sham-fight, equivalent to the tournaments | kiss, an honour I could have very well dis- and Royal Family. Mayhanger had reof ancient European times. This blood-pensed with, but which, at the same time, lapsed into as great barbarism as the rest less battle was contested with every sign I could not decline, without offering a slight of his countrymen, seemed quite into a personage of such elevated consequence. different about England, and wholly oc

of savage fury, howlings, war-songs, Besides this dauntless Penthesilea, I obshouts, and clamour; and at last termi-served likewise some other female warriors, cupied in contriving what he might ask nated with dance and song, in which who joined in the combat with much reso for. A cat and some large nails were the both parties joined in the best humour lution, and following the example of their objects of his cupidity, and with these imaginable. Our author says: queen, exposed themselves in the thickest he was gratified.

From this mock encounter, which was carried on, while it lasted, with impetuous activity, and was an exact representation of their real mode of fighting, we had an opportunity of estimating how formidable these savage warriors must always prove themselves in a serious conflict. Their general plan is, for each individual to single out his We shall now select, almost without The Chiefs maintain considerable In the centre of one of their antagonist, with whom he engages in furi- arrangement, a few of the passages which state. ous combat, and continues to fight till one convey the most curious traits of the towns the travellers were shown the or other of them falls; as neither has any manners and character of these Islanders. throne of Kangeroa. idea of quitting the ground while he has a We dare not pronounce, that the follow- It was curiously shaped, and raised upon drop of blood remaining, unless as the trium-ing is not a genuine expression of more phant victor. They always throw the long universal feeling, though our customs spear before they come to close attack, when the battle-axe and pattoo-pattoo are alone prevent it from being so openly displayed. employed. As we were walking along the beach, we The combatants, on both sides, were were followed by a pretty-looking young nearly equal in point of numbers, Duaterra woman, who complained to us, in a strain having about two hundred, and Korra-Korra of artless simplicity, and with a piteous tone not quite so many; but from the nature of of voice, that she had neither husband nor the fight, in which they attacked and re- child, and that no man would have her, treated, as the business of the entertainment though she wished of all things to get marrequired, and in obedience to their own ried! It is thought no impropriety in this free-will, it was impossible to say which country for the lady to make the first adparty would prove superior in an actual en-vances, or even to grant favours before the gagement, the appearance of each being marriage ceremony takes place; being, while equally formidable. Duaterra's men were single, considered exempt from all those equipped like their adversaries, and had the restraints which delicacy imposes on civisame terrible peculiarities of disfigurement; lized nations; but after marriage no privilege while the two parties formed such an assem- of this kind is allowed. blage as the reader would hardly suppose could ever be found among his fellow-mortals:

of the fight, to mimic dangers. From what At another place they met a native of
I discovered, however, I found that it was Hindostan, a deserter from the City of
not a general practice for women in this Edinburgh, who had reconciled himself
island to take the field, and that the passion
for warlike prowess was only to be found to the habits and mode of living of the
among certain ladies of a more intrepid New Zealanders. He was married, and
preferred this island to his own country.
character than the rest.

And yet were on't."

a post about six feet from the ground, with some fanciful devices of grotesque carving. There was a step to it, to assist the Chief in getting up, and it served him also for a foot-stool. On this throne, the Chief, elevated above his people, dispensed his laws and issued his commands, with as much authority as the most absolute potentate in Europe. Convenient to this seat was another, appropriated exclusively for the use of the Queen Dowager, Kangeroa's mother; and close to it a small box, to hold her Majesty's provisions.

The following description of a whimsical exchange shows the friendly nature of the intercourse between the Europeans and the natives:

