REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. LALLA ROOKH; An Oriental Romance. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. 4to. such versatility of talent and variety of said Buonaparte, "cela fait douze mille | Madame de Genlis, and my own engagepursuits.-"Oh! this is nothing," said francs;" and he ordered the other two ments in the world would admit; and if Madame de Genlis, "what I pride my-distressed literati to be put on the an- I met this distinguished and highly enself on, is knowing twenty trades, by all nuity list with their friend. dowed person with the high-beating of which I could earn my bread." It was said to me in Paris, that Ma-throb of expectation, I parted from her She conversed with great earnestness, dame de Genlis had retired to the Car-with admiration and regret. but with great simplicity, without effort, melites, "désabusée des vanités de ce as without pretension, and laughed heart-monde, et des chiméres de la célebrité." ily at some anecdotes I repeated to her, I know not how far this may be true, which were then in circulation in Paris. but it is certain, that if she has done When I mentioned the story of her receiv- with the vanities of the world, she has by ing a mysterious pupil, who came veiled no means relinquished its refinements Our friend Tristram Shandy informs us, to her apartments, whose face had never and tastes, even amidst the coldness and that his father once undertook to confute an been seen even by her attendants, she austerity of a convent. Her apartment opinion of the great Bacon, without saying replied that there was no mystery in the might have answered equally for the a single syllable, good, bad, or indifferent, case; that she received two or three un- oratory of a saint, or the boudoir of a like manner, has given us a volume of poon the subject in question. Mr. Moore in fortunate young people, who had no coquette. Her blue silk draperies, her etry, called Lalla Rookh, without having even means of supporting themselves; and to alabaster vases, her fresh-gathered flow- once mentioned Lalla Rookh, either directly whom she taught the harp, as a mode of ers, and elegant Grecian couch, breathed or indirectly, throughout the whole poem. subsistence, as she had done to Casemir, still of this world: but the large crucifix, Out of something more than four hundred now one of the finest harpists in the (that image of suffering and humility) pages, there are indeed about forty pages in world. I could not help telling her, I which hung at the foot of that couch; prose, which relate the story of Lalla Rookh. That story is as follows. believed she had a passion for educating: the devotional books that lay mingled In the eleventh year of the reign of Aushe replied, "au contraire, cela m'a tou- with lay works, and the chaplets and ro-rungzebe, Abdalla, King of the Les-er Bujours ennuyé," and added, it was the saries which hung suspended from a charia, having abdicated the throne in favor only means now left her of doing good. wall, where her lute vibrated, and which of his son, set out on a pilgrimage to the I had been told in Paris, that Madame her paintings adorned, indicated a voca- shrine of the prophet; and rested for a short de Genlis had carried on a secret corre- tion before which genius lay subdued, time at Delhi on his way. During his stay spondence with the late Emperor; which and the graces forgotten. On showing the Prince his son, and Lalla Rookh, the there, a marriage was agreed upon between is another term for the higher walks of es- me the pious relics which enriched this youngest daughter of the Emperor. It was pionnage. I ventured one day to talk to pretty cell, Madame de Genlis pointed intended that the nuptials should be celeher on the subject; and she entered on it out to my admiration a Christ on the brated at Cashmere; where the young King with great promptitude and frankness. Cross, which hung at the foot of her was to meet, for the first time, his lovely "Buonaparte," she said, was extremely bed. It was so celebrated for the beauty bride, and conduct her into Bucharia. liberal to literary people-a pension of of its execution, that the Pope had sent four thousand francs, per annum, was for it, when he was in Paris, and blessed assigned to all authors and gens-de-it, ere he returned the sad and holy relettres, whose circumstances admitted presentation to its distinguished owner. of their acceptance of such a gratuity. And she naturally placed great value on He gave