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to; and there can be no doubt but every respectable housekeeper would willingly embrace such an offer, if made on the terms proposed. Let the plan be but generally adopted, and society will quickly find the benefit of its operation.

FOREVER.

civil as well as religious enactments, and himself. As the application of that some fixed system of national edu- this system extends at present only to cation became necessary to instruct the the children of the poor, the studies people in all the particulars of their are confined to reading, writing, duty. This task was assigned to the arithmetic, and needle-work, of the high priest and his assistants; and it steady improvement in which, as well was positively commanded that the whole as the orthodox opinions of the children law should be read over once every in the important article of religion, seven years, at the feast of tabernacles, the yearly examination of the several in solemn assembly of all the people; schools offer convincing evidence. To the Editor of the Literary Chronicle. and the substance of it, as contained in These elementary instructions, howSIR,-Can you serve me, your most the Song of Moses, should be learned ever excellent and useful in them-humble servant? Forever! You may by heart by every Israelite, and that selves, have been objected to by some, depend on my importance, and find every king of Israel should be obliged as being defective in extent; and it has me in many places,-since an election to make a copy of it, with his own been inquired, to what end is all this never takes place without me, and I am hand, from that which was committed learning, if the children, when dis- there used in the way of expressing the by Moses to the custody of the Le- missed from the school, are totally ig- highest triumph. Whenever your vites, for his own private instruction.norant of every means of gaining a The Rabbies add, that if the king had livelihood? This observation has been not written a copy of it before he came particularly made relative to the girls, to the crown, he was obliged to write who, on going out to service, have two afterwards, the one to be deposited been found totally incapable of every in his treasury, and the other to be domestic employment, and qualified kept about him for his daily medita- only for semptresses and nursery gotion and direction. But, from the vernesses. perfection to which this people arrived, at a very early period, in the arts and sciences, we are led to conclude that their great legislator, Moses, who was learned in all the learning of the Egyptians,' was careful to have them properly instructed in those trades and employments which would be so necessary to their prosperity when they came to be established as a nation in the land of Canaan.

Though this is an evil of which there are too many examples (I may say in both sexes), yet it appears not to be without remedy; and, accordingly, means have been taken in an establish ment at Mile End, to institute a manufactory, on the same principle as that at the school for the blind, where the various handicraft trades are taught. But this still appears to embrace only the boys, whilst the girls remain unacquainted with domestic employments. It has been suggested, that this may be remedied by sending out each girl above ten years of age, in regular rotation, one day in each week, to the houses of respectable families in the neighbourhood, to assist the servants, for their keep, by which means they will in time be qualified in those employments, on which, from their station in society, they will most probably depend for their livelihood.

most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth appears in public, I am uppermost on the lips of his subjects. I was also to the lonely woman who is departed, of much consequence; and yet time shows how little I am attended to. I am used more than occasion sanctions in many of your domestic circles, Forever quarelling!-Then reproached as a sot,- Forever drinking !'-As a book-worm,- Forever reading !'Sometimes Forever gossipping! That woman's clack-is Forever going? Her ladyship-is Forever painting? And then, cries the wrathful divine, a wicked man-is Forever d-d!' I sincerely trust, sir, I am quite secure from any condemnation, seeing that happiness-is Forever sure! DoubtBut it is not to the Jews alone that lessly so; yet pardon me, sir, if I tell we may refer for arguments in support you that an illiberal critic-is Forever of a national system of education, as abusive! I have great complaint to every regularly established colony, howmake against those persons who leave ever small in number and rude in mantheir property so illiberally, and to be ner, affords an example of its practice; so soon possessed. Why not leave it though, to the persevering industry of Forever? Ah! sir, how immense Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster is to be would my wealth be if I could ever attributed the state of perfection to hope to be in possession of it! which, which it has now arrived. After the like happiness to the fond pursuer, is controversy which has so long subever within view, but never within sisted between these two champions of grasp. I should be more successful if learning respecting their several claims. If this plan was generally adopted, an angry foe called Never were not to originality, I shall not dwell on the the evil complained of would be effec- opposed to my interests; however, comparative merits of either, but view tually remedied, and society at large Sometimes aids my cause. Whatsoever, the system generally, as a public insti- proportionably benefitted. The extra-Whosoever, and several other relatives. tution, whose ultimate object is the in-vagance, insolence, and ignorance so have my warmest thanks, and, to prestruction of the rising generation. vent you disliking me, reject every arReligion, the knowledge and practice ticle sent you of every other descripof which involves both the temporal tion, since I assure you, with great and eternal welfare of the human race, modesty, there can be no writer like is here, as it was with the Jews, the one who writesFOREVER! great end and aim of the institution; and its principles, though they may be differently explained in the two establishments, are so clearly developed in both, as to lead the pupil to an intimate and practical knowledge of the duties he owes to God, his neighbour,

