REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Capt. Hall's Voyage to Loo-Choo, &c. their flowing dress. Their colour is not | hands, which he is to hold over his head, so good, some being very dark, and others as not to see them. After turning it round nearly white, but in most instances they are for a short time, he suddenly stops, and the of a deep copper. This is fully compensat-person to whom the bowl is directed, has to drink a cup of wine. Another is a Chinese game: one person holds his hand closed over his head, he then brings it quickly before him, with one or more fingers extended; the person he is playing with calls out the numher of them, and if he guesses right, he has to drink the cup of wine." The dress of the women, who were, however, kept so peremptorily out of the way of our tars, that they only saw them at a distance, by means of their spyglasses, (the powers of which were unknown to the natives) differs from that of the men, and is in some instances so short as to reach only to the knee. In our last we promised to accom-ed by the sweetness and intelligence of their pany Capt. Hall in his most interesting countenance. Their eyes, which are black, visit to Loo-Choo, and we have plea- have a placid expression, and their teeth sure in redeeming our pledge. On the are regular and beautifully white." 13 September the expedition passed Sulphur Island, (a volcano emitting a white smoke and strong smell of sulphur) at which they were prevented from landing by the weather. It furnishes a striking view as the frontispiece to the volume before us. In two days after they reached Loo-Choo, and soon anchored off an extensive town called Napakiang. Here they found the natives gentle and kind; and that their Chinese servant could be understood as an interpreter, which was not the case at Corea, or the Corean Archipelago. A friendly, though at first timid intercourse on the part of the LooChooans was speedily established, and visits were mutually interchanged between the ships and the shore, through which our countrymen obtained some insight into the manners and customs of this peculiarly amiable and patriar-ring-finger, the fashion of wearing such chal people. ornaments is probably more common. White robes are worn for mourning: The manners even of the lowest classes are genteel and becoming; their curiosity is great, but it never makes them rudely inquisitive. Their language is musical, and in most cases easy of pronunciation." Among their customs we may cite that noticed in a village about ten miles from Napakiang, of tatooing the arms with rude figures, resembling fish spears, and other marks. Only one person was seen with a ring on his fin ger; but as they have a name for the These innocent games are worthy of this amiable people. Another of their pastimes is thus described: "Before leaving the cabin they shewed us a Loo-Choo dance round the table. Madéra (a fine character) placed himself at the head before Ookooma, while the others ranged themselves in a line behind him : he began by a song, the air of which was very pretty, and nearly at the same time cominenced the dance, which consisted principally of throwing the body into a variety of postures, and twisting the hands about. Sometimes the hands were placed flat together, at others separate, but generally the former; the movements both of the body and hands were regular, and of a waving description. The head was made to incline slowly from side to side, so as almost to touch the shoulders; the feet were moved with a slight shuffling motion, with an occasional long sweeping step to one side and then back again; but the perfection of the dance appeared to be in the proper use of The words of the consists of a loose flowing robe, with very hogs are sacrificed at the tomb, and spithe hands and body. "Their dress is singularly graceful; it song were sasa sang-coomah, sangcoo- several times round the table." Having proceeded to the upper-deck, where our jolly tars were similarly employed, and the ship illuminated :— wide sleeves, tied round the middle by a rits burnt. The flesh of the animal is broad rich belt or girdle of wrought silk, distributed. But we shall more distincta yellow cylindrical cap, and a neat straw ly advert to their funeral ceremonies sandal over a short cotton boot or stocking. hereafter. The chiefs are usually atThey all carry fans, which they tended by boys, their sons, stick in their girdle when not in use, and cach person has a short *tobacco pipe in a "Whose business it is to carry a little small bag, hanging, along with the pouch, square box, in which there are several small at the girdle. The variety of codrawers, divided into compartments, filled lour and pattern in the dresses is remark-with rice, sliced eggs, small squares of smokable. Many wear printed cottons, others ed pork, cakes and fish; and in one corner a have cotton dresses, with the pattern