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Into our brief parallel between Murray and Durazzo, Louis span we have to cram the literature of the of Hungary and Elizabeth of England, and enlightened epocha; and it will not suit us many other coincidences of minor importance the lives of these two celebrated women." This Comedy is dedicated (by permission) to press our own observations at too much in to Mr. Canning. We hail this with pleasure, length upon our readers, however we may be and a pride not destined to be disappointed tempted from our prescribed abstinence, by or humbled. It is a cheering thing to notice such books as the present. To our usual this double return to the golden days of Eng-routine:lish literature, when the man of genius, the scholar, the wit, the dramatist, were identified with and countenanced by the brightest of Britain's nobility, and the greatest of her statesmen and ministers. said to be a Paradise inhabited by demons, 6 the biographical details, however interest- But, as we have said we shall not go into rooms in suite. The chamber of parade, that of the mother, and that of the infant. The articles of furniture in these rooms were few "The domestic manners of the times, and the progress of the useful arts and manufacAnd the writer justly remarks, in his tures, cannot be better illustrated than by a Prefacedescription of the customary arrangements Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, Queen of "If the eventful life of the Queen of of the apartments of a princess on the birth Naples and Countess of Provence; with Cor- Naples, the ornament and pride of Italy,' of a child; and they will therefore be here relative Details of the Literature and Man-whose idea is associated with that of Boc-given with a minuteness which might appear ners, &c. in the 13th and 14th Centuries. caccio and Petrarch, with the refined Clement frivolous but for this consideration. and ferocious Urban the Sixth, with the saint "These apartments consisted of three and the astrologer, the knight, the troubadour, and the scholastic divine, be one of historical interest, her tragical death was not less important in its consequences to that illfated country, and to Europe in general." +"The credulous populace thought they saw in the With the latter results it is not our busi-marriage of Otho and Joanna, the fulfilment of the preHistoria di Napoli, d'Angelo di Costanzo-published in folio at Aquila in 1582, and reprinted at Naples about ness to meddle; nor indeed shall we follow diction of Anselmo, the celebrated astrologer of ProIvence, who, when Joanna was yet an infant, had been 90, and at Milan about 20 years ago. The esteemed circumstantially the events in the Queen's consulted as to whom she should marry, and on exIstoria Civile del Regno di Napoli (4 yols, 4to. Naples,) own life. Suffice it to notice that, fourth of amining her hand and the lineaments of her forehead, now a century old, has, as the author of this Life justly the race of Anjou, Joanna succeeded her oracularly pronounced: Joanna maritaberis cum Alio. observes, sanctioned many parts of Costanzo; but we are not enabled from recollection to say how much he is grandfather, Robert the Wise, in the sove-by the initials of her husbands' names, in the order This hitherto unintelligible ænigma, was now explained himself indebted to each, or either.Ed, Lit. Gaz. reignty of Naples and Provence, about the marked by Anselmo in the word Alio." 2 vols. 8vo. London 1824. Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy. Ir is not stated whence this publication is compiled, except generally that the authority of Costanzo has been followed. As so few of the Italian histories have been translated cesses were wont to sit on. "This apartment, resplendent with crimson infant innocence. in number, but splendid in their material. and all the most magnificent plate the ban-three gifts borne by three noble ladies of her The chamber of parade contained only a neret, count, duke, or king, possessed. suite-a candle, with a piece of gold inclosed, buffet with long narrow shelves, of which our "At each end of the buffet stood massy a loaf of bread rolled up in a napkin, and a modern kitchen dresser is an exact copy in candlesticks of gold, with wax tapers, which cup filled with wine. The attendant ladies form;-a bed never used, except to place the were lighted when visitors entered;' two kissed these offerings as they delivered them infant upon on the day of baptism; and a other lights stood before the buffet, and were to the princess, and she kissed the patina each single low chair with a cushion, such as prin-kept constantly burning, night and day, as time the priest presented it to receive them, even in summer the day-light was excluded it being esteemed a mark of respect to kiss "This chamber, as we may suppose from for fifteen days, in conformity to etiquette. whatever was presented to a superior. When the name, was adorned with the utmost mag-On the buffet were placed three drageoirs the ceremony was finished, she was re-connificence the times could boast; it was hung (confection-boxes) of gold, ornamented with ducted to the palace in the same state. with crimson satin embroidered with gold; jewels, each rolled in a fire napkin, and at "The various gradations of rank on such the floor was entirely covered with crimson the side stood the low table, on which were occasions were marked in the middle ages by velvet; and the curtains, tester, and coverlet placed the gold and silver cups, in which a variety of minute circumstances. A countess, of the bed, corresponded with the hangings spiced wines were served, after confections for instance, could have but three shelves in of the walls. The single low chair was co- had been presented from the buffet. The her buffet, on which she might place but two vered with crimson velvet, and contained a chamber of the new-born babe was arranged confection-boxes. The hangings of her apartcushion of cloth of gold; a similar cushion much in the same manner, except that the ments could not be hung with satin or damask, lay on the bolster of the bed. The buffet hangings were of silk of an inferior quality. but she was obliged to be contented with stood under a canopy of crimson cloth of "On the birth of Charles the Seventh of silk of an inferior quality, tapestry, or emgold, its long narrow shelves were covered France, his mother hung her apartments with broidery on silk. These regulations show with napkins of fine white linen, on which green, which then became the colour appro- how various must have been the products of stood flagons, cups, and vases of gold and priated to queens alone; but previous to that the loom, when tapestry and embroidery in silver plate. period, princesses, with better taste, had silk were assigned to the inferior ranks. The adopted that colour which is emblematic of coverlet of a countess was of menu vair (that