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ness, when we see that even at the present day, Mr. Bayley's
Butterfly's ballads are the admiration of all the drawing-
rooms, while Wordsworth's " Intimations of Immortality"
—the most thoughtful and magnificent lyric in the language
—are scarce known beyond the circle of his own immediate
friends ! So much more easy—so much more popular, is
the task to amuse, than to improve mankind !
In his private character, Milton possessed all the simpli-
city of true greatness. With the sagacity of the philo.
sopher he combined the artlessness of the child. His tastes
were few and simple. He delighted in music—the organ
especially, as might be supposed from the full, swelling,
stately, cathedral melody of his verse—was passionately
fond of flowers, and of listening to the lisping voices of
children. So pure—so untainted—so unearthly was his
nature, that though mixed up with, and even taking a lead-
ing part in, all the squabbles of the day, at a time when a
host of evil paisions were at large throughout the kingdom,
not even his bitterest enemy—and no man ever had more,
or bitterer enemies—could ever bring aught to allege against
his moral character. All his actions were regulated
by the sternest principle. He disavowed living for himself. It
was his favourite doctrine that he was born to serve his country.
Thus even in youth we find him foregoing all the pleasur-
able excitement of travel, because he imagined he might be
wanted at home. " I thought it base"' says he, "to be tra-
velling for amusement abroad, while my fellow-citizens were
fighting for liberty at home." We see this lofty spirit of
patriotism predominating in all his works—urging him to ad-
vocate the freedom of the press—to reform the abuses of
the church—and even, in his great poem, to forego all hope
of popularity, in the desire to uplift, improve, and enlarge
the intellect of his country. Though modest and reserved
in his nature, he was remarkable for a bold, lofty self-con-
fidence that never deserted him, even in the worst crisis of
his fate. There was a proud humility about him—a just,
but by no means overweening, appreciation of his own
powers. He felt .that he was for eternity ; that he had
made " the age to, come his tnvn," and this reflection cheered
him amid all the gloom and neglect in which his laier years
were past. Justly remarks Mr. Fletcher, speaking of
Milton and Shakspeare

" When you think of England you think of Shakspeare—you
think of Milton—they are England. Other nations have heroes,
and philosophers, and critics, and scholars, and divines, equal to our
own, but they have not Shakspeare and Milton : we have, and sur-
pass them. Nature gave them to England, and no reverse of for-
tune can rob us of them. Their works are landmarks, pillars of
truth, on these the high places of the earth, and they will be iden-
tified with our soil, when our institutions may have been swept
from it, and when our political supremacy may have passed away.
But, with their works in our hands, and with our Bible, read, and
believed, and revered, and upheld, in cottage and in palace, we
need not fear the loss of our heritage—the luxury that enfeebles—
the vice that enslaves—the wealth that corrupts—the anarchy that
overwhelms--intelligence and piety, wisdom, and. religion, and
power, will be cherished and perpetuated for generations ; and with
those who love these things, and bear the ark of British freedom,
leave, for their guidance and delight, this book."

TUTTI FRUTTL
By the Author of" the Tour of a German Prince."
In 2 Vols. London : Bach and Co., 1834.

Herman Prince Van Puckler, whose travels in this
country excited such lively interest a few years,since, again
presents us with a work in which every body will find much
to amuse, more to instruct, and something to condemn. It
is a curious, disjointed, unconnected, compilation of all sorts
of sayings on all sorts of things. To assign it a department
in literature would be impossible ; as autobiography, theo-
logy, politics, sketches, adventures, and anecdotes, all claim
isolated places in the work, appearing as proudly in-
dependent of each other as the thirty German Princes, in
one of whose castles the volumes before us may have been
written. Now, though we are as fond of perusing the
journals, memorandas, and such like out-pourings of a cul-

