scarcely have been found to equal, and we felt particularly grateful for that expressive little toss of the hand, after her back was turned upon him for ever, which convinced us that she fully estimated his unworthiness.

In the little after-piece, 'La Jeune Femme Colère,' from which our 'Day after the Wedding' is taken, Madlle. Mars was again perfection; but we could use a quarter of a hundred of pens in her praise, and shall, therefore, conclude with an earnest entreaty to all our actresses, who profess or are about to profess genteel comedy, to see her again and again, assuring them that their best chance of getting on is to learn of her to stand still.

We leave all comment on Mr. G. A. à Beckett's simple fact to our readers; and the following letter, from Mr. Poole himself, will perhaps be allowed to serve as an explanation of Mr. Hood's "ambiguity"

Tuesday, 10th July 1832. "Dear Mr. Editor.-In an advertisement which appears in the Athenæum of last Saturday, I am accused of being retained—' Ods, blunderbusses! retained was the word!'-as a contributor to the Comic Magazine.' The renowned Captain Macheath exclaims,

O cruel, cruel case!

Must I suffer this disgrace?

As the gallant Captain's is merely a case of hanging, I think he indulges in a strain of complaint altogether unbecoming so great a man; and one which is, at the same time, immode

If it be good to learn of Madlle. Mars to stand still, it is equally so to learn of Madlle. Taglioni to move. Talking with the fingers has long been in use, but it remained for this in-rately disproportioned to the trifling nature of tellectual dancer to invent a language for the feet. The limbs, which other people use for walking, she applies to the purposes of talking; the old joke of calling legs understandings, ceases to be a joke when applied to her-there is a soul in her sole-and more point in her toes than in most people's conversation. Report says, that this exquisite creature is about to be married, and we greatly fear that report is for once not a liar. We know not who her intended husband is, but if he means to take her off the stage, we would think no more of shooting him than of shooting a mad dog; she has no right to be wedded except to her profession.

Mons. Paul Taglioni is a very excellent dancer, and so is his wife, and so is Mons. Theodore: but we began with the Taglioni, and cannot keep working at anti-climax.

HOOD, POOLE, AND GEORGE COLMAN,
versus

The Comic Magazine and its Advertisements. Early in the week, we received a letter from the editor of the 'Comic Magazine,' explanatory of the "double dealing" charged by Mr. Hood against his advertisements. This letter was in many points objectionable, and we wrote immediately, to say, that unless we were at liberty to make such omissions as would confine his reply to an explanation, it could not be inserted. The editor, it appears, is out of town, and from his answer just received, it is clear that he has not been correctly informed of the nature of our objections. We must, therefore, exercise our best discretion. The following is a copy of the letter:"Monday 9th July, 1832. "12, Staples Inn. "Sir,-You have in the last number of the Athenæum, given insertion to a letter from Mr. Hood, in which he thinks proper to assert, that in announcing negotiations to be pending with him, the proprietors of the Comic Magazine' have been guilty of double dealing.

"The fact is simply this: Mr. Hood was applied to for an article for the 'Comic Magazine,' but he did not think proper to * * * return an answer to the overture. It was naturally supposed that he had not made up his mind in what way he should reply, and the proprietors having opened a negotiation with him, merely expressed a hope that it would be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.

"I must request on behalf of the proprietors of the 'Comic Magazine,' to know the meaning of an expression in the last paragraph of Mr. Hood's letter-he says 'it would not suit me to write for them, even if they offered-they will understand me-to post the cole, Poole measure.' Mr. H. has calculated too much on the proprietors' powers of understanding, * * * and I therefore call upon him to divest his language of its present elegant ambiguity, and state publicly what is intended by his innuendo. * *

"I am, Sir, yours most obediently,
"G. A. à BECKETT,
"Editor of the Comic Magazine."

