rectorque senatûs

Sed regnantis erat.

"The forty-five" forms a very interesting would not have been valid; all property, real | English prelacy; hence the absence of that
episode in this historical volume; but we are not as well as personal, of the king, descends with low fanaticism which disgraced some of the
aware of any new facts disclosed in its details. the crown."
reformed churches; hence that decency of pub-
This is followed by the events of the war which On the end of the Walpole administration, lic worship which rejected, on the one hand, all
was terminated by the treaty of Aix-la-Cha- referring to the charges of corruption, Lord unintelligible ceremony, and on the other, all
pelle, 1748: and the fourth book resumes, at J. R., among other observations makes the fol- excess of devotional enthusiasm. But, with
p. 365, the domestic history of England, under lowing:-
these qualities, the church of England, as an
the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole. Of the "That some of this money was applied to institution, had serious defects.
The clergy,
death of George the First it is related (1727): the corruption of parliament, cannot, indeed, educated with the aristocracy, depending on
"He set out for Hanover on the 2d of June; be either disproved or disbelieved. That the the king and the aristocracy, had too little
and on the 9th was entertained by Count votes of the House of Commons are often in-sympathy with the people, and too much of
Twittel at a country-house near Delden. Early fluenced by employments and pensions held or political connexion with the governing powers
the next morning he departed from Delden, and hoped for, promised or refused, was true in the of the state. In the age of which we are
soon felt indisposition: at Ippenburen he grew age of Charles the Second, in that of Walpole, treating, however, the majority of the inferior
lethargic, his tongue hung out of his mouth, and may be now. The form of corruption, clergy, whether they still hankered after the
and he could only keep repeating the word indeed, has changed, but its spirit is unaltered. abominations of the Stuarts, or desired only
Osnaburg, Osnaburg. His valet immediately In the earliest of these periods, a small gra- a high church administration, were opposed
got on horseback and rode on to the palace of tuity sufficed; in the next, a large pension was to the crown; a position which, as Mr. Hume
the king's brother, the Bishop of Osnaburg; required; the more fastidious vice of our own has observed, was forced and unnatural. The
but when the carriage arrived there the king days spurns at money, and accepts patronage. government, unable to gain the majority, had
was quite dead. His death was attributed by The quantity and kind of corruption depend, yet the power to dispose of the chief seats of
some to a melon he ate the night before, which perhaps, fully as much on the corrupted as the the church, and they used it to advance to
others affirm was an orange. Walpole said corrupter, or, in other words, on the average those high places men of liberal opinions, at-
more truly, that he died of thinking he never virtue of the age: Walpole himself said that tached to the Protestant succession, of exten-
could die. The Duchess of Kendal, who was ministers were as often tempted as tempters. sive learning, but free from the narrowness
on her way from Delden at the time, retired *
· He was the leader, not the master, either of pedantry or of their profession. Such
for three months to Brunswick: she afterwards of the House of Commons:
men, who, at a different period, might have
resided at Kendal House, Isleworth, till her
been left unnoticed by the crown, fell in with
death, which happened in 1743. A raven,
the spirit of the times, and, without altering,
which one day flew into her room, was always No doubt, many asked him for favours, many modified the character of the church. Enga-
cherished by her as the ghost of the departed were influenced by the promises or refusals ging but little in controversy with their old
monarch. There is another person, besides the they met with; but all the adherents thus ac- enemies, the Roman Catholics and the Puri-
mistress, whose fate deserves mention in this quired would have left him but a miserable tans, they endeavoured not so much to prove
place. Sophia Dorothy, of Zell, the daughter minority, had he not sustained himself by the that their faith was scriptural, as that Scrip-
of William, Duke of Zell, by Eleanor d'Emiers, prudence and steadiness of his measures, the ture was rational. Infidel writings, the calm
of the French family of Olbreuse, was married large capacity of his mind, and his hearty temper of the age, and the theological turn of
at sixteen to George the First, then electoral attachment to the best interests of his country. Queen Caroline, contributed to this change.
prince. She brought him a son and a daughter, A more just charge upon him is, that he bore The truth and fitness of religion, the beauty
but was soon neglected for a mistress. During the imputation of corruption with too much of virtue, the advantages of a good and upright
the absence of the prince with the army, Count insensibility, and by his retorts encouraged the life, charity and toleration for all mankind,
Konigsmark arrived at Hanover: he was a man willing belief of the multitude that all politi-were the subjects on which the chosen prelates
of professed gallantry, and had avowed his ad- cians are dishonest. Whether he said all loved to dwell. The scoffers at Christianity
miration for the princess before her marriage. men have their price,' or all those men have were defeated by their mildness of tone; the
The elector was told that his daughter-in-law
learned were satisfied with the freedom in
received him late in the evening in her own
which they were indulged; but the people at
apartment: the count was watched; and one
large, too much neglected, fell into the apathy
night, as he left the palace by a private way,
of cold acquiescence."
he was assassinated by the orders, and in the
presence, of the elector. The public feeling,
shocked at this murder, pronounced itself in
favour of the princess: it was generally be-
lieved that she was innocent, and that Konigs-
mark had been drawn to the spot by the arti-
fice of a favourite mistress of Ernest Augustus,
who had substituted another person for the
princess. The prince, however, on his return
from the army, implicitly believed the guilt of
his wife, and caused her to be immured in the
castle of Alden, where she was confined for
thirty-two years, and died only seven months
before her husband. Her crime was never
proved; that of her father-in-law is but too
well authenticated. Her son, George the Se-
cond, who was convinced of her innocence, se-
cretly kept in his possession a picture of his
mother; and on the morning after the news of
the king's decease reached London, the portrait
appeared in his antechamber. The animosity "The church of England, from the period
which had existed between the late and pre- of the reformation, has preserved a peculiar
sent king gave rise to a curious circumstance. character. The leaders of the reform, falling
Archbishop Wake, who was intrusted with the in with the national temper, loath to destoy
will of the deceased monarch, when the time what may be corrected, and averse to inquire
for its being opened arrived, presented it to his into abstract truth when practical utility has
successor, who, to the surprise of every one, been provided for, left subsisting much of the
put it in his pocket, and stalked out of the Romish worship, and neglected some of the
room; nor was it ever heard of more. His favourite dogmas of the chief reformers. Large
friends said, in palliation of this act, that possessions were left in the hands of the clergy,
George the First had destroyed two wills made and a titular supremacy over the church was
in favour of his son. It should likewise be transferred from the pope to the king. Hence
mentioned, that, by the law of England, the will the deep erudition and dignified bearing of the

