true. -principally estimated by her young and female acquaintance, had acquired the reputation of being" all heart." The phrase had often provoked my mirth, but alas! the description was now over Whether nature had formed her in that mould, or my own distempered fancy, I know not, but there she sate, and looked the Professor's lecture over again. She was like one of those games alluded to in my beginning "Nothing but Hearts!" Her nose turned up. It was a heart-and her mouth led a trump. Her face gave a heart and her cap followed suit. Her sleeves puckered and plumped themselves into a heart shape--and so did her body. Her pincushion was a heart-the very back of her chair was a heart-her bosom was a heart. She was, " all heart" indeed! Hood's Whims and Oddities. supper. Hark! thro' the air we hear the shepherd's pipe Woo the calm evenings breeze, whilst he bewails The approaching dark, as in his ears the bat Hums out the peal of night. Within their palace The burden rested bees count o'er their earnings And sing o'er their days labour, or some sentinel Seizes by the wing the lazy, thievish drone; And executes the traitor. The muttering surge Just chafes and foams against the sullen shore Venting its grumbling sorrow for some wreck; While list'ning Neptune strikes his silent tri dent. And checks the hurrying waves. The sleepy echo Listlessly from his low resounding cave, Returns the lover's whisper on the wind, O fair and sportless Even ! PORTRAIT OF LORD BYRON "Lord Byron's face was handsome; eminently so in some respects. He had a mouth and a chin fit for Apollo, and when I first knew him, there were both lightness and energy all over his aspect. But his countenance did not improve with age, and there were always some defects in it. The jaw was too big for the upper part. It had all the wilfulness of a despot in it. The animal predominated over the intellectual part of his head, inasmuch as the face altogether was large in proportion to the skull. The eyes also were set too near one another; and the nose, though handsome in itself, had the appearance, when you saw it closely in front, of being grafted on the face, rather than growing properly out of it. His person was very handsome, though terminating in lameness, and tending to fat and effeminacy; which makes me remember what a hostile fair one objected to him, namely, that he had little beard, a fault which, on the other hand, was thought by another lady, not hostile, to add to the divinity of his aspect, imberbis Apollo. His lameness was only in one foot; the left, and it was so little visible to casual notice, that as he lounged about a room (which he did in such a manner as to screen it) it was hardly perceivable. But it was a real and even à sore lameness. Much walking upon it fevered and hurt it, it was a shrunken foot, a little twisted. This defect unquestionably mortified him exceedingly, and helped to put sarcasm and misanthropy into his taste of life. Unfortunately, the usual thoughtlessness of schoolboys made him feel it bitterly at Harrow. He would wake, and find his leg in a tub of water. The reader will see (hereafter) how he felt it; whenever it was libelled, and in Italy, the only time I ever knew it mentioned, he did not like the subject, and hastened to change it. His handsome person so far tured to him all the occasions on which rendered the misfortune greater, as it pic he might have figured in the eyes of company, and doubtless this was a great reason, why he had no better address. On the other hand, instead of losing him any real regard or admiration, his lameness gave a touching character to both. He had a delicate white hand, of which he was proud, and he attracted attention to it by rings. He thought a hand of this ing now-a-days of gentleman, of which description almost the only mark remainit certainly is not, nor of a lady either; though a coarse one implies handiwork He often appeared holding a handkerchief, upon which his jewelled fingers lay imbeded, as in a picture. He was as fond of fine linen, as a Quaker, and had the remnant of his hair oiled and trimmed with all character to which this effeminacy gave the anxiety of a Sardanapalus. The visible rise, appears to have indicated itself as early as his travels in the Levant, where the Grand Signior is said to have taken Lord Byron. him for a woman in disguise."-Hunt's THE STEAM ENGINE. "THE STEAM ENGINE," says Mr. Farey, in his treatise recently published, " is an invention highly creditable to human genius and industry; for it exhibits the most valuable application of phi losophical principles to the arts of life, and has produced greater and more general changes in the practice of mechanics than has ever been effected by any one invenion recorded in history. All other inventions appear insignificant when compared with the modern steam engine. A ship, with all her accessaries, and the extent of knowledge requisite to conduct her through a distant voyage, are most striking instances of the intellectual power of man, and of his enterprising disposition. The steam engine follows next in the scale of inventions, when considered in reference to its utility, and as an instance of the preserving ingenuity of man to bend the powers of nature to his will, and employ their energies to supply his real and artificial wants; but when we consider the steam engine as a production of genius, it must be allowed to take the lead of all other inventions. The natives