The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-02 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY.

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FRASER.
ter4ne " Agnewidos" is by far the best poem in this Num-
Indeed, it is nearly as good as the " Lousiad ;" and in
ti:lrig this, we imply the highest praise. We hasten to
Nye the opening lines of this broad, side-splitting extra-
Vnday virumque cano, quo non atrocior unquam,
verily do thinko, terris apparuit humbug.
Qinfernal enim Scotchman, cordesque per mimes
uit strikare metum, rigido pius ore locutus,
13(1°,1 minus on Sunday meat-pies hottosque voremus
1141/edings- Multum ille a young folks detested et old folks,
14" era quoque et risu passus dum addresseret Housam,
• retque simul Billam, sermone lugubri.
qui Musa mihi causas memora, what members abetting.
1,4.(1ve volens animis Commons, tot pullere feces
. nihilo numskull, tot makere speeches
P , 4ntro infernali, quid tot propounders billas, •
1-rrnittat. Tent= superest parl'mentary leisure ?
Est domus Antiquo Yard'), Westminster ad aulam
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130i.tans, quam plures ipso coluisse feruntur
\\%-`IIIIY postliabito. Siquid contenditur, utrum
QuollSr vel Tory majus valeat pecus, aidere vicwas
-Aee, possint domus hEec Radlceia semFer
tioid'Att hospo. Hie meetings plc. talibus of
hie proprium sanctum, hue concurritur always.
"anique diestiderat. Venientes undique cireim
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tj `rit-fac'ed sleek homines vidit Rad!mins liospes.
.r-iquo venerunt—Agnewia turba—viamquo
k'torn coomlerunt loudceis sighibus ntque
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ibil'il'as. ' hood aliter taurorum Althorpia scecll
1),,:°. ware solent inter jucunda. vireta
11."44nterrique vocant dommum: subque' arbore somnos
„arapunt •
"1111 . s tantus erat venientum singular hubbub.
Irit
..slinul atque fores Family pand.untur flotelli,
Pler"ere °miles members, sedesquic tenebant,
Pi. t.‘voodqiie, et Plumptre, et vu tu Stanley. sever°,
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.finines, sanctusqu. e Trevor, sanctusque Sir Oswald.
..sik.i. sutbito extrema surgit de parte room
eht murmur, strepitus qui mox effcrt.o 2:
ad. outright.oneir,
1., 4 venit Hie I venut dominus sanc!isstmu I' Agnew,
eo,.nit ille, dens nobis qui hose otia fecit
mensal."
Ti'elataant omnes, thumpuntque outrageous.
filciiii'' reader will not fail to remark with whaty humorous
tlik,t tY these hexameters trundle off, and whatexemplary
It i,318 4rid spondees the writer fashions out o I E nglish.
%s-dirli!Dossible also not to admire the exqu.isite l'nd courte-
-44 tle '""eY of the touch ; " est infernal emin S4cotchman,"
kw le strikinr, outrarre-
c'm simplicity of the " thumnuntque .
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likelt,4lcosas."' 'N'Srlipat, too, can be more richly ludicrous
—ct
q the °I Liston's most grotesque
- Qelision in this line ? glances—than t
took. iil,4) me eulique fern—furor, indignati'amazement."
ii,,lt,,,eba.t;:.isit of this jeux d'esprit, however, is not original—
will not detract from its merit—tor we remember
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"travaganza of the same satirical character, which
;441(1.1-kublished a few years since at Cambridge, and which,i(ce
11,44 YbanY other equally humorous lines, contained 1
I.? epir:lbnlemory) helf. hexameter, alluding to
14 Pl.• 1 hal entry of sirloin -of beef into the College
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titt-s()4.01C0-°urts' Martial and the Cat o' Nine Tails," advo-
-11 t z.„. I'6 with no undue warmth, the flogging system,
"4,11 u --'l°B a curious anecdote of Admiral Cornwallis,
11)9°41:,!e,Zret our limits will not permit us to extract.
0.14 111. ' raSso"—we arc sick of the eternal repetition of
ttgtitter,Tni: larae, just as if Germany had no other great
itl,4 th,
~ a common-place notice of a work which, judging
1.1,':,%iqu-B:xtracts, is about as interesting, and not half so
4t.11.5e slaw as one of Warren's poet c tifs, which one of
63i,',iali% we intend to review at full length.p. The " Litc-
-uti erY" consists of a full-length portrait of Sir J. C.
. etlse,
by no means dulcet
klitiYeo„l,_, ,!ecornpanied by a memoir, .
of . Koseiuslio
11:11.),Iii'll'Iiiin,tic in its character. 'The poemsjetilesse"v—what a natn,el—is capital quiz on
ltli but translations from carious barbarousa lnguages
*ling.:ch among the number!) of Doctor I'olyglott

