rust, that the several parts of a machine be enveloped in thin plates of zinc, which, by its superior affinity for oxygen, will prevent it from uniting with the iron. Yours, &c. G. K. O. EGYPTIAN EGG-OVEN.-It is a well-known fact, that eggs may be hatched by artificial means. The Egyptians, as well as those who have tried the experiment in Europe, have succeeded, by means of artificial heat, in hatching eggs without any aid from the mother birds. According to the best descriptions of the Egyptian mamal, or hatching oven, it is a brick structure about nine feet high. The middle is formed into a gallery about three feet wide and eight feet high, extending from one end of the building to the other. This gallery forms the entrance to the oven, and commands its whole extent, facilitating the various operations indispensable for keeping the eggs at the proper degree of warmth. On each side of this gallery there is a double row of rooms, every room on the ground floor having one over it of precisely the same dimensions, namely, three feet in height, four or five in breadth, and twelve or fifteen in length. These have a round hole for an entrance of about a foot and a half in diameter, wide enough for a man to creep through; and When the fires have been continued for ANCIENT GREEK STEAM ENGINE.-This ophers," says an excellent mechanic, "es. machine is constructed on a similar princi- teemed it an essential part of learning to be ple to that described at page 582: a globe able to conceal their knowledge from the un-into each are put four or five thousand eggs. moved on a pivot, by means of steam conduc-initiated; and a consequence of their opinted into it from a boiling caldron. ion, that its dignity was lessened by its be-eight or twelve days, according to the weath The number of ovens dispersed in the several districts of Egypt has been estimated at 386; and it has been computed that a million of chickens are annually hatched, in this manner, in Egypt.-[People's Mag.] The caldron or heated vase, p, is to being shared with common minds, was their er, they are discontinued, the heat acquired closely covered with a lid; into which a pipe, considering the introduction of mechanical by the ovens being sufficient to finish the o, is inserted at one side of its circumference. subjects into the regions of philosophy a de. hatching, which requires in all twenty-one This pipe, after rising vertically for a short gradation of its noble profession; insomuch, days, the same time as when eggs are natudistance, is bent at right angles. On its ho- that those very authors among them, who rally hatched by a hen. rizontal end is placed a small globe, x, kept were most eminent for their inventions, and in its position by a pipe, s, also bent at right were willing, by their own practice, to manangles and fixed to the lid opposite to o, but fest unto the world these artificial wonders, terminating in a pivot, q, on which the little were, notwithstanding, so infected by this globe revolves. This globe is furnished with blind superstition, as not to leave any thing two small pipes, z, w, bent at their extremi-in writing concerning the grounds and manties and open. The steam from the boilingners of these operations; by which means NATURAL WONDER.-On the south side water in p, rising through the pipe o, is ad- it is that posterity hath unhappily lost, not of the island (Mauritius) is a point called mitted at s into the globe; and issuing through only the benefit of these particular discove-"the Souffleur" (the Blower), from the fol the bent tubes z, w, causes the sphere to re-ries, but also the proficiency of these arts in lowing circumstance: A large mass of rock volve as if it were "actuated from within by general. For when once learned men did runs out into the sea from the main land, to a spirit."* forbid the reducing them to vulgar use and which it is joined by a neck of rock not two That so ingenious a people as the Greeks vulgar experiment, others did thereupon re-feet broad. The constant beating of the should not have been led, by those direct ex-fuse those studies as being but empty and idle tremendous swell which rolls in has under. periments, to a practical application of the speculations; and the divine Plato would rath- mined it in every direction, till it has exact. agent so exquisitely moulded by Hero into er choose to deprive mankind of those usefully the appearance of a Gothic building, with a mechanic power, may, in all probability, and excellent inventions, than expose the pro- a number of arches in the centre of the rock, be ascribed to the operation of the same cau- fession to the ignorant vulgar,"-[Stuart.] which is about thirty-five or forty feet above ses as those which have thrown a veil of deep the sea; the water has forced two passages and impenetrable obscurity on so many of On the Preservation of Machinery in Work-vertically upwards, which are worn as smooth the arts of antiquity. "The ancient philos- ing Order. By G. K. O. To the Editor and cylindrical as if cut by a chisel. When of the Mechanics' Magazine. a heavy sea rolls in, it, of course, fills in an The Spiritalia was first edited by Commandine, in 1571. It is also printed in the splendid folio collection of SIR,-Observing in your July number instant the hollow caverns underneath, and the works of the Ancient Mathematicians, published at Pa- an aricle on the preservation of machinery finding no other egress, and being borne in ris in 1693. The Greek text is accompanied with a Latin in working order, I thought it not improper with tremendous violence, it rushes up these translation. The descriptions of the