Star.
London, England, 1830-07-15 00:00:00

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Lady's Slagasinsi of former tinter—nay of about the year
1770, when the" Lady'sMagarine," now existing, commenced—are
really literary curiosities. and afford subject for much interesting re-
flection, when put in comparison with the Miscellanies which are
now provided for the amusement and instruction of the living idols
of our affection. As we believe we have been fortunate enough to
see one of these curiosities, in the Vatican, La Bibliothaque du Rol,
or the British Museum—we cannot exactly recollect which—we
shall endeavour to describe what were its contents.

fasprinsie.—There was an ill.cleented portrait of some lady, new
christened by ale engraver. perhaps, for the twentieth time, with the
name of some celebrated beauty of the day ; which, if the publishers
had possessed the communicative disposition of the Committee of the
Royal Academy, would have been called. out of pity to the inqui.
oitive. a " Portrait of a Lady."
Secoostlo.—We had a few stupidly insipid novels, or Histories
Lord Rdwards—Belmouni--Altamonts, &c. with corresponding
heroines in Belindas--Arabellas--Constantias—and F:deliest some-
times. to render theni more interesting, continued from number Is
number for a twelvemonth. until the one end of the history had for-
gotten the other, or until. like some reptiles, you could not discover
ithat it had ever had a head. These productions seemed, indeed.
lolly to have ear of Aristotle's notable essentials for an Epic—tbey
'seemed to have neither beginning nor cud, but only a middle. In
fact, to use the language of the schoolmen. they appeared to the
readers to have etersigas a parse ante, and they threatened an eter-
sites a parse poet to the untirtunate and fatigued readers.
Tertio—We were presented with the last new Vauxhall, or
Mary-le-bone Gardens' Pastoral, set to music; which sung of
Shepherds and their Shepherdesses • 31ilk.maids and their Milk.
pails ; Millers, always a most honest race, and their daughters ;
which sold us. in tender ditty, how
Strephon toed Chloe the Maid with—black eyes ; ;
All down In a meadow near—Battersea Rise—

And so she was sitting alore in— a grove.
All happily thinking of nothing but—love.
Sly Strephon came by—gave the charmer a pat,
And cried—dearest Chloe, pray what ars you at ?
What are you at ? what are you at ?
And cried—deans' Chloe--pray what are you at ?
And then concluded with roan such impassioned declaration of lova'
ma the following :
" I love Site, and Sue loves me—
And while the Mill Roes,
And while the wind blows,

Who'll be so happy, so happy as we !"

In those Arcadian days all men about Vauxhall and blarysle-
bonne Gardens were shepherd's, alias swains, and used no pipes but
•• oaten ones"--snd all the women in the same latitude and lon-
gitude, were all shepherdesses or nymphs, and managed their respec-
tive swains—not as they now do, by hook and by orook—but by
erook only.

Quart..—The ladies were supplied with s few dozen of riddles,l
enigmas, rebuses, and charades, with the interesting solutions, " to
keep curiosity awake," prudently postponed until " our next
bla-
pa

Quissio.—Thor was a liberal supply of "new and choice recipes,"
for pickling cucumbers, removing pimples, freckles, warts, and
geow-skln (forgetting that the latter complaint is more than Wu
deep), and all the other et cetera which, thanks to Heaven, are
Provided, to Protect male susceptibility, and soften the lustre of
female beauty, which otherwise would, we all know, be quite dan-
gerous and unsupportable.

Seeto.—lf, to all the preceding. you add a plate of hieroglyphic
sig-sags, as a pattern for lace or embroidery. and stitch the whole
together under a ping of blue paper—such u is now used in grocers'
shops—you have the tout mammals of what once was—a Lady's
Ilagasine. What la it now T

The specimen of the improved series of the " Lady's 31agasine"
for this month, INS tossl-41- aii war snare chose ; and even a man
as grave as Lord Eldon, or a lady u frolicksome as a Miss
we.know.who, would be most fastidious if they could sot find
adequate steer flu as afternoon's amusement is ha pages.

