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It is altogether, they often wrought together; and sketch from early recollections of scenes long after the labours of the day were finished, they gone by When old simplicity was yet in prime; severe.' assembled together around the blazing fire, in the farmer's ha',' conversing over the occurrences of the day, the floating rumours of the country, orauld warld stories;' and not unfrequently religious subjects were introduced, or the memory of godly men, and of those who, THIS is an interesting and well-written Memoir in evil times, had battled or suffered for the of a very interesting and excellent man. Dr. right, was affectionately commemorated. This Waugh was for forty-five years pastor of one The habitation of a Scottish husbandman in familiar intercourse was equally decorous as it of the Scotch Presbyterian Churches in London, the southern counties, sixty or seventy years was kindly,-for decent order and due subor. and was well known to all who take an interest ago, was generally a plain, substantial building, dination were strictly maintained. It was the in our great public associations for objects of holding a middle rank between the residences great concern of masters and mistresses, when philanthropy and benevolence, of almost all of of the inferior gentry and the humble cottages new servants were required, to obtain such as which he was an indefatigable and successful of the labouring peasantry. The farm-house, were of sober and religious habits: if any one advocate. In the pulpit, or on the platform, with the small windows of its second story often of a different character got in, his dismissal at he had few equals in that eloquence which, projecting through the thatched roof, occupied, the first term was certain. Servants in those like the electric spark, flashing from heart to for the most part, the one side of a quadrangle, days never thought of changing masters, unless heart, communicates to an audience a thorough in which the young cattle were folded; the something occurred which rendered the change conviction of the deep feeling and fervent sin- other three sides being enclosed and sheltered indispensable. At ordinary meals, the master cerity of the speaker. His soul was always in by the barns, stables, and other farm offices. (or good-man, as he was termed) took his seat his work; yet was he at the same time perfectly A kitchen garden, stocked with the common at the head of the large hall table, the mistress free from the slightest tinge of fanatical enthu-potherbs then in use, and sometimes with a sitting on his right hand, the children on his siasm. His piety was catholic, in the best and few fruit-trees, extended on one side, sheltered left, the men-servants next in station, and the broadest sense of the word. A Presbyterian perhaps by a hedge of boor-tree or elder, and maid-servants at the bottom; one of the latter of the strictest sect in point of discipline, his often skirted by a few aged forest trees; while serving. The use of tea was then unknown, love and zeal were universal, and his charity the low, thatched dwellings of the hinds and except in the houses of the gentry. Porridge restricted by no paltry limits of party or deno-cotters stood at a little distance, each with its was the constant dish at breakfast and supper; mination. He loved his neighbour as him- small cabbage-garden, or kail-yard, behind, at dinner broth and meat, milk, cheese, and self;" and in every son of Adam's race he saw and its stack of peat, or turf-fuel, in front. butter. Twice in the year, exclusive of extraa" neighbour" and a brother. An upland farm, of the common average size, ordinary occasions, there was a farm festival, In private life he was equally amiable and extending to about four or five hundred acres, in which every inhabitant of the place partook; estimable; and we might speak of his social partly arable and partly pastoral, usually em- namely, the kirn, or harvest home, at the close character from our own personal recollections; ployed three or four ploughs; and the master's of autumn, and the celebration of the new year. for though not on terms of intimacy, we have household, exclusive of his own family, consisted On these occasions, an abundant feast of baked met with the good man on many pleasant of six or seven unmarried servants, male and and boiled cheered the heart of the humblest occasions, upon which we love to look back. female. The married servants,-namely, a labourer on the land, and was closed with But we must forbear, and refer our readers to head shepherd, and a hind or two (as the decent hilarity by a cheerful beaker or two the book itself for the details of his active and married ploughmen were