appeared more like a gallant or high-born cour-other artist; and for every portrait Titian took school made great progress, from the opportu. tier, than a studious artist desirous of fame in of him he gave him a thousand crowns in gold.nities they had of painting large façades and his profession; and, in truth, when he was Titian in all painted three portraits of the saloons. As Titian, by living at Venice, had thus decked out, he carried it very awkwardly; emperor; and when he last sat to him, at the not the facility of examining ancient works, for his dress was more gaudy and extravagant conclusion of the picture, Charles said, with he could not fundamentally acquire a great than that of persons of quality; so that, while emphasis, This is the third time I have style, like Michael Angelo; and for that reason he put himself into competition with them, and triumphed over death.'" he did not bestow on his delineation of forms al! wished to be taken for a man of wealth and In speaking of some pictures which Titian that attention which they merited, and applied consequence, instead of being admired and re-painted at a mature period of his life, Mr. himself more to the appearance of truth, which spected, he was laughed at and despised by all Northcote observes-and the observation is depended on the colours of the body, and ar men of sense, and became the jest of his asso-pregnant with instruction:rived in that part, by continual exercise of ciates. Alfonso, being thus enamoured of him- These pictures are in the possession of his painting and copying nature, to such excellence, self, became abandoned to pleasure and to pur- Catholic majesty, and held in high esteem for that he never has been equalled; and what suits little befitting a prudent and ingenious the vivacity Titian has given to the figures; and contributed much to this, was the vanity of the artist; and at length, by these habits, lost all in colour they are equal to nature itself. But Venetian gentry, who wished to be painted by the fame he had acquired. He next took it it is certain that about this time he made a very him, or to have from his hand those exquisite into his head to fall in love, and this with a great alteration in his style of execution from female figures. Contemporary with Titian, noble lady. One night, being at a wedding- that which he practised in his younger days. the Duke of Mantua employed Mantegna, who ball in the palace of a Bolognese count, this For his first pictures are finished with most in- established at Modena the first academy that young lady happened to be there also; and she credible diligence, so as to bear examining near, had been in Italy, from which came Bianchi, by chance became his partner. In the midst and yet look well at a distance also: but the the master of Antonio Allegri, named Correg. of the dance he turned towards her; and, works he did about this time are full of strokes gio. From the foundation of the Venetian school, heaving a profound sigh, said, as he looked in and spots, after a certain bold manner, so that a mode of proceeding was adopted, which, her face with what he thought ineffable soft- they seem nothing when viewed close, though though well calculated to give the painter a ness in his eyes-'S' amor non è, che dunque è they look well at a distance, as if perfectly greater promptness of execution, a more com. quel ch' io sento?—If it be not love that I feel, finished. This last manner of his, many paint-manding dexterity of hand, and a more chasté pray then what is it?' The lady, to put a ers have endeavoured to imitate, by which and lively colouring, than is to be found in the stop to his impertinence, smiled and answered-they have made very gross and random work. artists of the Roman or Florentine schools, E' sarà qualche pidocchio-Perhaps it is a They have been tempted to imagine it done was also the means of introducing a want of l-se.' This answer being overheard by the with ease; but in this they are much mis- correctness in their compositions, and a neglect company, was soon talked of through all the taken, as it is the result of very long practice of purity in their outlines. Their method was city of Bologna, and he became the jest of the and vast judgment, earned from experience; to paint every thing without the preparation whole town." and so far from being easy, that it is impossible of a drawing; whereas the Roman and FloThe temporary rivalry of Pordenone with to do it well without a long life of preparation. rentine painters never introduced a figure of Titian elicits a caustic reflection, the justness And as it demonstrates the great master of the which they had not studied and prepared a of which, however, must be allowed by all. art, the ignorant are captivated, and conceive model or cartoon. Following the system of his "How exactly we find the same thing in that it can be performed at will not appre- countrymen, Titian painted immediately from our days, when scarcely a year passes but we hending the infinite labour it has cost to ac- nature; and possessed of a correct eye, attuned are called upon to bestow our wonder and at-quire this seeming facility. If the painter to the harmony of effect, he acquired a style of tention on some new and surprising genius, should be asked how long he was about the colouring perfectly conformable to truth. Sawho makes a prodigious noise for a season, and picture done in so masterly and free a style, he tisfied with this identity of imitation, he was then is heard no more! The earnest desire of might give the answer of one of the moderns little sensible of the select beauty of form, or mankind for novelty, and the pleasure it gives on a similar occasion, to wit- All my life!'" the adaptation of that characteristic expres to those who fondly hope they have had the On