A sturdy old man, who had all the apThe people are, with all their barbarity, pearance of a keen dealer, coming up to me very ingenious. with a large mat, offered to exchange it with So wild in their attire fore us a specimen of their ingenuity, as we The children of the natives displayed be- me for my coat, to which I made not the least objection, seeing I should not lose That looked not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, rowed along the cove, in a curious imitation/much by the bargain, while it would afford of our ship, the Active, made in wicker-me no inconsiderable degree of entertainAmongst those who distinguished them- work. They had fitted up their little bark ment, by its giving an adventitious conseselves by peculiar intrepidity, and were foremost in every attack, I was a good deal sible; she had a bowsprit and two masts, immediately, when the old man putting on as nearly after the plan of the model as pos-quence to the old man among the other natives. The exchange, therefore, took place surprised to see the Queen of Tippoonah, ' with ropes connected to them, while the Duaterra's lady, whose courage, on this day, builders, having now launched her into the the coat, and I the mat, we walked about, to was eminently conspicuous. This sturdy Amazon, dressed out in the red water, were proving the success of their the supreme enjoyment of the surrounding gown and labours, and seemed quite happy at the re-crowd, who regarded me with an air that petticoat she had received from Mr. Marsden, sult. This strong proof of the imitative showed how much their vanity was flattered and holding a large horse-pistol in her hand, genius of these people was the more pleasing by my appearing in their native attire, and appeared upon all occasions anxious to sig- to us, as being found in the children, who stared at the countryman as if they doubted nalize herself; and superior to the timidity thereby gave us every reason to augur fa- his identity, and believed that his person had of her sex, displayed in the conflict the most vourably of their future improvement; and suffered transformation by being arrayed in undaunted spirit, rivalling the boldest man the reflection was highly gratifying, that this strange habit; bursting at the same in deeds of heroism, and selecting for her antagonist the most formidable she could they might, as they grew up, copy with time into occasional transports of merriment, similar industry, all those arts of civilized and laughing heartily at the appearance he find. But from the exertions of her Ma- life, which the missionaries were to introduce made. He was certainly an admirable subjesty, both in the battle and war dance, or ject for their good humour to indulge itself what may not be improperly termed, 'the upon; nor was I surprised that they should play and after-piece, her plump frame was When they had settled the colonists, think him quite another man, from the moquite exhausted, and she stood, at the con- our voyagers took an excursion from the ment he put on the coat. His manner and clusion of the entertainment, panting for Bay of Islands, and visited the river movements were entirely altered; his figure, breath, and reeking with perspiration. In Thames of Cook, and the settlements on which before seemed bent with age, now this state she was pleased to notice me with its banks. They here encountered May- but lately was grave and circumspect, was became suddenly erect; and his gait, which a distinguished mark of flattering condescension, by holding out her lips for me to hanger, the native whom Mr. Savage now light and frivolous, as that of the most. brought to England, and who excited so idle lounger in the British metropolis; and much notice in London about ten years there were instantaneously so many ludicrous ago, when he was presented to the King airs of pompous consequence about him, as

Tippoonah is the district of which Rangehoo is the capital,

among them.

scribe it:

I never till that moment beheld, and thought was an amusing one: it consisted of "a clothing, the fern root is their staff of it impossible for any individual to affect. complete representation of the Amoco, life, and is converted into excellent A funeral is generally one of the most or tattooing of the countenance of bread. curious of savage ceremonies; in New Gunnah," (the seller,) to which he put Their manner of preparing it is very simZealand they are thus conducted : his mark as the ratifying symbol. The ple. After leaving it in the fire for some deed itself is so curious, that we tran- time to be heated sufficiently, they take it out and pound it with a mallet till it bethus prepared for use, the cooks throw it comes quite soft, and fit for chewing. Being round in handfuls to the chiefs and other persons, who chew it till all the saccharine or nutritive matter is extracted, and spitting continue in this manner till they have satisout the fibrous part, they go on again, and fied their appetites. The fern root when hut has a pleasant sweetish taste, and on being steeped in water, deposes a glutinous substance resembling jelly.

