pointed hour we proceeded to a house of more richly endowed than Mademoiselle," contend by the sight of a boiled capon, miserable appearance in the Rue Coquilliere. then turning round and ad- which happened to be placed at that end of A dirty looking Portiere, who opened the dressing himself to me-"I should like you the table. G-- however compelled me to door, led us through a kitchen into a kind to hear her on the piano; I assure you few accept of his chair next to Mademoiselle of drawing-room, where every article of fur-young ladies possess so firm a finger for Amelie, who seemed to thank him for an niture presented an air of worn-out finery. sonata-playing." act of politeness, which, I confess, gave me but little cause for self-congratulation.

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In the sofa and chair coverings, innumer- The piano was open and I was seized with able stains and patches were singularly con- terror:-I began to anticipate all the suffer- I shall not say a word about the dinner; trasted with a few shreds of rich taffetas, of ings I should endure from the exquisite treat the very worst to which I ever sat down in which they had originally been composed. with which I was threatened, when fortu- the whole course of my life; the description I should have been far less shocked at an nately the cook-maid entered very uncere- I have given of the guests will probably appearance of complete wretchedness.moniously and asked for a bottle of wine to enable the reader to form some idea of their Like Diderot, I entertain an unconquerable put into a fricasee. The lady felt all the conversation. Never before did I witness aversion to the misery of to-day combined with mortification of being obliged to stoop to so much folly and impertinence of every the luxury of yesterday. these domestic details in our presence, and kind. G took upon himself to furnish imprudently reproached the intruder with the text, and turned the discourse on the some degree of harshness. Madelaine's subject of matrimony. Madame Dubourg, temper was now roused, she began to mut-addressing herself particularly to me, estater loudly, and even mentioned an arrear of blished as a principle, that there was no real eighteen months' wages which was due to happiness except in the union of a young woher. By the luckiest accident in the world, man with an elderly man,and Mademoiselle the bell rang at that very moment, and she Amelie of course fully coincided in the senfound time to vent her rage by going to open timents of her Mamma. One of the comthe door. Madame Dubourg now explained pany, whom I afterwards understood to be the matter by informing us "that Made-a poet, ventured a few common-place jokes laine had been Amelie's nurse, and that this respecting the disadvantages of such an circumstance gave her privileges, which she union; but a glance from the homme sometimes thought fit to abuse." d'affaires which I observed, though ignorant of its real meaning, caused him suddenly to change his tone, and all immediately agreed that there was nothing more proper or more interesting than a marriage between a handsome old man and a young woman.

