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I STOOD beside him, where he lay,
And watch'd his life's last ebbing sand,
For he was hastening fast away

Unto the distant land!

And scarce remembrance could recall,
In that wan, wasted cheek and brow,
The once bright, blooming face-where all
Was dark and dreary now.

Yet he had pass'd not manhood's prime
And half his days were scarcely told;
But other ails than those of time

Had made him early old;

E'en when to live we but begin,

And 'scape from headlong passion's spell, On him short, wasting years of sin

Had done their work too well.

The evening sun's descending rays
Full on his fading features shone ;
He looked upon his last of days

All wild and woe-begone.

It seem'd to wake within his breast

The memory of some fearful dream-'Twere mercy now if sunk to rest In dark oblivion's stream.

Around him closed the gathering night-
Delirious horrors fill'd the gloom→→
Without a ray of hope to light

The lost one to the tomb.
Oh! from the death-bed of despair,
Where doth the parting spirit flee?
Alas! we know what now we are,
But not what we may be!

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

WE understand that Dr Russell of Leith is preparing for the pres a series of discourses on the following subjects:-The Millennium the Doctrine of Election, Justification by Faith, the Assurance o Faith, and the Freeness of the Gospel.

Dr John Hennen haз in the press, Sketches of the Medical Topography of the Mediterranean, comprising a description of Gibraltar, the Ionian Islands, and Malta, by his father, the late Dr Hennen, Inspector of Hospitals, author of the work on the Principles of Mi. litary Surgery.

Mr Sweet has in a forward state for publication a new edition of his Hortus Britannicus, which will enumerate many thousand additional plants, together with the colours of the flowers.

Mr Henry Dance has in the press, Remarks on Law Expenses, with some suggestions for reducing them.

Mr Bucke's Epic Drama of Julio Romano, or the Display of the Passions, accompanied by an historic Memoir, giving an account of the proceedings in parliament last session on the claims of dramatic writers-remarks on the present state of the stage-and the author's correspondence with various persons; to which will be added an appendix, stating the manner in which dramatic authors are rewarded in Russia, Germany, and France,-is about to appear. The Portfolio of the Martyr Student is announced. There is preparing for publication, by the Rev. H. Moseley, of St John's College, Cambridge, a Treatise on Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics, for the use of Students in the University.

A History of English Gardening, from the Roman invasion to the present time, is announced, by G. W. Johnson.

A Complete General History of the East Indies has been for some time preparing by Mr C. Marsden, and he has made considerable progress in the work.

A new novel, entitled The Jew, is in the press.

TRICK SHEPHERD versus TYTLER AND THE QUARTERLY

-The Ettrick Shepherd wonders how his esteemed Peter Tytler, or rather, perhaps, the Quarterly Reviewer, bare explained the fine ancient verse on the death of Alexan. Third so incorrectly :-Le or lee, in lyrical phrase, is not law, des rearned; sonce, is from soncy, cheerful, good-humoured; ay, ill-natured, dangerous; sonce of ale and bread theretems, the good cheer of ale and bread. Wax should have been

Scottish term for night revels or merry-makings till this tad does not simply mean placed, but stabled, tied up in`a perplexity, sta'd.-The lines, thus explained, will read as fol

When Alexander our King was dead,
Who Scotland led in love and lee,
Away was sonce of ale and bread,

Of wine and waiks, of game and glee.

Our gold is turned into lead ;

Christ born into virginitye,

Succour poor Scotland with remeid,
That sta'd is in perplexity.

His house was sta'd, his bed was made,
His sheits were spread in luve and lee.

LENSHIELD'S JOLLY BEGGARS.-This collection of Statues is biting in Edinburgh. We have seen them, and shall give murtial opinion concerning them next week. They are eight mer, representing the ballad-singer and his two Deborahs, the Tinker, and the fair Helen for whom they contend, and the der and his doxy.

SCOTTISH ACADEMY.-We regret to observe that some inindividuals are still wrangling about this Institution. We me time ago that we thought the late differences among the ians too much of a personal nature to be brought, before

We think so still. The matter regards the internal reAts of that body; and discussions of this kind do not seem to larly calculated to diffuse either a knowledge or a taste for We abandoned the subject to those who take a peculiar interest Any controversy, and, whatever blunders they may make, we e to leave it in their hands.

