more essential to sift every scheme with pa- established. With such proofs of the correct- pious, and enlightened gentleman, the Rev. tience, and to weigh well what may in any ness of my opinions on this subject, I should Mr. Green, secretary, I had some difficulty to degree alleviate the sufferings of the people. condemn myself if I did not use my best en-distinguish between the national and other Mr. Burgoyne combines two great objects- deavours to promote a change in the mode of charity schools; however, I ascertained for a education and relief; and in both he seems to education of the poor; and I can discover no certainty that there were four from the na us to stand upon sure grounds. We do not better means, than first to lay before the public tional school. In Newgate I found several; imagine that the adoption of his plan would these proofs, and then to establish a scholastic and among them the famous Maria Keely, who remove all the burdens that affect our social institution in a populous part of the kingdom, had been condemned to be hanged-was parsystem; but we do conscientiously believe that where works of labour and industry will be doned; but returning to her former malprac it would do immense good, and go a great way combined with instruction afforded to the tices, is now under sentence of transportation. in reconciling the multitude to those remaining poor. The success of this attempt must de- I find that she was teacher in one of the troubles which it could not redress. Besides, pend on the opinion of the public, not on national schools. In the House of Correction it has been tried, and it has succeeded; and mine; though I am supported in this attempt in Clerkenwell, I found twelve from the na what has succeeded in a local district would by both the archbishops, the bishop of the tional schools, and seventeen from other cha succeed, if spread, all over the country. There diocese, where this establishment is com-rity schools. In the Guardian Asylum, which is no gainsaying the conclusion. menced, and many of the clergy. I am aware does so much credit to those humane and Education unconnected with habits of labour that I have given offence to several members kind-hearted ladies who superintend it, I found and industry is a curse, and not a blessing; of the national school; this offence has arisen seven who came to town from national schools and it is by losing sight of this grand principle, entirely from my being misunderstood; so far in Bath, Bristol, and Somersetshire. If this that many well-meant undertakings to pro- from finding fault with the management of the number can be proved to have suffered from the mote the instruction of the poor have been so central school in Baldwyn's Buildings, I con- present mode of education, it is melancholy to fatal to the happiness of those whose condition sider it as a pattern for all other schools: I think how large a number may be supposed to they were intended to improve. have long been connected with it; I have have fallen victims to it. An attempt is now "The public," says our author, "have been received assistance from them; and I flatter making to adopt a new plan with labour and much deceived by being told that education myself have been enabled to do some good in a industry-the promoter of it will do his duty, prevents crime. I have no doubt that when parish where for many years I have acted as He solicits assistance from the public in any habits of industry are taught, and employment churchwarden under very peculiar circum-way they may be pleased to give it." found, this blessed effect will ensue; but when stances. I have my great doubts, whether a To this array of truth, of facts which speak, they are neglected, I very much fear that system of labour and industry can be introdu- trumpet-tongued, for themselves, what answer delinquency will increase with what is vulgarly ced in a school, professedly established for the can be returned? Why, adopt the system called the march of intellect. This has long instruction of masters as well as of scholars; which must tend to prevent so much crime been my opinion; but to ascertain the fact, I but in regard to other schools I have no doubt. and wretchedness;-make children capable of have visited almost every place, either of What I contend for is, that if these young industrious provision for themselves, while you refuge for the distressed, or punishment for people had received less literary attainment, are teaching them the otherwise injurious qua the vicious; and I submit my report to the and more instruction on works of labour and lities of reading and writing;- if you impan public, that they may form their own judg- industry, they would have been more able to knowledge, impart with it a good direction d ment. I will begin with the boys: the case provide for themselves-more happy and con- that which is truly called power: if not, it be of the girls is still more grievous and deplo- tent with their line of life, without aspiring to comes a power to do mischief to the whole bod rable. The first place I visited was the House situations out of their reach.-If the fate of of society, and, like the talismans in eastern of Correction at Clerkenwell, where I found the male part of the children of the poor ex-tales intrusted to unskilful hands, is pre-emieighty-eight youths who had been educated at cites our compassion, what shall we say of the nently ruinous to its possessor. national schools, chiefly in the country, and females, who are kept at these national schools forty-eight in other great charity schools: at to the age of fourteen, and then dismissed, in the New Prison, Clerkenwell, I found twenty- complete ignorance of the duties of menial eight lads who had received their education in servants, or any other instruction but that of national or large charity schools, mostly in the fine work, and of dressing themselves to the country in Newgate I found a considerable best advantage? If a governess, a house- "That they be taught reading, writing, and number who had been in the country national keeper, a lady's maid, &c. are wanted, the arithmetic, but that half the school hours be schools, or other large charity schools; but