JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES. New Club. The Marquess of Hertford's resemblance, by rising up again, and singing the galleries. But as we heard from that high their own dead march. The plot was a mix- circle, when Xavier entered, "That is the noble mansion in Piccadilly is being fitted up From the ture of the improbable and absurd-the lan- man vot vopps editors," we are not inclined to for a new club, to be called The English and guage, as ludicrous in its common-place, as it make any remark upon his acting which might Foreign Union. The house, from what we was turgid in its bombast. As a whole, we be construed into offence; and so we wish the have seen of it, will be superb. could only wonder at that want of drama- Jew of Arragon good night. By the by, we prospectus which has been issued, we observe tic judgment evinced by the production of should have liked to see his regiment of ould that the object of this establishment is to proIt is a curious fact, cloash, with their nightcaps, &c., march to the mote and keep up the friendly intercourse of such an effete piece. naval, literary, and scientific, of foreign nabut a fact nevertheless, that those who have camps. It would have been worth the whole persons of rank and distinction, military, tions, with those of our own country. for years been accustomed to study the public tragedy. taste, are those who understand it the least. The actor is seldom a prophet as regards the fate of a drama. Perhaps this may arise from his only considering it with reference to him ADELPHI. A NEW naval piece was brought out on us to say more. Italy. A son of the celebrated Goethe has lately been travelling in Italy, of which tour, we learn, he has kept a journal, from which his father is preparing a work upon that self. In the case before us, Mr. Kemble seems MR. JONES, late of Drury Lane, is said to country. Madame Catalani.-This admired songsto have been led away by two or three, theatrically speaking, good hits for himself and have declined all theatrical engagements, for the daughter, without considering the dreary space purpose of attending his pupils in parliamentary tress, we are informed, in a letter from Italy, between. Those little absurdities whch ex- and clerical elocution. From some connexions has finally set up her rest at Florence, with the cite that destruction to tragedy, laughter, of our own we have heard Mr. Jones's peculiar declared intention of remaining there during For example, no- method of teaching highly commended; and life. were strangely frequent. thing could be more ridiculous than Miss Ellen while we regret the loss of his amusing talents Tree's jumping through the window down in public, we wish him every success in the Sontag has appeared, in the person of a Mlle. into the river; it was so completely enacting employment of his more useful talents in pri the old song, "I'll gather my petticoats up to my knee, And over the water to Charley." suited to the ambitious Jewess. In the two vate. One of the chief recommendations of not. POLITICS. What wars and revolutions were effected VARIETIES. Captain King's Expedition. His majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, which have been employed, for the last three years, in surveying the coast of South America, and particularly about Cape Horn, under the orders of Captain King, have arrived in England. New German Singer.-At Turin, another Henrietta Charles (Karl), who completed her vocal studies at Milan, and has made her début at Turin, in Coccia's Orfana della Selva, with Cheap Beer.-Placards are seen about town the utmost éclat. She is a native of Berlin. at many public-houses thus inscribed: "Fine porter sold here at threepence per pot: every man must bring his own mug." LITERARY NOVELTIES. [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. XLIII. Oct. 23.] A poetical jeu d'esprit entitled the Political Devil, or of Romanism traced to their Origin in Human Nature, But "we'll draw a decent curtain round the dead," and only speak as regards the first original character in which Miss Fanny Kemble has appeared, and which, we are sorry to say, was a failure. There was an utter want of THE world gets older, not much wiser; and original conception about it. In the first scene, though manners change, human nature does where her father unfolds his ambitious hopes, there was a coldness, a want of energy, ill-five hundred years ago by free-lancers, knights- Advice to the Mariner Monarch, preparatory to the openried on by foreign volunteers in every squabble, by Dr. R. Whately.-The Daughter of Herodias, a different scenes, where she triumphs over and erratic, and mercenary soldiers, are now car-ing of Parliament, illustrated by four cuts.-The Errors taunts the nobles, she wanted dignity: her liberals, and plunderers. Belgium is over-run Tragedy, by Henry Rich, Esq.-A Catechism of PhrenoConcise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature, In Paris the from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters to 1445, sneering was spiteful and petulant, not haughty by such, and Spain is threatened:-never logy, illustrative of the Principles of that Science.--A The slowness of her delivery mind, we are all patriots. and cutting. government seems resolved to put an end to Part I., by Dr. Adam Clarke.