the accident he contemplates. But I am accused of being 'retained' in the manner I have stated, and am pilloried (as it were) in certain advertisements as if such were the fact: I may, therefore, with much better show of reason than the Captain, say or sing O cruel, cruel,' &c. "Now, dear Mr. Editor, I won't suffer this disgrace:' and why should I, when I can relieve myself from it by a flat contradiction of the charge? Neither am I retained by, nor have I the most remote intention of contributing to, guilty to one single transaction with the editor,' the work in question. I do, indeed, plead or the sub-editor,' or the editor's friend,' or the gentleman authorized,' or the 'gentleman not authorized'-(I really cannot say which, though, doubtless, the multifarious person alluded to 'will understand me' f);—but as this was my first, and shall most certainly be my only offence of the kind, I offer in its entenuation, my youth, and my inexperience in the ways of this wicked world: begging leave to add that I regret, and am sincerely sorry for, what I have done. "I remain, very faithfully yours,

"JOHN POOLE. "P.S.-Would the gentlemen of the Comic Magazine' take it as too serious a joke if you were to ask them, how many of the names which they have dragged into their advertisements they have the slightest possible authority for promising to our good-natured and unsuspecting friend PUBLIC, as contributors to their work?"

We have since received the following communication on the same subject from Mr. Col

man:

"Thursday, 12th July, 1832. "Brompton Square. "Sir,-There is a person, I am told, who announces, by advertisement in your paper, that he is in treaty with me to write in his Comic Magazine;' which is all I know, or wish to know, about him.

"Oblige me by stating to your readers, that this Comical Gentleman has never treated with

me,-and certainly I shall never treat with him. "I am, Sir,

"Your obedient humble servant,
"GEORGE COLMAN."

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Sir Thomas Gresham.-The commemoration of the illustrious founder of Gresham College, took place on Thursday last at the Church of St. Helen's, Bishopgate, where this "Royal Merchant" lies entombed. There was a good selection of sacred music performed on the occasion, amongst which was the 'Jubilate Deo' of Mr. Hart, which gained the prize medal. The Rev. W. M. Blencowe delivered an impres

+ See Mr. Hood's letter in your last, in which there occurs a passage which must be a profound mystery to all except those for whom my facetious friend intended it. I could expound it; and should I be compelled to take further notice of this matter, Poole upon Hood might perhaps be made as amusing as Coke upon Littleton.

sive sermon upon the character of the founder. After the service, many of the, friends to the preservation of Crosby Hall, repaired to that fine building, and were again gratified by some fine music, sung by Messrs. Vaughan, Atkins, and Novello, and other good voices. We are happy to hear that the subscription for the preservation is going on prosperously.

Siberia.-A Berlin letter of the 21st of June mentions, that Dr. Lessing, a great-nephew of the celebrated German writer, was about to proceed on a scientific excursion through this unexplored region, assisted by an annual grant of a thousand roubles, so long as he should be absent.

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Pulpit Bull." Remember, I beseech you, that we are all sailing down the stream of time, and must inevitably land, at last, in the great ocean of eternity."

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fore.

Of the 'Conversations' we shall proceed to give some specimens: they set us right in some important particulars: they show us that Jonson was not quite such a sour and surly man as he has been represented: that what he said of Shakspeare was less harsh than the commonly received account; and that of having spoken fiercely against Inigo Jones, Gifford's attempts to free Ben from the charge might as well have been spared. Of his brethren, the bards, he spoke with much freedom. "3. HIS CENSURE OF THE ENGLISH POETS

WAS THIS:

That Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself. Spenser's stanzas pleased him not, nor his matter; the meaning of which Allegorie he had delivered in papers to Sir Walter Raughlie.

"Samuel Daniel was a good honest man, had no children, but no poet.

"That Michael Drayton's Polyolbion, if [he] had performed what he promised to writte (the deeds of all the Worthies), had been excellent: his long verses pleased him not.

"That Silvester's translation of Du Bartas was not well done; (and that he wrote his verses before it, ere he understood to conferr): nor that of Fairfax his. That the translations of Homer and Virgil in long Alexandrines were under all translations, was the worst. but prose. That John Harrington's Ariosto,

"That when Sir John Harrington desyred him to tell the truth of his Epigrames, he answered him, that he loved not the truth, for they were Narrations, and not Epigrames.

