him for his last farewell, + as if she and not himself were the offender, was beyond his expectation. He + knew he had merited curses and hate, and he met with affection and tenderness; + his heart yearned—a sensation of admiration for her virtues and constancy + came over him, and, ere it had possessed him entirely, it humbled his proud + spirit—it undeceived his false expectations. "My God, I have not + deserved this!" burst from his swelling heart. A tear, such as he had not + shed since he left the paths of innocence, stole down his cheek. Fervently, + truly, affectionately, he blessed his wife and child."</p> +<p>"They are gone. Was it a vision that had visited his waking dreams? The + spell is dissolved; he is still on earth, and earthly thoughts and worldly crimes + return and weigh down his soul."</p> +<p>"The fetters of vice are not broken in a moment; they may yield sometimes + like wax, but they close again, and the link is adamant. His foster-mother came + to say her last farewell. He shuddered as she entered. He felt the presence + of his evil <span class="pagenum"><a name="page283" id="page283"></a>[pg 283]</span>genius, + and wished she had spared him this. This, too, was transient; her influence, + though disarranged by the vision of the last few moments, was not broken. He + was again enslaved. The summons for execution was answered by her hysteric sobs + and wild ravings, and her loud shrieks rang through the cell as De Lawrence + impressed his last kiss."</p> +<p>The incidents of the previous sketch contain little, if any, extravagance or + affectation, and it would be better for men, if we could charge the author of + "Clouds and Sunshine" with overcolouring the sufferings which await + the spendthrift. It is painful to own that such cases are but too common in + society. Think of an extravagant man married to an extravagant woman—the + mean and contemptible conduct to which they are driven—the insolence and + cruelty with which they are baited through large towns, hunted down into an + obscure cottage in the country, or chased into exile. Think of the hateful reflections + which, sooner or later, must overtake such sufferers—either in their moody + solitude in the country, or amidst the forced delights of a crowded city on + the continent. In the one all nature is free, whilst the debauchee frowns on + her laughing landscapes; in the other, conscience and her busy devils are at + work—yet thousands thus embitter life's cup, and then repine at their + uncheery lot. With such men, all must be <i>Clouds</i>—a winter of discontent—for + who will envy their <i>Sunshine</i>.</p> +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>NOSES.</h3> + +<h4><i>Observations on the Organ of Scent. <br />By William Wadd, Esq., F.L.S.</i></h4> + +<div class="quote"> + <p>"Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum."—<span class="scaps">Martial</span>.</p> + + <p>"I have a nose."—<span class="scaps">Proby</span>.</p> +</div> + +<p>It has often struck me as a defect in our anatomical teachers, that in +describing that prominent feature of the human face, the organ of scent, +they generalize too much, and have but one term for the symmetrical arch, +arising majestically, or the tiny atom, scarcely equal to the weight of a +barnacle—a very dot of flesh! Nor is the dissimilarity between the +invisible functions of the organ, and the visible varieties of its external +structure, less worthy of remark. With some, the sense of smelling is so +dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even +pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the +knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of +offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of +sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.</p> + +<p>Shakspeare, who was a minute observer of the anatomical and physiological varieties + of the human frame, did not allow this dissimilarity to pass unnoticed; and, + moreover, he starts a query that has never been satisfactorily answered, from + his time to the present; viz. "Canst thou tell why one's nose stands i' + the middle of one's face?"<a name="footnotetag4" id="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> + And his nice discrimination about noses extends also to shape and colour.—from + the "Red-nosed innkeeper of Dav'ntry,"<a name="footnotetag5" id="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> + and the "Malmsy-nosed knave, Bardolph,"<a name="footnotetag6" id="footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a> + to him in Henry V., "whose nose was sharp as a pen!"