ρωθεν μαγνητις, τούτο προς ἑαυτην μαγ- agricultural or rent service, and who peryavevεi. De verá Virginitate. Mr. Moore reads the Fathers, it will be seen, very profitably, and for edification. formed fealty as a memorial of their attach- "The baron then bent his head forward and kissed the young man's forehead; and unloosing his hauds, Holgrave arose, and bending his head, stood to hear what De Bo teler might say.” This Stephen Holgrave, as we said before, marries his beautiful Margaret, much agaiust his master's will, and especially against the "The bondmen, or, legally speaking, the villeins, concluded the array. These were The Bondman; a Story of the Times of either attached to the soil or to the person. Wat Tyler. Smith, Elder, and Co. The former were designated villeins appenTHIS is the fifth volume of the very enter- dant, because following the transfer of the taining series of romances published underground, like fixtures of a freehold, their per- inclination of Calverley, his squire. Accordthe superintendance of Mr. Leitch Ritchie. sons, lands, and goods, being the property |ingly, this wicked squire employs all possible It is pleasant in our times to read and com- of the lord, they might be chastised, but means of persecuting Holgrave; he first ment on a work, which neither treats of not maimed. They paid a fine on the mar-accuses him of poaching, at which offence it fashion, nor French dishes, nor daudies, nor riage of females; who obtained their free-is needless to say that the anger of Lord de ladies'-maids, but contains some sketches of dom on marriage with a free man, but re- Boteler (and here he strongly resembles all character, some resemblance of a plot, and turned again to bondage on surviving their other lords) is particularly stirred up; but some attempts at that old-fashioned commo-husband. The latter class were called vil- the plot fails, and Holgrave returns home dity, a novel. leins in gross, and differed nothing from the again to his pretty wife, and his mother "The idea," says the author, "of the others except in name; the term signifying Edith, the moral old lady of whom we spoke tale was suggested on reading the first vo- that they were severed from the soil, and before. lume of Robertson's Charles the Fifth on followed the person of the lord. Neither of In the meantime the Lady de Boteler is the Feudal Policy of Germany; and the the classes were permitted to leave the lands delivered of a son, who is confided to the picture of moral and political debasement of their owner; and on flight or settlement care of a Mrs. Byles, (the wife of Calverley's presented in those pages, whether as regards in towns or cities, might be pursued and re-agent ;) the young nobleman is subject to fits, the oppressor or the oppressed. Those re- claimed. An action for damages lay against and dame Byles, having a high opinion of volting distinctions have however passed those who harboured them, or who refused Edith's medical skill, resorts to her for some away-villein is but a thing that was. to deliver them up; the law also provided a cure for the little lord's convulsions; Edith But if the old chronicles are to be credited, certain form of writ, by which the sheriff accordingly prepares a potion, with which the monk, whom the author has endeavoured was commanded to seize, or obtain them by the child is too liberally supplied, and from to pourtray in the course of this tale, was force. There was one mode, however, of the effects of which he dies. the first who whispered in the ear of an En- nullifying the right of capture. If the runglish serf, that slavery was not his birth-away resided on lands of the king for a right"—the monk, of course, is the friend of Mr. Southey's early days, John Ball. The first chapter introduces one skilfully enough to half a dozen of the principal characters of the piece. The Lord de Boteler, wilful and headstrong, as all feudal lords are; his squire, a regular villain of the Iago school; Stephen Holgrave, the bondman, who incurs a number of misfortunes from marrying a pretty wife, a very just and natural punishment for so gross an error. Then comes his pretty wife, and his mother, who dies in the first volume; much as we admire the death-scene, which is really told with a great deal of picturesque pathos, we must confess we were glad to part with the old lady, for her speeches, though moral and excellent, were somewhat prosy. year and a day, without claim, he could not "The Lord de Boteler's eye fell proudly for a moment on the assembled yeomen, as he took his seat for the first time as Lord of Sudley; but speedily the ceremony commenced. Now Calverley has another opportunity of wreaking his vengeance on Holgrave and his family; and poor Edith is accused of witchcraft and murder, tried and condemned. "Calverley summoned, or rather packed a jury, at which he himself presided; and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Edith. Apprehensive, however, that the charge of poisoning might not be sustained upon