Members. VARIETIES. 66 de were inventive touches in his first and juve-annual exhibition of excellent pictures. His nile essay which, with all his subsequent first performance, exhibited in 1769, at the knowledge and experience, he had not been Royal Academy, was Regulus. At present M. de Kermellée who some time ago able to surpass." The next step in advance we have not a fit opportunity for detailing parted from France on a scientific mission, of young West was the reading of Richardson his progress minutely, nor for relating any of arrived at Saint-Denis in the Isle of Bourbon, and Tresnay. Inspired by their writings, he the multitude of anecdotes about him which in October 1819. He is engaged in forming painted his first historical subject, the Death are in circulation. His "Death of Wolfe," collections of plants and seeds; and in a of Socrates. Pursuing his studies at Philadel- and "William Penn forming a Treaty with private letter he states his intention of transphia, he made such progress, that the body the Indians," are widely known; and in la-mitting several packages of curiosities for to whose tenets he adhered, departed from ter years, his "Christ healing the Sick," the Jardin du Roi, in Paris. their doctrine of hatred to what was merely Death on the pale Horse," and other The Academy of Belles Letters at Stockornamental and worldly, and, at a public works, have borne testimony to the unim-holm, has elected Lord Strangford and Baron meeting, authorised his devoting himself to paired vigour of his faculties. In 1802, Mr. Sushtelen (the Russian Ambassador) Foreign the fine arts. He was at this period six-West went to Paris, and was received with teen years of age, and for some time painted great honours. He was historical painter to A gentleman of Rouen of the name of portraits at Philadelphia, at two guineas and his Majesty (1772), and surveyor of royal pic-Louvel, has applied for leave to change it; a half for a head, and five guineas for a half tures (1799); President of the Royal Academy and, instead of that of an assassin, to aslength, saving as much money as he could (1791); member of the Dilettanti Society, Sosume his maternal name, Delaplanche." for a voyage to Europe. He also resided ciety of Arts, Royal Institution, Antiquarian There is an English Journal called The about eleven months at New-York; till in Society, and a governor of the Foundling Hos- Telegraph, published at Boulogne, so much 1760, opportunity and auspicious circum-pital in England. Abroad he was also ho-has this place become a British settlement. stances combining, he sailed for Italy. An noured with marks of distinction. As PreThe steam brig, Le Voyageur, which artist in that day, springing from a sect in-sident of the Royal Academy, succeeding so sailed from l'Orient for Senegal, on the imical to the arts, and from a new country, enlightened a man as Sir Joshua Reynolds, 18th of October, has arrived safely at the was a curiosity, and Mr. West reaped many we are not aware that Mr. West, by his lec-place of its destination, after a voyage of advantages from his situation. He was speed-tures, did so much for the British School as 16 days. This is the first steam vessel that ily patronised, and liberally assisted. On his great predecessor; nor do we know that has sailed from a French port on a voyage the 10th of July, in the year we have men- some of the duties of this important office of any length. tioned, he arrived at Rome. Mr. Robinson have not fallen into dissuetude. Whoever (afterwards Lord Grantham), took him by may be elected to the vacant chair, whether the hand, and he became acquainted with per- Shee, Lawrence, or Fuseli, will therefore sons of rank in society, as well as with Gavin do well to consider that some of the vigour Hamilton, Mings, and other painters of of a young Institution may be most usefully celebrity. It is stated that Raphael did not infused into one which has shown somewhat at first interest him, and that Michael An- of the listlessness and apathy of abundance gelo, neither at first, nor on further study, and age. It is a high place, and he who appeared to be so great as common fame al- fills it may do a great deal for the arts. lows. He painted a picture of Cimon and Iphigenia, preparatory to taking his degree among the Roman students and subsequently, another of Angelica and Madoro, The academies of Florence, Bologna, and Parma, elected him a member; and he set out with an increase of knowledge and repuputation for England, whither he travelled through France. Thus far Mr. Galt's publication guides us. It seems to indicate that Mr. West's ambition was as much directed towards being thought a marvellous child, as, what we consider much more desirable, a distinguish ed man. Mr. West has left two sons, with, we are informed, small fortune, except his princely collection of pictures, which is valued at a large sum. It is probable that his funeral will be public, like that of his celebrated predecessor. THE DRAMA. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. Thursday, 9-Thermometer from 25 to 48. MARCH, 1820. Barometer from 30, 38 to 30, 23. Wind N. E. and S. W. . - Generally clear. Friday, 10-Thermometer from 27 to 43. Barometer from 30, 07 to 29, 90. Barometer, from 29, 85 to 29, 78. Barometer from 30, 24 to 30, 28. Wednesday, 15-Thermometer from 45 to 60. JOHN ADAMS. There are no novelties this week in the theatrical world. Dublin to complete the purchase of the Mr. Harris is gone to theatre in that city, which will thus become In August, 1763, Mr. West arrived in is to England;an appendage to Covent Garden, as Ireland London; and after visiting several of the managed. Mr. Mathews has adjourned his -we hope both will be well finest collections of pictures at various house over the Easter Holidays. Signior palaces and noble residences, determined to Ambrogetti, Madmoiselle Corri, Pearman, settle in this country, and married a Miss and one or two other respectable performers, Shavell, from Philadelphia. He accordingly, have been exhibiting among numerous in the ensuing spring, exhibited at the Great groupes of wonderfully ragged chorus-roarRoom in Spring Gardens three of his best ers at the Cobourg, and the audiences have works; and, on the incorporation of the ar- added rows to the discordance already too tists in 1765, was chosen a member, and ap- great upon the stage. The Hebrew is dying pointed one of the directors. He drew at by inches, and Kean is announced for Lear. their Academy in St. Martin's Lane; and, in Mr. Howard Payne, the author of Brutus,Many articles are unavoidably postponed, and 1768, was one of the four who submitted has we hear taken Sadlers Wells, and is the plan of the Royal Academy for his Ma-paring to open the Aqueous Campaign. jesty's approbation. Madame Mara, as we anticipated, from With the King himself, to whom he was newspapers so repeatedly stating that she had recommended by the Archbishop of York, refused every invitation to sing notwithstand(Drummond,) he soon after became a favor-ing the immense temptations offered, had ite; and continued to grow in fame and a night" at the King's Theatre on Thursprosperity under royal patronage, and the day. public favour obtained through the regular 66 pre TO CORRESPONDENTS. must also stand over next week, when we shall have the pleasure of occupying nearly our whole Number with the analyses of Three New Works, of great literary interest, which will then be on The Monastery, by the Author of Waverly. the eve of publication: viz. The Life of Wesley, and History of Methodism, by Southey; and Wordsworth's new Poem, Miscellaneous Advertisements, (Connected with Literature and the Arts.) British Gallery, Pall Mall. 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PRICE 8d. means of a fairy, is rather extravagant for, which, had I dared, I certainly would have the nineteenth century, as a picture of the secreted for my own personal use. As for sixteenth. vanity, or love of finery for itself, I was such Having said thus much upon the outline a stranger to it, that the difficulty was great of the Monastery and its superhuman fea- to make me brush my coat, and appear in tures, we shall not deprive our readers proper trim upon parade. I shall never of any of the surprize of the denouement, by forget the rebuke of my old Colonel, on a detailing the result. In performances more morning when the King reviewed a brigade We know not in what measure the critics entirely graphic, this may be done without of which we made part. I am no friend will allow the nullum tetegit quod non orna-injury to an author or reader; but where a to extravagance, Ensign Clutterbuck,' said vit to the author of these volumes certain good deal depends on unexpected catastrophe, he; but, on the day when we are to pass it is, that he has here adopted a machinery it is a drawback upon the conjectural pleasures before the Sovereign of the kingdom, in the different from any of his preceding prose derived from speculation. We shall how-name of God I would have at least shown works; and, in so far as we can call to mind, ever preface our extracts with a notice of him an inch of clean linen.' only paralelled among his poems by the the leading characters, and of an introduc- "Thus, a stranger to all the ordinary mospectral encounter in Marmion. He has tory epistle of considerable length and hu- tives which lead young men to make the now for the first time thrown down the ap-mour. army their choice, and without the least deple of discord without an attempt at expla- This epistle is