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Thus have terminated fifty-seven years of a splendour rarely paralleled in the annals of female greatness, and thus have closed the perishable glories of earthly Majesty, and the fading honours of mortal renown. If the imagination glances back to that moment when her late MAJESTY first trod the soil of Britain, the youthful Bride of our revered SOVEREIGN, the proud hope of our Country, and the delight and idol of that people who now mourn over her loss,-what vast events have filled the space between! what suns of glory have arisen and set !—what illustrious names have blazoned the page of history, and what mighty achievements have fixed the gaze of an astonished world !—Yet all this fame, and this triumph, and this glory, have their consummation but in the grave, where the sage's wisdom, and the hero's valour, and the poet's melody, are alike shrouded in the same common doom, and where their relics moulder alike with the dust of the ignoble, and the inglorious! Their fame may indeed pierce the death-cloud, that hovers over their sepulchres, their names may perchance live awhile green in the memory of admiring gratitude, and grief may be forgotten in glory, but in a better, and a brighter world must be sought that immortality denied them here,—in a region, where sorrow cannot overcloud, and death cannot destroy, and years cannot efface,-where "the immortal part with angels lives," and lives for ever, and for ever!-The annals of her Consort's sway have presented, indeed, but an almost unbroken series of wars, and victories, and kingdoms invaded and laid waste ;-and Thrones usurped and violated,-and Empires rent asunder and overthrown, have marked a lapse of years, to which the Archives of the Universe afford no parallel,—yet amidst all those changes, the might, and power, and fame of our Country have been extended, and at the moment of her MAJESTY's decease, BRITAIN was at peace with all the World!

But the strain of mourning over our late QUEEN must close,-SHE has been laid with regal pomp in the ancestral Mausoleum of England's Kings, the last rites of sepultral homage have been paid to her remains, and the coffin that surrounds her ashes is now left in its last mortal solitude.Yet when all this funereal pageantry is forgotten, when the muffled bells sound no longer in our ears, and the black hue of mourning shall have left the land, and when her corporeal frame is resolved into its constituent elements-still her image will not then perish,-Gratitude will embalm the obligations we owe to our deceased SOVEREIGN,-HER virtuous example will shed its chaste and holy light to future generations, and the Court of ENGLAND will yet uphold its national purity, in the remembrance of our lost QUEEN CHARLOTTE !—

"COLD IN THE DUST HER PERISH'D HEART MAY LIE,

BUT THAT WHICH WARM'D IT ONCE, SHALL NEVER DIE!
THAT SPARK UNBURIED IN ITS MORTAL FRAME,
WITH LIVING LIGHT, ETERNAL, AND THE SAME,
SHALL BEAM THROUGH HEAVEN'S INTERMINABLE YEARS,
UNVEIL'D BY DARKNESS,—AND UNDIMM'D BY TEARS!"
December 7th, 1818.

J. T.

SOLUTION to the MATHEMATICAL QUERE in our MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER,

L

180°

B

C

d

D

ET ABC be a section of the cone passing through the vertex C, and centre of its base, AC the longest and B its shortest sides; then in the triangle ABC we have AC=17, BC=13, and the angle at A=26°. By trigonometry 13 sine LA (26° :: 17: sine of 145° 1′ 21′′ (= angle ABC), and [LA (26)° +L ABC (1451 21)] 8° 58′ 39′′ = LACB; again, sine LA (26°): BC (13:: sine L C (8°58′39′′) : 4.622381=AB; now we have the dimensions of the cone, from whence by the rules of Mensuration the solidity is found 41,68616; and since all like solids are as the cubes of their like dimensions, and, as the solidity of the top part is to be half the whole (4.622381)3

=

cone, 2 (4.622381)3 :: 1 :

abs or ab = 4.622381 2

2

4 X (4.622381) 8

4 =3.668786, and

from whence by similar triangles aC, Cb, Аa, and Bb, may be found.

PS. If the base of the cone be produced, and from C we set off CDBC, it is evident that ACD may be the section of another cone found by the same data, and by the same method as above

the diameter of its base AD is found =

25.931477, and its solidity=1311.9436;

and ad=

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25.931477

2

3

COR. Any given cone may be divided into two equal parts, by multiplying half its base by the cube root of 4.

JOHN COLLINS, Private Teacher of the Mathematics, 43, Hatton Garden. [We hope that our ingenious Correspondents who have sent us Solutions to the above Query will have the goodness to admit, that it is impossible for us to insert them all those, therefore, which do not find a place in our pages for want of room, will be returned to their respective authors upon applicaLion at the Office of the E. M.]