-Mr. Keightley, the Author sometimes degenerated into a drawl,-a fault to which she cannot too soon direct her attention; mob legislation; and every friend of humanity of "the Fairy Mythology," is about to publish a work on hopes it will succeed. monotony and mannerism are the Scylla and Charybdis of an actor's delivery. Her peculiar pronunciation has often a wretched effect; as when she asks the nobles, "If they are not stoned," for stunned. Now, each of these defects is slight, and in her own power to remedy. 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We were sorry and infirmities rendered it impossible. After to hear Mr. Kemble (in the text, it is true) much discussion amongst his ghostly fathers, point an allusion in the play so as to make it he compromised the matter by agreeing to His daughter's station, her scramble, on his bare knees, up and down the a personality. youth, her universally acknowledged amia- great gallery in his palace, for a certain time bility in domestic life, not only place her above every day, until he should have gone over a any passing scurrility, but give her claim to space equal to the distance between Dresden the possession of that delicacy of feeling, which and Jerusalem. His majesty had performed a was, we think, rather outraged than sup-great part of his feat when interrupted by his ported by being made matter of applause from rebellious subjects. TO CORRESPONDENTS. In the notice of the Gem, the name of the author who wrote the first poem quoted was omitted: this was doing but scant justice to one of its pleasantest contributors, Mr. Edward Fitzgerald. I. P. is very well for the domestic circle, but does not require publication. An English Reader" should be aware, that however much we dislike the interlarding of our language with French or other foreign phraseology, we cannot alter quotations from works disfigured by that folly. The extract, the only one by which we could satisfactorily illustrate the Winter's Wreath, is so long, that we cannot find room for it in this No: a second apology is The dramatic novelties have also pressed on our space therefore due to the Editor of that Annual, all others this week. appearing in the succession in which they reach us. THCHOOLONDON UNIVERSITY Mayence of Master, the Rev. HENRY BROWNE, M.A. of Corpus Christi Case. Leonard Horner, Esq. F.R.S. Visiters for the present year:- M.P. Henry Hallam, Esq. 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Colburn and Bentley. impoverished and dismantled state of the THE continuation of this very valuable ac- kingdom, through Mary's misgovernment, or cession to our knowledge of English history, disheartened in standing forth as the champion "In the course of this year a negotiation at a period when that history is most import. of Elizabeth's disputed title, and her defender was set on foot for the queen's marriage with ant, must be truly acceptable to all the lovers against a host of foes, powerful, subtle, and the Duc d'Anjou, brother of the King of of sterling works; works which do credit to, intriguing, and, upon many principles, bent France; Cecil, in a letter to Walsingham, at and are calculated to be lasting ornaments of, upon her dethronement, the elevation of Mary Paris, expresses his private opinion to be, our literature. By referring to our review of of Scotland, and the subjugation of both parts generally speaking, that he saw no continu. the first volume, (L. G. No. 588, April 26, of the British Island." ance of the queen's quietness without a mar1828), it will be seen that we admitted the But we must rather, for the reasons we riage.' And this, indeed, he might well say; incompetency of a Journal like ours to afford have stated, trust to a few miscellaneous ex- the chances of the succession, after her death an adequate idea of such a mass of "historical, tracts, than to a regular analysis, for the without issue, being made a continual trouble biographical, religious, and political questions," imperfect illustration we can offer of this truly to her, especially by those who wished to have as are embraced and discussed in a production national work. Mary Queen of Scots' title openly and publicly of this magnitude; and we must now repeat "Towards the conclusion of this first year of allowed; but the agitation of the subject set, our mea culpa. The volume at present before us, the queen's reign, a proclamation against ex-it seems, the astrologers to work, who caltoo, rises in consequence; for it commences cess of apparel appeared, upon which a certain culated the queen's nativity, in order from with the enthronement of Elizabeth, and pro- prelate, in a discourse from the pulpit, enume- thence to draw prognostics of what might be ceeds through all the mighty acts of her event-rating many of the prevailing vanities, has expected to ensue from such a marriage, if it ful reign, 1558-9, to the year 1572, when the given us a curious specimen of the fashions should take place. We cannot deny that this Duke of Norfolk was executed. During this and luxuries of the day, in the following ex-appeal to the vain science of astrology (the period the great trust and confidence reposed traordinary passage: These fine-fingered folly of the age, as Strype calls it), is strongly in Burghley gives additional weight to his rufflers, with