this was the greatest specimen of coolness he had ever witnessed. old ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. last ten years, limited itself to a negation of than we the destruction of academies; but we believe that, if they comprehend their situation, "One evening, Lord B. made a remark WE have just received notice of the death of they will tend to approximate more and more which transported Anthony Pasquin so much, Adams, the last of the leading mutineers of to the university and teaching form. In that that he vociferated for writing materials, to the Bounty, at Pitcairn Island,-a man whose respect, the French Academy has, during the Ink-ink-ink, and has been often coupled with the most in. every thing that has been said and done around teresting facts. Until the visit of the Blossom M. Villemain, and M. Cousin, which does not it. There is not a single lesson by M. Guizot, to Pitcairn Island, but one man-of-war had contain a hundred times more thought and touched there, and many years elapsed without instruction than the two or three public sitour obtaining any authentic account of the note it down. The former called him to order, my lord!' he replied, striking his hand on the name has been frequently before the public, honourable to the memory of John Kemble: islanders. We now hope to receive from the tings with which the Academy every year in we close our review with one very characteristic trait: "It was during this season, Mr. James pen of the captain of the Blossom (Captain Hence, serious men and youth Aiken of Drury Lane called out my friend tions connected with the mutiny and with the said, "propose the remedy. Would you have variously stated to the public. dred soldiers. return to the Sandwich Islands. LITERARY AND LEarned. desert the place, and the Mazarin has almost dulges us. become a gynæcian hall. Well!" it will be the Academy admit the public to its weekly sittings?" Why not? Would you have it undertake historical and critical publications ?" Assuredly. Might not the academicians, with their independent fortunes, with their numer. ous connexions, with their foreign correspond. The ents, collect and publish valuable information which necessarily escapes the journals and re Now we do not think that collective sinecures quently of sinecures, is greatly endangered. deserve to be treated with more delicacy than individual. We will not press the result. We had nearly forgotten to announce the poetical prize for next year. The subject is The literary glory of France. The motives which have guided the Academy in their choice of this subject are too curious not to be transcribed in extenso. John Kemble, for some supposed insult extended by the latter in his official capacity. John displayed in this affair his uniform coolWe have also to announce an unexpected ness. The challenge was given at rehearsal; at night, the two played together; and, on the progress in the Sandwich islanders, who have morning, at an early hour, they met with equipped an expedition, consisting of two of their brigs of war, against the New Hebrides, pistols. On taking their ground, Kemble said where they intend to form a settlement. to Aiken, as he was the aggrieved party, he should fire first; but the latter was disin-expedition is under the command of Boki, the clined; and the seconds proposed that they governor of Woahoo, who has with him Ma-views, whose authors are less favourably situ should discharge their pistols together. This nuia, the captain of the port, and three hun- ated? To be an academician, and to do nothing, arrangement Kemble refused, saying,' He had By the latest accounts, the was in the last century a privilege: it is now a come out for Mr. Aiken's satisfaction. Aiken missionaries were acquiring a powerful ascend- peril. The question, as it respects academies, is one of existence. Under the rational governbecame unnerved at conduct so honourable, ency in Woahoo, and had made themselves so obnoxious to the government, that the young ment upon which we are entering, it appears to and raising his pistol three times to take aim, king was said to be anxious to quit his domi us that the inviolability of abuses, and consetrembled, and dropped it. Kemble at length nions; and it was reported, that if Boki were lost his patience, and exclaimed, For God's successful in his undertaking, he would not sake! Mr. Aiken, do you intend to fire today?' Aiken then fired, and missed him. Kemble discharged his pistol in the air, and asked him if he was satisfied? 'Perfectly. Then I hope there is an end and forgiveness FRENCH INSTITUTE. to the matter?' said he, extending his hand. [From Le Globe of the 26th of August.] Aiken grasped it in silent conviction of his Sitting of St. Louis. — Yesterday the French worthiness, and they returned to town better Academy held its solemn sitting. We cannot friends than they had ever been before." say if the 25th of August was a well-chosen "Our language," says the programme, "has We have merely to add, that Mr. Bernard day, or if the doors of the Mazarin palace, long had the honour to be, in some respects, produced some dramatic pieces; that these riddled by musket-balls by order of a descend- the universal language of Europe. This ad volumes conclude with his leaving England for ant of St. Louis, ought to have been opened on vantage accrued to it in the eleventh and America in 1797, dividing his life into two that same day, with so much punctuality. For twelfth centuries; it has ever been retained, eras of 23 years each, for he returned in 1820; our own part, we should have been better and even has not ceased to increase. The