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sittart either or neither as you could not be withdrawn without rioplease ; but not both, and both in lence to our feelings. I could not

An addition, a partnership, bear that Lord Bacon, or Sir Isaac in this particular, would be less of- Newton, should give up even his fensive, perhaps, than an absolute name of mere rank; but if the grave change :-not that I approve even of were unfortunately open to courtthis degree of tampering with our honours, I could never submit with reality ; but of the two evils, or patience to Lord Shakspeare. He crimes, it is the least. A Co. might must be born again, or you could with a little use become endurable. not lower him down to such a digniIt is best, however, to leave our- ty without profanation. The man selves alone.

must have time to ennoble the title, Some people have a dislike to cer- or it may be worse than an encumtain titles in very great men, simply brance. It is a dangerous measure as titles, which derogate, they think, for a great man, as they say, to refrom the nobility of mind. They tire on a title: if he cannot begin, or are not willing, for instance, that a at least go on, with one, he must fine poet should be a lord. I do not be a loser by the accession—a loser agree with this sentiment to its ut- of himself. His title can have no most extent. If the title has been retrospective influence, except to long attached to the man-has long darken and confound. The old man co-existed with his characteristic ac- we knew; the new lord is an experitions, and personal adventures, it be- *ment. comes, not only not degrading, but

R. A.

AN HEIRESS IN JEOPARDY.

How much of human hostility de- to Levizac and pirouettes, and hear pends on thatcircumstance--distance! my uncle's will read by my guardian. If the most bitter enemies were to It furnished me, indeed, with come into contact, how much their ample materials for thinking. Dr. ideas of each other would be chasten- Marrowfat's face, neither human nor ed and corrected! They would mu- divine-I see it before me while tually amend their erroneous impres- I am writing-appeared positively sions ; see much to admire and much frightful, while he recited its monto imitate in each other; and half strous contents. It appeared, that the animosity which sheds its bane- my father and uncle, though brothers, ful influence on society would fade had wrangled and jangled through away and be forgotten. It was one life; and that the only subject on day when I was about seven years which they ever agreed, was, to old, after an unusual bustle in the support the dignity of the Vavasour family mansion, and my being ar- family. That in a moment of unrayed in a black frock, much to my precedented unison, they had deterinconvenience, in the hot month of mined, that, as the title fell to my August, that I was told my asthma- cousin Edgar, and the estates to me, tic old uncle had gone off like a to keep both united in the family, lamb, and that I was the heiress to we should marry. And it seemed ten thousand pounds per annum. This whichever party violated these preinformation, given with an air of in- cious conditions was actually definite importance, made no very pendent on the other for bread and great impression upon me at the butter. When I first heard of this time; and in spite of the circum- pious arrangement, I blessed myself, stance being regularly dwelt on by and Sir Edgar cursed himself. A my French governess at Camden- passionate, overbearing, dissolute House after every heinous misde- young man, thought I, for a husmeanour, I had thought little or no- band; for a husband of an orphan; thing on the subject, till at the age of of a girl, who has not a nearer relaeighteen I was called on to bid adieu tion than himself in the world; who

has no father to advise her, no mother to support her. A professed rake too who will merely view me as an incumbrance on his estate; who will think no love, no confidence, no respect due to me; who will insult my feelings, deride my sentiments, and wither with unkindness the best affections of my nature! No-I concluded, as my constitutional levity returned-I have the greatest possible respect for guardians, revere their office, and tremble at their authority; but to make myself wretched merely to please them, No, no-I positively cannot think of it.

Well,-Time, who is no respecter of persons, went on. The gentleman was within a few months of being twenty-one; and, on the day of his attaining age, he was to say whether it was his pleasure to fulfil the arrangement. My opinion, I found, was not to be asked. A rich and titled husband was procured for me, and I was to take him and be thankful. I was musing on my singular situation, when a thought struck me.-Can I not see him and judge of his character, unsuspected by himself? This is the season when he pays an annual visit to my god-mother, why not persuade her to let me visit her incog.? The idea, strange as it was, was instantly acted on; and a week saw me at Vale-Royal, without carriages, without horses, without servants, to all appearance a girl of no pretensions or expectations, and avowedly dependent on a distant relation.

