174 She gazed upon it long, and at the sight Upon the mountain's southern slope, a grave, With which the maiden decked herself for death, Of small loose stones. Thenceforward, all who passed, Hunter and dame and virgin, laid a stone MUSING. "The blue sky is happy." B. I would I were yon lonely bird, that skims DESPONDENCY. AGNES. Mourn not for those who sweetly sleep, They know no more forever; But mourn for those who live to weep To tremble lest each coming wave, is an extract. Pg. Some French literati, whether in jest or earnest we know not, have planned a most grand and romantic enterprize; an association has been formed for the establishment of a splendid work, to be called "La France Romantique." The said company has published a prospectus, from which the following "The important work that we announce has no need of those pompous preambles with which prospectuses are usually commenced. The celebrated Sir Walter Scott has set the fashion of historical romances; and our France is as fertile as Scotland in curious traditions and singular customs. This work will consist of as many volumes as there have been kings in France. We have chosen this arrangement, in order to enter the more easily on the development of the idea of a modern writer, that every sovereign gives the impression and features of his own character and manners to the epoch in which he governs.' But that which will especially excite the interest of the public, and insure the success of tial information respecting the events in Paraguay, where Dr Franzia still governs The following appear to me to be the most authentic particulars relating to the fate a M. Bonpland, which has excited so much it terest in France and England, and where ever this courageous and enterprising trav eller is known. About two years and 1 half ago, M. Bonpland was at Santa Anna, on the east bank of the Rio Parana, where he had formed plantations of the matté, er the tea of Paraguay. About eleven o'clock in the morning he was seized and carried of by a detachment of eight hundred of Dr Franzia's troops. They destroyed the plan tations, which were in a most flourishing state, and seized M. Bonpland, and the Is dian families whom the mildness of his character, and the advantages of the r ing civilization, had engaged to settle near him. Some Indians escaped by swimming others, who resisted, were massacred by the soldiers. M. Bonpland, taking on his shoul ers a part of his precious collection of nat ural history, was conducted to Assumption the capital of Paraguay, and sent from thence to a fort in quality of physician to the garrison. It is not known how long he remained in this exile; but I am sured that he has since been sent for by Dr Franzia, the Supreme Director of Pa raguay, and ordered to another part, to su perintend a commercial communication be tween Paraguay and Peru, perhaps towards the province of the Chiquitos and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. M. Bonpland is to com plete at that place the making of a great road, at the same time that he will pursue his botanical researches. His friends datter themselves that the steps taken by the French government, those of the Institute, and of M. Von Humboldt, will not be u successful. General Bolivar has also writ ten a letter to the Supreme Director of Paraguay, in which he claims our country. man, in the most affectionate terms, as the friend of his youth. If M. Bonpland is fortunate as to return to Europe, he may throw great light on countries hitherto unknown. CAPTIVE GREEKS. Paris for two young Greeks, who, when re A subscription has been set on foot in turning to their country, were made prison of Barbary, who left them no alternative ers by an independent Pacha on the coast between apostacy, death, or a ransom on death; and 20,000 piastres. Too poor to furnish the ransom, and too conscientious to abandon neither promises nor threats could sh the their religion, they decided this enterprise is, that the work will be a their resolution. The delay granted by the monument of the many customs and usages, Pacha had nearly expired, when the report and glory of France, on which will be in- of the devotedness of these two childres scribed the origin of various illustrious (one 17 and the other 13 years of age) an families, and on which their history may rived in Europe. be traced from reign to reign down to the menced instantly at Rome, produced half present time." EXTRACT FROM A LETTER RELATING TO THE CELEBRATED NATURALIST M. BONPLAND. Rio Janeiro. During my stay in this country I have obtained pretty circumstan A subscription, com the amount; the Duke of Orleans has subscribed 2000 francs; and the efforts of philanthropists in various parts will no doubt soon procure the liberation of these inter esting youths, and their return to the em brace of their struggling country. LETTER OF SIR GODFREY KNEller. The following is a literal copy of a letter from this celebrated artist to Mr Pope, and was found in the original manuscript of Pope's translation of the Iliad, which, as is well known, was written upon scraps of paper and the backs of letters. "Dear friend,-I find them pictures are so very fresh, being painted in three collers, and aught to be new severall days; for as they are, it is impracticable to put them were you intend'm. It would be pitty they should take dust. 