bitterest enemy: the King then shewed the chain Henry had thrown over his shoulders, and assured them that his bitterest enemy was his best friend. Calais was taken by Edward III. in 1347, and retaken by the Duke de Guise, under Henry II. in 1588;

"In turning to the left, about a mile from Calais, in the road to Bologne, you arrive, at the distance of three leagues and a half, or thereabout, at a village, once a town near the sea, at the camp of Cesar, close to a small bay, and directly opposite to the coast of England. The camp, from the height of its situation and the steepness of its slopes, has escaped the plough, and all its parts are perfect above and below. The Prætorian camp, and the order of tents placed by armies when they keep the field, may be easily made out, with the grand entrance, and the gates on every side."

Paris, Lyons, Autun, Chalons sur Saône, Geneva, Lausanne, Moudon, Soleure, Bale, Strasbourg, Nancy, Chalous sur Marne, Reims, and Paris again, are treated with a masterly hand; more particularly Paris, Lyons, and Bâle, which are drawn more at ,length.

Under Lyons, the capital of Celtic Gaul, is given a description, with an etching, of a beautiful mosaic, dug up in the garden of M. Macors, near the abbey of Ainai, in February 1806. It was only three feet under the surface of a fine mould, with no marks of ruins in its neighbourhood, but merely covered with cement and tiles to preserve it.

At Geneva our intelligent Traveller tells us, that

"The best view of it is from the bill about a mile from the town, near the confluence of the Rhone and Arve: the most extraordinary view of Mont Blanc is before sun-set, when the verge of the mountain is seen in the waters of the lake, before the sun drops behind Mount Jura." "Having already," he adds, "spoken of this curious and learned city, in a journey to the Simplon in 1818, I shall only say that I here add to that account a drawing of the house of J. J. Rousseau, and the notice of a small picture of one figure representing our Saviour on his knees, tale quale Gesù nell' Orto in the larger pieces, in possession of the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Angerstein. This single figure belongs to Mr. Hentch, and is said to be an original, from the hand of Antonio de Allegris : but where could he get it? cry the astonished Conoscenti: why, what cannot a banker get at Parma, or elsewhere, even GENT. MAG. February, 1821.

in the little town in the Modenese that gave Antonio de Corregio birth, in 1594! Of Rousseau's house I must say a word: over the door are these words in gold letters on a dark ground :

Ici EST NE

Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU, Le xxvIII Juin, MDCCXII. Debit de Chocolat

Au 3ieme étage.

Immediately under it, on the left hand, in white on a dark ground, over the window, is

Coulin Faiseur D'OUTILS.

N. B. The drawing is a copy of a print in Lithography, of the year 1820."

At Bâle, our Traveller seems to have been much delighted; though

"The principal things formerly seen there are now no longer visible: the wall, on which was painted by an artist, long before Hans Holbein, the Dance of Death, has, by Revolutionary violence, fallen down, and the house on which H. H. drew his Dance is no more: unluckily for those who deferred their visit, and thought they would wait till they came. But still the library remains, and beaux restes of pen and ink drawings of H. H. endeared to us by having breathed his last, not indeed like Leonardo da Vinci, in the arms of Francis; but, as it were, at the feet of Henry. In the library at Bâle, the most considerable of all Swisserland, you see enough to assure you of the talents of H. Holbein, and to console you for what no longer exists."

"The Cathedral is built of red sand stone, from a quarry in the Black Forest. Here are the tombs of Anne, wife of the Emperor Rodolphe, of Hapsbourg, and of Erasmus, in black marble. A staircase leads from the church to the hall, where the counsel sat from 1431 to 1444, to lay the foundations of the Reformation. Here is also the room where Erasmus lectured. In the church is a tombstone for the greatgrandfather of Cardinal Fesch; a relation of the latter was cook to George III, and lived in Bury-street, St. James's. The spire, of beautiful Gothic work, is visible within the choir, through a pane of glass."

