have been admired in England, we have not here seen the most successful pictures. There are] The Midnight Mass-Land-slip in the Valley of Goldau-The Temple of Solomon -and The Cathedral of Sainte Marie de Montréal. Each of these paintings has been exhibited with the alternate effects of night and day gradually stealing over them. To these effects of light were added others, arising from the decomposition of form, by means of which, as for example, in the Midnight Mass, figures appeared where the spectators had just beheld seats, altars, &c.; or, again, as in The Valley of Goldau, in which rocks tumbling from the mountains replaced the prospect of a smiling valley. [All who have seen the dioramic pictures, whether in the French or English capital, will be especially gratified with the explanations of the Pictorial Pro In a note is related the following very gratifying anecdote of Daguerre's extreme modesty and great personal worth :] On the 19th August, when the secret of the process was to be for the first time publicly announced in the Institut, M. Arago began his admirable address on this occasion, by apologizing for his taking apparently the place of another: "I have to express my regret that the inventor of this most ingenious apparatus has not himself undertaken to explain all its properties. This morning, even, I begged-I entreated the able artist to yield to a wish which I well knew is universal; but a bad sore throat-fear of not being able to render himself intelligible without the aid of plates; in short," added the philosopher, with admirable feeling, "a little too much modesty-a burthen that the world bears so lightly-proved obstacles which I have not been fortunate enough to surmount. I hope, then, I shall be pardoned the appearance which I am this day proud to make before this assembly." M. Arago's explanations were delivered without notes; his eloquence, so admirably adapted to the subject, could only be exceeded by the reverential attention with which his explanations were heard by probably the largest meeting that had ever assembled in the halls of the Institut. M. Daguerre is ardently devoted to his profession; and, on looking at some of his pictures, it is hardly possible not to believe that he has taken lessons from his own secret, in a most skilful management of the lights which they exhibit. A pleasing proof of his simple love of art appears in his titlepage, which thus announces the authorby Daguerre, painter," &c. experiments quoted in our last Number from the Times, M. S. Croix has removed the exhibition from Piccadilly to the Argyll Rooms, in Regent-street. We have there seen the plate referred to in the above report, and can join testimony to its exquisite minuteness. The effect is, however, wholly unfitted for representation by way of engraving in our miscellany. In the exhibition-room, our attention was drawn to a fine photogenic copy of a Rembrandt, by Havell, which in delicacy and softness of tint is strangely at variance with the "fac-simile" engravings commonly seen; the latter affording a very inadequate idea of the characteristics of the new art. Of course, Daguerre's process, in scientific merit, takes long precedence of the juvenile recreation of sun-painting;” and in a similar proportion the former must yield to the latter in its hold on the multitude. The publishers of the translation of Daguerre's exposition, it should be added, deserve praise for the low price at which they have produced this little work; and we trust that such enterprise will be repaid by an extensive sale. Economy of publication is one of the best methods of rendering science popular, by making its delights accessible by all classes.] 66 Varieties. Cock-fighting in St. Helena.-There is a strong temptation to this wicked sport in the fine breed of cocks produced in the island, evidently possessing an admixture of Malay blood; but not attaining the size that they do in India. The New Magistrate.