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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 16, 2013 [EBook #43225] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, NOV 1848 *** - - - - -Produced by Brendan OConnor, JoAnn Greenwood, Jonathan -Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Library of Early -Journals.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43225 ***</div> <h1>BLACKWOOD'S<br /> @@ -366,7 +325,7 @@ strictly preserved, seemed to us a highly proper, laudable, and patriotic sentiment; but, when the Teutonic youth went further, and demanded an -immediate return to the mediæval +immediate return to the mediæval system, and the glorious times of the Empire, we must confess that their aspirations seemed to us to savour @@ -409,14 +368,14 @@ Hairibee. But our German friends—more especially the students—have long been haunted by some such ideas. <i>The Robbers</i> of Schiller, and -the <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Goetz von Berlichingen</i> of Goëthe, +the <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Goetz von Berlichingen</i> of Goëthe, have had a poisonous effect upon the fancy or fantasy of the young. They have long been dreaming of doublets, boots, and spurs, and it needed but a little thing to set them utterly crazy. Their modern school of painting has -for years been even more mediæval +for years been even more mediæval than their literature; and what the poets began, Schnorr and Cornelius have been rapidly bringing to a head. @@ -687,7 +646,7 @@ strength, but after a gradual decay of atrophy. This, however, was a sort of political resurrection; for there she, or her image, stood, comely as in her -best days, and clothed in mediæval +best days, and clothed in mediæval attire. The dreams of the students seemed to be in the fair way of accomplishment, and a loud shout of "<i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Germania @@ -1064,7 +1023,7 @@ species of pongo pertaining to the liberal creed. Your ears are filled with a gush of guttural jargon, in which the words <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">einigkeit</i>, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">despotismus</i>, -and <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">unabhängigkeit</i> prodigiously +and <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">unabhängigkeit</i> prodigiously preponderate; and ever and anon some canorous votary of freedom shouts out a stave of a song, constructed upon @@ -1207,7 +1166,7 @@ in history, the fact is certain, that every one of these revolutionists devoutly longs for the downfall of Britain, and would gladly lend a helping hand -to assist. Cobden was fêted on the +to assist. Cobden was fêted on the Continent, not because he was a commercial reformer, but because he was known to be a determined enemy to @@ -1587,7 +1546,7 @@ relates far more to democracy than to dollars. The hotels are still crowded, it being the fashion for members of the same political views to dine together -at the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tables-d'hôte</i>—so that +at the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tables-d'hôte</i>—so that the traveller who is not aware of this arrangement may, by going to one house, find himself a participator in a @@ -1606,10 +1565,10 @@ shadow of Saint Nicholas.</p> <p>I was leisurely washing down my evening cutlet with the contents of a flask of <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Liebfrauenmilch</i>, and wondering -whether the pleasant <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">cafés</i> outside +whether the pleasant <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">cafés</i> outside the city gates were still in existence, when a huge colossus of a man -entered the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">salle-à-manger</i>, seated +entered the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">salle-à -manger</i>, seated himself immediately opposite me at table, and demanded a double portion of <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">kalbs-braten</i>. I could not refrain @@ -1698,7 +1657,7 @@ constitutional and despotic systems. He used to demonstrate how perfect liberty was attainable by an immediate return to the noble principles of -the Lacedæmonians, whose social code +the Lacedæmonians, whose social code and black broth he esteemed as the perfection of human sagacity. He also held in deep respect the patriarchal @@ -2222,7 +2181,7 @@ merit, has been appropriated as the theatre of council. Thither every morning, a crowd of the enthusiastic Frankforters, and crazy students in -their mediæval garbs, repair to pack +their mediæval garbs, repair to pack the galleries, and bestow their applause upon the speeches of their favourite members. It is needless to @@ -2389,7 +2348,7 @@ for statesmen. Any more?"</p> <p>"Yes. You see that tall grizzled man over the way. That is Anastasius -Grün."</p> +Grün."</p> <p>"Graf von Auersperg? Well, he is a gentleman at least; though, as to @@ -3117,7 +3076,7 @@ overlook, without sacrificing the fragments of her honour. At Vienna, the insurrection has been successful. The emperor has, a second time, -quitted Schönbrunn, and has openly +quitted Schönbrunn, and has openly announced that, when he next returns to his capital, it will be at the head of an avenging army. There is nothing @@ -3204,7 +3163,7 @@ of fashion and dissipation—none of the equipages which were wont to roll along the environs, with ducal coronets on their blazon. The bazaars -were deserted: the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tables-d'hôte</i> miserably +were deserted: the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tables-d'hôte</i> miserably attended. If thirty people assembled in one of the great saloons, which formerly used to be occupied @@ -3275,7 +3234,7 @@ craze for republican institutions, but the staple of the travelling commodity consists of Italian refugees from Lombardy. These men also seem to -have adopted a kind of mediæval +have adopted a kind of mediæval garb, more graceful than that of the Germans, and are, to outward appearance, no despicable specimens of @@ -3737,7 +3696,7 @@ the university."</p> and if, in your prelections, you would omit all notice of Harmodius and Aristogiton, and say as little as possible -about the Lacedæmonian code, +about the Lacedæmonian code, it might tend to promote the welfare of your students, both in this world and in the next."</p> @@ -3786,7 +3745,7 @@ hardly extort a smile from any whose suffrage is worth courting. We have had a vast deal of comic literature in this country during the last dozen -years; quite a torrent of <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">facetiæ</i>, a +years; quite a torrent of <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">facetiæ</i>, a surfeit of slang and puns. One or two popular humorists gave the impetus, and set a host of imitators @@ -3837,7 +3796,7 @@ sacrilegious to slay a churchman at the altar, others may have ventured to satirise in rude doggrel the pride and presumption of Thomas -à Becket. But have their graceless +à Becket. But have their graceless effusions survived? Can they be traced in black letter, or deciphered on the blocks of wood and stone @@ -4299,20 +4258,20 @@ eight pounds! Beranger has devoted a witty stanza to that year of madness.