This is a good example of the art of association; but Mr. Holloway is fully equal led by Mr. Wray:

mend their adoption in acute and chronic rheu-| Sergeant Talfourd, who may be regarded matism, gout, cancer, paralysis, scrofula, piles. as representing both literature and law. glandular complaints, wounds of every kind, and, This list might give rise to curious speculain brief, in all external disorders." the higher classes. We only hope the pretions as to the comparative biliousness of ponderance of Bishops will not be made the groundwork of any insinuations against the "Archimedes, while bathing, solved a difficult Church. Fortunately, the English Archproblem, which so delighted him, that he jumped bishops have not lent their names; and we out of the bath, and ran through the streets of understand that the Bishop of London did Syracuse, exclaiming, 'I have found it, I have found it! There are many problems in medical not put down his until after the publication science very difficult to explain. Mr. Wray, of of a certain Letter from a Canon-ResidenHolborn-hill, has, however, by the pre-eminent tiary of St. Paul's. virtues of his Balsamic Pills, solved a very perplexing problem in the art of healing; an article of greater excellence and utility the annals of medicine do not record."

Baker's Patent Antidote for the Prevention of Sea-Sickness, has proved so efficacious that the stewards of steam-vessels, To extend the fame of his Eye-Snuff, Mr. tribute it for fear of its diminishing the call we are confidently assured, refuse to disGrimstone, rather injudiciously in our opin- for brandy and water. This is very silly ion, has resorted to the old custom, and ap-on their part, since the demand for eatables

pends a rhyming tribute by a customer:-
'Great was the power that did to man impart
Creative genius and inventive art;

The second praise is, doubtless, Grimstone, thine!
Wise was thine head, and great was thy design!
Our precious sight, from danger now set free,
Wives, widows, fathers, praises sing to thee.

ELIZA ROBSON.

and drinkables would increase.

"Who (says Mr. Baker, in a passage reprinted from Blackwood) has not suffered from SeaSickness?--that remorseless fiend, who, sparing neither age nor sex, intelligence nor respectability, makes a point of setting at defiance all the decorums of etiquette, all the grace of attitude, 19, Bell Street, Edgeware Road, Marylebone.' all the claims of humanity. I have seen digniMr. Mannering, the rival of Mr. Grim-fied statesmen, lovely women, poets of the most stone, states that a box of his snuff is always ready for the gratuitous use of the public but it is suggested that those who do not like a crowd, had better provide themselves with a box to be used at home. Mr. Propert speaks plainly and concisely to the point:

"PROPERT'S EMBROCATION FOR GOUT.-This invaluable article has been for many years used in Private Families; and though applied in many of the most desperate cases, has never once been known to fail:--it gives instantaneous relief, and in a few applications effects a cure, without injury to the health."

The Balm of Syriacum, "a sovereign remedy for both bodily and mental decay," is recommended in an address to her Majesty:-"It is a peculiar satisfaction, too, for us to consider, that the Royal Household, as well as the public at large, have experienced the benefit of our Medicine, of which we have been favored with testimonies highly flattering to our reputation and future fame." This kind of loyalty may be spared.

Mr. Cockle's Antibilious Pills are recommended by a long list of patrons, containing ten Dukes, five Marquises, seventeen Earls, eight Viscounts, sixteen Lords, one Archbishop (Armagh), fifteen Bishops, the Adjutant-General, the present AttorneyGeneral, the late Attorney-General, the Advocate-General, Sir Francis Burdett, Sir Andrew Agnew, Alderman Wood, and Mr.

romantic, divines of the most spiritual cast of with confusion truly humiliating, yellow as dafcountenance, all huddled together at a ship's side fodils, and moaning as dismally as a north wind whistling through the keyhole of a back attic. Sea-sickness! The very word is an emetic; and heave while I write it."

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For example, a statesman and author of no mean order is thus described by his friend : "H✶✶muttering fearful curses,

As the hatchway down he rolls,
Now his breakfast, now his verses,
Vomits forth and d-ns our souls.
'Here's a stanza

On Braganza

Help! A couplet ?'-' No, a cup
Of warm water'-

'What's the matter?'

'Zounds, my liver's coming up!'", At the same time we must not be too ready to believe stewards and packetowners, who may tell a flattering tale to decoy passengers. Many persons not wanting in acuteness have been induced, in defiance of probability, to expect state in a state cabin, and privacy in a private one. Mr. Dickens entertains us in his " American Notes" with some complaints of a delusion of this kind; and Lord Byron was similarly misled :

"Heyday! call you that a cabin?

Why, 'tis hardly three feet square,
Not enough to stow Queen Mab in-
Who the deuce could harbor there?"

