began very visibly to gather in her eye, "for you must know that it is what I like best-and certainly I shall think it very unkind." her. more because you do not ask for my reasons, which, to say truth, I should not be very well able to give explicitly. I certainly know very little, either for or against these Vincent colored too as he listened to Russian people, but yet I think that I am But the emotion was not caused by only doing what is right in wishing you not his finding in her words any reason for sup- to join any more in their gay doings. I posing that Lord Lynberry was right in the heard then talking yesterday of sending a fears he had expressed for the fair Bertha's band of wind instruments to some place in peace of mind. It was rather, perhaps, the the forest, where they said there was a level assured conviction that he was quite wrong turf that would do to waltz upon. Now which caused the change in his complexion. all this might be very pleasant, and perfectNot, perhaps, that the almost destitute ly unobjectionable among intimate friends Vincent would have wished it otherwise- and acquaintance. But the very fact that under the circumstances, it would have been a sin to do so. But whatever the source of the feeling, he mastered it quickly and replied, "No, dear Bertha, no, it is not that. Could any thing make me think thut necessary, I should be quite as sorry as you could be. On the contrary, however, what I have to say to you will, I fear, sound very like desiring you neither to talk nor to walk with any one but me." "Indeed?" said Bertha, with a very happy-looking smile. "Yes, indeed, it must sound very like it; for the fact is, that I want you to promise me that you will not go to any more of these pic-nic parties," he replied. "Oh! if that be all, I can promise it with perfect readiness," she returned. "And yet, dear Bertha, I am sure you enjoy them greatly." "I enjoy seeing the beautiful country, and I enjoy drawing in the open air, with you at my elbow to tell me when I am right and when I am wrong-but as to enjoying the parties, because they are parties-I don't think you suspect me of it." "That is quite true, Bertha, it would be but affectation if I said I did. And yet I almost wonder, too, that you should not be a little offended at my interference, because I suspect it must appear so very unreasonable to you." we do not really know any thing about these people is, in my opinion, quite reason sufficient to render it objectionable for Miss Harrington to be thrown into such very familiar association with them." "Then Miss Harrington will associate with them no more," replied Bertha, smiling; "or, at least, not in such a sort as to involve any species of familiarity." And Bertha kept her word, in spite of the very strongest hints that Mrs. Roberts could venture to give about its not being right for young people to affect singularity, and separate themselves from their young companions, particularly when they might have the great advantage of being chaperoned by a princess. In the first instance, it is probable that Mrs. Roberts' objection to Bertha's staying at home, arose from the being obliged to provide a dinner for her, the tête-à-tête repasts of Mr. Roberts and his lady being upon a very small scale indeed; but a very strong additional objection soon became obvious to her, although she dared not make any open remonstrance on the subject; for Mrs. Roberts had quite given up her notion that Bertha was an idiot, though she still thought her the very stupidest girl she had ever known, but she thought that this dullness was mixed with a monstrous deal of self-willed obstinacy, which might lead "Perhaps," replied poor Bertha, "I am her any day, if she got into an ill-humor, not offended, as you call it, at your interfe- to write to her father, for the purpose of rence, because it is such a comfort to me asking him to let her come. This new obto know that I still have a relation near me, jection to Bertha's constant refusal to join who cares for me enough to interfere about the pic-nics arose from the manner in which me at all. And besides that, cousin Will-her afternoons and evenings were passed at iam, I know perfectly well that you would not do this, nor any thing else, without having good and sufficient reasons for it. And you may be very sure that I shall go to no more pic-nics at Baden." "I thank you, dear Bertha, for your confidence in me-and I thank you the home. When the Roberts family had been first blessed with the acquaintance of Lord Lynberry, Mrs. Roberts had, in the most cordial manner, expressed both to the young man and his tutor her hope that they would make her pleasant balcony room as useful as if it were their own; and, at any rate, of them more money, lucky dogs, than they know what to do with-for they neither of them play-every body knows that, so their credit is first-rate." "But what has that to do, Edward, with your marrying Bertha Harrington? For mercy's sake speak to me like a reasonable being! What has that to do with your marrying Bertha Harrington?" that they would always come and take their tea with her. Their doing so, when nothing else was going on to prevent it, had become quite a habit, and it was one of which Mr. Vincent profited without scruple now, treating Bertha precisely as if she had been a younger sister, bringing such books as he wished her to read, and assisting her in her study of German with all the steady perseverance of a professional instructor. "This will never do, Edward," said the alarmed lady to her son, eagerly seizing a momentary tête-à-tête that she caught with him one morning before breakfast. "If "Gracious goodness! how you talk, you can believe that such a girl as Bertha, Edward! it is really enough to drive one growing prettier and prettier every day, wild. Take her, indeed! I should like to and such a young fellow as Vincent, can know what good it will be to take her when go on in the way they do without making she is the wife of another man?