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What would the rose, with all her pride, be worth,
Were there no sun to call her brightness forth?
Maiders unloved, like flowers in darkness thrown,
Wait but that light which comes from Love alone.
Fair as thy charms in yonder glass appear,
Ab. trust them not, they'll fade from year to year:
Wouldst thou still have them shine as first they shone,

Go fix thy mirror in Love's eyes alone."

If I speak to thee in Friendship's name,
Thou thinkst I talk too coldly;
If I mention Love's devoted flame,
Thou sayst I speak too boldly.
Between these two unequal fires,
Why doom me thus to hover?
I'm a friend if such thy heart requires,
If more thou seekst, a lover.
Which shall it be?

How shall I woo?

Fair one, choose between the two.

Though the wings of Love will brightly play,
When first he comes to woo thee;
There's a chance that he may fly away
As fast as he flies to thee:"

While Friendship, though on foot she come,
No flights of fancy trying,
Will therefore oft be found at home,
When Love abroad is flying.
Which shall it be?

How shall I woo?
Dear one, choose between the two.
But if neither feeling suits thy heart,
Let's see (to please thee) whether
We may not learn some precious art
To mix their charms together-
One feeling still more sweet to form
From two so sweet already-

A Friendship that, like Love, is warm,
A Love, like Friendship, steady.
Thus let it be,

Thus let me woo;

Dearest, thus we'll join the two."

de Villejuif.-Boulevard de l'Hôpital, near the Barrière d'Italie.

de Grenelle.-Place de Bretieul, at the junction of the avenues of l'Ecole Militaire and the Invalids.

de Menilmontant.-Between the Rue des Amandiers and de Menilmontant.

de Montmartre.-At the upper extremity of the Rue Rochechouart, near the barrière of the same name.