We were the first who arrived, and the lady of the house was still engaged at her toilette. I recollected the advertisement in the Petites-Affiches: mention was made of an elegant and convenient lodging, and I observed to G that what we had already seen did not strictly fulfil the conditions of the Program. "All is relative," replied he," and elegant and convenient are not terms of so decided a signification but what, with a little allowance, they may find their application here: no doubt this furniture was once deemed prodigiously elegant. With regard to the convenience of a lodging, every The clock now struck five, and a shabbybody judges of that matter according to his looking footboy, whom I had not hitherto own habits: most assuredly many gen- seen, announced, by the title of Vicomte de tlemen would find it convenient enough to la Pouliniere, one of the most eccentric lodge on the fourth story in the Rue-Coquil- figures I ever beheld. "Well Monsieur liere, in the close vicinity of the Palais-Royal, Vicomte," said Madame Dubourg, after the I was at a loss to comprehend the object and at no very great distance from the usual ceremonies had been concluded, "how of this mystification, and conjectured that Grande-Poste aux Lettres." does your affair proceed?"-" Just where it there might be a match in agitation between The lady of the house at length entered was on the first day, Madam," replied he: M. de la Pouliniere and the interesting Amethe apartment, accompanied by her daugh-"I am certainly going out of office: I am lie. I had just gained an opportunity of ter; their appearance produced upon me the as little thought of as if there were no such communicating my suspicions in a whisper same kind of impression as that which had being in existence: upon my honour," (con-to. my friend G-, when I thought I felt been excited by a view of the drawing-room tinued he, with a smile, the conceit of which (I never think of it without a smile) a slight furniture: I beheld a combination of undue diminished the expression of irony which he pressure of Mademoiselle Amelie's foot pretensions, false taste and revolting imper-intended to convey) "I would willingly give against mine. My eyes involuntarily tinence: the mother would have been a a small sum to be turned out of place; there turned towards hers, which were cast down passably decent figure, if she could only would be something so whimsical in a with so comical an expression of modesty, have added one foot to her circumference by change of that sort, that, heaven pardon that I had well nigh betrayed the amorous a proportional reduction of her superfluous me, I should be the very first to laugh hear- mystery by a loud burst of laughter. I now height; but there was something so slo- tily at the joke!" instantly understood the part I had been venly in the heteroclite tawdriness of her The other guests now arrived in their playing in the little comedy which M. de dress, and so much aukwardness in her af- turns. More fortunate than I, my readers G- had thought fit to get up at the exfected imitation of the manners of high life, need not undergo the penance of dining pense of these ladies and myself. that one might have been tempted to en- with them, in order to become acquainted quire whether in this particular instance, with their singularities. My attention, ther. We accordingly seized the first opreality did not overstep the bounds of cari- though not a little fatigued with the test to portunity of taking our leave of the party, cature. Her daughter was in the full ma- which Monsieur le Vicomte had put it, was and in spite of the solicitations of Madame turity of youth singularly prolonged, and her now attracted by a kind of intrigant, styling Dubourg, who flattered me with the hope of style of dress contributed in no small degree himself un homme d'etat et d'affaires. This hearing her Amelie play, at first sight, a to increase the stiffness of a figure naturally man was only a familiar friend of Madame concerto of Steibelt; (which G-afterungraceful. These ladies, to whom I was Dubourg, and not an inmate of her house, wards informed me she had been studying introduced with all due ceremony, received and G-assured me that he was endowed for ten years) and to see her dance a Bollero me with an air of formal politeness, and I with so delicate a sense of penetration, that with a Castagnet-Accompaniment; without observed that their civility was not a little he could guess at what was thought whilst ever noticing the glance of angry disdain increased by a few words which my friend he listened to what was said. He was ac- which Mademoiselle Amelie cast upon me, G whispered in the ear of Madame companied by an old lady, and a little girl quitted the house, far less vain of my couDubourg (for such was the name of my ho- about ten or twelve years of age, and the quest than satisfied with the observations norable hostess.) The lady then presented party entered just as we were about to seat which my visit had enabled me to make. to me her daughter Amelie: "This poor ourselves at table. There are persons and things which must be girl," said she," lost all at her father's The lady of the house, who was anxious seen to be judged of; imagination could death. The birth and services of M. Du- to shew me every possible mark of attention, never assist us in divining what they are. bourg, might have ensured to his daughter wished that I should seat myself at dinner a brilliant establishment, to which indeed between herself and her daughter. But in her own virtue and talents sufficiently en-spite of all her manoeuvring, M. de la Poulititle her." "Oh Madam," replied G- niere gained possession of the post, for

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I felt no inclination to carry the joke far

POLITICS.

Revolution seems once more the order

on the score of virtue and talent, no one is which he had apparently been induced to of the day in all parts of the world-and

resting; the workmen have got down to the

is hitherto known.

