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XIII. NO. 360.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> +<h2> +Grand Entrance to Hyde Park. +</h2> +<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> +<a href="images/360-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/360-1.png" +alt="Frieze." /></a> +<center><i>Frieze.</i></center> +</div> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page162" name="page162"></a>[pg 162]</span> +</p> +<h2> + GRAND ENTRANCE TO HYDE PARK. +</h2> +<p> +The great Lord Burleigh says, "A realm gaineth more by one year's peace +than by ten years' war;" and the architectural triumphs which are rising +in every quarter of the metropolis are strong confirmation of this +maxim. +</p> +<p> +One of these triumphs is represented in the annexed engraving, viz. the +grand entrance to Hyde Park, erected from the designs of Decimus Burton, +Esq. It consists of a screen of handsome fluted Ionic columns, with +three carriage entrance archways, two foot entrances, a lodge, &c. The +extent of the whole frontage is about 107 feet. The central entrance +has a bold projection: the entablature is supported by four columns; +and the volutes of the capitals of the outside column on each side +of the gateway are formed in an angular direction, so as to exhibit two +complete faces to view. The two side gateways, in their elevations, +present two insulated Ionic columns, flanked by antae. All these +entrances are finished by a blocking, the sides of the central one being +decorated with a beautiful frieze, representing a naval and military +triumphal procession, which our artist has copied and represented in +distinct engravings. This frieze was designed by Mr. Henning, jun., son +of Mr. Henning, so well known for his admirable models of the Elgin +marbles. It possesses great classical merit, and the model was exhibited +last season in the sculpture-room of the Suffolk-street Gallery. +</p> +<p> +The <i>gates</i> were manufactured by Messrs. Bramah. They are of iron, +bronzed, and fixed or hung to the piers by rings of gun-metal. The +design consists of a beautiful arrangement of the Greek honeysuckle +ornament; the parts being well defined, and the raffles of the leaves +brought out in a most extraordinary manner. The hanging of the gates is +also very ingenious. +</p> +<p> +Mr. Soane's proposed entrances to Piccadilly and St. James's and Hyde +Parks, are generally considered superior to those that have been +adopted. The park entrances were to consist of two triumphal arches +connected with each other by a colonnade and arches stretching across +Piccadilly. The same ingenious architect likewise designed a new palace +at the top of Constitution Hill, from which to the House of Lords the +King should pass Buckingham House, Carlton House, a splendid Waterloo +and Trafalgar monument, a fine triumphal arch, the Privy Council Office, +Board of Trade, and the new law courts. +</p> +<hr /> +<h2> + LINES +</h2> +<p> +<i>On the origin of the application of the name of the "Fleur de +Souvenance," (modern "Forget-me-not,") to the Myosotis Scorpiodis.</i> +</p> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror.</i>) +</center> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> A gallant knight and a lady bright</p> +<p class="i2"> Walk'd by a crystal lake;</p> + <p> The twin'd oaks made a grateful shade</p> +<p class="i2"> Above the fangled brake,</p> + <p> While the trembling leaves of aspen trees</p> +<p class="i2"> A murmuring music make.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> And as they spoke, round them echoes woke</p> +<p class="i2"> To tales of love and glory;</p> + <p> The knight was brave, though of love the slave,</p> +<p class="i2"> And the dame lov'd gallant story—</p> + <p> Proudly he told deeds gentle and bold,</p> +<p class="i2"> Of warriors dead or hoary.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Like babe at rest on its mother's breast,</p> +<p class="i2"> On that an island lay—</p> + <p> So still and fair reigned Nature there—</p> +<p class="i2"> So bright the glist'ring spray,</p> + <p> You might have thought the scene had been wrought</p> +<p class="i2"> By spell of faun or fay.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> On the island's edge, midst tangled sedge,</p> +<p class="i2"> Lay a wreath of wild flow'rs blue—</p> + <p> The broad flag-leaf was their sweet relief,</p> +<p class="i2"> When the heat too fervid grew;</p> + <p> And the willow's shade a shelter made,</p> +<p class="i2"> When stormy tempests blew.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> And as they stood, the faithful flood</p> +<p class="i2"> Gave back ev'ry line and trace</p> + <p> Of earth below and heaven above,</p> +<p class="i2"> And their own forms gallant grace—</p> + <p> For forms more fair than that lovely pair</p> +<p class="i2"> Ne'er shone on its liquid face.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> "I would a flower from that bright bower</p> +<p class="i2"> Some nymph would waft to me—</p> + <p> For in my eyes a dearer prize</p> +<p class="i2"> Than glitt'ring gem 'twould be—</p> + <p> For its changeless blue seems emblem true</p> +<p class="i2"> Of love's own constancy."</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> The maiden spake, and no more the lake</p> +<p class="i2"> In slumb'ring stillness lay,</p> + <p> For from the side of his destin'd bride</p> +<p class="i2"> The knight has pass'd away;</p> + <p> In vain the maid's soft words essay'd</p> +<p class="i2"> His rash pursuit to stay.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> He has reach'd the tower, and pluck'd the flower.</p> +<p class="i2"> And turn'd from the verdant spot.</p> + <p> Ah, hapless knight! some Naiad bright</p> +<p class="i2"> Woo'd thee to her coral grot;</p> + <p> And forbids that more to touch that shore</p> +<p class="i2"> Shall ever be thy lot.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Vainly he tried to gain the side,</p> +<p class="i2"> Where knelt his lady-love;</p> + <p> Flagg'd every limb, his eyes grew dim,</p> +<p class="i2"> But still the spirit strove.</p> + <p> One effort more—he flings to shore</p> +<p class="i2"> The flow'r so dear to prove.</p> + <p> 'Tis past! 'tis past! that look his last,</p> +<p class="i2"> That fond sad glance of love</p> + <p> The bubbling wave his farewell gave</p> +<p class="i2"> In the moan, "Forget me not."</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +D.A.H +</h4> +<p> +The above incident occurred in the time of Edward IV. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page163" name="page163"></a>[pg 163]</span> +</p> +<h2> + HAVER BREAD. +</h2> +<center> +(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>) +</center> +<p> +In the MIRROR, No. 358, the article headed "Memorable Days," the writer, +in that part of which the <i>Avver Bread</i> is treated of, says it is +made of oats leavened and kneaded into a large, thin, round cake, which +is placed upon a girdle over the fire; adding, that he is totally at a +loss for a definition of the word Avver; that he has sometimes thought +avver, means oaten; which I think, correct, it being very likely a +corruption of the French, avoine, oats; introduced among many others, +into the Scottish language, during the great intimacy which formerly +existed between France and Scotland; in which latter country a great +many words were introduced from the former, which are still in use; such +as gabart, a large boat, or lighter, from the French gabarre; bawbee, +baspiece, a small copper coin; vennell, a lane, or narrow street, which +still retains its original pronunciation and meaning. Enfiler la vennel; +a common figurative expression for running away is still in use in +France. Apropos of vennell, Dr. Stoddard, in a "Pedestrian Tour through +the Land of Cakes," when a young man, says he could not trace its +meaning in any language, (I speak from memory) also made the same +observation where I was; being at that time on intimate terms with the +doctor, I pointed out to him its derivation from the Latin into the +French, and thence, probably, into the Scotch; the embryo L.L.D. stared, +and seemed chagrined, at receiving such information from a +</p> +<h4> +CREOLE. +</h4> +<p> +P.S. In no part of Great Britain, I believe, is oaten bread so much used +as in Scotland; from whence the term, "The Land of Cakes is derived." In +some parts of France, <i>Pain d'avoine</i> has been in use in my time. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +EPITOME OF THE CRUSADES. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror</i>.) +</center> +<p> +The first Crusade<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> to the Holy Land was undertaken by numerous +Christian princes, who gained Jerusalem after it had been in possession +of the Saracens four hundred and nine years. Godfrey, of Boulogne, was +then chosen king by his companions in arms; but he had not long enjoyed +his new dignity, before he had occasion to march out against a great +army of Turks and Saracens, whom he overthrew, and killed one hundred +thousand of their men, besides taking much spoil. Shortly after this +victory, a pestilence happened, of which multitudes died; and the +contagion reaching Godfrey, the first Christian King of Jerusalem, +he also expired, on the 18th of July, 1100, having scarcely reigned +a full year. +</p> +<p> +Godfrey's successors, the Baldwins, defeated the Turks in many +engagements. In the reign of Baldwin III., however, the Christians lost +Edessa, a circumstance which affected Pope Eugenius III. to such a +degree, that he prevailed on Conrad III., Emperor of Germany, to relieve +his brethren in Syria. In the year 1146, therefore, Conrad marched +through Greece, and soon afterwards encountered the Turkish army, which +he routed; he then proceeded to Iconium, the principal seat of the Turks +in Lesser Asia; but, for want of provisions and health, was compelled +to relinquish his design of taking that city, and to return home. Much +about the same period, Lewis VIII., of France, made an expedition to +the Holy Land, but was wholly unsuccessful in his attempts against the +enemy. Notwithstanding these failures, King Baldwin, relying on his +own strength, gained possession of Askalon, and defeated the Turks in +numerous actions. Previous to his death, which was caused by poison, +in 1163, he was the victorious sovereign of Jerusalem and the greatest +part of Syria. +</p> +<p> +During the reign of Baldwin IV., Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, invaded +Palestine, and took several towns, notwithstanding the valour of +the Christians. In the succeeding reign of King Guy, however, the +Christians, still unfortunate, received a <i>decisive blow</i>, which +tended to the decline of their independence in the Holy Land; for, among +other places of importance, Saladin made a capture of Jerusalem, and +took its king prisoner. When the conqueror entered the holy city, he +profaned every sacred place, save the Temple of the Sepulchre, (which +the Christians redeemed with an immense sum of money,) and drove the +Latin Christians from their abodes, who were only allowed to carry what +they could hastily collect on their backs, either to Tripoly, Antioch, +or Tyre, the only three places which then remained in the Christians' +possession. All the monuments were demolished, except those of our +Saviour, King Godfrey, and Baldwin I.