A house might regularly travel with the family entertain the opinion that the transition from from its boldness, and the wildness of its situaevery summer, -one year to Brighton, ano- a northern to a tropical climate would be fatal tion. It has now, however, sunk into compa. ther to Bath, a third to Scarborough, and to these mansions; but it has been demon- rative insignificance, from the superior architec. return to town in time for the meeting of the strated by fact, that they are capable of endur-ture of its modern rival, towering far above the two Houses. In purchasing such a house, no ing the change, as ships are; and that, if pro- ancient bridge. The modern erection is just charge could justly be incurred for fixtures, perly seasoned, they neither shrink nor crack, completed, carriages having passed over it for seeing that nothing would be fixed. At the so as to become ineligible for residence. From the first time in August 1830." The site of expiration of his lease, a farmer might trans- the severe cold of a Swedish winter, to the this structure is certainly one of extraordinary port his house to another farm, as he now does summer heat, affords a perfectly satisfactory sublimity; and, in contemplating it, the imahis plough or his stock. By cunningly contriv- trial in this respect; and not only houses, but gination reverts with awe to the mighty con ing to let your house be upon the road on quar- columns, churches, and royal palaces, have vulsions of nature, which originally threw such ter-day, the taxgatherer might be eluded. It stood the test. masses of matter into the grand and grotesque would be well, however, to postpone any erec- As this invention (which, by the by, has shapes they here assume. Nor are the ingenuity, tion of this nature until the atrocities of the been known for years in America and the West intrepidity, and perseverance, which have conpresent time have been effectually checked; Indies,) is likely to be practically illustrated in trived to connect those masses by the comparafor a letter from Mr. Swing, notwithstanding many parts of Europe, and, among other places, tively slight and fragile work of human hands, the incombustibility of the roof, would be ra- in London, by the Swedish Ambassador; we less a just subject of admiration. ther apt to disturb the sleep of the tenant of have caused an engraving to be made, as an such a building! example of Colonel Blom's talents and ability. Some of the French philosophers seemed to LITERARY AND LEARNED. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. Views of Interiors of Churches and other Buildings. Drawn on stone by Mr. Jaime, from Drawings by the Chevalier Bouton. Hullmandel. THE fine works which he has from time to time exhibited at the Diorama, have rendered the talents of M. Bouton extensively known in this country. The present publication consists of a dozen little views, chiefly of interiors; in most of which we recognise that perfect know. ledge of effect, by which M. Bouton's larger productions are so eminently distinguished. Anatomical Demonstrations, or Colossal Illus "FEARFULLY and wonderfully are we made!" When we look at plates such as these, we are astonished, not that there is an occasional derangement of the multifarious and complicated systems of the human body, but that they should exist for a moment without disorder. We have no doubt that this is a publication which will be highly useful, not merely to the young student, but to the matured surgeon. The list of subscribers-among whom are many of our most distinguished anatomists-is a suffi danhill, in the chair. The company consisted cient warrant of its value. The preface states, exclusively of the members of the Society; and with reference to the four plates of which the liberal and enlightened sentiments characterised present Part consists: "The first is copied from SIR G. STAUNTON, Bart., in the chair. The the various eloquent addresses which were deli- the elder Meckel's plate of the Nerves of the Church Missionary Society presented a small vered by the gentlemen present, in the course Face. The second, with the