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f's,ONIMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS,
Ofßees, 51, Cheapside.
JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P., President.
THOMAS SIDNEY, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
GEORGE MOORE, Esq.,
H: TE APE, Esq., Treasurers.
JAMES PEEK, Esq.,
BANICEIIB.—The Bank of England.
Pursuant to it Resolution passed on the sth instant, a MEETING
of LIFE GOVERNORS Is hereby specially convened, to be held at
the above Ornces, on Mont...a, the 2d day of November next, at
Four o'clock, P.M., precisely, for the purpose of considering end recom-
mending to the next General Meeting certain Rules, which have been
prepared for regulating the future government of this institution ;
and also of considering the propriety of recommending to such Ge-
neral Meeting that these Schools shall be commenced for the educa-
tion of children forthwith, after the settlement of the said Rules.
' All Subscribers of ten guineas and upwards, are particularly re-
qthested to attend.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL
MEETING of this Company, will be held at the Paddington Station,
in the county of Middlesex, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of November
next, at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, viz. :
For the purpose of considering and determining as to the expe-
diency of working and taking en lease the South Wales Railway by
the Great Western Railway Company, and in certain events of pur-
chasing or accepting the transfer of the said South Wales Railway,
or amalgamating the two undertakings on terms and conditions to
be submitted to the meeting, and for the purpose of authorising the
execution of all necessary and proper deeds, and the doing of all ne-
cessary and proper acts for accepting such lease, and effecting such
purchase, transfer or amalgamation, if determined upon.—Dated this
23d October, 1846.

The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
C. RUSSELL, Chairman.
C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

WILLIAM GORDON, Secretary,

'WHITTINGTON CLU.l3,and
METROPOLITAN ATHENiEUNi.

QOUTII WALES RAILWAY.
LY Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL or EXTRAORDI-
NARY GENERAL MEETING of the South Wales Railway Com-
pany will be held, at the Offices of the said Company, 449, West
Strand, in the county of Middlesex, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of No-
vember next, at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the following pur-
poses, viz.:— •

•
The FIRST GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of this
INSTITUTION will be held at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-
street, on THURSDAY next, the 29th inst., at Seven o'clock precisely.
The Secretary will be prepared to enrol members on that evening,
who will be privileges i to attend and take part in the transaction of
business. Entrance-fee, for Gentlemen only, 10s. 6d. The names
and entrance-fees of persons desirous of becoming members, will also
now be received by any member of the Committee, or, between the
hours of ten and five, by any of the following gentlemen, from whom
prospectuses can also be obtained :—Edward Moxhay, Esq., Trea-
surer, pro tem., Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street; Robert
Bellior, Esq., 69, Cornhill ; .31r. Laidman, 119, Chancery-lane ; Messrs.
Miller and Jones, 58, Oxford-street; W. Eykelbosch, Esq., 3, Moore-
place, Kennington-road ; and between ten in the morning and eight
in the evening, at the temporary Office of the Club, 53, (west side of )
Lincoln's Inn-fields.

For the purpose of considering and determining as to the expedi-
ency of leasing the South Wales Railway to the Great Western Rail-
way Company, and, in certain events, of selling and transferring
the South Wales Railway to the Great Western Railway Company,
or amalgamating the two undertakings, on terms and conditions to
be submitted to the Meeting, and for the purpose of authorising the
execution of all necessary and proper deeds, and the doing of all
necessary and proper acts for effecting such lease, and such sale and
transfer or amalgamation, if determined, on.—Dated this 21st day of
October, 1846.

C. RUSSELL, Chairman.
LOUIS VIGURS, Deputy-Chairman,
N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary.

Oct. 26, 1846.

By order of the Committee,
C. I'ACET, Hon. Sec.

rlO SCRIPUOLDERS in the OXFORD,
WITNEY, -CHELTENHAM, and GLOUCESTER INDE-
PENDENT RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, -that the Scrip in the above Company to be
exchanged for Scrip Certificates In the London, Oxford, and Chelten-
ham Railway Company, agreeably to the resolutions unanimously
passed at the General Meeting, held on the 18th August last, must
be sent in to the office of the Company, where forms of letters can be
obtained, on or before the 4th NOVEMBER next.
RI-order, • • - JOHN MENZIES, Seeretary.
bB, Gracechurch-street, London, Oct. 24, 1846.

riIHE VALHALLA.—Late Miss LlNWooln
GALLERY, Leicester-square.

