16. What does bravura without taste 17. The fantasies of vice and folly 18. Leander swam the Hellespont: 19. Of verse and metre here and there 20. Good hearers all, ye have the bard GIBRALTAR. Look from thy rock, Gibraltar, on the shore And burying armies whole in ocean's tomb; To watch the Moor, and sentinel the deep, And warfare never more uprear her head, wake the dead. DRAMA. THE nymphs are so attractive, that it is al- FITZROY. Merimée's admirable story, which appeared in the Revue de Paris some time ago, has furnished the plot for a clever piece now playing at this theatre. It is very short, very horrid, and very well acted. Our readers can do no better than go and see. Bertrand et Raton appears on this day; and the Revolt, with women even more "splendid" than the Naiades of the Adelphi, will appear next week. The scenery of the comedy is said to be very magnificent; of course, the ballet will be equally so. for Jack Cheshire a like distinction, though the labours of both have been lost to posterity! The same fate must not attend the last (perhaps the first) sally of the "bouncing" B. In one of the pantomimes his personator kicks Shakspeare off the stage. An intimate sympathetically informed him of the fact, and was answered, with all the touching naïveté of that great man: Shakspeare-pshaw ! Serve him right! He kicked me up to Christmas, and be d-d to him!" 66 Shoemaker-row is to have a theatre, under the " sole" direction of an eminent clicker, late with Hoby, (no relation to Obi Smith.) It is not true that the accomplished M.c. of Vauxhall has taken the Bow-ery theatre, as has been reported in the Corkscrew, a spirited journal, under the superintendence of the United Bottlewashers! It seems that even Jonathan Bradford, with its immortal properties, Dan Mac Craisie's thunder, the rat-trap, aud the manager's wig, have not been able to keep the Surrey out of Chancery. A Mr. Williams claims upon the original stock, (it is undecided whether he be a Williams Winne.) At all events, it is reported that the great will not renew, but make himself up for the otium, &c.; in short, quit the pharisees, and turn publican!-Pug has already parodied the well-known line: "The dram-er's laws the dram-ers patrons give!" friend, Mr. Burchell, to whom we are so much indebted for information collected during his travels in Africa, tells me he met with it fre quently; and, in times of scarcity, the Hottentots break off the woody case, and eat the pithy substance it contains, whence the One line gained a Roman poet immorta-name, Hottentot's bread.-Burnett's Outl. lity: we will not say how many secured of Botany. NOTA BENE. MY GREY PONY.-An old gentleman in the city, who was remarkable for his prosing powers, had got into a habit of talking continually of his "Grey Pony:" say what you would, do what you would, in came the grey pony. A gentleman, who prided himself on his conversational powers, one day made a wager that he would converse with the old fellow without allowing him an opportunity of "mounting his grey pony," or even introducing him. One day he met him at a tavern, and observing him at dinner, said, "That's a very fine piece of salmon you've got there." "Yes, sir," said the octogenarian, "its pretty good; but, whenever I wish to enjoy salmon in perfection, I mount my little grey pony, and" - "D-n your little grey pony," said the other, "he has cost me a dozen of wine, and a supper of oysters for six." freer to do as we pleased. If rents were tenantry; but if he led a ree-raw life, rather lower, they were more cheerfully paid; and by random than rule, allowed his tenants to if our peasants were not better clothed, at drive their cows into his pastures, and their least they were better fed. We contrived to children into his orchard, if he drank deep, shoot our birds, though neither John nor rode hard, and occasionally played harley, he Joe Manton had touched feather-spring nor might safely reckon upon their devoted affectumbler. We killed, salted, and devoured tion, and set writs and baliffs at deñance. our own pigs, instead of sending them in-Fraser's Magazine. droves out of the country to be eaten by PITT'S BRIDGE.-October the 31st, 1760, others; drank our claret straight from the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Chitty, knight, Bordeaux, without the impertinent intrusion mayor, laid the foundation-stone of Pitt's of greasy excisemen, or the weakening pro- Bridge, at Blackfriars. Several pieces of pensities of rascally wine-merchants; al- gold, silver, and copper coin of the reign of lowed whisky-punch to be tippled only in the George the Second, together with the servants' hall; were never out of debt; following inscription in Latin, on a large borrowed money from any that would lend plate of pure tin, were deposited :—" On it; and fought our own battles quietly and the last day of October, in the year 1760, sociably, as often as we pleased, untram- and in the beginning of the most auspimelled with coroner's inquests, or other de- cious reign of George the Third, &c. &c., testable addenda to modern differences of this bridge was erected, amidst the rage of an TRANSFERENCE OF VITAL POWER.