exception of some Vocabulary of the Eyo or Aku dialect of West- of a very agreeable evening. It appears, from a alterations which Professor Seerig has thought ern Africa, compiled by the Rev. John Raban, list published in the Glasgow Courier, that proper to introduce, is taken from the second missionary at Sierra Leone. A few specimens during the last exhibition, no fewer than sixty- plate of Bock's Dissection of the Fifth Cerebral of this dialect are given by Captain Clapperton three productions of Scottish artists were sold; Nerve. The third and fourth plates are derived in the Appendix to his Travels. The people are upon which the Editor of that able journal chiefly, though not exclusively, from Soemmercalled Aku at Sierra Leone, from their using remarks: The number of pictures contained ing's works on the Ear and Eye." The publithat word in their salutations. A communi- in the above list, evinces that a taste for the cation will be composed of six Parts, to appear cation was read from Mr. Mackenzie Bever- fine arts has now become general in Glasgow; from time to time, at short intervals, until ley, on the zodiac of Dendera. The object and we hope that the success with which the completed. of this essay is to analyse Mr. Bentley's trea- third West-of-Scotland exhibition has been tise on the same subject. The writer is of crowned, will stimulate both its promoters and opinion that Mr. Bentley's drawings of the its exhibitors to continued exertion for an zodiac are incorrect. He then goes on to object so truly laudable and patriotic." describe the originals, critically examining Mr. B.'s mode of reasoning, which he demonstrates to be fallacious, and leading to erroneous conclusions. Mr. Beverley proves that Clerical College, St. Bees, Cumberland. Drawn the zodiac of Dendera is neither a Roman nor by W. Westall, A.R.A. Dickinson. an Egyptian calendar, but an Egyptian pla- A VERY pleasing specimen of lithography. nisphere. He does not consider its date older than 150 B. C., and thus assumes the French savans to be wrong, as well as Mr. Bentley. FINE ARTS. THE GLASGOW DILETTANTI SOCIETY. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The New Devil's Bridge, on the Pass of the "THE Old Devil's Bridge," says a note at the bottom of the print, "of which remains are THE third annual festival of this Society was perceived under the new one, was always consiheld a fortnight ago; James Smith, Esq. of Jor-dered one of the greatest curiosities in the Alps, ORIGINAL POETRY. TEMPUS FUGIT, ET NON FUGIT. Tempus fugit. THE school-boy counts each weary chime, It comes at last-ah, happy day! He hails the long-expected morn; If Winter rears his hoary head, If cutting winds, frost-laden, sweep, The merry echo rings. He deems such happiness before While day and night in pleasure pass, He heeds not Time, his sithe, nor glass; He weeps to think that Time has wings, SIGHTS OF LONDON. SINGERS OF THE ALPS. Καππα. VARIETIES. that when Idenstein disappears in the third act, COVENT GARDEN. ADELPHI. UNDER this title, a new and rather extraor-ration. dinary set of four male performers have commenced a musical entertainment at Willis's Rooms. They are from Styria; and, both in vocal and instrumental music, display some very singular qualities. One of them whistles after a fashion such as we never heard before; and the highest tenor voice is altogether marvellous, dwelling on notes with long-continued freedom, which few voices even of the most famous singers could reach. The conclusion milliner, and the encouragement which a know- municated along a line of particles; and Pro Greek Calendar. In La Revue des Deux Mondes for May and June, 1830, p. 440, it was announced, that "the Greek Calendar, which is, as is well known, twelve days in arrear of the Gregorian, was going to be abolished." In the Revue Encyclopédique for August, p. 491, there is a positive contradiction, in the following words:-' "This abolition has not taken WE called on Fate, and Fate has heard our place, and it will be yet long deferred, as it is prayer. If we are to believe report, Miss Mit-one of those great political