the past week has afforded several very) ration of the Poor Employment Bill, now | Jupiter Stator, of Concord, and of Jupiter serious specimens of its machinations and passed the Legislature; but the ascer-Tonans. The excavations of the temple of darings in this country, fully sufficient to tained fact is, that the revolutionists are Jupiter Stator become every day more intejustify the Legislature in the continuance not those who are most in want of em- ancient pavement, and they have discovered of coercive measures, even though the ployment. It is therefore highly neces- a massive staircase, which doubtless led to new evidence laid before the Committee sary for Government to call out the the temple. A continued pedestal, about of both Houses had been less conclusive militia; a measure which seems con- seven shelves in height, served as a subthan it appears to be by the Lords' re- nected with the ministers' want of money basement to this temple, and it is in the port given on Thursday last. The sum-fifteen millions being spoken of as the height of this pedestal that the staircase is and substance of this report is, that the approaching loan. Amidst these intes-placed. These excavations, which are continued without intermission, bring to light evidence adduced contains many proofs tine troubles, it is gratifying to the ear numerous fragments, almost all of which of the existence of a widely extended of humanity to learn that there is no belong to the temple. The antiquaries, system of combination, having for its foundation for the rumours of massacre however, pretend that these new discoveries real object the overthrow of the esta- inflicted on British residents at Algiers. have no relation with our temple, and that blished laws, constitution, and govern- On the continent much distress, with they are of a period posterior to this edifice; ment of the realm, and to have already, rioting, still prevails; but the approach- that perhaps it may be the Rostra, respectin its course, disturbed and endangered ing early harvest will afford both food ing the situation of which, nothing positive the public tranquillity. Notwithstand- and employment. There, also, the true ing the mass of evidence to that effect, it cause of political freedom is spreading Jupiter Tonans, on the side of the MammerROME, May 7.-Near the Temple of is most gratifying to learn, from the same slowly, and therefore we hope securely; tine prison, there was discovered last Thurssource, that the great body of the people the Emperor of Austria is restoring the day, at the depth of 10 or 12 palms, the ruins remain faithful, well affected, and loyal, old constitutions to several of his states; of a magnificent edifice, very remarkable on especially in some of those districts where and in Wirtemberg, the King is deter- account of the quantity of marbles of vathe traitorous spirit of disaffection is mined that all his subjects shall enjoy rious descriptions, yellow, violet, African, admirably preserved, which formed the most prevalent; but, nevertheless, even the benefits of freedom, in opposition to pavement, the walls, and the fluted cowithout reference to passing events, it is the prejudices of a portion of this people.lumns of the edifice. The capitals, the corthe decided opinion of the Lords' Com- In Portugal, a most extensive conspiracy, nices, the carving of every kind is of the mittee, that the period is not yet arrived with murder as its means, and revolution most delicate workmanship and in the best when the protection of the lives and pro- as its object, has been defeated by the perties of Englishmen can safely be left skill and energy of Lord Beresford; and that it is a monument hitherto unknown to the ordinary course of law. In this the Brazilian revolution has by no means posterior in its construction to the Temple opinion we must expect that the Com- extended so rapidly as first expected. of Jupiter Tonans, but not by a long inmons' Committee will cordially join; terval and at an epoch when the arts were more especially when we consider that in a more flourishing state. Happily the during the present week the most threatROME, APRIL 21.—The fancy for making monument left on the pavement an infinite barbarians in destroying this magnificent ening symptoms of insubordination have excavations in the Campo Vaccino becomes manifested themselves in the vicinity of more general. The Portuguese Ambassador quantity of fragments of marbles, and buildLeeds, and also in Derby and Notting- has now begun one, under the direction of ings had been erected upon them in very hamshires, where several hundreds of his learned friend Mr. Avvocato Tea, which that precious remains of sculpture and arremote ages, which gives reason to hope armed rabble, with revolution for their has been so far very successful, as it has chitecture will be found, the merit of which ultimate, and plunder for their immediate brought to light the old pavement of the Clivus Capitolinus, or the way which led must correspond with the extraordinary of which was not well ascertained. Before found, but disfigured by fire, and a mutimale figure larger than nature has been the Obelisk and the Colossus on Mount Ca-lated hand. As the excavations are actively vallo, a fountain is erecting, which is to pour prosecuted, more important discoveries may its water into the magnificent bason of gra- be speedily expected. The fragments alnite, which stood formerly in the Campo ready found are carefully preserved in an Vaccino, and is now restored in the Temple adjoining hall, to satisfy the curiosity of

VARIETIES.

taste; even the white marble is of the greatest beauty; every thing announces

objects, were proceeding to the most from the Forum to the Capitol, the direction magnificence of the edifice. The head of a

a

of Peace.

