studies, by W. Payne, Nos. 96 and 6 satins strive, And all, but Sir or Madam, are alive.' liberty which a painter may possess of making his subject picturesque, and that too upon a subject sufficiently so of itself.-No. 155, The young Hero dismayed,' by Farmer; 169, The meeting of Penelope and Ulysses,' by Hilton; and Haines's Sappho,' 167, are all works of the highest merit, especially the first, which proves the artist to be a worthy competitor of W. Kidd, whom he strongly resembles in point of manner and subject. We must defer our remarks on the south room to our next and concluding paper on the British Gallery. W. H. PARRY. The Brama. trust that this will not be the last, the most extended, or the most finished form in which we shall have the pleasure of admiring this masterly though small production.-No. 114,A Composition,' from the Electra of Sophocles, though possessing great merit as an heroic landscape, is, nevertheless, lamentably imperfect as an historical scene; the figures are badly drawn, the composition slovenly, and the narrative void of pathos. We may add to this a fault which we have already commented upon as one of frequent occurrence, namely, a crudity and a want of finish discernible in the clouds, and the accidents of the picture.-No. 143, Conway Castle,' is one of the most interesting and picturesque views of this noble pile; it is by J. O. Tu- DRURY LANE.-Operas still condor; the castle, seen as it is through a tinue their triumphant success: but beautiful foreground, consisting of we are happy to find Mr. Haynes's overarching trees, is, in a very great tragedy of Conscience announced for degree, superior in point of colouring Monday next, in consequence of puand effect; though the foliage, &c. is, merous inquiries. This does not surperhaps, rather too much inclined to a prise us, for we should really almost be crude green, a colour to which the led to suspect the good taste of the pubfashion of painting, a department cer- lic, if this tragedy was not much adtainly upon which the variable god-mired. dess has no right to intrude, seems, at The Oratorio at this theatre, on present, rather too favourable, as that Wednesday night, was an admirable A blueish deadness pervades the flesh of the last age was a too great ad- selection, and attracted a crowded autints, which produces this effect, and mixture of glowing and rich brown dience. The first act consisted almost which is carried to a still more exces- tints. A warm and vivid conception entirely of pieces by Handel and Mosive degree in the shadows. Two of Mr. Gandy's, being a landscape zart, and concluded with Bochsa's Views near Twickenham,' by C. Deane, composition from Collins' Alva, al-Quartetto, which was, as usual, enNos. 109 and 136, are extremely beau- most tempts us to encroach still fur- cored. Mr. Kieswetter played some tiful; they are well chosen, and the ther on the patience of our readers, as popular airs of Mozart's on the violin, former, an evening effect, is particu- well as a View of Lyons,' by Eliza of which instrument he is a perfect larly correct in point of likeness, and Mastcall, No. 158; but our limits al- master, as well in elegance as in brilthe gleaming of the western sun be- ready admonish us to put the curb up-liancy. The second act was chiefly hind the trees, is represented with ex- on our inclinations, and we must pass from the Cosi fan tutti and Figaro. traordinary force and elegance; the to the View of Naples,' in a thunder One of the eccentricities of the evening, latter, a moonlight scene, is, perhaps, storm, by T. Barker, No. 157, a piece was a duet between Braham and Pyne rather deficient in that silvery light equally remarkable for strength of a duet between Othello and Iago;which characterizes effects of this na- composition and beauty of execution; this is really too bad. Shakespeare is ture, as well as in that indistinctuess for sublimity of subjects and pathos of sadly treated at this house: his statue of hue, which does not give way to the description, in which the diligent ob- is turned out of doors, and placed in a borrowed beams of the pale arbitress server of nature and the powerful em- most lamentable position on the portiof night,' obedient only to the great bodier of her most striking phenome-co; and his immortal productions are alchymist of colour, the beam of the na are equally discernible. We would metamorphosed on the stage. eye of day. No. 92, Grapes, by J. observe, on No. 152, A bridge at ham, Madame Comporese, and Mrs. Platt, Jun., is a very beautiful speci- Beckenham,' that it should rather have Salmon, sung frequently, and were men of art, possessing, in a high de been entitled a bridge;'-we do not much applauded; and the Oratorio, gree, that brilliant transparency, in mean to insinuate by this, that we re- on the whole, was the best of the seawhich a similar subject, No. 116, by quired such a title to perceive that it son. J. Barney, Jun., is miserably defici- was intended for such a structure, as ent.