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The remains of several forts also on the borders of those THE UNITED STATES LITERARY GAZETTE. Published on the first and fifteenth day of every month, by Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. No. 1 Cornhill, Boston. VOL. I. REVIEWS. Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern Music. From the fourth London edition. New York. 1824. 12mo. pp. 351. BOSTON, NOVEMBER 15, 1824. er the sudden transition from the walls of this holy turer, "Vincentem strepitus, et natum rebus agendis." A MAN, who has spent more than half a ence salutary compunction? and, when sober -Terms, $5 per annum, payable in July. nothing but that experience, which they In the mean time there was no danger of any loss of the national feelings of the English boys, since "the salutary and incontroday, beat two Frenchmen, was as firmly vertible truth that one Englishman can, any believed, and as ably demonstrated at Douay and St Omers, as it could be at Eton or Winchester." Among the Reminiscences of Classical Studies and English Literature we find some interesting materials for the history of mind. "It was not till the subtle thief It is a great satisfaction to him [the Reminiscent] of youth' had stolen all his early years, that to reflect that none of his writings contain a sin-/ whose youth devotion was unknown? You say, the Reminiscent was really sensible of the gle line of personal hostility to any one. that this sequestered education and these submissive habits disqualify for active life: but don't they wonders and charms with which the pages The reminiscences of the first chapter re-teach obedience, teach modesty, teach duty of the bard of Avon abound." Again,late to education at the foreign Roman Now, what is the rank, what the pursuit, for which" Age, he believes, makes us fastidious in Catholic universities, in one of which, that these do not eminently qualify? poetry, and feel much more than we do in of Douay, in France, the author received youth the truth of the well known observahis own. He is, of course, a Romanist. tion of Horace, The subject of education is one of such general interest in our time and country, that we venture, at the very threshold of our analysis, on an extract of some length. We confess a great leaning to the opinions of the good ecclesiastic. We believe that the error of modern systems is deMediocribus esse poetis, cidedly on the other hand; that youth is Non Di, non homines, non concessêre Columnæ." left, in too many particulars, to the blind There never was, all records show it, guidance of its own feeble judgment and Of gods and men, a middling poet. Every care was taken [at Douay] to form the in- limited experience, and that the inadequate We are not yet old enough to decide finalfant mind to religion and virtue: the boys were mean of persuasion is frequently employed ly on the justice of the author's opinions, as secluded from the world; every thing that could to attract the twig towards the right direc- expressed here and elsewhere, but we believe inflame their imagination or passions was kept at a tion, instead of the force which is able to them to be well-founded. Poetry may dedistance; piety, somewhat of the ascetic nature, was inculcated; and the hopes and fears, which bend and confine it there. Youth is about rive a short-lived popularity from brilliant Christianity presents, were incessantly held in their as ready to take the benefit of the experi-imagery or harmonious versification; but its view. No classic author was put into their hands, ence of others as a child is to take physic, from which every passage, describing scenes of and we should have as little hesitation love or gallantry, or tending, even in the remotest about forcing down the unpalatable dose in degree, to inspire them, had not been obliterated. How this was done may be seen by any person, one instance, as the other. We shall not who will inspect father Juvençi's excellent editions attempt to enlarge upon this subject, though of Horace or Juvenal. Few works of English the temptation be strong within us, but only writers were permitted to be read; none, which mention one argument, which seems to us had not been similarly expurgated. The conse to have some weight in favour of strict quence was, that a foreign college was the abode of innocence, learning, and piety. precautionary discipline and inspection. It has been questioned, whether this system of By these the young may be prevented from education is perfectly free from objection;-wheth-committing many bad actions, of which descriptions and images, to be permanent, must be founded on truth and nature. But time, experience, and observation are necessary to enable us to appreciate the fidelity of description and exactness of similitude; and much must be known of the world and of human nature before the exquisite delineations of Shakspeare can be properly understood. It requires years of the lives of common mortals to imbue the mind with a knowledge of those lights and shades which diversify character, which "the eye in a fine frenzy rolling," conveys to it at once, as it glances over them. We are not prepared to grant to our author that the works of Gray are much more generally known by heart, than those of Goldsmith, though we might admit his inference that the muse of the former was of the higher order. ber of avocats, attornies, and officers of justice, The difficulty of framing legal instru- From the Reminiscences of Jurisprudence we learn that judicial