-A opinion. Of money there was a plentiful extensive war, for the public accommodation not uncommon cause of depressed vital power scarcity, but of credit there was no lack. and ornament of the city, that there might is the young sleeping with the aged. This And so we went on to the end of each of remain to posterity a monument of this city's fact, however explained, has been long re-life's chapters, in a treena hely way, laugh- affection to the man who, by the strength marked, and is well known to every unpre- ing and joking, fighting, courting, and of his genius, the steadiness of his mind, Judiced observer. But it has been most sporting, totally different from the dull, tame and a certain kind of happy contagion of his unaccountably overlooked in medicine. I monotony of our present uninteresting tran- greatness, probity, and spirit, under Divine have, on several occasions, met with the sition from earth to earth. Great respect favour, (and under the fortunate auspices of was shewn by the lower orders for the George the Second,) recovered, augmented, counterpart of the following case: I was, a few years since, consulted about a pale, families of long standing in the country; but and secured the British empire in Asia, sickly, and thin boy, of about five or six for those of the old Milesian stock-the O's Africa, and America, and restored the anyears of age. He appeared to have no spe- and the Macs-whose names held honourable cient reputation and influence of his country cific ailment: but there was a slow and places in their ballads and legends-whose amongst the nations of Europe; the citizens remarkable decline of flesh and strength, and former power they saw in the remains of of London have unanimously voted this bridge of the energy of all the functions, what his tower and castle, ruined wall and moulder- to be inscribed with the name of William mother very aptly termed a gradual blight. ing abbey, under whose forefathers their Pitt."Of this bridge it is rightly observed, After enquiry into the history of the case, it ancestors had served, and whose interests that the balustrades are so faultily constructcame out that he had been a very robust and had been identified with theirs for centuries, ed, that the passengers, in order to have any plethoric child up to his third year, when his the attachment was unbounded; while for prospect as they walk over it, must be formed grandmother, a very aged person, took him the parvenu, the squireen, or the half-sir, like dwarfs or giants; when, by the former to sleep with her; that he soon afterwards as he was termed, though possessed, perhaps, advantage, they may look through, or, by the lost his good looks; and that he had con- of wealth and fair character, yet wanting latter, they may peep over. tinued to decline progressively ever since, blood, their contempt was sufficiently great. notwithstanding medical treatment. I directed him to sleep apart from his aged parent, and prescribed gentle tonics, change of air, &c. The recovery was rapid. But it is not in children only that debility is induced by this mode of abstracting vital power. Young females married to very old men suffer in a similar manner, although seldom to so great an extent; and instances have come to my knowledge, where they have suspected the cause of their debilitated state. These facts are often well known to the aged themselves, who consider the indulgence favorable to longevity, and thereby often illustrate the selfishness which, in some persons, increases with their years.-Correspondent to the Medical Quarterly Review. IRELAND FORTY YEARS SINCE.-We lived after a wonderfully pleasant fashion in dear old Ireland, forty or fifty years ago. True, that what are now held to be indispensable to man's comfort, were then luxuries which we never dreamt of; but, per contra, as we Bay in the city, we had our occupations and amusements peculiar to a state of society less artificial and sophisticated. If we were not so refiued, we were more hospitable; and if we were not so dandily dressed, we were The miser was hated, the common expres stow. VARIATION OF ATMOSPHERE.-On one beg your pardon, sir, but, as I am of opinion that you and I are the two tallest men in London, it is only right that we should know each other. My name is M." Mr. W. gave his name, and the parties shook hands. They stood for a moment in conversation, when they observed a very poor, diminutive little Irish boy looking up at them, as a stranger is observed to do at the Monument. sion, "nagur," (from niggard) being the very cold day in winter, as Mr. C. W., alias Well, my little man," said Mr. W., “what are you staring at?-what do you want, eh?" 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Facts in natural history, comprising all its entertaining branches; anecdotes of an useful tendency connected with literary men, and literary matter; scraps of poetry interspersed, but so well chosen, that they win the heart while they instruct the mind; all entitle the author to the greatest praise, and his clever production to the most extended patronage."