The meeting of the delegates, two from each ship, and their proceedings, are related with singular accuracy; and there is an account of the ducking of a Jew who cracked a joke upon them, told in so amusing a way, that we regret it is too long to be quoted as an example of the author's humour. It is a remarkable circumstance, that after the Breeze at Spithead had subsided, a woman was the cause of the mutiny breaking out again at St. Helens. slappin' his thigh to give weight to his words, ordered the marines to fire on the seamen, by | respective ships, induced many to yield their for Bill, they said, was a capital scholard, and which a sailor was killed, very narrowly escaped opinion to that which was termed the general could spout by the fathom wi' the best bencher being hanged for this deed. His neck was saved voice.' In course, the general vice was their aboard mind, gemmen,' says he, if so be from the halter by the timely interference of only guide.'" as the enemy's fleet puts to sea, we'll first give two of the men; but his conduct was after- Fleming again interfered and saved the lieuthe ships up to the officers-follow and fight wards regularly investigated by the delegates tenant. Lord Howe's visit to the mutineers, 'em-ay, and beat 'em in the bargain; for in council. and the redress of their grievances, wind up the dit,' says he, it never shall be said we "The delegates met in the Mars' gun-room. tale, with which, we have only to repeat, we shy'd Mister Crappo, or hadn't the same nat'ral The case demanded the most solemn considera- have been highly gratified. The other aneclikin' to lick him as ever. And then,' says he, tion; and the gun-room, as being apart from dotes are short and entertaining, with many with a flourish of his fist, we'll come back to the people, was purposely selected to investi- graphic hits; but we must spin our yarn no Spithead in the triumph,' (though I don know gate the affair; though, I must say, that there farther than one remaining extract-Jack's why he should fix upon she, for she wasn't was little obtrusive curiosity evinced on the description of a young lady whom he imagined altogether one of the stanchest), and repeat,' part of the Mars' ship's company.' 'Of fell in love with him on her passage to Madras. says he, our complaints till we makes every course not,' said Tailor; the committee-men "Bless your hearts, I lost,-or, what's all lord in the land shake in his shoes.' Well, had made up their minds on the matter.' as one as lost, let slip thro' my fingers, on an you know, the ball once opened, the next step Perhaps so. Well, the blood spilt in the out'ard-bound vyage to Madras, as nice a little throughout the fleet as was taken, was to get London had already aroused the wrath of the craft as ever hit the fancy o' man-and for hold o' the keys o' the magazine and arm- fleet, and had called forth the worst feelings of why? Because miss was too modest to open chests. We then tried to mollify the officers- the worst afloat-for what feeling can be worse her mind, and Phill too green, at the time, to tho', I b'lieve, aboard the Mars, there wasn't than that of revenge? Upon the fate of the diskiver her drift. She was a reg'lar-built many sweet words passed atwixt 'em; and unfortunate lieutenant, each ship, with the ex-lady-played on your forty-pianor, and wore what's more, I b'lieve they claps some blue- ception of the London and George, had, unsoli- nothing but silks and satins all the way out to jacket sentries over some of their doors. But cited, sent in her sealed sentence. Nor was Madras. She'd the wickedest eye, and yet aboard most o' the ships, the officers were told there evidence wanting to prove that the lieu- there was never no wickedness in it; for 'twas no offence was meant to them; and to shew tenant's fire was the first to draw blood; for as blue and as bright as the sea in a calm; but 'em there wasn't, it was wished they should poor Bover himself was the first to confess the 'twas the most rogishest eye I ever seed with a carry on the reg'lar duty afloat, as if nothing fact. The fourteen letters, or rather packets, winch. She used to look under her lee-lid, as had happened amiss in the fleet; but at the for they assumed a formidable shape, were was always on the droop, for all the world like same time they gets a bit of a hint, they wasn't opened and read by the delegates of their re- the slope of a lower-deck port of a rainy day. to interfere wi' the way we went to work to spective ships. This occupied a few moments There was never-no, never, a craft more beauget our grievances granted.'" of solemn silence; and I'll venture to assert tifuller built. She wanted no sheathing on her that no other instance ever occurred, in which bilge, or bends to make her stand up to her fourteen papers, purporting to say so much, sticks. Her bearings were in the right place. having been so thoroughly read and understood She tumbled in, as in course she should, a little in so short a period.' Why you know,' said aloft. None o' your wall-sided wenches for Tailor, it's only when people mean what they Phill. I never knew one on 'em yet as could say, that they've little to say.' Exactly so properly carry their canvass. Her run was as you say no more than true,' said Miller. Now, clean as a clipper's; and, as for her bow, the the whole time I was abroad, I never writes to le-la Pomone's herself wasn't finer beneath, or the old woman in any other way than this fuller above. Whenever 'twas my weatherand more the old girl never wanted: Dear wheel, she was sure to be backing, and filling, Bet,' says I, I'm well and hearty, and conti- and boxing 'bout the binnacle, like a cooper "This damsel (it is stated) had been in the nues to 'lot as long as you continues an honest round a cask. There she'd be, one time a habit of receiving occasional visits from Admiral woman- Yours, Tom.' Now there, truth larning her compass-another seeing which Cs' steward on shore; and upon one of those stares her full in the face. But if I spins her way her head was-now axing the name o' tender occasions had picked from the admiral's a long roguish yarn 'bout lubberly love, and the that rope, then the name o' this; the differman, that the London and Marlborough were likes of that there tiresome trash, or sends