the Venetian school generally, and on sion, so essential to the higher order of historic sagacity to bring the hidden treasure to light, the style of Titian in particular, the following painting. In his works of that description, if tempts them to decry the most established re- passage contains much valuable remark :— we look for the fidelity of the historian, he will putation, and leads them to suppose that their "The Venetian painters who fixed the style be found, like other artists of his country, little new-discovered favourite may supply the vacant of their countrymen, were most certainly scrupulous in point of accuracy. He neither place; the frequent failures they experience Giorgione and Titian. Giorgione took the presents us with the precise locality of the scene, being passed over without making them wiser." hint of that fine manner of colouring which, the strict propriety of the costume, nor the acIt is well known that Charles V. made Titian as we observed before, became the distinguished cessories best suited to the subject; attributes so a knight and count of the holy Lateran pa- characteristic of the Venetian school, from estimable in the works of those painters who lace, and of the imperial court and consistory; Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine; and Titian consulted the best models of antiquity. and that, subsequently, he created him a count carried it to the greatest possible perfection; As Titian contented himself with a faithful palatine. "These honours," observes Mr. but Titian adopted this search into colouring representation of nature, his forms were fine Northcote, "it is the more necessary to recall at an early period of life, and (comparatively when he found them in his model. If, like to the reader's attention, as they are at this speaking) knew but little of any thing else that Raphael, he had been inspired with the genuine time so totally absorbed and lost in the splen- might tempt him into other pursuits; he gave love of the beautiful, it might have led him to dour of his single name so universally known up almost his whole time to improving colour- have courted it in selected nature, or in her from his eminent talents-that it seems like a ing to the utmost perfection it was capable of more attractive charms to be found in the po jest even to mention the inferior distinctions receiving: therefore, if Titian is more re-lished graces of the antique: the purity of his bestowed on him by earthly princes; for he markable as a colourist than as a draftsman, design thus united with the enchanting magic was a man endowed by Heaven with such the climate had nothing to do with it. And of his colouring would have stamped him the transcendent abilities, that, to use the words Michael Angelo, like the great and judicious most accomplished painter that the art has preof Kneller in speaking of himself, he was one artist that he was, did not ascribe Titian's ex-duced. But although Titian cannot with proof God Almighty's noblemen.'" cellence in colouring, or his defects in other priety be placed among those artists who have The anecdote of Charles's having twice picked parts, to any particular direction of genius distinguished themselves by the excellence of up this great artist's pencil, and presented it to which might enable him to succeed in any one their choice, and the refinement of their expres him, saying, "To wait on Titian was service part of the art more than in another: no, he sion, he is not altogether wanting in grandeur for an emperor," is well known; but we do well knew that the acquisition of the art, in or dignity. Like Michael Angelo, he occasion. not remember to have met with the following: the whole together, or in the several parts and ally exaggerated or went beyond his model; but "Titian had painted the portrait of Charles divisions of it, will always, in the hands of a it was rather to render it more tender and fleshy, several times, as I have before observed; but man properly qualified, bear a just proportion than, like Buonarotti, to render it more vigorous now being called to the court of that prince, he to the application made, and to the advantages and muscular. A general feeling for colour, for the last time painted his portrait, just as it of study enjoyed. After praising Titian's co- rather than a correct principle of composition, then appeared in the latter part of his life; and louring, his remark upon him is It is a mis-induced him to make prominent the most beau this picture also much pleased the renowned fortune that the painters of Venice have not tiful parts of his figures, as affording the finest emperor. Certain it is, that the very first por- a better manner of study. At the same time, masses and the boldest relief. His female trait Titian drew of him so struck him with Giorgione, who was a little anterior to Titian, figures and children are preferable to those of admiration, that he would never after sit to any founded a school of painting at Venice, which his men; and he has given them an air of 6 JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES. man and Co. 66 have caused such a destruction in our game, He naïveté and ease, which, though not absolutely Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, Vol. XIII. we could lie down to sleep, and when we grace, is nearly allied to it; and it is generally The Western World; Vol. I. The United awoke, we found the buffalo feeding round our supposed that N. Poussin and the sculptor FiaStates. 