<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> The city was yielded to the +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page164" name="page164"></a>[pg 164]</span> +captors on the 2nd of October, 1187, after the Christians had possessed +it about eighty-nine years. +</p> +<p> +These calamitous transactions in Palestine greatly alarmed all Europe, +and several princes speedily resolved to oppose the career of the +oppressors, and to leave no means untried of regaining the kingdom of +Jerusalem. In furtherance of this design, the Emperor Frederic marched +into Palestine with a powerful army, and defeated the Turks near +Melitena; he afterwards met them near Comogena, where he also routed +them, but was unhappily killed in the action. Some time after this, +King Philip, of France, and Richard I., of England, engaged in a crusade +for the relief of the Christians. Philip arrived first, and proceeded +to Ptolemais, which King Guy, having obtained his liberty, was then +besieging. King Richard, in his passage, was driven with his fleet upon +the coast of Cyprus, but was not permitted to land; this so highly +offended him, that he landed his whole army by force, and soon over-ran +the island. He was at length opposed by the king of Cyprus, whom he took +prisoner, and carried in chains to Ptolemais, where he was welcomed with +great rejoicings by the besiegers, who stood in much need of assistance. +It would he superfluous to relate here the particulars of the siege; let +it suffice to say, that after a general assault had been given, a breach +was made, so that the assailants were enabled to enter the city, which +Saladin surrendered to them upon articles, on the 12th of July, 1191. +King Richard here obtained the title of <i>Coeur de Lion</i>, for having +taken down Duke Leopold's standard, that was first fixed in the breach, +and placed his own in its stead. +</p> +<p> +After the taking of Ptolemais, King Philip and many other princes +returned home, leaving King Richard in Palestine to prosecute the war in +concert with Guy, whom Richard, in a short time afterwards, persuaded to +accept of the crown of Cyprus, in lieu of his pretences to Jerusalem. +By these crafty means, Richard caused himself to be proclaimed King of +Jerusalem; but while he was preparing to besiege that city, he received +news that the French were about to invade England. He was therefore +compelled to conclude a peace with Saladin, not very advantageous to +Christendom, and to return to Europe. But meeting with bad weather, he +was driven on the coast of Histria; and, while endeavouring to travel +through the country in the habit of a templar, was taken prisoner +by Duke Leopold, of Austria, who became his enemy at the siege of +Ptolemais. The duke sold him for forty thousand pounds to the emperor, +Henry VI., who soon afterwards had a hundred thousand pounds for his +ransom. +</p> +<p> +About the same period, Sultan Saladin, the most formidable enemy the +Christians ever encountered, died; an event which caused Pope Celestine +to prevail on the emperor, Henry VI., of Germany, to make a new +expedition against the Turks, who were in consequence defeated; but +the emperor's general, the Duke of Saxony, being killed, and the +emperor himself dying soon afterwards, the Germans returned home +without accomplishing the object of their expedition. They had no sooner +departed than the Turks, in revenge, nearly drove the Christians from +the Holy Land, and took all the strong towns which the Crusaders had +gained, excepting Tyre and Ptolemais. In 1199, a fleet was fitted out +at the instigation of Pope Innocent III. against the infidels. On this +occasion, the Christians, notwithstanding their strenuous exertions, +failed of taking Jerusalem, though several other important places were +delivered to them. +</p> +<p> +In the year 1228, Frederic, Emperor of Germany, set out from Brundusium +to Palestine, took Jerusalem, which the enemy had left in a desolate +condition, and caused himself to be proclaimed king. But, after this +conquest, he was obliged to return to his own country, where his +presence was required. The Turks immediately assembled a prodigious army +for regaining the Holy City, which they ultimately took, putting the +German garrison to the sword, in the year 1234; since which time, the +Christian powers, weary of these useless expeditions, have made no +considerable effort to possess it. +</p> +<p> +The Christians were entirely driven from Palestine and Syria in the year +1291, about one hundred and ninety-two years after the capture of +Jerusalem by Godfrey of Boulogne. +</p> +<h4> +G.W.N. +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> +SHAKSPEARE.—A FRAGMENT. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror.</i>) +</center> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> The empty passions of the angry world,</p> + <p> The loves of heroes, the despair of maids,</p> + <p> The rage of kings, of beggars and of slaves,</p> + <p> Shakspeare alone attun'd to song.—The rest essay'd.</p> + <p> Laureate of bards! thyself unsung</p> + <p> Would stamp us reckless.</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +CYMBELINE. +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page165" name="page165"></a>[pg 165]</span> +</p> +<h2> + RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> +REGAL TABLET. +</h3> +<center> +(<i>Continued from page 111.</i>) +</center> +<p> </p> +<center> +EDWARD II.<br /> began his reign 7th July, 1307, ended 25th Jan. 1327. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +Clement V., 1305.<br /> +John XXII., 1316.<br /> +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperor of the East.</i> +</p> +<p> +Andronicus II., 1283. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Albert I., 1278.<br /> +Henry VII., 1308.<br /> +Frederic III., 1314. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +Philip IV., 1285.<br /> +Louis X., 1314.<br /> +Charles IV. 1322. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +Robert Bruce, 1306. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +EDWARD III.<br /> began his reign 25th Jan. 1327, ended 21st June, 1377. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +John XXII., 1316.<br /> +Benedict XII., 1334.<br /> +Clement VI., 1342.<br /> +Innocent VI., 1352.<br /> +Urban V., 1362.<br /> +Gregory XI., 1370. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the East</i>. +</p> +<p> +Andronicus II., 1283.<br /> +Andronicus III., 1332.<br /> +John V., 1341.<br /> +John VI., 1355. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Frederic III., 1314.<br /> +Louis IV., 1330.<br /> +Edward Baliol, 1332.<br /> +David II. (again), 1342.<br /> +Charles IV., 1347.<br /> +Robert II., 1370. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +</p> +<p> +Charles IV., 1322.<br /> +Philip VI., 1328.<br /> +John I., 1355.<br /> +Charles V., 1364. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +</p> +<p> +Robert Bruce, 1306.<br /> +David II., 1330.<br /> +Edward Baliol, 1332.<br /> +David II. (again), 1342.<br /> +Robert II., 1370. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +RICHARD II.<br /> began his reign 21st June, 1377, ended 29th Sept. 1399. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +Gregory XI., 1370.<br /> +Urban VI., 1378.<br /> +Boniface IX., 1389. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the East.</i> +</p> +<p> +John VI., 1355.<br /> +Emanuel II., 1391. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Charles IV., 1347.<br /> +Weneslaus, 1378. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +</p> +<p> +Charles V., 1364.<br /> +Charles VI., 1380. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +</p> +<p> +Robert II., 1370.<br /> +Robert III., 1390. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +(<i>House of Lancaster.</i>) +</center> +<br /> +<center> +HENRY IV.<br /> began his reign 29th Sept. 1399, ended 20th March, 1413. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +Boniface IX., 1389.<br /> +Innocent VII., 1404. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Weneslaus, 1378. +</p> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +Gregory XII. 1406.<br /> +Alexander V. 1409.<br /> +John XXIII. 1410. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperor of the East</i>. +</p> +<p> +Emanuel II., 1391. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Robert le Pet, 1400.<br /> +Sigismund, 1410. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +</p> +<p> +Charles VI., 1380. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +</p> +<p> +Robert III., 1390. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +HENRY V.<br /> began his reign 20th March, 1413, ended 31st August, 1422. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +John XXIII. 1410.<br /> +Martin V., 1417. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperor of the East</i>. +</p> +<p> +Emanuel II., 1391. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperor of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Sigismund, 1410. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +</p> +<p> +Charles VI., 1380.