on candidates are many; but when a servant is spent in works of labour and industry; the consulting the school-master in Newgate, he wanted for the most menial offices, I submit to boys to mend their own clothes and shoes examined his accounts, and found that of 688 the mistresses of families, whether the same ap-clean knives and shoes, to use the needle and males whom he had admitted to his school, plications occur? Nay, I know myself a place hammer as well as the pen; also to be em within the last six years, nearly two-thirds of rendezvous, or house of calling for female ployed in out-of-door work, such as digging. had come from the national or other large servants, where a few years ago there were gardening, hedging and ditching, and plungs charity schools. In the Refuge for the Desti- above 500 applications in the year, and at pre-ing, when an opportunity offers. That the tute, that admirable charity for reclaiming sent there are not twenty. The question then girls be employed in needlework, washing an youths who have gone astray, and checking is, what becomes of all these unhappy dis- ironing, mending their own clothes, in the juvenile delinquency by means of habits of appointed females, who come to town in full business of a dairy, and in such practices of industry and lessons of morality, I found hopes and expectation of those advantages they housewifery as may fit and recommend them thirty boys who had been in country national expected to find from the superior education to good services. That the expense of the schools; most of whom were induced to come they have received? It is painful to think of establishment be provided for by a public s to town, in hopes of what they call bettering them. Many of them I have found in those scription, but that each child do pay weekly themselves, but being disappointed, became places of refuge and punishment I have men- 3d. for the instruction and advantages it may thieves. In St. Margaret's Workhouse, West- tioned; the result of my inquiry must I think obtain in these schools. That, in minster, I saw five stout boys, from ten to excite the compassion of their sex, and incline order to encourage regular attendance and fourteen, just come out of a national school. them to support a system of labour and good behaviour, small plots of land be given In the large places of confinement at Milbank industry, calculated to save others from such a to those boys who shall be recommended by and Brixton, and at several of the large work-state of misery and wretchedness. The first the master, which, on certain conditions, they houses, the result of my inquiry was the same. place I visited was the Lock Hospital, where I shall cultivate for the benefit of their parents" But there is one remark which I think it found nine of these unhappy females come And in this last clause consists the genuine proper to make,—that among all the governors from national schools in the country with the spirit of a right system; not only yielding and superintendents of these places of refuge same hopes and disappointment. In justice to healthy employment to the children, but wedand confinement, they all agree with me, that that excellent charity, I cannot refrain saying, ding their parents to the good cause by the education and instruction given to the chil-that they all appeared completely penitent, and benefits they derive from it, and by the inte dren of the poor, without habits of labour and resolved to lead a new life. At the Female rest it gives them in its continuance. With industry, are the contrary to a blessing, both Penitentiary at Pentonville, which institution regard to them it is a beautiful design, and to them and to their country. I have also equally claims our admiration, I found thirteen one that would add materially to their omreceived strong confirmation of my opinions of these unhappy females. At that excellent forts and enjoyments. How delighted must a from correspondents in country towns, where establishment, the Magdalen, though I had father or a mother be to see their humble board large national schools, without industry, are every support and assistance from the humane, covered with wholesome food, the produce of Not so Mr. Burgoyne's plan near Potton, and in Bedfordshire. Here a school of forty boys and forty girls, under the care of a master and mistress, in separate buildings, had the follow. ing rules laid down. National Library, No. III. History of Che- their children's useful toils while relaxed from mistry, the preparation of silver and gold. supply them with the different articles requisite the discipline of school! The same applies to It is not true as applied to the general objects for a particular process which he wanted to perhousewifery taught to the girls. Much do we of that science, nor to the definition which the form. M. Gros named a M. Bureau, to whom lament that we cannot go into the details of present age has given it. the Italian immediately repaired. He readily this admirable project. The Rev. Mr. Henry In chapter second- and quære, should not furnished crucibles, pure tin, quicksilver, and Clissold, in his philanthropic tract for promot- chapter second have come before chapter first? the other things required by the Italian. The ing a Central National Institution of Home we find that "scientific chemistry took its goldsmith left his workshop, that the Italian Colonies, designed to instruct and employ dis- origin from the collection and comparison of might be under the less restraint, leaving M. tressed and unoccupied poor on waste lands the chemical facts, made known by the prac- Gros, with one of his own workmen, as an atin spade husbandry, asserts," that we have tice and improvement of those branches of tendant. The Italian put a quantity of tin within the limits of our home territory, ten manufactures which can only be conducted by into one crucible, and a quantity of quicksilver millions of acres of mere waste, uncultivated chemical processes;" a statement which would into another. The tin was melted in the fire, land, infinitely superior in quality to the land be at variance with the first assertion, if we and the mercury heated. It was then poured