Su OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. " UTILE DULCI." This familiar Miscellany, from which all religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEN and MANNERS, AMUSEMENT, elegant EXTRACTS, POETRY, ANECDOTES, BIOGRAPHY, METEOROLOGY, the DRAMA, ARTS and SCIENCES, WIT and SATIRE, FASHIONS, Natural HISTORY, &c. forming a handsome ANNUAL VOLUME, with an INDEX and TITLE-PAGE. Persons in any part of the Kingdom may obtain this Work from London through their respective Booksellers. No. 377.-Vol. VIII. Scientific Notices. ALLEGED IMPROVEMENT IN SHORT-HAND. In copying the following article from the Literary Gazette, we must not suppress the free expression of our opinion that this alleged improvement is a retrograde rather than an advance movement in the iences. The very principle of short-hand requires that the pen or pencil should be as seldom as possible moved from the paper, as time is, of course, lost by every remove. Now, in the system of Dr. Erdmann, it appears to us that, however practised the writer may be, he will be longer in performing his peration than by the ordinary process of writing ng hand; for, although the signs used are as simple scan be well devised, the jumps will be so frequent to counteract any advantage arising from the simplicity of the symbol. Thus, if it were required to write the word man, we should have to begin with the perpendicular stroke on the lower line, then to Jass or rather jump up to make a dot above the upper line, then dart back again to form the perpendicular stroke below the lower line. It does certainly appear to us that we could in the oldfashioned way write not only man, but woman to boot, before the man could be formed by Dr. Erdmann's symbols.We shall lay before our readers the description of the new system illustrated by an engraved specimen. -Edit. Kal. SHORT-HAND WRITING: NEW SYSTEM. Dr. Erdmann, physician to the King of Saxony, who last year published a highly interesting work, founded entirely on personal observation, relative to the south-eastern governments of the Russian empire, has invented a system of short-hand writing, which has been highly commended in Germany for its simplicity, and appears so deserving of attention that we have been induced to furnish the readers of the Literary Gazette with the subjoined description and ilInstration of this method. The former is given in his own words-(translated:)— TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1827. PRICE 34d sitions, according as the sign is placed upon, between, sured by the difference in the heights of the two columns above, or below the lines. of either liquid, multiplied by its specific gravity; so that, "To facilitate the distinction and combination of by dividing the difference of the two columns of water by the signs, I choose the dot for the designation of the the difference of those of the other liquid, we obtain the vowels, omitting the y, which may so well be dis-specific gravity of the latter, that of water being unity. pensed with. Thus, in its five-fold position, it sig- applying any scale of small equal parts, or the glass may The difference between the columns may be measured by nifies a, e, i, o, u-while the dash, in its four direc-be attached to a graduated plate, furnished with verniers, tions and five positions, denotes with precision twenty &c. The longer the columns of liquid employed, the consonants, admitting sch into the class of simple more accurate the process. The expansion of the glass, consonants. In this manner is composed the sub- or its capillary action, cannot affect the result, nor is it joined alphabet, No. 1, some of the combinations influenced by the expansion of the scale: the only correcof which are exhibited in No. 2. The rule in re- tion required will be to reduce the observations to one temgard to the latter is, that the signs standing per-perature.-Philosoph. Mag. pendicularly over one another must be read from above downward, but in the case of dots and horizontal or oblique dashes, the former must in pronunciation precede the latter, when they stand above or below the fore-end of them; but succeed when they are placed above or below the hinder end of those dashes." "In order to save space and time in writing, I A SYPHON HYDROMETER, BY MR. MEIKLE. adopt, as substitutes for letters, the simplest of all signs, the dot and the dash; and that they may suf- open at both ends, and bent into a kind of This instrument consists of a glass tube, fice for expressing the twenty-five letters, I make each double syphon, having four parallel legs, so of them denote several letters. This is done in two