with the exception of three or four thousand. A lofty hill was made of their bones, which remained for a number of years a warning to invading bands of crusaders.

The third division of 15,000 fiery enthusiasts, under Godeschal, a German Priest, perished in Hungary; and the fourth and last of these lawless mobs of ruftians, zealots and plunderers, met with nearly a similar fate; but as Mr. Mills's account is finely descriptive of the whole of this class of expeditions, we use his words.

"Before Europe glittered with the pomp and splendour of chivalry, another herd of wild and desperate savages scourged and devastated the world. They issued from England, France, Flanders, and Lorraine. Their avowed principle of union was the redemption of the holy sepulchre. History is silent on the subordinate modes and bands of con

the wall of the town. The ruin of the
Hungarian nation appeared inevitable; and
the king with his nobles was prepared to fly
to the south. By some strange panic which
the best historians can neither explain nor
describe, the besiegers deserted the assault
and fled. Their cowardice was as abject as
their boldness had been ferocious; and the
Hungarians pursued them with such slaugh-
ter, that the waters of the Danube were for
days red with their blood. But few of the
rabble survived. Count Emicho, who had
gained damnatory distinction by his cruelties
on the Jews, succeeded in flying into Ger-
many. Some others escaped to the south;
and in time joined the regular forces of the
feudal princes of Europe.

(To be concluded in our next.)

Lessons of Thrift, published for the Ge-
neral Benefit. By a Member of the
Save-all Club. London, 1820. Crown
8vo. pp. 240.

very artful, cunning, and treacherous females of the present day. If, however, he get married, it shall be regarded as a sufficient punishment.

Sir Clement Cornice, baronet, not contented with having built a splendid villa, invites all the world to see it, and gives miscellaneous dinners every Sunday, so that it has become a cakehouse.

Ordered, by the President, and Committee, that he pay a fine of one guinea for every such dinner to the poor of his parish. On non-compliance, he is requested to send in his resignation as a member of the Club.

Lord Arab, who boasts of his gains in keeping a race-horse, is requested to present to the Committee an exact accompt of his profit and loss. N. B. No errors excepted.

Mr. Plod Furret, who is always dabbling at sales of old and scarce books, though he can scarcely read his mother tongue in the common Roman letter, is ordered, on pain of expulsion for such useless expence, to bring his only Caxton to the Club, and to

We know not how we can better de-read two pages thereof aloud. scribe this work, cleverly ornamented

The honourable member has presented a petition, stating that his only view in such purchases is to lay by money in a very sure way, and at a great interest, as such articles always increase in value; that in this view, far from any attachment to any letter, whether black, white, brown, or yellow, he received great comfort in the conflagration of a gentleman's library, which contained five

Caxtons, as thereby the value of his was greatly increased; and that he consults people of skill in his purchases.

The censure withdrawn, and the member re-instated.

nection, except the horrible superstition of following a goat and a goose, which they believed to be filled with the divine spirit: and if such were their religion, we cannot wonder at the brutality of their manners. Besides their fanaticism was the height of fury, for these ministers of the devouring flame nearly trebled their precursors. Their with a dozen of caricature prints, by zeal was guided by envy and malignity, and Cruikshank, than by informing our they pretended that it was unjust that any readers, that it is the pouring out of foes of God should enjoy temporal prospe- the Common-place Book of an intellirity. The Jews enriched the towns on the gent and humourous person, whose dibanks of the Moselle and of the Rhine, and ligence in collecting anecdotes, jests, communicated to France and Germany the products of each respective country. The stories, &c. seems to entitle him precity of Cologne was the first city which was eminently to the character of a Member stained with their blood. The sanctity of of the Save-all Club. His economy has the archiepiscopal palace at Mayence, the indeed been carried very far, for many sacred presence of the venerable metropolitan, of his jokes are exceedingly ancient and could not shield seven hundred of the chil- well-known. But pretty general readSome rich save-thrifts mix cider with port dren of Israel from the swords of men, who ing and observation have enabled him wine for their servants; others choose coachprofessed a religion of mercy and love. The bishop of Spires bravely and successfully de- to vary his lucubrations with a consider-horses that match with those of a gouty fended the Jews in his city, but the genero-able portion of novelty in matter; and sity of the bishops of Treves and Worms was in manner he has thrown a still strongnot equally pure and meritorious, if it be true that they compelled the objects of their protection to change their religion. Many firm and noble spirits disdained apostacy. Some of them retired to a chamber of the bishop at Worms, on pretence of deliberating on the renunciation of their faith. Deliberation produced virtue, and by self-slaughter they disappointed the cruelty of their enemies. More appalling spectacles were witnessed at Treves. Mothers plunged the dagger into the breasts of their own children; fathers and sons destroyed each other, and women threw themselves into the Moselle.

