paigns of my maternal grand uncle, who saying, "Remember that the darkest hour journal, those periodical publications of science bore a distinguished share in the honours of the four-and-twenty is that before day." 1692 -1792.' 'Semper et ubique fidelis.'" comic anecdote. many were SIGHTS OF BOOKS. Resumen Historico de la Revolucion de los What we Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Arms and or literature which strike us as being useful, of that day; and the following I report on instructive, and pleasing, we make no apology the authority of his son, who served in the for saying a few words in favour of the publiIrish brigade until its final departure from cation now before us. It has long been known France in the early years of the revoluto the public as an excellent botanical work, tion. We were under arms and about and is executed in a manner which, considerto march from France, after a century of ing its small price, is highly creditable to the military service, covered with military glory. THE great political interest attached to the liberal spirit of its publishers. The Number We halted to receive the last salutations of new republics which have arisen on the dissolu- for the present month contains, together with the unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth, in the tion of the Spanish dominion in America, five other plants, a representation of the faperson of monsieur his brother. The scene seems to render some notice of every important mous Air Plant of China, the blossoms of was an affecting one. He advanced to the work concerning them indispensable on our which, each three inches in expansion, are of front of the brigade. The officers formed a part. Under this impression, we consider our- a rich scarlet, and produced in bunches of circle round him. He addressed us under selves bound to point the reader's attention to extraordinary size. În the same Number we evident feelings of agitation, the publication quoted above, as one containing also find Pentstemon diffusum, Castilleja cochonoured by the most flattering marks of his a comprehensive account of the origin and pro- cinea, beautiful, hardy, herbaceous plants; and personal attention. We acknowledge, gen-gress of the Mexican Revolution. The author Prunus candicans, or Snowy Plum, a new tlemen,' said he, the invaluable services has drawn his materials chiefly from the Cuadro hardy shrub of unusual beauty. which France, during the lengthened period Historico de la Revolucion de Mejico, by Don consider the most valuable feature of this of a hundred years, has received from the Carlos Maria Bustamente, which consists of a work, and what distinguishes it peculiarly in Irish brigade; services which we shall never series of letters, in four volumes. That work, its class, is the judicious selection of its subforget, though totally unable to repay. Re- besides being too extensive and diffuse for ge-jects, and the constant introduction of greenceive this standard,' (it was embroidered with neral use, has become very scarce; and it is, house and hardy flowers and shrubs, in prethe shamrock and fleur-de-lis,) a pledge of therefore, no slight advantage for those who ference to those which are to be preserved our remembrance, a token of our admiration are desirous of obtaining correct information only in the hot-house, of which, however, a and respect; and this, generous Hibernians, on the Mexican Revolution, to find all the im-sufficient proportion is retained to render the shall be the motto on your spotless colours,— portant facts in Bustamente's details carefully Register useful to all classes of readers. Thus, collected and lucidly arranged in an octavo in the last volume, we find, of the subjects volume of moderate size, and illustrated with which are represented, twenty-four stove plants, A history of the gallant Irish Brigade would portraits of the principal Mexican commanders twenty-three green-house plants, and thirtybe a most interesting work; but we have now and leaders of the popular party. We hope the eight hardy shrubs or flowers. to conclude, which we shall do with a tragi-author will continue his history to the present time, and give us an account of the parties "A small party of a Highland regiment had called Yorkinos and Escosinos, of which so been despatched from the little village of D— much is said, and so little accurately known. to search for arms. They stopped at the cabin The only certain fact seems to be, that their of a peasant, and demanded entrance. Poor names indicate the sources whence the respec- THIS work, so interesting to the antiquary Pat had a cow, a rare blessing. He was in tive lodges of two classes of Freemasons have and the artist, and, indeed, to the public gethe act of cleansing its miserable hovel, with derived their institution; the former being from nerally, proceeds with unabated diligence and a large three-pronged fork, when he observed the Royal York Lodge in England, and the care. The plates of the above-mentioned the soldiers around his cottage. Irishmen gelatter from the Lodges in Scotland. It happens Numbers give a very clear and sufficient nonerally act from the first impulse; and the singularly enough, that by some accident for tion of the arms and pieces of armour which first impulse of