also wish the quaint and old-fashioned style of some of the colloquies, modernized, and fashioned to that of the narrative; and now having finished our short critical labour, we hope soon to see another work by the author, written in a more confirmed taste, and on a more skilful and diversified plot, and we cordially wish him success.

Ignatia and other Poems, by Mary Ann Brown. 1838.-It would be unjust if we were not to give our opinion that the author of these poems possesses very considerable poetical talent; and that many of her poems are pleasing and elegant compositions; yet she has formed her style of expression, and even manner of thinking too, exclusively on the poets of her own age, and especially on Lord Byron. Secondly Miss Brown's poems would have been more correct and more highly to be estimated had they been severely corrected and kept by her till the first blaze of poetical ardour had expired. The facility of printing and publishing in these days when all that is solid seems paper, and all that is fluid ink, leads youthful poets to commit themselves prematurely to the press. It is of great and essential disadvantage. We will find room for one specimen, which will shew that Miss Brown can write well, and ought to write better, there being several blemishes and defects in the poem.

TO A GIPSEY GIRL.

"I saw thee first by the farmer's door,

With a sybil's thought on thy youthful brow, Thou wast murmuring low prophetic lore, And a lovely, lovely child wast thou. With thy coral lips so gravely parted

As thence the words inspired started, And the center'd light in thy jetty eye Was intense and deep, as if thy soul Sate there, in majesty full and whole, And read in man's face his destiny. "I saw thee next in the light of morn, And then, with thy brother young wast playAnd through a field of unripe corn,

[ing,

Laughing and glad ye both were straying, His hands were filled with the soft full ears, And the barley's blade and the long grass spears.

And thou, around thy loose black hair, [blue,
Had wreath'd the red poppy and corn-flower
And the bethwind's blossom and snowy hue;
Ye were a glad and careless pair.
"I saw thee where hazel-boughs were twined,
Seeking the nut that wilding grows,
With thy hair wreath'd up in a knot behind

To keep it from tangling amid the boughs. And thy clear dark brow and thy sunny cheek Had nought of the maiden frail and meek, Yet the graceful turn of thy clinging arms, And the spring of thy little climbing feet, From bough to bough so lightly put,

Were nature's own untutor'd charms. "I saw thee yet again, and thou

Stoodst by the tents thy tribe were striking,

[eye,

There was sunny glee on thy open brow,
For wandering was still thy liking.
There was hope's glad light in thy full dark
As its glance was turn'd to the fair blue sky,
Thou wast dreaming of lanes of quiet green
Where by earth's troubles unperplex'd,
Thy rambling life should lead thee next,
And of woods and waters yet unseen.
"I never saw thee more-but oft,
Gazing on lovely cheeks and eyes,
Perhaps more tender, dark, and soft,
Thy form to memory's page will rise,
Scarce fragile enough for a child of dreams,
Yet never blent with earth's dull themes,
An image bringing no regret,

A pleasant memory unalloy'd,
Of something that was once enjoy'd,
And that I never shall forget."

Goethe's Correspondence with a Child. (vol. 3, Diary.) 1839.-We reviewed the two first volumes of this work some time since, and now Mademoiselle Bettina Arnim has put forth the present with the following dedication.-"To the English Bards. Gentlemen! The noble cup of your mellifluous tongue so often brimmed with immortality, here filled with odd but pure and fiery draught, do not refuse to taste, if you relish its spirit to be homefelt, though not home-born. Bettina Arnim." She also has written a "Preamble" in a language half German and half English. The latter language not being copious enough for her," for its penury allows no great choice, it consisting but in thirty thousand words;" there. fore"her intelligence lay grated up narrowly in the dictionary of good Johnson, and the grammar that I took to my couch and fell asleep on them, and had also a very hard bed &c." Though Mrs. Austin seems to have been assisting her in the translation, she says, "Had Byron still lived, he would have praised my attempt, praised and loved me for the book's sake; for he was of a generous mind, propending to all uncommon affections, he discriminated humane feelings also in a strange vesture. I would have been hallowed in his shelter, and he would have bestowed me his gentle goodly graces, and this would have exceedingly blessed me; therefore, I beseech Mr. Longman, who grants me the honour of publishing my book, to get this little preamble inserted in the Quarterly or Edinburgh Review, for informing that, if there are still other Englishmen who, as Byron would have done, are inclined to preserve in their deep mind, and protect such youthfully-inspiritual feelings, I should like they scan the pages of my diary. Bettina!" The Diary itself we must leave to the patience of our readers; for we ourselves have failed in our endeavour to decipher it.

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GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

Feb. 25. Mr. A. Todd Holroyd, recently returned from Egypt, gave an account of his visit to Sennáh and Kordofan, he being the only English traveller who

March 13. Read, On the Geology of the North-western part of Asia Minor, from the Peninsula of Cyzicus, on the coast of the sea of Marmora, to Koola, with a description of the Katakekaumene, by W. J. Hamilton, esq. Sec. G. S.