"When the measure of murder and rob

neighbour, so that if a horse be sick another can be borrowed without inconvenience; for those animals are subject, if my memory er cast of freshness over his olla po- serve, to one hundred and thirty diseases, drida, As for the lessons of thrift, and four are often necessary in reserve for a they are the flimsiest of possible links carriage drawn by two. It is a great breach to connect a volume, from which the of economy to have a villa near town, where abundance of its materials banishes all friends are so happy to arrive just at dinner time. You may, however, take your hat, but very partial arrangement. Upon as running out to see a neighbour taken viothe whole, an entertaining miscellany lently ill, or fall upon the sofa yourself in a has been produced; and for a chaise-violent fit of the cholic. If, however, you pocket, or a breakfast-room window- admit a friend or two, follow the maxim of seat, this will be found one of the plea- Socrates to his wife, Why increase our santest companions of the class to dinner? If the company be real friends which it pertains. there is enough: if not, too much." med-winter, to profit by the light of his neighAn ingenious member has contrived, in boura most innocent theft, which does harm to none. There being only a thin wall, or rather partition, between his chamber and that of a tailor, often occupied to a late hour, he contrived a hole, by which he can see to read and to go to bed. This invention saves him three or four pounds a year (generally about 31. 78. 24d.) and is honourably mentioned in the records of the club.

Thomas Sprightly is a constant frequenter of balls and assemblies, and treats the ladies, who laugh at him as a common dangler. He is admonished to refrain from this idle expense.

We insert a few specimens; a bery was full, the infernal multitude pro-ley, like the original. Of the Save-all ceeded on their journey. Two hundred Club, the following are minutes. thousand people, of whom only three thousand were horsemen, entered Hungary. They hurried on to the south in their usual career of carnage and rapine; but when they came to Mersbourg, their passage was opposed by an Hungarian army. Their requests to the king's general for provisions and a free passage were denied; but they forced a bridge over the Danube; and, gathering strength from the desperateness of their situation, they succeeded in making some breaches in

His remonstrance, that it is in the view of a good marriage, has been duly considered, but has made little impression on the old ones of the Club, who are rather apprehensive, from his simple manners and goodness of heart, that he will become the prey of the

But the fashionable world is in the dream of Richard III.

▲ light! a light! my kingdom for a light.

The Gascon dialect of the Baron de Foeneste, who thus tells the story." If you fellows, serving to bring water to their mill, must know all, I passed two years with fine

tunes.

We conclude with a few other mis

cellaneous extracts:

to his widow except a fine horse and a faAn old Italian, on his deathbed, left little vourite cat; desiring, however, that the horse might be sold, and the price employed in masses for his soul. The widow sends the horse and the cat to market, with an injunction to sell the horse for a crown, but not except the purchaser also bought the cat, valued at four hundred crowns. In this way she honestly got the money for her own use.

