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HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

VOLUME II.

DECEMBER, 1850, TO MAY, 1851.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

329 & 331 PEARL STREET,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1851.

ADVERTISEMENT.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

Actors and their Salaries 403
A Death-Bed. By JAMES ALDRICH 84
A Dream and the Interpretation Thereof 816
Address to Gray Hair 699
An Agreeable Surprise 84
A little Stimulant 361
Anecdote of a Dog 97
Anecdote of a Hawk 490
Anecdotes of Napoleon 231
Anecdotes of Serpents 663
Anecdotes of Wordsworth 319
An Empty House 103
An Excellent Match 315
Apology for Burns 334
Bachelor's Christmas 399
Beauties of the Law 543
Births:--Mrs. Meek of a Son 672
Birth of Crime 614
Bona Lombardi Brunoro 155
Carol for the New Year 396
Chapter on Bears 546
Chapter on Dreams 768
Chapter on Shawls 39
Chapter on Wolves 787
Charles Wolfe 734
Cheerful Views of Human Nature 242
Child Commodore 641
Climate of Canada 358
Colds and Cold Water 110
Conflict of Love 63
Courtesy of Americans 846
Crazed 401
Crisis in the Affairs of Mr. John Bull 235
Crocodile Battery 768
Crystal Palace 584
Curiosities of Railway Traveling 194
Curran, the Irish Orator 497
Dangers of Doing Wrong 226
Darling Dorel 843
Death of a Goblin 478
Death of Howard 298
Death of John Randolph 80
Dog and Deer of the Army 407
Domestic Life of Alexander, Emperor of Russia 99
Edible Birds'-Nests of China 397
Efforts of a Gentleman in search of Despair 521
Encounter with an Iceberg 406
England in 1850. By LAMARTINE 46
Escape of Queen Mary from Lochleven Castle 22
Fair in Munich 774
Fashions for December 143
Fashions for Early Winter 287
Fashions for Later Winter 431
Fashions for Early Spring 575
Fashions for Spring 719
Fashions for May 863
Fate of a German Reformer 76
Five Minutes too Late 647
Fidgety People 662
Flowers in the Sick Room 52
Freaks of Nature 356
French Revolutionists, Marat, Robespierre, and Danton 27
Gabrielle; or, The Sisters 801
Gamblers of the Rhine 61
General Rosas and the Argentine Republic 484
German Picture of the Scotch 25
Ghost-Stories of Chapelizod 499
Give Wisely! An Anecdote 121
Gunpowder and Chalk 18
Habits and Amusements of the London Costermongers 644
Haunts of Genius--Gray, Burke, Milton, Dryden, and Pope 49
Heart of John Middleton 449
History and Mystery of the Glass-House 308
Horrors of War 658
Household of Sir Thomas More 616, 818
How to be Idolized 640
Incident in the First French Revolution 622
Invitation to the Zoological Gardens 297
Jane Eccles; or, Confessions of an Attorney 677
Judge Not 626
Lamartine on the Religion of Revolutionary Men 598
Land, Ho!--A Sketch of Australia 357

LEAVES FROM PUNCH

Preparatory Schools for Young Ladies; Ladies' Arithmetic; Netting
for Ladies, 285. A False Apple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out
soon; Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction; 19th Cent'ry;
Putting the Cart before the Horse; A Narrow Escape; Division of
Labor; Animal Economy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429.
Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading; Smithfield Club
Cattle Show; Golden Opportunities; Universal Contempt of Court;
Startling Fact, 569. 1851; Please, Sir, shall I hold your Horse?
The Affairs of Grease; The War on Hats; Peace Offering; The Best
Law Book; Justice for Bachelors; The Weather, a Drama for
Every-Day Life; A Juvenile Party; the Kitchen Range of Art;
Reward of Merit, 713. Encouragement to Book-Lenders; Diplomacy
and Gastronomy, Supper at a Juvenile Party; One of the Juveniles
after the Party; Conversation-Books for 1851; To find Room in a
Crowded Omnibus; A File to Smooth Asperities; The Lowest Depth of
Meanness; A Little Bit of Humbug, 859.

