London High School Report for the Session ending July 25, 1833. Read at the Annual Meeting of Parents for the Distribution of Prizes. To which are annexed, the Greek, Latin, and Mathematical Examination Papers, &c. &c. Head Master, Rev. Charles H. Maturin, A. M., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. London: 1833. T. Hurst. In a plain and sensible preface, Mr. Maturin reports the progress of his pupils, and expounds his plan of education, which is sound and judicious. We shall perhaps give a fair idea of the extent and character of the information communicated at Mr. Maturin's school, by copying the questions required to be answered by one of his Greek classes. "Demosthenes Philippic I. Olynth.I. "Translate into Euglish Cap. 2. Olynth 1. "1. When was Demosthenes born? At what age did his political life commence? Relate the occasion and manner of his death. 2. Mention the time of Philip's birth; also the time and manner of his death. "3. How was the council of the Amphic GREG. It is the cat. GREG. The cat. TAB. Why wanders she abroad when all is And cook has closed the doors? GREG. To meet her lover on the garden- TAR. Poor, silly puss! confiding thing- Her lover will not come : (A gentle catawauling.) What tender joys are thine! Whisker to whisker joined, ye rove with hearts What savage mind conceived, what hand performed This bloody deed? GREG. The wretch who lives next door. (A voice from over the wall.) I have no sleep, (They rush into the house, and double bolt the door.) GREG. Whatever is, is right,-the cats are gone; What might have been their fate, ah, who shall tell? Some eight weeks hence they might perchance have seen Their offspring struggling in a kitchen pail. TAB. They might, they might! yet my heart bleeds for them. tyous formed? By whom was it instituted? Which beat responsive to each tender sound Mysterious fate! alas! more piteous theirs How often did it meet, and where? When did the authority of this assembly decline? When did it wholly cease? "4. Describe the situations of Pydna, Potidæa, Methone, Olynthus, Amphipolis, Pylæ. 5. Explain the methods of computing time in use among the Greeks; and state the Attic divisions of the year. "6. Give the derivation and import of παρακρουόμενος, πεφανάκικέ, ἀνεχαίτισε, φωραται, προπεποται, ὑποστείλασθαι. Shew the force of the middle verb, in δανείζομαι, ψηφισασθαι, θεσθαι νομον, λογους ποιεισθαι. That feline passion breathes. GREG. Aye! gentle Tabithina; as full oft With Mr. Thomas Wilkinson you strayed, methinks "Twere right he had been Joseph called, GREG. Weep not, my Tabithina; tears but GREG. Perchance thy fate is happier thus 7. Longa naturâ ante finalem brevem, si tonum habuerit, circumflectitur." Give the reason for this rule, applying it to the accentuation of the word owμa (anciently ooopa.) Accent the following words accord-Cares follow marriage, as dust doth a wheel, ing to their different meanings; ¿σri, oùKovv, | Upon a summer's day. αλλα, σιγα. 68. Οἱ δε δη περι αυτον όντες, ξενοι, και πεζεταίροι, δοξαν μεν ἐχουσιν ὡς ἐισι θαυμαστοί και συγκεκροτημένοι τα του πολεμον. Translate and explain the passage. Describe the Macedonian Phalanx. "9. What was the nature of the avridoσg, as established by Solon? What alteration was afterwards made respecting them? Who were the μETOLKot, and what their privileges and duties? - "10. Explain the following phrases:αἰσχυνην ὠφληκατε, ἐπιστολιμαίους δυναμεις, φαινεσθαι προειμενους, φαινεσθαι πρόιεσθαι. TAB. Oh simile felicitous! where there's (Tremendous squalling.) (Squalling again heard.) TAB. Can there be love in this? Perhaps it is a lover's quarrel: let us listen, TAB. Áh, yes! and now perchance that The boy who can answer these questions While all above in lonely beauty smiles, (Squalling renewed; a window is flung up, followed by the loud report of a gun.) (A voice in the distance.)-Take that, you varmints! TAB. Oh, heavens, they're slain! Than mine and Wilkinson's! (Each takes up a bed candle.) GREG. Sister, good night. TAB. Sister, good night. (Exeunt to their several chambert.) To look down on them, as they look up to him? They may mimic his folly, which made him forget, In a moment of madness, the rights of mankind; They may limp in the track of his brilliancy yet, Or, like beetles, drone on in their twilight of mind. With their spectacle-pageants, and shadows of power, They may cling to the tail of the comet's last glow, Like pigmies, when perched on the top of Who dream themselves giants till Oh! what meanness-what mockery cancels | panie, which I doubt she is to subject to. I their praise, If shame has one blush, it must mantle their face, When they feel, while Napoleon's image they raise, They banish ignobly Napoleon's race ! His faults might be many, but they were all grand, Since nothing of paltriness sullied his reign; The soul of his glory still sleeps in the land, And woe to the despots who wake it again! MORNING. The sun is up! the lark hath sung Creation breathes again! When mildness marks his sway. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH HISTORY. ORIGINAL LETTER OF O. CROMWELL TO earnestlie and frequentlie pray for her and MY DEEREST, (1650.) I have not Leisure to write much, but I could chide thee, that, in many of thy Cole's Collection, Ad. mss. No. 5834. Letters thou writest to me that I should not [The following letter, copied for me from be unmindful of thee and thy little ones. the original, was given me at Burnham, in Truly, if I love you not too well, I think I Buckinghamshire, by Dr. Biddle, of Wind-err not on the other hand much. sor, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. June 15, 1763.] MY DEEREST, I praise the Lord I am increased in strength in my outward man; but that will not satisfie mee except I gett a Heart to love and serve my heavenly Father better, and gett more of the Light of his Countenance, his supporters, would do well to look at the fate of his former projects before they embark any money (or labour, which is money's worth) in this. We have received a letter on this subject, which, as it comes from an old subscriber, we insert. We cannot, however, give up our pages to the controversy; and as there are twelve daily newspapers, and we know not how many weekly ones, all of them, we dare say, open to the explanations of Mr. Owen or his friends, it is unnecessary. We think our correspondent's questions deserve to be answered. His signature is rather strong, but we leave Mr. Owen to object to it. To the Editor of the National Standard. Sir I am aware that you have but little room to spare for letters to the editor, but as in one of your numbers you had an article the supporters of that precious plan, What on Mr. Owen's system, I should wish to ask has become of the First Branch of Mr. Owen's Labour Exchange Bank at the Rotunda? What has become of Mr. Owen's Central Branch in Red Lion square! And, lastly, What has become of Mr. Owen's Grand Labour Exchange Bank in Gray's Inn road? I believe your remarks on the system have been partly the means (as you said) of writing him down an ass. A reply from any of his followers will oblige A TRADESMAN WHO HAS BEEN HUMBUGGED. OUR OLDEN AUTHORS. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. IT would be an insult to our readers to suppose any of them ignorant of the history of this illustrious man. We therefore, without preface, present them with the following specimen of his poetry. WOOING STUFF. Faint Amorist: what, dost thou think Is she silent? Is she mute? A world of sweet, and taste no sour? Thou art deerer to me than any creature: Dost thou ever think to enter let that suffice. The Lord hath shewed us Th' Elysian fields, who dar'st not venture For my beloved Wife, Elizabeth Cromwell, an exceeding Mercy. Who can tell how great In Charon's barge?-a lover's mind at the Cockpit. it is! My weak faith hath been upheld: I Must use to sail with every wind. have beeu in my inward Man marvellously He who loves, and fears to try, supported; though I assure thee I grow an Learns his mistress to deny. old man, and feel Infirmities of Age mar-Doth she chide thee? 'tis to shew it vellously stealing upon me. Would my Cor- That thy coolness makes her do it. ruptions did as fast decrease! Pray on my Silence fully grants thy suit: Behalf in the latter Respect. The Particulars Doth she pout, and leave the room? of our late success, Harry Vane or Gil. Pick- Then she goes to bid thee come. Is she sick? why then be sure Thine, She invites thee to the cure. Doth she cross thy suit with No? Tush, she loves to hear thee woo. Doth she call the faith of man In question? Nay, she loves thee then! And if e'er she make a blot, She's lost if then thou hit'st her not. He who after ten denials, Dares attempt no further trials, Hath no warrant to acquire The dainties of his chaste desire. Dunbar, the 4th Sept. 1650. which is better than Life, and more power O. CROMWELL. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. THE papers have announced that Mr. Owen DRAMA. HAYMARKET. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. In the press, AMERICA. addition, division by subtraction, involution by multiplication, and evolution by division. It also much shortens the work in compound interest, and other arithmetical calculations. A new piece, entitled Swamp Hall, or the Friend of the Family, was produced The basis of the invention was this: two on Wednesday, at this theatre. It is a short Preparing for publication, "Principles of sets of numbers were taken, one in arithmeone-act farce; and the plot turns on the mis- Political Economy, deduced from the Na- tical, the other in geometrical progression ; fortunes to which an elderly couple with a tional Laws of social Welfare, and applied as, large family subject themselves by following to the present State of Britain." By G. 1, 2, the advice of a friend of the family, who has Poulett Scrope, esq. M.P. F.R.S., &c. 3, 4, &c. (logs) 10, 100, 1000, 10000,* &c. (common Nos.) promised them the reversion of his estate at Preparing for publication, “Cruikshank's Thus, to multiply 10 by 10, we find log. Swamp-hall. The friend of the family inter- Comic Album for 1834," (being the third se- 10= feres in all domestic arrangements, from theries of that entertaining work.) A series of log. for 100. So of division by numbers. 1, add 1 to 10 it is = 2, which is the marriage of the daughter down to the hiring humorous tales, with numerous illustrations Suppose it is wanted to raise 10 to 4th of a maid-servant; and his advice is always on wood. power. I find, log. 10 = 1; multiply 1 by followed, and always wrong. By his direc4, and it is = 4, which is the log. for 10000, tion the family lend 1007, to an acquaintance, or = 10) which was required. So of erowho is soon after declared a bankrupt; and the daughter is married to a swindler and lution, or the extracting of roots by division. forger, who professes to have great connexThe logs. for the intermediate numbers, as ions in the colonies. These connexions turn between 10 and 100, and under 10, &c., are Nearly ready, Nos. 2 and 3 of Harper's found; by a variety of processes and series, out to be two uncles, who have been trans- Family Library, containing “ Indian Biogra- which would be here misplaced, but can be ported to Botany Bay. The family at last phy; or, an Historical Account of those In-seen with advantage in the introduction to grow tired of the embarrassments in which dividuals who have been distinguished among the logarithmic tables. A book of the tables they are involved by their officious friend, the North American Natives as Orators, deserves to be consulted by every one enrenounce all pretensions to Swamp-hall, and | Warriors, Statesmen, and other remarkable gaged with figures; and he who has not civilly show its owner to the door. The | Characters. By B. B. Thatcher, esq. 2 vols. | previously turned hin mind to them, how daughter at the same time is liberated from Nearly ready, Vol. IV. of “American much soever he may admire the name of the engagement she has just contracted with Ornithology;" or, the Natural History of Napier, will find his admiration increased. the gentleman having great connexions in the colonies, in consequence of the marriage be- | ing proved to be an act of bigamy on his part. Such is the general outline of this piece, the subject of which is well enough calculated to form the ground-work of a short and amusing farce. The chief weight of the piece lay upon Mr. W. Farren, who performed his part-that of the friend of the family, in such an effective manner, as greatly tended to the advantage of the author. The rest of the performers exerted themselves well. When the farce was given out for repetition there was some disapprobation, but the applause decidedly predominated. ADELPHI. Herold's opera has at last made its appearance. The principal musical situations of the French original have been preserved in the copy; but the scene is changed from France to England. The title is The Court Masque, or Richmond in the Olden Time. The "olden time" is that of Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn and a nephew of Car dinal Pole occupy the place of Marguerite de Valois, and the original hero. Mr. Planche has performed his duty well; and the music has been arranged with some skill. Mr. Bland was the hero, and sung and acted tolerably. Mrs. Waylett, as we anticipated, was scarcely equal to the music assigned to her. Miss Murray performed the Queen with spirit and elegance: recollecting the fate of Anne Boleyn, it is almost painful to see her depicted with all the wild and buoyant spirits of girlhood. O. Smith was not in his place. John Reeve, as usual, displayed some drollery, —and also, as usual, knew scarcely a word of his part. The opera was very favorably re ceived. | Birds inhabiting the United States, not given the fashion to be scientific, and the young AMERICAN BLUES.