the unsupported testimony of Mary Byles he easily influenced the credulous jurors to believe that witchcraft had as much "The individual first summoned from to do with the child's death as poison. His among the group was a tall athletic young usual tact, however, had forsaken him on man of about twenty-five, with a complexion this occasion, and it was not until the verdict fair, but reddened through exposure to the was announced and recorded, that the unseasons. His hair was light-brown, thick welcome conviction flashed across his mind, aud curly, and there was a good-humoured that the temporal courts could exercise no expression in the clear grey eyes, and in the jurisdiction over the crime of witchcraft. full, broad, well-marked countenance, that It was now too late to alter the language of The time is the close of the fourteenth would give one the idea of a gay, thought- the inquisition. It had gone forth to huncentury, and the scene opens at Sudley Cas-less spirit, had it not been for the bold and dreds, who awaited its promulgation with intle, which, as Fuller says, of subjects' castles firm step, and the sudden change of feature tense anxiety; and the language of the ver was the most handsome habitation, and of from gay to grave, as he advanced to the plat-dict, that Edith Holgrave delivered to Mary subjects' habitations the strongest castle. form, and met unabashed the Baron's scru- Byles, a certain charmed or poisonous drug, The Lord de Boteler, in consequence of tiny, at once indicating that the man pos- for the purpose of destroying Roland de his father's death, holds his first court for sessed courage and decision when occasion Boteler, and which said drug was adminisreceiving the homage and fealty of his required these qualities to be called into tered to, aud caused the death of, the said Roland,' was in a few hours familiar to the whole town and neighbourhood. vassals. The tenantry are thus described. "First, the steward and squire stood on either side next the steps. "Then followed the vassals who held lands for watching and warding the castle. These were considered superior to the other vassals from the peculiar nature of their tenure, as the life-guards as it were of their lord. "Then those who held lands in chivalry, namely, by performing stated military services, the perfection of whose tenures was homage. "The next were those who held lands by action. Stephen Holgrave ascended the marble steps, and proceeded on till he stood at the baron's feet. He then unclasped the belt of his waist, and having his head uncovered, knelt down, and holding up both his hands, De Boteler took them within his own, and the yeoman said in a loud distinct voice "Lord Roland de Boteler, I become your man from this day forward, of life and limb and earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith, for the lands that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereiga lord the king." "Calverley was too well aware of the jealous vigilance the church exercised in cases appertaining to its jurisdiction, not to feel apprehensive that its influence might be exerted to defeat the operation of the tem poral court; for, although the ecclesiastical courts could not award the last penalty to persons convicted of witchcraft or heresy, yet they were as tenacious of their exclusive right to investigate such cases, as if they possessed the power to punish. When a person accused of those crimes was adjudged to die, a writ was issued from the court of "Calverley had beheld the group as they entered the court, and instantly averting his eyes from the mother and son, he fixed them upon Margaret. King's Bench, called a writ de herctico com- "The news of these transactions had no sooner reached the ears of Father John, than he hastened to the abbot of Winchcombe, for the purpose of beseeching him to demand the prisoner in the name of the church. crificed, to cover the guilt, or hide the thought|lessness, of another.” There then arises a great quarrel between the functionaries, legal and ecclesiastical, as to which shall judge the prisoner; however, as she is for the moment under the power of the law, the legal anthorities very naturally and consistently refuse to give her up. The jury which tries her is packed of course, but there is one honest fellow amongst them who holds out. "During their mock deliberation Edith remained at the bar; but when the hour had passed away, and no probability appeared of an immediate verdict, she was directed by the judge to be taken back to prison until the jury had agreed. "It was nearly noon the next day, when the under-sheriff entered the room to ask if their opinions were yet unanimous. The galleyman still refused. "A momentary thought of Oh, had she been mine, would she have looked thus?" and an execration against Holgrave, told that the demon had not wholly possessed her quondam lover; but the next moment, as Holgrave, after looking round the assembly, "My friend,' said Manlove; 'it matcaught the eye of his enemy, the