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diff --git a/59553-8.txt b/59553-0.txt index e167d2f..25d988f 100644 --- a/59553-8.txt +++ b/59553-0.txt @@ -1,32 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., -1834-35, by Various +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 59553 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. 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. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. -Title: The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., 1834-35 -Author: Various - -Editor: James E. Heath - Edward Vernon Sparhawk - -Release Date: May 19, 2019 [EBook #59553] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, 1834-35 *** - - - - -Produced by Ron Swanson @@ -37,7 +12,7 @@ THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER: DEVOTED TO EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. -Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au gré des vents. +Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au gré des vents. _Crebillon's Electre_. As _we_ will, and not as the winds will. @@ -773,7 +748,7 @@ intellectual improvement, and to imbibe that love of immortality, which will carry him triumphantly through his career. He will bear in mind meanwhile, that - "Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire," + "Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire," and deeply impressed with this important truth, will display the energy necessary to overcome all difficulties. I will not say that it @@ -881,7 +856,7 @@ imbody faithfully in language his sensations at the moment he experiences them, could he fail to excite our sympathy? No--no--a man who has ready {9} expressions to convey his thoughts and feelings will always be eloquent. I need not mention Demosthenes and Cicero, -Æschines and Hortensius, Isocrates, Lysias, Pericles, and a crowd of +Æschines and Hortensius, Isocrates, Lysias, Pericles, and a crowd of sophists who displayed, in former ages, great skill in the art of speaking. Their writings have been the mental food for those who studied antiquity. In modern times, lord Chatham, Fox, Pitt, Burke, @@ -898,7 +873,7 @@ merit as men of genius and extempore speakers; I merely quote them as models. I must not omit mentioning three orators now wandering in exile, after having displayed in their native land all the magic of eloquence, in order to restore liberty to their enslaved country. -Though the efforts of Galiano, Argüelles and Martinez de la Rosa were +Though the efforts of Galiano, Argüelles and Martinez de la Rosa were not crowned with success, they will ever be the pride of Spain. These gifted patriots, struggling against adversity and preserving their noble independence, deserve the admiration of mankind.[2] @@ -913,7 +888,7 @@ by this unabated enthusiastic spirit resolved to meet and triumph over difficulties. This disposition of mind, however, must exist--for in mental contention as in war, - "A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire." + "A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire." And every one that has witnessed the wonders of this art, will grant that if there be a talent by which the powers of man are exhibited in @@ -926,7 +901,7 @@ J. H. to meet in a spacious hall, where he was to extemporize a tragedy. Every spectator was allowed to vote for the subject of the play, and the majority decided in favor of _the Death of Charles I_. A few -moments afterwards, Sgricci explained the _dramatis personæ_, and +moments afterwards, Sgricci explained the _dramatis personæ_, and began to deliver extempore a tragedy of about _fifteen hundred verses!_ That production was printed, and many passages are full of poetical talent. Francisco Gianni extemporized, during one year, every @@ -941,41 +916,41 @@ SALUTO DE LA SERA. _Dant. Parad._ cant. 1. - Or non più de' pianti miei Che parean cangiate in rose. - Violette inumidite, Ma nel punto che più fiso + Or non più de' pianti miei Che parean cangiate in rose. + Violette inumidite, Ma nel punto che più fiso Non andrete impietesite. In te gli occhi disbramava, - A infiorar quel niveo petto, Cui tra il velo già diviso - Che diè funebre ricetto Agitato in sen balsava; - Al più amabil degli Dei: Ecce uscir con la facella - Chè li dove tomba avea, Da quel sen tra fiore e fiore, + A infiorar quel niveo petto, Cui tra il velo già diviso + Che diè funebre ricetto Agitato in sen balsava; + Al più amabil degli Dei: Ecce uscir con la facella + Chè li dove tomba avea, Da quel sen tra fiore e fiore, Sorger vidilo in subito Ecco uscir volando amore; E sorgendo sorridea E col vento de le penne D'un tal riso, ch'io non dubito, Irritare cosi quella, - Per deludermi l'accorto, Che più fervida divenne - Abbia únto d' esser morto. E una sua scintilla ardente - E tu, bell' amica, in vano, Nel mio cor passò repente: + Per deludermi l'accorto, Che più fervida divenne + Abbia únto d' esser morto. E una sua scintilla ardente + E tu, bell' amica, in vano, Nel mio cor passò repente: Tenti in van col tuo rigore Come fosca nube tetra, - Di celarmi un tanto arcano; Quando in Ciel risorgì il sole, - Che mal puù celarsi amore. Se d' un raggio la penetra, + Di celarmi un tanto arcano; Quando in Ciel risorgì il sole, + Che mal puù celarsi amore. Se d' un raggio la penetra, Beu del suo risorgimento, Arder tutta e splender suole. Beu m' avvidi nel momento Tale in esso quella immensa Che di lagrime e di fiori Ed antica flamma intensa Io gli offriva il don funebre; Che sembrava spenta affatto Porche allor le tue palpebre Rallumavasi ad un tratto; - Un soave e chiare lume E più viva traboccarsi + Un soave e chiare lume E più viva traboccarsi Abbelliva di splendori; Dal mio cor con dolce pena, E le guancie a poco a poco E veloce diramarsi Rosseggiaro oltra il costume La sentii di vena in vena, D' una porpora di fuoco; E di vena in vena errando, - Et il tornito sen venusto, Risalir più accesa al core, - Che balzando allor più gia Che tremando, va mancando + Et il tornito sen venusto, Risalir più accesa al core, + Che balzando allor più gia Che tremando, va mancando Lo spiraglio meno angusto Di dolcezza a tanto ardore. - Fea del vel che lo copria: Onde più de' pianti miei + Fea del vel che lo copria: Onde più de' pianti miei Sin le caste violette Violette inumidite, Che locate su quel seno, Non andrete impietesite - Già languenti venian meno, A infiorar quel niveo petto, - In sembianze lascivette Che diè funebre ricetto - Arrossian si grazione, Al più amabil degli Dei.] + Già languenti venian meno, A infiorar quel niveo petto, + In sembianze lascivette Che diè funebre ricetto + Arrossian si grazione, Al più amabil degli Dei.] [Footnote 2: Since this was written, the late political events of Spain have placed Martinez de la Rosa at the head of the ministry of @@ -1119,25 +1094,25 @@ high dotibus eximiis, moribus birth by noble endowments and pure antiquis illustravit. Collegium morals. He sustained the College of - Gulielmi et Mariæ temporibus William and Mary in the most + Gulielmi et Mariæ temporibus William and Mary in the most trying difficilimis propugnavit. times. Gubernator, He was Governor, - Senatus Rogator et Quæstor, sub Speaker of the House and + Senatus Rogator et Quæstor, sub Speaker of the House and Treasurer, serenissimis Principibus under the most serene Princes Gulielmo, Anna, Georgio 1 mo. et William, Anne, George the 1st and 2 do. 2d. A publicis consiliis concilii Elected Speaker by the Public - per sexennium præses, plus annum Assembly for six years, and - Coloniæ Præfectus cum regiam Governor for more than a year, he + per sexennium præses, plus annum Assembly for six years, and + Coloniæ Præfectus cum regiam Governor for more than a year, he dignitatem tam publicum equally upheld the regal dignity - libertatem æquali jure asseruit. and public freedom. + libertatem æquali jure asseruit. and public freedom. Opibus amplissimis bene partis Possessed of ample wealth, - instructus, ædem hanc sacram In honorably acquired, he built and + instructus, ædem hanc sacram In honorably acquired, he built and Deum pietatis grande monumentum, endowed at his own expense this propriis sumptibus extruxit. sacred edifice, a lasting monument of his piety to God. @@ -1158,19 +1133,19 @@ daughter quibus prolem numerosam suscepit. On whose education he expended a - In qua erudienda pecuniæ vim considerable portion of his + In qua erudienda pecuniæ vim considerable portion of his maximam insumpsit property. Tandem honorum et dierum satur At length, full of honors and - cum omnia vitæ munera egregiæ years, having discharged all the - præstitisset obiit Pri. Non. duties of an exemplary life, he + cum omnia vitæ munera egregiæ years, having discharged all the + præstitisset obiit Pri. Non. duties of an exemplary life, he Aug. An. Dom. 1732 Aet. 69. departed from this world on the 4th day of August, 1732, in the 69th year of his age. - Miseri solamen, viduæ The wretched, the widowed and the - præsidium, orbi patrem, ademptum orphans, bereaved of their + Miseri solamen, viduæ The wretched, the widowed and the + præsidium, orbi patrem, ademptum orphans, bereaved of their comfort, lugent. protector and father, alike lament his loss. @@ -1516,7 +1491,7 @@ objects is to give what we conceive to be a correct version of these admired lines; for in almost all the copies we have seen, we have been struck with several gross errors, alike injurious to their sense and harmony. Not the least remarkable of these errors has been the uniform -substitution of _Tempè_ for some other word,--thereby imputing to the +substitution of _Tempè_ for some other word,--thereby imputing to the author the geographical blunder of converting the delightful and classic valley of Greece, into a desert shore or strand. We have no doubt that _Tampa_ is the word originally written by the author, there @@ -2254,19 +2229,19 @@ Solitaire, a Romance written, I believe, by a certain vicomte d'Arlincourt. Le Solitaire rules the imagination, the taste, the dress of half Paris: if you go to the theatre, it is to see the 'Solitaire,' either as tragedy, opera, or melodrame: the men dress their hair and -throw their cloaks about them _à la Solitaire_; bonnets and caps, -flounces and ribbons are all _à la Solitaire_; the print shops are +throw their cloaks about them _à la Solitaire_; bonnets and caps, +flounces and ribbons are all _à la Solitaire_; the print shops are full of scenes from Le Solitaire; it is on every toilette, on every work table;--ladies carry it about in their reticules to show each -other that they are à la mode; and the men--what can they do but -humble their understandings and be _extasiés_, when beautiful eyes +other that they are à la mode; and the men--what can they do but +humble their understandings and be _extasiés_, when beautiful eyes sparkle in its defence, and glisten in its praise, and ruby lips -pronounce it divine, delicious, 'quelle sublimité dans les -descriptions, quelle force dans les caractères! quelle âme! quel feu! -quelle chaleur! quelle verve! quelle originalité! quelle passion!' &c. +pronounce it divine, delicious, 'quelle sublimité dans les +descriptions, quelle force dans les caractères! quelle âme! quel feu! +quelle chaleur! quelle verve! quelle originalité! quelle passion!' &c. "'Vous n'avez pas lu le Solitaire?' said Madame M. yesterday; 'eh mon -dieu! est-il donc possible! vous? mais, ma chère, vous êtes perdue de +dieu! est-il donc possible! vous? mais, ma chère, vous êtes perdue de reputation, et pour jamais!' "To retrieve my lost reputation, I sat down to read Le Solitaire, and @@ -2289,7 +2264,7 @@ Again, "This is the place to live in for the merry poor man, or the melancholy rich one; for those who have too much money, and those who have too little; for those who only wish like the Irishman, 'to live -all the days of their life,'--_prendre en légère monnoie la somme des +all the days of their life,'--_prendre en légère monnoie la somme des plaisirs_--but to the thinking, the feeling, the domestic man, who only exists, enjoys, suffers through his affections-- @@ -2395,7 +2370,7 @@ seated opposite to the Venus, which appears to be the exclusive object of his adoration; and gazing, as if he hoped, like another Pygmalion, to animate the statue: or rather, perhaps, that the statue might animate _him_. A young Englishman of fashion, with as much talent as -espiéglerie, placed an epistle in verse between the fingers of the +espiéglerie, placed an epistle in verse between the fingers of the statue, addressed to Rogers; in which the Goddess entreats him not to come there _ogling_ her every day;--for though 'partial friends might deem him still alive,' she knew by his looks he had come from the @@ -2503,12 +2478,12 @@ fancy-- 'And trailing clouds of glory did they come.' On the Palatine Hill were the houses of Cicero and the Gracchi: -Horace, Virgil, and Ovid resided on the Aventine; and Mecænas and -Pliny on the Æsquiline. If one little fragment of a wall remained, +Horace, Virgil, and Ovid resided on the Aventine; and Mecænas and +Pliny on the Æsquiline. If one little fragment of a wall remained, which could with any shadow of probability be pointed out as belonging to the residence of Cicero, Horace, or Virgil, how much dearer, how much more sanctified to memory would it be than all the magnificent -ruins of the fabrics of the Cæsars! But no--all has passed away. I +ruins of the fabrics of the Cæsars! But no--all has passed away. I have heard the remains of Rome coarsely ridiculed, because after the researches of centuries, so little is comparatively known, because of the endless disputes of antiquarians, and the night and ignorance in @@ -4666,7 +4641,7 @@ best judge. I can only tell you that the _florid and Asiatic style_ is not the taste of the age. The _strong_, and even the _rugged and abrupt_, are far more successful. Bold propositions, boldly and briefly expressed--pithy sentences--nervous common sense--strong -phrases--the _felicitè audax_ both in language and conception--well +phrases--the _felicitè audax_ both in language and conception--well compacted periods--sudden and strong masses of light--an apt adage in English or Latin--a keen sarcasm--a merciless personality--a mortal thrust--these are the beauties and deformities that now make a speaker @@ -4872,7 +4847,7 @@ sixteen--this youthful prodigy--had already amassed a richer intellectual treasure, than often falls to the lot of men of superior minds, even at the age of maturity. The great masters of Roman and classical antiquity she had read in their original tongue--the -Georgics and Æneid of Virgil--the Commentaries of Cæsar--Selections +Georgics and Æneid of Virgil--the Commentaries of Cæsar--Selections from Horace--and the matchless orations of Tully, were as familiar to her, as household words. She was also conversant with the French, and thoroughly grounded in her own vernacular. Besides the usual elements @@ -8657,7 +8632,7 @@ cultivable soil, which are scattered through it, offering rest, and a supply of food and water to the caravans while on their march. By these means, the Greek cities acquired great wealth, and became the seats of luxury, refinement and science; and stupendous ruins, the -haunt of the jackal and hyæna, still remain to attest the former +haunt of the jackal and hyæna, still remain to attest the former splendor of Cyrene and Apollonia. The more adventurous Phoenicians made their settlements farther @@ -8781,7 +8756,7 @@ not dare infringe. Her navy being destroyed, Spain and her other conquests soon fell into the hands of the Romans, and at length the decree went forth "Carthago delenda est." The fate of this renowned city is well known. Within a century from the day on which Hannibal -sent home the spoils taken at Cannæ, the banished Roman Marius sought +sent home the spoils taken at Cannæ, the banished Roman Marius sought refuge among the desolate ruins of Carthage. The other Phoenician as well as the Greek colonies, submitted to the @@ -8810,7 +8785,7 @@ throne. They embraced christianity with the rest of the empire under Constantine, and churches innumerable marked the fervor of their devotion. Their religious zeal was farther shown in the bloody controversy between the orthodox and the Donatists, which desolated -the country during the fifth and sixth centuries of our æra, and +the country during the fifth and sixth centuries of our æra, and nearly extinguished the light of civilization. The invasion of the Vandals soon after inflicted another blow upon its prosperity; these barbarians were however soon reduced to submission by Belisarius, and @@ -8859,7 +8834,7 @@ several other ancient relics, give reason to suppose that it may have been a splendid city; and it is mentioned as such by Pliny, Strabo, and some other writers of the latter days of the Roman empire. We however learn nothing from them respecting its history; and in the -year 647 of the Christian æra, when {69} the Saracens invaded Africa, +year 647 of the Christian æra, when {69} the Saracens invaded Africa, Leptis and Sabrata had sunk into comparative insignificance, while Oea had appropriated to itself the name of the whole district, and was a large, wealthy and strong city. The seat of government of the Roman, @@ -10637,7 +10612,7 @@ misfortune. It was not, however, a night in which "creation sleeps,"--or, to use the pompous phrase of Racine, in which "tout dort, et les vents et Neptune,"--for the wind was tempestuously high, and the waves evinced all their usual restlessness at being roughly -visited by the subjects of old Æolus. As we whirled along, nothing +visited by the subjects of old Æolus. As we whirled along, nothing like an animated being was to be seen; not even a mouse was stirring; and the rush and whistling of the wind through the street, seemed to bring out the solemn stillness which otherwise prevailed, into the @@ -12000,7 +11975,7 @@ large upon such as he thinks cast discredit upon Mr. Pinkney. It is scarcely necessary to observe that Demosthenes was ungraceful in figure and action; and that not only _orators_, but very wise and learned men, have been repulsive in their persons, their features, and -their manners also. Though Cæsar and Cicero were exempt from defect in +their manners also. Though Cæsar and Cicero were exempt from defect in this respect, as far as I remember Demosthenes stuttered--Socrates was bald and flatnosed--Anthony a rough soldier--Lord Chatham's eloquence was forcible, but uniform and ungraceful--Fox was a fop of Bond @@ -12104,7 +12079,7 @@ In this metropolis a real, downright exquisite is rarely to be seen. Curiosity may be gratified by a good description of the animal as exhibited in other places. The following communication is from one residing in a city much more fashionable than ours. Its author seems -well informed in the science of æsthetics; and it is to be hoped that +well informed in the science of æsthetics; and it is to be hoped that he will exert himself to correct mistaken impressions as to the beautiful. Further notices by him may be beneficial. @@ -14105,7 +14080,7 @@ the morning. Still, so great was his reputation as a lawyer, and so powerful were the displays he made when he appeared at the bar, that men continued to employ him, although they were put to the inconvenience and expense of associating other counsel with him, who -would attend to the minutiæ and drudgery of their cases. About this +would attend to the minutiæ and drudgery of their cases. About this time, his brother (whom I did not know,) a careless, extravagant man, with a large family, became entirely insolvent, and the farm on which he lived was exposed to sale. Heywood became the purchaser, for the @@ -15275,7 +15250,7 @@ opinion as to the propriety of his being bound, whenever he wanted to move he carefully raised both fore feet together, so as not to interfere with my task, and made a gentle spring to a knot of fresh feed. Surely, thought I, I have got a steed sagacious enough to figure -in one of Æsop's Fables. +in one of Æsop's Fables. Our traveller had not proceeded far on his journey, before his vexatious mustang refused to eat, and gave signs of great weariness @@ -18256,7 +18231,7 @@ I gladly avail myself of an established custom, to offer some remarks on the mutual relation into which we have just entered, and the studies which will occupy our attention during the ensuing course. -This day is to you the commencement of the most important æra of life. +This day is to you the commencement of the most important æra of life. You have heretofore been engaged in studies, for the most part useful, but sometimes merely ornamental or amusing. The mind, it is true, can hardly fail to improve, by the exertion necessary to the acquisition @@ -19086,7 +19061,7 @@ virtues of his bloody Juggernaut. But the illusion has at last been dispelled by the refulgent light of truth, and those illustrious individuals, the Luthers of the age, who have stripped these hoary errors of the veil which concealed their enormity, may with merited -exultation and triumph exclaim, "_Nous avons changé toute cela!_" The +exultation and triumph exclaim, "_Nous avons changé toute cela!_" The art of economising time has been simplified, and subjected to the grasp of the most obtuse intellect; so that a science which formerly required years of intense and unremitted study, united with long @@ -19126,7 +19101,7 @@ erudition and wonderful acquirements displayed in those ponderous tomes which now and then greet the eyes of the bibliopole, exciting the same degree of astonishment as the appearance of a comet illumining the immensity of space with its brilliant scintillations, -or some _lusus naturæ_ like the Siamese twins. Far from it. Modern +or some _lusus naturæ_ like the Siamese twins. Far from it. Modern philosophers have discovered the inutility and absurdity of wading through the voluminous discussions of controversial theologists, and tracing the origin of some religious dogma or doctrinal schism, which @@ -19339,7 +19314,7 @@ THE VILLAGE ON FOURTH JULY 183--. A TALE. - Ergo agite, et lætum cuncti celebremus honorem.--_Virgil_. + Ergo agite, et lætum cuncti celebremus honorem.--_Virgil_. Risum teneatis amici?--_Horace_. @@ -19428,7 +19403,7 @@ was suggested by, an honest son and follower of St. Crispin, (who had lived in a city and had acquired some knowledge of _l'art militaire_,) whose ambition to command a corps had led him to the most indefatigable exertion to inspire the villagers with the spirit of -_amor patriæ_, and success having crowned his exertion, application +_amor patriæ_, and success having crowned his exertion, application had been made for commissions as well as for arms, in order to organize themselves in time for a parade on the approaching festival. In this however they were disappointed; for they had obtained neither @@ -19748,10 +19723,10 @@ pride and refinement, while _that_ is perfectly in character with nature,--true, simple and unsophisticated. I will conclude with a quotation from Boileau. - "La simplicité plaît sans étude et sans art. - Tout charme en un enfant dont la langue sans faìd, - A peine du filet encor débarrassée, - Sait d'un air innocent bégayer sa pensée. + "La simplicité plaît sans étude et sans art. + Tout charme en un enfant dont la langue sans faìd, + A peine du filet encor débarrassée, + Sait d'un air innocent bégayer sa pensée. Le faux est toujours fade, ennuyeux, languissant: Mais la nature est vraie, et d'abord on la sent; C'est elle seule en tout qu'on admire et qu'on aime." @@ -20733,7 +20708,7 @@ advancing tide of wealth, indolence, and luxury--I cannot forbear an exulting comparison of these my countrymen, with the pure and hardy spirits that graced the best days of republican Rome: - Regulum, et Scauros, animæque magnæ + Regulum, et Scauros, animæque magnæ Prodigum Paulum superante Poeno, * * * * * @@ -20741,7 +20716,7 @@ spirits that graced the best days of republican Rome: Fabriciumque, Hunc, et incomptis Curium capillis Utilem bello, tulit, et Camillum, - Sæva paupertas, et avitus apto + Sæva paupertas, et avitus apto Cum lare fundus. [Footnote 1: On Evidence, and Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.] @@ -22068,7 +22043,7 @@ AUTUMN WOODS. Say, where's that gush of melody Thy sylvan minstrels pour'd for thee In thy summer bowers? - Or where's the Æolian song thou wouldst wake + Or where's the Æolian song thou wouldst wake When some sporting zephyr's breath would shake Thy rustling leaves? Thy robe--thy song have past away, @@ -22315,7 +22290,7 @@ your honor, how do ye do? I'm so glad to see you." Extricating myself with some degree of embarrassment, because of the crowd around me, I perceived that the salutation proceeded from one of our old servants, who stood gazing upon me with the moat benevolent smile. His -appearance was quite outré to one who had lived so long at the north. +appearance was quite outré to one who had lived so long at the north. His old and faded livery, was blue turned up with yellow; he held in his hand a horseman's cap, without the bearskin; his boots had once been white-topped, but could no longer claim that distinctive epithet; @@ -24487,8 +24462,8 @@ still further into the secret by giving me a translation of them. "'Adhmhur mar dhia neo bhasmhor 'ta "'N t'oglach gu caidreach a shuis re d' sqa: - "Sa chluin, sa chìth re faad na hùin - "Do bhriara droigheal, 's do fhrea gradh cùin." + "Sa chluin, sa chìth re faad na hùin + "Do bhriara droigheal, 's do fhrea gradh cùin." I was also allowed to transcribe from the same source, two other pieces which I send you herewith, under an impression that they are @@ -25718,7 +25693,7 @@ on the 6th instant. _January, 1835_. -[Footnote 1: Solve senescentem maturè sanus equum, ne +[Footnote 1: Solve senescentem maturè sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus, et ilia ducat. _Hor. Epist. Lib. i. 1._] @@ -26273,7 +26248,7 @@ STUDY OF THE LATIN AND GREEK CLASSICS. Of all the "death-bed sayings" on record, none please me more than that of Beausobre to his son: Go, said he, - "Argentum et marmor vetus, æraque et artis + "Argentum et marmor vetus, æraque et artis Suspice. Suspice, et forma non fragilis Movebit in pectore delectationis multum. @@ -26417,7 +26392,7 @@ free from impurity, and by precept and example to enliven its energies. And what is it that gives weight to counsel, if it be not the adviser's learning and reputation? - "Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui." + "Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui." What, in a just man's practice, so softens down to our feelings all necessary roughnesses, as a secret veneration for himself? @@ -26531,7 +26506,7 @@ retirement, to consume in domestic happiness the few remaining years of our earthly term. The merchant has come from the hills and valleys of the east to the banks of the Nile. He brings with him - "Munera terræ + "Munera terræ Et maris extremos Arabas distantes et Indos." His wanderings have been among the groves of spice, and over the sands @@ -26543,7 +26518,7 @@ there in patience to abide the coming of Dyerm or Xebeck, appointed for his passage to the destined mart. Thus after experiencing the various fortunes of active life, we sink into ease. -To him who has no '_munera scientiæ_'--no attachment to polite +To him who has no '_munera scientiæ_'--no attachment to polite research, from which to draw pleasure in the hours of solitude, this seclusion is worse than a foretaste of that grave so soon to succeed it. His mind is a mere void, aching to be filled. Accustomed to @@ -26657,7 +26632,7 @@ THE CREATION OF THE ANTELOPE. As singing came he to his master's feet. Four aspen leaves plucked in the shivering north-- The Palmiste bough and fruit--of eastern birth-- - And leaf of Abelè--a thorny sheet-- + And leaf of Abelè--a thorny sheet-- Were there: And in a cask of quaint device Was pent the flash thrown from the gaudy plume Of Sopor's empress-bird, of thousand dyes-- @@ -26669,7 +26644,7 @@ THE CREATION OF THE ANTELOPE. Of Ariel's gift of restless aspen leaves: And skilfully as slim Tarantul' weaves The curtain to her silken couch, soon brought - The sheet of Abelè to beauty: naught + The sheet of Abelè to beauty: naught Torn from Earth's Edens by his wily thieves So soothed their master as this gem of leaves! With downy softness from his magic caught, @@ -27447,7 +27422,7 @@ cloud-encircled--the river, rolling to its ocean-home--the very stars themselves--were endued with sympathies, and constituted the first, as they will be the last, witnesses and records of our human destinies and feelings. The glories of the Parthenon shall fade into oblivion; -but while the heights of Thermopylæ stand, and while a wave murmurs in +but while the heights of Thermopylæ stand, and while a wave murmurs in the gulph of Salamis, a voice shall cry aloud to the universe--"Freedom and glory to those who can dare to die!