One of the mice, which take daily turns in this employment, has lost part of his tail, and a gentleman who was present while we were examining the apparatus, asked a friend who was standing near him, why it was that the mouse ran constantly round in one direction. "Because," answered the other, "he is in pursuit of the piece of tail he has lost." This brings us to the end of our notice of this week; in our next we shall enumerate several nautical improvements of much value. FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Illustrations of Modern Sculpture. Parts I. and II. And sorrow keeps her marble state, The place of glooms!-the house of sighs!- With fairer form and brighter eyes, Poems. It will never rank with his popular compositions. Herbert Rodwell and Charles Horn have two songs, which are among the best of the volume-but still are not gifted with the catching qualities which are now so much in request, "To witch the ear and storm the heart." On the whole, the instrumental pieces of the Bijou are much better than the vocal. It contains some lively marches, roudeaus, waltzes, and quadrilles. Its usual poets have contributed to its pages, Bayly, Lindley, Mrs. Hemans, and Mrs. C. B. Wilson; the latter has some verses on Christmas, the best things she ever wrote. We quote a few of them : "Christmas! what memories from the fount of time Dost thou call up, within the musing mind! The lov'd-the lost !-(by death, or distant clime For ever sunder'd ;) in the heart enshrin'd!Some, who were wont to deck with mystic bough' And dearer smiles, our hearth :-why are they absent Now? "In ev'ry house there stands some empty chair Some link has drop'd from love's bright chain Some heart that used the season's mirth to share heard We must defer our second notice of Major's Then, the deep waters of the heart, are stir'd, By the lone exile, in a distant land,) Gallery, one more week. MUSIC. NEW PUBLICATIONS. In our last we made slight allusion to this very beautiful work of art. The first part has, however, been so long published, that we shall confine our notice to the second. We observe, by a paper printed with it, that most of the eminent sculptors, whose works have been engraved, have congratulated Mr. T. K. Harvey, the editor, on the happy manner in which he has executed his task of getting them faithfully copied, and illustrating them with the descriptive richness (so to speak) of his own poetic fancy, which seems to us to have dwelt upon and harmonized with every object it depicts. The first plate in the part before us exhibits Chantrey's reclining figure of Resignation, and is one of the most lovely of Corbould's designs. Nothing indeed can exceed the meek calmness of expression which pervades the look, and we had almost said, the posture of the recumbent form,-which is enveloped with a drapery equalling in grace the finely rounded limbs-among whose beauties it is folded. Next follows Maternal Love, from Baily, a group pourtraying one of the heart's kindliest and most natural feelings, with all the exquisite intensity which imagination gives ALTHOUGH we have deferred the continua to truth. The third and last plate is the tion of our original paper on Home Music, Hebe of Thorwalsden,-a form truly embo- we can yet only find room for a notice of one dying all the admiration and pleasure which of the new publications which are heaped may induce those who view it to call it, before us in numbers sufficient to originate a as Harvey has done, in his illustration, a fancy that all the millions of England had, "beautiful spirit!" There is a perfectness, in-like Othello, lost their occupation, and taken deed, about all the illustrations, which must please the sculptors themselves-as much as it reflects credit on the artist and engraver. The task of illustrating has been a delightful one, which Mr. Harvey has no less delightfully fulfilled. The poems are full of fancies, as luxurious as they are abundant,-as fertile as they are full of all the imagery of the east, and the wilder imaginings of things in fairy land. The verses applied to Maternal Love we fancy to have seen before ; but those entitled Resignation are new, and as true and beautiful as the sculpture itself. These we shall transfer to our columns. RESIGNATION. Elle m'attend. Le premier au rendezvous. Inscriptions on Tombs, in Père La Chaise. The home where love lies down to wait, Through all the day of earthly glooms; The Musical Bijou for 1833. Edited by F. H. Burney. London Goulding and D'Almaine. And from its streams, flow forth th' imprison'd band Of crush'd affections ;-'mid life's brightest scene The shadowy spectres rise, of Joys that once have been!' 'Tis meet it should be so!