brought into spade tillage by our Flemish did not take into consideration how the nu- into the melted tin, and at the same time a red neighbours." Of this a paradise might be merous sources whence a science may ori- powder enclosed in wax was projected into the made (as far as human depravity admits); and ginate, may, from a neglect in assigning to amalgam. An agitation took place, and a great instead of the sin and starvation we see around each its due value, be brought in opposition to deal of smoke was exhaled from the crucible; us on every side, the whole mass of the pauper one another, instead of being condensed into but this speedily subsided, and the whole being population might be lifted upon it to civilisa-one. We must either take the mind or the poured out, formed six heavy ingots, having tion, contentment, and plenty. science as the basis of the definition: if we the colour of gold. The goldsmith was called take the former, we might, perhaps, find that in by the Italian, and requested to make a rigid we are all chemists: if the latter, we should examination of the smallest of these ingots. find that chemistry could only exist when, as a The goldsmith, not content with the touchscience, the observations of the number were stone and the application of aqua fortis, exposed reduced by method, so as to be useful to a the metal on the cupel with lead, and fused it ONE of the first triumphs of human intellect single individual. Firm in our opinion of the with antimony, but it sustained no loss. He was the knowledge of the objects around, and absolute necessity of accurate definitions, we found it possessed of the ductility and specific an acquaintance with the external character, act upon the principle of the celebrated Moles gravity of gold; and full of admiration, he exor the form, age, colour, and hardness, which in considering natural historical properties claimed that he had never worked before upon exist in endless variety, and which, by fur- as distinct from the chemical properties, as gold so perfectly pure. The Italian made him nishing specific differences, afford the true ele- much so as mineralogy and geology are from a present of the smallest ingot as a recompense, ments of natural science. The next step was chemistry: we hence cannot see any advance and then, accompanied by M. Gros, he repaired an inquiry into the properties of these sub-made by the ancients to a knowledge of to the mint, where he received from M. Bacuet, stances or existing things, and from them to chemistry, in the discovery of gold or cin- the mint-master, a quantity of Spanish gold obtain a knowledge of their constitution. nabar, nor until they modified these substances coin, equal in weight to the ingots which he Such would be the origin of chemistry, which, by other influences, extracted one substance had brought. To M. Gros he made a present germing with the inquiring mind of man, from another, or dived into the secrets of their of twenty pieces, on account of the attention was cultivated by the eastern nations, the elementary constitution. that he had paid to him; and, after paying his Chinese, the Hindoos, and subsequently by the Alchemy came with a slow, but wide-spread-bill at the inn, he added fifteen pieces more, to Arabians, to alleviate the diseases incident to ing influence-it carried the imagination along serve to entertain M. Gros and M. Bureau for humanity, shone, for a short time, under the with it-it excited cupidity, and aroused that some days, and in the mean time he ordered a dazzling but deceitful sun of Alchymy, grew love of the mysterious and wonderful which supper, that he might, on his return, have the with the progress of the arts, and was finally characterises the human mind. Its professors pleasure of supping with these two gentlemen. cultivated for its own pure self as a science, asserted the opinion, that the baser metals con- He went out, but never returned, leaving be which, above all others perhaps, tends to enlarge tain the same constituents as gold; contami- hind him the greatest regret and admiration. the understanding, and to give comprehensivenated, indeed, with various impurities, but It is needless to add, that M. Gros and M. views of the method and simplicity of the capable, when these impurities were removed, Deity. or remedied, of assuming all the properties and characters of gold. They distinguished by the name of lapis philosophorum, or philosopher's stone, the substance possessing this wonderful power; and they usually describe it as a red powder, having a peculiar smell. There are many stories on record of men who had this stone in their possession; but the Professor only states two or three, which, he says, depend upon the most unexceptionable evidence. It was not absolutely necessary that to be the historian of so well-marked and distinct a science, the author should himself have followed a career of discovery, and be entitled to occupy no contemptible situation in that history. In the ardour for the cause of science, which has been introduced by the activity of the press, nothing is neglected to render every subject worthy of a discerning public; and to this attention are we indebted for the excellent History of Chemistry, which forms the third Number of the National Library. Bureau continued to enjoy themselves at the inn till the fifteen pieces, which the stranger had left, were exhausted." Mangetus gives also the following relation, which he states upon the authority of an English bishop, who communicated it to him in the year 1685, and at the same time gave him about half an ounce of the gold which the alchemist had made. "A stranger, meanly dressed, went to Mr. Boyle, and after conversing for some time about "About the year 1650 an unknown Italian chemical processes, requested him to furnish came to Geneva, and took lodgings at the sign him with antimony and some other common of the Green Cross. After remaining there a metallic substances, which then fortunately "Chemistry," says Dr. Thomson, "unlike day or two, he requested De Luc, the landlord, happened to be in Mr. Boyle's laboratory. the other sciences, sprang originally from de- to procure him a man acquainted with