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BEAUTY AND GOODNESS.

"There is something exceedingly touching in the love which beauty entertains for goodness, and there is no doubt that some women love from a feeling of benevolence, or tender compassion, regulated by reason. Such an affection will know no change; it is a firm basis, and will endure through life."

FASHIONABLE GLOSSARY.

THE meaning of several words in com-
mon use having undergone an entire
change within the last ten years, the
following glossary is submitted for gene-
ral adoption.

Age-An infirmity nobody owns.
Buying Ordering goods without

purpose of payment.

Bore-Any thing one does not like:
any person who speaks of religion.
Conscience-Something to swear by.
Common sense-A vulgar quality.
Courage-Fear of man.
Cowardice-Fear of God.
Charity-A gold ticket to the opera,
or any other fashionable performance.
Debt-A necessary evil.
Duty-Doing as others do.
Drunk-Happy.
Dressed-Half naked.

Death-A very disagreeable thingnot to be mentioned.

Day-Night; or speaking from one
P. M. to four A. M.

Enthusiasm-Religion in earnest.
Economy (Obsolete.)

Fortune-The summum bonum.
Fashion-The ne plus ultra of excel-

lence.

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SCENE.

(For the Parterre.)

Neptune's Palace, the body of Hero brought in by the Nereides, and placed at the Sea-god's feet.

THERE she was laid, so young and fair—
Leander's love,-now Neptune's care;
So placid was that breathless rest,
So softly were those lips comprest,
That you might fancy as she lay,
A gathering smile appeared to play;
Which to your thoughts would fain reply,
"I am too young and fair, to die."
So Hero lay-lovely in death,
As though an angel held its breath,
Beneath an amaranthine shade,
Where some young seraphim is laid—
Lest that his heaving breath might break
The heavenly beauty's rest; or shake

Futurity-A religious bugbear.
Husband-A person employed to pay The downy softness of her wings,

one's debts.

Honour-Standing fire well.

Which she in careless lustre flings
Expanded by her snowy side,

Home-Everybody's house but your While half her loveliness they hide.

own.

"At home"-The domestic amusement of receiving three hundred people in a small room, to yawn at one another.

"Not at home"-Sitting quietly in your own parlour, learning the last new song.

Love-Meaning not known, now that the ossification of the heart has become a common disease; the word to be found in novels.

Modest-Sheepish.
Music-Execution.
Matrimony-A bargain.
Morality-A troublesome interruption
to pleasure.

Nonsense-Polite conversation.

Calm rested Hero's beauteous head,
For not a floating charm had fled-
Save from her cheeks, where roses grew,
They for a moment weeping flew,
To let the fairer snowdrops bloom
In sadness o'er their silent tomb;
Or they had but retired to mourn,
As though they would again return;
Her eyes had closed, like lily bells,
Which hide the dew within their cells,
Folding the pearl in virgin white;
So o'er those orbs of tender light,
The veily lids had dimly loured,—
But on the mind in death they poured
A fancied gleam, a ray of love,
Which while you gazed appeared to move,

Like the mute lips of eloquence,
Although they stir not, to the sense,
Appear in silence to impart,
A motionless, persuasive art.
So her fair veily eye-lids lay
Like clouds which hide the God of day;
But every moment promise birth,
Of sunshine to the mourning earth.

In careless clusters fell her tresses,
As when some blue-eyed beauty dresses,
Whose ringlets fall in wild array,
As if they were allowed to play
The while some favourite lock is curled;
So was her waving gold unfurled,
Which threw a wilder, sweeter grace
Around the magic of her face;
But here and there the salt sea-foam,
Amid her ringlets made its home;
As though the waves could not forbear
To kiss each single waving hair.