Letters and Letter Writing 35

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches; Abbott's Madame
Roland; Stanton's Sketches of Reforms and Reformers; Gorree's
Churches and Sects of the United States; Cenotaph to a Woman of
the Burman Mission; Fleetwood's Life of Christ; Banbridge's
Scripture History for the Young; Poems by Grace Greenwood, 139.
Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; The Green Hand; The New
Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra; Maturin's Lyrics of Spain and Erin;
Holmes's Astræa; De Quincey's Essays; Bigelow's Jamaica in 1851;
Cantica Laudis; Young's Translations from Beranger, 140.
Andersen's Tales; Gem of the Western World; Our Saviour with
Prophets and Apostles; Sacred Scenes; National Cook-Book; Smith's
Relations between Scripture and Geology, 141. Life and Works of
John Adams; The Broken Bracelet; The Immortal; Boyd's edition of
Paradise Lost; General View of the Fine Arts; Artist's Chromatic
Hand-Book, 142. Reveries of a Bachelor; Richard Edney; Washburn's
Issue of Philosophic Thought, 281. The Memorial; Evening of Life;
Mrs. Knight's Memoir of Hannah More; Andrews' Latin Lexicon, 282.
Smith's Classical Dictionary; Mansfield's American Education; The
Ministry of the Beautiful; Green's History and Geography of the
Middle Ages; Christian Melodies; Sketch of Fowell Buxton; The
Manhattaner in New Orleans, 283. Redfield's Twelve Qualities of
Mind; Winter in Madeira; Gems by the Wayside; The World's
Progress; Vinet's Montaigne; Sumner's Orations; The Broken Bud;
Bardouac; Fadette; Memoir of Alexander Waugh; Chanticleer, 284.
Life and Times of Gen. Lamb; Memoir of James Handasyde Perkins;
Humboldt's Religious Thoughts and Opinions; Balmes's
Protestantism and Catholicity; Tappan's University Education,
425. Gilfillan's Bards of the Bible; Webster's Dictionary, 426.
Celebrated Saloons; Home Ballads; History of my Pets; Cheever's
Island World of the Pacific; Life of Summerfield; Greek Exile;
Carpenter's Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors; Mother's
Recompense; The Diosma; Poems by S.G. Goodrich, 427. Woodbury's
New Method of learning German; Poems by Frances A. and Metta V.
Fuller; Lives of the Queens of Scotland; Pendennis; Southey's
Life and Correspondence; Murray's Decline of Popery; Henry
Smeaton, 428. The Howadji; Crumbs from the Land o' Cakes; De
Quincey's Miscellaneous Essays; Hayward's Faust; Lavengro, 565.
Abbott's Malleville; Practical Cook-Book; Foster's Discourse on
Missions; Lewis's Restoration of the Jews; Anderson's Geography;
The Dove and the Eagle; Carter's Publications, 566. Hildreth's
United States; Lossing's Field Book; Du Barry's Progress of the
United States; Salander and the Dragon, 567. The Prairie;
Stanton's Address, and Street's Poem at Hamilton College; Lord
Holland's Foreign Reminiscences; Jane Bouverie; Mayhew's London
Labor and London Poor; The Moorland Cottage, 568. Johnson's
California and Oregon, 709. Mount Hope, 710. Parnassus in
Pillory, 711. Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales; Time the Avenger;
Porter's Educational Systems of the Puritans and the Jesuits;
Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines; Poetry from the Waverley
Novels; Whipple's Essays and Reviews; Loomis's Geometry and
Calculus; The City of the Silent; Blunt's Shipmaster's Assistant,
712. Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, 855. Buttmann's Greek
Grammar; Lee's Ecclesiastical Manual; Dixon's Life of Penn; The
Rangers; Mulchinoch's Ballads; Foster's Christian Purity; Lyra
Catholica, 856. The Soldier of the Cross; Field's Irish
Confederates; Schmitz's History of Greece; Abbott's Franconia
Stories; London Labor and the London Poor; Dwight's Roman
Republic; De Quincey's Cæsars; Life on the Plains of the Pacific;
Hints to Sportsmen, 857. Curran and His Contemporaries; Gayarre's
Louisiana; Monge's Statics; Warreniana; Jung-Stilling's
Pneumatology; Tuckerman's Poems; Theory of Effect; Volcano
Diggings; Cooper's Wing and Wing; Irving's Conquest of Florida;
Banker's Common-Place Book, 858.

Lively Turtle 52
Lucy Cawthorne 633
Lunatic Asylum in Palermo 183
Madame Campan 153
Mathematical Hermit 627
Metal Founder of Munich 516
Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune.
By CHARLES LEVER 173, 364, 468, 737
Michelet, the French Historian 353
Milton and Wordsworth 201
Mistakes in Personal Identity 69
Modern Mummies 321

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS.

UNITED STATES.

POLITICAL AND GENERAL NEWS.--State of feeling on the Compromise
measures, 122. Letters of Washington Hunt to the Secession and
Anti-Rent Conventions, 122. Meeting at Castle Garden; Letter of
Mr. Webster; Nominations, 122. Constitution of Congress, 123.
State Convention in Georgia, 123. Meeting at Macon, 123. State of
Feeling in Georgia, 123. In South Carolina, 124. In Alabama; Gov.
Collier declines to call a State Convention; Letter of Mr.
Hilliard, 124. In Mississippi, 124. In Louisiana, 124. Letters of
Senators Downs and Soulé; Letter from the Congressional
delegation to the Governor, 124. Correspondence between Isaac
Hill and Mr. Webster, 125. Dinner to Mr. Clayton, 125. Opening of
Congress, 263. Message of President Fillmore, 133. Report of the
Secretary of War, 264. Of the Secretary of the Navy, 265. Of the
Postmaster General, 265. Of the Secretary of the Interior, 266.
Bill for the protection of fugitives in Vermont, 267. Message of
Gov. Ford of Virginia, 267. Of the Governor of Alabama, 267. Of
Mississippi, 267. Union majority in Georgia, 267. Message of Gov.
Bell of Texas, 268. Of Gov. Seabrook of South Carolina, 268. Of
Gov. Brown of Florida, 268. The Nashville Convention, 268.
Various Union meetings; and letters and speeches of Messrs.
Webster, Choate, Stuart, Woodbury, Hilliard, and others, 268,
269, 270, 271. Reception of Mr. Clay in the Legislature of
Kentucky, 271. Letters of Messrs. Hamilton, Poinsett, and Rush,
272. Speech of Mr. Clayton, 272. George Thompson, 272. General
News from California, 272, 410, 556, 701. General news from
Oregon, 273. Webster's reply to Hulsemann, 409, 848. Opening of
the Legislature of New York, and Message of Gov. Hunt, 409.
Message of Gov. Wright of Indiana, 410. Florida resolutions, 410.
Of Gov. Johnston of Pennsylvania, 410. Boundary Commission, 411,
556, 701. Safety of the Steamer Atlantic, 555. Progress of
measures in Congress, 555. Action of the Legislature of North
Carolina in favor of Union, etc., 555. Indictment of Gov.
Quitman, 556. Thanksgiving in Texas, 556. Loss of the John Adams,
556. Inaugural of Gov. Fort of New Jersey, 556. Letter of Gen.
Houston in favor of Union, 556. Action for Union in Delaware,
556. Union meeting at Westchester, 556. Correspondence between a
British consul and the Governor of South Carolina respecting
imprisonment of colored seamen, 556. Indian hostilities in
California, 556, 701. Gold Bluffs on Trinity River, 556, 701.
Amount of gold shipped, 556. Adjournment of Congress, and notice
of measures acted upon, 700. Measures for the relief of Kossuth,
700. The Postage bill, 700. Rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston,
701. Homestead exemption in Illinois, 701. Exemption in Delaware,
701. Free negroes in Iowa, 701. Germans in Texas, 701.
Manufactures at the South, 701. Quiet after Excitement, 847. New
York Common school law, 847. Canal enlargement bill, 847.
Legislative visit to New York, 847. The sergeant-at-arms and the
gamblers, 847. Ohio resolutions on the fugitive slave law, 847.
Virginia Union resolutions, 847. General Union feeling at the
South, 848. In South Carolina, 848. Mr. Hayne's disunion letter,
848. Senator Phelp's letter, 848. Amin Bey, 848. New Constitution
of Ohio, 848. Virginia Constitutional Convention, 849. Socorro
tragedy, 849.

