ˇ¶THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOWˇ·


 CONTENTS:

    Preface

    t of himself

    the Voyage

    Roscoe

    the ife

    Rip Van inkle

    Englisers on America

    Rural Life in England

    t

    t of Book-making

    A Royal Poet

    try Church

    the idow and her Son

    A Sunday in London

    tavern

    tability of Literature

    Rural Funerals

    tchen

    tre Bridegroom

    estminster Abbey

    Cmas

    tage-Coach

    Cmas Eve

    Cmas Day

    tmas Dinner

    London Antiques

    Little Britain

    Statford-on-Avon

    traits of Indian Cer

    P

    John Bull

    the Village

    the Angler

    the Legend of Sleepy hollow

    LEnvoy

 PREFACE-1

quot;I o provide for. A mere spectator of otunes and adventures, and s; o me, as from a common tre or scene.quot;

    --BURtON.

 PREFACE-2

    tions, ten in England, and formed but part of an intended series for ure a plan, ances compelled me to send to ted States, o time in portions or numbers. It  my intention to publis mucents could be   interesting only to American readers, and, in truterred by ty ions reated by tish press.

    By time tents of t volume o ?nd tlantic, and to be inserted, erary Gazette. It  a London bookseller intended to publisive form. I determined, to bring t t at least  of my superintendence and revision. I accordingly took ted numbers ates, to Mr. Jo publistentions, and left tion, informing  so bring terials enoug any communication from Mr. Murray, I addressed a note to rued o a tacit rejection of my  t  be returned to me. the following was his reply:

    MY DEAR SIR: I entreat you to believe t I feel truly obliged by your kind intentions to I entertain t unfeigned respect for your most tasteful talents. My ely ?lled  time, and I o transact business in; and yesterday I was whe pleasure of seeing you.

    If it  suit me to engage in tion of your present  is only because I do not see t scope in ture of it isfactory accounts bet ion in engaging--but I o promote tion, and s ready to attend to any future plan of yours.

    ith much regard, I remain, dear sir,

    Your fait,

    JOhN MURRAY.

    tening, and migerred me from any furtion of tter, ion of republication in Great Britain rested entirely  I appreion. I no of Mr. Arcable as publisreated by ality during a visit to Edinburg ?rst I determined to submit my o Sir-alter (tt, being encouraged to do so by tion I  Abbotsford a feo otings. I accordingly sent ed numbers of tc time e to ing t since I aking of ality, a reverse aken place in my affairs  to me; I begged o look over terary articles I o  tion, to ascertain o be the publisher.

    taining my  by coaco Scotts address in Edinburgter  by mail to ry. By t post I received a reply, before he had seen my work.

    quot;I  Kelso,quot; said ;o toable, and do all in my poo for;

    t,  a reverse of fortune ruck tt, and,  practical and ef?cient good-o inform me,  to be set up in Edinburged by t respectable talents, and amply furnision. tment of tor, for  of furtages. tuation, being apparently at o me. timated, o  of a political bearing, and  tone it o adopt mig suit me. quot;Yet I risk tion,quot; added ;because I knoant task, and per o Edinburg suit, you need only keep tter secret and t. If on trary you t could be made to suit you, let me knole Street, Edinburg;

    In a postscript, ten from Edinburg;I am just come c is positively beautiful, and increases my desire to crimp you, if it be possible. Some dif?culties tter, especially at tset; but e t;

    t draug some modi?cations in t:

    quot;I cannot express i?ed by your letter. I o feel as if I aken an unable liberty; but,   some you t o  and con?dence. Your literary proposal botters me, as it evinces a mucalents t;

 PREFACE-3

    I t on to explain t I found myself peculiarly un?tted for tuation offered to me, not merely by my political opinions, but by titution and s of my mind. quot;My ;ory, and I am un?tted for any periodically recurring task, or any stipulated labor of body or mind. I alents, suco cice and training may bring me more into rule; but at present I am as useless for regular service as one of my ory Indians or a Don Cossack.

    quot;I must, tty mucing e ed by objects before me, or ion; and o e better and more copiously by and by.

    I am playing tist, but I knoter  a very good-for-notable feel inclined to make a bargain for to furterprise; and it rading s of  one time  a o offer, and at anotime a silver tankard.quot;

    In reply, Scott expressed regret, but not surprise, at my declining y. o t of our correspondence; entered into a detail of terms upon  I migake my c encouraging con?dence of t;I did no more,quot; added ;trencable; but I am sure if you ake trouble to e to o treat your overtures tention. Or, if you t of consequence in t place to see me, I sever my experience can command is most ily at your command. But I can add little to  recommendation to Constable to enter into tiation.quot;*

    * I cannot avoid subjoining in a note a succeeding paragrapts letter,  relate to t of our correspondence, oo ceristic to be emitted. Some time previously I  Miss Sopt small duodecimo American editions of o volumes; s;nigromancyquot; of t of o a pint bottle. Scott observes: quot;In my  ttention e sure I can add my oaken special care told you t alter is s ing t ;

    Before t of t obliging letter, ermined to look to no leading bookseller for a launc to t my o it sink or so its merits. I e to t effect to Scott,   and soon received a reply:

    quot;I observe  you are going to come fortain. It is certainly not t o publis; for t t tion of suc pay an amazing toll to t t t of altogeto do as effectually as Diabolus in Joandings mansion. I am sure of one t you o be knoo tiso be admired by t say so unless I really  opinion.

    quot;If you ever see a ty but ration called Black number: to erary capacity. , a young man of very considerable talent, and ely connected o be next examined and illustrated. Constable remely o enter into consideration of a treaty for your  I foresee ill more so when

    Your name is up, and may go

    From toledo to Madrid.

    ------And t rust to be in London about t pleasure in once again s;

    t volume of tc to press in London, as I  my oo fame, and  any of ts by ed into notice. Still some attention o it   by tracts te, and by tor of t periodical, and it ting into fair circulation, errupted.

    At ture Scott arrived in London. I called to icking in tious t o tations, Murray o undertake ture publication of tion of t volume ruck off and t to press, and from t time Murray became my publising  fair, open, and liberal spirit ion of the Prince of Booksellers.

    ter Scott, I began my literary career in Europe; and I feel t I am but discri?ing degree, my debt of gratitude to t golden-ed man in acknoions to  emporaries ever applied to  did not experience t prompt, generous, and effectual assistance?

    . I.

    SUNNYSIDE, 1848.

 THE AUTHORS ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF

    I am of t as t crept out   of urned eftsoones into a toad I and to make a stoole to sit on; so traveller t stragletry is in a s time transformed into so monstrous a s o alter o live w where he would.--LYLYS EUPhUES.

    I ing nerange cers and manners. Even ours of discovery into foreign parts and unknoive city, to t alarm of my parents, and t of too boyended tions. My ernoons  in rambles about try. I made myself familiar s places famous in ory or fable. I kne ed tly to my stock of knoing ts and customs, and conversing  men. I even journeyed one long summers day to t of t distant retcerra incognita, and oniso ?nd  a globe I ined.

    ty strengtravels became my passion, and in devouring tents, I neglected tfully  tcing so distant climes;  longing eyes er t myself in imagination to th!

    Furt tion into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various parts of my ory; and  little desire to seek elsei?cation, for on no country ure been more prodigally lavisy lakes, ains,  aerial tints; eeming ility; remendous cataracts, tudes; aneous verdure; o trackless forests, ion puts forts magni?cence; ry for tiful of natural scenery.

    But Europe oried and poetical association. to be seen terpieces of art, ts of ivated society, t peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country ed treasures of age. old tory of times gone by, and every mouldering stone --to tread, as it steps of antiquity--to loiter about tle--to meditate on too escape, in s, from ties of t, and lose myself among t.

    I  desire to see t men of t is true, our great men in America: not a city but ime, and been almost o o a small man as t one, particularly t man of a city. But I o see t men of Europe; for I  all animals degenerated in America, and man among t man of Europe, t   I, must to a great man of America, as a peak of to a ive importance and sude of many Englisravellers among us, ry. I  t I, and see tic race from wed.

    It  to i?ed. I  countries and nessed many of ting scenes of life. I cannot say t I udied t ratering gaze uresque stroll from t-so anot sometimes by tions of beauty, sometimes by tortions of caricature, and sometimes by t is tourists to travel pencil in folios ?lled co get up a feertainment of my friends. s and memorandums I aken do almost fails me, at ?nding ray from t object studied by every regular traveller  er, inent, but follo of  inclination, cctages, and landscapes, and obscure ruins; but ed to paint St. Peters, or terni, or t a single glacier or volcano in ion.

 THE VOYAGE.

    <span style="color:Gray">One goes abroad for mercrading,

    <span style="color:Gray">Anotays to keep ry from invading,

    <span style="color:Gray">A thy lading.

    to an American visiting Europe, to make is an excellent preparative. temporary absence of s produces a state of mind peculiarly ?tted to receive ne space of ers t separate tence. transition by ion of one country blend almost imperceptibly  you lose sig, all is vacancy, until you step on te s once into tle and novelties of another world.

    In travelling by land tinuity of scene, and a connected succession of persons and incidents, t carry on tory of life, and lessen t of absence and separation.

    e drag, it is true, quot;a lengt; at eac trace it back link by link; and  t still grapples us to  a  once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from ttled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful  interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, beto tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious.

    Suc least,  blue lines of my native land fade a seemed as if I s concerns, and ime for meditation, before I opened another.

    t land, too, no dear to me in life; udes mig--ake place in me, before I s it again! ell, o s of existence; or o revisit the scenes of his childhood?

    I said, t at sea all is vacancy; I s to one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing s for meditation; but tend to abstract ted to loll over ter-railing or climb to top, of a calm day, and muse for ogetranquil bosom of a summers sea; to gaze upon t peering above tion of my oo cly undulating billoo die ahose happy shores.

    tion of mingled security and a, on ters of t tumbling about ting, like a spectre, ters. My imagination  I ery  roam its faters t lurk among tions of tasms t sales of ?shermen and sailors.

    Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along tion. eresting t of a o rejoin t mass of existence!  a glorious monument of ion; o communion; abliserco terile regions of t of knoies of cultivated life; and ogettered portions of to able barrier.

    e one day descried some s drifting at a distance.

    At sea, every t breaks tony of ttracts attention. It proved to be t of a s must ely ened to to prevent trace by ly drifted about for many monters of sened about it, and long sea-ed at its sides. But ruggle  tempest--tening among tell tory of their end.

    siged after t s prayers offered up at ted ?reside of en ress, to catcelligence of tation darkened into anxiety--anxiety into dread--and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento may ever return for love to c may ever be kno s, quot;and was never ;

    t of to many dismal anecdotes. ticularly to been fair, began to look ening, and gave indications of one of torms t imes break in upon ty of a summer voyage. As  round t of a lamp, in t made tly, everyone ale of ser. I icularly struck  one related by tain:

    quot;As I ; said ;in a ?ne, stout s prevail in ts rendered it impossible for us to see far aime; but at nig  distinguis at t lig t-ant co look out for ?somed to anc a great rate ter. Suddenly tc tered before ed to  a ligruck  amids of our vessel, bore c started from to be s bore it to our ears, s us out of all furt t cry! It ime before  t, surned, as nearly as o t for several ened if --we never saw or ;

    I confess tories, for a time, put an end to all my ?ne fancies. torm increased . to tremendous confusion. to deep. At times t asunder by ?asning e of ers, and aggering and plunging among t seemed miraculous t so ter;  buried beneatimes an impending surge appeared ready to overerous movement of the shock.

    ired to my cabin, till followed me.

    tling of ts; training and groaning of bulkering sea, ing prison, seeking for arting of a nail, t give rance.

    A ?ne day, ranquil sea and favoring breeze,   soon put all tions to ?ig is impossible to resist t sea.  in all y, , so lord it over the deep!

    I mig is almost a continual reverie--but it is time to get to shore.

    It ; - t can form an idea of tions  of Europe.

    tions  is teeming udious years have pondered.

    From t time, until t of arrival, it . t pros along t; tretc into tains too ts of intense interest. As red telescope. My eye d  on neat cottages, rim ss. I saaper spire of a village ceristic of England.

    tide and  to come at once to  ants of friends or relations. I could distinguis to less air.  into s; ling tfully, and   o and fro, a small space o emporary importance. ted cations interco recognize eacicularly noticed one young eresting demeanor. S neared to catcenance. Sed and sad; es tress for  of late  aken to   see  tenance so ed, so pale, so gly, t it ion did not recognize  at ted on ures: it read, at once, a  sood  agony.

    All noings of acquaintances--tings of friends--tations of men of business. I alone ary and idle. I o meet, no co receive. I stepped upon t felt t I ranger in the land.

 ROSCOE.

    <span style="color:Gray">Suche grovelling herd,

    <span style="color:Gray">And make us s is life.

    ONE of t places to aken in Liverpool is t is establis contains a good library, and spacious reading-room, and is t literary resort of t  ?lled udy of newspapers.

    As I ing t of ttention tracted to a person just entering tall, and of a form t mig it tle boime--perhaps by care.

    yle of countenance; a a   furroing t  ic soul. t indicated a being of a different order from tling race round him.

    I inquired  it ary feeling of veneration.

    ty; to tudes of America.

    Accustomed, as ry, to knoers only by t conceive of trivial or sordid pursuits, and jostling y pations like superior beings, radiant ions of terary glory.

    to ?nd, t orian of traf?c, at ?rst sical ideas; but it is from tances and situation in o admiration. It is interesting to notice  to create tage, and ary but irresistible acles. Nature seems to deliging ties of art,  imate dulness to maturity; and to glory in tions. Sters to tony places of ty, yet otrike root even in ts of truggle bravely up into sunserile birties of vegetation.

    Sucly ungenial to terary talent--in t-place of trade;  fortune, family connections, or patronage; self-prompted, self-sustained, and almost self-taugacle, aco eminence, and, s of tion, urned talents and in?uence to advance and embellisive town.

    Indeed, it is t trait in er  interest in my eyes, and induced me particularly to point  to my countrymen. Eminent as are erary merits,  one among tinguisellectual nation. t for te ory presents no lesson to ting one of y or inconsistency. At best, to   steal ale and commonplace of busy existence; to indulge in ttered eas; and to revel in scenes of mental, but exclusive enjoyment.

    Mr. Roscoe, on trary, alent.  , nor elysium of fancy; but o ted bo of tains,  and  of treams of kno;daily beauty in ; on e, and groter. It exs no lofty and almost useless, because inimitable, example of excellence; but presents a picture of active, yet simple and imitable virtues, ely, are not exercised by many, or this world would be a paradise.

    But e life is peculiarly tention of tizens of our young and busy country, ure and t arts must gros of daily necessity; and must depend for ture, not on tion of time and itled patronage; but on c of erests, by intelligent and public-spirited individuals.

    er-spirit, and ely it can give its oo surrounding objects. Like o iquity, erory of ory of ive toeps in all t is elegant and liberal. ide of raf?c; ed from it invigorating rills to refreserature. By ant exertions, ed t union of commerce and tellectual pursuits, so eloquently recommended in one of est ings;* and ically proved ifully t to o bene?t eacitutions for literary and scienti?c purposes, ly been originated, and ively promoted, by Mr. Roscoe; and  toance ropolis, it  in aion of mental improvement among its inants, ed a great bene?t to tiserature.

    * Address on titution.

    In America, old of unate in business. I could not pity y. t doy; but a man like Roscoe is not to be overcome by tune. t drive o ty of s;  sometimes to neglect, and to roam abroad in searces.

    of tiquity, and erity: iquity, in t communion of studious retirement; and erity, in ter future renoude of sucs state of  enjoyment. It is ted by   ted meditations  from his world.

    alive on t, it une to ligraces of Mr. Roscoe. I  leman, to vieurned off, te, into some ornamented grounds. After riding a s distance, o a spacious mansion of freestone, built in tyle. It  in t style, yet it uation udded rees, so disposed as to break a soft fertile country into a variety of landscapes. t s of er tains, blended ing into distance, bordered the horizon.

    te residence during ty. It  of elegant ality and literary retirement. t and deserted. I saudy,  scenery I ioned. the library was gone.

    tering about tured into retainers of t ing some classic fountain, t s pure ers in a sacred s ?nding it dry and dusty, oad brooding over ttered marbles.

    I inquired after te of Mr. Roscoes library,  ioneer, and  try. ty to get some part of t  of ludicrous associations, ion in t, and contending for t o ourselves some knot of speculators, debating ing bro binding and illuminated margin of an obsolete autense, but baf?ed sagacity, tempted to dive into tter bargain he had secured.

    It is a beautiful incident in tory of Mr. Roscoes misfortunes, and one o interest tudious mind, t ting o oucenderest feelings, and to ance t could provoke tice of , yet eloquent, companions of pure ts and innocent y.  is urns to dross around us, tain teady value. imates languiso vapid civility and commonplace, tinue tered countenance of  true friendsed sorrow.

    I do not , surely, if t o Mr. Roscoe and tless, be given for tance,  to combat  mig it certainly appears to me sucunity as seldom occurs, of cruggling under misfortunes by one of t delicate, but most expressive tokens of public sympat is dif?cult, o estimate a man of genius properly ies lose   ty; oo familiar erials  cer. Some of Mr.

    Roscoes to amiable and unostentatious simplicity of cer,  true ension. But tters, elligent traveller  inquires ing its existence to tant sc Alexandria, toy.

    t, addressed by Mr. Roscoe to ing o. If anyt to ted t  is tion, t t a faitranscript from ters .

    <span style="color:Gray">As one ,

    <span style="color:Gray">Regrets  hopes again erewhile

    <span style="color:Gray">to sheir smile,

    <span style="color:Gray">tes, c,

    <span style="color:Gray">teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile

    <span style="color:Gray">My tedious en every toil,

    <span style="color:Gray"> I noing ;

    <span style="color:Gray">For pass a few s years, or days, or hours,

    <span style="color:Gray">And heir dawn unfold,

    <span style="color:Gray">ed its powers.

    <span style="color:Gray">Mind s communion hold,

    <span style="color:Gray">And kindred spirits meet to part no more.

 THE WIFE.

    <span style="color:grey">treasures of t so precious

    <span style="color:grey">Of blessings, he house,

    <span style="color:grey"> a delicious breath--

    I en o remark titude ain t overers rate , seem to call forter sex, and give sucrepidity and elevation to ter, t at times it approaco sublimity. Notouco be and tender female, rivial rougal force to be ter and support of une, and abiding terest blasts of adversity.

    As ts graceful foliage about ted by it into suns is rifted by t, cling round it s caressing tendrils, and bind up its stered boug   beautifully ordered by Providence, t  of man in ay and solace y; ure, tenderly supporting t.

    I ulating a friend, ogetrongest affection. quot;I can er lot,quot; said ;to o sy; if oto comfort you.quot; And, indeed, I  a married man falling into misfortune, is more apt to retrieve uation in tly, because imulated to exertion by ties of tence, but cs are sootic endearments, and  kept alive by ?nding, t, tion, yet till a little   to run to e and self-neglect; to fancy  to fall to ruin, like some deserted mansion, for  of an inant.

    tions call to mind a little domestic story, of imate friend, Leslie, iful and accomplis up in t of fas is true, no fortune, but t of my friend icipation of indulging  pursuit, and administering to te tastes and fancies t spread a kind of c t;; said ;sale.quot;

    ters produced a ion; ic, and some; sen noticed te rapture ly pourn to  favor and acceptance. rasted ?nely all, manly person. to o call fortriump pride and cenderness, as if ed on s very helplessness.

    Never did a couple set fored marriage  of felicity.

    It une of my friend, o y in large speculations; and  been married many monters, it  from o almost penury. For a time  uation to  about enance, and a breaking .  a protracted agony; and  more insupportable y of keeping up a smile in t bring o over all  ered looks and sti?ed sig to be deceived by tempts at casked all ly poender blandiss to uring  t o make ctle  ws lig bosom, will be weighe world.

    At lengto me one day, and related uation in a tone of t despair. ;Does your ;--At tion  into an agony of tears. quot;For Gods sake!quot; cried ;if you y on me dont mention my  is t of  drives me almost to madness!quot;

    quot;And ; said I. quot;S kno sooner or later: you cannot keep it long from elligence may break upon artling manner ted by yourself; for ts of ten t tidings.

    Besides, you are depriving yourself of ts of  merely t, but also endangering t can keep s togety of t and feeling. S sometly preying upon your mind; and true love  brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, .quot;

    quot;O my friend! to t a bloo give to all ure prospects,--o strike o telling   so forego all ty--to so indigence and obscurity! to tell  I  inued to move in constant brig of every eye--tion of every !--y? S up in all ts of opulence. ? Sy. O  ;

    I sa it s ?oself by  gently, and urged o break uation at once to his wife.

    positively.

    quot;But o keep it from  is necessary s, t you may take teps proper to teration of your circumstances. You must cyle of living--nay,quot;

    observing a pang to pass across enance, quot;dont let t af?ict you. I am sure you  does not require a palace to be ;

    quot;I could be ; cried ;in a o poverty and t!--I could--I could--God bless ; cried ing into a transport of grief and tenderness.

    quot;And believe me, my friend,quot; said I, stepping up, and grasping ;believe me, s riumpo  ent energies and fervent sympature; for so prove t srue  of prosperity; but  a ministering angel sil rials of t;

    tness of my manner, and tive style of my language, t cauged imagination of Leslie. I kneor I o deal o go  to his wife.

    I must confess, notanding all I  some   little solicitude for t. e on titude of one  ty suddenly pointed out before  cling to to revelled. Besides, ruin in fasi?cations, to ranger. In s, I could not meet Leslie, t morning,  trepidation. he disclosure.

    quot;And ?quot;

    quot;Like an angel! It seemed rato be a relief to  ely made me un, poor girl,quot; added ;s realize t undergo. Sy but in tract; s in poetry, o love. S no privation; somed conveniences nor elegancies. ically to experience its sordid cares, its paltry s, its petty ions--trial.quot;

    quot;But,quot; said I, quot;no you  over t task, t of breaking it to  to t tter. tifying; but t is a single misery, and soon over: icipation, every  is not poverty, so mucence, t ruggle bety purse-t must soon come to an end. o appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its s sting.quot; On t I found Leslie perfectly prepared. o o conform to tered fortunes.

    Some days aftertage in try, a feoure. tablis required feicles, and t kind. All ture of e residence ing , oo closely associated  belonged to ttle story of test moments of ts instrument, and listened to ting tones of  but smile at tance of romantic gallantry in a doating husband.

    to ttage, s arrangement. My feelings rongly interested in tory, and, as it o accompany him.

    igues of t, fell into a ?t of gloomy musing.

    quot;Poor Mary!quot; at length a heavy sigh, from his lips.

    quot;And ;o ;

    quot;,quot; said ing an impatient glance, quot;is it noto be reduced to try situation--to be caged in a miserable cottage--to be obliged to toil almost in tcation?quot;

    the change?

    quot;Repined! s sness and good-humor.

    Indeed, ster spirits to me all love, and tenderness, and comfort!quot;

    quot;Admirable girl!quot; exclaimed I. quot;You call yourself poor, my friend; you never  ;

    quot;O, my friend, if t meeting at ttage able. But t day of real experience; sroduced into a s miserable equipments,--s time, knoigues of domestic employment,--s time, looked around itute of every t--almost of every t; and may noting doless, brooding over a prospect of future poverty.quot;

    ty in ture t I could not gainsay, so we walked on in silence.

    After turning from t-trees as to give it a complete air of seclusion, age. It  pastoral poet; and yet it rees t; and I observed several pots of ?oastefully disposed about t in front. A small -gate opened upon a footpat o t as  yle of t toucy, a little air of which her husband was peculiarly fond.

    I felt Leslies remble on my arm. epped foro inctly. ep made a noise on t beautiful face glanced out at t footstep-o meet us. Sty rural dress of ed in enance beamed h smiles--I had never seen her look so lovely.

    quot;My dear George,quot; cried s;I am so glad you are come; I cc for you. Ive set out a table under a beautiful tree betage; and Ive been gat delicious stra cream--and everyt and still ;--said sting ly in ;O;

    Poor Leslie  tears guso en assured me, t t never  of more exquisite felicity.

 RIP VAN WINKLE.

    <span style="color:grey">A POStING OF DIEDRICh KNICKERBOCKER.

    <span style="color:grey">From w is odensday,

    [tale e Diedricleman of Nes from its primitive settlers. orical researc lie so mucably scanty on e topics;  legendary lore, so invaluable to true ory.

    c up in its lotle clasped volume of black-letter, and studied it he zeal of a bookworm.

    t of all tory of tco terary cer of o tell trut is not a ter t ss c is its scrupulous accuracy, ioned on its ?rst appearance, but ely establis is noted into all orical collections, as a book of unquestionable auty.

    tleman died sly after tion of   cannot do muco o say t ime migter employed in o ride  did no a little in t of some friends, for ruest deference and affection, yet ;more in sorro; and it begins to be suspected, t ended to injure or offend. But ed by critics, it is still icularly by certain biscuit-bakers,  ality, almost equal to tamped on a aterloo medal, or a Queen Annes fart remember tskill mountains. t Appalaco t of to a noble , and lording it over try. Every cains; and t barometers. tled, t tlines on t sometimes,  ts, ting sun,  up like a crown of glory.

    At t of tains, t smoke curling up from a Village,  s of t ao t is a little village of great antiquity, cs, in times of t about t of ter Stuyvesant (may  in peace!), and ttlers standing  of small yelloiced s, surmounted hercocks.

    In t same village, and in one of to tell trutime-en),   try  a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fello of tly in ter Stuyvesant, and accompanied o t Cina.

    ed,  little of tial cer of ors. I  ured man;  o tter circumstance mig meekness of spirit  to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, less, are rendered pliant and malleable in tic tribulation, and a curtain-lecture is eacues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant s, be considered a tolerable blessing, and if so, Rip Van inkle hrice blessed.

    Certain it is, t  favorite among all took  in all family squabbles, and never failed, ters over in to lay all too, ed at ts, made taugo ?y kites and s marbles, and told tories of gs, c dodging about troop of ts, clambering on ricks on y; and not a dog   the neighborhood.

    t error in Rips composition o all kinds of pro?table labor. It could not be for  of assiduity or perseverance; for  on a  rock, artars lance, and ?s a murmur, even t be encouraged by a single nibble. ogetrudging to s a fe a neig toil, and  man in all country frolics for one fences; too, used to employ o run to do suctle odd jobs as t do for to attend to anybodys business but  as to doing family duty, and keeping  impossible.

    In fact,  o  pestilent little piece of ground in try; everyt it  e of inually falling to pieces; ray, or get among to groting in just as -door o do; so t trimonial estate , acre by acre, until ttle more left tcatoes, yet it -conditioned farm in the neighborhood.

    oo, o nobody. ten in o in ts, rooping like a colt at -off galligaskins, her.

    Rip Van inkle, als, of   foolisions,   t or trouble, and arve on a penny t to led life a contentment; but  continually dinning in  , ongue ly going, and every to produce a torrent of  one o all lectures of t, by frequent use, o a .  up  said not o drao tside of truto a henpecked husband.

    Rips sole domestic ad ers going so often astray. true it is, in all points of spirit be?tting in  and tting terrors of a ongue? t olf entered t fell, ail drooped to ting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van inkle, and at t ?ourisick or ladle, o tation.

    times grerimony rolled on; a tart temper never melloongue is tool t groant use. For a long ual club of ts sessions on a benced by a rubicund portrait of y George to sit in talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless, sleepy stories about not it esmans money to imes took place, raveller. en to tents, as dra by Derrick Van Bummel, ter, a dapper learned little man, o be daunted by t gigantic ionary; and e upon public events some monter taken place.

    to ely controlled by Nicriarc took  from morning till nig moving suf?ciently to avoid tree; so t tell ts as accurately as by a sun-dial. It is true, o speak, but smoked ly. s,  man s), perfectly understood o gather his opinions.

    ed displeased o smoke ly, and to send fort, and angry puffs; but  it in ligimes, taking tting t vapor curl about oken of perfect approbation.

    From even trong lengted by ermagant y of to   noug august personage, Nicongue of terrible virago, wrigs of idleness.

    Poor Rip  last reduced almost to despair; and ernative, to escape from to take gun in roll ao times seat  t of a tree, and sents of  ion. quot;Poor olf,quot;

    ;tress leads t; but never mind, my lad,  never  a friend to stand by t; olf fully in ers face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe ed timent .

    In a long ramble of tumnal day, Rip o one of t parts of tskill mountains. er e sport of squirrel-sing, and till solitudes s of ing and fatigued, e in ternoon, on a green knoll, covered ain  crorees, ry for many a mile of ric a distance ts silent but majestic course, ion of a purple cloud, or ts glassy bosom and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.

    On to a deep mountain glen, om ?lled s from ted by ted rays of tting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on tains began to t it ering terrors of Dame Van inkle.

    As  to descend, ance ;Rip Van inkle! Rip Van inkle!quot;  could see not a cros solitary ?igain.   urned again to descend, ;Rip Van inkle! Rip Van inkle!quot;--at time olf bristled up o ers side, looking fearfully doo t a vague appreealing over ion, and perceived a strange ?gure slooiling up t of someto see any ed place, but supposing it to be some one of tance, ened doo yield it.

    On nearer approacill more surprised at ty of trangers appearance. , square-built old felloique Dutcrapped round t--several pairs of breecer one of ample volume, decorated tons do tout keg, t seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approac rustful of tance, Rip complied y; and mutually relieving eacly tain torrent. As tant t seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rat bety rocks, to, but supposing it to be ttering of one of transient ten take place in tain s, o a re, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over trees s t you only caug evening cloud. During time Rip and ly  of carrying a keg of liquor up tain, yet trange and incompre t inspired awe, and cy.

    On entering tre, nes of ed t in tre  ninepins. t outlandis doublets, ots, and most of tyle  of the guides.

    too,  entirely of nose, and ed by a  off tle red cocks tail. to be tout old gentleman, en countenance; , broad belt and  and featockings, and ing, in t over from  time of ttlement.

    seemed particularly odd to Rip  tly amusing t tained t faces, t mysterious silence, and  melancy of pleasure nessed. Noterrupted tillness of t tains like rumbling peals of thunder.

    As Rip and ed from tared at atue-like gaze, and sucrange uncoutre countenances, t  turned e togetied tents of to large ?agons, and made signs to o  upon trembling; turned to their game.

    By degrees, Rips aaste t urally a ty soul, and empted to repeat t. One taste provoked anoterated s to ten, t at lengto a deep sleep.

    On  tering among t, and breasting tain breeze. quot;Surely,quot; t Rip, quot;I  slept .quot; range man ain ravine--treat among ty at ninepins--t;O ?agon! t ;

    t Rip--quot;;

    in place of ted , tock en. ed t terers of tains  a trick upon oo,   rayed aer a squirrel or partridge. led after ed  all in vain; ted le and s, but no dog o be seen.

    ermined to revisit t evenings gambol, and if  y, to demand his dog and gun.

    As o s, and ing in ivity. quot;tain beds do not agree ; t Rip, quot;and if t of tism, I sime ; ity  doo t to onis a mountain stream , leaping from rock to rock, and ?lling t to scramble up its sides, s of birccimes tripped up or entangled by t ted tendrils from tree to tree, and spread a kind of network in h.

    At lengto re; but no traces of suced a rable  came tumbling in a s of feato a broad deep basin, black from t.  to a stand.

    led after ing  a dry tree t overion, seemed to look do ties.  o be done? t famis of . o give up o meet  it  do to starve among tains. y ?relock, and,  full of trouble and anxiety, turned eps homeward.

    As  a number of people, but none ry round. too,  fas to ared at  eyes upon roked tant recurrence of ture, induced Rip, involuntarily, to do, to onis,  long!

    ered ts of troop of strange c ing after ing at oo, not one of  ered: it s range names range faces at trange. o doubt cive village,  a day before. tood tskill mountains--t a distance--t ;t ?agon last nig;

    t ;;

    It y t o  aing every moment to o decay--ttered, and tarved dog, t looked like olf,  it. Rip called  teet indeed.--quot;My very dog,quot; sig;ten me!quot;

    ered to tell trut in neat order. It y, forlorn, and apparently abandoned. teness overcame all  hen all again was silence.

    ened to , t it too y ood in its place,  gaping s and petticoats, and over ted, quot;tel, by Jonattle.quot; Instead of t tree t used to ser t little Dutcall naked pole, op t looked like a red nig tering a ?ag, on ripes--all trange and incompre even tamorp re, ted , and underneated in large cers, quot;GENERAL ASON.quot;

    t t none   t Rip recollected. ter of tling, disputatious tone about it, instead of tomed pranquillity. tering clouds of tobacco-smoke, instead of idle speecer, doling fortents of an ancient newspaper.

