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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13359 ***</div>
+
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page193"
+ id="page193"></a>[pg 193]</span>
+
+ <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+ OF<br />
+ LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <table width="100%"
+ summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+ <tr>
+ <th align="left">Vol. 14. No. 391.]</th>
+
+ <th align="center">SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1829.</th>
+
+ <th align="right">PRICE 2<i>d.</i></th>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:100%;">
+ <a href="images/193.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/193.png"
+ alt="GURNEY'S IMPROVED STEAM CARRIAGE." /></a>GURNEY'S
+ IMPROVED STEAM CARRIAGE.
+ </div><span class="pagenum"><a name="page194"
+ id="page194"></a>[pg 194]</span>
+
+ <h2>MR. GURNEY'S IMPROVED STEAM CARRIAGE.</h2>
+
+ <p>Mr. Gurney, in perfecting this invention, has followed Dr.
+ Franklin's advice&mdash;to tire and begin again. It is now four
+ years since he first commenced his ingenious enterprise; and
+ nearly two years since we reported and illustrated the progress
+ he had made. (<i>See</i> MIRROR, vol. x. page 393, or No. 287.)
+ He began with a large boiler, but public prejudice was too
+ strong for it; and knowing people talked of high pressure
+ accidents; the steam, could not, of course, be altogether got
+ rid of, so to divide the danger, Mr. Gurney made his boiler in
+ forty welded iron pipes; still the steam ran in a main pipe
+ beneath the whole of the carriage, and the evil was but
+ modified. At length the inventer has detached the engine and
+ boiler, or locomotive part of the apparatus, which is now to be
+ fastened to the carriage, and may be considered as a
+ STEAM-HORSE, with no more danger than we should apprehend from
+ a restive animal, in whose veins the steam or mettle circulates
+ with too high a pressure. Fair trials have been made of the
+ Improved Carriage on our common roads, the Premier has decided
+ the machine "to be of great national importance," from sundry
+ experiments witnessed by his grace, at Hounslow Barracks; and
+ the coach is announced "really to start next month (the 1st) in
+ working&mdash;not experimental journeys&mdash;for travellers
+ between London and Bath."<a id="footnotetag1"
+ name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+ Crack upon crack will follow joke upon joke; the
+ <i>Omnibus</i>, with its phaeton-like coursers will be
+ eclipsed; and a journey to Bath and the Hot Wells by steam
+ will soon be an everyday event.</p>
+
+ <p>Descriptions of Mr. Gurney's carriage have been so often
+ before the public, that extended detail is unnecessary.
+ Besides, all our liege subscribers will turn to the account in
+ our No. 287. The recent improvements have been perspicuously
+ stated by Mr. Herapath, of Cranford, in a letter in the
+ <i>Times</i> newspaper, and we cannot do better than adopt and
+ abridge a portion of his communication.</p>
+
+ <p>"The present differs from the earlier carriage, in several
+ improvements in the machinery, suggested by experiment; also in
+ having no propellers;<a id="footnotetag2"
+ name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>
+ and in having only four wheels instead of six; the apparatus
+ for guiding being applied immediately to the two
+ fore-wheels, bearing a part of the weight, instead of two
+ extra leading wheels bearing little or none. No person can
+ conceive the absolute control this apparatus gives to the
+ director of the carriage, unless he has had the same
+ opportunities of observing it which I had in a ride with Mr.
+ Gurney. Whilst the wheels obey the slightest motions of the
+ hand, a trifling pressure of the foot keeps them inflexibly
+ steady, however rough the ground. To the hind axle, which is
+ very strong, and bent into two cranks of nine inches radius,
+ at right angles to each other, is applied the propelling
+ power by means of pistons from two horizontal cylinders. By
+ this contrivance, and a peculiar mode of admitting the steam
+ to the cylinders, Mr. Gurney has very ingeniously avoided
+ that cumbersome appendage to steam-engines, the fly-wheel,
+ and preserves uniformity of action by constantly having one
+ cylinder on full pressure, whilst the other is on the
+ reduced expansive. The dead points&mdash;that is, those in
+ which a piston has no effect from being in the same right
+ line with its crank,&mdash;are also cleared by the same
+ means. For as the cranks are at right angles, when one
+ piston is at a dead point, the other has a position of
+ maximum effect, and is then urged by full steam power; but
+ no sooner has the former passed the dead point, than an
+ expansion valve opens on it with full steam, and closes on
+ the latter. Firmly fixed to the extremities of the axle, and
+ at right angles to it, are the two 'carriers'&mdash;(two
+ strong irons extending each way to the felloes of the
+ wheels.) These irons may be bolted to the felloes of the
+ wheels or not, or to the felloes of one wheel only. Thus the
+ power applied to the axle is carried at once to the parts of
+ the wheels of least stress&mdash;the circumferences. By this
+ artifice the wheels are required to be of no greater
+ strength and weight than ordinary carriage-wheels; and, like
+ them, they turn freely and independently on the axle; but
+ one or both may be secured as part and parcel of the axle,
+ as circumstances require. The carriage is consequently
+ propelled by the friction or hold which either or both
+ hind-wheels, according as the power is applied to them
+ jointly or separately, have on the ground. Beneath the hind
+ part drop two irons, with flat feet, called 'shoe-drags.' A
+ well-contrived apparatus, with a spindle passing up through
+ a hollow cylinder, to which the guiding handle is affixed,
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page195"
+ id="page195"></a>[pg 195]</span> enables the director to
+ force one or both drags tight on the road, so as to retard
+ the progress in a descent, or if he please, to raise the
+ wheels off the ground. The propulsive power of the wheels
+ being by this means destroyed, the carriage is arrested in a
+ yard or two, though going at the rate of eighteen or twenty
+ miles an hour. On the right hand of the director lies the
+ handle of the throttle-valve, by which he has the power of
+ increasing or diminishing the supply of steam <i>ad
+ libitum</i>, and hence of retarding or accelerating the
+ carriage's velocity. The whole carriage and machinery weigh
+ about 16 cwt., and with the full complement of water and
+ coke 20 or 22 cwt., of which, I am informed, about 16 cwt.
+ lie on the hind-wheels."</p>
+
+ <p>Mr. H. then enumerates the principle of the
+ improvements:&mdash;"That troublesome appendage the fly-wheel,
+ as I have observed, Mr. Gurney has rendered unnecessary. The
+ danger to be apprehended in going over rough pitching, from too
+ rapid a generation of steam, he avoids by a curious application
+ of springs; and should these be insufficient, one or two safety
+ valves afford the <i>ultimatum</i> of security. He ensures an
+ easy descent down the steepest declivity by his 'shoe-drags,'
+ and the power of reversing the action of the engines. His hands
+ direct, and his foot literally pinches obedience to the course
+ over the roughest and most refractory ground. The dreadful
+ consequences of boiler-bursting are annihilated by a judicious
+ application of tubular boilers. Should, indeed, a tube burst, a
+ hiss about equal to that of a hot nail plunged into water,
+ contains the sum total of alarm, while a few strokes with a
+ hammer will set all to rights again. Lastly, he has so
+ contrived his 'carriers,' that they shall act without confining
+ the wheels, by which means there is none of that sliding and
+ consequent cutting up of the road, which, in sharp turnings,
+ would result from inflexible constraint.</p>
+
+ <p>"Hills and loose, slippery ground are well known to be the
+ <i>res adversæ</i> of steam-carriages; on ordinary level roads
+ they roll along with rapid facility. In every ascent there are
+ two additional circumstances inimical to progressive motion.
+ One is, that carriages press less on the ground of a hill than
+ on that of a plain, thus giving the wheels a less forcible
+ grasp or bite. But this may be easily remedied in the structure
+ of a carriage, and is not of very material consequence in the
+ steepest hills that we have. The other is more serious. When a
+ carriage ascends a hill, the weight or gravity of the whole is
+ decomposable into two&mdash;one perpendicular, and the other
+ parallel to the road. The former constitutes the pressure on
+ the road, the latter the additional work the engine has to
+ perform. Universally this is the same part of the whole
+ carriage and its load together, which the perpendicular ascent
+ of the hill is of its length. With these principles, if we knew
+ the bite of the wheels on the road, we could at once subject
+ the powers of Mr. Gurney's carriage to calculation.</p>
+
+ <p>"Now, from one of the experiments made in the barrack-yard,
+ at Hounslow, I find we can approximate towards it. For
+ instance, with one wheel only fixed to the 'carriers,' the
+ carriage drew itself and load of water and coke (about 1 ton),
+ with three men on it, and a wagon behind of 16 cwt. containing
+ 27 soldiers. This, at the rate of 1-1/2 cwt. to a man, in round
+ numbers is 4 tons. Estimating the force of traction of spring
+ carriages at a twelfth of the total weight, it consequently
+ gives a hold or bite on the road of 1-12 of 4 tons, or 6 2-3rds
+ cwt. per wheel, or 13 1-3rd cwt. for the two wheels. This is
+ likewise the propelling force of the carriage. Supposing,
+ therefore, we were ascending a hill of 1 foot rise in 8, which
+ I am assured exceeds in steepness any hill we have, we should
+ be able to draw a load behind of 2 tons 2 cwt., or between 3
+ and 4 tons altogether....</p>
+
+ <p>"On a good level road I think it not improbable it might
+ draw, instead of 7 tons which our experiment would give, from
+ 10 to 11, besides its own weight, or 100 ordinary men,
+ exclusive of 2 or 3 tons for carriages; and up one of our
+ steepest hills, 3 tons besides itself, or 25 men besides a ton
+ for a carriage. This it would do at a rate of 8, 9, or 10 miles
+ an hour. For it is a singular feature in this carriage, and
+ which was remarked by many at the time, that it maintained very
+ nearly the same speed with a wagon and 27 men, that it did with
+ the carriage and only 5 or 6 persons. But there is a fact
+ connected with this machine still more extraordinary. For
+ instance, every additional cwt. we shift on the hind or working
+ wheels, will increase the power of traction in our steepest
+ hills upwards of 4 cwt., and on the level road half a ton.