solitary ters little now whether you agree with your feeeling of humanity died away, and Calver- brethren or not, the woman is at this moley turned from the fierce glance of the ment dying! The verdict is therefore of yeoman with all the malignity of his heart little moment to her she can never be newly arrayed against him. brought into court to receive judgment— "After the usual preliminaries, the in-guilty or innocent, the law can have nothing dictment was read, and Edith called upon to to do with her; but I would advise you to plead. look to yourself; you will not be released till she is dead. Your brethren are accustomed to fasting, but you look ready to drop from your seat; and, if the woman linger many hours, you will certainly be guilty of felo de se.' "Not guilty, my lord,' she replied, in a voice so loud and distinct, that the surprised hearers wondered so feeble a creature could possess such a voice. "The fate of the obscure Edith Holgrave became a question which kindled the fires of party zeal in half the noble breasts in the kingdom. It is not to the purpose of our story to describe the intrigue which, at this period, tore asunder the court of Edward. Suffice it to say, that after many stormy dis- "The evidence was then entered into, cussions in the cabinet, at which the abbot's and Mary Byles was called into the witnessfirst messenger, Father John, and De Boteler box. A rod was handed to her to identify himself, were interrogated, the church tri-the prisoner, and she then, without ventur umphed; the Baron of Sudley was condemned to offer an expiatory gift, and a writ was issued to prohibit the court of assize from trying the prisoner. "With a little more persuasion, and the most solemn assurances that the verdict could not possibly affect Edith, the galleyman at length reluctantly consented to agree with the eleven, aud the foreman gave in the verdict of guilty. 66 6 'Dying! repeated the judge, 'yesterday she spoke with the voice of one who had years to live. Perhaps she wishes to defer the sentence, which she well merits, by feigning illness. If she will not rise from her bed, bring her into court upon it!" ing to encounter the look of her whose life she was about to swear away, deposed to having received the liquid which had occasioned the child's death, from Edith; aud to "Let the prisoner be brought up for certain mysterious words and strange ges-judgment ? said Skipwith to the officer in "The next morning, Sir Robert Skipwith,tures used by the prisoner, on delivering the waiting. chief justice of England, entered the court, phial. "It is impossible, my lord-the woman and took his seat on the bench. After the "When she had concluded, Edith ques-is dying!' names of the jury were called over, Black tioned her if she had not, at the time of Jack, and the eleven, respectively answered, giving her the medicine, warned her of its and entered the box, clad in respectable yeo- dangerous strength, and strictly enjoined men's or burgher's apparel, and their coun- her not to administer more than ten drops; tenances wearing a gravity suitable to the but Mary, prepared for such questions, posioccasion. They looked like a jury to whom tively denied the fact, alleging, that Edith either a guilty or innocent prisoner would, had merely desired her, when she saw the unhesitatingly, have committed his cause. child looking pale, to give it the contents of When the prisoner was asked whether she the phial. had any objection to the jury, and told, that “My lord,' said Edith, in her defence, if so, she might challenge the number pre-this woman has sworn falsely. The mediscribed by law, the attention of the specta- cine I gave was a sovereign remedy, if given tors was naturally fixed on Edith, who re- as I ordered. Ten drops would have saved plied in the negative; and her face and the child's life; but the contents of the figure were certainly ill-calculated to make a favourable impression. "Her face was shrivelled and yellow, and the dark full eyes that now as it were stood forth from the sunken cheeks, looked with a strange brightness on the scene, and seemed well adapted to stamp the character of witch on so withered a form. And perhaps there were few of those entirely uninterested in the matter who now gazed upon her, who would not have sworn that she merited the stake. "The officer departed, and shortly afterwards reappeared, and informed the judge that the abbot of Gloucester was standing beside the prisoner, and threatened to excommunicate the first who presumed to remove her. "Does he? Does he dare think to evade justice thus: this subterfuge shall not avail !' phial destroyed it. The words I uttered exclaimed Skipworth with vehemence, and were prayers for the life of the child. My then musing an instant, he continued: No, children, aud all who know me, can bear this subterfuge shall not avail-I will couwitness that I have a custom of asking His stitute the cell of the criminal a court of blessing upon all I take in hand. I raised justice for this