—and so love, if you can believe it, I can't." she will be if you do not look about you a little." "How you do delight to plague me about that girl, ma'am," replied the young man, continuing his search in the table drawer for a lost glove; and how many more times will it be necessary for me to tell you, that I don't care the tenth part of a penny whether she fall in love with Mr. Tutor Vincent or not." "Then if you don't care, sir, I do," replied his mother with more anger than she had ever evinced towards him during the course of his whole life, "and how many times will it be necessary for me to tell you, I wonder, that without her fortune we are one and all of us likely to prolong our residence on the Continent by being locked up in a gaol. Your father says that he can't get at a single penny of principal money without a most horrible loss, and what is worse still, both to him and to me too, it can't be done without exposing whatever little mistakes we have made about prices abroad to that nasty low fellow that manages the old banking concern. Think, then, what it must be to me, Edward, to hear you speak in this light, careless way, about the only thing that there seems left in the wide world to save us! Your father says that he can't give me another shilling for the next month without actually borrowing it or taking it up. And I don't believe there is a shop in the town where we don't owe something." "It has a great deal to do with it, ma'am. It will enable me to go on and keep moving till the proper time comes for me to take her." 66 Mother!" said the young man, raising his voice, "let me tell you once for all, that I will not be plagued about this odious girl before it is necessary. At this moment I not only hate her, but am passionately in love with another woman, and I will not have my happiness interfered with. That I must have her money, I know as well as you do, and have it I will, ma'am, you may depend upon it." 66 But, my dear boy, this is dreadfully wild talk. You can't rob her of her money; you can't take it out of her pocket, Edward." "No, mother, I intend to take it, pocket and all. But it must be done at my own time, and in my own way." His mother gazed at him with a look half-puzzled, half-admiring. "Oh Edward!" said she, "I do think, considering what a mother I have been to you, that you might take me into your confidence, and tell me exactly what you mean." "Well, ma'am, I will," he replied, "provided you will give me your promise not to tell my father, nor, indeed, any one else. I may, perhaps, want a little of your assistance when the time comes, so it is as well that you should know it. But, remember! you must swear to mention it to no one." "Well, Edward, well, I swear I won't." "Then I will tell you," replied her son, "but upon my soul not even the winds must hear it," and, leaving the glass, pocketing his little comb at the same instant, he came close to his mother, and whispered something in her ear. The color mounted to her face, and she [tun. It appears to be the connecting link shook her head, but she smiled, and be- between the Babylonian and Persian forms trayed no token of displeasure, though for of the arrow-headed character; less coma moment or two she remained perfectly silent. At length she said," But it will require money, my dear fellow, where will you be able to get ready money from?" "Where I have got it from before, ma'am. Do you really suppose, mother, that I can go on in such a place as this with nothing but the odd dollars and francs that I squeeze out of you? You are monstrously mistaken if you do. Lynberry, ma'am, will lend me whatever money I want." plex than the former, and less simple than the latter. It has frequently been termed the Median; but perhaps on insufficient grounds. At Van, where this character occurs singly in inscriptions far more ancient than the triliteral inscriptions of the same place, it has been vaguely attributed to Semiramis. With equal probability it might be assigned to the second Assyrian dynasty, or to a pure Medich epoch. The same character also occurs singly on various monuments in Susiana and Elymais. At Nineveh, on bricks discovered in the foundation of edifices evidently of the very highest antiquity, on cylinders, and on fragments of sculptured stones, generally basalt, we find the character called Babylonian, or a character equally complex. It appears, therefore, that two characters were at different times in use at Nineveh. If the complex were the most ancient form of the cuneiform, which from all discoveries hitherto made we are led to believe was the case; and if it were used in Babylon prior to the Medo-Persic conquest, then we may conjecture that it was employed throughout the Assyrian empire under its earlier dynasties. We should, at the same time, have less difficulty in admitting the title of Median, now given to the intermediate form, as if modifications were gradually introduced, and the character assumed its greatest simplicity when last used by the Persians,† who combined the three classes in their triliteral inscriptions. This is, however, a "Lynberry!" exclaimed the delighted mother, in a perfect ecstacy of hope and joy, "Lynberry? is it possible that that dear creature, Lynberry, has lent you money, Edward? Then, thank Heaven! I am right, as, I must say, I generally find that I am. Lynberry is in love with Maria, my dear Edward. No young man lends money, you may depend upon it, without having some such motive for it. I thought it, Edward, from the very first-that is from the very first after he got