termed),-occupied of home-brewed ale. But the religious order beneficent life. cottages apart; as likewise did the cotters, who of the family was the distinguishing trait. Dr. Waugh was a native of the south of were rather a sort of farm retainers than ser- The whole household assembled in the hall Scotland, and was enthusiastically national vants, being bound only to give the master, in (or kitchen) in the morning before breakfast, in his feelings and predilections, but without lieu of rent, their services in hay-time and for family worship, and in the evening before his general sympathies being thereby in the harvest, and at other stated periods. The supper. The good-man, of course, led their smallest degree narrowed. Descended from that whole, however, especially in remote situations, devotions, every one having his Bible in his estimable class of husbandmen for which the formed a sort of little independent community hand. This was the stated course even in southern counties of Scotland have been pecu- in themselves, deriving their subsistence almost seed-time and harvest: between five and six in liarly distinguished, the authors of the Memoir exclusively from the produce of the farm. The the morning was the hour of prayer in these (two Scottish country ministers) have taken master's household alone usually amounted to busy seasons. On Sabbath all went to church, occasion to give the following pleasing picture fifteen or twenty souls; and the whole popu- however great the distance, except one person, (to the accuracy of which we can ourselves bear lation of the farm, or onstead, to double or in turn, to take care of the house or younger witness) of the Scottish farmers of the olden treble that number;-a number considerably children, and others to tend the cattle. After day:greater, perhaps, than will now be commonly a late dinner, on their return, the family asThe patriarchal simplicity of manners found on a farm of the same extent,-but sembled around the master, who first catechised which, about the middle of last century, so maintained with much frugality, and always the children and then the servants. especially characterised Scottish husbandmen, industriously occupied, though not oppressed required to tell what he remembered of the rewas calculated, in a high degree, to foster deep with labour. Little of the jealous distinction ligious services they had joined in at the house affections, and a sober but manly earnestness of ranks which now subsists between the farm- of God; each repeated a portion of the Shorter both of principle and deportment; and it may ing class and their hired servants, was then Catechism: and all were then examined on be fairly stated as one of the happy privileges known. The connexion between master and heads of divinity, from the mouth of the masof the Secession Church, that so large a number servant had less of a commercial, and more of a ter. Throughout the whole of the Sabbath, all of its ministers have sprung from this virtuous patriarchal character. Every household formed worldly concerns, except such as necessity or and valuable order of men. On this latter but one society. The masters (at that time mercy required to be attended to, were strictly account, as well as with a more immediate generally a sober, virtuous, and religious class) laid aside; and nothing was allowed to enter reference to the subject of the present Memoir, extended a parental care over their servants, into conversation save subjects of religion. we shall endeavour to give a brief description and the servants cherished a filial affection for These homely details may perhaps seem, at of the roode of life and household discipline of their masters. They sat together, they ate first sight, calculated to corroborate, in some Each was Another striking anecdote, illustrative at once of his wit, his loyalty, and his humour, will be found at page 389, but for which we have not room. These, and unnumbered traits like these, my verse Who tunes his golden harp amidst the seraphim!" We can only find space to add, that the letters, anecdotes, and recollections, given in the course of the work, are full of zest and character; and that the picture of domestic piety and affection presented by Dr. Waugh in his family, is replete with a tender and touching beauty, such as we have seldom met with in similar publications. Waverley Novels, Vol. XI. Conclusion of Old respects, the exaggerated notions which prevail of genius who had been introduced to him, even in England respecting the religious austerity though he had seen him but once, who did not, of the old Presbyterians; and readers, looking when his name was mentioned, recur to the exclusively to the strictness of their discipline, interview with a glow