two machines we have described are in page 202 of that edition. to suggest as a further means of preventing chimneys, and flies, roaring furiously, to s Scale for Graduating Columns. By (?). height of full sixty feet. The moment the small and clear in its origin, gushes forth taken off it, and then rubbing with a dry coarse wave recedes, the vacuum beneath causes from rocks, falls into deep glens, and wan-towel. The stomach will have justice done the wind to rush into the two apertures with tons and meanders through a wild and pictu-it by an avoidance of all alcoholic drinks; a loud humming noise, which is heard at a resque country, nourishing only the unculti-the moderate use of tea and coffee, if such considerable distance. My companion and vated tree or flower by its dew or spray. In be habitually taken; a due proportion of I arrived there before high water, and hav- this, its state of infancy and youth, it may well boiled vegetables, with meat, roasted or ing climbed across the neck of rock, we be compared to the human mind, in which boiled; and on occasions, in sanguinary temseated ourselves close to the chimneys, where fancy and strength of imagination are pre-peraments in a feverish habit of body, a moI proposed making a sketch, and had just dominant-it is more beautiful than useful. derate share of ripe cooked fruits, to the exbegun, when in came a thundering sea, When the different rills or torrents join, and clusion, however, of cherries and plums. In which broke right over the rock itself, and descend into the plain, it becomes slow and all cases where disease is present in a place, drove us back much alarmed. Our negro stately in its movements; it is applied to no kind of fruit, nor any new or unaccus. guide now informed us that we must make move machinery, to irrigate meadows, and tomed article of diet whatever, should be haste to re-cross our narrow bridge, as the to bear upon its bosom the stately barge; in taken in the evening.-[Journal of Health] sea would get up as the tide rose. We lost this mature state it is deep, strong, and useno time, and got back dry enough; and ful. As it flows on towards the sea, it loses was obliged to make my sketches from the its force and its motion, and at last, as it main land. zine. In about three-quarters of an were, becomes lost and mingled with the hour the sight was truly magnificent. I do mighty abyss of waters. not exaggerate in the least when I say that One might pursue the metaphor still fur. the waves rolled in long and unbroken, full ther, and say, that in its origin, its thunder. twenty-five feet high, till, meeting the head-ing and foam, when it carries down clay land, they broke clear over it, sending the from the bank and becomes impure, it re- of your subscribers. spray flying over to the main land; while sembles the youthful mind, affected by dan. from the centre of this mass of foam, the gerous passions. And the influence of all 6 Souffleur shot up with a noise which we after-lake in calming and clearing the turbid wawards heard distinctly between two and three ter, may be compared to the effect of reason miles. Standing on the main cliff, more in more mature life, when the tranquil, deep, than a hundred feet above the sea, we were quite wet. All we wanted to complete the picture was a large ship going ashore. [Journal of the Royal Geog. Soc.] SIR, If the instrument which I describe below is not already known and in use, (which I am not aware of,) an acquaintance with it may be of advantage to some cool, and unimpassioned mind is freed from its fever, its troubles, bubbles, noise, and foam. It is a scale for graduating columns, by And, above all, the sources of a river, which which they are drawn with more accuracy may be considered as belonging to the at- and expedition than by the usual method. mosphere, and its termination in the ocean, It is composed of a flexible arm, a, and a HUMAN LIFE.-Pliny has compared a may be regarded as imaging the divine ori- fixed one, b. a is united to b at one end river to human life. I have never read the gin of the human mind, and its being ulti- for about one-third the length of the instru passage in his works, but I have been a hun-mately returned to and lost in the Infinite ment, and connected with it at the other dred times struck with the analogy, particu-and Eternal Intelligence from which it origi- by a small segment, c, which is secured at larly amidst mountain scenery. The river,nally sprung.-[Davy.] the desired point by a screw, d, in the end RATIONAL AMUSEMENT.-The love of li terature has prevailed from very early times among the inhabitants of the remote island of Iceland. There the way in which the evenings of their long winter are spent furnishes a most agreeable contrast to the miserable pot-house debauchery which fills up the leisure of too many uncultivated Englishmen, and proves the value of well res gulated knowledge as an auxiliary to virtue. A distinguished traveller, who spent a winter in Iceland, as described a winter eve. ning in an Icelandic family, as rendered instructive and pleasing in the highest degree by the prevailing love of useful knowledge among all ranks. As soon as the evening shuts in, the family assemble, master and mistress, children and servants. They all STEAM PUMP.