above us. of the face upwards or downwards; for when the face is directed downwards, the eyes that look at us must be turned upwards from the position of the face to which they belong; and if to eyes so drawn, an upward cast of features be substituted for the former, the eyes immediately look From these, and other details given in the paper, the author concludes that the apparent direction of the eyes to or from the spectator, depends upon the balance of two circumstances combined in the same representation, namely, 1. The general position of the face presented to the spectator, 2. The turn of the eyes from that position; and he thence proceeds to inquire why, if the eyes of a portrait look at the spectator placed in front of the picture, they follow him in every other direction. When two objects are seen on the ground at different distances from us in the same direction, one appears and must be represented exactly above the other, so that a vertical plane from the eye would pass through them, and since such a line will be seen upright, however far we move to one side, it follows that the same objects still seem to be in a line with us exactly as in the front view, seeming, as we move, to turn from their first direction. In portraits, the permanence of direction with reference to the spectator, and corresponding change of its apparent position in space when he moves to either side, depend upon the same principles. The nose drawn in front with its central line upright, continues directed to the spectator, though viewed obliquely; or if the right side of the nose is represented, it must appear directed to the right of the spectator in all situations; and eyes that turn in a due degree from that direction toward the spectator, so as to look at him when viewed in front, will continue to do so when viewed obliquely. NATURAL HISTORY. Cuvier lately presented a report to the Academy of Sciences on the state of Natural History, and the increase of our knowl edge in that department since the return of maritime peace, the details of which are peculiarly interesting. Linnæus, in 1778, indicated about eight thousand species classed. Above all, we are confounded at the editors of this new Journal to pursue a the continually increasing number of in- different plan. "It cannot have escaped obsects; it is by thousands that travellers servation," they say, "that the necessity, bring them from the hot climates. The imposed upon writers in Medical Journals, cabinet of the King contains above of attaching their names to communicatwenty-five thousand species; and there tions, very much restricts that latitude of are at least as many more in the various discussion, and freedom of remark, which, cabinets of Europe. The work of M. it is believed, would tend, in a mateStrauss on the May-bug, has just shown rial degree, to advance the interests of that this little body, of an inch in length, medical science. With a view principally has three hundred and six hard pieces, to obviate this defect, the present Journal serving as envelopes, four hundred and has been undertaken. It is not intended, ninety-four muscles, twenty-four pairs of therefore, to interfere with the many renerves, and forty-eight pairs of trachea. spectable Journals already published in this country, but to supply the void caused by their indiscriminate rejection of anonymous articics, however great the ability or ingenuity with which they are recommended." COMPARISON OF BAROMETRICAL WITH TRIG ONOMETRICAL MEASUREMENT. NEW MODE OF EXTRACTING POISONS FROM The hill selected for this comparative measurement is situated on the western part of the northern coast of Spitsbergen. A small bay formed by the shore of the mainland to the north-east of the hill, being frozen over, afforded a perfectly level base, Much has been said of the apparatus and corrections for inequality were thus lately applied in Great Britain for the rerendered unnecessary. A polished copper moval of poisons swallowed into the stomcone was fixed upon a staff at the summit ach, and much credit is undoubtedly due of the hill, the apex of which was proposed for the invention and application of the inas the height to be measured; it stood forty-struments used for this purpose. A great four inches above the highest pinnacle of deal may be done in this way to prevent the summit. By the trigonometrical meas- the fatal effects of poison, and the number urement the altitude of the cone was found of instances in which it has been successto be one thousand six hundred and fortyfour feet; and by the barometrical, every precaution being used by the observer to secure an accurate result, it was ascertain ed to be 1640.07 feet. The experiment was made by Captain Sabine. VELOCITY OF SOUND. Some new experiments relating to the the humidity of the air was determined by NEW MEDICAL JOURNAL. fully put in use, upon men as well as animals, is already considerable. To whom, however, the credit of first employing this method is due, will be perceived by the following quotation from Dr Beck's work on Medical Jurisprudence. "Dr Physick of Philadelphia, published a paper in 1812, in which he mentions that he successfully ap plied the syringe to a child poisoned with laudanum, and Dr Dorsey afterwards cured two individuals by the same treatment. That distinguished surgeon, however, subsequently states, that Dr Alexander Mears, 2d, first suggested the invention in 1797, although he (Dr Physick) was ignorant of this fact when he applied it practically. I conceive Dr Physick is entitled to the honor of having been the first who saved life by its means." DISTINCTION OF THE KIND OF ELECTRICITY Professor Berzelius observes, that posi ly distinguished by the taste, on making the tive and negative electricity may be readi electric current pass, by means of a point, to the tongue. The taste of the positive electricity is acid, that