their price,' pointing to his adversaries, he as-
suredly left it to be believed, that if his enemies
consisted of ungratified solicitors, his friends
were the gratified. Nay, to a gentleman, who
told him that in Holland a question was left to Slight memoirs of the most of our eminent
its own merits, he remarked, that if he were to divines give much interest to this portion of
do so, half the shops in London would be shut the history; and a sketch of Wesley and Me-
up the next day; thus implying that corrup- thodism concludes the whole. We believe that
tion was necessary to the maintenance of the there are yet two volumes to be added to com-
House of Hanover. By this manner of speak-plete the work; and have only to repeat, that
ing he contributed to lower the tone of public it reflects high honour on the name of Lord
life, and taught men of hesitating virtue not John Russell.
to shrink from a contamination shared by the
great majority of their contemporaries. In BOOKS OF TITLE; alias, TITLES OF BOOKS.
point of fact, it may be doubted whether his No publisher ever hit upon or devised such
government was either more or less corrupt captivating titles for his books as Mr. Colburn;
than those of the half century which preceded who knows better than Juliet what there is in
or followed him."
a name. On the contrary, from him we never
The last portion of the volume treats of the get a volume that we are not tempted to read
state of religion in England during the first for its mere name's sake; while from others
half of the eighteenth century, and is both we receive works so oddly distinguished, that
luminous and important.

The view taken may be comprehended from the following summary:

we hardly know, at first sight, what to think of them, whether to read them or not, or in what class of our very miscellaneous collection to place them. The present week furnishes, perhaps, not more than our usual number of examples of this sort; but a few of its products may serve to make a slight distinct notice in illustration of our position.

Imprimis, we see "How old are You?" and "The Young Lady's Arithmetic," which struck us as being rather queer and dubious titles. To be sure, "How old are you? by a Lady," is not so ticklish as, "How old are you?"

By a Lady. 18mo. pp. 47. London. Rivingtons. By Miss M. A. Allison. 18mo, pp. 160. London. Longman and Co.

to a Lady; but even the former might per-looking so happy at dinner that you are sure tress of palates naturally defective, by artificial plex bachelors of a certain age with alarm, all is right in the city. Two livery servants means called obturateurs. The improvements especially when told of the second title, viz. to every guest,-ten courses, if possible, and in these supplements are historically described, "the True End of Life." [Will it be cre- every dish, in and out of season, which the and their latest perfections well explained. dited, that this is nevertheless a well-meant extravagance of the French cook can ima- Several of his instances of imperfect palates are little moral treatise?] Then, again, with re- gine. The evening all jewels and lights, and strikingly curious; and his work will be con gard to "the Young Lady's Arithmetic, being buhl and tulle, and heaven knows what. The sulted with intense interest by those unhappily an Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Num- gay dance, with the gayer danglers, and the afflicted with defects of this kind. bers," we absolutely looked for a gay essay on supper so recherché that the Prince of Ignotado the "quantity" of lovers, and the very na- shall declare to the Duke of Wellington, in tural numerical results, with perhaps an epi- my own hearing, that he has never seen any sode on the figures of the fair damsels alluded thing so sumptuous and elegant since the to, and the figures in their quadrilles; whereas Field of the Cloth of Gold." it is a very useful manual on the properties of 1, 2, 3, &c., addition, multiplication, division, and even the rule of three.

Scenes of War, and other Poems. By John
Malcolm. 12mo. pp. 191. Edinburgh, 1828.
Oliver and Boyd.

THERE is an interest attached to this little Response of Mrs., of Bloomsbury-volume independant of its own poetic grace: to square: Shopping and leaving cards all the misquote Moore, if such a deed can be for. morning in our own carriage. Quiet din-given

toilsome march, and have perhaps beguiled many a lonely hour by the watch-fire. With all its chivalric memories, and its picturesque scenery, Spain was the very country for a Troubadour's campaign. We will not extract from the first poem, recommending it to the reader entire, only reserving to ourselves the following very sweetly expressed images.

