At last arrived at the camp of Sul taniéh, the assisted for forty days at the hunting parties of Feth-Aly Chah, land at the reviews of troops, employing himself during the time with the purport of his mission: he at length obtained his audience of leave, and received magnificent pre

but was prevented
was prevented by a Blood
by a Bloody hat-
the being fought on the same day.
between the Turks and the inhabit-
ants of Djanik, a country of the
Mosincques and Chalybes. The
bridge was broken, and the streets
of Bafrar were full of the dead and
wounded. He returned to the coast,
had sailed, but for-

sents: the King assured him that he whence Greek vessel

much wished to be in amity with the French nation; and promised to receive with politeness all Frenchmen, who should be induced to visit Persia through curiosity or business. On the 14th of July, M. Jaubert set out with a numerous escort, accompanied by M. Dupré, son of the French consul at Trebizond, who came to Teheran, to bring the news of the peace of Presbourg; Mirza-Chefi still attending him, had to answer with his head for the safety of the traveller. His route was nearly the same as that by which he came, by Tauris, the lake of Ormiah, and Khoi: at this last place he parted from the royal physician; for whose safety he provided for in his turn, by giving him a certificate of his good health. Thence the travellers went to Van. In this place is the convent of the seven churches, inhabited by Armenian monks, less rigid in their diet than the monks of La Trappe. They then passed an arm of the Euphrates, near Touzla, which they crossed with the help of leather bottles; and lastly, the Araxes, which is in the same mountains as the Tigris and the Euphrates. Arrived at ErzeRoum, the Persian escort quitted M. Jaubert, who took the road to Djennés, which he considered the same place as Gymnias, known by the retreat of the ten thousand (rather than Kenes, as Mr. Macdonald Kinneir thought) then he reached Tchiftlik, the silver mines of Gumach-Khaneh, and the fine country of Trebizond, the end of M. Jaubert's voyage in Asia Minor. At this place he embarked directly for Constantinople. Bad weather forced the travellers to stay at several places on the southern borders of the Black Sea, as Thermeh, the ancient

tunately a

took him on board, and landed him at Sinope. This ancient capital of the kingdom of Pontus, the country of Diogenes the Cynic, and Mithridates, is so well known, that we shall pass slightly over the traveller's description of it. He found there M. Fourcade, the French consul, a man distinguished for various acquirements, and whose premature death is still remembered with regret by the scho lar, the geographer, and the antiquary. From Sinope he went by land to Ineboli, and embarked for the celebrated town of Amastrah, where still exist the remains of a temple of Neptune, and the valley of Bartin, anciently Parthenius, which, though almost unknown or neglected, is a most fertile and picturesque country.

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M. Jaubert next arrived at Heraclea, an inhospitable country, and dangerous to Europeans, of which he presents his readers with an interesting account from the pen of M. Allier de Hauteroche. He found at this place a forty-gun frigate, which in two days carried him to Tarapia, a town on the Bosphorus, where the French ambassador, General Sebastiani, was waiting for him; in the General's society he soon forgot his privations, his fatigues, and his misfortunes!!

Here the narrative of M. Jaubert closes: it is full of simplicity and truth; and his descriptions are replete with energy and grace.DUREN

We will conclude by pointing out to the reader some very remarkable passages upon the manners, religion, usages, and actual state of civilizaPersia. Amongst others there are, tion in this part of Armenia and

misciza, the fabled count the twelfth chapter upon the Arme

Amazons, Samsoun or Amisus, and nians, the fourteenth upon the aboSinope; which pominable superstitions of the Yezidis; him an opporgave seventeenth and thirty-ninth uptunity of observing the soil, climate, e, on the manners of the Persians, and and produce. The author was de 15 the degree of confidence to be placed sirous of going by land to Sinope, in their politeness, with a parallel

between them and the Turks. The portraits of Feth-Aly-Chah, his sons and his ministers, are drawn with a masterly hand. It would be well also to read in the twenty-seventh chapter the history of the reigning King, and in chapters thirty to thirty four, and thirty-eight are observa tions upon the population, commerce

tal manners in general. In short, this narrative, although contained in one volume, is not less useful than the larger works on Persia already published, and is worthy of a distinguished place in the best libraries.

Besides a map, which is very well engraved, the work contains seven lithographic engravings, well execut wealth, and military state of the ed, amongst which are the portraits of Abbas-Mirza and Asker-Kan.

Persian empire, as we mobgaid out to fork

quash For she was calm, but pale with constant thought;
1.And if her eye had lost its sprightly shine,
sib There was a sweetness in its every glance:
A pensive quiet that was lovelier.

PedHer tone was altered, gentler, broken, low,
-60025 Like the soft cadence of Eolian harp,

When Zephyr sweeps it with his lightest wing. She waned-she withered,-the dark worm of thought not in Had given her to consumption for a prey.