offices in A gentleman, upon whose will the Reminiscent France, before the revolution, were always was consulted, had six estates of unequal value, venal and hereditary. When the king and wished to settle one on each of his sons and erected a new court, he also specified the his male issue, with successive limitations over to sum which should be paid for each office the other sons and their respective male issue, in the ordinary mode of strict settlement; and with a by the successful petitioner, in whose fami- provision, that, in the event of the death and failly it became perpetual, and whose heirs ure of issue male of any of the sons, the estate demight sell it, with the consent of the govern- vised to him, should shift from him and his issue ment, the purchaser paying a certain sum male to the next taker and his issue male, and failinto the royal treasury. The petitioners, ing these, to the persons claiming under the other limitations; with a further proviso, that such next however, were obliged to be in general of taker's estate, should then shift in like manner to respectability, and, in some districts, noble; the taker next after him, and the persons claiming they also possessed fortunes, which placed under the other limitations. It was considered, at them above want; and were further oblig-first, that this might be affected by one proviso; ed to undergo a pretty severe examination. then, by two; and then by six; but upon a full inIt was customary for the suitors in court, provisos as there can be combinations of the numvestigation, it was found that it required as many or their friends, to make regular presents ber 6;-Now, to the judges; as well as to solicit them. personally. Mr Butler tells us that the opinions of learned and wise men have been divided on the expediency of the heirship and venality of the judicial offices, and is of opinion that the presents and solicitations were always harmless. The practice, however, will hardly be considered a safe one in these degenerate days, when every theory of government seems to involve the proverbial notion, that no honesty is the worse for being watched. The difference between England and France in the number of their courts of justice is very remarkable. 1X 2X3 X4 X5 X6 = 720. Consequently, to give complete effect to the inten- In another instance, a deed, if it had this deed was declined. An anecdote respecting the Jesuits' college of Clermont is introduced, while the writer is treating of the best method of perhaps ever will, though any reasonable hope of piercing through "the cloak of darkness" is by this time well nigh extinct. Mr Butler offers this hypothesis,—that Lord George Sackville was Junius, and Sir Philip Francis his coadjutor and amanuensis; against this, however, we have the assertion of Junius, that "he was the sole depositary of his own secret," but we have no warrant that Junius always spoke the truth. The author thinks that the possessor of the two vellum volumes was not unknown to Mr George Grenville. From the Reminiscences of eminent judicial characters we intended to make an extract, but are unable to select, where all are so interesting. We shall content ourselves with a note of the author, which contains some encouragement for novel readers. It is known that his lordship [Lord Camden], like many other distinguished personages, was a great reader of novels; and surely the hour of relaxation is as well employed in reading Tom Jones, or Clarissa, or any of the novels attributed to Sir Walter Scott, as in the perusal of the productions of party pens. At a house of great distinction, ten gentlemen of taste were desired to frame, each of them, a list of the ten most entertaining works which they had read. One work only found its way into every list.-It may amuse the reader to guess it.-He wil not be surprised to find it was-Gil Blas. If the Reminiscent may be allowed to give his opinion, the Conjuration contre Venise of the Abbé de St Réal, is the most interesting of publi cations. Mr Butler next treats of parliamentary eloquence, with descriptions of the manner of several eminent orators, particularly Lord Chatham, and the effect produced by their speeches. Nothing can exemplify better the power of eloquence, than the despotic authority exercised by this personage over the house of Commons; he could silence opposi tion and paralyze debate by the thunders of his voice and "the lightnings of his eye." That an assembly, constituted as that house was, of some of the most eminent of the naThe college, falling into decay, it was re-edified tion, should have submitted to such dominaby Louis the Fourteenth, and received the appella- tion, excites our wonder and admiration. tion of the Collège de Louis le Grand. Upon this The reality of this astonishing power is occasion, a poetical exercise alluding to it was required from the students.