generally found among servants, and
the high wages they frequently de-
mand, would by this means be remov-
ed, whilst the instructions they had
imbibed in the school, would tend
powerfully to correct that looseness of
morals, at present so lamentably pre-
valent among this class of society.

All this could be easily effected by
the agency of the mistresses of the
schools, who, by inquiry, could ascer-
Itain the proper places to send the girls

Islington, Aug. 1821.

LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.

SCARCE the shrill trumpet or the echoing horn
With zeal impatient chides the tardy morn,
When Thames, meandering as thy channel strays,
Its ambient wave Augusta's Lord surveys:

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eyes,

Where erst proud Rufus bade his courts arise. 'Here borne, our Civic Chief the brazen store, · With pointing fingers, numbers o'er and o'er; Then pleased around him greets his jocund train,

And seeks in proud array his new domain. "Returning now, the pond'rous coach of state Rolls o'er the pavement that groans 'neath its weight,

And as slow paced amid the shouting throng, Its massive frame majestic moves along, The prancing steeds with gilded trappings gay, "Proud of the load, their sceptred lord convey. 'Behind, their posts, a troop attendant gain, Press the gay throng, and join the smiling

train ;.

While martial bands with nodding plumes ap

pear,

And waving streamers close the gay career.
Here too a Chief the opening ranks display,
Whose radiant armour shoots a beamy ray;
So Britain erst beheld her troops advance,
And prostrate myriads crouch beneath her

lance :

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* Again; in the Frankeleine's Tale, p. 11212. They dancen and they play at ches and tables.' And p. 11585 :

"His tables Toletanes forth he brought.' These were the astronomical tables composed by order of Alphonso, King of Castile, about the middle of the 13th century, and called sometimes Tabulæ Toletanæ, from being adapted to the city of Toledo.

The piece at chess, next to the king, which we and other European nations call the queen, though very improperly, as Hyde observed. Pherz or pherzân, which is the Persian name for the same piece, signifies the king's chief counsellor or general. See Hist. Shakiluo, p. 88-9.

But sayid, farewel suete! your's,
And farewel all that er there is;
Therewith fortune ysayid chet here,
And mate § in the myd poynt of the chekere
With a payne errant, alas!
Ful craftyir to play she was
Than Athalus, that made the game
First of the chesse, so was his name;
But God wolde I had ones or twise
Iconde and knowe the jeopardise
That could the Greke Pythagorus,
I should have plaise the bet at ches,
And kept my fers the bet therby.

The Dreme, pp. 652-669.
ANTIQ.

A COMPARISON.

THE dew-drop that glitters on you blooming

rose,

That sparkles so beauteous and bright,
The transcience of this state of life truly shows,
And how certain and swift is its flight.
That dew-drop will waste when the bright
sunny ray

Shall around all its richness and sweetness
be spread,

And that glittering brightness will all fade away,
And naught shall remain in its stead.
When once 't has dissolved, it will never again
Grace the air in which lately it shone;
But, like ended life, may for ever remain
Deplor'd, tho' for ever 'tis gone.
Like the dew-drop, life glitters and glories

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While others, whom I easily could name,
May with impunity commit the same.
Sir, in your regiment there is a man
Who from his neighbour stole a fine new suit ;
You know the thing was done, you know the
man,

Yet on the business you've been always mute-
I humbly own I merit well the lash-
But why make fish of one and t'other flesh?"
The colonel wildly look'd, like Hercules strode,
And swore it was an arrant lie by G-;
'However,' he added, name him, and, by
heaven,

Thy sentence every lash shall be forgiven.'
The culprit sternly answered, that I can,'
And (as the prophet said of old,) thou art the

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But destruction and death do around them Chill'd all the springs that once gave play

both coil,

And both swiftly, alas, fade away.

