feated and slain, in so melancholy and cruel a mirable defence of a country in time of war, step-son's hands, which he forcibly closed on manner at Dryffe Sands. On the contrary, must have been great scourges in time of the the scalding bread, saying, Here, Allan— Sir James Johnstone was not only pardoned, profound peace to which the Border districts here is a cake which your mother has got but restored to favour and trust by the king. were consigned after the close of the English ready for your breakfast.' Allan's hands were But there was a conspicuous difference in wars, was the levying a large body of soldiers severely burnt; and, being a sharp-witted and the consequences of the murder which took to serve in foreign countries. The love of mi- proud boy, he resented this mark of his stepplace at Auchmanhill, in 1608. Lord Max- litary adventure had already carried one legion father's ill-will, and came not again to Torwell, finding no refuge in the Border coun- to serve the Dutch in their defence against the loisk. At this time the western seas were try, was obliged to escape to France, where Spaniards, and they had done great service in covered with the vessels of pirates, who, not he resided for two or three years; but the Low Countries, and particularly at the unlike the sea-kings of Denmark at an early afterwards venturing to return to Scotland, he battle of Mechline, in 1578: where, impatient period, sometimes settled and made conquests was apprehended in the wilds of Caithness, of the heat of the weather, to the astonishment on the islands. Allan-a-Sop was young, strong, and brought to trial at Edinburgh. James, of both friends and enemies, the Scottish auxi- and brave to desperation. He entered as a desirous on this occasion to strike terror, by liaries flung off their upper garment, and mariner on board of one of these ships, and a salutary warning, into the factious nobility fought like furies in their shirts. The cir- in process of time obtained the command, first and disorderly Borderers, caused the criminal cumstance is pointed out in the plan of the of one galley, then of a small flotilla, with to be publicly beheaded on 21st May, 1613. battle which is to be found in Strada, with the which he sailed round the seas and collected Many instances might be added to shew that explanation- Here the Scots fought naked.' considerable plunder, until his name became the course of justice on the Border began, after Buccleuch levied a large additional force from both feared and famous. At length he prothe accession of James to the English throne, the Border, whose occupation in their native posed to himself to pay a visit to his mother, to flow with a less interrupted stream, even country was gone for ever. These also dis- whom he had not seen for many years: and where men of rank and power were concerned. tinguished themselves in the wars of the Low setting sail for this purpose, he anchored one The inferior class of freebooters were treated Countries. It may be supposed that very morning in the sound of Ulva, and in front with much less ceremony. Proclamations were many of them perished in the field, and the of the house of Torloisk. His mother was made, that none of the inhabitants of either descendants of others still survive in the Ne-dead, but his step-father, to whom he was side of the Border (except noblemen and gen- therlands and in Germany." now an object of fear as he had been fortlemen of unsuspected character) should re- So much for the Borders; now for the West- merly of aversion, hastened to the shore to tain in their possession armour or weapons, ern Isles-the adventures of Allan-a-Sop! receive his formidable son-in-law, with great offensive or defensive, or keep any horse above "The MacLeans," we are told, 66 a bold affectation of kindness and interest in his the value of fifty shillings. Particular clans, and hardy race, who, originally followers of prosperity; while Allan-a-Sop, who, though described as broken men, were especially dis- the Lords of the Isles, had assumed inde- very rough and hasty, does not appear to charged the use of weapons. The celebrated pendence, seized upon great part both of the have been sullen or vindictive, seemed to take clan of Armstrong had, on the very night in isle of Mull and the still more valuable island his kind reception in good part. The crafty which Queen Elizabeth's death became public, of Ilay, and made war on the MacDonalds old man succeeded so well, as he thought, in concluding that a time of misrule, by which with various success. There is a story be- securing Allan's friendship, and obliterating they had hitherto made their harvest, was longing to this clan, which I may tell you, all recollections of the former affront put on again approaching, and desirous of losing no as giving another striking picture of the man- him, that he began to think it possible to time, made a fierce incursion into England, ners of the Hebrideans. The chief of the clan, employ him in executing his private revenge and done much mischief. But such a conse- MacLean, of Duart, in the isle of Mull, had upon MacKinnon of Ulva, with whom, as was quence had been foreseen and provided against. an intrigue with a beautiful young woman of usual between such neighbours, he had some A strong body of soldiers, both