it

I

The New Zealanders never suffer their dead to remain longer above ground, after the vital spark is extinguished, than till they Know all men to whom these presents can arrange the forms of their inhumation. Being curious to observe their ceremonies shall come, that I, Ahoodee O Gunna, King upon this occasion, we immediately hastened of Rangee Hoo, in the Island of New Zeato the place where the corpse was lying, land, have, in consideration of twelve axes which was about a mile from Rangehoo. the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Panamatta, in to me in hand now paid and delivered by Arriving here, we found several of the natives on the beach before us, and the body of the territory of New South Wales, given, the deceased bundled up in the clothes he granted, bargained, and sold, and by this wore at the time he expired; the knees and present instrument, do give, grant, bargain, and sell unto the committee of the Church feet apparently brought close to the body, as in the case of the native who had died on instituted in London, in the Kingdom of be made with this root among ourselves; Missionary Society for Africa and the East, We would recommend experiments to board; and the whole fastened tight round with a belt, and placed on a bank between Great Britain, and to their heirs and succestwo poles, which had served to convey sors, all that piece and parcel of land situate it might at times be eminently useful in thither. Though the assemblage was large, in the district of Hoshee, in the Island of wild districts where it abounds, and the number of mourners were few; and of New Zealand, bounded on the south side by where the scarcity of bread is soonest all who were standing beside the corpse, the bay of Tippoona and the town of Ran- and most severely felt. could see only the widow of Tippahee and ghee Hoo, on the north side by a creek of The other and cultivated products of another woman, who appeared seriously fresh water, and on the west by a public New Zealand were chiefly gourds, cabaffected. These wept bitterly, and were road into the interior; together with all the particularly careful that we should not aprights, members, privileges, and appurte-bages, turnips, Indian corn, potatoes, and proach too near the body; telling us, with nances thereunto belonging: To have and to coomeras or sweet potatoes. In several anxious precaution, that it was taboo, taboo, Church Missionary Society for Africa and ropean intercourse, were growing in a hold to the aforesaid committee of the places wheat and peas, derived from Euand showing violent signs of uneasiness, lest we should advance beyond certain prescribed the East, instituted in London, in the King-flourishing state; and peach trees also limits. The other natives who were in atdom of Great Britain, their heirs, successors, succeed to perfection. The coasts tendance, though some of them had all the and assigns, for ever, cleared and freed from abound with fish, and the fisheries are hideous marks of sorrow inscribed on their all taxes, charges, impositions, and contribufaces, felt, I am persuaded, no real concern. Jute and proper estate for ever: tions whatsoever, as and for their own abso marked out with stakes as if each division was a separate property. Snappers, One young man, who was probably a near relation of the deceased, had his face laceIn testimony whereof, I have, to these bream, parrot-fish, benecootoos, excel rated in a frightful manner, and was shedding presents thus done and given, set my hand, lent cray-fish, and a singular fish called tears very copiously; but on going up to this twenty-fourth day of February, in the by Mr. Nicholas. The latter is about at Hoshee, in the Island of New Zealand," Cokiddie," or spear-fishi, are mentioned this mourner, I witnessed in him a most unseemly transition, for he smiled with a year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. the size of a perch, and shaped very like degree of vivacious levity, that proved his grief to be only in the revolting semblance. it, except the head, which is rather oblong, like that of a pig; its skin is quite rough, and behind its head it is armed with a sharp bone, about two inches long, which it can extrude aud sheath at pleasure.

Signatures to the Grant,

shook hands with him, and from only THOS. KENDALL, smiling at first, he now laughed very heartily; J. L. NICHOLAS. and his behaviour was altogether so inconWe have left ourselves but little room sistent with the appearance he assumed, that for our conclusion. Yet the natural I knew not how to account for it, unless by productions of the country deserve some considering the most doleful testimonies of notice. It were to be wished, that the Of animals the accounts are imperfect. sorrow among some of these people, as writer had been somewhat more of a No venomous reptiles could be found nothing more than common-place forms, pre- botanist, and more familiar with natural here, though St. Patrick never cleared scribed by long-established usage. But this

opinion will by no means apply to the New history, to have stamped his observations New Zealand as he did Ireland. The Zealanders in the aggregate; for no people in with greater importance; but still there wild dog, the rat, the bat, and two speexistence can feel grief more acutely than is a good deal of intelligence to be ga-cies of seal, fill the catalogue, with perthey do as a body; and their mourning, thered from even the casual remarks of haps the guana, though this was not though enjoined by outward custom, is those who explore regions but little known distinctly ascertained, and the alligator, nevertheless sanctioned by the heart. The to us. which one of the Chiefs described as

women, excepting the two first I have men

tioned, evinced, in the present instance, no New Zealand does not present many having heard of in the interior. Among regret whatever. They laughed and talked varieties either of the vegetable or ani- the birds, that delightful songster the away without the least reserve, quite heed-mal creation. Few flowers adorn its poe with its pendant tufts of white fealess of the occasion, being much more in- soil; and though intersected by fine ri-thers, of which a drawing is given in clined to loquacity and mirth than to silence vers, and with a climate congenial to al-Cook's Voyages, and an organ bird or dejection. Several of them asked me for most all the plants of Europe, the pine thought to be peculiar to this country, nails, and told me they had thread for sale, tree (of various majestic kinds unknown and unequalled in the sweetness and vawhich they wished me to purchase. to us), flax (phormium tenax), and riety of its notes, are particularized; and fern of monstrous growth, appear nearly besides these, a curious duck, inuumeto occupy the earth, and constitute the rable parrots and parroquets, large pistaples of the population. The wood is geons called kookoopas, and a number of sold, the flax is manufactured into their small birds of beautiful plumage, as well

The Missionary having purchased the land for the settlement, it became diflicult to have the deed of sale properly signed. The contrivance, pro signature,

as sea fowl, contribute to the animation | metaphor) offers, in its commencing verse,
of New Zealand. The insect tribes are a fair example of this.
very limited in number, and present no
novelty worthy of specification.