tivated mind as of almost any other kind of writing, yet
we by no means approve of their publication during
the lifetime of the author ; nor, indeed, under any circum-
stance, if they contain nothing necessary to the right under-
standing of some important event, or discover no new
spring of human action. He must be vain, indeed, who
presumes to think that the world cannot better employ it-
self than in reading whatever he pleases to write, or that he
is not guilty of a moral offence in depriving people of their
time, when he neither adds to their stock of information nor
increases their happiness. We feel it necessary to make
this observation, not on account of the appearance of these
volumes, but from a fear that others, with no claims to respect,
will regard them as a precedent for filling every bookseller's
window with their " Thoughts," " Reflections," " Scraps,"
" Albums of the Mind," and a host of other crudities.
Prince Puckler is a go od-hearted,benevolent,religious-minde d
man; with great powers of discriminating character ; and if
many of his opinions on the state and capabilities of man are
contrary to ours, the very way in which, he puts them forward
proves him a person who has not neglected the means of
making himself acquainted with the subject. Though a
warrior, he is a friend to peace ; though a German Prince,
he is the advocate of freedom ; and though nurtured among
religious fanatics (the Hernnhuters) he is in raptures at the
prospect of Jewish emancipation ;--all triumphs of mind
over state, station, and early prejudices! The translator,
Edmond Spencer—(what classical reminiscences are called
forth by a name!)—has executed his task with
.great credit
to himself. What happiness may we not yet hope for,
when a brave soldier and a prince unites in this manner.
,4 I continued my route for some time absorbed in contemplation,
and wove one web of speculation after another, until I was suddenly
aroused from my reverie by the loud gabbling of a flock of geese.
Upon looking up I perceived two large grey ganders arrayed against
each other in mortal combat. I pictured them to my imagination
as two Knightly Princes, who, armed in a panoply of grey
feathers, were disputing their individual rights ; while the
ladies arrayed in a circle, like the high dames in a balcony,
encouraged their champions with their gentle feminine gabble,
and with their long necki extended towards heaven, in-
voked the god of war to crown with victory the warrior they most
loved. I could not help admiring the devoted courage of these
feathered combatants, who returned again and again to the charge,
so unlike the princes of our own species, who leave their contests
and dissentions to be decided by the geese, their subjects; and these
are so obliging as to fight till death for interests not their own !"
We recommend the following to the attention of the
noble Lords who, last week, so unceremoniously threw out
the Bill for the Removal of the Disabilities of the Jews.
" I frequently censure the English, and for this reason, because
they are so great, and yet so little !
" To-day, as I laid the newspaper out of my hand, I felt for
them undivided veneration ; the emancipation of the Jews, which I
before mentioned, is a glorious token of the advanced state of their
intellectual culture, and will produce the most beneficial results, by
moderating their religious zeal ; for one step taken in the path of
charity is always the precursor of one still higher. Thus, by re-
treating from an evil, we escape one of still greater magnitude.
" Hail to thee, noble, illustrious people ! How numerous are
the clouds of error which have vanished before thy enlightening
influence, and now thou hast laid the axe to the root of that rem-
nant of barbarism—the persecution of a numerous class of our; fel-
low-creatures—which has so long existed, to the eternal disgrace
of civilized Europe !
" It is a glorious victory of justice and humanity, and a proud
example to the world ; but I voluntarily drop the veil over the
dark stain which the continued disabilities of the Jews leave upon
Germany."

This is a longer notice than we have given of works
which pleased us more ; but when princes sheathe the
sword for the pen, we cannot help dwelling with pleasure
on an event so fraught with advantages to mankind.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

(From the .Lo;
An ACCOUNT of the LIABILI'
of ENGLAND, on the Average
July, 1834.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation £18,893,000 Securities X. 7,593,000
Deposits

tdon Gazette.)
PIES and ASSETS of the BANK
of the Quarter ending the let of

£33,1'91,000
Bank of England, July :2, 1834

436,252,000

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT,
BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From the London, Gazette.) M. H.
G. C. Davy, linen-draper. New Church.street, Lisson.grove 1 at 1
T. Dodson, needle-manufacturer, St. Paul's Churchyard

We are sorry to hear of a melancholy accident
which happened off the Isle of Wight on Friday last. Two.
young gentlemen, Mr. Christie, son of Dr. Christie, of Mon-
tague-square,
Engineers, were out in a boat, which was upset. Mr. Crozier
and Mr. Crozier, son of Major Crozier, Bombay
was unfortunately drowned; Mr. Christie saved.
TRUTH,-T
rutin alone may not constitute a great
man, but it is the most important ingredient in a great charac-
ter ; it exalts and extends its own qualities, it gives confidence
to those who serve under him, security to those who employ
him—and, in the world at large, it inspires a solid and perma-
nent admiration which maintains,
and at last surpasses and out-
lives, the enthusiasm excited by temporary success.—Quar-
terly Review.

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