of heartfelt delight. An their alleged proscription of all amusements,' illustration of this, furnished to me at the Cape the limited education, the scarcity of books, and, of Good Hope, suggests itself to my mind at above all, the want of retinement which, ac- the moment. Mr. F, a gentleman of emicording to our modern notions, might be ex-nent talents and acquirements, in speaking of pected to be the necessary result of familiar Dr. Waugh, remarked- I never saw that association with menial servants,-may possi- gentleman but once, and I shall never lose the bly picture to themselves a state of society impression which that interview made upon altogether clownish, melancholy, and mono- my mind. On delivering an introductory letter tonous. Yet this would be a very false esti- to him, which I had received from a mutual mate of the real character and condition of the friend, his first question was, Where do ye old Scottish tenantry. The life of the hus- come frae, lad ?' I replied, like a Scotchman, bandman and his dependents, in those days, in the same interrogative style, D'ye ken was so far from being unenlivened by mirth Earlstoun and Leader Water?' Ken Earlsand enjoyment, that there was in truth much toun and Leader Water!' he exclaimed;— more real enjoyment than is now often to be Ken Earlstoun and Leader Water! Oh, my witnessed. They had more leisure to be merry dear laddie, the last time I was in Scotland IA FRONTISPIECE of douce Davie Deans and than their descendants, and there was, in real-went alone to the top of Earlstoun Hill, and his exemplary daughter, by J. Burnet, enity, no proscription of innocent amusements. looked along the valley; and there wasna a graved by W. H. Watt; and a most characSpring and autumn were the only seasons that bend o' the water, nor a hillock, nor a gray teristic vignette, representing Dumbiedikes on required very arduous labour in the old system stane, nor a cottage, nor a farm-onstead, on a shaggy" powny," offering his purse to of husbandry; and then those seasons came Leader Water, that I didna ken as weel as my Jeanie on her memorable journey, by Alexround with an air of more festivity, had more ain hearth-stane. And I looked down the side ander Fraser, and engraved by W. Finden,— of a heart-stirring aspect about them, and their o' Earlstoun Hill, and I saw there a bit green are the signs which invite to the entertaintoils were encountered with a more grateful sward enclosed wi' a gray stane dyke, and there ments in this volume. Neither painter, though alacrity, than in our days of regular rotations wasna ane o' a' I had ance kend o' the inhabit- Scotchmen, it may be observed, has been com and improved machinery. At other seasons of ants of that valley, that wasna lying_cauld plimentary to the bare feet of their fair counthe year the labours were comparatively light. there.' trywoman, which, to say the truth, would The winning of peats and hay, ewe-milking, rather be reckoned clumsy, if not absolutely sheep-shearing, the dairy, and the tending of splay, by the neater and smaller-footed sisterthe flocks and herds, chiefly occupied the jocund hood of England and France. Considering, days of summer. In winter their leisure was however, that the heroine had a long tramp to still greater, and their enjoyments not less diperform from Edinburgh to London and back versified. Field sports were eagerly followed again, it was expedient, perhaps, to provide in the intervals of labour, or when frost and her with organs adequate to the occasion. snow had stopped the progress of the plough; nor were the peasantry then restrained from such hardy amusements by the enforcement of demoralising game laws. At other times, the grave good-man would toss down to his sons and servant-lads the foot-ball or the kitticat, and bid them take a bout to warm their youthful blood. And in the long winter evenings, when seated around the fire, harmless mirth and jocularity pleasantly alternated with more grave and instructive conversation; nor did any puritanical sourness forbid the recitation of the old romantic border ballads and legends, or the singing of the sweet pastoral songs, of which both the poetry and the music were, like the broom and birch of the braes around them, the spontaneous and unsophisticated growth of their own beautiful country. And thus, with scarcely any books of amusement, without any games of chance, without stimulating liquors, and without ever seeing a newspaper, our simple ancestors managed to beguile their hours of leisure and relaxation cheerfully and innocently; and, on the whole perhaps, quite as rationally, if not quite so elegantly, as their more bustling and ambitious offspring. Amidst the manifold improvements of more recent times (the value