atrocious acts, until repressed by the
energy, promptitude, and activity of the
magistrates and civil power, aided by
few troops of dragoons, and by the pa-
triotic exertions of the Yeomanry corps.
Of these unhappy rioters, victims of a
licentious press and of the wiles of the
In the Vineyard Moroni, before the Gate
designing, forty-eight have been taken of St. Sebastian, an ancient tomb was lately
and committed to various places of discovered, with a colossal female draped
confinement; and tranquillity is in statue: from medals discovered near the
some measure restored. The same spi- place, it is inferred that it represents Julia
rit unhappily manifests
Domna.
also
Three quarters of the face are
in the metropolis,
where the State wanting: the style and execution are but
indifferent. Mr. Alexander Visconti, one of
Trials are the signal for col-
the most learned antiquaries and medalists
lecting mobs who not only cheer the at Rome, brother to the celebrated Ennio
prisoners in their passage to and from the Quirino Visconti, has printed a letter to Mr.
Tower, but have also been stimulated to Camevale, on the urns, &c. found at Albano.
rapine and assassination, by written It contains copperplates of the articles found,
hand-bills calling on them for a "few and also the protocols, and depositions re-
more Bellinghams;" and telling them specting the discovery.
that "Poverty must not exist in a plen
tiful Country!" Some check to this
spirit might be hoped for from the ope-

itself

amateurs.

MADAME KRUDENER. By late accounts from Switzerland, it appears that two new mystical writings are in circulation in the Canton of Basle, and that they have been issued from the establishment of the celebrated Madame Krudener. One is entitled A Gazette for the Poor, and is filled with announcements of the arrival of the kingdom of God, the terrible judgments which Heaven is about to pronounce, massacres and disasters which will commence in Switzerland, and from thence extend into the heart of Germany, the approaching termination of the world, &c. The other wriROME, MAY 2.-The excavations in the ting, of which we subjoin an extract, is enCampo Vaccino go on rapidly. A great num-titled An Address to the Poor. It would be ber of workmen is employed about the Co- in the highest degree reprehensible if, as lumn of the Emperor Phocas, the temples of some persons have asserted, its evident ob

