Poet. "Cui mens divinior, atque os can lay claim to the distinction of, sophy, and possessed of prudence,a virtue, by the way, which neither you nor I could ever boast,-be apMagna sonaturum, dei nominis hujus hono-peared, at all times, superiour so his condition at length, however, boBut this is asubject on which we shall na fortuna has taken him by the never be able to agree The tame-hand, and he triumphs over the enness and insipidity of your expres-vious and the base. rem." sion is often insufferable ;- Aye, aye, you are for nothing but turbulence, the charms of simplicity are not to be relished by you. Kenrick. : Goldsmith. Had the like kind of sentiments pervaded your breast when living, the "Battle of the Busts" would surely have never seen the light ;you would not then have attempted to ridicule "Little Goldsmith ;". you would not then have endeavoured to render contemptible the me Simplicity with Shenstone died.' mory of that man whose effigy had You mistake the character of your been set up.in the abbey. This, howpoetry; coldness or poverty of ex-ever, you strove to effect, evidenpression is not simplicity: however, ly for no other reason than that you your poetical vein, poor though it were envious of his literary renown. was, produced you more, I believe, That you knew, too certainly than did your prose: you were, no knew, that the bust of Mr. Kenrick doubt, happy in throwing aside the would never be seen in so distinperiodical pen, a piece of good for-guished a place. tune never experienced by me. Goldsmith. "Condemn'd for bread, without the inspiring power, 66 The closing sentence is pregThe situation to which you allude nant with meaning. To have a is, indeed, a most pitiable one; in- Bust erected in Westminster Abasmuch as the exertions of the bey, amidst a speechless constel mind are far more fatiguing than lation of the greatest poets and those of the body a poet of our own time has drawn a faithful, but worthies, is, by British authors, "a consummation devoutly to be terrible, picture of it :wished." Even the Philosopher, Sage, and Poet, SAMUEL JOHNSON, was greatly soothed amidst the horrours of approaching death, by being assured that his Bust would there be placed. This may be called by some vanity! but to live through posterity, is, with a great man, "The ruling passion strong in death." The gloomy, monkish professor may pour out To counteract the dull, the languid hour; health, To starve, and raise thy proud oppres sor's wealth; Who pities thee, who values thee, no more Than Barbary pirates those who tug the óar." He must surely have experienced the miseries attendant on such a state by describing it so very feelingly. Kenrick. He did; but, supported by philo A poem by W. Kenrick, occasioned by the placing of the bust of Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey. we as many croaking anathemas as he pleases against such vanity, admire the exalted genius who pires after such distinction. Ed. I Having remained at this fish-place for five days, my master Meaarah took me off with him to traverse once more the deassert of Zahara. He commenced by trav elling in a south-east direction, and upon the first night reached his own tent. We had a very fleet camel, and having started at [Having been requested to day-light and riding till dark without dismounting, we must have travelled at least make the following selections, sixty miles. Upon reaching the tent, from "Robbins' Journal," the Ed-found that of my master and those situated near it were much larger and better than itor owes it to himself to state, that had ever before seen. My Master's return was welcomed by every demonstrathat volume, was written by him tion of joy. This was increased by seeing a quantity of fish, and carried to the highin very great haste, from the narest pitch, when they found me there as a ration of Robbins; who, although slave. The whole family seemed anxious to make my situation comfortable as posa young man of strong mind and sible; some offered me fish; some milk, retentive memory, was too defi- and some water; and the joy of the party was so excessive, that they seemed to cient in education to do any thing "take no thought for the morrow," having toward preparing the work devoured almost every eatable thing in their possession. Witnessing the animathe press, but to relate the sim-tion and enjoyment of this family of barbarians, my mind was immediately trans ple facts, and give the unvarported to the regions of civilization. It nished descriptions, of what pas-was about the season of a Connecticut Thanksgiving. In imagination, I saw the sed under his immediate observa festive board surrounded by my refined, tion. Determined to blend no fic-grateful and happy friends. I could see the eyes of parents, beaming with benignition with reality-resolved not ty upon their visiting children, blessing heaven for the gift of them, as well as for to excite wonder at the ex- the luxuries that loaded their hospitable pence of truth, I endeavoured to board, rendering thanks that they had been blessed in their basket and in their store,' draw from this unfortunate suffer-and that they had been preserved once for more to form the happy family. My heart was near bursting at this recollection. Although I was not destitute of gratitude for an unexpected supply, I was compelled to reflect that all my enjoyments depended upon the capricious whims of an Arab, and that a transition from enjoyment to the lowest wretchedness might befal me in the next