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their chief consul is an old stager of forty years' should be asked. Mr. Lang sent his shopman, | to be becoming rapidly rabid, when it so hap standing, who is nearly blind and worn out; about half-past ten at night, to White Conduit pened that our gracious monarch died, there but of this I cannot answer for the truth. Fields to meet the parties, who, on receiving was a succession, a royal funeral, levees, reTheir system is brought to such perfection, the ticket, delivered up the dog. But there views, entertainments, and a revolution in that if your dog only turns round a corner, was great hesitation in transacting this affair, France, which events have acted as a complete out of your sight, he is liable to be instantly in consequence of the dog having on a lock to specific for hydrophobia-not a single case has enticed away, at a rapid pace, by the never- a steel chain collar with Mr. Lang's name; occurred since. Perhaps the faculty will take failing means of Their plan is and which therefore induced them to proceed this into their sapient consideration, and when to take the dog off to one of the most distant with extreme caution, through fear, as they the disorder appears again, prescribe another of the dens from where the robbery is com- supposed, of detection for felony. The whole revolution in France, a coronation, or some mitted, and there keep him, in safe and close amount paid for recovering this setter was such remedy, to put an end to it. It will cerconfinement, till the customer,' as they term 47. 17s.;-27. 10s. of which went to the man tainly be more efficacious than cutting out the it, shall advertise a reward amounting to what who had him. The rest was divided among part, cauterising, causticising, water-deluging, they think rather more than half the value; others of the Fancy.' The same person who or any other prescription yet submitted. — or, to use their own words, chanted' at a gave Mr. Lang the information said, that if Q. E. D. price that will fetch' him. On this being ever he lost a dog and applied to him, he could offered, you will generally recover your dog; undertake to get him back again within Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through because their agent of the district, who is al- thirty-six hours, provided he would make it Russia and the Crimea, in 1829: with Sketches ways on the look-out for chants,' will either worth his while to do so; because all dogs of the Imperial Fleet and Army, Personal go or send to you with the joyful tidings of taken by the Fancy' are brought to their Adventures, and Characteristic Anecdotes. your favourite; pretending, at the same time, office and regularly booked by the secretary. By Captain J. E. Alexander, (late 16th with an oily tongue and pious face, that he gets But if a word is said about law, the dog is im- Lancers), K.L.S., M.R.A.S., Cor. Mem. nothing by it, except vot your honour will be mediately put to death, and either buried skin S.A.E. and M.G.S., Author of "Travels pleased to give' him for his trouble,' in ad- and all, or sent to the bottom of a pond. As in Ava, Persia, and Turkey." 2 vols. 8vo. dition to the advertised reward. But the man an instance of this, a gentleman who had lost London, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. who actually steals the dog never appears in a dog offered twenty guineas to recover him, WHEN Lieutenant Alexander, now Captain the business; by which he avoids all risk of and twenty guineas more for the apprehension with a regiment of letters after his name, being had up.' The club find that this plan of the thief, or even the name of any one con-published his travels in 1827, we (L. G. 343, answers much better, and is less liable to de-cerned in the robbery. In consequence of the et seq.) spoke of them as slight in substance, tection, than offering the dogs for sale; par- latter part of the advertisement, the dog was but a "plain and interesting account" of the ticularly as they frequently get possession of instantly destroyed. Whereas, had nothing cursory observations he could make on such a the same dog several times. There have been but the first clause been placarded, the dog Mazeppa-like journey. We added, “where instances of their being paid fifteen guineas, in would have been restored without loss of time. there was nothing to be told, he has told successive rewards, for one lady's lap-dog that On destroying this dog, one of the Fancy' ob- nothing; where preceding travellers had exwas perhaps not worth ten shillings. If a dog served to his associates Vot's the wally of hausted the lions, he has not been tedious; is not chanted' before he becomes all but twenty pound compared to a man's life?!' and where there really was any thing to obstarved, they kill him and sell the skin; unless (under an idea, it is presumed, that the theft serve and record, he has communicated his it should so happen that they have orders from was aggravated by some very strong case.) If views in a pleasant and gentlemanlike mangentlemen'!! for dogs an opportunity of any one of the society was known to be untrue ner." starting him for Scotland, Ireland, &c.—or can to his comrades, or, as they call it, not 'blue' On the present occasion we may repeat our find an immediate purchaser, who will give a to his trade, he would be marked; and, if he words; for these new volumes resemble the few shillings more than the skin would pro- was discovered in getting any of them appre-old one in every respect. In May, 1829, the duce. If hard up' for blunt,' however, hended, they would, sooner or later, settle his author sailed for Hamburgh; and in little some of them will go and sell the dogs in the hash.' It is somewhat extraordinary, among more than nine months he was back in London streets as soon as possible after they have so many opulent people who have been thus with his two octavos, having traversed, as he caught them; but, of course, in a diametrically robbed, that no one should have ever set a trap tells us," through fire, frost, and plague," opposite part of the town from where they for some of these worthies :-because nothing part of Germany, the Baltic, a considerable found them. Here they sometimes cheat their could be more easily done, by risking a few portion of Russia, the south coast of Crimea, own society: but of this they think nothing, useless dogs and expending a little money, the seat of the war then waging between Russia and will even rob one another. Dog rob dog' without which, of course, no business can be and Turkey, Russia (again as a prisoner), is their slang, and standing motto. All thieves executed in a workmanlike manner. A quarto Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Holland, have the knack of instantly quieting even the volume might be filled with anecdotes, speci- the Netherlands, and the north of France!! fiercest watch-dogs by throwing them a kind of mens of the march of intellect-the fruits of He is a very human Puck, and will put a narcotic ball this they call puddening' them a little learning' under this head. But circle round the earth in (say) eighty minutes. -by means of which recipe some of the having now relieved our attention from the Well might Dr. Busby write, Fancy' go journeys to execute particular dry subject of the law by a momentary glance orders at a long distance from London. at the manœuvres of the lawless (and I trust a Be very cautious, therefore, before whom you sufficient one to make young sportsmen look boast about the goodness of your dogs; or sharp after their dogs, now that the season is what you feel a pride in, may be the very approaching), I will proceed with my other means of your losing them; because when gleanings from the chaos of technical jargon." fancy men,' in any line of business,' have There are also some remarks well worthy of orders to execute, they will assume all trades attention on hydrophobia and mad dogs. The But it was impossible for any active, oband disguises, and thus ingratiate themselves canine madness so frequent in London is servant, and intelligent individual, like our with the very servants of your household, in ascribed to the want of a supply of water for countryman, to visit many of the scenes which order to suck' them for information. The the animals; thus, though Lisbon and Paris, he describes, without acquiring a good deal of following circumstance is a specimen of their in warmer climates, escape the malady, it pre-curious information; and accordingly we find town manœuvres :-In the month of May last, vails every season more or less in the British in those pages of his book which relate to the Mr. Lang, of the celebrated shooting gallery capital. We have no desire, however, to dilate least known places, and particularly to their and excellent gun repository in the Haymarket, on this topic in the Review of a sporting book; state during the sanguinary contest of which lost a favourite setter. He posted handbills, and the less so, as we perceive that the occur- he was a partial witness, a fund of very agreeoffering two guineas reward; on hearing of rence of any public event of sufficient interest able reading. To the second volume, therefore, which, a man came and told him the reward to attract the newspapers and the people, al- where, after his long route, he is upon newer was not enough; but that if he would make it ways puts an end to the raging of hydrophobia ground than throughout his first, we turn at four guineas, he could find his dog; and the and all the horrible cases by which it is con- once, and open at Sevastopol, whither he was amount must be deposited in the hands of a summated. For example, there never was a ordered to proceed and join the Russian fleetlandlord, who would procure him a ticket-more dreadful season for the disease than the for the Russians shewed themselves to be most card. He should then be met, to his appoint-present; and the journals teemed with hos-jealous of every foreign presence. ment, in some private field, where he would pital deaths, men, women, and children, bitten "There was (says Capt. A.) always, durreceive his dog-on condition that no questions in every corner, and, in short, we all seemed ing the war, a large force encamped on the