Secundò, we have before us "The Simplicity ner party, to make room for a brilliant "The hand that now languishes over the lyre of Health," "What is Luxury ?" and evening. Above fifty carriages at the door, Has sent a proud shaft to the warrior's heart." "Snell on Artificial Palates." Now, we at twelve for one, besides hackney coaches, Or, in plain prose, Mr. Malcolm is soldier as very innocently classed these works together: cabs, and other encumbrances. All the gauze well as poet; and these pages are the remem here, said we, is health, and its concomitant, window-curtains drawn, and the lights illu- brances of many a fearful combat, many a appetite; and here is good living,-soup, fish, minating Holborn and Hart-street. A noble flesh, fowl, et ceteras; and here is some new petit souper, and not fewer than eight Sirs and method of enhancing the value of these to the Ladies of title, (perhaps a real Lord or two, palates of the consumers. There is no such however poor), to grace the call of" the honour thing! and we must briefly state what these of taking champagne with you!" volumes really are. "The Simplicity of Health" Response of Mrs. of Retail Street: A is an odd book, containing 175 observations on genteel establishment, consisting of one (occaalmost every habit and action incidental to the sional) man, and three maids. Children nice life of man, such as the air he breathes, the and clean, and full of spirits. Breakfast at clothes he wears, the food he takes, the amuse- ten; every thing nice. To go to see the ments he enjoys, the medicines he swallows, Panorama, or the Zulodgical, or some such &c. &c. &c. From these we gather, that (in sights, before dinner; and either to have comthe author's opinion) strong tea is most per-pany at home, or go out, every evening; nice nicious, and that the drinking of coffee injured and nicely dressed. Buonaparte, and absolutely caused the death Response-Mrs.

of Alley: To be

of Byron. But, indeed, Hortator is an alarm- very smart indeed, and always fashionable (i. e.
ist he tells us of an acquaintance, who, after following the fashions of the upper world by
eating toasted cheese about two thousand changing nearly as often, no matter at what
times for supper, died on the two-thousand-and-distance of time the imitation is from the ori-
oneth occasion!! ergo, toasted cheese is not to ginal folly). Having a beau; getting orders
be trusted. To cure a red nose, 66
a strip now and then to the play, and perhaps to the
of linen soaked in vinegar, folded, and put on King's The-atre.
the organ affected when going to bed, and Response-the Widow Wadman: Having a
there suffered to remain till morning," is re-soft down bed, and a pug dog and a pet pussy.
commended: let any of our bottle-nosed friends Going to church in a beautiful bombasin gown
try this remedy! But we must quit this pro-trimmed with rich lace, the dress costing six
duction, of which its author expresses the most times as much as the flaunting Mrs. Showthe-
assured expectations that it will benefit man- by's. Being carney-d by the best people of
kind, and exalt his own fame through a longe- the neighbourhood, and knowing what it is
vity of future editions. His grand principles for; and laughing to think that next Valen-
are not new-temperance, early rising, ex-tine's day, "I'm a-going to disappoint 'em by
ercise, and cleanliness.
marrying Tom Langstaff, my late dear's late
"What is Luxury ?" is a question still more man."
difficult to discuss, since we know proverbially Response-Miss Mac-O, of (old) Maiden
that "one man's meat is another man's poi-Lane: Elegant dresses-elegant flirtations-
son," and thence that our luxuries must be of elegant rubbers-in short, every thing elegant.
different kinds. Query-"What is Luxury?”
Response-the Marchioness of!" Pin-
money 20,000l. a year;-being a lady pa-
troness at Almack's;-the marquess an un-
officious husband;-a Cecisbeo, whom Lady
shall envy me; - of course, evenings at
home, the best opera-box, diamonds, new Alas!"Joy never cometh with a hoop, and
carriages, the most splendid dresses, the latest seldom with a call." But we will descend no
hours, the supreme ton, and two or three such lower in the scale, nor condescend to what men
entertainments during the season as are un-call luxuries; assuredly "a lay observer
equalled in that, and even talked of next year." not the person to strike the highest chords.
Response the Dowager Lady "The His is truly a good sound old-fashioned book,
agreeable society of the friends of my late lord with a great deal of sound sense, and not a
and myself. Pleasant evening parties of not little piquant observation and dry humour, to
more than fifty. Loo.
A recommend it. A clever manipulus of etymo-
handsome hot supper, and a few gallant re-logical and other nuge adds much to its popular
miniscences of the days that are gone."
merits.
P: "What

Response-Mrs. of P

Conversation.

is Luxury? Why, every luxury. Mr.
•Exemplified by Hortator. 12mo. pp. 120. London.
E. Wilson.

By a Lay Observer. pp. 296. London. Maunder.
Second edition. 8vo. pp. 108. London. Callow and
Wilson

"The sea,

Whose boundless waters, into shadow cast,
Repose in cold pale beauty like the past.”
"Sad as the echoes of the last footfalls
That sink to sighs along the festal halls."
We like much the lines on Autumn.
"Sweet sabbath of the year!

While evening-lights decay,
Thy parting steps methinks hear
Steal from the world away!

Amid thy silent bowers

"Tis sad but sweet to dwell;

Where falling leaves and drooping flowers
Around me breathe farewell.

Along thy sunset skies

Their glories melt in shade;
And, like the things we fondly prize)
Seem lovelier as they fade.

A deep and crimson streak
Thy dying leaves disclose;

As on Consumption's waning cheek,
'Mid ruin, blooms the rose.
Thy scene each vision brings
Of beauty in decay;

Of fair and early faded things,
Too exquisite to stay;

Of joys that come no more;
of flowers whose bloom is fled;
Of farewells wept upon the shore;
Of friends estranged or dead;
Of all that now may seem

To Memory's tearful eye

The vanished beauty of a dream,
O'er which we gaze and sigh."