her ence 'twixt a reef and a true lover's knot; detained at Spithead until Lord Bridport had a longer sarmin 'bout followin' the sogers and and then she'd send flyin' such a glance at sailed, in order that, if necessary, Admiral the like, why, then, there's a thin look o' truth a fellow as would either shake the ship up Cs might proceed to punish the crews of on one side or t'other. Bet natrally says, If in the wind, or make her yaw from her both ships by decimation- What! by star- Tom likes Bet, where's the kashun to tell at course four or five points. Many and many's vation? cried Miller. You shall presently this time o' day,'-and if Bet likes Tom, why the blowin' up she's a-got me. But I take it hear,' said Fleming, perfectly composed; and talk of followin' the sogers? And so I says, Miss Morton (for she didn't go by a purser's that Sir John had received orders to that effect them as wanted the leaftennant's life shewed name) took 'em all more at heart nor ever did from the commander-in-chief. Upon this in- they were in earnest, or they wouldn't have Phill. I so loves the sea,' says she, a day or formation, the well-meaning girl, quietly dis- said so little about it.' 'It were well for many, two after we crosses the Line: sailors,' says missing her admirer, forthwith proceeded to said Fleming, if the lawyers and you could she, are such kind-hearted men. They've St. Helens, to put Valentine Joice (who with agree.' Dn the lawyers- back to the such sinnavatin ways with 'em. They takes the fair one, it seems, was a still more favoured breeze, and keep full-and-by.' To the best such care o' their hair; and they seem,' says swain than the steward,) in possession of a of my recollection, the letters the dead letters, she, so fond o'children-even among the very secret which was indeed of such vital import-as since designated, ran thus-We of the pigs and poultry they've always a pet. Oh! ance to the ships' companies detained at Spit- Mars say, instantaneous death." The Marl-Mister Farley,' says she, (for you see, and head. Already alongside of the George at St. boroughs say, blood for blood.'. The Mino-what's more, I never could come at the cause, Helens, she inquired for Joice; nor did she taurs have determined on death. We of the she always would clap a handle to my name,) desire to ascend the side-'twas sufficient to Charlotte say, use the yard-ropes.'-And so on you doesn't know, Mr. Farley,' says she, see him below in the boat. Permission was a similar strain pervading the fourteen let-how much I doats upon sailors. What would granted, for the order of things was now re-ters. At this moment Alex. Harding, my I give,' says she, letting fly another flash of versed a few days before all leave was obtained brother delegate for the London, was either her eye- what would I give,'' continued Farfrom Joice himself. In five minutes, at most, taken really unwell, or feigned to be so-some ley, endeavouring to imitate the feminine tone the untimely secret was disclosed-Joice's mind suspected the latter. He rose from the table, of his quondam love, could I only follow was made up; the girl's account fully confirmed walked about the gun-room, but never resumed their fortuns.' I thinks I now hears her voice the rumour already afloat; the die was cast, his seat, or ever after sat as a delegate. The sees her afore me with her half-lowered lid and before the next bell was struck, three tell- fact was, those brief documents of death un-fixed on her tapered foot (for she'd a foot like tale cheers, followed in fast succession by every manned him. He at once saw the feeling of a Chinese child), as it peeped from under her ship at the anchorage, again proclaimed the the fleet. Nor were the majority of delegates, petticoat, shoving the sand, that lay spread distracted state of the fleet: though, be it who were really a well-disposed and humane upon the deck, into the pitchy seams, as biled remarked, not a ship had been previously pre-set of men, less sensible of the excitement out in spite o' the awning. Well, you know, pared for so sudden a burst of " afloat; but the dread of the reception with when she says, What would I give could I · A Lieutenant Bover, of the London, having which they should meet on their return to their only follow their fortuns,' so much she gets hold o' my mind, that I'm blessed if the ship didn't broach instantly to, and slap goes, short in the irons, the fore-topmast, and to'gallant studden-sail booms." " positions where the predominant expression the works of Rubens will doubtless frequently should arise from an emanation of the soul, or excite in the mind of the reader surprise, if the supposed operation of invisible agency,- not incredulity; for he will naturally be insuch inspiration as should illumine the coun- clined to doubt the possibility of one man tenance of holy persons, or radiate that of the having been able to produce such an immense Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most suffering martyr, who glories in being thought number of pictures, many of which are of large eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters. By worthy to die for his faith. In all these his dimensions, and offering such variety of subJohn Smith. Part the Second, containing expression is purely human, occasionally ele-jects, and diversity in the compositions. These the Life and Works of Peter Paul Rubens. vated, but seldom dignified, and never divine. doubts the writer of the catalogue has often London, 1830. Smith and Son. As his mind imbibed a strong impression of heard expressed, and to meet the question has "WITH the difficulties, trouble, and expense,' ," objects, so his pencil faithfully transferred been one of his endeavours: with this view he Mr. Smith observes, "attending the compila- them to the canvass, where their material has inserted throughout the work all the aution and publication of a work of this nature, forms, texture, and expression, are always de-thentic information he has been able to collect. the public generally are unacquainted; these picted with a strength and energy that must Notwithstanding this, he thinks that he shall can only be fully known to the author, or to ever delight the connoisseur. But that which place the matter more intelligibly before his those who have