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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-03 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

TOE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY- MAGA2INE.-• • No. •
March, 1835. Thus. Stevenson. Lon-
dQn : Longman and 'Co.; andJi. Pattisson, Liverpool.
• Pp. 32, price Is:
•
•: We can promise. the proprietors _of this magazine a,
prosperous career, if the public generally give it as
hearty a welcome as we are prepared to do. it is in
deed hard if, while Oxford and-Du:Nip, stave; their Uni
,versity magazine, Cambridge alone is to "be wit.hout•
any means of relieving the teeiniv anti over7burden,ed
minds of her sons." Nor can ,we better introduce 4Miss'
Maga, of Cambridge," to the public.of.Liverßool,3„than.
by *an extract from the introdiiction, which,-( by
_the!
way, we may be allowed: to .designate as toleves„and
humorous. Speaking' of the said "Miss- Maga;:,, Pie
-writer thus proceeds:— ,
It is for these reasons that we hare privailed, Alpo% fMiss,
Maga to throw aside her maiden modesty and to °come out'
`under the chaperonage of Alma Mater. We assure her prcis-
,pectively kind friends that she is no shrew; that she is beau-
tiful exceedingly; dresses not a la francaisc, but iu. ttre true
r'-blue colour of the conservative English belles; (we beg to say,
YhoWtiver, in parenthesis, that she never wears Glue stockings;)
that she has a well-stocked album; is decidedly musical; and
• Very fond Of the gown. These are her merits—these her claims
• 'on the public, to whose tender mercies we rem:atom:idler with
little fear and much hope. • • ••

The article. on dwelt, reform is not perhaps suffi-
,,cieutly clear; weallude more especially to the use which
ttlg wr4or has.. matte of the word "commutation.!' It
appears to us that he has confounded. a commutation of
tithe with a diminution of tithe. The article, however,
taken as a wholet, is cieditable, jp.;he head, and heart of
him whoipenned it,
The whole of the poetry is very cjiaste and beautiful.
The Anglo-Saxon tale of Gondibert and Bertha, in the
of .Cliapinan's Homer, i. e., in the long ballad
Metre, is told.with great taste
The following stanzas also are richly' deservisng of
praise :

LOUISE.
Louise! I love thee—and thou ask'st me why
' I love th' unloving? 'Tie the unceasing smile
That spreads its dimples o'er thy face—the eye
That beams upon me, as thy words beguile
My soul of all its sadder thoughts, and while
The iinnoted hours, till I am e'en as one
Who.on-the shore of some forsaken isle,
Amid the ocean billows, stands alone,
-Where all the world's wild tumults are unheard, unknown.
Louise! I rove thee, and must love thee still,
Forbidden, unrequited. Shouldst thou blame
My too true love, or e'en with cold words chill
My warm heart's fondness, I must be the same—
Still must I startle when I hear thy name.
11'hou say'st what once thou premised ne'er must be—
Thine is the fickleness, be thine the shin:he:
For though 1 have no. other rMrt is thee, •
LOuise, I will not share in thirie'inconstancy: .

The article on autobiography is of itself enough to
ensure the popularity of this new periodical. The re-
marks: on the confessions of Rousseau are worthy of
attention. We transcribe the following passage from a
note;i4 the thirteentlp page.
. .
Rousseau has been Styled the prince of autobiographers;
and as he may appear to form an exception to our remarks at
once, in the very.naked display he has given of his disposition
and feelings, we may as well give here our reason fur believing
that he was not-so. -He was naturally of a. warm, serial:Alin:-
•pefticius disposition; all, however, that was good in that warmth
of feeiing he possessed; ivat kept down by au intolerable selfish-
ness and vanity, to be found in the history of no other mau.
His selfishness led him to the commission of crimes which we
are thankful ac6Euglishman ever had the audacity to avow.
It led him by turns to be an undutiful son, a thief, a liar, a
seducer, a bearer of false witness, an-apostate, an unnatural
father, and his vanity induced him to suppose that he should
please his Maker, and divert mankind, by a hardy confession
of these abominations.

Sir Egerton Brydges, however, is the main subject of
the article. Nor are the remarks of the writer one Whit
less correct and to the point, in the case of the disap-
poihted claimant of the barony of Chandos, than those
censures on. Mut;Sean:Which are passed- with so much
tKuth-and energy.
. .
• Our readers will, we are sure, appreciate the following
defence of the aristocracy of the '. • .•

We will not allow to be prejudice what we fuel to be ha,
berent in the dispositions of US all—a reverence (or milk and
station in society.. Any attempt to prove:that the reversal of
rank, in society would be of any benefit to us, would be as ridi
culous, and deserve as much notice as to demonstrate afresh
the -Ptoleineian systein of astronomy. The soldier, who,.bas
been engaged in many battles 'knows 'the indisperisahlineces-
sity for diecipline. The world has 'Seen much" waifare' aria
many revolutions in society, anti has formed its undtiubting
opinion that rank is necessary to its existence.

There are .several very amusing bits in the review Of
Montgomery's Oxford, which,: lras received, perhaps de:'
serePdly, erg' -severe
Frotn,,An article on Sir Robert ministry-We'
extract, the following spirited and indignant.expreasion-
of `horror at• the bare probability of an administration
LaVing for its premier the "sinall coal man" ,
Is it possible, we would ask, that the outcry of a vulgar rabble
cart succeed in placin; a Lord Durhain in the ;,lace of Sir IL
Peel; a ,rnan whose speeches area concentrated essence of
impudence, violence, and buffoonery? Will such a climax
ever arrive, When this lord,of misrule will be allowed to stick
ttie dirk of assassination into the very vitals of our ,much-loved.,
^ctitittiturion't It cannot be—the citt's-paw of. an O'Connell fac-
tien •will never be suffered to violate the office Which has been
hallowed by a Canning and a Pitt. And who is the prime
agent in this manoeuvre—who but the public plunderer of the
peasantry of Ireland ?—who but the bloodthirsty duellist?—who
'brit thcsanguinary savage, Who has been allowed to stalk ()Ver.
the land like a pestilence—whose very violence is its protection,
none liking to hazard an attempt at its destruction? Long
will the country remember that one of the blesSings of a Whig
administration was to allow, from a paltry fear unworthy of
.griglishmen, this abandoneemonster to issue forth his procla-
-mation offering a reward fin murder, in open defiance of God
artd-mot.- We need not-say that We 'mean Daniel O'Connell -t
a -name et:unpaved to which; that of Robespierre sinki into in-
significance. •
. . .
We perhaps ought to apologise to our readers for so
lengthened a notice of this periodical; but we have
been induced" to do so in order that its claims on public
patronage., might not be unknown. We concluda
by,:an. extract front- an article, on the factious opposition
Wilts re-election of Sir Charles Manners Sutton :
But after all, what does this victory of the radicals prove?
Siinpfy this:' that there are in the House of Commons three
hundred and sixteen men wholly dead to all sense of shame,
conspicuous only for mad and infatuated inconsistency, pre-
pared for a reckless and unholy crusade against the kingly pre-
rogative, and willing to exemplify in their owe persons, that--
" A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand
Must be as bbist'rously maintain'd as gaincd;
• And he that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him Up."

We have received Blackwood, Curry's Farmers' Ma-
gazine, and. 'Btackwood's Statistical Account of Scot-
land, No. V., but at too late.an hour to notice them before
Friday. . .