and gold, and fine linen, led into that of the is, petit gris) in lieu of ermine, and the lining mother, which was entirely hung with white total immersion at the font, the infant was yard, whilst an additional quarter marked the "On the day of baptism, preparatory to might only appear beneath the fur half a figured satin. It is doubtful whether modern luxury could exceed the simple splendour of laid on the bed of the chamber of parade en- royal rank. The canopy of her buffet must the one, or the chaste elegance of the other.veloped in a mantle of cloth of gold, lined consist of velvet, not of cloth of gold, and with ermine, but otherwise quite naked. A must not be bordered with a different colour "This interior apartment contained rather couvre-chef, or wrapping quilt of violet silk, or texture. The number and form of the more furniture than the exterior, having two covered the head, and hung down over the very pillows were exactly regulated. One beds, a couch on rollers, a buffet, a small mantle. All who took part in the ceremony restriction appears to our ideas peculiarly table, and a single high-backed chair. The assembled in the chamber of parade. The strange-it was the exclusive privilege of a walls were hung with white figured silk child was carried by the most illustrious of royal dame to place her couch opposite the damask; a traversaine or curtain of white its female relatives, and the cumbrous mantle fire, or fire-place; and the punctilious author figured satin, bordered with silk fringe, hung was borne up by the next in rank. of The Ceremonies of the Court' observes, across the entrance; two others of the same "The bearer of the infant was supported that all is going wrong in the world, since description were festooned up at the upper by the most exalted of its male relatives, fol- some unprivileged ladies of the low countries end of the chamber in the day-time, but run-lowed by three others carrying wax tapers, a had presumed to set their couches opposite ning on rings, were drawn at night, so as to covered goblet containing salt, and two gold the fire, for which they were justly ridiculed enclose the space which contained the two basins (the one covering the other) containing by all.' Modern lenity might perhaps sugbeds on a line with each other, about five rose water for the font. Before these royal gest an excuse for the dangerous innovation feet apart. These two beds, and the space personages walked a long line of torch- in the humid atmosphere of their climate." between, were covered with one tester of bearers, two and two; others were stationed white silk damask, with valances of the same on each side of the space the procession was white satin and silk fringes as the traver- to pass, from the palace or castle, up to the saines, a curtain similar to which was drawn font of the baptistery. The streets, the An Inquiry into the Authenticity of various up at the head of the alley between the two body of the church, and the font, were hung Pictures and Prints, which, from the decease beds, under which stood the high-backed with tapestry, silk, or cloth of gold and a of the Poet to our own times, have been chair of state, covered with crimson cloth of splendid bed, richly draped in front of the offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakgold, with a cushion of the same material. choir of the church, marked the highest rank. speare; &c. &c. By James Boaden, Esq. The coverlets of the beds were of ermine, on As soon as the ceremony of baptism was conSvo. London 1824. Triphook. a ground of violet cloth, which appeared cluded, the sponsors and their attendants as- REGARDING as we do every thing that relates 'three quarters of a yard' below the ermine sembled in the apartment of the mother, when to Shakspeare with the most enthusiastic all round, and hung down the sides of the bed the infant was laid beside her. A matron of feelings, and naturally anxious to do justice a yard and half, below which again appeared royal birth presented the drageoir or confec- to the labours of those who are actuated by sheets of fine cambric, starched clear. The tion-box to her immediate superior, and was a kindred disposition, we beg to call the couch on rollers was hung and furnished with followed by another bearing the spiced wines attention of the public to the little volume cushions and coverlets, similar to those of the (hypocras or pimento.) A less noble matron now before us. The object Mr. Boaden probeds, and commonly stood under a square served those who held the rank of princes of poses to himself in this delightful essay, and canopy of crimson cloth of gold, terminating the second degree, that is, counts or barons, the advantages he expects to be derived from in a point at top. The floor was entirely lords of fiefs; whilst those still inferior, as it, we will leave him to detail in his own covered with a carpet of velvet. simple knights not baunerets, or the minor words, assuring our readers that a careful "But the principal ornament of this apart-officers of the household, were served by an and attentive perusal of it will afford them ment was the great buffet which stood under unmarried lady of gentle blood. the very highest gratification. After having a canopy of crimson cloth of gold, with a "On common occasions, the office of serving stated in the preface that he has devoted a border of black velvet embroidered in gold, guests was performed by the gallantry of the period of more than forty years to the study with the arms of the parents. The number men; but it was the peculiar privilege of the of Shakspeare, and that on occasion of the of the shelves of this buffet marked in a con- female sex to dispense the refreshments which publication of the "Ireland Papers" he had spicuous manner the rank of the parents of were offered to all who entered the natal the honour of addressing a letter to his friend the new-born babe. Two were appropriated apartments for the space of a month. When the late Mr. Steevens, which led to the deto the wife of a banneret, three to a countess, the period arrived for the mother to appear tection of the forgery, and which was highly four to the consort of a reigning duke or again in public, she was placed at the side approved of by the critics of the day,-he prince, and five to a queen. On these shelves, of the bed in the chamber of ceremony, proceeds thus: covered with white napkins, were ranged habited in her most sumptuous robes, and ' vessels of crystal, garnished with gold and was conducted by princes and knights to the jewels, basins and cups of wrought gold and church, preceded by minstrels and trumpets, silver, never used on any other occasion,' as when espoused. At the altar she presented (Conclusion next week.) "But I confess, in spite of the recommen dation of Jonson, that I sometimes allowed myself to be drawn from his works to their writer; the plays sent me back to the portrait |