from Captain Clutterbuck sire to become either a hero or a dandy, I nation, and by mixing supernatural agency to the author of Waverley, and contains a really do not know what determined my with human action, departed essentially whimsical description of the writer, and an thoughts that way, unless it were the happy from the great line which he has hitherto interesting account of matters which led state of half-pay indolence enjoyed by Cappursued as a painter of manners and of por- to the discovery of the papers, the ground-tain Doolittle, who had set up his staff of traits according to truth. We confess that we work of the Monastery. Captain Clutter-rest in my native village. Every other perare sorry for this departure. The effects of buck's auto-biography is amusing. He says, son had, or seemed to have, something to do, mere superstition seem to us to be fully suf- "I never could conceive what influenced less or more. They did not indeed precisely ficient for all the purposes even of pure Ro-me, when a boy, in the choice of a profession. go to school and fearn tasks, that last of mance; and to go beyond that sphere into Military zeal and ardour it was not, which evils in my estimation; but it did not escape absolute fairy land, in order to influence made me stand out for a comunission in the my boyish observation, that they were all human beings, alter character, and produce Scots Fuzileers, when my tutors and cura- bothered with something or other like duty real events, is to push fiction farther than its tors wished to bind me apprentice to old or labour-all but the happy Captain Dooproper limit, and destroy the verisimilitude David Stiles, Clerk to his Majesty's Signet. little. The minister had his parish to visit, of the tale however otherwise admirably I say, military zeal it was not: for I was no and his preaching to prepare, though perconstructed. All the subsequent deeds of fighting boy in my own person, and cared haps he made more fuss than he needed a man who has been killed in duel, but re- not a penny to read the history of the heroes about both. The laird had his farming and vived by a "White Maid," go for nothing; who turned the world upside down in former improving operations to superintend; and, · and, however just and accurately drawn his ages. As for courage, I had, as I have besides, he had to attend trustee-meetings, likeness may be, the illusion of identity is an- since discovered, just as much of it as served and lieutenancy-meetings, and head-courts, nihilated, and every affair in which he min-my turn, and not one grain of surplus. I and meetings of justices, and what not-was gles loses the quality of probability. Indeed soon found out, indeed, that in action there as carly up, (that I always detested,) and as we are not sure that the offence does not was more danger in running away than in much in the open air, wet and dry, as his grieve us the more, in proportion to the ex-standing; and besides, I could not afford to own grieve. The shop-keeper (the village cellence and consistency of the other parts: lose my commission, which was my chief boasted but one of eminence) stood indeed we can relish a groupe of witches flying means of support. But as for that over-pretty much at his ease behind his counter, through the air on broomsticks, or of elves boiling valour, which I have heard many of for his custom was by no means over-burdancing in circles on the sward; of wraiths, ours talk of, though I seldom observed that thensome; but still he enjoyed his status, apparitions, and fiends, which in the end it influenced them in the actual affair-that as the Bailie calls it, upon condition of turn out to be but the ideal forms of a mor- exuberant zeal, which courts Danger as a tumbling all the wares in his booth over and bid imagination; and we can even advance bride, truly my courage was of a complex- over, when any one chose to want a yard of another step, and allow their direct influence ion much less ecstatical. muslin, a mouse-trap, an ounce of carraway, in productions altogether fabulous and fanci- "Again, the love of a red coat, which, in a paper of pins, the Sermons of Mr. Peden,, ful but when the grand merit of a book default of all other aptitudes to the profession or the Life of Jack the Giant Queller, (not is, by inweaving incident in the shape of has made many a bad soldier and some Killer, as usually erroneously written and pleasing narrative, to represent a particular good ones, was an utter stranger to my dis. pronounced. See my Essay on the true hisage and country, individual manners and position. I cared not a bodle' for the tory of this worthy, where real facts have general history, it may be alleged that it is company of the misses: nay, though there in a peculiar degree been obscured