Various contradictory opinions exist as to the proper loading of guns. Colonel Hawker will tell thee to put in equal quantities of powder and shot; thy grandfather, on the other hand, will enjoin twice as much shot as powder; wherefore, pin thy faith to no man's sleeve, but try for thyself. I have tried all ways, from all; shot and no powder to no shot and all powder. The former of these plans I could not get to act at all; and the latter, though brilliant in its promise, I could not reduce to any practical utility. As the result of many experiments, I am of opinion that truth lies between.

Some, when they pull the trigger, shat neither of their eyes; some shut the left; and some both. Of these the first is the best, if thou canst accustom thyself to it; the second is the most common; and the third, though disadvantageous to thine aim, is undoubtedly the safest.

Whoso wishes for a practical exposition of the fallacy of Hawker's principle, let him take a common garden water-engine, and pump the same he will find that, up to a certain point, the water will be delivered in a clear full stream; but that, on application of any additional force, so far from any advantage being gained thereby, it will be sputtered about in every direction: even so it is with Colonel Hawker

The raised rib is certainly a great improvement; but, where it is, as I have frequently seen it, made so high as to oblige you to aim under a bird, in order to hit, I consider it detrimental both to thy sport and thy shooting. MAXIM XV.

No gun is too heavy for me, as I have always been of opinion that you get value in the shooting for weight in the carrying; there have, however, been recent discoveries on this point, which I am not at liberty to say more of at present, but which tend to shake my opinion.

Partridges are good, and grouse better; but a pendix to the topography of the far-famed registercovey of black game is the thing for the bag.

MAXIM XXXI.

The principle laid down in Maxim XXV applies equally to all sorts of game. There are always most birds seen when it is impossible to get at them; while, on the contrary, the difficulty of finding is a sure sign (in a good country) that the birds are sitting close: wherefore, be not discouraged, but seek diligently, and I will bet upon thy bag. MAXIM XXXIII.

It is all very well to shoot a hare, when thou mayest chance to start one; but I hold that the man who would go out for the express purpose of shooting hares is no sportsman, but ranks with the poacher and potshooter.

dens and vineyards greeted us on every side as were to depend, the result of which was by no
we approached the Danube. Stadtamhoff was no means improved by a glance at the rude and bois-
sooner behind us, than we found ourselves look- terous brotherhood collected for the voyage, my
ing down upon its rapid waters from the only hopes and expectations took flight; and I felt I
stone bridge which has yet been thrown across should have bartered comfort and enjoyment
them; and another five minutes found us safely dearly, though transported some hundreds of
housed at Ratisbon, with minds ill-attuned by miles for little more than five-eighths of a pound
the smiling scenes in which we had just been re- sterling. Forty to fifty greasy operatives, a score
velling, to encounter the dreary gloom of its of old halidames, a leash or two of indigent stu-
antiquated piles. I am neither inditing an ap- dents, and some nondescripts, behind none of
their messmates in tatters or manners, were hud-
office of the quondam empire, nor competent to dled together under covert of the booths; but,
the task, if I would; for there was neither merri- more fatal to my hopes, and most incontestably
ment nor recreation to detain us amidst dark and indicative of the presence of thirsty souls and
decaying walls. In truth, I was but too anxious throats, was the prodigal store of beef and brandy
to be relieved of the oppression with which its which the crew was handing over the Ordinary's
neither could I open my lips to one of their te-shouts which hailed the goodly presence of their
narrow sombre streets weighed down my spirits: sides; a circumstance in no wise redeemed by the
nants without being called upon to sympathise
by-gone happiness. Moreover, the noble Da-
with him in the saddening recollection of days of
nube was our polar-star; and there lay the huge
bark, the Ordinari, (or Vienna post-ship,) ready
to bear us from this peopled solitude within the
next four hours. We had barely time before us
embellish the environs, and to render a passing
to explore a few of the beautiful gardens which
homage to the shrine of Tycho Brahe's great
contemporary, the ill-starred Kepler, to whom a
life of penury was the herald of an immortality
of fame. The hand of nature frequently stamps
the mere outward features of the favoured pro-
geny with the bold and striking impress of
genius. I had remarked this characteristic in a
portrait of Kepler some years ago, and the cir-
cumstance flashed instantly across my mind from
the moment I here beheld his bust. What
clearness of intellect and tranquillity of spirit
beam from every feature!

