erings. So all these things then appeared to my distorted vision. It seemed a rare scheme; and so I lost no time in executing it. I packed up a few things, and telling Lizzie, coldly enough, that I would most likely return early in the morning departed by that night's train. removed from unkindness and domestic bick- | Chronicle, said I, reverting to the events of the day-a noble one truly. O how could she have let me miss it! And yet who knows? I might fall in with another copy some of these days! But then she had no need to speak to me in that way—to ridicule me-to reproach me. No matter about that now-to business With that, I came back again to old Fuller-for about a page and a half of him-as it might be. It was very singular. I could not lay myself down to work. I grew anoyed-vexed. Impatiently I pushed the Ancient Worthy far from me, and leaning back in my chair fell to studying the fire once more-watching the wreaths of smoke curling upwards-every now and then taking the shape of a bright, gentle little face that seemed to look at me reproachfully. About seven o'clock that evening we came rolling into Donninghurst. It was a raw, bleak night, with a harsh, black frost abroad; -not your true, genial, inspiring weather, covering the ground with crisp snow, and making the cheeks tingle, but a dark, lowering atmosphere, very dispiriting and oppressive. Therefore it was that I felt very uncomfortable and out of sorts as I stood in the cold, comfortless study, watching the slow process of kindling a fire. No one had expected me on such a night-naturally enough-so I found everything cold and desolate. There was an ancient retainer always left in charge of the house, whom I took a dismal pleasure in likening to Caleb Balderstone, in the novel. His queer ways and curious make-shifts in providing for the emergency, were so many occasions of identifying myself with the unhappy Master of Ravenswood and his follower. At last a fire was lighted, and I settled myself down for the night. What should I have down, I said, looking round affectionately on the shelves. Old Fuller?-None better-Old Fuller, by all means. I got him down reverently and cleared the dust from him gently. I was going to have a night of enjoyment. When he was properly bestowed upon the oaken reading-desk, and the lamp had been turned up to the full, and one last poke given to the fire, I felt that I had all the elements of a studious night to hand, and that I ought to be exceedingly pleasant and comfortable. Yet someway Good Old Fuller seemed to me not quite so racy that night. I felt inexpressibly lonely, and every now and again I heard the wind, which had begun to rise, coming round the corner with a low moan, which gave me a very dismal feeling. Do as I would, I could not shut out Caleb Balderstone. Then, too, I found my eyes were perpetually wandering from Good Old Fuller to the coals, where I would discover all manner of distracting visions. It certainly was a noble edition-that Alone, here, in this desolate spot-alone with Old Fuller and his brethren. And these false slaves to whom I had bound myself, and sacrificed all, were now deserting me when I most needed their assistance. I likened them, bitterly, to the Familiars in the old Magic Legends who treacherously abandoned their masters in their greatest straits. And Lizzie (sweet Lizzie she was once !) all alone in the great London world, keeping her lonely vigil! Just then there came up before me, as it were, floating from the past, a vision of another time-not so long passed away-coming to me, as it were, in a flood of golden light, wherein Old Fuller appeared to shrivel up, and shrink away into a dry, sapless Ancient, as he was. It was on a clear moonlight night-I well recollected with the ground all covered with snow, and I was coming out beneath the vicarage-porch, going home for that night-when she, sweet Lizzie, came out into the moolight, and we lingered there for a few moments, looking round and admiring the scene. Such a soft tranquil night, with a bright glare shining forth from the midst of the dark mass rising behind us, showing where the Doctor was hard at work in his room. I often thought of that night after, and of the picture of Lizzie, as she stood there with her face upturned to the moon. Conjuring up this vision from the fire, and recalling her mournful, subdued face, as she lay upon the sofa, when I so abruptly quitted her, I felt a bitter pang of self-re proach, and found my repugnance for the cold, senseless creatures around me, increasing every instant. dream! lage clock began chiming out the hourthree quarters past eleven. I recollected there was a train to London at midnight, After that there came a feeling over me and in another instant I had fled from the that I had been sitting there for hours-for house, and was rushing up the deserted long weary hours, and that morning would street. There were scarcely any passengers never come. Suddenly it seemed to me that-so late was the hour-and there was a I heard the sounds of wheels outside on the lone deserted look over the vast station, very gravel, with strange confusion as of many chilling and dispiriting to one in my moodtongues, and that some one came rushing after what seemed a weary, never-ending in hurriedly-seeking me and telling me I journey, we reached London, and in ten must loose no time-not an instant. I knew minutes I was in my own house at the by a kind of instinct what it was all about, drawing-room door. She had not gone to -and why it was I was thus brought away. bed; and, as I opened it softly, I saw her There was a heavy load upon my heart, as stretched upon where she had cried herself of some evil impending, some dreadful blow to sleep-just as I had seen her in my about to fall. Then came the long, hurried journey through the dark night-the rattle over the pavement, and