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BOSTON, OCTOBER 1, 1824. new characteristic of Mr Irving's work. As, for instance, Buckthorne, describing his visits to a miserly uncle, says, p. 79, "As my visits cost him nothing, they did not seem to be very unwelcome. I brought with me my gun and fishing-rod, and half supplied the table from the park and the fish ponds." On the next page but one, he In our last number we noticed the first of says he amused himself while there, with this new series of Tales; and then remark-wandering about the grounds, shooting ared that Mr Irving was probably induced to rows at birds,-" for to have used a gun resume this mode of giving his works to the would have been treason!" public, by the comparative failure of Bracebridge Hall. Our conjecture is rather confirmed by the speed with which No. 2. follows his brother; the last comer so treads upon the heels of the former, they may almost be considered twins. The interval between the two is quite too short for any one to believe that No. 2. was written-or scarcely corrected-after No. 1. went to the press. We cannot, therefore, suppose that Mr I. chooses to print thus, for the convenience of publishing as he writes,-or for any other reason, but that he is satisfied that the public like this way best. The story of "Buckthorne, or the Young Man of Great Expectations," is the longest, and, we think, the most amusing. We will extract some passages from the account of his manner of life with, and exit from, a crew of strolling players, unto whom he had joined himself by reason of a "poetical temperament," which made him run away from school. In this way, then, did I enter the metropolis; a strolling vagabond; on the top of a caravan with a crew of vagabonds about me; but I was as happy as a prince, for, like Prince Hal, I felt myself superior to my situation, and knew that I could at any time cast it off and emerge into my proper sphere. No. 12. a common trait of human nature, and to take place in all communities. It would seem to be the main situations of life into which I have looked, I have business of man to repine at government. In all found mankind divided into two grand parties;those who ride and those who are ridden. The great struggle of life seems to be which shall keep in the saddle. This, it appears to me, is the fundamental principle of politics, whether in great or little life. However, I do not mean to moralize; but one cannot always sink the philosopher. Well then, to return to myself. It was determined, as I said, that I was not fit for tragedy, and, unluckily, as my study was bad, having a very poor besides, the line of young gentlemen was already memory, I was pronounced unfit for comedy also: engrossed by an actor with whom I could not pre tend to enter into competition, he having filled it for almost half a century. I came down again therefore to pantomime. In consequence, however, of the good offices of the manager's lady, who had taken a satyr to that of the lover; and with my face patchliking to me, I was promoted from the part of the ed and painted; a huge cravat of paper; a steeple crowned hat, and dangling long-skirted sky-blue coat, was metamorphosed into the lover of Columbine. My part did not call for much of the tender and sentimental. I had merely to pursue the fugitive fair one; to have a door now and then slammed in my face; to run my head occasionally against a post; to tumble and roll about with Pantaloon and the clown; and to endure the hearty thwacks of Harlequin's wooden sword. I As ill fuck would have it, my poetical temperament began to ferment within me, and to work out new troubles. The inflammatory air of a great metropolis, added to the rural scenes in which the fairs were held; such as Greenwich Park, Epping Forest, and the lovely valley of West End, had a powerful effect upon me. While in Greenwich Park, I was witness to the old holyday games of then the firmament of blooming faces and blue running down hill, and kissing in the ring; and eyes, that would be turned towards me, as I was playing antics on the stage; all these set my young blood, and my poetical vein, in full flow. In short, played my characters to the life, and became desperately enamoured of Columbine. She was a trim, well made, tempting girl; with a roguish dimpling face, and fine chesnut hair clustering all about it. The moment I got fairly smitten, there was an end to all playing. I was such a creature of fancy and feeling, that I could not put on a pretended, when I was powerfully affected by a real emotion. I could not sport with a fiction that How little do those before the scenes know of came so near to the fact. I became too natural in what passes behind; how little can they judge, my acting to succeed. And then,-what a situafrom the countenances of actors, of what is pass-tion for a lover!-I was a mere stripling, and she played with my passion; for girls soon grow more adroit and knowing in these matters, than your awkward youngsters. What agonies had I to suffer. Every time that she danced in front of the booth, and made such liberal displays of her charms, was in torment. To complete my misery, I had a real rival in Harlequin; an active, vigorous, knowing varlet of six-and-twenty. What had a raw inexperienced youngster like me to hope from such a competition. zling white arm clasped with bracelets, and taper And this is a very good and satisfactory reason. Well may the public enjoy, with How my eyes sparkled as we passed Hydehigher relish, such exquisite delicacies as park corner, and I saw splendid equipages rolling Irving's Tales,-when they are served up by, with powdered footmen behind, in rich liveries, and fine nosegays, and gold-headed canes; and not profusely nor niggardly-but in quan- with lovely women within, so sumptuously dressed tities calculated at once to gratify and pro-and so surpassingly fair. I was always extremely