Trace every shade that marks the air, DAUGHTER of light! what form of prayer ground Oh! guardian of the heaven-strung lyre, And there, to earth-born cares unknown, To thee, sweet nymph, alone. Alas! fond youth—the dream of pride, Her charming course-her rising flight, Hear the wild howling of the storm; Rings the sad shriek of dark despair: [they lie. Clad in loose garb of gory dye He views the wide extending train, In the dark eventful hour. Hark! that dread shock has rock'd the ground The work of ruin spreads around; The drums' deep peal, the trumpets' tone, Are heard on every side! Methinks I see thee soar : I view thy pinion dipt in gore. Oh! Genius-still how wild, how wide The transient touch of joy, That flows from MOORE's enchanting tongue. With CAMPBELL let them learn to stray And BLOOMFIELD, will they spurn-thine interesting train? [vern, Let Rugby's true sons, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Booze as stoutly as Polypheme did in his caAnd mark, boys, the toast-be it stav'd ter et quater, [princely fundator. Here's the memory of Laurence--our If we learnedly search all the records of story, What Laurence can vie with our Laurence in glory? As for Turnus, that he-ass, Who fought with Æneas, What is he to compare with our Laurence Rugbæus ? Why if Virgil had liv'd in good Queen Bess's days, [of his lays. He'd have made our great Sheriff the theme Let Rugby's true sons, &c. [Sept. 1, Dan Roscoe has painted, with pencil divine, Who took in the goddesses, When with dishevelled tresses, But away with Lorenzo, that chap was more See on Avon's green banks, where the pinna- Those are Laurence's Edes- up every weed is, Pious founder, no doubt, peeps from sky with As learning and discipline enter his pile. But what is yon vision, celestially bright, His eye flashes fire, In his hand is a lyre, And the many-ton'd chords every passion Ah! I know the great bard! mighty Shak- But to leave this sweet dream, and to reason And I'll prove we can match, though it kin- Any Westminster, Eton, or Wykehamist scholar. Let Rugby's true sons, &c. Solid learning, sound morals, good humour, Still surround the gay soard where Lauren- Inspires droll remark, quaint retort, and queer pun, While in many an old story rare pleasure we find, [mind. Because it brings Rugby-dear Rugby, to Let Rugby's true sons, &c. Come, we'll drown in mere wine all the cares of each age, [assuage, And with friendship and music rude passions On each fare a smile, And with hearts free from guile, We'll again be school-fellows and children awhile sorrow, Live delighted to-day-take a long leave of [to-morrow. And bid blooming hope lead our steps thro Let Rugby's true sons, &c. 1816.] Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences.. SONG, Written by a Gentleman in the County of Londonderry, and sung at a convivial meeting in honour of the King's Birth-day, at Newtowniimavady, June 6, 1816. TUNE-Bumper 'Squire Jones. YE sad fellows all, To embarrass the state With your preaching and prate And your popular cries; Since places your aim is, Come here and don't blame us, 139 A place in our triumph this evening bestows; We've a toast for you fit- [foes. Who grieve that old Britain has triumph'd And here's to his system which humbled our Attend to the call [once more, [foes. Your boards and petitions no longer impose: We'll teach you a toast, Ye friends of reform, Which is loyalty's boast, Here's the King, whom we love, and away with his foes! SONNET, On the death of Major MARSH, of the Royal Artillery, which was occasioned by a fall from a carriage, near St. Pol, in France, July, 1816.* Friend and companion of life's genial prime, Whose kindred virtues in my bosom wrought Such love as absence and oblivious time Could ne'er dissolve-Oh! how the cruel thought Shall I endure of thy disastrous fate! How trace, imprinted on my pensive mind, Thy rare endowments, social and refin'd, Without the pangs that perish'd joys create! Ah! had it prov'd thy destin'd lot to fall On Nile's proud borders, or the conquer'd Cape, [call, What time high Honour rais'd her trumpet Such death had come in more congenial shape, And grief, tho' sacred, had been less severe Who sigh for the places you censure so wise, Than now bedews thy melancholy bier! Who watch for the storm * See our last number, p 74. INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. The Norrisian Prize at Cambridge is this year adjudged to J. C. FRANKS, B.A. of Trinity College. The subject is The Use and Necessity of Revelation. Mr. T. DIBDIN has undertaken the task of selecting and arranging for the press the posthumous dramatic works of the late Mr. BENJAMIN THOMPSON, which will be published early in the ensuing winter by subscription, for the benefit of his widow and six children. They will be accompanied with a copious memoir and portrait, and form two handsome volumes, 8vo. price to subscribers one guinca, to be paid at the time of subscribing. Subscriptions are received by the Publisher of this Magazine, Mr SARRATT, professor of chess, has in the press a most interesting work on that science, one part of which was originally written by a late Duke of BrunswickLunenburg. 