JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES. 6 yes, wander after dusk along the road leading by behind him, threw over it a large canvass win- as all the events of his life had been; nowing sheet, and, before he could extricate brave men! free me from these bonds! it is the base of the Tom-nan-cean, see strange the blade from the numerous folds, Padrig's unworthy of Strathspey-men,-it is unworthy sights cross his path, let him recall the story I weapon was reeking in the best heart's blood of Grants to triumph over a fallen foe! Those have narrated, and it may furnish him with With this long extract we must for the preof the bravest highlander that Strathspey could whom I killed were no clansmen of thine, but some explanation of what he beholds.” boast of. His four sons, who had witnessed recreant Camerons, who betrayed a Cameron ! their mother's treachery, were paralysed. The Let me go free, and that reward of which you sent conclude; but we shall return to our The History of the Peloponneunfortunate woman herself, too, stood stupified have been disappointed shall be quadrupled for author as soon again as possible. The Text acand appalled: but she was quickly recalled to sparing my life!' Such words as these, opesian War, by Thucydides. her senses by the active clash of the swords of rating on minds so much prepared to receive BOTKTAIAH2. cording to Bekker's Edition, with some alteraPadrig and his men. Oh, my sons! my them favourably, had well nigh worked their tions. Illustrated by Maps, taken entirely sons!' she cried-' spare my boys!' But the purpose. But, No!' said Muckrach sternly, from actual Surveys. With Notes, chiefly tempter needed her services no longer-she' it shall never be said that a murderer escaped historical and geographical, by T. Arnold, had done his work. She was spurned to the from my hands. Besides, it was just so that If ye D.D., Head Master of Rugby School, &c. ground, and trampled under foot, by those who he fairly spake the Mugach's false wife. But Vol. I. 8vo. Oxford, 1830. Parker. soon strewed the bloody floor around her with did he spare her sons on that account? Exult- let him go, my men, the fate of the Mugach the lifeless corpses of her brave sons. This has there been a more decided change for the ing in the full success of this expedition of may be ours; for what bravery can stand PERHAPS in no department of our literature vengeance, Mac-an-Ts'agairt beheaded the bo- against treachery and assassination ?' dies, and piled the heads in a heap on an ob- opened an entirely new view of the question to better, within the last few years, than in the long hill, that runs parallel to the road, on the Padrig's rude guards; and the result of the elementary class of school-books; and it is with east side of Carr Bridge, from which it is conference was, that they resolved to take him great pleasure that we observe this change gracalled Tom-nan-Cean, the Hill of the Heads. to Inverness, and to deliver him up to the dually extending itself to the higher classes and Scarcely was he beyond the reach of danger, sheriff. As they were pursuing their way up to the universities. We hail the appearance of The voice of reason when his butchery was known at Castle Grant, the south side of the river Dulnan, the hill of this long-expected work, as the most decisive and Sir Ludovick immediately offered a great Tom-nan-cean appeared on that opposite to proof we have yet seen that this change will reward for his apprehension; but Padrig, who them. At sight of it, the whole circumstances speedily become universal. had anticipated some such thing, fled to Ire- of Padrig's atrocious deed came fresh into their has at length made itself heard, and henceforLet in the study of the Classics will not be more land, where he remained for seven years. But minds. It seemed to cry on them for justice, ward the notes intended to assist the student the restlessness of the murderer is well known, and, with one impulse, they shouted out, and Padrig felt it in all its horrors. Leaving him die on the spot where he did the bloody difficult for him to construe or understand than his Irish retreat, he returned to Lochaber. act!' Without a moment's farther delay, they the text of the author they are intended to By a strange accident, a certain Mungo Grant resolved to execute their new resolution. But illustrate. The appearance of a Greek classic of Muckrach having had his cattle and horses on their way across the plain, they happened to with English notes, by a scholar of acknowcarried away by some thieves from that quar- observe a large fir-tree, with a thick horizontal ledged eminence, who ranks indeed amongst ter, pursued them hot foot, recovered them, branch growing at right angles from the trunk, the highest of his day, and this work printed and was on his way returning with them, and of a sufficient height from the ground to in Oxford by the university printer, and pubIt is well known that the works when, to his astonishment, he met Padrig suit their purpose; and doubting if they might lished by the university bookseller, may well Mac-an-Ts'agairt quite alone, in a narrow find so convenient a gallows where they were be said to form an era in the literature of our The published in this manner are considered to have pass, on the borders of his native country. going, they at once determined that here Pad-country. Mungo instantly seized and made a prisoner of rig should finish his mortal career. him. But his progress with his beasts was neighbouring birch thicket supplied them with received the indirect sanction of the authorities tedious; and as he was entering Strathspey at materials for making a withe; and, whilst they in the university, though not positively stamped Lag-na-caillich, about a mile to the westward were twisting it, Padrig burst forth in a flood with their fiat as published by the university, of Aviemore, he espied twelve desperate men, of Gaelic verse, which his mind had been ac-like those which were wont to be called the who, taking advantage of his slow march, had cumulating by the way. His song, and the Clarendon books." The Clarendon press no crossed the hills to gain the pass before him, twig rope that was to terminate his existence, longer exists; but its legitimate successor, the But were spun out and finished at the same mo- university press, changed in name but not in The distinction befor