measures. We have already exceeded the limits we had proposed, but must still mention two volumes of Historical Researches, designed to accompany the Atlas of Xenophon, in which the lover of discussions relative to antiquity will not fail to abserve that upon the city of Olympia, which the Author with much plausibility pretends never existed, and that which explains the date and the circumstances of a first battle of Mantinea, which has been overlooked by modern historians. M. Raoul Rochette highly com his last adieu to Italy was little less than a the title of this great work, because it is | tractors. Among the critical observations malediction on the head of his persecutors. wholly beyond the limits of our Journal there is one which, by its extent, is almost Lucien tried in vain to obtain permis- to enter upon any thing like a critical an entire treatise, and, from its subject sion to land at Cagliari. The Queen of examination of such a vast undertaking. and importance, must not be passed over M. Raoul Rochette, who reviews the in silence: it is an Exposition of the DocSardinia could not conveniently admit work, observes, that it is the first time trine of Socrates,' entirely drawn from the "the brother of a sovereign so insatia- that a complete translation of Xenophon works of Xenophon. M. Gail warmly takes ble of power and conquests"-and it has appeared in French; which is of itself up the cause of Socrates against some was notified to him, that the British vesa great merit, since the reader thereby modern writers, who have been led to sels had orders to arrest him if they fell finds that harmony of style, that perfect some hasty expression and rash judgments, in with his ship. In point of fact he identity in the language, which ought to with which M. Gail is greatly offended. was soon taken, and the choice offered characterise the works of the same author. Besides the happy perseverance which he him, to be transported to Malta or to any of Xenophon's treatises had not even had displayed in justifying the wife of SoEngland. Lucien decided for the for- been translated at all into French; others crates, the jealous and unsociable Xantippe mer, where he was landed on the 24th very imperfectly; and besides this, the seemed to impose upon him the duty of great light thrown on the text by the labours dividing his cause between the husband and of August, and placed with his family in of the German literati in particular has fur- the wife; and as in taking upon himself Fort Ricasoli; at which he was very in-nished the present editor and translator the defence of this celebrated couple, he dignant. Thence he was transferred to with resources which none of his predeces- courageously began with the cause which San Antonio, a country residence of the sors enjoyed. M. Gail had the further ad- appeared the most desperate; his success ancient Grand Master's, but accompa- vantage of collating numerous MSS. some in the first instance naturally led to a senied by a guard, and other precautionary of which, the fruits of transitory conquest, cond attempt. In November, the decision have ceased to belong to France, and are of the British Cabinet being received, ries, where they may perhaps be less acnow restored to the Vatican and other libraLucien sailed for England to be consi- cessible to the researches of the learned. dered as a prisoner of war on parole, The fruit of M. Gail's labours, thereand on the 28th of December cast anfore, which merits the most attention, is chor at Plymouth. Thence he went to undoubtedly the collation of the MSS. of Ludlow, our government paying all his Xenophon, on which he has employed expenses, and settled, as our readers several years. The number of MSS. is not know, at Earl Powis' seat at Stonehouse. the same for all the treatises of the Greek Here he remained six months, when, author; but all of them supply more or less hitherto inedited and valuable various owing to the jealousy of the govern- readings; and in the notice which M. Gail ends the French version, especially that ment (says the author) which suspected gives of them (Vol. VII. part 2, page 73- of the Economics, which combines with the that all the rupture between the bro-153) we find that he has frequently con- strictest fidelity to the original, a facility of thers was a mere trick, and Lucien's sulted and collated, for one single treatise, elocution which gives it the air of an orivoyage to America the first step of an nine, and even eleven different MSS. His ginal composition, and does equal honour important political scheme, it was thought labours in this respect, the valuable results to the pen and to the heart of M. Gail. As fit to change his residence. He went of which he has explained in 644 pages in a counterpoise to the praises which M. R. next to a seat purchased from the Mar- 4to. are a monument of rare patience and ex-gives the labours of M. Gail, he blames him quis of Worcester, within three miles of traordinary sagacity, and will be of infinite for not having added a Lexicon of Xenothe city