FOR THE EUTERPEIAD.

REFLECTIONS.

By a Lady. No. 10.

FINE ARTS.

MENEL,

Performer on the violincello; was a native of France, and came to this country to be the principal violincello at the new theatre in Philadelphia at its first establishment. Upon the Violincello, Mr. Menel was confessedly a

may be called artificial or improved perception; | to be an Italian singer of great talents and exand all refinement of taste in the liberal arts quisite taste, and at this moment they consider arises in the first instance from this faculty. him the most finished male singer that ever Though the mind depends on the senses for visited this country. With so short a residence ON THE STANDARD OF TASTE, AS IT RESPECTS THE all communications, and though their report amongst us, it is doubtful whether he is even be, in a certain degree, necessary, yet, when in the recollection of many persons. by experience its perceptions are improved, it requires less assistance from the organs of sense. A Musician whose hearing is become defective, will tune an instrument with more accuracy than a person with the nicest ear, who has not been accustomed to discriminate sounds; and a vintner, even when his palate is vitiated, will be able to distinguish between great master. the flavours and qualities of different wines, with more precision than an unexperienced person whose organs of taste are unimpaired. In these instances, the mind displays its superiority; and, by an observance of others, we may perceive the manner in which sensual gratification becomes amalgamated with, and lost in that which is mental.

An adagio, of his

His tone was enchanting--his execution polished, and his taste of the most refined nature. Even seven and twenty years ago, when music was much less thought of and studied than at present, he often commanded mute attention to his unrivalled performances, and was greeted with rapturous applause at each concluding strain. own composition, which he sometimes introduced, and in which by playing double notes to a flowing air in the upper part, he made a staccato bass, was a chef-d'oeuvre; and when Gillingham and himself played a duett for the violin and violincello, it was truly a high treat. By his return to France, we were deprived of the finest violincello player that ever visited this country.

Those pleasures which the exercise of a cultivated taste supplies to us, greatly exceed in intensity unpleasant sensations which correspond to them. In the bodily organs,pains far less exquisite than what man is sometimes made to endure, would be ill purchased by the most refined voluptuousness; the rewards of ambition and industry, are sought through toil and trouble, and commonly fail us when possessed; even in the walks of science, weariness and disappointment sometimes wait upon that labor, for which the high price of our health and time shall have been given. But while the delight which a susceptible mind enjoys in reading an excellent poem is very keen, the uneasiness of reading a bad one, The pleasure derived from the arts is at besides being easily avoided, is very trifling; first, the simple effect of imitation, exciting the lover of painting is charmed with a masnovelty and surprise; by degrees, however, ter piece, and turns away with no real pain men look in the imitative arts for something from an indifferent picture; the beautiful and of character and expression, which leads to the magnificent objects of nature, fill us with emo-mediate study of mind, requiring a knowledge tions of joy, but we find no distress in travell- of science, and displaying peculiar skill and ing among straight hedges and corn-fields. execution. A taste for these higher produoSurely this is no small argument in favor of tions of the art, is thus certainly required, in pursuing those pleasures, and of that educa- which the vulgar do not participate, and which tion by which we are best prepared for their affords the most exquisite satisfaction. Pianiste, a native of France; settled for enjoyment: especially if we are careful to No person unacquainted with Music, ever some years in Philadelphia, which was the chastise those feelings to which they give preferred the tone of a violincello to that of principal place of residence of both him and birth, and guard against the ill-effects of un-flute; yet, when it is perceived to be so much Menel, where he taught music. Mr. Gueniu limited indulgence, by the more hardy discimore copious, and so much better adapted to was perhaps the most brilliant and impressive pline of serious and scientific pursuits. all the scientific as well as expressive compo- performer on the Piano Forte ever heard in Whether Taste in this sense, is a distinct sitions in Music, which require a more exten- America. His execution, taste and expression, faculty, or only a mode of judgment, has been sive scale of harmony, and a more refined dit-were all of the first order, and his style of a subject of much controversy. Pleasurable play of chromatic variation, the understanding playing much resembled that of the celebraemotions are excited by certain objects or conceptions; and when we embody our feel-so far influences the ear, that we frequently ted Clementi. Mr. Gueniu and Mr. Menel meet with persons, who have learned to think were intimate friends, and in the habit of praceven the tones of it pleasanter. On the same tising together, and occasionally at a concert, principles, no person unacquainted with the Mr. Menel would accompany Mr. Gueniu in a art of Painting ever preferred the coloring of piano forte sonato by playing the violin part Titian to that of Denner or Vander Werf: on his violincello. Two such artists, it may but, nevertheless, when it is discovered how be easily imagined. yielded no common gratimuch better adapted it is to fulfil all the great fication to their auditors. Mr. Gueniu returnpurposes of the art,the eye by degrees assents ed to France, and report says, that he and his to the testimony of the mind, and learns to feel friend Menel have both paid the debt of it more pleasant. To be continued.

