LITERARY NOVELTIES. Mr. Ballantyne, in his well-conducted Edinburgh Jour ous discourses, as we were informed (Literary Gazette, 575) were written by Sir Walter Scott about two years ago and he adds, truly, as we were always aware, that they were written as an act of kindness towards a youn friend engaged in theological studies; and without an intention whatever of their appearing before the public li print. Circumstances, however, which are applicable onl to the gentleman for whom the discourses were composed have induced the author to consent to their publication a this time." Legends of the Lakes are announced by Mr. Crofto Croker. Among our curiosities in literature, we have receive from America the first No. of the Hesperus, a journa burgh, which but a few years since was a distant desert! something on the plan of our own, published at Pitt Preparing for publication, a History of the Dominio of the Arabs and Moors in Spain and Portugal, from th Spanish of Condé, by M. Marles. Translated from th French. Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems, by George Wood jun.-are announced. Egypt. The prospectus has been circulated of a Frenc Journal, to be published at Alexandria, and to be calle "L'Echo des Pyramides." It seems, however, th some difficulty has been experienced in obtaining t pasha's consent to the undertaking. In the Press. Plans, Details, Views, &c. of the Gre Hall of the Royal Palace of Eltham, measured and d lineated by H. Dunnage and C. Laver, Architects: wit an Essay, Historical and Descriptive. The Parisian Poor, Of 21,033 persons who by proving that the silk-worm is a perfectly May-be, I'd better put it in heaven, your were buried last year at Paris, the funeral ex-electrical insect, and can be managed under honour; it would be more out of your honour's penses of only 4,390 were paid by their fa- this datum without much fear of failure, so as way!!! milies. The remainder were buried by public to obtain its valuable produce. The subject is and private charity. It is calculated that above one of great importance, and we look with ina fifth of the population of Paris are born, and terest to the completion and publication of the that about a third die, in hospitals. doctor's treatise; the divisions of which will A new Annual, to be entitled the New Year's Gift Missouri. Mr. Smith, a trader in furs in be as follows: 1. Natural history of the mul. edited by Mrs. Alaric Watts, will, we understand, be pub lished by Messrs. Longman in the course of the present Upper Missouri, has discovered a country hi-berry tree, and its mode of cultivation. 2. Se- year. therto unknown, situated to the south-west lection of the seeds or eggs of the silk-worm:nal, states (on authority), that only two, not three, religi of the great salt lake, and to the west of the instructions for hatching the same. 3. DistriRocky Mountains. bution of the insects in boxes or mats, and over Amalfi. Few places have undergone greater litter: of the condition of the nurseries for vicissitudes than Amalfi, the name of which, rearing them. 4. Description of the silkhowever, the invention of the mariner's com- worm (Bombyx mori), its anatomy: physiolo. pass, and the discovery of the Pandects, will gical observations on its life and functions. immortalise. Amalfi was founded about six 5. Peculiar habits and wants of the silk-worm. hundred years before Christ. In the first in- 6. Theory on the temperature and purity of the stance it was governed by annual prefects. By air required for the silk-worm: of the use of degrees its importance and its territory in- artificial heat and fires of faggots or light creased with the riches acquired by its inhabit- blaze: the silk-worm an electrical insect. 7. Of ants in commerce. It was erected into a re-its different ages, growth, and moultings. public, of which an elective duke was the 8. Condition of the nurseries in the last age of chief, and was placed under the protection of the silk-worm: preparation of the brush-wood. the emperors of the East. Its laws were 9. Various diseases of the silk-worm requiring adopted by all the nations of Italy in their ma- strict notice: its mounting or spinning the ritime transactions. Its money was as gene-ball or cocoon. 10. Life and metamorphosis rally circulated in the Levant as piastres now of the bombyx into a chrysalis and phalana. are. Its harbour became the rendezvous of 11. Of gathering, fleecing, and unwinding the ships of all countries. The republic success- silk cocoons. 12. Life of the phalana or moth; fully maintained several wars, especially with its laying and fecundating of the eggs: mode the Arabs. In Palestine the Amalfians created of keeping the same.-Canfield's Lottery Argus. the order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusa- Glasgow Piety.