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made one flesh with Dorcas (Mrs. J. Hughes), Danish king Regnar Lodbrook, who, having wrote to her lover, Viens demain de bonne Aurelia's maid, whom he espouses instead of her been taken prisoner by the English, was heure; c'est le mien (bonheur) de te voir. mistress. Such is the broad outline of the co- thrown into a tower filled with serpents and medy, without entering upon details. There venomous animals, and is supposed to have LITERARY NOVELTIES. is an unceasing bustle of business, so that the expired in the year 817, in the most dreadful Preparing for the press, the Ledger of Notorious Rakes, selected from their own Confessions, &c. By Barnabas piece never flags for a moment; and the rapid torments, singing this wild and funereal song, Pry Eccession of extremely comic events moults has been published at Copenhagen by M. Rafn, In the course of the season Mr. Ainsworth will publish no feather in the acting. Farren, in the old who has collated his copy with various ma- cis Leveson Gower. This is a somewhat difficult undera Translation of the Camp of Wallenstein, by Lord FranUsurer, is very great. His last scene of dis-nuscripts, added French and Latin transla-taking, but we trust to the high talents of the accomplished an with his transformed wife, is the tions, and accompanied the work with philolo- Translator. tmph of acting. It is a sufficient eulogy to gical notes. This song is considered one of Serious Poetry, will shortly publish Specimens of the LyMr. John Johnstone, Editor of Specimens of Sacred and erve, that he never did any thing better on the most ancient productions of Icelandic lite-rical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, de stage. Kemble, in the Nephew, is the pink rature. from Chaucer to the Present Day. The Rev. Alexander Stewart, Author of the History of d galants gay, spirited, and effective: the Among the curious minerals lately discovered Scotland, announces Elements of Geography, for the Use agen scene in the bed-room is a masterly at the Haytor iron mine, Devon, are some gar- of Schools or of Private Students, on an entirely new mance. Keeley, too, in the silly would-be nets of a deep crimson hue, more than half an plan. Herodotus.-An interesting work has recently been pubswaggerer, either when elected Corporal Calves- inch in diameter, and dodecahedron chryso-lished at Berlin, from the pen of M. Heyse, in which de or when metamorphosed into a strange fish, beryls of an inch diameter from the extre- several disputed questions respecting the life and travels 3 wonderfully diverting, and keeps the audi- mities of the acute angles; also some native M. Heyse considers the period of the birth of the great of Herodotus are very ably and modestly treated. ere in constant laughter. Blanchard, always granular gold: all which are now in the pos- historian to have occurred in the first year of the 74th at the top of what he has to do, has not so much session of Mr. S. Woolmer.-Provincial Paper. Olympiad, 484 years before Christ, and six years after the ats piece as could be wished; but what he East Indian Varnishes.-Some very inte- his mother was Rhæo or Drye, and among his relations battle of Marathon. The father of Herodotus was Lyxes, tells well among the rest. Bartley, in the resting notices of the varnish and varnish-trees was the epic poet Panyasis. After discussing the point at Low-country Squire, is another star in the of India occur in the last Number of the Edin- some length, and qualifying various former assertions on the subject, M. Heyse gives it as his opinion that Herostellation; but, perhaps, we should reserve burgh Journal of Science. The Sylhet varnish dotus read his history at the Olympic games, in the 81st pretty phrase for the ladies, Miss Chester, consists of two parts of the juice of the bhela Olympiad ; but that at that time it consisted merely of Chatterley, and Mrs. J. Hughes, who exert (the seme-carpus anacardium, the tree which Herodotus went to Thurium with a colony. He was fragments. Twelve years afterwards, in the 84th Olympiad, deselves with infinite success to promote the bears the marking nuts of India), and one part then forty years old; and he completed his history, in that neral interest and humour of the scene. In- of the juice of the jowar. The articles var- town, in the first year of the 93d Olympiad. He must therefore have been more than eighty when he died, at terar parts, assigned to Serle, Meadows, Did-nished with it at Sylhet are of the most beau-Thurium. M. Heyse thinks that Herodotus was never dear, J. Isaacs, Mrs. Weston, and others, are tiful glossy black; and it seems equally fitted married. As for his travels, he visited Asia, Crete, au respectably filled; and houses crowded for varnishing iron, leather, paper, wood, or and Media. In Africa, he went over Egypt; but did not Cyprus, Phoenicia, Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, every night bear witness to the extensive popu- stone. It has a sort of whitish-gray colour penetrate into the interior of Lybia. The author affirms arty which has been so rapidly established by when first taken out of the bottle; but in a that he was at Cyrene, but doubts his having been at Merchant's Wedding. We have only to few minutes it becomes perfectly black by ex-Thrace, Macedonia, Italy, and, probably, Sicily; but the Carthage. Finally, in Europe, Herodotus travelled in sit that the dresses and scenery are (according|posure to the air. In the temperature of this precise epoch of any of his journeys and voyages cannot ≈ good Covent Garden usage) elegant and cor- country it is too thick to be laid on alone; but be ascertained. Old St. Paul's, from Holborn Bridge, it may be rendered more fluid by heat. In this of Mrs. A. Watts's projected Annual, that it was intended We ought to have mentioned in our last week's notice Wham Grieve, is a fine painting. The case, however, it is clammy, and seems to dry for the rising generation of children of smaller growth. reserable Cathedral had, some years before the very slowly. When diluted with spirits of into the droll confusion of fancying that a rival to the It seems our want of precision has betrayed some readers era of the play, lost its spire; and we notice it turpentine, it dries more rapidly; but still Souvenir was about to be started in no less near a quarter as a proof of sound taste, that the circumstance with less rapidity than is desirable. The tsi- than the Editor's own wife! has been attended to by the artist." tsi, or varnish of Rangoon, is less known than Perplexed, by Robert Phillips.