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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 10, No. 267.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HADLEY CHURCH.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Hadley, Mankin, or Monkton, Hadley, was formerly a hamlet to Edmonton.
+It lies north-west of Enfield, and comprises 580 acres, including 240
+allotted in lieu of the common enclosure of Enfield Chase. Its name is
+compounded of two Saxon words--Head-leagh, or a high place; Mankin is
+probably derived from the connexion of the place with the abbey of
+Walden, to which it was given by Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex,
+under the name of the Hermitage of Hadley. The village is situated on
+the east side of the great north road, eleven miles from London.
+
+The manor belonged to the Mandevilles, the founder of the Hermitage, and
+was given by Geoffrey to the monks of Walden; in the ensuing two
+centuries the manorial property underwent various transmissions, and was
+purchased by the Pinney family, in the year 1791, by the present
+proprietor, Peter Moore, Esq.
+
+The house of the late David Garrow, father to the present judge of that
+name in the court of exchequer, is supposed to have been connected with
+a monastic establishment. Chimney-pieces remain in _alto-relievo_: on
+one is sculptured the story of Sampson; the other represents many
+passages in the life of our Saviour, from his birth in the stall to his
+death on the cross.
+
+The parish church, of which our engraving gives a correct view, is a
+handsome structure, built at different periods. The chancel bears marks
+of great antiquity, but the body has been built with bricks. At the west
+end is a square tower, composed of flint, with quoins of freestone; on
+one side is the date Anno Domini 1393, cut in stone--one side of the
+stone bearing date in the sculptured device of a wing; the other that of
+a rose. The figures denote the year 1494; the last, like the second
+numerical, being the _half eight_, often used in ancient inscriptions.
+The unique vestige of the middle ages, namely, a firepan, or pitchpot,
+on the south-west tower of the church, was blown down in January, 1779
+and carefully repaired, though now not required for the purpose of
+giving an alarm at the approach of a foe, by lighting pitch within it.
+The church has been supposed to have been erected by Edward IV. as a
+chapel for religious service, to the memory of those who fell in the
+battle of Barnet in 1471.
+
+On the window of the north transcept are some remains of painted glass,
+among which may be noticed the rebus of the Gooders, a family of
+considerable consequence at Hadley in the fifteenth and sixteenth
+centuries. This consists of a partridge with an ear of wheat in its
+bill; on an annexed scroll is the word Gooder; on the capital of one of
+the pillars are two partridges with ears of corn in the mouth, an
+evident repetition of the same punning device, and it is probable the
+Gooder's were considerable benefactors towards building the church.
+
+The almshouses for six decayed housekeepers were founded by Sir Roger
+Willbraham in 1616, but so slenderly endowed that they do not produce
+more than 9l.6s. annually. Major Delafonte, in 1762, increased the
+annuity, which expired in 1805; but Mr. Cottrell gained by subscription
+2375l. in trust. The father of the late Mr. Whitbread, the statesman,
+subscribed the sum of 1000l. for the support of the almshouses. The
+charity-school for girls was established in 1773, and was enlarged and
+converted into a school of industry in 1800. Twenty girls in the
+establishment receive annually the sum of 1l. towards clothing; thirty
+girls besides the above are admitted to the benefit of education, on
+paying the weekly sum of 2d. and succeed to the vacancies which occur in
+the class more largely assisted. This charity is in like manner
+supported by contributions on the inhabitants. The boys' school,
+supported in the same way, which in 1804 amounted to the sum of 103l.
+10s., has about seventy day-scholars; twenty are allowed 1l. towards
+clothing, and instructed without any charge; the remainder pay
+2d. weekly.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH BOOK.
+
+NO. XLIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BUTCHER.
+
+
+Wolsey, they tell us, was a butcher. An alliterative couplet too was
+made upon him to that import:--
+
+    "By butchers born, by bishops bred,
+    How high his honour holds his haughty head."
+
+Notwithstanding which, however, and other similar allusions, there have
+arisen many disputes touching the veracity of the assertion; yet,
+doubtless, those who first promulgated the idea, were keen observers of
+men and manners; and, probably, in the critical examination of the
+Cardinal's character, discovered a particular trait which indubitably
+satisfied them of his origin.
+
+Be this as it may, I am inclined to think there is certainly something
+peculiarly characteristic in the butcher.
+
+The pursuit of his calling appears to have an influence upon his
+manners, speech, and dress. Of all the days in the week, Saturday is the
+choicest for seeing him to the best advantage. His hatless head, shining
+with grease, his cheeks as ruddy as his mutton-chops, his sky-blue frock
+and dark-blue apron, his dangling steel and sharp-set knife, which ever
+and anon play an accompaniment to his quick, short--"Buy! buy!" are all
+in good keeping with the surrounding objects. And although this be not
+_killing_ day with him, he is particularly winning and gracious with the
+serving-maids; who (whirling the large street-door key about their right
+thumb, and swinging their marketing basket in their left hand) view the
+well-displayed joints, undecided which to select, until Mr. Butcher
+recommends a leg or a loin; and then he so very politely cuts off the
+fat, in which his skilful hand is guided by the high or low price of
+mutton fat in the market. He is the very antipode of a fop, yet no man
+knows how to show a handsome _leg_ off to better advantage, or is
+prouder of his _calves_.
+
+In his noviciate, when he shoulders the shallow tray, and whistles
+cavalierly on his way in his sausage-meat-complexioned-jacket, there is
+something marked as well in his character as his _habits_, he is never
+_moved_ to stay, except by a brother butcher, or a fight of dogs or
+boys, for such scenes fit his singular fancy. Then, in the discussion of
+his bull-dog's beauties, he becomes extraordinarily eloquent. Hatiz, the
+Persian, could not more warmly, or with choicer figure, describe his
+mistress' charms, than he does Lion's, or Fowler's, or whatever the
+brute's Christian name may be; and yet the surly, cynical, _dogged_
+expression of the bepraised beast, would almost make one imagine he
+understood the meaning of his master's words, and that his honest nature
+despised the flattering encomiums he passes upon his pink belly and
+legs, his broad chest, his ring-tail, and his tulip ears!--_Absurdities,
+in Prose and Verse._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONFIDENCE AND CREDIT.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+    The day was dark, the markets dull,
+    The Change was thin, Gazettes were full,
+      And half the town was breaking;
+    The _counter-sign_ of Cash was "_Stop_!"
+    Bankers and bankrupts shut up shop,
+      And honest hearts were aching.
+
+    When near the Bench my fancy spied
+    A faded form, with hasty stride,
+      Beneath Grief's burden stooping:
+    Her name was CREDIT, and she said
+    Her father, TRADE, was lately dead,
+      Her mother, COMMERCE, drooping.
+
+    The smile that she was wont to wear
+    Was wither'd by the hand of care,
+      Her eyes had lost their lustre:
+    Her character was gone, she said,
+    For she had basely been betray'd,
+      And nobody would trust her.
+
+    For honest INDUSTRY had tried
+    To gain fair CREDIT for his bride,
+      And found the damsel willing,
+    But, ah! a _fortune-hunter_ came,
+    And SPECULATION was his name,
+      A rake not worth a shilling.
+
+    The villain came, on mischief bent,
+    And soon gain'd dad and mam's consent--
+      Ah! then poor CREDIT smarted;--
+    He filch'd her fortune and her fame,
+    He fix'd a blot upon her name,
+      And left her broken-hearted.
+
+    While thus poor CREDIT seem'd to sigh,
+    Her cousin, CONFIDENCE, came by--
+      (Methinks he must be clever)--
+    For, when he whisper'd in her ear,
+    She check'd the sigh, she dried the tear.
+      And smiled as sweet as ever!
+
+JESSE HAMMOND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CURIOUS SCRAPS RELATING TO CELEBRATED PERSONS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+When the famous Cornelia, daughter of the great Scipio, was importuned
+by a lady of her acquaintance to show her toilette, she deferred
+satisfying her curiosity till her children, who were the famous Gracchi,
+came from school, and then said, "_En! haec ornamenta mea
+sunt._"--"These are my ornaments."
+
+Cyneas, the minister of Pyrrhus, asked the king (before their expedition
+into Italy) what he proposed to do when he had subdued the Romans? He
+answered, "Pass into Sicily." "What then?" said the minister. "Conquer
+the Carthaginians," replied the king. "And what follows that?" says the
+minister. "Be sovereign of Greece, and then enjoy ourselves," said the
+king. "And why," replied the sensible minister, "can we not do this
+_last_ now?"
+
+The emperors Nerva, Trajan, Antoninous, and Aurelius sold their palaces,
+their gold and silver plate, their valuable furniture, and other
+superfluities, heaped up by their predecessors, and banished from their
+tables all expensive delicacies. These princes, together with Vespasian,
+Pertinax, Alexander, Severus, Claudius the Second, and Tacitus, who were
+raised to the empire by their merit, and whom all ages have admired as
+the greatest and the best of princes, were always fond of the greatest
+plainness in their apparel, furniture, and outward appearance.
+
+Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, who lived unknown and disgraced in
+Spain, was scarcely able to obtain an audience of his master Charles V.;
+and when the king asked who was the fellow that was so clamorous to
+speak to him, he cried out, "I am one who have got your majesty more
+provinces than your father left towns."
+
+Camoens, the famous Portuguese poet, was unfortunately shipwrecked at
+the mouth of the river Meco, on the coast of Camboja, and lost his whole
+property; however, he saved his life and his poems, which he bore
+through the waves in one hand, whilst he swam ashore with the other. It
+is said, that his black servant, a native of Java, who had been his
+companion for many years, begged in the Streets of Lisbon for the
+support of his master, who died in 1579. His death, it is supposed, was
+accelerated by the anguish with which he foresaw the ruin impending over
+his country. In one of his letters he uses these remarkable expressions:
+"I am ending the course of my life; the world will witness how I have
+loved my country. I have returned not only to die in her bosom, but to
+die with her."
+
+Henrietta, daughter of Henry IV. of France, and wife of Charles I. of
+England, was reduced to the utmost poverty; and her daughter, afterwards
+married to a brother of Louis XIV., is said to have lain in bed for want
+of coals to keep her warm. Pennant relates a melancholy fact of fallen
+majesty in the person of Mary d'Este, the unhappy queen of James II.,
+who, flying with her infant prince from the ruin impending over their
+house, after crossing the Thames from abdicated Whitehall, took shelter
+beneath the ancient walls of Lambeth church a whole hour, from the rain
+of the inclement night of December 6th, 1688. Here she waited with
+aggravated misery till a common coach, procured from the next inn,
+arrived, and conveyed her to Gravesend, from whence she sailed, and bid
+adieu to this kingdom.
+
+Pascal, one of the greatest geniuses and best men that ever lived,
+entertained a notion that God made men miserable here in order to their
+being happy hereafter; and in consequence of this notion, he imposed
+upon himself the most painful mortification. He even ordered a wall to
+be built before a window in his study, which afforded him too agreeable
+a prospect. He had also a girdle full of sharp points next his skin; and
+while he was eating or drinking any thing that was grateful to his
+palate, he was constantly pricking himself, that he might not be
+sensible of any pleasure. The virtuous Fenelon submitted without reserve
+to the arbitrary sentence of the pope, when he condemned a book which he
+had published, and even preached in condemnation of his own book,
+forbidding his friends to defend it. "What gross and humiliating
+superstitions (says their biographer) have been manifested by men, in
+other respects of sound and clear understandings, and of upright,
+honest hearts."
+
+In the churchyard of St. Ann's, Soho, says Pennant, is a marble, erected
+near the grave of that remarkable personage, Theodore Antony Newhoff,
+king of Corsica, who died in this parish in 1756, immediately after
+leaving the king's-bench prison, by the benefit of the act of
+insolvency. The marble was erected, and the epitaph written, by the
+honourable Horace Walpole:--
+
+    "The grave, great teacher, to a level brings
+    Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings;
+    But Theodore this moral learn'd ere dead--
+    Fate pour'd its lesson on his living head,
+    Bestow'd a kingdom, and denied him bread."
+
+He registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. His
+biographer says, "He was a man whose claim to royalty was as
+indisputable as the most ancient titles to any monarchy can pretend to
+be; that is, the choice of his subjects, the voluntary election of an
+injured people, who had the common right of mankind to freedom, and the
+uncommon resolution of determining to be free."
+
+P.T.W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"THE LILY BELLS ARE WET WITH DEW."
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Sir,--I have taken the liberty of transmitting to you a piece of a Latin
+ode, which appears to me to be the original of the song--"The lily bells
+are wet with dew," in Miss Mitford's "Dramatic Scenes," which appeared
+in your miscellany of June 23, 1827.
+
+It is copied from an old book published in the year 1697, by Charles
+Elford, entitled "Gemmae Poetarum."
+
+If you think it worthy insertion, I should feel obliged by its
+appearance. Yours respectfully,
+
+J.T.S.
+
+    Lilia rorescuut, jubara osculo blande rosarum
+      Florem tangunt--o, dives odore,
+    O, splendens tinctu floretum--est ...
+      Surge Feronia, et sertum texe
+    Caesariem nunc implectare tuum coracinum
+      Ne aestu medio sol flores abripiat.
+    In coelo tenuis nubes est, lenta susurra
+      Cum aura veniunt--aut imbrem vaticinans
+    Aut nivem: orire, Feronia, crinem stringere caute
+      Sertum age, ne veniat tempestas minitans.
+
+I have translated it thus, which you may perceive is strictly literal:--
+
+    The lilies are wet with the dew--the sunbeams with a kiss
+    gently touch the flower of the roses.--O the garden is rich of
+    scent--is bright of hue.--Arise Feronia and weave the garland
+    even now to braid thy ravenlike hair, lest at mid-day the sun
+    should spoil the flowers.--In the sky there is a little cloud,
+    gentle whisperings come with the gale--they tell of rain or
+    snow.--Arise Feronia and carefully weave the garland to bind up
+    thy hair, lest the threatening storm should come.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES FOR AUGUST, 1827.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+It has been computed, that all the celestial orbs perceived by the
+unassisted eye (which on a clear night never exceed 1,000,) do not form
+the 80,000 part of those which may be descried by the help of a
+telescope, through which they appear prodigiously increased in number;
+seventy stars have been counted in the constellation of the _pleiades_,
+and no fewer than 2,000 in that of _Orion_.
+
+The _galaxy_, or _via lactea_, (milky way,) is a remarkable appearance
+in the heavens, being a broad ray of whitish colour surrounding the
+whole celestial concave, whose light proceeds from vast clusters of
+stars, discoverable only by the telescope. Mr. Brydone, in his journey
+to the top of Mount Etna, found the phenomenon make a most glorious
+appearance, "like a pure flame that shot across the heavens."
+
+Dr. Herschel made many observations on this portion of the heavens,
+using a Newtonian reflector of twenty feet focal length, and an aperture
+of eighteen inches. With this powerful telescope he completely resolved
+the whitish appearance into stars, which the telescopes he had formerly
+used had not light enough to do. In the most vacant place to be met with
+in that neighbourhood, he found sixty-three stars; other six fields, or
+apparent spaces in the heavens, which he could see at once through his
+telescope, averaged seventy-nine stars in each field: thus he found that
+by allowing 15 min. of a deg. for the diameter of his field of view, a
+belt of 15 deg. long, and 2 deg. broad, which he had often seen pass
+before his telescope in an hour's time could not contain less than
+50,000 stars, large enough to be distinctly numbered, besides which he
+suspected twice as many more, which could be seen only now and then by
+faint glimpses, for want of sufficient light. In the most crowded part
+of that region he informs us, he has had fields of view which contained
+no less than 588 stars, and these were continued for many minutes, so
+that in one quarter of an hour's time there passed no less than 116,000
+stars. He also intimates the probability of the sun being placed in this
+great stratum, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
+
+From the appearance of the galaxy it seems to encompass the whole
+heavens, as it certainly must if the sun be within the same. From
+succeeding observations made by Dr. Herschel, he gathers that the milky
+way is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes, and our sun
+evidently one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it. In viewing and
+gauging this shining zone in almost every direction, he found the number
+of stars composing it, by the account of those gauges constantly
+increase and decrease in proportion to its apparent brightness to the
+naked eye.
+
+The _nebulae_, or small whitish specks, discoverable by telescopes in
+various parts of the heavens are owing to the same cause. Former
+astronomers could only reckon 103, but Herschel counts upwards of 1,250.
+He has also discovered a species of them, which he calls planetary
+nebulae, on account of their brightness, and shining with a well
+defined disk.
+
+The sun enters _Virgo_ on the 23rd at 11h. 42m. evening.
+
+Mercury comes to his inferior conjunction on the 13th at 1-1/4h.
+morning, becomes stationary on the 22nd, and is at his greatest
+elongation on the 31st, when he passes his ascending node; he may be
+seen early on that morning rising at 3-1/2h.
+
+Venus is in conjunction with Mars on the 21st at 3h. afternoon; she
+rises on the 1st at 2h. 38m., and on the 31st at 4h. 10m. morning.
+
+Jupiter still continues a conspicuous object in the western part of the
+heavens, setting on the 1st at 9h. 43m., and on the 31st at 8h. None of
+the eclipses of his satellites are visible during the month in
+consequence of his being so near the sun.
+
+Herschel comes to the south on the 1st at 11h. 6m., and on the 31st at
+9h. 43m. evening.
+
+_Spica virginis_ (the virgin's spike), in the constellation Virgo
+culminates on the 1st at 4h. 32m. afternoon, being situated 10 deg. 13m.
+south of the equator, at a meridional elevation of 28 deg. 26m.
+_Arcturus_ in Bootes south at 5h. 23m. with 20 deg. north delineation,
+and at an altitude of 58 deg. 46m. _Antares_ in the heart of Scorpio at
+7h. 34m., declination 26 deg. south, elevation 12 deg. 38m. _Altair_ in
+the Eagle at 10h. 57m., declination 8 deg. 24m. north, altitude 47 deg.
+3m. _Fomalhaut_ in the most southern fish of the constellation Pisces at
+2h. 6m. morning, having a southern declination of 30 deg. 34m., being
+elevated only 8 deg. 5m. above the horizon. The above stars come to the
+meridian 4 min. earlier every evening; they are all of the first
+magnitude (with the exception of _Altair_, which is of the second,) and
+may be easily distinguished any hour of the day with a magnifying power
+of thirty times; stars of the second magnitude require a power of 100,
+but when the sun is not more than two hours above the horizon, they may
+be seen with a power of sixty.
+
+PASCHE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+NO. CVI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ROSALIE BERTON.
+
+(_Concluded from page 74._ [Note: Mirror 266])
+
+
+Things were in this state when I visited S----, and the union of Henri
+and Rosalie, though not positively fixed, was regarded as an event by no
+means distant. Every one was interested for the young and handsome
+couple, and wished for their espousal. Rosalie's friends longed for the
+day when she was to wed the young and handsome Henri; and Henri's
+comrades were perpetually urging him to cement his union with the
+lovely Rosalie.
+
+We left the place with every kind wish for the young and betrothed pair.
+I have not since revisited S----, but by letters from my friend, I have
+been informed, that this commencement of their loves had a sad and
+melancholy sequel.
+
+After our departure, it seems, the lovers continued equally attached;
+arrangements were making for their union, and it was intended that Henri
+should leave the army previous to their marriage. But just at this
+juncture, and as he was about to leave his corps, rumours of war were
+circulated, the enterprise against Spain was projected, and the royal
+guard was one of the first corps ordered for service. Henri, with the
+natural enthusiasm of a soldier, felt all his former ardour revive; and
+longed to mingle in the ranks of glory, ere he left them for ever. He,
+doubtless, felt severely the separation from Rosalie; yet his feelings
+were described to me as being of a joyous character, and as if evincing
+that he felt happy that the opportunity of joining his brethren in arms,
+and of signalizing himself perhaps for the last time, had presented
+itself, previous to his marriage and his quitting the service.
+
+The enterprise against Spain, he considered as the French army commonly
+did, to be a mere excursion of pleasure, which, while it led them into a
+country which many of them had never visited before, would also afford
+them the occasion of gathering laurels which might serve to redeem
+somewhat of their lost glory. He therefore looked forward to the
+expedition, on the whole, with feelings of ardour and delight, and even
+longed for its approach. Not so Rosalie! She looked on war and bloodshed
+with the natural apprehensions of her sex; and saw in the projected
+expedition, and its prospects of glory, only danger and death to her
+lover! Her spirits received a severe shock when the intelligence was
+first communicated--she gradually lost her cheerfulness and spirits; the
+song, the dance, had no longer charm or interest for her, and she could
+only contemplate the approaching separation with sorrow and dismay!
+
+Henri perceived her depression, and endeavoured to combat and remove her
+fears by arguments fond, but unavailing. It was only, he would urge, a
+jaunt of pleasure; it would admit his speedy return, when he would come
+to lay his services at her feet, and claim the hand which was already
+promised to his hopes; and surely, then, Rosalie could not regret his
+obeying the call of duty and of honour; or like her lover the worse,
+when crowned with victory in the cause of his country. To these and
+similar assurances, Rosalie could only reply with the mute eloquence of
+tears; and nothing could divest her of the apprehension with which she
+ever regarded an enterprise which she seemed to consider from the
+first as fatal.
+
+The time however drew on, the dreaded period arrived, the Royal Guard
+left its quarters, and departed from S----. Henri took a fond and
+passionate adieu of his betrothed; and Rosalie, having summoned all her
+fortitude to her aid, went through the parting scene with more firmness
+than could have been expected from her, though her feelings, afterwards,
+were described as of the most agonizing kind.
+
+Such is the difference between the ardent feelings of man, and the
+tender and gentle sympathies of woman, that, while his sorrow is
+alleviated by a thousand mitigating circumstances of ardour and
+excitement, which relieve his attention, and soothe, though they do not
+annihilate his grief; she can only brood over her feelings, and suffer
+in silence and in sorrow. Henri marched out with his regiment in all the
+vigour of manhood, and with all the "pomp, pride, and circumstance of
+war," while Rosalie could only retire to her chamber and weep.
+
+Time passed on; letters were received from Henri, which spoke in ardent
+terms of his journey, and of the new and singular scenes unfolded to his
+view. He adverted also to his return, mentioned the war as a mere
+pastime, and as an agreeable jaunt, the termination of which he only
+desired, because it would once more restore him to his Rosalie. It was
+remarked, however, that she never recovered her cheerfulness; to all her
+lover's assurances she could only reply with expressions of distrust,
+and with feelings of sorrow; and when she wrote, it was to express her
+fears of the campaign, and her wish that it were over, and that they
+were again united in safety.
+
+And constantly did the good and pious girl offer up her prayers for her
+lover, as she repaired to the church of the Holy Virgin at S----, to
+perform her daily devotions.
+
+The season advanced: the French marched through Spain, and reached
+Cadiz. At this last hope of the Constitutionalists, a strong resistance
+was expected, and Henri had written from Seville, that his next letter
+would announce the termination of the campaign. Alas! he never wrote
+again! Time flew on; the journals announced the fall of the Trocadero;
+the surrender of Cadiz, and the restoration of Ferdinand; yet there came
+no news from Henri! Then did the gentle girl sink into all the
+despondency of disappointment; and as day after day passed and brought
+no tidings of her lover, her beauty and her health suffered alike, she
+languished and pined till she scarce retained the semblance of her
+former self.
+
+At last came a letter; it was from Spain, but it was written in a
+stranger's hand, and its sable appendages bespoke the fatal nature of
+its contents. It was from a brother officer of Henri, stating that his
+regiment had been foremost in the attack, and that the Trocadero, the
+last resource of the Constitutionalists, had been carried with the loss
+of but few killed; but, alas! among that few, was Henri! He was shot
+through the body while leading his men to the assault. He fell instantly
+dead, and the writer expressed his desire that the sad intelligence
+should be conveyed as gently as possible to Rosalie.
+
+Unhappily, by one of those chances which often occur, as if to aggravate
+misfortune, it was Rosalie who received the fatal letter from the
+postman's hands! She tore it open; read its dreadful contents; and with
+a wild and frenzied shriek, fell senseless to the ground! She was borne
+to her bed, where every care and attention was bestowed; but her illness
+rapidly assumed a threatening and a dangerous character. A fever seized
+her frame; she became at once delirious; nor did reason again resume her
+throne; and it was not till after months of suffering and agony, that
+she recovered, if that could be called recovery, which gave back a
+deformed and hapless lunatic, bereft of intellect and of beauty, in
+place of the once gay and fascinating Rosalie. The dread aberration of
+intellect was attributed by her medical attendants to the fatal and
+sudden shock which she had sustained, and to its effect on a mind
+weakened by previous anxiety and sorrow; while they feared her malady
+was of a nature, which admitted no hope of the return of reason.