English and his own clan, who bore a son to him. In con- feud. With this purpose, he offered what he Scots, swept along the Border, and severely sequence of the child's being, by some accident, called the following good advice to his son-inpunished the marauders, blowing up their for- born in a barn, he received the name of Allan- law: My dear Allan, you have now wantresses with gunpowder, destroying their lands, a-Sop, or Allan of the Straw, by which he was dered over the seas long enough; it is time and driving away their cattle and flocks. The distinguished from others of his clan. As his you should have some footing upon land, a Armstrongs appear never to have recovered father and mother were not married, Allan castle to protect yourself in winter, a village their consequence after this severe chastise- was of course a bastard, or natural son, and and cattle for your men, and a harbour to lay ment; nor are there many of this celebrated had no inheritance to look for, save that which up your galleys. Now, here is the island of clan now to be found among the landholders of he might win for himself. But the beauty of Ulva, near at hand, which lies ready for your Liddesdale, where they once possessed the the boy's mother having captivated a man of occupation, and it will cost you no trouble, whole district. The Grahams, long the inha- rank in the clan, called MacLean, of Torloisk, save that of putting to death the present probitants of the Debateable Land which was he married her, and took her to reside with prietor, the Laird of MacKinnon, a useless claimed both by England and Scotland, were him at his castle of Torloisk, situated on the old carle, who has cumbered the world long still more severely dealt with. They were shores of the sound, or small strait of the sea, enough.' Allan-a-Sop thanked his stepfather very brave and active Borderers, attached to which divides the smaller island of Ulva from for so happy a suggestion, which he declared England; for which country, and particularly that of Mull. Allan-a-Sop paid his mother he would put in execution forthwith. Acin Edward VI.'s time, they had often done frequent visits at her new residence, and she cordingly, setting sail the next morning, he good service. But they were also very lawless, was naturally glad to see the poor boy, both appeared before MacKinnon's house an hour and their incursions were as much dreaded by from affection and on account of his personal before noon. The old chief of Ulva was much the inhabitants of Cumberland as by those of strength and beauty, which distinguished him alarmed at the menacing apparition of so the Scottish frontier. This, indeed, was the above other youths of his age. But she was many galleys, and his anxiety was not lessened subject of complaint on both sides of the Bor- obliged to confer marks of her attachment on by the news, that they were commanded by der; and the poor Grahams, seeing no alter- him as privately as she could, for Allan's visits the redoubted Allan-a-Sop. Having no efnative, were compelled to sign a petition to the were by no means so acceptable to her husband fectual means of resistance, MacKinnon, who king, stating themselves to be unfit persons to as to herself. Indeed, Torloisk liked so little to was a man of shrewd sense, saw no alterdwell in the country which they now inhabited, see the lad, that he determined to put some af-native, save that of receiving the invaders, and praying that he would provide the means front on him, which should prevent his returning whatever might be their purpose, with all outof transporting them elsewhere, where his pa to the castle for some time. An opportunity for ward demonstrations of joy and satisfaction. ternal goodness should assign them the means executing his purpose soon occurred. The lady He caused immediate preparations to be made of life. The whole clan, a very few individuals one morning, looking from the window, saw for a banquet as splendid as circumstances excepted, were thus deprived of their lands and her son coming wandering down the hill, and admitted, hastened down to the shore to residences, and transported to the county of hastened to put a girdle-cake upon the fire, meet the rover, and welcomed him to Ulva Ulster, in Ireland, where they were settled on that he might have hot bread to his break-with such an appearance of sincerity, that the lands which had been acquired from the con- fast. Something called her out of the apart-pirate found it impossible to pick any quarquered Irish. There is a list which shews the ment after making this preparation, and her rel which might afford a pretence for executrate at which the county of Cumberland was husband entering at the same time, saw at ing the violent purpose which he had been led taxed for the exportation of these poor fellows, once what she had been about, and deter- to meditate. They feasted together the whole as if they had been so many bullocks. An- mined to give the boy such a reception as day; and in the evening, as Allan-a-Sop was other efficient mode of getting rid of a warlike should disgust him for the future. He snatched about to retire to his ships, he thanked the and disorderly population, who, though an ad-the cake from the girdle, thrust it into his Laird of MacKinnon for his entertainment,

