certainly have bribed my Cossack to have sold his horse to me; the animal was so excellent a galloper, that I was obliged several times to stop till the rest of the company came up. "The Cossacks are extremely proud of their horses, as they say, since the immortal Frederick, King of Prussia, first rode one, he never has, in time of war, made use of any other than a horse from the borders of the Don. I do not know who was most pleased, the Cossack that lent me his horse, or I who rode him." THE NORMAN HORSESHOE, BY WALTER SCOTT, The Welsh inhabiting a mountainous country, and possessing only an inferior breed of horses, were generally unable to encounter the shock of the Anglo-Norman cavalry. Occasionally, however, they were successful in repelling the invaders; and the following verses celebrate a supposed defeat of CLARE, Earl of Striguil and Pembroke, and of NEVILLE, Baron of Chepstow, Lords Marchers of Monmouthshire. Rymny is a stream which divides the counties of Monmouth and Glamorgan: Caerphili, the scene of the supposed battle, is a vale upon its banks, dignified by the ruins of a very ancient castle. RED glows the forge in Striguil's bounds, And armourers, with iron toil, Barb many a steed for battle's broil. Foul fall the hand which bends the steel From Chepstow's towers, ere dawn of morn, And forth, in banded pomp and pride, They swore their banners broad should gleam, The Norman charger's spurning heel. And sooth they swore---the sun arose, A Norman horseman's curdling blood! Old Chepstow's brides may curse the toil Their orphans long the art may rue, No more the stamp of armed steed Nor trace be there, in early spring, VOL. III. New Series. DOMESTIC LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. By the recent arrival of the cartel Fair American, the booksellers have received an unusual supply of new and attractive works. Many of them have been put to press, and will afford a rich fund of reading for the summer. Putronage, a new novel in 4 vols. by Miss Edgeworth, has been put to press by Moses Thomas, Philadelphia-Also Posthumous Parodies and other pieces, a hu morous and satirical work, supposed to be written by the authors of Rejected Ad dresses Also The Corsair, a new poem by Lord Byron, forming a continuation of his series of Eastern Tales. O'Donnel, a novel by Lady Morgan, (late Miss Owenson,) author of the Wild Irish Girl, &c is printing by Van Winkle and Wiley, New-York-The same booksellers advertise The Feast of the Poets, by Leigh Hunt, Esq. editor of the Examiner, at present confined in Surry gaol for a libellous satire on the Prince Regent. This poem some time since appeared in a periodical work, and was copied into dif ferent works in this country. The great celebrity which it gained has induced the author to revise, correct, and enlarge it; and to add copious notes critical, and satirical, discussing the merits and lashing the faults of the principal writers of the day, in a strain of cutting and undaunted animadversion. It is certainly one of the most spirited productions of the kind that has issued for a long time from the British press. The second volume of Dugald Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind has been received, and will soon be published by Eastburn, Kirk & Co. New-York. The same house has likewise received and put to press The Wanderer, or Fe male Difficulties, in 5 vols. by Madame D'Arblay, authoress of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. Also Suinine's Biographical Memoir of General Moreau, and account of his last moments. Also Germany, by Mad. de Stael Holstein. Poems by three friends. Political Portraits in this new era, by W. Playfair. Sermons by Walter Blake Kirwan, late Dean of Killalla, with a sketch of his life. Corasmin, or the Minister, by the author of the Swiss Emigrants. Delaplaine's Repository.-Proposals have been issued by Joseph Delaplaine of Philadelphia, for publishing a national work to be entitled Delaplaine's Repository of the Portraits and Lives of the Heroes, Philosophers, and Statesmen of Ame rica Though we object to the title as ostentatious, and are not altogether pleased with the prospectus, as containing too much of that wordy profession and wide-mouthed promise, so greatly in fashion among the booksellers of the day, still we are of opinion that a work of this kind ably and modestly executed, would deserve and receive the universal patronage of the nation. The work will consist of a series of biographical memoirs of those Americans who have been most conspicuous for their talents, virtues, and public services, accompanied by engravings by the best hands, from portraits taken by the most celebrated painters. The following are the con ditions specified by Mr. D. I. The work will be printed in quarto. Twelve portraits, with their accompany ing biographical sketches, will constitute a volume-which volume will be