An East wind however it may shake your nerves is not so ill a wind as to blow nobody good. I: rouses the frame, which at firs shivers under it, to a consciousness town and country, as on that and the eight preceding nights of his performance. From the exhibition of much grace of action, and feeling in the play, he descended to display, with fidelity, the uptaught Irish hay-of lively sensibility. It awaken: maker in the afterpiece. At the close of the performance, he addressed the audience in the following lines: Ye honour'd friends, whose praise has cheer'd my breast When in the robes of mimic grandeur dressed, torpor to vivacity. It furnishes a man with a portable thermometer which he can no more lose that drop his own bones out of his body. It improves the charms of a flannel waistcoat, a Welch wig, a warm great coat, and a snug place in the chimney corner. It gives by deep felt contrast more genial freshness and softness and balmy fragrance to the breezes from the west. presents by its influence on the over sensitive and testy appearances so ridiculously impatient and deAnxious to all to pay the tribute due, plorable that it is impossible for even But most of all, Salopian Fair to you-sympathetic tenderness not to be To you, ye bright approvers of this roused by them to merriment. I Now undisguis'd behold your townsman stands, To ask a kind redemption at your hands; Anxious to tell, tho' poor in words and weak, What the heart feels: but not the tongue can speak ; cause, senews up. Oh for pity The King shortly after his accession to the throne, walking one morning into his library, found one of the librarians asleep in a chair. With that good tempered condescension & familiarity that so much distinguish him, he stepped up softly to him, and gave him a slight slap on the cheek; the sleeper clapt his hand on the place instantly, and with his eyes still closed, taking the disturber of his nap for his fellow librarian, whose name was George, exclaimed, "Damn it George, let me alone, you are always doing one foolish trick or another." THE LONDON SHOEMAKER. SEE you that elegant chariot which, in rapid flight, skims like a swallow, the surface of the street? Who do you think thus drives along in this dashing style and equipage? It is a celebrated Shoemaker, an all-accomplished son of Crispin, a man of fashion and elegance, a paragon of taste-who makes ladies' shoes, of a colouring, quality, brilliancy, eloquence, and poetry, beyond all competition or description. He never speaks but in numbers--he breathes his amorous song, takes his measures as zephyrs gather roses; the Anacreon of his trade, the Tibullus of the buskin, the Ovid of the last. This arbiter of pedal taste and ornament, barely expends 15001. a-year. no man more eminently possesses the art of eminding a well formed woman of her own importance. A lady of the first rank and quality, saw in the house of a devotee to fashion, some elegant shoes of various colours, shapes, and decorations, and of a physiognomy interesting beyond description. "Oh Lud!" she exclaimed to her friend, "I am delighted with your exquisite taste in the article of shoes-I am in an extacy at the sight-- What a beautiful pair of shoes are those fawn-coloured kid, laced on the instep with silvered leather, elastic soles and heels---and how delightfully handsome those glossy white satin slippers and silver spangles."The inimitable Shoemaker is sent for, and attends-He is honoured with an introduction-assumes the man of fashion, and excels the courtier in polite. ness. "Your ladyship has the most elegant foot and ancle in the universe, and it will be my pride to embellish the triumphant excellencies of your majes. tic step." The shoes are ordered for the same evening. In two hours they are brought home, and introduced as the most elegant pink satin gala shoes, with gold rosettes, whose appearance in the ball-room will ravish the senses. The price only 24 shillings. They arri ved at six o'clock, were admired till eight, put on at nine, worn until bedtime, and laid aside in the morning by the maid. Enchanted with her purchase the lady is anxious again to appear in them. She calls for her maid, and is told the shoes are useless, having been worn out when they were taken off."Amazement ! distraction? shock ing-Run to his house, and let me hear the loss is not irreparable." The polished shoemaker arrives." Madan!"-" Oh Sir, such an accident! it is distressing beyond endurance! my shoes torn to pieces, unfit for use!" Impossible-let me see-Ah, bless me! torn sure enough, and only to be replaced by a new pair! But how has Is it not then an irre-it happened? 