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THE NATIONAL STANDARD.

H-1 and D-nation of Blue Tiger Square.
Blue Tiger Square is situated in the imme-
diate locality of High Holborn. Its geogra-
phy is curious. It is bounded, on the north,
by the primeval palace of the patrons of Fat
Lambert, the king of the beggars; on the
south, by the O. N. Repository of Philan-
thropy; on the east, by two temples of
writs, which are any thing but Holy; and
on the west, by the aforesaid Mr. H. (possibly
a relation of Lady H. of Catherine Street
celebrity), and Mr. D., a regular descendant
of the devils of yore, and the father of four
of the present generation.

fidelity, of truth.

called upon me and gave the history of receptacle of poverty, that my own attorney Mr. Dtious face gathered its features into a smile "Sir," said he, and his faceyou are a prisoner?" of gratulation, " do you know in whose house response. "Well then, I will tell you, you are now under the roof of Mr. D-, aud Mr. D-, let me assure you, is the most prodigal "No," was the brief and well judging of human fathers. That he keeps a spunging house, the circumstance of your being here is a sufficient proof: that he is a wine merchant, the charge of half a guinea for a single bottle of sherry leaves us man, is still more forcibly apparent. little room to doubt; that he is a family

as enduring as my love; but it was like a I thought my happiness bright anticipation, a proud hope, a restless ambition-traced, followed, hunted, but never overtaken. a precipice, above whose brink I could stand At last it seemed only as and gaze without the power of falling into the gulph below, and yet that gulph was deep with the glow of my affections, and stirred with the fervour of my love. I had a child-Emily loved it for my sake, I for hers: it was fostered by us both; it grew like a spring flower; it gathered its infant Often did it rest, in its unconsciousness, on strength from the eternal nourishment of love. its mother's knee, until its foolish father kissed away its very smiles; and snatching it from its maternal cradle, paced the cham- discounts good bills upon the chance of ber of poverty with the infant in his arms, usury, and bad ones upon the chance of law; "His first son is a bill or stockbroker, he and sung or fondled it into the forgetfulness his second son is an attorney, he takes of sleep! There was then a gleam of happi- proceedings, and issues writs when the ness even in the misery of distress. But debts bills are left dishonoured by the acceptor, accumulated upon me, and creditors began or unpaid by the drawer; his third son to think of their writs. to his father's spunging house after the writs are served; and his fourth son is an Letter after letter is a sheriff's officer, who conveys the debtor auctioneer, who brings the goods of the unfortunate mau to the hammer when his creditors have insisted on their sale."

As soon as I have despatched Mr. H. my connexion with these four shall be instantly developed. Mr. H., then, is a solicitor, or rather a respectable attorney, with a front office for two clerks, and a back one for himself. The name of Mr. H. is inscribed on a brass plate on his door, and the admouitory injunction to knock and ring' makes the sum of his consequence complete! Poor man! he little thinks that he is too tall and impudent to live long! His person, how-reached me, (and that too at a moment ever, is worthy of description. Lank and when I could with difficulty pay the postage,) lean, then, he nevertheless so far resembles promising law proceedings and arrest, while a bullock as to have spare ribs (if he be a I could neither retard the one nor prevent married man he may perchance have some the other. title to horns-which, however, we are far fulfilment, and I was taken, I recollect-how At last, threats proceeded to from insinuating):-his look is downcast and could I forget it? 'twas on New-year's day. I accepted by a bookseller. John (the second) determined, (so was John Thurtell's,) his had then respectable apartments in a quiet issued the writ when he failed. James (the Jerry (the first son) discounted my bill, beard is somewhat thick, (so was that of street. My landlord had a party, it was nine third) locked me up in Blue Tiger Square; Nebuchadnezzar, who doubted how he o'clock in the evening, and his guests were and Joseph (the fourth) sold off my goods should be shaved,) his nose hath in it the dancing some quadrilles, which my wit, hav-by auction. Among these were the bed of elements of a capacity to smell, (how su-ing a musical talent, had composed. We my impoverished Emily and the cradle of my perior is he in this respect to the rest of were then on the second floor, and the bailiffs, innocent child. mankind!) and his mouth seemeth as though learning that I was at home, proceeded up it were the receptacle of all civility, and the stairs. They had passed the revelry below, out-pourer of all malice and unchangeable- aud found my wife sitting in a room, almost ness. On the whole, he appears to be invested desolate, with a young child in her arms, with a proud consciousness of the importance and a look of intense sorrow upon her beau-old. of an arrest, but without the slightest know-tiful but now hectic countenance. ledge of what constitutes a gentleman. No matter he has served five of my especial friends with writs within the last twelve months, and has completed his adventures "I know he is," said the bailiff. by conferring the same favour on myself. peated my wife in an imploring accent. "Indeed, he is not at home now," reHaving just signed a cognovit to discharge the debt, I feel myself at liberty to expatiate" but, however, no matter, I suppose I may "I don't believe it," answered the man, on his character.-Did I say his character-open this ;" and with that he flung open the alas! I may perhaps ascertain that he has folding doors which separated the meagre none ! And while I am pondering on the furnished rooms which we then called our inconvenience of being without one, my old home. school-fellow Jackson is asking me to fill my glass, and offering to enlighten me respecting the progeny of Mr. D. He shall relate his