-A, the boiler; BC and B, condensing, which causes the cylinder to fill take their work in their hands, except one, two condensers; CC, large tubes (two), with water, and is discharged immediately who acts as reader. Though they have through which the water is drawn into the when full; it is then filled with steam again, very few printed books, numbers write excelcondensers; D D, valves to prevent the wa- and the operation repeated, so that a contin-lently, and copy out the numerous histories ter from returning; E E, valves, which actual water power is thus produced on an eco- of their own island. The reader is frequentalternately, to prevent the air from passing nomical plan, both as regards the structurely interrupted by the head of the family, or in, and allow the water to pass out; FF, two of the machinery and the saving in water. some of the more intelligent members, who wooden floats, that remain on the surface of We think it important, and should be highly make remarks and propose questions to exthe water, to prevent the steam acting on the gratified to receive the opinions of any of our ercise the ingenuity of the children or the water; G G, two small pipes, through which scientific correspondents on the subject. servants. In this way the minds of all are cold water passes to condense the steam; improved in such a degree, "that," says my HH, steam valves, to admit and shut off the SKIN AND STOMACH.-Let these two im-informant, "I have frequently been astosteam; I, steam pipe. portant organs be attended to in a proper nished at the familiarity with which many of This drawing represents a newly invented manner, and all the diseases of summer, these self-taught peasants have discoursed machine, which we have witnessed in opera- cholera inclusive, will be avoided. The on subjects, which, in other countries, we tion on a small scale. The object of it is to kind of attention to the skin consists in dai- should expect to hear discussed by those raise water, by forming a vacuum in the cy-ly friction with a coarse towel or flesh brush only who have devoted their lives to the stulinders, by admitting a quantity of steam suf--the tepid or warm bath twice, or, at least, dy of science." Let me not omit to add, ficient to supply the place of atmosphere (or once a week; or, in lieu of this, daily sponging that the evening, thus rationally and virtu rather of atmospheric pressure), and then the surface with salt and water, with the chilllously begun, is, by these well-instructed peo Babbage on the Economy of Manufactures. [Continued from page 633.J ON THE DURATION OF MACHINERY. ple, closed with an act of family devotion.-year 1660; and there are many of ancient date,||that would fall upon them from the person who From an excellent little work just published, in the possession of the Clock-makers' Com- bought the frame; thus the evil has been daily "Bullar's Hints and Cautions in the Pursuit pany, which are actually kept going. The num-increasing, till, in conjunction with the other of General Knowledge."] ber of watches manufactured for home con-evils crept into the trade, they have almost sumption was, in the year 1798, about 50.000 crushed it to atoms." annually. If this supply was for Great Britain 265. The evil of not assigning fairly to each only, it was consumed by about ten and a half tool, or each article produced, its proportionate millions of persons. value, or even of not having a perfectly distinct, 264. Machines are, in some trades, let out to||simple, and definite agreement between a mas261. The time during which a machine will hire, and a certain sum is paid for their use in ter and his workmen, is very considerable. continue effectually to perform its work, will the manner of rent. This is the case amongst Workmen find it difficult to know the probable depend mainly upon the perfection with which the frame-work knitters; and Mr. Henson, in produce of their labor; and both parties are it was originally constructed, upon the care ta-speaking of the rate of payment for the use of often led to adopt arrangements, which, had ken to keep it in proper repair, particularly to their frames, states, that the proprietor receives they been well examined, would have been recorrect every shake or looseness in the axes, such a rent that, besides paying the full inte-jected as equally at variance in the results with and upon the small mass and slow velocity of rest for his capital, he clears the value of his the true interests of both. its moving parts. Every thing approaching to frame in nine years. When the rapidity with a blow, all sudden change of direction, is inju- which improvements succeed each other is con-presses, for a great variety of articles, are let 266. At Birmingham, stamps and dies, and rious. Engines for producing power, such as sidered, this rent does not appear exorbitant.out: they are generally made by men possesswind mills, water mills, and steam engines, Some of these frames have been worked for ing small capital, and are rented by workmen. usually last a long time. But machinery for thirteen years with little or no repair. But cir- Power also is rented at the same place. Steam producing any commodity in great demand seldoin actually wears out; new improvements; them out of employment, either temporarily or ing a variety of rooms, in which each person cumstances occasionally arise which throw engines are erected in large buildings containby which the same operations can be executed either more quickly or better, generally super-was introduced called "cut-up work," by which horse power, as his occupation may require. permanently. Some years since, an article may hire one, two, or any other number of ceding it long before that period arrives: in-the price of stocking frames was greatly dete- If any mode could be discovered of transmitdeed, to make such an improved machine pro- riorated. From the evidence of Mr. J. Rawson, ting power, without much loss from friction, fitable, it is usually reckoned that in five years it appears that, in consequence of this change to considerable distances, and at the same time it ought to have paid itself, and in ten to be su-in the nature of the work, each frame could do of registering the quantity made use of at any perceded by a better. "A cotton manufacturer," says one of the the work of two, and many stocking frames particular point, a considerable change would witnesses before a Committee of the House of were thrown out of employment, and their probably take place in many parts of the preCommons, "who left Manchester seven years value reduced full three-fourths.