<br /> +Charles VII. 1422. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +</p> +<p> +Robert III., 1390. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +HENRY VI.<br /> began his reign 31st August, 1422, ended 4th March, 1461. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +Martin V., 1417.<br /> +Eugenius IV. 1431.<br /> +Nicholas V., 1447.<br /> +Galixus III. 1455.<br /> +Pius II., 1458. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the East</i>. +</p> +<p> +Emanuel II., 1391.<br /> +John VII., 1426.<br /> +Constantine III., +last emperor 1448. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Sigismund, 1410.<br /> +Albert II., 1438.<br /> +Frederic IV., 1440. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +</p> +<p> +Charles VII. 1422.<br /> +Louis XI., 1440. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +</p> +<p> +Robert III., 1390.<br /> +James I., 1424.<br /> +James II., 1437.<br /> +James III., 1440. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +(<i>House of York.</i>) +</center> +<br /> +<center> +EDWARD IV.<br /> began his reign 4th March, 1461, ended 9th April, 1483. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes</i>. +</p> +<p> +Pius II., 1458.<br /> +Paul II., 1464.<br /> +Sixtus IV., 1471. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperor of the West</i>. +</p> +<p> +Frederic IV., 1440. +</p> +<p> +<i>France</i>. +</p> +<p> +Louis XI., 1440. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland</i>. +</p> +<p> +James III., 1440. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +EDWARD V.<br /> began his reign 9th April, 1483, ended 22nd June, 1483. +</center> +<br /> +<center> +Contemporaries as the last reign. +</center> +<hr /> +<center> +RICHARD III.<br /> began his reign 22nd June, 1483, ended 22nd August, 1485. +</center> +<br /> +<center> +Contemporaries again, as before. +</center> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page166" name="page166"></a>[pg 166]</span> +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +(<i>Lancaster and York united.</i>) +</center> +<br /> +<center> +HENRY VII.<br /> began his reign 22nd August, 1485, ended 22nd April, 1509. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Innocent VIII., 1484.<br /> +Alexander VI. 1492.<br /> +Pius III., 1593.<br /> +Julius II., 1503. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Frederic IV., 1440.<br /> +Maximilian I. 1493. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Charles VIII. 1485.<br /> +Louis XII., 1498. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland.</i> +</p> +<p> +James III., 1460.<br /> +James IV., 1489. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +HENRY VIII.<br /> began his reign 22nd April, 1509, ended 28th Jan. 1547. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Julius II., 1503.<br /> +Leo X., 1513.<br /> +Adrian VI., 1521.<br /> +Clement VII. 1523.<br /> +Paul III., 1534. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Maximilian I. 1493.<br /> +Charles V., 1519. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Louis XII., 1498.<br /> +Francis I., 1515.<br /> +Henry II., 1547. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland.</i> +</p> +<p> +James IV., 1489.<br /> +James V., 1514.<br /> +Mary, 1542. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +EDWARD VI.<br /> began his reign 28th Jan. 1547, ended 6th July, 1553. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Paul III., 1534.<br /> +Julius III., 1550. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperor of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Charles V., 1519. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Henry II., 1547. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland.</i> +</p> +<p> +Mary, 1542. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +MARY<br /> began her reign 6th July, 1553, ended 17th Nov. 1558. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Julius III., 1550.<br /> +Marcellus II. 1555.<br /> +Paul IV., 1555. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Charles V., 1519.<br /> +Ferdinand, 1556. +</p> +<center> +And the other contemporary princes as in the last reign. +</center> +<hr /> +<center> +ELIZABETH<br /> began her reign 17th Nov. 1558, ended 24th March, 1603. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Paul IV., 1555.<br /> +Pius IV., 1559.<br /> +Pius V., 1565.<br /> +Gregory XIII., 1572.<br /> +Sixtus V., 1585.<br /> +Urban VII., 1590.<br /> +Gregory XIV., 1590. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Ferdinand I., 1556.<br /> +Maximilian II. 1564.<br /> +Rodolphus II. 1576. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Henry II., 1547.<br /> +Francis II., 1559.<br /> +Charles IX., 1560.<br /> +Henry III., 1574.<br /> +Henry IV., 1589. +</p> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Innocent IX. 1501.<br /> +Clement VIII., 1592. +</p> +<p> +<i>Scotland.</i> +</p> +<p> +Mary, 1542.<br /> +James VI., 1567. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +<i>Union of the two crowns of England and Scotland.</i> +</center> +<br /> +<center> +JAMES I.<br /> began his reign 24th March, 1603, ended 27th March, 1625. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Clement VIII., 1592.<br /> +Leo IX., 1605.<br /> +Paul III., 1605.<br /> +Gregory XV. 1621.<br /> +Urban VIII. 1623. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Rodolphus II. 1576.<br /> +Matthias I., 1612.<br /> +Ferdinand III. 1619. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Henry IV., 1589.<br /> +Louis XIII., 1610. +</p> +<p> +<i>Spain & Portugal.</i> +</p> +<p> +Philip III., 1507.<br /> +Philip IV., 1620. +</p> +<p> +<i>Denmark.</i> +</p> +<p> +Christian IV. 1588. +</p> +<p> +<i>Sweden.</i> +</p> +<p> +Sigismund, 1592.<br /> +Charles IX., 1606.<br /> +Gustavus II. 1611. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +CHARLES I.<br /> began his reign 27th March, 1625, beheaded 30th Jan. 1648. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Urban VIII. 1623.<br /> +Innocent X., 1644. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Ferdinand II. 1619.<br /> +Ferdinand III. 1637. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Louis XIII., 1610.<br /> +Louis XIV., 1643. +</p> +<p> +<i>Spain & Portugal.</i> +</p> +<p> +Philip IV., 1620. +</p> +<p> +<i>Portugal only.</i> +</p> +<p> +John IV., 1640. +</p> +<p> +<i>Denmark.</i> +</p> +<p> +Christian IV. 1583.<br /> +Frederic III. 1648. +</p> +<p> +<i>Sweden.</i> +</p> +<p> +Gustavus II. 1611.<br /> +Christiana, 1633. +</p> +<hr /> +<center> +The Inter-regnum and Usurpation under +</center> +<br /> +<center> +OLIVER CROMWELL,<br /> from 30th Jan. 1648, to 29th May, 1660. +</center> +<p> +<i>Popes.</i> +</p> +<p> +Innocent X., 1644.<br /> +Alexander VII., 1655. +</p> +<p> +<i>Emperors of Germany.</i> +</p> +<p> +Ferdinand III., 1637.<br /> +Leopold I., 1658. +</p> +<p> +<i>France.</i> +</p> +<p> +Louis XIV., 1643. +</p> +<p> +<i>Spain.</i> +</p> +<p> +Philip IV., 1620. +</p> +<p> +<i>Portugal.</i> +</p> +<p> +John IV., 1640.<br /> +Alonzo VI., 1656. +</p> +<p> +<i>Denmark.</i> +</p> +<p> +Frederic III. 1646. +</p> +<p> +<i>Sweden.</i> +</p> +<p> +Christiana, 1633.<br /> +Charles X., 1653. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +<sup>*</sup><small>*</small><sup>*</sup> <i>The remainder of this very useful Tablet, which has been +compiled by a Correspondent, expressly for our pages, will be found in +the Supplement published with the present No.</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page167" name="page167"></a>[pg 167]</span> +</p> +<h2> + THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> +ANECDOTES OF A DIANA MONKEY. +</h3> +<center> +<i>By Mrs. Bowdich.</i> +</center> +<p> +An old ship companion of mine was a native of the Gold Coast, and was of +the Diana species. He had been purchased by the cook of the vessel in +which I sailed from Africa, and was considered his exclusive property. +Jack's place then was close to the cabooce; but as his education +progressed, he was gradually allowed an increase of liberty, till at +last he enjoyed the range of the whole ship, except the cabin. I had +embarked with more than a mere womanly aversion to monkeys, it was +absolute antipathy; and although I often laughed at Jack's freaks, still +I kept out of his way, till a circumstance brought with it a closer +acquaintance, and cured me of my dislike. Our latitude was three degrees +south, and we only proceeded by occasional tornadoes, the intervals of +which were filled up by dead calms and bright weather; when these +occurred during the day, the helm was frequently lashed, and all the +watch went below. On one of these occasions I was sitting alone on the +deck, and reading intently, when, in an instant, something jumped upon +my shoulders, twisted its tale round my neck, and screamed close to my +ears. My immediate conviction that it was Jack scarcely relieved me: but +there was no help; I dared not cry for assistance, because I was afraid +of him, and dared not obey the next impulse, which was to thump him off, +for the same reason, I therefore became civil from necessity, and from +that moment Jack and I entered into an alliance. He gradually loosened +his hold, looked at my face, examined my hands and rings with the most +minute attention, and soon found the biscuit which lay by my side. When +I liked him well enough to profit by his friendship, he became a +constant source of amusement. Like all other nautical monkeys, he was +fond of pulling off the men's caps as they slept, and throwing them into +the sea; of knocking over the parrots' cages to drink the water as it +trickled along the deck, regardless of the occasional gripe he received; +of taking the dried herbs out of the tin mugs in which the men were +making tea of them; of dexterously picking out the pieces of biscuit +which were toasting between the bars of the grate; of stealing the +carpenter's tools; in short, of teasing every thing and every body: but +he was also a first-rate <i>equestrian</i>. Whenever the pigs were let +out to take a run on deck, he took his station behind a cask, whence he +leaped on the back of one of his steeds as it passed. Of course the +speed was increased, and the nails