How beautiful on yonder casement pane
The mild moon gazes! Mark
With what a lovely and majestic step
She treads the heavenly hills;
And oh! how soft, how silently, she pours
Her chasten'd radiance on the scene below,
And hill, and dale, and tow'r
It is no bad compliment to Mr. Neele
Drink the pure flood of light.
to tell him, that neither Ossian nor Mil-
ton were absent from his mind when he
penned these lines.

The population is low; infinitely beneath the proportion which the soil could support. Sore eyes is a general complaint; the venereal disease, tabooing the sick, and various other causes, contribute to prevent the increase of the people. Our travellers saw, however, only one deformed person, though multitudes were covered with scars and ulLyrical versification demands at once cers. Mr. Nicholas, of whom we now the highest force and polish. These our take our leave, thanking him for the en-author does not always bestow. In an tertainment he has afforded us, strongly Ode to Horror, the two last lines of the enforces the advantages that might ac-following quotation are very feeble. crue from the importation of the flax of New Zealand (which has been successfully cultivated in the department of La Drome in France), and after being absent four months, narrates the return of

But mark her melancholy train,

This blights the eye, that fires the brain;
These creep unmark'd into the cheek,
And blast it with a paleness bleak.
In "Disappointment," a Poem, it is
said, when She finds a flower,

the expedition to Port Jackson, having
"More divine, more fair,
left a settlement in the Bay of Islands
She crawls upon its loveliest leaf
which promises to civilize the country And feeds, and breeds, and rottens there."
and render it of importance as a place of The notion of Disappointment breeding
trade, and of interest as a place where is almost ludicrous, and "rotten" is not
intellectual attainments, and moral vir- an English verb, though it is a Dutch
tues, and Christian duties, are superse-one, and used sometimes by the lower
ding savage ignorance, and barbarous order in Scotland.
crimes, and superstitious horrors.

ODES, and other Poems. By HENRY

NEELE. 12mo.

As

II.

There was a time when joy ran high,
And every sadder thought was weak,
Tears did not always dim this eye,

Or sorrow always stain this cheek;
And even now I often dream,

When sunk in feverish broken sleep,
Of things that were and things that seem,
And friends that love, then wake to weep
That few must be
The tears for me,
When I am lain beneath the tree.
III.

Travellers lament the clouded skies,
The moralist the ruin'd hall,
And when th' unconscious lily dies,
How many mark and mourn its fall!-
But I-no dirge for me will ring,

No stone will mark my lonely spot;
I am a suffering, withering thing,
Just seen, and slighted, and forgot ;
And few shall be

The tears for me,
When I am lain beneath the tree.
IV.

Yet welcome hour of parting breath,
Come sure unerring dart-there's room
For sorrow in the arms of death,

For disappointment in the tomb:
What tho' the slumbers there be deep,
Tho' not by kind remembrance blest,
To slumber is to cease to weep,
To sleep forgotten is to rest;
Oh, sound shall be
The rest for me,

When I am lain beneath the tree.

