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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction + Volume 13, No. 362, Saturday, March 21, 1829 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 3, 2004 [EBook #12498] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + + <hr class="full" /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page193" name="page193"></a>[pg 193]</span> + <h1>THE MIRROR<br /> + OF<br /> + LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1> + <hr class="full" /> + <table width="100%" summary="Banner"> + <tr> + <td align="left"><b>VOL. XIII, NO. 362.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> +<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> +<a href="images/362-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/362-1.png" +alt="Chester Terrace, Regent's Park." /></a> +<center>CHESTER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.</center> +</div> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page194" name="page194"></a>[pg 194]</span> +</p> +<h2> + CHESTER TERRACE, +</h2> +<h3> +REGENT'S PARK. +</h3> +<p> +On the annexed page is a spirited representation of this splendid range +of palatial residences, which present as noble an appearance as any +similar structure in the Park. +</p> +<p> +To familiarize the topography of Chester Terrace, we should say it +stands between the Colosseum and St. Katharine's Church, these being the +most conspicuous buildings in the circle; and the majestic cupola of the +former building is shown in the distance of our engraving. +</p> +<p> +This terrace is named from the royal earldom of Chester. It is from +the designs of Mr. Nash, the architect of York Terrace engraved in our +No. 358. Like the majority of that gentleman's works, Chester Terrace +evinces great genius, with many of its irregularities. It is of the +Corinthian order of architecture, characterized by its richness; but the +present specimen is weak in its details, and the form and proportions of +its balustrade are starved and lanky. The capitals of the columns want +the gracefulness of the Corinthian, and the volutes are but puny +illustrations of that beautiful order. +</p> +<p> +Leaving these defects to be further scrutinized by the more critical +spectator, we cannot fail to be impressed with this grand and commanding +terrace; the composition exhibits great genius and powerful conception; +and the effect of the whole would be extremely beautiful, were it not +for the defective details. +</p> +<p> +At each end of the terrace is a Corinthian arch, the idea of which +is altogether novel. These arches connect with pavilion temple-like +mansions, and their effect is very rich and picturesque. They remind +one of some of the trophied glories of old Rome—the arches beneath +which her laurelled heroes passed in triumphal state. Chester Terrace +may, therefore, be said to associate <i>otium cum dignitate</i>, since these +arches give a splendid finish to the range of handsome residences. The +mementos of Roman triumph still remain; but a century hence, where will +be the lath-and-plaster glories of the Regent's Park? +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + HAVER. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +"Haver" is a common word in the northern counties for oats; as "haver +bread," for oaten bread; perhaps properly "aven," from "<i>avena</i>," Latin +for oats. +</p> +<p> +<i>Query</i>.—Is not "haversack," or, Gallice, "<i>havre-sac</i>," a bag to +carry a soldier's bread and provisions, derived from the same word? +</p> +<h4> +W.T.H. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> +ANCIENT POWER OF THE <i>HARO</i>, OR <i>HAROL</i>. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +<i>Clamour de haro</i> is a cry or formula of invoking the assistance of +justice against the violence of some offender, who, upon hearing of +the word <i>haro</i>, is obliged to desist, on pain of being severely +punished for his outrage, and to go with the party before the judge. The +word is commonly derived of <i>ha</i> and <i>roul</i>, as being supposed +an invocation of the sovereign power, to assist the weak against the +strong, on occasion of Raoul, first duke of Normandy, about the year +912, who rendered himself venerable to his subjects, by the severity +of his justice; so that they called on him, even after his death, when +they suffered any oppression. Some derive it from <i>Harola</i>, king of +Denmark, who, in the year 826, was made grand conservator of justice at +Mentz. Others from the Danish <i>a a rau</i>, help me, a cry raised by +the Normans in flying from a king of Denmark, named Roux, who made +himself duke of Normandy. The <i>haro</i> had anciently such vast power, +that a poor man of the city of Caen, named Asselin, in virtue thereof, +arrested the corpse of William the Conqueror, in the middle of the +funeral procession, till such time as his son Henry had paid the value +of the land in question, which was that whereon the chapel was built +wherein he was interred. +</p> +<h4> +P.T.W. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE GREAT TUN OF KONIGSTEIN. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +One of the greatest curiosities in the neighbourhood of Dresden is the +Great Tun, erected at Fort Konigstein by General Kyaw, the height of +which is 17 Dresden ells, and its diameter at the bung 12 ells. This +vast vessel, which is always replenished with excellent wine, is capable +of containing 3,709 hogsheads; and on its head is a plate with a Latin +inscription, to the following purport:— +</p> +<p> +"Welcome, traveller, and admire this monument, dedicated to festivity, +in order to exhilarate the mind with a glass, in the year 1725, by +Frederick Augustus, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, the father of +his country, the Titus of the age, the delight of mankind. Therefore, +drink to the health of the sovereign, the country, the electoral family, +and Baron Kyaw, governor of Konigstein; and if thou art able, according +to the dignity of this cask, the most capacious of all casks, drink to +the prosperity of the whole universe—and so farewell." +</p> +<h4> +INA. +</h4> +<hr /> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page195" name="page195"></a>[pg 195]</span> +</p> +<h3> + THE COOK AND THE CRANES. +</h3> +<center> +FROM THE SPANISH. +</center> +<center> +<i>(For the Mirror.)</i> +</center> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> Don John de Ayala,—a chap</p> +<p class="i2"> Whose worst mishap</p> + <p> Was to be curs'd with a purloining cook.</p> +<p class="i2"> (A fellow, who 'twas plain</p> +<p class="i2"> Play'd "cut and come again,"</p> + <p> And scarcely reck'd, if all was seen he took.)</p> + <p> Don John de Ayala, went forth to look</p> +<p class="i2"> For birds, and shot a crane;</p> + <p> Which, forthwith giving the aforesaid knave</p> +<p class="i2"> To cook, according to the Spanish taste;</p> + <p> <i>He</i>, to his dainty-loving <i>sposa</i> gave</p> +<p class="i2"> A leg at once, well deeming, that to waste</p> + <p> So fair an opportunity for sin</p> +<p class="i2"> Would be (as <i>he</i> should say a <i>burning</i> shame;)</p> + <p> But, when the bird, at dinner-time went in,</p> +<p class="i2"> Cried Juan, "Where's the left leg of my game?"</p> + <p> "Soul of my body, sir!" roar'd cook,—no fire</p> +<p class="i2"> In his own kitchen, showing phiz more red,</p> + <p> Yet whether thus, from guilt he blazed, or ire,</p> +<p class="i2"> Or <i>shame</i> perdie, hath ne'er been sung or said,</p> + <p> "Soul of my body!—other leg?—Well done!—</p> + <p> No crane that e'er <i>I</i> saw, had more than <i>one</i>."</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Juan, thus silenc'd, but not satisfied,</p> +<p class="i2"> In his own mind revolv'd</p> +<p class="i2"> The neatest way</p> + <p> Of telling master Brazenface, he lied;</p> +<p class="i2"> And so resolv'd</p> +<p class="i2"> To take him out crane-shooting the next day.</p> + <p> They went:—"Well, cook," quoth Ayala, "for fun</p> +<p class="i2"> I've brought thee here,</p> +<p class="i2"> Where quickly 'twill appear</p> + <p> That if cranes have not <i>two</i> legs,—why, they've <i>none</i>."</p> +<p class="i2"> "Say you so, Senor?—look!—yon long-neck'd flock,</p> + <p> Each bird of it on <i>one</i> foot, ends the matter;</p> +<p class="i2"> Ay—there they stand,—as firm as any rock,</p> + <p> I swear by ev'ry dish I ever broke, or platter."</p> +<p class="i2"> Straight to the flock, flight, covey, (we've no name</p> +<p class="i2"> In Albion, to designate <i>such</i> game.)</p> + <p> Rush'd Ayala, whose hearty psho! psho! psho!</p> + <p> Took the cranes off <i>one</i> leg,—discovering <i>two</i>,</p> + <p> As up they rose, on rustling, sullen wing:</p> + <p> "Well cook?" "Why, body of my soul, sir, there's the thing,</p> + <p> Had you said <i>psho! psho!</i> to your <i>roasted</i> crane,</p> + <p> Belike you'd seen its hidden leg again!"</p> +</div></div> +<h4> + M.L.B. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + SPOONS. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +Spoons are objects of great antiquity, and our forefathers bestowed +great pains in enriching them with masterly workmanship. So much +did <i>taste</i> and fashion rule the time then, that spoons were +distinguished as it were by so many devices. It was, and is still with +some persons, a custom to present spoons at christenings, or on visiting +"the lady in the straw;" and in both cases they were adorned with +suitable imagery. A gentleman with whom I am acquainted, and who "keeps +a cabinet of curiosities," lately showed me two very curious silver +spoons, which he informed me had remained in his family many years; but +how they became possessed of them, he could only say that he attributed +it to the custom of presenting spoons on certain occasions. One was +beautifully wrought; the bowl was very large, and its edges carved with +exquisite workmanship. In the middle of the bowl was a representation +of "the nativity," carved in so masterly a manner, that, although it +was considerably defaced, it must have required the ablest artists to +accomplish. The handle, which was likewise superbly carved, ended in a +figure of the Virgin Mary, with our Saviour in her lap. The other spoon +was so much injured, that we could trace out nothing decisive; although +here and there we could perceive it had been richly ornamented. +</p> +<p> +The same gentleman also showed me a set of Apostle-spoons, which, +although objects of curiosity, had, in conformity with the prevailing +fashion, undergone the alteration of the silversmith. There were twelve +of them, each of which represented an Apostle, boldly carved on the +handle; a large round hat is placed on each of their heads, which was +probably to save the features from being injured. They are standing on +the stem of the spoon, which is carved somewhat like a Doric pillar. The +bowls are very large and deep, and are rather awkwardly turned in at the +sides. A complete set, in good condition, is very rare and valuable; and +it is to be regretted that so many of these relics have fallen into the +silversmith's furnace, merely for the sake of their silver. +</p> +<p> +Apostle-spoons were presented by sponsors or visiters at christenings +and at marriages; and those who could not afford a complete set, gave +one or two, as their circumstances might permit. Some presented a spoon +with the figure of the saint after whom the child was baptized, or to +whom it was dedicated. In his "Bartholomew Fair," Ben Jonson has a +character to say, "And all this for a couple of apostle-spoons and a +cup to eat caudle in." Likewise in the "Noble Gentleman," by Beaumont +and Fletcher, +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "I'll be a gossip, Bewford—</p> + <p> I have an odd apostle-spoon."</p> +</div></div> +<p> +In "The Gossips," a poem, by Shipman, in 1666, there is the following +mention of the custom of presenting apostle-spoons at christenings, +which it appears was then on the decline:— +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page196" name="page196"></a>[pg 196]</span> +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "<i>Formerly</i>, when they used to troul</p> + <p> Gilt bowls of sack, they gave the bowl</p> + <p> Two <i>spoons</i> at least—an <i>use ill kept</i>;</p> + <p> 'Tis well if now our own be left."</p> +</div></div> +<p> +On St. Paul's, or any other apostle's day, it was usual for persons +of quality to send round a present of a spoon with the figure of +such apostle to their friends. In some Catholic families these and +the before-mentioned customs are still retained, though I question +whether the spoons are enriched with such superb workmanship. +</p> +<h4> +W.H.H. +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE TOPOGRAPHER. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + HORSHAM, SUSSEX. +</h3> +<p> +The town of Horsham is pleasantly situated on the liver Arun, in the +county of Sussex, about 36 miles S. by W. of London. It is a borough, +and contains the county gaol. The spring assizes are likewise held here. +Horsham is of considerable antiquity. It was founded by Horsa, the +Saxon, about the year A.D. 450, to employ his soldiers while he was +enslaved by the captivating chains of a lovely country girl, the +daughter of a woodman in the forest. The town was named after himself, +Horsa, and the Saxon word Ham, signifying a home. Horsa was killed in +Kent, in a battle fought between the Britons and the Saxons, and was +buried at Horsted, named also after him, Horsa, and Sted, signifying a +place. The foundation of the church is uncertain; but it can be traced +as far back as the reign of Henry I. A.D. 1100. The oldest tombstone in +the church is to the memory of Robert Hurst, of Hurst Hill, in this +county, who died 1483.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> The church is at the southern extremity of the +town, at the foot of Denne, or Dane Hill, on the summit of which is an +artificial mound, raised by the Danes after the death of Guthrum, their +chief, to defend themselves from Alfred the Great. The top of this mound +commands an extensive view, a most prominent feature of which is a part +of the forest of St. Leonard, called Mike Mills' Race, a beautiful +avenue, a mile and a quarter long, containing about 15,000 full-grown +trees. There is a legend connected with this "race," viz. that this +part of Horsham Forest was the haunt of Mike Mills, a noted smuggler, +whom his Satanic Majesty had often endeavoured to carry off in vain. +He therefore determined on attacking him in his strong hold; and +accordingly met Mike one night accompanied by other more congenial +spirits, when old Nick challenged Mike as his property. Mike, nothing +daunted, set down his tubs, took advantage of Nick's old age, and +challenged him to a race. "If you can catch me, Nick, before I get to +the end of the avenue, you shall have me; if not, you'll have nothing +more to do with me."—"Agreed," says Nick. Away ran Mike—away ran Nick. +Nick being of too hot a temperament was soon knocked up, and Mike won +the race by half a mile; from which circumstance the place was named, +and Mike Mills rendered immortal. +</p> +<h4> +W. BERGER. +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> +THE SELECTOR,<br /> AND<br /> LITERARY NOTICES<br /> OF <i>NEW WORKS</i> +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + DEATH OF CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON AT SOCCATOO. +</h3> +<p> +Agreeably to our promise at the close of the <i>Memoir of Captain +Clapperton</i>, prefixed to Vol. XI. of THE MIRROR, we subjoin the +following very interesting narrative of the death of this enterprizing +traveller, as narrated by Richard Lander, his servant. It forms, +perhaps, the most attractive portion of the <i>Journal of the Second +Expedition</i>, just published; and to the readers of the foregoing +memoir, will afford still further illustration of all that we have +there said of the high character of Clapperton, and his faithful +attendant, Lander. +</p> +<p> +On the 12th of March 1827, I was greatly alarmed on finding my dear +master attacked with dysentery. He had been complaining a day or two +previously of a burning heat in his stomach, unaccompanied, however, +by any other kind of pain. From the moment he was taken ill he perspired +freely, and big drops of sweat were continually rolling over every part +of his body, which weakened him exceedingly. It being the fast of +Rhamadan, I could get no one, not even our own servants, to render +me the least assistance. I washed the clothes, which was an arduous +employment, and obliged to be done eight or nine times each day, lit +and kept in the fire, and prepared the victuals myself; and in the +intermediate time was occupied in fanning my poor master, which was also +a tedious employment. Finding myself unable to pay proper attention to +his wants in these various avocations, I sent to Mallam Mudey, on the +13th, entreating him to send me a female slave to perform the operation +of fanning. On her arrival I gave her a few beads, and she immediately +began her work with spirit; but she soon relaxed in her +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page197" name="page197"></a>[pg 197]</span> + exertions, and +becoming tired, ran away, on pretence of going out for a minute, and +never returned. Alla Sellakee, a young man my master had purchased +on the road from Kano to take care of the camels, and whom he had +invariably treated with his usual kindness, and given him his freedom, +no sooner was made acquainted with his master's illness than he became +careless and idle, and instead of leading the camels to the rich +pasturage in the vicinity of Soccatoo, let them stray whereever they +pleased, whilst he himself either loitered about the city, or mixed with +the most degraded people in it: by this means the camels became quite +lean; and being informed of the reason, I told my master, who instantly +discharged him from his service. +</p> +<p> +My master grew weaker daily, and the weather was insufferably hot, the +thermometer being, in the coolest place, 107 at twelve in the morning, +and 109 at three in the afternoon. At his own suggestion I made a couch +for him outside the hut, in the shade, and placed a mat for myself by +its side. For five successive days I took him in my arms from his bed in +the hut to the couch outside, and back again at sunset, after which time +he was too much debilitated to be lifted from the bed on which he lay. +He attempted to write once, and but once, during his illness; but before +paper and ink could be brought him, he had sunk back on his pillow, +completely exhausted by his ineffectual attempt to sit up in his bed. +Fancying by various symptoms he had been poisoned, I asked him one day +whether he thought that, in any of his visits the Arabs or Tuaricks, any +poisonous ingredients had been put into the camel's milk they had given +him, of which he was particularly fond. He replied, "No, my dear boy; no +such thing has been done, I assure you. Do you remember," he continued, +"that when on a shooting excursion at Magaria, in the early part of +February, after walking the whole of the day, exposed to the scorching +rays of the sun, I was fatigued, and lay down under the branches of a +tree for some time? The earth was soft and wet, and from that hour to +the present I have not been free from cold: this has brought on my +present disorder, from which, I believe, I shall never recover." +</p> +<p> +For twenty days my poor master remained in a low and distressed state. +He told me he felt no pain; but this was spoken only to comfort me, for +he saw I was dispirited. His sufferings must have been acute. During +this time he was gradually, but perceptibly, declining; his body, +from being robust and vigorous, became weak and emaciated, and indeed +was little better than a skeleton. I was the only person, with one +exception, he saw in his sickness. Abderachman, an Arab from Fezzan, +came to him one day, and wished to pray with him, after the manner of +his countrymen, but was desired to leave the apartment instantly. His +sleep was uniformly short and disturbed, and troubled with frightful +dreams. In them he frequently reproached the Arabs aloud with much +bitterness; but being an utter stranger to the language, I did not +understand the tenor of his remarks. I read to him daily some portions +of the New Testament, and the 95th Psalm, which he was never weary of +listening to, and on Sundays added the church service, to which he +invariably paid the profoundest attention. The constant agitation of +mind and exertions of body I had myself undergone for so long a time, +never having in a single instance