+
+Her mind, it was stated, remained an entire blank. Imbecile, vacant,
+drivelling--she appeared almost unconscious of former existence; and of
+those subjects which formerly engrossed her attention, and excited her
+feelings, there were scarcely any on which she now evinced any emotion.
+Even the name of her lover was almost powerless on her soul, and if
+repeated in her hearing, seemed scarcely to call forth her notice.
+
+One only gift remained, in all its native pathos, tenderness, and
+beauty--her voice, so sweet before her illness, seemed, amid the wreck
+of youth, and joy, and love, and all that was charming and endeared, to
+have only become sweeter still! She was incapable or unwilling to learn
+any new airs, but she would occasionally recollect snatches of former
+songs or duets, which she and Henri had sung together, and she would
+pour the simple melodies in strains of more than mortal sweetness!
+
+This, alas! was the only relic of former talent or taste that she
+retained; in all other respects, her mind and body, instead of evincing
+symptoms of recovery, seemed to sink in utter hopelessness and despair;
+and an early tomb seems to be the best and kindest boon which heaven, in
+its mercy, can bestow, on the once fair and fascinating Rosalie!
+
+_Tales of all Nations._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.
+
+    Notings, selections,
+    Anecdote and joke:
+    Our recollections;
+    With gravities for graver folk.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TAVERNS AND CLUB-HOUSES.
+
+
+Almost every tavern of note about town hath or had its club. The Mermaid
+Tavern is immortalized as the house resorted to by Shakspeare, Jonson,
+Fletcher, and Beaumont; the Devil--which, Pennant informs us, stood on
+the site of Child's-place, Temple Bar--was the scene of many a merry
+meeting of the choice spirits in old days; at Will's Coffee-house, in
+the Augustan age of English literature, societies were held to which
+Steele, and Pope, and Addison belonged; Doctor Johnson, Hawkesworth, the
+elder Salter, and Sir John Hawkins, were members of a club formerly held
+at the King's-head, in Ivy-lane; the notorious Dick England, Dennis
+O'Kelly, and Hull, with their associates, had, many years ago, a
+sporting-club at Munday's Coffee-house; the Three Jolly Pigeons, in
+Butcher-hall-lane, was formerly the gathering place of a set of old
+school bibliopoles, who styled themselves the Free and Easy Counsellors
+under the Cauliflower; stay-maker Hugh Kelly, Goldsmith, Ossian
+Macpherson, Garrick, Cumberland, and the Woodfalls, with several noted
+men of that day, were concerned in a club at the St. James's
+Coffee-house; the Kit-Cat, which took its name from one Christopher Cat,
+a pastry-cook, was held at a tavern in King-street, Westminster;
+Button's--but truly the task of enumerating the several clubs, of which
+we find notices "in the books," as the lawyers have it, would be
+endless.--_Every Night Book_.
+
+
+CONVERSATION OF WOMEN.
+
+
+The usual conversation of ordinary women very much cherishes the natural
+weakness of being taken with outside appearance. Talk of a new-married
+couple, and you immediately hear whether they keep their coach-and-six,
+or eat in plate. Mention the name of an absent lady, and it is ten to
+one but you learn something of her gown and petticoat. A ball is a great
+help to discourse, and a birthday furnishes conversation for a
+twelvemonth after. A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a
+diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
+--_Addison_.
+
+
+BILDERDYK.
+
+
+William Bilderdyk, admired as the first poet that modern Holland has
+produced, and not less distinguished by the brilliant qualities of his
+mind, did not, in his youth, seem to show any happy disposition for
+study. His father, who formed an unfavourable opinion of his talents,
+was much distressed, and frequently reproached him in severe terms for
+his inattention and idleness, to which young Bilderdyk did not appear to
+pay much attention. In 1776, the father, with a newspaper in his hand,
+came to stimulate him, by showing the advertisement of a prize offered
+by the Society of Leyden, and decreed to the author of a piece of
+poetry, signed with these words, "An Author 18 years old," who was
+invited to make himself known. "You ought to blush, idler," said old
+Bilderdyk to his son. "Here is a boy only of your age, and though so
+young, is the pride and happiness of his parents; and you----." "It is
+myself," answered young William, throwing himself into his
+father's arms.
+
+
+SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE,
+
+
+Who has often filled the anatomical chair at the Royal Academy, is no
+less abstruse and instructive than pleasant and amusing. His
+illustrative anecdotes are always excellent, and his way of telling them
+quite dramatic. We have found him even more agreeable as a private
+talker than as a lecturer; he is rich in the old lore of England--he
+will hunt a phrase through several reigns--propose derivations for words
+which are equally ingenious and learned--follow a proverb for
+generations back, and discuss on the origin of language as though he had
+never studied aught beside: he knows more than any other person we ever
+met with of the biography of talented individuals--in the philosophy of
+common life he is quite an adept--a capital chronologist--a man of fine
+mind and most excellent memory: his experience has, of course, been very
+great, and he has taken good advantage of it. We remember he once amused
+us for half a day by adducing instances of men who, although possessed
+of mean talents, had enabled themselves to effect wonders, by simply
+hoarding in their minds, and subsequently acting upon, an immense number
+of facts: from this subject we naturally enough fell into a discourse on
+the importance, in many cases and situations, of attending to trifles.
+As a proof of this, he mentioned a circumstance which occurred to an
+eminent surgeon within his own memory; it was as follows: A gentleman,
+residing about a post-stage from town, met with an accident which
+eventually rendered amputation of a limb indispensable. The surgeon
+alluded to was requested to perform the operation, and went from town
+with two pupils to the gentleman's house, on the day appointed, for that
+purpose. The usual preliminaries being arranged, he proceeded to
+operate; the tourniquet was applied, the flesh divided, and the bone
+laid bare, when, to his astonishment and horror, he discovered that his
+instrument-case was without the saw! Here was a situation! Luckily his
+presence of mind did not forsake him. Without apprising his patient of
+the terrible fact, he put one of his pupils into his carriage, and told
+the coachman to gallop to town. It was an hour and a half before the saw
+was obtained, and during all that time the patient lay suffering. The
+agony of the operator, though great, was scarcely a sufficient
+punishment for his neglect in not seeing that all his instruments were
+in the case before he started.
+
+Basil Montagu, the water drinking barrister, who was present during the
+narration of this anecdote, and the previous discussion, mentioned
+another instance of the propriety of noticing those minor circumstances
+in life, which are usually suffered to pass unheeded by people in
+general. A man of talent was introduced into a company of strangers; he
+scarcely spoke after his first salutation until he wished the party good
+night. Almost every one dubbed him a fool; the lady hostess, who, be it
+remarked, had not been previously informed of the abilities of her new
+guest, was of a different opinion, "I am sure," said she, "that you are
+all wrong; for, though he said nothing, I remarked that _he always
+laughed in the right place_."--_Every Night Book_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A FACT.
+
+
+    Pat went to his mistress: "My lady, your mare
+    _In harness_, goes well as a dray-horse, I swear:
+    I tried, as you're thinking to sell her, or let her,
+    For _coming on_ thus, she'll _go off_ all the better."
+
+    "Twas very well thought of" the lady replied,
+    "You've acted a sensible part.
+    But Patrick, pray tell me the day that you tried,
+    Of whom did you borrow the cart?"
+
+    "The _cart_? why, she _walk'd_ well _in harness_, I saw,
+    But I thought not, by no _manes_, to try if she'd _draw_;
+    For says I, by Saint Patrick, who, her comes to view,
+    To tell him, she has been 'in harness' will do!"
+
+M.L.B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE MONTHS.
+
+AUGUST.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                             All around
+    The yellow sheaves, catching the burning beam,
+    Glow, golden lustre.
+
+MRS. ROBINSON.
+
+
+This is the month of harvest. The crops usually begin with rye and oats,
+proceed with wheat, and finish with pease and beans. Harvest-home is
+still the greatest rural holiday in England, because it concludes at
+once the most laborious and most lucrative of the farmer's employments,
+and unites repose and profit. Thank heaven, there are, and must be,
+seasons of some repose in agricultural employments, or the countryman
+would work with as unceasing a madness, and contrive to be almost as
+diseased and unhealthy as the citizen. But here again, and for the
+reasons already mentioned, our holiday-making is not what it was. Our
+ancestors used to burst into an enthusiasm of joy at the end of harvest,
+and even mingled their previous labour with considerable merry-making,
+in which they imitated the equality of the earlier ages. They crowned
+the wheat-sheaves with flowers, they sung, they shouted, they danced,
+they invited each other, or met to feast as at Christmas, in the halls
+of rich houses; and, what was a very amiable custom, and wise beyond the
+commoner wisdom that may seem to lie on the top of it, every one that
+had been concerned, man, woman, and child, received a little present,
+ribbons, laces, or sweetmeats.
+
+The number of flowers is now sensibly diminished. Those that flower
+newly are nigella, zinnias, polyanthuses, love-apples, mignonette,
+capsicums, Michaelmas daisies, auriculus, asters or stars, and
+China-asters. The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the
+tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful
+passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis,
+which is such a quick and handsome climber. But the quantity of fruit is
+considerably multiplied, especially that of pears, peaches, apricots,
+and grapes. And if the little delicate white flowers have at last
+withdrawn from the hot sun, the wastes, marshes, and woods are dressed
+in the luxuriant attire of ferns and heaths, with all their varieties of
+green, purple, and gold. A piece of waste land, especially where the
+ground is broken up into little inequalities, as Hampstead-heath, for
+instance, is now a most bright as well as picturesque object; all the
+ground, which is in light, giving the sun, as it were, gold for gold.
+Mignonette, intended to flower in winter, should now be planted in pots,
+and have the benefit of a warm situation. Seedlings in pots should have
+the morning sunshine, and annuals in pots be frequently watered.
+
+In the middle of this month, the young goldfinch broods appear, lapwings
+congregate, thistle-down floats, and birds resume their spring songs:--a
+little afterwards flies abound in windows, linnets congregate, and bulls
+make their shrill autumnal bellowing; and towards the end the beech tree
+turns yellow,--the first symptom of approaching autumn.[1]
+
+    [1] _The Months_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LEOPARD-HUNTING.
+
+
+The leopard of Southern Africa is known among the Cape colonists by the
+name of tiger; but is, in fact, the real leopard, the _Felis jubata_ of
+naturalists, well known for the beauty of its shape and spotted skin,
+and the treachery and fierceness of its disposition. The animal called
+leopard (_luipaard_) by the Cape Dutch boors, is a species of the
+panther, and is inferior to the real leopard in size and beauty. Both of
+them are dreaded in the mountainous districts on account of the ravages
+which they occasionally commit among the flocks, and on the young cattle
+and horses in the breeding season.
+
+The South African panther is a cowardly animal, and, like the hyena,
+flies from the face of man. The leopard also, though his low,
+half-smothered growl is frequently heard by night, as he prowls like an
+evil spirit around the cottage or the kraal, will seldom or never attack
+mankind, (children excepted,) unless previously assailed or exasperated.
+When hunted, as he usually is with dogs, he instinctively betakes
+himself to a tree, when he falls an easy prey to the shot of the
+huntsman. The leopard, however, though far inferior in strength and
+intrepidity to the lion, is yet an exceedingly active and furious
+animal; and when driven to extremity, proves himself occasionally an
+antagonist not to be trifled with. The colonists relate many instances
+of arduous and even fatal encounters with the hunted leopard. The
+following is one of these adventures, which occurred in a frontier
+district in 1822, as described by one of the two individuals so
+perilously engaged in it.
+
+Two boors returning from hunting the Hartebeest, (_antelope bubalis_,)
+fell in with a leopard in a mountain ravine, and immediately gave chase
+to him. The animal at first endeavoured to escape by clambering up a
+precipice; but being hotly pressed, and slightly wounded by a
+musket-ball, he turned upon his pursuers with that frantic ferocity
+which on such emergencies he frequently displays, and springing upon the
+man who had fired at him, tore him from his horse to the ground, biting
+him at the same time very severely in the shoulder, and tearing his face
+and arms with his talons. The other hunter, seeing the danger of his
+comrade, (he was, if I mistake not, his brother,) sprung from his horse,
+and attempted to shoot the leopard through the head; but, whether owing
+to trepidation, or the fear of wounding his friend, or the sudden
+motions of the animal, he unfortunately missed.
+
+The leopard, abandoning his prostrate enemy, darted with redoubled fury
+upon this second antagonist; and so fierce and sudden was his onset,
+that before the boor could stab him with his hunting-knife, he had
+struck him in the eyes with his claws, and torn the scalp over his
+forehead. In this frightful condition the hunter grappled with the
+raging beast, and struggling for life, they rolled together down a steep
+declivity. All this passed so rapidly, that the other boor had scarcely
+time to recover from the confusion in which his feline foe had left him,
+to seize his gun, and rush forward to aid his comrade, when he beheld
+them rolling together down the steep bank in mortal conflict. In a few
+moments he was at the bottom with them, but too late to save the life of
+his friend. The leopard had torn open the jugular vein, and so
+dreadfully mangled the throat of the unfortunate man, that his death was
+inevitable; and his comrade had only the melancholy satisfaction of
+completing the destruction of the savage beast, already exhausted with
+several deep wounds in the breast from the desperate knife of the
+expiring huntsman.--_London Weekly Review_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GLOAMING.
+
+BY DELTA.
+
+
+    There is a beauty in the grey twilight,
+    Which minds unmusical can never know,
+    A holy quietude, that yields to woe
+    A pulseless pleasure, fraught with pure delight:
+    The aspect of the mountains huge, that brave
+    And bear upon their breasts the rolling storms;
+    And the soft twinkling of the stars, that pave
+    Heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms;
+    The rustle of the dark boughs overhead:
+    The murmurs of the torrent far away;
+    The last notes of the blackbird, and the bay
+    Of sullen watch-dog, from the far farm-stead--
+    All waken thoughts of Being's early day,
+    Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled.
+
+_Blackwood's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ON READING NEW BOOKS.
+
+
+There is a fashion in reading as well as in dress, which lasts only for
+a season. One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for
+being old;[2] that they have a pleasure in being read for the first
+time; that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of
+enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that, after a
+certain age, it is high time to put them on the shelf. This conceit
+seems to be followed up in practice. What is it to me that another--that
+hundreds or thousands have in all ages read a work? Is it on this
+account the less likely to give me pleasure, because it has delighted so
+many others? Or can I taste this pleasure by proxy? Or am I in any
+degree the wiser for their knowledge? Yet this might appear to be the
+inference. _Their_ having read the work may be said to act upon us by
+sympathy, and the knowledge which so many other persons have of its
+contents deadens our curiosity and interest altogether. We set aside the
+subject as one on which others have made up their minds for us, (as if
+we really could have ideas in their heads,) and are quite on the alert
+for the next new work, teeming hot from the press, which we shall be the
+first to read, to criticise, and pass an opinion on. Oh, delightful! To
+cut open the leaves, to inhale the fragrance of the scarcely-dry paper,
+to examine the type, to see who is the printer, (which is some clue to
+the value that is set upon the work,) to launch out into regions of
+thought and invention never trod till now, and to explore characters
+that never met a human eye before--this is a luxury worth sacrificing a
+dinner party, or a few hours of a spare morning to. Who, indeed, when
+the work is critical and full of expectation, would venture to dine out,
+or to face a _coterie_ of blue stockings in the evening, without having
+gone through this ordeal, or at least without, hastily turning over a
+few of the first pages while dressing, to be able to say that the
+beginning does not promise much, or to tell the name of the heroine?
+
+    [2] "Laws are not like women, the worse for being old."--_The
+    Duke of Buckingham's Speech in the House of Lords, in Charles
+    the Second's time_.
+
+A new work is something in our power; we mount the bench, and sit in
+judgment on it; we can damn or recommend it to others at pleasure, can
+decry or extol it to the skies, and can give an answer to those who have
+not yet read it, and expect an account of it; and thus show our
+shrewdness and the independence of our taste before the world have had
+time to form an opinion. If we cannot write ourselves, we become, by
+busying ourselves about it, a kind of _accessaries after the fact_.
+Though not the parent of the bantling that "has just come into this
+breathing world, scarce half made up," without the aid of criticism and
+puffing, yet we are the gossips and foster-nurses on the occasion, with
+all the mysterious significance and self-importance of the tribe. If we
+wait, we must take our report from others; if we make haste, we may
+dictate ours to them. It is not a race, then, for priority of
+information, but for precedence in tattling and dogmatising. The work
+last out is the first that people talk and inquire about. It is the
+subject on the _tapis_--the cause that is pending. It is the last
+candidate for success, (other claims have been disposed of,) and appeals
+for this success to us, and us alone. Our predecessors can have nothing
+to say to this question, however they may have anticipated us on others;
+future ages, in all probability, will not trouble their heads about it;
+we are the panel. How hard, then, not to avail ourselves of our
+immediate privilege to give sentence of life or death--to seem in
+ignorance of what every one else is full of--to be behind-hand with the
+polite, the knowing, and fashionable part of mankind--to be at a loss
+and dumb-founded, when all around us are in their glory, and figuring
+away, on no other ground than that of having read a work that we have
+not! Books that are to be written hereafter cannot be criticised by us;
+those that were written formerly have been criticised long ago; but a
+new book is the property, the prey of ephemeral criticism, which it
+darts triumphantly upon; there is a raw thin air of ignorance and
+uncertainty about it, not filled up by any recorded opinion; and
+curiosity, impertinence, and vanity rush eagerly into the vacuum. A new
+book is the fair field for petulance and coxcombry to gather laurels
+in--the butt set up for roving opinion to aim at. Can we wonder, then,
+that the circulating libraries are besieged by literary dowagers and
+their grand-daughters, when a new novel is announced? That mail-coach
+copies of the _Edinburgh Review_ are or were coveted? That the
+manuscript of the _Waverley_ romances is sent abroad in time for the
+French, German, or even Italian translation to appear on the same day as
+the original work, so that the longing continental public may not be
+kept waiting an instant longer than their fellow-readers in the English
+metropolis, which would be as tantalizing and insupportable as a little
+girl being kept without her new frock, when her sister's is just come
+home, and is the talk and admiration of every one in the house? To be
+sure, there is something in the taste of the times; a modern work is
+expressly adapted to modern readers. It appeals to our direct
+experience, and to well-known subjects; it is part and parcel of the
+world around us, and is drawn from the same sources as our daily
+thoughts. There is, therefore, so far, a natural or habitual sympathy
+between us and the literature of the day, though this is a different
+consideration from the mere circumstance of novelty. An author now
+alive, has a right to calculate upon the living public; he cannot count
+upon the dead, nor look forward with much confidence to those that are
+unborn. Neither, however, is it true that we are eager to read all new
+books alike; we turn from them with a certain feeling of distaste and
+distrust, unless they are recommended to us by some peculiar feature or
+obvious distinction. Only young ladies from the boarding-school, or
+milliners' girls, read all the new novels that come out. It must be
+spoken of or against; the writer's name must be well known or a great
+secret; it must be a topic of discourse and a mark for criticism--that
+is, it must be likely to bring us into notice in some way--or we take
+no notice of it. There is a mutual and tacit understanding on this head.
+We can no more read all the new books that appear, than we can read all
+the old ones that have disappeared from time to time.--_Monthly
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE PALACE OF ALI PASHA.
+
+
+The secretary carried us through several chambers, decorated with much
+cost and barbarous splendour. The wainscot of one of the principal
+saloons is inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ebony, coral, and ivory; but the
+workmanship seems harsh and ungraceful. The ceiling is plastered with
+massive gilding, the effect of which is rather cumbrous than ornamental;
+"not graced with elegancy, but daubed with cost." Pillars, of a
+composition to resemble the richest marble, support the compartments,
+and the cornice is coloured with some imperfect efforts at arabesque
+painting. There is, however, one article extremely elegant and
+well-finished--a low sofa, carried round three-fourths of the room,
+covered with dark velvet, tastefully embroidered, and hung with gold
+fringe. The general arrangement of the rooms is certainly, grand and
+imposing, though occasionally deformed by much bad taste. I should not
+omit to mention, that our conductor desired us to notice two very
+handsome carpets, which he gave us to understand were of British
+manufacture. In the apartment where Ali sleeps, the walls are hung with
+sabres and fire-arms of different descriptions; all of which are
+ornamented with precious stones. One of the scimitars is profusely
+adorned with diamonds and rubies, and a particular musket has a
+cartouche-box, studded with brilliants of surpassing splendour, the
+central stone being nearly the size of a die. A fowling-piece, sent to
+the pasha by Bonaparte, is also enriched with gems, though this last
+article is considered to derive its chief value from the circumstance of
+having been once the property of the imperial warrior, by whom it was
+presented. The chamber opens into a long and spacious gallery; at one
+extremity we observed a singularly awkward piece of furniture,
+resembling a large old-fashioned arm-chair. So useless an article in a
+Turkish palace induced me to inquire the purpose to which it was
+applied; and I was informed that, on certain festivals, the pasha gives
+an entertainment for the diversion of the children of the principal
+families in the capital, who on such occasions assemble in the gallery.
+Ali himself always attends, to encourage and assist their gaiety; and,
+while reclining on this cumbrous seat, distributes to them, as they are
+successively presented to him, baskets of sweetmeats, and such other
+tokens of regard as are suited to their respective ages and
+condition.--_Narrative of an Excursion from Corfu to Smyrna_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POLICE OFFICES AND POLICE REPORTS.
+
+
+The police reports are frequently the most amusing part of the daily
+press: they let the reader into many of the secrets of low, and, now and
+then, of high life; they are redolent of the phraseology of the vulgar;
+they often tickle our fancies by their humour, and sometimes touch our
+sympathies by their pathos. As anecdotes of real life; daily catalogues
+of droll and dismal occurrences among our fellow-citizens; pictures of
+what is passing in the streets while we, who are sober sort of folks,
+are dreaming in our beds; sketches of manners, and records of the
+habits, feelings, and minor as well as major delinquencies of those who
+breathe the same air with us; they could not fail to be interesting to
+us all, were we not aware that, like the novels which are said to be
+"founded on fact," their most rich and racy parts are frequently
+fiction.
+
+Let not the non-gnostic portion of our readers imagine, that if they
+haunt the justice-seat of Birnie and his judicial co-mates, that they
+will ever witness such pleasant, sparkling, humorous examinations as
+those reported in the columns of the papers which matinally grace their
+breakfast-tables. The tyro upon town will stare at this. Why, will he
+say, cannot I, if I frequent the same place, see and hear what those who
+are employed for the press see and hear there? He can; but the fact is,
+that our police reporters are by far too clever to set down the words of
+other people, without throwing in something of their own. Their plan is
+to drop the duller parts of a story or a speech, and to embellish its
+livelier portion--to select the tit-bits, and sauce and spice them up
+sufficiently high to please the palates of the news-reading public. The
+offices afford them an excellent variety of characters, which, like
+skilful dramatists, they work up until they become really humorous: many
+of the cases afford them capital plots, into which they cleverly
+dovetail pleasant little episodes, and adhere no closer to the deposed
+facts than many of our by-gone playwrights have done to the sacred page
+of history. We allude only to the cases of humour which occur at the
+police-offices: those reports which can be interesting only in
+proportion as they are correct, are, in general, accurately given; but
+the matrimonial squabbles, the Irish farcettas, and the frays between
+the Dogberrys of the night and late walkers--albeit they may,
+peradventure, contain the leading facts disclosed--are highly wrought up
+by the fanciful powers of those who cause the public and feed themselves
+at a per-line-age for the daily press. Many cases which, on hearing, are
+dull and oftentimes disgusting, under the magic pens of the
+police-office scribes become lively and entertaining; they are furnished
+with the raw material--the metal in its ore--which they purify and
+polish, until it bears little or no resemblance to what it was before it
+underwent the process of manufacturing for the paper-market under their
+skilful hands. There are many who delight to visit the police-offices
+for the sake of seeing those beings who appear there, of whom others
+only read: some of our readers may, perhaps, be bitten with a similar
+fancy; but, we warrant, that they will find the actual doings at
+Bow-street very different to what they had imagined; as Charles Mathews'
+_Sir Harry Skelton_ says, "There's nothing at all in it; people talk a
+great deal about it--but there's nothing in it, after all--nothing."
