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between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.

By the late Major JAMES RENNELL, F.R.S. Lond. and Edinb.
Formerly Surveyor-General of Bengal.
Printed for J. G. and F. Rivington, St. Paul's Churchyard, and
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Last of the Mohicans Cooper.
The Prairie,
Frankenstein, by Mrs. Shelley.
The Ghost-Seer, by Schiller.
Edgar Huntly, by Brown.
Caleb Williams, By
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By Jane Porter

Thaddeus of War-
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Scottish Chiefs,
Discipline, I By
Self-Control, Mrs. Brunton.
Hungarian Brothers, by A. M.
Porter.

Canterbury Tales, by S. and H.
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This is one of those useful and truly moral publications which cannot fail to be read with delight by the youth of both sexes, who, as their hearts expand, and they advance in years, have need of some instructor to point out the path they should follow for their future happiness. The author has been triumphantly successful in attaining these laudable objects in this interesting publication."-Weekly Times.

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No. 255.

Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts.

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1832.

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REVIEWS

Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery. By Mary Russell Mitford. Fifth Series. London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co.

THERE are four and twenty sketches in this volume; some of them old acquaintances; others we are not so sensible of having seen before; while a few, we apprehend, are wholly new. They aspire not to the rank of regular stories; there is scarcely in any of them that beginning, middle, and end, which some critics call for; they are strictly and truly

what the name implies, sketches of rustic, or rather, rural character, and may be described as portions of the life of each person they seek to delineate. Their fidelity is a great beauty-Miss Mitford has more of the right true country English feeling than almost any other living writer; she is always easy and natural-always full of good sense and original observation: she is acquainted with the pride of the humble, and the imprudencies of the prudent; she paints landscapes with much of the truth and clearness of Gainsborough, and, like him, she peoples her scenes, not with the creations of her own fancy, so much as with the children of the soil, a little ragged sometimes, and their toilettes neglected, but so full of life that we cannot help seeing them before us as we read. Her fame has flown far and wide, and she has taken her rank with the ablest writers of the age: honours

ought to be paid to her in every cottage: her works are many of the best of them, at least-pictures of the manners and feelings of our peasantry; and she has had the good sense to see that our rustics are not so wholly depraved and shameless, as Crabbe, with little charity, has drawn them. She sees with an unprejudiced eye, and feels with an honest heart;

she has no affectations of either sentiment or manner; she deals in no ornate and ink-horn tailed words; she has none of the punning snip-snap of the city-none of the rudeness of the country; she writes in a true healthy style; her pages have much of the newmown hay and the new blossomed bean-field about them. We cannot, however, conceal from ourselves, that some of her sketches are much too slight, and many of her incidents trivial; she can be tedious when she chooses; her characters, we suppose from the faithfulness of the copy, are occasionally too faintly marked, and even some of her liveliest delineations end in nothing. All the beauties which we have described, (but none of the blemishes we have hinted at,) were visible to a late lamented friend of ours, William Ritchie, of Edinburgh: he was a thorough Mitfordite, though a critic, and a sharp one, as the columns of his Scotsman can testify: honey took the place of gall on his lips whenever he spoke of the works of Mary Russell

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Mitford, for he gave her the advantage of all
her name, and loved to repeat it. But the
admiration of our friend was not a blind one;
he had studied the genius which he wor-
shipped; he saw in her works so much truth,
so much nature, and so much feeling, that
he could not but consider her as the most
accomplished Englishwoman of the age. He
had never seen her; and the last time we saw
him was when he shook hands with us, and

departed on a pilgrimage to the shrine of
Mary Russell Mitford, at Three Mile Cross.
Peace be with him!

It is the practice of Miss Mitford, in her
sketches, first to draw the localities, and then
to people them in the spirit of the scene; it
is thus she commences her sketch called the
brush might paint from such a description :—
Rat-catcher;' any one who can handle a

"Beautifully situated on a steep knoll, over-
hanging a sharp angle in the turnpike road,
which leads through our village of Aberleigh,
stands a fantastic rustic building, with a large
yew-tree on one side, a superb weeping ash
hanging over it on the other, a clump of elms
forming a noble back-ground behind, and all the
prettinesses of porches garlanded with clematis,
windows mantled with jessamine, and chimneys
wreathed with luxuriant ivy, adding grace to the
picture. To form a picture, most assuredly, it
was originally built,-a point of view, as it is
called, from Allonby Park, to which the bye-
road that winds round this inland cape, or head-
land, directly leads; and most probably it was
also copied from some book of tasteful designs
for lodges or ornamented cottages, since not

only the building itself, but the winding path
that leads up the acclivity, and the gate which
gives entrance to the little garden, smack of the
pencil and the graver.