of that name, for which he paid Besides the various readings, of which M. collected from the MS. would have enabled advantage to future editors of Xenophon. phon, which the various readings he has 9000l. in the name of an English banker. Gail has in general made a judicious use, him to render more ample; and, secondly, It is stated, but we cannot believe the he has also published some inedited Scholia, for having also neglected to give an index, fact, that Lord Powis took 300 guineas taken from one of the MSS. of St. Ana- always useful in works of antiquity, and inof rent for Stonehouse, after having basis; and these Scholia often give inter-dispensable for so rich and abundant a mine offered it gratuitously. In England, pretations very different from those which as the writings of Xenophon. Lucien forgot his republican simplicity, have been adopted by modern critics and and assumed great state. His own ap- translators. As M. Gail had not engaged parel was sumptuous, and his liveries to publish these Scholia, we must thank rich and brilliant; nor did he diminish him for having selected some passages; his expenditure, though he lost 8000l. resting nature, it must be regretted that but considering his opinion of their inteby the bankruptcy of Le Mesurier. we do not find a greater number of them in his volume of Various Readings. (To be concluded in our next.) ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL DES SAVANS Beside the French and Latin versions, M. Gail has added many interesting historical and literary observations. Of these we notice a refutation of various errors The complete Works of Xenophon, trans-committed respecting the tragedies of Solated into French, and accompanied with the Greek Text, the Latin Version, Critical Notes, and various Readings from the MSS. of the Royal Library, Prints, Plans of Battles, and Maps engraved after the Designs of M. Barbié du Bocage, M. Letronne, and M M. ***. By J. B. Gail, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c. 10 vols. 4to. We have been thus particular in detailing phocles, not only by Voltaire and La (To be continued) ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. NORTHERN SKETCHES. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. I feel much flattered by your prompt insertion of my communication respecting the Rein-deer of North America. In the present enlightened age, it is surprising how much the study of natural history has been neglected. Mankind appear to be so ardently occupied in exploring the formation of the universe itself, that they have no leisure for the examination of its various inhabitants. The ambition of philosophers is now too lofty for the investigation of details;-they plunge into daring speculation, or labour at adventurous research; their glorious aim is to unravel the mightiest secrets of Nature. Chemistry, astronomy, geology, minera logy, present more forcible attractions to | On shooting one of these birds, the sports- | amusement which is every where exhibited the studious sage, than the minute deli- man is astonished by the immediate altera- in scenes of the same sort. The greatest neation of birds, of insects, and of rep- tion in its appearance. Instead of a large order is however preserved, and a stranger tiles. It is to this account perhaps that we and heavy carcass, as might be expected, is not, as at an English fair, constantly runmay ascribe our deficiency of zoographical he finds a profusion of light downy feathers, ning the risk of having his head broken or information respecting those countries which covering a body not much larger than his pocket picked. lie within the Arctic. Who, when he could that of a carrion crow. This deception re- I gladly accepted the kind offer of my discover new worlds in the regions of air, specting its real size is not peculiar to fellow tra eller, the man of letters, who give laws to the flowings of an ocean, or de- the Snowy Owl, but is also observable in se- was acquainted in Leipsic, to assist me with termine the causes originating the configu- veral species of jay which inhabit the forests that species of information which a stranger ration of a globe, would be content to toil of North America. I have shot several jays in such a place must want. I went in the after objects of inferior importance ?- upon the banks of the Sakashawin River, first instance with him to his publisher, and Who, when he could tread on the summit whose sudden metamorphosis was so strik-the Herr Verhasser having soon finished his of Parnassus, would rest meanly satisfied at ing as to resemble the effect produced by business with the Herr Hevansgeber, very having attained the mid-way height ?