and particularly to Paris, where, from time although drawn up by one of the trade, carries immemorial, there existed a company, com- the mark of an individual opinion. One may posed of a certain number of families, charged believe that there existed an after-thought, with the purchase of beasts and the sale of and that it was contemplated as possible, that their meat. Meat being, after bread, the first a company might be charged with the general article of necessary consumption, it is most speculation. This idea (if it existed) was conimportant for the health of the public that trary to the promise made to the butchers to the cattle should be in a healthy state when allow them to enjoy in the public Abattoirs brought to the slaughter-house; that the meat the same liberty as in their private establishshould be prepared with great cleanliness and ments; and it might have influenced some of nicety, and that it should be exposed in a pure their dispositions. On the other side, the and proper state for sale. To the attainment butchers, whose habits and interests were apof all these objects, an active superintendence is parently opposed to the new establishments required, which can only be exercised in vast appeared to avoid taking any part in the pro public establishments. Governments that have posed arrangements, hoping that their complebeen desirous of preserving the health of their tion, which demanded a considerable expendicities, have placed the butcheries at their ex-ture, would never arrive. The situations were, tremities. An order of Charles IX., of the however, fixed upon, the ground purchased, 15th of February, 1567, had consecrated this and one of the Abattoirs, that of Montmartre, principle with us. In some places they have was already begun, when, in January 1811, Í The been placed in vast enclosures adorned with was appointed to the direction of them. fountains, to ensure freshness and cleanliness; five Abattoirs of Paris are placed— but in other places, where, nevertheless, the Abattoir du Roule.-At the extremity of the police is very active, and in other respects Rue de Miromênil, near the Barrière of Montceaux. good, the butcheries are situated in narrow and ill-aired streets, and the meat often approaches to putridity before it is delivered to the purchaser. Public Abattoirs may be regarded, not solely with respect to the safety and health of the inhabitants of a city, but as a means of preparing more easily divers animal substances useful in the arts and manufactures. The manufactures of glue, size, Prussian blue, Plan, Sections, and Elevations, of an Abattoir neat's-foot oil, &c. &c., are extremely advan at Paris; with Considerations for their tageous, and can only be carried on in cities adoption in London. By James Hakewill, which supply in large quantities the necessary "The size of these Abattoirs has been calArchitect. 4to. pp. 11. London, 1828. ingredients. Paris offered, till lately, in many culated for the wants of the quarters they Carpenter and Son; Hurst and Chance; much - frequented streets, the spectacle of are destined to serve. Those of Roule_and and the Author. slaughtering-houses and melting-houses joined Villejuif, which are nearly alike, contain each No one can have resided in this vast metro-to the shops of retail butchers. Streams of thirty-two slaughter-rooms; that of Grenelle, pas for any length of time without having blood and heaps of offal infected the air and forty-eight; and those of Menilmontant and had his attention frequently and painfully offended every sense. The continual passage Montmartre, each sixty-four; in all, two huncalled to the various and crying evils that of animals impeded the general circulation of dred and forty. This number is much below attend upon the mode in which our markets the city; and the oxen, often over-heated by se- that of the master butchers; but several of them are supplied with animal food. From the en-vere driving, escaped from their conductors, employ others; and there are some slaughtertrance of the unhappy beasts into the suburbs spreading terror and distraction around them. rooms which are common to two butchers, the town, to the display of the meat on the These very serious inconveniences had for a where their trade is not large. The cattlebatchers' stalls, the whole system requires re- long time excited the solicitude of the adminis- sheds or stables have the same external dimenTon and amendment. The removal, how-tration. Several companies of capitalists, who sion as the corps of slaughtering-rooms. Beever, of Smithfield market, and the erection of felt this state of things, obtained plans for sides these arrangements, in each of the Abatextensive slaughter-houses in situations suit- Abattoirs, and offered to charge themselves with toirs are melting-houses, for the preparation of she to their purpose, are two of the promi- the execution. At length, by a decree of the tallow. Reservoirs and pipes furnish water in at measures which it seems indispensable to 9th of February, 1810, five public Abattoirs abundance to all parts of the establishment, were ordered to be erected at the expense of enclosed courts for the refuse, stables and sheds the city of Paris. Five architects were charged for the service of the butchers, public privies, with their execution, and met under the order open pens for the oxen, and apartments for the of the minister of the interior in commission; officers of the establishment. Tripe houses at the head of which was the vice-president of have since been added, which it was the origiThe name of butchery is generally given to the Council of Buildings, and to which the nal intention to exclude. We have only to ablishments where many butchers slaughter secretary of the same council and M. Combault, regret that the council was deprived of the inDe animals intended for consumption, prepare a master butcher, were added. In the first formation which the butchers themselves might meat, and expose it for sale. With the sitting of the 14th October, 1810, the commis- have given, if the spirit which animated them ts, the slaughter-house and the place of sioners adopted a programme (prospectus). had allowed them to have a unanimous opithe were separate. This separation likewise This programme was the work of M. Com-nion upon the advantages of which each part in some large modern cities, where they bault, whose long experience was confidently of the establishment was susceptible. ate the former as the Abattoir, or relied upon. M. Gauché, one of the architects commission experienced, and I experienced ter-house, and the latter as the butcher's named by the minister, was charged with the myself, how difficult it is to combat the spirit In ancient Rome they had formed, for formation of the first plans, as well as the ge- of routine, and the interests of individuals. purchase and sale of oxen, companies or neral arrangements, conformable to the pro- The Abattoirs of Paris will remain, however, of butchers, who confided to their sub- spectus, and intended to accompany it. He for a long time, the finest edifices of the the care of slaughtering the animals, acquitted himself as might be expected from kind in Europe, or in the whole world. They af preparing them for the use of the public. his deserved reputation. These plans compreThe bichers, at first spread over different hended all the buildings which should compose wra of the town, were afterwards collected in a public Abattoir. Their disposition, from marter, where other provisions were sold. which very little deviation has been made, is the reign of Nero the great market or largely traced; all the buildings were isolated, ry was one of the most magnificent or- and surrounded by wide streets and squares; of the city; and the memory of it and it may be truly said, that in that respect transmitted to posterity by a medal. nothing was omitted that could be desirable. pace of the Romans extended to Gaul, In other respects, it seems that the prospectus,

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They manage these matters better in Face." Mr. Hakewill gives the following arunt, translated from Bruyère, their diar, of the Abattoirs of Paris :

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have been formed from no previously approved model, but will themselves serve as such,adopting, at the same time, such alterations as experience may direct. The architects who were charged with the execution of these Abattoirs, were Petit-Radei, Leloir, Gisors, Heppe, and Poidevin. I shall now enter into some details concerning them.

"Slaughter-rooms. The Abattoirs of Paris

Comento Analitico di Gabriele Rossetti. In
Sei Volumi: Vol. II. 8vo. pp. 556. Londra,
J. Murray.