+
+It is not often that we look in at morning or evening sitting of the
+magistrates; we are content to have the police reports served up to us
+with our potted beef and buttered toast at breakfast; we enjoy them,
+although we feel convinced that many of them bear no more resemblance to
+the affairs they are founded on, than mock-turtle to calf's-head; still,
+like the soup, they are by far the most pleasant and palatable of the
+two.--_Every Night Book_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CURRAL.
+
+
+The view in front was obstructed by a high ridge, of which we had nearly
+gained the highest point, when we left our horses, and running up a few
+yards of steep turf found ourselves all at once on the brink of the
+Curral. It is a huge valley, or rather crater, of immense depth,
+enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices, the
+sides and summit of which are broken in every variety of buttress or
+pinnacle--now black and craggy and beetling--at other times spread with
+the richest green turf, and scattered with a profusion of the evergreen
+forest-trees, indigenous to the island; while far below, in the midst of
+all these horrors, smiles a fairy region of cultivation and
+fruitfulness, with a church and village, the white cabins of which seem
+half smothered in the luxuriance of their own vines and orchards.
+
+We gazed long and eagerly at the prospect. It is not easy to give an
+accurate notion of its peculiar character; and even painting would but
+ill assist, for one of the most striking features is the great and
+sudden _depth_ which you look down, the effect of which we know the
+pencil cannot at all convey. The side on which we stand, however, though
+steep, is not absolutely precipitous; on the contrary, the gradation of
+crag and projection, by which it descends to the bottom, is one of the
+finest things in the view. Close on our right a lofty peak presents its
+rocky face to the valley, to which it bears down in a magnificent mass,
+shouldering its way, as it seemed, half across it. The opposite sides
+appear more bare, precipitous, and lofty; and this last character is
+heightened by some white clouds that rest upon and conceal
+their summits.
+
+Rejoining the road, we for awhile lost sight of the valley. When we
+again came in view of it, it was rapidly filling with clouds, but at
+first their interposition was hardly a disadvantage; they gave a vague
+indefinite grandeur to the cliffs and mountains, which seemed to rise
+one knew not from what depth, and lose their summits in regions beyond
+our ken. The breaks, too, that occurred in this shrouding of the scene,
+showed fragments of it with strange effect--till at length the whole
+hollow filled, and presented a uniform sea of vapour.
+
+_Rambles in Madeira_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A PORTUGUESE BALL.
+
+
+The ladies are carried in palanquins, and each received at the street
+entrance by the master of the house--or if there be more than one lady,
+by some gentlemen deputed for that purpose--who takes her hand, and so
+ushers her up stairs. There is much of this elaborate gallantry
+observable in the manner of the Portuguese towards the sex. Thus, a man
+never passes a lady in the street, or in her balcony, without taking off
+his hat, and this whether he be acquainted with her or not. We
+understand they used to offer a similar mark of respect to the English
+ladies, but desisted on finding that our gentlemen did not reciprocate
+in the same homage towards the fair _Portuguezas_. I don't think that
+this difference in the manners of the two people does us credit. Not
+that all that kind of homage means much. In this, as in a more serious
+concern, our southern neighbours may seem to have the advantage in the
+practices of external devotion; but it would be a mistake to infer from
+thence, that there is with us less of that service of the heart, which,
+after all, is the one thing needful. The party was large, probably two
+hundred, including most of the native rank and fashion of the island. We
+found the ladies all seated together in one room, and the effect of this
+concentration was sufficiently dazzling. Some people deny that there is
+any standard of female beauty; and, at any rate, there is no doubt but
+that habits and associations, as well as complexional and sentimental
+considerations, interfere more with our perceptions in respect to this
+than any other object of taste. It is not immediately that we enter into
+the merits of a style of beauty very different from that which we have
+been accustomed to. Perhaps it is owing to this circumstance that I was
+not struck by so many instances of individual attractiveness as might
+have been expected in so crowded a galaxy. The traits that first strike
+a stranger in a Portuguese belle, are the tendency to _embonpoint_ in
+the figure, and to darkness--I had almost said swarthiness, in
+complexion. This last character, however, is not particularly obvious by
+candle-light; and it is always relieved by the most raven hair, and eyes
+such as one seldom sees elsewhere, so large and black; if their fire
+were softened by a longer lash, and their expression less fixed, there
+would be no resisting them. I fancy, too, that their effect would be
+rather greater in a _tete-a-tete_ than in a circle like this, where,
+looking round, one sees on all sides the same eyes--and which all (it is
+everywhere the reproach of black eyes) say always the same thing. Their
+dress was perfectly in the English fashion; and, in general, there was
+something not un-English in their _mise_ and _tournure_. The superiority
+of French women in these matters is incontestable. Perhaps we may
+account for it something on the principle by which Dr. Johnson explained
+the excellence of our neighbours in cookery, when he suspected that the
+inferiority of their meats rendered indispensable some extraordinary
+skill in dressing it. The general arrangement and progress of the
+evening was very English too. They dance remarkably well, the men as
+well as the women. Indeed, it is, I believe, the great end and
+occupation of the earlier part of their existence. We came away at two
+o'clock; few of the English staid later; but among the Portuguese, the
+more ardent spirits kept up the dance till long after day-break, when it
+is customary to serve up _caldo_, a sort of chicken-broth, for their
+refreshment.--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
+
+
+_What is a Lawyer?_--A lawyer is a man with a pale face and sunken eyes;
+he passes much time in two small rooms in one of the inns of court; he
+is surrounded with sheets of foolscap folio paper, tied up with a red
+string; he has more books than one could read in a year, or comprehend
+in seven; he walks slowly, speaks hesitatingly, and receives fees from
+those who visit him, for giving "hypothetical answers" to "specious
+questions."
+
+_What is a Doctor?_--A doctor, _videlicit_ an M.D., is a sedate-looking
+personage; he listens calmly to the story of your ailments; if your eye
+and skin be yellow, he shrewdly remarks that you have the jaundice; he
+feels your pulse, writes two or three unintelligible lines of Latin, for
+which you pay him a guinea; he keeps a chariot, and one man-servant. The
+standard board behind, _intended_ for a footman, is fearfully beset with
+spikes, to prevent little boys from riding at the doctor's expense. He
+ingeniously lets himself in and out of his vehicle, by means of a strap
+attached to the steps, so contrived, that when in, he can dexterously
+cause the steps to follow. His servant is a coachman abroad, and a
+footman, valet, and butler at home.
+
+_What is an Author?_--He is a man who weaves words into sentences; he
+dissects the works of his predecessors and contemporaries, and
+ingeniously dovetails the pieces together again, so that their real
+owners can scarcely recognise them. He is furnished with a pair of
+scissors and a pot of paste. He frequents the Chapter Coffee-house by
+day, and the Cider-Cellar by night. He ruralises at Hampstead or
+Holloway, and perhaps once a year steams it to Margate. He talks
+largely, and forms the nucleus of a knot of acquaintances, who look up
+to him as an oracle. He is always _going_ to set about some work of
+great importance; he writes a page, becomes out of humour with the
+subject, and begins another, which shares the same fate. His coat is
+something the worse for wear; his wife is the only person in the world
+who is blind to his transcendant abilities; and he has too much to do in
+cultivating his own genius, to descend to the minutias of his children's
+education.
+
+
+SUPERSTITION.
+
+
+In a little manual of piety, composed, in 1712, for the young ladies who
+were then pensioners at the monastery of St. Augustin, at Bruges, we
+have been surprised into frequent smiles by the scrupulous watchfulness
+with which the ghostly writer followed the lady-pensioners (though with
+pious fancy only) to the very sacred of sacreds! He was not contented
+with directing them concerning the prayers which he believed proper to
+be used when they assumed, or laid aside, their respective garments, but
+even directed them what to do before they attempted to close an eye on
+the softness of their pillows! Prayers are specified by this zealous
+pastor for the following curious occasions:--
+
+    In putting on your petticoat.
+    In putting on your night-gown.
+    In dressing your head.
+    In putting on your manteau.
+
+In regard to the ceremony of laying aside these memorials of the
+weakness of Eve, our general mother, there is a prayer to be offered
+"whilst you undress yourself;" and the ladies are strictly enjoined,
+before they "get into bed, to take holy water." The writer concludes
+this part of his instructions by saying, "when you are in bed, write the
+name of Jesus on your forehead with your thumb!"
+
+
+CROMWELL.
+
+
+After the battle of Marston, Cromwell, returning from the pursuit of a
+party of the royalists, purposed to stop at Ripley; and, having an
+officer in his troop, a relation of Sir William Ingilby's, that
+gentleman was sent to announce his arrival. The officer was informed, by
+the porter at the gate, that Sir William was absent, but that he might
+send any message he pleased to his lady. Having sent in his name, and
+obtained an audience, he was answered by the lady, that no such person
+should be admitted there; adding, she had force sufficient to defend
+herself and that house against all rebels. The officer, on his part,
+represented the extreme folly of making any resistance, and that the
+safest way would be to admit the general peaceably. After much
+persuasion, the lady took the advice of her kinsman, and received
+Cromwell at the gate of the lodge, with a pair of pistols stuck in her
+apron-strings, and having told him she expected that neither he nor his
+soldiers would behave improperly, led the way to the hall, where,
+sitting each on a sofa, these two extraordinary personages, equally
+jealous of each other's intentions, passed the whole night. At his
+departure in the morning the lady observed, "It was well he had behaved
+in so peaceable a manner; for that, had it been otherwise, he would not
+have left that house with his life."
+
+
+HOWARD.
+
+
+Of this celebrated man no portrait was ever painted, for he would never
+sit to any artist. After his return from one of his journies to the
+continent, he was showing to a friend the various things he had brought
+with him, and among others a new dress made in Saxony: "it was a sort of
+great coat, yet graceful in its appearance, and ornamented with sober
+magnificence. His visiter exclaimed, 'This is the robe in which you
+should be painted by Romney; I will implore the favour on my knees if
+you will let me array you in this very picturesque habiliment, and
+convey you instantly in a coach to Cavendish-square.'--'O fie!' replied
+Howard, in the mildest tone of his gentle voice, 'O fie! I did not kneel
+to the emperor.'--'And I assure you,' said the petitioner in answer to
+the tender reproof, 'I would never kneel to you, if you were not above
+an emperor in my estimation!' The philanthropist was touched by the
+cordial eulogy, but continued firm in his resolution of not granting his
+portrait to all the repeated requests of important affections."--
+_Hayley's Life of Romney_.
+
+
+EDWARD DRINKER.
+
+
+Edward Drinker was born in a cottage in 1689, on the spot where the city
+of Philadelphia now stands, which was inhabited at the time of his
+birth, by Indians, a few Swedes, and Hollanders. He often talked of
+picking blackberries, and catching wild rabbits, where this populous
+city is now seated. He remembered William Penn arriving there the second
+time, and used to point out the spot where the cabin stood in which Mr.
+Penn and his friends were accommodated on their arrival.
+
+The life of this aged citizen is marked with circumstances which never
+befel any other man; for he saw greater events than any man, at least,
+since the Patriarchs. He saw the same spot of earth, in the course of
+his own life, covered with woods and bushes, the receptacles of wild
+beasts and birds of prey, afterwards become the seat of a great city,
+not only the first in wealth and arts in America, but equalled by few in
+Europe; he saw great and regular streets, where he had often pursued
+hares and wild rabbits; he saw fine churches rise upon morasses, where
+he used to hear nothing but the croaking of frogs; great wharfs and
+warehouses, where he had so often seen the Indian savages draw their
+fish from the river; and that river afterwards full of great ships from
+all the world, which in his youth had nothing bigger than a canoe; and
+on the same spot, where he had so often gathered huckleberries, he saw
+their magnificent city hall erected, and that hall filled with
+legislators, astonishing the world with their wisdom and virtue. He also
+saw the first treaty ratified between the united powers of America, and
+the most powerful prince in Europe, with all the formality of parchment
+and seal; and on the same spot where he once saw William Penn ratify his
+first and last treaty with the Indians; and to conclude, he saw the
+beginning and end of the British empire in Pensylvania. He had been the
+subject of many crowned heads; but when he heard of the many oppressive
+and unconstitutional acts passed in Britain, he bought them all, and
+gave them to his great grandson to make kites of; and embracing the
+liberty and independence of his country in his withered arms, and
+triumphing in the last year of his life, in the salvation of his
+country. He died on the 17th of November, 1782, aged 103 years.
+
+
+A SURE SIGN.
+
+
+When the wind follows the sun and settles about north-west, north, or
+east, we have fine weather; when, on the contrary, the wind opposes the
+sun's course, and returns by west, south-west, south, and south-east,
+and settles in the east, foul weather prevails.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--_Wotton_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A man of learning was complaining to Voltaire, that few foreigners
+relished the beauties of Shakspeare. "Sir," replied the wit, "bad
+translations torment and vex them, and prevent them understanding your
+great dramatist. A blind man, sir, cannot perceive the beauty of a rose,
+who only pricks his fingers with the thorns."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The reign of Edward I. was marked with a singular occurrence, which
+serves to Illustrate the general character of this monarch. In the year
+1285, Edward took away the charter of London, and turned out the mayor,
+in consequence of his suffering himself to be bribed by the bakers, and
+invested one of his own appointing with the civic authority. The city,
+however, by making various presents to the king, and rendering him other
+signal services, found means to have their charter restored.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Dr. E. D. Clarke's Rules far Travellers_.--"Remember that you are never
+to conceive that you have added enough to your journal; never at liberty
+to go to sleep, because you are fatigued, until you have filled up all
+the blanks in it; never to go to the bottom of a mountain without also
+visiting its top; never to omit visiting mines, where there are any;
+never to listen to stories of banditti; nor in any instance to be
+frightened by bugbears."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A traveller lately returned from Florida says, it is the most fertile
+country he ever found, the lands producing forty bushels of frogs to
+the acre, and alligators enough to fence them--_American paper_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A rich banker of Paris happened to be present some time ago at the
+representation of _Hamlet_ in which Talma, as usual, by the fidelity and
+force of his delineation, drew tears from the whole of his numerous
+audience. Being questioned by, a person sitting near him, who was
+astonished to perceive that he alone remained unaffected during, the
+most pathetic scene, the banker coolly replied, "I do not cry, because,
+in the first place, none of thus is true; and secondly, supposing it to
+be true; what business is it of mine?"--_La Furet_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House,) and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers._
+
+
+
+
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 10, No. 267.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HADLEY CHURCH.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Hadley, Mankin, or Monkton, Hadley, was formerly a hamlet to Edmonton.
+It lies north-west of Enfield, and comprises 580 acres, including 240
+allotted in lieu of the common enclosure of Enfield Chase. Its name is
+compounded of two Saxon words--Head-leagh, or a high place; Mankin is
+probably derived from the connexion of the place with the abbey of
+Walden, to which it was given by Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex,
+under the name of the Hermitage of Hadley. The village is situated on
+the east side of the great north road, eleven miles from London.
+
+The manor belonged to the Mandevilles, the founder of the Hermitage, and
+was given by Geoffrey to the monks of Walden; in the ensuing two
+centuries the manorial property underwent various transmissions, and was
+purchased by the Pinney family, in the year 1791, by the present
+proprietor, Peter Moore, Esq.
+
+The house of the late David Garrow, father to the present judge of that
+name in the court of exchequer, is supposed to have been connected with
+a monastic establishment. Chimney-pieces remain in _alto-relievo_: on
+one is sculptured the story of Sampson; the other represents many
+passages in the life of our Saviour, from his birth in the stall to his
+death on the cross.
+
+The parish church, of which our engraving gives a correct view, is a
+handsome structure, built at different periods. The chancel bears marks
+of great antiquity, but the body has been built with bricks. At the west
+end is a square tower, composed of flint, with quoins of freestone; on
+one side is the date Anno Domini 1393, cut in stone--one side of the
+stone bearing date in the sculptured device of a wing; the other that of
+a rose. The figures denote the year 1494; the last, like the second
+numerical, being the _half eight_, often used in ancient inscriptions.
+The unique vestige of the middle ages, namely, a firepan, or pitchpot,
+on the south-west tower of the church, was blown down in January, 1779
+and carefully repaired, though now not required for the purpose of
+giving an alarm at the approach of a foe, by lighting pitch within it.
+The church has been supposed to have been erected by Edward IV. as a
+chapel for religious service, to the memory of those who fell in the
+battle of Barnet in 1471.
+
+On the window of the north transcept are some remains of painted glass,
+among which may be noticed the rebus of the Gooders, a family of
+considerable consequence at Hadley in the fifteenth and sixteenth
+centuries. This consists of a partridge with an ear of wheat in its
+bill; on an annexed scroll is the word Gooder; on the capital of one of
+the pillars are two partridges with ears of corn in the mouth, an
+evident repetition of the same punning device, and it is probable the
+Gooder's were considerable benefactors towards building the church.
+
+The almshouses for six decayed housekeepers were founded by Sir Roger
+Willbraham in 1616, but so slenderly endowed that they do not produce
+more than 9l.6s. annually. Major Delafonte, in 1762, increased the
+annuity, which expired in 1805; but Mr. Cottrell gained by subscription
+2375l. in trust. The father of the late Mr. Whitbread, the statesman,
+subscribed the sum of 1000l. for the support of the almshouses. The
+charity-school for girls was established in 1773, and was enlarged and
+converted into a school of industry in 1800. Twenty girls in the
+establishment receive annually the sum of 1l. towards clothing; thirty
+girls besides the above are admitted to the benefit of education, on
+paying the weekly sum of 2d. and succeed to the vacancies which occur in
+the class more largely assisted. This charity is in like manner
+supported by contributions on the inhabitants. The boys' school,
+supported in the same way, which in 1804 amounted to the sum of 103l.
+10s., has about seventy day-scholars; twenty are allowed 1l. towards
+clothing, and instructed without any charge; the remainder pay
+2d. weekly.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH BOOK.
+
+NO. XLIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BUTCHER.
+
+
+Wolsey, they tell us, was a butcher. An alliterative couplet too was
+made upon him to that import:--
+
+    "By butchers born, by bishops bred,
+    How high his honour holds his haughty head."
+
+Notwithstanding which, however, and other similar allusions, there have
+arisen many disputes touching the veracity of the assertion; yet,
+doubtless, those who first promulgated the idea, were keen observers of
+men and manners; and, probably, in the critical examination of the
+Cardinal's character, discovered a particular trait which indubitably
+satisfied them of his origin.
+
+Be this as it may, I am inclined to think there is certainly something
+peculiarly characteristic in the butcher.
+
+The pursuit of his calling appears to have an influence upon his
+manners, speech, and dress. Of all the days in the week, Saturday is the
+choicest for seeing him to the best advantage. His hatless head, shining
+with grease, his cheeks as ruddy as his mutton-chops, his sky-blue frock
+and dark-blue apron, his dangling steel and sharp-set knife, which ever
+and anon play an accompaniment to his quick, short--"Buy! buy!" are all
+in good keeping with the surrounding objects. And although this be not
+_killing_ day with him, he is particularly winning and gracious with the
+serving-maids; who (whirling the large street-door key about their right
+thumb, and swinging their marketing basket in their left hand) view the
+well-displayed joints, undecided which to select, until Mr. Butcher
+recommends a leg or a loin; and then he so very politely cuts off the
+fat, in which his skilful hand is guided by the high or low price of
+mutton fat in the market. He is the very antipode of a fop, yet no man
+knows how to show a handsome _leg_ off to better advantage, or is
+prouder of his _calves_.
+
+In his noviciate, when he shoulders the shallow tray, and whistles
+cavalierly on his way in his sausage-meat-complexioned-jacket, there is
+something marked as well in his character as his _habits_, he is never
+_moved_ to stay, except by a brother butcher, or a fight of dogs or
+boys, for such scenes fit his singular fancy. Then, in the discussion of
+his bull-dog's beauties, he becomes extraordinarily eloquent. Hatiz, the
+Persian, could not more warmly, or with choicer figure, describe his
+mistress' charms, than he does Lion's, or Fowler's, or whatever the
+brute's Christian name may be; and yet the surly, cynical, _dogged_
+expression of the bepraised beast, would almost make one imagine he
+understood the meaning of his master's words, and that his honest nature
+despised the flattering encomiums he passes upon his pink belly and
+legs, his broad chest, his ring-tail, and his tulip ears!--_Absurdities,
+in Prose and Verse._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONFIDENCE AND CREDIT.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+    The day was dark, the markets dull,
+    The Change was thin, Gazettes were full,
+      And half the town was breaking;
+    The _counter-sign_ of Cash was "_Stop_!"
+    Bankers and bankrupts shut up shop,
+      And honest hearts were aching.
+
+    When near the Bench my fancy spied
+    A faded form, with hasty stride,
+      Beneath Grief's burden stooping:
+    Her name was CREDIT, and she said
+    Her father, TRADE, was lately dead,
+      Her mother, COMMERCE, drooping.
+
+    The smile that she was wont to wear
+    Was wither'd by the hand of care,
+      Her eyes had lost their lustre:
+    Her character was gone, she said,
+    For she had basely been betray'd,
+      And nobody would trust her.
+
+    For honest INDUSTRY had tried
+    To gain fair CREDIT for his bride,
+      And found the damsel willing,
+    But, ah! a _fortune-hunter_ came,
+    And SPECULATION was his name,
+      A rake not worth a shilling.
+
+    The villain came, on mischief bent,
+    And soon gain'd dad and mam's consent--
+      Ah! then poor CREDIT smarted;--
+    He filch'd her fortune and her fame,
+    He fix'd a blot upon her name,
+      And left her broken-hearted.
+
+    While thus poor CREDIT seem'd to sigh,
+    Her cousin, CONFIDENCE, came by--
+      (Methinks he must be clever)--
+    For, when he whisper'd in her ear,
+    She check'd the sigh, she dried the tear.
+      And smiled as sweet as ever!
+
+JESSE HAMMOND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CURIOUS SCRAPS RELATING TO CELEBRATED PERSONS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+When the famous Cornelia, daughter of the great Scipio, was importuned
+by a lady of her acquaintance to show her toilette, she deferred
+satisfying her curiosity till her children, who were the famous Gracchi,
+came from school, and then said, "_En! haec ornamenta mea
+sunt._"--"These are my ornaments."
+
+Cyneas, the minister of Pyrrhus, asked the king (before their expedition
+into Italy) what he proposed to do when he had subdued the Romans? He
+answered, "Pass into Sicily." "What then?" said the minister. "Conquer
+the Carthaginians," replied the king. "And what follows that?" says the
+minister. "Be sovereign of Greece, and then enjoy ourselves," said the
+king. "And why," replied the sensible minister, "can we not do this
+_last_ now?"
+
+The emperors Nerva, Trajan, Antoninous, and Aurelius sold their palaces,
+their gold and silver plate, their valuable furniture, and other
+superfluities, heaped up by their predecessors, and banished from their
+tables all expensive delicacies. These princes, together with Vespasian,
+Pertinax, Alexander, Severus, Claudius the Second, and Tacitus, who were
+raised to the empire by their merit, and whom all ages have admired as
+the greatest and the best of princes, were always fond of the greatest
+plainness in their apparel, furniture, and outward appearance.
+
+Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, who lived unknown and disgraced in
+Spain, was scarcely able to obtain an audience of his master Charles V.;
+and when the king asked who was the fellow that was so clamorous to
+speak to him, he cried out, "I am one who have got your majesty more
+provinces than your father left towns."
+
+Camoens, the famous Portuguese poet, was unfortunately shipwrecked at
+the mouth of the river Meco, on the coast of Camboja, and lost his whole
+property; however, he saved his life and his poems, which he bore
+through the waves in one hand, whilst he swam ashore with the other. It
+is said, that his black servant, a native of Java, who had been his
+companion for many years, begged in the Streets of Lisbon for the
+support of his master, who died in 1579. His death, it is supposed, was
+accelerated by the anguish with which he foresaw the ruin impending over
+his country. In one of his letters he uses these remarkable expressions:
+"I am ending the course of my life; the world will witness how I have
+loved my country. I have returned not only to die in her bosom, but to
+die with her."
+
+Henrietta, daughter of Henry IV. of France, and wife of Charles I. of
+England, was reduced to the utmost poverty; and her daughter, afterwards
+married to a brother of Louis XIV., is said to have lain in bed for want
+of coals to keep her warm. Pennant relates a melancholy fact of fallen
+majesty in the person of Mary d'Este, the unhappy queen of James II.,
+who, flying with her infant prince from the ruin impending over their
+house, after crossing the Thames from abdicated Whitehall, took shelter
+beneath the ancient walls of Lambeth church a whole hour, from the rain
+of the inclement night of December 6th, 1688. Here she waited with
+aggravated misery till a common coach, procured from the next inn,
+arrived, and conveyed her to Gravesend, from whence she sailed, and bid
+adieu to this kingdom.