-earth was not made For sunshine only-but for clouds and storm; Thrice happy they, who, walking thro' its shade, Have early learn'd, their hopes aright to form ;And view life's brightest gems, as talents given, For which (its stewards here) we must account to heav'n ! "Christmas! I now dismiss thee, fruitful theme, That has beguil'd me of a weary hour! The Muse who watches o'er the poet's dream Hath held me long a captive in her bower; Tis time I wake, and burst her magic spell, to ballad singing. As the most consequen-Season of hope and peace! I bid thee now farewell!" tial looking volume in this melodious pile, Next week our musical department will we take the Musical Bijou. be more rich. Of the actual illustrations of this annual, for we do not notice the vignettes, there are three, two very pretty and one very bad. The French artist Deveria has perpetrated the latter, and it rather discredits his reputation. The book is prettily bound, lettered, and gilt-edged. So much for embellishments and externals-now for the contents. The Thames, a ballad, by Neukomm; is a clever composition, as regards science, but not very striking. A Briton's Home, by Hodson, is indeed far more so, and certainly the best thing in the book: it is a bold, vigorous, and sprightly ballad. His other song, With Thee beside Me,' is also pretty. There is nothing remarkable about A. Lee's ballad, The Dark-eyed Girl of Cadiz,' from Byron's ་ DRAMA. WE have nothing this week to report except the production of Mr. Jerrold's play of Nell Gwynne, which we noticed as forthcoming in our last. The paper which announced it was written expressly for the National Standard; but as our Journal goes to press on Thursday with its country edition, the Morning Papers had printed it on the Friday, and thus, appearing in our London edition, we may have lost the credit of publishing it originally-which we were the first to do. Having explained this, we must now frankly own that our dramatic writer was prevented by illness from attending the performance it COVENT GARDEN. self; and we have therefore taken the report | family of genius' which belongs immortally ing it, in her large coach-wheel bonnet and of another Journal-the True Sun-for to the drama. The whole thing was de waist belt, in ridicule of the other house, which Mr. Leigh Hunt usually pens the the-lightfully managed, well dressed, and in a her eye catches that of her friend, "the atrical articles. After this week, our notices real style. Every little detail had its relish. Mercer," in the dress of Majesty, and in the will be entirely our own; and marked, we Beyond all, Orange Moll! Not that she state box. She hesitates, forgets Dryden's trust, with originality and independence. was a "little detail,”-though not gigantic lines, comes forward, and begs to substitute Referring to our review of the House of Col-in stature. She was the presiding genius of her own, in the shape of an epilogue. They berg, as a sample of our dramatie opinions the pit-most original and entertaining. | were smartly written, and with much pleagenerally, we will now proceed to Nell Her busy importance, her half insolent, santness of appeal. The applause at the fall Gwynne. half good-natured humour,-her bridling of the curtain was long and well deserved. and sidling,-the rich drollery and apprehenMr. Jerrold's Nell Gwynne is delightful.siveness with which she "smokes" the It abounds in pleasant things, in comic tact, King-his "most Christian Majesty!" We in taste, in wit, in feeling. It has the true wished to buy an orange of her. But see relish of originality about it, and smacks of Nelly (who has lightly escaped from her the time. Names are not introduced for the" mercer ") euters with her basket, "laden names' sake, but with a purpose-and it is a pithy and pleasant one. Nelly herself kind-hearted, good-natured, sprightly Nelly, -loses nothing of her natural air. There she is, to-night, at Covent-garden, powerful at pleasing and ready to be pleased-saying smart and witty things-the same as in the "diaries"—a delightful compound of mirth, and grace, and sentiment, and pleasureairy, thoughtless, triumphant ! Nothing could have been managed better. Her whole career is indicated (and, we hope we may say, by her earnest and social spirit redeemed,) in the brief sketch which Mr. Jerrold has given us. We have her life before us, and without a regretful spot,-uothing to make the kind heart sorrowful, or the prude angry. This is fine instinctive tact. A less skilful hand would have attempted a sketch from Sir Peter Lely's portrait, to the horror of many, and the satisfaction of none. 66 The acting throughout was excelleut. Miss Taylor held her head up, kept her faults down, and did real justice to her undoubted comic talent. There was an air of graceful yet affectionate coquetry about her bearing, varied with little touches of simplicity, that with pippins and Hesperian