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tion, she enthusiastically pursued this favourite a work of extraordinary talent, superior in were concealed from the world, her angelic amusement. From a young artist of the spirit and interest to every published account patience under suffering, her warm affections, neighbouring little town of Kelso, she once of that eventful period. If our limits permit- her goodness of heart, her disregard of perreceived a few lessons in the first rudiments of ted, we could give extracts from that delightful sonal convenience, and consideration for others, design, and afterwards she learnt the mechani- tour, which would amply justify the eulogiums her unfeigned charity and humility, shone cal process of mixing and using oil colours of those critics. forth in the circle of her chosen friends, and from a common sign-painter. About the age A Panoramic Sketch of the Field of Water- in the bosom of her family, by whom she was of fifteen she attended the class of an artist in loo, taken by herself on the spot, soon after the adored. Even in the last moments of departEdinburgh, since dead, for nearly three months.battle, which was published without her know-ing life, the deep resignation of her soul to the But the views from nature which she had ledge during her absence from England, with will of God, the fervent devotion which anipreviously painted in oil-colours when quite a an explanation annexed to it by one of her mated her dying accents, the mute looks of child, alone and unaided, were so decidedly sisters,-went through ten editions in the course love and gratitude still fondly turned upon the superior to those she executed under his tuition, of a few months. heart-broken mourners who surrounded her, that she speedily and very judiciously took Her Sketches of Italy are admirable, and proved that the generous affections of the infinitely more pains to forget his instructions, though published under peculiarly unpropi- heart within were triumphant even than she had ever done to acquire them. Thus tious circumstances, the work met with distin- death. she was completely self-taught, and her extra-guished approbation and success. In fact, no She died on the 6th of July, in the 34th ordinary proficiency was solely the result of guide or companion to the celebrated scenes year of her age, and was followed to the grave native genius, directed to the study of nature. and sights of the Continent has ever appeared, by the heart-rending grief of her inconsolable In sketching from nature she possessed un-at once so accurate and so amusing; and sub- husband, relatives, and friends, the deep rivalled and scarcely credible facility, so that sequent tourists, without scruple or acknow-regret of her acquaintance, the tears of her every passing scene which struck her "paint-ledgment, have unsparingly availed themselves dependants, and the smiles of her innocent er's eye," she could portray in a moment, as unconscious boy. if by magic. Often, in the romantic regions of The other literary productions of Mrs. Watts, Italy or Switzerland, while the carriage rolled both in prose and verse, were either withheld along, or the boat glided swiftly over the blue from publication by her extreme diffidence, or, bosom of the lake, bearing her from prospects if suffered to appear, her name was sedulously she was never more to see, her rapid pencil, concealed. If, as has lately been asserted, she with a few master strokes, would delineate the really be the author of a work just published, features of scenes, which, when afterwards entitled Continental Adventures, reviewed painted, in all the glowing hues of nature, in terms of high praise in two of our late were recognised and admired by all; especially Numbers,-that, too, remains unacknowledged. by those artists who, with every advantage of Rome in the Nineteenth Century, sometimes time and care, had themselves sketched the ascribed to her, is, we believe, more generally same subjects.

of her lively and ingenious observations.

attributed to one of her sisters.

The paintings she occasionally sent to the The works of Mrs. Watts, in literature and Exhibition of the Royal Academy and British painting, may indeed suffice to give some idea Gallery, and which always appeared without her of her taste and talents; but no dull descripname, were invariably distinguished and ad- tion can convey to those who knew her not mired by the most eminent judges of art, for the charm of her character. Devoid of all their beauty of composition, fine tone of colour-pretension and affectation, her fine powers of ing, truth to nature, feeling, and expression. mind were blended with that happy ingenuity A man of genius once happily observed, that which delighted to exert itself in embellishing "her paintings were poetic." Her character-every domestic object, and sought to extract istic modesty, however, led her to attribute the something from every passing occurrence: for high encomiums they received to flattery, or as well she knew the importance of trifles in the she termed it, good nature; and she resolved, sum of human happiness; how true it is, that by an ingenious experiment, to ascertain their "little things are great to little man ;" and real estimation. Accordingly she sent a paint-none knew better than herself how to make ing for actual sale to the British Gallery, where the most of them.

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY.
BUONAPARTE'S GRAVE.