* Verses printed in Moore's Life of Byron.

The Riga Balsam is the wonder of the | plexion to be "delightfully soft and smooth?" day :where the gentleman who would not gladly "N. B. The trial of the described Balsam is prevent his hair from "falling off or turnthis: Take a Hen or a Ram, drive a Nail ing gray to the latest period of life;" parthrough its Scull, Brains, and Tongue, then ticularly when approaching that period so pour some of it into the Wound, it will direct-graphically described by Crabbe? ly stop the Blood, and cure the Wound in eight or nine Minutes, and the Creature will eat as before."

"A Stoop costs two Rixdollars, and it is sold in smaller portions; at the Sale every person gets a Direction which describes its surprising Virtues, and how it is to be used. The Glasses, Jars, and Bottles, are sealed up with this seal (A. K. Balsam) to prevent counterfeits.

"Ecclesiasticus, Chap. xxxiii. Ver. 4. The Lord hath created Medicmes out of the earth,

and he that is wise will not abhor them."

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Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six,
When Time began to play his usual tricks ;
Locks of pure brown, now felt th' encroaching
My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight,

white."

has

There are other advantages. "A whimsical occurrence (thus runs a paragraph) took place a short time since. A person had a writ out against him; he escaped John Doe and Richard Roe by having made use of Rowland's Essence of Tyre. The Carlton Club is naturally associated The bailiffs passed him, and one said to his in the minds of the public with aristocratic comrade, 'That's the man.' 'Why, you habits and their consequences, which, it fool, (rejoined the other,) that gemman has seems, have descended even to the domes- black hair, and you know Mr. tics. From an advertisement in the "Times," headed "Carlton Club, Piccadilly," we learn that Mr. Newton, the head waiter, has been cured of gout by Beach's Herb Draught. Unfortunately, the Carlton Club is located in Pall-Mall, and only separated from the Reform Club by a small opening, which the wits say is left for the Whigs.

Dr. Morison's Pills are indebted to their inherent virtue, or accidental circumstances for their celebrity. Amongst one or both of these causes must be ranked the death of the inventor, who died a martyr to his own fame. When the cases, necessarily rare, in which his pills had failed, were mentioned, he invariably said that the patients wanted faith, and should have gone on taking them till they got well. In his last illness his practice corresponded with his theory; he rejected all other medicine, took more pills as he grew worse, and was in the very act of calling for a fresh box when he expired. These celebrated pills are a composition of gambouge. The late Dr. Broden confessed to a friend that his were composed principally of bread; yet wonderful cures are recorded of them, and, as he sagaciously observed, they could do no harm.

Mr. Rowland holds a deservedly high rank amongst the purveyors for the toilette table. His Kalydor for preserving the complexion, and his Macassar Oil for the Hair, command an extensive sale, and form the subject-matter of an endless variety of advertisements, remarkable for the confident tone of conscious superiority, and the seducing expectations they hold out. Where is the lady who would not wish her com

gray.' This is one among the thousand instances of the beneficial effects of Rowland's Essence of Tyre, in changing the colors of the hair."

The best puff for the Macassar Oil was an experiment tried by the late Joseph Grimaldi upon the stage, who, with the aid of one double bottle, turned a deal box into a hair-trunk; though even this was equalled, if not exceeded, by the first vender of Bear's Grease, who cautioned his customers to wash their hands in warm water after using it, to prevent them from assuming the hir sute appearance of a paw. Perhaps this was the enthusiastic tradesman mentioned by Mr. Samuel Weller in "Master Humphrey's Clock❞—

"His whole delight was in his trade. He spent all his money in bears, and run in debt for em besides, and there they wos a growling away down in the front cellar all day long, and ineffectually gnashing their teeth, vile the grease o their relations and friends wos being retailed in gallipots in the shop above, and the first floor winder wos ornamented with their heads; not to speak o' the dreadful aggrawation it must have been to 'em to see a man always a walkin' up and down the pavement outside, with the portrait of a bear in his last agonies, and underneath, in large letters, 'Another fine animal was slaughtered yesterday at Jenkinson's! Hows'till he was took very ill with some inward disor ever, there they wos, and there Jenkinson wos, der, lost the use of his legs, and wos confined to his bed, vere he laid a wery long time; but sich was his pride in his profession even then, that wenever he wos worse than usual the Doctor used to go down stairs and say, 'Jenkinson's wery low this mornin'; we must give the bears a stir; and as sure as ever they stirred 'em up a bit, and made 'em roar, Jenkinson opens his eyes, if he wos ever so bad, calls out, There's the bears! and rewives agin."

his Britannic Majesty's Consul, Philadelphia, Raccahout, kept precedence of the other who thereto has prefixed his seal, and the royal fourteen till it was gone, and one clear arms of Great Britain; also the Mayor and the month afterwards. Magistrates, who are personally acquainted with the signers, certified to their high respectability, and have likewise annexed their seals, with the arms of Philadelphia.

