The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-02 00:00:00

BLACKW 0 OD' S MA GAZINE:

A clever number, but somewhat too hea"Y
and monotonous. The " Pandour and 11'5'
Princess" is a tale full of interest, containil
surprises, mysteries, and adventures capable °
furnishing materials for a dozen melodraracs;
The " Fall of the Constitution" is an eloquent
Jeremiad after the most approved Bailie Black'
wood fashion. The dissertation on the miraci;'
lous purity of the Duke of Wellington's politilt
cal principle is most edifying. How the writer
must have stared when he found himself writir'g
gravely on such a theme. We take for granted'
however, his enthusiastic admiration of the INY'
of the Sword is ironical. " Christopher at °,eo
Lakes" is eloquent, but there is a sameness
its descriptions, which, however highly finishey'
renders them somewhat fatiguing.

METROPOLITAN.
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Mr. Moore, we rejoice to perceive, h
length condescended to do the delightful f°'
our monthly periodical literature. This augur!,
well for such literature, which, though it cool
have sustained itself without his assistance, wil`
ia,till,iel: materiallyabeounding i
nimprovedgrace,
archness,by it.
hution to the present Metropolitan is a Persia°
knowledge of oriental habits. It aHnd iremindssingular
s $:
" as with a difference," of the prose portions °
Lalla Rookh. " Life and writings of Si:::
Mackintosh" is a well-written essay by 1.
Campbell. The most valuable portion is to. 0
come, for the prescut specimen is merelY
sketch. Mr. Campbell, we see, has introMeic
one or two extracts from Sir James's first ?Oh
the far-famed " Vindicite Gallica " which he
calls sublime, &c. &c. As far as the tilt:4
goes—for the extracts in question are full t:s
sound, elevated reflection—he may be right ;b b
with regard to the style, we never yet met wit
l.
anything so turgid, so offensive, so artipci
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of the Oriental tale
dttioeignaliste'saidetnladtisol,efGosittrblylbtelheoenao,uhftibhsluto'oitrsrian of the Byzantine Ein.c;
Aire, becomes ridiculous when applied tottoln
bearing on modern ethics. The most perfec
list] prose we know of—prose which it is a j 1
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to read, a delightful effort of recollection to recr
jo
—is Southey's ; and this truly classic write

the very antipodes of Sir James. " Chit-chat"
is, an agreeable, sketchy, gossiping paper. " Truer
stories of Necromancy-in Egypt and Turkey"
is characteristic and anecdotal. We subjoin
-the' following pleasant bit of diablerie, by way
of rebuke to the spirit of these days of little
faith. ; Covent-Garden may possibly make a
melo-drama of it.

" —, a Perote, one who knew ' the difference
between allum and barley-sugar,' if ever man did, a
good Catholic, a conscientious person, a dragoman, and
`as such necessarily attached to truth, and never telling a
lit, save in the way of business, was himself the hero, or
the witness rather of the story he narrated. He was sent
one morning from the European palace of —, at Pera,
on business in Constantinople. He was in a great hurry.
but as be reached the Meytiskellesi, or wharf of the dead,
and was about stepping into his caik to be rowed across
the harbour of the Golden Horn, either a nail in one of
the rough planks of the wooden quay caught his slipper,
or a poet on it his robe, I forget which, but the dragoman
turned round, and saw standing close by him a tall and
very notorious African magician, who had long been prac-
tising at the capital, and was known to every body as one
sof the lions of the place. To do a civil thing, and perhaps
to keep well in this world with one who had intercourse
with the spirits of the next, the dragoman naturally sup-
posing he was waiting there on the water's edge only to
cross over from the suburb to the city, very politely in-
vited him to take a passage in his csik. The tall African
made no verbal reply, but smiled, and waved his hand to
decline the high honour. The dragoman then conclud-
ing, that instead of waiting to cross over himself, lie was
expecting the arrival of some one from the opposite side
of the Golden Horn, stepped into his caik, which instantly
glided from the quay, and shot across the port. The boats
at Constantinople are all very light and sharp, and go with
astonishing speed, even when propelled with one pair of
oars; but people of high consideration, like dragomans,
generally have two pair to their caiks, and at this time M.
being in a very great hurry, told his two rowers to pull
as fast as they could. When exult half way on his short
aquatic journey, M. turned his head and looked back, and
then he saw at the end of the quay, just where he had left
him, the tall African standing starch and motionless, like
a granite statue before an Egyptian temple. The drago-
snares boat continued to cleave the waves; it neared the
opposite shore—no caik had passed him on his way ;
when, lo ! as his own came in concussion with the wooden
piles of the Divan-kapi. iskellesi, and he rose from his seat
to step on shore, he saw the identical African wizard
standing there before him, and gazing calmly over to the
opposite quay where he had just left him, and whence it
was impossible he could have proceeded by mortal agency."