tamen practicum are the 1889th, the 1891ft, Reimbauer's own account of the murder is and 1893d paragraphs of this truly anti- without a parallel for cool atrocity, and is chriftian Ethica Chriftiana, which appeared worth extracting. The murderer was not in 1789, in fix thick volumes. In the above- without precedent in giving his victim abfonamed paragraphs a Christian is allowed to lution. Pope Alexander VI., who caused prevent a contumelia gravis certo pro- all of the princes whom he was stripping of tifa, aut perquam dolore molefta, aut mag- their poffeffions, to perifh by the stiletto, by nopere ignominiofa,' or a 'calumnia' by the the rope, or by poifon, granted to them inmurder of the injufti aggrefforis' or 'in- dulgences, in articulo mortis. jufti calumniatoris.' This fpecies of morality would clearly justify a man in fecretly "At this critical moment, Father Statmurdering any one who might be fufpected tler's maxim again recurred to his mind, of defigning a fecret attack on his honor. and he feized the bread-knife and stabbed This is further proved by the 1893d para- Eichstädter with it on the right fide of her graph, in which a man is permitted to rid throat; but finding the knife too blunt, he himself of an enemy: Si non ipfa occifione dropped it, and the endeavored to defend injufti calumniatoris tantundem periculi herself; he then held her by the throat, infamiæ incurramus, quantum vitare de- gave her a heavy blow on the back of her clinatione calumnia intendimus.' Alfo: head, thruft his fingers into her mouth, and Si tantundem periculi nobis ex occifione tried to choke her, exhorting her in the calumniatoris immineat, profecto utile re- mean time to repentance and confeffion, as medium occifio effe non poteft, ac proinde fhe muft die. She replied by earnestly ennec lictum'that is, the murder fhould treating him to fpare her life. Then," only take place when it can be committed faid he, "I took the razor out of my pockwith fecrefy and fecurity. There is noth- et, embraced her from behind, and with ing, however infamous, for which Father my right hand put the blade to her throat, Stattler's Chriftian Ethics do not afford a while with my left I forced it into her windjuftification. The 1894th paragraph per- pipe. I inftantly perceived from her fobs mits calumny to be met by calumny: Li- that I made a deep incifion, and I dropped cet certam gravem calumniam quæ nullo the razor. She remained standing for three alio remedio, hoc uno autem certo et effi- or four minutes, during which I said to her, caciter, de pelli poteft, enervare imponendo "Mariandel, I pray to God and to you for calumniatori falfum crimen præcife tale, pardon: you would have it fo. Pray to nec majus quam neceffe fit, et fufficiat ad God for forgiveness of your fins, and I will elidendam calumniatoris auctoritatem ac give you abfolution." I accordingly gave fidem, et famam propriam dependendam'! it her, as it was in cafu neceffitatis. She Riembauer, of course, reckoned Anna Eich- then tottered as if her knees were failing ftädter among his injuftos aggreffores. Fa- under her; and I took her under the arms, ther Stattler's book is printed cum permiflu and let her down gently; for a few minutes fuperiorum, and is ftill ufed in feveral longer I gave her religious confolation as places as a manual for ecclefiaftics!" fhe lay on the floor, until fhe began to kick and struggle, and prefently breathed her last.' Where may a fuller account of Father Stattler's book be found? A teacher who could produce fuch a pupil as Reimbauer, fhould receive the execrations of mankind. NEW YORK. M. jours été de même. Il raconte que fon père a été chaffé de France du temps de Louis XIV. par fuite de la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, et a fui à Am J. B. ROUSSEAU'S MOISADE. M. DE VILLETT, in his Life of Voltaire, with Notes Explanatory and Illustrative sterdam. Il dit avoir affifté, à l'âge de 16 ans, au (tranflated by G. P. Monke, 8vo, London, 1787), fays: "One of the pieces of poetry that Voltaire moft eafily retained, was Numa, or the Moifade, which was fathered upon Rouffeau, and which he prudently difowned, tho' he had really written it, when he was Secretary to the Bishop of Viviers... "Ninon de l'Enclos, one day asking the Abbé couronnement de la reine Anne (qui eut lieu le 3 Mai, 1702); il étoit donc né en 1686. Il vint d'Angleterre à New-York probablement au commencement du XVIIIe fiècle, mais il ne peut fe rappeler la date. Il fe trouva à toutes les guerres de la reine Anne et reçut beaucoup de bleffures qu'il fait voir." Has any other record been preferved of C. M. de Châteneuf after his godfon, 'My dear friend,' this remarkable man; and if so, where may replies the Abbé, he has been twice chriftened; it be found? but you would not believe it; for, though he is only three years old, he knows all the Moïfade by heart.' "It happens but feldom, that in the course of life, men deviate from the principles of their early education. Few people know this Mofade: I have therefore copied it, at the end of this work. My duty as an historian, is to make known the food with which Voltaire's mind was nourished in his infancy, and with which the Abbé de Chuteneuf boasted of having enriched the memory of his pupil." COMPLOT D'ARNOLD, ETC. WHO is the author of the Complot d'Arnold et de Sir Henri Clinton contre les Etats-Unis d'Amerique, et contre le Géneral Washington, Septembre, 1780 (Paris, Didot l'aîné, 1816, 8vo)? CINCINNATI. J. G. H. Α [The Complot d'Arnold, &c., was written by Barbé-Marbois. It was reprinted in 1831, with his name as the