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dull meeting-house on Sunday evenings, listening to the nador (which will be mentioned hereafter), who went chiming bells from the parish churches, must he have mourning that she had no children. In her distress desired a wider, or at least a more intellectual, circle of she took an egg, covered it with a cloth, and laid it hearers : he must have seemed like some isolated away carefully in one corner of the hut. Every day she dweller in a country the language of which he knew went to look at it, until one morning she found the free not: and the illustration holds good in Foster's case hatched, and a criatura, or creature, or baby born. The especially, for, with all his deep insight into the old woman was delighted, and called it her son, promind, he was unable to find his way into understand vided it with a nurse, took good care of it, so that in ings widely differing from his own. Foster, therefore, one year it walked and talked like a man, and then it wanted that highest peculiarity of genius, the power of stopped growing. The old woman was more delighted speaking to the hearts and intellects of all men. than ever, and said he would be a great lord, or king. Finding himself thus isolated in populous Newcastle, One day she told him to go to the house of the grob he sought to find in the visible forms of nature that nador, and challenge him to a trial of strength. The matter for his musing mind which his fellow-men were dwarf tried to beg off, but the old woman insisted, and not able to afford, and often betook himself in quiet he went. The guard admitted him, and he flung his evenings, or the stillness of moonlight nights, to the chalienge at the gobernador. The latter smiled, and quay between the ancient walls and the deep Tyne, told him to lift a stone of three arrobas, or sevents. where he pondered on the sights presented by the star- five pounds, at which the little fellow cried, and relit heavens, or the varying aspects of the earth. But turned to his mother, who sent him back to say, that Newcastle was no place for Foster, and in about three if the gobernador lifted it first, he would afterward

. months he left the place, returning to his native home The gobernador lifted it, and the dwarf immediately in Yorkshire.

did the same.

The gobernador then tried him with We next find him in Dublin, whither he had gone at other feats of strength, and the dwarf regularly did the invitation of a small congregation, who perhaps ex- whatever was done by the gobernador. At length, pected great things from one of whose abilities they had indignant at being matched by a dwarf, the gobernador heard, without inquiring minutely into the peculiarities told him that, unless he made a house, in one night, of those powers they sought to gain. To Dublin he higher than any in the place, he would kill him. The went, but the only result was, that his unfitness for a poor dwarf again returned crying to his mother, who preacher's work became more manifest, a deficiency bade him not to be disheartened, and the next morning proved by the small audience becoming so much re- he awoke, and found himself in this lofty building. duced, that to remain there was impossible. The place The gobernador, seeing it from the door of his palace, in which he preached in Dublin was situated in Swift's was astonished, and sent for the dwarf, and told him to Alley, but this local name was the only thing pertain collect two bundles of cogviol, a wood of a very harl ing to intellect connected with the spot, so that Foster species, with one of which he, the gobernador, Fould was again a wanderer, and returned to England dispirited, beat the dwarf over the head, and afterward the dwarf and really grieved, that the sanguine expectations of should beat him with the other. The dwarf again his friends should be disappointed in him. Remedy returned crying to his mother; but the latter told him there was none; as he could not alter the modes of not to be afraid, and put on the crown of his head : thinking popular among his sect, nor materially modify tortillata de trigo, a small thin cake of wheat flower. the cast of his own intellect.

The trial was made in the presence of all the great men In 1797 we find him at Chichester, officiating as in the city. The gobernador broke the whole of E preacher to a congregation for whose benefit he appears bundle over the dwarf's head, without hurting the little to have exerted all his efforts ; but, as he could not fellow in the least. He then tried to avoid the trial on preach popularly, disappointment again ensued. The his own head, but he had given his word in the pre hearers dwindled away until the mere shadow of a con- sence of his officers, and was obliged to submit. The gregation remained to listen to beautiful sentiments second blow of the dwarf broke his skull in pieces, and profound thoughts--with which they could not and all the spectators hailed the victor as their ner sympathise. Something of this general unacceptability gobernador. The old woman then died; but at the must be attributed to Foster's ECCENTRICITIES, which Indian village of Mani, seventeen leagues distant, there reached such a reprehensible point, that he even laid is a deep well, from which opens a cave that leads under aside the dress generally worn by those who profess ground an immense distance to Merida. In this care, anything approaching to the character of religious on the bank of a stream, under the shade of a large teachers; and, if Foster had doubts respecting his right tree, sits an old woman with a serpent by her side, wło to exercise such an office, an instant resignation of the sells water in small quantities, not for money, but only work would have been more suitable to his character as for a criatura, or baby, to give the serpent to eat; and a Christian, than the adoption of practices which neces- this old woman is the mother of the dwarf. sarily brought ridicule upon religion. He appeared in the pulpit attired in the common lay garb, having his hair bound up in a tie, and wearing a red waistcoat, N.B.-A Stamped Edition of this periodical can be forwarded which though not so startling then as it would be now, free of postage, on application to the Publisher, for the corre was sufficiently so to excite severe condemnation. nience of parties residing at a distance, price 25. 6d. per quater.