Italian, These were put into a crucible, which was lusion and superstition, and was at its com- to accompany him through the town, and point then placed in a melting-furnace. As soon as mencement exactly on a level with magic and out those things which deserved to be examined. these metals were fused, the stranger shewed astrology. Even after it began to be useful to De Luc was acquainted with M. Gros, at that a powder to the attendants, which he projected man, by furnishing him with better and more time about twenty years of age, and a student into the crucible, and instantly went out, dipowerful medicines than the ancient physicians in Geneva, and knowing his proficiency in the recting the servants to allow the crucible to were acquainted with, it was long before it Italian language, requested him to accompany remain in the furnace till the fire went out of could shake off the trammels of alchymy, which the stranger. To this proposition he willingly its own accord, and promising at the same time hung upon it like a nightmare, cramping and acceded, and attended the Italian every where to return in a few hours. But, as he never blunting all its energies, and exposing it to the for the space of a fortnight. The stranger now fulfilled this promise, Boyle ordered the cover scorn and contempt of the enlightened part of began to complain of want of money, which to be taken off the crucible, and found that it mankind." alarmed M. Gros not a little for at that time contained a yellow-coloured metal, possessing This is true as far as regards the effect he was very poor-and he became apprehensive, all the properties of pure gold, and only a little which alchymy had of bringing the attention from the tenour of the stranger's conversation, lighter than the weight of the materials oriof philosophers to the advantages of method in that he intended to ask the loan of money from ginally put into the crucible." their researches, and, consequently, to establish him. But instead of this, the Italian asked The revolution effected by the celebrated chemistry as a science. It is further true, if him if he was acquainted with any goldsmith, Van Helmont, shaking the Stagirical system we take chemistry in the limited sense, as it whose bellows and other utensils they might be to its foundation, substituting other principles, first occurs in Suidas, (nua, chemia,) che-permitted to use, and who would not refuse to and giving an entirely new aspect to medicine The labours of Dr. Cullen and Dr. Black are treated of in a masterly manner. Of the latter he relates a curious anecdote. Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati. and the period, marked by the labours of Silvius, | introduced him formally to Mr. Cavendish. Hevent my following. I hastened back to the Willis, and Boyle, is treated of under the title mentioned the titles and qualifications of his boat, and there, shewing my wound, told my of the "History of the Iatro-chemists." This friend at great length, and said that he had comrades what had just happened; upon which system received its death-blow from the oppo- been peculiarly anxious to be introduced to a all immediately armed themselves, and hastened sition of Pitcairne, and subsequently of Boer- philosopher so profound and so universally to the spot; but, though so little time had been haave. After carrying us from the opinions known and celebrated as Mr. Cavendish. As lost, and they searched for hours together in all first supported by Paracelsus, and by the Iatro- soon as Dr. Ingenhousz had finished, the Aus-directions, no signs of the culprit were discoverchemists, which brings us to the commence-trian gentleman began, and assured Mr. Caven-able: I had, however, the consolation of knowment of the eighteenth century, the professor dish that his principal reason for coming to ing that he was without booty, and that the cut makes a retrograde step, and devotes a chapter London was to see and converse with one of which he had given me, though it bled much to the consideration of the labours of that ex- the greatest ornaments of the age, and one of in the first moments, was of little consequence. traordinary man and great chemist, George the most illustrious philosophers that ever ex-An adventure of this nature had nothing in Agricola. This was the period when metal-isted. To all these high-flown speeches Mr. it that was uncommon at that time, the lurgy received its greatest impulse, and a new Cavendish answered not a word, but stood with Egyptian peasantry were become quite a nalight was thrown upon the scarcely existing his eyes cast down, quite abashed, and con- tion of thieves, and had carried their art science of mineralogy and geology. founded. At last, spying an opening in the to a high degree of skill and perfection; The attempts to establish a theory in che-crowd, he darted through it with all the speed in fact, the confusion of the times, and the mistry, which Dr. Thomson traces as far back of which he was master; nor did he stop till constant struggles between the Pasha's army as the time of Lord Bacon, but assigns the he reached his carriage, which drove him di-and the Mamelukes had so taken away from credit of having been the first to construct a rectly home." them all opportunity for industry or honest theory with propriety to the German Beccher We are inclined to think that the most diffi- gains, as well as all security for property, and -occupies the next part of the work, which is cult and perhaps interesting part of the history had so laid waste the villages and the whole certainly replete with interest;-a remark of chemistry will present itself in the continu- territory, that a better course of life could equally applicable to the unfinished chapters on ation of this excellent work; we allude parti- hardly be expected from them; robberies, therethe foundation and progress of scientific che- cularly to the comparison of the modern pro-fore, and violences, and even murders, became mistry in Great Britain. gress effected by the continental philosophers matters of daily occurrence. We were des. and the British, more especially the introduc- tined, a little lower down, to witness an act of tion of the atomic