ELECTIONS.--State elections in New York and New Jersey, 122. In
Ohio and Massachusetts, 123. General Congressional result, 123.
Election of U.S. Senators, 555, 701. Mr. Fish in New York, 555,
847.

MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA.

Capture of slaves at Rio, 127. General news from Mexico, 273,
411, 557, 701, 849. Message of Herera, 457. Inauguration and
speech of Arista as President, 557. Affairs in Nicaragua;
discovery of gold; proceedings of Mr. Chatfield, the British
consul, 557. Intelligence from Valparaiso, 557. Hostilities
between Guatemala and San Salvador, 702. Gold in New Grenada,
702. Route across the isthmus through Lake Nicaragua, 702.
Earthquake at Carthagena, 702. Peru, 702. Banishment of Buenos
Ayreans from Bolivia, 702. Prohibition of the landing of
liberated slaves in Brazil, 702.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Establishment of Catholic sees in England; Letter of Dr.
Ullathorne, 125. Speech of Lord Stanley on Protection, 125.
Tenant right in Ireland, 126. The Synod of Thurles, 126. Increase
of Crime, 126. Submarine telegraph, 126, 132. Illumination on
Arthur's Seat, 126. Speech of Prince Albert at York, 126.
Consuming smoke at Manchester, 127. Emigration, 127. Movements
for independence in New South Wales, 127. The Exhibition, 132,
274, 278, 419, 558, 704, 851. Bridge at Westminster, 133. New
College at Glasgow, 133. Catholic excitement, 273, 558. Lord John
Russell's Durham Letter, 273. Cardinal Wiseman's Appeal, 273. Law
Reform, 273. Cotton in India, 274. Ornamental cemeteries in
London, 278. Tax on telegraphs, 278. General view of the state of
England, 411. Progress of the Catholic excitement, 413. Various
addresses, speeches, deputations, etc., 414. Attempts to increase
the supply of Cotton or to discover a substitute, 414. Famine in
the Highlands, 415. Opposition of the Cunarders to the American
steamers, 415. Increased value of silver, 415. Protest of the
Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Ireland, 558. The surplus,
558. Austria demands the punishment of the assailants of Haynau,
558. Disturbances at the Cape of Good Hope, 558. Opening of
Parliament; the Queen's Speech, 702. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill;
Free-trade motion; unsatisfactory Budget, 703. Defeat of
Ministers on franchise question; resignation of Ministers;
attempt to form new cabinet, 704. Queen Adelaide's pension, 704.
Petition for constitution for Cape of Good Hope, 704. Protestants
of Dublin and Duke of Wellington, 704. Viceroyalty of Ireland,
704. Return of Cabinet to office, 848. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill
mutilated, 849. Checks to Ministers, 850. Arsenic Bill, 850.
Kaffir revolt, 850. Revolutionary Committee, 850. Miss Talbot and
the Convent Bill, 850. Public execution, 850. Monster address,
850. Charges against Lord Torrington, 850. Coal-pit disaster,
850. Adulteration of food, 850. Hungarian refugees, 850. New
expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 851.

FRANCE.

Pretended Republican plot, 127. The President's attempt to secure
the army, 127. Quarrel between him and Changarnier, and between
the Assembly and Gen. Hautpoul, who resigns, 128. Opening of the
Assembly, and Message of the President, 275. Cavaignac and the
President, 276. Letter from the Duke of Nemours, 276. General
view of the state of France, 412. Credit passed for the army,
415. Public baths, 415. Bill for the observance of the Sabbath,
415. Luxury at the Elysée, 415. Progress of the quarrel between
the President and the Assembly; dismissal of Changarnier;
dissolution of the Ministries; President's tactics, 558, 704.
Dotation to the President refused, and his consequent action,
704. Bill for the return of the Bourbons lost, 851. Speech of M.
Dufraisse, 851. The Orleanists and Legitimists, 851. The
Archbishop of Paris and the Bishop of Chartres, 851. Censure of
M. Michelet, 851.

GERMANY, ETC.

Hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, 128. Catastrophe at Herrgott,
129. Forest conflagration in Poland, 129. Constitutions for
Galicia and Bukowina, 129. Detailed statement of the German
question, 274. Warlike aspect, 275. General view of the continent
of Europe, 412. Peace prospects; Conference at Dresden, 415.
Return of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, 416. Internal affairs of
Austria, 416. Progress of affairs in the Dresden Conference;
understanding between Austria and Prussia for the depreciation of
the minor powers, 558, 705. Dresden Conference at fault, 851.
Policy of Austria and Prussia, 852.