he stuck in to keep himself on, +produced a squeaking: but Jack was never thrown, and became so fond of +the exercise, that he was obliged to be shut up whenever the pigs were +at liberty. Confinement was the worst punishment he could receive, and +whenever threatened with that, or any other, he would cling to me for +protection. At night, when about to be sent to bed in an empty hencoop, +he generally hid himself under my shawl, and at last never suffered any +one but myself to put him to rest. He was particularly jealous of the +other monkeys on board, who were all smaller than himself, and put two +out of his way. The first feat of the kind was performed in my presence: +he began by holding out his paw, and making a squeaking noise, which the +other evidently considered as an invitation; the poor little thing +crouched to him most humbly; but Jack seized him by the neck, hopped off +to the side of the vessel, and threw him into the sea. We cast out a +rope immediately, but the monkey was too frightened to cling to it, and +we were going too fast to save him by any other means. Of course, Jack +was flogged and scolded, at which he was very penitent; but the +deceitful rogue, at the end of three days, sent another victim to the +same destiny. But his spite against his own race was manifested at +another time in a very original way. The men had been painting the +ship's side with a streak of white, and upon being summoned to dinner, +left their brushes and paint on deck. Unknown to Jack, I was seated +behind the companion door, and saw the whole transaction; he called a +little black monkey to him, who, like the others, immediately crouched +to his superior, when he seized him by the nape of the neck with one +paw, took the brush, dripping with paint, with the other, and covered +him with white from head to foot. Both the man at the helm and myself +burst into a laugh, upon which Jack dropped his victim, and scampered up +the rigging. The unhappy little beast began licking himself, but I +called the steward, who washed him so well with turpentine, that all +injury was prevented; but during our bustle Jack was peeping with his +black nose through the bars of the maintop, apparently enjoying the +confusion. For three days he persisted in remaining aloft; no one could +catch him, he darted with such rapidity from rope to rope; at length, +impelled by hunger, he dropped unexpectedly from some height on my +knees, as if for refuge, and as he had +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page168" name="page168"></a>[pg 168]</span> +thus confided in me, I could not +deliver him up to punishment. +</p> +<p> +The only way in which I could control his tricks was by showing him to +the panther on board, which excited his fears very strongly. I used to +hold him up by his tail, and the instant he saw the panther he would +become perfectly stiff, shut his eyes, and pretend to be dead. When I +moved away, he would relax his limbs, and open one eye very cautiously; +but if he caught a glimpse of the panther's cage, the eyes were quickly +closed, and he resumed the rigidity of death. After four months' sojourn +together, I quitted Jack off the Scilly Islands, and understood that I +was very much regretted: he unceasingly watched for me in the morning, +and searched for me in every direction, even venturing into the cabin; +nor was he reconciled to my departure when my servants left the vessel +at Gravesend.—<i>Mag. Natural History.</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + NOTES OF A READER. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> +COMPANION TO THE THEATRES. +</h3> +<p> +It must be owned that such a <i>little book</i> as this has long been +wanted; for of all writing, that relating to the stage is the most +diffuse. It is scattered about in biography, criticism and anecdote, not +unfrequently of great interest, but occupying so much "valuable" time, +that to condense it, or to pick the wheat from the chaff, is no trifling +task. So much for the amusement which our "Companion" may yield to the +Londoner: his utility as a cicerone or guide will be more obvious to our +country friends, who flock in thousands to see and hear comedy and +tragedy at this play-going season. A young girl comes to town to see +"the lions," and, with her "cousin," goes to the opera, where <i>one +guinea</i> is paid for their admission, or even more if they be +<i>installed</i>. Two Londoners would buy their tickets during the day, +and thus pay but 17<i>s</i>. Another party are dying to hear Braham +sing, or Paton warble her nightingale notes among the canvass groves and +hollyhock gardens of Drury Lane and Covent Garden; or to sup on the +frowning woes of tragedy, the intrigues of an interlude dished up as an +<i>entremet</i>, or a melodrama for a ragout; or the wit and waggery of +a farce, sweet and soft-flowing like a <i>petit-verre</i>, to finish the +repast. They go, and between the acts try to count the wax and gas, the +feet, and foot lights till they are purblind; they return home and dream +of Desdemona, sing themselves to sleep with the notes of the last song, +are haunted with the odd physiognomy of Liston, and repeat the +farce-laugh till the dream is broken. Next day it is mighty pleasant to +read how many hundred people the theatre will hold, how many pounds they +all paid to get there; and how the splendid pile of Drury Lane rose on +the area of a cockpit: and how Garrick played Macbeth in a court suit, +and John Kemble enacted the sufferings of Hamlet in <i>powdered</i> +hair. Upon all these subjects the Companion is conversant, although he +does not set up for Sir Oracle, or shake his head like Burleigh. In +short, he tells of "many things," from the cart of Thespis and the Roman +theatres, with their 6,000 singers and dancers, to the companies on the +present stages. +</p> +<p> +Thus, we have the Origin of the Drama—Rise of the Drama in +England—Early English Theatres—Descriptions of all the London +Theatres—and a pleasant chapter on the Italian Opera. The Appendix +contains pithy chronologies of the dramatists and actors, bygone and +contemporary—origin of all the varieties of the drama—the topography +of the stage and scenery, costume—expenses of the +theatres—masquerades—play-bills and editions of plays, and a host of +theatrical customs. In truth, the book is as full as the tail of a fine +lobster, and will doubtless repay the time and research which its +preparation must have occupied. There is also a, frontispiece of the +fronts of the twelve London Theatres. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +ORNITHOLOGY. +</h3> +<p> +Mr. James Jennings has favoured us with a copy of his <i>Ornithologia; +or the Birds</i>, a poem; with copious <i>Notes;</i> &c. The latter +portion is to us the most interesting, especially as it contains an +immense body of valuable research into the history and economy of birds, +in a pleasant, piquant, anecdotical style, without any of the quaintness +or crabbedness of scientific technicality. Mr. Jennings's volume is +therefore well adapted for presentation to young persons; whilst the +knowledge which it displays, entitles it to a much higher stand than a +mere book of amusement. To illustrate what we have said in its praise, +the reader will find in the <i>Supplement</i> to the present Number, two +or three of the most attractive <i>Notes</i> under "THE NATURALIST," +which likewise contains <i>Three Engravings</i> of very curious subjects +in other departments of Natural History. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +CONVERSATIONS ON GEOLOGY. +</h3> +<p> +We have already spoken in favourable terms of this volume. It consists +of 15 conversations of a family circle, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page169" name="page169"></a>[pg 169]</span> +comprising a familiar explanation +of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems; the Mosaic geology, as explained +by Penn; and the late discoveries of Buckland, Humboldt, Macculloch, and +others. By way of specimen, we take a portion of a conversation which +introduces the very interesting subject of the <i>formation of coal</i>: +</p> +<p> +<i>Edward</i>.—As the Huttonians evidently fail in proving coal to be +produced by fusion, I hope the Wernerians may succeed better, for I +should be sorry if so interesting a subject were left unexplained. +</p> +<p> +<i>Mrs. R.</i>—To understand their account, it will be requisite for +you to recollect the process of the formation of bogs and marshes, as it +is from these that Werner derives coal. What I told you, also, of the +change produced on wood by being long exposed to moisture and kept from +contact with the air, will be of use here, as wood, in all stages of +change, is often found in coal-fields, in the same way as in peat-bogs. +</p> +<p> +<i>Edward</i>. That is a very strong circumstance in favour of the +alleged origin. +</p> +<p> +<i>Mrs. R</i>. There are some facts, indeed, connected with this, which +prove this origin beyond question, as you will admit, when I tell you +that specimens of wood are often found partly converted into coal and +partly unchanged, or petrified by some other mineral. +</p> +<p> +<i>Edward</i>. This will, at least, be direct proof that wood may be +converted into coal. +</p> +<p> +<i>Mrs. R</i>. One instance of this kind is mentioned by Brand, in his +"History of Newcastle," as having been brought from Iceland, by Sir +Joseph Banks. Dr. Rennie, in his "Essay on Peat Moss," gives a still +stronger example. In the parish of Kilsyth, he tells us, there was +found, in a solid bed of sandstone, the trunk of a tree in an erect +position, the indentations of the bark and marks of the branches being +in many parts of it still obvious. It rose from a bed of coal below the +sandstone, and the roots which reached the coal, as well as the bark for +an inch thick round the trunk, were completely converted into coal, +while the centre consisted of sandstone. This specimen I have myself +seen in the parsonage garden of Kilsyth, and this description is most +accurate. Sir George Mackenzie lately found a specimen precisely +similar, in the face of a sandstone rock in Lothian, and I have seen +numerous specimens of bamboos and reeds in the sandstone quarries of +Glasgow, with the bark converted into coal, and the centre filled with +sandstone. +</p> +<p> +<i>Edward</i>.