with great applause; if this was the sepulchral drawl, always inanimate, animation or fire than an automaton ;} case, it must have been because his always unfeeling. Whether as the fat Axalla, in Tamerlane; Lovewell, in countenance was not exactly seen, for ghost in Hamlet, or Banquo, the hypo- the Clandestine Marriage, &c. &c. and surely no person can be pleased unless critical arch fiend Stukely, the dis- numberless others, formerly performed the eye answers to the heart, and the trest merchant Antonio, the Solemn by Mr. C. Kemble, will fully justify external corresponds with the internal Capulet, the licentious and overbear-our remarks. It was a direct insult to action. Mr. Pope may have been a iug Henry the Eighth, or the majestic the public to assign him the character good actor; we do not mean to deny Cymbeline, it is still nothing but Mr. of the Prince of Wales, in Henry IV.; it; we cannot contradict it; but we Egerton. The pungent remarks of the gay, the airy, the sprightly Henry are speaking of him as he is at the pre- the sarcastic sneer are entirely lost by was converted into a vulgar Irish begsent time, when he is neither a fine, a the inefficient manner in which Mr. trotter; all the elegance, the wit, the good, or even, generally speaking, a Egerton performs the character. In piquant raillery was completely lost; tolerable actor. He is barely respect- Tullus Aufidius, he looks more like a our disgust was also much increased able in more than half a dozen charac- brawny butcher than a Volscian, he is by having, a short time before, seen ters; nothing can be worse than his sadly wanting in nobility in his inter- Mr. C. Kemble in the same part, Iago; indeed, we only mention it to views with the haughty Coriolanus. whose exquisite delineation was still deplore that any one should be per- His attempt of Joseph Surface merits vivid in our recollection. What are mitted to stalk through the very cha- the severest animadversion, unless, inracter which has acquired so much ce-deed, we would divest the accomplished lebrity from the pre-eminent acting of hypocrite of every thing like gentlethe late Mr. Cooke, Mr. Kean, and manly manners. What are we to say Mr. Macready. The illusion is com- then of his Macduff? If clenching his pletely destroyed; we trust, however, fist and striking his bosom every other never again to endure the pain of its moment, is pathetic, it is unquestionrepetition. We are, however, always ably a fine performance: in our hummore happy to point out beauties than ble opinion, however, every body can defects; it therefore gives us pleasure do so; it is the transition of voice and to eulogize the feeling manner in which countenance from desperate to languid he plays Hubert, particularly the scene sorrow, as the passion fluctuates, that in which he is about to put out the indicates the master; it is this which eyes of the unfortunate Arthur. His renders Mr. C. Kemble's personation rough honesty in Clytus, his trusty of the wronged and virtuous Thane, Caius,' in King Lear,' his admirable the most perfect representation on the performance of Sciolto, his Old John stage. He is coarse and vulgar in of Gauut, Time Honour'd Lancaster,' Major Oakley, to a degree that can his blunt Casca, and his highly natural charm only his counterparts in the galrepresentation of Old Norval, deserve leries. His Ford possesses very few favourable mention. But here com- beauties, but we forbear further commendation must cease. His Henry ment, as the part is altogether far bethe Sixth is boisterous, noisy, and vo-yond him. His lego is but little betciferous; and we really feel obliged to ter than Mr. Pope's; his own good: Richard for ridding us of so much cla- sense should teach him never to appear nourous vehemence. He may have in characters of this nature; he cannot played Mr. Oakley and Mr. Strick-surely expect to succeed in them. His land well in his younger days, but they best efforts, and they are but efforts, are miserable now. His Friar Laware Syphax, Clytus, and Sully, in rence and Lascasas are the best things Henri Quatre. He makes as much he has done lately; they might, how of the bluntness of the two former chaever, be very much improved. We racters, as it is possible, and he both advise Mr. Pope to repress his voice as looked and dressed the latter extremely much as possible; his other physical well. The good humoured gaiety, deficiencies, of course, he can never gallantry, and generosity of Heuri are supply, but he may be more calm, finely contrasted with the gravity of his and act with a little more judgment staid counsellor, Sully; we again reand discretion; we never expect to see peat that these characters are very dehim play finely, but he certainly may,cently performed. with care and attention, maintain his It may be, with justice, said of a decent third-rate per we to say, then, of his perpetual performance of Don Juan? why, merely this; that he is about as far distant from giving us any conception of the character, as we are from the Antipodes. Imagine a fat, vulgar, bald-headed man of forty, personating the handsomest, most gallant, and most dissipated character throughout the Spanish dominions. Is it possible that such a representation can excite any thing but laughter and well-merited contempt? The only characters which he performs at all respectably, are Irishmen; he is, however, too hurried in his articulation; still he possesses a more just conception of an Irish gentleman than we gene ally see exhibited; he has no more of the brogue than is sufficient to distinguish his country, in which respect he reminds us of the inimitable Johnstone. We have good specimens of gentlemen in Sir Patrick M'Guire and Sir Lucius O'Trigger; he likewise displays considerable ability in such bogtrotters as Pat, in Pigeons and Crows, and the Irishman, in Rosina; nor will we forget O'Donnel, in Heuri Quatre; Foigard, in the Beaux Stratagem; Fa ther Luke, in the Poor Soldier; and Captais O'Cutter, in the Jealous Wife. Though last not least in our dear love' stands Mr. HOLLAND; we think this gentleman has a small portion of talent, but it is obscured by a host of faults. 