The other new production, 'The Loves of the Angels,' is one of far more pretension, and is entitled on that score to a more extended notice than, at this late period of the week, we can afford either time or space for. It is evidently constructed and written at the pieces called Olympic Revels' and 'Olympic Devils,' which have for the last two seasons been playing at Madame Vestris's theatre. The imitation is by no means an unsuccessful one, and the author (Mr. W. L. Rede, an actor at the Strand Theatre,) is entitled to credit for his exertions. The piece promised better at the beginning than its subsequent stages justified. The dialogue was sprightly, and the versification easy, with occasional hits, which were well given and taken, and which elicited repeated shouts of laughter from the audience. The author, however, seemed to us to have written himself out almost before the first scene was over-certainly before the end of the first act. We think his mistake to have been, that he has fancied his task an easier one than it was. As the piece proceeded, the humour receded, and the rhymes became too forced even for comic licence. The acting was good and spirited throughout.-Mrs. Waylett, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Honey, and the author himself, Mr. Rede, deserving, in particular, honourable mention. The music is extremely pretty throughout, and is arranged with that good taste which distinguishes Mr. A. Lee. Its only defect is, clearly, that it is of too sombre a character, and, indeed, there is too much attempt at the pathetic in the dialogue itself, for an entertainment of this description. The whole thing will doubtless be improved by repetition; but its reception by the audience, though good, was not such as to justify us in predicting for it either a very long or a very profitable run.When a prize is given for bad scenery, the painter of this will be the fortunate youth.

MISCELLANEA

The Egyptian Sphinxes.-In a brief notice in the Athenæum, of the 14th of last month, it was mentioned, that these Sphinxes, just arrived at Cronstadt, had been presented by the Pasha of Egypt to the Russian Autocrat. We have now good authority for correcting this statement. The Sphinxes were, it appears, purchased by Mr. Rosetti, of Alexandria, agent for the Emperor of Russia, for a sum equivalent to nearly fifty-five thousand francs, from a Mr. Jarri, a Greek, to whom the Pasha has liberally conceded permission to explore for remains of antiquity.

Naples, July 16.-"A pier, which projects already deep into the bay, and abuts on the Molosillo (or Little Mole), close to the arsenal under the windows of the King's palace, will, when it is completed, form a new harbour, on one side of which, ships of war, and, on the other, merchant vessels, will ride at anchor far more snugly than in the old port.-A young naturalist of the name of Pilla, has associated himself with a few friends for the purpose of publishing a Giornale del Vesuvio, in which the public will be kept constantly informed of every successive occurrence, any ways connected with our turbulent neighbour. Pilla has already essayed his pen on a description of his ascent of Vesuvius in January last. It appeared a short time since in the Progresse delle Scienze, a new scientific journal."

Polish Heroism.-At the storming of Warsaw, the principal battery was defended by only two battalions, but with such bravery as history can hardly parallel. When it was evident that it could no longer hold out, several privates of the artillery seated themselves on powder barrels and blew themselves up. But the conduct of General Sowinski was truly heroic. Having lost one foot, he was, at his earnest request, seated on a chair, and placed on the altar of the desperately-defended church, where he continued

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NOTHING Would be easier than to fill a whole Athenæum with praise and extract—but as we are under no obligation to do so, we intend to pursue our own course, and shall begin and end with original papers, unless the publishers favour us with works more deserving or more entertaining than the last month has produced. The dull season, however, is universal-France looks like a fallow field-Germany sent us Falk only to disappoint us-and one little volume of indifferent poems is all we could glean from a whole arm-full of American literature. We were therefore about to despatch a quire of manuscripts to the printer, when the sixth volume of this entertaining work arrived; and, though not quite equal to its predecessors, it was most welcome.

The contributors are the Baron Charles Dupin, whose writings are well known in this country, Nestor de Lamarque, Kératry, Eugène Sue, an anonymous writer who signs himself an Idler, Regnier Destourbet, Gustave Planche, Madlle. Elise Voiart, Viennet, Ernest Desprez, Alphonse François, De Salvandy, Louis Desnoyers, Guilbert de Pixérécourt, Lesguillon, and Alphonse de Lamartine.