</p> + + +<p>This celebrated "Malmsy-nose" possessed properties unknown to the + same feature now-a-days. It was adapted to practical utility, in its application + to domestic purposes, and moral instruction, by that great admirer and competent + judge of its virtues, Sir John Falstaff, to whose sheets it did the office of + a warming-pan;<a name="footnotetag7" id="footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a> + and who made as good use of it as some men do of a death's head, or a <i>memento + mori:</i> "I never see it," said he, "but I think upon hell fire." + It stands almost unrivalled in history, and ranks at least with that which gave + a cognomen to Ovid,<a name="footnotetag8" id="footnotetag8"></a><a href="#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a> + and the one to which the celebrated violoncello player, Cervetto, owed the <i>sobriquet</i> + of <i>Nosey</i>. This epithet reminds me of another nose of theatrical notoriety, + whose rubicund tint, when it interfered with the costume of a sober character + which its owner was enacting, was moderated by his wife, who, with laudable + anxiety to keep down its "rosy hue," was constantly behind the scenes + with a powder puff, which she was accustomed to apply, ejaculating, "'Od + rot it, George! how you do rub your poor nose! Come here, and let me powder + it. Do you think Alexander the Great had such a nose?"</p> + +<p>Nor would I omit to mention one, contemporary almost with the above, by +which the public peace was said to be endangered, as recorded by a poet of +the day, who states,-- +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>"Amongst the crowds, not one in ten</p> +<p class="i2">Ere saw a thing so rare;</p> +<p>Its size surpriseth all the men,</p> +<p class="i2">Its charms attract the fair.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>'Tis wonderful to see the folk,</p> +<p class="i2">Who at the nose do gaze;</p> +<p>All grin and laugh, and sneer and joke,</p> +<p class="i2">And gape in such amaze.</p> +</div><span class="pagenum"><a name="page284" id="page284"></a>[pg 284]</span><div class="stanza"> +<p>The children, whom the sight doth please,</p> +<p class="i2">Their little fingers point;</p> +<p>Wishing to give it one good squeeze,</p> +<p class="i2">And pull it out of joint."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>Much more is said by the poet in its praise; at last he falls into a moral +strain:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>"For many, as you may suppose,</p> +<p class="i2">'Gainst nature loudly bawl,—</p> +<p>That one man should have such a nose,</p> +<p class="i2">Whilst some have none at all."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>And then concludes with some excellent sentiments:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>"Though ev'ry man's a nat'ral right</p> +<p class="i2">To shew a moderate nose,</p> +<p>Yet surely 'tis a piece of spite</p> +<p class="i2">To spoil the world's repose.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>'Tis wrong t' exhibit such a show,</p> +<p class="i2">Though you may think it fun</p> +<p>Yet still, good Sir, you little know</p> +<p class="i2">What evil it has done.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>What quarrels have from hence begun!</p> +<p class="i2">What anger and what strife!</p> +<p>What blows have pass'd 'tween man and man!</p> +<p class="i2">What kicks 'tween man and wife!</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>No longer, then, thyself disgrace,</p> +<p class="i2">In quest of beauty's fame;</p> +<p>No longer, then, expose thy face,</p> +<p class="i2">To get thy nose a name.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Take it away, if thou art wise,</p> +<p class="i2">And keep it safe at home,</p> +<p>Amongst thy curiosities</p> +<p class="i2">Of ancient Greece and Rome."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>Shakspeare would have thought it high treason, for he says,—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>"Down with the nose, take the bridge quite away</p> +<p>Of him, that his particular to forefend</p> +<p><i>Smells</i> from the general weal."</p> +</div></div> + +<p>There may have been many other such noses that have escaped observation,—"born + to <i>blush</i> unseen:" enough, however, I have here stated of those my + recollection furnishes me with at the moment, to establish the fact of variety, + and to lead curious physiologists to a scientific classification of this <i>prominent</i> + and well-deserving feature of the human face. I would recommend a proper distinction + being observed between functional varieties, and those which arise from size, + shape, or colour, of which, in a cursory way, may be enumerated first,— +</p> +<table width="400" border="0" align="center" summary="Shapes of noses"> + <tr align="center"> + <td colspan="4"><i>Shape.</i><a name="footnotetag9" id="footnotetag9"></a><a href="#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td width="100">Roman.