me, however, six thousand, aud a beautiful rosary, which had belonged a suite of apartments at the Arsenal. As to Fenelon: and which that elegant I had never spoken to him, never had saint had worn and prayed over, till a also in her suite, and was introduced into Feramorz, a young poet of Cashmere, was any intercourse with him whatever, I was few days before his death. her presence, in order to amuse her. Acstruck with this liberality, and asked him If years could be taken into the accordingly he sang or recited, during interwhat he expected I should do to merit count of a lady's age, Madame de Gen-vals of the journey, the four poems which it. When the question was put to Na- lis must be far advanced in life; for it is this volume contains, and at length suc poleon, he replied carelessly, Let Ma- some time back since the Baron de ceeded in captivating her entire affections. dame de Genlis write me a letter once a Grimm speaks of her, as a "demoiselle With sorrow, therefore, she found herself month.' As no subject was dictated, 1 de qualité, qui n'était connue alors, que and trembling was presented to her exat the end of her agreeable journey, and pale chose literature, but I always abstained par sa jolie voix, et son talent pour la pecting bridegroom. He descended from from politics." Madame de Genlis harpe." Infirmity, however, seems to his throne to meet her; but scarcely had he added, that, though she never had any have spared her slight and emaciated time to take her hand in his, when she interview with him, yet on her reconfigure; her dark eye is still full of life screamed with surprise, and fainted at his mendation, he had pensioned five indi- and expression; and though her features teet. It was Feramorz himself that stood gent persons of literary talent. are thin, worn and sharply marked, and before her! Feramorz himself, the sove One of these persons was a mere litté-her complexion wan and pale, the traces reign of Bucharia, who in this disguise had raire de société, and it was suggested to of age are neither deep nor multiplied. and, having won her love as an humble accompanied his young bride from Delhi, Buonaparte, that if he granted four thou- If her person is infinitely less fresh and minstrel, now amply deserved to enjoy it as sand francs per aunum to a man who was vigorous than her mind, still it exhibits a King. We must for ever regret, that this not an author, and was therefore destitute few of those sad impressions, which time interesting little narrative was not told in of the usual claims on such stated boun- slowly and imperceptibly prints, with his verse. ty, that there were two friends of that withering and silent touch, on the firm. person, equally clever, literary, and dis- est muscle and the brightest bloom. tressed, who would expect, or at least My visits to the cloisters of the Carmeask, for a similar provision. Eh bien," lites were as frequent as the duties of 66 The day of Lalla Rookh's departure from Delhi, was as splendid as sunshine and pageantry could make it. All was brilliant, tasteful and magnificent, and pleased even the critical and fastidious Fadladeen, Great Nazir or Chamberlain of the Haram, who was borne in his palanquin immediately after the Princess. The first story which Feramorz recites, is "The veiled Prophet of Khorassan." This impostor's name was Mokanna, and "O'er his features hung The veil, the silver veil, which he had flung In mercy there, to hide from mortal sight His dazzling brow, till man could bear its light." The poem opens with a pageant in honor of Azim, a celebrated young warrior, who had long been a prisoner in Greece, and who at length liberated, hastened to join the ban ner of Mokanna. But there was one, among the chosen maids, This girl, whose name was Zelica, had formerly been betrothed to Azim, but he was called from her to join in the war, and she soon afterwards heard that he had fallen. At these tidings her reason partially forsook her. The mind was still all there, but turn'd astray. Mokanna worked upon her deranged in- sound Of poesy and music breathed around, rove Through fields of fragrance by her Azim's side, Of damp and death, led only by those gleams true, And that I love mankind!