A moment they glitter-a moment they glow,
And look as for ever they 'd last;

In a moment they flee,-all that's left is to

know

That they were, and that now they are past. J. C. P.

THE CULPRIT AND THE COLONEL.
A TALE OF TRUTH.

THE other day, a hardy son of Mars,
Whose front bears many honourable scars,
Whose sun-burnt brow oft dropp'd the briny

sweat

Within the torid zone, in dog-star heat,
Was very very dry, but fate severe
Denied the price of one poor glass of beer;
Hard was his case, indeed, so let me tell ye,
The veteran stripp'd his back to serve his belly,
For which poor back was doomed, with martial
rigour,

To pay with skin for linen and for liquor.
The appointed morning came, the bugle's
throat

Warned the batallion to the fatal spot,
Where the drum-major, with his hateful squad,
The instruments of torture had displayed;
The colonel gave command the lash to ply,-
And thus the veteran spoke and heav'd
sigh,-

a

Thus he remonstrated; for no condition
Could bring him to the meanness of petition:
'Tis hard this back, which ne'er was turned
on foe,

Should, for a trifle, such treatment undergo,

From Persian shah, i. e. king, and means take care of your king. Ibid.

§ Struck dead-Gloss. Conquered, subdued.-Spens.

To soul as lively as e'er warm'd mortal.

Where now, Companion-namesake—rela

tive!

Alas! 'twere task full hard to trace a vestige
Of thy corporeal frame-except, perhaps, a
' bone

Might still remain, memento of thy being;
All else commingled with the dust-
Corrupted-withered into naught.

Sad thought! but thought ineffably more dismal,

Were this the goal-the all-concluding scene!
No;
thine immortal soul has wing'd its way
To realms of happiness perennial,

To realms where sorrow, sin, corruption, are

unknown,

And yet regret thy earlier call to bliss;
Regret the summons of a much-lov'd kinsman
To inherit the reward of spotless youth!
Would fain withhold him from eternal bliss ;
Nay, would almost drag him back to this sad
pilgrimage,

To taste a little more its bitter cup,
And 'mid allurement stand the test still longer,
Till, peradventure, mau's most deadly foe
Had so wound round him as to make his claim
To heaven full problematical-How strange,
How paradoxical a proof of friendship!
To wish him here again-again to struggle
With the world's evils-sorrow, pain, tempta-
tion.

And for what? to exchange a few more words!
Poor benefit, to set against the chance
Of deviating from the narrow path to glory.
No; let us rather feel contented-grateful
That he has been removed from jeopardy
Before temptation had the power to warp him;
Grateful that he has gone to blissful mansions,
Mansions where he, please God, shall recog

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The Drama.

DRURY LANE.-On Saturday night, an old favourite made his first appearance for the season at this house, and was

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ried to Fanny (Miss Copeland), a villag-
er. Lady Rakewell being from home,
Sir George goes to the village to seek a
pretty girl he had seen, and gives Ready
orders to assume authority, in his absence,
over the other servants. Of this Ready
avails himself, orders dinner, and the cha-

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vided approbation of a crowded audience, and proved herself worthy to sustain the high rank she had assumed. The whole of the performance was received with great applause.