"For a picture certainly, and probably from
a picture, was that cottage erected, although its
ostensible purpose was merely that of a receiv-
ing-house for letters and parcels for the park;
to which the present inhabitant, a jolly, bustling,
managing dame, of great activity and enterprise
in her own peculiar line, has added the profit-
able occupation of a thriving and well-accustom-
ed village-shop; contaminating the picturesque
old-fashioned bay-window of the fancy letter-
house, by the vulgarities of red-herrings, to-
bacco, onions, and salt-butter; a sight which
must have made the projector of her elegant
dwelling stare again, and forcing her customers
to climb up and down an ascent almost as steep
as the roof of a house, whenever they wanted a
penny-worth of needles, or a halfpenny-worth
of snuff; a toil whereat some of our poor old
dames groaned aloud. Sir Henry threatened to
turn her out, and her customers threatened to
turn her off; but neither of these events hap-
pened. Dinah Forde appeased her landlord
and managed her customers: for Dinah Forde
was a notable woman; and it is really surprising
what great things, in a small way, your notable
woman will compass."

This notable dame numbered among her
customers, the individual whose profession

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gives a name to the sketch; see with what truth and ease she handles his character.

"Sam Page was, as I have said, an old acquaintance of our's, although neither as a resident of Aberleigh, nor in his capacity of ratcatcher, both of which were recent assumptions. It was, indeed, a novelty to see Sam Page as a resident anywhere. His abode seemed to be the highway. One should as soon have expected to find a gipsy within stone walls, as soon have looked for a hare in her last year's form, or a

bird in her old nest, as for Sam Page in the same place a month together: so completely did he belong to that order which the lawyers call vagrants, and the common people designate by the significant name of trampers; and so entirely of all rovers did he seem the most rovwinds, the clouds, even our English weather, ing, of all wanderers the most unsettled. The were but a type of his mutability.

"Our acquaintance with him had commenced above twenty years ago, when, a lad of some fifteen or thereaway, he carried muffins and cakes about the country. The whole house was caught by his intelligence and animation, his light active figure, his keen grey eye, and the singular mixture of shrewdness and good-humour in his sharp but pleasant features.

No

body's muffins could go down but Sam Page's. We turned off our old stupid deaf cakeman, Simon Brown, and appointed Sam on the instant. (N.B. This happened at the period of a general election, and Sam wore the right colour, and Simon the wrong.) Three times a

week he was to call. Faithless wretch !-he never called again! He took to selling election ballads, and carrying about hand-bills. We waited for him a fortnight, went muffinless for

fourteen days, and then, our candidate being fairly elected, and blue and yellow returned to their original nonimportance, were fain to put up once more with poor old deaf Simon Brown.

"Sam's next appearance was in the character of a letter-boy, when he and a donkey set up a most spirited opposition to Thomas Hearne and Thomas Hearne, who had committed more sins the post cart. Everybody was dissatisfied with than I can remember, of forgetfulness, irregu

larity, and all manner of postman-like faults; and Sam, when applying for employers, made a most successful canvass, and for a week performed miracles of punctuality. At the end of that time he began to commit, with far greater vigour than his predecessor, Thomas Hearne, the several sins for which that worthy had been discarded. On Tuesday he forgot to call for the bag in the evening; on Wednesday he omitt ed to bring it in the morning; on Thursday he never made his appearance at all; on Friday his employers gave him warning; and on Saturday they turned him off. So ended this hopeful experiment.

"Still, however, he continued to travel the country in various capacities. First, he carried a tray of casts; then a basket of Staffordshire ware; then he cried cherries; then he joined a troop of ruddle-men, and came about redder than a red Indian; then he sported a barrelorgan, a piece of mechanism of no small pretensions, having two sets of puppets on the top, one of girls waltzing, the other of soldiers at

drill; then he drove a knife-grinder's wheel; then he led a bear and a very accomplished monkey; then he escorted a celebrated company of dancing dogs; and then, for a considerable time, during which he took a trip to India and back, we lost sight of him.