TECH JOURNAL OF NATURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL * C-This publication, the commencement of which we nome time ago, has now reached its Fourth Number, and we to have it in our power to state, that we think there is a Te improvement visible in each. In No. IV. there is a comtion from the pen of the able ornithologist, Sir William Jargether with several spiritedly written reviews. With the sestigation, however, bestowed upon Mr Hugh Murray's work erica, we cannot agree; and in reference to the paper on the Hugh College Museum, we take this opportunity of stating, sour intention to offer, shortly, a few remarks of our own that subject.

ACROSTIC-The following lines were written on the occasion Catholic Emancipation, by W. Ainslie, M.D. :—

"Venite exultemus-omnes gentes plaudite!"

wn, down with fell discord-come, hail the glad voice!
weetly along by the soft summer gale-
ced milions arise!-and devoutly rejoice,

tells you, at length, the so long-look'd for tale. aded no more, lo! e'en justice forgets,

ay! and pardons your shrines basely slighted; Failings, and wrongs, and most poignant regrets, sh!the moment her balance is righted;

all with one heart then, our sorrows thus ended,

, honour, and cherish, the fair Sister Isle,

union alone, well assured there come blended ngs that flow not, enrich'd with a smile, Grace to the Monarch whose wisdom has waved,

hal every wound, his prerogative right:

d be to him, too, whose arm boldly braved, url'd the proud Chief from his arrogant height. LETTER CONCERNING SIR WALTER SCOTT'S TRAGEDY OF "THE HOUSE OF ASPEN."

To the Editor of the Literary Journal. -Having read in Sir Walter Scott's Preface to his new Trage"The House of Aspen," that the worthy Baronet regretted his not been able to learn the real name and situation of " Veit from whose works the tragedy is taken, it may, perhaps, be uninteresting to your readers if I furnish them with some inPion respecting that author. The real name of Veit Weber is Leonhardt Waechter. He was born about 1762, and receihis first education from his father, then a minister of the church Michael in Hamburg. He afterwards studied theology, accord.

ing to his father's wish, at Gottingen, but at the same time was much occupied in investigating the history of ancient German art and literature. On leaving Gottingen, he resided for some time in his native place, without being able to get a living as a minister, which may perhaps be attributed to his possessing too open and downright a character. It was about this time that he published his "Sagen der Vorzeit," (Tales of the Olden Time,) and produced by his work the same effect on novel writing which Goethe, b Khis "Goetz," did on the drama. We may safely say, that the deluge of romances of chivalry which has since overflowed Germany, has its origin in these tales. Waechter was intimately acquainted with the spirit of German antiquity, and an enthusiastic love of his country pervades all his productions. The first three volumes, however, of his "Sagen der Vorzeit," are by far to be preferred to those which appeared later. Waechter, forsaking the clerical profession, entered (about 1793) a Hanoverian regiment, and made several campaigns against the French, in which he greatly distinguished himself. He was wounded near Mayence. On his return to Hamburg he established, in conjunction with Professor Voigt, a boarding institution, which he afterwards carried on with great reputation by himself, as Voigt accepted an invitation to go to Riga. In the last war against Napoleon, Waechter was again among the defenders of Hamburg, and again gave many proofs of disinterestedness and presence of mind. It may also be mentioned that he wrote a drama called "Wilhelm Tell," which was published before Schiller's play. The characters in it are well drawn, though on the whole it is inferior to the celebrated drama of the same name by Schiller. I know not whether he is still alive.

I may perhaps shortly furnish you with some account of the origin and history of the tribunal called "das Vehmgericht," or " die heilige Vehme," which forms the chief subject of Sir Walter's tragedy. For those who will not find the word "Vehme" in their dictionaries, I may observe that this word is derived from the old Saxon word "vervehmen," which means, to curse, to outlaw, to banish; "das Vehmgericht" means, therefore, a tribunal which had the right to outlaw. I am, sir, your obedient servant, C.

Theatrical Gossip.-There positively does not appear to be a single word of Theatrical gossip stirring. The London Theatres are occupied principally with their Christmas Pantomimes, and we hear of nothing wonderful that is going on in the provinces.-The Edinburgh Theatrical Fund Dinner, fixed for the 29th inst., is to be held in the Assembly Rooms.

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TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

NOTICES of several new works are unavoidably postponed. Among these is a review of Bower's third volume of the History of the University, the concluding sheets of which reached us too late for this week; also the late Mr Balfour's "Weeds and Wildflowers."

"The Picture Gallery" shall have a place in an early Number."Fiction v. Truth" will appear as soon as we can find room."Christmas, Psalms, and Sects," and the " Lines written on Arthur Seat," though both possessing merit, will not exactly suit us.— "Astolpho's" female epistle hath not found the same favour in our eyes as his former communication.-" Proteus" is informed, that nothing but the intrinsic merits of any article sent us by an anonymous Correspondent could secure its insertion in our pages." Fife Answers" will not suit us.To our fair Correspondent who signs herself" A True Friend," we shall address a note in a day or two.