slept out of my clothes, weakened me +exceedingly, and a fever came on not long before my master's death, +which hung upon me for fifteen days, and ultimately brought me to the +very verge of the grave. Finding myself unequal to pay that attention +to my master's wants which his situation so particularly required, +I solicited and obtained his consent to have old Pascoe once more to +assist me. On entering the hut, he fell on his knees, and prayed to +be forgiven, promising to be faithful to my master's service. Master +immediately pardoned him, and said he would forget all that had passed, +if he conducted himself well: by this means the washing and all the +drudgery was taken from my shoulders, and I was enabled to devote all +my time and attention to my master's person. I fanned him for hours +together, and this seemed to cool the burning heat of his body, of which +he repeatedly complained. Almost the whole of his conversation turned +upon his country and friends, but I never heard him regret his leaving +them; indeed he was patient and resigned to the last, and a murmur of +disappointment never escaped his lips. +</p> +<p> +On the 1st of April, he became considerably worse, and though +evidently in want of repose, his sleep became more and more disturbed. +He swallowed eight drops of laudanum, four times a day, for three days; +but finding it did him not the least benefit, he discontinued taking it +altogether: this, with the exception of two papers of Seidlitz powders +and four ounces of Epsom salts, was the only medicine he had during +his illness. On the 9th, Maddic, a native of Bornou, whom +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page198" name="page198"></a>[pg 198]</span> + master had +retained in his service, brought him about twelve ounces of green +bark from the butter tree, and said it would do him much good. +Notwithstanding all my remonstrances, master immediately ordered a +decoction of it to be prepared, observing, "No man will injure me." +Accordingly Maddie himself boiled two basins-full, the whole of which +he drank in less than an hour. Next morning he was much altered for the +worse, and regretted his not having followed my advice. About twelve +o'clock of the same day, he said, "Richard, I shall shortly be no more; +I feel myself dying." Almost choked with grief, I replied, "God forbid, +my dear master: you will live many years yet." "Don't be so much +affected, my dear boy, I entreat you," said he: "it is the will of the +Almighty; it cannot be helped. Take care of my journal and papers after +my death; and when you arrive in London, go immediately to my agents, +send for my uncle, who will accompany you to the colonial office, and +let him see you deposit them safely into the hands of the secretary. +After I am buried, apply to Bello, and borrow money to purchase camels +and provisions for your journey over the desert, and go in the train of +the Arab merchants to Fezzan. On your arrival there, should your money +be exhausted, send a messenger to Mr. Warrington, our consul at Tripoli, +and wait till he returns with a remittance. On reaching Tripoli, that +gentleman will advance what money you may require, and send you to +England the first opportunity. Do not lumber yourself with my books; +leave them behind, as well as the barometer, boxes, and sticks, and +indeed every heavy article you can conveniently part with; give them to +Malam Mudey, who will take care of them. The wages I agreed to give you +my agents will pay, as well as the sum government allowed me for a +servant; you will of course receive it, as Columbus has never served me. +Remark what towns or villages you pass through; pay attention to +whatever the chiefs may say to you, and put it on paper. The little +money I have, and all my clothes, I leave you: sell the latter, and put +what you may receive for them into your pocket; and if, on your journey, +you should be obliged to expend it, government will repay you on your +return." I said, as well as my agitation would permit me, "If it be the +will of God to take you, you may rely on my faithfully performing, as +far as I am able, all that you have desired; but I trust the Almighty +will spare you, and you will yet live to see your country." "I thought +I should at one time, Richard," continued he; "but all is now over; +I shall not be long for this world; but God's will be done." He then +took my hand betwixt his, and looking me full in the face, while a tear +stood glistening in his eye, said, in a low but deeply affecting tone, +"My dear Richard, if you had not been with me, I should have died long +ago; I can only thank you, with my latest breath, for your kindness and +attachment to me, and if I could have lived to return with you, you +should have been placed beyond the reach of want; but God will reward +you." This conversation occupied nearly two hours, in the course of +which my master fainted several times, and was distressed beyond +measure. The same evening he fell into a slumber, from which he awoke +in much perturbation, and said he had heard with much distinctness the +tolling of an English funeral bell: I entreated him to be composed, and +observed that sick people frequently fancy they hear and see things +which can possibly have no existence. He made no reply. +</p> +<p> +About six o'clock in the morning of the 11th, on asking how he did, my +master answered he was much better, and requested me to shave him. He +had not sufficient strength to lift his head from the pillow; and after +finishing one side of the face, I was obliged to turn his head, in order +to shave the other. As soon as it was done, he desired me to fetch him a +looking-glass which hung on the other side of the hut. On seeing himself +in it, he observed that he looked quite as ill at Bornou, on his former +journey: and as he had borne his disorder so long a time, he might yet +recover. On the following day he still fancied himself getting better. +I began to flatter myself, also, that he was considerably improved. He +eat a bit of hashed guinea-fowl in the day, which he had not done before +since his illness, deriving his sole sustenance from a little fowl-soup +and milk and water. On the morning of the 13th, however, being awake, I +was much alarmed by a peculiar rattling noise, proceeding from my +master's throat, and his breathing was loud and difficult; at the same +instant he called out, "Richard!" in a low and hurried tone. I was +immediately at his side, and was astonished at seeing him sitting +upright in his bed, and staring wildly around. I held him in my arms, +and placing his head gently on my left shoulder, gazed a moment on his +pale and altered features; some indistinct expressions quivered on his +lips; he strove, but ineffectually, to give them utterance, and expired +without a struggle or a sigh. When I found my poor master so very +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page199" name="page199"></a>[pg 199]</span> + ill, +I called out with all my strength, "O God, my master is dying!" which +brought Pascoe and Mudey into the apartment. Shortly after the breath +had left his body, I desired Pasco to fetch some water, with which I +washed the corpse. I then got Pascoe and Mudey to assist me in taking it +outside of the hut, laid it on a clean mat, and wrapped it in a sheet +and blanket. Leaving it in this state two hours, I put a large clean mat +over the whole, and sent a messenger to Sultan Bello, to acquaint him of +the mournful event, and ask his permission to bury the body after the +manner of my own country, and also to know in what particular place +his remains were to be interred. The messenger soon returned with the +sultan's consent to the former part of my request; and about twelve +o'clock at noon of the same day a person came into my hut, accompanied +by four slaves, sent by Bello to dig the grave. I was desired to follow +them with the corpse. Accordingly, I saddled my camel, and putting +the body on its back, and throwing a union-jack over it, I bade them +proceed. Travelling at a slow pace, we halted at Jungavie, a small +village, built on a rising ground, about five miles to the south-east +of Soccatoo. The body was then taken from the camel's back, and placed +in a shed, whilst the slaves were digging the grave; which being quickly +done, it was conveyed close to it. I then opened a prayer-book, and, +amid showers of tears, read the funeral service over the remains of +my valued master. Not a single person listened to this peculiarly +distressing ceremony, the slaves being at some distance, quarrelling and +making a most indecent noise the whole of the time it lasted. This being +done, the union-jack was taken off, and the body was slowly lowered into +the earth, and I wept bitterly as I gazed for the last time upon all +that remained of my generous and intrepid master. The pit was speedily +filled, and I returned to the village, about thirty yards to the east of +the grave, and giving the most respectable inhabitants, both male and +female, a few trifling presents, entreated them to let no one disturb +its sacred contents, I also gave them 2,000 cowries to build a house, +four feet high, over the spot, which they promised to do. I then +returned, disconsolate and oppressed, to my solitary habitation, and +leaning my head on my hand, could not help being deeply affected with my +lonesome and dangerous situation; a hundred and fifteen days' journey +from the sea-coast, surrounded by a selfish and cruel race of strangers, +my only friend and protector mouldering in his grave, and myself +suffering dreadfully from fever. I felt, indeed, as if I stood alone in +the world, and earnestly wished I had been laid by the side of my dear +master: all the trying evils I had endured never affected me half so +much as the bitter reflections of that distressing period. After a +sleepless night, I went alone to the grave, and found that nothing had +been done, nor did there seem the least inclination on the part of the +inhabitants of the village to perform their agreement. Knowing it would +be useless to remonstrate with them, I hired two slaves at Soccatoo the +next day, who went immediately to work, and the house over the grave +was finished on the 15th. +</p> +<p> +One instance, out of many of the kindness and affection with which my +departed master uniformly treated me, occurred at Jenna, on our journey +into the interior. I was dangerously ill with fever in that place, when +he generously gave up his own bed to me, and slept himself on my mat, +watched over me with parental assiduity and tenderness, and ministered +to all my wants. No one can express the joy he felt on my recovery; and +who, possessing a spark of gratitude, could help returning it but by the +most inviolable attachment and devoted zeal? It was his sympathy for me +in all my sufferings that had so powerful a claim on my feelings and +affections, and taught me to be grateful to him in hours of darkness and +distress, when pecuniary recompense was entirely out of the question. +</p> +<p> +The great sufferings, both mental and bodily, I had undergone at the +death and burial of my master, and the constant agitation in which +I was kept, occasioned a rapid increase in my disorder; and on the +16th I could with difficulty crawl round my hut, and was obliged to +lay myself on my mat, from which I had not strength to arise till the +27th; old Pascoe, during that period, being very kind and attentive +to me. +</p> +<p> +In the course of this day (27th) the Gadado, Malem Moodie, and Sidi +Sheik, came with a commission from the sultan to search my boxes, as he +had been informed they were filled with gold and silver; but, to their +great amazement, found I had not sufficient money to defray my expenses +to the sea-coast. They, however, took an inventory of all my articles, +and carried it to Bello. The gold watch intended for him, and the +private watches of Captains Clapperton and Pearce, I had taken the +precaution to conceal about my person. In a short time the Gadado +and his companions returned with a message from the sultan, commanding +me to deliver to them the following articles, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page200" name="page200"></a>[pg 200]</span> + viz. a rifle-gun, +double-barrelled ditto, two bags of ball, a canister of powder, a bag +of flints, a ream and a half of paper, and six gilt chains, for which +he promised to give me whatever I might ask. I consequently charged him +245,000 cowries, which I was to receive from Hadji Hat Sallah, at Kano; +and an order was given me to receive this sum, and, what more I might +require in my journey over the Great Desert. A letter was also sent by +me to Hadji Hat Sallah. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + SONG. +</h3> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> My Mary of the curling hair,</p> + <p> The laughing teeth, and bashful air,</p> + <p> Our bridal morn is dawning fair,</p> +<p class="i2"> With blushes in the skies.</p> + <p> <i>Shule! Shule! Shule, agra!</i></p> + <p> <i>Shule asucur, agus shule, aroon!</i><a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p> +<p class="i2"> My love! my pearl!</p> +<p class="i2"> My own dear girl!</p> + <p> My mountain maid arise!</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Wake, linnet of the osier grove!</p> + <p> Wake, trembling, stainless, virgin dove!</p> + <p> Wake, nestling of a parent's love!</p> +<p class="i2"> Let Moran see thine eyes.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> I am no stranger, proud and gay,</p> + <p> To win thee from thy home away,</p> + <p> And find thee, for a distant day,</p> +<p class="i2"> A theme for wasting signs.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> But we were known from infancy,</p> + <p> Thy father's hearth was home to me,</p> + <p> No selfish love was mine for thee,</p> +<p class="i2"> Unholy and unwise.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> And yet, (to see what love can do!)</p> + <p> Though calm my hope has burned, and true,</p> + <p> My cheek is pale and worn for you,</p> +<p class="i2"> And sunken are mine eyes!</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> But soon my love shall be my bride</p> + <p> And happy by our own fire-side,</p> + <p> My veins shall feel the rosy tide,</p> +<p class="i2"> That lingering Hope denies.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> My Mary of the curling hair,</p> + <p> The laughing teeth and bashful air,</p> + <p> Our bridal morn is dawning fair,</p> +<p class="i2"> With blushes in the skies.</p> + <p> <i>Shule! Shule! Shule, agra!</i></p> + <p> <i>Shule, asucur, agus shule, aroon!</i></p> +<p class="i2"> My love! my pearl!</p> +<p class="i2"> My own dear girl!</p> + <p> My mountain maid, arise!—<i>The Collegians</i></p> +</div></div> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY. +</h2> +<hr /> +<center> +<i>Pyrothonide.</i> +</center> +<p> +A French physician has lately introduced into the <i>Materia Medica</i>, a +substance produced by the combustion of linen, hemp, or cotton cloth, in +the open air. He considers it useful in various inflammatory affections, +especially in opthalmia, or diseases of the eye, and chilblains. +To prepare pyrothonide, take a handful of cloth, old or new, place it +in a shallow basin, set fire to it, moving it about, so that the basin +do not become too hot; after the combustion is finished, throw out +the ashes; at the bottom of the vessel will be found a semi-aqueous, +semi-oleaginous product, of a reddish brown colour, and possessing a +pungent odour. Pour upon this 5 oz. of cold water, which will dissolve +it entirely, forming the solution of pyrothonide, which is used in a +more or less diluted state, as may be requisite, for collyria, +fomentations, &c—<i>Medical Journal</i>. +</p> +<center> +<i>French Carpet.</i> +</center> +<p> +At the exhibition in the Louvre for 1827, was a carpet which occupied +two years in making, and contains 3 or 4,000 ostrich feathers. +</p> +<center> +<i>French Pigs.</i> +</center> +<p> +Whoever has travelled from Calais to Paris must have noticed the lank, +greyhound-like forms of the French pigs; but it is not perhaps generally +known that the Chinese and English breeds are getting into use for +crossing. The fact that there are four millions of pigs yearly killed +in France, shows of how great importance they are to agriculturists. +</p> +<center> +<i>Indian Plaster.</i> +</center> +<p> +All the fine plaster with which the walls of the houses are covered +in India, and which is so much admired by strangers, is composed of a +mixture of fine lime and soapstone, rubbed down with water: when the +plaster is nearly dry, it is rubbed over with a dry piece of soapstone, +which gives it a polish very much resembling that of well-polished +marble. +</p> +<center> +<i>Method of preserving Currants fresh till January or February.</i> +</center> +<p> +When the fruit is ripe, choose those bushes enjoying a southern aspect, +and which are most convenient in their shape, and most loaded with +fruit, and surround them with thick straw mats, so that they shall be +completely sheltered from atmospheric cold and other changes. By this +simple method it will be found that the fruit may be preserved quite +fresh till after Christmas. +</p> +<h4> +H.B.A. +</h4> +<center> +<i>Chromate of Iron.</i> +</center> +<p> +Is used in painting, dyeing, and calico-printing; and its value is so +great, the proprietor of a serpentine tract in Shetland, where chromate +of iron was found by Professor Jameson, cleared, in a few years, +8,000l.—<i>Dr. Murray</i>. +</p> +<center> +<i>Temperature of Springs.</i> +</center> +<p> +In those situations where the cold is +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page201" name="page201"></a>[pg 201]</span> + not sufficient to hinder the +circulation of water, the temperature of perennial springs is almost +identical with the atmosphere. Thus, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, the +temperature of the perennial springs agrees with the mean temperature of +the atmosphere. The same is the case in the whole of Atlantic Europe, +and also to a great extent in Southern Europe. The temperature of +springs in northern regions, when the surface water is frozen, is higher +than the mean temperature of the superincumbent atmosphere; and in the +countries from the south of Europe to the Tropic, the temperature of +springs is lower than that of the medium temperature of the atmosphere. +</p> +<center> +<i>Humboldt's Journey to Siberia.</i> +</center> +<p> +Humboldt, although now past his 60th year, will leave Germany in the +spring, accompanied by Professor G. Rose, for Siberia. He will probably +extend his researches to the high land which separates India from the +Russian empire. +</p> +<center> +<i>Egyptian Manuscript relative to the History of Sesostris.</i> +</center> +<p> +At the sitting of the Aix Academy, on the 3rd of August, M. Sallier read +a report of some very important discoveries in Egyptian history, made at +his house, and amongst his Egyptian papyri, by M. Champollion, jeune. +The latter gentleman was on his way to Egypt with M. Rosellini, and +stopped two days with M. Sallier previous to proceeding to Toulon for +the purpose of embarking. During this short period he examined ten or +twelve Egyptian papyri, which had been purchased some years ago, with +other antiquities, from an Egyptian sailor. They were principally +prayers or rituals which had been deposited with mummies; but there was +also the contract of the sale of a house in the reign of one of the +Ptolemies; and finally three rolls united together and written over with +fine demotic characters, reserved, as is well known, for civil purposes. +</p> +<p> +The first of these rolls was of considerable size, and to M. +Champollion's astonishment contained a <i>History of the Campaigns of +Sesostris Rhamses</i>, called also <i>Sethos</i>, or <i>Sethosis</i>, +and <i>Sesoosis</i>, giving accounts the most circumstantial of his +conquests, the countries which he traversed, his forces, and details +of his army. The manuscript is finished with a declaration of the +historian, who, after stating his names and titles, says he wrote in +the ninth year of the reign of Sesostris Rhamses, king of kings, a lion +in combats, &c. +</p> +<p> +M. Champollion has promised, that, on his return from Egypt, he will fix +the manuscript on cloth for its future preservation, and give a complete +translation. The period of the history is close to the time of Moses; +and apparently the great Sesostris was the son of the king who pursued +the Israelites to the borders of the Red Sea; so that a most important +period in ancient history will be elucidated. +</p> +<p> +On the same MS. commences another composition, called <i>Praises of the +great King Amemnengon</i>. There are only a few leaves of it, and +they form the beginning of the history contained in the second roll. +This Amemnengon is supposed to have reigned before Sesostris, because +the author wrote in the ninth year of the reign of the latter. M. +Champollion had not time to enter into a particular examination of +these rolls. +</p> +<p> +The third roll relates to astronomy or astrology, or more likely to both +these subjects. It has not been far opened; but will probably prove of +the utmost interest, if, as it is expected, it contains any account of +the system of the heavens as known to or acknowledged by the Egyptians +and Chaldeans, the authors of astronomical science. +</p> +<p> +A small basaltic figure was purchased with the MSS., and it is +supposed found with them. On the shoulders of the figure is written in +hieroglyphic characters the name, with the addition of <i>clerk and +friend of Sesostris</i>. It did not occur to ascertain, until M. +Champollion was gone, whether the name on the figure was the same with +any of those mentioned in the rolls as belonging to the historian, or +to others.