The Poem entitled " PINNOCK'S CATECHISMS. Dirge" is so infinitely inferior to Burns' "Man is made Catechism of the History of England: of Roman History: of Bible and Gospel to Mourn," that we regret its close resemblance to some parts of that melan- History of Universal History: of BoWe have perused this small volume ticing these blemishes, we are far from choly composition. Still however, in no-tany: of English Grammar, &c. &c. &c. We have merely selected the above with considerable interest. The tone of wishing either to depress or depreciate from a long list of Catechisms, for which feeling which pervades it, is far removed Mr. Neele's muse. the rising generation are indebted to from affectation; the independence it formance, his volume is entitled to a a maiden per- Messrs. Pinnock and Maunder, in order breathes, does not proceed to that vio-much more indulgent criticism than its to bring them, with our honest commenlent pitch which marks discontent and merits need; and the plea of youth and dations, more distinctly than by adverimpatience of salutary restraint rather inexperience may well be dispensed with, tisement, under public consideration. It than the noble aspiration of a free spirit; not only for absolving him from severe may be, that the circumstance of Messrs. its melancholy seems natural; and if its poetry does not claim the highest region acknowledgements. We trust we shall terary Gazette, may have led to our excensure, but for obtaining very flattering P. and M. being the publishers of the Liof Parnassus, it possesses in general a have an early opportunity of reading attention than we might otherwise have amining these little volumes with greater pleasing smoothness and taste which pre-more of his productions, and thanking bestowed upon them; but sure we are, serve it from being precipitated from the him for the polite communication, which central elevation to the bottom of the will be found among the Original Poetry two-forked bill. The author has evi-in a subsequent page, we copy another stake our credit by laying a fallacious dently imbued his mind deeply with the bards of other times, and his half-recol- and favourable example of his talents, lously interested in the education of poem from his published work as a fair report upon them before parties so jealections of them frequently assume an which a few slight alterations would reuyouth as Teachers and Parents. But, in original air, which we imagine has in der beautiful as it is pathetic. truth, being led to look into these works, these instances deceived even himself. we have been pleasingly surprised at the Not but there are many indications of variety and accuracy of the information creative fancy, some highly poetical they contain, within so small a compass images, and powerful descriptions; but and in so excellent a form; and we feel they are so often mingled with less novel that we are only discharging an useful thoughts, that we feel as if their light beduty in communicating the result of our longed more truly to the moon than to the remarks to the public. great fountain of day, and that they shone with borrowed and reflected splendour. Ode VI. "To the Moon," (which was not in our idea when we employed this

THE WANDERER'S ROUNDELAY.

I.

Earth does not bear another wretch,
So helpless, so forlorn as I;
Yet not for me a hand will stretch,

And not for me a heart will sigh;
The happy in their happiness,

Will not a thought to woe incline;
The wretched feel a fierce distress,
Too much their own to think of mine;
And few shall be
The tears for me,
When I am lain beneath the tree.

that no circumstance would tempt us to

The antiquity and universal adoption of the catechetical manner of conveying instruction, is perhaps the best proof of its value. The memory is aided by the

Con molli soffj. Un susurrar di frondi
Lieve si sente intorno; dai bei fiori
Dolce fragranza spira; olezza l'aura
Di lieli odori; un piu splendente lume,
Il virgulto gentil circonda e fregia.

Canto Terzo.

In mezzo a lor gioie sovrano a tutti,
In lungo abito e sacre il buon cantore,
Quand ei le luci, gia di luci prive,
Ed ora di divin fuoco splendenti
Al cielo innalza, e la sonora citra,
Or col plettro ricerca, or con le dita
Tacciongli Elisi campi, et tace Orfeo,
A l'alto suon meravigliando anch'esso.
Canto Terzo.

Our notice of this work is abridged from the critique of M. Raynouard in the Journal de Savans for July last.

question, and the mind impressed by the answer the former is the help which infant years need, and the latter is the essence of all intellectual acquirement. The skill necessary to balance these two qualities, so as neither to assist so much The guard of this tree is confided to the as to weaken the reasoning powers, nor to Tuscans, and the author has embraced this expect so much as to overpower the ca- opportunity to characterize several great men, pacity of childhood, does appear to us and to celebrate the glory of Tuscany. to be happily displayed in these CateIn the sixth canto, the Carthaginian sucDuring the voyage, young cours arrive. chisms. We have that of the History of Barra, son to the Queen, and general of the England in our hand; and if it be allowed Africans, relates to the envoy of the King of GERMAN LITERATURE. to us 'ex uno disce omnes,' we would say, Veii, all that has passed at Carthage since Messrs. I. S. Ersch, and I. G. Gruber, Prothat more convenient, accurate, well- the death of Dido. In the eighth canto, fessor of the university of Halle, have unarranged, and proper publications for the while the pestilence afflicts the Roman dertaken to edit an Universal Encyclopædia purposes they embrace, were never sub-army, a truce is made, during which the of the Sciences and Arts, of which we have mitted to general approbation. It is to funeral rites are paid to the dead, and games just received the prospectus. celebrated in their honor. There are vaconsist of thirty volumes, large quarto, with rious other episodes, which we pass over. numerous maps and prints from original The most important is that of Venilia, who drawings. It is intended to embrace every serves in the Roman army disguised as a branch of science and art, and to combine warrior. Camillus, to punish the breach of richness of materials with conciseness of has collected every thing he could find re-in refusing to obey Appius, orders the sol treated of, without extending the articles to discipline committed by a part of the army, style; so that every subject will be fully diers to be decimated. Many had already suffered their punishment, when one of the unhappy victims designated by drawing lots is discovered to be a woman. It is Venilia,

IL CAMILLO O VEJO CONQUISTATO,
Concluded from No. 36.