author. tranflation by Robert Walsh, Efq., is contained in the second volume of the American Register for 1817. See Rich, Biblioand Barbier, Dict. des Ouvrages Anonymes theca Americana Nova, vol. ii. pp. 86, 87; I have never met with an English translation of this very curious poem, nor am I aware that there is any. Can you favor the readers of The Philobiblion with one? As unreadable as French poetry ufually is in an English drefs, yet the influence which this poem appears to have had upon the youthful mind of Voltaire might render et Pfeudonymes, tome i. No. 2565.] it interesting to the reader. C. Meffrs. PHILES & Co. have ready for the prefs, and are now taking fubfcriptions for, REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. a reprint of The Paradife of Dayntie DeM. Gabriel Peignot, in his entertaining vises. The text of this edition is taken volume entitled Amufemens Philologiques (Dijon, 1824, 8vo), p. 194, gives the following extraordinary account of a Frenchman named Francifco, who refided (in 1822) two miles from Whitehall, on the Salem road to Albany, in the state of New York, and who was believed to be 134 years old: "A deux milles de Whitehall, fur la route de Salem à Albany, dans l'Etat de New York, vit un Français nommé Francifco (en 1822), qui l'on croit âgé de 134 ans. Sa fanté eft bonne et a tou from the reprint of 1810, edited by Sir Ed- Autograph Letters, FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF A BOOKWORM. THE love of relics is inherent in man; none fo great as to be entirely above it, none so small as to be entirely below it. From earliest time he has ftriven to preferve the memory of great men, not only by oral tradition and the pen of cunning fcribes, but by hoarding up their relics objects which belonged to, and were used by them their weapons, garments, books locks of their hair, even fragments of their bones, fometimes their duft itself: "Two handfuls of white duft shut in an urn of brafs." The favage preferves the war-club of his most famous man-killer, the facred infignia of the priestly founder of his mythology. What the civilized portion of mankind preferves, would require a volume merely to enumerate. Take Europe, for inftance, which, according to its wife men, is "the guardian of civilization." There is scarcely a city in Europe which has not its mufeum fet apart for the preservation of relics -royal, artistic, and autorial. Among the former, the crown of Charlemagne, the boots of the great Frederick, and the old clothes of Napoleon, at once recur to the memory among the latter, the MSS. of Number 8. Taffo at Ferrara; the Virgil of Petrarch in the Ambrofian Library at Florence; the Milton MSS. at Trinity College, Cambridge; Pope's rough draft of his Homer, in the British Museum; and the fifty volumes of correspondence between Scott and his contemporaries, formerly in the poffeffion of Lockhart, and now, I believe, in the library at Abbotsford. And, as if to justify the poet's line "The pen is mightier than the sword"than thofe of conquerors, and, in my way the relics of authors are far more numerous of thinking, far more interefting. A very pretty paragraph might be turned here, on the relative merits of Captain Pen and Captain Sword; but, as it would not be so novel as what is to follow, I shall not attempt it, but content myself with declaring-only for myfelf, of course-that it is better to write a great book than to win a great battle. "Of the making of many books there is no end." So faid, or is made to say, in our version of the Scriptures, the wife King of Ifrael. If this were a fact in his day, of which there may reasonably be a doubt, it is a much greater fact in ours. It is not quite four centuries fince the invention of printing, yet the number of books it has ushered into the world is incalculable. The Λ 1 volumes in the great public libraries of Eu- his death, there can be no doubt, I think, rope can be estimated within a few hundred but that a collection of his autographs could thoufands; not fo thofe which have perifhed have been got together; but commencing, -"their name is legion." There was a in his cafe, only in the latter half of the time when these books were not-when laft century, by the accidental discovery of they existed as conceptions merely. Before his name on a deed-which deed has fince they could be books, they had to be writ- disappeared—it ended in the Ireland forten; the brain-work of their authors cul- geries, which were as fhallow as they were minated in hand-work-in days, months, impudent. years perchance, of laborious penmanship. Some four or five years ago, I discovered Did it ever occur to you, reader, that the that I had a paffion for autographs. How books in your library were once MSS. ?— 'I came by it, I never exactly knew; I must that your Shakespeare, your Dickens, your have taken it like the meafles, or firft love. Tennyfon, were once loose sheets of wri- Having already correfponded with feveral ting, grim with blots, and half-illegible from "famous hands," as Tonfon ufed to call the hafte with which they were written? his authors, I proceeded to look over their Few realize this fact, fo accustomed are we letters-fuch of them as had escaped the all to print and binding. waste-basket and the fire-and to felect fpeWhat has become of all the MSS. of cimens of their penmanship, which fuddengreat authors? What has become of all ly affumed an immense value in my eyes. the pins? The wits tell us that the latter My fuccefs at home led me abroad, in the have dropped to the earth, and become fhape of orders on the London market, terra pins, but