--woe and everlasting infamy to him who would enthral the unconquerable spirit!" @@ -28392,7 +28367,7 @@ BY R. H. WILDE, _Of Georgia_. * * * * * And who were the gods that decreed _thy_ doom! - A German _Cæsar_--a Prussian _Sage_, + A German _Cæsar_--a Prussian _Sage_, The _Dandy Prince_ of a counting room, And a _Russian Greek_ of the middle age! @@ -28593,7 +28568,7 @@ with such violence, that the {233} captain says they must have been torn to pieces if they had not been perfectly new. We have occupied ourselves since our arrival here, in walking about the town and riding in its neighborhood. Yesterday we visited the two light houses on Cape -la Héve, and ascended one of them to view from its roof the +la Héve, and ascended one of them to view from its roof the surrounding country, which is beautiful, and bounded on three sides by the ocean. We purchased of an old woman residing in the light house, some specimens of shell work; and I chose for you a little dog, @@ -28640,7 +28615,7 @@ LEONTINE. LETTER SECOND. The Seine--Quillebeuf--Candebeck--Curious Rite at the Village of St. -Arnold--La Mailleraie--Abbey of Jamièges--Charles the Seventh and +Arnold--La Mailleraie--Abbey of Jamièges--Charles the Seventh and Agnes Sorrel--Chateau of Robert le Diable--Arrival at Rouen. ROUEN, ----. @@ -28707,19 +28682,19 @@ for its manufactures of hats and gloves; and at that time no one of _bon ton_ would wear a hat that was not made at Candebeck. The revocation of the edict of Nantz proved a death blow to the industry of this town. Soon after leaving it, we passed the Chateau of La -Mailleraie, once the residence of Mademoiselle De la Vallière, during +Mailleraie, once the residence of Mademoiselle De la Vallière, during her youth. The mansion is spacious, and its gardens and thickets looked very inviting. In 1824 the Duchess of Berri visited this retreat, and breakfasted in the garden; and to commemorate this circumstance, a white marble column has been erected there. I wonder they did not surmount it with a _coffee-pot_. Beyond La Mailleraie the scenery is rather monotonous, but at length you approach the Abbey of -Jamièges, (founded by Saint Philibert,) and the landscape becomes +Jamièges, (founded by Saint Philibert,) and the landscape becomes lovely. This noble ruin, with its numerous Gothic windows, was a majestic spectacle. Being situated on a peninsula, round which our course extended, we had a view of it for a considerable time; at last, to my regret, it faded from our sight. Charles the Seventh built a -fine villa in the neighborhood of Jamièges, and here the beautiful, +fine villa in the neighborhood of Jamièges, and here the beautiful, but sinful and unhappy Agnes Sorrel, resided. At her death her heart was deposited in the Abbey, and her body carried to Loches, where it was interred with great ceremony in the choir of the collegiate @@ -28796,17 +28771,17 @@ represented kneeling on its summit. Above them is a gilded equestrian statue of St. George, their patron; below them (ranged in niches on the front of the tomb,) are small marble figures, emblematical of the virtues they possessed. Opposite this mausoleum is another, equally -remarkable. It is dedicated to the Grand Senéschal Brezé, the husband +remarkable. It is dedicated to the Grand Senéschal Brezé, the husband of Diana of Poitiers, and governor of Rouen in the sixteenth century. Of the numerous statues that adorn this tomb, that which represents -the Senéschal as an extended corpse is the most striking, and it is +the Senéschal as an extended corpse is the most striking, and it is inimitably executed. The pinched nose, tight drawn skin, hollow cheeks, and sunken eyes, give it the exact appearance of a dead body. Over the grand altar of the church hangs a fine painting, by Philip de Champagne; the subject of it is the adoration of the Magi, and the light is ingeniously and beautifully reflected from the infant Jesus, (the _light_ of the world,) upon the surrounding objects. But enough -of the cathedral, Allons á Saint Ouen, famous for its fine interior +of the cathedral, Allons á Saint Ouen, famous for its fine interior perspective, which is curiously and perfectly delineated by reflection on the surface of the holy water, in the baptismal font, near the chief portal of the church. St. Ouen was originally a Benedictine @@ -28822,7 +28797,7 @@ Ville--neither of them extensive, though worthy of examination. We next proceeded to the square of Joan of Arc, where a statue of her is erected on the spot upon which she was burnt as a sorceress in 1430. Last night we went to the play. The theatre is a handsome edifice, and -the ceiling exhibits the apothesis of Piérre Corneille. You behold him +the ceiling exhibits the apothesis of Piérre Corneille. You behold him crowned by tragedy, while painting and sculpture vie in copying his features, and fame sounds his praise to the world. Apollo sheds over him his brightness, and time with his scythe drives away envy and @@ -28877,7 +28852,7 @@ Richmond, we met on the civil and polite footing of passing acquaintance, until an accident brought us together and originated a friendship between us. -One evening in June, 1832, when the thermometer stood at 94°, I had +One evening in June, 1832, when the thermometer stood at 94°, I had managed to convey myself about a mile up the river bank for the purpose of bathing, and going into the water I splashed about with great vigor, thinking about Leander's remarkable feat in crossing the @@ -29573,7 +29548,7 @@ when first given once more to the day, what eulogies, what wonder did its minute and glowing decorations create--its paintings--its mosaics! Passionately enamoured of poetry and the drama, which recalled to Glaucus the wit and the heroism of his race, that fairy mansion was -adorned with representations of Æschylus and Homer. And antiquaries, +adorned with representations of Æschylus and Homer. And antiquaries, who resolve taste to a trade, have turned the patron to the professor, and still (though the error is now acknowledged) they style in custom, as they first named in mistake, the disburied house of the Athenian @@ -29766,8 +29741,8 @@ pressure. among whom is my learned friend Mr. W. S. Landor, conjecture it, with much plausibility, to have been mahogany.] -"Well, I must own," said the ædile Pansa, "that your house, though -scarcely larger than a case for one's fibulæ, is a gem of its kind. +"Well, I must own," said the ædile Pansa, "that your house, though +scarcely larger than a case for one's fibulæ, is a gem of its kind. How beautifully painted is that parting of Achilles and Briseis!--what a style!--what heads!--what a--hem!" @@ -29775,10 +29750,10 @@ a style!--what heads!--what a--hem!" gravely. "Why, the paintings on _his_ walls--ah! there is, indeed, the hand of a Zeuxis!" -"You flatter me, my Clodius; indeed you do," quoth the ædile, who was +"You flatter me, my Clodius; indeed you do," quoth the ædile, who was celebrated through Pompeii for having the worst paintings in the world; for he was patriotic, and patronised none but Pompeians,--"you -flatter me: but there is something pretty--Ædepol, yes--in the colors, +flatter me: but there is something pretty--Ædepol, yes--in the colors, to say nothing of the design;--and then for the kitchen, my friends--ah! that was all my fancy." @@ -29786,7 +29761,7 @@ friends--ah! that was all my fancy." though I have often witnessed the excellence of its cheer." "A cook, my Athenian--a cook sacrificing the trophies of his skill on -the altar of Vesta, with a beautiful muræna (taken from the life) on a +the altar of Vesta, with a beautiful muræna (taken from the life) on a spit at a distance: there is some invention there!" At that instant the slaves appeared, bearing a tray covered with the @@ -29795,7 +29770,7 @@ herbs strewed with snow, anchovies, and eggs, were ranged small cups of diluted wine sparingly mixed with honey. As these were placed on the table, young slaves bore round to each of the five guests (for there were no more) the silver basin of perfumed water and napkins -edged with a purple fringe. But the ædile ostentatiously drew forth +edged with a purple fringe. But the ædile ostentatiously drew forth his own napkin, which was not, indeed, of so fine a linen, but in which the fringe was twice as broad, and wiped his hands with the parade of a man who felt he was calling for admiration. @@ -29848,7 +29823,7 @@ great scarcity of criminals. You must positively find some innocent or other to condemn to the lion, Pansa!" "Indeed I have thought very seriously about it of late," replied the -ædile, gravely. "It was a most infamous law that which forbade us to +ædile, gravely. "It was a most infamous law that which forbade us to send our own slaves to the wild beasts. Not to let us do what we like with our own, that's what I call an infringement on property itself." @@ -29889,7 +29864,7 @@ prepare a new libation in honor to the new-comer." "I had hoped," said Glaucus, in a melancholy tone, "to have procured you some oysters from Britain; but the winds that were so cruel to -Cæsar have forbid us the oysters." +Cæsar have forbid us the oysters." "Are they in truth so delicious?" asked Lepidus, loosening to a yet more luxurious ease his ungirdled tunic. @@ -29901,7 +29876,7 @@ is complete without them." "The poor Britons! There is some good in them after all," said Sallust; "they produce an oyster!" -"I wish they would produce us a gladiator," said the ædile, whose +"I wish they would produce us a gladiator," said the ædile, whose provident mind was still musing over the wants of the amphitheatre. "By Pallas!" cried Glaucus, as his favorite slave crowned his steaming @@ -29913,13 +29888,13 @@ and defend him. The yells of the populace seem to me more dire than the voices of the Furies chasing Orestes. I rejoice that there is so little chance of that bloody exhibition for our next show!" -{244} The ædile shrugged his shoulders; the young Sallust, who was +{244} The ædile shrugged his shoulders; the young Sallust, who was thought the best natured man in Pompeii, stared in surprise. The graceful Lepidus, who rarely spoke for fear of disturbing his features, cried, "Per Hercle!" The Parasite Clodius muttered, -"Ædepol;" and the sixth banqueter, who was the umbra of Clodius, and +"Ædepol;" and the sixth banqueter, who was the umbra of Clodius, and whose duty it was to echo his richer friend when he could not praise -him--the parasite of a parasite,--muttered also, "Ædepol." +him--the parasite of a parasite,--muttered also, "Ædepol." "Well, you Italians are used to these spectacles; we Greeks are more merciful. Ah, shade of Pindar!--the rapture of a true Grecian @@ -29967,14 +29942,14 @@ feasts and girls, but not like our modern poets." "Ah, Fulvius the immortal!" said the umbra. -"And Spuræna, and Caius Mutius, who wrote three epics in a year--could +"And Spuræna, and Caius Mutius, who wrote three epics in a year--could Horace do that, or Virgil either?" said Lepidus. "Those old poets all fell into the mistake of copying sculpture instead of painting. Simplicity and repose--that was their notion: but we moderns have fire, and passions, and energy--we never sleep, we imitate the colors of painting, its life and its action. Immortal Fulvius!" -"By-the-way," said Sallust, "have you seen the new ode by Spuræna, in +"By-the-way," said Sallust, "have you seen the new ode by Spuræna, in honor of our Egyptian Isis?--it is magnificent--the true religious fervor." @@ -30001,7 +29976,7 @@ secrets of remotest antiquity are treasured." ever come upon that Medusa front without the previous charm, I am sure to lose a favorite horse, or throw the _canes_[6] nine times running." -[Footnote 6: _Canes_, or _caniculæ_, the lowest throw at dice.] +[Footnote 6: _Canes_, or _caniculæ_, the lowest throw at dice.] "The last would be indeed a miracle!" said Sallust, gravely. @@ -30015,8 +29990,8 @@ Clodius answered only by a smile of disdain. "If Arbaces were not so rich," said Pansa, with a stately air, "I should stretch my authority a little, and inquire into the truth of the report which calls him an astrologer and a sorcerer. Agrippa, when -ædile of Rome, banished all such terrible citizens. But a rich man--it -is the duty of an ædile to protect the rich!" +ædile of Rome, banished all such terrible citizens. But a rich man--it +is the duty of an ædile to protect the rich!" "What think you of this new sect, which I am told has even a few proselytes in Pompeii, these followers of the Hebrew God--Christus?" @@ -30042,7 +30017,7 @@ See, the dice court us." "As you will!" said Glaucus. -"The dice in August, and I an ædile," said Pansa, magisterially; "it +"The dice in August, and I an ædile," said Pansa, magisterially; "it is against all law." "Not in your presence, grave Pansa," returned Clodius, rattling the @@ -30051,7 +30026,7 @@ the thing, but the excess of the thing, that hurts." "What wisdom!" murmured the umbra. -"Well, I will look another way," said the ædile. +"Well, I will look another way," said the ædile. "Not yet, good Pansa; let us wait till we have supped," said Glaucus. @@ -30127,7 +30102,7 @@ I. Half-shut, look'd their starry eyes, And all around, With a loving sound, - The Ægean waves were creeping; + The Ægean waves were creeping; On her lap lay the lynx's head; Wild thyme was her bridal bed; And aye through each tiny space, @@ -30251,7 +30226,7 @@ while Glaucus and Clodius became gradually absorbed in the chances of the dice. "Per Jove!" cried Glaucus, "this is the second time I have thrown the -caniculæ" (the lowest throw.) +caniculæ" (the lowest throw.) "Now Venus befriend me!" said Clodius, rattling the box for several moments, "O Alma Venus--it is Venus herself!" as he threw the highest @@ -30318,7 +30293,7 @@ but endowed with some of those higher faculties of reason, which enabled him in the end to surrender the charms of a poetic mythology for a purer and brighter faith. Ione, "the beautiful Ione," is an almost perfect model of Grecian loveliness and accomplishment; and her -brother Apæcides, furnishes an affecting illustration of great powers +brother Apæcides, furnishes an affecting illustration of great powers and virtues rendered prostrate by an overwrought sensibility and enthusiastic temperament. Arbaces, the dark, wily, revengeful Egyptian, is the demon of the tale. In profound earthly wisdom and @@ -30466,9 +30441,9 @@ The characters in the poem are few--in the novel many--but, in both, the whole interest depends on the adventures of two lovers. In the poem these lovers are Pansa and Mariamne, a Roman decurion and a captive Jewish maiden, both Christians; in the novel they are Glaucus -and Ione, Greeks and pagans. With us, Diomede was the prætor and Pansa +and Ione, Greeks and pagans. With us, Diomede was the prætor and Pansa the victim; with Bulwer, the former is a rich merchant, and the -latter, ædile of Pompeii. Here, then, there is no similarity, nor is +latter, ædile of Pompeii. Here, then, there is no similarity, nor is there but one deserving a remark, until Arbaces--an Eugene Aram antiquated--one of Bulwer's learned, wise and soliloquizing villains--seduces Ione to his mansion of iniquity. The first @@ -30585,7 +30560,7 @@ lover Glaucus are doomed to perish by the fangs of the famished lion, is still more strikingly similar than any in the novel, except the description of the destruction. Arbaces, actuated by unholy love of Ione, is the author of the disgrace and ruin of both these personages; -and the prætor Diomede, in the poem, resolves to sacrifice Pansa to +and the prætor Diomede, in the poem, resolves to sacrifice Pansa to the African lion, because he loves and determines to possess Mariamne. The earlier scenes in the amphitheatre are the same; four gladiators are represented in sanguinary strife, and two as having perished, ere @@ -30905,7 +30880,7 @@ Mirabeau in morals. Mr. Bulwer, likewise, is ostentatious of his learning, and he quotes from ancient authors with an air of infinite self-complacency, though his citations had been conveniently collected, a _century_ since, in -the Archæologia Græca of Archbishop Potter! These volumes now lie +the Archæologia Græca of Archbishop Potter! These volumes now lie before us, and there may all his erudition be found within a very accessible compass. His theological knowledge or deistical design, we know not which, is not more profound or canonical; for he makes his @@ -30939,7 +30914,7 @@ _Fanny Kemble_. The _second_ volume opens with three interesting stories,--the _False One_, a pathetic oriental tale, a thousand times superior to Vathek,--_Halloran the Pedlar_, and the _Indian Mother_. It also contains a very amusing _drama for little actors_,--and -concludes with the _Diary of an Enuyeé_, a performance of much and +concludes with the _Diary of an Enuyeé_, a performance of much and deserved celebrity. We shall make occasional selections from this work, for the benefit of such of our readers as have no opportunity of seeing the volumes themselves. For the present, we have transferred to @@ -31199,13 +31174,13 @@ incumbent on me to avow, or disavow the authorship of a dozen couplets, lately become a matter of grave and high controversy. Though supposed for twenty years past to be mine, they have recently been ascribed, by sundry acute critics, first to O'KELLY, and then to -ALCÆUS. Disdaining, heretofore, to notice such charges of plagiarism, +ALCÆUS. Disdaining, heretofore, to notice such charges of plagiarism, from a perfect confidence in the ultimate power of TRUTH, and a contempt for this petty species of annoyance, my silence is now broken, only in compliance with the wishes of those whom I esteem. Valuing these rhymes very differently from others, it becomes me, on so unimportant a subject, merely to avow myself the author. The lines -in question, then, good or bad, are mine alone; neither Alcæus nor +in question, then, good or bad, are mine alone; neither Alcæus nor O'Kelly has the smallest right to them. Originally intended as a part of a longer poem, which, like the life of him for whose sake I projected it, was broken off, unfinished; they were published without @@ -31882,7 +31857,7 @@ contents more particularly;--for the present, we remark, that the editor in his preliminary and General Description of Virginia, has borrowed very copiously, and without acknowledgement, that we have seen, from an article bearing the title "Virginia," in the Americana -Encyclopædia. Whilst it is not expected, that in a work like the +Encyclopædia. Whilst it is not expected, that in a work like the Gazetteer, its whole contents should be original; it is but an act of literary justice, we conceive, that the sources from which material aid has been derived, should be acknowledged. Of course, we confine @@ -31895,7 +31870,7 @@ that account was written. RICHMOND CITY, the metropolis of Virginia, is situated in the county of Henrico, on the north side of James river, and immediately at the -great falls, or head of tide water. Lat. 37° 32' N., long. 25° 54' W +great falls, or head of tide water. Lat. 37° 32' N., long. 25° 54' W of W. Its location is uncommonly delightful, and has often excited the admiration of strangers. Perhaps the most glowing, and yet most faithful picture which has ever been drawn of its natural beauties, is @@ -32188,11 +32163,11 @@ in the spring of 1833, their present proprietor, Mr. Chevallie, is rebuilding them at a more convenient site on the bank of the James river basin, and upon a much more improved and enlarged plan. The mill house which is nearly completed, is six stories high from the -foundation and covered with tin. It is 94 feet long by 83½ wide, and +foundation and covered with tin. It is 94 feet long by 83½ wide, and is calculated for 20 pair of stones to be worked by three water wheels. Connected with it, is another building 80 feet square, and four stories high, in which the wheat will be received and cleaned. -The two together present a front on the basin of 163½ feet, and the +The two together present a front on the basin of 163½ feet, and the whole appearance is very imposing. The old Gallego mills ground upwards of 200,000 bushels of wheat in the eight months preceding their destruction. It is probable that the operations of the new @@ -32249,7 +32224,7 @@ necessary preparatory machinery for spinning and weaving, of the most approved kinds, and consumes about 1,500 pounds of raw cotton per day. The fabrics are heavy,--negro shirtings 29 inches wide, 4-4 sheetings -and ¾ shirtings of No. 16 yarn, and cotton yarns from No. 5 to 20--all +and ¾ shirtings of No. 16 yarn, and cotton yarns from No. 5 to 20--all of which are celebrated for their superior quality. The capital employed is $120,000. @@ -32473,7 +32448,7 @@ set off for the latter place, where on his arrival he found a second letter from the Prince, expressing his unwillingness to trust himself alone in the power of the Turkish Pasha; and making an appointment with him on the borders of the province of Fayoom, near the site of -the celebrated Labyrinth and Lake of Mæris. Eaton instantly determined +the celebrated Labyrinth and Lake of Mæris. Eaton instantly determined to seek him there, and accordingly set out on the 22d, accompanied by Lieutenants Mann and Blake of the Argus, and an escort of twenty-three men. At the close of the next day, the party were arrested at the @@ -33801,8 +33776,8 @@ seduced from the healthful air of field, and forest, and rustic fireside, to sicken and die in a tainted, unnatural atmosphere. [Footnote 1: Non aliter quam qui adverso vix flumine lembum - Remigiis subigit; si brachia forté remisit, - Atque illum in præceps prono rapit alveus amni.] + Remigiis subigit; si brachia forté remisit, + Atque illum in præceps prono rapit alveus amni.] [Footnote 2: In Godwin's Inquirer, are some very just and forcible observations on the corrupting effect upon youth, of too close and @@ -33904,7 +33879,7 @@ Law. In New York, they disarm opposition of so plausible a pretext for hostility, by fixedly determining to ask--to accept--no such aid; but to rely exclusively upon _reasoning_, _the exhibition of facts_, _and the influence of example_--means, which have already achieved, what -were seven years ago deemed chimæras, and which will doubtless be +were seven years ago deemed chimæras, and which will doubtless be fully adequate to the consummation of this great work.