Pat's mind at this moment there is, we presume, nothing in the principles they are intended to represent. The illustrawas self-preservation. He darted from the of the respective masonic lodges to cause the tions contain various curious anecdotes. For hovel, and with the long fork in his hand, distinction-the Yorkinos are the violent radi- instance, in describing the Allecret, which imdashed through the astonished soldiers, head-cals of Mexico, and the Escosinos the moderate plies, in the German language, “all strength,” ing his course towards a neighbouring bog, party. and which was the armour of the infantry, bounded by the road over which we passed. The Diagrams of Euclid's Elements of Geo- Dr. Meyrick says," As this was the general The party pursued — Pat had gained an important point. The attention of the enemy metry, in an embossed or tangible form. costume of the Swiss, it may not be uninterFor the Use of Blind Persons, who wish to esting to remark, that by putting themselves was drawn off from his castle, and his little enter upon the Study of that noble Science. in armour, they completely changed the opifamily had time to make arrangements for Part I. By the Rev. W. Taylor, Vicar of nion respecting infantry." Having, during the their safety. The pursuit was hot, but the retreat still more vigorous; the encumbrance Bishop Burton. York, T. Marsh. London, fourteenth century, shaken off the Austrian W. Jay. yoke, they were well aware that, to be a of brogues was soon laid aside, and Pat, in his WE had heard of the surprising success with match for the cavalry, "then considered the native phraseology, gained the bog in a jiffey. which the reverend author of this singular efficient force of armies, their mountainous He was more fleet than his pursuers; but a work cultivated the faculties of the blind, in district would not be sufficient without arstout, lengthy, brawny grenadier, as familiar the north of England, long before his inge-mour. They were, therefore, the first inwith bog and mountain as the best Irishman nious invention for teaching them geometry fantry that cased themselves in steel; and in the province, had far outrun his com. was put into our hands. It is a very happy such became their renown, that all the conpanions, and every moment gaining ground idea, and admirably calculated to add to the tinental monarchs eagerly sought their serin the pursuit, was just within bayonet reach, higher enjoyments of those afflicted with the vices. The battle of Marignano, in 1515, when Pat, wheeling rapidly round, charged loss of sight, by opening for them, in their proved that the infantry of each respective him with his long three-pronged fork in dark state, a new and interesting source of country might be made equally effective.” front; the thrust was a home one, and the employment and mental gratification. Highlander fell. Pat, who in all his varieties plan is as simple as it is effectual; and conDictionary of the English Language, &c. &c. of life had never seen the Highland costume sists of Simson's diagrams raised upon a thick By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London, 1828 before, gazed in surprise on his fallen enemy, paper or pasteboard, so as to be readily traced J. O. Robinson. addressing him in his native language. by the fingers. There is a pleasing preface, THIS edition of Johnson's Dictionary, “ste Though eshin, That augus gu neineg sheigh- and brief directions for using this benevolent reotyped verbatim from the last folio edition mough yut S' Dioul un daugh viegh urth er and beautiful system, which will console many corrected by the doctor," is eminently deserv maudin um eigh sheigh, augus taught amaugh heavy hearts, and lighten many a cheerlessing of notice for its accuracy, the beauty o gon dugh brieshtiegh. Take that, and hour. The volume itself is a literary cu- its typography, and the character of its ar rangements It is in one volume, of 136 pages, divided each into three columns. the preface there is an attack upon Todd which, to some justice of remark, adds ob jections, of the force of which it is not eas to allow the more copious any dictionary is inuch good may it do you: you were in a devil of a hurry after me this morning, when you did not wait to put on your breeches." These were the dismal times of Ireland; but let us hope that brighter are now dawning; and, in the terms of its own expressive riosity. The The Botanical Register. By Sydenham Ed- As we occasionally notice, in the columns of our : it is the better; and the strangest words are generally those at which readers wish to look for their signification. But without going into the comparison between Todd's and this edition, we may warmly recommend the present for its conveniency and excellency of form, and its cheapness in price, which renders it rery eligible for all libraries and studies, where the means are moderate, and the desire for accurate information and easy reference great. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Last season, two persons were out shooting; the gun of one of them went off; part of the shot lodged in the face of his companion, and deprived him of one of his eyes: he brought an action for the injury, and the other party was sentenced to pay him an annuity of fifty pounds during his life. In England, there being no malice prepense, the matter would be regarded as an accident, and no action could be sustained; but the French laws consider wisely, that an accident is the result of negligence, and it is punished as such, as no person ought to suffer from the negligence of another. By a recent decision of the tribunals, no foreigner can be appointed an arbitrator,-a poor compliment to the honour of other countries, and likely to produce injurious results to ARTS AND SCIENCES. tween the reciprocating columns and the original phonics. NATURAL HISTORY. The Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain. Drawn and described by Mrs. Edward T. Bowdich. No. I. Imp. 4to. Ackermann. WE have been much delighted with the inspection of this beautiful work, which does great credit to the amiable and accomplished lady from whose pencil and pen it has proceeded. The drawings are the most splendid and faithful representations of the kind that we have ever met with; a circumstance in a great measure attributable to their having been made immediately after the fish were caught; "for," as Mrs. Bowdich observes, "not only do the colours of many fishes change, in the course of a few minutes after death, but even the shape of the head, in many instances, undergoes an alteration; so that in the subjects preserved in our cabinets, the figure of this important part frequently differs considerably from that which it bore in its native element." end of the boiler was blown off at the rivets; the steam rushed out and destroyed two houses in the rear, and the boiler itself was driven, in a A reference was then made to the phenocontrary direction, through the engine-house, to mena of beats and the grave harmonic sounds. the distance of sixty yards: though weighing The beats of several tuning-forks were beautiabove two tons, it destroyed the engine, and fully reciprocated by a flute; and, indeed, killed the engineer and the proprietor, who there is no more striking method of rendering happened to be in the engine-house. This them evident. The reciprocation of a grave accident arising from the wilful misconduct of harmonic, independent of its generating sounds, the proprietor, his family was ordered to grant was also referred to, and partly illustrated; a pension to the widow of the engineer. In but Mr. Faraday stated, that the sudden manlike manner, if any person be maimed or killed, ner in which the subject had been resumed by being run over, the proprietor of the horse prevented the experiments from being so comTHE dreadful accident that has occurred at the or carriage is obliged to grant an indemnity to plete as was intended. Brunswick Theatre, and the insecurity of the the sufferer, or grant a pension to the parents, public, from the ignorance or negligence of in-widow, or children of the defunct. dividuals, calls imperiously for some legislative regulations, similar to those adopted by the French government. In France, details of every part of the plan and construction of public buildings must be previously submitted to a government architect, who examines the hole carefully, and suggests the alterations and modifications which he judges necessary for the public safety: and it is only on his written approval of the plan that the construction is permitted to be executed. Nor does his charge end bere; he superintends the works as they prored, and prevents the slightest deviation from the plan as sanctioned by him. Had such a reralation existed in England, the calamity at the Brunswick Theatre would not have happened. The paternal care of the French government in whatever concerns the public safety and the property of foreigners invested in France. health, is admirable. In England, we hear continually of houses in a state of dilapidation falling, and entombing numerous persons in the ruina. In France there are regular inspectors, who go systematically through Paris, to ascer- THE observations and illustrations given by tain the state of the houses; and whenever the Mr. Faraday at the lecture-table this evening slightest appearance of danger is obvious, the were supplementary to those of February 15, tenants are ordered to quit, and the place is for an account of which we refer our readers Puled down. Private interests are never con- to the Literary Gazette of February 23. After salted, when the personal safety of the public is some preliminary statements, he proceeded to concerned. This surveillance is extended to illustrate the reciprocation of a column of air, the construction of all forges, furnaces, steam- not to the vibrations of a solid sonorous body, engines, the manufactories of chemical products but to another column of air thrown into a itting offensive odours, &c. If a high-pres- vibrating state. Two German flutes were sure engine be permitted in a town, one of the placed side by side, and breath being given ditions is, that it shall be surrounded by a to one to produce the sound C, the other also wall four feet thick ; and the chimney must rise produced the same sound, as was rendered to a certain height above the adjoining build-abundantly evident by fingering it so as to The engine is not even permitted to be fit it to produce some other sound, when the rought, unless the boiler has been previously sound resulting