of Britain will more readily grant this preeminence to the steam engine, from the circumstance of its having been invented and brought into general use by their countrymen within a century; and particularly as it has been one of the principal means of effecting those great improvements, which have taken place in all our national manufactures within the last thirty years :—that amazing increase of productive industry, which has enabled us to extend our commerce to its present magnitude, could never have been effected without the aid of this new power. In fact there is every reason to suppose, that if the steam engine had not been brought into use, this country, instead of increasing in wealth and prosperity, during the last century, would have retrograded greatly, because the mines of coals, iron, copper, lead, and tin, which have in all ages formed so considerable a portion of the wealth of England, were at the beginning of the last century nearly exhausted, and worked out to the greatest depths to which it was practicable to draw off the water by acqueducts and simple machinery; and without the aid of steam engines it is probable, that fuel, timber, and all the common metals, would long since have become too scarce in England, to have supplied the necessities of a numerous population." LORD BYRON'S DISLIKE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE cared nothing at all for England. He disliked the climate; he disliked the manners of the people; he did not think hem a bit better than other nations, and tad he entertained all these opinions in a spirit of philosophy, he would have been right; for it does not become a man of genius to give up,' even to his country, what is meant for mankind.' He was not without some of this spirit; but undoubtedly his greatest dislike of England was owing to what he had suffered there, and to the ill opinion which he thought was entertained of him. It was this that annoyed him in Southey. I believe if he entertained a mean opinion of the talents of any body, it was of Southey's, and he had the greatest contempt for his political conduct (a feeling which is more common with men of letters than Mr. Southey fancies): but he believed that the formal and the foolish composed the vast body of the middle orders in England; with these he looked upon Mr. Southey as in great estimation; and whatever he did to risk individual good opinion-however he preferred fame and a sensation,' at all hazards-he did not like to be thought ill of by any body of people.-Hunt's Lord Byron. THREE FINGERED JACK. OBI; OR, THREE FINGERED JACK, THE FAMOUS NEGRO ROBBER, was the terror of Jamaica, in the years 1780 and 1781, he was an obi-man, and by his professed there were also many white people, who Incantations, was the dread of the Negroes, believed he was possessed of some supernatural power. He had neither accomfought all his battles alone, and either plices nor associates, he robbed alone; killed his pursuers, or retreated into difficult fastnesses where none dared to follow him. It was thus that he terrified the Inhabitants, and set the civil power, and the neighbouring militia at defiance for two years. At length allured by the rewards offered, by Governor Dalling, in a proclamation dated the 12th December, 1789, and by a resolution which followed it of the house of Assembly, two Negroes, Quasher and Sams, both of Scots Hall, Maroon Town, with a party of their townsmen went in search of him. Quasher before he set out on the expedition, got himself christened, and changed his name to James Reeder. The expedition commenced, and the whole party crept about the woods for three weeks, but in vain. Reeder and Sam, tired with this mode of warfare, resolved on proceeding in search of Jack's retreat, and taking him by storming it, or perishing in the attempt. They took with them a little boy of spirit, and who was a good shot, and then left the rest of the party. These three had not been long separated, before their keen eyes discovered, by impressions among the weeds and bushes, that some person must have lately been that way. They softly followed these impressions, making not the least noise, and soon discovered smoke. They prepared for an encounter, and came upon Jack before he perceived them, he was roasting plantains by a little fire on the ground at the mouth of a cave. This was a scene in which it was not for ordinary actors to play. Jack's looks were fierce and terrific, he told them he would ON SPENCER THE POET. BY BROWN. kill them. Reeder instead of shooting Jack, replied that obi had no power to hurt him for he was christened, and that his name was no longer Quasher. Jack knew Reeder, and as if paralysed, let his two guns remain on the ground, and took up only his cutlass. Jack and Reeder had a desperate engagement some years before in the woods, in which conflict Jack lost two fingers, which was the origin of his name: but Jack then beat Reeder, and almost killed him, with several others who assist with blood from his wounds; both were covered with gore and gashes. In this state Sam was umpire, and decided the fate of the battle. He knocked Jack down with a piece of rock. The little boy soon came up, and with his cutlass they cut off Jack's head and three-fingered hand, which they carried in triumph to Kingston, and received the promised reward.