--But I am digressing from my design, of dwelling a little longer on some features of New England. @@ -33957,7 +33932,7 @@ ability to train the minds and form the habits of their offspring, for at least the first nine years of life! The Common-school system, _as a system_, is certainly admirable. But -some _minutiæ_ of its administration may be censured. Teachers are +some _minutiæ_ of its administration may be censured. Teachers are often tasked with too many pupils. I saw a young woman of twenty, toiling in the sway of fifty-two noisy urchins, with twenty of whom I am quite sure my hands would have been over-full: and it was said to @@ -34134,7 +34109,7 @@ of beggars, and poor half-naked Indians, bending under heavy burdens. There are no carts or drays for the transportation of goods, which are carried upon the backs of these poor creatures, who are enabled to carry a load of three hundred pounds, by means of a leather band or -strap, the _cargador_ leaning forward at an angle {277} of about 45°, +strap, the _cargador_ leaning forward at an angle {277} of about 45°, the burden resting on the back, supported by this strap. With so heavy a load they travel great distances, moving in a brisk walk or trot. @@ -36904,7 +36879,7 @@ as our seats are engaged in the diligence for Paris. Since I wrote you three days ago, we have seen divers other objects worthy of notice, though not so interesting as those I have described to you. To-day we saw the bridge of boats which connects the city with the suburb of -Saint Sévere; it rises and falls with the tide, and is divided into +Saint Sévere; it rises and falls with the tide, and is divided into compartments that can be easily separated for ships to pass through at any moment. The invention of this bridge is attributed to an Augustin monk. A handsome stone bridge is now building over another part of the @@ -36955,7 +36930,7 @@ LETTER FIFTH. Paris--Modes of Living--Rue de la Paix--Place Vendome--Rue Castiglione--Garden of the Tuileries--Louvre--Italian Boulevard--Dress -of the Ladies--Soirées--Admiralty--Mademoiselle Mars. +of the Ladies--Soirées--Admiralty--Mademoiselle Mars. PARIS, ----. @@ -36967,12 +36942,12 @@ only tell you that we chose the lower route; that the prospects were lovely, and the diligence rolled rapidly along the banks of the Seine; that we stopped only to swallow our meals as quickly as possible, and had not time to examine any thing. We entered Paris by the Porte de -Neuilly and Champs Elysées, at dusk, and witnessed the beautiful sight +Neuilly and Champs Elysées, at dusk, and witnessed the beautiful sight the latter presents, when illuminated by its numerous lamps, which instead of being fixed on posts, were suspended high above our heads from ropes swung across the road. The resemblance of these lamps when lighted, to a range of brilliant stars, occasions the gate by which we -entered to be called the "barriére de l'étoile." We found rooms ready +entered to be called the "barriére de l'étoile." We found rooms ready for us, papa having written to request Mr. Dorval to engage a suite in the pleasantest quarter of the city. @@ -37021,7 +36996,7 @@ during the massacre of St. Bartholomews. (August 24, 1572) Our usual evening resort is the Boulevard, where we listen to music, and observe the motley crowds around us; and when tired, refresh -ourselves with ices or lemonade in a café. +ourselves with ices or lemonade in a café. Dear me! how tastefully the French ladies dress! What beautiful robes, and hats, and gloves, and shoes and boots they wear! and how well each @@ -37036,10 +37011,10 @@ clad, as if they were expecting company, instead of being usefully employed? At entertainments and in the public promenades, they display their fine clothes. We have already received and returned the visits of several of the French families to whom we brought letters; but much -to our regret, the venerable Count Ségur is out of town, and Baron +to our regret, the venerable Count Ségur is out of town, and Baron Hottinguer, his lady and son, are at their country seat. The Minister of the Marine (Mr. Hyde de Neuville) and Madame his spouse, are -extremely pleasing and amiable. They still have their regular soirées, +extremely pleasing and amiable. They still have their regular soirées, notwithstanding the advanced season, and we intend to avail ourselves of their polite invitation to attend them. By the by, I should tell you (what M. Dorval told _me_,) that in Paris many persons have an @@ -37047,10 +37022,10 @@ appointed evening for receiving their acquaintances, once a week, fortnight, or month, (as suits their convenience,) and on this evening they illuminate their rooms for the reception of their guests. The greater number of these remain only a half hour, and then repair to -the opera, or to some other _soirée_, as such an assembly is termed. +the opera, or to some other _soirée_, as such an assembly is termed. It is usual to go to three or four on the same night. There is seldom any refreshment offered, and the amusements are conversation and, -écarte--_sometimes_ billiards; and when the soirée is social and +écarte--_sometimes_ billiards; and when the soirée is social and small, they even introduce childish plays, such as "Colin, Maillard," "Le Mouchoir," "Tierce," &c. in which elderly people frequently join with all the vivacity of youth. @@ -37090,11 +37065,11 @@ _Dear Jane:_-- What a variety of places we have visited since I despatched to you my last letter! _Par exemple_, the Palais Royal, with its agreeable garden and jets d'eau, surrounded by arcades, under which are splendid -shops and cafés, that are dazzling when illuminated at night; the +shops and cafés, that are dazzling when illuminated at night; the Royal Library, with its vast collection of manuscripts and engravings, and its cabinets of antiquities and medals--the latter considered to be the most complete in the world; the Hotel de Ville, on the Place de -Grève, where the guillotine sometimes plies its dreadful work; the +Grève, where the guillotine sometimes plies its dreadful work; the Exchange, with its sixty-four corinthian columns, fine hall, and superb imitations of bas-reliefs, so admirably executed, that you can scarcely be convinced they are the effect of the _brush_ instead of @@ -37115,7 +37090,7 @@ side rows of petty shops and stalls. Beneath these galleries are the gloomy prisons of the conciergerie, wherein such atrocities were committed during the revolution. Here we saw the dungeons in which Marie Antoinette and the Princess Elizabeth were immured; the cell in -which Robespiérre was confined; and that of Louvel, who assassinated +which Robespiérre was confined; and that of Louvel, who assassinated the Duke de Berri. We were shown the prison room of the gallant Ney. The cells that inclosed the unfortunate queen and her sister-in-law, are now converted into a small chapel, which communicates by means of @@ -37143,11 +37118,11 @@ and various. Around the interior, instead of altars and _confessionals_, are a range of cases, containing archives and records. By the by, among those we saw in the upper galleries of the Palace of Justice, (which communicates with the "Sainte Chapelle,") -were the condemnation of Joan of Arc, and that of Jean Châtel, who +were the condemnation of Joan of Arc, and that of Jean Châtel, who attempted to stab Henry the Fourth, but failed, and having been seized was put to a dreadful death, according to the mandate which we read. He was stretched on the rack, then drawn on a sledge to the Place de -Grève, his flesh torn with hot pincers, and his right hand cut off; +Grève, his flesh torn with hot pincers, and his right hand cut off; finally, his limbs were tied to four wild horses, and thus rent asunder. When dead, his body was burnt, and his ashes scattered to the winds! The dress he wore when he attacked the King, and a rope ladder @@ -37176,7 +37151,7 @@ LEONTINE. LETTER SEVENTH. -Church of St. Roch--Pére la Chaise. +Church of St. Roch--Pére la Chaise. PARIS, ----. @@ -37204,7 +37179,7 @@ drowned in the loud requiem chanted over the dead. The coffin was strewed with white flowers, emblematical of the youth and maidenhood of the deceased. -We have visited Pére la Chaise, and spent nearly a whole day in +We have visited Pére la Chaise, and spent nearly a whole day in reading the inscriptions on its numerous and varied monuments,--many of them so magnificent! many so neat and simple! The inscriptions are generally beautiful and touching--they speak to the hearts of all; and @@ -37221,15 +37196,15 @@ rank, it was soon entitled "Regnaud's Folly." The Jesuits afterwards obtained possession of it, and gave it the name of "Mont Louis," because Louis the Fourteenth when a boy, witnessed from its summit the battle in the Faubourg St. Antoine, between the Frondeurs,[2] -commanded by the Prince of Condé, and the Court Party, under Marshal +commanded by the Prince of Condé, and the Court Party, under Marshal Turenne. I recollect reading in Voltaire's history of that monarch's reign, that during this bloody skirmish, Mademoiselle d'Orleans -(Louis's cousin) sided with the Prince of Condé, and had the cannons +(Louis's cousin) sided with the Prince of Condé, and had the cannons of the Bastile pointed against the royal troops. This ruined her forever in the opinion of the king; and Cardinal Mazarin remarked, knowing her desire to marry a crowned head, "_ce canon la, vient de tuer son mari_"--"that cannon has killed her husband." But I've -digressed from my original theme, and hasten to resume it. Pére la +digressed from my original theme, and hasten to resume it. Pére la Chaise, one of the Jesuits, became confessor to Louis, and had entire control of ecclesiastical affairs. The king was very fond of him, and as a mark of his esteem, presented him with the estate of "Mont @@ -37253,7 +37228,7 @@ wherein the dead remain undisturbed during ten years, for the sum of fifty francs. At the close of that period, unless the grave be rendered of the third kind, _perpetual_, by the payment of a larger portion of money, its ghastly tenant is removed. The oldest and most -interesting sepulchre is that of Abelard and Héloise; it is formed of +interesting sepulchre is that of Abelard and Héloise; it is formed of the ruins of the paraclete, and covered with antique sculpture and ornaments. It represents a gothic chapel, in the centre of which the bodies of the lovers are represented extended on a bier; the whole is @@ -40587,7 +40562,7 @@ _might have been_. I have a tale to tell in its own essence rife with horror--I would suppress it were it not a record more of feelings than of facts. -My baptismal name is Egæus--that of my family I will not mention. Yet +My baptismal name is Egæus--that of my family I will not mention. Yet there are no towers in the land more time-honored than my gloomy, grey, hereditary halls. Our line has been called a race of visionaries: and in many striking particulars--in the character of the @@ -40603,7 +40578,7 @@ chamber, and with its volumes--of which latter I will say no more. Here died my mother. Herein was I born. But it is mere idleness to say that I had not lived before--that the soul has no previous existence. You deny it. Let us not argue the matter. Convinced myself I seek not -to convince. There is, however, a remembrance of ærial forms--of +to convince. There is, however, a remembrance of ærial forms--of spiritual and meaning eyes--of sounds musical yet sad--a remembrance which will not be excluded: a memory like a shadow, vague, variable, indefinite, unsteady--and like a shadow too, in the impossibility of @@ -40815,9 +40790,9 @@ characteristics--I dwelt upon their peculiarities--I pondered upon their conformation--I mused upon the alteration in their nature--and shuddered as I assigned to them in imagination a sensitive and sentient power, and even when unassisted by the lips, a capability of -moral expression. Of Mad'selle Sallé it has been said, "_que tous ses +moral expression. Of Mad'selle Sallé it has been said, "_que tous ses pas etaient des sentiments_," and of Berenice I more seriously -believed _que tous ses dents etaient des idées_. +believed _que tous ses dents etaient des idées_. And the evening closed in upon me thus--and then the darkness came, and tarried, and went--and the day again dawned--and the mists of a @@ -40896,7 +40871,7 @@ how came it _there_ upon my table, and why did I shudder in regarding it? These were things in no manner to be accounted for, and my eyes at length dropped to the open pages of a book, and to a sentence underscored therein. The words were the singular, but simple words of -the poet Ebn Zaiat. "_Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicæ +the poet Ebn Zaiat. "_Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicæ visitarem curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas._"[2] Why then, as I perused them, did the hairs of my head erect themselves on end, and the blood of my body congeal within my veins? @@ -41454,7 +41429,7 @@ terms of poetical exaggeration their heroic achievements, and dwell with fond recollection on their memories, but we can never form an accurate idea of their feelings, any correct conception of their sufferings, or properly estimate our debt of gratitude, until we can -enter more fully into the _minutiæ_ of those events which general +enter more fully into the _minutiæ_ of those events which general history relates. So long therefore, as it is praiseworthy (and long may it be so,) to set before our eyes the examples and characters of revolutionary patriots, will it be interesting to examine such records @@ -42315,7 +42290,7 @@ had brought the matter to a bearing without some stratagem; and she wished Betty to tell her how she had gone about "courting the old man." There was, withal, so much native simplicity about Betty, and the manner of relating her own courtship and marriage is so like -herself, that it would lose its _naïveté_ unless told in her own +herself, that it would lose its _naïveté_ unless told in her own homely Scotch way. Betty, into all, had a lisp in her speech, that is, a defect in speech, by which the _s_ is always pronounced as _th_, which added a still deeper shade of simplicity to her manner; but it @@ -45023,7 +44998,7 @@ you a perfect idea of the places they represent. The council chamber adjoins the library, and this and two other apartments are decorated with the portraits of the deceased marshals of France; while the originals are living, their likenesses are deposited in the "Salle des -Marécheaux," at the Palace of the Tuilleries. In the church we saw the +Marécheaux," at the Palace of the Tuilleries. In the church we saw the mausoleum of Turenne and that of the famous engineer Vauban.[1] The interior of the dome and the ceilings of six chapels surrounding it are richly painted, and the tesselated pavement, interspersed with @@ -45224,7 +45199,7 @@ the widow of Henry 4th; it afterwards became the property of some of the French nobility, but was finally restored to the crown. During the revolution, it was used as a prison; the senate afterwards occupied it; at present it contains the Chamber of Peers,--and its galleries -are filled with the chêf d'oeuvres of modern artists, whose +are filled with the chêf d'oeuvres of modern artists, whose productions are not admitted into the Louvre until their death. Of course the collection of paintings here is much smaller than at the Louvre, but the pictures are all on the most interesting subjects and @@ -45270,7 +45245,7 @@ From the Luxembourg we proceeded through a long sunny avenue, to the observatory. On the left of the road, Arnaud our valet de place, pointed out the spot upon which Marshal Ney was shot. "Regardez, Mesdames! ce fut la (pointing with his finger) l'endroit ou le brave -Maréchal Ney fut massacré--Jétais présent et il me semble que je le +Maréchal Ney fut massacré--Jétais présent et il me semble que je le vois tout sanglant dans le moment," said he, shuddering. We paused to look at the once bloody spot, now verdant with grass and so sadly interesting. The observatory may be considered a wonderful building, @@ -45319,7 +45294,7 @@ annually, and the royal family always join in it. We shall go to see it of course; and how I wish you, aunt Margaret and Albert were to be of our party! -The Pantheon, or Church of Saint Geneviève, is a magnificent +The Pantheon, or Church of Saint Geneviève, is a magnificent structure, and its dome is the most striking object that presents itself as you approach Paris. The interior of it is beautifully painted, the artist having chosen for his subject the apotheosis of @@ -45327,8 +45302,8 @@ Louis XVI and his family. When the work was finished, the king went to see it, and after looking at it attentively for a quarter of an hour, he turned to the painter Gros who {376} was anxiously awaiting his opinion, and said to him, "Eh bien Monsieur le _Baron_ votre ouvrage -est trés bien fait!" thus recompensing his talents, by bestowing on -him a title of nobility. Saint Geneviève, the patron Saint of Paris, +est trés bien fait!" thus recompensing his talents, by bestowing on +him a title of nobility. Saint Geneviève, the patron Saint of Paris, is buried in the Pantheon, and her tomb is always surrounded by lighted tapers, the votive offerings of those who come to demand her intercession for pardon or blessing. In the vaults beneath the church, @@ -45941,7 +45916,7 @@ concession to the popular will. Accordingly the measures of Louis the people, met with jealous opposition, or at best, with unwilling acquiescence. -The administration of Décazes, which was conducted upon wise and sound +The administration of Décazes, which was conducted upon wise and sound principles, was finally clamored down; and the court, finding the people incapable of appreciating the mild and liberal measures of the government, infused more strength into their system. @@ -45960,8 +45935,8 @@ These feelings were put forth through the usual vents. The public journals made the most of their liberty while it remained to them, and kept up an incessant fire of various grades; from the grave remonstrances of the "Constitutionnel," to the piquant badinage of the -"Drapeau Blanc." The Salons, the Cafés, the Boulevards, the Tuileries, -the Champs Elysées and the Pont Neuf exhibited the politicians of +"Drapeau Blanc." The Salons, the Cafés, the Boulevards, the Tuileries, +the Champs Elysées and the Pont Neuf exhibited the politicians of their respective meridians, from the "riche banquier" to "Monsieur le tondeur de chiens." The print shops displayed caricatures of the Jesuits. Beranger "showed up" the royal family in his songs. Mars @@ -45995,12 +45970,12 @@ Proceeding more rapidly and by a nearer route, I reached the Champ de Mars, the scene of the review, in time to witness the king's arrival. The Champ de Mars is a beautiful plain, artificially levelled; a quarter of a mile in breadth, and extending from the Seine to the -école militaire, rather more than half a mile in length--bounded on +école militaire, rather more than half a mile in length--bounded on each side by embankments, appearing to the eye like ramparts, which are covered with turf and set with trees.[1] -[Footnote 1: The Champ de Mars was the scene of the famous "fête de la -fédération," which took place in 1790, on the 14th of July, the +[Footnote 1: The Champ de Mars was the scene of the famous "fête de la +fédération," which took place in 1790, on the 14th of July, the anniversary of the taking of the Bastile; when the king, the representatives of the people, and the other public functionaries, the commandant of the National Guard, and delegates sent from each of the @@ -46014,7 +45989,7 @@ time. The Bishop of Autun (Talleyrand) was the ministering flamen of the solemnities. At the celebration an incident occurred, illustrating the far seeing sagacity of this man, who thus early discerned the frail and transient nature of that constitution, which its founders -had decreed should be "une, indivisible, et impérissable." Lafayette, +had decreed should be "une, indivisible, et impérissable." Lafayette, as commandant of the National Guard, was the first to take the oath; and as he approached the altar for that purpose, Talleyrand in an under tone exhorted him to keep his countenance and not to laugh! thus @@ -46036,7 +46011,7 @@ Here were the famed Cuirassiers, arrayed in triple steel--each one looking the impersonation of war--men and horses forming a dense, motionless, terrific mass. -There, were the "Chevaux-légers," less imposing in appearance, but +There, were the "Chevaux-légers," less imposing in appearance, but dazzling the eye by the brilliancy of their dress and the rapidity of their evolutions. @@ -46053,19 +46028,19 @@ smiles were displayed in covered stages erected temporarily for the purpose, and arranged at the inner foot of the embankment on either side of the field. -In a short time a flourish of trumpets at the école militaire, +In a short time a flourish of trumpets at the école militaire, announced the arrival of the King. The officers flew to their posts. Every tongue was hushed, and every eye directed to that extremity of the field at which the king now appeared, mounted on a white Arabian, which he managed as one familiar to the seat. He was attended on -either side by the royal dukes Angoulême and Orléans, (the present -king) and followed by a splendid cortège of field marshals and general +either side by the royal dukes Angoulême and Orléans, (the present +king) and followed by a splendid cortège of field marshals and general officers in gorgeous uniforms, and their horses highly caparisoned. The king too, and the royal dukes, wore military uniforms, over which hung the "cordon bleu." After the king and his suite, came an open -barouche, in which appeared the royal ladies d'Angoulême, de Berri and -d'Orléans. +barouche, in which appeared the royal ladies d'Angoulême, de Berri and +d'Orléans. The magnificent cavalcade moved slowly on between the different bodies of troops, going down on one side of the field and returning on the @@ -46106,7 +46081,7 @@ that in both instances a strong expression of public opinion was intended. Of course it was not imagined that all this was not as well known to -the king and his ministers, as to the authors and contrivers. Villèle, +the king and his ministers, as to the authors and contrivers. Villèle, the prime minister, was too sagacious and wary to leave unemployed any means of obtaining information concerning every subject which agitated the public mind--information indeed which was of the highest @@ -46198,8 +46173,8 @@ face of the sunniest day with blackness and wrath. The review was nearly finished, when a voice was heard from the company which the king was at the moment passing, mingling with the -cries of "vive le roi," the exclamations "à bas les ministres!" "à bas -les Jésuites!"[2] +cries of "vive le roi," the exclamations "à bas les ministres!" "à bas +les Jésuites!"[2] [Footnote 2: Down with the ministers, &c.] @@ -46224,12 +46199,12 @@ the bitter waters of strife. The troops were instantly dismissed by their officers, and they mingling with the immense crowd of spectators, the whole mass returned with tumultuous haste to the city, uttering cries of passion, of -discontent or of derision. "À bas les ministres! à bas les Jésuites! à -bas les Bourbons! vive la charte! au diable Villéle!" &c. &c., issued +discontent or of derision. "À bas les ministres! à bas les Jésuites! à +bas les Bourbons! vive la charte! au diable Villéle!" &c. &c., issued from lips which but a few minutes before sent forth expressions of attachment and loyalty. -The residences of Villéle and Peyronnet, the two ministers against +The residences of Villéle and Peyronnet, the two ministers against whom popular indignation was chiefly directed, lay immediately in the route of the returning crowd. A large number, including many of the National Guard, stopped before the houses, which were separated only @@ -46254,7 +46229,7 @@ sleep the few who sought repose. During all this time the king and his cabinet, unterrified by the denunciations which resounded in their ears, were planning in secret -council at the Tuileries, a "coup d'état" which was to astonish +council at the Tuileries, a "coup d'état" which was to astonish France. The next morning the Moniteur appeared as usual, and the very first @@ -46262,7 +46237,7 @@ line of the first column, which was always appropriated to annunciations made by authority of the government, consisted of the following momentous words-- -{384} "La Garde Nationale est licenciée"--(the National Guard is +{384} "La Garde Nationale est licenciée"--(the National Guard is disbanded.) Had a volcano burst forth in the "place Vendome," the people of Paris @@ -46290,7 +46265,7 @@ that the agitation far exceeded that which was caused in Paris by the news of Napoleon's flight from Elba and debarkation in France.] On one of the nights when the agitation was greatest, I went to the -Rue St. Honoré, one of the great thoroughfares of the city, to witness +Rue St. Honoré, one of the great thoroughfares of the city, to witness the movements of the crowd. When I arrived I found it so thronged as to render it hazardous if not impossible to enter it. As far as by the aid of the lights, the eye could reach in either direction, the entire @@ -46344,7 +46319,7 @@ gendarmes to charge upon them, and several deaths were the result; it soon became apparent that the excitement was subsiding. After the expiration of the third day, the city began to wear a calmer aspect. The affair merely furnished a theme for animated discussions in the -cafés and for eloquent denunciations in the liberal prints. The surest +cafés and for eloquent denunciations in the liberal prints. The surest evidence, however, that all danger of a serious issue was for the present at an end, was the fact that the little scandalous journals which exist in every large city, began to serve up the subject in @@ -46368,7 +46343,7 @@ the decision was made. At the dawn of day this decision was communicated to the commanders of all the divisions of the disbanded body; and with the first rays of the sun the startling annunciation met the eyes of the astounded Parisians--"_La Garde Nationale est -licenciée!_" +licenciée!_" The very style of the decree is worthy of remark, as being in strict keeping with the rest. There is no labored preamble--no heavy article @@ -46378,7 +46353,7 @@ conciliatory and cajoling declarations--no attempt to lead off the public mind by sophistry and a maze of argument--none of this. But the simple, naked, peremptory mandate of authority not expecting to be questioned--The stern, terse, despotic "_sic vole_" of absolute -rule--"_La Garde Nationale est licenciée!_" +rule--"_La Garde Nationale est licenciée!_" The shaft being shot, the cabinet remained perfectly quiet until the effervescence and confusion created by the discharge, had subsided; @@ -46388,7 +46363,7 @@ decided accession of power; and for a time at least, impeded the progress of liberal principles in France. And although the influence of these principles must, of course, finally have prevailed, there is little doubt that the time for their ascendancy would have been longer -deferred, had the successor of Villéle possessed his sagacity, his +deferred, had the successor of Villéle possessed his sagacity, his boldness, his energy, and his knowledge of the existing state of things. @@ -46510,7 +46485,7 @@ and in wretchedly bad taste. In taking our leave of the author, we would also advise him, when he writes another romance, to "sink the shop,"--or rather the _profession_; and not to describe the wounds and bruises of his -_dramatis personæ_ with that technical precision which only surgeons +_dramatis personæ_ with that technical precision which only surgeons and anatomists can fully comprehend. We would also recommend to him, as a medical man, that when any unlucky hero of his is hereafter tied to an Indian stake, by all means to have him rescued before the pine @@ -47005,7 +46980,7 @@ harmonious order the thousand relations of life. Physical force, which to the superficial eye appears to have swayed the destinies of mankind in all ages of the world, will be found on examination to be only a mean, enabling it to wield with greater skill and force the sceptre of -its power. The conquering legions of Cæsar or Bonaparte would have +its power. The conquering legions of Cæsar or Bonaparte would have been a useless pageant, deprived of this active, governing principle. This exciting principle of society reaches its maturity and power by gradual developement. In the first stages of civilization its strength @@ -47299,7 +47274,7 @@ to the world. Did they grow to their full power and greatness under the influence of {392} monarchical institutions? Did they arouse the mind of Homer, the immortal bard of antiquity? Or the eloquence and moral sublimity of Cicero? Or the unrivalled philosophy of Socrates? -Who has not lamented over the severe fate of modern genius? Danté, +Who has not lamented over the severe fate of modern genius? Danté, Petrarch and Ariosto, minds resplendent in imagery and conception, wrote their best works when friendless exiles on a foreign shore. Cervantes wrote his Don Quixotte of undying fame, in a dungeon. @@ -47845,7 +47820,7 @@ CORYDON. APOSTROPHE -Of the Æolian Harp to the Wind. +Of the Æolian Harp to the Wind. "Wind of the dark blue mountains, @@ -47874,7 +47849,7 @@ Of the Æolian Harp to the Wind. That ne'er can live again. Once more thy breezes freshen, - And sweep the Æolian strings, + And sweep the Æolian strings, And again their notes are swelling, With the rushing of thy wings. @@ -47899,7 +47874,7 @@ Of the Æolian Harp to the Wind. And now "a dying fall." Yet how unlike the measures - Of the sweet Æolian string! + Of the sweet Æolian string! These soothe the heart that's wounded, Those plant a deeper sting. @@ -48195,7 +48170,7 @@ legible characters. Swylce Eac tha baras; Swa swithe he lufode the hea-deor Swylce he waere heora faeder, - Eac he sætte be tham haran, + Eac he sætte be tham haran, That hi mosten freo faran.