of which, in some respects, we are far from denying), it may yet be considered very questionable, whether all that has been abandoned of former manners has been equally well replaced, and whether even our progress in knowledge and refinement has not been but too dearly purchased by the sacrifice of qualities still more valuable." We extract the following, as particularly characteristic of the Doctor. "It was impossible," says Dr. Philip, "to have been in the company of Dr. Waugh, and not have felt an irresistible and all-subduing charm in his conversation, which instantly attached you to him. I never met a man Prefixed to the volume whence we have made "Whoe'er thou art whose eye may hither bend, Do riches, honours, pleasures, smile around? And ye far habitants of heathen lands, With regard to the literary additions to the text, they are of considerable variety and interest; and we quote a few of them to illustrate the statement. In a note upon Balfour of Burley, it is mentioned that his fate in the novel is entirely fictitious. After the battle of Bothwell Bridge he in reality escaped to Hol. land, where he found refuge, with other fugitives of that period. "The late Mr. Wemyss, of Wemyss Hall, in Fifeshire, succeeded to Balfour's property in late times, and had several accounts, papers, articles of dress, &c. which belonged to the old homicide. His name seems still to exist in Holland or Flanders; for in the Brussels papers of 28th July, 1828, LieutenantColonel Balfour de Burleigh is named Commandant of the troops of the King of the Netherlands in the West Indies." Prefixed to the Heart of Mid-Lothian is an account of the origin of that affecting narrative, for which the author was indebted to a Mrs. Goldie, of Craigmuie, near Dumfries. The actual heroine was one Helen Walker, who travelled to London and obtained her sister's pardon, as is recorded in the tale. She lived in humble life, and died, unmarried, at a good old age in 1791, and was buried in Irongray churchyard, about six miles from Dumfries; while Effie's prototype, Isabella, married the person who had wronged her, named Waugh, lived at Whitehaven, and ever retained a grateful recollection of her sister's extraordinary service. Sir Walter adds some farther interesting particulars, collected by Mr. M'Diarmid, whose name, as a very pleasant writer, has frequently been mentioned in the Literary Gazette-as it is this very day. An annotation upon the allusion to Quakerism at the close of Jedediah Cleishbotham's prolegomenon, describes some curious facts relative to the progress of that sect at its outset in the south of Scotland, about the time when George Fox, its celebrated apostle, made an rated from their father, proved good scholars. transcribe part of a note on the demolition of expedition thither, circa 1657; on "which The eldest, William, who carried on the line the ancient Tolbooth of Edinburgh, in 1817. occasion he boasts that as he first set his of Raeburn, was, like his father, a deep Ori- On that event (says Sir Walter) "the kindhorse's feet upon Scottish ground, he felt the entalist; the younger, Walter, became a good ness of his old schoolfellow and friend, Robert seed of grace to sparkle about him like innu- classical scholar, a great friend and correspond-Johnstone, Esq., then Dean of Guild of the merable sparks of fire." " Sir William Scott, ent of the celebrated Dr. Pitcairn, and a Jaco-city, with the liberal acquiescence of the perof Harden, it is said, "appears to have become bite so distinguished for zeal, that he made a sons who had contracted for the work, procured a convert to the doctrine of the Quakers, or vow never to shave his beard till the restoration for the Author of Waverley the stones which Friends, and a great assertor of their peculiar of the exiled family. This last Walter Scott composed the gateway, together with the door, tenets." Two of his sons, Gideon of High- was the author's great-grandfather. There is and its ponderous fastenings, which he em chester, and Walter of Raeburn, also fell off yet another link betwixt the author and the ployed in decorating the entrance of his kitchen. from the orthodox Presbyterian church, and simple-minded and excellent Society of Friends, court at Abbotsford. To such base offices their elder brother used no gentle means to through a proselyte of much more importance may we return.' The application of these rereclaim them; for we are told: "The interest than Walter Scott of Raeburn. The celebrated lics of the Heart of Mid-Lothian to serve as possessed by Sir William Scott and Makerston John Swinton, of Swinton, xixth baron in de- the postern gate to a court of modern offices, was powerful enough to procure the two fol- scent of that ancient and once powerful