own story.

Square. I am now in a comfortable cottage; Emily is happy, and my child is three years Thank heaven! I have left Blue Tiger I have conquered my difficulties and Emily, "is not at home." "My husband," whispered my poor to take a bill-to be favoured by a bill-broker got a name; never more may I be tempted

On the first impulse I gave him a fierce look, I was inside, and now stood before him. and rushed towards Emily; I prayed her not to be alarmed; I assured her that my impriMr. D. keeps a spunging, or lock-up, be but temporary; I breathed another prosonment (if I were imprisoned at all) could house in Blue Tiger Square; he derives atestation of fervor, of fidelity, of love; and good deal of emolument from Mr. H.-he the delicate girl (she was but nineteen) drew charges half-a-guinea a day for a small room, her soft lips close and whisperingly to mineand is a wine merchant with four sons. a married man, my poor wife is passed through a hall in which the music when the bailiff seized my arn.s, and I young, beautiful, and portionless; I, in my of my own wife was still echoing, into a early life, wrote poetry, and starved:-latterly coach, that conveyed me, agitated with the I have written prose, and subsisted-sub-intensity of restless thoughts, to the domisisted! how barely! I managed to support cile, the man-prison, the mouse-trap of Mr. Emily for the first year of our union, I had Dwooed her ardently, and I loved her passionately; she was an emblem of purity, of

I am

-to be arrested by a lawyer-to be locked up by a sheriff's officer-to be disgraced by an auctioneer-or to take up my abode in the domicile of Mr. D.

cluded his narration) so far resemble you as to escape for ever and anon the writs of Mr. "And may I (so I added when he had conH. the solicitor, and the infernal influence of Blue Tiger Square!"

person, because I did not wish to fasten the narrative [I have, throughout the above tale, used the first but I can nevertheless assure my readers, that every on the person who originally gave me the outline; line of the story is, as it is called, a positive fact, as ten thousand writ victims can testify.-F. W. N. B.]

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

literary men taking so early an interest in pride to us, to see esteemed and distinguished [Ir is gratifying, and a source of no small the progress of our Standard. The contributions we have received have been like so much capital to our little literary bank, and we are glad to find that they go on increasing. The following letter and its appended tale of It was in this dreary but still handsome to whom we are already deeply indebted for interest, has just reached us from Mr. Galt,

of Blue Tiger Square.

your last

very valuable assistance. The story has been | mindedness, and great aptitude in all he called forth by Jerrold's 'Magician of Mentz' attempted to attain. in our last number.-ED.] MY DEAR SIR, The pretty article in Number has recalled to me the memory of an almost forgotten pleasure. Among other follies of my youth was a passion for collecting curious books; this led to an investigation of the history of priuting, and the enclosed is one of my notes, by which it would seem that the Italians have the merit of the invention, and not the Germans. The Chinese, however, had the art of stamping words from blocks, it is probable, long before. If you think the note worthy of notice, use it. Yours truly, JOHN GALT.

20th Jan. 1833.

THE INVENTION OF PRINTING. The story of the origin of wood-eugraving is almost as beautiful as that of the invention of portrait painting by the Maid of Corinth. It is supposed to have been invented at Ravenna; and the account which Papillon has given of it is touched with romance and chivalry. The story of his discovering," that epoch of engraving prints and characters on wood, much more ancient than any hitherto known in Europe," is, that being employed in papering a closet for a Swiss captain in the village of Bagneux, near Mont Raye, the captain shewed him several very ancient volumes, containing wooden engravings. one of which represented the heroic actions of " the great and magnanimous Macedonian king," and had been the joint production of Alesandro Alberico Cunio, and Isabella Cunio, twin brother and sister. "First reduced, imagined, and attempted to be executed in relief with a small knife, on blocks of wood made even and polished by this learned and dear sister." But it is rather the romance than the invention of these ingenious twins that I would detail.

