standing the exclamation of Brutus to the contrary; and though we regard it as equally certain that, if there be such a thing, it is good to promote and bad to resist and discourage it; and that it is not necessarily mere cant to maintain these propositions. This we hold to be just; but we would say something a little different here, viz. that on philosophical principles a good spirit and good feelings are essential to poetry, as an art; they belong to it technically they are essential to its greatest possible excellence; that, though poetry is not good in proportion as it shows them, it is bad in proportion as it shows the want of them; and this, not morally but critically speaking. It is these, which unlock the fountain of tears, cause the blood to thrill, and the flesh to creep with delight,-which make the heart beat quick with a thousand varied emotions; and these are the highest effects of poetry and eloquence. wall, heaven. though the mightiest spring in the engine, Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing with which he heaves the mass of society; To stand upon the beetling verge, and see he must acquire it by other discipline than Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray that of his books or his masters. The Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base same may be said of goodness as a part of Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine ear the art of poetry; it belongs to the art, but Over the dizzy depth, and hear the sound cannot be taught from its canons. Of winds that struggle with the woods below We should not be at all afraid to go through Is lovely round; a beautiful river there Come up like ocean murmurs. But the scene the history of poetry, from its dawn on the Wanders amid the fresh and fertile meads, Ionian coast down to the present day, in The paradise he made unto himself, order to find, from an induction of all the Mining the soil for ages. On each side case, a confirmation of these views. We The fields swell upward to the hills; beyond, believe that, in almost every instance, the Above the hills, in the blue distance, rise character of the poet will appear to have The mighty columns with which earth props been reflected in his works, and that the tone of his works will afford an indication of his character. It is true there will be some difficult cases in the application of this rule. But it must be remembered that both poetical excellence and moral character are extremely complex ideas; and that opposite and apparently inconsistent traits It is true, bad men may write poetry, may exist both in the life and in the verse. which, in some degree, will produce some To apply these reflections to a parallel of these effects. But then bad men are not case: we consider the moral character of totally bad; few-none are so bad, as not the Waverley novels, though far from being to possess some of the purest and best feel- of one uniform and unspotted excellence, ings. Honor, in some sense or other, love yet as proof positive against the silly paraof parents and of children, admiration of dox, which, in defiance of the strongest incourage, of disinterestedness; susceptibili-ternal evidence, and in contradiction to the ty of being won, soothed, and disarmed by otherwise unanimous voice of Europe and unwearied, patient, long-suffering tender- America, pretends to attribute the portraits ness and care;-these exist in almost every of Flora McIvor, Jeanie Deans, Rebecca, one likely to be applauded as a poet. On and all the other amiable conceptions of these strong, deep virtues, much of what is romantic or suffering goodness, to an unheard pathetic in poetry might rest. of wretch of a Dr Greenfield, driven from society for infamous crimes. Again, when we admire as poetry what is notoriously vicious and bad, we often admire nothing but wit; and wit and poetry are very different things. We suspect this to be the attractive quality in most of the licentious poetry, which, in past and present days, has gained a high reputation in the world. Now, though poetry is used in such a wide acceptation, in common parlance, that wit in verse would be included under it, yet certainly it is not poetry in any strict sense of terms. We are perfectly willing it should be called so; nor do we aim at any prudish nicety in the use of language. But we only protest against the attempt to prove that poetry may be licentious, because wit may be. This is no new doctrine in principle, for the ancient schools of rhetoric taught that "none but a good man could be an orator," that is, a perfect orator. There may be much fine speaking, graceful gesture, ingenious argument, and extensive learning, without moral goodness. And these go very far toward the composition of an orator; especially where the mass of the auditors may be no better than he who addresses them. But still it is true that all these qualities would appear to greater advantage and produce greater effect, if they were moved and inspired by a strong sense of sterling conscious worth. The reason why, in schools of oratory, less may be said on this point-or would be said if we had any such schools-is, that goodness is a thing beyond the schools to teach. Though a part of the orator's apparatus of power, To hide their windings. Thou shalt gaze, at once, There is a tale