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Orpheus, at the mere wish of its ambi-
sor. On few subjects has the public
for thankfulness than that the wishing-
cap of Fortunatus is not the inheritance of those

men who, having no sympathy with or desire for
excellence, are simply actuated by the ambition of
applause. Were the arrangement other than thus,
it is to what amount of suffering would it be sub-
jected by men who, merely greedy of admiration,
rush into print like Mr. Ker, regardless of his own
sensible advice to

t themselves with th

that one

her they shall escape the consequences o:
deeds, as he somewhat haltingly sings—

And though thy numbers be by some
Considered vain and wrong,
Do thou toil on, for the time will come
That will verify thy song.

it he does not say; and as so gifted a seer is
ble --adict the " good time coming," it
ld ill -rich prosaic individuals as our-
s to hazard a guess regarding its probable
`. Long ago, while occupying " a sitting"
'lurth form of a rural school, before such
ual institutions had been dignified with
lassie appellation of " academy," and while
still floated unformed in the limbo of
we remember a frequent
allusion to some mythic and incomprehensible
period designated " the Greek Kalends," of which
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seminary

vanities

notion

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?hysical and mental confusion

period

That will verify thy son

A Manchester muse of progress, not untrul,

we do

New Quarterly Review, and Digest of Current
No. XI. London : Hookham

Literatur

eriodical, like some others of recent origin

even more ephemeral growth, has been put before
public under a title which lays it open to the
>icion of endeavouring to roan gni+ adynnta_ovs

flow from a surreptitiously acquired prestige.
nefits to be derived from such juggling
cannot be looked on as unmixed; from the observant
)ook will naturally meet with a more

The t

jealous scrutiny than it might otherwise have had
to encounter, and it may well be doubted whether

the hesitancy occasioned-by the supposed borrowing
of its plumage may not more than compensate for
the amount of adventitious attention bestowed on
it by the unthinking in consideration of assumed
merits to which it had no real claim. Even a cur-
sory glance at its style and contents, renders the

reader fully aware that the periodical before us
aims at the twofold character of being an instru-
ment of what is called "the movement," and a

chronicler of the progress of that ebullition of
popular commotion. A movement, indeed, which
threatens to overturn and subvert all that has
hitherto been considered stable in political ethics,
and to uproot the essential doctrines of Christian
purity, substituting for the former a conglomera-
tion of trite apothegms derived from the dangerous
teachings of expediency ; for the latter vain and
schismatic theories whose professors, addressing
themselves to the passions of the multitude,

fawn and seek for power,
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
The opening sentence of the New Quarterly is
eminently characterised by the affected smartness
peculiar to the movement advocates, and singu-
larly apposite to the class of small wits accidentally
elevated into prominent positions. "If even laws

are silent amid the clash of arms," asks the New
Quarterly witling, " how shall the little puffs
from Paternoster-row be heard amid the booming

ie guns of the Danube ?" Having delivered
himself of this oracular query, and without con-
descending to inform his readers as to the analogy
n the little puffs and the Assumed silence of
the law, or the connexion of either with the guns
of the Danube, the reviewer goes on to pass judg-
ment on such works as neither the clash of arms
nor the booming of the Danube's guns have pre-
vented from falling into his hands. Having, with
the eager haste which characterises disciples of

betwee

the. Movement," dismissed an important work,
—. . . _ .. .. . _

" Erskine's History of India," with an impatient
nod, and a patronising promise of future recogni-
tion he addresses himself to the congenial task of
hacking at the reputation of Sir Archibald Alison,

selecting as his Point of attack the recently pub-
lished volume of the History of Europe. In that
volume the historian furnishes evidence of the
inextinguishable hatred which guides the wars of
race—the fierce vindictiveness which inferiors
entertain and express towards their superiors ; Sir
Walter Scott sings of

the stern joy which wsriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
And few experience muchdifficultyin understand-
ing why, to certain natures, the labour of mangling