</td> + <td width="100">Snub.</td> + <td width="100">Flat.</td> + <td width="100">Bottle nose,</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Grecian.</td> + <td> Pug.</td> + <td>Sharp.</td> + <td>Parrotical nose.</td> + </tr> +</table> +<table width="300" border="0" align="center" summary="Colours of noses"> + <tr> + <td colspan="3" align="center"><i>Colour.</i></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td width="33%">Red.</td> + <td width="33%">Malmsey.</td> + <td>Purple.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Ruby.</td> + <td>Claret.</td> + <td>Copper.</td> + </tr> +</table> + +<p>Now, what does all this come to? <i>Cui bono?</i> A great deal for surgery; + let us examine what may be done;—we know that noses may be supplied,—may + not, therefore, a small one be enlarged, and a large one made small? We have + seen a person with a <i>bunch</i> of <i>noses</i>, but can only, on the authority + of Shakspeare, quote one "who had a thousand." </p> + +<p>For a great length of time nothing was admired in the world but Roman +noses,—and then not a word was heard about them, till William III. brought +them again into fashion.</p> + +<p>People occasionally possess the power of voluntary action with the muscles +of the nose, and can move it horizontally, or to the right and left,—draw +it up or protrude it,—so as to make it take any position they please. +Painters have been provokingly deceived by this stratagem, and have in vain +attempted the portraits of such persons, who were able at every instant to +produce a new physiognomy.</p> + +<p>One of the qualifications for the Ugly Club was a nose eminently +miscalculated, whether as to length or breadth,—the thickest skin had +preference.</p> + +<p>Hitherto we have only considered external appearances; we must now notice +its functional and other properties.</p> + +<p>With some persons, the nose is a sort of barometer,—a certain state of the +atmosphere is invariably announced to them by an agreeable sensation of +coldness at the tip.</p> + +<p>Zimmerman used to draw conclusions, as to a man's temperament, from his +<i>nose!</i> Not indeed from its size or form, but from the peculiar sensibility +of the organ.</p> + +<p>Cardan considered acuteness of smell as a proof of penetrating genius, and +a lively imagination.</p> + +<p>Haller could distinguish perspiration at ten yards' distance.</p> + +<p>There have been instances on record of blind people who were able to +discover colours by the touch; and deaf and dumb, who could feel sounds by +placing their hand upon the speaker's mouth: this, however, is not more +astonishing, than that the sense of smelling should be so acute, as to +enable some persons to judge by it the quality of metals. Martial mentions +a person, named Mamurra, who consulted only his nose, to ascertain whether +the copper that was brought him were true Corinthian. There have been +Indian merchants who, if a piece of money were given them, by applying +their nose to it, defined its quality to a nicety, without touchstone, +balance, or aqua-fortis. Europeans, also, are to be found whose sense of +smelling is equally delicate and perfect.</p> + +<p>Marco-Marci speaks of a monk at Prague, who, when any thing was brought <span class="pagenum"><a name="page285" id="page285"></a>[pg + 285]</span>him, distinguished, by its smell, with as much certainty as the best + nosed dog, to whom it belonged, or by whom it had been handled. It was also + said of him, that he could accurately distinguish, in this manner, the virtuous + from the vicious. He was much devoted to the study of natural philosophy; and, + among other things, had undertaken to oblige the world with precepts on the + sense of smelling, like those we have on optics and acoustics, by distributing + into certain classes a great number of smells, to all of which he had given + names; but an untimely death cut him off in the midst of these curious researches.</p> + +<p>The guides who accompany travellers on the route from Smyrna or Aleppo, to +Babylon, have no other signs in the midst of the deserts, to discover their +distance from the place of destination, than the smell of the sand alone, +by which they determine with certainty. Perhaps they judge by the odour +exhaled from small plants, or roots, intermixed with the sand.</p> + +<p>Physicians, in visiting the sick, have been known to form a prognostic, +before having seen the patient, from the effluvia of the sick-room. Those +who are in the habit of visiting the insane, know the peculiar odour that +characterises that dire calamity; and it was remarked of the plague, that +it had "a scent of the flavour of mellow apples."