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took orders in the church; but the ill odour into which
the establishment fell, and the growing power of the
Puritans, induced him to give up his profession, and take
shelter under the character of a layman. The evening
of his days was spent more happily:

"For good luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night,
Not all at once, but gently."

Though an enthusiastic boon companion, as every man worth a farthing ought to be when in the company of those whose minds assimilate with his own, Herrick was at the same time a man of principle and integrity. A fine spirit of pious morality breathes through many of his compositions; as, for example, in these lines

ON HIMSELF.

"A wearied pilgrim I have wander'd here
Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one year.
Long have I lasted in this world, 'tis true,
But yet those years that I bave lived are few.
Who by his grey hairs does his lustres tell,
Lives not those years, but he that lives them well.
One man has reach'd his sixty years; but he,
Of all those threescore, has not lived half three.
He lives, who lives to virtue: men, who cast
Their ends for pleasure, do not live, but last."

Herrick's vicarage, to which he had been presented by Charles I., and whence he was ejected by Cromwell, was in Devonshire, where certain traditions of the poet are still preserved. Among other things, they mention that he kept a tame pig, which he taught to drink out of a tankard; and that his ghost appeared many a time and

oft after his death.

To this short notice, we subjoin, as a farther specimen of our author's style, the following elegant little poem, and so conclude:

TO BLOSSOMS.

"Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is not so past,
But you may yet stay here awhile
To blush and gently smile,
And go at last!

"What! were ye born to be
An hour or half's delight,
And so to bid good night?
'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth,
Merely to show your worth,

And lose you quite!

"But you are lovely leaves, where we
May read how soon things have
Their end, though ne'er so brave;
And after they have shown their pride,
Like you, awhile, they glide
Into the grave."

Rosamond. A Tragedy. From the German of Theodore Korner. London. William Kidd. 1830.

an epic poem ;-years and experience must be added to natural endowments, before a high rank can be attained in either. Korner's chief fault is one of the faults of youth; he is too diffusive and didactic. There is not enough of the poetry of action in "Rosamond," and too much of the poetry of sentiment. The play is, of course, founded on the love of Henry II. for the unfortunate daughter of Lord Clifford, who met an untimely fate through the jealousy of Queen Eleanor. The story is certainly well adapted to the stage, yet it has never been very successfully dramatized.

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Monday, Nov. 8, 1830. SHAKSPEARE'S “Henry the Fifth was revived at Drury Lane on Monday last, to introduce Macready as the gallant Plantagenet, in which we cannot say that he succeeded; and, indeed, the whole "getting up" displayed such manifest ignorance of all historical accuracy, in costume, banners, and scenery, that we cannot but feel astonished at the temerity which put forth such a performance at a patent theatre. We had dresses of all periods of the English history, and not a few of none: the heralds wore tabards, with the quarterings of Scotland and Ireland in the year 1415! and there was armour never seen elsewhere, excepting at a Lord Mayor's show! If the managers themselves are too uninformed to correct these glaring errors, they ought, at least, to have tact enough to ask advice from those who know better,, and not make the judicious grieve," by imitating our facetious friend Charles Mathews's Historical Butcher, who amused his customers with stories of Henry the Eighth signing Magna Charta, and King John courting Queen Elizabeth!

On Wednesday evening, Miss Kemble appeared for the first time as Mrs Hall.r, in Kotzebue's repulsive play of the "Stranger," at Covent Garden, which character she certainly played better than any other performer since Miss O'Neill we cannot even yet call her Mrs Becher -who was, however, unquestionably and immeasurably her superior. Her father enacted the hero infinitely better than it could be represented by any body else, now on the stage, not even excepting Young; though, to confess the truth, we have such an irreconcilable aversion to the whole piece, that we are, perhaps, not the most impartial critics on this Germanic drama. It is not very often that we coincide in opinion with the deputy-licenser, the elderly Mister George Colman the Younger; but THIS translation is tolerably well executed, but we conon this subject we completely agree with him, and are fess we are not aware that there were sufficient induce-most decidedly of opinion, that ments to lead to its being executed at all. "I have taken a few liberties with the original," says the translator; and we can only add, that we wish he had taken a few more. Korner was, no doubt, a young man of genius, but we suspect that his early and romantic fate made his own countrymen think him cleverer than he really was. At all events, his "Rosamond" is only a second-rate tragedy; indicating power, no doubt, but power that was far from having attained maturity. The delineation of a sufficient variety of human character and passion, to give interest to a tragedy, is not work for the hand of a stripling, even although gifted with the inspiration of a Shakspeare, We rank a tragedy next to