He watched, caressed and cheered her-all was vain ;-
Death was triumphant.-One pale summer eve,
While yet he sate and watched the golden clouds,
As one by one they changed to sober grey,
A feebleness came o'er her wasted frame;

Her voice changed to a whisper faint and low
Her spirit's call was come-and she prepared-

Oh! she expired without a sigh or groan,

As peaceful as an infant when it sinks

To dreamless slumber on its mother's lap,-
She, smiling like an angel through her tears,
With languid pressure held his trembling hand,

זי

b... Breathed forth a prayer for him-and praying-died.

of How solemn is the threshold death has trod !
And sacred is the chamber where the clay

-99bYet warm with life has breathed its latest sigh:-
Tot quiThere fancy pictures to the pensive mind
edi The immortal soul just bursting into life,

-slaid Casting a parting look upon the clod

That was its frail and feeble partner here: 19dus Or hovering nigh with fond tenacity, bas y Thoughts fixed above aspiring to the skies, 91 918 Affections o'er its consort wavering,

Like the burnt taper's half-expiring flame, too That rises and returns, and rises still, eldeds Reluctant to resign the noisome wick,

That in life's brighter moments fed its blaze And thus the spirit lingers o'er its dust; bas si Unfelt, but feeling-seeing, though unseen, 9&Oh! whither is thy chainless spirit fled? A What realm doth it inhabit? Doth it waste. The drowsy hours in dull oblivion's shade, Ceasing at once to suffer and to be?

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Or from some higher, purer, happier sphere, to do yoinua

bi Look calmly down on this terrestrial scene?

big As when from yonder orient sky the sun, basi vd gone to AR Jollars Smiles on the infant day.

J. R. W.

"Tis well-exult in thy morning hour;

Twere pity to cloud that beamy brow, 2101TOZ Or blight ere it blossom the beautiful flower

Of promising hope; but smile not thou

In the pride of thy heart, and thy reckless thought,
At the ruin thy ruthless hand hath wrought.

Oh! smile not, tho' haply the hand of spring
Have scattered thy path with its fairest flowers;
And, Time as he flits on his noiseless wing,
Have swept not a leaf from thy chosen bowers;
And ever thy finger be lightly flung

O'er the lute, to pleasure wildly strung:

Alas! full oft when leaves are greenest,
And skies are cloudless, and hope is high;
And ocean's laughing waves are sheenist,
The rage of the storm is gathering nigh:
While Philomel, fondly forsaking her nest,

With her wild note is hailing the star of the west.ng Uthda

But why should thy young heart dream of sorrow?
The goblet of gladness is mingled for thee:

Smile on may the pleasures of every morrow

Look bright in their prospect, nor fade ere they flee; And then may their retrospect render them dear, As a voice we remember we once lov'd to hear! des KOMNA

On the streamlet of life, while the beams are playing,
Rejoice in the pride of thy beauty and youth;
Rejoice in the freshness of fancy arraying

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The visions of Hope in the garments of Truth:
Rejoice in the rays that are softly shed
O'er the past, like the beauty that haunts the dead.

Like the halo, that loves o'er the graves to hover
Of the wise and the brave that are past away;
Like the tints of the west when the day is over, er at bed
Or the hues of the woods that are gone to decay; ''
Or the ivy that ever delights to cling

To the tower whose strength is mouldering.

Oh! how blest are they, for whom memory treasures
The records of hours they would not forget;
Whose innocent hearts, in recalling the pleasures
That are vanish'd for ever, have nought to regret
No sorrow to shadow the scenes that are past,
Or only to think they have fleeted so fast.

Such boon be thine-when thy youth is over,
Though pleasure at length begins to pall
Though haply no longer thy heart discover

The delight that it found in the festival;
But given thee still in thy bower alone,...
To rejoice in recalling the days that are gone.

ADOLESCENS.

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De Fontibus et Auctoritate vitarum parellelarum Plutarchi Commentationes quatuor; Auctore Herren.— Four Commentaries on the Sources whence Plutarch derived his parallel Lives of eminent Men. By Herren. Gottingen.

The author of the present learned enquiry, the disciple and friend of Heyne, is placed by the Germans among the most illustrious of their writers. He has devoted ten years of toil and application in tracing the sources from which Plutarch derived his information; and the result of his researches forms the subject of the work before us. It must be confessed, that the task was of a most arduous nature, and that the writer who engaged in it, whatever might be his talents, was frequently placed under the necessity of substituting conjecture for certainty. Plutarch does not always inform us who the authors were to whom he was indebted; and even if he had done so, we, who are so far removed from the scene, cannot easily ascertain what degree of credit is due to their authority; and it is doubtful whether Plutarch himself was not frequently placed in a similar situation. He was obliged, like all other historians, to rest many of his sentiments on the authority of tradition alone; and whatever means he might have possessed of appreciating the value of the traditions of his own time, we certainly can pretend to none. vantages which literature derives, therefore, from such laborious enquiries, appear to us of a very uncertain character, and rather specious than real; for even where certainty is attained, we have not data sufficient to convince us that it is certainty, We regret that Germany should devote her intellectual might to such unprofitable speculations. But the character of a people always determines the character Eur. Mag. Vol. 82.