Madame WARTON'S TABLEAUX VIVANS and POSES PLAS-
TIQUES, under the patronage of the Nobility, Gentry, and several
distinguished members of the Royal Academy. The representations
by Madame Warton and her talented troupe, on which the public
press has passed such high encomiums, has been witnessed during
the week by a delighted and crowded audience. The new and
elegant Promenade will be opened during the. Tableaux ; the deco-
ratiens by Messrs. Adams, of the R. G. V. H. Musical Director,
Herr Redl.

Lit fIYSFIIRt, STAFFORDSHIRE, and
WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

Morning. performance at Three ; Eventng at lialtVaSFElitit-'
Stalls, 35.; Reserved Seats, 2s. ; Promenade, Is.

Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Deed and Sub-
scribers' Contract are now in course of signature at the Offices of
the Company.

:71tTATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institation embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, oa all occasions, the 'ewer to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the aremiunss paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selectiag benefits, and the cenversioa of his ht-
terests to meet other ceavenleaces or Necessity.
Assurances for terns of years are granted oa the lowest possible
rates.

Power's of Attorney will be forwarded, free of expense, to enable
Country Shareholders to sign these Deeds by proxy, on application
to the Secretary. _

Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

By order of the Directors,
R. S. MACKENZIE Secretary.
Offices of the Company, 4, Queen-square,
Westminster, October 26, 1846.
4;kl COT TI S H CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the PROPRIETORS of the SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAIL-
WAY COMPANY, will be held within the Town-hall, Perth, on
TUESDAY, the 10th day of November next, at One o'clock, afternoon,
for the purposes following—Nix.
1.. To consider an agreement entered Into by the directors with
the London and North-Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, and Caledo-
nian Railway Companies, for a Lease in perpetuity of the Scottish
Central Railway, and its Branches and Works, to these Companies,
upon the terms and conditions therein set forth; to authorise such
Lease, and approve and ratify such agreement; or to do otherwise in
reference thereto as may be thought expedient.
2. In the event of the said agreement being approved of, to
rescind the resolution adopted by the proprietors at their meeting on
26th August last, authorising the creation of New Stock to the
amount of 170,0001.

PUBLICATIONS.

Perth, Oct. 24, 1846.

BREADALBANE, Chairman
ROBERT D. KER, Secretary.

NORTH OF NORFOLK RAILWAY.
The Directors of this Company have the satisfaction to state,
that they have concluded au arrangement with the Norfolk Railway
Company, by which the Scripholders of this Company, will be enti-
tled-to SIX sIIARES of 201. in the extension guaranteed Five per
Cent. Stock of the Norfolk Company, 21. paid, in respect of each
FIVE SHARES of the North of Norfolk, upon payment of 30s. in
respect of each new share ; with a prospective further advantage,
when the Act shall be obtsdned.
Scripholders wishing to avail themselves of this offer, are required
to signify their intention me OR BEFORE THE 10TH OF NOVEMBER NEXT,
by deposit of their Scrip, where the first instalment of 11. has not
bean returned to them ; or by letter in the form annexed, such de-
posit to be made at, and, such letter to be addressed to, No. 3,
CLEVELAND-RON, ST. JAMES'S.
No Scripholder will be entitled to claim any benefit from this ar-
rangement AFTER THE 10th NOVEMBER.
A receipt will be given for the Scrip at the time the same is left.
Due notice will be given of the time and places appointed for the
payment of the deposit, and for receiving the Shares in the Norfolk
Company's Stock.
JAS. COPPOCK, 3, Cleveland-row, Solicitors. I
J. 11. TILLETT, Norwich,

