but it wants the vigour, power, and brilliancy, | Vestris at the Olympic, has already produced TENTH ANTIENT CONCERT. Director-Earl of Derby. Her Majesty honoured this performance with her presence; the selection comprised many pieces, the least interesting, from the old masters. There was no Cinti-nothing vocal of Haydn or Mozart, and, as a whole, it was the worst Concert of the season. MISS BRUCE'S CONCERTS. We have not often been more gratified than on Monday last, at the first of this series of concerts. The company was unusually select, and the whole performance went off triumphantly. Cinti, always delightful, seemed to us more so than ever; her voice, naturally weak, is better suited to a room than a theatre; and her fine execution, and beautiful intonation, were, on this occasion, heard to perfection, and received universal applause. A fantasia on the guitar, by Schultz, and a concerto on the piano, by Holmes, also met with general approbation; and Miss Bruce herself sang with great taste and feeling, and, with de Begnis and Begrez, added to the enjoyment of a very pleasant evening. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 0 Domine Deus! the Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots, immediately previous to her Execution. By M. Marielli. THE first stanza is for a soprano solo, the same words and much the same melody are repeated, with three additional parts, for a second soprano, tenor, and basso; the whole is classically arranged. Air, The Pleiad, with variations for the Pianoforte. Mrs. Steele. A serviceable bagatelle for a very juvenile From the Land where the Myrtle. Op. 1. A Raise, Isabel, those soft dark eyes. Miss Smith. I loved thee in my early days. G. H. Rodwell. THE first of these ballads is a very tasteful and creditable composition for the first essay of a lady amateur. The poetry of the two others is pretty, and written on popular subjects; the music to both, is in three-four time, and lies within a convenient compass for the generality of voices. THEATRICALS THEATRICAL CHAT. another female lessee in the person of Mrs. The latter performances of Mr. Young, at Co- It is now understood, that the lease of Covent Garden Theatre has been disposed of, and that M. Laporte has become lessee for three years. Under the unfortunate circumstances, into which the two major theatres have been brought, partly, it must be allowed, by events which they could not control, but mainly by their own mis-management, it is more easy to say, what will not do, than what will. Until something is known of the plan on which M. Laporte proposes to proceed, it would be premature to offer advice on any particular point. In general terms, how ever, we must express an early hope, that his shrewdness and intelligence will lead him to preserve the few plums, which are to be met with in the great cake of English management, and to superadd some of the many with which French management abounds. Above all, we trust that he will bear in mind that it is a national theatre over which he presides, and that the first "spectacle" he presents us with, will be the somewhat novel one of such an establishment being conducted upon higher principles than those of a chandler's shop. We think we may, at least, venture to predict, that we shall, at length, see the bills of one patent theatre cleared from those noxious weeds called puffs. THE majors have not presented us with any novelties lately, and we have not presented ourselves at the minors-consequently, we have nothing to offer but a few general remarks. The improvement which has taken place in the weather, will enable us, without so much risk, to mend our manners towards the minors, and we therefore hope to be enabled to cross the water, and report what is going on there before Saturday next. At a party, of which we made one, yesterday at dinner, some ladies were highly extolling the amusement they had reNational prejudice between England and ceived the previous evening at the Surrey; and, France, is fortunately at an end. Let M. Lain the course of conversation, one of them ad- porte enter upon his arduous undertaking vised our worthy host, (a native of the Emerald fairly and openly, and he may then do so fearIsle,) by all means to visit that theatre. "Ilessly; for the public and the press will both be would with pleasure," said he, "but life's too short." We joined in the laugh produced by this pithy answer, but shall nevertheless go the length of the Surrey, to show that we do not go the length of our host. The success of Madame with him, without his disgracing his bills by other. MISCELLANEA Walter Scott and Goethe.-Naples, 23rd of April.-The decease of Goethe has caused as painful a sensation amongst the native literati as amongst his fellow-countrymen in this capital. It came quite unexpectedly upon us, for Zahn, the architect, had but a few days before received a long letter from him. It was dated the 10th of March, and contains one passage, in which you will be much interested. "If,” says Goethe, "Walter Scott should still be in your vicinity, be so good as to assure him, that he will not fail to feel himself in every respect at home under our roof, and meet with the respect and attention, which are due to him, not only as the author of a host of important works, but as a right-thinker and a man of exalted mind, who has devoted his life to the improvement of mankind. And, as concerns myself, I may truly remark, that this feeling is greatly enhanced by the kindred connexion, which has subsisted between us for many a long year. My excellent daughter desires to be remembered, if occasion offers, to Sir Walter's unmarried daughter, who, as she hears, accompanies him, and ventures to visit." assure her of a most cordial welcome on her Steel Pens. We have for some time had in daily use, Mordan & Co's. 