that the open ends are pointed in the same different ways, by varying either the direction or the direction, or upwards, as in the annexed position of the sign. As to varying the direction, figure. The manner of using it is very this is, of course, practicable with the dash only, and simple. Let one of the ends be stopped with that according as it is made horizontal, perpendicu- a finger or cork, and water be poured in at lar, or oblique from left to right, upward or down- the other. The fluid will only rise a small ward. By these means I, nevertheless, obtain five way into the second leg, because of the insigns, including the dot. As I give to each of these cluded air: next stop the other orifice, and a five-fold position, they suffice exactly for denoting into the latter the liquor whose specific graopen the one first closed; and, having poured twenty-five letters. This five-fold position is deter-vity is to be tried, open the top of the watermined, as in musical notation, by parallel horizontal tube; then the instrument being held uplines; but instead of five, two only are requisite, right, the two liquids will arrange themselves so as to press these being quite enough for marking the five po- equally on the included air. This pressure will be mea The Bouquet. “I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them." MONTAIGNE. SINGULARITIES OF COURTSHIP. We have seldom met with a more original or entertaining article than that we are about to present to our readers. We have often been amused with the coquetry, if we may so term it, which is to be found amongst females of different countries in the delicate affair of courtship; but we never before heard of maiden coyness being reduced to a regular code of laws, to be obeyed by the sighing swain, before he can hope to melt the heart of an Alpine fair one. It would be a curious subject of investigation to ascertain the source of that maiden skittishness which seems to prevail, more or less, especially in uncultivated communities, the members of which, it is natural to think, would be more unsophisticated and artless in their manners than those of more polished societies. In this said affair of courtship, however, it appears to be otherwise, as we could show by the concurrent testimony of the most respectable travellers. Krantz tells us that in "Greenland, when parents consent that their daughter should be married, the daughter will hear nothing of the matter, but tears her hair, and runs away amongst the mountains, and obliged to be brought back by force." is And Carver, in his Travels in North America, p. 377, says, "Amongst the American Indians the lover enters his mistress's apartment at night, lights a match, and, approaching her bed, wakens her. If she then rises, and blows out the light, it is a token of his good reception; but if she covers up her head he is rejected."-Edit. Kal. ALPINE COURTSHIPS. (From a new French Work by M. Jerome.) In the fifth chapter of this work we have the following curious account of the manner of courtship observed in some of the wildest and remotest regions of the Alps. Their manners are unknown in the towns situated at the very foot of these mountains, The citizens of these good towns are like the lodgers on the ground floor, who never SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NAPOLEON. Further Extracts. NAPOLEON AFTER HIS DOWNFAL trouble their heads about what their neighbours, who live a month, comes to her house, always accompanied by his | Ash Wednesday, two pigeons at Pentecost, and a fricaser in the garrets, are doing. Social immobility is the domi- principal relations, always at the same hour, and always on at Easter. Thus the habitudes of these simple and hones nant trait in the character of these pastoral people, who a Sunday; he brings a neatly-made osier basket, adorned people lead their minds always to religion, which is a mo live in what are called the haut travers of the mountains. with flowers, which is the same as if he said to his fair one pure and elevated love than the other; both, however, What their forefathers thought, believed, said, and did, a "Let us go and gather maioasses (strawberries) to having a paradise, a purgatory, and a hell. thousand years ago, they think, believe, say, and do, at gether." She looks as if she then saw him for the first present. They are primitive beings, who have but few time. She disowns and rejects him; witness the harsh points of contact with the beings of a secondary creation. words that she addresses to him :-" Go seek somewhere Sometimes a quarter of a century passes away without any else for your dupe. There is nothing