His father, having engaged in the troubles of Italy, was induced, by his solicitations, to take him, at the age of fourteen, to the wars, and intrusted him with the command of a squadron of twenty-five horse, with which he routed about two hundred of the enemy; but his courage having carried him too far in pursuit, he was unexpectedly surrounded by the fugitives, from whom however he rescued himself with only a wound in his left arm. His father, who had flown to his succour, found him returning with one of the standards of the enemy, with which he had bound up his wound. He embraced him with delight, made him a knight on the spot, and gave the young hero leave to visit his mother, to whom he was still much attached.

When he had passed some days at her residence he then repaired to Ravenna to pay his respects to his father's wife, the countess, and joined his sister Isabella; but impatient to return to the wars, he left them before his wound was healed. The count was displeased that he had not remained at Ravenna till he was cured, and would not permit him to serve again during the rest of the campaign. He, in consequence, went back to Ravenna, and during the time he staid at home, completed, with Isabella, the pictures of the actions of Alexander, and assisted her to reduce and engrave them on wood. When finished and printed they were presented to pope Honorius, and their other friends. In his next campaign he was slain, and Isabella died with sorrow at the age of nineteen.

From the name of pope Honorius IV. being engraved on these ancient pictures, they are conjectured to have been executed about 1284 or 1286, and therefore anterior to all the books printed in Europe hitherto known. Possibly the copy presented to Honorius may still be found in the Vatican.

SCIENCE AND ART.

EXHIBITIONS.

National Gallery of Practical Science.
(Concluded.)

boiler (or spiral part) were subjected to the action of the fire, the natural consequence would be, that the absorption of heat by the water would increase the volume of that fluid to such a degree that the tube would be burst by the extreme pressure; and the most striking feature of this improvementand it is one of an indispensable natnre-is, that provision is made for this expansion of the water, without retarding, but rather promoting its circulation, and without diminishing the heat imparted; by the addition of au expansion tube, of proportionate dimensions, which, being closed at one end, is so posited that the atmospheric fluid it contains is compressed by the heated water, and is relieved from that pressure as the water cools.

When in operation, the water, which is heated to a very high temperature, is constantly passing off from the higher part of the boiler, returning to the lower, and emitting its heat during that progression: the principle of action being the relative specific gravity of the two columns of water; one of which is denominated the ascending column, and the other the descending column; and this difference of specific gravity, occasioned by the difference of temperature, is sufficient to cause a rapid circulation of the hot water through the whole length of the pipe, whatever may be its extent, or the number of its bends. We have no hesitation in declaring this method to be very superior to that of heating any description of building by either steam or hot air: it is cleaner, safer, and more economical.

Models of suspension, wooden, iron, and other bridges, of packing presses, and other mechanical improvements, are distributed about in the lower gallery.

In the upper is a splendid collection of antediluvian fossil organic remains, deposited by that indefatigable geologist, Mr. Thomas Hawkins; which we believe to be the finest in existence. These valuable specimens were found deeply embedded in argillaceous lias limestone; among them are several of the Ichthyosauri, creatures that are now presumed to be wholly extinct, and remarkable as uniting, in their skeleton remains, the various characteristics which distinguish the crocodile, the fish, and the bird.

They were the children of the son of the
Count di Cunio by a noble Veronese lady,
allied to Pope Honorius IV. The young
nobleman had espoused the lady clandestinely;
and when their marriage was discovered by
her pregnancy, it was annulled, and the
priest who performed the ceremony banished.
The lady took refuge in the house of her
aunt and was delivered of the twins; and
the Count di Cunio obliged his son to espouse
another, but he allowed him to bring up the
children. Isabella, the daughter, became a
great favourite with her step-mother, who
cherished her as her own child. Both of
them made rapid advances in various sciences,
especially Isabella, who, at thirteen years of
age, was deemed a prodigy. She understood
and wrote Latin, composed verses, had ac-
quired a knowledge of geometry, was skilful Mr. Perkins uses, for this purpose, a boiler
in music, and played upon several instru- formed of a spiral tube, from the upper part
ments, was dexterous in drawing, and of which the requisite extent of tube winds
painted with taste and delicacy. Her brother around the building, so as to give warmth
emulated her in accomplishments, but did to every part of it, and returns to the lower
not attain to such perfection. He was, extremity of the boiler; the whole, in fact,
however, esteemed one of the finest young forming a continuous or endless tube. But,
men in Italy, equalled his sister in beauty of unless some precaution were taken, the tube
person, and possessed a noble courage, high-throughout being filled with water, if the

THE comfort of visiters to this exhibition is
considerably increased by the genial and
equal warmth distributed throughout the
lofty and extensive gallery; which regulated
temperature is produced by the use of an
improved method of warming dwelling-mineral vegetation, &c.
houses, public buildings, conservatories, &c.
invented and introduced by Mr. Angier
March Perkins, son of the celebrated engi-
neer, of whose chief inventions we have
already spoken.

