The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

G fruf° rif.R BRIGHTEST OF 1 ukva seen what the world calls rich and rare, 1,14110nd the broad ocean's foam , —at thebrightest of all that met me there Witt the vision of one at home. , A 1 , 4)/ te, 4 Aower—how fair it bloomed . Andl had never seen such before ; _ kir fancy the full belief assumed, That the world could show no more. I drearned a dream as I passed along, A dream, sweet vision ! of thee : Might so perfecta thing to me belong, Then Perfect my life would be. The w,the flower —I saw it droop ! Por a bitter wind swept by ; hut it twined itself with a weaker group, Aid no power to take bad I. T il r r hi,:itbrfoaiktietn—the hope is flown, Perchance 44(1 heldeisY of that home is fainter grown, Which I thought she would enhance. The floer, the flower l—it bloometh yet, G sweeter, I know not how ; flowt beauty 04 which my love was set Bath The my he art's deep reverence now. with ot ray life it doe not fade, My life and it are one; 3 Yet well could I rest amid the :shade, Were MY flovrer but in the sun. MY flower, my flower !--thy beaded head Is dearer than worlds to me; I would give up my life, and take death instead, x.................L................_ flower's atron. ahield to be! ' Seri jO r I 11:41.11 R .1 41 if------7--------------' i -e TVS . 1 40 'ft% , ba 4404 .-....„,___. i ' ' ' Y 4 °44l\r i 4 te r in the New World : or, R oyal of de ° t . of Moose -Hunting in the Pine ° Yal Aro Mo. donieut. Campbell Hardy, A bo , ger 3 r . ila. the ri en L i, ( Hurst and Blackett. 'lan ' 3 ' c W . tt sp art . i ti ato 0 -y a soldier, and published I t' ' kront ° 4 a stirrinwar, on any subject ary topics, .Ike 41 114 g Past some Nee,' at all rare has been, for to w " to Fp , "eats, a rare occurrence ; to take llllderoa,,"ee special attention. The o prot ritai t usider at i on, so ne although scarcely entitledits sh , .typeB, ,Vith 8 041 e of the more popular of_ a e l t of 8,04, nevertheless, so imbued within kilgled virliktt,.BSlanlike enthusiasm, and soco 4 11 1° for oi a ' a 4ely feeling and love of adventure, end- r rlthi kid co agreeable diversity from those ” with t k ri eli th e tr tle has" tales of the wars am _ _ d , 4 'ig thj "5 been deluged and . sw swamped kV I . last •al th ? Ike all eighteen months. ; and IL A ' e tt se to is an enthusiast little else a a seems tnLieutenant i tel gig aiit; ,- survey the world as ea the ` e anntine, ground ; and obviously moat e t • b b o f game as the Do rack 4 ' ridable In g and killing and traces th e dilts. 11 as Well as the noblest of human a qe, i , ,_ e rearns the lonely forest, of f or e lot t - t J waste With the steady perseverance fottilight:4ond considers himself amply re . m f ra h r e de i d s t e 4 / 4 t e , f watching and days of toil i Th`l% ' ll°ll h to lure and slay a bull-moose e l beb ce aseless assiduity and patient endurance gaboarkinnated a angled n in threading thenWilso and sustained an trackless and wood wilderness, in ae a h teri e , of Nature,as these re of th e hidden t,ttre and habits of the b. are revealed in the birds and other forms innal existence Which inhabit those pathless 1, have been in the case of Lieutenant Hardy ) into operation, F3timulated only., in a great 4. - To SUPPLEIIENT TO br aibtrrpoli -)tanDartc -TISER ad . d SE P r ge el _ , i . r tj3,114,1 ) go" cr o ' b AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVER degree, by the desire to dreumvent and slay one solitary class of animals, The capture of moose deer, to this enthusiasts Nimrod appears to be the great and leading buiness of life, the habits of the animal, interestig no doubt to a great extent, and faithfully deMeated by him in many respects, are' still viewed ;o much with an eye to his favourite pastime, El to lose much of their intrinsic value. It has iften been said that an enthusiast is only fit coapany for a brother de votee ; and this work, - ,wo goodly volumes in extent, goes far to provethe truth of the maxim. A specimen of the book vfll make readily apparent what we mean. Take fa example his REMARKS ON HUNTES3 THE BULL-MOOSE. There are five methods by vhich moose may be hunted or killed in Nova Scotia, vz., creeping on them in the fall and winter, calling the Ind-moose in the fall, running them down on snow-shoes in February and March, bring ing to bay with dogs, and naring. The first three are orthodox ; the last two pracices arrant poaching. The fall is the most enjoyable tine for hunting the moose. The bull is, at this season, inhis full vigour, and is truly a noble animal to behold. Aorned with massive antlers, and evincing a roaming, wild, and sometimes fierce dispo sition, there is more excitenent attendant on shooting a bull-moose in the fall than a any other time of the year. The delicious days and mild nights, particularly during the Indian summer, are inch preferable to the cold variable weather of the wirer. In the fall, too, addi tional sport may be obtained a night, and sometimes even during the day, by calling he bull-moose. Most of the Indians, who make it their business to accompany the sportsman into the woods, are good hands at calling. The moose " call " is a trunpet, made by rolling a sheet of birch-bark into a cone. 10 material has been found to equal birch-bark for this purpose. Metal will not answer, producing a sound ho shrill and ringing. The Indian commences to call at sun-down, ceasing when it becomes dark till moon-rise; as a moose coming up, when there was not sufficient light to see along the bar rels, would almost certain} , escape. The very best time to call is towards miming—for an hour before