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1)1 ' NEW MON THL Y .
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Pre,,,, -Henry Colburn.
44L,' of ' Whom ',I Government has pensioned many eminent
1 —1 itfolout not one in every hundred could establish claims
1 i \ y equal to those of the distinguished author of
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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
Tie notice of " Alford's School of the Heart" is another
of those eloquent and discriminating poetic criticisms for
which this periodical is so celebrated. Commend us to
Christopher North—that is to say, when his crutch is laid
;14G, and he is in good humour—for fetching out the
,o.eauties of a poem. He shows off a young rhymester in
ti2c finest style possible—witness his late cordial notices of
klartley Coleridge and Tennyson, which the latter was
simpleton* enough to object to, because forsooth, it was not
linolghout unmixed panegyric, as if even Spenser himself
IS to be spoken of without some reservation ! The present
criticism does every justice to Mr. Alford, who displays
Picot poetic promise, particularly in his sonnets, two of
which n " A Funeral" and " A Funeral Sermon" may
tie with the best of Wordsworth's. " Translations from
1110 Greek Anthology" are as successful as such transfers
can. ba---but no translation of either Greek or Latin poet that
ue are acquainted with, ever yet gave us the slightest idea
of the original. A descriptive passage or two in Homer
has been well rendered by old Chapman, anti a few of

ristiaec reon Odes by Cowley have something of character
simplicity about them ; but these are exceptions.
The
generality of the translations, though meritorious in
other respects, are sadly deficient in truth of effect. What,
for instance, is Pope's " Iliad," but a splendid mistake ; Dry-
a'n's " YEneid" but a loose, eloquent paraphrase ; Gifford's
• Juvenal" but a diligent omission of the grave, stern dig-
- nity of the Roman satirist ; and Moore's " Anacreon" but
a tinsel, glittering imitation of the chaste and sterling gold
(4 the original ? This last, in particular, is as arrant a
failure as we know of, and for this reason, that Moore has
!iothing- in common with Anacreon but his festivity, the one
being as remarkable for his false and showy glitter, as the
other is for his sweet and unlaboured simplicity. Hints
to Authors" is an admirable quiz, worked out in the most
aPrightly and good-humoured spirit, and concluding with a
Parody that the Smiths might be proud to own. " Alci-
biades the Youth" contains one impassioned dialogue be-
tween the hero and Aspasia, superior to anything Savage
Landor has attempted in the same way. " Extracts from
the Journal of an Alpine Traveller," are as usual,
characterized by much condensed vigor of description.
" Foreign Results of Democratic Ascendancy" is full
of sophistry and reckless assertion. The writer ac-
tually insists that the Poles had no " serious and
well-founded complaint against the Russian Govern-
ment," to justify their late rise in arms ! What ! was not
Vie bloody madman, Constantine, their ruler, and all Po-
land filled with his spies ? Moreover, was not their Consti-
rio!), expressly guaranteed to them by the treaty of
Jenne, violated every hour of the day, during this Kal-
tfittek Cut-throats' reign ; and are these not sufficient justi-
fications of their rebellion ? For our own part, nothing
would give us greater pleasure than to learn that they had,
revolted once more ; annihilated the Russian armies'; and
hanged up Nicholas before the gates of the Kremfin. The
modern Nero would be of far more benefit to European
civilization in that posifon—however personally einhar-
tassing it might be—than ever he will be, while seated. on
the throne of the Czars. From " Reminiseences,of Sta../hard," we extract an anecdote, illustrative of the uitiVersal
'celebrity of this artist. To have a print hung up in an
itl African wig-warn, is a triumph of which no artist, but
tothard, could ever yet boast. It is the next thipg to be-
'ng in favour with the white bears of the North Pole 1—
'rite young man in question (whose name, though I heard
it, I do not recollect) was engaged with some of those unform-
!late persons who, years ago, attempted to explore the more
interior parts of Africa, commencing their adventure from the
coast. In one of their exterior excursions, they beeame7entan-
ged in the wilds of that savage country ; and the young man
°'ct whom I speak, missing not only his companions, but his
track, gave himself up for lost. Driven by extreme distress,
he at last ventured to draw nigh to a native hut, yet fearful that
In doing so he should but perhaps rush on certain death, and
I._e murdered on the spot; he paused a moment, irresolute as
`? whether he should enter or not within the hut to seek as-
Tl2tance in his hour of extreme distress. Necessity, it is said,
'as no law; it unquestionably impels a man to follow that of
lilt_ tare ; and those who are starving are compelled to seek food
wherever fortune may direct them. Fear, however, ,was still
th
me predominant feeling of the youthful adventurer, who,
I°llol he had bred to the sea, and therefore was likely enough
II(' face death with an undaunted spirit on the wave or in the
battle, might yet, without reproach, shrink at the appre-
hension of it when it comes i the form of cruelty and murder.
'lt there 'was no choice left; and so he took heart and boldly
altered the hut. He said, that he found a strange and instan-
taneous relief to his feelings, for which he could scarcely as-
:rgn a reason, by seeing hung up on one of the sides of this
barbarian dwelling, in the very wilds of Africa, an engraving
after Stotbard, from the Novelist's Magazine,' in such a sort
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Place „tame as the Jew pedlars hawk about in the country towns
agland. It was to him a blessed sight, for it gave to such
4f. an air of civilization, and with that he connected a hope
Personal safety-mothope that was not disappointed ; for a
4,4;a1e, black as night, almost naked, ornamented with beads
tfeathers, and her skin well greased with fat, came into the
it' and expressed great surprise, but no intents of cruelty, at
bliv,aight of him. His wants were pressing, and by signs he
„ 'lse her understand he needed food and drink. These she
:;trectired for him ; and as hunger is proverbially the sweetest
61211 sauces, he probably found the viands very palatable ; as
1,7 With extreme delight and true hospitality, amused herself
(I,,,,cParnming the food she gave him into his mouth with her
It.bgreasy fingers ; a piece of female gallantry our traveller
110' Hi no condition to insist on declining. The repast ended ;
next endeavoured to make her comprehend that he had lost
er't,'''ampanions and his way; and by the generous assistance
hi this modern Yarico, in becoming his guide and affording
k! her protection, he was once more enabled to retrace his
-ra in safety to his lost friends."