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LITERATURE,

PING ARTS.

the politer branches of education. With an eharener which
nobody before the curtain can saelemeird, the Iskr cannot
see the identity of persons, bet Is atone moment clamed with
the mealy maces of the noblanan, aid In the next, iherhed
at the blunder of the clown, the only di/mem be-
tween the two being the material of which Mr. litnelaralfe
nether habiliments are made. Of cease than le at leet en
etlaireissernert even for this dullest of Ladies; the mereasay
Marquis is dreaded, and the real Count de MIMED, Siiol
Robert the gardener, is made happy. The rarer of the
pier is intended to lie in the sudden awakening of love in
the berm it the Counter by the plucky conduct of the m-
emoir, and tbirseddss astamorphools of the latter into eFrench
conza, with the deader of an English education. But
the story Is by us mans dearly told, and the impomibility of
a lady not knowiniber am husband, although only the ►uss-
band of an hour, ander the thin disguise attempted, is ea
glaring that in an autravagansa it would be conddred almost
too absurd to be even laughed at. There is a smart underplot,
in whirs a good deal of hut is erred by the rivalry of an
English sad french lackey, who are of coarse both in love
with the Counters Abigail, and a est-to with the gloves, in
which their feelings at last explode, brings down the
hour in raptures. But here is another of the improba-
bait* for all this takes place in the front drawing-
roan, while behind the folding doors the fiddles are playing
sad a bell is going on amongst the maitre and mistresses.
Altogether the impression left on the spectator last
evening was that the author's love for striking situations
had led kiln to nuke probability • very subordinate
consideration In the =union= of his drama. But
still the dialogue is often smart, and the situations,
albeit too numerous, are sometimes very good, while the
care and splendour with which the piece has been brought
out, would go far to carry off much wore writing. Mr.
Barlow seemed to be not particularly well up in his part
of the gardener, and Mr. Firfen acted rather tamely as the
Marquis. But Miss Reynolds exerted healf with groat
success as the Counter, and all that she had to do was easily
understood by the audience. Mr. Clark, • meet meritorious
actor, made a very mart part of the Prank veld, and Mr.
Compton was exceedingly comic as, if not like, an English
footman. The piece was announced for repetition amid very
general afflatus, but it will require goats judicious
&Becalms and elucidations, if intended to become a perms-
mac

fail to have impressed the holklay-makerswith ideas which
will probably mews a fall attendance of the Monday stades*
throughout the manner.

ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF

THE FINE ARTS IN SCOTLAND.
The committee of this meocistion, which has
liourished in North Britain ter anon a gyrator of s ora-
tory, have this year node a Monier appeal to public opinion,
by opening en exhibition ha loarba. The lanitation is an
Art-Union, end is in fad the led of the Mad ealekhahml
the United Kingdom, kerb. Leon fan f lea Ilia. The
committee of teswegemsat for the paint pre Minim the
Earl of Dalkeith, Sir William Gibson Craig, Bart., Lai
NOSTIIIN Lord Animalism; Sir William Jelunton, of K. CUM;
Andrew Coventry, Ear., Advocate; Dr. Fseruhamoo, Pro-
fessor Chrierdeon, Robert Horn, E.q., Advocate ; John
Hurray, Bag., of Money's Hall ; George Moir, Faq., Shiniff
of RUNI and Cr:curl ; end other well-known gentlemen.
Tha fonds if the eaudetion, the produce of the annual
guinea sable:ripen= of its members, are appropriated to
the probw of maim works dart, in painting, drawing,
or &Weary, and to the mesa= or parches. of engrevings,
etching., breams, hareeliela, mods* or other predaceous of
art, Sir distributke among the sabecribree. The Exhibition,
which wee opened yesterday, in the Gallery of Mr. Welasby,
6, Waterlorpleos, sad wM meals open throughout the
math, la manomed of the plating. selected for distribution
among the members at the maul drawing in July next.
The list of pleemem—elity la number, and ranging
in astimoted voles from 2001. downwards—is heeded
W Menlo lfeesellei, E. if. A., with n view of
the Collin Youataine—" A Lemony Day la Skye ; " and
another picture, " Loch-Aline Caen," is by the same
anima Walter H. Paton hr two plume, on. of which "A
Nameless BID," should be particularly noticed. "Irish Pil-
grims," by Baskin. Nicol, A; "The Port of London." by
Samuel Bough, A. ; The Shadow on the Path," by Jams@
Archer, A. ; " The Holmewood Common, Surrey," by
fiantsmi Bay* A.; " Weynawath Harbour,Dermealaisn''
by E. T. Crawled, R.S.A.; "Arran, has the large Cum-
bria," by J. Milne Donald; "The Linn at Mulch," by J.
Gd.., R.S.A. ; Unify' sad Ns bran Hound Gaut,"
by Gurley Steel, A. ; and " Poillielans," by Alexander H.
Burr, are smog the works which are destined to reward
some escosintal mamba of the @emaciation. All the
peintings hue bmen saute' Mee the recent Exhibition of
the &Mai& Aandeny by the rcentailese, previous to the
drawfag. Thin punks diem from that of some amnia
socimdm, sad the moult la greatly in favour of the ten in-
trees of mt. Besides the paintings, which every subscribe
will hue a chance of obtaining, each one will receive an
illastridad edition of the poem The Soldier's Return" by
Burns, embeillind by Ida Sse mmgravinge after original own-
poeirkes, earratted expeedy for the sarociation by John
Feed, R.S.A.
The Exhibition in Waterloo•placo will remain open during
the puma month, and cannot fail to raise the character of
ONO& sit In too eyes of those who lam hitherto re-
garded It fromhams distance.