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To lull the soul by spurious strokes of art,
To warp the genius, and mislead the heart,
To make mankind revere wives goue astray,
Love pious sons who rob on the highway,
For this the foreign muses trod our stage,
Commanding German schools to be the rage.
Hail to such schools! oh, fine false feeling, bar!
Thou badest non-natural nature to prevail?
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Through thee, soft super-sentiment arose,
Musk to the mind, like civet to the nose'
Till fainting Taste-as invalids do wrong
Suuff'd the sick perfume, and grew weakly strong."

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The Carnival at Venice" has been much improved followed by an extempore addition from the galleries of by abridgement; and Miss Taylor, to whose acting its No police! No new police!" Shouts of a rather rebelauthor is so everlastingly indebted, is already a first-rate lious character against this said police, and, I believe, the favourite. If she do not retain that station, we shall be Guards, were echoing all the evening through the streets not a little disappointed in our present estimate of her around the theatre, startling the finely-dressed ladies and abilities; and, as her next character is to be Alicia, to gentlemen in the greenroom, Sir Robert Wilson and Miss Kemble's Jane Shore, we shall very soon have an other distinguished people were behind the scenes; and opportunity of judging. Their Majesties' visit to Covent Sir Robert, who stood by my side, joined very fervently Garden, on Monday last, drew together as large an audi-in" Rule Britannia," and "God save the King." ence as the theatre's walls could possibly contain, when their reception was quite as enthusiastic as over the way; and as both houses were crammed to the ceiling, their money receipts on the evenings of the royal command will afford a tolerably fair estimate of their relative capacity, the amount at Covent Garden having been L.884, and at Drury Lane only L.776113 11

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The mysterious denial of Mr Wade's authorship of the #Jew of Arragon" has been since solved by the statement, that this negation was made by another Mr W., who, some seasons since, wrote and composed an opera, called "The Two Houses of Granada," which was played for a few nights at Drury Lane, though this advertisement of himself was an act of the most gratuitous supererogation, since it is quite unlikely that he was ever suspected of writing the Jewish tragedy. Kenny, Poole, and Howard Payne, have pieces in rehearsal at Drury Lane'; and a new comedy was read in Covent Garden greenroom on Saturday.

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SOMERSET.

THEIR MAJESTIES VISIT TO THE THEATRES. its to (From another Correspondent.).

THE King's visits to the theatres have taken attention from every thing else. Their Majesties acted their parts #exceedingly well; and the show from the stage, of the Royal party and audience, was most imposing. It seemed 'to bring before one, at a glance, all the beauty, and grace," and elegance of England. At Drury-Lane, the Queen Was rather anxious to teach etiquette to Prince George of Camberland. He had a tine hussar cap, which, to her Toyal discomfiture, as he seemed rather pleased with its glitter, he held above the box front, and her Majesty made him put it out of sight, and the Prince blushed, (a great thing for a prince at any age to do.) It rather consoled me, as a plebeian, to find, that if the dignity of princes is born with them, their manners are not. At CoventGarden, his Royal Highness escaped from this check upon him, and went behind the scenes, where he was playing at bo-peep for some time with their Majesties, at a side-wing opposite. After that, Charles Kemble took bin into the greenroom, where he overwhelmed the "manager with questions-" Who is that?" "What is this for?" &c. &c. &c. He put all the German of the 'manager into requisition, and they held a long conversation in that language, the Freischutz mystery of which was very perplexing to the performers, who were mobbing the little Prince on all sides. Charles Kemble's majestic appearance as Lord Townley, seemed to perplex his Royal Highness particularly. Charles's star, his fine buttons, his tissue waistcoat, and his noble bearing, seemed somewhat more poetical than the real grandeur to which he had been accustomed; and I could fancy he was as much awed by the mock majesty of the stage, as I should have been by the real majesty of the palace. He paused a moment at the greenroom door in departing, and bowed very gracefully all round. The only difference between William the IVth on this night and the former, consisted in his rising when "Rule Britannia" was sung. His omission to do this at Drury-Lane was censured in one of the papers, and his doing it at Covent Garden was greatly applauded by the public. The line," Britons never, never will be slaves!" was chorussed by the audience with the most astounding loudness and discord,

ORIGINAL POETRY..