family, may be justly ridiculed as whimsical; but yet lowing acts of the Privy Council of Scotland, was, with Sir William Lockhart of Lee, the it is not without interest that we see the gatedirected against Walter of Raeburn, as a here- person whom Cromwell chiefly trusted in the way through which so much of the stormy tic and convert to Quakerism, appointing him management of the Scottish affairs during his politics of a rude age, and the vice and misery to be imprisoned, first in Edinburgh jail, and usurpation. After the Restoration, Swinton of later times, had found their passage, now then in that of Jedburgh; and his children to was devoted as a victim to the new order of occupied in the service of rural economy. Last be taken by force from the society and direction things, and was brought down in the same year, to complete the change, a tom-tit was of their parents, and educated at a distance vessel which conveyed the Marquess of Argyle pleased to build her nest within the lock of the from them, besides the assignment of a sum to Edinburgh, where that nobleman was tried Tolbooth, a strong temptation to have comfor their maintenance, sufficient in those times and executed. Swinton was destined to the mitted a sonnet, had the author, like Tony to be burdensome to a moderate Scottish es- same fate. He had assumed the habit, and Lumpkin, been in a concatenation accordtate." entered into the society of the Quakers, and ingly." The second of these acts, July 1666, re-appeared as one of their number before the capitulates the first, of the year preceding, and Parliament of Scotland. He renounced all legal proceeds: And, again, of Peter Walker, from whom Davie Dean's tirade against dancing is paraphrased. At the end of Chapter VII. there is a long and very curious note, giving a characteristic defence, though several pleas were open to him, account of the Porteous Mob, and of the legal "And, seeing the petitioner, in obedience and answered, in conformity to the principles inquiries into that still mysterious conspiracy. to the said order, did take away the saids of his sect, that at the time these crimes were Almost all the parties apprehended on the inchildren, being two sonnes and a daughter, and imputed to him, he was in the gall of bitterness formations given seem to have been silly creaafter some paines taken upon them in his owne and bond of iniquity; but that God Almighty tures, apparently impeached in order to divert family, hes sent them to the city of Glasgow, having since called him to the light, he saw the scent and screen the real movers. There to be bread at schooles, and there to be princi- and acknowledged these errors, and did not are also some illustrative recollections of old pled with the knowledge of the true religion; refuse to pay the forfeit of them, even though, Covenanters and their stern opinions, from and that it is necessary the councill determine in the judgment of the Parliament, it should tracts published by their adherents: for inwhat shall be the maintenance for which Rae- extend to life itself. Respect to fallen great-stance, of John Semple. "That night after burn's three children may be charged, as like-ness, and to the patience and calm resignation his wife died, he spent the whole ensuing night wise that Raeburn himself, being now in the with which a man once in high power expressed in prayer and meditation in his garden. The Tolbooth of Edinburgh, where he dayley con- himself under such a change of fortune, found next morning, one of his elders coming to see verses with all the Quakers who are prisoners Swinton friends; family connexions, and some him, and lamenting his great loss and want of there, and others who daily resort to them, interested considerations of Middleton the com-rest, he replied, I declare I have not, all whereby he is hardened in his pernitious opi- missioner, joined to procure his safety; and he night, had one thought of the death of my nions and principles, without all hope of reco- was dismissed, but after a long imprisonment, wife, I have been so taken up in meditating on very, unlesse he be separat from such perni- and much dilapidation of his estates. It is heavenly things. I have been this night on tious company: humbly therefore, desyring that said, that Swinton's admonitions, while con- the banks of Ülai, plucking an apple here and the council might determine upon the sume of fined in the Castle of Edinburgh, had a con- there." money to be payed be Raeburn for the educa-siderable share in converting to the tenets of tion of his children, to the petitioner, who will the Friends Colonel David Barclay, then lying be countable therefore; and that, in order to there in garrison. This was the father of his conversion, the