One other little poem and we must conclude,

"While on thy early charms I gaze,

All lovely as thou art,

Response-Miss Biddy: "Ola no, mamma. Plenty of romps, plenty of sweethearts, a hus- for our columns are very arbitrary monarchs. band soon-t the sooner the better,-balls, parties, operas, plays, holydays, watering-places, Paris, laughing for ever, and no rest whatever."

is

Snell's Palates! How are we disappointed!
Quin wished for a throat a mile long, and
palate all the way-and no turnpikes, we dare
say; but Mr. Snell's Palates are absolutely the
best inventions of this mechanical and philo-to
sophical age to remedy the deformity and dis

E'en like a beam from brighter days,

Thy smile steals o'er my heart:
And yet that smile, I scarce know why,
To saddening thought gives birth;-
Thou seem'st too beautiful to die,
Yet, oh! too fair for earth.

'Tis not the roses of thy cheek
That of departure tell,-

As early-blighted spring-flowers speak

A sorrowful farewell:

But still I've seen the fairest things

All fleetly fade away;

Like dreams that take the morning's wings,

Or shadows at noonday.

I would not that thou e'er couldst prove
To me but what thou art-

A spell unbroke by earthly love,

An idol of the heart;

A beauteous shrine to bend before,
In silent thought at even ;-
A form at distance to adore,

And but to love as Heaven."
We leave the leading poets of our age alone
their glory; but we may observe how gene-
rally must the "sweet wells of poesie" have

diffused their inspiration, when a little unpretending volume like this boasts a degree of feeling, taste, and harmony, which, fifty years ago, would have made their author first-rate in his line. Whether this universality is an advantage, admits, we grant, of a question; but we shall leave such debatable ground as a good subject for keen-witted disputants.