The present system of battue shooting is as disgraceful to the higher classes, as the numberless commitments for poaching show it to be demoralising to the lower. If any thing could put it out of fashion, the fine practical satire afforded by Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., K.B., K.C., &c. &c., and his Royal and Right Honourable Highness the Infant Don Miguel shooting the tame pheasant in Kew Gar-holds in the turbulent times of the middle ages. den, (a pretty infantine pastime truly!) must have

had that effect.

THE DANUBE.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A SUMMER EXCURSION.

DURING the night, the wrath of the pitiless elements had banished slumber from the dormitory of our snug calêche; but they shrunk away at the approaching pride of dawn, whilst our hearts expanded, and our spirits flowed anew, as the expanding morn irradiated the beautiful vale of Ratisbon with its gladdening splendour. GarI was favoured with the following programme of the performances on one of those occasions, for the authenticity of which, however, I cannot vouch : 'On the--February, 1828, his Royal Highness Don M, attended by his G- the D- of Wthe E— of M-c-, and one company of the Coldstream Guards, will visit the Royal Gardens at Kew to partake of the amusement of pheasant-shooting.

rake.

The party to be met at the gate by the head gardener and his assistants, each furnished with a long As the bushes are rather wet, his Royal Highness and party will remain on the gravel walks the gardeners will, therefore, rake out the birds from under the bushes, when, if they rise, they are to be immediately fired at: if they run along the walk, fifteen yards, "law" to be allowed.

His Royal Highness to fire both his barrels before his G-the D of W——, who is then to fire both his before the E- of M-c-; the officer on duty not to fire unless there is not a possibility of hitting: an occasional volley to be fired by the troops to enliven

the scene.

When bis Royal Highness shall have killed as many as he may judge e pedient, the gardeners to collect the game into barrows, to be placed ready for that purpose, and the party will return in the same order in which they arrived.'

fond, familiar friends,' and uproariously attested thirst. Vanished was the dream of contemplative the libations that had already appeased their native calm or rational enjoyment; and I turned away from the obnoxious ark of my disappointments, knowing I had at least the alternative of placing my carriage, chattels, and myself, at the mercy of what is called an extra ship, or pletta.