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Dobbs!'

"Well, and this affronted the widow?'
"Past all count, your honour. You never
saw a woman in such a tantrum. She declared

Sam, twirling his hat, and looking half shy and half sly, at once knowing and ashamed. So she is, in the main; but this, somehow, is a particular sort of an affair. You must know, sir,' continued Sam, gathering courage as he went on, that at first the widow and I were very good "He reappeared, however, at B. Fair, where friends, and several of these articles which are one year he was showman to the Living Skele-charged in the bill, such as milk for the ferrets, ton, and the next a performer in the tragedy of and tea and lump-sugar, and young onions for the Edinburgh Murders, as exhibited every myself, I verily thought were meant as presents; half-hour at the price of a penny to each perand so I do believe at the time she did mean son. Sam showed so much talent for melodrame, them. But, howsoever, Jenny Dobbs, the nurthat we fully expected to find him following his serymaid at the park, (a pretty black-eyed lass new profession, which offered all the advantage-perhaps your honour may have noticed her of the change of place and of character which walking with the children), she used to come his habits required; and on his being again, for out of an evening like to see us play cricket, and several months, an absentee, had little doubt then she praised my bowling, and then I talked but he had been promoted from a booth to a to her, and so at last we began to keep company; barn, and even looked for his name amongst and the jay, owing, I suppose, to hearing me say a party of five strollers, three men and two so sometimes, began to cry out, Pretty Jenny women, who issued play- bills at Aberleigh, and performed tragedy, comedy, opera, farce, and pantomime, with all the degrees and compounds thereof described by Polonius, in the great room at the Rose, divided for the occasion into a row of chairs called the Boxes, at a shilling per seat, and two of benches called the Pit, at sixpence. I even suspected that a Mr. Theodore Fitzhugh, the genius of the company, might be Sam Page fresh christened. But I was mistaken. Sam, when I saw him again, and mentioned my suspicion, pleaded guilty to a turn for the drama; he confessed that he liked acting of all things, especially tragedy, it was such fun.' there was a small obstable to his pursuit of the more regular branches of the histrionic artthe written drama: our poor friend could not read, To use his own words, he was no scholar; and on recollecting certain small aberrations which had occurred during the three days that he carried the letter-bag, and professed to transact errands, such as the mis-delivery of notes, and the non-performance of written commissions, we were fain to conclude that, instead of having, as he expressed it, 'somehow or other got rid of his learning,' learning was a blessing which Sam had never possessed, and that a great luminary was lost to the stage simply from the accident of not knowing his alphabet."

But

The denouement is excellent; the men of Hinton had challenged those of Aberleigh to a cricket-match, and the Rat-catcher and the Lord of the Manor are represented discussing the matter on the previous evening.

"Well, Sam, we are to win this match.' "I hope so, please your honour. But I'm sorry to say I shan't be at the winning of it.'

"Not here, Sam! What, after rattling the stumps about so gloriously last time, won't you stay to finish them now? Only think how those Hinton fellows will crow! You must stay over Wednesday!

"I can't, your honour. 'Tis not my fault. But, here I've had a lawyer's letter on the part of Mrs. Forde, about the trifle of rent, and a bill that I owe her; and if I'm not off to-night, Heaven knows what she'll do with me!'

"The rent-that can't be much. Let's see if we can't manage'

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'Aye, but there's a longish bill, sir,' interrupted Sam. Consider, we are seven in family.' Seven!' interrupted, in his turn, the other

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interlocutor.

"Aye, sir, counting the dogs and the ferrets, poor beasts! for I suppose she has not charged for the jay's board, though 'twas that unlucky bird made the mischief."

"The jay! What could he have to do with the matter? Dinah used to be as fond of him as if he had been her own child! and I always thought Dinah Forde a good-natured woman.'