"When energising objects men pursue,

What are the wonders that they cannot do!" Per ardua experti, indeed ;-if Captain Alexander does not become the greatest of all travellers that ever travelled, it will be in vain to quote the proverb, that practice makes perfection.

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The Russian fleet, in co-operating with the whiteness of a tapering minaret. But no smoke heights behind Sevastopol. Some of the Turkmovements from a detached ish prisoners were employed in constructing land forces, sailed along the coast, bombarding or signs of life appeared in the secluded village, As the village had not the house near us. new batteries towards Quarantine Bay. I saw and taking many places, such as Misemvria, until, looking more attentively through my them dragging materials on low waggons through Ahielo, &c. These operations were somewhat glass, I descried two or three white turbans the streets, and they naturally looked un- different from European warfare; and we read watching our "In the Gulf of Burgas there is a very defence of walls, and as two or three roads led utterable things' as they shuffled along in their the accounts with curiosity. For example:petticoat trousers and slippers." From Sevastopol Capt. A. navigated the picturesque monastery on the rocky island of into it through the hedges of the gardens, it Black Sea in a brigantine with some Russian Anastasia: this was defended by a battery; was imagined that the Turks would immeditroops on board; and on the voyage gathers and from the precipitous character of the ately surrender on being summoned. To make some facts concerning the fall of Varna, which shore, it might have held out for many days; sure of them, a strong party made a detour to he asserts did not fall through treachery, as is however, after a few rounds from the fleet, the the other side, and thus they were completely believed. Having established himself in the Turks displayed the signal of surrender, and hemmed in. A flag of truce was then sent admiral's ship (the distinguished and justly- the commandant came on board the Paris. down to those we had seen: they allowed the esteemed Greig, commander-in-chief in the The admiral immediately recognised him as an flag, with the escort, to approach and parley. Black Sea) the author enumerates the fleet,- old Varna acquaintance, and asked him why he Their reply to the summons was, 'We spit on 2 of 110, 4 of 84, 6 of 74, 3 of 60, 5 of 44 guns, had not held out longer, and made a better de- the beards of the Gioürs, and set them at gave me my liberty after Varna fell into your wives, and children, to a place of safety; and besides smaller vessels, and gives the follow-fence ?-He answered: You remember you defiance. We have sent away our old men, ing notice of the sailors and service. "It is quite astonishing to think of the do- hands. I immediately went to the south, and there are three hundred of us here who have cility of the Russian. It frequently happens got another command; but again driven from sworn on the Koran i sherreey never to leave This insulting answer, to such that not till the age of five-and-twenty is he that by the rapid advance of your troops, I the place alive. Carry this our answer to your taken, a rough peasant with a bushy red beard, became the binbashee (colonel) of the troops in chief, and tell him to choose another road; for from his village, and put on board ship, to Anastasia. It is true that we could have held his lies not through this village, except over which and the sea he has hitherto been an out many days, for we had guns, ammunition, our bodies!' entire stranger. He is immediately made to and provisions in abundance; but of what use an overpowering force, was immediately folgo aloft, and in six months is as good a sailor would it have been, and of what advantage is lowed by the simultaneous advance of several as needs be. The messes consist of five and it for us to contend against our destiny? You parties of Russian infantry by the different twenty men each; and, after a glass of grog, have got to the south of the Balkan. We are roads which led into the village; but the they stand round a wooden vessel hung by driven from place to place: our holy prophet moment that the head of each of the columns cords from the beams, and sup with their (with whom be peace!) is offended at us for was sufficiently exposed, a sharp volley was This the sultan. He will not intercede for us with caused many of the Russians to bite the dust, wooden spoons casha (millet) and butter, on the change of dress and the drill introduced by sent from the houses on each side, which alternate days with soup and meat. food, so superior to what the soldiers get, and the great Ullah. But our punishment will not and the rest to fall back. Again they rallied, which the admiral by his exertions obtained last for ever; and Ullah kerim! (God is and endeavoured to penetrate into the village, for his sailors, shewed itself in their appear- merciful!) we may some day find rest for the under the fire of covering parties posted in the ance, and also made them more forward in soles of our feet; but now, if you send me gardens; but every man who exposed