a pitch higher, and some pipe a treble, or thrill and bracing temperature of the season having, perpetually; the combination forming what has by this time, produced a corresponding sharpbeen termed " a frog concert." ness of appetite, the pic-nic, to which they now Again, "Pic-nic excursions are much in all sit down, is enjoyed with all possible zest vogue all over America. To shew how far and good humour. Soon after, a country dance these differ from any thing to which they may is announced; the music strikes up, and the be compared in England, it may be sufficient to partytripping it off' on the light fantastic observe, that pic-nic parties generally consist of toe, seldom break up before day-light the folfamilies of respectability, with their friends, lowing morning. The night is thus, with eatHistorical and Descriptive Sketches of the who are on a perfectly intimate footing with ing, drinking, and dancing, spent in high deMaritime Colonies of British America. By each other. In summer some romantic spot is light; and when the hour of departure draws J. M'Gregor. 8vo. and 12mo. pp. 266. Lon- fixed upon, to which the party proceed; if by nigh, the ladies return to hap themselves up in don, 1829. Longman and Co. water, which is most commonly the case, in an their winter habiliments, while the gentlemen "My only object (says the author) in sub-open boat; or if by land, in gigs or in calashes, have their cabriolets brought to the door, and mitting the following sketches to the public, is and on horseback. The ladies consider it as then each drives home with the lady who to make the maritime colonies of British Ame- within their particular province to furnish the honoured him with her company." rica better known than they are in the United eatables. The gentlemen provide wines and Now, this very Arcadian, social, and gallant Kingdom. I have had better opportunities spirits. At these parties there is usually less association, is very like similar exploits in Engthan many others of acquiring a more perfect restraint and more enjoyment than at the as- land; and, with the exception of the ladies knowledge of those countries, particularly assemblies. On some grassy glade, shaded by riding pick-a-pack on the shoulders of coun respects those parts of which scarcely any ac- the luxuriant branches of forest-trees, and not sellors, judges, and officers of the revenue, count exists. What I have written is princi- far from a clear spring or rivulet, the contents through the tide and mud, and, perhaps, the pally from personal observation, and claim only of well-filled baskets are disclosed; feasting on further exception of the fun of being over to myself the merit of having written nothing which, forms certainly the most substantial turned in the snow, and left sprawling on the but substantial facts. The numerous accounts part of the day's enjoyment; but, perhaps, the road, we have seen parties up the river, or into of various parts of the United States, which most agreeable is that which succeeds, when the hay-fields, or woods, even in our old country, have been written by cursory visitants, or by party divides for the pleasure of walking, and which could hardly be distinguished from these designing land-speculators, and which have there are, undoubtedly, worse occupations in North American gambols. It must not, how. been read with avidity in these kingdoms, have the world' than wandering with a pretty woman ever, be believed that there are no unpleasant occasioned many to emigrate to the United through the skirts of a wood, or along the mar- occurrences in Prince Edward Island. On the States of America, who might have removed gin of the sea, enjoying sweet converse,' and contrary, this is the mixed picture of society. and settled in our North American colonies the delights of the open air and surrounding "During the administrations of Governor under much more favourable circumstances. scenery. As the evening approaches, they re- Patterson, and his successors, General Fanning I am (he continues) no advocate for assemble, and the party, followed by their ser- and Governor Desbarres, the best circle of men leaving their native country, nor for tear- vants, bringing along the fragments of the pic-society in Charlotte Town was allowed to be ing asunder those attachments and connexions nic, return to the boat in which they embark. elegant and respectable, and, however much the which are fondly cherished from infancy to The evenings, at this season, are usually clear, members who composed it might have differed old age; but if the consideration of removing agreeably warm, and tranquil; the sea calm in their views and opinions as regarded the a family from poverty, and bringing them up and unruffled; and as neither the wine nor the political affairs of the colony, they did not afterwards in the confidence that they will not wreck of fowls, hams, &c. are forgotten, a re-allow either to interfere with the public amuse be reduced to want the necessaries of life; or, petition of the pic-nic may be said to take place ments, or their private acts of hospitality. if the condition of young men who cannot on the water. It sometimes happens that on Indeed, the politeness and attention with which find employment in their native country, be returning from these parties, the tide has respectable strangers were received, became sufficient reasons to justify emigration, it will, ebbed so far that the boat cannot approach proverbial. During the course of Governor I firmly believe, answer the views of such within a hundred yards of the shore; but, as it Smith's long administration, those social and people better to remove to British America would be extremely ungallant to allow the ladies kindly feelings which united society became than to the United States. * * Our North to remain any time without landing, the gen- unhappily weakened, in proportion as the num American possessions are not, it is true, viewed tlemen, let their rank in society be what it may, ber of its respectable members gradually dis with the same interest in England as are our (if even members of his majesty's colonial coun-minished; some of whom left the colony in West India Islands; but those colonies are, cil, judges of the supreme court, or the principal disgust, and others by their deaths left blanks notwithstanding, and especially in another officers of his majesty's customs,) all get into the at that period particularly difficult to be filled view, much more important. The soil, cli- water; and, although often sinking at every step up. The appointment of Colonel Ready to the mate, and productions, adapt them for the more than a foot into the mud, each carries a lady administration of the government will likely support of as great a population as any coun-in his arms to dry terra firma. The rendezvous have on society, as well as on public affairs, an try on earth; and in this respect they are in- for winter pic-nics is usually a respectable agreeable and useful influence; and an in finitely more valuable than any of our other farm-house, some miles distant in the country. creasing population, together with a liberal enpossessions. New Holland and Van Diemen's No small part of the pleasure of these excur-couragement given to education, will produce Land may be considered an exception; but the sions is enjoyed in driving to the appointed beneficial effects. In the different British pro distance of these countries from England will place with a lady, in a well-furred and cushioned vinces the highest circle of society is in a great be for ever an important objection to them." cabriolet, drawn over the snow or ice by one or measure modelled after that of Dublin, and These extracts from the preface so fully two horses. These carriages take but two composed of such as visit the governmentexplain the nature of the work, that we have persons; the gentleman drives, as there is no house, and are admitted at the assemblies: little more to do than express our opinion of seat in front for a servant. If the ice be smooth these consist of the officers of government, genits merits, and point out some of its most no- and glibly, and if the wind blows across the tlemen of the learned professions, merchants vel features to the attention of our readers. cabriolet, it is frequently twirled round, bringing whose manners and education entitle them to The author, like almost every author who the horse up at the same time with it, although distinction, and such others as have a standing has taken up some favourite part of the world generally going at great speed. These carriages, in the country, and also strangers who are as his El Dorado for colonization, is quite an on turning corners, or passing over uneven respectably introduced. The amusements of optimist in his views of our North American roads, frequently overturn, leaving the passen-Charlotte Town, although not on so extensive settlements, Prince Edward Island, Cape Bre-gers behind on the snow; but scarcely ever a scale, are much the same as in Quebec and ton, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and New-injured, although annoyed at the by-standers, Halifax. During winter, assemblies are com foundland. We will not say that he distorts who laugh irresistibly at their awkward con- mon once a month, or oftener. An amateur a single fact, but he sees things through a dition. As servants are seldom brought to at- theatre affords an agreeable opportunity of warm and pleasing medium-for example, tend at these winter parties, the gentlemen, as spending some pleasant hours. Pic-nic parties a disagreeable noise becomes a musical enter- soon as they hand their fair companions out of are common in summer and winter, and that inment to a spirit thus happily attuned to the carriages and usher them into the house, friendly intercourse and intimacy between faa mire. leave them for a short time to see their horses milies, so agreeable in all countries, is on much prope v taken care of. By the time they re- the same footing as in the United Kingdoms. turn, the ladies have disencumbered themselves Dinner parties were at cone time usual, but of muffs, cloaks, and pelisses; and, the frosty have not been so much so for some time past.

"When the spring opens, frogs are heard on fine evenings, singing in various notes and tones. Some strain on a rough low key, others

for the express purpose of making money, have
joined the lumbering parties for two or three
years; and, after saving their earnings, re-
turned and purchased lands, &c., on which
they now live very comfortably."
We must retain the rest of this Review till
next Saturday.