(From the Journal of a Gentleman just returned from India.)
OUR touching at St. Helena would have been
an incident devoid of interest to me, had it not
been for the opportunity of viewing the tomb of
him whose devastating arms spread terror
over the face of Europe. St. Helena appeared
to me to be in itself a frightful island—a rock
of desolation-an emblem for the seat of exile
likely to break the heart of one banished to its
an insulated prison-a scen e of all others the most
abrupt and rugged strand. It cost me a world
of trouble and fatigue (which but for the object
I had in view would have been ill repaid) to
mount up the steep, serpentine windings, and
the traveller to a certain degree in the almost
constant twistings and turnings, which relieve
perpendicular ascent.
the country-house called the Briars, which was
On my way I passed by
the first habitation of Napoleon on his arrival
in the island. It is a very sweet spot, when
contrasted with the surrounding horrors of the
place, and owes much of its attraction to a
waterfall, which invites. to musing and
were not the objects of my expedition; and I
meditation :--but the haunts of the living
at length gained the tomb.

"And like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind."

it would necessarily stand in competition with Her high-minded rectitude of principle, amithe works of the first British artists; but a able disposition, and true feminine sensibility member of her own family, unwilling that the and tenderness, endeared her to the hearts of picture should be irrecoverably disposed of, her friends; while the nature and spirit of her mansion of the dead, will be wholly disapHe who looks for the lofty or sublime in this privately desired Mr. Young, the keeper of the conversation, her elegance of mind and versa-pointed; not a trophy, not a wreath, no broken gallery, (to whom it was left to fix the price), tility of talent, her rare union of feeling and trumpet nor fallen spear, no glaive nor helmet; to put upon it nearly double the sum usually vivacity, her unassuming manners, and her demanded for landscapes of similar size. Yet, lively wit,-never pointed by sarcasm or ill stones, taken for the purpose from the fire-a plain slab, formed of three Portland flagalmost at the opening of the Exhibition, the nature,-rendered her the most delightful of place of the ex-emperor's kitchen in his new picture was purchased by a British nobleman companions. Her time was divided between house, is the only covering on his grave: on distinguished for fine taste in the arts. the active duties of life,-the humblest and this not a line, either descriptive or commemoThe literary productions of Mrs. Watts are simplest of which she never neglected, and rative, is written; no name, no date, as if he characterised by spirited originality of thought, the cultivation of those talents and elegant had gone felicity of fancy, and the most lively powers of pursuits, which, though peculiarly adapted to narrative. An eminent critic remarked, that form the charm of domestic life, are, too freher writings are distinguished by the most quently after marriage, either slighted or Around the secluded spot, the romantic and rare, perhaps, of all talents, that graphic abandoned. These she pursued with undi- picturesque prevail in a high degree. It is power of description by which scenes and minished ardour to the last. Her unfinished situated in a green valley, well planted with objects are brought before the eye, and the paintings,—views of exquisite beauty on the umbrageous trees and beautiful shrubs. Five vivid picture at once realised; a talent which shores of the Bay of Naples,-the last touches willows droop over the blank tablet, and, wavour great northern genius alone, of all other yet scarcely dry; and the fragment of a working in the breeze, throw alternate light and authors, pre-eminently possesses. of fiction recently commenced, replete with shade on this unlettered monument, rustling, A Tour in Belgium and Holland, with an original talent,-are affecting memorials to at the same time, in a sort of mournful cadence. Account of the Battle of Waterloo, and Paris her surviving friends, of genius suddenly cut On the left side of the grave are peach-trees, in the Occupation of the Allied Armies, written off when fast ripening to maturity. As a wife, which bear fruit; and a spring, as bright as cry. by Mrs. Watts, then Miss Jane Waldie, was mother, sister, mistress, and friend, never will stal, glides on the outside of the railing which unfortunately precluded from publication by her excellence be forgotten. This is not the is about the tomb, and itself encompassed by her invincible modesty and timidity; but it language of empty panegyric. To the truth a hedge of geraniums. A serjeant and a private was eagerly read in manuscript, and many of this portrait, every heart that knew her will are placed here on guard, and have orders to leading literary characters pronounced it to be bear witness. Though her retiring virtues prevent people from gathering leaves, and

cutting pieces off the willow trees. I had intended to write a line, by way of epitaph, with my pencil on the stone; but the thing was impossible. My attempt was resisted, and I had some difficulty in obtaining a small piece of one of the trees; but was freely allowed to gather some of the peaches and the geranium, the hue of which reminded me of the riband of the Legion of Honour, founded by the deceased,