-I do, I do- And, now thou see'st my soul's angelic hue, These dazzling eyes, before whose shrouded Thou'st seen immortal man kneel down and Would that they were heaven's lightnings for But turn and look,-then wonder, if thou wilt, guilt, Upon the hand, whose mischief or whose mirth Look'd at him-shriek'd-and sunk upon the The second part begins with a description And he is left, musing of bliss, alone;- By this time the Caliph, alarmed at aecounts of the veiled Prophet's armaments, marches against him, but is foiled in several At length, a youth suddenly, encounters. appears at the head of the flying Moslems, and obtains possession of Mesou, the royal city. Mokanna flies to Neksheb, a city of Transoxiana, where he is beleaguered by the enemy. Here he makes use of several superstitious rites to persuade his followers At length that they shall be victorious. they suspect his deceptions, and he poisons the whole band. Oh! who need ask, that saw those livid guests, Or looking pale to heav'n with glassy glare, Remorse the deadlier torment of the two? Here mute and helpless gasp'd;-but, as they Look'd horrible vengeance with their eye's last strain, And clench'd the slackening hand at him in vain. Zelica alone remains, and he now sends for her, and makes her drink a deadly draught. He himself plunges into a cistern of such burning drugs, as have efficacy to dissolve his whole body, so that not a fragment remains. In the mean while, the with Azim at their head, find their enemy, way into the city. The white veil appears alone before them. Azim springs forward and pierces him-the veil is cast off, and he' sees his Zelica! She dies after a parting speech; he lives to a good old age, and is buried beside her. The next song is called Paradise and the Peri, one of those beautiful creatures of the air, who live upon perfumes, but who have lost Paradise. This Peri, lamenting one morning, at the gate of Eden, her hard des And, passing on through upright ranks of dead, That sob of grief, which broke from some one tiny in being forbidden to enter there, the Which to the maiden, doubly crazed by dread, Seem'd, through the bluish death-light round them cast, To move their lips in mutterings as slie passed. And pledged in silence such a fearful draught, Will haunt her till she dies-he bound her soul In joy or sorrow from his side to sever-- never!' nigh Whose could it be?-Alas! is misery found Against a pillar near; not glittering o'er Bokhara's maidens wear in mindfulness cheek. angel who was guarding the gate, exclaimed to her, "The Peri yet may be forgiven, Who brings to this eternal gate, The gift that is most dear to heaven." And when the rush of war was past, Of morning light, she caught the last-- A strange emotion stirs within him,-more knees After Azim's arrival, Mokanna sends for her, and she overhears him muttering such horrible sentiments of hatred against all mankind, that she perceives at once how he had deceived her by promises of eternal happiness in Paradise. He finds himself discovered, and out the whole fiend bursts. He tells her, that he means to tempt Azim, by every method of allurement, from the path After a pathetic confession of her frailty, of virtue which he had heretofore trod, and he offers to fly with her, and she has just that she must contribute her aid. She re- consented, when, on a sudden, she hears a fuses with horror, and the first part closes voice near her exclaim, "Thy oath, thy with the following lines, which convey a oath !" upon which she flies from him "Tis she herself! 'tis Zelica he sees! on Be this," she cried, as she wing'd her flight, " My welcome gift at the Gates of Light." This precious drop, however, is not found sufficient to open the gate, so she goes another excursion, and finds a youth dying of a plague, and his mistress, who had from a distant place of safety sought him out, preferring death with him, to life without him. She catches the infection from hin, and dies. The Peri conveys her last sigh up to Eden, but even this is not considered a sufficient passport. She therefore returns, and as she wings her way over the vale of Balbec, sees a child at play among the wild flowers. A haggard ruffian has just stopped near him, when the vesper bell tolls to prayer; the hoy kneels down, and offers up his thanksgivings. The ruffian repents of his past transgressions, and drops a tear. Up flies the PERI with the tear. It is accepted; "The gates are passed and heaven is won!" After this comes the Poem of the Fireworshippers. The story is shortly this: One of this sect, a Gheber, had one night stolen up a cleft on the sea-shore, where stands the "bower" of Ilinda, daughter of Al Hassan, his enemy in faith and in arms. This adventurous warrior sees and loves her, but withholds from her all knowledge of himself. At their