12mo. pp. 344. London, 1830. Long-camp; but now we kill them for their skins, and feed the wolves with their flesh, to make mingo, who excelled in the representation of infantine beauty, formed their idea of it by We give the following, wherein the early contemplating the works of Titian. As a co- IN our last No. we briefly characterised this new our children cry over their bones." lourist, Titian holds an unrivalled dominion volume of the Cabinet Cyclopædia, to which we No painter has viewed now return, for the sake of illustration. The outbreaking of the American revolt is detailed. over every competitor. nature with so chaste an eye; and to none habits of the American Indian are described Throughout the work, the writer has wisely were the tender blandishments of her charms in a concise, and, at the same time, a very confined himself to the relation of facts, withWe omit probably the out obtruding his own political opinions. His more confidentially communicated. In his pic-interesting, manner. tures the tones are so subtilely melted as to most beautiful specimen of Indian eloquence, readers, therefore, will account this an ostenleave no intimation of the colours which were the speech of Logan, since we cannot but sible warrant, that there is no wish to infuse on his pallet; and it is perhaps in that respect presume that it is already well known to our prejudice by a partial narrative-the sure conthat his system of colouring differs so materially readers; and proceed to quote the accompa- sequence of an author's endeavouring to make from that of Rubens, who was accustomed to nying extract from the (we trust genuine) his readers imbibe his own peculiar political "The assembly, to the number of ninety, place his colours one near the other, with a speech of a Pawnee chief, addressed to the Pre-notions. slight blending of the tints. He observed, that sident of the United States, as late as 1822. in nature every object offered a particular sur- We think we shall be borne out in considering met at the time and place appointed. They face or character, transparent, opaque, rude, or the speech as beautifully pathetic; and the waited a day for the governor to open the ses polished, and that these objects differed in the concluding allusion to the future consequences sion; but finding he did not appear, they, on strength of their tints and the depth of their of destroying the buffalo for the sake of traffic the third day, resolved themselves into a protown about twenty miles distant from Boston. shadows. It was in this diversity, that he with the whites, as a touching appeal, replete vincial congress, and adjourned to Concord, a found the generality and perfection of his art. with pathos and simplicity. My great father, some of your good chiefs, They chose Mr. Hancock president, and apHence, as Mengs remarks, in imitating nature he took the principal for the whole, and repre- as they are called (the missionaries), have pro-pointed a committee to wait on the governor sented his fleshy tones, chiefly composed of posed to send some of their good people among with a remonstrance, in which they apologised demitints, totally by demitints, and divested of us, to change our habits, to make us work, and for their meeting, by representing the distressed demitints those passages in which few were live like the white people. I will not tell a lie; state of the colony, mentioned the grievous discernible in nature. By these means he ar- I am going to speak the truth. You love your apprehensions of the people, asserted that the rived at an indescribable perfection of colour-country; you love your people; you love the rigour of the Boston port bill was increased by ing, which approaches to illusion. In inven- manner in which they live; and you think the manner of its execution, complained of the tion and composition he confined himself to a your people brave. I am like you, my great late laws, and of the hostile preparations on representation of what appeared to him to be father: I love my country; I love my people; Boston Neck, and adjured him to desist immenaturally necessary to the subject; and this I love the manner in which we live; and I diately from the construction of a fortress there. strict adherence to individuality prompted him think myself and my warriors brave. Spare The governor was at a loss how to act. to introduce into his historical pictures, instead me, then, my father; let me enjoy my country, could not recognise the meeting at Concord as of ideal characters analogous to the subject, and pursue the buffalo and the beaver, and a legal assembly, and was sensible of the imheads designed from life, with a precision which other wild animals; and with their skins I will prudence of increasing the public irritation by gave to the most interesting subjects of history trade with your people. I have grown up, and declining to take notice of their remonstrance. That he was lived thus long, without working-I hope you He was constrained by the pressure of circumWe have stances to return an answer; and, in that anthe formality of portraiture. capable of occasionally venturing beyond this will suffer me to die without it. boundary, he has given proof in his fine pic- plenty of buffalo, beaver, deer, and other wild swer, he expressed his indignation at the suspiture of St. Pietro Martire, in which his friend animals; we have also abundance of horses-cion that the lives, liberty, or property, of any and admirer Algarotti asserts, that the most we have every thing we want-we have plenty but avowed enemies were in danger from Enfastidious critic cannot find the shadow of de- of land, if you will keep your people off it.glish troops; and observed that, notwithstandfect. The composition of this celebrated pic- My father (Major O'Fallon) has a piece of ing the hostile dispositions manifested towards ture is admirable; and though composed of very land, on which he lives (Council Bluffs), and them, by withholding almost every necessary -we have enough accommodation, they had not discovered that few figures, they are spiritedly designed, full of we wish him to enjoy