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haps they did not understand me; but the mother did, and came forward from the cottage door, with her youngest still at the breast. She pleaded poverty, and a large family, and the bad weather, which obliged the elder children to remain idle at home. She said she was a Swiss born, and did not like to see her children beg; but the bad custom had crept in, no one knew how."

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These beset Further on, we meet with the following:we mean youth just verging upon manhood. the devious foot-way leading up the hill-side, "The vacher had been absent from the chalet We shall make a miscellaneous collection of in a long scattered line to a consider-about two hours, his cows being in a shed upon what strikes us as most amusing. able height, just like a train of gunpowder, another part of the alp, and had just returned, “The lake of Morat was the scene of a which only awaited my approach to explode. it being then about seven o'clock P. M. In the very singular phenomenon during the earlier And so it was: for, as I advanced, one after course of the evening, he had directed my atmonths of this year, 1825. I remember the the other set up her, or his, pipes in suc- tention to a small flock of sheep, on one of the report reaching Neuchatel-through the me- cession; offering me little bouquets of roses, above-mentioned green patches of pasture, situdium of the market people passing from one or the orchis nigra, and begging a batz in ated on the ledge overhanging the precipices, lake to the other (some time during the winter) return. Had it been a fine warm day, I about half-way up the lower part of the moun-that the waters of the lake of Morat had might have looked upon this preparation for tain. To an observation of wonder at their suddenly become the colour of blood, though I my entertainment with a good-natured desire exposure, in a situation apparently so dangercould meet with no one whose testimony was to be entertained; but it was terribly raw and ous, he had replied, that they were the property sufficiently clear and unequivocal to establish the cold, I had had a ducking, which still made my of a private person at Lauterbrunnen, who ran fact. This, joined to my not having the leisure teeth chatter in my head, and I own I looked the risk, for the sake of the extraordinary then to come (go?) and see for myself, caused upon this preconcerted plan of attack upon my luxuriance and richness of the grass on that the matter to slip my memory entirely, till I ears and my pocket with a very jaundiced eye. slope; and added, that, moreover, being situated found myself in the neighbourhood. Here the Besides, a dear-bought night's lodging and re-under a high rock, with a deep ravine on either circumstance was fully confirmed to me in a freshment had tended to induce a passing econo-side, the danger was not so great, when once manner not to be questioned; and having mical, if not parsimonious, humour. So there fairly lodged there. Half an hour after his since met with a paper, written by M. De- was but a poor look-out for these songsters. return, just as the shades of approaching evencandolle, of Geneva, on the subject, I shall Accordingly, the first two applicants I passed ing began to render the dull light from the take what is there stated as my best guide in without noticing. The third screamed most châlet door barely sufficient for me to guide my mentioning the facts as they occurred. It ap- vociferously, holding her petticoat ready for the pen upon my paper, I was roused from my seat pears that this singular phenomenon began to batz. She sung so loud, that I could not avoid by a distant rumble, and hastened to the door. excite the attention of the inhabitants of looking her full in the face, and by way of way. The sound continued to increase, but for Morat as early as November last year, and stopping her song, gave her a chuck under the some short time nothing was to be seen in mothat it continued more or less observable during chin, which she received with a low courtesy. tion. At length we saw the avalanche emerge, the whole of the winter. Mr. Trechsel, a Somehow or other this softened my heart like a rolling cloud of dense smoke, from the gentleman resident at Morat, to whom M. De- considerably. The next, a bright-faced little fogs resting upon the mountain. It rushed candolle applied, on hearing the report, for in- girl, was the gainer by it, as she held the forward like a whirlwind down the last stage of formation and specimens of the colouring mat- flowers so near my fingers, that I was ab- the glaciers, and approached the edge of the ter, stated that during the early hours of the solutely obliged to take them, and of course to precipices. My breathless attention was natuday no extraordinary appearance was observable give her the batz. Seeing the success of the rally directed towards the advancing mass; in the lake; but that a little later, long parallel last, and that importunity had gained the day, when it was diverted, by hearing the vacher lines of reddish matter were seen to extend the following insisted upon my taking her cry out, from the little elevation to which he along the surface of the water, at some short rose. I stopped and asked: Which of us had run-O God! the sheep, the poor sheep!' distance from the banks. This being blown by was the poorer?'. She answered, without My eye instantly glanced at the little green the wind towards the more sheltered parts of hesitation: That she was; and there was the shore, collected itself about the reeds and something in the ready simplicity of her rushes, covering the surface of the lake with a answer, and the glance she threw down to her light foam; forming, as it were, different naked feet, which made me ashamed of the strata of various colours, from greenish black, sophistry, or whatever it was, which had dicgray, yellow, and brown, to the most delicious tated the question, and of course I satisfied the red. He adds, that this matter exhaled a demand. The last and highest cottage turned pestiferous odour during the day, but disap-out a party of five, a great boy, three little peared at the approach of night. It was fur-girls, and a sharp black-eyed urchin. These ther observed, that during tempestuous weather all made music. After giving once, it be. it vanished altogether. Many small fishes comes very difficult to refuse. This I felt as I were seen to become intoxicated while swim- approached the rear-guard. The boy I put to ming amongst it, and after a few convulsive flight by saying I thought he was old and leaps, to lie motionless on the surface. The strong enough to earn his bread in a different naturalists of Geneva decided, from the spe- manner, and, turning to the rest, added, that cimens sent, that it was an animal substance, begging was not originally a Swiss trade, and which if not the oscillatoria subfusca, was that that they were abusing the beautiful "I took advantage of a fair sunset to stroll nearly allied to it. Soon after the beginning flowers of their mountains, and the old and into a by-path leading down the valley close of May it disappeared entirely. It is not simple customs of their forefathers, when they under the woody hills to the right of the church. known that this phenomenon has appeared be- made them the excuse for an idle life and This led me through some delightfully vari d fore on the lake of Morat within the memory desire after the batzen of the stranger. Per-scenery, till it joined the main road, le

