THE EMERALD. Jaques, by Mr. Fox was glaringly | Grace must pardon me. I think buffooned. He certainly would have he has a deal of wit, who can live shown more discrimination, had he cir cumscribed his performance within the by a trade he does not understand." modesty of even high-wrought carica ture! His face was painted prepostu. ON THE MARRIAGE OF LITERARY ously. MEN. Mr. Dykes spoiled his character by M. PAQUIER, a celebrated lawimperfection in his part. The promp-yer, and author of the Recherches ter, fearing Mr. Dykes would not in- de la France, was unhappily mar form the audience sufficiently what he had to say, determined to be before ried. His wife was continually hand with him, and prompted almost quarrelling with her domestics, o every sentence aloud. her husband, if he did not join her complaints. In the first book of his epigrams he thus sets forth his unpleasant situation : In Count Montalban Mr. Poe wanted dignity. Mr. Dickenson acted Lampedo; and amended the part by restraining the buffoonery in which it has hitherto been exhibited. Notwithstanding Mrs. Powell acted Juliana with some degree of credit to the part, and great credit to herself, we could have wished to see Mrs. Stanley in preference. Mrs. Powell excels mostly in the 4th seen of the 3d act, where the conflict between pride and duty was most decidedly well conducted. The Volante of Mrs. Usher, is a defective performance. Her vivacity is not of the right sort; besides she is exceedingly deficient in manners correspondent to the words she utters. She turns and turns and twists alter nately: but not as Beatrice in Much ado about Nothing does, and Volante in the Honey Moon should. We confess ourselves pleased with Mrs. Dykes in Zamora; she was interesting; and what is greater praise, her emphasis was judicious. This lady should have less diffidence in herself; others who have less merit have more confidence. On the whole, the play was well received; though the representation con tained defects which overbalanced its beauties. For the Emerald. DESULTORY SELECTIONS,. AND ORIGINAL REMARKS.. PERRON observed one day to the Duke of Mantua, who said the jester whom be retained in his service was a fellow of no wit or humour" Your No day, no hour, no moment, is my To feel how soon to peace mad strife [wife, To find, with servants jarring, or my The worst of lawsuits is a married life.. BEZA. The great Theodore Beza was etimologically a triumvir; that is, he was married three times. He died at Geneva, 1605. The follow ing lines were written on his three marriages by one Stephen Pas-quier : In age, youth, and manhood, thres Whose qualities rare all my wants have sooth: I woo'd for the sake of her person, for to no one. It is an art withouted most to see-" Colours; because rules; whose beginning holds out I have an idea of others by the fina semblance of knowledge, whose ger."-"Should not you like," says middle is falsehood, and whose end one," rather to see the sky?"is beggary." "No," replied the blind man, “ I would rather touch it." The following lines were written on an ignorant physician, whose wife was a coquet: Whilst M***, by all-restoring art, Persons of merit draw after them so many envious people, that they should be very economic of their good qualities at their first setting out in life, and bring them into play as little as they can, consistently with the use they make of them. SCHOLAR. BON MOT. Cardinal L, who had not arrived at the honour which he afterwards possessed, said to his friend M. T," How happens it that you enjoy so good a state of health, when I am always a valetudinarian ?"—" The reason is," replied M. T-," that you have your hat always in your head, and I have my head always in my hat." hearing that a physician had obtained "A foolish, idle fellow at Florence, great credit and wealth by the sale of some pills, undertook to make pills himself and to sell them. He administered the same pills to all patients whatever; Men of letters (very luckily for and by chance they sometimes sucthemselves) are seldom men of tur- ceeded, his name became famous. A bulent ambition, but quiet men, and to know if his pills would enable him to countryman called on him, and desired make good domestic characters. find an ass he had lately lost. The Their province is to be authors and quack bid him swallow six pills. In his fathers of families. Grotius said way home, the operation of the pills of Gerard Vossius* that he doubted obliged him to retire into a wood, where he found his ass. The clown spread a “scriberetne accuratius aut gigne-report, that he knew a doctor who sold ret liberos felicius." Whether he pills which would recover strayed cathad a better knack at getting chil-tle. dren or writing books. It is certain that he was skilful at both.. MARTIN CHASTELAIN, BEEF STEAKS. A dispute arising the other day relative to the best mode of dressing a beef steak; the controversy was determined a prodigy, was born at Warwich in by one of the disputants, giving ShakesFlanders. He was blind from his peare as an authority. "If when birth, and yet he was a most excel-twere done, 'twere well done, then lent mechanic. He made organs, 'twere well it were done quickly." violins, and spinets. He could tune them and play on them. On being asked one day, what object he wish-cording to the account given of him at 1 Gerard John Vossius by his two wives had seven children, and left behind him six volumes in folio of his works, which are considered by all scholars as valuable contributions to the general stock of classical erudition. Macbeth. The tobacconist of Gretna Green, ac the Guilford assizes is a bon vivan of rare talents. It is said he treats himself to a gallon of Hollands every couple he marries, and during the summer season he marries two couples per day. He is near eighty years of age, and has neither been sick nor sober a single day those forty years.