-The Northern newspapers lem. During the period of their power they teem just now with a grand theological and conquered the province of Salerno. About a religious quarrel, which has arisen in the encentury afterwards they were themselves con- lightened town of Glasgow respecting a painted quered by Count Robert, who left them a part window which some heathen Scots architect of their privileges. In 1095, however, they had taken upon him to insert in a new kirk revolted; and in vain did the Norman count, which he built there. The weavers swear it is at the head of his troops and of 20,000 Sara- an abomination and the poor architect is cens, his allies, lay siege to their town: he was likely to meet with a mason's fate-to be compelled to raise it. The Emperor Lothaire stoned. This contention reminds us of the was more successful. Having invaded Italy, worthy old Christian lady's exclamation against he sent a fleet of the Pisans, his allies, with organs. we believe she was from Baillie forty-six galleys before Amalfi. The town was Nicol Jarvie's quarter—"Heaven help me! taken, and lost at once its wealth and its free- (quoth she, on hearing that profane engine in dom. It was then that the Pandects, which a the South), Heaven help me! and maun I live merchant of Amalfi had brought from the amang a people wha find it necessaire to Levant, were found. The Pisans required worship the Lord through the means o' maonly this precious volume as the reward of chinery?" their enterprise. Lothaire granted it to them, Apt Quotation. A few days since, a gentleand therefore it was that for three centuries it man of independent fortune, who had been inbore the title of the Pisan Pandects. The re-duced to purchase some Spanish securities, was public was a few years after incorporated in the rallied, in a social party, upon the success of his domain of Roger, and from that period its his- speculation; but some one observed, that, from tory has been unimportant. The traveller who his known affluence, if the money was eventually now sees only two or three fishing-boats, a few sunk, he would hardly be sensible of the loss: scattered and dismal houses, and a small hotel, this he acknowledged; and added, "I might apcan scarcely believe that he beholds the Amalfi propriate some words used upon a grave and which was thus described by a Latin poet who very different occasion, in wishing that all of wrote about the end of the eleventh century: you who have been amusing yourselves at my "Urbs hæc dives opum populoque; referta videtur, expense, were both almost and altogether Nulla magis locuples, argento, vestibus, auro, such as I am, except these bonds.'" 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In yet before the public have led us (and we hope to the repairing the street in which he resides, it hap-fication of our readers), obliges us to postpone ti Gugliegmi appuli histor. poema de reb, Norman. lib. iii. cumulated near his door. pened, lately, that the paying-stones were ac- next several novelties prepared for this Number:-a which are the very pleasing Tales of the West; the The doctor, in laughable Punch and Judy; and other subjects of p Silk. At a late meeting of the New York anger, remonstrated with a paddy-labourer on interest. branch of the Linnæan Society, Dr. Pascalis the occasion; and the following dialogue encommunicated the introduction and divisions of sued: - Dr. A. Why, the d-1, have you his work on the growth and culture of silk. laid your rubbish opposite my door, where so His treatise embraces not only the old and na- many carriages are daily stopping? Pat. tural method of rearing silk-worms, but also the Fait, your honour, it must be laid somewhere, lately improved artificial system, by which the till the strait is minded.-Dr. It may be so, crops of the silk have been quadrupled. He but it must not be laid there.-Pat. Where takes upon himself the solution of a problem, can I putt it, then, your honour? (with a sigAttributed to an Amalfian of the name of Gaetano nificant puzzler of a look).- Dr. Put it in h-ll, and be, &c. &c. if you like. Pat. Gioja. Ten Guineas per annum to the plan for publishing We acknowledge the subscription, from Lancashi able works of ancient Eastern History, which w handed to Mr. Huttman, the Secretary to the Comi ing this interesting and important undertaking We take this opportunity of again earnestly recom patronage of every lover of literature. We are sorry to negative the claim of Idalia. mend the Armada. S. 