philosophy, which itself is still greater audacity, and which brought with so much indebted to the learned professor for it far more fatal effects. We had put to shore "There is an anecdote of Black which I was the developement which it has assumed. Com-near Benysouef, and after having dined to told by the late Mr. Benjamin Bell, of Edin- piled with judgment, and arranged with clear-gether at noon in one of the great groves of burgh, author of a well-known system of sur-ness and precision, this work derives a further palm-trees, continued sitting there all the aftergery, and he assured me that he had it from interest from the enthusiasm with which the noon; and to pass the time, were amusing the late Sir George Clarke, of Pennicuik, who author has treated his subject; while its popular ourselves with games of cards and dice. The was a witness of the circumstance related. Soon style will ensure it a very extensive perusal. stakes were trifling at first, but rose as we proafter the appearance of Mr. Cavendish's paper ceeded; and from playing, at the outset, for on hydrogen gas, in which he made an approxi paras, we advanced at last to gold; the inte mation to the specific gravity of that body, rest, of course, grew deeper in proportion, and shewing that it was at least ten times lighter Or this very curious publication we must defer before night-fall some had been winners of than common air, Dr. Black invited a party of our review till next week, owing to the late- considerable sums. The losers were now in no his friends to supper, informing them that he ness of the hour at which it reached us; but this temper to leave off; and so, when it grew had a curiosity to shew them. Dr. Hutton, we regret the less, as we believe we have the dark, lanterns were lighted, and hung from Mr. Clarke of Elden, and Sir George Clarke of only copy which has been completed, and the the trees, that the game might be continued. Pennicuik, were of the number. When the volumes will hardly be before the world till This drew several Arab thieves about us, company invited had assembled, he took them we also appear in another Literary Gazette. who crept on, little by little, close to our into a room. He had the allentois of a calf Finati's was a life of strange and memorable circle, unperceived, for we of ourselves confilled with hydrogen gas, and upon setting it at adventure in Asia and Africa: Othello himself stituted a little crowd, being from thirty liberty, it immediately ascended, and adhered had not more imminent 'scapes. His account to forty soldiers, and were all so engrossed to the ceiling. The phenomenon was easily of the Wahabee war, of which he was a wit-by our play, that we never noticed the accounted for it was taken for granted that a ness, is very interesting; but we can only strangers, but took for granted that all who small black thread had been attached to the select two or three characteristic anecdotes, were standing or sitting round, were our own allentois, that this thread passed through the which will afford a slight idea of this various attendants or the boat's crew; and the light, ceiling, and that some one in the apartment and extraordinary production. indeed, which our lanterns gave, was hardly above, by pulling the thread, elevated it to the Egyptian Thieves.-While in the service of sufficient to have undeceived us. Whilst each ceiling, and kept it in this position. This ex- the Pasha of Egypt, he tells us, "Whilst was sitting with his little heap of money before planation was so probable, that it was acceded moored at Minich, one night, preparatory to him, intent upon the cards, which were dealing to by the whole company; though, like many my going to rest, I had retired to some distance round at the moment, some of these roguisa other plausible theories, it turned out wholly from my companions, on the shore, and was interlopers suddenly knocked the lights out, unfounded; for when the allentois was brought there in no favourable posture for defence: it and others at the same instant discharging down no thread whatever was found attached was dark, but I thought that I could distinguish handsful of dust into our eyes, snatched up as to it. Dr. Black explained the cause of the something moving on the ground near me, much of the money as they could lay hold of, ascent to his admiring friends; but such was which I supposed to be a dog; but a stone which and made off with it. In the first moment of his carelessness of his own reputation, and of I threw soon discovered my error, for a man surprise, none of us knew what had happened, the information of the public, that he never started up, and seemed to slink away to a dis- and nothing remained to be seen but our own gave the least account of this curious experi- tance, so that I looked no more after him; but, party. Without entering upon any explansment even to his class; and more than twelve within a very few seconds, I felt him leap sud- tion, or giving time for any, there began a years elapsed before this obvious property of denly on me from behind, and lay violent hold general scuffle, every one in the number sup hydrogen gas was applied to the elevation of both of my wrists and of my throat, and so drag posing himself robbed and insulted by his com air-balloons, by M. Charles, in Paris." me along backwards with him into a pit close rades. All had instant recourse to their arms, Another anecdote, and we have finished. It at hand, which is filled by the Nile at some which were unfortunately at hand, some stab is of the celebrated Cavendish. seasons, but was then dry. He was a powerful bing with their dirks, and some cutting with "He was shy and bashful to a degree bor-man; and I had no arms whatever upon me their sabres; and the confusion and bloodshed dering on disease; he could not bear to have for defending myself; so that, keeping me still proceeded so far, that they did not cease till any person introduced to him, or to be pointed throttled with one hand, and kneeling on me, nine of our party lay dead or dying on the out in any way as a remarkable man. One he proceeded to rifle me with the other, in ground, and several of the remainder grievously Sunday evening