-London paper. [If the possibility of truth gives interest to fiction, a warm concern will be raised for the fate of Amelia and her friend. How we pervert "God's or dinances." We are really destitute of reason, though we make so much talk about it. Is not life attended with enough unavoidable evils, that we must seek to croud it with others of our own making?] his wife "knew he detested rabbits fried." "That is excellent !" retorted the lady, "it was but last Thursday you declared you hated them either roasted or boiled, and liked them fried, on account of the crisped parsley, of which you were remarkablj fond." "Why I never eat crisped parsley by any chance, my dear me, ABOUT two years back I was invited to spend a fortnight with a distant relation, who had just enter-lia!"-Observe, Mr. Editor, that ed into the marriage state, and who, my dear Amelia was pronounced expecting to enjoy some part of my with a kind of satiric grin, which possessions, was anxious to intro- seemed to convert my dear into my duce me to his wife. The lady devil; and the lady appeared per was about one and twenty, and her fectly to understand what it meant, husband, whom I shall merely dis- for she exclaimed, "I am sure, if I tinguish by the name of Adolphus, was to study your appetite from exactly twenty-eight; and, indepen- June to January, not one dish in all dently of his profession, he had an that time would please; but I shall estate of about three hundred a year. give it up, Sir, continued she, smil At the time of my visit they had ing, and addressing herself to me; been married about nine weeks; the "I wish you would give your relahoney-mom, of course, bad expired; tion a good lecture, for I believe you yct I could not help fearing my are the only one he fears.-Heigh presence would be an intrusion, or ho! I wish I had never married: kind of check upon the mutual dis- yet I believe all the men are alike play of tenderness and love. I hap-all kindness and attention before pened to arrive about an hour be-the ceremony, and all dissatisfaction fore supper. The bride required and ill humor as soon as it takes not the advnetitious aid of dress; notwithstanding which, her person was adorned with a variety of ornaments-in fact, she was as much decorated as if going to a ball. This studied appearance, Mr. Editor, I confess, rather prejudiced me against her, for I think, with the poet, that "Loveliness unadorned is adorned the most." I took myself to task for thinking uncharitably of my new relation, and was resolved to consider her dress a compliment intended me. Supper was soon announced: we retired to another apartment; but scarcely had the servant removed a cover from the top dish, when Adolphus remarked, in a peevish accent, that place." "Whilst you are harranging upon the discomforts of matrimony, Amelia," rejoined Benedict, “recollect the supper is getting cold; and as Mr. L. has been the greater part of the day travelling, I should suppose he would be glad to have something to eat." "Your observations are very just, sir," retorted the lady, putting a piece of rabbit upon my plate, and directing a glance towards her husband, not of the most affectionate kind. A lo ster was placed near Adolphus, which, after dressing, he declared not to be fresh. "Is there any other thing which you can find fault with? enquired Amelia: "I verily believe there are chickens in those eggs; ing a short note for Adolphus, quitsuppose you break one, my dear, ted the family before he arose. by way of an experiment, and I dare say it will call cock-a-doodledo." "How insufferably provoking!" exclaimed the disconcerted hus (To be continued.) LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL IN TELLIGENCE. band, at the same time giving away Mr. Daniel Lambert, of Leicester, Relative to the human phenomenon, his plate. Amelia burst into a now exhibiting himself in Piccadilly, we olent fit of laughter, whilst her an-have been favoured with the following vi gry spouse amused himself with biting his nails. correct particulars.--This extraordinary man is about 36 years of age; five feet eleven inches high; and his weight is upwards of fifty stone, fourteen pounds to the stone, 700 pounds. he enjoys Happy, enviable state of wedlock! thought I. What a fortunate dog I am to have escaped the petty dis-perfet health an i vigour; his breathing sentions which embitter all the is free and easy; his sleep undisturbed, blessings of life. Perceiving that to which he has no extraordinary propensity; he eats common food, and Adolphus preserved a sullen si- drinks water only. His extraordinary lence, "You are an entertaining bulk arises from an immense accumulacompanion," said I," it must be tion of fat within the abdomen, and in owned." "Oh, sir! this is nothing, the adipose membrane under the skin. he will remain in the sulks eight feet, is enormous; the arms and hands The tumefaction of the thighs, legs, and and forty