been engaged in a similar has won all eyes to admiration is his resplendent readers, by giving a brief account of the pursuit." We are happy to add, that, from colour, the superlative beauty of which has manner and the ingenious methods adopted by the cursory view which we have been enabled become proverbial; even Titian is compelled Rubens to vanquish this apparent impossibility. to take of his volume, he has surmounted the to divide with him the palm of superiority Presuming that the reader has gone through obstacles opposed to the successful execution of From that master he acquired his knowledge the account of the life of Rubens, in which the his task, in a manner highly creditable to the of the harmony of colours, although he re-energies of his mind and physical powers are extent both of his knowledge and of his ap-tained the Flemish manner of using them; largely noticed, he will have perceived that he plication. The Catalogue comprehends an ac- from his predilection to the taste he acquired was able to perform, in the space of a few days, count of nearly fourteen hundred pictures and in the school of Otho Vonius, we may trace as much work as would cost other artists so drawings by Rubens; the distinctive qualities why his pictures are deficient in the chaste and many weeks; that numerous sketches, designs, of most of which are described with a copious- solemn breadth of colour which distinguished for the models of large pictures, were freness and an accuracy which must render Mr. those of his prototype, whose tints blend quently the result of a few hours' amusement, Smith's work exceedingly valuable to the con- insensibly into each other; while those of or, at most, the efforts of two or three days' noisseur and collector. It is preceded by a Rubens, although brought together with equal application. Let the reader, then, imagine memoir of the great Flemish artist; at the propriety, being left pure, or only tenderly such a genius, such a phenomenon in art, to close of which is the following able summary of united with the pencil, require to be viewed have under his control six or eight clever the most prominent characteristics of his genius at a suitable distance to conceal the manœuvre pupils, well versed in the facile system of and his productions:of the palette: when so viewed, they present painting peculiar to the school; and that each "The numerous observations which occur a rich and perfect union, and such brilliancy of these was furnished with a model, or sketch, upon pictures in the course of the following and force as bear down all competition. His to work from on an enlarged scale, by the work, renders it necessary to be brief in re- compositions, although frequently overcharged unerring medium of lines; and that, having viewing the pictorial powers of this mighty with objects, arising from the fertility of his correctly drawn in the subject, forwarding genius this universal painter, from whose invention, are always skilfully grouped, and their several pictures under the continual inprolific pencil proceeded, with a spontaneous united by intermediate links, presenting to the spection, and with the occasional assistance of facility, an inexhaustible variety and abundance eye a curved line or the volution of a wreath; their instructor; that, lastly, he passed over in every class of the art history, poetry, and the whole being judiciously governed by due them his broad, rapid pencil, infusing life and familiar life; portraiture, animals, landscape, proportions of light and shade, and exhibiting spirit in every figure, and harmonised the fruit, and flowers - each possessing such ex- the effect of a rich cluster of flowers. To a piece ;- he will perceive how, by the labour of cellence, as though he had made that particular profound knowledge of all the principles of the a day or two, Rubens rendered the work his branch the exclusive object of his study. art, he added that of being the most accom- own, and worthy of his distinguished name. But though he could thus successfully adapt plished adept in its machinery of any one that But, in addition to his regular pupils, it should himself to every department of his art, his ever painted; and his rapidity of execution also be remembered, that he had the aid of powers and genius appear to expand in pro- was only equalled by his extraordinary powers Francis Snyders and Paul de Vos, to introduce portion to the difficulty of the subject. When of invention. It is recorded of him, that he animals, fruit, and objects of still life, into the vastness of the composition and the action performed as much in three days as another such subjects as required them; and Wildens, required energy in the figures-when the pas- could complete in so many weeks: this asto- Van Uden, and Mompers, to paint the landsions, violently excited, were to produce terror nishing rapidity was the cause of the frequent scape department: by such means the work of or to excite horror in the spectator-in such incorrectness in his drawing, observable in eight or ten persons was accomplished daily.. scenes he had full scope, and could range at many of his productions; the fervour of his Nothing short of such auxiliaries could have, large, displaying profusely the riches of his genius not allowing leisure for reflection. produced in less than two years the sketches invention and the inexhaustible stores of his These defects, however, did not arise from a and finished pictures representing, in a series poetic imagery. These mighty powers are deficiency of knowledge, as may be instanced of twenty-one allegories, the life of Marie de exemplified in those prodigious works repre- in numerous pictures, where the human frame Medicis, besides portraits and other smaller senting the Fall of the Damned,' the Day is portrayed with most admirable correctness, works, done exclusively by his own hand., of Judgment,' the Resurrection of the Just,' the articulations being given with a precision The same means were, doubtless, used to exeand the Conversion of Saul.' The fervour of that shews an accurate knowledge of anatomy; cute the immense pictures for the convent at his genius is displayed with the same success neither are his female figures devoid of grace, Loeches, in Spain (as these were also painted, in the