-- This may be translated after somewhat the following fashion: "He took @@ -48533,7 +48508,7 @@ among the higher valleys east and west of the Mississippi. A second and more hardy people, referred to in stanza V, perhaps drove the Aztecs, as the Huns drove the Goths, southward, upon the rich regions of Mexico. These dead Mexican tribes are described on their -return--led by a kind of _amor patriæ_ instinct--to their early homes +return--led by a kind of _amor patriæ_ instinct--to their early homes in the north. Before ending this scrawl, I would correct an error into which you @@ -48771,7 +48746,7 @@ WINTER SCENES AT WILLIAMSBURG. And render e'en _absence_, a source of delight? _Euterpe_, perhaps, (ever partial, they say - To a _musical_ fête,) your concert attended, + To a _musical_ fête,) your concert attended, And pleased with your talent to sing and to play, Thought _music_ with _poetry_ happily blended-- And so, when you took up the pen to prepare @@ -48822,7 +48797,7 @@ WINTER SCENES AT WILLIAMSBURG. _Palmettoes_ escape too! but, _Party_, away! 'Tis time, to the _birthnight_ our homage to pay; E'en _the Critic_ himself, we hope may agree - To spare our "_Sic semper_--PATRI PATRIÆ!" + To spare our "_Sic semper_--PATRI PATRIÆ!" The ball of the _birthnight_, on Monday took place, And, once more, the hall of the _ancient Apollo_, @@ -49540,7 +49515,7 @@ which not only do not now exist, but which could not subsist in the present state of the world. Where important facts have not been discovered by human reason, we see its power exerted in profiting by those which accident has suggested; as in Galvani's discovery and that -of Haüy in crystallography, of vaccination and many others. +of Haüy in crystallography, of vaccination and many others. Of all the branches of human knowledge there is no one which sooner exercised the understandings of men than that of medicine, first as a @@ -50471,7 +50446,7 @@ earth, and further observation seems to confirm it. This fact has lately had a seemingly conclusive verification in England. A shaft had been sunk there in pursuit of coal, to the extraordinary depth of nearly fifteen hundred feet; and by a number of careful experiments, -the heat at the bottom was found to be 28° hotter than the average +the heat at the bottom was found to be 28° hotter than the average heat of the earth in this latitude, which would seem to show an increase at the rate of a degree of Fahrenheit for every sixty feet.[10] Should this correctly indicate the measure of the earth's @@ -50675,7 +50650,7 @@ will lose, no one can doubt who remembers, that thirteen of the best years of Mansfield's judicial life, and fourteen or fifteen of Wythe's and Pendleton's, were after the age of seventy; and that such a rule would have deprived the United States' judiciary, ten years ago, of -its present gigantic Coryphæus--confessedly one of the purest and most +its present gigantic Coryphæus--confessedly one of the purest and most powerful minds that ever filled any judgment seat. But what heightened or adequate terms of censure can be found for the New York rule, which displaces every judge at sixty? A rule which prematurely discarded @@ -51124,7 +51099,7 @@ prefix "_das_" becomes the participle rolling, weltering, wallowing; from which selfish process the transition is quite easy, to roll, or welter, or wallow another. In either case the predominant idea is, that the term describes some action natural to an animal of the order -Belluæ; for our English correlative terms are never applied to human +Belluæ; for our English correlative terms are never applied to human beings, but by way of derision or contempt expressed in figurative language. Quere: how does it accord with human pride and vanity--how far is it reconcileable to the lowest aspirations that we are ever @@ -51149,7 +51124,7 @@ brought as near to perfection as the nature of the case could possibly admit. Add to this, it is the best imaginable expedient for working off that dissatisfaction at the ways of Providence which these gallopading or galloping gentry appear to feel, at perceiving that all -the genera of the Belluæ order, (unless, perhaps, the Kangaroo may be +the genera of the Belluæ order, (unless, perhaps, the Kangaroo may be excepted,) have been so much more liberally dealt with, as to be provided with one more pair of legs than they have. It may however be well questioned, how far it is _good policy_ (to say no worse of it,) @@ -52188,7 +52163,7 @@ than one. EXTRACTS FROM MY MEXICAN JOURNAL. -Festival of San Agustin de Las Cuevas--El Paséo de Las Vigas. +Festival of San Agustin de Las Cuevas--El Paséo de Las Vigas. MAY 23d, 1825.--Yesterday and to-day we attended the festival at _San @@ -52276,7 +52251,7 @@ FEBRUARY 26th, 1826. I have just returned from witnessing the gayest sight which Mexico ever presents. This is the promenade of _Las Vigas_. -_El Paséo de Las Vigas_ is a beautiful road just without the inhabited +_El Paséo de Las Vigas_ is a beautiful road just without the inhabited part of the city, at its south-eastern extremity. It is bordered by double rows of aspins and willows; and upon one side of it, passes the canal which connects the lakes of _Chalco_ and _Tescuco_. Though it is @@ -53775,7 +53750,7 @@ spirit departs shall the child live--thy child and mine, Morella's. But thy days shall be days of sorrow--that sorrow which is the most lasting of impressions, as the cypress is the most enduring of trees. For the hours of thy happiness are over, and Joy is not gathered twice -in a life, as the roses of Pæstum twice in a year. Thou shalt not, +in a life, as the roses of Pæstum twice in a year. Thou shalt not, then, play the Teian with Time, but, being ignorant of the myrtle and the vine, thou shalt bear about with thee thy shroud on earth, like the Moslemin at Mecca.' @@ -54472,7 +54447,7 @@ stanza in question runs thus: [For want of proper type we cannot give it in the Greek.--_Ed._] - Videtur mihi ille æqualis Diis + Videtur mihi ille æqualis Diis Esse Vir, qui oppositus tibi Sedet, et prope te dulce loquentem audit Et rides amabiliter. @@ -54670,7 +54645,7 @@ unless we observe further the _aliter baukos, jucundus_; for it is literally a very pleasant and right merry way of getting rid of the difficulty of a choice by the people. So far the Greek. As for the Latin, I have consulted every Dictionary in my possession, from -Ainsworth and Young, up to _old Thoma Thomasius_, printed _Coventriæ +Ainsworth and Young, up to _old Thoma Thomasius_, printed _Coventriæ Septimo Idus, Februarii 1630_, and can find nothing resembling our Caucus, but the three headed robber _Cacus_, who by paronomasia, might be considered as the grand prototype of that modern monster, which has @@ -55264,7 +55239,7 @@ institutions and concerns? There are many things in our own internal policy which might be judiciously reformed: The allusions of the letter writer to the system of fixing the age by law at which judges shall leave the bench, are expressed in his best style, and forcibly -remind us of the veneration and respect due to the "gigantic Coryphæus +remind us of the veneration and respect due to the "gigantic Coryphæus of the United States' Judiciary." Our excellent and able friend who writes the article on "_The Waltz @@ -55327,7 +55302,7 @@ probably become a contributor to our columns. It would be uncourteous and in violation of our feelings, to omit noticing the poetical contributions to this number. We particularly -recommend to our readers the "_Apostrophe of an Æolian Harp_," a +recommend to our readers the "_Apostrophe of an Æolian Harp_," a strain of harmony and sentiment struck by a master hand from the chords of a truly poetic lyre.--"_The Last Gift_" is also the product of a fertile and glowing spirit. It comes to us wrapt in the mists of @@ -56848,7 +56823,7 @@ Whilst I gazed with increasing admiration over the twilight scene, and endeavored to stretch my vision into the dusky regions far away, my attention was suddenly arrested by sparks of dazzling brilliancy which shot through the pines on the Blue Ridge. In the olden time, when -Jupiter's thunderbolts were manufactured in the caverns of Ætna, never +Jupiter's thunderbolts were manufactured in the caverns of Ætna, never did such glittering scintillations fly from under the forge hammers of Cyclops. It was the sun darting his topmost rays over the mountain, and dispersing their sparkling threads in the bright and cloudless @@ -57385,7 +57360,7 @@ lived at different eras, did not affect the minds of good Catholics three centuries since, more than the same discrepancy does the modern reader of Anacharsis. -[Footnote 1: A Holy Family, only 9½ by 13 inches in the national +[Footnote 1: A Holy Family, only 9½ by 13 inches in the national gallery in England, was purchased for 3000 guineas.] G. C. @@ -57600,7 +57575,7 @@ perfection of pieces designed for theatrical representation, than is the preservation of an individual and prominent interest in the hero of a novel. The narrow compass of a couple of duodecimos, is not more than sufficient for the painting of one chief character, with the -sketches of the minor _personæ_, necessary to sustain the interest of +sketches of the minor _personæ_, necessary to sustain the interest of a plot. An attempt at double teaming a novel, with two sets of heroes, invariably results in destroying that prominence of interest, which a closer adherence to the legitimate form of the fable, naturally and @@ -57918,7 +57893,7 @@ were written abroad, and I do not think that novel writing is his forte. He has excelled in the other walks of literature so greatly that he need not covet the fame of a writer of fictitious history. Brown unfortunately belonged to the _satanic_ school of our countryman -Godwin, and all his _dramatis personæ_, plots, incidents and pictures +Godwin, and all his _dramatis personæ_, plots, incidents and pictures partake of the gloom and ferocity of that school; but Brown was unquestionably a man of genius, and capable of giving lustre to the literary reputation of his country. Godwin was his model, as Scott @@ -57941,7 +57916,7 @@ The _dramatic_ romance of Scott and Cooper is now preferred to all others, and has caused Brown's novels to be cast aside. Cooper's rise to fame was as rapid as it was deserved. He had been for some years an officer in the American Navy, where he acquired a knowledge of all the -minutiæ of nautical life, which was of great service to him in the +minutiæ of nautical life, which was of great service to him in the composition of some of his tales. These are justly considered as his best. They display a perfect intimacy with sea life, and his characters, incidents and sentiments are such as belong to the @@ -58364,7 +58339,7 @@ LETTER ELEVENTH. Malmaison, Tomb of the Ex-Empress Josephine--Engine for Conveying Water to Versailles and St. Cloud--St. Germain en Laye--Nanterre--St. -Geneviéve. +Geneviéve. PARIS, ----. @@ -58402,7 +58377,7 @@ mischievous urchin himself, treading upon roses, is placed in the centre, and on the pedestal beneath him, this vindictive couplet is inscribed: - Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit être, + Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit être, Qui que ce soit, voici ton Maitre. We quitted the shades of Malmaison with regret, and proceeded to the @@ -58451,7 +58426,7 @@ heart is enshrined in a paltry looking altar, before which a lamp is constantly burning, and upon which is an inscription informing the reader why it was erected. But what renders the palace at Saint Germain peculiarly interesting, is its having been the residence of -the Duchess de la Vallière; and in the ceiling of one of the rooms +the Duchess de la Vallière; and in the ceiling of one of the rooms appropriated to her use there is a trap door, through which it is supposed her enamored sovereign descended when he visited her clandestinely. On the left of the castle is a terrace one mile in @@ -58467,12 +58442,12 @@ now-a-days, many of the Parisian gentry pass the summer months here. We finished the day by dining at a neat auberge, (inn) with a garden teeming with flowers just in front of our parlor. Returning home we passed through the village of Nanterre, (the birthplace of St. -Geneviéve) and stopped an instant to buy some of the cakes for which +Geneviéve) and stopped an instant to buy some of the cakes for which it is renowned; they are merely buns, and we did not think them deserving of their fame. _Nanterre beer_ and _Nanterre sausages_ are also held in great estimation, but of these we did not taste, being quite satisfied with our trial of the cakes. I imagine you know the -history of St. Geneviéve; though lest you should not, I will tell you +history of St. Geneviéve; though lest you should not, I will tell you in a few words that she was a shepherdess, whose virtues and piety caused her to be canonized after her death, and made the patron saint of Paris. There is a lovely picture of her at the Louvre, by Pierre @@ -58485,7 +58460,7 @@ LEONTINE. LETTER TWELFTH. -Lafayette and his Family--Sévres Manufactory--Palace of St. +Lafayette and his Family--Sévres Manufactory--Palace of St. Cloud--Madame de Genlis--Savoyards--Ballet of Mars and Venus. @@ -58499,7 +58474,7 @@ brave General Lafayette and his family! On Wednesday he came with his son, Mr. George Lafayette, to see Mr. Danville, and the latter presented us to them. The print you have seen of this distinguished patriarch, is a correct likeness; and his manners are as benevolent as -his countenance. He has a soirée on every Wednesday night, and we have +his countenance. He has a soirée on every Wednesday night, and we have gladly accepted the kind and pressing invitation he gave each of us to attend them. The ladies of the family, consisting of his daughters, his grand-daughters, and daughter-in-law Madame G. Lafayette, have @@ -58509,7 +58484,7 @@ indebted to Mrs. Danville; who, rightly conjecturing it would be gratifying to us to know this celebrated lady, and being well acquainted with her, requested her permission to present us to her. This was readily granted, and this morning appointed for the visit. -Accordingly, after an early ride to the Sévres manufactory of +Accordingly, after an early ride to the Sévres manufactory of porcelain and the palace of Saint Cloud, the most splendid of all the king's habitations, we repaired to her residence. On arriving we were conducted up stairs by a tidy looking _femme de chambre_ and ushered @@ -58529,8 +58504,8 @@ she offered her hand to each, and as soon as we were seated entered into conversation with a degree of vivacity that quite surprised us; we were still more so, at her vanity. She talked a great deal about her own works, and in their praise! We asked her if she continued to -play on the harp. "Oh oui! très bien!" she replied. "And on the piano -and the guitar, Madame?" "Oh, oui, tout, tout, très bien!" She told us +play on the harp. "Oh oui! très bien!" she replied. "And on the piano +and the guitar, Madame?" "Oh, oui, tout, tout, très bien!" She told us she often practised on the harp and composed in prose at the same time; and that while reciting verses aloud in a distinct voice and with strict attention to punctuation and emphasis, she could read a @@ -58571,7 +58546,7 @@ it a variety of tricks in order to gain a few sous by their exhibition. The Boulevard abounds with these little wanderers, and their marmosets. -This evening we are going to a fête at the Tivoli Garden; the _New_ +This evening we are going to a fête at the Tivoli Garden; the _New_ Tivoli as it is called; the old one (which I am told was far handsomer) has been converted into ground for building. We have seen the Ballet of Mars and Venus, at the grand opera; nothing can be more @@ -58584,7 +58559,7 @@ LEONTINE. LETTER THIRTEENTH. -Fête at Tivoli--The Catacombs--Cemetery of Montmartre--Abattoirs--Lady +Fête at Tivoli--The Catacombs--Cemetery of Montmartre--Abattoirs--Lady Morgan--Mrs. Opie--A Quaker Meeting. @@ -58612,7 +58587,7 @@ thrown open, thus displaying the second figure, to the form of which its edges are trimmed. As no person was visible, the threads were undoubtedly passed through the scenes of the miniature stage into the hand of the skilful operator,--for skilful he or she was who conducted -the business. When tired of strolling we entered a fine café, situated +the business. When tired of strolling we entered a fine café, situated in the centre of the garden, and refreshed ourselves with ice creams; afterwards, attracted by the sound of music, we repaired to an open space, where an orchestra was erected and a band of musicians were @@ -58643,7 +58618,7 @@ inform you of our disappointment as respects seeing the catacombs. They are closed at present by order of the government--I _believe_ on account of the danger there is in visiting them. We have been to the "cemetery of Montmartre," or "Field of Repose," as it is likewise -styled. It is of much older date than "Pére la Chaise," but not so +styled. It is of much older date than "Pére la Chaise," but not so extensive, nor does it contain such handsome monuments; there are however some shady, melancholy dells and moss covered tombs, that render it peculiarly interesting. Vestris the celebrated dancer and @@ -58682,7 +58657,7 @@ motives of curiosity on Sunday. A quaker meeting in Paris! you will exclaim. Even so my dear, for what is there on the face of the earth (that depends not on _soil_ or _climate_) which may not be found in this bustling capital? The meeting was held in a house in the Champs -Elysèes, belonging to a quaker family with whom Mr. D. was acquainted, +Elysèes, belonging to a quaker family with whom Mr. D. was acquainted, and who gave him a cheerful permission to bring with him whenever he wished it, any friends desirous of going there. We were shewn into a neat parlor, where about twenty persons were sitting in solemn @@ -58700,7 +58675,7 @@ LEONTINE. LETTER FOURTEENTH. -Soirée at General Lafayette's--Benjamin Constant--Messrs. Perrier, +Soirée at General Lafayette's--Benjamin Constant--Messrs. Perrier, Laffitte and Ternaux, &c.--"Conservatory of Arts and Trades"--Diorama--Georama--Neorama--"Royal Printing Office"--Manufactory of Plate Glass--Hospital of the Quinze @@ -58714,14 +58689,14 @@ _Dear Jane:_ Another busy week of pleasure and amusement has glided by since you have heard from us, and two evenings of it have been spent at two -delightful soirées. The first at Madame de N----'s, the second at the +delightful soirées. The first at Madame de N----'s, the second at the gallant old General Lafayette's, in the rue d'Anjou; where he has a suite of small and neat apartments illuminated for the reception of his expected guests on every Tuesday evening. We made our debut there about 9 o'clock and found them crowded. Among the throng were many celebrated and interesting personages, for the worthy and enlightened of all nations seem ever ready to do homage to the virtuous patriarch -of Lagrange. At his soirées the greatest ease prevails--the +of Lagrange. At his soirées the greatest ease prevails--the refreshments are simple and plentiful, and in compliment to the Americans and English, tea is always served, a custom not practised among the French. We again saw Sir Charles and Lady Morgan and Mrs. @@ -59103,7 +59078,7 @@ attention to the promise and hazards of the vegetable creation, amid the cheerful labors of agriculture. Nunc omnis ager, nunc omnis parturit arbos; - Nunc frondent sylvæ, nunc _formosissimus annus_. + Nunc frondent sylvæ, nunc _formosissimus annus_. But I am sure that my subject has an interest, independent of the delightful associations of the season at which I write, and that most @@ -59479,7 +59454,7 @@ wily and unprincipled statesman Fouche, how does she act? In all the agony and concentrated grief which preys upon her heart, she seeks in his chamber the solitary chieftain, whose martial prowess had shaken all the thrones of Europe, and filled the world with a fame which -eclipsed that of the Cæsars and Alexanders--she seats herself in his +eclipsed that of the Cæsars and Alexanders--she seats herself in his lap--she strokes back the hair from his forehead: in the mild and faltering tone of injured honor, she asks him if it be so? He answers no! And with beauty, grace and tears supplicating, who could have @@ -59623,12 +59598,12 @@ refer them to Broussais's Physiology, ch. 13, sec 2.] It is easy to deduce from the foregoing, that what is called character or reputation, in the eyes of the world, is infinitely more necessary to woman than to man: her virtue is the true sensitive plant, which is -blighted even by the breath of suspicion. Cæsar would not have a wife +blighted even by the breath of suspicion. Cæsar would not have a wife upon whom suspicion fell, even though convinced of her innocence. Man may, by reformation, regain a lost character, but woman rarely can. Man may, and often ought to rise superior to the opinion of the world; woman never can. Hence the bold assertion of Rousseau, in his _Emile_: -"L'opinion est le tombeau de la virtue parmi les hommes et son trône +"L'opinion est le tombeau de la virtue parmi les hommes et son trône parmi les femmes." Under these circumstances, does not the guilt of the individual, who undermines or asperses the female character, become a thousand times more atrocious? In regard to woman, Madame de @@ -59705,7 +59680,7 @@ and the first admirably exhibits the opinion which that deep searching and wily politician entertained of the candor of statesmen. "But why is not M. de S. here?" said M. de Talleyrand. "M. de S. est malade," said an acquaintance. "Ha! ha!" replies the old statesman, shaking his -head, "M. de S. est malade! mais qu'est ce donc qu'il gagne à être +head, "M. de S. est malade! mais qu'est ce donc qu'il gagne à être malade!" Again, "which do you like best, M. de Talleyrand," said a lady, "Madame de ---- or myself?" The reply was not so decisive as the fair and accomplished questioner expected. "But now," said she, @@ -59816,7 +59791,7 @@ bears her husband. In other cases, after marriage, want of something to engage her attention, and exercise her powers of pleasing; of something that may amuse and excite her; in fine, as Mademoiselle de L'Enclos, who will readily be acknowledged first rate authority on -this subject, expresses it, "_La necessité d'avoir quelque +this subject, expresses it, "_La necessité d'avoir quelque gallantrie_," may induce her to lavish upon her husband, all those attentions, finesses, and displays of feeling, which she before bestowed upon the world at large. In this case, she makes her husband @@ -60016,7 +59991,7 @@ stratagem Rousseau thinks far beyond what a boy of the same age would have planned, and hence he comes to the conclusion, that "_La ruse est un talent naturel au sex_"--he thinks this a wise dispensation of nature, for, says he, "La femme a tout contre elle nos defauts, sa -timidité, sa faiblesse; elle n'a pour elle que son art et sa beaute. +timidité, sa faiblesse; elle n'a pour elle que son art et sa beaute. N'est il pas juste qu'elle cultive l'un et l'autre?" When these devices and stratagems, which the softer sex practice for the attainment of their ends, become too apparent, they disgust; when well @@ -60066,7 +60041,7 @@ gives to the imagination. Now, what is there so well calculated to rouse the imagination and excite our anticipations, as the listless, inactive infant,--slumbering from the moment at which he takes his milky food to the moment at which he awakes to require it again? What -is that infant to become? What is to be his destiny? What the rôle +is that infant to become? What is to be his destiny? What the rôle which he is to play in the great drama of life? He is now at the starting point; the future lies latent within him. He is to be nursed and taken by the hand, and led gently along the path of life, until @@ -60705,7 +60680,7 @@ continents almost like the deluded victim of knight errantry, impelled by a spirit which urges forward with irresistible impetuosity, whilst it seems to have lost its destination. The world stands amazed whilst this brilliant meteor is playing above the horizon. One ascribes his -course to the waywardness of nature, and calls him a _lusus naturæ_; +course to the waywardness of nature, and calls him a _lusus naturæ_; another traces his character to the diseases of the body; another tells you he was ambitious, and that all his schemes of promotion and self-aggrandizement were wrecked. @@ -61038,7 +61013,7 @@ been fond of a girl who had that blemish. I have rarely known a very devoted lover who did not love all the peculiarities and even oddities of his mistress. We are all like the Frenchman, whose mistress had a _twisted nose_, of which the lover used to say, "C'est au moins la -plus belle irregularité du monde." Hence, for the very same reason +plus belle irregularité du monde." Hence, for the very same reason that Dr. Johnson remarks, "if there is any writer whose genius can embellish impropriety, or whose authority can make error venerable, _his_ works are the proper object of criticism,"--would I say, that if @@ -61094,21 +61069,21 @@ admiration which attaches to this miscalled accomplishment at the present day. The Romans, perhaps the most accomplished and polite of the ancients, held the art in very low esteem. Indeed we find Cicero striving with all the force of his matchless eloquence, to vindicate -his friend Muræna from the charge of being a dancer, preferred against +his friend Muræna from the charge of being a dancer, preferred against him by Cato. So conscious is he of the weight of the imputation, that he makes it the subject of one branch of his defence, and, in a digression, recounts the brilliant services and devoted patriotism of his client's ancestors, to discountenance a charge affecting so seriously, the value and dignity of his character. - "Tempestivi convivii, amæni loci, + "Tempestivi convivii, amæni loci, Multarum deliciarum, comes est extrema saltatio." The Greeks, we are told, held the art of dancing in higher estimation, and it is said, considered graceful dancing one of the necessary constituents to the character of an accomplished gentleman; but the very word, and indeed the only one used by them to express the motion, -[Greek: orchêsis], signified _mimicry_; plainly intimating its +[Greek: orchêsis], signified _mimicry_; plainly intimating its derivation from the buffoons and jesters of the stage, and consequently it never could have had much popularity in their more refined and elegant circles. As a religious rite it was in use, it @@ -61381,7 +61356,7 @@ mother saw this and called me a genius. My father wept for joy, and bought me a treatise on Nosology. Before I was breeched I had not only mastered the treatise, but had collected into a common-place book all that is said on the subject, by Pliny, Aristotle, Alexander Ross, -Minutius Felix, Hermanus Pictorius, Del Rio, Villarêt, Bartholinus, +Minutius Felix, Hermanus Pictorius, Del Rio, Villarêt, Bartholinus, and Sir Thomas Browne. I now began to feel my way in the science, and soon came to @@ -61466,13 +61441,13 @@ the artist, and held up my proboscis. 