    In place of ts full of ly about rigizens-elections--members of Congress--liberty--Bunkers y-six-and ot Babyloniso the bewildered Van inkle.

    ty foracted ttention of tavern politicians. to foot,  curiosity. tor bustled up to ly aside, inquired, quot;on ; Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Anot but busy little fellooe, inquired in ;; Rip  a loss to compreion;  old gentleman, in a s, made ting to t and left ing ing on  penetrating, as it o ere tone, quot; brougo tion   to breed a riot in t;

    quot;Alas! gentlemen,quot; cried Rip, some;I am a poor, quiet man, a native of t of the   King, God bless him!

    burst from tanders-quot;a tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! le ; It  dif?culty t tant man in t restored order; and enfold austerity of bro, o keep about tavern.

    quot;ell--w;

    Rip bet , and inquired, heres Nicholas Vedder?

    ttle ombstone in t used to tell all about  ts rotten and gone too.quot;

    quot;c;

    quot;O off to t torming of Stony-Point--ot t of Antonys Nose. I dont know --;

    quot;er?quot;

    quot; off to too;  militia general, and is no;

    Rips  died a he world.

    Every ansreating of sucime, and of matters and:

    ony-Point;--o ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, quot;Does nobody ;

    quot;O; exclaimed t;Oo be sure!

    ts Rip Van inkle yonder, leaning against tree.quot;

    Rip looked, and beerpart of  up tain; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. tely confounded. ed ity, and  demanded w was his name?

    quot;God kno; exclaimed  s end; quot;Im not myself--Im somebody else--ts me yonder-no--ts somebody else, got into my s nig I fell asleep on tain, and t tell ws my name, or w;

    tanders began noo look at eacly, and tap t their foreheads.

    t securing t tion of  man  retired ation. At tical moment a freso get a peep at the gray-bearded man.

    Sened at o cry. quot;; cried s;tle fool; t  you.quot; tone of rain of recollections in his mind.

    quot; is your name, my good ; asked he.

    quot;Judit;

    quot;And your fat;

    quot;A its ty years since  a a little girl.quot;

    Rip  one more question to ask; but  it ering voice:

    quot;;

    Ooo  a s time since; s of passion at a New-England pedler.

    t, at least, in telligence. t man could contain  er and ;I am your fat; cried ;Young Rip Van inkle once-old Rip Van inkle no;

    All stood amazed, until an old ottering out from among t o  in  exclaimed, quot;sure enoug is Rip Van inkle--it is y long years?quot;

    Rips story old, for ty years o  as one nigared o  eac tongues in tant man in t, o t the assemblage.

    It ermined, o take ter Vanderdonk, orian of t name,  accounts of ter  ancient inant of ts and traditions of ted Rip at once, and corroborated ory in t satisfactory manner.

    it , or, torian, t tskill mountains ed by strange beings. t it  t  discoverer of try, kept a kind of vigil ty years, ted in to revisit terprise, and keep a guardian eye upon t city called by  c ninepins in tain; and t ernoon, tant peals of thunder.

    to make a long story s, turned to tant concerns of tion. Rips daugook o live out ced for one of t used to climb upon o Rips son and to of  tree, o  evinced an ary disposition to attend to any t his business.

    Rip noime; and preferred making friends among tion, o great favor.

    o do at  t y, ook  triarcimes quot;before t; It ime before  into track of gossip, or could be made to comprerange events t aken place during orpor.  tionary  try , instead of being a subject to y George tizen of ted States. Rip, in fact, ician; tates and empires made but little impression on  tism under ticoat government.   an end;   of trimony, and could go in and out yranny of Dame Van inkle. ioned,  up  pass eition to e, or joy at his deliverance.

    o tell ory to every stranger t arrived at Mr.

    Doolittles el.  ?rst, to vary on some points every time old it, o ly a at last settled doo tale I ed, and not a man,  by . Some alended to doubt ty of it, and insisted t Rip  of  t on cants,  universally gave it full credit. Even to torm of a summer afternoon about tskill, but t t is a common  ing draug of Rip Van inkles ?agon.

    NOtE.

    tale, one , ed to Mr.

    Knickerbocker by a little German superstition about t and tain; te, o tale, s it is an absolute fact, narrated y.

    quot;tory of Rip Van inkle may seem incredible to many, but nevert my full belief, for I knoy of our old Dutctlements to  to marvellous events and appearances. Indeed, I ranger stories too icated to admit of a doubt. I alked  I saional and consistent on every ot, t I tious person could refuse to take to ti?cate on t taken before a country justice, and signed ices oory, ty of doubt.

    quot;D. K.quot;

    <span style="color:grey">travelling notes from a memorandum-book of Mr.Knickerbocker:

    <span style="color:grey">tsberg or Catskill mountains s, , said to be t on t peak of tskills, and  to open and s t t up to stars. In times of drougiated, s summer clouds out of cob of tain, ?ake after ?ake, like ?akes of carded cotton, to ?oat in til, dissolved by t of tle so spring, ts to ripen, and to groing in t of ttle-bellied spider in t of its he valleys!

    <span style="color:grey">In old times, say traditions, tou or Spirit,  t recesses of tskill mountains, and took a miscions upon times er a s and among ragged rocks, and t on tling precipice or raging torrent.

    <span style="color:grey">te abode of tou is still s is a rock or cliff on t port of tains, and, from t it, and ts neig of it is a small lake, t of tary bittern, er-snakes basking in t a t er  pursue s precincts. Once upon a time, er ed to tcrees. One of t, but in treat  it fall among t stream gus o pieces, and tream made its o tinues to ?oo t day, being tical stream knoerskill.

 ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA.

    Met nation, rousting rong man after sleep, and sy yout tON ON tY OF thE PRESS.

    It is  t I observe terary animosity daily gro curiosity e  to ted States, and teemed ravels t tended to diffuse error rat, notanding tant intercourse betions, t mass of tision, or entertain more numerous prejudices.

    Englisravellers are t and t in tives of pride or interest intervene, none can equal ty, or faition of external objects; but  or reputation of try comes in collision  of anoto te extreme, and forget ty and candor, in tic remark, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.

    ravels are more  and accurate, te try described. I  con?dence in an Englision of taracts of terior of India; or of any otract o picture out  I iously receive  of e neigions s of most frequent intercourse.  be disposed to trust y, I dare not trust his prejudices.

    It  of our country to be visited by t kind of Englisravellers.  and cultivated minds  from England to ransack to penetrate ts, and to study toms of barbarous nations,  intercourse of pro?t or pleasure; it  to tradesman, turer, ter and Birming, to be ing America. From sucent to receive ion respecting a country in a singular state of moral and p; a country in  political experiments in tory of ts t profound and momentous studies to tatesman and the philosopher.

    t sucs of America, is not   a matter of surprise. t offers for contemplation, are too vast and elevated for ties. tional cer is yet in a state of fermentation: it may s frot, but its ingredients are sound and o settle doo sometantially excellent. But ting to strengt, and its daily indications of admirable properties, are all lost upon ted by ttle asperities incident to its present situation. tters  e interests and personal grati?cations. tty comforts e of society; udying tite and self-indulgence. ts, ant in timation of narro ackno terbalanced among us, by great and generally diffused blessings.

    ted in some unreasonable expectation of sudden gain. tured America to tives y, and rangely and suddenly ric easy manner.

    t indulges absurd expectations, produces petulance in disappointment. Suctered against try on ?nding t t sory and talent; and must contend ies of nature, and telligent and enterprising people.

    Peraken or ill-directed ality, or from t disposition to cenance tranger, prevalent among my countrymen, treated ed respect in America; and, omed all to consider ty, and brougy, t, on ty; ttribute to tion; and underrate a society inctions, and wo consequence.

    One ion coming from suc ion by t tives of ty, tunities of inquiry and observation, and ties for judging correctly, inized, before tted, in sucent, against a kindred nation.

    t furnisriking instance of ency. Notics y of traveller ant and comparatively unimportant country. s of a pyramid, or tion of a ruin; and ernly ributions of merely curious knoing faitations of coarse and obscure ers, concerning a country  important and delicate relations. Nay, text-books, on y hy of a more generous cause.

    I s, opic; nor sed to it, but for terest apparently taken in it by my countrymen, and certain injurious effects tacoo muco ttacks. t do us any essential injury. tissue of misrepresentations attempted to be  giant. Our country continually outgroer anotself. e  to live on, and every day ion.

    All ters of England united, if  suppose t minds stooping to so union, could not conceal our rapidly groance and matcy. t conceal t t merely to p also to moral causes--to tical liberty, tained energy to ter of a people, and ional power and glory.

    But o the aspersions of England?

    o be so affected by tumely so cast upon us? It is not in t ation s being. t large is ter of a nations fame: s t nesses a nations deeds, and from tive testimony is national glory or national disgrace established.

    For ourselves, t is comparatively of but little importance ; it is, perance to illing   anger and resentment into tion, to gros gros strengters are laboring to convince er to ?nd an invidious rival, and a gigantic foe, sers for ated ility. Every one knoerature at t day, and s control. tests of temporary; t in t is to forgive and forget t to t; t in t spirits; t in t morbidly sensitive to t tri?ing collision. It is but seldom t any one overt act produces ilities betions; ts, most commonly, a previous jealousy and ill-ion to take offence. trace to ten o originate in ters,  and circulate t is to in?ame the brave.

    I am not laying too mucress upon t; for it applies most empically to our particular case. Over no nation does te control tion of t classes makes every individual a reader. t of our country, t does not circulate t of it. t a calumny dropt from an Englistered by an Englisatesman, t does not go to bligo tent resentment. Possessing, tain-erature of tely is it in ruly is it y, to make it tream ions mig toget in turning it to ers of bitterness, time may come tle moment to  ture destinies of t country do not admit of a doubt; over tainty.

    Sake  empires  been exempt--s at uation, in repulsing from ion s o roying he boundaries of her own dominions.

    t ted States are inimical to t country. It is one of tly propagated by designing ers. tless, considerable political ility, and a general soreness at ty of t, collectively speaking, trongly in favor of England. Indeed, at one time ted, in many parts of to an absurd degree of bigotry. t to tality of every family, and too often gave a transient currency to teful. t try, ted o it enderness and veneration, as t repository of ts and antiquities of our race--ternal ory. After our ory, ted--none oy. Even during te unity for kind feelings to spring fort  of ts of our country to s, in t of ilities, till   kept alive ture friendship.

    Is all to be at an end? Is tions, to be broken forever?--Per is for t--it may dispel an allusion al vassalage; rue interests, and prevented tional pride. But it is o give up tie! and terest--closer to t t ill make us cast back a look of regret as ernal roof, and lament t t ions of the child.

    S-sig or England may be in tem of aspersion, recrimination on our part  of a prompt and spirited vindication of our country, or t castigation of  I allude to a disposition to retaliate in kind, to retort sarcasm and inspire prejudice, ers. Let us guard particularly against sucemper; for it ead of redressing ting as tort of abuse and sarcasm; but it is a paltry and an unpro?table contest. It is ternative of a morbid mind, fretted into petulance, rato indignation. If England is o permit trade, or ties of politics, to deprave tegrity of ain of public opinion, let us be to diffuse error, and engender antipation:  of national jealousy to gratify; for as yet, in all our rivalsy. to ans ti?cation of resentment--a mere spirit of retaliation--and even t is impotent. Our retorts are never republis, t ter a querulous and peevisemper among our ers; t ?oerature, and sos blossoms.  is still e try, and, as far as t, excite virulent national prejudices. t is t especially to be deprecated. Governed, as irely by public opinion, tmost care saken to preserve ty of trutes a prejudice, ion of rys strength.

    te. tions of to come to all questions of national concern s. From ture of our relations   questions of a dif?cult and delicate cer ion,--questions t affect t acute and excitable feelings: and as, in tment of tional measures must ultimately be determined by popular sentiment,  be too anxiously attentive to purify it from all latent passion or prepossession.

    Opening, too, as rangers every portion of tiality. It so ex an example of one nation, at least, destitute of national antipat merely t acts of ality, but tesies wy of opinion.

    o do ional prejudices? terate diseases of old countries, contracted in rude and ignorant ages,  little of eacrust and ility.

    e, on trary, o national existence in an enlig parts of table igably studied and made knoo eacages of our birt sional prejudices, as itions, of the old world.

    But above all let us not be in?uenced by any angry feelings, so far as to s our eyes to tion of  and amiable in ter. e are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models, in a great degree, from ting nations of Europe. try more udy t of itution is most analogous to ours. tellectual activity--ts of ts erests and most sacred cies of private life, are all congenial to ter; and, in fact, are all intrinsically excellent: for it is in t tions of Britisy are laid; and ructure may be time be someterials, and stable in tructure of an edi?ce t so long oempests of the world.

    Let it be ters, tation, and disdaining to retaliate ty of Britiso speak of tion  prejudice, and ermined candor. ing bigotry rymen   admire and imitate every t is Englis t out ion. e may tual volume of reference, o tical rengto embellisional cer.

 RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND.

    <span style="color:grey">Oo t pursuits of man,

    <span style="color:grey">Friendly to t, to virtue and to peace,

    tranger er, must not con?ne ions to tropolis.

    go forto try;  sojourn in villages and s;  visit castles, villas, farm-tages;   loiter about country ctend ivals; and cope ions, and all ts and humors.

    In some countries, ties absorb tion; t and intelligent society, and try is ined almost entirely by boorisry. In England, on trary, tropolis is a mere gate classes, ion of to a y and dissipation, and, urn again to tly more congenial s of   rural life. ty are tired neig ranks.

    t, are strongly gifted he rural feeling.

    ty to ties of nature, and a keen reliss of try.

    t in tants of cities, born and brougling streets, enter y into rural s, and evince a tact for rural occupation. t reat in ty of tropolis, ion of uring of s, as  of erprise. Even tunate individuals,  of din and traf?c, contrive to  s of nature. In t dark and dingy quarters of ty, tly a bank of ?o capable of vegetation s grass-plot and ?os mimic park, laid out uresque taste, and gleaming h refreshing verdure.

    to to form an unfavorable opinion of er. racted by ts t dissipate time, t, and feeling, in tropolis. oo commonly, a look of raction. o be,  of going some alking on one subject, o anot, ing ime so as to pay ts allotted to tropolis, like London, is calculated to make men sel?seresting.

    In transient meetings, t deal brie?y in commonplaces. t but ter--its ricies ime to be o a ?ow.

    It is in try t to ural feelings. ies and negative civilities of tos of sed. o collect round e life, and to baniss restraints. ry-seat abounds e, eitudious retirement, tasteful grati?cation, or rural exercise. Books, paintings, music, ing implements of all kinds, are at s no constraint, eits or , in true spirit of ality, provides t, and leaves every one to partake according to ion.

    taste of tivation of land, and in udied Nature intently, and discovered an exquisite sense of iful forms and ions. tries, sudes, are s of domestic life. to  ive graces, and spread tc their rural abodes.

    Not la extend like ss of vivid green, ic trees, rooping in silent o t; or t, suddenly bursting upon taugo ural meanderings,   or expand into a glassy lake--tered pool, re?ecting trees, s bosom, and trout roaming fearlessly about its limpid ers; emple, or sylvan statue, groity to the seclusion.

    t a feures of park scenery; but  deligive talent e tentatious abodes of middle life. t ation, t unpromising and scanty portion of land, in taste, becomes a little paradise.

    iting eye,  once upon its capabilities, and pictures in ure landscape. terile spot groo loveliness under  tions of art o be perceived. training of some trees; tious pruning of otribution of ?os of tender and graceful foliage; troduction of a green slope of velvet turf; tial opening to a peep of blue distance, or silver gleam of er;-all te tact, a pervading yet quiet assiduity, like toucer ?nise picture.

    tune and re?nement in try, aste and elegance in rural economy t descends to t class. tctage and narrotends to t. trim  before ttle ?orained up against ts blossoms about ttice; t of ?oly planted about to c er of its dreariness, and to to caste, ?os sing, deligo visit a cottage, it must be ttage of an Englis.

    t and salutary effect upon tional cer. I do not knolemen. Instead of tness and effeminacy  countries, t a union of elegance and strengtness of frame and freso attribute to ting recreations of try. tone of mind and spirits, and a manliness and simplicity of manners, o easily pervert, and can never entirely destroy. In try, too, t orders of society seem to approaco be more disposed to blend and operate favorably upon eacinctions bet appear to be so marked and impassable as in ties. ty ributed into small estates and farms ablision from try, small landed proprietors, and substantial farmers, doo try; and y togeto eacermediate rank a spirit of independence. t must be confessed, is not so universally t present as it ates e years of distress, absorbed ts of try, almost annied turdy race of small farmers. t casual breaks in tem I ioned.

    In rural occupation, t leads a man fortural grandeur and beauty; it leaves o ted upon by t and most elevating of external in?uences. Suc  be vulgar. t, ting in an intercourse ies. ance and reserve, and is glad to inctions of rank, and to enter into t, felt enjoyments of common life. Indeed, ts of try bring, men more and more togeto  reason ry are more popular among try; and ies,  repining more generally at tribution of fortune and privilege.

    to tivated and rustic society may also be attributed t runs tiserature; t use of illustrations from rural life; tions of Nature, t abound in tiss--t inued do;t; of C into our closets all toral ers of otries appear as if ture an occasional visit, and become acquainted  tiss  secret s--tcest caprices. A spray could not tremble in t rustle to t patter in tream--a fragrance could not ex, nor a daisy unfold its crimson tints to t it iced by te observers, and iful morality.

    t of tion of elegant minds to rural occupations   ry. A great part of tonous,  not for ture; but it is studded and gemmed, as it les and palaces, and embroidered  does not abound in grand and sublime prospects, but rattle ered quiet.

    Every antique farm-tage is a picture; and as tinually  in by groves and ed by a continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness.

    t c seems to pervade it. It is associated in t, of sober ablisom. Every to be tence.  te arcecture, s loal; its Gotos ed glass, in scrupulous preservation; its stately monuments of ime, ancestors of t lords of ts tombstones, recording successive generations of sturdy yeomanry, ar;--t irregular pile, partly antiquated, but repaired and altered in tastes of various ages and occupants;--tile and foot-pat ?elds, and along so an immemorial rigs venerable cottages, its public green sered by trees, under ique family mansion, standing apart in some little rural domain, but looking doecting air on tures of Englistled security, a ary transmission of ues and local attacs, t speak deeply and toucer of tion.

    It is a pleasing sigs sober melody across t ?elds, to bery in t ?nery,  cranquilly along to c it is still more pleasing to see t ttage doors, and appearing to exult in ts and embelliss whem.

    It is t tled repose of affection in tic scene, t is, after all, t of teadiest virtues and purest enjoyments; and I cannot close tory remarks better, ting t,  y:

    <span style="color:grey">tion, from tled hall,

    <span style="color:grey">ty dome, th shade,

    <span style="color:grey">But c mansions numberless,

    <span style="color:grey">In town or , sring middle life,

    <span style="color:grey">Doo ttaged vale, and straw-roofd shed;

    <span style="color:grey">tern isle has long been famed for scenes

    <span style="color:grey">ic ?nds a dwelling-place;

    <span style="color:grey">Domestic bliss, t, like a harmless dove,

    <span style="color:grey">( endearment keeping guard,)

    <span style="color:grey">All t desire h;

    <span style="color:grey">But its own sharers, and approving heaven;

    <span style="color:grey">t, like a ?ower deep ,

    <span style="color:grey">Smiles, t is looking only at the sky.*

    <span style="color:grey">* From a poem on tte, by the Reverend Rann Kennedy, A.M.

 THE BROKEN HEART.

    <span style="color:grey">it, like terpillar, eats

    <span style="color:grey">test book, the rose.

    It is a common practice lived tibility of early feeling, or  up in tlessness of dissipated life, to laug all love stories, and to treat tales of romantic passion as mere ?ctions of novelists and poets. My observations on ure o t, er may be civated into mere smiles by ts of society, still t ?res lurking in t bosom, imes desolating in ts. Indeed, I am a true believer in ty, and go to tent of rines. S?--I believe in broken s, and ty of dying of disappointed love! I do not,  a malady often fatal to my o I ?rmly believe t it o an early grave.

    Man is ture of interest and ambition. ure leads o truggle and bustle of t t of ervals of ts. une for space in t, and dominion over  a   ions. t is  is tion strives for empire--it is treasures. Sure; sraf?c of affection; and if s is a bankruptcy of t.

    to a man, tment of love may occasion some bitter pangs; it enderness--it blasts some prospects of felicity; but ive being--e s in tion, or may plunge into tide of pleasure; or, if tment be too full of painful associations,   aking, as it ;?y to ttermost parts of t rest.quot;

    But ively a ?xed, a secluded, and meditative life. Ss and feelings; and if turned to ministers of sorroo be ress t ured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

    eyes groomb, and none can tell t bligs o its side, and cover and conceal t is preying on its vitals--so is it ture of o ion. te female is ale, s to  s it co  cence is at an end.

    Ss all ts, quicken tide of life in s t is broken--t refres of sleep is poisoned by melanc;dry sorroil est external injury. Look for er a little  one, ely gloy, s doo quot;darkness and t; You old of some ry cion, t laid  no one knoal malady o the spoiler.

    Sender tree, ty of ts form, brigs foliage, but  its . e ?nd it suddenly  s fres. e see it drooping its branco til, ed and peris falls even in tillness of t; and as iful ruin, rive in vain to recollect t or t t could ten it h decay.

    I ances of o e and self-neglect, and disappearing gradually from t as if to edly fancied t I could trace tion, cold, debility, languor, melancil I reac symptom of disappointed love. But an instance of tely told to me; tances are ry ed.

    Every one must recollect tragical story of young E----, triot; it oo touco be soon forgotten. During troubles in Ireland, ried, condemned, and executed, on a creason. e made a deep impression on public sympatelligent--so generous--so brave--so every t  to like in a young man.  under trial, too, y and intrepid. tion reason against ry--t vindication of ic appeal to posterity, in tion, --all tered deeply into every generous bosom, and even ed tern policy t dictated ion.

    But t o describe. In unes, ions of a beautiful and interesting girl, ter of a late celebrated Iriser. Serested fervor of a  and early love. self against ed in fortune, and disgrace and danger darkened around ly for e could a must  tell omb suddenly closed bet loved on eart at its t out in a cold and lonely  lovely and loving ed.

    But tful, so diso d could sootion--none of tender, tances o melt sorroo tears, sent like to revive t in ting hour of anguish.

    to render uation more desolate, sunate attac, and al roof. But could t so s of consolation, for ties. t delicate and ctentions ion. So society, and tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate ragical story of  it rokes of calamity t scatrate to tal seat of  it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.

    Sed to frequent ts of pleasure, but  in a sad revery, apparently unconscious of t mocked at all ts of friends; t;

    told me ory  a masquerade.

    tion of far-gone criking and painful to meet it in suco ?nd it re, lonely and joyless,  dressed out in trappings of mirt ried in vain to c t into momentary forgetfulness of sorroer strolling tter abstraction, s eps of an orcra, and, looking about for some time  air, t sy to t, to tle plaintive air. Se, voice; but on t ouc breatc se and silent, around ed every one into tears.

    tory of one so true and tender could not but excite great interest in a country remarkable for ent completely  of a brave of?cer,  one so true to t but prove affectionate to ttentions, for s ed in . ed not enderness, but eem. ed by ion of itute and dependent situation, for sing on t lengt  erably anothers.

    ook o Sicily,  a c  t to be a  not and devouring melanc ered into ed a  lengto tim of a broken .

    It inguis, composed the following lines:

    <span style="color:grey">She land where her young hero sleeps,

    <span style="color:grey">But coldly surns from their gaze, and weeps,

    <span style="color:grey">Sive plains,

    <span style="color:grey">Atle t in rains,

    <span style="color:grey"> of trel is breaking!

    <span style="color:grey">ry he died,

    <span style="color:grey">t to life wined him--

    <span style="color:grey">Nor soon sears of ry be dried,

    <span style="color:grey">O,

    <span style="color:grey">t,

 THE ART OF BOOK-MAKING.

    <span style="color:grey">If t severe doom of Synesius be true,--quot;It is a greater offence to steal dead mens labor, t;--ers?

    I en  treme fecundity of t comes to pass t so many ure seems to ed teem ions. As a man travels on, s of  some very simple cause for some great matter of marvel. tions about t metropolis, to blunder upon a scene eries of t, and at once put an end to my astonis.

    I ering t saloons of tis listlessness  to saunter about a museum in imes lolling over   times studying tian mummy, and some times trying, o compreings on ty ceilings.  I  in ttention tracted to a distant door, at te of apartments. It  every no range-favored being, generally cloteal fort noticing any of ts. tery about t piqued my languid curiosity, and I determined to attempt t strait, and to explore to my  facility als of enced castles yield to turous knig. I found myself in a spacious c cases of venerable books. Above t under t number of black-looking portraits of ancient aut tables, ands for reading and ing, at udious personages, poring intently over dusty volumes, rummaging among mouldy manuscripts, and taking copious notes of tents. A illness reigned terious apartment, excepting t you migs of paper, and occasionally ted ion to turn over tless arising from t ulency incident to learned research.

    Noe sometake t of turn sly loaded omes, upon y. I  t I udy of occult sciences. tale, of a p up in   an enced library, in tain,  at tal once more ss o be able to soar above titude, and to control ture.

    My curiosity being no to leave terpretation of trange scene before me. A fe for t terious personages,  of manufacturing books. I , in t Britision of volumes of all ages and languages, many of  of e literature to ;pure Englis; y rills of t.

    Being no, I sat docory. I noticed one lean, bilious-looking  t en volumes, printed in black letter. ly constructing some ion, t  learned, placed upon a conspicuous sable--but never read. I observed  of biscuit out of , and gna exion of tomaco udents to determine.

    ttle gentleman in brigenance, h his bookseller.

    After considering tentively, I recognized in  getter-up of miscellaneous rade. I o see ured ir and so various books, ?uttering over ts, taking a morsel out of one, a morsel out of anot;line upon line, precept upon precept, tle and ttle.quot; tents of o be as erogeneous as tc ing, ;baboons blood,quot; to make t;slab and good.quot;

    After all, t I, may not tion be implanted in aut not be taken care t to age, in spite of table decay of t produced?

    e see t Nature o clime, in tain birds; so t animals, ter tly t, Natures carriers to disperse and perpetuate ies and ?ne ts of ancient and obsolete aut up by ts of predatory ers, and cast forto ?ouris in a remote and distant tract of time. Many of tempsyc o a modern play--and a sober preatise furnis is in t of stately pines, a progeny of dart up in trate trunk of a tree mouldering into soil, but it gives birto a wribe of fungi.

    Let us not t over to ers descend; t submit to t laure, er sed in tion, but  sion after generation, botable life, passes a tal principle is transmitted to posterity, and tinue to ?ouris aut is to say, olen.

    I  a pile of reverend folios.  o tions for to t of to tude arising from muco an unlucky  of napping at improper times and places, ed, so it  I fell into a doze. Still, ion continued busy, and indeed tinued before my minds eye, only a little cails. I dreamt t till decorated raits of ancient aut t tables  t repository of cast-off clotreet. ies common to dreams, met it turned into a garment of foreign or antique faso equip ticed,  no one pretended to cloticular suit, but took a sleeve from one, a cape from anot from a t piecemeal, w from among his borrowed ?nery.

    tly, rosy, rived to slip on tle of one of to look exceedingly  tenance set at naugrappings of leman   of several old court-dresses of trimmed ly from an illuminated manuscript, uck a nosegay in ;ty Devices,quot; and  Sir P on one side of rutted off e air of vulgar elegance. A t of puny dimensions, ered  bravely racts of p , but ably tattered in rear, and I perceived t c from a Latin author.

    tlemen, it is true,  eclipsing too, seemed to contemplate tumes of ters, merely to imbibe taste, and to catc; but I grieve to say, t too many  to array top to toe, in tcioned. I s omit to speak of one genius, in drab breecers, and an Arcadian , y to toral, but s of   Primrose udes of ts Park. oral poets, and,  about astical, lackadaisical air, quot;babbling about green ?eld.quot; But t most struck my attention ical old gentleman in clerical robes,  bald ered turdy self-con?dence, and, o, clapped it upon  majestically away in a formidable frizzled wig.

    In t of terary masquerade, a cry suddenly resounded from every side, of quot;t; I looked, and lo! traits about ted! t out, ?rst a ant upon tley to claim ty. t ensued baf?es all description. ts endeavored in vain to escape  be seen ripping a modern professor; on anotation carried into tic ers. Beaumont and Fletcor and Pollux, and sturdy Ben Jonson enacted more eer o ttle compiler of farragos mentioned some time since, cention of claimants about  troclus. I o see many men, to o look up o steal off o cover t t by tical old gentleman in t er   every turn some strip of raiment il in a fes, from o a little, pursy, quot;c,quot; and made  ags and rags ?uttering at his back.

    tastrop I burst into an immoderate ?t of laugumult and t an end. ts usual appearance. to ture-frames, and y along t, I found myself  me onis. Not my burst of laug grave sanctuary, and so ab to to electrify ternity.

    tepped up to me, and demanded  I did not compre I soon found t terary quot;preserve,quot; subject to game-la no one must presume to  t special license and permission. In a ood convicted of being an arrant poaco make a precipitate retreat, lest I s loose upon me.

 A ROYAL POET.

    ON a soft sunny morning in to indsor Castle. It is a place full of storied and poetical associations. ternal aspect of to inspire . It rears its irregular oy ridge, s royal banner in the surrounding world.

    On t voluptuous vernal kind  romance of a mans temperament, ?lling o quote poetry and dream of beauty. In  saloons and long ecle I passed raits of atesmen, but lingered in ties resses, and ter Lely, ed rays of beauty. In traversing also t;large green courts,quot;  turf, my mind ender, t, but  of erings about tripling days, whe Lady Geraldine--

    quot;it up unto tower,

    it;

    In tical susceptibility, I visited t keep of tle, land, ttiss and orians, ate. It is a large gray to ood t of ages, and is still in good preservation. It stands on a mound  above ts of tle, and a great ?igeps leads to terior. In t of armor  to James.

    ed up a staircase to a suite of apartments, of faded magni?cence, oried tapestry, e and fanciful amour, ory try and ?ction.

    tory of t unfortunate prince is ic. At tender age of eleven,  from  III., and destined for t, to be reared under treac surrounded tland. It o tained prisoner by anding t a truce existed betries.

    telligence of ure, coming in train of many sorroers, proved fatal to ;t; old, quot;o give up t into ts t attended  being carried to ained from all food, and in t Rot;*

    * Buchanan.

    James ained in captivity above eig, ty, reated  due to aken to instruct ivated at t period, and to give al and personal accompliss deemed proper for a prince. Per  age, as it enabled o apply o , and quietly to imbibe t rico c tastes o ure draisorians is ivating, and seems ration of a er in real ory. , old, quot;to ?go joust, to tourney, to le, to sing and dance;  mediciner, rigy in playing bote and ruments of music, and  in grammar, oratory, and poetry.quot;*

    * Ballendens translation of or Boyce.

    ition of manly and delicate accompliss, ?tting o sive and elegant life, and calculated to give ense relisence, it must rial, in an age of bustle and co pass time of onous captivity. It une of James, o be gifted ic fancy, and to be visited in  inspirations of tive, under ty; otable; but it is ture of t to become tender and imaginative in t. s upon ts, and, like tive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

    <span style="color:grey">Even th prove

    t all rees, range.

    Indeed, it is ttribute of tion, t it is irrepressible, uncon?nable--t , it can create a self, and, ic poo make solitude populous, and irradiate t t lived round tasso in  Ferrara, y at indsor, as anotiful breakings fortraint and gloom of the prison-house.

    t of t, daug, and a princess of tivity.  gives it a peculiar value, is, t it may be considered a transcript of true feelings, and tory of unes. It is not often t sovereigns e poetry or t poets deal in fact. It is gratifying to to ?nd a monarc o , and seeking to o  is a proof of t equality of intellectual competition, rappings of factitious dignity, brings te doo a level o depend on ive poinction. It is curious, too, to get at tory of a monarc, and to ?nd tions of ure t James  to be a poet before y, and reared in ts.

    Monarcime to parley s or to meditate to poetry; and  up amidst tion and gayety of a court, we sy, he Quair.

    * Quair, an old term for book.

    I icularly interested by ts of te ts concerning uation, or ment in toantial truto make t ive in ations.

    Suc  ed ting t ill mid-c nigars,  of ;Cynt; less, and took a book to beguile tedious ius Consolations of Pers of t day, and ed by  prototype, C is evident te volumes ext-book for meditation under adversity. It is t, puri?ed by sorroo its successors in calamity t morality, and trains of eloquent but simple reasoning, by o bear up against t is a talisman, e may treasure up in ly pillow.

    After closing turns its contents over in o a ?t of musing on tune, tudes of  aken ender youto matins, but its sound, co ing o e ory. In t of poetic errantry ermines to comply imation; akes pen in  a sign of to implore a benediction, and sallies forto try. tremely fanciful in all t is interesting as furnisriking and beautiful instance of trains of poetical t are sometimes aerary enterprises suggested to the mind.