the purpose of rescuing Padrig. Mungo was not to be daunted. Seeing them ment, and he was instantly elevated to a height nature, will, we trust, long continue its useful occupying the road in his front, he grasped equally beyond his ambition and his hopes. and honourable career. his prisoner with one hand, and brandishing No one would touch his body, so it hung tween a work printed at the university press his dirk with the other, he advanced in the swinging in the wind for some twelve months or by the university printer, is too nice to be midst of his people and animals, swearing po- or more after his execution; and, much as he generally noticed or known out of Oxford; nor tently, that the first motion at an attempt at had been feared when alive, he was infinitely is it very important that it should be so, since rescue by any one of them, should be the more a cause of terror now that he was a life- Mr. Collingwood cannot print any thing withNone dared to approach that part out the permission of the vice-chancellor, and signal for his dirk to drink the life's blood of less corpse. Padrig Mac-an-Ts'agairt. They were so in- of the heath after it was dark; but in day- Mr. Parker is not very likely to publish any timidated by his boldness, that they allowed him light people were bolder. The school-boys of work of importance without previously consultto pass without assault, and left their friend to Duthel, who, like the frogs in the fable, gra- ing some of the leading delegates of the press. Another circumstance his fate. Padrig was forthwith carried to Castle dually began to have less and less apprehension This indirect sanction is, therefore, sufficient Grant. But the remembrance of the Mugach's for him, actually bragged one another on so far for our purpose, and must be acknowledged as murder had been by this time much obliterated one day, that they ventured to pelt him with a chief point gained. A son of Delrachney, who happened which gives still greater force to the inference by many events little less strange; and the stones." laird, unwilling to be troubled with the matter, to aim better than the rest, struck the birchen we have drawn, and importance to this publicaordered Mungo and his prisoner away. Dis-withe, by this time become rotten, severed it, tion, in our view, is the fact, which we "happen appointed and mortified, Mungo and his party and down came the wasted body with a ter- to know," that the greater part of the notes were were returning with their felon-captive, dis-rible crash. As the cause of its descent was first written in Latin and subsequently rewritcussing, as they went, what they had best do hardly perceptible to any of them, the terrified ten in English. As Dr. Arnold has long been with him. A fine reward we have had for boys ran off, filled with the horrible belief that celebrated amongst his friends for his remarkThe laird may the much-dreaded Padrig was pursuing them. ably elegant Latin, it must be acknowledged all our trouble!' said one. catch the next thief her's nanesel, for Do- So impressed was poor young Delrachney with that this was a noble sacrifice of personal vanity 'Let's turn him loose!' this idea, that, through terror and haste, he to a strong feeling of duty, as rendering his work nald!' said another. said a third. Ay, ay,' said a fourth, what burst a blood-vessel, and died in two hours more conducive to public utility. He could for wud we be plaguing oursels more wi' him!' afterwards. Padrig's bones were buried about well afford to make such a sacrifice, but perYes, yes! brave, generous men !' said Padrig 100 yards to the north of the bridge of Carr; haps few men could have done it. His reputaMac-an-Ts'agairt, roused by a sudden hope of tion stands on too high ground to be shaken by life from the moody dream of the gallows-tree, any clamour that may be raised against him by in which he had been plunged, whilst he was that pedantry and bigotry which are generally courting his mournful muse to compose his own only a cloak for ignorance. The immense fund lament, that he might die with an effect striking of learning and research which he has brought but, as if they were doomed never to have rest, to bear on the illustration of his author, without attempting or thinking of any display of them, are a sufficient proof that his high character is not undeserved; and he, standing on the rock of common sense, may well despise any charge, if any is attempted, of being an innovator and a liberal. It is difficult to give our readers any idea of a work of this nature: much that is invaluable in its proper place is necessarily unfit for extract; nor is the subject sufficiently interesting to the general body. The following extracts from the preface will suffice to shew the nature of the work, and give the author's reasons for adopting the change we have so heartily commended, and for which we think he is entitled to the thanks of the community. * * * and the biographical sketches of him, of Perry, turned to his kennel in the Temple. His proof Porson, and of others, their contemporaries, fessorship did not produce him above 1507. are interesting. a-year; he was too idle to continue the course Of Porson's marriage and sequent life the of lectures which he had commenced on taking account is curious. "The circumstance of the chair, though with the most flattering proMr. Porson's marriage with a sister of his spects of advantage to the public and his own friend Mr. Perry, a widow, is another proof of emolument; but he did not, it would appear, his eccentricity, as regards the mode of his de- like a college life, and at the end of a couple of ciding on this important step. The professor years he bade adieu to his alma mater, and rewas not supposed to be likely to commit matri- turned to his customary habits, and the society mony, and especially a marriage of inclination. of his friends in the metropolis. He had for One night, however, while he was smoking his many years been subject to severe attacks of pipe at the cider-cellar in Maiden Lane (his spasmodic asthma, which frequently reduced favourite haunt) with my brother, they had him to the lowest state of debility. On these called for second go, when, addressing his com- occasions he neither took medicines, nor conpanion, he said,Friend George, do you not sulted physicians, and he made no secret that think the widow Ln an agreeable sort of