From the many strange narratives of Highland feuds, we must content ourselves with the subjoined:

The death of James is thus forcibly related:

but remarked, with a sigh, that it had cost as his word. He was confined in the pit, or and tumult, they greatly resembled — but a him very dear. 'How can that be,' said dungeon of the castle, a deep dark vault, to huge mob of children, half naked, and totally MacKinnon, 'when I bestowed this enter- which there was no access, save through a wild in their manners, who threw themselves tainment upon you in free good will? It is hole in the roof. He was left without food, till on the contents of the trough, and fought, true, my friend,' replied the pirate; but then his appetite grew voracious; the more so, as struggled, and clamoured, each to get the it has quite disconcerted the purpose for which he had reason to apprehend that it was in- largest share. Grant was a man of humanity, I came hither, which was to put you to death, tended to starve him to death. But the ven- and did not see in that degrading scene all the my good friend, and seize upon your house geance of his uncle was of a more refined cha- amusement which his noble host had intended and island, and so settle myself in the world. racter. The stone which covered the aperture to afford him. In the name of Heaven,' he It would have been very convenient this in the roof was opened, and a quantity of salted said, who are these unfortunate creatures island, but your friendly reception has rendered beef let down to the prisoner, who devoured it that are fed like so many pigs?' They are it impossible for me to execute my purpose; so eagerly. When he had glutted himself with the children of those Farquharsons whom we that I must be a wanderer on the seas for some his food, and expected to be supplied with slew last year on the Dee side,' answered time longer.' Whatever MacKinnon felt at liquor, to quench the raging thirst which the Huntly. The laird felt more shocked than hearing he had been so near to destruction, he diet had excited, a cup was slowly lowered it would have been prudent or polite to express. took care to shew no emotion save surprise, down, which, when he eagerly grasped it, he' My lord,' he said, my sword helped to make and replied to his visitor,- My dear Allan, found to be empty! They then rolled the these poor children orphans, and it is not fair who was it that put into your mind so unkind stone on the opening in the vault, and left the that your lordship should be burdened with all a purpose towards your old friend, for I am captive to perish by thirst, the most dreadful the expense of maintaining them. You have sure it never arose from your own generous of all deaths. Many similar stories could be supported them for a year and a day-allow me nature? It must have been your father-in- told you of the wild wars of the islanders; but now to take them to Castle Grant, and keep law, old Torloisk, who made such an indif- these may suffice at present to give you some them for the same time at my cost.' Huntly ferent husband to your mother, and such an idea of the fierceness of their manners, the low was tired of the joke of the pig-trough, and wilunfriendly step-father to you when you were value at which they held human life, and the lingly consented to have the undisciplined raba helpless boy; but now, when he sees you a manner in which wrongs were revenged, and ble of children taken off his hands. He troubled bold and powerful leader, he desires to make a property acquired. They seem to have been himself no more about them; and the Laird of quarrel betwixt you and those who were the accounted by King James a race whom it was Grant, carrying them to his castle, had them friends of your youth. If you consider this impossible to subdue, conciliate, or improve by dispersed among his clan, and brought up dematter rightly, Allan, you will see that the civilisation; and the only remedy which oc- cently, giving them his own name of Grant; estate and harbour of Torloisk lie as con- curred to him, was to settle Lowlanders in the but it is said their descendants are still called veniently for you as those of Ulva, and that if islands, and drive away or extirpate the people the Race of the Trough, to distinguish them you are to make a settlement by force, it is by whom they were inhabited." from the families of the tribe into which they much better it should be at the expense of the were adopted." old churl who never shewed you kindness or countenance, than at that of a friend like me, who always loved and honoured you.' "The Farquharsons of Dee side, a bold and "In the year 1625 James died. He was Allan-a-Sop was struck with the justice of warlike people, inhabiting the dales of Brae- the least dignified and accomplished of all his this reasoning; and the old offence of his mar, had taken offence at, and slain, a gentle family; but, at the same time, the most forscalded fingers was suddenly recalled to his man of consequence, named Gordon of Brackley. tunate. Robert II., the first of the Stewart mind. It is very true what you say, Mac- The Marquess of Huntly summoned his forces, family, died, it is true, in peace; but Robert Kinnon,' he replied; and besides, I have to take a bloody vengeance for the death of a III. had sunk under the family losses which not forgotten what a hot breakfast my father-Gordon; and that none of the guilty tribe he had sustained: James I. was murdered; in-law treated me to one morning. Farewell might escape, communicated with the Laird of James II. killed by the bursting of a cannon; for the present; you shall soon hear news of Grant, a very powerful chief, who was an ally James III. (whom James VI. chiefly resemme from the other side of the sound.' Having of Huntly, and a relation, I believe, to the bled,) was privately slain after the battle of said thus much, the pirate got on board, and slain Baron of Brackley. They agreed, that, Sauchie-Burn; James IV. fell at Flodden; commanding his men to unmoor the galleys, on a day appointed, Grant, with his clan in James V. died of a broken heart; Henry sailed back to Torloisk, and prepared to land arms, should occupy the upper end of the vale Darnley, the father of James VI. was treaHis father-in-law hastened to meet of Dee, while the Gordons should ascend the cherously murdered; and his mother, Queen him, in expectation to hear of the death of his river from beneath, each party killing, burn- Mary, was tyrannically beheaded. He himself enemy, MacKinnon. But Allan greeted him ing, and destroying, without mercy, whatever alone, without courage, without sound sagain a very different manner from what he ex- and whomsoever they found before them. A city, without that feeling of dignity which pected. You hoary old traitor,' he said, you terrible massacre was made among the Farqu- should restrain a prince from foolish indulinstigated my simple good-nature to murder a harsons, taken at unawares, and placed betwixt gences, became king of the great nation which better man than yourself. But have you for- two enemies. Almost all the men and women had for ages threatened to subdue that of which gotten how you scorched my fingers twenty of the race were slain, and when the day was he was born monarch; and the good fortune of years ago with a burning cake? The day is done, Huntly found himself encumbered with the Stewart family, which seems to have excome that that breakfast must be paid for.' about two hundred orphan children, whose isted in his person alone, declined and totally So saying, he dashed out his father-in-law's parents had been killed. What became of them, decayed in those of his successors." brains with a battle-axe, took possession of his you shall presently hear. About a year after To this portion of the work succeeds the castle and property, and established there a this foray, the Laird of Grant chanced to dine reign of Charles I.: the account of his civil distinguished branch of the clan of MacLean. at the marquess's castle. He was, of course, re-wars, and especially of those battles in which -It is told of another of these western chiefs, ceived with kindness, and entertained with the gallant Montrose distinguished himself, who is said, upon the whole, to have been a magnificence. After dinner was over, Huntly are given with great animation. After the kind and good-natured man, that he was sub- said to his guest, that he would shew him some execution of Charles, the struggle between jected to repeated risk and injury by the rare sport. Accordingly, he conducted Grant his successor and Cromwell, and between the treachery of an ungrateful nephew, who at- to a balcony, which, as was frequent in old Presbyterians and Independents, is also detempted to surprise his castle, in order to put mansions, overlooked the kitchen, perhaps to tailed with surprising conciseness and force; his uncle to death, and obtain for himself the permit the lady to give an occasional eye to the but, as better suited to our purpose, we shall command of the tribe. Being detected on the operations there. The numerous servants of turn for extracts to an episode on the state first occasion, and brought before his uncle as the marquess and his visitors had already dined, of the country referring to trials for witcha prisoner, the chief dismissed him unharmed; and Grant beheld all the remains of the vic- craft. Of this miserable superstition the inwith a warning, however, not to repeat the tuals flung at random into a large trough, like stances are numerous, and, in our days, almost offence, since, if he did so, he would cause him that out of which swine feed. While Grant incredible. to be put to a death so fearful that all Scotland was wondering what this could mean, the mas- "But in the seventeenth century, the belief should ring with it. The wicked young man ter cook gave a signal with his silver whistle; in this imaginary crime was general, and the persevered, and renewed his attempts against on which a hatch, like that of a dog-kennel, prosecutions, especially in Scotland, were very his uncle's castle and life. Falling a second was raised, and there rushed into the kitchen, frequent. James VI., who often turned the time into the hands of the offended chieftain, some shrieking, some shouting, some yelling learning he had acquired to a very idle use, the prisoner had reason to term him as good not a pack of hounds, which, in number, noise, was at the trouble to write a treatise against

in arms.