    In te, to lonely and inactive life, and s up from t animal indulges unrestrained. tness, s; tations of an amiable and social spirit at being denied ts kind and generous propensities; ted; tural and toucoucy.

    trast ?nely e and iterated repinings  ry, ting, and venting tterness upon an unoffending e sensibility, but ioned to brood over unavoidable calamities.  breaks forto complaint,  must be t extorts tic, active, and accomplis off in tierprise, ts of life, as on, alive to all ties of nature and glories of art, oned lamentations over ual blindness.

    James evinced a de?ciency of poetic arti?ce,  tion  as preparative to test scene of ory, and to contrast  refulgence of lig exing accompaniment of bird and song, and foliage and ?o. It is ticular, le keep.  daybreak, according to custom, to escape from tations of a sleepless pillo;Be;for, tired of t, and ; o to indulge tives miserable solace, of gazing fully upon t t of to , sered spot, adorned ected from trees and horn hedges.

    <span style="color:grey">No by towers wall,

    <span style="color:grey">An arbour green h wandis long and small

    <span style="color:grey">as all t,

    <span style="color:grey">t lyf* here forbye,

    <span style="color:grey">t mig espye.

    <span style="color:grey">So the leves grene,

    <span style="color:grey">Grohere,

    <span style="color:grey">t.

    Righeir song----

    * Lyf, Person. + tis, small bougwigs.

    NOtE--tations is generally modernized.

    It erprets tingale into the language of his enamoured feeling:

    <span style="color:grey">ors lovers be, this May;

    <span style="color:grey">Come, summer, come, t season and sun.

    As ens to tes of to one of tender and unde?nable reveries, whis delicious season.

    ten read, and ure into ecstasy and song. If it really be so great a felicity, and if it be a boon to t insigni?cant beings, s enjoyments?

    <span style="color:grey">Oft  may this be,

    <span style="color:grey">t love is of suc and kynde?

    <span style="color:grey">t  h care and charge,

    <span style="color:grey"> + to him, or done offense,

    <span style="color:grey">t I am t large?

    * Setten, incline.

    + Gilt, w injury c.

    In t of s ;t and t young ?ourequot; t ever  is to enjoy ty of t quot;fres; Breaking t in a moment of loneliness and excited susceptibility, s once captivates tic prince, and becomes t of he sovereign of his ideal world.

    t resemblance to t of Cs tale, y of tual fact to t  in ion of turesque and minute manner of er, and, being doubtless taken from t portrait of a beauty of t day. icle of  of pearl, splendent  con?ned o t;goodly c;* about , t seemed, e bosom. e tissue o enable o tendants, and about ed a little ed alian e symmetry  among t times.

    James closes ion by a burst of general eulogium:

    <span style="color:grey">In y, ,

    <span style="color:grey">isdom, largesse,+ estate,++ and cunningamp; sure.

    <span style="color:grey">In word, in deed, in senance,

    <span style="color:grey">t nature might no more her child advance.

    * rought gold.

    + Largesse, bounty.

    ++ Estate, dignity.

    amp; Cunning, discretion.

    ture of ts an end to transient riot of t. its t emporary civity, and o loneliness, noenfold more intolerable by ttainable beauty.

    t , and , ;bade fareo every leaf and ?o; ill lingers at tone, gives vent to a mingled ?oil, gradually lulled by te melanco a vision, ory of his passion.

    rance, ony pillo, full of dreary re?ections, questions , ended to comfort and assure ter,  some token may be sent to con?rm turtledove of t  ts upon ten, in letters of gold, tence:

    <span style="color:grey">t blissful is and sure

    <span style="color:grey">Of t; now laugh, and play, and sing,

    ure; and t token of ic ?ction, or o be determined according to te or fancy of timating t tored to liberty, and made .

    Sucical account given by James of ures in indsor Castle.  is absolute fact, and  of fancy, it is fruitless to conjecture; let us not,  every romantic incident   as incompatible  let us sometimes take a poet at iced merely ts of tely connected oed at t day. t and antiquated, so t ty of many of its golden p t day, but it is impossible not to be ciment, tful artlessness and urbanity, . tions of Nature too,  is embellisrution, and a fres cultivated periods of t.

    As an amatory poem, it is edifying, in to notice ture, re?nement, and exquisite delicacy  expression, and presenting female loveliness, clots ctributes of almost supernatural purity and grace.

    James ?ouris time of Cly an admirer and studier of tings. Indeed, in one of anzas ers; and in some parts of races of similarity to tions, more especially to tures of resemblance in temporary aut so mucimes. riters, like bees, toll ts in te ions, tes and ts current in society; and tion ures in common, ceristic of t lives.

    James belongs to one of t brilliant eras of our literary ory, and establisry to a   participation in its primitive  a small cluster of Englisers are constantly cited as t Scottis to be passed over in silence; but ly  little constellation of remote but never-failing luminaries  of literature, and oget t daish poesy.

    Suc be familiar tisory (t e been ivating ?ction  a universal study) may be curious to learn somet ory of James and tunes of  ivity, so it facilitated  being imagined by t t a connection taco its oerests. imately restored to y and croland, and made  tender and devoted wife.

    confusion, tains aken advantage of troubles and irregularities of a long interregnum, to strengt to found tions of taco ion of abuses, temperate and equable administration of justice, t of ts of peace, and tion of every t could diffuse comfort, competency, and innocent enjoyment t ranks of society. ed tered into ts, and ts; informed s, and  be patronized and improved; and , c eye over t of s. rong in ts of turned o curb tious nobility; to strip ties  offences; and to bring to proper obedience to time t  impatience and brooding resentment. A conspiracy  lengt  t Ste, Earl of Atoo old ration of tigated  Ste, toget Grae, to commit to  t near Pert-repeated ender body betual attempt to s  until sorn from  the murder was accomplished.

    It ion of tic tale of former times, and of ttle poem, o made me visit terest. t of armor  and embelliso ?gure in tourney, broug and romantic prince vividly before my imagination. I paced ted co persuade myself it ed by  upon t  rains of liquid melody; every ting into vegetation, and budding fortender promise of time, o obliterate   terner memorials of o ly over ttle scene of poetry and love, and to ing uries  till ?ouris t of to occupies  of ts ed by dividing  otill tered, blooming, and retired. t t t ed by tsteps of departed beauty, and consecrated by tions of t,  is, indeed, t of poetry, to  moves; to breature an odor more exquisite to s a tint more magical the blush of morning.

    Otrious deeds of James as a or; but I ed to vie, stooping from ate to so ?ory and song in t to cultivate t of Scottis erner regions of tilizing arts of sout. o o t, and gentle arts, er of a people, and iness of a proud and . e many poems, ely for t to till preserved, called quot;Cs Kirk of t; sly ed ic sports and pastimes, ute suctisry; and  simple and er into ts. ributed greatly to improve tional music; and traces of ender sentiment and elegant taste are said to exist in tcill piped among tains and lonely glens of Scotland. ed ever is most gracious and endearing in tional cer; ed o after-ages in treams of Scottision of t my , as I paced t scene of . I ed Vaucluse  t Loretto; but I  more poetical devotion templating totle garden at indsor, and musing over tic loves of t of Scotland.

 THE COUNTRY CHURCH.

    <span style="color:grey">Or lists of velvet? w, pound, or yard,

    to tudy of cer try c t of a friend icularly struck my fancy. It  antiquity, ood in t of a country ?lled  families, and contained s cold and silent aisles ted dust of many noble generations. terior ed s of every age and style. t streamed tained glass. In various parts of tombs of knigruck ance of aspiring mortality, some y memorial s kindred dust in temple of t humble of all religions.

    tion  in peuously lined and cused ry, he aisles.

    t at all tables of t fox-er in try, until age and good living o see t ting dinner.

    Under try of sucor, I found it impossible to get into train of t suitable to time and place; so, ians, compromised  anotions on my neighbors.

    I  a stranger in England, and curious to notice ts fas t pretension itle to respect. I icularly struck, for instance, ing of several sons and daugo c equipage, and often on foot. top and converse in t manner ry, caress ten to tories of ttagers.

    tenances ifully fair, , but at time a frank cy. tall, and elegantly formed. t simply--rict neatness and propriety, but  any mannerism or foppisural,  lofty grace and noble frankness  real dignity, t never dreads contact and communion  is only spurious pride t is morbid and sensitive, and souco see try about ts in ry so muc. In tions tiness on t, nor servility on tual respect of t.

    In contrast to tizen, une, and, ate and mansion of a ruined nobleman in to assume all tyle and dignity of an ary lord of to cically along in a carriage emblazoned  glittered in silver radiance from every part of t could possibly be placed. A fat coac riced on tmen in gorgeous liveries, s, and gold-s long springs ateliness of motion. ts, arc a little of tighan ordinary.

    I could not but admire tyle  e of t effect produced at turning of an angle of t smacking of training and scrambling of tening of hrough gravel.

    t of triumpo til tted into a foam. t t in a prancing trot, das pebbles at every step. tering quietly to cately to t and left, gaping in vacant admiration. On reace, t produced an immediate stop, and almost their haunches.

    traordinary men to aligeps, and prepare everyt on eart family. tizen ?rst emerged  t omed to rule on Cock Market , a ?ne, ?esable dame, follo little pride in ion. Sure of broad, , vulgar enjoyment. t he world.

    S   driving about and visiting and feasting. Life o ual revel; it was one long Lord Mayors Day.

    tainly   ator to be critical. trafasions, yet teness migioned amidst ty of a country cily from try ep t seemed dainty of t trod on.

    t an excursive glance around, t passed coldly over try, until t tenances immediately brigo smiles, and t profound and elegant courtesies,  s sligances.

    I must not forget tizen, remity of t pedantry of dress ensions to style.

    t entirely by t came near to respectability; yet t conversation, except t pi?cially, for to t o accomplis Nature  air of supercilious assumption leman.

    I e in draures of t is often to be met ry--tending great, and t little. I  for titled rank, unless it be accompanied rue nobility of soul; but I ries inctions exist, t t classes are al courteous and unassuming.

    tanding are least apt to trespass on t of oty, e itself by ing its neighbor.

    As I  to contrast, I must notice t of t, serious, and attentive. Not t to ion, but rat for sacred trary, ual ?utter and inual consciousness of ?nery, and tion of being tion.

    tleman tentive to took tion upon anding bolt uprigtering t mig  t  tion and loyalty; y, and religion quot;a very excellent sort of t ougo be countenanced and kept up.quot;

    seemed more by o to s, t and  above being religious; as I urtle-fed alderman s quot;excellent food for t;

    an end, I o ness ts of my groups. ters,   as trolling ting ry people as t. ted as to te. ttering of tering of arted off almost at a bound; to rig; t, and t out of sight in a whirlwind.

 THE WIDOW AND HER SON.

    <span style="color:grey">Pittie olde age, hin whose silver haires

    <span style="color:grey">honour and reverence evermore have raind.

    t of remarking sucters must iced t of an Englisroke of tling of ttling of t, and all otly, being less disturbed by passing travellers. At sucimes I  fancied to quiet, and t ts fresints melting into blue he hallowed calm.

    ell  ordained t tion s. ture s moral in?uence; every restless passion is cural religion of tly springing up   , t visit me, in a country ciful serenity of nature, ter man on Sunday the seven.

    During my recent residence in try, I used frequently to attend at ts ss mouldering monuments, its dark oaken panelling, all reverend ed years, seemed to ?t it for t of solemn meditation; but, being in a ocratic neigter of fasrated even into tuary; and I felt myself continually ty and pomp of tion rate piety of a true Cian  old  of years and in?rmities. Sraces of sometter t poverty. t pride rivial respect, too,  take  among t sat alone on teps of tar. So y, and to   tually conning  permit o read, but  persuaded t tering voice of t poor o ing of the choir.

    I am fond of loitering about country cfully situated, t it frequently attracted me. It stood on a knoll, round iful bend and ts  meadow scenery.

    trees, self. Its tall Got up lig it. I ed till sunny morning ce and neglected corners of t  t and friendless old t tating on tinctions of o t, toll of ty, o do. A cof?n of t materials,  pall or oton rappings of affected  tottered after t ed on teps of tar.

    Sed by a o comfort rain, and some cing o gaze, y on the mourner.

    As train approactended by t of cy. titute, and t  moved but a feeps from t t sublime and toucurned into such a frigid mummery of words.

    I approac ;George Somers, aged 26 years.quot; ted to kneel do t.  I could perceive, by a feeble rocking of tion of t s relics of .

    Preparations o deposit t bustling stir, ions given in tones of business; triking of spades into sand and gravel;  le around seemed to c  o loo to an agony of grief. ttended ook o raise o ;Nay, no take it so sorely to .quot; S to be comforted.

    As to to agonize  ruction, tling of tenderness of t forto he reach of worldly suffering.

    I could see no more--my  so my t--my eyes ?lled ears; I felt as if I ing a barbarous part in standing by and gazing idly on ternal anguiso anot of til train had dispersed.

    ting t o urning to silence and destitution, my  ac, t I, are tresses of to sooto beguile--a o divert and dissipate t are the young?

    tic spirits soon rise beneatile affections soon ts. But to soot best is but a ry day, and ary, destitute, mourning over an only son, t solace of ency of consolation.

    It ime before I left t ed as comforter: s returning from accompanying to ation, and I dreed ing scene I nessed.

    ts of ted one of test cottages, and by various rural occupations, and tance of a small garden, ed tably and comfortably, and led a o be taff and pride of t;O; said t;-tempered, so kind to every one around iful to s! It did ones  good to see  out in , so tall, so straiging o c ry round.quot;

    Unfortunately, tempted, during a year of scarcity and agricultural o enter into t t plied on a neig been long in trapped by a press-gang, and carried off to sea. s received tidings of  beyond t t less and melanco  lonely in  ill toain respect as being one of t inants. As no one applied for ttage in o remain in it,  s of nature ions of tle garden, e for   a feime at old me, t sables for , , and seemed to be looking eagerly and ened to and faltering;  and ;O you kno; It tered by ,  lengted limbs o repose among the scenes of his childhood.

    I  attempt to detail ticulars of sucing,   ill,  yet live to comfort and cure, ed in ing to ?nise, tion of ive cottage c on w, and  again.

    t George Somers urned, croo see  and assistance t too alk--ant attendant; and o be her hand.

    t breaks do softens t, and brings it back to t   and loneliness of a foreign land, but  on t;t looked on ; t smootered to enderness in to a son, t transcends all otions of t. It is neito be ced by danger, nor i?ed by ingratitude. S to o ; s in y; and, if misfortune overtake o une; and if disgrace settle upon ill love and ce of  o him.

    Poor George Somers  it o be in sickness, and   none to sooto visit  endure ; if s for c. Sometimes art from a feverisil ake  on ranquillity of a chis way he died.

    My ?rst impulse on ale of af?iction o visit ttage of ter pecuniary assistance, and, if possible, comfort. I found,  ted to do everyt tted; and as t o console eac venture to intrude.

    t Sunday I  to my surprise, I saottering doo omed seat on teps of tar.

    S to put on sometoucruggle betion and utter poverty--a black ribbon or so, a faded black empts to express by out grief s, tately cs, tly over departed pride, and turned to t tar of , I felt t t of real grief hem all.

    I related ory to some of tion, and t. ted to render uation more comfortable, and to ligions. It eps to ter, s at c tisfaction, t sly breat, and o rejoin t world wed.

 A SUNDAY IN LONDON.*

    <span style="color:Gray">* Part of a sketcted in tions.

    IN a preceding paper I ry and its tranquillizing effect upon t rikingly apparent t of t great Babel, London? On tic monster is co repose. tolerable din and struggle of t an end. t. tories are extinguiso t streets. trians , instead of enances, move leisurely along; t on thes, and are cleansed in mind as well as in person.

    And nooo t tradesman, tizen and ers, -er tresses, at  sed.

    Noe of ty, peradventure an alderman or a ster of many feet announces it procession of cy scique cut, and each a prayer-book under his arm.

    t an end; ttering of feet is  cy, cuary. For a time everyt soon is ing ty lanes and courts, and t cing of tifying effect of c t recesses of t metropolis, elevating it, as it ions of tide of triump o heaven.

    t an end. treets are again alive ions returning to t soon again relapse into silence. Noo ty tradesman, is a meal of some importance. t at togeted by tions of tted on t day to come to ternal akes omed Sunday seat at tells over ories, and rejoices young and old h his well-known jokes.

    On Sunday afternoon ty pours forts lesions to breatirists may say  ts of a London citizen on Sunday, but to me tful in bey city enabled to come forture. ored to t; and t spread out t pleasure-grounds  as mucs y as if t of cost in als, prisons, and penitentiaries.

 THE BOARS HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.

    <span style="color:grey">quot;A tavern is taple of good felloell, -great-grandfat it  `it  bleo t;

    It is a pious custom in some Catries to s by votive lig before tures.

    ty of a saint, t to moulder in ttle cary lamp to ts blinking rays at ion is lavis ti?ed fatee brings , ick; and even t pilgrim is by no means satis?ed t suf?cient ligtle lamp of smoking oil. t in to enligen apt to obscure; and I  almost smoked out of countenance by the of?ciousness of his followers.

    In like manner  fared al Ser considers it y to ligion of er or o rescue some merit from oblivion.

    tator, opulent in  tomes of dissertations; tors send up mists of obscurity from tes at ttom of eac of eulogy or researco she cloud of incense and of smoke.

    As I ablis it but proper to contribute my mite of o trious bard. I ime,  icipated in every attempt at a neful line  ion; and as to ?ne passages, tely e, been overlarded  German critic t it  noo ?nd even a fault t  been argued into a beauty.

    In ty I urning over , completely lost in tavern. So vividly and naturally are ted, and ency are ters sustained, t ts and personages of real life. to fe occur t tions of a poets brain, and t, in sober trut of merry roisterers ever enlivened tcheap.

    For my part, I love to give myself up to try.

    A ion t never existed is just as valuable to me as a ory t existed a ty to ties of ure, I  give up fat Jack for  men of ancient c ries of  in a leaf, or tunity nor tion to follo, old Jack Falstaff! kind Jack Falstaff! s Jack Falstaff! ;  regions of  and good- man may revel, and ance of jolly laugo make mankind merrier and better to test posterity.

    A t suddenly struck me. quot;I o Eastc; said I, closing t;and see if tavern still exists.  I may ligraces of Dame Quickly and s? At any rate, treading to t toper enjoys in smelling to ty cask, once ?lled ;

    tion  in execution. I forbear to treat of tures and ered in my travels; of ted regions of Cock Lane;   of ttle Britain and ts adjacent; eaton Street and Old Jes tunted giants, ty and terror of all unlucky urced London Stone, and struck my staff upon it in imitation of t arch-rebel Jack Cade.

    Let it suf?ce to say, t I at lengtc ancient region of  and s relisestimony even at t day. For Eastco;s convivial doings. t ribbes of beef roasted, pies uals: ttering of pes, rie.quot; Alas! aff and old Stoerer o tradesman; ttering of pots and t;rie,quot; to ts and t dinging of tmans bell; and no song is rain of some syren from Billingsgate, cing the eulogy of deceased mackerel.

    I soug abode of Dame Quickly. t of it is a boars one,  present is built into ting line of te of tavern.

    For tory of ttle abode of good felloallo, and o as table ced in a little back parlor, t upon a yard about eig square laid out as a ?oant viereet,   ta of soap and tallotle er part of a century.

    to be versed in tory of Eastc and little, from London Stone even unto t, less, in o be acquainted ory of t, y of true  liberal communicative disposition  old ladies knoheir neighborhood.

    ion,  extend far back into antiquity.

    S upon tory of time t Dame Quickly espoused t Pistol until t ?re of London unately burnt do , and continued to ?ourisil a dying landlord, struck ies o to make avern to St. Micoing of a cime try meetings   t.

    gasp about ty years since. tavern urned into s s a picture of it ill preserved in St.

    Micood just in to get a sigure ermination; so, on, I took my leave of tc less raised greatly ant incident in tory of her life.

    It cost me some dif?culty and muco ferret out to to explore Crooked Lane and divers little alleys and elboy is perforated like an ancient cen c of dra lengtraced o a corner of a small court surrounded by lofty ants enjoy about as mucy of frogs at ttom of a well.

    ton tle man, of a bo  te migure to make in ty men of ty organist, seated apart, like Miltons angels, discoursing, no doubt, on rinal points, and settling t of ale; for te on any er  tance of a cool tankard to clear tandings. I arrived at t  to repair to to put it in order; so, o accompany them.

    t. Micanding a s distance from Billingsgate, is enricombs of many ?ss galaxy of glory and its constellation of great men, I presume t of a migime is regarded ions of t, as poets feel on contemplating tomb of Virgil or soldiers t of a Marlborougurenne.

    I cannot but turn aside, o observe t St. Micains also t doug, yler, in Smit t paci?c of all potentates.*

    * t inscription on t of troyed in t con?agration.

    <span style="color:grey">And twise Lord Maior, as in books appere;

    <span style="color:grey">teen hree odd.

    An error in tion ed by to;; sait;it  tten dora at tyler, I t good to reconcile t by sucestimony as I ?nd in ancient and good records. tains, of t tyler, as t man; trac., etc.--StOS London.

    Adjoining tery, immediately under t ands tombstone of Robert Preston, avern. It is noury since trusty draly deposited omers. As I aptle sexton dreerious air, and informed me in a lo once upon a time, on a dark ry nigling, banging about doors and  tened out of t sleep quietly in t of  Preston, self in ttracted by t;aiter!quot; from ts sudden appearance in t of a roaring club, just as tave from t;mirre garland of Captain Deat; to ture of sundry train-band captains and ttorney, , and o t truter in the way of business.

    I beg it may be remembered, t I do not pledge myself for ticity of te, t is  tropolis are very muced urbed spirits; and every one must , and tion t guards toinels almost out of ts.

    Be all t may, t Preston seems to o tongued Francis, o  ;Anon, anon, sir;quot; and to ranscended y; for Falstaff, ty of e no man ure to impeacly accuses Francis of putting lime in  Prestons epitapy   of , taries of t appear mucivated by tues of tapster; ty organist,  of temiousness of a man brougtle sexton corroborated  wink and a dubious she head.

    * As tion is rife  morality, I transcribe it for tion of delinquent tapsters. It is no doubt, tion of some c he Boars head.

    <span style="color:grey">Bacco give toping world surprise,

    <span style="color:grey">Produced one sober son, and here he lies.

    <span style="color:grey">though reard among full hogsheads, he defyd

    <span style="color:grey">the charms of wine, and every one beside.

    <span style="color:grey">O reader, if to justice t inclined,

    <span style="color:grey">ook care to ?ll s,

    <span style="color:grey">ues t excused s.

    <span style="color:grey">You t on Bacche like dependence,

    t on tory of tapsters, ?s disappointed me in t object of my quest, ture of tavern. No sucing o be found in t. Mic;Marry and amen,quot; said I, quot;; So I ter up, iquary, o be curious in everytive to tavern, offered to sry, imes ed in transferred, on t establis, to a tavern in the neighborhood.

    A feeps brougo tands No. 12 Miles Lane, bearing title of t by Master Ed; of tablis.

    It is one of ttle taverns y and form tre of gossip and intelligence of tered t feed ligo struggle doo tants,  but a tolerable tioned into boxes, eacaining a table spread e clot ts amp, and divided t  just one oclock. At t of lamb ing. A roer mugs glistened along telpiece, and an old fasicked in one corner.

    tive in tc carried me back to earlier times, and pleased me.

    t everyt look of order and neatness able Englis be eitor of ratensions, I tle miss least nine corners. It ed leated rait of a fat pig. It ly appropriated to particular customers, and I found a sleman in a red nose and oil-clot seated in one corner meditating on a y pot of porter.

    ton aken tance imparted to ling little itute for t paragon of esses, Dame Quickly. Sed unity to oblige, and, airs to ted, surned, smiling and courtesying, hem in her hands.

    t sed me obacco-box of gigantic size, out of ry  tated meetings since time immemorial, and  ical painting of side of tavern, and before to be seen t table, in full revel, pictured  y and force raits of renorated on tobacco-boxes, for t of posterity. Lest, ake, taff on ttoms of their chairs.

    On tion, nearly obliterated, recording t t of Sir Ricry meetings at tavern, and t it ;repaired and beauti?ed by ; Sucion of t and venerable relic, and I question ed s of table t San-greal, ation.

    ating on it ured gaze, Dame i?ed by terest it excited,   put in my  ry, and  bore tion of  of Francis yt, and  value, being considered very quot;antyke.quot; t opinion rengtleman , and ed of being a lineal descendant from t Bardolpation on t of porter, and casting a kno t, exclaimed, quot;Ay, ay! t ac made t ticle.quot;

    t importance attaco to of ancient revelry by modern c ?rst puzzled me; but tiquarian researcely perceived t tical quot;parcel-gilt goblet,quot; on o Dame Quickly, and estimony of t solemn contract.*

    * quot;t so me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolp table, by a sea-coal ?re, on ednesday, in sun- indsor; t so me to marry me, and make me my lady, t t?quot;-- 2.

    Mine ess, indeed, gave me a long ory  ion to generation. Sertained me iculars concerning trymen ly on tools of t roisterers of Eastcators, utter clouds of smoke in honor of Shakespeare.

    to relate, lest my readers s be as   curious in tters as myself. Suf?ce it to say, t Eastc Falstaff and ually lived and revelled tes concerning ill extant among t frequenters of transmitted doands on te of t Jacks, not laid doomers ready to die of laughter.

    I nourned to my friend ton to make some furt I found ation. tle on one side; a deep sigtom of omac see a tear trembling in  a moisture ly stealing from a corner of ion of ood open, and found it ?xed fully on t of lamb, roasting in dripping riche ?re.

    I noo mind t in te investigation, I ting in oken of my gratitude and goodness, I departed y benediction on  forgetting my s sententious friend, in t and copper nose.

    t;tedious briefquot; account of teresting researc prove too s and unsatisfactory, I can only plead my inexperience in terature, so deservedly popular at t day. I am a a more skilful illustrator of tal bard ra Preston; some notice of t ?s.

    Micory of Eastc and little; private anecdotes of Dame ty daug even mentioned; to say notending t of lamb (and  foot and ankle);--ts of at tyler, and illuminated by t ?re of London.

    All to be ure commentators, nor do I despair of seeing tobacco-box, and t;parcel-gilt gobletquot; o lig of future engravings, and almost as fruitful of voluminous dissertations and disputes as tland Vase.

 THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE.

    <span style="color:grey">And als in t,

    <span style="color:grey">In times great periods surn to nought.

    <span style="color:grey">itoil of sprite w,

    <span style="color:grey">As idle sounds, of fe--

    <span style="color:grey">t ter than mere praise.

    tain urally steal a  urbed. In sucering about ters of estminster Abbey, enjoying t luxury of  o dignify ion, minster sc football, broke in upon tic stillness of ted passages and mouldering tombs ec. I sougo take refuge from trating still deeper into tudes of to one of to the library.

    ed me tal ricure of former ages, er-ed. Just . to t y, as if seldom used. e noaircase, and, passing tered the library.

    I found myself in a lofty antique ed by massive joists of old Englis ly opened upon ters. An ancient picture of some reverend dignitary of ted principally of old polemical ers, and re of tary table , an inkstand  ink, and a feed for quiet study and profound meditation. It  up from tumult of ts of tly sers, and tolling for prayers ecs of merriment greer and fainter, and at lengto   toll, and a profound silence reigned the dusky hall.

    I aken dotle to, curiously bound in parc, ed myself at table in a venerable elbo of to a train of musing. As I looked around upon tly never disturbed in t but consider terary catacomb,  to blacken and moulder in dusty oblivion.

    I,  aside  some acs! ude of cells and cloisters, s till more blessed face of Nature; and devoted to painful researcense re?ection! And all for o occupy an incy so itles of ture age by some droo be lost even to remembrance. Suc of ted immortality. A mere temporary rumor, a local sound; like tone of t bell o, lingering transiently in ec !

    ating, table speculations ing on my o, until I accidentally loosened to my utter astonis, ttle book gave t lengto talk. At ?rst its voice   ed a cold from long exposure to t time,  became more distinct, and I soon found it an exceedingly ?uent, conversable little tome.

    Its language, to be sure,  and obsolete, and its pronunciation  day,  I so render it in modern parlance.

    It began  t of t merit being suffered to languisy, and otopics of literary repining, and complained bitterly t it  been opened for more turies--t to times took dori?ed s, and turned to t; a plague do t; said ttle quarto,  up c of old vergers, like so many beauties in a o be looked at noten to give pleasure and to be enjoyed; and I  at least once a year; or, if  equal to task, let turn loose tminster among us, t at any rate ;

    quot;Softly, my ; replied I; quot;you are not aer you are off t books of your generation. By being stored a library you are like treasured remains of ts and monarcemporary mortals, left to ture, urned to dust.quot;

    quot;Sir,quot; said ttle tome, ruf?ing ;I ten for all t for tended to circulate from o  contemporary  uries, and migly fallen a prey to t are playing testines if you  by cunity of uttering a fe o pieces.quot;

    quot;My good friend,quot; rejoined I, quot; to tion of emporaries can be at present in existence, and ty to being immured like yourself in old libraries; ead of likening to  more properly and gratefully o ttaco religious establiss for t of t, and ering and no employment, ten endure to an amazingly good-for-notalk of your contemporaries as if in circulation.   do este of Lincoln? No one could oiled ality. o ten nearly t o perpetuate , alas! ts are scattered in various libraries, iquarian.  do iquary, p? erity; but posterity never inquires after his labors.

    of ingdon, e a treatise on tempt of tting  is quoted of Joseper, styled tion?

    Of   forever, excepting a mere fragment; to a feerature; and as to irely disappeared.  is in current use of Joree of life? Of illiam of Malmsbury--of Simeon of Dur of Peterboroug. Albans--of----quot;

    quot;Prit; cried to in a testy tone, quot;alking of aut lived long before my time, and e eitin or Frenc triated to be forgotten;* but I, sir, ten in my oive tongue, at a time w Englis;

    (I s tolerably antiquated terms, t I e dif?culty in rendering to modern p;I cry you mercy,quot; said I, quot;for mistaking your age; but it matters little. Almost all ters of your time o forgetfulness, and De ordes publications are mere literary rarities among book-collectors. ty and stability of language, too, on uity, o times of t of Gloucester, ongues perpetually subject to cermixtures. It is terature so extremely mutable, and tation built upon it so   ?eeting. Unless t can be committed to somet and unc must se of everyto decay. ty and exultation of t popular er. ering and subject to tions of time and try, once tes of ted by modern ers. A fes can only be relis taste of ticipates, e of  may be admired in its day and y, iquated and obsolete, until it s as unintelligible in its native land as an Egyptian obelisk or one of tions said to exist in ts of tartary. quot;I declare,quot; added I, ion, quot;e a modern library, ?lled o sit do in all tary array, and re?ected t in one  one of tence.quot;

    * quot;In Latin and Frenctes  delyte to endite, and  certes t speaken tasye as ament of Love.

    + ;After vell f Geffry Cime of Ricer te, monke of Berrie, our said toong  passe, notanding t it never came unto type of perfection until time of Queen Elizabet ers, ure of to t praise and mortal commendation.quot;

    quot;A; said ttle quarto, ;I see  is: t Sir Pately plays and Mirror for Magistrates, or t;

    quot;taken,quot; said I; quot;ters ion, ality of s, delicate images, and graceful turns of language, is noioned. Sackville rutted into obscurity; and even Lyly, tings  of a court, and apparently perpetuated by a proverb, is no time, ings and troversies. ave after erature il t it is only no some industrious diver after fragments of antiquity brings up a specimen for ti?cation of the curious.

    * quot;Live ever se booke; tle t, and tify unto t ter ary of eloquence, tyest ?ot and arte, tellectual virtues, tongue of Suada in ts of Practise in esse, and t.quot;-ion.

    quot;For my part,quot; I continued, quot;I consider tability of language a ion of Providence for t of t large, and of auticular. to reason from analogy, ribes of vegetables springing up, ?ouris time, and to dust, to make  ty of nature ead of a blessing. tation, and its surface become a tangled  productions. Language gradually varies, and  fade aings of autted time; otive poock tely beerature.

    Formerly traints on tiplication. orks o be transcribed by ion; tten eit, en erased to make remely perised and unpro?table craft, pursued cude of ters. tion of manuscripts ly, and con?ned almost entirely to monasteries. to tances it may, in some measure, be o ed by tellect of antiquity--t tains of t  been broken up, and modern genius dro tions of paper and t an end to all traints. ter, and enabled every mind to pour itself into print, and diffuse itself over tellectual ream of literature o a torrent--augmented into a river-expanded into a sea. A feuries since ?ve or six s constituted a great library; but o libraries, sucually exist, containing t time busy; and tivity, to double and quadruple tality s among t sremble for posterity. I fear tuation of language  be suf?cient. Criticism may do muc increases erature, and resembles one of tary cion spoken of by economists. All possible encouragement, to tics, good or bad. But I fear all  criticism do  may, ers e, printers , and tably be overstocked   of a lifetime merely to learn tion at t day reads scarcely anyt revieion tle better talogue.quot;

    quot;My very good sir,quot; said ttle quarto, ya drearily in my face, quot;excuse my interrupting you, but I perceive you are rato prose. I e of an aut as I left tation, e temporary. t ed varlet, t knetle of Latin, and noto run try for deer-stealing. I to oblivion.quot;

    quot;On trary,quot; said I, quot;it is oo t very man t terature of ion beyond term of Engliserature. t tability of language because   ted ture. tic trees t imes see on tream, s, penetrating tions of t a, and , and pero perpetuity.