fruit,”—and were delightful. Sometimes, it is true, after Moll's reign is over. A pleasant scene saying a good thing, she sailed about the ensues-the King recognizes Nelly,--gets stage in the triumph of it, with too conher to sing-sets rival managers by the ears scious a self-satisfaction. This is her fault : to secure her services,-and throws Moll and then she is too strivingly pathetic in into a fit of unutterable jealousy and amu. some of her tones. But there was great sing scorn. Nelly goes off behind the scenes feeling in her acting altogether, much archwith the managers and the king-(still igno- ness, and a seuse of the pleasurable, which rant of his rank,) and while Moll is sneer- kept the idea of "pretty little Nelly" fresh ing at her, and mimicking her wearing a before us. Keeley's Orange Moll was sumask, which she had snatched from her perb in every way; in face, in dress, in basket,-on rush four or five bravoes headed step, in immeasurable impudence, and saucy by Joe Haines, and hired by the old coun- insolence, and delicate coarseness of style. sellor-seeing her mask, and dress, and We never saw anything more happy. Keeley basket, they mistake her for Nelly, and rioted in it. Jones looked the King rehurry her off, nothing loth at her new for-markably well, and played with much taste tune, but affecting a pathetic modesty, and and spirit. Blanchard's Counsellor was a half attempting to retrograde with much rich and oily piece of old debauchery. We virgin grimace. will swear to his having made a capital Muggletonian during the Commonwealth. The reflected tone of the conventicle was in his sigh of riotous old appetite. This is the end of the first act, the interest of which is various and abundant, and the dialogue full of address and elegance. Nor The story in the piece is managed very does the second flag in the smallest degree, adroitly and interestingly, and with consi in interest or dialogue. Its scene is the derable stage effect. It commences with Mitre Tavern; Orange Moll is suoring in Nelly's unsuccessful attempts to get upon an inner room, waiting her blushing meeting the stage, and a withered old Counsellor's with the counsellor; Nelly is on the stage unsuccessful attempts to get possession of talking with the king and Burkely, who Nelly. A convenient French milliner is the have brought her from the theatre. A hired go-between, but with no effect. At series of laughable mistakes and equivoques her house of call, for the encouragement of ensue, supported with great smartness of gallantry and luxury,— Charles and his character and language. The king and his friend overhear the sprightly wit of Nelly, friend are locked up for want of money to and the goatish doating of the Counsellor. discharge the bill (a fact, and appropriately She protests to him at last that she is al- introduced here), the counsellor comes for ready married to a young mercer of his prize. Nelly humours him-substitutes Bishopsgate," and the merry King comes Orange Moll (still in the mask) for herself, forward, aud to the wondering amazement and Moll receives the addresses of the of Nelly, and the confusion of the Counsel- counsellor with a fading repugnance, meltlor, declares himself her injured husband.ing at last before successive glasses of wine. She falls in at length with the joke, humours The whole of this is admirably managedit, and some smart dialogue ensues, full of the voice of the real Nelly behind the pleasant equivoque and repartee. Charles chair, supplying with words the exquisite and his new acquaintance sally out together, with very happy self-possession, and mutual jokes at the Counsellor. The whole of this scene is written with great spirit and success, and the entire effect of it went where it was wanted. Following this shortly, we are introduced into the lobby leading to the Pit of the old King's Theatre, Drury-lane. The very name in the bills was pleasant-but the place itself! and Mohun and Hart, and Betterton, the Duke's manager, and Joe Haines! living and moving before us, with their delightful associations, from the preceding age,of that great | We cannot conclude without congratulating Mr. Jerrold on the most deserved success of this admirable little piece. We think it the very best thing his clever pen has yet given to the stage. It is written with a delicate tact, and much apprehensiveness of character. The language is terse, close, and witty, and informed with thinking. We had noted many pleasant touches, but have not space to mention them. We object to the hit at Dryden, not for its want of truth, for it is but too true; but the failings of such a man are not, at all events, for the correction of a stage audience, and ought not to be set up as marks for irreverent objectors. There are some other minor objections which we