Overthrow of Sennacherib and his although they often present what may be more at Antwerp), the ceiling of the Jesuits' Host,' the Murder of the Innocents,' and the properly styled the comely than the beautiful. Church, the Life of Decius, and the numerous agonising sufferings of the Impenitent Thief These defects unquestionably proceed from pictures which formerly adorned the altars of on the Cross.' A similar spirit pervades all early impressions, uncorrected by a due study the churches in the Low Countries. It must those subjects in which the representation de- of the antique until those impressions were so further be observed, that these skilful aspends on the imagination; such are the Battle fixed in his mind that no after-study could sistants, in the absence of large works, were of the Amazons, the Rape of the Sabines,' remove them. It is sufficient, however, to be unquestionably employed in copying pictures, the Death of Hyppolitus, the Brazen Ser- able to say, that Rubens possessed a more uni- frequently introducing in such copies certain pent,' and 'the Hunts of Wild Animals.' His versal genius, a more extensive knowledge of variations from the originals, either in subject poetical taste is admirably depicted in Bac- all the principles of the art, and a greater or size, so as to give them the appearance of chanalian scenes, the Loves of the Centaurs, power in the practice of them, than any other and other mythological subjects. The Hor-painter who has hitherto existed." 6 6 rors of War,' the History and Apotheosis of 6 The following observations will assist in James I., the Triumphs of the Church,' resolving the problem which must present and the Luxembourg series, evince his tran- itself to the mind of every one who has had an scendent powers in allegory. It must, how- opportunity of remarking the apparently miever, be admitted, that an equal degree of raculous fertility and facility of Rubens' pencil: excellence is not discernible in those com- “The perusal of the Catalogue Raisonné of new compositions; this may account, in some measure, for the great number of pictures of Holy Families, and other favourite subjects." The third Part of this interesting publication is promised this month; and will contain the life and description of the works of Van Dyck. Co. 6 6 tino was foolish to seek to diminish the num- [They entered into conversation, and as they The Fortunes of Francesco Novello da Carrara, ber of his relations and friends; and immedi-walked along he thus addressed the barber: Lord of Padua: from the Chronicles of Ga-ately spoke of something else. But Mastino Why does not your master think of making taro; with Notes. By David Syme, Esq. finding that his orders had not been executed, his escape? Corpo di Cristo! if he gets into 12mo. pp. 257. Edinburgh, 1830, Consta- and fearing that the letter had fallen into the clutches of the duke he will never more ble and Co.: London, Hurst, Chance, and other hands, wrote again, to order their instant see Padua. Let him trust to me, and I engage execution, if they were not already dead, and not only to get him out of this, but to conduct WE cannot better characterise the work before gave that letter to a confidential servant, with him safely within the Ferrarese territory. This us than in the words of its preface: Fran- strict charge to deliver it to no one but Al-offer I make for the love I bear his father, cesco Novello da Carrara, the story of whose berto. He arrived in Padua on the 12th of himself, and the whole house of Carrara, for you eventful fortunes we are to tell, was the last August, and found Alberto playing at chess must know I was once chief farrier to the court and best of the House of Carrara, with whose with a gentleman of Marsilio's party; Marsilio at Padua, and these were the happiest days of history that of Padua is identified during the and Ubertino looking on. Having made a suit- my life.' The barber was delighted at the whole of the fourteenth century. *able obeisance, he advanced, when Alberto prospect of escape, and asked how it was to be The old chronicles of the Italian states are re-said, What does my brother want? how is effected? His friend replied, I will shew you plete with extraordinary incidents, and the he?' to which the person replied, He is well, that,' and leading him to the wall, pointed to a most atrocious crimes are related in the coolest and sends you this letter.' Alberto, turning place where it was so low that they might way imaginable, as things of course, and every-to Marsilio, said, Take the letter, and read easily descend, and would then have but to day occurrence. All the passions of which it;' upon which he took the messenger apart, swim the moat to gain an adjoining thicket, human nature is susceptible are there seen in and demanded the letter; but he refused, say- from which, as he knew the roads, he could visible operation; and it is pleasant to have ing, he was charged to give it into the hands conduct them into the marquisate. The barber our interest awakened, and our reflections ex- of the Signor Alberto, and none other. The shook his head, and said it was a perilous cited, by the action of the figures that move game being finished, Alberto asked what the adventure; to which the other replied, that he along the scene, and strike and struggle as letter contained; upon which the messenger ran all the risk,-if they were discovered he they pass,' rather than by the solemn interlo-again approached, and explaining the order he would be hanged, while they would not be cution of the exhibitor." had received, placed it in his hands. Alberto, worse than before. The barber returned to They were, sooth to say, stirring times: now however, gave it to Marsilio, and began an- the inn with all speed, and told Francesco a battle, and now a banquet; to-day the hand other game. While his attention was thus Terzo what had passed. The plan pleased him grasped a sceptre, to-morrow a lance: con- engaged, Marsilio drew Ubertino aside, and much, and he found an opportunity of speakstantly in action, generally in danger, men's shewed him the letter, when, aware that no ing to the stranger in the evening, when they passions were always being wound up to the time was to be lost, they immediately sent a arranged their measures. The