66

The death of Cromwell restored the mo- limits admit of this poem and the miscella narchy; and the religious differences in Scot-neous ones which fill up the volume. land, the wars and persecutious of the cove- In the following stanzas Rosalie describes nant, &c. occupy the remainder of the second her attention to her father in her innocent volume, with which we shall now conclude. days.

Receiving the publication at a very late hour, we have only to repeat that it seems to us to be fully equal to its precursor, and even more fitted to fix the attention and stamp the memory of the young with the leading facts of Scottish history. To all ages, indeed, it will furnish interesting reading. Three portraits, Montrose, Dundee, and Fletcher of Saltoun, grace the frontispieces, and three very clever vignettes by Lizars farther embellish these charming tomes.

The Sorrows of Rosalie. 12mo. pp. 184.

witchcraft, as he composed another against
smoking tobacco; and the Presbyterian clergy,
however little apt to coincide with that mo-
narch's sentiments, gave full acceptation to
his opinion on the first point of doctrine, and
very many persons were put to death as guilty
of this imaginary crime."-The following
case rests on tradition, but is very likely to
be true. An eminent English judge was tra-
velling the circuit, when an old woman was
brought before him for using a spell to cure
dimness of sight by hanging a clew of yarn
round the neck of the patient. Marvellous
things were told by the witnesses of the cures
which this spell had performed on patients far
beyond the reach of ordinary medicine. The
poor woman made no other defence than by
protesting, that if there was any witchcraft in
the ball of yarn, she knew nothing of it. It
London, 1828. Ebers and Co.
had been given her, she said, thirty years THIS is a very modest, very unassuming, and
before, by a young Oxford student, for the cure very beautiful little volume. The fair author has
of one of her own family, who, having used it an hereditary claim to talent, for she is, we
with advantage, she had seen no harm in lend- understand, the daughter of the late Thomas
ing it for the relief of others who laboured Sheridan; and she has a personal claim to ad-
under similar infirmity, or in accepting a small miration and notice, as a woman of no ordinary
gratuity for doing so. Her defence was little beauty, and moving in no secondary sphere. It
attended to by the jury; but the judge was is rarely that youth, beauty, and fashion, form
much agitated. He asked the woman where the mould of a poetess; the influence of the lat-
she resided when she obtained possession of ter two, indeed, is generally adverse. But here,
this valuable relic. She gave the name of a though the writer has had to contend with the
village, in which she had in former times kept inexperience of youth, with the injudicious and
a petty alehouse. He then looked at the clew mind-blighting adulation that is entailed on
very earnestly; and at length addressed the beauty, and with the distraction of fashionable
jury. Gentlemen,' he said, we are on the life, the seeds of poetry have found in her heart
point of committing a great injustice to this a congenial soil, and have sprung up and flou-
poor old woman, and, to prevent it, I must pub-rished, with some of the irregularity perhaps,
licly confess a piece of early folly, which does but with all the freshness and fragrance, of the
me no honour. At the time this poor creature spontaneous wild flowers of the field and the
speaks of, I was at college, leading an idle and valley.

careless life, which, had I not been given grace There is nothing very intricate in the story
to correct it, must have made it highly impro- of the Sorrows of Rosalie, which comprise the
bable that ever I should have attained my pre-bulk of the volume;-it is the simple narration
sent situation. I chanced to remain for a day of a tale which has been told again and again,
and night in this woman's alehouse, without and which is too often and too truly a tale of
having money to discharge my reckoning. real life. Rosalie, won by the artful blandish-
Not knowing what to do, and seeing her much ments of her lover, Arthur, is by him per-
occupied with a child who had weak eyes, I had suaded to leave her aged father, and is awhile
the meanness to pretend that I could write out deluded by promises of marriage, which ulti-
a spell that would mend her daughter's sight, mately terminate in her desertion by the worth-
if she would accept it instead of her bill. The less being who has insnared her affections. She
ignorant woman readily agreed; and I scrawled seeks her betrayer in London, with her child;
some figures on a piece of parchment, and added is repulsed with coldness and cruelty; encoun-
two lines of nonsensical doggrel, in ridicule of ters all the misery of want, and at length of
her credulity, and caused her to make it up famine, added to the pangs of remorse. She
in that clew which has so nearly cost her her returns to her father's house ;-it is his no
life. To prove the truth of it, let the yarn longer,-nothing of him remains but his me-
be unwound, and you may judge of the efficacy mory and his tomb. Maddened by the wants
of the spell.' The clew was unwound accord- of a starving child, she is driven to a dishonest
ingly; and this pithy couplet was found on the act; is taken, imprisoned, tried, and acquitted.
enclosed bit of parchment-
Her child dies in prison; and after a temporary
insanity, the result of her distresses, she finds
refuge in a remote part of the country,-there
to weep and lament over her errors, and seek,
in prayer and thoughts of a better future, a
solace for the miseries of the present.

These slender materials have been worked

into a tale of intense and Crabbe-like pathos;
and we hasten to select such portions as our

The devil scratch out both thine eyes, And spit into the holes likewise.' It was evident that those who were cured by such a spell, must have been indebted to nature, with some assistance, perhaps, from imagination. But the users of such charms were not always so lucky as to light upon the person who drew them up; and many unfortunate creatures were executed, as the poor alewife would have been, had she not lighted upon her former customer in the character of her judge. Another old woman is said to have cured many cattle of the murrain, by a repeti-riosity carried him to the House of Peers, where he stood his appearance in court, Richard Cromwell's cution of a certain verse. The fee which she below the bar, looking around him, and making observarequired, was a loaf of bread and a silver penny; tions on the alterations which he saw. A person who and when she was commanded to reveal the said to him civilly,It is probably a long while, sir, heard a decent-looking old man speaking in this way, magical verses which wrought such wonders, since you have been in this house?' Not since I sat they were found to be the following jest on the in that chair,' answered the old gentleman, pointing to credulity of her customers :

• My loaf in my lap, and my penny in my purse, Thou art never the better, and I never the worse.'"