SPAIN, ITALY, AND PORTUGAL.

Address of Mazzini, 127. Overthrow of the Constitution and of
liberty of the press in Tuscany, 129. Brigandage in the Roman
States, 130, 705. General view of the state of the south of
Europe, 413. Foreign troops in Rome, 416, 705. The Austrians in
Venice, 416. Condition of Sardinia, 416. Disruption of the
Spanish Cabinet, 416. Conspiracy under Mazzini, 705. Archbishop
Hughes at Rome, 705. Liberal ministry in Piedmont, 705. Austrian
movements, 852. Proclamations against political pamphlets, 852.
Washington's birthday at Rome, 852. Protestant chapel, 852.

THE EAST.

Contributions preparing for the Exhibition, 128. Affairs in
India, 127. Mortality at Hong Kong, 129. Cotton in Bombay, 129.
Insurrection in China, 129. The Hungarian refugees in Turkey,
129. Conspiracy at Teheran, 130. Collisions between the Turks and
Christians, 276. Persecutions in Aleppo, 276. Disturbances in
Syria, 276. Canal between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, 419.
Napier's farewell, 705. Prospective annexations, 705. Suppression
of insurrection in China, 705. Death of Lin, 705. Difficulties in
Egypt, 705. Troubles at Bagdad, 705. Massacres in Southern
Africa, 705.

LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND PERSONAL.

UNITED STATES.--Dinner to Mr. Webster at his native place, 130.
Amin Bey, 130. M. Vattemare; Statue of Calhoun; Wm. W. Story; Wm.
D. Gallagher, Prof. Filopanti; Daniel D. Barnard, 130. Crawford's
Washington; bust of Allen; monument to Warren; movements of
artists, 131. Gift-books and Annuals, 276. Lessing's Martyrdom of
Huss, 277. Ehninger's etchings, 277. Academy of Design lectures,
277. Hawthorne, 277. Greek Slave, 277. Jenny Lind, 277, 852.
Third ring of Saturn, 277. Cultivation of tea, 277. Darley's
outlines, 277. Healey's portraits of Calhoun and Webster, 277.
Power's statue of America, 279. Mr. Webster on the Mayflower,
416. Stephenson's statue of the Wounded Indian, 416. Panorama of
Pilgrim's Progress, 417. Mount's Lucky Throw, 417. Powell's
Burial of Fernando de Soto, 417. Prof. Hart's Female Prose
Writers, 417. Mrs. Hale's Female Biography, 417. Mr. Putnam's new
publications, 417. The Opera, 417. Paine's Water-gas, 417.
Dembinski, 417. Public lectures by various individuals, 277, 559,
705. Presidential library, 559. Burns's birthday, 559. Dinner to
Mr. Hoe, 559. Books, 559. Papers of Citizen Genet, 559. Talvi,
559. Panoramas, 705. Arrival of Tupper, 705. Celebration of
Washington's birth-day, 706. Irving to Ichabod Crane, 706.
Opening of Exhibition of Academy of Design, 852. Greenough's
Pioneer, 852. Healey's Calhoun, 852. Pictures by Wright, Duggan,
Stearns, and Richards, 852. Tupper as a lion, 853. Calhoun's Life
and Works, 853. Works of Alexander Hamilton, 853. Taylor's
El-Dorado in German, 853. First cotton sent to Liverpool, 853.
Dr. Goadby's insects, 853. Acquittal of the Cuban invaders, 853.

FOREIGN.--Miss Howard's donation for hospital for widows, 126.
Sir John Franklin, 126, 132. Levi's Commercial Law, 131.
Wordsworth; Mazzini; Southey; Sir Robert Peel, 131. Idiots, 132.
Delaroche's Napoleon crossing the Alps, 132. Monument to Elliott;
Tindal, 132. Artists at Rome, 133. Duke of Wellington's sanctum,
133. Gutzlaff, 133. Government of the Sandwich Islands, 133.
French exhibition of pictures, 134. Theatrical censorship, 134.
Joan of Arc, 134. Madame de Genlis, 134. The woorari, 134.
Suspension bridge across the Straits of Dover, 134. Barral and
Bixio, 135. Sundry German books, 135, 422. Statues to Thaer,
Gustavus Adolphus, Tegner, and Plettenberg, 135. Lessing's
Martyrdom of Huss, 135. Literary Society at Jerusalem, 135.
Polish literature, 135. Ticknor's Spanish Literature in German,
136. Portrait of Constantine, 136. New locomotive, 136.
Meyerbeer, 136. Statue of Bavaria, 136. Kinkel, 136.
Miscellanies, 137, 138, 278. Literary pensions, 278, 560. The
Princess D'Este and the literary fund, 278. French voting
machine, 279. New aerostatic machine, 279. Rossini; Armand
Marrast; Jehan le Bel, 279. A common meridian, 279. Snail
telegraph, 279. Beranger, 280. Mock Message of the President of
France, 280. Theatrical quarrels in Brussels, 280. Heinrich
Heine, 280. Works of art for the King of Bavaria and the Emperor
of Russia, 280. Written language in Western Africa, 418. Earl of
Carlisle's lectures, 418. Walter Savage Landor, 418. The Napiers,
418. Dr. Johnson and the Welsh bard, 418. Lawrence's portrait of
Peel, 418. Copyright to foreigners in England, 418. Copying
telegraph, 419. Monument to the Duke of Cambridge, 419. London
charities, 419. Windsor Reward Society, 419. Ragged Schools, 419.
Sale of the effects of O'Connell, 419. French telegraphs, 419.
Guizot on Washington and Monk, 420. Toussaint Louverture, 420.
St. Prix on Constitutional Law, 420. Effect of the French
Revolution on newspapers, 420. Cemeteries in Paris, 420. Carl
Ferd. Becker, 420. Bruno Bauer, 421. Brockhaus, 421. The Leipzig
Book-Fair, 422. Rauch's Monument to Frederick the Great, 422.
Tunnel under the Neva, 422. Translations into Russian, 422. Books
prohibited in Italy, 423. Destruction of vase in the Vatican,
423. Oersted, 423. Passion-play at Ammergau, 423. Life of
Foscolo, 423. D'Arlincourt's L'Italie Rouge, 423. Statue to
Olbers, 423. Scandinavian literature, 423. Lamartine, 560, 706.
Bad spelling, 560. St. Peter's chair, 560. Layard, 560. Last
survivor of Cook's voyages, 561. Sir Roger de Coverley's chaplain
redivivus, 561. Fossils as manure, 561. New classical works in
Germany, 561. Mohammedan histories, 561. Ewald's Commentary, 561.
Miss Martineau's new work, 706. Mrs. Sherwood, 706. Knowles as a
controversialist, 706. England as it is, 706. Austrian view of
Hungarian affairs, 706. Newton's way of living, 706. Sundry
Books, 706. Remuneration of literature, 706. Talmudic
refinements, 707. Knight and Chambers on paper-tax, 707. MSS. of
Richelieu, 707. George the Fourth, and the library in the
Museum, 707. Appleyard on the Kaffir language, 707. Signals in
fog, 708. Velocity of light, 707. Hail in India, 708. Essence of
milk, 708. _Deutches Museum_, 853. _Causeries du Lundi_, 853.
Rare old editions, 853. Unique edition of La Fontaine, 853.
Victor Hugo, 853. New work of Origen, 853. Germania, 1850, 853.
Yeast: a Problem, 854. Landor to Duncan, 854. Dahomey and the
Dahomans, 854. Dynamical Theory of the Earth, 854. Memoirs of a
Literary Veteran, 854. Hartley Coleridge, 854.