-No. 112, The Tournament of we have no particular fault to find with Ashby de la Zouche and the Crowning it as a work of art, but merely that of Il Disdichado,' by Stephanoff. In the dissimilarity between the copy this animated and faithful, though spi-and the original scene might be less rited sketch, we instantly recognized the glaring to those who, like ourselves, hand of the artist whose name it bears. are acquainted with the identical obIt is a piece replete with energy and ject; indeed, we scarcely ever saw a descriptive genius; and we hope, and stronger specimen of the abuse of the Bra COVENT GARDEN.-On Wednesday night, Miss Dance appeared in the character of Belvidera, in Otway's tragedy of Venice Preserved, and did more than justify the expectations which her performance of Mrs. Haller had excited. In scenes of tenderness, as well as in several passages of strong sensibility, she produced a pleasing and sons, we particularly recommend this powerful impression. The well-known Colour of the Skin.—At a late meetwords to Jaffier, I know thou'lt kill ing of the Royal Society, Sir Everard' me,' were spoken by her in the true Home communicated some observatone of nature and feminine terror. tions on the influence of the black subThe adieu, in the third act, Remem stance in the skin of the Negro, in preber, twelve!' was uttered by Miss SURREY THEATRE. This theatre venting the scorching operation of the Dance with a tenderness of tone and a closed a very successful season on sun's rays. A's black surfaces become sweetness of inflexion, and even a no- Thursday night last, when the perform- much warmer by exposure to the sun's velty of manner, which left nothing to ances were for the benefit of Mrs. Dib-rays than those which are white, or of be wished for; and her whole perform- din, who was deservedly honoured with paler tints, the cause of the black coance of the character was such as to place a brilliant audience. A new piece was lour in the Negro has long appeared her in the first rank in the tragic dra-produced, as a rehearsal for the holi- problematical to the physiologist. In ma. C. Kemble played the love-sick, days, under the title of Alonzo and this paper Sir Everard shows, that by whining conspirator, Jaffier, with ad- Imogen. It is an interesting and mag- exposing the back of the hand, and mirable truth and correctness. Mr. nificent spectacle. Mrs. Dibdin deli-other parts of the body, covered with Macready was the Pierre of the even-vered an address in the character of thin white linen, to the direct influence ing, and we confess he disappointed us. Queen Elizabeth, in which she whimsi- of the sun's rays, they become irritated It was a very uequal performance. cally announced the preparations for and inflamed; small specks or freckles The tragedy is to be repeated this even- the ensuing campaign. The friends first appear: and these, on continued ing, (Thursday,) when, we are told, of the Surrey, (and, they are numerous, exposure, are followed by a vesicular all orders must be stopped at the even on our side of the water,) will be separation of the cuticle: the same doors;' this, we doubt not, will be the glad to hear that the house is undergo-happens when the bare surface is excase, but, as Mr. Dibdin once said, ining an entire splendid decoration, pre- posed, which, in common language, one of his humourous bills, the bearers will be permitted to walk up without any other check than that given them by the door keeper.' Miss Dance needs not the meretricious aid of puffing. The Duenna has been produced at this theatre with great success, Miss Hallande, in Carlos, and Miss Stephens, in Clara, were admirable. MR. MATHEWS AT HOME.-We are happy to find that this gentleman, who has contributed more to the amusements of the metropolis than any other individual, continues to attract crowded houses a very satisfactory and conclusive evidence of the merits of the entertainments. vious to its opening on Easter Monday. M. ALEXANDRE.- Last, not least, MR. KEAN IN AMERICA. The highest compliment ever offered to dramatic genius and talents, has been paid to Mr. Kean, in Boston. Independent of paying the regular admission, the premiums for the sale of boxes, which amounted to a considerable sum, have been appropriated to charitable objects. The poor will long remember Mr. Kean.-New York Paper. OURANOLOGIA. The proprietor of the English Opera House is indefatiga ble in providing for the amusementand instruction of the public. Mr. Mathews goes through his adventnres in the air, earth, and water, and the remaining three nights are most delightfully employed by Mr. Bartley, who has soared higher than Mr. Mathews, and exhibits the phenomena of the heavens. Of all the astronomical lectures which have been given in town, with orreries and eidouranions, that of Mr. Bartley is decidedly the best. The machinery is remarkably ingenious and accurate, and presents a complete view of the system of planetary motion, preserving the relative proportions of the different revolving bodies as to size, velocity, and distance from the sun. The satellites of the different planets are exhibited with the same precision, and the theory