WARWICK CASTLE.

Some of our old gems of poetry are richer and better than most of the new. The following is a good specimen.

FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF CAMOENS.

I saw the virtuous man contend

With life's unnumbered woes;

And he was poor-without a friend-
Pressed by a thousand foes.

I saw the Passions' pliant slave

In gallant trim, and gay;

His course was Pleasure's placid wave,
His life, a summer's day.

And I was caught in Folly's snare,

And joined her giddy train

But found her soon the nurse of Care,
And Punishment, and Pain.

There surely is some guiding power
Which rightly suffers wrong-
Gives Vice to bloom its little hour-
But Virtue, late and long!

ANECDOTE OF GALL,

THE FOUNDER OF THE SCIENCE OF PHRENOLOGY.

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thing comical in the whole scene, Gall accomplished his object. The striking confirmation of his doctrines by heads so distinguished produced a great effect upon all his hearers.-My Experience, by Henry Steffens.

A MONKEY TRICK.

IN 1818, a vessel that sailed between Whitehaven and Jamaica, embarked on her homeward voyage, and, among other passengers, carried a female, who had at the breast a child only a few weeks old. One beautiful afternoon, the captain perceived a distant sail, and after he had gratified his curiosity, he politely offered the use of his glass to his passenger, that she might obtain a clear view of the object. Mrs. B. had the baby in her arms; she wrapped her shawl about the little innocent, and placed it on a sofa upon which she had been sitting. Scarcely had she applied her eye to the glass, when the helmsman exclaimed,

"Good God! see what the mischievous monkey has done."

The reader may judge of the female's feelings, when, on turning round, she beheld the animal in the act of transporting her beloved child apparently to the very top of the mast! The monkey was a very large one, and so strong and active, that while it grasped the inONE scene I must here describe, which surprized fant firmly with one arm, it climbed the shrouds nimand amused me. Goethe had come over from Weimar bly by the other, totally unembarrassed by the weight to hear Gall, and sat with his imposing mien in the of its burden. One look was sufficient for the terrified midst of his hearers. Even his still attentiveness had mother, and that look had well nigh been her last, and something commanding in it; and the repose of his had it not been for the assistance of those around her, unchanged features did not entirely conceal the rising she would have fallen prostrate on the deck, where she interest he felt in the development of the lecture. On was soon afterward stretched, apparently a lifeless his right sat the great philologist Wolf; and on his corpse. The sailors could climb as well as the monleft, my father-in-law, Reichardt. Gall was occupied key, but the latter watched their motions narrowly; in explaining the organs of the different faculties; and, and as it ascended higher up the mast the moment they in his easy way of lecturing, did not scruple to look attempted to put a foot on the shrouds, the captain bearound upon his hearers' heads for the confirmation of came afraid that it would drop the child, and endeavor his doctrines. At first he spoke of those skulls that to escape by leaping from one mast to another. In the present no particular elevation, but are developed in meantime, the little innocent was heard to cry; and full and beautiful harmony; and then remarked, that though many thought it was suffering pain, their fears whoever noticed the head of the great poet who honor- on this point were speedily dissipated when they obed his lecture by his presence would see a splendid il- served the monkey imitating exactly the motions of a lustration of the kind of skull of which he had been nurse, by dandling, soothing, and caressing its charge, speaking. The whole audience at once turned their and even endeavoring to hush it asleep. From the eyes upon Goethe. He remained calm, a scarcely per- deck the lady was conveyed to the cabin, and gradualceptible expression of dissatisfaction was immediately ly restored to her senses. In the meantime, the caplost in a suppressed smile of irony, and the perfect and tain ordered every man to conceal himself below, and imposing repose of his countenance continued undis- quietly took his own station on the cabin stair, where turbed. Gall next came to the organ of tune. Reich- he could observe all that passed without being seen. ardt had a remarkable development of it, and, as his This plan happily succeeded: the monkey, on perceivhead was completely bald, the lecturer pointed to it as ing that the coast was clear, cautiously descended from to a skull expressly prepared for the occasion. At last his lofty perch, and replaced the infant on the sofa, came Wolf's turn, who rejoined in an equally stricking cold, fretful, and perhaps frightened, but in every other development of the organ of language. Wolf, how-respect as free from harm as when he took it up. The ever, wore glasses that concealed this organ. As Gall proceeded to speak of the faculty of language, Wolf could well suppose that the lecturer would make use of his head as he had of Goethe's and Reichardt's. And it was most amusing to see how the great philologist lent his aid to carry into execution the design of the craniologist.

humane seaman had now a most grateful task to perform: the babe was restored to its mother's arms, amid tears, and thanks, and blessings.

WARWICK CASTLE.
BY JOHN NEAL

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