voke, but not to satiate the appetite. One sensible to female beauty; and here I saw it in all may dine very heartily upon roast beef, its facination, for, whatever may be said of" beauty and want more the next day; but of cream- unadorned," there is something almost awful in cakes, comfits, and kisses,—it is wiser not The swan-like neck encircled with diamonds; the female loveliness decked out in jewelled state. to eat a great deal at once. raven locks, clustered with pearls; the ruby glowWe do not like this number so well as ing on the snowy bosom, are objects that I could we did its predecessor. We do not recol-never contemplate without emotion; and a dazlect any thing in it which is not pretty good; neither can we recollect much that is more than pretty good. We looked in vain for touches of Mr Irving's exquisite satire-for his light, but vivid and happy sketching of queer character;-for the broad fun of the Irish Dragoon, or the beauty, power, and pathos of many parts of the Young Italian. The general name of the number, is "Buckthorne and his Friends." The Traveller becomes acquaint-ing in their hearts. I have known two lovers quared with a sort of literary idler, who writes rel like cats behind the scenes, who were, the moment after, to fly into each other's embraces. And only when he must, but then successfully, I have dreaded, when our Belvidera was to take her -if we may judge from the society he farewell kiss of her Jaffier, lest she should bite a piece keeps. He is Buckthorne, and he intro-out of his cheek. Our tragedian was a rough joker ces the Traveller to Literary Life in Lon- off the stage; our prime clown the most peevish don. This subject is very interesting, and mortal living. The latter used to go about snapthere are reasons why we should suppose ping and snarling, with a broad laugh painted on Mr Irving singularly well qualified to write ever may be said of the gravity of a monkey, or his countenance; and I can assure you that, whatupon it; perhaps our expectations were ex- the melancholy of a gibed cat, there is no more travagant,-but, be the fault where it will, melancholy creature in existence than a mountethey were greatly disappointed. There bank off duty. are some errors which appear to indicate a degree of carelessness, which is quite a backbite the manager, and cabal against his regula- I I had still, however, some advantages in my favour. In spite of my change of life, I retained that indescribable something, which always distinguishes the gentleman; that something which his clothes; and which it is as difficult for a gentle dwells in a man's air and deportment, and not in man to put off, as for a vulgar fellow to put on The company generally felt it, and used to call me little, gentleman Jack. The girl felt it too; and in spite of her predilection for my powerful rival, she liked to flirt with me. This only aggravated my troubles, by increasing my passion, and awakening the jealousy of her particoloured lover. Alas! think what I suffered, at being obliged to keep up an ineffectual chase after my Columbine through whole pantomimes; to see her carried off in the vigorous arms of the happy Harlequin; and to be obliged, instead of snatching her from him, to tumble sprawling with Pantaloon and the clown; and bear the infernal and degrading thwacks of my rival's weapon of lath; which, may heaven confound him! (excuse my passion) the villain laid on with a malicious good will; nay, I could absolutely hear him chuckle and laugh beneath his accursed mask.--I beg pardon for growing a little warm in my narration. I wish to be cool, but these recollections will sometimes agitate me. I have beard and read of many desperate and deplorable situations of lovers; but none I think in which true love was ever exposed to so severe and peculiar a trial. This could not last long. Flesh and blood, at least such flesh and blood as mine, could not bear it. I had repeated heart-burnings and quarrels with my rival, in which he treated me with the mortifying forbearance of a man towards a child. Had he quarrelled outright with me, I could have stomached it; at least I should have known what part to take; but to be humoured and treated as a child in the presence of my mistress, when I felt all the bantam spirit of a little man swelling within me-gods, it was insufferable! queens, gods, and goddesses, all joined pell-mell in Nothing but the interference of the peace officers restored some degree of order. The havoc, however, that had been made among dresses and decorations put an end to all farther acting for that day. The battle over, the next thing was to inquire why it was begun; a common question among politicians, after a bloody and unprofitable war; and one not always easy to be answered. It was soon traced to me, and my unaccountable transport of passion, which they could only attribute to my having run a muck. The manager was judge and jury, and plaintiff into the bargain, and in such cases justice is always speedily administered. He came out of the fight as sublime a wreck as the Santissima Trinidada. His gallant plumes, which once towered aloft, were drooping about his ears." His robe of state hung in ribbands from his back, and but ill concealed the ravages he had suffered in the rear. He had received kicks and cuffs from all sides, during the tumult; for every one took the opportunity of slyly gratifying some lurking grudge on his fat carcass. He was a discreet man, and did not choose to declare war with all his company; so he swore all those kicks and cuffs had been given by me, and I let him enjoy the opinion. Some wounds he bore, however, which