of the tides explained by the action of the moon. To the scientific student, and to young per-ble canals. Literature and Science. becomes sun-burnt. When, however, the part of the body thus exposed is covered with a piece of black crape, though the temperature of such part, when exposed to the bright sunshine, exceeds that produced upon the bare skin, the scorching and blistering influence of the rays is entirely prevented; hence it appears, that the deleterious effects of the sun's rays are prevented by an artificial blackening of the surface of the skin; that perspiration becomes more copious, as is especially remarked in the Negro; and, in short, that the conversion of the radiant matter of the sun into sensible heat, which conversion is effected by the black surface, tends to prevent the scorching effects, and to promote the cuticular secretion. American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres.-It is with pleasure (says a United States paper of the 11th of March) that we are enabled to announce the complete organization of this National Institution. 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Future,' Mr. Hazlitt sets out with deIn the Essay on the Past and the claring he conceives that 'the past is as real and substantial a part of our being, LET the world say what it will of Mr. that it is as much a bona fide undeniHazlitt, and it has almost said as se- able consideration in the estimate of vere things of him as he has done of it, human life, as the future can possibly -he is a clever writer. Notwithstand be;' and that, neither in itself, nor as ing his strong prejudices, his eccentri-a subject of general contemplation, has city, his egotism, and his pedantry, the future any advantage over the past.' there is a great deal of originality With respect, however, to our grosser about him, and he has an honest blunt-passions and pursuits, he admits that it ness, which calls things by their right has. He says, names. This is observable in all his writings, whether they are on plays or politics, poetry or painting; and all these are favourite subjects with him, which he has often treated with great - ability. Although we deem Table Talk" a very incorrect title for Original Essays, yet we will not quarrel with the author on this account, conscious that table talk is seldom half so interesting or instructive as a page or two of this volume. To us it appears, that if this work is not one of Mr. Hazlitt's best productions, it is one of the least exceptionable. There is less of politics in it, and even his prejudices and personalities are not so acrimonious as formerly. In acuteness of remark, and terseness of expression, these essays are equal to any of the author's former works. Price 6d. few words; namely, that genius is nothing more than good sense intent presses it, some strong quality in the upon new ideas;' or, as he himself exmind, answering to and bringing out some new and striking quality in nature.' In this essay, Mr. Hazlitt gives a singular character of Mr. Wordsworth, whom he declares to be the greatest, that is the most original, poet of the present day, only because he is the greatest egotist.' This conclusion does not by any means satisfy us, and we can never consider egotism as a test or even a mark of genius or originality. As far as regards the appeal to the Were this the case, our author's friend, understanding or the imagination, the past Mr. Leigh Hunt, would be at once is just as good, as real, of as much intrin- deemed the most original prose writer sic and ostensible value as the future; of the present day, Mr. Hazlitt himman mind, the principle ofaction or will; but there is another principle in the hu-self not even excepted. In the disture engrosses it entirely to itself. It is tween capacity and genius, we perand of this the past has no hold, the futinction which our author draws bethis strong lever of the affections that fectly agree with him. He says, gives so powerful a bias to our sentiments on this subject, and violently transposes the natural order of our associations. We regret the pleasures we have lost, and eagerly anticipate those which are to come; we dwell with satisfaction on the hæc meministe iuvabit,) and dread future evils from which we have escaped, (postpain. The good that is passed is in this sense like money that is spent, which is of no further use, and about which we give ourselves little concern. The good we expect is like a store yet untouched, and in the enjoyment of which we promise ourselves infinite gratification. What has happened to us we think of no nius. Capacity may be described to reCapacity is not the same thing as gelate to the quantity of knowledge, however acquired; genius to its quality and the mode of acquiring it. Capacity is a power over given ideas or combinations which are not given, and for which no obof ideas; genius is the power over those vious or precise rule can be laid down. Our capacity is power of any sort; genius is power of a different sort from what has yet been shown. A retentive memory, a clear understanding is