* sent system of manufacturing. A few central ago, would be driven out of the market by the the numbers here given are nearly correct, and ed in our great towns, and each workman, This information is of great importance, if engines to produce power might then be erectmen who are now living in it, provided his if no other causes intervened to diminish the hiring a quantity of power sufficient for his knowledge had not kept pace with those who have been during that time constantly profit-price of frames; for it shows the numerical purpose, might have it conveyed into his own connection between the increased production of house; and thus a transition might in some ing by the progressive improvements that have those machines and their diminished value. taken place in that period." instances be effected, if it should be found more 262. The effect of improvements in machine-actions between masters and workmen, and of back to that of domestic manufacture. The great importance of simplifying all trans-profitable, from the system of great factories ry seems incidentally to increase production, dispassionately discussing with the latter the through a cause which may be thus explained. influence of any proposed regulations, is well system of pipes might be employed for the dis267. The transmission of water through a A manufacturer, making the usual profit upon his capital invested in looms or other machines exemplified by a mistake into which both par-tribution of power, but the friction would conin perfect condition, the market price of mak-ductive of very great misery. Its history is so has been employed in some instances, and is ties unintentionally fell, and which was pro-sume a considerable portion. Another method ing each of which is a hundred pounds, invents well told by William Allen, a frame-work knit-practised at the Mint. It consists in exhaustsome improvement. But this is of such a na-ter, who was a party to it, that an extract from ture that it cannot be adapted to his present his evidence, as given before the Frame-working the air from a large vessel by means of a engines. He finds upon calculation, that at the Knitters' Committee of 1812, will best explain it. pipes, with a small piston, which drives each steam-engine. This vessel is connected by rate at which he can dispose of his manufactured produce, each new engine would repay "I beg to say a few words respecting the coining press; and, on opening a valve, the the cost of its making, together with the ordi- frame-rent: the rent paid for lace-frames, until pressure of the external air forces in the piston. nary profit of capital, in three years: he also the year 1805, was 1s. 6d. a frame per week; This air is then admitted to the general reserconcludes from his experience of the trade, that there then was not any very great inducement voir, and pumped out by the engine. The conthe improvement he is about to make will not for persons to buy frames and let them out by densation of air might be employed for the same be generally adopted by other manufacturers the hire, who did not belong to the trade; at purpose; but it must be admitted that there before that time. On these considerations, it that time an attempt was made, by one or two are some unexplained facts relative to that is clearly his interest to sell his present en-houses, to reduce the prices paid to the work-elastic fluid, which require farther observations gines, even at half price, and construct new men, in consequence of a dispute between these and experiment before it can be used for the ones on the improved principle. But the pur-two houses and another great house. Some conveyance of power to any considerable dischaser who gives only fifty pounds for the old little difference being paid in the price among tance. It has been found, for instance, in atengines has not so large a fixed capital invest. the respective houses, I was one chosen by the tempting to blow a furnace by means of a powed in his factory, as the person from whom he workmen to try if we could not remedy the erful water wheel driving air through a castpurchased them; and as he produces the same impending evil: we consulted the respective iron pipe of above a mile in length, that scarcely quantity of the manufactured article, his pro- parties, and found them inflexible; these two any sensible effect was produced at the opposite fits will be larger. Hence, the price of the houses, that were about to reduce the prices, extremity. In one instance, some accidental commodity will fall, not only in consequence said that they would either immediately reduce obstruction being suspected, a cat put in at one of the cheaper production by the new machine. the price of making net, or they would increase end found its way out without injury at the ry, but also by the more profitable working of the frame-rent: the difference to the workmen other, thus proving that the phenomenon did the old, when sold at a reduced price. This was considerable, between the one and the not depend