he had a sovereign contempt for both. Starva"My own principal object has been to ex-personage as times go?' throwing out a huge tion was his mode of treatment, but unfortuplain the historical and geographical difficulties volume of smoke. An affirmative nod and a nately, like all obstinate men, he carried his of Thucydides, so as to enable a modern reader compliment to the lady was the reply. In system too far. In a severe attack, which confully to understand his narrative, and to enter that case you must meet me at St. Martin's in tinued longer than usual, his bed-maker became into the opinions and feelings of the times to the Fields to-morrow morning at eight o'clock,' alarmed, and offered him some light food, which which it refers. As a critical edition, the work rejoined the other; and so saying, and finish- his stomach rejected, debilitated by long fasting. now offered to the world has little preten- ing his go, he threw down his reckoning and It is supposed that he was himself alarmed at sion. retired. My brother, who knew his man well, this symptom, for the same day he crawled "It only remains that I should explain the though not a little astonished, determined to towards the city; but whither his steps were reason of the Notes and Preface to this edition attend to the invitation; and at the hour fixed directed was never known. Exhausted with being written in English, when prescription repaired to the church, where he found the this little exertion, he dropped on the pavehas so long been in favour of the use of Latin. professor and the fair widow attended by a ment in Ludgate Hill, speechless, and with It seemed to me, that to continue at this time female friend, with the parson and his clerk. but small signs of life. He was carried to a of day to write in Latin, were but to add one The license being produced, the ceremony (a neighbouring apothecary's shop, and a surgeon more to the numerous instances in which, by very short one) took place, when the parties summoned to his assistance, who opened a vein, professing to tread closely in the steps of our separated, the bride and her friend retiring by but scarcely any blood flowed. It was evident ancestors, we in fact depart from them most one door, and Porson and his man by another. that the attack was apoplectic. Every usual widely, by persisting foolishly in what they It appeared that the alliance which had just remedy was resorted to, but with little good began wisely. When the languages of modern taken place, had been some time on the tapis, effect: he continued speechless. On examinEurope were no better than unformed dialects, but the lady objected, without her brother's ing his pockets, a note was found from his and the inhabitants of neighbouring countries approbation; on this point, however, the Greek friend Doctor Raine, which identified the perno more thought of learning them than we now was immovable, and the widow, well knowing son of the invalid, and the abode of his friend, think of acquiring the provincial patois of Lan- his temper, at length gave her consent to the who, being apprised of his state, instantly flew cashire or Somersetshire, it was very reasonable clandestine step. My brother now urged him to his assistance, and he was removed to his that literary men should neglect what were to declare his marriage to Mr. Perry, who he really so many local dialects, and should adopt could not doubt would be speedily reconciled, in their writings what alone was their common though perhaps hurt, that he had not been language. Accordingly, not only editions of consulted; but the professor would not listen classical authors, but theology, history, law, to this advice, and they parted; my brother philosophy, every thing, in short, except popu-being determined that Mr. P. should not be lar poetry, tales, and some few chronicles, were kept in the dark, the more especially as he had universally written in Latin. Now, however, been an accessory to the deed. In a few hours, when there is scarcely a language in Europe however, the Benedick entered in his best parawhose literature is so poor as that of Rome; phernalia, viz. his black satin nether garments when the knowledge of French, German, Ita- and ruffled shirt, which he only wore on solemn lian, and English, forms so common a part of occasions. 'Friend George,' said he, I shall the acquirements of educated men in all these for once take advice (which I seldom do, as you four countries; and when it would be ludicrous know), and hold out the olive-branch, provided for a divine, a historian, or a philosopher, to you will accompany me to the Court of Lanpublish his thoughts in any other than his na- caster:' you are a good peace-maker.' They tive language, there can be no further reason got into a hackney-coach, and found Mr. Perry why an Englishman, in editing a Greek writer, at home. The bridegroom was presented, made When Mr. Addington was speaker, "Mr. should have recourse to Latin; or why, in com- a speech, and though his friend's amour propre Mackintosh, the provost of Inverness, came to municating between two nations, whose lan- was not a little blessé, a reconciliation soon London for the first time. One of his friends, guages are both so rich and so flexible as those took place, a few intimate friends were sum-on finding that he expressed a desire to hear of Greece and England, we should call in the moned on the spur of the occasion,' a hand- a debate, advised him to write a note to the aid of an interpreter whose vocabulary is so some dinner was served, and an apartment was speaker, begging he might be admitted to sit meagre as that of the language of Rome. No provided for the newly married couple. It under the gallery, which,' said the wag, 'you cause but necessity would induce an active- caused no small speculation among the Greeks are entitled to do ex officio.' The note was minded man to submit to the constraint of what could induce the professor to marry, and written, and handed to the chair. The result writing in any other language than that in in so mysterious a manner. Poor Mrs. Porson was, that the worthy citizen, notwithstanding which he habitually speaks and thinks; and did not live long to enjoy her new honours; his high office, after being severely reprimanded necessity can in this case no longer be pleaded, within a year after the event her health began for his impertinence, was