24th Oct 1846
To the Directors of the North of Norfolk Railway.
Gentlemen,—Being a holder of Shares in Use North of Norfolk
Railway Company, I hereby inform you that I wish to subscribe for
Shares in the Norfolk itaflway Company's Five per Cent. Stock
of 201. each, and I undertake to pay the deposit of I/. 10s. per share
upon the number allotted to me at any time when required so to do.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
EXTENSION OF TIME FOR SENDING IN SCRIP.
PEREMPTORY NOTICE.
The Directors give notice that, with a view to the convenience of
distant Shareholders, they have determined to EXTEND, to THURS-
DAY, the sth day of November, the TIME within which Scrip
will be received for the purposes specified in the advertisement of the
sth of October, until and including which day, therefore, parties will
have the option either of withdrawing from the Company (receiving
in that event a return of 15s. per share) or of prosecuting the appli-
cation to Parliament in the ensuing session, receiving, on execution
of the new Parliamentary contract and supplementary subscribers'
agreement, new scrip iu exchange for that held by them.
No further extension of time will be granted.
Parties failing to send in their scrip and to duel tre their option
within the period specified will be subject to forfeiture of their shares,
which forfeiture the Directors will be reluctantly compelled to enforce.
Scripholders. not being original allottees, will be required to give a
reference, and all parties forwarding old scrip must fill up and sign
one or ether of the annexed forms.
By or der, JOHN WHEELER, Secretary.
To the Directors of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
Gentlemen ,—I hereby Info
rform Company.
you
shares in this un , as holder of the scrip for
dertaking, which I enclose, it is my wish
to *be a party to the proposed renewed application to Parliament
for power to construct a railway from Cheltenham to Southampton ;
and I elect accordingly to proceed with the undertaking, in such
manner, and under such name or title, and subject to such conditions,
as the Directors shall d•Cem best ; and I request yon, accordingly, to
issue to me scripr shares in the said Manchester and Southampton
for those now held by me.
Railway, or any new undertaking founded thereupon, In exchange

Name. ..... •• •
Description •• • • •
Address .•
.......
Date
Reference ......
Total number of Scrip enclosed.
Designating Nos.
4, Parties wishing to withdraw will substitute the following words

—" Withdraw from the Company, and to receive back the balance of
my deposits, in respect of such scrip, in the mannerprescribed in your
advertisement."

MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON
-- RAILWAY.

The Committee of Management inform the Shareholders that the
PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUPPLEMENTARY SUB-
SCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION at the fol-
lowing places and times, between the hours of Ten and Four daily :
In LONDON—From October 26th to October 30th inclusive, at the
offices of Messrs. Bolton, Merriman, and Dunning, Austin-friars, City,
at which place, for the convenience of parties, but subject to a satis-
factory reference by parties not original allottees, old scrip will be
received, and new scrip given In exchange.
In MANCHESTER —From October 27th to October 31st inclusive,
at the offices of Mr. James Wheeler,.sB, George-street.
And in SOUTHAMPTON—From October 27th to October 31st In-
clusive, at the offices .of Messrs. Deacon and Long.
It will be necessary that parties attending to execute the deeds
elsewhere than in London should previously have transmitted their
scrip to the Company's offices, and obtain in lieu thereof the Secre-
tary's receipt, in exchange for which the new scrip will be issued
after such execution.

Due notice will be given of the times and places, not herein speci-
fied, at which the deeds will hereafter lie for the convenience of the
shareholders.

Ey order, JOHN WHEELER, Secretary,
19, Great George-street, Westminster, Oct 24, 1846.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MID-
LAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPE, 'IAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of Shareholders in the above undertaking, will be held on
THURSDAY, the 29th instmt, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at
the t'utl. r's Hall in Sit, ffield, when the Accounts and Report of the
Proiisional Directors will be presented —ar which Meeting the Pro-
visional Directors will submit the following propositions, viz
That application should be made to Parliament during the next
Session, for an Act authorising the construction of the proposed
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway, or such
portion thereof as the Shareholders present at that Meeting may
approve of.

" And that those Shareholders who may not feel disposed to join
in a renewal of the application to Parliament, shall be at liberty to
withdraw from the undertaking, and receive back the amount of
their deposit, after deducting the rateable 'proportion of expenses
incurred."

It will be necessary for each Shareholder attending the Meeting
to present his Scrip Certificates, or Office Receipt acknowledging
the receipt of the same.

WILSON OVEREND, Chairman.

By order,

RICHA
Office.s, 103, Norfolk-street, Sheffield,RD MIRFIN, Secretary.
October 13th, 1846.