Plnitaanata. By R. R. MADDEN. T. C. Newby.
A work that takes for its subject the various
fume of epidemic mental disorders, the failings and
infirmities and passions of mankind, hr certainly
material enough to fill es many volumes as did that
gigantic History of Haman Error which, according
to Sir Bulwer Lytton, was the life-task of the elder
Caxton ; but Mr. Madden has scarcely performed
his task of compiler quite to our satisfaction.
We say compiler, for the book is made up princi-
pally.af quotations, and these are at times so care- 1
less in their arrangement, that we arise from a
perusal of the two bulky volumes with " a painful
sense of " centurion worse essilsosidoil, the text
supplied by Mr. Madden by no Nam tiding to the
elucidation of the mystery • indeed, me often ode
ourselves exclaiming with 'Mr. Dm& In the play,
that " the interpreter is the herder{ to be wider-
stood of the two." Neverthelsee. tin bask is in-
teresting, and though requiring seminstathiss simife,
to say the least, much patient resew* apes the
part of its author. " Striking illeelestions will be
found in these pages," says Mr. Maim " of eOds-
mic fanaticisms, which bring mum limy from
morbid conditions of mind into manamindmesi MOND
of being, into the practice of dalesion, end g
into familiar acquaintance with illusions and
maims of a senesitsi
of all the senere." This ,
wilisulawri/etrai trifiers ilitn •
in the book. We Pam )complain of several of the de-
ductions drawn, and of a,want of order in the adjust-
moot of invention and facts. We have, smog
sem accounts of the wild fanaticism of these
zzitill,
ereatures who "hoped to merit heaven by
earth a hell," of that terrible flagellation
Hanle, whose origin was supposed to be denved been
emend the discipline in convents, encouraged byes
penhentials of the Greek church, and their monassAs
in the Latin church—though the practise
been traced to the voluntary scourging existing
is the times of Greek and Boman paganism. But
the °Brotherhood of the Flagellants,' of which we
profesespesk, sid to take ups themselves the " re-
I pentanes a the people for t•lsias they bad coa-
-1 mined," sod seeskt to win the favour of the God ol
love sad mseellhemotkag their bodies end es-
I C=His tiU their hearts bowie ea
4I es the they ateedgel
i This whir eisional &Joky ef pumas st dm lowest am%
who Parisdiarr silealsilby siesta eirshhies._er 'be joy-
folly mid timidly* et •ie pssesst he Manse pil
were Meta elosa mlit the tide et *dens
hew. Del
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smell by es meals with simiarika sad estiesamerto may
maim lad soiWoedoe awl themelose sailer Mem di
eOll Oak bads mon net imbuing, segmenel by
beememble tams mei aims, se yemeryse
=2 aim was impoisisolg, mairred Si ,
hillosdathe They emaini the the dim is saw 1
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lemons inerali tiled is esehreasrdgerstaste, with red
mans se.lbeloreskigeeloom, mil bus Ingle mama
tied to tepee pr deer is which paste el ha Pro
Ina Tepee, mg Mama el violist sailcloth
et gen woes amid them ; wherever 64 sans their
they tom orelland by the ?Mpg el the bale,
=it ear hisses. sad to niters the pleases with
denim oni nem
Another malady,hir maladies they are, that dis-
noosed an =Nippy world, was the dancing mania,
or convulsive charm, which is well described in this
book :
Perhaps there sayer was a period to the history of the
world so pregnant with gent national calamlthe thrmighme
Bumps as that of the 14th century. The great pestilence,
aptly designated " The Black Death." which bad conagesi,
it is ortimated,s third of the human nee to the grave, ha d
not wholly =beard, when a sew malady of a roundeve
nervous and maniacal character bard out in (lermeny about
1374, of a more strange nature then any previous melody
that had afflicted humanity so extensively ea to deserve the
nese of an epidscao.
Wildly absurd as It was, It travelled rapidly, and
young and old caught the infection :
This dancing dhow°, wo are told, "was a great epide-
mic of a spent nervous malady, of which the pliant St.
Vitus'. dance is the footle mho.'
This " plague dance" lasted in Germany and
Flanders for about two centuries, " and hos never
reappeared in its original form and intensity." Of
the same character was the Tarantula dancing mania
of Apulia, of which Mr. Madden truly says :
The Apulian mania fur dancing may be riga:dal as of
a much earlier date than any notiree of it as a distinct
disown in the works of writer', of the 16th shinny. Thcre
an be little doubt that a venomous epider exists in the
esuth of Italy, the bite of which produces disorders of the
narrow spans with violent convulsive merements. This
inn mil sallool le the 16th century by medical men. But
long balm the been was deathbed by rcrotti, a dancing
mean edited la less yens al Apulia and Catania.
This arise mq he,. lees • samme el the learn el lit
view el the Osmees lad Belgians eif ITN el et the
chilies efllidart Is 1227. But theta is as semsteale peeled
for kid tleg tbeit a Aimee of a Tog stir character wee
eraisasit.ee• by the bits of a vememiees spider. And
it sc.., carlielsenthat Minimise %of
eothnewvencom-
oreallesweetesisair SI ease by inver assess wrt:lMo L.Fros
Wed. la petiole el gnat halt is se of aged
'Amity, the dismiss night tad did saes does
WiTelid hear of Medieval. sad the imieet el ledisibia.
moues nateeintosserever, thee Alf • 1•1•811 use Wee
by the .11110100011 Wet, alnks* be wee Abend try =
she a weirite, se gored el =AIWA'',
c=.4•6.3.4. he emirs ad net wow tel
smear ones
mhos the greet len en le ;11ilo
wean teed wry almegly to cosine the cenies laid II the
teatime ef the Getman sad neighs *yeas donee ef he
mast poled did not ride, that pine if Memonnit which
ass eisdoed by a rap for dancing would ad ham been
observe/
le is hr nen esey to understand how the force of hoop-
seam sad the Inaba of imagination would have produced
ft, they to compassed hew the virus of a venomous hued
weal have reaslesd dement in
Kircher 's a bitten person formigh several
weft ; or, sosorikas to account, al it tdo
*halm.
We smile at this, and, too confident in a present
knowledge, shrug our shoulders in contempt of the
-"` Yet " England has bad her Jumpers, her
• • _ - es.aoh-berretting believers, her