of the negative is more caustic, and, as it were, alkaline. SUPPOSED NEW METAL. of plants,-M. Decandolle now describes forty thousand, and within a few years they will doubtless exceed fifty thousand. Buffon estimated the number of quadrupeds at about three hundred. M. Desmarets has just enumerated above seven hundred, and he is far from considering this list complete. M. de Lacepède wrote twenty The first number of the New York years ago the history of all the known spe- Monthly Chronicle of Medicine and Surge- A description of a supposed new metal cies of fishes; the whole did not amount to ry, was issued in July. It is to be publish- with a specimen, was lately sent to Sir one thousand five hundred. The cabinet of ed on the 15th day of every month, each Humphrey Davy, called Taschium, from the King alone, has now above two thou- number containing thirty-two pages octa- the mine of Taschio, where it was found. sand five hundred, which, says Cuvier, are VO. It has been always the custom with The specimen sent was said to be silver but a small proportion of those which the writers of original essays in Medical Jour-containing the new metal; the two metais seas and rivers would furnish. We no lon-nals, to attach their names to their com- having been separated by amalgamation, ger venture to fix numbers for the birds munications, as if assuming a kind of re- and the mercury afterwards driven off, on and reptiles; the cabinets are crowded sponsibility for the truth and merit of what dissolving it in pure nitric acid, it was with new species which require to be they communicate. It is the intention of stated that the Taschium would remain a a black powder. 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When the animals are killed by alcohol, tincture of hellebore, or nux vomica, and certain other poisons, after all light and life have ceased, another fixed and steady light appears in the organ, varying in duration from twelve hours to four days. From the general results of his observations, Dr Todd concludes that the luminous powers of these insects are exclusively referrible to vital action, and that their use has not been accurately ascertained, though probably connected with sexual distinction. All publishers of books throughout the United States, are very earnestly requested to forward to us, regularly and seasonably, the names of all works of every kind, preparing for publication, in the press, or recently published. As they will be inserted in the Gazette, it is particularly desired that the exact titles be stated at length. We have just learned from our printers that the publication of this number will be somewhat retarded. 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All new publications in any way noticed in this Gazette, they have for sale, or can procure on quite as good terms as those of their respective publishers. CUMMINGS, HILLIARD, & Co. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, BY HILLIARD AND METCALF. THE UNITED STATES LITERARY GAZETTE. Published on the first and fifteenth day of every month, by Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. No. 1 Cornhill, Boston.Terms, $5 per annum, payable in July. REVIEWS. Tales of a Traveller, Part I. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Author of the "Sketch Book," "Bracebridge Hall," " "Knicker bocker's New York," &c. Philadelphia. 1824. 8vo. pp. 166. WHILE Mr Irving wrote Salmagundi and Knickerbocker, he was learning to write. He was not only, to use a common phrase, forming his style, but acquiring just notions of the strength and nature of his powers, ascertaining what he could and what he could not do, and thus, what he could wisely and safely attempt. We suppose that his next work, the Sketch Book, was written in exact conformity with his own idea of what he could do best;-and perhaps no work of elegant letters ever won for its author more sudden and extended popularity. But while the critics every where admitted that Mr Irving told good stories delightfully, they were so true to the calling as to insist that he did not know so well as they what paths in the great field of literature it was best for him to pursue. His sketches and tales were disconnected and did not help each other; the numbers of this work did not appear to constitute so much of a book as they in fact did, because they appeared separately. Still they were so captivating, they proved so clearly that Geoffrey Crayon possessed uncommon powers, interesting and gratifying all classes of readers, his critics in the most friendly manner advised him to try his hand at something else;―inasmuch as his absolute success in the course he had chosen was proof positive that he would do well to leave it. His powers, said they, are cramped by the narrowness of the subjects on which they are exerted; his imagination wants elbow room; his canvass is so scanty that his finest figures are stinted in their porportions or thrust into corners; enlarge his sphere of intellectual action and his mind will expand with it; give him subjects which can draw him out fully, and he will exhibit more strength, grace, and beauty of intellect than he yet has credit for. Unfortunately for the subjects he had chosen, and his mode of treating them, were exactly the best adapted to his best powers, these intimations were so far regarded as to bring before the public Bracebridge Hall; which is weakened from beginning to end by the endeavour to give it the consistency and identity of a single work. Moreover, the critics found out that in parts of the Sketch Book, and a large part of Knickerbocker, Mr Irving came near running wild; they thought he imposed too little restraint upon his fine fancy and ex-| of living or inanimate nature,—and to We think this first number of the Tales will be very acceptable to the public. The frame in which the pictures are set is extremely