"The finest works of Hans Holbein are in the Bibliotheque. The passion of our Lord, in eight pictures in a cabinet, as fresh and brilliant in colour, as if it had been painted in the nineteenth, though it was begun aud finished in the sixteenth century. A dead Christ, painted on the saint suire, or drap mortuaire, of great price and extraordinary truth. The portrait of a woman of Alsace, playing with her child, of great beauty: a lady. This picture

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picture was refused on account of the six Frederics d'or charged for it, and repaint ed as Lais under it is a purse with thirteen Frederics d'or rolling out of it, the price accepted by the lady who ordered, and refused the first at six.

"The Dance of Death, painted on a wall long before H. Holbein, where is now a public walk, exists only in broken fragments, in the houses of Counsellor Vischer, Le Justicier, Rourcard, Dufaubourgneuf, the Professor Fesch, Place de St. Pierre, Mr. Irelin, Mr. Louis Bridel, and in the public library. See the Etrenues Helvetiennes of 1806. The house too is laid

low, on which H. H. painted his Dance of Death, so that Bâle now contains neither the one nor the other complete. Bâle was in its greatest glory in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when it possessed Erasmus, Froben, Ammerback, and Oecolampadius, or Hausschein, in its University."

"The most extraordinary pictures I

saw at Bâle, after the family of Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, Luther, and the pen and ink drawings for the Praise of Folly, in the public library, were at the house of an individual, Mr. Marquard Wother, at Bâle. Among others, a crucifix, by H. Holbein, valued at four hundred Frederics d'or, or guineas."

"The public library of Strasbourg is in the Choir of a Church, Le Templeneuf, formerly a convent of Dominicans, and consists of the spoils of three libraries of convents, and other establishments of the department. It is rich in old copies, and has a portrait of Jean Gutemberg, who left Strasbourg in 1444, to join Meidenbach, and was one of the two brothers, Ambos Johannes, Geinsfleich, and Gutemberg, in the house Zum-jungen at Mayence. Gensfleich senior first invented metal types, and taught Gutemberg his art."

But we must desist, or we should copy the whole of this interesting little work, of which we understand only 50 copies are printed.

21. Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of High Wycombe, Bucks. By the Rev. Charles Bradley. Vol. II. Longman and Co.

THE former Volume of these Sermons was published in 1818. Since that period it has passed through

three Editions, and the fourth is now on sale. It is unnecessary, therefore, for us to enter into any discussion on its merits or its faults. The public bas already settled the matter. We shall now proceed to lay before our Readers the Contents of the present volume.

[Feb.

The Sermons are twenty-one in number:

"Sermon 1. God the eternal Dwelling Place of his Servants; 2. The Forbearance of David towards Shimei; 3. The Grounds of David's Forbearance; 4. The Rewards of the Conquering Christian; 5. The Israelities returning from Babylon; 6. The redeemed Sinner joining himself in a covenant with God; 7. The Way to Zion; 8. The Heavenly Zion; 9. The Patience of God; 10. The Repentance of Judas; 11. The Repentance of Peter; 12. The Confession of Pharaoh; 13. The ScapeGoat a Type of Christ; 14. The Burial of Christ; 15. The Exhortation and Promises of God to the Afflicted; 16. The Advantages of a frequent Retrospect of Life; 17. The Fear of Peter when walking on the Sea; 18. The Christian waiting for his Deliverer; 19. The Prayer of David for Self-Knowledge; 20. The Wed

ding Garment; 21. The Christian reigning in Life."

The following quotation is from the Sermon on the "Burial of Christ:"

"Another effect, which is generally produced by the death of a friend, is a feeling of joy that his sufferings are past and his happiness begun. We mourn over his grave, but we remember that there the weary are at rest, and we are comforted. We lift up our eyes to the world whither he is gone, and as we listen to the voice from heaven, which says, 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,' we sometimes lose our sorrow in the contemplation of his blessedness. And shall we not rejoice at the grave of the departed Jesus? Bitter indeed were his sufferings; never was any sorrow like unto his sorrow; but the days of his mourning are ended. He will hunger no more, neither thirst any more. His weariness and painfulness, his watchings and fastings, are all past, and all his shame and anguish are ceased for ever. The wicked will trouble him no more; no more will his friends desert him, nor his Father forsake him.. The sorrows of death will never again compass him, nor the pains of hell get hold upon him. • Being raised from the dead, he dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him; for in that he died, he died unto sin once; but in that he livetb, he liveth unto God.' The battle is fought; has entered into his rest, and encircled the victory is won; and the Conqueror