QOU TH STAFFORDSHIRE JUNCTION
Ly RAILWAY COMPANY and TREIT VALLEY, MID-
LANDS, and GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Amalgamation of the above Com-
panies has now been completed and finally ratified, in pursuance of
the powers contained in the several Acts of Incorporation, and that
such Companies are now united under the name of
" THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY,"
by which title the Amalgamated Company will in future be described
and referred to in all proceedings and advertisements.
All Holders of Scrip in each of the first above-named Companies
are required to forward the same to this office for registration, en or
before the third day of November next.
The Holders of Scrip in the Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand
Junction Railway Company will be entitled to be registered fir one
share of 121. in the Amalgamated Company in lieu of each share of
201. originally allotted.
The Holders of Scrip in the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Company will be entitled to be registered for shares in the Amalga-
mated Company in the proportion of three shares of 121 each in lieu
of every two shares of 251. originally allotted, or as near thereto as
such claimant's number of 251. shares will admit in relation to the
original and reduced amounts of the capital of the Company.
All Scrip transmitted must be accompanied by a letter (in the an-
nexed form), containing a description of the same by numbers and
amounts, and a request to be registered in respect thereof for the due
proportion of new shares as above, and SIGNED in FULL, with the
NAME, ADDRESS, and DESCRIPTION of the CLAIMANT.
Receipts will be given fir all Scrip transmitted, and sealed Cer-
tificates will be issued forthwith after the completion of the registry.
All shares in respect of which the scrip shall not be sent in for re-
gistration on or before the third day of November next may be regis-
tered in the name of the original allottee.
HORATIO BARNETT,
tar yaelle,mPnY.
South StaffordshireSecreßyatiolwtahye_Sofflouceth,.BStraaffdfoordrdsh-sitrreeßeta,iwiwaisa
October 13, 1646.

FORM OF APPLICATION TO REGISTER.
SOUTH STA/TOED/MIRE HALLWAY COMPANY.
Sir,—l hereby deposit Scrip Certificates for
the * Railway Company, namely—
No. to Shares. I No. to
No. to Of I No. to
And I claim to be registered in respect thereof for the due proportion
of shares in this Company, in conformity with your circular and ad-
vertisement dated the 13th instant, subject to the General Rules,
Jtegulations, and Conditions contained in the several Acts of Incor-
poration of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Company and
the Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction Railway Company,
and in the several agreements for the amalgamation of the same
Companies, all of which I hereby agree to fulfil, discharge, and con-
form to. I also require sealed Certificates to be prepared in exchange.
Christian name and surname at full 1ength............•
Description •• • ...... ...... .................
Address • • • ..... ........ .
Usual signature .....
Dated this day of October, 1846.
To the Secretary, South Staffordshire Railway.office,
Bradford-street, Walsall.
* " South Staffordshire Junction" or " Trent Valley, Midlands•
run Grand Junction," no the case may be.

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OCTOBER 27 1846.

EAST DEREHAM and NORWICH RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
At a General Meeting of the Scripholders of the East Dereham
and Norwich Railway Company, held at the offices of the Company,
Mitchell's-court, Market-place, Norwich, called by virtue of an " Act
to facilitate the Dissolution of certain Railway! Companies," and
pursuant to notice duly advertised according to the said Act, Edward
Willett, Esq., was elected Chairman, and Richard Cocks, Robert
Atkinson Gorell, and John Clarke, three Scripholders of the said
Company, were duly appointed Scrutineers, pursuant to the said Act ;
and at the said meeting it was then proposed that this Company be
now dissolved ; and it was also proposed that such dissolution shall
not be taken to be an act of bankruptcy; and thereupon the Chair-
man put the said question to the meeting, and the said Scrutineers
having proceeded to take and record the votes thereon, and havin
certified that the following votes were given :
For the, dissolution .
Against .......

••• • .. ...... 2,390
••••••• • • • • • • • None

For such dissolution not to be an act of bankruptcy.. 2,390
Against......,.
And having also certified that the number of shares, scrips, and re-
ceipts for deposits on shares issued or given before the 31st day of
March, 1846, represented by persons present or by proxy at such
meeting, who had recorded their votes, amounted to 2,390 shares,
and that the same is more than one-third of the shares, scrip, and
receipts issued as aforesaid, and that by such voting it was duly de-
cided by all present and voting at such meeting, that the said Com-
pany be now dissolved, and that such dissolution shall not be taken
to be an act of bankruptcy; and thereupon the said Chairman de-
clared that such resolutions were both duly carried in the affirma-
tive. As witness our hands this 22d of October, 1846.
EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman.
Countersigned by
RICHARD COARS,
/tOBERT ATKINSON GORELL, Scrutineers.
JOHN CLARKE,

METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MANURE
COMPANY.
The Company have obtained their Act of Incorporation.
The ALLOTMENT of the UNAPPROPRIATED SHARES in this
Company will be made on TUESDAY, the 3d day of November Next.
No Application for Shares can be received after the 21st day of
October inst. JOHN JAMES MOORE, Secretary.
Offices, 7, Waterloo-place, London.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The prin-
ciple of this valuable invention is clearly demonstrated by
Professor Bachhofther in his Mottling and Evening LECTURES at
the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. Ryan's CHEMI-
CAL LECTURES, daily, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wed-
negdays, and Fridays. The principles and uses of the WORKING
MODELS, and other specimens of the Useful Arts, are explained to
the visitors. The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN
MICROSCOPE, by CARY, re-produced with the most interesting
objects. The latest DISSOLVING VIEWS, by Charles Smith, are
of great beauty. _

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STREET, HA.Y.MARICET.

