part of the poem,-its relief. A locust is dropt by the bird close to Thalaba and Oneiza. He looks at the hieroglyphics on its forehead, and reads, "When the sun shall be darkened at noon, journey to the east.” A total eclipse soon takes place. A succession of extraordinary appearances before Thalaba enters the garden of Aloadin. The meteorous appearance-the enchanted fountains-and the way through the mountain pass. Sinking under severe cold on Caucasus, Thalaba is stimulated by seeing a cedar erect itself against the pressure of the snow. A wedding procession passes him after he has lost Oneiza. With Adam are the Prophets and Martyrs. They are nourished by odours. Trees of gold and silver. away, and says he needs no protector but God. 5. Bagdat. Babylon. Nimrod. Mohareb comes up, and it appears that he also seeks the angels. Discovering Thalaba's mission, he attacks him, and his horse carries him away. 2. A few connecting lines to open with. More preparation for the catastrophe. 4. Desert sufferings. Water appearance. Solomon. Light worse than heat. 5. Pelican's nest. Babylon as it was. The spirits of those who have failed relate each to Thalaba how he perished. Hints in the Arabian account of the Pyramids. After the Simorg,-in the frozen bay, the Northern lights. Mohareb and Thalaba contend by the Oriental despotism and devastation in bitumen springs. Into these Thalaba flings Java. Hidden corn pits. "Arbor triste de dia"- emblem of virtue in adversity. Thalaba makes the spirit bring him the bow and the quiver of Hodeirah. This makes Moath and Oneiza believe him. He goes on a dromedary to Kaf. Morgan's Algiers. 102. One of the magicians offers himself as a guide to Babylon. In the desert they see the sand columns. The magician tempts Thalaba to use his ring and summon demons to his aid-he himself is overwhelmed. sea. 4. Thalaba proceeds till he comes to the He takes up a shell, and the characters thereon tell him, to seek Hârut and Mârut at Babylon, and learn from them the talisman requisite for his success. He meets a man who offers himself as a guide — it is Lobaba. He leads him into the desert, and tempts him to demand aid of the genii by his ring. A moving column overwhelms him. Ruins of Babylon. Spirit of Nimrod. Hârut and Mârut. As he is about to pull off his ring, that Lobaba may read it, a fly stings his finger, and it instantly swells. When the magician tells Thalaba that only his ring protects him, he throws it his ring, and afterwards strikes Mohareb. Talisman in the garden of Aloadin. Qy. Would it be disgusting to destroy Oneiza by a vampire, and haunt Thalaba with her vampire corpse? Something like the apparition in Donica might release him. The appearance of Nimrod must be transplanted. It comes too near the argumentative dialogue with Lobaba. Zohak defends the cavern of the angels. 6. Thalaba finds a horse caparisoned, who comes to him. Meteor. Springs. 4. The shell incident must be altered. I wished to make it of the same class of miracles, of natural agents supernaturally acting, as the locust. But it is flat and very bad. Either a voice from the darkness, or the appearance of his father's spirit. Returning from the chase home, Thalaba sees some one going from his house, and it is the Angel of Death. Moath must reappear. Zohak is said to have built Babylon. 7. Survey of the garden, with a view to escape. Mountains. Burnet.' River Fall. This implies a reference to BURNET's Theoria Sacra Telluris,-not for its philosophy, but for its beauty, a great favourite with Southey and Wordsworth.-J. W. W. Thalaba then goes to destroy Aloadin. The supernatural light. A voice stating that Aloadin must be involved in the general destruction of the sorcerers. The wind whirls up Thalaba and Oneiza, as in an ethereal car, and places them beyond the mountains. 