ings in words, we use terms of comparison, and refer to a standard, as in other propositions. Feeling and judgement therefore go to together; but to which should the word taste be appropriated? The primary sense of the word, and of its equivalents in modern languages, seems to imply the former; as the word criticism manifestly refers to the latter meaning.

Taste is commonly said to be that faculty of the mind which enables us to discern and appreciate whatever is excellent and sublime in the arts. Like our palate, what is called taste in the metaphorical sense of the word, approves of what is agreeable, and rejects what is bad. In some respects, it is indifferent or uncertain, and almost always is influenced by long established habits, particular connections, and the public opinion. But it is also said, that this faculty is acquired appears evident enough; (which I shall endeavour to prove in the remainder part of this number:) Of course, then, we shall call this acquired faculty,

D.

FOR THE EUTERPEIAD.
MUSICAL REMINISCENCES.
OR BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

No. 5.

a

nature.

GUENIU,

GEHOT,

Visited New-York somewhere about 1790, or 1791. Though but little known then, and forgotten since, he was nevertheless a musician of considerable distinction, both as a vielinist and composer. Several manuscript concerts, quartettes, overtures, &c. which he left

of several eminent musical characters, who have behind testify this, and his name is enrolled either merely visited or

domesticated

in America, and who are deceased, re-
turned to Europe, or have declined
their professional avocations.

SIGNOR GARRelli, vocalIST.
This splendid meteor but crossed our path,
and has not since been heard of. He gave but
one concert in Philadelphia, and by some
critics of sound judgment and discrimination
who witnessed his powers, he was pronounced

the writers on music by a printed treaamong tise highly honourable to him as a man of science. It is said that he died in obscurity and indigent circumstances.

in America. Almost every house included
between the Delaware and Schuykill, has its
piano or harpsichord, its violin, its flute, or its
clarinet, Almost every young lady and gen-
tleman from the children of the Judge, the
banker, and the general, down to those of the
constable, the huckster, and the drummer, can
make a noise upon some instrument or other,
and charm their neighbours, with something
which courtesy calls music. Europeans, as
they walk our streets, are often surprised
with the flute rudely warbling" Hail Colum-
bia," from an oyster cellar, or the piano forte
thumped to a female voice screaming “O La-
by Fair!" from behind a heap of cheese, a
basket of eggs, a flour barrel, or a puncheon
of apple whiskey; and on these grounds we
take it for granted that we are a very musical
people.
When Boswell asked Dr. Johnson if he did
not think there was a great deal of learning
in Scotland, "Learning," replied the philoso-
pher," is in Scotland as food in a town be-
sieged; every one has a mouthfull, but no one
a belly-full." The same may be said of mu-
sic in America. The summit of attainment

in that delightful science seldom reaching
higher than the accompanying of a song so as
to set off a tolerable voice, or aid a weak one,
and the attracting a circle of beaus round a
young lady, while she exhibits the nimbleness
of her fingers in the execution of a darling
waltz, or touches the hearts of the fond youths
with a plaintive melody accompanied with
false notes. Thus far, or but little further;
does music extend, sare in a few scattered in
stances. Like a plover-call, it is used to al-
lure the fluttering tribe into the meshes; but
when it has done its office in that kind, is laid
aside for ever. Pope Sextus Quintus, when
he was a cardinal, bung up a net in his room,
to demonstrate his humility, his father having