occasion. Officers of the my eyes towards heaven, and muttered words; court proceed. I go to pronounce a just but, my lord, they were words of prayer-sentence;' and then rising from the bench, and I looked up, as I prayed, to the footstool of the Lord. But it is in vain to contend: the malice of the wicked will triumph, and Edith Holgrave, who even in thought never harmed one of God's creatures, must be sa and preceded by his officers, he departed to adopt the unprecedented course of passing sentence in a prison. "When the door of the dungeon was thrown open, Skipwith started at the unex "Yes, Margaret,' replied Holgrave, 'John | was selected for the trial, for the purpose of Byles is to have it; he told the smith so showing the tenantry what they might exhimself. But,' he continued, sitting upright pect from the commission of an offence of in his chair, and then starting upon his feet, such rare occurrence. The hall was thronged -'does he think he shall keep it.' to suffocation; for many more were attracted "Margaret shuddered as she looked in by the expected trial than by the familiar his eyes. business of a manorial court, and the people beguiled the time till the entrance of De Boteler, in commenting on the transaction. pected sight he beheld; but instantly re- "Holgrave suddenly rose from his knees, and withdrew to the farthest corner of the cell. Margaret continued to kneel, and raised her burning eyes towards the judge with terrified astonishment. "The abbot turned pale with rage as he beheld the somewhat abashed Skipwith enter. "What! impious man! Do you thirst so for innocent blood that you harass the last moments of the dying! Retire, or I curse thee-depart, ere I invoke heaven's wrath on thine head! "Insolent priest!' returned Skipwith, in a suppressed tone. as his look wandered from the abbot to the distorted features of the departing. I come, not as an individual to harass, but as a judge to fulfil the law.' "He then put on the black cap, and slowly commenced the sentence. The life that had seemed to have departed from the still and contracted form rallied for a moment; the eyes unclosed and fixed on the appalled countenance of Skipwith; and, when the concluding invocation of mercy for the soul of the criminal fell tremulously from the lips of the judge, she, in a voice low but distinct, answered Amen!" and then a slight tremor and a faint gasp released the soul of Edith. "A wild shriek from Margaret and a smothered groan from Holgrave interrupted the abbot. The judge turned silently away, and left the dungeon; and, as there was now no prisoner to confin, the door was left open after him.” Holgrave, her son, and John Ball, the priest, who has appeared but little till yet, determine to bury Edith, who has been denied the rites of Christian sepulture by the illiberal functionaries of the law. The burial takes place, but Holgrave is discovered; for the commission of this deed his farm is taken from him, and given to John Byles. His revenge, and its punishment, are described in the following animated "Silence!' was at length vociferated by a dozen court-keepers, and Calverley was asked if he was ready to begin. The steward answered in the affirmative, and slowly read the indictment, during which a profound silence was maintained throughout the hall. "Are you guilty or not guilty?' asked Calverley, in a tone, the emotion of which even his almost perfect control of voice could not disguise. "Thomas Calverley, replied Holgrave, firmly, if you mean me to say whether burned my cottage or not, I will tell these honest men (looking at the jury) that I did so. All here present know the rest. "A buzz of disapprobation at this confession was heard, and the epithet 'fool, fool!" was faintly whispered; and then another loud cry of silence! was shouted from the court-keepers, as De Boteler appeared about to speak. "Stephen stood at the door of his hut, looking with an air of derision on the vain efforts of the people to extinguish the flames; and Margaret wept as she saw the flames rising, and brightening, and consuming the house which she still loved to look upon, even now that it was for ever lost to her. The roof at length fell in, and myriads of burning particles, sparkling like diamonds, showered for a moment in glittering beauty. "Holgrave was still looking on the conYou have heard his confession,' said flagration that had in a great measure spent the baron. See, steward, that he is sent to its fury, when Wat Turner came up to him, Gloucester, to receive sentence from the and applying a hearty smack on the shoulder-king's judge, when he goes the next assize. "A famous house-warming for John Record the verdict, and let the record be Byles,' said he. 'By Saint Nicholas! I transmitted to the superior court.' wish his furniture had been in, to have made the fire burn brisker. 'Tis almost over now; there it goes down, and then it comes up again, by fits and starts: 'tis a pity too to see the house which stood so snugly to-day, a black and smoky ruin to-morrow; but better a ruin, than a false heart to enjoy it. "Be brief, Sir Blacksmith,' replied the By Saint Nicholas ! 