drawn small metal pot of sackee, besides cups and After watching the dance of the sailors on it by hand, instead of being stamped; chopsticks. By having this always with for a few minutes, Madera, who, to use a but blue, in all its shades, is the prevalent them they can dine when and where they common phrase, was up to every thing,' colour, though there were many dresses rechoose. They frequently invited us (the Bri- ran among the sailors, and seizing one of sembling, in every respect, Highland fish) to dine with them, and if we agreed to them by the shoulders, put him out of the tartans. The children, in general, wear the proposal, they generally asked any other dance, took his place, and kept up the more showy dresses than the men.. of the chiefs whom they inet, to be of the reel with the same spirit, and exactly in Every person has one of the girdles before party, and join dinners. The place select-the same style and step as the sailors. described, which is always of a different cd for these pic-nics is commonly under the The other dances were left off, and the colour from the dress, and is in general trees, in a cool spot, where a mat is spread whole ship's company assembling round richly ornamented with flowers in embossed on the grass; and every thing being laid Madéra, cheered and clapped him till the silk, and sometimes with gold and silver out in great order, the party lies down in a dance was done. The chiefs joined in the threads. Even the lowest boat- circle, and seldom breaks up till the sarkee applause, seeming no less surprised than ourselves at Madéra's skill, for his imitation men have a picturesque appearance Their pot is empty." hair, which is of a glossy black, is shaved of the sailors' odd steps and gestures was as off the crown, but the bare place is conceal exact as if he had lived among sailors all ed by their mode of dressing the hair in a his life. The officers then danced a country dance, after which the chiefs, unasked, close knot over it. Their beards and, musand with a sort of intuitive politeness, which rendered every thing they did appropriate, instantly stepped forward and danced several times round the quarter-deck, to the infinite gratification of the sailors." tachios are allowed to grow, and are kept neat and smooth. They are rather low in stature, but are well forined, and have an easy graceful carriage, which suits well with nor It is singular that, with such pastoral habits, they never taste milk; would they eat cheese, on account of its being made of that article. They play several games; the forfeit being invariably, as it appeared to the travel!ers, one of their little cups of wine. "One person holds the stalk of his to* It is curious that their name for tobacco is bacco-pipe between the palms of his hands, so that the pipe rolls round as he moves his the same as ours. We love to dwell on these pleasing scenes, and almost feel ourselves par ticipators in actions described in so lively and touching a manner.-The voyagers "Saw no musical instruments of any kind; they were however aware of their use. The natives almost all sing, and we heard several very sweet airs, principally plaintive: they had many jovial drinking songs, one of which we wrote down from their singing; it was inscribed on a drinking cup, and is as follows: Ty' wack koo, tawshoo, shee kackoofing, Chaw ung, itchee shaw, shooha neebooroo; Ting shee, you byce, chee taroo shoo ninnee Nooboo cadsee meesce carra shaw jeeroo Shing coodee sackee oochee noo shing. "The Chinese characters on the drinking cup were thus translated in China, Ty wack hoo (a man celebrated in the Tung dynasty for his convivial disposition, and known in China by th: name of Jai-pe) inspired by a jar of wine, writes an hundred pages of odes or verses without end. At Yet they have the great toe in their stockings cut out in the same way. Another incident may be applied universally to and by all persons who are apt to fancy themselves wiser than their neighbours. "We amused them by lighting their graces, be highly interesting in many literary points of view, as well as in that of a descriptive and characteristic sketch of the higher classes of society and fashionable manners, in the era to which it belongs. Walpole, almost as selfish as Fontenelle, reminds us constantly of that author. He is playful, life considerable, his perceptions acute, satirical, humorous; his knowledge of and his pursuits calculated always to entertain, and often to convey information on subjects of arts, literature, and science. His correspondence forms so complete a melange of politics, anecdote, scandal, intelligence, wit, and criticism, that we could not, if we would, digest it into any thing like a systematic analysis. Perhaps it will be fully as agreeable to follow the rambling course of the letters. The early after mentioning that the Duke of Cumberland had arrived (1748.) the market-town of