MATRIMONY.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery! thou art a bitter draught!-STERNE.

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With many a rock that one may split on,
With many a hidden shoal that we

Will soon or late be sure to get on.
Who ever saw a genuine tear

Stand in a widow'd husband's eye?
Who ever had the luck to hear,

At such a time, a genuine sigh?
Look at the widower, when be goes
Accoutred in his best black clothes,
Is there no smile about his face,
No air of freedom in his pace?

No scorn about the glance he throws
In proud security on those

Whose looks inform you well enough
Their mates" are made of sterner stuff?"
This puts a story in my head

I somewhere either heard or read :

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A messenger, in breathless haste,
With hair erected on his head,
Into Cornaro's chamber press'd,

And rush'd up to the sleeper's bed.-
The sleeper lay in sweet repose,

The wasted strength of life restoring,
Lull'd by the music of his nose,

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Which mortals vulgarly call snoring, bere of The stranger shook him pretty roughly, slo mezi And tweak'd his nose, and pull'd his hair';'

At last Cornaro, rather gruffly,

Ask'd, What the devil brought him there? The messenger, in great distress,

At length, in broken accents, said,
"O! sir, they've sent me here express,
To tell you that your wife is dead!"
"Indeed!" the widow'd man replied,
Turning upon his other side,

And pulling o'er his eyes his cap,
In hopes of finishing his nap,-
"To-morrow, when I wake, you'll see
How very sorry I shall be!"

H. G. B.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

Mr PETER BUCHAN, known by his collection of Ancient Ballads, is about to publish a work, which he designates as "the most wonderful which the world has ever seen." It is to be entitled, "Who is a Gentleman? explained in a conversation between the shades of King James the Fifth of Scotland, and Sir David Lindsay, Lion King at Arms." We have seen the MS., and can safely say that the book will contain a number of curious facts, and will combine instruction with abundance of amusement.

Mr Duff of Aberdeen, whose skill in playing Scotch airs has been proverbial throughout the north of Scotland for the last thirty years, is about to publish twenty-four of the best Scotch airs in two parts; the first for two violins and violoncello, the second for the piano-forte and harp. We hope Mr Duff will give these tunes in the same style he has been in the habit of playing them, and that he will meet with that encouragement from subscribers he deserves. The work is to be dedicated to Mrs Farquharson of Haughton.

EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE.Amongst the numerous subjects which have recently pressed themselves upon the attention of the reading public, Geography, in its numerous and multiplied relations, seems to promise the most extensive and lasting advantages to the state and the people. The discovery of new countries, which may supply to man the necessaries or the luxuries of life-the acquisition of precise information upon subjects which have hitherto been matter of vague speculation --the extension of our knowledge of local phenomena, by comparison with those of distant regions-not to mention the political importance and general interest of the discovery of new countries, or the improvement of our former knowledge of the earth-at once place Geography in the foremost rank among the sciences. It is with pleasure, then, that we see before us the second volume of a Geographical periodical, which has for the last year been published every month in the northern metropolis; and that we are informed by a prospectus, now in circulation, that the work is to be continued every month, as a record of facts, and to be conducted under the most favourable auspices. In the Natural History department, the names of Sir W. Jardine, Mr Arnott, Dr Knox, Dr Scouler, &c., as directors, are alone sufficient to ensure an increasing value to the work.

Travels and Researches of Eminent English Missionaries, including an Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of some of the principal Protestant Missions of late years, will appear immediately.

The Cadeau, or Cottage Lyrics, another new Musical Annual, is announced. The Annals of My Village, being a Calendar of Nature for every month in the year, by the Author of "Select Female Biography," is in the press.

Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant, with some Account of the Writer, and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works of Uneducated Poets, by Robert Southey, LL.D., will be published in a few days.

Essay on the Origin and Prospects of Man, in three volumes, by the Author of "Anastasius," is nearly ready.