on interruption within the pipe. change, however, can be only transient; for a other; they would suffer less, in the inmediate 268. The most portable form in which power time will arrive when the old machinery, al-operation of the thing, by having the rent ad- can be condensed is, perhaps, by the liquefac though in good repair, must become worthless. vanced, than the price of making net reduced. tion of the gases. It is known that, under conThe improvement which took place not long They chose at that time, as they thought, the siderable pressure, several of these became ago in frames for making patent-net was so lesser evil, but it has turned out to be other liquid at ordinary temperatures. great, that a machine, in good repair, which wise; for, immediately as the rent was raised acid, for example, requires a pressure of sixty had cost £1200, soid a few years after for £60. upon the per-centage laid out in frames, it in-atmospheres to reduce it to a liquid state. One During the great speculations in that trade the duced almost every person, who had got a little of the advantages attending the use of these improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, money, to lay it out in the purchase of frames; fluids is, that the pressure exerted by them rethat machines which had never been finished these frames were placed in the hands of men mains constant until the last drop of liquid bewere abandoned in the hands of their makers, who could get work for them at the warehouses; comes gaseous. If either of the elements of because new improvements had superceded they were generally constrained to pay an enor- common air should be found to be capable of their utility. mous rent, and then they were compelled, most reduction to a liquid state before it unites into a 263. The durability of common watches, likely, to buy of the persons that let them the corrosive fluid with the other ingredient, then when well made, is very considerable. One frames their butcher's-meat, their grocery, or we shall possess a ready means of conveying was produced, in "going order," before a com- their clothing: the encumbrance of these frames power in any quantity and to any distance. mittee of the House of Commons to inquire in-became entailed upon them: if any deadness Probably hydrogen will require the strongest to the watch trade, which was made in the took place in the work they must take it at a compressing force to render it liquid, and may, very reduced price, for fear of the consequences therefore, possibly be applied where still greater condensation of power is wanted. In all these cases the condensed gases may be looked. The return which ought to be produced by a fixed steam engine employed as a moving power is frequently estimated at ten per cent. on its cost. * Report from the Committee of the House of Commons on the Frame-Work Knitters' Petition, April, 1819. Carbonic pon as enormous springs, which have been culture of silk, the time cannot be distant when of the mulberry are laid, and to which they adwound up by the exertion of power, and which our country will embark in a business, for the here, and soon commence eating. The worm will deliver the whole of it back again when successful prosecution of which we enjoy so requires fresh leaves three times a day, and required. These springs of nature differ in many facilities. It is an employment in which continues eating about thirty-two days, when, some respects from the steel springs formed by females and children may be pleasantly and having become three inches long, it is prepared our art; for in the compression of the natural profitably engaged. The Mulberry is easily to spin its cocoon. The last process, that of springs an enormous quantity of latent heat is cultivated, from indifferent soil, and is highly spinning the cocoon, is beautiful beyond the forced out, and in their return to the state of ornamental. But little capital is required to com- power of description. The worm mounts upon mence and carry on the manufacture of silk. a bush, and commences the weaving itself into In July last, Mrs. Parmentier presented Mr. | a web of brilliant silken fibres, which, in the Cruttenden, of the Eagle, a few Cocoons, each course of six or eight days, is completed, and The mechanical difficulty which will remain of which produced a miller or moth. These constitutes the cocoon, from which the silk is to be overcome will consist in the valves and paired, after which the females produce their wound. And thus, in the short space of six packing necessary to retain the fluids under eggs, and these, having accomplished the pur- || weeks, by means which mock all the efforts of the pressures to which they will be submitted; pose of their creation, died? The eggs, after a art and science, the raw mulberry leaf is conand the effect of heat on these gases has not few days exposure to a warm atmosphere, pro-verted into rich and durable silk.-[Albany yet been sufficiently tried to lead us to any very duce the silk worın, over which tender leaves || Evening Journal.] precise notions of the additional power which its application to them will supply. gas an equal quantity is absorbed May not this very property be employed with advantage in these applications? METEOROLOGICAL RECORD, KEPT IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, Mate. Hours. Ther Baromemometr. ter. The elasticity of air is sometimes employed as a spring instead of steel: in one of the large printing presses the momentum of a considerable mass of matter is destroyed, by making it condense the air included in a cylinder, by Sept'r 24.. 