dawn, and for a short time afer daybreak. At this time, moose appear to he less ca;tious, and more eager to answer the call than they aE in the early part of the night. In calling, the Indin and sportsman conceal themsives behind a rock, ore clump of dwarf evergreens, on the edge of a barren, the Indian standing on the top of a rock, or sometimes clinbing a tree, so as to give the sound of his call every alvantage for diffusing itself through the surrounding f(rest. When an answer is obtained, and the moose appears to be bent on coming up, the Indian either recedes, or sends the sportsman some hundred yards or so in advarce ; or, should the animal hesitate on arriving in the neighbourhood of the caller, the Indian has a better shame of allaying the animal's suspicions, by the apparent tistance of the cow. The moose, hearing the call at a treater distance than he had expected, again advances, and at a few paces, probably receives the fire of the sportsnan. Nothing can be more productive of feelings of excitement than sitting, wrapped in blankets, on the edge of a forest-girt plain, the moon peering through mists of gertly-falling dew, and faintly illuminating the wild scene, now flashing on the white surface of a granite boulder, and then sparkling in the water of the swamp, and on the bedewed mounds of the moss, and clumps of ground lairels ; nothing can be more exciting, when the wild notes of the Indian's call, rending the calm air, have dispersed over the echoing forest, than the succeeding moments of listening for an answer. You scarcely believed your ears tohave been capable of such exertion, if so it may he terned. And then, when, far away from over the hills, and through the dense fir-forests, comes the booming answer ()F. a bull-moose ; when you hear the distant crashing of branches, and the rattling of the massive antlers against thetrees ; and when, at length the monarch of the Americar forest emerges from the woods, and stands snorting and bellowing on the open barren, his proportions looming gigantic through the hazy atmosphere —then does the Mood course through your veins as it never did before ; and, scarcely knowing what is about to happen, you grasp the ready rifle, and crouch in the protecting bullies. It is hard to take precise aim by moonlight. Unless the bead on the barrel be of polished silver, it is advisable to chalk the end of the gun. Some hunters draw a line with a piece of chalk from the bead to the eye. However, in calling, one has seldom occasion for a long shot : indeed, I have heard of the hair of a moose's coat having been singed by the flash, so close has he advanced to the ambush. As a competitor in the particular walk of sport ing literature, our author comes somewhat late into the field ; and his adventures are of a less piquant order than those which in a time of pro found peace gave interest and popularity to the stirring narrative of Gordon Cumming, the Celtic " lion-slayer." They are also in many respects unequal to the sporting adventures given to the world by different individuals, whose fancies have led them to seek " the bubble reputation" in the rifle-flash ; but independent of this the book is full of matter interesting for study to all who sincerely admire nature in the serenity of her simple moods. Constantine; or, the Last Days of an Empire. By Captain Spencer, author of " Travels in Circassia," &c. &c. London : _Sampson Low, and Son. The two handsome volumes before us, we are told by their author, are intended to convey his toric knowledge in the form of romantic story, rather than in what he calls " dry historical de tails." In adopting this course, he exercised a perfectly legitimate right of choice ; and, although many may doubt whether the sublime truths of history, and more especially those connected with the overthrow of the Christian sway, and the overclouding of science and civilisation in the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks, are properly characterised by the name of " dry his torical details," having made his election, it is our business to look on the work as he has given it. Against an author who can quote the autho ritative precedents of Shakspeare and Scott, in the choice of rendering history subservient to romance, without materially diminishing its dig nity or greatly impairing its fidelity, the task of citing Gibbon as a countervailing model would be indeed a futile one ; and where, as in the present instance, he can say from experience and with truth, "It is likewise particularly well adapted for describing the scenes of eastern life—of coun tries where tradition is the substitute for history —where the song of the bard and the tale of the story-teller too often form the only materials from which he can construct his narrative," the at tempt would be as unprofitable as it would prove irksome. The tale laid before us in the work of Captain Spencer is full of wild adventure, and highly characteristic of that country and people, where -wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear and the tales which they tell. The time selected for the opening of the story is that stormy period in the history of the Eastern Empire which immediately succeeded the death of John Paleologus, when the throne of the Caesars was in the first instance contended for as the prize of civil war between the brothers Thomas and Demetrius, which ended in the elevation to the imperial purple of Constantine Paleologus, prince of the Morea. This important event, however, it will be remembered by all, was not brought tY a n a O l Adele v i dally fil n ,ti AS st role, pO O Ot i q , 01 1 0 4 ; 11 0 1