itWe wish him to live near us, to resentment which such unfriendly treatment action, and marked with a grandeur seldom without it. found in the works of this artist. As a painter give us good counsel, to keep our ears and eyes was calculated to provoke. He told them that, of portraits, Titian is indisputably entitled to open, that we may continue to pursue the right while they complained of alterations in their the highest rank. To the nobleness and sim-road, the road to happiness. He settles all dif- charter by act of parliament, they were themplicity of character which he always gave them,ferences between us and the whites, and be-selves, by their present assembling, subverting a tween the red skins themselves. He makes that charter, and acting in direct violation of he added what Sir Joshua Reynolds calls senatorial dignity,' a natural and unaffected the red skins do justice to the whites-he saves their own constitution; he therefore warned air, which distinguishes his personages from the effusion of human blood, and preserves them of their danger, and called on them to those of every other artist; and to his trans- peace and happiness in the land. You have desist from such unconstitutional proceedings. cendent excellence in this branch, he is in- already sent us a father. It is enough. He But the warnings of the governor made no imTo the knows us, and we know him-we have confi-pression on the provincial congress. On the debted for a great portion of his fame. celebrity of Titian as a painter of history and dence in him-we keep our eye constantly 17th of October, that assembly adjourned to portraits, is to be added his excellence in land- upon him; and since we have heard your words Cambridge, a town about four miles from Bosscape painting. Whether it is predominant, we will listen more attentively to his. It is ton. They resolved to purchase military stores, or introduced as an accessory, it is always too soon, my great father, to send these good and to enlist a number of minute men—so named We are not starving yet; we from their engaging to take the field in arms treated by him in the grandest and most pic-men among us. turesque style. Such is the admirable back-wish you to permit us to enjoy the chase until on a minute's warning. But the greater part ground of his famous picture of St. Pietro Mar- the game of our country be exhausted-until the of the members, although sufficiently zealous tire, than which it would be difficult to find in wild animals become extinct. Let us exhaust in the cause, had no conception of the expense the whole range of art a more sublime and im- our present resources, before you make us toil, attending such proceedings, and were alarmed pressive accompaniment, so artfully conducive and interrupt our happiness. Let me continue at the mention of the most paltry sums. They to live as I have done; and after I have passed were in easy circumstances, but had little moto the terrific effect of the subject.' to the Good or Evil Spirit from off the wilder-ney; living on the produce of their farms, their ness of my present life, the subsistence of my expenditure was trifling, and they were utter children may become so precarious as to need strangers to large accounts. They were preand embrace the assistance of those good people. vailed on, however, at first to vote 7501. sterThere was a time when we did not know the ling, and afterwards to add 15007. more, for whites. Our wants were then fewer than they purchasing warlike stores. By cautious maare now; they were always within our control nagement, their leaders ultimately induced them -we had seen nothing which we could not get. to grant almost 16,000l. sterling, for the purBefore our intercourse with the whites, who pose of maintaining their liberties. Such was In the course of his work Mr. Northcote introduces a chapter" on the encouragement of art in England and Italy," which we have marked for extract; but we must defer it until a future number. The Talba; or, the Moor of Portugal: a Romance. By Mrs. Bray, Author of the "White Hoods," &c. 3 vols. London, 1831. Longman and Co. present publication detract from the author's people, as there is not an exceptionable sen- the sum with which they were to resist the obeyed." In conclusion, we have only to repeat, that we consider this history to be a very judicious and well-executed addition to the Cabinet Library. The Family Cabinet Allas. Constructed upon Parts I to VIII. Bull. Herbert Milton, oder Leben der höheren Stände Reminiscenze di Carlo Beolchi. 12mo. pp. 236. The History of the First Revolution in France; comprising the Period from 1787 to 1802. By John Bell, Esq. 8vo. pp. 418. London, 1830. Westley. We WE have gone over this able and excellent ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. The Calculating Boy.-A Sicilian boy, Vincenzo Zuccaro, has lately given repeated proofs of arithmetical computations. He is seven years a most extraordinary facility in performing THE author of this little volume having taken a mere child, and of no education. London, 1830. Rolandi and Co. old, and of good general talents, but is still an active part in the Piedmontese revolution of city of Palermo, where he was born, assigned 1821, and which ended by a renewal of the him a pension, which has been subsequently former yoke, had no other resource except in authorised by the government, that he may flight or an ignominious death. Discreetly enjoy the advantage of careful instruction, choosing the first alternative, he proceeded from which his station in society (he is the with many others of his disappointed country-son of an itinerant fiddler) would otherwise men to Catalonia, where they formed a corps, have perhaps excluded him. The answer to and greatly distinguished themselves in fight-one question, which he