There

slope, and had hardly time to take cognisance
of its situation, before, dashing high over the
precipice above, the snow, ice, and rock, poured
down upon it, swept like lightning over its sur-
face, and then hurried down out of sight into
the depths of the Trümletenthal, leaving the
spot of green a patch of dingy brown
could be no doubt but the sheep, whether few
or many, were instantaneously overwhelmed.
No living animal could be seen any where on
the precipices; down which, by the regular
channels, the snow and ice, disturbed and set
in motion by the great avalanche, continued to
thunder for several minutes after."
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towards the village, from the lower bridge over | his shoulder, and carried her pick-a-pack out
the Aar. I had hardly set my foot upon it of the church into the vestry: so that the
before I heard the tinkling of the goat-bells figure which one moment was deified, and
behind me, and wishing to see this animal under prayed, and hymned to, and not approached
the multitude of varieties which a large herd even by the consecrated priest without reve-
presents, I stopped short till they should over-rence, was the next taken on the back of the
take me. They soon appeared in sight, having unsanctified valet and shut up in a dark box.
left their mountain pasture at sunset to return On returning to the village inn to reclaim my
to be milked in the village, where they always travelling equipage, I found the entrance, pass-
pass the night. Most of the larger Swiss vil- age, tap, and bed-room all crowded with pea-
lages have an individual, employed by the in-sants in their shirt sleeves, just as they had
habitants conjointly, to take care of their goats come out of church. Instead of bete für uns!
during the day. This goatherd, who is often (Pray for us!)—beer! was now the universal
an idiot, makes his appearance in the main cry, and all without exception seemed to agree,
street at day-break; he sounds his horn, and by the eagerness with which they seized their
each peasant turns his goat or goats out of the mugs, that the mass had been dry work."
stall. The animals then herd instinctively to-
[To be continued.]
gether, and are led on to the mountains, where
they feed during the day, and are brought back,
as just mentioned, at night-fall. They came
forward, trotting across the bridge over the Aar,
pushing and skirmishing with one another, with
every sign of saucy impatience. The goatherd,
who walked after them with his coat hanging
over a stick upon his shoulder, and a great pair
of dun heels peeping out of his clogs at every
step he took in the mire, was a true modern
specimen of this class; perfectly unpoetical and
unphilosophical in appearance, in spite of the
poetry of his profession. Instead of tuneful
quill, his lips were busy with a short black
tobacco-pipe. In the herd of above one hun-
dred goats, which seemed to be conducting him The preface asserts the superiority of the
to his home, there was a great variety of colour, useful over the fanciful, in the task of writing
from milk-white, through all the shades of yel- for children, and quotes Miss Edgeworth
low and brown, to black. There was equal against Dr. Johnson on this point. It is a
difference in the quantity and quality of their subject into the discussion of which we may
coats, some being covered with a long and shaggy be inclined to enter fully when brought before
hair, and others with a short and smooth fur. us by the appearance of Mrs. Watts's contem-
Most of them had beards, though all female; poraries; but at present we shall merely say,
and some of them, in addition, two little tufts that the extreme of either rule appears to us
at each side of the throat, which looked, for all to be faulty; and that those who wish the