    Sucs of time, retaining in modern use terature of ion to many an indifferent auty. But even o say, is gradually assuming tint of age, and ators,  t up;

    tle quarto began to il at lengt into a plet of laug ;Mig; cried ;mig terature of an age is to be perpetuated by a vagabond deer-stealer! by a man  learning! by a poet! forsoot!quot; And  of laughter.

    I confess t I felt sometled at t of ermined, nevert to give up my point.

    quot;Yes,quot; resumed I positively, quot;a poet; for of all ers  cality. Ote from t es from t, and t and rayer of Nature, eresting. Prose   ers are voluminous and uns expanded into tediousness. But rue poet every terse, touc.

    ts in t language. rates t  striking in nature and art. ures of  is passing before ings, tain t, ts ted in a portable form to posterity. tting may occasionally be antiquated, and require noo be rene trinsic value of tinue unaltered. Cast a look back over terary ory.  vast valleys of dulness, ?lled roversies!  bogs of tions!  dreary es of metaped like beacons on ted s, to transmit t of poetical intelligence from age to age.quot;*

    I  about to launco eulogiums upon ts of to turn my  o inform me t it ime to close t to ing o, but ttle tome ; t looked perfectly unconscious of all t o times since, and o dra into furtion, but in vain; and ook place, or o , been able to discover.

 RURAL FUNERALS.

    about midnight more:

    <span style="color:grey">t

    <span style="color:grey">ts srow.

    AMONG tiful and simple-ed customs of rural life s of England are treing t ted friends. t is said, are tes of tive C till iquity, ly mentioned by ters, and  taneous tributes of unlettered affection, originating long before art asked itself to modulate sorroo song or story it on t. to be met  distant and retired places of tion  been able to trample out all teresting traces of time.

    In Glamorgansold, tom alluded to in one of tive ditties of Ophelia:

    t delicate and beautiful rite observed in some of te villages of t t of  in age, size, and resemblance, and is after of ts are sometimes made of ation of ?oe gloves. tended as emblems of ty of the crown of glory which she has received in heaven.

    In some parts of try, also, to triump;to s; says Bourne, quot;t t; ties, particularly in Nort  to ill evening in some lonely country scene tance, and to see train slohe landscape.

    t paid by traveller to tered places; for sucacles, occurring among t abodes of Nature, sink deep into train approaco let it go by; ly in times quite to t otimes for a fee of respect to turns and resumes his journey.

    ter, and gives it some of its most toucic customs, and in tude s peasant, tle respect may be paid to ;faire and ; observes, quot;t sime, to ore of ?oucke upon .quot; ts, too, inually advert to tude about tragedy, by Beaumont and Fletciful instance of ted girl:

    <span style="color:grey">Stuck full of ?owers, sell

    <span style="color:grey">s, ty place it were

    <span style="color:grey">Bluck em, and strew her over like a corse.

    tom of decorating graves :

    osiers  over to keep turf uninjured, and about ted evergreens and ?o;e adorn t; says Evelyn, in ; plants, just emblems of tures to ties remely rare in England; but it may still be met ired villages, among tains; and I recollect an instance of it at to tiful vale of Clewyd.

    I old also by a friend,  t ttendants erred, tuck about the grave.

    iced several graves uck in t planted, t be seen in various states of decay; some drooping, ote perisero be supplanted by o great luxuriance, and oversombstones.

    t of tic offerings, t  truly poetical. times blended o form a general emblem of frail mortality. quot;t ?o; said Evelyn, quot;borne on a branc ural ive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life,  yet  its t; ture and   color of tied, en a particular reference to ties or story of titled quot;Corydons Doleful Knell,quot; a lover speci?es tions ends to use:

    te rose, old, ed at t ied e ribbons, in token of less innocence, times black ribbons ermingled, to bespeak t roses in general ed to tells us t tom  altogetinct in ime, near y of Surrey, quot; ss ;

    And Camden like;ain custom, observed time out of mind, of planting rose-trees upon t t t;

    er  melancholy colors.

    tanley, Esq. (publisanza:

    In tragedy, a patic little air, is introduced, illustrative of ting ted in love:

    tural effect of sorroo re?ne and elevate t in ty of sentiment and ted elegance of t ion t none but s-scented evergreens and ?oion seems to o soften tomb, to beguile tality, and to associate t delicate and beautiful objects in nature. t can return to its kindred dust, ing; and ill to tions ;Lay ; says Laertes, of er,

    ;Dirge of Jep; pours fort ?oical t and image, he living.

    <span style="color:grey">May ss grow here! and smoke from hence

    <span style="color:grey">Come forto streombe h ?owers!

    I migracts from tiss, , and deligly to allude to t I ed more t,  srite, es tical meaning often conveyed in tributes, and at time possesses t magic of language and appositeness of imagery for .

    <span style="color:grey"> summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele,

    <span style="color:grey">Ill sen t not lack

    <span style="color:grey">ts like thy face, pale primrose; nor

    <span style="color:grey">thy veins; no, nor

    <span style="color:grey">tine; o slander,

    tainly someting in t and spontaneous offerings of Nature t costly monuments of art; tre is ear falls on tion is binding t pats of sculptured marble.

    It is greatly to be regretted t a custom so truly elegant and toucs only in t remote and insigni?cant villages. But it seems as if poetical custom aled society. In proportion as people groe to be poetical. talk of poetry, but t to cs free impulses, to distrust its sallying emotions, and to supply its most affecting and picturesque usages by studied form and pompous ceremonial. Fes can be more stately and frigid to is made up of show and gloomy parade:

    mourning carriages, mourning ;t; says Jeremy taylor, quot;and a solemn mourning, and a great   talk in t; te in ty is soon forgotten; timates and neuating. But funerals in try are solemnly impressive. troke of deat in tranquil uniformity of rural life. tolls its knell in every ear; it steals s pervading melanche landscape.

    tures of try also perpetuate t retired ion to every lonely scene. ed ure; o aed; ude or amidst ty of ty; and s gat, o mind many a talk and s-souled melancholy.

    Anot perpetuates try is t tely in sig on to prayer; it meets ts are softened by tion; t it on t disposed to turn aside from present pleasures and present loves and to sit doos of t. In Nortry kneel and pray over ter terment; and e of streing ?oill practised, it is aler, suntide, and otivals, y more vividly to mind. It is also invariably performed by t relatives and friends; no menials nor ance, it  to offer compensation.

    I  upon tiful rural custom, because as it is one of t, so is it one of t, of?ces of love.

    true affection. It is t ts its superiority to tinctive impulse of mere animal attac. tter must be continually refres alive by ts object, but t is seated in tions of sense languised turn  from ts of tomb; but it is t truly spiritual affection rises, puri?ed from every sensual desire, and returns, like a o illumine and sanctify t of the survivor.

    to be divorced. Every oto ion to forget; but t a duty to keep open, tion we cude.

    t t perision is a pang?   t tender of parents, to remember be but to lament?  tomb is closing upon t loved,  al,  of consolation t must be bougfulness? No, tomb is one of t attributes of t s  s delig of grief is calmed into tle tear of recollection,   loved is softened ao pensive meditation on all t it s loveliness,  suc? t may sometimes t y, or spread a deeper sadness over t  of revelry? No, tomb ser than song.

    to  buries every error, covers every defect, extinguisment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.  feel a compunctious t  lies mouldering before him?

    But t a place for meditation!

    t is t ory of virtue and gentleness, and ts lavis unercourse of intimacy; t is t enderness, tenderness, of ting scene. ts sti?ed griefs--its noiseless attendance--its mute, cies. t testimonies of expiring love! ttering, the hand!

    t, faltering accents, struggling in deato give one more assurance of affection! t fond look of turning upon us even from tence!

    Ay, go to tate! ttle t  bene?t unrequited--every past endearment unregarded, of t departed being o be sootrition!

    If t a c ever added a sorroo to tionate parent; if t a  ever caused t ventured its  one moment of trut a friend, and  ever  or  t generously con?ded in t a lover, and  ever given one unmerited pang to t true  ,--t every unkind look, every ungracious le action  t t lie doant on tter tear, more deep, more bitter because unheard and unavailing.

    t of ?oreies of Nature about t, if t, ender yet futile tributes of regret; but take terness of trite af?iction over tionate in ties to the living.

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    In ing ticle it  intended to give a full detail of toms of try, but merely to furniss and quotations illustrative of particular rites, to be appended, by e, to anoticle so its present form, and tioned as an apology for so brief and casual a notice of ter tigated in other works.

    I must observe, also, t I am  tom of adorning graves ries besides England. Indeed, in some it is muc it is t to lose its simplicity and to degenerate into affectation. Brigravels in Los of marble and recesses formed for retirement, s placed among bo t ?oure of ?lial piety  transcribe; for I trust it is as useful as it is deligo illustrate tues of t; Berlin,quot; says ;I folloed If?and to t trace muc of ttention tracted by a young urf, ed from t of t omb of ; and tionate dauged a monument more striking t costly .quot;

    I ance of sepulcion t I once met ains of Szerland. It  tands on t t of Mount Rigi. It al of a miniature republic s up betpat exceed six ing men, and a fe as it ains, comprised its territory. ted from t of tained ty of a purer age. It  tures, rudely executed, but evidently attempts at likenesses of the deceased.

    On ts of ?oerest at t t I  tical description, for tiful but unaffected offerings of t o record. In a gayer and more populous place I sed to ed by factitious sentiment derived from books; but ttle of books; t a novel nor a love-poem in tion , ress, t  fanciful rites of poetical devotion, and t ically a poet.

 THE INN KITCHEN.

    DURING a journey t I once made t t er table de, so t I o make a solitary supper from ts ampler board. ted alone in one end of a great gloomy dining-room, and, my repast being over, I  before me of a long dull evening,  any visible means of enlivening it. I summoned mine  and requested someto read;  me terary stock of c dozing over one of tter, reading old neale criticisms, my ear ruck s of laugo proceed from tc ravelled on tinent must kno tcry inn is to travellers, particularly in t equivocal kind of oo tco take a peep at t appeared to be so merry. It ly of travellers tendants and ed round a great burnisove, t migaken for an altar at c brigeamed and ea-kettle. A large lamp trong mass of lig many odd features in strong relief. Its yelloially illumined tco remote corners, except ced back from ensils t gleamed from t of obscurity. A strapping Flemiss in  suspended to it, ess of temple.

    Many of t of tation. I found tes ures; at ts of  unceremonious laug temple of true liberty, an inn.

    As I ter mode of getting tedious blustering   evening, I took my seat near tove, and listened to a variety of travellers tales, some very extravagant and most ver dull.

    All of treac one, e. I fear,  derived its c from t old, and tor.  old Sraveller. arnisravelling-jacket,  round , and a pair of overalls tons from to tenance,  twinkling eye.

    , and curled from under an old green velvet travelling-cap stuck on one side of errupted more ts or tors, and paused noo replenis wimes chen-maid.

    I ed tobacco-pipe formed of genuine ecume de mer, decorated assel,  of ted tory.

 THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.

    <span style="color:grey">SIR EGER, SIR GRAEEL.

    ON t of one of ts of tic tract of Upper Germany t lies not far from tood many, many years since tle of t. It is noe fallen to decay, and almost buried among beecrees and dark ?rs; above coill be seen struggling, like tioned, to carry a ry.

    t family of Katzenellenbogen,+ and ined ty and all tors. tion of  till endeavored to keep up some sate.

    times  old castles, percs among tains, and  more convenient residences in till, ttle fortress, cary inveteracy all t erms  neig of disputes t -great-grandfathers.

    * te reader,  tale must ed to ttle Frence, a circumstance said to aken place in Paris.

    + I.e., CAtS ELBO--ts, and very poimes. tion, old,  to a peerless dame of ted for a ?ne arm.

    t one cer, but Nature,  one ces by making it a prodigy; and so it er of try cousins assured  s y in all Germany; and  up  care under tendence of ts,  one of ttle German courts, and ion of a ?ne lady. Under tructions ss. By time seen so admiration, and ories of ts in tapestry rengtenances t tory.

    S great dif?culty, and  all ting; could sign  missing a letter, and so legibly t s could read it  spectacles. Stle elegant good-for-not abstruse dancing of tar, and kneender ballads of t.

    s, too,  ?irts and coquettes in ted to be vigilant guardians and strict censors of t of t and inexorably decorous as a superannuated coquette. S of t; never  beyond tle unless tended, or ratcinual lectures read to  strict decorum and implicit obedience; and, as to taugo  sucance and in suce distrust t, unless properly aut  a glance upon t cavalier in t if  .

    ts of tem . ttern of docility and correctness. ing tness in to be plucked and to fresection of te spinsters, like a rosebud bluss looked upon ation, and vaunted t, t go astray, yet to tzenellenbogen.

    But, ily t migions.

    tionate disposition common to ives--taco took every possible occasion to come in sle. All family festivals ed by t t tful as tings, t.

    t sisfaction at test man in ttle  o tell long stories about tark old s looked grimly doeners equal to t o tural tales ain and valley in Germany abounds. ts exceeded even ened to every tale of o be astonised for time. t, table, te monarctle territory, and   man of the age.

    At time of reats t family gat tle on an affair of tmost importance: it o receive tined bridegroom of ter. A negotiation o unite ty of ted ilio. trot seeing eacime ed for t Von Altenburg ually on o to receive zburg, ained, mentioning t be expected to arrive.

    tle umult of preparation to give able  h uncommon care.

    ts ended oilet, and quarrelled t every article of aken advantage of test to follo of aste; and fortunately it er of expectation ened tre of her charms.

    t mantled le  in reverie, all betrayed t tumult t le . ts inually s are apt to take great interest in affairs of ture. taid counsel o deport  to say, and in o receive ted lover.

    tions. rutly to do; but urally a fuming, bustling little man, and could not remain passive o bottom of tle e anxiety; inually called ts from to ex to be diligent; and buzzed about every less and importunate as a blue-bottle ?y on a warm summers day.

    In time tted calf s smen; tc un ribution. Everyto receive tinguis rue spirit of German ality; but t delayed to make his appearance.

    er   of t gleamed along ts of tains. ted t torained cant sig and tendants. Once  ing from tain-ec ain truck off in a different direction. t ray of sunsed, ts began to ?it by in tirring in it but no lagging homeward from his labor.

    le of Lands ate of perplexity a very interesting scene ransacting in a different part of the Odenwald.

    t Von Altenburg ranquilly pursuing e in t sober jog-trot orimony rouble and uncertainty of courtsing for ainly as a dinner at tered at urtzburg a youtiers--arkenfaust, one of toutest  s of German curning from tle  far distant from tress of Lands, altary feud rendered tile and strangers to eacher.

    In ted moment of recognition ted all t adventures and fortunes, and t gave tory of ended nuptials  of uring descriptions.

    As te of tion, to perform t of toget t do it t off from urtzburg at an early  ions for inue to folloake him.

    tions of tary scenes and adventures; but t  to be a little tedious no ted cy t aed him.

    In tered among tains of traversing one of its most lonely and t is  ts of Germany ed by robbers as its castles by spectres; and at time ticularly numerous, from t try. It  appear extraordinary, t ttacked by a gang of tragglers, in t of t. t inue arrived to tance.

    At sig not until t al y of urtzburg, and a friar summoned from a neig o bot s of tunate count were numbered.

    itreated o repair instantly to tle of Lands and explain tal cause of  keeping ment  t ardent of lovers,  punctilious of men, and appeared earnestly solicitous t eously executed. quot;Unless t; said ;I s sleep quietly in my grave.quot; ed t y. A request at a moment so impressive admitted no ation. Starkenfaust endeavored to sooto calmness, promised faito execute  in ackno, but soon lapsed into delirium--raved about s, ed o tle of Lands, and expired in t of vaulting into the saddle.

    Starkenfaust bestoimely fate of aken.

    among ile people, and to damp tivity idings fatal to their hopes.

    Still, tain y of Katzenellenbogen, so cautiously   s up from te admirer of tricity and enterprise in er t made ure.

    Previous to ure s ernity of t for ties of o be buried in tzburg near some of rious relatives, and tinue of t took charge of his remains.

    It is no o t family of Katzenellenbogen,  for t, and still more for to ttle baron, w airing cower.

    Nig still no guest arrived. to, s  antly to give orders for t  t. All ed at table, and just on t of commencing, e gave notice of tranger.

    Anot ?lled ts of tle s ecened to receive ure son-in-law.

    t doranger e. all gallant cavalier, mounted on a black steed.

    enance  ic eye and an air of stately melanctle morti?ed t ary style. y for a moment o consider it a  of proper respect for tant occasion   and tant family o be connected.  it must ience tendants.

    quot;I am sorry,quot; said tranger, quot;to break in upon you t;

    errupted s and greetings, for, to tell trutesy and eloquence. tranger attempted once or to stem torrent of  in vain, so  to ?oime to a pause t of tle, and tranger  to speak, ed by t of t as one entranced; it seemed as if ed upon t lovely form. One of ts o speak;  blue eye imidly raised, gave a sranger, and  again to t t smile playing about  dimpling of t s been unsatisfactory. It een, rimony, not to be pleased  a cavalier.

    te  ime for parley. tory, and deferred all particular conversation until to tasted banquet.

    It  le. Around traits of tzenellenbogen, and trops, splintered jousting-spears, and tattered banners usks of ttle-axes, and a lers brancely over thful bridegroom.

    took but little notice of tertainment. asted t, but seemed absorbed in admiration of one t could not be over  cannot catcest y in  appeared to  upon t as sened tention. Nourned a ic countenance, and le sigender   t tely enamored. ts, , declared t t ?rst sight.

    t  on merrily, or at least noisily, for ts ites t attend upon ligain air. told  and longest stories, and never old t effect. If tors  in astonis; and if anytious, to laugly in t place. t is true, like most great men, oo digni?ed to utter any joke but a dull one; it able, served up ible. Many good ts t  bear repeating, except on similar occasions; many sly speec almost convulsed ter; and a song or t by a poor but merry and broad-faced cousin of t absolutely made ts heir fans.

    Amidst all tranger guest maintained a most singular and unseasonable gravity. enance assumed a deeper cast of dejection as trange as it may appear, even to render  times  in t, and at times turbed and restless  bespoke a mind but ill at ease. ions  and mysterious. Loo steal over ty of remors to run tender frame.

    All t escape tice of ty s ed; ion, ales and supernatural legends. One dismal story produced anotill more dismal, and tened some of to erics ory of t carried aory o excellent verse, and is read and believed by all the world.

    tened to tale tention.  eadily ?xed on tory dreo a close, began gradually to rise from , groaller and taller, until in tranced eye

    to too a giant. t tale . tly truck.

    quot;! going to leave tle at midnigion; a co retire.quot;

    tranger seriously: quot;I must lay my  co-nig;

    tone in tered t made t misgive  ed able entreaties.

    tranger sly, but positively, at every offer, and, alked slo of ts ely petri?ed; tear stole to her eye.

    tranger to t court of tle, ing ience. al, , tranger paused, and addressed tone of voice, ill more sepulchral.

    quot;No ; said ;I  to you t----quot;

    quot;; said t;cannot you send some one in your place?quot;

    quot;It admits of no substitute--I must attend it in person; I must ao urtzburg cat;

    quot;Ay,quot; said t, quot;but not until to-morroo-morro;

    quot;No! no!quot; replied tranger, enfold solemnity, quot;my engagement is  me! I am a dead man--I  urtzburg--at midnigo be buried--ting for me--I must keep my appointment!quot;

    tering of  in tling of t blast.

    turned to tmost consternation, and related ed outrig ted re. It  t be tsman, famous in German legend. Some talked of mountain-sprites, of ural beings ime immemorial. One of tions ventured to suggest t it migive evasion of t to accord ion of ttle better t o abjure o true believers.

    But, ertained, tely put to an end by t day of regular missives con?rming telligence of ts murder and erment in urtzburg cathedral.

    t tle may  s,  tress. t ts or collected in groups in t troubles of so good a man, and sat longer t table, and ate and drank more stoutly ts.

    But tuation of t pitiable. to  a re could be so gracious and noble,  ations.

    On t of tired to s, , ellers of g-stories in all Germany,  been recounting one of , and  of it. te and overlooked a small garden. t trembled on tree before ttice. tle clock  tolled midnig strain of music stole up from tily from epped ligo tall ?gure stood among trees. As it raised its  fell upon tenance. re Bridegroom! A loud s t moment burst upon , o to re had disappeared.

    Of t no sootly beside error. As to tre of  seemed endearing. till ty,   and, t little calculated to satisfy tions of a lovesick girl, yet  to be  is consoling. t declared s cory, and declared as strongly t sle: t so sleep in it alone; but s not to relate tory of tre, lest s  of ining t its nightly vigils.

    ain, for so talk of triump to tell a frigory; it is, ill quoted in tance of female secrecy t s it to raint by intelligence brougo t-table one morning t t to be found. y--t been slept in--the bird had ?own!

    tonis and concern elligence nessed tation  from tigable labors of trenc,  been struck speec, quot;t; t;

    In a fe tre must ics corroborated ttering of a ain about midnig t it re on o tomb. All present ruck y for events of tremely common in Germany, as many icated ories bear ness.

    a lamentable situation  of t a rending dilemma for a fond fat family of Katzenellenbogen! er  ao to roop of goblin grandcely bele in an uproar. to take  drao mount eed to sally fortful quest, o a pause by a neion. A lady ed on a palfrey, attended by a cavalier on o te, sprang from  t, embraced his knees.

    It ounded.  er, t tre, and almost doubted tter, too, o ts.  off a noble ?gure of manly symmetry. enance was ?used in his large dark eye.

    tery rut arkenfaust. ed ure . old ened to tle to deliver tidings, but t terrupted tempt to tell ale.  of tely captivated  to   pass a fely suffered take to continue.  o make a decent retreat, until tories ed ric exit. ility of ted s by stealted triumphe fair.

    Under any otances tenacious of paternal auty and devoutly obstinate in all family feuds; but er; ed ; o ?nd ill alive; and, tile , t a goblin. t must be ackno did not exactly accord ions of strict veracity in t  several old friends present, ratagem  titled to especial privilege, ely served as a trooper.

    Matters, t. t tle were resumed.

    tions over is true,  tem of strict seclusion and passive obedience s attributed it all to t ed. One of ticularly morti?ed at ory marred, and t tre surn out a counterfeit; but tly  antial ?esory ends.

 WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

    <span style="color:grey">te;

    <span style="color:grey">it contempt, or pride, or ostentation,

    <span style="color:grey">Contents t no sprites,

    <span style="color:grey">e tood upon

    <span style="color:grey">Could not content nor quencites.

    ON one of tter part of autumn oget estminster Abbey. to ts t seemed like stepping back into tiquity and losing myself among the shades of former ages.

    I entered from t of estminster Sced passage t  subterranean look, being dimly lig by circular perforations in tant vieers, s, and seeming like a spectre from one of tombs. to tic remains prepares ts solemn contemplation. ters still retain somet and seclusion of former days. t of ions of ts, and obscured toucracery of tones  ty; everytions of time, w oucs very decay.

    tumnal ray into ters, beaming upon a scanty plot of grass in tre, and liged passage o a bit of blue sky or a passing cloud, and be pinnacles of too the azure heaven.

    As I paced ters, sometimes contemplating ture of glory and decay, and sometimes endeavoring to decipions on tombstones , my eye tracted to t nearly steps of many generations. ts; tapirely effaced; t been reneer times (Vitalis. Abbas.

    1082, and Gislebertus Crispinus. Abbas. 1114, and Laurentius.

    Abbas. 1176). I remained some little y t like ant sime, telling no tale but t suceac tility of t pride o exact s aso live in an inscription. A little longer, and even t records erated and t o be a memorial.

    I  looking doones I ing from buttress to buttress and ecers. It is almost startling to ed time sounding among tombs and telling too an arco terior of tering ude of trasted s of ters. t clustered columns of gigantic dimensions, o suc, and man  to insigni?cance in comparison  edi?ce produce a profound and mysterious aep cautiously and softly about, as if fearful of disturbing tomb, ers among t ed.

    It seems as if ture of to noiseless reverence. e feel t ed bones of t men of past times, heir renown.

    And yet it almost provokes a smile at ty of ion to see ogetled in t;  a scanty nook, a gloomy corner, a little portion of earto t satisfy, and i?ces are devised to catcice of tfulness for a fe and admiration.

    I passed some time in Poets Corner, s or cross aisles of ts are generally simple, for terary men afford no striking tor. Satues erected to t ter part s, medallions, and sometimes mere inscriptions.

    Notanding ty of t tors to t about takes place of t cold curiosity or vague admiration s of t and t t tombs of friends and companions, for indeed to posterity only tory,  and obscure; but tercourse betive, and immediate. s, and s s of social life, t  timately commune ant minds and distant ages. ell may t  by deeds of violence and blood, but by t dispensation of pleasure. ell may posterity be grateful to  it an inance not of empty names and sounding actions, but wreasures of wisdom, brig, and golden veins of language.

    From Poets Corner I continued my stroll to part of tains t once s of t. At every turn I met rious name or tory. As ts into t catc ef?gies--some kneeling in nicion; otretcombs, ogeter battle; prelates, res; and nobles in robes and coronets, lying as it ate. In glancing over trangely populous, yet , it seems almost as if reading a mansion of t fabled city ed into stone.

    I paused to contemplate a tomb on e armor. A large buckler ogetion upon t; t covered by token of t omb of a crusader, of one of tary ents ing link bet and ?ction, betory and tale. tremely picturesque in tombs of turers, decorated as ture. t iquated cion is apt to kindle ions, tic ?ction, try imes utterly gone by, of beings passed from recollection, of customs and manners y. ts from some strange and distant land of  remely solemn and aombs, extended as if in tion of t in?nitely more impressive on my feelings ttitudes, t conceits, ts. I ruck, also, y of many of tions. times of saying t saying t knoap breatier consciousness of family  quot;all ters virtuous.quot;

    In te transept to Poets Corner stands a monument , but omb of Mrs. Nigtom of t is represented as ts marble doors, and a sed skeleton is starting fort at im. So ed rives ic effort to avert ted errible trut;  fancy ended jare.

    But errors, and to spread omb of those we love?

    t migenderness and veneration for t migo virtue. It is t of disgust and dismay, but of sorroation.

    ts and silent aisles, studying tence from  occasionally reacitude, or per laugrast is striking  range effect upon to ive life ing against the sepulchre.

    I continued in to move from tomb to tomb and from co cant tread   of loiterers about t; t-tongued bell o evening prayers; and I sa a distance ters in te surplices crossing tering tood before trance to  of steps leads up to it t magni?cent arc gates of brass, ricely  to admit t of common mortals into t gorgeous of sepulchres.

    On entering tonisecture and te beauty of sculptured detail. t into universal ornament encrusted racery, and scooped into nicatues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by to s  as if by magic, and tted roof aceness and airy security of a cobweb.

    Along ty stalls of ts of tesque decorations of Gotecture. On talls are af?xed ts and crests of ts, rasting t of tands ts founder-- of ended on a sumptuous tomb--and t brazen railing.

    trange mixture of tombs and tropion, close beside mementos er terminate. Noto tread t and deserted scene of former t.

    On looking round on t stalls of ts and ty but gorgeous banners t ion conjured up t y of ttering ary array, alive read of many feet and titude. All tled again upon terrupted only by to t ts among its friezes and pendants--sure signs of solitariness and desertion.

    tered far and  tossing upon distant seas: some under arms in distant lands; some mingling in trigues of courts and cabinets,--all seeking to deserve one more distinction in t.

    toucance of ty of to a level  of tterest enemies togety Elizabet of im, tunate Mary. Not an  some ejaculation of pity is uttered over te of tter, mingled ion at inually ec the grave of her rival.

    A peculiar melanc struggles dimly t. ter part of tained and tinted by time and retcomb, round le.

    I  doo rest myself by t, revolving in my mind trous story of poor Mary.

    tsteps ant voice of t repeating t responses of time, and all ion, and obscurity t erest to the place;

    <span style="color:grey">No joyful tread of friends, no voice of lovers,

    <span style="color:grey">No careful fathings heard,

    Suddenly tes of t upon tensity, and rolling, as it  pomp do ts vast vaults, and breat sepulcriump acclamation,  notes and piling sound on sound. And no voices of t into s gus and o play about ty vaults like ts to music, and rolling it fort long-dra gro ?lls t pile and seems to jar tunned--t is  is rising from to  aed upide of harmony!

    I sat for some time lost in t kind of reverie  sometimes to inspire: ts began to cast deeper and deeper gloom; and tant clock again gave token of the slowly waning day.

    I rose and prepared to leave t of steps  by taircase t conducts to it, to take from tombs. ted upon a kind of platform, and close around it are tropo tombs, iers, and statesmen lie mouldering in t;beds of darkness.quot; Close by me stood t cion, rudely carved of oak in taste of a remote and Got as if contrived rical arti?ce to produce an effect upon type of t erally but a step from to t one t tos ogeto living greatness?--to s, even in t of its proudest exaltation, t and diso  soon arrive-- cro pass a must lie do and disgraces of tomb, and be trampled upon   by t of t of titude. For, strange to tell, even tuary. ty in some natures   to revenge on trious dead t y s; tre olen from t a royal monument but bears some proof ive is tilated, some covered ,--all more or less outraged and dishonored.

    t beams of day ly streaming ted s above me; ts of ty of trange sain lig tant footfall of a verger, traversing ts Corner, range and dreary in its sound. I sloraced my mornings  at tal of ters, th echoes.

    I endeavored to form some arrangement in my mind of ts I emplating, but found to indistinctness and confusion. Names, inscriptions, tropion, taken my foot from off t, t I, is t assemblage of sepulc a treasury of ion--a erated iness of renoainty of oblivion? It is, indeed, t ss in state mocking at t and forgetfulness on ts of princes. , after all, is tality of a name! time is ever silently turning over oo mucory of t to ters and anecdotes t gave interest to t; and eaco be speedily forgotten. to-day puserday out of our recollection, and urn be supplanted by omorro;Our fat; says Sir t;?nd t memories, and sadly tell us ; ory fades into fable; fact becomes clouded  and controversy; tion moulders from tablet; tatue falls from tal. Columns, arc are t ap cers ten in t?  is ty of a tomb or tuity of an embalmment? t tered to ty sarcopy of a museum. quot;tian mummies, wime ;*

    to ensure to come s le t from ttered tos blossoms about tion; ory is as a tale t is told, and  becomes a ruin.

    * Sir t. Browne.

 CHRISTMAS.

    But is old, old, good old Cmas gone? Not t? ell, I  have more of him.

    NOtful spell over my imagination toms and rural games of former times. tures my fancy used to dra I only kne to be all t poets ed it; and t days of yore, in o t present. I regret to say t t, being gradually ime, but still more obliterated by modern fasuresque morsels of Gotecture ry, partly dilapidated by te of ages and partly lost in tions and alterations of latter days.

    Poetry,  t s ts ric toefully repaying t by clasping togetottering remains, and, as it hem in verdure.

    Of all tivals,  of Cmas arongest and most felt associations. tone of solemn and sacred feeling t blends y and lifts t to a state of ed enjoyment.

    t tremely tender and inspiring. tiful story of toral scenes t accompanied its announcement. t, until t brougo men. I do not kno of music on to mas ant of t pile riump harmony.

    It is a beautiful arrangement, also, derived from days of yore, t tival,  of togetions, and dras ing to cast loose; of calling back to assemble about ternal  rallying-place of tions, to groos of childhood.

    t gives a   co tivity of Cmas. At otimes  portion of our pleasures from ties of Nature.

    Our feelings sally forte t;live abroad and everyream, t voluptuousness of summer, tumn, earts mantle of refres deep delicious blue and its cloudy magni?cence,--all ?ll us e but exquisite deligion. But in ter, urn for our grati?cations to moral sources.

    tion of t gloomy days and darksome nig in our feelings also from rambling abroad, and make us more keenly disposed for ts are more concentrated; our friendly sympaty, and are brougoget.  calleto , and  recesses of our bosoms, and o, furnis of domestic felicity.

    tc makes t dilate on entering ti?cial summer and sunss up eacenance in a kindlier welcome.

    face of ality expand into a broader and more cordial smile, , ter ?reside? and as t of ry  door,  t, and rumbles do can be more grateful t feeling of sober and sered security able   cic y?

    t prevalence of rural  t every class of society, ivals and errupt tillness of country life, and ticularly observant of tes of Cmas. It is inspiring to read even tails e abandonment to mirtival ed. It seemed to t. It broug and together, and blended all ranks in one warm, generous ?ow of joy and kindness.

    tles and manor-mas carol, and t of ality. Even t cottage ive season ions of bay and s rays ttice, inviting to raise tc -told Cmas tales.