Besides this unique collection, that department of the exhibition is also graced by a number of mineral specimens; petrifactions from Van Diemen's Land; compostella lime; fresh water helix, from the Isle of Wight;

Of miscellaneous articles, that do not come under any particular arrangement, we may mention a curious application of the atmospheric fluid, for distending bandages to secure fractured limbs in a proper position, a contrivance which appears to be calculated to afford comparative ease and comfort to the patient. And models of a window ventilator; of a plan to supersede the employment of climbing boys; and of Mr. Thomas Nutt's very ingenious method of managing bees: this gentleman should have been called Kernel instead of Nutt, for he contrives to get at the contents of the hive without break

ing the shell; and he would make an excellent Chancellor of the Exchequer, for he has a knack of possessing himself of the produce of entire communities, without committing a single act of personal violence!

Sitting anon beneath some forest tree,
To rest them from their dreary wanderings,
And gazing on the ancient city's domes,
Where both in classic time found friends and

homes.

3.

And higher still, below fair heaven's blue,
Like lambs on azure pastures, cloudlets go;
And as they catch the bright sun's golden
Scarce pause to look into the lake below,
Where like pure thoughts, the calmest waters

hue,

flow.

4.

A geological globe, deposited by Sir John Byerley, of which the invention is ascribed to M. Guesney, of Coutances, in Normaudy, is stated to be intended to show the changes on the surface of the earth, produced by the procession (qe. progression?) of the equinoxes whereby the pole of the equator is supposed to revolve round that of the ecliptic in between twenty-five and twenty-six thou-Fair lake, fair city, unmolested sleep sand years. Appended to the description is In spirit unison, like mated doves, the following praiseworthy invitation to the While o'er ye mighty hills their vigils keep; learned in these matters, to ascertain the Let the hoar-storm leave undisturbed your correctness or incorrectness of the hypothesis loves. upon which the globe has beeu formed. "The opinions of philosophers being divided as to the truth of this theory, the author, whose sole object is the advancement of science, will receive with gratitude any scientific observations tending to confirm, or overturn

t."

ORIGINAL POETRY.

POVERTY.

A Fragment.-By F. W. N. BAYLEY,
"Poverty of subject."-HAZLITT.
On, Poverty! dark Poverty!
Twin brother of Despair,
Why, lion-like, do'st lie and roar
The human heart thy lair;
A load, the bitter and the bad,
For loving souls to hear!
Thou tramplest down the flower
Of the spirit's early spring;
Abroad among the homes of joy
Thy hollow voice doth sing;
And evil demons come and dance
Wherever thou dost sing!

A wandering thou goest
Where genius loves to dwell,
To cheat his mind of its reward,
His spirit of its spell!
Thou tri'st to make him learned

In the mis'ry books of hell!

Thou pluckest from the poet's heart

All glad and happy things,

And the brightest and the broadest plumes

From out his eagle wings;

Thou makest him, like the nightingale,

The saddest when he sings.'

All sorrows are thy kindred,

All wounds that sear and smart,
All griefs that come and dwell with us
When hopes and dreams depart;
Grim emigrants that people

The city of the heart.

COMO.
1.

WILDLY and vast, Italian mountain's break,
And slope in giant-beauty grandly down.
To where, like some fair bride beside the lake,
Moving its still sweet waters-Como's town,
With sun-lit smiles, defies their awful frown.

2.

Beneath their mighty shadow, methinks I see
Two spirits, not of conquerors or kings,

For lands, where beauty now no more with
grandeur move.

PARODY.

F. W. N. B.

The wild wools of our youth.
THE sun has risen up to greet
The beautiful and good,
And the spirit of a thousand trees
Goes whispering thro' the wood!
A spirit with as many birds
To catch its flying voice,
And fling its echo back in songs
That bid the earth rejoice.

We'll away to hear the spirit sing,
Away to hear the bird,

Where joy dwells in the fervent heart,
And love upon the word;

And till that heart and word shall both
Be broken by untruth,

We'll listen to the birds and leaves,
go
In the wild woods of our youth.