So she is, in the main, your honour,' replied

I had taught the bird to insult her, and posted
off to Lawyer Latitat. And here I have got
this letter, threatening to turn me out, and put
me in gaol, and what not, from the lawyer; and
Jenny, a false-hearted jade, finding how badly
matters are going with me, turns round and
says, that she never meant to have me, and is
going to marry the French Mounseer, (Sir
Henry's Frenchovalet,) a foreigner and a papist,
who may have a dozen wives before for any thing

she can tell. These women are enough to drive
a man out of his senses!' And poor Sam gave
his hat a mighty swing, and looked likely to cry
from a mixture of grief, anger, and vexation.
These women are enough to drive a man
mad!' reiterated Sam, with increased energy.
"So they are, Sam,' replied his host, admi-
nistering a very efficient dose of consolation, in
the shape of a large glass of Cognac brandy;
which, in spite of its coming from his rival's
country, Sam swallowed with hearty good-will.
'So they are. But Jenny's not worth fretting

about: she's a poor feckless thing after all, fitter
for a Frenchman than an Englishman. If I
were you, I would make up to the widow: she's
a person of property, and a fine comely woman
and drink another glass of brandy to your suc-
into the bargain. Make up to the widow, Sam;

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We remember to have read in one of the
letters of Father Almeida, a celebrated Por-
tuguese writer, that it would be well to oblige
authors to publish a table of contents in the
title-pages of their works. Had the writer
of Santarem' honestly observed this whole-
some rule, it would have saved us the trouble
of wading through his work, for such an ab-
stract must have run much after this fashion:
"An absurd account of the adventures of
an unknown hospital mate in England, while
endeavouring to find a passage to Portugal,
and of the author's adventures during a
short residence in that country; with the

particulars of what he saw there during a journey of fifty miles; and an abundance of silly gossip relating to his English friends, his patients, and his acquaintances, interspersed with desultory nonsense on the Portuguese."

The author of 'Santarem' is, it appears, a medical man, and a wonderfully clever fellow. He was but young when he went to Portugal, yet "he knew himself competent to perform his duty, from the humble operation of bleeding, up to the most serious one-or, of giving his advice either concerning the administration of a black dose, or the most powerful remedy in the last stage of a complicated disease." Indeed, a military man, whom the writer rather ungratefully holds up to ridicule, observed at Cox & Greenwood's, that he was the cleverest doctor in the army. As to languages, he understands them by instinct—a French gentleman assured him, that he spoke French as it ought to be written, and, of course, Portuguese is like his mother's tongue to him. We naturally enough perused a work written by such a man with a humbled mind, and have acquired a great deal of knowledge in consequence: we learnt, for instance, that John the Seventh was the father of Don Pedro and Don Miguel, although we had believed there were but six Johns

among the Kings of Portugal-that the Friars are called Dons in Portugal, although we never heard one so called, and they are not, even in Spain, where this sort of cattle is plentiful as blackberries-that the author was fortunate enough to meet with a Portuguese and his son, Jews, but gentlemen of the highest respectability, the father a Commander of Malta, although a Commander of Malta cannot be a Jew, and must be a bachelor-and many other equally pleasant originalities, which we are assured in the preface "may be implicitly relied on." If, indeed, we were inclined to question the accuracy of some of these statements, there is that honest confidence about this writer, consequent on his extensive knowledge, which would silence us in a moment-indeed, we never felt so humbled as when reading his work. We found ourselves utterly ignorant of what is known to all others—thus, "Passion week," he observes, "begins, as all Christendom knows, or ought to know, on Wednesday before Easter." Now, we acknowledge, with all humility, that we had imagined that all Christendom knew it began on the Sunday before Easter; but it is possible that some joke is here intended, for we have a little marginal direction to look to the bottom of the page, and there we are advised to "See Note in the Appendix;" and it was only on refe this, for there is no Appendix to the work. rence that we found out the sly humour of

Not content with startling us by his acute observations on men and things, and the profundity of his historical knowledge, the writer puzzles us with his speculative philosophy: "Where," he exclainis, when meditating on the vanity of all mundane things-" Where is the gold that came from Peru even so lately as the time of Columbus?" and we answer, "Where?" It would be mere folly should any reader interrupt his soliloquy by the impertinent hint, that Peru was not discovered until long after the death of Columbus-the fact no way affects the philosophy,

However, we are tired, and therefore will select two or three short extracts as a speci

men of the work, and in good sober seriousness they shall be the best; and, brief as they may be, they will probably be one-fourth or one-third of all that is worth reading in the work; the following is an account of the only Lusitanian dinner to which the author was ever invited; it is a clever caricature:

"On the last day of the Intrudo, i. e. Shrove Tuesday, the day preceding that long fish-season, which certain holy persons are accustomed to designate as one of fasting, the Sarjento Mór made a grand dinner, to which I was invited; being the only occasion upon which I ever was invited to the table of a genuine Lusitanian. I am far from saying, or wishing to insinuate, that the people of Portugal do not dine; or that they are disinclined to hospitality; but convivial occasions are rare among, and even terrific to them. In the first place, they do not undertake such enterprises, without greatly deranging the ordinary course of their economy. The dinner (for instance,) of a good and respectable Portuguese family, is merely a muster for the purpose of satisfying hunger; and the muster is made more for the sake of convenience, than of social enjoyment. The animal wants being provided for by eating, the palate is cooled by a quart-draught of fair water; after which all heads go to sleep. This is their idea of enjoying a dinner: and, of course, it will at once appear, that the habit of somnolency after repletion-a habit which people easily fall into, the more easily when hereditary, and adopted from the earliest period of life-is utterly fatal to the hilarity, which an English dinner is designed and adapted to promote. To meals of this kind, therefore, strangers are seldom invited, and would feel but slight inducement to go. The table may be plentifully spread; but the cookery is coarse, and worse than coarse : while the garniture is anything but elegant.

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Upon the occasion more particularly alluded to, the Serjeant had mustered strong indeed. The company consisted of his senhora-a brother, who came in an ecclesiastical garb, and who was introduced to me, as a beneficiado,* of some establishment ruined by the French, and the reader's very obedient servant-a partie carrée.

"Whether a larger muster might not have been made upon some other more exclusive family occasion, I know not; but upon the eve of Ash Wednesday, it was a sort of duty, (albeit toilsome and laborious,) for every family to eat up their own provender. It would have been utterly at variance with all practice and notions, to have fed animals on through forty days, to no purpose; and therefore this was a fatal hour for bipeds and quadrupeds, whether of the feather or the fur.

"We began the solemn business of the occasion, with an ocean of cabbage, beans, oil, bacalhao,t beef, bacon, pumkins, tomatas, and water, boiled together, and presented in a tureen. This I understood was soup. What order the sequences came forth in, I do not recollect; but I have a confused remembrance of lumps of something swimming in oil, and strengthened with fluid salt butter. I think there was a leash of coelhos; and there was a hopeful kid, (like the negro's pig, tam ittle, mut tam ole,) baked entire. All this would not be worth relating but for the circumstances, which astonished me not a little, of every dish being cleared as it was produced. Three people, for I declare I could not perform my part of the play, devoured the olla podrida, the lumps, the rabbits, and the kid, with amazing despatch.

In the meantime, there was no want of wine

from the worthy sarjenta's quinta, or farm, in the

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neighbourhood; which, having been brought in the skins of the pigs, whose, bones, and ribs, and flesh, and features,' had been required to enrich the pot-au-feu, tasted like a decoction of rhubarb. Well, we are not done yet-after all this came water-melons, as big as Chinese lanterns, and almost as void, excepting of the saccharine liquor for which they are remarkable, and oranges by the bushel, with insipid and thick grapes by the crop. Everything was entombed; and, to my definitive confusion, (who had by this time, by dint and force of example, began to feel symptoms of surfeit, though good manners forbade me to mention it,) there came a huge, coarse, brown dish of some luscious composition, resembling in its external aspect our peas-pudding, of which one spoonful was all I could discuss; and which was despatched with as much avidity as if the company had eaten nothing since that day twelvemonth.

"To close and crown all, the cooling draught of the element was not omitted, and, being presented in a tall clear glass, it was not difficult to ascertain that it contained no full-grown horseleeches; the never-failing inhabitants of those classical stone fountains which decorate the borders of the high-ways.

"The only resource in such a serious case was by natural propensities and established habits,) denied to me-viz. sleep. I suffered while they

snored."

What follows, is the report of a conversation with one of his Portuguese friends; and absurd as it may appear to the English reader, we can believe that it is honestly reported.