"The rich of this world now refuse to con

ject were to exasperate the poor against the mouni has actually advanced 50 feet in one | exertions in bringing to light the treasures of rich. direction, and upwards of 30 in others. Eastern learning, we cannot avoid hailing, with The good and loyal Tyroleans have re-peculiar satisfaction, a new era in literature, by form to the dispositions of Providence; you cently opened a subscription for erecting a the labours of an erudite Bramin, RAMMOHUN who are poor, are compelled to quit your national monument to Andre Hoffer, the Roy, who has acquired a critical knowledge of houses and to crawl before them; they even hero of the Tyrol, who was shot at Mantua by our language, and has availed himself of it to punish you for presuming to ask charity. This order of Bonaparte. The house of Sand-present the European world with an abridgment of the Sacred Vedes, hitherto unknown is the Empire of Darkness, that of Satan, who Wirth-Hoffer, which was burnt down, will seeks to overthrow the order established by the be rebuilt of hewn stone. A church, dedi-quainted with the Sanscrit. except to that portion of Indian population acDivinity, and who breaks the bonds by which Bibliographers will soon be gratified by a God has united the rich with the poor, for the cated to the Saints Vietor, Maurice and common welfare of humanity. But God al- George, will be erected in the vicinity of most extensive sale of rare specimens of early ways re-establishes in a more perfect way that this habitation, as well as a convent of printing; being the first part of the Library of which Satan destroys, and the efforts of this Franciscan Friars, who are to perform the J. M. Johnson, Esq. at Mr. Evans's. The Emperor of Austria, with a view to proenemy will only contribute to bring about bet-religious duties of the place. The sepulchral ter combinations than those which he has over- monument will present the statues of Andre mote the advancement of science, and to conthrown. God then creates a new order of Hoffer, the Duc d'Enghien, Kleber, Palm tribute to the happiness of his subjects, has seized the opportunity afforded by the marriage things; He abandons the rich and all those the Bookseller, Pichegru and Stofflet. of the Arch-duchess Leopoldine and her dewho rely on themselves when they repel the FEMALE ORNAMENTS.-An ingenious ar poor, whom He wished to make a source of tist has directed his attention to render se-ber of skilful and learned men, for the purpose parture for the Brazils, to send thither a numblessing to them. The judgments of heaven veral articles of female dress cheaper than of travelling through the country, becoming acwill fall successively upon them, and foreign they can be at present supplied. One plan, quainted with its productions, and sending to nations will deprive them of all they possess: for which a patent is obtained, is to veneer Austria those on which it appears likely that Then the blessings of heaven will rest entirely upon you, poor people, who have become rich Tortoise-shell upon horn, applicable to orna-speculations may be made. All the expences in faith, and even on earth, you will shortly mental combs, &c.; and also to snuff-boxes; necessary for this useful enterprize are carried hear this invitation: Come ye blessed of my retaining all the beauty of the shell, and at on with the greatest liberality. The Prince of Metternich, Minister for foreign affairs, is apFather, and inherit the kingdom which is pre- a moderate charge. pared for ye. SPORTING!!! A provincial journalist, in pointed to direct and superintend its execution. **The Gazette of Aix-la-Chapelle, on the the ardor of describing an interesting heat The Paris papers state that the sale of Mr. authority of other Journals, states that the cele- at a recent country race, assures his readers Mac Carty's magnificent library has just ended. brated Madame de Krudener has embraced the that, so great was the anxiety to witness its produced 413,000 francs. The most valCatholic Religion. termination," the ladies in the stand stretch-uable works are to remain in France. Our Oriental Empire, so much enlarged by PERIODICAL CRITICISM.-The OLD MONTH-ed their necks of snow, and nobody looked conquest and by treaty, since the pen of the at them; two men were run over, and nobody historiographer has delineated its rise and proLY MAGAZINE, with great dignity of critical judgment, assures its readers, that "Six took them up; two ladies fainted, and two gress, will soon be exhibited to our view in a new History, in 3 vols. 4to. from the most vaWeeks at Long's" is an imitation of "Melin- gentlemen betted over them!!!" BOTANY.-M. Humboldt, in the Prolego-ried and interesting sources of information, by court." This is certainly a wonderful piece of information, especially when it is well mena to his new genera or species of Plants, James Mill, Esq. known that the former work was in the has calculated that the ancient Greek, Ropress, nay, published, before ever Melincourt man, and Arabic writers, have not named was heard of. and described above 1400 plants: at present we reckon 38,000 in the different parts of the world.

EXTENSION OF KNOWLEDGE.-When the Abbot of Westminster patronized the first printing press established in England, an intelligent observer told him, he was doing

In Europe

In Asia, near the tropics and in the isles
In the temperate regions of Asia

In Africa

Americas

In New Holland and the Islands of
the Pacific Ocean

The Brussels Oracle announces that M. de

Pradt is at present employed in writing a work on the Belgic provinces, which will extend from the reign of Maria Theresa to the present period. This work, it is affirmed, will be more remarkable than any thing that has hitherto issued from the pen of the late Archbishop of Mechlin. 4500 two. 1500 It will be published in the course of a month or

7000

3000

4000

Accounts from Berlin state, that the celebrated A. von Kotzebue arrived at Koningsberg on the 4th of May, and was proceeding to Wei13000 mar, whence he is to make reports to the Rnssian government relative to the state of litera5000 ture and public opinion in Germany.

Total 38,000

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INTELLIGENCE.

that which would ruin his own trade. With
equal justice may we hail the dawn of free-
dom in the classical regions of Greece, and In the temperate regions of both
the other provinces of European Turkey, in
the fact that a printing press having been In America between the tropics
very recently established at Constantinople,
with the consent of that government, and,
as it is said, at the request of his Holiness
the Pope. Under the superintendance of an
Italian, several works in that language, and
also in Latin and French, have made their
appearance; and it may therefore be sur-
mised that a very few years will produce
Every science is now taught by lectures and
works of more importance than the super-conversations; and though there is no "royal
stition of the Italian School, or the frivolity road" to Geometry, we may soon expect a
of French Essayists. In fact, the sacred fashionable road to that and every other study,
cause of useful literature and of real liberty
may now be aided by British exertions; and
the Ionian Islands give us a fair opportunity
of restoring to Greece, upon honorable prin-
ciples, those blessings which we derive from
her patriots and her poets.

however abstruse. Amongst the rest, we see
that Botany is speedily to be presented in an
interlocutory style to fair readers, illustrated
by numerous engravings.