(To be concluded in next Number.)

CONTENTS.

Page THE LEGEND OF THE HOUSE OF THE DWARF,

Frank Fairlegh; or, Old Com- Newark Castle on the Yar

panions in New Scenes, row, (with Illustration IN THE ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY OF UXNAL."

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THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.

(FOUGHT A.D. 1388.)
“O Douglas, Douglas, tender and true !"-Old Ballad.
It is the Percy's pennon that strangely waves on high,
In wan moonlight, amid the fight of Scotland's chivalry;
But Percy comes, he comes amain, and loud the battle raves
Where o'er the gallant Douglas that haughty standard waves;
And all Northumbria's noblest are mustering on the plain,
With Neville's and with Dacre's, that standard to regain ;
And all the flower of Scotland is mingling in the war,
St. Clare and many a Drummond, with Moray and Dunbar,?
And he whose hand the mightiest brand in all the battle drew,
In blooming youth, with graceful mien, the Douglas brave and true.
Then evermore like waves that roar in vain on rock-bound strand,
That southern army charges home the chiefs of northern land;
But stern and high the battle cry, that bids the Borderer close,
Of “ Douglas, Douglas, for the right !” from all that line arose,
As proud and calm the peerless knight to his last charge drew nigh,
With boding soul, but flashing eye that spake of victory !
Oh ! glory to the “ Bloody Heart"? that gleams upon his shield !
And glory to the stalwart arm that bids the foeman yield !

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And now the moon is waning ; nor friend nor foe descries
The blood-stained spot where, faint and low, the wounded Douglas lies;
A soldier-priests that ever nigh his dauntless chieftain stood,
Bends over him he loved so well, in sorrow's darkest mood;
Sore-smitten was the knight, but yet, with eye whose burning light
No mortal foe might ever quench, he watched the doubtful fight.
On, on," he cried," my merry men ! and thou whose faithful shield
Alone supports the Douglas on this his last red field !
Go, shout on high the stirring cry that bids our comrades close,
That so the fame of my good name may still confound the foes;
For these strong limbs shall never waste on couch of lingering pain,
But like my sires I meet my death on battle's blood-red plain ;
And yet I know, the conqueror's shout shall sound ere early morn,
Meet requiem to the Douglas that fails by Otterbourne ;
For once in watches of the night, I dreamed a dreary dream!
Of spectral man, that pale and wan, 'mid living hosts did seem
With good broad-sword to win that day the crown of vietory,
And now I know 'tis true at last that spectral knight was I !"
Once more the ranks of England are charged with might and main,
And once they seemed to rally, then madly scour the plain;
For the great brand of the dying Earl seemed mighty as before;
No living knight such wonders wrought as he who fought no more.
A simple cross amid the heath, with pious hands they rear,
Then bear away, in sad array, the Douglas on his bier.
And now he sleeps amid the sires of his own lofty line,
And banners wave above his grave, in good St. David's shrine.
And Scotland's maidens many a day in simple song shall mourn
The dying knight that won the fight so well at Otterbourne.

THE MAIDEN AUNT,5_No. III. CHAP. VI. I FOUND Owen, as I expected, in great wrath. Ile was I said, "and I am very sorry that I have misled you walking rapidly up and down the room, while Kinnaird, unintentionally.” Here 1 stopped, for I was afraid to whose levity was unconquerable, stood on the hearth- attack his opinions, and unwilling to acquiesce in them, rug, coolly regarding him, and looking ready to laugh- so I resolved to stand on the defensive. an inclination which good breeding scarcely restrained. “ Misled me !" replied my indignant brother. “YesMy brother stopped in his angry walk as I entered, and, but I have my own folly to thank for it, in not puttin: coming close up to me, said, with great vehemence, Miss Kinnaird under the charge of a person who knew “Peggy, this is the most incredible piece of absurdity something of the world--Mrs. Alvanley for instance"that I ever met with in my life. Of course, it cannot (oh, could Mrs. Alvanley have heard him !)-" Yet, erce be permitted to go on for a moment, and I only wonder allowing you the simplicity of a pinafored giri of this that you--but you have evidently been duped in the teen, I can't understand how you should have so cormatter."

pletely lost your wits. The insanity of allowing this I saw Frank's colour rise at the offensive word, and Captain Everard's perpetual visits is to me perfectly hastened to interpose, “I have been mistaken, certainly,” inexplicable.”