been a fisherman; but as 28 soon as he was

vine. Not the miserable or the vitious lev-again. This experiment I repeated frequent-
ities of music, which serve but to unman the ly with the same success, observing that it
soul, to wake the dormant sensualties of the was always differently affected as the music
heart, and far from lifting the spirit to the varied from the slow and plaintive, to the
skies, but sink it to the centre. Not what brisk or lively. It finally went off, and all
Shakspeare calls "the lascivious pleasing of my art could not entice it to return."
a lute" for fools "to caper to in a lady's A more remarkable instance of this fact ap-
chamber," but harmony, such as befits the peared in the "Philadelphia Medical and
creature to pour forth at the altar of the Cre- Physical Journal," in the year 1817. It was
ator; the sublime raptures of Handel; the communicated by Dr. Cramer of Jefferson
divine strains of Haydn, and the majestic county, on the credit of a gentleman of un-
compositions of Purcel, Pergolese, and doubted veracity, who states that " one eve-
Graun.
ning in the month of December, as a few offi-
We have been led into these observations cers on board a British man of war, in the bar-
by a report which has for some days prevailed, bor of Portsmouth, were seated round the
that a grand performance of music, such as fire, one of them began to play a plaintive air
we describe, something on the plan of the on the violin. He had scarcely performed ten
commemoration of Handel, which took place minutes, when a mouse, apparantly frantic,
in the year 1784, and much superior to any made its appearance in the centre of the floor.
thing ever heard in America, is contemplated. The strange gestures of the little animal
Upon inquiry we find the report to be true, strongly excited the attention of the officers,
and that a combination of musical powers hith-who, with one consent resolved to suffer it to
erto unknown in this country, will at St. Au- continue its singular actions unmolested. Its
gustine Church, perform a Grand Selection of exertions now appeared to be greater every
Sacred Music, after the manner of the orato-moment--its shook its head, leaped about the
rios in Europe.
table, and exhibited signs of the most ecstatic
best information upon this subject, we are en- to the gradation of the tones to the soft point,
Having made it our business to procure the delight. It was observed, that in proportion
abled to state that the pieces to be performed the feelings of the animal appeared to be in-
on this occasion will be selected from the very creased, andvice versa. After performing actions,
Messia of Handel, the Creation of Haydn, sight seem incapable of, the little creature, to
highest order of musical composition-the which an animal so diminutive would at first
&c. hat besides those, a number of the the astonishment of the delighted spectators,
choicest compositions vocal and instrumental, suddenly ceased to move, fell down, and ex-
by Handel, Graun, &c. will be performed, and pired without evincing any symptons of pain."
that, in order to make the exhibition as perfect Percy's Anecdotes.
as possible, every attainable assistance will be
brought in to give magniticence to the per-
formances and swell the note of praise."
On this grand occasion, not only all the pro-
fesional musicians of this city will unite, but all
will be summoned to lend their aid, in addition
who can be collected from the other States
amateurs, will give their assistance.
so which a number of ladies and gentlemen

6.

tion's patronage, cannot fail of success in such
A plan so well worthy of an enlightened na-
a country as America.--Mirror of taste.

MUSICAL MICE.

ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.

was as true as a scalebeam, a countryman A neighbouring lawyer boasting that he (said he) a lawyer always turns in favour of coolly observed that "it was probable, for the man who has the heaviest purse.

SINGULAR.

There is a family in this city, of whom the gentleman, is French, the lady. Russian; eldest child, Maltese; second, Sicilian; third, Spanish; and fourth Canadian. The servant (to descend from the human race,) the dog man, a Pole, servant woman, German; and African.--Mont. Her.

TEMPLI CARMINA

made pope, he pulled it down again, shrewdly saying, "I have caught the fish." Miss Hannah More remarks that few ladies attend to music after marriage, however skilful they may have been before it. Indeed nothing is inore common than to hear a lady acknowledge it. "Mrs. Racket will you do us the fav our," &c. says a dapper young gentleman of- Though the great naturalist, Linnaeus, in fering his hand to lead a lady to the piano. speaking of the common mouse, said, "delec"Do excuse me, sir, I beg of you," she re- tatur musica." yet so little was it credited, plies, "I have not touched an instrument of that Gmelin omitted mentioning this feature music half a dozen times since I was married in his edition of "Linnaeus systema Naturae " -one, you know, has so much to do." Thus Subsequently, however, the assertion has been music as a science lags in the rear, while mu satisfactorily confirmed. Dr. Archer of Norsical instruments in myriads twang away in folk in the United States, says, ICHARDSON & LORD. No. 75 Cornhill, have On a rainy lately published the tenth edition of Templi the van and thus the window cobweb having evening in the winter of 1817, as I was alone Carmina; Songs of the Temple, or Bridgewater Colcaught its flies for the season is swept away by in my chamber, I took up my flute and com-lection of Music.-Price, 1 dollar single-10 dolls the housemaid. menced playing. In a few minute my attenThis is, in fact, an evil. It is assuming the tion was directed to a mouse that I saw creej• frivolity, the waste of time, the coxcombry. ng from a hole, and advancing to the chair in and all the disadvantages of music, without which I was sitting. I ceased playing, and it any of its ubstantial benefits. That which ran precipitately back to its hole; I began Shakspeare praise, and Milton cultivated, and again shortly afterwards, and was much surwhich is supposed to be the language of saints prised to see it re-appear, and take it doand angels when they hymn their Maker'ssition. The appearence of the little anima praise, ough to be a nation's care: but then we truly delightful it couched use for th it ought to be so only on proper grounds an Joor, shen its eyes, and appeared in ecstacy in the true ethereal spirit which fits it for di- I ceased playing, and it instantly disappeared