+
+Pascal, one of the greatest geniuses and best men that ever lived,
+entertained a notion that God made men miserable here in order to their
+being happy hereafter; and in consequence of this notion, he imposed
+upon himself the most painful mortification. He even ordered a wall to
+be built before a window in his study, which afforded him too agreeable
+a prospect. He had also a girdle full of sharp points next his skin; and
+while he was eating or drinking any thing that was grateful to his
+palate, he was constantly pricking himself, that he might not be
+sensible of any pleasure. The virtuous Fenelon submitted without reserve
+to the arbitrary sentence of the pope, when he condemned a book which he
+had published, and even preached in condemnation of his own book,
+forbidding his friends to defend it. "What gross and humiliating
+superstitions (says their biographer) have been manifested by men, in
+other respects of sound and clear understandings, and of upright,
+honest hearts."
+
+In the churchyard of St. Ann's, Soho, says Pennant, is a marble, erected
+near the grave of that remarkable personage, Theodore Antony Newhoff,
+king of Corsica, who died in this parish in 1756, immediately after
+leaving the king's-bench prison, by the benefit of the act of
+insolvency. The marble was erected, and the epitaph written, by the
+honourable Horace Walpole:--
+
+    "The grave, great teacher, to a level brings
+    Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings;
+    But Theodore this moral learn'd ere dead--
+    Fate pour'd its lesson on his living head,
+    Bestow'd a kingdom, and denied him bread."
+
+He registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. His
+biographer says, "He was a man whose claim to royalty was as
+indisputable as the most ancient titles to any monarchy can pretend to
+be; that is, the choice of his subjects, the voluntary election of an
+injured people, who had the common right of mankind to freedom, and the
+uncommon resolution of determining to be free."
+
+P.T.W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"THE LILY BELLS ARE WET WITH DEW."
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Sir,--I have taken the liberty of transmitting to you a piece of a Latin
+ode, which appears to me to be the original of the song--"The lily bells
+are wet with dew," in Miss Mitford's "Dramatic Scenes," which appeared
+in your miscellany of June 23, 1827.
+
+It is copied from an old book published in the year 1697, by Charles
+Elford, entitled "Gemmae Poetarum."
+
+If you think it worthy insertion, I should feel obliged by its
+appearance. Yours respectfully,
+
+J.T.S.
+
+    Lilia rorescuut, jubara osculo blande rosarum
+      Florem tangunt--ô, dives odore,
+    O, splendens tinctû floretum--est ...
+      Surge Feronia, et sertum texe
+    Cæsariem nunc implectare tuum coracinum
+      Ne æstu medio sol flores abripiat.
+    In coelo tenuis nubes est, lenta susurra
+      Cum aurâ veniunt--aut imbrem vaticinans
+    Aut nivem: orire, Feronia, crinem stringere cauté
+      Sertum age, ne veniat tempestas minitans.
+
+I have translated it thus, which you may perceive is strictly literal:--
+
+    The lilies are wet with the dew--the sunbeams with a kiss
+    gently touch the flower of the roses.--O the garden is rich of
+    scent--is bright of hue.--Arise Feronia and weave the garland
+    even now to braid thy ravenlike hair, lest at mid-day the sun
+    should spoil the flowers.--In the sky there is a little cloud,
+    gentle whisperings come with the gale--they tell of rain or
+    snow.--Arise Feronia and carefully weave the garland to bind up
+    thy hair, lest the threatening storm should come.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES FOR AUGUST, 1827.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+It has been computed, that all the celestial orbs perceived by the
+unassisted eye (which on a clear night never exceed 1,000,) do not form
+the 80,000 part of those which may be descried by the help of a
+telescope, through which they appear prodigiously increased in number;
+seventy stars have been counted in the constellation of the _pleiades_,
+and no fewer than 2,000 in that of _Orion_.
+
+The _galaxy_, or _via lactea_, (milky way,) is a remarkable appearance
+in the heavens, being a broad ray of whitish colour surrounding the
+whole celestial concave, whose light proceeds from vast clusters of
+stars, discoverable only by the telescope. Mr. Brydone, in his journey
+to the top of Mount Etna, found the phenomenon make a most glorious
+appearance, "like a pure flame that shot across the heavens."
+
+Dr. Herschel made many observations on this portion of the heavens,
+using a Newtonian reflector of twenty feet focal length, and an aperture
+of eighteen inches. With this powerful telescope he completely resolved
+the whitish appearance into stars, which the telescopes he had formerly
+used had not light enough to do. In the most vacant place to be met with
+in that neighbourhood, he found sixty-three stars; other six fields, or
+apparent spaces in the heavens, which he could see at once through his
+telescope, averaged seventy-nine stars in each field: thus he found that
+by allowing 15 min. of a deg. for the diameter of his field of view, a
+belt of 15 deg. long, and 2 deg. broad, which he had often seen pass
+before his telescope in an hour's time could not contain less than
+50,000 stars, large enough to be distinctly numbered, besides which he
+suspected twice as many more, which could be seen only now and then by
+faint glimpses, for want of sufficient light. In the most crowded part
+of that region he informs us, he has had fields of view which contained
+no less than 588 stars, and these were continued for many minutes, so
+that in one quarter of an hour's time there passed no less than 116,000
+stars. He also intimates the probability of the sun being placed in this
+great stratum, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
+
+From the appearance of the galaxy it seems to encompass the whole
+heavens, as it certainly must if the sun be within the same. From
+succeeding observations made by Dr. Herschel, he gathers that the milky
+way is a most extensive stratum of stars of various sizes, and our sun
+evidently one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it. In viewing and
+gauging this shining zone in almost every direction, he found the number
+of stars composing it, by the account of those gauges constantly
+increase and decrease in proportion to its apparent brightness to the
+naked eye.
+
+The _nebulæ_, or small whitish specks, discoverable by telescopes in
+various parts of the heavens are owing to the same cause. Former
+astronomers could only reckon 103, but Herschel counts upwards of 1,250.
+He has also discovered a species of them, which he calls planetary
+nebulæ, on account of their brightness, and shining with a well
+defined disk.
+
+The sun enters _Virgo_ on the 23rd at 11h. 42m. evening.
+
+Mercury comes to his inferior conjunction on the 13th at 1-1/4h.
+morning, becomes stationary on the 22nd, and is at his greatest
+elongation on the 31st, when he passes his ascending node; he may be
+seen early on that morning rising at 3-1/2h.
+
+Venus is in conjunction with Mars on the 21st at 3h. afternoon; she
+rises on the 1st at 2h. 38m., and on the 31st at 4h. 10m. morning.
+
+Jupiter still continues a conspicuous object in the western part of the
+heavens, setting on the 1st at 9h. 43m., and on the 31st at 8h. None of
+the eclipses of his satellites are visible during the month in
+consequence of his being so near the sun.
+
+Herschel comes to the south on the 1st at 11h. 6m., and on the 31st at
+9h. 43m. evening.
+
+_Spica virginis_ (the virgin's spike), in the constellation Virgo
+culminates on the 1st at 4h. 32m. afternoon, being situated 10 deg. 13m.
+south of the equator, at a meridional elevation of 28 deg. 26m.
+_Arcturus_ in Bootes south at 5h. 23m. with 20 deg. north delineation,
+and at an altitude of 58 deg. 46m. _Antares_ in the heart of Scorpio at
+7h. 34m., declination 26 deg. south, elevation 12 deg. 38m. _Altair_ in
+the Eagle at 10h. 57m., declination 8 deg. 24m. north, altitude 47 deg.
+3m. _Fomalhaut_ in the most southern fish of the constellation Pisces at
+2h. 6m. morning, having a southern declination of 30 deg. 34m., being
+elevated only 8 deg. 5m. above the horizon. The above stars come to the
+meridian 4 min. earlier every evening; they are all of the first
+magnitude (with the exception of _Altair_, which is of the second,) and
+may be easily distinguished any hour of the day with a magnifying power
+of thirty times; stars of the second magnitude require a power of 100,
+but when the sun is not more than two hours above the horizon, they may
+be seen with a power of sixty.
+
+PASCHE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+NO. CVI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ROSALIE BERTON.
+
+(_Concluded from page 74._ [Note: Mirror 266])
+
+
+Things were in this state when I visited S----, and the union of Henri
+and Rosalie, though not positively fixed, was regarded as an event by no
+means distant. Every one was interested for the young and handsome
+couple, and wished for their espousal. Rosalie's friends longed for the
+day when she was to wed the young and handsome Henri; and Henri's
+comrades were perpetually urging him to cement his union with the
+lovely Rosalie.
+
+We left the place with every kind wish for the young and betrothed pair.
+I have not since revisited S----, but by letters from my friend, I have
+been informed, that this commencement of their loves had a sad and
+melancholy sequel.
+
+After our departure, it seems, the lovers continued equally attached;
+arrangements were making for their union, and it was intended that Henri
+should leave the army previous to their marriage. But just at this
+juncture, and as he was about to leave his corps, rumours of war were
+circulated, the enterprise against Spain was projected, and the royal
+guard was one of the first corps ordered for service. Henri, with the
+natural enthusiasm of a soldier, felt all his former ardour revive; and
+longed to mingle in the ranks of glory, ere he left them for ever. He,
+doubtless, felt severely the separation from Rosalie; yet his feelings
+were described to me as being of a joyous character, and as if evincing
+that he felt happy that the opportunity of joining his brethren in arms,
+and of signalizing himself perhaps for the last time, had presented
+itself, previous to his marriage and his quitting the service.
+
+The enterprise against Spain, he considered as the French army commonly
+did, to be a mere excursion of pleasure, which, while it led them into a
+country which many of them had never visited before, would also afford
+them the occasion of gathering laurels which might serve to redeem
+somewhat of their lost glory. He therefore looked forward to the
+expedition, on the whole, with feelings of ardour and delight, and even
+longed for its approach. Not so Rosalie! She looked on war and bloodshed
+with the natural apprehensions of her sex; and saw in the projected
+expedition, and its prospects of glory, only danger and death to her
+lover! Her spirits received a severe shock when the intelligence was
+first communicated--she gradually lost her cheerfulness and spirits; the
+song, the dance, had no longer charm or interest for her, and she could
+only contemplate the approaching separation with sorrow and dismay!
+
+Henri perceived her depression, and endeavoured to combat and remove her
+fears by arguments fond, but unavailing. It was only, he would urge, a
+jaunt of pleasure; it would admit his speedy return, when he would come
+to lay his services at her feet, and claim the hand which was already
+promised to his hopes; and surely, then, Rosalie could not regret his
+obeying the call of duty and of honour; or like her lover the worse,
+when crowned with victory in the cause of his country. To these and
+similar assurances, Rosalie could only reply with the mute eloquence of
+tears; and nothing could divest her of the apprehension with which she
+ever regarded an enterprise which she seemed to consider from the
+first as fatal.
+
+The time however drew on, the dreaded period arrived, the Royal Guard
+left its quarters, and departed from S----. Henri took a fond and
+passionate adieu of his betrothed; and Rosalie, having summoned all her
+fortitude to her aid, went through the parting scene with more firmness
+than could have been expected from her, though her feelings, afterwards,
+were described as of the most agonizing kind.
+
+Such is the difference between the ardent feelings of man, and the
+tender and gentle sympathies of woman, that, while his sorrow is
+alleviated by a thousand mitigating circumstances of ardour and
+excitement, which relieve his attention, and soothe, though they do not
+annihilate his grief; she can only brood over her feelings, and suffer
+in silence and in sorrow. Henri marched out with his regiment in all the
+vigour of manhood, and with all the "pomp, pride, and circumstance of
+war," while Rosalie could only retire to her chamber and weep.
+
+Time passed on; letters were received from Henri, which spoke in ardent
+terms of his journey, and of the new and singular scenes unfolded to his
+view. He adverted also to his return, mentioned the war as a mere
+pastime, and as an agreeable jaunt, the termination of which he only
+desired, because it would once more restore him to his Rosalie. It was
+remarked, however, that she never recovered her cheerfulness; to all her
+lover's assurances she could only reply with expressions of distrust,
+and with feelings of sorrow; and when she wrote, it was to express her
+fears of the campaign, and her wish that it were over, and that they
+were again united in safety.
+
+And constantly did the good and pious girl offer up her prayers for her
+lover, as she repaired to the church of the Holy Virgin at S----, to
+perform her daily devotions.
+
+The season advanced: the French marched through Spain, and reached
+Cadiz. At this last hope of the Constitutionalists, a strong resistance
+was expected, and Henri had written from Seville, that his next letter
+would announce the termination of the campaign. Alas! he never wrote
+again! Time flew on; the journals announced the fall of the Trocadero;
+the surrender of Cadiz, and the restoration of Ferdinand; yet there came
+no news from Henri! Then did the gentle girl sink into all the
+despondency of disappointment; and as day after day passed and brought
+no tidings of her lover, her beauty and her health suffered alike, she
+languished and pined till she scarce retained the semblance of her
+former self.
+
+At last came a letter; it was from Spain, but it was written in a
+stranger's hand, and its sable appendages bespoke the fatal nature of
+its contents. It was from a brother officer of Henri, stating that his
+regiment had been foremost in the attack, and that the Trocadero, the
+last resource of the Constitutionalists, had been carried with the loss
+of but few killed; but, alas! among that few, was Henri! He was shot
+through the body while leading his men to the assault. He fell instantly
+dead, and the writer expressed his desire that the sad intelligence
+should be conveyed as gently as possible to Rosalie.
+
+Unhappily, by one of those chances which often occur, as if to aggravate
+misfortune, it was Rosalie who received the fatal letter from the
+postman's hands! She tore it open; read its dreadful contents; and with
+a wild and frenzied shriek, fell senseless to the ground! She was borne
+to her bed, where every care and attention was bestowed; but her illness
+rapidly assumed a threatening and a dangerous character. A fever seized
+her frame; she became at once delirious; nor did reason again resume her
+throne; and it was not till after months of suffering and agony, that
+she recovered, if that could be called recovery, which gave back a
+deformed and hapless lunatic, bereft of intellect and of beauty, in
+place of the once gay and fascinating Rosalie. The dread aberration of
+intellect was attributed by her medical attendants to the fatal and
+sudden shock which she had sustained, and to its effect on a mind
+weakened by previous anxiety and sorrow; while they feared her malady
+was of a nature, which admitted no hope of the return of reason.
+
+Her mind, it was stated, remained an entire blank. Imbecile, vacant,
+drivelling--she appeared almost unconscious of former existence; and of
+those subjects which formerly engrossed her attention, and excited her
+feelings, there were scarcely any on which she now evinced any emotion.
+Even the name of her lover was almost powerless on her soul, and if
+repeated in her hearing, seemed scarcely to call forth her notice.
+
+One only gift remained, in all its native pathos, tenderness, and
+beauty--her voice, so sweet before her illness, seemed, amid the wreck
+of youth, and joy, and love, and all that was charming and endeared, to
+have only become sweeter still! She was incapable or unwilling to learn
+any new airs, but she would occasionally recollect snatches of former
+songs or duets, which she and Henri had sung together, and she would
+pour the simple melodies in strains of more than mortal sweetness!
+
+This, alas! was the only relic of former talent or taste that she
+retained; in all other respects, her mind and body, instead of evincing
+symptoms of recovery, seemed to sink in utter hopelessness and despair;
+and an early tomb seems to be the best and kindest boon which heaven, in
+its mercy, can bestow, on the once fair and fascinating Rosalie!
+
+_Tales of all Nations._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.
+
+    Notings, selections,
+    Anecdote and joke:
+    Our recollections;
+    With gravities for graver folk.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TAVERNS AND CLUB-HOUSES.
+
+
+Almost every tavern of note about town hath or had its club. The Mermaid
+Tavern is immortalized as the house resorted to by Shakspeare, Jonson,
+Fletcher, and Beaumont; the Devil--which, Pennant informs us, stood on
+the site of Child's-place, Temple Bar--was the scene of many a merry
+meeting of the choice spirits in old days; at Will's Coffee-house, in
+the Augustan age of English literature, societies were held to which
+Steele, and Pope, and Addison belonged; Doctor Johnson, Hawkesworth, the
+elder Salter, and Sir John Hawkins, were members of a club formerly held
+at the King's-head, in Ivy-lane; the notorious Dick England, Dennis
+O'Kelly, and Hull, with their associates, had, many years ago, a
+sporting-club at Munday's Coffee-house; the Three Jolly Pigeons, in
+Butcher-hall-lane, was formerly the gathering place of a set of old
+school bibliopoles, who styled themselves the Free and Easy Counsellors
+under the Cauliflower; stay-maker Hugh Kelly, Goldsmith, Ossian
+Macpherson, Garrick, Cumberland, and the Woodfalls, with several noted
+men of that day, were concerned in a club at the St. James's
+Coffee-house; the Kit-Cat, which took its name from one Christopher Cat,
+a pastry-cook, was held at a tavern in King-street, Westminster;
+Button's--but truly the task of enumerating the several clubs, of which
+we find notices "in the books," as the lawyers have it, would be
+endless.--_Every Night Book_.
+
+
+CONVERSATION OF WOMEN.
+
+
+The usual conversation of ordinary women very much cherishes the natural
+weakness of being taken with outside appearance. Talk of a new-married
+couple, and you immediately hear whether they keep their coach-and-six,
+or eat in plate. Mention the name of an absent lady, and it is ten to
+one but you learn something of her gown and petticoat. A ball is a great
+help to discourse, and a birthday furnishes conversation for a
+twelvemonth after. A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a
+diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
+--_Addison_.
+
+
+BILDERDYK.
+
+
+William Bilderdyk, admired as the first poet that modern Holland has
+produced, and not less distinguished by the brilliant qualities of his
+mind, did not, in his youth, seem to show any happy disposition for
+study. His father, who formed an unfavourable opinion of his talents,
+was much distressed, and frequently reproached him in severe terms for
+his inattention and idleness, to which young Bilderdyk did not appear to
+pay much attention. In 1776, the father, with a newspaper in his hand,
+came to stimulate him, by showing the advertisement of a prize offered
+by the Society of Leyden, and decreed to the author of a piece of
+poetry, signed with these words, "An Author 18 years old," who was
+invited to make himself known. "You ought to blush, idler," said old
+Bilderdyk to his son. "Here is a boy only of your age, and though so
+young, is the pride and happiness of his parents; and you----." "It is
+myself," answered young William, throwing himself into his
+father's arms.
+
+
+SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE,
+
+
+Who has often filled the anatomical chair at the Royal Academy, is no
+less abstruse and instructive than pleasant and amusing. His
+illustrative anecdotes are always excellent, and his way of telling them
+quite dramatic. We have found him even more agreeable as a private
+talker than as a lecturer; he is rich in the old lore of England--he
+will hunt a phrase through several reigns--propose derivations for words
+which are equally ingenious and learned--follow a proverb for
+generations back, and discuss on the origin of language as though he had
+never studied aught beside: he knows more than any other person we ever
+met with of the biography of talented individuals--in the philosophy of
+common life he is quite an adept--a capital chronologist--a man of fine
+mind and most excellent memory: his experience has, of course, been very
+great, and he has taken good advantage of it. We remember he once amused
+us for half a day by adducing instances of men who, although possessed
+of mean talents, had enabled themselves to effect wonders, by simply
+hoarding in their minds, and subsequently acting upon, an immense number
+of facts: from this subject we naturally enough fell into a discourse on
+the importance, in many cases and situations, of attending to trifles.
+As a proof of this, he mentioned a circumstance which occurred to an
+eminent surgeon within his own memory; it was as follows: A gentleman,
+residing about a post-stage from town, met with an accident which
+eventually rendered amputation of a limb indispensable. The surgeon
+alluded to was requested to perform the operation, and went from town
+with two pupils to the gentleman's house, on the day appointed, for that
+purpose. The usual preliminaries being arranged, he proceeded to
+operate; the tourniquet was applied, the flesh divided, and the bone
+laid bare, when, to his astonishment and horror, he discovered that his
+instrument-case was without the saw! Here was a situation! Luckily his
+presence of mind did not forsake him. Without apprising his patient of
+the terrible fact, he put one of his pupils into his carriage, and told
+the coachman to gallop to town. It was an hour and a half before the saw
+was obtained, and during all that time the patient lay suffering. The
+agony of the operator, though great, was scarcely a sufficient
+punishment for his neglect in not seeing that all his instruments were
+in the case before he started.
+
+Basil Montagu, the water drinking barrister, who was present during the
+narration of this anecdote, and the previous discussion, mentioned
+another instance of the propriety of noticing those minor circumstances
+in life, which are usually suffered to pass unheeded by people in
+general. A man of talent was introduced into a company of strangers; he
+scarcely spoke after his first salutation until he wished the party good
+night. Almost every one dubbed him a fool; the lady hostess, who, be it
+remarked, had not been previously informed of the abilities of her new
+guest, was of a different opinion, "I am sure," said she, "that you are
+all wrong; for, though he said nothing, I remarked that _he always
+laughed in the right place_."--_Every Night Book_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A FACT.
+
+
+    Pat went to his mistress: "My lady, your mare
+    _In harness_, goes well as a dray-horse, I swear:
+    I tried, as you're thinking to sell her, or let her,
+    For _coming on_ thus, she'll _go off_ all the better."
+
+    "Twas very well thought of" the lady replied,
+    "You've acted a sensible part.
+    But Patrick, pray tell me the day that you tried,
+    Of whom did you borrow the cart?"
+
+    "The _cart_? why, she _walk'd_ well _in harness_, I saw,
+    But I thought not, by no _manes_, to try if she'd _draw_;
+    For says I, by Saint Patrick, who, her comes to view,
+    To tell him, she has been 'in harness' will do!"
+
+M.L.B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE MONTHS.
+
+AUGUST.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                             All around
+    The yellow sheaves, catching the burning beam,
+    Glow, golden lustre.
+
+MRS. ROBINSON.
+
+
+This is the month of harvest. The crops usually begin with rye and oats,
+proceed with wheat, and finish with pease and beans. Harvest-home is
+still the greatest rural holiday in England, because it concludes at
+once the most laborious and most lucrative of the farmer's employments,
+and unites repose and profit. Thank heaven, there are, and must be,
+seasons of some repose in agricultural employments, or the countryman
+would work with as unceasing a madness, and contrive to be almost as
+diseased and unhealthy as the citizen. But here again, and for the
+reasons already mentioned, our holiday-making is not what it was. Our
+ancestors used to burst into an enthusiasm of joy at the end of harvest,
+and even mingled their previous labour with considerable merry-making,
+in which they imitated the equality of the earlier ages. They crowned
+the wheat-sheaves with flowers, they sung, they shouted, they danced,
+they invited each other, or met to feast as at Christmas, in the halls
+of rich houses; and, what was a very amiable custom, and wise beyond the
+commoner wisdom that may seem to lie on the top of it, every one that
+had been concerned, man, woman, and child, received a little present,
+ribbons, laces, or sweetmeats.
+
+The number of flowers is now sensibly diminished. Those that flower
+newly are nigella, zinnias, polyanthuses, love-apples, mignonette,
+capsicums, Michaelmas daisies, auriculus, asters or stars, and
+China-asters. The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the
+tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful
+passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis,
+which is such a quick and handsome climber. But the quantity of fruit is
+considerably multiplied, especially that of pears, peaches, apricots,
+and grapes. And if the little delicate white flowers have at last
+withdrawn from the hot sun, the wastes, marshes, and woods are dressed
+in the luxuriant attire of ferns and heaths, with all their varieties of
+green, purple, and gold. A piece of waste land, especially where the
+ground is broken up into little inequalities, as Hampstead-heath, for
+instance, is now a most bright as well as picturesque object; all the
+ground, which is in light, giving the sun, as it were, gold for gold.
+Mignonette, intended to flower in winter, should now be planted in pots,
+and have the benefit of a warm situation. Seedlings in pots should have
+the morning sunshine, and annuals in pots be frequently watered.
+
+In the middle of this month, the young goldfinch broods appear, lapwings
+congregate, thistle-down floats, and birds resume their spring songs:--a
+little afterwards flies abound in windows, linnets congregate, and bulls
+make their shrill autumnal bellowing; and towards the end the beech tree
+turns yellow,--the first symptom of approaching autumn.[1]
+
+    [1] _The Months_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LEOPARD-HUNTING.
