The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICE.

The SNOLISHMAN ABROAD, by S. 'Warr
B.D. F.R.S. F.A.S. &c. Bro.
This is a most extraordinary book, which
proves at once the eccentricity and the erudition
of its author. 'rho subjects on which it treats,
are varied in the extreme. In the first part, we
have articles upon Greece, Latium, Arabia,
Persia, Ilindoostan, and China ; whilst in the se-
cond part, we are led through Russia, Germany,
Italy, France,Spain and,Portugal. There is not
the shadow of arrangement in the works which
cpnfirms, however, What some of his former lite.
vary productions has.sliewn, that the author is an
erudite scholar, and a good linguist, and more es.
pecially acquainted with the Chinese, and other
Oriental languages. In illustration of this know-
ledge of living and of dead languages, Mr. W.
gives his renders translaticius of the same subject
inn various tongues.
The prose part of the work consists of collec-
tion of reminiscences, thrown together without
any the least regard to order or connection, but
containing many amusing anecdotes, tales, &c.,
among which we shall select a few for the bone-
fit of our readers

A MILITARY REToßT.—Frederick the Great asked a 801-
Aer who bad a deep cut across his cheek, at a review : " At
• -what alehouse didst thou get that scratch !"—" At C6slin,
. please your Majesty, where your Majesty paid the reckoning."
•• The King was beat at C6slin, in the war 0f1758, Una in, 1790
the Russians reduced the suburbs to ashes.
st pa u nrsier RE WARDlD.—Frederick the Great, turning
his back on hit Minister, who was with him in his cabinet, in
order to reach some papers which the Minister wanted, law
tim, in a mirror, take a pinch out of one of his Majesty's snuff
boxes on the table: the King turned round, and delivered the
papers ; the Secretary howed, and was vetiring, when his Ma-
jesty called him back, and said, " You have forgot something ;
take the box, it is not big enough for two."
&turn:rut EQUIVOCATION.—The King wrote under a
petition for new whitlows in a parish church, which was very
• dark—" Blessed ars.they which' have not seen, and yet 'have
believed."—(St. John, c. xx, v. 29.)
.1 Stot y of an Old'Officer that hod ,a strong idea of Military
Proinotion.—lt was his,custom _to make his children read a
chapter in the Bible every-Sunday afternoon. Upon mention
being made of Nebuzaradan; Captain of the Guard, coming to
Jerusalem (2 Kings, xxv. 8.) he stopped the reader and cried,
out in a tone of voice that showed' how much he was interested
In the matter." Good God ! is that • man still a caPtain.?
• Why he was a Captain when I was a little boy. Promotion
in his regiment must have been-vesyslow 1"
On an Organ Blower, or Grinder, :of the 'name ofKmusT.
Here lies Georgy Kunst,
At last in the dust,
Out of spirits,- and low :
Who for God's Church did puff
. All his life long enough.
And its organ'did blow,
Till the puffer grim 'death,
Blew him putt& breath.

Si NO tTLAIITPITAPIT, AND Cu MOUS INICRIPTION.—On
the tomb-stone of a joiner's son of the name of Ox, whose fa-
'ther had made the coffin, and written the inscription—" Here
"lies the little Ox-lin, who never grew to be an Ox."

'AVe shall conclude this notice, by the following
,talc, which we select, from its resemblance to
'the plot of a-well known and popular farce
" The Twhing qf the Shrew.—The way to tame a shrew, or
`the devil, is told in a Spantsh story, of which the original is in
3/75, inspreso in: Sevilla. Mr. Douce alludes to the edition
or the book where this story is found, in 1643. Both the pub.
lications are in 4t0., with the title of El Conde Lucanor.
pitu XIV. De lo que Contescio aun Alanuto, et dia que se
cart). p. 79, Chap:46.—Of what happened to &young man the
`day of his marriage:-..

Patronio spoke thus :—ln a certain town there was it Moor
of great respectability,' who had a son, the best young man in
.the world, full of projects, but. so. poor, that hehad the will,
but not the.power to execute them. 'l•n the same. place there.
was another Moor, very rich, and he had an only daughter,
but she was a very devil, ,and nobody would marry her. The
young man came-one day to the father, and said, " rather, I
am weary of the poor and wretched life I , lead. I wish to
merry:" The lather said he *mad be delighted If his son
could find a party that suited hiM. Upon which the yoting man
named his neighbour's daughter; on bearing.this the father was
much surprised ; but the son persisted in desiring his father to
speak to the Moor, who was his intimate fricud, and ask him
• for his daughter. The Moor said, when he was applied to, that
he had no objection, but that whosoever had his daughter would
better dead than alive. The wedding day, however, was
• fixed, and the bride wasted away to her husband's home, and
according to the Moorish custom a supper was prepared, and
the table was laid, and the fathers and mothers left the bride
PO bridegroom. together till the next day, not without great
fear and suspicion that they should find the bridegroom in the
morning dead, or not far from it. As soon as they were gone,
the new married couple sat down at the table, and before she
could speak, he looking about him, saw one of his house dogs,
• and calling to bins with a voice,tout ordered bins to bring
water to wash his hands, which the log not doing, he got
up in a rage, drew his sword : this the dog seeing ran
Away, and he after him, till he caught him, and cut
off his head and legs, and his body in pieces, and
dashed the blood trier the table, and all. over the
room ; then pima and seated himself at ',the table. He
looked round again, and taw a Maltese beagle, and gave him
the. same order; but on his not complying, he-first threa-
tened to serve hint as he had done .the mastiff, then spring-
lag front his chair, 'he caught him by the legs, and cut
him into a hundred pieces; be then returned a ,second
time to the table, making horrid faces, and furious gestures,
end stared wildly arounditim. The bride, who was an eye-
witness of all this, was beside 'herself for fear, and stupid,
without being able to utter a •syllable. :lie then swore he
would serve every living creiliture in the same manner not
excepting his home. Otitis. was the only one he had remaining
to him ,• then having killed the horse, be came hack to•
the table with his sword reeking in blood, and seeing no
CAM aeimal to kill, he turned his eyes on his wife and
cried with a furious voicel " Get up and. bring me water to
wash u'y hands !" She immediately rose, and brought him
water. .'hen he seid, if you had not done it I would have.
served you as I served the dogs and the horse. Ile then or.
dared her to help him, which she did, but with so horrid
art accent, that she still expected to have her head 'cut
In.this manner they passed the night together, and she
ever spoke, but..did every thing he bit her; and when. they
• !b led idept some little while, he said to his wife, " d.havanot
Oft to rest for rage to-night, see that nobody disturb me
%arrow ,toorniNr. and take' care that I have a good break-
Ftttl infait. •
'the. morning the parents of the . bride and bride.
• 10:03rii 40044 at the door, and as no oue answeTe.d; they -con.
eluded that the bridegroom was either killed or wounded., and
when they saw the bride coin: to the door without her hitsband,
they were confirmed in Their auspicious. As soon as she saw
thefts, site began to call Ahern traitors, and asked bow.• they dared
cote to the 'door without speaking ; make'ne noise or you are
; all dead 'men. This atitortialied them still more, and when
this knew how the night had been spent, they thought very
• it' • ly of .the,young men for his gnat skill in governing his
ts, and arranging his household; and from that day forward'
• ;he wouseWsvelllnenttged, that be lived Perfectly well with her
sod itbe:..fither-in-lew took i 1 hint from his son, end killed&
these* to yids wire in order.• • • •