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Colburn and Bentley. think that party abuse, Do you WILLIAM HAZLITT, the author of a number the work. "I mentioned (says Hazlitt) some things over them!' of works of very considerable talent, died last had reported of Lord Byron; such and the running down particular authors is Look at the manner in which Saturday, the day on which this volume was that Hput into our hands. Yet, we think, there is as his saying, 'He never cared for any thing any thing new? nothing but impartial justice in our opinion of above a day,' which might be merely in a fit Pope and Dryden were assailed by a set of its interest and merit. Without setting up for of spleen, or from the spirit of contradiction, reptiles. Do you believe the modern periodiSir Oracle, we find a great deal of original or to avoid an imputation of sentimentality.'cals had not their prototypes in the party-pubmind and observation scattered, in a desultory Oh!' said Northcote, that will never do, to lications of that day? Depend upon it, what way, through the pages; and while there is take things literally that are uttered in a mo. you take for political cabal and hostility is (nine more to commend, there is less (being almost ment of irritation. You do not express your parts in ten) private pique and malice oozing nothing) to offend than we have usually met own opinion, but one as opposite as possible to out through those authorised channels.'” with in Mr. Hazlitt's writings. This princi- that of the person that has provoked you. You pally arises from the matter being the dicta of get as far from a person you have taken a Mr. Northcote; but even where the editor pique against as you can, just as you turn off himself is the speaker, we have a moderate the pavement to get out of the way of a chimtone and a sensible spirit, seldom to be recog-ney-sweeper; but it is not to be supposed you prefer walking in the mud, for all that!'" nised in his preceding productions. 6 Speaking of the famous sculptors, Thorwaldsen and Canova, Mr. Northcote's sentiments are very far from agreeing with received notions. "A young artist (he says) brought me all Thorwaldsen's designs the other day, as miracles that I was to wonder at and be delighted The following observations are very good. till I The volume before us is divided into two "When Dr. Johnson (says Northeote) was with. But I could find nothing in them but He would be pleased at this.' parts, without any apparent reason; and contains, in twenty-two tête-à-tête Conversations asked why he was not invited out to dine as repetitions of the antique, over and over, Why, no! that is not enough: it is easy to with the veteran Mr. Northcote, a multitude Garrick was, he answered, as if it was a tri- was surfeited.' of chit-chat discussions on topics connected with umph to him, Because great lords and ladies well-known persons, literature, the fine arts, don't like to have their mouths stopped!' But imitate the antique: — if you want to last, you the drama, &c. &c. In these colloquies, Mr. who does like to have their mouths stopped? must invent something. The other is only Hazlitt has had the discretion not to press him- Did he, more than others? People like to be pouring liquors from one vessel into another, self into the foreground, but rather to act the amused in general; but they did not give him that become staler and staler every time. We part of one who is desirous of deferring to and the less credit for wisdom and a capacity to in- are tired of the antique; yet, at any rate, it is drawing out the stores of superior intelligence. struct them by his writings. In like manner, better than the vapid imitation of it. The The matter has thus a rambling form; but it is it has been said, that the king only sought one world wants something new, and will have it. studded with many excellent remarks, and interview with Dr. Johnson; whereas, if he No matter whether it is better or worse, if exhibits the aged artist (his portrait prefixed had been a buffoon or sycophant, he would there is but an infusion of new life and spirit, represents him in his 82d year) in the light of have asked for more. No, there was nothing it will go down to posterity; otherwise, you are a very acute and observant person, who has to complain of: it was a compliment paid by soon forgotten. Canova, too, is nothing, for seen much of life, and from possessing cha-rank to letters, and once was enough. The the same reason he is only a feeble copy of racter in himself, has curiously appreciated king was more afraid of this interview than the antique; or a mixture of two things the Dr. Johnson was; and went to it as a school- most incompatible, that and opera-dancing. what he has seen. The Conversations seem to have been held boy to his task. But he did not want to have But there is Bernini; he is full of faults; he with a