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It chanced on some occasion, that our discourse fell upon national merit and distinctions. He observed with great force, and considerable appearance of truth, that the English were a well-meaning people, and great favourites with the Portuguese nation; as a proof of which, these gave them their strong wines to drink, and the courage thereby inspired, had certainly made them very useful in helping to drive the French out of the country. 'Help! help! Sir,' said I, taken rather by surprise. 'Yes, yes,' said he, they certainly did help; they behaved very well when the enemy passed through this town, for they followed our caçadores § with great alacrity; and when they came up with the French, stood their ground with considerable bravery.' Why,' said I, I have been sadly misinformed, for I always understood that the Portuguese regiments accompanied the English, and did tolerably well under British officers.' Oh, no, quite the contrary; I assure you the English army is commanded by Portuguese

officers.'

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"Indeed! and pray who commands the Portuguese army? Is it not Marshal Beresford ?'

"I believe so; but you know he is an Irishman, and consequently a Christian, (Is he? thinks I to myself,) and he never saw any service till he came into our country.'

"It was absurd to take offence with a gentleman of this stamp; so I gave up the claims of the army, as not likely to be established by any arguments of mine; and turned his attention to the other strong arm of old England.

"Well, Senhor, I cannot possibly pretend to know so much about Portugal as you do, and I am not myself a combatant; but what do you think of the British navy? You will allow that they have done their work; for they have not left an enemy to fight with.'

'Your navy! excellent! the best sailors in the world-the very bravest and the finest ships. How lucky that they are commanded by

Portuguese!''

Passion Week.

"It begins, as all Christendom knows, or

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ought to know, on Wednesday before Easter and during day and night, there is service kept up in the Catholic churches.

"The passer through the streets of Portugal sees little of the ladies. They look at him with scrutinizing eyes, from their balconies; but he may readily fall into the mistake of philandering after an old woman, instead of a young one. Their dress resembles dominoes, and their faces are not discriminable. But during passion-week the jewels of the land are submitted to view. Then are to be seen flocks of fascination going in procession to church; then, and then only, are the beauties of Portugal to be contemplated without danger or constraint-but to be con

templated only.

"The churches are always redolent of some sort of gum-resin or other, which profanes the name of incense; being, I believe, for the most part a mixture of the cheapest aromatic gum, and of dried herbs; and it used to be a relief from walking in the oppressively-filthy streets of Lisbon, or other large towns, to slink into a church (the doors being always open) to breathe, if not a purer, at least a less offensive atmosphere. But, during Ash-Wednesday, HolyThursday, and Good-Friday, these hallowed fanes are strewed with yew-branches, and other pungent shrubs; the odour of which helps to fix the aspect of the occasion upon the memory, so that it cannot be forgotten. The galaxy of loveliness, the solemnity of the service, the imposing grandeur, the illumination of the altar, the occasional music of the choir, and the incessant recitativo of the officiating priests, the herbiferous aroma, and other circumstances, which may partly have escaped my memory, or may depend upon occasional causes, form the reality, which dramatists endeavour to display, and imperfectly succeed in conveying, to the listless notice of an English audience.

"I need not say, that in the church of the Seminario, these ceremonies were as resplendent as they could be made. In fact, all sacred spectacles were uncommonly well got up there. **

"Here then I seldom failed, during the season in question, to pass every hour which was not demanded by duty or repose. I believe the service was kept up by relays of clergy, and also of attendants, for three days and nights At least, whenever I went in, the church was full; and not that church only, but all the

others."

Le Livre des Cent-et-Un. Vol. VII. Paris, 1832. Ladvocat.

THE seventh volume of this entertaining work has just reached us, and we lose not a moment in offering it to the notice of our readers. It contains several excellent papers, some of which, we regret, will not bear such abridgment as would bring them within the limits of our columns. The names of the writers in this volume, are Thomas Lenormand, Léon Guérin, Délécluze, Brazier, D'Outrepont, the late Benjamin Constant, Fouinet, Edmond Mennechet, Felix Bodin, Jal, the elder Dupin, Gaillardet, Fontaney, the ex-minister and captive De Peyronnet, and the poet Victor Hugo.

In selecting our translations for this week, we hesitated between Benjamin Constant's sketches of leading characters, and Peyronnet's clever paper on the Castle of Ham, in which he and his late colleagues are doomed

to pine away their sad existence in endless captivity. But the former being better suited to the space to which other matter has confined us in the present number, we have deferred Peyronnet's article.

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