from the vibrations of both proved capable of supporting a power of steam was considerably diminished. bur times greater than that at which it is in- In reference to the explanation formerly traded to work. Besides these precautions, given of the Jew's-harp, namely, that the mary boiler must be provided with a metallic volume of air in the mouth could reciprocate pate, fusible at a small degree above the work- to the tongue of the instrument, when the power, that in case the safety valve should vibrations of the former were any multiple of act. or any other dangerous circumstance those of the latter, a philosophical illustration te thereby the steam would become of a and proof of the fact were given. A long meper force than intended, the plate may tallic tube had a piston fitted into it, which, Be, and the steam escape in abundance by being moved, could lengthen or shorten the efficient column of air within at pleasure. A A few months since, a dyer, near Paris, who Jew's-harp was fixed so that it could be made had a high-pressure engine, was interdicted to vibrate before the mouth of the tube, and Viking it, on account of the insecurity of the it was found that, under such circumstances, ber. The proprietor ordered another to be the column of air produced a series of sounds made, and invited the officers of government to according as it was lengthened or shortened, witness the proof of it at the maker's: it was a sound being produced whenever the length istraded to work at two atmospheres, and per- of the column was such that its vibrations ferty resisted the force of eight atmospheres; were a multiple of those of the Jew's-harp. and was consequently, approved. The pro- The manner in which Mr. Eülenstein sucme, however, thinking to be too cunning, ceeded in producing chords with this instrud not send for it, but had his old boiler cut ment was also shewn, by making the column mer and used again. The government of air, in a flute fingered for B, reciprocate at engers, not suspecting the trick, did not ex- once to two tuning-forks giving the notes A se the boiler when putting up. The engine and C; but the sounds are much enfeebled had not been at work two hours, when the new in this case, from the want of accordance be De crifice. The letter-press which accompanies the Numbers are to appear at moderate intervals; LITERARY AND LEARNED. were conferred:OXFORD, March 8.-Thursday last the following degrees Masters of Arts.-R. W. Mackay, Brasennose College, Rev. H. D. Ryder, Oriel College, Grand Compounders W. M. Blencowe, Oriel College; C. C. Walkey, Scholar, Worcester College; Rev. P. W. Powlett, Michel Fellow, Queen's College. Christ Church; J. Gibbs, Worcester College. Bachelors of Arts.-G. W. Hope, W. R. Courtenay, CAMBRIDGE, March 8.-Thursday, C. Babbage, Esq. of Mathematics, vacant by the election of G. B. Airy, Esq. M.A. of Trinity College, was elected Lucasian Professor to the Plumian Professorship. At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred : Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. R. M. Mant, Christ College, Compounder. lows, King's College; J. H. Raven, Magdalene College. Masters of Arts.-Rev. H. Battiscombe, J. Packe, Fel Bachelors in Civil Law.-Rev. J. Vaughan, St. John's Goodwin, W. Morshead, Sidney Sussex College. The Hebrew dissertation was on Wednesday last adjudged to A. Addis, B.A. of Trinity College. The subject of the Seatonian prize poem for the present year is, Saul at Endor. The Vice-Chancellor has given notice, that if any poem on the above subject shall be considered by the examiners to be entitled to distinguished commendation, a premium of one hundred pounds shall be given, instead of the usual sum of forty pounds. THE LITERARY FUND. tification. The pillar in question stands near we are now considering. His style of executhe village of Mathiya, about eleven miles tion is always in strict conformity to his W.N.W. of Bettiya, six or seven from the subject. Gunduk river, and about thirty miles from the No. 254. Cottage Scene, with Figures; EvenThere is mountains of Nepal. The whole country, to ing. John and Eliz. Dearman. the base of the mountains, is perfectly free from great harmony in the style of these partnerhills, or even from stones, and there are no artists; and, which is still better, it is a good vestiges of any building of remarkable charac- style;-in colouring, warm and glowing; in ON Wednesday, the annual general meeting ter or extent. The pillar is circular and plain, execution, brilliant and spirited. We have of this beneficent Institution was held at the about 50 feet high and three in diameter, and seen, elsewhere, paintings by Mr. John Dearchambers in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Lord consists of a single block of granite. It has no man of great promise; and (as we understand Goderich and Lord Ellenborough were elected base, and is said to extend as far below the sur- he is a very young man) we are inclined to vice-presidents, in the room of the late Mr. face as above it; an assertion that may be think that he is destined to take a high rank in Canning and Lord Radnor, and J. Cam Hob-questioned, although it runs several feet under the department of art in which he has chosen house, Esq. pro John Symmons, Esq. retired. ground. Á neat