'Tis beyond my concepsistible proof of the excellent order of tion."-" Oh Sir," the lady replies, things, when the scale of conditions is "consider my loss."-" Consider, conso well maintained, that a Shoemaker sider, why, Madam, they surely have can drive, full speed in his carriage, been ill used. How long did you wear through the western streets and squares them?"---I walked in them but two of the metropolis, to receive the ladies' hours." Walked in them, Madam, orders for shoes and sandals, from 20s. walked. Oh then, it is not to be won. dered at; why, Madam, those shoes to 30s. a pair? Our Shoemaker is a man unrivalled for his presence of mind, and were made only towear and not to walkin. THE EMERALD. A new Fresh lustre is added to the English during the last month, of a society bear character, by the institution in London, ing the title of the Friends of Foreign in Distress; the design of which is to administer relief, without distinction profession, country, or religion, to ind. * gent and distressed strangers, who are not entitled to parochial relief; or who, having obtained a settlement in this country, may have a legal claim only to a bare subsistance. Le Sage's novel of Gil Blas has, by the concurrent testimony of a century, been determined to be the best production of its kind; and yet we have never possessed any translation of it which has not created disgust by its obscenity and vulgarity. That which bears the name of Dr. Smoliet is a libel on his literary fame, and it is more than probable that he merely lent his name to it. translation has just been finished by Mr. Smart, in which the numerous idioms of been vaccinated in India, between Sep. No less than 145,840 persons have Le Sage have been carefully rendered, tember 1, 1802, and April 30, 1804.and in which the indelicacies of the The Rajah of Tanjore is a zealous sup original have been softened and adapted porter of it; and the Divan of Travanto the refined taste of the English pub-core has submitted to this process. Alic. This new translation will speedily mong those vaccinated were, ́appear, illustrated by one hundred ex- 4,141; Malabars, 41,306; Mahometans, Brakmins, quisitely beautiful engravings; and will 10,926. consequently be one of the most elegant books in our language. Much has been lately said and writ Dr. Scott is preparing a new edition, ten in Germany concerning the art revised, and translated from the Arabe cultivated in France. On this submemory, a study which also begins to bic MS. brought over by Mr. Montague, ject the celebrated astronomer M. de of the Arabian Night's Entertainments; Lalande bears testimony to the follow. with notes illustrative of the customsing facts: "I have witnessed," says he, and manners of the country. The additional tales, which have never been "the extraordinary effects produced translated, are said to be as interesting de Fenaigle; and as he took the pains on the memory by the method of M. as those with which we are acquainted, The translations which have been pub- that it could not fail to produce such to explain it to me, I was convinced lished in this country, have been made effects. It is a fact equally important from the French version of M. Gallard, and extraordinary, that one of his pu who trusted to a verbal translator, being pils is able to repeat, in any order you himself ignorant of the Arabic language. please, and without the least mistake, The travels of Mr. Heriot through Upper and Lower Canada, containing a table of fifty cities in all parts of the particulars of the new colonization of world, with the degrees of longitude the former of these important provinces, whereas 1, who have for sixty years deand latitude in which they are situated: will appear in the last decade of March, voted my attention to geography, can. and will challenge public curiosity, not less for the novelty of its information, not repeat four of them. The same is than for the beauty and variety of its the case with chronology: in the 4 embellishments. Dr. Percy, nephew of the bishop, is preparing a fourth volume of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Mr. Wordsworth, author of Lyrical Ballards, has ready for publication the Orchard Pathway, a collection of poems. The following subjects are proposed at Oxford for the Chancellor prizes for the year ensuing, viz, For Latin verses, Plata Fluvius; for an English essay, On Duelling. Mr. Sotheby has finished a poem on the subject of Saul, in eight books, in blank verse. nuaire I have inserted 240 dates from