To this hour, I remember my heart beating audibly as I descended to the dining room, where I was to see, for the first time, the arbiter of my fate; and I never shall forget my start of surprise, when a pale, gentlemanly, and rather reserved young man, in apparent ill-health, was introduced to me as the noisy, dissolute, distracting, and distracted baronet. Preciously have I been hoaxed, thought I, as, after a long, and rather interesting conversation with Sir Edgar, I, with the other ladies, left the room. Days rolled on in succession. Chance continually brought us together, and Prudence began to whisper, you had better return home." Still I lingered-till

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one evening, towards the close of a long tête-à-tête conversation, on my saying, "that I never considered money and happiness as synonymous terms, and thought it very possible to live on 500 a year; " he replied, "One admission more could you live on it with me? You are doubtless acquainted," he continued, with increasing emotion, "with my unhappy situation; but not perhaps aware, that, revolting from a union with Miss Vavasour, I have resolved on taking orders and accepting a living from a friend. If, foregoing more brilliant prospects, you would condescend to share my retirement

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His manner, the moment, the lovely scene which surrounded us, all combined against me; and Heaven knows what answer Í might have been hurried into, had I not got out,-with a gaiety foreign to my heart, "I can say nothing to you, till you have, in person, explained your sentiments to Miss Vavasour.See her at once.' "But why?" he exclaimed, "could seeing her again and again ever reconcile me to her manners, habits, and sentiments? or any sum of money, however large, induce me to place at the head of my table a hump-backed bas-bleu in green spectacles?" "Hump-backed!" "Yes, from her cradle. But you colour. Do you know her?" timately. She's my most particular friend!" "I sincerely beg your pardon. What an unlucky dog I am. I hope you're not offended?” "Offended? Oh no-not offended. Hump-backed, good Heavens !-not the least offended. Hump-backed of all things in the world:" and I involuntarily gave a glance towards the glass. "I had no conception," he resumed, as soon as he could col❤ lect himself, "that there was any acquaintance." "The most intimate possible," I returned; "and I can assure you that you have been represented to her as the most dissolute, passionate, awkward, ill-disposed young man breathing." "The devil!' "Don't swear; but hear me. See your cousin. You will find yourself mistaken. Further, at present, this deponent saith not ;" and, with a face ludicrously distorted with an attempt to smile, when I was monstrously inclined to cry, I es

caped to my own room. We did to himself and the most amusing to not meet again ; for the next morn- me, he gave me to understand, he ing, in no very enviable frame of could not fulfil the engagement made mind, I returned home.

for him, and regretted it had ever Not many weeks afterwards, Sir been contemplated. “ No, no," said Edgar came of age. The bells were 1, in a voice that made him start, ringing blithely in the breeze-the and drawing up the blinds, “ No, tenants were carousing on the lawn, no, it is preposterous to suppose, Sir when he drove up to the door. My Edgar Vavasour would ever connect cue was taken. With a large pair himself with an bred, awkward, of green spectacles on my nose, in a hump-backed girl.” Exclamations darkened room, near a table covered and explanations, laughter and railwith ponderous volumes, I prepared lery-intermixed with more serious for this tremendous interview. After feelings—followed; but the result of hems and hahs innumerable, and it all was-that-that-that-we are with confusion the most distressing married.

ELLEN.

POEM, FROM THE DUTCH OF JACOB WESTERBAEN, A Poct of the Seventeenth Century; the strenuous Defender of Olden Barnevelt,

De Groot, and other great but unfortunate Statesmen.

Denckt niet dat den lieven geur,

En de kleur
van uw bloosend-roode wangen
Uw altijd sal blijven bij

So lang gij
Uwe bloempjes noch laet hangen,

1.
Think not that the dear perfume

And the bloom
Of those cheeks, divinely glowing,
Ever shall remain to thee

While there be
None for whom those flowers are blowing.

2.
By the eglantine be taught

How 'tis sought
For its bloom and fragrance only:
Is not all its beauty past

When at last
On the thorn 'tis hanging lonely?