-He was a lowbred, nasty-tempered individual, but his money had the usual effect of making him a country gentleman, and a county magistrate. As soon as he became a beak, he shewed his talons, and had spring-guns, steel-traps, and spikes, set all over his estates; would not allow a cur of any kind to be kept by any cottager, and sent every man to prison whom he suspected of wiring a hare, or trapping a rabbit. He shot all the foxes in his covers, and spiked the gapways and gates, to prevent the hounds coming upon his grounds, and allowed no one a day's sporting of any kind. The game that he killed he sent up to London, exchanging it for wine and fish, and kept all his servants to dine on rabbits, until they nauseated the very sight of them.-New Monthly Magazine. Agriculture.-It has been stated, that if all England were cultivated as well as the counties of Northumberland and Lincoln, it would produce more than double the [We may here mention, that since the quantity of food that is now obtained. The Eel.-Dr. Buckland, in some observations on the adaptation of the covering of animals to the medium in which they live, adduces the minute scales of the eel, covered over with mucus, to protect it in the mud; this mucus preventing the scales from being grated or injured. An American Judge sits on his bench half asleep, with his hat on, and his coat and shoes off; his heels kicking upon the railing, or table, which is as high, or higher than his head; his toes peeping through a pair of old worsted stockings, and a huge quid of tobacco in his cheek.-Captain Marryat. What sort of Morning ?-Old General used to ask his servant-"John, what sort of morning is it?" "A slibbery, slobbery morning, Sir." Then close the curtains, John, and call me this time tomorrow, if it be fine."―Metropolitan. County Directories.-The Messrs. Robsons are extending their Directory system from the metropolis throughout the provinces. They have nearly ready for publication a "Commercial Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex; Beds, Bucks, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk, and Suffolk; with a map of each county, 20 in. by 16 in. The utility of such a work, if well executed, must be evident. Marriage.-Appended to a paper on the Educational Statistics of Birmingham, recently read to the British Association, are some pathological and physiological remarks, from which it appears that the imperfection of the senses most frequently occurs in the offspring of marriages between first cousins, and other near relations. Oxford-street Experimental Pavement.The granite, filled in with Claridge's asphalte, and the granite grouted, are in excellent condition. The Bastenne Gaujac bitumen shews slight ruts. The surface of the wooden blocks is as smooth and even as when first laid down; the wood is sound, and the wear scarcely perceptible: consequently, the committee have recommended this mode of paving as equal to the traffic of Oxford-street," subject to certain regulations." Letter from a Gamekeeper." Sur, oblig me by kummin over the day after nex. wants to kill a hep of gam. Master's oldest sun's goin to stan for M.P., and I'm to guv all the lectors as will vote for us a basket of gam. You nos our manners kum cross lore farm, and shut all you sees in your rode. Your obedent servant, Long Tom. P.S. Kum arly, and the onder kipper will git brekfist reddy."-New Monthly Magazine. The Tournament.-When it was first intimated that the Duke of Beaufort would not attend the Tournament, at Eglintoun, the report reached the ears of Theodore Hook at a dinner-table not a hundred miles from Kensington Gore. "How's that?" inquired Theodore hastily; "Beaufort not go to the Tournament-nonsense, impossible!" "Tarda podagra won't consent," was the rejoinder; "steel boots are not very comfortable in the gout.” “Pooh, pooh," said the wit, "the gout needn't baulk him, can't he wear his list shoes ?”— Sporting Review. Twelfth-cake.