cenand that the second epoch is promised, should pleased to see the Academy postpone its sitting, tury opened by Corneille spread our idiom and this portion be popular, of which there can be and neglect that usage of the ancient régime, our literature throughout the civilised world, no fear whatever; since it is very amusing, which has no other advantage than to remind Every where our poets have been imitated, our anecdotical, and clever. us of annual adulations. So abrupt an aban-authors translated. The age of Voltaire still donment of past customs would besides have added to our literary glory. Montesquieu, proved to us that the Academy feels the neces- Rousseau, and many other French writers of sity of prompt and complete regeneration. All the eighteenth century, prepared and urged the the literary establishments in France, the mu- great advance of the people towards a better seums, the theatres, the libraries, stand in the order of things in politics and in morals. NeTHIS is one of those playful trifles which are same need of reform; but the Academy, that vertheless, certain foreigners stood up against amusing the town at this equivocal season, protégée of Richelieu and Colbert, that play- this great literary fame, and unhappily found when one hardly knows whether there is a thing of Louis XIV., that forgotten ruin of auxiliaries even in France itself. They espetown or not. The Trio walk through various the monarchy of "the great king," must cially attacked the glory of our tragic theatre; places of resort, and quiz and pun upon many modify itself very extensively, to be more, in fancying, no doubt, that if they could surprise of the sights and topics of the day. our days, than a strange anachronism. Under that important post, they might render themthe offuscated government which has just ter- selves the masters, and proclaim themselves the minated, we have seen the Academy follow, conquerors, of the whole French Parnassus. instead of directing, the movement of intelli- It is necessary to oppose this invasion, which gence. What then will be its position in the has in it something barbarous; to combat for era of intellectual progress and liberty on which our altars and our hearths. The Acadeiny we are entering? There are times suitable to prytaneums and academies; namely, when, after long efforts, the human mind rests, and makes a halt. Then it finds repose and dig- We are absolutely ignorant to which of the nity under the shelter of such institutions. forty are due the idea and the composition of But when it recommences its march, and re- this singular programme, so that we might, news its labours, it requires, as in Italy in the without scruple, point out all the beauties of it, fifteenth century, and in Germany at the pre- one after the other. But we will content oursent day, not academies, but chairs and schools. selves with remarking, that this precious piece It is the golden age of universities. France in of academical criticism proves what we ad1830, like France in the sixteenth century, vanced at the beginning of the present article. in its collective acts, is far, we will not say Walks about Town: a Poem in Two Cantos; The Ingrate's Gift; a Dramatic Poem. 12mo. pp. 197. Edinburgh, 1830. J. Kay. ONE passage occurs in this little work so true and well turned, that it were injustice not to give it room. "Matilda. If, as 'tis said, The sun be life's great parent, why is he Ianthe. Perchance the sun, proposes to our poets a subject which seems to call upon their patriotism and their talents; being at the same time national and literary." The rest is, we regret to say, almost all lea- finds itself placed in one of those epochs of fer- It is evident, on reading it, that the Academy, ther and prunella. mentation and advance. No one can desire less FINE ARTS. Great Britain Illustrated, from Drawings by WE regret to observe that it is the publisher's Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels. ORIGINAL POETRY. SCENES IN WINDSOR CASTLE. walls: They are met once more by that mingled sound from advancing, but from comprehending cer- destly, in his introductory notice" Should the tain questions, which have been discussed in publisher meet with that support which will calmer times, and on which several of its mem-secure him against sustaining any material I SAW a castle of beauty and power bers have, individually, thrown so brilliant a loss, it will be his delight to present to the Bathed in the hues of the sunset hour; light. public a faithful delineation of all the more important Scottish lakes; the scenery of which A standard streamed on the soft blue air. Proudly over the battlements fair has been admired by all who have visited them The bright, the noble, have graced those halls from every country and every clime." There The brave with laurel-crowns wreathed the are, we hope, too many lovers of the fine arts, and too many lovers of Scotland, to justify any apprehension of loss in such an undertaking. is carried on in the same excellent style in On the contrary, we have no doubt that, if it which it has been commenced, the various parties engaged in it will eventually reap the just reward of their talents and enterprise. The present Part is devoted to Loch Lomond, and contains, besides a vignette in the titlemagnificent and romantic lake. The points of page, three admirable representations of that view are well chosen, and the various features of the scenery are delineated with fidelity and THE Abbot is here illustrated by "St. Mary's," precision. Mr. Swan has seconded Mr. Flefrom a drawing by S. Prout; the Heart of ming with great