'He creeps, he flies, (a hero should not walk', he struts, he bellows, he saws the air with one hand. Whenever be personates old men, he walks as if his legs were tied together; station as Mr. CONNOR, that he has no spur to when young ones or lovers, he seems to former. prick the sides of his intent, but only have initely too much self importOf MR. EGERTON the less said the vaulting ambition which overleaps it- ance to think of any thing but himself; better, he is indeed a fellow of no self.' The characters of Glow-worm, it is, therefore, in middle aged characmark nor likelihood,' if he has been in Teasing made Easy, (originally susters that he succeeds the best. Among seen once, he has been seen always, hetained by Mr. Jones;) Howard, in the these we would instance Buckingham, has no change of voice, no variety of Will; Kera Khan, Pizarro, the fiery and Valerius, in Brutus, which possess manner, always the same monotonous Tybalt, (Mr. Connor having no more considerable merit. It was presump certain, but that my imagination might have disturbed my faculties, and rendered me incapable of proceeding with safety along this perilous path. ON BALLS FOR CHILDREN.' To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven,' said the wise man; but said it before the invention of baby balls. This modern device is a sort of a triple conspiracy against the innocence, the health, and the happiness of children. Thus by factitious amusements to rob them of a relish for the simplejoys, the unbought delights, which naturally belong to them, is like blotting out spring from the year. To sacrifice the true and proper enjoyments of sprightly and happy children, is to make them pay a dear and disproportionate price for their artificial pleasures. tion in him to attempt the character of would mention. A company of Jews, the Abbé de L'Epeè, especially after six in number, from Santa Cruz for Mr. Kemble had performed it in so Morocco, came to this place with their masterly a style. In Lord Lovell, he loaded mules in the twilight, after sits as unconcerned during the time sunset; being very anxious to get past Sir Giles Overreach is relating his vil- it before night, they did not take the lainous projects, as if they were con- precaution to look out and call aloud versing on common place topics. No- before they entered on it, for there is thing can be much more absurd than a place built at each end of this danto see him figuring away in comedy; gerous piece of road, from whence one it is quite ridiculos for a man of his may see if there are others on it, not age to aim at performing Darnley, in being quite half a mile in length; a the Hypocrite; Hastings, in She Stoops person, in ballooing out, can be heard to Conquer; and Colonel Briton, in from one end to the other, and it is the the Wouder. What could induce him practice of all who go this way to give to undertake Cassio, for which he has this signal. A company of Moors had not a single requisite? His drunken entered at the other end going towards scene is miserable; indeed, the whole Santa Cruz, at the same time, and character is completely murdered. The they also supposing that no others only part which he really plays finely, would dare to pass it at that hour, is the Prior, in Bertram; we could not came on without the usual precaution. have imagined that he possessed so When about half way over, and in the much talent: in several passages he place the two parties uiet, there was no was eminently successful, and received possibility of passing each other, or that applause which his admirable de- turning abont to back either way; the lineation so richly deserved; indeed, Moors were mounted as well as the They step at once from the nursery we really are at a loss whether to ad- Jews, neither party could retire, nor to the ball-room, and, by a preposternire hin, in the Prior, or Mr. Kean, could any one, except the foremost, ous change of habits, are thinking of in Pertram, the most; we should, how-get on his mule: the Moors soon be- dressing themselves at an age when ever, have preferred religion clad in a came outrageous, and threatened to they ought to be dressing their dolls. little less austerity. We shall now throw the Jews down headlong: the Instead of bounding with the unre conclude our brief notices of these gen-Jews, though they had always been strained freedom of wood-pymphs over tlemen, merely observing, that we trust treated like slaves, and forced to sub-hill and dale, their cheeks flushed with they will never appear in any charac-mit to every insult and indignity, yet ter which r. quires a more than ordinary finding themselves in this perilous sishare of genius or ability. tuation, without the possibility of reW. H. PARRY.tiring, and unwilling to break their necks merely to accommodate the Moors, the foremost Jew dismounted, carefully, over the head of his mule, with a stout stick in his hand; the Moor nearest him did the same, and came forward to attack him with his scimitar: both were fighting for their lives, as neither could retreat; the Jew's mule was first pitched down the craggy steep, and dashed to atoms by the fall. The Jew's stick was next hacked to pieces by the scimitar; when, finding it was impossible for him to save his life, he seized the Moor in his arms, and, springing off the precipice, both were instantly hurled to destruction; THE JEW'S LEAP.