shall make, perhaps, hereafter. We can only now find room to tell Mr. Jerrold that he must write henceforward up to the wit, and point, and character, of his Nell Gwynne. He has proved at last, that, to silent pantomime of the feigned Nelly, his hitherto undoubted talent of homely pawhose want of" squeamishness" delights the thos, and strong characteristic tact, he joins counsellor. He is of course cheated in every a real feeling for the pleasanter aspect of way-has to pay bills endless-and gets things, for kindheartedness, goodnature, poetic justice in the shape of a sound beating; and the ready and cordial wit of a happy Moll retires, languishingly supported by spirit. Joe Haines, and staggering with a most unvirgin-like step, and Nelly runs off to speak the prologue to Dryden's Conquest of Granada, at the King's Play House. ORIGINAL POETRY. TO ISABEL. With the delivery of this prologue the "Oh, the dear blush that stole gradually piece ends, (abruptly it may be thought ;) over her face and neck, after I asked her the we confess we liked it. As Nelly is speak-question. Shall I ever forget it! or the an swer that came whispering from her lips into my eager ear. No wonder I admire her still more and more now, when she has become my sweet little wife. No wonder I often think with interest of the occurrence that made her mine at last."-Athenæum. Bride of my heart to thee I fling Go, frown on them--and gather them When, like a dream, their light may gleam Away with them, away with them, Far-Bird-like be their flight; I would not have them tread again Their birth was ever beautiful, Their end was dim and dark, If they were doves-ob, may they ne'er My heart-their home of hope-is now Upon her silver wings. A rainbow, deep, but dolphin-like, That never fades or flies. A love that came--but cannot go, By day it followeth mine eyes, Away from thee, its spirit thoughts If all its fervor were not won From thee-to whom I bow and bend, I could not love another thus, I could not love thee more. There is a flower they tell us turns So constantly I turn to thee Until my race is run. My race!-Such race should not be runLike roaring wind-or steed, I would not have time drive along, Would make them seem too short! And yet I look to them in hope, I look to them as mothers look BIOGRAPHY, BANIM. His equal to that of the O'Hara Family. last work is the Ghost Hunter, which forms the first volume of Leitch Ritchie's Library of Romance; and a vigorous and clever commencement it is. Besides these separate works, Mr. Banim has contributed many papers to magazines aud annuals—of course, of varying merit. From his youth he has been subject to distressing pains in his limbs, especially in his thighs; and they have much shattered his constitution. Owing to these, and, we are sorry to say, to the precarious nature of a literary mau's pecuniary means, he has fallen into considerable difficulty; in fact, he is iu the greatest distress at this present moment, in Boulogue. We hope that the appeal in his behalf made by the Times will not be in MR. JOHN BANIM, in whose behalf the Times vain. Mr. Banim requires but temporary has made so vigorous an appeal, is a native assistance, until his health is so far re-esta of Kilkenny, in Ireland, where his family blished as to permit him to resume his lite are engaged in business. His first produc-rary avocations, in which he is now forbidden tion was, we believe, the tragedy of Damon to engage by his medical adviser; and those and Pythias, which was acted in Dublin, who assist him in his present distress may be when the theatre there was under the ma- sure that they will be repaid at a more prosnagement of Mr. Harris. It procured him It would be a pity-nay a some profit and considerable reputation. disgrace—that such an ornament to our curAlthough it does not contain incident enough rent literature as Mr. Banim should be left to enable it to retain a permanent hold of to perish miserably—for it has almost come the stage, it was acted successfully there for to that-in a foreign land. a while, and it is occasionally performed in provincial theatres. Vandenhoff used to give the principal character with great effect. He was educated as a painter, and obtained some of the highest honours of the Dublin Academy, but the success of his play turned his mind to literature, and he migrated to London. His first connexion here was with Ugo Fosculo, who did him the honour of making him his secretary, and assigning him apartments in his house. This was an unfortunate affair for Banim, because Fosculo cheated him, as he did everybody, and involved him in many troubles. He published, with John Warren, a pretty poem called the Celt's Paradise, in 1823; and was engaged in other literary speculations for that bookseller when he failed. Mr. Banim, about that