Chaw-ung (Cnang-ngan pipes with a burning glass; but one old days of Methodism are thus alluded to, in China, near the great wall) he entered a Such are the Loo-Choo and Chinese Anacreontics. The cadence of the verse seems musical in reading, and we dare say Braham could set it to very captivating notes. Of the literature of Loo-Choo, few satisfactory accounts could be obtained. They say that they have few books in their own language, the greater number on the island being Chinese. The young men of rank are sometimes sent to China to be educated. None but the upper classes understand the spoken Chinese, and the peasantry are in general ignorant both of the spoken and written Chinese language." From the means taken by our officers to learn their language, especially by Mr. Clifford, whose acquirements within so short a space of time seem to be wonderful, some whimsical situations arose. Whenever natives came on board they were treated with cherrybrandy and constantia, and the vocabulary enriched by their contribution of new words in return, of which they took great pains to teach the true pronunciation. One of these lessons is thus described: "One man, however, who was not so quick as they generally are, was in the cabin to-day for some time; Mr. Clifford was getting from him the Loo-Choo words for sour, sweet, salt, &c.; and in order to make him comprehend the questions, made him taste different things that were sour, sweet, and so on: the poor fellow stood this very well, till some quassia was given circle." Finding our review of this delightful work exceed the limits within which we thought it might be compressed, we must defer its further prosecution; assured that if our analysis imparts a tythe of the pleasure to the public, which we have derived from the perusal of the whole volume, there will be no complaint against the extension of our plan. For the present, we close with one amusing and characteristic anecdote. At an entertainment given to the British by the Prince— “Ookooma (who presided at the officers' table) having remarked on board that when ever the king's health was drank, whether the cups were always freely emptied, took His Majesty of England or of Loo-Choo, advantage of this loyalty of sentiment, and gave The King of Injeree's health' three or four times over, to which of course the officers were obliged to reply, by giving The King of Loo-Choo' as often. He carried this rather farther than is customary with us on similar occasions; for observin eating a bowl of sweet rice-meal porridge, ing that the company were rather backward he stood up with his bowl in his hand, and calling out King of Injeree health!" swallowed the whole of it, and invited the rest to follow his example." Horace Walpole's Letters, from We resume our application to this very amusing work, the vivacity and unbounded freedom of which, adds a charm to what would, without these methodist, came to tell him, that as he Gumley, who you know has grown was on duty, a tree in Hyde-park, near the Duke replied, he hoped it was not by the powder magazine, had been set on fire; the new light. This nonsensical new light is extremely in fashion, and I shall not be surprised if we see a revival of all the folly and cant of the last age. Whitfield preaches continually at my Lady Huntingdon's at Bath, my Lady Townshend, my Lady Chelsea: : my Lord Chesterfield, my Lord Thanet, and others, have been to hear him. What will you lay that next winter he is not run after instead of Garrick?" Garrick is no favourite with our author, and he rarely misses an opportunity of cutting at him. He is not astonished that he and Colman write badly together, since they write so ill sepaactor, but reviles the stuff he brings rately. He allows him to be a good upon the stage, and the alterations he makes in pieces presented to him. The following specimen from Paris, Oct. 16, 1769, shews that there is no novelty in our present practices or severity of criticism. our authors are vulgar, gross, illiberal: the theatre swarms with wretched translations and ballad operas, and we have nothing new but improving abuse. I have blushed, at Paris, when the papers came over crammed with ribaldry, or with Garrick's insufferable nonsense about Shakespeare. As the man's writings will be preserved by his name, who will believe that he was a tolerable actor? Cibber wrote as bad odes; but then Cibber wrote the Careless Husband and his own life, which both deserve immortality. Garrick's Prologues and Epilogues "There is a total extinction of all taste: mimes." are as bad as his Pindaricks and Panto- | later productions come also in for a whip of supercilious criticism. Of other celebrated men we have the following: "The first volume of Voltaire's Peter the Great is arrived. I weep over it. It is as languid as the Campaign; he is grown old. He boasts of the materials communi The opinions given of several distinguished