view to publication, and Mr. Northcote this trial repeated every day, nor was it neces- has too much of that florid, redundant, flutterto have revised them for that purpose. The sary. The very jealousy of his self-love marked ing style, that was objected to Rubens; but second part, especially, has more the appear- his respect: and if he had thought less of Dr. then he has given an appearance of flesh that ance of preparation than the first; is more Johnson, he would have been more willing to was never given before. The antique always prolix and dissertative, and less unpremedilooks like marble, you never for a moment can divest yourself of the idea; but go up to a statue of Bernini's, and it seems as if it must yield to your touch. This excellence he was the first to give, and therefore it must always remain with him.'" "Originality is not caprice or affectation; it is an excellence that is always to be found in nature, but has never had a place in art risk the encounter. They had each their place to fill, and would best preserve their self-respect, Besides contributing almost continually for many years to newspapers, reviews, and literary journals, Mr. and perhaps their respect for each other, by reHazlitt published-Essay on the Principles of Human maining in their proper sphere. So they make Nature; the Eloquence of the British Senate, with Notes, an outcry about the prince leaving Sheridan to He had left him long &c. from the time of Charles I., in two octavo volumes; an English Grammar; the Round Table (in conjunction die in absolute want. with Mr. Leigh Hunt); a Collection of Essays on Lite- before: was he to send every day to know if rature, Men, and Manners; Characters of Shakespeare's he was dying? These things cannot be helped, Plays; a View of the English Stage, containing a Series of Dramatic Criticism; Lectures on the English Poets, without exacting too much of human nature.' delivered at the Surrey Institution: Political Essays and I agreed to this view of the subject, and said, before." Sketches of Public Characters; Letter to William Gifford, Esq.; and a volume (if we remember rightly) on the Li- I did not see why literary people should repine terature of the Elizabethan Age. Several of these works if they met with their deserts in their own way, obtained much popularity; and indeed, though differing without expecting to get rich; but that they widely from their author on most of his opinions, as Oh, it is not partyas disliking the Cockney dogmatism he so often displayed, often got nothing for their pains but unmerited we must allow that he produced much that did credit to abuse and party obloquy. perhis abilities. It was his asperities which rendered his formances generally unpalatable to us; and the dislike spite,' said he, but the envy of human nature. was not removed by an ambitious and affected style Do you think to distinguish yourself with imfrequently puzzling by its "true no-meaning." Yet there were bright parts, and of these alone we would now gladly punity? Do you imagine that your superiority cherish the remembrance: as of a clever but unamiable will be delightful to others? Or that they will man, who was, as he himself tells us, at feud with the not strive all they can, and to the last moworld," and who consequently treated the world with ill will, if not malice, which the world requited with some-ment, to pull you down? I remember myself once saying to Opie, how hard it was upon the thing of resentment and scorn. 'I know On literary subjects we have ideas equally "The dislike of the Westminster reforcible. viewers to polite literature was only the old exNames and modes of opinion changed, but ploded puritanic objection to human learning. human nature was much the same. nothing of the persons you speak of,' said Northcote; but they must be fools if they expect to get rid of the showy and superficial, and let only the solid and useful remain. The surface is a part of nature, and will always continue so. Besides, how many useful inven tions owe their existence to ornamental con- Northcote, our readers are aware, was the pupil of Reynolds; and his recollections of that masterly artist (not previously given in his Life) are very interesting. They occur in various parts, and we must not stand upon order in their introduction. sence of his keen-looking heads, as if you were him off from the pursuit of a study on which Of the Royal Academy Mr. Northcote does not express a high opinion: if one of its oldest and most distinguished members paints it in such colours, surely we may join the general voice, and proclaim that it wants reform. The subjoined are yet more miscellaneous than our preceding extracts. "N related an anecdote of Mr. Moore (brother of the general), who was on board an English frigate in the American war, and coming in sight of another vessel which did "Something was said of