the world, like cap or bonnet strings. When young to be (as the young should be) natural
we approached the village they became much and intelligent, ought to aim at the happy
more clamorous and quarrelsome, and I could medium of instruction and excitement, nor
see and hear that there was strong skirmishing endeavour to make infant utilitarians and baby
in the van.
Immediately on entering it, we philosophers, any more than they would fill
were met by a crowd of children, many not the mind with giant wonders and fairy super-
above three or four years old. They came for- stitions. There is, says a great and ancient
ward to meet us, and mingling with the herd, authority, a time for all things; and we are
began to seek and pick out their several pets. not sure that precocious wisdom is not as
When found, they grasped their horns, or put destructive to the future happiness of a human
their little arms round their necks, and directed being, as a foolish belief in ghosts and hob-
them home. Many of the goats stopped short goblins. Having, however, thrown out these
at the door of their owner's cottage, and, bleat- hints generally, it is only justice to our fair
ing, demanded admittance; while others, of Editress to state, that though she has rejected
their own accord, set off at a canter up the by- all stories of dragons and elfs, and such-like
lanes leading to their homes, and were out of imaginary creations, as being calculated to
sight in an instant. The first welcome of a inflame and mislead the "small deer" to
master or mistress for their goat, as well as the whom she addresses her volume, she has not
cow, is a handful of salt; and it is amusing to
see with what eagerness they follow and lick
the hand that allures them with it."

Having been present at the performance of the service in the church of Unterwalden, the writer remarks:

by any means offered them a grave and dry code of lessons; on the contrary, most of the narratives, whether invented or founded on fact, are miscellaneous and entertaining, according to their capacities, and many of the little poems are playful, while others are moral and "It appeared to me to have been a high day affecting. With this praise we shall conclude for the Virgin; for her effigy, in the form of a these brief remarks, and select a specimen or great doll dressed à la mode, had been brought two of the contents which have pleased us forth, placed upon a movable stand, and evi- most; reserving criticism, as we have intidently carried about in procession. However, mated, to another opportunity. it soon appeared that her day was at an end, Our first extract does honour to the fine for, while I was standing beside the high altar, talent of a young lady, whose name and abiliin comes the sacristan, or some other officer ties are also further illustrated in this sheet, attached to the church. He advanced uncere- as they have been in preceding Literary moniously up to the figure, unstrapped her Gazettes: we allude to Miss Mary Anne from the pedestal, and then inserting his hands Browne, who has produced the following between her shoes (one of which I had seen a charming lines on an engraving of a girl woman kiss a few minutes before), unscrewed leading her brother, a blind and wandering a peg which kept her upright, let her fall upon minstrel.

"Oh, pity for this helpless boy!
Dear child, withhold it not;
Sad is his fate, and youth's bright joy
Hath never been his lot!
He cannot in the meadows run,
And crop the daisy flowers;
He cannot see the pleasant sun,
And the stars at evening hours!
For him in vain the mountain path
Is by the sunlight kissed;
For him in vain the purple heath
Shines like an amethyst.
In vain the glittering butterfly
Across his path may flit-
He ne'er beheld it, or the sky
By the gentle moonlight lit.