length, and built of coarse pine timber, neither This pletta is ten feet in width by forty feet in ness from inhibition of water: it makes the passage tarred nor caulked, but expanding into compactto Vienna in somewhat more than ninety hours, and is hired for the trip at a charge of ninety shillings. This, indeed, is its first and last voyage, as it is calculated merely for descending with the stream to Vienna, where it is broken up and sold for its value in timbers: even were the use of sails practicable, the ascent of the Danube in any vessel at present employed upon it would be too tedious and perilous for the extensive conveyance either From this spot, we hastily, and inquiringly as of goods or passengers. So backward are its nahastily, made our way through some of the most vigators in all that concerns their craft, that the remarkable streets of the town. The only pecu- noblest of all European rivers is at this moment liar features about them are the mansions of the converted to as little advantage as it was many ancient patricians: from their castellated form, centuries ago. This, I admit, may, in some it is quite evident they were designed for strong-measure, arise from the rapidity of the current, which offers so formidable a resistance when a There they stand frowning down in baronial pride vessel is impelled against it, that four-and-twenty, upon the narrow street; while their style of ar- nay, sometimes thirty, horses are put in requisition chitecture is manifestly derivable from the exotic to drag a bark which, with her cargo, will not skill of Italian hands. A few brief moments were exceed a ton in weight. When floating down the all we had to bestow on the ancient Town-hall: stream, on the other hand, ten or twelve hands it has long ceased to record the bans and sen- are all that are required to manage the largest tences of the German Areopagus; and the Holy of its misshapen hulks. Another essential barrier Roman Empire' has tottered into oblivion, while its to improvement may be found in the want of a heart yet struggles against time and nature. Thence denser population along its course, as well as from we strayed to the Cathedral, where Dohlsberg's its presenting an outlet into no other channel than monument, and Visiker's tomb of St. Sibbald, a sea which possesses few inducements to Euromake amends for the sculptural failures of Zan- pean intercourse. To this may be added, the domeneghi. And from this scene, to gratify the miserable prejudices and prohibitions which wither importunity of our guide, we proceeded on a visit the internal traffic of Austria, and deprive its heto the ancient place of tournament, die schönereditary dominions of every advantage they would Haide, wherein the citizens of Ratisbon vent their derive from consuming the rich products of Huncivic idolatry on the combat between Hans Dol- gary. There is no river in Europe more susceplinger and Craco the giant, a mere daub against tible of the peculiar benefits of steam-navigation the wall, which has been refreshed, but neither than the Danube. Unhappily, the natural dans improved nor deteriorated, by successive limners. against which the river's marge drives its rapid It is passing unaccountable to me how elbow- course, will be more easily moved than the ramroom enough was found in this Liliputian tilting-parts which prejudice and privilege have interyard for exchanging cuts and thrusts with a posed between the various members of the body giant.. At length, we trod upon the margin of the politic. glorious Danube, at the very point where its But the pletta is waiting to receive me. Had I waters disembogue themselves through the fifteen not crossed the great Atlantic with the sense of arches of its time-worn bridge, which reminded entire security with which our noble oaken bulme to its prejudice of that at Prague. And warks are so admirably adapted to inspire the most here we found the Ordinari to be neither more nor timorous of adventurers, I should not have stepped less than a couple of huge wooden booths, erected with half the apprehension I did on board the upon an uncouth frame-work, intended to repre- coarse-fashioned bark wherein Iwas about to peril sent a ship's hull. On this truly diluvian-looking my earthly destinies upon the unquiet surface of ark you may float down to Vienna in five or six this inland deep. I have already given you its days, for the trifling outlay of thirteen shillings. principal dimensions. It stands about three feet I had anticipated a right merry-making excursion, above the water's edge, is brought to a slender from being cast into contact with five or six score point fore and aft, sloped away at both ends, and of fellow-pilgrims, with their motley habits, dia-flat-bottomed. The deck, if deck it can be styled, lects, quirks, and fancies; but, on a nearer survey is flush in every respect, excepting where it is ocof the uncouth crew, on whom our life and limbs cupied by a deal hut, which stands nearly at mid

pense, and that the royal sheatres are gradually falling off in the numbers of their frequenters.' No inconsiderable portion of that expense arises from the prodigality with which free admissions are granted: these, indeed, have been estimated to amount to nearly one million in the course of

LECTURE ON ARCHITECTURE

AT THE WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTION.

THE devotion, during the last few weeks, of the space in our columns usually destined for subjects connected with the fine arts, to the lectures on the year: they fill the best and dearest seats, and painting and sculpture at the Royal Academy, it is alleged, that they occasion an annual loss to has prevented our noticing the concluding disthe thirteen greater theatres of 100,0001. and upcourse of the series of lessons on architecture wards. Such is the quid pro quo, which is exactdelivered by Mr. Hosking, to the Members of the ed as the price of public munificence! No wonWestern Literary Institution. The subject, howder it should be deemed an auspicious circum- ever, the modern buildings of the metropolis,stance, that the Chamber of Deputies have reis an interesting one; the lecture itself was juduced the grant for the present year to 54,160., dicious; the opinions pronounced appeared conthough the theatrical proprietory of the first dra- scientious, and independent of hope, fear, or undue matic metropolis in Christendom have yet abun-bias of any kind, and it affords us, moreover, a

dant cause to feel that

'An open foe may prove a curse:

But a pretended friend is worse!' THE NETHERLANDS UNIVERSITIES.-A learned correspondent enabled us to give, in our 64th number, a detail of the grants which were anticipated in aid of these institutions for the present year. In a recent letter, however, he informs us, that the subsequent sums have been finally voted by the Netherlands' Legislature; viz.

To Louvain (in it the

Philosophical College)} 146,060fr. or £12,172

To Liege

6,980
6,436

83,770

Ghent

77,235

10,036

Utrecht

72,576

6,048
6,245

505,523fr. £49,672

CLOUDS.

OVER the face of the eternal deep,
Fair, restless wanderers, drinking up the light
Of sunbeams, at the breeze's will ye sweep;
Or on a windless night,

Building around the moon a hollow sphere,
Which with her woven tapestries soft and clear,
She hangs, and, with delight

There sits a queen in her own heavenly right,
Like the wise worm that spinneth far and near
Its amber palace bright-

How can ye bear, sweet wanderers, to be driven,
Resistless ever, through the sapphire sky,
Although to canopy the cope of heaven

Your tent be spread on high?