CHIT-CHAT FROM LONDON.-The unsettled and turbulent state of the public mind in the capital absorbs all other minor matters. It is impossible to say what the mob would be at; but it is plain, that legally constituted authority is ceasing to be viewed with that deference which our forefathers attached to it. Where the revolutionary principles of the times will end, it is impossible to say.

although it is impossible to speak yet with certainty, as the matriculation list is seldom filled up till the end of the year.-Mr Combe is going to lecture once more on his old subject of phrenology, and be has a new work in the press on the same inexhaustible theme.-There are at present two rival panoramas on the Mound, both peristrephic: one presents us with a succession of views illustrative of Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, spiritedly but coarsely painted, and described to the spectators by a man who has the most awful Paisley twang ever heard; the other is on the whole better, and the subjects are more varied. The transitions, however, from one set of views to another, are rather startling; from the late Revolution in Paris, we are transported all at once to Botany Bay, and from Botany Bay we are brought back to the attack upon Algiers under Bourmont. The views representing the recent battles in the streets of Paris cannot produce any good effect on the populace, especially as the man who describes them interlards his narrative with all manner of ridiculous revolutionary anecdotes; as, for example,-" On the extreme right of the picture, you observe one of the national guards drinking a glass of lemonade, with which he is supplied by one of the regular retailers of that article. He offered to pay her for it as usual, but she nobly refused to take any money, saying, The provisional government will pay for all.'". The effect of this twaddle will be to make the mob believe that a provisional government is the best of all governments.-The Albyn Club having ceased to exist, there is some talk of a new club being formed, which will occupy its old quarters in Princes' Street, and be limited to 100 members.-The Annud Dinner of the Six-Feet Club-a very prosperous club-is to take place next Saturday: some prizes will be competed for in the forenoon at Hunter's Tryst.--The Brunswick Cricket Club are to dine together next Saturday also. This is the only regular cricket club in Edinburgh, and though instituted so recently as last March, it already enrols about sixty members. The Club refused to play the Western Cricket Club this season, but it is their intention to do so in spring. The St Luke's Club, consisting principally of artists and friends of art, has resumed its monthly meetings, which are, in general, of a very pleasant description.-The Theatre is expected to have a brisker season than usual; and Ducrow is preparing, upon an enlarged plan, his old establishment in Nicolson Street.—Macdonald the sculptor is going to exhibit his works for the benefit of his coun trymen. He has recently executed a bust of Mr Huskisson at Liverpool, and is at present engaged on one of Sir John Sinclair.—Sheridan Knowles, the best teacher of elocution with whom we are acquainted, has established himself in Edinburgh for the winter. He is also to give lectures occasionally.

CHIT-CHAT FROM DUNDEE-Nov. 10.-Some two months ago our New Exchange Coffee-Room was opened, not by a dinner, ball, or supper, but simply by the transfer of the majority of the members from the Old Exchange. The New Exchange contains a splendid hall, an elegant billiard-room, and convenient apartments for either public or private sales. We sincerely wish it that success which its merits deserve. We perhaps may speak of the Old Exchange at a future period.-Our theatre was opened ten days ago—in the absence of our spirited, although unfortunate, manager-by a host of new actors, with a portfolio of old dramas-threadbare by frequent use. We think Mr Bass should not change his actors so much as his amusements.-All our whaleships have arrived, the Achilles and Three Brothers excepted, which were lost. Mr Scott, of the Fairy, has sold her cargo of oil-say 30 tuns-for which he has netted L1500 sterling; two months ago, the same quantity would have brougha something above L.600.-The weather is getting very cold and chudy in this quarter, and the ladies that used to promenade our city, are now seen stealing from their houses to that of a friend, wrapt in their winter covering of sable and beaver.-Out Post Office opeus at present at 8 A.M., and the press of half-starved weavers, greasy cobblers, and drunken hecklers, that are there waiting the delivery of the London mail, is almost incredible each eagerly asking what news? London up and Wellington down, would be nothing unexpected. For ourselves, we are sick of your wishy-washy trembling politicians; but we do not like the present aspect of affairs. The country is verging to some sinful crisis, and what may be the result, we almost shudder to think. But we shall hope the best.