the Academy; and not answer their signals, they expected an P made answer, I know your admiration action, when the captain called his men toge of corporate bodies.' N. said, They were nother, and addressed them in the following manworse than others; they all began well and ner:- . You dirty, ill-looking blackguards! ended ill. When the Academy first began, one do you suppose I can agree to deliver up such would suppose that the members were so many a set of scarecrows as you as prisoners to that angels sent from heaven to fill the different smart, frippery Frenchman! I can't think ef situations, and that was the reason why it such a thing. No! by G-d, you must fight began: now the difficulty was to find any body till not a man of you is left, for I should be fit for them, and the deficiency was supplied by ashamed of owning such a raggamuffin crew!' interest, intrigue, and cabal. Not that I object This was received with loud shouts, and assuto the individuals neither. As Swift said, Irances of victory. “Northcote began by saying, You don't like Jack, Tom, and Harry, very well by them- "Northcote said, Goldsmith's death was the much like Sir Joshua, I know; but I think selves; but all together, they are not to be severest blow Sir Joshua ever received: he did that is one of your prejudices. If I was to endured. We see the effect of people acting not paint all that day! It was proposed to compare him with Vandyke and Titian, I should in concert in animals (for men are only a more make a grand funeral for him, but Reynolds say that Vandyke's portraits are like pictures vicious sort of animals): a single dog will let objected to this, as it would be over in a day, (very perfect ones, no doubt), Sir Joshua's like you kick and cuff him as you please, and will and said it would be better to lay by the money the reflection in a looking-glass, and Titian's submit to any treatment; but if you meet a to erect a monument to him in Westminster like the real people. There is an atmosphere pack of hounds, they will set upon you and tear Abbey; and he went himself and chose the of light and shade about Sir Joshua's, which you to pieces with the greatest impudence."" spot. neither of the others have in the same degree, Again: "Northcote shewed me a printed "He mentioned an instance of a trial about together with a vagueness that gives them a circular from the Academy, with blanks to an engraving, where he, West, and others, had visionary and romantic character, and makes be filled up by academicians, recommending to appear, and of the respect that was shewn them seem like dreams or vivid recollections of young students to draw. One of these related them. Erskine, after flourishing away, made persons we have seen. I never could mistake to an assurance as to the moral character of an attempt to puzzle Stothard by drawing two Vandyke's for any thing but pictures, and I go the candidate; Northcote said, 'What can I angles on a piece of paper, an acute and an up to them to examine them as such: when I know about that? This zeal for morality besee a fine Sir Joshua, I can neither suppose it gins with inviting me to tell a lie. I know to be a mere picture nor a man; and I almost whether he can draw or not, because he brings involuntarily turn back to ascertain if it is not me specimens of his drawings; but what am I some one behind me reflected in the glass: to know of the moral character of a person I "He said it was one of Sir Joshua's maxims, when I see a Titian, I am rivetted to it, and have never seen before? Or what business that the art of life consisted in not being overI can no more take my eye off from it than if have the Academy to inquire into it? I sup- set by trifles. We should look at the bottom it were the very individual in the room. That,' pose they are not afraid he will steal the Far- of the account, not at each individual item in he said, is, I think, peculiar to Titian, that nese Hercules; and as to idleness and debauch- it, and see how the balance stands at the end you feel on your good behaviour in the pre-ery, he will not be cured of these by cutting of the year. We should be satisfied if the path 6 obtuse one, and asking, Do you mean to say these two are alike?' Yes, I do,' was the answer. I see,' said Erskine, turning round, there is nothing to be got by angling here!" of life is clear before us, and not fret at the Speaking of the famed Author of Waverley, Northcote says: "I was much pleased with Sir Walter, and I believe he expressed a favourable opinion of me. I said to him, I admire the way in which you begin your novels. You set out so abruptly, that you quite surprise me. I can't at all tell what's coming.' No!' says Sir Walter, nor I neither." I then told him, that when I first read Waverley, I said it was no novel: nobody could invent like that. Either he had heard the story related by one of the