and North Carolina. éties as President are performed by Mr. Davies to be served in the popina. The bill of fare is! ed Portrait of the late lamented Comwunder-in-chief upon a handkerchief, we are mpetent to state, that the former is an excelest preparation for diffusing the flavour of the pepper equably throughout soups, sances, &. and that the latter is a curious and novel alcation of lithography to printing on silk. As we could not determine whether these res came under our regular heads of Sciences Fine Arts, we have ventured to place them ting our Varieties. At the same time, and a the same way, we are inclined to notice a ned rather larger than a crown-piece, invented and issued by J. Bisset of Leamington. Braderer contrivance, almost all the principal , &c. in England are alphabetically given thes on, with their distances from the capul. It is a useful curiosity. Aunt Inn-Dr. Zell, the Professor of Ascent Literature at the University of Friborg, has just published a little work, entitled -Hobday Recreations ;" in which, among other extertaining matters, is a curious dissertation the Greek and Roman inns, taverns, &c. he goes back to the hospitable usages of the kere times; when, as he observes, there is thing to shew that inns existed; for at that wad travels were never undertaken for commeal or other considerations of business. rta must have long remained without these venient establishments; while at Athens, the contrary, every thing tended to render mecessary. We speak here of the inns ted to th accommodation of strangers tas), and not of the ass, or wine-shops, are more than of the zarisis, or public-houses. A member of the Areopagus who should have tered one of the latter, would have been ed by his colleagues. A passage in Arisdeli induce Dr. Zell to think that, from the most remote antiquity inns had signs, if the slence of Aristophanes, and the other auwho have written on the common life of ar Athenians, did not throw much doubt on adject. As for public-houses, a scrt of fy attached to the persons by whom they kept, and who thereby incurred a degra<geschision from certain civil rights. Even 51° 37′ 82" N. Longitude We are again favoured with Mr. Moss's Meroutine business transacted. In the proceed-teorological Diary, kept at Cheltenham, similar ings, which are reported at length in the to that which appeared in an early No. of last Scottish journals, we notice, as most worthy of year's Gazette; in comparing the present remark, the successful manufacture of straw-table, however, with the former, it is to be plait bonnets, in imitation of Leghorn, from the observed, that according to the suggestions of straw of rye, sown thick on purpose on a gravelly Mr. Adams, our meteorologist at Edmonton, or sandy soil, and cut soon after it comes into Mr. Moss has kindly taken the monthly means. ear; and the adjudication of premiums to cot- of the thermometer and barometer from the tagers, in various northern districts, for the daily range, as in the "General Account" neatest-kept cottages, a good way to amend which appeared in the last No. a national reproach, and answer such scoffers as Dr. Macculloch. Sir H. Mackenzie stated, that the Gaelic Dictionary, preparing under the auspices of the Society, was approaching towards completion; and obtained a limited vote of credit for that work. We should have thought that Armstrong's excellent publication would supersede it. Universities in Germany.—Germany, which contains thirty-six millions of inhabitants, has twenty-two universities, of which the following, is a list, in chronological order : Prague Basle No. of Prof. Stud. Found. 626 .. 1368 660. 1403 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY FOR 1826. Thermometer. Barometer. •H 30-07 29-18 29-67 29-764 | 29-924 29.63 29.64 29.65 30-01 29-38 29-7 29-97 29-36 29-69 30-03 28-87 29-597 29.95 28-93 29-92 29-16 30-24 29-23 May 743 33 February 35 July June 83 50-97 39 September.. 70-5 43 27.5 41-226-5 55 31-5 43-6523-5 86 18-5 50-385 67-5 30-24 28-87 29-7251-37 IS: Winds. N. S. Berlin E. W.NE.SE. LITERARY NOVELTIES. 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Our admiration of their splendid genius extends to enthusas; and although we have often thrown est an exclamation at the bare mention of their names, we are resolved on once more recurring to the subject with a different view_ The revolution in dramatic language is no the comparison of their principal features with less decisive, and attended by still fewer advanthose of our modern dramatists. The general tages, than is the arrangement of the plot. If character of the English at that renowned it be urged that our language itself is naturally period was remarkable for nothing more than But refinement, alas! that politest of evil altered in the lapse of two hundred years, we an honest bluntness, a frank inflexibility of spirits, has worked a sad decay in our drama. shall still look for the primary cause in the purpose, which threw an air of dignified inde- We have lost the vigour and hardihood of change of our intellectual character. And we pendence over men of graver cast, and might ancient simplicity, and are now polished into shall first mention the deterioration sustained be excellently contrasted with the gay whimsi- the most smooth and faultless insipidity. Every by a modern affectation of polish. Shakespeare calities of the court-bred Euphuists and Cava- one knows that vice and virtue run close to- and his contemporaries inherited a rugged and liers. Yet even in these fantastic gentlemen gether through the world; but we, forsooth, uncouth style, which, however, by consummate you should perceive a certain openness and must couple those qualities and actions which skill and labour, they effectually reduced to