10 a. m. means of a piston, against which it impinges. 269. The effect of competition in cheapening articles of manufacture sometimes operates in rendering them less durable. When such articles are conveyed, for consumption, to a distance from the place where they are made, if they are broken, it often happens, from the different price of labor, that it is more expensive to mend the old than to purchase a new article. Such is usually the case, in great cities, with some of the commoner locks, with hinges, and with a variety of articles of hardware. SINGULAR SPECIES OF CORN.-We have now in our office, (where our citizens and farmers are requested to call and see it,) a most singular species of corn. The history of this rare freak of nature is substantially as follows. About three years ago, Mr. Carrico, living in Gallatin county, Kentucky, planted some of the common Indian corn in the neighborhood of a swampy piece of land, which was grown over with a thick strong grass resembling sedge grass. In the fall of the year, when he was gathering his corn, he was surprised to find that ears of corn were growing and ripening upon the grass, and that on the blades of the grass separate grains were growing. Struck by the singularity of the circumstance, he carefully preserved the grains, and planted them in the next spring. The result was extraordinary, producing a growth partaking of the qualities. 46 10 2 p. m. 6 10 10 2 p.m. 6 10 26.. 6 a. m. 29.. 6 a. m. both of the grass and the corn, and superior to October 1.. 6 a. m. The tassel does not bear any resemblance to the corn tassel, but is more like the heads of coarse grass, the blades are long and very tender, resembling more of blades of oats than of corn. Upon the extremities of these blades separate grains of corn enclosed in a husk, presenting the appearance of hazel nut burs, are found, and to the bodies of the stalks more perfect ears of corn are attached. The stalks themselves are long and slender, and not unlike the wild rye of the country, only stronger and more substantial. We believe that this grain is at least one new thing under the sun, and, unlike most novelists, it promises to be useful. -[Commonwealth, Frankfort, Ky.} SILK." The Shakers, near Lexington, Ky. have commenced the raising of silk-worms, and the preparing and manufacture of silk. Some of their goods have been received at Philadelphia, and been much extolled. The Sha. kers are so diligent in application and patient of labor, that, if they take up this business seri. ously, it will certainly succeed in our country." We have been permitted, during the past summer, to witness the process of silk culture, through all its varied and progressive stages. And it was truly a delightful privilege, for in no other way have we seen the beauties and perfections of nature's husbandry so wonderfully displayed. Though little is now known of the 53 30.01 64 29.92 Winds. N by w WSW 55 30.00 WSW-WNW 62 29.99 6W-WSW SW 10 2 p. m. 70 10 66 75 29.90 "27.. 6 a. m. 63 70 p. m. 29 88 76 29.90 62 30.- light moderate Maximum height of the barometer for September 30.20 in.-Minimum, 29.84 in.-Range, 0.46 in. The observations of winds for September result as follows: From the North-Eastern quarter, 251-from the South The higher currents as observed by the course of the highest clouds, show the following results: From the North NEW-YORK AMERICAN. LITERARY NOTICES. n have sustained from other writers, or periodicals-|| &c., as the French say, tout de suite at Nashoba, 1o will not be borne out in future numbers. From a paper on British travellers in America, we extract Mr. F's. amusing and apparently impartial THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE for October.-account, given from personal acquaintance, of the Boston. J. F. BUCKINGHAM. THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE for October. -N. Y. M. Bancroft-J. Wiley, &c. notorious Mrs. Trollope. Mrs. Trollope's teeming and imaginative brain, w its huge tulip trees and scyamores, and its little log have no doubt, the dreary forest of Nashoba, with cabins, with their dirty and half clad negro tenants, and so poorly roofed, as to require the accomplished lecturer to hold up an umbrella to shield her from In reply then to the question, which has been ask. a shower, while she was lecturing them within doors, ed as, we are sure, a thousand times, what sort of was a sort of splendid hall, with columns and arcades person was Mrs. Trollope, and what were her objects where she could see the aforesaid process of bleachTHE KNICKERBOCKER for Oct.-N. Y. Peabody in visiting America? We reply, she was in person ing passing under her eye, and where Hervieu, as & Co. a short, plump figure, with a ruddy, round, Saxon Bonaparte said of his campaign when going to his We have named these Magazines in what we con- face of bright complexion, forty-five, though not show. his rock, could paint it. Arriving here in a steam. ceive to be the order of their merit. The N. E. Ma.ing older than thirty-seven, of appearance singulurly boat from New-Orleans, after having had her fair unladylike, a misfortune heightened by her want of and thin skin bitten by some hundred thousand musgazine, now more than two years old, commenced taste and female intelligence in regard to dress, or quitoes at the Balize, after imagining she could with vigor, spirit and originality-and it has gather- her holding herself utterly above such considera. smell in early spring yellow fever in every gale, ed strength in every department as it went on. The tions, though at times she was as much finer and more New-Orleans, and after informing herself so well while ascending