41. Children, the year hath waned away; a new Opens before us; we are as a pack Which Time the pedlar, kindly to a few, And sour to thousands, carries on his back; Some on death's dunghill downward falling whack, 42. Well, we intendour guerdon be our word This year to shoulder crutch, and do our best ; Shall look, when out we sally primely dress'd In Learning's small-clothes, and in Humour's vest, 43. Already Europe bows before our nod, And echoes back our dicta : India, too, (Land by the umber-colour'd Bramin trod,) And wide. America keeps monthly view T 44. But one thing we have omitted ; we are sorry, That when the northern squadron last set sail, Of Magazines, to civilize the whale, Till the spring vessels scud before the gale ; a 45. Farewell !- word that hath been, and must be Beloved friends, the best of friends must part; Monthly to all our newest news shall flee, With comments on life's dim and mazy chart.- At least as long as life-blood warms the heart, C. N. VANDERBRUMMER: OR, THE SPINOSIST. a VANDERBRUMMER was a student at tainment in his apartment to two other Leyden, where he had come to acquire students. One of them was a German the medical art. He was sober and named Kroetzer, a man given to the retired in his habits. Being fond of study of the ancient languages and reading, he often extended his inqui- philosophy. The other, whose name ries beyond what pertained to his own was Laet, was educating for a Dutch department. Metaphysics also drew clergyman. Their conversation turned his attention, and led him to study the on the separation of friends and assoancient writers. But he found them ciates, and how it might be regarded not according to his liking, for he by persons of different constitutions or thought them either too cold and de- opinions. Vanderbrummer, taking his finitive, or too devotedly contemplative two companions by the hands, said, of the beautiful, and neglectful of hu- “ Although I esteem you both, I feel man affections. His mind, from the something at leaving you; I am conbeginning, had inclined most towards vinced in opinion that such throbbings thought concerning substantive exist- come altogether from delusive appearence, and he often wished to lose all ances; for nature is one, and whendifferences of feeling, in the notion of ever, in future, I meet with an affecan universal community of being, and, tionate honest clergyman, I meet again relationship with nature. This filled with the very being of Laet, the same his mind with a sort of absolute ten- that now speaks to me, though appear derness, but with no admiration for ing in another place, and in a different the beautiful, and with no aspiring form ; and also, whenever I meet with wish; for he delighted to think his a man of pure intellect, I find again moving spirit was internally of the the rest of Kroetzer meeting me there." same feeling with the weeds which Laet replied, “Now this is bring grew under his window, or the water ing in metaphysies where I would which stagnated in the neighbouring scarcely have expected them; but I do pool. While his mind was forming not, on that account, question the truth these notions for itself, the writings of of your feelings towards me. I never Spinoza fell into his hands, and shew- can think of any one of my friends but ed him how an endeavour might be as remaining always in his individual made to prove, by logical deduction, self; nor can I take any other person what he wished habitually to feel. for his essence, which, to my feelings, Bụt his medical courses being com- is always his and no other's." pleted, the time came for him to re- Vanderbrummer replied, " Ah, turn home to his father, a thriving Laet, I see you will not take the whole merchant in Amsterdam. This was of nature as cautioner for its parts. not displeasing to Vanderbrummer; Here Kroetzer observed," Your for, before coming to Leyden, he had doctrine, Vanderbrummer, sounds like been deeply attached to a young lady an abstraction, but, in truth, is the in his native city; and his love re- very reverse. For, when you say that mained undiminished, and was che- you expect to meet elsewhere with rished by him with every probability of what is here in Laet, you do not speak success. Therefore, when the term for of similarity of kind, but universality his departure was at hand, he cheer, of essence. fully packed up his books, and bestir- To which Vanderbrummer answerred his mind in expectation of exchan- ed,—“Yes, and what I seek after is the ging the college modes of life, for the feeling of that universality amidst its dissimilar habits