fluted capital is surmounted to display his powers. Five vacancies in the Council, caused by deaths by a round block, which is carved on its sides No. 463. Morning Prayer in the Church of and by non-attendance, were filled up by the with a line of geese pecking the ground, and Tournay. G. R. Lewis. This artist is the names, from the general Committee, of Messrs. above which rests a lion couchant. The upper third of the name of Lewis whose performGeorge Woodfall, Owen Rees, William Jer-jaw of the lion has been broken off; but the ances have deservedly attracted our notice; dan, Richard Blanshard, and William Tooke: pillar is in every other respect entire. The each having merits of his own quite distinct and Messrs. T. Amyot, James Duncan, A. Spot-inscription is carried round the shaft near the from those of his namesakes. For instance the tiswoode (sheriff), Rev. H. Stebbing, and John centre, and the characters are perfectly dis- present picture is in style and effect singularly Wilson, were added to the General Committee. tinct. Next to the inscription, the subject different from the works of either Mr. J. F. The registrars, treasurers, and auditors, were that excites curiosity is the manner in which Lewis or Mr. F. C. Lewis. It possesses a solemre-elected. such a mass could be conveyed to this spot from nity of tone admirably suited to the subject, A statement of the funds, &c. of the Society a distance so considerable as that of the nearest and a chiaroscuro worthy the pencil of Remshewed its flourishing condition, notwithstand-mountains. The general character of the co-brandt. ing the liberal spirit in which its bounties are lumn is the same as many to be met with in No. 306. Studies of the Giraffe, &c. painted dispensed. -The ordinary receipts of the Nepal, and the figure of the lion is precisely for his Majesty. R. B. Davis. Close and past year were 1156.-and the extraordinary that of the animal as represented in the Baud- accurate representations of this remarkable receipts 4461: total 16027. The disburse- dah temples of that kingdom. The Nepalese creature, and displaying its habits in a striking ments were 11757. or 157. more than the who have seen the pillar or the drawing, re- manner. Having ourselves taken considerable ordinary receipts, but leaving a balance of above cognise it as a structure familiar to their reli- interest in the stranger when he landed on our 4301. in the treasury, for the relief of literary gious architecture; but they do not lay any shores, (insomuch as even to give his portrait wretchedness. To this fund, the anniversary distinct claim to its erection-the history of in the Literary Gazette), we may be excused dinner, on the second Wednesday in May, will, which is utterly lost. In connexion with the for continuing to feel an interest in his welno doubt, make a splendid addition, as many literature and religion of Tibet, and, indeed, fare. This induces us to hint, that though our distinguished noblemen, and persons eminent of the whole of the Bhote countries, it appears friend the Camelopard is a very great favourite in literature, have promised to attend on that that the patronage of the Government has with his royal Master, he, like other favouroccasion. The Society has also a revenue from enabled the Hungarian traveller, M. C. de ites, does not seem to be so well respected by above 20,000l. in the public funds, the rents of Koros, to proceed to Upper Bisahir, to prose- others about court and menagerie, to whose houses, &c. &c. Legacies are often bequeathed cute his Tibetan studies for three years, in care his entertainment has been intrusted. to it by the charitable and benevolent; so that which period he engages to prepare a compre- As Don Miguel was feted by competent indievery lover of letters, and every one who feels hensive grammar and vocabulary of the lan-viduals, appointed for that purpose, we are of admiration for the prodigious benefits derived guage, with an account of the literature and opinion that the precedent is good, and that the by a country from a free and encouraged press, history of the country. These objects are the charge of the Giraffe should be assigned to must congratulate themselves on the present more desirable, as we understand Mr. De Koros some scientific person, and not be left to mere prosperity and certain prospects of this Insti- considers the recent labours of Klaproth and grooms. Seriously, the preservation of so rare tution, the acts of which, we may safely say, Remusat with regard to the language and lite- and curions an object of natural history is are more than twice blessed. rature of Tibet as altogether erroneous. Mons. worthy of attention. Remusat, indeed, admits the imperfectness of his materials; but Klaproth, as usual, pronounces ex cathedrâ, and treats the notion of any successful study of Tibetan by the English in India with ineffable contempt. ASIATIC SOCIETY. [Abridged from the Calcutta Gov. Gazette of Sept. 10.] A MEETING of the Asiatic Society was held on Wednesday; the Hon. W. B. Bayley, Esq., vice-president, in the chair, and some routine was transacted. FINE ARTS. No. 338. Gamekeeper Cleaning his Gun; and No. 363, Gamekeeper's Return from DuckShooting. H. Pidding. We merely name these extremely clever pieces, which we had almost