—<i>From the French</i>. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE VICAR. +</h3> +<center> +A SECOND EVERY-DAY CHARACTER. +</center> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Some years ago, ere time and taste</p> +<p class="i2"> Had turn'd our parish topsy-turvy,</p> + <p> When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,</p> +<p class="i2"> And roads as little known as scurvy,</p> + <p> The man who lost his way between</p> +<p class="i2"> St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket,</p> + <p> Was always shown across the Green,</p> +<p class="i2"> And guided to the parson's wicket.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Back flew the bolt of lissom lath;</p> +<p class="i2"> Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle,</p> + <p> Led the lorn traveller up the path,</p> +<p class="i2"> Through clean clipt rows of box and myrtle.</p> + <p> And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,</p> +<p class="i2"> Upon the parlour steps collected,</p> + <p> Wagg'd all their tails, and seem'd to say,</p> +<p class="i2"> "Our master knows you; you're expected."</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown,</p> +<p class="i2"> Uprose the doctor's "winsome marrow;"</p> + <p> The lady laid her knitting down,</p> +<p class="i2"> Her husband clasp'd his pond'rous Barrow:</p> + <p> What'er the stranger's cast or creed,</p> +<p class="i2"> Pundit or Papist, saint or sinner,</p> + <p> He found a stable for his steed,</p> +<p class="i2"> And welcome for himself, and dinner.</p> +</div></div> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page202" name="page202"></a>[pg 202]</span> +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> If, when he reach'd his journey's end,</p> +<p class="i2"> And warm'd himself in court or college,</p> + <p> He had not gain'd an honest friend,</p> +<p class="i2"> And twenty curious scraps of knowledge;—</p> + <p> If he departed as he came,</p> +<p class="i2"> With no new light on love or liquor,—</p> + <p> Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,</p> +<p class="i2"> And not the vicarage, nor the vicar.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> His talk was like a stream which runs</p> +<p class="i2"> With rapid change from rocks to roses:</p> + <p> It slipp'd from politics to puns;</p> +<p class="i2"> It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses:</p> + <p> Beginning with the laws which keep</p> +<p class="i2"> The planets in their radiant courses,</p> + <p> And ending with some precept deep</p> +<p class="i2"> For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He was a shrewd and sound divine,</p> +<p class="i2"> Of loud dissent the mortal terror;</p> + <p> And when, by dint of page and line,</p> +<p class="i2"> He 'stablish'd truth, or startled error,</p> + <p> The Baptist found him far too deep,</p> +<p class="i2"> The Deist sigh'd with saving sorrow;</p> + <p> And the lean Levite went to sleep,</p> +<p class="i2"> And dream'd of tasting pork to-morrow.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> His sermon never said or show'd</p> +<p class="i2"> That earth is foul, that heaven is gracious,</p> + <p> Without refreshment on the road</p> +<p class="i2"> From Jerome, or from Athanasius:</p> + <p> And sure a righteous zeal inspired</p> +<p class="i2"> The hand and head that penn'd and plann'd them;</p> + <p> For all who understood admired,</p> +<p class="i2"> And some who did not understand them.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He wrote too, in a quiet way,</p> +<p class="i2"> Small treatises, and smaller verses;</p> + <p> And sage remarks on chalk and clay.</p> +<p class="i2"> And hints to noble lords and nurses:</p> + <p> True histories of last year's ghost,</p> +<p class="i2"> Lines to a ringlet, or a turban;</p> + <p> And trifles for the Morning Post,</p> +<p class="i2"> And nothings for Sylvanus Urban.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He did not think all mischief fair,</p> +<p class="i2"> Although he had a knack of joking;</p> + <p> He did not make himself a bear,</p> +<p class="i2"> Although he had a taste for smoking:</p> + <p> And when religious sects ran mad,</p> +<p class="i2"> He held, in spite of all his learning,</p> + <p> That if a man's belief is bad,</p> +<p class="i2"> It will not be improved by burning.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> And he was kind, and loved to sit</p> +<p class="i2"> In the low hut or garnish'd cottage,</p> + <p> And praise the farmer's homely wit,</p> +<p class="i2"> And share the widow's homelier pottage:</p> + <p> At his approach complaint grew mild;</p> +<p class="i2"> And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter,</p> + <p> The clammy lips of fever smiled</p> +<p class="i2"> The welcome, which they could not utter.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He always had a tale for me</p> +<p class="i2"> Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus;</p> + <p> From him I learn'd the rule of three,</p> +<p class="i2"> Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus:</p> + <p> I used to singe his powder'd wig,</p> +<p class="i2"> To steal the staff he put such trust in;</p> + <p> And make the puppy dance a jig,</p> +<p class="i2"> When he began to quote Augustin.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Alack the change! in vain I look</p> +<p class="i2"> For haunts in which my boyhood trifled;</p> + <p> The level lawn, the trickling brook,</p> +<p class="i2"> The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled:</p> + <p> The church is larger than before;</p> +<p class="i2"> You reach it by a carriage entry;</p> + <p> It holds three hundred people more,</p> +<p class="i2"> And pews are fitted up for gentry.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear</p> +<p class="i2"> The doctrine of a gentle Johnian,</p> + <p> Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear,</p> +<p class="i2"> Whose phrase is very Ciceronian.</p> + <p> Where is the old man laid?—look down.</p> + <p> And construe on the slab before you,</p> + <p> <i>Hic jacet</i></p> +<p class="i2"> GULIELMUS BROWN,</p> + <p> <i>Vir nulla non donandus lauru</i>.</p> +</div></div> +<p style="text-align: right;"> +<i>New Monthly Magazine.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + TAILORS. +</h3> +<p> +There is nothing upon earth that is of so much utility to men in general +as fine clothes. A splendid equipage, a magnificent house, may draw the +gaze of idle passers, and excite an occasional inquiry. But who, that +has entered taverns and coffeehouses, has not perceived that the ratio +of civility and attention from the waiter is regulated by the dress of +his various customers? Any stranger, elegantly and fashionably attired, +will find little difficulty in obtaining deference, politeness, and even +credit, in every shop he enters; whereas the stranger, in more homely, +or less modish garb, is really nobody. In truth, the gentleman is +distinguished in the crowd only by the cut of his trousers, and he +carries his patent of nobility in his coat-lap. And to whom does he owe +this index of his identity, but to his despised and much calumniated +tailor? +</p> +<p> +There is not a metamorphosis in all the pages of Ovid so wonderful as +that which the great magician of the shears and thimble is capable of +effecting. If there be the most unpleasant disproportions in the turn of +your limbs—any awkwardness or deformity in your figure, the enchantment +of this mighty wizard instantly communicates symmetry and elegance. +The incongruous and unseemly furrows of your shape become smooth and +harmonized; and the total want of all shape is immediately supplied +by the beautiful undulations of the coat, and the graceful fall of +the pantaloons. And all this is by the potency of your tailor. His +necromantic skill, unlike that of too many practisers of supernatural +arts, is exercised only for the benefit of the world: and whilst Circe +transformed the companions of Ulysses into brute beasts, the benevolent +enchanter of our day transforms brute beasts into handsome and +attractive men. Nay, had Olympus been furnished with a tailor, Brotheus +would have had no necessity to burn himself to death for the purpose +of escaping ridicule from the gods on account of his deformity. +</p> +<p> +But he who is most indebted to this manufacturer of elegant forms, is +the lover; and the base ingratitude of this sort of person is dreadfully +enormous. After he has riveted the gaze of his mistress upon his +charming figure, drawn forth sighs of admiration for his remarkable +elegance, excited the most tender +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page203" name="page203"></a>[pg 203]</span> + perturbations by the grace of his +movements, and finally acquired a complete surrender of her heart +by the striking interest of his attitude when kneeling at her feet, +he ignorantly and presumptuously ascribes this to his own intrinsic +qualities, without ever remembering that the abilities of his tailor are +the sole source of all his success. The very being, who has endowed such +a man with all his attractions, rests contented with the payment of his +bills, (if he be fortunate enough to obtain that;) whilst the other, by +the power of fascinations so procured, obtains a lovely wife and twenty +thousand pounds. <i>Sic vos non vobis</i>, &c. +</p> +<p> +Such is the skill of that wonderful being, the tailor, that his +transformations are not more extraordinary than sudden. The time which +is occupied in thus new-moulding the human frame is really trivial +compared with the stupendous change which is literally wrought. It is +true, the soul may remain the same, but a new body is actually given to +it by the interposition of vestiary talent: and this is what we have +always believed to be the genuine meaning of the metempsychosis of +Pythagoras. +</p> +<p> +It is not, therefore, without the most cogent reasons that we assert our +opinion, that the distich of Pope, "Worth makes the man," or the title +appended by Colley Cibber to one of his dramas, "Love makes the man," +ought henceforth to yield, in point of truth, to the irrefragable +principle which we here solemnly advance, "that it is the tailor makes +the man."—<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE ACTOR. +</h3> +<p> +Perhaps Fortune does not buffet any set of beings with more industry, +and withal less effect, than Actors. There may be something in the +habitual mutability of their feelings that evades the blow; they live, +in a great measure, out of this dull sphere, "which men call earth;" +they assume the dress, the tone, the gait of emperors, kings, nobles; +the world slides, and they mark it not. The Actor leaves his home, and +forgets every domestic exigence in the temporary government of a state, +or overthrow of a tyrant; he is completely out of the real world until +the dropping of the curtain. The time likewise not spent on the stage is +passed in preparation for the night; and thus the shafts of fate glance +from our Actor like swan-shot from an elephant, If struck at all, the +barb must pierce the bones, and quiver in the marrow. +</p> +<p> +Our Actor—mind, we are speaking of players in the mass—is the most +joyous, careless, superficial flutterer in existence. He knows every +thing, yet has learned nothing; he has played at ducks and drakes over +every rivulet of information, yet never plunged inch-deep into any thing +beyond a play-book, or Joe Miller's jests. If he venture a scrap of +Latin, be sure there is among his luggage a dictionary of quotations; +if he speak of history,—why he has played in <i>Richard</i> and +<i>Coriolanus</i>. The stage is with him the fixed orb around which the +whole world revolves; there is nothing worthy of a moment's devotion one +hundred yards from the green-room. It is amusing to perceive how blind, +how dead, is our real Actor to the stir and turmoil of politics; he will +turn from a Salamanca to admire a <i>Sir John Brute's</i> wig; Waterloo +sinks into insignificance before the amber-headed cane of a <i>Sir Peter +Teazle</i>. What is St. Stephen's to him—what the memory of Burke and +Chatham? To be sure, Sheridan is well remembered; but then Sheridan +wrote the <i>Critic</i>. +</p> +<p> +A mackerel lives longer out of water than does an Actor out of his +element: he cannot, for a minute, "look abroad into universality." +Keep him to the last edition of a new or old play, the burning of the +two theatres, or an anecdote of John Kemble, and our Actor sparkles +amazingly. Put to him an unprofessional question, and you strike him +dumb; an abstract truth locks his jaws. On the contrary, listen to the +stock-joke; lend an attentive ear to the witticism clubbed by the whole +green-room—for there is rarely more than <i>one</i> at a time in +circulation—and no man talks faster—none with a deeper delight to +himself—none more profound, more knowing. The conversation of our +Actor is a fine "piece of mosaic." Here Shakspeare is laid under +contribution—here Farquhar—here Otway. We have an undigested mass of +quotations, dropping without order from him. In words he is absolutely +impoverishable. What a lion he stalks in a country town! How he stilts +himself upon his jokes over the sleek, unsuspecting heads of his +astonished hearers! He tells a story; and, for the remainder of the +night, sits embosomed in the ineffable lustre of his humour.—<i>Monthly +Mag</i>. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE NOVELIST. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE BROKEN HEART. +</h3> +<p> +A mutual affection had existed from their very childhood between +Henri Merville and Louise Courtin; their respective parents were +near neighbours, and on very friendly terms with one another; they, +therefore, watched the infantile +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page204" name="page204"></a>[pg 204]</span> + attachment of their children with +great pleasure, and with still more self-congratulation did they +perceive that, growing with their growth, and strengthening with their +strength, it had ripened into an ardent and deep-rooted passion. When +Henri, however, had attained his twentieth year, Louise being also only +seventeen, it became necessary that he should leave the humble village +of Verny, and perfect himself in his trade as a cabinet-maker, by +visiting and working in some large and opulent towns. The lovers, amid +their increasing happiness, had never thought of this long separation; +so that when Henri was told by his father that he must leave home, and +be away three years, and Louise informed by her mother of the same +circumstance, the intelligence came upon them like an earthquake. +Woman's feelings are more easily excited, and Louise felt as if Verny +would be a desert without her dear Henri; he too was sad enough, +although the preparations for his journey occupied the greatest portion +of his time, and prevented his so continually thinking of the separation +as she did. Grief and regret were useless; the parting hour arrived, and +the now miserable pair were left to themselves. They mutually made vows +of eternal constancy and fidelity; as is the custom in the provinces, +they <i>exchanged rings</i>, and became rather more resigned to their +unavoidable separation. +</p> +<p> +Henri at last departed, and was ten miles from Verny before he could +comprehend how he had summoned up resolution enough to leave it. +Louise, shut up in her little room, was weeping bitterly, and felt +no inclination to go out, since she could no longer meet Henri; but, +in a short time, both of them, without feeling less regret, bethought +themselves of making the wearisome interval useful to their future +prospects. +</p> +<p> +During the first eighteen months, he travelled about from town to town; +but at last, in Lyons, made an engagement with a person who had a very +extensive business, of the name of Gerval, for the remaining period. His +master preferred cards and the bottle to work, and finding Henri honest +and attentive, was anxious to retain him in his situation. He had a +daughter, named Annette, a quick, lively, and fascinating girl, who +seemed rather disposed to coquet with Henri, and was somewhat frequently +in the workshop with him. Gerval observed, and by no means discouraged, +this, thinking that, even after all, his assistant would become neither +a bad partner for Annette nor himself; and that their intercourse, at +all events, would keep away Louis, a former workman, who had affected +a great regard for his daughter, but possessed very little inclination +to use the saw or the plane. All this attention was very delightful to +Henri, particularly as it proceeded from so interesting a creature as +his present companion. Are, then, Verny and the sorrowful Louise quite +forgotten? It must be confessed, that they almost escaped his memory, +when thus employed with Annette; but, to do him justice, in the solitude +of his chamber he experienced feelings almost akin to remorse; often in +his dreams did he behold Louise, ever tender, ever affectionate, as in +their infancy; this vision was recalled when he awoke, and he arose, +vowing that she should never have a rival in his heart: but Henri was +young, Louise two hundred <i>miles</i> off, and Annette only two <i>steps</i>. +</p> +<p> +Gerval, to keep away all aspirants, gave it out that they were +betrothed, and especially informed Louis, the dismissed swain, of this +agreement, who, in consequence thereof, immediately left Lyons. Henri's +time, meanwhile, was passing away; he had received some very tender +letters from Louise, and had written to her, but less frequently than +he would have done if Annette had not occupied his leisure hours. +Having, however, received no intelligence from Verny for more than +three months, he began to be disquieted, and determined to leave Gerval, +notwithstanding all Annette's attractions. To be sure, he had found +her very pretty and agreeable—he had romped and flirted with her—but +had never, for a moment, thought of marrying her, and had, strictly +speaking, been faithful to Louise. Judge then of his surprise, when, one +night, Gerval returned home half-drunk, and asked them, if they were +not beginning to think of the wedding. Annette threw herself into her +father's arms; Henri, pale as death, hid his face with his hands, and +knew not how to articulate a refusal; and Gerval, at the sight of this +confusion, burst out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter; "You put me +in mind," said he, at last, "of one of those <i>ninnies</i> of lovers on +the stage, who throw themselves on their knees before their mistresses, +as if they were idols. Come, my lad, embrace your betrothed—exchange +rings—and long live joy, for it costs nothing." The words "<i>exchange +rings</i>" restored Henri to his senses, for he thought he beheld his +beloved Louise, amid her tears, softly exclaim, "Dear Henri, what will +become of me without you?" And this ring, too, which was asked from him, +was the self-same one that he had received from her!