highest estimotion by the Chinese literati, of whose con-, will neither benefit h tents all who are designed for the career of letters or ad- from the specimen b ministration must make themselves masters, and even and skilfully done. 1 get by heart. The work will form two volumes in royal and preserves the eff 8vo. (price 50 francs, or 2) and will be sent to press as perused, the literary soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are found to tions, of course eva defray the expense of printing. pieces of reasoning of our older divine distinctly seen.

M. Von Hammer has published an edition of the Rose and the Nightingale, poem, by Fazli, a Turkish poet, in the original, with a German translation.

An edition of the Gulistan of Sadi, in the original Persian, with a French translation, and critical and historical notes by M. Semelet, has just appeared at Paris, in 1 vol. 4to.

ENGLAND.

Mr. Charles Richardson is preparing a new Dictionary of the English Language, in which the explanation of the words commences with the etymological or intrinsic meaning, their various applications in use are traced in orderly connection, and the quotations in illustration, are arranged chronologically from the most ancient to the most modern authors.

In the press, a Tour through North America, together with a Comprehensive View of the Canadas and the United States, as adapted for Agricultural Emigration. By Patrick Shirreff, Farmer, East Lothian.

A work is in course of preparation, entitled, " History and Present State of Van Dieman's Land," (with the official correspondence on the subject of "Secondary Punishments.") By George Day Wood, Esq.

A Booksellers' Assistants' Society has recenly been formed at Leipzic, the objects of which are stated to be the promotion, after the labours of the day, of friendly intercourse and improvement, by means of a library, lectures, and a reading-room. Classes will also be formed for instruction in the most useful living languages. The lectures are to embrace the various arts connected with bookselling, such as letter-founding, printing, book-binding, paper-making, copper and wood engraving, lithography, &c.-Foreign Quarterly Review. A Brochure, entitled England, France, Russia, and Turkey, is nearly ready for the press.

The eighth volum commences the "I forms us that

"Sir Walter Sco Life of Napoleon; found various correc They were directed, in case a new editio annotations of it mig adopted, dates and ot introduced, and the any redundancy of instructions, except t voured to comply."

As the introducto is all that is contain tell how how far the Walter, in his subse dify his opinions abo tle Corsican," and to like a romance.

The sixty-first num dia completes Sismon man Empire, coming ion of the work has may repeat our form are necessary, and ti Gibbon, the two wri has not, Sismondi m the great historian.

The current repul is devoted to Don T. the first volume.

The twelfth numb

Mr. John Leigh, Jun. is preparing for publication, in a cheap form, Directions for insuring personal Safety dur- Cave's Primitive Chr ing Storms of Thunder and Lightning, and for the right the faith, morals, a Application of Conductors to Houses and other Buildings. It is preceded by a The ethical portion of Kant's "Transcendental Philo- the pen of the Rev. sophy," his "Kritik der praktischen Verneinft," or Criti-illustrated his autho cal Canons of Practical Reason, is likely soon to appear pleted in another vo in an English garb.

The eleventh vol lett's History of " 1755. The illustra Pretender's escape, in which the Duke point of bulk and b

Serials. The most novel undertaking in this class of literature is Mr. Valpy's Summaries of the Sermons and Discourses of the most Eminent British Divines, conducted by the Reverend T. S. Hughes. The work is chiefly addressed to clergymen and divinity students. The object is to furnish them with the ready-made outlines of a sermon, which they are to fill up. The mode pursued is to present the skeleton of the discourse only; retaining the order, the arguments, and, as it were, the key-notes; leaving out the ripeness, the fulness, the fancy, and the eloquence of the original. By this means, a great saving of space and money is effected-in a single part of little more than 120 pages, we have the pith of forty-two sermons: the vigorous power required to digest the pure essence forbids any hope of saving time. Their use, of course, must depend upon the character of the user: he who will take them as texts, which he is to expand, and compare his performance with the original, will assuredly vegetables of consta profit by his labour: he who looks upon them as means pounded with Mr. I of evading exertions-as spirit which he is to dilute-sagacity.

Three Encyclopa part of the Encyclo the " Funding Syste G. The most impo Light," and the com ther with a life of " part of the Encyclop the African Contine Encyclopædia of G entirely devoted to The culture of the cumber, the caulifl

ser's Magazine.

twenty years ago, when we read it with infinite gratification, chiefly on account of these charming specimens of composition. Why should he have f the pickpocket cared for critics? They were no friends of his. skill of an en-And had we been Hunt we should have stuffed y of his counte- the poem ten times fuller of Cockneyisms, and out Lord Byron. not abated a rhyme to oblige the non-residents of tist has succeed-London, who think that Anna ought not to be is us to confess pronounced Annar. We should have shown the le noble in the provincials our intense contempt of their notions netteer of Hampof the English tongue, and in the honour of Bowgence relieves it bell have rhymed tobacco with Long Acre, as in the days of old.

From Fraser's Magazine.

LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.