for you to do here. strangers being seen in their abodes. When one of these I scorn you and your basket." She further seasons this herdsmen wishes to marry, he goes on a Sunday after mass, dismissal with the following disagreeable epithets :- At Montelimart the exiled Emperor heard the last et with his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, if he be "blackamoor," or, " carrotty-pated fellow," "dog-face," pressions of regard and sympathy. He was now approach still alive, in a word, with the whole ascending line, to the or, "weazel-muzzle," according to the complexion, colouring Provence, a region of which he had never possess house of the fair one. They enter, sit down, and, without of the hair, or form of the nose of the poor devil. But he the affections, and was greeted with execrations and cr of "Perish the Tyrant!"'-"Down with the butcher saying a word, put a saffron cake on the table. This cake is far from being discouraged. The following Sunday he our children!" Matters looked worse as they adva is the orator of the party; and, in order to let it speak, calls upon his fair termagant, and is not very much sur- On Monday, the 25th of April, when Sir Neil Carp the gallant and his family retire in silence. The following prised to find upon the table two baskets instead of one, having set out before Napoleon, arrived at Avigne, Sunday, at the same hour, the same party returns to the by which he is to understand that he has been promoted officer upon guard anxiously inquired if the escort at same house; and if they find the cake whole, and una step, and is accepted as maioussier. And it is by virtue ing the Emperor was of strength sufficient to ress pular disturbance, which was already on foot at the touched, upon the same table, they take it up and carry it of the privilege which this dignity confers upon him that of his arrival. The English Commissioner entre away, without saying a word. But if the cake has dis- he sets out alone with the damsel the following Sunday, to protect the passage of Napoleon by every mens piše appeared, or if a quarter, one-third, or one-half of it has at the break of day, and does not return till night fall, sible. It was agreed that the fresh horses should be road been cut, it is a sign that it has been acceptable, and that when they bring back the two baskets filled with straw- at a different quarter of the town from that where s the gallant may come back on the fourth, the third, or the berries, which are left with the maiden, the gallant renatural to have expected the change. Yet the meh covered and surrounded them, and it was with diff second Sunday following, according to the greater or less tiring to sleep at home. A certain interval then inter- that Napoleon was saved from popular fury. portion of the cake that has been cut off; should but a venes-time passes, love remains, the autumn arrives, and dangers attended him elsewhere, and, in order to a few crumbs remain on the table, it is an invitation to re- with it on a Sunday the lover. You have now been ac- assassination, the ex-Emperor of France was obliged turn the next Sunday. The following Sunday the gallant cepted as herbager and maioussier, you have cut grass and disguise himself as a postilion, or a domestic, anxi comes, always accompanied by his ascendants, and finding gathered strawberries together, moreover, your blackbird altering from time to time the mode of his dress; orde his servants to smoke in his presence; and inviting t the cake almost entirely eaten, he takes from under his has been accepted, and your cake has been eaten, and con-commissioners, who travelled with him, to whistle or coat a blackbird, with a reddish spot, (un merle à plaque sequently you present yourself with that noble assurance that the incensed people might not be aware who rose, a bird indigenous to the Alps,) and ties it by the which the favours with which you have been honoured the carriage. At Orgon the mob brought before him foot to the sabot, or wooden-shoe, of the fair one, which, inspire. You take from your pocket, and boldly offer a own effigy dabbled with blood, and stopped his care by a chance, calcule d'avance, is found lying in the middle very elegantly-turned nut-cracker, made of box-wood; from Avignon to La Calade, he was grossly insulted a till they displayed it before his eyes; and, in ster of the table. At the sight of the bird, his red spot, his but how grievously has your presumption misled you! every town and village, and, but for the anxious beak, and his tail, the fair one, who knows well what all At the sight of the odious instrument the blood rushes to ference