ordered into the cus since the happy peace which we now enjoy has to decline, and before two had expired she was tody of the sergeant-at-arms. But an explanabroken down the barriers between nation and consigned to the grave. In her brother she tion took place; the provost protesting he had nation; and has taught every civilised country had found a father for her children, whom he committed the offence from ignorance and bad of Europe to regard an ignorance of the lan-educated and provided for. She was a good- advice, was discharged." guage and literature of its neighbours as little tempered and an amiable person, and the pro- At Edinburgh, during the residence of the less disgraceful than an ignorance of its own.' fessor treated her with all the kindness of which present King of France in Holyrood-house, he was capable. He continued to reside with" our government having granted a certain Mr. Perry until her death, when he again re-allowance to Monsieur, and the commander of It is mentioned that Mr. Scrope Davies, his intimate sible honours, a weekly levée was got up, under the forces being desirous of doing him all posfriend, is preparing a life of Porson for publication. MR. GORDON'S MEMOIRS, &c.—concluded. MR. GRAY, Mr. Perry's early co-editor in the Chronicle, was a school-fellow of Mr. Gordon's; house; but the lamp of life was fast ebbing, for after continuing in a stupor for twenty-four hours, he expired, seemingly without pain or feeling. On a post-mortem examination, it was ascertained that his system of starvation had hastened his end; for having fasted so long, his stomach had entirely lost its tone, and could no longer perform its functions. It is melancholy to reflect that a man endowed with such extraordinary powers of mind, should have sacrificed his life to an obstinate whim, founded on no principle of common sense or sound reasoning." To these characters succeed Pope the performer, Raymond, Romeo Coates, &c. &c. ; but we have no room for their exhibition, and shall merely add a few anecdotes to this, of necessity, desultory notice. the auspices of Lord Adam Gordon, who, in de- | of its age than its quality. The vintage of no means opposite to the spot, seem, in some fiance of his slender acquaintance with French, 1811 was, at seven years old, preferable to any degree, to confirm the hypothesis of Signor generally acted as master of the ceremonies. batch he had in his cellar, and bore a higher Becchi, which, in the absence of a better, has The mistakes which occurred at this modern price in the market; its bouquet being par- met with general support. The remains of a court of Holyrood were sometimes not a little ticularly delicious. At Frankfort a wine-mer- marble pavement, and the evident traces of iron ludicrous. One gentleman, on presenting an chant demanded for hock of 1727 fifty-five or brass gates which closed the south end of this officer of a Highland regiment (now a lord) in guineas a dozen, and had found more than one portico, shew that it was appropriated to some his full costume, said, ' Voilà, mon prince, Mon- amateur at the extravagant price. particular purpose. Moreover, at the south sieur G―, capitaine d'un régiment des Ecossais "About fifteen years ago a dilapidated house, angle of the supposed colonnade is a new pillar sauvages! The voilà and the sauvages made which had been upset by the earthquake of 1755, of marble, placed quite close to one of the old his royal highness titter; and turning to Gene-at Lisbon, being about to be rebuilt, a considerable stone columns of the forum. It is so close to ral Drummond, he asked for an explanation, number of bottles were discovered in the cellar; the old column that it could not be finished on who replied, that montagnard and sauvage they were incrusted with small shells, the sea that side, proving that the old pillar was inwere synonymous.' On another occasion, Lord having had access to the cave. They were tended to have been taken away, and that a was desirous of telling the duke that the found to contain both white and red wine; new colonnade was beginning to be erected. adjutant-general kept a good table, and said, though the corks had decayed, the incrustation The plan is sufficiently clear to enable the 'Monsieur le Général tient une bonne boutique! had supplied their place, and the wine was reader to form his own judgment. Nothing, which caused no small amusement. perfectly entire, especially the calcavellos." however, seems more difficult than to draw any And here our medley ends. With somewhat precise conclusion from the hints which the of the garrulity of age, there is much to enter- ancients have left us of the use of a Chalciditain, in the pages of Mr. Gordon; and they cum. Vitruvius says, that, if possible, the will be fastidious, who cannot forgive their Chalcidica should be placed at the extremities imperfections, in compliment to their merits. of the basilica. This would seem to imply a The detestable phrase talented is of everlasting portico. He also says that the Chalcidica occurrence, and, together with the abuse of should have two ranges of columns, the upper needless initial letters where names might just being one-fourth less than the lower. The as well have been given, tends to disfigure the pillars of the upper portico, in which it seems work; but, on the whole, we are thankful to merchants transacted business, stood upon a it for a few hours' very tolerable amusement. sort of pluteus instead of a balustrade, so that those who were in the upper gallery were not easily seen by those below. This would make Pompeiana; or, Observations of the Topogra- the Chalcidicum a sort of exchange. Ausophy, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeiinius, cited in Wilkins's Vitruvius, makes the By Sir William Gell, F.R.S. F.S.A. &c. Chalcidica the same as TIEPNIA, or upper New Series, Part II. London, 1830. Jennings and Chaplin. "I had never seen Lord Kaimes, who was the great literary lion of his day. In manners he was quite a contrast to his brother of the bench, being plain, and blunt in speech, with a strong Scottish accent; while Monboddo was quite a courtier of the ancien régime, well-bred, and ceremonious. Of his bluntness in manner I have heard an anecdote, which it, may not be amiss to introduce here. Every one knows that in the celebrated work on man, the author asserts that men originally had tails, but had