CHIT-CHAT FROM DUNFERMLINE.-Miss Tunstall has been starring it here with some theatrical folks from Perth. She had a bumper benefit the other night -We have had races here, such as they were, which collected one day nearly 10,000 people.-Our gas-house took fire the other night, but it was soon got under. A hundred pounds, it is said, will cover the damage. A periodical monthly publication, to be sold for the low charge of fourpence, is announced to appear CHIT-CHAT FROM EDINBURGH.-Winter is coming, or has come, in January. It is to be dubbed the Gasometer, rather a queer name. and Edinburgh is to be, or is, unusually full. The disturbances on "It will be printed," says the Prospectus, which is rather smartly the Continent have driven hundreds of families home, and many of written, "on that sort of paper held in the highest estimation for these, both Scotch and English, have come to Edinburgh for cheap- curling young ladies' hair, a purpose to which such works are usualness.-The French king and his friends are living very quietly at ly appropriated; its pages shall number twenty-four, and be entire Holyrood. As the old gentleman was walking down the Canongate ly dedicated to Mercury and the Muses; in other words, its contents the other day, an urchin, whose notions of a king had been altogether shall be composed of the ingredients contained in the following supernatural, was heard to exclaim, after a moment's look of disap-book-making receipt:-Four parts prose,-two parts poetry,—oce pointment and surprise, "Eh! sic a like king!"-It is expected ditto news of the day,-one handful miscellanea,-and a small spruk. that there will be upwards of 2000 students at the College this season, ling of philosophical whim-whams."

CHIT-CHAT FROM PAISLEY, Nov. 10th.-Public meetings seem to be the rage here just now. There has been one to petition for the abolition of negro slavery; one against the truck system; and there is to be a great meeting for radical reform on Monday next, to be followed by a public dinner to Mr Wallace of Kelly, on cheap principles, after the manner of the late Birmingham Union one. This meeting and dinner have been got up under the auspices of the Paisley Reform Society, but the immediate projector of them is Mr #Henderson, cutler. The society consists principally of operatives. There may be one or two individuals belonging to it who possess a little money, and are of a higher grade in the community. Its chief leaders bore a prominent figure in the proceedings of 1819 and 1820. They may be characterised as men, who, by reading, have acquired some general information, can speak with fluency in public, and #hence consider themselves as perfect oracles, especially on political is subjects, and are dogmatic and intolerant of the sentiments of those who differ from them, just in proportion as they are contracted in their own views and notions of things. This society may be said to represent that very numerous class here, the annual parliament and universal suffrage men-the disciples of Hunt and Cobbett. The preparatory meeting for the public meeting and dinner was held in the Philosophical Hall. To apply the Hall for the purpose of a political meeting of this kind, is viewed by many of our church and state folks as a very wrong thing on the part of the directors, who are beginning to be suspected as rather a radical set; while they, honest men, had no other intention in letting the Hall, than to add to the rather impoverished funds of the institution. But it is im=possible to describe the jealousy with which the Tories of the town, who, it must be confessed, are every bit as contracted in their views, regard the proceedings of the radicals. It is utterly impossible for them to allow that a man has as good a right to entertain notions in favour of reform, however ultra, as they have to harbour sentiments against it. They cannot see that in partium contentionibus est salas republice. It is to be hoped the radicals will conduct themselves with discretion, and will prove that the alarm which the Tories feel lest there should be a repetition of the disgraceful riots of 1819 and 1820, is groundless. Indeed, it is believed that any precaution on this head is unnecessary, for they know that their enemies would like nothing better than a pretext for strong measures; and experience has taught them there is nothing they should more anxiously avoid. But while these two parties, the Tories and the Radicals of the town, are distinct bodies, it may be said, what prevents the moderate reformers, that intelligent, wealthy, and respectable class-men who see the absolute necessity of reform-of the extension of the elective franchise-who believe, that as society improves, public institutions will naturally become, as they ought to do, more and more democratic, yet, at the same time, knowing how gradual the progress of British liberty has been, and the mixed nature of our Government, consider that it is the most inconsistent and the most impracticable project that possibly can be, to attempt, by any mode otherwise than constitutional, to bring about so great an alteration as the radicals are looking for? The passiveness and the silence of this party injures the cause of reform much. Will they not declare themselves at this time? Will none of the many sensible men amongst them come forward at the meeting or the dinner, and openly and manfully avow their sentiments, and utterly repudiate the quackery of annual parliaments and universal suffrage? As Bonaparte used to say,-we shall see.