+ Such, then, is the paradoxical nature of steam-carriages, that
+ the very circumstance which in animal exertion would weaken and
+ retard, will here multiply their strength and accelerate. This,
+ no doubt, Mr. Gurney's ingenuity will soon turn to profitable
+ account.</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page196"
+ id="page196"></a>[pg 196]</span>
+
+ <p>"It has often been asserted that carriages of this sort
+ could not go above 6 or 7 miles an hour. I can see no
+ reasonable objection to 20. The following fact, decided before
+ a large company in the barrack-yard, will best speak for
+ itself:&mdash;At eighteen minutes after three I ascended the
+ carriage with Mr. Gurney. After we had gone about half way
+ round, 'Now,' said Mr. Gurney, 'I will show you her speed.' He
+ did, and we completed seven turns round the outside of the road
+ by twenty-eight minutes after three. If, therefore, as I was
+ there assured, two and a half turns measured one mile, we went
+ 2.8 miles in ten minutes; that is, at the rate of 16.8, or
+ nearly 17 miles per hour. But as Mr. Gurney slackened its
+ motion once or twice in the course of trial, to speak to some
+ one, and did not go at an equal rate all the way round for fear
+ of accident in the crowd, it is clear that sometimes we must
+ have proceeded at the rate of upwards of twenty miles an
+ hour."</p>
+
+ <p>The Engraving will furnish the reader with a correct idea of
+ such of Mr. Gurney's improvements as are most interesting to
+ the public. The present arrangement is certainly very
+ preferable to placing the boiler and engine in immediate
+ contact with the carriage, which is to convey goods and
+ passengers. Men of science are still much divided on the
+ practical economy of using steam instead of horses as a
+ travelling agent; but we hope, like all great contemporaries
+ they may whet and cultivate each other till the desired object
+ is attained. One of them, a writer in the <i>Atlas</i>,
+ observes, that "if ultimately found capable of being brought
+ into public use, it would probably be most convenient and
+ desirable that several locomotive engines should be employed on
+ one line of road, in order that they might be exchanged at
+ certain stages for the purposes of examination, tightening of
+ screws, and other adjustments, which the jolting on passing
+ over the road might render necessary, and for the supply of
+ fuel and water."</p>
+
+ <p>An effectively-coloured lithographic of Mr. Gurney's
+ carriage (by Shoesmith) has recently appeared at the
+ printsellers', which we take this opportunity of recommending
+ to the notice of collectors and scrappers.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>PUNNING SATIRE ON AN INCONSTANT LOVER.</h3>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>You are as faithless as a <i>Carthaginian</i>,</p>
+
+ <p>To love at once, <i>Kate, Nell, Doll, Martha, Jenny,
+ Anne.</i></p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author">SWIFT.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>BRIMHAM ROCKS<a id="footnotetag3"
+ name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a>
+ BY MOONLIGHT.</h3>
+
+ <h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>The sun hath set, but yet I linger still,</p>
+
+ <p>Gazing with rapture on the face of night;</p>
+
+ <p>And mountain wild, deep vale, and heathy hill,</p>
+
+ <p>Lay like a lovely vision, mellow, bright,</p>
+
+ <p>Bathed in the glory of the sunset light,</p>
+
+ <p>Whose changing hues in flick'ring radiance play,</p>
+
+ <p>Faint and yet fainter on the outstretch'd sight,</p>
+
+ <p>Until at length they wane and die away,</p>
+
+ <p>And all th' horizon round fades into twilight
+ gray.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>But, slowly rising up the vaulted sky,</p>
+
+ <p>Forth comes the moon, night's joyous, sylvan
+ queen,</p>
+
+ <p>With one lone, silent star, attendant by</p>
+
+ <p>Her side, all sparkling in its glorious sheen;</p>
+
+ <p>And, floating swan-like, stately, and serene,</p>
+
+ <p>A few light fleecy clouds, the drapery of
+ heav'n,</p>
+
+ <p>Throw their pale shadows o'er this witching
+ scene,</p>
+
+ <p>Deep'ning its mystic grandeur&mdash;and seem
+ driven</p>
+
+ <p>Round these all shapeless piles like Time's wan
+ spectres risen</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>From out the tombs of ages. All around</p>
+
+ <p>Lies hushed and still, save with large, dusky
+ wing</p>
+
+ <p>The bird of night makes its ill-omened sound;</p>
+
+ <p>Or moor-game, nestling 'neath th' flowery ling</p>
+
+ <p>Low chuckle to their mates&mdash;or startled,
+ spring</p>
+
+ <p>Away on rustling pinions to the sky,</p>
+
+ <p>Wheel round and round in many an airy ring,</p>
+
+ <p>Then swooping downward to their covert hie,</p>
+
+ <p>And, lodged beneath the heath again securely
+ lie.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Ascend yon hoary rock's impending brow,</p>
+
+ <p>And on its windy summit take your stand&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Lo! Wilsill's lovely vale extends below,</p>
+
+ <p>And long, long heathy moors on either hand</p>
+
+ <p>Stretch dark and misty&mdash;a bleak tract of
+ land,</p>
+
+ <p>Whereon but seldom human footsteps come;</p>
+
+ <p>Save when with dog, obedient at command,</p>
+
+ <p>And gun, the sportsman quits his city home,</p>
+
+ <p>And brushing through the ling in quest of game doth
+ roam.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>And lo! in wild confusion scattered round,</p>
+
+ <p>Huge, shapeless, naked, massy piles of stone</p>
+
+ <p>Rise, proudly towering o'er this barren ground,</p>
+
+ <p>Scowling in mutual hate&mdash;apart, alone,</p>
+
+ <p>Stern, desolate they stand&mdash;and seeming
+ thrown</p>
+
+ <p>By some dire, dread convulsion of the earth</p>
+
+ <p>From her deep, silent caves, and hoary grown</p>
+
+ <p>With age and storms that Boreas issues forth</p>
+
+ <p>Replete with ire from his wild regions in the
+ north.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>How beautiful! yet wildly beautiful,</p>
+
+ <p>As group on group comes glim'ring on the eye,</p>
+
+ <p>Making the heart, soul, mind, and spirit full</p>
+
+ <p>Of holy rapture and sweet
+ imagery;</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page197"
+ id="page197"></a>[pg 197]</span>
+
+ <p>Till o'er the lip escapes th' unconscious sigh,</p>
+
+ <p>And heaves the breast with feeling, too too deep</p>
+
+ <p>For words t' express the awful sympathy,</p>
+
+ <p>That like a dream doth o'er the senses creep,</p>
+
+ <p>Chaining the gazer's eye&mdash;and yet he cannot
+ weep.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>But stands entranced and rooted to the spot,</p>
+
+ <p>While grows the scene upon him vast, sublime,</p>
+
+ <p>Like some gigantic city's ruin, not</p>
+
+ <p>Inhabited by men, but Titans&mdash;Time</p>
+
+ <p>Here rests upon his scythe and fears to climb,</p>
+
+ <p>Spent by th' unceasing toil of ages past,</p>
+
+ <p>Musing he stands and listens to the chime</p>
+
+ <p>Of rock-born spirits howling in the blast,</p>
+
+ <p>While gloomily around night's sable shades are
+ cast.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Well deemed I ween the Druid sage of old</p>
+
+ <p>In making this his dwelling place on high;</p>
+
+ <p>Where all that's huge and great from Nature's
+ mould,</p>
+
+ <p>Spoke this the temple of his deity;</p>
+
+ <p>Whose walls and roof were the o'erhanging sky,</p>
+
+ <p>His altar th' unhewn rock, all bleak and bare,</p>
+
+ <p>Where superstition with red, phrensied eye</p>
+
+ <p>And look all wild, poured forth her idol prayer,</p>
+
+ <p>As rose the dying wail,<a id="footnotetag4"
+ name="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a>
+ and blazed the pile in air.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Lost in the lapse of time, the Druid's lore</p>
+
+ <p>Hath ceased to echo these rude rocks among;</p>
+
+ <p>No altar new is stained with human gore;</p>
+
+ <p>No hoary bard now weaves the mystic song;</p>
+
+ <p>Nor thrust in wicker hurdles, throng on throng,</p>
+
+ <p>Whole multitudes are offered to appease</p>
+
+ <p>Some angry god, whose will and power of wrong</p>
+
+ <p>Vainly they thus essayed to soothe and
+ please&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Alas! that thoughts so gross man's noblest powers
+ should seize.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>But, bowed beneath the cross, see! prostrate