    One of t pleasing effects of modern re?nement is t y old oms. It ely taken off touced reliefs of ts of life, and y into a more smoot certainly a less ceristic, surface. Many of tmas irely disappeared, and, like taff, are become matters of speculation and dispute among commentators.

    times full of spirit and lusti ily and vigorously--times uresque, s ric materials and ts most attractive variety of cers and manners. tion, and less of enjoyment. Pleasure o a broader, but a sream, and  c ?oly tic life. Society ened and elegant tone, but it  many of its strong local peculiarities, its s  ?reside deligraditionary customs of golden-ed antiquity, its feudal alities, and lordly ately manor-ed. ted  oaken gallery, and tapestried parlor, but are un?tted to t she modern villa.

    S is, of its ancient and festive mas is still a period of deligement in England.

    It is gratifying to see t ely aroused  is again to unite friends and kindred; ts of good cokens of regard and quickeners of kind feelings; tributed about  pleasing effect in producing fond associations and kindling benevolent sympats, rude as may be trelsy, breaks upon tcer nig of perfect  still and solemn ;, and, connecting t fancied to anotial co mankind.

    fully tion, urns everyto melody and beauty! times in try, quot;telling t-co ;

    by to announce tival.

    <span style="color:grey">quot;Some say t ever gainst t season comes

    <span style="color:grey">ed,

    <span style="color:grey">t long;

    <span style="color:grey">And t dares stir abroad,

    <span style="color:grey">ts are rike,

    <span style="color:grey">No fairy takes, no co charm,

    <span style="color:grey">So ime.quot;

    Amidst to le of ts, and stir of tions  bosom can remain insensible? It is, indeed, ted feeling--t merely tality in t ty in t.

    to memory beyond terile e of years; and t es t, as times  tant ?elds to t.

    Stranger and sojourner as I am in table roof ts doors, nor t t I feel to my soul from tive, like t of enance, brig enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to oturn cemplating   ty of  dorong excitement and sel?si?cation, but s titute tmas.

 THE STAGE-COACH.

    IN tions on tmas festivities of England, and am tempted to illustrate tes of a Cmas passed in try; in perusing eously invite my reader to lay aside terity of o put on t genuine   of folly and anxious only for amusement.

    In tour in Yorksance in one of tmas. t, alk, seemed principally bound to tions or friends to eat tmas dinner. It s and boxes of delicacies, and  ts from distant friends for t. I  wry.

    turning . It tle rogues, and ticable feats to perform during tion from ticipations of ting o t and dog, and of to give ttle sisters by ts s  ting to est impatience am, o talk, possessed of more virtues teed since trot! ake!--t a ry t  clear.

    ticular guardianso y presented, t of questions, and pronounced  fello but notice tle and importance of t a little on one side and mas greens stuck in tton. y care and business, but icularly so during to execute in consequence of t intercs. And  may not be unacceptable to my untravelled readers to c may serve as a general representation of tant class of functionaries,  t ternity; so t aken for one of any ot or mystery.

    tled o every vessel of to jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors, and ill furtiplicity of coats, in ed and tucked in at time a large bouquet of ?oon, most probably, of some enamored country lass. coat is commonly of some brigriped, and end far beloo meet a pair of jockey boots w halfway up his legs.

    All tume is maintained  materials, and, notanding till discernible t neatness and propriety of person ion along t conferences  trust and dependence; and o anding -eyed country lass. t o be ctle to tler, y being merely to drive from one stage to anot into ts of  coat, and  t absolute lordliness. lers, stableboys, s infest inns and taverns, and run errands and do all kind of odd jobs for ttening on tcap-room. to o an oracle, treasure up  p opics of jockey lore, and, above all, endeavor to imitate   to s s, rolls in , talks slang, and is an embryo Coachey.

    Per migo ty t reigned in my o I fancied I sa tage-coacion al, and puts tion as it rance of tle. Some en forto meet friends; some o secure places, and in t can ake leave of t accompanies time to execute. Sometimes ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or neo times, , o some -doux from some rustic admirer. As ttles to try faces and blooming giggling girls. At tos of village idlers and ations tant purpose of seeing company pass; but t knot is generally at to ful of mucion. to groy spectre in bro t, and permits tic engine to hy.

    Per ion to try, for it seemed to me as if everybody s. Game, poultry, and otable ion in tcerers somers. tirring briskly about, putting t-red berries began to appear at t to mind an old ers account of Cmas preparation: quot;Noton, must all die, for in titude of people  be fed tle. No music be in tune, for t dance and sing to get t, ry maid leaves , and must be sent again if ss a pack of cards on Cmas Eve. Great is tention of er or dame  tler; and if t lack , ly lick ;

    I  of luxurious meditation by a s from my little travelling companions. t of t feree and cottage as t of joy. quot;tam!quot; cried ttle rogues, clapping their hands.

    At t in livery ing for ted pointer and by table Bantam, a little old rat of a pony y tail, ly by ttle dreaming of tling times t aed him.

    I o see ttle fello teady old footman and er, am  object of interest; all ed to mount at once, and it y t Jo turns and t s.

    Off t at last, one on talking at once and overpo es. I looked after t kno of earty. e stopped a fes aftero er te a turn of t us in sig country-seat. I could just distinguisico, and I satle comrades, am, Carlo, and old Jorooping along t of tnessing ting, but a grove of trees s it from my sight.

    In termined to pass t. As o t gate of a rousing kitcered, and admired, for time, t picture of convenience, neatness, and broad  enjoyment, tc was of spacious dimensions, in vessels ed mas green.

    ongues, and ?itcs ceaseless clanking beside ticked in one corner. A able extended along one side of tcy viands upon it, over ankards of ale seemed mounting guard. travellers of inferior order o attack tout repast, les beside trim ions of a fresling landlady, but still seizing an occasional moment to exc er:

    I  been long at t-co tleman stept out, and by t of t a glimpse of a countenance o get a nearer vie mistaken; it inent. Our meeting remely cordial, for tenance of an old felloraveller alion of a t scenes, odd adventures, and excellent jokes. to discuss all transient intervie an inn  I  pressed for time and our of observation, ed t I s ry-seat, to  a feance. quot;It is better ting a solitary Cmas dinner at an inn,quot; said ;and I can assure you of a y yle.quot; , and I must confess tion I ivity and social enjoyment tle impatient of my loneliness. I closed, t once ation; to ts I o the Bracebridges.

 CHRISTMAS EVE.

    It  moonlig, but extremely cold; our cboy smacked ly, and a part of time ;; said my companion, laug;and is eager to arrive in time for some of t and good cs  knoed devotee of tality. olerable specimen of  s purity, try gentleman; for our men of fortune spend so mucime in tory, t trong ricies of ancient rural life are almost polisook  Peacextbook, instead of Cer?eld; ermined in  tion more truly  of a country gentleman on ernal lands, and time on ate. renuous advocate for ters, ancient and modern, ed on t. Indeed, e range of reading is among t least turies since, e and t more like true Engliss sometimes t  been born a feuries earlier, oms. As  some distance from t of try,  any rival gentry near  most enviable of all blessings to an Englisunity of indulging t of  molestation. Being representative of t family in t part of try being enants, o, and in general is knoion of `title ime immemorial. I t best to give you ts about my o prepare you for any eccentricities t mig;

    * Peace Gentleman, 1622.

    e ime along t lengtopped at te. It yle, of iron bars fancifully op into ?ouris supported te ed by t. Close adjoining ers lodge, sered under dark ?r trees   and almost buried in shrubbery.

    tboy rang a large porters bell, y air, and ant barking of dogs, ely appeared at te. As t fell strongly upon tle primitive dame, dressed very mucique taste,  kercomaceness. Sseying fort seeing er.  seemed,  tmas Eve in ts  do

    a song and story in the household.

    My friend proposed t o t no great distance, tered as s of a cloudless sky. ted  covering of snoy crystal, and at a distance migransparent vapor stealing up from tening gradually to she landscape.

    My companion looked around ransport. quot;en,quot; said ;urning ions! en rees when a boy!

    I feel a degree of ?lial reverence for to ting our ivals. o direct and superintend our games rictness t some parents do tudies of ticular t ed old books for precedent and auty for every `merrie disport; yet I assure you try so delig leman to make   place in t gifts a parent could besto;

    e errupted by troop of dogs of all sorts and sizes, quot;mongrel, puppy,  disturbed by ters bell and ttling of the lawn.

    quot;`----ttle dogs and all,   tray, Blanc, see, t me!quot;

    cried Bracebridge, laug to a yelp of delig  overpohful animals.

    e ly tly lit up by t ude, and seemed to be of tecture of different periods. One ly very ancient, one-sed boting out and overrun tered  of taste of Cime, ered, as my friend told me, by one of ors  monarc toration. t t in ti?cial ?orades, ornamented atue or t of er. tleman, I old, remely careful to preserve te ?nery in all its original state.  ly and noble, and be?tting good old family style. ted imitation of Nature in modern gardening ions, but did not suit a monarc; it smacked of tem. I could not  troduction of politics into gardening, t I sleman ratolerant in  it  tance in ion from a member of Parliament wh him.

    t to defend rees and formal terraces, wtacked by modern landscape gardeners.

    As s  deal of revelry ted, and even encouraged, by t to ancient usage.  up t cockles, steal te loaf, bob apple, and snap dragon; tmas candle , and tletoe s  peril of all tty housemaids.*

    * tletoe is still c Cmas, and t, plucking eacime a berry from the privilege ceases.

    So intent s upon ts t edly before o receive us, accompanied by  from ty.

    tleman, ly round an open ?orid countenance, in age, like myself, of a previous  or two, migure of whim and benevolence.

    ting ionate; as t permit us to cravelling dresses, but us once to t  brancion, s, comfortable married dames, superannuated spinsters, blooming country cousins, riplings, and bright-eyed boarding-school hoydens.

    t a round game of cards; ot one end of tender and budding age, fully engrossed by a merry game; and a profusion of s, and tattered dolls about traces of a troop of little fairy beings .

    ual greetings o scan tment. I  a  ainly been in old times, and tly endeavored to restore it to somets primitive state. Over ting ?replace ure of a anding by a  one end an enormous pair of antlers ed in to suspend s,  s. ture icles of modern convenience ed, so t ted an odd mixture of parlor and hall.

    te o make  of ood, icular in  in and illumined on a Cmas Eve, according to ancient custom.*

    * t log of imes t of a tree, brougo t ceremony on Cmas Eve, laid in ted  years clog.  lasted t drinking, singing, and telling of tales. Sometimes it  in ttages t  o burn all nig  out, it was considered a sign of ill luck.

    ions it in one of his songs:

    till burnt in many farm-cicularly in titions connected  among try. If a squinting person come to t is burning, or a person barefooted, it is considered an ill omen. t ao lig years Cmas ?re.

    It ed in ary elboo every . Even t lay stretc , as ed ion and ya tretco sleep, con?dent of kindness and protection. tion from t in genuine ality  is immediately felt and puts tranger at once at  been seated many minutes by table  he family.

    Supper er our arrival. It s decorated omed lig apers, called Cmas candles,  among te. table ly spread antial fare; but ty, a dis cakes boiled in milk anding disimes for Cmas Eve. I inue of t and, ?nding o be perfectly ort I need not be asion, I greeted  an old and very genteel acquaintance.

    tly promoted by tric personage ion of Master Simon. igtle man,  old bac; ly pitted ual bloom on it, like a frostbitten leaf in autumn.  quickness and vivacity,  ible. ly t of te merriment by unately, my ignorance of t permit me to enjoy. It seemed to be  deligo keep a young girl next to inual agony of sti?ed lauge of  opposite. Indeed,  of t everyt every turn of enance. I could not  it; for  s in tate Puncance of a burnt cork and pocket- an orange into sucure t to die h laughing.

    I  brie?y into ory by Frank Bracebridge.  income,  for all s. em like a vagrant comet in its orbit, sometimes visiting one brancimes anote remote, as is often tlemen of extensive connections and small fortunes in England.  disposition, al moment; and  ced y, unaccommodating s ably ce family cory, and intermarriages of t favorite ed spinsters, among er of t t a more popular being in te years  entirely o um, and o old times and by o suit every occasion. e ly a specimen of -mentioned talent, for no sooner o troduced, ter Simon  ing t it ran occasionally into a falsetto like tes of a split reed,  old ditty:

    <span style="color:grey">As  ther, amp;c.

    to gayety, and an old s rumming all to all appearance comforting old, of tablis, and, tensibly a resident of tener to be found in tcleman being fond of t;;

    t dances after supper, , and tner  every Cmas for nearly ury. Master Simon, ing link betimes and to be tle antiquated in taste of s, evidently piqued o gain credit by toe, rigadoon, and ot sc ed tle romping girl from boarding-scy kept inually on tretced all tempts at elegance: suced matco lemen are unfortunately prone.

    trary,  one of s, on y: ical jokes, and  o tease s and cousins, yet, like all madcap youngsters, e among t interesting couple in tiful bluseen. From several siced in ted ttle kindness gro to captivate a romantic girl. all, slender, and  young Britise years, s on tinent: alk Frencalian, draolerably, dance divinely, but, above all,  aterloo.  girl of seventeen, ry and romance, could resist sucion?

    t t up a guitar, and, lolling   against ttitude  udied, began ttle Frencroubadour. t mas Eve but good old Englisrel, casting up  as if in an effort of memory, struck into anotrain, and ry gave ;Nigo Julia:quot;

    <span style="color:grey">Since g to affrighee,

    t or mig ended in compliment to tner  kept  upon t is true, iful blusle  all t less caused by t he ?oor.

    ty no ed old custom of so my cill sent fort not been t;no spirit dares stir abroad,quot; I sempted to steal from my room at midnig not be at t th.

    My c of ture of s. tesque faces rangely intermingled, and a roraits stared mournfully at me from t faded damask, y tester, and stood in a nice a boo bed o break fort beloened, and found it proceeded from a band s from some neig round tains to inctly. t of t; partially ligiquated apartment. t and aerial, and seemed to accord  and moonligened and listened--tender and remote, and, as the pillow and I fell asleep.

 CHRISTMAS DAY.

    morning it seemed as if all ts of t tity of t cy.

    tle feet pattering outside of tation.

    Presently a ced fortmas carol, the burden of which was--

    I rose softly, slipt on my clot beautiful little fairy groups t a painter could imagine. It consisted of a boy and t not more t every c my sudden appearance frigo mute bas playing on tealing a sil, as if by one impulse, turned an angle of triump their escape.

    Everyto produce kind and rongality. t upon ream  t of it, and a tract of park beyond, rees and  a distance  , tage c, and a cs dark spire in strong relief against the clear cold sky.

    to tom,  tremely frosty; t vapor of tated by trees and every blade of grass s ?ne crystalizations. t morning sun  among ttering foliage. A robin, percop of a mountain-as s clusters of red berries just before my rain and strutting y of a Spaniserrace walk below.

    I  appeared to invite me to family prayers. o a small c of ts ed on bencleman read prayers from a desk in front of ter Simon acted as clerk and made t do ice to say t ted  gravity and decorum.

    tmas carol, which Mr.

    Bracebridge ructed from a poem of e aut ed to an old cer Simon. As t remely pleasing, but I icularly grati?ed by tation of  and sudden sally of grateful feeling anza, ening and  of all time and tune:

    <span style="color:grey">quot;tis t cro my glittering h

    I afterood t early morning service s day t ther by Mr.

    Bracebridge or by some member of t  universally t ts of ty and gentry of England, and it is muco be regretted t tom is falling into neglect; for t observer must be sensible of ty prevalent in tiful form of e to every temper for ttunes every spirit to harmony.

    Our breakfast consisted of ed true old Englister lamentations over modern breakfasts of tea and toast, ted to able   to suit tes of s, yet ts, he sideboard.

    After breakfast I  ter Simon, or Mr. Simon, as  ted by a number of gentlemanlike dogs, t seemed loungers about tablis, from to teady old stag- of  of mind; t to a dog-er Simons button of tch he carried in his hand.

    till more venerable look in t; and I could not but feel t terraces, rades, and clipped yerees carried ocracy. to be an unusual number of peacocks about t I termed a ?ock of t ed in my per Simon,  according to t ancient and approved treatise on ing I must say a muster of peacocks. quot;In t; added  air of pedantry, quot;o inform me t, according to Sir Antz, o t;botanding and glory; for, being praised, ly set up ail, c to tent you may tter bey t at tail falletill ail come again as it ;

    I could not  tion on so

    I found t t t t favorites remely careful to keep up tly because to c request at tately banquets of time, and partly because t them highly becoming an old family mansion.

    Notomed to say, er state and dignity tique stone balustrade.

    Master Simon o ment at ters, remely agreeable in ts of ttle man; and I confess I  surprised at  quotations from autainly  in tioned t circumstance to Frank Bracebridge,  Master Simons ion o some  into udious ?t, as imes er evening. Sir Antzs Book of ry Contentments, tretyse of ing, by Sir t, Isaac altons Angler, and t andard auties; and, like all men ry and quoted to  of old books in ted to tunes t s of t century. ical application of scraps of literature, o be looked upon as a prodigy of book-knosmen, and small sportsmen of the neighborhood.

    alking  toll of told t ttle particular in  cmas morning, considering it a day of pouring out of tusser observed,--

    quot;At Cmas be merry, and t t ;

    quot;If you are disposed to go to c; said Frank Bracebridge, quot;I can promise you a specimen of my cousin Simons musical acs. As titute of an organ, eurs, and establis; ed a ced my fato tions of Jervaise Markry Contentments: for t out all tenor try bumpkins, and for `s-moutaste among ttiest lasses in t,  dif?cult to keep in tune, your pretty female singer being exceedingly o accident.quot;

    As ty,  of to tone, and stood near a village about e. Adjoining it  ly matted ree t rained against its ures o admit ligo tique lattices. As ered nest th and preceded us.

    I ed to see a sleek ioned pastor, sucen found in a snug living in ty of a ricrons table, but I ed. ttle, meagre, black-looking man,  oo ood off from eac o , like a dried ?lbert in its sy coat,  skirts and pockets t ed in large sed h enormous buckles.

    I  t Oxford, and ly after tter o ate. e black-letter er, and ed in ter. tions of Caxton and ynkyn de orde o tions of Mr. Bracebridge  investigations into tive rites and oms of former times, and  it  plodding spirit  temperament follorack of study, merely because it is denominated learning; indifferent to its intrinsic nature, ration of ty of antiquity. ensely t to ed into enance; o a title-page of black-letter.

    On reacon for letoe among ted. It  migly employed in tive ornamenting of c it otally un?t for sacred purposes. So tenacious  ton o strip do part of tropaste before t to enter upon the day.

    terior of t simple; on ts of t beside tar omb of ancient  ure he hall.

    During service Master Simon stood up in ted t kind of ceremonious devotion punctually observed by a gentleman of tions. I observed too t urned over to s ly most solicitous about t of tently on ting time iculation and emphasis.

    tra ed a most iced t of tailor, a pale felloreating fore, and seemed to o a point; and t pursy man, stooping and laboring at a   bass-viol, so as to s top of a round bald ricty faces among to int; but tlemen cers ly been cone to sing from terings of odd p unlike times see on country tombstones.

    tolerably s generally lagging a little berumental, and some loitering ?ddler no time by travelling over a passage y and clearing more bars t fox-er to be in at t t trial  er Simon, and on ation. Unluckily, t tset:

    ter Simon  on lamely and irregularly until to a c;No us sing ; ing company: all became discord and confusion: eaced for  to ting one old cer in a pair of acles bestriding and pinco stand a little apart, and, being  tion.

    t erudite sermon on tes and ceremonies of Cmas, and ty of observing it not merely as a day of t of rejoicing, supporting tness of  usages of ties of t. Cyprian, St. Com, St. Augustine, and a cloud more of   saints and fatations. I tle at a loss to perceive ty of sucy array of forces to maintain a point o dispute; but I soon found t to contend  of Cmas got completely embroiled in tarian controversies of tion, mas  of tion of Parliament.* t imes past, and kne little of t.

    S up among en tomes in tirement of iquated little study, times o tes of tion  nearly turies ion of poor mince-pie t t;mere popery,quot; and roast beef as anti-cian, and t Cmas  in again triumply  of King C toration. o est and t of imaginary foes o combat; ubborn con?ict ten c of Cmas festivity; and concluded by urging  solemn and affecting manner, to stand to traditional customs of t and make merry on the Church.

    * From t;Flying Eagle,quot; a small gazette, publis;t mucime t ttling t sea, and before ted errible remonstrance against Cmas day, grounded upon divine Scriptures, 2 Cor. v. 16; I Cor. xv. 14, 17; and in ures, John xx. I; Rev. i. 10; Psalms cxviii. 24; Lev.

    xxiii. 7, 11; Mark xv. 8; Psalms lxxxiv. 10, in i-cs masse, and ts c. In consequence of  some time in consultation about tion of Cmas day, passed orders to t effect, and resolved to sit on tmas day.quot;

    I tended apparently e effects, for on leaving tion seemed one and all possessed y of spirit so earnestly enjoined by tor. ts in ting and s crying Ule! Ule! and repeating some uncouts to tfelt sincerity, and ed by o to take someto keep out ttered by several of t, in t of s, t forgotten true Cmas virtue of cy.

    * quot;Ule! Ule!

    On our , tic merriment nos and looked around y. ty of tself suf?cient to inspire phropy.

    Notanding tiness of t poo melt ay, and to bring out ter. Large tracts of smiling verdure contrasted eness of tered bank on s silver rill of cold and limpid er, glittering t up sligions to contribute to t  above truly criumpy ter; it mas ality breaking t into a ?oo tions of good cable farm-ctages. quot;I love,quot; said ;to see t by ric is a great to  least, o you; and I am almost disposed to join ion on every co t festival:

    t on to lament ts  tenanced by tles and manor- dayligables o enter and make merry.* quot;Our old games and local customs,quot; said ; effect in making t fond of ion of try made imes merrier and kinder and better, and I can truly say, s,

    <span style="color:grey">quot;`I like the curious preciseness

    <span style="color:grey"> t seek to baniss,

    <span style="color:grey">  a;

    quot;tion,quot; continued ;is altered;  our simple true-ed peasantry. to terests are separate.

    too knoo read neen to ale-icians, and talk of reform. I to keep times y and gentry to pass more time on tates, mingle more among try-people, and set t;

    * quot;An Englisleman, at t day--i.e. on Cmas Day in tenants and neiger rong beer ifully about, oast, sugar and nutmeg, and good C sausage) must be boiled by daybreak, or else t take t-place till s;--Round about our Sea-Coal Fire.

    Suc for mitigating public discontent: and, indeed, tempted to put rine in practice, and a fery-people,  understand o play ts in tality; many uncoutances occurred; ts of try, and more beggars drao t rid of in a year. Since tented ing t part of try to call at tmas Day, and ributing beef, and bread, and ale among t t make merry in their own dwellings.

    e  been long ance. A band of country lads,  coats, t-sleeves fancifully tied s decorated ry.

    topped before truck up a peculiar air, and tricate dance, advancing, retreating, and striking toget time to tail of s of ttling a Cmas box ic gesticulations.

    tion  interest and delig of its origin, o times  of ts. quot;It ; ;nearly extinct, but ally met races of it in ts revival; to tell trut oo apt to be follo;

    After ty ertained out ics, and rations of deference and regard. It is true I perceived   ts, as tankards to turned making somet t t my eye ter Simon,  tions and amusements  tor at every farmtage, gossiped ers, and, like t type of a vagrant bacolled ts from all try round.

    ts soon gave ionate in ty of t is excited by ty and familiarity of titude enters into try frankly uttered by a patron gladdens t of t more tired t increased, and ter, particularly beter Simon and a e-o be t of to  orts, and burst into a gratuitous laugand them.

    to merriment: as I passed to my room to dress for dinner, I , and, looking t commanded it, I perceived a band of ambourine; a pretty coquettis country lad,  of  t a glimpse of my face at ted confusion.

 THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.

    I oilet, and ering ant t up old customs in kitcruck upon ts to carry in ts.

    <span style="color:grey">Just in thrice,

    t mas banquet. A blazing crackling ?re of logs o ment, and t sparkling and hed chimney.

    t picture of te ed  and e  orong doubts about ticity of ting and armor as o tainly amp of more recent days; but I old t ting ime out of mind; and t as to t ed to its present situation by t once determined it to be te auty on all sucs in ter o current acceptation. A sideboard  out just under trope t mig least in variety) emple: quot;?agons, cans, cups, beakers, goblets, basins, and e; tensils of good companions ed tions of jovial ood tars of t magnitude; ots ributed in branctered like a ?rmament of silver.

    e ing scene relsy, ted on a stool beside t  deal more pomas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of countenances; t  least udying as a collection of raits or Albert Durers prints. tiquarian lore to be acquired, mucimes. Per may be from inually before traits, ry are stocked; certain it is t t features of antiquity are often most faituated in t lines, and I raced an old family nose ture-gallery, legitimately ion to generation almost from time of t. Someto be observed in tly originated in a Gotions; and ttle girl in particular, of staid demeanor, ique vinegar aspect, e of terpart of one of ors w of henry VIII.

    t a s familiar one, suco ty in t a long, courtly,  school.

    ted, ered tle:

    tended by a servant on eac, and bore a silver dised s mout formality at table. t t made its appearance truck up a ?ouris t from t comic gravity, an old carol, t verse of which was as follows

    to ness many of ttle eccentricities, from being apprised of t, yet I confess troduced someil I gation of t it  to represent trelsy and song at great tables on Cmas Day. quot;I like tom,quot; said t;not merely because it is stately and pleasing in itself, but because it  t Oxford at  brings to mind time s loitering about in t;

    t ed by sucions, and ext timent, objected to t from t sung at college.  on, ator, to give tations, addressing  ?rst to t large; but, ?nding ttention gradually diverted to otalk and ots, one as ors diminisil o a fat-leman next ly engaged in teful of turkey.*

    <span style="color:grey">* tmas Day is still observed in t may be acceptable to sucters, I give it entire:

    Bodeckd able erally loaded ed an epitome of country abundance in tinguis ted to quot;ancient sirloin,quot;

    as mine  termed it, being, as ;tandard of old Englisality, and a joint of goodly presence, and full of expectation.quot; tly decorated, and raditional in ts, but about o appear overcurious, I asked no questions.

    I could not,  notice a pie magni?cently decorated ation of tail of t bird,  of table. ttle ation, ainly t autical; but tality among t  prevail upon o have one killed.*

    * tly in great demand for stately entertainments. Sometimes it o a pie, at one end of s plumage, ; at tail was displayed.

    Suc ts of cs-errant pledged to undertake any perilous enterprise, ice S;by cock and pie.quot;

    tant dismas feast; and Massinger, in ;City Madam,quot; gives some idea of travagance imes:

    Men may talk of Country Cmasses, ty pound butterd eggs, tongues; ts drenc o make sauce for a single peacock!

    It edious, pero my o o mention ts or t, by  ance, t customs of antiquity. I  so ives; o t of ts, less been present at many a reoo, at ty ler and ots executed ties assigned tric. t part, been brougo keeping iquated mansion and ts lord, and most probably looked upon all ions as tablished laws of honorable housekeeping.

    ler brougs appearance mas festivity. tents  ure of  oo abstruse and complex for t. It ation, indeed, t mig of a toper leap  and raciest ed apples bobbing about the surface.*

    * times composed of ale instead of meg, sugar, toast, ginger, and roasted crabs; in t-broill prepared in some old families and round tantial farmers at Cmas. It is also called Lambs ool, and is celebrated by ;tquot;:

    tlemans  as irred ty boo y o   all present,  it brimming round to folloive style, pronouncing it quot;t fountain of good feeling,  toget;+ + quot;tom of drinking out of to eaceo to cry times, assel, assel, assel, and to ans;--Archoeologia.

    t emblem of Cmas joviality circulated and  reacer Simon,  in botruck up an old assail Chanson:

    * From Poor Robins Almanack.

    Mucion during dinner turned upon family topics, to  deal of rallying of Master Simon about some gay ation. ttack  it inued t t-leman next ty of a sloarting game, are unrivalled for talents in ing it do every pause in tion ering in pretty mucerms, er Simon ter, indeed, seemed fond of being teased on t, as old bac to be, and ook occasion to inform me, in an undertone, t tion was a prodigiously ?ne woman and drove her own curricle.

    time passe a y, and, ts time  and revel, yet I doubt nessed more  and genuine enjoyment.  is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around ruly is a kind  a fountain of gladness, making everyts vicinity to freso smiles! tion of tly contagious; o make all ttle eccentricities of  season, in a manner, tness of hropy.

    ired, tion, as usual, became still more animated; many good t of during dinner, but ly do for a ladys ear; and, t positively af?rm t t uttered, yet I ainly ests of rare  produce mucer. it, after all, is a migart, pungent ingredient, and mucoo acid for some stomac  good-ing, and to t .

    told several long stories of early college pranks and adventures, in some of ter it required some effort of imagination to ?gure suctle dark anatomy of a man into trator of a madcap gambol. Indeed, tures of  lots in life. t ty to live lustily on ernal domains in t of prosperity and sunso a y and ?orid old age; rary, y tomes in tudy. Still, to be a spark of almost extinguistom of ed at a sly story of tty milkmaid leman made an quot;alp of faces,quot; leman t took absolute offence at ted gallantries of h.

    I found tide of  gaining on t. ter Simon alk maudlin about t t black-letter itled Cupids Solicitor for Love, containing store of good advice for baco lend me; t verse o effect.

    <span style="color:grey"> make h shine;

    <span style="color:grey"> not stand h her, shall I, shall I,

    <span style="color:grey">But boldly say, ido be mine.

    t-leman, s to tell a ratory out of Joe Miller t  to t uck in ting tter part excepting oo, began to ss of good ctled doo a doze and ting most suspiciously on one side. Just at ture o t, at te instigation of mine , empered h a proper love of decorum.

    After table o ted to all kind of noisy mirter Simon, made its old  as t romping games. I delignessing ticularly at t ealing out of ter. I found t ter Simon,  ancient potentate, t of ttle beings   Falstaff, pinc ts of , and tickling raws.

    One ?ne blue-eyed girl of about teen, iful confusion, orn off e picture of a romp, ormentor; and, from ter Simon avoided ttle nympo jump sed t a .

    * At Cmasse ter of merie disportes, and tuall or temporall.--StO.

    urned to ted round tening to ti?cer of yore, icular accommodation. From ture,  strange accounts of titions and legends of try, ed in tiquarian researco t tleman inctured ition, as men are very apt to be ered part of try and pore over black-letter tracts, so often ?lled ural. es of try concerning tomb by tar. As it  of t part of try, it ition by t o get up from tomb and ormy nigicularly tage bordered on t t  some reasure  t in a state of trouble and restlessness. Some talked of gold and jeomb, over

    cory current of a sexton in old times  nig just as  received a violent bloretc. tales en laug by some of turdier among tics, yet outest unbelievers t pat led across the churchyard.

    From tes t folloo be te -stories t ty. ure, s to ural about it; for t in  of t till ?xed on you. ters oo, at t up in t gossip among ts, af?rmed t in en  on Midsummer Eve, o mount ure, ride about to to visit tomb; on self; not t , for es, and even stone  park gate, making  of paper.

    All titions I found enanced by t superstitious ened to every goblin tale of te gravity, and ers  for the marvellous.

    reader of old legends and romances, and often lamented t  believe in titious person, , must live in a kind of fairy-land.

    tention to tories, our ears  of erogeneous sounds from trelsy er. train came trooping into t mig aken for t of Faery. t indefatigable spirit, Master Simon, in ties as lord of misrule, mas mummery or masking; and o ance t s, t into instant effect. ted; tique cloto yield up t  seen t for several generations; t of tely convened from t into a burlesque imitation of an antique mask.*

    * Maskings or mummeries e sports at Cmas in old times, and t en laid under contribution to furnisastic disguisings. I strongly suspect Master Simon to aken t;Masque of Cmas.quot;

    Master Simon led t;Ancient Cmas,quot; quaintly apparelled in a ruff, a s cloak, ticoats, and a  t migeeple, and must indubitably ers. From under t-bitten bloom t seemed trop. ;Dame Mince Pie,quot; in tomac, and ing dress of Kendal green and a foraging cap assel.

    tume, to be sure, did not bear testimony to deep researc eye to turesque, natural to a young gallant in tress. tty rustic dress as quot;Maid Marian.quot; t of train amorprussed up in t belles of triplings bes, tomed o represent ter of Roast Beef, Plum Pudding, and oted in ancient maskings.

    trol of te cer of Misrule; and I observed t .

    tion of tley cre of drum, according to ancient custom, ion of uproar and merriment.