-Percy Anec ed him. Jack would easily have beat both Sam and Reeder, who were at first afraid of him, but he had prophesied that white obi would get the better of him, and from experience he knew the charm would lose none of its strength in the hand of Reeder. Without further parley, Jack with the cutlass in his hand threw himself down a precipice at the back of the cave. Reeder's gun missed fire, but Sam shot him in the shoulder, Reeder like an English bull-dog never looked, but with his cutlass in hand plunged down head long after Jack. The descent was about thirty yards, and almost perpendicular. Both of them had preserved their cutlasses. Here was the stage on which two of the stoutest hearts began their bloody struggle, the little boy, who was ordered to keep back out of harms way, now reached the top of the precipice, and during the fight shot Jack in the belly. Sam was crafty, and coolly took a circuitous way to get to the field of action, but when he arrived at the spot where it commenced, Jack and Reeder had closed and tumbled together down another precipice, on the side of the mountain, in which fall they both lost their weapons. Sam descended after them, but he also lost his cutlass among the trees and bushes. When he came up to them, he found that though without weapons, they were not idle. Luckily for Reeder, Jack's wounds were deep and desperate, and Sam came up just in time to save him, for Jack had caught him by the throat with a giant's grasp. Reeder was then with his right hand almost cut off, and Jack streaming He sung the Heroic Knights of Fairy land, INFALLIBLE CUREFOR HARD CALCULATE your income, and be sure you do not let your expenses be quite so much-lay by some for a rainy day. Never follow fashions-but let the fashions' follow you: that is, direct your business and expenses by your own judgment, not by the custom of fools, who spend more than their income. Never listen to the tales of complainers, who spend their breath in crying hard times, and do nothing to mend them. Every man may live within his income, and thereby preserve his independence. poor his taxes are small, unless he holds an estate which he cannot pay for, in such case he does not own it, and therefore ought to let the owner take it. Industry and economy will for ever triumph over hard times, and disappoint povertytherefore, the general cry, "we cannot pay the taxes and live," is absolutely false. If a man is TRIBUTARY LINES TO THE MEMORY Here rests his head, and may it rest in peace. That nature smil'd on at his dawning birth: And veil'd his foibles in the silent grave. PRACTITIONERS IN SURGERY AND EDWARD IV. (son of Richard, Duke of York,) granted the Charter of Incorporation to Barber-Surgeons; the barber and surgeon being performed by the same operators in this branch of arts for three centuries and upwards. The first introduction of surgery to the shaving community, is said to have been by the priesthood of the darker ages, who were then the only practitioners, but finding the expertness of barbers in the use of their edge tools in removing the hair that protruded forward on the parts they wished bare, initiated them in making salves, the dressing of wounds, bleeding, and tooth-drawing. Such was the origin of barber-chirurgery. In the fourteenth century however the barbers gained ground so fast in the practice of surgery, that in France, the Legislature interfered, but their old friends, the priests, putting in a good word for them, they were admitted into a newly formed surgical establishment under the title of Barber-Surgeons, so that the co-partnership between shaving and surgery has existed in France and England until near the present time, 1827. PRICE OF WAGES TO HUSBANDMEN In the year 1539, the wages of husbandmen and labourers, were 8d. a day, each. In the reign of Henry VIII. the wages of a falconer were generally a groat a day, with 1d. per day for the food of each hawk under his care. A huntsman received 35s. 5d. a quarter, and as well as mos of the other servants, he had 4d. a day for his board wages. The allowance for the board of boys of the stable, 26d. each per week: and of the king's riding boys, 2s. a week each. The keeper of the Barbary horse was allowed is. and Sd. per week, for his board, his wages being £4. a year; the hen taker was, however, better paid, as he received 45%. 7d. a quarter. The regular wages of the king's waterman were 10s. a quarter. The fool's wages were 15s. a quarter. The gardener of York place, (Cardinal Wolsey's,) and of Baulie or New Hall, in Suffolk, received about £12 per annum. The gardener of Greenwich, £20 a year, and the gardener of Windsor and Wandstead, £4 per annum. FEMALE ANCESTOR OF THE QUEENS MARY AND ANNE. THE wife of the celebrated Lord Clarendon, the author of the History of the Rebellion, was a Welsh pot girl, who, being extremely poor in her own country, journeyed to London to better her fortune, and became servant to a brewer. While she was in this humble capacity, the wife of her master died, and he happening to fix his affections on her, she became his wife; himself dying soon after, leaving her heir to his property, which is said to have amounted to between twenty and thirty thousand pounds. Among those who frequented the tap at the brewhouse, was a Mr. Hyde, then a poor barrister, who conceived the project of forming a matrimonial alliance with her. He succeeded, and soon led the Brewer's Mr. Hyde being widow to the altar. command of a large fortune, quickly rose endowed with great talent, and at the in his profession, becoming head