capa city, but it is not genius; the admirable Crichton was a person of prodigions capacity; but there is no proof (that [ The volume contains sixteen essays consequnce; what is to happen to us, know) that he had an atom of genius. on the following subjects:-On the of the greatest. Why so? Simply be- The essays 'On the Pleasure of In the essay on Genius and ComPainting' and On the Ignorance of mon Sense,' there is a great deal of the Learned,' have already appeared in acute reasoning and smartness of obperiodical publications; we shall, there-servation, tending to establish what fore, pass them over, to notice some of Madame de Stael has said in a very OL. III. His verses that remain are dull and ste rile. He could learn all that was known of any subject; he could do any thing if others could show him the way to do it. This was very wonderful, but this is all you can say of it. It requires a good capacity to play well at chess; but, after all, Know what you will of it, the understandit is a game of skill, and not of genius. ing still moves in certain tracts in which others have trod before it, quicker or slower, with more or less comprehension and presence of mind. The greatest skill strikes out nothing for itself, from its own peculiar resources; the nature of the there is no royal or poetical road to checkgame is a thing determined and fixed; mate your adversary. There is no place for genius but in the indefinite and un P-15 and valuable truth.' The sixth Essay is on the character of Cobbett, in which that versatile and unprincipled, but powerful writer, is painted to the life. The essay is much too long for insertion, and we must, therefore, content ourselves with a few extracts. Speaking of Cobbett, our author says,— known. The discovery of the binomial | novelty with all the familiarity of old ac- stand his ground. He throws his head theorem was an effort of genius; but there quaintance; his knowledge grows out of into his adversary's stomach, and takes was none shown in Jedediah Buxton's the subject, and his style is that of a man away from him all inclination for the being able to multiply nine figures by who has an absolute intuition of what he fight, hits fair or foul, strikes at every nine in his head. If he could have multi- is talking about, and never thinks of any thing, and as you come up to his aid or plied ninety figures by ninety, instead of thing else. He deals in premises and stand ready to pursue his advantage, trips nine, it would have been equally useless speaks to evidence-the coming to a con- up your heels or lays you sprawling, and toil and trouble. He is a man of capacity clusion and summing up, (which was pummels you when down as much to his who possesses considerable intellectual Paine's forte) lies in a smaller compass. heart's content as ever the Yanguesian riches; he is a man of genius who finds The one could not compose an elementa- carriers belaboured Rosinante with their out a vein of new ore. Originality is the ry treatise on politics, to become a man- pack-staves. "He has the back-trick seeing nature differently from others, and ual for the popular reader; nor could the simply the best of any man in Illyria." yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity other, in all probability, have kept up a He pays off both scores of old friendship or affectation, but the discovery of new weekly journal for the same number of and new-acquired enmity in a breath, in years, with the same spirit, interest, and one perpetual volley, one raking fire of untired perseverance. Paine's writings "arrowy sleet" shot from his pen. Howare a sort of introduction to political ever his own reputation or the cause may arithmetic on a new plan; Cobbett keeps suffer in consequence, he cares not one a day-book, and makes an entry at full of pin about that, so that he disables all who questions that start up throughout the fact, he cannot bear success of any kind, all the occurrences and troublesome oppose, or who pretend to help him. In year. Cobbett, with vast industry, vast not even of his own views or party; and information, and the utmost power of if any principle were likely to become making what he says intelligible, never popular, would turn round against it to He has been compared to Paine; and seems to get at the beginning or come to shew his power in shouldering it on one so far it is true there are no two writers the end of any question; Paine, in a few side. In short, wherever power is, there who come more into juxta-position from short sentences, seems, by his peremp- is he against it: he naturally butts at all the nature of their subjects, from the in-tory manner, "to clear it from all contro- obstacles, as unicorns are attracted to oakternal resources on which they draw, and versy, past, present, and to come." Paine trees, and feels his own strength only by from the popular effect of their writings takes a bird's-eye view of things. Cob-resistance to the opinions and wishes of and their adaptation, (though that is a bad bett sticks close to them, inspects the com- the rest of the world. To