writers of the day, are as biting as those touching plays and players we select a few, without advocating their justice. "Rigby and Peter Bathurst t'other night carried a servant of the latter's, who had attempted to shoot him, before Fielding; who, to all his other vocations, has, by the grace of Mr. Lyttleton, added that of Middlesex justice. He sent them word he was at supper; that they must come next morning. They did not understand that freedom, and ran up, where they found him banquetting with a blind man, a w, and three Irishmen, on some cold mutton and a bone of ham, both in one dish, and the dirtiest cloth. He never stirred, nor asked them to sit. Rigby, who had so often seen him come to beg a guinea of Sir C. Williams, and Bathurst, at whose father's he had lived for victuals, understood that dignity as little, and pulled themselves chairs, on which he civilized. "Millar the bookseller has done very generously by him: finding Tom Jones, for which he had given him six hundred pounds, sell so greatly, he has since given him another hundred. Now I talk to you of authors, Lord Cobham's West has published his translation of Pindar; the poetry is very stiff; but prefixed to it there is a very entertaining account of the Olympic and that preceded by an affected games, Inscription to Pitt and Lyttleton." (May 1749.) The author of Tom Jones need not, with posterity, dread the aristocratic strictures of Lord Orford. But we proceed to other notices. at Florence, and she was expected there, we were drawing sortes Virgilianas for her; we literally drew Insanam vatem aspicies.' It would have been a stronger prophecy now, even than it was then.” (July 1762.) "Paris, Oct. 1765.-Wilkes is here, and cated to him by the Czarina's order; but, has been twice to see me in my illness. There are yet several other passages respecting literary works and persons, which we cannot refrain from copying. The first relates to Burke. "I dined with your Secretary yesterday (July 21, 1761.) There were Garrick and a young Mr. Burke, who wrote a book in the style of Lord Bolingbroke, that was much admired. He is a sensible man, but has not worn off his authorism yet, and thinks there is nothing so charming as writers, and to be one. He will know better one of these days." "Mr. Glover has published his longhoarded Medea, as an introduction to the House of Commons; it had been more proper to usher him from school to the university. There a few good lines, not much conduct, and a quantity of iambics, and trochaics, that scarce speak English, and yet have no rhyme to keep one another in countenance. If his chariot is stopped at Temple-bar, I suppose he will take it for the straits of Thermopylæ, and be delivered of his first speech before its time." (Oct. 1761.) The appearance of the New Bath Guide is spoken of in terms of unqualified praise, as containing more wit, humour, fun, poetry, and originality, than ever before appeared together. The same letter (June 20, 1766) says, and reminds us very forcibly of a recent publication, Correspondence, that will not amuse you less in another way, though abominable, "There are two new volumes too of Swift's for there are letters of twenty persons now alive: fifty of Lady Betty Germain; one that does her great honour, in which she all the spirit in the world, against that defends her friend my Lady Suffolk with brute, who hated every body that he hoped would get him a mitre, and did not.-His four years of the queen, is a fund of enterown journal, sent to Stella during the last tainment. You will see his insolence in full colours, and at the same time how daily vain he was of being noticed by the ministers he affected to treat arrogantly. He goes to the rehearsal of Cato, and says, the drab that acted Cato's daughter could not say her part. This was only Mrs. Oldfield. I was saying before George Selwyn, that this journal put me in mind of the present time, there was the same indecision, irresolution, and want of system; It tires me to death to read how but I added, now. many ways a warrior is like the moon, the sun"-No,' said Selwyn, nor under “There is nothing new under or the sun, or a rock, or a lion, or the the grandson.' [George II. and III.] ocean. Fingal is a brave collection of similes, and will serve all the boys at Eton and Westminster for these twenty years. will trust you with a secret, but you must not disclose it; I should be ruined with my Scotch friends; in short, I cannot believe it genuine." (Dec. 1761.) "Dr. Young has published a new book, on purpose, he says himself, to have an opportunity of telling a story that he has Fingal is come out: I have not yet known these forty years. Mr. Addison got through it; not but it is very finesent to the young Lord Warwick, as heyet I cannot at once compass an Epic poem was dying, to shew him in what peace a Christian could die-unluckily he died of brandy-nothing makes a Christian die in peace like being maudlin!" (May 1759.) "Mr. Mason has published another drama, called Caractacus. There are some incantations poetical enough, and odes so Greek as to have very little meaning. But the whole is laboured, uninteresting, and no more resembling the manners of Britons, than of Japanese. It is introduced by a piping elegy; for Mason, in imitation of Gray, will cry and roar all night, without the least provocation." (June 1759.) 