F. W. N. E

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

The appearance of the sixth and last volume of Cunningham's Lives of British Artists will not be delayed beyond a few weeks.

The Life of General Sir John Moore, from the materials afforded by family papers, to

gether with his own letters, and a journal which he kept from the time of his entering the army to a few days before his death, is now in the press.

A new edition of Mrs. Starke's valuable Traveller's Guide, is just ready. The careful authoress goes over her ground every two or three years, in order to correct all mistakes, and to obtain information of all which she describes. changes and improvements in the countries

An edition of Byron's Letters and Journals, to correspond with the 8vo. edition of his poetry, is about to appear.

FRANCE.

All poetical antiquaries will, we are sure, be glad to hear that the Abbé de la Rue, the learned Professor of History, at Caen, has at length in the press his long promised work "On the Norman and Anglo-Norman Poets." To those readers of our own country, who delight in such matters, the volumes in question must be doubly acceptable, if they contain, as we believe they do, fresh proofs in confirmation of the opinion which their learned author promulgated in the Archæologia, during his residence among us, namely "that it was from England and Normandy that the French received the first works which deserve to be cited in their language."

Dr. Desgeuettes has been elected an associé libre of the French Academy of Sciences, in room of M. Henri Cassini, deceased.

M. Flourens has been elected professor of human anatomy at the Museum of Natural History, in the Jardin des Plantes.

M. Guibort has been elected professor of natural history at the Ecole de Pharmacie.

M. Elie de Beaumont has been elected professor of natural history in the Collège de France, in the room of M. Cuvier.

M. de Blainville has been promoted from the chair of zoology to that of comparative anatomy, at the Museum of Natural History in the Jardin des Plantes; and M. Valenciennes (the coadjutor of Cuvier in the Natural History of Fishes) has succeeded him in the former chair.

Dr. Double has been elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, Section of Medicine, in the room of Dr. Portal, deceased.

M. Salfi, the continuator of Ginguéné's History of Italian Literature, and author of several other esteemed works, died recently of the cholera at Paris.

Professor Lemaire, editor of the wellknown collection of the Latin classical writers, died at Paris in September.

The works of the celebrated Lanjuinais are now in a course of publication at Paris, under the editorship of his son M. Victor Laujuinais, who discharges his arduous uudertaking with sound judgment and ability. The volumes already published contain many works of permanent interest and utility, as, for example, the admirable Traitè Historique et Politique sur la Charte; and even those of Lanjuinais' writings which were composed for temporary objects, are all remarkable for

GERMANY.

that constant reference to the great principles case?" impatiently interrupted Napoleon:] of Continental Orientalists, that the society of morals and politics which form the chief" Dr. Scarpa is an honor to the University, should publish the original text along with excellence of Burke. A spirited and remark- and to my States." Scarpa was therefore the translations, that the means might hereably well-written biographical notice has been invited to resume his chair, which he did, after be afforded of a more critical examinaprefixed to the first volume by the editor. and he continued to lecture to a very ad- tion of both. vanced age, occasionally employing one of M. Eliacin Carmoly, Grand Rabbi of BelProfessor Hahn, of Leipzig, has recently fame in the scientific world, his personal Paris, intends publishing, shortly, a new his pupils as a substitute. Besides his greatgium, and Member of the Asiatic Society of published one of the cheapest and most neatly character was held in the highest estimation, edition of the Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, executed stereotype editions of the Hebrew Bible which has ever issued from any press. and he was beloved and revered by his disci-in Hebrew, from a MS. of the 15th century, He has adopted the text of Vanderhooght's ples. The principal among his numerous and accompanied with notes and a French celebrated edition of 1705, taking care, how-works are: his Treatise on the Organs of translation. The whole will be comprised in ever, to correct carefully the errors which Hearing and Smelling, published at Pavia, in one volume 8vo. disfigure it, amounting, according to M. 1789; his Tabulæ Nevrologiæ, or Plates of d'Allemand's account, in the preface to his Nerves of the Human Frame, Pavia, 1794; his Essays on the Principal Diseases of the beautifully printed London edition, to not Eyes, 1801; his work on Aneurism, 1804; less than two hundred. and his Treatise on Hernia, Milan, 1809. Scarpa was also a great lover of the Fine Arts, and had formed a valuable collection of paintings by the first Italian masters. Barnaba Oriani was the disciple of La

We have been much gratified in looking over some numbers of Views of the principal Buildings of Berlin, with descriptive letterpress, by Dr. Spiker, one of the royal librarians, who is favourably known in this

A translation of Von Hamer's History of

the Assassins (Geschichte der Assassinen,) into French, is announced for speedy publi

cation.