140 Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences. Mr. COLBURN will shortly publish, by authority, in French as well as English, the following important productions: 1. Correspondence of M. FouCHE, Duke of Otranto, with his Grace the Duke of Wellington. 2. A Sketch of the Public Life of M. FOUCHE, Duke of Otranto, comprising various correspondence, addressed to the Emperor Napoleon, King Joachim, the Duke d'Artois, Prince Blücher, Louis XVIII Count de Blacas, and other ministers, &c. This work pourtrays this celebrated character as he really is; it exhibits his most secret sentiments, the spirit of his public life, and the principles which have directed him at all periods and in situations the most diversified. The political documents will be found to throw great light on the personal relations of the Duke, and on the history and character of recent events. Dr. WATKINS has not been able to complete his Memoirs of Mr. SHERIDAN, so early as was at first expected, but they will certainly be ready for publication in the course of September. When the various talents of this celebrated man are considered; the distinguished part he took in the political affairs of the country; his long connection with the stage; his intimacy with the highest characters and the greatest wits of the age, and those embarrassments which too frequently accompany genius-it is to be expected that a faithful and impartial history of his life should open a wider field of instruction and amusement than has been exhibited by any production subsequent or even previous to the biography of Johnson. A large portion of the life was long since prepared from most valuable information communicated to the author by one of Mr. Sheridan's earliest friends and nearest relatives: in addition to which, it will contain many new and original anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, Dr. Parr, Garrick, Burke, Fox, &c. The new edition of NEUMAN'S Spanish and English Dictionary is in considerable forwardness, but the extent and variety of the additions are such as to ocIt will concupy much time and care. tain above 20.000 new articles and several thousand modern words, many of which are not to be found in any English or Spanish Dictionary hitherto published, In this edition the names of articles in commerce, the terms used in manufactures, and the most popular terms in science, have been introduced, it is believed, for the first time, in a dictionary [Sept. 1, of two languages. It has also been attempted to make the work something more than a mere book of words, to render it useful not only to the translator, the merchant, manufacturer, soldier, and sailor, but likewise to the philosopher, antiquary, and naturalist. Mr. BowEN has added a great number of words used in conversation and in periodical publications, although not inserted in any of our dictionaries, and has indicated the Spanish origin of several English words, which have either eluded the sagacity of etymologists, or been erroneously attributed to the French. Senor PEREZ has subjoined many useful terins familiar in Spanish America. Our correspondent, Mr. THOMAS TAYLOR, of Manor-place, Walworth, has issued proposals for printing, by subscription, in octavo, Theoretic Arithmetic, in three books, containing the substance of all that has been written on this subject by, Theo of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Jamblichus, and Boetius; together with some remarkable particulars respecting perfect, amicable, and other numbers, which are not to be found in the writings of any ancient or modern mathematicians. Mr. THOMAS WILSON will publish, very early in September, a complete system of English Country Dancing, which will contain all the matter found in his Analysis of Country Dancing, together with a great variety of new and fashionable Figures, new Reels, a technical BallRoom Dictionary, the Etiquette of the Ball-Room, an Essay on Deportment, with a Dissertation, comparing the ancient and original with the present state and style of English Country Dancing, on Professors of Dancing, Dancing Masters, and Dancing Rooms. It will be illustrated with upwards of one hundred and fifty diagrams of all the appropriate figures, and a variety of other embellishments, engraved by Mr. Branston, from drawings by Mr. J. H. Randal. Mr. SHELDRAKE has in the press a fourth edition of Useful Hints to those who are afflicted with Ruptures, on the Nature, Cure, and Consequences of the Disease, and on the Empirical Practices of the present day; with an appendix, containing an Explanation of the Principles on which are