-The city of Nola had proved by a variety of anecdotes; one is of recently given them the Collegio del Arco, and they Mr Wilkes, who was not remarkable either were in possession of the Collège de la Fleche, in for modesty or timidity. He mentioned to France. Alluding to these, a saucy boy wrote the the Reminiscent that on a certain occasion, following verses, and the professor good humour-when "Mr Pitt rose and began to speak in edly assigned him the prize :a solemn and austere manner," With the exception of a few local jurisdictions, the judicial establishments in England are confined to the chancellor, the vice-chancellor, the master of the rolls, twelve judges, six masters in chance-regulating courses of study. ry, and some masters or officers resembling them in the other courts; in France there are at least 600 courts, and 5,600 judges :-in addition, each kingdom has its justices of peace; in France, they amount to 27,000. The following mot of Lord Thurlow on the subject of cross-examination was new to us, and perhaps will be so to many of our readers. When the affair of the necklace of the late queen of France was in agitation, a person observed to Lord Thurlow, that the repeated examinations of the parties in France had cleared up nothing: 'True,' said his lordship, but Buller, Garrow, and a Middlesex jury, would, if such a matter had been brought before them, have made it all, in half an hour, as clear as day-light.' If the anecdote here given of the Chancellor d'Aguesseau be correct, the gentlemen of the bar should hold his memory in high respect. · Arcum Nola dedit patribus, dedit alma Sagittam Of which, we offer, as we did above, an im- Nola gave the good fathers a bow, The duke de Grammont asked the chancellor An arrow from France they inherit, d'Aguesseau, on some occasion, whether with his Where a friend's to be found I don't know experience of chicanery in legal processes, and of To give them the string which they merit. their length, he had never thought of some regulaAbout thirty pages of this work are detion, which would put an end to them?-'I had gone so far,' replied the chancellor, as to commit voted to the inquiry respecting Junius; a plan of such a regulation to writing; but, after I thread-bare as this subject now is, it still made some progress, I reflected on the great num-retains its power of exciting interest, and He thought the thunder was to fall upon him;and he declared, that he never, while he was at Westminster, felt greater terror, when he was called up to be chastised, than he did while the uncertainty lasted; or felt greater jubilation when he was pardoned, than when he found the bolt was destined for another head, Another is still more striking. Mr Pitt had been speaking at Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, After Murray had suffered for some time, Pitt stopped, threw his eyes around, then fixing their whole power on Murray, said, 'I must now address a few words to Mr Solicitor;-they shall be fewbut shall be daggers: Murray was agitated;—the look was continued,-the agitation increased:Judge Felix trembles!' exclaimed Pitt, in a tone of thunder, he shall hear me some other day He sat down; Murray made no reply; and a la the house. guid debate is said to have shown the paralysis of Mr Butler quotes from Glover's Memoirs the following notice of the session of 1755-6. During this whole session Mr Pitt found occasion, in every debate, to confound the ministerial orators. His vehement invectives were awful to Murray; terrible to Hume Campbell; and no malefactor under the stripes of an executioner, was ever more forlorn and helpless than Fox appeared under the lash of Pitt's eloquence, shrewd and able in parliament as Fox confessedly is; Dodington sheltered himself in silence. We cannot refrain from one more extract while on this subject. On another occasion, immediately after he had finished a speech, in the house of commons, he walked out of it; and, as usual, with a very slow step. A silence ensued, till the door was opened to let him into the lobby. A member then started up, saying, I rise to reply to the right honourable member-Lord Chatham turned back, and fixed his eye on the orator,-who instantly sat down dumb: his lordship then returned to his seat, repeating, as he hobbled along, the verses of Virgil: Ast Danaúm proceres, Agamemnoniæque phalan ges, Ut vidére virum, fulgentiaque arma per umbras, 4 Every American has perused the speech of this noble orator on the employment of savages by the British during our revolution. The effect of this, when recited by an ordinary declaimer, is great; what must it have been from the lips of Chatham him self. Lord North, according to Mr Butler, was a gentleman, in the most extended sense of that comprehensive word. Without aspiring to the higher eloquence, he was a very skilful debater; but was most remarkable for a kind of good-natured and inoffensive wit, of which the following is a good specimen. The assault of Mr Adam on Mr Fox, and of Colonel Fullarton on Lord Shelburne, had once put the house into the worst possible humour, and there was more or less of savageness in every thing that was said :-Lord North deprecated the too great readiness to take offence, which then seemed so possess the house. One member,' he said, who spoke of me, called me, "that thing called a minister:"to be sure,' he said, patting his large form, I am a thing;-the member, therefore, when he called me a thing, said what was true; and I could not be angry with him; but, when he added, that thing called a minister, he called me that thing, which, of all things, he himself wished most to be; and, therefore,' said Lord North, I took it as a compliment.' The following parallel between the parliamentary talents of Pitt and Fox will be read with interest. It is difficult to decide on the comparative merit of him and Mr Pitt; the latter had not the vehement reasoning, or argumentative ridicule of Mr Fox: but he had more splendour, more imagery, Lofty, and reverential panegyrics of the British His long, and much more method and discretion. constitution, his eloquent vituperations of those, whom he described as advocating the democratic spirit then let