REGENT GALLaay.—Mr. and Mm. H. Drayton
commenced last night a musical illustration of another of our
old proverbs, " Love is Blind," which, by an ingeniously eon-
atructedplot,arrangodse a drawing-roomopera, they contrived

to toakeluSedtagly amusing to a numerous audience. The
music comprised many nolos and ducts, in which new words
wen plomingly fitted to airs that were not altogether un-
familiar, but which derived a freahnees from the effective
manner in which they were rendered. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Drayton were In capital yokes, and several encores (which,
notwithstanding the unfeshionableness of this mode of ex-
pressing edinirutim, were heartily said gratefully responded
to) attested the satisfaction their exertions afforded. These
entertainments deserve to be popular, and they promise

to be so. •
There was a less number of visitors yesterday
both at the VESNON GALLEKT and the Belting MUSEUM
than is usually the cam on Whit-Mondry. Groups, how-
ever, of country friends visited Mentuorestron House at
an early hour and kept dropping is throughout the day, so
that in the end the numbers amounted to about 3,000. In
the evening shout bOO or 900 persons visited the sew read-
ing-room, which is now, mid will be till the and of June,
thrown open to tho inspection of the public bees fix till.
eight in the evening.
The COLOSSEUM was crowded both day sad even-
ing. A musical mid pictorial entertainment, entitled "The
Mansions of the English Nobility," with charaeteristio
songs, and • familiar gossip on olden timer,. by George
13mIland, Esq., is given; the panorama of Lisbon, before
and after the earthquake, is a splendid painting by the
Mears. Danson, snit of the well-known panorama of Lon-
don we need say nothing; it has been for many years one of
the chief attractions of this establiehment. But beeidee this
and many other pictorial 'Unctions, in the shape of Swim.
cottagea, end cascades, and stalactite caverns, them are beau-
tiful conservatories, with cooling fountains, of the moat in-
viting character; and, es a wind-up to all the attractions,
there is en evening concert under the direction of Herr
Masco.
The amusements provided at the ROYAL POLY.
TROMP: wore well selected. An entire new room cos de-
voted to Stevens'e exhibition of eighty distinct and beautiful
optical pictorial dioramic traneparencice, with stereoscopic.
einem. Mr. James, the ventrilequist, give an exhibition of
• his powers in an original entertainment. A novelty woe the
appearance of lime Veit Rahn), who played some airs on the
"either," and afterwards sang and accompanied himself ea
the guitar, giving at the mine time imitations of the horn, fce..
Herr Rehm is a Tyrolean vocalist, and he sang a national
air very ploseingly. The Hungarian bind, conducted by
Herr Kaleedy, executed four piece. with precision and Ex-
pression. The dissolving views end panoramas illustrating
China and the localities of the present war were increase',
end elicited much applause.
THE GREAT GLOBE, Leicester-square, and.
BEZZOILD'S ROYAL Pattoaana, Leicester-square, wee
visited by large numbers, as elm was the exhibition of Ma-
name TUSSAI'D AND SONS, RAKER-PTIIEST BAZAAR,
whose collection of life-like figures in wax has bees greatly
augmented during the last few weeks, containing, in addition
to former objects, capital likeneeses of Prince Frederick Wil-
liam of Prussia, the PAWNS Royal, and various other
notable personages.
GORDON CUMMING'S ENTERTALNMENT is popular,
and is really very instructive.
THE THAMES TUNNEL had its patrons of both
sexes and of all ages. The different ateam-boata stopping at
the Tunnel Pier dietarged hourly large freights of pereons,
who passed under the bed of the River Thames from Wap-
