fertile genius, and adorned and enriched by a study of the great continental masters. More than one song in it must, we should think, become lastingly popular; and this, and the praise of judicious critics, added to our own humble but honest meed, will, we trust, repay the composer for the present effort, and urge him on to similar and even loftier attempts. Madame Vestris, who seems to be, like Shakspeare, "not of an age, but for all time," looked and played with such freshness and vigour that she ran no risk of an indictment for perjury, when in the witness box she swore she was eighteen. She was well supported by all the female part of her establishment; and Messrs. Vining and Cooper showed what excellent scholars (or masters either) they would make in "a Ladies' Establishment."

MISCELLANEA

The Comic Annual.-A report originating, it is supposed, in "a dark passage" in the Preface to Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering, has induced Mr. Hood to address a letter to his publisher, Mr. Tilt, of Fleet Street, which we think it well to print entire for the satisfaction of our readers.

I sus

'My dear Sir,-The report of my death I can assure you is premature, but I am equally obliged to you for your tribute of putting up shutters and wearing a crape hatband. pect your friend and informant, Mr. Livingstone-(it should be Gravestone)-drew his inference from a dark passage in Miss Sheridan's Preface, which states that, of the three Comic Annuals which started at the same time, the Comic Offering alone remains.' The two defuncts therein referred to are the 'Falstaff' and 'The Humourist,' which I understand have put an end to themselves.

"If you should still entertain any doubts, you will shortly have ten thousand impressions to the contrary; for I intend to contradict my demys by fresh octavos. The Comic Annual for 1833, with its usual complement of Platesmind, not coffin-plates-to appear, as heretofore, in November, will give the lie, I trust, not merely to my departure, but even to anything like a serious illness: and a Novel, about the same time, will help to prove that I am not in a state of de-composition.

"Have the goodness to forward a copy of this letter to the Morning Post, which announces the arrivals and departures, and also to the actuary of the Norwich Union, which insures my biography. I should have relieved your oint anxieties some days earlier, but till I met Mr. Livingstone, at Bury, I was really not alive to my death.

I am, my dear Sir, yours very truly, THOMAS HOOD." Lake House, Wanstead, October 16, 1832." South London Market.-A Prospectus and engraved Plan have been submitted to us of an extensive market, proposed to be erected in St. George's Fields between the Elephant and Castle and the Obelisk. If the market be a mere trading speculation, we have little interest in it; but accompanying the Prospectus are minutes of evidence given before a Committee of the House of Commons-extracts from Bruyère on the Abattoirs of Paris, and the Voice of Humanity, which would lead the reader to infer, that the plan deserves public patronage, because, among other reasons, slaughterhouses and the driving of cattle through the public streets, are nuisances that will be got rid of. But we are of opinion that the projectors prove too much. In their natural anxiety to induce subscriptions, they say the population of the southern suburbs has quadrupled within twenty years, and already exceeds 400,000; and that it

is singular that while twelve markets exist in the metropolis north of the Thames, there are only two to the south. If these arguments amount to anything, it is this:-the slaughter-houses north of the river are not only disgusting, but positively injurious to the public health: is it not then melancholy that we have so few on our side the water?-the driving of cattle through the crowded streets on the northern side of the river is an alarming nuisance; therefore we have found a good centrical situation in the very heart of an increasing neighbourhood, already containing 400,000 souls, where we recommend you to erect abattoirs. As a private speculation the market may answer-but the parties had better strike out the minutes of evidence, the Voice of Humanity, and such small talk.

We hear from Spain that M. Navarrete, editor of the Collection of Original Voyages of the Spanish Discoverers of America,' a work highly praised by Washington Irving, is printing the fourth volume, which will include those made to the Moluccas, by Magallanes, Laodisa, Saavedra, Grijalba, and Villalobos. The Academy of History is also about to publish the seventh volume of their 'Transactions,' which, among other interesting papers, will contain one relating to the negotiations between our Elizabeth and Philip, written by Don Tomas Gonzales, who, having been for many years engaged in arranging the archives of Simancas, found there many original papers, which, it is said, will throw much light upon the history of

that time.