by fable.) much deteriorated by the introduction and was a boarding-school in the village, and In short, all in the village were under the actual employment of ghosts, spectres, and though we used to meet with its fair inmates necessity of doing something which they spirits which never had existence. The at Simon Lightfoot's weekly Practising, I would rather have left undone, excepting author of the Monastery is no doubt armed cannot recollect any strong emotions being Captain Doolittle, who walked every mornwith many forcible arguments in favour of excited on these occasions, excepting the ing in the open street, which formed the highhis plan we only submit our opinion upon infinite regret with which I went through mall of our village, in a blue coat with a red the frame-work, and venture to suggest that the polite ceremonial of presenting my part-neck, and played at whist the whole evening, the idea of the bible being preserved and ner with an orange, thrust into my pocket when he could make up a party. This the sacred light of the gospel spread by by my aunt for this special purpose, but happy vacuity of all employment appeared : VOL. IV. to me so delicious, that it became the pri- not give up fighting the French to commence "But who, alas, can form a just estimate of their future prospects in this deceitful world! I was not long engaged in my new profession, before I discovered, that if the independent indolence of half-pay was a paradise, the officer must pass through the purgatory of duty and service in order to gain admission to it. Captain Doolittle might brush his blue coat with the red neck, or leave it unbrushed, at his pleasure; but Ensign Clutterbuck had no such option. Captain Doolittle might go to bed at ten o'clock, if he had a mind; but the Ensign must make the rounds in his turn. What was worse, the Captain might repose under the tester of his tent-bed until noon, if he was so pleased; but the Ensign, God help him, had to appear upon parade at peep of day. As for duty, I made that as easy as I could, had the sergeant to whisper to me the words of command, and bustled through as other folks did. Of service, I saw enough for an indolent man-was buffetted up and down the world, and visited both the East and West Indies, Egypt, and other distant places, which my youth had scarce dreamed of. The French I saw, and felt too; witness two fingers of my right hand, which one of their cursed hussars took off with his sabre as neatly as an hospital surgeon. At length the death of an old annt, who left me some fifteen hundred pounds, snugly vested in the three per cents., gave me the long-wishedfor opportunity of retiring, with the prospect of enjoying a clean shirt and a guinea four times a-week. uncommon intelligence, to aid him in his search for a relic deposited in the Monastery, and in acquittance of his kindness presents to him the MS. whence this story is derived. This stranger is a Benedictine monk, whom the revolution has driven from his peaceful "The success of this accidental experiment abode in France, and he seeks to regain the set me on trying my skill in the mechanical heart of an ancestor inurned in Kennaquhair, arts. Accordingly I took down and cleaned before he finally settles in another religious my landlady's cuckoo-clock, and in so doing, retirement. He tells the Captain "There is silenced that companion of the spring for among the ruins of the western end of the ever and a day. I mounted a turning lathe, Abbey church, a sort of recess or chapel and, in attempting to use it, I very nearly crib- beneath a broken arch, in the side wall of bed off, with an inch-and-half former, one which is a large carved stone, bearing a coat of the fingers which the hussar had deft me. of arms, on the dexter side those of Glendin"Books I tried, both those of the little cir- ning, being a cross parted by a cross indented culating library, and of the more rational and countercharged of the same: and on the subscription collection maintained by this sinister three spur-rowels for those of Aveintellectual people. But neither the light nel: two ancient families, now almost extinct reading of the one, nor the heavy artillery of in this country. In this recess, marked the other, suited my purpose. I always fell by the armorial bearings, lies buried a treaasleep at the fourth or fifth page of history sure, and it is in order to remove it, that I or disquisition, and it took me a month's have undertaken my present journey." "A hard reading to wade through a half-bound treasure!" echoed I, in astonishment. "Yes," trashy novel, during which I was pestered replied the Monk, "an inestimable treasure, with applications to return the voluines by for those who know how to use it rightly." every half-bred milliner's miss about