We shall begin our translations with a strange tale by Eugène Sue: it is a sort of biography of a Parisian hopeful-one of those dare-devil scoundrels, out of whom heroes, highwaymen, and pirates, are manufactured-and is entitled,

The Parisian at Sea. CHAPTER I.

"Matthew Guichard was the son of Jean Guichard, locksmith, in the Rue Saint-Benoît. He was about seventeen, of the middle height; slim, nervous, and pale. He had small, twinkling grey eyes; and thin, silky brown hair. His countenance indicated a singular mixture of cunning and simplicity; and his livid and wan complexion had that unhealthy and shrivelled appearance so common among the children of the poor and working classes in Paris.

"In his moral constitution,-if, indeed, he had a moral constitution,-Matthew was insolent, lascivious, lazy, and gluttonous: he was, moreover, a scoffer and a bully. He was neither infidel, nor believer, nor sceptic; but of a stoical indifference in matters of religion;-never invoking the name of God but in a manner so detestable, that he had much better not have invoked it at all. But, in truth, we must not bear too hard upon him on this account; for the very first words which his father, formerly an artillery-man, taught him to utter, were the most frightful oaths. These lessons formed the recreation of the old soldier, when, after a hard day's work, he was seated near his extinguished forge. He would then place young Matthew upon his knee, and listen with delight to the

renegado oaths lisped forth by the child. Sometimes his wife would talk of prayers, and of the Holy Virgin, and the infant Saviour; but Jean Guichard would reply, 'Peace, woman! I don't choose that my boy should be either a maccaroni parson or a Jesuit.'

"Now, in this respect, Matthew did not disappoint the expectations of his father: he was no maccaroni parson, and certainly not a Jesuit.

"When he was ten years old, he would kick his mother-insult old men-steal old nails from the shop to raise the wind-do no work-receive sound threshings from his father-and spend whole days from home. At twelve, he had already commenced his career of gallantryhad broken lamps-beaten the watch-and was an admitted member of the society of mauvais sujets.

"As he advanced in years, so his offences increased; and the torrent of his misdeeds became so strong, that it threatened to sweep away the reputation, the honour, and the savings of Jean Guichard, his father, who had in vain opposed to it, in the form of a dyke, sundry elm and oak cudgels broken upon the back of his son Matthew, but without improving the habits membered an old proverb, common with the of the youth. Fortunately, Jean Guichard reParisians, which represents a ship as a sort of moral cess-pool, into which all the filth and rubbish of society is thrown. Thus, when a youth of condition commits one of those egregious follies, which never occur but at the dawn of manhood, there is a meeting of the family, and a grave resolution passed, that the young Don Juan must be shipped off to the West Indies, to encounter the hard rubs of life, until he be polished down into discretion.

"So also, when a young villain, the terror of the neighbourhood, puts no longer any restraint upon his enormities, after being threatened, in succession, with the commissary, a prison, and the gallies, the climax is wound up by saying,

'He must be sent to sea.'

"Now it happened that, one morning, Jean Guichard entered his son's bed-room, who, I know not by what chance, had slept at home. On opening his eyes, Matthew shuddered, for he perceived that his father had no cudgel.

"He is certainly going to strangle me,' thought the lad.

"Listen to me, Matthew,' said old Guichard, coolly: thou art now fifteen years old, and the most consummate scoundrel I know; blows have no effect upon you, and you will die upon the gallows. I have been a soldier, but am an honest man; and things cannot therefore go on as they do. You must come with me to Havre.' "When?'

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Immediately: dress yourself.' "Matthew said not another word; but so soon as his clothes were on, cast a sly glance at the door; then, making a sudden bolt, was in a moment upon the stairs. But his father had watched his motions, and Matthew, already exulting in the anticipation of his escape, felt the muscular grip of his father's huge hands.

