we admire that individual who has the happy | keep pace with the rest of the world, and, years and a half he toiled with the patience knack of making the greatest advantage of from carrying a light stock, he manages to and resignation of a self-devoted martyr; and the least possible study and exertion! The effect his purpose. Steady is encumbered at the expiration of that time, after the rebee that flies over the smallest space, and yet with more luggage than he has occasion to nunciation of much pleasure, the contraction returns the heaviest laden to the hive, is she use, and is incommoded by the abundanc of much misery, after weary days and sleepnot the wisest insect of the swarm? Young of riches which he has not the skill to dissi- less nights, the unhappy scholar was plucked! Dashway is wide awake to the propriety of pate. And yet he has had predecessors in his fate, this doctrine. When he is urged to perse- Of all kinds and classes of ambition, assu-and will have successors, as long as human rerance by an admonition that life is short, redly the most pitiful one belongs to that man nature is subject to her many infirmities, and he retorts by saying, that books are too long, who is desirous of acquiring the reputation of as long as ambitious fathers chance to have and he accordingly adapts his studies to the being a well-informed man. Charles Whiteney unintellectual sous. known brevity of human existence. There labours under this distemper, and his malady is much practical philosophy in this mode of defies all sanatives. He knew something of proceeding. To suppose that any book what-classics, mathematics, physics, and metaphy-ence shows us that its benefits do not depend

erer is to be gorged from beginning to end, is paying an extravagant compliment to the author at the expense of the rest of the world. None but your dull men ever attempt such an act. Was there ever a field fruitful without weeds? was there ever a woman beautiful without blemishes? was there ever a book praiseworthy without the occasional drawbacks of insipidity and repetition? Theophilus Slow never reads any but standard works, but these he reads by wholesale. He commences with the title-page, and eats his way through the volume with a perseverance which does more credit to his moral intentions than his intellectual capabilities. He knows not the beauty of an arbitrary Colophon, nor the pleasure of finding out that much is contained within the two covers of every book which concerns none but the writer. Theophilus is, without exception, the dullest man whose company can be inflicted upon one, and he is moreover cursed with a good memory, of which his friends are compelled to bear the consequences.

FINE ARTS.

British Artists' Gallery, Suffolk street.

There is undoubtedly an art in reading as much as in any other pursuit, since experisics; was acquainted slightly with all the wholly upon memory, nor upon application. gases, had been introduced casually to the The important point is to find out, if possible, phenomenon of electricity, and could explain what books are worth reading, and of those the construction of a pump. Moreover, hebooks what parts may, with advantage, be was an indifferent linguist, for he had learnt studied, and what, without prejudice, may be French, was studying German, and intended neglected. For as, in the moral world, virtue to commence upon Spanish, as soon as he consists in the absence of evil rather than the had mastered Italian. Surely this was enough presence of good, so, in the literary world, for any man in these days, when the term of an ignorance of some particular books is often life is abbreviated from what it once was. of more advantage than an acquaintance with But Charles Whiteney is not to be satisfied all. easily. His maxim is, that a man ought to be able to say something upon everything, and that upon the introduction of no topic whatever, ought he to stare with the stare of astonished ignorance. Now it happens that at present he knows nothing of music. Ear he has none; for to him a march is as a waltz, and a canzonet nothing different from mark that Mr. W. Carpenter's likeness of an overture. But his ambition to be thought an universal genius leaves him no rest, no and W. Tirk's "Lady Jane Grey visited by 'Spenser Smith, Esq." is admirably done; contentment. Even now he is on the look-Buckingham," is well conceived and executed. out for some book which may give him a Landscape and Cattle," T. S. Cooper, No. general idea of the theory of music, and ena-13, displays considerable talent in the artist, ble him to prate in the set terms and phrases and the style in which the cattle are drawn of its initiated professors, although he is, and ever must be, a complete stranger to the places him at the top of his profession in that practical delight of which that knowledge is, particular branch. The portraits are not so in their hands, the creatrix. He would sit upon the Delphic tripod, though numbed by his nature against the effects of the vapour which can alone excite delirium.

A PRIVATE view of this exhibition was permitted on Saturday, and the rooms were crowded with nobility and gentry, as is usual in such cases. We have merely time to re

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numerous as they were last year.