—He +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page205" name="page205"></a>[pg 205]</span> + immediately +addressed Gerval in a firm, yet touching, tone of voice, and, having +thanked him, told him that he should never forget his friendship and his +kind intentions, that he should always love Annette as a sister, but +that he could not marry her, because he was already engaged in his own +native place. He requested him to ask his daughter if he had ever said a +single word about marriage to her; he might, indeed, have added, that he +had often spoken to her of Louise, and showed her the ring, about which +she had teased him; but he did not wish to draw the old man's reproaches +on <i>her</i>. These reproaches all fell on <i>him</i>; he bore them, +however, with so much gentleness, that Gerval, who was "<i>a good sort of +fellow</i>," was, in the end, affected by it. "Go, then, and marry your +betrothed," said he, in a half-friendly, half-vexed, tone; "since it +is not Annette, the sooner you set off the better. I must say, I shall +regret you; and you may, perhaps, sometime or other, regret old Gerval +and his daughter." +</p> +<p> +Henri took his departure on the next day, quite overpowered at the idea +of having bidden Annette adieu for ever. During the four or five first +days, the young traveller was pensive enough: Annette's smiling +countenance occupied his thoughts, but he could no longer dissemble +from himself, that he had acted unkindly towards Louise—"Annette will +console herself; but will the gentle Louise forgive me? Oh, yes!—she is +so good; I will tell her every thing, and she will admire my fidelity, +when she knows how fascinating Annette was, and in what a situation I +was placed." Full of this fond hope, he pursued his journey more gaily, +and the nearer he approached his own dear province, the more was Annette +effaced from his thoughts; for every thing around him inspired him with +the sweetest reminiscences. It was just the beginning of May: each +lover, on the first Sunday of that month, planted a young fir, or +birch-tree, adorned with flowers, before his fair one's door. Henri +thought how many he had fixed before the window of his dear Louise, +and how happy he had been on hearing it said, the next day, that the +loveliest girl in the village had had the finest May-offering. Oh! could +he but arrive soon enough to announce his return in that way! He tried +to do so, but his efforts were fruitless: the first Sunday arrived, +and he was still two days' journey from Verny. In the evening he found +himself in a large town, called Nuneville, fatigued with his now useless +endeavours, and resolved to proceed no further that day. Every thing +seemed prepared for the festival—the street was neat and clean—the +fountains adorned with branches, and decorated with large nosegays, +tied together with beautiful ribands—fir-trees marked the dwellings of +the young females—all had flowers around them, but he remarked, that +<i>one</i> had only white ones on it, fastened with a crape riband—the +street was deserted. Before he could reach the inn, which was at +the other end of the town, he had to pass by the church and the +burial-ground; the former seemed full of women, and in the latter there +was an open grave. This melancholy sight rendered it evident, that some +one was dead; that her loss had suspended the public joy; and the +<i>bouquet</i>, encircled with crape, had been planted before the "house +of mourning." He entered the church-yard—groups of females were walking +there. They were conversing in a low tone, and Henri discovered that the +deceased was young and beautiful; and that she had been the victim of a +misplaced affection; he could not restrain his tears, for he thought how +near, perhaps, he had been occasioning the death of his Louise. "But," +said one of the females, "why did she not imitate her fickle lover? Why +did she not receive the addresses of your brother Guillaume?"—"She +always told me," replied Isabelle, (the person addressed, and who was in +deeper mourning than the others,) "that she could only love once, and +that she had no longer a heart to give."—"Well, then," said another, +"was she sure that her lover was faithless?"—"Quite sure. She had +long feared that he was; she saw it in his letters, for when a woman +like Marie loves, the heart divines every thing; still, however, she +flattered herself with the fond hope that he would return, and that +her forgiveness of his neglect would revive in him all his former +affection. Three months ago this hope was destroyed, she heard that he +was—<i>married</i>. Since that time she has only languished; she wished +to live for the sake of her parents, but her grief has proved the most +powerful. He quitted me in the month of May," said she to me; "in the +month of May I shall quit life." "That time is come, and Marie is no +more."—"Tell us her whole history," exclaimed two or three of the +listeners, at once. Isabelle consented; they were crowding round her, +and Henri was approaching nearer, and redoubling his attention, when +the funeral bell tolled drearily and solemnly. He started, and Isabelle +said, with a sigh, "I must tell you my dear friend's story another time; +we must now accompany her remains to +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page206" name="page206"></a>[pg 206]</span> + their last sad home, and place +these flowers upon her coffin." +</p> +<p> +They walked on mournfully, two and two, and Henri followed them with an +interest that he could not account for, or define. The coffin advanced, +preceded by the priests, bearing torches that were obscured by the +silvery light of the moon; it was carried by six men, and among them it +was easy to recognise Guillaume, by his profound sorrow; for, to Henri's +great surprise, he alone wept. The more aged men who followed the +corpse, the one even next it, and who, of course, was the father, or +nearest relative of the deceased, had, like the rest, merely a composed +and serious countenance, undisfigured by any great affliction. The body +was lowered into the grave; the officiating minister made a brief, and +somewhat cold, discourse on the frailty of life; the young females +afterwards came forward, and each threw her wreath of flowers on the +coffin; and then chanted some rhymes. +</p> +<p> +The grave was then about to be filled up; the noise of the earth, in +falling, resounded on the coffin, and Henri shuddered. The crowd +gradually dispersed; Guillaume and Isabelle alone remained beside the +tomb; Henri approached it, and Isabelle observing him, with a forced +smile, said, "Did you know her? I have seen you follow the funeral train +with apparent interest, and now I behold you in tears; are you a +relation, friend, or only even a native of the same place?" Henri +listened to these questions with great surprise; "I scarcely understand +you," he at length replied; "I am merely a traveller; but the deceased +was, doubtless, <i>your</i> friend?"—"Yes, my best, my dearest friend; +yet our friendship was doomed to be of very short continuance. I was +not at all acquainted with her until, about three months ago, she +came to reside with my father, who is a physician, and to whose care +her relations, when aware of her forlorn state, confided her." "Her +relations," remarked Henri, "did not seem to be much affected; they +appeared, indeed, quite resigned to their loss." "Her relations!" +replied Isabelle, "she had none here; she was a stranger, and my father +attended as chief mourner; he lamented her loss, but Marie was not his +daughter, although I <i>myself</i> loved her as a sister." "Marie!" she +was called Marie! but what was her family-name? Often shall I think of +her unhappy destiny." "Marie was only a name that she adopted, and we +called her, because she could never bear to hear her own. "Isabelle," +said she to me, almost at our first meeting, "never name me as he who +has destroyed me named me; never, I entreat you, call me <i>dear +Louise</i>." "Louise!" exclaimed Henri, growing pale as death; "Louise!" +"Yes, Louise Courtin, of Verny!" No sooner had Isabelle uttered these +words, than she beheld the young traveller fall senseless beside the +grave, feebly repeating the name of Louise. Isabelle, in alarm, called +her brother to her assistance; they raised up the stranger, who opened +his eyes for a moment, and again muttered the same words. "Gracious +Providence!" exclaimed the affrighted girl, "it is—it must be—Henri!" +The youth made an effort, and cried out, in a frantic manner: "Yes! +Henri, the murderer of his beloved; the assassin of Louise!" He then +again fell down exhausted, and to all appearance dead. Guillaume had +him conveyed to his father's, where every assistance that skill could +devise, was tendered him; but he only recovered his recollection +sufficiently to learn from Isabelle, that a person named Louis had +brought positive intelligence to Verny, that Henri had espoused his +master's daughter at Lyons; that her father himself had made him +acquainted with the circumstance, and that he had seen the newly married +couple in all the raptures of connubial happiness. It was impossible to +discredit this news, which was a death-blow to the sensitive Louise. +</p> +<p> +After having listened to this melancholy narrative, Henri, when he had +regained sufficient composure, entrusted Isabelle with his vindication, +for Louise's parents and his own, and expired without a groan the next +day. The same moon which had illuminated his betrothed's funeral shone +upon his, and they repose beside each other in the picturesque +burial-ground of Nuneville, not quite forgotten or unlamented by its +inhabitants.—<i>Abridged from a collection of interesting Tales and +Sketches, entitled "A Cantab's Leisure."</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + BEARS ON THE ICE. +</h3> +<center> +<i>From the Tales of a Voyager.</i> +</center> +<p> +With two boats, we assailed six of these animals, who had collected +round the "crang," or carcass of a whale. After lying at the bottom +of the sea for some time, the body of the whale rises to the surface, +probably buoyed up by gas generated by putrefaction in its entrails. +This circumstance is by no means uncommon, especially late in the +summer, when time has been allowed for +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page207" name="page207"></a>[pg 207]</span> + fermentation; but it seems to +point out that the depths of the Arctic Ocean contain few or no animals +to prey upon the numerous carcasses which are let sink after flinching, +since, otherwise, the mass would become pierced and unable to float, +if not wholly devoured. We slew five of the six bears, and brought a +half-grown cub on board alive. This poor harmless beast was wounded in +two or three places superficially with a boat hook, but its disposition +seemed scarcely to have warranted these trifling blows. I was moved to +compassion as it sat upon the jaw-bone of a whale, which projected +beneath the tafrail, at one moment devouring pieces of its mother and +sister with avidity, and at the next stretching its throat and blaring +out mournfully, when a fragment of ice met its view, passing astern as +we sailed on our course. It was about the size of a sheep, and after +their tea the sailors got it down below, and turned it loose betwixt +decks, from whence it sent up all hands with precipitation, some of them +quitting their berths half-naked, as if a fall had been called. After +a sufficient allowance of frolic had gratified the crew, a daring +Shetlander collared the bear as if it had been a dog, and fastened a +fresh rope round its neck, and having forced it to leap overboard, the +rope's end was thrown to the boat's crew of a visiter, at that moment +about to leave us, and it was towed or rather led away. The following +day I saw its skin stretched on the shrouds of the vessel, to whose +captain it had been presented. The other bear chace was after a +monstrous male, who resolutely faced us, and would have boarded our boat +had it not shot past him. He was flanked by the ship, which had run down +upon him as he lay exactly in her course, and by the boat, which had got +between him and the ice, and seeing no other resource, he turned upon +the boat. When discovered, he was so near the floe that, wishing to +intercept him, we leaped into the boat, and lowered away without waiting +for a gun; we were, therefore, obliged to meet him at close quarters. +But while we stood prepared, Shipley with a lance, and myself with the +boat's hatchet, to receive his onset, the skiff was allowed to keep on +her headway, and we passed beyond our foe, who took advantage of the +error, and dashed forward to the ice, which he gained just as our boat +in pursuit of him ran her nose up against the floe, and almost tripped +his heels. +</p> +<p> +It was said by the harpooner, who first caught sight of this bear, that +he was floating on his back in the water; and Greenlanders maintain, how +truly or wrongly I know not, that bears sometimes throw themselves into +this position to avoid being seen. Another reason for this attitude they +affirm to be, a power possessed by bears of flinging themselves suddenly +forward, by a violent jerk, whilst extended on their backs, so as to +bring themselves at once into a boat; but this is a feat of which I do +not believe them capable. Whilst speaking of bears, I may mention here, +that the mate of the Dundee nearly lost his life this summer, from the +fury of a she brownie, who attacked him on the ice. After killing her +cub, he had fired at her, and struck her on the jaw, which remained +gasping, as if dislocated, and believing her <i>hors de combat</i>, he +got upon the floe, to take possession of her slain offspring. The she +bear, however, though she had fled, now returned, and rushing towards +her enemy, threw him down, but was unable to mangle him; for though her +mouth was wide open, she had lost the ability to close it. Nevertheless, +she mounted upon his prostrate body, and trampled it severely, before +the crew of his boat could come to his rescue. When they did arrive, a +sailor who brought the gun lost his presence of mind at the sight before +him, and stood staring at the scene inactive; others, more bold, thrust +the bear aside with lances; and the mate being freed from its weight, +arose, took the gun from its bearer, and shot away the unlucky lower jaw +of the beast completely. She then fell a victim to the weapons of his +men. When I received this account from him, he was nearly recovered from +the violence he had suffered from the enraged brute, but not till after +having been for some time confined to his hammock. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE GATHERER. +</h2> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p> + <p> SHAKSPEARE.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> +<h3> + ANCIENT AND MODERN THEATRES. +</h3> +<p> +It appears, that our ancient theatres were little better than +<i>barns</i>, while those of the present day may vie with palaces in +extent, splendour, and decoration; and nothing can more strongly exhibit +the contrast between the present age and that of Queen Elizabeth, than +the difference in the expense of a London theatre. The Rose playhouse, +which was erected about the year 1592, cost only 103l. 2s. 7d.,—a sum +which would scarcely pay half the expenses of a modern patent theatre +for a single night. Only let the reader think of the rush roof of the +<i>Globe</i>, and the gilt-work ceilings of our present theatres; the +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page208" name="page208"></a>[pg 208]</span> +open area,—and the cloth-covered seats of the pit; and the magnificence +of our saloons, halls, staircases, and corridors,—all in the noblest +style of architectural decoration—<i>Companion to the Theatres.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +Covent Garden was once the emporium of the arts and sciences, and the +residence of the chief nobility of the kingdom. Barton Booth lived at +No. 4, Charles-street; Colley Cibber lived at No. 3; and Easty's Hotel, +Southampton-street, was Mr. Garrick's; Mrs. Oldfield lived in the same +street; Wilkes built the house in Bow-street, next door but one to the +theatre—Garrick and Macklin lodged in it.—<i>Ibid.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +At Kirlees, Yorkshire, about three miles from Hutherfield, is, or was +lately, a funeral monument of the famous outlaw, Robin Hood, with the +following inscription:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Here, undernead dis laid stean,</p> + <p> Lais Robert, Earl of Huntingtun;</p> + <p> Nea arter az hie sa geud,</p> + <p> Ah pipl kauld him Robin Heud.</p> + <p> Sick outlawz hi an iz men</p> + <p> Vil England niven si agen.</p> +<p class="i2"> Obiit 24 kal Decembrio, 1247.</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +HALBERT H. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + REGENT-STREET. +</h3> +<p> +The expenditure of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in forming +this splendid street, is stated to have been 1,533,582l. 16s. 10d.; +and the probable revenue is 36,330l. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + STEALING PICTURES. +</h3> +<p> +The celebrated Raphael of the Louvre—<i>Christ and his Disciples</i>—is +said to have been, at some unknown time, abstracted from its frame, and +a modern <i>copy</i> substituted. The picture has been valued at +£20,000. and it is surmised that it has found a hiding-place in England. +Harlowe's <i>Kemble Family</i> is also missing at the present moment. +</p> +<h4> +<i>Literary Gazette.</i> +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + RAMSAY'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, IN A POEM ADDRESSED TO MR. JAMES ARBUCKLE. +</h3> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Imprimis, then, for tallness, I</p> + <p> Am five feet four inches high;</p> + <p> A black-a-vic'd, snod, dapper fallow,</p> + <p> Nor lean, nor overlaid wi' tallow;</p> + <p> Wi' phiz of a Morocco cut,</p> + <p> Resembling a late man of wit,</p> + <p> Auld gabbet Spec, wha was sae cunning,</p> + <p> To be a dummie ten years running.</p> + <p> Then for the fabric of my mind,</p> + <p> 'Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin'd:</p> + <p> I rather choose to laugh at folly,</p> + <p> Than shew dislike by melancholy;</p> + <p> Weel judging a sour heavy face</p> + <p> Is not the truest mark of grace.</p> + <p> I hate a drunkard or a glutton,</p> + <p> Yet I'm nae fae to wine and mutton:</p> + <p> Great tables ne'er engaged my wishes</p> + <p> When crowded with o'er mony dishes;</p> + <p> A healthfu' stomach sharply set</p> + <p> Prefers a back-sey pipin het.</p> + <p> I never could imagine 't vicious</p> + <p> Of a fair fame to be ambitious:</p> + <p> Proud to be thought a comic poet, }</p> + <p> And let a judge of numbers know it, }</p> + <p> I court occasion thus to show it. }</p> + <p> Second of thirdly—Pray take heed,</p> + <p> Ye's get a short swatch of my creed.</p> + <p> To follow method negatively,</p> + <p> Ye ken takes place of positively:</p> + <p> Weel then, I'm neither Whig nor Tory,</p> + <p> Nor credit give to purgatory.</p> + <p> Frae twenty-four to five-and-forty,</p> + <p> My muse was neither sweer nor dorty,</p> + <p> My Pegasus would break his tether,</p> + <p> E'en at the shagging of a feather,</p> + <p> And through ideas scour like drift,</p> + <p> Streaking his wings up to the lift;</p> + <p> Then, then my soul was in a low,</p> + <p> That gart my members safely row;</p> + <p> But eild and judgment 'gin to say,</p> + <p> Let be your sangs, and learn to pray.</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +I.S.W. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + ESPRIT DE CORPS. +</h3> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> Old Captain Humdrum,</p> +<p class="i2"> Being sent home in rum,</p> + <p> The tars as they brought him on shore,</p> +<p class="i2"> Got drunk with the pickle:</p> +<p class="i2"> "'Tis natural," says Jekyll,</p> + <p> "They should all feel the <i>Esprit de Corps</i>."</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +<i>Weekly Review.</i> +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<center> +LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE<br /> +<i>Following Novels are already Published</i>: +</center> +<table summary="book pricing" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> +<tr><td></td><td align="right" width="10%"><i>s</i>.</td><td align="right" width="10%"><i>d</i>.</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> +<hr class="full" /> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> +<b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p> +The steeple of the church, which is 150 feet high, is shingled, +which is the prevailing mode of the village churches in Sussex. +It has also one of the finest windows in Sussex. +</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> +<b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>Come! come! Come, my darling—</p> +<p>Come, softly,—and come, my love!</p> +</div></div> +</blockquote> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> +<i>Printed and Published by J. 