The prolific pen of Mr. Bigland is now about to present the world with an Historical Display TEMPERATURE.-That the cold of the of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations. Northern hemisphere is annually increasing As he proposes to illustrate these by a compaseems now put beyond a doubt: if it be a rison of the ancients and moderns, in regard to correct statement that the Glaciers in the their intellectual and social state, he has an vicinity of Mont Blanc are rapidly advancing open field for novel discussion and unexamined upon the limits of vegetation. It is asserted truths.

by Professor Pictel of Geneva, that since the ORIENTAL LITERATURE.-Without detractyear 1815, the Glacier in the valley of Cha-ing from the praise due to Englishmen for their

IN THE PRESS.

In a few days will be published, Addenda to Junius Identified, consisting of Fac-Similes of Hand-writing, and other Illustrations.

At the commencement of 1818 will be published, (to be continued regularly, at least once every three Months,) Vol. I. Part I. of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, or Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an original Plan; comprising the two-fold advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement: with appropriate and entirely new Engravings.

The History and Antiquities of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, with engravings.

Travels through France and Germany, by way of Flanders, in 1815, 16, and 17, by J. Jorgenson, including the state of Society, of Morals, Politics, and Manufactures.

The first volume of the Elgin Marbles; with an account of Athens, and picturesque illustrations.

Evening Hours-Original Poems.

The History and Antiquities of Sarry, in 2 vols. 4to. illustrated by 100 engravings.

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Journal of Belles Lettres, Politics and Fashion.

NO. XXII.

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

ness, with the cause of which, however, | And this was shed: but still it rises up,
he never acquaints us, he thus invokes Colouring the clouds, that shut me out from
heaven,
the spirits:
Where thou art not--and I shall never be.
The second scene is a lone valley in
light-the Alps. Manfred stands by a cataract
and adjures the witch of the Alps. She
comes at his call, and he tells her he has
things-The following dialogue then takes place :
invoked her merely to look upon her.

Mysterious Agency!
Ye spirits of the unbounded Universe!
Whom I have sought in darkness and in
Ye, who do compass earth about, and dwell
In subtler essence-ye, to whom the tops
Of mountains inaccessible are haunts,
And earth's and ocean's caves familiar
call upon ye by the written charm
Which gives me power upon you-
appear!

-Rise!

[A pause.
They come not yet.-Now by the voice of him
Who is the first among you by this sign,
Which makes you tremble-by the claims of him
-Appear!
Who is undying,-Rise! appear!-
[A pause.