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A PAMPELET of eight pages, privately printed objects to be attained by them are such as PRICE 8d. in a style to accord with the range of mansions now rising on the site of Carlton House. Thus should we have a state palace, distinct, as it ought to be, from the residence of the Sovereign, bearing exteriorly the stamp of our own architecture, and preserving interiorly all the convenience and grandeur which have within a few years been obtained at so much expense; and retain a semblance, as well as the name, of the "Court of St. James." We shall next weck shew how far the author's complaints of the new palace are to be corrected. To the cutting down of such trees as have been removed in the Park, we can see no possible objection, nor, indeed, to the demolition of Marlborough House; but here we should pray Mr. Nash to pause. St. James's Palace is in itself too useful and too important a struc- By pulling down the houses in Cleveland ments of London" has long been a popu-ture to be sacrificed to the acquirement of a few Row, as far back as the front of the Marquess feature in the Literary Gazette; and as paltry ground-rents: to say nothing of its associ- of Stafford's mansion, a handsome communicaamphlet embraces much matter against ation with our historical recollections, though tion with the Green Park could be opened, and **jections have been raised by many of even on that account it is entitled to attention. the road continued in an easy sweep to the rrespondents, we shall make a short St. James's is the last habitable remnant of an Arch now erecting on the south side of Piccate of its contents the vehicle for commu- ancient metropolitan palace, and we should re- dilly, sanctifying, in some degree, the expense Lacing our own views of the various plans member that it is coeval and rose with our which has been lavished on that (at present progress and in embryo. reformed religion; that it was long the resi- useless) trophy. We have been enough behind dence of George the Third; and, above all, that the curtain to observe, that a huge reservoir it is the birth-place of our illustrious Monarch. presents an insuperable bar to its becoming an But without any of these considerations, it is entrance to his Majesty's garden. so admirably adapted, by interior arrangement and locality, to all the purposes of state, that we question whether if the suggestions we shall presently throw out were carried into effect-a more desirable edifice could be devised. That Mr. Nash (says the author) greatly mined the town by the creation of Regent E every one must allow; but when, havcompleted this, he turned to erecting paand curtailing, or if he will have it so, ving the parks, most persons, it is bein common with the writer of these vere disposed to view his designs with xaca, and even with alarm. How he has Returning to the pamphlet we must say that we do not concur with the author in deprecating the laying-out of the ground within the railing of St. James's Park-any change from what it was, could not fail of being an We are not so far gone in antiquarian bigotry improvement; and we think a year or two as to value ugly masses because they happen to will shew that Mr. Nash has displayed some be old; but we confess that the brick tower at taste in the disposition of the water and shrubs. the entrance is, in our minds, too closely identi- The laying-out of ground is, indeed, more fied with the "court-end" of London to be than architecture, Mr. Nash's forte. spared; and, assured that it might, by a simple If any thing can reconcile us to the destrucrestoration, be made a beautiful feature, we tion of Carlton House Gardens, it is the juditrust the powers whose province it is to regulate cious manner in which the ground is occupied ; these matters will step in to its rescue. But to but we are not sure that we should advocate describe our plan. any farther encroachment on the Park. That the public may see what they have escaped, we shall give the author's conclusion. red his task in palace-building it is not vesary to stop to inquire. If Mr. Nash can de (it is hardly probable, though, that he 1", the enlightened and tasteful ruler of these Tate to inhabit a house, of which the front is axed up by its own wings-of which the rico consists of the heaviest Doric columns tant bases below, and of the most ornaarted Corinthian above, adorned with a frieze the most heterogeneous kind, and of which The tower stands opposite to St. James's hole is surmounted by a little cupola re- Street, and equi-distant with the Green Park eching in shape and size an egg in an egg- on the west side, and the extremity of Marl- "We are now naturally led to consider the if he can induce him to suffer his own borough House on the east. Let this tower, improvements,' by no means the least obate apartments to look due north, and his and the Chapel Royal adjoining, be restored jectionable ones, which Mr. Nash contemplates