Had ye a motion of your own, and skill
To sail along following your own free will,

How gladly then would I,

Swelling your bright and playful company,
Be wandering with you o'er the blue vault still,—
A joy that ne'er could die.

For there, upon a bright and vernal day,
Cradled I might repose, o'er the young flowers
Weeping fresh tears, or with the sunbeams play,
Building the rainbow's bowers ;

Or, like a nautilus o'er the ocean-brine,
A white and rose-edged bark, I then might swim
Through the long summer hours,

Till, with my freight of fertilizing showers,

I rose, and garlanded the summits dim

Of rugged mountain towers.

Or like a solid dome with battlement,
Crenelle, and buttress furnished, I might rise,
That stands a giant of the firmament,
Watching throughout the skies:

Or there a mountainous ridge of cliffs prolong
By a tall city crowned, and castles strong,
Most like what men devise

On earth, and with the likeness charm their eyes
Of their own works; then shattered drive along,
And mock their vain surmise.

But thus like you by other's will imprest,
The unresisting sport of every gale,

O'er earth and sea, and mountain's snowy crest,
I would not choose to sail.

Rather would I with tempest laden sweep

might be considered an elegant composition, but it was remarked, that the effect of the whole structure is seriously injured by the attachment of the buildings with caryatides at the flanks; and which, though composed of beautiful parts, are themselves inelegant and defective, the basement being too lofty for the figures which stand on it; while the entablature is extremely heavy. In addition, it was objected, that no line in these wings ranges with any one in the principal body of the edifice. The steeple was treated as a heap of towers, which, taken separately, are not surpassed by any architectural work of the class in London, but which lose all their effect by their combination and collocation. The Ionic portico of the chapel in Regent-street, opposite the Argyle Rooms, was, of all the modern sacred edifices, that which received most applause from Mr. Hosking. This, he said, taken as a specimen of architecture, was quite a model, and only required enrichment to be perfectly beautiful. Of the secular structures, the Bank of England was the first which came under notice at Faults, it certainly has,' said Mr. In its bridges, London certainly stands pre- this lecture. eminent over all cities of ancient or modern Hosking; many things in it might have been times. When, in the revolutions of ages, our better; but it contains more architectural beauown city shall be placed in the pages of history ties than any other modern structure in Europe,' by the side of Persepolis, Athens, Carthage, meaning, in the expression modern, to include all Rome, and Jerusalem, and travellers from the the works of all the Italian architects in all parts Western Hemisphere shall come to trace the site of the world, with the exception only of our own of the capital whence once issued the mandates Gothic temples. We will not analyse the opinion which were law under every zone, the massive of our worthy lecturer. It is not often that Mr. arches of our bridges, some broken, some per- Soane receives such unqualified applause from haps entire, will, of all its numerous construc-independent and disinterested criticism; and we tions, alone remain to attest its present magnifi- should be unwilling to throw in any alloy to the cence. Mr. Hosking, therefore, certainly did not gratification he would derive, should it come to err on the side of nationality in saying, that in the his knowledge that he had been so extolled, by number, magnitude, and merit, of its bridges, examining how great a portion of the praise beLondon is unequalled by any city in the world. stowed on the Bank of England is to be ascribed He expressed his opinion, that the New London to a certain spirit of nationality, more patriotic Bridge will be a grand and imposing structure; than philosophical, which was traceable throughthe semi-elliptical arches form a very beautiful out this whole course of lectures. We agree in curve, and have a most graceful effect; the gene- very many of the remarks made on the Bank of ral result, however, will depend greatly on the cor- England, and especially on the Lothbury front; nice and parapet: should the former partake of the and, indeed, in all Mr. Soane's works, we perceive bold broad massive character of the work generally, a grace and feeling in the details which have ever and the latter be simply pannelled and not pierced claimed our admiration, even when his whims with mis-shapen balustrades, the bridge promises and caprices have compelled us to condemn the Still, however, we would to be beautiful, at the same time that it will be ensemble of an edifice. be just to the architects of other countries as well grand and imposing. It may be regarded as a triumph of science and art combined. The central as to our own, and should not have to go far to arch, said Mr. H., stands alone in the world, since name a building quite worthy of competing with its rise of forty feet is little more than a fourth Mr. Soane's work in Threadneedle-street. "Need of the span, which is 150 feet,-an effort of science we remind Mr. Hosking of the Bourse at Paris ? never before attempted to be executed in stone.' Without any desire to detract from the merit of the engineer, we cannot help remarking, that we think Mr. Hosking has here somewhat overrated the merit in point of science, which, if not confined to a due appreciation of the quality and virtue of the material employed in the building, and the degree of pressure it will bear, partakes more of that knowledge than of any peculiarity or profoundness in the art of construction. From London-bridge, Mr. Hosking proceeded to notice the other structures of the same class which adorn the metropolis, and to point out the respects in which they excelled or failed. In Waterloobridge, he objected very judiciously to the frittered effect produced by the coupled columns and broken entablature; a defect, however, still more glaring in Blackfriars-bridge, since, in the former case, the bridge being level, the columns may be all of an equal height, while in the latter they necessarily increase or decrease in dimension, as they are nearer to, or further from, the centre.