he was standing at Sir Joseph search of money, or whatever might be worth wounded; so that I considered myself fortu Banks's in a crowded room, conversing with his taking; but finding nothing, he gave me at nate in escaping with only a slight sabre-cut Mr. Hatchett, when Dr. Ingenhousz, who had last a stab in the right shoulder, with a little upon the arm. We learned afterwards, from a good deal of pomposity of manner, came up crooked knife which he wore, and as he loosed some of the by-standers, when our spirits were with an Austrian gentleman in his hand, and me, struck several blows with a stick to pre-calmed and more brought to reason, what it To men of was that had really taken place, and that they | he had received for the animal in his pocket, and Smollett. Like the hero of Le Sage, Joe had in vain tried to stop our hands in time, and had got much too far during the first mo- Oxford, almost in the first page of the work, and to pacify our misdirected fury at the be- ments of surprise for any of the bullets to take is launched on the great ocean of life, and ginning of the fray. We were filled with effect that were fired at him in his flight; and seeking adventures, exposed to every imaginshame and remorse; but there was no help for nothing further was ever heard of him or the able danger. He is in the Foundling Hospital what had happened, so we mourned over our horse. The nightly instances of pillage in our when the scene opens; he runs away with a companions, and got them buried. Thus dimi- camp happened sometimes under circumstances friend, and meets with extraordinary accidents nished in our numbers, we quitted Benysouef of scarcely less impudence and hazard, though by "flood and field." Of these not a few are with horror, and paused for a while the next they might not present any thing quite so en- of a startling character; and the interest exday opposite the pyramids of Dagshoor. One tertaining as this to the reader; and we were so cited by the fate which seems to await the hapday more brought us to Old Cairo, from constantly receiving fresh warnings to be upon less wanderer, carries the reader with interest whence, some mounted and some on foot, we our guard, that at last the watching for thieves as well as rapidity through his history. The made our way to the city." became an essential and prominent part of portraitures of a reverend preacher, a quaker, Soon after this, the massacre of the Mame- military duty, and the numbers caught or a French dentist, an English and a Scotch ba lukes took place, of which the account is most killed were very considerable. Among so many ronet, and a high blood beggarly German baron, vivid and appalling. Of those who escaped victims of our vigilance, there was one, at may be cited as examples of the writer's talent; the slaughter, the after description is a remark-least, who was innocent, and I regret to add, and some of the events at the Fortune of War, able picture of wild and warlike life. that he fell by my hand. It was my week of in Bristol, would do credit to a pen from which "While some of the Mamelukes were en- service, and I occupied, with the six soldiers we had anticipated more than from the aucanped about Minieh, a thief set his mind who were under me, a tent that stood a little thor of Ned Clinton. upon carrying off the horse and wearing ap- apart from most of the others; here, one mornparel of one of their beys, and with this inten- ing before daylight, while the rest were sleep- The Law and Commercial Daily Remembrancer tin contrived, in the dead of the night, to ing, I got out of bed, and was keeping watch, ceep, unperceived, within the tent, where, as when the binbashee, or sergeant, of the tent The Diurnal Remembrancer for ditto. Same for 1831. Dunn and Son. t was winter-time, embers were burning, and that happened to be the nearest to us, having shewed the rich clothes of the bey lying close gone softly forwards from it to a short dis- The Housekeeping Account-Book. The same. publishers. at hand. The thief, as he squatted down by tance (as it seems was his constant practice an the fire, drew them softly to him, and put hour before sunrise), was there kneeling, and WE last year noticed these exceedingly con. them all on; and then, after filling a pipe, and silently saying his prayers, a custom so little venient and excellent publications, in various lighting it, went deliberately to the tent door, general, and especially at that hour, among sizes, adapted to the use of persons of every and, tapping a groom, who was sleeping near, soldiers, that I do not recollect to have seen it class, and so well arranged, as not only to with the pipe end, made a sign to him for the observed by any other, either before or since. afford ample information, in lists, analysis, horse, which stood piquetted in front. It was All that I could discern was what seemed a abridgments, &c. &c., on subjects likely to rebrought he mounted and rode off. On the human form, crouching towards the ground, quire reference, but to invite to order and morrow, when the clothes of the bey could no and occasionally moving, for there was not punctuality, by the judicious classification of where be found, none could form a conjecture light enough to distinguish the precise posture, their various heads, and the facilities they offer as to what had become of them, until the groom, much less the identity of the person. My for preserving memoranda, hints, thoughts, on being questioned, maintained to his fellow-mind, strongly prepossessed with the idea of and other fleeting particulars. servants that their master was not yet re- thieves, entertained no doubt at all that this business, the mistresses of families, literary turned from his ride, and told them how he must be one of them, and therefore reaching persons, &c., they will be found to be, in their had suddenly called for his horse in the night, for my loaded gun as quietly as I could, I dis- several shapes, most valuable. which at last seemed to give some clue to what had really happened. Upon this, the bey, anxious to recover his horse, as well as curious to ascertain the particulars, ordered it to be published abroad, that, if the person who