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XIII, NO. 362.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> +<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> +<a href="images/362-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/362-1.png" +alt="Chester Terrace, Regent's Park." /></a> +<center>CHESTER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.</center> +</div> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page194" name="page194"></a>[pg 194]</span> +</p> +<h2> + CHESTER TERRACE, +</h2> +<h3> +REGENT'S PARK. +</h3> +<p> +On the annexed page is a spirited representation of this splendid range +of palatial residences, which present as noble an appearance as any +similar structure in the Park. +</p> +<p> +To familiarize the topography of Chester Terrace, we should say it +stands between the Colosseum and St. Katharine's Church, these being the +most conspicuous buildings in the circle; and the majestic cupola of the +former building is shown in the distance of our engraving. +</p> +<p> +This terrace is named from the royal earldom of Chester. It is from +the designs of Mr. Nash, the architect of York Terrace engraved in our +No. 358. Like the majority of that gentleman's works, Chester Terrace +evinces great genius, with many of its irregularities. It is of the +Corinthian order of architecture, characterized by its richness; but the +present specimen is weak in its details, and the form and proportions of +its balustrade are starved and lanky. The capitals of the columns want +the gracefulness of the Corinthian, and the volutes are but puny +illustrations of that beautiful order. +</p> +<p> +Leaving these defects to be further scrutinized by the more critical +spectator, we cannot fail to be impressed with this grand and commanding +terrace; the composition exhibits great genius and powerful conception; +and the effect of the whole would be extremely beautiful, were it not +for the defective details. +</p> +<p> +At each end of the terrace is a Corinthian arch, the idea of which +is altogether novel. These arches connect with pavilion temple-like +mansions, and their effect is very rich and picturesque. They remind +one of some of the trophied glories of old Rome—the arches beneath +which her laurelled heroes passed in triumphal state. Chester Terrace +may, therefore, be said to associate <i>otium cum dignitate</i>, since these +arches give a splendid finish to the range of handsome residences. The +mementos of Roman triumph still remain; but a century hence, where will +be the lath-and-plaster glories of the Regent's Park? +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + HAVER. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +"Haver" is a common word in the northern counties for oats; as "haver +bread," for oaten bread; perhaps properly "aven," from "<i>avena</i>," Latin +for oats. +</p> +<p> +<i>Query</i>.—Is not "haversack," or, Gallice, "<i>havre-sac</i>," a bag to +carry a soldier's bread and provisions, derived from the same word? +</p> +<h4> +W.T.H. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> +ANCIENT POWER OF THE <i>HARO</i>, OR <i>HAROL</i>. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +<i>Clamour de haro</i> is a cry or formula of invoking the assistance of +justice against the violence of some offender, who, upon hearing of +the word <i>haro</i>, is obliged to desist, on pain of being severely +punished for his outrage, and to go with the party before the judge. The +word is commonly derived of <i>ha</i> and <i>roul</i>, as being supposed +an invocation of the sovereign power, to assist the weak against the +strong, on occasion of Raoul, first duke of Normandy, about the year +912, who rendered himself venerable to his subjects, by the severity +of his justice; so that they called on him, even after his death, when +they suffered any oppression. Some derive it from <i>Harola</i>, king of +Denmark, who, in the year 826, was made grand conservator of justice at +Mentz. Others from the Danish <i>a a rau</i>, help me, a cry raised by +the Normans in flying from a king of Denmark, named Roux, who made +himself duke of Normandy. The <i>haro</i> had anciently such vast power, +that a poor man of the city of Caen, named Asselin, in virtue thereof, +arrested the corpse of William the Conqueror, in the middle of the +funeral procession, till such time as his son Henry had paid the value +of the land in question, which was that whereon the chapel was built +wherein he was interred. +</p> +<h4> +P.T.W. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE GREAT TUN OF KONIGSTEIN. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +One of the greatest curiosities in the neighbourhood of Dresden is the +Great Tun, erected at Fort Konigstein by General Kyaw, the height of +which is 17 Dresden ells, and its diameter at the bung 12 ells. This +vast vessel, which is always replenished with excellent wine, is capable +of containing 3,709 hogsheads; and on its head is a plate with a Latin +inscription, to the following purport:— +</p> +<p> +"Welcome, traveller, and admire this monument, dedicated to festivity, +in order to exhilarate the mind with a glass, in the year 1725, by +Frederick Augustus, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, the father of +his country, the Titus of the age, the delight of mankind. Therefore, +drink to the health of the sovereign, the country, the electoral family, +and Baron Kyaw, governor of Konigstein; and if thou art able, according +to the dignity of this cask, the most capacious of all casks, drink to +the prosperity of the whole universe—and so farewell." +</p> +<h4> +INA. +</h4> +<hr /> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page195" name="page195"></a>[pg 195]</span> +</p> +<h3> + THE COOK AND THE CRANES. +</h3> +<center> +FROM THE SPANISH. +</center> +<center> +<i>(For the Mirror.)</i> +</center> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> Don John de Ayala,—a chap</p> +<p class="i2"> Whose worst mishap</p> + <p> Was to be curs'd with a purloining cook.</p> +<p class="i2"> (A fellow, who 'twas plain</p> +<p class="i2"> Play'd "cut and come again,"</p> + <p> And scarcely reck'd, if all was seen he took.)</p> + <p> Don John de Ayala, went forth to look</p> +<p class="i2"> For birds, and shot a crane;</p> + <p> Which, forthwith giving the aforesaid knave</p> +<p class="i2"> To cook, according to the Spanish taste;</p> + <p> <i>He</i>, to his dainty-loving <i>sposa</i> gave</p> +<p class="i2"> A leg at once, well deeming, that to waste</p> + <p> So fair an opportunity for sin</p> +<p class="i2"> Would be (as <i>he</i> should say a <i>burning</i> shame;)</p> + <p> But, when the bird, at dinner-time went in,</p> +<p class="i2"> Cried Juan, "Where's the left leg of my game?"</p> + <p> "Soul of my body, sir!" roar'd cook,—no fire</p> +<p class="i2"> In his own kitchen, showing phiz more red,</p> + <p> Yet whether thus, from guilt he blazed, or ire,</p> +<p class="i2"> Or <i>shame</i> perdie, hath ne'er been sung or said,</p> + <p> "Soul of my body!—other leg?—Well done!—</p> + <p> No crane that e'er <i>I</i> saw, had more than <i>one</i>."</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Juan, thus silenc'd, but not satisfied,</p> +<p class="i2"> In his own mind revolv'd</p> +<p class="i2"> The neatest way</p> + <p> Of telling master Brazenface, he lied;</p> +<p class="i2"> And so resolv'd</p> +<p class="i2"> To take him out crane-shooting the next day.</p> + <p> They went:—"Well, cook," quoth Ayala, "for fun</p> +<p class="i2"> I've brought thee here,</p> +<p class="i2"> Where quickly 'twill appear</p> + <p> That if cranes have not <i>two</i> legs,—why, they've <i>none</i>."</p> +<p class="i2"> "Say you so, Senor?—look!—yon long-neck'd flock,</p> + <p> Each bird of it on <i>one</i> foot, ends the matter;</p> +<p class="i2"> Ay—there they stand,—as firm as any rock,</p> + <p> I swear by ev'ry dish I ever broke, or platter."</p> +<p class="i2"> Straight to the flock, flight, covey, (we've no name</p> +<p class="i2"> In Albion, to designate <i>such</i> game.)</p> + <p> Rush'd Ayala, whose hearty psho! psho! psho!</p> + <p> Took the cranes off <i>one</i> leg,—discovering <i>two</i>,</p> + <p> As up they rose, on rustling, sullen wing:</p> + <p> "Well cook?" "Why, body of my soul, sir, there's the thing,</p> + <p> Had you said <i>psho! psho!</i> to your <i>roasted</i> crane,</p> + <p> Belike you'd seen its hidden leg again!"</p> +</div></div> +<h4> + M.L.B. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + SPOONS. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +Spoons are objects of great antiquity, and our forefathers bestowed +great pains in enriching them with masterly workmanship. So much +did <i>taste</i> and fashion rule the time then, that spoons were +distinguished as it were by so many devices. It was, and is still with +some persons, a custom to present spoons at christenings, or on visiting +"the lady in the straw;" and in both cases they were adorned with +suitable imagery. A gentleman with whom I am acquainted, and who "keeps +a cabinet of curiosities," lately showed me two very curious silver +spoons, which he informed me had remained in his family many years; but +how they became possessed of them, he could only say that he attributed +it to the custom of presenting spoons on certain occasions. One was +beautifully wrought; the bowl was very large, and its edges carved with +exquisite workmanship. In the middle of the bowl was a representation +of "the nativity," carved in so masterly a manner, that, although it +was considerably defaced, it must have required the ablest artists to +accomplish. The handle, which was likewise superbly carved, ended in a +figure of the Virgin Mary, with our Saviour in her lap. The other spoon +was so much injured, that we could trace out nothing decisive; although +here and there we could perceive it had been richly ornamented. +</p> +<p> +The same gentleman also showed me a set of Apostle-spoons, which, +although objects of curiosity, had, in conformity with the prevailing +fashion, undergone the alteration of the silversmith. There were twelve +of them, each of which represented an Apostle, boldly carved on the +handle; a large round hat is placed on each of their heads, which was +probably to save the features from being injured. They are standing on +the stem of the spoon, which is carved somewhat like a Doric pillar. The +bowls are very large and deep, and are rather awkwardly turned in at the +sides. A complete set, in good condition, is very rare and valuable; and +it is to be regretted that so many of these relics have fallen into the +silversmith's furnace, merely for the sake of their silver. +</p> +<p> +Apostle-spoons were presented by sponsors or visiters at christenings +and at marriages; and those who could not afford a complete set, gave +one or two, as their circumstances might permit. Some presented a spoon +with the figure of the saint after whom the child was baptized, or to +whom it was dedicated. In his "Bartholomew Fair," Ben Jonson has a +character to say, "And all this for a couple of apostle-spoons and a +cup to eat caudle in." Likewise in the "Noble Gentleman," by Beaumont +and Fletcher, +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "I'll be a gossip, Bewford—</p> + <p> I have an odd apostle-spoon."</p> +</div></div> +<p> +In "The Gossips," a poem, by Shipman, in 1666, there is the following +mention of the custom of presenting apostle-spoons at christenings, +which it appears was then on the decline:— +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page196" name="page196"></a>[pg 196]</span> +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "<i>Formerly</i>, when they used to troul</p> + <p> Gilt bowls of sack, they gave the bowl</p> + <p> Two <i>spoons</i> at least—an <i>use ill kept</i>;</p> + <p> 'Tis well if now our own be left."</p> +</div></div> +<p> +On St. Paul's, or any other apostle's day, it was usual for persons +of quality to send round a present of a spoon with the figure of +such apostle to their friends. In some Catholic families these and +the before-mentioned customs are still retained, though I question +whether the spoons are enriched with such superb workmanship. +</p> +<h4> +W.H.H. +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE TOPOGRAPHER. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + HORSHAM, SUSSEX. +</h3> +<p> +The town of Horsham is pleasantly situated on the liver Arun, in the +county of Sussex, about 36 miles S. by W. of London. It is a borough, +and contains the county gaol. The spring assizes are likewise held here. +Horsham is of considerable antiquity. It was founded by Horsa, the +Saxon, about the year A.D. 450, to employ his soldiers while he was +enslaved by the captivating chains of a lovely country girl, the +daughter of a woodman in the forest. The town was named after himself, +Horsa, and the Saxon word Ham, signifying a home. Horsa was killed in +Kent, in a battle fought between the Britons and the Saxons, and was +buried at Horsted, named also after him, Horsa, and Sted, signifying a +place. The foundation of the church is uncertain; but it can be traced +as far back as the reign of Henry I. A.D. 1100. The oldest tombstone in +the church is to the memory of Robert Hurst, of Hurst Hill, in this +county, who died 1483.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> The church is at the southern extremity of the +town, at the foot of Denne, or Dane Hill, on the summit of which is an +artificial mound, raised by the Danes after the death of Guthrum, their +chief, to defend themselves from Alfred the Great. The top of this mound +commands an extensive view, a most prominent feature of which is a part +of the forest of St. Leonard, called Mike Mills' Race, a beautiful +avenue, a mile and a quarter long, containing about 15,000 full-grown +trees. There is a legend connected with this "race," viz. that this +part of Horsham Forest was the haunt of Mike Mills, a noted smuggler, +whom his Satanic Majesty had often endeavoured to carry off in vain. +He therefore determined on attacking him in his strong hold; and +accordingly met Mike one night accompanied by other more congenial +spirits, when old Nick challenged Mike as his property. Mike, nothing +daunted, set down his tubs, took advantage of Nick's old age, and +challenged him to a race. "If you can catch me, Nick, before I get to +the end of the avenue, you shall have me; if not, you'll have nothing +more to do with me."—"Agreed," says Nick. Away ran Mike—away ran Nick. +Nick being of too hot a temperament was soon knocked up, and Mike won +the race by half a mile; from which circumstance the place was named, +and Mike Mills rendered immortal. +</p> +<h4> +W. BERGER. +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> +THE SELECTOR,<br /> AND<br /> LITERARY NOTICES<br /> OF <i>NEW WORKS</i> +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + DEATH OF CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON AT SOCCATOO. +</h3> +<p> +Agreeably to our promise at the close of the <i>Memoir of Captain +Clapperton</i>, prefixed to Vol. XI. of THE MIRROR, we subjoin the +following very interesting narrative of the death of this enterprizing +traveller, as narrated by Richard Lander, his servant. It forms, +perhaps, the most attractive portion of the <i>Journal of the Second +Expedition</i>, just published; and to the readers of the foregoing +memoir, will afford still further illustration of all that we have +there said of the high character of Clapperton, and his faithful +attendant, Lander. +</p> +<p> +On the 12th of March 1827, I was greatly alarmed on finding my dear +master attacked with dysentery. He had been complaining a day or two +previously of a burning heat in his stomach, unaccompanied, however, +by any other kind of pain. From the moment he was taken ill he perspired +freely, and big drops of sweat were continually rolling over every part +of his body, which weakened him exceedingly. It being the fast of +Rhamadan, I could get no one, not even our own servants, to render +me the least assistance. I washed the clothes, which was an arduous +employment, and obliged to be done eight or nine times each day, lit +and kept in the fire, and prepared the victuals myself; and in the +intermediate time was occupied in fanning my poor master, which was also +a tedious employment. Finding myself unable to pay proper attention to +his wants in these various avocations, I sent to Mallam Mudey, on the +13th, entreating him to send me a female slave to perform the operation +of fanning. On her arrival I gave her a few beads, and she immediately +began her work with spirit; but she soon relaxed in her +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page197" name="page197"></a>[pg 197]</span> + exertions, and +becoming tired, ran away, on pretence of going out for a minute, and +never returned. Alla Sellakee, a young man my master had purchased +on the road from Kano to take care of the camels, and whom he had +invariably treated with his usual kindness, and given him his freedom, +no sooner was made acquainted with his master's illness than he became +careless and idle, and instead of leading the camels to the rich +pasturage in the vicinity of Soccatoo, let them stray whereever they +pleased, whilst he himself either loitered about the city, or mixed with +the most degraded people in it: by this means the camels became quite +lean; and being informed of the reason, I told my master, who instantly +discharged him from his service. +</p> +<p> +My master grew weaker daily, and the weather was insufferably hot, the +thermometer being, in the coolest place, 107 at twelve in the morning, +and 109 at three in the afternoon. At his own suggestion I made a couch +for him outside the hut, in the shade, and placed a mat for myself by +its side. For five successive days I took him in my arms from his bed in +the hut to the couch outside, and back again at sunset, after which time +he was too much debilitated to be lifted from the bed on which he lay. +He attempted to write once, and but once, during his illness; but before +paper and ink could be brought him, he had sunk back on his pillow, +completely exhausted by his ineffectual attempt to sit up in his bed. +Fancying by various symptoms he had been poisoned, I asked him one day +whether he thought that, in any of his visits the Arabs or Tuaricks, any +poisonous ingredients had been put into the camel's milk they had given +him, of which he was particularly fond. He replied, "No, my dear boy; no +such thing has been done, I assure you. Do you remember," he continued, +"that when on a shooting excursion at Magaria, in the early part of +February, after walking the whole of the day, exposed to the scorching +rays of the sun, I was fatigued, and lay down under the branches of a +tree for some time? The earth was soft and wet, and from that hour to +the present I have not been free from cold: this has brought on my +present disorder, from which, I believe, I shall never recover." +</p> +<p> +For twenty days my poor master remained in a low and distressed state. +He told me he felt no pain; but this was spoken only to comfort me, for +he saw I was dispirited. His sufferings must have been acute. During +this time he was gradually, but perceptibly, declining; his body, +from being robust and vigorous, became weak and emaciated, and indeed +was little better than a skeleton. I was the only person, with one +exception, he saw in his sickness. Abderachman, an Arab from Fezzan, +came to him one day, and wished to pray with him, after the manner of +his countrymen, but was desired to leave the apartment instantly. His +sleep was uniformly short and disturbed, and troubled with frightful +dreams. In them he frequently reproached the Arabs aloud with much +bitterness; but being an utter stranger to the language, I did not +understand the tenor of his remarks. I read to him daily some portions +of the New Testament, and the 95th Psalm, which he was never weary of +listening to, and on Sundays added the church service, to which he +invariably paid the profoundest attention. The constant agitation of +mind and exertions of body I had myself undergone for so long a time, +never having in a single instance slept out of my clothes, weakened me +exceedingly, and a fever came on not long before my master's death, +which hung upon me for fifteen days, and ultimately brought me to the +very verge of the grave. Finding myself unequal to pay that attention +to my master's wants which his situation so particularly required, +I solicited and obtained his consent to have old Pascoe once more to +assist me. On entering the hut, he fell on his knees, and prayed to +be forgiven, promising to be faithful to my master's service. Master +immediately pardoned him, and said he would