Though pale as marble was her face,
No sign of death you there might trace;
But only deem that silent breast

Had hushed its heaving snow to rest;
But all was still-nor sigh, nor breath,
Moved in that lovely wreck of death.
Even the mighty Sea-god wept !
For while he gazed the big tears crept
From out his large immortal eyes-
Like drops descending from the skies.
Nor could the Nereides forbear,
But each let fall a silent tear;
And Amphitrite's bosom heaved,
And many a blue-eyed sea - nymph
grieved.

LETTERS

FROM AN AMERICAN ARTIST.

DELIZIE FLORENTINE. Florence---the emotions it is calculated to excite-rapid sketch of its history-its antiquities-their durable construction-the Palazzo Pitti-its immense size-royal procession.

On arriving at Florence, you find a city containing one hundred thousand inhabitants, which, after all the storms of the Middle Ages, and a sleep of three centuries in the arms of its grand-dukes, maintains its rank among the capitals of Italy. You cannot pass for the first time the walls, which enclose this once-celebrated

seat of Italian liberty, without experiencing a crowd of emotions, such as no

The words "Delizie Florentine" do not

admit of being exactly translated into English: the nearest approach to it which I can offer is, "Beauties of Florence." In French there is the word Delices, with precisely the signification of its Italian original, and which they often employ.

city in Europe, Rome only excepted, would be able to excite. As the traveller from beyond the Alps enters the modern capital of Tuscany by the triumphal arch of San Gallo, long before the battlements of Palazzo Vecchio come into view, his imagination has transported him to the times of the turbulent and warlike republic, when the armed citizens mustered in the great square, or sallied from their gates to defy the arms of the emperor, or the most formidable of the powers of Italy. From the establishment of the republic to the period of its extinction, the career of this celebrated commonwealth, in which aristocracy and democracy were blended in the most extraordinary manner, was singularly successful; and, while the other principal cities of Italy were at various times stormed, and pillaged, and burned, and sometimes sold by one despot to another for a sum of gold, it cannot be said that Florence, though repeatedly occupied by one party of its own citizens, in opposition to another whom they expelled the country, was ever taken possession of by a foreign hostile force. Neither the chivalric valour of Castruccio Castracani, the fury of the Mastiff of Verona (Martino della Scala), nor the arms and resources of Giovanni Galeazzo Visconti, the conqueror of the north of Italy, were ever able to enter these inviolated precincts. Removed from those stormy periods by a repose of three centuries, Florence preserves the monuments of the Middle Ages, of which, as one of the guide-books says, "andava superba," it went proud. Its marble cathedral dominates the modern town, as it did the stormy republic of the thirteenth century; its campanile is still the finest in Italy, and on several public edifices the lions and the fleurs de lis of the republic, still hold their ground. But the monuments anterior to the republic; before enumeof Florence remount to periods long rating the principal among them, let us trace, in a few words, the outlines of its history.

First mentioned under the of the western empire in 476, followed early emperors, Florence, after the fall the revolutions of the rest of Italy, being the Visigoths, then restored to the emsubjected, first by the Heruli, next by pire by the arms of Justinian, and finally completely conquered, thoroughly denationalized and deromanized, if one may so say, and occupied by the Lombards, who established themselves more permanently than the other barbarians, and for about two hundred years held, with the