March 27. A paper was read by Mr. Owen, On a Tooth and part of the Skeleton of the Glyptodon, a large quadruped of the Edentate order, to which belongs the tasselated bony armour figured in Mr. Clift's description of the Megatherium, and which has been supposed by some naturalists to have belonged to that animal.

April 10. Read a paper, On as much of the Transition or Grauwacke System as is exposed in the counties of Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, by the Rev. D.Williams, F.G.S.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

April 11. Hudson Gurney, esq. V.P. in the chair.

The Rt. Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. F.S.A. exhibited a very large and handsome ancient spur, purchased, among some old iron, at Chalfont St. Peter's, Bucks, in

Jan. 1839.

M. de Gerville presented casts of a stone mould for casting celts, found at Montaigu, near Valoignes, and of a bronze mould for celts found in the forest of Brecquebec.

Mr. E. A. Bond communicated" An Essay on the early History of the Italians, who, being in a state of great oppression and distress, formed into bands of mutual support and defence, and thence became traders and money-lenders over Europe." This is a valuable memoir, derived from records, particularly the Liberate rolls, and will exhibit an interesting view of the earliest system of banking, particularly the loans and other financial transactions between the Italians and the English Government in the time of our early Edwards, and so downwards. A portion only was read.

April 18. Mr. Gurney in the chair. William Tyte, esq. F.R. S. President of the Architectural Society, and Hon. Secretary of the London Institution, was elected a Fellow of the Society.

The Vice-President read the Auditors' Report of the Treasurer's Accounts for the past year. The total receipts have amounted to 1,9271. 88. 6d. the expenditure to 1,4187. 38. 4d., of which the sum of 6617. 10s. 4d. has been paid to artists and for the publications of the Society. It was further announced that the Treasurer has recently added 5001. to the stock invested in the 3 per Cent. Consols; thus restoring it to the sum of 7,000l. which was its amount previously to the sale of 5001. stock in the year 1835.

James Orchard Halliwell. esq. F.S.A. exhibited a very beautiful drawing on vellum of three figures, attired in very remarkable domestic costume of about the age of Edward the Fourth. The artist's name was inscribed PISANUS F.

Mr. Halliwell also communicated some observations on the early history and constitution of Free-Masonry in England, with an extract on that subject from a poem of the 14th century, in the Royal MSS. Brit. Mus. (strangely entitled "A Poem on Moral Duties.")

An extract from a letter of the Commander of H. M. schooner Magpie to Capt. Beaufort was read, announcing that, while surveying the Gulf of Kos, he had disco

vered several tombs, inscriptions, columns, and other remains of the ancient city of Keranus, the particulars of which were promised at a future period.

Mr. G. P. Harding, F.S.A. exhibited a beautiful copy, in water-colours, of the large picture of Anne Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, and her immediate connexions, at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire; some account of which, with three very inadequate and incorrect engravings, will be found in Whitaker's History of Craven. The several portraits and numerous shields of arms, and all the long inscriptions, have been faithfully copied by Mr. Harding.

April 23. This being St. George's Day, the several officers were re-elected, and the following Council was chosen for the year ensuing (the new members are in italics):

Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. F.R.S. President; T. Amyot, esq. F.R.S. Treasurer; Edward Blore, esq. D.C.L.; Richard Lord Braybrooke; John Bruce, esq.; Nicholas Carlisle, esq. K.H. F.R.S. Secretary; Edward Lord Bishop of Durham, F.R.S.; Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S. Secretary; Rev. Josiah Forshall, M.A. F.R.S.; Hudson Gurney, esq. F.R.S. V.P.; Henry Hallam, esq. F.R.S.V.P.; W. R. Hamilton, F.R.S.V.P.; Edward Hawkins, esq. F.R.S.; Henry Gally Knight, esq.; Francis Martin, esq. Norroy; the Marquess of Northampton, Pres. R. S.; Thomas Phillips, esq. R.A. F.R.S.; John Gage Rokewode, esq. F.R.S. Director; Thomas Sta. pleton, jun. esq.; Rev. William Whewell, M.A. F.R.S.; and the Rt. Hon. C. W. WilliamsWynn, F.R.S. V.P.

A numerous party of the Society afterwards dined together at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. Gurney in the chair.

During the last year twenty-nine Fellows have died, and two have withdrawn; thirtyfour have been elected, and three honorary Foreign Members.

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY.

Nov. 22. The Society met for the session, and after the announcement of nume. rous presents (including a box of coins col. lected in Alexandria, from Lord Prudhoe), papers were read on the following subjects:

1. A letter from Dr. Grotefend of Hanover, on the Ring-money of the ancients. His remarks were chiefly derived from the holy scriptures.