Letters from the Egean. By J. Emerson, Esq.
WHAT advantages costume and association
2 vols. 12mo. London, 1829. Colburn.
are to a traveller! The poet's idea,

"That a saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn,”

"A story on every breeze, and a picture in every wave:" they are full of descriptions perhaps rather too poetical for prose, but still very pretty; some most romantic incidents, &c. ;-so that, al together, these pages are among the most entertaining of Grecian origin, and not the less interesting because the islands and Smyrna are less known than the adjacent coasts. We give a few quotations. Speaking of the relative situation of women, from seeing them often in the cemeteries

The principal gentlemen in Charlotte Town | mous eaters, and they also drink great quantigenerally dine together at one of the hotels on ties of rum, which they scarcely ever dilute. the anniversaries of the tutelar saints of the Immediately after breakfast they divide into three kingdoms, as well as during the sittings three gangs, one of which cuts down the trees, of the colonial legislature and of the supreme another hews them, and the third is employed court. The ice, at different periods during with the oxen in hauling the timber, either to winter, offers frequent opportunities for skait-one general road leading to the banks of the ing to those who delight in that amusement. nearest stream, or at once to the stream itself: Shooting and fishing are other sources of plea- fallen trees and other impediments in the way sure; and annual races, near Charlotte Town, of the oxen are cut away with an axe. The are now likely to become permanent. A public whole winter is thus spent in unremitting subscription library, on a liberal and respect- labour; the snow covers the ground from two able footing, affords, either to those who read to three feet from the setting in of winter for amusement, or who wish to keep pace with until April; and, in the middle of fir forests, the growing intelligence of the world, a variety often till the middle of May. When the snow is true in more cases than one: turbans have of entertaining and standard works." begins to dissolve in April, the rivers swell, made the fortunes of half our tourists. The The following sketch of society in New or, according to the lumberers' phrase, the man who in a round hat and knee-breeches Brunswick is original and curious. 'freshets come down.' At this time all the would have been nobody, furnishes a page of "The timber trade, which, in a commer- timber cut during winter is thrown into the description when arrayed in shawl and sabre, cial as well as political point of view, is of water, and floated down until the river be- black perfumed beard, and ornamented pis more importance in employing our ships and comes sufficiently wide to make the whole tols. Then for associations; what with houris seamen than it is generally considered to be, into one or more rafts. The water at this and Homer, cachemeres and constitutions, employs also a vast number of people in the period is exceedingly cold; yet for weeks the liberty and lemon groves, heroes, pirates, British colonies, whose manner of living, lumberers are in it from morning till night; poets, &c.—why, a few mornings and moon. owing to the nature of the business they and it is seldom less than a month and a half lights in Greece are enough to make a book, follow, is entirely different from that of the from the time that floating the timber down despite of the author. Quite under the inother inhabitants of North America. Several the streams commences, until the rafts are fluence of such a spirit are written the volumes of these people form what is termed a lum- delivered to the merchants. No course of before us: evidently young and enthusiastic, bering party,' composed of persons who are life can undermine the constitution more than for their writer there is all either hired by a master lumberer, who that of a lumberer and raftsman. The winter pays them wages, and finds them in provi- snow and frost, although severe, are nothing sions, or of individuals who enter into an to endure in comparison to the extreme coldunderstanding with each other, to have a ness of the snow water of the freshets, in which joint interest in the proceeds of their labour. the lumberer is, day after day, wet up to the The necessary supplies of provisions, clothing, middle, and often immersed from head to foot. &c. are generally obtained from the merchants The very vitals are thus chilled and sapped; on credit, in consideration of receiving the tim- and the intense heat of the summer sun, a ber which the lumberers are to bring down transition, which almost immediately follows, the rivers the following summer. The stock must further weaken and reduce the whole deemed requisite for a lumbering party,' con- frame. To stimulate the organs in order to sists of axes, a cross-cut saw, cooking utensils, sustain the cold, these men swallow immo- "It is seldom they are visited by men; and a cask of rum, tobacco and pipes, a sufficient derate quantities of ardent spirits, and habits I never remember to have entered one of them quantity of biscuit, pork, beef, and fish; pease of drunkenness are the usual consequence. without seeing some sorrowing female seated and pearl barley for soup, with a cask of mo- Their moral character, with few exceptions, by the green mound or marble shrine which lasses to sweeten a decoction usually made of is dishonest and worthless. I believe there sheltered some once-loved and still dearly cheshrubs, or of the tops of the hemlock tree, and are few people in the world on whose pro- rished being, to whom she fancied she had taken as tea. Two or three yokes of oxen, mises less faith can be placed than on those already bade an eternal farewell, the precepts with sufficient hay to feed them, are also re- of a lumberer. In Canada, where they are of her religion debarring her from any hope of quired to haul the timber out of the woods. longer bringing down their rafts, and have a re-union in another world with those on When thus prepared, these people proceed up more idle time, their character, if possible, is whom the portals of the tomb had closed in the rivers with the provisions, &c., to the place of a still more shuffling and rascally descrip- this. Nor are the Turks by any means difixed on for their winter establishment, which tion. Premature old age, and shortness of vested of domestic affection either; but nais selected as near a stream of water, and in days, form the inevitable fate of a lumberer. tional custom, and a fostered feeling of male the midst of as much pine timber as possible. Should he even save a little money, which is superiority, have taught them that it is unThey commence by clearing away a few of very seldom the case, and be enabled for the manly to make a womanish display of senthe surrounding trees, and building a camp last few years of life to exist without incessant timent. With a Greek, who seems to copy of round logs, the walls of which are seldom labour, he becomes the victim of rheumatism, all the gaudy exterior without the solid virtues more than four or five feet high; the roof and all the miseries of a broken constitution. of the Mussulman, this idea of male supeis covered with birch bark, or boards. A pit But notwithstanding all the toils of such a riority surmounts every suggestion of love or is dug under the camp to preserve any thing pursuit, those who once adopt the life of a lasting attachment. The Osmanlee teaches liable to injury from the frost. The fire is lumberer seem fond of it. They are in a great the inferiority of woman in another world, yet either in the middle or at one end; the smoke measure as independent in their own way as grants her what appears to him her due sphere goes out through the roof; hay, straw, or fir the Indians. In New Brunswick, and par- in this; the Greek, on the contrary, inflicts branches are spread across, or along the whole ticularly in Canada, the epithet lumberer' is present degradation, as if inculcating submislength of this habitation, on which they all considered synonymous with a character of sion here as the purchase of happiness herelie down together at night to sleep, with their spendthrift habits, and villanous and vagabond after: with the one it is an error of the head, feet next the fire. When the fire gets low, principles. After selling and delivering up with the other a tyrannical theory of the he who first awakes or feels cold springs up, their rafts, they pass some weeks in idle in- heart. I have frequently heard even the Hyand throws on five or six billets, and in this dulgence; drinking, smoking, and dashing driots talk in rapture of their little sons, praise way they manage to have a large fire all night. off, in a long coat, flashy waistcoat and them as blooming Cupids, and boast of the One person is hired as cook, whose duty is to trowsers, Wellington or Hessian boots, a hand-promising manliness of their infant forms; have breakfast ready before daylight; at which kerchief of many colours round the neck, a whilst their equally lovely daughters or affec. time all the party rise, when each takes his watch with a long tinsel chain and numberless tionate wives are never mentioned, or, if re'morning,' or the indispensable dram of raw brass seals, and an umbrella. Before winter ferred to by another, dwelt on for a moment, rum, immediately before breakfast. This meal they return again to the woods, and resume and the conversation reverted to their boys. consists of bread, or occasionally potatoes, with the pursuits of the preceding year. Some ex-On more than one occasion, Captain Hamil boiled beef, pork, or fish, and tea sweetened ceptions, however, I have known to this gene-ton, of the Cambrian, the well-known friend with molasses: dinner is usually the same, rally true character of lumberers. Many young of the Greeks, has been solicited during pe with pease soup in place of tea, and the sup- men of steady habits, who went from Prince riods of threatening danger to receive the sons per resembles breakfast. These men are enor-Edward Island, and other places, to Miramichi, of the chiefs on board his vessel for protection,