-Of a harlequin's wand. In no other bird, how- civilly took me to see all the objects which such a being we might indeed exclaim, that ever, is this singular diminution of size he thought worthy of my curiosity, and he "would be great," and that he was more distinctly visible than in the Snowy gave me every explanation I could desire. "not without ambition ;" but that his want Owl. The moment that it ceases to live, I did not fail to make him shew me Auerof emulation proved him to be destitute of its feathers fall close to its body like wet bach's Cellar, which the fertile imagination that aspiring energy which would "exhaust drapery around a female form, as if respi- of Goethe has rendered so memorable, by old worlds, and then imagine new." ration were the only stamina by which they placing in it the singularly romantic scene had been erected. It is highly probable of the visit of Faust and his satanic comthat this erection of its feathers is in a panion Mephistopholes to the Zeche lusgreat measure dependent upon the elasti- tigen Gefellen, or Party of Jolly Fellows. city of the skin, and that as the skin is contracted by the agonies of death, the feathers are consequently contracted in a similar proportion. In execution of my promise to send you occasionally an extract from my observations upon the animals of North America, I transmit the following particulars respecting the Snowy Owl of Hudson's Bay, -a bird which has been shamefully neglected or misrepresented in every ornithology that has yet been published. Linnæus, in his Systema Naturæ, has placed the Snowy Owl in the class of Earless Owls. It is described by him as follows: "The plumage is white, with a few distant, small, dusky or brownish semilunar spots." It is also mentioned by many other ornithologists.* Amongst others, perhaps it may be permitted to notice an account of this bird, inserted by Mr. Bullock in the Catalogue of his splendid Museum; by which it appears that the Snowy Owl is occasionally a visitant of the Orkney and Shetland Isles, and that it frequently breeds in the mountainous parts of Uist and Yell. Mr. Bullock observes, that "they are seen there at the end of the summer, in company with their young, three or four together, the latter are then brown; their flight is more light and buoyant than any of the hawks, but not so much so as our common barn-owl. They prey by day on various animals. One wounded in the isle of Balta disgorged a young rabbit whole." This is the substance of all the information which naturalists have given of this rare and noble bird. Had it been better known, its size might have entitled it to rank before the American condor, while the delicacy of its plumage could only have been surpassed by the beautiful tints of the flamingo, inhabiting the Southern shores of the same continent. In the gray of the morning, I have often mistaken the Snowy Owl of Hudson's Bay,† for a Polar bear, from the close resemblance which it bears to that animal, as it sits above the seabeach, watching for its prey amongst the high grass and mosses that usually skirt the high-water mark in Northern countries. * Latham Ind. Orn. i. 57. n. 20. Buffon's Ois. i. 387. Edwards Av. t. 61. + Lieutenant Chappell in his "Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay," has neglected all mention of this superb species of owl. P. CHASSING. LEIPSIC FAIR. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Dresden, dated May 27. I found every department of industry briskly prosecuted here, but none more than the business of booksellers, to which my inquiries were chiefly directed. Leipsic is indeed the central mart of this daily increasing trade-the grand entrepot in which all the productions of the press are regularly collected, to be afterwards distributed through numerous prepared channels, over Germany and the rest of Europe. This periodical overflowings of literature take place, and though these inundations always bring along with them a quantity of rubbish and noxious weeds, yet the balance is greatly in favour of the rich and fertilizing materials they leave behind. I have returned from Leipsic.-It was not business that led me there-I had heard so much of the Fair, that 1 could not restrain my wish to see it; so I got into the wagen, and, travelling in the German style, in due time reached the destined spot; safely it is It would be in vain for me in a short lettrue, but not very expeditiously. I was, ter to attempt to describe the vast store of however, amused on my way by a series of literature which this fair exhibited. I shall arguments carried on between two of my mention only a few works in the German fellow-travellers, one of whom was for ex-language to which my attention happened cluding all foreign goods from the German to be more particularly drawn, viz. markets, while the other contended stoutly thologische Dichtung und Lieden der Skanfor the freedom of trade. I soon discovered dinavier'- Kosmographische Erlauterwinthat the former was a manufacturer from gen aus der Griechischen Vorwelt,' by BötSilesia, who had business to transact at tiger- Hammer's Umblick auf einer Leipsic, and the latter an author, who was Reise von Constantinopel nach Brusa und going to the fair to meet his bookseller. dem Olympos, und von da zurück über Nicea und Nicomedien.' We alighted at Leipsic in the heat of the fair. It was to me interesting to find only the bustle of peaceful commerce in