surviving parties, or he had found the materials in a manuscript concealed in some old chest. To which he replied, You're not so far out of the way in thinking so."" [A bit of the old mystification !] I party formerly, using the expression That ་ "We must now advert to some of the most interesting but lamentable events that the history of colonisation affords, in which the deadly "I forget how it arose the other day, but poison of religious bigotry was deeply inter"Northcote said that Sir Joshua used to say she asked me, Pray, Mr. Northcote, is dis- mingled with the hostility excited by commerthat no one produced more than six original cretion reckoned one of the cardinal virtues?' cial jealousy. The decided indications of a things. I always said it was wrong to fix upon No,' I said, it is not one of them, for it is violent spirit of persecution, on the part of the this number five out of the six would be all! If we had discretion at all times, we Catholic priesthood of France, induced the brave found, upon examination, to be repetitions of should never do wrong: but we are taken off Coligny to make an experiment, which might the first. A man can no more produce six our guard by being thrown into new and diffi.have issued in the provision of a safe retreat original works than he can be six individuals cult situations, and have not time to weigh the for a considerable portion of the oppressed Proat once. Whatever is the strong and prevail-consequences, or to summon resolution to our testants. He formed a party of Huguenots, ing bent of his genius, he will stamp upon some aid. That is what Opie used to say when he among whom were several of high respectamaster-work; and what he does else, will be had been engaged in an argument over night;bility, who sailed under the command of Rionly the same thing over again, a little better what excellent answers he could give the next bault, an officer of considerable spirit, with the or a little worse; or if he goes out of his way day-and was vexed with himself for not hav-intention of colonising Florida. After a fain search of variety and to avoid himself, he ing thought of them. No! if we had sufficient vourable voyage, he arrived at the entrance of will merely become a common-place man or an presence of mind to foresee the consequences of a river, which he called May, from the month imitator of others." our actions on the spot, we should very rarely in which he reached the coast. He here erected have occasion to repent of them afterwards." a fort, and then imprudently sailed for France, That we may have as little as may be toto bring out a reinforcement. Albert, to whom repent, hereafter, with regard to this volume, he delegated his authority during his absence, we shall conclude by noticing that it abounds appears to have been both unworthy and incomin useless, and worse than useless, initials; petent for so important a situation. From his that we are borne out in our opinion in re-extreme severity and ill-management, the coloviewing Cunningham's Lives of the Painters, nists formed an inveterate hatred against him, in the Family Library, when we protested which terminated in his death. In the exciteagainst his picture of Sir Joshua, not only by ment of internal dissensions, the settlers had facts stated by one who knew him so well as paid little or no attention to the production of Northcote, but by direct contradictions of state-food, and were compelled, after exhausting ments unfavourable to that great artist's charac- nearly all their stores, to make the desperate ter; that Mr. Godwin, Wordsworth, Washington attempt of recrossing the Atlantic with the Irving, and others, are obviously referred to in small remainder of their provisions. Being a way to which we cannot give our approba-detained by a calm, they had commenced preytion; that there are many repetitions in the ing upon one another, when they were provivolume: but yet that, if it contained only what dentially delivered from their unhappy condiwe have quoted (as it does infinitely more), it tion by an English vessel, which conveyed them would be an interesting publication. to their own country. During the abode of these unfortunate men in Florida, Coligny had The History and Topography of the United been so deeply engaged in the dissension at States. Edited by John H. Hinton, A.M., home, which had ripened into an open rupture assisted by several literary Gentlemen in and a civil war, that he was prevented from America and England. Illustrated with a sending his intended reinforcement; but no Series of Views, drawn on the spot, and sooner had peace been concluded, than he deengraved on Steel, expressly for this Work. spatched a fresh expedition, under M. René Part I. 4to. London, 1830, Jennings and Laudonnière, who arrived in the river May on Chaplin; Philadelphia, Wardle; New York, the 25th of June, 1564. After