'Patent Oblique Pen,' and the Double Patent Pen' of Mr. Perry, the two latest novelties in this way; and we confess ourselves sadly perplexed as to which we ought to recommend to the public. Metal pens have hitherto been our abomination, and we have tried them all, from Doughty's ruby to the sixpence a dozen Birmingham manufacture. But the 'Patent Oblique' and the Double Patent' are both excellent. The shape of Mordan's offends the eye-it is more like a sickle than a pen; and, the weight being out of the centre, it is apt to turn from the right position; but then it writes with almost equal ease in any position. Perry's has an immense advantage in its natural shape, but is, we fear, too delicate for general use and rough work. This judgment is, we admit very inconclusive; and we must recommend our readers to try both and determine for themselves. Mordan's is, we incline to say, the best metal pen we ever wrote with; but its uncouth shape makes beginning its use, a sort of strange experiment; and, when both are before us, we take Perry's in preference. Perry's pen is perfect in shape, and, excepting Mordan's, we know of none that can rival it in use. A Prolific Year.-The year 1831 has been extremely prolific in novelty at the Parisian theatres. In 1827, 192 new pieces were performed in the different theatres of that theatrical metropolis; in 1828, only 166; in 1829, 175; in 1830, the same number; but in 1831, no, less than 272. Of these, 177 were vaudevilles (many of them mere political squibs), 30 melodramas, 27 dramas, 19 plays, 2 ballets, and 2 tragedies. These different pieces are written by 172 authors, and the indefatigable Scribe alone, produced 13; Theodore Rézel, 12; Brazier, 11; &c. Censorship of Advertisements.—We have lately been enabled to treat our readers with several morceaux concerning continental censorship; but the following is perhaps unequalled. A publisher at Hildburghausen lately sent to his correspondent at Berlin, for insertion in the paper of that city, an advertisement of A History of the Diet of Baden in the Year 1831,' to be published in numbers. He received in answer the following note: "I must request you they are published-till then it is impossible to to send me the first parts of the work so soon as determine whether the advertisement can be admitted." This note, accompanying the announcement of the work in the more liberal parts of Germany, serves to tempt readers, and sell the book. Candour.-A German publisher, in advertising a work under the title of Royalism and Liberty, in which it is attempted to prove that an absolute monarchy is the beau-ideal of government, candidly adds: That he has undertaken this publication solely to please the author, whom he considers in other respects a very worthy man; but that it would be against his conscience te recommend the work to the public. Novelty in Horticulture. A splendid unit has lately been added to the list of hardy flowering shrubs. The plant is a species of the currant bush, most nearly allied to the black currant, which it resembles very closely, both in the form and smell of the leaves, and also in the general appearance of the plant, with this exception, that the flower petals of the new species are of a bright scarlet, and hang in gracefully sweeping clusters of from twenty to forty individual florets upon each. The botanical name bestowed on this new variety is Ribes Sanguinea, and the English one that of scarletflowered currant. The fruit of it, from the description we have heard, is not likely to be of much value; but, should the plant possess a disposition to cross with the other species, we need not despair of acquiring, in due time, a hybrid which will be not merely ornamental, but may vie in usefulness with any of the black, the red, the white, or the champaign varieties. -Halfpenny Library. NOVELTIES IN LITERATURE AND ARTS. Forthcoming.-Qanoon-e-Islam, or, the Customs of the Moosulmans of India, by Jaffur Shurreff: translated by G. A. Herklots, M.D. The Rev. Hobart Caunter has a volume of Sermons nearly ready for publication. TO CORRESPONDENTS DR. GRANVILLE AND FAUST'S CATECHISM. To the Editor of the Athenæum. Your most obedient servant, H.H., M.D. Now, if this writer be correct, we must presume that Dr. Granville did refer to Faust's Catechism of Health,' (probably the translation by Base,) without being aware of it. At any rate, as he has raised a controversy by questioning other people's accuracy, he will, perhaps, be kind enough to settle it by stating at once the title of the work that he acknowledges to have seen. S, W.-We are not aware that there is any work answering the description, nor any man living that could write it. 