For the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

THA

ON COMPILATION. HAT the human mind is happiest when its powers are in a progressive state of improvement, will not, I believe, be denied. He who exercises bis intellectual faculties in a manner worthy of them, promotes materially his own happiness at least, and if he can add any thing, either instructive others, is entitled surely to some little or interesting, for the information of consideration,

As the power of language is unable to of the inind at the moment they pass, arrest and describe the mixed emotions so it is far less fit to recall them at pleasure. But if we cannot clothe in language, and mark down the various sentiments and feelings that occupy our minds at different times and situations, it is in our power in some measure to make up for this deficiency, by recording the objects that occasioned them: and the diaries in which these are comprehended, afford at least to him who takes the trouble of making them, a very pleasing and interesting subject of both entertainment and improvement.

If the unvaried and uninteresting voids of life should seem but little adapted to the composition of such, journals, tours, travels, and voyages, not only furnish materials for collections of this kind, but naturally induce men to make them.

Much is always left to be found by of the innumerable travellers who have him who is diligent to seek; and that gone the same roads, there are few who of information or amusement; and also, have not added something to our stock original, either in the matter or manner that every person of talents is in reality of exerting them; no two persons, even of equal abilities, employing them on the same occasion, seeing or feeling the very same objects, or circumstances, in the same light.

The collector of observations on men, countries, and books, has the satisfaction of knowing that his works will seldom be neglected; for independently of the entertainment they will afford, they will be useful as an assemblage of particulars not easy to be found; and though he may not pretend to give much that is original, he is saving those who do a great deal of labour in searching for, and over, the volumes to which he has resorted.

Compilations were ever held in esteem by the first literary characters, when undertaken by men capable of performing a task which requires judg ment to select, and industry to arrange the component parts.

A foreign writer of eminence says, "Men of talents in England think that laurels wither, while they are culti vating the beauties of other authors. They rather seek for fame, than endea vour to benefit the community. T. S.

To the Editor of the European Magazine.

SIR,

As

S the organ of an Association now instituting, for the purpose of obtaining the necessary information to the view of ameliorating the condition of the labouring poor, and reducing poor's rates, I have the pleasure to address you. It is thought that your sense of the necessity of the above objects may induce you to oblige with your assistance, by giving a place in your Publication to the accompanying enquiries.

raised), your opinion is requested as to the best mode of carrying the same inte effect.

V. Your opinion is requested on the propriety of large and populous places employing land for the occupation of their poor, under suitable superintend ance (which has in some instances been practised), with a view to enable them to subsist without parochial aid?

VI. Any other information on the subject of furnishing employment to our industrious poor, not prejudicial to existing occupations, will be esteemed.

It is requested that communications be addressed to the Secretaries, King Head, Poultry, London.

To the Editor of the European Magazine.

SIR,

mers

Uber, that the American farYOU state in your Magazine for

are said to prevent the blight in apple-trees, and secure plentiful crops, by the simple process of rubbing tar well into the bark, about four or six inches wide round each tree. and a foot from the ground. This statement is somewhat incorrect. Provisional Secretary. which produce the best fruit, and is have spent many years in those Stater,

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
BENJ. WILLS,

King's Head, Poultry,

16th Nov. 1818.

1. IF such of the poor, as have small families, and are out of work, or whose low wages are insufficient to maintain them, were supplied with a small por tion of land, nearly rent free, with the means of erecting a cottage, if necessary, on the same, would it prove a stimulus to industry, be accepted and cultivated, and eventually render rochial relief unnecessary?

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II. For persons with large families, say six children and upwards, in simi Jar circumstances, would it be considered likely if a cow and a sufficient quantity of land, say one and a half or two acres, at a low rent, were supplied, that such would be enabled to live without parochial assistance?

III. What effects might such assistance be expected to produce in a given number of years (say ten or fifteen), on the moral condition and happiness of the poor, especially of the rising race, and the welfare of the commu nity at large?

IV. If approved (and the money necessary to accomplish it could be

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the greatest abundance, and can assure you, that the tar which is annually applied by some of the farmers to these trees, is with a view only of preventing caterpillars, and other worms, from ascending to the branches, and that Lae tar is no other way serviceable, than as operating like bird-lime, by faster ing the caterpillars that touch it ;- indeed, many farmers will not use the tar at all, from an opinion that it materially tjures the health and vigour of the tree itself.

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THE

LONDON REVIEW,

AND

LITERARY JOURNAL,

FOR DECEMBER, 1818.

QUID SIT PULCHRUM, QUID TURPE, QUID UTILE, QUID NON.

MONTFORT: A Poem, in Three Cantos. By W. H. Harrison. pp. 94. 1818.

