delivered it up again upon composition. In revenge | resting and curious, as well as showing that the be invited them all to a feast, when he basely mur- author is perfectly acquainted with the subject. dered bis guests, and then proceeding to Sitsyllt's house, he put his son Cadwallader to death in his mother's sight. The kinsmen and friends of Sitsyllt in revenge took the castle by assault, and William afterwards incurring the displeasure of John, paid the penalty of his crime. Being arrested with his wife and son William, the latter were starved to death in Windsor Castle, whilst he, escaping in the garb of a beggar, wandered from place to place, and died in exile in Paris, in 1212." THE CHURCH'S HOUR; a Poem in two Parts."– If by ancient custom, and one not the least honoured in the observance, poets are allowed to draw very largely upon fiction, it equally as true is that some of the most standard works in our language on ethics and religion-witness Pope, Cotton, and Watts --have been arrayed in the garb of choice and elegant poetry. The work before us, the emanation of a sound Divine in easy and AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, delivered at the classical iambics, is of this order. The author North London Ophthalmic Institution, May 8th, writes with a touch of wrath and partiality that 1843, by William White Cooper, M.R.C.S, Fel- would have obtained for him the commendation of low of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Johnson himself in respect to his being "a good Surgeon to the North London Opthalmic Institu-hater;" but it is only in a polemic sense he is to be tion, and to the Honourable Artillery Company, &c., &c.—It is not usually our custom to notice medical works, but we are induced to deviate from our ordinary course on the present occasion, from the interesting character of the lecture and the importance of the subject of which it treats. It is a matter of sincere congratulation to the public generally, and to those afflicted in their eyes in particular, that a great change has taken place of late years in the character and description of the men who practise ophthalmic surgery. Up to a very recent period, it was left (as is well known) in the hands of a class of men called oculists, who were generally exceedingly ignorant-whose know ledge was confined to couching a cataract, and whose practice was limited to dropping burning drops into their unfortunate patients' eyes, or applying ointments of a similar description-never mind what the character of the case might be. Now, as a very large proportion of the diseases of the eye are dependent upon or influenced by affections of the general system, as scrofula, measles, small-pox, scarletina, and teething in children, to say nothing of the stomach and the brain-it stands to reason that for such diseases to be treated skilfully and rationally, they must be studied by educated surgeons, well versed in "all the ills that flesh is beir to," thoroughly competent to trace the said diseases to their origin, and conversant with the proper methods of cure. Such, happily for suffering humanity, is now the case, and the race of oculists is nearly extinct; whilst a class of highly accomplished and scientific surgeons have devoted their attention to the eye. It would appear, however, that that subject is not so generally studied as it ought to be, and a main object of the lecture before us is to impress upon the minds of the medical profession its great importance. In this we fully concur, and cordially hope that it will be taken up as it deserves. It appears that the North London Opthalmic Institution owes its origin to Mr. Cooper, and we sincerely wish that this truly useful establishment may meet with the support it deserves. The late Duke of Sussex was warmly interested in its success, and it numbers amongst its subscribers some of the first men of the day. In conclusion we must express our approbation of the lecture, which contains much that is inte * Longman and Co. considered thus; and considering the sacred cause The work pretends not to go into the controversial details of argument. Sted fastly assured of the truth of the doctrines founded immediately on scripture, whilst he names "Truths coeval with the fall," he simply but earnestly points out the more striking innovations attempted, and their dangerous tendency; and not the least of these he very wisely argues as likely to result from idle disputation. "For controversy gives them all their strength." In these unhappy days of every sort of repeal, schism, and separation, a work like this appears like a light armed warrior hurrying to aid his chieftain's banner in a well contested field. To those who wear not the weighty panoply, or—usum non habent-have not assayed the arms of polemic warfare, by accompanying this soldier of the faith, will be enabled at least to learn how goes the fight. The attack upon the assumed dialectic sophism, the slumber of the spirit, namely, intermediately between death and resurrection, is most summary; and we believe we may add most orthodox. For," says he, "if such be the case— Vain the assurance of the sacred word, Absent from body, present with the Lord!" It is altogether an excellent poem, and commands the attentive perusal of those who can enter into the consideration of its serious nature. SKETCHES AND EXTRACTS FROM A TRAVELLING JOURNAL. By Madame La Vicomtesse De Satge the perusal of this work, not only from the taste St. Jean.