    Master Simon covered ateliness  Cmas,   ers, umes seemed as traits o join in t. Different centuries  cross  and left; tting pirouettes and rigadoons; and tions.

    templated tastic sports and tion of . ood canding t tter  autically on t and stately dance of t to be derived.* For my part, I inual excitement from t gayety passing before me. It o see y breaking out from among ter, and old age tc. I felt also an interest in tion t ting customs ing fast into oblivion, and t till punctiliously observed. tness, too, mingled  gave it a peculiar zest: it ed to time and place; and as t reeled  seemed ecy of long departed years.+ * Sir Jo;It is a grave and majestic dance; t anciently lemen dressed les, and by trains, tion ;--ory of Music.

    + At time of t publication of ture of an old-fasmas in try  of date. terunity of nessing almost all toms above described, existing in unexpected vigor in ts of Derbvsmas ice of t of  Neead Abbey.

    But enougmas and its gambols; it is time for me to pause in ty. Metions asked by my graver readers, quot;to o be made alk?quot; Alas! is t  for truction of the world?

    And if not, are t ts improvement? It is so mucer to please to instruct--to play tor.

    , after all, is te of  I could to t my sagest deductions may be safe guides for t in ing to amuse, if I fail tment. If,  one  of one moment of sorrorate t a benevolent vieten entirely in vain.

 LONDON ANTIQUES.

    <span style="color:grey">Methorn,

    <span style="color:grey">Stealing to set tory

    <span style="color:grey">I saken for illiam o the isp,

    I AM someiquity-er, and am  fond of exploring London in quest of times.

    to be found in ty, s lost in a ar, but deriving poetical and romantic interest from truck ance of t summer ramble into ty; for ty is only to be explored to advantage in summer-time, ime against t of population setting t Street. trung my nerves and made me sensitive to every jar and jostle and discordant sound. t faint, and I ting out of ling busy to struggle, ion I tore my o a by-lane, and, after passing to a quaint and quiet court  in tre over perpetually fresain s sparkling jet of er. A student ed on a stone bencly reading, partly meditating on ts of trim nursery-maids  charges.

    I erility of t. By degrees t and coolness of t.

    I pursued my  cal of massive and ricecture.

    terior y and lighted from above.

    Around al tombs of ancient date on ly crossed upon t; otility even in tomb, o the holy Land.

    I , in ts templars, strangely   situated in tre of sordid traf?c; and I do not knoo turn aside from t do-fullness.

    In a subsequent tour of observation I encountered anot;foregone ; locked up in t of ty. I ime tonous streets, destitute of anyto strike te tion, iquity. It opened into a spacious quadrangle forming tyard of a stately Gotal of ingly open.

    It ly a public edi?ce, and, as I iquity-ing, I ventured in, teps.

    Meeting no one eito oppose or rebuke my intrusion, I continued on until I found myself in a great y arcecture. At one end of ttles on eac tform, or dais, t of state, above  of a man in antique garb h a long robe, a ruff, and a venerable gray beard.

    tablis ic quiet and seclusion, and  a mysterious c I  met hreshold.

    Encouraged by ted myself in a recess of a large boed a broad ?ood of yellos from panes of colored glass,  in t summer air. able, I indulged in a sort of reverie about  ly been of monastic origin; pere establiss built of yore for tion of learning,  monk, in tude of ter, added page to page and volume to volume, emulating in tions of ude of ted.

    As I ed in t t manner t uttering a he lower end.

    I ruck iquated air comported yle of t venerable and mysterious pile. It s of ted years, about , in t of romance, to explore ured to myself a realm of sing in tre of substantial realities.

    My ramble led me terior courts and corridors and dilapidated cloisters, for tions and dependencies, built at various times and in various styles. In one open space a number of boys, o tablis,  ts, but everyles, sometimes sauntering alone, sometimes conversing in groups; to be to mind imes, augablis of t?

    to a crange and uncouts--implements of savage range idols and stuffed alligators; bottled serpents and monsters decorated telpiece; er of an old-fasead grinned a .

    I approaco regard more narroic cting laboratory for a necromancer, led at beenance staring at me from a dusky corner. It  of a small, s eyes, and gray, ing eyebro ?rst doubted  a mummy curiously preserved, but it moved, and I sa it   pe garb, and ter objects by  I ernity.

    Seeing me pausing before ted me to enter. I obeyed  not metamorpo some strange monster or conjure me into one of ttles on elpiece? o be anyt a conjurer, and y soon dispelled all tery iquated pile and its no less antiquated inants.

    It appeared t I o tre of an ancient asylum for superannuated tradesmen and decayed ed a sced number of boys. It uries since on an old monastic establis, and retained someual air and cer. tles o magi, turned out to be turning from morning, service in the chapel.

    Jotle collector of curiosities ed tling-place of ies picked up in the course of his life.

    According to ,  of a traveller,  to ted not ed tter country, quot;as t ; ly a traveller of the simple kind.

    ocratical too in ions, keeping aloof, as I found, from tes , and a broken-doleman y t en tion of tle o consider it an indubitable sign of gentle blood as y spirit to be able to squander such enormous sums.

    P.S.--turesque remnant of old times into er reuse. It  convent, by Sir tton, being one of ties set on foot by individual muni?cence, and kept up ness and sanctity of ancient times amidst tions of London. y broken-doer days, are provided in te expenses. togetory of t.

    Attaco tablis is a scy-four boys.

    Sto, speaking of tions of t;t to intermeddle oucal, but to attend only to take t is provided for t muttering, murmuring, or grudging. None to  sucal-men to ; quot;And in trut; adds Sto; are so taken from to care for but to serve God, and to live in brot;

    For t of sucerested by tcaken doion, and tle more about teries of London, I subjoin a modicum of local ory put into my leman, in a small bro, ed sly after my visit to ter tle dubious at ?rst  one of tales often passed off upon inquiring travellers like myself, and y into suced reproac satisfactory assurances of ty, and indeed old t ually engaged in a full and particular account of teresting region in e.

 LITTLE BRITAIN.

    <span style="color:grey"> I e is most true . . . . . I te foortients ( of cy h me.

    IN tre of t City of London lies a small neiging of a cluster of narroreets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated tLE BRItAIN. C C.

    Bartal bound it on t; Smite Street, like an arm of t from tern part of ty; reet separates it from Butce. Over ttle territory, ted, t dome of St. Pauls, servening ernoster Roection.

    ter derives its appellation from  times, ttany. As London increased, o t, and trade, creeping on at took possession of ted abodes. For some time Little Britain became t mart of learning, and ed it, and, emigrating beyond t strait of Nee Street, settled doernoster Ro. Pauls Cinue to increase and multiply even at t day.

    But, to decline, Little Britain still bears   traces of its former splendor. to tumble dos of uralist to classify. te Street, certain remains of  o several tenements. en be found tty tradesman, s trumpery furniture, burroiquated ?nery in great rambling time-stained apartments ted ceilings, gilded cornices, and enormous marble ?replaces. ts also contain many smaller  on so grand a scale, but, like your small ancient gentry, sturdily maintaining to equal antiquity.

    to treet, great bo in lead, grotesque carvings, and low arched doorways.*

    * It is evident t teresting communication itle of Little Britain, man of ttle lanes and courts t belong immediately to Cloth Fair.

    In t venerable and sered little nest  years of existence, comfortably lodged in t but oldest edi?ces. My sitting-room is an old ed c off ure. I icular respect for ted carnister days, and less ?gured in some of ttle Britain. to me to keep togeto look doempt upon ttomed neigry carry a y o associate. t of my sitting-room is taken up s for many generations, mingled  gentleman-like poetry, ten in cers y of Little Britain ion, and pay my bill regularly every  gentleman of to learn ternal state of a community so apparently s up self, I o o all ts of the place.

    Little Britain may truly be called ts core of ty, trongrue Jo is a fragment of London as it s better days, s antiquated folks and fas preservation many of toms of yore. tants most religiously eat pancakes on Suesday,  cross-buns on Good Friday, and roast goose at Micters on Valentines Day, burn tletoe at Cmas. Roast beef and plum-pudding are also itious veneration, and port and sain true Englislandish beverages.

    Little Britain s long catalogue of city s consider t bell of St. Pauls, olls; t strike t St. Dunstans clock; t; tos in Guildill believe in dreams and fortune-telling, and an old  lives in Bull-and-Moutreet makes a tolerable subsistence by detecting stolen goods and promising t to be rendered uncomfortable by   comets and eclipses, and if a dog  nig is looked upon as a sure sign of deat-stories current, particularly concerning t is said strange sigimes seen. Lords and ladies, ttomed er in lappets, stays,  e c nigo be t proprietors in t-dresses.

    Little Britain s sages and great men. One of t important of tall, dry old gentleman of tenance, full of cavities and projections, acles.  of by tuffed alligators tles.  reader of almanacs and nes of plots, conspiracies, ?res, eartions; o deal out to omers  time puts boto an uproar.  believer in omens and predictions; and  Nixon and Moton by . No man can make so muc of an eclipse, or even an unusually dark day; and ail of t comet over tomers and disciples until tened out of ts. ely got . t among t sibyls,  op of Bos ake place. trange conjunction, it   seems, rangely come to pass. tect ely on teeple of Boe, tually lie, che yard of his workshop.

    quot;Ot; as Mr. Skryme is accustomed to say, quot;may go star-gazing, and look for conjunctions in t ion on t ions of astrologers.quot; Since tentous ogets anding t y-t; anoted tings in all parts of t Mancer; t plot in Cato Street; and, above all, turned to England! All ter events are recounted by Mr. Skyrme erious look and a dismal saken ed in tors uffed-sea-monsters, bottled serpents, and itle-page of tribulation, t gloom ttle Britain. t ted any good to come of taking do steeple, old not glad tidings, as tory of tington and  bears ness.

    ttle Britain is a substantial c of one of tly lodged as a round-bellied mite in t of one of tle standing and importance, and ends to Aldermanbury. aken in affairs of state,  ury, togetlemans Magazine, Rapins ory of England, and the Naval Chronicle.

    ored est of time and use for centuries. It is  quot;it is a moral impossible,quot; so long as England is true to  anyto say on t of tional debt,  national bul of tle Britain until of late years, y of a Sunday cane, o take o ead, e, and otoropolis telescope and endeavoring to descry teeple of St.

    Bart a stage-coacreet but touc as e a patron at t. Pauls C for o make an expedition to Margate, but  doubts of teamboats, and indeed too advanced in life to undertake sea-voyages.

    Little Britain s factions and divisions, and party spirit ran very  one time, in consequence of t;Burial Societiesquot; being set up in ts meeting at tronized by t t is needless to say t tter  ?ouris eacion as to t mode of being buried, tive merits of cogets on t of patent iron cof?ns. I ion discussed in all its bearings as to ty of proing tter on account of ty. ties e; but time prevailing troversy, ttle Britain being extremely solicitous of funeral ably in their graves.

    Besides ties te a different cast, o t meets once a  a little old-fas by a jolly publican of taff, and bearing for insignia a resplendent  seductive buncions to catcy ruman, ire,quot; quot;ine, Rum, and Brandy Vaults,quot; quot;Old tom, Rum, and Compounds,quot; etc. temple of Baccime immemorial. It affs, so t its ory is tolerably preserved by t landlord. It s and cavalieros of to nos of C aff principally prides  urnal rambles, broke tors aff. t of the landlord.

    ts tle Britain.quot; tcories t are traditional in t to be met  of tropolis.

    taker  a merry song, but t of Little Britain, is bully agstaff ors ock of   songs and jokes, ion to generation as tle fello belly, a red face  merry eye, and a little s t o sing ;Confession of Fait; ;Gammer Gurtons Needle.quot; , to be sure, ions, as  from  anding favorite at t ten; nay,  en  before ty and gentry at Cmas mummeries, ain s glory.*

    * As mine  of t be familiar to ty of readers, and as it is a specimen of t songs of Little Britain, I subjoin it in its original ort table and clattering of pes.

    <span style="color:grey">But, belly, God send thee good ale ynoughe,

    <span style="color:grey">Cc.

    <span style="color:grey">Cc.

    <span style="color:grey">No tyll they nod and winke,

    <span style="color:grey">And all poore soules t have scowred bowles,

    <span style="color:grey">God save their wives,

    <span style="color:grey">Cc.

    It o , ts of merriment, tcs of  voices, reet is lined eners, o t of gazing into a confectioners eams of a cook-shop.

    ts ir and sensation in Little Britain: t. Bartime of t gossiping and gadding about. te quiet streets of Little Britain are overrun ion of strange ?gures and faces; every tavern is a scene of rout and revel. taproom morning, noon, and nig eac eyes, s on one side, pipe in moutankard in e families,  up at otimes among my neig turnalia. ts ely set madding -So, ter, ted Mr. Paap, and t. too lavisoys and gilt gingerbread, and ?ll tian din of drums, trumpets, and penny wles.

    But t anniversary. to by tants of Little Britain as test potentate upon eart coac of rain, as t of earts.  in t t enter ty  ?rst knocking at te of temple Bar and asking permission of t migy co cut do offends against ty of ty; and ttle man  porringer on s at tate coacy saff. Odds blood! if  sy itself is not safe.

    Under tection of ty potentate, ttle Britain sleep in peace. temple Bar is an effectual barrier against all interior foes; and as to foreign invasion, t to to torain-bands, and put tanding army of Beef-eaters under arms, and o the world!

    ts os os otle Britain  to t fungous metropolis. I  as a c, ional cer e and degeneracy. I  of  prevailed t it; for t nos of ties, yet t transient clouds and soon passed a ed  beheir backs.

    I could give rare descriptions of snug junketing parties at om-come-tickle-me, and otimes ry dance to tune of Sir Roger de Coverley. Once a year also togety to Epping Forest. It o see t t took place ed on trees. s of laug ttle agstaff and taker! After dinner, too, t blindmans-buff and  o see tangled among to o alk politics, for t out a nes to pass aime in try. to be sure, get a little ; but tes ed by reference to a ly compre, managed someo decide in favor of boties.

    All empires, orian, are doomed to cions. Luxury and innovation creep in, factions arise, and families noion and intrigues tem into confusion.

    tter days ranquillity of Little Britain been grievously disturbed and its golden simplicity of manners tened otal subversion by tired butcher.

    t ttle Britain, and everybody endance on t oric over it; tely smitten  up a one- a bit of gold lace round t, and alk and detestation of to play at Pope-Joan or blindmans-buff; t quadrilles, ain; and took to reading novels, talking bad Frencoo, o an attorney, set up for a dandy and a critic, cers o unknos, and alking about Kean, t;Edinburg;

    ill o o invite any of t t deal of genteel company from ts to. tance from Grays Inn Lane and ton Garden, and not less ters. t to be forgotten or forgiven. All Little Britain tling and jingling of  be seen popping t-caps out at every c of virulent old cronies t kept a look-out from a  opposite tired butcicised every one t knocked at the door.

    t open o say to t is true t Mrs. Lamb, y acquaintance, tle ea-junketings to some of ;quite,quot; as s;in a friendly ; and it is equally true t ations ed, in spite of all previous voo trary. Nay, t and be deligo strum an Irisen erest to Mrs. Lambs anecdotes of Alderman Plunkets family, of Portsoken ard, and timberlakes, tc ted tes by canvassing at t gossiping convocation everyt  all to pieces.

    t could not be made fasired butc Lamb, in spite of  ty old fellotled like   ters alleman, addressed ;papaquot; in tones of in?nite softness, and endeavored to coax o a dressing-golemanly s. Do , tcurdy nature y vulgar good- on coat of a morning, dining at t of sausage ea.quot;

    o sy of his family.

    o   a ?ing at quot;some peoplequot; and a  about quot;quality binding.quot;

    ttled and perplexed t butcers, e policy of taking advantage of tance, at lengto give up ernoons pipe and tankard at agstaffs, to sit after dinner by ake  of port--a liquor ested--and to nod in ary and dismal gentility.

    t noing along treets in Frencs alking and laug it distressed t so far as to attempt patronage, and actually induced a Frencer to set up in t ttle Britain took ?re at it, and did so persecute t o pack up ?ddle and dancing-pumps and decamp ation t ely forgot to pay for his lodgings.

    I tered myself, at ?rst,  all tion on t of ty ion, and I applauded t contempt tart pride, Frenc I grieve to say t I soon perceived tion aken  my neiger condemning, o follouning o let ters er at Frenc t take a fes, precisely like t Little Britain.

    I still  all t t move out of t die, or migtorneys apprentices, and t quiet and simplicity migored to ty.

    But unluckily a rival po oilman died, and left a ure and a family of buxom daug at t fat do aspirings. tion, being norained, broke out into a blaze, and took t tc is true t t start, urally an advantage of ttle bad Frencances; but trotters  to be distanced. s, trotters mounted four and of trotters  to be be not boast of as good company, yet twice as merry.

    ty  lengtself into fasions under tom-come-tickle-me are entirely discarded; tting up an  country dance; and on my attempting to kiss a young lady under tletoe last Cmas, I ly repulsed, t quot;s; Bitter rivalry  as to t fas of Little Britain, tanding up for ty of Cross-Keys Square, and trotters for ty of St. Bartholomews.

    ttle territory torn by factions and internal dissensions, like t empire  alent at prognostics, to determine, t it erminate in total downfall of genuine John Bullism.

    te effects are extremely unpleasant to me. Being a single man, and, as I observed before, ratleman by profession in tand ties, and o  counsels and mutual backbitings. As I am too civil not to agree ted myself most ies by abusing ts. I migo reconcile to my conscience, ing one, but I cannot to my apprerotters ever come to a reconciliation and compare notes, I   am ruined!

    I ermined, to beat a retreat in time, and am actually looking out for some ot in t city  up, radesmen. teran rat, en ao my present abode, and leave tions of trotters to divide tracted empire of LIttLE BRItAIN.

 STRATFORD-ON-AVON.

    <span style="color:grey">t-?oream Of tal s S dance round urf is which pillowd his head.

    tO a  on truly call ary feeling of someterritorial consequence ravel, s, ts  into slippers, and stretc t go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall, so long as o pay ime being, tre, and ttle parlor, some t square, ed empire. It is a morsel of certainly snatc of tainties of life; it is a sunny moment gleaming out kindly on a cloudy day: and ence knoance of s of enjoyment.

    quot;S take mine ease in mine inn?quot; t I, as I gave tir, lolled back in my elbo look about ttle parlor of t Stratford-on-Avon.

    t S passing truck midnigole tap at tty cting in ating air,  as a modest  t it ime to retire. My dream of absolute dominion  an end; so abdicating my t potentate, to avoid being deposed, and putting tratford Guide-Book under my arm as a pillo to bed, and dreamt all nighe jubilee, and David Garrick.

    t morning imes   ter  its last gasp; and a mild air came stealing from t, breato Nature, and o burst forto fragrance and beauty.

    I o Stratford on a poetical pilgrimage. My ?rst visit o to tradition,  up to  of  is a small mean-looking edi?ce of er, a true nestling-place of genius, s squalid cions in every language by pilgrims of all nations, ranks, and conditions, from to t, and present a simple but striking instance of taneous and universal o   t poet of Nature.

    ty red face, ligi?cial locks of ?axen y cap. Sing ted shrines, abounds.

    ttered stock of tc ts. too, ical lantern  at tomb. tree, iplication as true cross, of  to build a she line.

    t favorite object of curiosity,  stands in a c be ening to tratford dealing fortales and legendary anecdotes of troublesome times of England. In t is tom of every one t visits to sit:

    a loss to say; I merely mention t, and mine ess privately assured me t, t of solid oak, suc zeal of devotees to be netomed at least once in t is ice also, in tory of traordinary c it partakes sometile nature of ta Casa of Loretto, or ter; for, to a nort, strange to tell, it s o the old chimney-corner.

    I am alters, and am ever o be deceived  and costs notes of goblins and great men, and ravellers i?cation to be the same.

    is it to us rue or false, so long as o ty? te good-y in tters, and on t even so far as o believe tess to a lineal descent from t, o my ion,  de?ance.

    From t me to  riced. It stands on t, and separated by adjoining gardens from tos situation is quiet and retired; t t of ts banks droop to its clear bosom. An avenue of limes, terlaced, so as to form in summer an arce of to tombstones, some of to tinted t ts among tinual ?utter and c its lofty gray spire.

    In t on,   Edmonds, and accompanied o get the church.

    ratford, man and boy, for eigill to consider rivial exception t  t. tage looking out upon ts bordering meadoure of t neatness, order, and comfort ry. A locer and earttered along table,   clock, t important article of cottage furniture, ticked on te side of t o admit a gossip knot s jambs.

    In one corner sat ter sety blue-eyed girl, and in te corner ed crony ogetottering about and gossiping a time toget is not often t reams of existence running tranquilly side by side; it is only in suc quot;bosom scenesquot; of life t to be met h.

    I o gatraditionary anecdotes of t c to impart. terval during ive neglect s sory, and it is  t scarcely anyto

    a scanty ures.

    ton and ers on tions for ted Stratford Jubilee, and te, s, and on, ;a s puncling.quot; Joed also in cutting do a sovereign quickener of literary conception.

    I o s speak very dubiously of t dame whe Shakespeare house.

    Joioned ible collection of relics, particularly ree; and ton even expressed a doubt as to S o ts tomb, tter ively but feors. t is t orians differ at tset, and mere pebbles make tream of truto different c tain-head.

    e approacered by a Goted, erior is spacious, and tecture and embelliss superior to t country c monuments of nobility and gentry, over some of ed  a s distance from tual murmur. A ?at stone marks t o ten by remely a solicitude about t of tural to ?ne sensibilities and tful minds:

    Just over t of S up sly after  is pleasant and serene,  I could read in it clear indications of t cion by ness of ion mentions  time of y-timely deat fruit mig ed from tumn of sucered as it ormy vicissitudes of life, and ?ourishe sunshine of popular and royal favor?

    tion on tombstone  been  its effect.

    It ed tive place to estminster Abbey, ime contemplated. A feo make an adjoining vault, to leave a vacant space almost like an arc o o meddle ion; and lest any of tor of relics sempted to commit depredations, ton kept cil t  o look in at t could see neit dust. It , to  of Shakespeare.

    Next to te daugomb close by, also, is a full-lengto ten a ludicrous epitaph.

    ts around, but to d is not connected  as his mausoleum.

    ted by doubt,  con?dence: otraces of  e certainty.

    As I trod t tense and t in very trut. It ime before I could prevail upon myself to leave trees, t I  from Stratford.

    I ed ts of a pilgrims devotion, but I o see t of t C, and to ramble terers of Stratford, committed ealing. In t old t aken prisoner and carried to t in doleful captivity.  into treatment must ing; for it so o produce a rougo te at C.*

    tious attack upon ty of t so incensed  o a la aro put ty of t talker. S  to brave ted puissance of a knigry attorney.  banks of ternal trade; o London; became a o tres; tor; and ?nally e for tage; and tion of Sir tratford lost an indifferent al poet. ained, ime, a sense of treatment of t, and revenged ings, but in tive ured mind. Sir to be tice Sire is slyly ?xed upon ices armorial bearings, erings.

    * tanza extant of this lampoon:

    <span style="color:grey">At  London an asse,

    <span style="color:grey">If lo,

    <span style="color:grey">e alloo mate,

    <span style="color:grey">If Lucy is lo,

    <span style="color:grey">tever befall it.

    <span style="color:grey">+ t C.

    Various attempts o soften and explain aransgression of t; but I look upon it as one of tless exploits natural to uation and turn of mind. Sless all ty of an ardent, undisciplined, and undirected genius. tic temperament urally somet of t to itself it runs loosely and ious. It is often a turn up of a die, in te,  a great rogue or a great poet; and  Sunately taken a literary bias,  ranscended all civil as ic laws.

    I tle doubt t, in early life,  tratford, o be found in ters, t ed  mention of  to to less like a foray to a Scottis, and struck  untamed, imagination as sometfully adventurous.*

    * A proof of Ss and associates in raditionary anecdote, picked up at Stratford by tioned in ;Picturesque Vie;

    About seven miles from Stratford lies ty little market-tos ale. ties of to meet, under tion of topers, and to co a contest of drinking. Among otratford  to prove trengte of t quot;t; rue to aff to ratford aggered at t onset, and sounded a retreat o carry to lie doree,  ill standing, and goes by tree.

    In turning to Bedford, but h

    quot;to,quot; says Ireland, quot;still bear ts till famed for tabor; ed on is famous for ty of its soil.quot;

    t and its surrounding park still remain in teresting front being connected  eventful circumstance in ty ory of tood at little more tance from Stratford, I resolved to pay it a pedestrian visit, t I migroll leisurely t  ideas of rural imagery.

    try  naked and lea?ess, but Englis, and temperature of ts quickening effects upon t ing to ness t ao feel its ealing over to see t melloo put fort and tender blade, and trees and sints and bursting buds, giving turning foliage and ?o little borderer on ts of er, o be seen s ce tages. ting of t lambs ly tered about tce into e querulous ry strain; and too t ?eecy cloud, pouring fortorrents of melody. As I ctle songster mounting up il e bosom of till ?lled  called to mind Se little song in Cymbeline:

    <span style="color:grey"> e sings,

    Indeed, try about ic ground: everyted tage t I sao some resort of imate knoic life and manners, and ales and itions o ime, old, it  in er evenings quot;to sit round tell merry tales of errant knigs, ders,   c;*

    * Scot, in ;Discoverie of itc,quot; enumerates a of t;And t bull-beggars, spirits, cyrs, pans, faunes, syrens, kit icke, tritons, centaurs, des, imps, calcars, conjurors, nympom tom tumbler, boneless, and suc we were afraid of our own s;

    My route for a part of t of ty of t fancy doublings and ile valley--sometimes glittering from among imes disappearing among groves or beneatimes rambling out into full vieiful bosom of country is called tant line of undulating blue o be its boundary,  intervening landscape lies in a manner enche Avon.

    After pursuing t turned off into a footpato a private gate of tile,  of trian, t of  in table estates, in  least as far as tpat in some measure reconciles a poor man to , and, o tter lot of o ion.  t , at time, trouble of paying for it and keeping it in order.

    I nouries. tary nests in tree-tops. ta, o interrupt t a distant statue and a vagrant deer stalking like a she opening.

    t tately old avenues t  of Gotecture, not merely from tended similarity of form, but from tion, and of ime e ideas of romantic grandeur. token also ttled dignity and proudly-concentrated independence of an ancient family; and I  aristocratic old friend observe, ry, t quot;money could do mucone and mortar, but t;

    It  tic solitudes of t of tate, t some of Sators  meditations of Jaques and ting ures in quot;As You Like It.quot; It is in lonely  t quiet draugion, and becomes intensely sensible of ty and majesty of Nature. tion kindles into reverie and rapture, vague but exquisite images and ideas keep breaking upon it, and e and almost incommunicable luxury of t. It  ts fancy may o t little song wuary

    I  of t is a large building of brick one quoins, and is in tyle of Queen Elizabet in t year of erior remains very nearly in its original state, and may be considered a fair specimen of try gentleman of t gateo a kind of courtyard in front of ted , seation of t barbacan, being a kind of outpost and ?anked by toly for mere ornament, instead of defence. t of tely in tyle one-sed casements, a great boal  carved in stone. At eacagon toed by a gilt ball and her-cock.

    t at t of a gently-sloping bank ically upon its bosom. As I contemplated to mind   Falstaffs encomium on Justice Sed indifference and real vanity of tter:

    quot;Falstaff. You have a goodly dwelling and a rich.

    S;

    ever may y of t illness and solitude.

    t iron gate opened into tyard s bustling about tly at me as I passed, being no longer roopers of Stratford. tic life t I met e cat stealing ealtoables, as if on some nefarious expedition. I must not omit to mention t t s till in t lordly abain t rigorous exercise of territorial poed in the bard.

    After pro for some time, I at lengto a lateral portal, o the mansion.

    I eously received by a y and communicativeness of erior of ter part erations and been adapted to modern tastes and modes of living: taircase, and t  noble feature in an ancient manor-ill retains muc must y, and at one end is a gallery in ropry gentleman, raits. table ?replace, calculated for an ample old-faser festivity. On te side of tone ss, yard. ained glass tions, some being dated in 1558. I erings te luces by  identi?ed  of Justice Sioned in t scene of t;Merry ives of indsor,quot; aff for ;beaten o ; t  t time, and ive ts of t So be a caricature of tion of Sir thomas.

    quot;S: I ar Cter of it; if y Joaffs,  abuse Sir Robert Shallow, Esq.

    Slender. In ty of Gloster, justice of peace and coram.

    Salorum.

    Slender. Ay, and ratolorum too, and a gentleman born, master parson; tance, or obligation, Armigero.

    S I do; and ime three hundred years.

    Slender. All , and all ors t come after e luces in t. . . .

    S; it is a riot.

    Evans. It is not meet t; t in a riot; to , and not to ; take your vizaments in t.

    S!quot;

    Near trait, by Sir Peter Lely, of one of t beauty of time of Ced to ture, and informed me t ted to cards, and  portion of tate, among  of t  been entirely regained by t t day. It is but justice to t dame to confess t she had a surpassingly ?ne hand and arm.

    ture tracted my attention  painting over taining likenesses of Sir ted tter part of Sime. I at ?rst t t it ive knig t it  of tomb in t of C.*

    * te marble, and represents t in complete armor. Near omb is tion; ellectual level of Master Shallow:

    in ye county of arton in ye county of orcester Esquire  of tco ime of rue and fayt of ected of any cryme or vice. In religion most sounde, in love to  faytrue. In friends constant; to rust ted unto  secret. In e rare and singular. A great maintayner of ality. Greatly esteemed of ters; misliked of none unless of t can be saide a  to be bettered and o be equalled by any. As s virtuotisly so s Godly. Set do did knoen to be true.

    thomas Lucye.

    ture gives a lively idea of tume and manners of time. Sir t, ;a cane-colored beard.quot; ed on te side of ture in omac venerable stiffness and formality of dress. ed on imating ts skill in ing, o an accomplisleman in those days.*

    * Bisry gentleman of ime, observes, quot; families of dogs and serving-men attendant on ts is teems true burden of nobility, and is exceedingly ambitious to seem delig, and  gloved ; And Gilpin, in ion of a Mr.

    ings, remarks, quot; all sorts of  run buck, fox, ter, and badger; and  erriers. On a broad  terriers, ;

    I regretted to ?nd t t furniture of to meet ately elbo to sre of empire over  mig entate  pictures for my oertainment, I pleased myself  tion on ter ivity in to myself tentate surrounded by ler, pages, and blue-coated serving-men  ry clo leaned gracefully for pity quot;t d t, trembling before ty of a country squire, and t of rustic boors, o become t of princes, tongues and ages, tator to to confer immortality on ure and a lampoon?

    I ed by tler to o t inclined to visit tice treated Sir Joaff and Cousin Silence quot;to a last years pippin of ing, ; but I bad already spent so muc I o give up any furtigations.  to take my leave I i?ed by treaties of tler t I ake some refres--an instance of good old ality le-ers seldom meet  it is a virtue ative of ts from ors; for Sure, makes Justice Sunate in t, as ness ances to Falstaff:

    quot;By cock and pye, Sir, you s ao-nig excuse you; you s be excused; excuses s be admitted; t be excused. . . . Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of s-legged  of mutton; and any pretty little tiny kicksell `illiam Cook.quot;

    I noant fareo tely possessed by ters connected  t I seemed to be actually living among t t  expected to er Silence quavering forte ditty:

    <span style="color:grey">quot;tis merry in hall, when beards wag all,

    On returning to my inn I could not but re?ect on t of t, to be able to spread ture, to give to ter not to turn t;; into a perfect fairy-land. rue encer,  upon t upon tion and t. Under te delusion. I ry,  ic po  in spirit  Jack Falstaff and emporaries, from t Justice So tle Master Slender and t Anne Page. ten ties of life  illusions, we and unboug in many a lonely hies of social life!

    As I crossed turn, I paused to contemplate tant c lies buried, and could not but exult in tion s quiet and s.  y companionsapcitled multitude?  minster Abbey o stand in beautiful loneliness as ude about t t sensibility; but ure is made up of foibles and prejudices, and its best and tenderest affections are mingled itious feelings.  reno t of er all, t tion, no applause, so s to t  is t o be gat and failing o urns as fondly as does t to to sink to sleep in the scene of his childhood.

    of tful o it covered   and glory of ive place; t s most precious treasure; and t its lessening spire, on emplation, so tle landscape to guide terary pilgrim of every nation to omb!

 TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER.

    quot;I appeal to any o eat; if ever .quot;--Speech of au Indian Chief.

    ter and s of taken in connection omed to range, its vast lakes, boundless forests, majestic rivers, and trackless plains, t is, to my mind, riking and sublime. . ure is stern, simple, and enduring, ?tted to grapple ies and to   support privations. t little soil in  for t of tues; and yet, if  take trouble to penetrate t proud stoicism and ual taciturnity ion, o him.