had robbed him would, within two days, bring our commander. But what was my astonishback what he had taken, he should not only be ment and horror, when I found that, instead A PLEASANT little volume. Its subjects being freely pardoned, but should receive also the of a robber, I had killed my friend and fellow-principally local, it may serve as an agreeable full value of the animal and of the suit of soldier! Bitterly did I cry over his body, and remembrancer of a season or so of Cheltenham clothes. Relying on the good faith of this was at first so engrossed by the remorse and promise, and possibly, too, not a little vain sorrow which I felt for the rash act, that I of his exploit, the Arab presented himself, never once thought of the dangers to which it The Remembrance. Edited by T. Roscoe, Esq. and brought his booty, and the bey also, would expose me." author of the "Landscape Annual." Lonon his part, punctually kept his word; but In the Wahabee war we are told :don, 1831. Jennings and Chaplin. since, besides the loss, there was something "During the same interval our army was THIS is a pretty little volume, with several in the transaction that placed the bey in all encamped about the village (or villages very pleasant tales. "The Heiress of Hazlerather a ludicrous light, it went hard with rather) of Cara Lembi, but in a state of great wood" is an interesting story, from which the him to let the rogue depart so freely, and discomfort; for the quantity of scorpions was ghost had far better have been omitted; and he seemed to be considering what he should such, that most of the soldiers were stung by the "Capture of a Conspirator" is told in a very do; so that, to gain time, he was continually them in their tents, and such the virulence of lively manner. But we must say, it appears to asking over and over again fresh and more their poison, that many died almost imme- us that the clever editor ought to have exerted circumstantial accounts of the manner in which diately, and some were kept so much upon the a severer judgment. For example, "Prince the stratagem had been conducted: the other alarm, that they would prefer climbing up into Calaf" is an old eastern story, and with no was too crafty not to perceive that no good the palm-trees, there to pass the night. Other particular merit in its principal incident. Miss might be preparing for him, and began to feel reptiles and insects also abounded in the same Porter's verses have been published before, in anxious to get safe out of the scrape; he shewed proportion; and the season being remarkably La Belle Assemblée; and a song beginning no impatience, however, but entered minutely hot, our condition could hardly, in possibility," I would not die " appears in the Friendship's into every detail, accompanying the whole with be worse than it was." Offering of this year, under the name of a a great deal of corresponding action; at one To get out of this position, they attacked "Vernal Thought." Another fault is, that time sitting down by the fire, and making be- the Wahabees, but were routed with immense the contributions do not harmonise: some are lief as though he were slyly drawing on the loss; and Finati's flight is a tissue of the most just fit for a Juvenile Annual, for example, different articles of dress, so as to throw the extraordinary accidents; but we must end our the Ettrick Shepherd's fanciful contributions; bey himself, and all who saw and heard him, into indication. It is long since we have met with while others, again, are destined for "children fits of laughter. When he came at last to what so eventful and interesting a narrative. of a larger growth." The truth is, there are concerned the horse, It was,' he said, 'brought too many Annuals. We quote the translation to me, and I leaped upon his back;' and so Joe Oxford, or the Runaway. vols. 12mo. of a Greek epitaph by the Harrovian, a youthin effect flinging himself again into the saddle, ful writer whose fine taste and poetical feeling and spurring the flanks sharply with the stirenter so well into the classical beauty of the rup-irons, he rode off with all the money that ancient poets : charged it at the object. It took effect in a London, 1830. Hurst, Chance, and Co. THIS is, at any rate, not a fashionable novel, but rather inclines to the old plan of Le Sage Cheltenham Lyrics; Lays of a Modern Troubadour. By Hal Hardynge. Baldwin and Cradock, London; H. Davis, Cheltenham. 1830. gaiety. "Though thy feet, young pilgrim, be not weary, Yet walk not past the lone and dreary,- Who sleepeth here? My name doth shine For joy and loveliness were mine, The grave hath gather'd them--the fold We rather suspect that the second line, Thy spirit knows not guile," is an interloper, and, at all events, it has no connexion with the other three. The Remembrance is beautifully bound. The draft of a loyal address to His Majesty, on met with closed doors on Thursday; and on the company was Capt. King, of the Adven. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. pro- politics in that country prevented him.* GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. The ordinary meeting was held at three o'clock, when a number of presents, received during the recess, were announced, and thanks voted to their respective donors. Among these, a very valuable collection of pamphlets, above a thousand in number, from Mr. Todd, the compiler of Johnson's improved Dictionary, vas New members were The Child's own Drawing-Book; or, an Easy and Progressive Step to Drawing, in Animals, Landscapes, Flowers, the Human Figure, &c. Drawn on stone by G. W. Or this new Society, from which we anticipate Davis. London, 1830. D. Carvalho. (as we have always expressed) results the most favourable to science, and much of national THE "Boy's own Drawing-Book” would, we think, have been a better title, as, with the honour, the affairs have been going on most the most conspicuous. exception of the two or three first examples, rejoice to say it is no longer a thing of promise, business being disposed of, Mr. Sotheby, at the prosperously during vacation time. And we elected, and others proposed. Other routie the rest are far beyond the practice or power