</p> + +<p>It is said that monkeys possess this power of discrimination in a very +eminent degree. A story is told of a lady who had a pet of this +description, whom she made her constant companion, and who suddenly, +without any apparent cause, forsook her, and could not be persuaded to +re-enter her chamber. The lady was at that time infected with measles, +which shortly after appeared upon her; but, on her perfect recovery, the +monkey returned to her with his usual familiarity. Some time after, the +same lady caught cold, and was apparently very ill, but without fever. The +monkey, as far as might be judged from his appearance, seemed to condole +with his sick mistress, and to understand the difference of her distempers, +by the confidence with which he remained in attendance upon her.</p> + +<p>It has even been said, that the sagacity of some dogs has led them to +prognosticate the fatal termination of disease. "Whilst I lived at Ripon," +says a learned doctor, "I took notice of a little dog, of a chestnut +colour, that very often boded the death of sick persons, without being +once, for aught I could learn, mistaken. Every time he barked in the night +under the windows of any one whose sickness did not even appear dangerous, +it happened, infallibly, that the sick person died that week. I knew also," +observes the same author, "a man bit by a mad dog, who could distinguish +his friends at a considerable distance by the smell, before even he could +distinguish them by sight."</p> + +<p>So early as the second century, the supplying the deficiency of a lost nose + became an object of professional consideration; and the Greeks gave the name + <img src="images/367-2.png" width="112" height="23" align="middle" alt="Greek: Kolobhômata" />, + to those who required such an operation. Taliacotius was the first who treated + it scientifically; and, from his time, the art of Addition became one of the + branches of surgery; and, under the title "<i>De Decoratione</i>," + formed a very interesting chapter.</p> + +<p>Although Taliacotius has the credit of bringing the art of nose-making into + fashion, and being the first to write on the mode and manner of performing the + operation, yet it appears that one Branca had been in the habit of performing + it long before, as we learn from an ancient author, whose name must, in this + instance, be considered as the highest authority, being no less a person than + <span class="scaps">Nosorenus</span>.</p> + +<p>Why the magistracy of Bologna should have conferred the high honour of a +statue on Taliacotius it is difficult to understand,—unless the loss of +the nose was of more frequent occurrence than in those days, from the +barbarity of warfare and civil punishment; for an old law of the Lombards +assigned the loss of the nose as a punishment for theft; and the captives +in war were equally spoiled for snuff-takers.</p> + +<p>That this was no uncommon dilemma with Italian gentlemen in the fifteenth +century, appears by the style in which a Neapolitan poet writes to the +<i>noseless</i> Orpianus:—"If," says he, "you would have your nose restored, +come to me—truly the thing is wonderful. Be assured that, if you come, you +may go home again with as much nose as you please."</p> + +<p>It does not, however, appear that the nasal operation made any impression +on our ancient English surgeons. Wiseman does not even mention it, though +slitting the nose, and cutting off the ears, was a common mode of punishing +political delinquents in his time; and it is said that Prynne, whose ears +were cut off, had new ones made, "<i>à la</i> Taliacotius." The fact is, that +the operation was misunderstood, and disbelieved, as we know by the jocose +manner in which it is alluded to by Butler. It has, however, been +successfully revived, and performed, by Mr. Carpue.</p> + +<p>Connected with the varieties of the or<span class="pagenum"><a name="page286" id="page286"></a>[pg + 286]</span>gan of scent, is the well-known story of that extraordinary lusus, + the <i>Pig-faced Lady.</i></p> + +<p class="source"><i>Brande's Journal.</i></p> + +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.</h2> + +<hr /> +<h3>ARCTIC ADVENTURES.</h3> + +<h4><i>From the Tales of a Voyager. Second Series.</i></h4> +<h4>THE MORSE, OR SEA HORSE.