Her late performance had been a dead setw tada dolda I Some would not deem such women could be found Poor Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet. The story here takes a perceptible step forward.. But, oh that I shou should ever pen so sad a line! Looked grave and pale to see her friend's fragility, ouseWas not confined to feeling for her friend, Whose fame she rather doubted with posterity, nuo samab 93 o* Unless her habits should begin to mend; But Juan also shared in her austerity, But mix'd with pity, pure as e'er was penn'd ent His inexperience moved her gentle ruth, And (as her junior by six weeks) his youth.,mo di W • There is a little of the Mephistophiles in the developement of the female heart acting under and operated upon by such distressing pre dicaments. The husband is also well painted: $ SXSW Standó. And first, in the o'erflowing of her heart, Which really knew or thought it knew no guile, Lord Henry heard her plans of artless art To wean Don Juan from the Siren's wile; "In any body's business but the king's:" Without strong reason, of those sorts of things." That time would temper Juan's faults of youth; But here a messenger brought in dispatches: And being of the Council called "the Privy,” To furnish matter for some future Livy A To tell how he reduced the nation's debt. A The poet here debates upon the indescribable something wanting in most husbands, but especially in Lord Henry: A something all-sufficient for heart Is that for which the Sex a always seeking; But how to fill up that same vacant part? There lies the rub-and this they are but weak in. Frail mariners afloat without a chart, aq They run before the wind through high seas breaking: And when they have made the shore through every shock, The general guilt of idleness, as an accessary before the fact, is well described in the following stanzas :-- There is a flower called "Love in Idleness, For which see Shakspeare's ever blooming garden ; I will not make his great description less, And beg his British Godship's humble pardon, If in my extremity of rhyme's distress, I touch a single leaf where he is warden; To say is, not that Love is Idleness, But that in Love such Idleness has been An accessary, as I have cause to guess. ( to flueet ode to Your men of business are not apt to express and on) al. Much passion, since the merchant-ship, the Argo, Convey'd Medea as her Supercargo. The story of Adeline, we apprehend, will point out a fine study for the circles in which she is fictitiously placed : ab hd EDW Our gentle Adeline had one defect Her heart was vacant, though a splendid mansion As she had seen nought claiming its expansion. Because 'tis frailer, doubtless, than a stanch one The innocence with, which Adeline is led into a dangerous interference, is thus described. We possibly need not say, that the conclusion of stanza 93 is founded on the celebrated observation of Dr. Franklin, that the best friend which a man of the world can obtain is a sensible his French woman, who has no design upon person or his passions: She was, or thought she was, his friend-and this -do gost zomOf Platonism, which leads so oft amisse to odus auT Ladies who have studied friendship but in France, out 29VISA hate-bulinu Or Germany, where peop w sest to agitis To thus much medyo But of such friendship as man's may to man bepudWal Mani She was as capable as woman can be. A man can be abadaud taom o ganes No friend like to a woman earth discovers, asdw baA 1709102 I've also seen some female friends ('tis odd, ollot or y Maulo or Who fought, and fight, in absence too, my battles, We must not omit the following anecdote on Friendship, given by way of note: In Swift's or Horace Walpole's letters I think it is mentioned, that somebody regretting the loss of a friend, was answered by an universal Pylades: "When flose one, I go to the Saint James's Coffee-house, and take another." The Canto breaks off without any certain ant cipation of the result of the very dangerous interference of the lady:- Great rouM Whether they rode, or walk'd, or studied Spanish. A pleasure before which all others vanish; Whether their talk was of the kind call'd" small," Or serious, are the topics I must banish To the next Canto; where perhaps I shall We here finish our brief notice of the forthcoming Cantos of Don Juan, which we scarcely need observe is to be regarded as a slight discursive announcement only, leaving more regular and analytical criticism to those to whom, in the present instance, it more formally and properly belongs. The most pious and consistent will of course abuse and extract as usual. 10 Bro, eldiana & Travels through Part of the United States and Canada, in 1818 and 1819. By John Duncan, A. M. } THE author of these two able and highly useful volumes thus observes upon the more particular object of his enquiry during his sojourn in the United States: 1ɔ “ In the numerous works which have been published, both on the United States and Canada, comparatively little has been said as to the moral condition of the inhabitants, their literary and religious characteristics on these, certainly the most important features in the American character, the writer is persuaded that much misapprehension prevails in his native country, and he would gladly be instru mental in removing a part of it. He does not indeed pretend to have given any of these subjects a systematic discussion; but they have been steadily kept in view as particularly deserving of attention, and he hopes that he has succeeded in bringing together a good deal of information, on matters of permanent interest and importance, without altogether excluding topics of a lighter kind, on which a traveller is generally permitted to be somewhat loquacious "touit deudvi bas „elicish botimet view od dawdHA 4700 eii 2199m ...The manner in which Mr. Duncan has executed his task, is highly creditable to his talents and powers of observation.We make no abatement for strong prejudices and prepossessions on the score of his own creed, which are bearable enough when set off by a free and vigorous espousal of the principle of entire liberty of conscience, and an unequivocal assertion of the impropriety of persecution or social annoyance for religious opinion of any kind. Were it not for this healthy and manly assurance, we might be led to remark upon the profusion to remark up for this healthy with which Mr. Duncan puts forward his Kirk of Scotland orthodoxy throughout the publication, and to doubt the qualification of "80 rigid an adherent to any one strong set of opinions to do justice to all the restus Hey however, who acknowledges the honourable blaws of the open field, acquires a right to maintain his own system to the best of his ability, and when and where he pleases and next,possibly, to that