ping to Rotherhithe, witnessing, as they proceeded, the va-
rious dioramic and cosmoramic views, displaying the lying
in state of the Duke of Wellington, and his grace's fu-
neral, die " Dead March in Saul" being played by steam.
power.
Few persons visited ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL--110
doubt owing to the "high prices."
WESTMINSTER ABBEY was thronged during the
day, the figures in Poet's Corner commanding the tonal
attention and !velvet.

BOUFFEB PARIBIENE

here were Taried last night by

the production of E letpreserit, an opera buffs in one act,
(waded on the Sehasepiri Director of Mozart. This little
piece, a mere trite, thrown off by the gust composer In the
pox 1786, for the amusement of the court of the Emperor
Joseph, et Schenbrunn, ecosisted originally of en overture,
two eke a trio, end ~recce cremeneble u finale. Of all
these pieces the overture is the beet; but even in this there is
but little trace of that matured genius which produced, only
three months afterwards, the 'uremia Figoro, and within
the nest few years the operas of DersOiorimeti, Own fan tette,
Zemberfiete, CIOPIMS• di 71" to. Still, however, there is
that clearness and nesteess of structure which show the
master hand ; end, small u the work may be, it Is pkement to
hear, eepedelly when le well given sa it is by the St. lioness
company. M. Cellist, as the impresario, gave en amusing
portraiture of the bewilderment into which he is led by the
cheming lovers, which latter characters were well repre-
sented by 31. Charles Petit and MdUo. Delmont, the lady
especially both acting and singing with charming noir"
while Zerlinc, the reirineee, wee very archly played by
lfdlle. Mech.

Thom of Canterbury worshippers sail infatuated
followers, her Agapcmones, and Saturnalian orgies;
Scotland and Wales have had their revivals as well
u America, their extravagances and furious pa-
roxysms of excitement and wild enthusiasm." Is
there no religious (so called) and other fanaticisma
rampant among us now ? The names of such im-
peders u Joe Smith, Brigham Young, and Prince
ONOe to us at once, and we have no necessity to
"posse for a reply." Of sorcery and witch-
sofa those volumes tell us much, bat nothing psr-
ticularly.new. The doings of that "dark incubus,
the Inquisition, are also fully exposed. It is, indeed,
a sad history of popular delusion that Mr. Madden
describee—contemptible at its commencement, but
terrible in its effect. The fagot and the torch, the
axe and the block, the rope and the gallows meet us
at every turn, and we shudder at the madness and
the folly of man :
Mutest, the lion's kingly tread
Man fears the tiger's fangs of tenor ;
And still the dresdliest of the dread,
Is men himself In error!
In " Phantramata," as may be supposed, we have
ma inquiry into the philosophy of sleep, dreams, and
liana; also a long history of Jeanne d'Are, which
latter not only contains nothing new, but is an old
story badly told. However, we owe a debt of grati-
tude to Mr. Madden for pointing out according to
his capability the dark clouds which have for so long
a time obscured the human mind, and which are not I
yet dispelled—clouds which the weak man would do
well to avoid, while the strong one will face them
with stirs% heart and strong resolve, confident that
such gloom cannot be lasting, and that the blessed
sunlight of heaven will sooner or later come stream-
ing through. " The mind of a young creature," says
Bishop Berkeley, " cannot remain empty ; if you do
mot put into it that which is good, it will be mire to .
los even that whisk is bad; and it is with educa-
tion slow that we oest hope to conquer, for they live
man r 119101111 =eta that are engendered
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