and religious quesford's tragedy of Inez de Castro is in rehearsal tions, which cannot be lightly resolved." at this theatre; Mr. and Miss Kemble of course Cambridge Philosophical Society. On the playing the principal parts. We trust it will 13th, the very Rev. the Dean of Peterborough equal, if not surpass, Rienzi. Cinderella is in the chair. Among the presents to the Sogoing on triumphantly, and Miss Inverarityciety were a white rat, presented by the Rev. may already be classed among the most popular H. Fardell; a variegated blackbird, by Mr. of our native songstresses. Mr. Wilson, also, John Headley; and a beautiful plate of Napohas displayed his fine talent to more and more leonite, or orbicular Diorite of Corsica, by advantage; so that the opera brings the first Captain Smyth, R.N. Some observations were overflows of the season to Covent Garden. The made by Professor Whewell, in continuation pantomimes at all houses are in full prepa- of his paper "on the selection and employment of mathematical symbols of quantity.' A paper was also read by Professor Henslow, on the "fructification of the Chara vulgaris,' WE last week omitted to notice two novelties in which he stated that he had remarked a produced at this theatre, and since repeated fact, apparently indicating some affinity benightly to bumper houses. The first, Am I to tween this plant and certain species of the blame? is a gay and pleasant entertainment," Arthrodiea" of Bory.-After the meeting, a from the pen of Mr. Rodwell; in which the machine was exhibited, invented by Professor felicity of a domestic circle is endangered by Airy, for the purpose of shewing the nature the penchant of the husband for a pretty French of the motion by which an undulation is comledge of his infidelity affords his friend to assail fessor Henslow also exhibited a portion of the the affections of his wife. The story is well stem of a tree-fern from Demerara, and pointed told, the acting--especially of Mr. and Mrs. out the resemblance which it bore to the fossil Yates excellent, and the dénouement inost species of these plants, so frequently met with satisfactorily dramatic. The other piece is one in our coal strata.-Cambridge Chronicle. of the diabolical class, called the Devil's Ducat, A. von Kotzebue. Among the dramatic AMONG the new sights opened for the gratiin which also Mrs. Yates's performance is writers of the last hundred years, hardly one, fication of the holyday visiters to London, we Mr. Yates and O. Smith; so that, like Lance-pare with Kotzebue in fertility. The number most delightful. She is very ably seconded by we fancy, could be named in Europe to comhave to notice a very finely painted panorama lot Gobbo, the fiend makes a strong attack of his dramatic pieces alone is 219, in 489 acts, of Quebec, by Mr. Burford, which was exhibited on Wednesday, for the first time, in upon the inclination of the audience. Mathews, viz. 15 tragedies, in 49 acts; 60 dramas (schauLeicester Square. The wild scenery of North in other scenes of older date, contrives, as spiele), in 174 acts; 73 comedies, in 153 acts; America, the noble river, the peculiar features usual, to convulse the theatre with laughter. of the nearer landscape, and the boundaries of distant mountains, are all represented with infinite truth; and the whole is one of the most pleasing efforts of the artist's successful pencil. of the concert, in which a mountain echo is introduced, is perfect illusion and also perfect beauty. The whole is a great treat, and well worthy of being visited. PANORAMA OF QUEBEC. DRAMA. DRURY LANE. MADAME VESTRIS, who has taken the Olym. pic, opens it, newly decorated, on Monday week. Mrs. Glover and Miss Foote assist her at the commencement. Mrs. Glover eventually goes to Tottenham Street, which is to be opened, with material alterations, about the middle of February, by Mr. Macfaren, the author of several dramatic pieces, with Mr. WERNER is making its way as it deserves to do. Winston as manager. The question of the The talent of Mr. Macready, both as adapter extension of the licenses of Mr. Morris and and performer, has been