per dozen.

The rapid and increasing sales of this work, are sufficient proof of its excellence, and of its pecu

liar fitness to the wants of the congregational church

es, and musical societies. A letter to the publishers from a Bookseller in the interior of New Hampshire, says, "Nothing else of the music kind sells, Country people are so proud, they had rather give ten dollars for Songs of the Temple, that have a certain work for nothing. So send me 50 more.

EUTERPE1AD:

OR....MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER.

BOSTON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1821.

JOHN CHARLTON FISHER.

On our first page, we have inserted, and beg leave to call the attention of our readers to the Prospectus of a New Paper intended to be issued at New-York, under the title of The Albion, to be edited by the above mentioned gentleman, whose prose and poetic effusions have often appeared in the Euterpeiad under the signature of "Yorick," "Constantine," "Per

severance," &c.

THE ORCHESTRA.

The extraordinary excitement, occasioned by the transit of a brilliant Star in our musical hemisphere, has called our attention to the state of the Instrumental Orchestra, whose services, in several late intances have been much needed.

It must be admitted that the delight which almost every individual receives from music, combined with the leisure which wealth and civilization affords to most classes, and the taste for intellectual pleasures growing out of these two causes; have brought the science into more general practice and request. Its cultivation will in a considerable degree depend upon the rank, quality and standing of the Professional gentleman, many of whom are attached to the orchestra. As the propagation of the art depends in a great degree upon them, as it is desirable both for themselves and the Amateurs, that their intercourse should be preserved by the surest and safest ties, a few observations on these subjects may be conceived seasonable at this period.

We have already stated in a former number, that

condition, and while his sensibility is sharpened by effects. In most of those ballets, the several acts

seem so many different subjects, connected together only by some general relation, foreign to the action, which the spectater would not discover, if the author did not make it known in the prologue.

The Ballet is treated much at length in the New French Encyclopediae. When Mr. Framery seems to have exhausted the subject, it is resumed by his

his art, his taste occasionally awakened, and his
manners improved by the good company into which
that art casually introduces him, it is most probable
he is only made to feel the more acutely those de-
ficiences which he has not the means to repair.
The polite and the informed who are induced to en-
ter into.conversation with him, discover at once
that his recommendations are confined to his fiddle colleague in the musical department Mr. Guin-
or his voice, and they quit him under. that hopeless genne, who has still found much to say on the sub-
conviction; while he himself is doomed to experi- ject. Ballet, he informs us, is a term that includes
ence for evermore the mortification of a neglect the three different kinds of exhibition on the Lyric
more cutting, as he conceives the insolence of Stage. In the first, the dance constitutes only a sub-
wealth, or the hard heartedness of pride. Of his ordinate part of the action represented. In the sec.
own defects unhappily it is a part of his portion to ond, it is the principal part; poetry and vocal music
remain ignorant. He has no standard of comparison, then becoming accessories in their turn; and, lastly,
but these who are his equals in general circumstan- in the third, the whole business is perform-
ces, and his inferiours in the one pursuit to which ed in dancing; and in representing an action in
he owes his bread and his advancement. He is which the performances neither speak nor sing; they
therefore surrounded by causes which lead him to dance. The first kind is simply called a ballet: the
erroneous conclusions, both with regard to himself, second a ballet opera, or opera ballet; an opera with
and to others. We trust we are understood now to dances anologous to the drama: the third is called a
speak of the bulk of musicians. Those happier in pantomime ballet. To treat this subject its full extent
stances of men educated under the intelligent care of would require a volume. Music is so inseparable from
parents or friends, whose previous success in the the dance, that the word ballet may be regarded as a
profession or in life, has enabled them to find the musical term. The music to opera dances used to be
easier path to greatness, give a contrast but not a furnished by the composer of Air and Recitatives.
contradiction to our general description.
Hasse, Jomelli, and Gluck distinguished themselves
as much by the music of grand ballet, as by the op-
era itself, as did Doct. Arne, by the dances in Co-