Mr. Klaproth has published an account of the great Chinese Encyclopædia, which may

be considered as a view of the civilization of

China from the commencement of the Empire down to 1224. It was first printed in

country by his travels in Great Britain. The grange, whom he succeeded in the direction 1322, again in 1524; and again in 1747, and

plates are well engraved, and the work is remarkably cheap.

Von Raumer is engaged on a History of Europe, from the end of the 15th century, in 6 vols. His object, in this new work, is to furnish an animated and connected view of the most remarkable occurrences of modern history.

NAPLES.

has had several supplements added to it.

of the Milan Observatory, and in the com-
pilation of the Ephemerides. He contributed,
by his observations, to the great map of the is derived from a forthcoming number of the Foreign
The greater part of the foreign intelligence
kingdom of Italy, drawn under Napoleon, by Quarterly, which we had the advantage of receiving
whom he was made Senator, and Knight of in sheets, and which contains besides a vast number
the Iron Crown. Oriani died at Milan in of very interesting articles. We are, however,
November last. He was the oldest living making arrangements for our own correspondents,

Italian astronomers.

The publication of the Great Italian Dictionary, compiled at Bologna, is now comA new journal has been recently completed in seven large 4to. volumes. It is conmenced at Naples, under the title of "Ilsidered the most perfect Italian Dictionary in Progresso delle Scienze, delle Lettere é delle existence.

Arti; Opera Periodica, compilata per cura

di G. R." The object of which is announced Bazzoni, a novelist of some talent, author

abroad.

FINE ARTS.

Pictures in the National Gallery of Science and Art.

EVEN to the most philosophically or mechanically inquisitive, a continual examination of apparatus and machinery become to be to communicate to the Italians and to of Il Castello di Trezzo, has published Rac-irksome, and to relieve this mechanical foreigners a knowledge of the most remark-conti Storici, illustrative of the middle ages able Italian works on Science, Literature, and Art; and more especially to inform his countrymen of the contents of foreign works on the same subject. We have seen several numbers of this journal, which appear to be

well executed.

Sestini, the celebrated Antiquary, died at Florence in June last. He was born in

1750.

ITALY.

in Italy.

The Italian presses, especially those of
Milan, coutinue to bring forth numerous
works of light entertaining prose, novels,
tales, sketches of life and manners, and
tours. The two friends, David Bertolotti
and Defendente Sacch, are among the most
active of those who find them occupation.
Bertolotti has lately published Racconti e
Pitture di Costumi, in his usual easy, flow-
ing strain. Sacchi, of whose skill in the lore
Italy has lately lost two of her most dis-of the middle ages we had a proof in his
tinguished men of science, Scarpa and Oriani.
Antonio Scarpa, the celebrated professor of
Anatomy and Surgery, died at Pavia on the
31st October last. He was born about 1750,
in the province of Treviso; he made himself
early known for his anatomical learning, and
was professor at Pavia at the epoch of the
French invasion in 1796. He then refused
to take the oath to the Republic, and was
consequently dismissed from his chair. Na-
poleon, in 1805, having made himself King
of Italy, went to visit, among other places,
the University of Pavia, the professors of
which were duly introduced to him.
He
suddenly inquired where Scarpa was? The
reply was, that Scarpa had been dismissed
long since, on account of his political opi-ture by the English Society of Translations
nions, and because he had refused to take from the Eastern languages, are highly appre-
the oaths. "And what have political opi-ciated by the learned world; but there ap-
pions, and refusal of oaths, to do in such pears to be a very general wish on the part

Antichita Romantiche d'Italie, and who
unites facility of style with purity of lan-
guage, has now published two little volumes
of Varieta Litterarie, or Essays on the Man-
ners and Arts of the present Age in Italy,
with Sketches of Distinguished Characters.
We observe, with pleasure, in most of these
popular works, a manly moral tone; without
the least taint of cant, servility, or bigotry,
but also without any of that licentious, scep-
tical, and sneering spirit which disfigures
many productions of the light literature of

monotony, the proprietors of this gallery have added to the beautiful natural productions we have enumerated in another department,

some choice works of art.

Of sculpture there are, at present, only two groups, in marble, from the chisel of Sievier. These are a Boy and Tortoise, and a Girl and Lamb; and are intended to show the comparative anatomy of the two sexes in an infant state. We understand that several additions are about to be made to this department; and can only say that, if but on a parity with Sievier's groups, we shall be well content.