"Patronized by the British Peers. One bottle, price 3s. 6d., will prevent the hair from falling off in forty-eight hours from its first application. A bottle, price 6s., not only stops the hairs from falling off, but likewise in three weeks causes a new growth to appear; and one bottle, price 11., gives a good head of hair to a young person." According to this ratio, a bald man has only to buy a twenty-two or thirty-three shilling bottle, and he might grow hair for

sale.

It is generally thought genteel and interesting to be slim. Lord Byron lived days together on biscuit and soda water to escape the disgrace of obesity-a regimen occasionally embarrassing enough to his acquaintance; witness the reconciliation dinner between himself and Mr. Moore at Mr. Rogers'. "Neither meat, fish, nor wine," says Mr. Moore, "would he touch; and of biscuits and soda water, which he asked for, there had been unluckily no provision. He professed, however, to be equally well pleased with potatoes and vinegar; and of these meagre materials contrived to make a hear ty dinner." The ladies submit to still more galling privations; and Mrs. Pursy, in the School for Scandal, is hardly a caricature: -"Yes, I'm told she absolutely lives upon acids and small whey, laces herself with pullies; often in the hottest day of summer, you will see her on a little squat pony with her hair plaited and turned up like a drummer, and away she goes, puffing round the ring at full trot."

Henry Heine tells a story of a chambermaid, who, having remarked that her mistress possessed an elixir, which restored youth, took advantage of her absence to try it, and drank so much that she not only became young again, but was changed into a little girl. The secret of this elixir must be lost, as we hear nothing of it; but this hint may be useful to the enterprising.

The next best thing to securing beauty for ourselves, is to secure it for our children, and the means are fortunately within our power:-"Ladies desirous of ensuring beauty to their children, may receive adequate instructions by addressing (post-paid) late Dr. William Henderson, 13, Spring letters to Mrs. Henderson, widow of the Street, Montague Square, London."

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Auctioneers have a prescriptive claim to little harmless exaggeration; and their advertisements are models of the Irish or flowery style of composition. Mr. George Robins takes a high rank amongst them; yet even he must yield the palm to Mr. Christie, of hanging-wood notoriety. To his eloquence we are indebted for one of the late Lord Erskine's cleverest speeches, made on behalf of a client who had purchased a farm on the faith of Mr. Christie's description; in which an extensive lawn, a commanding situation, a view of the Needles, and a billiard-room, were mentioned :

"To show you, gentlemen, how egregiously my client has been deceived by the defendant's rhetoric, I will tell you what this exquisite and enchanting place actually turned out to be, when All this trouble may now be saved by tak- my client-who had paid the deposit on the faith ing a wine-glass of "The Imperial Ethereal- of Mr. Christie's advertisement-went down, in izing Syrup" every morning, which "con- the fond anticipations of his heart, to this earthly "con-paradise. When he got there, nothing was found fers the figure of a sylph within a fortnight, to correspond to what he had too unwarily exwithout affecting the health or endangering the constitution."

The Raccahout des Arabes is a French discovery or importation, for the prevention or care of leanness, to which the women of Paris are more prone than to obesity. It is the preparation on which the Dey of Algiers fattened his Harem, and is held in high esteem throughout the East. An English traveller, Captain Harris we think, mentioned a country in the interior of Africa, where the wives of the sovereign, fifteen in number, were weighed once a month and took rank accordingly. This statement has been turned to good account; for an advertisement states that one of them, having accidentally become possessed of a stock of

pected. There was a house, to be sure, and that is all; for it was nodding to its fall, and the very rats instinctively had quitted it. It stood, it is true, in a commanding situation; for it commanded all the winds and rains of heaven. As for awn, he could find nothing that deserved the name; unless it was a small yard, in which, with some contrivance, a washerwoman might hang half-a-dozen shirts. There was, however, a dirty lane that ran close to it; and, perhaps, Mr. Christie may contend that it was an error of the press, and therefore, for "lawn," we must read "lane." But where is the billiard-room? exclaimed the last he was conducted to a room in the attic, the plaintiff, in the agony of disappointment. ceiling of which was so low that a man could not stand upright in it; and therefore must, per force, put himself into the posture of a billiard-player. Seeing this, Mr. Christie, by the magic of his

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eloquence, converted the place into a billiard-ful, were the stage open to the productions for room. But the fine view of the Needles, gentlemen, where was it? No such thing was to be seen; and my poor client might as well have looked for a needle in a bottle of hay."