2. Two documents relative to Blondeau, the celebrated French rival of Simon in the reign of Charles the Second, furnishing several curious particulars respecting the state of the British mint at that period. They were derived from the British Museum, and communicated by W. R. Hamilton, esq.

3. Translations of two papers in the Revue de la Numismatique Françoise, on

the Roman coin-moulds found in France, particularly at Lyons, with illustrations by Mr. J. Y. Akerman. In one of these, the author, M. Poey d'Avant, arrives at the conclusion that moulds of baked earth were used by forgers; but secretly authorised, or permitted, by the Emperors, who, involved in debt, considered all means good that tended to fill the coffers of the state. A similar opinion is formed by the second writer, in his Account of a Manufactory for Money, discovered in 1820, at Damery, in the department of Marne."

All these papers have been published in Akerman's Numismatic Chronicle for January.

Dec. 27. A paper was read, On the Eagle and Thunderbolt on the Coins of Rome and Syria; by Samuel Sharpe, esq. The writer's object was to show that those Roman consular coins which have this type were probably allusive to the senate's exercising sovereignty over Egypt, and borrowed from the coins of the Ptolemies that bear the same emblem, which is identical with the Eagle and Sun, the hieroglyphic for king, or Pharaoh, upon the earlier Egyptian monuments. This paper is also published in the Numismatic Chronicle for January.

The first portion was afterwards read of a memoir on the Light afforded by Ancient Coins in tracing the progress of Civilization, by John Owen Tudor, esq.; and a letter from William Wansey, esq. F.S.A. in illustration of some Roman coin-moulds, from Lingwell-gate, near Wakefield, which he exhibited to the society.

Jan. 24. Mr. Tudor's memoir was concluded; and was followed by a notice of the Hasshahshah, or Iron Money of Kor. dofan, by Mr. Arthur T. Holroyd. It is in form not unlike (the section of a mushroom, and is made of various sizes without reference to weight (Mr. Holroyd's specimens varying from 121 to 428 grains), though all the pieces are alike rated in value as one para, forty being equal to one Egyptian piastre, which, according to the present rate of exchange, is equal to 24d. sterling. This paper has been published in the Numismatic Chronicle for April.

Mr. W. H. Rolfe, of Sandwich, exhibited several coins discovered in Kent; among them a Gaulish coin dug up at Sandwich, pennies of Offa and Ethelred, and a very curious styca, with the reverse of the Wolf and Twins, found in the Isle of Thanet.

W. R. Hamilton, esq. F.R.S. exhibited a Medallion of the Queen by Pistrucci. It is of large size, and, in high relief, represents on the obverse a profile of her Majesty (an enlargement of that on the Co

reverse is the inscription "DA FACILEM CURSUM, ATQUE ADNUE COEPTIS, 1838."

Feb. 28. Papers were read as follow:

A memoir by Dr. Grotefend, of Hanover, on "What people first Stamped Money?" This has been published at length in the Numismatic Chronicle for April. The result of the whole inquiry is that, although the Romans stamped copper first, then silver, and at last gold, the Lydians, on the contrary, first, about B. C. 700, stamped gold coin; then the Æginetæ, before Solon's time, stamped silver coin; and the Romans copper, after Servius Tullius.

A Note from Mr. C. R. Smith, F.S.A. on two small brass Coins of the Second Constantius, with the letters P LON in the exergue. The reverses of these coins were thus described: 1. Inscription: PROVIDENTIAE CAESS. The gate of a camp, surmounted by a star. In the exergue P.LON. 2. The same, with PLON. Mr. Smith was induced to notice these coins from the circumstance that no such specimen of the second Constantius is described or referred to in Mr. Akerman's work" On the Coins of the Romans relating to Britain ;" and only one in Banduri, which has been deemed of questionable authenticity; and he suggests that a search in other cabinets of British numismatists, would probably be rewarded by a discovery of others of the same æra. (Numism. Chron. April,

p. 217.)

Translation from the Revue Numismatique of a notice of a unique Coin of Titiopolis, in Isauria, by Mons. Adr. de Longpèrier. It is in the possession of Mons. Menche of Aire, and the description is as follows: Obv. KAICAP AAPIANOC. A barbarously executed head of the Emperor Hadrian, to the right. Rev. TITIonoAEITON. Jupiter sitting, to the left, holding in his right hand a patera, his left supporting the hasta. Titiopolis is now forgotten; but it was the see of one of the suffragan bishops of Seleucia, towards the end of the twelfth century. Its existence, therefore, for at least ten centuries is ascertained, though it has never found its place in a map, and scarcely in history. (Ibid. pp. 213-217.)

Mr. J. Y. Akerman, F.S.A. Secretary, exhibited a unique coin of Lebadia, in Boeotia, from the cabinet of the Chevalier de Horta (now brought to this country for sale by private contract). This coin adds another new town to numismatic geogragraphy. It is of the sixth size; and bears on one side the Boeotian shield; reverse the letters AEB, occupying the field, No