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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.

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Anatomical Demonstrations, or Colossal Illus
trations of Human Anatomy. By Professor
Seerig. Translated from the German. Part I.
A. Schloss.

"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
St. Gothard. Drawn from Nature by C.
Hullmandel; on stone by W. Walton.
Dickinson.

"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,
And chides the lagging wings of Time,
Nor thinks that hour will ever come,
He bends his willing footsteps home.
Tempus non fugit.

It comes at last-ah, happy day!

He hails the long-expected morn;
Satchel and books are flung away,
And rod and rule are laughed to scorn.
His brow, unfurrowed yet by care,
By sorrow yet unscathed his cheek,
His sports his young companions share
No moody solitude they seek.

If Winter rears his hoary head,
And trees abroad their branches spread
Yclad in livery pale;

If cutting winds, frost-laden, sweep,
Around the blazing hearth they creep
To hear the cheerful tale;
Or gambol round the spacious hall,
Or deftly ply the snowy ball.
If genial Summer warms the plain,
They ramble forth, a blithesome train:
With them he panting climbs the hill,
With them he wanders by the rill :
They gather from the streamlet's bank
The chaste bine-bell, the osier dank;
They bask upon the sunny mead,
Or revel in the cooler shade;
O'er the brown heath their footsteps bound,
They shout, and answering all around

The merry echo rings.

He deems such happiness before
Was never felt, nor will be more.

While day and night in pleasure pass,

He heeds not Time, his sithe, nor glass;
Yet when the withered eld returns,
His heart in bitter anguish burns,
And joy within him dies;

He weeps to think that Time has wings,
So rapidly he flies.

SIGHTS OF LONDON.

SINGERS OF THE ALPS.

Καππα.

VARIETIES.

that when Idenstein disappears in the third act,
he is forgotten, if not forgiven. The costumes
are splendid, particularly the last worn by Mr.
Curious Circumstance.-Under this title we
Wallack; and the scenery exceedingly appro- have to mention the discovery of a body of
priate and effective. We anticipate that, after gigantic dimensions on the unfrequented shores
Christmas, Werner will draw crowded audiences. of Brora, in the north of Scotland. It is stated
Its second representation was followed by a to be no less than seven feet in length, and the
new interlude, The King's Fire-side. It is a habiliments were quite foreign to those dis-
translation, by Mr. Morton, of Henri Quatre en tricts: they consisted of a blue jacket, silk
Famille, but not in his usual happy vein. It is vest, and cambric shirt; but there were no pa-
however a mere trifle; and the clever acting of pers that could give origin to correct surmises
two little girls, Miss Poole and Miss Marshall, on the country of the unknown dead!
will most probably keep it alive during the holy-
days. Farren was admirably dressed as Henri
Quatre, but did not seem to relish the part.
Mrs. Waylett had no song; and Miss Mordaunt
nothing to do but to whimper.

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
are upon the continent,

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

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thick, and weighs ten and three quarter pounds. | varied character given to them—the larva of
The jaws were broken, so that the number of flies successfully.
Specific Identity of Anagallis arvensis and
teeth could not be ascertained.
The Essex Herald states that the nest of a caerulea.-The Rev. J. S. Henslow, professor of
wagtail, with four perfect eggs, was lately sawn
out of a solid elm-tree, at the distance of nine
inches from the surface or bark, and that no
flaw or aperture leading to this curious enclo-
sure could be discovered.

of a portion of the daily press of the French
capital, amounted to 4,075,439 francs; and the
manner in which that sum was distributed is
detailed.

with coloured scencs.-A second edition of Professor Mil

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

INDEX.
REVIEW.

Ackermann's Juvenile Forget Me Not, 655. Addison
Adventures of a
(J.), Miscellaneous Works of, 155.
Griffin, 656. Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, 73.
Adventures of Ariston, 449. Albert, a tale, 656. Alcuin,
Description of the Bible presented by him to Charle
magne, 288. Aldine Poets, 351, 400, 433, 509, 594, 651.
Alexander's
Alexander's (A.) Life of Himself, 366.
(Capt.) Travels to the Seat of War in the East, &c.,
560. Alexandrians, the, an Egyptian tale, 571. Alps,
Hannibal's Passage of the, 316. American Revolution,
History of the, 642. Amulet, 715, 752. Anderson's (C.)
Historical Sketches of the Native Irish, 988. Andrews'
(Bp.) Sermons on Prayer, 351. Anglo-French Coinage,
Illustrations of, 319, 383. Aneddot piacevoli e interes-
santi, 481. Annual Biography and Obituary, 17. An-
thologie Française, 656. Arcana of Science and Art,
191. Arnold's (Dr.) History of the Peloponnesian War,
by Thucydides, 477. Athenæum, 303. Atherstone's (E.)
Fall of Nineveh, &c., 270; Sea Kings in England, 781.
Affection's Offering, 818. Almanac, Companion to the,
833.