solved perfectly cor ing the battles which ensued on the Bourbon rectly, contained invasion of the peninsula. Again discomfited, figures. no fewer than fourteen He could not enumerate such an ele the Italian refugees sought an asylum in this vated quantity, but said the figures one after "THE Family Cabinet Atlas," says the pro- country, where they have continued to partake another as independent sums. He computes spectus, "is designed more particularly to ac-of no small portion of the horrors of exile, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions, excompany and illustrate the historical and geo- would have continued to do so much longer, tracts the square and cube roots, and performs graphical portions of the Family Library, the were it not for the recent events which seem any of the common equations. Another preCabinet Cyclopædia, the Family Classical Li- to shed a new ray of hope on their destiny, if cocious boy, Carlo Pace, who, at the age of brary, and similar publications, by supplying, it does not hold out an immediate prospect of eleven, appeared in the extraordinary character in the clearest and most accurate manner, all returning to Italy. The object of the volume of a public improvisatore, and who was placed the information of large and expensive general before us, is to describe the author's adven- in one of the royal seminaries, that lack of foratlases, in an elegant volume of the same size tures, from the period of his quitting the tune might not prejudice his improvement, has as those cheap and popular works." shores of his native country, till the breaking written a sonnet on Zuccaro. I subjoin it, up of the corps of which he formed a part; though it is no great matter, and is generally and the task has been performed in a very considered inferior to his extemporaneous effupleasing manner. The style, though tinged sions: it is, however, a curiosity, as being with the sentimentality of Jacopo Ortis, (Ugo written by a boy of thirteen on a child of seven. Foscolo,) and occasionally somewhat affected, is animated and agreeable. While describing the romantic scenery through which he passed, or the battles in which he took a part, Signor Beolchi loses no fair opportunity of referring to the sufferings of Italy. And, though something less of political matter would render these Reminiscences more amusing to the generality of readers, nevertheless this little volume is well worthy of perusal, were it only on account of the elegance of its language. From an inspection of the eight Parts of this publication, it appears to us that the promise held out in the foregoing paragraph has been performed as fully as was practicable in a work of so small a size. To prevent confusion, only the names of the principal places are inserted in the maps, and lists are given of the less important, with their respective latitude and longitude. The plates are throughout engraved with great neatness, and, besides the maps of various countries, present us with “a comparative View of the principal Mountains in the World, with their Altitudes," and "a comparative View of the chief Rivers in the World, with their respective lengths." The History of Chivalry. By G. P. R. James, Or all the works produced by Mr. James, we This is the child! e'en this! oh, what surprise O child divine and dear! I bid thee hail! ARTS AND SCIENCES. Novelle Romantiche, in Prosa e in Versi. own. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. CHOLERA MORBUS. obtained has hitherto remained totally un- Gazette, by the Medical Gazette, the Age that there is not a jury in England with whom Dioscorides, whose opinion is adopted newspaper, and others of our gentle craft, in he would have the fair chance which it is alall subsequent writers, derives the name which, it must be confessed, a joke of our own, leged every subject of Britain is entitled to moniacum from Ammon, or Hammon, the to a medical friend, has been converted into a enjoy, however heinous his crimes. piter of the Libyans, whose temple was solemn truth, and we have been most mirauated in the desert of Cyrene, near to which culously horsed and unhorsed. But we would e plant was said to grow: but it appears to not allude to this subject on our own account: THE rapid advance of the cholera morbus, e author, that Dioscorides was altogether mis- we think something is, in common honesty, which comes from the extremity of India, and ken as to its native country; and that the demanded from us respecting Mr. Long, lest the certain fact, that it always follows the me ammoniacum, or armoniacum, as it is our total silence should operate to his disad-migration of large bodies of men, such as the differently written, is really a corruption of vantage. march of armies and caravans, should warn rmeniacum; for it is now ascertained beyond We have been accused of being his partisans. Western Europe of the near invasion of this 1 doubt, that it is a native of the north We refer to the Literary Gazette; and we say dreadful scourge. Two Russian divisions, Persia; and in ancient authors the name of that we might, with equal truth, have been which have advanced to the frontiers of Poland, e apricot is sometimes found written malum called the partisans of a man who pretended come from the governments of Koursk and Chermeniacum. The author then proceeds to to have discovered the longitude, the elixir son, where this epidemic rages. M. Moreau de ve the essential character and a detailed de- vitæ, or the philosopher's stone. We did in Jonnès, on the 22d November, read before the ription of the plant, which he regards as a his case what we do in all others: we menAcademy of Sciences at Paris a report of conew genus, and has called it dorema ammonia- tioned the claims of the party to be able to siderable interest, respecting this