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At Willesden-house, Middlesex, Sir Rupert -Suddenly, in a carriage in which he was going 26, At his house, at Berkeley, in his 76th 27. In Euston-square, Martha, wife of Thomas 27. At Lee, in Kent, aged 20, Catherine Anna, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, St. 29. At Woodlands, Blackheath, at the advanced At his residence, in the Regent's Park, Lucius 31. At her house, at St. Stephen's, near St. Alban's, 2. In Piccadilly, Magdalene Countess Dowager of his 92d year, the Rev. James Jones, DD. Chan3. In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, in cellor of the Diocese of Hereford. 6. Frances, lady of. Richard Lewis, Esq. of Llan- 7. At Hampton-court, R. T. Mostyn, Esq. -At Pimlico, Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, Authoress of 8. At his father's, at Hammersmith, Jonathan -Robert Blake, Esq. MP. for Arundel. -In Finsbury-square, in her 40th year, Julia, -At Moria-place, Southampton, aged 70, Mrs. -In Guilford-street, in her 81st year, Mrs. -In Bryanstone-square, aged 94, the Rev. Richard At Paris, in his 61st year, Henry Gray M'Nab, MD. At Passage West, near Cork, Win. Parker D'ES Near Madras, the lady of Lieut. Charles Highmore THE LION'S HEAD. OUR friends, we are sure, will regret the cause which has robbed our pages this month of the continuation of the interesting Letters by the English Opium Eater. Their re-appearance, in our next Number, will, we trust, afford the most welcome bulletin that can be given of his recovery. The following note from him has just been received: To the Editor of the London Magazine. DEAR SIR, I send you as much of my fourth letter as I have been able to write that it is not completed, you must impute to no neglect of mine, but to an inflammatory complaint attended with pain, which for the last ten or twelve days has rendered all attempt to compose very laborious to me, and at length fruitless. It is due to yourself, who have attached so much more weight to these letters than I fear they can deserve, to let you know that this temporary interruption of the series is caused by no want of exertion on my part up to the latest time at which it could have been available for the present number. For your readers in general, I suspect, that they will rejoice to find that you have "lightened ships" for one month by discharging some of your heaviest lading. March 27. Very faithfully your's, X. Y. Z. Time and space will not allow Lion's Head to enter at large upon the subject of Doctor B.'s Letter; but he will submit the following considera→ tions, for their novelty, "to the serious attention of parents" and poets. Another objection, Sir, I have to make to our Juvenile Literature, is, that in its youthful poems the rhyme is not strictly attended to. Rhymes are to children the very signs of poetry; they read them with emphasis, and remember them tenaciously; and, therefore, it is of the first importance, that they should chime correctly, in order that the infant tongue may not acquire a bad and vicious pronunciation. And in this particular I know of no juvenile author so faulty as the Rev. Dr. Watts; who, although a very good and pious man in other respects, was a very bad rhymer, and is not, therefore, as Dr. Johnson says of him in his Life, one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may be safely pleased.' The Doctor too truly objects, elsewhere, that his rhymes are not always sufficiently correspondent.' Thus, in his Divine and Moral Songs for Children you meet continually with such flagrant examples as these : How skilfully she builds each cell, Ormaks,' which is a Scottish pronunciation, and even to the offspring of that country would make no rhyme with the antecedent word, which they would call wox.' God quickly sent two raging bears To stop their wicked breath, That tore them limb from limb, with tears, And blood, and groans, to death. 6 To tear them with tears (tares) is tautology, and to read it tears (teers) would require it to be raging, or foaming, beers. I might, Sir, trouble you with innumerable other instances, but the present are sufficient to show the evil consequences that must result from such errors to the juvenile mind, which, till it begins to reason, attaches so much importance to rhyme. We thank our Dublin Correspondent for his kind offer; but we fear we can scarcely advise him to carry his project into execution. TO ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, By the Author of "The River Derwent." I.-1. MINSTREL of other days! if stranger's hand Thee, worthy as thou art of crown of bay, I.-2. Thee, on whose mind imaginative powers II.-1. That from the halls which in the heavens arise, II.-2. Proceed, sweet minstrel! Charm us yet awhile III.-1. The mighty bard of Albion's glens and hills, Or lists the trumpet and the eagle's scream On fields of war:) not more hath felt the gleamThe warmth-the fire which thy conception fills. III.-2. Bard, thou, of other days-beloved in these! Though thine own valleys vibrate with thy name; Let not a distant sound of praise displease, From one who envies thee the wreath of Fame. Receive my thanks, and proud my verse shall be Thus to acknowledge thy sweet minstrelsy. December, 1822. |