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contain two or four corps of slaughter-rooms, | from their own habitations the very disagree- La Divina Comedia di Dante Alighieri; eon each composed of two buildings separated by a able part of their business), I am certain that court. The slaughter-rooms, formed by parti- their prejudices would speedily give way, as tion walls of freestone, have each 5 metres (16 ft. they have at Paris, where the butchers univer3 in.) in width, and 10 metres (32 ft. 6 in.) in sally acknowledge, that were they now allowed WHEN the first volume of this interesting length, from centre to centre of pilaster; and each a choice between the old system (that is our pre-work appeared, two years ago, it was noticed of them has two entrances, one from the court, sent one) and the Abattoirs, they would prefer in the Literary Gazette (No. 468, Jan. 7, 1826,) by which the animal is introduced, and one the latter. The butcher who slaughters even by one of the most accomplished Italian schofrom the exterior, for the removal of the meat. sheep at his own habitation, can expect to let lars of the age, with praises and indications of Each slaughter-room' is supplied with water, no part of his house but to a very inferior de- its merits and importance, to which we beg and a sink placed a little below the level of the scription of lodgers, making a diminution of his leave to refer. The further Signor Rossetti pavement. A rack-wheel and pulleys is fixed income from that source, more than equivalent proceeds, the more conclusive does the convicagainst the wall for lifting the animal, and a to the expense of a slaughter-room (should he tion become, that he has at last discovered the framing composed of two pieces placed hori- even rent one to himself); and his business being true key to the hidden sense of the Inferno, zontally, at the height of 2 metres 30 conti- considered a nuisance, he is consequently after the meaning of that extraordinary poem metres (6 ft. 10 in.) fixed in the wall at one obliged to pay a high premium to obtain a had lain five hundred years in darkness and end, and carried at the other by a cross-piece. situation in frequented and well - inhabited From this framing, seven or eight oxen may be parts of the town. This expense would no Following some useful preliminary matter suspended by the means of movable rails; and longer weigh upon his trade. The butchers' and curious diagrams, the second volume of iron brackets fixed against the wall, serve to shops in Paris are objects of admiration for Signor Rossetti's Exposition, recently pubsupport the calves and sheep. These slaughter- their extreme cleanliness. The high polish of lished, takes up the poem of Dante where it was rooms, as well as the court of communication, their brass scales and weights, and the white-broken off in Vol. I., namely, at Canto XII., are built of stone, the joints are carefully ness of the linen which they universally hang with which he pursues the same course as in his stopped with a mastic of iron filings, that no behind their meat, leave the London butchers' former inquiry, to the end of Canto XXXIV. offensive matter may lodge therein. The ceil- shops far behind them. The trade, therefore, The Notes and Reflections are equally ingeings are plastered, for the greater cleanliness. is with them no nuisance. Again; where the nious and convincing; and no one can rise from Small openings are made at the bottom butcher has a greater trade, and slaughters the perusal of these pages without feeling that, of the doors, for the circulation of air; and oxen as well as smaller animals, he is obliged, if Dante himself could be recalled to life, he the roofs have a projection of about three for the former service, to rent stabling, and must sanction the opinions of his able Critic. metres (9 ft. 9 in.) beyond the exterior walls, convert it for his purpose. This he cannot We would say that Rossetti has perhaps, occaaffording the double advantage of guaranteeing obtain for less than thirty or forty pounds sionally, found out beauties never intended by the slaughter rooms from the heat of the per annum; or if he should have taken a house, the writer; for it is far easier to supply a sun, and protecting the butchers from the for the advantage of a mews and stabling be- meaning than to create a thought or imaginaweather while working in the court-yard. hind it, his rent is proportionably increased, and tion: still, however, this will in no degree "Ox-stalls and Sheep-pens.-The days on he is encumbered with a larger house than detract from the value of his work, which we which the animals arrive at Paris are seldom he can occupy, or for which he can procure consider to be one of the most important in the the days on which they are killed. It is there- respectable tenants. The removal of Smith-whole circle of the Italian tongue. We look fore necessary to have places to receive them. field market by the competent authorities, I with much expectation to the prosecution of These buildings, of the most simple form and conceive to be the least troublesome part of this inquiry through the other productions of construction, have about 9 metres (29 ft. 3 in.) the arrangement. The city might have the Dante; and, in the interim, need hardly rein width, on the inside. Large stone arches control over, and might, and indeed ought, to commend these two volumes to every admirer supply the place of girders, and support the continue to receive the same dues at the new of polite literature. joists of the flooring of the upper rooms. A markets as they do at present; and the second range of arches supplies the place of value of the area of Smithfield would surely principals for the roof, and receives the pur- more than purchase the space required for the lines. The upper floor is partitioned into as four new markets on the spots pointed out. In many divisions as there are slaughter-rooms, summing up, therefore, the advantages of the that each butcher may secure his own forage; plans I have now the honour of laying before and each building is supplied with a very large the public, I may, I imagine, safely declare that cistern." they may be carried into execution without sacrifice of private interest; without oppression to any class of people; without violation of property; without destruction of any vested rights; and that the comparatively small outlay of little more than two hundred thousand pounds (returning an ample interest,) would create a monument to do honour to the age, and add another to the splendid improvements of the reign of George the Fourth.”