From what has been observed, it may be deduced, that all who enter the profession of music, should have an especial regard to two material facts. First. hat it is a liberal art which requires the aid and support of a liberal education; and secondly, that as the profession is sure to be associated more or less intimately with persons of birth, affluent circumstances, and enlarged acquirements, it is essential to its prosperity that the mind should be trained to elegant pursuits and attainments, as well as to a just sense of what is due to character, independently of particular

science.

If such are the facts, and can be so easily proved, they are indispensibly necessary to the advancement of a professional reputation, as well as to the removal of those prejudices, which with more or less justice now obtain against the introduction of musicians into the intimacy with the world, to which persons of infinitely lower standing in intellectual refinement, are commonly admitted. It appears that a COLLEGIATE ESTABLISHMENT for the education of youth, designed for the profession of Music, is the grand desideratum. As we are not yet prepared to go into the detail for such a foundation, we shall resume this subject on a future occasion.

"The character of musicians is clouded and obscured
by facts and prejudices, owing to the existence of
a laxity of principle, which in a great degree, has a
tendency to exclude them from genteel society,"
and we have also stated, "that the many suffer for
the few." The rewards which music promises are
perhaps as frequently the motive to adopt it for a
profession, as any real or supposcd aptitude, and of
the hundreds of persons annually trained to the sci-
ence, perhaps there is a pretty equal portion of those
who follow it from mere necessity, or from some
casual facility or incitement, and of those who take it
by descent as it were. The education of all those
persons are lose and vague. Some find their way to
the theatres, many to private teaching, and but
too many into the wretchedness of subordinates in
every department. Few indeed are they who com-
bine general knowledge with excellence in art.
Upon such knowledge, nevertheless depends all the
estimation they can hope to enjoy in society, beyond
the short lived admiration which the exercise of pat-
ticular talent immediately excites; all the estimation
which gives solidity and value to the brilliancy of
genius, all the moral rank, if I may call it so, which
dignifies man in Society. The labour of practice can
scarcely ever be relieved, except by some coarse or Ballet is likewise the name given in France to a
dissolute species of dissipation. The poor musician whimsical kind of opera, where dancing is hardly
can find no better associates than those of his own more in place than in others, or productive of better

THE BALLET, OR STAGE DANCE.

Rosseau defines this word to be a theatrical action, represented by dancing, guided by music, The music of which ought to be still more cadenced and accented than mere vocal melody, it is the business of music, to suggest to the dance that animation and expression which the singer acquires from the words, and it is likewise her business to supply in the language of the soul and passions, all that the dance cannot present to the eyes of the spectator.

mus.

Dancing is so necessarily connected with music, that in treating on one art, we cannot avoid allusions to the other. What is it that excites dancing? Music. What is it that regulates the steps of the

dance? Music. What is it that exhilarates and

keeps off fatigue, but music," From the social rustic dance of our peasants and domestics, to the sublime ballet heroique," says a learned author,"music is called to animate and enliven the one, and to give grace and dignity to the other. No music can boast a superior longevity to our country dances. No music is more accented, more impressive, and more varied in its measures, than that of Grand Ballets. Music and dancing are frequent rivals; but as they cannot subsist without each other, their little jealousies never come to an open quarrel.

La Belle Peruvienne, the first regular Ballet witnessed at our theatre, possesses much interest in design, and affords an uncommon novel and brilliant spectacle, an inordinate unanimity of opinion prevails among those who are conversant with this elegant species of rational amusement. Professors and Amateurs agree in the merits which the Music of this Ballet abounds; selections, and scraps of passages, the most effective, are taken from the most eminent authors, and are combined by a most happy adaptation, with the scenic representation. To this attrac tion, we may add the unequalled talents of Monsieur La Basse, who evidently ranks among the first class of artists in Europe, the happy efforts of Monsieur Tatia, combined with the extraordinary exertions of Mr. and Mrs. Parker, afford a powerful co-operation of talents, highly pleasing, and truly interesting to those Amateurs desirous of being gratified, by a combination of sight and sound.