3.
Maidens are like garden bowers

Fill'd with flowers, • In this and the subsequent verse, the author appears to have had Catullus's Carmen Nuptiale in his mind, although he has, in a delicate and masterly manner, varied the idea:

“Ut flos in septis secretus nascitur hortis,

Ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro,
Quem mulcent auræ, firmat sol, educat imber :
Multi illum pueri, multæ optavêre puellæ :
Idem cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui,
Nulli illum pueri, nullæ optavêre puelle :
Sic virgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est.
Cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,
Nec pueris jucunda manet, nec cara puellis."

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Sweet brook! I've met thee many a summer's day,

And ventur'd fearless in thy shallow flood, And rambled oft thy sweet unwearied way,

’Neath willows cool that on thy margin stood, With crowds of partners in my artless play

Grasshopper, beetle, bee, and butterfly
That frisk'd about as though in merry mood

To see their old companion sporting by.
Sweet brook! life’s glories then were thine and mine ;

Shade clothed thy spring that now doth naked lie:
On thy white boiling sand the sweet woodbine

Darken’d and dipt its flowers—I mark, and sigh, And muse o'er troubles, since we met the last, Like two fond friends whose happiness is past.

PERCY GREEN. SPANISH ROMANCES.

No. IV.

MR. LOCKHART appears to have harmony of this remarkable vibratranslated all his Specimens of An- tion; for it runs, in almost every cient Spanish Poetry from secondary case, through a whole composition; sources; and his observations are and so far from carelessness or laxity generally rather tinged with the co- in this particular, among the comlouring of those by whom they were posers, or the repeaters, of the suggested, than distinguished for Spanish ballads, there is scarcely an originality, or founded on an inti- ear in the Peninsula so dull as not mate knowledge of the old poetical immediately to detect a false or careliterature of Spain. His opinions as less rhyme. The asonantes are of to the age of different compositions modern date compared with the conare almost always erroneous. The sonantes, the full or consonant rhyme. proofs he gives in favour of antiquity, They are used in almost all narrative are generally satisfactory evidence poetry; they are the common veof a modern origin; quotations made hicle of the drama, and of poetical to show the imperfection of versifi- romance; and are generally used by cation, rather demonstrate its great the repentistas for their extemporarefinement. The nature, nay, the neous compositions. The variety of very existence, of that vowel rhyme sounds which attaches to the English (the asonante) which is peculiar to vowels, makes our language very ill Spanish song, seems unknown to adapted for conveying a correct nohim. It is strange that he should tion of their character; yet it is, not have been alive to the recurring perhaps, worth an attempt.

EN EL VALLE DE PISUERGA.

En el valle de Pisuerga
vide entre peñas un angel,
en una serrana hermosa
del Cielo de Mançanares.
los arroyos de la sierra
por ser sus espejos nacen,
y por llegar se despeñan
y llegan hechos cristales.
descolorida del rostro,
melancolica no sale
por las mudanças que tiene
de ver las fiestas y bayles.
con la soledad se alegra,
tristeza le satisfaze,
a todos juzga por unos
a los bienes y a los males.

de sus amigas vencida
dando flores bajó al valle,
á ver las fiestas que hazian
las zagalas y zagales.
un serrano forastero,
que no vino á ver de balde,
que de verla enternecido
dançó por sus ojos graves.
y despues con regozijo
bailaron los naturales
aquesto cantando al son

de los olmos y los sauzes :
De nieue serrana teneis la color
deven ser las cenizas del fuego de amor.

Sylva de Romances.

IN THE VALE OF PISUERGA.

Asonantes (a. e.)
In the vale of Pisuerga,
'Midst the rocks I saw an angel,
'Twas a lovely mountain maiden
'Neath the heaven of Manzanares.
Every river, every streamlet,
Flow'd to be her silvery glasses,
Hurrying from their beds to meet her;-
Crystals in the gentle valley.
But her cheeks are pale and gloomy,
Chilla by melancholy sadness,
Careless she of all around her,
Sports, and songs, and joyous dances.

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