great difficulty highest pitch of excitement by the great key-messenger to the camp, to invite Piero Rosso, was to get out of the house, for the Signor notes of ambition and revenge; till hair-captain of the troops of the league, to march slept with Rigo Galletto, and there were many breadth escapes, violent death, and desperate towards the city, and enter by the Ponte Corbo chances against his being able to leave the success, were familiar events. For example, gate, which would be open. When the game room unobserved. However, waiting till Galhow slight a chance saved the Carraras! was finished, Alberto asked what news, and letto was fast asleep, and stealing softly from "Mastino finding no attention paid to his Marsilio replied, Mastino wishes you, if any his side, he dressed himself in the clothes of letters, became enraged, and wrote Alberto foreign falcons come this way, to procure him one of the servants, and took a platter in his under his own hand, that he would no longer one." Next day (13th August, 1337) they hand. The barber went before him singing. call him brother, if he did not, on the receipt went, as was their daily wont, to the palace, When they were fairly out, they walked very of that letter, imprison and decapitate the two and having reached the fruit-market, met fast to the wall, and found their friend waiting. Carraras, repeating that they were in a secret Alberto, and were in conversation with him, It was about the fifth hour of night. They league with Florence and Venice, and watching when an officer of the court came up, exclaim- succeeded all three in scaling the wall and for an opportunity to deprive him of Padua. ing, My lord, save yourself! Piero de' Rossi, descending on the other side. The ex-farrier This letter he intrusted to one of his officers, with the troops of Venice, is at the S. Stefano swam the ditch first, the others followed, and and it was delivered on the 28th July, 1337. gate. The cry is, Live the house of Car- they went at their swiftest pace to the thicket Alberto perused it with grief, but the strict- rara!' Alberto, in great alarm, turned to hard by. During the day they lay concealed, ness of the order constrained him to obedience: Marsilio, and asked what he should do, and at night they resumed their journey, and forso, summoning certain of his people, he com- was advised to retire to the house of Ameda, tunately none of the parties sent in pursuit manded them, the moment they saw Marsilio at Santa Lucia. Marsilio and Ubertino then came upon them, although often within a few and Ubertino within the palace gate, to assail feet of their lurking-place. On reaching the and cut them both in pieces. Having planted territory of the Marquess of Este, he notified these men at the foot of the stair leading to his escape to his sister Giliola, and requested the delle Donne Palace, he next despatched a her to send horses and clothes, as he wished to messenger to their house near S. Nicolò, to say go directly to Padua. She came to him with he wished to see them instantly. The mesthe most affectionate haste, and having supsenger found them in the garden in their slip- After much of danger and difficulty, Fran- plied his wants, directed some of her train to pers, wearing white doublets and caps, as if cesco becomes master of Padua; but, in the accompany him to Padua, where he arrived on about to go to bed. When he delivered the midst of his triumph, he hears of the death of the 17th of July, to the joy and surprise of the message, they replied, What can Alberto his father. The pageantry of the funeral is a whole city. The Signor his father presented want? we left him not long since,' and re-fair picture of the splendour in which that age his deliverer with 1000 ducats, and possessions mained in close consultation. They at last re-delighted, and we regret that we cannot find which yielded a yearly return of 300 ducats, solved to go, and having ordered out a horse, space for it; but must make our escape to besides a fair house, horses, and other gifts." mounted, dressed as they were, Marsilio on another narrow escape: Francesco, son of the Among other miseries of the time was that the saddle, Ubertino on the croup, and soon signor, has been taken prisoner. fearful one the plague. reached the street leading to the Molino bridge. "On the 2d of July, Facino Cane left Bo- "Crowds had flocked for safety within the Marsilio happening to look up, saw Alberto at logna with Francesco Terzo and some others of walls, bringing with them their cattle, and the palace balcony (he had placed himself there the prisoners, and proceeding by Modena, got whatever they could remove, so that not only to see them put to death), and called out plea- to Parma on the 5th, where he took a lodging the houses, but even the churches, monasteries, santly, Che Diavolo! what do you want now? for himself and them for the night, intending and store-magazines were filled, while multiwe were just going to bed.' Alberto was much to continue his journey next day by Piacenza tudes, who could find no other shelter, slept affected by their appearance, and called out, to Pavia. There happened to be of the party on straw, under porticoes and arcades. Ás • Do not advance a step farther. Go to bed: one Francesco, a barber of Padua, a servant the fodder fell short, the cattle began to die, it was a mistake. I did not send for you.' of Francesco Terzo. This person went abroad and the air was poisoned by the filth of the Next morning he shewed them the letter, and in the course of the afternoon, and was gazing streets, and the exhalations of corrupting carMarsilio said, They who carry these tales to about him in the public place, as is the custom casses. Provisions also began to grow scarce, Mastino never gave him so much as an egg, of strangers newly arrived in a great city, when and, taking advantage of the time, every one whereas I have given him Padua; but I am he was accosted by an inhabitant, who recog-held his goods at a high price. The market here, and you and he may do with me as you nised him as a Paduan, and expressed great rates were,-forty pounds of grain two gold please.' Alberto embraced him, saying, Mas-pleasure in meeting a native of that place. ducats; a loaf four soldi; eggs three soldi; hastened to the