(1) See Froissart-(Johnes's Edit. Vol. II. 362) who adds, " Of all James, to whose care Robert Bruce committed his heart to be the battles that have been described in this history, breat and carried to the Holy Land."-Scoti's Notes to the Lay of the is small, this of which I am now speaking was the best fought and the Minstrel. most severe; for there was not a man, knight or squire, that did (3) William of North Berwick, who was Chaplain to the Douglas. not acquit himself gallantly, hand to hand with his enemy.”

(4) See the Ballad of the Battle of Otterbourne" in Scocit (2) "The Bloodye Marie' was the well-known cognizance of Border Minstrelsy. the House of Douglas, assuined from the time of the good Lord (5) Continued from page 363.

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" This Captain Everard,” remarked Kinnaird, “is one | Everard. Edith herself was sitting on the sofa, her of the most distinguished officers in the service-a man face bowed upon her hands, and her tears falling fast as superior to Lord Vaughan, in mind and manners, as through the clasped fingers. Captain Everard addressed Lord Vaughan is to a chimnoy-sweep-and, moreover, me at once : my most intimate friend."

“Miss Forde, before I go—and I feel that I must not “So be it,” returned Owen, more calmly, but with remain—I am anxious that you should do me justice intense obstinacy of tone, “nevertheless, his pretensions Till this morning I was not aware of Mr. Forde's exto the hand of Miss Kinnaird are simply ludicrous, and istence, much less of Edith's”—(he pronounced the word I do not intend that he shall have the opportunity of with a lingering hesitation of tone very unusual with urging them again. Perhaps you will have the good- him, and a most eloquent glance at the drooping figure ness to notify this to him.”

on the sofa)"much less of Edith's dependence on his “No, Mr. Forde," retorted Frank, “I must request will. I imagined that Frank and yourself were her sole you to be the bearer of your own messages--I cannot guardians, and you know that, even when I thus thought, undertake the office.”

I was not guilty of the presumption of supposing myself “My dear Frank,” said I, putting my hand on his an acceptable suitor.” arm, “it is not by irritating my brother that we have “No, no-not presumption-don't use the word !” any hope of changing his resolution. You are naturally murmured Edith. excited ; now, do go away, and leave me to do the best He looked at her for a moment in silence, and then I can with him. Go to Edith," added I in a whisper, proceeded, though in a less steady tone of voice, “ I am urging him gently towards the door, “I think she as conscious as Mr. Forde himself can be, that a poor ought to hear the truth at once.”

man, and a man of no family, is, as the world judges, He seemed, at first, disposed to resist my suggestion without a right--"

but at that moment a step was heard in the hall, and But here Edith interrupted him. Suddenly clasping with a half-laugh and a significant look to me, he his hand between her own, and lifting her beautiful quitted the room, leaving me with the consolatory im- face, all burning with blushes and suffused with tears, pression that he had gone out to join his friend, and, she exclaimed, “Oh, hollow nonsense ! it is yourself not improbably, to conduct him to Edith !

that I love. One unset diamond is more valuable than By this time Owen had quite recovered his coolness, a tiara of glittering paste! What could family or forwhich, indeed, rarely forsook him, and turning to me tune have to do with you, except to receive honour from he said, with a deliberation which left no room for hope, you?” “There is no use in discussing the subject. The young Recovering himself with an effort, a

still keeping lady will, I dare say, shed a few natural tears, and pout Edith's hand in his, Everard continue in a low rea little, as in duty bound—but in a fortnight she will strained voice, the calmness of which betrayed the be ready for another lover, and by the year's end she intensity of the agitation which he was repressing, “I will congratulate herself on having some one to act for should despise myself for ever were I capable of taking her, who has the good luck to possess a little common advantage of these feelings to involve her in a clansense. Only let this be distinctly understood, that I destine engagement; at her age—under her circumallow no interview, no engagement, no correspondence. stances-it were unmanly and dishonourable. No! I I won't have an under-current of mystery to keep up must go-for three years we part, and she is as free as sentimental nonsense in a silly girl's brain. Let it all if she had never known me. be at an end, and, if she behaves well, I promise to say She is free !" repeated Edith. Ah! say it of me nothing to her about it. Tell her this, Peggy, and now if you will; but you do not dare say it to me. let me get my luncheon.”