</p> <div class="cpoem" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"C'était la régence alors<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"C'était la régence alors<br /></span> <span class="i2">Et sans hyperbole,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Grâce aux plus drôles de corps,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">La France étoit folle;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Grâce aux plus drôles de corps,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">La France étoit folle;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Tous les hommes s'amusaient,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Et les femmes se prêtaient<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A la gaudriole an gué,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Et les femmes se prêtaient<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A la gaudriole an gué,<br /></span> <span class="i4">A la gaudriole."<br /></span> </div></div> <p>As an essential preliminary to holding the office of Comptroller-general of the French finances, Law allowed -the Abbé de Tençin to convert him to +the Abbé de Tençin to convert him to the religion of Rome. This apostasy, and its disastrous consequences to France, became the subject of many @@ -4578,7 +4537,7 @@ French was only a step towards the introduction of French tyranny." A deluge of ballads descended upon the heads of the candidate and his assumed -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">protégés</i>; and the quality of the poetry +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">protégés</i>; and the quality of the poetry seems to have been on a par with the liberality of the sentiments—to judge, at least, from the following brilliant @@ -4901,7 +4860,7 @@ was published under the title of <i>Lord Chatham's Prophecy</i>.</p> <div class="cpoem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Your plumèd corps though Percy cheers,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Your plumèd corps though Percy cheers,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And far-famed British grenadiers,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Renown'd for martial skill;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Yet Albion's heroes bite the plain,<br /></span> @@ -5047,7 +5006,7 @@ to stop him. "A cold vote of thanks was given by both Houses to the victorious Rodney, and he was raised to the peerage, but only as a baron, and -was voted a pension of but £2000 +was voted a pension of but £2000 a-year." Such shabby reward for an achievement of immense importance was, of course, not suffered to pass @@ -5209,7 +5168,7 @@ soon found they were more positively dangerous than probably useful; for in May 1784, "a royal <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">ordonnance</i> forbade the construction or sending -up of 'any aërostatic machine,' without +up of 'any aërostatic machine,' without an express permission from the king, on account of the various dangers attendant upon them; intimating, @@ -5224,7 +5183,7 @@ and pamphlets, until the death of a couple of Frenchmen, thrown to the earth from an immense height, cooled the soaring courage of the -aëronauts. A more destructive and +aëronauts. A more destructive and permanent folly was the passion for gambling, which, in spite of the attacks of the press, of grave censure @@ -5338,7 +5297,7 @@ of the British Isles, confirmed the feeling of security our naval triumphs had inspired. The Peace of Amiens set the wags of the pencil on a -new tack, and Monsieur François +new tack, and Monsieur François was represented as imprinting "The first Kiss these Ten Years" on the lips of burly, blushing Britannia, who, @@ -5472,7 +5431,7 @@ single feature.</p> <p>It is some time since we had a gossip about French literature and -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">littérateurs</i>. The fact is, that, since the +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">littérateurs</i>. The fact is, that, since the blessed days of February drove crestfallen monarchy from France, and began the pleasant state of things @@ -5504,7 +5463,7 @@ twenty-fifth is slain. And, by the bye, what pity it is that a few of our friend Alexander's redoubted swordsmen could not have been summoned -from their laurel-shaded repose in Père +from their laurel-shaded repose in Père la Chaise, to avert the recent catastrophe of the house of Orleans. Just a brace and a half of his king-making @@ -5558,7 +5517,7 @@ unable to lift, (<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vide "Le Vicomte de Bragelonne;"</i>) whilst the astute Gascon Artagnan would have packed General Cavaignac in a magnified <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bonbon</i>-box, -with air-holes in the lid, and <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Copahine-Mège</i> +with air-holes in the lid, and <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Copahine-Mège</i> or <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Chocolat-Cuillier</i> on the label; and would have conveyed him on board a fishing smack, there detaining @@ -5597,7 +5556,7 @@ his advertisement of the journal, intended to act as lantern to this shining light of the new political day. "Our task is easy"—these were its concluding -words—"<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dieu dicte, nous écrivons!</i>" +words—"<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dieu dicte, nous écrivons!</i>" Setting aside the slight profanity of this startling assertion, one cannot but admire the characteristic @@ -5856,7 +5815,7 @@ best written book he has yet produced.</p> <p>But we lose sight of our parcel, as yet but half unpacked. Here is a -volume of the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Député d'Arcis</i>, (another +volume of the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Député d'Arcis</i>, (another of the continuation family,) heavy stuff, seemingly, by Balzac; and this brings us to the end of the @@ -5864,7 +5823,7 @@ continuations. With these exceptions, the French writers who have not altogether left off writing, have at least kept within circumscribed limits. -Here we have a volume from M. Méry +Here we have a volume from M. Méry of Marseilles, a clever, careless writer, not much known in England; another by the authoress of <i lang="es" xml:lang="es">Consuelo</i>; two @@ -5897,14 +5856,14 @@ There are many good points about his novels, although he is, perhaps, less popular as a novelist than as the writer of a small monthly satirical -pamphlet, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Guèpes</i>, The Wasps, +pamphlet, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Guèpes</i>, The Wasps, which has existed for several years, with varying, but, upon the whole, with very great success. M. Karr's wit is of a peculiar order, approaching more nearly to <em>humour</em> than French wit generally does. There is an odd -sort of dryness and fantastic <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">naïveté</i> in +sort of dryness and fantastic <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">naïveté</i> in some of his drolleries, quite distinct from what we are accustomed to in the comic writings of his countrymen. @@ -5976,9 +5935,9 @@ Alain, surnamed Risquetout, from certain bold feats of his earlier years, lives by the seaside on the produce of his nets. His family consists of his -wife Pélagie, his sons and daughter, -Cæsar, Onesimus, and Berenice, and -of his foster-daughter Pulchérie. +wife Pélagie, his sons and daughter, +Cæsar, Onesimus, and Berenice, and +of his foster-daughter Pulchérie. With respect to these magnificent names, M. Karr thinks it necessary to offer some explanation. "I am not @@ -6038,7 +5997,7 @@ the lines and fish had been taken out of the boat, and the boat had been washed and hauled up upon the shore, he followed the three fishers to -their home. Pélagie also felt uneasy +their home. Pélagie also felt uneasy at sight of Eloi; she asked him, as Tranquille had done, if he would eat a whiting, to which he replied,—</p> @@ -6049,7 +6008,7 @@ a whiting, to which he replied,—</p> from one basket to another, he took up two, and kept them a long time in his hands, repeating, 'Fine whitings -these, very fine whitings!' until Pélagie +these, very fine whitings!' until Pélagie said:—</p> <p>"'You shall take them home with @@ -6104,7 +6063,7 @@ its conclusion.