Eight doors from Coyentry-street.
Under Distinguished Patronage.—The original Poses Plastiqr es and
Tableaux Tans.

Professor TURNOUR, ever anxious to diversify the attractions at
the above splendid theatre, begs most respectfully to inform the
Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, that he has succeeded in en-
gaging one of the finest Models of the day, who will appear every
afternoon and evening during the week in Professor Tumour's cele-
brated groups of Venus Rising from the Sea and the Lute Player.
The new Classical Groupings, which have been acknowledged by the
press as far surpassing anything of the kind ever attempted in this
country, will be repeated during the week, iatroducing the THREE
COLOURED FEMALE MODELS, natives of Hindoostan, who have
been received with rapturous Appian* by fashionable and crowded
houses.

Morning Performance at 'flirts o'clock, and Evening at Half-past
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In a few Days,
lijr REEN'S NURSERY ANNUAL, for 1847,
with beautiful Colenred Plates by the Patent Process, and
Numerous Woodcuts and Illuminated Borders, in a perfectly New
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The FOLLOWING WORKS will be published on the 31st inst.
THE COMIC HISTORY of ENGLAND
No. V. By GILBERT A. I BECKETT. Illustrated 133
Leech. Price Is.

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE, No. XXIII. Price Is.
THE ALMANACK OF THE MONTH.
No. XI. Edited by GILBERT A. A BECKETT. Price 6d.
PUNCH! OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Part LXIV. Price Is. 4d.
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THE MUSIC BOOK., PART 1., will be
published on the 31st instant, price 2s. Gd., containing the
five following Songs, printed from Engraved Plates, the usual Music
size, and stitched in a wrapper, designed by Richard Doyle.
SING, MAIDEN, SING. Words by Barry Cornwall. Music
by Balfe.
THE FALSE FRIEND. Words by T. Hood. Music ►y Wal-
lace.