LADIES

DEPARTMENT.

A ROUE AND A DANDY.

I have some naked thoughts that rove about, And loudly knock to have their passage out. Our sources of amusement are as various, as capabilities of enjoyment are extensive.

In sober verity I will confess a truth to you, read66 Nought is for us too high, or aught too low." er, I love a fool-as naturally as if I were of kith and The Roue is inimitable. Ease, self possession, lakin to him. And take my word for it, and say a fool porte de cavalier, are his characteristics :-yet he is usually a scholar; has attained elegant literature, and elegant accomplishments; and can converse freely on useful sciences. He regards the sex with warmth, but is never fulsome. He is always welcome to women, because, though frequently light and trifling, he is never insipid. His life is made up and blended of the brightest hues :

A gay creature of the element,

That in the colours of the rainbow lives
And plays i' th' plighted clouds.

In his dress, the Roue does not disdain the "aid of ornament:"-it is gay, not gaudy; well fitted to display his form, but not too precise; exact, but not stiff-there is finish without apparent design: art is

called in to assist nature.

The whole world without art and dress,
Would be but one great wilderness;
And mankind but a savage herd,
For all that nature has conferr'd:
This does but rough-hew and design,
Leaves art to polish and refine.

told it you, if you please, that he who has not a dram
of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse
matter in his composition. It is observed, "that the
foolisher the fowl or fish,-wood cocks,—dotterels,
&c, the finer the flesh thereof," and what are com-
only the world's received fools, but such whereof,
the world was not worthy? and what have been
some of the kindliest patterns of our species, but so
many darlings of absurdity, minions of the goddess'
and her white boys?

LOVERS.

Zeno founder of the Stoics, on being told that love was unbecoming a philosopher, replied," If this were true, the fate of the fair sex would be lamentable, for they would then be loved only by fools."

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.

Alas! lady, exclaimed Xerophrastes, the Stoic, this is after all a miserable world. There is no rest but in the affections, and, behold, how they are harassed on every hand by the invidious accidents of life. Philosophy proclaims her antidote, but the poison is every where, and it is all one course of being wounded to be cured, and of being cured only to be more easily wounded again. I thought I had overcome all this, but alas! (he sobbed audibly) I feel that I am but a man, and that all is to begin again.

A PICTURE.

Never were characters, commonly supposed to have affinity or connexion, more really and widely dissimi lar than are the Roue and the Dandy. I have described the Roue-now to try my hand at the Dandy. The Dandy is not a man, but a mere graft upon the genuine stock. The body of the man, 'tis true, (and barely that) with an effeminate soul(inark me! not a woman's; for their's is naturally noble) with a soul, did I say?-Psha! "they have no souls!" they are weak-dull-minded, "unfit to His broad ruddy face seemed made for the very carry burthens." They lisp, they amble, and they habitation of smiles-his lips were ever wreathed jig; and certainly they "nick-name God's crea- with benignity not to be mistaken, and the tones of tures," They languish through quadrilles, and his voice were so rich and easy, that Thersites himwhisper their self admiration to their deriding part. self would not have dared to suspect them of malice. Their bodies want the sap which should make the branches flourish.-We know then not, there is no sympathy between us: an sternal barrier divides us.—In a word, they are not es hommes bien nourris-Lon. Mag.

ners.

WOMAN'S WEAK SIDE. Peter maintained the doctrine of the Centurion. By the power of Mars, said the soldier, they are all alike. It is but flattery and boldness, and there is no one need despair. Proud, haughty and imperious, how fortunate it is that they are also vain, silly, lux-. urious-and, above all, that they are the fools of flattery.

Charles protested against such unworthy notions of the ladies. It might be true, he said, in the decline of the Roman Empire, but the sex now. are more rational, and flattery and impudence bring their possessor into contempt.

DEFAMATION.

By defamation the peace of individuals has been destroyed, the harmony of families annihilated, and the social circle dissolved. An English writer proposes a tax on calumny, that a vice, which has hitherto done nothing but evil, may contribute something to the public good. Another remedy has also been suggested, let the slanderers be banished to the solitary tops of high hills, and their provisions sent to them in a cart driven by a man both deaf and dumb.

