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His virtues formed the magic of his song, The Extraordinary Black Book. By the original LINES SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A LEAF so it may be said of the Baron de Staël, that Editor. London, 1831. Wilson. FROM VIRGIL'S TOMB. his worth made the reputation of his mind. A VERY extraordinary and a very Black Book He was not brilliant; he was, says a French it is. We remember when this work first made Go, thou sere leaf, an exile pale writer, ce que les Anglais appellent-a its appearance about ten years ago, we thought From thy blue heaven and southern tree, matter-of-fact man." His talent seemed ourselves fortunate in having secured a copy Thou hast no whisper for the gale the result of his integrity; he had the genius and concealed it behind works of less meaning, What charm is left with thee? of goodness; he was a compromise between without the traitorous act being known even to What charm ? e'en such as relics wear his grandfather and his mother. From childour personal friends. Ten years have wrought Unto deep hearts, and thoughtful eyes, hood he had such a profound respect for duty, great changes—and we suspect that we shall that M. Necker was accustomed to call him, meet with this enlarged and corrected edition' Go-to the couch of sickness bear on the tables of many of our worthy and loyal Dreams of Italian skies. “Un honnête homme d'enfant.” He laboured day and night when at college, in the hope raved and foamed at the mere mention of the country gentlemen, who would have heretofore A glittering sea—a vine-clad hill A poet's tomb, the crown of allthat, if his examination were brilliant, he work. The present edition is very beautifully A glow of soft Elysian light, might acquire the means of pleading for his printed, and evidently intended for a different Thine aspect will recall. mother, then banished from France by Na-class of purchasers, and is very certain of findpoleon. ing them. Yet not in thee such power is shrined, At fifteen she entrusted to him the ma Thy heritage of soil or sun, I send thee to a gifted mind, nagement of her affairs ;-at seventeen, the Topographical Dictionary of London and its Encelebrated interview took place between him- virons. By James Elmes, Architect. Lon Thence must the spell be won. self and the Emperor, at which, nothing don, 1831. Whittaker & Co. daunted, he pleaded his mother's cause with A work greatly wanted, and that cannot fail to prudence, delicacy, and spirit. His death be successful--it deserves a place on the table [Concluded from page 73.] was unexpected by all but himself; for se of every club and coffee-house in London, and The effect of the multiplied abuses of veral months previous to his decease, he had for the convenience of the public, ought to be criticism on authors, will be variously esti- mated, acccording to the temperament of That beckons me away. instances, where we have referred to places which they are studied. Whether or not the valuators, and the point of view from He might be said to expire patriarchally been most minutely and correctly described. within our own knowledge, the localities have they have as yet steeped the craft in bloodThe evening before his decease, the spirit guiltiness; whether that craft is answerable triumphed over the tabernacle of flesh, he for the death of Keats, or has otherwise maraised himself in his bed, and made prayer A Familiar Analysis of the Calendar of the Church terially increased the demand for coroners, it and supplication for all around him—for all of England, and Perpetual Guide to the Alma is not necessary to inquire. The general whom he had loved, and was to see no more By the Rev. H. F. Martyndale, A.M. London, Effingham Wilson. tendency to repress the aspirings of untried in the body. So died Auguste Baron de genius, and the occasional strangulation of Staël; less, far less gifted than his mother , This is a useful book; but the thing really want. works of acknowledged merit, are counts of with the heritage of genius and of fame; but ing is, a reform of the Calendar itself. If St. more, far more highly endowed with dispo, St. Catherine, St. Giles, St. George, and all the Silvester, and St. Leonard, St. Crispin, St. Levy, indictment sufficiently grave, and abundantly substantiated. That criticism properly consitions that are not of the earth, earthy.” | other apocryphal names, were got rid of, there ducted, forwards the best interests of literaThe funeral solemnity showed in what re- would be no need of the apocryphal nonsense ture, is a self-evident proposition ; and there verence he had been held; the chateau of which must form the Guide to the Calendar. are cases (strange as it may appear to the Coppet was full of mourners, the park was There was an apology for any name and saint, uninitiated) in which the most virulent and crowded in a similar manner; and according when the red letters in which they figured distin- unjust critiques have served to bring a book to a request made with his characteristic guished that day as a holiday, and when even a into extra circulation. Books appear and humility, he was interred at the feet of his slave became free, as by the laws of our Saxon succeed each other with such rapidity, that mother. He inherited one of those names ancestors, if his master compelled him to labour there is danger of being lost in the crowd. that it is difficult not to tarnish, and be on a holiday; but now that we have reformed A bitter attack is therefore a species of notaqueathed it to his child more illustrious than these things, we might as well carry our reforhe received it. mation a little farther, and strike out the names bility; and “ better be damned, than not be themselves. Till that is done, an interpreter will named at all,” is an established maxim with authors. In the midst of the harshest cenbe wanted, and the present is just so much better sure, if copious extracts are given, (however The Royal Register, Genealogical and Historic, for than Brady's Clavis Calendaria, that it is one unfairly selected,) the real character of the 1831. By P. J. Burke. London. Jennings third the size and one fourth the price. & Chaplin. work will transpire, to the advantage of those authors who deserve to succeed. This is, This royal volume, in all its glory of crimson ORIGINAL PAPERS and gold, with the pleasant portrait of our gra however, now so well understood, that when it is determined to run down a victim, those cious Queen, an epithet not used in the common cant as applicable to all queens, but in sober specimens are restricted in quantity, wholly SPECTUS, 1831. seriousness as descriptive of all we ever heard withheld, or falsified by partial oinissions, of this amiable woman, is really a very choice Lots of French dancers, old and new, undue juxtapositions, and other deceptive volume for the drawing-room tables of our aris French singers, and French fiddlers too artifices calculated to make the work appear tocracy. It is, professedly, an adaptation of the All French and foreign-all odious or absurd. The excessive duties • Almanac de Gotha,' a work in great request on From manager to candle-snuffer ; upon paper, stamps, and advertisements, the continent, though hardly known in England. Thus our poor English livers suffer operate to increase these injuries an hundred We shall allow the author to describe his own From overflow of Gaul. fold. If the trade of reviewing were open work, for the list of contents is the best recom JOHN BULL. and unrestricted, the multitude of counsellors mendation we can give toit. “The Royal Register | Anti-Gallican Coffeehouse. would lead to wisdom and to truth. The is divided into four parts. The first embraces sentiments of one Aristarchus would balance the sovereign princes of Europe in alphabetical order, with all the living members of their re REPLY TO THE FOREGOING. those of another : and no combination of spective families. The second, the princes not Ah, John! when vexed with bile or spleen, intrigue could lead them all in one direction. invested with sovereign power, with the mem-- All things with jaundiced eyes are seen; But at present, monopoly may and does bers of their families, likewise alphabetically ar work most formidable mischief to literature, But since each nation-nay, each creature, ranged. The third, all the ministers of state of, and occasions the most infamous oppression and the corps diplomatique at, the different Is marked by some distinctive feature, of individual writers. The concurrence of courts of Europe. The fourth, the commenceLeave thou the caper and the trill two or three leading journals to discredit a ment of an historic outline of the sovereign To Frenchman and Italian still: new work, will effectually suspend its sale ; houses of Europe,” which is to be continued in They have their talent-you your way; and that such a concurrence may, in partithe ensuing annual volumes. They sing and dance-you growl and pay. cular instances, be procured, is matter of no T. K. T. toriety to authors and booksellers. By the
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