+
+
+The leopard of Southern Africa is known among the Cape colonists by the
+name of tiger; but is, in fact, the real leopard, the _Felis jubata_ of
+naturalists, well known for the beauty of its shape and spotted skin,
+and the treachery and fierceness of its disposition. The animal called
+leopard (_luipaard_) by the Cape Dutch boors, is a species of the
+panther, and is inferior to the real leopard in size and beauty. Both of
+them are dreaded in the mountainous districts on account of the ravages
+which they occasionally commit among the flocks, and on the young cattle
+and horses in the breeding season.
+
+The South African panther is a cowardly animal, and, like the hyena,
+flies from the face of man. The leopard also, though his low,
+half-smothered growl is frequently heard by night, as he prowls like an
+evil spirit around the cottage or the kraal, will seldom or never attack
+mankind, (children excepted,) unless previously assailed or exasperated.
+When hunted, as he usually is with dogs, he instinctively betakes
+himself to a tree, when he falls an easy prey to the shot of the
+huntsman. The leopard, however, though far inferior in strength and
+intrepidity to the lion, is yet an exceedingly active and furious
+animal; and when driven to extremity, proves himself occasionally an
+antagonist not to be trifled with. The colonists relate many instances
+of arduous and even fatal encounters with the hunted leopard. The
+following is one of these adventures, which occurred in a frontier
+district in 1822, as described by one of the two individuals so
+perilously engaged in it.
+
+Two boors returning from hunting the Hartebeest, (_antelope bubalis_,)
+fell in with a leopard in a mountain ravine, and immediately gave chase
+to him. The animal at first endeavoured to escape by clambering up a
+precipice; but being hotly pressed, and slightly wounded by a
+musket-ball, he turned upon his pursuers with that frantic ferocity
+which on such emergencies he frequently displays, and springing upon the
+man who had fired at him, tore him from his horse to the ground, biting
+him at the same time very severely in the shoulder, and tearing his face
+and arms with his talons. The other hunter, seeing the danger of his
+comrade, (he was, if I mistake not, his brother,) sprung from his horse,
+and attempted to shoot the leopard through the head; but, whether owing
+to trepidation, or the fear of wounding his friend, or the sudden
+motions of the animal, he unfortunately missed.
+
+The leopard, abandoning his prostrate enemy, darted with redoubled fury
+upon this second antagonist; and so fierce and sudden was his onset,
+that before the boor could stab him with his hunting-knife, he had
+struck him in the eyes with his claws, and torn the scalp over his
+forehead. In this frightful condition the hunter grappled with the
+raging beast, and struggling for life, they rolled together down a steep
+declivity. All this passed so rapidly, that the other boor had scarcely
+time to recover from the confusion in which his feline foe had left him,
+to seize his gun, and rush forward to aid his comrade, when he beheld
+them rolling together down the steep bank in mortal conflict. In a few
+moments he was at the bottom with them, but too late to save the life of
+his friend. The leopard had torn open the jugular vein, and so
+dreadfully mangled the throat of the unfortunate man, that his death was
+inevitable; and his comrade had only the melancholy satisfaction of
+completing the destruction of the savage beast, already exhausted with
+several deep wounds in the breast from the desperate knife of the
+expiring huntsman.--_London Weekly Review_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GLOAMING.
+
+BY DELTA.
+
+
+    There is a beauty in the grey twilight,
+    Which minds unmusical can never know,
+    A holy quietude, that yields to woe
+    A pulseless pleasure, fraught with pure delight:
+    The aspect of the mountains huge, that brave
+    And bear upon their breasts the rolling storms;
+    And the soft twinkling of the stars, that pave
+    Heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms;
+    The rustle of the dark boughs overhead:
+    The murmurs of the torrent far away;
+    The last notes of the blackbird, and the bay
+    Of sullen watch-dog, from the far farm-stead--
+    All waken thoughts of Being's early day,
+    Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled.
+
+_Blackwood's Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ON READING NEW BOOKS.
+
+
+There is a fashion in reading as well as in dress, which lasts only for
+a season. One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for
+being old;[2] that they have a pleasure in being read for the first
+time; that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of
+enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that, after a
+certain age, it is high time to put them on the shelf. This conceit
+seems to be followed up in practice. What is it to me that another--that
+hundreds or thousands have in all ages read a work? Is it on this
+account the less likely to give me pleasure, because it has delighted so
+many others? Or can I taste this pleasure by proxy? Or am I in any
+degree the wiser for their knowledge? Yet this might appear to be the
+inference. _Their_ having read the work may be said to act upon us by
+sympathy, and the knowledge which so many other persons have of its
+contents deadens our curiosity and interest altogether. We set aside the
+subject as one on which others have made up their minds for us, (as if
+we really could have ideas in their heads,) and are quite on the alert
+for the next new work, teeming hot from the press, which we shall be the
+first to read, to criticise, and pass an opinion on. Oh, delightful! To
+cut open the leaves, to inhale the fragrance of the scarcely-dry paper,
+to examine the type, to see who is the printer, (which is some clue to
+the value that is set upon the work,) to launch out into regions of
+thought and invention never trod till now, and to explore characters
+that never met a human eye before--this is a luxury worth sacrificing a
+dinner party, or a few hours of a spare morning to. Who, indeed, when
+the work is critical and full of expectation, would venture to dine out,
+or to face a _coterie_ of blue stockings in the evening, without having
+gone through this ordeal, or at least without, hastily turning over a
+few of the first pages while dressing, to be able to say that the
+beginning does not promise much, or to tell the name of the heroine?
+
+    [2] "Laws are not like women, the worse for being old."--_The
+    Duke of Buckingham's Speech in the House of Lords, in Charles
+    the Second's time_.
+
+A new work is something in our power; we mount the bench, and sit in
+judgment on it; we can damn or recommend it to others at pleasure, can
+decry or extol it to the skies, and can give an answer to those who have
+not yet read it, and expect an account of it; and thus show our
+shrewdness and the independence of our taste before the world have had
+time to form an opinion. If we cannot write ourselves, we become, by
+busying ourselves about it, a kind of _accessaries after the fact_.
+Though not the parent of the bantling that "has just come into this
+breathing world, scarce half made up," without the aid of criticism and
+puffing, yet we are the gossips and foster-nurses on the occasion, with
+all the mysterious significance and self-importance of the tribe. If we
+wait, we must take our report from others; if we make haste, we may
+dictate ours to them. It is not a race, then, for priority of
+information, but for precedence in tattling and dogmatising. The work
+last out is the first that people talk and inquire about. It is the
+subject on the _tapis_--the cause that is pending. It is the last
+candidate for success, (other claims have been disposed of,) and appeals
+for this success to us, and us alone. Our predecessors can have nothing
+to say to this question, however they may have anticipated us on others;
+future ages, in all probability, will not trouble their heads about it;
+we are the panel. How hard, then, not to avail ourselves of our
+immediate privilege to give sentence of life or death--to seem in
+ignorance of what every one else is full of--to be behind-hand with the
+polite, the knowing, and fashionable part of mankind--to be at a loss
+and dumb-founded, when all around us are in their glory, and figuring
+away, on no other ground than that of having read a work that we have
+not! Books that are to be written hereafter cannot be criticised by us;
+those that were written formerly have been criticised long ago; but a
+new book is the property, the prey of ephemeral criticism, which it
+darts triumphantly upon; there is a raw thin air of ignorance and
+uncertainty about it, not filled up by any recorded opinion; and
+curiosity, impertinence, and vanity rush eagerly into the vacuum. A new
+book is the fair field for petulance and coxcombry to gather laurels
+in--the butt set up for roving opinion to aim at. Can we wonder, then,
+that the circulating libraries are besieged by literary dowagers and
+their grand-daughters, when a new novel is announced? That mail-coach
+copies of the _Edinburgh Review_ are or were coveted? That the
+manuscript of the _Waverley_ romances is sent abroad in time for the
+French, German, or even Italian translation to appear on the same day as
+the original work, so that the longing continental public may not be
+kept waiting an instant longer than their fellow-readers in the English
+metropolis, which would be as tantalizing and insupportable as a little
+girl being kept without her new frock, when her sister's is just come
+home, and is the talk and admiration of every one in the house? To be
+sure, there is something in the taste of the times; a modern work is
+expressly adapted to modern readers. It appeals to our direct
+experience, and to well-known subjects; it is part and parcel of the
+world around us, and is drawn from the same sources as our daily
+thoughts. There is, therefore, so far, a natural or habitual sympathy
+between us and the literature of the day, though this is a different
+consideration from the mere circumstance of novelty. An author now
+alive, has a right to calculate upon the living public; he cannot count
+upon the dead, nor look forward with much confidence to those that are
+unborn. Neither, however, is it true that we are eager to read all new
+books alike; we turn from them with a certain feeling of distaste and
+distrust, unless they are recommended to us by some peculiar feature or
+obvious distinction. Only young ladies from the boarding-school, or
+milliners' girls, read all the new novels that come out. It must be
+spoken of or against; the writer's name must be well known or a great
+secret; it must be a topic of discourse and a mark for criticism--that
+is, it must be likely to bring us into notice in some way--or we take
+no notice of it. There is a mutual and tacit understanding on this head.
+We can no more read all the new books that appear, than we can read all
+the old ones that have disappeared from time to time.--_Monthly
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE PALACE OF ALI PASHA.
+
+
+The secretary carried us through several chambers, decorated with much
+cost and barbarous splendour. The wainscot of one of the principal
+saloons is inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ebony, coral, and ivory; but the
+workmanship seems harsh and ungraceful. The ceiling is plastered with
+massive gilding, the effect of which is rather cumbrous than ornamental;
+"not graced with elegancy, but daubed with cost." Pillars, of a
+composition to resemble the richest marble, support the compartments,
+and the cornice is coloured with some imperfect efforts at arabesque
+painting. There is, however, one article extremely elegant and
+well-finished--a low sofa, carried round three-fourths of the room,
+covered with dark velvet, tastefully embroidered, and hung with gold
+fringe. The general arrangement of the rooms is certainly, grand and
+imposing, though occasionally deformed by much bad taste. I should not
+omit to mention, that our conductor desired us to notice two very
+handsome carpets, which he gave us to understand were of British
+manufacture. In the apartment where Ali sleeps, the walls are hung with
+sabres and fire-arms of different descriptions; all of which are
+ornamented with precious stones. One of the scimitars is profusely
+adorned with diamonds and rubies, and a particular musket has a
+cartouche-box, studded with brilliants of surpassing splendour, the
+central stone being nearly the size of a die. A fowling-piece, sent to
+the pasha by Bonaparte, is also enriched with gems, though this last
+article is considered to derive its chief value from the circumstance of
+having been once the property of the imperial warrior, by whom it was
+presented. The chamber opens into a long and spacious gallery; at one
+extremity we observed a singularly awkward piece of furniture,
+resembling a large old-fashioned arm-chair. So useless an article in a
+Turkish palace induced me to inquire the purpose to which it was
+applied; and I was informed that, on certain festivals, the pasha gives
+an entertainment for the diversion of the children of the principal
+families in the capital, who on such occasions assemble in the gallery.
+Ali himself always attends, to encourage and assist their gaiety; and,
+while reclining on this cumbrous seat, distributes to them, as they are
+successively presented to him, baskets of sweetmeats, and such other
+tokens of regard as are suited to their respective ages and
+condition.--_Narrative of an Excursion from Corfu to Smyrna_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+POLICE OFFICES AND POLICE REPORTS.
+
+
+The police reports are frequently the most amusing part of the daily
+press: they let the reader into many of the secrets of low, and, now and
+then, of high life; they are redolent of the phraseology of the vulgar;
+they often tickle our fancies by their humour, and sometimes touch our
+sympathies by their pathos. As anecdotes of real life; daily catalogues
+of droll and dismal occurrences among our fellow-citizens; pictures of
+what is passing in the streets while we, who are sober sort of folks,
+are dreaming in our beds; sketches of manners, and records of the
+habits, feelings, and minor as well as major delinquencies of those who
+breathe the same air with us; they could not fail to be interesting to
+us all, were we not aware that, like the novels which are said to be
+"founded on fact," their most rich and racy parts are frequently
+fiction.
+
+Let not the non-gnostic portion of our readers imagine, that if they
+haunt the justice-seat of Birnie and his judicial co-mates, that they
+will ever witness such pleasant, sparkling, humorous examinations as
+those reported in the columns of the papers which matinally grace their
+breakfast-tables. The tyro upon town will stare at this. Why, will he
+say, cannot I, if I frequent the same place, see and hear what those who
+are employed for the press see and hear there? He can; but the fact is,
+that our police reporters are by far too clever to set down the words of
+other people, without throwing in something of their own. Their plan is
+to drop the duller parts of a story or a speech, and to embellish its
+livelier portion--to select the tit-bits, and sauce and spice them up
+sufficiently high to please the palates of the news-reading public. The
+offices afford them an excellent variety of characters, which, like
+skilful dramatists, they work up until they become really humorous: many
+of the cases afford them capital plots, into which they cleverly
+dovetail pleasant little episodes, and adhere no closer to the deposed
+facts than many of our by-gone playwrights have done to the sacred page
+of history. We allude only to the cases of humour which occur at the
+police-offices: those reports which can be interesting only in
+proportion as they are correct, are, in general, accurately given; but
+the matrimonial squabbles, the Irish farçettas, and the frays between
+the Dogberrys of the night and late walkers--albeit they may,
+peradventure, contain the leading facts disclosed--are highly wrought up
+by the fanciful powers of those who cause the public and feed themselves
+at a per-line-age for the daily press. Many cases which, on hearing, are
+dull and oftentimes disgusting, under the magic pens of the
+police-office scribes become lively and entertaining; they are furnished
+with the raw material--the metal in its ore--which they purify and
+polish, until it bears little or no resemblance to what it was before it
+underwent the process of manufacturing for the paper-market under their
+skilful hands. There are many who delight to visit the police-offices
+for the sake of seeing those beings who appear there, of whom others
+only read: some of our readers may, perhaps, be bitten with a similar
+fancy; but, we warrant, that they will find the actual doings at
+Bow-street very different to what they had imagined; as Charles Mathews'
+_Sir Harry Skelton_ says, "There's nothing at all in it; people talk a
+great deal about it--but there's nothing in it, after all--nothing."
+
+It is not often that we look in at morning or evening sitting of the
+magistrates; we are content to have the police reports served up to us
+with our potted beef and buttered toast at breakfast; we enjoy them,
+although we feel convinced that many of them bear no more resemblance to
+the affairs they are founded on, than mock-turtle to calf's-head; still,
+like the soup, they are by far the most pleasant and palatable of the
+two.--_Every Night Book_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CURRAL.
+
+
+The view in front was obstructed by a high ridge, of which we had nearly
+gained the highest point, when we left our horses, and running up a few
+yards of steep turf found ourselves all at once on the brink of the
+Curral. It is a huge valley, or rather crater, of immense depth,
+enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices, the
+sides and summit of which are broken in every variety of buttress or
+pinnacle--now black and craggy and beetling--at other times spread with
+the richest green turf, and scattered with a profusion of the evergreen
+forest-trees, indigenous to the island; while far below, in the midst of
+all these horrors, smiles a fairy region of cultivation and
+fruitfulness, with a church and village, the white cabins of which seem
+half smothered in the luxuriance of their own vines and orchards.
+
+We gazed long and eagerly at the prospect. It is not easy to give an
+accurate notion of its peculiar character; and even painting would but
+ill assist, for one of the most striking features is the great and
+sudden _depth_ which you look down, the effect of which we know the
+pencil cannot at all convey. The side on which we stand, however, though
+steep, is not absolutely precipitous; on the contrary, the gradation of
+crag and projection, by which it descends to the bottom, is one of the
+finest things in the view. Close on our right a lofty peak presents its
+rocky face to the valley, to which it bears down in a magnificent mass,
+shouldering its way, as it seemed, half across it. The opposite sides
+appear more bare, precipitous, and lofty; and this last character is
+heightened by some white clouds that rest upon and conceal
+their summits.
+
+Rejoining the road, we for awhile lost sight of the valley. When we
+again came in view of it, it was rapidly filling with clouds, but at
+first their interposition was hardly a disadvantage; they gave a vague
+indefinite grandeur to the cliffs and mountains, which seemed to rise
+one knew not from what depth, and lose their summits in regions beyond
+our ken. The breaks, too, that occurred in this shrouding of the scene,
+showed fragments of it with strange effect--till at length the whole
+hollow filled, and presented a uniform sea of vapour.
+
+_Rambles in Madeira_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A PORTUGUESE BALL.
+
+
+The ladies are carried in palanquins, and each received at the street
+entrance by the master of the house--or if there be more than one lady,
+by some gentlemen deputed for that purpose--who takes her hand, and so
+ushers her up stairs. There is much of this elaborate gallantry
+observable in the manner of the Portuguese towards the sex. Thus, a man
+never passes a lady in the street, or in her balcony, without taking off
+his hat, and this whether he be acquainted with her or not. We
+understand they used to offer a similar mark of respect to the English
+ladies, but desisted on finding that our gentlemen did not reciprocate
+in the same homage towards the fair _Portuguezas_. I don't think that
+this difference in the manners of the two people does us credit. Not
+that all that kind of homage means much. In this, as in a more serious
+concern, our southern neighbours may seem to have the advantage in the
+practices of external devotion; but it would be a mistake to infer from
+thence, that there is with us less of that service of the heart, which,
+after all, is the one thing needful. The party was large, probably two
+hundred, including most of the native rank and fashion of the island. We
+found the ladies all seated together in one room, and the effect of this
+concentration was sufficiently dazzling. Some people deny that there is
+any standard of female beauty; and, at any rate, there is no doubt but
+that habits and associations, as well as complexional and sentimental
+considerations, interfere more with our perceptions in respect to this
+than any other object of taste. It is not immediately that we enter into
+the merits of a style of beauty very different from that which we have
+been accustomed to. Perhaps it is owing to this circumstance that I was
+not struck by so many instances of individual attractiveness as might
+have been expected in so crowded a galaxy. The traits that first strike
+a stranger in a Portuguese belle, are the tendency to _embonpoint_ in
+the figure, and to darkness--I had almost said swarthiness, in
+complexion. This last character, however, is not particularly obvious by
+candle-light; and it is always relieved by the most raven hair, and eyes
+such as one seldom sees elsewhere, so large and black; if their fire
+were softened by a longer lash, and their expression less fixed, there
+would be no resisting them. I fancy, too, that their effect would be
+rather greater in a _tête-à-tête_ than in a circle like this, where,
+looking round, one sees on all sides the same eyes--and which all (it is
+everywhere the reproach of black eyes) say always the same thing. Their
+dress was perfectly in the English fashion; and, in general, there was
+something not un-English in their _mise_ and _tournure_. The superiority
+of French women in these matters is incontestable. Perhaps we may
+account for it something on the principle by which Dr. Johnson explained
+the excellence of our neighbours in cookery, when he suspected that the
+inferiority of their meats rendered indispensable some extraordinary
+skill in dressing it. The general arrangement and progress of the
+evening was very English too. They dance remarkably well, the men as
+well as the women. Indeed, it is, I believe, the great end and
+occupation of the earlier part of their existence. We came away at two
+o'clock; few of the English staid later; but among the Portuguese, the
+more ardent spirits kept up the dance till long after day-break, when it
+is customary to serve up _caldo_, a sort of chicken-broth, for their
+refreshment.--_Ibid_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
+
+
+_What is a Lawyer?_--A lawyer is a man with a pale face and sunken eyes;
+he passes much time in two small rooms in one of the inns of court; he
+is surrounded with sheets of foolscap folio paper, tied up with a red
+string; he has more books than one could read in a year, or comprehend
+in seven; he walks slowly, speaks hesitatingly, and receives fees from
+those who visit him, for giving "hypothetical answers" to "specious
+questions."
+
+_What is a Doctor?_--A doctor, _videlicit_ an M.D., is a sedate-looking
+personage; he listens calmly to the story of your ailments; if your eye
+and skin be yellow, he shrewdly remarks that you have the jaundice; he
+feels your pulse, writes two or three unintelligible lines of Latin, for
+which you pay him a guinea; he keeps a chariot, and one man-servant. The
+standard board behind, _intended_ for a footman, is fearfully beset with
+spikes, to prevent little boys from riding at the doctor's expense. He
+ingeniously lets himself in and out of his vehicle, by means of a strap
+attached to the steps, so contrived, that when in, he can dexterously
+cause the steps to follow. His servant is a coachman abroad, and a
+footman, valet, and butler at home.
+
+_What is an Author?_--He is a man who weaves words into sentences; he
+dissects the works of his predecessors and contemporaries, and
+ingeniously dovetails the pieces together again, so that their real
+owners can scarcely recognise them. He is furnished with a pair of
+scissors and a pot of paste. He frequents the Chapter Coffee-house by
+day, and the Cider-Cellar by night. He ruralises at Hampstead or
+Holloway, and perhaps once a year steams it to Margate. He talks
+largely, and forms the nucleus of a knot of acquaintances, who look up
+to him as an oracle. He is always _going_ to set about some work of
+great importance; he writes a page, becomes out of humour with the
+subject, and begins another, which shares the same fate. His coat is
+something the worse for wear; his wife is the only person in the world
+who is blind to his transcendant abilities; and he has too much to do in
+cultivating his own genius, to descend to the minutias of his children's
+education.
+
+
+SUPERSTITION.
+
+
+In a little manual of piety, composed, in 1712, for the young ladies who
+were then pensioners at the monastery of St. Augustin, at Bruges, we
+have been surprised into frequent smiles by the scrupulous watchfulness
+with which the ghostly writer followed the lady-pensioners (though with
+pious fancy only) to the very sacred of sacreds! He was not contented
+with directing them concerning the prayers which he believed proper to
+be used when they assumed, or laid aside, their respective garments, but
+even directed them what to do before they attempted to close an eye on
+the softness of their pillows! Prayers are specified by this zealous
+pastor for the following curious occasions:--
+
+    In putting on your petticoat.
+    In putting on your night-gown.
+    In dressing your head.
+    In putting on your manteau.
+
+In regard to the ceremony of laying aside these memorials of the
+weakness of Eve, our general mother, there is a prayer to be offered
+"whilst you undress yourself;" and the ladies are strictly enjoined,
+before they "get into bed, to take holy water." The writer concludes
+this part of his instructions by saying, "when you are in bed, write the
+name of Jesus on your forehead with your thumb!"
+
+
+CROMWELL.
+
+
+After the battle of Marston, Cromwell, returning from the pursuit of a
+party of the royalists, purposed to stop at Ripley; and, having an
+officer in his troop, a relation of Sir William Ingilby's, that
+gentleman was sent to announce his arrival. The officer was informed, by
+the porter at the gate, that Sir William was absent, but that he might
+send any message he pleased to his lady. Having sent in his name, and
+obtained an audience, he was answered by the lady, that no such person
+should be admitted there; adding, she had force sufficient to defend
+herself and that house against all rebels. The officer, on his part,
+represented the extreme folly of making any resistance, and that the
+safest way would be to admit the general peaceably. After much
+persuasion, the lady took the advice of her kinsman, and received
+Cromwell at the gate of the lodge, with a pair of pistols stuck in her
+apron-strings, and having told him she expected that neither he nor his
+soldiers would behave improperly, led the way to the hall, where,
+sitting each on a sofa, these two extraordinary personages, equally
+jealous of each other's intentions, passed the whole night. At his
+departure in the morning the lady observed, "It was well he had behaved
+in so peaceable a manner; for that, had it been otherwise, he would not
+have left that house with his life."
+
+
+HOWARD.
+
+
+Of this celebrated man no portrait was ever painted, for he would never
+sit to any artist. After his return from one of his journies to the
+continent, he was showing to a friend the various things he had brought
+with him, and among others a new dress made in Saxony: "it was a sort of
+great coat, yet graceful in its appearance, and ornamented with sober
+magnificence. His visiter exclaimed, 'This is the robe in which you
+should be painted by Romney; I will implore the favour on my knees if
+you will let me array you in this very picturesque habiliment, and
+convey you instantly in a coach to Cavendish-square.'--'O fie!' replied
+Howard, in the mildest tone of his gentle voice, 'O fie! I did not kneel
+to the emperor.'--'And I assure you,' said the petitioner in answer to
+the tender reproof, 'I would never kneel to you, if you were not above
+an emperor in my estimation!' The philanthropist was touched by the
+cordial eulogy, but continued firm in his resolution of not granting his
+portrait to all the repeated requests of important affections."--
+_Hayley's Life of Romney_.
+
+
+EDWARD DRINKER.