Portrait of the Right Hon. Charles Earl Grey. In mezzotint. By W. Say; after a painting by F. R. Say.

Every one who has ever read a book of any kind whatever, must have remarked, that, at times, the author expresses himself exactly as the reader himself would have done, had they both been transferred, each into the other's situation. Upon such occasions the best plan is either to lay the book aside altogether, or, at any rate, to leave alone all those portions of it which may be considered What can be more wretched than to see, common property. Where is the use of as one often does see, the dull and the un- A full-length portrait of the Premier acquiring from without what one already has ambitious sentenced against their deserts, Lord of the Treasury, in which his lineawithin? "I could almost swear, said and in spite of their nature, to the mere la-ments are most faithfully represented in the Sophonisba Busbleu, that I wrote these lines bour of reading; the galley-slaves of study, first style of mezzotint engraving. Our only on the nightingale myself! The sentiment, to whom the exercise can never be anything complaint would be, that the head of his the style, the language, are all so exactly but drudgery! lordship appears somewhat diminutive in what my own would have been, that it is Septimus Jones was the youngest son of a proportion to his figure; and that there is an almost difficult for me to remember that they tradesman. He was sent to college, because appearance of "shrunk shanks" which we owe not their existence to my imagination!" his father could afford it, and it was consi-never noticed in the original. It is, on the Wilful makes it a rule never to read ex-dered creditable to the family. He was also whole, however, a very fine print, which cept when he finds himself in a humour for sent for the express purpose of adding dig- reflects equal credit on the painter and the it. He maintains that compulsory study and nity to his name, by the expected success of engraver-father and son. lost time are synonymous; and therefore, his studies. A maternal cousin had pre- Portrait of the Hon. Lady Eliz. Harcourt. from conscientious motives, he is idle when- ceded him in the same university, and had Lithographed by W. Sharpe, from a paintever the spirit impels him to idleness. Steady, taken a low honour. Upon Septimus de- ing by George Hayter. on the contrary, is always in a reading vein, volved the task of raising the name of Jones THIS cheap lithographic portrait attests the and is never without a book in his hand. Of to a level with that of Jenkins: could he but taste and skill of both painter and engraver; the two, Steady acquires the larger stock of beat his cousin, his father promised him a but must we be so ungallant as to say that information in the course of a twelvemouth, hundred pounds! Poor Septimus was nei-the lady's toilette should in future be private ? but Wilful possesses a better supply of sale- ther ambitious nor avaricious: he cared not the "twiddling" of curls (however luxuriant able goods. The latter keeps his eye upon for honour, and he wanted not money. To they may be), in a cheap lithograph, is too the market, observes what articles are most follow his father's career was his only wish. fantastical and common-place; and, as it is demanded, and cares little for their intrinsic But his remonstrances and his representa- to be presumed that the artist was present, compared with their relative value. His tions were thrown away upon his decided another occupation would have been more views are fully answered if he can contrive to parent. To college he went. For three graceful, and certainly more becoming.

Jesting apart; the conception is neither so brilliant nor so effective as might have been expected from a countenance irradiated by intelligence, and carrying the most rigid propriety on its frout.

The Byron Gallery. Part 5. THIS beautiful and imaginative publication just published, is superior to any of its preimproves as it advances. The fifth part, cursors. There are some exquisite specimens of engraving in it, (Don Juan, for instance ;)

and we have a fine full-length of Byron.

DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE-Mozart's Marriage of Figaro was performed for the first time

of Muddlebrain, and his freedom from sus-
picion of his wife, and in the exculpation of
Frederick. Mr. Balls plays Shuffle, and Mrs.
Humby, Mary, both amusing characters.
Farren's acting was admirable. The farce
was received with universal approbation.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.-An opera,

Coiners, or the Soldier's Oath," was intro-
by Auber, which has for its title "The
duced to public notice on Saturday,— Ed-
mund (Mr. Wilson) having unexpectedly dis-

of the overture; but of the rest we think it

tecchi was at length brought out; the hero poned for some time, on account of the illness of Rubini, Bellini's Capuletti e Monand heroine, represented by the sisters Grisi,