himself with his glory. And what heart can conceive aright of the sweetness of his rest, or the brightness of bis glory? The prospect of it supported and cheered him during all his sufferings upon earth, and when he left it, he told his disciples to think of it and rejoice. Ye have heard,' said he, how I said unto you I go away.

If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said I go unto the Father.' And has this much longed for, this dearly purchased joy, disappointed him? No. He sees of the travail of his soul and is satisfied. He rejoices in the fruits of his labours, and almost forgets the agonies of his cross in the glories of his crown; the terrors of the conflict and the blood which stained it, in the splendors of his triumph."

From the above extract, and from the preceding list of subjects, our Readers may form some idea of the style and sentiments of this excellent Parish Priest. We quit his interest ing Volume with regret, our limits forbidding farther extracts.

22. History of the Causes and Effects of the Confederation of the Rhine. By the Marquis Lucchesine, from the Italian. By John D. Droyer. 8vo. pp. 395.

THIS is one of the most able and enlightened political Works that has appeared since the late War, and is well deserving the perusal of all who take any interest in the welfare of Europe.

Here we see pourtrayed in lively colours, by the hands of a master, the means by which the Tyrant of France was enabled to enslave the nations of the Continent who were unfortunately within the vortex of his ambition and lust of power. The extraordinary events related in this Work, though happily terminated, will never be effaced from the page of History; they will descend to posterity with reproach and shame to the age which they signalized. The future Historian will scarcely credit the testimony of those persons who undertook the task of relating such calamitous scenes, which, for the space of twenty years, deluged the fairest portion of modern Europe in desolation, carnage, and ruin.

That ignominious union of Princes, termed the "Confederation of the Rhine," so disgraceful to the character of the German nation, was one of the principal means by which Napoleon was enabled for such a length of time to enslave every country in Europe, except that, which in his inglorious fall, was the only one he could rust to for safety. Yet, perhaps, it vas fortunate for mankind that he ad found in the German Princes, uch ready instruments to his ambi

tion, for by their aid he was enabled to erect that unwieldy fabrick which, falling by its own weight, precipitated him from his ambitious height, and thus prevented him from becoming the sole master of the Universe.

However, if in treating of the conduct of the German Princes our remarks have been severe, yet in justice to that nation, we ought to admire and extol the patience with which, for a series of years, they bore up against the injuries inflicted upon them by a merciless and sanguinary foe; and we cannot but rejoice in contemplating the generous ardour and energies of that people, who were, at length, preserved for a better fortune, by looking Adversity in the face, and by resolutely encountering dangers, were enabled, in the end, to arrive at a glorious and memorable revenge!

The Author's information appears in general to be derived from authentic sources, and having himself taken an active part in some of the transactions which he relates, he was the better enabled to form a correct estimate of their merit.

The Translator has executed his task with fidelity and accuracy. A second volume is promised in the preface, which will complete the Work.

23. Thoughts and Feelings. By Arthur Brooke. Foolscap 8vo, pp. 120. Lond. Longman, &c.

IT would not occur to every reader of Poetry, that the compositions of many writers of the tuneful tribe imply much natural happiness of soul. They cultivate sentiment of every kind; and if, as is often the case, they are men of sanguine temperament, they feast upon their ideas, and even convert the pharmacopeia of adversity into confectionery. It seems, indeed, a beneficial intention of Providence, in order to encourage civilization, that there should be happiness attendant upon abstraction; and, upon this account, we are inclined to regard the inclination of many youths for Poetry, as a habit, upon the whole, of very civilizing operation. It is true, that they whine much; but then it is only the sorrow of an Epicure, because he is not always hungry, and always eating. Corydon again meets Phillis, and there is once more a fine day after rain.

Now