enthusiastically ac- Mr. Arnold, proprietors of the Haymarket and knowledged by the public. Mr. Wallack and English Opera House, is to be decided by the Mr. Cooper have seldom appeared to more ad- Lord Chancellor (to whom it has been specially vantage than as Ulric and Gabor; and Mrs. referred by his Majesty) on the 11th of January. Faucit's Josephine is a most chaste and clever An entire revolution appears, therefore, to be performance. Mr. H. Wallack also merits our on the point of taking place in theatricals. commendation for his performance of Stralen- Some distinct legal act has been long required, heim. Mr. W. Bennett's steward is altogether by which dramatic rights may be defined, estaa mistake; and Miss Mordaunt is as unlike Ida as can well be imagined; but the latter has little to do, and there is so much to interest and excite the spectator in the other characters, blished, and protected, in this country, as they 30 farces, in 53 acts; 41 parodies, preludes, afterpieces, operas, melodramas, &c., in 60 acts. They are specified in Büchner's Manual of German Dramatic Literature, since 1761. The number of Kotzebue's prose works, consisting of novels, histories, travels, periodicals, &c. is estimated at thirty volumes octavo, on the most moderate calculation. Antediluvian Remains (St. Petersburgh, Nov. 16).-Last May there were discovered in the circle of Daniloff (government of Jaroslaff), the bones of a quadruped which appears to have been of the largest species of antediluvian elephants, and whose length, including the neck and head, may be estimated (judging by these bones) at about thirty-two feet. One of the great teeth (tusks) which was found, and differs from all before seen, is about six and a half feet long, eleven inches in diameter, and weighs about eighty pounds; it is very smooth, resembles externally an ox's horn, is not much bent, and forms a regular arc of a circle; inside was a substance resembling gypsum. One of the grinders is twelve inches long, four inches 836 thick, and weighs ten and three quarter pounds. | varied character given to them—the larva of of a portion of the daily press of the French with coloured scencs.-A second edition of Professor Mil LIST OF NEW BOOKS. INDEX. Ackermann's Juvenile Forget Me Not, 655. Addison and Wild Flowers, 303. Ball's (W.) Creation, 270. Bardsley (Dr.) on the Efficacy of Strychnia, Brucia, Bacon's (J.) Life of Francis I., 8. Balfour's (A.) Weeds &c., 239. Bayley's (F. W. N.) Four Years' Residence in the West Indies, 364; French Revolution of 1830, 656. Bayley's (J.) History, &c. of the Tower of London, 432. Bell's (J.) History of the First Revolution in France, 800, 809. Bennett's (J. W.) Fishes of Ceylon, 223. Bernard's (J.) Retrospections of the Stage, 556, 575, 592, 608. Bernays' (A.) German Grammar, R. Bible, new version of the, 145. Boaden's (J.) Life of Mrs. Jordan, 777. Buonaparte's (C. L.) American OrBoscobel Tracts, 544. Boswell's (J.) nithology, 40. Life of Dr. Johnson, 513. Bourrienne's Memoirs of Buonaparte, 223, 288. Bower's (A.) History of the University of Edinburgh, 176, 255. Bowring's (Dr.) Magyar Poetry, 82. Bowles's (Rev. W. L.) Life of Bishop Ken, 431. Bradfield's (H. J.) Athenaid, 270; Tales of the Cyclades, 673. Bray's (Mrs.) Fitz of Fitz-Ford, 89: Talba, a romance, 800, 815. Brenan's (J.) Utility of Latin discussed, 736. Browne's (Capt.) Biographical Sketches, &c. of Horses, 606. Brooke's (W. H.) Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 236, 253. Brighton, a comic sketch, 529. British Domestic Animals, 36. Britton (J.) and Brayley's (E. W.) Memoirs of the Tower of London, 118. Britton's (J.) History of Bristol Cathedral, 191; Architectural Dictionary, 672. British Naturalist, 433. Burckhardt's (J. L.) Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, 284. Burgoyne (M.) on Public Charity Schools, 717. Byron's (Lady) Remarks occasioned by Mr. Moore's Life of Lord Byron, 185. Biden's Naval Discipline, 833. botany in the University of Cambridge, received ABERCROMBIE (Dr.) on the Intellectual Powers, 734 last year some specimens and seeds of Anagallis coerulea, gathered in Yorkshire. From these seeds the professor raised a dozen plants, nine of which had blue flowers, and three red. French Journals. In a pamphlet lately pubMagnificent Vase of Aventurine.