A SONG FOR THE SEASONS.
Music by Tully.
MY HOME MUST BE WHERE'ER THOU ART. Words by
Mark Lemon. Music by Mrs. G. A. a Beckett.
IN A DREAR-NIGHTED DECEMBER. Words by Keats.
Music by Edward Leder.
THE MUSIC BOOK is also a weekly periodical, a Number being
published every Saturday, price 6d,
London : Published at the Office of the Music Book, No. 1, St.
Bride's-avenue, Fleet-street (leading to St. Bride's Church), and
sold by all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Dealers in Periodicals, a
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LITERATURE.
A POET'S BAZAAR. From the Danish of Hans
Christian Andersen, By C'. Beckwith. 3 Vols.
The title of this work is calculated to excite curio-
sity, while the name of its author gives promise of
gratification. All who have read " The Improvisa-
tore," all who have admired its glowing descriptions,
its enthusiasm, its poetry, will receive with delight
any new work of Andersen's. It is, perhaps, from
having indulged too much in such expectations that
we have been somewhat disappointed in these volumes.
This is partly attributable to the translator, who, how-
ever faithfully he may have rendered the ideas or the
words of the original, has certainly done very little
towards enhancing its merits as a literary composi-
tion. Perhaps his was no easy task. The chief cha-
racteristic of Andersen's writings is their extreme
simplicity. He lays all his thoughts and feelings
open before us in the most unreserved manner; his
language is natural and unaffected, and his style (es-
pecially in these three volumes) familiar, interesting,
unstudied, and even careless. In this last particular,
his translator has certainly done him more than jus-
tice. Yet, however faulty the style (and for an Eng-
lish composition it is faulty), its simplicity harmonises
well with the thoughts and feelings of the Danish
writer. Mr. Macaulay has said that "he who, in an
enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great
poet, must first become a little child." Christian
Andersen is a striking illustration of this idea. His
remarks have all the naivete and freshness of child-
hood—he delights in idle day-dreams, in fanciful pic-
tures, in marvellous tales : his imagination is bound-
less on such themes—at times rising almost to the
sublime, at others (shall we say it ?) approaching
the ridiculous. We should like these volumes better
if we found less in them about the poet; it is not,
doubtless, from vanity that the author thus speaks of
himself—it is only another proof of his simplicity and
frankness. He believes himself to be so, and he says
just what he thinks, " I am a poet." " The poet saw
this," or " the poet said that," is to him as natural as
to say "lam a Dane," or " the Dane did this." But
these observations have an unfortunate effect ; we are
led to expect too much : and, also, he in many places
reads on dangerous ground; he comes on the tract
of Harold's wanderings, where, notwithstanding Mr.
Macaulay's definition, his title of poet is very much
placed in jeopardy. Yet we would not be too
critical on these volumes—they are full of inte-
rest, they are calculated to amuse—their very
carelessness is attractive. We follow, or rather we
eo with, our author, through part of Germany, to
Italy, to Greece, to the East, up the Danube, and to
the North. We see all the places that we pass, we
know all the individuals to whom we are introduced.
The description of Rome, brief though it be, is full
of interest; it is not such a description as we might
find in a history or geography, or ordinary book of
travels, it is rather a description of the author's own
feelings as he regards it—a series of exclamations of
wonder and amazement. He leads us through the gal-
leries of the Vatican in a state of perfect bewilderment,
explaining to us all that he sees, yet hardly seeming
to comprehend it himself, till at last, after passing
what he happily designates the "painted poetry" of
Raphael, we " lift a curtain and stand in St. Peter's
Church ! " Notwithstanding the simplicity of the
style, the whole narrative is not wanting in force or
expression—on the contrary, the chapters on Con-
stantinople and the bazaars convey to us some idea of
the magnificence of those gorgeous regions, while the
voyage on the Bosphorus is most graphically de-
scribed—the coast, on either side, seems to pass before
us. Many tales and legends are entwined with the
narrative, among others " The Bronze Hog," an
imaginary sketch of some Florentine painter. It
is in Andersen's peculiar style—we hardly know
whether to admire or to laugh at it. A child, sleep-
ing on the bronze figure of a hog, is conveyed, in a
dream, through the galleries of Florence, where the
Venus de Medici and all the other works of art appear
alive before him. He pauses before the Church of
Santa Croce—a church, consecrated not only to the
the glory of heaven but to the genius of earth—where,
by the bust of Dante, are the graves of Michael
Angelo, of Alfieri, of Machiavelli, and of Galileo.
We are almost angry with Andersen for only allud-
ing to such a spot in connexion with such a fabulous
tale—what description should not a poet have given
us of such tombs ? And yet, perhaps, it is as well ;
the names of those men are their most eloquent
epitaphs—they want no poet to inspire us with poetic
thoughts. The first of these volumes contains a por-
trait of their author, and a brief memoir of his event-
ful and interesting life. The following extracts will
show the very diversified character of this work :
" A poet sings because, like the bird, he cannot help
it ; something swells in his breast and in his thoughts.
The song will out : it spreads like the light, it rises like
the waves ; but very often nature places a leaf of her
great music-book before him, and it is a challenge to
sing, and then he sings from her notes."

THE POETRY OP RAILROADS.
" I have heard many say, that on a railway all the
• poetry of travelling is lost, and that we lose sight of the
beautiful and interesting. As to the last part of this
remark, I can only say that every one is free to stay at
whatever station he chooses, and look about him until
the next train arrives ; and as to all the poetry of tra-
velling being lost, I am quite of the contrary opinion.
It is in the narrow, close-packed diligences that poetry
vanishes : we become dull, we are plagued with heat and
dust in the best season of the year, and in winter by
bad, heavy roads ; we do not see nature itself in a wider
extent, but in longer draughts than in a railway carriage.
" Oh, what a noble and great achievement of the mind
is this production ! We feel ourlifilVes as powerful as the
sorcerers of old ! We put ou“magic horse to the car-
riage, and space disappears ; ;fly like the cloudsln a
storm—as the bird of passage flies ! Our wild horse
snorts and snuffs, and the dark steam issues out of his
nostrils. Mephistopheles Could not fly quicker with
Faust on his cloak ! We are, with natural means, equally
as potent in the present age, as those in the middle ages
thought that only the Devil himself could be ! With our
cunning we are at his side, and, before he knows it him-
self, we are past him.

" I can remember but a few times in my life that I
ever felt myself so affected as I was on this railroad
journey : it was thus with all my thoughts—that I be-
held God face to face. I felt a devotion such as, when a
child, I have felt in the church alone ; and when older,
in the sun-illumined forest, or on the sea in a dead calm
and star-light night. Feeling and Imagination are not the
only ones that reign in the realm of poetry : they have
a brother equally powerful ;—he is callect Intellect : he
proclaims the eternal truth, and in that, greatness and
poetry reside."