published in the course of a year, in two separate numbers, neatly put up in boards-each number to be delivered to the subscribers at the end of each half year. Every volume will be ornamented with an elegant title page and vignette, designed and engraved by Mr. Fairman; and also an emblematical frontispiece, designed by him and engraved by Mr. Lawson. At the end of the second number, a list of subseribers, and an index to the whole volume, will be printed. The typographical part will he executed by Mr. William Brown. II. The price of each volume will be eight dollars to subscribers-half of it to be paid on the delivery of the first number-the other half on the delivery of the se cond. To non-subscribers the price will be nine dollars a volume. Long and Huuto's Hydraulic Machine.-A new Hydraulic machine, called by the inventor the Hydrostatic Engine, has been lately patented by Messrs. Long and Hauto of Germantown, Pa. and is now said to be in successful operation near that place. This machine operates on the principle of hydrostatic pressure; the wa ter is made to act alternately on two pistons moving horizontally in a box or cylinder placed at the bottom of a shaft through which the water falls. From the reciprocating motions of these pistons a rotary motion is produced by an ingenious machinery, which, however, might probably be much simplified. This invention possesses an advantage over every other application of the same principle we have seen, in producing the circular motion through the intervention of an alternating one, by which means the whirling motion of the water in the descending shaft, which was found on experiment nearly to destroy the effect of Barker's mill, is avoided Such, however, is the uncertainty which still attends the subject of the pressure and motion of fluids, that experiment alone can test the utility of inventions of this kind. None, however, that we recollect, appears in principle so likely to succeed as the machine of Messrs. Long and flauto, and if its success be as stated by them, the inventor may boldly lay claim to the merit of having arrived at a long looked for desideratum in the arts. R. Dewitt on Perspective.-Simeon Dewitt, Esq. Surveyor-General of the state of New-York, has published a work on Perspective. The fundamental rules of this art are laid down in it with clearness and simplicity, in a series of neat propositions, and ⚫ a number of appropriate examples of its practice are given. This work contains as much of the principies of Perspective as are absolutely essential. It comprises in a small compass almost every thing that is usually recollected after the toilsome study of larger works; and has the advantage, from its author being evidently well acquainted with the useful application of the art, of being free from such propositions as are merely objects of curiosity, and of others which are, when tested by use, absolutely false, of which we have seen several in a late work on the subject. The architect may be obliged, and the curious investigator of mathematical science, be induced, to peruse the more complete works of the Jesuits, and Brooke Taylor, but Mr. Dewitt's work contains every thing which is necessary to assist the amateur or artist in the elegant amusement of sketching from nature, or in the composition of any pictures, when the correct delineation of architectural subjects is not requisite. The chapter of military perspective is well drawn up, and should it be adopted in our military academies, will probably revive among us a mode of military plan drawing, which although now almost forgotten throughout the world, needs no other recommendation than its having been that which was practised by De Ville, Vauban, and all the other ancient masters of the art of the attack and de. fence of fortified places. R. Kean the Actor.-A new phenomenon has appeared in the English dramatic world, who, in the language of our correspondent, has produced "an impression upon the public mind which surpasses any incident in the dramatic history of the present age, young Betty's success, perhaps, excepted." "Kean appears to me to have adopted all Cooke's great points, somewhat changing their effect by a more jocose general manner than Cooke's. He is very short, and not graceful, but has more self possession than any person I ever saw. He has brought 6007. nightly to Drury-Lane, where, previous to his appearance, they had acted, it was said, to 301." The European Magazine for March gives a portrait and memoir of him, in which he is acknowledged as having saved Drury-Lane from ruin, and the receipts of the theatre is stated as nearly 7001 a night. He was engaged at 87. a week, but his salary raised immediately to 16, 18, and 20, with benefits, and a present of 100 guineas. His Shylock has been pronounced by the critics inferior to Mr. Cooke's alone, his Richard unparalleled. American