ability: we think that he has Mid Lothian by "Holy Loch," from a draw-made a decided improvement, as an engraver, ing by J. D. Harding; Old Mortality by since his last work. Nor must we withhold "Bothwell Castle," from a drawing by R. R. our praise from the simple and unaffected deReinagle, R.A.; and Peveril of the Peak by scriptions of Mr. Leighton. "Peel Castle," from a drawing by H. Gastineau. They are all beautiful; but "Peel Castle," engraved by Edward Finden, is our prime favourite. This may perhaps be in some measure owing to our once having been so fortunate as to see that noble ruin under simi- A LINE ENGRAVING, and a fine print of the lar circumstances of effect; but, without any re- late President of the Royal Society. Though ference to that consideration, the plate is, as not long painted, it represents this distinguished our continental neighbours would say, superbe. man of science in the prime of life, and even We must again express our astonishment that with the youthful look which so long adhered so much grandeur-nay, sublimity can be to him, amid all the toils and wasting of comprehended in so small a space. literary and scientific pursuits. It is true they were relieved by social pleasures and quiet relaxations; but still the appearance of this portrait renews the regrets felt at the loss of such an individual so prematurely. Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. Painted by Law- CORK EXHIBITION. Original Penmanship. By J. P. Hemm, of Nottingham. Harding. "HE has entitled the specimens Original Penmanship, for this obvious reason; notwithstanding he possesses a very high regard for Prince Metternich. By Lawrence; engraved the splendid productions of other penmen, whether of ancient or modern date, he can, A MEZZOTINT of the highest order, from by S. Cousins. Colnaghi, Son, and Co. without fear of contradiction, assert, that he that brilliant portrait of Prince Metternich, has not in a solitary instance copied a single which Sir Thomas painted, among his illuspage to render the same subservient to his pre-trious personages, for his late Majesty. The sent publication; and as ease and elegance are style, as well as the likeness, are very happily the component parts of penmanship in its preserved in this transcript. highest perfection, he has aimed at combining these qualities; and, instead of endeavouring, by geometrical measurement or mechanical arrangement, to produce correct circles and pa- AN exhibition has been opened in Cork by rallel distances in his flourishes, he has pre"the Society for promoting the Fine Arts in the sented to the public eye a fac-simile of forms South of Ireland." The catalogue enumerates script produced by the rapid flourishing dash of we presume, is not among the fine arts paand figures which were in the original manu- 162 pictures, drawings, and sketches. Poetry, the pen." So says Mr. Hemm in his preface; tronised in Cork, if we may judge from the and we can with justice add, that we have following quotation, illustrating one of the never seen a more beautiful work of its kind. pictures, and which we copy as a curiosity: It contains twelve plates, besides the dedication, which is to the mayor and corporation of Nottingham. The proportions of the letters belonging to the different hands are admirably symmetrical; and the ornamental devices are full of freedom, variety, and taste. "A land of dreams, where the Lost in the glow of the mellow evening light." I They were wrapt as it were with a shroud, A conqueror rent the palace gate, A mournful stillness reigned profound, They feared to awaken the dreamless king: And a ray was seen to shine Soft fell the dewy veil of night, Gleams from the ivy'd tower; Now faintly sweet the funeral dirge we hear, Proclaim the last solemnities are come; Robed in the pomp and pageantry of wo, In marshalled ranks are seen. And hark! the cannon's deadly roar Bursts o'er the dirge and clarion's wail, Portentous thundering on the gale, "Our sovereign breathes no more!" Select Views of the Lakes of Scotland; taken from original Paintings by John Fleming, E.M.G.D.S.; engraved by Joseph Swan, M.G.D.S.; with Historical and Descriptive &c. &c. &c.: perhaps this caricature of the Is there no mourner in the sable trains Illustrations by John M. Leighton, Esq. style, by displaying its gross absurdity, may do Who crowd to view their king's enshrined rePart I. Glasgow, Swan: London, Moon, more towards promoting a reform than all Boys, and Graves. WE are glad to see this tasteful triumvirate preaching. again in the field. Mr. Swan says, very mo our mains? No gentle praise? no tributary sigh? Pass to the holy choir! Could they who shared his lasting love behold No! there are hearts in yon bright retinue Statesmen may feel, and courtiers own, Allegiance pure and deep: Contendent notes in union meet, countrywomen. The following description of they are kept at a distance. The last English English travellers in Italy is amusing enough. ambassador at Florence found his saloon inIt contains some falsehood, and much exaggera- vaded by travellers of this description, and fretion; though a large portion of it, we fear, is quently complained of them. But, whether but too true. travellers from economy, from duty, from luxThe English, as is well known, form more ury, or from vanity, they are all alike in one than seven-eighths of the travellers in Italy. point-they have the most perfect indifference In many places, indeed, an Englishman and for every thing which they suppose they come a traveller have become synonymous terms. to see. Nevertheless, wherever there are staTheir flight also, like that