the lapse of years, during which the monk of Saint Cuthbert had nature has gradually covered the hitherto saved him from the geneeffects of violence with creeping ral wreck; but it would seem ruin plants and with weather stains, had now at length reached him. exhibit amid their decay a melan-Anxious to discover if he had at choly beauty. But when the visi-least escaped personal harm, Roble effects of violence appear raw land Græme now entered the halfand recent, there is no feeling to ruined cell. mitigate the sense of devastation. The interior of the building was with which they impress the spec-in a state which fully justified the tators; and such was now the scene on which the youthful page gazed with the painful feeling it was qualified to excite.

opinion he had formed from its external injuries. The few rude utensils of the solitary's hut were broken down and lay scattered on the floor, where it seemed as if a fire had been made with some of the fragments to destroy the rest of his property, and to consume, in particular, the rude old image of

In

When his first momentary surprise was over, Roland Græme was at no loss to conjecture the cause of these ravages. The destruction of the Popish edifices did not take place at once throughout Scot-Saint Cuthbert, in its episcopal land, but at different times, and ac- habit, which lay on the hearth like cording to the spirit which actuat- Dagon of yore, shattered with the ed the Reformed clergy; some of axe and scorched with the flames, whom instigated their hearers to but only partially destroyed. these acts of demolition; and others, the little apartment which served with better taste and feeling, en- as a chapel, the altar was overdeavoured to protect the ancient thrown, and the four huge stones shrines, while they desired to see of which it had been once composthem purified from the objects ed, lay scattered around the floor. which had attracted idolatrous de- The large stone crucifix which votion. From time to time there-occupied the niche behind the alfore the populace of the Scottish tar, and fronted the supplicant towns and villages, when instigated while he paid his devotion there, either by their own feelings of ab-had been pulled down and dashhorrence for Popish superstition, or by the zealous doctrines of the more zealous preachers, resumed the work of destruction, and exercised it upon some sequestered church, chapel, or cell, which had escaped the first burst of their indignation against the religion of Rome.

In the present instance, the unpretending and quiet seclusion of

ed by its own weight into these fragments. There were marks of sledge-hammers on each of these; yet the image had been saved from utter demolition by the size and strength of the remaining fragments, which, though much injured, retained enough of the original sculpture to shew what it had been intended to represent.

(To be continued.)

246

INTELLIGENCE, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, &c.

MR. ACKERMANN announces for publication by subscription, a Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea; embracing the greater part of Normandy, a province peculiarly interesting to the English traveller, for its natural beauties, antiquarian curiosities, and historical recollections. The work will be comprised in six monthly parts, containing twentyfour highly coloured engravings, and will correspond, in the general style of its execution, with the numerous illustrated works produced within these few years by the same publisher.

large 8vo. volumes. As the third volume will consist principally of new matter, it is intended to print an extra number of copies of that volume, with the additional plates, for the accommodation of such purchasers of the first edition as may order the same on or before January 1, 1821.

On the 1st of September, Mr. Brookshaw (author of the "Pomona Britannica,") will produce the first two parts of an entirely new work on fruit, entitled the Horticultural Repository; containing delineations of the best varieties. of the different species of English fruit; to which are added, the blossoms and leaves, in those instances in which they are judged necessary: accompanied with full descriptions of their various pro

Mr. Ackermann has also in the press, the Third and Last Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife; a subject which promises a degree of interest, vivacity, and entertainment, equalling, if not surpass-perties, their time of ripening, and ing, that of the two preceding popular Tours. Like them, it will form a distinct volume, consisting of eight monthly numbers, the first of which will appear on October 1.

Dr. Gesenius, who, with Lord Guildford, has been recently transcribing some Arabian MSS. at the Bodleian library, has nearly completed the singular task of translating the Book of Enoch from the Abyssinian language. This language resembles the Arabic, one fourth of the words perhaps being radically of that tongue, in which the learned doctor is well skilled, while he is also one of the most celebrated Hebrew scholars on the Continent.

directions for planting them, so as to produce a longer succession of fruit; such being pointed out as are particularly calculated for open walls, and for forcing. It will be completed in about 26 parts.

In the press, and speedily will be published, Traits and Trials, a novel, in two volumes.

Select Fables, with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, previously to the year 1784, together with a memoir and descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick, 8vo. will early appear. A very small number are printed on large paper, to match the other works of Mr. Bewick; viz. in royal 8vo.

In the press, a new edition of Also, Lectures on the Temper and the Rev. T. H. Horne's Introduc- Spirit of the Christian Religion; first tion to the critical Study and Know-written and delivered to the inmates ledge of the Holy Scriptures; in four of a large public asylum, and now

Mr. Curtis will commence his next Course of Lectures on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Patho-hats or head-dresses: 2dly, For a logy of the Ear, and on the Medical Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb, early in Oct. at the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear.

Ir the halcyon of pleasure has sportively chosen

Thy happier heart for her downy repose, And the vulture of grief, in a region so frozen As my cheerless bosom, has nurtured her woes;

Deride not the tear that is mournfully stealing

Adown a pale cheek, once unwither'd as thine,

Though its moisture display the wan lustre

of feeling,

The wild bird shook the dewdrops from its

wing,

Then on its nest sank close and silently; Or at some lady's bower the silver string Told where in silent shades her love was lingering.

But now the brightening moonbeams lit a
door

In the low archway of a battled tower,
And as it open'd, on the marble floor
A maiden stood like a night-weeping flower;
One light hand press'd aside the rosy
bower,

As vainly as dewdrops on barren thorns And one led forth a form of helm and plume:

shine.

Nor mock the soft sigh that escapes but to wander

Where tenderness peoples regret's darkest

shade,

This was the lover's last, loved, bitter hour; Long had they linger'd, but the hour was

come

That door to them was like the opening tomb.

Of its own plaintive echo, there vibrated They stopp'd upon the threshold, and the

fonder

Than all the light melody mirth ever made: For the tear and the sigh, that with scornful rejection

Are banish'd from minds never school'd in

their cost,

Form a circle of gems, reminiscent affection
Fondly clasps round the shrine of the
loved and the lost.

But when that affection no longer is glowing
Within the lorn bosom that cherish'd its

stay,

May friendship, reciprocal tribute bestowing,

A gem of such price to remembrance pay :

While the angel of peace (the freed spirit He moved a sudden step, and press'd her

receiving)

Disperses humanity's mists from its eyes, To smile on the sorrow-worn ashes'tis leaving,

hand;

But that young beauty rais'd her splendid

eye,

And see the bright phoenix of happiness That fix'd him like a spell. Her blush had