himself should be thus repulsed by so small a number, action. Every evening a party of the men away, I will, ere long, again become your was shot dead; and the troops were compelled used to assemble at the gangway to sing their prisoner; if in the mean time Azräel, the to keep out of the fatal aim of the Turkish national airs; and two excellent bands played angel of death, does not summon me to my tophaicks. The general, enraged that his men With the following d-d picture of war we gave orders to fire the village at all risks: by turns at the admiral's table. Sundays were final account." distinguished by the lamps being lighted before a silver screen, on which were paintings of the conclude (at least this week, when works of a few Cossacks accordingly crept with their spread over the village, and the black smoke virgin and sains. The priests and their con- more mind demand our attention) this slight usual cunning towards the wall of a house, gregation were as devout as their brethren on notice of Captain Alexander's book. We read and succeeded in setting fire to the roof of it: shore: still it was singular to see hundreds of it, and we ask ourselves whether are mankind the wind aided their efforts; the flames rapidly "One night I happened to sleep in a Turk-curled over the trees. Every one was prepared sailors between decks, kneeling behind one mad-men or fiends?! another, and amongst the engines of death, intelligent young officer, Baron Schilling de attempt to make their escape from their burnand crossing themselves, and praying before ish house, in the next apartment to a very to intercept the Turks, when they should their iconas." After detailing some striking naval actions Courland, of the regiment of Azoff: we soon ing habitations. The fire continued to rage: anecdotes of his service during the campaign. sparks into the air; but still no Turks appeared. in the Black Sea, Capt. A. mentions the taking became intimate, and he related to me many one by one the roofs fell, and sent up clouds of "Success in every quarter was now begin. He said, 'It is generally supposed, that after The avenues were strictly guarded, but in vain ; ning to crown the arms of Russia. Silistria Schoumla was left in a state of blockade, and the whole village was now a smoking heap of fell after a vigorous resistance, and Diebitch the Balkan turned by the pass of the Kempchek, ruins, and every man looked at his neighbour, obliterated the recollections of the disasters of that the Turks gave up the contest and fled on and inquired what could have become of the last campaign; there was none greater than every occasion, after a mere show of resistance: defenders of it. A few blackened corses attested that sustained after the Russians were obliged this, however, was not the case. Certainly they the fact that this gallant band of three hundred O Marathon! what are thy glories? O victo raise the siege of this important place in the did not generally fight with the determined preferred a horrible death on their own hearths, end of 1828. Thirty thousand men, on the valour which they evinced at Brailow, Silistria, to gratifying the Russians by suffering themI fanaticism and confirmed hatred of the Gioürs retreat, died from the severity of the weather, Varna, &c. ; yet, on many occasions, their selves to be bayoneted as they fled." and the destruction of their provisions. formerly mentioned that the bread of the sol-induced them still to oppose manfully the pro- tors! what are your victories? diers is packed in mat sacks, which cannot gress of the invaders; and to prefer joining resist rain; consequently when the winter set their blessed prophet sooner than remain on in, with continued wet weather, the conse- earth, defiled as it was by the triumphs of the quences were dreadful: the general in com- infidel over the sons of the faithful. I shall mand of the above forces, and a few of his now relate an instance of this spirit of resistance WHEN Italy made its original appearance, army to which I belonged was advancing over became the subject of a critical notice in the officers, alone escaped; but he afterwards com- in a small body of Turks. The division of the which was in duodecimo, in the year 1822, it mitted suicide." Docility" is not perhaps the best word to describe a broken country at the foot of the Balkan. Literary Gazette, concluding with the declaraadroitness and rapidity with which the Russians The Cossacks sent in advance to reconnoitre tion, that its excellence so far outweighed improve in their naval tactics and discipline. An able naval officer assured us, that the Russian fleet at reported that a village of a few hundred houses its defects, that we must commend it as one of British Navarino, from being the most awkward and unseaman- was occupied by the enemy; and shortly after- the sweetest and most pleasing little volumes like in every respect, within three months of their junc-wards, on ascending an eminence, we observed published for a long period." Again, June 7, tion with the English and French, whose conduct they the village below us, in a narrow valley, and 1828, when Part II. made its appearance, we saw and imitated, became so expert in every manœuvre,