MANFRED. BY LORD BYRON. The prolific pen of Lord Byron has presented us with another work, in the form of a Drama, but evidently not intended for representation. It is distinguished by all his Lordship's usual characteristics; by the same tone of deep feeling, the same carelessness of versitication, the same contempt of life and life's concerns, the same secret canker preying upon the heart, and the same mystery spread around its hero. Indeed, the gloomy heroics of Manfred go a shade or two deeper than those of the If it be so.-Spirits of earth and air, Corsair, Lara, or Childe Harold; and we Ye shall not thus elude me: by a power, doubt whether any human being ever Deeper than all yet urged, a tyrant-spell, felt, or ever could feel, such hyperbolical Which had its birth-place in a star condemn'd, despair, such magnificent misery, such The buruing wreck of a demolish'd world, A wandering hell in the eternal space; inexorable, endless and terrific remorse By the strong curse which is upon my soul, as Manfred. In fact, between his con- The thought which is within me and around me, versations with witches, spirits, the des- I do compel ye to my will.-Appear! tinies, Nemesis and Arimanes, (truly ra- The several spirits now appear, and ther a heterogeneous assemblage of my- ask him what he wishes of them. He rethology,) his conjurations, and his mysti-plies, "Forgetfulness of that which is cal soliloquies, we lose sight, during within him." They answer, that this is three-fourths of the work, of his morta- impossible. He then demands to see their lity, and neither sympathize with his forms, and one of them appears in the sufferings, nor acquire respect for his shape of a beautiful female figure, upon unbending spirit. A great deal of genius which he exclaims, is visible throughout the performance; perhaps, too, of a higher order than many former productions of the noble poet: but then, there is so little fable, (indeed, none whatever,) and the dramatis personæ, with the exception of a drivelling Abbot, and a well-sketched Chamois hunter, are either so trite or so uncongenial with the poetry of this or any other country, that we confess, with pain, we felt ourselves stimulated onward to the last page, more by our knowledge that Lord Byron was the author, than by The second act finds him at the hunany interest the work itself excited in us. ter's cottage, when the following conBesides, there is another deficiency which versation takes place between him and disappointed us not a little. The super-his deliverer, which affords us almost the natural beings, who could not be made only clue to the cause of his sufferings: Come, taste my wine; interesting, ought, at least, to have been "Tis of an ancient vintage; many a day made poetical. But this is not the case. T has thawed my veins among our glaciers, now They are absolutely the most prosaic, Let it do thus for thine-Come, pledge me fairly. namby-pamby personages, in the whole poem.

We shall now proceed to give a sketch of the plan, (for plot there is none,) and extracts which may the better enable our readers to judge of the work.

The first act opens with Manfred alone at midnight, in a Gothic gallery. After a long soliloquy, on his own wretched

Oh God, if it be thus, and thou
Art not a madness and a mockery,

I yet might be most happy—I will clasp thee,
And we again will be-(The figure vanishes.)
My heart is crushed!
(Falls senseless.)
The second scene is the mountain of

the Jungfrau.

Manfred stands on the edge of the cliff, wishing to throw himself over, yet withheld by some indescribable power. At length he is about to take the leap, when a Chamois hunter seizes him, and conveys him away.

Man. Away, away! there's blood upon the
brim!
will it then never-never sink in the earth?

C. Hun. What dost thou mean? thy senses
wander from thee.

Man. I say 'tis blood-my blood! the pure

warm stream

Which ran in the veins of my fathers, and in ours
When we were in our youth, and had one heart,
And loved each other as we should not love,

Witch. Proceed.

Man. Oh! I but thus prolonged my words,
Boasting these idle attributes, because
As I approach the core of my heart's grief-
But to my task. I have not named to thee
Father or mother, mistress, friend, or being
With whom I wore the chain of human ties;
If I had such, they seem'd not such to me—
Yet there was one-

Witch. Spare not thyself-proceed.

Man. She was like me in lineaments-her
eyes,

Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone
Even of her voice, they said were like to mine;
But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty;
She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings,
The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind
To comprehend the universe: nor these
Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine,
Pity, and smiles, and tears-which I had not;
And tenderness-but that I had for her;
Humility-and that I never had.
Her faults were mine- her virtues were her
loved her, and destroy'd her!
With thy hand?

I

own

A being of the race thou dost despise,
The order which thine own would rise above,
Mingling with us and ours, thou dost forgo
The gifts of our great knowledge, and shrink'st
-Away!

back

To recreant mortality

Man. Daughter of Air! I tell thee, since that
hour-
But words are breath-look on me in my sleep,
Or watch my watchings-Come and sit by me!
My solitude is solitude no more,
But peopled with the Furies;-I have gnash'd

My teeth in darkness till returning morn,
Then curs'd myself till sunset ;-I have pray'd
For madness as a blessing-'tis denied me.
I have affronted death-but in the war

Of elements the waters shrunk from me,
And fatal things pass'd harmless-the cold hand
Of an all-pitiless demon held me back,
Back by a single hair, which would not break.

After some more conversation the witch vanishes, and Manfred retires to call the dead, (which, it seems, he has the gift to do,) for the purpose of learning the state of the soul after death.

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There is now a meeting of the Destinies on the summit of the mountain, who sing