last meeting, however, he confesses all, and tears himself away to give her father battle. In the meanwhile, her father, by the treachery of a fire-worshipper, has discovered a secret path to the recesses of Haftd, the chief of the recreants and rebels. He accordingly prepares to march against them, but first sends his daughter in a vessel to Araby, that she may not witness the contest. This vessel is taken by the Gheber's and she recognizes in her mysterious lover, Hafed, their chief. She now gives him intimation of the discovery of the secret path. But it comes too late. His enemies pour by thousands upon his diminished band, and at length he finds himself and another the sole survivors of the strife. They gain the temple, When, lo!-his weak, worn comrade falls And must I leave thee withering here, And fires the pile, whose sudden blaze The death light--and again is dark: Of a small veteran band, with whom What bodes its solitary glare? 'Twas but a moment-fierce and high The death-pile blazed into the sky, And far away, o'er rock and flood, Its melancholy radiance sent; While Hafed, like a vision, stood Reveal'd before the burning pyre, Tall shadowy, like a spirit of fire Shrined in its own grand element! "Tis he!" the shuddering maid exclaims,― But, while she speaks, he's seen no more; High burst in air the funeral flames, And Iran's hopes and her's are o'er! One wild, heart-broken sliriek she gaveThen sprung, as if to reach that blaze, Where still she fixed her dying gaze, And, gazing, sunk into the wave, Deep, deep,-where never care or pain Shall reach her innocent heart again! The last song is called the Light of the Haram. Selim, the Son of Acbar, had retired with the young Nourmahal, his mistress, to the beautiful valley of Cashmere. When free and uncrown'd as the conqueror rov'd, By the banks of that Lake, with his only be lov'd He saw, in the wreaths she would playfully Till love falls asleep in its sameness of splendour. This was not the beauty-oh! nothing like this, That to young NOURMAHAL gave such magic bliss; But that liveliness, ever in motion which plays, Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, Now here, and now there, giving warmth as it flies From the lips to the cheek, from the cheek to the eyes, Now melting in mist and now breaking in gleams, Like the glimpses a saint has of Heav'n in his dreams. When pensive, it seem'd as if that very grace, That charm of all others, was born with her face; And when angry, for e'en in the tranquillest climes Light breezes will ruffle the flowers sometimes, If tenderness touch'd her, the dark of her eye From innermost shrines, came the light of her feelings! While her laugh, full of life, without any con. troul But the sweet one of gracefulness, rung from her soul; And where it most sparkled no glance could discover, In lip, cheek or eyes, for she brighten'd all over, Like any fair lake that the breeze is upon, When it breaks into dimples and laughs in the sun. Some dissension, however, has arisen between the lovers, and Nourmalal, far from the joyous throng who are keeping the feast of roses, sits in her bower with Namouna, the enchantress. She begs of her, "To find some spell that should recal, Her Selim's smile to Nourmahal." Accordingly, the sorceress performs certain incantations, and the next evening Selim holds a feast. All the lovely nymphs of the valley are present, and try their arts in captivating him. A Georgian maid sings a song, incitive of variety in love. Nourmahal, in a mask, answers it by an appeal to constancy. There was a pathos in this lay, That, ev'n without enchantment's art, As if 'twere fix'd by magic there,And naming her, so long unnam'd, So long unseen, wildly exclaim'd, "Oh NoURMAHAL! oh NoURMAHAL! “Hadst thou but sung this witching strain "I could forget-forgive thee all, "And never leave those eyes again." As on his arm her head reposes, "Remember, love, the Feast of Roses?" This slight sketch of the stories, and the several extracts which we have made, will enable our readers to form some opinion of Lalla Rookh. We have left ourselves little space for criticism. We would, however, observe that these poems (the first in particular) are the most direct imitation we have yet seen, of Lord Byron's style, both in thought and expression. The same ambition to analyse the human heart, and to pourtray its innermost emotions; and the same carelessness of diction, and harshness of metre, are evidently attempted in this work. The trial was an arduous and a dangerous one. First, because imitation is at all times difficult; secondly, because eleIn the wars of the Dives with the Peris, gance and tenderness of sentiment are Mr. whenever the former took the latter prisoners, because the public expected from him, at Moore's peculiar characteristics; and lastly, "they shut them up in iron cages, and hung them in the highest trees. least his usual refinement and correctness of Here they were visited by their companions, who brought them language. That he could not equal Lord the choicest odours." Richardson. Byron in the terrible, was as clear as that Then her mirth-oh! 