their sables about their necks, reported to have been set on foot by the secrepapers and correspondence; and Dr. Nares corked slippers, trimmed buskins and warm tary, and absolutely to have been resorted to has bestowed both pains and patience in set- mittens, furred stomachers, long gowns; by that extraordinary man as a guide and ting them in a clear light. Like all biogra- the day, another for the night: one long, tion happens to be still extant, written by the these tender parnels must have one gown for direction to his own judgment. The calculaphers, he leans, even more strongly we think than before, to the favourable side of all that another short: one for winter, another for secretary propria manu, beginning, De significoncerns Elizabeth, or her minister. He ac- summer: one furred through, and another but catione 7m domus, et de conjugio. The whole, cordingly dwells upon the position of Mary faced: one for the work-day, another for the indeed, may be seen in the appendix to the from the very beginning of her dear cousin's holy-day: one of this colour, another of that: second volume of Strype's Annals of the Requeenly career, as one which put the succession one of cloth, another of silk or damask. formation, No. IV.: one clause, as bearing into jeopardy; and while he palliates or ex- Change of apparel; one afore dinner, another upon the succession, is ridiculously curious. cuses most of the facts alleged or proven at after; one of Spanish fashion, another of There was a hope to be drawn, it seems, of the against the English court, he joins with those Turkey: and, to be brief, never content with birth of one son, that should be strong, famous, who credit the worst imputations upon the enough, but always devising new fashions and and happy in his mature age. unfortunate princess. As a general principle, strange. Yea, a ruffian will have more in his est in domo propria, conjuncta Mercurio, doruff and his hose, than he should spend in amino filiorum. Et idcirco spes maxima datur year; he which ought to go in a russet coat, de filio uno robusto, claro, et felici in ætate sua spends as much on apparel for him and his matura.' The prognostics, however, of happiwife, as his father would have kept a good ness, and a robust heir of her own body, were not sufficient to induce the queen to venture herself within the indissoluble bonds of wedlock; one daughter also seems to have been promised, from the moon being in the constellation Taurus. Luna in Tauro unam filiam designat.' he says: horse with." "It is idle to talk, much more to write, of those times, as though the great quarrel were but a contest between two women, and in which some of the most insignificant of female passions were allowed to give a turn to the With regard to Mary's marriage with Darnmost important events. From the first moment ley, there seems to be some discrepancy in of her accession, Elizabeth may be said to have Dr. Nares's argument; for at one place he had arrayed against her, on some ground or other, considers it as a masterly stroke of policy in all the greatest potentates of Europe, assisted the Scots queen, and then as an act which was by the craft and subtlety of able but dishonest likely to do her the utmost injury. In the politicians, the rancour of an exasperated hier-year 1569 the following notice of the first archy, and all the Jesuitical tricks of its super- lottery occurs. stitious votaries. But Scotland was doomed to "Among the measures adopted at this time, be the theatre, where the enemies of Elizabeth for the better security and defence of the and England were to display their greatest kingdom, which required the most prompt and feats; the French were never more determined vigilant attention, we read of the first public to make it their stepping-stone' to England lottery being drawn this year, 1569; it conthan after the death of Henry II. · "All these things put together may help us to form some idea of the perilous situation in which Elizabeth stood, on her first accession to For instance, he endeavours to explain away the infamous letter so justly animadverted upon by Lodge, in which Lord Shrewsbury, her gaoler, is instructed to provoke her to "answer somewhat" which may afford a handle to her enemies and persecutors. Verum Venus And now we take leave of a volume of great value; recommending it to readers rather on its intrinsic merits than for any chance we could have of making that value known either by our criticisms or extracts. Watts. The Literary Souvenir. Edited by Alaric A. 12mo. pp. 346. London, 1831. sisted, we are told, of 400,000 lots, at 10s. Longman and Co. each lot. The prizes were plate, and the THIS is a very delightful volume various and profits were to be applied to the repair of the amusing, with a rich tone of creative imaginahavens of the kingdom. It was drawn at the tion flung over many of its productions. Mr. west door of St. Paul's Cathedral. The draw- Praed opens the book with one of those legends ing is stated to have begun on the 11th of he tells so well, and has several other very January, and to have been continued inces-pleasant poems. His poetical vein is a very santly, day and night, till the 6th of May peculiar one: his pathos rarely goes beyond following. The proposals for this lottery were sentiment, passion he assumes not, and his |