philosophical appreciation and impartiality, which is the rarest of all a traveller's endowments, is the report of an honest and able opinionist, whose bias is at once discoverable, and for which we as naturally make an allowance as the machinist for friction. We should have been equally satisfied, indeed, if Mr. Duncan had been not quite so stanch a Calvinist; if, for instance, like the Episcopalian of New York, whose sentiments he quotes, "he would shrink with horror from consigning Jews, Arians, and Socinians to indiscriminate perdition," but uniting, as he does, with the zeal of his creed, a portion of the vigorous spirit of independence which has associated that stirring species of puritanism with the rise and progress of civil liberty, we do our best to receive complacently the one with the other. ATT Mr. Duncan landed in New York in May, 1818, and favours us, in the first instance, with a very tolerable general sketch, reserving his more elaborate estimate of that important city to the close of his book. He then proceeds to Boston, when he gives an interesting account of the celebration of the 4th of July, the anniversary of American inde pendence; and in the oration of a Mr. Gray, composed for the occa dion, an honourable proof of the moderation and good sense of American republicanisin is afforded. The labourers in the rugged vineyard of prison discipline will also find some information here worth attending to. We can but smile at the lachrymals in the following account of Harvard College, coupled as they are with the unwilling acknowledgment of its leading scholastic and literary eminence 1961 9013 46 vingroqqs bcs 9181odels The literary and scientific reputation of Harvard University stands very highĩ and except Yale College, none in this country can contest with it the pre-eminence. It has upwards of twenty Professorships, and between three and four hundred stus dents. There is one feature, however, in its character, which e excites the most me lancholy reflections its theological creed is undisguised Socinianism, and it is vnið 948 that nearly all the professors are of these sentiments. This must be to a parent of scriptural sentiments, a powerful reason for sending his sons elsewhere for their college education; for what are literary or scientific attainments, even of the highest order, when weighed in the balance with purity of religious faith It is asserted, indeed, on bes half of the University, that ho attempt is made to proselyte its students, and that they are allowed to attend worship with whatever denomination they or their friends may choose. All this may be true so far as regards active and open endeavours to incul cate doctrinal sentiments, but what is to be the young enquirer's defence from that subtile leaven which is necessarily infused into almost every lecture upon morals and philosophy which affects the essentials of the system, and therefore all its ramified details; and which tinctures every conversation on a religious topic which meets his ear? Although he were safe from the influence of the lectures, who will warrant him against the ridicule and sophistry of his fellow-students; by far the greater part of whom are of Unitarian families, and who have been accustomed from their infancy to laugh at every distinguishing principle of that belief to which they deny the character of rationality? Four years' exclusive intercourse with Socinians, spent in acquiring ideas upon every subject of speculative and experimental truth, is an ordeal to which no Christian parent ought to expose his son. however great his confidence in the correctness of his principles and the vigour of his mind arvard University press issues the North American Review, beyond all rotnigorevoriler not songvON comparison the first literary journal in the United States. The reputed editor is Professor Everett, and it evinces in him and his coadjutors talents and acquirements, literary and philosophical, of a very superior order. Would that its theological opinions were from a purer source happily they are but seldom obtruded beas Who can doubt that Professor Everett, when he reads these volumes, would wish himself able to say the same thing of Mr. Duncan ?lan noqo of The following anecdote is highly honourable to the inhabitants of Boston: ai doidw visitsqmi bas noitsioongs leoidqozoling s Boston is by many reputed the most hospitable of all the large cities if the United States. It becomes not a wanderer, who has experienced kindness and attention wherever he has gone, to exalt one city at the expense of others, but I can with safety says I have met with nothing in Boston which is not perfectly in harmony with such a reputation. Let me, however, record an act of the citizens still more honourable than the ordinary deeds of hospitality. In the winter of 1816 a most destructive fire desolated a great part of the town of St. John's, in Newfoundland. When the tidings reached Boston, the sensations of sympathy and commise ration were instantaneous and powerful. They did not, however, exhaust themselves in unavailing expressions of regret; the townsmen determined that their kindly feelings should be felt as well as heard of. Forgetful that, the year before, the two countries had been enemies to each other; forgetful of every mercantile jea lousy, and the contested right to fishing on the banks, which America was eager to claim and Britain reluctant to concede-they recollected only, that hundreds of their fellow creatures had been burned out of their homes, amid the frosts, and fogs, and snows, of a Newfoundland winter, and that a great part of their winter provi sions had perished in the flames. That very day a vessel was chartered, and a full cargo of four, meat, and other provisions, industriously collected and put on heard that even the porters and carmen on the wharfs laboured gratuitously; and on the third day the vessel left the harbour, to brave the hardships and the dangers of a winter passage to that inhospitable shore. He who prompted theraet of humanity, watched over the means employed to accomplish it; the vessel reached Newfoundland in safety, entered the port, discharged her cargo, and returned, with the overflowing thanks and benedictions of many a grateful heart." We are next led to the state of Connecticut; and, in the account of Newhaven, we are favoured with some additional curious particulars of the fate of Goffe and Whalley, the fugitive Judges of Charles I, An elaborate, and apparently impartial comparison is also drawn by Mr. Duncan between the course of education at Yale College and that at the University of Glasgow. Indeed, to the state of academical education throughout the United States, our traveller necessarily pays consi derable attention.ini The result is encouraging as to gradual improve |