overlooked from their situation. They are, nevertheless, very Flemish in their character and finish, and harmonious in their tone of colour. Mr. E. Sterling presented to the museum a number of old coins found in Malwa, bearing the No. 499. A Visit of Consolation to the Sick. impressions of the Khilji sovereigns of Mando. No. 433. Dogs hunting Rats in a Barn. W. J. Thomson. A Scottish scene, exSeveral coins also were presented by Mr. Hal-Martin T. Ward. This is a subject for the tremely well composed, and extremely charached, which were dug up at Sahaswan, or Sas-"Fancy," and of its kind a very legitimate teristic. The sentiment is of that tender and wan, a fortress built upon the ruins of a Hindu one; for though we are disposed warmly to amiable kind which appeals to every human fort, destroyed by Baber early in the sixteenth reprobate the cruelty that, under the name of heart. The colouring is not so good; but we century. They bear on one side the apparent sport, is frequently exercised on the nobler think an engraving of the subject would be outlines of a figure, and on the other the words animals, it would be carrying sensibility to an popular. Mr. Thomson has long been disDeva, or Mahadeva; but very rudely and in- absurd length, were we to object to the extir- tinguished as a miniature painter of the distinctly executed. pation of vermin, which, if we did not destroy highest class: we do not remember to have them, would speedily destroy us. Mr. Martin seen any thing of his in oil before. Ward has introduced some of the best quali ties of the art into this spiritedly-painted picture. Several papers were received from Mr. Hodgson, descriptive of the written characters and classical writings of Nepal, and of the series of Our limits compel us to conclude. In doing Bauddha teachers venerated in that country. so, we can conscientiously declare, that we Also a drawing and description of the celebrated No. 243. Old Houses at Dolgelly, from a think the present collection exhibits talent column near Bettiya, on which the same cha- Sketch by E. V. Utterson, Esq. Geo. Jones, equal, perhaps superior, to that of any former racters are inscribed as those on the Lot of R. A. It is thus that the magic of art ele- collection in the same place. In the landscape Firoz Shah at Delhi and on the rock in Orissa, vates and gives importance to objects which are department, it is very rich and abundant; in and have baffled, hitherto, every attempt to of little or no value in themselves. Few have subjects of familiar life, scarcely less so; and decipher them. Some of them resemble Greek, shewn more talent in the characteristic and the paucity of historical or poetical works of and others Ethiopic letters: but the resemblance powerful representation of scenes of this kind an elevated character is, we have no doubt, is too partial to admit of any satisfactory iden-than the very able artist whose performance attributable solely to the slender encourage ORIGINAL POETRY. A FREE AND FRIENDLY ADDRESS To the Author of "Odes and Addresses to Great People," &e. I know not one in London Or better to be punn'd on! ment given to productions of that nature in pletely into the feelings and spirit of the poet. conveys to the beholder a fine idea of Ramis country. Having pointed out some of the He has most happily contrasted the graceful phael's grand production. It is done by cipal attractions in the Gallery, it remains ease of " the gentleman and scholar" with Mr. Hollins, and does credit to his talents. the candid and judicious visitor to discover the awkward rusticity of "the ploughman's as may have escaped our notice. If really collie;" and the conversation which, after *candid and judicious," his researches will be having "wi' daffin weary grown," the canine related by this "special observance," that play-fellows are holding about the lords o' when, among excellent qualities, he may chance the creation," is evidently earnest and interto detect imperfections, he will we will not esting, and full of sagacious and severe resy give them an understanding, but no mark. The plate is admirably engraved. tongue,”for that would be too much forbearance to expect or indeed to desire,-but, at least, he will not proclaim his discovery through a paking-trumpet. Mild and discriminating cism must always be beneficial; but only the who have mixed much with artists, and are had opportunities of observing the various ers and difficulties to which they are subject, e be aware how injurious is loud and unquacondemnation; how destructive to the évidual against whom it is directed; how trimental to the cause of the fine arts gene27. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Groups painted by Michelangiolo Buonaroli, THIS print is rendered curious and valuable Anche a te, Carino! - Anche a me, Madre mia! Designed and engraved by William The Temple of Jupiter, in the Island of Would that I knew thee!-come-reveal! And turn a Robbin' Hood? Might fill a convent! for ye would, A Brother-Hood and Sister-Hood!† Than to get a lively-Hood! That thy fame may be increas'd! You ought-although 'tis dull— And should you e'er for heaven quit Oh Tom! how much and oft I've longed SAM WILDFun. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. PROPHECIES. SIR,-In your notice of Valentini's Military The Two Dogs. ngraved by B. P. Gibbon, Mr. Lander ms to have entered com COPY OF RAPHAEL'S INCENDIO DI BORGO. An associate of Robin Hood's. • The are partarly criticised above seventy pictures of the size of the original in the Vatican, and My master, I think, meant "upon."--Amanuensis. kingdom of an infidel prince; he will take also a red apple, and will reduce it under his power. If before the seventh year the sword of the Christians shall not be drawn, he shall be their lord till the twelfth year: he will build houses, plant vines, enclose (furnish) gardens with hedges, beget sons. But after the twelfth year from the time he reduced the red apple under his power, the sword of the Christians will appear, which will put the Turk to flight." The original is as follows: :1 By the red apple the Turks understood some great and very strong city; and the prophecy was supposed to be verified in the capture of Constantinople. The periods of seven and twelve years must of course have been considered as mystic, Some supposed each year, like the jubilee, to comprehend fifty years, some a century, some 366 years. This prophecy has not merely descended by oral tradition, but, though not found in the Koran, is recorded in works of the highest authority, and regarded with the utmost respect. I will now give you a version of the same prophecy, translated from the Persian by Georgienltz. have the entrée of the studio of a noble drama- | estate, who flourished in France and Spain tist-in the first place, on account of the cor- about the middle of the 14th century. This, responding rank they hold in composition; we think, was an unfortunate oversight of his and, secondly, because lords can afford the lordship, as persons at all acquainted with histime to write them, and the risk of "taking tory would be foolishly enough inclined to nothing by their motion." Imagine a poor believe they were about to witness a represendevil of an author, (if, by the way, there be tation of the most dramatic events in which any of that ancient tribe remaining in this such princes, &c. were the real actors. Lord truly golden age of literature,) consuming the Porchester, however, giving the town credit midnight oil, for six months at least, over the for superior sagacity, has ingeniously conconcoction of an original tragedy or comedy; structed a play, in which the truly tragical in"Patissa homoz ghelur, csiaferun memle keti awaiting the decision of the management three cidents of the period are either entirely avoided, alur kuzualmai, alur capzeiler, iedi Vladegh more; and, admitting it to be accepted, (a very or altered beyond the possibility of recognition. keleci esikmasse on iki yladegh onlarum begli-liberal admission on our parts,) standing upon For instance-Don Pedro, or Peter the Cruel, ghider: cusi iapar, baghi diker, bahesar bay- the tiptoe of expectation for three more till it king of Castile, is made to be jealous of his hlar, ogli kesi olur, on iki yldenssora Chris-be produced, assuring, in the mean while, his brother, Count Henry of Trastamar, instead of tianon keleci eseikar, ol Turki gheressine tus. butcher, his baker, and his tailor, that the first his other brother, Frederick, master of Sankure." shilling he receives from the theatre shall be tiago, though the truth of history might have appropriated to the settlement of their "small been preserved, and no portion of dramatic inaccounts." ." Imagine, we say, a long year thus terest lost by the adherence. Again, instead past; half of it entirely occupied in the con- of availing himself of the belief that Peter, struction of the piece, and the other half in while struggling to destroy Henry, upon whom dancing attendance on the managers and super- he had sprung like a tiger in the tent of the intending the rehearsals, in a state of mind, French king, was stabbed by one Rocaberti, too, of course, which must preclude the possi- who thus saved Henry from dipping his hands bility of any thing like further composition. in a brother's blood, and delivered Spain The night of performance at length arrives: from a remorseless tyrant, his lordship has the butcher, the baker, and the tailor, are ac- thought fit to make Peter fall in a coldcommodated with orders to support the piece, blooded single combat with Count Henry, on the favourable reception of which their hopes and thereby disgusted the audience by a graof payment rest, like the world upon the tuitous exhibition of fratricide, while a catastortoise. The curtain rises; the three first trophe, in which poetical and real justice were acts go off like-like any thing! The half- so strongly and admirably blended, was ready price enters, knowing nothing about what has to his hand. This is being original with a previously occurred one-third of the party in vengeance. Blanch of Bourbon and Maria de a state to be taken before any night constable Padilla both preceded Peter to the tomb; the as "drunk and disorderly," and a few who former being murdered by his own order, the have paid their money with the express inten- latter dying heart broken by his cruel treattion of "hissing the new piece for fun!" An ment of her. Blaich, in the play, is, by some unfortunate line in the mouth of a fifth-rate inexplicable mean, preserved from the emissaactor or actress