-The Balance of CriminaIn the Press-Christian Experience; or, a Guide to the the Sylhet varnish. It is probably made from lity; or, Mental Error compared with Immoral Conduct; the juice of the bhela alone. It appears to addressed to Young Doubters, by the Rev. Isaac Taylor, have the same general properties as the Sylhet Jeffreys.-Torpidiana; or, an Inquiry into the Literary of Ongar.-A Widowed Missionary's Journal, by Keturah varnish, but dries more rapidly. The varnish Pretensions of the Officers and Members of the Council of from the kheeso, or varnish-tree, may be the the Society of Antiquaries, from the Year 1815, &c.-The Author of the Morning and Evening Sacrifice is far adsame as the Rangoon varnish, but it is at pre-vanced with the printing of a new work, entitled Farewell Ing-There are, at the foot of the Alps, sent considered to be different. The kheeso to Time; or, last Views of Life, and Prospects of Immorthe German side, but on the soil of Italy, grows particularly in Kubboo, a valley on the tality; intended as a Companion to the former work. Mary Harland; or, the Journey to London; a Tale of za a villages, the inhabitants of which speak banks of the Ningtee, between Munnipore and Humble Life, by a Lady.-By the Editor of the Mirror, a peralar language, and retain usages very the Birman empire. 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dancing-girls came in, whose performances I had with me, the but-end of which would, differed in no respect from those which I had as a last resource, have been no despicable seen at Bullumghur. Some very common- weapon. The guide, however, at the same inlooking shawls, a turban, necklace, &c. were stant, cantioned me against treading in the now brought in as presents from the Rannee to blood, and told me that a goat was sacrificed me, which were followed by two horses and an here every morning. In fact, a second glance elephant, of which she also requested my ac- shewed me the headless body of the poor animal THIS work having been already justly and ceptance. I looked round on Colonel Raper in lying before the steps of a small shrine, apeloquently recommended to the public by the some embarrassment, which he relieved by parently of Kali. The brahmin was officiating Quarterly Review, which, from circumstances, telling me that all was done according to rule, and tinkling his bell; but it was plain to see, had access to an earlier copy than we could and that I should not be much the richer, nor from the embarrassment of our guide, that we look for, our task of introducing it is rendered the Rannee the poorer, for what passed that had intruded at an unlucky moment, and we mparatively light; for we agree entirely with day. I of course, however, expressed my thanks therefore merely cast our eyes round the court, the Editor of that widely read Journal: the to the Mouchtar in as good Hindoostanee as I without going nearer to the altar and its myslack in our libraries of books relative to India was able. Mutual wishes were expressed for teries. 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And it is than cover the fees which it would be proper to this which has made the volumes before us so pay the Rannee's servants, and which the Com- "In the course of our homeward ride, Colonel precious. The mass of interesting matter pany, according to the usual practice, would Raper told me that he had had unpleasant news which they contain; the ease of their style; and discharge for me. In fact the native powers from the palace. The Rannee, the night bethe fresh, unstudied outpourings of the highly understand perfectly well that presents of any fore, without trial, or without so much as mitivated mind, which they display throughout, great value are, on these occasions, thrown assigning a reason, murdered one of her female are, indeed, rare charms in our book-making away. They have it published in the Acbars,' attendants, a woman who bore a fair chaage. All that we have to do is to avoid, as or native newspapers, that such or such a dis-racter, was possessed of considerable wealth, much as we can, the repetition of quotations tinguished personage came to pay his respects and believed, till lately, to stand high in her which have run from the Quarterly through so at the court of Jyepoor, and that the Rannee mistress's confidence and good graces. Her many other channels of public information, as testified her pleasure at his arrival, by the gift wealth was supposed to be her only crime. A to be already familiar to the generality of of an elephant, two beautiful horses, and two great alarm had in consequence been excited in ders. At all events, this week, our exam- trays of ornaments and shawls; and thus the the zennana and in the city; and eight other es shall be short; and as the extracts in the ends are answered of making known the rank women, chiefly wives and concubines of the Quarterly are principally from the (first half of of the visitant, of setting forth the Rannee's late Raja, believed themselves also marked Le) first volume, we shall make our briefer liberality, and above all, of hinting to her sub-out for destruction. This atrocity had been ace from the second, and from that portion jects and neighbours the good terms she is on it which relates to the Rajpoots. with the British government. But all these objects they are, of course, glad to obtain at as slight an expense as possible.