forget all that had passed, +if he conducted himself well: by this means the washing and all the +drudgery was taken from my shoulders, and I was enabled to devote all +my time and attention to my master's person. I fanned him for hours +together, and this seemed to cool the burning heat of his body, of which +he repeatedly complained. Almost the whole of his conversation turned +upon his country and friends, but I never heard him regret his leaving +them; indeed he was patient and resigned to the last, and a murmur of +disappointment never escaped his lips. +</p> +<p> +On the 1st of April, he became considerably worse, and though +evidently in want of repose, his sleep became more and more disturbed. +He swallowed eight drops of laudanum, four times a day, for three days; +but finding it did him not the least benefit, he discontinued taking it +altogether: this, with the exception of two papers of Seidlitz powders +and four ounces of Epsom salts, was the only medicine he had during +his illness. On the 9th, Maddic, a native of Bornou, whom +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page198" name="page198"></a>[pg 198]</span> + master had +retained in his service, brought him about twelve ounces of green +bark from the butter tree, and said it would do him much good. +Notwithstanding all my remonstrances, master immediately ordered a +decoction of it to be prepared, observing, "No man will injure me." +Accordingly Maddie himself boiled two basins-full, the whole of which +he drank in less than an hour. Next morning he was much altered for the +worse, and regretted his not having followed my advice. About twelve +o'clock of the same day, he said, "Richard, I shall shortly be no more; +I feel myself dying." Almost choked with grief, I replied, "God forbid, +my dear master: you will live many years yet." "Don't be so much +affected, my dear boy, I entreat you," said he: "it is the will of the +Almighty; it cannot be helped. Take care of my journal and papers after +my death; and when you arrive in London, go immediately to my agents, +send for my uncle, who will accompany you to the colonial office, and +let him see you deposit them safely into the hands of the secretary. +After I am buried, apply to Bello, and borrow money to purchase camels +and provisions for your journey over the desert, and go in the train of +the Arab merchants to Fezzan. On your arrival there, should your money +be exhausted, send a messenger to Mr. Warrington, our consul at Tripoli, +and wait till he returns with a remittance. On reaching Tripoli, that +gentleman will advance what money you may require, and send you to +England the first opportunity. Do not lumber yourself with my books; +leave them behind, as well as the barometer, boxes, and sticks, and +indeed every heavy article you can conveniently part with; give them to +Malam Mudey, who will take care of them. The wages I agreed to give you +my agents will pay, as well as the sum government allowed me for a +servant; you will of course receive it, as Columbus has never served me. +Remark what towns or villages you pass through; pay attention to +whatever the chiefs may say to you, and put it on paper. The little +money I have, and all my clothes, I leave you: sell the latter, and put +what you may receive for them into your pocket; and if, on your journey, +you should be obliged to expend it, government will repay you on your +return." I said, as well as my agitation would permit me, "If it be the +will of God to take you, you may rely on my faithfully performing, as +far as I am able, all that you have desired; but I trust the Almighty +will spare you, and you will yet live to see your country." "I thought +I should at one time, Richard," continued he; "but all is now over; +I shall not be long for this world; but God's will be done." He then +took my hand betwixt his, and looking me full in the face, while a tear +stood glistening in his eye, said, in a low but deeply affecting tone, +"My dear Richard, if you had not been with me, I should have died long +ago; I can only thank you, with my latest breath, for your kindness and +attachment to me, and if I could have lived to return with you, you +should have been placed beyond the reach of want; but God will reward +you." This conversation occupied nearly two hours, in the course of +which my master fainted several times, and was distressed beyond +measure. The same evening he fell into a slumber, from which he awoke +in much perturbation, and said he had heard with much distinctness the +tolling of an English funeral bell: I entreated him to be composed, and +observed that sick people frequently fancy they hear and see things +which can possibly have no existence. He made no reply. +</p> +<p> +About six o'clock in the morning of the 11th, on asking how he did, my +master answered he was much better, and requested me to shave him. He +had not sufficient strength to lift his head from the pillow; and after +finishing one side of the face, I was obliged to turn his head, in order +to shave the other. As soon as it was done, he desired me to fetch him a +looking-glass which hung on the other side of the hut. On seeing himself +in it, he observed that he looked quite as ill at Bornou, on his former +journey: and as he had borne his disorder so long a time, he might yet +recover. On the following day he still fancied himself getting better. +I began to flatter myself, also, that he was considerably improved. He +eat a bit of hashed guinea-fowl in the day, which he had not done before +since his illness, deriving his sole sustenance from a little fowl-soup +and milk and water. On the morning of the 13th, however, being awake, I +was much alarmed by a peculiar rattling noise, proceeding from my +master's throat, and his breathing was loud and difficult; at the same +instant he called out, "Richard!" in a low and hurried tone. I was +immediately at his side, and was astonished at seeing him sitting +upright in his bed, and staring wildly around. I held him in my arms, +and placing his head gently on my left shoulder, gazed a moment on his +pale and altered features; some indistinct expressions quivered on his +lips; he strove, but ineffectually, to give them utterance, and expired +without a struggle or a sigh. When I found my poor master so very +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page199" name="page199"></a>[pg 199]</span> + ill, +I called out with all my strength, "O God, my master is dying!" which +brought Pascoe and Mudey into the apartment. Shortly after the breath +had left his body, I desired Pasco to fetch some water, with which I +washed the corpse. I then got Pascoe and Mudey to assist me in taking it +outside of the hut, laid it on a clean mat, and wrapped it in a sheet +and blanket. Leaving it in this state two hours, I put a large clean mat +over the whole, and sent a messenger to Sultan Bello, to acquaint him of +the mournful event, and ask his permission to bury the body after the +manner of my own country, and also to know in what particular place +his remains were to be interred. The messenger soon returned with the +sultan's consent to the former part of my request; and about twelve +o'clock at noon of the same day a person came into my hut, accompanied +by four slaves, sent by Bello to dig the grave. I was desired to follow +them with the corpse. Accordingly, I saddled my camel, and putting +the body on its back, and throwing a union-jack over it, I bade them +proceed. Travelling at a slow pace, we halted at Jungavie, a small +village, built on a rising ground, about five miles to the south-east +of Soccatoo. The body was then taken from the camel's back, and placed +in a shed, whilst the slaves were digging the grave; which being quickly +done, it was conveyed close to it. I then opened a prayer-book, and, +amid showers of tears, read the funeral service over the remains of +my valued master. Not a single person listened to this peculiarly +distressing ceremony, the slaves being at some distance, quarrelling and +making a most indecent noise the whole of the time it lasted. This being +done, the union-jack was taken off, and the body was slowly lowered into +the earth, and I wept bitterly as I gazed for the last time upon all +that remained of my generous and intrepid master. The pit was speedily +filled, and I returned to the village, about thirty yards to the east of +the grave, and giving the most respectable inhabitants, both male and +female, a few trifling presents, entreated them to let no one disturb +its sacred contents, I also gave them 2,000 cowries to build a house, +four feet high, over the spot, which they promised to do. I then +returned, disconsolate and oppressed, to my solitary habitation, and +leaning my head on my hand, could not help being deeply affected with my +lonesome and dangerous situation; a hundred and fifteen days' journey +from the sea-coast, surrounded by a selfish and cruel race of strangers, +my only friend and protector mouldering in his grave, and myself +suffering dreadfully from fever. I felt, indeed, as if I stood alone in +the world, and earnestly wished I had been laid by the side of my dear +master: all the trying evils I had endured never affected me half so +much as the bitter reflections of that distressing period. After a +sleepless night, I went alone to the grave, and found that nothing had +been done, nor did there seem the least inclination on the part of the +inhabitants of the village to perform their agreement. Knowing it would +be useless to remonstrate with them, I hired two slaves at Soccatoo the +next day, who went immediately to work, and the house over the grave +was finished on the 15th. +</p> +<p> +One instance, out of many of the kindness and affection with which my +departed master uniformly treated me, occurred at Jenna, on our journey +into the interior. I was dangerously ill with fever in that place, when +he generously gave up his own bed to me, and slept himself on my mat, +watched over me with parental assiduity and tenderness, and ministered +to all my wants. No one can express the joy he felt on my recovery; and +who, possessing a spark of gratitude, could help returning it but by the +most inviolable attachment and devoted zeal? It was his sympathy for me +in all my sufferings that had so powerful a claim on my feelings and +affections, and taught me to be grateful to him in hours of darkness and +distress, when pecuniary recompense was entirely out of the question. +</p> +<p> +The great sufferings, both mental and bodily, I had undergone at the +death and burial of my master, and the constant agitation in which +I was kept, occasioned a rapid increase in my disorder; and on the +16th I could with difficulty crawl round my hut, and was obliged to +lay myself on my mat, from which I had not strength to arise till the +27th; old Pascoe, during that period, being very kind and attentive +to me. +</p> +<p> +In the course of this day (27th) the Gadado, Malem Moodie, and Sidi +Sheik, came with a commission from the sultan to search my boxes, as he +had been informed they were filled with gold and silver; but, to their +great amazement, found I had not sufficient money to defray my expenses +to the sea-coast. They, however, took an inventory of all my articles, +and carried it to Bello. The gold watch intended for him, and the +private watches of Captains Clapperton and Pearce, I had taken the +precaution to conceal about my person. In a short time the Gadado +and his companions returned with a message from the sultan, commanding +me to deliver to them the following articles, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page200" name="page200"></a>[pg 200]</span> + viz. a rifle-gun, +double-barrelled ditto, two bags of ball, a canister of powder, a bag +of flints, a ream and a half of paper, and six gilt chains, for which +he promised to give me whatever I might ask. I consequently charged him +245,000 cowries, which I was to receive from Hadji Hat Sallah, at Kano; +and an order was given me to receive this sum, and, what more I might +require in my journey over the Great Desert. A letter was also sent by +me to Hadji Hat Sallah. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + SONG. +</h3> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> My Mary of the curling hair,</p> + <p> The laughing teeth, and bashful air,</p> + <p> Our bridal morn is dawning fair,</p> +<p class="i2"> With blushes in the skies.</p> + <p> <i>Shule! Shule! Shule, agra!</i></p> + <p> <i>Shule asucur, agus shule, aroon!</i><a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p> +<p class="i2"> My love! my pearl!</p> +<p class="i2"> My own dear girl!</p> + <p> My mountain maid arise!</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Wake, linnet of the osier grove!</p> + <p> Wake, trembling, stainless, virgin dove!</p> + <p> Wake, nestling of a parent's love!</p> +<p class="i2"> Let Moran see thine eyes.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> I am no stranger, proud and gay,</p> + <p> To win thee from thy home away,</p> + <p> And find thee, for a distant day,</p> +<p class="i2"> A theme for wasting signs.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> But we were known from infancy,</p> + <p> Thy father's hearth was home to me,</p> + <p> No selfish love was mine for thee,</p> +<p class="i2"> Unholy and unwise.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> And yet, (to see what love can do!)</p> + <p> Though calm my hope has burned, and true,</p> + <p> My cheek is pale and worn for you,</p> +<p class="i2"> And sunken are mine eyes!</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> But soon my love shall be my bride</p> + <p> And happy by our own fire-side,</p> + <p> My veins shall feel the rosy tide,</p> +<p class="i2"> That lingering Hope denies.</p> + <p> <i>Shule, Shule, &c.</i></p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> My Mary of the curling hair,</p> + <p> The laughing teeth and bashful air,</p> + <p> Our bridal morn is dawning fair,</p> +<p class="i2"> With blushes in the skies.</p> + <p> <i>Shule! Shule! Shule, agra!</i></p> + <p> <i>Shule, asucur, agus shule, aroon!</i></p> +<p class="i2"> My love! my pearl!</p> +<p class="i2"> My own dear girl!</p> + <p> My mountain maid, arise!—<i>The Collegians</i></p> +</div></div> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY. +</h2> +<hr /> +<center> +<i>Pyrothonide.</i> +</center> +<p> +A French physician has lately introduced into the <i>Materia Medica</i>, a +substance produced by the combustion of linen, hemp, or cotton cloth, in +the open air. He considers it useful in various inflammatory affections, +especially in opthalmia, or diseases of the eye, and chilblains. +To prepare pyrothonide, take a handful of cloth, old or new, place it +in a shallow basin, set fire to it, moving it about, so that the basin +do not become too hot; after the combustion is finished, throw out +the ashes; at the bottom of the vessel will be found a semi-aqueous, +semi-oleaginous product, of a reddish brown colour, and possessing a +pungent odour. Pour upon this 5 oz. of cold water, which will dissolve +it entirely, forming the solution of pyrothonide, which is used in a +more or less diluted state, as may be requisite, for collyria, +fomentations, &c—<i>Medical Journal</i>. +</p> +<center> +<i>French Carpet.</i> +</center> +<p> +At the exhibition in the Louvre for 1827, was a carpet which occupied +two years in making, and contains 3 or 4,000 ostrich feathers. +</p> +<center> +<i>French Pigs.</i> +</center> +<p> +Whoever has travelled from Calais to Paris must have noticed the lank, +greyhound-like forms of the French pigs; but it is not perhaps generally +known that the Chinese and English breeds are getting into use for +crossing. The fact that there are four millions of pigs yearly killed +in France, shows of how great importance they are to agriculturists. +</p> +<center> +<i>Indian Plaster.</i> +</center> +<p> +All the fine plaster with which the walls of the houses are covered +in India, and which is so much admired by strangers, is composed of a +mixture of fine lime and soapstone, rubbed down with water: when the +plaster is nearly dry, it is rubbed over with a dry piece of soapstone, +which gives it a polish very much resembling that of well-polished +marble. +</p> +<center> +<i>Method of preserving Currants fresh till January or February.</i> +</center> +<p> +When the fruit is ripe, choose those bushes enjoying a southern aspect, +and which are most convenient in their shape, and most loaded with +fruit, and surround them with thick straw mats, so that they shall be +completely sheltered from atmospheric cold and other changes. By this +simple method it will be found that the fruit may be preserved quite +fresh till after Christmas. +</p> +<h4> +H.B.A. +</h4> +<center> +<i>Chromate of Iron.</i> +</center> +<p> +Is used in painting, dyeing, and calico-printing; and its value is so +great, the proprietor of a serpentine tract in Shetland, where chromate +of iron was found by Professor Jameson, cleared, in a few years, +8,000l.—<i>Dr. Murray</i>. +</p> +<center> +<i>Temperature of Springs.</i> +</center> +<p> +In those situations where the cold is +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page201" name="page201"></a>[pg 201]</span> + not sufficient to hinder the +circulation of water, the temperature of perennial springs is almost +identical with the atmosphere. Thus, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, the +temperature of the perennial springs agrees with the mean temperature of +the atmosphere. The same is the case in the whole of Atlantic Europe, +and also to a great extent in Southern Europe. The temperature of +springs in northern regions, when the surface water is frozen, is higher +than the mean temperature of the superincumbent atmosphere; and in the +countries from the south of Europe to the Tropic, the temperature of +springs is lower than that of the medium temperature of the atmosphere. +</p> +<center> +<i>Humboldt's Journey to Siberia.</i> +</center> +<p> +Humboldt, although now past his 60th year, will leave Germany in the +spring, accompanied by Professor G. Rose, for Siberia. He will probably +extend his researches to the high land which separates India from the +Russian empire. +</p> +<center> +<i>Egyptian Manuscript relative to the History of Sesostris.</i> +</center> +<p> +At the sitting of the Aix Academy, on the 3rd of August, M. Sallier read +a report of some very important discoveries in Egyptian history, made at +his house, and amongst his Egyptian papyri, by M. Champollion, jeune. +The latter gentleman was on his way to Egypt with M. Rosellini, and +stopped two days with M. Sallier previous to proceeding to Toulon for +the purpose of embarking. During this short period he examined ten or +twelve Egyptian papyri, which had been purchased some years ago, with +other antiquities, from an Egyptian sailor. They were principally +prayers or rituals which had been deposited with mummies; but there was +also the contract of the sale of a house in the reign of one of the +Ptolemies; and finally three rolls united together and written over with +fine demotic characters, reserved, as is well known, for civil purposes. +</p> +<p> +The first of these rolls was of considerable size, and to M. +Champollion's astonishment contained a <i>History of the Campaigns of +Sesostris Rhamses</i>, called also <i>Sethos</i>, or <i>Sethosis</i>, +and <i>Sesoosis</i>, giving accounts the most circumstantial of his +conquests, the countries which he traversed, his forces, and details +of his army. The manuscript is finished with a declaration of the +historian, who, after stating his names and titles, says he wrote in +the ninth year of the reign of Sesostris Rhamses, king of kings, a lion +in combats, &c. +</p> +<p> +M. Champollion has promised, that, on his return from Egypt, he will fix +the manuscript on cloth for its future preservation, and give a complete +translation. The period of the history is close to the time of Moses; +and apparently the great Sesostris was the son of the king who pursued +the Israelites to the borders of the Red Sea; so that a most important +period in ancient history will be elucidated. +</p> +<p> +On the same MS. commences another composition, called <i>Praises of the +great King Amemnengon</i>. There are only a few leaves of it, and +they form the beginning of the history contained in the second roll. +This Amemnengon is supposed to have reigned before Sesostris, because +the author wrote in the ninth year of the reign of the latter. M. +Champollion had not time to enter into a particular examination of +these rolls. +</p> +<p> +The third roll relates to astronomy or astrology, or more likely to both +these subjects. It has not been far opened; but will probably prove of +the utmost interest, if, as it is expected, it contains any account of +the system of the heavens as known to or acknowledged by the Egyptians +and Chaldeans, the authors of astronomical science. +</p> +<p> +A small basaltic figure was purchased with the MSS., and it is +supposed found with them. On the shoulders of the figure is written in +hieroglyphic characters the name, with the addition of <i>clerk and +friend of Sesostris</i>. It did not occur to ascertain, until M. +Champollion was gone, whether the name on the figure was the same with +any of those mentioned in the rolls as belonging to the historian, or +to others.