loose on the inhabitants of the earth, and to assist him in defending their all against it, and his solemn adjuration of the house, to defend were, in the highest degree, both imposing and conciliating. In addition, he had the command of bitter, contemptuous sarcasm, which tortured to madness. This he could expand or compress at pleasure: even in one member of a sentence, he could inflict a wound that was never healed. Mr Fox having made an able speech, Mr Erskine followed him with one of the very same import. Mr Pitt rose to answer them; he announced his intention to reply to both; but,' said he, I shall make gentleman who spoke last; he did no more than no mention of what was said by the honourable regularly repeat what was said by the member who preceded him, and regularly weaken all he repeated.' It was prettily said by the historian of the Ro- Mr Fox had a captivating earnestness of tone Much, that awes by power or charms by beauty, more. 227 for one day, and you'll see which has the real superiority.'-Mr Fox never had the king with him, even for an hour. Burke was inferior as a speaker, but greatly superior if judged by his speeches as they are published. whom we have mentioned, equally excelled: but In familiar conversation, the three great men, even the most intimate friends of Mr Fox com plained of his too frequent ruminating silence. Mr Pitt talked ;-and his talk was fascinating. A good judge said of him, that he was the only person he had known, who possessed the talent of condescension. Yet his loftiness never forsook him; with him, than with Mr Fox. With each the baton still, one might be sooner seduced to take liberties du général was in sight, but Mr Pitt's animation and playfulness frequently made it unobserved: Burke's conversation was rambling, but splendid, this was not so often the case with Mr Fox. Mr rich, and instructive beyond comparison. mentary eloquence, by an extract from the We shall conclude our notice of parliaaccount of Lord Thurlow. At times, Lord Thurlow was superlatively thought to have brought into the field, something 'Give me,' fate of his religion, and his strong bias in favor of every thing that is Roman Catholic. He even entertains hopes of the success of the impossible project of uniting the English and Roman churches. Very many of his publications have related to these subjects; and his interest in the Catholic question appears to have carried him so frequently to the gallery of the House of Commons. Of the Letter on Ancient and Modern Music, it is unnecessary to say any thing; it will be interesting only to the initiated; and on this subject even a reviewer may be permitted to acknowledge profound ignorance. Tales of a Traveller, Parts III. and IV. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Author of "The Sketch Book," "Bracebridge Hall," "Knickerbocker's New York," &c. Philadelphia. 1824. 8vo. On the whole, we are not satisfied with these Tales. Some of them, indeed, are quite respectable as productions of a light kind of literature; but, some how or other,' as Dolph Heyliger says, the public have been led to expect better things as the result of Mr Irving's travels. It was sometime since announced, that he was on the continent, collecting materials for a new series of publications, and every body expected to be delighted with such tales as he could pick up, or invent, among scenes of which every traveller reports new wonders, and which seem to increase in interest by the lapse of every year. We do not charge Mr Irving with having spread this expectation; for we are sure that he must have been annoyed by being thus forestalled by the imaginations of his readers, and prevented from coming out before them with the advantage of surprise. He knows that his name is established, at least for the present, and that he needs not the aid of such annunciations to excite the public interest. And he must know too, that it is prejudicial to a popular author to have it known what he is about long before he appears in print; unless, like the author of Waverley, he can open to his readers a deeper source of interest by combining the value of history with the pleasure of fiction. Nor would we be understood to suppose that these tales are really the principal fruits of Mr Irving's travels, or that to collect materials for them was his main object. We have no doubt that he had other, and much higher views; and if these publications do no more than defray the expenses of his journey, the time will not have been lost on his reflecting mind and feeling heart. The public will receive the benefit of it in his future writings more than in these; for the general effect of travel on the taste and imagination, is of more importance to an author than the materials he collects. Indeed, we think it a pity that he did not visit the continent before he published his English Sketches. The first foreign land we see, excites us so much that we are exceedingly liable to give an exagge rated description of it, or, at least, to dwell | before he visited the scenes described; for on it with an undue degree of fondness. A he has shown a remarkable insensibility to little travel is as dangerous as a little learn their most striking and interesting charac ing; and a deeper draught of it is as effica- teristics. We know how soon the newcious in sobering down the intoxication of ness of travelling wears away, and the exthe first taste. If Mr Irving had seen citement of the imagination gives place to France, Italy, and Switzerland, before writ-weariness