-A short time ago mention was made in the public lished in Paris it is asserted, that the sum expapers of a costly vase which the Emperor pended by the old government in the purchase of Russia had presented to Baron Alexander de Humboldt. This vase is now exhibiting in the Hall of Antiques in the Museum at Berlin. The peculiar stone out of which it has been wrought, renders it unique of its kind; as LITERARY NOVELTIES. it is not found either in the central or southern [Literary Gazette Weekly Advertisement, No. LII. Dec. 25.] countries of Europe, but seems to be an excluAn Analysis of Archbishop Secker's Lectures on the sive production of Siberia. The name which the attendant at the museum gives to it, is that Church Catechism, by the Rev. R. Lee.-Raphael's of Aventurine. From the transparency and Witch, by the Author of "the Prophetic Messenger;" variegated colours of its veins, its crystalline lington's Epitome of the Elementary Principles of Memetical Rods, by P. B. Templeton.-Mr. Jones Quain's fineness of texture, and its high susceptibility chanical Philosophy.-A Key to a Complete Set of Arithof polish, it bears a striking resemblance to Two Lectures on the Study of Anatomy and Physiology. the finest sort of agate, "the sardonyx, or -A Collection of Statutes relating to the Town of Kingloch is preparing for publication a Theoretical and Praconyx;" in substance it is like the former, and ston-upon-Hull, by William Woolley.-Professor M'Culin its strata and parti-coloured spots it re-tical Dictionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigasembles the latter. For multiplicity and alte- tion.-A Course of Lessons in French Literature, on the The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, by Thoration of tints, it is in no respect inferior to the plan of his "German Lessons," by Mr. Rowbotham.most brilliant opal or jasper of Sicily or the mas Moore, Esq., is nearly ready. Indies. This rare production of nature, which Stapleton's Life of Canning, 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 16s. bds.stands, inclusive of the pedestal, eight feet high, shews that Siberia possesses a description Rask's Anglo-Saxon Grammar, by Thorpe, 8vo. 158. 6d. of quartz better adapted than any other yet bds.-Tales of a Grandfather, Fourth Series, Stories from the History of France, 3 vols. 18mo. 10s. Gd. hf.-bd.known in southern climates for works of mag- Morrison's Counsels to Sunday-School Teachers, 32mo. nitude; for the block from which it was 1s. bds.-Rowlatt's Sermons at the Temple, 8vo. 12s. bds. 88. 6d. bds.-Cadeau, a Musical Annual for 1831, folio, wrought cannot have contained much short of James's Sermons on the Sacraments and Sabbath, 8vo. The vase is 128. bds.-White's Naval Researches, 8vo. 7s. 6d. bds.seventy cubic feet of pure stone. finely moulded after the antique, and has two Prometheus of Eschylus, English notes, &c., post 8vo. Billing's First Principles of Medicine, 8vo. 68. bds.--superb raised arms of massive gold, carved 5. bds.-Andre's French Teacher, 12mo. 78. sheep.Vizier's Son, 3 vols. 12mo. 1. 48. bds.-Bruce's Cypress with much taste.-Berlin, 30th September. Denmark. The Royal Society of Northern Wreath, 18mo. 3s. 6d. bds.-Taylor's German Poetry, logy, 12mo. 78. bds.-Horton's Cases and Remedies of Antiquaries at Copenhagen, whose object is to Vol. III. 8vo. 158. bds.-Bernays' German Prose Anthopublish, first, works on ancient northern lite-Pauperism, 8vo. 128. bds.-Infant's Daily Sacrifice, 16mo. rature, and then whatever may throw light on 58. bds.