des to be filled with a stagnant pond, by (as far as authorities can be had) to their pris- on the south side of the Park. It would aps of which, being between that and the tine forms and decorations; and erect on the pear, indeed, that it is on this side the greatest zal in St. James's Park, the palace must be other side of the arch a corresponding building, encroachments upon public property are dea and probably aguish ;-if he can make for the accommodation of the king's guard signed. All that large space, which is now ink the Arch of Constantine (which is blending the tower, the chapel, and the guard- vacant, and forms part of the Park on the placed before the palace) a model of pure room, so as to appear like one edifice the east side of St. James's Street, is to be occupied if he can prevent his objecting to the gate-house to the base or outer court. The un-with buildings, stables behind, and rows of tall borhood of Pimlico, and above all to the sightly buildings right and left should be de- houses in front; and the encroachment is to be e of Elliott's brewery, no other person molished, leaving the splendid suite of state- continued on towards Storey's Gate. If Mr. as right to complain. But when, leaving rooms standing; to which it would be only Nash goes on as he has begun, encroaching edifices, Mr. Nash proceeds to ruralise necessary to add a room or two to the eastward, every year, we may hope soon to see St. James's Cal in St. James's Park-to cut down and a staircase and passage of communication, Park no wider than a street. This indeed me to pull down Marlborough House, above a cloister, in front, forming a complete may very easily be supposed to be his ultimate thee the great Duke of Marlborough lived mask, in the style of the gate-house-i. e. the object, when it is remembered that one of his Red and St. James's Palace, venerable as Tudor style-to the present blank and unseemly original and most favourite plans was to make midence of so many of our sovereigns, and wall. The area so left would be about 300 feet a straight street down the middle of St. James's which within the last four years no less a long, and 200 feet wide-sufficiently spacious to Park, where the water now is, from the Horse than 40,000%. has been expended, to ren- contain all the carriages on the fullest court- Guards to Buckingham House. There is, aft place for his majesty to hold his days, and for reviewing the troops on royal however, still time for the public to express ing-rooms and give his fêtes in: when all birth-days and other festivals. At each ex- their opinion with regard to farther encroachcommencing, the public surely has a tremity, wings could be carried down to the ment. Carlton House Garden, it is true, is quire whether these extraordinary garden wall, of the same external character, gone; but the Garden of Marlborough House, Pigs are judicious—and whether the containing the king's and queen's private apart and that of St. James's, with the Palace, may Terms are after a fine example of the Doric ments, the offices of the lord chamberlain, lord still be saved; as well as the open spaces on the their intrinsic beauty almost redeems their steward, &c. and forming three sides of a quad-south side of the Park. If the wishes of the rangle next the Park. This quadrangle might be people are strongly expressed upon the subject a "Such was the casket in which it had -if petitions are presented to Parliament-if a Spanish galleon, so heavily laden that her in her hand she held a letter, which she had the periodical press will lend its powerful aid-gunwale was almost under water, brought the just been reading with attention. Anna was and, above all, if the anti-Nashional feeling rich wines of Andalusia, and ingots of gold attired in a gown of black velvet, embroidered appear unanimous, 'the lungs of London' and silver, to the universal mart. may yet be preserved, if not in their pristine pendants of the light Italian felucca streamed only the tight sleeves as low as the wrist, The gay with gold, yet simple in its fashion. It had state of health, at least not materially im- in the air, as the pilot stood at the helm, and without the encumbrance of those long and paired by the quackeries to which they have of thought, as he passed down the many canals of hanging ones, which sometimes served the late been subject."