CHIT-CHAT FROM LOCHINGAR.-Alas! for the fame of Lord Byron if it depended on the reminiscences of the "Natives of dark Lochingar." All that I can learn of the early days of the noble Childe," is the simple fact, that he was often seen in company with the shepherds, among the braes of Ballater, attending his grandfather's sheep. One of my informants was an old man, who told me that he "recollected well the lame lathie Gordon, who afterwards went to England, turned a braw lord, and wrote some queer stuff, that has set the tae half o' the twa kintras climbing the mountain yonder, as if Lachen-y-gaer didna exist before him and them baith!"-The mineral spa of Pannach has been well attended this season by all the ton of Aberdeen, of which place it may be called the Moffat or Inverleithen. This is the land of the "Scotland of bonnie langsyne." No march of intellect here; the din of a steam-engine never disturbed our echoes, nor did ever the glare of a gas lamp dispel the mists of our mountains. As it was in the beginning, so it shall be to the end." Theatrical Gossip.-A great sensation, it is said, has been produced in the theatrical world at Paris, by the brilliant debut of a new female singer, called Signora Tadolini, at the Italian Theatre.-Miss Inve rarity, of this city, who has been receiving lessons both from Crevelli and Sir George Smart, will shortly make her debut at Covent Garden, in Miss Paton's part in the opera of "Cinderella."-A Miss Wells has lately made her appearance at the Dublin Theatre, whose beauty, acting, and singing, are spoken of in the most rapturous terms by the Dublin critics.-The following is the rate of admission to the Theatre Royal here, on which Mr Murray has finally fixed:/ Pit 2s. 6d. Second Price

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The Theatre, we believe, will not open till Wednesday or Thursday
next week. The opening performance is to be the "Honeymoon,"
which will be followed by a musical afterpiece, in which Miss
Turpin will appear. Miss Barrett also, from Bath, will make her
debut in the comedy,-a clever actress, and a pretty woman, we are
told. She is the daughter of an officer who has distinguished him-
self in the army; she was a great favourite at Bath; and though she
still acts under the name of Barrett, she is married, we understand,
to Mr Charles Petengal, who is with her in Edinburgh.-Mr Murray,
in conjunction with Mr Yates, has taken the Caledonian Theatre,
which they are to open four months in summer, with the Adelphi
Company. It is probable that Mathews will also join them.

TO OUR READERS.

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As we do not intend to alter the size of the LITERARY JOURNAL, the present volume will not be concluded till the end of the year, as usual. As our Advertisements to-day encroach somewhat on our literary space, we promise our readers a double Number soon.

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

A REVIEW of Mrs Hall's Juvenile Forget-Me-Not is unavoidably postponed till next Saturday.

The unpublished letter of the poet Thomson shall have a place in our next. We should be glad if the Correspondent who sent it to us would favour us with his name." Art thou unchanged?" lies over for insertion." Lara," perhaps.-The poetry of "J. S." will not suit us. We will thank our Melrose Correspondent, who sends us lines" To a Lady on her Birth-day," to pay the postage of his next letter. We are glad Nicodemus" is happy. The communication from Berwick shall be attended to.

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Several interesting articles are unavoidably postponed.

[No. 105, November 13, 1830.]

ADVERTISEMENTS,

Connected with Literature, Science, and the Arts.

· CHIT-CHAT FROM MELROSE.-The young ladies under the instruction of Miss Phin, Danieltoun, or, as they more poetically call themselves, the Nuns of St Mary's Convent, from a laudable wish to testify their high respect for the venerable magician, whose near presence it is now our pleasure and our glory more amply to enjoy, lately presented him with a purse of neat and elegant embroidery, embellished by a handsome silver clasp. The bard acknowledged his sense of the gift by "a haill cartfu' o' lore," having, with his characteristic munificence, made a donation to the seminary of a full copy of his valuable and numerous works.-There has been a wonderful increase of celebrated visitors during late years to our beauti. ful abbey: with a just boast we can say, "she has nae titty near the throne."-Among other improvements in the good town of Melrose, we now enjoy an established and effective police.-Last year, some of the more spirited inhabitants formed, and carried, with praise. Price 12s., or on a fine demy paper, with India proof impressions of worthy expedition, into effect, the design of establishing a sufficient number of town lamps, which was of much service during the dreary nights of the bygone winter; but "gloomy winter's come again," and, miserabile dictu! the hitherto resolute souls of the mighty have fainted within them at the " awfu' price o' the oil," and the inevitable and deplorable result, there is every reason to dread, will be, that the blackness of darkness will again envelope the otherwise enlightened city of Melrose. To atone for this, however, in no small degree, the Edinburgh Literary Journal is making rapid progress among us; and, sometimes becoming enraptured, we experience no small difficulty in dispelling the vision wherein we image to our delighted fancy the Editor of Editors,

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Proprietor of the Royal Amphitheatre, formerly ASTLEY'S, London, (Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, 25, Geo. II.) HAS the honour of making known, that he has

made arrangements for a SHORT SEASON, in the City of Edinburgh, with the whole of his well-known unequalled Stud, and an entirely New Company of Equestrian Artists.