"Softly, lad-not so fast,' said Jean, and preceding Matthew into the shop, ordered his wife to call a cab, into which the father and son mounted,—a big tear starting in the eyes of the

latter, when he saw his mother, in an agony of grief, throw herself upon her knees near the forge.

"From the cab, Matthew passed into the diligence, accompanied by his father, who left him not an instant. The next morning they arrived at Havre.

"In every commercial seaport town in France, there are certain tavern-keepers who supply unemployed seamen with board and lodgings upon credit. As soon as the latter are hired, they pay their tavern bill out of their advance of wages; and on their return from sea spend at the same tavern the money they have earned during the voyage. Then credit again succeeds to ready money; and this goes on until a wave off Cape Horn, or a tropical squall, puts an end to these alternate days of dearth and abundance. It is in these taverns that the masters of vessels recruit their crews; and to the landlord of one of them was Jean Guichard recommended by the conducteur of the diligence in which he had travelled to Havre.

"As a measure of precaution, Matthew was provisionally locked up in a room, with grated windows and door of massive oak, which was not opened till the next morning at nine o'clock. "There is the lad,' said Jean Guichard, as entered, to a short, squat, muscular, rednosed man, who accompanied him.

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Is that he?' said the stranger; why he is not fit to light the pipe of my cabin boy.' "But you promised me, Captain—?' "Yes, and I will keep my promise. The wind is fair; we sail at eleven, and it is now nine. Come, my lad, get under weigh, and follow in my wake. Thou hast a rare character from thy father, and thy back shall soon become acquainted with a good rope's end.'

"Matthew readily understood what was in reserve for him. He calculated with marvellous rapidity the chances of escaping, or of successfully opposing his father's will; but, finding the odds against him, he quietly resigned himself to his fate.

"Come, Matthew,' said Jean Guichard, 'embrace thy old father. Behave thyself well, correct thy errors, and we shall meet again, boy.'

"Never!' replied Matthew, drawing back from the paternal embrace, and whistling a tune with the utmost nonchalance, as he followed the captain.

But if he were never to return!' thought Jean Guichard. Bah! a stray pigeon always returns to the dove-cot.'

'Nevertheless, Jean Guichard was very sad for a long time after his son's departure."

CHAPTER II.

"Meantime, five days had elapsed since the Charming Louisa, a brig of 180 tons burthen, bound to Pernambuco, had left Havre, bearing off the only son and heir of the Guichard family.

"This individual, the type and prototype of the Parisian populace, so astonished at every thing, was astonished at nothing, because he found analogies everywhere. When a sailor, pointing to the main top, said to him, ‘Parisian, could you get up there?'-Matthew replied, with a look of contempt, That's nothing new! I have climbed a thousand times a mat de

cocagne, rubbed with soap, which is more difficult than to climb with the aid of those ropes.' So saying, he mounted to the main top with the agility of a squirrel, and without passing through lubber's hole: he then descended by the mainstay, as proud as a merry-andrew.

"What lies his father has been telling me,' said the captain, seeing Matthew's address; 'why the lad is not so bad, after all.'

"The breeze was stiff, and the swell rather strong. The sailors expected to see Matthew's stomach turned inside out. No such thing. The Parisian was not at all sick; he nibbled his biscuit, tore his salt junk with his teeth, drank two rations of wine, because he stole one from a sailor belonging to his mess, then went upon the forecastle to smoke his pipe.

"Has the motion of the vessel no effect upon you?' said an old sailor, who expected not only to laugh at the contortions of the Parisian during his sickness, but to drink his wine for him when he should be too ill to notice it.

"That's nothing new!' boldly replied Matthew. I have played too often at balancing in the Champs-Elysées, and rode too often upon the Russian swing, for that to have any effect upon me.'

"This answer was accompanied with clouds of smoke, which, for an instant, concealed everything around from the Parisian. When the smoke disappeared, the smiling face of the captain met his eye. The latter had heard what had passed.