time, wrote a good deal for literary papers and magazines; and his first prose publication, the name of which has escaped our memory, consisted chiefly of a collection of his scattered articles on matters of taste and literature: it was published by Simpkin and Marshall. The work which made him known to the world was the first series of the Tales of the O'Hara Family, published by the same booksellers, in 1825. It had great success, and is perhaps the most striking and original of his works. The other series were published by Colburn, who, we understand, paid him very liberally. It is said, and we believe truly, that one of his brothers, a resident of Kilkenny, had a share in writing these tales, which, we need not say, excited great attention. Sir Walter Scott used to speak highly of them, and corresponded, respecting them, with the author, favouring him with much friendly criticism and advice. Besides these, he wrote Boyne Water, the Croppy, and other novels, the success of which was not perous season. Mr. Banim is about five-and-thirty; he is married to an amiable lady from his own part of Ireland, by whom he has seven children. She is at present on a visit to London, in order, if possible, to raise funds for her husband's assistance. Subscriptions for Mr. Banim will be received at Hoare's, Fleetstreet; and Hopkinson's, Pall-mall. VARIETIES, ANECDOTAL, MORAL, AND INSTRUCTIVE. MEZZOFANTE, the celebrated Bologne linguist, who speaks seven-and-thirty languages, has just obtained a valuable preferment in the church from the Pope. AN UNIVERSITY PUN.-Cam Hobhouse is a great patron of pastrycooks. Last summer, he was observed with some friends at Gunter's eating an ice. "Behold," said one of the party," the junction of the two great universities, Cam and Ices (Isis). PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE is remarkable for his candid and open disposition. Playing one day alone with the young Count L-, in the principal drawing-room of the palace, they heedlessly upset and destroyed a very costly piece of bijouterie, which the Duchess had expressly charged them neither to touch nor approach. On her return, her Royal Highness discovered the accident, and demanded how it had happened. "I," said Prince George, stepping boldly forward, “I did it, Mamma." On being subsequently asked why he had taken the entire blame on himself, when his companion was equally implicated, he replied, "Because I was the eldest, and ought to be punished most; and because," he added, "I looked in L-'s face, and thought he was about to deny it, and to say what was not true!" CHARLEMAGNE-Gifted with a frame, the corporeal energies of which required little or no relaxation, and which, cousequently, never clogged and hampered his intellect by fatigue, Charlemagne could devote an immeuse portion of his time to business, and, without taking more than a very small portion of sleep, could dedicate the clear thoughts of an untired mind to the regulation of his kingdom, even while other men were buried In repose. He was accustomed, we are told, to wake spontaneously, and rise from his bed four or five times in the course of each night; and so great was his economy of moments, that the brief space he employed in putting on the simple garments with which he was usually clothed, was also occupied in hearing the reports of his Count of the Palace, or the pleadings of various causes, which he decided at those times with as much clear wisdom as if listening to them on the judgment seat. 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FROM the Morning Post, No. 19,281.No musical production of late years has surpassed in elegance and originality the Cavatina of Gaily Chant the Summer Birds, a composition which has been honoured with the universal admiration of the fashionable circles, and which, for its brilliancy, has been aptly termed "a gem of sparkling radiance;" Mr. DE PINNA, the composer of this highly successful sample of vivid imagination, has fully maintained the distinguished popularity he had acquired in his far-famed ballad, There Lives a Young Lassie, sung with such enthusiastic encores by Mr. TEMPLETON, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In the bolder style of compositions, Mr. DE PINNA has been no less felicitous, in proof of which we may adduce his splendid songs, With a Bosom that Burns with a Patriot's Flame, and A Pirate's Life, two compositions which, for spirit, animation, and vigorous accompaniments, have not been excelled. For flowing melodies, Mr. DE PINNA stands unrivalled. Who ever heard his Serenade, When Rosy Daylight Flies; his Ballad, The Maid of Venice; or, his Tyrolienne, O! 'tis Sweet at Merry Morn, with out being delighted with their graceful simplicity, London: Published by Keith, Prowse, and Co., 48, Cheapside. |