—<i>From the French</i>. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE VICAR. +</h3> +<center> +A SECOND EVERY-DAY CHARACTER. +</center> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Some years ago, ere time and taste</p> +<p class="i2"> Had turn'd our parish topsy-turvy,</p> + <p> When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,</p> +<p class="i2"> And roads as little known as scurvy,</p> + <p> The man who lost his way between</p> +<p class="i2"> St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket,</p> + <p> Was always shown across the Green,</p> +<p class="i2"> And guided to the parson's wicket.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Back flew the bolt of lissom lath;</p> +<p class="i2"> Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle,</p> + <p> Led the lorn traveller up the path,</p> +<p class="i2"> Through clean clipt rows of box and myrtle.</p> + <p> And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,</p> +<p class="i2"> Upon the parlour steps collected,</p> + <p> Wagg'd all their tails, and seem'd to say,</p> +<p class="i2"> "Our master knows you; you're expected."</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown,</p> +<p class="i2"> Uprose the doctor's "winsome marrow;"</p> + <p> The lady laid her knitting down,</p> +<p class="i2"> Her husband clasp'd his pond'rous Barrow:</p> + <p> What'er the stranger's cast or creed,</p> +<p class="i2"> Pundit or Papist, saint or sinner,</p> + <p> He found a stable for his steed,</p> +<p class="i2"> And welcome for himself, and dinner.</p> +</div></div> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page202" name="page202"></a>[pg 202]</span> +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> If, when he reach'd his journey's end,</p> +<p class="i2"> And warm'd himself in court or college,</p> + <p> He had not gain'd an honest friend,</p> +<p class="i2"> And twenty curious scraps of knowledge;—</p> + <p> If he departed as he came,</p> +<p class="i2"> With no new light on love or liquor,—</p> + <p> Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,</p> +<p class="i2"> And not the vicarage, nor the vicar.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> His talk was like a stream which runs</p> +<p class="i2"> With rapid change from rocks to roses:</p> + <p> It slipp'd from politics to puns;</p> +<p class="i2"> It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses:</p> + <p> Beginning with the laws which keep</p> +<p class="i2"> The planets in their radiant courses,</p> + <p> And ending with some precept deep</p> +<p class="i2"> For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He was a shrewd and sound divine,</p> +<p class="i2"> Of loud dissent the mortal terror;</p> + <p> And when, by dint of page and line,</p> +<p class="i2"> He 'stablish'd truth, or startled error,</p> + <p> The Baptist found him far too deep,</p> +<p class="i2"> The Deist sigh'd with saving sorrow;</p> + <p> And the lean Levite went to sleep,</p> +<p class="i2"> And dream'd of tasting pork to-morrow.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> His sermon never said or show'd</p> +<p class="i2"> That earth is foul, that heaven is gracious,</p> + <p> Without refreshment on the road</p> +<p class="i2"> From Jerome, or from Athanasius:</p> + <p> And sure a righteous zeal inspired</p> +<p class="i2"> The hand and head that penn'd and plann'd them;</p> + <p> For all who understood admired,</p> +<p class="i2"> And some who did not understand them.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He wrote too, in a quiet way,</p> +<p class="i2"> Small treatises, and smaller verses;</p> + <p> And sage remarks on chalk and clay.</p> +<p class="i2"> And hints to noble lords and nurses:</p> + <p> True histories of last year's ghost,</p> +<p class="i2"> Lines to a ringlet, or a turban;</p> + <p> And trifles for the Morning Post,</p> +<p class="i2"> And nothings for Sylvanus Urban.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He did not think all mischief fair,</p> +<p class="i2"> Although he had a knack of joking;</p> + <p> He did not make himself a bear,</p> +<p class="i2"> Although he had a taste for smoking:</p> + <p> And when religious sects ran mad,</p> +<p class="i2"> He held, in spite of all his learning,</p> + <p> That if a man's belief is bad,</p> +<p class="i2"> It will not be improved by burning.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> And he was kind, and loved to sit</p> +<p class="i2"> In the low hut or garnish'd cottage,</p> + <p> And praise the farmer's homely wit,</p> +<p class="i2"> And share the widow's homelier pottage:</p> + <p> At his approach complaint grew mild;</p> +<p class="i2"> And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter,</p> + <p> The clammy lips of fever smiled</p> +<p class="i2"> The welcome, which they could not utter.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He always had a tale for me</p> +<p class="i2"> Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus;</p> + <p> From him I learn'd the rule of three,</p> +<p class="i2"> Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus:</p> + <p> I used to singe his powder'd wig,</p> +<p class="i2"> To steal the staff he put such trust in;</p> + <p> And make the puppy dance a jig,</p> +<p class="i2"> When he began to quote Augustin.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Alack the change! in vain I look</p> +<p class="i2"> For haunts in which my boyhood trifled;</p> + <p> The level lawn, the trickling brook,</p> +<p class="i2"> The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled:</p> + <p> The church is larger than before;</p> +<p class="i2"> You reach it by a carriage entry;</p> + <p> It holds three hundred people more,</p> +<p class="i2"> And pews are fitted up for gentry.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear</p> +<p class="i2"> The doctrine of a gentle Johnian,</p> + <p> Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear,</p> +<p class="i2"> Whose phrase is very Ciceronian.</p> + <p> Where is the old man laid?—look down.</p> + <p> And construe on the slab before you,</p> + <p> <i>Hic jacet</i></p> +<p class="i2"> GULIELMUS BROWN,</p> + <p> <i>Vir nulla non donandus lauru</i>.</p> +</div></div> +<p style="text-align: right;"> +<i>New Monthly Magazine.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + TAILORS. +</h3> +<p> +There is nothing upon earth that is of so much utility to men in general +as fine clothes. A splendid equipage, a magnificent house, may draw the +gaze of idle passers, and excite an occasional inquiry. But who, that +has entered taverns and coffeehouses, has not perceived that the ratio +of civility and attention from the waiter is regulated by the dress of +his various customers? Any stranger, elegantly and fashionably attired, +will find little difficulty in obtaining deference, politeness, and even +credit, in every shop he enters; whereas the stranger, in more homely, +or less modish garb, is really nobody. In truth, the gentleman is +distinguished in the crowd only by the cut of his trousers, and he +carries his patent of nobility in his coat-lap. And to whom does he owe +this index of his identity, but to his despised and much calumniated +tailor? +</p> +<p> +There is not a metamorphosis in all the pages of Ovid so wonderful as +that which the great magician of the shears and thimble is capable of +effecting. If there be the most unpleasant disproportions in the turn of +your limbs—any awkwardness or deformity in your figure, the enchantment +of this mighty wizard instantly communicates symmetry and elegance. +The incongruous and unseemly furrows of your shape become smooth and +harmonized; and the total want of all shape is immediately supplied +by the beautiful undulations of the coat, and the graceful fall of +the pantaloons. And all this is by the potency of your tailor. His +necromantic skill, unlike that of too many practisers of supernatural +arts, is exercised only for the benefit of the world: and whilst Circe +transformed the companions of Ulysses into brute beasts, the benevolent +enchanter of our day transforms brute beasts into handsome and +attractive men. Nay, had Olympus been furnished with a tailor, Brotheus +would have had no necessity to burn himself to death for the purpose +of escaping ridicule from the gods on account of his deformity. +</p> +<p> +But he who is most indebted to this manufacturer of elegant forms, is +the lover; and the base ingratitude of this sort of person is dreadfully +enormous. After he has riveted the gaze of his mistress upon his +charming figure, drawn forth sighs of admiration for his remarkable +elegance, excited the most tender +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page203" name="page203"></a>[pg 203]</span> + perturbations by the grace of his +movements, and finally acquired a complete surrender of her heart +by the striking interest of his attitude when kneeling at her feet, +he ignorantly and presumptuously ascribes this to his own intrinsic +qualities, without ever remembering that the abilities of his tailor are +the sole source of all his success. The very being, who has endowed such +a man with all his attractions, rests contented with the payment of his +bills, (if he be fortunate enough to obtain that;) whilst the other, by +the power of fascinations so procured, obtains a lovely wife and twenty +thousand pounds. <i>Sic vos non vobis</i>, &c. +</p> +<p> +Such is the skill of that wonderful being, the tailor, that his +transformations are not more extraordinary than sudden. The time which +is occupied in thus new-moulding the human frame is really trivial +compared with the stupendous change which is literally wrought. It is +true, the soul may remain the same, but a new body is actually given to +it by the interposition of vestiary talent: and this is what we have +always believed to be the genuine meaning of the metempsychosis of +Pythagoras. +</p> +<p> +It is not, therefore, without the most cogent reasons that we assert our +opinion, that the distich of Pope, "Worth makes the man," or the title +appended by Colley Cibber to one of his dramas, "Love makes the man," +ought henceforth to yield, in point of truth, to the irrefragable +principle which we here solemnly advance, "that it is the tailor makes +the man."—<i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE ACTOR. +</h3> +<p> +Perhaps Fortune does not buffet any set of beings with more industry, +and withal less effect, than Actors. There may be something in the +habitual mutability of their feelings that evades the blow; they live, +in a great measure, out of this dull sphere, "which men call earth;" +they assume the dress, the tone, the gait of emperors, kings, nobles; +the world slides, and they mark it not. The Actor leaves his home, and +forgets every domestic exigence in the temporary government of a state, +or overthrow of a tyrant; he is completely out of the real world until +the dropping of the curtain. The time likewise not spent on the stage is +passed in preparation for the night; and thus the shafts of fate glance +from our Actor like swan-shot from an elephant, If struck at all, the +barb must pierce the bones, and quiver in the marrow. +</p> +<p> +Our Actor—mind, we are speaking of players in the mass—is the most +joyous, careless, superficial flutterer in existence. He knows every +thing, yet has learned nothing; he has played at ducks and drakes over +every rivulet of information, yet never plunged inch-deep into any thing +beyond a play-book, or Joe Miller's jests. If he venture a scrap of +Latin, be sure there is among his luggage a dictionary of quotations; +if he speak of history,—why he has played in <i>Richard</i> and +<i>Coriolanus</i>. The stage is with him the fixed orb around which the +whole world revolves; there is nothing worthy of a moment's devotion one +hundred yards from the green-room. It is amusing to perceive how blind, +how dead, is our real Actor to the stir and turmoil of politics; he will +turn from a Salamanca to admire a <i>Sir John Brute's</i> wig; Waterloo +sinks into insignificance before the amber-headed cane of a <i>Sir Peter +Teazle</i>. What is St. Stephen's to him—what the memory of Burke and +Chatham? To be sure, Sheridan is well remembered; but then Sheridan +wrote the <i>Critic</i>. +</p> +<p> +A mackerel lives longer out of water than does an Actor out of his +element: he cannot, for a minute, "look abroad into universality." +Keep him to the last edition of a new or old play, the burning of the +two theatres, or an anecdote of John Kemble, and our Actor sparkles +amazingly. Put to him an unprofessional question, and you strike him +dumb; an abstract truth locks his jaws. On the contrary, listen to the +stock-joke; lend an attentive ear to the witticism clubbed by the whole +green-room—for there is rarely more than <i>one</i> at a time in +circulation—and no man talks faster—none with a deeper delight to +himself—none more profound, more knowing. The conversation of our +Actor is a fine "piece of mosaic." Here Shakspeare is laid under +contribution—here Farquhar—here Otway. We have an undigested mass of +quotations, dropping without order from him. In words he is absolutely +impoverishable. What a lion he stalks in a country town! How he stilts +himself upon his jokes over the sleek, unsuspecting heads of his +astonished hearers! He tells a story; and, for the remainder of the +night, sits embosomed in the ineffable lustre of his humour.—<i>Monthly +Mag</i>. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE NOVELIST. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + THE BROKEN HEART. +</h3> +<p> +A mutual affection had existed from their very childhood between +Henri Merville and Louise Courtin; their respective parents were +near neighbours, and on very friendly terms with one another; they, +therefore, watched the infantile +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page204" name="page204"></a>[pg 204]</span> + attachment of their children with +great pleasure, and with still more self-congratulation did they +perceive that, growing with their growth, and strengthening with their +strength, it had ripened into an ardent and deep-rooted passion. When +Henri, however, had attained his twentieth year, Louise being also only +seventeen, it became necessary that he should leave the humble village +of Verny, and perfect himself in his trade as a cabinet-maker, by +visiting and working in some large and opulent towns. The lovers, amid +their increasing happiness, had never thought of this long separation; +so that when Henri was told by his father that he must leave home, and +be away three years, and Louise informed by her mother of the same +circumstance, the intelligence came upon them like an earthquake. +Woman's feelings are more easily excited, and Louise felt as if Verny +would be a desert without her dear Henri; he too was sad enough, +although the preparations for his journey occupied the greatest portion +of his time, and prevented his so continually thinking of the separation +as she did. Grief and regret were useless; the parting hour arrived, and +the now miserable pair were left to themselves. They mutually made vows +of eternal constancy and fidelity; as is the custom in the provinces, +they <i>exchanged rings</i>, and became rather more resigned to their +unavoidable separation. +</p> +<p> +Henri at last departed, and was ten miles from Verny before he could +comprehend how he had summoned up resolution enough to leave it. +Louise, shut up in her little room, was weeping bitterly, and felt +no inclination to go out, since she could no longer meet Henri; but, +in a short time, both of them, without feeling less regret, bethought +themselves of making the wearisome interval useful to their future +prospects. +</p> +<p> +During the first eighteen months, he travelled about from town to town; +but at last, in Lyons, made an engagement with a person who had a very +extensive business, of the name of Gerval, for the remaining period. His +master preferred cards and the bottle to work, and finding Henri honest +and attentive, was anxious to retain him in his situation. He had a +daughter, named Annette, a quick, lively, and fascinating girl, who +seemed rather disposed to coquet with Henri, and was somewhat frequently +in the workshop with him. Gerval observed, and by no means discouraged, +this, thinking that, even after all, his assistant would become neither +a bad partner for Annette nor himself; and that their intercourse, at +all events, would keep away Louis, a former workman, who had affected +a great regard for his daughter, but possessed very little inclination +to use the saw or the plane. All this attention was very delightful to +Henri, particularly as it proceeded from so interesting a creature as +his present companion. Are, then, Verny and the sorrowful Louise quite +forgotten? It must be confessed, that they almost escaped his memory, +when thus employed with Annette; but, to do him justice, in the solitude +of his chamber he experienced feelings almost akin to remorse; often in +his dreams did he behold Louise, ever tender, ever affectionate, as in +their infancy; this vision was recalled when he awoke, and he arose, +vowing that she should never have a rival in his heart: but Henri was +young, Louise two hundred <i>miles</i> off, and Annette only two <i>steps</i>. +</p> +<p> +Gerval, to keep away all aspirants, gave it out that they were +betrothed, and especially informed Louis, the dismissed swain, of this +agreement, who, in consequence thereof, immediately left Lyons. Henri's +time, meanwhile, was passing away; he had received some very tender +letters from Louise, and had written to her, but less frequently than +he would have done if Annette had not occupied his leisure hours. +Having, however, received no intelligence from Verny for more than +three months, he began to be disquieted, and determined to leave Gerval, +notwithstanding all Annette's attractions. To be sure, he had found +her very pretty and agreeable—he had romped and flirted with her—but +had never, for a moment, thought of marrying her, and had, strictly +speaking, been faithful to Louise. Judge then of his surprise, when, one +night, Gerval returned home half-drunk, and asked them, if they were +not beginning to think of the wedding. Annette threw herself into her +father's arms; Henri, pale as death, hid his face with his hands, and +knew not how to articulate a refusal; and Gerval, at the sight of this +confusion, burst out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter; "You put me +in mind," said he, at last, "of one of those <i>ninnies</i> of lovers on +the stage, who throw themselves on their knees before their mistresses, +as if they were idols. Come, my lad, embrace your betrothed—exchange +rings—and long live joy, for it costs nothing." The words "<i>exchange +rings</i>" restored Henri to his senses, for he thought he beheld his +beloved Louise, amid her tears, softly exclaim, "Dear Henri, what will +become of me without you?" And this ring, too, which was asked from him, +was the self-same one that he had received from her!—He +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page205" name="page205"></a>[pg 205]</span> + immediately +addressed Gerval in a firm, yet touching, tone of voice, and, having +thanked him, told him that he should never forget his friendship and his +kind intentions, that he should always love Annette as a sister, but +that he could not marry her, because he was already engaged in his own +native place. He requested him to ask his daughter if he had ever said a +single word about marriage to her; he might, indeed, have added, that he +had often spoken to her of Louise, and showed her the ring, about which +she had teased him; but he did not wish to draw the old man's reproaches +on <i>her</i>. These reproaches all fell on <i>him</i>; he bore them, +however, with so much gentleness, that Gerval, who was "<i>a good sort of +fellow</i>," was, in the end, affected by it. "Go, then, and marry your +betrothed," said he, in a half-friendly, half-vexed, tone; "since it +is not Annette, the sooner you set off the better. I must say, I shall +regret you; and you may, perhaps, sometime or other, regret old Gerval +and his daughter." +</p> +<p> +Henri took his departure on the next day, quite overpowered at the idea +of having bidden Annette adieu for ever. During the four or five first +days, the young traveller was pensive enough: Annette's smiling +countenance occupied his thoughts, but he could no longer dissemble +from himself, that he had acted unkindly towards Louise—"Annette will +console herself; but will the gentle Louise forgive me? Oh, yes!