*The following is a remarkable anecdote of his son:"Some lawsuit of importance required that Richard Cromwell should appear in the King's Bench Court.

the throne, on which he had been, indeed, seated as
sovereign, when, more than fifty years before, he re-
ceived the addresses of both Houses of Parliament, on his
succeeding to his father in the supreme power."

"Each morn, before the dew was brushed away,
When the wide world was hushed in deep repose,→
When only flowerets hailed the early day,
I gathered many a diamond-spangled rose,
And many a simple bud that wildly blows;
Then, quick returning to my father's bed,
Before his heavy eyelids could unclose,

I shook away the tears that Nature shed,
And placed them with a kiss beside his slumbering head
My father!-still I see thy silvery hairs
Uplifted gently by the evening breeze,
That placid brow, furrow'd with many cares,
The Bible resting on thy aged knees,

Thine eyes that watch'd the sunset through the trees,
The while I read aloud that holy book,

Or brought wild flowers with childish zeal to please,
Culled by the mossy bank or running brook,
And guess'd thine every wish and feeling from a look.
And oh ! my childhood's home was lovelier far
Than all the stranger homes where I have been ;
It seem'd as if each pale and twinkling star
Loved to shine out upon so fair a scene;
Never were flowers so sweet, or fields so green,
As those that wont that lonely cot to grace.
If, as tradition tells, this earth has seen
Creatures of heavenly form and angel race,
They might have chosen that spot to be their dwelling-
place."

How characteristic of woman are the feelings of affectionate regret expressed towards even a deceiver and a betrayer once loved!

"Oh! still the charm clings round my broken heart
With which his early love its cords had bound;
In vain I bid his imaged form depart,
For when I pray, with sad and fault'ring sound,
His name is on my lips,-and, hov'ring round,
He, the young Arthur of my happy days,
Stands on some green and flow'ry spot of ground,
With sunny smile and bright enraptur'd gaze,
Greeting me kindly still with visionary praise.""

And again

"Oh thou! though faithless, still too dearly loved,
When I remember that short year of bliss-
That sunny dream of love, as yet unmoved-
The transient tear chased by thy tender kiss,

I marvel how I can be sunk to this.

I see thee still in dreams, and deem, in sooth,

I hear thy voice, and watch no word to miss;

I see those eyes all tenderness and truth-
Alas! I wake in vain to inourn my blighted youth.
It was not like the happiness I knew
When in my first sweet home of peaceful rest-
'Twas joy, or agony-each feeling grew
Wild, stormy, and tumultuous in my breast,
Though every wish was granted soon as guess'd;
Though I had all for which the happiest sigh,
There was one thought-deep, silent, unexpress'd,
Which called the unbidden tear-drop to mine eye, -
A thought of him I left-a thought of days gone by!"
to that felt by a spirit loving purity, which has
Probably there are few mental pains equal
of those of its own class yet innocent.
been once betrayed to evil, under the contempt
passage which we extract touchingly expresses
this feeling.

"It was a summer evening, soft and warm;
I gazed upon the heaven, blue and clear,
From out my little lattice window; near
Was Arthur standing-and the woodbine, climbing,
Shed a wild fragrance round-when on my ear
Fell a sweet sound of distant church-bells chiming,
And onward came young forms, their steps to music

timing.

A

Alas! that day-I oped the casement wide,
And watched that gay group with a smiling face-
It was a village wedding; and the bride,
Rosy and rich in all youth's blooming grace,
Came lightly on, past this my fairy place;
Nearer and nearer still I saw them glide-
She turned, half startled, as she heard me rise;
When some grave matron, walking by her side,
Whispered her-slowly she withdrew her eyes,
With a sad farewell glance of pity and surprise!
Silent she pass'd, last of the white-robed train-
Oh! there was something in her pitying look,
Mingled with dread, that thrill'd my heart with pain.
My proud and sinful spirit could not brook
To see those gay ones, as their way they took,
With half-suppressed contempt in every eye;
Tear after tear in vain away I shook,

As all, with downcast glance, went slowly by,
As if they felt, not saw, some evil thing was nigh.
Burst the convulsive sob from out my breast'
On Arthur's arm I leant my throbbing brow:

And did I then forsake my home of rest
To be so scorn'd, so shunn'd, so hated now?
Oh! take me back where my own flowers still blow,
Where the beloved ones I left are dwelling;
Let me but see them once before I go

To that far land where none my sins are telling, For strong against my breast this breaking heart is swelling.

The love of her child is, truly to nature, her predominant feeling.

"Oh, beauteous were my baby's dark blue eyes,
Evermore turning to his mother's face,

So dove-like soft, yet bright as summer skies;
And pure his cheek as roses, ere the trace
Of earthly blight or stain their tints disgrace.
O'er my loved child enraptured still I hung;
No joy in life could those sweet hours replace,
When by his cradle low I watched and sung;
While still in memory's ear his father's promise rung."
"Long, long I wept with weak and piteous cry
O'er my sweet infant, in its rosy bloom,
As memory brought my hours of agony
Again before my mind;-I mourned his doom;
I mourned my own: the sunny little room
In which, oppressed by sickness, now I lay,
Weeping for sorrows past, and woes to come,
Had been my own in childhood's early day.