Place della Biava, and there The Aldine Poets is a new and handsome addition to this class of publication. The neatness of Mr. Pickering's works needs no comment, and he has bestowed his best pains on this specimen, which consequently promises a charming series of popular poetry. The name is taken from the Alduses, famous printers who flourished at Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries; to whom we are indebted for the first editions of the several Greek Classics, and numerous editions of Latin and Italian poets. Our own spirited countryman bids fair to rival them, and earn his title honourably to himself and the art in England. Nineteen Sermons on Prayer. By Bishop a pair of fowls one ducat; a turkey two tion, we learn that the fatal story of the Bride writer has mistaken his forte; it is not that of ducats; sugar forty soldi the ounce; wax of Lammermoor had its origin in the family of deep insight either into man or woman's chaforty soldi the pound;-in short, all the ne- Dalrymple; of which also a notice hereafter. racter. It is a common but most mistaken cessaries of life were very dear; and the bad The new No. of the Cyclopædia is devoted idea, that knowledge of vice is knowledge of air, and want of wholesome food, gave rise to a to Geography, and contains brief but excellent human nature, and that to depict crime is to deadly pestilence. The invariable symptom of accounts of the principal cities and towns in be profound. It would be ridiculous to bid the the disease was a small nut-like swelling, which Europe. We have hardly had time to glance novelist avoid the darker picture of vice—the appeared sometimes on the throat, sometimes it over; but we observe that it is literally bad as well as the good are his property; but on the limbs, sometimes on the arms, with crammed with well-executed embellishments. we see no great moral advantage in having the acute fever, and in many cases with flux, so The Entertaining Knowledge is truly enter-words libertine, passion, seduction, always bethat in two days, or in three at most, the pa-taining: the volume on the New Zealanders, fore us, while a warning is held out in the tient died. The deaths varied from 300 to replete with curious and original matter; the shape of sudden death or violent repentance, 500 in a day, and from the end of June to the part on Insect Architecture worthy (and this is which, in nine cases out of ten, never happens middle of August there died in Padua more high praise) of its entomological predecessors, in real life. In a literary point of view these than 40,000 individuals, as was known by the with Mr. Rennie's valuable notes. volumes do not call for severe criticism; they register of deaths kept in the episcopal palace. are made up of the remains of the Roué, who The bodies were buried thus: every mornagain figures on the scene: story there is none, ing cars went round to receive the dead, and and the dénouement is not such as we can in every car were placed from sixteen to twenty approve. corses. A crucifix and lantern were fixed on the pole in front, and each car was attended by a priest. Deep trenches were opened in the burying-grounds of the city churches, and into these the corses were thrown, and covered with earth. This was continued till the trench was filled, and each held from two to three hundred. A father might be seen bearing his son to burial, a son his father, a brother his brother, a wife her husband,-the men moving along in gloomy silence, the women weeping and wailing aloud, so that heaven must have been filled with compassion. Immediately after these dreadful obsequies, the citizens were obliged, their eyes filled with tears, their hearts with agony, to take arms against the bloody A HISTORY of names and dates is more useful and relentless foe. Even in the Venetian camp than calculated for the pages of a periodical; present. the mortality was great, although, having more and we shall content ourselves with commendfree space, they could better guard against in- ing Mr. Stafford's industry, and saying that fection. What more can be said? Since the the present little volume embodies much infordestruction of Jerusalem, and the fall of Troy, never was earthly city so overwhelmed as the unfortunate Padua, till then so rich and flourishing, and containing within the circuit of its walls as many wise and learned men as might have sufficed for the government of the universe." 1. The Waverley Novels. Vols. XII. and XIII. Cadell, Edinburgh. Constable's Miscellany. Vol. LII. A History The Oxonians. By the Author of the " Roué." Bentley. A REPRINT of an old divine is extremely refreshing in these days; and here we have learning without pedantry, piety without cant. The volume is well worthy of this revival. A Vindication of Christian Faith. By Dr. Inglis. 8vo. pp. 354. Edinburgh, 1830. Blackwood. THIS is so sterling a modern religious work, that we may well class it with an ancient worthy. The historical portion, relative to the Jews, will be read with peculiar interest at ARTS AND SCIENCES. mation touching the origin, composition, and Or Saturday last the anniversary meeting of performers, from the earliest period to the pre- this Society took place; Lord Stanley in the sent day. As a work of reference, the compila-chair. As is the customary practice, Mr. Bition might have stood on higher grounds; but cheno communicated to the meeting the acit is well enough for common popularity. cession of fellows which had taken place during Nos. LIII. and LIV. a life of the Scottish the past season; likewise the deaths which hero, Sir W. Wallace, is not so much entitled had occurred during the same period; amongst We most cordially recommend this volume to our applause as we could have desired, in a these we observed the names of Dr. Hamilton, to our readers; it is a most vivid historical literary point of view. This ought to have Major General David Stewart, the venerable picture, with all the interest of a romance. been a very crack book of any Northern series. Chevalier de Lamarck, professor of zoology in We give Mr. Syme great credit for the rethe Jardin du Roi, Professor Brotero of Coimsearch and industry with which he has colbra; Dr. Tozzetti of Florence; Dr. Schaub of lected his materials, and still more for the Cassel, and