—In Philadelphia it is ladies occasionally display the bas blue, in a degree, which in other cities would be consiex-dered rather alarming. I remember at a pected shortly in this country: "The Life of John Jay, with Selections ponent parts of the atmosphere by a fair dinner party being instructed as to the comfrom his Correspondence and Miscellaneous spinster, who anticipated the approach of a Papers.". By his Son, William Jay. "A Memoir of the Life of William Living-pagne, and young gentlemen and ladies period when oxygen would supersede chamston, L.L.D., Member of Congress in 1774, 1775, and 1776; Delegate to the Federal Convention in 1717; and Governor of the State of New Jersey from 1776 to 1790." By Theodore Sedgwick, jun. "Sketches of Turkey in 1831 and 1832," By an American. lantic, Pacific, Indian, and Antarctic Oceans "Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic Ocean." | | would hob or nob in gas. The vulgar term drunk would then give place to inflated, certainly more euphonious to ears polite, and the coarser stimulants, such as alcohol and tobacco, in all their forms and uses, be regarded with contempt.-Men ‘and Manners in America. tain it, never were broken, in the long history THE UNYIELDING.Our infantry, I mainof eight hundred years, save by William the Norman at Hastings, and Robert the Bruce been broken by them. In no other instance, at Bannockburn; and it is no disgrace to have not one, in our wars of the Edwards and Henries, of William, of Marlborough, of Wellington, with the French, the Scotch, the Spaniards, any body, is there an example to be found? I except, of course, the batties in the wars of the Roses, or between the Roundheads and Cavaliers ; for one party or other must be cut to pieces in civil wars; but everybody must admit that there was very pretty fighting in those times on both sides. Sir Morgan O' Doherty, in Fraser's Maga VARIETIES. NAPIER'S LOGs.-The name of Napier, which is now bruited abroad, and is on everybody's tongue, is not new in the annals of fame. Well is it known, and highly has it been appreciated, at least by those who have from time to time constituted the scientific world. I refer to the discovery of logarithms, which were originally invented MODESTY OF THE LITERARY GAZETTE, by Lord Napier, about a century and a half The last number of our venerable contemago, and by him and a Mr. Briggs, an Ox-porary contains a sixth notice of Captain onian professor, were brought to perfection. Owen's Narrative, which, with admirable The extreme usefulness of this invention is zine. up to 10,000, which is sufficient for general In the tables, logarithms are calculated purposes. modesty and most felicitous naïveté, commences thus: "An appearance in six numbers of the Literary Gazette is a prima facie indication of more than common interest in a work!" The reader knows better than to believe a word of this. All the world is aware that these numerous notices only afford "an indication" that the publisher of the book has a good understanding with the editor. Ou referring to Captain Owen's Narrative, we find at the bottom of the title-page the words "Richard Bentley, New Burlington street." This is quite satisfactory. "To THE POOR THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED." At the doors of Quebec chapel, near Portman square, the following notice is conspicuously exhibited. "As this chapel is private property, and the duty kept up at a very great expense, [qy.?] the pewopeners are not allowed to seat strangers in any of the pews during morning service, except permission be obtained at the private door in Bryanston street, where pews and sittings may be taken." [Why not say at once, "Places may be taken at the Bor Office, in Bryanston street: no half-price." Does the Bishop of London ever pass along Quebec street?] thinner, numbers are at present procurable at the publisher's. 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