Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-06-21
NO. 40

0RNrTHoLoey--The gentleman ,vho I..s
year compiled the American edition NJ Ruf-
fon's Natural History, in five Volumes has
recently, under the disguise of .pe,er par
Iley," prepared a most acceptable Offering for
his young friends under the general title &c
i"Omithology." IL comprises Interesting and
correct descriptions Of the most remarLahlo
birds Of all countries, with particular sket-
lehes Of American birds. their forms. habits
manners Of flight, building. powers Of siahs
and smell. aud the various instincts WITH
which they have been endowed. There aro
numerous well engraved illustrations which
add greatly TO the interest Of the student and
ensure a correct understanding OF the subject.
Lhis book can be recommended TO young
persons with the utmost confidence, as conn
bining ~ a singular degree clesrness with
brevity, and entertainment with instruction.
The author has divided his whole time for
several years, to the preparation Of arpro-
pirate mental diet for children and youth or
both sexes; and his works, without excen-
ton, have met with a rapid and very extern
sive circulation. With all the experience,
thus acquired, and with a knowledge OF
what IL at present most needfal 10 schools. ho
has piled himself successfully TO the task Of
giving a history of the feathery inhabitantu
of the air, which will be accounted no less
pleasing and useful than his former produc,
tions--Bosion Irareter.
SINGERS own B,ox-We have seen thin
new collection of songs mentioned in terms
of praise BY several Of our Southern cotem-
porares; but Il is only within a day or two
that we have had opportunity to examine for
ourselves the beautiful little volume contains.
ing them. and to corroborate the opinions 80
unquaiiiiediy expressed by our critical brc-
thren. II is from the establishment of Mess
Key and Meilke, Philadelphia, and containn
the most popular and ~favorite airs Of Sinclair.
Braham, Phillips, Horn, and Pearman, Mes
danes Austin, Knight, Feron and Pearmaps
Misses Hughes. Rock. Povey, Patton, Kelly
and Clara Fisher, and other distinguished
~vocalists who have delighted the world with
their "witching melody
Pecuiiarcare has been taken in the selections
to introduce nothing but what has already re-
ceived The stampof merit, nothing that should
derogate from the purest and most deitcato
taste; IN a word, nothing that has not been
pronounced by a discriminating public, wor-
Thy OF preservation and praise.-It 10 alto
gether the most unexceptionable and valua-
BILE collection of songs that has been issocd
IN this country; and the finely engraved heads
80 Vtt1h " . ChtipCtiistftds arc no ulcHn 1C~
compartment to the offcring.-D.
The BlDLE.--Tt is a fact, that every candid
deist, though he may deny the mystical por-
tons OF scripture, nay. even its authenticity.
unites with the true christian in the excellent
moral tendency of the revealed oracles OF the
deity. All good men are content to trust
what they cannot clearly comprehend, caus-
ing faith to begin where mere human reason
ends. The greatest philosophers have argu-
ed this way; and the best or poets have so
sung Of its truth. We met with an old fash
ioned copy Of the Bible a few days since, with
the following verses upon one Of the blank
leaves; not knowing their author, we cite
them without farther comment:-
This Holy Book is heayan transcribed,
A fair copy Of Glory drawn for human use:
Eiernity abridged; Jehovah penned;
immensely contracted TO a span;
lnvisibili,y exposed to view;
The starry sky, and this unwicldly world.
Shall sink to one confused and general ruin,
But this shall stand, eternity shall stand
Coeval with Jehovah's Throne and Years.
Madame de Staef Holfeia. Before she was
fifteen, she il said to have s'devoured" six
hundred novels in three months, and to have
fixed on as many different characters for hus-
bands as She had just been admiring roman
TIC heroes. Love or caprice induced her al
last to finish herindecision. Tow wears youn-
ger that Baron Stael, whom she considered
from his modesty and timidity as a child Of
nature, she concluded, in her exalted train
of thought, that destiny had sent him twelve
hundred miles from his nome to procure her
ideal happiness, which she had so often
meditated by day and dreamed at night.
The Baron had just (1782) appeared in
Paris in the suite OF the Court &c Creutz 40
~cheoaiier d. embassadc from Sweden to the
court Of Versailles; he was in his twenty firse
year, and was considered one Of the hand
soonest young men Of that day.
In accordance, heretofore, with the princi-
pies of her philosophical education; Mad'lo
Necker did not scruple TO communicate Ia
her parents her "invariable inclination and
determined cheice;'' though at that period
Baron Stael had not given her the least rca-
son to believe, that his inclination and choice
conceded with her own. To this observation
of her parents she ansrered, that she would
either live the wife OF the handsome Swede,
or sooner than they expected, die a maid
en-; and, 10 convince them that she was
as ~resolute as she had declared. she purchas.
ed a brace of pistols. wrote letters 81 adieu,
and some philosophical discussions on the
comforts and glory of suicide.
Previous TO Baron Staels departure from
Sweden, he had been enamoured Of a beauti-
iul young girl, his second cousin, whom he
hai n.orpsaad aa snon aa c..o,nntpaoa nar-