+
+
+Edward Drinker was born in a cottage in 1689, on the spot where the city
+of Philadelphia now stands, which was inhabited at the time of his
+birth, by Indians, a few Swedes, and Hollanders. He often talked of
+picking blackberries, and catching wild rabbits, where this populous
+city is now seated. He remembered William Penn arriving there the second
+time, and used to point out the spot where the cabin stood in which Mr.
+Penn and his friends were accommodated on their arrival.
+
+The life of this aged citizen is marked with circumstances which never
+befel any other man; for he saw greater events than any man, at least,
+since the Patriarchs. He saw the same spot of earth, in the course of
+his own life, covered with woods and bushes, the receptacles of wild
+beasts and birds of prey, afterwards become the seat of a great city,
+not only the first in wealth and arts in America, but equalled by few in
+Europe; he saw great and regular streets, where he had often pursued
+hares and wild rabbits; he saw fine churches rise upon morasses, where
+he used to hear nothing but the croaking of frogs; great wharfs and
+warehouses, where he had so often seen the Indian savages draw their
+fish from the river; and that river afterwards full of great ships from
+all the world, which in his youth had nothing bigger than a canoe; and
+on the same spot, where he had so often gathered huckleberries, he saw
+their magnificent city hall erected, and that hall filled with
+legislators, astonishing the world with their wisdom and virtue. He also
+saw the first treaty ratified between the united powers of America, and
+the most powerful prince in Europe, with all the formality of parchment
+and seal; and on the same spot where he once saw William Penn ratify his
+first and last treaty with the Indians; and to conclude, he saw the
+beginning and end of the British empire in Pensylvania. He had been the
+subject of many crowned heads; but when he heard of the many oppressive
+and unconstitutional acts passed in Britain, he bought them all, and
+gave them to his great grandson to make kites of; and embracing the
+liberty and independence of his country in his withered arms, and
+triumphing in the last year of his life, in the salvation of his
+country. He died on the 17th of November, 1782, aged 103 years.
+
+
+A SURE SIGN.
+
+
+When the wind follows the sun and settles about north-west, north, or
+east, we have fine weather; when, on the contrary, the wind opposes the
+sun's course, and returns by west, south-west, south, and south-east,
+and settles in the east, foul weather prevails.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--_Wotton_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A man of learning was complaining to Voltaire, that few foreigners
+relished the beauties of Shakspeare. "Sir," replied the wit, "bad
+translations torment and vex them, and prevent them understanding your
+great dramatist. A blind man, sir, cannot perceive the beauty of a rose,
+who only pricks his fingers with the thorns."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The reign of Edward I. was marked with a singular occurrence, which
+serves to Illustrate the general character of this monarch. In the year
+1285, Edward took away the charter of London, and turned out the mayor,
+in consequence of his suffering himself to be bribed by the bakers, and
+invested one of his own appointing with the civic authority. The city,
+however, by making various presents to the king, and rendering him other
+signal services, found means to have their charter restored.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Dr. E. D. Clarke's Rules far Travellers_.--"Remember that you are never
+to conceive that you have added enough to your journal; never at liberty
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+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page81" name="page81"></a>[pg 81]</span>
+    <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+    OF<br />
+    LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <table width="100%">
+      <tr>
+        <td align="left"><b>Vol. 10, No. 267.]</b></td>
+        <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1827.</b></td>
+        <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
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+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>HADLEY CHURCH.</h2>
+    <p class="figure"><a href="images/267-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/267-1.png"
+    alt="" /></a><br />
+    </p>
+    <p>Hadley, Mankin, or Monkton, Hadley, was formerly a hamlet to Edmonton. It lies
+    north-west of Enfield, and comprises 580 acres, including 240 allotted in lieu of the
+    common enclosure of Enfield Chase. Its name is compounded of two Saxon
+    words&mdash;Head-leagh, or a high place; Mankin is probably derived from the
+    connexion of the place with the abbey of Walden, to which it was given by Geoffrey de
+    Mandeville, earl of Essex, under the name of the Hermitage of Hadley. The village is
+    situated on the east side of the great north road, eleven miles from London.</p>
+    <p>The manor belonged to the Mandevilles, the founder of the Hermitage, and was given
+    by Geoffrey to the monks of Walden; in the ensuing two centuries the manorial
+    property underwent various transmissions, and was purchased by the Pinney family, in
+    the year 1791, by the present proprietor, Peter Moore, Esq.</p>
+    <p>The house of the late David Garrow, father to the present judge of that name in
+    the court of exchequer, is supposed to have been connected with a monastic
+    establishment. Chimney-pieces remain in <i>alto-relievo</i>: on one is sculptured the
+    story of Sampson; the other represents many passages in the life of our Saviour, from
+    his birth in the stall to his death on the cross.</p>
+    <p>The parish church, of which our engraving gives a correct view, is a handsome
+    structure, built at different periods. The chancel bears marks of great antiquity,
+    but the body has been built with bricks. At the west end is a square tower, composed
+    of flint, with quoins of freestone; on one side is the date Anno Domini 1393, cut in
+    stone&mdash;one side of the stone bearing date in the sculptured device of a wing;
+    the other that of a rose. The figures denote the year 1494; the last, like the second
+    numerical, being the <i>half eight</i>, often used in ancient inscriptions. The
+    unique vestige of the middle ages, namely, a firepan, or pitchpot, on the south-west
+    tower of the church, was blown down in January, 1779 and carefully repaired, though
+    now not required for the purpose of giving an alarm at the approach of a foe, by
+    lighting pitch within it. The church has been supposed to have been erected by Edward
+    IV. as a <span class="pagenum"><a id="page82" name="page82"></a>[pg 82]</span>chapel
+    for religious service, to the memory of those who fell in the battle of Barnet in
+    1471.</p>
+    <p>On the window of the north transcept are some remains of painted glass, among
+    which may be noticed the rebus of the Gooders, a family of considerable consequence
+    at Hadley in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This consists of a partridge with
+    an ear of wheat in its bill; on an annexed scroll is the word Gooder; on the capital
+    of one of the pillars are two partridges with ears of corn in the mouth, an evident
+    repetition of the same punning device, and it is probable the Gooder's were
+    considerable benefactors towards building the church.</p>
+    <p>The almshouses for six decayed housekeepers were founded by Sir Roger Willbraham
+    in 1616, but so slenderly endowed that they do not produce more than 9l.6s. annually.
+    Major Delafonte, in 1762, increased the annuity, which expired in 1805; but Mr.
+    Cottrell gained by subscription 2375l. in trust. The father of the late Mr.
+    Whitbread, the statesman, subscribed the sum of 1000l. for the support of the
+    almshouses. The charity-school for girls was established in 1773, and was enlarged
+    and converted into a school of industry in 1800. Twenty girls in the establishment
+    receive annually the sum of 1l. towards clothing; thirty girls besides the above are
+    admitted to the benefit of education, on paying the weekly sum of 2d. and succeed to
+    the vacancies which occur in the class more largely assisted. This charity is in like
+    manner supported by contributions on the inhabitants. The boys' school, supported in
+    the same way, which in 1804 amounted to the sum of 103l. 10s., has about seventy
+    day-scholars; twenty are allowed 1l. towards clothing, and instructed without any
+    charge; the remainder pay 2d. weekly.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE SKETCH BOOK.</h2>
+    <h4>NO. XLIII.</h4>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE BUTCHER.</h3>
+    <p>Wolsey, they tell us, was a butcher. An alliterative couplet too was made upon him
+    to that import:&mdash;</p>
+    <blockquote class="poetry">
+      "By butchers born, by bishops bred,<br />
+      How high his honour holds his haughty head."<br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>Notwithstanding which, however, and other similar allusions, there have arisen
+    many disputes touching the veracity of the assertion; yet, doubtless, those who first
+    promulgated the idea, were keen observers of men and manners; and, probably, in the
+    critical examination of the Cardinal's character, discovered a particular trait which
+    indubitably satisfied them of his origin.</p>
+    <p>Be this as it may, I am inclined to think there is certainly something peculiarly
+    characteristic in the butcher.</p>
+    <p>The pursuit of his calling appears to have an influence upon his manners, speech,
+    and dress. Of all the days in the week, Saturday is the choicest for seeing him to
+    the best advantage. His hatless head, shining with grease, his cheeks as ruddy as his
+    mutton-chops, his sky-blue frock and dark-blue apron, his dangling steel and
+    sharp-set knife, which ever and anon play an accompaniment to his quick,
+    short&mdash;"Buy! buy!" are all in good keeping with the surrounding objects. And
+    although this be not <i>killing</i> day with him, he is particularly winning and
+    gracious with the serving-maids; who (whirling the large street-door key about their
+    right thumb, and swinging their marketing basket in their left hand) view the
+    well-displayed joints, undecided which to select, until Mr. Butcher recommends a leg
+    or a loin; and then he so very politely cuts off the fat, in which his skilful hand
+    is guided by the high or low price of mutton fat in the market. He is the very
+    antipode of a fop, yet no man knows how to show a handsome <i>leg</i> off to better
+    advantage, or is prouder of his <i>calves</i>.</p>
+    <p>In his noviciate, when he shoulders the shallow tray, and whistles cavalierly on
+    his way in his sausage-meat-complexioned-jacket, there is something marked as well in
+    his character as his <i>habits</i>, he is never <i>moved</i> to stay, except by a
+    brother butcher, or a fight of dogs or boys, for such scenes fit his singular fancy.
+    Then, in the discussion of his bull-dog's beauties, he becomes extraordinarily
+    eloquent. Hatiz, the Persian, could not more warmly, or with choicer figure, describe
+    his mistress' charms, than he does Lion's, or Fowler's, or whatever the brute's
+    Christian name may be; and yet the surly, cynical, <i>dogged</i> expression of the
+    bepraised beast, would almost make one imagine he understood the meaning of his
+    master's words, and that his honest nature despised the flattering encomiums he
+    passes upon his pink belly and legs, his broad chest, his ring-tail, and his tulip
+    ears!&mdash;<i>Absurdities, in Prose and Verse.</i></p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>CONFIDENCE AND CREDIT.</h3>
+    <h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+    <blockquote class="poetry">
+      The day was dark, the markets dull,<br />
+      The Change was thin, Gazettes were full,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;And half the town was breaking;<br />
+      <span class="pagenum"><a id="page83" name="page83"></a>[pg 83]</span>The
+      <i>counter-sign</i> of Cash was "<i>Stop</i>!"<br />
+      Bankers and bankrupts shut up shop,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;And honest hearts were aching.<br />
+      <br />
+      When near the Bench my fancy spied<br />
+      A faded form, with hasty stride,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Beneath Grief's burden stooping:<br />
+      Her name was CREDIT, and she said<br />
+      Her father, TRADE, was lately dead,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Her mother, COMMERCE, drooping.<br />
+      <br />
+      The smile that she was wont to wear<br />
+      Was wither'd by the hand of care,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Her eyes had lost their lustre:<br />
+      Her character was gone, she said,<br />
+      For she had basely been betray'd,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;And nobody would trust her.<br />
+      <br />
+      For honest INDUSTRY had tried<br />
+      To gain fair CREDIT for his bride,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;And found the damsel willing,<br />
+      But, ah! a <i>fortune-hunter</i> came,<br />
+      And SPECULATION was his name,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;A rake not worth a shilling.<br />
+      <br />
+      The villain came, on mischief bent,<br />
+      And soon gain'd dad and mam's consent&mdash;<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Ah! then poor CREDIT smarted;&mdash;<br />
+      He filch'd her fortune and her fame,<br />
+      He fix'd a blot upon her name,<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;And left her broken-hearted.<br />
+      <br />
+      While thus poor CREDIT seem'd to sigh,<br />
+      Her cousin, CONFIDENCE, came by&mdash;<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;(Methinks he must be clever)&mdash;<br />
+      For, when he whisper'd in her ear,<br />
+      She check'd the sigh, she dried the tear.<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;And smiled as sweet as ever!<br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>JESSE HAMMOND.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>CURIOUS SCRAPS RELATING TO CELEBRATED PERSONS.</h3>
+    <h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+    <p>When the famous Cornelia, daughter of the great Scipio, was importuned by a lady
+    of her acquaintance to show her toilette, she deferred satisfying her curiosity till
+    her children, who were the famous Gracchi, came from school, and then said, "<i>En!
+    haec ornamenta mea sunt.</i>"&mdash;"These are my ornaments."</p>
+    <p>Cyneas, the minister of Pyrrhus, asked the king (before their expedition into
+    Italy) what he proposed to do when he had subdued the Romans? He answered, "Pass into
+    Sicily." "What then?" said the minister. "Conquer the Carthaginians," replied the
+    king. "And what follows that?" says the minister. "Be sovereign of Greece, and then
+    enjoy ourselves," said the king. "And why," replied the sensible minister, "can we
+    not do this <i>last</i> now?"</p>
+    <p>The emperors Nerva, Trajan, Antoninous, and Aurelius sold their palaces, their
+    gold and silver plate, their valuable furniture, and other superfluities, heaped up
+    by their predecessors, and banished from their tables all expensive delicacies. These
+    princes, together with Vespasian, Pertinax, Alexander, Severus, Claudius the Second,
+    and Tacitus, who were raised to the empire by their merit, and whom all ages have
+    admired as the greatest and the best of princes, were always fond of the greatest
+    plainness in their apparel, furniture, and outward appearance.</p>
+    <p>Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, who lived unknown and disgraced in Spain, was
+    scarcely able to obtain an audience of his master Charles V.; and when the king asked
+    who was the fellow that was so clamorous to speak to him, he cried out, "I am one who
+    have got your majesty more provinces than your father left towns."</p>
+    <p>Camoens, the famous Portuguese poet, was unfortunately shipwrecked at the mouth of
+    the river Meco, on the coast of Camboja, and lost his whole property; however, he
+    saved his life and his poems, which he bore through the waves in one hand, whilst he
+    swam ashore with the other. It is said, that his black servant, a native of Java, who
+    had been his companion for many years, begged in the Streets of Lisbon for the
+    support of his master, who died in 1579. His death, it is supposed, was accelerated
+    by the anguish with which he foresaw the ruin impending over his country. In one of
+    his letters he uses these remarkable expressions: "I am ending the course of my life;
+    the world will witness how I have loved my country. I have returned not only to die
+    in her bosom, but to die with her."</p>
+    <p>Henrietta, daughter of Henry IV. of France, and wife of Charles I. of England, was
+    reduced to the utmost poverty; and her daughter, afterwards married to a brother of
+    Louis XIV., is said to have lain in bed for want of coals to keep her warm. Pennant
+    relates a melancholy fact of fallen majesty in the person of Mary d'Este, the unhappy
+    queen of James II., who, flying with her infant prince from the ruin impending over
+    their house, after crossing the Thames from abdicated Whitehall, took shelter beneath
+    the ancient walls of Lambeth church a whole hour, from the rain of the inclement
+    night of December 6th, 1688. Here she waited with aggravated misery till a common
+    coach, procured from the next inn, arrived, and conveyed her to Gravesend, from
+    whence she sailed, and bid adieu to this kingdom.</p>
+    <p>Pascal, one of the greatest geniuses and best men that ever lived, entertained a
+    notion that God made men miserable here in order to their being happy hereafter; and
+    in consequence of this notion, he imposed upon himself the most painful <span
+    class="pagenum"><a id="page84" name="page84"></a>[pg 84]</span>mortification. He even
+    ordered a wall to be built before a window in his study, which afforded him too
+    agreeable a prospect. He had also a girdle full of sharp points next his skin; and
+    while he was eating or drinking any thing that was grateful to his palate, he was
+    constantly pricking himself, that he might not be sensible of any pleasure. The
+    virtuous Fenelon submitted without reserve to the arbitrary sentence of the pope,
+    when he condemned a book which he had published, and even preached in condemnation of
+    his own book, forbidding his friends to defend it. "What gross and humiliating
+    superstitions (says their biographer) have been manifested by men, in other respects
+    of sound and clear understandings, and of upright, honest hearts."</p>
+    <p>In the churchyard of St. Ann's, Soho, says Pennant, is a marble, erected near the
+    grave of that remarkable personage, Theodore Antony Newhoff, king of Corsica, who
+    died in this parish in 1756, immediately after leaving the king's-bench prison, by
+    the benefit of the act of insolvency. The marble was erected, and the epitaph
+    written, by the honourable Horace Walpole:&mdash;</p>
+    "The grave, great teacher, to a level brings<br />
+    Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings;<br />
+    But Theodore this moral learn'd ere dead&mdash;<br />
+    Fate pour'd its lesson on his living head,<br />
+    Bestow'd a kingdom, and denied him bread."<br />
+
+    <p>He registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. His biographer
+    says, "He was a man whose claim to royalty was as indisputable as the most ancient
+    titles to any monarchy can pretend to be; that is, the choice of his subjects, the
+    voluntary election of an injured people, who had the common right of mankind to
+    freedom, and the uncommon resolution of determining to be free."</p>
+    <p>P.T.W.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>"THE LILY BELLS ARE WET WITH DEW."</h3>
+    <h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+    <p>Sir,&mdash;I have taken the liberty of transmitting to you a piece of a Latin ode,
+    which appears to me to be the original of the song&mdash;"The lily bells are wet with
+    dew," in Miss Mitford's "Dramatic Scenes," which appeared in your miscellany of June
+    23, 1827.</p>
+    <p>It is copied from an old book published in the year 1697, by Charles Elford,
+    entitled "Gemmae Poetarum."</p>
+    <p>If you think it worthy insertion, I should feel obliged by its appearance. Yours
+    respectfully,</p>
+    <p>J.T.S.</p>
+    <blockquote class="poetry">
+      Lilia rorescuut, jubara osculo blande rosarum<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Florem tangunt&mdash;&ocirc;, dives odore,<br />
+      O, splendens tinct&ucirc; floretum&mdash;est ...<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Surge Feronia, et sertum texe<br />
+      C&aelig;sariem nunc implectare tuum coracinum<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Ne &aelig;stu medio sol flores abripiat.<br />
+      In coelo tenuis nubes est, lenta susurra<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Cum aur&acirc; veniunt&mdash;aut imbrem vaticinans<br />
+      Aut nivem: orire, Feronia, crinem stringere caut&eacute;<br />
+      &nbsp;&nbsp;Sertum age, ne veniat tempestas minitans.<br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>I have translated it thus, which you may perceive is strictly literal:&mdash;</p>
+    <blockquote>
+      The lilies are wet with the dew&mdash;the sunbeams with a kiss gently touch the
+      flower of the roses.&mdash;O the garden is rich of scent&mdash;is bright of
+      hue.&mdash;Arise Feronia and weave the garland even now to braid thy ravenlike
+      hair, lest at mid-day the sun should spoil the flowers.&mdash;In the sky there is a
+      little cloud, gentle whisperings come with the gale&mdash;they tell of rain or
+      snow.&mdash;Arise Feronia and carefully weave the garland to bind up thy hair, lest
+      the threatening storm should come.
+    </blockquote>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES FOR AUGUST, 1827.</h2>
+    <h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+    <p>It has been computed, that all the celestial orbs perceived by the unassisted eye
+    (which on a clear night never exceed 1,000,) do not form the 80,000 part of those
+    which may be descried by the help of a telescope, through which they appear
+    prodigiously increased in number; seventy stars have been counted in the
+    constellation of the <i>pleiades</i>, and no fewer than 2,000 in that of
+    <i>Orion</i>.</p>
+    <p>The <i>galaxy</i>, or <i>via lactea</i>, (milky way,) is a remarkable appearance
+    in the heavens, being a broad ray of whitish colour surrounding the whole celestial
+    concave, whose light proceeds from vast clusters of stars, discoverable only by the
+    telescope. Mr. Brydone, in his journey to the top of Mount Etna, found the phenomenon
+    make a most glorious appearance, "like a pure flame that shot across the
+    heavens."</p>
+    <p>Dr. Herschel made many observations on this portion of the heavens, using a
+    Newtonian reflector of twenty feet focal length, and an aperture of eighteen inches.
+    With this powerful telescope he completely resolved the whitish appearance into
+    stars, which the telescopes he had formerly used had not light enough to do. In the
+    most vacant place to be met with in that neighbourhood, he found sixty-three stars;
+    other six fields, or apparent spaces in the heavens, which he could see at once
+    through his telescope, averaged seventy-nine stars in each field: thus he found that
+    by allowing 15 min. <span class="pagenum"><a id="page85" name="page85"></a>[pg
+    85]</span>of a deg. for the diameter of his field of view, a belt of 15 deg. long,
+    and 2 deg. broad, which he had often seen pass before his telescope in an hour's time
+    could not contain less than 50,000 stars, large enough to be distinctly numbered,
+    besides which he suspected twice as many more, which could be seen only now and then
+    by faint glimpses, for want of sufficient light. In the most crowded part of that
+    region he informs us, he has had fields of view which contained no less than 588
+    stars, and these were continued for many minutes, so that in one quarter of an hour's
+    time there passed no less than 116,000 stars. He also intimates the probability of
+    the sun being placed in this great stratum, though perhaps not in the very centre of
+    its thickness.</p>
+    <p>From the appearance of the galaxy it seems to encompass the whole heavens, as it
+    certainly must if the sun be within the same. From succeeding observations made by
+    Dr. Herschel, he gathers that the milky way is a most extensive stratum of stars of
+    various sizes, and our sun evidently one of the heavenly bodies belonging to it. In
+    viewing and gauging this shining zone in almost every direction, he found the number
+    of stars composing it, by the account of those gauges constantly increase and
+    decrease in proportion to its apparent brightness to the naked eye.</p>
+    <p>The <i>nebul&aelig;</i>, or small whitish specks, discoverable by telescopes in
+    various parts of the heavens are owing to the same cause. Former astronomers could
+    only reckon 103, but Herschel counts upwards of 1,250. He has also discovered a
+    species of them, which he calls planetary nebul&aelig;, on account of their
+    brightness, and shining with a well defined disk.</p>
+    <p>The sun enters <i>Virgo</i> on the 23rd at 11h. 42m. evening.</p>
+    <p>Mercury comes to his inferior conjunction on the 13th at 1-1/4h. morning, becomes
+    stationary on the 22nd, and is at his greatest elongation on the 31st, when he passes
+    his ascending node; he may be seen early on that morning rising at 3-1/2h.</p>
+    <p>Venus is in conjunction with Mars on the 21st at 3h. afternoon; she rises on the
+    1st at 2h. 38m., and on the 31st at 4h. 10m. morning.</p>
+    <p>Jupiter still continues a conspicuous object in the western part of the heavens,
+    setting on the 1st at 9h. 43m., and on the 31st at 8h. None of the eclipses of his
+    satellites are visible during the month in consequence of his being so near the
+    sun.</p>
+    <p>Herschel comes to the south on the 1st at 11h. 6m., and on the 31st at 9h. 43m.
+    evening.</p>
+    <p><i>Spica virginis</i> (the virgin's spike), in the constellation Virgo culminates
+    on the 1st at 4h. 32m. afternoon, being situated 10 deg. 13m. south of the equator,
+    at a meridional elevation of 28 deg. 26m. <i>Arcturus</i> in Bootes south at 5h. 23m.
+    with 20 deg. north delineation, and at an altitude of 58 deg. 46m. <i>Antares</i> in
+    the heart of Scorpio at 7h. 34m., declination 26 deg. south, elevation 12 deg. 38m.