about these gray old rocks, looks Were like the cheerful smile of Spring, they said, She said, for I have told thee, all my love It was a Summer morning and they went She gazed upon it long, and at the sight Upon the mountain's southern slope, a grave, Of small loose stones. Thenceforward, all who passed, Hunter and dame and virgin, laid a stone MUSING. "The blue sky is happy." B. I would I were yon lonely bird, that skims DESPONDENCY. Mourn not for those who sweetly sleep, They know no more forever; Of mortal man can sever, But mourn for those who live to weep Or, in disdainful mockery, As they have lingered ever; E-N. A MOTHER'S LAMENT ON THE DEATH OF HER SON. From the Cherokee. Light of my life! Quench'd is thy gladd'ning beam so soon? Or ere thy joys were rife, Or thou had'st reach'd by brightest noon! Thy days how few! How swifter than the eaglet's flight Amid yon heaven of blue, Thy course! like him soon rapt from sight. And art thou gone-forever gone? I yield-flow then my tears, flow on. To thee, and thine! yet why deplore? INTELLIGENCE. GRAND NATIONAL ROMANCE. Pg. Some French literati, whether in jest or earnest we know not, have planned a most grand and romantic enterprize; an association has been formed for the establishment of a splendid work, to be called "La France Romantique." The said company has published a prospectus, from which the following is an extract. "The important work that we announce has no need of those pompous preambles with which prospectuses are usually commenced. The celebrated Sir Walter Scott has set the fashion of historical romances; and our France is as fertile as Scotland in curious traditions and singular customs. This work will consist of as many volumes as there have been kings in France. We have chosen this arrangement, in order to enter the more easily on the development of the idea of a modern writer, that 'every sovereign gives the impression and features of his own character and manners to the epoch in which he governs.' But that which will especially excite the interest of the public, and insure the success of this enterprise is, that the work will be a monument of the many customs and usages, and glory of France, on which will be inscribed the origin of various illustrious families, and on which their history may be traced from reign to reign down to the present time." EXTRACT FROM A LETTER RELATING TO THE CELEBRATED NATURALIST M. BONPLAND. Rio Janeiro. During my stay in this country I have obtained pretty circumstan tial information respecting the events in Paraguay, where Dr Franzia still governs. The following appear to me to be the most authentic particulars relating to the fate of M. Bonpland, which has excited so much interest in France and England, and whereever this courageous and enterprising trayeller is known. About two years and a half ago, M. Bonpland was at Santa Anna, on the east bank of the Rio Parana, where he had formed plantations of the matté, or the tea of Paraguay. About eleven o'clock in the morning he was seized and carried off by a detachment of eight hundred of Dr Franzia's troops. They destroyed the plantations, which were in a most flourishing state, and seized M. Bonpland, and the Indian families whom the mildness of his character, and the advantages of the rising civilization, had engaged to settle near him. Some Indians escaped by swimming, others, who resisted, were massacred by the soldiers. M. Bonpland, taking on his shoulders a part of his precious collection of natural history, was conducted to Assumption, the capital of Paraguay, and sent from thence to a fort in quality of physician to the garrison. It is not known how long he remained in this exile; but I am assured that he has since been sent for by Dr Franzia, the Supreme Director of Paraguay, and ordered to another part, to superintend a commercial communication between Paraguay and Peru, perhaps towards the province of the Chiquitos and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. M. Bonpland is to complete at that place the making of a great road, at the same time that he will pursue his botanical researches. His friends flatter themselves that the steps taken by the French government, those of the Institute, and of M. Von Humboldt, will not be unsuccessful. General Bolivar has also writ ten a letter to the Supreme Director of Paraguay, in which he claims our countryman, in the most affectionate terms, as the friend of his youth. If M. Bonpland is so fortunate as to return to Europe, he may throw great light on countries hitherto unknown. CAPTIVE GREEKS. A subscription has been set on foot in Paris for two young Greeks, who, when returning to their country, were made prisonof Barbary, who left them no alternative ers by an independent Pacha on the coast between apostacy, death, or a ransom of 20,000 piastres. Too poor to furnish the ransom, and too conscientious to abandon their religion, they decided on death; and neither promises nor threats could shake their resolution. The delay granted by the Pacha had nearly expired, when the report of the devotedness of these two children rived in Europe. (one 17 and the other 13 years of age) arA subscription, commenced instantly at Rome, produced half the amount; the Duke of Orleans has subscribed 2000 francs; and the efforts of philanthropists in various parts will