ACCOUNT CURRENT.

WOMAN, DR.
Oh the woes that woman bring!
Scource of sorrow, grief and pain!
All our evils have their spring
In the first of female train:

Eve, by eating, led poor Adam,
Out of Eden and estray;
Look for sorrow still, where Madam,
Pert and proud, directs the way.
Courtship is a slavish pleasure;
Soothing a coquetish train;
Wedded-what the mighty treasure!
Doom'd to drag a golden chain.
Noisy clack and constant brawling,
Discord and domestic strife;
Empty cup-board, children bawling,
Follow woman made a wife!

The following notions of female beauty in Ceylon, although singular in certain particulars, are by no means barbarous :-The Singalese women are generally well made and well looking, and often handsome. Their countrymen who are great connoiseurs

of the charms of the sex, and who have books on the subject, and rule to aid the judgment, would not allow a woman to be a perfect belle, unless of the following character, the particulars of which I shall give in detail, as they were enumerated to me by a Kanyan courtier well versed and deeply read in such matters :-" Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of a peacock; long, reaching to the knees, and terminating in graceful curls; her eyebrows should resemble the rainbow; her eyes the blue sapphire, and the petals of the blue mamilla flower. Her nose

FOR THE EUTERPEIAD.

PERSEVERANCE,

OR, THE INFALLIBLE METHOD.
A Tale, Continued.

SPANISH WOMEN.

The following passed is from Howell's Familiar Letters, written in 1668, at which time he was in Spain.

TO MR. MEINICKE ON HEARING HIS TE DEUM
By a lady.

When pious David, tuned his lyre

To calm a monarch's troubled breast;
He asked of Heaven that sacred fire,
Forever on its strings might rest.

The prayer was heard-for on his soul
A more than mortal power was shed,
The monarch felt the strong controul,
The Demon heard the sounds and fled.
Sure in thy lonely hours of thought,
When Fancy asked her aid from Heavn,
Thy soul the Psalmist's spirit caught,
To thee the Psalmist's harp was given.

should be like the bill of the hawk, her lips should be our fair readers should hastily condemn the apparent bright and red like coral on the young leaf of the iron | inconstancy of our heroine whom we would fain raise tree. Her teeth should be small, regular and closely in their estimation for this very inconstancy, we reset, like jessamine buds. Her neck should be large quest them to put themselves in the same situation, "Touching these women, nature hath made a and round, resembling the berrigodea. Her chest as far as imagination (in which none of them we are more visible division betwixt the two sexes here than should be capacious, her breasts firra and conical, like confident are deficient) will permit them. Let them elsewhere-for the men for the most part are swarthy the yellow cocoanut, and her waist small-almost then decide whether, when Caroline's beauties of and rough, but the women are of a far finer mould, and are commonly little, and whereas there is a saysmall enough to be clasped by the hand-her hips mind and person were brought out, and displayed ing that makes a complete woman, let her be Engshould be wide, her limbs tapering, the soles of her even to her own astonishment, when she felt her-lish to the neck, French to the waist, and Dutch befeet without any hollow, and the surface of her body self possessed of a mind and intelligence infinitely low, I may add for hands and feet let her be Spanish, in general, soft, delicate, smooth and rounded, with superior to those of the man she once fancied her for they have the least of any. out the asperities of projecting bones and sinews." equal, when she found him instead of accompanyThe preceding is the most general external character ing her, step by step, in the paradise of knowledge that can be given the Singalese. It may be added, revealed to her view, ignobly passing his time in that corresponding to their conformation of body, corporeal enjoyments, and left far behind in the nothey are rather remarkable for agility and flexibility ble race-let our fair readers then decide, for then than for strength of limb; and that they are capable only will they decide with impartiality, whether our rather of long continued, than of great exertion."- heroine is not to be honorably acquitted of the Davy's Ceylon. high crimes and misdemeanors, we have supposed might be, by some fastidious persons, laid to her charge. Considering her, therefore, free from the slightest imputation of this sort, we repeat that she now loved and dearly loved, the unconscious Morti. mer, whose faithful attachment and resolute perseverance under what appeared insurmountable difficulties, would in the same manner have deserved and gained The six months probation was now rapidly ad- the love of any woman upon earth. "None but the vancing to an end, when the hopes and fears of all brave deserve the fair," was long ago the poet's edict parties concerned were to be realised in the accom--from our own experience, we would add. none plishment, or destruction of their happiness. Judge but the ardent and resolute ever win them!" with what agitation of mind, with what alternate Left entirely, by Bertram and her parents, to the excitement of expectation, and chilness of despair, Caroline looked forward to the next visit of her now free exercise of her thoughts, or the uninterrupted loved Mortimer! He had declared he would return at prosecution of her studies in solitude, the love which the end of the six months, but whether to release her Caroline now dared to cherish in secret for Mortimer Nor was from her engagement to the peasant Bertram, or to became the sole delight of her existence. witness its fulfilment by uniting their hands, she still there any apparent obstacle to her publicly avowing With her par. fancied was a mystery she could not penetrate.it, in the conduct of all around her. The human heart is too apt to persuade itself, that what constitutes its fondest aspirations will never happen, that the strong arm of fate always interferes between two lovers, and that love is doomed to perpetual misery. This feeling is often experienced in those moments of languor that always succeed the rapturous dreams of an over-excited Imagination, which sometimes takes delight in dashing us from the pinnacle of expectation to the abyss of despair; and it is certain, by how much our hopes are raised in anticipation, by so much the more prone are we, as as the final crisis arrives, to dread their utter failure in disappointment. So intimate is the connexion between what we wish, and what we fear! Just so