—,.., a great reputation is a welcome—indeed, a joyous
.41aition occupation. The historian of modern Europe is
,ernment, but no leader in "the movement." He stands con-
he did not give vent to any expression from which it was victed •of being a contributor to Biackwood's
possible to infer that he was involved in any enterprise to
destroy the Imperial Family and subvert by violence the ..32;agazine ; and last and worst, daring to think
e • ting order of affairs. He was deeply engaged in the for himself, he doubts the infallibility of that self-
study of political economy, chemistry, and other sciences, lauding judgment which admires and worships
in which it was understood he had made great progress. " free trade" as the Alpha and Omega of human '
With General Orloff and Col. Rajewsky I saw all the wisdom, at all events with these enormities he is
churches, chapels, altars, shrines, and the catacombs at
gravely charged by the reviewer, and there-
Kief, dug out of the rock, in which were contained the
bodies of more than a hundred bishops, saints, and his- fore, by fair means or by foul, he must be
'gas. The recollection of his noble and generous coun- put down. In this organ of one-sided opinion,
end his kindness on that occasion have never been accordingly, he is assailed as " neither indus-
Count Olizar, a Polish nobleman, who had trious nor well informed." The most volumninous
accompanied Count Woronzow to the Crimea, and remain-
writer of the day is, his astonished country.; ed with us all the time we were on the south coast, was
another prisoner at Petersburgh. He was in very delicate labourious
men are informed, by this incubator of
health; he had been singularly unfortunate in his family, hybrid figments, an ignorant idler ! His want
and was labouring under the deepest melancholy, and in of information is easily accounted for, as the re-
despair respecting his unhappy country. 'On the 25th of viewer, to add to the list of incorrigible offences
September, 1825, at Yoursouff, at dinner, I sat next the
Count Olizar. He said sadly : " How miserable is it to for which Sir Archibald is remarkable, tells us he
be a Pole with any head and any feeling :" and taking out will not submit himself to the meek teaching of
a small pocket-book, he showed me a scrap of paper on this new-found and strange friend, who deploringly
were written two following lines from `The Plea- assures us, "Notwithstanding our rather forcible
f Hope :--- hints to him, he still never strays away in search
tnd Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell.'
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, of a classical allusion, but he misconceives it when
o
Olizar and the Colonels Alexander and Nicholas obtained, and distorts it when using it." How
_,. soon liberated ; but Prince Serge Vol_ perverse and naughty in Sir Archibald to overlook
-4,4 another daughter of General the teachings of so amiable and accomplished a
-- Orloff, and not less dis- preceptor ; one who, in the mere exuberance of his
"ts, in a few abundant good nature, makes his reader acquainted
with several little matters which less simple- 1
is head, was
he condition
4. "C Siberia, minded men would have retained as secrets. His
d been want of success as a teacher, notwithstanding
sky at the .forcibleness of his hints, must be severely
,ta, fle mortifying to his self-love ; and that cannot
I A be much soothed by the supposition that, in
'r all probability, his involuntary sieve mistook
the force for absolute rudeness, we had almost
written downright impudence. Some even
curious readers may be unable to account for
the perplexing pertinacity with which the pro-
' noun it seems to pursue the amateur pedagogue,
but no one can mistake the grounds of that vexa-
+ion which induces the disappointed tutor to burst
his diatribe, exclaiming, " enough and

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the next house P 5 ----"
lacing them prominently before the reader ; the
ted, but without the tail, upon which New Quarterly reviewer in practice reverses this
Volhonsky said to the Emperor, " I think this is definition ; with miscroscope in hand, he searches
friend." The Emperor demanded his meaning, for defects, and having discovered what he fancies
e took out the tail from his pocket and applied it to
reader viewino• them
~____ t from which it had been removed. The Emperor such, he insists upon his _ ~,
through the same distorting lens. Such a mode
lid not relish the jest, and it was supposed this piece of
pleasantry led to his disgrace. A more effectual,.though of treatment is not criticism, it is sheer misrepre
bold and dangerous, method of exposing to the Emperor sentation and rank abuse
the deceptions carried on throughout the military colonies
ander Count AraktcheiefF could not have been adopted
than that which Prince Volhonsky had recourse to on this
occasion. From that time Count Araktcheieff becam
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Ifidd's Own Journal. London : Groombridge.
....
his There are so few periodicals which afford both
er enemy. pleasure and profit to all kinds of readers, that we
From the preceding sketch we learn much of regret the announcement of the present number,
it secret vindictiveness of administration which which completes the fifth volume, being the last of
in Russia is so frequently converted into an instru- the series, at least for the present. The reason
went of private vengeance. Throughout the given by Mr. Kidd is, that he finds the commer-
whole of his interesting diary, Dr. Lee narrates cial concerns of the publication, when added to his
the circumstance of the day in a style of unaffected editorial labours, far too much for his physical
simplicity, and without pretence conveys a lively powers, and that, having met with hostility from
.. .
society and incidents which fell " the trade," his pecuniary loss has also been great.
Under these circumstances, he has resolved upon
discontinuing his journal, but expresses his
By Thos. willingness to renew his editorial exertions, should
I Stone- any other person be inclined to undertake the

Joicrnal,

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Ltnburgh

,omething In the monthly part just published, the enter-
ho write because they taming tale of " Wearyfoot Common," by Leitch
To the former of these Ritchie, is brought to a close. Mr. Chambers

the Shakspeares, Miltons, continues his attractive letters descriptive of his
Byrons, Burnses, Scotts, and, to come nearer our visit to America; and there are one or two other
own days, the Bulwers, Warrens, Dickenses, and well-written articles, particularly "Debt and Credit,
Masseys, who shed a lustre on our common at home and abroad," and some account of
humanity, and confer immortality on our language ; " Schamyl," the celebrated Circassian leader. "The
to the latter the manufacturers of such fustian as Drunkard's Bible," by Mrs. S. C. Hall, is one of the
"- Tier supplies the market with. A noble worst of this attractive writer's productions. It
ration is unquestionably a noble thing ; but it is an exaggerated attempt to advocate total absti-
' nee follow that a hurdy-gurdy can be nence by a tale too absurd for even modern credu-
lity, which is not very squeamish, seeing that it
receives mesmerism, homeopathy, table-rapping,
phrenology, and the theory of geology. " The
Month : Science of Arts," contains, as usual, some
. .

interesting infonnat

MUSIC

The Passage of the Red Sea, an Oratorio; the
music composed and arranged from the full score
for the piano-forte or organ, by Charles D. Hackett.
We gladly welcome this addition to our standard
collection of first-class musical compositions. In
the recitatives, Mr. Hackett has been successful in
the very difficult matter of combining expression
with simplicity ; his melodies are generally sweet
and appropriate, and in the choruses he has felici-
tously united grandeur of sentiment with expres-
sive harmony. In rendering the sense of the
Oratorio witciin the comparatively limited range
of the organ or piano-forte score, Mr. Hackett has
succeeded well, and added an important acquisition
to the range of our chamber music.