OBITUARIES.

Richard M. Johnson, 125. Watkins; Lenau; Becker; Rottman;
Thomaschek, 133. Garnier, 134. Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, 279.
Gustav Schwab; Count Brandenburgh; M. Alexandre; M. Sauve; Gen.
Bonnemain; Sir L. St. G. Skeffington; Mr. Raphall; M. Motteley;
Lord Nugent; Karl Aug. Espe; Martin D'Auche, 424. D.S. Kaufman,
556. Mr. Ritchie, 560. Audubon, 561. Bem, 563. Viscount Alford;
Duke of Newcastle; Bastiat; Maxwell the novelist; Prof.
Schumacher, 564. Commissioner Lin, 705. Marquis of Northampton;
John Pye Smith; Charles Coquerel; Spontini, 708. Mrs. Shelley;
Joanna Baillie, 709. Isaac Hill; Mordecai M. Noah, 854. General
Brooke; Commodore Wadsworth; Samuel F. Jarvis; John S. Skinner,
855.

Morning with Moritz Retzsch 509
My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life.
By SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. 85, 251, 382, 524, 682, 825
Mysteries of a Tea-Kettle 246
New Phase of Bee-Life 488
Napoleon and the Pope 791
Night of Terror in a Polish Inn 41
Night with an Earthquake 810
Not all Alone 554
Notes on the Nile 491
Novelty Iron Works; with Description of Marine Steam Engines,
and their construction. By JACOB ABBOTT 721
Passion for collecting Books 397
Personal Appearance and Habits of Robert Southey 145
Phantoms and Realities 457, 601, 753
Pilchard Fishery on the Coast of Cornwall 630
Plate Glass 668
Plea for British Reptiles 813
Prison Anecdote 628
Procrastination 155
Public Opinion and the Press 192
Punch on Birds, Balloons, and Boluses 396
Rattlin the Reefer's Dream 31
Rats and Rat-Killers 202
Recollections of Chantrey 322
Recollections of Sir Robert Peel 328
Reminiscence of the French Revolution 480
Robber Outwitted 544
Robber's Revenge 195
Sailing in the Air 168, 323
Saturday in a London-Market 656
Sketches from Life 372
Sketch of a Miser 620
Sketch of my Childhood. By DE QUINCEY 156, 302
Sloped for Texas 187
Spring. By JAMES THOMSON 433
Story of Fine-Ear 482
Story of Giovanni Belzoni 947
Story of Silver-Voice and her Sister Zoë 762
Street Music in London 67
Tale of Shipwreck 335
Talleyrand 215
The Broken Heart; or, the Well of Pen-Morfa 205
The Champion.--An Incident in Spanish History 781
The Deserted Village. By GOLDSMITH 1
The Dumb Child 194
Factory Boy 660
The Fairy Queen 517
The Farm Laborer.--The Father 674
The Farm Laborer.--The Son 784
The Fugitive King at Boscobel 10
The Ghost that appeared to Mrs. Wharton 72
The Gipsy in the Thorn-Bush 338
The Golden Rule 120
The Kaffir Trader 341
The Marriage Settlement 330
The Queen's Tobacco-Pipe 513
The Stolen Fruit.--A Story of Napoleon's Childhood 822
The Talisman.--A Fairy Tale 348
The Traveler. By GOLDSMITH 289
The Unlawful Gift 55
The Unnamed Shell 747
The Watcher 665
The Wife's Stratagem 778
The Woodstream 346
Thomas Harlowe 599
Uncle John; or, The Rough Road to Riches 840
Victims of Science 698
Visit to a Colliery 340
Visit to a Copper Mine 652
Visit to an English Dairy 165
Volcano Girl 188
Voyage in Search of Sir John Franklin 588
Waiting for the Post 238
Washington Irving 577
Waste of War 810
What becomes of all the pins? 597
Wilberforce and Chalmers 824
William Cullen Bryant 581
William Penn's Conversion to Quakerism 613
Winter Vision 359
Wordsworth and Carlyle 201
Young Man's Counselor 213