* THE path we were now obliged to follow was not more than two feet wide, in one place, and on our left it broke off in a precipice of some hundred feet deep to the sea; the smallest slip of the mule or camel would have plunged it and its rider down the rocks to inevitable and instant death, as there was no bush or any thing to lay hold of by which a man might save his life. Very fortunately for us, there had been no rain for a considerable time previots, so that the road was now dry. Rais told me, when it was wet it was never attempted, and that many fatal accidents had happened there within his remembrance; though there was another road which led round over the mountain far within the country. One of these accidents he said he two more of the Jews and one Moor. lost their lives, in the same way, toge- lives on the pass, and the place has, ever since, been called the Jew's Leap. A dangerous and frightful pass, over which It is, indeed, enough to produce dizziCaptain Riley and his fellow sufferers travelled, in their journey from Santa Cruz towards Moness, even in the head of a sailor, and gadore, as related in his own narrative-From if I had been told the story before getRiley's Narrative. ting on this frightful ridge, I am not, health, and their hearts overflowing with happiness, these pretty little creatures are shut up all the morning, demurely practising a minuet, or transacting the more serious business of acquiring the Highland fling, with more cost and pains than it would take them to acquire twenty new ideas.— Hannah More. Eriginal Poetry. ANTAR'S DREAM. Methought; that we that moment turn'd That flash'd and trembled through the air: And round it like a scorpion curl'd: Forsook the sphere where they were fixt; That roll'd the earth and sky betwixt. While gliding on, all lightly they, And ev'ry star was, hissing, whirl'd The bride and bridegroom downward fell, IMITATION. WILFORD. He saw an arm alone, he felt its grasp, gave, Felt round, and grasp'd at all he deemed might save. A group stood there, Moncada, Stanton, those It pointed to the long protracted hour SAM SPRITSAIL. SONG FROM the Gaelic, Tune MY POOR DOG TRAY.' to literature, and the fine arts. It is, in its connexion with the last subject that we propose to consider, the present exhibition, and, we will venture to say, that the advantage which painting may derive from the study of this valuable collection, will not be inconsiderable. The preservation of costume, in historical composition, is always desirable, and although deficiency, in this respect, may be pardoned, when its want is counterbalanced by excellence in the higher branches of art, still, we believe, none of our readers will be inclined to think that impropriety, as far as relates to costume, is not to be avoided. This assertion will not have less weight, if we consider how many of the greatest masters have fallen into the most glar-. ing and absurd incongruities from a want of attention to this point. We are THOUGH December to others seems bleak and disgusted when we see Rembrandt, the severe, 'Tis the dearest to me of the circling year; severe, 'Tis the dearest to me of the circling year; It snows. It gave me a breath sweet as vernal perfume; snow, Thou art dearer to me than the summer's bright glow; And my Mary, the treasure thou gavest to me, like thee. When her beauty and bloom shall have yielded to age, great master of the chiaroscuro, in his Descent from the cross,' representing a Jewish ruler under the similitude of a fat Dutch burgomaster, almost as much so as when we see in our old Bibles, God the Father represented in a Quaker's coat, with steel buckles, looking out of the burning bush, and Moses unlacing a pair of hob-nailed boots at his command. We lament, when even Il Divino Raffaelle, in his celebrated 'Parnassus,' arms his Apollo like a French dancing-master, with a modern violin. As these instances plainly shew into what absurdities the greatest artists have fallen from neglect of appropriate costume, we cannot but regard it as a happy omen, when we see an exhibition opened in the heart of our fashionable metropolis, for the express purpose of introducing to our attention, some of the choicest specimens of military antiquities. The different parts of the collection are disposed in such a way as to reflect the highest credit on the taste and ingenuity of the exhibitor, as well as to make a striking impression on the mind of every visitor; indeed, the arrangement is only to be exceeded by the costliness and good choice displayed in the collection. We shall notice a few of the most striking specimens, as our limits will not allow us Of all the branches of knowlege, to enter into a minute detail of every which have, at different times, em- part of the exhibition. A whole length ployed the energies, and excited the of Henri Quatre, which we believe an investigation of the human mind, there authentic likeness of that distinguished is, perhaps, scarcely any so universally sovereign, forms a striking object in the useful as the study of antiquity, and collection; and the armour, in point of the inquiry into the manners and cus- beauty and preservation, has never pertoms of past ages. The genius of an-haps been equalled, certainly never sur tiquarian research lends, successively, passed. The armour of a knight of the his assistance to history and romance, Second Crusade, consisting of a suit of As the beauties of nature now yield to thy rage, Then dear shall she be as the light