of quails, is always tues or pictures, you meet with them;—but regular and simultaneous. "In one month," how? With a bewildered air, a stiff neck, an say the people on the road from Rome to imperturbable countenance, and their hands in Naples, "the English will be coming;" and in their pockets. At a single glance they have one month they never fail to come. They all seen forty pictures and fifty statues. I rememhurry from Rome, on a certain day, to remain ber that, at Florence, I was one day visiting at Naples for a certain time, and to return to the gallery of the Academy of Fine ArtsRome by a certain period. Nothing can in- a gallery in which select pictures are arranged duce the great majority of them to alter this according to their epochs, thus throwing a arrangement. The last year that I was in great light on the history of painting. AcItaly, their five weeks in Naples were dismal.companied by the keeper, I had finished exaThere was constant rain, wind, and even snow. mining one of the walls of the gallery, when Vesuvius was veiled during the whole period; the bell was violently rung. Three Englishand the finest roads, that of Pæstum for ex-men entered; and, like people accustomed to ample, were impassable. The English, never- the thing, went immediately and placed themtheless, all went away on the fixed day. They selves before the earliest pictures—those by had passed their prescribed time at Naples ! Cimabue and Giotto. As the keeper was leav In fact, it is not to amuse themselves that the ing me for them, I complained. "Make yourEnglish visit Italy. They may be divided into self easy," said he, with an Italian look—“they two great classes;-those who, for the sake of are English; they will overtake you before you economy, leave London with their families; and have seen this picture." They required, inthe young men who travel on quitting Oxford deed, only time to measure the gallery with About or Cambridge. The first have, in general, two great strides and with much noise. or three carriages, a cook, and five or six ser- the middle, one of them discovered on a table vants. They hire a house, open their drawing- one of those large pasteboard tubes, blackened room, live among themselves, and, if they are within, which serve to concentrate the light. amateurs of the arts, get up a private theatre. It appeared strange to him, and he stopped to WITH feelings of sincere sorrow we have to As for the second, a trip to Italy is never with examine with it the picture to which he was announce the sudden and melancholy death of them a pleasure. They take a course of opposite. But his companions hastened him ; the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, who was acci- France and Italy as they would take a course and, as the keeper had predicted, in one minute dentally killed at the grand ceremony of open-of law and philosophy. But do not fancy that all three were by my side; in two minutes ing the Rail-Road between Liverpool and their object is instruction. What can be learnt more they had turned on their heels and reManchester. The unfortunate gentleman had out of old England? But it is necessary they crossed the threshold of the door. "Ebbene, alighted to converse with some of the parties should distinguish themselves from the miser- signor !" said the keeper to me, returning, and interested in this great concern, when one of able devils who are not rich enough to quit putting in his pocket the two precise pauls. the steam-impelled carriages threw him down, their natal soil: it is necessary they should As for antiquities, that is another affair, and and crushed his leg in so dreadful a manner, assume a certain rank in London among the the travelling English are very fond of them. that he expired on the same day (Wednesday) fashionables in the west end of the town. It is not that they look at them much more, at Eccles, whither he had been conveyed. This While they are undergoing this probation, but they seldom fail to carry something away fearful calamity occurred within a few yards of therefore, they are generally as wearied as they for their collections. It is for that purpose, the carriage in which were the Duke of Wel- are wearying. They come full of prejudices, especially, that antiquities are valuable, accordlington and Mr. Peel; and, still more to be and they return as they came. Nothing pleases ing to them. All the keepers declare, that lamented, within sight of Mrs. Huskisson, them; they are disgusted with every thing; they have contributed more than time to the whose horror and distress admit of no descrip-irritated at every thing, even at the most in-destruction of Pompeia; and at the Villa Adrition. Indeed, the effect of so shocking a scene, different customs. Even the climate and the ana I saw one of them throw a stone at a ceilin the midst of triumph and festivity, cast a sky do not always find favour in their sight. I ing painted in fresco, in order to knock off a heavy gloom upon every heart; and, but from once travelled with a young Scotchman, who little piece of red or blue stucco. What did the strange dread of commotions at Manches-had determined to be colder at Rome than at the Villa Adriana signify? That little bit of ter, (what a picture of the state of its popu- Edinburgh. He was enchanted when he felt stucco would figure on a mantel, at his country lation, and of the country!!!) the procession a fresh north-easter; a chill rain delighted house, and shew his love of the arts. would have stopped at once. As it was, it pro- him; a thick fog rendered him triumphant. Of all civilised beings, the Englishman is, I ceeded to its destination in a mutilated shape; Nothing in the world could tempt him to re-believe, the least sensible to the arts, the the ministers left it as soon as they decently nounce one of his habits. At the beginning of greatest slave of habit, the least accessible to could; and the whole concluded in sadness and a long day's journey it was necessary that he external impressions. In Italy, especially, he mourning, instead of the anticipated rejoicing should stop an hour to take some tea; and the is good for nothing. View him on a promeonly time that I ever saw him angry was, nade, or in a theatre, in a drawing-room, or in when I proposed to him to breakfast in the carriage. BIOGRAPHY. RIGHT HON. W. HUSKISSON. and merriment. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. ENGLISH TRAVELLERS IN ITALY. WE recently extracted from Le Globe a contrast between England and Italy-the English and the Italians. That paper continues its amiable efforts to improve our countrymen and In acknowledging our obligation to the young and fair writer of this feeling composition, we are induced to couple our thanks with an apology for having, amid the mass of poetry with which our table is crowded, suffered a very pretty little volume from her pen, and entitled The Pensée, to be among our postponed Reviews. We may now take the opportunity of saying it is a sweet and graceful female work.-Ed. L. G. the midst of ruins, he has always the same air of sadness, dissatisfaction, and ennui. Ennui To these two classes of travellers others may is the principal feature of his character; it is no doubt be added. Thus, one of the richest by this that absurdities otherwise incompredukes in England announced last year in the hensible are explained. You have heard it papers that he was setting off for Italy, with said, for instance, that the English in Italy six berlins; and that any of his friends who pay very dearly for every thing. Nothing can wished to make the journey at his expense, be more false; at least in Switzerland and had only to give their names to his porter. Thus Italy. In those two countries you meet at also, annoyed by not being able to penetrate at every step with very rich Englishmen who London into the fashionable world, that world so will dispute for an hour about a single franc. strict and well barricadoed, a great many En- They are frequently not satisfied with that; glish come to the continent, in order, at least but, having vented their fury in speech, go and at their ambassador's house, to approach those inscribe pathetic imprecations in the registers privileged mortals, by whom, when at home, in which travellers enter their names. I have theless paid, as yesterday, three shillings. It rical and Romantic. The Words by T. Lockhart, Esq. The Music by Mrs. Robert No writer has done more justice to the spirit Arkwright. J. Power. of Spanish literature and story than Mr. Lockhart; and the charm of his compositions is here enhanced by their being associated with fine and appropriate music. The " Bridal of Andalla" is an exquisite piece; and the Avenging Childe," and "Lady Alda's Dream," wish our fair musical friends a more captivatno less striking and original. ing companion than these Six Ancient Ballads. 66 DRAMA. We cannot seen the heir of one of the greatest families in mained several months in Sicily, had, before The spring of the desert in darkness flows on, When the hand that has sealed its pure waters is gone; England curse through twenty eloquent lines his departure from London, confided their jourAnd the eye of the stranger in vain seeks to know, the infirm cowkeeper of La Sheideck, "for nal to him. "This journal is very instruc- When the Arab's bright fountain is sparkling below. having charged him exorbitantly for some tive," said he, " and may be useful to us. So this fond heart has closed o'er the source of its tears, cheese and milk." At Lauterbrounn, I have Will you look over it ?" I cheerfully conO'er the love it has lived on, yet hidden for years; seen rich Englishmen refuse to pay four francs sented; and two hours afterwards opened the Thou art gone, and another's rude hand shall in vain Seek to bring that choked fountain to day-light again." a-head at a table d'hôte. At the end of an precious volume. The following is an extract: hour and a half, when I returned from the fall, "First day. From Palermo to Alicata. The "Fairy Bells" is another particular fathey were still refusing. At Venice, I saw We stopped to breakfast at They gave vourite with us; and the " Land I love," and four Scotchmen, the poorest of whom was us six eggs, two pounds of bread, and a dozen "To-morrow," are also so pleasing, that we worth £4000 a year, on arriving at ten o'clock oranges, and charged us a shilling. At Ali- wish we could do the volume justice by transat night, after a most fatiguing day's travelling, cata; for dinner, a little beef badly boiled, a ferring them entire to our literary page. But run about to all the inns to obtain a reduction salad, and some tough chickens: price three as this may not be, we can only heartily of twenty sous in the price of their beds. In shillings. Beds a shilling each. Second day: recommend the whole. all these places, however, the prices were regu- To Trapani. They coule furnish us only with A Set of Six Ancient Spanish Ballads, Histolar, and were the same which every body paid. some eggs and a little bad cold meat; we neverWhen I set off from Milan for Venice and Rome, I had for my companion a young Englishman, who was also very rich. As my Italian was not so bad as his, he entrusted our accounts to me. The same evening, when