Newly discovered Marble Quarries.-A highly interesting discovery is, by a letter just received from Naples, reported to have been made by the Marquis Munziante. Our informant states, that the Marquis has found a quarry of the finest white statuary marble on Mount Alpi, in the Neapolitan province of Basilicata, between the Tyrrhene and Ionian Seas, about twenty miles from the coast of the gulf of Policastro. The marble is most perfect, and very superior to that of Carrara. It is quite equal to the finest ancient Greek marble, the quarries of which are either exhausted, or have ceased to be worked

for ages.

Paris Exhibition.-The Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by living artists will be opened in Paris in the first week in January.

A Trollope.-A friend, who has returned from New York, informs us that, being at the Theatre one night before he sailed, he saw a man in the boxes sit with his back to the pit, and coat-tails hanging over, just as Mrs. Trollope has sketched

one.

The audience noticed it, and immediately raised the cry of "Trollope! Trollope!" which drove him to a more becoming posture. He also declares that every violation of bienséance is now called a Trollope.

The Unicorn.-According to a recent letter from Bishop Bruguères (published by Klaproth) this animal, hitherto considered fabulous, exists in Siam. The Bishop says its head is larger than that of an ox, and the horn rises from its forehead, and points upward; it is remarkably fast in its pace and bound, like our deer.

British Oak.-Structural peculiarities will enable the forester to distinguish between the qualities of the timbers before he fells the trees, or rather, in fact, to predict the kind of wood an oak will form, even while the sapling is just springing from the seed: for it is preposterous to contend that plantations should be raised and nurtured through centuries, and then, at the end of two or three hundred years, the fact should be discovered that such oaks are unfit for ship-building, and the first notice of this be from the decay of the vessels, even while upon the stocks. I speak not unadvisedly, nor do I put a case of

bare possibility; I merely relate a notorious fact. Plantations of the wrong kind of oak have been made in various parts of this essentially oak-growing and ship-building country, and vessels built of such timber as that to which I have alluded have split and rotted on the stocks, and have been obliged to undergo a thorough repair, even before they have been launched. What a lamentable tale it is to read, or hear, that a vessel of 120 guns, and which must have cost 120,000l., has been condemned and sold for 251., as last week's journals tell us was the case, and this, as they report, without having ever seen any actual service. Indeed, the rapid decay of many modern-built vessels, and hence much of the heavy expense of our navy has been, with some show of reason, attributed to the use of immature and ill-chosen wood, the

applicability of which might easily have been from situations where it ought not to have been tested, had not botanic knowledge been absent found wanting.-Burnett's Botanical Lecture.

NOVELTIES IN LITERATURE AND ARTS. The Memoirs of the Court of France, by the late King Louis XVIII.

Mr. Slade is about to publish the result of his Observations, under the title of Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece,' &c.

"The Puritan's Grave,' by the Author of the 'Usurer's Daughter.'

A New Edition of Mr. Lodge's Peerage. A new Novel, entitled Golden Legends.' A popular Introduction to the Study of Geology, with numerous Plates, by Gideon Mantell.

The Calendar of the Seasons; or, Diary of the Year. The Journal of Elemental Locomotion, No. I., with a plate of Thirteen Views of Steam Carriages, edited by A. Gordon.

The Pulpit,' Vol. XX., containing Sermons by Eminent Divines.

An Evangelical Synopsis, illustrated with Engravings, from Designs after the Old Masters.

The Holy Bible, with Notes, Explanatory and Prac tical, intended to furnish a body of Evangelical truth founded on its contents, selected from the Writings of the most esteemed Divines and Biblical Critics.

A second edition of the Account of the Beulah Saline

Spa, at Norwood, by Dr. Weatherhead.

In November, the Second Series of Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.'

A new Novel by Miss Brown, called Reason and Passion.'