-We are glad to see that Ghent, how great was their inferiority to the ladies for the purpose of a pocket, as well as a the question of improvements has already been channels of his own city, that rose from the part of ornamental dress. The gown, set close mooted in the House of Commons; and shall, bosom of the Adriatic; whilst, as the doge pro- to her shape, and terminating just above the as we have stated, return to it in our next. ceeded to claim the latter as his bride, her white bosom, left the neck bare, whose clear and and marble domes looked as if they were formed transparent hue was finely contrasted by the The White Hoods; an Historical Romance. for the palaces of Neptune, and the sea-nymphs deep rich black of the velvet. Her hair, parted By Anna Eliza Bray, late Mrs. C. Stothard, his lively song, the Frenchman talked, laughed, back of the head, (whose form was perfectly of his train. Whilst the Venetian thus carolled in front, turned up, and bound together at the Author of De Foix, &c. 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1828. Longman and Co. and danced upon the deck of his vessel, as if seen by this simple fashion,) was covered by a THE question of the benefit or otherwise of wines of his native country, must necessarily fillet or chaplet of pearls. his spirits, light, sparkling, and brisk as the thin veil of silver tissue, and encircled with a historical novels is one on which, though much find a vent, or would burst by an excited fermay be said on both sides, but one decision can be made. A well-written romance of this kind mentation. Here the heavy Dutchman calcu- pleased Heaven to place the rare jewel of her calls attention, and throws an interest round the difference of the exchange, whether it were hearted, and tender, with a more than orlated the value of his butter and cheese, and mind. Anna period whose manners, incidents, &c. must be was naturally good, open. faithfully depicted; for the writer of the present Flemish old crown.' The Dane looked surly tered by the secluded manner of her education. now in favour of the Holland gelder or of the dinary share of timidity, which had been fosday is well aware of the necessity of accurate and drank brandy, as he unloaded his stores of But what might have been deemed an advanstatements. The general reader will be amused dried stockfish, hides, and furs; and the En- tage to most females in early life entire seand inevitably instructed; and many will be prompted to seek for further information. The glishman cursed the Flemings for cowardly clusion, with her perhaps had been prejudicial; White Hoods will, we think, stand very high rascals, who could never find spirit enough to since it had fostered not only her timidity, but in its class. There is a most interesting story, one of the streets of Ghent, near the market- as all persons endowed with that finer quality quarrel with any country but their own. some spirited sketches of character, and most place, stood a house of more than ordinary of the soul are invariably prone to romance, or In an uncommonly imaginative turn of mind: and faithful pictures of the times: we must let our readers judge for themselves. What would beauty in its structure. It was ascended by a the beau ideal of things, her imagination, unmany a modern tourist give for such an ani- flight of steps that terminated beneath a vaulted corrected by an intercourse with the world, porch, having two lateral apertures or arches, (which is perhaps the most certain remedy "The houses in Ghent were lofty, and exhi-richly decorated with Gothic carvings in stone. against the charming dreams it creates,) had bited that style of structure so peculiar to the Above the oaken door it sheltered, stood within led her to expect human life and its events to Gothic ages, wherein taste and stability became a niche the image of the Virgin Mary, formed be modelled after the manner in which her united. Their material often consisted of small model of a ship in her hands. Underneath was mind; where romance had thrown around her of wood, painted and gilt, and holding the vivid conception had presented them to her bricks of a fine texture, and of a gray colour, this inscription, emblazoned in golden letters, an existence all sunshine, beauty, and inwhich were so well put together, and so well in the Flemish tongue :- Sir Simon de Bête, nocence. combined with the various ornaments of the edifices, that they could scarcely be considered knight, master of the very worshipful the com- thought no one capable of treachery, and, alShe suspected no one of guile, she inferior to stone. The cathedral of St. Bavon, caused me to be made, in honour of our blessed look upon the world and all things in it such as pany of goldsmiths, and burgomaster of Ghent, most unconscious of the motive, she resolved to then newly finished, exhibited all the magnifi- Lady the Virgin Mary, in memory of her great her fancy had delighted to portray." cence that wealth and talent could supply as an offering to the superstitions of the Romish laden with ingots of gold, and in peril of the without recommending those who are inclined delivery of his good