+ fall</p>
+
+ <p>The mummeries that long enthralled our isle;</p>
+
+ <p>So perish error! and wide over all</p>
+
+ <p>Let reason, truth, religion ever smile:</p>
+
+ <p>And let not man, vain, impious man defile</p>
+
+ <p>The spark heaven lighted in the human breast;</p>
+
+ <p>Let no enthusiastic rage, no sophist's wile</p>
+
+ <p>Lull the poor victim into careless rest,</p>
+
+ <p>Since the pure gospel page can teach him to be
+ blest.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Weak, trifling man, O! come and ponder here</p>
+
+ <p>Upon the nothingness of human things&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>How vain, how very vain doth then appear</p>
+
+ <p>The city's hum, the pomp and pride of kings;</p>
+
+ <p>All that from wealth, power, grandeur, beauty
+ springs,</p>
+
+ <p>Alike must fade, die, perish, be forgot;</p>
+
+ <p>E'en he whose feeble hand now strikes the
+ strings</p>
+
+ <p>Soon, soon within the silent grave must
+ rot&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>Yet Nature's still the same, though we see, we hear
+ her not.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="author">J. HORNER.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Wilsill, near Pateley Bridge, Sept. 1829.</i></p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>MANNERS &amp; CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.</h2>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <h3>PLEDGING HEALTHS.</h3>
+
+ <p>The origin of the very common expression, to <i>pledge</i>
+ one drinking, is curious: it is thus related by a very
+ celebrated antiquarian of the fifteenth century. "When the
+ <i>Danes</i> bore sway in this land, if a native did drink,
+ they would sometimes stab him with a dagger or knife; hereupon
+ people would not drink in company unless some one present would
+ be their <i>pledge</i> or surety, that they should receive no
+ hurt, whilst they were in their draught; hence that usual
+ phrase, I'll <i>pledge you</i>, or be a pledge for you." Others
+ affirm the true sense of the word was, that if the party drank
+ to, were not disposed to drink himself, he would put another
+ for <i>a pledge</i> to do it for him, else the party who began
+ would take it ill.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">J.W.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <h3>RUSSIAN SUPERSTITION.</h3>
+
+ <p>The extreme superstition of the Greek church, the national
+ one of Russia, seems to exceed that of the Roman Catholic
+ devotees, even in Spain and Portugal. The following instance
+ will show the absurdity of it even among the higher
+ classes:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>A Russian princess, some few years since, had always a large
+ silver crucifix following her in a separate carriage, and which
+ was placed in her chamber. When any thing fortunate happened to
+ her in the course of the day, and she was satisfied with all
+ that had occurred, she had lighted tapers placed around the
+ crucifix, and said to it in a familiar style, "See, now, as you
+ have been very good to me to-day, you shall be treated well;
+ you shall have candles all night; I will love you; I will pray
+ to you." If on the contrary, any thing happened to vex the
+ lady, she had the candles put out, ordered her servants not to
+ pay any homage to the poor image, and loaded it herself with
+ the bitterest reproaches.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">INA.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>THE SELECTOR;</h2>
+
+ <h3>AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h3>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <h3>LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.</h3>
+
+ <h4><i>Fruits</i>.</h4>
+
+ <p>This Part (5) completes the volume of "Vegetable Substances
+ used in the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page198"
+ id="page198"></a>[pg 198]</span> Arts and in Domestic
+ Economy." The first portion&mdash;<i>Timber Trees</i> was
+ noticed at some length in our last volume (page 309,) and
+ received our almost unqualified commendation, which we are
+ induced to extend to the Part now before us. Still, we do
+ not recollect to have pointed out to our readers that which
+ appears to us the great recommendatory feature of this
+ series of works&mdash;we mean the arrangement of the
+ volumes&mdash;their subdivisions and
+ exemplifications&mdash;and these evince a master-hand in
+ compilation.</p>
+
+ <p>Every general reader must be aware that little novelty could
+ be expected in a brief History and Description of Timber Trees
+ and Fruits, and that the object of the Useful Knowledge Society
+ was not merely to furnish the public with new views, but to
+ present in the most attractive form the most entertaining facts
+ of established writers, and illustrate their views with the
+ observations of contemporary authors as well as their own
+ personal acquaintance with the subjects. In this manner, the
+ Editor has taken "a general and rapid view of fruits," and,
+ considering the great hold their description possesses on all
+ readers, we are disposed to think almost too rapid. We should
+ have enjoyed a volume or two more than half a volume of such
+ reading as the present; but as we are not purchasers, and are
+ unacquainted with the number to which the Society propose to
+ extend their works, we ought not perhaps to raise this
+ objection, which, to say the truth, is a sort of negative
+ commendation. Hitherto, we have been accustomed to see
+ compilations of pretensions similar to the present, executed
+ with little regard to neatness or unity, or weight or
+ consideration. Whole pages and long extracts have been stripped
+ and sliced off books, with little rule or arrangement, and what
+ is still worse, without any acknowledgment of the sources. The
+ last defect is certainly the greatest, since, in spite of
+ ill-arrangement, an intelligent inquirer may with much trouble,
+ avail himself of further reference to the authors quoted, and
+ thus complete in his own mind what the compiler had so
+ indifferently begun. The work before us is, however, altogether
+ of a much higher order than general compilations. The
+ introductions and inferences are pointed and judicious, and the
+ facts themselves of the most interesting character, are
+ narrated in a condensed but perspicuous style; while the
+ slightest reference will prove that the best and latest
+ authorities have been appreciated. Thus, in the History and
+ Description of Fruits, the Transactions of the Horticultural
+ Society are frequently and pertinently quoted to establish
+ disputed points, as well as the journals of intelligent
+ travellers and naturalists; with occasional poetical
+ embellishments, which lend a charm even to this attractive
+ species of reading.</p>
+
+ <p>To quote the history of either Fruit entire, would not so
+ well denote the character of the work as would a few of the
+ most striking passages in the descriptions. In the introductory
+ chapter we are pleased with the following passage on
+ <i>Monastic Gardens</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>"The monks, after the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to
+ Christianity, appear to have been the only gardeners. As early
+ as 674, we have a record, describing a pleasant and
+ fruit-bearing close at Ely, then cultivated by Brithnoth, the
+ first Abbot of that place. The ecclesiastics subsequently
+ carried their cultivation of fruits as tar as was compatible
+ with the nature of the climate, and the horticultural knowledge
+ of the middle ages. Whoever has seen an old abbey, where for
+ generations destruction only has been at work, must have almost
+ invariably found it situated in one of the choicest spots, both
+ as to soil and aspect; and if the hand of injudicious
+ improvement has not swept it away, there is still the
+ 'Abbey-garden.' Even though it has been wholly
+ neglected&mdash;though its walls be in ruins, covered with
+ stone-crop and wall-flower, and its area produce but the
+ rankest weeds&mdash;there are still the remains of the aged
+ fruit trees&mdash;the venerable pears, the delicate little
+ apples, and the luscious black cherries. The chestnuts and the
+ walnuts may have yielded to the axe, and the fig trees and
+ vines died away;&mdash;but sometimes the mulberry is left, and
+ the strawberry and the raspberry struggle among the ruins.