I lead him at the morning hour
Down the green woodland glade;
But he cannot see the woodbine flower,
Nor the quivering light and shade.
But he can hear the falling stream
Within the distant dell,

And scent where the purple violets gleam,.
And the simple heather-bell!
Yet weep not-let thy pity be

Still mixed with joy for him;
For though the world he cannot see,
And his eyes are seared and dim,
Still he can hear the wind's low sigh
In the holy twilight time-
Still drink the wild-bird's melody,
In the summer's glowing prime !
And though he never yet hath gazed
On Nature's lovely face;
Though vainly have the bright stars blazed,
And the moon adorned heaven's space,-
The hand that those dear eyes could seal,
And o'er their beamings fall,
Hath oped his spirit's eyes to feel

That God hath ordered all!"

May Maxwell," by Mary Howitt, except the sad rhyme in the first stanza, and the poor conclusion in the last, is just such a ballad as should adorn a juvenile new-year's gift.

"O'er the broad hills of Lammermuir,
In the gray peep of the dawn,
Lord Maxwell and his children fair
Rode out with hound and horn.

Lord Maxwell and his little May,
With her young brethren three,
And away they rode o'er the heathy hills,
A merry company!

With hawk and hound good sport had they,
Those heathy wilds among;
And home they rode at eventide,

When the woodlark poured his song.
The next eve, when the woodlark's song
Was poured from the leafy spray,
All deathly pale, on her stately bed,
The little maiden lay,

With her white cheek pillowed mournfully,
And a death-look in her eye,
And her mother sitting at her head,

And her father standing by;
And those loving boys, her brothers three,
With their faces dim with sorrow;
For they knew their litte sister May
Would die before the morrow!

Now bring to me,' she meekly said,
And raised her heavy eye,

My hawk and hound, that I once more
May see them ere I die.'

They brought her hawk, and the gentle bird
Perched on her slender wrist,

And drooped his head, and nestled close
To her white lips to be kissed.

Now fare ye well, my bonny bird,
We two no more shall ride
On the broad green hills of Lammermuir,
By my noble father's side!'

They brought her hound, that evermore
Was fleetest in the chase;
And the creature raised a piteous moan,
As he looked into her face.

Now fare ye well, my gentle hound,

I loved ye well, ye know;

But never more at cheer of mine,
To the lone hills shall ye go!
My milk-white steed in his stable stands,
And may stand in his stall;

For I never more in life shall go
From out my father's hall.
My hawk and hound and little stud,
A fair and noble three!

My gentle brothers, shall be yours,
And love them tenderly;
And when ye ride to the Lammermuir,
Have pleasant thoughts of me.
Father, farewell! to me you have been
A father kind and dear;

I little thought but yesternight

Our parting was so near!

Oh, mother! let me hold thy hand-
We two have gone together

Through the leafy woods, and up the glens,
In the pleasant summer weather.

And more than this-on winter nights

I have sat beside thy knee,

And heard thee read in holy books,

With low solemnity.

I heard the words that were not meant,
Dear mother, for my ear;

And I pondered on them night and day,
And God has made them clear.
So farewell all, and do not grieve
For me, when I am gone;
There is a home for me in heaven,
And kind friends many a one!'
And so she died: and six fair girls
Bore her, on her burial day,
To the chapel vault, where, side by side,
The old Lord Maxwells lay.
And for many a day, in that old hall,
Great mourning was there made;
And her brothers three did sigh for her
In the greenwood when they played.
And never again to the broad green hills
Did her noble father ride,
But he sighing wished his little May
Were riding by his side!

And ne'er did her lady-mother sit
In her chamber, reading low,

But the tears fell fast on the open page,
And her soul was dark with wo!"
Now ye who go to the Maxwells' hall,
Go into the chapel gray,

And ye'll see the tombs of the grim old lords,
And the tomb of little May.