place of his imprisonment Robert Barclay, author of the celebrated Apomay be changed. The Lords of his Maj. Privy logy for the Quakers. It may be observed, Councell having at length heard and considered among the inconsistences of human nature, the foresaid petition, doe modifie the soume of that Kirkton, Wodrow, and other Presbyterian two thousand pounds Scots, to be payed yearly authors, who have detailed the sufferings of at the terme of Whitsunday be the said Walter their own sect for non-conformity with the Scott of Raeburn, furth of his estate to the established church, censure the government of petitioner, for the entertainment and education the time for not exerting the civil power against of the said children, beginning the first termes the peaceful enthusiasts we have treated of; payment therof at Whitsunday last for the half and some express particular chagrin at the year preceding, and so furth yearly, at the said escape of Swinton. Whatever might be his terme of Whitsunday in tym comeing till fur-motives for assuming the tenets of the Friends, der orders; and ordaines the said Walter Scott the old man retained them faithfully till the of Raeburn to be transported from the tolbooth close of his life. Jean Swinton, grand-daughof Edinburgh to the prison of Jedburgh, where ter of Sir John Swinton, son of Judge Swinton, his friends and others may have occasion to as the Quaker was usually termed, was mother convert him. And to the effect he may be of Anne Rutherford, the author's mother. And secured from the practice of other Quakers, thus, as in the play of the Anti-Jacobin, the the said Lords doe hereby discharge the magis- ghost of the author's grandmother having arisen trates of Jedburgh to suffer any persons sus- to speak the epilogue, it is full time to conpect of these principles to have access to him; clude, lest the reader should remonstrate that and in case any contraveen, that they secure his desire to know the author of Waverley ther persons till they be therfore puneist; and never included a wish to be acquainted with his ordaines letters to be direct heirupon in form, whole ancestry." as effeirs. Both the sons, thus harshly sepa- We have copied this, as we fancied the reader would offer no such remonstrance every thing relating to such an author is of great public interest. In the same spirit we Mac Dougal of Makerston, whose sister Isabella, Walter Scott had married, and who had conformed to the Quaker tenets with her husband. "He notices, as a foul reproach upon the name of Richard Cameron, that his memory was vituperated by pipers and fiddlers playing the Cameronian march-carnal vain springs, which too many professors of religion dance to; a practice unbecoming the professors of Christianity to dance to any spring, but somewhat more to this. Whatever,' he proceeds, be the many foul blots recorded of the saints in Scripture, none of them is charged with this regular fit of distraction. We find it has been practised by the wicked and profane, as the dancing at that brutish, base action of the calfmaking; and it had been good for that unhappy lass who danced off the head of John the Baptist, that she had been born a cripple, and never drawn a limb to her. Historians say, that her sin was written upon her judgment, who some time thereafter was dancing upon the ice, and it broke, and snapt the head off her; her head danced above, and her feet beneath. * I have often wondered thorow my life, how any that ever knew what it was to bow a knee in earnest to pray, durst crook a hough to fyke and fling at a piper's and fiddler's springs. I bless the Lord that ordered my lot so in my dancing days, that made the fear of the bloody rope and bullets to my neck and head, the pain of boots, thumikens, and irons, cold and hunger, wetness and weariness, to stop the lightness of my head, and the wantonness of my feet." of the Oriental Translation Fund. Our lan- claimed the hand of the fair Husn Banu, and guage is read, and our literature admired, bestowed her on the prince of Assyria. throughout the civilised world; and in the Such is the ground-work of this tale, which short period of two years, the Society's Report we heartily recommend to the public in general, We shall conclude our notes upon the includes names of subscribers and contributors and to our juvenile readers in particular. We Notes, however, with the note upon the word from almost every nation in Europe and Asia. may add as a specimen the following extract "lockman"-to which title Daddie Ratcliffe We cannot here enter into a detail of the from the seventh and last adventure, when does not aspire, but only to be under-turnkey. various objects which the Oriental Translation Hatim found himself in the enchanted palace "Lockman, so called from the small quan- Fund has in view to accomplish; suffice it to of Badgard, where it seems that every previous tity of meal (Scottice, lock) which he was enti- say, that it has met with ample success, as may visiter had been changed into a marble statue. tled to take out of every boll exposed to market be seen in the Report of 1829. "Hatim stood wrapt in wonder at what he in the city. In Edinburgh the duty has been We now come to the work which forms the saw, and much he desired to know the secrets very long commuted; but in Dumfries the subject of our present notice, being the eighth of that mysterious mansion. Meanwhile, a finisher of the law still exercises, or did lately of the series published under the above auspices. bird, like a parrot, cried out to him from exercise, his privilege, the quantity taken being The Adventures of Hatim Tai form a romance within the palace, O Hatim, why stand you regulated by a small iron ladle, which he uses no doubt, but of a nature very different from there? Why have you washed your hands of as the measure of his perquisite. The expres- modern productions of a similar name. Here life in journeying hither?" Hatim listened to sion lock, for a small quantity of any readily we have frequent excursions into the realms of the voice of the parrot, and was about to enter divisible dry substance, as corn, meal, flax, or fairies, demons, and giants, through paths the house, when he happened to cast his eyes the like, is still preserved, not only popularly, beset with every danger in the shape of dra- at the inscription over the door, which ran but in a legal description, as the lock and gow-gons, magicians, stormy oceans of all hues, and thus:- Know, O mortal, that thou canst not pen, or small quantity and handful, payable in wild deserts haunted by monsters the most escape hence with life. This is the enchanted thirlage cases, as in-town multure." terrific in the creation. In short, we have here palace of the renowned Kaiumarath, who, And here we should close our Review, but a fair specimen of the wild and the marvellous, when hunting in these regions, found a diafrom a wish to point out one of those extra- which have for ages characterised the glow- mond weighing three hundred miskals. (The ordinary coincidences which often occur in ing imagination of the East. It would be miskal is a drachm and a half.) He shewed this authorship, and which the mere accident of absurd in us, then, to apply any thing superb diamond to his courtiers and attendants, getting a few loose pages of a book, as waste like serious criticism to a production so ex- and asked them if they could produce another paper, in some package, brought before us. otic as the present. If we were to pass our to match it. They unanimously declared that Every reader remembers the striking death of judgment upon it according to the established the world did not contain its equal. Kaiumaold Dumbiedikes :-see how the same idea had rules of fictitious composition in the present rath then resolved to preserve it in a place of been anticipated in a novel of no fame, called day, and in our own country, we should have safety, so that no one might rob him of it. the Witch of the Woodlands, where the last it condemned without benefit of clergy. But For this purpose, he built the bath of Badgard, minutes of a Squire Beetle are thus painted :- this would be an unfair proceeding: we might the enchantment of which is all powerful. "Recovering, he gained his speech; and as well quarrel with the Arabs of the desert The diamond is preserved in the body of the these were his last words: I did not think for not riding with top-boots, &c., as Christian parrot; and whosoever enters this garden, to die yet I'm glad the parson has been.' gentlemen do. All that we have to say of the shall never return unless he get possession of 'Shall I send for him again?' said the son. work is, that it seems a plain, unvarnished the diamond. On the chair within the hall is 'No, no,' replied the venerable parent; he translation; the style is simple in the extreme, laid a bow and arrows; let the visiter take it will be for giving me the sacrament-and then and the subject varies in almost every page, up, and shoot three arrows at the parrot, and if there will be another bottle of wine to uncork. with the rapidity of Arabian enchantment. he hit it right through the head, he will be Lord, have mercy upon me!