+ There is a moral lesson in these memorials of the monastic
+ ages. The monks, with all their faults, were generally men of
+ peace and study; and these monuments show that they were
+ improving the world, while the warriors were spending their
+ lives to spoil it. In many parts of Italy and France, which had
+ lain in desolation and ruin from the time of the Goths, the
+ monks restored the whole surface to fertility; and in Scotland
+ and Ireland there probably would not have been a fruit tree
+ till the sixteenth century, if it had not been for their
+ peaceful labours. It is generally supposed that the monastic
+ orchards were in their greatest perfection from the twelfth to
+ the fifteenth century."</p>
+
+ <p>Again, the</p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page199"
+ id="page199"></a>[pg 199]</span>
+
+ <h4><i>Naturalization of Plants.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>"The large number of our native plants (for we call those
+ native which have adapted themselves to our climate) mark the
+ gradual progress of our civilization through the long period of
+ two thousand years; whilst the almost infinite diversity of
+ exotics which a botanical garden offers, attest the triumphs of
+ that industry which has carried us as merchants or as colonists
+ over every region of the earth, and has brought from every
+ region whatever can administer to our comforts and our
+ luxuries,&mdash;to the tastes and the needful desires of the
+ humblest as well as the highest amongst us. To the same
+ commerce we owe the potato and the pine-apple; the China rose,
+ whose flowers cluster round the cottage-porch, and the Camellia
+ which blooms in the conservatory. The addition even of a
+ flower, or an ornamental shrub, to those which we already
+ possess, is not to be regarded as a matter below the care of
+ industry and science. The more we extend our acquaintance with
+ the productions of nature, the more are our minds elevated by
+ contemplating the variety, as well as the exceeding beauty, of
+ the works of the Creator. The highest understanding does not
+ stoop when occupied in observing the brilliant colour of a
+ blossom, or the graceful form of a leaf. Hogarth, the great
+ moral painter, a man in all respects of real and original
+ genius, writes thus to his friend Ellis, a distinguished
+ traveller and naturalist:&mdash;'As for your pretty little
+ seed-cups, or vases, they are a sweet confirmation of the
+ pleasure Nature seems to take in superadding an elegance of
+ form to most of her works, wherever you find them. How poor and
+ bungling are all the imitations of Art! When I have the
+ pleasure of seeing you next, we will sit down, <i>nay, kneel
+ down if you will</i>, and admire these things.'</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>"It is one of the proudest attributes of man, and one which
+ is most important for him to know, that he can improve every
+ production of nature, if he will but once make it his own by
+ possession and attachment. A conviction of this truth has
+ rendered the cultivation of fruits, in the more polished
+ countries of Europe, as successful as we now behold it."</p>
+
+ <p>The work then divides into <i>Fruits of the Temperate
+ Climates</i>, and of <i>Tropical Climates</i>; the first are
+ subdivided into Fleshy, Pulpy, and Stone Fruits and Nuts, in
+ preference to a strict geographical arrangement. Under "the
+ Apple" occur some very judicious observations on</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Cider.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>"The cider counties of England have always been considered
+ as highly interesting. They lie something in the form of a
+ horse-shoe round the Bristol Channel; and the best are,
+ Worcester and Hereford, on the north of the channel, and
+ Somerset and Devon on the south. In appearance, they have a
+ considerable advantage over those counties in which grain alone
+ is cultivated. The blossoms cover an extensive district with a
+ profusion of flowers in the spring, and the fruit is beautiful
+ in autumn. Some of the orchards occupy a space of forty or
+ fifty acres; and the trees being at considerable intervals, the
+ land is also kept in tillage. A great deal of practical
+ acquaintance with the qualities of soil is required in the
+ culture of apple and pear trees; and his skill in the
+ adaptation of trees to their situation principally determines
+ the success of the manufacturer of cider and perry. The produce
+ of the orchards is very fluctuating; and the growers seldom
+ expect an abundant crop more than once in three years. The
+ quantity of apples required to make a hogshead of cider is from
+ twenty-four to thirty bushels; and in a good year an acre of
+ orchard will produce somewhere about six hundred bushels, or
+ from twenty to twenty-five hogsheads. The cider harvest is in
+ September. When the season is favourable, the heaps of apples
+ collected at the presses are immense&mdash;consisting of
+ hundreds of tons. If any of the vessels used in the manufacture
+ of cider are of lead, the beverage is not wholesome. The price
+ of a hogshead of cider generally varies from 2<i>l.</i> to
+ 5<i>l.</i>, according to the season and quality; but cider of
+ the finest growth has sometimes been sold as high as
+ 20<i>l.</i> by the hogshead, direct from the press&mdash;a
+ price equal to that of many of the fine wines of the Rhine or
+ the Garonne."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h4><i>Old Apple Trees.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>"At Horton, in Buckinghamshire, where Milton spent some of
+ his earlier years, there is an apple tree still growing, of
+ which the oldest people remember to have heard it said that the
+ poet was accustomed to sit under it. And upon the low leads of
+ the church at Romsey, in Hampshire, there is an apple tree
+ still bearing fruit, which is said to be two hundred years
+ old."</p>
+
+ <p>The <i>Fig</i> and the <i>Fine</i> are equally
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page200"
+ id="page200"></a>[pg 200]</span> interesting, and in
+ connexion with the latter we notice the editor's mention of
+ the fine vineyard at Arundel Castle. Aubrey describes a
+ similar vineyard at Chart Park, near Dorking, another seat
+ of the Howards. "Here was a vineyard, supposed to have been
+ planted by the Hon. Charles Howard, who, it is said, erected
+ his residence, as it were, in the vineyard." Again, "the
+ vineyard flourished for some time, and tolerably good wine
+ was made from the produce; but after the death of the noble
+ planter, in 1713, it was much neglected, and nothing
+ remained but the name. On taking down the house, a stone
+ resembling a millstone, was found, by which the grapes were
+ pressed."<a id="footnotetag5"
+ name="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a>
+ We were on the spot at the time, and saw the stone in
+ question. Vines are still very abundant at Dorking, the soil
+ being very congenial to their growth. "Hence, almost every
+ house in this part has its vine; and some of the plants are
+ very productive. The cottages of the labouring poor are not
+ without this ornament, and the produce is usually sold by
+ them to their wealthier neighbours, for the manufacture of
+ wine. The price per bushel is from 4<i>s.</i> to
+ 16<i>s.</i>; but the variableness of the season frequently
+ disappoints them in the crops, the produce of which is
+ sometimes laid up as a setoff to the
+ rent."<a id="footnotetag6"
+ name="footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p>
+
+ <p>We have heard too of attempts in England to train the vine
+ on the sides of hills, and a few years since an individual lost
+ a considerable sum of money in making the experiment in the
+ Isle of Wight.</p>
+
+ <p>At page 257, observes the editor,</p>
+
+ <h4><i>A Vineyard</i></h4>
+
+ <p>"Associated as it is with all our ideas of beauty and
+ plenty, is, in general, a disappointing object. The hop
+ plantations of our own country are far more picturesque. In
+ France, the vines are trained upon poles, seldom more than
+ three or four feet in height; and 'the pole-clipt vineyard' of
+ poetry is not the most inviting of real objects. In Spain,
+ poles for supporting vines are not used; but cuttings are
+ planted, which are not permitted to grow very high, but
+ gradually form thick and stout stocks. In Switzerland, and in
+ the German provinces, the vineyards are as formal as those of
+ France. But in Italy is found the true vine of poetry,
+ 'surrounding the stone cottage with its girdle, flinging its
+ pliant and luxuriant branches over the rustic veranda, or
+ twining its long garland from tree to
+ tree.'<a id="footnotetag7"
+ name="footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a>
+ It was the luxuriance and the beauty of her vines and her
+ olives that tempted the rude people of the north to pour
+ down upon her fertile fields:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>'The prostrate South to the destroyer yields</p>
+
+ <p>Her boasted titles and her golden fields;</p>
+
+ <p>With grim delight the brood of winter view</p>
+
+ <p>A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue.</p>
+
+ <p>Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose.</p>
+
+ <p>And quaff the pendent vintage as it
+ grows.'<a id="footnotetag8"
+ name="footnotetag8"></a><a href="#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a></p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>"In Greece, too, as well as Italy, the shoots of the vines
+ are either trained upon trees, or supported, so as to display
+ all their luxuriance, upon a series of props. This was the
+ custom of the ancient vine-growers; and their descendants have
+ preserved it in all its picturesque
+ originality.<a id="footnotetag9"
+ name="footnotetag9"></a><a href="#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a>
+ The vine-dressers of Persia train their vines to run up a
+ wall, and curl over on the top. But the most luxurious
+ cultivation of the vine in hot countries is where it covers
+ the trellis-work which surrounds a well, inviting the owner
+ and his family to gather beneath its shade. 'The fruitful
+ bough by well' is of the highest antiquity."</p>
+
+ <p>Passing over the Mulberry, Currant, Gooseberry, and the
+ Strawberry, the account of the Egg Plant is particularly
+ attractive; and that of the Olive is well-written, but too long
+ for extract.</p>
+
+ <p>Among the <i>Tropical Fruits</i>, the Orange and the Date
+ are very delightful; and equal in importance and interest are
+ the Cocoa Nut and Bread Fruit Tree. In short, it is impossible
+ to open the volume without being gratified with the richness
+ and variety of its contents, and the amiable feeling which
+ pervades the inferences and incidental observations of the
+ writer.</p>
+
+ <p>A word or two on the embellishments and we have done. These
+ are far behind the literary merits of the volume, and are
+ discreditable productions. Where so much is well done it were
+ better to omit engravings altogether than adopt such as these:
+ "they imitate nature so abominably." The group at page 223 is a
+ fair specimen of the whole, than which nothing can be more
+ lifeless. After the excellent cuts of Mr. London's Gardener's
+ and Natural History Magazines, we turn away from these with
+ pain, and it must be equally vexatious to the editor to see
+ such accompaniments to his pages.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page201"
+ id="page201"></a>[pg 201]</span>
+
+ <h3>SHAKSPEARE'S BROOCH.</h3>
+
+ <div class="figcenter"
+ style="width:70%;">
+ <a href="images/201.png"><img width="100%"
+ src="images/201.png"
+ alt="" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+
+ <p>Having frequently observed in your valuable publication the
+ great attention which you have paid to every thing relating to
+ the "Immortal Bard of Avon," I beg leave to transmit to you two
+ drawings (the one back, the other front) of a brooch or buckle,
+ found near the residence of the poet, at New Place, Stratford,
+ among the rubbish brought out from the spot where the house
+ stood. This brooch is considered by the most competent judges
+ and antiquarians in and near Stratford, to have been the
+ personal property of Shakspeare. A. is the back; 1 and 2, faint
+ traces of the letters which were nearly obliterated, by the
+ person who found the relic, in scraping to ascertain whether
+ the metal was precious, the whole of it being covered with
+ gangrene or verdigris. 3 and 4 are the remains of the hinge to
+ the pin. Fortunately the W. at the corner was preserved. B.
