INDEX TO THE LAST TWENTY-FOUR NUMBERS. D [NOTE. It was the Author's original design to have continued his Work till it Amyntas of Tasso, the last act of, page 141. B. Mrs. Letter respecting, 156. Breakfast preferred to dinner, 6. Belphegor, story of the marriage of, 17. Books with one idea in them, 73. Common Sense and Genius, Thomas Moore's lies on, with the Authors' answer Cupid and Campaspe, lines on, 168. Drama, French and English, 162. Dreams, usually take place when the body is most affected, 9-Dryden's account Dry-book, the account of, 87. Death-beds, alleged frightened ones by Voltaire, Colvin, Luther, &c. 125. Druids, song of the, on the invasion of the Romans, 108-Their invocation to the Distinguished Personage, Letter from a, 158. Elia versus Indicator, 175. Englishman in Paris, 169. Falstaff's Letters, now first published by a descendant of Dame Quickly, with Fuimus Troes; the True Trojans being a story of the Britons' valour at the Gray's Bard, remark on the beard of, 74. Gunpowder Plot, anecdote by Fuller concerning the, 103. Hastings, the Hon William," the human animal," 33-and Lady Elizabeth Hast- ings, "the other extreme," 38. Holiday Children, letter concerning, 100. Horace, on a new pocket edition of, 161. Helen, an American war for, 102. Heretics, the burning of, observations upon by Fuller-The Church Histo- Indicator's Farewell to his readers, 185. Jealousy in marriage, letter from a lady concerning, 58. Lamb, Charles, criticism on the works of, 129-137. Maid-servant, description of a, 54. More, Sir Thomas, pungent morsels respecting, by the Author of Milton translated into Welch, with specimens, 111–114. Music, Wm. Strode's song in commendation of, 160 Nonsense, observations on the talking of 59-letters respecting, 79. Nautical Poetry, observations upon, 172. Old Maid's, letter in justification of, 154. Passages from the Old Dramatists, 185. Play-house memoranda, 75. "Taule Præternatural history of the Bicaud, or Two-tail'd Gobbler-the Fire-threatener- Priest, the jovial one's confession, with a translation, 140. Pulcis Morgante Maggiore, a prose abridgment of the beginning, 177 Robin Hood, songs of, 41-52. Raphael, the prince of painters, some remarks upon him and his art, 49. Splendour, the true enjoyment of, a Chinese Apologue, 7. Sylvan surprise in Twickenham meadows, 102. Song, suggested by the first four lines of the Venetian air, beginning" Se Moneca Song, a hate one, in a dialogue between the poet and a Lady, 119. Scrupleness, Frank Evergreen's letter to the editor, against fantastical, 105. Table wits, 7. Temper (bad), Manners, and other Disorders, 65. Valentine Day, Donne's and Drayton's lines on, with remarks, 145. Woman, story of Madame de Lorme, the generous one, 25. THE INDICATOR. 53 There he arriving round about doth flie, 13 SPENSER. No. I.-WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11th, 1820. To AN OLD SCHOOL-BOOK.—TABLE-WITS.~A BREAKFAST. It is expected, we understand, that we shall begin our second volume with something very piquant. This is an awful announcement. be called upon for a bon-mot is embarrassing. To be expected to be amusing for eight good octavo pages, is at least equal to calling upon a man for half an hour's much interesting chat, all on his own side. Then there is the sensation which singers have, when they are told that the 66 company are all attention." Some persons, when they expect you to be witty, do not even reconcile the announcement by an implied compliment. They look upon it as all in the way of business. As a baker has his hot rolls by eight o'clock, so an author, they think, is to have his essays. Twopenny loaves are the trade of one; twopenny Indicators of the other. The same expense of the faculties is supposed to go to the making of either. The printer composes for his bread; so does the author. The cook melts down another animal's brains with great equanimity; the author, of course, likewise. There is a school-book by the egregious John Amos Comenius, (who fixed the millennium for the year 1672) in which the learned author has unfortunately given too much countenance to this equal and indifferent notion of authorship, by the way in which he hath lumped together and analysed all sorts of trades, pursuits, productions, merriments, and disasters. As every thing which is saleable, is on a level with the above gentlemen, so every thing which has a Latin word for it, is equally important to the creator of the Orbis Pictus: for so the book is called. He sees with equal eye, as construing all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall. The Tormenting of Malefactors, Supplicia Malefactorum, is no more to him than The Making of Honey, or Mellificium. Shipwreck, being Naufragium, he holds in no graver light than a Feast, which is Convivium ; and the Feast is no merrier than the Shipwreck. He has woodcuts, with numerals against the figures; to which the letter-press reVOL. II. fers. In one of these his "Deformed and Monstrous People," cut as jaunty a figure as his Adam and Eve, and seem to pique themselves on their ancient titles of Deformes et Monstrosi. In another the Soul of Man is described by a bodily outline standing against a sheet. He is never moved but by some point of faith. Thus Godliness, he says, treads Reason under foot, that barking Dog, No. 6.-Oblatrantem Canem, 6. The translation, observe, is quite worthy of the original. Again : Woe to the mad Wizards and Witches, who give themselves to the Devil (being enclosed in a Circle, 7. calling upon him with Charms) they dally with him and fall from m God! for they shall receive their reward with him. Væ dementibus qui Cacodomoni se dedunt nam cum mercedem accipient. But of the Fall of Adam and Eve, he contents himself with this pithy Of a similar aspect of complacency is his account of the Last Judgment; When the Godly and Elect, 4. shall enter into life eternal, into the place of Bliss, and the new Jerusalem, 5. But the wicked and the damned, 6: shall be thrust into Hell, (No. 8.) with the Devils (Seven) to be there tormented for ever.. Ubi pii (justi) et Electi, 4 et damnati, 6. cum Cacodæmonibus, 7. The Shipwreck ends genteelly : Some escape either on a Plank, 7. and by swimming, or in a Boat, 8. Part of the Wares, with the DEAD FOLKS, is carried out of the sea, 9. upon the shores. ormenting of So in The Malefactors, he speaks of torturé in a parenthesis, and talks of pulling traitors in pieces in the style of a nota-bene. "( They that have their life given them" appear to be still worse off. are set upon a Wooden Horse, 18. imponuntur Equuleo, 18. do truncantur Auribus, 192 cæduntur Virgis, 20.estolonund are set on the pillory, 16. are strapado'd, 17. have their ears cut off, 19. audrate relegantür, damnantur to the Gallies, or to perpetual Imprisonment. are banished, Traitors are pulled in pieces with four Horses. stigmate notantur, ad Triremes, vel ad Carcerem perpetuam. Perduelles discerpuntur. quadrigis. The reader must regard this venerable work as a book taken up before breakfast; for as we are to be full of good things in our present number, we take a refuge very common to those who have no better, and invite him to discuss (a word, by the bye, of much-injured metaphorical common-place, which we hereby restore to its ingenuity) some, a gentlecan can make himself, by means of this be cloquent: a dinner is sure to be so. The very decantering of his wine shall discourse excellent music" for him. His good things are all of rolls and ham with us. It is astonishing Wd. A breakfast may |