the

of Silistria.

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a Poem. By Samuel Rogers. 8vo. pp. 284. London, 1830. Jennings and Chaplin; Cadell; Moxon. Italy;

clever in handling their sails, so clean and orderly, completely surrounded by hills. There were did our duty towards that publication, though and, in short, so excellent both in the interior of their enclosures and gardens about it; and the dark we considered it far inferior to its precedent. It ships, and in their general management, that he was quite green of graceful poplars set off the dazzling has now assumed a more important shape...has astonished at the change.

Through the long grass, and round the twisted roots self, who will return to the house of his parents on an opera-stage, were up and fighting to

without him; that, by a husband or a father, morrow. Overcome with the heat, they threw
now in his native country. His heart is aside their cloaks, and, with their gloves tucked
buried in that grave. It is a quiet and shel- under their belts, continued for some time in
tered nook, covered in the winter with violets; earnest conversation. At length they rose to
and the pyramid that overshadows it, gives it go, and the Venetian thus addressed their
a classical and singularly solemn air. You feel
an interest there, a sympathy you were not
prepared for. You are yourself in a foreign
land; and they are for the most part your
countrymen. They call upon you in your mo-
ther-tongue-in English-in words unknown
to a native, known only to yourselves and
the tomb of Cestius, that old majestic pile, has
this also in common with them. It is itself a
stranger among strangers. It has stood there
till the language spoken round about it has
changed; and the shepherd, born at the foot,
can read its inscription no longer."