'twas sportive as ever took wing From the heart with a burst, like the wild-bird in spring; Illum'd by a wit that would fascinate sages, Yet playful as Peris just loos'd from their cages: Lord Byron could not have equalled him in leaving the Princess suddenly, Her Royal | sideration, have frequently the honour to the graceful. When, therefore, he resolved Highness offered to take her eldest daughter attend the Court of Her Royal Highness. to cope with his Lordship on his own terri- as a maid of honour;-she refused, which Her Law adviser is the Advocate, M. Jotory, he ought to have recollected that there was accounted for by the young lady's mar-SEPH MAROCCI, of Milan, well known in still remained another weapon by which he riage, a few months afterwards, to Sin WIL- his profession. Lastly, M. the Chevalier might have made amends for the disadvan- LIAM CUMMING. The Princess was then in (of Malta) BARTHELEMY PERGAMI, is emtage, namely, correctness and harmony of a new embarrassment to obtain an English ployed by Her Royal Highness as her numbers; but this weapon he has disdained lady, always solicitous to have English about first Chamberlain. Public slander has been He has even affected more rough-her. She therefore made similar proposi-incessantly occupied in regard to this genness than his Lordship, and to prove this, tions to Lord and Lady MALPAS, then at tleman; and this is not wonderful, after so we need but quote a few among many lines Milan, but they were rejected. of a similar nature. "From her fond eyes, summoned to join th' array." to use. "Yet now he comes, brighter than even he thee; No dread, unlooked for, like a visitant "No, had not reason's light totally set.” Here are also, we think, too many similes borrowed from oriental beasts, birds, insects, trees, fruits, and flowers; and as for the veiled prophet himself, he is so infamous a villain, that even if, at the drawing off of his veil, he had stood confessed the devil himself, we should still have felt that Milton bad painted the devil fairer. But when we add that it is evident there brilliant and rapid a career; for envy cannot Lord CHOLMONDELEY gained the con- bear the good fortune which is denied to itfidence of the REGENT many years ago, self. It is proper here to rectify public opiby his rare virtues and accomplishments. His nion, on the subject of so many injurious son, Lord MALPAS, less careful of money, had rumours and fabrications, and to render jusshown sufficient energy two years before to tice where it is due. It is not from the mire, refuse figuring as one of the ZorLUSSES of as many busy and ignorant people pretend, the Court. It was on this account, and not that Her Royal Highness has exalted M. to offend his father, or the PRINCE RE-BARTHELEMY PERGAMI; his family was The hoGENT, that he declined accepting the offer respectable and formerly rich. nourable marriages of his three sisters prove of the PRINCESS. this truth. The first is married to Count OLDI, the second to M. SEVERGRINI, of an ancient family at Cremona, and the third with M. MARTINI DE LODI, brother of the Padua, when commanded by His Excellency the BARON DE GOEZ. Great domestic misto poverty. fortunes had reduced this respectable family After so many desertions and refusals on the part of the ENGLISH, Continues the writer, Her ROYAL HIGHNESS saw herself under the necessity of forming a Court of Mr. Moore himself foresees these objec-Italians. This Court is at present composed Ex-Secretary-General of the captaincy of tions, for he makes Fadladeca, the Chamber-of the following persons. lain, (who we suppose is meant as a repreThe Countess OLDI, of Cremona, a lady sentation of the reviewing tribe) observe upon a line which has a syllable too much; has been for a long time Lady of Honour to respectable for her qualities and misfortunes, but in reply we have only to say, that none Her Royal Highness. Dr. MOCHETTI, of