worn them off by sitting on chairs! On one occasion, in Edinburgh, when Kaimes and Monboddo met to dine with a friend, a girl of six or seven years old, who was in the drawingroom, archly and slyly attached a fox's brush to Monboddo's skirt; and the ceremony of who should first proceed to the dining-room as usual produced some demur (Monboddo insisting that he could not possibly precede a senior lord), till Kaimes, spying the tricks which had been played on his friend, exclaimed,Gang in, man, and shaw's your tail!' pushing him forward. Of course the laugh was irresistible, but Monboddo could not enjoy it, as, through fear of giving him offence, he was not informed of the joke. FROM the second Number of Sir Wm. Gell's ET. M. NVMISTRI. FRONTONIS. FILI. CHALCI rooms, used as magazines. Moreover, there seems to have been a sort of earth or plaster called Chalcidica, used for the preservation of corn; and, to add to the difficulty of forming a just idea on the subject, we find the word sometimes explained as a causidicum, or court of justice, a mint, baths, coenaculum, and a portico invented at Chalcis in Euboea. It is possible the edifice at Pompeii may have served as a place of resort for merchants, and might "Nearly opposite to the twelve gods is a have had a court of justice in the semicircle or "When his majesty, the ex-King of Sweden, fountain with steps, which, by two flights, lead tribunal which fronts the great entrance from visited Basle in Switzerland some years ago, to the interior of the Chalcidicum. The wall the forum, where Signor Becchi supposes the he dined at tables d'hôte and at restaurateurs, of the staircase is painted in black panels, sepa- statue of the Pieta Concordia to have been as his finances would permit ; at last they were rated by red pilasters, which have produced a erected in a niche. This statue was found so low, that he could not afford to replace a good effect. Over this entrance was a lintel, near the spot. The head was wanting, and pair of boots which were worn out, and he or architrave, of marble, with the inscription- the robe was bordered with a gilded or red sent them to the cobbler to be soled. The son EVMACHIA. L. F. SACERD. PVBL. NOMINE.SVO stripe, not unlike the laticlave. It might have of Crispin thought that a king, though he DICVM.CRYPTAM. PORTICVS. CONCORDIAE been the figure of a Roman empress. There might be poor, could always afford to pay AVGVSTAE. PIETATI. SVA. PEQVNIA. FECIT seems no objection to the supposition that the better for mending boots than a commoner, EADEMQVE. DEDICAVIT. crypto-porticus might have served for a cœnaand charged his majesty three times more than This inscription, or a great part of it, seems to culum, having been connected with the open the job was worth. But Gustavus was not to have been repeated on certain large blocks of portico by a door on each side and eleven winbe imposed on, and refused to pay so unreason-marble, which have formed part of the archi-dows, which could be opened or closed accordable a demand. The cobbler sued him, and tectural decoration of the forum. It has been ing to the season, as their marble lintels suffiwas beat; he applied to a higher tribunal, who thought, in the present instance, to justify the ciently demonstrate. There exist also certain condemned him to an amende of a day's wages, application of the term Chalcidicum to the edi- pedestals of white marble on the spot, which and reduced the charge to the ordinary sum of fice in question, particularly as the crypto- seem to have served as supports to slabs or soling a pair of boots. The king was highly porticus, or perhaps the crypt and the portico, tables of the same material. The staircase on gratified with the justice of this decision, and remain to verify the supposition; and it seems, the right of the grand entrance makes it prowrote to the judges expressing his satisfaction; moreover, one of the most difficult problems of bable that there was either an upper colonnade at the same time he sent them the boots, antiquity to discover what was the meaning of or a terrace for walking round the hypethrum, entreating them to hang them over the tri- the word. Signor Becchi, a Florentine archi- and a second seems to have ascended from the bunal, as a testimony of the justice of the laws tect in the Neapolitan service, has published a porch or Chalcidicum to the roof of the cryptoof Switzerland. This anecdote I had from the dissertation on the subject, and seems to have porticus. The folding-doors at the great enSwedish minister." been of opinion that the area, surrounded by trance turned upon sockets or umbilici of brass, Wine." Some of the Portugal wines of the its open and closed porticos, was quite distinct and were secured by two bolts, which were shot vintage 1775, were not ripe until twenty from the Chalcidicum, which he would place in into holes yet visible in the centre of the maryears, when they became very fine. Mr. front, so as to form a sort of deep porch toward ble threshold, twelve feet six inches wide. The Mumm, a celebrated wine-merchant at Frank- the forum. By consulting the plan it may be court seems to have been paved with white fort, told the writer that in general the wines observed that this porch, formed by sixteen marble, of which material were also the steps of the Rhine were in their perfection within pilasters, and paved with white marble, is of and the forty-eight Corinthian columns of the twenty years, and that they afterwards de- more consequence than the general line of por-eristyle, which is 157 feet in length and 13 generated; at the same time confessing that it tico surrounding the forum, being about 126 et 6 inches in breadth; and here also were was not his interest to give such an opinion, as feet by 39; and the fragments of the repeated Sound certain cisterns, evidently used for washEnglishmen preferred hock, rather on account inscription before mentioned lying near, but by ing, which serve again to confuse any precon History in all Ages. 12mo. pp. 520, and ceived ideas of the uses of the building, particu- | eight lines of division painted between each. [entrance of this temple, and adduces it, very larly when combined with the dedication of the A ring in the centre served to close it. Doors rationally, in support of the more recent appelstatue of Eumachia by the Fullones, who must seem to have been called bivalves when only | lation: Romulus Martis filius urbem Rohave been either the washers or dyers of Pom- formed of two folds, but became valvatæ, volu-mam condidit et regnavit annos plus minus' peii. The hypethrum, or court, was about biles, and versatiles, when the number of folds quadraginta, isque Acrone duce hostium et 120 feet long, by less than half that breadth. increased greatly, which must have been the rege Caninensium interfecto spolia opima Jovi The columns were ranged on each side to the case when the wide openings of the tablinum Feretrio consecravit, receptusque in deorum number of eighteen. The two ends had only were to be closed. The learned Cavaliere Ca-numerum Quirini nomine appellatus est à Roeight each. There was evidently a projection relli, in the account of the Temple of Isis, manis.' "'* from the portico in front of the tribune. The purposes giving an account of these varieties. whole edifice, with the porch in the forum, Little more can be added to this very imperfect Sharpe's Library of the Belles Lettres. Vols. would be included in a quadrangle of about account of an edifice of a description so equi- I. and II. Addison's Essays. London, 1830. 126 feet 8 inches in breadth, and double that vocal. It is much to be doubted whether the J. Sharpe. length; scarcely any thing being rectangular at seventeen pilasters, each about three feet square, MR. SHARPE justly claims the merit of having Pompeii, a defect generally prevailing through-have any relation to the portico commonly called been before all our new "library" periodicals out Italy at the present day. The porticos are the Chalcidicum; and, were it not for the fine in producing beautiful and accurate series of about fifteen feet seven inches wide, but almost marble pavement, their defective construction works of merit; and he now returns to the all the columns had been excavated and removed would rather lead us to suppose them the only field, an experienced veteran crowned with by the ancients. Every part seems to have remains of a range of low arches on piers which general applause. We hail him to the liberal been well finished, and covered with thin plates might have surrounded the forum of Pompeii competition; and trust that his Belles Lettres of marble where such a decoration was requi- previously to the first earthquake, and which will meet with success. These volumes are got site; but the earth appears to have been dis-had been generally replaced by handsome Doric up with his usual skill and extreme neatness placed and the edifice ransacked for the purpose colounades before the final destruction of the the embellishments well chosen, and the of carrying off these marbles in ancient times. city. The absence of the eighteenth pier, and printing handsome. The object, to give a It must have been repairing at the time of the the substitution of a column, one side of which selection of the lighter graces of British literaeruption, as a piece of marble was found on the is left rough, at the junction of the street with ture, could not be better begun than by the spot with a line drawn in charcoal to guide the the forum, and which was absolutely necessary best of Addison's Essays from the Spectator. chisel of the stone-cutter. The walls of the to the supposed Chalcidicum, render it highly crypt are painted in large panels, alternately probable that the piers rather belonged to an red and yellow, having in the centre of each old building on the point of being removed, some little figure or landscape. One, which is than to a newly-constructed edifice. On the ALL works of this kind are useful and valuable, now, or once existed, in the northern division, external wall of the crypt, in the Via dei Mer- if they are edited on sound principles and a has been selected as presenting a pretty and canti, is a notice of a show of gladiators, such picturesque group of buildings, and serving to as seems to have been usually affixed to the good plan for reference. And such is the pregive an idea of the beautiful effects which must walls of public buildings on these occasions. have been frequently produced by the various combinations of shrines, columns, and ornamental pediments, in the cities of Greece and POMPEIS. PR. K. JVNIAS. VENATIO.ET. VELA Italy. Below these panels are smaller divi. sions, in which, on a black ground, are painted Which may bear this interpretation: The flowers, not unlike the lily in form, but gene- troop of gladiators of Aulus Suettius Cerius, rally of a red colour. It is not impossible that the ædile, will fight in Pompeii on the last day some sorts of flowers, and particularly bulbous of May. There will be a venatio, or chase of roots, may have been lost in Italy, as we rarely the sun will be extended over the spectators.' wild beasts; and shades to keep off the heat of find that invention has been substituted for reality in a department of nature which affords It seems that those who had been ædiles fresuch vast and pleasing variety. Some are of quently gave such games for the amusement of opinion that the red flowers in question re- the populace. On the external wall of the semble the Guernsey lily. They might be said crypt is also the inscription— to be more like the iris in form. There is no crypt on the side near the forum, and that on the opposite end is somewhat narrower than those of the flanks. In the centre of this It may seem extraordinary that these ediles, innermost crypt, which is there fifteen feet so worthy of the republic, should protect a per-rious is the supply of light which the exhibitor furnishes. eight inches wide, exactly behind the semicir- son like this Valentinus, who wrote discentes, cular tribunal, and close to the staircase before instead of discentibus, at his own door. Per-made between Pompeii and Herculaneum, the most immentioned as ascending from the Via dei Merhaps the following inscription on the same wall, canti, is a recess painted in green and red or in the neighbourhood, may be interesting, as panels, in the centre of which is the statue of tending to prove the opulence of the city: Eumachia, the public priestess, and the foundress of the Chalcidicum, the crypt, and the portico, not ungracefully executed in white marble. She is represented about five feet four inches in height, and stands on a pedestal about three feet from the pavement, on which is inscribed EVMACHIAE. L. F. A. SVETTII. CERII