the flittering of lights past the window, as we drew near the noisy city. Then was I led up-stairs softly in a darkened room-the drawing-room, where were many people crowded together, and whispering. And there on the sofa, just as I had left her, I caught a dim vision of sweet Lizzie-very pale and sad-with the same gentle look of reproach. I heard the old soft voice, full of affectionate welcome and forgiveness, and then it seemed as though the Shadows were beginning to fall, and shut me out from her forever! With a wild cry I stretched forth my arms to the fading vision-and there was I back again in my old study at Donninghurst, with the fire sunk down in ashes and the lamp flickering uneasily on the verge of extinction, and great gaunt shadows starting up and down all round me on the wall. The scales had fallen from my eyes. The delusion had passed from me forever. Just then the vil What a meeting followed on that waking, may be well imagined and need not be set down here. I never fell back into the old slavery. All my famous treasures were ruthlessly sent away into banishment down to Donninghurst, where they may now be seen. And, not very long after, I heard of another copy of the great Chronicle being in the market; but I heard it with the utmost placidity. Thenceforth our lives ran on smoothly as a bright summer's day; and, as they tell of the good people in the story books, we lived happily together for ever after. Forever after! It were better not to cast a shadow upon this vision of a poor lonely man, by dwelling on what befel me within a brief interval after that. I have not courage to say it now. So let those cheerful words stand, by way of an endearing fiction, to receive, as my only hope and comfort, their full enduring truth in the long hereafter of another world. SONGS OF SUMMER. By Richard Henry Stod-|prettiness in stanza. These, from a song, that dard. An importation from America. The recalls a poem of Holmes, are about the best in poems are scarcely to be called songs; for some the volume. are tales, and others are rhapsodies on political or (as the writer may think) philosophical subjects. The bulk of the pieces are occasional; short enough for songs, though few are songs proper in the usual acceptation of the word. There is nothing very lofty in Mr. Stoddard's muse, nor does he make any pretension to loftiDess. There is freshness of treatment and style in the smaller pieces, not original, but imitating the last novelties of Tennyson, and a few American poets of no great mark but whose manner has not yet become trite. A conventional prettiness is what Mr. Stoddard generally attains, with occasionally something more than "I would recall my early dreams, It is not what I might have been, -Spectator. From the Literary Gazette, 28 March. THE REV. DR. SCORESBY, F. R. S. written. The work appeared in 1820, the year after Sir Edward, then Lieutenant, ParA FEW .weeks since we had to record the ry, proceeded on his first Arctic voyage with loss of one of the youngest and most enter- the Hecla and Griper. Parry returned to prising of Arctic explorers, Dr. Kane, who, this country in October, 1820, after winterthough an American, by his general coöpera-ing at Melville Island. His second voyage, tion in the search for Sir John Franklin, and with the Fury and Hecla, commenced in the as the last gold medallist of our Royal Geo- summer of 1821. By this time Captain graphical Society, will bear an honorable Scoresby's book had attracted new attention place in the records of English naval history. to the scene of Arctic enterprise. His narIt is now our sad duty to report the death rative of early Arctic voyages, and of the of one of the oldest veterans of Arctic enter-progress of discovery, is one of the best popprise, the Rev. Dr., formerly Captain, Scores- ular accounts that have appeared on the subby, who died at Torquay, on the 21st instant, after a lingering illness. Few men of our time have been more respected, combining as he did scientific eminence with high moral worth, unaffected piety, and active benevolence. ject; and the scientific details of the work, as well as the story of personal adventure, attest his admirable fitness for the service in which he had so long been engaged. The chapter on the Hydrogaphy of the Greenland Seas was an important contribution to scienWilliam Scoresby was born at Whitby, in tific and geographical knowledge; and the Yorkshire. He was trained for naval adven- notices of the Meteorology and Natural Histure in a good school. His father was one tory of the Arctic Regions have formed the of the most daring and successful seamen in basis of most of the subsequent researches in the northern whale fishery, when that ser- these departments. His definitions of thes vice was among the chief sources of the com- terms used by the whalers in describing the mercial wealth of the nation, and one of the various forms of ice have been universally best nurseries for the British navy. Young adopted in scientific treatises on the subject. Scoresby early accompanied his father in hist He was the first also to attempt scientific voyages, and from his youth was inured to observations on the electricity of the atmosthe hardships and perils of the Arctic seas. phere in high northern latitudes, and the reIt was when he was chief mate of his father's sults of his experiments, made with an insu ship, the Resolution, of Whitby, in 1806, lated conductor, eight feet above the main that he sailed to the highest latitude then top-gallant mast head, connected by a cop reached by navigators. On three occasions, per wire with a copper ball attached by a in the month of May of that year, the Res- silk cord to the deck, are still regarded with olution was in 80° 50′ 28′′, 81° 1' 53", and interest from the novelty and ingenuity of 81° 12′ 42′′ and once the ship was as far the observations. Incidentally Captain Scoresnorth as 81° 30', the nearest approach to the by remarks that he had personally assisted pole at that period authenticated. None of at the capture of 320 whales of the species the earlier navigators had professed to have Balana mysticetus. Not one of them, he bereached beyond 81° north latitude. Sir Ed-lieves, exceeded sixty feet in length; and the ward Parry in his celebrated boat expedition, largest he ever actually measured was fiftyduring his fourth voyage, in 1827, arrived at eight feet from one extremity to the other. 