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saw what a little boy near us called "a big | reproach and despair; and when opened printers, manufacturers, engineers, artists, fellow," among the crowd in the Menagerie again, only a fearful and appalling void is potters, &c, rewarded and encouraged by scene. Bologna was an active Harlequin; visible, and the curtain drops upon the some mark of honour from their monarch, Miss Tree a so-so Columbine; Mr. Elliott wretched favourite. Another scene, between especially when the throne is filled by a a very good Pantaloon, which, viewing his Mortimer and Leicester, should also be ex-prince possessed of so fine a judgment as tumbles, whirls, and other sufferinges, we empted from the charge of general insipidity; the Regent. would not be for a hundred pounds a night; but all the rest is unimpassioned and dull. Among Canova's recent models at Rome, and Southby a strong, clever, and effective The death of Mortimer, who, we hear, stabs statues of a Magdalene, an Endymion sleepClown, especially in feats of bodily marvels. himself in prison, is huddled over in a sin- ing with a hound by his side, and a Nymph He performed one practical joke of inde-gularly insignificant manner, and the entire reclining on a Tiger's skin, are much spoken cency on the tailor's inexpressibles, which we absence of any feature which could impart of. hope has been retrenched. that dramatic effect to the Scottish Queen, Aremarkable effect of Lightning-About COVENT GARDEN. The Christmas treat which she enjoys even in sober history, is an twenty years ago, during a violent thunder at Covent Garden is founded on the adven-objection fatal to this play. On the contrary, storm, the lightning struck a pane of glass tures of the redoubted Don Quixotte, and the bosom of Elizabeth appears to be most in a house door, so that the mistress of his faithful Squire. These are very ably torn and lacerated by deep emotions; and the house, who was in the hall behind dramatized, or rather pantomimetized, and there is such a diffusion over all the charac-the door, was cast several paces backingeniously adapted to the purposes of this ters, of what ought to be concentrated, wards, and thrown on the floor. species of representation. It is rather a su- whether of pathos, of grandeur, of grief, however received no injury, nor was the perior thing of the kind, and both in con- or of suffering, that we care for all pretty pane of glass broken. The electric fluid duct and ornament rises above the common nearly alike, and very little for any. Eliza had however left upon it a beautiful paintlevel. The incidents selected from Cervantes beth's visit to Kennilworth Castle affords an ing, (if we may so express it,) resemare well chosen, and the transparencies opportunity for one of those gorgeous spec-bling, on the whole, a head, which was (painted by Wright), which illustrate the tacles in which this theatre delights, and is formed of numerous smaller heads. From origin of romance, are beautiful. The gene- so unrivalled. The dresses are appropriate that time, this pane of glass was never wet ral order of pantomime is indeed disturbed, and magnificent, and the acting unimpeach- with the dew, and never froze, though the if not reversed on this occasion. The Knight ably, except perhaps in Mary, now per- other panes were affected by the weather as and Sancho retain their characters through-formed by Miss Foote, whose face and form usual. Great care was taken of this remarkout, and Pantaloon (the housekeeper,) is able pane, till some days since it was broken attached to them. Instead of the lovers by carelessness; when it appeared that the being persecuted, they are the persecutors, for lightning had split it, making two panes out the wand works all the mischief to the Don, of one, and leaving in the middle the traces and all the pummellings and misadventures of the electric fluid. Before it was broken to his faithful follower. By this magical inno one could see that there was a division. strument, the Windmill is turned into a The panes, which are not much broken, real giant, oppressing forlorn sacks of corn were collected as carefully as possible. transformed into damsels, and again into its original form; the flocks of sheep do become soldiers, and revert to mutton; and all the other incidents, even to the tossing of our old friend Panza in the blanket, are dependent, more or less, upon its "charmed Another traveller, the Chevalier Gamba, is touch." The scenery is pre-eminently en- ANECDOTES." Why did Adam bite the on the point of departing for Asia and the titled to admiration. The Spanish Inns, apple?" said a school-master to a country banks of the Caspian Sea, to fulfil a mission Sierra Morena, and Realms of Romance, boy. "Because he had no knife," said the interesting to the arts and sciences; he will (by Grieve), are wonderfully fine; and Whit- boy. be accompanied by his son, an officer of camore and Pugh have also several excellent and One of the Paris opposition papers has re-valry. M. M. Harnt, Plee, and Godefroy, the characteristic scenes. This splendour of de-vived the following anecdote.-"A minister is naturalists, who are on the point of departing coration is well diversified by the humorous sick. His colleague, M. P., to induce him to from Rochefort, are to be accompanied by mishaps of the Governor of Barataria, whose take the medicine presented by the physician, their brothers, who will afford them consiwife and daughter are happily introduced said, "Take it, I intreat you: I'll be hang- derable assistance in their investigations. to augment the fun. The wonderful ape is ed if it does not do you good." "Take it," also a prominent actor in the affair of the added the doctor; "after the assurance that Showman; and the whole piece, including Monsieur has given you, you must be conRosinante, Dapple, &c. &c. a very satisfac- vinced that, one way or other, the remedy tory entertainment for the rising generation. must have a good effect." We therefore especially recommend it to the Managers to perform it after some short and pleasing drama, for three nights in the week, so that children may enjoy it, without enduring the pre-fatigue of a five-act play.