gation-and we acknowledge it in its full force.
But to
Let it be fulfilled, and to the last letter. It is
what we solicit, what we require.
whom is the bag of gold to be delivered?
What says the bond? Not to one-not to two
but to the three. Let the three stand forth
and claim it.' From that day (for who can
doubt the issue?) none were sought, none em-
ployed, but the subtle, the eloquent Lorenzo.
Wealth followed fame; nor need I say how
soon he sat at his marriage-feast, or who sat
beside him."

We believe that Mr. Rogers first came
before the public as an author so long ago as
the year 1786. We rejoice thus to see him
still amusing himself at his leisure with literary
recreations. In truth, they are the only plea-
sures which never satiate; and which, while
life endures, continue to afford the purest and
most delightful gratification to those who by
nature, education, and habits, are qualified to
enjoy them.

A notice of the fifty-six exquisite vignettes
with which the volume is ornamented, will be
found in another part of our number. Justly,
indeed, has the author observed in his preface:
" With regard to the embellishments of this
volume, they require no praise of his. The
two artists, who have contributed so much to
give it a value, would have done honour to any
age or country."

The Devil's Progress; a Poem. By the
Editor of the "Court Journal." The Illus-
trations designed by R. Seymour, and en-
graved by Evans and Welch. 12mo. pp. 67.
London, 1830. Lupton Relfe.

'give me leave to set my seal on the bag, as
the others have done;' and she placed it on a
table before him. But in that moment she
was called away to receive a cavalier, who had
just dismounted from his horse; and, when
she came back, it was gone. The temptation
had proved irresistible; and the man and the
'Wretched
money had vanished together.
woman that I am!' she cried, as in an agony
of grief she fell on her daughter's neck,
'what will become of us? Are we again to
be cast out into the wide world? Unhappy
child, would that thou hadst never been born!'
And all day long she lamented; but her tears
availed her little. The others were not slow
in returning to claim their due; and there
were no tidings of the thief; he had fled far
away with his plunder. A process against her
was instantly began in Bologna; and what
defence could she make-how release herself
from the obligation of the bond? Wilfully or
in negligence she had parted with the gold;
she had parted with it to one, when she should
have kept it for all; and inevitable ruin awaited
her. Go, Gianetta,' said she to her daughter,
'take this veil which your mother has worn
and wept under so often, and implore the
Counsellor Calderino to plead for us on the
day of trial. He is generous, and will listen
to the unfortunate. But, if he will not, go
from door to door. Monaldi cannot refuse us.
Make haste, my child; but remember the chapel
as you pass by it. Nothing prospers without a
prayer.' Alas! she went, but in vain. These
were retained against them; those demanded
more than they had to give; and all bade them
despair. What was to be done? No advocate,
and the cause to come on to-morrow! Now THIS is not written by the Editor of the Court
Gianetta had a lover, and he was a student of Journal. The author is a clever man, though
the law, a young man of great promise, we think his production altogether too grave
Lorenzo Martelli. He had studied long and and saturnine for a jeu d'esprit. There are,
diligently under that learned lawyer, Giovanni indeed, a few flashes of humour; but the gene-
Andreas, who, though little of stature, was ral tenor of the poem, and the notes, display
great in renown, and by his contemporaries more ability than playfulness. The dedication
was called the Arch-doctor, the Rabbie of is "To His Majesty's Attorney General, to
Doctors, the Light of the World. Under him testify the author's approbation of his judicious
he had studied, sitting on the same bench with and persevering efforts in the cause of its
Petrarch; and also under his daughter Novella,
who would often lecture to the scholars when
her father was otherwise engaged, placing her-
self behind a small curtain, lest her beauty
should divert their thoughts; a precaution in
this instance at least unnecessary, Lorenzo
having lost his heart to another. To him she
flies in her necessity; but of what assistance
can he be? He has just taken his place at the
bar, but he has never spoken; and how stand
up alone, unpractised and unprepared as he is,
against an array that would alarm the most
experienced? "Were I as mighty as I am
weak,' said he, my fears for you would make
me as nothing. But I will be there, Gianetta;
and may the Friend of the friendless give me
strength in that hour! Even now my heart
fails me; but, come what will, while I have a
loaf to share, you and your mother shall never
want. I will beg through the world for you.'
The day arrives, and the court assembles.
The claim is stated, and the evidence given.
And now the defence is called for-but none
is made; not a syllable is uttered; and, after
a pause and a consultation of some minutes,
the judges are proceeding to give judgment,
silence having been proclaimed in the court,
when Lorenzo rises and thus addresses them :
'Reverend Signors, young as I am, may I ven-
ture to speak before you? I would speak in
behalf of one who has none else to help her ;
and I will not keep you long. Much has been
said; much on the sacred nature of the obli-