'A thousand pounds'--said I. -'You shall have them'-said he--'what a piece of Virtû!' So he paid me +'You shall have them'-said he--'what a piece of Virtû!' So he paid me the money, and made a sketch of my nose. I took rooms in Jermyn street, sent his Majesty the ninety-ninth edition of the Nosology with a portrait of the author, and his Royal Highness of Touch-me-not invited me to dinner. -We were all Lions and _Recherchés_. +We were all Lions and _Recherchés_. There was a Grand Turk from Stamboul. He said that the angels were horses, cocks, and bulls--that {516} somebody in the sixth heaven had @@ -61490,9 +61465,9 @@ There was Theologos Theology. He talked of Eusebius and Arianus--Heresy and the Council of Nice--Consubstantialism, Homousios, and Homouioisios. -There was Fricassée from the Rocher de Cancale. He mentioned Latour, +There was Fricassée from the Rocher de Cancale. He mentioned Latour, Markbrunnen and Mareschino--Muriton of red tongue, and Cauliflowers -with Velouté sauce--veal _à la_ St. Menehoult, Marinade _à la_ St. +with Velouté sauce--veal _à la_ St. Menehoult, Marinade _à la_ St. Florentin, and orange jellies _en mosaiques_. There was Signor Tintontintino from Florence. He spoke of Cimabue, @@ -61508,8 +61483,8 @@ moon was called Bendis in Thrace, Bubastis in Egypt, Dian in Rome, and Artemis in Greece. There was Delphinus Polyglot. He told us what had become of the -eighty-three lost tragedies of Æschylus--of the fifty-four orations of -Isæus--of the three hundred and ninety-one speeches of Lysias--of the +eighty-three lost tragedies of Æschylus--of the fifty-four orations of +Isæus--of the three hundred and ninety-one speeches of Lysias--of the hundred and eighty treatises of Theophrastus--of the eighth book of the Conic Sections of Apollonius--of Pindar's Hymns and Dithyrambics, and the five and forty Tragedies of Homer Junior. @@ -61518,7 +61493,7 @@ There was a modern Platonist. He quoted Porphyry, Iamblichus, Plotinus, Proclus, Hierocles, Maximus, Tyrius, and Syrianus. There was a human-perfectibility man. He quoted Turgot, Price, -Priestly, Condorcet, De Staël, and the "Ambitious Student in rather +Priestly, Condorcet, De Staël, and the "Ambitious Student in rather ill health." There was myself. I talked of Pictorius, Del Rio, Alexander Ross, @@ -61575,7 +61550,7 @@ Bludenuff. It was too bad--it was not to be borne. I grew angry. This was sufficient. The next morning I shot off his nose at six o'clock, and then called upon my friends. -'Bête!'--said the first. +'Bête!'--said the first. 'Fool!'--said the second. @@ -61703,7 +61678,7 @@ of Virginian history, he was bigoted, obstinate and credulous; and, considered as the first of books, "the Metamorphoses of Ovid, done into English by Mr. George Sandys, the company's treasurer." He contended that Clayton, the botanist, was greater in learning, than -Linnæus; and, told with much indignation, the minutiæ of Clayton's +Linnæus; and, told with much indignation, the minutiæ of Clayton's quarrel with Gronovius, the Amsterdam printer. My uncle was experienced in the diseases of dogs and horses, and perfectly familiar with the technical jargon of the racing calendar. He had travelled in @@ -61757,7 +61732,7 @@ through its darkened walls, fancy might easily personify her into Fame, hovering over the tomb of Genius. The coachman, ostler, and dining room servants, are all important -characters in the _dramatis personæ_ of a Virginian household. With +characters in the _dramatis personæ_ of a Virginian household. With them I was a pet. The first, taught me to drive--the second, initiated me into the mysteries of Tree Hill and Broad Rock; while the third, corrected with severity, any breach of etiquette or violation of @@ -62055,7 +62030,7 @@ Smollett, between whose different productions there was scarce a family likeness, we have had a succession of _dynasties_ reigning over the regions of romance. We have had the Ratcliffe dynasty, the Edgeworth dynasty, and the Scott dynasty; each, like the family of the -Cæsars, passing from good to bad, and from bad to worse, until each +Cæsars, passing from good to bad, and from bad to worse, until each has run out. Partial movements in the provinces have occasionally set up the standard of rival aspirants: but these have soon passed away. Heroines from the bogs, and heroes from the highlands of Scotland, or @@ -62411,7 +62386,7 @@ them _at once_, heart and hand, in the various and spirit-stirring adventures which befall them. Horse-Shoe Robinson, who derives his nick-name of Horse-Shoe (his -proper _prænomen_ being Galbraith)--from the two-fold circumstance of +proper _prænomen_ being Galbraith)--from the two-fold circumstance of being a blacksmith, and of living in a little nook of land hemmed in by a semi-circular bend of water, is fullly entitled to the character of "an original." He is the life and soul of the drama--the bone and @@ -63810,7 +63785,7 @@ LETTERS FROM A SISTER. LETTER FIFTEENTH. -Foundling Hospital--Hotel Carnavalet--Count de Ségur. +Foundling Hospital--Hotel Carnavalet--Count de Ségur. PARIS, ----. @@ -63845,19 +63820,19 @@ instructed until old enough to be put to some trade. After breakfast, we visited a place of a more pleasing description; this was the Hotel de Carnavalet, formerly the residence of Madame de -Sévigné. It is now inhabited by a Monsieur de P----, an eminent +Sévigné. It is now inhabited by a Monsieur de P----, an eminent engineer, with whom we have become acquainted, and who kindly invited us there, to see the very chamber and cabinet occupied by that lady, when she penned those charming letters to the Countess de Grignan. The window of the cabinet overlooks a small garden, in which is a -flourishing yew tree, that was planted by Madame de Sévigné herself. +flourishing yew tree, that was planted by Madame de Sévigné herself. As I viewed it, and thought of her who reared it, Lord Byron's beautiful lines on the cypress came forcibly to my mind. "Dark tree! still sad when other's grief is fled, The only constant mourner o'er the dead." -The charming old Count de Ségur has returned to town, and we have paid +The charming old Count de Ségur has returned to town, and we have paid him our respects at his residence in the Rue Duphot. He was here yesterday, and invited us to dine with him _en famille_ to-day; we are going, and I shall close my letter with an account of the party, when @@ -63871,7 +63846,7 @@ delightfully at the Count's! On alighting there, we were for some minutes sole tenants of the parlor, and thus had an opportunity of examining a beautiful portrait that decorates the wall of the room, and which we afterwards learned, is that of the late Countess de -Ségur. It was painted during her youth, and if the resemblance be a +Ségur. It was painted during her youth, and if the resemblance be a good one, she must have been a lovely creature! Our observations were interrupted by the entrance of the Count from his library, adjoining the parlor--and our circle was soon increased by the addition of @@ -63879,13 +63854,13 @@ several French gentlemen, to whom he introduced us, but I quite forget their names. One of them had recently been in Greece, and described a horrible scene of carnage he witnessed there. In the evening the Count had many visiters, this being the time he prefers his friends to call -on him. Among those who came in, was the authoress of "Adèle de +on him. Among those who came in, was the authoress of "Adèle de Senange," that interesting novel we read together last winter. You may depend I heard the name of Madame de S---- announced with great satisfaction. She entered, and we beheld a plain looking woman, apparently about fifty years old. Then there was Monsieur de Marbois, who wrote the history of Louisiana, one of the United States; and -Count Philip de Ségur, author of the "Russian Campaign," who is +Count Philip de Ségur, author of the "Russian Campaign," who is considered the ablest military historian of the age. I am now so sleepy I can write no more, so bid you, in the name of all of us, a fond adieu. @@ -63966,7 +63941,7 @@ refractory, and the trouble he had to force it along excited our mirth; then my saddle girth broke, and this was another source of merriment. After riding over the valley, we alighted at the hunting seat of the unhappy father of the murdered Duke d'Enghien, the present -prince of Condé, who is said to be yet overwhelmed with affliction at +prince of Condé, who is said to be yet overwhelmed with affliction at the untimely and cruel end of his noble son. The place is called the "Rendezvous;" it is shady and pleasant--the house a plain stone building: we did not enter it, but partook of some cool milk beneath @@ -63987,7 +63962,7 @@ Rousseau; the cup and saucer of Gretry; his comb and spectacles, and the antique little spinet upon which he tried his compositions. A flower garden adjoins the mansion, and there we saw a rose bush that was planted by Jean Jacques, and the stone bench upon which he used to -sit while writing his "Héloise." From the bay tree that shades it, I +sit while writing his "Héloise." From the bay tree that shades it, I procured a leaf for your herbarium. A rivulet meanders through the garden, and empties into a small lake, near which is the bust of Gretry, supported by a column, with an inscription in gilt letters. @@ -64021,7 +63996,7 @@ on presenting our tickets, the captain of the guards handed us to them, and the throng yielded to him without hesitation. The music was very fine, and we had a close view of the Bourbons and their suite. They were sumptuously clad, and the King and Duke and Duchess of -Angoulême seemed very devout. The Duchess has a most melancholy +Angoulême seemed very devout. The Duchess has a most melancholy expression of countenance, owing perhaps to the sad vicissitudes of her youth. Neither she, her spouse or uncle are popular. The Duchess de Berri is exceedingly so, and is considered one of the most @@ -64218,7 +64193,7 @@ LAFAYETTE. Chief of a distant armed host, he wrote And bade the legislative band beware! Then Jacobinic tigers growled, muttering - A Cæsar! Slay him! At an army's head + A Cæsar! Slay him! At an army's head He dictates to the Senate! Hush! he comes-- Alone, unarmed, save with the sword of truth, And beards the monsters in their very den. @@ -65370,7 +65345,7 @@ estimation of a goose, as imagination can possibly conceive.] At the head of these fashions or customs, pre-eminent above the rest, we find the Conversation Party, the _Soiree_, and the Squeeze. The -first is admitted to be an emigrè from Italy, although the term is +first is admitted to be an emigrè from Italy, although the term is here anglicised; the second is from France, and the third from ---- nobody knows where, unless from our mother country Great Britain; for Johnson gives both a Saxon and a Welsh etymology to it, both meaning @@ -65406,7 +65381,7 @@ Dumb Asylums would be in Congress Hall, attempting to take a debating part in that _other_ Tower of Babel, as John Randolph, with his customary felicity of conception, used to call it. -Of the _Soirée_, I may truly assert that it is an exotic, still so +Of the _Soirée_, I may truly assert that it is an exotic, still so uncongenial, so illy suited to our people, and even to their organs of speech, that not one in a thousand has learned so much as to pronounce its name correctly. Some, even of those who are so far Frenchified as @@ -65426,18 +65401,18 @@ made by etymologists of the highest reputation. For instance, all Virginia sportsmen, living near fresh water marshes, know well, that at _so-russ-in parties_, (as they universally call them,) the great object is _to kill and eat fat birds_. But a principal object of a -_soirée_ party being _to catch and use_ what may well be figuratively +_soirée_ party being _to catch and use_ what may well be figuratively called _fat birds_, the substitution of the term "_so-russ-in party_" -for a "_soirée party_" is amply justified upon all etymological +for a "_soirée party_" is amply justified upon all etymological principles. I therefore take the liberty of strongly recommending it, -unless our _soirée_-giving gentry would suspend their operations long +unless our _soirée_-giving gentry would suspend their operations long enough, at least to learn from some native French teacher how to invite a French gentleman to their parties, in language that he -himself would understand; since to ask him to a swàr-ree or sò-rée +himself would understand; since to ask him to a swà r-ree or sò-rée would be quite unintelligible. To gratify the curious I have consulted a friend as to the literal -meaning of the French word "_soirée_," (being no French scholar +meaning of the French word "_soirée_," (being no French scholar myself) and find that the term, like thousands of others in all languages, has been pressed from its original signification into its present service, by a sort of metonymy, as the rhetoricians call it; @@ -65469,7 +65444,7 @@ have since disclosed them to other tyroes in the pursuit of education. The _Squeeze_ I shall endeavor more particularly to describe; since my reminiscences, although "few and far between," are still so vivid, that I can venture to delineate them without fear of their suffering, -at least from forgetfulness. It is true that I cannot say, as Æneas +at least from forgetfulness. It is true that I cannot say, as Æneas did to queen Dido, of _his_ sufferings at and after the siege of Troy--"quorum pars _magna_ fui;" as one or two experiments quite sufficed for me; but I can truly apply the same line to myself, could @@ -65521,7 +65496,7 @@ literally half naked. With equal pain and wonderment I observed, that by some invisible machinery, the circulation of the blood was so checked on the visible side of the shoulder strap, as to give a livid appearance to the contiguous skin; while the opposite edges of the -_scapulæ_ (I would not for the world, in such a case, say +_scapulæ_ (I would not for the world, in such a case, say _shoulder-blades_,) were forced as near touching as they could be without dislocation. _This_, thought I to myself, must surely be a fashion invented by some bright etherial genius, regardless of bodily @@ -65558,7 +65533,7 @@ that its most stylish mode then consisted in a kind of alert vigorous movement, which was most truly but somewhat coarsely called, "kicking out." This, it was manifest, could not _there_ be executed according to the law "in that case made and provided," without imminent danger -to the anterior tibiæ of the legs--in vulgar parlance, the +to the anterior tibiæ of the legs--in vulgar parlance, the "shin-bones" of the parties concerned. It was therefore with much apprehension of the danger, at least to "the woman kind," that I awaited the incipient gesticulations of this cotillion party. My fears @@ -65668,7 +65643,7 @@ dressed servant whom he mistook for the master of the house, manifesting, not only much surprise, but some strong symptoms of resistance, friend Ephraim (as I beg leave to call him,) deemed it best to say--"I have some particular business with the lady, who sent -for me herself." This at once proved an "_open sesamè_," and in he +for me herself." This at once proved an "_open sesamè_," and in he marched, putting as bold a face on the matter as he could, and anxiously hoping to find, in a few minutes, some friends to keep him in countenance. But alas! it is not in man that liveth, to form hopes @@ -65710,7 +65685,7 @@ contained in his "knowledge box." Great was his pleasure and wonderment to find her perfectly at home as to all these mysteries; so much so, indeed, that he could hardly suppress the exclamation, "Oh! that my old woman knew half as much." All things, however, must have -an end, although friend Ephraim began to fear that the tête à tête +an end, although friend Ephraim began to fear that the tête à tête between the lady and himself never would; and when their chat was fast dying away, like the flickering blaze in the nearly empty socket of a candlestick, suddenly the doors were thrown open, and in rushed @@ -66432,7 +66407,7 @@ would be a pleasant thing if we could "Call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball and of Algarsife, - And who had Canacè to wife, {558} + And who had Canacè to wife, {558} That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartan king did ride."[6] @@ -66445,7 +66420,7 @@ Westminster Abbey, where for a long time these words were upon his tomb: "Galfridus Chaucer, vates et fama poesis - Maternæ hac sacra sum tumulatis humo." + Maternæ hac sacra sum tumulatis humo." [Footnote 4: It is in a letter to his son, where he is remarking upon the merits of the different sects that we find this odd @@ -66506,7 +66481,7 @@ does much better "unapparelled in the gorgeous eloquence of a Pindar." Truly, the obscure author of this one ballad stands alone--the father of English heroic poetry. - "Res gestæ, regumque, ducumque, et tristia bella, + "Res gestæ, regumque, ducumque, et tristia bella, Quo scribi possent numero monstravit Homerus." But he has attained excellence, without following the path which Homer @@ -66630,7 +66605,7 @@ proceed to his more striking excellencies. The ancients were particularly fond of allegory. A field as vast as could be desired was here opened for their poets. The whole heathen -mythology was a splendid allegory. Virgil's Ænead may be called an +mythology was a splendid allegory. Virgil's Ænead may be called an allegory. As Eneas conducted the remnant of his countrymen from the Trojan ruins to a new settlement in Italy, so Augustus, from the ruins of the aristocracy, modelled a completely new government. I have not @@ -66656,7 +66631,7 @@ imagined every rock to be the pent-house of some spirit; when the timid walked abroad in fear and trembling, and when in consequence of this feeling allegorical paintings even of a wild sort seemed natural and agreeable to truth, its introduction into the drama met with but -little applause. Æschylus has often been criticised severely for his +little applause. Æschylus has often been criticised severely for his frequent errors of this sort; one of which is his introduction of STRENGTH, as a character who assists Vulcan in binding Prometheus to his rock. @@ -66672,8 +66647,8 @@ great aptness in poems of a descriptive nature. We thus find that pastoral poetry often admits of an allegorical vein. Spenser knew this, and has given us a happy instance in that eclogue of his Shepherd's Calendar, in which he represents the union of the rivers -Briqoq and Mulla. He has still happier instances in _Æcloga tertia_ -and in _Æcloga quinta_. +Briqoq and Mulla. He has still happier instances in _Æcloga tertia_ +and in _Æcloga quinta_. Spenser likewise acted as master of ceremonies to pastoral poetry in its introduction to English literature. The great father of this order @@ -66885,7 +66860,7 @@ Lucina fer opem_ ceremony, while a lewd city clerk stood by, and made so many studied surmises--_sotto voce_. Unless unity of time and place was observed in a drama, these 'line and rule Greekling Franks' damned it. The consequence was that one plot--one method--Aristotle's [Greek: -go êythos]--was worked upon by successive dramatists, too timid to +go êythos]--was worked upon by successive dramatists, too timid to 'blanch the beaten track,' until it was threadbare. These fetters which Shakspeare snapped, Jonson hugged. @@ -67039,9 +67014,9 @@ divine verse." But it is most in his Satan, that Milton's way becomes the "_terribile via_" of Michael Angelo, which no one before or since has been able to tread. -Comparisons have been instituted between Milton and Dantè; but however +Comparisons have been instituted between Milton and Dantè; but however excellent the Florentine may be, he had not the grasp, nor the soaring -power of the English poet. The images of Dantè, pass by like the +power of the English poet. The images of Dantè, pass by like the phantasms on a wall, clear indeed, and picturesque; but although true, in a great measure to fact, wanting in reality. They have complexion and shape, but not flesh or blood. Milton's earthly creatures have the @@ -67234,10 +67209,10 @@ example, that the sailors of Virgil should speak the sea phrases of modern times, in order to make the description seem natural to the modern reader. This principle he carried on shore too, and many laughable instances of its application are to be found in his version -of the Æneid. He translates-- +of the Æneid. He translates-- - "Læva tibi tellus, et longo læva petantur - Æquora circuitu: dextrum fuge et littas"-- + "Læva tibi tellus, et longo læva petantur + Æquora circuitu: dextrum fuge et littas"-- "Tack to the larboard and stand off to sea Veer starboard sea and land." @@ -67403,7 +67378,7 @@ The origin of this hubbub soon became sufficiently evident. From behind the huge bulk of one of those sharply-defined masses of cloud already mentioned, was seen slowly to emerge into an open area of blue space, a queer, heterogeneous, but apparently solid body or substance, -so oddly shaped, so _outré_ in appearance, so whimsically put +so oddly shaped, so _outré_ in appearance, so whimsically put together, as not to be in any manner comprehended, and never to be sufficiently admired by the host of sturdy burghers who stood open-mouthed and thunderstruck below. What could it be? In the name of @@ -67702,7 +67677,7 @@ leaving the other end of the match protruding about an inch, and barely visible beyond the cask. I then filled up the remaining holes, and placed the barrels over them in their destined situation. -Besides the articles above enumerated, I conveyed to the depôt, and +Besides the articles above enumerated, I conveyed to the depôt, and there secreted one of M. Grimm's improvements upon the apparatus for condensation of the atmospheric air. I found this machine, however, to require considerable alteration before it could be adapted to the @@ -68692,7 +68667,7 @@ and I hailed it as a happy omen of ultimate success. Indeed the direction I had hitherto taken had filled me with uneasiness, for it was evident that, had I continued it much longer, there would have been no possibility of my arriving at the moon at all, whose orbit is -inclined to the ecliptic at only the small angle of 5°, 8', 48". +inclined to the ecliptic at only the small angle of 5°, 8', 48". _April 9th_. To-day, the earth's diameter was greatly diminished, and the color of the surface assumed hourly a deeper tint of yellow. The @@ -68852,7 +68827,7 @@ of the hemisphere in sight was covered with innumerable volcanic {579} mountains, conical in shape, and having more the appearance of artificial than of natural protuberances. The highest among them does not exceed three and three quarter miles in perpendicular -elevation--but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegræi +elevation--but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegræi would afford to your Excellencies a better idea of their general surface than any unworthy description I might think proper to attempt. The greater part of them were in a state of evident eruption, and gave @@ -69395,7 +69370,7 @@ without a moment's hesitation, pushed his horse forward, to lead the way, and without a single expression of surprise, the ancient hidalgo, who had twice before sounded a note of alarm, now exclaimed,-- -"For the love of heaven, pause, señor! This is a trap that will +"For the love of heaven, pause, señor! This is a trap that will destroy us." "Art thou afraid, Alderete?" cried Cortes, looking back to him, @@ -69540,7 +69515,7 @@ and thus losing his foothold, the noble animal rolled over into the deep canal, burying the Captain-General in the flood. "The general! save the general!" shrieked the only Christian, who, in -this horrible melèe, (for the battle was now universal,) beheld the +this horrible melèe, (for the battle was now universal,) beheld the condition of Cortes, and who, although on foot, and bristling with arrows that had stuck fast in his cotton-armor, and resisted by other weapons at every step, had yet the courage to run to the rescue. It @@ -69555,10 +69530,10 @@ the rugged and shelving edge of the dike, unable to arise, and perishing with the most fearful struggles; while, all the time, the elated infidels expressed their triumph with shouts of frantic joy. -"Courage, captain! be of good heart, señor!" exclaimed the Barba-Roxa, +"Courage, captain! be of good heart, señor!" exclaimed the Barba-Roxa, striking down one of the captors at a single blow: "Courage! for we have good help nigh," he continued, attacking a second with the same -success: "Courage, señor, courage!" +success: "Courage, señor, courage!" No Mexican helm of dried skins, and no breastplate of copper, could resist the machete of a man like Gaspar. Yet his first success was @@ -69595,7 +69570,7 @@ to strike it through the neck of the uppermost noble. His next was to spurn the other from the breast of the general, whom he raised to his feet, murmuring in his ear, -"Be of good heart, señor! for you are saved." +"Be of good heart, señor! for you are saved." What more he would have said and done can only be imagined; for, at that moment, the Barba-Roxa rushed out of the ditch, followed close at @@ -70511,8 +70486,8 @@ work, than can be supplied from any other source, or for any other portion of history. But what is that? What is history, for the most part, but a narrative of events, the results of which cannot be effected by our right or wrong apprehensions of them. What matters it -at this day, whether we believe that Cæsar killed Brutus, or Brutus -Cæsar? What will it concern posterity whether the glory of the field +at this day, whether we believe that Cæsar killed Brutus, or Brutus +Cæsar? What will it concern posterity whether the glory of the field of Waterloo belongs to Wellington or Blucher? But when will it be otherwise than important and profitable to study the process by which Washington became what he was? When will it cease to be a lesson of @@ -70857,13 +70832,13 @@ Ladies Ball. All these stories have been published before in different periodicals, and have been extensively copied and admired. Miss Leslie's writings have obtained her much reputation, both at home and abroad, and we think very deservedly. She is a lively and _piquante_ -sayer of droll and satirical things; and has a way of showing off _à +sayer of droll and satirical things; and has a way of showing off _à peindre_ the little weak points in our national manners. _The Gift_, an Annual, edited by Miss L. and published by Carey and Lea, will make its appearance in October. It will be splendidly embellished, and in literary matter, cannot fail of equalling any similar publication. Among the contributors will be found Washington Irving, Paulding, Miss -Sedgewick, and a host of _stellæ minores_. It will also have the aid +Sedgewick, and a host of _stellæ minores_. It will also have the aid of Fanny Kemble's fine _countenance_, and very spirited pen. * * * * * @@ -71131,7 +71106,7 @@ There are many branches of the law which you will still find time to investigate at leisure. Many years will probably elapse, before you will be called to take the _sole_ management of any case involving valuable