The result proved that it is useless to snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, unless it be also beyond the reach of law.

It is a humiliating confession to make, but Authors undoubtedly come next; and we are by no means sure that they would not take precedence of even quack-doctors and auctioneers, if the amount of charlatanry were estimated by either the money or ingenuity expended on it. It is considered hardly worth a publisher's while to publish a cheap or single-volume book, since forty or fifty pounds must be laid out in advertisements to give any publication a chance. Large sums also are frequently paid for paragraphs, which most of the newspapers insert for about a third more than the price of the ordinary and avowed advertisement. When an author has succeeded in getting a few favorable opinions from the press, whether purchased in this manner, procured by favor, or spontaneously afforded, he puts forth an advertisement like the following :*

which Mr. Stephens's genius is so well adapt-
ed.'-The Kent Herald. 'For plot, incident,
character, and style, a valuable addition to our
available stock of dramas for stage representa-
tion, an ultimatum recommended by our highest
living stage authority, Mr. Macready.-Wor-
cester Journal. 'An excellent acting play;
deeply interesting plot; incidents striking, and
full of dramatic stage effect.'-Manchester
Courier. 'Mr. Macready interested himself
warmly for a play in which are fine opportuni-
ties for the development of his histrionic powers.'
-Bell's New Messenger. This dramatic poem
only requires compression to be eminently suc-
cessful on the stage.'-The Britannia.
our opinion that several of Mr. Stephens's plays
are eminently fitted for the stage, and that the
genius which is apparent in all would ensure
them triumphant success.'-The Argus. We
are sure that it contains sufficient passion, char-
acter, and incident, to cut up into half-a-dozen
such plays as we have lately seen produced."-
Britannia. 'A first-rate, spirit-stirring, soul-
deep tragedy.'-Monthly Magazine. C. MITCH-
ELL, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street."

'It is

Mr. Stephens evidently differs from the author of the "Rivals," who thought that an accumulation of indorsements rather tended to throw a doubt upon the Bill. It is observable that he has made ample use of the rejection of his play and the high au"In octavo, handsomely bound, thority of Mr. Macready, who has unac"GEORGE STEPHEN'S DRAMATIC POEM, the countably suffered two seasons to pass away HUNGARIAN DAUGHTER. By the Author of the since he became manager without bringing Tragedies of Gertrude and Beatrice, the Vam-The Hungarian Daughter" upon the stage pire, Montezuma, the Patriot, &c. 'We are -a circumstance well worthy the attention stage.'-Salopian Journal. Would, we doubt of Mr. Stephens, and proper to be noticed in not, be popular on the stage.'-United Service his next preface. The edition of "The Iron Effective situations. If well acted, Chest" in which the late John Philip Kemit could not fail of success.'-New Bell's Messen-ble is attacked, went off with unprecedented ger. Worthy of the stage in its best days.'

confident it would have eminent success on the

Gazette.

When Mr. Stephens succeeds in getting his play upon the stage, we recommend him to imitate the late Dr. Valpy's method of attracting an audience—

The Courier. Greatly to be regretted that there rapidity, and book-collectors are now giving is not a fair field for the representation of such four times the original price for copies. 'If perplays as this.'-Conservative Journal. formed, would confirm and establish Mr. Stephens's fame, and hand it down to posterity.' Liverpool Mail. The plot is deeply interesting.' Hereford Journal. 'We are satisfied, if "Lord Whitworth has a curious conversation it were acted, it would be considered one of the to relate, which passed between himself and the most intensely interesting of our stock plays. Chief Consul, and in which the latter, it is said, Liverpool Standard. A few practised playwrights exclusively possess the ears of managers. repeatedly expressed his determination to invade This play was rejected, not on account of defi- this country. Dr. Valpy's alteration of 'King cient merit, but because there was no likelihood John,' or England invaded,' shortly to be exWe hibited at Covent-Garden, contains several highof an opening.'-Gloucester Chronicle. regret that the condensation of this drama, whichly poetical and animated passages, which will afreceived the most flattering recommendation of ford the public an opportunity of expressing the Mr. Macready, has not been permitted to delight indignation and contempt which this menace of an English audience.'-Cambridge Chronicle. Bonaparte must excite in the breast of every 'The character, powerfully delineated by Englishman." George Stephens, yields to no character produced on the modern stage. The story is well conceived, highly wrought, and related in the warm earnest language of true poetry:-The Courier. 'We have no doubt that it would prove success

* Times, March 2, 1841.

Surely there must be passages in the "Hungarian Daughter," or indeed in every judiciously composed play, which might af ford an audience an opportunity of express. ing every sort of sentiment that might be popular at the time.