+ represents the front of the brooch; 1, 3, and 5, are red stones
+ in the top part (similar in shape to a coronet) 2 and 4 are
+ blue stones in the same; the other stones in the bottom or
+ heart are white, though varying rather in hue, and all are set
+ in silver.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">HJTHWC.</p>
+
+ <p>N.B. The above is shown to the curious by the individual who
+ found it&mdash;a poor man named Smith, living in Sheep Street,
+ Stratford.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <p>The greater portion of the following Notes will, we are
+ persuaded, be new to all but the bibliomaniacs in theatrical
+ lore. They occur in a paper of 45 pages in the last Edinburgh
+ Review, in which the writer attributes the Decline of the Drama
+ to a variety of causes&mdash;as late hours, costly
+ representations, high salaries, and excessive
+ taxation&mdash;some of which we have selected for extract. In
+ our affection for the Stage, we have paid some attention to its
+ history, as well as to its recent state, and readily do we
+ subscribe to a few of the Reviewer's opinions of the cause of
+ its neglect. But to attribute this falling off to "taxes
+ innumerable" is rather too broad: perhaps the highly-taxed wax
+ lights around the box circles suggested this new light. We need
+ not go so far to detect the rottenness of the dramatic state;
+ still, as the question involves controversy at every point, we
+ had rather keep out of the fight, and leave our Reviewer
+ without further note or comment.</p>
+
+ <h3>NOTES ON THE DRAMA.</h3>
+
+ <h4>(<i>From the Edinburgh Review, No. 98.</i>)</h4>
+
+ <h4><i>Origin of Admission Money.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>There were at Athens various funds, applicable to public
+ purposes; one of which, and among the most considerable, was
+ appropriated for the expensed of sacrifices, processions,
+ festivals, spectacles, and of the theatres. The citizens were
+ admitted to the theatres for some time gratis; but in
+ consequence of the disturbances caused by multitudes crowding
+ to get seats, to introduce order, and as the phrase is, to keep
+ out improper persons, a small sum of money was afterwards
+ demanded for admission. That the poorer classes, however, might
+ not be deprived of their favourite gratification, they received
+ from the treasury, out of this fund, the price of a
+ seat&mdash;and thus peace and regularity were secured, and the
+ fund still applied to its original purpose. The money that was
+ taken at the doors, having served as a ticket, was expended,
+ together with that which had not been used in this manner,
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page202"
+ id="page202"></a>[pg 202]</span> to maintain the edifice
+ itself, and to pay the manifold charges of the
+ representation.</p>
+
+ <h4>"<i>Dramatic Representations natural to Man.</i>"</h4>
+
+ <p>Travellers inform us, that savages, even in a very rude
+ state, are found to divert themselves by imitating some common
+ event in life: but it is not necessary to leave our own quiet
+ homes to satisfy ourselves, that dramatic representations are
+ natural to man. All children delight in mimicking action; many
+ of their amusements consist in such performances, and are in
+ every sense <i>plays</i>. It is curious, indeed, to observe at
+ how early an age the young of the most imitative animal, man,
+ begin to copy the actions of others; how soon the infant
+ displays its intimate conviction of the great truth, that "all
+ the world's a Stage." The baby does not imitate those acts
+ only, that are useful and necessary to be learned; but it
+ instinctively mocks useless and unimportant actions and
+ unmeaning sounds, for its amusement, and for the mere pleasure
+ of imitation, and is evidently much delighted when it is
+ successful. The diversions of children are very commonly
+ dramatic. When they are not occupied with their hoops, tops,
+ and balls, or engaged in some artificial game, they amuse
+ themselves in playing at soldiers, in being at school, or at
+ church, in going to market, in receiving company; and they
+ imitate the various employments of life with so much fidelity,
+ that the theatrical critic, who delights in chaste acting, will
+ often find less to censure in his own little servants in the
+ nursery, than in his majesty's servants in a theatre-royal.
+ When they are somewhat older they dramatize the stories they
+ read; most boys have represented Robin Hood, or one of his
+ merry-men, and every one has enacted the part of Robinson
+ Crusoe, and his man Friday. We have heard of many extraordinary
+ tastes and antipathies; but we never knew an instance of a
+ young person, who was not delighted the first time he visited a
+ theatre. The true enjoyment of life consists in action; and
+ happiness, according to the peripatetic definition, is to be
+ found in energy; it accords, therefore, with the nature and
+ etymology of the drama, which is, in truth, not less natural
+ than agreeable. Its grand divisions correspond, moreover, with
+ those of time; the contemplation of the present is
+ Comedy&mdash;mirth for the most part being connected with the
+ present only&mdash;and the past and the future are the
+ dominions of the Tragic muse.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Grecian Theatres.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>The climate of Athens being one of the finest and most
+ agreeable in the world, the Athenians passed the greatest part
+ of their time in the open air; and their theatres, like those
+ in the rest of Greece and in ancient Rome, had no other
+ covering than the sky. Their structure accordingly differed
+ greatly from that of a modern playhouse, and the representation
+ in many respects was executed in a different manner. But we
+ will mention those peculiarities only which are necessary to
+ render our observations intelligible.</p>
+
+ <p>The ancient theatres, in the first place, were on a much
+ larger scale than any that have been constructed in later days.
+ It would have been impossible, by reason of the magnitude of
+ the edifice, and consequently of the stage, to have changed the
+ scenes in the same manner as in our smaller buildings. The
+ scene, as it was called, was a permanent structure, and
+ resembled the front of Somerset House, of the Horse Guards, or
+ the Tuileries, and was in the same style of architecture as the
+ rest of the spacious edifice. There were three large gateways,
+ through each of which a view of streets, or of woods, or of
+ whatever was suitable to the action represented, was displayed;
+ this painting was fixed upon a triangular frame, that turned on
+ an axis, like a swivel seal, or ring, so that any one of the
+ three sides might be presented to the spectators, and perhaps
+ the two that were turned away might be covered with other
+ subjects, if it were necessary. If parts of Regent Street, or
+ of Whitehall, or the Mansion House, and the Bank of England,
+ were shown through the openings in the fixed scene, it would be
+ plain that the fable was intended to be referred to London; and
+ it would be removed to Edinburgh, or Paris, if the more
+ striking portions of those cities were thus exhibited. The
+ front of the scene was broken by columns, by bays and
+ promontories in the line of the building, which gave beauty and
+ variety to the façade, and aided the deception produced by the
+ paintings that were seen through the three openings. In the
+ Roman Theatres there were commonly two considerable
+ projections, like large bow-windows, or bastions, in the spaces
+ between the apertures; this very uneven line afforded
+ assistance to the plot, in enabling different parties to be on
+ the stage at the same time, without seeing one another.
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page203"
+ id="page203"></a>[pg 203]</span> The whole front of the
+ stage was called the scene, or covered building, to
+ distinguish it from the rest of the theatre, which was open
+ to the air, except that a covered portico frequently ran
+ round the semicircular part of the edifice at the back of
+ the highest row of seats, which answered to our galleries,
+ and was occupied, like them, by the gods, who stood in
+ crowds upon the level floor of their celestial abodes.</p>
+
+ <p>Immediately in front of the stage, as with us, was the
+ orchestra; but it was of much larger dimensions, not only
+ positively, but in proportion to the theatre. In our playhouses
+ it is exclusively inhabited by fiddles and their fiddlers; the
+ ancients appropriated it to more dignified purposes; for there
+ stood the high altar of Bacchus, richly ornamented and
+ elevated, and around it moved the sacred Chorus to solemn
+ measures, in stately array and in magnificent vestments, with
+ crowns and incense, chanting at intervals their songs, and
+ occupied in their various rites, as we have before mentioned.
