ANTHOLOGIA GERMANICA.-No. XII.--THE LESS TRANSLATEABLE POEMS OF THE RUBI, A TALE OF THE SEA.-CANTO V.-THE CRUISER. CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER.-CHAP. XIX.-THE ASSIZE Town. WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND COMPANY. SAMUEL HOLDSWORTH, LONDON. 1. Almacks.-2. The Exclusives.-3. Flirtation.-4. The Disinherited.-5. Godolphin.-6. Vivian Grey.-7. The Young Duke. 8. Matilda -9. Yes and No-10. Castleton (By the Earl of Mulgrave). 11. The Sketch-Book of Fashion.-12. Pin Money.-13. Mothers and Daughters.-14. Women as they are; or, the Manners of the Day (By the Hon. Mrs. Gore). 15. Granby-16. Arlington (By Mr. Lister). 17. English Fashionables at Home-18. The Ensnared.-19. Marriage in High Life.-20. Trevelyan, &c. &c. WE have not half exhausted our list, "What call unknown, what charms presume In claims to the Lord Johns and Lady Julias, whom we have summoned the chandlers and confectioners to render up to us for the occasion, we hasten to state for our own sakes, that out of the whole herd we have subpoenaed, there are but two or three whom we have thought it worth while to detain for a detailed examination. Howbeit, as we actually have yawned our weary way through so many dozens, we have (Mezentius-like) tacked together-living, dying, and dead indiscriminatelyabout a score or so as trophies of our achievements; since we cannot think it reasonable that we should be expected to hide under a bushel the flames of a martyrdom, through which nothing but the proud consciousness of the public service could possibly have sup ported us. Yet, despite the drowsy grumblings of the Norwegian prophetess, we think it would be easy enough to shew both the justice and the expediency of a post mortem jurisdiction in some instances; particularly such as this. the first place, to require us to catch such ephemeral insects as our present batch of culprits alive, would be condemning the hapless and bewildered critic to play at snap-dragon for his Before we proceed, however, to so prey; and, indeed, by this rule, the unceremonious a dismissal of the inself-same unlucky wight whom we had numerable patricians whose slumbers been brisk enough to whip up the very we have thus wantonly disquieted, it is instant he had chipped the shell, might but justice to acknowledge the imporclaim exemption from our knives long tant enlightenment we have derived from before we could whet them for the them, respecting the modern practice scarifying. Besides, in dealing with of an art which our antiquated notions this as with any other species of noxi- had certainly represented to us as reous vermin, it should be remembered quiring faculties of no ordinary allotthat it is only their accumulation in ment, and attainments of no very easy swarms that renders the nuisance acquisition. A vague recollection of worthy of notice; nor, on the other the writings of Richardson, Fielding, hand, should it be forgotten that death and Scott, had impressed us with an is far from extinguishing it-the air idea that it not only demanded a long which they have poisoned continuing and careful study of human character, rife with the elements of their repro- as well as some little labour and caution duction. in its delineation, but was in fact a But having thus vindicated our sort of Promethean craft, for which the VOL. XII. B |