82° 45', the furthest point yet reached. Dr. The accounts of longer specimens he thinks Kane stands second in the record of adven- are exaggerations, but the less valuable Baturous efforts to reach the pole, but the lana physalis of Linnæus, the razor-back of Scoresbys have still the honor of having, the whalers, often exceeds a hundred feet-in with their ship in ordinary sailing, navigated length. In his whaling voyages Captain the highest northern latitudes. Young Scoresby was often in circumstances of exScoresby remained in the whaling service after his father's death, and he had performed voyages in twelve successive seasons when he published his account of "The Arctic Regions," one of the most interesting records of maritime adventure that has ever been treme peril. One instance which he records, we mention, as exhibiting the personal ener gy of the man. It was in May, 1814, in the ship Esk, of Whitby, when a spacious opening of the ice, in latitude 780 10', longitude 4o east, tempted him to push in, from 66 There was no alternative but forcing through it; we therefore pushed forward into the least connected part. By availing ourselves of every advantage of sailing, where sailing was practicable, and boring or drifting where the pieces of ice lay close together, we at length reached the leeward part of a narrow channel, in which we had to ply a considerable distance against the wind. When performing this, the wind, which had hitherto blown a brisk breeze from the north, increased to a strong gale. The ship was placed in such a critical situation that we could not, for above an hour, accomplish any reduction of the sails; and while I was personally engaged performing the duty of a pilot on the topmast-head, the bending of the mast was so uncommon that I was seriously alarmed for its stability." After some days of further peril, the ship was safely brought to the open sea. the appearance of a great number of whales. | that the attempts to find a north-west pasThe ship was soon fixed immovably in the sage to the Chinese seas were unprofitable ice. After great labor and frequent danger, for any political or commercial object, he many days being spent in sawing through considered that the scientific results justified the fixed floe, or forcing a passage through all the risk and expense of the expeditions; masses of ice, from which the vessel often while, even in regard to financial returns to received alarming shocks, open sea was de- the nation, the establishment of the Davis' scried, but with a barrier consisting of an Strait Whale fishery, and of the trade of the immense pack right across the path. Hudson's Bay Company, had compensated for the expenditure of national money in the early voyages of discovery. We may remark here that Captain Scoresby's visit to the island of Jan Mayen afforded one of the most remarkable proofs of the existence of a communication between the Northern Sea and the Pacific Ocean. He found on the shores of that singular island, on which he landed, and which he partly explored, pieces of drift wood bored by a ptinus or pholas. Neither of these animals ever pierce wood in Arctic countries, and hence he concluded that the worm-eaten drift had been borne by currents from a transpolar region. The notion of a constantly open polar sea Captain Scoresby always believed to be chimerical, and at that time none of the observations had been made which have since led to the renewal of a belief in its existence. In speaking of the island of Jan Mayen, he mentions, as a striking proof of the clearness of the atmosphere in these climates, that he saw the peak of Beerenberg, the height of which is 6780 feet above the level of the sea, at a distance, by observation, of between ninety-five and a hundred miles. He also noticed, when on the island, on a summit of a mountain 1500 feet in height, a magnificent crater, forming a basin of 500 to 600 feet in depth, and 600 to 700 yards in diameter, while jets of smoke, discharged at intervals of every three or four minutes, revealed the existence of unextinguished volcanic action. To those who have read Captain Scoreby's book, or who knew him personally, we need scarcely add that on this and on all such occasions he was open in his devout gratitude to the Divine providence, which the most daring and skilful navigators have always been the most ready to acknowledge and express. After his retirment from active service at sea, Captain Scoresby resolved to enter the church; and after holding appointments in less congenial localities, he found in the maritime town of Hull a sphere which afforded full scope for his benevolent efforts for the The scientific career of Dr. Scoresby in social and spiritual welfare of sailors. In the latter years of his life is well known to his personal exertions and professional duties most of our readers. The "Edinburgh Phil-he was active and unwearied; and his pub-osophical Journal," and various scientific pe lished "Discourses to Seamen " exhibit the riodicals, were enriched by occasional contri earnestness and kindness with which he la-butions from his pen on a variety of subjects bored in his new vocation for the good of of natural history and meteorology. To the the service in which he had passed his earlier observation of magnetical phenomena he had years. long devoted his closest attention, and his In the progress of Arctic exploration Dr." Magnetical Investigations," published at Scoresby continued to take the deepest inter- intervals from 1839 to 1843, and the concludest. Although he had from the first thought ing volume in 1848, contain a vast amount: IDOLITTIV. LIVING AGE. VOL. XVIII. 