The London University, it was observed, is at the same time one of the chastest and noblest structures of the metropolis. Its grand decastyle portico will be of unparalleled magnificence, though, perhaps, too large for the elegant cupola behind, too much of which will, in the front view, be intercepted by the lofty pediment. One fault, however, was pronounced to be glaring; namely, the poverty of the crowning cornice. To the latter part of the criticism, we make not the slightest objection; but, we confess, that our observations on the London University, as far as its present state permits the forming an opinion, would not take the order, or lead to the conclusions drawn by Mr. Hosking. We should ask Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Hosking, if the University be an appendage to the portico, or the portico an accessory to the University? We should call on Mr. Wilkins to show cause why a decastyle portico should be approved under any circumstances; we should pray to have it pointed out, how the cupola, let it be ever so elegant, rising so immediately over the apex of the pediment, can form a judicious composition. We might ask some more questions-we might implore Mr. Wilkins to conceal, at least, the deformity of his arrière parts, since his ingenuity was not clever enough to endow them with grace and beauty; but we reserve ourselves for a more fitting occasion, and hasten to conclude with a report of Mr. Hosking's opinion of a few less pretending edifices.

Covent Garden-Saturday.

MERCHANT of Venice.

Monday.

Of the club-houses, that of the University was preferred to all the others, as the most classical 'The Maid of Judah', an operi of Rossini's at one and elegant. The United Service Club-house, on of our English theatres, is a novelty which deserves a the site of Carlton Palace, contrasts strongly, much more lengthened notice than we have time this remarked Mr. Hosking, with the University: week to devote to it. We shall merely, therefore, conexternally, it presents no merits to countervail gratulate our readers on the re-appearance of Miss its absolute insipidity and total want of archi-Paton, though with powers slightly impaired by the tectural beauty. We are not sure that we can long indisposition of which we grieve to say that the traces are too visible in her cheeks and her form. We concur with our lecturer in this condemnation have often before spoken of this admirable English of the United Service Club-house. Certainly we vocalist; but, as the Managers have lately had the good are no admirers of Mr. Nash's gingerbread plas- taste to give her music worthy of her talents, by conterings: we agree with Mr. Hosking in detecting fining her to operas of Weber and Rossini, we shall the meagre little cornice of the upper order; not consider that we have done her full justice till we which, too poor even for the order it surmounts, have entered into a very detailed examination of her is truly contemptible when viewed as the cornice style of singing.The Maid of Judah' was exceedof the whole building: still less do we excuse ingly well received, whether cwing to the magnificence of the decorations, and the melo-dramatic interest of the ignorance or the wantonness of the architect the piece, or to the charms of the music, we shall have in placing plain columns above a fluted order; an opportunity of considering hereafter. yet, we cannot deny it, there is a certain non sappiamo che in the front of this edifice, not altogether displeasing or devoid of picturesque effect. Mr. Hosking instanced the Oriental Clubhouse in Hanover-square, as an improvement on Crockford's. We should have expressed a contrary opinion. With all its sins, there is a boldness and breadth about Crockford's which commands respect, while, in our eyes, the effect of the Oriental Club House is cramped, crowded, and, with all its ornament, mean. From the club houses, Mr. Hosking descended to the private houses; and thence, through new squares and streets, to humble, yet scarcely humble, shop-fronts. For ourselves, we abominate architectural shop-fronts, more especially if an order be prostituted in its decoration, as much as we deprecate the profanation of the Postum Doric, in ornamenting a china closet. The only shop-front, we know at all to be approved is that we forget its exact situation-in which the entrance to a sepulchre adorned with death's head and bones, and other emblems of the prison-house of the grim destroyer, sculptured to the life, (?) forms the façade of a ginshop.