The expenses that would attend the formation of a similar establishment in London, and the inducements to that formation, are thus stated by Mr. Hakewill:

"The average quantity of ground employed for an Abattoir is about six acres. The value of which, if freehold, will be (in ground not offering any particular advantages to builders) about £1,200. This space would give accommodation to fifty slaughter-rooms, a tripery, and melting-house. I estimate the expense of the buildings, and the enclosure of the same by a wall, at about £20,000, making a total of £21,200. To give an adequate return for such an expenditure, I calculate

Fifty Slaughter-rooms, at 251. per annum
Tripery
Melting-house

1250
100
100
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"At this low rate of rent giving an adequate interest to the public for the expense of the outlay.

Three plans and sections of the Abattoir of
Roule close the work.

Most cordially do we hope that the Society which has lately been formed for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain the correction of the great existing abuses connected with this highly important subject, may be successful in its efforts; and that it may be able to persuade parliament of the necessity of that legislative interference, without which all private attempts at remedy must be comparatively un. availing. We need not comment on one of the most dangerous and offensive evils belonging to "A few words may now be addressed to the the present system; namely, the driving of fubutchers themselves, upon a plan which would rious animals through the crowded streets of produce so material an alteration in their the metropolis. The inconveniences and fatal habits, and which may, at first sight, seem to accidents which weekly mark this barbarous affect their interest. But if it should appear usage, ought long since to have led to its being that the plan affects their interests only by pro-abated, as an intolerable nuisance.* curing for them a diminution of their expense, The French is the only metropolis in the world which (besides the additional comfort of removing has at its gates a lake, thirty feet deep, and four acres in

The Imperial School Grammar of the English
Language. By George Granville. Part I
12mo. pp. 105. Devonport, R. Williams
London, G. B. Whittaker.

A Key to the above.
SMALL as this work is, it appears to us to be
as far as it has hitherto gone, of a very practi
cally useful character. The definitions of th
parts of speech are simple and intelligible. W
are much pleased with the illustration of tha
great difficulty in grammar, the proper applica
The parsin
tion of the subjunctive mood.
formula, also, seem exceedingly well calculate
to facilitate the student's progress. There ar
a few oversights, which struck us in glancin

extent, annually fed by about 1,800,000 square fect stercoraceous matter. It is the only metropolis in t world which has at its gates a pestilent charnel-hous of 12,700 horses; forming a mass of animal matt which receives every year, upon the average, the carcass 11,280,000 pounds in weight. Infectious and hideous these claques and voiries are, they are the source of sever useful fabrics, on which various branches of industry a commerce depend. A large portion of the vegetables a fruits consumed in Paris owes its growth and luxurian to the animal dung furnished from Montfauçon. T voirie of that place annually supplies the tanneries of t capital with above 10,000 horses' skins; it annually yiel a million of pounds of bones, which are either ground i use of sugar-refiners. Hence, also, proceed the elementa purpose of manuring the earth, or carbonised for t matter of Prussian blue, the sal ammoniac of smellir bottles, the strong glue which binds together the parts piano-fortes and violins, the fans of the ladies, and son times even their elegant combs. It is well known t more than one kind of the delicate fish which delights 1 palates of the Parisian epicures, is previously fatter on the worms generated by the putrefactions in the voi of Montfaucon! A work has lately been published Paris, the object of which is, to point out the means getting rid of all the inconveniences, and at the same ti retaining all the advantages, of these enormous and¿ gusting receptacles of impurity.

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over the book; but which, we dare say, Mr. Granville will correct in a second edition. For instance, in pages 26 and 27, he spells " befall, forestall, foretell," "befal, forestal, foretel," amprehending them in a catalogue of the verbs which double their final consonant in the past tense and participles; and that, (which is rather curious) after having justly, though courtesy, remarked, in page 22, on Dr. Johnson's inconsistency with respect to the orthography of this identical set of words. In the fourteenth of the first class of parsing lessons, the adjective is improperly used for the adverb:"Virthe shines brightest in her native lovely form;" stead of "Virtue shines most brightly," &c. la page 37, "The word that may be used either in relation to persons or things," is careless composition on the part of a grammarian, who, we have no doubt, knows as well as we know, that it ought to be, "The word that may be sed in relation either to persons or to things." But these are trifles, and would be entirely undeserving of notice, except in a treatise in which perfect accuracy is so desirable. Upon the whole, we repeat that we think very farably of Mr. Granville's little work.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

LONDON INSTITUTION.

We noticed in our last, the commencement of Pring parties at this Institution, similar to these which have so materially improved the endition and prospects of the Royal Institubonn Albemarle Street. They have begun spiciously; nearly five hundred persons were resent. Tea and other refreshments were provided at an early hour, and the doors of the rary thrown open at seven o'clock, for the dplay (as we mentioned) of a large collection novel inventions, and specimens of improvements in the arts and manufactures.