It

covered a band of coiners, is to be instantly and Tebaldo, by Rubini. Few of Bellini's The Gallery of Portraits. No 10. THE tenth number of this publication, cou-of secrecy. He has a lover named Mary, written without premeditation, and begun deprived of existence unless he take an oath operas have enjoyed so great a share of popularity in Italy as this, which, however, was ducted under the superintendence of the (Miss Shirreff) whose father has promised and finished in fifteen days, at the urgent Useful Knowledge Society, and containing she shall be married to Oliver, (Mr. Philportraits of Sir Thomas More, Laplace, (the lips,) the leader of the coiners. Edmund request of the Venetian managers, to fill up celebrated author of Mecaniqué Celéste,) and enters the army, and having attained the a gap in their performance occasioned by the Handel. It deserves the distinction of a rank of captain, returns with orders to ar- complete condemnation of some other pieces. "notice," on account of its being superior to rest Oliver. He arrives on the day when for he has dedicated the printed copy to his Bellini himself appears to be partial to it, any number that has yet appeared of the the nuptials were to have been celebrated fellow-citizens in Catania; but even consiseries. The memoirs, as well as the engra- between Mary and Oliver, and facilitates the dered as a work of Bellini's, it bears evident vings, are more than usually attractive. escape of the latter by giving him his own marks of the haste in which it was got up. passport. The piece of course terminates favorably, and Edmund and Mary are even- last movement of the finale to the first act, was, however, tolerably successful. The tually married. Of the music of the opera in which Romeo and Julietta sing an impaswe can speak in terms of the highest praisesioned melody in unison, accompanied by the during the season on Saturday, and again on the succeeding Tuesday. On the former oc- will lose by comparison with Auber's former other voices and chorus in arpeggioed staccato notes, was particularly applauded, and, casion it went off indifferently, but on the productions. The solos generally are within fact, decided the fate of the opera. latter with much effect, in consequence of out attraction, except however one, dedithe company being increased. The Countcated to liberty, and sung by Mr. Phillips, of Mozart's Don Juan, which was very nearly was sustained by Donzelli, and the Countess which was encored. by Madame Boccabodati, both of whom were The elder and the younger Kean having Nothing can render Mozart's very effective. Niua Sontag, as the Page, been announced to play the principal cha-operas old; their triumph over both time and and De Begnis as the Barber, were not happy.racters in Othello, on Monday, the house fashion was sufficiently proved by the crowds was crowded to witness the performance; drew to the theatre; but the best music, 10 which the announcement of his chef d'œuvre The style in which the choruses were given and from the excellent manner in which the elicited universal applause. father had recently enacted Shylock, much produce its effect, must be well and spiritedly parts of the character in a manner that der great majority of Italian singers neither like, was expected. He went through the early performed, and it is but too true that the noted feebleness of body, while many connor understand, nor can sing Mozart's music. jectured he was reserving his energies for hooks left in it for them to hang their fioriIt is too foreign to their habits, they find no the speech commencing "Farewell the tran-that it precludes them from all opportunity of the grand scenes. But at the conclusion of turi on, and persuade themselves, therefore, rising of the drop-scene we discover a would.quil mind," and ending "Othello's occupa- showing off their talents.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.-Saturday (at all events during Lent) appears to be a favorite time for the production of new pieces; the farce, entitled The Chimney Piece, was

ushered into the theatrical world on the

evening of Saturday last, and was supported

by the stars of the establishment. At the

be chemist in the person of Mr. Muddlebrain (Mr. Farren), who imagines that his researches will enable him to extract butter

from sea-sand. He takes a house the next

door to one that was formerly a gambling house, and upon this circumstance the humour of the farce chiefly turus. Muddlebrain is made to be jealous of his wife (Mrs. Nisbett), who has a brother-in-law named Frederick (Mr. Brindal), who is suspected of having killed a man in a duel. Frederick, already aware of a secret escape in the gaming house, takes lodgings there, and has

retired from the stage supported by his son.
tion gone," his strength failed him, and he
and the curtain dropped to give him time to
It was hoped he would be able to resume,
Warde concluded Mr. Kean's character, and
but this proving otherwise, Mr.

recover;

considering the shortness of the time for
preparation, was very respectable. We must
not forget to notice the beautiful manner in
which Kean delivered the speech to the

senate-it shewed the master-mind. Of the

son's performance of lago, there was much
that was excellent, and much that might be

Bellini's opera was followed by the revival

a failure.