rights or intricate questions. The land law, and the -perplexing minutiæ of chancery jurisdiction, will be of this +perplexing minutiæ of chancery jurisdiction, will be of this description. When engaged in such cases, you will commonly find yourself associated with older and abler counsel, from whom you will then obtain, at a glance, more insight into these difficult subjects @@ -71658,7 +71633,7 @@ Feeling," published in 1809, and written by a citizen of Washington. It seems to have been a juvenile production, written without much knowledge of the world, but with a due regard to the unities. The dialogue wants sprightliness and the plot interest, and I merely -mention it now because its contains among its _dramatis personæ_ a +mention it now because its contains among its _dramatis personæ_ a character which is to me entirely original, and which if he really existed, the author must I think have caricatured in his copy. He is called Etymology, and does not belie his name, for he is constantly @@ -72702,7 +72677,7 @@ THE AGE OF REPTILES. Then lumbered o'er the rugged Earth strange forms, Misshapen--huge--gigantic--living wonders-- Howling fit chorus to discordant storms, - That, like a thousand Ætnas, crashed in thunders. + That, like a thousand Ætnas, crashed in thunders. Cleaving the dismal sky, with rushing sound Appalling monsters hurl their cumbrous length, And through the murky sea, in depths profound, @@ -73296,7 +73271,7 @@ composed, useful and rather a favorite. [Footnote 1: He was not only an actor, but a dramatist. He was, or claimed to be, the author of "Rudolph, or the Robbers of Calabria," a very tedious piece of Brigandism; and "One o'clock, or the Wood -Dæmon," almost a literal version of Monk Lewis's "Wood Dæmon." He used +Dæmon," almost a literal version of Monk Lewis's "Wood Dæmon." He used to accuse Lewis of having stolen his melo-drama, and told a long and rather incomprehensible story of the manner in which the theft was perpetrated. He also wrote a play called "Valdemar, or the German @@ -73410,7 +73385,7 @@ attractive woman of their acquaintance--not _absolutely_ a beauty--and I think they will have a correct idea of Fenella. I was too young to have known much of women, but I was sternly -resolved not to be overcome. Fancy me then _téte à téte_ with Fenella +resolved not to be overcome. Fancy me then _téte à téte_ with Fenella and my friend Selden, supping on cold tongue, and sipping white sherry. At first I felt uneasy, but was still sure I should brave all consequences. Gradually as I looked upon the animated countenance of @@ -73851,7 +73826,7 @@ until she can descend from the contemplation of this grand, this sublime prospect, to the infinitesimally minute parts of nature, and view with the eye of philosophy, their order, harmony and design, where she may behold the existence of deity proclaimed in those -countless millions of millions of animalculæ, which escape the +countless millions of millions of animalculæ, which escape the unassisted vision of man--each one displaying a form, a structure, a complexity of organs as perfect, as beautiful, as well adapted to the sphere in which he moves, on that little atom of creation, which is a @@ -73932,7 +73907,7 @@ more interesting to them, than his voluminous dissertations upon the Scholastic Theology. And we can well imagine, that few women would care to read that mighty production of the _Angelical Doctor_ Saint Thomas Aquinas, bearing the imposing title of _Summa Totius -Theologiæ_, containing the formidable amount of 1,250 folio pages of +Theologiæ_, containing the formidable amount of 1,250 folio pages of very small print in double columns, with 19 more of errata, and 200 of index. But enough of this. Some of the other sex even may _now_ sicken at the idea of encountering a work so formidable as this, although it @@ -74356,7 +74331,7 @@ ages which have gone by, without a deep feeling of religious awe and of veneration towards the God of nature? When he reflects that the poet of antiquity describes this classic ground, over which the eye of the traveller is now wandering in pensive and bewildering gaze, as a -solitary wilderness; when Evander, and afterwards when Æneas came to +solitary wilderness; when Evander, and afterwards when Æneas came to the Latian Coast; that the brier and the bramble then grew together in wild luxuriance on the Tarpeian Hill; that the foxes had their holes and the birds their nests on the Palatine and the Aventine. When he @@ -74540,7 +74515,7 @@ be beforehand with their enemies. Sometimes, according to Seneca, persons bribed the sexton in the temple to secure a place near the god, so that he might the more certainly hear them. When the Tyrians were besieged by Alexander the Great, they chained the Hercules in the -temple to prevent his desertion. Augustus Cæsar, after twice losing +temple to prevent his desertion. Augustus Cæsar, after twice losing his fleet by storm, determined to insult Neptune, the god of the sea, publicly; and therefore ordered that he should not be carried in procession with the other gods. And we are told, that after the death @@ -74623,7 +74598,7 @@ account which St. Peter gives of the Gentiles in his time, that "they walked in lasciviousness, lust, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries." -[Footnote 2: The Trojan wanderer, the hero of the Æneid, was the son +[Footnote 2: The Trojan wanderer, the hero of the Æneid, was the son of Venus, by Anchises a mortal.] Besides all this, the polytheistical religion was entirely inattentive @@ -74715,11 +74690,11 @@ the devotedness, the clinging, the confiding trustfulness, which are idolatry when spent upon creatures like ourselves, but becomes a holy worship when offered to heaven."[3] -[Footnote 3: In an Epistle supposed to be written by the famous Abbé -Rencé, of la Trappe, this alliance between love and religion is well +[Footnote 3: In an Epistle supposed to be written by the famous Abbé +Rencé, of la Trappe, this alliance between love and religion is well described, though rather too much in the peculiar style of a -thoughtless Frenchman, "Je n'avois plus d'amante (says the Abbé,) il -me fallùt un dieu."] +thoughtless Frenchman, "Je n'avois plus d'amante (says the Abbé,) il +me fallùt un dieu."] But again--was there ever a being so congenial, so suitable to the character of woman, as the Saviour of the world. He condescended to be @@ -75103,7 +75078,7 @@ expressed a sensibility, intelligence, sweetness of temper and innocence which disarmed flattery, and kindled affection. She was grave more from gentle thoughtfulness than melancholy; and the low, rich and soft music of her voice, stole upon the heart like the -swelling cadence of the Æolian harp. To firmness she united delicacy +swelling cadence of the Æolian harp. To firmness she united delicacy of character, and possessing softness without weakness, humility without arrogance, and beauty without affectation, her life became a rare and happy combination of dignity, elevation and gentleness, with @@ -75813,7 +75788,7 @@ all glorious deaths! Sir Thomas More--a very fine man was Sir Thomas More--Sir Thomas More died laughing, you remember. Also there is a long list of characters who came to the same magnificent end, in the _Absurdities_ of Ravisius Textor. Do you know, however,"--continued he -musingly--"that at Sparta (which is now Palæochori), at Sparta, I say, +musingly--"that at Sparta (which is now Palæochori), at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of _socle_ upon which are still legible the letters [Greek: LASM]. They are undoubtedly part of [Greek: GELASMA]. Now at Sparta @@ -75840,13 +75815,13 @@ appreciation of what I might have construed into a compliment. "Here"--he resumed, arising and leaning on my arm as he sauntered around the apartment--"here are paintings from the Greeks to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to the present hour. Many are chosen, as you see, -with little deference to the opinions of Virtû. They are all, however, -fitting tapestry for a chamber such as this. Here too, are some _chéf +with little deference to the opinions of Virtû. They are all, however, +fitting tapestry for a chamber such as this. Here too, are some _chéf d'oeuvres_ of the unknown great--and here unfinished designs by men, celebrated in their day, whose very names the perspicacity of the academies has left to silence and to me. What think you"--said he, turning abruptly as he spoke--"what think you of this Madonna della -Pietà?" +Pietà ?" "It is Guido's own!" I said, with all the enthusiasm of my nature, for I had been poring intently over its surpassing loveliness. "It is @@ -75862,11 +75837,11 @@ quintessence of all affectation. The Apollo too!--is a copy--there can be no doubt of it--blind fool that I am, who cannot behold the boasted inspiration of the Apollo! I cannot help--pity me!--I cannot help preferring the Antinous. Was it not Socrates who said that the -statuary _found his statue in the block of marble_? Then Michæl Angelo +statuary _found his statue in the block of marble_? Then Michæl Angelo was by no means original in his couplet-- 'Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto - Chè un marmo solo in se non circunscriva.'" + Chè un marmo solo in se non circunscriva.'" * * * * * @@ -75995,7 +75970,7 @@ D'Ambois_ quivered instinctively upon my lips-- and massive silver, upon which were a few goblets fantastically stained, together with two large Etruscan vases, fashioned in the same extraordinary model as that in the foreground of the portrait, and -filled with what I supposed to be Vin de Barâc. "Come!" he said +filled with what I supposed to be Vin de Barâc. "Come!" he said abruptly, "let us drink! It is early--but let us drink! It is _indeed_ early," he continued thoughtfully as a cherub with a heavy golden hammer, made the apartment ring with the first hour after sunrise--"It @@ -76086,7 +76061,7 @@ then, shall the waves of pride and oppression be stayed. Here may our wives and our children once more sit them down secure from foes, and build their fires, and gather their nuts, while we chase the deer and the buffalo in the far off west." Such we may suppose to have been the -reflections of some savage chieftain, _nescius auræ fallacis_, as he +reflections of some savage chieftain, _nescius auræ fallacis_, as he looked upon the lofty, and seemingly interminable mountain bulwark before him. But, if such they were, they proved deceptive. A few revolving years passed away, and the white man was again on his @@ -77020,7 +76995,7 @@ lovelier being than Catherine Neville, the heroine, can scarcely be imagined. There is nothing new in the story--the events are such as might easily be supposed to have occurred, and the leading features of the plot may be stated in a few words: Colonel Hamilton, a man of -fashion and something of a _roué_, is engaged in a duel with a +fashion and something of a _roué_, is engaged in a duel with a baronet, in consequence of an intrigue between the Colonel and the titled wife of his antagonist. The latter is dangerously wounded, and Colonel Hamilton seeks a refuge for several months in the remote @@ -77368,7 +77343,7 @@ travellers. [Footnote 1: "Marie, ou l'Esclavage aux Etas-Unis, Tableau de Moeurs Americaines par Gustave de Beaumont, l'un des Auteurs de l'ouvrage -intitulé Du Systeme Pénitentiare aux Etas-Unis."] +intitulé Du Systeme Pénitentiare aux Etas-Unis."] * * * * * @@ -77475,7 +77450,7 @@ seems to us hasty and jejune criticism. Cooper was not, as we know, "_obliged_" to rake up pirates and smugglers; but as this writer has told us in the ninth number of the Messenger, "He (Cooper) had been for some years an officer in the American Navy, where he acquired a -knowledge of all the minutiæ of nautical life, which was of great +knowledge of all the minutiæ of nautical life, which was of great service to him in the composition of some of his tales. These are justly considered as his best"--and he might have added, are written with power peculiar to Cooper, of whom it may truly be said: @@ -77842,7 +77817,7 @@ not to suffer any of the belligerents on the other side, to bring British vessels as prizes into its ports. After the declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain, no American armed vessel had ventured to pass the Streights of Gibraltar, until December 1814, -when the privateer brig Abællino, from Boston, commanded by W. F. +when the privateer brig Abællino, from Boston, commanded by W. F. Wyer, entered the Mediterranean and took a number of prizes, some of which were sent into Tunis and Tripoli. @@ -77891,7 +77866,7 @@ carried off. Mahmoud, who had not had so much experience with regard to the customs and institutions of the Franks as had been acquired by Hamouda, could not comprehend this; he offered to intercede for the restoration of the vessels, and plainly told the Consul that if the -captain of the Abællino chose to cut out two British merchant vessels +captain of the Abællino chose to cut out two British merchant vessels which were then lying in the harbor, no attempt would be made to obstruct him. @@ -77910,11 +77885,11 @@ in resisting the demand. As soon as this business was concluded, Decatur sailed with his whole force for Tripoli, where he arrived on the 10th of August. Into this -port the Abællino had carried two prizes; shortly after their +port the Abællino had carried two prizes; shortly after their entrance, the British armed brig Paulina with another vessel of war entered the harbor, and retook the prizes, the commander of the Paulina at the same time declaring his intention to pursue the -Abællino if she should leave the place. This was done immediately +Abællino if she should leave the place. This was done immediately under the castle walls, without any attempt at interference on the part of the Pasha. The American Consul, Mr. Jones, instantly requested Yusuf to cause the vessels to be restored, intimating that in case @@ -77922,9 +77897,9 @@ they were not, the Pasha would be compelled to pay for them himself; the Consul also demanded, that measures should be taken, in compliance with the tenth article of the treaty, to retain the British ships of war in the harbor, twenty-four hours after the sailing of the -Abællino, which was about to put to sea. To both these demands Yusuf +Abællino, which was about to put to sea. To both these demands Yusuf refused to yield assent; the prizes were in consequence sent to Malta, -and the Abællino was detained in Tripoli. The American Consul then +and the Abællino was detained in Tripoli. The American Consul then pulled down his flag, and sent information of the circumstances to the other Mediterranean Consulates, in order that it might be communicated to the commander of the squadron immediately on its arrival. @@ -78762,7 +78737,7 @@ manner, let a child fall in, which was instantly devoured! Among the gentlest and most curious of the quadrupeds, is the giraff, or camel leopard, which was brought from Africa about two years ago, and threw all Paris into commotion. Thousands visited him daily, and belts, -reticules, gloves, kerchiefs, and even cakes and blanc mangés were +reticules, gloves, kerchiefs, and even cakes and blanc mangés were decorated with his image. It is said that he possesses both sagacity and sensibility, to prove which the following anecdote is related of him. As his keepers were bringing him to Paris, they were joined by a @@ -78911,7 +78886,7 @@ LETTER NINETEENTH. Visit to Versailles--The Little Trianon--The Grand Trianon--Church of St. Louis, and Monument of the Duke de Berri--Mendon--Chalk Quarries--Tortoni's--Wandering Musicians--An Evening at Count -Ségur's--Children's Fancy Ball. +Ségur's--Children's Fancy Ball. PARIS, ----. @@ -78966,8 +78941,8 @@ the terrace in front of it the prospect is very fine. As we traversed the grounds, guided by an old soldier, we were quite diverted at the astonishment he expressed, on discovering from an observation of Leonora's that she and her family were Americans. "Mais comme vous -êtes blondes!" cried he, "et j'ai toujours en tendu dire que les -habitans d'Amerique étaient rouges ou noirs!"[1] +êtes blondes!" cried he, "et j'ai toujours en tendu dire que les +habitans d'Amerique étaient rouges ou noirs!"[1] [Footnote 1: But how fair you are! and I have always heard that the inhabitants of America are _red_ or _black_.] @@ -78979,7 +78954,7 @@ Paris. After resting ourselves and drinking tea, we sallied forth again, and strolled on the Boulevard as far as Tortoni's, to eat ices. He is -master of a grand caffé, and famous for his ices and déjeunés à la +master of a grand caffé, and famous for his ices and déjeunés à la fourchette. His establishment is splendidly illuminated every night, and so thronged with customers, that it is often difficult to procure a seat. Some prefer regaling themselves before the door in their @@ -78992,7 +78967,7 @@ the popular airs of the theatres and those of the first composers of the day, which are as familiar to the common people as they are to amateurs. -We recently spent another delightful evening at Count Ségur's. We +We recently spent another delightful evening at Count Ségur's. We found him, as usual, surrounded by the learned and refined; and he met us with his accustomed smile of benevolence and bonhomie. There was a lively young relative of his present, and when most of his visiters @@ -79004,7 +78979,7 @@ with her wishes. The play of l'Empereur is similar to that termed the While we were at the Count's, Mr. and Mrs. Danville attended a levee at the Hotel Marine, and the girls accompanied a young friend of Marcella's, (a Miss Y---- from Soissons) to a fancy ball given by the -children of Madame Clément's seminary. Miss Y---- being a pupil, had +children of Madame Clément's seminary. Miss Y---- being a pupil, had the privilege of inviting two acquaintances, and chose Marcella and Leonora as her guests. They were highly entertained. All the scholars wore costumes, and several supported the characters they assumed with @@ -79017,7 +78992,7 @@ glittering bandeau. They danced until ten o'clock, and as none of the masculine gender were admitted, the elder Misses played the part of beaux. I should have liked to join in the frolic, I confess, though not upon condition of foregoing the pleasure we had at No. 13, Rue -Duphot, Count Ségur's residence. +Duphot, Count Ségur's residence. Papa has presented me a beautiful watch, and intends purchasing another for you. With tender regards to aunt M---- and Albert, I @@ -79050,7 +79025,7 @@ abounds in every variety of the lower order of amusements, when suddenly a violent shower began to fall, and of course every body to scamper to some shelter. _We_ took refuge in the portico of an illuminated building, entitled in large transparent letters over the -door, "Theàtre Mecanique," and finally determined to enter and witness +door, "Theà tre Mecanique," and finally determined to enter and witness the acting within. We accordingly purchased tickets of the woman employed to sell them, and following her up a narrow flight of stairs, were ushered into a confined gallery, overlooking a dirty pit, the @@ -79878,7 +79853,7 @@ transcendently lovely does the Thekla of Schiller's {673} Wallenstein appear in the camp surrounded by soldiers encased in iron. I borrow from the graphic pen of M. B. Constant. "Sa voix si douce au travers le bruit des armes, sa form delicate au milieu des hommes tout -couverts de fer, la pureté de son âme opposée a leurs calculs avides, +couverts de fer, la pureté de son âme opposée a leurs calculs avides, son calm celeste qui contraste avec leurs agitations, remplissent le spectateur d'une emotion constante et melancholique, telle que ne la fait ressentir nulle tragedie ordinaire." @@ -80007,7 +79982,7 @@ exemplification, the very interesting tale of the adventures of Eppopina, which passed before the eyes of Plutarch, as he was at that time living in the house of Vespasian. Sabinus, the husband of Eppopina, being vanquished by the troops of the Emperor Vespasian, -concealed himself in a deep cavern between Franche Compté and +concealed himself in a deep cavern between Franche Compté and Champagne. The unbounded affection of Eppopina and her untiring researches, soon enabled her to find the hiding place of him who commanded all the affections of her heart. She determined to be the @@ -80021,20 +79996,20 @@ sun, and in the enjoyment of power." But one of the most celebrated examples on record, of the ardent desire of woman to console and encourage her husband in the dismal -hour of despair, is furnished by Arria, the wife of Cecina Pætus. This -Pætus, after the defeat by the troops of the Emperor Claudius of the +hour of despair, is furnished by Arria, the wife of Cecina Pætus. This +Pætus, after the defeat by the troops of the Emperor Claudius of the army of Scribonianus, whose party he had espoused, was condemned to death by the same emperor. It was the custom under the emperors, to leave condemned individuals to terminate their existence themselves, -provided they could have the resolution to do it. Pætus wavered and +provided they could have the resolution to do it. Pætus wavered and hesitated. The dreadful struggle which it cost him, made a deeper impression upon the devoted and tender heart of Arria than even the sentence of death had inflicted. After caressing and encouraging him by the most tender offices to nerve himself to the act, she took the -poniard which he wore by his side, and exclaiming, "Pætus, do thus!" +poniard which he wore by his side, and exclaiming, "Pætus, do thus!" she plunged it into her own bosom; then drawing it from the reeking wound, she presented the dagger to her husband "with this noble, -generous, and immortal saying:" _Pæte non dolet!_ "Pætus, it is not +generous, and immortal saying:" _Pæte non dolet!_ "Pætus, it is not painful!"[2] [Footnote 2: This death has afforded Martial the subject of one of his @@ -80042,9 +80017,9 @@ most elegant epigrams, which has been thus rendered: "When to her husband Arria gave the sword, Which from her chaste, her bleeding breast she drew, - She said, 'My Pætus, this I do not feel; + She said, 'My Pætus, this I do not feel; But, oh! the wound that must be made by you!' - She could no more--but on her Pætus still, + She could no more--but on her Pætus still, She fix'd her feeble, her expiring eyes; And when she saw him raise the pointed steel, She sunk--and seem'd to say, 'Now Arria dies!'"] @@ -80222,7 +80197,7 @@ decidedly above man in every particular. Even in intellectual power she was considered as superior; and in perusing the voluminous proofs which were so industriously, and sometimes so ingeniously brought forward to prove it, we find ourselves as bewildered as the _femme de -chambre_ of Molière, under the learned remarks of the doctor upon the +chambre_ of Molière, under the learned remarks of the doctor upon the death of the coachman. The poor woman at last exclaims, "Le Medecin peut dire ce qu'il veut, mais le cocher est mort." Whatever may have been written or said in praise of the intellectual powers of woman @@ -80475,7 +80450,7 @@ distinctly marked and widely different. And it is not to be wondered at that these characters, so totally different, belonging to persons moving in different spheres, should require different kinds and degrees of intellectual powers. Woman is domestic in her habits, she -requires therefore a knowledge of all those minutiæ--all those details +requires therefore a knowledge of all those minutiæ--all those details which can best befit her for her domestic occupations. She is more concerned with the individual than with the multitude. She feels more deeply interested in a mere family, than in a whole nation. Hence she @@ -80521,7 +80496,7 @@ a division of the human race, very unequal as to numbers, into _men of general principles_ or _philosophers_, and _men of detail_. The former possessing minds inured to habits of abstraction and generalization, the latter more conversant with mere individuals and individual -character, with the details and minutiæ of common life, and therefore +character, with the details and minutiæ of common life, and therefore better suited to the ordinary routine of every day duties in the common transactions of the world. But if I may borrow the sentiment of Mr. Burke, when the path is broken up, the high waters out, and the @@ -80535,7 +80510,7 @@ requisitions of that extended sphere in which he moves, a greater share of this power of abstraction and generalization than is commonly found developed in the female mind. The confined sphere in which woman moves, requires, as I have already observed, close attention to all -the details and minutiæ of the little events daily and hourly +the details and minutiæ of the little events daily and hourly transpiring around her. Instead of studying the general traits of character which belong alike to the whole human family, she studies most deeply the individual characters of those who compose her @@ -80551,7 +80526,7 @@ he must make laws not only for the few individuals with whom he has been raised, but for the whole nation. In doing this he is obliged to discard the mere individual from his mind, and look to the population in the aggregate. He must abstract himself from the consideration of -the minutiæ, the little details and peculiar circumstances which +the minutiæ, the little details and peculiar circumstances which operate _exclusively_ on his own little narrow neighborhood, and attend to those general circumstances which affect alike the condition of the whole body politic. His intellectual vision should not be too @@ -80847,7 +80822,7 @@ inculcate upon this point. He shows you that the contests of patricians and plebeians, the forcible establishment of the power of the tribunes in ancient Rome, and the division of a modern parliament into the lords and commons, or the fearful disputes between the _tiers -état_ and the nobles and clergy in France, all prove the same great +état_ and the nobles and clergy in France, all prove the same great truth and teach the same great lesson, _that every great interest to be safe, must have the means of defending itself_. Such a mind as this when it fails, fails (if I may use the language of the logician) from @@ -81001,7 +80976,7 @@ burlesque of the errors and weaknesses of female rule. It represented her Majesty "naked, meager, withered and wrinkled, with every aggravated circumstance of deformity which could disgrace a female figure, seated in a regal chair; a crown on her head, surrounded with -the letters M. R. A. accompanied with Maria Regina Angliæ in smaller +the letters M. R. A. accompanied with Maria Regina Angliæ in smaller letters! A number of Spaniards were sucking her to the skin and bone, and a specification was added of the money, rings, jewels, and other presents with which she had secretly gratified her husband Philip." @@ -81245,7 +81220,7 @@ inferences drawn from that nice discernment and tact so characteristic of the sex amid the little incidents of life, or from their capability of reading the varying features of the human countenance, or marking more distinctly the altered shades of manner, even when individuals -are attempting to wear the mask of deception and hypocrisy. Cæsar's +are attempting to wear the mask of deception and hypocrisy. Cæsar's wife, we are told, implored him not to go to the Senate Chamber of Rome on the fatal day of the Ides of March; and although she could give no better reasons for her solicitude than dreams, visions, and @@ -81259,7 +81234,7 @@ majesty and force of his own mind, overturned the liberties of his country, and grasped in his single hand the sceptre of the world, but, in all probability, they were unable to wear that countenance and assume those manners which would impose upon the more minute -discernment of Cæsar's wife, amid the troubles, solicitudes, and +discernment of Cæsar's wife, amid the troubles, solicitudes, and suspicions, incident to a season of revolution. Pontius Pilate would have released the Saviour of the world, and quieted a troubled conscience, if he had given heed to the solemn warning of his wife, to @@ -81395,7 +81370,7 @@ no connecting principle like cause and effect, premises and conclusions, &c.