hours," said Amelia, cast-do not much exceed the usual proporing a look towards him of ineffable contempt. "I beg you a thousand pardons," rejoined Adolphus, "but I have had a number of things to vex me today; and Amelia, instead of attempting to soothe my temper, always contrives to augment my spleen: but John, give us a glass of wine. To your reformation, madam." "To the removal of your ill-humour, my sweet, irritable str, retorted the new-married lady, making her husband a profound bow. That this was no new scene was evident, by the perfect composure both parties assumed. The evening, however, closed much more pleasantly, and all was my life, my darling, my dear, and my love. As self-enjoy ment, however, was the motive which induced me to pay a visit to this newly-married pair, I resolved not to subject myself to a second domestic jarring,but ordered my horses at an early hour, and leav tion in fat persons. All the functions of the body are in good order. He never ing of the skin. In the progress of its felt pain or uneasiness from the strechdistension, however, he has four or five times had an erysipelatous inflammation of the legs, which in a week or two was removed by proper treatment, but has ening of the skin. His bulk has inbeen succeeded by a scaliness and thickcreased gradually from twenty years of age. His father and uncle were both large men; but the weight of either did not exceed thirty stone. "Roman Remains-Traces of Ro man buildings had been found in the parish of White Waltham in Weycockfield in the parish of Lawrence Waltham and at a place called Wickham Bushes, near Cesar's Camp, on Bagshot Heath. Roman bricks, &c. are also said to have been found at Old Wind sor. ry were discovered in 1783, at a farm Great quantities of Roman pottecalled the Roundabout, near Bagshot Park, and also at Wickham Bushes before mentioned. A large urn, probably Roman, was found in Spenemoor, about under a tumulus of earth, eight feet one mile and a half west of Newbury, high. Roman coins and urns have been found at Lawrence Waltham, St. Leon NOTICES. The Rev. Mr. Abercrombie, of Philadelphia, is making an attempt to establish a public school of Oratory in that city, "modelled after the plan of those institutions which in other coun. tries have contributed so essentially to the advancement of eloquence." ard's Hill, near Windsor, at Walling- KANT is not hurled or fallen suddenly from his throne, but is gradually sinking into oblivion, so that his name is now almost as seldom mentioned as that of the Summus Aristoteles. The difficulty, and even the danger, attending the study of the higher branches of philosophy and metaphysics, has become more and more evident; and the number of metaphysical writers seems to have again decreased in Germany. About two years since Mr. Hamilton, printer in Fleet Street, London, had completed an edition of the Frauds of Anacharsis with the exception of a single sheet when a fire broke out in the building and destroyed the whole impression. The work was then given to Mr. Gellet to print and he had finished an edition excepting two sheets, when a fire burnt his office, (12th Dec. 1805) and destroyed every copy. EDITORIAL. We recommend the WANDERER to It will be found he can ocattention. casionally unbend from the stateliness of didactic and critical severity, to the pleasures of fancy and the levities of fashion. We are happy to find THE OR. DEAL in high reputation, and see with pleasure its republication in a judicious and popular work on dramatic literature. The diseases and infirmities of mankind are continually increasing; and the same may be said with respect to the medical writers in Germany. Dr. Gall is now as great a favorite as Lavater formerly was; and some have been so sanguine as to hope, that by combining the observations of the for. mer with that of the latter, we might arrive at some kind of certainty with respect to their opinions. In the mean time, a great number of works have been written for and against his system: for instance, the "Antigall;" Bartel's "Bemerkungen, &c. ;""Darstellung und Beleuchtung des Gallschen Systems; "Reisen eines Schadelleb-fulgens." rers,ravels of a Craniologist." From the general diffusion of learning, it might be expected that education would be particularly attended to ; and the acknowledged importance of the subject, and the great number of books written on it, which they denom. inate Pedagogics, a word which has not yet been adopted by their neighbours. The Danish literati have been diligently employed in transferring to their native tongue some of the best works of other nations, especially of their German neighbours. A Danish translation has appeared of Goede's most interesting and instructive Travels in Great Britain and Ireland, in the years 1802 and 1803." The beaux esprit, the wits of the city, as our young literati, were once respectfully called, will find we shall always receiye their communications with esteem Date nobis jucunda, idonca vite The poet's tempus bibendum, is of very little value, unless it will likewise display the "mens sana animusque per 'Tis pleasant at Whitcomb's to meet, In decent dissipation; Should hold the highest station; For sparkling reputation And the strength of the wine to the sou! any vein of poetry or even rhyme, and would therefore be more pleased to see our ideas illustrated by some corres pondent who are like Aurora-mus amici. |