new species um concluding with some observations on cure consumption. We inquired of many in- of plague. "Will the cold," asks M. Moreau he plant which yields the analogous gum, gal- telligent patients what were the results of his de Jonnès, "extinguish the cholera morbus anum, which he considers also to form a new treatment; and we stated, as stated to us, this year? But has cold done so during the enus, and proposes for it the name of galba- their answers. The investigation was one of fifteen years it has ravaged Asia? Did it even um officinale. The plant which has hitherto great interest to humanity; and we should at Orenbourg, under a latitude more northern -een considered as yielding the gum galbanum, have been ashamed, as public journalists anxi- than Paris? Besides, we forget too easily the amely, the bubon galb. of Linnæus, and of the ous to lay every kind of information before our memorable plague which desolated Wallachia pharmacopoeias, Mr. Don has shewn to be readers, of pursuing any other course. We and Russia from 1769 to 1771. It was imotally different, possessing neither the smell gave no opinion whatever; but we should be ported into Moscow during the autumn, and or taste of galbanum. guilty of falsehood were we not to acknowledge continued its fearful career during three very that the testimony of these individuals induced severe winters. Will this scourge reach PoDR. HENDERSON in the chair. Two commu- Mr. Long's system. us to entertain a very favourable opinion of land, Germany, and, at last, France? We dare not dwell on these fearful thoughts: we ications were read, viz. on the different kinds He is now run down, secundum artem; and shudder when we remember that the cholera of pine-apples cultivated in the Society's garden the prejudice against him is so virulently kept morbus, engendered in India, has already at Chiswick. It appeared, that of five hundred alive, that we believe he can have no chance of stretched to the north, far beyond the latitude pines previously supposed to be of different a fair trial. To be called a quack and a murderer, of Paris and the principal states of Europe sorts, only fifty are entitled to that distinction. for months, in almost every periodical journal, and nothing has stopped its progress." M. The meteorological journal kept at the garden is quite enough, with the influence of the Moreau de Jonnès adds also some new facts. was the other communication. The journal press, to procure the legal murder of any Already has this pestilent disease thrice adwas accompanied by remarks, and, upon the victim so designated for universal reproba-vanced towards Europe by different routes. whole, was interesting and curious; the table tion. We are not going into the merits Imported in the year 1819 from Bengal into regularly published in the Literary Gazette, or demerits of the question; but we would the Isles of France and Bourbon, it threatened however, supersedes any analysis: it may be sufficient to observe, that the following is a man has had fair play? put it candidly to every just bosom, if this to arrive on our shores by some of the many No highwayman ships belonging to France or England. Prenotation of the quantity of rain which fell or burglar was ever pre-condemned, as he cautions taken at the Cape of Good Hope preduring the corresponding months of 1829 and has been; and though we are well aware that vented this misfortune. In 1821 the commu1830, from which it appears that the harvest the hostility against him is almost overwhelm- nication between Bombay and the ports in the season of 1830 has been reckoned a wet one: ing, we do fancy we can perceive a re-action Gulf of Arabia, brought the cholera morbus to it was considerably exceeded by that of 1829. in the public sentiment, and people begin to Bassora: it ascended the Euphrates, crossed doubt whether he is really a monster, invading Mesopotamia, and following step by step the the medical world to devour its practitioners, commercial communications, it arrived in Syria. or something of a martyr to persecution. We There it yielded to the cold during the winter, have had many dangerous quacks; but no but re-appeared in the spring with redoubled The chairman announced that a course of other quack was ever singled out as he has force, and during three years decimated the spring lectures on botany, in connexion with He offered the proof of his remedy population. It spread into most of the cities upon a given number of patients, to be fur- situated on the Mediterranean. In the spring horticulture, would be delivered at the Society's nished by the faculty; but instead of this, he of 1825 it appeared at Bukara, and continued its house in Regent Street, and that a fete was has had the trial of two strange coroner's in-ravages towards Moscow, where it penetrated intended to be given next June. On the table were placed several varieties of the beet-root: quests, and one verdict against him, which on the 28th of September last. M. Moreau de a deep yellow colour seems to be the distin- every lawyer declares to be against the law. Jonnès is of opinion that in the provinces of This was the working of popular prejudice; the Russian empire which lie between 45° and guishing characteristic of that species from which sugar is made. "Mad dog!" and the poor dog has a bad 57°, the cold of winter will stop the progress of chance. Yet, in spite of his horrible system, the contagion; but from experience, it is proa multitude of persons cured by it came for- bable that it will re-appear in spring, with all its On Monday last, Mr. Churchill, V. P., in the ward to express their gratitude, a matter activity and violence; and he fears its descent chair. Mr. Levison gave an account of an in- of no avail, it seems, against evidence to a into the milder climates of