+ It is one of the many instances of uninterrupted traditions,
+ that this part of our theatres is still devoted to receive
+ musicians, although, in comparison with their predecessors,
+ they are of an ignoble and degenerate race.</p>
+
+ <p>The use of masks was another remarkable peculiarity of the
+ ancient acting. It has been conjectured, that the tragic mask
+ was invented to conceal the face of the actor, which, in a
+ small city like Athens, must have been known to the greater
+ part of the audience, as vulgar in expression, and it sometimes
+ would have brought to mind most unseasonably the remembrance of
+ a life and of habits, that would have repelled all sympathy
+ with the character which he was to personate. It would not have
+ been endured, that a player should perform the part of a
+ monarch in his ordinary dress, nor that of a hero with his own
+ mean physiognomy. It is probable, also, that the likeness of
+ every hero of tragedy was handed down in statues, medals, and
+ paintings, or even in a series of masks; and that the
+ countenance of Theseus, or of Ajax, was as well known to the
+ spectators as the face of any of their contemporaries. Whenever
+ a living character was introduced by name, as Cleon or
+ Socrates, in the old comedy, we may suppose that the mask was a
+ striking, although not a flattering portrait. We cannot doubt,
+ that these masks were made with great care, and were skilfully
+ painted, and finished with the nicest accuracy; for every art
+ was brought to a focus in the Greek theatres. We must not
+ imagine, like schoolboys, that the tragedies of Sophocles were
+ performed at Athens in such rude masks as are exhibited in our
+ music shops. We have some representations of them in antique
+ sculptures and paintings, with features somewhat distorted, but
+ of exquisite and inimitable beauty.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>The Roman Stage.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>The Drama of ancient Rome possesses little of originality or
+ interest. The word <i>Histrio</i> is said to be of Etruscan
+ origin; the Tuscans, therefore, had their theatres; but little
+ information can now be gleaned respecting them. It was long
+ before theatres were firmly and permanently established in
+ Rome; but the love of these diversions gradually became too
+ powerful for the censors, and the Romans grew, at last, nearly
+ as fond of them as the Greeks. The latter, as St. Augustine
+ informs us, did not consider the profession of a player as
+ dishonourable: "Ipsos scenicos non turpes judicaverunt, sed
+ dignos etiam præclaris honoribus habuerunt."&mdash;<i>De Civ.
+ Dei</i>. The more prudish Romans, however, were less tolerant;
+ and we find in the Code various constitutions levelled against
+ actors, and one law especially, which would not suit our
+ senate, forbidding senators to marry actresses; but this was
+ afterwards relaxed by Justinian, who had broken it himself. He
+ permitted such marriages to take place on obtaining the consent
+ of the emperor, and afterwards without, so that the lady
+ quitted the stage, and changed her manner of life. The Romans,
+ however, had at least enough of kindly feeling towards a
+ Comedian to pray for the safety, or refection, of his soul
+ after death; this is proved by a pleasant epitaph on a player,
+ which is published in the collection of Gori:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Pro jocis, quibus cunctos</p>
+
+ <p class="i4">oblectabat,</p>
+
+ <p>Si quid oblectamenti apud</p>
+
+ <p class="i4">vos est</p>
+
+ <p>Manes, insontem reficite</p>
+
+ <p class="i4">Animulam."</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <h4><i>Costume.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>It is probable that the imagination of the spectator could
+ without difficulty dispense with scenes, particularly if the
+ surrounding objects were somewhat removed from the ordinary
+ aspect of every-day things; if the performance were to take
+ place, for example, in the hall of a college, or in a
+ church.</p>
+
+ <p>The costume that prevails at present almost universally, is
+ so barbarous and mean, and it changes in so many minute
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page204"
+ id="page204"></a>[pg 204]</span> particulars so frequently,
+ that it is impossible to conceive the hero of a tragedy
+ actually wearing such attire. A more picturesque dress seems
+ therefore to be indispensable; but the essentials of the
+ costume of any time, from which dramatic subjects could be
+ taken, are by no means costly. All that is absolutely
+ necessary in vestments to content the fancy, might be
+ procured at a trifling expense, and the hero or heroine
+ might be supplied with the ordinary apparel of Greece, or
+ Rome, or of any other country, at a small price. We must
+ carefully distinguish, however, between the necessaries and
+ the luxuries of deception; the form, and sometimes the
+ colour, demand a scrupulous accuracy; the texture is always
+ unimportant. We may comprehend, therefore, how the old
+ English theatre, notwithstanding the small outlay on
+ decorations, by a strict attention to essentials, possessed
+ considerable attractions; we may readily believe, that there
+ were many companies who were maintained by their trade;
+ "that all those companies got money and lived in reputation,
+ especially those of the Blackfriars, who were men of grave
+ and sober behaviour."</p>
+
+ <h4><i>The Old Drama.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Our literature is remarkably rich in old dramas; but they
+ are of little use to the present age. Fastidiousness and
+ hypocrisy have grown for many years, slowly but surely, and
+ have at last arrived at such a pitch, that there is hardly a
+ line in the works of our old comic writers, which is not
+ reprobated as immoral, or at least vulgar. The excessive
+ squeamishness of taste of the present day is very unfavourable
+ to the genius of comedy, which demands a certain liberty and a
+ freedom from restraints. This morbid delicacy is a great evil,
+ for it renders the time of limitation in all comic writings
+ exceedingly short. The ephemeral duration of the fashion, which
+ is all the production of a man of wit can now enjoy,
+ discourages authors. There is no motive to bestow much care on
+ such compositions, and they fall below the ambition of men of
+ real talents&mdash;for the best part of the reward of literary
+ labour consists in the lasting admiration of posterity; and as
+ some new fastidiousness will consign to oblivion, in a short
+ time, every comic production, it is plain that such a reward
+ cannot be reasonably anticipated. We are more completely, than
+ any other nation, the victims of fashion. Everything here must
+ either be in the last and newest fashion, or it must cease to
+ be. The despotism of fashion in dress, in furniture, and in the
+ pattern of the edges of plate, is perhaps inconvenient&mdash;it
+ is, however, not very important; but it is a cruel grievance
+ that it should interfere with and annihilate an entire
+ department of our literature.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Hours of Representation.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Dramatic representations were formerly given, not only in
+ Greece and Rome, but in England also, in the daytime, and in
+ the open air. "The Globe, Fortune, and Bull, were large houses,
+ and partly open to the weather, and there they always acted by
+ daylight;" and plays were first acted in Spain in the open
+ courts of great houses, which were sometimes covered, in whole
+ or in part, with an awning to keep off the sun. The word
+ <i>sale</i>, which is used as a stage direction, meaning not
+ <i>exit</i>, but he enters, <i>i.e.</i> he comes out of the
+ house into the open air, is an evidence of the old practice. We
+ are inclined to think that the morning is more favourable to
+ dramatic excellence than the evening. The daylight accords with
+ the truth and sobriety of nature, and it is the season of cool
+ judgment: the gilded, the painted, the tawdry, the
+ meretricious&mdash;spangles and tinsel, and tarnished and
+ glittering trumpery&mdash;demand the glare of candle-light and
+ the shades of night. It is certain, that the best pieces were
+ written for the day; and it is probable, that the best actors
+ were those who performed whilst the sun was above the horizon.
+ The childish trash which now occupies so large a portion of the
+ public attention could not, it is evident, keep possession of
+ the stage, if it were to be presented, not at ten o'clock at
+ night, but twelve hours earlier. Much would need to be changed
+ in the dresses, scenery, and decorations, and in many other
+ respects, in the pieces, the solid merits of which would be
+ able to undergo the severe ordeal; and if we consider
+ <i>what</i> changes would be required to adapt them to the
+ altered hours, we shall find that they will be all in favour of
+ good taste, and on the side of nature and simplicity. The day
+ is a holy thing; Homer aptly calls it [Greek: ieron
+ aemar]&iota;&epsilon;&rho;&omicron;&nu; &eta;&mu;&alpha;&rho;,
+ and it still retains something of the sacred simplicity of
+ ancient times. It is, at all events, less sophisticated and
+ polluted than the modern night, a period which is not devoted
+ to wholesome sleep, but to various constraints and sufferings,
+ called, in bitter mockery, Pleasure. The late evening, being a
+ modern invention, is therefore devoted to fashion; to recur to
+ the simple and pure in theatricals, it would
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page205"
+ id="page205"></a>[pg 205]</span> probably be necessary to
+ effect an escape from a period of time, which has never been
+ employed in the full integrity of tasteful elegance; and
+ thus to break the spell, by which the whole realm of fancy
+ has long been bewitched. An absurd and inconvenient
+ practice, which is almost peculiar to this country, of
+ attending public places in that uncomfortable condition,
+ which is technically called being dressed, but which is in
+ truth, especially in females, being more or less naked and
+ undressed, might more easily be dispensed with by day, and
+ on that account, and for many other reasons, it would be
+ less difficult to return home.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Decline of the Drama.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>It is not unlikely that the drama would be more successful
+ if it were conducted more plainly, and in a less costly style.