"Positively,' said he, the father is an old fool;' then addressing Matthew,' From this day, lad, thou art no longer a cabin-boy, but a foremast man.'

"As you please,' replied Matthew, with indifference.

"The next day the captain, who had an eye to everything, perceived that the sailors of the watch went together below; and listening at the hatchway, he heard a violent dispute.

"The rascal,' exclaimed several voices, 'has been put before the mast. It is unjust to favour him in this way. He shall be keel

hauled.'

"I shall, if you are bent upon it,' replied the Parisian with the most determined coolness, 'but I will be revenged. I am alone, it is true: but no matter-woe to him that presumes to touch me.'

"But, you rascal,' said the orator of the crew, why did you presume not to be seasick, and to go aloft as fast as we could? You know it was only to flatter the officers.'

"Yes, roared the others, in chorus, 'he did it on purpose.'

"Listen to me,' said the Parisian: if any of you will fight me alone, let us each take one of those pointed irons (looking at two marline spikes), and we will see which is the best man.' "Done,' replied the orator.

"The father decidedly deserves to be keelhauled,' thought the captain: the son is an excellent fellow.'

"The captain having interposed his authority, the dispute ended, but the fight took place in the evening, and the Parisian was the conqueror.

"From that day, nobody on board presumed to molest our hero, who enjoyed the esteem of his officers and the friendship of his comrades.

CHAPTER III.

"Had the captain been endowed with the faculty of analysis, he certainly would have called it into action with regard to the character of Matthew Guichard. But the worthy man never analysed; he contented himself with beating the Parisian or overwhelming him with favours, according to his opinion of Matthew's deserts. Without amusing himself by tracing effects to causes, he appreciated only results; he made up his accounts, as he called it, and

then paid the balance-kicks or halfpence, a buffet or a glass of grog, as might be.

Meantime two years had expired, during which it is difficult to say whether the sum total was in favour of buffets or glasses of grog; for, in point of fact, our hero was neither better nor worse than at first-a young soul used to the parching atmosphere of Paris, becomes hardened, and preserves for ever the first impression. "Thus Matthew had brought with him, and maintained that careless idleness, and that nerVous and instantaneous activity which characterize his race. If there was anything laborious to do in fine weather, the Parisian was slug gish, lazy, and taciturn; but when the wind whistled and the thunder roared, it seemed as if the storm produced a reaction upon his irritable temperament, and centupled his strength and energy. In such times he was seen at the yard-arm in the post of danger, as cool and steady as an old sailor: but when the fine weather returned, he sunk into his former apathy, and became what he was before-what a Parisian always is and always will be-lazy, insolent, fond of bantering, because he possessed the vivacious and picturesque spirit of the Parisian populace, and cunning because he was not strong, although by his gab (let us be pardoned this vulgarity, for it alone can convey the meaning) he had gained a wonderful ascendancy over the crew, and even the captain himself.

"No matter whether the Parisian was put in irons, sent up the shrouds, or started with a rope's end, he lost not a single joke, nor a single mouthful, nor was his sleep a wink less sound. He would take off everybody; the captain first, with his hoarse voice, his half-closed eye, and his favourite oath. The grey great coat and the oilskin hat were alone wanting to make the portrait perfect. Then the head cook had his turn; his twisted leg and stupid stuttering were hit off with exquisite facility.

"Then came the bacchanalian songs, and the romances, and fragments of comedies, melodrames, and comic operas, which Matthew gave out in broad and characteristic declamation, imitating the gestures and voices of the favourite Parisian actors.

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Nobody could resist Matthew's fun. Every thing was forgotten in listening to him;-the helmsman steered wrong, nobody slept on board, the hammocks were deserted, and the open and simple countenances of the sailors might be seen, crouched in a circle around him, listening with imperturbable gravity to his readily-coined and most monstrous lies.