no doubt soon procure the liberation of these interesting youths, and their return to the embrace of their struggling country. LETTER OF SIR GODFREY KNELLER. The following is a literal copy of a letter from this celebrated artist to Mr Pope, and was found in the original manuscript of Pope's translation of the Iliad, which, as is well known, was written upon scraps of påper and the backs of letters. "Dear friend,-I find them pictures are so very fresh, being painted in three collers, and aught to be new severall days; for as they are, it is impracticable to put them were you intend❜m. It would be pitty they should take dust. Jemmy stays here 8 or 10 days, and will not fail of sending them when reddy; and I am (giving my hearty and humble servis to your dear mother) Your most sincere servant, G. KNELLER." MONUMENT TO DR BAILLIE. No individual of the medical profession has ever received such posthumous honours from his brethren as the late celebrated Dr Baillie, who for many years stood decidedly at the head of the faculty in the metropolis of the British empire, and was regarded by all classes as a kind of medical oracle. The colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of London have each of them voted a bust, to be executed by Chantry, and placed in their halls; and the MedicoChirurgical Society propose to have a portrait of him for their library. The members of the medical profession throughout London have likewise resolved to set on foot a subscription, with a view of erecting a monument to his memory in St Paul's or Westminster Abbey. The most distinguished individuals in the profession are warmly engaged in promoting this object. have received from Dr Klaatsch of Berlin, an account of some inquiries he made into the particulars of one of the cases of spontaneous combustion, quoted from a French journal, in our number for last October. Taking advantage of an opportunity of communicating with the mayor of Beauvais, where the accident happened, Dr Klaatsch, with the laudable desire of sifting such a wonderful case to the bottom, procured a copy of the report drawn up by the officer of police, who investigated its circumstances. The whole body, according to this report, was found totally consumed except the head and one leg. Near the body stood a brass chafingdish, containing embers; and consequently Dr Klaatsch very properly insists that this case connot be considered one of indisputable self-burning. 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THE UNITED STATES LITERARY GAZETTE. Published on the first and fifteenth day of every month, by Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. No. 1 Cornhill, Boston.-Terms, $5 per annum, payable in July. VOL. I. REVIEWS. Tales of a Traveller, Part II. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Author of "The Sketch Book," "Bracebridge Hall," "Knickerbocker's New York," &c. Philadelphia, 1824. 8vo. pp. 212. In our last number we noticed the first of this new series of Tales; and then remarked that Mr Irving was probably induced to resume this mode of giving his works to the public, by the comparative failure of Bracebridge Hall. Our conjecture is rather confirmed by the speed with which No. 2. follows his brother; the last comer so treads upon the heels of the former, they may almost be considered twins. The interval between the two is quite too short for any one to believe that No. 2. was written-or scarcely corrected-after No. 1. went to the press. We cannot, therefore, suppose that Mr I. chooses to print thus, for the convenience of publishing as he writes, or for any other reason, but that he is satisfied that the public like this way best. BOSTON, OCTOBER 1, 1824. new characteristic of Mr Irving's work The story of "Buckthorne, or the Young In this way, then, did I enter the metropolis; a strolling vagabond; on the top of a caravan with a crew of vagabonds about me; but I was as happy as a prince, for, like Prince Hal, I felt myself superior to my situation, and knew that I could at any time cast it off and emerge into my proper sphere. No. 12. a common trait of human nature, and to take place Well then, to return to myself. It was determined, as I said, that I was not fit for tragedy, and, unluckily, as my study was bad, having a very poor memory, I was pronounced unfit for comedy also: engrossed by an actor with whom I could not pre besides, the line of young gentlemen was already tend to enter into competition, he having filled it for almost half a century. I came down again therefore to pantomime. In consequence, however, of the good offices of the manager's lady, who had taken a satyr to that of the lover; and with my face patchliking to me, I was promoted from the part of the ed and painted; a huge cravat of paper; a steeple crowned hat, and dangling long-skirted sky-blue coat, was metamorphosed into the lover of Colum bine. My part did not call for niuch of the tender and sentimental. I had merely to pursue the fugitive fair one; to have a door now and then slammed in my face; to run my head occasionally against a post; to tumble and roll about with Pantaloon and the clown; and to endure the hearty thwacks of Harlequin's wooden sword. And this is a very good and satisfactory reason. Well may the public enjoy, with How my eyes sparkled as we passed Hydehigher relish, such