town. I own my ears did tingle a little at the In short, during the hours when all the word treasure, and that a handsome tilbury, town besides had something to do, I had with a neat groom in blue and scarlet livery, nothing for it, but to walk in the church-having a smart cockade on his glazed hat, yard, and whistle till it was dinner-time. "During these promenades, the Ruins necessarily forced themselves on my attention, and, by degrees, I found myself engaged in studying the more minute ornaments, and at length the general plan, of this noble structure. The old sexton aided my labours. and gave me his portion of traditional lore. Every day added something to my stock of knowledge respecting the ancient state of the building; and at length I made discove"For the purpose of commencing my new ries concerning the purpose of several deway of life, I selected for my residence the tached and very ruinous portions of the village of Kennaquhair, in the south of building, the use of which had hitherto Scotland, celebrated for the ruins of its mag-been either unknown altogether, or erronenificent Monastery, intending there to lead my future life in the otium cum dignitate of half-pay and annuity. I was not long, how ever, in making the grand discovery, that in order to enjoy leisure, it is absolutely necessary it should be preceded by occupation. For some time, it was delightful to wake at day-break, dreaming of the reveillée-then to recollect my happy emancipation from the slavery that doomed me to start at a piece of clattering parchment, turn on my other side, damn the parade, and go to sleep again. But even this enjoyment had its termination; and time, when it became a stock entirely at my own disposal, began to hang heavy on my hand. seemed as it were to glide across the room before my eyes, while a voice, as of a crier, pronounced in my ear, Captain Clutterbuck's tilbury-drive up." But I resisted the devil, and he fled from me. "I believe," said 1, "all hidden treasure belongs either to the king or the lord of the soil; and as I have served his majesty, I cannot concern myself in any adventure which may have an end in the Court of Exchequer.” The treasure I seek," said the stranger, smiling, "will not be envied by princes or nobles, it is simply the heart of an upright man.' "Ah! I understand you," I answered, "some relique, forgotten in the confusion of the Reformation. I know the value which men "The knowledge which I thus acquired I of your persuasion put upon the bodies and had frequent opportunities of retailing to limbs of saints. I have seen the three Kings those visitors whom the progress of a Scot- of Cologne." "The reliques which I seek, tish tour brought to visit this celebrated however," said the Benedictine, "are not prespot. Without encroaching on the privi- cisely of that nature. The excellent relative lege of my friend the sexton, I became gra- whom I have already mentioned, amused his dually an assistant Cicerone in the task of leisure hours with putting into form the tradescription and explanation, and often (see-ditions of his family, particularly some remarking a fresh party of visitors arrive) has he able circumstances which took place about turned over to me those to whom he had the first breaking out of the schism of the told half his story, with the flattering ob- Church in Scotland. He became so much servation, "What needs I say ony mair interested in his own labours, that at length about it? There's the Captain kens mair he resolved that the heart of one individual, anent it than I do, or ony man in the town." the hero of his tale, should rest no longer Then would I salute the strangers courte- in a land of heresy, now deserted by all his ously, and expatiate to their astonished minds kindred. As he knew where it was depoupon crypts and chancels, and naves, arches, sited, he formed the resolution to visit his Gothic and Saxon architraves, mullions and native country, for the purpose of recovering flying buttresses. It not unfrequently hap- this valued relique. But age, and at length pened, that an acquaintance which com- disease, interfered with his resolution, and menced in the abbey concluded in the inn, it was on his death-bed that he charged me which served to relieve the solitude as well to undertake the task in his stead. The vaas the monotony of my landlady's shoulder rious important events which have crowded of mutton, whether hot, cold, or hashed." upon each other, our ruin and our exile, have for many years obliged me to postpone this delegated duty. Why, indeed, transfer the reliques of a holy and worthy man to a ously explained. "I angled for two days, during which time flost twenty hooks, and several scores of yards of gut-and-line,and caught not even a minnow. Hunting was out of