-Annals of My Village, crown 8vo. 128. bds. the ancient history of the north of Europe, its language, its antiquities, &c.; and under whose auspices a number of the Icelandic Sagas (or ancient fables), with Latin and Danish translations, have appeared; having determined, that from the present year, in order to give its transactions the greatest possible publicity, it would communicate, in a regular journal, an account of its sittings, of its labours, and of the works addressed to it, has accordingly published a procès-verbal of the general assembly of the Society on the 15th of April last; by which it appears to have been very actively engaged in prosecuting the interesting purposes of its esta-above any in the same month during the last seven years; blishment. Additions to the British Fauna.-It is not generally known that three distinct species of three-spined stichlebachs, have been constantly confounded under the name of gasterosteus aculeatus of Linnæus. Mr. Yarell has fished all three species up in the Thames, near Woolwich. They are distinguished by the distribution of the scales, which in the first extend throughout the whole length of the side. In the second, they reach no farther backwards than the line of the vent; and lastly, in the third species, the lateral scales extend no farther than the ends of the rays of pectoral fins. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1830. Lowest Mean 56.75° 24-25 41-04791 ....30-15 Lowest Barometer-Highest. 28.82 Number of days of rain, 16. General Observations.-Thirteen days might be denomi- while the mean temperature was nearly 4° higher than in TO CORRESPONDENTS. Christmas has robbed us of our publishing day this week, and index and title-page so cramped our limits, for the fourteenth volume of the Literary Gazette; and that we must endeavour to excuse a lame winding-up No. request our friends and readers to believe that our course will be resumed with unabated energy for 1831. We have nothing but thanks and continued zeal and exertion to offer for the unprecedented success which attends our Silk from Cobwebs.-At a late meeting of the labours, and to pledge ourselves to the same impartiality Society of Arts, a gentleman exhibited some and independence which has procured for our publication very fine silk which he had obtained from theso envied an influence, and so extended a popularity. web of the spider; it possessed considerable strength, and a beautiful metallic lustre. Many species of spider have been tried, and food of a To Amicus: we do not see the use of Amicus's question; Cabinet Album, 594. Caillie's (R.) Travels to Timbuc 1. too, 38, 55, 69, 81. Callanan's (J. J.) Recluse of Inchidony, 415. Cameo, 704. Campbell's (A.) Perkin Warbeck, 303. Carwell, 239. Caunter's (Rev. H.) Island Bride, 270. Chambers's (W.) Book of Scotland, 300, 639. Chartley, a novel, 688. Cheltenham Lyrics, 721. Child's own Book, 594. Christian Physiologist, 1:9. Chronological Chart of Inventions and Discoveries, 7. Christmas Box, 672. Clara Gazul, 303. Clarence, a tale, 507. Clarke's (Dr.) Succession of Sacred Litersture, 699. Clarkson's (E.) Robert Montgomery and his Reviewers, 368. Clark (Dr.) on the Influence of Ch mate, 271. Classical Cullings, &c., 784 Cliffe's (L) Coates's Mrs.) Anecdotical Reminiscences, 208, 255. Weird Woman of the Wraagh, 368. Colman's (G.) Random Records, 65, 99, 153. Comic Offering, 738 Conolly (Dr.) on the Indications of Insanity, 400. Constable's Miscellany, 23, 72, 189, 351, 443, 513, 594, 633, 782, 784. Constant's (M.) Private Life of Buonaparte, 393. Conversations on Chronology and History, 108 Country Curate, 49. Croke's (Sir A.) Translation of Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, 780. Croly's (Rev. G.) Poetical Works, 239; Memoir of George IV., Cruickshank's (T.) Practical Planter, 335. Cut-andDry System of Criticism, 249. Derwent722. Dawson's (Robt.) Present State of Australia, 749 De L'Orme, 521. Denounced, the, 394. Darnley, 18. Davis's (G. W.) Child's own Drawing-Book, water, a tale, 256. Descent into Hell, 270. Devil's Progress, the, 563. D'Israeli's (L.) Commentaries on Charles I., 329. Divines of the Church of England, 545, 642. Dobell's (P.) Travels in Kamtchatks and Siberia, 217. Doddridge's (Dr.) Diary and Correspondence, 300, 673. Dominie's Legacy, 131, 760. Doyle's (M.) Irish Cottagers, 442; Hints to the Small Farmers of Wexford, 512. Dunlop's (A.) Parochial Law, 400 Duppa's (R.) Travels on the Continent, &c., 272Grammar of English, French, and Italian, 