1. The destruction of the Adites must be on the day fixed for taking possession of the palace and garden. Thus the whole multitude are assembled. Houd also must call on Aswad when he leaves the garden. In the Dom Daniel the image of Eblis is made of flesh and blood, like life, a giant form, bearing up with one hand the arch of the ocean, whose waves roll above the only roof. Into this image Thalaba thrusts the sword the waters burst in—but an egg of air surrounds him, and buoys him to the surface of the sea. One book should contain a view of futurity. Davy suggested a paradise wholly immaterial—trees of light growing in a soil of ether-palaces of water refracting all rich colours. The Mohammedan Paradise might be briefly run over by the Simorgh, as what Thalaba expected, but which was only adapted to the gross conceptions of mankind. The wicked should lie in sight of Paradise, with no torture, save the tædium of a joyless existence, and envy. Aloadin demands of the assembled youths in his garden, Who will do a deed of danger to enjoy Paradise eternally as his reward. I! exclaims Thalaba-and dashes out his brains with a club. Then a darkness falls upon the garden, involving those who seek to destroy him. He only, with Oneiza, sees in the cloud, and escapes. " Illi Houd was treated with cruelty. vero nihil dicta ejus attendentes, verberabant eum ita, ut aliquando reliquerunt eum penè mortuum." Ismael Ebn-Aly. Maracci. Book 7 to conclude with "who comes That is Sir H. Davy. He says in the preface, "I was then also in habits of most frequent and intimate intercourse with Davy," &c. p. ix, J.W. W. | from the bridal chamber? it is Azrael, the Angel of Death. Eighth to begin, 'Now go not to the tombs, old man- —there is a maniac there.' Vampire. Departure again upon the mission. Seizure of Thalaba. Java. Mohareb. Khawla ought to be brought forward in these middle books. May she not deliver up Thalaba to the emissaries of Mohareb? How to convey Thalaba to Java? Should he be seized by slave merchants. If it were not an island, he should be pressed as a soldier. But if it could be effected by the agency of Khawla, that were best. Thus then.-At night a light in a house, Khawla spinning threads fine as the silkworms, and singing unknown words. She tells Thalaba to twist it round his hands, and it binds him in unbreakable fetters. Then she drags him to Java, for as only his own act could fetter him, so also can his own act effect his ruin, and the attempt is by fear to produce apostacy. Khawla alone survives the appearance of the Upas, but her power ceases over Thalaba. Then the journey to Kaf. The Paradise Book. First the Mohammedan hell and heaven, and all their preliminaries" types, shadows, unrealities." Then a gradation of heavens, and the ascent of mind from earth to the management of the elements, and the power of creation. 9. Dungeon sufferings in view of the execution place. 'Arbor triste da dia.' The stars consulted, and the result, that Mohareb's death must precede Thalaba's, preserves him. Terror and repentance of Maimuna. 7. Were it better to make a shining plate on the forehead of Aloadin the talisman? and the bird, the evil spirit hovering over him to convey him at last body and soul to hell? A boy seized at the moment of birth by Khawla. His veins exhausted and filled with the blood of Thalaba. On him they try the means of death, and all in vain. Then Khawla consults the Demons, and Maimuna the stars. The one is terrified and made penitent, the other is told-and | he has foreseen her death. The plan of the ninth must be new modelled. Will this be better-for Mohareb to discover that his death must precede Thalaba's, and therefore to preserve his? and lest the sisters should destroy him, he restores Abdaldar's ring. The conversion of Maimuna happens on that mysterious night when all things worship God. In the last book, when Thalaba has left the choice of his reward to heaven, the spirits of both his parents appear, and he knows that his death-hour is arrived. 5. Mohareb may endeavour to convert Thalaba. Tale of Zohak in a few lines. 6. Zohak affected by the ring on Thala ba's return. 6. The Paradise of Aloadin should mock Mohammed's as much as possible. A son of Okba to be slain by Thalaba. One bred up to sorcery. Thalaba hesitates with pity. He sees his name written on the Table of Destiny-the Destroyer: and the young victim pleads that his father ruined him; and Thalaba knows the name of Hodeirah's murderer. Mohareb in the Domdaniel flies from Thalaba and clings around the knees of the giant idol for protection. Thalaba strikes the image. The moment Maimuna looses the chain of Thalaba her repentance is accepted. They find themselves in her cavern, and all the appearances of old age fall upon the pardoned sorceress. Her death follows. Cold. Tom's' shower of fiery snow in the sunshine. Thalaba finds a young woman, a damsel, in an ice palace. It is the daughter of Okba, hidden there by her father, where none but one with the soul-purchased ring can enter, because from any other visitor 1 This alludes to his brother, the late Captain Thomas Southey, R. N. As before observed, he was in the habit of noting remarkable appearances and images.