'twill give the old gos-baron, surprised at the abrupt question; "be sips talk for the whole week. Aye, 'tis all brief with whatever you have to say." over now; there will still be a spark and a puff now-and-then; but there's nothing to see worth keeping the karles any longer from their beds, and I think it is time that we be in our's-so good-night. But a word with you, Stephen; you did the business yourself this time without help; but, mind you, if ever Wat Turner can lend you a hand, you have only to say so-Good-night.' "Good-night,' replied Holgrave, though without moving his eyes from the now darkly smoking ruin; and there he stood with unchanging gaze till the sky had entirely lost its ruddy hue, and the smouldering embers of the cottage could no longer be distinguished; and then he entered his dwelling, and, closing the door, threw himself upon his bed but not to sleep." Chapter VII. "An hour had not elapsed since Holgrave retired to bed, before the cottage-door was burst open, and Calverley, with a strong body of retainers, entered, and arrested him for the felony. "Wat Turner, whose attention was anxiously fixed on the proceedings, now stept forward, and, forcing his way till he stood opposite the baron, demanded, in a voice of mingled anger and supplication, May I be heard, Baron De Boteler?' "I was going to say, my lord, that poor Stephen here has called nobody to speak to his good character; but may be it isn't wanting, for every man here, except one, would go a hundred miles to say a good word for him. But, my lord, I was thinking how much money that house of Holgrave's cost in building-Let me see, about twenty flo|rences:—and then, at a shilling a-head from all of us here,' looking round upon the yeomen, would just build it up again. I, for one, would not care about doing the smith's work at half-price, and there's Denby the mason, and Cosgrave the carpenter, say they would do their work at the same rate. By St. Nicholas! (using his favourite oath,) twelve florences would be more than enough. Well then, my lord, the business might be settled,'-and he paused as if debating whether he should go farther, "And what then, impudent knave," asked the baron; what is the drift of this long-winded discourse?' "Why then, my lord,' replied Turner, this matter settled, I, and these vassals of "The fourth day from his committal hap-your's here, would ask you to give this foolpened to be a court-day of the manor, and it ish mau free-warren again. We (mind your lordship) going bail for his good bearing from but, ere he resigns his freedom, he would "He ceased, and fixed his eyes anxiously on De Boteler, who seemed collecting a storm of anger to overwhelm the unwelcome suitor. "The baron reflecting that his dignity would be in some measure compromised by thus compromising the smith's rough eloquence, commanded him in a harsh tone to be silent, although it was evident, from his altered looks, that his heart had felt the rude appeal. He beckoned Calverley to approach, and they remained for some moments in ear-hall, or nest discourse. ""Neighbours,' said Turner in a whisper, 'my lord is softened. Let us cry out for pardon.' And the hint was not long lost upon the people; in an instant a deafening cry of Pardon, pardon for Stephen Holgrave!' resounded through the hall. The unexpected supplication startled the astonished De Boteler, and a loud threat marked his displeasure at the interruption. Silence was again shouted by the hall-keepers. "Prisoner,' resumed De Boteler, assuming a tone of severity, “you are forgiven; but upon this condition, that you renounce your freedom, and become my boudman.' "Become a bondman!' cried the smith, disappointed and mortified at the alternative: Stephen, I would sooner die.' "Silence, knave!' said the baron, the man answer for himself.' let "It was on this spot too,' persisted the smith, where but two years ago he did homage for the land you gave him; and, by St. Nicholas! baron, boastful and proud was he of the gift; and if you heard him, as did, that same day, praying for blessings heart so cruelly for all the cottages in upon you, you could not now rive his bold England." I "Audacious monk!' said he at length, this is thy own counsel;-away, quit the assure our readers that they will find the rest of this amusing novel well worthy their perusal. Græcorum Casuum Analysis. De vera cas suum verborum, reflectionumque in genese, natura, et origine atque etiam de veris Græcorum nominum flectendorum legibus, Brevis disputatio. A Carolo Seager. Londini. Auctoris impensis excudebat. pp. 70. 