+ The perfection of the machinery and scenery of the modern
+ theatres, seems to be unfavourable to the goodness of
+ composition and acting; since the accessaries are so excellent,
+ the opinion is encouraged, that the principals are less
+ important, and may be neglected with impunity. The effect of
+ good scenery at the first glance is, no doubt, very striking,
+ but it soon passes away. If we saw a Garrick acting Shakspeare
+ in a large hall, without any scenes, we should cease in a few
+ minutes to be sensible of the want of them. We are almost
+ disposed to believe, that exactly in proportion as scenery has
+ been improved, good acting has declined.</p>
+
+ <p>The present age is too much inclined to make human life, in
+ every department, resemble a great lottery, in which there are
+ a very few enormous prizes, and all the rest of the tickets are
+ blanks. The stage has not escaped the evil we complain of; on
+ the contrary, it is a striking instance of the mischief of this
+ unequal partition. The public are of opinion, that it is
+ impossible to reward a small number of actors too highly, and
+ to pay the remainder at too low a rate; to neglect the latter
+ enough, or to be sufficiently attentive to the former. On our
+ stage, therefore, the inferior parts, and indeed all but one or
+ two, and especially in tragedies, where the inequality is more
+ intolerable, and more inexcusable, are sustained in a very
+ inadequate manner. In foreign theatres, on the contrary, and
+ especially in France, the whole performance is more equal, and
+ consequently more agreeable. There is perhaps less difference
+ than is commonly supposed between the best performers and those
+ in the next class. Whatever the difference be, it is an
+ inconvenience and an imperfection that ought to be palliated;
+ but we aggravate it. The first-rate actor always does his best,
+ because the audience expect it, and reward him with their
+ applause; but no one cares for, or observes, the performer of
+ second-rate talents: whether he be perfect in his part, and
+ exert himself to the utmost, or be slovenly and negligent
+ throughout, he is unpraised and unblamed. The general effect,
+ therefore, of our tragedies, is very unsatisfactory; for that
+ is far greater, where all the characters are tolerably well
+ supported, than where there is one good actor, and all the
+ other parts are inhumanly murdered. This latter is too often
+ the case on our stage for with us art does little, nothing
+ being taught systematically. The French players, on the
+ contrary, are thoroughly drilled, and well instructed, in every
+ requisite.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>BISHOPS' SLEEVES.</h3>
+
+ <p>To Joan it has been always conceded that she is as good as
+ her lady in the dark, but it is only of late years that Joan
+ has presumed to rival her mistress in the light. The high price
+ of silks and satins protected the mistress against this
+ usurpation of her servant in the broad day. Clad in these, she
+ was safe, as in a coat of mail, from the attack of the domestic
+ aspirant, who was seldom able to obtain possession of the
+ outworks of fashion beyond an Irish poplin or a Norwich crape.
+ The silks and satins were a wall of separation, as impenetrable
+ as the lines of Torres Vedras, or the court hoop and petticoat
+ of a drawing-room in the reign of George III. The new liberal
+ commercial system has entirely changed the position of the
+ parties. The cheapness of French silks, and other articles of
+ dress, has placed female finery within the reach of even
+ moderate wages, and a kitchen-wench will not condescend to
+ sweep the room in any thing less than a robe of <i>Gros de
+ Naples</i> or <i>batiste</i>. Something must be done on the
+ part of the mistress to arrest the progress of invasion, and
+ assert the vested rights of the superior classes of female
+ society. Invention is the first quality of genius, and to woman
+ it is granted in a high degree. Thus gifted, the mistress, in a
+ happy moment, conceived the idea of bishops' sleeves, an
+ article of dress which precludes all hope or chance of
+ imitation in the kitchen. A muffled cat might as well attempt
+ to catch mice, as a maid-servant to go about the business of
+ the house in bishops' sleeves. She could not
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page206"
+ id="page206"></a>[pg 206]</span> remove the tea-equipage
+ from the table without the risk of sweeping the china upon
+ the floor; if she handed her master a plate, he must submit
+ to have his head wrapped up in her sleeve; and what a figure
+ must the cook present after preparing her soups and sauces!
+ The female servant thus accoutred might, indeed, perform the
+ office of a flapper, and disperse the flies; but although
+ this was an office of importance among the ancients, it is
+ dispensed with at a modern table. With the introduction of
+ bishops' sleeves, the rivalry on the part of the maid must
+ cease, and the mistress remain in undisturbed possession of
+ her pre-eminence. Every friend of good order, every one who
+ would retain each individual female in her proper place in
+ society, and prevent its members from trespassing on each
+ other, must, therefore, rejoice in bishops' sleeves; and
+ devoutly pray, that differing from every other fashion that
+ ever preceded it, the fashion of bishops' sleeves may endure
+ for ever.&mdash;<i>New Monthly Magazine</i>.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY</h2>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <h4><i>Iris Lunaris.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>That rare and beautiful phenomenon the <i>Iris Lunaris</i>,
+ or moonlight rainbow, was observed by Mr. W. Colbourne, jun.
+ and a friend of his, from an eminence about a quarter of a mile
+ from Sturminster, on the evening of the 14th instant, about
+ twenty minutes before nine o'clock, in the north-west. Its
+ northern limb first made its appearance; but after a few
+ minutes, the complete curvature was distinctly and beautifully
+ displayed. The altitude of its apex seemed to be nearly forty
+ degrees. Nothing could exceed the beauty of the appearance of
+ this arch of milky whiteness, contrasted as it was with the
+ sable rain fraught clouds which formed the background to this
+ interesting picture. It continued visible more than five
+ minutes, and gradually disappeared at the western limb.</p>
+
+ <p class="author">RURIS.</p>
+
+ <p><i>Sturminster</i>.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Westphalia Hams</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Are prepared in November and March. The Germans place them
+ in deep tubs, which they cover with layers of salt and
+ saltpetre, and with a few laurel leaves. They are left four or
+ five days in this state, and are then completely covered with
+ strong brine. At the end of three weeks they are taken out, and
+ left to soak for twelve hours in clear well-water; they are
+ then exposed, during three weeks, to a smoke produced by the
+ branches of juniper.&mdash;<i>From the French.</i></p>
+
+ <h4><i>London Porter.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>The bitter contained in porter, if taken wholly from hops,
+ would require an average quantity of ten or twelve pounds to
+ the quarter of malt, or about three pounds per barrel; so that
+ if we consider the fluctuation in the price of hops, we shall
+ not be surprised at the numerous substitutes, by which means
+ the brewer can procure as much bitter for sixpence as would
+ otherwise cost him a pound.</p>
+
+ <p>Quassia is, probably, the most harmless of all the illegal
+ bitters. The physicians prescribe the decoction to their
+ patients to the extent of a quarter of an ounce of the bark a
+ day&mdash;as much as the brewer was accustomed to put into nine
+ gallons of his porter.&mdash;<i>Library of Useful
+ Knowledge</i>.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Black Game</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Have increased greatly in the southern counties of Scotland
+ and north of England within the last few years. It is a pretty
+ general opinion, though an erroneous one, that they drive away
+ the red grouse; the two species require very different kinds of
+ cover, and will never interfere.&mdash;<i>Note to White's
+ Selborne, by Sir W. Jardine</i>.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Birds of Prey.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>All birds of prey are capable of sustaining the want of food
+ and water for long periods, particularly the latter, but of
+ which they also seem remarkably fond, drinking frequently in a
+ state of nature, and during summer washing almost
+ daily.&mdash;<i>Ibid.</i></p>
+
+ <h4><i>Egypt.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>M. Champollion, in one of his recent letters, tells us that
+ the whole of the island of Elephantina would hardly make a park
+ fit for a good citizen of Paris, although certain modern
+ chronologists would fain make it into a kingdom, in order to
+ dispose of the ancient Egyptian dynasty of the
+ Elephantines.</p>
+
+ <p>In another letter dated March last, he says, "Our
+ establishment is in the Valley of Kings, which may truly be
+ called the abode of death, as not a blade of grass is to be
+ found in it, nor any living creature, except the jackall and
+ hyæna, which the night before last devoured, at the distance of
+ 100 steps from our palace, the ass which had carried my Barabra
+ servant Mahomet, during the time that he was agreeably passing
+ the night of the Ramadan in our kitchen, which
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page207"
+ id="page207"></a>[pg 207]</span> is in a royal tomb,
+ entirely dilapidated."&mdash;<i>Translated in the Literary
+ Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Beet-Root Sugar.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>The Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter for September, among the
+ advantages which will probably lead to the discontinuance of
+ the cultivation of sugar by slaves, enumerates the rapid
+ extension of the manufacture of beet-root sugar in France; a
+ prelude, as the editor conceives, to its introduction into this
+ country, and especially into Ireland.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Dry Rot.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>The American Commodore Barron recommends pumping air from
+ the holds of vessels as a remedy against dry rot; the common
+ mode of ventilation, by forcing pure air, or dashing water into
+ the hold, being found an imperfect preservative.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Alloyed Iron Plate.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Iron, coated with an alloy of tin and lead, so as to imitate
+ tin plate, and not to rust, is now manufactured to a
+ considerable extent in Paris; and its use for sugar-pans and
+ boilers, and in the construction of roofs and gutters is
+ expected to be very considerable.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Interesting Question.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Whether in the sea there be depths where no creature is able
+ to live, or whether a boundary be assigned to organic life
+ within those depths, cannot be ascertained. It, however,
+ clearly appears from the observations made by Biot, and other
+ naturalists, that fishes, according to their different
+ dispositions, live in different depths of the
+ ocean.&mdash;<i>From the German</i>.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Cats.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>In Kamtschatka, Greenland, Lapland, and Iceland, there are
+ no cats, nor does the lynx in Europe extend farther than
+ Norway.&mdash;<i>Ibid.</i></p>
+
+ <h4><i>Vessels made of the Papyrus.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>The last number of the <i>Magazine of Natural History</i>
+ contains an article of great interest, on Vessels made of the
+ Papyrus, illustrated with cuts, from which it appears that
+ vessels have from the earliest times, been formed from the
+ paper reed, and that they are at present in use in Egypt and
+ Abyssinia. The author is John Hogg, Esq. M.A. F.L.S. &amp;c.