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London, THERE are more fine passages in these volumes, than would embellish a dozen novels, and more madness than would infect a score. A man who lived when Nebuchad belief of the earth; the author might have nezzar ate grass round the walls of Babylon,factorily set forth by historians. and who lives now-not in fame, but in real flesh and blood-shocks all belief: we cannot away with a circumstance so utterly incredible, so much at variance with nature, and so much out of keeping with true imagination. We have heard of one whose pleasure it was in company to amuse his friends and astonish strangers, by saying that he lived with Pharoah Necho, king of Egypt; was cup-bearer to Morodoch Baladan, prince of Babylon; revelled with Alexander during his invasion of India; triumphed with Sylla; passed the Rubicon with Cæsar, and saw him assassinated; reeled about the streets of Rome with Caracalla; assisted Mahomet in perfecting the Koran; was the first who stormed Jerusalem in the grand crusade; counselled Bourbon to sack Rome, and Cromwell to behead King Charles; and who concluded his autobiography by saying, that he went mad with Charles of Sweden. All that might pass muster when the good wine had done its good office, and folly took the lead in conversation; but how any man of education and talent-and the writer of this wild work seems to be both-could sit deliberately down and lend his quiet thoughts to the composition of a story fully as wild as the outline we have given, exceeds all belief. We thought Allan Cunningham wild enough when he restored Michael Scott to daylight, after an interment of three hundred years; and we thought Croly little less so, when he wrote the adventures of a man who had out The author, it would appear, could not make up his mind respecting the rank or affinity of the person for whose murder the Doomed was sentenced to an eternal mortal life; we would like to know the relative lived his revilings of the Saviour, till the present day these writers had something like tradition or history to cling to, absurd as their speculations were, for the great wizard was believed to walk, and the wandering Jew, in the opinion of some, is still at his wanderings; but here is a man who is old enough to remember the casting of Shadrach, Meschech and Abednego into the fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, and yet young enough to have gazed, as he relates, with rapture, on the blooming face of a living poetess, at an evening party last week in the west end of London. The author may suppose this to be a daring and dashing sort of thing, and shelter himself from ridicule behind the barriers of imagination; but imagination has nothing at all to do with what is unnatural. It is not imagination to invent monsters with seven heads and ten horns: true imagination conceives something in keeping and accordance with the "The being on whom I gazed, it is true, had rosebud of the early Spring. Her dark and anon, when she deemed herself observed, drop- youthful form, with its flowing garb of various pure white linen falling in graceful folds from thy lovely neck and bosom, stands before my eyes in all its innocence and beauty, as it then stood beneath the shelter of that solitary palm, amidst the far-spreading desolation of the ruined Gour." He finds, however, that his beautiful Zehlima is marked out as a sacrifice to an Indian Idol; he carries her away; she dies in her flight; her body is brought back, and offered as a burnt sacrifice to the eastern Moloch; the Doomed throws himself into the fire, and comes out, to his own astonishment and that of the Bramins, unharmed— nay, unsinged. After this adventure, the Doomed reposed for some hundreds of years; he awoke at last, and renewing his wanderings, found England's army, then engaged against Salahimself suddenly in the midst of Richard of din. Though some fifteen hundred years old that he gains the heart of Richard's cousin, or so, he is so fresh, and bold, and youthful, Alice of Anjou, saves the life of the king himis the first to plant the cross on the topmost self, in spite of all the Saracen chivalry, and deeds he received, we are concerned to say, tower of Jerusalem. For all these good to poniard him for slighting her charms, upon a sorry requital: the tender Alice proposed which he determined to try his fate at sea, and, embarking, was overtaken by a tempest, which soon disposed of the brigantine. "A fearful, half-suffocated yell arose from the drowning crew, as they were dragged down in the whirling vortex occasioned by the sinking of the vessel. I, too, sunk, and it seemed to me as if in the uttermost depths of that troubled sea, rainbow-coloured things and brightly branching corals grew. But I quickly arose again from the depths of beauty, and when once more I floated upon the surface of the waters, there was no living being near me-no cently been there. Strange to say, when death trace left to tell that a goodly ship had so reapproached, I felt a natural instinct, to preserve my wretched being strong within me, and I, who had so often desired to be released from the toils and troubles of a weary existence, now bent my breast against the waves, and swam stoutly for my life. I feared some drowning wretch might seize upon me, and, in the convulsive grasp of death, drag me to the bottom with him-and what I anticipated soon hapthe strong grasp of agony and despair;—I pened. I felt my limbs suddenly seized with struggled-fiercely struggled-but I could not the waters, and I saw him not, yet he was grarid me of the drowning man. He was beneath dually sinking, and I felt that I too was sinking with him. The winds still roared, and the breakers dashed around, and the waves were boiling with a tempest's fury, but the wild despairing cry I uttered, as with one violent effort I tried to free myself from that deadly grasp, rose far above the loudness of the storm. That still clung fiercely to me. effort was unsuccessful-the drowning wretch In the retiring of a |