sailing northward "Human nature is always the same. It was Carvill; Boston, Gray and Bowen. about ten leagues, he returned to the May, and so with Johnson and Goldsmith. They would THIS is the first Part of a projected work which erected a fort, which, in honour of his soveallow no one to have any merit but themselves. will be completed in about thirty Parts; one of reign, he styled Fort Caroline. He proved, The very attempt was a piece of presumption, which is to appear on the first of every month, however, inadequate to the difficult task of preand a trespass upon their privileged rights. I or oftener if found practicable. We readily siding over a number of spirited young men, in remember a poem that came out, and that was adopt the opinion expressed by its proprietors a state of great excitement from the disappointsent to Sir Joshua: his servant Ralph had in their address to the public, and say," The ment of their expectations, which had dwelt instructions to bring it in just after dinner. rapid career in which the republic of the United upon the prospect of golden harvests and unGoldsmith presently got hold of it, and seemed States of North America has attained its pre-bounded wealth. Plots were formed against thrown into a rage before he had read a line of sent elevated rank in the scale of nations, is his life, and he was on the point of leaving, it. He then said, 'What wretched stuff is without parallel in the history of the world, with the remains of his colony, for Europe, here! what cursed nonsense that is!' and and its continued and accelerated progress ex- when a new expedition, under the command of kept all the while marking the passages with cites a deep interest in every part of the civilised Ribault, entered the river. That officer superhis thumb-nail, as if he would cut them in globe. With Great Britain intercourse is daily seded Laudonnière, only, however, to expepieces. At last, Sir Joshua, who was pro- becoming more frequent, and the connexion rience still more melancholy disasters. Scarcely voked, interfered, and said, Nay, don't spoil between the two countries more extended and a week had passed after his arrival, when eight my book, however.'-Dr. Johnson looked down intense. It is less surprising, therefore, that Spanish ships were seen in the same river, on the rest of the world as pigmies; he smiled correct information on every subject connected where several of the largest French vessels at the very idea that any one should set up for with this republic should be eagerly sought were lying at anchor. As the Spanish fleet a fine writer but himself. They never ad-after, than that no elaborate and comprehen- made towards them, the French cut their cables, mitted C as one of the set: Sir Joshua sive work on its history and topography should and put out to sea. Although they were fired did not invite him to dinner. If he had been exist." upon and pursued, they escaped; but, finding in the room, Goldsmith would have flown out As far as we can judge from the Part which that their enemies had landed on the shores of of it as if a dragon had been there. I remem-has appeared, the present publication bids fair the river Dolphin, about eight leagues distant, ber Garrick once saying, D-n his dishclout to supply, very satisfactorily, this desideratum. they returned to the May. Ribault now called face; his plays would never do if it were not Of course it commences with an account of the a council at Fort Caroline, which decided that for my patching them up and acting in them.' discovery and colonisation of North America. they ought to strengthen the fort with all posAnother time he took a poem of C's, and The interest of that portion of the subject has sible diligence, and be prepared for the enemy. read it backwards to turn it into ridicule. Yet necessarily been in some measure anticipated; He was himself, however, of a different opisome of his pieces keep possession of the stage, but, as a specimen of the composition, we sub-nion. Apprehensive of the defection of the so that there must be something in them. join the description of the attempts made by friendly and auxiliary natives, if they should "I recollect one of the Miss Bs, Lord the French Protestants, soon after the middle discover that, at the first approach of the SpaOrford's favourites, whom I met with at af of the sixteenth century, to colonise Florida. niards, they should confine themselves to their "Khas been wanting my two copies of though I do not think he will bid high enough to induce me to part with them. am in this respect like Opie, who had an original by Sir Joshua that he much valued, and he used to say, I don't know what I should do in that case, but I hope to G-d nobody will offer me 5001. for it!' It is curious, this very picture sold for 500%. the other day. So it is that real merit creeps on, and is sure to find its level. |