whilst the daughters and wives were left to scending successively to secure a peculiarly fine | ing for the degeneracy of dancing, and a deawait their fate amongst the lumber of the specimen." nunciation of the evils ensuing therefrom :-and houses. In like manner, whilst imitating in A Grecian Surgeon." This portentous the rest of the book is eked out by the Empress less important matters the customs of their personage now approached the dying seaman, Catherine's code of polite rules, (which are to masters, the Greek almost invariably abandons felt his pulse, examined his tongue, and, tear- be found in almost every tourist who treats of the substance for the shadow. His embossed ing open his jacket, inspected the orifice of the Russia), accounts of national dances equally and richly gilded pistols are splendid only in wound. The ball had penetrated the right original, and rules for sitting upright, turning the stock, the barrel and other important breast, below the clavicle, and was imbedded out the toes, &c. For ourselves, we are free items being generally worthless; the hilt of somewhere out of his reach. Meledonius' to confess, that to us dancing seems the remhis sabre is often set with jewels, whilst the business, however, was less with the bullet nant of a barbarous age-a vestige of those blade is gnawed with rust; the light flowing than the unseemly hole it had made; this he savage times when bodily exercises were the dresses of the Mussulmen, so admirably com- squeezed, and proceeded to business. He first great sources of superiority and pleasure. bining grace with convenience, are rejected by poured a little brown tarry balsam into the find that we are at issue with the writer at all the Greek, since they cannot be covered with wound, then closing the sides, he made all points: we cannot but think that the gentlelacing and golden braid like his tight and snug with some strips of adhesive plaster, man is now as easily distinguished as in the inelegant jacket; and the cool silken sash, leaving the ball as carefully secured within as days of minuets and embroidery ;-neither can which confines the garments of the Turk if the patient's life depended on its sedulous we join in his lamentation that the gentlemen without adding to the oppressive heat of the retention in his body. The poor sailor was at Almack's do not stand still while the ladies climate, is laid aside for the hard leathern then carried, bullet and all, to his birth, from figure alone through the Grecian quadrille; we pistol-belt of Albania, which admits of more whence it is needless to say that he never re- can conceive nothing more opposed to the deli. ornament, but at the same time keeps the turned." cacy and quietness which now constitute so wearer in a fever of heat." much of fashionable and feminine excellence.

We inserted last week the receipt for coffee as prepared in France, we will now quote another in the oriental style.

milk."

A Disconsolate Husband. The consul's wife at Mycone "had been married upwards of six years, and yet at the time I was introduced to her she was scarcely twenty years of age. The consul appeared ardently attached to her; nor did she seem to hold that servile rank to which the Levantine ladies are devoted; she was gay, young, and lovely; her husband, goodhumoured, frank, and affable; and, in short, the family was a perfect oriental picture of domestic happiness.