At eight o'clock the company adjourned to de Theatre, when a lecture was delivered by Mr. Partington, the subject of which will be best explained by a brief report of his introducary observations.

of the steam was, to a certain extent, impeded versity College: W. H. Griffith, T. C. Owen, Jesus Col-
by the adhesion of the safety-valve. On exa-W. A. Price, G. Barton, Brasennose College; C. Forster,
lege; W. P. Perry, Wadham College; A. L. L. Kaye,
mining the valve, he found that it would move J. Guard, Oriel College; H. Le Mesurier, New College;
with the most perfect freedom till the steam T. Lewin, T. Cornthwaite, Trinity College.
acquired a high expansive force; and that then, CAMBRIDGE, Feb. 8.-On Wednesday last, George Bid-
in opposition to all that might have been ex-dell Airy, Esq. M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, and Lu-
pected, it was actually held nearly in contact casian Professor of Mathematics, was unanimously elected
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Phi-
with the plate on which it usually rested. Pur-losophy, in the room of the late Robert Woodhouse, Esq.
suing his investigations, he found that a similar M.A. F.R.S.
effect resulted from the escape of air from a
small furnace."

Mr. Partington then, by a variety of novel and striking experiments, fully explained the real cause of this singular phenomenon, and concluded his lecture in nearly the following words :

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At a congregation on the same day, the following degrees were conferred :

Bachelor in Divinity.-J. T. Matthews, St. John's Col

lege.

Masters of Arts.-Rev. R. Thompson, Trinity College? Rev. F. J. Spitta, St. John's College.

Honorary Masters of Arts.-H. Fitzroy, Esq. Trinity

College: Hon. R. Le Poer Trench, St. John's College.
Bachelor of Civil Law.-J. H. Bayford, Trinity Hall.
Bachelors of Arts.-J. Raine, H. Wood, Trinity College;
J. Mossop, St. John's College.

"A pleasing duty now remains, prior to closing our notice of M. Clerment's apparatus. It is to congratulate the managers and proprieTHE ORIENTAL TRANSLATIONS. . We tors of this Institution, on the success that has regret to find, by a letter we have just received attended the present novel attempt of increasing from one of the most zealous of the promoters the usefulness of our establishment, by increas of this great design, that a severe attack of ing its means of imparting useful knowledge. gout has unfortunately deprived the Committee, The design, as you well know, originated with for the time, of the presence and aid of Sir the Royal Society, nearly two centuries back Gore Ouseley. This "untoward" circumbut their efforts were of a very different cha- stance has rendered it expedient to postpone racter. At the meetings, which were generally the General Meeting of the subscribers which attended by the very élite of its members, we was appointed for the twenty-first. We trust, find discussions on grafting teeth, and making however, that the delay will be very temporary; the teeth of one man grow in the mouth of and that we shall shortly have to announce the another,' occupying the place of rational investi- operations of this high literary undertaking as gation; and when we look for an account of being in full and rapid progress. the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world,' we find in place of so useful a report, some ridiculous disquisition on the probability of horns taking root in the earth, and vegetating like a tree.' In modern times, however, we are more especially indebted to the Royal Institution for having set us so good an example. Need I add, that we have not been sluggards in the race? and I trust that we shall go on with perseverance in the great and good work, till knowledge shall cover this goodly land, even as the waters of the ocean cover the beds of the great deep."

Amongst the numerous visitors were Colonel Colby, Mr. Pepys, Dr. Birkbeck, and several members of the different learned Societies.

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The printed notice put forth by the board f management," observed Mr. Partington, * will sunciently explain their objects in estabing a conversazione within these walls; and the announcement of this intention has, I Hall's New General Atlas. Parts III. and IV. happy to say, been received by the proprie- IN our No. 570 we announced the second Part s with the greatest possible satisfaction,-a of this excellent publication; and repeated our indeed, sufficiently attested by the numer- praise of the manner in which it followed up and highly respectable auditory who now the execution of the first Part. Proceeding round the lecture-table. The subject which with regularity, taste, and care, two other tais evening to engage our attention, has Parts of similar merit are now before us. Part happily suggested by your Committee of III. contains Greece, a difficult country to lay ement as peculiarly adapted for our ex-down with the clearness which distinguishes ation, both from its novelty and import- Mr. Hall's style, but which, in spite of its Many of my auditory have, no doubt, many mountains, is beautiful and distinct ;mall tube furnished with a disc of paper: South Italy, with Sardinia; and the Austrian bey may have seen it, probably, resist every Empire. Part IV. has the Netherlands, Europe, art to expel the movable disc from the tube and Turkey in Europe: the whole engraved in which it is laid. The little apparatus an admirable manner, so as to be just what Tare been examining, hardly appears of maps ought to be for easy and pleasant referaient importance to warrant our devoting traing to its examination; but those who at the origin of the great Newton's inis relative to the laws of gravitation, maly admit, that the fall of an apple e tree that supported it, scarcely appears * duré a more favourable subject for a sciennation, than the philosophical toy we ained. The construction of this little originated with M. Clerment, who, gaged in pursuing some experimental es relative to the escape of high pres- Compounder; W. Severne, Queen's College; C. J. C. this admirable specimen of his talents, we canwam from a boiler, found that the escape Bulteel, J. Vaughan, Balliol College; T. D. Spiers, Uni