over his ridiculous fancy for Bertha, of which I must say he seemed heartily ashamed afterwards. Well then, my dear boy, I will teaze you no more about Bertha, but trust entirely to you, who I must in common justice say, have shown in every way that you deserved my confidence. And now, my dear, I won't detain you any longer; and, indeed, I have enough to do myself, for before we sit down to breakfast I must settle with my darling Maria what she is to do about getting a new bonnet-whether it will be better to go again to the same shop, or to be-question of considerable difficulty, which gin a little bill at the one just opposite to us. It is not quite so stylish a shop, but then it may be convenient, so I'll justgo-" And not perceiving that her son had already escaped from her, the happy mother went on commenting on her own admirable contrivances, till she had passed through the door which opened upon the apartment of her daughters. DISCOVERIES AT NINEVEH. From The Literary Gazette. THE character used in the inscriptions nearly resembles, if it is not identical with, that found in the middle column of the inscriptions of Hamadan, Van, and (?) Bisu *In my former remarks I had inadvertently included Persepolis; it is the third column to the right of the inscriptions of that place which correspond with those above mentioned. The following classification may be useful to those who take any interest in the cuneiform character:— The first columns to the left (of the spectator), in the triliteral inscriptions of the Hamadan and Persepolis, resemble in character the first column to the right of Van; the third column to the right of Hamadan, the middle column of Persepolis; the third column to the right of Persepolis, the middle columns of Van and Hamadan; the first column to the left of Van, the third to the right of Hamadan. I have not yet been able to examine an accurate copy of the inscriptions of Bisutun; but I have reason to believe, from a hasty survey with a telescope, that they resemble those of Persepolis. ideographic into the phonetic in Egypt. A simiCompare the gradual modification of the lar process might easily have taken place in the Chinese. could only be determined satisfactorily by places are formed by monstrous animals, a lengthened and minute inquiry into the identical in shape at Persepolis and Chorhistory of cuneiform writing. It is suffi- sabad,-uniting the human head and breast cient here to point out the evidence afford- with the body of a bull and the wings of a ed by the exclusive use of what is usually bird. Heeren, arguing upon the presumptermed the Median character in M. Botta's monument. tion that the body of the monster is that of a lion, has endeavored to trace in it the Nineveh was completely destroyed by Martichoras of Ctesias, and to bring it, with Cyaxares the Mede. Although it appears other symbols, into the system of Indo-Baconce more to have risen from its ruins, it trian mythology.* Admitting even the never again became the seat of royalty, nor body to be that of a lion, the other parts of even a place of considerable importance. the figure do not agree with the description It is not, therefore, probable, that a palace of Ctesias. But we need not search for its so vast and magnificent as that of which the origin in the Indo-Bactrian mythology. ruins have now been discovered, should The bull with a human head was a pure have been built after that event. Xeno- Semitic symbol. It was found in the temphon does not even notice the city,-an ple of Bel, or Baal, amongst other nonadditional proof of its subsequent insignifi-strous figures, in the earliest period of Baby cance.* The absence of columns should indicate a close alliance with the massive forms of Babylonian architecture, in which that elegant as well as useful ornament appears to have been unknown. No fragments of antiquity are more durable than the shafts of columns; and as none have been found at Chorsabad, it is evident that they were not employed in the building. It can scarcely be supposed that this would have been the case had this edifice been erected by those who planned the palaces of Persepolis. The principal arguments in favor of the reference of the building of Chorsabad to the Medo-Persic dynasty of the Archæmenides, appear to be, the similarity of its sculptures in general character and execution with those of Persepolis, and with other remains in Persia, usually called Kayanian, and the identity of some of the figures. The sculptures may be included in that class which is usually, though erroneously, termed Persepolitan; but it must be remembered that a generic name has thus been given to a style of art which derives its source, according to the best opinions, from a period long previous to the foundation of the capital of the Persian empire. Although the extreme minuteness in the details is equally observable in Persepolis, yet the sculptures of Chorsabad are undoubtedly superior in the general elegance and taste displayed in the forms, and in the remarkable spirit and mouvement of the figures. The entrances to the halls in both lon; and at the same time was, perhaps, provided with two or four wings, like other symbols preserved in the same building.