were the incontestible traces of a woman's warfare His sleek rosy check was scored by trickling furrows, At length we were exhibiting one day at West which were ascribed to the nails of my intrepid End fair, which was at that time a very fashionable and devoted Columbine. The ire of the monarch resort, and often beleaguered by gay equipages was not to be appeased. He had suffered in his from town. Among the spectators that filled the person, and he had suffered in his purse; his digfront row of our little canvas theatre one after-nity too had been insulted, and that went for somenoon, when I had to figure in a pantomime, was a thing; for dignity is always more irascible the party of young ladies from a boarding-school, with more petty the potentate. He wreaked his wrath their governess. Guess my confusion, when, in the upon the beginners of the affray, and Columbine midst of my antics, I beheld among the number and myself were discharged, at once, from the commy quondam flame; her whom I had berhymed at pany. school; her for whose charms I had smarted so se- Figure me, then, to yourself, a stripling of little verely; the cruel Sacharissa! What was worse, more than sixteen; a gentleman by birth; a vagaI fancied shc recollected me; and was repeating bond by trade; turned adrift upon the world; makthe story of my humiliating flagellation, for I sawing the best of my way through the crowd of West her whispering her companions and her governess. End fair; my mountebank dress fluttering in rags I lost all consciousness of the part I was acting, and about me; the weeping Columbine hanging upon of the place where I was. I felt shrunk to nothing, my arm, in splendid, but tattered finery; the tears and could have crept into a rat-hole-unluckily, coursing one by one down her face; carrying off none was open to receive me. Before I could re- the red paint in torrents, and literally "preying cover from my confusion, I was tumbled over by upon her damask cheek." Pantaloon and the clown; and I felt the sword of Harlequin making vigorous assaults, in a manner most degrading to my dignity. Heaven and earth! was I again to suffer martyrdom in this ignominious manner, in the knowledge, and even before the very eyes of this most beautiful, but most disdainful of fair ones? All my long-smothered wrath broke out at once; the dormant feelings of the gentleman arose within me; stung to the quick by intolerable mortification. I sprang on my feet in an instant; leaped upon Harlequin like a young tiger; tore off his mask; buffetted him in the face, and soon shed more blood on the stage than had been spilt upon it during a whole tragic campaign of battles and murders. The Blank Book of a Small Colleger. that this anonymous wri man, reviving recollect days, but a frolicksome y the winter evenings, who life, he shall be telling p grand-children. There are fifteen stori T essays; for it is a little THE ART OF SE I have been from my yo thing to other people-a pr the period that, as a boy, I hi to a Baptist Meeting, which ground,-to the inexpressib the congregation and the no s preacher,-up to my last freal ing to relate, I have literally jest."-I was on a visit to a fi Major Holdsworth, when, to a derly gentleman and have an cards--a whist party was ma asked the Miss Pennicks;-a tolerant, immaculate, vinegar I have ever encountered in m It was on my return from cour was in agitation, that I spied a cornered note lying unseale With unaccountable curiosity thus. "THE MISS PENNICKS F SORRY THEY CANNOT HAV OF WAITTING ON MRS HOL ARE VERRY INDIFFERENT tion of their own hand, I add LERS"-refolded the note, a table. Well, this is the mos ever happened to me,' said the New York, 1824. 18mo. pp. 138. the dining room Read th note. The Miss Pennicks car Ir we mistake not, this amusing little work wife because, "they are very i was published a year or two since; weAnd a very sufficient reason, think we recollect seeing extracts from it, in English papers, about that time. It is, however, but just now republished in this country, and, therefore, has all the charms, and all the claims of novelty, so far as our reading public are concerned. It purports to come from a Sexagenarian, who, in his tering into society." Well, worth, I always thought ther about those Miss Pennicks. thing strange would happen to worth was one of those long As soon as Harlequin recovered from his sur-old age, loves to dwell upon the recollec-ly established, that her less 1 prise he returned my assault with interest. I was nothing in his hands. I was game to be sure, for I was a gentleman; but he had the clownish advantages of bone and muscle. I felt as if I could have fought even unto the death; and I was likely to do so; for he was, according to the vulgar phrase, "putting my head into Chancery," when the gentle Columbine flew to my assistance. God bless the women; they are always on the side of the weak and the oppressed. The battle now became general; the dramatis personæ ranged on either side. The manager interfered in vain. In vain were his spangled black bonnet and towering white feathers seen whisking tions of earlier days; and he tells his stories women who foresee events lo and pride themselves on bei ing. Her reputation for fores looked up to her as an oracle went to St Helena, 'SHE ha that would be the end of it: Elizabeth's marriage she had f By three o'clock, in the there were few houses in Hode indefatigable Mrs Holdsworth as a profound secret-that th SUCH A NOTE from the Mis was it?' cried half a dozen g infecting earnestness. You my giving the contents. I ne You know I'm not squeamish detail what that note contained. |