</p> season.'</p> <p>"'The two halves shall be paid -together,' added Pélagie, bolder than +together,' added Pélagie, bolder than her husband.</p> <p>"'It is to-day the money would be @@ -6142,7 +6101,7 @@ twenty crowns you should have paid to-day?'</p> <p>"'That is to say, cousin,' cried -Pélagie, always bolder or less patient +Pélagie, always bolder or less patient than her husband, 'that we should have given you half of it.'</p> @@ -6166,7 +6125,7 @@ you the sixty others later.'</p> <p>"'It is sixty crowns that I lose on the affair I miss for want of money.'</p> -<p>"'Pélagie longed to remind Eloi +<p>"'Pélagie longed to remind Eloi that the profit sacrificed had been but fifty crowns a few minutes before, but she held her tongue.</p> @@ -6177,7 +6136,7 @@ one of a hundred and fifty crowns payable at Michaelmas.'</p> <p>"The husband and wife exchanged -a look. Pélagie spoke.</p> +a look. Pélagie spoke.</p> <p>"'What, cousin! a hundred and fifty crowns! That makes, then, @@ -6257,7 +6216,7 @@ is five sous; it is not fair I should pay it. Give me five sous.'</p> <p>"'There is not a sou in the house,' -said Pélagie.</p> +said Pélagie.</p> <p>"'Then we will add it to the amount of the bill. Thus: At @@ -6269,7 +6228,7 @@ francs and five sous, it would look so paltry,) which he has been so obliging as to lend me in hard cash. Signed, Tranquille Alain. There, put your -mark, and you, Pélagie, put yours +mark, and you, Pélagie, put yours also.'</p> <p>"The signatures given, Eloi returned @@ -6353,7 +6312,7 @@ am delighted to have been of service to you.'</p> <p>"'Our cousin is a very hard and -a very griping man,' said Pélagie.</p> +a very griping man,' said Pélagie.</p> <p>"'God does not pay his labourers every night,' replied Tranquille, lifting @@ -6515,9 +6474,9 @@ to Beuzeval, and thence rode down to Dive. Berenice, who was lace-making at her door, made him a grateful curtsey, and he stopped to -exchange a few words with her. Pélagie, +exchange a few words with her. Pélagie, who was preparing dinner, inquired -after Pulchérie.</p> +after Pulchérie.</p> <p>"'Madame la Comtesse de Morville is well,' he replied; 'I heard from @@ -6527,7 +6486,7 @@ bring the countess to see me this summer.'</p> <p>"Onesimus and his father were -close to shore. Pélagie begged M. de +close to shore. Pélagie begged M. de Beuzeval's permission to look to their dinner, as they were obliged to put to sea again as soon as they had eaten @@ -6548,7 +6507,7 @@ my house.'</p> <p>"'I daresay not. It is not a soup for gentlefolk.'</p> -<p>"'Yours smells excellent, Pélagie; +<p>"'Yours smells excellent, Pélagie; but you were always a good cook.'</p> @@ -6556,7 +6515,7 @@ cook.'</p> helps me to make good dinners for our men!'</p> -<p>"'What is that, Pélagie?'</p> +<p>"'What is that, Pélagie?'</p> <p>"'A good appetite. They put to sea last night, and here they come, @@ -6568,7 +6527,7 @@ is spice for a plain meal.'</p> <p>"'Come along!' cried M. Malais, 'you have a famous soup waiting for you. Upon my word, it smells too -good; I must taste it. Pélagie, give +good; I must taste it. Pélagie, give me a plate; I will eat a few spoonsful with you. Certainly, it is but a short time since I took my breakfast—what @@ -6578,7 +6537,7 @@ appetite, without pleasure.'</p> <p>"'Indeed! M. Malais, you will do us the honour of tasting our soup?'</p> -<p>"And Pélagie hastened to put a +<p>"And Pélagie hastened to put a clean cloth upon the table. Berenice fetched a pot of cider. Onesimus <i>moored</i> the horse in the shade; then @@ -6593,7 +6552,7 @@ on the tureen, and an equally determined one on the bacon and greens; to what expedients he was subsequently reduced; how it fared -with the Countess Pulchérie and her +with the Countess Pulchérie and her scapegrace husband, and what were the struggles, sufferings, and ultimate rewards, of the courageous and simple-hearted @@ -6601,7 +6560,7 @@ Alains. The book may safely be recommended to all readers. This is more than we can say for the next that comes to hand—<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Un Mariage de -Paris</i> by Méry. This we should pitch +Paris</i> by Méry. This we should pitch into the rubbish-basket after reading the first two chapters, did it not serve to illustrate what we have often @@ -6618,9 +6577,9 @@ take <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">le gin</i> and <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">le box and Omega of English propensities and manners, and should proceed upon that presumption in romances of -such distinguished merit as <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Mystères +such distinguished merit as <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Mystères de Londres</i> and <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Zambala l'Indien</i>. -But M. Méry is a man of letters +But M. Méry is a man of letters esteemed amongst his fellows—a hasty and slovenly writer, certainly, but possessing wit, and tact, and style, @@ -6639,7 +6598,7 @@ derive their notions of English habits and customs from the frequenters of the English taverns about the Places Favart and Madeleine at Paris. M. -Méry is above this. He draws entirely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_566" id="Page_566">[566]</a></span> +Méry is above this. He draws entirely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_566" id="Page_566">[566]</a></span> upon his imagination for the manners, morals, and topography of the country in which his scene is laid. He has @@ -6665,7 +6624,7 @@ of admirers rose like one man, and a triple round of applause rent thirty pair of yellow gloves. The name of Sidora W—— had <em>great attraction</em>, (the -italics are M. Méry's,) and when displayed +italics are M. Méry's,) and when displayed on gigantic placards, before <i>Mansion-house</i>, or <i>Post-office</i>, as well as on the modest gray circulars of the @@ -6770,7 +6729,7 @@ mind that the author is perfectly serious, and devoutly believes he is giving a very curious insight into the local usages and characteristics of -semi-civilised England. M. Méry's +semi-civilised England. M. Méry's hero has other adventures, equally true to life,—makes new acquaintances on board a river-steamer; @@ -6778,7 +6737,7 @@ dines with them at <i>Sceptre and Crown</i> at Greenwich, and at <i>Star and Garter</i> at Richmond; and falls violently in love with Madame Katrina Lewing, a -beautiful Englishwoman. M. Méry +beautiful Englishwoman. M. Méry makes merry on the river Thames, which he affects to believe rises in the immediate vicinity of Richmond, and @@ -6798,18 +6757,18 @@ is stripped of his bank-notes, and left in the dead of night in the middle of a field. In vain, at daybreak, does he seek a shepherd to question, because, -as M. Méry testifies, English +as M. Méry testifies, English peasants do not inhabit the fields; shepherds are scarcely known in the country; and the only one he, the aforesaid -Méry, ever beheld, during his +Méry, ever beheld, during his extensive rambles in England, was a well-dressed young gentleman, with gloves on, reading the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> under a tree. Then we have a thieves' orgie, where the liquors in demand are claret and <i>absinthe</i>, nothing -less—M. Méry not condescending +less—M. Méry not condescending to the gin, so much abused by his contemporaries. And, finally, a murder having been committed, its circumstances @@ -6821,17 +6780,17 @@ literary curiosities; but we have given enough to prove their author's intimate acquaintance with the country about which he so agreeably writes. -It is related of M. Méry's friend Dumas, +It is related of M. Méry's friend Dumas, that he once resolved on a visit to London, posted to Boulogne, steamed to London bridge, and reached St Paul's, but there turned back, anathematising fog and sea-coal, and never stopped till he found himself -in the Chaussée d'Antin. Without +in the Chaussée d'Antin. Without vouching for the truth of this tale, we must admit its probability when told -of the eccentric Alexander. Mr Méry's +of the eccentric Alexander. Mr Méry's knowledge of this country is just what he might have obtained by an hour's conversation with his friend, upon the @@ -6854,7 +6813,7 @@ to run into absurdities, but sin chiefly on the side of overcolouring. This may be alleged, although to no violent extent, of a pleasant little romance -by Paul de Musset, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La Chèvre Jaune</i>—The +by Paul de Musset, <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La Chèvre Jaune</i>—The Yellow Goat—intended as an illustration of Sicilian life, particularly amongst the lower orders. The @@ -6898,7 +6857,7 @@ although a thrice-told tale, is distinguished by its charming vivacity and lightness.</p> -<p>We turn to <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">François le Champi</i>, by +<p>We turn to <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">François le Champi</i>, by George Sand. We need hardly say that Madame Dudevant is any thing but a favourite of ours. Whilst admitting @@ -6962,7 +6921,7 @@ is of interest. Madame Sand agrees to attempt the task; and takes for her subject a tale she has heard related the previous evening, at a neighbouring -farm-house. She calls it <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">François +farm-house. She calls it <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">François le Champi</i>, but her critic cavils at the very title. <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Champi</i>, he says, is not French. George Sand quotes Montaigne, @@ -6991,11 +6950,11 @@ attached to Madeleine. He enters the service of the miller, a rough dissipated fellow, given up to the fascinations of a loose widow, -Madame Sévère, a sort of rural Delilah, +Madame Sévère, a sort of rural Delilah, who tries to seduce the handsome Champi, and, failing of success, instils jealousy into the ear of the miller, -who drives François from his house. +who drives François from his house. The young man finds occupation in a distant village, and returns to the mill of Cornouer only when its master is @@ -7071,12 +7030,12 @@ discovered, in the neighbourhood of Paris, in a little house called <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Moulin-Joli</i>, an old man who engraved in aquafortis, with an old woman whom -he called his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Meunière</i>, who also +he called his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Meunière</i>, who also engraved at the same table. The last plate they executed represented <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Moulin-Joli</i>, Margaret's house, with this device,—<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Cur valle permutem -Sabinâ divitias operosiores!</i> It hangs +Sabinâ divitias operosiores!</i> It hangs in my room, above a portrait whose original no one here has seen. During one year, he who gave me that @@ -7273,7 +7232,7 @@ eyes.</p> <p>"Continuing my examination, I remarked with pleasure that the -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">grande désolée</i> had not yet completely +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">grande désolée</i> had not yet completely renounced human vanities; for, beneath the floating sleeves of her gown, at the junction of the wrist with the @@ -7406,14 +7365,14 @@ Then there is a general of Napoleon's army who cannot write his name; and a buxom sutler and a handsome aide-de-camp, sundry grisettes, and the other -<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">dramatis personæ</i> habitually to be met +<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">dramatis personæ</i> habitually to be met with in the pages of Paul—the whole set forth in indifferent French, and garnished with buffoonery and impropriety, after the usual fashion of this zany of Parisian novelists.</p> -<p>Is it true that M. Honoré de Balzac +<p>Is it true that M. Honoré de Balzac is married to a female <em>millionnaire</em>, who fell in love with him through his books and his reputation? If so, let him @@ -7421,7 +7380,7 @@ take our advice and abjure scribbling—at least till he is in the vein to turn out something better than his recent productions—better, at least, than the -first volume of the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Député d'Arcis</i>, +first volume of the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Député d'Arcis</i>, now lying before us. What heavy, vulgar trash, to flow from the pen of a man of his abilities! After beginning @@ -7430,8 +7389,8 @@ of worthless books, published under various pseudonymes, and whose authorship he has since in vain endeavoured to disclaim, he rose into -fame by his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Scènes de la Vie de Province</i>, -by his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Peau de Chagrin</i>, his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Père +fame by his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Scènes de la Vie de Province</i>, +by his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Peau de Chagrin</i>, his <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Père Goriot</i>, and other striking and popular works. The hour of his decline then struck, and he has since been rolling @@ -7463,7 +7422,7 @@ of considerable ingenuity. Backwards and forwards, M. de Balzac refers his public; his books are a system of mutual accommodation and advertisement. -Thus, in the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Député &c.</i>, +Thus, in the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Député &c.