Tamburini looked Don Juan well, and was

encored in the rondeau Fin ch' han dal vino; but he spoiled the air by introducing into it effect of the composition cousists in the rapid a long pause and holding note on the E(flat) towards the close, when the whole spirit and and uninterrupted movement the author has given it. The women were all out of their places, and felt so; Mile. Grisi has too tall and commanding a figure and too loud a unfit for Elvira, and Mlle. Karl, who pervoice for Zerlina. Mad. Tadolini is totally formed Douna Auna, is unfortunately no fa

an opportunity of visiting his sister in private.bjected to: we think it a part not altoge vorite with the public, which is too frequently

stage.

Old Muddlebrain's jealousy is excited through Kean, we should imagine, felt embarrassed at
ther suited for so young a man. The younger
the intermeddling of one John Horn (Mr. his father's indisposition, and it was an
Ayliffe), and, in order to discover the truth, auxious and interesting moment to both;
he takes his station in the chimney-piece. it was their first appearance together on the
Frederick, wishing to see his sister, calls to
his aid the secret escape, touches the spring,
and so forces Muddlebrain into the gaming-
house, and himself into the old gentleman's.
The police, having just entered in search of
Frederick, capture Muddlebrain by mistake.
The farce, however, ends with the liberation

The Covent-garden Theatrical Fund Festival was celebrated at the Freemason's Tavern on Wednesday, the 27th of March. More than £1000 were collected. The duke of Sussex was prevented, by illness, from

tisms. Rubini alone seemed in his element as capricious in its dislikes as in its favorihis Il mio tesoro was, as usual, a finished

morceau.

A very successful début has lately been made at the Opéra Comique, by a M. Hebert, a young man with a very fine bass voice. He appeared in Jean de Paris. It is said that he wished to select the Maître de Chapelle, but the composer objected; if so, and the same composer heard M. Hebert, he

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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

One

Mordant, is a barrister resident in South-bruited abroad, oue Mr. Pearl, a retired
ampton row, a most amiable character, with officer in easy circumstances, adopts him as
an equally amiable wife. The lady bore him his own, and treats him with parental affec-
two sons, in whom the fondest affections of tion. By this gentleman Troven, as he is
both parents were wrapped up; but, before aptly called, is sent to college, where he dis-
the youngest was a year old, the health of tinguishes himself highly, and is much ad-
the mother became so delicate, that she was mired, but especially for his commanding
powers of elocution, and a certain aristocra-
often confined to the house.
tical bearing which was innate in him.