King's Theatre. OUR office as reporters to this theatre is not yet quite a sinecure, tliough it threatens speedily to becotne one. Last week we recorded the singular fact of a new opera having been performed by a corps of silent voices; this week it is our painful duty to announce, that the only performer who had hitherto escaped the malaria of the Haymarket-and almost the only one who it was very important should escape it, has recently fallen under the same calamity as her brethren and sisters. La Donna del Lago,' was performed on Saturday, and Madame Pisaroni was indisposed. Que deviendra! the King's Theatre. This misfortune, in the case of Madame Pisaroni, is very considerable, seeing that from circumstances which have been sufficiently dwelt on in the newspapers, her merely walking through the part of Malcolm Græme, does not inspire the interest which it might do if the ambulatrix were Sontag, Madame Malabran or Ronzi de Begnis. The only compensation for this distressing accident was, the appearance of Mademoiselle Blasis in the part of Elena. The applause which this debutante received was probably owing rather to the unfortunate predicament of the other singers than to her intrinsic excellence. She is, nevertheless, a highly respectable singer, and ought permanently to rank in public estimation much higher than Monticelli, or any of the recent female novelties, except Pisaroni. Her voice is a moderate soprano; and, if the natural powers of her voice were worthy of her style, she might assume even a high rank as a singer. At all events, she is a great acquisition to M. Laporte, in the present melancholy state of his establishment,

of M. Perlet's which English performers could represent as well, or perhaps better. We will give up Keeley, Liston, and Kemble in favour of no one. But there is certainly no English, and, we think, no French actor, who can personate such a range of parts as that which Perlet is completely master of. From the severest style of high comedy, to the broadest farce, he reigns paramount, The Tartuffe and Scapin are, alike, but forms in which Perlet lives and moves. And there probably never was any one who could exhibit the most demure and almost austere personages of comedy with any thing like the saine force, and seemingly unconscious humour. The emphatic magniloquent heroes and lovers of French tragedy, he never attempts and probably would not succeed in : he would show them as they are, and then even the audience at the Theatre Français must burst out laughing. But even there he would represent admirably, if he were allowed to personate them in the style in which Whiskerandos is acted among us; and this is the only style in which, consistently with truth and nature, they ever ought to be played. Whatever is true in the French drama, he reproduces with inimitable talent. And we are persuaded, though it is by no means a necessary consequence, that there is no male character' whatever in Shakspeare, whom he would not be able to embody better than almost any one living. In saying this, we assure our readers we are quite serious, and are convinced, more especially, that M. Perlet, were he sufficiently master of our pronunciation, could act both Hamlet and Falstaff better than any English actor. We shall take an early opportunity of returning to this subject.

MR. PEMBERTON made his second appearance last
night, at this theatre, in the character of Shylock. His
first, our readers will remember, was in that of Vir-
ginius. What a step! from the fictitious Roman to the
real Jew-from Goldsmith's history to human nature
-from Mr. Knowles to William Shakspeare! And
yet so strange are the notions of acting, which prevail
in the present day-so strangely are our performers
classified, not according to their powers of representing
some great conception, or entering into the mind of
some great author, but by an imaginary division into
tragic, comic, melo-dramafic and pantomimic, that the
transformation excites no surprise in any quarter. Did
not Mr. Pemberton throw aside the military vest and
don him in a turban? And what else is needed to convert
the destroyer of the Decemviri into the father of tiam, hæc in petulantiam, procedat.'-Plinii Epistola.
Jessica?