The collection of paintings is extensive; and, as is usual in such cases, contains many that make merely a numerical addition, and bring little or nothing to the aggregate of intrinsic value; but truly there are gems of art here and there among them, whose worth may, perhaps, be better appreciated by contrast with the less fortunate efforts of the creative pencil. Rafaelli, Rembrandt, Gerhard Douw, Guido, Leonardo da Vinci, Wouverman, the Vander Veldes, Der Sart, Salvator Rosa, Carravagio, Spagnoletti, Murillo and Adrian VanderWerff, here meet in goodly -in glorious company. We cannot afford The benefits conferred on Oriental Litera-space to select others, or even to speak more particularly of all these.

some other countries.

ORIENTAL.

The Galley Slave, and the Negro Boy, by Murillo, (deposited by J. Duffield, esq.) are undoubtedly from the easel of that eminent

master.

The Galley Slave is a fine speci- genius, we should grow Anacreontic-poetic | Woman's Love should ne'er be told. The men of physical endurance without the ap--mad-intoxicate-and idolatrous;-visitpearance of mental debasement; it is a blend-ing it now and then, between whiles, we ing together of humility with a consciousness of bodily power, that is restrained, but not subdued; it is an evident-an emphatic question of the painter's pencil," Was such a man, Ethiop though he be, intended for the degradation of slavery?" and it draws from the beholder the ready answer of "No, God forbid!"

sorrow that we were not of thy society-we grieve that we cannot drink with a thirsty ear those draughts of conversational gratification which thy genius must have inspired. The Infant Bacchus, aud we believe a majority of the paintings, is the property of J. S. Brickwood, esq. a friend of the arts, who does not appear to patronize them in vain. The Susannah, by Adrian Vander Werff, is also his; and we are sorry that want of space compels us to abandon our intention of describing this delicately conceived and handled painting.

MUSIC.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

I'll Remember Thee. Caprice Brilliant,
pour le Piano. Par Charles Chaulieu.
(Danneley.)

words by W. M'Gregor Logan. Composed by John Barnett. (Duff and Co.) Mr. Barnett is a delightful song-writer. His melodies are often original, and always graceful; and his accompaniments attest the hand of a musician. The ballad before us is one of the prettiest of his recent productions: it is arch, lively, and qualified here and there by passages of sweetness, which, if they incline to tenderness of sentiment, are not irreconcilable to the naiveté and playfulness of the rest.

My Beautiful! My Bride! A Ballad. The words by F. W. N. Bayley. Composed by Alexander Lee. (George and Manby.)

This is not one of the best of the compositions of Mr. Lee; but it is interesting nevertheless, and will doubtless share in the popularity of the composer's other songs.

CONCERTS.

Mr. Eliason's Soirée Musicale.

But what shall we say of the Infant Bacchus of Adrian Vander Werff?" We never enter the gallery without visiting the favoured compartment in which is hung this classical emanation (?)—aye, emanation, we can neither select nor coin a better word to convey our notions of it,—we want "to learn it all," we are desirous of becoming acquainted with every minute, every detailed beauty of the beautiful whole,—we have stu died it at least fifty times, and the pleasant task is not yet half completed. We will only venture to describe the prominent group of this delightful triumph of imagination and CHAULIEU is a great favourite of ours. Next skill. The little drunken divinity is depicted, to Heuri Herz, we esteem him as the most as at the moment after he has drained the brilliant and interesting of the fashionable luscious draught to the uttermost drop; his composers for the pianoforte. His shewy merry, young, mischievous attendants, are passages are not mere divisions without eudeavouring to place him astride a demure-meaning, but, while they tickle the ear, are looking white goat, that, all unconscious not destitute of the power of pleasing the of the intended honour, appears in the act mind. The present is an elegant trifle, conof rising from the ground, as if the better to structed on a pleasing air, which, we believe, apprehend the mirthful cajolery of an urchin is the composition of the publisher. standing at his head, and by words and ges- No. 1. A Fantasia, in which are introduced Solo, Flute, Mr. Nicholson.-Nicholson. Rossini's favourite Air, "Di Tanti Pal-Air, La Savoyarde," Concertante for Voice, Violin,

piti ;" and three Airs in Der Freischutz,
with Variations for the Pianoforte. By
Hummel.-No. 2. Rondoletto, for the
Pianoforte, from the Barcarolle of Marie.
By Henry Karr. (Welsh.)