hero," and some prefatory matter jokes away
upon Mr. Colburn and his publications. Even
in jest, we must say that we were startled, and
certainly not gratified, by the earlier parts of
the poem, where the Devil's outfit is described :
the introduction of characters whom we have
known in life, as is here done, is calculated to
shock the feelings, rather than inspire drollery.
As a specimen, however, we quote a passage
the least liable to cavil.

"One sent a suit that in the Court
Of Chancery had been worn;
But the suit was very much too long,
And the pockets were stripped and torn;
The coat was out at the elbows, and seemed
As if bill-hooks had slashed the sleeves;
And the trousers looked as the wearer
Had fallen among thieves!

A courtier sent a full court dress,
Which fitted the Devil with ease;
But Satan is proud, and the breeches
Were threadbare about the knees!
Machiavel politely lent

A coat of many colours;'

But the Devil is far too wise to ape
The habits of earth's rulers!

A letter for Prince Metternich

Was in the waistcoat-pocket,

And, per favour the Devil,' to his grace the
duke,'

A new-planned C**g**ve rocket;

(In his ancient calling, that worthy knight
Had laboured long and well,

And perfected his instrument

In the crucibles of Hell!)

A letter from Cardinal Belial
To his holiness the Pope;

And Governor **** sent back to his son
The old ancestral rope!

Prince Moloch to N**c***le's duke
Sent overtures to sell

Two snug close boroughs of his own,
Near to the fire, in Hell;

He said, too, that as earth was crammed
With over-population,

There were pleasant tracts, amongst the damned,
Most fit for emigration;

The soil, he said, had long been drained

To any heart's desire,

And each man might sit down at once
Beside his own warm fire;

For the surplus vagabonds of earth
No fitter vent could be;

And the duke and Michael Sadler

Were asked to come and see!"

But, as we have noticed, the writer's talent is far more clearly discernible in the higher walk of composition than in the satirical or humorous. Witness the mock-heroic of the Devil's flight after alighting from his own domains at the foot of Etna.

"Away, away, on rushing wings,
His northward flight takes he-
A shadow in the air, that flings
No shadow on the sea!

The deep Egean all that night
Saw neither star nor moon;

The scents fell, withered, back to earth,
And the birds sang out of tune;

The watchmen-owls, in their hollow trees,
Were afraid to call the hour;

And all the beer in the Cyclades

In a single night grew sour!

As he paused above those ancient isles
Where the Devil and the Turk
Had played so many pleasant tricks,
And done each other's work,
In every isle, on every heart,
Fell down a nameless fear,
As the evil days' were come again,
And the Mussulmen were near!
But peace and hope above them hung,
In a glorious rainbow blent,
One arm was over Arta flung,
And one on Volo leant; †

And the Devil knew it was a spell
Too strong for Istamboul-or Hell!
"Away-across the broad blue moat
That girdles England's strand,
Till he landed where no enemy
But himself had dared to land!
Awhile he hovered high to gaze
On Ocean's fairest daughter;

But the Devil was tired of his airy flight,
And quoth he, I'll go by water!"
So he put his bundle in his hat,
And spread one wing for a sail,
And steered himself, like a water-rat,
With his disencumbered tail!
He passed by many a shepherd's plain,
And many a ploughman's ridge,
By the shallows of the Isle of dogs,
And the rapids of London Bridge;-
Till he saw a huge mist-mantled dome,
Like a mighty mystery, wrapped in gloom;
And on his ear came a holy chaunt;
So he plunged with a sudden souse
And rose beside his ancient haunt,
Where holy sounds were rather scant-
The site of C***t*n House!"

The writer is here gradually gliding into the comic; and to enable our readers to judge of his performance, we pursue the extract.

"And much he saw to feed his pride,

And much to move his mirth :

How the manners of his ancient court

Were copied upon earth.