ERVNT. SABINVM. ET. RVFVM. Æ. D. R. P. C. CVSPIVM. PANSAM. ÆD. ROG. * In a letter from an intelligent correspondent, he justly remarks, on the subject of Pompeii and Herculaneum"To those who have visited the very interesting scenes which these cities exhibit (among whom it is my happiness to be classed), it is a source of surprise to find them in almost every English periodical always, or most frequently, equally at both; and discoveries so mentioned, as if they named together, as if excavations were now continued portant, perhaps, relates to the papyri, or manuscripts. pression on my memory is, that none of the few found at I may have misunderstood my informant, but the imPompeii have been preserved, having mouldered into dust (as did many at Herculaneum) as soon as they were exposed to the air. Indeed, the difference between the substances that covered the two cities renders this probable: I conceive that those only of the Herculaneum paAll the goldsmiths invoke Caius Cuspius, the pyri are preserved which were charred. Whenever you have space and can obtain from one of your numerous ædile.' On the wall of the crypt of Eumachia friends a plan of the excavations at Pompeii, it would are written at length the words SIGLA. FAC prove extremely interesting, if the date to which it was corrected were stated. I have not seen any book of reFACIT, which have been useful in determining ference, any gazetteer, or topographical account, which the disputed meaning of the three initials. has procured correct information relative to Pompeii The temple adjoining the Chalcidicum on the later than 1819; and in those it is very imperfect: the opening of almost the whole circuit of the city walls is north, with the basso-relievo representing a not mentioned-a very interesting operation, as it shews Plate IX. gives a representation of the recess sacrifice in the centre of the area, in which, how much of the entombed city remains unexplored; and the statue as they were first discovered in some have imagined the features of Cicero were walls was not so closely filled with houses and shops as though it is probable that the whole space within the the year 1820. The figure has been carefully distinguishable, has, since the publication of the portion already excavated. It is to be wished that preserved by a modern roof, and still remains the former Pompeiana, been supposed to have the entrance to Pompeii should be arranged so as to proin a case on the spot. The door which is seen been rather dedicated to Quirinus than Mer-duce the full effect which the circumstances of the place are so well calculated to excite. The visitor ought to be painted on the wall in this plate seems to have cury, who seems to have had very little claim so conducted to it that he should look down into it on the heen intended to correspond with the door of the to it. The following inscription is copied from staircase opening to the Via dei Mercanti. It the work of the learned and indefatigable Cais worthy of remark, because no real doors re-valiere Arditi, the truly respectable patriarch main. It is six feet wide, and ten and a half of Neapolitan antiquaries, who has restored it. high, and is separated into three folds, with He says it was found on a pedestal near the first view; -which, indeed, the mind is prepared for on approaching a buried city: this might be done without any other difficulty than making an approach on the north-west side, instead of driving into the Street of the Tombs," which has been cleared so far to the right almost lost." and left that the effect of the exhumation of the city is JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES. sent volume, which is printed for the pro- prolix narrative of uninteresting details, mixed the body was considerable. The vacant spaces The humerus prietors of publications on Christian principles, up with a good deal of personal vanity, and between the legs and the arms, and the body, judiciously arranged, and comprehending so disfigured by some stories of amours, and were filled with compresses, so as to preserve ample a store of information, that it may truly affairs approaching to amours, which are hardly the regularity of the form. be said to furnish a satisfactory outline of to be tolerated in good society. On the latter seemed to have been forced aside, and the The head "history in all ages." The notices are neces- account, particularly, we avoid giving any cavity of the shoulder filled with bitumen, poured in while in a heated state. sarily brief (the history of Prussia, Turkey, extracts from a publication which might have which bore evident marks of having been was enveloped in a very thick compress. The Denmark, for example, being respectively given been what it is not. in five pages); but, upon the whole, we very heartily recommend the performance as a source moisture had penetrated so strongly, that it was now difficult to remove the bandaging of great general intelligence, and one to which without destroying the texture and the order. The perfection of this mummy was remarkyoung people may apply with much benefit. able. Perhaps, considering the supposed age, was hardly ever a mummy opened in such There was considerable pli(between two and three thousand years,) there preservation. Principles of Geology; being an Attempt to The Polar Star of Entertaining and Popular form a miscellany from the multitude of the productions of the day, which partakes of the utility and entertainment of them all. There is also original matter of considerable merit, and, for a medley of every sort of literature, we may very fairly point out the Polar Star as an ample and various home. Insect Architecture. ancy of the joints. The arms admitted of a good deal of motion. They were in spiral bandages, but one up and down, the other Aneddoti piacevoli e interessanti occorsi nella beginning at the top. No papyrus was disVita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari. Scritti covered in any part whatever. Within the da lui Medesimo. Londra, 1830. A. Seguin. bandaging, near the flesh, there was much To such of our readers as are interested in bitumen, which had been run in when hot. Italian literature, we can safely recommend The cuticle remained at the roots of the nails. these amusing little volumes. They will be In one instance, so careful had the embalmers found to contain a variety of anecdotes of re-been of this, that