-Some kind heart supplied the Antarctic Expedition vessels with a twelfth-cake, to be opened on the 6th of January, 1840! The diameter of the globe will then be between the giver and the receiver.-Literary Gazette. Mr. Thomas Constable has been appointed Her Majesty's printer in Edinburgh.-Scotsman. The Botanical Magazine.—Of this work, commenced by William Curtis, the celebrated botanist, who died in 1799, there were 3,000 copies sold monthly; a number, we should think, scarcely since paralleled by any similar work. COMPLETION OF VOL. I. Ir now becomes our pleasant duty to thank the public for the daily increasing patronage of the LITERARY WORLD from its commencement; and to add our assurance of unsparing exertion to maintain and to merit such distinguished encouragement. To Friends and Correspondents our best acknowledgments are due, for several contributions of original and striking character; as well as for many suggestions of incidental improvements, &c. It is a source of peculiar gratification to know, that already has this Miscellany largely gained the favour of the intellectual classes, and partaken very liberally of their sterling support. Although we commenced but late in the spring, our weekly sheet is welcomed, for its novelty, to many a fireside; and, for its matter-of-fact worth, is promised a place in many a "family library." Even in the flood of periodicals, the exertions of one who has laboured long in good and cheap literature, have not been lost, or overlooked; but have been generously recognised. Still, as recently observed, "Rome was not built in a day; the best patronage may be of gradual growth; and of our warmest friends, (we know of a goodly muster,) we only ask the favour to shew our Miscellany, though a kindly word, by way of rider, will not be shaken off. In such competition as benefits the reader, we promise unabated zeal. And now, to quote ourselves, (see page 239,) "The world is wide enough for all. The novelty consists in the fashion, the callida junctura' of the workman; 'à l'œuvre on connait l'artisan."" LONDON: Published by GEORGE BERGER, Holywell Street, Strand. Printed by WHITEHEAD & Co. 76, Fleet Street, where all Communications for the Editor may be addressed, GENERAL INDEX. ABURY and Stonehenge, antiquity of, 269 Africa and Europe united, 38 America, prospects of, 251 American, North, discovery in 1838, 102 Amusements, public, changes in, 270 Ararat, view of, 172 Archery meetings, 397 Architecture, Elizabethan, 82 Architecture, pointed, restorations in, 332 Arctic Expedition, progress of the, 102, 313 Ascot Races, Mr. Spiff's journey to, 162, 210, 228 Attila, the modern one, 397 Australia, bird's-eye view of, 391 Baden-Baden, sketches of, 66, 329, 343 Bank, the London and Westminster, 161 Bayly, T. H., death of, 111 Biographies, new, 127, 318 Adventures of an Attorney, &c., 410 Architectural Remains, Richardson's, 82 Hofland, 253, 282 Count Alarcos. By Vivian Grey, 217 Desultory Thoughts. By the Countess Diary of the Rev. John Ward, 108 History of the Navy of the United Books, new, (continued.) Life of M. G. Lewis, 137, 157, 190 Nicholas Nickleby, by Boz, 30, 96, 110, Notes of a Wanderer, 41, 91 Rambles in the South of Ireland. By Rural Sketches. By Thomas Miller, 121 Travels in the Transcaucasian Provinces Boomerang, the, described, 295 Bow Bridge, history of, 18 Bowditch, Nathaniel, life and character of, 8, Boys' love of dogs, 93 Brick and tile-making machine, 371 British Association, meeting of the, 366, 371, British Museum, vase room in, 345 British Queen steam-ship described, 217 Brougham, Lord, errata by, 272 Bunyan, characteristics of, 287 Buonaparte at St. Helena, 412 Burgess, Bishop, monument to, 352 Byron, Lord, anecdotes of, 6, 72, 240, 264 Cairo, scenes in, 233 Caledonian Asylum, described, 231 Camden Society, proceedings of the, 54, 302 Cathedrals, churches, and castles, condition of Caucasus, scenery of the, 173 Cemetery, North London, described, 258 Chariot Races in the Olympian Hippodrome, 247 Chatham, Lord, oratory of, 43 