The first canto is concluded with a review of the Tuscan army; in which the author

specting the events of which Tuscany was the theatre, on its peculiar mythology, and its ancient geography. The poet had to contend with many difficulties in the numerous

details which the description of this review We refer to the poem for the sequel of her by its author. A number has been pub

adventures, and her death, which she meets

in Veii.

an immoderate length. Four hundred men
of letters, already honourably known in and
out of Germany, have engaged in this great
undertaking, and every article will be signed
lished, as a specimen of the execution, con-
taining a selection of 120 articles, taken from
every letter of the alphabet, from A to Z,
and in all the various departments of sci-
about six years.
It is expected to be concluded in
MITHRIDATES.-The fourth part of this

ence.

required. He has endeavoured to animate it by interesting narratives, by ingenious fables, and by brilliancy of style. The eleventh canto contains, in like manner, an enumeraWhat we have said suffices to show the tion of the various corps of the Italian army, has employed his talents in the celebration object which the poet has had in view. He which come to the aid of Veii. Every coun-of ancient and modern Tuscany, and in imtry of Italy, from the Alps to the extremity mortalizing the glory which it has acquired, celebrated work is now published. of the peninsula, is characterised by its man-in giving to Italy, at two periods so distant ners, its laws, its traditions, its claims to from each other, the blessings of civilization, great undertaking, comprising the Lord's

glory, its ensigns, its habits, its arms, &c.;

This

all which details have a peculiar interest and The arrangement of the poem and the de- Prayer in near five hundred languages and local colouring, more gratifying to the Italian velopement of the characters are especially dialects, is thus happily brought to the dethan general reader. worthy of praise. The character of Camillus sired conclusion. Conceived and begun by In the third canto, Juno descends to the is eminently heroic: it is happily conceived, the great lexicographer John Christopher infernal regions to implore the aid of Pluto and as happily executed. This hero fills the Adelung, who, we believe, completed only against the Romans; she traverses the Ely-foreground with dignity, and his absence is the first part (which was published in 1806) sian fields. The poet gives us several de-as remarkable in the poem as his presence. fortune to be continued by a man fully adeand part of the second, it has had the good scriptions; among others may be remarked It may be said too, that if we compare the the image of civilization, which is represent the new poem has the advantage of a more absence of Achilles with that of Camillus, quate to the task, Dr. John Severin Vater of ed under the emblem of a very great tree, moral effect. Achilles withdraws from com- fourth and last part are-1. Additions to Konigsberg, one of the most learned philothe branches of which spread afar, and allogers in Europe. The contents of this most reach the heavens. The description bat because the Greeks (or rather their geneof this tree is very remarkable, both for the ral) are unjust towards him, and sacrifices the first part, by the Russian counsellor of imagery and the expressions. to his resentment what he owes to his coun- state, Adelung: and additions to the second "Amidst the smiling flow'r-enamelled plain try. In Camillus, it is the popular factions A lofty orange proudly rears its head; which deprive the hero of the honor of comWhose knotty boughs, in shining verdure dress'd manding the Romans, and of procuring And fruit Hesperian, to the heav'ns extend them the victory; and he resumes his arms Their far out-spreading arms. Sweet Zephyr's for his country, he triumphs for her, as soon as she allows, or rather commands, him.

breath

Soft agitates the gently-whisp'ring leaves
That scarce are heard to sigh: the lovely flow'rs

The style of this poem is noble and ele-
gant; the passage we have quoted above
confirms this assertion, and we should be
happy, did our limits allow, to quote some
others. We cannot, however, resist the
temptation of transcribing the portrait of
Homer.

Exhale delicious fragrance: all the air
Breathes richest odours: a more brilliant light
Around the beauteous tree mild-beaming plays."
For the benefit of such of our readers as
understand Italian, we subjoin the original
of this passage, though we are fully aware Amid the rest, superior o'er them all,
to how great a disadvantage our translation | In ample, sacred robe, the poet stood,
must appear in comparison.