Their whole life is sold by inch of candle. It The following story from D'Aubigny sum. In the midst of this decisive game is inconceivable what pleasure there can be is a whimsical illustration of the want arrived on horseback his pretended solicitor, in reversing the occupations of day and of thrift in gaming: it is translated, advocate, and another of his gang, and he night. A fashionable lady will dine at ten or rather abstracted from— soon won the whole stock of our company. at night, and go to bed at four in the mornhold of the gentleman of the goose, but he One of us seizing a loaded dye, we took ing. Her great great grand mother dined at ten in the day, and was in bed by six. How was backed by all his gang, one of whom was different the health and complexion! But and our respectable society not only lost the very Breton who first addressed him; roses and lilies are now little known, except in distillation and washes; and pins are lit-or, to speak plainly, to find dupes: but this their money, but received a hearty drubbing, scheme led to the greatest of my misfor- of which to avoid my share I made only one tle worn, though they have been quaintly called the thorn of christian roses. Pin-with Barbot and Gendreau, who had been since been styled at Rochelle the GentleThe king's attorney at Rochelle, step of the whole stair. My comrades have money remains, and a lady generally prefers mayors of the town, having some little pro-men of the White Goose.'" the cash to pins. Franklin has, in his usual style of dry and sion to cover a pretty enterprise. They put cesses to carry on at Paris, seized this occahomely humour, ridiculed the modern Eu- each four thousand francs in a purse, to be ropean infatuation of giving bread to waxchandlers and candle makers, at a great ex- they had practised at Rochelle, and I was employed in tricks at cards and dice, which pence to our purse, health, and reputation. chosen as an assistant, being, besides my A careful study of that useful publication, nourishment, to receive one crown from the almanac, would enable us to supply ourselves, at no expense, with the blessed every, twenty of the gains. At Paris we and beneficial light of day. The wheel of lodged at the sign of the Swan, and began to fashion is however turning so fast, that the do wonders in our line, when one day about ten o'clock arrived a tall coarse fellow, good ancient customs may surmount. Happy time for old England, neighbour," mounted on a dirty mare, with a cloak-bag said a sulky politician to a friend of mine, behind him, which was so heavy as to embarrass our landlady. This man, who be This was at a time when, by a sacrilegious "when parliament met at nine in the morning. The deliberations were wise and gan with chatting of his noble birth and con- perversion, a rich man could not die without frugal, and had the air of a grave senate and black cloak, his sword hung with a red rib-monks begging "for our poor convent," nexions, wore an old scrubby hat, a large being surrounded with covetous priests and important affairs. But who ever saw a lamp bon; his boots would have weighed any two while they were wallowing in all the wealth in the hands of Minerva? We all know the pair, while he had only one spur, and his of a country. A rich proprietor near Lyons purposes that are pursued by night and can-breeches were of yellow cloth. When the was on his deathbed, from a sudden attack dle light. They have nothing to do with wis-hostler led his mare to the stable, this cox- of palsy, when his son, a tall, stout colonel dom, neighbour. All the wise men are then asleep," He spoke emphatically, as he is comb began to talk with six or seven wags of dragoons, arrived on the spur from his always in bed by eight o'clock. As to his at the gate, and I heard him say, "Ill-ap-garrison. He finds at the bed-side a FrancisMinerva I say nothing, except what I read Rome." A Breton, who seemed to gape speak, but nodded, from the effect of the pointed as you see me, I return from can friar and a notary, His fatl:er could not in my youth, that she was the goddess of with surprise, inquiring by what road, our disease. "You leave," says the friar, "to wisdom, and had no mother, which seems well contrived, as wisdom has few relations idiot? By the nearest road, sure, which goes all the appurtenances?" A nod." man answered, "Do you take me for an our poor convent, your estate of Notary, Jesting apart (for I owe my candle-maker to explain an important law-suit which to our poor convent your house here at by Rouen and Morlaix." He then began observe the consent, and write.-You leave a bill), if the court would as usual hold le- brought him to Paris, and seemed precisely Lyons, with all the plate and furniture?" A rees on the king's rising from bed, at seven the rich simpleton we wanted. Our com- nod. Notary, observe the consent, and or eight in the morning, the ancient fruga-rades were of course eager to offer him their write.-You leave to our poor convent your lity of artificial light might soon revive: best rooms, and when company came to farm at with all the arrears?" Opinion is the queen of the world, and play he would only be a spectator, saying nod. "You leave to our poor convent Fashion is her daughter, the princess royal. that if they had used the common country The officer lost all patience. A little jog of the wheel would bring us My dear fawhere we were, and even the novelty would which was the highest stake he ever played. from the window?" A nod. "Notary, obgames he might have sported a shilling, ther, do you order me to throw this thief be delightful. At nine (morning) all the At length, with much perseverance, we serve, and write." Said and executed, while twelve all the knockers would announce the taught him lansquenet, and one or two other the notary was glad to escape. hour of solemn dinners. Plays by day-light as in Shakspeare's time.