4 remember with honor among those who, by their character and their services, have sustained the reputation and extended the influence of the British name by the peaceful triumphs of science and humanity. of valuable materials for philosophical in- | bled from the arduous labors to which he had duction. His reports to the British Associ- subjected himself. His name will be ever ation, and his numerous observations on the influence of the iron of vessels on the compass, were connected with inquiries of the utmost practical importance to navigation. It was in prosecuting these researches, and with a view to determine various questions of magnetic science, that Dr. Scoresby undertook a voyage to Australia, from which he returned last year, with his constitution much enfee- France. Dr. Scoresby was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a Corresponding Member of the Institute of cotton grown on the flats of the Misssisippi and spun and woven in England, should be sent to China to be dyed, in whole colors, and then returned to the shops of London and Paris, taking a place and commanding a price as goods not to be matched, and as evidences of what may be done when Europe, America, and Asia join hands and work upon a system-a system which Nature has chalked out for them. Only take the poppy out of this world-wide field, and we shall all fare the better-China, India, England, and America.”—North British Review. CALICO-PRINTING versus OPIUM.-"As affect- | nature of things within the two countries reing ourselves, we mean British interests at spectively; and it is therefore likely to be perlarge, inclusive of those of our empire in the manent; nor is it out of reason to imagine that East, the consequences of a relinquishment of the trade in opium with China, would be, in the first instance, an earnest endeavor to develope in a fuller degree the several elements of national wealth throughout the peninsula, from the Punjab to Pegu, and from the temperate flanks of the Hymalaya to Cape Comorin. In five years, or less time, the Indian revenue would have recovered itself, and far more than recovered the momentary defalcation. But the second of these results of such a course would be a gradual and indefinite enlargement of the British commerce with China and the Eastern Islands. China even if it continued to consume TYPE OF A BURMESE VILLAGE.-Select an opium, would obtain it at a fraction of the pres-easy, rolling slope, with knolls and tangled ent cost; and its twenty millions of silver thickets, gently declining from a range of would be annually available for the purchase of commodities, which, instead of paralyzing the national industry, stimulate and feed it, and open before it new fields of gainful enterprise. Instances many and various in illustration of this assumption might be adduced: take one. Any one who may chance to have seen those samples of Chinese dyed woven fabrics which at different times have been exhibited in Manchester, will have gathered from these specimens two inferences; first, that from whatever causes, whether of climate, or of chemical intelligence, or of manipulative skill, the Chinese dyer is likely to beat us, perhaps always, in bringing out brilliant and deep-toned colors, the blues, the purples, the crimsons. But then the woven tissue to which these rich dyes are GOTTHOLD'S EMBLEMS; or Invisible Things imparted are far outdone in evenness of thread Understood by Things that are Made. By and beauty of texture by the looms of Lan- Christian Sinder, Minister of Magdeburg in cashire; our machinery does its office, both as 1671. Translated by the Reverend Robert spinner and as weaver, in a manner which Menzies, Hoddam.-A series of religious reflec defies rivalry. And although we do not reach tions on incidents, natural phenomena, and the splendors of Chinese colors, (not in woven any thing that turns up capable of being what fabrics any more than in decorated potteries,) we is called "improved. The book resembles are able, and on terms of the extremest cheap- some modern works having a similar object; ness, to print what we weave: the printed goods each reflection being devoted to a day in the of Lancashire will please the people of China, year, the present volume coming down to June if only we first send to China for the pattern, 80. During the life of the author, and for and then faithfully copy it. On this ground, then, it is one among many instances, there is a division of labor instituted between nations on the opposite sides of the planet; it is a distribution of tasks which is founded upon the heavily timbered hills. Flank it on either eide with interminable jungle, affording secure cover for the various forest-life. In front of all, train a wide, rapid, darkly, discolored stream, abundantly stocked with alligators, water-oxen, and other such fishy game; and fill up your background with teak-forests and remote mountains, with here and there some paddy-fields between, which shall pasture your wild elephants. Cover your ground with creepers, cactuses, canes, and various tropical vegetation in a wilderness of profusion. In among these, plant your native bamboo huts as thickly as you can, and with picturesque freedom of arrangement. -The Golden Dagon. some time after his death, the Emblems were very popular. They dropped out of sight during the cold and artificial days of the eighteenth century, to have their German popularity restored in the present age.-Spectator. |