—But would not this prove that sandstone, also, was +derived from wood? +</p> +<p> +<i>Mrs. R.</i>—No: it would only prove that the centre had been +destroyed and removed; for the sandstone is not chemically composed of +vegetable substances, but the coal is. +</p> +<p> +<i>Edward</i>—Still, I cannot conceive by what process the conversion +is effected. +</p> +<p> +<i>Mrs. R.</i> By a natural process, evidently; being a continuation of +that which converts mosses and marshes into peat. Nay, it is supposed +not to stop at the formation of coal, but, by a continuation of the +causes, the coal becomes jet, and even amber. The eminent chemist, +Fourcroy, in proof of this, mentions a specimen in which one end was +wood, little changed, and the other pure jet; and Chaptal tells us, that +at Montpellier there are dug up whole cart-loads of trees converted into +jet, though the original forms are so perfectly preserved that he could +often detect the species; and, among others, he mentions birch and +walnut. What is even more remarkable, he found a wooden pail and a +wooden shovel converted into pure jet. +</p> +<p> +<i>Edward.</i> Then I suppose, from all these details, that coal might +be formed artificially, by imitating the natural process. +</p> +<p> +<i>Mrs. R.</i> Mr. Hatchett made many ingenious and successful +experiments with this design, and Dr. Macculloch has more recently +succeeded in actually making coal. One of the strongest instances of the +process, is the existence of a great quantity of wood only half +converted into coal, at Bovey, near Exeter; this has been much discussed +by the geologists; but there is a bed of coal found at Locle, on the +continent, which is said to have been formed almost within the memory of +man, though I have not yet seen any good account of it. +</p> +<p> +Altogether, we have been much gratified with these Conversations. As a +hint, <i>en passant</i>, we remind the editor of such an oversight as +that at p. 350-1, "Order in which the <i>strata lies</i> in the Paris +basin." +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +THE IDLER. +</h3> +<p> +There were many newspapers in the room, but there was nothing in them. +There was a clock, but it did not seem to go; at least, so he thought, +but after looking at it for a very long time he found it did go, but it +went very slowly. Then he looked at his watch, and that went as slow as +the clock. Then he took up the newspapers again one after the other very +deliberately. He read the sporting intelligence and the fashionable +news. But he did not read very attentively, as he afterwards discovered. +Then he looked at the clock +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page170" name="page170"></a>[pg 170]</span> +again, and was almost angry at the +imperturbable monotony of its face. Then he took out his pocket-book to +amuse himself by reading his memorandums, but they were very few, and +very unintelligible. Then he rose up from his seat, and went to the +window; and looked at the people in the street; he thought they looked +very stupid, and wondered what they could all find to do with +themselves. He looked at the carriages, and saw none with coronets, +except now and then a hackney-coach. Then he began to pick his teeth, +and that reminded him of eating; and then he rang the bell, which +presently brought a waiter; and he took that opportunity of drawling out +the word "waiter" in such lengthened tone, as if resolved to make one +word last as long as possible.—<i>Rank and Talent</i>. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +THE BATTLE OF GIBEON. +</h3> +<center> +VERSES ILLUSTRATIVE OF MARTIN S JOSHUA. +</center> +<p> +"For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments +rolled in blood but this with burning and fuel of fire."—ISAIAH ix. 5. +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> From Gilgal's camp went forth, at dead of night,</p> +<p class="i2"> The host of Israel: with the rising sun</p> + <p> They stood arrayed against the Amorite,</p> +<p class="i2"> Beneath the regal heights of Gibeon,</p> + <p> Glorious in morning's splendour! Lebanon,</p> +<p class="i2"> Dim in the distance, reared its lofty head;</p> + <p> Light clouds o'erbung the vale of Ajalon,</p> +<p class="i2"> And the Five Armies, by their monarchs led,</p> + <p> Not to mere mortal fight, but conflict far more dread.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> How beautiful, at matin's early prime,</p> +<p class="i2"> Valley, and mountain, and that city fair!</p> + <p> Magnificent, yet fearfully sublime,</p> +<p class="i2"> In few brief hours the scene depicted there!</p> + <p> Below the battle raged, and high in air</p> +<p class="i2"> The gathering clouds, with tempest in their womb,</p> + <p> A supernatural darkness seem'd to wear;</p> +<p class="i2"> As heralding, by their portentous gloom,</p> + <p> Victory to Israel's host, her foes' impending doom!</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Upon a jutting crag, below the height</p> +<p class="i2"> Where stands the royal city in its pride,</p> + <p> The ark is rested! in the people's sight</p> +<p class="i2"> The priests and Joshua standing by its side;</p> + <p> Awhile the chief the sea of battle eyed,</p> +<p class="i2"> Which heaved beneath:—in accents undismayed,</p> + <p> "Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon!" he cried,</p> +<p class="i2"> "And thou, O Moon, o'er Ajalon be stayed!"</p> + <p> And holiest records tell the mandate was obeyed.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Look on the horrid conflict; mark the stream</p> +<p class="i2"> Of lurid and unnatural light that falls,</p> + <p> Like some wild meteors bright terrific gleam,</p> +<p class="i2"> On Gibeon's steep and battlemented walls;</p> + <p> Her royal palace, and her pillared halls,</p> +<p class="i2"> Seeming more gorgeous in its vivid blaze!</p> + <p> While o'er proud Lebanon the storm appals,</p> +<p class="i2"> In jagged lines the arrowy lightning plays,</p> + <p> Soften'd to Israel's sight by intervening haze.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> But o'er the Amoritish camp the cloud</p> +<p class="i2"> Bursts in its fury! on the race abhorred</p> + <p> The parting heavens, as from a pitchy shroud.</p> +<p class="i2"> Their desolating hail-storm's wrath out-poured,</p> + <p> More vengeful in its ire than Israel's sword!</p> +<p class="i2"> Thus was deliverance unto Gibeon shown;</p> + <p> And by the fearful battle of the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2"> The army of the Amorites o'erthrown,</p> + <p> And the almighty power of Israel's God made known.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Made known by marvels awfully sublime!</p> +<p class="i2"> Yet far more glorious in the Christian's sight</p> + <p> Than these stern terrors of the olden time,</p> +<p class="i2"> The gentler splendours of that peaceful night,</p> + <p> When opening clouds display'd, in vision bright,</p> +<p class="i2"> The heavenly host to Bethlehem's shepherd train,</p> + <p> Shedding around them more than cloudless light!</p> +<p class="i2"> "Glory to God on high!" their opening strain,</p> + <p> Its chorus, "Peace on earth!" its theme Messiah's reign!</p> +</div></div> +<h4> +<i>Bernard Barton's New Year's Eve, &c.</i> +</h4> +<hr /> +<h3> +MAKING ACQUAINTANCE. +</h3> +<p> +What could be more natural than for Mr. Jackson to say to Dr. Smith, "I +am going to call on Markham?" And what could be more natural than for +Dr. Smith to say, "I will go with you, and you may introduce me?" So +then Markham's friend, Jackson, leaves his card, and Jackson's friend, +Dr. Smith, leaves his card too.—<i>Rank and Talent.</i> +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS. +</h3> +<p> +We read much of the luxurious effeminacy of the old Romans, their +fantastically curled hair, their favourite robes, &c.; but what will +posterity think of some of the modes of puppyism in our times, when they +read in a chronicle of fashion, dated 1829, that gentlemen wore elegant +drab cloth opera manteaux lined with scarlet velvet, and confined at the +collar with a gold chain! In another dress, the waistcoat is directed to +be made of "a very beautiful white embroidered velvet;" "some young +<i>men</i> have appeared at balls with blue dress gloves embroidered +with white;" "the <i>system</i> of the cravat is to form the +<i>organization</i> of linen on the breast," the very "march" of +foppery; "cloaks of the gentlemen lined with plush silk of celestial +blue;" "at balls our young exquisites sport pocket-handkerchiefs of fine +lawn, with a hem as broad as their thumbs; the corners <i>only</i> are +embroidered:" "shoes tied with a small <i>rosette</i>;" "a young +gentleman now suffers his hair to grow, has it curled, and parted on the +left side of the forehead," &c. &c.—This out-herods Herod. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +PICTURE OF LONDON. +</h3> +<p> +A new edition of this very useful and attractive volume has just +appeared, re-edited by Mr. Britton, who, by his extensive architectural +knowledge, as well as by his popular style of imparting that knowledge, +is calculated to produce a better "Picture of London" than any other +writer within our acquaintance. The introduction is, of course, the most +novel part of this edition, and as it enables Mr. Britton to embody much +authentic information on the public works now in progress, we have +abridged a few of these +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page171" name="page171"></a>[pg 171]</span> +details, which will be found in a Supplement +published with the present Number. The <i>Picture of London</i> was, we +believe, first printed in 1806; and the extensive patronage which it has +enjoyed during twenty-two years has been well deserved by its +progressive completeness. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE SELECTOR; +<br /> +AND +<br /> +LITERARY NOTICES OF +<br /> +<i>NEW WORKS.</i> +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> +RANK AND TALENT. +</h3> +<center> +<i>By the Author of Penelope, or Love's Labour Lost.