on the female side.

streets would overflow with coaches. At

A schoolmaster proposing for the Latin Secretaryship of the Club, thus

concludes his letter

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fashionable

games.

with

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There have been rare instances of men who could sleep whenever they chose; but, in general, sleep cannot be commanded; and, as the poor negro said to his master when he fell asleep from fatigue, Massa, massa, sleep have no massa.'

During three days he sometimes won, sometimes lost, the stakes being so small as not to deserve notice; but one evening being so venturous as to stake two crowns, a valet he had taken and his lawyer reproached his rashness, and he retorted in abusive I have read a few odd books, and am glad terms. On the fourth day, having employ- to display my little learning, as he who has ed the morning with his lawyer, as he said, only one guinea is proud to show it. I must he returned by the street called Huchette, therefore say, and relate the anecdote as cuasking every body for his lodging, which he rious and important, that in China, in the called the White Goose, instead of the Swan, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, neither and when he at length arrived he was hailed gold nor silver were permitted in currency, as The Gentleman of the Goose.' He be- but only paper, which was of a yellow cogan to be heated at play, and spoke of staklour, and stamped with the imperial seal. ing a hundred pistoles: one evening he lost Foreign merchants were obliged to leave forty-four, and in a rage challenged our Ro-their coin at the custom-houses in exchange chelle company to bring each six hundred for these bank-notes.

"when

bills and accompts with great rigour, even to pen of this illustrious writer, has always pro- "One day," says Dauletschalı, pence and farthings, and was often ridiculed duced such useful and excellent works, that Attar was sitting before his shop with the on this score by an intimate friend. But this we are sure beforehand of finding in all his appearance of a man of importance, and acfriend falling into accidental and unmerited writings, instruction mixed with pleasure; tive clerks stood before him waiting for his distress, was surprised with the receipt of and there is perhaps none of his preceding orders, a maniac, or rather a Religious two bank-notes of 10007. each in the follow-productions in which this double advantage far advanced in the spiritual life, came to ing laconic epistle. The farthings you is so striking as in that now before us. the door of the shop and cast inquisitive and have so often laughed at enable me to lend Perceiving in fact, that the rigid moralist, eager looks into the warehouse; his eyes you the enclosed, which you will return at whose excellent precepts and wise instructions soon filled with tears, and sighs broke from your own convenience Yours always. THE he translates, would have seemed too dull his breast. The sheik, addressing the derMISER." to his readers, if he had not given some vise said; why do you look with such wild variety to the instructions from his other eyes? You would do better to go your ways, writings; M. de Sacy, by the addition of a Sir, said the dervise; as for me, my bundle great number of pieces all selected with is very light, for I have nothing besides this taste, has changed a very dry and arid work coat: but you with these sacks full of preinto a charming composition, a real Persian cious drugs, when you have to depart, how Anthology, which will be as useful to those will you manage? I can leave this bazar in desirous of studying that graceful language, a moment; but you will do well to think in as the Arab Chrestomathia of the same time of arranging your packets and your learned author, has long been to those who baggage: it would be prudent to reflect a prefer to it the austere language of the little on your situation. The discourse of Coran. this illuminé made a profound impression of grief on the mind of the sheik: his heart, by an effect of the delirium into which it had been thrown by the sophisticated thirst of temporal goods, became as cold as camphor. He abandoned his shop to pillage, and wholly renounced the affairs of this world. He retired into the monastery of the venerable sheik Roeneddin Acaf, who was then one of the most distinguished chiefs of the order of the Contemplative, and had attained the most perfect degree of spirituality. Under his conduct Attar changed his mode of life, and gave himself up to exercises of mortification, and to the practice of works of devotion. He passed some years among the dervises, the disciples of that holy. man; he afterwards made a pilgrimage to Mecca; and having formed an acquaintance with a great number of men of God, and passed some time in their service, he dedicated seventy years of his life to the collection of a multitude of anecdotes relating to the lives of the Sheiks and the Sofis. None of the men belonging to this order has collected so many historical traits of this kind as Ferid-Eddin; nor is there any one who has penetrated more deeply than he into the meaning of the enigmatical expressions, and the mystical allegories, or who has conceived. and the most subtile thoughts of the spiwith so much perfection the most sublime ritual doctrine."