ancient and modern history, and M. de do not think that the ablest historiogra Fenaigle's scholars repeat them all. I astonishing aid in the study of geogra. pher could tell ten of them. What a phy and history! We have already stated, that the same power of artificial recollection has for many years been practised before miscellaneous companies by a gentle man in London, who has never made promised to communicate its principle any secret of his discovery, and who has to an early number of the Monthly Magazine. POETRY. TO MY ARM CHAIR. THOU lov'd companion of my lonely hours, When Fortune frown'd and friends were far away, [powers, With thee, companion of my lonely hours? Oft have I blest thee for thy soothing No; o'er his head tho' Parian columns And fondly courted thy narcotic sway. Lull'd in thine arms I taste a pleasing calm, With eye lids clos'd, but thoughts that ever wake.. O'er my wrapt senses steels an opiate balm, [to ache. And my rack'd head almost forgets To brighter scenes excursive fancy flies, The future smiles in gayer garb array'd. Visions of sweet domestic joy arise, As peeps the Parsonage from the sheltering shade. The laugh, the jest, the fleeting hours beguile, While heavenly Music's softening charms combine With friends who bring good humour's ready smile, And hearts which beat in unison with mine. Not with one wish imagination burns, O'er proud ambition's slippery paths True as the needle, to one point she to roam, turns The point comprising all I cher -ish-Home. rise, And lends the cot its humble roof to me; He, on his throne, 'mid torturing anguish sighs I smile serene, and dream of bliss in thee. THE BIRCH. YE Worthies, in trust for the School and the Church, Pray hear me descant on the Virtues of Birch. An Though the Oak be the prince and Though Phoebus with Laurel his temples have bound, And with chaplets of Poplar Alcides be crown'd; Though Pallas the Olive has graced And mother Cybele in Pines may rewith her choice, {joice; Though Bacchus delights in the Ivy and Vine, [entwine; And Venus her garlands with Myrtle Yet the Muses declare, after diligent search, No tree can be found to compare with the Birch. The Birch they aver, is the true tree of knowledge, Revered by each School, and remem. bered at College. Though Virgil's fam'd tree may produce, as its fruit, A crop of vain dreams, and strange whims from each shoot; Yet the Birch on each bough, on the top of each switch, Bears the essence of Grammar, the eight parts of speech. 'Mongst the leaves is conceal'd more? than memory can mention. If such the calm, when blest with thee, All cases, all genders, all forms of ( Nine branches were cropt by the hands | These twigs can the gates of Elysium of the Nine, Each duly arranged in a parallel line, Tied up in nine folds of a mystical string And soak'd for nine hours in cold Helicon's spring, Is a sceptre composed for a Pedagogue's hand, Like the Fasces of Rome, a true badge of command. The sceptre thus finished, like Moses's rod, From flints can draw tears, and give life to a clod. Should darkness Egyptian, or ignorance spread Its clouds o'er the mind, or envelope the head, This rod thrice apply'd puts the darkness to flight, Disperses the clouds and restores us to light, Like the Virga divina, 'twill find out the vein Rhetorical thunder and poetry's fire, And if Morpheus our temples in Lethe should steep, These switches untie all the fetters of sleep. Here dwells strong conviction, of logic the glory, [ri; When 'tis used with precision a posterioIt promotes circulation, and thrills through each vein, The faculties quickens, and purges the brain. unfold, That Elysium of learning where pleas ures abound, Those fruits that still flourish in classi cal ground. Then if such be its virtues, we'll bov to the tree, And Birch, like the muses, immorta shall be. CANZONET. THE sailor o'er ocean borne, His fears dispell'd, the joyful Tar Thus, tost on love's tempestuous sea Hail cheering light! thy welcome ray! The charms of mind, of form and face, Those beauteous charms that Cela grace, Enkindle in my breast desire, And tend'rest wishes all inspire! Whatever disorders prevail in the blood, But, while these prompt me to obtair, The Birch can correct them like guia-I tremble, lest I find them vain ; cum wood. So luscious its juice is, so sweet are its twigs, That at Le'ster we call them the FreeSchool-bank figs. As the famed rod of Circe to brutes Yet, modest hope, exulting spies A friendly beam in Celia's eyes. Boston, (Mass.) Published BY BELCHER & ARMSTRONG. No. 70, State-Street. = Three dollars per annum. |