"As for Matthew, he continued to be astonished at nothing. The sailors had anticipated much from the effect which the sight of negroes, and palm trees, and sugar canes, and many things beside, would produce upon him. All this, however, had no effect. The eternal that's nothing new,' disconcerted all their hopes. Matthew had seen negroes at Robinson, palm trees at the Jardin des Plantes, had bought sugar cane on the Pont Neuf, and had actually made a cup from a cocoa-nut shell for his mistress. What was to be done with so encyclopædical an organization? Be silent and admire; and that is what the crew did.

CHAPTER IV.

"It was on a Sunday. The Charming Louisa, generally employed in voyages to the West Indies, had, on this occasion, been freighted for Cadiz, whither she carried Bourdeaux wine, and was to bring back Sherry in return.

"The Parisian, surfeited with the West Indies, negro wenches and women of colour, was not sorry for the change; and no sooner was the brig safely moored along-side the quay than Matthew, at a single bound, found himself on shore, with thirty francs in his pocket, a smallcrowned and wide-brimmed straw hat upon his

head, decked out in a pair of white trowsers and a blue jacket with anchor buttons. His shirt collar was fastened by a clasp of American berries, a love present from a lady of Martinique.

The Parisian was endowed with a prodigious philological faculty. His process was simple, and it enabled him to solve every difficulty, without exception of language or idiom.

"His method was, simply-whenever he asked an Englishman to direct him on his way, he would imitate, as nearly as he could, the ridicu lous patois given to the English in the French plays. In addressing a German, his language underwent a slight modification, as it also did when he spoke to an Italian or an American. It is true that this method was not always successful; indeed, sometimes foreigners who would very probably have understood him had he addressed them in proper French, could not comprehend his jargon. This he attributed to obstinacy, ill-breeding, or national jealousy; and it must be confessed, that Matthew Gui chard never experienced that embarrassment and timidity generally felt by a foreigner in a country whose language he does not understand.

"Thus the Parisian walked on with as firm a step, and as little concern as if he had studied for seven years the grammar of Rodriguez y Berna at Badajos or Toledo.

"As Matthew advanced, the coup d'œil pleased him. That animated multitude, those pictu. resque costumes, the men with small hats and long brown cloaks, the women with satin or silk shoes, those small feet, short petticoats, dresses fitting closely to the shape, and natural flowers scattered with so much taste among their dark and luxuriant hair-their gait, in short their walk, their salero,-all this excited the ardent attention of our hero, who mentally compared these beauties to the women of colour in the West Indies.

"As he passed by a flight of steps leading to the ramparts, he lifted up his eyes and per ceived a female near the top, ascending the remaining steps with great rapidity. This rapid ascent enabled him to perceive a beautifully moulded leg, and Andalusian foot, which induced him to run up the steps himself, and overtake the fair lady who displayed such charms. As he possessed much more assurance than timidity, he, with great familiarity, approached the young girl-for she was a young girl, and a very pretty one too--and looking in her face, said, in a kind of French patois, which he made to resemble Spanish in sound as much as possible, Spanish girl, you are very beautiful!' The young girl blushed, smiled, and doubled her pace.

"Where the devil did I learn Spanish?' ejaculated the Parisian, certain of having been understood, and following with eager steps his new conquest.

"Just opposite to the Custom-house the lady descended, turned her head, looked at the Parisian, crossed the little square de la Torre, and entered an adjoining street.

"The Parisian, animated, exalted to enthu siasm, and delighted with his conquest, eagerly followed. He was just about to cross the street, when he heard a religious chant, and saw a long file of penitents issue from a neighbouring street. At the head of the procession were borne lanterns, next banners, relics, shrines, and flowers, followed by the Host. Next came the governor. In short, this was a solemn proces sion to ask Heaven for a little rain; for the drought was frightful in the year of grace 1829.

"The Parisian, instead of joining the multitude, uttered a dreadful oath, for the procession stopped the way, and he trembled lest he should lose sight of the black-eyed Andalusian girl. The populace bared their heads at the first sound of the rattle carried by a white monk,