of the commissioners, he would probably ha these mean, cries out and protests that she will not accept the face of the maiden; she is almost suffocated by anger, been torn to pieces. The unkindness of the people se it-that she will have nothing to do with it-that it is her laces burst and her heart bounds; she snatches from to make much impression on him. He even shed te odious in her sight. She then quits the house, and runs the hands of the rash intruder the odious instrument, and sistent with his approved courage; but it must be He showed also more fear of assassination than seemed t into the fields, like one distracted. (This is the most ap- throws it at his head, taking care, however, that it shall lected that the danger was of a new and peculiarly be proved etiquette.) But the following Sunday, when the not go within a yard of his ears. But, how bitter and description, and calculated to appal many to gallant returns, if he should find the blackbird in a neatly- sincere is her regret at having missed him! Let him dare terrors of a field of battle were familiar. The brave made cage, he presents the damsel with a rusty reaping- to return, and he shall know what he has to expect; and, dier might shudder at a death like that of the De Was hook, without a handle. At the sight of this instrument in fact, the gallant returns the following Sunday, and finds At La Calade he was equally nervous, and exhibited gr fear of poison. When he reached Aix, precautions we there is another exclamation of surprise and scorn, and upon the table a large basket, at the bottom of which he taken by detachments of gens d'armes, as well as by another flight into the fields. "Take back your old iron; perceives a rose, together with the odious nut-cracker, en- ties of the allied troops, to ensure his personal safety, s what would you have me do with it?" says the fair one. veloped in garden rocket and tormentil. This denotes that a chateau called Bouillidou, he had an interview with But the gallant is now accustomed to these ways, and does you have been promoted another step. Then all the resister Pauline. The curiosity of the lady of the h and two or three females, made them also find their not lose courage, but returns the next Sunday, followed, lations, near and distant, both on the paternal and materto his presence. They saw a gentleman in an Austr as on the former one, by his ascendants; and, if he finds nal side, assemble, and confer upon you, with a most ob- uniform. Whom do you wish to see, les ?"-" the reaping-hook cleaned of its rust, and fixed in a new streperous sounding of horns, the dignity of otagnier, Emperor Napoleon ?""I am Napoleon."-"You handle, he then, for the first time, speaks to his fair one, with all its honours, privileges, franchises, and immu- Sir," replied the ladies." What! I suppose you exp" touches her hand, and pats her upon the shoulder. Then nities. (Olagnier comes from olagne, the synonime of to see me look more mischievous? Oh, yes! that since fortune is adverse to me, I must look i follow compliments and kisses, the relations drink a few nut-cracker.) This grade gives the young couple the rascal, a miscreant, a brigand. But do you know glasses of wine, the lovers converse for a short time to liberty of going alone on a Sunday into the woods with all this has happened? Merely because I wished to pl gether, and you are then admitted and received in the the nut cracker and the basket, which latter they are to France above England."-While on board the Undaunt house as herbager-a grade which is in the same relation bring back full in the evening to the maiden's house. The Napoleon spoke with great freedom of the facility to that of husband as the dignity of licentiate is to that of nuts gathered and brought home have now to be cracked, which he had outwitted and defeated the allies during t last campaign. "The Silesian army," he said, " doctor. It is then tacitly understood that the gallant shall sorted, pounded, heated, and subjected to the oil press. given him most trouble. The old devil, Blucher, go during the fine season and cut the new grass with his Consequently you have still to be admitted as nut-breaker, no sooner defeated than he was willing to fight a fair one-taking care to make use of the reaping-hook that sorter, heater, and presser; and even after all this you But he considered his victory over Schwartzenburgi has been sharpened and put in a new hardle with an at- have still, before you can be admitted to the temple of certain, save for the defection of Marmont. Much tention so full of delicacy. And, accordingly, as soon as Hymen, to be examined as to