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
1. Portrait of Goldsmith 1
2. The hawthorn bush 1
3. To spurn imploring famine from the gate 2
4. Beside the bed where parting life was laid 3
5. The village master taught his little school 4
6. The village ale-house 5
7. The coy maid half willing to be press'd 5
8. As some fair female unadorned and plain 6
9. Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade 7
10. The poor, houseless, shivering female lies 7
11. Her fond husband strove to lend relief 8
12. As rocks resist the billows and the sky 9
13. Sketch of John Randolph of Roanoke 80
14. Visiting and Ball Costumes for December 143
15. Evening Costume 144
16. Coiffure for Ball 144
17. Portrait of Southey 145
18. Vale of Watenlath 148
19. Southey's Tomb 152
20. Portrait of Madame Campan 153
21. Portrait of Bona Lombardi Brunoro 155
22. Portrait of De Quincey 156
23. Preparatory School for Young Ladies 285
24. Costumes for Winter 287
25. Head-Dress and Corsage 288
26. Bonnet 288
27. Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies 289
28. As some lone miser visiting his store 290
29. The sports of children satisfy the child 291
30. The Swiss their stormy mansions tread 291
31. Breasts the air, and carols as he goes 292
32. Where snow-tracks mark the way 292
33. And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour 293
34. Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies 294
35. Brighter streams than famed Hydaspes 294
36. Talent sinks, and merit weeps unknown 295
37. From their homes, a melancholy train 296
38. Riding the Elephant 297
39. Poking Fun at the Bear 297
40. The Pelican at Feed 297
41. Fellows of the Zoological Society 298
42. A false Apple-ation 429
43. A Tête-à-Tête 429
44. Expected out soon 429
45. Going down to a Watering-place 429
46. Attraction 429
47. Nineteenth Cent'ry 429
48. Putting the Cart before the Horse 430
49. A Narrow Escape 430
50. Division of Labor 430
51. Animal Economy 430
52. A Holiday at the Public Offices 430
53. Costumes for Later Winter 431
54. Ball Costume 432
55. Bonnets 432
56. Head-Dress 432
57. Come gentle Spring 433
58. Lend their shoulder, and begin their toil 434
59. Wafts all the pomp of life into your ports 434
60. The deer rustle through the brake 435
61. Blazing straw before his orchard burns 435
62. The shower is scarce to patter heard 436
63. While yet man lived in innocence 437
64. The song went round, and dance 437
65. Throw nice judging the delusive fly 439
66. You gayly drag your unresisting prize 439
67. Together let us tread the morning dews 440
68. Gather fresh flowers to grace thy hair 440
69. A gentle pair, by fortune sunk 442
70. They weeping eye their infant train 442
71. Hazel pendent o'er the plaintive stream 443
72. On the aerial summit takes the gale 444
73. Through Hagley Park, thy British Tempè 445
74. On the bank thrown amid drooping lilies 446
75. In soft anguish he consumes the day 446
76. Woos the bird of eve to mingle woes 446
77. Still interrupted by distracted dreams 446
78. The garden to the view its vistas open 447
79. By degrees the human blossom blows 448
80. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought 448
81. The Parcels Conveyance Company 569
82. Oscillation illustrated 569
83. Legendary G 569
84. Historical H 569
85. Selfish Ends 570
86. Pneumatical K 570
87. A Stilted Subject 570
88. Pisces 570
89. How doth the little busy Bee 570
90. Cock Robin 570
91. Assisting a pupil up the Gamut 571
92. Yawning 571
93. A startling Fact 574
94. Costumes for Early Spring 575
95. Morning Costume 576
96. Velvet Bonnet 576
97. Ribbon Bonnet 576
98. White Silk Bonnet 576
99. Portrait of Irving 577
100. Irving's Residence 580
101. Portrait of Bryant 581
102. Bryant's Residence 583
103. The Great Exhibition Building 585
104. Installing the Crow's Nest 588
105. Surrounded by Icebergs 591
106. The Prince Albert in Danger 593
107. The Arctic Discovery Ships at Midnight 594
108. Please, Sir, shall I hold your Horse 713
109. Bachelor's Bedroom 714
110. Married Couple's Bedroom 714
111. Elderly Servant 715
112. Youthful Attendant 715
113. A Juvenile Party 717
114. Reward of Merit 718
115. Costumes for Spring 719
116. Coiffure 720
117. Satin Bonnet 720
118. Miss's Straw Bonnet 720
119. View of the Novelty Works 721
120. Entrance to the Novelty Works 722
121. Plan of the Novelty Works 723
122. View of a Marine Steam-Engine 725
123. Cutting Engine 726
124. Bending and Punching Engines 726
125. Boring Engine 727
126. Riveting the Boilers 727
127. Filling the Ladles 728
128. Casting a Cylinder 728
129. The Explosion 729
130. Digging out the Cylinder 729
131. The Forges 730
132. Heating a Shaft 731
133. Forging a Shaft 731
134. The Lathes 732
135. Finishing 732
136. Departure of the Steamer Pacific 733
137. Encouragement to Book-Lenders 859
138. Supper at a Juvenile Party 860
139. A Juvenile after the Party 861
140. A Little Bit of Humbug 862
141. Promenade Costumes for May 863
142. Evening Costume 864
143. Morning Promenade Costume 864
144. Head-Dresses 864

HARPER'S

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

NO. VII.--DECEMBER, 1850.--VOL. II.