a place which, when I passed hastily through it a few years ago, I had seen surrounded with all the alarm and all the misery of war. On our arrival we proceeded straight to the great square, in which the Sovereigns of Europe met at the head of their troops, after that decisive victory which finally delivered Germany from foreign domination. What a contrast between the unostentatious movement of industry, and the desolating shock of contending armies! These associations were calculated to make their impression, otherwise, I should between this and other great fairs. I saw not perhaps have found much difference every where bustle and activity-here the mountebank, there the man of business: in short, that melange of occupation and My Of the last mentioned work only, what the booksellers call the Probe Heft, or Specimen, was got ready for the Fair, and that I read over. It consists of about 100 pages of the commencement of these travels of M. Hammer, and I found it full of new and interesting information. I understand that translations of this work are going on both in French and English, so that the complete publication will take place in the three languages much about the same time. An Account of Young Kotzebue's Travels in Persia is also in the press. Among the Classics, I admired much some beautiful small pocket editions, published by Tauchnitz, of this place. Booksellers come to Leipsic from every quarter of Europe. The number from France and Italy at this Fair was very considerable. One from Petersburgh made purchases of so extensive a nature, that it a greater man, Milton-he was accustomed | ings of any one, whether he would not be must be inferred the Russians have recently to seek an alleviation of the evils of his very grateful to the conductors of his edumade a very rapid progress in every branch condition in the practice of music; and it is cation, for having put such a delightful taof literature. The French booksellers have not, I think, too much to suppose, that the lent into his possession, and by this means also carried back with them a much greater soothing and elevating sounds produced afforded him the opportunity of passing quantity than usual of German works. But by his Organ, may have so much attuned agreeably many fragments of time, of by far the greatest purchases have been his mind as to facilitate the production of which there are not a few in the life of almade by a London bookseller, who is him- those immortal strains which are the glory most every man, when fatigue or chagrin self a native of Germany. This gentleman of our country. I shall therefore remain delivers him up a prey to ennui. There are was not contented with a few copies, but of opinion, notwithstanding the observacarried off whole editions of Classical and tion of Mr. Locke, and the sarcasms of own conceit as to despise music as trivial and some persons so exceedingly wise in their German works. Among many others, he Lord Chesterfied, that a practical acquaint- unworthy of serious attention; others again has bought up all the impressions of Pro-ance with music is by no means derogatory are so unfortunate as to have hearts that fessors Buck and Bauer's Thucydidis de to the character of any man, be his station music cannot melt." The opinions of the Bello Peloponnesiaco, in 2 vols. 4to.; and or avocations what they may. former, however, are perhaps rather the Schleusner's Novum Lexicon Greco-Latioffspring of insensibility and arrogance, than of true wisdom; and I pity those who come under the latter description. Who shall dare to censure or contemn that which pervades nature so universally, and which is perhaps rendered so congenial to our better feelings, in order to act as an antidote to some of the sorrows to which our imperfect nature is so inevitably subjected ? num in Novum Testamentum, &c. so that not a copy of these celebrated works is now to be had on the continent, the whole being removed to England. The great influx of English merchandise at this Fair has been made a subject of complaint by a certain class of persons, but with very little effect. The advocates of exclusion will never gain their object, as all sensible people are convinced that it must ever be the interest of the great mass of the German population to purchase the articles they want at the cheapest rate, without regard to the country of the manufacturer. Some regulations adopted respecting the Jews, have given offence to these people; and the more wealthy traders among them, it is said, wish to abandon Leipsic, and es The choice of an instrument remains to I am, Sir, London, 4th of June 1818. LEARNED SOCIETIES. OXFORD, JUNE 6. On Wednesday the following Honorary tablish a fair at Naumburgh. The Prus age, because it does not require a very great Degrees were conferred in the Theatre: — sians would perhaps derive considerable advantages from this change. CHOICE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR, me, that the precept of drink deep or taste degree of application: but, as it seems to not' is not less applicable