HAYMARKET THEATRE. This thea

received with that ardent joy which al-riot to give his Fanny a drive. Sir George tre closed its season on Friday night, ways welcomes Munden after a tempo-returns, after an unsuccessful search after with an address, spoken by Mr. Terry, rary absence, however short. The part Fanny, who is the new object of his in which is the following passage :-selected for him was Peter Post Obit, passion ;-she returns at the moment, Our short summer privilege gradually in the comedy of Folly as it flies. and Sir George believes this to have been encroached upon, and each succeeding This is one of the worst comedies of a managed by Ready as an agreeable sur-year made less and less by the invasion bad school. Its author, Reynolds, was prise; the dinner provided for Ready of the winter houses, has at length been a man of dramatic ingenuity, who and his wife, is served up to Sir George knowing the stage and the talents of and Fanny, and Ready is obliged to wait entirely taken away from us by one of the performers well, wrote every piece on them at table. Tormented with jea- them. Since, then, the winter thealousy and trembling for his annuity, he tres are becoming summer ones, and for the moment and for the individuals. despatches a messenger to inform Lady are striving utterly to deprive us of that His comedies were for an age, and Rakewell that Sir George has been taken small portion of the year which had not for all time, and he might have in- seriously ill. She returns, and, after some hitherto been left free to our use, it is dorsed them as the managers do their amusing incidents and well sustained equi- but fair, (indeed it is the only chance free admissions, not transferable.' voques, the marriage of Ready is discowe have remaining,) that we, availing Why this comedy was chosen we know vered, and, though dismissed from the of ourselves of the full extent of the royal not, unless to put Munden's talents to fice of valet, he is made steward. license granted to the property, should, the severest test, by showing how much This piece is, we understand, the in return, endeavour, as much as possihe could make of a bad part; and first production of a gentleman, who ble, to make the summer theatre a much he certainly did make of it. has also composed and selected the winter one.' His anxiety to avoid the duel with Cur- music. The plot is light, and the diasitor, and when that could no longer be logue possesses little merit, but the sidone, his eagerness to render it harm-tuations are admirable, and the succesless, were in admirable humour; but his sion of incidents so rapid, that the atbest scene was his triumph after the tention is kept on the qui vive the bloodless rencontre. He returned whole time. The acting was very from the field waving his pistol with good; Miss Copeland, who has been great courage, and singing, with exul- transferred from the Surrey Theatre, tation, None but the brave deserve where she was a great favourite, made a the fair; fresh with his blushing most successful debut, and played with honours thick upon him, he braved Dr. great spirit. She sung a gay lively Infallible, and upon the bare suppo- air, in the second act, with much taste, sition of an insult, threw his card on and was loudly encored. Harley was the floor, as valiantly as ever champion excellent in Ready; and in any thing threw a glove. Munden's drollery in bearing the semblance of au intrigue, this scene was rich and exuberant. few play better than Elliston. The The part of Tom Tick was originally piece was completely successful. written for Lewis; on this occasion it was ably personated by Mr. Elliston. Harley's Dr. Infallible, Knight's Gilbert, Cooper's Melmoth, and Mrs. Edwin's Lady Melmoth, all possessed as much spirit as the characters were susceptible of, and the comedy, on its revival, was well received.

We know of no circumstance connected with the drama which has given us so much pleasure as this declaration on the part of the managers of the Haymarket Theatre. We understand that the royal license extends to eight months, and since the experiment of producing a company independent of the two great theatres, has been tried and succeeded, we trust they will spin their term of freedom out to its due length.' It is a duty the proprietors owe to themselves, whose property has been invaded by an unfair monopoly; it is due to the public, who has beeu liberal in its support of this theatre; and, above all, it is due to the legitimate drama, to preserve its last remaining temple from the profanation of spectacle and pantomime. This is a subject on which we feel ardently, and, therefore, though we dismiss it at present briefly, we shall feel it our duty to return to it soon.