exception of the exarchate of Ravenna, vation, it forms the finest ornament of the entire surface of Italy. At length, the city. Unlike similar edifices in while preparing to add to their kingdom transalpine countries, which exhibit a those provinces which still acknowledged succession of elevations, diminishing as the sceptre of Constantinople, the French they ascend, and terminate in a pyrahero, after conquering on all sides those midal spire, the tower of Giotto carries countries which came in contact with its square form with the same dimensions France, as Livy says, "making all Eu- quite to the summit, and leaving at its rope Gaul," poured his victorious Francs base the town of Florence, with its crowd upon Italy, ruined in one campaign the of palaces and churches, stretches up at kingdom of the Lombards, and subjected a single reach to the preposterous height all the powers of Italy, whether Greek of two hundred and eighty feet, and or Barbarian, to the new western empire there holds its head in solemn commuof which he assumed the crown. On nion with the cupola of the cathedral the extinction of his family, Italy was and the tower of Palazzo Vecchio. The distracted by a number of contending cathedral itself, an imposing monument princes, until Otho, in 960, reduced all of the thirteenth century, is an edifice of of them to the emperors of Germany : vast dimensions and corresponding magtheir authority continued, without any nificence, at least on the outside, which serious interruption, until the league of may be said to be painted in marble, the Lombard cities in the twelfth century: being incrusted with marble slabs of and in the middle of that which followed, various colours. The windows are elathat is in 1250, on the death of the em- borately ornamented, and the doors preperor Frederick the Second, the Floren- sent the richest gothic work I have seen tines declared themselves an independent in Italy. In the interior, walls of a republic. The commonwealth, which raw white and the ornamental parts in they established, continued with various stone, are singularly out of keeping with modifications of government, to the be- the marble pavement and the marble exginning of the sixteenth century, that is, terior. If the whole edifice could be to the close of the Middle Ages, and the turned inside out, you would have a commencement of modern times, when church much more after the Italian the emperor, Charles the Fifth, esta- fashion, where the entire expense of blished in 1531 the dukes of Florence in decoration is often lavished on the inthe family of Medicis. This whole space terior. Also of republican times are of fifteen hundred years (that is, from several public edifices, as the Palazzo about the commencement of our era to Vecchio, the Loggia de Lanzi, the Barthe year 1531) you may divide roughly gello, and a great number of palaces, into four periods, thus :-first period of among which the Palazzo Pitti, the resithe Romans-second period, from the dence of the grand-duke, holds the most fall of the empire in 476, to Charle- distinguished place. The façade of this magne, crowned emperor of the west in immense edifice presents the most im800-third period, from Charlemagne to posing display of masonry which I have the establishment of the republic in 1250 anywhere witnessed; and hardly any -fourth period, the republic. Of the nation but the Egyptians have, as far as first period, that is, of Roman times, not a I know, produced anything comparable. vestige remains, excepting some columns While the architects of the Greek tememployed in subsequent edifices. Of the ples aimed at an effect by aggrandizing second period is the Baptistery, a Lom- the members of the architecture, at bard edifice of the seventh century, and the expense of the mass of the edithe greatest curiosity in Florence. Of fice, the architects of Palazzo Pitti the third period, is the little church, and similar edifices, erected in TusDegli Apostoli, built by order of Charcany during the fifteenth century, lemagne, and the curious church of San considering the walls of a palace to be Miniato, on a hill which overlooks the the essential parts of the structure, entown. But everything vast and magni- deavoured to make them predominate as ficent at Florence belongs to the times of features in the architecture, and to exthe republic. Of this period is the press state, majesty, and strength; quacathedral and the other principal lities, which the residence of a prince or churches, also the campanile of the a nobleman in that day were expected to cathedral, which stands almost in contact exhibit. With these ideas to influence with the church; rich in early sculpture, them in employing the resources of their embroidered as it were with coloured art, they studied to give to the walls an air marbles, and rising to a most stately ele- of independence of support from co

lumns or arches, which, together with other features of Roman architecture, were thrown aside as unnecessary appendages. Then they employed stones of an enormous size; and the doors and windows, which in those days were not glazed, displayed at once the thickness of the walls and the substance of the separate blocks. Again, they found another source of expression in the quality of the material, which must be allowed in these edifices to operate prodigiously towards the general effect. It would, indeed, be preposterous to erect a wall, like that which forms the façade of Palazzo Pitti, of plastered brick-work, or even of the stone of which the proud colonnades of the Louvre and the Bourse have been constructed. The stone, with which the architects of Florence piled up the immense masses of the Pitti, and similar edifices, is the finest material I have seen employed on any building, at least of modern times, the white marble of the cathedral of Milan not excepted. It looks more like cast-iron than any thing else to which I can compare it; long after granite has begun to moulder, it continues to grow harder and more flinty, and an expression of incalculable durability enters largely into the effect of those edifices which are constructed of it; particularly when, as in the case of the Palazzo Pitti, Strozzi, and Ricardi, four hundred years of exposure have deepened its tints.