excites the risibility of the pit, ries of Peter, to le poisoned by Maria in the or draws down a coarse but humorous excla- last scene, à la får Rosamond. All these demation from the gallery; the butcher, baker, viations, however, might have been excusable and tailor, tremble for their "small accounts;" in the eyes of mere playgoers, had his lordand three pair of hard red hands are instantly ship improved up his subject; but, unforset in motion, but failing to excite a corre- tunately, that is fa from the case. From the sponding action on the part of the disinterested, stirring times when England's romantic Edsucceed only in bringing down the storm which ward, Du Guesclin, the champion of France, might otherwise have remained louring aand Count Henry o Trastamar, surnamed par little longer over the head of the unfortunate excellence "the Kight," filled Europe with author, who having gnawed the fingers off his their fame, from aeriod of history teeming gloves and the mark out of his pocket-hand-with dramatic mater of the most interesting kerchief, (from the pleasant anticipation that nature, the author f Don Pedro has failed he must shortly accustom himself to eat any to extract a single ema solitary situa thing,) has the misery of seeing the structure, tion. Disappointed rievously, we must conwhich it has cost him a year's labour and fess, in this respect, have little heart to exanxiety to erect, levelled to the dust, and un- tend our remarks, wich are already rather of feelingly trampled upon by the ignorant, the the longest. Of the ptical merit of any piece vulgar, and the inconsiderate! O ye oracles we object to pronounc a decided opinion, till of the age! who fulminate your anathemas we have read it by ouówn fire-side-poetry ON Thursday II Crociato was produced, with against the small fry of translators and adapters, on the stage being alays spoken either too Pasta in the character heretofore sustained by inferring, with so much justice, that they can-well or too ill to give fair opportunity for Velluti. There is a grand conflict carrying on not write originally, because they do not, let criticism. One is eith carried away by the just now between the partisans of these emi- one of your patriotic body step forth, and be fire of the actor, and thinterest of the scene, nent musical personages; out of which some the Aria of some modern Pætus. Plunge the or misled by the want spirit and point with uproar arose in the course of the performance. dagger into their own bosom, and then say, "It which a line is drawler mouthed by some It is, however, too late for us to enter upon is not painful." For our own parts, we care miscalled walking genthan. particulars; the opera will no doubt be fre-little where the matter comes from, provided could judge on Monday eming, the language quently repeated, and we shall do our devoirs it be amusing; and if writers are not ambi-of Don Pedro, without a particular claims to to the new cast of parts. "Imperator noster veniet, gentilium regnum capiet, rubrum malum capiet, subjugabit. Septem usque ad annos, ethnicorum gladius si non resurrexerit, duodecim usque ad annos in eos dominabitur, domum ædificabit, vineam plantabit, hortos sæpè muniet, et filium et filiam habebit: duodecim post annos Christianorum gladius insurget, qui et Turcam retrorsùm profligabit." I shall conclude with another prophecy, mentioned in one of his works by Leo the philosopher, emperor of Constantinople. "Familia flava cum competitoribus totum Ismaelum in fugam conjiciet, septemque colles possidentem cum ejus possessoribus capiet." He mentions also a column in Constantinople, the inscription on which was explained by the patriarch to signify that the Muscovites and some other European power would take the city of Constantinople, and, after some disputes, concur in electing a Christian emperor. Leo, as you know, reigned in 886. I am, &c. DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. DRURY LANE. HINT. As far as we tious of the fame of originality, we do not see power or imagination, w ́unpretending and that it is our business to inspire them with the sensible. The best-writt scene appeared to fatal passion, or to impale them upon the stake us to be that in which Hey obtains an interA NEW tragedy, and by Lord Porchester! - of criticism, except in cases where they have not view with Blanch, in th disguise of a conCome, thought we, here is a truly aristocratic the candour to acknowledge their obligations- fessor-probably because iwas the best-acted production! When peers flirt with poetry the modesty to "confess and be hanged." But scene, and the only one in vich there was any in this country of exclusive-ism, it should of we had almost forgotten, that an original tra- thing like natural intere Macready had course be with its highest orders. Marquesses gedy was awaiting our sentence. The noble nothing to do; Mrs. W. est every thing. must not dream of melo-dramas, viscounts author of Don Pedro has, as will be perceived What could be expected fra tragedy under should avoid vaudevilles, and barons abhor by the bills, named most of his characters after such circumstances? Mr Wallack played burlettas. Tragedy and comedy alone should certain princes, peers, and dames of high Raban, a Jew, with his usu tact and spirit; |