The Library of Romance, edited by Leitch Ritchie, Esq. Vol. IV., containing " The Stolen Child," a Tale of the Town, founded on Fact, by John Galt, Esq.Post 8vo. pp. 337. London, 1833.— Smith, Elder, and Co. WHATEVER diversity of opinion may have "It happened one day that the two boys, existed concerning the merit of the last month's number of this "Library of Ro with the hilarity of childhood, were riding mance," all will, we think, concur in award-on sticks, and, the weather being fine, their mother, delighted with their artless gaiety, ing unqualified praise to its successor. of Lord Byron's favorite axioms, that" truth ordered the hall door to be left open, that is strange-stranger than fiction," is here the children might amuse themselves on the powerfully verified and illustrated by Mr. pavement in front of the house. She sat at Galt, in his tale of "The Stolen Child," a the parlour window, and dreaded no harm, "romance of real life," a "domestic drama as they were constantly in sight. The house, in three acts," which, divested of all tinsel situate in Southampton row, then a quiet of style or ornament of diction, appeals to place, was not exposed to the visitation of the heart of every reader by its simple un- vagrants. In this situation she had not sat embellished details and its natural pathos. long when she missed her eldest boy: he had The story is founded on well-known facts, gone, in his buoyancy, down the street, and but its superstructure receives all its beauty it was not till he had disappeared some time from the skill of its literary architect: the that she sent the servant to bring him back. latent tact which he possesses of exhibiting He was not, however, to be seen in the those points which are adapted to grace a street, and no tidings of him could be obThe agiscientific edifice, without any obrious admix- tained. A fearful apprehension seized her; tore of the materials of laborious construc- the boy to her was lost for ever. tion. Mr. Galt has shewn, ou several other tation which the event caused her to suffer, occasions, his powers of rendering the simple soon, in her invalid condition, terminated and the affecting surprisingly synonymous; fatally. Mordant grieved for her with such that the utmost innocence of detail is not ardent regard, that he forgot the cause which inconsistent with the most intense feeling; had so untimely brought her to her grave. but we are not sure that he has in any case He lamented but for her; sorrow sat down so fully succeeded as in the little story upon his heart so implacably that he ne(slight as he may have conceived it to be for glected even his beloved studies, and, mourn the exercise of his talents,) which is before ing for her alone, was soon laid beside her, and which, if we mistake not, will be leaving his second son, Augustus, to inherit shortly the delight of every family circle. his fortune: his reputation, many of his Such a result is, after all, the criterion of friends rightly said, he could not bequeath. merit: universal opinion, whether ascer- He had struck out for himself a new course I shall tained through the constant repetition of in the law which no one, with inferior talent music on band organs, or, as regards litera- and less assiduity, could resume. ture, by finding a certain book in every body's not, however, dwell ou the accomplishments bauds, is that to which every artist must of this admirable young man: his place was aspire, and to the influence of which he long fragrant with the sweet odour of his must acknowledge deference. Thus gene-name, and many of his apophthegms are still rally favorable, we venture to predict, will be the reception of the "Stolen Child," because the incidents of his life, as related by his biographer, are not merely amusing,—possible-PROBABLE-FACT, but that they are so ingeniously, though not elaborately, wrought up, that, like Robinson Crusoe, and a few other semi-fictions of the kind, they will be sure to prove interesting alike, though for different reasous, to both young and old.

us;

The real story of the "Stolen Child," which, in this number of our journal, we can only commence, is thus versioned by Mr. Galt.

The father, ander the pseudonyme of

repeated among the gentlemen of the bar,
with expressions of regret that one so young
should have been cut off so early. His fa-
ther, the honourable and reverend Mr.
Mordant, being a widower, took the orphan
home, and brought him up as his own son."

The next thing we hear of the lost child
is, that he is found in rags on a commion by
one Dr. Wycombe, a schoolmaster, who can
extract nothing from him but that he implores
"to be taken home." The Doctor takes
him, in charity, to his own home, where he
is kindly treated by the schoolboys, and
where, in consequence of faint recollections
described by him of the style of life of his
parents, he is retained. His story being

Finding a college life lead him into associations inconsistent with the resources, liberal though they were, which his benefactor's generosity awarded him, Troven determines in his own mind to combine classical studies with an acquirement of the law as a profession. His wish being announced to his foster-father, is assented to with pleasure, and every preparation is made for his settlement in London as a law student.

Previously to his quitting college, an entertainment is given in honour of his departure, which leads to a scene, which, as it will let the reader into some of the traits of our hero's character, we quote en passant.

"A few days before he intended to leave the university, it was known to his compathem, (we forget his name,) a young gentlenions that he would soon remove, and one of man commoner, the heir to a considerable estate, gave an entertainment of wine and a dessert, in his chambers, in honour of his departure. At this party was a Mr. Bradford, who, though very intimate with the host, was not much acquainted with our hero; for he did not like Troven, and, in consequence, cared little for his company.

"Mr. Bradford was one of those charac

He was endowed with more ters which, luckily for the world, are of a bifold nature. talent than most men, but he was extremely jealous of a superior; and the effect of this degree, when, by any accident, his opinions was disagreeably increased, even to a morbid were not received with that deference to which he considered them entitled. With his inferiors he was much esteemed; they acknowledged his ability, and he felt his superiority; with his equals he was captious and disagreeable; and towards those who were his undoubted superiors he was sullen and detractive; nor did his manners mitigate his conceit of himself. He was an only son; his father was dead, and his mother, under whose eye he had been entirely educated till he came to college, was a vain capricious woman, from whom he inherited an uncertain temper, that made him often appear very unamiable. This defect was united to a vulgar person, and a physiognomy not prepossessing. That Mr. Bradford was not, in In person it would have been absurd any respect, our hero's equal, was very obvious. to compare them: in acquirements Troven