-J. W. W. She practises magic innocently, knowing no ill-forming figures of snow, that can exist each but for a day. She loves Thalaba-but when she names her father, he knows the name, and is commanded to kill her, to root up the race. This he refuses to do, and his disobedience is not accounted as sinful. But she is transformed into one of the green birds of paradise, and hovers over him on his way. Her voice becomes soothing and affectionate; like the note of the dove, it is the tone of happiness, of tenderness, not of gaiety. The Simorgh preserves somewhat of his oracular character by rejoicing in the approaching downfall of sorcery, and predicting the future destruction of other evils as enormous. Then he informs Thalaba, darkly, of his way, and warns him. Dogs are to draw him over the frozen plains and glaciers-each with a mark on the forehead-these are they who have failed. 'Open not thine eyes at the outery thou wilt hear.' The Domdanielites follow and lash the dogs to madden them and drive them down the precipice. The bandage is torn violently from his eyes; he is allowed to look, if he can be firm. Hodeirah's spirit defends him, and drives away the aggressors. When at the bay, the dogs, bloody and foaming, ask their reward. He gives them the bidden answer, God reward ye!' and they die, and are removed to Paradise. The prison walls of Thalaba thrown down by the Termites. Maimuna goes for the human wax. It is the mysterious night. The Gouls are lying powerless by the grave, and she sees within the spirit of the dead, and the hundred-headed worm that never dies, and that only on this night ceases to torment the wicked. The crime of allowing oppression must strongly be stated to justify the Upas. Thus the red headed Christian may have been espoused to a damsel whom Mohareb has taken for his seraglio, and she may escape and cry out to the people. The wand of Maimuna breaks in the dungeon. It must be introduced as her spindle. In the garden of Okba's daughter, a fountain of fire supplies the want of the sun's warmth, and rolls its rivulet. After Maimuna enters the dungeon, the scene through the remainder of the book must continue there. No threat, no voice, no token, only the threatening of silence and the loss of power. From the prison bars they see the red-haired Christian led to execution, and Maimuna's fear explains what they are going to make of him, and to do with her. 10. The prison walls thrown down by the Termites. The wind incloses them as in a car, and they alight in the ice-cave. Death of Maimuna. Laila. through the ceremony of interment, and transplant that idea from St. Patrick's purgatory. The sunbeams should clothe him-and thus his garment of glory gives him light through the way of darkness. This will be fine at sunrise, and after his prayer. Khawla attacks him by the fire, to prevent his getting the sword. He hurls her into it. Okba. Mohareb. At the moment when Mohareb, subdued, clings to the knees of the great idol, Hodeirah and Zeinab ap pear. Before he mounts the sledge, the dogs must implore him, if he can fear, to return in time for his sake and for theirs, and they must weep with fear. 10. The prophecy will be better from 4. The ring disables Zohak as well as the Azrael, that Laila or Thalaba must die. charm of Mohareb. Okba comes. When Thalaba refuses to kill Laila, he triumphs, and thinks Thalaba has forfeited all claim to God's protection, and attempts to kill. Laila runs to stop the blow, and receives it, and thus the prophecy is accomplished, and Thalaba the occasion of her death. 11. Green Bird. Simorg. Journey. Voy age. At the entrance of the Domdaniel, Laila leaves him, and then speaks and requests one return for her affection: it is, that he will pray to God to pardon her father. His sword must not strike Okba, and thus his character will rise as he subdues the feeling of revenge. The cavern, like S. Catherine's. The frozen bay. Northern lights. It must not be told who the green bird is, till she speaks herself. Thalaba must have his bow, it must therefore be mentioned, book 8, be found again in Maimuna's cave, and supply the place of the club, book 10. 11. Entrance. Speech of Laila. Prayer of Thalaba. The sun beams. Dark way. Glow-worm beast. Helmet. Dropping Pass. The great serpent. Then the fire and the sword, and the death of Khawla, and the battle with Mohareb. Okba. Thalaba throws his ring into the sea-as faith is the talisman. There must be a great descent. Two The boatmen warn him each of the dan- Dive's hold a chain over it: they are comger by which he perished. pelled to let down Thalaba, blaspheming. 