66 excellent one of the King of France, though Reserving a curious anecdote of Hogarth, and some other interesting extracts, for hereafter, we may be excused, if, so near the close of such limits as we can conveniently allot to one sub Lady M―y Wy (Mary Wortley) is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her diet, and her vivacity are all increased. Gray is frequently ridiculed for his Her dress, like her language, is a galimataciturnity, and want of conversational tias of several countries; the ground-work powers; and it is told of him, that dur-rags, and the embroidery nastiness. She needs no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, ing a party of pleasure, for a whole day no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-ject, however various, we follow the he uttered only one short and trivial laced hood represents the first; the fur of sentence, in answer to a question. His a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, example of our author, and say, having serves for the second; a dimity petticoat got into puns, we will conclude with is deputy, and officiates for the fourth; and a few of the witticisms which we find slippers act the part of the last. When I was scattered through these pages, * An expression of Mr. Montagu's. 66 Though I have little to say, it is worth | while to write, only to tell you two bonmots of Quin, to that turn-coat hypocrite infidel, Bishop W-b-n. That saucy priest was haranguing at Bath on behalf of prerogative: Quin said, Pray, my Lord, spare me, you are not acquainted with my principles, I am a republican; and perhaps even think that the execution of Charles the First might be justified-Aye! said W-b-n, by what law? Quin replied, By all the laws he had left them. The Bishop would have got off upon judgments, and bade the player remember that all the regicides came to violent ends; a lie, but no matter. I would not advise your Lordship, said Quin, to make use of that inference, for if I am not mistaken, that was the case of the twelve apostles. There was great wit ad hominem in the latter reply; but I think the former equal to any thing I ever heard." -"Unless the deluge stops, and the fogs disperse, I think we shall all die. A few days ago, on the cannon firing for the king going to the house, somebody asked what it was for? M. de Choiseul replied, apparement, c'est qu'on voit le Soleil." [A happy compliment to our then youthful King, in 1761.] 66 The cry in Ireland has been against Lord Hillsborough, supposing him to meditate an union of the two Islands; George Selwyn seeing him sit t'other night between my Lady Hand my Lord Bsaid, Who can say that my Lord Hillsborough is not an enemy to an union!" A hit of equal force against another lady of gallantry, is recorded of Charles Townshend: "My Lord, said he, has quite mistaken the thing; he soars too high at first: people often miscarry by not proceeding by degrees; he went, and at once asked for my Lord -'s garter; if he would have been content to ask for my Lady's garter, I don't doubt but he would have obtained it!" The following lines have been published, but their repetition will not cloy; and with them we bid adieu for the present to Horace. ANACREONTIC, Pour the rich juice of Bourdeaux's wine, Your brows let ivy chaplets twine, | Constantine and Eugene, or an Evening at | tivated understanding, and a fine taste better contented to see allied to any other theme, than to an Utopia of questionable good, even could its fabric be rendered more substantial than a speculative imagining. We cannot go into any of the theories of Junius Secundus; but to shew that he has not been afraid of entering into minutiæ himself, we subjoin a symphony which he has ready for his consul whenever he is elected, and perfectibility attained!! Strew your Consul's way with flowers, No arms, no heralds round him move; The Articles of Association of the Equi- AN English Work printed at Brussels was a novelty to excite our curiosity. We have not been disappointed. If we were to say in one word that it was unique, we should deliver our entire opinion; but having noticed it at all, our readers may expect something more from us than so oracular a dispensation. We shall, however, be very brief. Constantine and Eugene are the names of two individuals supposed to meet at Mount Vernon in Virginia, the residence of General Washington, and to hold a conversation, in which the former developes a plan of a perfect