Mr Ducrow pledges himself to produce his Equestrian Entertainments in the same brilliant and splendid manner as at his London Establishment; to effect which, he has caused to be transported from his London Theatre-regardless of the expense and inconvenience all Appurtenances and Appendages inseparable from the grandeur and pomp invariably attendant on his Performances, such as the appropriate Music, expressly arranged for them, the costly and gorgeous Dresses and Apparel, Properties, Banners, Devices, Arms, Armour and Accoutrements, Trappings, Decorations, and Embellishments, all of which, for elegance and correctness of design, are acknowledged to be superior to any in the Metropolis, by the crowds who nightly overflow the Amphitheatre there. Contemning all pre-exciting announcements, often calculated to mislead, and almost always exaggerating, Mr Ducrow merely mentions, that his Company will consist of

TWENTY-SEVEN EQUESTRIAN ARTISTS!
INCLUDING TWELVE LADIES,

Of whose merit it is for the public to judge, but who have met with unqualified approbation and encouragement, as well in the Metropolis of Britain as in those of the principal Countries of Europe. They will be supported by Mr Duerow, with the whole of his Choicest and most Approved Exertions, out of whose New School and Invention the whole of the Entertainments emanate, on a former occasion so highly appreciated and magnificently patronised in the city of Edinburgh. The STUD of

THIRTY-EIGHT ENGLISH AND FOREIGN HORSES, Which, in the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Dublin, and formerly in this City, have uniformly been considered one of the chief attractions. The Representations will consist of Tourna ments, Chivalric Deeds, and Pageants, deduced from the Fiction of

Romance and the Truth of History.

MILITARY AND HISTORICAL SPECTACLES!

With the whole of Mr Ducrow's Performances in the Circle, and those of his high-trained horses.-To the far-famed Troop of Horses is now added the

FAIRY STUD, AND SIX NEWLY-TRAINED ANIMALS OF VARIOUS BREEDS.

THE AMPHITHEATRE

Is situated in the Building it formerly occupied in Nicolson Street, much enlarged, rendered impervious to weather, and enriched with every accommodation that can contribute to the public comfort in Dress Boxes, Upper Boxes, Lobbies, Avenues, Rooin for Attendants, and Splendid CHINESE SALOON, decorated after the manner of that country.

The principal approach is readily accessible by Carriages, leading to a broad and commodious ascent of stone Steps, under a Portico of stone Columns, and elegantly lighted by large Lamps.

The Box Fronts are elegantly decorated with beautiful Historical

EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY, No. II.

AFRICA.

On the 1st of December will be published,

In small 8vo, containing about 500 pages, price 5s. in cloth boards, illustrated by a Map, and Plans of the Routes of Park, and of Denham and Clapperton; with numerous Engravings by BRAN

STON.

NARRATIVE of DISCOVERY and ADVEN

TURE in AFRICA, from the Earliest Ares to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and Zoology. By PROFESSOR JAMESON, JAMES WILSON, Esq. F.R.S.E. and HUGH MURRAY, Esq. F.R.S.E.

Being No. II. of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library. The object of this volume is to exhibit, within a moderate compass, whatever is most interesting in the adventures and observations of those travellers who, from the earliest ages, and in various direc tions, have sought to explore Africa; and also to give a general view of the physical and social condition of that extensive continent ample scope than any other to the exertions of that class of mea whose enterprising spirit impels them, regardless of toil and peril, to penetrate into unknown countries. Down to a comparatively recent period, the greater part of its immense surface was the subject only of vague report and conjecture. The progress of those discoverers, by whom a very large extent of its interior regions has at length been disclosed, having been accompanied with arduous labours, and achieved in the face of the most formidable obstacles, presents a continued succession of striking incidents, as well as of new and remarkable objects: And our interest cannot fail to be heightened by the consideration, that Britain, by the intrepid spirit of her travellers, her associations of distinguished individuals, and her national patronage, has secured almost the exclusive glory of the many inportant discoveries which have been made within the last forty years. The work now submitted to the public, and the recent one on the Polar Regions, embrace two of the most interesting fields of modern discovery. The adventurers who traversed these opposite parts of the world, frequently found their efforts checked, and their careen arrested, by the operation of causes, which, although equally powerful, were yet extremely different in their nature In the northern seas, they suffered from that dreadful extremity e cold to which high latitudes are exposed; in Africa, from the scorching heat and pestilential vapours peculiar to a tropical climate: There, they encountered the fury of oceans and tempests.-here, the privations and fatigues which oppress the traveller in parched and boundless deserts. In the former, they had less to endure from that almost total absence of human life, which renders the Arctic zone so dreary, than they had to experience in the latter, from the fierce, contemptuous, and persecuting character of the people who occupy the interior parts of the Libyan continent. In a word, while exploring these remote regions, they braved almost every species of danger, and passed through every variety of suffering, by which the strength and fortitude of man can be tried.-The Narrative of these successive Travels and Expeditions has been contributed by Mr Hugh Murray. The Geolo gical Illustrations have been furnished by the justly celebrated Professor Jameson; and for the interesting and very ample account of its Natural History, the reader is indebted to Mr James Wilson, atthor of "Illustrations of Zoology," and the principal contributor in that branch of science to the new edition of the Encyclopædia Bri tannica.-Extract from Editor's Preface.