</i>, apropos of a lawsuit, we find in brackets and in large capitals,—"<i>See</i> <span class="smcap" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Une Tenebreuse Affaire</span>." A @@ -7521,9 +7480,9 @@ Don Cornelio Vegil was selected and put in order; a general invitation was distributed; and all the dusky beauties of Fernandez were soon engaged -in arraying themselves for the fête. +in arraying themselves for the fête. Off came the coats of dirt and -"alegnía" which had bedaubed their +"alegnÃa" which had bedaubed their faces since the last "funcion," leaving their cheeks clear and clean. Water was profusely used, and their cuerpos @@ -7560,7 +7519,7 @@ Here, at one end of a long room, are seated the musicians, their instruments being generally a species of guitar, called heaca, <i>bandolin</i>, and -an Indian drum, called <i>tombé</i>—one of +an Indian drum, called <i>tombé</i>—one of each. Round the room groups of New Mexicans lounge, wrapped in the eternal sarape, and smoking of @@ -7595,7 +7554,7 @@ ground, so much in vogue in Indian ballets. The hunters have the floor all to themselves. The Mexicans have no chance in such physical force -dancing; and if a dancing Peládo<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> +dancing; and if a dancing Peládo<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> steps into the ring, a lead-like thump from a galloping mountaineer quickly <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_574" id="Page_574">[574]</a></span>sends him sprawling, with the considerate @@ -7603,14 +7562,14 @@ remark—"Quit, you darned Spaniard! you can't 'shine' in this crowd."</p> -<p>During a lull, guagés<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> filled with +<p>During a lull, guagés<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> filled with whisky go the rounds—offered to and seldom refused by the ladies—sturdily quaffed by the mountaineers, and -freely swallowed by the Peládos, who +freely swallowed by the Peládos, who drown their jealousy and envious hate of their entertainers in potent aguardiente. -Now, as the guagés are oft +Now, as the guagés are oft refilled and as often drained, and as night advances, so do the spirits of the mountaineers become more boisterous, @@ -7626,17 +7585,17 @@ two hundred people, swearing, drinking, dancing, and shouting—the half-dozen Americans monopolising the fair, to the evident disadvantage -of at least threescore scowling Peládos, +of at least threescore scowling Peládos, it happens that one of these, maddened by whisky and the green-eyed monster, suddenly seizes a fair one from the waist-encircling arm of a mountaineer, and pulls her from her -partner. Wagh!—La Bonté—it is +partner. Wagh!—La Bonté—it is he—stands erect as a pillar for a moment, then raises his hand to his mouth, and gives a ringing war-whoop—jumps -upon the rash Peládo, +upon the rash Peládo, seizes him by the body as if he were a child, lifts him over his head, and dashes him with the force of a giant @@ -7644,7 +7603,7 @@ against the wall.</p> <p>The war, long threatened, has commenced; twenty Mexicans draw their -knives and rush upon La Bonté, who +knives and rush upon La Bonté, who stands his ground, and sweeps them down with his ponderous fist, one after another, as they throng around him. @@ -7666,7 +7625,7 @@ and other assailants crowd up to supply the place of those who fall.</p> <p>Alarm being given by the shrieking -women, reinforcements of Peládos +women, reinforcements of Peládos rushed to the scene of action, but could not enter the room, which was already full. The odds began to tell @@ -7677,12 +7636,12 @@ three long heavy legs. In a moment he had cleared his way to this, and in another the three legs were broken off and in the hands of himself, Dick -Wooton, and La Bonté. Sweeping +Wooton, and La Bonté. Sweeping them round their heads, down came the heavy weapons amongst the Mexicans with wonderful effect—each blow, dealt by the nervous arms of Wooton -and La Bonté, mowing down a good +and La Bonté, mowing down a good half-dozen of the assailants. At this the mountaineers gave a hearty whoop, and charged the wavering enemy with @@ -7736,7 +7695,7 @@ the white hunters, and their hands formally demanded from the respective padres.</p> -<p>La Bonté had been rather smitten +<p>La Bonté had been rather smitten with the charms of one Dolores Salazar—a buxom lass, more than three parts Indian in her blood, but confessedly @@ -7754,7 +7713,7 @@ up her advantage with all the arts the most civilised of her sex could use when fishing for a husband.</p> -<p>La Bonté, however, was too old a +<p>La Bonté, however, was too old a hunter to be easily caught; and, before committing himself, he sought the advice of his tried companion @@ -7776,7 +7735,7 @@ upon 'gone beaver,' <em>he</em> is—Wagh!"</p> attention.</p> <p>"Old hos," continued the other; -"thar's no use câching anyhow what +"thar's no use câching anyhow what a niggur feels—so hyar's to 'put out.' You're good for beaver I know; at deer or buffler, or darned red Injun @@ -7785,7 +7744,7 @@ fact. 'Off-hand,' or 'with a rest,' you make 'em 'come.' You knows the 'sign' of Injuns slick—Blackfoot or Sioux, Pawnee or Burntwood, Zeton, -Rapaho, Shian, or Shoshonée, Yutah, +Rapaho, Shian, or Shoshonée, Yutah, Piyutah, or Yamhareek—their trail's as plain as writin', old hos, to you."</p> @@ -7882,7 +7841,7 @@ the trail to old Missoura, whar white and Christian gals are to be had for axing. Wagh!"</p> -<p>La Bonté rose to his feet. The +<p>La Bonté rose to his feet. The mention of Mary Brand's name decided him; and he said—</p> @@ -7890,7 +7849,7 @@ him; and he said—</p> with me; come, old hos! let's move."</p> <p>And, shouldering their rifles, the two -compañeros returned to the Ronch. +compañeros returned to the Ronch. More than one of the mountaineers had fulfilled the object of their journey, and had taken to themselves a @@ -7917,7 +7876,7 @@ house of his lady-love, who stood wrapped in reboso, and cigarito in mouth, on the sill of the door, he turned away his head as if dreading -to say adios. La Bonté rode beside +to say adios. La Bonté rode beside him, and a thought struck him.</p> <p>"Ho, Dick!" he said, "thar's the @@ -7947,7 +7906,7 @@ mountains, and reached the Arkansa, where the band was broken up,—some proceeding to Bent's Fort, and others to the Platte, amongst whom were -Killbuck and La Bonté, still in company.</p> +Killbuck and La Bonté, still in company.</p> <p>These two once more betook themselves to trapping, the Yellow Stone @@ -8933,12 +8892,12 @@ from wounds, or cold, or famine.</p> <p>Amongst the characters who figured in Antoine's stories, a hunter named -La Bonté was made conspicuous for +La Bonté was made conspicuous for deeds of hardiness, and daring. The first mention of the name caused the blood to rush to Mary's face: not that she for a moment imagined it was -her La Bonté, for she knew the name +her La Bonté, for she knew the name was a common one; but, associated with feelings which she had never got the better of, it recalled a sad epoch @@ -8956,30 +8915,30 @@ neighbourhood of old Brand's farm. Meeting him by accident, Mary, hearing him speak of the mountain hunters, had inquired, tremblingly -after La Bonté. Her informant knew +after La Bonté. Her informant knew him well—had trapped in company with him—and had heard at the trading fort, whence he had taken his departure for the settlements, that La -Bonté had been killed on the Yellow +Bonté had been killed on the Yellow Stone by Blackfeet; which report was confirmed by some Indians of that nation. This was all she had ever learned of the lover of her youth.