THE DESERTED VILLAGE.

BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheer'd the laboring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd--
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please--
How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green,
Where humble happiness endear'd each scene;
How often have I paus'd on every charm--
The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,
The never failing brook, the busy mill,
The decent church that topp'd the neighboring hill,
The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade
For talking age and whispering lovers made;
How often have I bless'd the coming day
When toil remitting lent its turn to play,
And all the village train from labor free,
Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree--
While many a pastime circled in the shade,
The young contending as the old survey'd,
And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground,
And sleights of art and feats of strength went round:
And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd,
Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd--
The dancing pair that simply sought renown
By holding out to tire each other down,
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face
While secret laughter titter'd round the place,
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these,
With sweet succession, taught even toil to please;
These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed;
These were thy charms--but all these charms are fled.

Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green:
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
No more thy glassy brook reflects the day,
But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way;
Along thy glades, a solitary guest,
The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest;
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries;
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall;
And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,
Far, far away thy children leave the land.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade--
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintain'd its man:
For him light labor spread her wholesome store,
Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more;
His best companions, innocence and health,
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain:
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose:
And every want to opulence allied,
And every pang that folly pays to pride.
These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,
Those calm desires that ask'd but little room,
Those healthful sports that grac'd the peaceful scene,
Liv'd in each look and brighten'd all the green--
These, far departing, seek a kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no more.
Sweet AUBURN! parent of the blissful hour,
Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power.
Here, as I take my solitary rounds
Amid thy tangling walks and ruin'd grounds,
And, many a year elaps'd, return to view
Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew--
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
In all my wanderings round this world of care,
In all my griefs--and God has given my share--
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amid these humble bowers to lay me down;
To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amid the swains to show my book-learn'd skill--
Around my fire an evening group to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;
And as an hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,
I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd,
Here to return--and die at home at last.
O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline,
Retreats from care, that never must be mine!
How happy he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease;
Who quits a world where strong temptations try--
And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly.
For him no wretches, born to work and weep,
Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep,
No surly porter stands, in guilty state,
To spurn imploring famine from the gate;
But on he moves, to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend--
Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way--
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd.

Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.
There as I pass'd, with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came soften'd from below:
The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
The sober herd that low'd to meet their young,
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school,
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind--
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
But now the sounds of population fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,
No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread,
For all the bloomy flush of life is fled--
All but yon widow'd, solitary thing,
That feebly bends beside the plashy spring,
She, wretched matron--forced in age, for bread,
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,
To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn,
To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn--
She only left of all the harmless train,
The sad historian of the pensive plain!
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
And still where many a garden-flower grows wild--
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
A man he was to all the country dear;
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place;
Unpractic'd he to fawn, or seek for power
By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour.
Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize--
More skill'd to raise the wretched than to rise.
His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain:
The long remember'd beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast;
The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud,
Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd.
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away--
Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done,
Shoulder'd his crutch and show'd how fields were won.
Pleas'd with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow,
And quite forgot their vices in their woe;
Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And even his failings lean'd to virtue's side--
But in his duty, prompt at every call,
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all:
And, as a bird each fond endearment tries
To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies,
He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay,
Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Beside the bed where parting life was laid,
And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay'd,
The reverend champion stood: at his control
Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;
Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise,
And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise.

At church with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorn'd the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
The service pass'd, around the pious man,
With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran;
Even children follow'd, with endearing wile,
And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile:
His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd,
Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distress'd.
To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,
But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven:
As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way,
With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay--
There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school.
A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd--
Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault.
The village all declar'd how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too,
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage--
And even the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,
For even though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around--
And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.

But pass'd is all his fame: the very spot,
Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot.
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspir'd.
Where gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retir'd,
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound.
And news much older than their ale went round.
Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlor splendors of that festive place:
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door--
The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day--
The pictures plac'd for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose--
The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day,
With aspen bows, and flowers, and fennel gay--
While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show,
Rang'd o'er the chimney, glistened in a row.

Vain, transitory splendors! could not all
Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall?
Obscure it sinks; nor shall it more impart
An hour's importance to the poor man's heart:
Thither no more the peasant shall repair
To sweet oblivion of his daily care;
No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale,
No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail;
No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear,
Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear;
The host himself no longer shall be found
Careful to see the mantling bliss go round;
Nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd,
Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.

Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain,
These simple blessings of the lowly train--
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play,
The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway--
Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind,
Unenvied, unmolested, unconfin'd;
But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade,
With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd,
In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain,
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain--
And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey
The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay--
'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand
Between a splendid and an happy land
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,
And shouting folly hails them from her shore;
Hoards even beyond the miser's wish abound,
And rich men flock from all the world around;
Yet count our gains: this wealth is but a name
That leaves our useful product still the same.
Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride
Takes up a space that many poor supplied--
Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds,
Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds;
The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth
Has robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth;
His seat where solitary sports are seen,
Indignant spurns the cottage from the green;
Around the world each needful product flies,
For all the luxuries the world supplies;
While thus the land adorn'd for pleasure--all
In barren splendor feebly waits the fall.
As some fair female unadorn'd and plain,
Secure to please while youth confirms her reign
Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies,
Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes--
But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail,
When time advances, and when lovers fail--
She then shines forth, solicitous to bless,
In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd:
In nature's simplest charms at first array'd--
But verging to decline, its splendors rise,
Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise;
While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land
The mournful peasant leads his humble band--
And while he sinks, without one arm to save,
The country blooms--a garden and a grave.

Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside,
To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd
He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade,
Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,
And even the bare-worn common is denied.

