setting the emissaries of the law in "If "Come, then," said Berville, leading Janet to the door. She turned round ere she quitted the cottage, but met a glance of such anger and threatening, that she hurried forward with Berville, who pursued his way rapidly through the wood," ["That fits in very nicely," said Jack Stuart; "and you may be getting ready the five pound note, for I feel sure you know you back the losing horse. Can any thing be more like a genuine, bona fide novel, the work of one man, and a devilish clever man too? Confess now, that if you didn't know the trick of it, you would have thought it a splendid original work? But perhaps you're throat's dry with so much reading? Here's another bottle of Lafitte; and we can miss over a volume and a half of foreign scenes, which you can imagine; for Jack handed me a volume, evidently popular among circulating library students, for it was very dirty; and I was just going to commence when Jack interrupted me. "Stay," he said; "you must have a "Or Spanish, or German ?" 66 Well, you surely can recollect some Greek-for next to manuscript quotations and old plays, you can't do better than have some foreign lines at the beginning of the chapter. What Greek do you remember?-for, 'pon my honour, I've forgotten all mine." "My dear Jack, I only know a line here and there." "Out with them. Put them all in a row, and never mind the meaning." Thus urged, I indited the following as a headpiece.] "Deinè de clange genet' argurioio bioio, HOMER, Iliad, 1. 1. ["Excellent! bravo!" said Jack; "they'll see at once the author is a gentleman and a scholar; and now go on."] The crimson and gold drawing-room of Lorrington Castle was filled with company, the court-yard crowded with carriages, and the coachmen and footmen in gorgeous liveries, with a splendid white satin favour at the side of their hats. The view from the window ["Stop," said Jack Stuart, "here's a better description. I cut it out of the Times". -] The view from the window involved a spacious assemblage of all the numerous beauties and illustrations that cast a magnificent air of grandeur over one of ENGLAND'S NOBLEST MANSIONS. The extensive shrubberies clothed the verdant meads, and threw a shade of deep green tints over an EXTENSIVE ARTIFICIAL LAKE, on which floated, like a nymph or naiad, a beautiful SAILING BOAT, painted bright green, and fit for instant use. Further off, in one of those indistinct distances immortalized by the pencil of Turner-now softened into sober beauty by "the autumnal hue, the sear and yellow leaf," as an immortal bard expresses it, in language which the present writer does not imitate, and could not, without great difficulty, excel, was an IMMENSE DAIRY FARM, fit for the accommodation of THIRTY MILK COWS, of a peculiar breed, highly approved of by the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SPENCER. In other portions of the landscape rose statues which might have raised the envy of PRAXITELES, THE GRECIAN SCULPTOR, or attracted the love of the beautiful "Maid of France," who "sighed her soul away" in presence of THE APOLLO BELVIDERE, a figure, in the words of a living author, "Too fair to worship, too divine to love." The drawing-room of the mansion was of the amplest size, and contained some of the finest specimens of the taste and workmanship of JACKSON AND GRAHAM, enumerating Or-molu tables-escritoires-rosewood chairs richly inlaid-richly AXMINSTER CARPET, coloured and sofas covered with figured satin. ["That will do," said Jack. Now go on with the book."] should be no reserve between a man and his wife. I told you, Alice, when we were at Rome, the story of an adventure I had on Barnley Wold, and of the heroic conduct of a young girl. In this lady you see her. She is now the wife of the vicar of my parish, and I trust will be a friend of both of us." 66 Lady Alice threw her arms round Janet's neck, and said, “I know it all; we shall be friends; and nothing makes one so happy as to know we shall be so near each other." "Ah, madam, you know not how deeply I am indebted to his lordship's mother, for all her kindness; or how overpaid all my services are by the happiness of this moment." "And now, having made you thus acquainted, I must ask you, my kind friend, to hurry Lady Alice to the great hall, where your husband, I trust, is waiting to tie the indissoluble band." A joyous shout from the tenants assembled in the outer court, who became impatient for the appearance of the happy pair, gave evidence of the near approach of the happy moment, and Janet and Lady Alice hurried from the room. Lord Berville rang the bell. His servant appeared, being no other than our old acquaintance George, now softened by a year's sojourn in a foreign land. no "George," said Lord Berville, one in the earth knows your position; from this hour, therefore, you cease to be my servant, and are the steward of my Lincolnshire estate. Your uncle's fate is unknown?" "His fate is known, my lord, that he died by his own hand in the hut on Barnley Wold; but his crimes are undiscovered." "Be it so; let them be alluded to between us no more. Your cousin Janet is the happy wife of my friend and chaplain; and I am delighted to show my appreciation of her nobleness and purity, by all the kindness I can bestow on her relations. Go down to Lincolnshire, Mr Andrews," said his lordship, shaking hands with George, "and when you are installed in the mansion-house, write to me; and now, farewell." It is difficult to say whose heart was most filled with joy on this eventful day. Lady Matilda, now happily married to Lord Merilands of the Guards, and the lovely Lady Mary Rosley, (shortly to be united to the young Earl of Gallowdale,) were pleased at the happiness of their friends; and certainly no prayer seemed to be more likely to receive its accomplishment than that which was poured forth, amidst the ringing of bells and the pealing of cannon, for the health and prosperity of Lord and Lady Berville. Jack Stuart sat, with his eyes turned up to the ceiling, as if he were listening to the music of the spheres. "The best novel I have ever read!" he exclaimed; "and now, all I have got to do is to get it copied fairly out, dedicate it to Lord William Lennox or Mr Henry Bulwer, and get my five or six hundred guineas. It is a capital thing to lose on the Derby; for unless I had been drawn for the hundred and fifty, I don't think the dovetail novel would ever have come into my head." INSCRIPTION ON THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW DINING-HALL, &c., STET lapis arboribus nudo defixus in horto FREE TRANSLATION. No more look For shady nook, Poor perspiring stranger! Trees for bricks Cut their sticks, Lo! our salle-à-manger ! Yon old hall, For suit and