your skill in spinning, and he said, with great apparent frankness, and seemed de rous to make himself in every respect agreeable to the earth is covered with verdure, our young couple set if approved of, raised to the rank of a spinner. You must companions on board. Even the seamen, who at first out very frankly together to cut the grass, which they make necessarily pass through all these grades before you can garded him with wonder, mixed with suspicion, did into bundles, and bring to the house of the betrothed. be invested with the rights and prerogatives of a husband. escape the charm of his affability, by which they we The harvest lasts a month: during which period they have A code regulating all these preliminaries exists; it is soon won over, all excepting the boatswain Hinton, & had time to become better acquainted with each other, in written in the romance language; and, amongst others, of the old school, who could never hear of the Empero cutting the same grass, singing the same song, drinking contains the following maxims of pastoral gallantry. The praises without muttering the vulgar but expressive phras "Humbug." The honest boatswain, however, ce out of the same cup, and eating off the same platter.-herbager should be sighing and suppliant; the maioussier understand and value what was solid in Napoleon's me But flowers and grass are of little consequence; we must gallant and seductive; the olagnier patient and suffering, As he had to return thanks in the name of the ship's ce come to the fruits, and it is the season of gathering them but presumptuous in intention; the spinner complaisant pany for 200 louis with which the Emperor preseta that is looked forward to with impatience. As soon as the and enterprising; the husband doleful and drowsy. By them, he wished "his honour good health, and better i strawberries begin to ripen-and I warn you that upon the mountain they do not ripen before the end of July-our herberger, who has been absent from his fair one more than the same code it is the duty of an olagnier to give to his the next time." NAPOLEON IN HIS LAST MOMENTS. During the 3d of May, it was seen that the life of N poleon was evidently drawing to a close; and his follower 1 particularly his physician, became desirous to call in e same fate. [From Memoires Anecdotiques par 3. de Bousset.] NAPOLEON'S DIVORCE. 1. de Bousset relates the following extraordinary scene : took place in his presence a short time before the ce was pronounced between Napoleon and the Emss Josephine: uttering the most heart-rending cries and moans. "No, race course, &c. In four minutes and a half I lost sight NESDAY SE’nnight. IMPROVED PRINTING-PRESS. struction of printing presses, that we hardly expected any So many improvements have been made in the conthing further would be effected in that way; but we have lately examined a press constructed in the establishment form is so compact, that it is scarcely 4 feet high; and of Mr. Pouchee, of Little Queen-street, that reflects great credit on the ingenuity of its inventor, Mr. Boyce. Its although of less weight by one-fourth than the Columbian, possesses still greater power, with much less labour to the workman. The pressure is obtained by levers and a screw somewhat similar to the Stanhope, but differently arranged; so that its power, compared to that press, is as 5 to 3. The mode of propelling the carriage is very ingenious; the lumbian, and with more ease: the carriage glides over the ribs on a frame with small rollers, and, when pressed We have received the following account of the voyage by the platen, rests on solid planes the whole length of of Mr. Brown:-"Having formed a determination of the bearing, the springs in the roller-frame giving way to ascending from the town of Pontefract, at seven o'clock I the pull. It also performs an action, by which the barcommenced generating the gas from the decomposition of handle is made to meet the hand of the pressman going water, which went on extremely well. The morning was in, and to recede on the return, thereby increasing the cloudy. My ascent was to have taken place at twelve speed, and giving more room for the platen to rise. The o'clock, but in consequence of a number of gentlemen table is free from corner-irons; and, in lieu of these, pohaving made arrangements for the races to commence at lished bars are made to traverse either end, with which the three o'clock, I was requested not to ascend until half-past form, whether large or small, is steadily secured on the one or two. At this time the roads and adjoining fields press by a single screw. By this contrivance stereotypewere lined