</p> <p>Now, upon hearing the name of La -Bonté so often mentioned by Antoine, +Bonté so often mentioned by Antoine, a vague hope was raised in her breast that he was still alive, and she took an opportunity of questioning the Canadian closely on the subject.</p> -<p>"Who was this La Bonté, Antoine, +<p>"Who was this La Bonté, Antoine, whom you say was so brave a mountaineer?" she asked one day.</p> <p>"J'ne sais pas, he vas un beau -garçon, and strong comme le diable—enfant +garçon, and strong comme le diable—enfant de garce, mais he pas not care a dam for les sauvages, pe gar. He shoot de centare avec his carabine; @@ -9001,8 +8960,8 @@ dollars?" asked poor Mary.</p> he com home? Pe gar, de montaigne-man, he love de montaigne and de prairie more better dan he love de -grandes villes—même de Saint Louis -ou de Montreal. Wagh! La Bonté,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_585" id="Page_585">[585]</a></span> +grandes villes—même de Saint Louis +ou de Montreal. Wagh! La Bonté,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_585" id="Page_585">[585]</a></span> well he one montaigne-man, wagh! He love de buffaloe, an de chevreaux plus que de bœuf and de mouton, @@ -9018,18 +8977,18 @@ out, and take his hair, so he mort."</p> <p>"But are you sure of this?" she asked, trembling with grief.</p> -<p>"Ah, now, j'ne suis pas sûr, mais -I tink you know dis La Bonté. Enfant +<p>"Ah, now, j'ne suis pas sûr, mais +I tink you know dis La Bonté. Enfant de garce, maybe you de gal in Missouri he lofe, and not lofe him. Pe gar! 'fant de garce! fort beau -garçon dis La Bonté, pourquoi you ne +garçon dis La Bonté, pourquoi you ne l'aimez pas? Maybe he not gone ondare. Maybe he turn op, autre-fois. De trappares, dey go ondare tree, four, ten times, mais dey turn op twenty time. De sauvage not able -for kill La Bonté, ni de dam Espagnols. +for kill La Bonté, ni de dam Espagnols. Ah, non! ne craignez pas; pe gar, he not gone ondare encore."</p> @@ -9047,7 +9006,7 @@ now bewailed.</p> <p>As the waggons of the lone caravan roll on towards the Platte, we return -to the camp where La Bonté, Killbuck, +to the camp where La Bonté, Killbuck, and the stranger, were sitting before the fire when last we saw them:—Killbuck loquitur.</p> @@ -9078,7 +9037,7 @@ there's one family amongst them with some smartish boys and girls, I tell you. Their name's Brand."</p> -<p>La Bonté looked up from the lock of +<p>La Bonté looked up from the lock of his rifle, which he was cleaning—but either didn't hear, or, hearing, didn't heed, for he continued his work.</p> @@ -9096,7 +9055,7 @@ are out thar."</p> "for there's a girl amongst them worth more than that."</p> -<p>"Poor beaver!" said La Bonté, +<p>"Poor beaver!" said La Bonté, looking up from his work. "I'd hate to see any white gal in the hands of Injuns, and of Rapahos worse than all. @@ -9105,12 +9064,12 @@ Where does she come from, stranger?"</p> <p>"Down below St Louis, from Tennessee, I've heard them say."</p> -<p>"Tennessee," cried La Bonté,—"hurrah +<p>"Tennessee," cried La Bonté,—"hurrah for the old State! What's her name, stran——" At this moment Killbuck's old mule pricked her ears and snuffed the air, which action -catching La Bonté's eye, he rose +catching La Bonté's eye, he rose abruptly, without waiting a reply to his question, and exclaimed, "The old mule smells Injuns, or I'm a Spaniard!"</p> @@ -9137,7 +9096,7 @@ hungry)—heap eat."</p> <p>Killbuck offered his pipe to the Indian, and spoke to him in his own -language, which both he and La Bonté +language, which both he and La Bonté well understood. They learned that he was married to a Mexican woman, and lived with some hunters at the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_586" id="Page_586">[586]</a></span> @@ -9194,7 +9153,7 @@ old Brand, and he has started alone for Laramie. I hope nothing will happen to them."</p> -<p>"Brand!" muttered La Bonté. "I +<p>"Brand!" muttered La Bonté. "I knowed that name mighty well once, years agone; and should hate the worst kind that mischief happened to @@ -9213,7 +9172,7 @@ them. What's your talk, stranger?"</p> <p>"I go with you," shortly answered the latter; and both followed quickly -after La Bonté, who was already +after La Bonté, who was already trotting smartly on the trail.</p> <p>Meanwhile the three waggons, containing @@ -9453,14 +9412,14 @@ rushed with a yell of vengeance upon his victim. He paused, however, as at that moment a shout as fierce as his own sounded at his very ear; and, -looking up, he saw La Bonté gallopping +looking up, he saw La Bonté gallopping madly down the bluff, his long hair and the fringes of his hunting-shirt and leggins flying in the wind, his right arm supporting his trusty rifle, whilst close behind him came Killbuck and the stranger. Dashing with loud -hurrahs to the scene of action, La Bonté, +hurrahs to the scene of action, La Bonté, as he charged down the bluff, caught sight of the girl struggling in the hands of the ferocious Indian. Loud was @@ -9476,7 +9435,7 @@ backward by the blow itself, at the same moment that the bullet passed through his heart, and tumbled him over stone-dead. Throwing down his -rifle, La Bonté wheeled his obedient +rifle, La Bonté wheeled his obedient horse, and, drawing a pistol from his belt, again charged the enemy, into the midst of whom Killbuck and the @@ -9491,14 +9450,14 @@ number dead upon the field.</p> <p>Mary, shutting her eyes to the expected death-stroke, heard the loud -shout La Bonté gave in charging +shout La Bonté gave in charging down the bluff, and, again looking up, saw the wild-looking mountaineer rush to her rescue, and save her from the savage by his timely blow. Her arms were still pinned by the lasso, which prevented her from rising -to her feet; and La Bonté was the +to her feet; and La Bonté was the first to run to aid her, as soon as the fight was fairly over. He jumped from his horse, cut the skin rope @@ -9509,13 +9468,13 @@ his never-to-be-forgotten Mary Brand; whilst she, hardly believing her senses, recognised in her deliverer her former lover, and still well-beloved -La Bonté.</p> +La Bonté.</p> <p>"What, Mary! can it be you?" he asked, looking intently upon the trembling woman.</p> -<p>"La Bonté, you don't forget me!" +<p>"La Bonté, you don't forget me!" she answered, and threw herself sobbing into the arms of the sturdy mountaineer.</p> @@ -9536,7 +9495,7 @@ him. His sons had not escaped scot-free, and Antoine was shot through the neck, and, falling, had actually been half scalped by an Indian, whom -the timely arrival of La Bonté had +the timely arrival of La Bonté had caused to leave his work unfinished.</p> <p>Silently, and with sad hearts, the @@ -9556,13 +9515,13 @@ met with a merited retribution.</p> their course to the Platte. Antoine and the stranger returned to the Arkansa, starting in the night to avoid the Indians; -but Killbuck and La Bonté lent +but Killbuck and La Bonté lent the aid of their rifles to the solitary caravan, and, under their experienced guidance, no more Indian perils were encountered. Mary no longer sat perched up in her father's Conostoga, -but rode a quiet mustang by La Bonté's +but rode a quiet mustang by La Bonté's side; and no doubt they found a theme with which to while away the monotonous journey over the dreary plains. @@ -9585,7 +9544,7 @@ waters—some coursing their way to the eastward, fertilising, in their route to the Atlantic, the lands of civilised man; others westward, forcing a -passage through rocky cañons, and +passage through rocky cañons, and flowing through a barren wilderness, inhabited by fierce and barbarous tribes.