not mock me by telling me that I am free, at the very Owen, you are positively cruel. I do assure you moment when you are riveting my chains. But oh! this is no new girlish fancy that will pass away. It is such a happy prisoner !" she added, relapsing into unfortunate, I admit, but she is really and thoroughly tears, and speaking in a broken, faltering voice; "we attached to him."

have not time for all this conventionalism--this acting My brother began to laugh. “I admire the real and -oh! speak really to me !- this once more- - this last thorough attachment of a girl of eighteen,” said he. time--speak as you are, and as you feel !" "A pack of nonsense! I beg your pardon, Peggy, but I His stoicism was fairly conquered. “My own certainly never made a greater mistake than in select- Edith !" said he, in a voice tender as a mother's to her ing you for a duenna—your manner of viewing things first-born-reverent as a devotee's to his saint_“I will is so inimitably youthful. Take her to choose a new not wound you any more by false phrases. It is true; bonnet, or talk to her about her court-dress for the you are my own; and were we to part for ten years, spring !"

instead of three, I should esteem it sin to suffer one The tone in which he spoke was inexpressibly pro- doubt of you to trouble my peace. My faith in you voking, and I felt my temper beginning to give way. comes next to my faith in God; God grant it be “As you say," I replied, “it is useless to discuss the not the stronger of the two ! Bear these three years, subject-our views are so utterly opposite, that each for my sake; knowing that I am with you the whole speaks to the other as if in a foreign language. I con- time, though the wide world be between us, and that, sider you at least as much in the wrong as you consider when we meet, we shall meet as though we had never me. Only, if you fancy it will be an easy task to induce parted !" Edith to give up her engagement, I can tell you you are She subdued her emotion to listen to him; raising completely mistaken."

her head, and holding her breath, as thongh she feared “ You are angry,” he answered, “yet you can scarcely to lose a word. What evil spirit brought to my mind be surprised that I don't feel any very profound confi- at such a moment her vain and girlish love of general dence in your judgment just at present. I know your admiration and attention, and suggested to me that she intentions are the best in the world--but I can't forget would fail in the refined and impassioned constancy that it is scarcely a week since you wrote me word that which he demanded of her? Miss Kinnaird was in a fair way to become Lady “ And, remember this, my beloved," he continued Vaughan. My dear Peggy, if you will walk through more hurriedly, " that I go from you, a changed man, the world with your eyes shut, and resist every effort to and that the change is your work. My misanthropy is open them, you must at least suffer yourself to be led gone from me. I feel that I have sinned against the by the hand.”

world, and the race to which I belong. I feel and coni bit my lips and was silent, and Owen withdrew to fess the folly and self-sufficiency of my distrust of others. hie bedroom. I went slowly up stairs to Edith's boudoir, Even at this moment, this thought makes me happy; where, as I had anticipated, I found both Kinnaird and for my faith and love are restored, or rather created

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anew. Frank," wringing his hand, "I have wronged | times at least, was commonly attributed to them. To you; forgive me; I know you now,-aye, and I know me it seems that the honest kindliness of their disposi. myself too. Edith-but it is enough! God bless you !" |tions has led them to exactly the right medium between

Silently returning my silent pressure of the hand, he our own surly reserve, and the chattering showy polito hurried from the room, and the low sobs of Edith were ness of the French. The politeness of the French, from the only sounds which disturbed the stillness.

the peer to the meanest peasant, as contrasted with the

demeanour, especially of our lower orders, has been comAnd so ends the history of the first period of my mented on with admiration from the days of Addison acquaintance with Edith Kinnaird. A nervous fever and Goldsmith to our own, till it has become proverbial; was the natural result of that day of agitation ; but it and I do not deny them all the merit which they are was neither long nor severe; and Owen classed it with entitled to claim on this score; but yet the politeness of the hysterics and fainting-fits which he believed that the French always seems to me to have too much gloss all young ladies were capable of summoning to their and tinsel about it; the substratum of genuine kind assistance at pleasure. When I resigned her to the feeling, which is the foundation of all true politeness, charge of Lady Frances Moore, she had recovered her I cannot help thinking is generally wanting, or at health, and, in some measure, her spirits ; for she was any rate the outward froth and foam is so superabundof an elastic and energetic nature, and was now posant as entirely to conceal the reality beneath. But with sessed by the one sole purpose of cherishing secretly the Germans it is quite the contrary: all their politeness the recollection of her lover, and endeavouring to em- seems to spring from, as it is accompanied by, good ploy the three years of separation in rendering herself feeling and kindness of heart, so that, though there may more worthy of him. I knew how soon this enthu- be more homeliness and less finish about them than with siasm would flag; how wearily the slow hours would their French neighbours, there is a heartiness and bene struggle onward; but in very pity I would not disturb | volence mingled with their courtesy, which makes it far it. Like the eagerness of a young horse at the foot of more pleasing. Nor are these agreeable manners con a long steep ascent, though transient, it was real, and fined to the upper and middle classes. I remember, would carry her forward unconsciously over a portion one morning rather early, in a somewhat out of the way of the way. But the toil must begin; and, alas! how place not far from the Rhine, being in want of breakfas, would she bear it?