Every notice relating to the dramatic poets who preceded Shakespeare is deeply attractive; and among these Peele and his friends and associates, Greene, Marlowe, and Nash, figure in the foreground. But it would be superfluous to enter upon any particulars about persons of whom so much has been written, and we shall content ourselves with one or two extracts from the memoir which are most novel and curious. Of these, the following letter (now printed for the first time) from Peele to Lord Burleigh, with his "Tale of Troy," and preserved among the Burleigh papers in the Lansdowne collection, is an interesting specimen.

"Salue Parens Patriæ, tibj plebs, tibj Curia nomen hoc dedit, hoc dedimus nos tibj nomen Eques.

neatness in which is extremely pleasing to the | to the author in distress. Indeed, from their eye; while the subjects treated by most of them manner of life, the literary adventurers of those have strong claims to the attention of the anti- times were almost always steeped in poverty, quary, the scholar, and the general reader. and, with occasional glimpses of prosperity, These we shall duly notice as our limits per- which were speedily overcast by riot and dissimit; and have merely to excuse our not doing pation, liable to the most deplorable vicissitudes so as promptly as is our use with the majority of wretchedness. Of this condition there is a of other works, because they are rarely of only heart-rending description in an epistle of Rotemporary interest, and, like all sterling books, bert Greene's, who died in 1692, cut off, it is can better bear the delay than the ephemera of said, by a surfeit of pickled herring and rhenish the hour. wine; and soon after his death his Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance' was given to the public by Henry Chettle. It contains the address we have mentioned to his brother poets: To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, R. G. wisheth a better exercise and wisedom to prevent his extremities.' He first addresses Marlowe, next Lodge, and then proceeds as follows: and thou [Peele] no less deserving than the other two; in some things rarer, in nothing inferiour; driven (as myselfe) to extreme shifts, a little have I to say to thee: and were it not an idolatrous oath, I would sweare by sweet St. George, thou art unworthy better hap, sith thou dependest on so meane a stay. Baseminded men, all three of you, if by my misery "In these tearmes (r. honorable) am I bolde yee bee not warned: for unto none of you (like to salute yo Lordeship, whose highe desertes me) sought those burs to cleave; those puppets in or Englandes greate designes haue earned (I mean) that speak from our mouths; those Large praises euen from Envies mouthe. Par- anticks garnisht in our colours. Is it not The "African Ant-Eater," by T. Pringle, don, greate Patrone of Learninge & Vertue, strange that I, to whom they al have been beis another excellent performance; but as we this rude encounter, in that I presume, A holding; is it not like that you, to whom they cannot make this our Number almost all verse, Scholler of so meane meritt, to present yo' wis- all have been beholding, shall (were yee in that we must be content with commending it to dome wth this small manuell, by this simple case that I am now) be both of them at once our young friends as a nice picture of natural Messenger my eldest Daughter & necessities forsaken? Yes, trust them not: for there is history. Of the prose contributions, the "De-seruat. Longe sicknes hauinge so enfeebled an upstart Crow beautified with our feathers, serter is a striking and pathetic story; and me maketh bashfullnes allmost become impu. that with his Tygers heart, wrapt in a Players the "Widow's Friend," and other pieces, by dency. Sed quid Psitaco suu xaigs expediuit, hyde, supposes he is as wel able to bombast out the author of "Recollections of the Peninsula," Magister artis ingenijq; Largitor Venter ? a blank verse as the best of you: and being an are of deep interest. Miss Jewsbury has a The subiect wherewth I presume to greete yor absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne smart and clever allegory, called the "Birds honor, is the history of Troy in 500 Verses sett conceit the onely Shake-scene in a country.'and the Beggar of Bagdat." The "Restless downe & memorable accidents thereof. Re-Sig. E 3. ed. 1629. The expressions upstart Boy," by Mrs. Opie, and the "Passionate ceiue it (noble Senator of Englandes Councell- crow beautified with our feathers,' and the little Girl," by Mrs. Hofland, are good stu-house) as A schollers duties significacon & liue onely Shake-scene in a country,' seem plainly dies, and excellent morals. 66 Amy and her longe in honor & prosperitie as happie as to point at Shakespeare: by our feathers' are Dog," (poetry) very neat and natural; "Lit-Queene Elizabeths gracious countenance can meant certain plays written by Greene, Peele, tle Goody Two Shoes," (also verse, and applied make yo Marlowe, or Lodge, which he had new moto another of the engravings), a sweet compodelled, most probably The First Part of the sition, by J. F. Hollings. The conclusion is Contention of the two famous houses of York so poetically beautiful, that it might well grace and Lancaster,' and The tragedie of Richard any of the more pretending volumes of this Duke of Yorke,' out of which old dramas the class. great poet formed 'The Second and Third Parts of Henry the Sixth.' 'His Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hyde,' is a parody on the following line,