</i> +</center> +<p> +In our last volume we devoted nearly six of our columns to an outline of +the predecessor of the present work, or the novel of <i>Penelope</i>. We +there stated our opinion of the author's talents in a peculiar style of +novel-writing—a sort of mixture of satire and fashion, without the +starchness of the one, or the silly affectation of the other—abounding +in well-drawn pictures of real life, free from caricature, and teeming +with home-truths, in themselves of such plainness and ready application, +as to make precept and example follow on with near approaches to +probability and truth. +</p> +<p> +The author's <i>forte</i> unquestionably lies in this species of +writing, and his "<i>Rank and Talent</i>" will, we think, bear us out in +this opinion. The story or canvass of the novel is simple, and well +prepared for his sketches and finished portraits of character. They +belong to fashionable and middle life, and the conceits and +eccentricities, as well as the straightforward integrity of their +stations are illustrated with peculiar force. Sound moral and knowledge +of the world are occasionally introduced with great tact, for the author +is no stranger to the inmost workings and recesses of the human heart; +and he adapts these lessons, and dovetails them with the narrative, in a +clever and agreeable style. +</p> +<p> +The outline of the story may be briefly told. The Hon. Philip Martindale +has an action brought against him, at the assizes, for the false +imprisonment of one Richard Smith, as a poacher; although the object of +the defendant was a beautiful girl residing with the defendant. Clara +Rivolta is rudely cross-examined as a witness; whilst the plaintiff's +case is conducted by Horatio Markham, an intelligent young barrister, +whose parents reside in the town where the action is tried. The cousin +of the defendant, Mr. John Martindale, an eccentric old gentleman who +builds an abbey for his titled relative to occupy, whilst he himself +lives in a cottage on the estate; seeks an acquaintance with Markham. +These parties reside at Brigland, and Philip Martindale, a dissipated +lover of the turf, who is dependent on his capricious cousin for his +supplies; and Horatio Markham, the hero, are thus introduced. Then we +have a country curate of the higher order, together with his loquacious +<i>half</i>; which are excellent portraits. +</p> +<p> +John Martindale is one of those eccentric beings—half-aristocrat, and +half-liberal, which are more rare in society than they were fifty years +since; and upon this curious compound turns the narrative. Clara Rivolta +and her mother, Signora Rivolta, the wife of Colonel R. quit their +native Italy, and visit Brigland, where old Martindale, on the +discovery, acknowledges the Signora as the fruit of an early imprudence +on the continent, and finally leaves them a large fortune. Clara is +married to Markham, and Philip Martindale, afterwards Earl of +Trimmerstone, marries a gay, giddy girl, who elopes with a perfumed +puppy of the first fragrance. +</p> +<p> +The round of the earl's dissipation is but a sorry picture of the +prostitution of rank; but the connexion leads us into a succession of +scenes of fashionable life, which are vividly drawn, as are two or three +of their adjuncts,—a popular west-end preacher, an anti-nervous +physician, the dandy already mentioned, a noble gambler, and a rich city +knight and his aspiring family—all of which are to the life. +</p> +<p> +Our extracts must be detached from the narrative; but they may serve to +illustrate the felicitous vein in which the characters are drawn. +</p> +<p> +The means by which Signora Rivolta is discovered by Martindale, is well +managed. One morning after the old gentleman had been amusing his +visiters with some Italian views, Mr. Denver, the curate, introduced to +Mr. Martindale with great parade Colonel Rivolta, whom he described as +having recently made his escape from the continent, where he was exposed +to persecution, if not to death, on account of his political opinions. +The reverend gentleman then proceeded to state, that the colonel had +previously to his own arrival in England sent over his wife and +daughter, whom he had committed to the care of Richard Smith; that with +them he had also transmitted some property, which old Richard had +invested for their use and benefit; that unfortunately the very first +night of the colonel's arrival at +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page172" name="page172"></a>[pg 172]</span> +Brigland, the cottage in which Richard +Smith dwelt had been robbed by a gipsy; that in consequence of that +event the poor old man had been so seriously alarmed, that he had been +totally unable to attend to any thing, and that he had died, leaving +this poor foreigner in a strange land not knowing how to proceed as to +the recovery of his little property. After an interview, in which +Martindale promises the colonel his assistance, the latter was rising to +take leave, when his eye was arrested by a print which Mr. Martindale +held in his hand, and which he had unrolled while he was talking. As +soon as the colonel saw the picture, he recognised the scene which it +represented, and uttered an ejaculation, indicative of surprise and +pleasure. Mr. Martindale then, for the first time, observed the print, +and noticed its subject; he also looked upon it with surprise, but not +with pleasure; and then he asked the stranger if that scene were +familiar to him, with very great emotion the colonel replied:—"That +scene brings to my recollection the happiest day of my life." +</p> +<p> +For a few seconds the party were totally silent; for the clergyman and +the foreigner were struck dumb with astonishment at the altered looks of +the old gentleman, and were surprised to see him crushing the picture +in both hands. He then, as if with an effort of great resolution, +exclaimed:—"And it brings to my recollection the most miserable day +of my life." +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +The agitation of the old gentleman abated, and he replied: "I thank you +for your kindness, sir, but my sorrow arises from self-reproach. I have +inflicted injuries which can never be redressed." He hesitated, as if +wishing, but dreading to say more. Then changing the tone of his voice, +as if he were about to speak on some totally different subject, he +continued addressing himself to Colonel Rivolta:—"I presume, sir, you +are a native of Genoa, or you are very familiar with that city." "I was +born," replied the foreigner, "at Naples; but very early in life I was +removed to Genoa, that I might be engaged in merchandize; for my +patrimony was very small, and my relations would have despised me, had I +endeavoured by any occupation to gain a livelihood in my native city." +"Then you were not originally destined for the army?" "I was not; but +after I had been some few years in Genoa, I began to grow weary of the +pursuits of merchandize, and indeed to feel some of that pride of which +I had accused my relations, and I thought that I should be satisfied +with very little if I might be free from the occupation of the merchant; +and while I was so thinking, I met by chance an old acquaintance who +persuaded me to undertake the profession of arms, to which I was indeed +not reluctant. And so I left my merchandise, and did not see Genoa again +for nearly two years. It was then that I was so much interested in that +scene which the picture portrays; for in a very small house which is in +the same street, directly opposite to that palace, there lived an old +woman, whose name was ——" +</p> +<p> +The attention of the old gentleman had been powerfully arrested by the +commencement of the Italian's narrative; and he listened very calmly +till the narrator arrived at the point when he was about to mention the +name of the old woman who lived opposite to the palace in question: then +was Mr. Martindale again excited, and without waiting for the conclusion +of the sentence, interrupted it by exclaiming: "Ah! what! do you know +that old woman? Is she living? Where is she?—Stop—no—let me +see—impossible!—Why I must be nearly seventy—yes—are you sure? Is +not her name Bianchi?" +</p> +<p> +To this hurried and confused mass of interrogation, the colonel replied +that her name was Bianchi; but that she had died nearly twenty years +ago, at a very advanced age, being at the time of her death nearly +ninety years of age. Hearing this, the old gentleman assumed a great +calmness and composure of manner, though he trembled as if in an ague; +and turning to the astonished clergyman, who was pleasing himself with +the anticipation of some catastrophe or anecdote which might form a fine +subject for town-talk, he very deliberately said:—"Mr. Denver, I beg I +may not intrude any longer on your valuable time. This gentleman, I +find, can give me some account of an old acquaintance of mine. The +inquiries may not be interesting to you. Make my best compliments to +Mrs. Denver." +</p> +<p> +When this good man was withdrawn, Mr. Martindale requested the stranger +to be seated; and unmindful of the guests whom he had left to amuse +themselves and each other, he commenced very deliberately to examine the +foreigner concerning those matters which had so strongly excited his +feelings. +</p> +<p> +"You tell me," said Mr. Martindale, "that the old woman, Bianchi, has +been dead nearly twenty years. Now, my good friend, can you inform me +how long you were acquainted with this old woman before her death." +"I knew her," replied the colonel, "only for about four years +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page173" name="page173"></a>[pg 173]</span> +before +she died." "And had you much intimacy with her, so as to hear her +talk about former days." "Very often indeed," replied the foreigner, +"did she talk about the past; for as her age was very great, and her +memory was very good, it was great interest to hear her tell of ancient +things; and she was a woman of most excellent understanding, and very +benevolent in her disposition. Indeed, I can say that I loved the old +woman much, very much indeed. I was sorry at her death." "But tell me," +said Mr. Martindale, impatiently, "did you ever hear her say any thing +of an infant—an orphan that was committed to her