of a physician prae- differences of appearances. But, I fear tising his art in a town. At this time, that Laet, when he has once got sethe received a letter from his father, tlęd for life in some country place, or directing him not to return to Amster- on some milk and cheese giving pasdam, but first to go to England, Scot- ture, will forget any thing general that land, and France, for farther insight he has learnt here, and will see nature into his profession. only in the form of his house, of his Vanderbrummer prepared to obey wife and children, or his church this order. But, one evening before steeple.". he left Leyden, he gave a small enter- To whicb Laet replied,-- EstimaVol. X. 3R رو ble is learning, and beyond all price is nosisticas putarem. Et sonos qui, Belreligion, but dear is true attachment. gicum concentum, inter nationes, apAnd if I, as clergyman, were to know pellari solent, tibi magis gratos crediand be personally concerned for all of derim quam verissima harmonia. Si my flock, would not that be enough ?” omnia communis substantiæ sint nihil 'No,” said Vanderbrummer. Not diutius abominandum, vile, aut imalthough you knew the name and con- mundum erit.” Vanderbrummer said, cerns of every person in Holland; for, with some bitterness, “ Quæ non so long as you see nature in the form munda sunt, mundana tamen erint." of individuals, you are as far as ever The Professor answered, “ Apage hæc from what I seek to feel.” turpissima, et scientiæ maxime conKroetzer then said," I dissent traria.” The Student went away withfrom both of your opinions. For my out making any reply; and, every mind desires most to feel relations thing being ready for his departure, which it may always be able to find he soon left Leyden. again, the same as before, since that Vanderbrummer felt mingled sen. gives fortitude, confidence and cer- sations of pleasure and regret when tainty. Therefore, I neither would he stepped on board the vessel which wish, like Laet, merely to be placed was to convey him to England. He in a situation for enjoying always the had not as yet crossed any part of the neighbourhood of the same individuals, ocean in the course of his travels, and and the same things; nor, on the to the idea of a sea voyage he attached other hand, would I hope to find con- that of a total separation from his natentment by endeavouring to recognise tive country. Formerly, in travelling in all nature a fluctuating universality, through Holland, he had daily met In parting with friends, I think that with objects which awakened associasome regrets of human tenderness are tions connected with home; and he not out of place; but wherever we go, had found that the chain of local affecor whoever may be left behind, the tions which bound him to the place of love of truth need suffer no change, it his birth, extended itself, and acquibeing the same everywhere.” Such red additional links in proportion as he was the general tenor of their conver- moved forwards, and receded from the sation with Vanderbrummer, with spot where it commenced. But, on his whom they remained till a late hour. losing sight of land, its continuity Next morning, the Student went to seemed to be suddenly broken, for the take leave of the different Professors heaving expanse of ocean around prewhom he knew, and came past the sented no objects that could restore house of the Professor of Mathematics, those ideas to which it had hitherto who had become blind, and was partly owed its existence. superannuated. He was sitting at his The weather was gloomy and boisdoor, smoking in a wheeled chair; and terous, and Vanderbrummer soon beon hearing footsteps, he said, “ Salve came sea-sick. Every thing then apfili, quorsum vadis?” Vanderbrum- peared hateful and distorted, and he mer answered, “ In Angliam.” The thought with contempt and aversion Professor, thinking he was going into on the pursuits he had formerly desome of the courts of the college, re- lighted in. All his opinions seemed plied, " In angulum? Immo in qua- erroneous and unfounded ; and he be l drangulum, vel aream publicam, et gan to despise himself and his fellowforum doctrinæ dixisses.” Vander- creatures, as beings who were incapable brummer answered, “ Minus acute of resisting causes of pain, and unable audiveras. Non in angulum, sed in to evade the degrading influence of adBritanniæ partem dicebam.". The ten- ventitious circumstances. Before he dency of Vanderbrummer's opinions landed in England, a fit of sea-sickness was known in the college, and the Pro- had given him a sort of insight into his fessor, who hated