1833. Valpy. "Hold, Lord De Boteler,' interrupted Father Johu, calmly; the threat need not pass thy lips. I go; but before I depart I Si quid," says Mr. Seager, “hic utile cernet shall say, in spite of mortal tongue or mortal [lector]. Deo laudem omnem deferat." The hand, that honour and true knighthood no piety of this observation is more apparent longer preside in this hall, where four gene-sical to give to the Lord praise for an analythau its good sense. It is somewhat whimratious upheld them unsullied.' "Strike down the knave!' cried Desis, no matter how successful, of Greek Boteler, rising fiercely from his seat. Drive nominative and genitive cases: but the little him forth like a dog,' continued he, as the essay is ingenious enough nevertheless. The monk, without quickening his pace, walked analogy which the author shows between the proudly away: but no band responded to the Greek and Sanscrit is very striking. baron's mandate. A cry arose of Touch not the Lord's anointed!' and the monk was permitted to depart as he came, unharmed. "Now, sirrah,' said the baron, whose anger was aroused to the highest pitch; 'say the word-is it death or bondage?' From the equals 9np-os and of-a"Holgrave trembled; he cast a longing, beast take the equals np and a beast, of eager glance towards the door. Margaret and of will remain. was in the pains of labour, brought on by the the force of the English preposition of, and shock she received on his arrest; and this it the whole compound word is in every parwas that caused him to hesitate. His face ticular similar to the English compound brightened as he beheld the animated ruddy thereof (i. e. that of or of that.) So also face of a serving-boy, who breathlessly ap-composition is perfectly similar to the Enis np-1, 1=Syl. to, and the whole proached. He bent forward his head to him he was a father, and then, with a joy catch the whispered intelligence that told which he strove not to conceal, announced "Yes, my lord, HE is free!' "Calverley's countenance displayed the mortification with which he received the intelligence, but presented the Gospels to Holgrave in silence. "Pale as death, and with downcast eyes, Holgrave in the meantime stood trembling at the bar. His resolution to brave the worst had, with a heart-wringing struggle, yielded to the yearnings of the father and the love of the husband. The bondmen pressed forward and marked the change; but that scrutinizing gaze, which he would so recently hare repelled with a haughty rebuke, was "Notwithstanding the recent flush of now unheeded, and his eyes remained fixed pleasure which warmed the heart of the yeoon the ground, to avoid contact with that de-man, his resolution appeared again to forsake graded class with whom he was soon to be him; he endeavoured to speak, but in vain ; Iloked in brotherhood. he appeared to be overwhelmed by a variety of contending emotions; but the stern voice of De Boteler aroused him, and in a choaked voice he pronounced after Calverley the fealty of a boudman, holding his right hand over the book: "Just as the baron was about to put the dreaded interrogatory, to the surprise of all, Father John entered the hall, and walked with a firm step towards the justice-seat. The monk had not visited the castle since his expulsion, and he had now po desire to stand again where his profession as a priest, and his pride as a man, had been subjected to contumely; but the desire of aiding Holgrave in his defence had overcome his resolution. "What dost thou here, monk?" asked De Boteler, sterply, after my orders that you should never more enter this hall.' "Baron De Boteler, I have not willingly obtruded myself. The duty of affording counsel to this unfortunate man impelled me to enter thus once again. Stephen Holgrave must choose the bondage, because he would live for his wife and his yet unborn child; "Hear you, my Lord De Boteler, that I, Stephen Holgrave, from this day forth, unto you shall be true and faithful, and shall owe you fealty for the land which I may hold of you in villeinage, and shall be justified by you both in body aud goods, so help me God."" The child, however, which has been born to Holgrave dies, just at the time that the Lady De Boteler gives birth to a second son. Burning with revenge for the wrongs inflicted on him by his master, Holgrave steals this infant; and with this ends the first book of the novel. We would willingly extend our quotations, but our limits oblige us to conclude. We We translate one specimen of his mode of analysis. "Let us analyze the Greek cases, the matter in question. The Greek no-os is equivalent to the English of a beast, for np is equivalent to the English a beast. Oc therefore has here He contends that it is nonsensical to call glish composition of there-to." The other the nominative the root, because, in fact, it is derived from the theme in the same manner as the rest, and is not the parent, but the sister, of the cases. cases are dissected in the same manner. These considerations are more curious than important; but they have their value in the eyes of scholars, to whom we can safely recommend the reading of Mr. Seager's little treatise. in some smart radical journal the day after man in brown! Fraser contains a clever | Thalia, in splendid cars, paraded the streets Sir William Ingilby's successful motion for article