-Morning Chronicle. "If we look at almost any one of the very numerous volumes devoted to the instruction of youth, we are amazed at the mass of information presented to us At a glance. Their names, too, possess all that attractive witchery so essential to fascinate the attention of the young. What, for instance, can be more seductive to perusal than-"The Young Gentleman's Book." The charm of the title is irresistible to the tyro. He opens it, and-what a contents! An unique combination of all that is elegant in literature and instructive in science, sufficiently amusing not to be dull, and erudite enough to avoid frivolity. The boy reads and is charmed, without exactly comprehending the reason why he is so;-he re-reads, and becomes wise; and at length lays down the book with more real knowledge in his head than would have served half the Young Roscius's' and 'precocious geniuses' of twenty years ago, for their stock in trade all their lifetime. Yet all this fund of useful intelligence is to be had for a sum scarcely exceeding the cost of his grandfather's primer. Need we then wonder at the moral change in the aspect of affairs?"-Sunday Herald. "We are almost daily called upon to witness the emanation from the press of works connected with the Lord Chancellor, and in every instance that has hitherto come under our notice, we have required no other guarantee for their excellence. We are, somewhat apropos, enabled to adduce a practical illustration of our meaning, by referring our readers to that bijou of works on with saying of it all that it deserves, lest we should exhaust our vocabulary of encomiums. But we declare it to be the best work extant of its kind. It is learned without being pedantic; lively not frivolous; profound yet perspi cuous; terse yet comprehensive; refined but not fastidious; elaborate but withal simple; elegant yet not ornate; and on the whole, a rare assemblage of what is apparently antithetical, but what are in reality but component parts of a perfect whole. It is designed "The Young Gentleman's Book;" but there are none, however aged, whom it is not calculated to make a 'wiser and a better man." "—Dumfries Courier. "Even at this eleventh hour, we owe it to such of our readers as aro interested in the education of youth, (and who is not?) and have not procured the "Young Gentleman's Book," to observe, that it is a work replete with every thing indispensable in the formation of the basis of a good education. It is a melange of original and selected matter, at once the most instructive and amusing that can well be conceived. What is borrowed is admirable, and what is original no less so. The former is evidently the result of the labours of a patient and investigating spirit, aided by a judgment at once discriminating and profound: the latter of the effusions, a poetically vivid imagination, whose flights are ever chastened to the sober realities of life by a mind whoss native sphere is where birds dare not build, nor insect wing fit o'er the herbless granite,' but which is nevertheless competent to adapt itself to the region of its present sojournment."-Essex Independent. "The "Young Gentleman's Book" is a work that comes up to, and more than equals what we have pronounced to be the intellectual aliment necessary. That we are not alone in this opinion may be gathered from the fact of ju having already passed through the second edition. Such a reception wis only what its merits entitled it to. It is an epitome of estimable, and, in these days, indispensable information; a compendium of the utile et dules in literature, science, biography, and almost every department of miscellaneous knowledge. It is an elegant manual of most varied intelligence, economic in price as it is invaluable in intrinsic worth."-Salopian Journal, "To no writer are the rising generation of this country under deeper obligations than to him who has furnished the present volume. Though he conceals his name, his pieces betray the ready tact and perspicuity indigenous to practised and accomplished writers alone. With that diffidence, too, only found united with real talent, he has not entirely relied on his individual exertions, but has taxed a host of others-the least of whom is certainly not the Lord Chancellor, to whom the book is dedicated."—Dublin Evening Mail. "The Young Gentleman's Book' cannot be appreciated beyond its deserts. If a disinterested opinion can tend to promote a greater estimation of its manifold merits than has already been universally accorded to it, we venture to "There is evidently a radical change at work in the whole composition of say that every man interested in the cultivation of youthful intellect is the system of education. The volume which has struck the most decided Imperatively bound to see that it forms a prominent part of the reading of blow in the cause of this most desirable of reforms is, unquestionably, the those placed under his care. Were we to say more on behalf of the volume it" Young Gentleman's Book." Its talent made it at once important, and might be deemed savouring of panegyric, and therefore we dismiss it, heartily ensured it a reception almost unprecedented in the annals of literature; while recommending it to the perusal of the public, and confident its intrinsic merits the name of Lord Brougham (to whom it is dedicated) afforded it a passport will secure its approbation."-New Dispatch. to celebrity."-Bury Post. In the press, and speedily will be published, THE BOOK OF THE MIND. THE BOOK FOR THE MILLION. BY THE EDITOR OF THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN'S BOOK." Published by T. HURST, 65, St. Paul's Church-Yard, by whom it is supplied to all parts of the United Kingdom, (as well as Abroad,) either direstige or through Booksellers' parcels; and to be had of R, and G. SHARPLEY, Newsmen, &c. 151, Ozford-street. J. and C. ADLARD, Printers, Bartholomew-simra |