</h4> + +<p>After a long and tedious interval of misty, dripping weather, we obtained +sufficient sun at noon, to find ourselves in latitude 72.19; but a +discovery that afforded me most pleasure was the appearance of a sea-horse, +lying at some distance from us, on an elevated piece of ice. This animal +was first perceived by the captain, from the mast-head, whence he +immediately descended, and ordered a boat to be lowered, inviting William +and myself to join him in trying to make the monster our prey. When we drew +near to its station, it raised its head and displayed one formidable tusk, +projecting downwards from its upper jaw towards its breast, whilst part of +another, broken by some accident or encounter, offered a less menacing +weapon to our view. The beast itself was about the size of a large bullock, +and lay upon the ice like a huge mass of animated matter, which seemed to +possess no means of locomotion. Its head was disproportionably small to the +size of its body, judged according to our usual ideas of the relative +difference of bulk between these parts, while its whiskers were evidently +larger and stronger than those of any other animal. These singularities +gave it a grotesque appearance, not lessened by an approximation in its +square short countenance to a caricatured resemblance of the human face, +while the half stolid half ferocious stare, with which it regarded us, +contributed to render it one of the most strange beings of earthly mould on +which I had ever set my eyes.</p> + +<p>While I was making these observations, we were rapidly advancing towards the + object of them, which, seemingly in doubt whether to take our visit in enmity + or friendship, continued to gaze at our approach as it lay (standing not being + one of its faculties) at its full height upon a block of ice, about eight feet + above the surface of the sea. It must have climbed this elevation by crawling + up one side of the frozen mass, which was shelving and easy of access, by means + of its tusks and flippers; but, whatever was its way of mounting the acclivity, + it quickly showed us how it managed to descend; for, upon a couple of bullets + passing through its neck, it gave itself a heave backward, rolled overhead and + heels down the slope of the hummock, and was launched violently into the water + by the precipitate rush of its heavy body. No sooner did it find itself in its + most natural element, than it prepared to dive; but this manoeuvre had been + foreseen, and the stern of the boat was on its back at the moment it was about + to disappear, and the captain exerting all his force, after striking the weapon + with a sudden plunge against its tough hide, drove the harpoon through its skin, + and allowed it to make its vain attempt at escape. It then dived and took out + several fathoms of line like a whale, but it soon rose to the surface, and reared + its frightful head and shoulders above the waves, with the most threatening + aspect of deadly warfare. Evidently eager to revenge itself upon its enemies, + the morse began to take hasty strokes towards us, yet in a state of hurry and + confusion which impressed us with a belief that the balls had inflicted desperate, + if not immediately mortal wounds. Nevertheless, it displayed determination enough + to enter into close conflict with its foes, and came on, puffing and snorting, + with a savage though bewildered look. Seeing this disposition to assail us, + we backed astern; but before the walrus had made much progress, the guns were + reloaded, and another bullet struck it on the head, which sent it down immediately; + however, it quickly appeared again, raising itself high above the water, and + looking furiously around for its antagonists. When it perceived our position, + it resumed its endeavour to attack us; but during its approach it stopped short, + infirm of purpose, probably exhausted with loss of blood, or growing giddy from + the shock of the last ball, and allowed us time to discharge a musket once more, + and with fatal effect; its head dropped suddenly upon the water, and we pulled + up and took it in tow. When we had hoisted it on board, a proceeding that required + pretty strong tackle and several hands, it was flayed, yielding a hide of extraordinary + thickness, lined on the inside with blubber, and scantily covered externally + with short reddish brown hair, the greatest part of its skin appearing to have + been denuded of this clothing by eruptive blotches, such as I presume disfigure + a measly hog. Although incomparably larger, the general contour of its body + resembled the figure of a seal; its frame being of the same description, though + differently moulded. It was considerably more bulky in proportion to its length, + its chest and back more elevated, its fore <span class="pagenum"><a name="page287" id="page287"></a>[pg + 287]</span>flippers thicker and more rounded, and its hind quarters less tapering + to the tail. Altogether, it impressed upon the mind a strong idea of a formidable + monster, in spite of its relatively diminutive head; for its fearful tusks, + and thick-set projecting whiskers, gave its visage a most truculent expression; + and with its grotesquely fashioned ponderous carcass, provided with fin feet + of strange formation, seemed to mark it as a personification of one of the fabulous + conceptions of mythology.