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.
Extracts from a Meteorological Register kept at High
Wycombe, Bucks, by a Member of the London Meteoro-
logical Society. November 1830.
Thermometer-Highest..

Lowest

Mean

56.75° 24-25 41-04791

....30-15

Lowest
Mean..

Barometer-Highest.

28.82
29-55655

Number of days of rain, 16.
Quantity of rain in inches and decimals, 3-01275.
Winds.-6 East-4 West-0 North-8 South-0 North-

General Observations.-Thirteen days might be denomi-
east-7 South-east--4 South-west-1 North-west.
nated fine; and the thermometer reached an elevation

while the mean temperature was nearly 4° higher than in
November last year. The barometer was generally low,
and the mean gave a depression greater than since 1826;
the month-indeed, more than since 1825. Lunar ha-
the quantity of rain much greater than usually falls in
lones were seen on the nights of the 25th and 27th, and a
faint aurora borealis was observed on the 17th, about
half-past eleven P.M. The evaporation 0-13125 of an inch.

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;
ERRATUM. In the Lecture on the Mummy, at the
but the answer is, an individual sent by and for us.
Royal Institution, in our last, p. 819, col. 2, fourth line
of the Appendix, for "grandees," read "Guanches."

Cabinet Album, 594. Caillie's (R.) Travels to Timbuc

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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.

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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.

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The ensuing is worse, for it is unjust :-
"The capture of Ciudad Rodrigo was deno-
minated a brilliant operation.' Of the con-
tending parties at least two thousand perished
ere the close of the siege. Many of the wound-
ed died from exposure to the elements at an
inclement season. Calamity was throned in
funeral state upon the ramparts of the trem-
bling city. It was for national gratitude to
overbalance ills inseparable from warfare. Lord
Wellington was created a Spanish grandee and
an English earl. The British parliament added
a yearly pension of £2,000 to keep the titles in
countenance. Of the humble instruments of
his will, the survivors were made supremely
happy by a vote of thanks." "

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where love lights its beacon and keeps its vigils | tude shines the rainbow of the wave which is
to greet the returning wanderer, weary of a to obliterate for ever the memory of his woes."
cheerless pilgrimage by flood or field. God
help those for whom every country wears a
foreign aspect who avert their steps from the
dwelling of their fathers, banished by the clouds
of discord, or the rank weeds of desolation!
Pleasant to me, as the face of an early friend,
were the broken shores of Pembroke, and the
bay of St. Bride's. The vessel touched at
Ilfracombe, where my luggage was consigned
to the care of Jonathan, who was to make a
short stay there with a relation: as it was but
two days' journey to Thorncroft, I proceeded
direct, and on foot. Spring was in its prime.
The morn I started was as rosy as the matin
flush of midsummer; the virgin breath of the
meadows and gardens, through which the road
meandered, gave lightness to the bosom, elasti- Mr. Kennedy forgets, that but for the com-
city to the footstep. The vine-branches were manding genius of the man who baffled Napo-
shooting forth their infant foliage, and orchard leon's best generals, and, finally, Napoleon
after orchard, ever and anon, enriched the himself--that man whose justly earned reward
breeze with a tide of fragrance, inspiring, in is thus meanly grudged, and whose
the fervour of noon-day, a voluptuous langour. vices are thus depreciated-those very scenes
Gladsome to the eye that expatiates on nature of warfare, all that he holds in such just ab-
is the matronal beauty of the blossoming apple- horrence, would, in all human probability,
tree; surpassingly gladsome was it to me, just have found their theatre in our own country,
landed from the waters, in the county of my and have been acted more bloodily in London
birth, where I had, from childhood, been en- than at Ciudad Rodrigo. The whole repre-
circled by its peaceful glories. The hues of sentation of the Spanish war is singularly un-
sunset were glowingly interstreaked, varying fair: for example, a scene of fearful suffering
from the warmest crimson to the tenderest and aggression is introduced, and the aggres-
green, and in their wavy irradiations imparted sors are British soldiers. Now, in common
to the western sky the fanciful resemblance of honesty, it ought to have been stated how rare
a superb ocean-shell. Tired of travel, I came were such occurrences in our army, and how
in sight of the rustic chapel where I used to go strictly the Duke of Wellington enforced that
up, with our house, to worship. My feet were discipline which prevented them. These scenes
blistered, my shoes arid with dust. I turned were of daily recurrence among the French
into the cool, grassy burying-ground, to calm troops. The only just view to take is this:-
the flutter of my spirits, to rest my limbs, and the Peninsular war was one of great bloodshed
to refresh my soiled apparel, lest a chance en- and suffering; but it was endured in a rightful
counter with an acquaintance should betray cause a lesser evil to prevent a greater. We
my pedestrian return. The chapel had been drove an invader from a foreign land, to pre-
whitewashed and repainted, and, peering vent his carrying desolation into our own.
through its shade of larch and yew, presented We have now only to say, that we hold
a soothing emblem of Christian tranquillity. his talents in higher estimation than we do his
Time, place, and circumstance, were masters opinions. The tale itself we think equally
of my mood. I did not wish to dispel the reli- beautiful and interesting; the facts have all
gious awe that solemnised the soul; and from the simplicity of truth, while the style is in-
a resistless reverence for those who slept be- vested with the rich colouring of the imagina-
neath, I refrained from profaning the luxuri- tion.
ant herbage by the taint of the highway. I
passed to the lonely spot where, apart from the Beauties of the Mind; a poetical Sketch: with
rest, beneath a weeping willow, was my mo- Lays Historical and Romantic. By Charles
ther's grave. The shrubs which surrounded Swain. 12mo. pp. 197. London, 1831.
it were flourishing-no unseemly weed had Simpkin and Marshall.
permission to vegetate there the birds nestled MR. SWAIN possesses one of those minds which,
in the branches of the overshadowing tree, as poetical in themselves, imbue all they touch
secure of protection near the remains of her with poetry. A poet's eye sheds its own co-
who was meek and merciful to all the creatures louring around; and the passing thought, the
of God. The moss-covered headstone had been slight hint, are developed into beauty by the