The verses by "J. M.," and by "Z. Y. X." shall have a place.We have received "A Welcome to Winter,"-" Lines on the Ruins of the Parthenon on the Calton Hill," and "Stanzas on the Last Sunset of 1829."

We observe it is stated in several provincial papers, that the verses we published some time ago, written by Burns when about to leave Scotland, had appeared in print before. We believe this to be the case, but of course were not aware of the fact at the time.

We beg to inform our readers in Aberdeen, that the delay which has once or twice taken place in the delivery of the Journal there, is to be attributed to our Aberdeen parcel, which is dispatched per mail every Friday afternoon,' having been once or twice left by mistake at Perth. We hope a similar mistake will not occur again.-When "A Subscriber" writes to us again from Aberdeen, we shall take the liberty of returning his letter unopened, unless the postage be paid.

[No. 60, January 2, 1830.7

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LITERARY CRITICISM.

The Mirror of the Graces; or, the English Lady's Costume, containing General Instructions for combining Elegance, Simplicity, and Economy, with Fashion in Dress; Hints on Female Accomplishments and Manners, and Directions for the Preservation of Health and Beauty. By a Lady of Distinction. Edinburgh. Adam Black. 1830. Pp. 212.

We do not care one farthing whether this book be by "A Lady of Distinction" or not ;-it is a sensible book, and contains a great deal of good sound doctrine and advice, along with, here and there, some things which we think incorrect. It is, we understand, a reprint from the first edition, which appeared so far back as 1817, at Calcutta. If, however, it formerly contained any Indian allusions, these have been expunged, and the work is adapted to the present day, and the existing state of manners in this country. As nothing delights us more, when we can steal a few hours from sterner pursuits, than to dedicate them to the service of the fair sex, we propose offering a sort of running commentary upon the contents of the volume before us, embracing, as they do, so many subjects of vital importance to all ladies.

Both sexes,

There can be no doubt that every woman is called upon to pay a particular and steady attention to dress. If we may be allowed to draw a broad distinction, liable, of course, to many exceptions, we should say, that man is the useful, woman the ornamental, part of creation. A beautiful woman beside an active and intelligent man, is like an elegant garnish to a substantial dish. We eat of the dish, but we preserve the garnish, and we eat of the former the more willingly that it has been rendered so attractive by the latter. Without the softening influence of woman, man would become too rude and fierce; and, perhaps, without the ardour and energy of man, woman would be too insipid and uninformed. therefore, have their relative duties, the one to extend knowledge, and the other to refine society. Refinement goes hand in hand with a due cultivation of taste, and one of the most direct and obvious signs of a duly cultivated taste is the attention paid to one's external appearance and dress. The savage covers his person with a grotesque combination of colours, which at once betrays his ignorance of the true laws of beauty; while, on the other hand, the graces of youth and modesty never appear more attractive than when the chaste decoration of the person becomes, as it were, the sign of the mind's purity. An attention to dress, it is true, may be carried to excess; but those old prosers who railed against dress altogether, as an invention of the Evil One, ought to have considered what kind of creatures we should be were we to go about wrapped up in blankets or bear-skins. "I never yet met with a woman," says the authoress of the book before us, "whose general style of dress was chaste, elegant, and appropriate, that I did not find, on further acquaintance, to be, in disposition and mind, an object to admire and love." This is the observation of a person of sound sense, and entirely coincides with our own ex

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perience. Let phrenologists rave about their bumps and organs, show us the colour and make of the gown, the mode of dressing the hair, the length of the petticoat, the shape of the shoe, the device of the ring, and the fall of the scarf or shawl, and if we do not write "full," "rather large," "small," "very full," opposite the names of the different bumps, more accurately than Mr Combe himself, we shall at length pronounce phrenology a true science. "Show me a lady's dressing-room," says a certain writer," and I will tell you what manner of woman she is." He was right; but we claim not the privilege of entering her dressing-room,—all we ask is, to see her come out of it in any garb she pleases. "The best chosen dress is that which so harmonizes with the figure as to make the raiment pass unobserved. The result of the finest toilet should be an elegant woman, not an elegantly dressed woman. Where a perfect whole is intended, it is a sign of defect in the execution, when the details first present themselves to observation." Dress has in all ages been indicative, not only of individual, but of national character, strikingly illustrating Pope's couplet

"Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times." Our authoress, in tracing the history of dress, goes pretty far back:-" When innocence left the world," she observes, "astonished man blushed at his own and his partner's nakedness, and coverings were soon invented." The luxury and riches of the East, converted, ere long, the twisted foliage of trees and the skins of beasts into garments of a more splendid description. But the severer taste of the dames of Greece taught them to make a resolute stand against the gorgeousness of the Persian loom and the Tyrian dyes. The wives of a Phocion and a Leonidas were simple in their attire, well knowing that an harmonious form never looks more beautiful than beneath the graceful folds of an inartificial robe, and that the modest zone, the braided hair, or veiled head, are worth all the golden fleece of Colchis, or precious gems of Bussorah. To the classical forms of Greece, the poet, painter, and sculptor turn with delight even now; and as the epicure who has satiated his appetite with all the delicacies of land and sea, is obliged to confess that there is, after all, nothing more delightful than the simple fruits of the earth, so, after the revolution of ages, the fine lady of modern Europe reverts with avidity to the unforgotten costume of many a long-forgotten Grecian maiden. Upon this subject we have pleasure in extracting the following correct and graphic passage:

THE DIFFERENT DRESSES OF DIFFERENT AGES.

"The irruption of the Goths and Vandals made it needful for women to assume a more repulsive garb. The flowing robe, the easy shape, the soft unfettered hair, gave place to skirts, shortened for flight or contest-to the hardened vest, and head buckled in gold or silver.

"Thence, by a natural descent, have we the iron boddice, stiff farthingale, and spiral coeffure of the middle ages. The courts of Charlemagne, of our Edwards, Henries, and Elizabeth, all exhibit the figures of women as if in a state of siege. Such lines of circumvallation and outworks; such

impregnable bulwarks of whalebone, wood, and steel; such much quiet decency as possible, remembering that they impassible mazes of gold, silver, silk, and furbelows, met a may make themselves esteemed long after they have ceased man's view, that before he had time to guess it was a wo- to inspire either love or admiration.

man that he saw, she had passed from his sight; and he

one of the softer sex.

only formed a vague wish on the subject, by hearing, from In close connexion with the subject of dress, stands an interested father or brother, that the moving castle was the consideration how the most perfect effect is to be given to those features which are usually left uncovered. Every "These preposterous fashions disappeared in England a body is aware how much the same features vary in beauty short time after the Restoration; they had been a little on at different times. Late hours and fashionable dissipathe wane during the more classic, though distressful reign tion steal the roses from the healthiest cheek-the lustre of Charles I.; and what the beautiful pencil of Vandyke from the brightest eye. The indulgence of ill temper shows us, in the graceful dress of Lady Carlisle and Sacharissa, was rendered yet more correspondent to the soft engraves premature wrinkles on the fairest brow; and undulations of nature, in the garments of the lovely, but the want of due attention to neatness, cleanliness, and exfrail beauties of the second Charles's court. But as change ercise, destroys for ever the brilliancy of the complexion. too often is carried to extremes, in this case the unzoned In these circumstances, the question naturally arises,-how tastes of the English ladies thought no freedom too free; far may fictitious aids to beauty be allowed? Our tenets their vestments were gradually unloosened of the brace, un- upon this matter are not quite so strict as those we have til another touch would have exposed the wearer to no often heard laid down. Our opinion is, that the necesthicker covering than the ambient air.

"The matron reign of Anne in some measure corrected sity of resorting to such means of pleasing is, in general, a this indecency. But it was not till the accession of the sufficient punishment. We, of course, prefer natural House of Brunswick that it was finally exploded, and gave ringlets to a wig, but if the natural ringlets have all dropped way by degrees to the ancient mode of female fortification, off, should a lady therefore erect her bald head upon a sofa by introducing the hideous Parisian fashion of hoops, buck- or at a dinner table? We prefer the row of ivory teeth ram stays, waists to the hips, screwed to the circumference that have been growing out of one's gums from childhood of a wasp, brocaded silks stiff with gold, shoes with heels so to any other set of teeth which may be fastened there by high as to set the wearer on her toes; and heads, for quan- the cunning wires of the dentist, but shall we therefore tity of false hair, either horse or human, and height to