-that last high The hero is no sooner freed from one difficulty able to break the enchantment; if he miss, he wind played the devil with the old pigsty. I than he is involved in another; and though instantly becomes a statue of marble.' Hatim die in charity with all men; but insist upon the incidents are numerous, there is in them Thomas Truman being turned out of his farm, that variety which prevents them from being for not voting as I ordered him. Bury me by tiresome. your mother she lies quiet now. I go hence and ask forgiveness. I know many ill-natured people will say that I am gone to old Nick; but if I go there I'll be hanged. Patch up the old barn, and try it once more-luck's all. Make much of precious time; and, Blunder, sell off the old mare_she is not worth keeping; but you need not tell your chapman that, he'll soon read the inscription; and having cast a look of despair around the lifeless statues, exclaimed, Alas, Hatim! thou, too, art likely to remain Hatim, the hero, was an Arab chief who here till the last day. Thou hast rashly periled lived in the sixth century of the Christian era, thy life; and thou shalt soon add one to the and to this day his name is proverbial in the number of these victims. Well, thy troubles East for bravery and generosity. An Arabian shall cease, and the silence of death is preauthor of the twelfth century (vide translator's ferable to the miseries of life. But if the preface, page 9th) says of him," Hatim was Almighty hath decreed that thou shouldst liberal, brave, wise, and victorious; when he succeed, and that thy friend should be made fought, he conquered; when he plundered, he happy, assuredly thou mayest yet escape.' carried off; when he was asked, he gave; After this soliloquy, Hatim entered the hall, when he shot the arrow, he hit the mark; and and lifted the bow and arrows from off the whomsoever he took captive, he liberated." chair. He then took his station, applied one The Adventures of Hatim Tai, a Romance. Translated from the Persian by Duncan tions or adventures. The object of each is to amined his distance. He drew the arrow to The present story is divided into seven por- of the arrows to the string, and carefully exForbes, A.M. 4to. pp. 214. Printed for ascertain the truth of some current tradition his shoulder, and shot, but the parrot inthe Oriental Translation Fund. London, respecting a certain remote and supposed inac- stantly leaped from the spot where he stood, 1830. J. Murray; Parbury, Allen, and Co. cessible place. The reward due to him who and clung to the roof of his cage. The arrow THE establishment in this country of a Society shall have accomplished the seven perilous missed, and straightway Hatim's feet became for translating and publishing works of interest adventures is no less than the fair hand of a a mass of marble, even up to the knees. The from the oriental languages forms a brilliant most beautiful and lovely princess, by name parrot again resumed his former station, and era in the annals of our literature. We have Husn Banu. We may easily suppose that said to Hatim, Desist, rash man, ere worse now the prospect of reading in our native crowds of princes competed for this high prize; befall thee!' Hatim, in the utmost despair, tongue works which have been hitherto as but none of them succeeded, except Hatim, began to consider his dismal situation; and sealed books to the nations of Europe, or at whose disinterestedness and generosity are while the tears filled his eyes, he said, Now, least accessible only to the few scholars who placed in a still higher point of view, as he indeed, is my life ended; but what then, is it traversed the comparatively unexplored regions underwent the seven ordeals, not on his own not better to die at once, than to live in disof eastern philology. But it is not England account, but for the sake of an Assyrian prince, grace? 'Tis true my arrow has missed its alone that will appreciate the laudable efforts by name Munir. This prince had seen Husn aim, and I am partly transformed into a block Banu, who ordered him to accomplish her seven of marble. Let me try another: if I succeed, Find it out," we suppose should be added; but our tasks, if he wished her hand. The prince was good; if not, I shall be at rest from the pangs fragment breaks off at page 10. We have endeavoured to wandering about in the desert of Yemen, where of disappointment.' He seized a second arrow, procure this publication, but in vain: it is on wretched he was met by Hatim, who, on learning his shot, and missed, for the parrot had quickly paper, and apparently some thirty years' old provincial. It is probable that it was a northern (Newcastle) produc- tale of love and despair, generously undertook changed its place, as formerly. The parrot tion, and had very likely been read by Sir W. Scott in his in person to accomplish the seven adventures, again called out to Hatim, Desist, rash man, youth; the shadowy remembrance leading to the vivid picture, or perish in the attempt. Hatim succeeded, thy enterprise is beyond thy might. Hatim |