them, recognising own mind, which he did not previousthe Student by his voice, said, “ Vah! ly possess, and with which he would Brummerium ex voce. Tuarum sen- gladly have dispensed.. tentiarum, fili, haud ignarus sum. Me However, on shore, a good dinner non sordido auctore, credas, quod Spi- and a comfortable night's rest revived nosismum omnium angulorum im- his spirits, and he spent the ensuing purissimum invenies. Ranas, etiam, day in strolling round the small seaa in aqua paludum, sese lavantes, Spić port town where he had disembarked, - fire and in forming plans for the future. Mrs L- had no sooner cast her His father had supplied him liberally eyes upon, than she exclaimed to the Im with money and letters of credit, and servant in attendance,“ Thomas ! - he resolved to take advantage of his Thomas ! what have you been about ? csa bounty, and live and travel in what, why did you bring this here?-carry lever style he happened to find most it away before the Doctor comes down agreeable. stairs. Thomas did as he was orderVanderbrummer, on turning over ed ; and Mrs L- , turning to l'an01 his letters of introduction, found one derbrummer, said, “You will be at a Tot addressed to DrL a medical man, loss to understand the meaning of all 21 who resided about twenty miles from this. The truth is, my husband has El the coast. He determined to visit him the greatest aversion to all sorts of immediately, and therefore took a place pastry--we dare not present it when Rhin a mail-coach that passed through he is at home. He is very particular his place of destination. It was about in his notions about diet." =" What 31 six in the evening when Vanderbrum- is this I hear about diet ?" cried the et mer reached the Doctor's house, which Doctor, entering the room abruptlyla was situated in the outskirts of a small “ Mr Vanderbrummer, you may fear vis town. A servant ushered him into an lessly sit down at my table, for I never bir apartment, fitted up like a study, and allow any article to be placed upon it abs Dr L-soon entered, wiping his that is of an injurious nature. My mouth with a table napkin, and said, wife and daughter would have had us “What do you want?" Vanderbrum- all dead long ago, had not I interfered. mer made no reply, but presented his I don't exactly know how you live in letter of introduction, which the for- Holland, Mr Vanderbrummer, but I mer having read, he cried, “Oh, I beg believe you deal chiefly in oleaginous your pardon-I had no idea who you substances, these I rather disapprove were-I'm so tormented with consulta- of; but when you see my countrymen tions-- I rejoice to see you—I'm afraid hurrying on towards premature death, 2. you have dined-I hope you havn't.” by making their stomachs a receptacle Yes," replied Vanderbrummer, for deletereous substances of all kinds, “ I had dinner on the road, and sup- you will begin to understand my feelposed that meal would have been over ings, and also sympathize with me.” with you before I reached this.”- At a late hour, șthe party separated "Then," said the Doctor, “you shall for the night. The window of Vandergo into the drawing-room, and I'll brummer's room overlooked a rich send up my daughter Caroline to en- shrubbery, through which a rivulet glided with gentle murmurings; a A servant now conducted Vander- level expanse of cultivated country brummer into an elegant apartment, stretehed all around to the horizon; where he was soon joined by Miss and the white cottages scattered upon L-, with whom he conversed till its surface gleamed unassumingly in her father and mother came to them. the moonshine, which was bright, but was a short, stout, corpu« at the same time mellow. There was lent man, bold and assuming in his no appearance of animation, except manners, and impatient of contradice' when a light happened to gleam for a tion, though very liberal in using it moment through the windows of some towards others. He delighted to keep of the rural abodes that diversified the his wife and daughter under controul, prospect. Vanderbrummer sat down and was anxious to convince every one to meditate, and recurred to his fathat he was completely master of his vourite metaphysical notions, but could own house. He had once practised in not help feeling a degradation in bethe village near which he now resided, lieving that the lowest, stupidest, and but having acquired a competency, he basest individuals were entirely of the had given up business, that he might same stuff as himself ; for hitherto he live at his ease, and be at leisure to had not been displeased to own an aldecry the