    It  of tunate aborigines of America in tion to be doubly e men. tary possessions by mercenary and frequently on ers raduced by bigoted and interested ers.

    ts often treated ts of t, and to justify rages. t easier to exterminate to civilize; tter to vilify to discriminate. tions of savage and pagan  to sanction tilities of bot ed and defamed, not because ty, but because t.

    ts of ted or respected by te man. In peace oo often been tful traf?c; in ion and convenience. Man is cruelly eful of life y, and little mercy is to be expected from ing of tile and is conscious of to destroy.

    t in common circulation at t day. Certain learned societies  is true, o investigate and record ters and manners of tribes; t, too, ed itself to inculcate a friendly and forbearing spirit too protect tice.* t opinion of ter, oo apt to be formed from t tiers and s of ttlements. too commonly composed of degenerate beings, corrupted and enfeebled by ty,  being bene?ted by its civilization. t proud independence y, and tive courage coed by tened neigy  imes breed desolation over a y. It ed trengtiplied ty ti?cial life. It s,  ence. It  ttlement and seek refuge in ter forests and yet untrodden oo often ?nd tiers to be ts of once poribes, tlements and sunk into precarious and vagabond existence. Poverty, repining and y, a canker of ts and bligy of tures. t, feeble, ter like vagrants about ttlements, among spacious de e comforts, cion. Luxury spreads its ample board before t t. Plenty revels over t tarving in t of its abundance;   to a garden, but tiles t infest it.

    * t igable in its exertions to ameliorate tuation of to introduce among ts of civilization and civil and religious knoo protect te traders no purcted, nor is any person alloo receive lands from t  tion of government. tions are strictly enforced.

    ate ed lords of ts i?cation , enduring ts, arrayed in ts. No roof t o tranger; no smoke curled among trees but o sit dos ?re and join ter in . quot;For,quot; says an old orian of Ne;t te t ratarve t, tarve all; time merrily, not regarding our pomp, but are better content eem so meanly of.quot; Suc in tive natures: ts , but sivation and perishe sun.

    In discussing ter ers oo prone to indulge in vulgar prejudice and passionate exaggeration, instead of temper of true p suf?ciently considered tances in s more rigidly from rule t is regulated according to some general maxims early implanted in  govern o be sure, but fe to te man abounds in la e!

    A frequent ground of accusation against treaties, and treaconness ime of apparent peace, to ilities. tercourse of te men oo apt to be cold, distrustful, oppressive, and insulting. treat t con?dence and frankness ion observed not to offend against tition  to ility quicker tions of interest. tary savage feels silently, but acutely. ies are not diffused over so e man, but teadier and deeper cions, itions, are all directed tos, but ted on tionably severe, and furnisives of ility ly appreciate. y is also limited in number, and forms one great patriarcribe, timent of vengeance is almost instantaneously diffused. One council-?re is suf?cient for t of a plan of ilities. ing-men and sages assemble. Eloquence and superstition combine to in?ame tor aial ardor, and t up to a kind of religious desperation by t and the dreamer.

    An instance of one of tions, arising from a motive peculiar to ter, is extant in an old record of ttlement of Massacts. ters of Plymouts of t Passonagessit, and  ed. tertain for tribes t ions exiled from tors, y, o turn aside from te tradition, ry for miles to some tumulus, buried perribe ly deposited, and t meditation. In?uenced by tomb ed gatogetifully simple and patic ing instance of ?lial piety in a savage:

    quot; t of all t, I began to settle, as my custom is, to take repose. Before mine eyes  closed met I sa rembling at t doleful sig cried aloud, Bes t gave t lapped t. Canst t to take revenge of t in a despiteful manner, disdaining our antiquities and oms? See, no truded on our land. If t rest quiet in my everlasting ation. t vanis, not able scarce to speak, began to get   some strengt my spirits t ermined to demand your counsel and assistance.quot;

    I e at some lengt tends to ss of ility, ed to caprice and per?dy, may often arise from deep and generous motives, ion to Indian cer and customs prevents our properly appreciating.

    Anot outcry against ty to ts origin partly in policy and partly in superstition. tribes, times called nations,  t t; ticularly tly engaged in ance occurs in Indian ory  o its neigure and massacre of its principal ?grong temptation, to tor to be merciless, not so muco gratify any cruel revenge, as to provide for future security. titious belief, frequent among barbarous nations and prevalent also among ts, t ttle ives. t ted into treated ion of relatives and friends; nay, so able and tender is tertainment t ive is offered ten prefer to remain ed breturn to th.

    ty of toened since tion of tes.  ition ed into a grati?cation of vengeance. t but be sensible t te men are t dominion, tion, and troyers of to battle smarting ies ion and tes oo frequently set te tence, and yet t savages do not sion and magnanimity to t mere existence and chedness.

    e stigmatize treacratagem in o open force; but in ti?ed by taug stratagem is praise  no disgrace to lurk in silence, and take every advantage of riump and sagacity by roy an enemy. Indeed, man is naturally more prone to subtilty to ural usks, alons; but man o depend on y. In all ers s to stratagem; and y against  ?rst continues tle mode of warfare.

    tural principle of o do t o our enemy  o ourselves; and to be effected by stratagem. t co despise tions of prudence and to rusain danger is ty and produced by education. It is  is in fact triumpy sentiment over an instinctive repugnance to pain, and over ter personal ease and security  alive by pride and ts but in tion. It imulated also by various means. It -stirring song and cory. t and minstrel ed to s tion, and even torian ten ty of narration and broken forto ents praise. triumps s res, on s skill and opulence its treasures, ed to perpetuate a nations gratitude and admiration. ti?cially excited, courage o an extraordinary and factitious degree of ;pomp and circumstance of ; turbulent quality o eclipse many of t but invaluable virtues er and side of human happiness.

    But if courage intrinsically consists in tinual exion of it.

    ate of perpetual ility and risk. Peril and adventure are congenial to ure, or rato arouse ies and to give an interest to ence.

    Surrounded by ile tribes, udes of ocean, as torms, and s , solitary, but undaunted, tions may vie in distance and danger ee or t-errant. raverses vast forests exposed to tormy lakes, t inland seas, are no obstacles to  canoe of bark s like a feats ness of an arroence is snatc of toil and peril. aract.

    No  or modern days can surpass ty contempt of deatitude ains  af?iction. Indeed, e man in consequence of ion. tter ruso glorious deat templates its approacriumply endures it amidst torments of surrounding foes and tracted agonies of ?re. akes a pride in taunting ors and provoking ty of torture; and as tals and t song of triump and invoking ts of o ness t  a groan.

    Notanding torians ers of tunate natives, some brigre on ts are occasionally to be met ern provinces  speak for t on hy when prejudice shall have passed away.

    In one of tives of touc of tion carried into tribe of ty sail of indiscriminate butc in t, s s dotempting to escape, quot;all being despatc; After a series of similar transactions quot;our soldiers,quot; as torian piously observes, quot;being resolved by Gods assistance to make a ?nal destruction of t; ted from tresses and pursued y but gallant band, t of took refuge in a swamp.

    Burning ion and rendered sullen by despair, s bursting  truction of tribe, and spirits galled and sore at t, to ask t ting foe, and preferred deato submission.

    As t drereat, so as to render escape impracticable. tuated, t;plied t all time, by  preceded to t;t  to t still and be s t to piecesquot; t dauntless spirits, told, entering t;saing close togeten or tol bullets at a time, putting t o t;

    Can any one read tale  admiring tern resolution, tiness of spirit t seemed to nerve ts of taugo raise tinctive feelings of ure?

    e ty of Rome, tors cloted ern tranquillity in t resistance or even supplication. Suc  inate and sullen. ruly are ance!  is virtue clotate, from virtue naked and destitute and perishing obscurely in a wilderness!

    But I forbear to dures. tern tribes s t sered traces remain of ttled States of Neing ream. And suc, sooner or later, be te of tribes iers, and s to mingle in te men. In a little hren have gone before.

    till linger about tributary streams of te of tribes t once spread over Massacts and Connecticut and lorded it along t gigantic race said to ed on tions t ?ouris tomac and t peopled ts of t valley of Sory  in forgetfulness; and quot;t no; Or if, perc may be in tic dreams of t, to people in imagination yrs and sylvan deities of antiquity. But sure upon tory of tcell ed, despoiled, driven from tive abodes and ted like s about t doco terity urn y from tale or blusion at ty of t;e are driven back,quot; said an old ;until reat no fartcs are broken, our boinguistle longer and te man o persecute us, for !quot;

 PHILIP OF POKANOKET.

    AN INDIAN MEMOIR.

    As monumental bronze unchanged his look:

    <span style="color:grey">A soul t pity touc never shook;

    <span style="color:grey">traind from ree-rockd cradle to his bier,

    <span style="color:grey">tremes of good and ill to brook

    <span style="color:grey">Impassive--fearing but the shame of fear--

    <span style="color:grey">stoic of t a tear.

    It is to be regretted t ters ed of ttlement of America  given us more particular and candid accounts of ters t ?ourisy anecdotes erest; ture, and s man is in a comparatively primitive state and ion.

    ting upon tracts of ure--in nessing, as it ive gro, and perceiving tic qualities ivated by society vegetating in spontaneous hardihood and rude magni?cence.

    In civilized life, ence, of man depends so mucantly acting a studied part. traits of native cer are re?ned aened do is termed good-breeding, and ises so many petty deceptions and affects so many generous sentiments for ty t it is dif?cult to distinguisi?cial cer.

    trary, free from traints and re?nements of polis degree a solitary and independent being, obeys tion or tates of ; and ttributes of ure, being freely indulged, gro and striking.

    Society is like a la surface; udy Nature in its y must plunge into t, must explore t stem torrent, and dare the precipice.

    tions arose on casually looking tory terness, trages of ttlers Ne is painful to perceive, even from tial narratives, steps of civilization may be traced in ts o ility by t of conquest; erminating ion s tellectual beings s, of Natures sterling coinage, rampled in t.

    Suce of P, an Indian  Massacts and Connecticut.

    distinguisemporary sacts, tern tribes at time of t settlement of Neive untaug generous struggle of  gasp in try,  a ory or a t of renory and ?t subjects for local story and romantic ?ction, t scarcely any autic traces on tory, but stalk like gigantic sion.*

    * ing ts of ticle t a celebrated Englis ory of P.

    tlers are called by ts, ?rst took refuge on tions of tuation o t degree gloomy and disening. Fe number rapidly perisribes, exposed to t arctic er and tudes of an ever-sing climate, to despondency but trong excitement of religious entuation ted by Massasoit, c extent of country. Instead of taking   advantage of ty number of trangers and expelling territories, into o conceive for tended toes of primitive ality. o ttlement of Netended by a mere ered into a solemn league of peace and amity, sold tion of to secure for tever may be said of Indian per?dy, it is certain t tegrity and good fait inued a ?rm and magnanimous friend of te men, suffering to extend to strengtraying no jealousy of ty. Sly before o Ne of peace and of securing it to erity.

    At to protect tipulated t no furttempt so dra, ?nding tinately opposed to any sucion,  t act of o bring tler, recommending mutual kindness and con?dence, and entreating t ty e men and  be continued aftero ribe; o experience titude of we men.

    son, Alexander, succeeded uous temper, and proudly tenacious of ary rigy. trusive policy and dictatorial conduct of trangers excited ion, and erminating ribes. o incur tility, being accused of plotting ts to rise against t is impossible to say ed by facts or  is evident,  and overbearing measures of ttlers t time begun to feel conscious of to groreatment of tives. tco seize upon Alexander and to bring s. raced to s, and surprised at a ing-er toils of t and trage offered to y so preyed upon to to a raging fever. ted to return ion of sending  tal, and before im to t.

    tamocet, or King Ptlers on account of y spirit and ambitious temper. togeterprise,  of great jealousy and appre and implacable ility toes. Sucurally  mere intruders into try, o savage life. rymen melting before territories slipping from tribes becoming feeble, scattered, and dependent. It may be said t ttlers; but ure of Indian purcion?

    ty bargains tness in traf?c, and t accessions of territory by easily-provoked ilities. An uncultivated savage is never a nice inquirer into ts of las are all by  before trusion of trymen  nohers.

    But y and icular indignation at treatment of , reneract tlers, and resided peaceably for many years at Pokanoket, or as, it   seat of dominion of ribe. Suspicions,  ?rst but vague and inde?nite, began to acquire form and substance, and  lengttempting to instigate tern tribes to rise at once, and by a simultaneous effort to t is dif?cult at tant period to assign t due to tions against to suspicion and an aptness to acts of violence on t of tes t gave o every idle tale. Informers abounded  enance and res success ain and it carved out empire.

    * Nool, Rhode Island.

    tive evidence on record against Pion of one Sausaman, a renegado Indian, ion imes y t evinced ted for some time as Pial secretary and counsellor, and y and protection. Finding,  ty ron,  over to tes, and in order to gain tor ting against ty. A rigorous investigation took place. Ps submitted to be examined, but not ttlers, oo far to retract; termined t Prust, and o insure ility; according, to truction o ty. Sausaman, treacly aftero tribe. tried, and on testimony of one very questionable ness ed as murderers.

    treatment of s and ignominious punis of raged ted the passions of Philip.

    t orm, and ermined to trust e men. te of ed and broken-ed brotill rankled in ragical story of Miantonimo, a great Sacts, s, exculpating y, c tigation. Ping-men about rangers t o join  to tts for safety, and winually surrounded by armed warriors.

    ies ate of distrust and irritation, t spark  to set tted various petty depredations. In one of ttler.

    tilities; to revenge th colony.

    In times  ions of tate of traction and tuation among trackless forests and savage tribes s to superstitious fancies, and ions ful cc and spectrology. to a belief in omens. troubles old, by a variety of t and public calamities. t form of an Indian bo Neants as a quot;prodigious apparition.quot; At on, and oto; piece of ordnance, ;* Otill sunss; bullets seemed to  to pass ao t tain monstrous birtook place about time ?lled titious in some toentous sigo natural po ts udes, teors op branc, trees or disrupted rocks, and to times strike trangely amidst tillness of udes. tartled some melancions, may ed by tened to  avidity ever is fearful and mysterious. titious fancies and trongly ceristic of times.

    * tory.

    ture of test t ensued en distinguis of tes it ed  efulness of tural rigagonists: on t of t ion of men fearless of deato expect from peace but ion, dependence, and decay.

    ts of transmitted to us by a ime,  of ti?able,  sanguinary atrocities of tes. Praitor,  considering t rue-born prince gallantly ?g ts to avenge to retrieve tottering porangers.

    t of a aneous revolt, if suc not been prematurely discovered migs   consequences. t actually broke out  a ail, a mere succession of casual exploits and unconnected enterprises. Still, it sets fortary genius and daring proions t ,  simple facts, y of expedients, a contempt of suffering and ion t command our sympathy and applause.

    Driven from ernal domains at Mount o t and trackless forests t skirted ttlements and  impervious to anyt a  or an Indian. ogetorm accumulating its stores of misc a time and place least expected, carrying o tions of t ?lled ts  of a distant gun tle urn  ts of ts and suddenly disappearing, as tning imes be seen playing silently about t is breempest.

    times pursued and even surrounded by ttlers, yet Pen escaped almost miraculously from toils, and, plunging into t to all searcil  some far distant quarter, laying try desolate. Among rong ss of Nes, brambles, rank tered and mouldering trunks of fallen trees, oversain footing and tangled mazes of t impracticable to te man, ty of a deer.

    Into one of t s Neck, o pursue o venture into tful recesses, ed trance to to build a fort  of starving out t Ped t over an arm of t, leaving to tribes of Massacts and try and tening ticut.

    In tery in wed errors.

    . try abounded  possessed of ubiquity, for in  of tended frontier an irruption from t took place, Po be its leader. Many superstitious notions also ed concerning o deal in necromancy, and to be attended by an old Indian cess, ions. tly ty or to act upon t of t and tition  instances of savage warfare.

    At time t Ped  unes e condition. ed ?g almost time of adversity , cts. onimo, t sacioned, after an tal of tely put to deat tigations of ttlers. quot;; says t;of all o; ainly s and injuries and timate avenger of o take an active part in t  generous countenance and support. t once drey of t ermined to strike a signal blo s force ogetts, Plymouticut, and  into tt country in ter, ive facility and rable fastnesses to the Indians.

    Appretack, Canonc er part of ores, togetribe, to a strong fortress, uated upon a rising mound or kind of island of ?ve or six acres in t of a s ructed  and skill vastly superior to i?cation, and indicative of tial genius of two cains.

    Guided by a renegado Indian, trated, to trong umultuous. ts  attack, and several of t of?cers  of storming tress, ser success. A lodgment ed. t to anoted ting  of terans  to pieces, and after a long and bloody battle, P, reated from t and took refuge in ts of t.

    tors set ?re to t; t outrage overcame even toicism of ttered by tive ruction of t;t; says a contemporary er, quot;ted a most ing scene, so t it greatly moved some of t; ter cautiously adds, quot;t ter y, and t principles of t;*

    * MS. of the Rev. . Ruggles.

    te of t is icular mention: t scene of  instances on record of Indian magnimity.

    Broken do faito o ted all overtures of peace offered on condition   of betraying P quot; it out to t man, rat to t; royed, ry e by to o ticut, o tern Indians and laid e several of ttlements.

    Early in ted on a ion, y co penetrate to Seaconck, in ty of Mount o procure seed corn to plant for tenance of roops. ttle urers ry, and re of tt, resting at some ucket River, ime, Canonc despatco top of a neigo bring intelligence of the foe.

    Panic-struck by troop of Engliserror past tain,  stopping to inform he danger.

    Canonc sent anot, old  tis  sa immediate ?igtempted to escape round t ile Indians and a feest of test pursuer close upon  , t and belt of peag, by .

    At lengt slipped upon a stone, and o   so   struck , as er; and urned ten stick, void of strengt;

    to suc, being seized by a Pequod Indian  distance of tance, t vigor of body and boldness of . But on being made prisoner t arose  moment es given by  repeated ?ased and prince-like ioned by one of t came up  attained y second year, ted y contempt upon enance, replied, quot;You are a c understand matters of  your brot;

    ted offers o ion of submitting ion to t ed to send any proposals of to t body of s, saying t oes,  t  deliver up a ampanoag nor t t o justify ily ans ot;o ;

    So noble and uns, so true a ?delity to  ouc Canonc o ness of ence of deat;t   or ;  at Stoning hree young Sachems of his own rank.

    t at t fortress and t al bloo tunes of King Pual attempt to raise a irring up to take arms; but, tive talents of a statesman, s eracted by ts of ened enemies, and terror of to subdue tion of tribes. tunate cain saims to igue and to t attacks by ured;  ao captivity; and in one of o leave o the enemy.

    quot;; says torian, quot;being t prevented, but augmented ted al feeling of tivity of er of s, bereavement of all family relations, and being stripped of all outs before aken a;

    to ?ll up tunes, o plot against  by sacri?cing  purcy. treacs, ts of etamoe, an Indian princess of Pocasset, a near kinse of Prayed into tamoe  time, and attempted to make ed by sarved er-side. But persecution ceased not at tcroubling, ection to tcast female, ionate ?delity to her kinsman and her friend.

    of unmanly and dastardly vengeance: t upon a pole, and  taunton to tive subjects. tely recognized tures of tunate queen, and ed at tacle t old to t;most ations.quot;

    ted miseries and misfortunes t surrounded reaco  is said t quot;ererprise inguiso pity nor any arm t could bring deliverance. ity band of follorue to e fortunes, to ty of Mount  dre among ty, no of ter picture of itute and piteous situation t furnising the hapless warrior whom he reviles.

    quot;P; ;like a savage , ed by t last o  ired,  friends,   into a so keep  till to execute vengeance upon ;

    Even in t refuge of desperation and despair a sullen grandeur gature o ourselves seated among ed fortunes, and acquiring a savage sublimity from ted, but not dismayed--cruso t not ed--o groer, and to experience a ?erce satisfaction in draining t dregs of bitterness. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. te to deat of peace. tim made rayed treat of ain, A body of ely despatco to surround tle iest follo ; all resistance empt to escape, but  by a renegado Indian of ion.

    Sucy story of t unfortunate King Ped ly cer suf?cient to ae and respect for  amidst all tant er feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness and to timent of friendsivity of ;beloved ; are mentioned ation as causing  misery: triumply recorded as a ne treacion of many of ions o ed  and to . riot attaco ive soil--a prince true to s and indignant of ttle, ?rm in adversity, patient of fatigue, of y of bodily suffering, and ready to peris and amable love of natural liberty, o enjoy it among ts of ts or in ty spirit to submission and live dependent and despised in ttlements. ities and bold acs t orian, ive in ive land, and  doempest,  a pitying eye to weep o record ruggle.

 JOHN BULL.

    <span style="color:grey">Of an old ate,

    <span style="color:grey">t kept a brave old  a bountiful rate,

    <span style="color:grey">And an old porter to relieve t e.

    <span style="color:grey">itudy ?lld full of learned old books,

    <span style="color:grey">it know him by his looks,

    <span style="color:grey">ittery-ce off the hooks,

    <span style="color:grey">And an old kitc maintained half-a-dozen old cooks.

    t uring and giving ludicrous appellations or nicknames. In ted, not merely individuals, but nations, and in t spared even themselves.

    One  in personifying itself a nation  to picture somet it is ceristic of t is blunt, comic, and familiar, t tional oddities in turdy, corpulent old fello, red coat, leatout oaken cudgel. taken a singular deliging t private foibles in a laug of vie tual existence more absolutely present to t eccentric personage, John Bull.

    Perinual contemplation of ter tributed to ?x it upon tion, and to give reality to  ?rst may ed in a great measure from tion. Men are apt to acquire peculiarities t are continually ascribed to tivated o act up to ture t is perpetually before their eyes.

    Unluckily, times make ted Bullism an apology for ticed among truly ed beyond ttle uncout to utter impertinent trut o an   unreasonable burst of passion about tri?es,  Jo t and rays a coarseness of taste and an insensibility to foreign re?nements, o be gulled by strangers and to pay extravagantly for absurdities is excused under than wise.

    trive to argue every fault into a merit, and  est felloence.

    tle, ter may ed in t instance, it ed itself to tion, or rated to eacranger udy Englisies may gation from traits of Joed in ture-sill, ile s t are continually t neraits and presenting different aspects from different points of vieen as  resist temptation to give a sligc my eye.

    Joo all appearance, is a plain, doer-of-fact fellory about tle of romance in ure, but a vast deal of strong natural feeling. ; is jolly rato a sudden tear or surprised into a broad laug iment and urn for ligry. o o talk about and by a friend in a quarrel   h life and purse, however soundly he may be cudgelled.

    In t respect, to tell truty to be someoo ready.  merely for  for all try round, and is most generously disposed to be everybodys cinually volunteering o settle akes it in great dudgeon if tter of consequence  asking  ?nisting into a squabble ies, and tterly at titude. ook lessons in  master at boxing and cudgel-play, roublesome life of it ever since.   distant of  inently to fumble erest or  require t ended ions of pride and policy so completely over try t no event can take place  infringing some of s and dignities. Couctle domain, s stretcion, tle-bellied old spider  buzz nor a breeze blo startling o sally forthfully from his den.

    ted, good-tempered old fello bottom, yet  of contention. It is one of ies,  o a ?gy, but comes out of it grumbling even s inacy to carry a contested   point, yet ion aken up   to let agonist pocket all t t. It is not, ting t  so muco be on  as making friends. It is dif?cult to cudgel  of a fart put  of all t. out s storm uninjured, but roll its masts overboard in the succeeding calm.

    tle fond of playing t a long purse, ?inging  at boxing-matcs, and carrying a ;gentlemen of t; but immediately after one of ts of extravagance aken  qualms of economy; stop s at t trivial expenditure; talk desperately of being ruined and broug pay t tradesmans bill  violent altercation. , t punctual and discontented paymaster in t of  e reluctance, paying to ttermost fart accompanying every guinea h a growl.

    italk of economy, iful provider and a able s c being to devise o be extravagant; for eak and pint of port one day t  an ox  all .

    ic establis is enormously expensive, not so muc out consumption of solid beef and pudding, t number of folloo pay  kind and indulgent master, and, provided s ies, ?atter y a little no peculate grossly on o perfection. Everyt lives on o t. s are le to do. ate carriage; and ly about t a housebreaker.

    ellated manor- venerable ten appearance. It  upon no regular plan, but is a vast accumulation of parts erected in various tastes and ages. tre bears evident traces of Saxon arcecture, and is as solid as ponderous stone and old Englis. Like all t style, it is full of obscure passages, intricate mazes, and dusty cially lig t still grope in tions o time to time, and great alterations aken place; totlements ed during umults:  in time of peace; and out-o t generations, until it  spacious, rambling tenements imaginable. An entire aken up  must uous, and, indeed, in spite of ered and simpli?ed at various periods, ill a look of solemn religious pomp. Its oried s of Joors, and it is snugly ?tted up  cuso cably in ties.

    to keep up t Jo auncance t many dissenting ced in y, and several of rong papists.

    to do ties of tains, at a large expense, a pious and portly family c learned and decorous personage and a truly  tle peccadilloes, rebukes tory, and is of great use in exing tenants to read to pay ts punctually and  grumbling.

    tments are in a very antiquated taste, some, but full of times, ?tted up apestry, unure, and loads of massy, gorgeous old plate. t ?replaces, ample kitcensive cellars, and sumptuous banqueting-ality of days of yore, of y at t a se suites of rooms apparently deserted and time-ourrets t are tottering to decay, so t in umbling about the household.

    Joly been advised to o s pulled dorengterials; but tleman alesty on t.   it is tig to be sempests; t it ood for several  likely to tumble do as to its being inconvenient, omed to t be comfortable  t as to its unruction, t from its being turies and being improved by tion; t an old family, like o dart families may live in modern cottages and snug boxes; but an old Englis an old English manor-house.

    If you point out any part of ts t it is material to trengtion of t and t ts are so built into eac if you pull do your ears.

    t of tter is, t Jo disposition to protect and patronize.  indispensable to ty of an ancient and o be bounteous in its appointments and to be eaten up by dependents; and so, partly from pride and partly from kind-edness,  a rule alo give ser and maintenance to ed servants.

    t, like many otabliss, ainers urn off, and an old style s magnitude, is not a oo large for its inants. Not a nook or corner but is of use in housing some useless personage.

    Groups of veteran beef-eaters, gouty pensioners, and retired tery and t its s las tree, or sunning t its doors. Every of?ce and out-o leave Joo be provided for. A mattock cannot be struck against t mouldering   tumble-doo out pops, from some cranny or loope of some superannuated  Jo grievous outcry at t servant of t Jo  never can and; so t a man ankard in his old days.

    A great part of urned into paddocks, o graze undisturbed for tences--a eful recollection ate,  be to t. Indeed, it is one of  pleasures to point out teeds to ors, to dies, extol t services, and boast, tle vain-glory, of tures and s they have carried him.

    o indulge ion for family usages and family encumbrances to a . ed by gangs of gypsies; yet  suffer to be driven off, because ted time out of mind and been regular poacion of t a dry branco be lopped from t trees t surround t it s t uries. Oe, but tary o not be disturbed. Sins build in every frieze and cornice; croter about toer of t of tedly in broad daylight.

    In s, Jo   hey are good old family abuses.

    All ts o drain tlemans purse; and as uality in money matters and ain  in t perplexity in meeting s. too, ercations and -burnings aking place in  up to different callings and are of different o speak t fail to exercise t clamorously in t posture of and up for t tablis s up in all its state, ; ot and considerate, entreat tleman to retrenco put em of e footing.  times, seemed inclined to listen to t tely defeated by treperous conduct of one of tle-pated fellos,  ale-or of village clubs and a complete oracle among t of enants. No sooner does ion reform or retrenc takes t of t for an overturn.

    ongue is once going notop it. s about tors t  practices; ridicules astes and pursuits; insists t urn ts out of doors, give to t cake a ?eld-preac tar built in its place.  every social entertainment and family festivity, and skulks ao to tantly complaining of tiness of   to spend all -money in tavern convocations, and even runs up scores for t ravagance.

    It may readily be imagined tle sucing agrees emperament. able from repeated crossings t tion of retrenc or reform is a signal for a braween avern oracle.

    As tter is too sturdy and refractory for paternal discipline,  of all fear of t scenes of imes run so  Joo call in tom, an of?cer  present living at home on half-pay.

    t is sure to stand by tleman, riging, roistering life, and is ready at a o out sabre and ?ouris over tors o array  parental auty.

    t abroad, and are rare food for scandal in Joo look wise and sioned.

    t; matters are not so bad ed; but  ravagance, t be badly managed. tand gaged over inually dabbling ainly an open-leman, but too fast; indeed, ting, racing revelling, and prize-?g, Mr. Bulls estate is a very ?ne one and , for all t, tates come to t;

    is  of all, is t ic feuds ead of t jolly round corporation and smug rosy face , e become as s-bitten apple.  gold-laced coat,  ly o s t yaurdy legs.

    Instead of strutting about as formerly  on one side, ?ouris do y turdily in trolling out a stave of a catc fully to ucked under  to ttom of s, y.

    Suc of  Jo present, yet for all t is as tall and as gallant as ever.

    If you drop t expression of sympatakes ?re in an instant; s  and stoutest fellory; talks of laying out large sums to adorn ate; and  s quarter-staff.

    t I confess I cannot look upon Jouation  strong feelings of interest. itinate prejudices erling-ed old blade.  be so  ties. ravagance savors of y, y of y of ness of y. ter. , but sound and solid ion to timber; and orm from tude and luxuriance. too, in t is extremely poetical and picturesque; and as long as it can be rendered comfortably able I s tremble to see it meddled  con?ict of tastes and opinions. Some of  good arcects t mig many, I fear, are mere levellers, o tocks on top until t it to t I roubles may teacure--t o distress  ot less attempt to promote t of t ly at  o repair; cultivate ate according to o order--if  prosperity; and long enjoy on ernal lands a green, an honorable, and a merry old age.

 THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE.

    <span style="color:grey">No boysterous ormes come her,

    <span style="color:grey">t s eart, like a spring,

    IN te counties of England, I ruck into one of t lead ts of try, and stopped one afternoon at a village tuation of ired. tive simplicity about its inants not to be found in t coacermined to pass t taken an early dinner, strolled out to enjoy the neighboring scenery.

    My ramble, as is usually travellers, soon led me to tood at a little distance from the village.

    Indeed, it  of some curiosity, its old toely overrun  only ting buttress, an angle of gray astically carved ornament peered t covering. It  of t in ternoon it ill  tract of golden sky in t, from  up all Nature into a melanc seemed like ting ian smiling on ty of  he will rise again in glory.

    I ed myself on a ombstone, and  to do at ted  scenes   and early friends--on tant and t kind of melanc someter even troke of a bell from tos tones ead of jarring, c ime before I recollected t it must be tolling tenant of tomb.

    Presently I sarain moving across t , and reappeared til it passed tting. ted by young girls dressed in  teen, oken t ts.

    tter order of peasantry.

    to repress  racted bro  aloud s of a mothers sorrow.

    I folloo tre aisle, and t of e gloves, was  whe deceased had occupied.

    Every one knounate as never to o tomb? But ence, ing? At t simple but most solemn consignment of to t;Earto earto as to dust!quot;--tears of trained. till seemed to   struggle o comfort  t t of  do of its sness; s;mourning over  be comforted.quot;

    On returning to t tory of the deceased.

    It old. Sy and pride of t farmer, but ances. t up entirely at y of rural life. Sor, te lamb of tle ?ock.  tcion ernal care; it ed and suitable to to move, for  to make  to ation in life, not to raise . tenderness and indulgence of s and tion from all ordinary occupations ered a natural grace and delicacy of cer t accorded ender plant of tally amid tives of the ?elds.

    ty of  and ackno envy, for it leness and winning kindness of  migruly said of her:

    <span style="color:grey">quot;ttiest lo ever

    <span style="color:grey"> Ran on thing she does or seems

    <span style="color:grey"> But smacks of someter than herself;

    tered spots ain some vestiges of old Englisoms. It s rural festivals   and imes, and still kept up some faint observance of tes of May. ted by its present pastor, ians t ting joy on eartood from year to year in tre of t ed reamers, and a queen or lady of ted, as in former times, to preside at ts and distribute turesque situation of ts rustic fetes en attract tice of casual visitors. Among t ly quartered in tive taste t pervaded t, but, above all,  e lessness of rural s enabled o make ance; o imacy, and paid  to  untoo apt to tri?e ic simplicity.

    to startle or alarm. alked of love, but t more eloquent t subtilely and irresistibly to t. tone of voice, tendernesses ion,--true eloquence of love, and can al and understood, but never described. Can  t young, guileless, and susceptible? As to  unconsciously; s   and feeling, or o be its consequences.

    S to ture. , tention;  of  intervieies in Nature; alked in te and cultivated life, and breato cry.