exquisite delicacies as park corner, and I saw splendid equipages rolling As ill luck would have it, my poetical temperaIrving's Tales,-when they are served up by, with powdered footmen behind, in rich liveries, ment began to ferment within me, and to work out not profusely nor niggardly-but in quan- with lovely women within, so sumptuously dressed metropolis, added to the rural scenes in which the and fine nosegays, and gold-headed canes; and new troubles. The inflammatory air of a great tities calculated at once to gratify and pro-and so surpassingly fair. I was always extremely fairs were held; such as Greenwich Park, Epping voke, but not to satiate the appetite. One sensible to female beauty; and here I saw it in all Forest, and the lovely valley of West End, had a While in Greenwich may dine very heartily upon roast beef, its facination, for, whatever may be said of" beauty powerful effect upon me. and want more the next day; but of cream- unadorned," there is something almost awful in Park, I was witness to the old holyday games of cakes, comfits, and kisses,—it is wiser not The swan-like neck encircled with diamonds; the then the firmament of blooming faces and blue female loveliness decked out in jewelled state. running down hill, and kissing in the ring; and to eat a great deal at once. raven locks, clustered with pearls; the ruby glow- eyes, that would be turned towards me, as I was ing on the snowy bosom, are objects that I could playing antics on the stage; all these set my young never contemplate without emotion; and a daz- blood, and my poetical vein, in full flow. In short, zling white arm clasped with bracelets, and taper I played my characters to the life, and became destransparent fingers laden with sparkling rings, are perately enamoured of Columbine. She was a to me irresistible. My very eyes ached as I gazed trim, well made, tempting girl; with a roguish at the high and courtly beauty that passed before dimpling face, and fine chesnut hair clustering all me. It surpassed all that my imagination had con- about it. The moment I got fairly smitten, there ceived of the sex. I shrunk, for a moment, into was an end to all playing. I was such a creature shame at the company in which I was placed, and of fancy and feeling, that I could not put on a prerepined at the vast distance that seemed to inter- tended, when I was powerfully affected by a real vene between me and these magnificent beings. *** emotion. I could not sport with a fiction that How little do those before the scenes know of came so near to the fact. I became too natural in what passes behind; how little can they judge, my acting to succeed. And then,--what a situafrom the countenances of actors, of what is pass-tion for a lover!--I was a mere stripling, and she ing in their hearts. I have known two lovers quar- played with my passion; for girls soon grow more rel like cats behind the scenes, who were, the mo- adroit and knowing in these matters, than your have dreaded, when our Belvidera was to take her fer. Every time that she danced in front of the ment after, to fly into each other's embraces. And awkward youngsters. What agonies had I to suffarewell kiss of her Jaffier, lest she should bite a piece booth, and made such liberal displays of her charms, out of his cheek. Our tragedian was a rough joker was in torment. To complete my misery, I had off the stage; our prime clown the most peevish a real rival in Harlequin; an active, vigorous, What had a mortal living. The latter used to go about snap- knowing varlet of six-and-twenty. his countenance; and I can assure you that, what- such a competition. raw inexperienced youngster like me to hope from ping and snarling, with a broad laugh painted on ever may be said of the gravity of a monkey, or the melancholy of a gibed cat, there is no more melancholy creature in existence than a mountebank off duty. We do not like this number so well as we did its predecessor. We do not recollect any thing in it which is not pretty good; neither can we recollect much that is more than pretty good. We looked in vain for touches of Mr Irving's exquisite satire;-for his light, but vivid and happy sketching of queer character;-for the broad fun of the Irish Dragoon, or the beauty, power, and pathos of many parts of the Young Italian. The general name of the number, is "Buckthorne and his Friends." The Traveller becomes acquainted with a sort of literary idler, who writes only when he must, but then successfully, I -if we may judge from the society he keeps. He is Buckthorne,--and he introces the Traveller to Literary Life in London. This subject is very interesting, and there are reasons why we should suppose Mr Irving singularly well qualified to write upon it; perhaps our expectations were extravagant,-but, be the fault where it will, they were greatly disappointed. There are some errors which appear to indicate a degree of carelessness, which is quite a backbite the manager, and cabal against his regula- I I bad still, however, some advantages in my favour. In spite of my change of life, I retained that indescribable something, which always distinguishes the gentleman; that something which his clothes; and which it is as difficult for a gentle. dwells in a man's air and deportment, and not in man to put off, as for a vulgar fellow to put on |