cost more.

For what reason do you consider them as well regulated consumptions?

chase as we were before, only we possess | quality of every sort, although they may in the form of a haudkerchief what we before had in the form of a crown. We do not begin to lose this value until we begin to use the handkerchief, and it is only Because the workmanship employed on when the consumption is finished that we a bad article will be more quickly conare poorer by a crown. It is not then in sumed than that on a good one. When a buying, but in consuming, that we dissi-pair of shoes is made with bad leather, pate our property. That is the reason the work of the shoemaker, which is used why, in the middle ranks of life, the cha-up in the same time as the shoes, does not racter and economical talents of the woman, who directs the greater part of the consumption of the family, assists materially to preserve fortunes.

What do you understand by economical talents?

It is the talent of deciding judiciously what consumption may be permitted, and what must be prohibited, in that state of fortune in which we are placed, and according to the income we have.

What do you understand by avarice? We are avaricious when we deprive ourselves, or those dependent upon us, of those consumptions which we might permit according to our incomes.

Is it avaricious not to expend the whole of one's income?

No; for it is only by the savings which are made from improductive consumption, that we can hope to enjoy repose in our old days, and to procure an establishment for our families.

Do we do any wrong to society by thus amassing a productive capital, for the sake of enjoying ourselves, or suffering those belonging to us to enjoy, the profits it will produce?

cost less, and is consumed in fifteen days instead of lasting two or three months, which it would have done if the leather had been good. The carriage of bad merchandize costs as much as that of good, which is more advantageous. Poor ua tions have, consequently, beside the disadvantage of consuming less perfect productions, that of paying dearer for them in proportion.

What consumptions do you consider as the worst regulated?

Those which procure more chagrin and mischief than satisfaction: such as the excess of intemperance, and expences which excite contempt, or are followed by punishment.

Bardouc; or the Goat-herd of Mount

Taurus: an Eastern Tale. Translated from the French of Adrien de Sarrazin. Sherwood and Co. London. 1815.

A LIVELY and specious jeu d'esprit, not without instruction and a moral. Under the guidance of a sprightly antelope, which leads him into mischief, and On the contrary, capitals, accumulated by individuals, add so much to the total his aberrations, Bardouc experiences a a graver goat, which remoustrates against capital of society; and as a capital placed, that is, employed reproductively, is indis- variety of adventures. They are usually pensably necessary to give activity to in-treated in an ingenious manner; neverdustry, every person who spares from his theless, our better judgment acknowrevenue to add to his capital, procures, to ledges a kind of reluctance in the tolea certain number of persons who have no-ration of speaking animals, whether thing but their industry, the means of deriving a revenue from their talents.

Are not some consumptions better managed than others?

Yes: they are those which procure greater satisfaction, in proportion to the sacrifice of the values which they occasion. Such are the consumptions which satisfy the real, rather than fictitious, wants.

The

goats or antelopes. The same caution against vanity and self-sufficiency, might be inculcated by more appropriate personages; and the dictates of wisdom might be uttered by a superior professor, with a beard of better cut. fact is, that we suffer in a short fable or tale, what we dislike in a continued seWholesome food, decent clothing, conve-ries of adventures, in a history sufficinient lodgings, are consumptions more ently long to allow the rational powers fitting and better regulated than luxurious to resume their food, foppish clothing, and stately habita- those of the imagination The writer proper superiority over has well studied the character of his countrymen; the work has many pleasant strokes in it; and it must be placed among the ingenious and amusing.

tions.

More true satisfaction results from

the first than the last.

What do you consider besides, as well regulated consumptions?

The consumption of products of the best

The Cottagers of the Lakes.
235. Harris, London.

This

come delusion, while it has raised up 12mo. pp others, under which the honest magic included in the names of husband and must be regretted, whether or not it be father has proved of feeble spell wondered at. The town is pestered with editions of poems unworthy to see the light; and the caricature shops assign reasons for these "Farewells," pro and our pages. con, with which we shall not disgrace We repeat our first observacited only by something desperate, or tion, that the noble writer's mind is exdreadful; by storms of war, or by conflicting passions raging with uncontrollable vehemence.