candour which might plead for many a defect, are most diametrically opposed. If a high-born a smoothness sufficient for all the purposes merely in consequence of their having no notion lady has committed incest with her own son, of the stage. They even dissolved many an of concealing it. No one pretended to be other- she is still, in all but that one offence, the established syllable into two; as, fire (fi-er); wise than he really was; and whatever per- most chaste, virtuous, religious dame on persuasion (persuasi-on); and, for the imsonification was to be assumed a knight, a earth; if a gentleman has murdered his provement of sound, removed the accent_in poet, a valet, or what not-it was studied, and friend, he has still far higher notions of honour others; as in Hyperion, medicinal, &c. Yet studied earnestly, though the discipline might than his neighbours, and, though remarkably they did not forget how many of the finest extend no farther than the adjusting of a ro- wary and cautious, must persist in preserving scenes in tragedy must necessarily depict the a narrative of the murder in his portmanteau! stronger passions at work,-revenge, and inAmongst other public amusements, the The consequence is, that every shadow of critidrama was of course in high request, and the cal palliation must be called in support of the above national characteristics had a very solecism; the chaste lady's son must be not marked effect upon the writings of those who, only prodigiously handsome, but exactly like from the living book before them, transcribed his father;-the man of honour run against their dramatis persone for the stage. It might his friend in the dark not five minutes after form a curious research, how far the language the acceptance of an insult; and as for the of a poet may be called an emblem of the ideas portmanteau, it must neither be of leather nor that have suggested it; that is, how far the even oak, but of solid massive iron, with such a tane of mind and the tone of words must neces-lock as would have puzzled either Bramah or sarily agree. It would be too much to say that Jack Shepherd. Surely these capricious invena bold writer is certainly a bold man; but we tions are a wilful provocation to disbelief; and suspect he is always an admirer of what is bold the attempts at alleviation are no more worthy and manly in others, though his own courage of our thanks than the good-natured friend who may fail him, from physical causes. But thus only reminds us of our incurable maladies by much is beyond a doubt that the language of eternally proposing a new remedy. the age in question bore an aspect strongly And here again is involved that momentous analogous to the characters of the people, and question, so bandied by the critics, and so most widely different from the features it has evident to any sensible observer, the "moral since assumed. The very outline of their of the play;" for what else, in fact, is poetical the ice by a single stroke, till, gathering strength poerns was a plain, unvarnished tale, pursuing morality than poetical justice? which is main- and velocity by their own impulse, they are its obvious course from a simple beginning to a tained not merely by uniting every constant soon able to pass over a mass of ice or the self-apparent end. There was no attempt to couple in the last scene, or killing off the hero, trunk of a tree, without injury or interruption. reconcile incongruities by a variety of minute heroine, and the two or three next in import. No one ever understood this principle of harartifices: if any such occurred, you were left ance, but by so exhibiting and so rewarding mony better than that consummate architect to argue them with yourself at leisure; or else the motives and conduct of every character, of verse, John Milton. But we have now lost the prologus either assured you it was correct, that the mind may eventually rest assured they the art entirely-for spirited grandeur we (like Time in the Winter's Tale) admonished are so disposed of by the poet as the ways have substituted turgid verbosity; and for to "impute it not a crime," if otherwise. of nature and providence would, according to nervous conciseness we are content to dissever There was no under-plot to support the main human calculations, have disposed of them in one big sentence into many short ones, “to structure in its lapses, or string together its va- an actual state of existence. An insult is take it and cut it out in little stars," rendering taries, when any such accessory was introduced, offered to our intellects as often as we are it thereby very pretty to look at, but mightilÿ they made it totally unlike and unconnected called upon to admire the libertine or com- uncomfortable to read. Our next complaint is against the prolixity with its partner; and not unfrequently the passionate the assassin; and we will stake! dignation, and anger bursting for utterance; where the harshness of unpolished words must greatly tend to aid the general effect. Accordingly, they multiplied compound epithets even to excess, and, by contractions and elisions, contrived perfectly to preserve the original strength of their language when desirable: nor is it correct to imagine that, even in passages of most melting tenderness, an uninterrupted flow of words is grateful to the ear beyond a certain period. Nay, when the poet has seized on our imagination, and is dragging us down a mighty torrent of despair, or tribulation, or affectionate reproach, the impetuosity of our career is rather heightened than retarded by an occasional abruptness in the metre; and in hurrying through a speech or scene of this description, we may compare ourselves to those sledges which, in northern climates, are propelled over |