</p> + +<p>The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no +outcry, for the half sneezing, half snorting sounds it uttered I conceive +to have been the consequence of its hasty dive, which had apparently +prevented its taking in sufficient breath, and occasioned it to admit some +water down its windpipe. Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or +thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, +seems to indicate vast powers of voice in this animal; but I am at a loss +to conjecture why it should be provided either with this unusual capability +of "blaring," or with the exceedingly strong whiskers that arm its muzzle, +organs which, though nominally of little or no importance except in +Bond-street, must really be of consequence to the walrus, since their roots +are imbedded in two thick cushions of tough blubbery substance, so large as +to give a marked character to the countenance, and evidently pointing out +the growth and nourishment of these whiskers as a matter of some +consideration in the eye of nature.</p> + +<hr /> +<h3>SEAL'S WEDDING.</h3> + +<p>Just as we had made fast to a floe, to take in water from a bright blue +pool which slept on its hollow surface, I was called upon deck to witness +"a seal's wedding." This ceremony was performed in a manner which, however +nuptial it may have appeared to seamen, was not quite in accordance with my +ideas of the hymeneal contract. A "seal's wedding" seems to be a seal's +dance, or a combination of gambols, which these animals act together, while +swimming rapidly forward in company, leaping above the surface of the +water, rolling, tumbling, going "tail up" after each other, and enacting a +thousand wild freaks, as unexpected from such grave-looking and +clumsy-built harlequins as can be imagined. Yet why should not the solemn +visaged, double-chinned phoca partake of one of the most universal habits +of animal life—the love of frolic?—a desire which is equally as diffused +throughout the living creation as the inclination for fighting. A shoal or +"school" of beautiful unicorns also swam past our vessel at this time; they +were particularly large, and, from the numerous horns projected from the +water, there must have been many males amongst them. They swim, dive, rise, +and blow, much like other whales, throwing up their tails when scared, or +when intending to take a deep dive, in the same manner, but exhibiting far +greater quickness in foreseeing and avoiding the approach of enemies. No +satisfactory use has been assigned for the horn that arms the male narwal, +nor should any reason be conjectured for its presence that involves its +possessor's mode of procuring food, since the same necessity would be +unprovided for in the female; yet I have sometimes thought the horn was +employed to dislodge the flat-fish, on which the unicorn feeds, from the +recesses of the bottom, where they would naturally conceal themselves at +the sight of their enemy; and if the narwal seeks its prey in company, as, +from its constant appearance in a shoal, may be concluded, the raking of +the horns amidst the weeds and ooze would be as serviceable to the unarmed +females as to their gallant consorts.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2> +<div class="quote"> + <p class="indinv">A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.<br /> + <span class="scaps">Shakspeare</span>.</p> +</div> +<hr /> +<h3>OLD LOVE SONG.</h3> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>When the bright God of day</p> +<p>Drove to westward his way,</p> +<p class="i2">And the ev'ning was charming and clear,</p> +<p>When the swallows amain,</p> +<p>Nimbly skimm'd o'er the plain,</p> +<p class="i2">And the shadows like giants appear.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>In a jessamin bower,</p> +<p>When the bean was in flower,</p> +<p class="i2">And the zephyrs breath'd odours around,</p> +<p>Lovely Coelia she sat,</p> +<p>With her song, and spinnet,</p> +<p class="i2">To charm all the grove with the sound.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Rosy bowers she sung,</p> +<p>While the harmony rung,</p> +<p class="i2">And the birds did all flutt'ring arrive,</p> +<p>The industrious bees</p> +<p>From the flowers and trees,</p> +<p class="i2">Gently humm'd with their sweets to the hive.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Now the gay god of love,</p> +<p>As he flew o'er the grove,</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page288" id="page288"></a>[pg 288]</span><p class="i2">By zephyrs conducted along,</p> +<p>While she play'd on the strings,</p> +<p>He beat time with his wings,</p> +<p class="i2">And an echo repeated the song.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh ye mortals beware</p> +<p>How ye venture too near,</p> +<p class="i2">Love doubly is armed to wound;</p> +<p>From her eyes if you run,</p> +<p>You are surely undone</p> +<p class="i2">If she reach but your ears with the sound.