The person under consideration, soaring of those studied negligences deformed his former works, and that the public must be Como, formerly Professor of Botany, Agri- beyond his bad fortune, and recollecting the culture, and Natural History, the author past honourable condition of his family, disappointed in reading bad metre from of many esteemed productions forming part embraced a military career, and was attached him, since, during these ten years past, they of the records of various Academies, of which to the Etat-Major of the troops commanded had been accustomed to admire his exquisite he is a member, has the honor to be her phy- by his Excellency the General Count PINO, elegance and correctness. sician. This gentleman is well known by his in the campaigus of 1812, 1813, 1814, as skill as a physician, and his name which is ce-attested by the declaration of General GAbrated in Italy, is not unknown to foreign- LIMBERTI.' ers. He attended Her Royal Highness on a It appears from the Journal that Her Mr. ROBERT HAN- Royal Highness went from Genoa to the part of her travels. NAM, Knight of the order of Caroline, and island of Elba, and thence to Sicily, where land at the invitation of Her Royal Higha Lieutenant in the Navy, came from Eng-she visited the principal towns. From Sicily she proceeded to Barbary, then ness. He yet attends as her private Secre- to Palestine and Jerusalem; she saw Caris no diminution of Mr. Moore's genius, and tary, and is a brave man, of an excellent thage, Utica, Athens; she went to Malta; character, and elevated principles. that in all those parts of his poems, (partiThe Chevalier CHIAVINI, of a noble and cularly the Feast of Roses, which is after Anacreon's own heart) where he depicts lux- opulent family of Cremona, is first Equerry to Her Royal Highness. He is as estimable for uriant, tender, or elegant imagery, he soars his integrity of character and cultivation of far above his fellows, we have said enough mind, as for his noble manners. The young to recommend the present volume to every M. GUILLAUME, Knight of Jerusalem, reader who has perused his former works and of Saint Caroline, is also her Equerry. bulus; regarded with a timid eye the temple and we believe, this comes little short of Mr. LOUIS PERGAMI presides over her of the Furies where (Edipus died; she visited recommending it to the whole mass of Eug- household. Mr. VALLOTTI PERGAMI, for- the tomb of the celebrated Antiope the merly under-Prefect at Cremona, is Comp- Amazon, wife of Theseus, and passing on to JOURNAL OF AN ENGLISH TRAVELLER from troller of Disbursement. Her Royal High- Corinth, examined the temple of Neptune; 1814 to 1816, or Memoirs and Anecdotes of ness honours with her particular confi- from thence she proceeded to Constantinople. her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES, dence the Chevalier TOMASSIA, Pre- After passing the islands of Zia, Andros, and of her Court. fect of a department under the late govern-Negropont, and the famous Tenedos, she This Pamphlet having excited very ment of Italy. His intimate knowledge landed at Troy to examine its last vestiges; general interest, we resume our extracts. of the belles-lettres, of philosophy, of poli- she crossed the Scamander; saw the tower "When the Princess departed from Milan, tics, statistics, and public economy, are well of Hero upon the Hellespont, passed on to the family of LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL known in Italy, by various useful works, Mitylene, and thence to Scio, where she saw accompanied her, her Royal Highness paywhich have given him a distinguished place the place that Homer occupied with his He thus merits all School. She next passed on to Samos, to ing the expences of their journey and table. among learned men. Some weeks passed away, when Lady the esteem and consideration with which Ephesus, to Cyprus, to St. Jean d'Acre, to Charlotte received a letter from her cousin, he is honoured by Her Royal Highness; as Nazareth, after having seen Mount Carmel; Mrs. Damer, and departed to join her at do also the distinguished Professors, Count to Jerusalem, where she admired the Holy VOLTA, and M. CONFIGLIACHI. In the Sepulchre and the temple of Solomon, now lish readers. Lausanne. she admired the beautiful women of Milo in the Archipelago; she admired the Temple of Theseus at Athens, still almost entire ; she mounted the tribune of Demosthenes and of Eschines; she examined all the famous ruins of the cherished city of