outweigh, and perhaps outreach, the Tower of Babel! defend the gaping gulf of a dilapidated mouth against These were the figures which our grandmothers exhibited; the pleasant appearance of a well-furnished orifice? We nay, such was the appearance I myself made in my early prefer the "purple bloom of youth" to all the carmine at youth; and something like it may yet be seen at a drawing- this moment in Paris, but if a few touches of a little inroom on court-days. "When the arts of sculpture and painting, in their fine low biliousness the face of one we like, shall we be stern nocent vegetable rouge rescue from milky paleness or yelspecimens from the chisels of Greece, and the pencils of moralist enough to forbid the application of the revivifyItaly, were brought into this country, taste began to mould the dress of our female youth after their more graceful fa- ing tint? Hear our authoress upon this point. She very shion. The health-destroying boddice was laid aside, bro- properly forbids the use of white paint, which is always cades and whalebone disappeared; and the easy shape and poisonous, and, sooner or later, corrodes the skin; but she flowing drapery again resumed the rights of nature and of has not the same objections to the use of red: grace. The bright hues of auburn, raven, or golden tresses adorned the head in its native simplicity, putting to shame the few powdered toupees, which yet lingered on the brow of prejudice and deformity.

REMARKS ON ROUGING.

"What is said against white paint, does not oppose with the same force the use of red. Merely rouging leaves three parts of the face, and the whole of the neck and arms, to their natural hues. Hence, the language of the heart, expressed by the general complexion, is not yet entirely obstructed. Besides, while all white paints are ruinous to health. (occasioning paralytic affections, and premature death,) there are some red paints which may be used with

"Thus for a short time did the Graces indeed preside at the toilet of the British beauty; but a strange caprice seems now to have dislodged these gentle handmaids. Here stands affectation distorting the form into a thousand unnatural shapes; and there, ill taste, loading it with grotesque ornaments, gathered (and mingled confusedly) from Grecian and Roman models, from Egypt, China, Turkey, and perfect safety. Hindostan. All nations are ransacked to equip a modern "A little vegetable rouge tinging the cheek of a delicate fine lady; and, after all, she may perhaps strike a contem-woman, who, from ill health or an anxious mind, loses her porary beau as a fine lady, but no son of nature could, at a roses, may be excusable; and so transparent is the texture glance, possibly find out that she meant to represent an ele-of such rouge, (when unadulterated with lead,) that when gant woman."-P. 12-15.

the blood does mount to the face, it speaks through the slight covering, and enhances the fading bloom. But, though the occasional use of rouge may be tolerated, yet my fair friends must understand that it is only tolerated. Good sense must so preside over its application, that its tint on the cheek may always be fainter than what nature's pallet would have disgusting objects to the eye. The excessive red on the face painted. A violently rouged woman is one of the most gives a coarseness to every feature, and a general fierceness to the countenance, which transforms the elegant lady of fashion into a vulgar harridan.

The allusion in the last part of this extract to the ridiculous attempts which some people make to dress themselves up in all the fashions of earth, and all the colours of heaven, is painfully just. The virgin or the bride, (and who shall say which is the more lovely of the two,) in endeavouring to increase her charms in the eyes of some virtuous lover or proud and affectionate husband, is but obeying one of the ends of her creation. "But when the wrinkled fair, the hoary-headed matron, attempts to equip herself for conquest, to awaken senti- "While I recommend that the rouge we sparingly perments, which, when the bloom on her cheek has disap-mit, should be laid on with delicacy, my readers must not peared, her rouge can never recall; and when, despite of suppose that I intend such advice as a means of making the all her efforts, we can perceive memento mori written on an apparel of the face, (a kind of decent veil thrown over art a deception. It seems to me so slight, and so innocent her face, then we cannot but deride her folly, or in pity the cheek, rendered too eloquent of grief by the pallidness counsel her rather to seek for charms, the mental graces of secret sorrow,) that I cannot see any shame in the most of Madame de Sevignè, than the meretricious arts of Ninon ingenious female acknowledging that she occasionally rouges. de l'Enclos." There is not, in good sooth, a more dis- It is often, like a cheerful smile on the face of an invalid, gusting sight than a creature of this kind. She has com- put on to give comfort to an anxious friend.

monly red hair, and a large mouth, and a prodigious bo- should not feed, like a worm, on the bud it affects to bright"That our applications to this restorer of our usual looks som, which she wears quite uncovered, and a dumpy per-en, no rouge must ever be admitted that is impregnated son, and a smile like the reflection of a washerwoman's face with even the smallest particle of ceruse. It is the lead which in a tin cover. Yet the poor object conceives that she is is the poison of white paint; and its mixture with the red gaining universal admiration, when, in point of fact, she would render that equally noxious."-P. 40-2. is the ridicule or contempt of the whole world. Let old maids and married matrons cover their persons with as

The transition from the cheek to the lip is not difficult, and, in our humble opinion, the lip is one of the most

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