--but this thing is remembered because it is like that. This fact is now related because it was spoken at the same time with that, or in the same place. Such an individual as this has, as -Diderot expresses it, "une tête meublée d'un grand nombre de choses +Diderot expresses it, "une tête meublée d'un grand nombre de choses disparates," which he says resembles a library with mismatched books, or a German compilation garnished, without reason and without taste, with Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Latin. @@ -81519,7 +81494,7 @@ analogies in effects and in emotions which furnishes the mind with perhaps the most interesting materials for social converse. Such a mind is what the world calls _brilliant_. We soon tire of it, however, if it does not occasionally relax, and give us a few of those details -and minutiæ, which belong to the mind of the first order in our +and minutiæ, which belong to the mind of the first order in our division. As was said of the poetry of Thomas Moore, we do not like always to feed upon the _whip syllabubs_ we soon become hungry for _bread and meat_. @@ -81603,11 +81578,11 @@ that portion which had so startling an effect on the audience as to make them spring simultaneously from their seats, and you will see that it was just at that moment that the eloquent divine dropped all his abstractions and generalities and applied his subject to those -very persons who were listening to him. "Je m'arrête _à vous_, mes -freres, qui êtes _ici_ assemblées. Je ne parle plus du reste des +very persons who were listening to him. "Je m'arrête _à vous_, mes +freres, qui êtes _ici_ assemblées. Je ne parle plus du reste des hommes," &c. And again, "Je suppose que c'est _ici_ votre derniere heure, et la fin de l'univers; que les cieux vont s'ouvrir sur vos -têtes--Jesus Christe paraitre dans sa gloire au milieu de _ce +têtes--Jesus Christe paraitre dans sa gloire au milieu de _ce temple_," &c. It is useless to say that men much oftener have minds of the third @@ -81625,7 +81600,7 @@ the character of the occupations in which she is engaged, is more conversant with objects than with their _necessary_ connections and relations. She is not obliged to arrange so many concatenated plans; her mind is more alive to the perception of the objects around her, -and less to the _causæ rerum_. Her feelings and sympathies are most +and less to the _causæ rerum_. Her feelings and sympathies are most exquisite, but she attends less to their relations and dependences. She is in fine a creature of emotion rather than of philosophy. @@ -81956,7 +81931,7 @@ is apt to know, too, the little Goshen of our hearts, and to pay all due attention to it. And she is sure to tell, as if by accident, precisely the _sweetest_ things in the world to _us_. She writes with ease, variety, and interest--because she pursues the course of the -celebrated Madame de Sévigné, (who has never perhaps had an equal in +celebrated Madame de Sévigné, (who has never perhaps had an equal in our sex for epistolary composition.) "Il faut un peu entre bons amis," says Madame de S. "laisser trotter les plumes comme elles veulent, la mienne a toujours la bride sur le cou." @@ -82188,16 +82163,16 @@ fables."--_Voltaire_. That Pierre Bon-Bon was a Restaurateur of uncommon qualifications, no -man who, during the reign of ----, frequented the little Câfé in the +man who, during the reign of ----, frequented the little Câfé in the Cul-de-sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I imagine, feel himself at liberty to dispute. That Pierre Bon-Bon was, in an equal degree, skilled in the philosophy of that period is, I presume, still more -especially undeniable. His _Patés à la fois_ were beyond doubt +especially undeniable. His _Patés à la fois_ were beyond doubt immaculate--but what pen can do justice to his essays _sur la Nature_--his thoughts _sur l'Ame_--his observations _sur l'Esprit_? If his _omelettes_--if his _fricandeaux_ were inestimable, what _literateur_ of that day would not have given twice as much for an -'_Idée de Bon-Bon_' as for all the trash of all the '_Idées_' of all +'_Idée de Bon-Bon_' as for all the trash of all the '_Idées_' of all the rest of the _savants_? Bon-Bon had ransacked libraries which no other man had ransacked--had read more than any other would have entertained a notion of reading--had understood more than any other @@ -82213,7 +82188,7 @@ Bon-Bon that Kant himself is mainly indebted for his metaphysics. The former was not indeed a Platonist, nor strictly speaking an Aristotelian--nor did he, like the modern Leibnitz, waste those precious hours which might be employed in the invention of a -_fricassée_, or, _facili gradu_, the analysis of a sensation, in +_fricassée_, or, _facili gradu_, the analysis of a sensation, in frivolous attempts at reconciling the obstinate oils and waters of ethical discussion. Not at all. Bon-Bon was Ionic. Bon-Bon was equally Italic. He reasoned _a priori_. He reasoned also _a posteriori_. His @@ -82272,7 +82247,7 @@ _Omelettes_. With him Sauterne was to Medoc what Catullus was to Homer. He would sport with a syllogism in sipping St. Peray, but unravel an argument over Clos de Vougeot, and upset a theory in a torrent of Chambertin. In his seclusions the Vin de Bourgogne had its -allotted hour, and there were appropriate moments for the Côtes du +allotted hour, and there were appropriate moments for the Côtes du Rhone. Well had it been if the same quick sense of propriety had attended him in the peddling propensity to which I have formerly alluded--but this was by no means the case. Indeed, to say the truth, @@ -82281,7 +82256,7 @@ to assume a character of strange intensity and mysticism, and, however singular it may seem, appeared deeply tinctured with the grotesque _diablerie_ of his favorite German studies. -To enter the little _Café_ in the _Cul de Sac_ Le Febvre was, at the +To enter the little _Café_ in the _Cul de Sac_ Le Febvre was, at the period of our tale, to enter the sanctum of a man of genius. Bon-Bon was a man of genius. There was not a _sous-cuisinier_ in Rouen, who could not have told you that Bon-Bon was a man of genius. His very cat @@ -82327,23 +82302,23 @@ words of Benevenuta, the Improvisatrice of Florence, "that it was difficult to say whether Pierre Bon-Bon was indeed a bird of Paradise, or the rather a very Paradise of perfection." -I have said that "to enter the _Café_ in the _Cul-de-Sac_ Le Febvre +I have said that "to enter the _Café_ in the _Cul-de-Sac_ Le Febvre was to enter the sanctum of a man of genius"--but then it was only the man of genius who could duly estimate the merits of the sanctum. A sign consisting of a vast folio swung before the entrance. On one side -of the volume was painted a bottle--on the reverse a _Paté_. On the -back were visible in large letters the words _Æuvres de Bon-Bon_. Thus +of the volume was painted a bottle--on the reverse a _Paté_. On the +back were visible in large letters the words _Æuvres de Bon-Bon_. Thus was delicately shadowed forth the two-fold occupation of the proprietor. Upon stepping over the threshold the whole interior of the building presented itself to view. A long, low-pitched room of antique -construction was indeed all the accommodation afforded by the _Café_ +construction was indeed all the accommodation afforded by the _Café_ in the _Cul-de-Sac_ Le Febvre. In a corner of the apartment stood the bed of the metaphysician. An array of curtains, together with a canopy -_à la Gréque_ gave it an air at once classic and comfortable. In the +_à la Gréque_ gave it an air at once classic and comfortable. In the corner diagonally opposite appeared, in direct and friendly communion, -the properties of the kitchen and the _bibliothéque_. A dish of +the properties of the kitchen and the _bibliothéque_. A dish of polemics stood peacefully upon the dresser. Here lay an oven-full of the latest ethics--there a kettle of duodecimo _melanges_. Volumes of German morality were hand and glove with the gridiron--a toasting fork @@ -82351,12 +82326,12 @@ might be discovered by the side of Eusebius--Plato reclined at his ease in the frying pan--and cotemporary manuscripts were filed away upon the spit. -In other respects the _Café_ de Bon-Bon might be said to differ little -from the _Cafés_ of the period. A gigantic fire-place yawned opposite +In other respects the _Café_ de Bon-Bon might be said to differ little +from the _Cafés_ of the period. A gigantic fire-place yawned opposite the door. On the right of the fire-place an open cupboard displayed a formidable array of labelled bottles. There Mousseux, Chambertin, St. George, Richbourg, Bordeaux, Margaux, Haubrion, Leonville, Medoc, -Sauterne, Bârac, Preignac, Grave, Lafitte, and St. Peray contended +Sauterne, Bârac, Preignac, Grave, Lafitte, and St. Peray contended with many other names of lesser celebrity for the honor of being quaffed. From the ceiling, suspended by a chain of very long slender links, swung a fantastic iron lamp, throwing a hazy light over the @@ -82372,10 +82347,10 @@ fire of blazing faggots. It was one of those terrific nights which are only met with once or twice during a century. The snow drifted down bodily in enormous -masses, and the _Café_ de Bon-Bon tottered to its very centre, with +masses, and the _Café_ de Bon-Bon tottered to its very centre, with the floods of wind that, rushing through the crannies in the wall, and pouring impetuously down the chimney, shook awfully the curtains of -the philosopher's bed, and disorganized the economy of his Paté-pans +the philosopher's bed, and disorganized the economy of his Paté-pans and papers. The huge folio sign that swung without, exposed to the fury of the tempest, creaked ominously, and gave out a moaning sound from its stanchions of solid oak. @@ -82383,8 +82358,8 @@ from its stanchions of solid oak. I have said that it was in no very placid temper the metaphysician drew up his chair to its customary station by the hearth. Many circumstances of a perplexing nature had occurred during the day, to -disturb the serenity of his meditations. In attempting _Des Æufs à la -Princesse_ he had unfortunately perpetrated an _Omelette à la +disturb the serenity of his meditations. In attempting _Des Æufs à la +Princesse_ he had unfortunately perpetrated an _Omelette à la Reine_--the discovery of a principle in Ethics had been frustrated by the overturning of a stew--and last, not least, he had been thwarted in one of those admirable bargains which he at all times took such @@ -82518,7 +82493,7 @@ of the cat. It must be confessed, however, that he felt a little astonishment to see the white letters which formed the words "_Rituel Catholique_" on the book in his guest's pocket momentarily changing both their color and their import, and in a few seconds in place of -the original title, the words _Regitre des Condamnés_ blaze forth in +the original title, the words _Regitre des Condamnés_ blaze forth in characters of red. This startling circumstance, when Bon-Bon replied to {696} his visiter's remark, imparted to his manner an air of embarrassment which might not probably have otherwise been observable. @@ -82625,7 +82600,7 @@ Monsieur Bon-Bon--at that time _only_ I was in Rome, and I have no earthly acquaintance, consequently, with any of its philosophy."[1] [Footnote 1: Ils ecrivalent sur la Philosophie (_Cicero_, _Lucretius_, -_Seneca_) mais c'etait la Philosophie Grécque.--_Condorcet_.] +_Seneca_) mais c'etait la Philosophie Grécque.--_Condorcet_.] "What do you think of Epicurus?--what do you think of--hiccup!--Epicurus?" @@ -82650,7 +82625,7 @@ Bon-Bon, having beaten his majesty at an argument, thought it his duty to conclude a second bottle of Chambertin. {697} "As I was saying"--resumed the visiter--"as I was observing a -little while ago, there are some very _outré_ notions in that book of +little while ago, there are some very _outré_ notions in that book of yours, Monsieur Bon-Bon. What, for instance, do you mean by all that humbug about the soul? Pray, sir, what is the soul?" @@ -82796,12 +82771,12 @@ the shadow called my soul." (Signed) A----[2] (Here his majesty repeated a name which I do not feel myself justifiable in indicating more unequivocally.) -[Footnote 2: Quære--Arouet?--_Editor_.] +[Footnote 2: Quære--Arouet?--_Editor_.] "A clever fellow that A----"--resumed he; "but like you, Monsieur Bon-Bon, he was mistaken about the soul. The soul a shadow truly!--no such nonsense, Monsieur Bon-Bon. The soul a shadow!! ha! ha! ha!--he! -he! he!--hu! hu! hu! Only think of a fricasséed shadow!" +he! he!--hu! hu! hu! Only think of a fricasséed shadow!" "_Only_ think--hiccup!--of a f-r-i-c-a-s-s-e-e-d s-h-a-d-ow!!" echoed our hero, whose faculties were becoming gloriously illuminated by the @@ -82833,11 +82808,11 @@ a--hiccup!--nincompoop! _My_ soul, Mr.--humph!" "Ha!" -"Souflée." +"Souflée." "Eh?" -"Fricassée." +"Fricassée." "Indeed!" @@ -83116,7 +83091,7 @@ in Greek literature under the name of Tenos Concoleros? EXTRACTS FROM MY MEXICAN JOURNAL. Visit to Tescuco--Bath of Tescusingo--Otumba--Aqueduct of -Zempoala--Agave Americana--Pyramids of Teotihuacán. +Zempoala--Agave Americana--Pyramids of Teotihuacán. DECEMBER 25, 1825. Mr. P. and myself left Mexico at half past nine @@ -83350,7 +83325,7 @@ plain which surrounds them. [Footnote 2: _Cupressus disticha_. The largest tree known of this description is at the village of Atlixco, in the state of Puebla. It -is in circumference 23.3 metres, or 76½ English feet.--_Humb. New +is in circumference 23.3 metres, or 76½ English feet.--_Humb. New Spain_, _l. 3. c. 8, p. 154. Ed. of 1827_.] We employed the afternoon in revisiting the antiquities of _Tescuco_. @@ -83389,7 +83364,7 @@ Beyond the village of _San Pedro_, we ascended the _tepetate_[3] lomes--_lomas_--of the eastern side of the plain of Mexico, upon which soil the roads are always worn deep and rough. On arriving at the summit of a low ridge which we were crossing, the Pyramids of -Teotihuacán unexpectedly presented themselves to our view. Though +Teotihuacán unexpectedly presented themselves to our view. Though ignorant that we were so near to them, yet we could not mistake them, their figure is still so well preserved, whilst centuries have rolled away since their construction. @@ -83399,7 +83374,7 @@ devoid of vegetation, and very painful to the eyes under a burning sun. The _lomas_ are the rising ground between the plains and the mountains.] -Leaving the pyramids and village of San Juan de Teotihuacán to our +Leaving the pyramids and village of San Juan de Teotihuacán to our left, we travelled on two leagues farther to _Otumba_, where we arrived at three o'clock, having been six hours on the road from _Tescuco_. We were told the distance was only seven leagues. It is @@ -83444,11 +83419,11 @@ places. At length, we effected a compromise, and were carried to search a _corral_ or cattle yard for the capital of the column. We looked in vain in yard and stable, notwithstanding one present assured us he had seen it. We abandoned the pursuit of the evanescent block, -and were conducted by an old man (who was called Cortés, and who +and were conducted by an old man (who was called Cortés, and who affected to be of pure Indian blood, and to despise all others who were not,) to his house, in a corner of which was worked a carved stone--evidently an antique, but it was a work posterior to the -conquest, for it represented an armed man on horseback. Cortés then +conquest, for it represented an armed man on horseback. Cortés then carried us to the rear of the church, to see another carved stone, but it was placed so high in the wall that we could scarcely distinguish it, but enough appeared to convince us that it bore the arms of Spain. @@ -83508,9 +83483,9 @@ surmounting the greatest difficulties." The time taken to execute this work was 16 or 17 years, five of which were consumed on the principal arches; "which," our author says, "may be regarded as one of the wonders of the world." According to his statement, there are -sixty-seven arches (we counted sixty-eight) extending 1059½ -_varas_--about 975 yards. The middle arch is 42½ _varas_, about 118 -feet high--and 23½ _varas_, about 21½ yards wide, "which fills with +sixty-seven arches (we counted sixty-eight) extending 1059½ +_varas_--about 975 yards. The middle arch is 42½ _varas_, about 118 +feet high--and 23½ _varas_, about 21½ yards wide, "which fills with astonishment and wonder those who see so marvellous a work." There are two other ravines, one crossed by thirteen the other by forty-six arches. The entire length of the aqueduct was 160,496 Spanish @@ -83625,7 +83600,7 @@ _Toluca_. The large pyramid of _Teotihuacan_ is called _Tonatiuh Ytzaqual_, or House of the Sun. According to _Oteyza's_ measurements[6] its base is -208 metres--682½ English feet--its perpendicular height is 55 +208 metres--682½ English feet--its perpendicular height is 55 metres--180.4 feet. The base of the other pyramid is much less than that of the former. This is called _Mextli Ytzaqual_, or House of the Moon: its height is 144.4 feet. @@ -83759,7 +83734,7 @@ BY EDGAR A. POE. Silence and Desolation! and dim Night! Gaunt vestibules! and phantom-peopled aisles! I feel ye now: I feel ye in your strength! - O spells more sure than e'er Judæan king + O spells more sure than e'er Judæan king Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane! O charms more potent than the rapt Chaldee Ever drew down from out the quiet stars! @@ -83769,7 +83744,7 @@ BY EDGAR A. POE. A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat: Here, where the dames of Rome their yellow hair Wav'd to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle: - Here, where on ivory couch the Cæsar sate, + Here, where on ivory couch the Cæsar sate, On bed of moss lies gloating the foul adder: Here, where on golden throne the monarch loll'd, Glides spectre-like unto his marble home, @@ -84072,11 +84047,11 @@ nuisance can be prevented? You are fertile in schemes, Cleaveland; cannot you contrive some plan, if not to stop the issue of these libels, to revenge the insult offered to our friend?" -"Not I indeed, unless we hire _Felix Sans Pitié_[1] to thump the +"Not I indeed, unless we hire _Felix Sans Pitié_[1] to thump the artist, or get _Piquet_,[2] the retired bully, to break his right arm." -[Footnote 1: There was a family of _Sans Pitiés_, belong to a +[Footnote 1: There was a family of _Sans Pitiés_, belong to a neighboring seignory, celebrated for their muscular frames and pugilistic powers. They were _Voyageurs_ in the service of the North West, or Hudson's Bay Companies, at the time when those associations @@ -84086,7 +84061,7 @@ the _voyageurs_ of these companies had their rendezvous in Montreal for a day or two, during which they were generally intoxicated, and scarcely an hour passed that was not distinguished by a pugilistic combat in the old market place, which was their peculiar haunt. The -_Sans Pitiés_ when present were the champions, and challenged all +_Sans Pitiés_ when present were the champions, and challenged all comers with nearly uniform success. I have never seen more magnificent forms than these brothers displayed, when stripped for a fight. Their chests and shoulders would have been fine models for a Hercules, so @@ -84098,14 +84073,14 @@ youthful gladiator referred to in the text, was triumphant over a skilful pupil of Crib. It is worthy of remark, that the English bully, when completely _sewed up_, (to use a phrase of the prize ring) declared in a faint voice, that he had been beaten contrary to all -rule, and that _Sans Pitié_ knew no more about boxing than a horse. +rule, and that _Sans Pitié_ knew no more about boxing than a horse. But the Canadian champion was once well beaten by an antagonist as little skilled as himself in the arts and mysteries of the Five's Court. I was witness to this conflict between him and an English sailor, not half his weight. The Jack-tar completely overcame his Herculean opponent, when it seemed to me that had his frame been made of any material softer than iron, he must have been demolished by -_Sans Pitié's_ blows.] +_Sans Pitié's_ blows.] [Footnote 2: Monsieur _Piquet_ was about this time a member of the Provincial Parliament. How he got there I do not exactly know: the @@ -84153,7 +84128,7 @@ of hair was applying to his head. As we moved away, I vowed that I would be revenged on the malicious barber--that he at least should not escape. A few moments brought us -to my lodgings in the _Vieux Marché_. We sat down by a hot stove, and +to my lodgings in the _Vieux Marché_. We sat down by a hot stove, and after having listened to Cleaveland's description of the last party at Madame Feronnier's, without hearing one word, I broke silence. @@ -84185,7 +84160,7 @@ it seems you are about to On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.' But be it what it may, propose to me any reasonable mischief, and _je -suis à vous_." +suis à vous_." "It is nothing very dangerous in the performance, and the consequences must take care of themselves. I only intend to smash, and that @@ -84220,7 +84195,7 @@ Master Timothy that we have not played at cricket, or run foot races on the wind-mill common for nothing." "But what missiles shall we use?--have you thought of that, _Mon -Général_?" +Général_?" "What can be better than these?" said I, taking up a couple of billets of oak from the stove-pan. @@ -84495,20 +84470,20 @@ admired:--the sin, however, was involuntary. Lib. 1. Ode v. AD PYRRHAM. - Quis multâ gracilis te puer in rosâ + Quis multâ gracilis te puer in rosâ Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? Cui flavam religas comam, Simplex munditiis? heu! quoties fidem, Mutatosque Deos flebit, et aspera - Nigris æquora ventis + Nigris æquora ventis Emirabitur insolens, - Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aureâ: + Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aureâ: Qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem - Sperat, nescius auræ + Sperat, nescius auræ Fallacis! miseri, quibus - Intenta nites. Me tabulâ sacer - Votivâ paries indicat uvida + Intenta nites. Me tabulâ sacer + Votivâ paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris Deo. @@ -84555,15 +84530,15 @@ Translation. Lib. 1. Ode xxxv. AD FORTUNAM. - O Diva, gratum quæ regis Antium, - Præsens vel imo tollere de gradu + O Diva, gratum quæ regis Antium, + Præsens vel imo tollere de gradu Mortale corpus, vel superbos Vertere funeribus triumphos: - Te pauper ambit solicitâ prece - Ruris colonus; te dominam æquoris, - Quicunque Bithynâ lacessit - Carpathium pelagus carinâ. - Te Dacus asper, te profugi Scythæ, + Te pauper ambit solicitâ prece + Ruris colonus; te dominam æquoris, + Quicunque Bithynâ lacessit + Carpathium pelagus carinâ. + Te Dacus asper, te profugi Scythæ, Urbesque, gentesque, et Latium ferox, Regumque matres barbarorum, et Purpurei metuunt tyranni, @@ -84571,28 +84546,28 @@ Lib. 1. Ode xxxv. AD FORTUNAM. Stantem columnam; neu populos frequens Ad arma cessantes ad arma Concitet, imperiumque frangat. - Te semper anteit sæva Necessitas, + Te semper anteit sæva Necessitas, Clavos trabales et cuneos manu - Gestans ahenâ; nec severus + Gestans ahenâ; nec severus Uncus abest, liquidumque plumbum. Te Spes, et albo rara Fides colit Velata panno, nec comitem abnegat, - Utcunque mutatâ potentes + Utcunque mutatâ potentes Veste domos inimica linquis. At vulgus infidum, et meretrix retro Perjura cedit: diffugiunt cadis - Cum fæce siccatis amici, + Cum fæce siccatis amici, Ferre jugum pariter dolosi. - Serves iturum Cæsarem in ultimos + Serves iturum Cæsarem in ultimos Orbis Britannos, et juvenum recens Examen Eois timendum Partibus, Oceanoque Rubro. Eheu! cicatricum et sceleris pudet, Fratrumque: quid nos dura refugimus - Ætas? quid intactum nefasti + Ætas? quid intactum nefasti Liquimus? unde manum juventus Metu Deorum continuit? quibus - Pepercit aris? O! utinam novâ + Pepercit aris? O! utinam novâ Incude diffingas retusum in Massagetas Arabasque ferrum. @@ -84627,7 +84602,7 @@ Translation. TO FORTUNE. Friends too skulk off, the casks drained dry, unseen: Too treacherous equally to brook Adversity's hard yoke. {713} - Guard Cæsar bound 'gainst Britain's distant land, + Guard Cæsar bound 'gainst Britain's distant land, Limit of earth--preserve the new-formed band Of Youths, by Eastern realms to be Feared, and by the Red Sea! @@ -84647,18 +84622,18 @@ Lib. 3. Ode iii. Justum, et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni - Mente quatit solidâ, neque Auster, - Dux inquieti turbidus Adriæ, + Mente quatit solidâ, neque Auster, + Dux inquieti turbidus Adriæ, Nec fulminantis magna Jovis manus: Si fractus illabatur orbis, - Impavidum ferient ruinæ. - Hâc arte Pollux, et vagus Hercules + Impavidum ferient ruinæ. + Hâc arte Pollux, et vagus Hercules Innixus, arces attigit igneas: Quos inter Augustus recumbens Purpureo bibit ore nectar. - Hâc te merentem, Bacche pater, tuæ - Vexêre tigres, indocili jugum - Collo trahentes: hâc Quirinus + Hâc te merentem, Bacche pater, tuæ + Vexêre tigres, indocili jugum + Collo trahentes: hâc Quirinus Martis equis Acheronta fugit. Translation. @@ -84673,7 +84648,7 @@ Translation. The wreck would strike him undismayed. Pollux, and wandering Hercules, sustained By arts like these, the starry summits gained, - Mid whom reclining Cæsar sips + Mid whom reclining Cæsar sips Rich nectar with empurpled lips; Thee, Bacchus, thus deserving virtue's prize With yoke on neck indocile to the skies @@ -84687,41 +84662,41 @@ Translation. Lib. 2. Ode xvi. AD GROSPHUM. Otium Divos rogat in patenti - Prensus Ægoeo, simul atra nubes + Prensus Ægoeo, simul atra nubes Condidit Lunam, neque certa fulgent Sidera nautis; Otium bello furiosa Thrace, - Otium Medi pharetrâ decori, + Otium Medi pharetrâ decori, Grosphe, non gemmis, neque purpura ve- nale, nec auro. - Non enim gazæ, neque consularis + Non enim gazæ, neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis, et curas laqueata circum Tecta volantes. Vivitur parvo bene, cui paternum - Splendet in mensâ tenui salinum; + Splendet in