Minerva, contemplated the tombs of Pericles and of Thrasi LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL, hoping to same manner, M. CAVELLETTI, formerly converted into a Mosque; afterwards she become the heir of her cousin, to whom she Equerry to the Emperor NAPOLEON, and visited Bethlehem, the Mount of Olives, the was moreover under many obligations, and the Chevalier VASSALLI, persons of con-river Jordan, Jaffa, and thence proceeded by 1811 and 1812. peror Alexander has acquired it for the ca- Among the most interesting researches PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND PATHOLOGY. Rhodes and Syracuse to Naples: from thence of the one here in question has been care- which have been supplied by his collections to the now famous town of Pizzo, to Terra- fully prepared by Mr. Adams, and the Em-at the Cape. cina, and to Rome. MEMOIRS of the IMPERIAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES at ST. PETERSBURG. Tome 4 and 5, 4to. with the HISTORY of the ACADEMY for Though these two volumes have been published some time, we believe they are not The bones of the fossil animal are in geyet much known here. Among the great neral thicker and stronger, the sockets (alAcademies of Europe, that of St. Petersburg veoli) longer, more divergent; the cranium has a particular character. Chiefly composed more prolonged; the teeth much longer, and of foreigners, who are invited to Russia only more curved; (one of the two is fifteen feet to make the sciences flourish, and all whose in length) the protuberances of the Dorsal hopes are centred in the circle of their la- Vertebræ more elevated; the Vertebræ of bours, it is remarkably industrious. The the neck shorter on account of the enormous Professor Autenrieth, in Tubingen, has productions of an immense Empire, which weight which they have to bear. Though lately made the discovery that a nourishing extends through various climates, and the young, this skeleton is larger than those of meal fit for bread, may be prepared from provinces of which are most of them but the full-grown Indian Elephants, and the beech, birch, or lime-tree wood, if it is little known, supply it with abundance of other bones, which have been long since col-stripped of the bark, cut into thin slices, objects. It has, in fact, contributed more lected in the same cabinet, prove still better pounded, soaked, and dried. The flour of the than any other to enrich the sciences of the superior stature of the extinct species.-wood is to be boiled with some Marsh MalBotany, Zoology, the history of the Globe It is to be regretted that the head and at low, dried in an oven, and ground like corn; and of its inhabitants; and from its first least two of the feet have not been disen- then to fifteen ounces of this flour add three foundation, its numerous volumes, adorned gaged from the pieces of flesh, and skin ounces of leaven, and two ounces of wheat by the names of a Messerschmid, a Gmelin, which still cover them; the comparison flour, and if you will have it particularly well a Steller, a Koehlreuter, a Pallas, &c. bave would have been more complete; but it was tasted, mix up the dough with milk. been considered as classical in the branches doubtless thought better not to touch these of natural philosophy. These two volumes memorials of so extraordinary a preservation. The name of Dr. Alibert is already honorare greatly diversified and full of interesting From all that has been said and from the articles. We select one which we think will plates added to the volume it is evident that ably known by his magnificent work on be most interesting to the greater part of our Mr. Cuvier's opinion is well founded, that cutaneous diseases, in large folio, with fine readers. It is a memoir by Mr. Tilesius, the fossil elephant was entirely different colored plates. He has now extended his who accompanied Krusenstern in his voyage from the species now known, and that its researches to the whole range of pathology, round the world, of the celebrated elephant native country was the North.