constructed Trusses which have been invented and long used with success by the author in private practice, and now first made public; likewise of several other useful bandages which are now first offered to notice. A correspondent remarks, that there 1816.] Intelligence in Literature and the Arts and Sciences. are few circumstances that the Irish are more pleased with than the present popularity of their old National Airs: it flatters their vanity to think that a people like the English, remarkable for their taste and discernment, should prefer the strains of the Western Bards to the highly-polished and affected productions of Italy. This being the case, the indifference with which new works, even. though the productions of native genius, are received in Ireland, is rather singular. Mr. Maturin's tragedy, with all its acknowledged merit, has no appearance yet of being prepared for representation in Dublin. Mr. Accum has in the press, a Practical Essay on Chemical Re-Agents, or Tests, illustrated by a Series of Experiments. The work will comprehend a Summary View of the general nature of Chemical Tests; the effects which are produced by the action of these bodies, the uses to which they may be applied, and the art of applying them successfully. A list of all the substances for which there exist any appropriate tests, will be added; and a portable chemical chest, containing the chemical tests and apparatus necessary for performing the experiments described in the treatise, will also be delivered, if required, as a companion to the work, which will be published early in September. A History of Nipal, containing not only geographical information relative to that Kingdom, but also illustrative of its relations, political and commercial, with the British dominions in Asia, Tibet, Tartary, and the Chinese empire, and the rise and progress of the late war, will speedily appear in an 8vo. volume. Some account of Ahantah and Fantyn, and of the rest of the Gold Coast of Africa, is in the press. The recent intelligence of a war between the people of those countries, and the general ignorance which prevails respecting them, render a work of authority on that subject very desirable. Captain LOCKETT, of the East India Company's service, is preparing for publication Travels from Calcutta to Baby. lon, including Strictures on the History of that ancient Metropolis, and Observations made among its ruins. The work will be illustrated with engravings. The Rev. THOMAS MAURICE bas in the press, in 4to. Observations on the Ruins of Babylon, as recently visited and described by CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH, Esq. resident for the East India Company at Bagdad. 141 Mr. J. WARDROP will speedily publish a second volume of Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Eye, with coloured engravings. Mr. E. V. UTTERSON is preparing, in two volumes, a Collection of Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry, written before the close of the 16th century. As one object in view is to illus trate the literary amusement of our ancestors, no poem will be introdued which did not either in its matter or style, lay claim to popularity. Each poem will be ornamented with a wood cut, and have a short notice prefixed to it. A Description of the People of India, by the Abbé J. A. DUBOIS, missionary in the Mysore, in a 4to. volume, is nearly ready for publication. This work is the result of a diligent observation and study of the people, during a residence of many years among the various tribes, in unrestrained intercourse and conformity with their habits and manner of life. A Translation of the Antiquarian Travels in Italy of the learned French archaologist, M. MILLIN, is preparing. Mr. THOMAS RUSSEL, jun. of Guildford, is publishing, by subscription, a Picturesque View of that ancient Town, on a large scale, from a spot which displays to great advantage its venerable castle and other buildings. The First Part of the Philosophical Transactions for 1816, just published, contains the following papers: On the Fire Damp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of lighting the Mines so as to prevent Explosion. By Sir H. DAVY, Account of an Invention for giving Light On the Developement of Exponential On New Properties of Heat, as exhibited in its Propagation along Plates of Glass. By DAVID BREWSTER, LL.D. Further Experiments on the Combustion of Explosive Mixtures confined by Wiregauze, with some Observations on Flame. By Sir H. DAVY. Some Observations and Experiments made on the Torpedo of the Cape of Good Hope in 1812. By JOH. TODD, late Surgeon of H. M. S. Lion Direct and Expeditious Methods of caloulating the excentric from the mean Anomaly of a Planes. By the Rev. ABRAM ROBERTSON, D.D. Savil an Professor of Astronomy, at Oxford. Demonstrations of the late Dr.Maskelyne's Formule for finding the Longitude and Lati |