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in its composition and execution than it is in its story.

exclusive opinions and systems into what they
are pleased to call their "studies from nature."
He exhibits the truth, "and nothing but the
truth."

James Northcote, Esq., in his Eighty-Second
Year. Engraved by T. Wright, after a
Drawing by A. Wivell.

The Spoilt Child. Engraved by G. H. Phillips, from a Picture by M. W. Sharp. Moon, Boys, and Graves.

No. 142. Psittica. Mrs. W. Carpenter. A VERY characteristic resemblance of this veteIt has for some years been our pleasant and ran in art, whose Fables, just published, have invariable task to bestow high encomiums on No. 443. A Committee of Taste. T. Web- given a fresh interest to his venerable name. the performances of this lady; and the ex-ster. We hardly know which most to admire, It is a stippled engraving; and has all the ample now under our notice well sustains the the sly whimsicality of the title, or the skill of softness and delicacy of a Caroline Watson. admiration we have always expressed. The the artist in the representation of the juvenile subject which Mrs. Carpenter has chosen has drama. The expression of the girl looking up called forth the most brilliant and powerful for her share of the stolen sweets, is inimitable. efforts of her pencil, both in colouring and in Nor is the companion to this pleasing picture effect: but as 66 we are nothing if not critical," (No. 446, the Cottage Diorama) less distinwe must be permitted to say that we think the guished for its interest and excellence. It IF every family in which the subject of this shadows of the flesh are occasionally a little too strikes us, however, that the window through entertaining print is to be found, were to purcold. The attention and success with which which the light is cast upon the little group chase a copy of it, the sale would be very exMrs. Carpenter has studied the execution of has too much the appearance of a framed tensive.-Without meaning, in the slightest Sir Joshua, is finely apparent in No. 183, The picture. degree, to undervalue Mr. Phillips's talents, Children in the Wood;-though perhaps the we must observe that we do not think mezzosentiment of the picture is scarcely in accordtinto a suitable style of engraving for this class ance with the simplicity of the story on which of works.

No. 197. The refreshing Pinch. T. Clater. This performance, and No. 199, Country Comforts, by the same artist, are purely English, it is founded. both in costume and in character; but in No. 26. La Fatiguée. A. Geddes. This chiaroscuro, and fidelity of imitation, they may is one of the proofs of the success of the British vie with many admired pictures of the Flemish School of Art when brought into competition school. No. 291, Reluctance, and No. 293, with the first-rate performances of the Flemish cannot fail to remember the Interior, by De painters. The visitors of the British Gallery Hooge, which hung nearly in the same place during the exhibition of his Majesty's collection. Without servile copying or imitation, Mr. Geddes has in this picture produced a similar effect. The subject is altogether original, and originally treated; and the tones of colour on the various accessories are in deceptive keeping, with the brightest light.

Intrusion, also by Mr. Clater, are in a similar
country courtship may be brought to a happy
style of execution, and shew the way in which
issue, when the "reluctance" of a father does
not operate on other and more interested
parties. The same artist has two other subjects
of cabinet size and high finish; but they are
hung too low for convenient inspection. These
are, No. 275, The Cobbler; and No. 276, The
Oyster-Girl.

No. 326. Pears. A. J. Oliver, A.R.A.

No. 200. The Pope's Villa at Albano, Italy. This, and several other productions by Mr. John Laporte, Our earliest recollections (no Oliver of a similar nature, appear to be in short period) are of this artist and his works; point of fidelity of character every way entitled and the freshness and vigour of his pencil in to the attention of all who regard truth in the this fine performance perfectly astonish us. It representation of natural objects; but, unforstrongly resembles Wilson, (we mean the great tunately, they are placed almost entirely out Richard,) but is free from the ruggedness of of sight. handling which appeared in some of that eminent artist's later productions. The scene is one of such beautiful tranquillity, that it can hardly fail to communicate its soothing character to the mind of the contemplative spectator.