are better fitted for the character than her
mental endowments; but we must still come
to our past conclusion, that the tragedy is
not possessed of vigour to promise it any
length of nights. We observed in the de-
clamation, that the language was not very
correct: unspotted blood," for example,
was one of the phrases; and we fear that the
German author, therefore, has not been im-
proved by his translator.

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to view the performance in any other REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. light, than as an acceptable addition to Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Crom- our stock of literature, both as a speciThe same writer (Mr. Noble), from the well, and of his Sons Richard and Hen-men of eminent biography and of British History. writers of those times, describes Cromry. Illustrated by Original Letters and It is a rather curious circumstance, to well's father as (having a small fortune) other Family Papers. By Oliver Cromnotice the difference between the usur- carrying on a large brewing business, the acwell Esq. a Descendant of the Family. Cromwell and the usurper Buona-counts whereof, he says, were wholly attendWith portraits from original pictures. parte both men wonderfully exalted, ed to by his wife; who, after his decease, London, 1820. 4to, pp. 733. both lauded to the skies, and both paint-enabled to give her daughters sufficient forcontinued to carry it on; whereby she was The season for active publication having ed as fiends. But Cromwell died in tunes to marry them into genteel families. now arrived, new works pour in upon the full possession of the authority Dr. Harris gives the same account from us in such abundance, as to afford but which he attained; and in this displayed Dugdale and other authorities, and very short time for critical deliberation. It greater genius than his follower, who justly adds, that, if true, it could not be is therefore well for our rapidly revolv-arrived at much wider power only to deemed discreditable to the family, the younging periodical, especially at this pro-afford an instance of that madness which est brothers of the best families in this ductive period, that it professes gene-success creates to wreck its minion. country engaging in trade, and thereby raising themselves to fortune and independency. rally, in the language of Bayle," to be In the latter case a new philosophy per- It has been also said that Cromwell himself a reporter, and not a judge." We can formed the service which in the former was engaged in the same business for his state facts, where it would be hazardous was done by a renovated religion: infi- support. All this has been said by Cromto deliver opinions; and it requires delity did the work of fanaticism. When well's enemies, for the purpose of degrading much less time to be enabled to describe we spoke of the difference between these him; but no evidence to be relied on is what a book is, than to tell what we personages, however, we rather con- produced in support of these assertions. templated what was connected with The truth is, nothing certain is likely to be known of his early life, or the pecuniary This volume is of massive size, and literature than with politics. More circumstances of his parents. But it should has some fine plates: so much for ex- than a century and a half has elapsed be observed, that Cromwell, in his speech ternals. It is sensibly written, displays since the death of the famous Oliver, to his parliament, of 12th September 1654, ample research, and furnishes some ori- and it is only now that a historiau of his says, "I was by birth a gentleman, neither ginal documents, from family papers, race comes forward to vindicate his cha-living in any considerable height, nor yet touching the private life of the extraor-racter. Not so with Napoleon; he, in in obscurity;"—and that he had been called dinary man whose biography, insepara-his solitary banishment, is his own annal- to several employments in the nation, and bly linked as it is with one of the most ist, his own vindicator, his own eulo- himself, publicly given in the face of the to serve in parliaments. This account of eventful epochs of English history, it gist. And then, the multitude of his nation, open therefore to contradiction if places in the full light of record. It also other panegyrists, French, Polish, Fle- not true, is surely a sufficient confutation of contains interesting particulars. relative mish, Italian, and even English!... Surely all the stories of his and his family's narrow to his children: so much for internals; this affords a very singular and striking circumstances, and their engagements in trade at least, en masse. in consequence. Lord Clarendon, in his proof of the strength and liberty accor-quired by the press, and of the immense anxious desire to lower Cromwell's conse effects upon the condition of society himself of these circumstances, had he crequence, would not have omitted to avail which must be operated by that prodi-dited them. In Peck's Memoirs of the Life gious engine.