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ents, Mortimer's rank, his splendour, his riches,
his kindness afforded constant and sympathetic
subjects for unrestrained communication; and, truly,
those good people did labor most zealously to impres-
upon their daughter's mind a due sense of the imports
ance attached to the title of Countess, which they
affirmed she might have whenever she saw her own
interest in a clear light. And Careline was not
blind to what claims some share of even the most
single heart, but though she certainly did not dislike
Mortimer's rank, and looked forward with some little
flutterings to a presenation at the Royal Court of
England's Sovereign, yet she loved him truly for him-
self, and independent of the ornament of rank and
fortune, would have given her haud and heart to

the proudest titles in the catalogue of mobility, titles

which king's cannot confer, and with which to here ai
tary dignity is rather a badge of disgrace than giory.
Nay,so impressed was Bertram with a sense of Morti-
mer's vast superiorit in every respect,and so sensible
was he that Caroline's newly acquired accomplish
ment put a bar between then which he never could

it was with the heroine of our tale. Whatever justbin fearlessly as a gentleman and a mau of honor,
expectations she might naturally have entertained
that Mortimer's design was to disengage her from
Bertram, by revealing to herself the superiority of
her mind and refinement over his, and however
satisfied she had every reason to be that her ben.
efactor's love for her was unbounded, and conse-
quently, that he would happily complete the work
he had begun yet, such is the waywardness of
our disposition, she could not help feeling a consid.surincunt, that he was heard to join with fervid sa-
erable degree of anxiety and suspense as to the
result. is true she now loved with a pur. and
refined passion, founded on gratitude, the
strongest
of all foundations, the same man whom she had dis-
dainfully rejected nearly six months before, and lest

perity in even the most extravagant encomiums, that
the vanity of her parents, contrary to the wishes and
rodest judgement of Carolius, were in the censtant
bit of reiterating before him with all the garrulity

of old age.

For ne'er to warm Devotion's glow,

Her strains did heavenly music lend,
More soft than those that round me flow,

More high than those that now ascend.
Long to the sinner's wayward heart,
May Music speak is tones as sweet,
Till the dark demon Sin depart,
And leave it pure at Jesus' feet.

Balt. Morn. Chron.

FOR THF EUTFRPEIAD. SONG.

Eveleen's Bower.

1.

The Warrior so brave
Sails over the wave,
And the Lady laments in her lonely tow'r :
By the moonbeam's light,
From her casement's height,
She sighs forth her grief to the midnight hour.
"Oh! bring back the day”—
The Lady would say,
"When my Warrior came to my maiden bow'r:
Then first my young heart felt,
As he gracefully knelt,

How sweet 'tis to yield to Love's waken'd pow'r !!!

From duty now freed,

The Warrior with speed

Is landed on the path to the Maiden's seat:
O'er mountain and waste,

He flies with am'rous haste,
Till he kneels once again at the Lady's feet
But changed her aspect now,

For coldness on her brow
Shew'd how the Lady pin'a, as he cross'd the wave!
A new lover came,

And with his specious flame,

Had effac'd every thought of the Warrior brave!
YORICK.