labours and characters of his liance with inanimate nature. His re tired life at Leyden had prevented him When the evening was pretty far from witnessing instances of human a servant announced supper. ignorance, grossness, and depravity. The a dish of pastry, which hour, and finding it impossible to solve tertain you." Dr L professional brethren. advanced, other things, 2. during three his doubts for the time, he retired to quired, as he hoped to prove at dinner sleep that same day. Next morning after breakfast, Dr Accordingly, when they sat down Lled Vanderbrummer through at table, Vanderbrúmwer was pre di his garden and grounds, and endea- sented with some soup made from the voured to shew that he was happier sawings of beech timber, which had and more comfortable than any other been first baked three several times in being in the world. He was interrupt- an oven, and then boiled fourteen ed by the arrival of a messenger, who hours and a half over a gentle fire . téquested him to visit a dying person Doctor L stated that a dog had at a cottage not far off. The Doctor, been fed upon the soup accompanied by Vanderbrummer, went days, withoutany loss of flesh, strength, to the house, where they saw a inan or spirits. He then directed the ato stretched on a bed, in the last stage of tention of his guest to a pudding, a consumption. His family, friends, which consisted of powdered ox bones, for and relatives stood around him. Á and a small proportion of plum-tree genteel looking young man paced back- gum, declaring, at the same time, that wards and forwards at one end of the it was highly nutritious, and even * room, and returned a contemptuous greeable to the taste. “All articles are glance to the consequential nod which equally nourishing, and equally comwas directed to him by Dr L, vertible into chyle," said Doctor L. who, seizing the patient's arm, held it “Some are indeed more quicklyso than for a few moments, and then dropped others, and this has given rise to the it carelessly, and shook his head. The prevailing mistake respecting diet people looked at him with an expres- This turkey, and the knife that cuts sion of anxious inquiry, but he turned it, are both equally calculated to afford towards a table, and began to examine nourishment to the human frame; but some medicines that lay upon it. A the flesh of the turkey will do so a cry from the attendants soon announ- few hours after it is swallowed ; while , ced that the sick man was no more. on the other hand, the knife would rem This was the first time Vanderbrum- quire to remain in the stomach sexo. mer had witnessed death, and it seem- ral years before it could be of use in a ed to him different from what he had similar way.” On hearing this, Vanbelieved it to be. As he gazed on the derbrummer said, “ Allow me to the corpse, he felt sensations of horror, mark, that your practice seems incon couldnot account for. Dr L-_-_-touch- stances are equally capable of afford. uneasiness , and gloomy fear, which he sistent with your theory. If al suo ed him on the shoulder, and told him ing nourishment to the human frame it was time to return home. Their walk was rather an unsocial pastry?” This led to a dispute com why have you such an aversion to one, for Vanderbrummer allowed his cerning diet . Vanderbrummer.com companion to support the conversation bated the Doctor's assertions and to himself, his mind being entirely en- guments with such success, that the messed. Dr Linformed him that Dutch people and Dutch physicians. grassed by what he had recently wit. latter lost temper, and began to abuse experiments to shew how small a quan- tacks with patience; however, Nature support of the animal economy; and him,-- he retorted upon the Doelens that he had discovered a way of sup- and such reciprocations ensued, that plying the lower classes with food, at he found it necessary to take leave of or famine. He then alluded to the substances in use as articles of diet lage, with the inten tion of immediamong various nations, and mentioned ately proceeding on his tour, but found some northern savages, who lived up that he could not obtain any means of He concluded by asserting that such ing. He therefore secured accommo. on moss and the bark of pine-trees. conveyance till the following mornproductions would form very good dations at the tavern, and then saunsubstitutes for bread and animal food tered out, and entered a small book. in this country, when occasion re- seller's shop on the opposite side of He went to the neighbouring vil |
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