with people. At half-past one, I commenced plates may be arranged and secured without chases. Inattaching the car, when the balloon was let to rise, so that dependently of these advantages, it is so constructed that the hoop restrained it. The sight was most striking, the it may be taken to pieces, and packed up in a comparaballoon being not more than one third inflated, which tively small compass-no single part weighing more than nearly represented the form of a parachute. The gas 2 cwt., rendering it extremely convenient for transport. being very pure, buoyed the balloon upwards, forming Upon the whole, whether we consider its portability, its nearly a flat surface on the lower side, the aperture being speed, or its power, we do not hesitate to say, it is the best upwards of nine yards from my head. To the spectators press that human ingenuity has yet produced. this sight would appear dangerous, the valve cord being. The inventor has also turned his attention to the Standso distant from me." It was my intention to have taken a ing Press, and has succeeded in obtaining a degree of pres. gentleman with me, but on trial I found there was not sure with the screw equal to the hydraulic, by a lever only sufficient power. I then took in about eighty pounds of three feet long. This is a decided improvement, as the ballast, and left the earth, at five minutes to two, amidst press is not only much cheaper, but can never get out of the shouts and cheers of thousands. In two minutes I order-a double advantage over the hydraulic-London had a most delightful view of the town of Pontefract, paper. I was on service at the Tuileries from Monday, vember 27th. That day, and on the Tuesday and ednesday following, I was struck by a great change in looks of the Empress, and the embarrassed silence of apoleon. The only words he spoke during dinner were ask me a few brief questions, the answers of which he peared not to hear. On one of those days the dinner not last more than ten minutes. On Thursday, the h, the storm burst. Their Majesties sat down to din- MR. BROWN'S ASCENT AT PONTEFRACT ON WED- operation is effected in half the time occupied by the CoJosephine wore a large white bonnet tied under the n, which partly concealed her features; I could, how7, perceive that she had been weeping, and with dif alty even then restrained her tears. She appeared to me e the image of grief and despair. The most profound ence reigned during dinner. Napoleon and the Em, merely tasted for form's sake what was served to . The only words uttered were those addressed to e by the Emperor, What kind of weather is it?' and he pronounced them he rose from the table and went to the drawing-room, the Empress slowly following him. ffee was brought in; when Napoleon, contrary to his sal custom, took the cup from the page, and made a that he wished to be alone. I immediately quitted e room; but feeling anxious and alarmed, I sat down the salon de service (where their Majesties usually Led,) on a chair near the door of the Emperor's drawing om. I was observing, mechanically, the servants clearthe table, when suddenly I heard the Empress shriek the most violent manner. The usher of the chamber, Posing she had fallen into a fit, was on the point of ning the door, but I prevented him, saying that the peror would call for assistance if he thought it neces"y. I was then standing near the door, when Napoleon self opened it, and, perceiving me, said, in a hurried niner. Come in, Bousset, and shut the door." I ened, and saw the Empress stretched upon the carpet, and Poetry. ROSALIE. (A SKETCH.) Fair art thou, Rosalie, divinely fair, Love hovers o'er thee, and, with dalliance bland, Delighted waves his thrice-enchanted wand, Whilst thou, unconscious of the mischief near, Like some sweet star of beauty fearless shines, The while around thee noxious vapours rise, The tempest gathers, and the lurid skies Portentous threaten, and pale Death entwines, Unseen, his coronal thy locks to braid; And ah! thy icy pallet to bestrew, Fond Pity plucks the tender violet blue. For thou soon, Rosalie, bright flower! must fade- long; but his amazing strength of genius made ample amends for his remissness. He wrote five plays, besides his poems and letters, which, considering the early age at which he died, may be reckoned an amazing performance, and gives an idea what might have been expected from him when his genius had become matured. He was the intimate friend and associate of Jonson, Carew, Davenant, and other celebrated poets of his time. He died of a fever, said to have been occasioned by extreme grief, on the 7th of May, 1641, in the 28th year