COVENT GARDEN.-On Tuesday night, Goldsmith's admirable comedy, She Stoops to Conquer, was performed, for the purpose of introducing Mrs. Chatterley on this stage. We have seen this lady passing from one theatre to another, and gradually improving in every character she undertook, until SURREY THEATRE.-Mr. Dibdin is On Monday, a new musical comewe now find her at home, in one of the determined, that if his autumnal seady, in two acts, was produced, entitled great winter theatres, and supporting son is short, it shall be a merry one;' Maid or Wife, or the Deceiver de-characters in the first line of her pro- a succession of novelties have been perceived. It is founded on a French fession. In the part of Miss Hardcas-formed; and Miss S. Booth, who piece, in one act, performed last season tle, Mrs. Chatterley gratified the would be an acquisition to any theatre, at the Argyll Rooms; it has, however, wishes of her best friends. To the has supported some of her most fabeen considerably altered in adapting most judicious conception of the chavourite characters, particularly Prisit to the English stage. The follow-racter, which, however, is very original, cilla Tomboy, Amanthis, and Little ing is an outline of the plot :she added a share of spirit and vivacity, Pickle, in which it would be difficult Sir George Rakewell (Elliston), a gay and an archness and intelligence which to find her equal. Notwithstanding married baronet, who affects to be very rendered it admirable. With a good nine theatres are now open nightly, in uxurious, has a smart valet, Ready (Harley), to whom he has promised an person, highly expressive features, and London, the Surrey has had an ample annuity, so long as he shall remain sina voice which is at once agreeable and share of that patronage which it so gle. Ready is, however, privately mar- well managed, she secured the undi- justly merits. There have been some

new appearances, of which we shall fast, but having passed these inspeak in our next.

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ADELPHI THEATRE. -Two new pieces have been produced at this house during the week; the first, intitled the Marriage Bachelor, is a spirited version, in one act, of the French piece brought out at Drury Lane on the same evening, under the name of Maid or Wife. The names of the characters are altered, but the plot and the principal incidents are of course the same. The parts sustained at Drury Lane by Mr. Elliston, Harley, and Miss Copeland, were, at the Adel phi, filled by Mr. Burroughs, Wrench, and Mrs. Baker (from the Haymarket), who played very well, and secured the piece a hearty reception. On Thursday, a burletta, called Love's Alarum, was acted for the first time. It, too, seems of foreign origin, and is an amusing trifle. It was well received. The house boasts nightly a crowded audience.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.-We have not yetl had an opportunity to visit this house, which opened on Saturday last; but if we may judge from the numerous favourite actors engaged, it must present very strong attractions.

WEST LONDON THEATRE.-A theatre, situated in Tottenham Street, which has successively had the name of the Tottenham Street, Regency, and West London Theatres, has made a bold attempt; nothing less than that of producing the Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, which, says the play-bill, has not been performed for 2240 years. It is adapted to the stage by Mr. Faucit, the author of Justice,' the Miller's Maid,' &c.; the two first acts are principally from the plays of Dryden and Voltaire, on this subject; the third act is almost a literal translation from Sophocles. Mr. Huntley, as Edipus, and Mrs. Glover, as Jocasta, were powerfully energetic; and Edipus possesses a sufficient number of classic admirers to make it popular even in the humblest of the minor theatres. Who, then, will dare to say that the -public taste is vitiated?

Literature and Science.

conveniences, they were pursuing their
voyage of discovery up the inlet at the
The officers and
north of the bay.
men were all in the highest health and
spirits; well and amply provided with
every kind of provisions, and delighted
with the security and excellence of
their ships, which, though deeply la-
den, had proved quite manageable.