by the Mongols in the troubles occasioned by the invasion of Genghis Khan, and perished in the general massacre; a Mongol, it is said, was going to kill him, when another said to him, Let that old man live; I will give you a thousand pieces of silver, as the price of his blood. The Mongol seeming inclined to spare him; Attar said to him, take care how you sell me for so small a sum; you will find people who will give more for me. At some distance from this place, the Mongol had again a mind to kill him; but another person stopped him, saying, do not kill this man, I will give you a sack of straw for his life. Sell me, said Attar, it is

all I am worth: Thus the Sheik drank the cup of martyrdom, and was raised to the rank of those who died for the faith."

After this introduction, M. Chézy proceeds to give an account of the work itself, and ventures with becoming diffidence to notice half a dozen passages in which he ventures to think that the learned translator has not exactly rendered the meaning of the original. We refrain from accompanying the reviewer in his critique, as well as from translating any of the passages which he has quoted as specimens of the work; as any translation we could give, far from affording a just idea of the Persian poetry, would doubtless remain much below the elegant prose of M. de Sacy.

Art. V. Oeuvres complètes d'André Chénier. André Chénier, who was born in 1762, unhappily perished in 1794 on the scaffold, during the revolution: his father had applied to literature with success. André was born at Constantinople, as well as his younger brother Joseph Marie, whose enemies have with persevering and cruel injustice reproached him for not having saved his brother from the revolutionary axe; a calumny which has been long since refuted in the opinion of all well thinking persons, and against which the editor of A. Cheniers has completely justified Joseph Marie.

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Some ofA. Chenier's pieces published during his life, and others which have appeared since his death, have excited much regret for the loss of a poet whose talents seemed to mise that he would be distinguished by fertility of invention and brilliant originality. The author has composed elegies, odes, epistles, idyls, and other pieces; but Mr. Raynouard thinks that he has shewn the greatest talent and originality in the idyl, and mentions as instances that called Liberty, and that called Le Malade. With respect to Chenier's style, he has ventured several innovations on the usual forms of French versification; in which, in the opi nion of his reviewer, he has in general failed, though there are sometimes very fine effects of harmony in his compositions.

point out to the editor the amelioration of flower, beneath which is the sea of fragrant
which it was susceptible. It was indeed waters, over whose surface the winds of the
considered as a perfect work in its kind, and metempsychosis blow: another, the universe
the editor was enjoined to make no change divided into four islands, in the midst of
in it. But the Chinese language having been which is the lofty mountain See-ne, rising
since more extensively studied, it became up above the height of the sun and moon;
evident, that a more complete dictionary was others, the most felicitous part of Paradise,
wanting; and this has led M. Kloproth to the seven palisadoe fences, the seven cano-
compose a Supplement, of which he now pub-pies of net-work, the seven rows of trees,
lishes the first number. We shall notice it
again when the review is concluded.

JUVENILE REVIEW.

[Notices of Books for the Young.]

the turrets, the seven pearl and lotus pools, the floors of the palace paved with square tiles of gold, the birds of paradise, perching on the trees, and singing stanzas from the sacred books; the people of the six quarters Letters from a Mother to a Daughter, &c. &c, &c. The price in China is about N. S. E.W. Above, and Below, praising Fuh, at or going to School, pointing out 2s. but the copies are distributed gratis by her Duties, &c. By Mrs. J. A. Sar-the religious: they are small octavos, of gant. 33 pages.