sail with the word in the present case,) to the capacity ponent parts, and keeps fast hold of the stream, to agree with the company, is not of every reader. But still, if we turn to a smallest advantages they afford him. Or, his humour. If he could bring about a volume of Paine's, (his Common Sense if I might here be indulged in a pastoral reform in parliament, the odds are, that or Rights of Man,) we are struck, (not to allusion, Paine trys to enclose his ideas he would instantly fall foul of and try to say somewhat refreshed,) by the differ-in a fold for security and repose; Cob- mar his own handy-work; and he quarence. Paine is a much more sententious bett lets his pour out upon the plain like rels with his own creatures as soon as he writer than Cobbett. You cannot open a a flock of sheep, to feed and batten. has written them into a little vogue-and page in any of his best and earlier works, Cobbett is a pleasanter writer for those a prison. I do not think this is vanity or without meeting with some maxim, some to read who do not agree with him; for fickleness so much as a pugnacious dispoantithetical and memorable saying, which he is less dogmatical, goes more into the sition, that must have an antagonist power is a sort of starting place for the argument, common grounds of fact and argument to to contend with, and only finds itself at and the goal to which it returns. There is which all appeal, is more desultory and ease in systematic opposition. If it were not a single bon mot, a single sentence in various, and appears less to be driving at a not for this, the high towers and rotten Cobbett, that has ever been quoted again. previous conclusion than urged on by the places of the world would fall before the If any thing is ever quoted from him, it is force of present conviction. He is, battering-ram of his hard-headed reasonan epithet of abuse, or a nickname. He therefore, tolerated by all parties, thoughing: but if he once found them tottering, is an excellent hand at invention in that he has made himself by turns obnoxious he would apply his strength to prop them way, and has "damnable iteration in to all; and even those he abuses read up, and disappoint the expectations of his him." What could be better than his him. The reformers read him when he followers. He cannot agree to any thing pestering Erskine year after year with his was a tory, and the tories read him now established, nor to set up any thing else second title of Baron Clackmannan? He that he is a reformer. He must, I think, in its stead. While it is established, he is rather too fond of the sons and however, be caviare to the whigs.' presses hard against it, because it presses daughters of Corruption. Paine affected As a political partisan, no one can upon him, at least in imagination. Let it to reduce things to first principles, to an- stand against him. With his brandished crumble under his grasp, and the motive nounce self-evident truths. Cobbett club, like Giant Despair, in the Pilgrim's to resistance is gone. He then requires troubles himself about little but the de- Progress, he knocks out their brains; some other grievance to set his face tails and local circumstances. The first and not only no individual, but no cor- against. His principle is repulsion, his appeared to have made up his mind be- rupt system could hold out against his nature contradiction: he is made up of forehand to certain opinions, and to try to powerful and repeated attacks; but with mere antipathies, an Ishmaelite, indeed, find the most compendious and pointed the same weapon, swung round like a without a fellow. He is always playing expressions for them; his successor ap- flail, that he levels his antagonists, he lays at hunt-the-slipper in politics. He turns pears to have no clue, no fixed or leading his friends low, and puts his own party round upon whoever is next him. The principles, nor ever to have thought on a hors de combat. This is a bad propen-way to wean him from any opinion, and question till he sits down to write about sity, and a worse principle in political tac- make him conceive an intolerable hatred it; but then there seems no end of his tics, though a common one. If his blows against it, would be to place somebody matters of fact and raw materials, which were straight forward and steadily di- near him who was perpetually dinning it are brought out in all their strength and rected to the same object, no unpopular in his ears. When he is in England, he sharpness, from not having been squared minister could live before him; instead does nothing but abuse the boroughmonor frittered down, or vamped up to suit of which he lays about right and left, im- gers, and laugh at the whole system: a theory-he goes on with his descrip- partially and remorselessly, makes a clear when he is in America, he grows impa tions and illustrations as if he would never stage, has all the ring to himself, and tient of freedom and a republic. If he come to a stop; they have all the force of then runs out of it, just when he should had staid there a little longer, he would |