If to the city sped--what waits him there?
To see profusion that he must not share;
To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd
To pamper luxury, and thin mankind;
To see those joys the sons of pleasure know,
Extorted from his fellow-creatures' woe:
Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade,
There the pale artist plies the sickly trade;
Here, while the proud their long-drawn pomps display,
There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
The dome where pleasure holds her midnight reign,
Here, richly deck'd, admits the gorgeous train--
Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square,
The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare.
Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy:
Sure these denote one universal joy!
Are these thy serious thoughts?--ah! turn thine eyes
Where the poor houseless shivering female lies.
She once, perhaps, in village plenty bless'd,
Has wept at tales of innocence distress'd--
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn;
Now lost to all--her friends, her virtue fled,
Near her betrayer's door she lays her head--
And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower,
With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour
When idly first, ambitious of the town,
She left her wheel, and robes of country brown.

Do thine, sweet AUBURN! thine, the loveliest train,
Do thy fair tribes participate her pain?
Even now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led,
At proud men's doors they ask a little bread.
Ah, no! To distant climes, a dreary scene,
Where half the convex world intrudes between,
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Far different there from all that charm'd before,
The various terrors of that horrid shore;
Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray,
And fiercely shed intolerable day--
Those matted woods where birds forget to sing
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling--
Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd
Where the dark scorpion gathers death around--
Where at each step the stranger fears to wake
The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake--
Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey,
And savage men more murderous still than they--
While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies,
Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies.
Far different these from every former scene;
The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green,
The breezy covert of the warbling grove,
That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love.
Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day,
That call'd them from their native walks away,
When the poor exiles, every pleasure pass'd,
Hung round their bowers, and fondly look'd their last,
And took a long farewell, and wish'd in vain
For seats like these beyond the western main--
And shuddering still to face the distant deep,
Return'd and wept, and still return'd to weep.
The good old sire, the first, prepar'd to go
To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe--
But for himself, in conscious virtue brave,
He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave;
His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears,
The fond companion of his helpless years,
Silent went next, neglectful of her charms,
And left a lover's for a father's arms;
With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes,
And bless'd the cot where every pleasure rose,
And kiss'd her thoughtless babes with many a tear,
And clasp'd them close, in sorrow doubly dear--
While her fond husband strove to lend relief
In all the silent manliness of grief.

O luxury! thou curs'd by Heaven's decree,
How ill exchang'd are things like these for thee;
How do thy potions, with insidious joy,
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!
Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown,
Boast of a florid vigor not their own;
At every draught more large and large they grow,
A bloated mass of rank, unwieldy woe--
Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound,
Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round.
Even now the devastation is begun,
And half the business of destruction done;
Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand,
I see the rural virtues leave the land;
Down, where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail,
That idly waiting flaps with every gale,
Downward they move--a melancholy band--
Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand,
Contented Toil and hospitable Care,
And kind connubial Tenderness, are there--
And Piety with wishes plac'd above,
And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love.
And thou, sweet Poetry! thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual joys invade,
Unfit in these degenerate times of shame
To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame--
Dear, charming nymph, neglected and decried,
My shame in crowds, my solitary pride--
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so--
Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel,
Thou nurse of every virtue--fare thee well.
Farewell! and oh! where'er thy voice be tried,
On Tornea's cliffs or Pambamarca's side,
Whether where equinoctial fervors glow,
Or winter wraps the polar world in snow,
Still let thy voice, prevailing over time,
Redress the rigors of the inclement clime.
Aid slighted Truth: with thy persuasive strain
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain;
Teach him, that states of native strength possess'd,
Though very poor, may still be very bless'd;
That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,
As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away--
While self-dependent power can time defy,
As rocks resist the billows and the sky.

THE FUGITIVE KING AT BOSCOBEL; ADVENTURES OF THE MERRY MONARCH.

BY AGNES STRICKLAND.

Boscobel House, which has obtained so much historical celebrity, in connection with the romantic adventures of Charles II., after his defeat at Worcester, is situated in Shropshire, on the borders of Staffordshire, lying between Tong Castle and Brewood. It was built in the reign of James I., by John Giffard, Esq., a Roman Catholic gentleman, who, when it was completed, having invited his neighbors to a house-warming feast, requested his friend, Sir Basil Brook, to give his new-built mansion a name. Sir Basil called it "Boscobel," from the Italian word, _boscobella_, because it was seated in the midst of many fair woods. The founder of the house had caused various places of concealment to be constructed, for the purpose of affording shelter to proscribed persons of his own religion, whom the severity of the penal laws often compelled to play at hide and seek, in queer corners.

The first fugitive of note who sought refuge, in his distress, at Boscobel House, was the unfortunate Earl of Derby, whose defeat at Bolton-le-Moors, near Wigan, was the precursor to that of the young king at Worcester, eight days later. The Earl of Derby, having escaped from his lost battle, with Colonel Roscarrock and two servants, got into the confines of Shropshire and Staffordshire, where he had the good luck to encounter an old friend, Mr. Richard Snead, an honest gentleman of that country, to whom he told the news of his own overthrow, and inquired if he knew of any private house, near at hand, where he might repose himself and his company in safety, till he could find an opportunity of joining the king. Mr. Snead, like a good Samaritan, conducted his noble friend to Boscobel House, where they arrived on Friday, August 29th, but found no one at home, except William Penderel, the housekeeper, and his wife, who, on their own responsibility, ventured to receive the noble cavalier, his companion, and servants, and kindly entertained them till the Sunday; and then, according to the earl's desire, conveyed them safely to Gataker Park, nine miles on their way to Worcester, where he arrived in time to take his part in that engagement which was emphatically styled by Stapylton, the roundhead, "the setting of the young king's glory."