Leigh Hunt complained sadly of the pickpocket look which the malice or want of skill of an engraver had conferred on that copy of his countenance which decorated his book about Lord Byron. We hope that he will think our artist has succeeded better; although truth compels us to confess that there is not much of the style noble in the physiognomy of the ci-devant sonnetteer of Hampstead, even though "its intelligence relieves it from insignificance."

Hunt has written in a hundred different places all the particulars of his personal history, and we are thereby relieved from any pressing necessity of expatiating on his biography. He was once very warlike with his pen, and fond of controversy—but that occurred when he was calidus ju

ventá :

In his hot youth, when George the Third was King. Time and the wear of the world has smoothed the roughness of his ire, and his quills bristle not for the conflict as of old. Once upon a time he was ready to attack every body, from the prince regent down to the poor scene-shifter; and he tells us he then thought that a satire was nothing more than "a pleasant thing in a book." He felt

twenty years ago, when we read it with infinite gratification, chiefly on account of these charming specimens of composition. Why should he have cared for critics? They were no friends of his. the poem ten times fuller of Cockneyisms, and not abated a rhyme to oblige the non-residents of London, who think that Anna ought not to be pronounced Annar. We should have shown the provincials our intense contempt of their notions of the English tongue, and in the honour of Bowbell have rhymed tobacco with Long Acre, as in the days of old.

And had we been Hunt we should have stuffed

cammin of which Dante sings, and fortune has He is now coming somewhat beyond that mezzo formerly attached himself is in power, but all his not smiled upon him. The party to which he old labours in the libel line on their behalf are with far greater virulence than Hunt ever did are forgotten. Those who abused the prince regent high in office, and glorying in their elevation. They have of course left him to struggle as he can. We hope that his struggling is successful as it deserves to have, a prosperous sale. It is as -we understand, indeed, that his Journal has, refreshing as his former productions, and of a pleasanter spirit. He has been an excessively ill-used man in many respects, and by none more than by Lord Byron, and those who panegyrise his lordship,—

the difference when the northerns dubbed him King of the Cockneys. He is now far more" With the twaddle of Allan, the meanness of Moorc." tolerant of mankind; but he still preserves in considerable bloom all the grand characteristics And so fare thee well, and prosper, "Signor Le of his original career,-the jauntiness and green- Hunto, gran gloria di Cocagna."

RECENT DISCOVERIES AT POMPEII.

ery, the theatrical orange-suckery, the suburban relishes, the admiration of all that is of the town towny. He prattles as ever of green fields, and fancies that he knows something of fine breeding and the fine air of a gentleman of the west end. His pet words still cling to him street leading from the Temple of Fortune to the At Pompeii there has been lately opened the in spite of all vicissitudes of time and fortune; gates of Isis, passing nearly through the middle and it is impossible to mistake an article of his, of the town. whether marked by the ruffled or not. By which streets diverge to the theatre and to the On reaching a central point from the way, he ought to put a sham diamond ring on walls of the city, there was found an altar placed the index finger-it would look more sparkish; before the protecting genius of the town, in the or sport a daffydowndilly from the back of Jack form of a serpent; the faces of the altar are ornaStraw's in the hand, thereby to show that the mented with paintings representing the priests farmy fields of Hampstead are not forgotten. offering libations and other sacrifices. On explorWe grieved somewhat, on looking over his lasting two shops in the streets of Fortune, there edition of Rimini, when we missed the old was discovered a pair of bronze scales and a familiar faces of these five lines, which had ex-weight in the shape of a pear, a bronze dish, with cited the savage criticism of Gifford. It was handles, a hatchet, and one small cylindrical weak of Hunt to leave out these purple patches-object made of bone and perforated, supposed to "The thigh broad spread-the pressing thumb upon it; for making calculations. A house has been disAnd the jerked feather swaling in the bonnet ;".

or,

"The two divinest things the world has gotA lovely woman on a rural-spot ;"

or,

"She had stout notions on the marrying score;"

have been used either in some female works or

covered behind the grand Mosaic, comprising a vestibule, several sleeping rooms ornamented with simplicity, and a tabulum or host adorned with the most exquisite paintings of stueco. In this house was found a bronze shell, of elegant workmanship, an earthen lamp, black with smoke, vessels containing colours, and a wooden chest lined with iron, and surrounded by figures formed

or the hundred magnificent words which had call-with brass nails.-German Paper.

ed up the bile of the critical sutor who smote Hunt with his crepida. The poem did not appear to us any thing like what it was some almost VOL. XXVI. MARCH 1835.-31

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and must be wined and portered, and waited upon, and coaxed."

I entirely approved of dispensing with the perambulating footman, whether "of parts or figure," and also the consequential cook mentioned, whom I knew to be as troublesome and conceited as if she had taken a regular diploma from Dr. Kitchener; but how Jane and Biddy were to perform their various functions was still an affair through which I could not see my way. Of the latter I had indeed considerable suspicion all along; strenuously as I understood she had been recommended by her countrywoman, my neighbour, Mrs. Plunkett, as possessing every good quality, requisite under a kitchen roof,-had lived cook in genteel families, both in Bath and Dublin city itself; and in her first husband's time assisted the cook to the mess of the 92d regiment, though that was fifteen years ago.