Just published.-Rev. H. E. Head's Sermons, Svo. 6s. 6d. A Manual for the Parish Priest, 12mo. 3s.Rev. J. Penrose's Explanatory Lecture on St. Matthew, 12mo. 6s. 64.-Bent's New Week's Preparation, 18mo. 1s. 6d. Reece's Lady's Medical Guide, 12mo. 4s.Brandicourt's Plan for Teaching the French Verbs, 25.6d.-Explanatory and Practical Comments on the Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge, royal 8vo. New Testament, 8vo. 10s. 6d.-Baxter's Library of 2nd edit. 32s.-The Poetic Negligée, 12mo. 10s. 6d. Watkins's Principle of Conveyancing, by Merrifield, royal 8vo. 11. 8s.-Geography in all Ages, 12mo. 8.5.-History of the Jews in all Ages, fc. 8vo. 10s.6d.; School Edition of ditto, 7s.-Hodson's Morning Discourses, Svo. 10s. 6d.-Edgeworth's Novels and Tales, Vol. VII. 58.-Dr. Williams on the Structure and Functions of the Skin, 8vo. 5s.6d.-Valpy's Shakspeare, with Illus trations, Vol. 1. 5s.-Valpy's Classical Library, No. 35, Euripides, Vol. II. 4s. 6d. Memoir of T. Hardy, written by Himself, 4s. 6d.

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The fair and young in the brilliant circles of life described, will be under great obligation to the noble authoress for the lessons she has afforded them."-Morning Post.

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The Masque of Anarchy; a Poem. By Percy Bysshe Shelley: now first published; with a preface by Leigh Hunt. London: Moxon.

GENIUS, though it may be for a time unhonoured, must eventually have its triumph. It may be scorned, spurned, trampled onit may live friendless, and lay down a wearied spirit in a welcome grave;-but the hour of its glory must come, when all living men shall acknowledge it, and all succeeding generations join in one loud song of exultation and praise. Nay, the time cannot be long deferred-once in the grave, and prejudice, selfishness, or ignorance,-nothing can touch it further; the heart of man forbids it -the spirit of a father-land makes it impossible. The triumph of genius is one in which all men share, aye, even the humblest—it is fame to their common country, and is, in its aggregated strength, the best security we can have, that we shall be remembered even as a nation. Nothing is permanent but mind: wars have their glory, conquests their renown, generals their triumph-but the duration of all these is measured by months, or years, or centuries:-it is the mind made manifest by nations-it is their pre-eminence in literature and art, that gives them to enduring fame. What is it that glorifies ancient Greece?-that awakens in us a living interest, two thousand years after she has ceased to be registered among nations? Her intellectual superiority: and so long as one fragment of her sculpture, one vestige of her architecture, one verse of her poets, or one page of her historians, shall remain, so long will she live fresh and young in her renown. But where is Carthage now-her equal every way as a nation-who entered Europe as a conqueror, and knocked at the gates of impe

rial Rome-the wisdom of whose laws and policy was commended by her very enemies -whose daring enterprises startled the old world-where is her glory?

The fame of our country is, indeed, a rich inheritance: Englishmen feel this, and will not permit the humblest of the sons of genius to pass away without due honour. These feelings were joyfully awakened on receiving

The Masque of Anarchy,' a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on reading the editor's apology for having so long deferred the publication. What a fate was Shelley's! whom all men now consent to honour-whose name now awakens universal admiration-whose idlest thoughts and most immature speculations are now treasured as literary relicswhose fame, it is now acknowledged, is "like the tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and whose leaf shall be green for ever." Yet it is only eleven years-eleven short years! (Dec. 8,

1821,) since the following criticism on one of his most beautiful poems, appeared in the Literary Gazette :