ship the Cockatrice, when church; whilst the towers and gray walls of St. waters: for which service, I am but one of to make good our first assertion-of amusement We cannot close our notice of these volumes Nicholas looked even then venerable from their these three hundred images vowed by the wor- often leading to a desire for information, to antiquity. The communication from one street shipful Sir Simon to our Lady of deliverance, turn from the novelist's pleasant page to the to another was facilitated by a number of swing whereof that in gold stands in the church of the masterly article on L'Histoire des Ducs de bridges, boats, and small craft. The town was Holy Virgin of this town."" entirely walled throughout the whole of its vast circumference; and so strong were these gress is traced, and which will shew the good Bourgoyne, where young Von Artaveld's pro defences, that even at the present time the use our fair authoress has made of her matériel remains of these walls and towers seem impreg nable to the beholder. All was busy, all in motion; every thing bespoke the thriving activity of commercial wealth. Here were seen vessels unloading the wool transported from England, or the timber from Norway. There mated sketch as follows! of considerable interest. Now though we will not break in upon the story, yet we must give the portrait of the heroine. Punch and Judy with Illustrations drawn and engraved by George Cruikshank; accompa nied by the Dialogue of the Puppet-show, ar Account of its Origin, and of Puppet-show in England. 8vo. pp. 111. London, 1828 Prowett. father's house in Ghent, which John Lyon had "Anna was seated in an apartment of her exclusively appropriated for his daughter, and which in our times would be called by a lady her boudoir. Her lute and rebec lay upon a table, near which a few manuscript volumes, On this subject we have the following letter, which fine cabinet of Indian' manufacture. These THE neglect with which the hero of thi that formed her library, were placed within a ve select from many others, as it relates to arrangements volumes consisted of the lives of some of the volume has for centuries been treated by me Sir,There is no subject that interests me more in most eminent Catholic saints, a book of songs, of literature may readily be accounted for he Literary Gazette than " London Improvements:"llow me then to commend the idea thrown out by your virelays, and roundelays, a few of the Italian Throughout the whole of his adventurous an orrespondent, a Friend to Improvement, for transferring poets, (for Anna was not ignorant of their lan- changeable career, he no where evinced th he pillars at Carlton House to opposite the Horse Guards o support his proposed temple, instead of the roof to the guage,) and a little illuminated book, which slightest regard for letters or their professors ountain at Waterloo Place. But my chief object in she prized more than all the rest, as it con- and the dispensers of fame and immortalit roubling you is, to propose that, whether the fountain tained the songs and poems of a friend who had have seldom failed, in the course of all hi e covered or not, instead of flowing in an unvarying written them out for her, and had caused the tory, to requite such brainless folly by with passing through variously shaped nozzles, to be applied by work to be thus illustrated to enhance the holding from the offender that meed for whic inseen and self-acting mechanism, so as to take the form value of the gift. A crucifix, with a missal he has toiled and sweated in the field, or stru of a pine, a Chinese umbrella, a plane, a globe, in succesion, till the whole of the nozzles are gone through. No- lying near its base, was seen in a small recess of gled on the throne of power. How many Ca hing of this is new, farther than in its application as a the chamber; and a frame containing a piece of sars are unknown to posterity, in consequen ead of water in that low situation, I hope so good an op- the fair Anna was exercised, stood near the vicissitudes, and a high and stirring lit leasing novelty to town ornament; and from the great tapestry, upon which the taste and industry of of their thinking that hard knocks and gra ber sat in a thoughtful posture, with her arm that grated window. The lovely mistress of the cham- were sufficient to make them talked of her supported her head resting upon the table, and tream or jet, it be made to assume a series of forms, by ortunity will not be allowed to pass without putting it in exceed 160., and no great skill in contrivance would be practice. The additional expense would probably not required. I might probably have shewn how it could be managed, if I were not fearful of intruding.-D. E. noticed a fortnight ago.—Ed. |