+-We have derived great pleasure from and talent with which every page abounds, but from the fact of its being written by a lady who, * Hatchard, London; Graham, Oxford; Binns and Goodwin, Bath. † 1 vol., Saunders and Otly. although she now bears a foreign name, is a native pure ADDRESSED TO THE PORTRAIT OF MY "In mid career in this your hour of play, Say, are ye tracing back some treasur'd hours As yet ye know not-though, alas! too true- And, smit with Nature's charms, dare to portray With all a mother's love, your hearts to guide 1. A very elegant ballad, dedicated by permission to the Earl of Wilton. The poetry of Mrs. Thomas and the music of Charles Horn need no eulogium from us. We regret, however, to see the sad blunders of which the engraver has been guilty, and strongly advise the publisher to have the music better corrected before more copies are worked off. A half-title would also improve the appearance of the first page. 2, 3, 4, 5, are all very sweet ballads, gracefully is in itself a host. The words have been already set by Alexander Lee, whose name as a melodist before our readers. 6. A very beautiful serenade by the above composer, the melody particularly sweet and appropriate. We recommend all gentlemen vocalists, who have a pleasing voice, to try its efficacy some of these moonlight evenings, under the window of their lady-love! It will then be heard to the best advantage. 7. A very graceful ballad, full of melody, and easy of compass for the voice; the words, too, are particularly sweet and poetical. We think the Butterfly's Wings" will soar beyond a season, and outlast the summer weather. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CONCERTS OF THE MONTH. The past month, like its predecessor, has been redolent of "fiddles, flutes, and sweet voices." We "begin with the beginning" MR. JOHN PARRY'S CONCERT, On the 2nd June. Had a proof been required of the popularity of the English buffo-singer, an ample one was furnished by the crowded and fashionable audience which attended his concert at the Hanover-square Rooms. Mr. John Parry sang, for the first time, a capital mock scena, written by Albert Smith, and composed by himsef, called "The Sleeping Beauty," in which the pianoforte accompaniment and the scraps of popular airs introduced as intermediate symphonies, caused roars of laughter. It were needless to state, that he was rapturously applauded and vociferously encored; when he gave "Anticipations of Switzerland," and in the course of the evening sang "The Accomplished Young Lady" and "Blue Beard." Miss Clara Novello, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Dolby, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Alfred Shaw, and the Misses Williams, Mr. Hobbs and Herr Staudigl, sang a variety of compositions with the greatest success. Miss Rainforth was encored in "The Grecian Daughter," and the same compliment was paid to the Misses Williams, who by the way are most rising artistes, in Gabussi's duet, "La piu pura." Madame Dulcken delighted the company by her brilliant execution of a fantasia by Dohler. Regondi played a solo on the concertina, with great taste and elegance. Blagrove gave a rondo by Mayseder, on the violin, in a highly-finished and masterly manner; and Richardson on the flute, variations on There's nae Juck about the house" in the first style of excellence. M. Benedict and Signor Negri presided at an Erard grand pianoforte, with their wonted talent; and the concert appeared to afford the highest gratification to the company, most of whom remained until the very close of the performance. MR. W. H. HOLMES'S CONcert. On the morning of the 10th June, this concert took place, at that great temple of music and song, the Hanover-Square Rooms, which were crowded to excess. The bill of fare was first-rate; containing the names of Mesdames Albertazzi, Caradori Allan, W. Loder, &c.; and among the gentlemen, Hausmann, Herr Staudigl, Brizzi, Chatterton, &c., &c.; to say nothing of Mr. Holmes himself, who is no light weight in the scale of talent. A manuscript song" Revenge," by Herr Staudigl, was splendid, and was loudly encored. The Capricio à la Suisse, on the pianoforte by Mr. Holmes, was magnificently executed, as was the fantasia concertante for two flutes, by the Messrs. Card. But the curiosity of the concert was the performance on eight pianos, by sixteen performers, by Mr. Holmes and his pupils; which wound up the morning's amusement, sending every body home, well pleased with every thing they had heard. MISS HENRIETTA ROECKEL'S CONCERT. This elegant morning concert took place on Monday, the 26th June, at the rooms, Hanover Square. As our magazine is going to press even before the performance is ended, we have only time to say that the audience was a most crowded and fashionable one, and that, in strength and excellence, the programme of the fair beneficiare yielded to none that has preceded it this season. We only regret the proximity to the close of the month has prevented us doing this lady's concert justice by a detailed account, which it would have afforded us much pleasure to have rendered. As a niece of the celebrated Hummel, Miss Roeckel must command attention, while her own merits place her on an equality with the best performers of the day. EXHIBITION OF THE NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS No. 7, by Henry Warren, "Arabs of the Bisharee Desert," is a beautiful and most interesting picture; as is No. 30, by L. Haghe, "Cromwell and Ireton intercepting a letter of Charles the First." 306, by Edward Corbauld, "Jesus at the house of Simon the Pharisee," is a splendid painting; but the gems of the gallery to our taste, this year, are 106, "Christ's Sermon," by Henry Warren, and 343, by E. HI. Wehnert, “ Martin Luther reading to his Friends the MS. of one of his pamphlets against the Abuses of the Romish Church." This last, both for design and execution, is certainly unequalled. We regret that our space will not allow us at present to enumerate many others well deserving of attention and praise. GLACIARUM, BAKER-STREET. Instead of the dangerous practice of eating ices, in which many of our fair readers are apt to indulge this warm weather, to the great terror of their more prudent mammas, and the great benefit to their medical men, we recommend them to visit the above establishment, and cool their feet by a quadrille on its mimic crystal, instead of their lips, by the more real, but certainly more hurtful ice, they will find at our fashionable confectioners. The exhibition, as regards the