on Mirabeau, in which a curious, but of Stratford, and a bust of Shakspeare in diminishing the malt-tax; but all its point somewhat minute, and in some parts cruelly front of the house in which he was born is lost, and all its argument wasted, when minute, parallel between that orator and was crowned with laurel, and an appropriate we read it after the division of Tuesday last. Lord Byron is instituted. The claim of ode delivered. There was also a grand pubBlackwood contaius few good papers. Tom Dumout to be the "Maker of Mirabeau," is lic dinner, illuminations, fire-works, balls, Cringle is always amusing, but his day is completely demolished. But, in the name concerts, masquerades, and public breakalmost exhausted, and is becoming some of the Bench, why is this paper called a fasts, and the festivities continued for four what tiresome. The Twaddle on Tweedside," Speech in Banquo Regina?" Banquo, days. Last week, however, from causes, is twaddle indeed. The Professor must or his ghost, have nothing to do with the we fear political, the commemoration was exert himself. The number contains, how-bench. We thought it was a misprint for shorn of its great attraction—namely, the ever, some excellent translations from De Banco, but we find it repeated at the head pageant, which, uecessarily expensive, was La Martine; but more suited to our pages, of every page. Coleridge's strange poem, amply provided for on the two former occais the following sprightly version of Beran-"The Two round Spaces," which have al- sions by the liberal subscriptions of the noger's song: ready appeared in the National Standard, bility and gentry of Warwickshire, without are reprinted here from a more authentic regard to party feeling. As it was, there copy, apparently from authority. The illus- was a considerable influx of strangers last trious literary character of the month is Tuesday to Stratford, from Birmingham, Benjamin D'Israeli. The print is like him- Leamington, Coventry, Worcester, Kenilthe "Life" is a parody on the rhyming prose worth, and a few from London. A grand of his Alroy. Sylvanus Urban keeps on the dinner was provided in Shakspeare Hall, and quiet tenor of his way, as full of churches numerously and respectably attended. This and antiquities as ever. The British Ma-spacious room, which contains the celebrated gazine for the month abounds in information full-length picture of Garrick, by Gainsantiquarian as well as ecclesiastical, some-borough, and of Shakspeare, by Wilsov, in what too grave for the National Standard. a sitting position in a study, was decorated Then come the Sporting Magazine, Cob-iu a tasteful manner. Banners bearing titles bett's, and half-a-dozen others, inferior in of Shakspeare's plays were arranged around note and merit; they are all, however, the room, interspersed with laurel and apworth the reader's perusal, blending, as the posite mottos. The exterior was illumichildren's books say, instruction with amuse-nated, and the statue of Shakspeare, pre THE LITTLE BROWN MAN. A little man we've here Upon town, He's as brisk as bottled beer, And without a shilling rent, Lives content; For d'ye see says he, my plan? D'ye see, says he, my plan? My plan ye see's to-laugh at that! Sing merrily, sing merrily, the little brown mar! When every mad grisette He has toasted, till his score Holds no more; Then, head and ears in debt, inent. We find the following tomfoolery in the —a star-ypointed pyramid, [And curst be he who stirs my bones,] sented by Garrick, in the niche fronting the street, was crowned with laurel. The whole had an inspiring effect. The mayor, J. Mills, Esq., presided, and was supported by many influential gentlemen of the county, and the dinner passed off with great hilarity. Bands of music, fireworks, &c., entertained the spectators. “On Wednesday evening, the new theatre, erected on the site of the garden where Shakspeare, by traditional report, planted the famed mulberry-tree, was opened and well attended. "The following day various rejoicings took place, and numerous parties were seen hastening to the places hallowed by the memory of Shakspeare—his tomb and monument-his birth-place-the spot where he resided when he retired from London iu affluence, and the scene of his boyish exploits and earlier courtship, in the neighbouring villages. "On Friday evening this third triennial commemoration concluded by a grand masquerade in Shakspeare Hall, and the characters, principally from the works of the poet the company had met to celebrate, were ably sustained. In conclusion, it should be stated, the committee of the Royal Shakspearian Club exerted themselves in a praiseworthy manner to give effect to the intention of the subscribers and visitors." ORIGINAL PAPERS. AND VERSE FAVORITES AMONG HIS OWN WRITINGS. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S PROSE WE learn, in the new edition of the Series of Sir Walter Scott's poetry, the first volume of which was published yesterday, and of which we gave a notice last week, that his |