Chicken-hatching in Egypt, 235 Church, new, in Soho, 305 City of London Institution, Aldersgate-street, Clerks' Library in America, 288 Clocks, curious, 399 Club Chambers, Regent-street, described, 402 Coal, small, economy of, 372 Coffee, home-grown, 119 Coffee-drinking in Egypt, 235 Coin sale, the, a sketch, 293 Columns, celebrated, dimensions of, 227 Copper mines, economy of, 151, 167, 182, 212 Copyright, French and English, 320 Corns and bunions, remedies for, 7 "Crazy Jane," ballad of, 140, 157 Crosby Hall, architecture of, 184 Crystalization, new formula of, 372 Crouch Oak, Surrey, lines on, 4 Cup, drinking, Hebridean, 200 Cyclops steam-frigate, the, 319 Florence, notes on, 93 Flowers, temperature of, 128 Fossil remains in London clay, 372 Frog, new one, 144 Fur Seal, natural history of the, 119 Galt, John, death of, 64, 96 Gardening in boyhood, 57 Garrard, Sir W., lines on his tomb, 310 Genius, irregularities of, 43 Geology, Huttonian, Theory of, 287 Geology, new theory of, 3 Gibraltar, sketch of, 36 Gildas, authenticity of, 319 Gipsies, Hungarian, 12 Giraffe, birth of, 238 Graves, decorating, 114 Great Britain, naval ascendancy of, 203 Great Seal, the new, 385 Greenwich Hospital, Painted Hall in, 369 Gunpowder Plot, origin of, 187 Hail-storms, prevented, 73 "Half-price to the Play," a sketch, 68 Hampton Court Palace described, 63, 373 Daguerréotype, the, 46, 48, 254, 287, 365, 414, Holland House, Kensington, described, 82 415, 421 Darrynane Abbey, described, 106 Dean Forest, notes on, 114 Dease and Simpson's Expedition, 102, 313 Diorama, the, 96 Dismay, the, 84 Diving-bell, first use of, 204 Diving-bell at the Polytechnic Institution, 98 Early attachments, by Galt, 67 Earth, convexity of the, 84 Holroyd, Mr. Justice, sketch of, 62 Holy Thursday, Custom, 84 Hoole, John, anecdote of, 7 Hoole, Rev. S., sketch of, 51 Hotel Meublé, the, 338, 354, 388, 406 Iceland and its Volcanoes, al-fresco painting Ignes Fatui, Bessel on, 119 Inns of Court dinners, 269 Ireland, education in, 7 Iron Mines in Gloucestershire, 115 Jack Sheppard, by Ainsworth, 29, 175, 239 Jonathan Wild, house of, 29, 174, 377 Jousting on the Seine, 398. Jousts, Tilts, and Tournaments, ordering of, June Festivals, 165 Evening Parties, sketches of, 116, 135, 147, 180, Kangaroo Island, and Kingscote, S. Australia, 196, 246 301. Kean, monument to, 209 King's Bench Prison, rules of, 175 La Scala, theatre of, 50 Lamartine's La Chute d'un Ange, 363 Laughter, varieties of, 351 Law, Physic, and Divinity, 7 Learning in England, from 1500 to 1600, 297 Liberty, tendency of, to enlarge itself, 275 Lithography and Chromalithography, 296 London, improvement of, 140 Lewis XIV., anecdotes of, 223, 240 Mahmoud II., memoir of, 313 to 329 Man-eating and Murder in S. Australia, 348 Mansfield, Lord, character of, 44 Marriage, romantic, 71 Mathews and Yates, anecdotes of, 124 Melbourne, Viscount, lines by, 260 Microscope, botanical, described, 73 Millhouse, the Poet, sketch of, 80, 87 Monuments to Good and Great Men, 331 Morals in England, writers on, 299 Mummies, Mexican, a million of, 287 Mummies, Peruvian, 367 Museums, local, benefit of, 316 Rome, notes on, 91 Rose, ancient history of the, 314 Royal Academy Exhibition, 111 Royal Exchange, new, 63 Royal Institution, new front of, 34 Royal Society Soirées, 15, 96 St. Bernard, Great, passage of, 23, 38 St. Helena, Buonaparte at, 412 Sand-pipes in chalk at Norwich, 366 Science and the Fairies, 68 Scott, Sir Walter, monument to, at Edinburgh, 2 Scythe of Time, by M. G. Lewis, 158 Sea-fight, earliest American, 202 Seal, the Great, of Queen Victoria, 385 Selfish people, a sketch, 173 Shakspeare, tomb of, at Stratford, 418 Shakspeare and Macready, 272 Shakspeare, new particulars of, 109 Shakspeare, personal history of, 333 Sheep in Landscape, 402 Sketches of Evening Parties, 116, 135, 147, Skiddaw, visit to, 283 Snuff-takers, hints to, 397 Song of the Maid of the Last Love, 114 Sonnet to a Chanticleer, 5 Sonnet on the death of a Lady, 208 |