of the Chancery Bench, and was afterwards the celebrated Hyde Earl of Clarendon. The eldest daughter the offspring of this union, won the heart of James, Duke of York, and was married to him. His Majesty (Charles II.) sent immediately for his brother, and having first plied him with some very sharp raillery on the subject, finished by saying, James as you have brewn, so you must drink;" and forthwith commanded that the marriage should be legally ratified and promulgated. Upon the death of Charles, James mounted the throne, but a premature death frustrated this enviable consummation in the person of his amiable Duchess. Her daughters however, were Queen Mary the wife of William, and Queen Anne, both grandchildren of the ci-devant pot girl from Wales, and wearing in succession the crown of England. CUSTOMS OF VARIOUS COUN TRIES. (No. I.) FESTIVALS HELD ON THE EPIPHANY IN Rome, on the evening of the Epiphany, a feast is held, particularly dear to children. Not that they draw King and Queen, as in England, or have their Fête des Rois, as observed at Commercy in France. But cakes, sweetmeats, fruit, and an assemblage of othe good things are sold and given away upon this occasion. The Piazza della Rotonda is distinguished by the tasteful appearance of the cake and fruit stalls, loaded with conserves and the choicest of Pomona's gifts, splendidly decorated with flowers, and irradiated by ornamental paper lanterns, the whole appearance having a very pleasing effect. Persons dressed up to resemble the grotesque appearances of Mother Bunch and Mother Goose, under the appellation of Beffana, are led about the streets to the gratification of their pleased spectators, who never fail to display a fund of popular wit at their expense. But these visible Beffanas are nothing in importance to the invisible. When the children retire to bed, it is usual to hang at their head a stocking, when if the child has behaved itself to the satisfaction of its friends, the stocking is filled with sweetmeats, &c. before morning, but if otherwise, the offended Beffana places within it stones and dirt, so that many smiles and tears are occasioned by the dispensation of the gifts of the Beffana. The carnival commences at Rome on Twelfth day, (see our Chronology,) when every species of entertainment and spectacle are resorted to, though not carried to the excess of by-gone days. The great support of the carnival is occasioned by the attendance of vast multitudes of foreigners, who crowd to Rome to be witnesses of a spectacle, to which they are the principal contributors. The pleasing variety of the scene has an attraction for them, which is wanting to the Italians. To the visitants of other countries, the carnival and festivals now owe their splendour. DERIVATION OF NAMES AND PHRASES. "Saint Mary Overy," "Saint Mary over Rhe; i. e. over the River.' "Waltham ;” ;" "Wealdnam."-" Billingsgate" to have been "Belings or Bellings gate" -"Charter House," corrupted from Chartreux," and that from "Carthusian;" the name of an order of Friars."Worcester,' " from "Wireceaster.""Farnham," from " Fernham ;” a bed of Fern.-"Surrey," from " Suththe, or Suthiey" the south side, of the River. or "safe edge.' Salvedge;" or "Swithin," from "Swithealm," meaning very high." Botolph," from "Botall." -"Cyprian," from " Cypria ;" a name of Venus.-"Dunstan," from two words "Dun and Stan ;" denoting a high hill or mountain.-"Garret," from "Gerard and Gerald.”—“ Guy," from "Guido or Guidi ;" i. e. a guide or director."Borough, Burgh, and Brough," from Burgus," meaning a fortified place." -"Acre," from " Ager."-" Bach or Beck," a river or streamlet.-" Combe," a valley.-"Thorp,” a village.—“Kirk” from "Kuirace ;" i. e, a church. 66 Anecdotiana. THE OCCASION OF BRUCE'S PERSEVERANCE. dote which rests only on tradition in the THE principal features of this Anecfamilies of the name of Bruce, according to Sir W. Scott, in his recently published work for the juvenile classes, the Tales of a Grandfather, has for a period of time found its way, into collections of miscellanea, but as there is a novel difference in the account, as related by Sir W. in the above work to that so often printed, we are induced to give it a place within our columns. "Bruce after receiving the last unpleasant intelligence from Scotland, was lying one morning on his himself whether he had better resign all wretched bed, and deliberating with thoughts of again attempting to make good his right to the Scottish crown, and dismissing his followers, transport_himself, and his brothers to the Holy Land, and spend the rest of his life in fighting against the Saracens; by which he thought perhaps to deserve the forgiveness of Heaven, for the great sin of stabbing Comyn in the Church at Dumfries. But then, on the other hand, he thought it would be both criminal and cowardly to give up his attempts to restore freedom to Scotland, while there yet remained the least chance of his being successful in an undertaking, which, rightly considered was much more his duty, than to drive the infidels out of Palestine, though the "Wolverhampton," Vulpene's superstition of his age might think other Hampton ;" who built a monastery, &c. wise. While he was divided betwixt these reflections, and doubtful of what he should do. Bruce was looking upward to the roof of the cabin in which he lay, and his eye was attracted by a spider, which, hanging at the end of a long thread of his own spinning, was endea |