well devised and executed. A hunting dinner is followed by a storm, which shuts up a great variety of people within the Hall of a worthy fox-hunting Baronet. Pleasant conversation and pleasant stories enliven the supper table; and one of the guests,-the Traveller himself whose tales Mr Crayon relates,-sleeps or tries to sleep in a kind of haunted chamber, which gives occasion to the last and best tale. We suppose that Boccaccio exhibited this mode of stringing stories together in his Decamerone, for the first time, and the fashion has been worn out in Italy by his imitators. We recollect no attempt to introduce it into English literature since the days of Spenser; but Mr Irving's success will probably bring upon him a crowd of followers. Mr Irving, as an elegant writer, has no rival, and scarcely a competitor, in this country. He has certainly done more than any other to make us respectable abroad, as a literary people, but we think he has advanced our national reputation for scholarship and talent chiefly, by directing the attention of others upon us: by persuading them that we may produce something here worth looking after. It is difficult to define with any exactness the character which our infant literature bears, or to predict what character it will bear; but it is easy to assure one's self that it has and will have little accordance with Mr Irving's production; and he is felt by every one, at home and abroad, not to belong, in his writings, to this country. It can hardly be thought excessive boasting to assert, that the genius of Americans is as strong as that of others, and we are borne out by reasons too obvious to need a more particular recital, in supposing that it will be some- The first story is the "Adventure of My what rash, enterprising, forgetful of the Uncle"-and it is a quiz of a ghost story, majesty of criticism, and regardless of arti- located in France. Just at the interesting ficial rules, venerable precedents, and obso- moment, the story ends with an emphatic lete things in general. Before long, it is Bah! uttered by a French marquis; in probable that many men of talent will which the readers will be very apt to join. write well on this side of the Atlantic; but The second, the " Adventure of My Aunt," we think a successful American author is a sort of pendant to the first, and is rathwill much oftener exhibit an active, power-er common-place. The third, "The Bold ful, and original mind, than one which Dragoon," is excellent; full of fine fun and books or masters have thoroughly taught merriment. We would just remark, in and trained. Indeed, Mr Irving seems, in passing, that if Mr Geoffrey Crayon is not his literary character, not only alien to our a thought more careful, the more recondite country, but opposed to the spirit of the meaning of his double entendres will beage. The world is getting to be very prac- come a little too apparent; in some instances tical,-to regard the meaning somewhat it already lies somewhat nearer the surface more than the manner of an author-to than is altogether desirable. The sketches demand directness and energy in thought of the "Mysterious Picture" and the "Mysand expression, and truth in the description terious Stranger" are very good; but their principal use is in bringing out from the Baronet the "Story of the Young Italian." This is the last in the number; and we will endeavour to extract from it enough to give our readers a just idea of its character. I was born at Naples. My parents, though of noble rank, were limited in fortune, or rather my father was ostentatious beyond his means, and expended so much in his palace, his equipage, and his retinue, that he was continually straightened in his pecuniary circumstances. I was a younger son, and looked upon with indifference by my father, who, from a principle of family pride, wished to leave all his property to my elder brother. I showed, when quite a child, an extreme sensibility. Every thing affected me violently. While yet an infant in my mother's arms, and before I had learnt to talk, I could be wrought upon to a wonderful degree of anguish or delight by the power of music. As I grew older my feelings remained equally acute, and I was easily transported into paroxysms of pleasure or rage. It was the amuseiment of my relatives and of the domestics to play upon this irritable temperament. I was moved to tears, tickled to laughter, provoked to fury, for the entertainment of company, who were amused by such a tempest of mighty passion in a pigmy frame. They little thought, or perhaps little heeded the dangerous sensibilities they were fostering. I thus became a little creature of passion, before reason was developed. In a short time I grew too old to be a plaything, and then I became a torment. The tricks and passions I had been teased into became irksome, and I was disliked by my teachers for the very lessons they had taught me. My mother died; and my power as a spoiled child was at an end. There was no longer any necessity to humour or tolerate me, for there was nothing to be gained by it, as I was no favourite of my father. I therefore experienced the fate of a spoiled child in such situation, and was neglected, or noticed only to be crossed and contradicted. such was the early treatment of a heart, which, if I am judge of it at all, was naturally disposed to the extremes of tenderness and affection. My father, as I have already said, never liked me-in fact he never understood me; he looked upon me as wilful and wayward, as deficient in natural affection:-it was the stateliness of his own manner, the loftiness and grandeur of his own look, that had repelled me from his arms. I always pictured him to myself as I had seen him clad in his senatorial robes, rustling with pomp and pride. The magnificence of his person had daunted my strong imagination. I could never approach him with the