to the acquirement under consideration, than to most others, I do not hesitate to recommend the Piana Forte as the most eligible for a young gentleman, to whom it may be intended to give a knowledge of the beauties of sounds. nious letter inserted in your Number 71, in I have read with much pleasure the inge-It is essentially a domestic instrument, and answer to one in the preceding, on the subject of the choice of a musical instrument; but I am sorry to observe that your Correspondents have both of them laid so much stress on the danger to be apprehended to a youth from the evil communications to which he would be exposed in the attainment of musical knowledge. To me, Mr. Editor, this objection to the study of music appears to be a mere prejudice. No one, I should think, will maintain that music per se is likely to create or foster bad propensities; and if the education of a young man has been so ill conducted, and good principles so imperfectly ingrafted into his mind, that he cannot himself refrain from improper associations, the circumstance of his ignorance of music will unquestionably prove but a very feeble bar to the depravation of his character, as nothing is unfortunately more easy than for an individual of wayward predilections to find congenial companions without the circle of the musical profession. Your correspondent Medium has cited the opinion of Mr. Locke in disparagement of music as an accomplishment: such an authority is certainly of great weight: but I beg leave to oppose to it the practice of the early attempts upon it are less annoying than the practice of most others; add to which, it combines more effect than any other single instrument; is most calculated of any to guide an amateur to a correct appreciation of the merit of the works of the great masters; and, finally, is most independent of extraneous aid. That it requires a considerable degree of practice to become a competent performer, is certainly true; but as the mere mechanical part of it may be attained at a very early age, whilst the minds of children are yet incapable of great exertions, this objection I think falls to the ground. If a child practise with a master from the age of 7 to 12, he will, with a moderate degree of regular application, become sufficiently master of his instrument to play with ease that description of music to which a reasonable amateur will principally attach himself; that is to say, simple and elegant, leaving to the professor the abstruse and surprising, which are for the most part but the craft of the science. It will not, I presume, be contended that the time that is devoted to the attainment of musical knowledge can, even at the early age which I have mentioned, be much more usefully employed; and I put it to the feel the Richard Borough, Bart. Sir John Silvester, Wm. Hustler, Esq. M.A. Fellow of Jesus the Rev. Wm. Crowe, B.C.L. and Public The Creweian Oration was delivered by Orator. The Prize Compositions were recited in the following order : THE CHANCELLOR'S PRIZES. Latin Verse.-"Titus Hierosolymam expugnans."-By Mr. Thomas Holden Ormerod, Undergraduate, Fellow of New College. English Essay." Biography."-By Mr. John Leycester Adolphus, B.A. Fellow of St. John's College. SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE. English Verse." The Coliseum."-By Mr. T. H. Ormerod, Undergraduate, Fellow of New College. Mr. Crowe, in his Creweian Oration, which was delivered in his accustomed spirited style, adverted to the utility of Prize Compositions generally, and ex pressed his surprise at many of the candidates for poetic fame having sent in verses which could not be brought into competition, in consequence of their exceeding the number of fifty lines, to which they are limited by the will of Sir Roger Newdigate. The subject of the Oration was principally to commemorate the Founders of the different Academical Prizes. Yesterday the following Degrees were conferred: Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity.-The Rev. Nathaniel Colville, of St. Mary Hall, grand compounder. Doctor in Civil Law-The Rev. Thomas | the opposite direction. Nor does the ribbon body carefully put together, and it being recollected that there were several beautiful fragments of legs and arms dispersed about the great room, of the same proportion with the figure, a diligent search was made, the lower limbs were found among the rich treasures, and great was the satisfaction to find that they identified themselves with the statue and the Arts, as well as lovers of vertu, have to acknowledge with thanks the bringing before the public this inestimable performance. The figure is without the head and lower arms, as well as deficient in one of the feet. It has been Such is the manner in which the ribbon is sculptured. But as it takes the exact undulating form of the body, to which it is made closely to adhere, and appears in supported on the left side by some appropart, in some measure, sunk in the flesh, priate accessory sculpture, and the left thigh as well as from the knot being of low work-shews where it had been attached. A remanship; it has been considered that the port has spread, that the statue, when in ribbon was the unnecessary act and after- separate fragments, was put together when thought of a later sculpture, and formed no the collection was at Burlington House; but if that was done it was unknown to Mr. part of the original design. Hamilton, who, on being advised of it, would doubtless have instantly perceived its great merits, and brought it into direct notice. Even arguing that it was so, which is very doubtful, it will not do away the impression that the statue was equally meant to represent the God of Love, though devoid, in the first instance, of any symbolical representation of his power. Masters of Arts.