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NERVOUS DEBILITY.
DR. ROB ERT J. BRODIE, Member of the
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A VISIT TO THE GARDENS OF SOLOMON.

We translate the felldwing pleasantly-written
article, by M. Louis Enault, frcm the Paris Moniteur
of Saturday last :
To read a poet on the spot from which he derived his
inspiration has ever been to me one of the greatest
pleasures of a literary life. I seem then to find something
of the writer himself; in fancy's eye his spirit is in an
especial manner present there more than in other places.
I have been deeply moved to hear the Psalms of David
sung at the Convent of Mar-Saba, on the banks of the
brook Kedron. I have read Moses on the shores of the
Dead Sea, Elias on Mount Carmel, and Homer between
Xanthus and Sirnois in lonia. 1 have heard the brilliant
master of the Athens School lecture upon Sophocles on
the very site of the theatre where Sophocles' choruses
were sang in the olden time. I made a journey to Sicily,
?or the express purpose of translating these Theocritus
Idyll of Polyphemus and Galatea. From Virgit's tomb—
(Parthenope me tenet)—to the birthplace of Ossian amidst
the rocks of Glencoe, I have made pileramages to poets'
tombs with the devotion of a true believer. It is true that
• I have now and then mat withdisappointments. The brook
Xedron is at this moment a dry, bed, and the royal peni-
tent could no longer say Ds brrente in via bibet. Sirnois,
which formerly rolled to the sea the bodies of Greeks and
Troj tns in its troubled waters, rolls nothing at all now-
aslays. The laurels of Ilyssus have been cut. Polyphe-
mus is succeeded on his rock by a Neapolitan custom-
house officer, and a trat-oriz sells fried potatoes at the
door of the Sybil of Cumm. These are•little mystifica-
tions which travellers must expect. But the most cruel
deception of the kind which ever betel me was at the
gardens of S olom on-13 celebrated in the annals of
profane Oriental history as in Holy writ. Every one
must remember the delicious poetry of the song of songs,
in which, under the figure of the Shulamite woman. the
poet-king celebrates the future church, the chaste spouse
of Jesus Christ, and the raetures of their eternal nuptials.
"I am black but comely, 0, ye daughters of Jerusalem,
as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look
not upon me because I am black, doe.caiise the sun, hath
looked upon me. • • • A bundle of myrrh is my
well-beloved unto me ; he shall lie all night betwixt
my breasts. My beloved is unto me as a clustsr
of camphire
.in the vineyards of En gedi. • • •
I am, the rose of Sharon and the lity of the val-
leys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the
daughters. • • • A garden enclosed is my sister, my
• spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants
are an orchard of pomegranates-, with pleasant fruits ;
camphire with spikenard Spikenard and barrel ;
calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense;
myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices ; a fountain of
gardens, a welt of living waters and streams from
Lebanon. Away 0 north wind, and vome thou south ;
blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow
out. Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his
pleasant fruits. • • • Thou art beautiful, omy love,
as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with
banners ! Turn away thine oyes from me, for they have
overcome me ; thy hair is as a II tek of goats that appear
from Gilead. • • • Who is she that looketh forth as
thejmorning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and
terrible as an army with banners ? ',went down into
the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to
see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates
budded. Or ever I was aware my soul made me like the
chariots of Aminadib. Return, return, 0 Shulamite ;
return, that we may look upon thee. • • • lam my
hetovea's, and his desire is toward me. Come, my
beleved, let us go forth into the field ; let us lodge in the
villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards ; let U 3 see
if the vise flourish, whether the tender grape appear and
the pomeg-anate bud forth I There will I give thee my
loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are
all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have
laid up for the, 0 my beloved."
serrAlt these beautiful and stirring metaphors were
deeply impressed upon my memory. I carried them with
me to Bethlehem. After, therefore, having seen the
place where the star appeared, and visiting the sanctuary
of the Nativity, and the excavation of the rock in which
the divine cradle was placed, I inquired for the gardens
of Solomon. I was first of all conducted to the sealed
fountain, the symbol of the spouse mentioned in the
canticle. The entrance is literally sealed by two large
stones. When these are rutted away—a task which
requires some effort, you decend a staircase of fifteen
steps to two large subterranean vaults, supported by
arches of great au'iquity. rhis is not the source of the
spring, wit ch is far away in the mountains, but the water
comes down and is collected in these capacious reservoirs,
and is thence conducted to Jerusalem by pipes. The
water was formerly eonsecrated to the use of the temple.
Into this fountain the last Arab enchanter, when about to
die, thinking the world no longer worthy to possess such a
treasure, threw Solomon's seal and ring, which bad the
magical property of ruling the elements and evoking spirits.