And think upon this tale of mine,
And drop a tear of sorrow;
And so may life, as it passeth on,

Bring ever a bright good morrow!"

"A wealth is hers,
Better than the world confers;
Hope untried, and always new-
Innocence of spotless hue-

And those treasures of the mind

Which the lowliest heart shall find

If its search be rightly bent

Golden mirth, and light content!"

Ecce tibj nihilum magno pro munere mitto,
Esse potest aliquid (te capiête) nihil.

It is directed

Yor honors most
bounden

GEORGE PEELE.*

To the r. honorable
& woorthie Patrone
of Learninge the L.
Burleigh. L. highe
Theasorer of England
and one of hir Mties
most honorable
Priuie Counsell.'

⚫ 17 Jan 1595

And here we close, heartily wishing success The endorsementto Mrs. Watts's appropriate and valuable present for the rising generation.

The Works of George Peele: collected and edited, with some Account of his Life and Writings, by the Rev. Alex. Dyce, B.A. 2 vols. small 8vo. London, 1829. W. Pickering. (Second Edition, with Additions.) WE are rejoiced to see this publication in a second edition, because it is a proof that there is some encouragement given to the production of desirable works, and especially when they are, as in the present instance, much indebted to the literary judgment of the editor, and to the taste of those who are concerned in the superintendence of their mechanical parts. We have now on our table many volumes of Mr. Pickering's issuing, the peculiar character of

Georg. Peele mr of Arts
Presents ye tale of Troy
in 500 Verses by his
eldest daughter, necessities
servaunte.""

to Lord Burleigh is endorsed 17th Jan. 1595,
It is worthy of remark, that this application
six years after the publication of the poem; so
that, in fact, it appears to have been simply a
mode of soliciting the aid of the Lord Treasurer

gingly pointed out to me by N. H. Nicholas, esq. It is
Mr. Dyce says in a note: "This relic was most obli-
worthy of notice, that the volume in which it is bound
consists almost exclusively of letters from insane persons,
abusive or threatening communications, &c."
or on subjects of an unusual nature, such as challenges,

"From the Prologue to the Satires of Persius;
• Quis expedivit psittaco suum xaigs,
Picasque docuit verba nostra conari?
Magister artis, ingenique largitor
Venter, negatas artifex sequi voces,"

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"O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide! found both in 'The tragedie of Richard duke of Yorke,' Sig. K 3. ed. n. d. and in The Third Part of Henry VI.' act i. sc. iv. Greene concludes his address thus: Let me heartily intreat you to be warned by my harmes. De light not (as I have done) in irreligious oaths, for from the blasphemers house a curse shall not depart : Despise drunkennes, which wasteth Flie lust, as the deathsman of the soule; and the wit, and maketh men all equal unto beasts: defile not the temple of the Holy Ghost. Abhor those epicures, whose loose life hath made religion loathsome to your eares; and when they sooth you with termes of mastership, remember Robert Greene, whom they have often so flattered, perishes now for want of comfort. Remember, Gentlemen, your lives are like so many light tapers, that are with care delivered to all of you to maintaine: these with windpuft wrath may be extinguished, with drunken nesse put out, with negligence let fall: mans time of it selfe is not so short but