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Along our being's course, where'er it strezna,
Some haunting fever of decay-some shade
From whose destructive taint, no aid redeema'
Wo, that it reached thy generous heart, FAIL
Wo! that so white a breast should be so darsly la
Out of the very beautiful minor porta
select two favourites.

"Truth, Youth, and Age.
Truth. What is Immortality?
Youth. It is the glory of the mind.
The deathless voice of ancient Time:
The light of genius, pure, refined!
The monument of deeds sublime!
O'er the cold ashes of the dead
It breathes a grandeur and a power.
Which shine when countless years have Sert,
Magnificent as the first hour

Truth. What is Immortality?
Age. Ask it of the gloomy waves,
Of the old forgotten graves,
Whereof not one stone retains;
Ask it of the ruined fanes,
Temples that have passed away,
Leaving not a wreck to say,
Here an empire once hath stood!
Ask it in thy solitude,

Of thy solemn musing mind,
And, too truly, wilt thou find
Earthly immortality

Is a splendid mockery!"
"Reminiscences.

I know it is not beautiful!
That in the vale below,

Far gayer gifts of summer bloom,
And brighter waters flow;

I know it is not beautiful!
But, oh! unto my heart

It breathes a charm of vanished days,
No other scenes impart.

The days once eloquent with tones
They never more may bring,
Sweet as e'er wooed a woman's lip
To Love's delicious spring:

Deep as the distant clarion's breath
Upon the moonlight air,
Inspiring high and glorious deeds,
It were a pride to share!
The form whose beauty imaged forth
The vision of my sleep,
The painting of a youthful heart,
Romantic, warm, and deep;
The voice, that music of my mind -
Are with the spells of yore.
On which the morn may brightly rise.
But never waken more!

No gift of thine, love, meets my gaze,
No token fond and fair-

No, not, to soothe me in my tears,
A single lock of hair:

Thou 'st passed, my love, like some pale str
We look in vain to find,

Nor left to cheer my blighted path

One lonely ray behind!

They tell me I am waning fast,
That leaf by leaf I fade

They bear me forth with wreathed hair,
In jewelled robes arrayed;
They deem the festive dance may woo
My memory from this spot,
But, ah! amidst the courtly crowd,
Thou art the least forgot.

My eyes are wandering fast and far
To other shores away,

My soul is with thee in thy grave!-
How can I then be gay?

I perish in their festive light,

I die amidst their mirth

Oh! take me to thine arms, dear love,
From this cold, cheerless earth!"

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
touching: he links human feeling and human on its page without experiencing a feein
pomp well together. The first poem had best liking and respect towards the author.
be read as a whole "harmonious chain of
thought." The two following stanzas are pro-
mising specimens.

"For, oh! the bliss to love, and to believe

Ourselves beloved!-to linger o'er each dream
Of happiness we cannot choose but weave;
To breathe but only in the beauteous beam
Of Love's fend, eloquent, delicious eyes!-to deem
One form the paragon of earth! Oh, fair
As moonlight upon lilies of the stream!
Those water-jewels, delicate and rare,
Those chaste and fitting wreaths for Beauty's raven hair.

Alas! there is no chord of human life

Whose natural tone breathes not of wo!-there seems
Even in boyhood, when the world is rife
With buds and birds-with flowers and sunny beams

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; *

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