—she is +so good; I will tell her every thing, and she will admire my fidelity, +when she knows how fascinating Annette was, and in what a situation I +was placed." Full of this fond hope, he pursued his journey more gaily, +and the nearer he approached his own dear province, the more was Annette +effaced from his thoughts; for every thing around him inspired him with +the sweetest reminiscences. It was just the beginning of May: each +lover, on the first Sunday of that month, planted a young fir, or +birch-tree, adorned with flowers, before his fair one's door. Henri +thought how many he had fixed before the window of his dear Louise, +and how happy he had been on hearing it said, the next day, that the +loveliest girl in the village had had the finest May-offering. Oh! could +he but arrive soon enough to announce his return in that way! He tried +to do so, but his efforts were fruitless: the first Sunday arrived, +and he was still two days' journey from Verny. In the evening he found +himself in a large town, called Nuneville, fatigued with his now useless +endeavours, and resolved to proceed no further that day. Every thing +seemed prepared for the festival—the street was neat and clean—the +fountains adorned with branches, and decorated with large nosegays, +tied together with beautiful ribands—fir-trees marked the dwellings of +the young females—all had flowers around them, but he remarked, that +<i>one</i> had only white ones on it, fastened with a crape riband—the +street was deserted. Before he could reach the inn, which was at +the other end of the town, he had to pass by the church and the +burial-ground; the former seemed full of women, and in the latter there +was an open grave. This melancholy sight rendered it evident, that some +one was dead; that her loss had suspended the public joy; and the +<i>bouquet</i>, encircled with crape, had been planted before the "house +of mourning." He entered the church-yard—groups of females were walking +there. They were conversing in a low tone, and Henri discovered that the +deceased was young and beautiful; and that she had been the victim of a +misplaced affection; he could not restrain his tears, for he thought how +near, perhaps, he had been occasioning the death of his Louise. "But," +said one of the females, "why did she not imitate her fickle lover? Why +did she not receive the addresses of your brother Guillaume?"—"She +always told me," replied Isabelle, (the person addressed, and who was in +deeper mourning than the others,) "that she could only love once, and +that she had no longer a heart to give."—"Well, then," said another, +"was she sure that her lover was faithless?"—"Quite sure. She had +long feared that he was; she saw it in his letters, for when a woman +like Marie loves, the heart divines every thing; still, however, she +flattered herself with the fond hope that he would return, and that +her forgiveness of his neglect would revive in him all his former +affection. Three months ago this hope was destroyed, she heard that he +was—<i>married</i>. Since that time she has only languished; she wished +to live for the sake of her parents, but her grief has proved the most +powerful. He quitted me in the month of May," said she to me; "in the +month of May I shall quit life." "That time is come, and Marie is no +more."—"Tell us her whole history," exclaimed two or three of the +listeners, at once. Isabelle consented; they were crowding round her, +and Henri was approaching nearer, and redoubling his attention, when +the funeral bell tolled drearily and solemnly. He started, and Isabelle +said, with a sigh, "I must tell you my dear friend's story another time; +we must now accompany her remains to +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page206" name="page206"></a>[pg 206]</span> + their last sad home, and place +these flowers upon her coffin." +</p> +<p> +They walked on mournfully, two and two, and Henri followed them with an +interest that he could not account for, or define. The coffin advanced, +preceded by the priests, bearing torches that were obscured by the +silvery light of the moon; it was carried by six men, and among them it +was easy to recognise Guillaume, by his profound sorrow; for, to Henri's +great surprise, he alone wept. The more aged men who followed the +corpse, the one even next it, and who, of course, was the father, or +nearest relative of the deceased, had, like the rest, merely a composed +and serious countenance, undisfigured by any great affliction. The body +was lowered into the grave; the officiating minister made a brief, and +somewhat cold, discourse on the frailty of life; the young females +afterwards came forward, and each threw her wreath of flowers on the +coffin; and then chanted some rhymes. +</p> +<p> +The grave was then about to be filled up; the noise of the earth, in +falling, resounded on the coffin, and Henri shuddered. The crowd +gradually dispersed; Guillaume and Isabelle alone remained beside the +tomb; Henri approached it, and Isabelle observing him, with a forced +smile, said, "Did you know her? I have seen you follow the funeral train +with apparent interest, and now I behold you in tears; are you a +relation, friend, or only even a native of the same place?" Henri +listened to these questions with great surprise; "I scarcely understand +you," he at length replied; "I am merely a traveller; but the deceased +was, doubtless, <i>your</i> friend?"—"Yes, my best, my dearest friend; +yet our friendship was doomed to be of very short continuance. I was +not at all acquainted with her until, about three months ago, she +came to reside with my father, who is a physician, and to whose care +her relations, when aware of her forlorn state, confided her." "Her +relations," remarked Henri, "did not seem to be much affected; they +appeared, indeed, quite resigned to their loss." "Her relations!" +replied Isabelle, "she had none here; she was a stranger, and my father +attended as chief mourner; he lamented her loss, but Marie was not his +daughter, although I <i>myself</i> loved her as a sister." "Marie!" she +was called Marie! but what was her family-name? Often shall I think of +her unhappy destiny." "Marie was only a name that she adopted, and we +called her, because she could never bear to hear her own. "Isabelle," +said she to me, almost at our first meeting, "never name me as he who +has destroyed me named me; never, I entreat you, call me <i>dear +Louise</i>." "Louise!" exclaimed Henri, growing pale as death; "Louise!" +"Yes, Louise Courtin, of Verny!" No sooner had Isabelle uttered these +words, than she beheld the young traveller fall senseless beside the +grave, feebly repeating the name of Louise. Isabelle, in alarm, called +her brother to her assistance; they raised up the stranger, who opened +his eyes for a moment, and again muttered the same words. "Gracious +Providence!" exclaimed the affrighted girl, "it is—it must be—Henri!" +The youth made an effort, and cried out, in a frantic manner: "Yes! +Henri, the murderer of his beloved; the assassin of Louise!" He then +again fell down exhausted, and to all appearance dead. Guillaume had +him conveyed to his father's, where every assistance that skill could +devise, was tendered him; but he only recovered his recollection +sufficiently to learn from Isabelle, that a person named Louis had +brought positive intelligence to Verny, that Henri had espoused his +master's daughter at Lyons; that her father himself had made him +acquainted with the circumstance, and that he had seen the newly married +couple in all the raptures of connubial happiness. It was impossible to +discredit this news, which was a death-blow to the sensitive Louise. +</p> +<p> +After having listened to this melancholy narrative, Henri, when he had +regained sufficient composure, entrusted Isabelle with his vindication, +for Louise's parents and his own, and expired without a groan the next +day. The same moon which had illuminated his betrothed's funeral shone +upon his, and they repose beside each other in the picturesque +burial-ground of Nuneville, not quite forgotten or unlamented by its +inhabitants.—<i>Abridged from a collection of interesting Tales and +Sketches, entitled "A Cantab's Leisure."</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> + BEARS ON THE ICE. +</h3> +<center> +<i>From the Tales of a Voyager.</i> +</center> +<p> +With two boats, we assailed six of these animals, who had collected +round the "crang," or carcass of a whale. After lying at the bottom +of the sea for some time, the body of the whale rises to the surface, +probably buoyed up by gas generated by putrefaction in its entrails. +This circumstance is by no means uncommon, especially late in the +summer, when time has been allowed for +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page207" name="page207"></a>[pg 207]</span> + fermentation; but it seems to +point out that the depths of the Arctic Ocean contain few or no animals +to prey upon the numerous carcasses which are let sink after flinching, +since, otherwise, the mass would become pierced and unable to float, +if not wholly devoured. We slew five of the six bears, and brought a +half-grown cub on board alive. This poor harmless beast was wounded in +two or three places superficially with a boat hook, but its disposition +seemed scarcely to have warranted these trifling blows. I was moved to +compassion as it sat upon the jaw-bone of a whale, which projected +beneath the tafrail, at one moment devouring pieces of its mother and +sister with avidity, and at the next stretching its throat and blaring +out mournfully, when a fragment of ice met its view, passing astern as +we sailed on our course. It was about the size of a sheep, and after +their tea the sailors got it down below, and turned it loose betwixt +decks, from whence it sent up all hands with precipitation, some of them +quitting their berths half-naked, as if a fall had been called. After +a sufficient allowance of frolic had gratified the crew, a daring +Shetlander collared the bear as if it had been a dog, and fastened a +fresh rope round its neck, and having forced it to leap overboard, the +rope's end was thrown to the boat's crew of a visiter, at that moment +about to leave us, and it was towed or rather led away. The following +day I saw its skin stretched on the shrouds of the vessel, to whose +captain it had been presented. The other bear chace was after a +monstrous male, who resolutely faced us, and would have boarded our boat +had it not shot past him. He was flanked by the ship, which had run down +upon him as he lay exactly in her course, and by the boat, which had got +between him and the ice, and seeing no other resource, he turned upon +the boat. When discovered, he was so near the floe that, wishing to +intercept him, we leaped into the boat, and lowered away without waiting +for a gun; we were, therefore, obliged to meet him at close quarters. +But while we stood prepared, Shipley with a lance, and myself with the +boat's hatchet, to receive his onset, the skiff was allowed to keep on +her headway, and we passed beyond our foe, who took advantage of the +error, and dashed forward to the ice, which he gained just as our boat +in pursuit of him ran her nose up against the floe, and almost tripped +his heels. +</p> +<p> +It was said by the harpooner, who first caught sight of this bear, that +he was floating on his back in the water; and Greenlanders maintain, how +truly or wrongly I know not, that bears sometimes throw themselves into +this position to avoid being seen. Another reason for this attitude they +affirm to be, a power possessed by bears of flinging themselves suddenly +forward, by a violent jerk, whilst extended on their backs, so as to +bring themselves at once into a boat; but this is a feat of which I do +not believe them capable. Whilst speaking of bears, I may mention here, +that the mate of the Dundee nearly lost his life this summer, from the +fury of a she brownie, who attacked him on the ice. After killing her +cub, he had fired at her, and struck her on the jaw, which remained +gasping, as if dislocated, and believing her <i>hors de combat</i>, he +got upon the floe, to take possession of her slain offspring. The she +bear, however, though she had fled, now returned, and rushing towards +her enemy, threw him down, but was unable to mangle him; for though her +mouth was wide open, she had lost the ability to close it. Nevertheless, +she mounted upon his prostrate body, and trampled it severely, before +the crew of his boat could come to his rescue. When they did arrive, a +sailor who brought the gun lost his presence of mind at the sight before +him, and stood staring at the scene inactive; others, more bold, thrust +the bear aside with lances; and the mate being freed from its weight, +arose, took the gun from its bearer, and shot away the unlucky lower jaw +of the beast completely. She then fell a victim to the weapons of his +men. When I received this account from him, he was nearly recovered from +the violence he had suffered from the enraged brute, but not till after +having been for some time confined to his hammock. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE GATHERER. +</h2> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p> + <p> SHAKSPEARE.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> +<h3> + ANCIENT AND MODERN THEATRES. +</h3> +<p> +It appears, that our ancient theatres were little better than +<i>barns</i>, while those of the present day may vie with palaces in +extent, splendour, and decoration; and nothing can more strongly exhibit +the contrast between the present age and that of Queen Elizabeth, than +the difference in the expense of a London theatre. The Rose playhouse, +which was erected about the year 1592, cost only 103l. 2s. 7d.,—a sum +which would scarcely pay half the expenses of a modern patent theatre +for a single night. Only let the reader think of the rush roof of the +<i>Globe</i>, and the gilt-work ceilings of our present theatres; the +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page208" name="page208"></a>[pg 208]</span> +open area,—and the cloth-covered seats of the pit; and the magnificence +of our saloons, halls, staircases, and corridors,—all in the noblest +style of architectural decoration—<i>Companion to the Theatres.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +Covent Garden was once the emporium of the arts and sciences, and the +residence of the chief nobility of the kingdom. Barton Booth lived at +No. 4, Charles-street; Colley Cibber lived at No. 3; and Easty's Hotel, +Southampton-street, was Mr. Garrick's; Mrs. Oldfield lived in the same +street; Wilkes built the house in Bow-street, next door but one to the +theatre—Garrick and Macklin lodged in it.—<i>Ibid.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +At Kirlees, Yorkshire, about three miles from Hutherfield, is, or was +lately, a funeral monument of the famous outlaw, Robin Hood, with the +following inscription:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Here, undernead dis laid stean,</p> + <p> Lais Robert, Earl of Huntingtun;</p> + <p> Nea arter az hie sa geud,</p> + <p> Ah pipl kauld him Robin Heud.</p> + <p> Sick outlawz hi an iz men</p> + <p> Vil England niven si agen.</p> +<p class="i2"> Obiit 24 kal Decembrio, 1247.</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +HALBERT H. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + REGENT-STREET. +</h3> +<p> +The expenditure of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in forming +this splendid street, is stated to have been 1,533,582l. 16s. 10d.; +and the probable revenue is 36,330l. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> + STEALING PICTURES. +</h3> +<p> +The celebrated Raphael of the Louvre—<i>Christ and his Disciples</i>—is +said to have been, at some unknown time, abstracted from its frame, and +a modern <i>copy</i> substituted. The picture has been valued at +£20,000. and it is surmised that it has found a hiding-place in England. +Harlowe's <i>Kemble Family</i> is also missing at the present moment. +</p> +<h4> +<i>Literary Gazette.</i> +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + RAMSAY'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, IN A POEM ADDRESSED TO MR. JAMES ARBUCKLE. +</h3> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Imprimis, then, for tallness, I</p> + <p> Am five feet four inches high;</p> + <p> A black-a-vic'd, snod, dapper fallow,</p> + <p> Nor lean, nor overlaid wi' tallow;</p> + <p> Wi' phiz of a Morocco cut,</p> + <p> Resembling a late man of wit,</p> + <p> Auld gabbet Spec, wha was sae cunning,</p> + <p> To be a dummie ten years running.</p> + <p> Then for the fabric of my mind,</p> + <p> 'Tis mair to mirth than grief inclin'd:</p> + <p> I rather choose to laugh at folly,</p> + <p> Than shew dislike by melancholy;</p> + <p> Weel judging a sour heavy face</p> + <p> Is not the truest mark of grace.</p> + <p> I hate a drunkard or a glutton,</p> + <p> Yet I'm nae fae to wine and mutton:</p> + <p> Great tables ne'er engaged my wishes</p> + <p> When crowded with o'er mony dishes;</p> + <p> A healthfu' stomach sharply set</p> + <p> Prefers a back-sey pipin het.</p> + <p> I never could imagine 't vicious</p> + <p> Of a fair fame to be ambitious:</p> + <p> Proud to be thought a comic poet, }</p> + <p> And let a judge of numbers know it, }</p> + <p> I court occasion thus to show it. }</p> + <p> Second of thirdly—Pray take heed,</p> + <p> Ye's get a short swatch of my creed.</p> + <p> To follow method negatively,</p> + <p> Ye ken takes place of positively:</p> + <p> Weel then, I'm neither Whig nor Tory,</p> + <p> Nor credit give to purgatory.</p> + <p> Frae twenty-four to five-and-forty,</p> + <p> My muse was neither sweer nor dorty,</p> + <p> My Pegasus would break his tether,</p> + <p> E'en at the shagging of a feather,</p> + <p> And through ideas scour like drift,</p> + <p> Streaking his wings up to the lift;</p> + <p> Then, then my soul was in a low,</p> + <p> That gart my members safely row;</p> + <p> But eild and judgment 'gin to say,</p> + <p> Let be your sangs, and learn to pray.</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +I.S.W. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> + ESPRIT DE CORPS. +</h3> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> Old Captain Humdrum,</p> +<p class="i2"> Being sent home in rum,</p> + <p> The tars as they brought him on shore,</p> +<p class="i2"> Got drunk with the pickle:</p> +<p class="i2"> "'Tis natural," says Jekyll,</p> + <p> "They should all feel the <i>Esprit de Corps</i>."</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +<i>Weekly Review.</i> +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<center> +LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE<br /> +<i>Following Novels are already Published</i>: +</center> +<table summary="book pricing" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> +<tr><td></td><td align="right" width="10%"><i>s</i>.</td><td align="right" width="10%"><i>d</i>.</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> +<hr class="full" /> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> +<b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p> +The steeple of the church, which is 150 feet high, is shingled, +which is the prevailing mode of the village churches in Sussex. +It has also one of the finest windows in Sussex. +</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> +<b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p>Come! come! Come, my darling—</p> +<p>Come, softly,—and come, my love!</p> +</div></div> +</blockquote> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> +<i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset +House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic, and +by all Newsmen and Booksellers.</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12498 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/12498-h/images/362-1.png b/12498-h/images/362-1.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc83866 --- /dev/null +++ b/12498-h/images/362-1.png diff --git a/12498-h/images/362-1.png~ b/12498-h/images/362-1.png~ Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc83866 --- /dev/null +++ b/12498-h/images/362-1.png~ |