+ whose antiquarian attainments have greatly assisted him in the
+ elucidation of this very curious subject.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Remains of La Perouse.</i><a id="footnotetag10"
+ name="footnotetag10"></a><a href="#footnote10"><sup>10</sup></a></h4>
+
+ <p>M. Derville, who commanded the Astrolabe, in the lute-voyage
+ undertaken to search for traces of the expedition of La
+ Perouse, considers the island, the summits of which were
+ observed fifteen leagues to windward, by the frigates La
+ Récherche and L'Esperance, which composed the expedition of
+ Admiral D'Entrecasteaux, in 1793, and to which the name of the
+ Isle de la Récherche was then given, to be the identical
+ island, Vanikoro (or Vanicolo) on the shores of which the
+ remnants of La Perouse's vessel have been found. The
+ geographical position of latitude and longitude of the Isle of
+ Vanikoro, agrees exactly with that of the island to which the
+ name of Récherche was given by D'Entrecasteaux. That island was
+ then confounded with the number of other islands, which had
+ been seen by the expedition, and which it had been found
+ impossible to examine in detail.&mdash;<i>Athenæum</i>.</p>
+
+ <h4><i>Study of Chemistry.</i></h4>
+
+ <p>Numbers there are, far above the lower classes, who still
+ consider the elements of all things as consisting of earth,
+ air, fire, and water; an error which classical-learning, no
+ less than the expressions of common parlance, tends to
+ perpetuate. Let us hope that the days are at hand, if not
+ already arrived, in which the acquirement of such fundamental
+ knowledge will be looked upon as at least equally necessary
+ with the study of languages, and the cultivation of taste and
+ imagination.&mdash;<i>Library of Useful Knowledge</i>.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>A snapper up of unconsidered
+ trifles.&mdash;SHAKSPEARE.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr class="short" />
+
+ <h3>ORIGIN OF THE WORD WORSTED.</h3>
+
+ <p>Worsted, in the county of Norfolk, though formerly a town of
+ considerable trade, and much celebrity, is now reduced to a
+ village, and the manufactures, which obtained a name from the
+ place, are removed to Norwich and its vicinity.</p>
+
+ <p>Shakspeare has not been very courteous towards the
+ <i>worsted gentry</i>; had he lived in our times, they might
+ have <i>worsted</i> him for a libel: he says in King Lear, "A
+ base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three suited, hundred pound,
+ filthy, worsted stocking knave."</p>
+
+ <p class="author">P.T.W.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>I asked a poor man, how he did? He said, he was like a
+ washball, always in decay.&mdash;<i>Swift</i>.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a name="page208"
+ id="page208"></a>[pg 208]</span>
+
+ <h3>CAT-FANCIER.</h3>
+
+ <p>Lady Morgan gives the following anecdote in her <i>Book of
+ the Boudoir</i>. "The first day we had the honour of dining at
+ the palace of the Archbishop of Taranto, at Naples, he said to
+ me, you must pardon my passion for cats, (<i>la mia passione
+ gattesca</i>) but I never exclude them from my dining-room, and
+ you will find they make excellent company." Between the first
+ and second course the door opened, and several enormously large
+ and beautiful Angola cats were introduced by the names of
+ Pantalone, Desdemona, Otello, &amp;c. They took their places on
+ chairs near the table, and were as silent, as quiet, as
+ motionless, and as well behaved, as the most <i>bon ton</i>
+ table in London could require. On the bishop requesting one of
+ the chaplains to help the Signora Desdemona, the butler stepped
+ up to his lordship, and observed, "My Lord, La Signora
+ Desdemona will prefer waiting for the roast."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>ANCIENT FAMILY.</h3>
+
+ <p>There was much sound truth in the speech of a country lad to
+ an idler, who boasted his ancient family: "<i>So much the worse
+ for you</i>," said the peasant, as we ploughmen say, "<i>the
+ older the seed the worse the crop</i>."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>At North Ferryby, in Yorkshire, the following very
+ instructive lines, are inscribed on a handsome tablet to the
+ memory of Sir T. Etherington, an Alderman of Hull, and late a
+ resident in the above place:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>"Taught of God we should view losses, sickness, pain, and
+ death, but as the several trying stages by which a good man,
+ like Joseph, is conducted from a tent to a court; sin his
+ disease, Christ his physician, pain his medicine, the Bible his
+ support, the grave his rest, and death itself an angel
+ expressly sent to relieve the worn out labourer, or crown the
+ faithful soldier!"</p>
+
+ <p>Louis XIV. was presented with an epitaph by an indifferent
+ poet, on the celebrated Moliere. "I would to God," said he,
+ "that Moliere had brought me yours."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>ON MEMORY.</h3>
+
+ <p>What an unknown and unspeakable happiness would it be to a
+ man of judgment, and who is engaged in the pursuit of
+ knowledge, if he had but a power of stamping all his own best
+ sentiments upon his memory in some indelible characters; and if
+ he could but imprint every valuable paragraph and sentiment of
+ the most excellent authors he has read, upon his mind, with the
+ same speed and facility with which he read
+ them?&mdash;<i>Watts</i>.</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>Upon a stone in St. Margaret's churchyard, at Lynn, in
+ Norfolk, is the following inscription to the memory of William
+ Scrivenor, Cook to the Corporation, who died in the year
+ 1684:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Alas! alas! <i>Will Scrivenor's</i> dead, who by his
+ art,</p>
+
+ <p>Could make death's skeleton edible in each part,</p>
+
+ <p>Mourn, squeamish stomachs, and ye curious
+ palates,</p>
+
+ <p>You've lost your dainty dishes and your salades;</p>
+
+ <p>Mourn for yourselves, but not for him i'th'
+ least</p>
+
+ <p>He's gone to taste of a more heav'nly feast.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>At Whitchingham Magna, in the same county, is the following
+ epitaph to Thomas Alleyne, gent. who died Feb. 3, 1650, and his
+ two wives:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <div class="poem">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <p>Death here advantage hath of life I spye,</p>
+
+ <p>One husband with two wives at once may lye.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <hr />
+
+ <p>A recent American newspaper has the following notice to its
+ readers:&mdash;"The editor, printer, publisher, foreman, and
+ oldest apprentice (<i>two</i> in all,) are confined by
+ sickness, and the whole establishment is left in the care of
+ the <i>devil</i>."</p>
+ <hr />
+
+ <table summary="Limbird's Editions"
+ align="center">
+ <caption>
+ LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE<br />
+ <i>Following Novels is already Published:</i>
+ </caption>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td></td>
+
+ <td align="right"><i>s.</i></td>
+
+ <td align="right"><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">9</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">6</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>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td>Peregrine Pickle</td>
+
+ <td align="right">4</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>"Literary Gazette," Sept. 19, 1829.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote2"
+ name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>The propellers, I am informed, are not absolutely
+ discarded. They are now not fixed, but movable, and
+ reserved for extreme possible emergencies, or for certain
+ military purposes.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote3"
+ name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>Yorkshire. This wonderful assemblage lies scattered in
+ groups, covering a surface of nearly forty acres of heathy
+ moor. The numerous rocking-stones, rock-idols, altars,
+ cannon rocks, &amp;c. evidently point out this spot as
+ having been used by the Druids in their horrid and
+ mysterious ceremonies. The position of some of these rocks
+ is truly astonishing; one in particular resting upon a base
+ of a few inches, overhangs on all sides many feet; while
+ others seem suspended and balanced as if they hung in
+ air.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote4"
+ name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>Human sacrifices formed part of the religious rites of
+ the Druids.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote5"
+ name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>Picturesque Promenade round Dorking. Second Edit. 12mo.
+ 1823, p. 258, 259.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote6"
+ name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>Ibid p. 143.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote7"
+ name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>The Alpenstock, by C.J. Latrobe, 1829.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote8"
+ name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag8">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>Gray's Alliance of Education and Government.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote9"
+ name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag9">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>See the second Georgic of Virgil.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <blockquote class="footnote">
+ <a id="footnote10"
+ name="footnote10"></a><b>Footnote 10:</b>
+ <a href="#footnotetag10">(return)</a>
+
+ <p>For a Report of this discovery, see MIRROR, vol. xiii p.
+ 409.</p>
+ </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 13359 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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