of his age. SONG. I prithee send me back my heart, To find it were in vain ; Would steal it back again. Why should two hearts in one breast lie, Oh love! where is thy sympathy, I cannot find it out; G. For when I think I'm best resolv'd, I then am in most doubt. MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. ADDRESSED TO THE LABOURING CLASSES. The deadliest poisons and the rankest weeds The learned chemist by his skill succeeds To change to life-invigorating balm, The anguish of the suffering wretch to calm: So may the man of philosophic mind In Charlotte's fate an awful lesson find; And as he deeply mourns the sad event Which freedom's sons unfeignedly lament, Let him awhile suppress the starting tear, To point this moral for the peasant's ear: "Ye who, with patient and unceasing toil ،، Still ply the loom, or cultivate the soil ; "Ye unambitious tenants of the cot, "Taught by her fate, repine not at your lot; "But ere ye murmur at your humbler state, ،، Think-to be happy is not to be great : "No privileg'd rank claims Heav'n's peculiar care, "And earthly dignity's an empty snare; "That pomp, and luxury, and wealth, and power, “ Embitter death's inevitable hour. "Then while your vigour and your health are spar'd, "Grateful for life, still be for death prepar'd; ،، With cheerfulness await that last event, "Which has no terrors to a life well spent." Liverpool, 1827. No. III. SPECIMENS OF THE ELDER POETS. BY PERCIVAL MELBURNE. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. This accomplished poet was born at Witham, in the county of Middlesex, in the year 1613. Langbaine, writing of Suckling, says,-" He had so pregnant a genius, that he spoke Latin at five years old, and writ it at nine years of age." He had a great taste for music and poetry, both of which he assiduously cultivated, but excelled more particularly in the latter, as his poems evince. Being of a sprightly and vivacious disposition, his volatility of temper would not allow him to pursue any one particular study For I'll believe I have her heart, As much as she has mine. A DREAM. On a still silent night, scarce could I number I know not how. First to a garden, where Till night's black wings do overtake me, Thinking on thee, thy beauties then, As sudden lights do sleepy men, So they by their bright rays awake me. Thus absence dies, and dying proves No absence can subsist with loves That do partake of fair perfection; Since in the darkest night they may, By love's quick motion find a way To see each other by reflection. The waving sea can with each flood Bathe some high promont, that hath stood Far from the main up in the river; Oh! think not then but love can do As much, for that's an ocean too, That flows not every day, but ever. LE REVEIL D'UNE MERE. Un sommeil calme et pur comme sa vie, Un long sommeil a rafraichi ses sens: Elle sourit et nomme ses enfans; Adèle accourt, de son frère suivie. Tous deux du lit assiègent le chevet; Leurs petits bras étendus vers leur mère, Leurs yeux naïfs, leur touchante prière, D'un seul baiser implorent le bienfait. Céline alors, d'une main caressante, Contre son sein les presse tour-à-tour, Et de son cœur la voix reconnaissante Bénit le Ciel, et rend grâce à l'amour: Bientôt Adèle au travail occupée, Orne avec soin sa docile poupée, Sur ses devoirs lui fait un long discours, L'écoute ensuite, et répondant toujours A son silence, elle gronde et pardonne, La gronde encore, et sagement lui donne Tous les avis qu'elle-même a reçus, En ajoutant: Surtout ne mentez plus. Un bruit soudain la trouble et l'intimide; Son jeune frère, écuyer intrépide, Caracolant sur un léger bâton, Avec fracas traverse le salon, Qui retentit de sa course rapide. A cet aspect, dans les yeux de la sœur L'étonnement se mêle à la tendresse: Du cavalier elle admire l'addresse, Et sa raison condamne avec douceur Ce jeu nouveau, qui peut être funeste. Vaine leçon ! il rit de sa frayeur ; Des pieds, des mains, de la voix, et du geste De son coursier il hâte la lenteur. Mais le tambour au loin s'est fait entendre; D'un cri de joie il ne peut se défendre: Il voit passer les poudreux escadrons; De la trompette et des aigres clarions Le son guerrier l'anime; il veut descendre, Il veut combattre ; il s'arme, il est armé. Un chapeau rond, surmonté d'un panache, Couvre à-demi son front plus enflammé; A son côté fièrement il attache Le buis paisible, en sabre transformé : Il va partir; mais Adèle tremblante, Courant à lui, le retient dans ses bras, Verse des pleurs, et ne lui permet pas De se ranger sous l'enseigne flottante. De l'amitié le langage touchant Fléchit enfin ce courage rebelle; Il se désarme, il