At the palace of Jyepoor (says the author in Journal)" we were shewn five or six elepants in training for a fight. Each was

Dark goddess of the azure flood,

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Of man delights three thousand years,
was graciously pleased to be contented.

perpetrated by the Rannee's own order and in her presence; but Colonel Raper said, if the Mouchtar had been himself any thing but a mere ruffian, he would never allow such prac "The Rajas of Jyepoor were for a long time tices to go on, nor would such an order have tely kept in a small paved court, with a the most wealthy and powerful of all the Rajpoot been executed had he been a likely person to ime hitter, but very dirty. They were all states. Their territory is still the largest, and resent it. With this story on my mind, it was what is called * must,' that is, fed on stimu- their revenue used to be reckoned at a crore of with any thing rather than a pleasurable sengbstances to make them furious; and rupees (at the present rate of exchange, less sation, that I received in the course of the altered in their eyes, their gaping mouths, than a million pounds sterling) annually." The morning a present of fruit, sweetmeats, and the constant motion of their trunks, signs Mahratta conquests have reduced them greatly. flowers, with the Ma-jee's best wishes for my diver and restlessness. Their mohouts At Umeer, the ancient capital, the Bishop, safe journey, her assurance that her people had and to approach them with great caution; among other sights, visited the temple. "I arranged every thing for my comfort on the hearing a step, they turned round as far went," he says, through a dark low arch road, and her hope that our friendship might ader chains would allow, and lashed fiercely into a small court, where, to my surprise, the long continue! I sent back my grateful their trunks. I was moved and disgusted first object which met my eyes was a pool of acknowledgments, which was no more than ht of so noble creatures thus mad-blood on the pavement, by which a naked man her due, for the kindness and hospitality she and diseased by the absurd cruelty of stood with a bloody sword in his hand. The had shewn me, and an assurance of my prayers, , in order that they might for his diversion scenes through which we had passed were so though I did not add, for her amendment. I of fresh pain and injuries on each other. romantic, that my fancy had almost been found to-day that her attentions had not been Two of them were very large, and all sleek and wound up to expect an adventure, and I felt, confined to me personally, but that she had sent I confess, for an instant my hand instinctively an excellent dinner of sweetmeats, ghee, rice, clench more firmly a heavy Hindoostanee whip kid, flour, and other Hindoostanee dainties,

(e presentation to the Nawab, "some

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