-Wm. Cotton, Esq. of Exeter College, grand compounder; Mr. Mathewman Hodgson Donald, of Queen's College; Mr. Walter King Coker, of Oriel College; Rev. William John Lewis, of Jesus College; Rev. John de Chair, and Mr. Charles Gillies Payne, of Merton Col. lege; Mr. Wm. Queueborough Wright, of St. John's College; Mr. W. H. R. Birch, of the Synopsis (1818,) under number305,* This statue is described in the last edition of Brasennose College; Rev. Thomas Price, of St. Edmund Hall; Rev. Wm. Parker, of An imperfect statue of a youth of Trinity College; Right Hon. Richard Vis-the size of life, and of the most exquisite workmanship."' count Belgrave, of Christ Church'; Mr. Tyrrell Knapp, of Exeter College. Bachelor of Arts.-Mr. Charles Alcock, Fellow of New College. On Monday last the Rev. Wm. Browne, M.A. and Mr. William Newland Pedder, B.A. were elected Fellows, and Messrs. George Buckeridge, Richard Charles Coxe, and Richard Greswell, were elected Scholars of Worcester College, on Mrs. Eaton's Foundation; and on Thursday Mr. Thomas Powell was elected Scholar of the same College, on Dr. Finney's Foundation. FINE ARTS. THE ELGIN MARBLES. [Exquisite Statue discovered.] To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. SIR, There has been lately placed in the great temporary room at the British Museum, which contains the principal and most important part of the Elgin Antiquities, a beautiful statue of a Youth, just advanced to the verge of manhood, apparently intended for the God of Love, from a ribbon being extended from the right shoulder, across the chest, in a diagonal direction, dying away on the marble, on the left side, round the figure as it approaches the lætis simus dorsalis. The ribbon is tied on the sternum, in what is denominated, in English phraseology, a True-lover's knot: the end of which hangs down in a straight line, while the remainder of the ribbon is carried across the lower part of the right side, fading in the same, or nearly the same, manner as on 66 as It was customary among the Greek artists to design the winged deities, occasionally, without their usual attributes. Thus Victory was frequently fashioned in that manner, of which there is an example in this collection in the Victoria Apteros, she never would forsake the standards of presumptuously expressing thereby, that those by whom such deities were worshipped: and the same principle might attach to the Cupid, or God of Love, emblematical, that when with wings, Love is restless and uncertain, and when without them, permanent, and not inclined to forsake the favourite object. This exquisite specimen of ancient sculpture has been greatly mutilated. The body was broken, transversely, in nearly two equal parts, and from its very dilapidated state, had been, for a length of time, in a manner almost disregarded. It was not mentioned by itself in the specification of the collection, nor adverted to in value. It was classed in that point of view in the list of common fragments, without having seemingly attracted the more immediate notice of Lord Elgin, the Chevalier Visconti, Mr. Hamilton, Dr. Hunt, or any of those gentlemen who were examined by the Select Committee of the House of Commons. It appears to have been overlooked in an abundance of excellence. A statue, indeed, was enumerated in the Chevalier Visconti's statement, as "supposed to be Cupid," but that description referred to a very small figure. In searching among the unappropriated marbles remaining in the basement of the Antique Gallery, the intelligent eye of Mr. Combe discerned the broken torso. Struck wtih its symmetry, he had the separated Marks of violence, plainly to be observed, had injured the marble before it came to England, as is evident immediately over the abdomen; and there are also proofs of some instrument having disfigured the upper part of the body, above the left breast, as well as on the right side under the ribs, over the hip. But notwithstanding these acts of barbarism, if they were intended as such, or acts of chance by excavation, what remains of the surface is of the most exquisite nature, and in as puré a state as when first from the sculptor's arms and shoulders; and more so, perhaps, hands, particularly about the thighs, back, than in any other figure in the collection. Fancy might go a great