form of government. This form is a republic, with one elective Consul for seven years, a senate of Nobles, and a senate of Popular Representatives. Into with such hearty good-will, that he this visionary paradise the author enters peoples his whole ideal world, lives in it, and we believe there is not one of the very lowest understrappers of the Republic, no not a sweeper of the Senate House, that he has not taken special pains to appoint in a pure and liberal manner. Living, as we do, in a real world, this is so amusing, that we might rather be inclined to laugh at the earnestness and minuteness with We do not mean to insist that the pubof its favourite air-mansion; but we strictly and entirely literary; but we which enthusiasm builds up every brick | lication, whose title page we quote, is are checked by the integrity of soul, are very sure, that the plan developed the store of classical attainments, the in its pages is admirably calculated to independence of sentiment, and even abate the miseries, and augment the the originality of mind which this pro- happiness of mankind. On the maxim duction displays. The mingling of the therefore, elegant with the bizarre, the intelligent Humani nihil a nobis alienum puto, with the whimsical, forms altogether so we venture to devote a column to a singular a composition, that we can purpose, if not eminently learned, at scarcely tell whether admiration or pro- least eminently useful. It will not howvocation has predominated with us dur-ever be expected that a periodical work ing its perusal. As there are no small of the nature of the Literary Gazette, States in these days, we imagine that the should go minutely into the rules and plan of Constantine will never, like the regulations on which, in the first inRepublic of Plato, find an Elis or Cnidus stance, this new Association has been to attempt its practical adoption; nor formed. Suffice it to say, that the have we space to be the Xenocrates to great and leading principle is that of an enforce its dogmas. But we may state amicable and equal association of comof a book which is little known, that it mercial men and traders of every deembraces, among many fanciful, con- scription, for the settlement of mercantrovertible, and, as we think, fallacious tile claims and disputes by arbitration, principles, many curious ideas, much equitably, and at a very trifling expence, erudition, great simplicity and goodness instead of law proceedings, enormous of purpose, and more amusement than expence, frequent injustice, and ruin. has fallen to the lot of any political There is something so self-evident in tract in our memory. Improved by the proposition of the advantages thus travel, the author displays a highly cul-offered to society, that we should be ashamed to adduce one syllable by way | towns, the principal ports, and the screened; the honest and unfortunate man crushed, by that being made a load upon, which was meant for a prop to struggling industry? Who does not acknowledge that the gaols are crowded with only two classes,-the vagabond, who goes thither to turn the humanity of the Insolvent Debtor's Act into a shield, under which he may renew his course of knavery; and the poor wretch, who might well have satisfied his creditors, could he as readily have satisfied the remorseless draining of legalized blood-suckers?-for we firmly believe there are few cases, where the affairs of simple debtor and creditor, without expensive interference, would send a fairdealing individual to a prison. Far be it from us to throw a general stigma on the profession of the law: we only repeat the sentiments of those who are its chief ornaments, when we say, that the complication of its system, the technicalities of its administration, the costs of its judgments, and the infamous rascality of its underlings, who are the curses of those whom the Equitable Trade Society will protect, are the fruitful sources of more human wretchedness and desolateness, than, probably, any other combined causes in the whole sphere of civilized life and social rela tions. As yet we are not acquainted with the progress made; but we advise publicity, and publicity alone; for, to our minds, nothing more is necessary to render this institution the first in the World. VI. The Baptism of the Dead.