No. 195. Deer fallen from a Precipice. Edwin Landseer, A.R.A. Whatever may be the subject treated by this able artist, he always renders it highly interesting, not only by his firm and masterly style of execution, but also by the sentiment which he invariably infuses into it. Who can look upon this beautiful and noble animal, parted for ever from its native heath, and about to become the prey of the fierce and expectant raven or kite, without commiserating its disastrous fate ?

Hofland.

No. 123. Landscape; Moonlight. T. C. - Of all the varied effects of light upon landscape, that of the moon in her brightness is perhaps the best calculated to elevate and tranquillise the mind. Her mild lustre is shed impartially on the palace and on the cottage, and may be said to level all distinctions. Touched with her silver pencil, the humblest shrub may furnish as sweet a tone, and as picturesque a form, to the artist, as the stateliest tree of the forest. In this composition, as well as in No. 440 (a similar subject), Mr. Hofland has displayed, if possible, more than his usual skill. The reflected light on the water is dazzlingly deceptive.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The British Preserve. By S. Howitt. No. I.
T. Griffiths.

Action in the Bay of Navarino.__Painted and
Engraved by W. Daniell, R.A. Acker-

mann.

THE original of this print, which at the present tution. It is, we presume, a sketch for a larger moment must be peculiarly attractive, is now exhibiting in the Gallery of the British Instiand more studied picture.

The Dancing Bear. Engraved by Henry Meyer, from a Picture by W. F. Witherington. Moon, Boys, and Graves.

WE well recollect admiring in the Exhibition Mr. Witherington's powers as an artist, from at Somerset House the very pleasing proof of which this print has been taken. The execution of the plate is of a mixed character; the flesh and sky being stippled, and the other nation which, however skilfully managed, is parts being engraved in line. This is a combiseldom, or never, perfectly satisfactory.

IMPROVEMENTS OF LONDON.

That

Designs for Villas, on a Moderate Scale of
Expense; adapted to the Vicinity of the Me-IN our last we promised to give some further
tropolis, or Large Towns. No. I. By J. G. information upon a subject of very general
Jackson. London, 1828. J. Carpenter. interest, namely, the Improvements of the
FROM a first Number of these plans, perspec- Metropolis. Of these improvements, one of
tives, and elevations (to be completed in six the most, if not the most prominent, is un-
Numbers), we are not enabled to offer any de- questionably the New Palace erecting for the
cisive opinion. We are not much struck with reception of His Majesty. Against this, in its
the Villa here designed; of which, prettiness present form, there appears to have been a
may be called the characteristic.
common feeling of dislike throughout; at
least we have heard no other expression,
either in the various circles of society, or in
those periodical publications which occasionally
THIS is the first Number of a work, in quarto, deliver opinions upon such matters.
to be completed in nine monthly Numbers, from these sentiments, according, no doubt, with
a series of thirty-six drawings, including forty- the good taste of the King, have reached the
seven different quadrupeds and birds, usually royal ear, we have reason to conclude, from
hunted and shot in Great Britain; the whole the command which has just been given to
designed from nature, and engraved in aqua- demolish the most obnoxious parts of the newly
fortis, by S. Howitt. Mr. Howitt's talents in raised building. Indeed it was from a convic-
this department of the arts are well known; and tion that they never could be allowed to stand
judging from the present specimen, which com- and disfigure the capital, that we were induced
prehends "Fallow-deer, Heron, Partridge, and to abstain, till now, from fulfilling a promise
Woodcock," the work promises to be very in- made to our readers to give them an engraving
teresting, not only to the sportsman, but to the of the principal front.
lover of natural history generally. The birds Having now, however, obtained from very
and animals are drawn and etched with great high authority sufficient_information to en-
truth and precision; and the back-grounds ex-able us to display the Palace as it is to be,
hibit their various haunts with much of pic- we hasten, with pleasure, to acquit ourselves
turesque effect.
of that promise. From this Plan it will be ob-
served, that the awkward and unsightly wings
Devils at Play-Published by R. Newton-are to be deprived of their present absurd ter-

No. 290. Beech Trees in Penshurst Park; painted from Nature. F. R. Lee. We have on a former occasion had to mention the landscapes of this artist as of a character truly As works of art, are poor Devils! admirable for style and execution. The fidelity

of his tones is quite delightful. Mr. Lee is

minations, and to be raised to an equal elevation with the rest of the Palace. The same orders of architecture are to be continued

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round the three sides of the quadrangle (the fourth being formed by the Triumphal Arch); and thus, it appears, that instead of the low corridors running from the main building to the two wings, there will be the two sides of the quadrangle, as already noticed, of uniform beight with the centre. How the rooms so created are to be appropriated, is yet to be determined: there is undoubtedly sufficient cause for their number being increased beyond the original plan; for in reality, the Palace, with all its bulk, (so scant were the accommodations,) could only be reckoned a bachelor's bouse.