</p> +</div></div> + +<hr /> +<h3>EPITAPH ON A LAWYER.</h3> +<p>The following inscription is taken from a tomb in St. Pancras churchyard, Middlesex. + It is a flat stone, which some years since lay even with the ground, but was, + about 1815, raised on a few tier of bricks, (to prevent obliteration by footsteps,) + by order of the church-wardens, as I was informed by the grave-digger, and which, + no doubt, was done on account of the singularity of the lines. The situation + of the tomb is not far from the east corner of the church, a little beyond a + lofty tomb with a monument. The inscription, from time, has been much defaced, + and the verse is not easily made out by a stranger; but I have recollected it + since about the year 1778, when it was very perfect. I saw the same in 1817, + and took a copy as under:—</p> + +<p class="quote">"This stone is inscribed to the memory of Mr. Thomas Abbott, + of Swaffham, in the county of Norfolk, attorney-at-law, who died lamented by + his friends, (enemies he had none,) after a painful and tedious illness, which + he bore with patience, resignation, and fortitude becoming a man. Departed this + life August the 16th, Anno Domini 1762, aged 48."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>"Here lieth one, (believe it if you can,)</p> +<p>Who, though an attorney, was an honest man.</p> +<p>The gates of heaven for him shall open wide,</p> +<p>But will be shut against all the tribe beside."</p> +</div></div> + +<p class="source">T.R.</p> + +<hr /> +<p>A celebrated gunaiphilist having asked a friend with whom he was walking, +if the woman they had just met was not very <i>passable</i>, the other replied, +"Undoubtedly she was, or I had never <i>got by her</i>, while you were with me +at least."</p> + +<p class="source">HEBES.</p> + +<hr /> +<h3>A WEDDING.</h3> +<p>A tragic-comic meeting, compounded of favours, footmen, faintings, +farewells, prayers, parsons, plumcakes, rings, refreshments, bottles, +blubberings, God bless-ye's, and gallopings away in a post-chaise and four.</p> + +<hr /> +<h3>CHARADE.</h3> +<p>A natural production, neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral, neither male +nor female, yet often produced between both; it exists from two to six feet +high, is often spoken of in romances, and strongly recommended by precept, +example, and Holy Writ.—<i>A kiss.</i></p> + +<hr /> +<p>Extempore written during the time some medical pupils were considering how +they should remove the heart of a young woman deceased, whom the friends +allowed them to open, on condition that they took no part away:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>St. Thomas's pupils, I cannot help grieving,</p> +<p class="i2">To think it should ever be said,</p> +<p>That we, who so oft steal girls' hearts whilst they're living,</p> +<p class="i2">Should steal them as well when they're dead.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<p>We're admitted in confidence, and with reliance</p> +<p class="i2">The friends on our honour depend;</p> +<p>We have given the pledge, then disgrace not the <i>science</i>,</p> +<p class="i2">By stealing the heart from a friend.</p> +</div></div> + +<p class="source">E.C.</p> + +<hr /> +<p>Sir Isaac Newton was, it is well known, extremely fond of employing his +leisure hours in fishing. Being one day asked by a fellow-collegian how it +happened that so vast a genius could stoop to a pursuit so trifling at the +best, replied, "How is it possible that you should be surprised at my being +<i>a lover of the angle?</i>"</p> + +<p class="source">HEBES.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h4>LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE</h4> + +<h4><i>Following Novels is already Published:</i> </h4> +<div class="quote"> + <table width="350" border="0" summary="List of published novels and prices"> + <tr> + <td> </td> + <td align="right" width="30">s. </td> + <td align="right" width="30">d.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Mackenzie's Man of Feeling</td> + <td align="right"> 0</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Paul and Virginia</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Castle of Otranto</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Almoran and Hamet</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Rasselas</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">8</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Old English Baron</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">8</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Nature and Art</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">8</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + <td align="right">10</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Sicilian Romance</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Man of the World</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right"> 0</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>A Simple Story</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right">4</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Joseph Andrews</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Humphry Clinker</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right">8</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Romance of the Forest</td> + <td align="right">1</td> + <td align="right">8</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Italian</td> + <td align="right">2</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Zeluco, by Dr. Moore</td> + <td align="right">2</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Edward, by Dr. Moore</td> + <td align="right">2</td> + <td align="right">0</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Roderick Random</td> + <td align="right">2</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>The Mysteries of Udolpho</td> + <td align="right">3</td> + <td align="right">6</td> + </tr> +</table> +</div> +<hr class="full" /> +<div class="quote"> + <div class="footnote"> + <p><a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a></p> + <p> The preamble speaks of <i>two</i> Mac Ranalds, (chiefs,) and then enumerates + <i>three</i>. It is probable there were two families who had been usually + elected to the chieftaincy, and that Cahal, the son of Conachar, represented + one family, Toraylach and Gerald the other. I give this, however, only as + a conjecture. Perhaps the safest way will be to set it down as an <i>Irish + bull</i>, the earliest upon record.</p> + <p><a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + </p> + <p>"Witness," said my friend, "the bracelets which I am now + wearing; they are modelled from a pair found in Pompeii." These were + made of gold, quite in the fashion of the present day; beautifully chased, + but by no means of an uncommon pattern.</p> + <p><a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + </p> + <p>This is an unlucky word for a cookery book. Why not say operations? Mrs. + D. Mrs. D! you have not escaped the scientific mania that is mounting from + area to attic throughout this country. Such a term as <i>manipulation</i> + sounds well enough in Mr. Brande's laboratory at the Royal Institution, + but would be quite out of place in the kitchen of either of the hotels in + the same street. A footman might as well study the polarization of light + whilst cleaning the drawing-room windows.</p> + <p><a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: <a href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a> + </p> + <p> Lear.</p> + <p><a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: <a href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a></p> + <p>1 Henry IV. iv. 2.</p> + <p><a name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6</b>: <a href="#footnotetag6">(return)</a></p> + <p>2 Henry IV. ii. 1.</p> + <p><a name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7</b>: <a href="#footnotetag7">(return)</a> + </p> + <p> Henry V. ii. 1.</p> + <p><a name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8</b>: <a href="#footnotetag8">(return)</a> + </p> + <p> "Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso; but for smelling + out the odoriferous flowers of fancy?" says Holofernes, the school-master, + in Love's Labour Lost.</p> + <p><a name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9</b>: <a href="#footnotetag9">(return)</a> + </p> + <p>Lavater considers the nose as the fulcrum of the brain; and describes + it as a piece of Gothic architecture. "It is in the nose that the arch + of the forehead properly rests, the weight of which, but for this, would + mercilessly crush the cheeks and the mouth." He enters into the philosophy + of noses with diverting enthusiasm, and finally concludes, "Non cuique + datum est habere nasum:"—it is not every one's good fortune to + have a nose! A sharp nose has been considered the visible mark of a shrew.</p> + </div> +</div> +<hr class="full" /> +<p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) + London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen + and Booksellers.</i></p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11742 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/11742-h/images/367-1.png b/11742-h/images/367-1.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a01ac1a --- /dev/null +++ b/11742-h/images/367-1.png diff --git a/11742-h/images/367-2.png b/11742-h/images/367-2.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6508777 --- /dev/null +++ b/11742-h/images/367-2.png |