brawl, Still be famed in story; This must look To the cook For its only glory! SCROPE ON SALMON FISHING. We have here a work of great beauty in a pictorial and typographical point of view, and one which abounds with practical information regarding the bolder branches of the "gentle art." Mr Scrope conveys to us, in an agreeable and lively manner, the results of his more than twenty years' experience as an angler in our great border river; and having now successfully illustrated, both with pen and pencil, two of the most exciting of all sporting recreations-deer-stalking and salmonfishing-he may henceforward repose himself upon the mountain-side, or by the murmuring waters, with the happy consciousness of having not only followed the bent of his own inclinations, but contributed to the amusement and instruction of a numerous class of his fellow creatures. The present volume consists of no dry didactic dissertations on an art unteachable by written rules, and in which, without long and often dear bought experience, neither precept nor example will avail; but it contains a sufficiency of sagacious practical advice, and is enlivened by the narration of numerous angling adventures, which bring out, with force and spirit, the essential character of the sport in question. Great advances have been recently made in our knowledge of the sea-going Salmonida. Indeed, all the leading facts of primary importance in the history of their first development and final growth are now distinctly known, and have lately been laid before the public in the form both of original memoirs in our scientific journals, and the transactions of learned societies, and of more popular abstracts in various literary works. We ourselves discussed the subject in this Magazine, with our accustomed clearness, a couple of months ago; and we shall therefore not here enter into the now no longer vexed question of the nature of parr and smolts,-all doubt and disputation regarding the actual origin and family alliance of these fry, their descent from and eventual conversion into grilse and salmon, being finally set at rest to the satisfaction of every reasonable and properly instructed mind. We consider it, however, as a good proof of the natural sagacity and observant disposition of our present author, that he should have come to the same conclusion several years ago, regarding the habits and history of salmon fry, as that so successfully demonstrated by Mr Shaw. Mr Scrope dwells with no unbecoming pertinacity on this point; but he shows historically, while fully admitting the importance and originality of that ingenious observer's experimental proceedings, that he had, in the course of his own private correspondence and conversation, called the attention of Mr Kennedy of Dunure as a legislator, and of Sir David Brewster as a skilled interpreter of natural phenomena, to various facts corresponding to those which have been since so skilfully detailed by Mr Shaw. Our author, though well acquainted with the sporting capabilities of all parts of Scotland, here confines himself to the lower portions of the Tweed, more than twelve miles of which he has rented at different times. We in some measure regret that one so able to inform us, from his extensive experiences regarding the nature and localities of the first-rate though rather precarious angling for salmon which may be obtained in the northern parts of Scotland, should not have contrived to include an account of the more uproarious Highland streams and placid lakes frequented by this princely species. With all our admiration for the flowing Tweed, of which we have fondly traced the early feeble voice 66 a fitful sound Wafted o'er sullen moss and craggy mound, Unfruitful solitudes, that seem'd t' upbraid The sun in heaven !" until, through many an intermediate scene of infinitely varied beauty, the expanded waters Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. By WILLIAM SCROPE, Esq., F.L.S. 1 vol. royal 8vo. London, 1843. "Gliding in silence with unfetter'd" are supposed to enter a river merely sweep, Beneath an ampler sky, a region wide And blue-topp'd hills, behold them from we should still have rejoiced to find a twin volume devoted to those wilder and more desolate scenes by which the northern angler is encompassed. Meanwhile we accept with pleasure our author's "Days and Nights" upon the Tweed. Salmon ascend from the sea, and enter this fine river, in greater or less abundance, during every period of the year, becoming more plentiful as the summer advances, provided there is a sufficiency of rain both to enlarge and discolour the waters, and thus enable the fish to pass more securely over those rippling shallows which so frequently occur between the deeper streams. The salmon," says Mr Scrope "travels rapidly, so that those which leave the sea, and go up the Tweed on the Saturday night at twelve o'clock, after which time no nets are worked till the Sabbath is past, are found and taken on the following Monday near St Boswell's a distance, as the river winds, of about forty miles. This I have frequently ascertained by experience. When the strength of the current in a spate is considered, and also the sinuous course a salmon must take in order to avoid the strong rapids, their power of swimming must be considered as extraordinary.-P. 10. for the purposes of spawning, and as they are driven from the coasts near the river by the numerous enemies they en- We cannot think that a great in- We do not clearly see, and should have been glad had the author stated, IL what manner he ascertained that his 5: Boswen's fish had not escaped the sweeping semicircles of the lower that even herrings have ever been nets some days previous. We admit detected in the stomach of a porpoise. that there is a great deal of Sabbath Yet we have careful notes of the disdesecration committed by salmon, but section of these creatures, taken from we also know that they travel up specimens slaughtered in the midst of waru., though in smaler number and millions of herrings; and these notes with greater rist, during all the other show that the minute food with which Days of the week; and we are curious the sea was swarming, and which to unterstand bow any angler, how formed the sustenance for the time of ever accompusted, can carry his skill the smaller fishes, also constituted the IL YA JOBy to such perfection, as food of the cetacea, which were 10 De Blue 10 Jook a fish in the face on merely gamboling through the herring Monuzy myling, and decide that it shoals. La v it wave en til the clock It is certainly, however, difficult to SITUCE I UL at Saturday night explain the motives by which the early spring salmon are actuated in continues, ascending rivers, seeing that they F a |