</p> @@ -9601,7 +9560,7 @@ women, and children, waved their hats and bonnets in the air, and cried out lustily, "Hurrah for home!"</p> -<p>La Bonté looked at the dark sombre +<p>La Bonté looked at the dark sombre mountains ere he turned his back upon them for the last time. He thought of the many years he had spent beneath @@ -9646,7 +9605,7 @@ the forks, however, he finally bade them adieu; and, turning the head of his old grizzled mule westward, he heartily wrung the hand of his comrade -La Bonté; and, crying Yep! to his +La Bonté; and, crying Yep! to his well-tried animal, disappeared behind a roll of the prairie, and was seen no more—a thousand good wishes for the @@ -9654,7 +9613,7 @@ welfare of the sturdy trapper speeding him on his solitary way.</p> <p>Four months from the day when La -Bonté so opportunely appeared to +Bonté so opportunely appeared to rescue Brand's family from the Indians on Black Horse Creek, that worthy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_590" id="Page_590">[590]</a></span> and the faithful Mary were duly and @@ -9667,7 +9626,7 @@ ninety-nine thousand novels, that surrounded and cheered them in their declining years," &c. &c.; because it was only on the 24th of July, in the -year of our Lord 1847, that La Bonté +year of our Lord 1847, that La Bonté and Mary Brand were finally made one, after fifteen long years of separation.</p> @@ -9682,7 +9641,7 @@ longer to describe.</p> mountaineers, flying from overpowering numbers of hostile Sioux, found themselves, one stormy evening, in a -wild and dismal cañon near the elevated +wild and dismal cañon near the elevated mountain valley called the "New Park."</p> @@ -9708,7 +9667,7 @@ to the difficulty, and threatened them every instant with destruction.</p> <p>Towards sundown they reached a -point where the cañon opened out +point where the cañon opened out into a little shelving glade or prairie, a few hundred yards in extent, the entrance to which was almost hidden @@ -9748,7 +9707,7 @@ callous, insensible, and worn-out frame.</p> was Marcellin, and a single look at the miserable beast was sufficient for him to recognise the once renowned -Nez-percé steed of old Bill Williams. +Nez-percé steed of old Bill Williams. That the owner himself was not far distant he felt certain; and, searching carefully around, the hunters presently @@ -9802,7 +9761,7 @@ corpse.</p> <p>The readers of <cite>Blackwood's Magazine</cite>, who for six succeeding months have -followed La Bonté and his mountain companions through the hardships, +followed La Bonté and his mountain companions through the hardships, humours, and perils of "Life in the Far West," will surely not learn with indifference, that the gallant young author of those spirited sketches has prematurely departed to his long home, from that Transatlantic land whose prairies @@ -9960,10 +9919,10 @@ summer:—</p> mountaineers—but not at the sacrifice of truth—for some of them have their good points; which, as they are rarely allowed to rise to the surface, must be laid hold of at once, before they sink again. Killbuck—that 'old hos' <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">par -exemple</i>, was really pretty much of a gentleman, as was La Bonté. Bill +exemple</i>, was really pretty much of a gentleman, as was La Bonté. Bill Williams, another 'hard case,' and Rube Herring, were 'some' too.</p> -<p>"The scene where La Bonté joins the Chase family is so far true that he +<p>"The scene where La Bonté joins the Chase family is so far true that he did make a sudden appearance; but, in reality, a day before the Indian attack. The Chases (and I wish I had not given the proper name<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a>) did start for the Platte alone, and were stampedoed upon the waters of the Platte.</p> @@ -9982,7 +9941,7 @@ bowie-knives—some score Mexicans, at least, being in the room.</p> <p>"With regard to the incidents of Indian attacks, starvation, cannibalism, &c., I have invented not one out of my own head. They are all matters of -history in the mountains; but I have, no doubt, jumbled the <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">dramatis personæ</i> +history in the mountains; but I have, no doubt, jumbled the <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">dramatis personæ</i> one with another, and may have committed anachronisms in the order of their occurrence."</p></blockquote> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_594" id="Page_594">[594]</a></span></p> @@ -10006,12 +9965,12 @@ journey whose excitement and dangers he so joyously anticipated:—</p> <p>"As you say, human natur can't go on feeding on civilised fixings in this 'big village;' and this child has felt like going West for many a month, -being half froze for buffler meat and mountain doins. My route takes me viâ +being half froze for buffler meat and mountain doins. My route takes me viâ New York, the Lakes, and St Louis, to Fort Leavenworth, or Independence on the Indian frontier. Thence packing my 'possibles' on a mule, and -mounting a buffalo horse, (Panchito, if he is alive,) I strike the Santa Fé trail +mounting a buffalo horse, (Panchito, if he is alive,) I strike the Santa Fé trail to the Arkansa, away up that river to the mountains, winter in the Bayou -Salade, where Killbuck and La Bonté joined the Yutes, cross the mountains +Salade, where Killbuck and La Bonté joined the Yutes, cross the mountains next spring to Great Salt Lake—and that's far enough to look forward to—always supposing my hair is not lifted by Comanche or Pawnee on the scalping route of the Coon Creeks and Pawnee Fork.</p> @@ -10220,7 +10179,7 @@ notes of his own.</p> the well-known Parisian <cite>Revue des deux Mondes</cite>, articles on the English and French naval systems, by a -French officer, Captain de la Gravière. +French officer, Captain de la Gravière. The object of those papers was less to give a history of the naval war, than to ascertain the causes of @@ -10231,7 +10190,7 @@ which ultimately extinguished the fleet of a nation so brave, ambitious, and enterprising as the French.</p> -<p>M. de la Gravière, to his credit, +<p>M. de la Gravière, to his credit, had not followed the usual "perfide Albion" style of the French journalists, nor exhibited that jesuitical evasion @@ -10789,14 +10748,14 @@ panegyrist, after all. Can it be conceived that any other human being, at the end of nearly half a century, would quote, with the slightest degree -of approval, the report of Decrès, the +of approval, the report of Decrès, the French minister of the marine to Napoleon, in 1805, after all Nelson's victories, and just preceding the most illustrious of them all—Trafalgar?</p> <p>"The boasting of Nelson," writes -Decrès, "equals his silliness, (<i>ineptie</i>)—I +Decrès, "equals his silliness, (<i>ineptie</i>)—I use the proper word. But he has one eminent quality—namely, that of aiming among his captains @@ -10807,7 +10766,7 @@ difficult circumstances, if he commands nominally, <i>others direct really</i>."</p> <p>We have no doubt that, after -scribbling this supreme <i>ineptie</i>, Decrès +scribbling this supreme <i>ineptie</i>, Decrès considered himself to have settled the whole question, and to have convicted Nelson of being simply a bold blockhead—Nelson, @@ -10815,14 +10774,14 @@ the man of the hundred fights—the prince of tacticians—the admiral who had never been beaten, and from whom, at the battle of -Aboukir, Decrès himself was rejoiced +Aboukir, Decrès himself was rejoiced to make his escape, after having seen the ruin of the French fleet.