Europe, where its teresting case, illustrated by a cast, of an enor-specific charge:- really these areq ueer laws, ravages will be more terrible, as the population mous development of the organ of amativeness, and queer doctrines! There is not a physician, is more dense, and communications more rapid accompanied by the corresponding feeling, in a surgeon, an apothecary, or an accoucheur, in and more numerous. a girl only four years old, and now in the work- Great Britain, who is not liable to be hanged house at Hull. He also exhibited the skull of for murder, on the principles applied to this the murderer Keppell, and some others, as quack; who is reported to have made (oh, proofs of the truth of the science of phreno- grievous offence!), we do not know whether logy. A singular case of absence (congenital) ten or twenty thousand pounds a-year by killof the anterior lobes of the brain, with a similar ing patients! deficiency of the intellect, was also read. July 1829. 4-07 3.71 September .... 1-60 9.38 1830. 1-46 3:05 2.11 7-62 LONDON PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY. MR. ST. JOHN LONG. WE have been amused with some personalities aimed at the (declared) Editor of the Literary been. cry LITERARY AND LEarned. WE last year adopted the course of giving monthly returns of the proceedings of the Universities, instead of casual reports: we now Again, we repeat, that we are not deciding, recommence with the term; also bringing up adhuc sub judice lis est, whether Long be inno- our lee-way, so as to make the whole complete. cent or guilty; but we are free to say, it ap--Ed. pears to us, that his enemies have pursued him OXFORD, June 23d.-Commemoration: The Commemowith such notable and persevering acrimony, ration of Founders and Benefactors was holden in the theatre. The honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred on General Viscount Combermere, Captain Sir T. Fellowes, R.N. C.B., J. S. Duncan, Esq. M.A. late Fellow of New College. versity College; J. R. Mitford, Christ Church; H. P. Dawson, J. G. Headlam, R. C. Windham, Brasennose College; H. H. Healey, Lincoln College; E. W. Holland, Worcester College; G. E. Gepp, Scholar, Wadham College; T. Burningham, Trinity College; J. Dobson, J. Car-Hodgson, Scholar, and R. Collinson, Queen's College; J. Taylor, R. Haynes, Pembroke College. 22d. The degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity, by accumulation, were conferred on the Rev. W. withen, of St. Mary Hall. 25th.-The following degrees were conferred :- Dec. Ist.-The under-mentioned degrees were conferred: Bachelors of Arts.-A. Fisher, St. Alban Hall; J. Cun- July 1st.-The following degrees were conferred: Masters of Arts.-T. Tyers, Grand Compounder, New College; J. C. Dowdeswell, Student, W. M. Du Pre, Honorary Master of Arts.--Hon. A. F. Phipps, Trinity Masters of Arts.--Rev. J. Cooper, Rev. C. Bridges, Christ Church: W. Platt, Rev. W. Bannerman, Brasen- CAMBRIDGE, July 6th. This being Commencement Day nose College; Rev. J. Maingy, Pembroke College; Rev. College. Bachelor of Arts.-G. Atkinson, Queen's College. College. Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity (by accumulation).-Rev. Lancashire. Queen's College; C. Phillips, Compounder, Clare Hall; of Trinity College. Subject of the poem, "the Ascent of Elijah." Nov. 17th.-The following degrees were conferred:Doctor in Physic.-H. J. H. Bond, Corpus Christi Co lege. Masters of Arts.-W. G. P. Smith, Trinity College; T. Bros, G. H. Woodhouse, St. John's College. Licentiate in Physic.-E. A. Domeier, Trinity College Bachelor in Civil Law.-E. St. John, Downing Cus Bachelors of Arts.-R. Hinde, St. John's College; T. Wells, Trinity Hall; C. Orlebar, Christ's College. The subject of the Norrisian prize essay for the ensuing year is, "The Proof of the Divine Origin of the Gospel derived from the Nature of the Rewards and Punishments it holds out." ROYAL SOCIETY. THURSDAY evening.- His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex took the chair as president of the Society. His Royal Highness appeared the following Doctors and Masters of Arts were created: Doctors in Divinity.-The Rev. R. N. Adams, Fellow in full court dress, a black velvet coat, and of Sidney Sussex College; the Rev. J. W. Whittaker, three brilliant stars. late Fellow of St. John's College, Vicar of Blackburn, low's paper on astronomical glasses was ItThe reading of Mr. Bar. Doctors in Physic.-W. J. Bayne, Trinity College; sumed: and after the ordinary business was B. G. Babington, Pembroke College; T. Waterfield, terminated, his Royal Highness addressed the Compounder, Christ College; R. Hobson, Compounder: fellows. He thanked them for the great hour A. Mower, Emmanuel College; T. Elliotson, Jesus Col- they had conferred upon him in electing him Masters of Arts.-W. H. Tucker, J. Chapman, G. Ha-president, and assured them that he shock milton, King's College; G. Cartmel, Compounder, G. use every endeavour in his power, not only Cooper, W. J. Allen, C. Cotton, C. J. Greene, Pembroke advance the interests of science and of the College; J. S. Baker, J. Hale, T. H. Tucker, E. E. Rowsell, Sidney College; W. W. Follett, W. Carus, Society, but also of every individual member, B. Charlesworth, T. Turner, V. F. Hovenden, O. Lloyd who should be alike welcome to him. His house. and H. R. Crewe, Compounders, H. E. Goodhart, J. Pul-he informed the meeting, was at present underleine, R. Ingram, S. Smith, H. J. Shackleton, C. W. Chalklen, W. Gibson, Compounder, C. Earle, F. Leigh-going repairs; but, as soon as it was ready, it ton, Compounder, J. Neeld, C. Morton, Compounder, was his intention to throw it open, alternate? P. Smith, A. Cleasby, F. W. Darwall, W. C. Dobbs, G. E. Prescott, E. J. Shepherd, R. Collyer, W. C. Fonon the forenoons and evenings of