way in describing this wonder of art. It is well known that Praxiteles was in love with Phryne, and that he had consented to give her one of the most beautiful specimens of his labours, but he would not tell her which he held in highest estimation. Anxious to draw out his opinion, she ordered a servant to come and tell him abruptly, that his workshops were on fire, and great part of his property destroyed. As Praxiteles was hastening to the scene of supposed conflagration, he discovered that his affliction would be but trifling if his Satyr and Love should be spared. This declaration satisfied Phryne, who immediately undeceived him, and, acknowledging her stratagem, made her election in consequence of the discovery; but took the Love in preference to the Satyr. This Satyr, Pausanius tells us, was to be seen in his time in the street of the Tripods at Athens; and would it be too much a stretch of imagination to consider this admirable relique, which was discovered also at Athens, as being the Love which Phryne had so judiciously, though cunningly, selected? The gauntlet of inquiry has thus been thrown down; not with the view for the writer of this stricture to defend the idea, but to entice other and more able crities to exert their skill, and justify or disapprove | ing by its fortunate preservation, even in | readers, were it in no other point of view of the suggestion. It has been asserted that there is a copy or repetition of this marble at Rome, called the Genius of the Vatican, of which there are several casts in London. One of them, belonging to Mr. Sass, was brought to the Museum, and placed beside the statue, to be confronted with it; but it did not by any means bear an exact resemblance. This beautiful fragment stands then in no danger of any rival, as, from the opinion of those intelligent judges who investigated the comparison, it might be remarked of it what Shakespeare makes Richard of Glou cester state of himself, only substituting the opposite sense of beauty for deformity; "I have no brother; am like no brother; I am myself alone." its mutilated condition. than that of inducing those who have not During the time that the Elgin marbles The indefatigable, painstaking, and in- It is clear then that the statue Pausanias adverts to was made for a particular people, and could not be the Love which Phryne had selected. Nor is it likely that she would have relinquished a marble which Praxiteles had not only given her, but had pronounced to be one of his works which he most appreciated. It is far more probable that she would have preserved it with the greatest care, not only in acknowledg ment that she possessed, above the rest of the world, the very perfection of this great sculptor's abilities, who was not only the pride of Athens, but of all Greece, but with the consciousness at the same time, that she herself, as Queen of Love, had held the artist under the fascination of her charms, in complete dominion. without rigidity, consonant to that state Stamps Heav'n's image strong in every line. If the remark is allowable, it will stand among the surrounding works of Phidias, as Here, midst Art's wonders, were a choice con fess'd, And one bright toil distinguished from the rest, Should the writer be mistaken with re- Much conjecture, notwithstanding, may arise, and indeed has arisen, regarding this statue. It has already been imagined by some to be the Apollo Sauroctheros, or Lizard-slayer; but the position of the upper arms could in no degree have corresponded with that subject. It is more evident, on close investigation, that though there may be shades of affinity, this statue stands independent of all other known statues and though sundry copies may have been made from it, the same fate may have attended it as befel great part of the works of Livy and other ancient authors, namely, that Such, Sir, are my sentiments on contemnotwithstanding numerous copies had been plating this effort of art; and though the transcribed and distributed in a multitude of statement was drawn up to form part of a libraries, no vestige of them remains: they work written "On viewing the Elgin are only known to have existed. The very Marbles, in an appeal to Taste and Truth," notion, then, of the supposed destruction I do not hesitate, in this instance, to antiof the counterparts of this marble, presum- cipate the publication, under the conceping this to be an original performance, tion that my communication will be acceptrenders the figure infinitely more interest-able to yourself, as well as to many of your &c. PETER COXE. ORIGINAL POETRY. A FATHER'S ADIEU Ah, dearer to a Father's heart To every Christian virtue dear, And hovering, trembling, linger here? Farewell, my Love! again farewell! To bring back all my fondest care, Lo gleam on gleam-my dreary hour? Beckoning she waves her lily hand- I come! O " dearer to my heart" POLWHELE. The amiable and accomplished daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Trist, of Behan-park, near Tregony, Cornwall. EPIGRAM. What news to-day? Why Parliament |