A Danish family, desirous of pur-
chasing a beautiful mummy for one of
the museums in Copenhagen, wrote to
M. Dumrecher, Danish consul at
Alexandria, who, assisted by M. Te-
denat, the French consul, procured an
intelligent man to set out for Upper
Egypt, with a firman from the Pasha,
to search the tombs of the ancient
kings. For the greater dispatch, they
employed two different parties of the na-
tives, from Longsor and from Karnack.
The former were the most fortunate,
discovering a tomb that had never been
opened, and where they found, on the
third day, a mummy with five cases;
they asked for this 6000 piastres of
Egypt, (1331.) which was paid them.
The fellahs of Karnach, thus disap-
pointed, and having had three days'
toil for nothing, had warm disputes
with those of Longsor; and mischiev-
ons consequences might have ensued,
as their villagers took a part in the
quarrel, if the possessors of the mum-
my had not given 1000 piastres, (221.)
extra to the Arabs of Karnack, to
whom also some participation was made
by those of Longsor. This mummy is
the most superb and beautiful of all
that have been hitherto discovered.
To judge of it from the ornaments in
relief, which decorate the cases, and
especially one whereon gold has been
lavished, from the rich style of the
amulets, from the largeness of the pa-
pyrus, and all the hieroglyphical em-
bellishments about the body, it must
have been that of some Egyptian king
or prince. This conjecture is corro-
borated by the number of cases, as the
mummies of the greatest persons in
general have only three.

The Russian frigate, Voslock, Captain Bellinghausen, has arrived from a voyage of discovery, &c. in the South Pacific. She reached 70° south, nearly in the track of Captain Cook, and reports his Sandwich land to be an island or islands.

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Discovery Ships.-Letters have been received from the discovery ships under the command of Captain Parry, dated 16th July; they were then at The Emperor Alexander has erected Resolution Island, in Hudson's Bay. at Abo, in Finland, a magnificent obThey had met with some heavy ice- servatory, the direction of which he enbergs and considerable obstructions trusted to Balbeck, the celebrated asfrom the ice, which was then meltingtronomer,

The Bee:

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia limant, Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta:' LUCRETIUS.

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Wilkes one day, asked Garrick What he called honesty?'-' What is that to you?' said the Roscius, meddle with things that concern you.' When Characteristic Anecdote. Lord Amherst, on his return from his late embassy to China, mentioned to Bonaparte that the interesting people of the Loochoo Islands, according to Captain Hall's account, used neither money, Bonaparte broke arms nor forth-' No arms!

Sacre! how do they carry on war then?' When the same circumstances were related to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he exclaimed, No money! Bless me! how do they carry on the government?'

The author of a book, recommending abstinence from animal food, has received a severe reprimand from the Court of Aldermen, in London, for instilling pernicious principles into the citizens.

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AN INDEX, in Folio, to this celebrated Book,
which has lately been Printed in India, is just
published by MR. A. SALAME, who composed
it with great care and accuracy.
Orientalists who possess copies of The Ka-
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And Weekly Review;

Forming an Analysis and General Repository of Literature, Philosophy, Science, Arts, History, the Drama, Morals, Manners, and Amusements.

This paper is published early every Satu day Morning; and is forwarded Weekly, or iu Monthly or Quarterly Parts, throughout the British Dominiens.

No. 131.

LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1821.

Review of New Books.

two is a very thin layer of gold leaf,-the whole being fused into one substance. This description of gilded glass was, no doubt, highly valued; and the perfect state in which it is found, affords a convincing proof that the art of incrustation was, to a certain extent, known to the ancients. The pieces which have hitherto been found, are, for the most part, about an inch square, or of the same size in a diamond form.

Memoir of the Origin, Progress, and Improvement of Glass Manufactures including an Account of the Patent Crystallo Ceramie, or Glass Incrustations. [By Apsley Pellatt, jun.] Post 410. pp. 42. London, 1821. MR. PELLATT, who is connected with one of the most eminent glass manu'During the reign of Nero, great imfactories in town, has prefaced the ac-provements were made in the Roman count of a very singular discovery in the art of glass making, by a brief but succinct memoir on its origin and progress, from the glass-houses of Tyre to those of our own times. Pliny informs us, that some merchants being driven by a storm at sea to the mouth of the River Belus, were obliged, during their stay there, to dress their victuals by kindling a fire on the sand, where the herb kali grew in abundance; and that the salts of this plant, on its being reduced to ashes, incorporated with the sand, or with stones fit for vitrification, and thus

produced glass; and Mr. Pellatt says, the sand which lay for about half a mile round the mouth of the river, was peculiarly adapted to the making of glass.