</p> <p>We find a good deal of the same sort of petulant perversion, in the narrative of Nelson's conduct at -Naples. M. Gravière suddenly becomes +Naples. M. Gravière suddenly becomes moral, and tells us the ten-times-told story of Lady Hamilton. But what is all this to the naval war? @@ -11014,7 +10973,7 @@ to man.</p> <p>We have no doubt whatever of the truth of this solution, and are consequently convinced, that it would have -been much wiser in M. Gravière to +been much wiser in M. Gravière to have attempted to describe the career of Wellington, than to pronounce on the principles of his science; and, @@ -11098,7 +11057,7 @@ whether their enemy were swift or slow.</p> <p>We are afraid that we have been -premature in giving M. de la Gravière +premature in giving M. de la Gravière credit for getting rid of his prejudices. But we shall set him a better example. We shall not deny that the French @@ -11141,7 +11100,7 @@ unless they attracted Parisian notice by their battles, they must pay the penalty with their heads. Thus nearly all the principal generals of the early -Republic were guillotined. The <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">levée-en-masse</i> +Republic were guillotined. The <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">levée-en-masse</i> gave them immense multitudes, who <em>must</em> fight, or starve. The Republic had <em>fourteen</em> armies at once @@ -11150,7 +11109,7 @@ from Paris were in the camps; and the general who declined to fight on all occasions, was stripped of his epaulets, and sent to the "Place -de Grève."</p> +de Grève."</p> <p>But enterprise, in the style which distinguishes a master of strategy, is @@ -11195,7 +11154,7 @@ He first dashed at Laborde, commanding a division of 6000 men, as the advanced guard of the main army; drove him from the mountain position -of Roliça; marched instantly to meet +of Roliça; marched instantly to meet Junot, whom he defeated at Vimeira; and, on the 15th of September, the British troops were in possession of @@ -11307,7 +11266,7 @@ fought at Busaco, (September 27.)</p> <p>Massena, proverbially the most dashing of the French generals—the -"Enfant gâté de la Victoire," as Napoleon +"Enfant gâté de la Victoire," as Napoleon styled him—could not believe that any officer would be so daring as to stop him on his road. On being @@ -11495,7 +11454,7 @@ he despatched his second in command, General Hill, an officer who never failed, and whose name is still held in merited honour by the British -army. The <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tête-du-pont</i>, a strong +army. The <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">tête-du-pont</i>, a strong fortification, was taken by escalade. The garrison were made prisoners; the forts were destroyed, (May 19.) @@ -11704,7 +11663,7 @@ daring, sagacious, and brilliant order, was the especial, peculiar, and unequalled character of Wellington.</p> -<p>The volumes of M. Gravière are +<p>The volumes of M. Gravière are interesting; but he must unlearn his prejudices; or, if that be nationally impossible, he must palliate them into @@ -11778,7 +11737,7 @@ of their country.</p> <span class="i2">As the weary day went down.<br /></span> <span class="i0">And I lay and sorely pondered<br /></span> <span class="i2">On the days long since gone by,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When my old primæval forests<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When my old primæval forests<br /></span> <span class="i2">Echoed to the war-man's cry;<br /></span> <span class="i0">When the race of Thor and Odin<br /></span> <span class="i2">Held their battles by my side,<br /></span> @@ -11944,14 +11903,14 @@ but half the day, for the Hillsboroughs still retained one nominee. The young candidate became a member of parliament, but this step cost -£60,000.</p> +£60,000.</p> <p>The sacrifice was enormous, and perhaps, in our day, might startle the proudest rent-roll in England: but, seventy years ago, and in Ireland, the real expenditure was probably equivalent -to £100,000 in our day. And +to £100,000 in our day. And it must have been still more distressing to the family, from the circumstance, that the sum had been accumulated @@ -12654,7 +12613,7 @@ put on duty, the loyalists were formed into corps, armed, and disciplined.</p> <p>Lord Edward Fitzgerald had escaped, -and a reward of £1000 was put +and a reward of £1000 was put upon his head. On the 19th of May, only four days before the outbreak, he was arrested in an obscure lodging in @@ -13322,7 +13281,7 @@ had accompanied him to the Congress. "I allude to his first mission to the Continent, at the close of 1813. I travelled with him from the Hague to -Bâle, where he first came in contact +Bâle, where he first came in contact with any of the ministers of the Allied powers; and thence we proceeded to Langres, where the headquarters of @@ -13556,7 +13515,7 @@ be protective against the mingled crime and folly of self-murder.</p> <p>We have now given a general -glance at the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">matériel</i> of those volumes. +glance at the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">matériel</i> of those volumes. They contain a great variety of public documents, valuable to the future historian, though too <em>official</em> @@ -13941,11 +13900,11 @@ dexterous fingers Isabella is a mere puppet—Narvaez, O'Donnell, and the rest of the corrupt cabal from the Rue de Courcelles. These have possession -of the machinery and <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">matériel</i> of the +of the machinery and <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">matériel</i> of the state. They hold the purse, which places at their devotion two armies, one of soldiers, the other of policemen, -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">employés</i>, spies, and venal emissaries +<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">employés</i>, spies, and venal emissaries of all kinds. To use a simile appropriate to the times, they have got upon the engine and tender, coals and @@ -15616,7 +15575,7 @@ in print.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> <cite>Sketches of the Last Naval War</cite>; from the French of Captain <span class="smcap">Gravière</span>. By the +<p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> <cite>Sketches of the Last Naval War</cite>; from the French of Captain <span class="smcap">Gravière</span>. By the Hon. Captain <span class="smcap">Plunket</span>. 2 vols. Longman.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -15639,385 +15598,6 @@ retained.</p> extra space before it.</p> </div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume -64, No. 397, November 1848, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, NOV 1848 *** - -***** This file should be named 43225-h.htm or 43225-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/2/2/43225/ - -Produced by Brendan OConnor, JoAnn Greenwood, Jonathan -Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Library of Early -Journals.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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