to my eyes, Fine Arts. ANCIENT ARMOUR. Which awakes chain armour of the most curious and unique nature, being in a state of preservation, when we consider the great antiquity which it has now at tained; as if we transfer to other ob The Drama. his death. The autograph MS., which is in the Swedish language, has been sent to Upsal, and will speedily be The Museum of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, among other curiosities, contains a bulrash, cut in Nepaul, eighty-four feet long; a serpent with two heads; specimens of mosaic from Agra and Galconda; cystals from Nepaul, and sculptures from Persepolis, Java, &c. make any exertion during the Christ-printed. As it is seldom deemed necessary to jects the title to excellence in the lite-ing a new pantomime, our notice of the inas Holidays beyond that of producrary world, fixed by Dr. Johnson as drama, this week, is necessarily very litenable after the lapse of a century, mited, and we must, therefore, refer the present valuable specimen of anti- our dramatic readers to the criticism on quity has already a sevenfold claim to the performers in another part of our our attention and admiration. When, journal. to this consideration, we add the circumstance, that, after the invention of plate armour, and the subsequent disuse of the maille enchainèe,' this spe cies of defensive armour was rarely to showy collections which existed in the be met with, unless in the choice, and armories of the nobility, and that even there, the plain appearance of the rusty and unsightly chain-mail gave way to the more elegant and elaborate manu facture of Milan and of Malta, we shall The Wonder was performed at this the- many ease. The promised edition of Mr. Sheridan's dramatic works is expected to appear in the course of this month; but Mr. T. Moore's life of that distin guished individual is likely to be long deferred. Mr. Hulbert, author of the Afri can Traveller,' &c. has in the press, Se lect Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and Varieties of Nature and Art.' Dr. Cartwright's Pedo-Motive Machine. The ingenious doctor's expec tation, that he should live to see carriages of every description travelling the road without horses, has been, in some of the scenes she blended energy and tenderness very happily. If she rather incline to wonder that any reliques sprightly humour, which was, in some was deficient in any thing, it was in of so remote a period should have reached us, than that so few collections degree, compensated by her unaffected can boast of more than detached por-ble, and she repeated the character on Her reception was very favourations of this species, and those, gene-Wednesday night with increased ef- degree, realized. A letter in the Star, rally, carelessly and imperfectly pre-fect. Elliston was the Don Felix, signed A Traveller,' states, that on served. To offer any observations on which he played with great spirit and the road between Tunbridge and Hastthe suit of Albert, the great champion vivacity. His drunken scene, though ings he had met a cart loaded with of Bavaria, and upon numerous other specimens, as entire as they are do- somewhat overacted, was productive of coals, and travelling without horses, much amusement. Harley was a plea- being impelled by an apparatus masant bustling Lissardo: and the two naged by two men, the same, in short, waiting maids were admirably sustain-as that invented by Dr. C. Its pace,' says the traveller, was uniform, and, as the men informed me, varied very little whether it was on level ground or tached, would extend this article to too the manner in which the entire suits The new pantomime of The Northwest Passage, has received some judicious alterations, and may probably run the usual period of such productions. COVENT GARDEN.-The public expectation has been considerably excit ་ going up hill, provided the carriage was not overloaded. On expressing But my doubts how this could be, the men to the antiquarian, to the artist, and toed by the announcement of a new tra- lity of ascending a hill, I should have the curious in general, the present exhibition at the Gothic Hall, as one which unites, at once, instruction with amusement, in a way which cannot fail to attract the notice, and delight the taste of the enlighteaed public of the metropolis. After all, the contempla tion of reliques like the present, recalls to our recollection the heroes on whose najestic forms these ponderous arms were once braced; they forcibly arrest our attention, and bring to our minds the words of the bard: Where are our chiefs of old? Where are the kings? Of mighty name? The fields of their battles are Silent-Scarce their mossy tombs remain.' Room report, not always the most. doubted still more (had I not seen it) gedy, from the pen of Mr. Barry, the rapidity and safety with which it Cornwall, called Mirandola, which was went down. On coming to a short to have been performed on Thursday "ight: its production is, however, post, steep hill, instead of locking the wheel, Green considering how heavily the carriage Poned until Tuesday next. was loaded, the carriage was suffered much faster than any prudent man to run down with unrestrained velocity, would have ventured with a light gig. I saw clearly, however, there was no danger; for the whole machine, I observed, was guided with the greatest accuracy, and its speed, as the men informed me (and of which, on inspecting the mechanism, I had no doubt), could be regulated at pleasure, or even stopped, should occasion require it, in the middle of its career, in an instant.' The new pantomime continues at tractive. 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