-The nature and has published the first volume of his "Natural Nosology, or the Diseases of the found entire, with its flesh, skin, and hair, in of the hair of this animal proving that the the ice near the mouth of the river Lena. climate of the country it inhabited was cold, human body, distributed according to faParts of the skin and hair have been sent to resembling that of Siberia at present, where milies." He has arranged by a simple and the principal cabinets of Europe. The hair it is now chiefly found in a fossil state, is natural method, all the diseases which have occurred to his observation, in one of the was of two sorts; namely long brown hair, an argument, difficult to be overcome, against which on the spine was above two feet in the ingenious theory of some writers, which greatest and most curious hospitals in France. length, and a coarse reddish wool at the root supposes those regions of the earth which (L'hôpital de Saint Louis.) His wish is to of the hair. This circumstance proves that are now dreary, desolate and uncivilized make the learned of all orders, men of all those elephants, whose bones are so com- from the effects of cold, to have been former-classes, even those who live at a distance mon in all the northern countries, did not ly the genial seats of civilization and from the capital, share in the fruits of his belong, like those of modern times, to the science. If the fossil remains of the same of laboriously collecting all the rare cases labours. He has conceived the happy idea, torrid zone; but that nature had furnished animal have been found in more temperate which offer the greatest difficulties to be exthem so as to be able to live in cold climates.climes, on the banks of the Rhine, and even Mr. Tilesius quotes a passage of Mr. Klap-in Italy, the inference to be drawn from this plained, and of uniting them in one great roth, whence it results that those carcases, circumstance seems rather to be that those When a phenomenon is uncommon it is the flesh of which is still preserved by the countries were once what Siberia is now. ice, are not so extremely rare. difficult to give a precise idea of it to persons Besides this memoir, Mr. Tilesius has con- who have not witnessed it. The power of seem to have some idea of them; their tributed several others on new species of painting obviates this inconvenience, the books speak of a pretended mouse, as large fish found in the seas of Kamtschatka, one as a buffalo, which inhabits caverns in the on that remarkable tree the Cheirostemon production of the features, and of the physinorthern countries, and the bones of which Platanoides of Humboldt, so singular in the gnomy of a patient who has fallen a victim to some extraordinary disease, is a powerful may be easily manufactured into various disposition of its stamina, which represent a lesson which is never forgotten. Students utensils. This can be no other than the sort of hand. Till about the year 1800 only in foreign Universities will fancy themselves Mammoth of the Russians, the fossil ele- a single tree of this species was known; si-present at the clinical lectures of Dr. Aliphant; and even the fable generally current tuated about 16 leagues from Mexico, and bert. The hospital which is the theatre of among the nations of Siberia, that the Mam- for which the people had a superstitious his operation, will become, as it were, an hosmoth lives under ground, that it is never veneration: but botanists have since then pital common to all the learned of Europe. taken alive, but the body is sometimes planted suckers from it in the public gardens This first volume contains about 700 pages, found fresh and bloody, can relate only to of that city, one of which has succeeded and in large 4to. and 22 plates, magnificently the carcases discovered in this manner pre- blossoms every year. A whole forest of coloured. The work will be completed by served by the cold. a second Volume to be published some months hence. The Chinese them has since been discovered near GuatiThe abundance of these bones in Siberia mala. Two descriptions of this tree have is such, that notwithstanding the immense been published at Paris with fine plates, one quantity which is sold, and daily employed in of which is in the magnificent work of Mr. the arts, they do not appear to have dimin- Humboldt. ished; it is seldom that a well is sunk or Another celebrated traveller, the pupil and foundation dug without discovering some of successor of Linnæus, Mr. Thunberg, has them, and whole islands in the Frozen Sea enriched these two volumes with several seem to be formed of them. The skeleton interesting dissertations, the subjects of work. In the German from which we have taken this article, is the word Eibisch, which, on consulting Adelung and others, we find to be Althea Officinalis, or Marsh Mallow, which we stated to be the Sorbus Aucuparia, or Sorbus have accordingly used. The Eibisch tree is tree which perhaps is meant. |