care nearly forty +years ago?" At this question, the eyes of the stranger brightened, and +his face was overspread with a smile of delight, when he replied: "Oh +yes, much indeed, much indeed! that orphan is my wife," +</p> +<p> +This rapidity of explanation was almost too much for the old gentleman's +feelings. His limbs had been trembling with the agitation arising from +thus reverting to days and events long passed; and he had entertained +some hope from the language of the foreigner, that he might gain some +intelligence concerning one that had been forgotten, but whose image was +again revived in his memory. He had thought but lightly in the days of +his youth of that which he then called folly, but more seriously in the +days of his age of that same conduct which then he called vice. It would +have been happiness to his soul, could an opportunity have been afforded +him of making something like amends to the representatives of the +injured, even though the injured had been long asleep in the grave. When +all at once, therefore, the intelligence burst upon him, that one was +living in whom he possessed an interest, and over whose destiny he +should have watched, but whom he had neglected and forgotten, he felt +his soul melt within him; and well it was for him that he found relief +in tears. Surprised beyond measure was Colonel Rivolta, when he observed +the effect produced on Mr. Martindale, and heard the old gentleman say +with trembling voice:—"And that orphan, sir, is my daughter." He paused +for a minute or two, and his companion was too much astonished and +interested to interrupt him: recovering himself, he continued: "For many +years after that child was born, I had not the means of making any other +provision for it than placing it under the care of the old woman of whom +we have been speaking. I gave her such compensation as my circumstances +then allowed; and as the mother died soon after the birth of the infant, +I thought myself freed from all farther responsibility when I had made +provision for the infant. I endeavoured, indeed, to forget the event +altogether; and as I wished to form a respectable connexion in marriage, +I took especial care to conceal this transgression. However, various +circumstances prevented me from time to time from entering into the +married state; and having within the last twelve years come into the +possession of larger property than I had ever anticipated, it occurred +to me that there should be living at Genoa a child of mine, then indeed +long past childhood. I wrote to Genoa, and had no answer; I went to +Genoa, and could find no trace either of my child or of the old woman to +whose care I had entrusted her; and I was grieved not so much for the +loss of my child, as for the lack of an opportunity of making some +amends for my crime. I am delighted to hear that she lives. To-morrow I +will see her." +</p> +<p> +Upon this interesting disclosure hinge the principal incidents. In the +course of these are some admirable pleasantries; especially a +horse-race, and the description of Trimmerstone, in vol. i.; and the +clerical prig, and a slight sketch of the dangle Tippetson, in vol. ii. +</p> +<p> +The Earl of Trimmerstone's portrait, after old Martindale's death is +well drawn: +</p> +<p> +The Earl of Trimmerstone was depressed in spirits; it is indeed very +natural that he should be. The life which he had led, the companions +with whom he had associated, the disappointments which he had +experienced, his foolish marriage, the disgraceful conduct of his silly +countess, the taunts and reproaches of his opulent relative, the +weariness and disgust that he felt in having nothing to do, and the +annoyance of an empty title, which merely mocked him with the epithet of +right honourable, all these things combined to render him almost +disgusted with, and weary of life. His solitude was soon invaded by a +visit from the Rev. Marmaduke Sprout, rector of Trimmerstone, who was +rather fanatical in his theology, and finical in attire and address. He +could presently render himself agreeable to any person of exalted rank +by his very courteous and conciliating demeanour; and he possessed a +peculiar softness and gentleness of manner, with which indeed the Earl +of Trimmerstone would, in his past days of cock-fighting, horse-racing, +and boxing, have been thoroughly disgusted. But his lordship was quite +an altered man. Formerly, the lowest pursuits under the name of sport or +fancy had been agreeable to his lordship; and +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page174" name="page174"></a>[pg 174]</span> +every species of religious sentiment he had regarded with the +profoundest contempt and the most unmingled abhorrence. But now he was +sick, and weary of all these things! and because one extreme was purely +offensive and wearisome, he took it for granted that the opposite must +be truly delightful and highly consistent, and so under the tuition of +Mr. Sprout, he changed and reversed all his habits, good, bad, and +indifferent. From staking thousands at a horse-race, he turned up his +eyes at the grievous abomination of half-crown whist; and, indeed, had +he been disposed to card-playing, he could not have indulged himself at +Trimmerstone, for Mr. Sprout had banished almost all card-playing from +the place, so that there was not a pack of cards in the parish, except +two or three mutilated well-thumbed packs of quadrille-cards, which were +still used by a knot of antiquated spinsters worthy of the good old days +of Sacheverel and High Church. Quadrille-cards will not do for whist, +for all the eights, nines, and tens are thrown out. Formerly, Lord +Trimmerstone used to be proud of giving some of his acquaintance a +sumptuous dinner; but now he had changed all that, and he only kept one +female cook, who could just manage to make a comfortable and snug little +dish or two for his lordship's own self, occasionally assisted by the +Rev. Mr. Sprout. Formerly, his lordship had been disposed to be lively, +and oftentimes facetious; but now he was prodigiously grave, and almost +sulky. Formerly, his lordship never went to church; now he went twice +every Sunday, and said Amen as loud as the clerk, and with much more +solemnity, for the clerk did not turn up his eyes for fear of losing the +place. Formerly, his lordship had been very candid; now he had become +exceedingly censorious, and he seemed to measure his religion by the +severity with which he reproved transgressors. His lordship several +times attempted to make all the inhabitants of Trimmerstone go to church +twice every Sunday, except his own cook. But in this his lordship could +not succeed, and indeed it was well for him that he could not; for if +he had, the church would have been so crowded that he could not have +enjoyed a great, large, lined, stuffed, padded, carpeted pew for +himself. +</p> +<p> +In another portion of the MIRROR we have quoted half a dozen of the +author's amenities just to show the reader that in depicting the follies +of fashionable life, there is less fiddle-faddle—less <i>rank</i> than +<i>talent</i>—and more sense than in many other chronicles of the ton. +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + SPIRIT OF THE +<br /> +Public Journals. +</h2> +<hr /> +<h3> +MAXIMS OF JOHN BULLISM. +</h3> +<p> +When you travel in a stage-coach, make all the passengers, both inside +and outside, fully acquainted with your name, business, and objects in +travelling, before five minutes have elapsed. Among the rest, be sure +you give them to think you are a man of property, and the personal +friend of at least half-a-dozen nobles or members of parliament. If in +trade, inform them you have something very handsome in the three per +cents., and live on terms of perfect familiarity with the great Jew. +</p> +<p> +Honesty is the best and most profitable policy in the long run, but +there are a thousand exceptions to this rule in private practice. +</p> +<p> +Do no charity by stealth; it is never repaid in this world to any +advantage; do it openly, and there are chances of its returning cent per +cent. +</p> +<p> +You may keep a running horse, or two, though you are a magistrate sworn +to put down gambling: you need not bet upon the race-course yourself. +You may subscribe to Fishmongers' Hall, and go there without throwing +the dice. You may share the profits of a <i>roulette</i> table, without +venturing your luck. It is strange that vulgar understandings cannot +discriminate in these matters! +</p> +<p> +When you have made up your mind finally to do any thing, ask the advice +of your friend about it. The act of consultation will please him, and +you will be none the worse. +</p> +<p> +Human happiness is more or less complete in a ratio with successful +pecuniary accumulation. +</p> +<p> +If you enter a drawing-room before dinner a little time too early, and +find yourself <i>vis-à-vis</i> with an unlucky visiter as forlorn as +yourself, do not utter a word. The chances are, nine out of ten, he will +not speak first, that is, if he be a true Briton. Stare at him as hard +as you can. +</p> +<p> +If you meet a lady in society, old or young, married or single, who +equals you in argument, or rises superior to the thousand and one +automatons disgorged monthly from fashionable boarding-schools, report +her a <i>bas bleu</i> to your male acquaintances, and warn her own sex +to shun her. +</p> +<p> +When you meet an inferior in a public street, it is your duty to cut +him, if any one who knows you is in sight. If you cannot escape a +recognition, do it with as little parade as possible—a movement of the +lips is sufficient—and walk on at a +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page175" name="page175"></a>[pg 175]</span> +quick rate. Who knows but the Lord +Mayor, or Mr. Alderman Blowbladder, may observe you? +</p> +<p> +A grain of impudence will fetch more in the market than twelve bushels +of modesty. +</p> +<p> +In the scale of dignities two Cheapside chaises make one Stanhope; two +Stanhopes a cab; two cabs a landaulet and pair; and so on up to the +state-coach; and as their numerical relation, so is the degree of +respect they may justly exact. +</p> +<p> +If you visit foreign parts, and meet a countryman who may be useful to +you, do