Sorge per mezzo a la region fiorita
Rotondo, e grande, un rigoglioso arancio,
Che con le verdi foglie, e i pomi d'oro,
L'annose braccia in fino al cielo estolle.
L'aura soave ador ador lo fere

When he those orbs, of vision erst bereft,
But now irradiate with celestial fire,
To heav'n up-raised, and the deep-sounding lyre,
Now with the plectrum, now the finger, waked,
Th' Elysian plains were still, and Orpheus' self
In silent wonder heard the lofty song.

volume.-2. Corrections and additions respecting the Basque language, by his ExcelWilliam Von Humboldt, now ambassador lency the Prussian minister of state, Baron from his Majesty the King of Prussia, to the court of Great Britain.-3. Additions by the counsellor of state, Von Adelung, and the editor; and lastly, additions by the latter to the third volume. A general index is

added.

Restoration of the Science of Politics, or Theory of the natural State of Society, by C. L. Von Haller, vol. ii.

In our 9th Number we noticed the appearance of the first volume of this interesting work. This second volume contains chapters 23 to 43 inclusive, most of which treat on subjects of the highest importance-such as the origin of sovereignty, the duties of princes, the rights and duties of subjects, the means possessed by subjects to secure their rights, the

*&c.

loss of independence or the ruin of states, ily distinguish him from the laboured and liar grace to his pictures. It was with refe microscopic wonders of Gerard Dow, Mi-rence to their form, that Sir Joshua Reynolds eris, &c. remarked, they had all the correctness of an academy drawing.

Bibliotheca Germano-glottica, or View of the Literature of the Antiquities of the Languages and People of the Kingdoms of German, or partly German, race, by Dr. Nicolaus Heinrich Julius.

His landscapes, when they are given as exclusively such, are generally accompanied by some figures, in which a portion of positive colour in the drapery or cap of his boors serves to set off and heighten the subdued

PYNAKER.-The subjects of this painter are also pastoral, and somewhat resemble those of Berghem; but in the play of his foliage, and the elegant form of his trees, he has more of Both.

He is however cooler in his style and sharper in his pencil; indeed nothing can go beyond the sweetness of touch and lightness of hand by which his foliage and branches oppose the clear and beautiful skies, over which they are thrown.

His compositions are of the most beautiful and select kind, and his observance of nature is not less than his judicious choice of subject.

This small treatise, or rather catalogue, consisting of only 100 pages, and 24 pages There is no elevation of tone of the rest. of introduction, contains a treasure of thought in his compositions, though his valuable information, that might be else- forms are in general well chosen, and often where sought for in vain. Comprising all approach to the romantic. His trees are of the nations of German race, it affords the a general character, beautiful in shape, and Englishman, the Swede, the Dane, and the exquisitely touched. Of him it may be said, Hollander, as well as the German, the ea- that having once seen his works, you can siest view of every thing that has been pub-never be at a loss to know them again. lished, since the revival of the study of Ger- The prints after him by P. le Bas, Major, man antiquities, (i. e. since the middle of &c. give a tolerable idea of his style. the last century), both in monuments of HOBBIMA and RUYSDAL in a great meaThe cool mists that are seen rising betheir languages, and contributions to facili-sure resemble each other in their general tate the knowledge of them. Nay, the au-style-all is subdued into a dark mellow tween distance and distance, give a separathor has even performed more than the main tone, deeply green. Hobbima is more sim-tion, (the effect of atmosphere) the most perobject of his undertaking could lead us to ple, in choice of subject, as well as cofect that can be imagined, and by no artist expect; for he has taken into his plan the li- lour-a large spreading tree, the entrance to have they been more happily expressed. terature of the French, Italian, Spanish, Por- a wood, cottages seen through a vista or WATERLOO. We cannot now write or tuguese, and other languages related, though opening form the broad masses in the fore-see this name without associating far difbut distantly, with the German; and has also ground. ferent ideas than those sylvan scenes which prefixed to his book a sketch, short indeed, the pencil of this artist communicated. His In the paintings of Ruysdal there is a but uncommonly rich in information, of the greater variety of tones and colours, rich hues pictures are scarce, his drawings and etchcourse which the antiquarian literature, of purple and gold teints; the latter judi-ngs more numerous. His style has someproperly belonging to the western nations, ciously sprinkled near or between the dark thing of Berghen's, but is less artificial. has hitherto taken. It is to be wished, that foliage and masses of his trees, as well as on and selected with good taste, and the chaThe compositions of Waterloo are formed in future editions of this work, which cannot the luminous parts of his fore-grounds. The fail to be called for, the worthy author may general character of both, is dark opposed to racter of nature so truly observed, that any be induced to extend this sketch, to mention sky. one moderately acquainted with painting, or more particularly the contents of the most. observant of the effects in landscape, may important or not well-known books, and enjoy from his book of etchings almost as their real value; and if possible to notice the much pleasure as from the finished piece, more ancient literature of the Germanic nor is their variety their least charm. languages.