scenery, &c., independent of the curiosity and novelty attached to skating in summer, deserves a visit from all our country friends, who come at this season to see the Lions of the Metropolis. FASHIONS FOR JULY. Rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré, MY DEAR FRIEND, The materials that I have already mentioned continue their vogue for chapeaux and capotes, but the different kinds of fancy and sieved straw are less seen; rice straw, silk, and crape, being more worn in public promenade dress; gauze, tulle, and lace, but particularly the latter, are most in request in demi toilette, for which rice straw is also in favour, and fancy straw is occasionally seen. I may cite among the prettiest of the promenade chapeaux those of jonquille moire; they are of the demi buèssèe form, and trimmed either with rubans chinés, or shaded marabouts, and also chapeaux and capotes of different coloured poult de Soie with a simple garniture à la vielle of ribbon to correspond. I must observe that this style of trimming has lost nothing of its vogue; it is still employed most extensively for all the different articles of dres. A good many capotes have the brims of rice straw, and the caul, which is set in in the melon form, of plaided taffetas, the squares shaded in different shades of red and green; the interior is trimmed at the sides with chicorée tufts of intermingled white and cherry-coloured ribbon; a torsade of ribbon corresponding with the caul of the bonnet encircles the bottom of it, and a single large flower with a profusion of buds and foliage completes the garniture. the chapeaux composed of point d'Angleterre ; some are of the chapeau capote shape; they are trimmed on the exterior with a wreath of mignonette intermingled with half-blown roses and ribbons shaded in the two colours; the interior decorated with tufts of ribbon notched at the edges; others—and these latter are equally elegant and becoming-are lined with pink crape; the exterior is ornamented with marabouts shaded with pink, and the interior with half-wreaths of very small and delicate pink flowers. Tarlatane, lace, and muslin are now more in favour than silk for camails, mantelets, &c., &c., both for half dress and the public promenade. Those of silk, however, though not in a majority, are very fashionable. I may cite, as the most elegant models of the former description, those given in your first print. The mantelets d la Duchesse retain their vogue; they are now principally composed of muslin, lined with rose or blue florence, and bordered with lace, surmounted with embroidery in application. This style is coming very much into favour, under the name of guipure d'été; it has not, however, superseded feather stitch, which is also very much in vogue. Several muslin mantelets, lined with coloured taffetas, and trimmed with broad lace, are embroidered above the lace in a deep border, with feather stitch. A good many of the silk mantelets are made quite up to the throat, and closed down the front; they are rounded behind, cut out at the bend of the arm, and descend in front in rounded ends. The trimming is a narrow volant, disposed in hollow plaits, surmounted by passementerie: a fall of a corresponding garniture encircles the throat. Others, made lower and open in front, are trimmed with a small pelerine, which descends in the lappel style to the waist: these are generally bordered with broad black lace. Paletots are no longer seen in silk, but a good many have appeared both in muslin and tarlatane: they are Several of the crape capotes adopted in half-made with three pelerines; two are rounded in dress are made very small; a favourite style of trimming for them is a wreath of intermingled yellow roses and violets; another kind of trimming also much in request is a panache composed of epis de riz, intermingled with flowers of various hues. Several capotes of gaze brochée have the brim partially covered with bands of lace, or tresses of paille de riz. A good many chapeaux are composed of a new material, crêpe natte; the shapes are generally round, moderately open, and rather short at the ears; the exterior is trimmed with a willow plume formed of the beards of marabouts; the interior has the sides adorned with tufts of very small flowers. Green crape is very much in request both for chapeaux and capotes; it is by no means a generally becoming colour, but its effect is sometimes neutralized by the interior of the brim being lined with lace laid in full, and forming a narrow ruche round the edge; each side is ornamented with a small tuft of rosebuds; the exterior of the brim is decorated with three crape biais and a row of lace, which, forming a second bavolet, turns up on the left side of the crown, and terminates in a rosette, in which a bouquet of roses Pompadour are placed. I shall close my list with front, and each trimmed with a double row of Valenciennes; the third is composed of five rows of Valenciennes, terminating in a point at the bottom of the waist. Changeable silks, particularly the soie caméléon, are still greatly in vogue, but bareges will certainly divide the honours with them this summer, I mean for half-dress, or evening parties, for cambric is beginning to be generally adopted in morning dress; and our fair travellers adopt Nankin, Contil, and other stout materials, both for their journeys and for the country. The new patterns of barege are very numerous, more so, I think, than those of any other material; satin stripes, open stripes, bouquets, either detached or in columns: some have a variety of colours on a white ground; others are in various shades of the same colour. As this material is adopted both for negligé and evening dress, there is always a difference in the patterns, as well as in the form of the robe and the trimming. Tucks are generally preferred as being sufficiently simple, when worn without any accessory, and being rendered dressy by having embroidery or fringe attached to them; indeed, I have seen lace added for evening robes. I may |