and elevated by the blood of so many a battle field. I now prepared to depart, when an incident of some interest arrested my steps for awhile. A young and pretty French lady approached, and was soon leaning in a pensive attitude over the railing before described, with her eyes in tears, bent on the gave which it enclosed. She was one of a party of natives of France who had landed from a ship in the bay, to visit this me. morable sepulchre. Her companions speedily arrived, and after a look or two, persuaded her to quit the spot to which she seemed almost immovably attached. The only male in the party evinced that trivial disregard which signalises the character of his countrymen. He shrugged up his shoulders, and as they fell again, uttered something illustrative of the shortness and uncertainty of human glory. Then (speaking of the island) he said, Ma foi, c'est un endroit ex éerable. The young lady remained without speaking all the time, and in a few minutes 1 lost sight of her. I now regained my ship and made sail for England; but the barren rock,, lone grave, and weeping girl, have ever since been in my thoughts.

Paul Pry, after having been acted a hundred and ten nights, seems to have lost but little of its attraction. Mr. Poole has gone out of town to complete another comedy, of which Liston is to be the hero. Madame Vestris is re-engaged, and will shortly make her appearance.

LITERARY NOVELTIES.

It is, we learn, proposed to publish by subscription, a the literary and theatrical world by his "Monsieur Tonvolume of Poems, by Mr. John Taylor, so well known to son," and other poems, and a greater number of prologues and epilogues than was ever, perhaps, written by any individual. It is painful to have to add, from the prospectus issued on the occasion, that the misconduct of some person his friends, one essential to his comforts. We trust the with whom this veteran in periodical and general literature was connected, has rendered the present measure, taken by public, especially the town, will not be deaf to the invita torical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous Information, an entirely original work, is announced as being nearly ready.

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VARIETIES.

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DRAMA. HAYMARKET.-On Friday a new musical farce was performed for the first time, called Thirteen to the Dozen. It is taken from a French vaudeville, called Les Manteaux; but Mr. Alexandre, the ventriloquist, has been the translator having added nothing to the performing at the Theatre of Madam at Paris. original but a dull song or two, and some vapid On the first evening, he addressed the audience dialogue, it is not likely to attain any extraor- to bespeak their indulgence if he committed dinary favour with the public, or be of any any Anglicisms, in consequence of his long very great service to the theatre. The chief, habit of speaking English, or fell into other or more properly speaking, the only incident, errors repugnant to French taste. that of a tailor who has been accidentally led into a plot against the state, by what he calls the harmless exercise of a "professional privilege," is sufficiently ludicrous; and had Mr. Kenny bestowed a little more time and trouble upon the subject, and thrown in another character or two, there is little doubt, from his known ability in such matters, that he would in this way have cooked up a piquant and clever entertainment. But French pieces, as The Stadium.-Scientific men have differed our readers well know, rarely do alone; they much with respect to the extent of the stadium are of much too thin and meagre a quality for of which Strabo and the geographers of antithe taste of John Bull; for though we cannot quity availed themselves to indicate the disdeny the ingenuity of their contrivance, yet we tances between different places. It is evident usually find that the audience are disappointed that the only way of determining the point at the conclusion of them, and wonder, as in was to examine the existing difference between the present instance, that the opening has not places the position of which had not changed, led to some more important and ludicrous and by the result to estimate the length of the results. Liston plays the treasonable tailor ancient measure. A large and exceedingly with a good deal of whim and vivacity; and accurate map of Turkey, by M. Lapie, lately J. Reeve is highly entertaining in the German published in France, has completely resolved hussar. It is the first original part with which the problem; and it is now proved that the he has been intrusted since his removal from stadia of the geographers of antiquity, were, the boards of the Adelphi; and we see no reason according to the opinion adopted by Gosselinquires about. why, with industry and care, he should not and rejected by Danville, 700 to the degree. will make his claim known it shall be satisfied. We are make himself a very useful member of the Thus Strabo reckoned that it was 200 stadia not unaccustomed to volunteers becoming stipendaries, ta company. There was some little disapproba- from Corinth to Argos; and Pausanias that it the satisfaction of all concerned; but mutiny for pay. tion at the fall of the curtain; but upon re- was 660 from Sparta to Olympia. These dis-under such circumstances, is a novelty to us: one, lure petition it went off more smoothly and success-tances, allowing 700 stadia to a degree, are indulge than resist. fully. Les Manteaux was played several nights precisely those in the new map;-an additional last winter at the little theatre in Tottenham proof of the accuracy of the ancient geographers. Street, in a pleasing style. Laporte was the Mr. Auger has been elected perpetual Se-week, line 8 from the end, for fine read tree. Gareon Blum, the young tailor; and Pelissie,cretary of the French Academy, in the room the Festphalien soldier, of Mr. Raynauard, resigned.