between the immense marshes to Humber now before us is very good-the first paper expensively dressed than other ladies, as she was or-about that city, as to affirm, that she could not pur. dinarily inferior to them in her costume. Robust on the ancient Egyptians, and refuting successfully and masculine in her habits, she had no fear of the chase a box of paints, in the place, merely because, the notion that they were originally Negroes, dis-elements, recklessly exposing herself in long walks inquiring along the Levee, she could find none in the cusses pleasantly what would seem a somewhat o the fierce meridian sun or the pouring shower, ow. shops where they sold pork and lard, she hurried discouraging subject. The inference meant to being severe fever, no doubt, to those circumstances. away from the fever doomed city, with the speed and Voluble as a French woman, shrill and piercing in terror with which Lot fled from burning Sodom, to derived from the confessedly high state of men- the tones of her voice, piquant and sarcastic in the Nashoba. The imagination unhappily awoke to tal cultivation and science at which the Egyptians tenor of her conversation, she was a most accomplish. reality. In two days, if we recollect, she fled from had arrived-in favor of the capability of the Negro ed mimic; and as she had travelled in France and the halls and the bleaching process of Nashoba, cutto receive and profit by instruction must fail, 80 both those countries, and was, moreover, acquainted ship with Miss Wright, whose eloquence and power Italy, and knew the language and light literature of ting loose, we apprehend, from her platonic partnerfar as this case goes. The paper supplementary as we know from her correspondence, with the most she used to vaunt, but whose brain she deemed against classical literature, though heterodox, in our distinguished men and women of genius in England; touched, and came, as fast as steam could waft her, judgment, is written with all the force and ingenuity as she was, in particular, perfectly au fait in regard to Cincinnati, where she arrived without a line of of its precursors. The "Reminiscences of a Rogue" to every thing that concerned theatricals, and play introduction to any individual, and where our ac. quaintance with her commenced. are coarse. The criticism on Mr. Channing's char. Writing, and play going people; as she had seen every body, and knew every body in Europe, of whom There, visited by her husband, who spent one acter of Napoleon has considerable merit, though it we hear, her conversation was remarkably amusing. winter with her, she passed two desultory and aim. goes rather to invalidate some of the less important Religion she considered a mere matter of state, an less seasons, rearing, the while, a huge building details than the general result of that most eloquent spoke respectfully of profession, so far as she deem-unique, crescented Turkish Babel, so odd, that no engin to keep people in awe, though she always called a bazaar, which was no air castle, but a queer, vindication of human rights, and of greatness founded ed it conscientious. There was nothing in her coun- one has seen it since, without wonder and a good on intellectual, in contradistinction from that found- tenance or manner to promise the infinite fund of an humored laugh: a building which cost her twentyed on physical conquests. ecdote and observation, that she could pour forth in four thousand dollars, on which she actually paid The Am. Me. Magazine, which has reached its 8th an unremitting continuity, from morn to eve. Instead some twelve or thirteen thousand, leaving the reof being a woman of low origin, as has been repre-mainder minus, spending, probably, four or five number, is marked by the tone of sound scholarship,sented, her father was clergyman of the established thousand dollars more in French articles of fancy matured knowledge, and varied acquirements, which, church, of some distinction, and himself an author, finery, which she exposed for sale in stalls in this from its first number, have entitled it to the patronage from whom she inherited a considerable and un- building; and so injudiciously, owing to her total of all who appreciate such qualities. We intended alienable annuity. Her husband was a graduate of ignorance of the American market, and of the proper one of the universities, we believe Oxford, a bar. place in which to build her Bazaar, and to her entrust. to have made an extract from Laura Hungerford--to rister of the inner temple, and a brother, as we ing the sales to irresponsible and probably dishonest show that the pathetic is not neglected in these pages understand, of Admiral Sir John Trollope, distin- foreigners, that the establishment ran her in debt, --but our limits will not permit. guished by having gained a most brilliant victory over instead of yielding her a revenue. A fact will ex. THE KNICKERBOCKER--we know not why thea French fleet, and possessing a great fortune, which plain this utter ignorance. When told, that the Mr. Trollope, husband of the American traveller, market could not be transported from the place where genuine Dutch spelling has been changed-appears expected to inherit; but in which he failed, from the people had been accustomed to purchase, she ima for the first time under the auspices of Timothy circumstance that the old Admiral married, some- gined that her Bazaar would tempt the crowd of Flint, so well and favorably known by his Geography where about his eightieth year, and had an heir born fashionables a quarter of a mile from their accustomed of the Valley of the Mississippi, and other works. to him. Such we have often heard her relate ber haunt. When advised to examine the fancy stores Mr. Flint thus introduces himself to the readers of circumstances, and relations to be; and we have no in the city, and furnish herself with such articles as doubt, from other sources, of their authenticity.