We

The following anecdote is the only quotation we can find: A lady who had been a pupil of this distinguished professor (M. Marcel), and remained subsequently his steady and zealous friend, succeeded in obtaining for him from the government a pension for life. In her great joy at having such a boon to put into his possession, she advanced to him the certificate in her hand-with a hurried and anxious step; when M. Marcel, shocked at the style of presenta"Here we were visited by my former host, tion, struck the paper out of her hand, dethe consul, whom I was startled at seeing manding if she had forgotten his instructions? equipped in a full suit of the deepest mourning, The lady immediately picked it up, and preand with a beard of six weeks growth, accord-sented it with due form and grace; on which ing to the mourning custom of the Greeks. the accomplished Marcel, the enthusiastic pro, On inquiring the cause of his distress, he in- fessor of his art, respectfully kissed her hand, formed me, with streaming eyes, that his be- and with a profound bow exclaimed, Now I loved signora had expired about two months know my own pupil!"" before; her death being occasioned by following We must confess this is one of the books that the advice of an inexperienced physician who do surprise us; not that it should have found a had attended her during her confinement. writer we have too much anonymous verse to The sight of me seemed to tear open all the marvel at what people will write-but that it closed wounds of the poor fellow's bosom; he should have found a bookseller-one of the race wept profusely, sighed long and deeply, and that has no sympathy with human weakness seemed a melancholy picture of fixed and over-is to us very wonderful indeed.

"The coffee is never roasted nor ground till about to be used, and is then considerably more burned, and reduced to a finer powder, than with us. In preparing it, a small tin vessel, holding exactly the quantity to be used (generally about a wine-glass full), is placed upon the fire, containing at the same time the coffee and sugar, all which are boiled together, poured into a little china cup, and, when the sediment has fallen to the bottom, drunk without any admixture of cream or How would our English sportsmen like the following method of bringing down their game? "In some of the Cyclades, when the inhabitants are too poor to be enabled to expend much money on gunpowder, they have a practice of chasing them on foot till the birds are so wearied as to be easily taken with the hand: does not this illustrate 1 Samuel, xxvi. 20, which speaks of Saul pursuing David as when one doth hunt a partridge on the mountains?"" In these islands "the principal occupation whelming grief. is sponge-diving; and it is said that no young "On his departure, I communicated to an- ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. man of the island is permitted to marry till other old acquaintance my sympathy with the Paris, Dec. 29th. he can descend with facility to a depth of sorrow of the worthy consul; but, judge of my THE year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight twenty fathoms.+ The sea is at surprise when he informed me, with a sig- would, no doubt, have elapsed without proall times extremely clear, and the experienced nificant smile, that Signor Cordia had omitted, ducing any important discovery to humanity, divers are capable of distinguishing from the in his tale of misfortunes, to mention one little had not a soi-disant deep thinker found, in the surface the points to which the animal has incident-namely, that he had consoled him-vacuum of his brain, the cause of man's dege. attached itself below, when an unpractised self with a second partner about a month after neracy, selon lui. Vaccination has inoculated eye could but dimly discern the bottom. Each the death of the first, and, by a strange com- us with so large a portion of "animalism," that boat is furnished with a large stone attached mingling of joy and grieving, had absolutely the moral qualities are totally absorbed, and to a rope, which the diver seizes in his hands compelled his present lady to put on, along with nothing distinguishes us from the brute creon plunging head-foremost from the stern, in himself, deep mourning for her lamented pre-atfon except our upright posture. We are order to increase the velocity of his descent decessor!" forced to invent this term of animalism, as through the water, thereby saving an ex- Most of these Letters having appeared in the well as some others, since the rulers of literapenditure of breath, as well as to expedite his New Monthly Magazine, we refrain from ture are cruelly deficient in supplying us with ascent, being hauled up quickly by his com- quoting what might be familiar to our readers, words to express our ideas. This author also panions when exhausted at the bottom. I have and content ourselves with mentioning, that threatens us even with horns in the course seen but one man who could remain below there are some interesting histories of in- of a few years. This additional feature would, more than about two minutes, and the process dividuals, which most painfully set forth the however, be rather an improvement, as it of detaching the sponge was of course very miseries of domestic warfare and tyranny; and tedious; three and sometimes four divers de- we dismiss the author with much praise for his lively and picturesque volumes.

The Ball; or, a Glance at Almack's in 1829.
H. Colburn. London.

would fill up the vacancy of most foreheads. Another prophecy of this year is, that in less than half a century a plurality of wives and "Directly opposite to Rhodes is a little and almost unknown island named Himia, which is worth notice, on husbands will be permitted in all Christian account of the singular method which the inhabitants countries; but as the present generation canhave to get their living. In the bottom of the sea the not hope to benefit by such a privilege, they common sponge (spongia officinalis) is found in abundance, and more than in any other part of the Mediter- As 1828 was still in existence when we first wisely indulge themselves in all the advanranean. The inhabitants make it a trade to fish up this took up this volume, we supposed that our tages it could afford, and depreciate, with phisponge, by which they get a living far from contemptible, author intended "to attain to somewhat of pro-losophical indifference, the few trifling ceremo as their goods are always wanted by the Turks, who use an incredible quantity of sponges in their baths. A girl phetic vein." No such thing: under the magic nies which distinguish it from their present in this island is not permitted by her relations to marry name of Almack's, which, by the by, like customs. It appears that saints and men are before she has brought up a certain quantity of sponges, and before she can give a proof of her agility by taking charity, is made to cover a multitude of (lite-in regular correspondence; as, in virtue of the rary) sins,-there is only introduced a sorrow-orders of some of these holy personages, the

them up from a certain depth."