† There is, moreover, every reason to believe that the bull was a favorite type in Assyrian worship. It might, indeed, have been employed as symbolical of the Assyrian nation. I remember to have somewhere seen the god Baal himself represented with the horns and ears of a bull. It may therefore be conjectured that the Medes and Persians borrowed the symbol from the nations of Assyria or Babylonia, and employed it as an ornament without any mythological reference; and this conjecture appears to be strengthened by the fact, that no other figures have been found at Persepolis combining the human with the brute form These facts will be of importance when we come to inquire into the origin of the style of art used in the edifice at Chorsabad. There is a further identity in the attendants of the king, his eunuch and his swordbearer; in the led-horses and in the chariots. But it is remarkable that at Persepolis we have no instances of warriors represented in armor and helmets. The arguments against the reference of *Much discussion seems to have taken place amongst travellers as to the nature of the brute portion of the figure at Persepolis; some contending for a lion with the hoofs of a horse, whilst tion of the animal in the sculptures of Chorsabad can permit of no doubt whatsoever upon the subject. This fact alone would prove the superiority hese sculptures. others discover a bull. The admirable delinea Nineveh must not be confounded with La-ed. rissa (? Resen), the ruins of which, probably, now exist at the junction of the Zab with the Tigris. See a remarkable passage in Eusebius, Chron. The Semitic word shour signifies a bull; the Chaldee form is tour: hence, perhaps, the Greek and Latin. the edifice of Chorsabad to the dynasty Ar- ON THE BUREAUCRACY OF PRUSSIA. chæmenides are far more weighty than those in favor of the supposition. From the Foreign Quarterly Review. Heinzen. Darmstadt. 1845. IT has been continually found in England, that to 'suppress' a book by order of 1. The absence of the ferooher, that in- Die Preussische Büreaukratie, von Karl variable attendant of the king in all MedoPersic monuments with which we are acquainted. The ferooher, it will be remembered, was in the Zoroastrian faith the archetype of created beings; the pure government is to make it known to the soul or essence, detached from the human public, and to give it, whether for good or body, which existed contemporaneously evil, the first great impetus to popularity. with each living thing, both man and ani- This fact has been figuratively, yet truly mal. In the sculptures of Bisutun and Per- expressed by the celebrated American sepolis it is always placed above the image essayist, Emerson, in these axiomatic words of the king, in his perfect likeness; the lower part of the body being, however, replaced by wings. The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abcde; 2. No traces whatsoever of Magian wor-every burned book or house enlightens the ship are to be found at Chorsabad; whilst at world; every suppressed or expunged word Persepolis we have the constant recurrence reverberates through the earth. To what of the fire-altar of the priests, and of vari- degree such a fate awaits Karl Heinzen we ous symbols of Zoroastrianism, such as the do not pretend to determine; but certainly sacred cup Havan in the hand of the king. the preliminary measures for martyrdom 3. The king is nowhere portrayed as and popularity have been taken with regard struggling with monstrous animals, to denote to his Bureaukratie.' his superior greatness and strength, as at Persepolis. 4. The absence of the simple cuneiform character, which appears to have been always employed by the Medo-Persic kings, and represents the pure Persian dialect. arguments This book has been suppressed by order of the Prussian Government; the police have taken possession of all the copies at the public libraries, at the booksellers' shops, and wherever else they could ascertain there was a copy to be found; and the It will be seen from the foregoing re- author has been obliged to fly his country. marks, that whilst valid objections appear to But however vigilant the police may have exist against the reference of the edifice been in their searches and inquiries, some discovered at Chorsabad to the dynasty of copies will always remain in private hands, the Archæmenides, equally valid will be read and treasured up all the more cannot be advanced against its reference to for the prohibition; the subject will be the the first Assyrian period. The second As-more considered and reasoned upon in all its syrian dynasty has evidently, however, the best claim; and if I could venture to point out any particular monarch to whom sculptures could with some plausibility be attributed, I would name Sennacherib, or Essarhadon, whose conquests over Jews, That Heinzen clearly foresaw the aniEgyptians, and Ethiopians, may perhaps be mosity his book would excite, and the pertraced in the physiognomy of the captives secution he would have to endure, a few and vanquished in the bas-reliefs of Chor-lines from his brief Preface will sufficiently sabad. e bearings; and the work will excite an interest about its author, not merely as the author of so bold a publication, but as being an object of persecution in the cause of rational liberty. show. People will be inclined to discover all posLORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE.-Marvellous ra-sible crimes in the book, because it contains mors are afloat respecting the astronomical dis- nearly the greatest of all-namely, an unsparcoveries made by Lord Rosse's monster tele-ing judgment of the Bureaucrats. They will scope. It is said that Regulus, iustead of being a accuse the author of all the offences commonly sphere, is ascertained to be a disc; and, stranger adduced by the Bureaucratical Inquisitionstill, that the nebula in the belt of Orion is a uni- namely disloyalty to majesty; then, high treaversal system-a sun, with planets moving round son; then, insolence towards the laws of the it, as the earth and her fellow-orbs move round country and the authorities; excitement to disour glorious luminary!!! Can such things be?-satisfaction; outrages, malevolence, and who Lit. Gaz. It is even found in cylinders. knows what else, may not be laid to his account. He confesses himself to be disloyal, |