Artists in London-Our great countryman, Benjamin West, having outlived envy, and soared above all competition, continues to astonish the world by the efforts of his genius. Washington Alston is already spoken of as the successor of his pre-eminent master, and by some compared with him. Leslie daily increases in merit and reputation. Mr. West says he excels any young man he ever knew or read of, of his age and opportunities. He has sold an admirable picture founded on the scriptural story of the Witch of Endor, to a noble baronet for one hundred guineas. It must be recollected Mr. Leslie has not yet reached the age of manhood. He exhibits a small full length of John Howard Payne, our young dramatic hero in the character of Douglas this spring, at Somerset house. Young Morse, the son of Doctor Morse the geographer, has likewise gained great reputation for paintings which he has exhibited, and was honoured with a gold medal at the last distribution of prizes at the Adelphi, for a model of the Dying Hercules. Classical and Biblical learning.—We have observed with much pleasure the great and rapidly increasing taste for these branches of learning, which has, within a few years manifested itself in various parts of our country, but particularly in Boston and the university at Cambridge. The edition of Griesbach's Greek Testament, published at Cambridge in 1809, bears very honourable testimony to the scholarship of its editors. It is one of the most accurate books we have ever seen, and were it not for the accidental omission of one single word, (error gravissimus, as a Dutch commentator would exclaim,) it might probably lay a fair claim to the magnificent title of an immaculate book, a treasure, the possession of which, according to Harwood, Dibdin, and the other bibliographical writers, is the very summit of human felicity. We have lately understood that it is intended to reprint in one volume quarto, Schleusner's Lexicon to the Greek Testament, at the same press, and with the same scrupulous care and accuracy. This is a very proper accompaniament to Griesbach's Testament. Schleusner's work was first made known to the scholars of Great Britain by the high praises bestowed upon it by the learned Herbert Marsh in the notes to his translation of Michaelis It has since very deservedly gained a high degree of celebrity. Schleusner is a learned and laborious German, and his book displays something of that heavy diligence and pedantic minuteness which have always been laid to the charge of the German literati. He is too fond of dividing and tracing out the differ. ent uses of his words into what Johnson, if we recollect rightly, calls "parallel ramification of the radical sense." In this he is sometimes fanciful, and sometimes mistakes the sense which the word derives from its connexion and reference to the rest of the passage, for its own proper meaning. He who has occasion to consult Schleusner will often wish for the simplicity and English good sense of Parkhurst. But Schleusner has undoubtedly collected a vast body of learning, well digested, and methodically arranged, and a great deal of this learning is of a kind, which to an English, most certainly to an American scholar, is almost inaccessible-we mean that contained in the works of the German philologists and critics of the last thirty years The German edition of Schleusner is in two clumsy octavos, printed on that wretched paper by which so many of the German editions are disgraced, and it is besides scarce and dear. The American edition will be in one quarto, and in every respect superior. A series of the Latin classics, to be printed in a handsome duodecimo form, after the manner of the beautiful editions of Barbou and Foulis, is also proposed, and we understand will immediately be begun with the works of Cicero from the edition of Ernesti. Gibbon has pronounced his opinion of the different editions of the great Roman orator, after his manner, in a splendid antithesis, by selecting from the mass "that of Olivet, which should adorn the libraries of the rich, and that of Ernesti, which should lie upon the tables of the learned." It is certainly presumptuous to dissent from such authority; yet it appears to us that as the notes of Ernesti for the most part relate merely to verbal criticism, the literary wants of this country would probably be better supplied by a cheap republication of Olivet's edition, which contains more of the interpretation and elucidation of passages obscure from their reference to the Roman customs and law. To this, the excellent Clavis of Ernesti might be added, and a compound edition would be thus formed much more valuable than that of either of the European editors. Whatever may be thought of this sugges tion the publishers have our warmest wishes for their success in their meritorious undertaking. 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