Oh! could those years indeed so soon have passed away!
Past, as the waters of the running brook;
Fled, as the summer winds that fan the flowers!
All that remained, a word-a tone-a look,
Impressed, by chance, in those bright joyous hours;
Blossoms which, culled from youth's light fairy bowers,
Still float with lingering scent, as loath to fade,
In spite of sin's remorseless 'whelming powers,
Above the wreck which time and grief have made,
Nursed with the dew of tears, though low in ruin laid.”
We have partly selected these passages: if
not the best in the book, they will shew the
truth and feeling that pervade the whole. We
have hardly room for a specimen of the many
fugitive pieces which conclude the volume.

"Slow rippling in the zephyr's breath,

The murmuring waters flow beneath;
Warm glows the sun-sweet breathes the air:
Why are these scenes, though bright and fair,
To me a dreary wilderness?

Linda Alhaya! canst thou guess?
Why do I gaze on flowerets blue

Which rival heaven's own matchless hue,
And wander by their native stream,
Though it to other eyes may seem
Unworthy of my constancy?

Linda Alhaya! tell me why?

Why do I gaze on them, and smile,
Then sit me down and weep awhile?

Sadly, but fond, as they recalled

Something which held my heart enthralled:
Then slowly wend my weary way?

Linda Alhaya! canst thou say?

Linda Alhaya hears me not-
Linda Alhaya has forgot

That e'er her starry path I crossed,
Where every end but joy was lost.
And hast thou lost all thought of me,
Linda Alhaya! can it be?

Not so have I of thee, sweet maid-
Deep in my heart my love is laid;
Scentless and withered each flower to me-
Leafless and scathed each towering tree:
Oh, Linda Alhaya, canst thou not guess?
Thou wert my rose of the wilderness!
Linda Alhaya! those flowerets blue
Match not thine eye's soft liquid hue;
But they the self-same language hold,
Waving above those waters cold;
And as we parted on this spot,
They said, Farewell, forget me not!"
Those flowers may bud, and bloom, and die,
Above the brook that wanders by;

And while they live, their blossoms seem
Reflected in its silver stream;

But when rude Time the buds shall sever,
Their images are fled for ever.

Oh! thus shall it ne'er be with me
While I have breath and memory;
The stream of life may swell its tide-
Thy image still secure will bide!

My faithful heart in death shall tell,
Linda Alhaya, I loved thee well."

When the pale moon shines so mournfully upon the

land and lea

Oh! while I think of you, love, do you think of me?

is set,

And when the night is come, love, and the weary sun
While others sleep, my constant eyes with tears the
pillow wet,

I rest in vain my aching head, where none my grief

may see

Oh! while I think of you, love, do you think of me?
And when other suitors come, love, to tempt with
smiles and gold,

And tell me that thy heart for me is passionless and cold,
I turn in scorn and grief away, and say it cannot be-
When I always think of you, love, sure you sometimes
think of me!"

by sea to his destination. He left Bagdad at sunset, on the 3d of September, in company with a medley party of some fifty or sixty shrines and holy places, and proceeded across pilgrims, returning from visits to various the Diala, the Turkish province where flow the Euphrates and Tigris, to the Pass of at Kerrund, and Kermanshah on the 15th of Zagros, by which he entered Persia and arrived September. Of this twelve days' itinerary, it would not be easy for us, were we so disposed, to give any distinct idea, as it is more a detail of the directions by compass in which the caravan went, than of known places seen, or ancient sites supposed and ascertained. Mr. Buckingham assumed the garb and manners of an Egyptian Arab, and ostensibly conformed to the Mahometan rites suited to the character. In this disguise he was much aided by a sin gular and apparently very flagitious companion, an Afghan Dervish, who formed a romantic sort of attachment to our countryman, and initiated him into the mysteries of Oriental profligacy with the most unblushing effrontery. This, indeed, is a great blot upon the volume before us; and we could have hoped that our traveller had remained long enough in his native land, since he performed this excursion, to have taught him that even allusions to, and, still more, minute definitions of the vile prac Thy cruel power to please were gone." tices of the East, must be revolting to the To a Child;" but they are too long to ex-but there are subjects still worse; and we reWe wish we could give some beautiful lines of his stories and anecdotes is offensive enough, mind of every English reader. The pruriency tract entire, and to mutilate them would be an injury to their beauty. For the same reason we omit "Music's Power:" but we must insert the following verses- they are as simple as they are alive to feeling. Perhaps they will be admired only by a few, for they are not in the popular style.

"Oh! could I come when fays have power,
And Sleep o'er mortals holds her sway,
There, in that silent moonlight hour,
I'd steal thy fickle heart away;
I'd bear it far, where none might see,
True constancy from mine to learn;
And still, while it remained with me,
"Twould be a pledge for thy return.
But oh! where shall I seek that heart
Which thousands claim, but none may keep?
The gift which daylight sees depart,
Is it resumed before thy sleep?
Shall I seek out each beauteous maid
Who o'er thee held a transient sway?
In vain-where'er thy heart was laid,
Her tears have washed the trace away.
Then must I sit within my bower,
Unwitting where the prize to find,
And smile as each successive hour
Sees changing still thy wavering mind;
And still repeat the wish in vain,

That thou wouldst live for ine alone-
Or that to ease each maiden's pain

"I do not love thee!--no! I do not love thee!
And yet when thou art absent I am sad;
And envy even the bright blue sky above thee,
Whose quiet stars may see thee and be glad.
I do not love thee !-yet, I know not why,
Whate'er thou dost seems still well done, to me-
And often in my solitude I sigh-

That those I do love are not more like thee!

I do not love thee!-yet, when thou art gone,
I hate the sound (though those who speak be dear)
Which breaks the lingering echo of the tone
Thy voice of music leaves upon my ear.