Prince Mammon, his ambassador,

Had pleasant things to tell;

How he found himself as much at home

As if he were in Hell;

How his levee was attended

By commoners and peers;

And how all subscribed to keep the ways

Of Satan in repairs:

How he had got his private friends

Into most of the public places,

And a little devil to attend

As page to each of the Graces;'

A bad epithet, and inapplicable to scents.-Ed. L. G. "The boundary line from Arta to Volo-including Acarnania and a part of Etolia, together with Candia and

Of these packets the Devil took charge with a grin, some other islands, all of which lie without the line

As also of another,

From Dagon, the Regent-duke of Hell,
To the regent-duke his brother!

• Stothard and Turner!

marked by the course of the Aspro-Potamos-(though not that intended for the new Greek state by the guaranteeing powers)-is actually in the full and peaceable possession of the Greeks, and has been purchased for them by the blood of some of their noblest martyrs."

In every government-office a clerk,
And a porter in most of the halls,

And scribes to chalk his puffs in the dark
Along the public walls:

How he played ecarte with the duke,
And taught the duke a thing

Or two-till the duke, like a shuffler good,
Could always turn the king!

The Devil saw sycophants in power,
And honesty in rags;

And bishops' consciences-in their sleeves,
And lawyers'-in their bags;

Old usurers, licking up all around,

Like a dying flame in a socket;

And pensioners keeping their fingers warm
In the heat of the public pocket;

And demireps who rode and railed

Over women of the town;

And slanderers darkening others' names

In honour of their own;

And judges, known from the thieves they hanged
By virtue of the gown;

And lowly courage bending down
Beneath some lordly bully;
And a deal of gambling going on
'Twixt the king and Mr. Gully!
The Devil only feared that earth
So proud in its vice had grown,

It would soon be a hell itself, and choose
A devil of its own!

*

"The Devil went to the Opera House

At eight on Saturday night,

And many things there he both saw and heard,

That tickled his ear and sight!

The manager's clock struck the hour of twelve
Just as the ballet was done;

So the Devil's watch must have been too fast

For it pointed nearly one!

Oh! sweetest, in the Devil's eye

Is the sin that is covered with a lie;
And dearest those who take his road,

Like monks of old, in the name of God!"

We have in these quotations copied what appeared to us to be the best passages, and the least open to objection; and we have only again to say, that we wish the author's talents had been employed on a more suitable topic. The quiet humour, the raciness, and the brevity, of the original Devil's Walk, gave it popularity; which none of its imitators have deserved from the same qualities. The woodcuts which adorn the present little book are extremely well done."

The Waverley Novels, New Edition. Vol. XVI.

Ivanhoe. Edinburgh, Cadell.

their charter, in a plain and perspicuous man-mountains scattered on the north-east of it.
ner. But the work, from its character, is so Mare Humorum is south of the former two; it
unfavourable to extracts, that we can offer none is a dark, well-defined spot, and bounded with
within our limits which could give the least rocks and ridges on its north-east extremity.
idea of its merits, and must therefore be satis- Tycho is in the southern hemisphere, and the
fied with heartily commending it to the public. most conspicuous spot on the Moon's surface;
A neat map, a portrait of Lord Clive, and five from it proceeds, in every direction, elevated
Indian subjects of temples and scenery, are its ranges of mountains, which appear like bril-
becoming ornaments.
liant radiations: in the centre of this circular
bright spot is an insulated mountain. Mare
Crisium is a dark spot, of an oval form, near
the western edge of the moon; its central parts
seem elevated; it has a ridge of rocks at its
north-east boundary.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.
CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR SEPTEMBER.

16d 14h 28m The Sun eclipsed, invisible to
the British isles; the disc will be partially con-
cealed to Nova Zembla, the northern regions
of Asia, the sea of Anadir and Kamschatka.
The greatest obscuration will be 4 digits.
23d 1h 51m The autumnal equinox.
Lunar Phases and Conjunctions.

This eclipse will occur in the River of Aqua-
rius, and commence when the Moon is south-
east, at an altitude of 18° above the horizon.
It will pursue its course through an arc of
about 25° of its apparent revolution, totally
eclipsed: it will begin to emerge from its gloom
and at twenty minutes after will have entirely
half an hour before it arrives at the meridian;
escaped from the earth's shadow.

and Africa, and nearly so to Asia and America
The eclipse will be wholly visible to Europe
habitable world.
-comprehending the greatest portion of the

About half an hour after the commencement of the eclipse, the Moon will be in conjunction with a Aquarii. This conjunction will prove an occultation to the southern parts of the kingdom. To London, the star will appear about 10' to the north of the Moon. This circumstance adds considerably to the interest of the eclipse.