At a short distance from the reservoirs are the celebrated
gardens. They extend along a valley which runs from
El-Bourrach to Bethlehem. It is the mast charming spot
in all Palestine. Solomon was a good judge in more
senses than one. There are murmuring streams winding
through verdant lawns; there are the choicest fruits and
sowers; the hyacinth and the anemone; the fig-tree and
the vine. Towering high above the garden, and con-
trasting grandly with its soft aspect are the dark precipi-
tous rocks of the neighbouring mountain, around whose
summits vultures and eagles incessantly scream and
describe spiral circles in the air. The rare plants
and flowers which the great enchanter of th East
collected within these gardens were protected from
the north wind by the mountain. Every gust of the
south wind was loaded with perfumes. With the first
breeze of spring the fig-tree put forth its fruits, and the
vines began to blossom. It was, in the words of Scripture,
a "garden of delights." The vegetations of the north and
the south were intermingled. One part of the garden
was called the Walnut Tree Walk (or, as the English
scripture translation has it, the garden of nuts). Another
is the bed of spices. "My beloved is gone down into his
garden to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and
jo gather lilies." There is the hill of myrrh and the
'Mount of incense. The cy prus and spikenard trees
had their place apart, and not far from them
were the broad-flowering pomegranates, the Egyp-
tian saffron, the cinamon, and the aloe. The
palm-tree raised high in air its golden fruit, and near the
aromatic cave the balm of Gilead shed every morning its
perfumed tears. The turtle dove and the blue pigeon
fluttered among the broad leaves of the Mandragora.
The Mandragora of Solomon was doubtless the Mandra
gora of the poets—the Mandragora that slugs ? In this
garden of delights Solomon built a magnificent pavilion
for his beloved. The pillars were of cedar, the walls of
fragrant cypress. The king's bed was made of wood
tom the forest of Lebanon. It was lined with
massive gold. The purple hangings had been twice
dipped in the Tyrian dye. Cuuning workmen had
carved beautiful images upon the silver matins Is. Over
the heads of the spouses floated a canopy of white
Egyptian linen embroidered with gold. On the bed and
an the'floor around it slaves strewed fresh flowers every
day. In the morning the spouses might be seen in the
garden, he the fair and fresh coloured, more active than
the fawn, his black hair floating in the air like a raven's
wing, his eyes pure as those of a dove; sometimes wearing
the diadem with which his mother crowned him on his
-wedding day, sometimes a simple purple band—but always
a king I When he spoke the soul of his beloved melted at
the sound of his voice ; but she, walking always near to
biro, was as a lily among thorns, harmonious as a chorus
of music—the grace of her step was enhanced by the
rings of rare workmanship which she wore upon her ankles
She was dark, because the sun had looked upon her,'
but her beautiful cheeks were resplendent with orna
mente, and her flexible neck wore a necklace of pearls of
Ophir. Solomcn had given her chains of gold studded
with silver; and so she was altogether beautiful—beauti-
MI without spot or blemish ; her lips showed as a stripe
of scarlet; she carried away all hearts with a look. And
the king sung their loves, the loves of the lily of the valley,
and the rose of Sharon, of the palm-tree of the desert, and
the vine of En-geddi. My guide in Palestine was an
/Wan, a tolerable well-educated man, who had lived for
many years iu Jerusalem. As we were going along we
conversed about the past and the present. " You are
aware," said he, " that the Arabs maintain-that Solomon
is still alive. trl must tell you, however, that he does not
live in these gardens, at any rate; they are let to an Eng-
lishman." I merely replied that a traveller must be
surprised at nothing. The present tenant, he said, is Mr.
Goldsmith, of the house of Goldsmith and Son. Be is
under-draining the gardens of Solomon on the Yorkshire
system. You will he astonished to see how successful he
has been. Here is the house. I perceived a bright brass
knob shining in the centre of a small square of procelain
let into a white wall. Over this knob was the following
superscription in the English language--" Ring the Bell."
This bell seemed to my imagination rather an anomaly
in the gardens of Solomon—but that is a trifle. We did'
ring the bell, and we went in. The first thing that struck
my eyes, was a quantity of red draining pipes lying about,
and bearing the mark of the manufacturers, Samuel, and
Co., No. 128, Strand. Mr. Goldsmith was draining that
bibical valley, the dew of which was so often brushed
away by the naked feet of the Shulamite. It was in the
month of September. An American mowing machine was
'flitting a second crop of artificial grass, on the very
_ spot
s
where the daughters of Jerusalem gathered tnose of
the field, which were more beautiful than Solomon in all
hie glory. A patent reaping machine was rapidly garner
ing the crop of that glebe in which the sisters of Ruth and
the daughters of Naomi were wont to glean.
I asked to see Solomon's pavilion, but, alas I the
cypress timbers and the cedar wainscoting had bet n taken
down, and in their place there is a brick-built cottage,
with a roof of red and green tiles. The entrance-hall is
whitewashed ' • there is a little parlour with a Birmingham
carpet, and a drawing-room papered with a red-bordered
yellow paper, purchased in Paris, Rue des Moineaux.
The chimney is Prussian, and the curtains are of Swiss
muslin. Instead of the servants of the spouse, I found
two nurserymaids, one from Paris, and the other from
Florence. The slave who prepares the tents of cedar is
now called • John.' Ile has red whiskers, blacks his
master's shoes, scrubs the floor every day, and varnishes
it on Sundays. And if some romantic person should en-
quire—as I had the naivete to do—about the dark
Shulamite, he will be shown five sweet little English