11. Demons ready to down-thrust the tottering avalanch. Others below that like angels spread a cloud to receive him, and call on Thalaba to leap and save himself. On these Oneiza darts with Sulfagar, the two-pointed sword of Ali snatched from the armoury of heaven. The balance in which the Japanese pilgrims are suspended, should precede the sledge journey. A permitted trial. It would have a good effect to make him go 12. I must light a torch miraculously to guide him through the dark way—it is more fit for painting than the sunbeams. The alarm must be given, and the whole army of magicians assembled. The sword in the fire lies on the white ashes of Hodeirah. The fire shall clothe Thalaba and protect him. The Simorg tells Thalaba that the talisman is in the heart of the Great Image. Funeral ceremonies briefly run over at the death of Maimuna. 7. Night amusements of luxury. fumed lights. Transparent dress. 6. Persian lilies. The dogs. But a quiet journey. Scenery like that delightful print in Hearne. Ice Per- and firs and poplar islands. The dogs keep the prayer hours, and turn to Mecca. No terror to be excited, only a stratagem to The Mareb reservoir, and the punishment waken curiosity. of Thamud alluded to. He should know the Peri before he trusts Euphrates esteemed unholy water by the her; therefore he must deliver her from a Moslem. 3. Oneiza must sport with the bow and arrow. N. B. Shedad was the first King of Ad. Certain lines to this purport: the Evil Power may fence themselves round with dangers, but wisdom and courage may subdue them all-so God in his justice had appointed. When Thalaba is taken, Maimuna calls a spirit, and enquires what they can do with him. The answer is, " In the city of Mohareb thou shalt secure thy safety." 5. The Angels to manifest themselves. Their situation, and garment of glory brightening as the atonement proceeds. All must be rewritten from his speech to the Simorg to his actual entrance into the Domdaniel. It is flat and common. The inscription which whoso reads will die. It is on the original throne of Nimrod. He reads it, "Search and find." He overturns it, and discovers a key. It is in an island where a grievous superstition reigns. An ever-living old woman, Superstition, is the priestess. Child sacrifices, and the dying dropt down a gulph, whose iron doors never open but to let in a victim, like the Venice prison. The boat takes him there. The people rejoice, and tell him of the inscription, which he must read, for it is the remedy. It is a torch he finds-the holy light of enquiry; and he must first subdue the giant Opinion. The allegory must be nowhere naked: and the Koran ought to be his shield. A boat in a brook: a Peri helmswoman. Thou wilt go with me. The brook becomes a river, rough and wide: Wilt thou go with me? The river enters the sea: Darest thou go with me? Dive. At sea. Let the spirit of Moath pass him, to indicate the old man's death. Thus, the throne of Nimrod is the altar. At the hour of sacrifice conies Thalaba to read the inscription. The Giant, seeing that he dies not, attempts to kill him. Thalaba cleaves him down with the axe of sacrifice. How then to employ the arrows? Thus, the first foe must be the old and faithful servant of the Queen, bewitched so as to be her enemy. He must be taken, not slain. It must be Leoline who uses the axe of sacrifice. Jan. 20, 1800. Again to be recast! The Leoline and Lady story is clumsyis like a third arm-a young sixth finger. The strike of extermination must smite it. At landing, terrors and the funeral. Then a display of the Mohammedan paradise. Types, &c. Art thou satisfied with this? Then the true progressive heaven. At once the glory is extinguished, and the dread descent before him. A gaunt and ghastly figure guards two iron doors. Of what is not seen, for eternal mists are round them; nor is he seen, for the seraph guide approaches, and asks if yet? and a dead voice only answers, the hour is not yet born :-" meanwhile rest in the sunbeam.” Here, dreams of futurity, and the angel song of Oneiza, and the passing spirit of old Moath: from this, the voice awakes him. The gates unfold at his stroke. Within is darkness and the far gleam of fires, and sounds that terrify; and a strong flood of wind impells him in, and the gates with a thunder |