I do not love thee!-yet thy speaking eyes,
With their deep, bright, and most expressive blue-
Between me and the midnight heaven arise,
Oftener than any eyes I ever knew.

I know I do not love thee! yet, alas!
Others will scarcely trust my candid heart;
And oft I catch them smiling as they pass,
Because they see me gazing where thou art."
Poetry in abundance has come under our
cognizance of late, but none which holds out
a fairer promise of excellence than that of the
beautiful and unsophisticated authoress whose
work we have just noticed.

gret to say that they are treated in a manner extremely disgusting. For obvious reasons, our illustrations of the book with the descripwe refrain from farther comment; and open tion of another attendant whom Mr. Buckingham picked up at Kermanshah, which will throw a little light on the characters of his associates.

"A faqueer of Ispahan, who had come with us from Kerrund to Kermanshah, had supped from our bread and fruit, and smoked his evening nargeel with the dervish after I was asleep, was recommended as the most proper person I could add to our party, as he was ready and willing to undertake any duty that might be required of him. But,' said I, does he understand the duties of a groom? or do you know any thing of his character?' 6 Oh,' replied Ismael,a faqueer understands every thing; and as for his character, I am sure that his heart is pure, and his tongue is clean.' 'How then?' I asked: was there any previous who had known the man?' 'Not at all,' was acquaintance, or the testimony of any friend the reply; and after much hesitation—not of fear, but seemingly of unwillingness to clear up any doubt for which he thought there was no just foundation—this explanation at length Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia: in- one of us,' said Ismael, (meaning the Mucame: He is not a philosopher, emphatically cluding a Journey from Bagdad by Mount tuffuk b'el Philosopheea' at Bagdad,) 'it is Zagros, to Hamadan, the Ancient Ecbatana; true; but the man has loved the wife of another, Researches in Ispahan and the Ruins of for whom he has wept by day, and chased away Persepolis, and Journey from thence by Shi- his sorrows by smoking bhang (an intoxicating raz and Shapoor, to the Sea-Shore; Descrip- drug) at night!' It was in vain that I objected tion of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, to these two excellent qualities, as certain and Muscat; Narrative of an Expedition pledges of his neglecting the duties I wished against the Pirates of the Persian Gulf, Il- him to perform on the way. The man's lustrations of the Voyage of Nearchus, and heart must be upright,' said my companion, Passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay. because it is tender; and free from all guile, 4to. London, 1829. H. Colburn. A NEW volume of Mr. Buckingham's Travels The fact seemed to be, that my dervish wished because he intoxicates himself with opium! account of his journey from Bagdad to Bombay, do such things as we needed, provided he was has just issued from the press, containing the to secure, on any terms, some one who would by the Persian route of Kermanshah, Hama- not too rigid a Moslem to betray our laxity, or dan, Ispahan, Shiraz, and Bushire, and thence abandon us from being shocked at it. I rea

We must, however, revert to the previous journey. At the mountain pass, between Turkey and Persia, we are told a remarkable story of a lion and two lovers.