-It presents us clearly the Tree of Life, which bears the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and round whose stem the serpent is twined. On the tree stands a Divinity, who is pouring water out of a vessel, with which he really baptizes the soul kneeling below-(which still retains the form once given to it.) This, therefore, is the cooling, the bath, the purification, by which the soul is rendered capable of eternal life. It cannot be precisely ascertained who the baptizing Genius is, or what the tree is called; but we meet with them in the mythologies of all the ancient nations; and the reader who is versed in mythology finds To see such a state of things put an himself here in a whole wood of real trees end to, to see this true and glorious of life, the seed of which is immortal in reform realized, without the perils the hearts of all men. Farther on there is of reforming, among our middle and a similar basket with offerings, as in the most valuable order of citizens, is a first picture at the feet of the female mournconsummation devoutly to be wished; ers. The basket is here uncovered, and the and we trust this Society has established offerings which it contained are suspended in the air over it. The pomegranate, which itself on a broad basis, not to be shaken. among the Greeks was sacred to ProserWe think it was in one of the chief pine; a latticed piece, which may represent manufacturing cities of France, where a honeycomb; then the leg of a sow, as we a plan of a similar nature was carried often find, is among the hieroglyphics; into effect, and acted upon for years. above this, is an outstretched hand, probaThe change was prodigious. Ease and On the other side of the tree behind the bly the hieroglyphic of giving, of offering. comfort, and what is better still, mu- kneeling soul, over which hovers the cross, tual good-will and friendship, grew as the type of eternal life, this picture is among its inhabitants, instead of liti- divided from the following by two large gious wrangling and mutual impover- feathers, standing one upon the other ishment. We cannot conceive any They are either meant here to serve as a obstacle to the universal application of partition, as elsewhere, for instance, the cythe same principle even in this astonish-press trees on the sculptures of Persepolis, ingly commercial country. Presidencies and Committees may be multiplied; the capital, the large manufacturing or they are the symbol of honour, of glory, lastly, the feather implies also devotion and prayer. VII. The Balance of Judgment.-We see here a great balance, in the middle of as he is shewn to be by the feather in his which, where the index is, a Genius sits, hand: he may be stationed there to superintend the weighing, or perhaps (as he is turned towards the soul) as a kind Genius, who causes the index to incline to the good scale. In the left scale sits a little feasign of devotion, of what is spiritual, and thered form, as the feather is always the therefore the symbol of good deeds; on the right side lies a figure in the form of a heart, the vessel of which is evil and sensual; the Genius with the wolf's head, as the bad angel, stands under the beam of the balance, depresses with one hand the scale of evil, and stretches out the other hand to reach down several more such vessels of evil, which hang on the beam. The soul sits with bent knees in an humble posture, on the left hand under the balance, to await its sentence, according as the scale of evil or of good shall be found to preponderate. As symbol of the sentence, the sphinx lies below it; and as an assurance of the just weighing, the all-seeing eye of Osiris hovers over its head: lower down is seen the great offering vessel, which was never omitted on Grecian funeral pictures, and the Egyptian cross, as the sign of eternal life, behind the soul. VIII. The presentation of the Soul before the throne of Isis.-This goddess is here enthroned in all her glory, and the soul is brought before her by the three great gods of the nether world. Osiris, with the hawk's head, and the double key of heaven, on the right arm, and in the left hand; he has on the sacred veil and girdle, and the sacred cap, and his breastplate calls to mind that of the Jewish high-priest. His arms and feet are painted green, as is the case with the baptizing divinity in the tree of life. He is followed by Anubis, the proper usher of the souls into the kingdom of death, with the head of the ibis, wearing, like Osiris, the sacred veil and bracelets, and with the lyre, of which he was the inventor, as well as of writing, being also teacher, propliet, and interpreter of the gods. Between him and Osiris is the winged Eye of Providence, with the serpent Thermutis, which bears the key of heaven. Then follows the soul itself, in a lofty dignified form, the left arm laid over the breast, and supported by the right; the arms and feet bare, and red like those of Anubis; on the ing in the baptism; this is fastened by a head the sacred green veil, which was wantyellow fillet, and above this a conical headdress, which it wears only in this representation, and which probably belonged to the initiated. Before the soul, stands an altar of sacrifice, upon it the basket of offerings, which has occurred twice before, and over it, the lotus flower suspended, the symbol of resurrection, as well as the cypress standing before it. This therefore is the second funeral offering, presented to the superior gods of the nether world, as the first was to |