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"Doubt Truth to be a Liar,"

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expense of even higher attributes. An editor may be de
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Original Icelandic.
Ar var dat Gudrun
Gördiz at deyia
er hon Sorg-full Sat
yfir Sigurði;

zerdit Hon Hiufra,
ne Höndom sla,
ne Queina um
sem Konor aðrar.

Literally thus:

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Saron Version.

Er dam de Gudrun
Gearwode dydan
da heo Sorgfulle Sæt
ofer Sizurde;

ne gearcode HeoHeofing,
ne Hondum sloh,
ne ymb Cwanode
swa same Cwenas oðre.

"It was ere that Gudrun
Prepared to die,

When she sorrowful sat
Over Sigurd's [corpse];

She made not showers [of tears],
Nor smote she with her hands,
Nor moaned she for him

The same as other women."

tion of MSS. poetry bequeathed to the Library Gudrun for the loss of her husband Sigurd, of Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric, between murdered by her brother Gunnar. Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. By John the years 1046 and 1073.* In Lambeth Palace Josias Conybeare, M.A., &c. Edited, with there were, but we fear there are not, some readditional Notes, &c., by W. D. Conybeare, markable fragments (the Battle of Finsborough, M.A., Rector of Sully. 8vo. pp. 382. Lon- for instance); and in the Library of Corpus don, 1826. Harding and Lepard. Christi College, Cambridge, we believe, there NOTWITHSTANDING the interest which we are other specimens. Consulting these sources, have always taken in the literature of our the late Mr. Conybeare produced that informaAnglo-Saxon progenitors, and particularly in tion to the world which appeared in the its illustration by writers who have published Archeologia, and Transactions of the Antisince the Literary Gazette commenced, (such as quarian Society, upon the metre of AngloSharon Turner, Ingram, and Bosworth,) we Saxon poetry, its forms, character, &c. &c., feel our inability to do justice to the present together with limited illustrations from the work, one of the most valuable contributions ancient compositions to which he referred. that has ever been offered to enrich this field The present volume enlarges and explains these of curious, antiquarian, and national inquiry. topics, and superadds much which was com. Indeed it would require the study of the lan-pleted for the press when the author died, and guage for several years, and much investigation much (as we have observed) of high value of its remaining treasures, to qualify any critic which his editor has furnished. for deciding upon many of the points which From the first specimens of Anglo-Saxon the diligence and acumen of the Editor of this poetry with which we are acquainted, Mr. volume, of his late excellent brother, of the Turner thinks, on the authority of Bede, it was be of a popular as much as of a literary class, gentlemen we have named above, and of constructed without regard to any particular we will here add the whole ballad as very Thorkelin the Danish author-have brought metre, and written to the ear: Mr. Conybeare to light and opened for discussion: conjecture endeavours to shew that it was distinguished sweetly put into a metrical version by the must frequently supply the place of accurate from their prose by the continual use of a data; the materials upon which to form a certain definite rhythm, invariably trochaic or judgment, with regard to the earliest times, are exceedingly scanty; and the rude memorials of a rude language, obsolete for centuries except in these written characters, furnish insuf. ficient gronds for certainty of decision. Still, however, much may be learnt from a view of these remarkable documents; and upon their mere surface they display a great deal to excite and gratify the curiosity of a country inhabited by the descendants of Anglo-Saxons, who deduce from that mixed race, even to the present hour, a multitude of their customs, their laws, and their very feelings.