they do not attempt to ac- from which I procured from time to time count for the difappearance of the former. what the Catalogues defignated as defiraNot a page of Shakespeare's writing is ble fpecimens," chiefly of English authors, known to be extant; four or five fignatures moftly the poets, for whom, and indeed for (three, I believe, attached to his Will, and all that relates to them, I confefs a fondone in his copy of Montaigne, in the British nefs. The pleafure which thefe MS. acMuseum) are all that we can trace to his quifitions gave me, can scarcely be undermagic pen. A few fheets of Milton's ju- ftood, except by collectors like myself. I venile poems have been fpared, and fome cannot tell the delight I felt when Burns, of his books, enriched with notes; but not Cowper, and Scott, came into my poffeffion. a page of Paradife Loft, or of his grand "Thefe fheets of paper," I thought, as I profe-works. No value feems to have been gazed upon them, "were really touched fet upon the MSS. of our earlier and great- by the hands that wrote Tam O'Shanter, er poets, and they perished accordingly- The Tafk, and Waverley!" The thought as rapidly and as furely as the "copy" of feemed to bring me nearer my favorite aua daily newspaper. As we come nearer thors than any, however careful, ftudy of our own times, we find more MSS. preserved, the admiration of readers toward their favorite authors taking a more personal shape than was formerly fashionable-a loving intereft, which fought to preserve their autographs. their works could have done-feemed to bring me face to face, or at least hand to hand, with them. I was with Burns in his homely chamber at Dumfries, looking into his great black eyes, tempeftuous with paffion and genius; with poor dear Cowper Had the paffion for relics exifted in in his little study at. Wefton, glancing at Shakespeare's day, or even fifty years after the laft pages of his Homer; with Scott among the lawyers of Edinburgh, or, better fellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip still, in his royal domain at Abbotsford, fur- Sidney" (when I wish to shake hands with rounded by his dogs, his books, and his the gentle Sidney, I do it by proxy, touchrelics of olden time. ing the while the faded fignature of GreThe weakness of most collectors of auto- vile); but as I hope to be more entertaingraphs is to make their collections too large, ing than fuch trifles would allow me to be, increase of appetite growing by what it feeds I fhall begin nearer our own time, and with on, until it acquires an oftrich-like omniv- fomething of greater importance. Suppofe oroufnefs. The special weakness of the we go back to about the middle of the last American collector is to gather fpecimens century, and commence with a letter of from the pens of his own countrymen. It Shenftone's? is well enough to have a Washington, a "I have read," wrote Gray, "an octavo Franklin, or any of the great generals of volume of Shenftone's letters. Poor man! the Revolution; but when it comes to the he was always wishing for money, for fame, fignatures of governors, and members of and other diftinctions; and his whole phiCongrefs, my interest in the pursuit ceafes: lofophy confifted in living against his will the taste had adorned, but which he only enjoyed when people of note came to fee and commend it; his correfpondence is about nothing but this place and his own writings, with two or three neighbouring clergymen who wrote verfes too," game is too fmall for any but the young- in retirement, and in a place which his eft fportsman. No, if I cannot have great men in my collection, I will not have a collection. Better none, than an infignificant or abfurd one. I fhould juft as foon think of keeping my tailor's bill (and I might, as a curiofity-if it were receipted!) as to preferve the frank of a member of Congrefs, But to the letter, which was written at the Leafowes (no read of the laft century's goffip can be ignorant of that multum in parvo in the way of picturesque ruralities, The Leafowes), and addreffed to John Scott Hylton, Efqr., by whom probably the date was added, "21 May 1757." My collection is small, but choice. It confifts of about one hundred autographs, documents, letters, poems, and the like, by fome of the best English and American writers, and a small library of books formerly in their poffeffion. As many of the former I know nothing of Mr. Hylton, nor of are ftill unpublished, I propofe to give fome the other parties mentioned in it, with the of the most interesting in the remainder of exception of Dr. Wall, who is thus spoken this paper, with prefatory notes concerning of by Shenftone, in a letter to his friend their authors, the circumftances under which Graves, the author of The Spiritual Quixthey were written, and the persons to whom ote, under the date of April 8th, 1757: they were addreffed. "Dr Wall of Worcester, a very eminent Were fignatures alone in queftion, I phyfician, and the patron of this mineral, fhould begin with that of Thomas Sack- (Malvern Waters,) who has promoted a ville, Lord Buckhurst (no lover of poetry fubfcription in the county towards buildcan forget his noble Induction to The Mir- ing, near the well, for the accommodation of rour for Magiftrates), from which I fhould ftrangers." The building alluded to, may pafs to William Alexander's, Earl of Stir- be the Captain's: ling, the friendly poetical rival of Drum mond of Hawthornden, and Sir Fulke Gre- "I defire my Compliments to Mr vile's, "Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Coun- Hylton, & that he wou'd send me a Purge |