174 Mercury at his greatest elongation (26° 30'), and visible as an evening star. 18d 12h In conjunction with Spica Virginis. 30dStationary. Venus, the morning star, is approaching the Sun. 12d 18h-In conjunction with Saturn: difference of latitude 14'. 144 9h-In conjunction with Regulus; difference of latitude, 32'. 264-In conjunction with x Leonis; difference of latitude, l'.

19d 3h 15m Mars in opposition, and the most conspicuous object in the heavens, being at his nearest to the earth, and appearing under his greatest angle. The situation of this planet is near 30 and 33 Piscium.

The Asteroids. 4d-Vesta 2° west of 58 Ceti; Juno 3° north-west of Ancha in Aquarius; Pallas 14° east of 7 Serpentis; Ceres 1° north of 26 Libræ.

4d-Jupiter stationary. The following are the visible eclipses of the satellites :--

Third Satellite immersion .. 6
Fourth Satellite emersion .. 9 9 9 24

29d 1h Saturn in conjunction with Regulus.

Uranus continues visible in Capricornus.
Deptford.
J. T. B.

WE have received this volume so late that we can only say it has a very interesting preface, explaining the author's reasons for altering his series, from the Scottish novels to a new class, commencing with Ivanhoe; and some excellent remarks on authorship and publishing in general. The frontispiece is a splendid one, from Martin, by Portbury; and the vignette full of character (Gurth and Wamba), from J. Cawse, the attention may be directed. The first ap- Fifty-Six Engravings, illustrative of Italy; a

by J. Taylor.

In observing the eclipse, the following are
some of the interesting phenomena to which

pearance of the penumbra on the Moon's east-
ern limb the entrance of the Moon into the

FINE ARTS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Poem by Samuel Rogers, Esq. Jennings and Chaplin.

any volume of a similar size and character, on which so much expense has been liberally and tastefully bestowed in the way of illustration. The very manner in which the prints have been introduced into the text must have been attended with considerable technical difficulty and labour.

The Family Library, No. XV. History of umbra, or true shadow of the earth-the pro- IN a former part of our Number we have British India (3 vols.), Vol. I. Pp. 365-gress of the lunar spots into the shadow-whe-noticed the literary portion of the work of By the Rev. G. R. Gleig, M.A., M.R.S.L., ther, when the Moon is wholly plunged in the which these engravings form the splendid em&c. London. J. Murray. shadow, it is totally concealed, or only dimly bellishments. We are really unacquainted with INFINITE pains has been taken with this seen-if visible, the degree and colour of the small but striking volume, both by its popular light emitted. author and by its spirited publisher. In literary matter it is excellent, and in embellishments beautiful. Such a work is well calculated to render the history and actual condition of our eastern empire more generally familiar to the people of this country than they have hitherto been (for a strange apathy has prevailed concerning this unparalleled colony); and that, too, at a time when the discussion of the most essential questions relative to its future commerce and legislation are coming thickly forward. The first volume sets out with the early history of the Hindoos, goes over the Mahomedan wars and conquests, and traces the intercourse with Europe, the Portuguese, Dutch, and English settlements, till the latter obtained

The most eligible spots by which to trace the progress of the eclipse, are the following: Kepler, Copernicus Mare Humorum, Tycho and Mare Crisium. The first of these spots (Kepler) is not far from the eastern limb of the moon; it is an annular elevation, on the The publication, the title of which stands at summit of which is a circular range of small the head of the present article, consists of proof rocks, having a mountain in its centre. Co- impressions, on large paper, of these beautiful pernicus is to the west of Kepler; this spot is plates; and a more charming collection of gems very luminous, and has numerous rocks and has never come under our observation. Of the fifty-six designs from which the plates have been executed, no fewer than forty-four are from the pencils of Turner and Stothard; and, without meaning to derogate from the merits of the remaining plates, it is certainly to those forty-four that the collection is in

A singular taste seems to have governed some astronomers who have given names to the lunar spots: thus we find the Lake of Sleep, the Lake of Dreams, the Lake of Death, Bay of Epidemics, Land of Putrefaction, &c. Schroeter excels in this vitiated nomenclature; a long irregular spot in the southern hemisphere of the Moon, is by him called Hell!