One should always endeavour to view a great and important edifice under circumstances calculated to bring its mag. nificence into full play. With regard to the Palazzo Pitti, such an occasion was afforded me by the return of the grand. duke to his capital in June 1835, after his marriage with the sister of the king of Naples, which had been celebrated at that court. On entering the Piazza du Pitti, I found it already filled by the crowd, while before me the huge and dark palace rose in the most commanding masses, being magnified by the multitude at its base beyond its usual dimensions; an effect which I have at other times observed in other situations. Here

and there, placed at remote points against this immense façade, were stationed several groups, supported by the two nar. row balconies, which at different heights stretch the whole length of the edifice; as objects which afforded additional standards of comparison, they operated with astonishing effect to aggrandize the mass of the edifice. It seemed as if the palace made an effort to look as imposing as it

could, in honour of the prince and the occasion. Prently a discharge of cannon announced the arrival of the royal pair at the Porta San Frediano, and others were continued at intervals as the cortége passed from the gate of the palace. The immense masses of the Pitti and Palazzo Vecchio, and the cupola of the cathedral, swallowed the sound, and then sent it out deepened and solemnized over the city and the surrounding country. I began to think the grand-duke a more magnificent personage than I had hitherto conceived him, but a circumstance was yet to arrive, which impressed me more than any that preceded it, with the vastness of his palace. The first portion of the royal cortège at length appeared, consisting of a string of travelling carriages, some quarter of a mile long, laden with servants and baggage; one by one they entered the central gate of the palace, and passed into the court included within its walls. "In the name of all that is extraordinary," thought I, "how can they find room for all these carriages and horses in the court of the palace?" Before I had recovered my surprise, the royal equipages, consisting of two coaches, drawn each by six horses, entered the piazzá, the drums under the central archway of the palace immediately struck up, and the troops, who formed an avenue across the piazza, presented arms while the carriages drove rapidly between them, and entering the great gateway of the palace as the others had done, disappeared in the court. After waiting to see the royal couple appear in the balcony of the palace, and answer by bows full of sovereign condescension, the acclamations and vivas of the people, I went away not a little impressed with the scene I had witnessed, which from time to time turns up in my head, notwithstanding the many wonderful objects presented to my view and fixed in my memory, in the course of a visit which I have since made to the Bella Parthenope and the Imperial Rome.

THE ABIPONES.

These are a tribe of Indians inhabiting the country along the banks of the South American river, La Plata. They are peculiar for residing on islands or upon the tops of trees during the five winter months when their country is inundated. How true it is, that one half the world know not how the other half live!

LONDON:

Published by Effingham Wilson, Junior, 16, King William Street, London Bridge, Where communications for the Editor (post paid) will be received.

[Printed by Manning and Smithsou, Ivy Lane.]

OF FICTION, POETRY, HISTORY, AND GENERAL LITERATURE. No. 117. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1836. Price Two-Pence.

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had whispered to one of his followers to hurry on foremost, and have all in preparation for her reception. Two soldiers, who stood as guards, presented their halberts as the lady entered; menials were also ready, to take charge of the

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cers, and serfs of the household, were drawn up in readiness to welcome the Lady Anne to her new home.

"Canst thou conduct me to a private addressing an old man over whose brow room, worthy seneschal," said the lady, threescore winters had passed, "for I am ill at ease, and would fain remain alone until his Grace's arrival?"

"I wot not, good lady, of any other than the great dining-parlour, which is set apart for the guests of his royal Grace," replied the old man, "methinks that is most remote from the din of the hall, and might of a verity meet your will."

"It pleaseth me mightily, honest seneschal," answered the lady. "I would have thee conduct me thither."

The seneschal requested Bridget, a female who stood by, to accompany the

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