glass. The perfectly clear glass, which bore the nearest resemblance to crystal, was so highly valued, that Nero is said to have given for two cups of no extraordinary size, with two handles, 6000 sesterrior kinds of glass had come into such getia, or near £50,000 sterling. The infeneral use in the time of Pliny, as to have almost superseded cups of gold and silver. The glass-makers of Rome were formed into a company, who had a street assigned them in the first region of the city. A tax was laid upon them by Alex ander Severus, which existed in the time of Aurelius, and probably long after.

to be of very ancient date: if the opinion Glass-making in Britain. is supposed of Pennant be well founded, of a date prior to the Roman conquest. The art of manufacturing glass into such ornaments as beads and amulets, was certainly known to the Druids.'

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lines of which are well decided and sharp, the colours pure and vivid; and a brilliant effect has been obtained by the artist's having employed in some parts an opaque, in others a transparent glass. The picture appears to be continued throughout the whole thickness of the specimen, as the reverse corresponds in the minutest points to the face; so that were the glass to be cut transversely, the same picture of the duck would be found exhibited on every section. It is conjectured, that this curious process was the first attempt of the ancients to preserve the colours by fusing them into the internal part of the glass; which was, however, but partially done, as the surfaces have not been preserved from the action of the atmosphere.'

history, we shall notice the subject of Without going further into the glass incrustation, which was known to the ancients but very imperfectly. About forty years ago, a Bohemian manufacturer first attempted to incrust in glass, small figures of a greyish clay; and although he was not very some French manufacturers, who sucsuccessful, the idea was caught by ceeded in incrusting several medallions. of Bonaparte, which were sold at an enormous price. England, always remarkable for perfecting the crude inventions of other countries, has done it in this instance :—

'A patent has recently been taken out for ornamental incrustations, called Crystallo Ceramie, which bids fair to form an

The art of glass making was certainly known to the Egyptians, although Our author, after an account of the there exist but few specimens of anti- relics of glass making, at an early pequity to prove the fact. The glass-riod, found in England, notices the houses of Alexandria were celebrated state of the art at Ashantee and in Chiamong the ancients for the skill and in-na, and then gives the following singu-era in the art of glass-making. By the genuity of their workmen, and from lar instance of ancient art :these the Romans procured all their glass ware:

improved process, ornaments of any depic-scription, arms, cyphers, portraits, and landscapes, of any variety of colour, may be introduced into the glass, so as to become perfectly imperishable. The substance of which they are composed is less fusible than glass, incapable of generating air, and at the same time susceptible of contraction or expansion, as, in the course of manufacture, the glass becomes hot or cold. It may previously be formed into any device or figure by either moulding or modelling; and may be painted with metallic colours, which are fixed by exposure to a melting heat. The ornaments are introduced into the body of the glass white hot, by which means the air is effectually excluded, the composition being actually incorporated with the glass. In this way every description of ornamental

'A most singulart art of forming tures with coloured glass, was practised In the reign of Tiberius, a Roman art- by the ancients. It consisted in laying ist had, according to Pliny, his house de- together fibres of glass of various colours, molished, according to other writers, fitted to each other with the utmost exwas beheaded, for making glass malleable. actness, so that a section across the fibres The Roman architects are known to have represented the objects to be painted; used glass in their Mosaic decorations. and then cemented by fusion into a hoSeveral specimens have been found mogeneous solid mass. In the specimens among the ruins of the villa of the Em- of this art which were discovered about peror Tiberias in the island of Capri. the middle of the last century, the paint Similar specimens also are yet to be seening has on both sides a granular appearin Westminster Abbey, cemented into the sides of the tomb of Edward the Confessor. They are flat pieces, of about a quarter of an inch thick: the underlayer has a reddish granulated appearance, and is perfectly opaque; the upper surface is of white transparent glass. Between the VOL. III.

ance, and seems to have been formed in the manner of Mosaic work; but the pieces are so accurately united, that not even by means of a powerful magnifying glass could the junctures be discovered. One plate described by Winkelman, exhibits a duck of various colours, the out

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