the question, for the stomach of a horse by no means agrees with the half-pay establishment. When I shot, the shepherds and ploughmen, and my very dog, quizzed me every time that I missed, which was, generally speaking, every time I fired. Besides, the country gentleinen in this quarter like their game, and began to talk of prosecutions and interdicts. I did | دو Thus embarked in the deep investigation and exposition of local antiquities, our cidevant captain is invited by a traveller, of country, where religion and virtue are be-old maiden-ladies declaim against scandal- of an antique bureau, the property of a deand virtue at come the mockery of the scorner! I have the private book-cases of some grave-seem- ceased lodger. All these are certainly posnow a home, which I trust may be perma-ing men would not brook decent eyes-and sible occurrences; but I know not how, nent, if any thing in this earth can be term- many, I say not of the wise and learned, but they seldom occur to any Editors save those ed so. Thither will I transport the heart of of those most anxious to seem such, when of your country. At least I can answer for the good father, and beside the shrine which the spring-lock of their library is drawn, myself, that in my solitary walks by the sea it shall occupy, I will construct my own their velvet cap pulled over their cars, their I never saw it cast ashore any thing but grave." On the ensuing inorning I made steps insinuated into their turkey slippers, dulse and tangle, and now and then a deceasit my business to see the sexton, who, for a are to be found, were their retreats suddenly ed star-fish; my landlady never presented small gratuity, readily granted permission of intruded upon, busily engaged with the last me with any manuscript save her cursed bill; search, on condition, however, that he new novel. and the most interesting of my discoveries should be present himself, to see that the "Having told you your country, I must in the way of waste-paper, was finding a fastranger removed nothing of intrinsic value. next, my dear Captain Clutterbuck, inake free vourite passage of one of my own novels "To banes, and sculls, and hearts, if he to mention to you your own immediate de-wrapt round an ounce of snuff. No, Capcan find ony, he shall be welcome," said scent. You are not to suppose your land of tain, the funds from which I have drawn my this guardian of the ruined Monastery, prodigies so little known to us as your careful power of amusing the public, have been "there's plenty a' about, an' he's curious of concealment of your origin would seem to bought otherwise than by fortuitous adventhem; but if there be ony picts (meaning imply. But you have it in common with ture. I have buried myself in libraries, to perhaps pyr) or chalishes, or the like of many of your country, studiously and anxi-extract from the nonsense of ancient days such Popish veshells of gold and silver, de'il ously to hide your connexion with it. There new nonsense of my own. I have turned hae me an I conneeve at their being re- is this difference, indeed, betwixt your coun- over volumes, which, from the pot-hooks I moved." The sexton also stipulated, that trymen and those of our more material was obliged to decypher, might have been our researches should take place at night, world, that many of the most estimable of the cabalistic manuscripts of Cornelius being unwilling to excite observation, or give yours, such as an old Highland gentleman Agrippa, although I never saw the door rise to scandal." called Ossian, a monk of Bristol called Row- open and the devil come in." But all the ley, and others, are inclined to pass them- domestic inhabitants of the libraries were "The object of the Benedictine's visit to selyes as denizens of the land of reality, disturbed by the vehemence of my studiesthe land of his forefathers being now accom- whereas most of our fellow-citizens who deFrom my research the boldest spider fled, plished, he announced his intention of deny their country are such as that country And moths, retreating, trembled as I read. parting early in the ensuing day, but re- would be very willing to disclaim. The esquested my company to breakfast with him pecial circumstances you mention relating to "From this learned sepulchre I emerged before his departure. I came accordingly, your life and services, impose not upon us. like the Magician in the Persian Tales from and when we had finished our morning's We know the versatility of the unsubstan- his twelvemonth's residence in the mountain, meal, the priest took me apart, and pulling tial species to which you belong permits not like him to soar over the heads of the from his pocket a large bundle of papers, he them to assume all manner of disguises; we multitude, but to mingle in their crowd, and put them into my hands." "These," said have seen them apparelled in the caftan of a to elbow amongst the throng, making my he, Captain Clutterbuck, are genuine Me- Persian, and the silken robe of a Chinese, way from the highest society to the lowest, moirs of the Sixteenth Century, and ex- and are prepared to suspect their real cha undergoing the scorn, or, what is harder to hibit in a singular, and as I think, an inte- racter under every disguise. brook, the patronizing condescension of the resting point of view, the manners of that one, and enduring the vulgar familiarity of the period. I am induced to believe that their other, and all, you will say, for what?