of their writers; and where objects of curiosity are preferred to objects of the path which nature points out, and knowledge, genius must decline from yield to the ascendancy of fashion and On the whole, it may be said, that Pluthe predominance of circumstances. tarch was a much better judge of the authenticity of the writers, from whom he drew his information, than we can be; and therefore, if we will not trust in him until we know the value of his authority, we must always remain sceptics. Those, however, who are enamoured of this species of writing, will find the researches of Mr. Herren well worthy of their attention. They can. not but admire the spirit of investigation that characterizes his enquiries: but when they close the work they must confess, that they have more cause to admire the ingenuity of the writer than to congratulate themselves on the accession, which they have made to their stock of knowledge. Herren has done, perhaps, what could be done:

Si pergama dextra potuissent, hac defensa videbo;

kiego : The ad

Dziela dramatyczne BoguslauzThe Dramatic works of Boguslawski. 15 vols. {with plates and portraits. Warsaw.

This is one of the best literary enterprizes ever undertaken in Poland. The author is chiefly known for the services he has rendered his native country. He was formerly a director of the national theatre, and may be considered its founder, au honour to which these works justly entitle him.

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Their principal merit consists in the originality and judgment with which he has delineated the human character, Many of these dramas are translated from the Italian, French, English, and German, the last of which possess a very particular merit from the fidelity with which they are translated. Each is preceded by a biographical notice of its original author, a review of the piece itself, and a critical dissertation on his other works. The first volume contains the history of the foundation and progress of the Polish theatre, concluding with a biographical notice of one or other of the principal actors either dead or retired from the stage.

The author has neglected nothing to render this edition of his works worthy of public interest. The type is extremely beautiful, and the impression taken off with the greatest care, a circumstance the more remarkable, as the art of printing has been a long time neglected in Poland. The merit of this improvement is entirely due to M. Glucksberg, who, assisted by a corrector of the press from Firmîn Didot, at Paris, has succeeded almost in equalling the beauty of execution which distinguishes the works of that celebrated printer.

Alga Aquatica: -The Aquatic Herbs found on the Coasts of Jever and Eastern Frieseland, collected and dried by O, H. B. Jurgens, 21 pages, folio, containing 100 dried sea weeds.

M. Jurgens merits the gratitude of every lover of botany, particularly of those who live far from the sea, as he offers them, at a small expense, the means of supplying an important desideratum in almost all our herbals, In forming the collection of so great a quantity of plants, he had more than one difficulty to surmount, particularly in preparing them for preservation. They are dried with extreme care, and placed between two blank leaves, accompanied with a Latin description of their physical virtues. The weakest of these weeds are pasted on a detached leaf of paper, and the most tender on a leaf of Muscovy glass.

lectures at the university of Heidel berg, has created a new era in the study of mythology. It is no longer an incoherent series of ingenious fa bles, but a complete system of useful fictions, entirely founded on agricultu ral notions, or moral precepts. It is philosophy divesting itself of its metaphysical abstractions, and assuming a sensible appearance through the intervention of images, sometimes speaking a language intelligible even to the vulgar, but always preserving its native majesty. In developing this novel science, the discovery of which be longs exclusively to M. Creutzer, his lectures excited the enthusiasm and astonishment of his numerous auditors. The first edition of this work obtained for its ingenious author considerable celebrity; and a second being called for, it has been given with so many improvements, that it may be justly call ed a new work. The author has diligently availed himself of all that bas recently been published in England and France, and has ventured no assertion that is not founded in fact. His authorities are always authors of the greatest respectability, from whose labours he has formed a pandect, hitherto a desideratum in the sciences.

Tentamen de Architæ Tarentini vitâ et operibus, &c.-An Essay on the Life and Writings of Architas, of Tarentum. By Joseph Navarro, of Naples.

When we reflect how seldom diplomatists withdraw themselves from the splendid frivolities of courts to serious contemplation, and how small a portion of their time is devoted even to the science of politics, a science with which, of all others, they should be best acquainted, the work before us may be considered unique in its kind. Its author, who was attached to the Neapolitan embassy of the court of Copenhagen, resisting the seductions of courtly pleasures, performed not only what his public situation required, but has treated in this work a public thesis in such a manner as to obtain the degree of professor of philosophy in the Danish university. His example may serve to convince us, that the bustle and toil, inseparable from the duties of a public situation, cannot stifle that energy of mind which seeks to signalize itself in pursuits foreign to our immediate avocations; pursuits which have other objects than that of disturbM. Creutzer, justly celebrated for his ing the happiness of mankind,

Symbolik and Mythologik :-The Symbols and Mythology of Ancient States, particularly the Greeks. By Frederick Creutzer. 11 vols. second edition. Leipsick.