to preserve the nail, a piece markable personages, given with considerable of thread had been tied about the root where naïveté; and are equally adapted for the pe- the cuticle was coming off. The abdomen was THE volume of the Library of Entertaining rusal of both sexes a consideration not always remarkably soft, and by no means of the hard, Knowledge addressed to this curious and in- found in foreign productions. One anecdote, dry nature that might have been imagined. teresting subject is now before us; but as we as illustrative of the general character of the It was with difficulty the face could be cleared, noticed the parts as they appeared, (see L. G., work, and as interesting to the English in but when it was, it was found very perfect. venture to cite. We need The teeth were good, the nose rather flat, but No. 697, &c.), we need only now express our particular, we admiration of the vast variety of anecdote and scarcely inform the travelled reader, that the straight; the balls of the eyes had been taken information on the subject which it contains, Cavaliere Acton alluded to, was for several out, and the sockets filled with linen or cotton. and of the number and accuracy of the illustrations. It does great credit to Mr. Knight's years prime minister to the King, or rather The hair was perfect; it seemed of a light texto the Queen, of Naples; which station, if ture, and not woolly. There was no section of the abilities, and to his general design; and is a office of the two. Referring to the prepon- down than in most of the mummies that have most delightful book for readers of every de- history may be accredited, was the higher abdomen. The arms appeared much straighter scription, particularly in the country, where derant power of this personage, we find the been opened. The fingers and toes might opportunities are afforded of tracing the minute following pasquinade of a court wag : and remarkable creatures with which nature so profusely replenishes her universal domain. The North of England Medical and Surgical "Hic Regina, Hæc Rex, Hic hæc hoc Acton." ARTS AND SCIENCES. almost be taken for the remains of a person who had been only a few years embalmed. LITERARY AND LEARNED. THE great ability displayed in several of the A MUMMY, which was brought from Egypt simple prima facie statements which had obpapers in this first No. induces us to notice by Baron Denon, was lately opened at the tained circulation through the newspapers, to with more than common approbation the first rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society express our utter disbelief of an idle story appearance of a new contemporary whose la- at Newcastle. The bandaging was remark-charging Mr. Campbell with having pirated a bours are devoted to so important a branch of ably clumsy, and seemed like loose pieces care- ballad; and of a somewhat more extended allescience. It is in the magazine form, and pro-lessly wrapped with narrower ones, resembling gation, that the volumes in Dr. Lardner's Cymises to reflect great credit upon the medical tapes. When this was removed, there was a clopædia, represented to be the productions of The were not, in fact, written by these gentlemen. and surgical school and practice in the northern common spiral bandage, from the feet upwards Sir James Mackintosh and Sir Walter Scott, to the head, which appeared very neat. parts of the kingdom. operators next came to a crucial bandage, not General character would be, indeed, worth Journal of a Tour made by Señor Juan de very well put on, and then to another bandage, little if it could not protect men from such Vega, the Spanish Minstrel of 1828-9, crossing in one direction. Several pieces of accusations; but the love of slander is so prethrough Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. cloth were now discovered, which seemed to have valent, that the most improbable inventions are been laid over the body after a certain degree likely to obtain some credit; and we were not 8vo. Simpkin and Marshall. WE took up these volumes with strong hopes of wrapping had taken place, to keep all as sorry to see a distinct and decisive refutation of of amusement, from original and lively de- straight as possible. After removing some the last-mentioned of these fables, which apscriptions of manners; but we have been other bandages, a fifth crucial bandage was peared in the Times of Saturday, simultaThe documents published on this occasion grievously disappointed. The book purports met with, which made two crosses about the neously with our conjectural denial of its truth. to be the journal of an English gentleman, neck and shoulders, finishing at the toes. A who traversed the country in disguise of a singular bandage then appeared from the neck are so characteristic in themselves, and offer so Spanish player on the guitar, mixing with the over the face, across the occiput; compresses much food for remark, that we make no apology populace of every description, and enjoying of many folds were found across the face, and for transferring them to our columns, together continual opportunities of studying them in large compresses from the shoulders to the feet. with a few of the observations which they sugtheir native colours. We have often enter- A spiral bandage from the feet upwards being gest to our minds, and bearing upon the state tained the idea, that an adventure of this sort removed, the moisture from the contents of the of the press whether in general or periodical In the first place, we think we may fairly might lead to the production of as entertaining wrapping was very perceptible. Several pieces literature. a book as could possibly be written; and in of bark were then discovered, and a strong But our bituminous odour prevailed. The bandaging presume to warn readers against every work competent hands it would do so. pseudo Don is not the man for the task; and altogether weighed more than 30lbs. In the which attempts to acquire notoriety by abusing instead of animated and curious illustrations of course of the operation, a sheet of bituminous others. As no one can throw dirt without bethe mode of life among the inferior orders in cloth, of more than usually large size, was ing dirty, it may be received as a certain truth towns and in the country, he has given us a discovered; the moisture between which and that no book or journal which is guilty of im |