mensâ tenui salinum; Nec leves somnos timor aut Cupido Sordidus aufert. Quid brevi fortes jaculamur oevo Multa? quid terras alio calentes - Sole mutamus? patriæ quis exul + Sole mutamus? patriæ quis exul Se quoque fugit? - Scandit æratas vitiosa naves + Scandit æratas vitiosa naves Cura; nec turmas equitum relinquit, Ocior cervis, et agente nimbos Ocior Euro. - Loetus in præsens animus, quod ultra est + Loetus in præsens animus, quod ultra est Oderit curare, et amara lento Temperet risu. Nihil est ab omni Parte beatum. Abstulit clarum cita mors Achillem: Longa Tithonum minuit senectus: - Et mihi forsan, tibi quod negârit, + Et mihi forsan, tibi quod negârit, Porriget hora. - Te greges centum, Siculæque circum + Te greges centum, Siculæque circum Mugiunt vaccoe; tibi tollit hinnitum Apta quadrigis equa: te bis Afro - Murice tinctæ + Murice tinctæ Vestiunt lanoe: mihi parva rura, et Spiritum Graioe tenuem Camenoe Parca non mendax dedit, et malignum @@ -84730,7 +84705,7 @@ Lib. 2. Ode xvi. AD GROSPHUM. Translation. TO GROSPHUS. For ease, to Heaven the seaman prays, - Caught in the wide Ægean seas + Caught in the wide Ægean seas When black clouds wrap the sky, Nor moon nor well known star to guide His barque along the treacherous tide, @@ -84961,7 +84936,7 @@ Neapolitan artist of great eminence. The risk attending the publication of so valuable a book, will operate to deter any American bookseller from attempting it. -The new number of Lardner's Cyclopædia is _A History of Greece, vol. +The new number of Lardner's Cyclopædia is _A History of Greece, vol. 1, by the Rev. C. Thirwall, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge_. There will be three volumes of it. Alas, for our old and valued friend, Oliver Goldsmith! The book is said to be faithful--but @@ -84989,7 +84964,7 @@ favor. Singular discrepancies are said to have been discovered in his last volume, between his map and his text. _Sketches of American Literature_, by Flint, are in course of -publication in the London Athenæum. They are not very highly spoken +publication in the London Athenæum. They are not very highly spoken of--being called abstruse and dull. The finest edition ever yet published of Milton's Paradise Lost, is @@ -85549,7 +85524,7 @@ accept the terms offered on the 27th. Omar declared his own unwillingness to yield, and his readiness to abandon the city in preference; but he was overruled by his Divan, and having reluctantly agreed to submit to them, the Chevalier d'Ankarloo the Swedish Consul, -(since Chargé d'Affaires of Sweden in the United States,) was +(since Chargé d'Affaires of Sweden in the United States,) was requested by him to go on board the British fleet and make the necessary arrangements in behalf of Algiers. On the 29th a convention was signed, the conditions of which were--the delivery of all slaves @@ -86973,7 +86948,7 @@ courage of philosophy--as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy. Salmanezer, as we have it in the holy writings, lay three years before Samaria: yet it fell. Sardanapalus--see Diodorus--maintained himself seven in Nineveh: but to no purpose. Troy -expired at the close of the second lustrum: and Azoth, as Aristæus +expired at the close of the second lustrum: and Azoth, as Aristæus declares upon his honor as a gentleman, opened at last her gates to Psammitticus, after having barred them for the fifth part of a century. @@ -86992,14 +86967,14 @@ discovered that _I had lost my breath_. The phrases "I am out of breath," "I have lost my breath," &c. are often enough repeated in common conversation, but it had never -occurred to me that the terrible accident of which I speak could _boná +occurred to me that the terrible accident of which I speak could _boná fide_ and actually happen! Imagine--that is if you have a fanciful turn--imagine I say, my wonder--my consternation--my despair! There is a good genius, however, which has never, at any time, entirely deserted me. In my most ungovernable moods I still retain a sense of propriety, _et le chemin des passions me conduit_--as -Rousseau says it did him--_à la philosophie veritable_. +Rousseau says it did him--_à la philosophie veritable_. Although I could not at first precisely ascertain to what degree the occurrence had affected me, I unhesitatingly determined to conceal at @@ -87137,7 +87112,7 @@ Seeing that I remained motionless, (all my limbs were dislocated, and my head twisted on one side,) his apprehensions began to be excited; and arousing the rest of the passengers, he communicated, in a very decided manner, his opinion that a dead man had been palmed upon them -during the night for a living _boná fide_ and responsible +during the night for a living _boná fide_ and responsible fellow-traveller--here giving me a thump on the right eye, by way of evidencing the truth of his suggestion. @@ -87198,7 +87173,7 @@ not my mouth been tied up by the pocket-handkerchief. Consoling myself with this reflection, I was mentally repeating some passages of the {737} ----, as is my custom before resigning myself to sleep, when two cats, of a greedy and vituperative turn, entering at a hole in the -wall, leaped up with a flourish _à la Catalani_, and alighting +wall, leaped up with a flourish _à la Catalani_, and alighting opposite one another on my visage, betook themselves to unseemly and indecorous contention for the paltry consideration of my nose. @@ -87292,7 +87267,7 @@ traversed when a man--that I did not at that time most palpably behold. I could repeat to myself entire lines, passages, names, acts, chapters, books, from the studies of my earlier days; and while, I dare say, the crowd around me were blind with horror, or aghast with -awe, I was alternately with Æschylus, a demi-god, or with +awe, I was alternately with Æschylus, a demi-god, or with Aristophanes, a frog. * * * * * @@ -87316,7 +87291,7 @@ principles of common law--propriety of that law especially, for which I hung--absurdities in political economy which till then I had never been able to acknowledge--dogmas in the old Aristotelians now {738} generally denied, but not the less intrinsically true--detestable -school formulæ in Bourdon, in Garnier, in Lacroix--synonymes in +school formulæ in Bourdon, in Garnier, in Lacroix--synonymes in Crabbe--lunar-lunatic theories in St. Pierre--falsities in the Pelham novels--beauties in Vivian Grey--more than beauties in Vivian Grey--profundity in Vivian Grey--genius in Vivian Grey--every thing in @@ -87542,10 +87517,10 @@ home--talked eternally--and played upon the French horn. "He patronized the bag-pipes. Captain Barclay, who walked against Time, would not walk against _him_. Windham and Allbreath were his favorite writers. He died gloriously while inhaling gas--_levique -flatu corrumpitur_, like the _fama pudicitiæ_ in Hieronymus.[2] He was +flatu corrumpitur_, like the _fama pudicitiæ_ in Hieronymus.[2] He was indubitably a"---- -[Footnote 2: _Tenera res in feminis fama pudicitiæ et quasi flos +[Footnote 2: _Tenera res in feminis fama pudicitiæ et quasi flos pulcherrimus, cito ad levem marcessit auram, levique flatu corrumpitur--maxime_, &c.--Hieronymus ad Salvinam.] @@ -88416,7 +88391,7 @@ can recollect, or even have heard much of the good old days of our grandfathers, will at once recognise. Just imagine, I say, this odd figure, thus garmented up, and you will form a good idea of the general appearance of my visiter--(For I cannot believe it was the -same _boná fide_ pair of tongs, which are now so peacefully reposing +same _boná fide_ pair of tongs, which are now so peacefully reposing before me.) The first glance was sufficient for an introduction. A slight start on my side, and a familiar "at home" sort of nod on his--and all was settled. His first motion was to seat himself on my @@ -88983,8 +88958,8 @@ at length in the appendix to the work under examination; from the original, as we may conjecture, which, in the orator's own hand writing, is now in the possession of his nephew, Dr. John C. Warren. The opening was brief and simple: but in it we discern that curbed -energy, that impassioned moderation--_une force contenue, une rèserve -animée_--so characteristic of a great mind, concentrating its powers +energy, that impassioned moderation--_une force contenue, une rèserve +animée_--so characteristic of a great mind, concentrating its powers for some gigantic effort: and as he passes on from the unaffected humility of his exordium "to the height of his great argument," we have bodily before our fancy's eye, a nobler personification of @@ -89124,7 +89099,7 @@ moral sublime, than that which our young countryman presented,--daring thus, amidst armed and frowning enemies, to denounce them and their masters, and to speak forth the startling truths of justice and freedom, with the naked sword of tyranny suspended over his head. The -rising of Brutus, "refulgent from the stroke of Cæsar's fate," shaking +rising of Brutus, "refulgent from the stroke of Cæsar's fate," shaking his crimsoned steel, and hailing Tully aloud as the "father of his country"--Tully's own denunciations of Catiline, Verres and Anthony--or the more illustrious Philippics of Demosthenes--all remote @@ -89862,7 +89837,7 @@ spot which tinged her otherwise leaden complexion, gave evident indications of a galloping consumption. An air of extreme _haut ton_, however, pervaded her whole -appearance--she wore in a graceful and _degagé_ manner, a large and +appearance--she wore in a graceful and _degagé_ manner, a large and beautiful winding-sheet of the finest India lawn--her hair hung in ringlets over her neck--a soft smile played about her mouth--but her nose, extremely long, thin, sinuous, flexible, and pimpled, hung down @@ -90106,7 +90081,7 @@ fierce--so impetuous--so overwhelming--that the room was flooded from wall to wall--the loaded table was overturned--the tressels were thrown upon their backs--the tub of punch into the fire place--and the ladies into hysterics. Jugs, pitchers, and carboys mingled -promiscuously in the _melée_, and wicker flagons encountered +promiscuously in the _melée_, and wicker flagons encountered desperately with bottles of junk. Piles of death-furniture floundered about. Sculls floated _en masse_--hearse-plumes nodded to escutcheons--the man with the horrors was drowned upon the spot--the @@ -90140,7 +90115,7 @@ discovered to contain a polite invitation from a wealthy and fashionable acquaintance to spend the next evening at her house. The emphatic N. B. "_Mrs. M. would be glad to see her friends in fancy dresses,_" soon brought to my experienced mind the nature of the -_fête_ to which I had the honor of an invitation. I arose to consult +_fête_ to which I had the honor of an invitation. I arose to consult my prints and books to discover the most appropriate costume wherein to conceal my noble self. But not being able to suit exactly my somewhat fastidious taste, I resolved to consult the accomplished, @@ -90352,7 +90327,7 @@ neither of man, nor of God, nor of any familiar thing. And quivering awhile among the draperies of the room, it at length rested in full view upon the surface of the door of brass. But the shadow was vague, and formless, and indefinitive, and was the shadow neither of man nor -God--neither God of Greece, nor God of Chaldæa, nor any Egyptian God. +God--neither God of Greece, nor God of Chaldæa, nor any Egyptian God. And the shadow rested upon the brazen doorway, and under the arch of the entablature of the door, and moved not, nor spoke any word, but there became stationary and remained. And the door whereupon the @@ -90624,16 +90599,16 @@ PARIS, ----. _Dear Jane_: Here is an interesting narrative to amuse you, which I have just heard -related. In the _Champs Elysées_, there stands a beautiful protestant +related. In the _Champs Elysées_, there stands a beautiful protestant chapel, where we attend divine service almost every Sabbath; if we do not go there, we repair to the oratorio, a protestant church in the -Rue St. Honoré, or to the English Ambassador's, where there is public +Rue St. Honoré, or to the English Ambassador's, where there is public worship every Sunday, or to another temple consecrated to our form of worship, (the Church of the Visitation,) in the Rue Saint Antoine. Bishop Luscombe officiates at the oratorio, and Mr. Wilkes, a Presbyterian clergyman, assembles his congregation in an upper apartment adjoining the church. The history in question is that of the -Rev. Mr. Lewis Way, who owns the chapel in the Champs Elysées and +Rev. Mr. Lewis Way, who owns the chapel in the Champs Elysées and preaches there; he is extremely eloquent and energetic, and speaks plain truths to his flock without hesitation, when necessary. It is said that when a youth he had an ardent desire to be educated for the @@ -90811,20 +90786,20 @@ to resign his office, and has been succeeded by Monsieur ----. We found him and Madame de N---- surrounded by friends, who had accidentally dropped in as well as ourselves, and the evening being sultry, the company were regaled with delicious _sorbets_ and iced -creams. _Ecarté_ was soon introduced among the elder gentry, and +creams. _Ecarté_ was soon introduced among the elder gentry, and several of Mr. de Neuville's young nieces being there, our brothers and two other youthful beaux, the girls and myself joined them in playing "Tierce" and Blindman's-buff in the saloon. We enjoyed ourselves thus, till quite a late hour. One of the most curious and interesting places that has recently attracted our attention, is the "Museum of Artillery," in the street of the University. It is the -depôt of a great variety of antique armor, ordnance and implements of +depôt of a great variety of antique armor, ordnance and implements of war, and among the first we beheld the coat of mail of many a famous champion and that of Joan of Arc, which we thought uncommonly large to fit a woman. Every article is kept beautifully neat and bright, and a number of the things are labelled, which saves the trouble of a guide to explain their names and use. Another most singular place we have -seen is the "_Marché du Vieux Linge_," or "rag fair." This is an +seen is the "_Marché du Vieux Linge_," or "rag fair." This is an enormous building divided into four halls, containing 800 stalls or petty shops. And oh! the queer articles that are in these shops!--tawdry second hand hats and dresses--old shoes, old gloves, @@ -90836,7 +90811,7 @@ quarter, to "come and buy," and may think himself lucky if he be not seized and absolutely forced into some of the stalls, to behold their wonders. _We_ went out of mere curiosity and were glad to hurry out as quickly as our feet could carry us, the people were so rude and -presuming. The "Halle au Blé," or "corn market," well merits +presuming. The "Halle au Blé," or "corn market," well merits examination. It is a large circular edifice of stone, enclosing one immense hall with a vaulted roof of sheet iron supported on an immense framing of cast iron; from a window in the centre of which the light @@ -90849,7 +90824,7 @@ Bartholomew, in 1572. It was {767} once rich in pictures and statues; at present, it is remarkable only for its antiquity and the curious carving around its portal. Its founder was the cruel and superstitious Childebert, and two statues of stone, near the entrance, are said to -represent him and his wife. On the _fête de_ Dieu, the royal family +represent him and his wife. On the _fête de_ Dieu, the royal family walk there in procession from the palace of the Tuilleries, to hear mass. They are magnificently arrayed and attended by a concourse of priests and soldiers, and by a band of females clad in white, who @@ -90935,7 +90910,7 @@ reign of terror, met their fate, at the foot of a statue of Liberty, erected during that bloody period on the ruins of an equestrian statue of Louis XV. This was overthrown by the remorseless revolutionists, although it was universally regarded as an exquisite piece of -sculpture, (especially the horse) and was the chéf d'oeuvre of +sculpture, (especially the horse) and was the chéf d'oeuvre of Bouchardon. Issuing like Jonah from the whale, but probably with less _velocity_, we went to the Bazaar to purchase some rolls of sweet chocolate, which we are advised to carry with us, as being agreeable @@ -90995,7 +90970,7 @@ handsome structure, extending for many yards along the borders of the Seine. Its designation has been changed and it is now used by the "Royal Academy or Institute," for their private meetings and general assemblies. This corps of Savans was established in the reign of -Louis, and is composed of the élite of the philosophers, artists and +Louis, and is composed of the élite of the philosophers, artists and literary men of the kingdom. They correspond with the literati of all countries, and have done much in the cause of literature and the arts and sciences. They have ranged themselves into four classes; the first @@ -91017,7 +90992,7 @@ members wear a costume of black and green, and the successful candidates are sometimes crowned with wreaths of laurel. The hall and several apartments leading to it, are decorated with statues of various distinguished characters,--as Bossuet, Fenelon, Sully, Pascal, -Descartes, Rollin, Molière, and others, whose names are venerated by +Descartes, Rollin, Molière, and others, whose names are venerated by the learned and good. The post hour has arrived, so farewell to my "bonny Jean"--we shall soon be still farther from you, but any where and every where I shall still be your devoted sister @@ -91089,7 +91064,7 @@ BOOK VI. He meant to hasten, there his faithful wife Andromache, to meet her Hector ran;-- His wife with wealthy dowry, daughter fair - Of fam'd Eëtion,--chief magnanimous, + Of fam'd Eëtion,--chief magnanimous, Who dwelt, in Hypoplacus' sylvan land, At Hypoplacian Thebes,--Cilicia's king;-- His daughter wedded Hector great in arms, @@ -91118,11 +91093,11 @@ BOOK VI. My honor'd mother lives.--Achilles slew My father, and laid waste Cilician Thebes, His town, well-peopled, grac'd with lofty gates. - He slew Eëtion;--yet, with rev'rence touch'd, + He slew Eëtion;--yet, with rev'rence touch'd, Despoil'd him not, but burn'd the breathless corse With all it's splendid armor, and, above It's ashes, heap'd a monument of earth. - The mountain nymphs, of Ægis-bearing Jove + The mountain nymphs, of Ægis-bearing Jove Immortal daughters, planted round the tomb A grove of elms, in honor of the dead.-- My brethren, too,--seven gallant heroes,--all @@ -91146,7 +91121,7 @@ BOOK VI. May be ascended:--there, a fierce assault, The bravest of our foes have thrice essayed;-- The two Ajaces, fam'd Idomeneus, - Th' Atridæ also, and the mighty son + Th' Atridæ also, and the mighty son Of Tydeus;--whether by some soothsay'r mov'd In heavenly tokens skill'd, or their own minds Impelling them with animating hope. @@ -91556,7 +91531,7 @@ Warm Spring Mountain which overlooks the first thermal fountain in the Pilgrim's path to Hygeia. Here I commence my adventures. This is the starting point of my story, and it is henceforth of course that I shall expect my gentle reader to sharpen his attentive faculty--and as -Mark Anthony said to his countrymen at Cæsar's funeral, "lend me his +Mark Anthony said to his countrymen at Cæsar's funeral, "lend me his ears." Gently and by slow degrees had we surmounted the ascent of this celebrated mountain, (celebrated at least in the Old Dominion and by all travellers to the Springs,) and now we were about to pass down @@ -91728,7 +91703,7 @@ to-morrow--would spread a new and brighter coloring over my prospects. Cato being dismissed, I retired and slept soundly for the space of two hours at least; at the expiration of which time, I was suddenly startled by a noise immediately underneath me, which to my classical -fancy seemed to resemble the shrieks of the ancient Bacchæ, the +fancy seemed to resemble the shrieks of the ancient Bacchæ, the Priestesses of the Vine-loving God. Let that however pass! There was a mixture of music in it, or of something intended for music, which kept me in a tolerable humor and smoothed over those porcupine points which @@ -91748,7 +91723,7 @@ a man cannot use it even in this free country. Morning at last dawned--but oh! what a morning? The rain fell in torrents--and the wind came whistling down the mountain hollows as if -old Æolus had resolved that his voice should be distinctly heard and +old Æolus had resolved that his voice should be distinctly heard and his strength clearly understood. What was I to do? To walk abroad was impossible--so I even resolved to lay quietly ensconced in my cot, _hard_ as it was, until my fellow lodger, who was one of the Saturnine @@ -91812,7 +91787,7 @@ assassination of the King of the French--a third were denouncing the whole army of abolitionists and lamenting that Tappan and Thompson did not find it convenient to visit the White Sulphur Springs--a fourth were denouncing the vengeance of Judge Lynch against the _Chevaliers -D'Industrie_--anglicè black legs,--a fifth were pouring a volley of +D'Industrie_--anglicè black legs,--a fifth were pouring a volley of exterminating epithets upon the head of Amos Kendall and the Little Magician; and a sixth, did not even spare his majesty King Calwell himself and his minister of the home department, for putting them in @@ -91880,7 +91855,7 @@ _Ball_. [Footnote 2: The gift of Mr. Henderson, a wealthy gentleman of New Orleans.] -[Footnote 3: Hygeia was the daughter of Æsculapius, and was +[Footnote 3: Hygeia was the daughter of Æsculapius, and was granddaughter of Apollo or the Sun.] [Footnote 4: Mr. Henderson's White Lady was no doubt a liberal @@ -92278,7 +92253,7 @@ stimulation of every kind; led a sedentary and studious life; and been subject to a great variety of dyspeptic affections. On the 5th of January, 1835, he left his recitation room at 11 o'clock, A. M., and walked briskly, with his surtout buttoned round him, to his residence, -three quarters of a mile. The thermometer was at 8°, and the barometer +three quarters of a mile. The thermometer was at 8°, and the barometer at 29.248--the sky clear and calm. On reaching home he engaged in meteorological observations, and in 30 minutes, while in the open air about to record the direction of the winds-- @@ -92386,7 +92361,7 @@ burns.'" pp. 27-28. _The Classical Family Library. Numbers XV, XVI, and XVII. Euripides translated by the Reverend R. Potter, Prebendary of Norwich. Harper & Brothers, New York._ These three volumes embrace the whole of -Euripides--Æschylus and Sophocles having already been published in the +Euripides--Æschylus and Sophocles having already been published in the Library. A hasty glance at the work will not enable us to speak positively in regard to the value of these translations. The name of Potter, however, is one of high authority, and we have no reason to @@ -92420,7 +92395,7 @@ Destiny or Fate. Secondly, in the Chorus. Thirdly, in Ideality. But in Euripides we behold only the decline and fall of that drama, and the three prevailing features we have mentioned are in him barely distinguishable, or to be seen only in their perversion. What, for -example is, with Sophocles, and still more especially with Æschylus, +example is, with Sophocles, and still more especially with Æschylus, the obscure and terrible spirit of predestination, sometimes mellowed down towards the catastrophe of their dramas into the unseen, yet not unfelt hand of a kind Providence, or overruling God, becomes in the @@ -92475,7 +92450,7 @@ portion of his serious attention. He made no scruple of admitting the _parabasis_ into his tragedies[1]--a license which although well suited to the spirit of comedy, was entirely out of place, and must have had a ludicrous {780} effect in a serious drama. In some -instances also, among which we may mention the Danaidæ, a female +instances also, among which we may mention the Danaidæ, a female Chorus is permitted by him to make use of grammatical inflexions proper only for males. @@ -92495,7 +92470,7 @@ increase of bodily size, the scenic illusions of a nature very different, and much more extensive than our own, inasmuch as actual realities were called in to the aid of art, were on the other hand the Ideality of representation. But although in Sophocles, and more -especially in Æschylus, character and expression were made subservient +especially in Æschylus, character and expression were made subservient and secondary to this ideal and lofty elevation--in Euripides the reverse is always found to be the case. His heroes are introduced familiarly to the spectators, and so far from raising his men to the @@ -92727,7 +92702,7 @@ Common Schools of New England, their benefits 86, 87 Contrast (the) or a Fashionable and Unfashionable New England Wife 290 -Conversation Parties, Soirées, and Squeezes, by Oliver Oldschool 547 +Conversation Parties, Soirées, and Squeezes, by Oliver Oldschool 547 Cooper, James Fenimore, Letter to his Countrymen, reviewed 648 @@ -92767,7 +92742,7 @@ Deaf and Dumb Asylum--Review of Gov. Tazewell's Report on 134 Dew, Professor, his Dissertation on the Sexes, &c. 493, 621, 672 -"Diary of an Ennuyée" by Mrs. Jameson, reviewed 18 +"Diary of an Ennuyée" by Mrs. Jameson, reviewed 18 Diary of a Revolutionary Officer, extract from 341 @@ -92810,7 +92785,7 @@ Eloquence, Pinckney's, account of 94 English Poetry, Essays on 397, 557 -Ennuyée, Diary of, reviewed 18 +Ennuyée, Diary of, reviewed 18 Epicurus, his Geogony 301 @@ -92954,7 +92929,7 @@ Italian Sketch Book, notice of 594 J -Jameson, Mrs. her Diary of an Ennuyée, reviewed 18 +Jameson, Mrs. her Diary of an Ennuyée, reviewed 18 "Visits and Sketches" 250 "Court of Charles II" 312 @@ -93057,7 +93032,7 @@ LITERARY NOTICES. Crayon Miscellany, No. 1 456 No. 2 (containing Abbottsford and Newstead Abbey) 646 Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East 459 - Diary of an Ennuyée, by Mrs. Jameson 18 + Diary of an Ennuyée, by Mrs. Jameson 18 Dictionary, Worcester's 715 District School 777 Early Naval History of England 780 @@ -93542,7 +93517,7 @@ Tripoli Sketches of the History and Present Condition of 65, 129, 193, Bombardment of Algiers 723 Sardinians attack Tripoli 722 Sicilians attack Tripoli 724 - Abællino, American privateer, enters the Mediterranean and takes + Abællino, American privateer, enters the Mediterranean and takes several British vessels 655 Philadelphia frigate strikes on a rock at the entrance of the harbor of Tripoli 197 @@ -93657,7 +93632,7 @@ Answer to Willis's, "They may talk of your Love in a Cottage" 612 Anticipation 161 -Apostrophe of the Æolian Harp to the Wind 396 +Apostrophe of the Æolian Harp to the Wind 396 "Arnold and Andre," an unpublished Drama, scene from 555 @@ -94094,363 +94069,4 @@ Young Lady, Lines to 177 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Southern Literary Messenger, Volume I., 1834-35, by Various -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, 1834-35 *** - -***** This file should be named 59553-8.txt or 59553-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/5/5/59553/ - -Produced by Ron Swanson -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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