several others. Twenty-one felanimation and picturesque language in which lows had been elected during the year. Mr. he has narrated his hero's adventures. WE remember a story of an Italian priest who, Forster stated that the amount of subscription while confessing an ostler, questioned him for the library, herbaria, &c. of Sir J. E. closely whether he ever greased his horses' Smith, once belonging to Linnæus himself, and teeth to prevent their eating their due allot- now purchased by the Society, amounted to ment of oats: the man assured him he never upwards of 14001.; that the Society's other had; and absolution was granted. But when receipts for the year amounted to 1,6007., which the period of confession again came round, this fault was the very first to which the ostler pleaded guilty. "Ithought," exclaimed the sur. prised priest, " you told me, that of this fraud at least you had never been guilty?" "I never had," replied the man, "till you put it in my head." Much upon this ground do we object to the volumes now before us; we object to them as introducing scenes, persons, &c. whose very existence it is matter of prudence and even virtue to keep out of sight: matter of prudence certainly, for it is to be more than doubted The two volumes of the Waverley set con- whether the description of luxurious enjoyment clude the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and give a will not be more likely to attract than the late portion of the Bride of Lammermoor, one of after-consequence to deter; and the commonthe most beautiful and perfect of all the great place bits of morality-those gratuities of author's delightful works. There is nothing cant to propriety-which are every now and very particular in the additional notes, except then thrown in, seem something like peacean interesting account of the unfortunate offerings, which enable the author to sayMadge Wildfire, which we shall probably" How can you call a book in which there are insert in a future No. From the introducsuch excellent sentiments immoral ?" The 2. Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia. Vol. VII. THE rapid revolution of these stars, of what exceeded the outlay by 2001. Several gentlemen set the example of an annual subscription in aid of the balance due to the executors of Sir J. E. Smith. Earl Brownlow, Professor Buckland, George Bentham, Charles Stokes, and William Yarrell, Esqrs., were elected into the council. The other officers stand as here tofore. CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR JUNE. 214 11h 50m the Sun attains his greatest Lunar Phases and Conjunctions. The Moon will be in conjunction with Jupiter in Sagittarius Venus in Aries.. D. H. M. 8 12 20 12 11 30 ...... 16 22 45 Mercury in Taurus ........ ... 19 15 30 3d and 27d-Mercury stationary. 15d 6h 30m -inferior conjunction. Venus is a morning star, and assuming a gibbous form: the following are her proportional phases : Illuminated disc.......... 6·87907 = 5-12093 Mars is a morning star, and approaching the Earth. the meridian at 9h 21m. γ Jupiter is advancing to a favourable position for observation: the following are the visible eclipses of its satellites D. H. M. 8. 6 12 49 4 22-11 6 15 29 13 0 47 Second Satellite ... 5 12 22 46 Third Satellite.. ......... 19 13 35 56 Fourth Satellite............ 17 11 46 24 First Satellite, immersion .. Emersion ... 17 14 15 58 GERMAN LECTURES. Dr. Carter, 66 on the preserved bodies of abori- writer states, that in the infancy of the world, ginal Peruvian Indians," promised in a recent and even at the present day in savage counNo. of the Literary Gazette. tries, stone is only used in buildings erected In this paper a description is given of the for religious purposes; that when men began bodies of a female and of an infant, which to settle in towns, their domestic structures were lately found in a state approaching to were formed of timber, and that so late as that of mummies, at the foot of a hill forming David's time, we read of houses constructed of of Peru, and which were sent to England in early history of the Israelites they are described a promontory near Arica, on the western coast wood, for he built a palace of cedar; that in the 1827, by Dr. Hamett, and are now deposited as setting up stones for altars or religious mein the Museum of Natural History at Haslar. morials only,-from which Mr. Hoskins conA tradition exists that the desolate spot where siders were derived the Druidical cromlechs, as they were dug up was an ancient burying-well as columnar architecture in general; and ground of the aboriginal inhabitants, although that the idea of pillars was not, as is supposed it is certain that no interments have taken by many, taken from the trunks of trees The Asteroids.-64-Vesta among the small stars in the tail of Cetus; it transits the meri- place in it since the first invasion of Peru by supporting a roof, as there was no possible dian at 19h 36". Juno between and Aqua- outer envelope of the mummy is of a dark architecture of the early ancients. the Spaniards. The cloth which formed the connexion between the domestic and religious rii; it transits the meridian 17h 56m. Pallas, brown colour, and wove from the wool of the two degrees south of Mirac, or Bootis, a camelus vicugua. The inner covering is of a double star, the largest of which is red, and the finer texture, and consists of white cotton, IN his second lecture on German poetry Dr. smallest blue: this small planet transits the meridian at 9h 42m. Ceres is 20' north of 104 either wove or spun, with blue stripes. The Mühlenfels commented on the poets of the sixVirginis, and near a small nebula: it transits body has been compactly put together, and teenth century. This proved a more interestdoubled up in a square form, with the breast ing discourse than the first: he here introduced upon the knees; the arms folded over the us to the worthy representative of the guild of abdomen, and the face depressed, so as to oc- Meistersängers, honest Hans Sachs, whose procupy as small a space as possible. It was lific muse presented his country with six thoustrongly confined, by several turns, with the sand and forty-eight metrical compositions. In bejuero, or tough and luxuriant creeping osiers, poetical talent the professor ranks him next