My doubts threw Maria into fresh perplexity, she studied her bill of fare." It would be taking too great a liberty to ask Mrs. James Taylor to lend me her cook for a day; but I might ask her advice-she is always so gentle and kind to me."

How often soever it may have been said, that we never seem ridiculous from what we are, but from what we assume to be, the saying remains as true as before; and, therefore, I once more repeat it, at the opening of this chapter. Taken in this sense, ridicule is indeed the test of truth, for nothing true can be in itself ridiculous. We may smile in contempt or derision of conceit and folly; or laugh in sympathy with comic or ludicrous scenes and ideas; but it is pretensions, assumption only that move our ridicule. To be above its insolent insulting inflictions we have only to be ourselves; which simple part, to the "But you won't ask her advice though," I put in abbulk of mankind, appears the most difficult to perform of ruptly. My sister Anne is one of the best women that any. Our social customs universally conspire to make breathes; no one more amiable-more generous; but, us attempt every thing, rather than display the real cha-good worthy lady, she has been happy and moderate racter; but above all to conceal the true circumstances in which we live. We must either seem above, or though far more rarely-below them. The very wealthy

do sometimes take to

"The devil's own vice,

The pride that apes humility,"

enough never to have known any one serious domestic difficulty in her life. She has always been so perfectly at ease in money matters herself, that like many more excellent women one meets, she is rather puzzled to find out why other people are not as much at their ease, and have not every thing as nice and proper about their nurseries and their table as herself. When Roberts can allow you £600 or £800 a-year for your housekeeping, about as soon as they rise above the commoner affectations of half my brother's liberal allowance, then advise with my vanity. sister Anne. She can discourse most sensibly on econoMy young friend, Mrs. Roberts, exposed herself to my, and wonder too how people need be so very ill off. In ridicule, by the common folly of assuming to give din-which sort of surprise I have seen her sensible husband ners, to dress, and to live in the style of persons three join her, and with a most proper and husband-like admitimes as wealthy; but, for the credit of English morality, ration of his wife's domestic talents, declare that where I regret to say that she only incurred the penalty by at- families do not go on well, (with probably not the fourth tempting to reconcile discretion and honesty, with what, of her means,) there must be bad management at botin such circumstances, was quite incompatible. Extra-tom. And yet they are among the best people I know. vagance, folly, debt, gross dishonesty, in short, might To comprehend the exigencies of your position in sohave been pardoned her, where the thing was managed ciety, or rather that of struggling professional people, with dash, and a proper understanding of effect; but the most difficult of any-is quite out of their way. Your who can pardon the shabby-genteel; abhorred of gods, part in life clearly ascertained, ought to be easily filled." men, and charwomen.

"I assure you to me it seems the most difficult of any. If with the fourth part of Mrs. James Taylor's income one could do with the fourth of the beef, bread, tea, coals, candles, butter, and so forth;—but you see how it is— that would be no rule,-and what to save upon, while one must have every thing the self-same as those wealthy people-"

"Or at least some mock imitation, and make-shift thing, Maria. Well, it is a wretched system, a despicable slavery this making one guinea do the fashionable work of

On one of the latter turned the fortunes of Maria Roberts's jour-de-fele. I mentioned in the last chapter that she had, from frugality, hired one of those wondrous machines, a maid of all work, ignorant and stupid, at half wages, who made up the balance by breaking china and glass, and damaging every article of furniture that fell in her way. I have frequently noticed that notable house-keeping ladies are, in general, fatalists about breaking. Mrs. Roberts, after the first three months, concluded that Jane had got through most of her break-three, or seem to do; for after all, it never gets beyond ings. "And she was so good-hearted and kind to 'baby,' (that important personage in so many small households,) and was believed so honest." "With myself, Jane, and the charwoman, and a good deal of forethought, I can manage very well," said Maria, at one of our final conI had probably pushed the conversation beyond the sultations. "I shall have every thing possible done be-point of politeness; for on this subject, and with so inteforehand, the cooking will be all over before the com- resting a victim before me, I could have no reserve or pany begin to arrive, then I can dress in a minute; and patience. Sometimes my heart misgave me, and I was Biddy, when she has sent in dinner, can assist Jane to on the point of warning Maria against the absurdities wait at table. I cannot think of having one of those she was about to cominit, and the laughter she was to insolent fellows of hired footmen in the house again; draw upon herself, by her "three courses and a desand those cooks who go about, are so horridly extrava- sert;" but stern friendship counselled that I should let gant, conceited, and dictating,-one of them, whom Mrs. her do her worst, and endure the penalty of shame and Pantague hired to assist her cook, charges 15s. a day; mortification at once and for ever.

* Continued from Museum, p. 208, February, 1835.

seeming. Like the foolish bird we hide our heads under the wing of our own vanity, and fancy the whole world is not seeing and laughing at us, because we have hood-winked ourselves."

I undertook several little commissions for Maria, connected with her fete, and promised to come myself very