they brought in the bill, it was reasonable, and I should never conclude, if I were to attempt I paid it. As soon as we were alone, "you to collect every thing on this subject. That do not consider," he observed, "that we ought among the English travellers there are men of to have obtained a reduction of two francs." a different stamp, I believe; but they are lost I then told him that was by no means my in the crowd. Such as I have described are system. "I know," said I," that your coun- the wandering hordes who every year pour trymen have that habit; but the calculation I forth in masses from the banks of the Thames, make is this: I travel in Italy for my pleasure; to settle on the banks of the Tiber and the now nothing annoys me more than a dispute Arno. They see nothing-they learn nothing every day. It is, if you will, two francs a-day, they are amused with nothing. or sixty francs a-month, which I sacrifice to my tranquillity." By degrees he appeared to become of my opinion; but at Venice he met some of his countrymen, and whenever the English meet in travelling, their first questions are, "Where do you live? What do you The First Rudiments of Harmony, with a short Farren, Cooper, Vining, Williams, Miss F. pay?" Unfortunately he found that we were Account of all Instruments employed in an H. Kelly, and Mrs. Glover. The gist of the paying twenty sous a-piece more than these genOrchestra. By G. Herbert Rodwell, Pro-piece is to shew, that ambition is not the road tlemen. In the evening I found him pensive. fessor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of to happiness; and it is exemplified in the perMusic. "It is impossible," he remarked, "to conti12mo. pp. 147. London, 1830. son of Marie Mignot (Miss F. H. Kelly), a nue thus to be dupes." As you please; but Goulding and D'Almaine. beautiful laundress, and the niece of Mignot I abdicate my functions." "Well; from Ve- To Mr. Rodwell, to whom we are not only (Farren), a Ude of a cook, who is raised from nice, then, I take them upon myself." Three indebted for so many beautiful and popular days afterwards, at Bassano, the bill was brought melodies, but for several fine overtures and in. I referred it to my Englishman. "Quan- other more elaborate compositions, we now owe to?" exclaimed he, dwelling strongly on the last an elementary work of great brevity, simplicity, syllable. "Signor, dicci lire." E troppo." and value. He has stripped musical science of a 66 Troppo, signor !" And then the Italian ex- multitude of those old technicalities, which made plained to him how it was impossible to keep it worse than " Hebrew-Greek" to the student; an inn at less. "Houses are very dear at and has in fact accomplished the somewhat Bassano, and taxes very high. Meat, which difficult task of making thorough bass intelliformerly cost only eight sous, now costs twelve. gible. His preface fully explains the object he of Modeau; Fruit is out of all price. Vegetables are not to had in view; and the learner is exercised on older, and again sacrifices Lagardie (who has be had." While the host was talking with the principles developed in plainer terms, with by his talents become an eminent lawyer, and incredible volubility, and offering to shew his examples, by a series of questions at the bot-still retains his affection for her), in order to books, the honest Englishman was endeavour-tom of each page. We cannot commend the attain the rank of a marshal's lady; - and in ing to reply; but he knew scarcely ten words volume, which is very neatly got up in its the third intriguing for the Polish diadem, with of Italian, and inarticulate sounds alone testified musical points, more than it deserves for the use his dissatisfaction. At length, unable to make and instruction of pupils in the science of himself understood, "Bene, bene," he cried harmony. out, and put an end to the matter. It MUSIC. NEW PUBLICATIONS. HAYMARKET. ON Monday, Marie Mignot, a drama in three acts, which enjoyed so extraordinary a run in Paris, was produced here with complete success; well merited by the excellent acting of her humble station, first, to be the wife and widow of Modeau (Williams), a rich lawyer; then the wife and widow of Dinot (Thompson), a marshal of France; and, lastly, the favourite and almost the wife of Casimir, king of Poland (Cooper). The progress of these events occupies three acts:in the first Marie is young, and is false to her young and suitable lover Lagardie (Vining), that she may wed the wealth - in the second she is ten years similar duplicity and want of feeling, she is scornfully rejected by Lagardie, now Viceroy of Livonia, and pitifully given up by Casimir, who resigns the crown and retires to the might be supposed that this commencement A Set of Ten Songs and Two Duets. The Abbey of St. Germaine; while the ambitious would disgust him. Not at all. The same Words and Music by Two Sisters. London, Marie seeks refuge for her wounded pride in a scene was repeated every evening. It con- J. Power. convent of the Carmelites. A sort of corollary sisted, on the part of the host, of a flow of BOTH the words and the music are extremely runs along throughout the whole, in the shape arguments and lamentations; and, on the part sweet; and there can be no question of this of a Harriet de Lorme (Mrs. Glover), who of the Englishman, of the three little phrases book's being a favourite wherever it is seen. gives to pleasure what Marie gives to ambiquanto?" " e troppo," and "bene," always The first song is so fair a specimen of the tion, and is finally reduced to poverty in her uttered in the same order, and at the same feeling and