s'assied aupres d'elle, Et pour lui plaire il redevient enfant. A tous ces jeux Céline est attentive, Et lit déjà dans leur ame naïve Les passions, les goûts, et le destin Que leur réserve un avenir lointain. LINES. Plant the wild rose-tree around her tomb; To the mild, and the pale, and heavenly hue Let the fragrant dew, that from heaven falls, And when Winter taketh his garment of snow, J. M. 1 the Kaleidoscope of July 24, we inserted the first part of "The Chase," the conclusion of which has been postponed until now, in order to enable the writer to make certain corrections of which it appeared to us to stand in reed. Some little change has resulted from the delay, but it is evidently still in want of revision, as some of the expressions are unintelligible to us. However, as we see no prospect of further communication with the author, we must commit it to the press "with all its inperfections on its head."-Edit. Kal. THE CHASE. (From the German of Burgen.) (Concluded from page 20.) "O mercy! mercy! noble Lord, Spare the hard pittance of the poor, Earned by the sweat their brows have pour'd In scorching July's sultry hour!" Earnest the right-hand stayer pleads, The left still cheering to the prey; Th' impetuous Earl no warning heeds, But furious holds the onward way. "Away, thou hound, so basely born, Or dread the scourge's echoing blow!” Then loudly rung his bugle horn, "Hark forward! forward! holloo, ho!" So said, so done, a single bound Clears the poor labourer's humble pale; While follow man, and horse, and hound, Like dark December's stormy gale. And man, and horse, and hound, and horn, Destructive sweep the field along; While joying o'er the wasted corn, Fell Famine marks the maddening throng. Again up roused, the timorous prey Scours moss, and moor, and holt, and hill; Hard run, he feels his strength decay, And trusts for life his simple skill. Too dangerous solitude appeared, He seeks the shelter of the crowd; Amid the flocks' domestic herd His harmless head he hopes to shroud. O'er moss, and moor, and holt, and hill, His tract the steady blood-hounds trace; O'er moss, and moor, and holt, and hill, The unwearied Earl pursues the chase. The anxious herdsmen lowly fall, "O spare, thou noble Baron spare, But furious keeps the onward way. "Unmanner'd dog! to stop my sport Vain were thy cant and beggar whine, Though human spirits of thy sort Were tenants of those carrion kine!" Hark forward! forward! holloo, ho!" Down sinks their mangled herdsman near; The murderous cries the stag appal, Again he starts, new nerved by fear. With blood besmeared, and white with foam, While big the tears with anguish pour, He seeks, amid the forest's gloom, The humble hermit's hut obscure. But man, and horse, and horn, and hound, With Hark, away! and holloo, ho!" The holy hermit poured his prayer; "The meanest brute has right to plead, But frantic keeps the onward way. The stag, the hut, the hermit go. And horse, and men, and horn, and hound, No distant baying reached his ears; Save what a distant torrent gave. The awful voice of thunder spoke: "Oppressor of creation fair! Apostate spirits' harden'd tool! God's meanest creature is his child." And horror chill'd each nerve and vein. Brought storm and tempest on its wing. From yawning rifts, with many a yell, Earl Walter flies o'er bush and thorn With many a shriek of helpless woe; Behind him, hound, and horse, and horn, And "Hark, away! and holloo, ho!" With wild despair's reverted eye Close, close behind he marks the throng, With bloody fangs and eager cry, In frantic fear he scours along. Still shall the dreadful chase endure Till time itself shall have an end; By day earth's tortured womb they scour At midnight's witching hour ascend. Theirs is the horse, and hound, and horn That oft the lated peasant hears; Appall'd, he signs the frequent cross, When the wild din invades his ears. The wakeful priest oft drops a tear For human pride, for human woe, When at the midnight mass he hears The infernal cry of" Holloe, ho!" Kirkdale, July 18th, 1827. J. Br. DESCRIPTION OF AN ISLAND GRADUALLY FORMED (From the Pelican Island, &c. by James Montgomery.) To swell the height'ning, bright'ning, gradual mound, By which a hand invisible was rearing A new creation in the secret deep. Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them; Still dying upwards as their labours closed; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, 66 Compared with this amazing edifice, Raised by the weakest creatures in existence, Thoughts hewn in columns, or in domes expanded; In honour of the living or the dead ; What are they?-fine-wrought miniatures of art, |