going into a small Gasthaus, or, as we should call it, With her tacit engagement Owen could not interfere road-side public house; the only provisions which could -about the state of her feelings he did not trouble be produced without delay were brown bread and beer ; himself; and the next thing I heard was that she had and I sat down to discuss this breakfast at a table at been presented at Court in white satin and diamonds, which a labouring man was making his way through a and all London was raving of her matchless beauty. repast composed of similar materials. He was but a

working mason, and evidently very poor; but he made

room for us, and proffered various little courtesies with ROAD-SIDE SKETCHES OF GERMANY AND

as much politeness as if he had been a nobleman.

Finding we were English, he entered into conversation THE GERMANS.1

about the country, and so forth, and, telling us that WHATEVER the future fortune of Germany may be, several of his relations had emigrated to America, asked it is to be hoped that its children will never lose their our advice as to the expediency of his doing so himself, present morai character. They are the most engaging as to the best way of doing it, and various other matters: people possible, meaning not sprightly and amusing, always apologizing for the liberty he was taking, and but people with whom you rapidly and easily feel your uniting in his conversation a degree of simplieity self at home. The first point in their character which and politeness which contrasted strangely with what strikes one, is the honest simplicity which distinguishes would have been the bearing of a peasant in Suffolk or almost every one you meet; there is none of the vain. Yorkshire in similar circumstances. When he ha glorious vapouring of the French, or the loquacious finished his breakfast, he rose with an apology and a impudence of the Yankee, or the morose self sufficiency regret that he was obliged to go, and, with a low box, of the English, but a good-humoured and affectionate wished us good morning and a pleasant journey. Now, single-mindedness and probity of thought and action, there was something very striking about all this to an which at once sets one at ease even in a company of Englishman, who is accustomed to connect boorishness perfect strangers. From the fat old fellows, with scarce of address with lowness of station, especially as there any necks and enormous paunches, whose whole life was nothing cringing or servile in the man's demeanor, seems devoted to smoking long pipes and drinking but, on the contrary, a proper respect for himself, mingled coffee, to the chubby cheeked, yellow haired, round with a sense of what was due to others. Then, the sterned little damsels whose existence is divided between upper ranks reciprocate the same politeness of behaviour, reading romances and knitting stockings, this charming and no one can travel in Germany without seeing everysimplicity is universally apparent. And, united to this, where numerous instances of perfect affability amongst is a good humour and kindliness of disposition which those highest towards those lowest in station. renders it still more agreeable : one seldom sees a meets with very few of the Limkins class, very few German in a passion; this may be attributed to their those superb personages who, feeling that phlegmatic temperament; but then,one still more seldom

“Nature had but little clay sees one of a sulky sullen demeanour; on the contrary,

Like that of which she moulded them," they seem always to have a smile and a kind word for every one and everything. All those little incon- are always afraid of the least communication with three veniences, which would set an Englishman fretting and of common mould, for fear that the pure china of which fuming for a day, are disposed of with a laugh, or at they are composed, should suffer from contact with her most a long winded but most harmless execration, and carthenware. On the contrary, princes and nobles seen an extra whiff; nor, as they grumble less, do they enjoy to put their patents of nobility into their pockets, ssd less; on the contrary, they not only delight in all the only to take them out with their passports. Our frieot beauties, whether rural or urban, of their land, but the Bavarian general was a capital instance of this set always take pleasure in pointing out to strangers what- of thing. Baron though he was, and knight of I dont ever may be of interest to them. In fact, I do not know know how many orders of merit, from the Black Eagle how the Germans ever acquired that character for boor- of Prussia to the Lion and Sun of Persia, he sat ata ish rudeness and bluntness of bearing which, in former mailguards, and travelling pedlars, and conversed will

common table in an inferior inn, with shopkeepers (1) Continued from page 393.

them as comfortably as if they had all been titled guest

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