talent which pervade the whole, old age. intervals. that we quote it for the gratification of readers, who will admire it, even without its appropriate and beautiful music. To spend little has become to the young English who travel, a sort of occupation, and a point of honour. To get good dinners at a cheap rate seems to be their principal object. At the moment of quitting Palermo, to ramble over Sicily, an Englishman, a man of good sense, requested to join my companions and me. He came to see me, and told me that two of his friends, who the year before had re "They bid me forget thee, they tell me that now I cannot forget thee, thy smile haunts me yet, And thy deep earnest eyes, bright as when we first met; Though there is a sameness in the repetition of the same action at three different periods of life; and though the developement of the passion and principle, the consequences of which it is the aim of the author to exhibit, leads to situations more forced than natural, and to exaggerated conduct in the chief characters; yet the stage effect of Marie Mignot is kept up with far greater interest than could have been anticipated, where the end is foreseen. The LITERARY NOVELTIES. poetic justice of the moral reconciles us to its albumen in the blood of cattle and sheep. The papers, which appeared in two recent Nos. of treble exhibition; and when the curtain drops globulin differs from the hematosin in these that publication. Among them is a copy of we feel satisfied that the drama has reflected respects; namely, that it contains more iron, a play by M. Martigny, one of the ex-ministers, an essentially true and instructive picture, that it is soluble in the alkalis and the acids, said to have been represented at Bourdeaux, in though it has aggravated the means of impart- and that it is capable of forming with the April 1814, before the Duc d'Angoulême; in ing the lesson. The performances, too, as we hydrochloric acid a mixture soluble in alcohol. which the bravery and magnanimity of the have noticed, contribute largely to the popular Cure for the Gout.-M. Aliés, a physician Duke of Wellington are extolled, and the Enreception of Marie Mignot. Miss F. H. Kelly residing at Coulomiers in France, has just glish are represented as generous conquerors, plays the heroine with taste and energy; and discovered the following remedy for the gout, while the French people are depicted as ready Farren, in the devoted cook, is, as he always is, which he says may be considered as a specific. to black their shoes. most excellent. Mrs. Glover is not quite the Take from ten to sixteen ounces of grated Harriet of the early scenes; but she improves guaiacum wood, which is to be boiled in three as she becomes older, in their course; though quarts of water until only one quart remains; perhaps, on the whole, she points her sarcasms the decoction is to be strained, and then made with too much bitterness for the gay and into six equal doses, three of which are to be laughing French woman. The rest of the taken daily, one early in the morning, one at dramatis persone have not so much to do; twelve o'clock, and the third in the evening. and we have only to repeat, that all is done The Journal des Connaissances Usuelles, from well. which we extract this account, states that guaiaOn Wednesday we witnessed the thirtieth cum may be also employed with very great advanrepetition of Separation and Reparation; in tage in rheumatism and sciatica. The use of which Farren's perfect Von Grotius, Mrs. guaiacum as a remedy for the gout has been Glover's almost, if not quite, as perfect Ma- frequently recommended in this country; but dame Gilderland, Cooper's no less excellent we never understood that it was a specific. and spirited Baron Malamour, Miss Mordaunt's beautiful Angelique, and Webster's humorous Poppinoff, furnished forth just such an entertainment as ought to be enjoyed at the Haymarket. ENGLISH OPERA, ADELPHI. [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XXXVIII. Sept. 18.] Tales of other Days, by J. Y. A.; with engravings after Designs by George Cruikshank. -Old Booty, or the Devil and the Baker, a Serio-Comic Sailor's Tale, Robert Cruikshank. For the mercantile world we see founded on Fact, by Mr. Moncrieff, and illustrated by announced the British Merchant's Assistant, by G. Green, containing Tables of Interest; of Premium and Discount on Exchequer Bills and India Bonds; for ascertaining the Value of English and Foreign Stock; and other useful matter.-Sir William Jardine, author of "Illustrations of Ornithology," has in the press an edition of Wilson's American Ornithology, with the continuation by C. Lucien Bonaparte. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Lindley's Natural System of Botany, 8vo. 128. bds.-Ellis's British Tariff, 1830-31, 12mo. 58. sewed.-Elliotson on the Heart, folio, 17. 18. sewed.-Howitt's Poems, Antediluvian Sketches, fcp. 58. bds.-Rogers's Italy, with 36 engraved vignettes, 8vo. 17. 18. bds.; proofs, 8vo. 21. 2. bds.-Brenan's Utility of Latin, 18mo. 28. bds.-Dickenson's Mamluk, a Poem, 8vo. 78. Gd. bds.-Hone's French Revolution, 8vo. 2s. 6d. sewed. September. .. 11 Barometer. 29.83 to 29.63 29.59 -- 29.63 Thermometer. 49. 62. 39. 61. 29.66 Stationary 45. 58. 29.36 to 29.31 39. 62. 29.40 29.50 A Child with Four Legs!