513. Edinburgh Cabinet Library, 642. Elwood's (Mrs.) Journey East India Magazine, 784. Eaton's (Mrs.) Comparative overland from England to India, 537, 577. Ely's (J.) Sermon on the Death of the Rev. W. Roby, Emerson's (J.) History of Modern Greece, 767. Encyclopædia Americana, 155. Encyclopædia Britannica, 238. English at Home, 380. Essays on Universal Analogy, 687. Evans's (Rev. R. W.) Rectory of Valehead, 717. Events in Paris from 26th to 29th of July, 1800, 673. Excerpta Historica, 570. Excitement, the, 4 Exley's (T.) Principles of Natural Philosophy, 172. Exiles of Palestine, 794. Emperor's Rout, 818. Epitome of the History of England, &c., 818. Eclectic Society, 25, 256, 498. Egyptian Antiquities, 322. Etruscan Vases, dicovery of, 225, 241. Excavations of the Campo Scala, 274. Excerpta Historica, Prospectus of, 75. Foreign Literary Gazette, 158. French Institute, 610. German Poets of the present day, 481. Grecian Antiquities, 514. King's College, 225, 305, 466, 514, 785. Literary Manoeuvring, 786. Literature, present state of, 481. Literary Fund Society, 450. London University, 137, 338, Mühlenfel's (Dr.) Lectures on German Poetry, 306, 352, 370. Northern Libraries, Subscription for the, 466. Oriental Literature, 595. Oriental Translation Fund, 306, 402. Panizzi's (Signor) Lectures on the Gerusalemme Liberata, 179. Phrenological Society of London, 26, 122, 225, 722, 754, 801. Royal Asiatic Society, 25, 58, 105, 137, 179, 241, 273, 338, 402, 435, 466, 498,803, 834. Royal Patronage of Public Institutions, 531. Royal Society, 41, 58, 75, 91, 105, 121, 137, 157, 178, 194, 209, 224, 273, 289, 305, 320, 337, 352, 370, 385, 401, 643, 674, 722, 738, 754, 785, 769, 802, 819. Royal Society of Literature, 105, 241, 257, 274, 290, 321, 338, 417, 450, 643, 722, 754, 785, 803. Senkovsky's (M.) Criticisms on M. Hammer, 547: Reply to, 578. Society of Schoolmasters, 803. Sotheby's (Mr.) Version of the Iliad, Specimen of, 738. Stuart Papers, account of, 26. Ackermann's Juvenile Forget Me Not, Illustrations of, 659. Albums, 451. Amulet, Illustrations of the, 723. Artists' and Amateurs' Conversazione, 106, 259, 739, 786. Artists' Benevolent Institution, 291. Athenæum Club House, 106. Bartleman (James) from Hargreaves, by J. Thomson, 354. Batty's (Lieut.-Col.) Principal Cities of Europe, 26, 339, 707; Six Views of Brussels, 739. British Gallery, 75, 91, 105, 122, 138, 275, 353, 372. Britton's English Cities, 596. British Artists' Exhibition, 179, 210, 226, 242, 258, 274, 339. Burns (Robt.), original Portrait of, 372. Campanile's (Signor) Pictures, 324. Carpenter's (Mrs.) Chalon's Baroness Ribblesdale, by Scriven, 628. Duchess of Cambridge, by Say, 291. Chalon's Thomas Clarkson, Esq., by C. Turner, 258. Christmas Box, the, Illustrations of, 675. Chronological Epitome of the History of England, 738. Collen's Duchess of Kent, by Woolnoth, 194. Collins's Scene on the Brent, by C. Turner, 691. Cooke's (E. W.) Coast Sketches, 515. Cooke (W. B.) Sale of his Works, 430. Cooper's (A.) Fortunate Escape of William III., by Giller, 11. Corbaux's (Miss) Juliet, by W. Say, 691. Corden's Admiral Nagle, by Ward, 227. Cork Exhibition of Fine Arts, 611. Cox's Cottage, by Richardson, 691. Cruikshank's (G.) Illustrations of Popular Works, 339; Illustrations of Sir Walter Scott's Demonology, 770. Cruikshank's (R.) High-mettled Racer, by Bonner, 804. Daniell's Scene from the Red Rover, 123. Delkeskamp's Panorama of the Maine, by Clark, 227. Diorama, 274. Dobb's embossed Portrait of George IV., 467. Drawing made Easy, 548. Duncan's and Rolls' communications respecting the Print of the Orphans, 739, 755, 770. Elliot's (Capt.) Views in the East, 578, 659, 738, 803. Encaustic Painting, 547. Field of the Cloth of Gold, on glass, 259. Fisher's Illustrations of England, 339; Illustrations of Ireland, 739; Views in Devonshire and Cornwall, 227, 804, Forget Me Not, Illustrations of, 658. Fowler's Princess Vittoria, by R. Golding, 628. Fradelle's Mary Queen of Scots and Chatelar, by A. Duncan, 515; Black Knight and the Clerk of Copmanhurst, by Say, 532; Rebecca and Ivanhoe, by Lupton, 532. French Academy at