+    <i>Altair</i> in the Eagle at 10h. 57m., declination 8 deg. 24m. north, altitude 47
+    deg. 3m. <i>Fomalhaut</i> in the most southern fish of the constellation Pisces at
+    2h. 6m. morning, having a southern declination of 30 deg. 34m., being elevated only 8
+    deg. 5m. above the horizon. The above stars come to the meridian 4 min. earlier every
+    evening; they are all of the first magnitude (with the exception of <i>Altair</i>,
+    which is of the second,) and may be easily distinguished any hour of the day with a
+    magnifying power of thirty times; stars of the second magnitude require a power of
+    100, but when the sun is not more than two hours above the horizon, they may be seen
+    with a power of sixty.</p>
+    <p>PASCHE.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE NOVELIST.</h2>
+    <h4>NO. CVI.</h4>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>ROSALIE BERTON.</h3>
+    <h4>(<i>Concluded from page 74.</i>)</h4>
+    <p>Things were in this state when I visited S&mdash;&mdash;, and the union of Henri
+    and Rosalie, though not positively fixed, was regarded as an event by no means
+    distant. Every one was interested for the young and handsome couple, and wished for
+    their espousal. Rosalie's friends longed for the day when she was to wed the young
+    and handsome Henri; and Henri's comrades were perpetually urging him to cement his
+    union with the lovely Rosalie.</p>
+    <p>We left the place with every kind wish for the young and betrothed pair. I have
+    not since revisited S&mdash;&mdash;, but by letters from my friend, I have been
+    informed, that this commencement of their loves had a sad and melancholy sequel.</p>
+    <p>After our departure, it seems, the lovers continued equally attached; arrangements
+    were making for their union, and it was intended that Henri should leave the army
+    previous to their marriage. But just at this juncture, and as he was about to leave
+    his corps, rumours of war were circulated, the enterprise against Spain was
+    projected, and the royal guard was one of the first corps ordered for service. Henri,
+    with the natural enthusiasm of a <span class="pagenum"><a id="page86"
+    name="page86"></a>[pg 86]</span>soldier, felt all his former ardour revive; and
+    longed to mingle in the ranks of glory, ere he left them for ever. He, doubtless,
+    felt severely the separation from Rosalie; yet his feelings were described to me as
+    being of a joyous character, and as if evincing that he felt happy that the
+    opportunity of joining his brethren in arms, and of signalizing himself perhaps for
+    the last time, had presented itself, previous to his marriage and his quitting the
+    service.</p>
+    <p>The enterprise against Spain, he considered as the French army commonly did, to be
+    a mere excursion of pleasure, which, while it led them into a country which many of
+    them had never visited before, would also afford them the occasion of gathering
+    laurels which might serve to redeem somewhat of their lost glory. He therefore looked
+    forward to the expedition, on the whole, with feelings of ardour and delight, and
+    even longed for its approach. Not so Rosalie! She looked on war and bloodshed with
+    the natural apprehensions of her sex; and saw in the projected expedition, and its
+    prospects of glory, only danger and death to her lover! Her spirits received a severe
+    shock when the intelligence was first communicated&mdash;she gradually lost her
+    cheerfulness and spirits; the song, the dance, had no longer charm or interest for
+    her, and she could only contemplate the approaching separation with sorrow and
+    dismay!</p>
+    <p>Henri perceived her depression, and endeavoured to combat and remove her fears by
+    arguments fond, but unavailing. It was only, he would urge, a jaunt of pleasure; it
+    would admit his speedy return, when he would come to lay his services at her feet,
+    and claim the hand which was already promised to his hopes; and surely, then, Rosalie
+    could not regret his obeying the call of duty and of honour; or like her lover the
+    worse, when crowned with victory in the cause of his country. To these and similar
+    assurances, Rosalie could only reply with the mute eloquence of tears; and nothing
+    could divest her of the apprehension with which she ever regarded an enterprise which
+    she seemed to consider from the first as fatal.</p>
+    <p>The time however drew on, the dreaded period arrived, the Royal Guard left its
+    quarters, and departed from S&mdash;&mdash;. Henri took a fond and passionate adieu
+    of his betrothed; and Rosalie, having summoned all her fortitude to her aid, went
+    through the parting scene with more firmness than could have been expected from her,
+    though her feelings, afterwards, were described as of the most agonizing kind.</p>
+    <p>Such is the difference between the ardent feelings of man, and the tender and
+    gentle sympathies of woman, that, while his sorrow is alleviated by a thousand
+    mitigating circumstances of ardour and excitement, which relieve his attention, and
+    soothe, though they do not annihilate his grief; she can only brood over her
+    feelings, and suffer in silence and in sorrow. Henri marched out with his regiment in
+    all the vigour of manhood, and with all the "pomp, pride, and circumstance of war,"
+    while Rosalie could only retire to her chamber and weep.</p>
+    <p>Time passed on; letters were received from Henri, which spoke in ardent terms of
+    his journey, and of the new and singular scenes unfolded to his view. He adverted
+    also to his return, mentioned the war as a mere pastime, and as an agreeable jaunt,
+    the termination of which he only desired, because it would once more restore him to
+    his Rosalie. It was remarked, however, that she never recovered her cheerfulness; to
+    all her lover's assurances she could only reply with expressions of distrust, and
+    with feelings of sorrow; and when she wrote, it was to express her fears of the
+    campaign, and her wish that it were over, and that they were again united in
+    safety.</p>
+    <p>And constantly did the good and pious girl offer up her prayers for her lover, as
+    she repaired to the church of the Holy Virgin at S&mdash;&mdash;, to perform her
+    daily devotions.</p>
+    <p>The season advanced: the French marched through Spain, and reached Cadiz. At this
+    last hope of the Constitutionalists, a strong resistance was expected, and Henri had
+    written from Seville, that his next letter would announce the termination of the
+    campaign. Alas! he never wrote again! Time flew on; the journals announced the fall
+    of the Trocadero; the surrender of Cadiz, and the restoration of Ferdinand; yet there
+    came no news from Henri! Then did the gentle girl sink into all the despondency of
+    disappointment; and as day after day passed and brought no tidings of her lover, her
+    beauty and her health suffered alike, she languished and pined till she scarce
+    retained the semblance of her former self.</p>
+    <p>At last came a letter; it was from Spain, but it was written in a stranger's hand,
+    and its sable appendages bespoke the fatal nature of its contents. It was from a
+    brother officer of Henri, stating that his regiment had been foremost in the attack,
+    and that the Trocadero, the last resource of the Constitutionalists, had been carried
+    with the loss of but few killed; but, alas! among that few, was Henri! He was shot
+    through the body while leading his men to the assault. He fell instantly dead, and
+    the writer expressed <span class="pagenum"><a id="page87" name="page87"></a>[pg
+    87]</span>his desire that the sad intelligence should be conveyed as gently as
+    possible to Rosalie.</p>
+    <p>Unhappily, by one of those chances which often occur, as if to aggravate
+    misfortune, it was Rosalie who received the fatal letter from the postman's hands!
+    She tore it open; read its dreadful contents; and with a wild and frenzied shriek,
+    fell senseless to the ground! She was borne to her bed, where every care and
+    attention was bestowed; but her illness rapidly assumed a threatening and a dangerous
+    character. A fever seized her frame; she became at once delirious; nor did reason
+    again resume her throne; and it was not till after months of suffering and agony,
+    that she recovered, if that could be called recovery, which gave back a deformed and
+    hapless lunatic, bereft of intellect and of beauty, in place of the once gay and
+    fascinating Rosalie. The dread aberration of intellect was attributed by her medical
+    attendants to the fatal and sudden shock which she had sustained, and to its effect
+    on a mind weakened by previous anxiety and sorrow; while they feared her malady was
+    of a nature, which admitted no hope of the return of reason.</p>
+    <p>Her mind, it was stated, remained an entire blank. Imbecile, vacant,
+    drivelling&mdash;she appeared almost unconscious of former existence; and of those
+    subjects which formerly engrossed her attention, and excited her feelings, there were
+    scarcely any on which she now evinced any emotion. Even the name of her lover was
+    almost powerless on her soul, and if repeated in her hearing, seemed scarcely to call
+    forth her notice.</p>
+    <p>One only gift remained, in all its native pathos, tenderness, and beauty&mdash;her
+    voice, so sweet before her illness, seemed, amid the wreck of youth, and joy, and
+    love, and all that was charming and endeared, to have only become sweeter still! She
+    was incapable or unwilling to learn any new airs, but she would occasionally
+    recollect snatches of former songs or duets, which she and Henri had sung together,
+    and she would pour the simple melodies in strains of more than mortal sweetness!</p>
+    <p>This, alas! was the only relic of former talent or taste that she retained; in all
+    other respects, her mind and body, instead of evincing symptoms of recovery, seemed
+    to sink in utter hopelessness and despair; and an early tomb seems to be the best and
+    kindest boon which heaven, in its mercy, can bestow, on the once fair and fascinating
+    Rosalie!</p>
+    <p><i>Tales of all Nations.</i></p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.</h2>
+    <blockquote class="poetry">
+      Notings, selections,<br />
+      Anecdote and joke:<br />
+      Our recollections;<br />
+      With gravities for graver folk.<br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>TAVERNS AND CLUB-HOUSES.</h3>
+    <p>Almost every tavern of note about town hath or had its club. The Mermaid Tavern is
+    immortalized as the house resorted to by Shakspeare, Jonson, Fletcher, and Beaumont;
+    the Devil&mdash;which, Pennant informs us, stood on the site of Child's-place, Temple
+    Bar&mdash;was the scene of many a merry meeting of the choice spirits in old days; at
+    Will's Coffee-house, in the Augustan age of English literature, societies were held
+    to which Steele, and Pope, and Addison belonged; Doctor Johnson, Hawkesworth, the
+    elder Salter, and Sir John Hawkins, were members of a club formerly held at the
+    King's-head, in Ivy-lane; the notorious Dick England, Dennis O'Kelly, and Hull, with
+    their associates, had, many years ago, a sporting-club at Munday's Coffee-house; the
+    Three Jolly Pigeons, in Butcher-hall-lane, was formerly the gathering place of a set
+    of old school bibliopoles, who styled themselves the Free and Easy Counsellors under
+    the Cauliflower; stay-maker Hugh Kelly, Goldsmith, Ossian Macpherson, Garrick,
+    Cumberland, and the Woodfalls, with several noted men of that day, were concerned in
+    a club at the St. James's Coffee-house; the Kit-Cat, which took its name from one
+    Christopher Cat, a pastry-cook, was held at a tavern in King-street, Westminster;
+    Button's&mdash;but truly the task of enumerating the several clubs, of which we find
+    notices "in the books," as the lawyers have it, would be endless.&mdash;<i>Every
+    Night Book</i>.</p>
+    <h3>CONVERSATION OF WOMEN.</h3>
+    <p>The usual conversation of ordinary women very much cherishes the natural weakness
+    of being taken with outside appearance. Talk of a new-married couple, and you
+    immediately hear whether they keep their coach-and-six, or eat in plate. Mention the
+    name of an absent lady, and it is ten to one but you learn something of her gown and
+    petticoat. A ball is a great help to discourse, and a birthday furnishes conversation
+    for a twelvemonth after. A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a
+    diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
+    &mdash;<i>Addison</i>.</p>
+    <h3>BILDERDYK.</h3>
+    <p>William Bilderdyk, admired as the first poet that modern Holland has produced,
+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page88" name="page88"></a>[pg 88]</span>and not less
+    distinguished by the brilliant qualities of his mind, did not, in his youth, seem to
+    show any happy disposition for study. His father, who formed an unfavourable opinion
+    of his talents, was much distressed, and frequently reproached him in severe terms
+    for his inattention and idleness, to which young Bilderdyk did not appear to pay much
+    attention. In 1776, the father, with a newspaper in his hand, came to stimulate him,
+    by showing the advertisement of a prize offered by the Society of Leyden, and decreed
+    to the author of a piece of poetry, signed with these words, "An Author 18 years
+    old," who was invited to make himself known. "You ought to blush, idler," said old
+    Bilderdyk to his son. "Here is a boy only of your age, and though so young, is the
+    pride and happiness of his parents; and you&mdash;&mdash;." "It is myself," answered
+    young William, throwing himself into his father's arms.</p>
+    <h3>SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE,</h3>
+    <p>Who has often filled the anatomical chair at the Royal Academy, is no less
+    abstruse and instructive than pleasant and amusing. His illustrative anecdotes are
+    always excellent, and his way of telling them quite dramatic. We have found him even
+    more agreeable as a private talker than as a lecturer; he is rich in the old lore of
+    England&mdash;he will hunt a phrase through several reigns&mdash;propose derivations
+    for words which are equally ingenious and learned&mdash;follow a proverb for
+    generations back, and discuss on the origin of language as though he had never
+    studied aught beside: he knows more than any other person we ever met with of the
+    biography of talented individuals&mdash;in the philosophy of common life he is quite
+    an adept&mdash;a capital chronologist&mdash;a man of fine mind and most excellent
+    memory: his experience has, of course, been very great, and he has taken good
+    advantage of it. We remember he once amused us for half a day by adducing instances
+    of men who, although possessed of mean talents, had enabled themselves to effect
+    wonders, by simply hoarding in their minds, and subsequently acting upon, an immense
+    number of facts: from this subject we naturally enough fell into a discourse on the
+    importance, in many cases and situations, of attending to trifles. As a proof of
+    this, he mentioned a circumstance which occurred to an eminent surgeon within his own
+    memory; it was as follows: A gentleman, residing about a post-stage from town, met
+    with an accident which eventually rendered amputation of a limb indispensable. The
+    surgeon alluded to was requested to perform the operation, and went from town with
+    two pupils to the gentleman's house, on the day appointed, for that purpose. The
+    usual preliminaries being arranged, he proceeded to operate; the tourniquet was
+    applied, the flesh divided, and the bone laid bare, when, to his astonishment and
+    horror, he discovered that his instrument-case was without the saw! Here was a
+    situation! Luckily his presence of mind did not forsake him. Without apprising his
+    patient of the terrible fact, he put one of his pupils into his carriage, and told
+    the coachman to gallop to town. It was an hour and a half before the saw was
+    obtained, and during all that time the patient lay suffering. The agony of the
+    operator, though great, was scarcely a sufficient punishment for his neglect in not
+    seeing that all his instruments were in the case before he started.</p>
+    <p>Basil Montagu, the water drinking barrister, who was present during the narration
+    of this anecdote, and the previous discussion, mentioned another instance of the
+    propriety of noticing those minor circumstances in life, which are usually suffered
+    to pass unheeded by people in general. A man of talent was introduced into a company
+    of strangers; he scarcely spoke after his first salutation until he wished the party
+    good night. Almost every one dubbed him a fool; the lady hostess, who, be it
+    remarked, had not been previously informed of the abilities of her new guest, was of
+    a different opinion, "I am sure," said she, "that you are all wrong; for, though he
+    said nothing, I remarked that <i>he always laughed in the right
+    place</i>."&mdash;<i>Every Night Book</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>A FACT.</h3>
+    <blockquote class="poetry">
+      Pat went to his mistress: "My lady, your mare<br />
+      <i>In harness</i>, goes well as a dray-horse, I swear:<br />
+      I tried, as you're thinking to sell her, or let her,<br />
+      For <i>coming on</i> thus, she'll <i>go off</i> all the better."<br />
+      <br />
+      "Twas very well thought of" the lady replied,<br />
+      "You've acted a sensible part.<br />
+      But Patrick, pray tell me the day that you tried,<br />
+      Of whom did you borrow the cart?"<br />
+      <br />
+      "The <i>cart</i>? why, she <i>walk'd</i> well <i>in harness</i>, I saw,<br />
+      But I thought not, by no <i>manes</i>, to try if she'd <i>draw</i>;<br />
+      For says I, by Saint Patrick, who, her comes to view,<br />
+      To tell him, she has been 'in harness' will do!"<br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>M.L.B.</p>
+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page89" name="page89"></a>[pg 89]</span>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE MONTHS.</h2>
+    <h3>AUGUST.</h3>
+    <p class="figure"><a href="images/267-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/267-2.png"
+    alt="" /></a><br />
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <blockquote class="poetry">
+        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All
+        around<br />
+        The yellow sheaves, catching the burning beam,<br />
+        Glow, golden lustre.
+      </blockquote>
+      MRS. ROBINSON.
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>This is the month of harvest. The crops usually begin with rye and oats, proceed
+    with wheat, and finish with pease and beans. Harvest-home is still the greatest rural
+    holiday in England, because it concludes at once the most laborious and most
+    lucrative of the farmer's employments, and unites repose and profit. Thank heaven,
+    there are, and must be, seasons of some repose in agricultural employments, or the
+    countryman would work with as unceasing a madness, and contrive to be almost as
+    diseased and unhealthy as the citizen. But here again, and for the reasons already
+    mentioned, our holiday-making is not what it was. Our ancestors used to burst into an
+    enthusiasm of joy at the end of harvest, and even mingled their previous labour with
+    considerable merry-making, in which they imitated the equality of the earlier ages.
+    They crowned the wheat-sheaves with flowers, they sung, they shouted, they danced,
+    they invited each other, or met to feast as at Christmas, in the halls of rich
+    houses; and, what was a very amiable custom, and wise beyond the commoner wisdom that
+    may seem to lie on the top of it, every one that had been concerned, man, woman, and
+    child, received a little present, ribbons, laces, or sweetmeats.</p>
+    <p>The number of flowers is now sensibly diminished. Those that flower newly are
+    nigella, zinnias, polyanthuses, love-apples, mignonette, capsicums, Michaelmas
+    daisies, auriculus, asters or stars, and China-asters. The additional trees and
+    shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the
+    beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis,
+    which is such a quick and handsome climber. But the quantity of fruit is considerably
+    multiplied, especially that of pears, peaches, apricots, and grapes. And if the
+    little delicate white flowers have at last withdrawn from the hot sun, the wastes,
+    marshes, and woods are dressed in the luxuriant attire of ferns and heaths, with all
+    their varieties of green, purple, and gold. A piece of waste land, especially where
+    the ground is broken up into little inequalities, as Hampstead-heath, for instance,
+    is now a most bright as well as picturesque object; all the ground, which is in
+    light, giving the sun, as it were, gold for gold. Mignonette, intended to flower in
+    winter, should now be planted in pots, and have the benefit of a warm situation.
+    Seedlings in pots should have the morning sunshine, and annuals in pots be frequently
+    watered.</p>
+    <p>In the middle of this month, the young goldfinch broods appear, lapwings
+    congregate, thistle-down floats, and birds resume <span class="pagenum"><a
+    id="page90" name="page90"></a>[pg 90]</span>their spring songs:&mdash;a little
+    afterwards flies abound in windows, linnets congregate, and bulls make their shrill
+    autumnal bellowing; and towards the end the beech tree turns yellow,&mdash;the first
+    symptom of approaching autumn.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a
+    href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>LEOPARD-HUNTING.</h3>
+    <p>The leopard of Southern Africa is known among the Cape colonists by the name of
+    tiger; but is, in fact, the real leopard, the <i>Felis jubata</i> of naturalists,
+    well known for the beauty of its shape and spotted skin, and the treachery and
+    fierceness of its disposition. The animal called leopard (<i>luipaard</i>) by the
+    Cape Dutch boors, is a species of the panther, and is inferior to the real leopard in
+    size and beauty. Both of them are dreaded in the mountainous districts on account of
+    the ravages which they occasionally commit among the flocks, and on the young cattle
+    and horses in the breeding season.</p>
+    <p>The South African panther is a cowardly animal, and, like the hyena, flies from
+    the face of man. The leopard also, though his low, half-smothered growl is frequently
+    heard by night, as he prowls like an evil spirit around the cottage or the kraal,
+    will seldom or never attack mankind, (children excepted,) unless previously assailed
+    or exasperated. When hunted, as he usually is with dogs, he instinctively betakes
+    himself to a tree, when he falls an easy prey to the shot of the huntsman. The
+    leopard, however, though far inferior in strength and intrepidity to the lion, is yet
+    an exceedingly active and furious animal; and when driven to extremity, proves
+    himself occasionally an antagonist not to be trifled with. The colonists relate many
+    instances of arduous and even fatal encounters with the hunted leopard. The following
+    is one of these adventures, which occurred in a frontier district in 1822, as
+    described by one of the two individuals so perilously engaged in it.</p>
+    <p>Two boors returning from hunting the Hartebeest, (<i>antelope bubalis</i>,) fell
+    in with a leopard in a mountain ravine, and immediately gave chase to him. The animal
+    at first endeavoured to escape by clambering up a precipice; but being hotly pressed,
+    and slightly wounded by a musket-ball, he turned upon his pursuers with that frantic
+    ferocity which on such emergencies he frequently displays, and springing upon the man
+    who had fired at him, tore him from his horse to the ground, biting him at the same
+    time very severely in the shoulder, and tearing his face and arms with his talons.
+    The other hunter, seeing the danger of his comrade, (he was, if I mistake not, his
+    brother,) sprung from his horse, and attempted to shoot the leopard through the head;
+    but, whether owing to trepidation, or the fear of wounding his friend, or the sudden
+    motions of the animal, he unfortunately missed.</p>
+    <p>The leopard, abandoning his prostrate enemy, darted with redoubled fury upon this
+    second antagonist; and so fierce and sudden was his onset, that before the boor could
+    stab him with his hunting-knife, he had struck him in the eyes with his claws, and
+    torn the scalp over his forehead. In this frightful condition the hunter grappled
+    with the raging beast, and struggling for life, they rolled together down a steep
+    declivity. All this passed so rapidly, that the other boor had scarcely time to
+    recover from the confusion in which his feline foe had left him, to seize his gun,
+    and rush forward to aid his comrade, when he beheld them rolling together down the
+    steep bank in mortal conflict. In a few moments he was at the bottom with them, but
+    too late to save the life of his friend. The leopard had torn open the jugular vein,
+    and so dreadfully mangled the throat of the unfortunate man, that his death was
+    inevitable; and his comrade had only the melancholy satisfaction of completing the
+    destruction of the savage beast, already exhausted with several deep wounds in the
+    breast from the desperate knife of the expiring huntsman.&mdash;<i>London Weekly
+    Review</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>GLOAMING.</h3>
+    <h4>BY DELTA.</h4>
+    <blockquote class="poetry">
+      There is a beauty in the grey twilight,<br />
+      Which minds unmusical can never know,<br />
+      A holy quietude, that yields to woe<br />
+      A pulseless pleasure, fraught with pure delight:<br />
+      The aspect of the mountains huge, that brave<br />
+      And bear upon their breasts the rolling storms;<br />
+      And the soft twinkling of the stars, that pave<br />
+      Heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms;<br />
+      The rustle of the dark boughs overhead:<br />
+      The murmurs of the torrent far away;<br />
+      The last notes of the blackbird, and the bay<br />
+      Of sullen watch-dog, from the far fann-stead&mdash;<br />
+      All waken thoughts of Being's early day,<br />
+      Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled.<br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <p><i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>ON READING NEW BOOKS.</h3>
+    <p>There is a fashion in reading as well as in dress, which lasts only for a season.
+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page91" name="page91"></a>[pg 91]</span>One would
+    imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old;<a id="footnotetag2"
+    name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> that they have a
+    pleasure in being read for the first time; that they open their leaves more
+    cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and
+    that, after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the shelf. This conceit
+    seems to be followed up in practice. What is it to me that another&mdash;that
+    hundreds or thousands have in all ages read a work? Is it on this account the less
+    likely to give me pleasure, because it has delighted so many others? Or can I taste
+    this pleasure by proxy? Or am I in any degree the wiser for their knowledge? Yet this
+    might appear to be the inference. <i>Their</i> having read the work may be said to
+    act upon us by sympathy, and the knowledge which so many other persons have of its
+    contents deadens our curiosity and interest altogether. We set aside the subject as
+    one on which others have made up their minds for us, (as if we really could have
+    ideas in their heads,) and are quite on the alert for the next new work, teeming hot
+    from the press, which we shall be the first to read, to criticise, and pass an
+    opinion on. Oh, delightful! To cut open the leaves, to inhale the fragrance of the
+    scarcely-dry paper, to examine the type, to see who is the printer, (which is some
+    clue to the value that is set upon the work,) to launch out into regions of thought
+    and invention never trod till now, and to explore characters that never met a human
+    eye before&mdash;this is a luxury worth sacrificing a dinner party, or a few hours of
+    a spare morning to. Who, indeed, when the work is critical and full of expectation,
+    would venture to dine out, or to face a <i>coterie</i> of blue stockings in the
+    evening, without having gone through this ordeal, or at least without, hastily
+    turning over a few of the first pages while dressing, to be able to say that the
+    beginning does not promise much, or to tell the name of the heroine?</p>
+    <p>A new work is something in our power; we mount the bench, and sit in judgment on
+    it; we can damn or recommend it to others at pleasure, can decry or extol it to the
+    skies, and can give an answer to those who have not yet read it, and expect an
+    account of it; and thus show our shrewdness and the independence of our taste before
+    the world have had time to form an opinion. If we cannot write ourselves, we become,
+    by busying ourselves about it, a kind of <i>accessaries after the fact</i>. Though
+    not the parent of the bantling that "has just come into this breathing world, scarce
+    half made up," without the aid of criticism and puffing, yet we are the gossips and
+    foster-nurses on the occasion, with all the mysterious significance and
+    self-importance of the tribe. If we wait, we must take our report from others; if we
+    make haste, we may dictate ours to them. It is not a race, then, for priority of
+    information, but for precedence in tattling and dogmatising. The work last out is the
+    first that people talk and inquire about. It is the subject on the
+    <i>tapis</i>&mdash;the cause that is pending. It is the last candidate for success,
+    (other claims have been disposed of,) and appeals for this success to us, and us
+    alone. Our predecessors can have nothing to say to this question, however they may
+    have anticipated us on others; future ages, in all probability, will not trouble
+    their heads about it; we are the panel. How hard, then, not to avail ourselves of our
+    immediate privilege to give sentence of life or death&mdash;to seem in ignorance of
+    what every one else is full of&mdash;to be behind-hand with the polite, the knowing,
+    and fashionable part of mankind&mdash;to be at a loss and dumb-founded, when all
+    around us are in their glory, and figuring away, on no other ground than that of
+    having read a work that we have not! Books that are to be written hereafter cannot be
+    criticised by us; those that were written formerly have been criticised long ago; but
+    a new book is the property, the prey of ephemeral criticism, which it darts
+    triumphantly upon; there is a raw thin air of ignorance and uncertainty about it, not
+    filled up by any recorded opinion; and curiosity, impertinence, and vanity rush
+    eagerly into the vacuum. A new book is the fair field for petulance and coxcombry to
+    gather laurels in&mdash;the butt set up for roving opinion to aim at. Can we wonder,
+    then, that the circulating libraries are besieged by literary dowagers and their
+    grand-daughters, when a new novel is announced? That mail-coach copies of the
+    <i>Edinburgh Review</i> are or were coveted? That the manuscript of the
+    <i>Waverley</i> romances is sent abroad in time for the French, German, or even
+    Italian translation to appear on the same day as the original work, so that the
+    longing continental public may not be kept waiting an instant longer than their
+    fellow-readers in the English metropolis, which would be as tantalizing and
+    insupportable as a little girl being kept without her new frock, when her sister's is
+    just come home, and is the talk and admiration of every one in the house? To be sure,
+    there is something in the <span class="pagenum"><a id="page92" name="page92"></a>[pg
+    92]</span>taste of the times; a modern work is expressly adapted to modern readers.