-M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire lately exhibited to the Paris Academy of Sciences a child two months old, in perfect health, which has four legs. Viewed from before, only two legs are seen, but on looking behind, there are two others of shorter length, so that they do not interfere with the moveTHE Irish Girl justifies our expectations, and ments of the child; nevertheless they are perfills this theatre nightly to witness the exquisite fectly formed. The right foot of the supple- METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. performance of Miss Kelly, who in this simplementary leg is perfectly formed; but on the piece offers a study of all that is good in the art left there are only three toes. M. Geoffroy of acting, truth, simplicity, nature, and power. St. Hilaire stated, that he has a fowl with The other parts are also well sustained; and precisely the same peculiarity. the sweet little Harriet Cawse adds much to Music. Rossini has returned to Paris from her reputation both as actress and singer. Here, Bologna, and is now engaged upon a new too, (and in other dramas, such as, Wanted a opera for the Académie Royale de Musique. Governess,) we have Bartley, a representative It is supposed, however, that he will not of old men, than whom there is none superior complete it very soon,-as, among the reforms on the English stage; for, with all their cha- of the new government, it is proposed to re-noon, on the 15th, is deserving of particular remark; the racteristics ably copied, there is a chasteness induce the expenditure of the Grand Opera. his personations which demands our highest Botany.-M. L. Riedel, who was attached praise. Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, and Wrench, in quality of botanist to the scientific expedikeep up the laughter and spirit of the night tion of M. de Langsdorff in Brazil, has just and we are glad to see the season drawing brought to St. Petersburg, for the Imperial towards its close in a way as favourable as the Botanical Garden, a collection of more than a thousand living Brazilian plants, amongst which are several not to be found in any other botanical garden of Europe. circumstances of the theatre could admit. VARIETIES. Travelling in the Air.-At a recent sitting French Ministry.The department of Let- of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, M. Naters and the Arts, in the administration of the vier read a paper in refutation of a work by interior, has just been confided to M. Lenor- M. Chabrier on aerial travelling. M. Navier mant. A refined taste, profound studies, and proves, by inquiries and experiments, as to the extensive travels undertaken solely with scien- motion of birds in the air, that if a man were tific views, are his titles to the appointment. able to put together at once all the physical French Pantheon.--By an ordonnance of the power which he has in eight hours, it would King of the French, the Pantheon at Paris has not be sufficient to support him with any mebeen restored to its primitive destination; and chanical apparatus in the air for five minutes. the inscription, "AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA He considers, therefore, all the ideas advanced PATRIE RECONNOISSANTE," is to be re- on this subject as chimerical. established on the pediment. The busts of Population of North America. The census Foy and Manuel have already been placed in now taking in the United States, which seems it with great ceremony. to go on as slowly as the population progresses The Blood. Experiments recently made on fastly, gives an increase on ten years of from the hematosin, or colouring matter of the blood, 4 to 27 per cent in the New England towns; seem to shew, that, as well as the albumen, it of 100 per cent in thirteen towns of New is capable of assuming two different forms; in York; of 40 per cent in thirty places of Pennthe one of which it is soluble, in the other sylvania; and 43 per cent in several towns of insoluble; a fact that will explain several dif- Virginia. It is not easy to found any calcuferences of opinion on the part of chemists. It lation on such vague and partial returns; but is further supposed, that the substance hitherto the aggregate increase must be very great. known under the name of hematosin, is not an The French Literary Gazette. The events immediate animal principle, but is a combina- of the late revolution have thrown into the tion of albumen with another substance which hands of the editor of the Literary Gazette at has been called globulin; a substance found in Paris (one of the best reviews of literature, a free state in human blood, but united with science, and the arts, in that city) some curious TO CORRESPONDENTS. In order to make room for as long a notice as we could insert in one No. of Sir Walter Scott's new produe tion, and the Correspondence of Sir T. Munro, we have postponed the conclusion of the Book of Scotland, besides several novelties, and a paper on the Asteroids. When we wrote the notice adverted to by J. C., which was a few days before its publication, we had previously seen the picture in question in the gallery; and, of course, we did not know of its subsequent removal: nor, indeed, do we now know of it, except from J. C.'s statement. There can be no doubt that, on the removal of the picture, its name ought to have been immediately struck out of the placards at the door: we cannot, however, he so uncharitable as to attribute the delay in that respect to any cause but inadvertence. It is a rule with us not to copy articles from other Journals: the whole Literary Gazette is original matter. We cannot, therefore, insert the very able article on mawill be brought before us by other means. chinery from the Times; but it is probable the subject The Fate of Adelaide, by L. E. L., has long been out of print: we cannot tell where a copy could be procured. F. w. When we said something favourable of our con |