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hnt ; still better where he could mingle the remembrances
of sportive childhood with the poet's fantasies, as in de-
scribing the Midsummer Night's Dream ;' and best of all
when he could vindicate his own hatred of the sickly cant of
morality, and his sense of hearty and wise enjoyment, by
precept and example such as The Twelfth Night' have
him. In these instances, his own peculiar faculty, as a
Commentator on the writings of others,—that of enriching
his criticism by congenial associations, and, at the same
time, infusing into it the spirit of his author, thus stealing
and giving odour'--bad free scope, while the greater tra-
gedies remained beyond the reach of all earthly influence,
too far withdrawn ' in the highest, heaven of invention,' to
be affected by any atmosphere of sentiment he might inhale
himself, or shed around others."

We will not attempt to reconcile opinions so much
opposed to each other, neither shall we throw our
weight, little though it be, into either scale. The pub-
must decide for itself.
The following touching reflections on the death of
Hazlitt, are extracted from Mr. Bulwer's Essay. We
have seldom read a passage which more powerfully
affected us
" When Hazlitt died, he left no successor ; others may
equal him, but none resemble. And I confess that few
deaths of the great writers of my time ever affected me
more painfully than his : For of most of those who, with
vo inferior genius, have gone before him, it may be said
that in their lives they tasted the sweets of their immor-
tality; they had their consolations of glory ; and if fame can
atone for the shattered nerve, the jaded spirit, the wearied
heart of those who scorn delight and love laborious days,'
—verily, they had their reward. But Hazlitt went down
to dust without having won the crown for which he had so
bravely struggled ; the shouts of applauding thousands
echoed not to the sick man's bed ; his reputation, great
amongst limited circles, was still questionable to the world.
Re who had done so much for the propagation of thought
—for, the establishment of new sectaries and new schools
—from whose wealth so 'many had filled their coffers—left
no stir ott
the surface from which he sank to the abyss—
he who had vindicated so nobly the fame of others—what
critic to whom the herd would listen had vindicated his
Men with meagre talents and little souls could command
the ear of thousands, but to the wisdom of the teacher it
was deafened. Vague and unexamined prejudices, aided
only by some trivial faults, or some haughty mannerism of
his own, had steeled the public, who eagerly received the
doctrines filched from him second-hand, to the wisdom and
eloquence of the originator. A great man sinking amidst
the twilight of his own renown, after a brilliant and un-
clouded race, if a solemn, is an inspiring and elating specta-
cle. But Nature has no sight more sad and cheerless
than the sun of a genius which the clouds have so long
and drearily overcast that there are few to mourn and miss
the luminary when it sinks from the horizon."
We may here observe that Mr. Bulwer had no
personal knowledge of Hazlitt, and writes of him from
the impression produced by his works ; whereas Mr.
was familiarly acquainted with him
Serjeant Talfourd
for many years before his death.
That this work will become popular, we entertain
the roost confident hope. The essays, of which it is
principally composed, are now published for the first
tion of the first, on " Civil
time; and, with the excep
and Criminal Legislation," will add to the fame of
their author. The work is embellished with a hand-
some portrait of Hazlitt, which those who knew him
well pronounce a good likeness.

T. pE TER S B URGA CONSTANTINOPLE,and
NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, in 1833 and 1834.
By AL Vor Tarz. In 2 Vols.
London : Richter and Co. 1836.