soned, persisted, refused, and pretended an the bodies laden on the mules were cast off, | fail to yield a most unpleasant odour to all anger which I really did not feel. All was in without ceremony, and placed at random in within its reach. The patient (as he may well vain, the die was cast, and Zein-el-Abedeen, different parts of the court-yard, the one in be called) reclines on his back, naked, and on the bhang-smoking faqueer, was regularly the litter alone being paid any attention to; the stone floor, with his eyes and mouth cominvested with the care of the diseased horse, so that, as they were neither marked nor pletely shut, and not daring to breathe with and admitted as one of our party, beyond the numbered, they were probably the bodies of too great freedom. He remains in this manner possibility of revocation." individuals who had been just able to pay the for an hour or two at a time, while the operator lowest price of admission into this sacred visits him at intervals, rubs his hair and beard, ground, and would be laid there without in-patches up the paste where it has dissolved or scriptive stones, or other funeral monument; is fallen off, and lays on fresh coats of the dye, for it could scarcely happen, from the way in on the nails, the hands, and the feet. Some "In this mountain-pass was shewn to us a which they were lying about, that they should of these beard-plastered elders, fresh from the small natural cavern, which a lion had made not be mixed and confounded one with another. hands of their attendants, look oddly enough, his den, and to which he had dragged many The presence of these dead bodies in the khan with different shades of red, black, and gray, in an unwary passenger as his prey, inspiring made no impression on the living who were their beards; for it takes a day or two, accordsuch terror as to put a stop to all journeying there, as the mule-drivers stretched themselves ing to the quality of the hair, to produce a by this route. It happened that two young along by the side of them at night, with an uniform blackness; and this requires to be Koords were at this period disputing the pos- indifference that argued their being long fami- renewed every week at least, to look well, as session of a virgin of the plain, whom they liarised with such cargoes. This was a scene the roots of the hair which grow out after each both loved; but as they lived on the one side which I could imagine to have been frequent time of staining are either brown or gray, of the pass, and the object of their affections enough in ancient Egypt, where all the popu- according to the age of the wearer, and conon the other, there was an end put to their lation who could afford it were embalmed in trast but badly with the jet black of the other evening interviews by the intrusion of this state, and others at the charge of the nation, parts. When all is finished, and the visitor destroying lion. It was thought too bold an their mummies being transported from place leaves the inner bath, he is furnished with two enterprise, even for a lover, to force this passage to place, according to their peculiar temple of cloths only, one for the waist, and the other to alone; but as the object to be attained by such worship, or their favourite place of burial.” throw loosely over the head and shoulders: he a step was equally dear to both, they for a At Kermanshah, the baths are well de- then goes into the outer room into a colder air, moment threw aside the jealousy of rivals, and scribedthus thinly clad, and without slippers or patexchanged reciprocal pledges to stand or fall "As few pleasures are entirely perfect, so tens; no bed is prepared for him, nor is he together in the attempt. Then arming them- here, with all its general apparent superiority again attended to by any one, unless he deselves, and mounting two of the best horses of to the baths of Turkey, this was inferior to mands a nargeel to smoke; but, most genethe country, they vowed, in the presence of them in the most essential points. The at- rally, he dresses himself in haste, and departs. their friends, entire and cheerful submission tendants seemed quite ignorant of the art of The Turkish bath is far more capable of afford to the will of fate, stated their intention of twisting the limbs, moulding the muscles, ing high sensual pleasure, and is consequently forcing together this interrupted pass, and cracking the joints, opening the chest, and all visited as much for the mere delight to the dragging out the lion from his den,-being that delicious train of operations in which the feelings which it produces, and to lounge away content, if both should escape destruction, that Turks are so skilful. The visitors were merely an agreeable hour, as for the performance of a the voice of their beloved should decide on well, though roughly, scrubbed, and their im- religious duty; while the Persian bath seems their respective claims; and if one only fell a purities then rinsed off in the large cistern altogether resorted to for the purpose of the victim, that the other would have his dying above, from which there was neither a running toilette, as one would submit to a hair-dresser consent to marry her. They sallied forth, and stream to carry off the foul water, nor cocks of to have the hair cut, curled, powdered, and set amid applauses of their comrades, and the wish hot and cold to renew and temper it at plea- in order, for a party." of all that the bravest should have his reward; sure, as in Turkey. In place of the luxurious We shall add but one other extract, the last when one of them was torn in pieces by the moulding of the muscles, the use of the hair-words of which display, very unnecessarily, the beast, and the other came off triumphant, by bag, or glove, for removing the dirt, and the cloven foot. slaying the animal as he feasted on his com- profusion of perfumed soap, with which the "This river (the Kara Soo) is unquestionpanion's corpse." Turks end a course of treatment full of de-ably the Choaspes of antiquity, celebrated as In this part of the world there is an odious light, the Persians are occupied in staining the furnishing always the drink of the Persian sect of voluptuaries, which seems to inherit all beard and hair black, the nails of the toes and kings. They so rigidly confined themselves the atrocious tenets and horrid crimes of the fingers of a deep red, and the whole of the feet to the use of this water, that it was carried ancient Gnostics. The gross account of it, and hands of a yellow colour, by different pre- by them even in their distant expeditions; however, like the accounts of the Dervish's parations of henna. This operation is the and Herodotus relates that Cyrus, when he abominations, is unfit for publication; and we most unpleasant that can be imagined. The marched against Babylon, had the water of pass to Kerrund, where, after mentioning a Persians do not shave the whole of the head, the Choaspes first boiled, and afterwards borne rather improper stroll and consequent disap-as is usual with most of the Turks and Arabs, in a vase of silver, on four-wheeled chariots pointment, Mr. B. says— but, taking off all the hair from the forehead, drawn by mules. Milton has an allusion to "We returned to the khan with heavy steps, over the crown, and down the neck, for about this subject, though he uses the license of a and met at the door of it a small caravan, con- a hand's breadth, they leave on each side two poet in making this the drink of kings alone, veying a consignment of dead bodies from Ker-large bushy masses depending over their shoul-instead of confining them to the use of this manshah. This caravan was composed wholly ders. These are almost as full in some indivi- water solely; and it is a fact worthy of remark, of mules, each laden with two corpses, one on duals as the apparent wigs of the Sassanian that at this moment, while all the inhabitants each side, and a takhteravan, or litter, borne medals; and in others they are sufficiently of Kermanshah drink of the stream of Aub also by mules, though it contained only one long and large to meet and cover the neck Dedoong, at which we watered our horses on body, which was that of a person of some dis-behind, which would deceive a stranger into the day of entry, and of the spring called tinction. These were all packed in long narrow a belief that they wore the whole of their hair, Aubi-i-Hassan-Khan, the king's son alone has cases or coffins, and secured with matting and without either cutting or shaving it. This, the water for himself and his harem brought cordage, like bales of cotton. They were the then, with a very long and full beard, in which from the stream of the Kara Soo. We drank bodies of devout dead, from different parts of all the people here take pride, is plastered with of it ourselves as we passed; and from its Persia two from Ispahan, and one from a thick paste, of the consistence of hog's-lard, superiority to all the waters of which we had Shiraz, which were being conveyed for inter- and not less than two pounds weight of which tasted since leaving the banks of the Tigris, ment to the grounds of Imaum Hussein, at is sometimes used on one person. It possesses added to the thirst of our noon ride, and aniKerbela. Besides the charge of carriage, which a strongly astringent and penetrating quality,mating conversation by the way, the draught is double that of any other commodity of equal and requires great skill in the use of it to avoid was delicious enough to be sweet even to the weight, large sums, from two to five thousand doing considerable mischief. As the eye-brows palsied taste of royalty itself." piastres, are paid to the mosque there, for a are plastered with it, as well as the rest of the sufficient space of ground to receive the body, hair, and as it softens by the heat of the room and other presents must be made to the tomb and of the body, it frequently steals into the of the Imaum himself; so that this is a dis-eyes, and produces great pain. The mustachios tinction which the comparatively rich only can sometimes give a portion of this paste also to -enjoy. When the animals entered the khan, the nostrils, as well as to the mouth, and never

Should we find any thing to tempt us in the remaining moiety of this volume, we shall again bring it under the consideration of the public.