+    It appeals to our direct experience, and to well-known subjects; it is part and
+    parcel of the world around us, and is drawn from the same sources as our daily
+    thoughts. There is, therefore, so far, a natural or habitual sympathy between us and
+    the literature of the day, though this is a different consideration from the mere
+    circumstance of novelty. An author now alive, has a right to calculate upon the
+    living public; he cannot count upon the dead, nor look forward with much confidence
+    to those that are unborn. Neither, however, is it true that we are eager to read all
+    new books alike; we turn from them with a certain feeling of distaste and distrust,
+    unless they are recommended to us by some peculiar feature or obvious distinction.
+    Only young ladies from the boarding-school, or milliners' girls, read all the new
+    novels that come out. It must be spoken of or against; the writer's name must be well
+    known or a great secret; it must be a topic of discourse and a mark for
+    criticism&mdash;that is, it must be likely to bring us into notice in some
+    way&mdash;or we take no notice of it. There is a mutual and tacit understanding on
+    this head. We can no more read all the new books that appear, than we can read all
+    the old ones that have disappeared from time to time.&mdash;<i>Monthly
+    Magazine</i>.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE PALACE OF ALI PASHA.</h3>
+    <p>The secretary carried us through several chambers, decorated with much cost and
+    barbarous splendour. The wainscot of one of the principal saloons is inlaid with
+    mother-of-pearl, ebony, coral, and ivory; but the workmanship seems harsh and
+    ungraceful. The ceiling is plastered with massive gilding, the effect of which is
+    rather cumbrous than ornamental; "not graced with elegancy, but daubed with cost."
+    Pillars, of a composition to resemble the richest marble, support the compartments,
+    and the cornice is coloured with some imperfect efforts at arabesque painting. There
+    is, however, one article extremely elegant and well-finished&mdash;a low sofa,
+    carried round three-fourths of the room, covered with dark velvet, tastefully
+    embroidered, and hung with gold fringe. The general arrangement of the rooms is
+    certainly, grand and imposing, though occasionally deformed by much bad taste. I
+    should not omit to mention, that our conductor desired us to notice two very handsome
+    carpets, which he gave us to understand were of British manufacture. In the apartment
+    where Ali sleeps, the walls are hung with sabres and fire-arms of different
+    descriptions; all of which are ornamented with precious stones. One of the scimitars
+    is profusely adorned with diamonds and rubies, and a particular musket has a
+    cartouche-box, studded with brilliants of surpassing splendour, the central stone
+    being nearly the size of a die. A fowling-piece, sent to the pasha by Bonaparte, is
+    also enriched with gems, though this last article is considered to derive its chief
+    value from the circumstance of having been once the property of the imperial warrior,
+    by whom it was presented. The chamber opens into a long and spacious gallery; at one
+    extremity we observed a singularly awkward piece of furniture, resembling a large
+    old-fashioned arm-chair. So useless an article in a Turkish palace induced me to
+    inquire the purpose to which it was applied; and I was informed that, on certain
+    festivals, the pasha gives an entertainment for the diversion of the children of the
+    principal families in the capital, who on such occasions assemble in the gallery. Ali
+    himself always attends, to encourage and assist their gaiety; and, while reclining on
+    this cumbrous seat, distributes to them, as they are successively presented to him,
+    baskets of sweetmeats, and such other tokens of regard as are suited to their
+    respective ages and condition.&mdash;<i>Narrative of an Excursion from Corfu to
+    Smyrna</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>POLICE OFFICES AND POLICE REPORTS.</h3>
+    <p>The police reports are frequently the most amusing part of the daily press: they
+    let the reader into many of the secrets of low, and, now and then, of high life; they
+    are redolent of the phraseology of the vulgar; they often tickle our fancies by their
+    humour, and sometimes touch our sympathies by their pathos. As anecdotes of real
+    life; daily catalogues of droll and dismal occurrences among our fellow-citizens;
+    pictures of what is passing in the streets while we, who are sober sort of folks, are
+    dreaming in our beds; sketches of manners, and records of the habits, feelings, and
+    minor as well as major delinquencies of those who breathe the same air with us; they
+    could not fail to be interesting to us all, were we not aware that, like the novels
+    which are said to be "founded on fact," their most rich and racy parts are frequently
+    fiction.</p>
+    <p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page93" name="page93"></a>[pg 93]</span>Let not the
+    non-gnostic portion of our readers imagine, that if they haunt the justice-seat of
+    Birnie and his judicial co-mates, that they will ever witness such pleasant,
+    sparkling, humorous examinations as those reported in the columns of the papers which
+    matinally grace their breakfast-tables. The tyro upon town will stare at this. Why,
+    will he say, cannot I, if I frequent the same place, see and hear what those who are
+    employed for the press see and hear there? He can; but the fact is, that our police
+    reporters are by far too clever to set down the words of other people, without
+    throwing in something of their own. Their plan is to drop the duller parts of a story
+    or a speech, and to embellish its livelier portion&mdash;to select the tit-bits, and
+    sauce and spice them up sufficiently high to please the palates of the news-reading
+    public. The offices afford them an excellent variety of characters, which, like
+    skilful dramatists, they work up until they become really humorous: many of the cases
+    afford them capital plots, into which they cleverly dovetail pleasant little
+    episodes, and adhere no closer to the deposed facts than many of our by-gone
+    playwrights have done to the sacred page of history. We allude only to the cases of
+    humour which occur at the police-offices: those reports which can be interesting only
+    in proportion as they are correct, are, in general, accurately given; but the
+    matrimonial squabbles, the Irish far&ccedil;ettas, and the frays between the
+    Dogberrys of the night and late walkers&mdash;albeit they may, peradventure, contain
+    the leading facts disclosed&mdash;are highly wrought up by the fanciful powers of
+    those who cause the public and feed themselves at a per-line-age for the daily press.
+    Many cases which, on hearing, are dull and oftentimes disgusting, under the magic
+    pens of the police-office scribes become lively and entertaining; they are furnished
+    with the raw material&mdash;the metal in its ore&mdash;which they purify and polish,
+    until it bears little or no resemblance to what it was before it underwent the
+    process of manufacturing for the paper-market under their skilful hands. There are
+    many who delight to visit the police-offices for the sake of seeing those beings who
+    appear there, of whom others only read: some of our readers may, perhaps, be bitten
+    with a similar fancy; but, we warrant, that they will find the actual doings at
+    Bow-street very different to what they had imagined; as Charles Mathews' <i>Sir Harry
+    Skelton</i> says, "There's nothing at all in it; people talk a great deal about
+    it&mdash;but there's nothing in it, after all&mdash;nothing."</p>
+    <p>It is not often that we look in at morning or evening sitting of the magistrates;
+    we are content to have the police reports served up to us with our potted beef and
+    buttered toast at breakfast; we enjoy them, although we feel convinced that many of
+    them bear no more resemblance to the affairs they are founded on, than mock-turtle to
+    calf's-head; still, like the soup, they are by far the most pleasant and palatable of
+    the two.&mdash;<i>Every Night Book</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE CURRAL.</h3>
+    <p>The view in front was obstructed by a high ridge, of which we had nearly gained
+    the highest point, when we left our horses, and running up a few yards of steep turf
+    found ourselves all at once on the brink of the Curral. It is a huge valley, or
+    rather crater, of immense depth, enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent
+    mountain precipices, the sides and summit of which are broken in every variety of
+    buttress or pinnacle&mdash;now black and craggy and beetling&mdash;at other times
+    spread with the richest green turf, and scattered with a profusion of the evergreen
+    forest-trees, indigenous to the island; while far below, in the midst of all these
+    horrors, smiles a fairy region of cultivation and fruitfulness, with a church and
+    village, the white cabins of which seem half smothered in the luxuriance of their own
+    vines and orchards.</p>
+    <p>We gazed long and eagerly at the prospect. It is not easy to give an accurate
+    notion of its peculiar character; and even painting would but ill assist, for one of
+    the most striking features is the great and sudden <i>depth</i> which you look down,
+    the effect of which we know the pencil cannot at all convey. The side on which we
+    stand, however, though steep, is not absolutely precipitous; on the contrary, the
+    gradation of crag and projection, by which it descends to the bottom, is one of the
+    finest things in the view. Close on our right a lofty peak presents its rocky face to
+    the valley, to which it bears down in a magnificent mass, shouldering its way, as it
+    seemed, half across it. The opposite sides appear more bare, precipitous, and lofty;
+    and this last character is heightened by some white clouds that rest upon and conceal
+    their summits.</p>
+    <p>Rejoining the road, we for awhile lost sight of the valley. When we again came in
+    view of it, it was rapidly filling with clouds, but at first their interposition was
+    hardly a disadvantage; they gave a vague indefinite grandeur to the cliffs and
+    mountains, which seemed to rise one knew not from what depth, and lose their <span
+    class="pagenum"><a id="page94" name="page94"></a>[pg 94]</span>summits in regions
+    beyond our ken. The breaks, too, that occurred in this shrouding of the scene, showed
+    fragments of it with strange effect&mdash;till at length the whole hollow filled, and
+    presented a uniform sea of vapour.</p>
+    <p><i>Rambles in Madeira</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>A PORTUGUESE BALL.</h3>
+    <p>The ladies are carried in palanquins, and each received at the street entrance by
+    the master of the house&mdash;or if there be more than one lady, by some gentlemen
+    deputed for that purpose&mdash;who takes her hand, and so ushers her up stairs. There
+    is much of this elaborate gallantry observable in the manner of the Portuguese
+    towards the sex. Thus, a man never passes a lady in the street, or in her balcony,
+    without taking off his hat, and this whether he be acquainted with her or not. We
+    understand they used to offer a similar mark of respect to the English ladies, but
+    desisted on finding that our gentlemen did not reciprocate in the same homage towards
+    the fair <i>Portuguezas</i>. I don't think that this difference in the manners of the
+    two people does us credit. Not that all that kind of homage means much. In this, as
+    in a more serious concern, our southern neighbours may seem to have the advantage in
+    the practices of external devotion; but it would be a mistake to infer from thence,
+    that there is with us less of that service of the heart, which, after all, is the one
+    thing needful. The party was large, probably two hundred, including most of the
+    native rank and fashion of the island. We found the ladies all seated together in one
+    room, and the effect of this concentration was sufficiently dazzling. Some people
+    deny that there is any standard of female beauty; and, at any rate, there is no doubt
+    but that habits and associations, as well as complexional and sentimental
+    considerations, interfere more with our perceptions in respect to this than any other
+    object of taste. It is not immediately that we enter into the merits of a style of
+    beauty very different from that which we have been accustomed to. Perhaps it is owing
+    to this circumstance that I was not struck by so many instances of individual
+    attractiveness as might have been expected in so crowded a galaxy. The traits that
+    first strike a stranger in a Portuguese belle, are the tendency to <i>embonpoint</i>
+    in the figure, and to darkness&mdash;I had almost said swarthiness, in complexion.
+    This last character, however, is not particularly obvious by candle-light; and it is
+    always relieved by the most raven hair, and eyes such as one seldom sees elsewhere,
+    so large and black; if their fire were softened by a longer lash, and their
+    expression less fixed, there would be no resisting them. I fancy, too, that their
+    effect would be rather greater in a <i>t&ecirc;te-&agrave;-t&ecirc;te</i> than in a
+    circle like this, where, looking round, one sees on all sides the same eyes&mdash;and
+    which all (it is everywhere the reproach of black eyes) say always the same thing.
+    Their dress was perfectly in the English fashion; and, in general, there was
+    something not un-English in their <i>mise</i> and <i>tournure</i>. The superiority of
+    French women in these matters is incontestable. Perhaps we may account for it
+    something on the principle by which Dr. Johnson explained the excellence of our
+    neighbours in cookery, when he suspected that the inferiority of their meats rendered
+    indispensable some extraordinary skill in dressing it. The general arrangement and
+    progress of the evening was very English too. They dance remarkably well, the men as
+    well as the women. Indeed, it is, I believe, the great end and occupation of the
+    earlier part of their existence. We came away at two o'clock; few of the English
+    staid later; but among the Portuguese, the more ardent spirits kept up the dance till
+    long after day-break, when it is customary to serve up <i>caldo</i>, a sort of
+    chicken-broth, for their refreshment.&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.</h3>
+    <p><i>What is a Lawyer?</i>&mdash;A lawyer is a man with a pale face and sunken eyes;
+    he passes much time in two small rooms in one of the inns of court; he is surrounded
+    with sheets of foolscap folio paper, tied up with a red string; he has more books
+    than one could read in a year, or comprehend in seven; he walks slowly, speaks
+    hesitatingly, and receives fees from those who visit him, for giving "hypothetical
+    answers" to "specious questions."</p>
+    <p><i>What is a Doctor?</i>&mdash;A doctor, <i>videlicit</i> an M.D., is a
+    sedate-looking personage; he listens calmly to the story of your ailments; if your
+    eye and skin be yellow, he shrewdly remarks that you have the jaundice; he feels your
+    pulse, writes two or three unintelligible lines of Latin, for which you pay him a
+    guinea; he keeps a chariot, and one man-servant. The standard board behind,
+    <i>intended</i> for a footman, is fearfully beset with spikes, to prevent little boys
+    from riding at the doctor's expense. He ingeniously lets himself in and out of his
+    vehicle, by means of a strap attached to the steps, so contrived, that when in, he
+    can dexterously <span class="pagenum"><a id="page95" name="page95"></a>[pg
+    95]</span>cause the steps to follow. His servant is a coachman abroad, and a footman,
+    valet, and butler at home.</p>
+    <p><i>What is an Author?</i>&mdash;He is a man who weaves words into sentences; he
+    dissects the works of his predecessors and contemporaries, and ingeniously dovetails
+    the pieces together again, so that their real owners can scarcely recognise them. He
+    is furnished with a pair of scissors and a pot of paste. He frequents the Chapter
+    Coffee-house by day, and the Cider-Cellar by night. He ruralises at Hampstead or
+    Holloway, and perhaps once a year steams it to Margate. He talks largely, and forms
+    the nucleus of a knot of acquaintances, who look up to him as an oracle. He is always
+    <i>going</i> to set about some work of great importance; he writes a page, becomes
+    out of humour with the subject, and begins another, which shares the same fate. His
+    coat is something the worse for wear; his wife is the only person in the world who is
+    blind to his transcendant abilities; and he has too much to do in cultivating his own
+    genius, to descend to the minutias of his children's education.</p>
+    <h3>SUPERSTITION.</h3>
+    <p>In a little manual of piety, composed, in 1712, for the young ladies who were then
+    pensioners at the monastery of St. Augustin, at Bruges, we have been surprised into
+    frequent smiles by the scrupulous watchfulness with which the ghostly writer followed
+    the lady-pensioners (though with pious fancy only) to the very sacred of sacreds! He
+    was not contented with directing them concerning the prayers which he believed proper
+    to be used when they assumed, or laid aside, their respective garments, but even
+    directed them what to do before they attempted to close an eye on the softness of
+    their pillows! Prayers are specified by this zealous pastor for the following curious
+    occasions:&mdash;</p>
+    <ul>
+      <li>In putting on your petticoat.</li>
+      <li>In putting on your night-gown.</li>
+      <li>In dressing your head.</li>
+      <li>In putting on your manteau.</li>
+    </ul>
+    <p>In regard to the ceremony of laying aside these memorials of the weakness of Eve,
+    our general mother, there is a prayer to be offered "whilst you undress yourself;"
+    and the ladies are strictly enjoined, before they "get into bed, to take holy water."
+    The writer concludes this part of his instructions by saying, "when you are in bed,
+    write the name of Jesus on your forehead with your thumb!"</p>
+    <h3>CROMWELL.</h3>
+    <p>After the battle of Marston, Cromwell, returning from the pursuit of a party of
+    the royalists, purposed to stop at Ripley; and, having an officer in his troop, a
+    relation of Sir William Ingilby's, that gentleman was sent to announce his arrival.
+    The officer was informed, by the porter at the gate, that Sir William was absent, but
+    that he might send any message he pleased to his lady. Having sent in his name, and
+    obtained an audience, he was answered by the lady, that no such person should be
+    admitted there; adding, she had force sufficient to defend herself and that house
+    against all rebels. The officer, on his part, represented the extreme folly of making
+    any resistance, and that the safest way would be to admit the general peaceably.
+    After much persuasion, the lady took the advice of her kinsman, and received Cromwell
+    at the gate of the lodge, with a pair of pistols stuck in her apron-strings, and
+    having told him she expected that neither he nor his soldiers would behave
+    improperly, led the way to the hall, where, sitting each on a sofa, these two
+    extraordinary personages, equally jealous of each other's intentions, passed the
+    whole night. At his departure in the morning the lady observed, "It was well he had
+    behaved in so peaceable a manner; for that, had it been otherwise, he would not have
+    left that house with his life."</p>
+    <h3>HOWARD.</h3>
+    <p>Of this celebrated man no portrait was ever painted, for he would never sit to any
+    artist. After his return from one of his journies to the continent, he was showing to
+    a friend the various things he had brought with him, and among others a new dress
+    made in Saxony: "it was a sort of great coat, yet graceful in its appearance, and
+    ornamented with sober magnificence. His visiter exclaimed, 'This is the robe in which
+    you should be painted by Romney; I will implore the favour on my knees if you will
+    let me array you in this very picturesque habiliment, and convey you instantly in a
+    coach to Cavendish-square.'&mdash;'O fie!' replied Howard, in the mildest tone of his
+    gentle voice, 'O fie! I did not kneel to the emperor.'&mdash;'And I assure you,' said
+    the petitioner in answer to the tender reproof, 'I would never kneel to you, if you
+    were not above an emperor in my estimation!' The philanthropist was touched by the
+    cordial eulogy, but continued firm in his resolution of not granting his portrait to
+    all the repeated requests of important affections."&mdash;<i>Hayley's Life of
+    Romney</i>.</p>
+    <h3>EDWARD DRINKER.</h3>
+    <p>Edward Drinker was born in a cottage in 1689, on the spot where the city <span
+    class="pagenum"><a id="page96" name="page96"></a>[pg 96]</span>of Philadelphia now
+    stands, which was inhabited at the time of his birth, by Indians, a few Swedes, and
+    Hollanders. He often talked of picking blackberries, and catching wild rabbits, where
+    this populous city is now seated. He remembered William Penn arriving there the
+    second time, and used to point out the spot where the cabin stood in which Mr. Penn
+    and his friends were accommodated on their arrival.</p>
+    <p>The life of this aged citizen is marked with circumstances which never befel any
+    other man; for he saw greater events than any man, at least, since the Patriarchs. He
+    saw the same spot of earth, in the course of his own life, covered with woods and
+    bushes, the receptacles of wild beasts and birds of prey, afterwards become the seat
+    of a great city, not only the first in wealth and arts in America, but equalled by
+    few in Europe; he saw great and regular streets, where he had often pursued hares and
+    wild rabbits; he saw fine churches rise upon morasses, where he used to hear nothing
+    but the croaking of frogs; great wharfs and warehouses, where he had so often seen
+    the Indian savages draw their fish from the river; and that river afterwards full of
+    great ships from all the world, which in his youth had nothing bigger than a canoe;
+    and on the same spot, where he had so often gathered huckleberries, he saw their
+    magnificent city hall erected, and that hall filled with legislators, astonishing the
+    world with their wisdom and virtue. He also saw the first treaty ratified between the
+    united powers of America, and the most powerful prince in Europe, with all the
+    formality of parchment and seal; and on the same spot where he once saw William Penn
+    ratify his first and last treaty with the Indians; and to conclude, he saw the
+    beginning and end of the British empire in Pensylvania. He had been the subject of
+    many crowned heads; but when he heard of the many oppressive and unconstitutional
+    acts passed in Britain, he bought them all, and gave them to his great grandson to
+    make kites of; and embracing the liberty and independence of his country in his
+    withered arms, and triumphing in the last year of his life, in the salvation of his
+    country. He died on the 17th of November, 1782, aged 103 years.</p>
+    <h3>A SURE SIGN.</h3>
+    <p>When the wind follows the sun and settles about north-west, north, or east, we
+    have fine weather; when, on the contrary, the wind opposes the sun's course, and
+    returns by west, south-west, south, and south-east, and settles in the east, foul
+    weather prevails.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+    <blockquote>
+      "I am but a <i>Gatherer</i> and disposer of other men's
+      stuff."&mdash;<i>Wotton</i><br />
+    </blockquote>
+    <hr />
+    <p>A man of learning was complaining to Voltaire, that few foreigners relished the
+    beauties of Shakspeare. "Sir," replied the wit, "bad translations torment and vex
+    them, and prevent them understanding your great dramatist. A blind man, sir, cannot
+    perceive the beauty of a rose, who only pricks his fingers with the thorns."</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>The reign of Edward I. was marked with a singular occurrence, which serves to
+    Illustrate the general character of this monarch. In the year 1285, Edward took away
+    the charter of London, and turned out the mayor, in consequence of his suffering
+    himself to be bribed by the bakers, and invested one of his own appointing with the
+    civic authority. The city, however, by making various presents to the king, and
+    rendering him other signal services, found means to have their charter restored.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p><i>Dr. E. D. Clarke's Rules far Travellers</i>.&mdash;"Remember that you are never
+    to conceive that you have added enough to your journal; never at liberty to go to
+    sleep, because you are fatigued, until you have filled up all the blanks in it; never
+    to go to the bottom of a mountain without also visiting its top; never to omit
+    visiting mines, where there are any; never to listen to stories of banditti; nor in
+    any instance to be frightened by bugbears."</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>A traveller lately returned from Florida says, it is the most fertile country he
+    ever found, the lands producing forty bushels of frogs to the acre, and alligators
+    enough to fence them&mdash;<i>American paper</i>.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>A rich banker of Paris happened to be present some time ago at the representation
+    of <i>Hamlet</i> in which Talma, as usual, by the fidelity and force of his
+    delineation, drew tears from the whole of his numerous audience. Being questioned by
+    a person sitting near him, who was astonished to perceive that he alone remained
+    unaffected during, the most pathetic scene, the banker coolly replied, "I do not cry,
+    because, in the first place, none of thus is true; and secondly, supposing it to be
+    true; what business is it of mine?"&mdash;<i>La Furet</i>.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <blockquote class="footnote">
+      <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>: <a
+      href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+      <p><i>The Months</i>.</p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <blockquote class="footnote">
+      <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>: <a
+      href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+      <p>"Laws are not like women, the worse for being old."&mdash;<i>The Duke of
+      Buckingham's Speech in the House of Lords, in Charles the Second's time</i>.</p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand (near Somerset House), and
+    sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers</i>.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+<pre>
+
+
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