and almost to disgust. Besides, ing about England, there would not have what is it gives fervor to the fancy, and inappeared in these writings, as we think terest to the observations of a traveller? It there now does, a marked inferiority to his is, that he is a stranger and a sojourner; other productions. He would not have that all around him is new and foreign, and twaddled about Roscoe and the green fields that he connects all this with the recollec and Christmas holydays of England, in a tions and feelings of a dear and distant style so much below that of the legends and home. But there is nothing of all this in descriptions of the New Netherlands. We the practised traveller; his observations do not mean that England is not highly are without enthusiasm or association. One worthy of the attention of the traveller in who travels to furnish his imagination with search of the interesting and beautiful, materials for its creative powers, should whether he chooses to observe the scenery travel fast, and not long. He should not or the people, as well as the country of all stay in any place until the homeliness of reothers the most advanced in the arts of life.ality breaks through the poetical mist that Perhaps it is only because it is so much hangs so beautifully round a strange land, in many points like our own, that it is not, nor continue his wanderings long enough on the whole, entitled to a decided prefer to familiarize his mind to strangeness. He ence to every other in the eyes of the Amer-should do just the reverse of what might be ican traveller. But, whatever be the en-recommended as the best mode of travelthusiasm with which the sea-sick stranger ling for information; for, as soon as he can touches the shore of England, where he finds find his way well about a city, it is time for himself for the first time in a foreign land; him to be gone to another; and whenever a land of interesting recollections, and un- he begins to collect facts, it is high time for equalled verdure and beauty-let him ob-him to go home. No doubt, many of our serve it well indeed, and treasure up the readers would think such travelling a clear feelings it excites, for they can never be waste of time and money; but all have not excited again; but let him restrain the ex-the same tastes, nor the same paths of life; pression of his enthusiasm until he has and what would be idleness and trifling in passed on to still stranger lands, where the some, is solid improvement to others. If modes of life seem to have had a distinct imagination was not given us in vain, we origin, whose antiquities are of a higher have as good a right to devote ourselves to class, and where, above all, a foreign lan- the cultivation of that faculty as of any guage throws a new hue over the whole other; and the feelings and images brought picture of man, and gives a new character from Europe by one traveller, may be as to all his thoughts and feelings. He will valuable, at least to himself, as the facts know better how to speak of England accumulated by another. without insensibility, and yet without extravagance. He will then remember, perhaps as vividly as ever, the delight with which he first trod her shores; and will often, at least if he saw it under as favorable circumstances as we did, recur to it as to a fairy tale of his childhood. But he will not find that his deepest or most valuable impressions were made there; he will find that he has learned more of man and his own heart, in countries where the strangeness of manners and language has kept him at a little distance from the scenes he surveyed; and that his comparative lonelines there will have fixed deeper in his imagination all that is worth remembering of what he has seen. These are our own notions of the matter, and derived from our own experience; but we confess we do not find them confirmed as much as we could wish by any superior excellence in Mr Irving's tales of the continent. We must except them from our remark on the inferiority of his English Sketches, for we do not think them generally so good; at least, those are not which particularly relate to the continent. And we sustain our theory, and account for this falling off, by supposing it to proceed from his having been too long abroad We have said that Mr Irving appears to be insensible to the interesting characteristics of the countries through which he has passed. We mean to apply the remark particularly to Italy; for we confess we should be at a loss to point out many good subjects for him in France; and should be unwilling to see him deeply interested in so unpoetical a people as the French. But here is a whole Number about Italy, the land of all that is most noble in art, most magnificent in ruins, most sublime and interesting in history, and most picturesque in scenery, and in the modes of actual life. And what has Mr Irving given us of all these? A rareeshow of postillions in jack-boots, stout English gentlemen, vulgar English women, a talkative landlord, ferocious robbers, and a coquetish Signora,-but little of scenery, and not one word of art, ruins, or recollections. We begin at Terracina and end at Fondi, two of the most miserable villages in Italy, separated by a poste and a half of wild shore and mountain scenery indeed, but interesting for nothing else but the rogues that infest it. And this is all we have of Italy. What Mr Irving has told us here, is very well in its kind, but not what we expected, nor the best that might fairly be expected from his visit to Italy. We are |