When the venerable Mrs. Trimmer established a literary review of elementary works, and books generally intended for the rising generation, she rendered an important service to society; -she performed a noble act of beneficence, the effects of which will be felt, acknowledged, and enjoyed, by our children, and our children's children. To her exertions may we fairly ascribe a large portion of the judicious improve ments which have been effected in early education a large portion of the superior attention which has been paid to the culture of the youthful mind. Thanks to that good old lady, whose memory will yet be honoured with many a blessing, silly stories, destitate equally of rational amusement and moral instruction, are now much less numerous than formerly. Even the humblest labours of literature, appropriated to lisping infancy, beam, not unfrequently, with su perior intelligence.-The little tale which has elicited these remarks affords a pleasing specimen of laudable and useful ex ertion, in a young female. Its object, as the author informs us, "is to excite an enjoyment of the simple and cheerful pleasures which are invariably found to arise from an interchange of social affection." The exposition of moral truths, the elucidations of general and natural history, the arts, commerce, &c. contained in this performance, render it a desirable and unobjectionable present to that class of readers for which it is particularly designed.

The Siege of Corinth: a poem. Parisiña: a poem. 8vo. pp. 90. Price 5s. 6d. Murray, London. 1816.

The mind of the noble writer, Lord Byron, is not of that temper to be moved by ordinary occurrences. The placidities of fife have not yet occupied his vigorous muse; and though it was hoped, that his new connection would have entwined around his heart, and closely, too, 6, yet time has dissipated that welVol. I. LIT. PAN. No, 20. N.S. JUNE 1.

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tery not to be named: that of the Siege The story of Parisina includes adulof Corinth, is an example of self destruction, combined with vengeance on ene mies, the last resource of desperation, the fatal consequences of a city taken by storm. The tale is more striking than pleasing; it marks the character of a renegado, who from having been a Venetian of promise, becomes a Turkish commander ;. having been enamoured of the daugh ter of Minotti, Governor of Corinth,, which city is besieged, he would willing ly have saved his intended father-in law, for the sake of his troth-plighted bride. Events disappoint his hopes: the lady dies the evening before Corinth is assaulted, and her father, after retreating like a lion, to the altar of the great Church, fires a train of gunpowder, and blows up, together with himself, the whole host of enemies, rushing to attack him. poem, is an appearance, for which the The most striking part of the. renegado, then sitting in retirement on the shore, cannot account. As he heard the night-wind sigh. There he sate all heavily, Was it the wind through some hollow stone, Sent that soft and tender moan? But it was unrippled as glass may be; He lifted his head and he looked on the sea, He looked on the long grass-it waved not

a blade;

How was that gentle sound conveyed?
He looked to the banners-each flag lay still,
So did the leaves on Citharon's hill,
What did that sudden sound bespeak?
And he felt not a breath come over his cheek;
He turned to the left-is he sure of sight?
There sate a lady, youthful and bright!

Q

He started up with more of fear
Than if an armed foe were near.
"God of my fathers! what is here?
"Who art thou, and wherefore sent
"So near a hostile armament!"
His trembling hands refused to sign
The cross he deemed no more divine:
He had resumed it in that hour,
But conscience wrung away the power.
He gazed, he saw he knew the face
Of beauty, and the form of grace;
It was Francesca by his side,

The maid who might have been his bride!

The rose was yet upon her cheek,
But mellowed with a tenderer streak:
Where was the play of her soft lips fled?
Gone was the smile that enlivened their red.
The ocean's calm within their view,
Beside her eye had less of blue;
But like that cold wave it stood still,
And its glance, though clear, was chill.
Around her form a thin robe twining,
Nought concealed her bosom shining;
Through the parting of her hair,
Floating darkly downward there,

Her rounded arm showed white and bare;
And ere yet she made reply,

Once she raised her hand on high ;
It was so wan and transparent of hue,
You might have seen the moon shine through.

"Again I say that turban tear

"From off thy faithless brow, and swear
"Thine injured country's sons to spare,
"Or thou art lost; and never shalt see
"Not earth-that's past-but heaven, or me.
"If this thou dost accord, albeit
"A heavy doom 'tis thine to meet,
"That doom shall half absolve thy sin,
"And mercy's gate may receive thee within:
"But pause one moment more, and take
"The curse of him thou didst forsake;
"And look once more to heaven, and see
"Its love for ever shut from thee.
"There is a light cloud by the moon-
""Tis passing, and will pass full sooħ—
"If, by the time its vapoury sail
"Hath ceased her shaded orb to veil,
"Thy heart within thee is not changed,
"Then God and man are both avenged;
"Dark will thy doom be, darker still
"Thine immortality of ill."