at the present day. This quarter of the globe has afforded more

On the 1st of October was published, No. I. NARRATIVE of DISCOVERY and ADVENTURE in the POLAR SEAS and REGIONS; with Illustrations of their Climate, Geology, and Natural History; and an Account of the Whale-Fishery. By Professor LESLIE, Professor JAMESON, and HUGH MURRAY, Esq. F.R.S.E., with a Chart, and Engravings by BRANSTON. Price 5s.

Printed for OLIVER & BOYD, Edinburgh; and SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, London.

DANCING.

Paintings, enclosed in Gold Pannels, painted by Mr DAWSON, first MR DUN has Opened his CLASSES at No. 7,

decorative Artist to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, exhibiting Specimens of the Equestrian Art,-such as Alexander training Bucephalus, Mazeppa on the wild horse of the Ukraine, the Mameluke and his Charger, the Arab Steed, and other beautiful designs from HORACE VERNET, and the French Academy of Arts. The pillars and divisions will be ornamented and enriched with Shields, Banners, Trophies, and Devices, emblematic and commemorative of the GLORIES of SCOTLAND.

The whole of the Entries will be comfortably and elegantly carpeted: and every accommodation that can possibly be attained, will be sedulously afforded to the Box Company, and the visitors of the Establishment generally.

INDIA STREET.-Days of Teaching, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Boarding Schools and Private Families attended on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The Mazourka, Galopade, Quadrillette, and other Fashionable Dances, taught Privately, and in Classes.

FOR COUGH AND DIFFICULT BREATHING, BUTLER'S LACTUCARIUM LOZENGES.

The Spacious Arena, and the whole of the Interior, will be bril- THE distinguishing ingredient of these Lozenges,

liantly illuminated by a

COLOSSAL CHANDELIER,

Executed in Gold Relief, radiant with upwards of
THREE HUNDRED BURNERS.

The Theatre is under the express Sanction of the highest Authorities: and order will be constantly maintained by the proper officers. For the convenience of families residing at the more distant parts of the City, and for the young Branches, the performances will uniformly terminate at an early hour.

Dress Boxes, 48.-Second Boxes, 58.-Pit, 2s-Gallery, Is. Children, under the apparent age of twelve years, admitted at half-price to the Boxes only. Schools admitted to the Dress Boxes at Second Box price.

Dress Boxes at Second Box Price. **Full particulars of the first Performance will be shortly announced.

LACTUCARIUM, is a substance obtained from the inspissated juice of a particular variety of Lettuce, by a process first described try the late Dr Duncan of Edinburgh, who, in his Treatise on Palme nary Consumption, speaks in the most decided terms of its powers allaving" that irritation which induces the convulsive action tened Coughing." After such authority, it is presumed nothing farther need be said in recommendation of these Lozenges to those whore suffering under the wearing effects of either recent, nervous, or ear! nie Cough.-One or two gradually dissoived in the mouth, tend to allay the Cough and ease the Breathing; and, being a soporifle an well as a sedative, two or three taken when going to rest, contribute likewise to procure sleep.

Prepared by BUTLER and Co., Chemists to his Majesty, 73, Prince's Street, Edinburgh; and (authenticated by their name and address on the lubel) sold by their agents throughout the country, in 2%, and 46 boxes;-of whom may be also obtained their CAYENNE LOTENGES, for preventing or removing Hoarseness, Habitual Sore Throat, &c.

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