Rome, on the Suppression of, 770. French Sculpture, annual prize for, 707. Friendship's Offering, ilustrations of, 690. Gem, Illustrations of the, 675. Gems of Beauty, 787. General Cemetery, 387, 403. George IV., miniature medal of, 372. Gill's Orphan Ballad Singers, by J. Romey, 707; Steeple Chase, by Alken and Duncan, 820. Gouldsmith (Miss), Exhibition of her Paintings, 451. Grindlay's (Captain) Indian Scenery, &c., 291. Guest's Exhibition, 159. Glasgow, Dilettanti Society of, 834. Hamilton's English School of Painting and Sculpture, 770. Harlow's Countess of Wicklow, by Say, 58. Hawkins's Countess of Verulam, by Dean, 548. Haydon's Gallery, 158; Napoleon at St. Helena, by Coombs, 628. Heath's (W.) Looking-glass, 41; Tit-bits, 804. Hemm's Original Penmanship, 611, 820. Holbein's (Hans) Illustrations of the Old Testament, 258. Howard's Spirit of Shakspeare's Plays, 75, 354, 803. Jackson's Dr. Wollaston, by Skelton, 770. Juvenile Forget Me Not, Illustrations of, 690. Johnson's (J.) Costumes of the French Pyrenees, by Harding, 820. Keepsake, Illustrations of the, 674. Keepsake Française, Illustrations of the, 754. Keller's Panorama of Switzerland, 499. Landscape Annual, Illustrations of the, 690. Landseer's (T.) Characteristic Sketches of Animals, 26, 339, 515. Lawrence's Marquess of Douglas, Lady Susan Hamilton, and Miss Bloxam, by F. C. Lewis, 158; Hon. Mrs. LONDON: Published every Saturday, by W. A. SCRIPPS, at J. MOYES, Took's Court, Chancery Lane. The ensuing is worse, for it is unjust :- 6 ser where love lights its beacon and keeps its vigils | tude shines the rainbow of the wave which is Along our being's course, where'er it strezna, "Truth, Youth, and Age. Truth. What is Immortality? Of thy solemn musing mind, Is a splendid mockery!" I know it is not beautiful! Far gayer gifts of summer bloom, I know it is not beautiful! It breathes a charm of vanished days, The days once eloquent with tones Deep as the distant clarion's breath No gift of thine, love, meets my gaze, No, not, to soothe me in my tears, Thou 'st passed, my love, like some pale str Nor left to cheer my blighted path One lonely ray behind! They tell me I am waning fast, They bear me forth with wreathed hair, My eyes are wandering fast and far My soul is with thee in thy grave!- I perish in their festive light, I die amidst their mirth Oh! take me to thine arms, dear love, We have only to repeat, that we admir displaced by one of recent construction. In light of his words. Mr. Swain is especially little volume much: it has grace, truth. addition to the simple consecration to the me- happy in his historical illustrations; his descripmory of the departed, it bore the inscription of, Blessed are they who die in the Lord." I bared my brow, pressed my lip and cheek to the name of my parent cut in the cold slab, and prayed that her dove-like spirit might resume its ascendency over him whom, like her, I loved, but whom, unlike her, I dreaded." There is too much of theoretic digression in the latter part of the narrative. Like most young men, Mr. Kennedy (we believe the author's name is not meant to be a secret) is sanguine in his expectations, and sweeping in his censure. Such a passage as the following is grandiloquent absurdity: "After the soldier and the tax-gatherer have left the martyr of misrule on the salt shores of misery, the hope of absorption into a boundless ocean of beati tions are as rich as the moral he deduces is tenderness, told in music; and we canned "For, oh! the bliss to love, and to believe Ourselves beloved!-to linger o'er each dream Alas! there is no chord of human life Whose natural tone breathes not of wo!-there seems Trant's Travels in Greece. [Second notice:-(see p. 762) Conclusion.] WE broke off from this interesting volum a reference to a strange story about the go ment mail being robbed by order of the p dent, Capo d'Istrias: we now resume our tracts with some other curious incidents. Upon the president and his party the ing extract throws still greater light. "Shortly after our return to Argos: nomination of Prince Leopold to the s reignty of Greece became publicly known; * |