Alp looked to heaven, and saw on high
The sign she spake of in the sky;
But his heart was swollen, and turned aside,
By deep interminable pride.

This first false passion of his breast
Rolled like a torrent o'er the rest.
He sue for mercy! He dismayed
By wild words of a timid maid!
He, wronged by Venice, vow to save
Her sons, devoted to the grave!
No-though that cloud were thunder's worst,
And charged to crush him-let it burst!
He looked upon it earnestly,
Without an accent of reply;
He watched it passing; it is flown:
Full on his eve the clear moon shone,
And thus he spake-" Whate'er my fate,
fear," I am no changeling-'tis too late :

Upon his hand she laid her own-
Light was the touch, but it thrilled to the
And shot a chillness to his heart, [bone,
Which fixed him beyond the power to start.
Though slight was that grasp so mortal cold,
He could not loose him from its hold;
But never did clasp of one so dear
Strike on the pulse with such feeling of
As those thin fingers, long and white,
Froze through his blood by their touch that
night.

The feverish glow of his brow was gone,
And his heart sank so still that it felt like
stone,

As he looked on the face, and beheld its hue
So deeply changed from what he knew:
Fair but faint-without the ray
Of mind, that made each feature play
Like sparkling waves on a sunny day;
And her motionless lips lay still as death,
And her words came forth without her breath,
And there rose not a heave o'er her bosom's
swell,
[dweil.
And there seemed not a pulse in her veins to
Though her eye shone out, yet the lids were
fixed,
[mixed

And the glance that it gave was wild and un-
With aught of change, as the eyes may seem
Of the restless who walk in a troubled dream.

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"If not for love of me be given
"Thus much, then, for the love of heaven,-

"The reed in storms may bow and quiver,
"Then rise again; the tree must shiver.
"What Venice made me, I must be,
"Her foe in all, save love to thee:
"But thou art safe: oh, fly with me !”
He turned, but she is gone!
Nothing is there but the column stone.
Hath she sunk in the earth, or melted in the
air?
[there,
He saw not, he knew not; but nothing is

Illustrations of Hogarth; i. e. Hogarth

Illustrated from passages in Authors he never read, and could not under stand. pp. 55. Nichols, London. 1816..

The Illustrations are in general exact quotations from the respective Authors: where they are not so, the deviations or interpala tions are noticed. For these, if ever they should see the light, some apology will be necessary. The learned Reader will be pur

ORDNANCE MAPS OF BRITISH COUNTIES.

zled, perhaps disgusted, the candid Reader annoyed, and the gentle Reader surprised, The circumstances which were thought to find the liberties Interpolation has some- to render expedient the suspension of the times taken-Verses long or short, muti-publication of the Ordnance Maps of Brilated or barbarously extended, like victims on the bed of Procrustes, or at least like the truckle-bed of Mr. Burke," pigging together, heads and points," hitched into rhime without reason, and, as Pope says,

tish Counties being now removed, the publication of them is resumed, and they may be obtained, as formerly, at the Drawing Room in the Tower, or of Mr. Faden, Charing Cross. As the suspension was only intended Wondering how the devil they got there." to be temporary, not merely the operations Such is the author's account of his of the Trigonometrical Survey, but those of jeu d'esprit, in which, Hogarth is made gularly carried on during that period under the Mapping and Engraving, have been reLatin, or Latin is made Hogarth, by the the superintendence of Colonel Mudge; so force of words—or, rather by force put that several County Maps will be ready for upon words [disjecta membra poeta]-delivery almost immediately. The Maps of greater in power and spell, than that with which necromancers formerly raised the dead. That the vices of humanity are much the same in all ages, is correctly true; and the writers of the Augustan age may fairly be quoted as witnesses in proof of this. We say fairly-and we give this learned indagator leave to make them the amende honorable by rendering his talent at facetia by their means serviceable to morals. He may take the hint from his own illustration of the last plate of the "Harlot's Progress." Catastrophe:

Plate VI. Thirteen Figures:
Vivit Gnatus;

Matrem ipsam, ex ægritudine hac,
Miseram, Mors consecuta est.*

Scene:

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Epilogus:

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