— they had not, she only conformed to this salutary the Magazine::She was in correspondence while in this country, as counsel, after her orders had arrived from France. In assuming the editorship of this periodical, and we know, with Misses Mitford and Landon, and we The consequence was, that in eking out the defects disavowing having had any agency in it up. to this believe with Campbell the poet, and other names of her store, she visited one of the most ample as time, I would pass in silence to my duties, as I am well known to fame. Having been trained to the ex-sortments in the country, holding up her hands in not accustomed, nor often tempted to speak of my-pectation of inheriting a great fortune, and having undisguised astonishment, to find that such a large self, did I not deem a word explanatory of my mo.views of conventional morals and decorum, not of and splendid assortment had found its way there, tives is due to the patrons of the Knickerbocker. the severer class, not restrained by religious conside. antecedent to the grand findings of the Bazaar, an Previous to being invited to this charge, I had wish-rations, and mixing much with the gay and pleasure assortment of twenty times her capital, and far more ed, and been advised to try a change of climate in seeking, she had probably run through the common rich and expensive. How could such things, she the hope of re-establishing my health. It offered and allowed range of fashion, and exhausted the exclaimed, find their way to the United States. me a vocation while making the experiment. I common forms of pleasure, and worn it all out to sa- The result of all this is easily seen. As incapable shall discharge these duties to the extent of my tiety; and though we have every reason to believe, as an infant of such a project in her own country, in strength and power, so long as my health admits, that, while in America, whatever liberty she may America her ruin was more complete than that of and the public sustains me, Failing the one, or the have taken with the lesser morals, she was exem. infantine folly. Hinc ille lachryma. But this was other, dishonor, I hope, will not attach to me, or plary in her observance of the higher duties: we not the sorest evil. The ladies of the interior overdo the periodical, from the abandonment of the under- say this in particular, in reference to the residence the ladies of the Atlantic cities in dress, as imitators taking. I cast myself as a stranger on the courtesy of Hervieu, the French artist, in her family, which generally overreach their model in show and gaudiof this great community, persuaded that it is too gen- connexion naturally furnished much tea table conver- ness. In such a town as Cincinnati, persons are erons and discriminating not to judge me with can-sation. She was amiable in the highest degree in measured by their exterior. It was to no purpose dor and award me according to my desert. her relations with the people about her in the sub- to urge that she was endowed, amusing, and a blue urbs of Cincinnati, where she resided, during the stocking dyed in the wool. None would welcome greater part of her stay in America, among whom or receive her, save in four respectable families, and she was very popular, enacting among them Lady they were not families that gave parties, she was Bountiful, with a graciousness of distribution, and never admitted. Hence the corn cake and dodger nursing the sick, which every where gains favor. cake, a species which Mrs. Trollope had the honor Besides Hervieu, an amiable and most accomplished of inventing, for it was never heard of in Cincinnati French painter, enthusiastically devoted to his pro- before; and hence the pork and hominy, which she fession, her family consisted of one son, now a dis. found in the parties at Cincinnati. Every person tinguished member of one of the colleges in Eng-knows that a party is the same thing in every opulent land, and two daughters the three nearly arrived at family in the United States; and every one underWe like the frankness of Mr. Flint, but we hope maturity. stands with how much truth such an assertion could the indication manifested in more than one place in She came to this country, induced to the step, as be made of a party in New York or Philadelphia. we suppose, by the cloquence of Frances Wright, She saw nothing of the western country, except this number, that as Editor of the Knickerbocker, who was about at that time to bleach out the Etho. what could be seen in coming up in a rapid steamMr. Flint means to resent or retort the injuries or pian tinge of the negroes, by her own peculiar pro-boat between the swamps of the Mississippi and the injustice, which as an author he may,or thinks he may,cess change their bumps and make them free, wise,bluffs of the Ohio, and every one knows, that in such As I count to be estimated according to my doings, and not my professions, I shall say in a few words, that to foster genuine American literature to the extent of my ability, to put forth my utmost exertions to|| call out and encourage latent talent, to throw iny arte into the scale of true taste, good learning, sound morale, and religion, and the great interests of society, so far as literature may be made to bear upon them, will be the steadfast aim of whatever may appear in this work. |