not hesitate to avail yourself of his services; but be sure +never to acknowledge him should you meet in your native land, unless he +receive some other introduction to you, and you have it on creditable +evidence that he is a man of good property. +</p> +<p> +Never allow reason weight in any thing you have resolved to be right +that is opposed to it. Reason may be useful in mathematics, to men of +genius, and to scholars; but it has little to do with every-day +existence, with the Three per Cents, the national revenue, the Stock +Exchange, or the India House. +</p> +<p> +Never get acquainted with your next-door neighbour, unless you find he +is in good pecuniary circumstances. If you meet on the highway, or touch +elbows at your respective fore-doors, look at each other like two +strange tom-cats, and pursue your way. +</p> +<p> +Commiserate the fate of a Thurtell, a Probert, or a Corder, sent +(ripened for heaven in a forty-eight hours' probation by a Newgate +chaplain) out of the world their hellish acts have so sullied; but +sympathise not with a Riego or a Canaris. Heroic vice was always +spiriting; heroic virtue is phlegmatic. John Bull's constitution is only +acted upon by strong excitement. +</p> +<p> +When you dine with the Lord Mayor, or any of the Aldermen of Brobdignag, +and they attempt to exhibit their skill at repartee, be sure decide the +wealthiest to be the wittiest. It will insure you a good dinner another +time, perhaps something more. +</p> +<p> +In choosing a wife, prefer even Bristol ugliness to beauty, especially +if there be a fortune. Beauty will change, intellect may be too much for +you, but ugliness will be true to you as to itself; besides its +advantage of preserving you from the effects of conjugal frailty. +</p> +<p> +A judge's wig is a Delphic mystery, whether brains be in it or not. It +is a of sublunary wisdom—an umbrella over an oracle. +</p> +<p> +When you dine at a public dinner, always take your seat opposite a +favourite dish. Carve it yourself, and select the choicest bits, then +leave it to your right-hand neighbour to help the rest of the company. +</p> +<p> +Always stick your napkin in your button-hole at the dinner table, if you +admit such French superfluities at all. Eat with the sharp edge of your +knife towards your mouth; forks won't take up gravy. Never wipe your +lips when you take wine with a lady, and fill both her glass and your +own until daylight is not visible through the crystal. +</p> +<p> +When Mrs. Bull is obstreperous, go to the coffee-house and call for your +glass. It is an excellent cure for her complaint, and you will get the +latest news retailed in the most engaging manner, with the pleasure of +knowing she is biting her lips at home in vexation. +</p> +<p> +Never hold any intercourse with people of whom the world speaks ill. +'Tis true they may be, and generally are, among the very best of +mankind, but as they are not reputed to be so, what is that to you? +</p> +<p> +Some persons cant about the wickedness of the times: believe them not; +this is the most saintly of ages, the most pure of generations, +considering its temptations. +</p> +<p> +Vice at the east and west end of town, is different only in form; in +substance it comes to the same thing, and in quality is equal to a +grain. +</p> +<p> +Never leave a dispute to be settled by arbitration; if you are rich, +always appeal to law, especially if your opponent be poor. The lawyers +will manage for you long before the case gets up to the Lords, and +perhaps secure your rival <i>in banco regis</i> for expenses. In an +arbitration, the case may be decided against you in a twinkling. It is a +capital thing that justice and a long purse are sworn brothers; besides, +moneyed men should have some advantage in society. +</p> +<p> +So little is the value of an oath understood by any but the Bull family, +that none but the postboys and the vulgar use oaths in foreign nations, +America excepted; but that country being a chip of the old block, +already rivals honest John; outdo him she must not. +</p> +<p> +Lard your butter, wet your tobacco, pipe-clay your flour, sand your +sugar, sloe-leaf your tea, coal-ash your pepper, deteriorate your drugs, +water your liquors, alloy your gold and silver, plunder your lodgers, +and, while none know it, who is the worse! Then to church, and thank God +you are not as other men. +</p> +<p> +Live and talk as if you were to live for ever. If you have accumulated +tens +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page176" name="page176"></a>[pg 176]</span> +of thousands, try and make them hundreds of thousands. Why should +you retire and make way for the industry of others, while you are able +to treasure up more. +</p> +<p> +Give credit, take credit, live upon credit; if you are wealthy, your own +money will be gathering interest at the same time. If you are poor, you +have no other means to live by. +</p> +<p> +In matters of business, let there be no favour. If you are dealing with +your own father, give nothing to him. Screw the uttermost farthing, and, +if need, sell him. +</p> +<p> +Give only to receive. +</p> +<p> +Men of genius are fools; the truly great men know how to make money, and +money is power—the power of making more money. Your men of genius are +at best but harlequins with empty pockets.—<i>New Monthly Magazine.</i> +</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2> + THE GATHERER. +</h2> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p> +<p class="i2" style="text-align: right;"> SHAKSPEARE.</p> +</div></div> +<hr /> +<h3> +THE OPERA. +</h3> +<p> +Swift, in his Journal to Stella, speaking of the Opera says, "In half an +hour I was tired of their <i>fine stuff</i>." +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +FAUSTINA and CUZZONI, two celebrated opera singers, were such bitter +rivals, that neither of them would sing in the same room with the other. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +CATS. +</h3> +<p> +Four learned cats are now exhibiting in Regent-street; but as we have +not yet left our card with their feline excellencies, we cannot wink at +their perfections. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +SHERWOOD AND ROBIN HOOD. +</h3> +<p> +The officers of Sherwood Forest, famous for having been the +head-quarters of Robin Hood in the 16th century, were a warden, his +lieutenant and steward, a bow-bearer, and a ranger, four verderers, +twelve regarders, four agisters, and twelve keepers or foresters, all +under a chief forester; besides these there were several woodwards for +every township within the forest, and one for every principal wood. +</p> +<h4> +HALBERT H. +</h4> +<hr /> +<p> +The late Duke of Norfolk passing down Piccadilly with Sheridan, as a +gigantic wooden Highlander was just then fixing at the door of a +tobacconist, asked, what was the reason of this usual location. "Ay, ay, +I see it now," said the duke, "it is as much as to say, bargains here, a +man may get the most for his farthing." "No," said Sheridan, "it seems +quite the contrary, for if the Scotchman could have driven any thing in +the way of bargain, he would have gone in." +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +A Mrs. Tomlinson is mentioned in the papers as having, lately died, +worth thirty thousand pounds, chiefly amassed by habits of extreme +penury. She had, before this accumulation, separated from her husband, +to whom she handsomely allowed five shillings a-week. This was observed +to realize the often-repeated saying of Solomon—"A virtuous woman is a +<i>crown</i> to her husband." +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +SUGAR MADE FROM RAGS. +</h3> +<p> +The compiler of a Catechism of Chemistry up to the latest date, says, +"It is a remarkable fact, that a pound of rags may be converted into +more than a pound of sugar, merely by the action of sulphuric acid. When +shreds of linen are triturated (stirred) in a glass mortar with +sulphuric acid, they yield a gummy matter on evaporation; and if this +matter be boiled for some time with dilute sulphuric acid, we obtain a +crystallizable sugar."—Now is the time to look up all your old rags, +&c. +</p> +<hr /> +<p> +A choral society, consisting of 160 members, has just been established +at Breslau, for the cultivation of ancient music. +</p> +<hr /> +<h3> +JOHN OF GAUNT. +</h3> +<p> +There is a curious tradition respecting the estate of Sutton Park, (the +seat of Sir J. Burgoyne.) near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, which states +it formerly belonged to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who gave it to +an ancestor of the present proprietor, named Roger Burgoyne, by the +following laconic grant:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> I, John of Gaunt,</p> + <p> Do give and do grant</p> + <p> To Roger Burgoyne,</p> + <p> And the heirs of his loin,</p> + <p> Both Sutton and Potton,<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a></p> + <p> Until the world's rotten.</p> +</div></div> +<p> +There is also a moated site in the park, called "John of Gaunt's Castle." +</p> +<h4> +J.H. +</h4> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> +With the present Number is published a SUPPLEMENT, containing THREE +ENGRAVINGS: 1. <i>The Death-Watch</i>. 2. <i>The Glow-Worm</i>. 3. +<i>The Talipot Tree</i>, and a series of other curious and attractive +Wonders of Nature—The First and Last Crime, a vivid and masterly +sketch—Public Improvements now in progress in London—besides an +unusual variety of Literary Novelties. +</p> +<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" /> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> +<b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p>An account of the original <i>instigator</i> of the Crusades +will be found in vol. viii. of the MIRROR, page 232.</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> +<b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<p>The Turks generally show some regard to real piety and valour.</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a> +<b>Footnote 3</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> +<p>A neighbouring village.</p> +</blockquote> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13644 ***</div> +</body> +</html> |