confiding affection of a child. My father's feelings were wrapped up in my elder brother. else. He was to be the inheritor of the **** from the dry studies and monotonous duties of the At length he grew intolerably disgusted his art. Among the various works which he had under- ty. that was undoing me pearance, and facinating in his manners; he at- I had not been long under the roof of the Count, when our solitude was enlivened by another in habitant. It was a daughter of a relation of the Count, who had lately died in reduced circumstances, bequeathing this only child to his protection. I had heard much of her beauty from Filippo, but my fancy had become so engrossed by one idea of beauty as not to admit of any other. We were in the central saloon of the villa when she arrived. She was still in mourning, and approached, leaning on the Count's arm. As they ascended the mar ble portico, I was struck by the elegance of her figure and movement, by the grace with which the mezzaro, the bewitching veil of Genoa, was folded about her slender form. They entered. Heavens! what was my surprise when I beheld Bianca before me. It was herself; pale with grief; but still more matured in loveliness than when I had last beheld her. The time that had elapsed had developed the dergone had diffused over her countenance an irregraces of her person; and the sorrow she had unsistible tenderness. She blushed and trembled at seeing me, and tears rushed into her eyes, for she remembered in whose company she had been accustomed to behold me. For my part, I cannot express what were my emotions. By degrees I overcame the extreme shyness that had formerly paralyzed me in her presWe were drawn together by sympathy of situation. We had each lost our best friend in the When I came to world; we were each, in some measure, thrown I was permitted to sketch her countenance in va- more than ever sensible of the violent fires that had lain dormant at the bottom of my soul. You Her newness to the world, her delightful susceptibility to every thing beautiful and agreeable in nature, reminded me of my own emotions when first I escaped from the convent. Her rectitude of thinking delighted my judgment; the sweetness of her nature wrapped itself round my heart; and then her young and tender and budding loveliness, sent a delicious madness to my brain.. I gazed upon her with a kind of idolatry, as something more than mortal; and I felt humiliated at the idea of my comparative unworthiness. Yet she was mortal; and one of mortality's most susceptible and loving compounds; for she loved me! We How first I discovered the transporting truth I cannot recollect; I believe it stole upon me by degrees, as a wonder past hope or belief. were both at such a tender and loving age; in constant intercourse with each other; minry, and painting were our mutual delights, and we gling in the same elegant pursuits; for music, poetwere almost separated from society, among lovely and romantic scenery! Is it strange that two young hearts thus brought together should readily twine round each other? * family title and the family dignity, and every thing was sacrificed to him-1, as well as every thing It was determined to devote me to the church, so that my humours and myself might be removed out of the way, either of tasking my to her convent, but her image remained indelibly A few days finished my task; Bianca returned father's time and trouble, or interfering with the interests of my brother. At an early age, therefore, impressed upon my heart. It dwelt on my imagibefore my mind had dawned upon the world and its nation; it became my pervading idea of beauty. delights, or known any thing of it beyond the pre-It had an effect even upon my pencil; I became cincts of my father's palace, I was sent to a connoted for my felicity in depicting female loveliness; vent, the superior of which was my uncle, and was it was but because I multiplied the image of Bianca. I soothed, and yet fed my fancy, by introducconfided entirely to his care. One of the monks had been a painter, but hading her in all the productions of my master. retired from the world, and embraced this dismal life in expiation of some crime. He was a melancholy man, who pursued his art in the solitude of his cell, but made it a source of penance to him. His employment was to portray, either on canvass or in waxen models, the human face and human form, in the agonies of death, and in all the stages He lived thus for a year and then his The struggle of my mind preyed upon my hapof dissolution and decay. The fearful mysteries of master died; and he was thrown upon the piness and my health. It seemed as if the uncerthe charnelhouse were unfolded in his labours--the patronage of a wealthy nobleman who wish-tainty of being loved would be less intolerable loathsome banquet of the beetle and the worm.ed to be thought a lover and encourager of than thus to be assured of it, and yet not dare to enjoy the conviction. I was no longer the enrapthe arts. tured admirer of Bianca; I no longer hung in ectacy on the tones of her voice, nor drank in with insatiate gaze the beauty of her countenance. Her I turn with shuddering even from the recollection of his works. Yet, at the time, my strong but illdirected imagination seized with ardour upon his instructions in his art. Any thing was a variety I was the first to awaken from this blissful delirrium of the affections. I had gained Bianca's Iheart; what was i to do with it? I had no wealth nor prospects to entitle me to her hand. Was I to take advantage of her ignorance of the world, of her confiding affection, and draw her down to my own poverty? Was this requiting the hospitality of the Count?-was this requiting the love of have stood with delight in one of the chapels of I found at the villa the Count's only son Filippo: he was nearly of my age, prepossessing in his ap Bianca ? |