Wednesdays, nereau, C. S. Whitmore, J. Talbot, H. K. Cankrein, for the reception of the fellows and men a R. Appleton, W. Greig, C. M. Long, T. France, W. C. science. This, he trusted, would suit the coWollaston, T. Thornhill, C. Johnstone, Compounder, H. Elphinstone, G. Stansfield, F. V. Lockwood, E. C. venience of all; and those who could not de Cumberbatch, Trinity College; J. Price, R. J. Bartlett, him the pleasure of breakfasting with him. Compounder, B. H. Kennedy, C. Yate, E. Peacock, G. A. Butterton, J. Livesey, J. Hills, J. F. Denham, might be able to attend from half-past eigia E. T. Yorke, W. L. Jarrett, H. Thompson, C. De la to eleven at night. If he failed in any thing, Cour, W. T. Antrobus, J. Antrobus, W. Bull, F. F. he hoped they would attribute it to his weas Haslewood, J. W. Lay, D. Mead and T. Spyers, Compounders, F. J. Farre, H. Stonhouse, Compounder, W. ness, and not to a want of zeal in the cause. Paull, E. S. Halsewell, Compounder, T. P. Outram, They would remember that he was yet be: F. W. G. Barrs, A. H. Barrs, C. Levingston, Compounder, F. Cheere, W. Colvile, G. Rideout, T. Everett, young in office; however, he trusted, with the C. H. Gaye, J. B. Marsden, E. Dewdney, S. Rees, W. advice and assistance of the council, to give Burroughes, St. John's College; H. White, Downing them general satisfaction. Nov. 3d.-The following degrees were conferred: College; J. S. Stock, H. P. Gordon, R. Twigg, W. HopMasters of Arts.-G. C. Elwes, Fellow, All Souls' Col-kins, W. F. Powell, R. Yaldwyn, C. W. Woodley and [This address, delivered in a most condelege; W. Mac Ivor, Brasennose College; Rev. S. Harris, C. Murray, Compounders, II. Penneck, St. Peter's Col-scending and gentlemanlike tone, and with N. Goldsmid, Exeter College; W. E. Wall, Trinity College; F. D. Gilby, H. Reeks, E. Biley, W. B. Frost, T. great urbanity of manner, was frequently → lege. Mills, W. Cooper, T. Grose, W. North, G. W. Livesay, Clare Hall; E. Lindsell, Compounder, H. J. Stevenson, terrupted by plaudits, which were renewed st W. H. Henslowe, J. Long, Jesus College; T. Newbery, its close. Both the room of the Antiquaries T. Sikes, T. Fitzherbert, J. C. Moore, T. M. Barwick, and that of the Royal Society were crowded Compounder, H. Kitchen, T. M. Brooks, T. T. Smith, Oct. 27th.-The following degrees were conferred :- Masters of Arts.-W. Hutt, Trinity College; R. A. Bachelors of Arts.-T. H. Whipham, Trinity College; E. Thrupp, Wadham College; H. K. Seymer, Christ Church College. Nov. 4th. The following degrees were conferred : pounder, Oriel College. Masters of Arts.-Rev. T. Cornthwaite, T. Collett, Rev. His Royal Highness then partook of offe in the library up stairs, and mixed in c versation with the fellows in the most famitar manner. Doctor in Divinity.-The Rev. J. Carne, Grand Com-T. B. Stuart, J. Venn, Compounder, Queen's College; full as they could hold, and a majority of the Nov. 11th.-The following degrees were conferred :Masters of Arts.-Rev. J. Griffith, Jesus College; J. Horne, Exeter College. Bachelors of Arts.-W. Atkinson, Grand Compounder, University College; Viscount Boringdon, Christ Church; G. Williams, Jesus College; R. Smith, Balliol College: R. A. C. Austen, J. T. Graves, Oriel College, incorporated from Trinity College, Dublin. In a convocation holden the same day, the Rev. E. Bourchier, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Rector of Bramfield, Herts, was admitted ad eundem. Nov. 18th. The following degrees were conferred:-Masters of Arts.-F. Forster, Rev. J. Foley, Fellows, of Wadham College; Rev. H. Brown, Balliol College. Bachelors of Arts.-W. Bingham, Grand Compounder, St. Mary Hall; R. Morgan, Jesus College; H. Crofts, Scholar, University College; B. Harrison, Student, T. Tancred, W. Cureton, Christ Church; S. Cotes, Wadham College; S. Grimshaw, Brasennose College: E. Owen, Worcester College; J. Carter, Fellow, St. John's College; J. W. Bruce, Exeter College; R. H. Blanshard, Lincoln College; P. Barlow, Queen's College; J. Campbell, Pem broke College; H. Brydges, Merton College; Hon. F. Nov. 25th.-The following degrees were conferred :-- Oriel College; J. P. Simonet, St. Edmund Hall; J. Kaye, Catharine Hall. July 3d.-The following degrees were conferred:-- Bachelor of Arts.-W. J. A. Abington, Trinity College. Bachelors in Civil Law.-J. Vinall, Esq. Compounder, THURSDAY, Mr. Hamilton, V. P. in the chair. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex altended the meeting, and, having subscribed ta the statutes, was admitted a member. Loc Jermyn, Sir Roger Gresley, Bart., and J. P. Collier, Esq., were elected members. secretary commenced the reading of a pa by Mr. Amyott, the treasurer; being a reply remarks by Mr. Tytler on the death of Richt II.; in which Mr. Amyott endeavoured shew, from circumstances, that Winton's s July 8th.-The following degrees were conferred:-- of Richard's having escaped from impr Masters of Arts.-T. Greenwood, St. John's College:ment, and wandered about as a pauper in Rev. J. P. Voules, Compounder, St. Peter's College; land, where he was recognised by a W. Hartley, R. T. Lowe, Christ College. Bachelors of Arta.-H. Wright, St. John's College; who had seen him in Ireland, taken, a W. H. King, Catharine Hall. a prisoner by Albany, and his hav buried at Stirling, was altogether that Albany was deceived by some who fancied, and admitted, that Richard. Bachelors of Arts.-G. L. Fraser, St. Peter's College; Nov. 3d.-The Rev. George Thackeray, D.D., Provost of King's College, was clected Vice-chancellor of this University for the year ensuing. The Seatonian Prizes for the present year were on Bachelors of Arts.-G. Bird, St. Edmund Hall; E. Friday last adjudged to the Rev. R. Parkinson, M.A., of Greene, Demy, Magdalen College; G. A. Haigh, Uni-St. John's College, and W. M. Praed, Esq. M.A. Fellow ch it |