to naturally twisted together, and knotted at regu- Luther, whose doctrines he fervently embraced. lar rhomboidal intervals. Within the case were We cannot quite admit Tieck's comparison, contained a considerable quantity of leaves of quoted by the lecturer, between Hans Sachs unknown plants remarkable in having lateral and our own venerable Chaucer, and much less A singular phenomenon presents itself in nerves, matté, heads of Indian corn, pods of that of Göthe with Shakspeare. It may percapsicum, and two small globular vases. The haps be called an English prejudice, but we Sagittarius, the constellation through which skin of the body had the appearance of dried object to the profanation of the shrine of the Jupiter is moving. In the bow is a nebula, and leather; the hair was well preserved, and was god of our idolatry by the admission within its in the midst of this is a beautiful double star, collected into long black platted tresses, doubled precincts of the idol of any clime or time. We from which the nebulous matter in its imme-over the chest. Many of the muscles remain have not space to dilate on the various writers diate vicinity is separated, as if driven off, leav-perfectly exsiccated, but distinctly marked. introduced the grotesco-comic John Fischart, ing the double star on a dark ground. The There was also found in the same place a de- the flagellating Rollenhagen, Murner, Brandt, nebula itself is divided into three portions, in a tached head, apparently that of a female In- and Alkmar, and Burkhard Waldis, the Esop direction from the centre to the circumference, dian; and from the peculiar care bestowed on of the age; but we now come to the first dawnsuggesting the idea of three roads leading to its preservation, probably the wife of a cacique. ing of the German stage, which there, as well and terminating at the double star. A similar The hair is still glossy, and in good preserva- as throughout Europe, breaks forth in the phenomenon is observed in the nebula of the tion, very black, lank, and coarse, and firmly monkish mysteries of the middle ages. These sword-handle of Orion, the stars in which are platted. The brain appears to have been ex- were followed by the Fastnachtspiele of the insulated, and appear to repel the soft luminous tracted through the occipital foramen, and its Meistersängers, which were performed in the place supplied by some bituminous substance, houses of individuals, or in the open air; and 16d-Saturn in conjunction with 776 Mayer filling the cavity of the cranium. The fillets the professor justly remarked, that if the num-difference of latitude 11'. This planet is surrounding the head are terminated by knot- ber of auditors were at all proportionate to the advancing towards the Sun, and will soon be ted fringes, of differently coloured worsted, actors, the assemblage must have been imlost in his rays. constituting the quissa of the Peruvians;-a mense, for in the performance of a biblical Uranus is visible in Capricornus, and tran- species of symbolical writing not used for oral piece at a small town in Bohemia, there were sits the meridian at the following times re- tradition, and, in this instance, serving as a 100 actors and 500 supernumeraries. It is a spectively :record of the history of the deceased. This remarkable fact, that the first trace on record of head appears to be much flattened posteriorly, acting being pursued as a vocation is the menand the frontal bone is also depressed; both of tion of a troop of players called the "English which are well known to be characteristic of company;" but why so called is not known, the skulls of the aborigines of South America; for it is not at all probable that they were and which were probably the result of arti- English: these strollers laid Germany under ficial compression applied to the head during contribution about the year 1600. Jacob Ayrer, THE President informed the meeting that he infancy. The author then enters into a dis- an attorney of Nuremberg, and consequently had written to Mr. Babbage, requesting him quisition respecting the funeral customs of the the fellow-townsman of Hans Sachs, was one to attend on this evening, in pursuance of the Indians, their modes of embalming, and of of the first cultivators of the legitimate drama, resolution adopted on Thursday se'nnight. Mr. manufacturing cloths for interment. He con- if his rude efforts may be dignified by this Babbage, in answer to the President, states cludes by a variety of statements illustrating appellation. Many of the early attempts of the his unwillingness to become a party to such the desiccating influence of the atmosphere German dramatic Muse are evident copies from discussions as took place on the occasion alluded and soil in those regions, whereby the bodies of the English, without, however, retaining any to: adding his opinion, that the meetings of men and animals are preserved in a dry state, of their beauties. The doctor closed this lecthe Society ought to be, as they were intended, somewhat analogous to that of the Egyptian ture with the two writers who form the link of devoted to philosophical inquiry, and not to mummies, for a very considerable number of connexion with the sixteenth century, Fredeangry debate. In this view the President con- years. rick Spee and Rudolph Weckerlin, who gave curred; and having recited one of the by-laws the lecturer subject for interesting discussion in support of it, he said that he trusted the in the strong contrast of their "Leben und matter would be allowed to rest. Dr. Roget ON Thursday, Henry Hallam, Esq. in the Weben." Weckerlin visited England during then read a paper, by Mr. Costello, on the chair. The reading of Rich's account of Ire- the reign of James I., and made himself famiinstruments used in operations of lithotrity, land was concluded. An interesting commu- liar with the language, which is evinced by a illustrated by cases. nication from W. Hoskins, Esq. was also read, bibliographical curiosity introduced to us by The following is an abstract of the paper, by on the origin of Columnar Architecture. The the professor, and which is still extant in the matter that surrounds them. D. H. M. 1 16 14 Deptford. LITERARY AND LEARNED. ROYAL SOCIETY. 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