This is a very well-meant publication; the The 6th division is a prayer or charm for principles it enforces are of the purest kind; the removal of all evil, wholly unintelligible and it is a book, which, put into the hands of to the Chinese, as it is the bare sounds of the young, is well calculated to render them Indian words in Chinese characters, but withuseful and virtuous members of society. out any explanation. The seventh contains We have rather an indifferent opinion of the ten repetitions, that is, to continue the many of the seminaries for the education of words, " O-ne-to Fuh" as long as possible females-and yet how much depends upon without drawing breath. This is called a them! Mrs. Sargant's earnest and maternal neen, or repetition. The ninth consists of exhortations, will be a valuable companion nine plates of the various forms of Fuh; toto all whose instruction is confided to stran-gether with the forms of the superior, midgers; and those governesses, who most ably dle, and lower classes of beings produced in and conscientiously discharge their important Paradise from the lotus flower. These perduties, will be glad of so pure an assistant. sons all sit cross legged on the lotus, and are encircled with six lines of small dots, Instructions for the Management of the rising from it at the bottom, and which, asBlow-pipe, Chemical Tests, &c. &c. suming a pear shape, terminate in a point By J. Mawe. 1820. at the top. The fifteenth is a dehortation from the dread of the death. The sevenOf this little treatise, many thousand co-teenth is against the taking away of animal pies are, we believe, in circulation. Young life. chemists and mineralogists, will find it ticularly useful in aiding their investigations.

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The Scholar's Remembrancer, containing
Tables, Arithmetical, Historical, Geo-
graphical, &c. By M. Seaman.

The eighteenth is Yun-lee, on the there are six fasts, viz: on the 8th, 14th, monthly and annual fasts. In every month 15th, 23d, 29th, and 30th. Besides these, there are three full months of fasts in every year, namely the first, third, and ninth; so that this sect has one hundred and sixty A very small work, but one likely to pro-two fasts every year. To both the monthly mote great economy, and lighten the ex- and annual fasts are affixed six small circupence of school books. It contains, besides, lar plates, with thirty dots in each, and the a great deal of useful matter in the least word "Foh" in the centre; for the purpose possible compass. of designating the lowest number of repetitions in one fast.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE,

CHINESE LITERATURE: BUDDAISM.

The style is what the Chinese call Chingtang-che-wan, "middle class composition;" The Christian missionary should not be unacquainted with the book; though from the See Tang kung keú, i. e. " public proofs number of foreign phrases untranslated, rewhich contains the common evidences of the nicals peculiar to the sect of Fuh, it is obfrom the West." Respecting this book, ferences to the metempsychosis, and techreligion of Fuh or Buddah, we find some curious notices in the Asiatic Journal. It and Sunskrit. scure to those unacquainted with the Pali We copy a few passages. was compiled by Shin-sing-chin, and Chan- On the plate representing the world like an trines of Fuh: the preface by Sha-hung, a infinite and innumerable worlds, such as yuen-chin, who were believers in the doc-inverted pyramid, it is written," there are priest of Füh. Published in the 13th year this: this is but a single specimen, selected of Keen-lung, about 1748. out of myriads of myriads :"-" each single seed of the world produces twenty worlds." As if worlds were propagated like beans !*

Art. VI. Supplement to the Chinese and Latin Dictionary of P. Basile de Glemona. This work is a compilation of miscellanies, Published by order of his Majesty Fre-with thirty plates; some of the essays are derick William III., King of Prussia, by supposed to be very old. Of the plates, seJulius Kloproth. No. 1. venteen represent the Peach Garden of Pa- This is a style with which we reviewers are When Mr. Deguignes was commissioned, radise; one represents the world, twenty sto-well acquainted, and we are glad to get so good in 1808, to have the Dietionary of P. Basileries high, widening towards the top, like an a name for it. We shall not forget Ching-tangprinted, there was nobody in Europe able to inverted pyramid, and resting on a lotus-che-wan, in haste.