The number now before us has no less titan six well-executed
plates, on two or three of which we feel inclined to make remarks.
The second plate puzzled us a little, u, at the first glance, we mis.
took it for a pla'e illustrative of some monstrosities in natural his.
tory ; but, on close inspection, we saw " the human face divine "
peeping out below some of the said monstrosities t and, upon con-
sultation with a learned doctor on the subject, we discovered that
the strange objects we allude to, were really nothing more nor less,
than the delineations of new-fashioned bonnets and head dresses, or,
as Ross, of the Wiggery, has it, " heads of hair."
The third and fourth plates are not so unintelligible; they depict
four very pretty young ladies, with one of whom, holding a to.
we are actually a little amities. We think the author has been a
little artful in putting such a fair pleader iu front ; for—
If to his book some trivial faults may fall.
Look in her face—and you forget them all.
We shall say no more about the flesh, blood, and blue 'veins, but

we, old square toes, cannot allow the opportunity to escape of saying
a few words on the fashiona. We are not strait-laced, and we hate
strait.lactng. The word insect is said to be derived from two Latin
words, meaning nearly-cut-in-two. Now, really, some of our fair
countrywomen, if, as here depicted, and we believe there are such,
almost bring themselves under the class of insects, and that you
know is horrid.

When we look at such specimens of fashion, we experience a
painful apprehension ; for our imagination asks—what if the dear
should stoup i—Heaven only can tell what would happen, but we
cannot avoid being horrified by the idea, that the two halves might
come asunder, and thus, increasing and multiplying, might go on
In another way than in the old one, so frightful to a lilalthusian phi.
losophie. Reader, did you ever see a Ily wash its face ? If you never
did, it is time you should see it ; foe it is ooe of the prettiest
little sights, for a virtuoso, in Nature. When you do see
it, if you have any feeling, you will be alarmed that the
poor insect will wipe off its own bead, for it appears to have
almost no neck. In the same way we are sure such lailke as are de-
lineated 1p this Magazine, mast occasion much alarm when they
move 'bold, as they appear, with almost no waist, although week-
Jig enough, perhaps, fur all that.
We have goosipped away until we hardly have time to may what
we wished of the printed contents of the Magazine. It is replete
with ninny amusing articles; but we prefer, of them ell. the Ac.
count of the Jews ID Barbary, as the information it contains, we
think, is new. We shall take, as our toll, the following
SONH.
I've geed on gems of dazzling hue,
Whose tints have tided the sight;
But Dever did the sapphire's blue,
The diamond's brilliant light.
Not midnight star sited one pale ray,
Si' melting, rich, and pure,
As thy bright orb, whose breaking day
All Imam lights obscure.
e=ve me the geode soft blue eye,
Tsndes and tuild as morning sky.
The gold found eparkling'in the mine,
The miser's hopes console ;
But the azure of thine eyes doth chime
Deep in the lover's souL
Then let me languish in their beam,
Or die beneath their blase,
Nor fall that fringed eyelash semen,
To veil the mortal rays.
But let me view thy soft blue eye.
Tender and mild as morning sky ! •

A 'FAIR or Ho N OUR.—A hostile meeting, which was
to have taken place on Saturday morning, was prevented by the ac-
tivity of a learned judicial functionary, whom the Legislature re-
cently appointed in a maritime town not one hundred miles distant
from the modern Athens ; and his seal and activity in watching
over the safety of the lieges in this case will no doubt go far to
coavince all who may before this have been sceptical as to
the utility or necessity of his appointment to office. One of the
belligerents is a man of law ; the other, a dealer in teas, sugars,
&c. and both are members of a public body, also recently esta-
blished in the said town, for the conservation of the peace ther.of.l
A o election of members of this body, it appears. took place the other
week; and a scrutiny of votes, • case not uncommon, took
place..—This gave rise to some discussion between the parties
in question, in the course of whien the one gave the other the lie,
without any of the saving qualifications so finely described by
Shakspeate's Tooehslosse. This was not to be borne quietly by •
member of a body width bad already given so many proofs of
spine and independence, and a challenge wan the consequence—
time, Saturday morning—place, C— Palk. But the learned,
functionary to whom we abided in the outset got apprised
somehow of the circumstance, sad had the grocer bound over to keep.;
the peace on theme:alai emoting. Both parties, however, reached'
the ground about:the dine appointed, the man of law to iglu, and
the grocer to intimate the bends which bed been laid ilea Ma&
In this situation, it was prepaid (by which puny we are Dot pee-
cisely informed) to wove the sheet of water lying brim them, which
they could have dose with the kelp of a simmer or sio.oared boat in
less than an boar. Whether it arose from a sodutary escollwalea of
the fatality which generally apes& meetiap bold in " the king.
does," we do not know • but this imposition was not soeced to. •
aad the belegerants ;eparated as they had met.—Coloileniao.
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