dactylic; each line, or hemistich, usually consisting of two feet, and the pauses always at the end of lines. He allows, however, that emphasis often holds the place of quantity, and that lines of three or four feet are occasionally intermixed with the regular metres of two; which exceptions seem to us to bring the conclusion very nearly to Mr. Turner's definition. Alliteration, the extensive use of periphrasis, the omission of short particles, and, at a later date, terminal rimes (viz. during the DanoSaxon period), are the other characteristics of the Muses of our ancestors. The system of With this impression upon our mind, we are alliteration was finally carried to an excessive not sorry that our want of an intimate ac- pitch, as appears not only from the examples quaintance with the intricacies of the Anglo-cited by Hickes, but by some very curious ones Saxon tongue compels us, as it were, to take supplied by Mr. Conybeare. The general resimply a popular notice of the work in hand; semblance to the old Icelandic and Teutonic probably, after all, better suited to our limits poetry is very striking; and it may fairly be than a learned and laborious disquisition. supposed that the systematic employment of The late Mr. Josias Conybeare, who was alliteration was a practice entirely of northern Professor of Anglo-Saxon Poetry at Oxford, or of Celtic origin, and though not unknown, from 1809 to 1812, in that capacity directed yet very rarely resorted to by the classical much research to the subject which he was prosodists of either Rome or Greece. To illus. called upon to illustrate; and after his retire-trate this, we beg to quote the first verse in ment from the academical chair to the duties of Icelandic and in Saxon of the Gudrunar Quida, a Christian teacher, a benevolent and charitable one of the most interesting poems in the object induced him further to pursue these Eddaic collection, which relates the grief of literary labours. To his lectures originally, and to his subsequent inquiries, (to the period of his lamented death), we are indebted for the principal portion of this publication; but we have also to confess our great obligations to his brother, the editor of it, than whom a more intelligent and congenial co-adjutor could not have been brought to the completion of the

unfinished task.

Of the remnants of Anglo-Saxon learning and piety, the chief stores exist in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and in a valuable collec

"It has now (in consequence, probably, of the dis-
found its way to the Bodleian, as have some other parts
persion of monastic property after the Reformation)
of the good bishop's literary donation; others are pre-
served in the library of Bennett College, Cambridge;
of Exeter.
while a few only remain in the possession of the Chapter
The contents were chiefly of a liturgical
nature, with portions of the Scriptures, Commentaries on
them, Homilies, &c. Persius is the only poetical, and
Porphyry the only philosophical writer of classical an-
tiquity. Of the later period we have Boethius, Sedulius,
Prudentius, and Orosius-It is added, that he found in
the church, at his accession, only a Capitulary, and old
and Missal."
and decayed copies of the Epistles, Lessons, Night-song,

But as we have stated that our review should

editor of this volume.

"By her Sigurd's blood-stain'd bier,
As, with equal death opprest,
Gudrun sat; she shed no tear,
Her hand she smote not ou her breast:
Word, nor sign, nor act, might shew
The wonted course of woman's woe,
Sages came, the wisest they,

But vain the aids from art they borrow:
Can rhetoric soothe, or reason sway,

That stern mood of deepest sorrow,-
When the heart to bursting swells,
Yet no tear its anguish tells?
Round her press'd a widow'd train,
Sisters they in grief united,
Calling back long scenes of pain,
Each her own sad tale recited:
Vainly thus to wake they try
The soothing power of sympathy.
Vainly for her anguish'd mind,

Stunn'd beneath that sudden blow,
Hardens, to itself confined,

Nor opens to another's woe:
Hard and cold was Gudrum's soul,
Nor sigh would rise, nor tear would roll.
Last did youthful Gulrand speak :-

Matrons, though in wisdom old,
Here, I ween, your skill is weak;
Age's counsels, all too cold,
Cannot reach the widow'd heart,
When youth's strong loves are rent apart.'

With hurrying hand from Sigurd's bier,
Swept she then the pall away:

On him, thy love, look, Gudrun dear,
To his cold lip thy warm lip lay,
And round hin, as they still could hold
Thy living lord, thine arms enfold."
Gudrun turn'd-one hurried glance
On that much-loved form she threw-
A moment view'd, where murder's lance
Had pierced the breast to her so true;
Saw stiff with blood those locks of gold,
And quench'd that eye so bright, so bold.
She saw, and sank, and low reclined,

Hid in the couch her throbbing head.
Her loose veil floated unconfined,

Her burning cheek was crimson'd red: Then, her bursting heart's relief, Copious fell the shower of grief."

In the Exeter MS. already spoken of, there is a singular riming poem, in which "the poet, bound by the double fetters of alliteration and