FRENCH LITERATURE.

CUYP. In the landscapes of Cuyp, the utmost simplicity prevails-stillness and warmth are the characteristics of his style.

His pictures are seldom without cattle, which generally occupy the principal place. He is at great pains to finish and make out the broad-leafed dock, sedges, or brambles, in his foreground.

of great finish and neatness; they hold a high character in the class of cabinet pic

BRUEGHEL AND ELSHIEMER are in a style

A work has just been published at Paris, tures. In those of Brueghel the tone of cowhich is stated by the French Journals to be highly interesting. The following is the lour is a lively green, the trees are remarkA storm, or any turbulent scene, would title at length: The History of Joan of Arc, indeed be a novelty in this master's works; ably elegant in their form, and the foliage called the Maid of Orleans, derived from her his water is always calm, and his sky is al-dotted with much care and precision; the sky blue and vivid. Upon the whole, paint own declarations, from one hundred and ways serene. forty-four depositions of eye-witnesses, and The Dutch Boats, in the Marquis of Staf-ings of this class are rather curious than infrom the Manuscripts of the "Bibliotheque ford's collection, is perhaps the finest speci-teresting; as representations of nature, they have small claim to regard. du Roi," and of the Tower of London; by men that can be produced of his manner; VANDER HEYDEN is in every way opposite M. Le Brun de Charmettes. 4 vol. 8vo. and may serve as the most perfect model for Dr. Mondat, a physician at Paris, recom-the study of that artist who wishes to form to the light green hue of Brueghel; his pictures are dark, in contrast to a light and mends the Lactuca Virosa, as a remedy for his practice on this style of art. the dropsy. Dr. Coilin, of Vienna, many BOTH, with much of the warmth and still-clear sky, but with every attention to indiyears ago, found the Lactuca Sylvestris effica-ness of Cuyp, has more of study and selec- but with little choice as to selection or comvidual imitation; they are much laboured, which the objects are reflected, so as to give position, and are seldom without water, in great brilliancy to his subject.

cious in this disorder.

THE FINE ARTS. STYLES OF ART IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING.

Flemish School concluded.

tion in his compositions; and his scenes
partake much of the Italian form; his trees
have a studied elegance, with more of gene-
ral than individual nature.

BERGHEM, PYNAKER, and WATERLOO, form
links in the chain which seems to connect
the Flemish with the Italian school.

To these we might add the name of Van Goen, whose style is very distinct; his subjects were mostly taken from the sea coasts, D. TENTERS. This artist may rather be simple both in form and colour; the general considered a painter of pastoral scenes, and BERGHEM, with the most exquisite pencil hue of his pictures a low-toned yellow or rustic life, than of landscape; and in and style of colour, has still an artificial mode clay colour, and his trees dotted as if by common with Wovermans, divided his at- of making out his relief: contrasts of colour, some mechanical process. There are many tention between his figures and their back-rather than light and shade, produce the others of the Flemish school of landscape ground. Yet while in him we are almost effect. His sparkling touches of light and well worthy of notice, but in treating on the exclusively rivetted to the polish of his pen-colour are often brought in, where it would different styles, it is only necessary to bring cil as employed on the detail of his figures, be difficult to determine upon principle how such forward as are distinct: and these we in Teniers we are invariably attracted by the they came there. think will be sufficient to mark the charac scenery of his works. The subjects of his paintings are mostly teristic features of the Flemish style in landThe modest liveliness of this artist's co-pastoral, with cattle and figures, and touched scape. louring, his silvery and chastened hues, the with great spirit and freedom of pencil: the The Italian style of Landscape in our neatness and freedom of his pencil will read-rolling appearance of his clouds gives a pecu- next.