"That Warner, since the King's comming to England, had marred all his Albions England.

The Secretary of the Society in those days was James Cummyng, of whom David Herd, a brother antiquary, has recorded, that he undertook everything and performed nothing: in the spirit of this character, the Secretary did nothing, or something worse; the manuscripts were neglected for forty years and odd, and were forgotten perhaps by many, when the taste and enthusiasm of David Laing drew them from their dread abode. It was, however, with no little sorrow, that the editor discovered a sad difference between the description given of these bundles by the Earl of Buchan and their actual contents: it is true that his lordship marked letters from Drayton as letters to Drayton, and made some other slight mistakes such as men fall into who are careless examiners; yet it cannot be concealed that some material documents must have been abstracted-antiqua-ameters, was a foole.

"That Donne's Anniversarie was profane and full of blasphemies: that he told Mr. Donne, if it had been written of the Virgin Marie it had been something; to which he answered, that he described the Idea of a woman, and not as she That Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging. "That next himself, only Fletcher and Chapman could make a mask.

was.

"That Shakspear wanted arte. "That Sharpham, Day, Dekker, were all rogues; and that Minshew was one.

"That Abram Francis, in his English Hex

"4. HIS JUDGMENT OF STRANGER POETS WAS:

"That he thought not Bartas a poet, but a verser, because he wrote not fiction.

"He cursed Petrarch for redacting Verses to Sonnets; which he said were like the Tirrants

bed, wher some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.

decorum, in making Shepherds speak as well as "That Guarini, in his Pastor Fido, keept not

himself could.

"That Lucan, taken in parts, was good divided; read altogidder, merited not the name of a poet. *

"6. HIS CENSURE OF MY VERSES WAS:

taph on the Prince, save that they smelled too "That they were all good, especiallie my Epimuch of the Schooles, and were not after the fancie of the tyme: for a child (says he) may

writte after the fashion of the Greeks and Latine verses in running; yett that he wished to please the King, that piece of Forth Feasting had been his owne.

"7. HE esteemeth John Done the first poet in the world in some things: his verses of the the Calme, That dust and feathers do not stirr, lost Chaine he hath by heart, and that passage of all was so quiet. Affirmeth Done to have written all his best pieces err he was 25 years old.

"Sir Edward Wotton's verses of a happie lyfe he hath by heart; and a piece of Chapman's translation of the 13 of the Iliads, which he thinketh well done.

"That Done said to him he wrott that Epitaph on Prince Henry, Look to me, Faith, to

match Sir Ed. Herbert in obscurenesse.

"He hath by heart some verses of Spenser's Calender, about wyne, between Coline and Pertye.

"8. THE conceit of Done's transformation, or METEμvxwols, was, that he sought the soule of that aple which Eva pulled, and thereafter made it the soule of a bitch, then of a shee wolf, and so of a woman: his general purpose was to have brought in all the bodies of the Hereticks from the soule of Cain, and at last left it in the bodie of Calvin. Of this he never wrotte but one sheet, and now, since he was made Doctor, repenteth highlie, and seeketh to destroy all his poems.

"9. THAT Petronius, Plinius Secundus, Tacitus, spoke best Latine; that Quintilianes 6.7. 8. bookes were not only to be read, but altogither digested. Juvenal, Perse, Horace, Martiall, for delight; and so was Pindar. For health Hippocrates.

"Of their Nation, Hooker's Ecclesiasticall historie (whose children are now beggars,) for church matters. Antiquities here; and ane book of the Gods of Selden's Titles of Honour for the Gentiles, whose names are in the Scripture, of Selden's.

Tacitus, he said, wrott the secrets of the Councill and Senate, as Suetonius did those of the Cabinet and Courte.

"10. FOR a Heroick poeme he said ther was no such ground as King Arthur's fiction; and that S. P. Sidney had ane intention to have transform'd all his Arcadia to the stories of King Arthur."