We wish, with all these additions and im provements of "the King's Palace," we could entertain a hope that (even in spite of its bad situation) it could be rendered worthy of the Packnowledged taste of the Monarch, and the

liberality of a great people. But looking at what is to be allowed to stand, and the design of what is to be added, the innumerable apertures, the trifling masses, the mixture of Grecian and Roman Architecture, and other incongruities; we must confess that we can expect nothing as the result but a very common-place building.

The snow has prevented us from extending our observations upon the Parks; but we shall return to them at a fitting opportunity: and in the meantime refer to our print for a Complete idea of the alterations about to be made in the Palace.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE CHANGE.

THY features do not wear the light
They wore in happier days;
Though still there may be much to love,
There's little left to praise.

The rose has faded from thy cheek—
There's scarce a blush left now;
And there's a dark and weary sign
Upon thine altered brow.

Thy raven hair is dashed with gray,
Thine eyes are dim with tears;
And care, before thy youth is past,
Has done the work of years.
Beatiful wreck! for still thy face,
Though changed, is very fair-
Lake beauty's moonlight, left to shew
Her morning sun was there.-

We med hardly notice that we have only thought it to engrave one of the wing-sides: the other is

Come, here are friends and festival,
Recall thine early smile-

And wear yon wreath, whose glad red rose
Will lend its bloom awhile.

Come, take thy lute, and sing again

The song you used to singThe bird-like song :-See, though unused, The lute has every string. What! doth thy hand forget the luteThy brow reject the wreath? Alas! whate'er the change above,

There's more of change beneath!
The smile may come, the smile may go,
The blush shine and depart;
But farewell when their sense is quench'd
Within the breaking heart.

And such is thine: 'tis vain to seek
The shades of past delight:
Fling down the wreath, and break the lute
They mock our souls to-night.

L. E. L.

THE LEGACY OF THE LUTE.
COME, take the lute-the lute I loved,
"Tis all I have to offer thee;
And may it be less fatal gift

Than it has ever been to me.
My sigh yet lingers on the strings,

The strings I have not heart to break: Wilt thou not, dearest! keep the lute

For my-for the departed's sake?
But pray thee do not wake that lute;
Leave it upon the cypress tree :

I would have crushed its charmed chords,
But they so oft were strung to thee.
The minstrel-lute! oh, touch it not,
Or weary destiny is thine;
Thy life a twilight's haunted dream-
Thou, victim at an idol's shrine.
Thy breath but lives on others' lips-

Thy hope, a thing beyond the graveThy heart, bare to the vulture's beakThyself, a bound and barter'd slave. And yet a dangerous charm o'er all,

A bright but ignis-fatuus flame, Luring thee with a show of power, Dazzling thee with a blaze of fame. It is to waste on careless hearts

The throbbing music of thine own;
To speak love's burning words, yet be
Alone-ay, utterly alone.

I sought to fling my laurel wreath
Away upon the autumn wind:

In vain, 'twas like those poison'd crowns
Thou mayst not from the brow unbind.

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LADY CAROLINE LAMB, the only daughter of the Earl of Besborough, was born Nov. 13, 1785. Her character very early developed itself wild and impatient of restraint, rapid in impulses, generous, and kind of heart,these were the first traits of her nature, and they continued to the last. In 1805, her mar. riage with the Hon. William Lamb, then the second, now the eldest surviving son of Lord Melbourne, took place. On her subsequent entrance into the world, the singularity as well as the grace of her manners, the rank of her own connexions, and the talent of her husband's, soon made Lady Caroline Lamb one of the most celebrated dames du château of the day. That day was remarkable for the literary début of Lord Byron. Much has been written and much said respecting the intimacy that subsisted between Lady Caroline and that remarkable person; but it is not amidst gossip that we are to look for truth. "The world," says an acute writer of the present day, "is very lenient to the mistresses of poets;" and perhaps not without justice; for their attachments have something of excuse not only in their object but in their origin, and arise from imagination, not depravity. It was nearly three years before the intimacy between Lord Byron and Lady Caroline was utterly broken off. The latter never entirely recovered it. Those who knew her well, will painfully remember the bitterness of reproach and the despondency of reflection to which, after that period, she was, notwithstanding her constitutional spirits, perpetually subjected. Glenarvon was written immediately after this rupture: though the most faulty, it is the most eloquent of all her works. Subsequently appeared Graham Hamilton, a book of a very different nature. Its design was suggested to her by Ugo Foscolo. "Write a book," said he, "which will offend nobody: women can

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