twenty-four hours. Well might I exclaim "hard, hard is my fate." er, for nearly two years, amongst the Wandering Arabs, every kind of information he could impart relative to that wonderful race of creatures, and the country they inhabit. The following facts shew, that even these wretched descendents of Ishmael, are not destitute of all enjoyments; and that candour, in such a heart as Robbins,' will acknowledge a fa-fortunate and worthy sufferer.] vour even from a barbarous master.] Ed. [The following shews the contrast which a very few weeks pro duced in the situation of this un When we stopped, fuel was necessary to cook with, but no dry bushes could be readily found. After seeking sometime for them, I returned to the tent, destitute |fice of a surgeon. They repeated this opeof them, and almost wholly exhausted with ration daily, and began to afford me a little fatigue. Meaarah came at me furiously meat. In the course of three or four days, with a knife, pointing it towards my throat. I became able to move slowly about-the I fled out again and procured a few dry blood began to circulate, and strength besticks. I was compelled again to sleep in gan to return. This was the mode of practhe cold air without the least shelter or cov- tice, and this was the result of it. Wheering. Upon the next day, I travelled till ther it was Galvanism or Perkinism, I about noon, and dropped down upon the leave to the Italian and American faculty ground, and was left alone. I gazed round, to determine. but from dimness and dizziness, could see neither tent, camel, nor human being. I attempted to walk, but was wholly unable to move. My master at length came miliar with the Mahommedan mode and led me to the tent, which was pitched. of worship; and declared to the Some warm milk was given to me, into [Robbins became perfectly fa which was put a considerable quantity of writer of this Journal, that it was dried weed, which the natives generally carry about with them; although it may precisely the same in every tribe be gathered in almost every part of the and in every part of Africa he had desert. It gave to the milk a sharp bitter taste, and relieved me from the costiveness seen.] with which I had been much troubled from eating hard boiled blood, and baked locusts. The first thing the family do upon rising, which is invariably at day-break, is to go to Sulle, or prayer. This they perform [Robbins described his situa-with great apparent solemnity. They be tion a few days after this in such a manner as to set written description almost at defiance.] gin this worship by pulling off what few camel-skin slippers are among them; then their hands, arms, and faces, a number of kneeling to the earth, rubbing sand upon times. In whatever attitude, during this duty, whether standing, sitting, or kneeling, their faces are always turned to the east. I was now literally reduced to a skele- The ceremony of rubbing their hands, ton. The irritation of the blankets around arms, and faces, with sand, is a symbol of my middle, and sleeping upon sand and ablution, or cleansing, as they have no wahard ground, had worn the skin entirely off ter to perform this with. After this is done, my hip-bones, leaving them visible; in- they stand up very erect, facing to the deed, this was the case with all the prom-east; each repeating exclamations or oriinent bones in my body. I was complete-sons, in a manner so very peculiar, that it ly dried up; and the skin was contracted is almost impossible for a foreigner to spell and drawn tight around my bones. Al- the words made use of, however familiar though I had seen many human beings re- he may become with the pronunciation of duced to bones and sinews before, I cer- them. It is equally difficult to obtain from tainly never saw one so poor as I was my them the precise meaning of the words self. I was in no danger of inflammatory dis- used; as there is a kind of peculiar myseases, as there was nothing about me to tery in their language, as well as a pecube inflamed, unless a conflagration should liar solemnity in their deportment when have been made of my dried carcase; and worshipping. For nineteen months I was this I was in danger of from the mode of practice adopted by the Ishmaelitish faculty. They heated the blade of a long tent knife-stripped me bare-held me in a perpendicular posture-and, with the edge of the hot knife, began to strike gently upon my shin-bones, and continued to chop the whole of the front part of my frame. I felt not the least pain from that operation; indeed I was no more a subject of pain than an actual skeleton in the of in the habit of witnessing the worship of the Arabs, in families and in larger bodies, generally four times in a day, and hearing the exclamations they made; and will attempt to enter down a few of their most frequently repeated expressions. Looking towards the east, they exclaim-" Sheda el la lah, Hi, Allah!