The author of this work_.a Prussian Counsellor of
pains to whitewash the
Legation—has spared no
social, moral, religious, and political reputation of
Russia. According to M. Von Tietz, Russia is the
most civilized, the most powerful, and the most de-
lightful country on earth, St. Petersburgh is the
most superb, the most magnificent, and the most
fashionable city iv the world ; and the Emperor Ni-
cholas is the most humane, the most benevolent, the
molt parental, the most just, the most learned, and
the most peace-loving monarch under " Heaven's
wide canopy." Liberals and liberalism are abused
with a lavish profusion of epithets, intended to be
anything but complinientaiy. M. Von Tietz's work
is rather a panegyric on Russia, Russians, and
Russian policy, than the journal of a mere traveller,
intent upon recording facts, and noting vivid im-
pressions. The following account of the Sultan's
Palace is however so striking, 0 vivid, so minute, and,
as we know from other sources, so correct in all its
details, that we are confident our readers will thank us
for extracting it :
" We have already spoken of the' High and Sublime
Porte: It is the central point of the entire Osmanlee Go-
verninent--the focus from which the rays of the sparkling
sun (the familiar epithet of the Sultan), are distributed
over the Empire of the Moslems. The building of the
Porte took p!ace in the year 1467, during the reign of
Mahomet 11. resides the description already given of the
interior of the first Lsourt, we
.have still to notice the little
Porte on the right sislet which leads to an open spaea
within the enclosure of the Seraglio, and is- called Gul-
chane—being the spot where the imperial pages practice
their gymnastic exercises. Nothing now remains of the
silver statue of Eudoxia, the cof:sort of the Emperor Ar-
cadius, which stood upon a porphyry column in the first
column of that monarch's palace. Some years ago, when
the .tomb. of the holy Nepomuk, supported by four large
silver angels, was shown to rue in the church upon the
Aradsclien at Prague, the cuslodicr, a jesting fellow, in-
formed ine that formerly there were
five such angels, but
that one had been removed to the mint at Vienna. Per-
haps the silver Eudoxia has received a similar transmission
to the mint at Constantinople. In noticing the second
gate, and the interior of the second court, it may be as
well to mention that, beneath the long arched gate, there
is a door leading to the apartments of one of the most im-
portant ministers of justice in the Seraglio, namely, the
exectdioney—who, under this gateway, usually performs
Lis office. Until the period when the present Sultan
commenced his reforms—owing to which the Ambassadors
of Foreign powers have been treated with more considera-
tion—they were obliged, on going to an audience in the in-
terior of the Seraglio, not only to alight
from their horses at
Orta Kapu, which is still the case, but to wait for half an
hour seated upon the wooden bench of the guards, close to
the door of the executioner, until it Pleased the Sultan to
admit them into his presence ; a formality which much
annoyed many of these diplomatists, and is now removed,
" Through the passage which leads to
the saloon of the
divan the reader has already followed me ; and on the right
there is an avenue of trees leading to a long building,
wherein no less than nine cooks are employed For the use
of the Sultan. his ladies, and some of the superior officials
of the Seraglio. There are likewise,
rooms and a
dining.
laboratory, where the sherbet is prepared. In front of the
kitchens is a place where the Janissaries,
satisfied with the government, used to attack. the dishes of
pilau (rice.) The more contented the
they were, the more
i" proof of being
they devoured : and the fuller the stomachs of these sol-
diers were•crammed, the more smiling was the
countenance
of the Sultan—as he then felt convinced that his throne
(lid not totter, and that his head was firmly fixed upon his
shoulders.
" Along the central avenue is a road to the Gates of
Bliss (liabiseadit) at which both black and white
eunuchs
stand on guard. Through this blessed entrance, the sides
-whereof are hung with golden swords, shields, and
brocade,
the ambassadors are conducted to the ball of audience ; and
many travellers have already described under what
tiles ceremonies and excessive genuflexions this audience
takesplace.
" The throne of the Sultan, glittering humilia-
With jewels
anti gold, does not stand opposite the entrance to the hall
audience, but on one side of that apartment, which is lighted
only by a single window, admitting figs no more
..t than suf-
.cient to increase its brilliancy ; and softer than the mur-
mur of the fountains which play before the Window, are
tlo words which are exchanged during the audience. This
is Oe.
to advance. last point on this side, to which Europeans are per-
mitten The remainder of the Seraglio resem-
bles the ,stierior of Africa, in so far as its being, generally
speaking, :snown only to the inhabitants. Nevertheless
intelligence si-run the very interior of the Sultan's seat,
has reached the esess of unbelievers, through the Works of
certain historians of the Eastern Empire, from which are
learn, that in the third, or innermost court of the lieraglio,
are the several apartments of the Padisehah and his court,
with the library, mosques, fountains, baths, and kiosks, and
the Harem, properly so called ; and contiguous to
this
woman's prison, is another,ealled Schimsberlik, w' 1
erein the
princes of the blood are confined until they respectisAy as-
cend to the Anne.
" The most celebrated apartment of the Sultan, and to
which a silver door leads, is the Cheraki sherire Masi f
, (the
saloon of noble gasinent). In it are found the
costly
relics of the prophet's mantle, ensign, staff, sword, and bow,
as well as shields and swords of his companions in
arms.
In reverence for the contents of this saloon, Sultan mos
bomet the First embellished it at an expense of a hundred