but of fulfilment and performance. Consider request of the Council, read a part of his trans of children to reach to any useful purpose. ably above five hundred members are now lation of the second book of the Iliad; of This, however, does not at all militate against enrolled; and so many interesting and im- which we trust we shall be enabled to give a the utility of this production for youth and beginners; as the examples are numerous and portant papers have already been received, that specimen in an early No. of the Literary spiritedly executed. Those, however, selected though the first ordinary meeting takes place Gazette. for the practice of the human figure, are Transactions, &c. ready for distribution within on Monday, yet there will be a fasciculus of neither in part nor whole equally well drawn, chosen, or executed; nor do we think flowers two short months. This fasciculus will be A New Branch of the Cut-and-Dry System!!! very profitable subjects to correct the eye, or presented to all the members gratuitously; FINDING that the exposure of literary fraud form the taste of the juvenile aspirant in art. and from what we know of it, we can venture in our last two Nos. has done the state some But, altogether, there is abundance and variety, to predict that it will be well worthy of their service, and having received the thanks of very essential ingredients in elementary draw- acceptance and of the Society. With the pa- parties the most concerned in such matters, we ing-books. tronage of the Institution, his Majesty has are inclined to continue our efforts for the been graciously pleased to order an annual public benefit, not only in marking impositions donation of fifty guineas to be adjudged as a of this particular character for reprobation, premium. but in holding up the puff system in general, and other evils which infest the field of literajustly deserve. ture, to the ridicule and reprehension they so ARTS AND SCIENCES. SOCIETY OF ARTS. LONDON PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE ART OF BOOK-MAKING: Like the loss In intro THE Society for the Encouragement of Arts, THIS Society resumed their meetings for the Manufactures, and Commerce, commenced the season on Monday last; Edward Wright, M.D., session on Wednesday last; David Pollock, President, in the chair. Dr. Wright addressed Separation, we hear that the publishers have Beginning with a retrospect to the story of Esq. V.P. in the chair. The meeting took the members on the advancing state of phreno- re-demanded the price, 250%., which they gave place, as usual, in the great room of the Society, logy in England, and informed them that he for it, as an entirely original work; but we and a considerable number of members were hailed with delight the intention of Dr. Vimont, think they will abandon this; for it is a present. The communications which had been who would shortly commence a course of lec- whimsical fact, that the book has sold better, received during the vacation were announced tures on the science, illustrated by his vast col- and been in greater request at the circu by the secretary, and referred for examination lection of crania and brains. Mr. Henry Drew lating libraries, than before. to the several committees. Transactions of read a brief account of the crimes of Dobie and of character upon the stage, it has made the societies, both foreign and domestic, as well as Thomson, the Gilmerton carters lately exe- novel popular. books and articles connected with the arts and cuted at Edinburgh, casts of whose heads he taken up the subject in a fierce and fiery The Monthly Review has sciences, presented by individuals, were laid on presented to the Society. the table, and many new members were pro- Numerous skulls of animals from the East God!" as tone, denouncing it, with appeals to "Good posed. A letter was read, accompanied by a spe- Indies (intended for the Museum of the Zoo- it undoubtedly is; but we refer to our con a deliberate imposition, which cimen of silk from the common garden spider, logical Society) were laid upon the table by temporary for another purpose. aranea diadema, reeled off from the live animal Mr. C. R. Hyndman; several remarks were ducing the matter, he alludes to Belmore, by a very ingenious apparatus. The fibre is finer than that of the silk-worm, and more President and Dr. Vimont, in which they were the same kind; which led us to inquire into made on their cerebral organisation, by the published in 1829, as a preceding instance of opake; its colour is white, with a high me- corroborated by the anecdotes afterwards related this point; and the result is, that with regard tallic lustre, so that it more nearly resembles by Mr. Hyndman. silver-wire than any other substance. to Belmore, there was no deception whatever. Dr. Vimont communicated to the meeting a The edition of 1829 was distinctly published It is intended that the "evening illustra-proposal for the formation of a new phrenologi- as a reprint; as the title-page, which we copy, tions," which gave so much satisfaction during cal bust, in which he wished not only to pre-clearly proves. It is, "Belmore, a novel, by the last two years to the members and visitors sent the form of the skull, but likewise that of the Hon. Anne S. Damer, in two volumes. introduced by them, shall be resumed after the brain, divided into its separate organs; he New Edition. London, H. Colburn." The first also meant to take into consideration the thick- edition was published by Johnson, St. Paul's ness of the integuments covering the skull, Churchyard; but there is no other resem which he considers has not in those busts now blance between the cases, except that of a leng before the public been duly appreciated. interval between the first and second publication. Belmore was avowed, with the honourable author's name: Separation concealed with the honourable author's name! - all the difference! Christmas. LINNEAN SOCIETY. LITERARY AND LEARNED. ROYAL SOCIETY. On Tuesday evening the first meeting of the While investigating this business, however, another odd affair became known to us, which. if secretly performed, and money obtained for copyright, is a tolerably exact precedent |