-Sheda Mahommed Rah sool Allah!" They then throw their outspread hands forward, exclaiming Alla Hooakibar ("Great God.” They then kneel down upon the earth, lacter of "Professional Review. and, supporting their bodies with their hands, kiss the earth; and as they kiss it, ers." It would be impudence exclaim again, Allah Hooakibar; then ri-in the extreme in us, and it is insing erect, repeat the same expressions. They now, with a low and solemn tone of sufferable arrogance in many othward heaven, repeat over a prayer from ers who attempt it. voice, casting their eyez occasionally to merit of a work-it is the mass It is not a one to two minutes in length From hav- pettish critic who decides the ing afterwards learned the meaning of many of the expressions made use of in these prayers, I feel fully authorized to say that they return thanks for the favours received: for the food they eat; for the clothes they wear. They most earnestly pray for rain, when the earth is dry; and for sufficient not just, and if it were just, is not food for their camels. They pray for abun- possible. Many self-created redance of plunder, and that they may take beams, because they see a spot amiss." numerous slaves. That the Great God viewers are like gazers at the sun would destroy their enemies and protect them; that he would keep their children through smoked glass, who are alive, and bless all their possessions.In blind to the splendour of his the course of these prayers, they frequently mention the name of Moolay Solimaan. ❤ During the repetition of this prayer, they stand perfectly erect.-Atter the conclusion of it, they again exclaim, loudly, Allah" Ten censure wrong for one who writes Hooakibar, and again kiss the earth, in the manner described, two or three times, at each time repeating, Allah Hooakibar! They then sit down upon the earth, and each repeats over to himself, probably some part of the Koran. During this, they hold in their hands, the most of them, a string of to appear ridiculous. beads upon which they cast their eyes as though offering to them the most profound adoration. These beads they count over, .. stopping as they come to some particular one. They sometimes wear them upon their arms, and frequently carry them in their hands as they are walking or sitting. They close this ceremony by repeating the words, Sulle Mulla. By a studied misconstruction, blended with malicious pedantry, every production may be made Our object in mentioning new publications" which issue from the press in Connecticut, is to draw the attention of readers to examine them for themselves; and although we shall not hesitate to give our opinion of them, for we certainly have this right, as well as others, we have not FROM some remarks which the vanity to think that such have accidentally been heard, opinions will influence others in NEW PUBLICATIONS ORIGINAL. and others which have come to our knowledge, we repeat again, that we do not aspire to the char forming their own. The tastes of readers are as various as their features; and it must be admit* At that time, and it is believed now, ted that there is no more a standEmperor of Morocco, who owes a sort of ard of taste, than there is of allegiance to the Sultan-called by the Arabs, Soultaun. VOL. Ed. beauty! 13 Ed. SKETCHES OF UNIVERSAL HISTO &c. RY, SACRED AND PROFANE, The au Mr. Butler has one remark in this work, which is peculiarly striking. He says" that all the historians, through all ages of the In the preceding number, we world, have done no more than rebriefly noticed a " SCHOOL BOOK," cord the will and government of written by the author of the work God, as predicted by his inspired mentioned. Messrs. COOKE & prophets, hundreds and thousands HALE, of this city have recently of years before they were accompublished the work under con-plished." Historians have resideration, in a very large duode-corded events as they occurred, cimo volume, and have put it at a without perhaps sufficiently adprice so moderate that it is pro-verting to prophetic declarations curable by every reader. The that they would occur. author modestly observes that-thor gives a regular detail of the "This work is designed immedi-leading events in our world, as ately for the use of schools." To recorded in profane history; and the high credit of the authors of with great research, and ingenuity Connecticut, be it said, that they endeavors to shew that sacred have produced more valuable history foretold them. By this School Books than those of any method, the reader, while he is acstate in the Republic. The Rev. quiring a knowledge of the world, Doct. MORSE, and the Hon. No- from its beginning to his own AH WEBSTER, both natives of the time, is strengthening his belief in state, have, for many years, sup- the truth of divine revelation. plied the whole country with We touch upon this subject, to them; and although, as Doct. use the language of the great JOHNSON says of the "writer of BURKE, " with solemn awe and dictionaries," the writer of school trembling solicitude." The fulbooks" is not the PUPIL, but the filment of the prophecies, has occuSLAVE of science the PIONEER pied the pens of Newton, Faber, of literature;" yet he is amongst and a long catalogue of theologithe first benefactors of mankind; ans. Some of their productions and although, as this GREAT MAN are too metaphysical for comfurther says, that the sons of mon understandings; and others Learning and Genius "press for-would almost induce one to fear ward to conquest and glory, with- that they were in danger of havout bestowing a smile upon the ing" the plagues that are written humble drudge that facilitates in this book," (the Bible,) added their progress," yet he may con- unto them for adding so much to sole himself with the reflection, what is written. that although he occupies but an Mr. Butler, avoiding the myshumble niche in the Temple of terious jargon which often conFame, he enables others to at- founds the mind in a wilderness tain its proudest height; and en-of "words, words, words," sucjoys “the luxury of doing good."cintly points out to the reader |