"We have already given some of our columns to this writer's merit, and we will not now repeat our convictions of his incurable absurdity. 'Adonais,' an elegy, is the form in which Mr. Shelley puts forth his woes. We give a verse at random, premising that there is no story in the elegy, and that it consists of fifty-five stanzas, which are, to our seeming, altogether unpoetry of the work is contemptible-a mere colconnected, interjectional, and nonsensical. The lection of bloated words, heaped on each other without order, harmony, or meaning; the refuse of a schoolboy's common-place book, full of the vulga risms of pastoral poetry, yellow gems and blue stars, bright Phoebus and rosy-fingered Aurora; and of such stuff is Keats' wretched elegy compiled."+

We have omitted, in this extract, all the gross personalities-all the heartless exultation over the grave of poor Keats: we have confined ourselves to the critic's opinions of the poem, and the poet-opinions that no man, who had any reverence for genius in others, or any "longings after immortality" himself, could have advanced, however seriously and honestly he might be opposed to the metaphysical dreams of the gentle and selfdenying poet. Genius must reverence and respect genius; and this universal truth ought to have secured Southey from the vulgar suspicion of having written the attack in the Quarterly. Genius would not dare to hold up genius to contempt, though it might to hatred

it would be felt as self-degradation-it would be teaching the world to laugh at its own crown of glory, as if it were a fool's cap -it would be pointing the finger of scorn at its best hopes and highest ambition.

But it may be asked, had not all past errors better be forgotten?-aye, truly had they; but then offenders must not glorify themselves, and prank it before us with an insane for

+ Is the hand that penned this review as cold as the heart that dictated it must ever have been? We presume so, nay, we are sure of it, for the present editor,

ignorant or oblivious of the past, writes last week, with a simplicity that made us smile, "For the Literary Gazette, we shall only add, that it challenges calumny

itself to name the works, which, during fifteen years, it

has praised, and which have not been received with

public approbation: or the works which it has censured,

and which have not been unsuccessful!"

We know

getfulness that not all the drowsy syrups of the east can explain. It would indeed be a most disgusting labour to rake into "the light of common day" the past sins of our critical literature, when, in the blindness of success, the traders forgot that the folly which cheered them on to their unholy labours, was but hoodwinked, and when pounds sterling of profit were thought better than a clear conscience. But loathing and disgust are no apology for neglecting a duty, or infamy would have its privilege and charter, and the very fumes that encircle corruption become a halo to protect it. We pray, therefore, that they will rest satisfied with our silence, and leave us to repose.

England knows but too little of the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley: stern and sarcastic reviews of his works shut the heart of his country against him; and certain differences in opinion between him and the main body of the people, sealed his volumes for a time. With all his faults, Shelley was one of the very noblest of our latter poets : his mind was deeply and thoroughly imbued with song; he could look on nothing but with a poet's eye, and there was often a sublimity in his sentiments, a fervour in his feelings, and a lustre in his language, such as have seldom been surpassed. His chief fault as a poet, is a desire to shadow forth his own peculiar beliefs and notions in his characters and narratives: this has occasioned a certain obscurity and mysticism, which and his chief fault as a man, is his wild spefew people will take the trouble to unriddle; culations in religion and morals, which have alarmed the sensitive, and vexed the devout. We are sincerely sorry for these drawbacks; but, at the same time, we are quite sure that they are by far too romantic to do much harm that he was sincere, there can be no doubt: his opinions he maintained, and was a martyr for them; they formed his faith, and for them he was ready to die. Shelley was a sincere, man; he was open of heart, and honest of nature. We quarrel with no man about his gods, providing he believes in them; we reverence even those

Who perish for the truth Of the elephant and monkey's tooth. He who is a martyr in a cause with his own free will,

The devil's in him if he feigns.

The poem before us is political: it was written on that sad occurrence called the Manchester Massacre; and written too in great haste, but not without inspiration. In truth, it is far superior to its subject. Shelley was too much of a poet to be a good politician, and, with every wish to be simple and plain, he is much too lofty in his conceptions to be either; certainly, his account of the Peterloo affair, is not in the customary style of reports; it is full of fine snatches of poetry, and though the numbers are, for the sake of effect, some