H

ISTORY has kindly informed us of the Golden age, and of several others, of which we, degenerate mortals! know, alas! only by name; but it was certainly reserved for our's, to be celebrated by the title of the Poetic age, and to hail an assemblage of bards, and bardlings, unequalled in numbers at any former period, and not to be exceeded, we should presume, at any future one. Of these, the merits are indeed almost as various as their claims, and to wade through those torrents of rhyme, which threaten us with a monthly inundation, requires a patience, and a perseverance, which we dare not fatter ourselves with being possessed of. With all these sagacious reflections chasing each other through our critical brains, like the shadows on the glass of a magic lautern, we sat down to open the unassuming volume before us, and entered upon our allotted task, with something like the enviable feelings of a man who goes to bed, certain of waking with the Aight mair! These very pleasant contemplations were, however, speedily relieved, and with a due allowance for some abruptness, some want of novelty, some necessity for farther revision, and some Jack of invention, we can warmly recommend the work with a clear conscience. Indeed, the preceding exceptions are not exactly introduced as valid objections to the poem, but only in so far as the effect would have increased, had such deficiences been sup plied, and as we really believe the author fully competent to have saved us all this ungracious, and thankless trouble of finding fault.

His

The story consists, as usual, of a tale of love and glory, in which Lord Montfort is the principal character, and the scene of which is Netley Abbey, and elsewhere, and the time of which is during the contests of the rival roses, or, as the play-bills have it, "The Houses of York and Lancaster." lordship's lady love proves false alack, the day! that it should have been so then, as well as now!-and the fair Eudora marries the treacherous Lord Filzallan. The chance of war, however, makes her new lover Montfort's prisoner; Eudora begs his life, and our hero, as a hero ought to do, very properly obliges the lady, and sets him free. In a subsequent conflict, Montfort is made captive by the White Rose party, and on the scaffold his life is saved by a pardon extorted from King Edward by the repentant and grateful Fitzallan. A new spouse is provided for Montfort (as no hero can die a bachelor!) in the person of a rich heiress, the fair Lady Adela, who in the olden time had been, mirabile dictu! disguised as Eustace, his lordship's page! and afterwards shrives him as one Friar - but no matter what!for we really have forgotten his Reve rence's name.-This, with the episode of a terrible old Monk, who wanders about with a dark lantern o' nights, carries a sword instead of a breviary, and at last meets his end, by having one end of him taken off! This, we believe, embraces an outline of nearly all the story; and though we have told it rather jocosely in prose, it is really far otherwise in rhyme !We know not if it is a first performance, indeed we rather believe not; but if so, it is entitled to no common praise: the style is easy, and in some passages elegant; the poetry is

in most instances peculiarly harmonious; and the descriptive scenes are managed with very considerable effect and force. As a Tale, it is made extremely interesting, by the author's excellent adaptation of its various parts; and though, by an individual so poetically gifted, as we think and hope he is, more might, perhaps, have been effected, it affords a very fair specimen of present ability, and holds out no very distant prospect of future excellence. The following lines must suffice to give an idea of the poetry, as they are all for which we can spare room; and as they are neither the best, nor the worst in the volume, the selection is at all events an impartial one."

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"Ere hapless HENRY lost his regal power, The young Eudora was the fairest flower That graced his court,-she was a gem that shone

More bright than all the jewels of his

crown.

I would describe her, boy, but words are faint,

And slander oft the beauties they would paint;

I tell thee, she was all that mortal eyes Could find on earth, or look for in the skies;

Oh! bad my fancy in its boldest flight,
Or wildest vision sought a form of light,
In whom each charm of beauty was com-
bined,

With all that graces and exalts the mind;-
Eudora's form and gentlest soul would seem
To more than realize my fondest dream.
But, Eustace, pass we these ;-our early

hours

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ETYMOLOGICAL research is a pursuit intimately connected with the literary character of every country, and we are somewhat surprised to find that it bas been so seldom made the object of study in this country, more celebrated for learned men and works of abstract science than any other throughout the civilized part of the globe. With the exception of two or three instances, very little has been done to fix the derivation of our language. The "ETEX Tτepórτa of Mr. Horne Tooke, and the Etymological Dictionary of the bridge, are the principal books of this Rev. Mr. Whiter, of Clare Hall, Camkind which treat upon the subject as a study. There are indeed others which have made some reference to it, but few that can be considered of such express authority. Upon the philosophy of language much has been written, and Harris' Hermes ranks high on this head. It appears, however, that etymology has been very little cultivated by our literati as a science-for a science it certainly is of very important concern, and deserving of particular attention from every one who wishes radically to comprehend the language in which he speaks and writes. Perhaps in no country have more dictionaries of its language been produced than in our own; but in them all, with the exception of its standard one by Dr. Samuel Johnson, little attempt has been made to establish the etymological character of words -and in this part of his labours, our great lexicographer has been found very deficient. Indeed we know not a more difficult task to be undertaken by any individual, than that of tracing a language so multifarious and de pendent (if we may be allowed the expression) as the English, to its diversified origin. It is, doubtless, a consummation most devoutly to be wished, that such a labour may be completely accomplished; yet so great is the diversity of derivations, and so expansive the field of fancy, which opens to the imagination of the etymologist, that we have long despaired of seeing any definitive criterion substantiated that might give us a fixed

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