— publication will not be an unacceptable preto collect materials for one of those manusent to the British public; and I willingly scripts with which mere chance so often acmake over to you any profit that may accrue commodates your countrymen; in other from such a transaction." words, to write a successful novel.—“ (), Athenians, how hard to labour to deserve your praise!" They dig for and find the relic. The captain, like a wise man, though no scholar, seeks literary assistance in bringing his bantling into the world, and, for that purpose, addresses the renowned author of Waverley; who undertakes the task of editor, and replies to him with a dryness worthy of Cervantes. I wander from my purpose, which was to assure you, that I know you as well as the mother who did not bear you, for MacDuff's peculiarity sticks to your whole race. You are not born of woman, unless, indeed, in that figurative sense, in which the celebrated Maria Edgeworth may be termed mother of the finest family in England. You belong, sir, to the Editors of the land of Utopia, a sort of persons for whom I have the highest esteem. How is it possible it should be otherwise, when you reckon among your corporation the sage Cid Hamet Benengeli, the short-faced president of the Spectator's club, poor Ben Silton, and many others, who have acted as gentlemen ushers to works which have chased our heaviest, and added wings to our lighest hours. We now come to the Benedictine's MS. The Monastery brings us acquainted with the families of Avenel and Glendinning. The former consists of Julian Avenel, a border Baron, dark and unprincipled, who on his "Dear Captain,-Do not admire, that, notbrother's death usurps his possessions to the withstanding the distance and ceremony of prejudice of his widow and infant daughter, your address, I return an answer in the an infant born on Halloween and conseterms of familiarity. The truth is, your quently gifted with the power of seeing the origin and native country are better known invisible world. The mother and child, acto me than even to yourself. You derive "What I bave remarked as peculiar to Edi- companied by two faithful adherents, old your respectable parentage, if I am not tors of the class in which I venture to enrol Martin and Tib Tacket, seek refuge with greatly mistaken, from a land which has af- you, is the happy combination of fortuitou, the widow Glendinning of Glendearg, whose forded much pleasure, as well as profit, to circumstances which usually put you in pos-husband was slain at Pinkie, and whose two those who have traded to it successfully. I session of the works which you have the sons Halbert and Edward are of years to be mean that part of the terra incognita which goodness to bring into public notice. One companions to Mary Avenel. They are is called the province of Utopia. Its pro- walks on the sea-shore, and a wave casts on Kirk-vassals of the monastery of St. Mary, ductions, though censured by many, (and land a small cylindrical trunk or casket, con- whose Abbot Boniface, and Sub-Prior Eustace, some who use tea and tobacco without scru-taining a manuscript much damaged with are prominent personages in the romance. ple) as idle and unsubstantial luxuries, have sea water, which is with difficulty decypher- The other leading characters are Sir Peircie nevertheless, like many other luxuries, aed, and so forth. Another steps into a Shafton, an Euphuist, who has fled from the general acceptation, and are secretly enjoyed chandler's shop to purchase a pound of but- Court of Elizabeth, and carries the fantastic even by those who express the greatest ter, and behold! the waste paper on which language of Lilly and the dandysm of that scorn and dislike of them in public. The it is laid is the manuscript of a cabalist. A period into the wilds of Scotland. Christie of dram-drinker is often the first to be shocked third is so fortunate as to obtain from a wo-Clint-hill, a Border rider of an inferior degree at the smell of spirits-it is usual to hear man who lets lodgings, the curious contents to William of Deloraine, and even to the Red |