We expressed a favourable opinion of Mr. Pember-
ton's first effort, and this opinion we feel no wish to
retract. Measuring him by the ordinary standard of
theatrical excellence,-and it would be unfair to try
decidedly meritorious. That he was not
him by any other, we think he may be pronounced

'The very Jew

That Shakspeare drew,'

POPULAR LITERATURE.

'Ut in vita, sic in studiis, pulcherrimum et humanissimum existimo, severitatem comitatemque miscere, ne illa in tristiI.

'Collecting toys

As children gathering pebbles on the shore.' Milton's Paradise Regained. 1.-POETICAL.

Meretricious Poetry.-What is generally called poetry, is like a woman decked with plates of looking-glass and tinsel chains; and is much fitter to excite laughter than engage our love.-Pascal's Pensées.

2. SENTIMENTAL.

Separation. Separation, the more dreadful it appears, seems less probable; it becomes, like death, a fear, which is more spoken of than believed,-a future event, which seems impossible even at the very moment we know it is inevitable. Love alone can give an idea of eternity; it confounds every notion of time; we think we have not always loved.—Wielanıl.

True Valour.-Is hee that comes neare death valiant? Why, then, hang trophies over the gallowes; the cause must in all things tell whose child the effect is. Hee that fights with fury, is not valiant, but hee that lends justice force. Cato dyed in as fit a time to make his death looke nobly, as could bee, and at the fittest course of natural reason; it will seem good reason not to outlive his countryes liberty; but had it not

was obvious enough; but, so far from requiring this of
any, even the greatest, of modern actors, we should
think them unwise if they made the attempt. The
utmost that it is possible for them to do, if they wish
to succeed in their profession, is to translate the feel-
ings and actions of Shakspeare into language that
will be intelligible to the pit and gallery. If the transla-
tion is tolerably faithful, and too much is not sacrificed
to making it spirited, we are more than content. On
the whole, we think this praise was due to Mr. Pem-
berton. He is over anxious not to appear an imi-
tator of Kean, perhaps from a little consciousness that
he is inclined to be one, and this wish has occa-
sionally induced him to substitute for that dry, hard,
even passion which Kean adopts in this part, and by
adopting which he has made it is chef-d'œuvre a more
violent and outbreaking passion that is very unsuit-beene more compassionately done of him to have ac-
able to the part. He has no business to drop on
his knees in the last act under the weight of his afflic-
tions. Shylock is very sick, but it is the sickness of
a rage and despair which would have sustained not
crippled him. Though half his goods are confiscate
when he leaves the justice-room, he is not about to
turn pauper, nor Christian either, unless in hope
of accomplishing a more deep and subtle vengeance.
He will have more ducats yet, and perhaps a pound of
Nazarene flesh, ripe, fresh, and bleeding. Jessica is
his only loss, that is utterly and absolutely irre
parable.

The other actors, with the exception of Mr. Farley, whose Gratiano is vulgar and exacrable, all did their duty well. Miss Jarman's Portia is certainly her most successful effort; she looks particularly solemn and conceited in her judicial deportment as the young doctor, and carried off the joke in the last scene with great spirit. As Miss Goward acts every part which she undertakes in the best possible manner, we were not sur prised to find that she was the most delightful, wicked little Nerissa on the stage.

companied his country in misery? Had it not beene more wisely done, to have reprived hope, and to have watched time, when, happily, by opportunity, he might have ransomed his country? I account not his valour, no more then hee that winkes at the blow of death,the one binding his eyes because hee would not see death, the other seeking death because hee would not feele misery. Cato is not held by mee as a patterne of fortitude, he helped not his country by his death : if to dare dye, you think so excellent, the women among the Romanes could doe it as well as hee; because it is prohibited, wee like it, because, contrary to our selfe-louing minds, we admire it; and in that respect (were it not against diuinitie) I should allow of it; for hee comes nearest vertue that throwes against the bias of his affections.-Sir William Cornwallis.

3.-PICTURESQUE.

Scene in the Blue Mountains.-The passage of the Potowmac, through the Blue Mountains, is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. Yon stand on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountains an hundred miles to seek a vent. On the left approaches the Potowmac in quest of a passage also. At the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth had been erected in process of time; that the mountains

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4.-ROMANTIC.

The Chasm River.

That deep romantic chasm which slanted
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A savage place! as holy and enchanted

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And sunk in tumult to a lifeless ocean.

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