ticulation striving to make his injunctions
understood. That the infaut divinity is
Bacchi plenus, is evidenced by the perfect
abandonnement with which he surrenders
himself to the guidance of his supporters;
by the relaxation of every muscle, the total
absence of volition; by the straightening of his
flaxen hair from extreme perspiration, by the
The first of the above is rather a dull pro-
closing of his eyes, and by the drooping of duction, and can hardly, we think, come
his head, and the pillowing of his dimpled from the pen of the celebrated Hummel; a
chin upon his inflated bosom. Of fair com- suspicion which is strengthened by the omis-
plexion himself—to show the divinity of his sion of the initials "J. N." to the name. Be
origin-his delicate skin is admirably con- this as it may, the "Fantasia" was scarcely
trasted with that of his nut-brown, but worth paper and print. Of No. 2, we can
health-enlivened companions, who, whilst give a better account: the theme is exceed-
vainly trying to place his godship in a seemlyingly pretty, and it is worked up into a very
position, are expressing with the highest glee tasteful and effective little rondo. We do
their opinion of the degree of his drun- not recollect to have heard any other of the
kenness. Immediately behind these is arrangements of Karr.
an altar, dedicated to the Bacchus, and
beside it a satyr, drinking out of a huge
goblet, whilst one of his fellows is in vain
attempting to fill it from "a wide distended
The above songs are published separately,
skin" of the ruddy liquid. The gloating though, for convenience, we have put them
of the drinking satyr-the feasting at the under one head. Neither of them are favour-
same time of eye and lip,-the unrestrained, able specimens of the distinguished genius
the unrestrainable goodhumour of the skin- of Neukomm. The first is rather coarse in
bearer, the staggering solidity of an in-style, with little of melody; and the second
toxicated nymph on one side of him-the is feeble in subject and dry in treatment.
glowing satisfaction of a male countenance The composer trifles with the gifts which
on the other side, which seems to be thrust nature and art have bestowed on him. He
forward in the happy certainty of "my turn writes far too much, and does not consider
next," and the insensibility of inebriation that mere facility in the use of the pen is no
that has overtaken a nymph that is lying on proof of fertility of invention. Were he to
her face, at the foot of the excited drinker, write less, we cannot but think that he
all these are inimitable. Glorious Vander would make more lasting additions to the
Werff! possessed of this master-piece of thy stock of musical works.

No. 1. The Sea Rover.-No. 2. Constancy.
Two Songs by the Chevalier Neukomm.
(Cramer, Addison, and Beale.)

It

evening by attending the above concert.
We were highly delighted on Wednesday
is the first of a series, and to which only
subscribers are admitted, and we therefore
pique ourselves on being able to give a public
notice of a private treat.
the list of the evening's entertainment:
The following is
PART 1.-Trio, Mrs. Bishop, Mr. Bennett, and
Song, Mr. Bennett, "Gentle airs." Accompanied
Signor Giubilei, Mandina amabile,"-Mozart.
on the Violoncello by Mr. Lindley.-Handel.
Scena, Mrs. Bishop, "Ah non son io."-Mozart.

and Violoncello, Madame de Meric, Mr. Eliason,
and Mr. Lindley.—Chelard.
PART II.-Duo Concertante, Pianoforte and Violin,
Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Eliason.-Herz and Lafont.
Scotch ballad, Mr. Wilson.
Deux Airs Caractéristiques, "L'Espagnole," and
"La Neapolitane," Mr. Bennett, Guitar Obligato,
Mr. Leonard Schultz.-Chelard.

Song, Mrs. G. Wood.

Quintetto, Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. G. Wood, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bennett, and Signor Giubilei, Ciel il mio labbro.-Rossini.

Conductor, Mr. Chelard.

which Lindley accompanied "Gentle airs" To speak of the exquisite manner with would be useless. He has many rivals, but no equal in the wide world. We, as Englishmen, ought to be more proud of him; and so we ought of Nicholson. We heard De Meric say, that he played like an angel; and that she never knew what the flute was till she heard Nicholson ;" and yet she has heard every flute-player worth hearing in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, or Portugal. Had either Lindley or Nicholson been foreigners, they would have been as much sought after as Paganini himself, and so they ought to be; and foreigners think it a disgrace to us that they are not.

But we must not be too selfish, or, in other words, uational; for the most effective piece of the evening was decidedly "La Savoyarde.” From the bill we naturally expected to hear some French air, but lo and behold, we found that De Meric and Chelard had become naturalized; and if the Mrs. Woods and the Mr. Bishops do not look to themselves, they will