    Per  girls. t ?gure of ary attire mig ?rst  it  t ivated . tac  of idolatry. So o a being of a superior order.

    S in y turally delicate and poetical, and no ao a keen perception of tiful and grand. Of tinctions of rank and fortune s not ellect, of demeanor, of manners, from tic society to  elevated en to  look of mute deligle ured a simid admiration, it  tive unhiness.

    ure. ion in levity, for en  of ts, and t some triumpo ation as a man of spirit. But oo full of yout  yet been rendered suf?ciently cold and sel?sed life: it caug sougo kindle, and before ure of uation he became really in love.

    acles tacs. itled connections, o trimony; but ender and con?ding, ty in y in  aious feeling. In vain did ry to fortify less examples of men of faso ciment  cold derisive levity alk of female virtue:  mysterious but impassive cy in  can live.

    t to repair to tinent completed t time in a state of t painful irresolution; ated to communicate tidings until t elligence in the course of an evening ramble.

    ting o  broke in at once upon y; s as a sudden and insurmountable evil, and  y of a co ears from  c s of mingled sorroenderness uous, and t of beauty apparently yielding in o overo propose t sunes.

    e a novice in seduction, and blusered at  so innocent of mind im t s ?rst at a loss to compreive village and ts.  last ture of   o reproac a  s as from a viper, gave  pierced to o tage.

    tired confounded, ed, and repentant. It is uncertain  of  s been diverted by tle of departure. Need i?ed enderness; yet, amidst tir of camps, ttles, s imes steal back to t and village simplicity--te cottage, tpattle village maid loitering along it, leaning on ening to ion.

    truction of all ings and erics  ?rst sender frame, and tled and pining melancing troops. Sriump trumpet and trained a last acer tered about  vision from , and left her all in darkness.

    It rite to diculars of er story.

    It ales of love, melancy and  alone in t frequented , like tricken deer, to  rankled in imes se of an evening sitting in turning from tive ditty in t in ions at ced a ic gloom and t ual, and looking after heir heads in gloomy foreboding.

    S a conviction t sening to tomb, but looked foro it as a place of rest. t o existence o be no more pleasure under tle bosom ertained resentment against  inguis of saddened tenderness ster. It  toucs very simplicity. Sold  s conceal from   ed t concluded  s die in peace until s him her forgiveness and her blessing.

    By degrees rengt stage. Sotter to t o sit all day and look out upon till stered no complaint nor imparted to any one t y over till ?attering t it migo fres t uneartimes ?us be turning h.

    In ted beternoon; tice  air t stole in broug tering rained round the window.

    been reading a cer in t spoke of ty of  seemed to  and serenity through her bosom.

    ant village colled for t villager o to t illness peculiar to t. s rembled in  blue eye. as ss o t distant co hered?

    Suddenly to ttage; ed before t exclamation and sunk back in   lover. o to clasp o  ed form, enance--so  so lovely in its desolation--smote o t . Soo faint to rise--stempted to extend rembling  no iculated; sterable tenderness, and closed her eyes forever.

    Suciculars wory.

    t scanty, and I am conscious tle novelty to recommend t rage also for strange incident and ive trite and insigni?cant, but terested me strongly at time; and, taken in connection ing ceremony nessed, left a deeper impression on my mind tances of a more striking nature. I ed tter motive ty. It ry evening: trees ripped of tled coldly the dry grass.

    Evergreens, ed about te, and osiers  over it to keep turf uninjured.

    tepped in. t of ?o is true, but care seemed to aken t no dust seness. I s s poo aator, but I   spoke more touco my  t delicate memento of departed innocence.

 THE ANGLER.

    <span style="color:grey">tood my friend, ient skill,

    It is said t many an unlucky urco run aory of Robinson Crusoe; and I suspect t, in like manner, many of tlemen oral streams race to tive pages of  Izaak alton. I recollect studying e Angler several years since in company  of friends in America, and moreover t ely bitten   as soon as t to melt into took rod in o try, as stark mad as e from reading books of chivalry.

    One of our party s, being attired cap-a-pie for terprise. ed fustian coat, perplexed s; a pair of stout sers; a basket slung on one side for ?sent rod, a landing net, and a score of oto be found in true anglers armory. t a matter of stare and  among try folk, weel-clad he Sierra Morena.

    Our ?rst essay ain brook among t unfortunate place for tion of tory tactics

    margins of quiet Engliss. It reams t lavisic solitudes, unies enougo ?ll tcer of turesque. Sometimes it imes it  along a ravine in tted s, ?lling it er termagant career eal forto open day  placid, demure face imaginable, as I ilent ser ?lling  of doors, sseying and smiling upon all the world.

    brook glide at sucimes tains, errupted by tinkling of a bell from ttle among tters axe from t!

    For my part, I  all kinds of sport t required eitience or adroitness, and  angled above ely quot;satis?ed timent,quot;

    and convinced myself of trutons opinion, t angling is sometry--a man must be born to it. I ead of tangled my line in every tree, lost my bait, broke my rod, until I gave up ttempt in despair, and passed trees reading old Izaak, satis?ed t it y and rural feeling t c t t before eyes, stealing along t lay open to ttern rising ; tcree t overortoise letting one or log on ery world around.

    I recollect also t, after toiling and c for ter part of a day, e of all our admirable apparatus, a lubberly country urcree, a fe more ?s the day!

    But, above all, I recollect t;good, , w;

    repast  by a spring of pure s er t stole out of t y read old Izaak altons scene  castles in a brigil I fell asleep. All tism, yet I cannot refrain from uttering tions,  long since.

    In troll along tiful little stream o ttention tracted to a group seated on t to consist of a veteran angler and tic disciples. t very carefully patcokening poverty ly come by and decently maintained. orms, but present fair s furroitutional po take t . One of   poac could ?nd o any gentlemans ?s nigall, ary lad, , and apparently someic beau. trout o discover by its contents s , and uring on t to o listen e deference. I o;brot; ever since I read Izaak alton. t;mild, s, and peaceable spirit;quot; and my esteem for t retyse of ?s forternity. quot;take good ; sayet little tretyse, quot;t in going about your disportes ye open no mans gates but t ye s t use ti disport for no covetousness to t principally for your solace, and to cause t;*

    I t t I could perceive in teran angler before me an exempli?cation of edness in  quite dreo remark t manner in  of to anoto keep tcness o any particular place, sometimes skimming it ligtle rapid, sometimes casting it into one of ted root or overrout are apt to lurk. In tructions to  to my mind tructions of tor to ry around  pastoral kind   of t plain of Ciful vale of Gessford, and just wo swell up from among fresh-smelling meadows.

    too, like t recorded in -dropping s soh diamonds.

    * From treatise it  angling is a more industrious and devout employment t is generally considered: quot;For es in ?s desyre greatlye many persons  let you of your game. And t ye may serve God devoutly in saying effectually your customable prayers. And to induce man to many ot is rig;

    I soon fell into conversation ertained t, under pretext of receiving instructions in , I kept company  tream and listening to alk. ive, y of ctle ?attered by unity of displaying ory lore, for o play the sage?

    icularly in Savannaered into trade and ion of a partner. eril  into t ttle of Camperdoroke of real good-fortune  got ogeternal property, brougy pounds. On tired to ive village, ly, and devoted to t;noble art of angling.quot;

    I found t on attentively, and o  good-ed about tis?ed t tself, iful. t countries as a poor s is ?eeced by every , yet ion o look only on t t unate adventurer in America and y and magnanimity enougo take t to  to curse try. t ions, I learnt,  of a fat old ation, and muced by tleman-like personages of the place.

    In taking o a privileged corner in tap-room and an occasional cup of cheerful ale free of expense.

    tainly somet, o do, ties and tortures in?icted on s--t tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure serenity of mind. As tions, and are t scienti?c of sportsmen, it o perfect rule and system. Indeed, it is an amusement peculiarly adapted to tivated scenery of England,  is deligo saunter along treams ry, leading one ty of small imes ed grounds; sometimes brimming along turage, imes venturing in sigs, and to sirements. tness and serenity of Nature and t c gradually bring on pleasant ?ts of musing, ed by tant , or per of till er and skimming transiently about its glassy surface. quot; content,quot; says Izaak alton, quot;and increase con?dence in ty God, I ream, and template t take no care, and ttle living creatures t are not only created, but fed (man kno ure, and trust in ;

    I cannot forbear to give anotation from one of t c and :

    <span style="color:grey">Let me live he brink

    <span style="color:grey">here I may see my quill, or cork, down sink

    <span style="color:grey">ite of Pike, or Bleak, or Dace;

    <span style="color:grey"> some men strive ill-gotten goods t embrace:

    <span style="color:grey">And otime in base excess

    <span style="color:grey">Let t imes still pursue,

    <span style="color:grey">And on sucheir ?ll;

    <span style="color:grey">So I the ?elds and meadows green may view,

    On parting er o be in tero seek . I found tage containing only one room, but a perfect curiosity in its met. It s of ttle back from t stocked c of ttage op ted up in a truly nautical style,  and convenience ime ake but little room. From tre of table, and a large sea-c formed t tuck up naval ballads, suc;Admiral ,quot;

    quot;All in t; and quot;tom Bo; intermingled ures of sea-?gtle of Camperdoed , ?anked by ts of most bitter-looking naval commanders. s for angling aining a ical almanac, and a book of songs.

    * J. Davors.

    ed of a large black cat  amed and educated tered a variety of sea-ptling tone of a veteran boatsablis reminded me of t of t  in neat order, everyt;sto; y of a s ;scoured t it bet;

    I found ed on a benc evening suns  describing some strange evolutions in an iron ring t sre of ory of  eness as a general alk over a campaign, being particularly animated in relating taken a large trout, asked all  as a tropo mine ess of the inn.

    ing it is to see a cented old age, and to beer being tempest-tost t  of external circumstances, for  inexible good-nature  of self like oil over troubled sea of t, and keeping t her.

    On inquiring furt  t e in tap-room, ics onisories of strange lands and ss. iced too by gentlemen sportsmen of taug of angling, and or to tcenor of  and inoffensive, being principally passed about treams imes  ackle for t campaign or manufacturing rods, nets, and ?ies for rons and pupils among try.

    tendant at c icular request t  wher had been buried.

    I  my reader is gro I could not refrain from draure of t;brot; ice, of ; and I c Izaak alton, by craving t.

    Peters Master upon my reader, quot;and upon all t are true lovers of virtue, and dare trust in , and go a-angling.quot;

 THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.

    (FOUND AMONG tE DIEDRICh KNICKERBOCKER.)

    <span style="color:grey">Of dreams t  eye,

    <span style="color:grey">And of gay castles in t pays,

    Castle of Indolence IN t tern s t broad expansion of ted by t Dutcors tappan Zee, and ection of St. Nic-to oold, in former days by t country from terate propensity of to linger about tavern on market days. Be t as it may, I do not vouc, but merely advert to it for tic. Not far from t ttle valley, or ratest places in t,  murmur enougo lull one to repose, and tle of a quail or tapping of a  t ever breaks in upon tranquillity.

    I recollect t  exploit in squirrel-sing all  trees t so it at noontime, , and artled by t broke tillness around and ed by treat eal from ts distractions and dream quietly a of a troubled   life, I knotle valley.

    From tless repose of ter of its inants, ctlers, tered glen s rustic lads are called t all try. A droo o pervade tmosp tcor during ttlement; ot an old Indian c or er ain it is, till continues under tc o inual reverie. to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sigales, ed spots, and tions; stars s and meteors glare oftener across t of try, and tmare, o make it te scene of her gambols.

    t spirit,  s ted region, and seems to be commander-in-cion of a ?gure on  a  is said by some to be t of a rooper ionary ar, and s are not con?ned to t extend at times to t roads, and especially to ty of a c no great distance. Indeed, certain of t autic orians of ts, ing ting facts concerning tre, allege t trooper,  rides forto ttle in nig of  times passes along t blast, is oo ed and in a o get back to the churchyard before daybreak.

    Suc of tition, ory in t region of sre is kno all try ?resides by the headless horseman of Sleepy hollow.

    It is remarkable t ty I ioned is not con?ned to tive inants of t is unconsciously imbibed by every one wime.

    ered t sleepy region, ttle time to inco groive--to dream dreams and see apparitions.

    I mention t  is in suctle retired Dutc State of Ne population, manners, and customs remain ?xed, orrent of migration and improvement, less country, stle nooks of still er ly at ancurbed by t. trod t I question ill ?nd trees and tating in its sered bosom.

    In ture te period of American ory--t is to say, some ty years since--a  of t, quot;tarried,quot; in Sleepy ructing ty. ive of Connecticut, a State s legions of frontier ry scers. t inapplicable to all, but exceedingly lank,  dangled a mile out of  t mig loosely oget at top,  it looked like a o tell tering about  aken h or some scarecrow eloped from a corn?eld.

    ructed of logs, tly glazed and partly patc  ingeniously secured at vacant ed in takes set against tters, so t, t get in  ease,  in getting out---an idea most probably borroect, Yost Van en, from tery of an eel-pot. tood in a rat pleasant situation, just at t of a  one end of it. From  be errupted noative voice of ter in tone of   menace or command, or, peradventure, by tardy loiterer along truto say, ious man, and ever bore in mind t;Spare t; Icainly  spoiled.

    I   imagined,  entates of t of ts; on trary, ered justice ion raty, taking t on trong. Your mere puny stripling, t  t ?ouris tice is?ed by in?icting a double portion on some little touged Dutc;doing y by ts;quot; and ed a cisement  follo by tory to ting urc quot; and t t day o live.quot;

    e of ternoons o ty sisters or good ed for ts of t beo keep on good terms  to furnising po to  enance o country custom in ts, boarded and lodged at tructed.

    it a time, ts tied up in a cotton handkerchief.

    t all t not be too onerous on tic patrons, o consider ts of scers as mere drones, ed ter labors of to make ook to er, drove ture, and cut er ?re. oo, all t dignity and absolute s in tle empire, tle and ingratiating. ting ticularly t; and like t  for her.

    In addition to ions, er of t sructing t ter of no little vanity to o take ation in front of tely carried ahe parson.

    Certain it is,  of tion, and till to be  ce to te side of till Sunday morning, imately descended from ttle makess in t ingenious ;by ; t on tolerably enoug, by all o .

    ter is generally a man of some importance in tleman-like personage of vastly superior taste and accompliss to try so t to occasion some little stir at tea-table of a farmion of a supernumerary dismeats, or, peradventure, tea-pot.

    Our man of letters, try damsels.  overrun trees; reciting for t all tapombstones; or sauntering,  mill-pond, wry bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his superior elegance and address.

    From inerant life, also, ravelling gazette, carrying t of local gossip from o  ed isfaction. eemed by t erudition, for e t master of Cotton Matory of Nec, in ently believed.

    , an odd mixture of small sy. ite for ting it raordinary, and botale oo gross or monstrous for  en , after ernoon, to stretctle brook t il ted page a mere mist before ream and ao to be quartered, every sound of Nature at t ctered ed imagination--tree-toad, t orm; ting of tling in t of birds frig. too,  places, noartled ness ream across le came   o give up t,  ruck coken. o dro or drive as, o sing psalm tunes; and t by ten ?lled  ;in linked sness long dra,quot; ?oating from tant he dusky road.

    * t nig receives its name from its note, o resemble those words.

    Anoto pass long er evenings c spinning by ting and spluttering along ten to tales of gs and goblins, and ed ?elds, and ed brooks, and ed bridges, and ed icularly of times called  tes of c and of tentous sigimes of Connecticut, and s and sing stars, and  t tely turn round and t time topsy-turvy.

    But if t re dared to ss face, it ly glare of a snoful look did be eye every trembling ray of ligreaming across te ?elds from some distant re, beset en did  teps on ty crust beneat, and dread to look over  ramping close been e dismay by some rus rees, in t it ly scourings!

    All terrors of t, poms of t res in ime, and been more t by Satan in divers sions, yet daylig an end to all t life of it, in despite of t been crossed by a being t causes more perplexity to mortal man ts, goblins, and tc toget was--a woman.

    Among to receive ructions in psalmody rina Van tassel, ter and only cantial Dutceen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-c merely for y, but  expectations. Stle of a coquette, as migure of ancient and modern fas suited to set off s of pure yello-grandmot over from Saardam, tempting stomacime, and  petticoat to display ttiest foot and ankle in try round.

    Ic and foolis to is not to be  t so tempting a morsel soon found favor in er ed ernal mansion. Old Baltus Van tassel  picture of a tented, liberal-ed farmer.   is true, sent eits beyond t ioned. is?ed  not proud of it, and piqued y abundance, ratyle, in ed on tered, fertile nooks in  elm tree spread its broad branc, at t of  and sest er in a little ole sparkling ao a neig bubbled along among alders and d miging fortreasures of t from morning to nigins skimmed ttering about turned up, as if c ting in troops of sucking pigs as if to snuff tately squadron of snos of turkeys ting about it, like ill-tempered ented cry. Before trutted t cock, t pattern of a leman, clapping --sometimes tearing up t, and to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.

    tered as uous promise of luxurious er fare. In ured to ing-pig running about  to bed in a comfortable pie and tucked in  of crust; t competency of onion sauce. In t ture sleek side of bacon and juicy relis a turkey but ily trussed up, s gizzard under its ure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even brigicleer ed cla quarter o ask while living.

    As tured Ic green eyes over t meado, of rye, of buck,  of Van tassel,  yearned after to in tion expanded  be readily turned into cased in immense tracts of o rina, ed on top of a rumpery, s and kettles dangling beneatriding a pacing mare,  at ting out for Kentucky, tennessee, or the Lord knows where.

    ered t of  e.

    It  lo in tyle  Dutctlers, ting eaves forming a piazza along t capable of being closed up in bad ensils of s for ?s along t spinning-o  porc be devoted. From tered tre of t pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes.

    In one corner stood a o be spun; in anotity of linsey- from trings of dried apples and peacoons along t ajar gave o t parlor, ened from t of asparagus tops; mock-oranges and conced telpiece; strings of various-colored birds eggs ; a great ostrisre of t open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.

    From t Ic t an end, and udy ions of ter of Van tassel. In terprise, ies to t of a knig of yore, s, encers, ?ery dragons, and suco contend o make es of iron and brass and  to tle keep, re of a Cmas pie, and tter of course. Icrary, o  of a country coquette beset ing neies and impediments, and o encounter a  of fearful adversaries of real ?esic admirers al to , keeping a c ready to ?y out in t any neitor.

    Among t formidable ering blade of to tcion, Brom--Van Brunt, try round, rengted,  curly black  not unpleasant countenance,  poar.  at all races and cock?grengtic life, es, setting  on one side and giving one admitting of no gainsay or   appeal.  or a frolic, but ion; and rong das bottom.  try, attending every scene of feud or merriment for miles around. In cold inguised ing foxs tail; and ry gat at a distance, imes  t midnigroop of Don Cossacks, and tartled out of ten for a moment till ttered by, and t;Ay, t; ture of aion, and good-y al ttom of it.

    tipole ime singled out trina for t of ries, and, toyings le caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it ogetain it is, es to retire ion to cross a line in  o Van tassels paling on a Sunday nig er ing--or, as it is termed, quot;sparkingquot;--ors passed by in despair and carried to oters.

    Suco contend, and, considering all touter man tition and a y and perseverance in ure;  like a supple  jack--yielding, but alt, est pressure, yet t it was away, jerk!  and carried his head as high as ever.

    to aken t  man to be ted in  stormy lover, Ac and gently-insinuating manner. Under cover of er of singing-master,  visits at t t o appreerference of parents, umbling-block in t Van tassel  soul; er better even t fat able little oo, o do to attend to ry for, as s be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

    tled about t one end of t Balt  smoking  tcs of a little ly ?ghe barn.

    In time, Ic er by t elm, or sauntering along in the lovers eloquence.

    I profess not to knoo me tters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to  one vulnerable point, or door of access,   is a great triumpo gain t still  greater proof of generalso maintain possession of  tter, for t battle for ress at every door and itled to some reno ed s of a coquette is indeed a hero.

    Certain it is, t table Brom Bones; and from t Icerests of tly declined; ied at ts, and a deadly feud gradually arose between or of Sleepy hollow.

    Brom, ers to open led tensions to to t concise and simple reasoners, ts-errant of yore--by single combat; but Icoo conscious of t of o enter ts against  of Bones, t ;double ter up and lay ;

    and oo o give unity. tremely provoking in tinately paci?c system; it left Brom  no alternative but to draic o play off boorisical jokes upon  of o Bones and o peaceful domains; smoked out opping up to t nige of its formidable fastenings of akes, and turned everytopsy-turvy; so t ter began to tcry ings t, ill more annoying, Brom took all opportunities of turning o ridicule in presence of ress, and augo roduced as a rival of Ico instruct her in psalmody.

    In tters  on for some time  producing any material effect on tive situation of tending poumnal afternoon Ic enty stool le literary realm. In  sceptre of despotic poice reposed on tant terror to evildoers; raband articles and proed ected upon t little paper gamecocks. Apparently t of justice recently in?icted, for ent upon t upon ter, and a kind of buzzing stillness reigned t t errupted by to and tro of a  like ted on t, ering up to tation to Ico attend a merry-making or quot;quilting frolicquot; to be  evening at Mynassels; and,  air of importance and effort at ?ne language o display on petty embassies of tance and hurry of his mission.

    All le and e quiet sc stopping at tri?es; ty, and tardy  application noo quicken tall word.

    Books  being put aands urned, bencurned loose an ime, bursting forting about t tion.

    t Ic at least an extra  oilet, brus, and indeed only, suit of rusty black, and arranging  of broken looking-glass t   make ress in true style of a cavalier, ed, a ccly mounted, issued fort-errant in quest of adventures. But it is meet I srue spirit of romantic story, give some account of ts of my eed. trode  everyt  and sy mane and tail angled and knotted  its pupil and ral, but t. Still,  tle in , been a favorite steed of ers, t into try.

    Icable ?gure for suceed.  stirrups, uck out like grassre; and   as ion of  unlike t rested on top of y strip of fore be called, and ts of  ?uttered out almost to ail. Suceed as t of te of  ogetion as is seldom to be met .

    It ure  rice s  on trees of tenderer kind s into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming ?les of o make t be s, and tle of t intervals from tubble-?eld.

    taking ts. In ttered, co busree to tree, capricious from ty around t cock robin, te game of stripling sportsmen, s loud querulous note; and ttering blackbirds, ?ying in sable clouds; and t, , and splendid plumage; and ts red-tipt ipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feat noisy coxcomb, in -blue coat and tering, bobbing and nodding and boending to be on good terms er of the grove.

    As Ico every   symptom of culinary abundance, ranged  over treasures of jolly Autumn. On all sides  store of apples--some rees, some gato baskets and barrels for t, ot ?elds of Indian corn, s golden ears peeping from ts and  ty pudding; and turning up to ts of t luxurious of pies; and anon  buck anticipations stole over y slapjacks, tered and garnisreacle by te little dimpled rina Van tassel.

    t ts and quot;sugared suppositions,quot;  upon some of t scenes of ty o t. tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting t le undulation ant mountain. A feed in t a breato move them.

    tint, co a pure apple green, and from t into ting ray lingered on ts of t overs of ter depto tering in tance, dropping sloide,  t, and as tion of till er it seemed as if the air.

    It o Ic tle of tassel, ry--old farmers, a spare leats and breecockings,  petle dames, in close crimped caps, long-ed sgoicoats, s side; buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as ting oms of city innovation; t square-skirted coats upendous brass buttons, and times, especially if t being esteemed t try as a potent nourisrengthe hair.

    Brom Bones, o te steed Daredevil--a creature, like al and misc , noted for preferring vicious animals, given to all kinds of tricks, ant risk of ractable, well-broken .

    Fain o d burst upon tured gaze of my ered tate parlor of Van tassels mansion. Not te, but tcry tea-table in tuous time of autumn. Sucters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, knoo experienced Dutcy doug, tenderer oily koek, and t cakes and s cakes, ginger cakes and able dis to mention broiled sed cogetty muced teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from t.  breatime to discuss t as it deserves, and am too eager to get on ory.  in so great a orian, but did ample justice to every dainty.

    ure, ed in proportion as s rose ing as some mens do  oo, rolling e, and cy t  one day be lord of all t unimaginable luxury and splendor. t, urn ron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors t so call him comrade!

    Old Baltus Van tassel moved about among s ed ent and good- moon. able attentions  expressive, being con?ned to a sation to quot;fall to and ;

    And noo tinerant orcra of tury. rument tered as er part of time rings, accompanying every movement of tion of t to tamping  art.

    Ic a limb, not a ?bre about o ion and clattering about t Saint Vitus  blessed patron of tion of all tood forming a pyramid of s every door and  at te eyeballs, and so ear. ed and joyous? t o all ten  brooding by himself in one corner.

    an end Ictracted to a knot of tassel, sat smoking at one end of times and dra long stories about the war.

    t time of is during t ed  suf?cient time o enable eacoryteller to dress up ale tle becoming ?ction, and in tinctness of ion to make .

    tory of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutcaken a Britise   at   tleman le of eplains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a musket-ball  ely felt it : in proof of ime to s a little bent. t  in t one of  o a ermination.

    But all to tales of gs and apparitions t succeeded. treasures of tales and superstitions t in tered, long-settled retreats but are trampled under foot by ting t forms tion of most of our country places. Besides, t for gs in most of our villages, for time to ?nis nap and turn travelled a  at nigo ance left to call upon. ts except in our long-establiscies.

    te causes ural stories in ts, less oo ty of Sleepy agion in t ble ed region; it breatmosping all t at Van tassels, and, as usual,  tales old about funeral trains and mourning cries and  tree e Major Andre aken, and ion e t ed t Raven Rock, and en o ser nigorm,  of tories, urned upon te spectre of Sleepy imes of late patrolling try, and, it etly among the churchyard.

    tered situation of to  a favorite  of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll surrounded by locust trees and lofty elms, from among  ian purity beaming tirement. A gentle slope descends from it to a silver s of er bordered by rees, bet to look upon its grass-groly, one  t least t rest in peace. On one side of tends a rees. Over a deep black part of tream, not far from t led to it and tself rees,  it even in time, but occasioned a fearful darkness at night.

    Suce s of t frequently encountered. tale old of old Brou ical disbeliever in gs,  turning from o Sleepy o get up beil turned into a skeleton, to tree-tops hunder.

    tory ely matcure of Brom Bones,  jockey.  on returning one nigaken by t trooper; t o race  too, for Daredevil beat t just as to ted and vanished in a ?ash of ?re.

    All tales, told in t droone alk in tenances of teners only noracts from ton Mats t aken place in ive state of Connecticut and fearful sigly  Sleepy hollow.

    togetime rattling along tant hills.

    Some of ted on pillions bee s-ed laugter of  er and fainter until te scene of noise and frolic  and deserted. Ico tom of country lovers, to ete-a-tete  o success.  passed at tervie pretend to say, for in fact I do not know.

    Somet ainly sallied forter no very great interval, e desolate and chese women!

    Could t girl tisricks? as  of to secure  of  I! Let it suf?ce to say, Icole fort, rat. it looking to t or left to notice ten gloated,  straigo table, and y cuffs and kicks roused eed most uncourteously from table quarters in s and hy and clover.

    It cime of nig Iced and crestfallen, pursued ravel y arry toappan Zee spread its dusky and indistinct e of ers, all mast of a sloop riding quietly at anc ce s it  as only to give an idea of ance from too, tally a , or pertural turning suddenly in his bed.

    All tories of gs and goblins t ernoon no grears seemed to sink deeper in t.  so lonely and dismal. -stories re of tood an enormous tulip tree

    above all trees of ts limbs astic, large enougo form trunks for ordinary trees, ting do to to t ed ragical story of tunate Andre,  ure of respect and superstition, partly out of sympate of its ill-starred namesake, and partly from tales of strange sigations told concerning it.

    As Icree o   a blast sle nearer  e  of tree: ling, but on looking more narro it e tered and e against t  t by tree in safety, but new perils lay before him.

    About to a marsream. On t side of tered tnuts, matted t. to pass t trial. It  tical spot t tunate Andre ured, and under t of tnuts and vines urdy yeomen concealed ream, and fearful are to pass it alone after dark.

    As ream  began to tion, gave tempted to das instead of starting foreral movement and ran broadside against the fence.

    Icily rary foot: it arted, it is true, but it o plunge to te side of to a t of brambles and alder buser nooarveling ribs of old Gunpo came to a stand just by t   at t a plasramp by t tive ear of Ico stirred not, but seemed gatic monster ready to spring upon traveller.

    ted pedagogue rose upon error.  o be done? to turn and ?y oo late; and besides, w c or goblin, if suc was, whe wind?

    Summoning up, tammering accents, quot;; ed ill more agitated voice. Still tting ary fervor into a psalm tune. Just t of alarm put itself in motion, and ood at once in t  t noained. o be a ed on a black ation or sociability, but kept aloof on one side of t over  and waywardness.

    Icrange midnig ure of Brom Bones eed in ranger, o an equal pace. Ico a o lag be began to sink o resume une, but ongue clove to t utter a stave. tinacious companion t erious and appalling. It ed for. On mounting a rising ground, raveller in relief against tic in  and muf?ed in a cloak, Icruck on perceiving t  ill more increased on observing t ted on error rose to desperation,  to give  tre started full jump ones ?ying and sparks ?as every bound. Ics ?uttered in tretc.

    turns off to Sleepy  Gunpo, made an opposite turn and plunged o t. trees for about a quarter of a mile, ory, and just beyond sands tewashed church.

    As yet teed bad given  advantage in t just as   it slipping from under  by to  ?rm, but in vain, and  time to save o t trampled under foot by  terror of  ime for petty fears; t o maintain , sometimes slipping on one side, sometimes on anotimes jolted on t he verily feared would cleave him asunder.

    An opening in trees no ion of a silver star in told   mistaken.

    rees beyond. ed tly competitor ;If I can but reac bridge,quot;

    t Ic;I am safe.quot; Just teed panting and bloe side; and no tirrups, and in t of  o dodge t too late. It encountered remendous crasumbled o t, and Gunpoeed, and the goblin rider passed by like a whirlwind.

    t morning t , soberly cropping t ers gate. Ic make  breakfast; dinner- no Ic trolled idly about t no scer. o feel some uneasiness about te of poor Ic on foot, and after diligent investigation traces. In one part of to trampled in t; tracks of ed in tly at furious speed, raced to t of ter ran deep and black,  of tunate Ic a spattered pumpkin.

    t ter  to be discovered. or of ate, examined tained all s. ted of tocks for ted stockings, an old pair of corduroy small-cloty razor, a book of psalm tunes full of dogs ears, and a broken pitco ture of to ty, excepting Cotton Matory of itc, a Neune-telling; in ed in several fruitless attempts to make a copy of verses in assel. tic scrao t time forermined to send o sc ing. ever money ter possessed--and ers pay but a day or time of his disappearance.

    terious event caused mucion at ts of gazers and gossips ed in t t t o mind, and oms of t case, to t Ic, nobody troubled  o a different quarter of tead.

    It is true an old farmer,  several years after, and from ly adventure  Icill alive; t  tly tly in morti?cation at  ers to a distant part of try,  scudied la time, ted to turned politician electioneered, ten for tice of ten Pound Court. Brom Bones too, er ed trina in triumpo tar, o look exceedingly kno into a y laug tion of to suspect t  tter to tell.

    try ters, maintain to t Iced aural means; and it is a favorite story often told about terevening ?re. t of superstitious a may be tered of late years, so as to approaced, soon fell to decay, and ed to be ed by t of tunate pedagogue; and tering ill summer evening, en fancied  a distance cing a melancune among tranquil solitudes of Sleepy hollow.

    POStSCRIPt FOUND IN tING OF MR. KNICKERBOCKER.

    tale is given almost in t related at a Corporation meeting of t city of Mantoes, at s sagest and most illustrious burgor , slemanly old fello clotrongly suspected of being poor, s to be entertaining. ory er and approbation, particularly from ty aldermen  of time. tall, dry-looking old gentleman, ling eyebro, nourning a doubt over in  upon good grounds--ored, icking t but exceedingly sage motion of traction of t ory and   to prove.

    tory-teller, ting a glass of o  after oils, paused for a moment, looked at e deference, and, loo table, observed t tory ended most logically to prove--

    quot;t tuation in life but s advantages and pleasures--provided  take a joke as ; quot;t, t runs races roopers is likely to .

    quot;Ergo, for a country scer to be refused tcain step to  in tate.quot;

    tious old gentleman knit enfold closer after tion, being sorely puzzled by tiocination of t t eyed riump leer. At lengt all t still  tory a little on travagant--ts on ws.

    quot;Fait; replied tory-teller, quot;as to t matter, I dont believe one- myself.quot;

    D. K.

 LENVOY.*

    <span style="color:grey">Go, little booke, God send thee good passage,

    <span style="color:grey">Unto t thee will read or hear,

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    IN concluding a second volume of tc but express  ion t o treat ranger. Even tics, o be a singularly gentle and good-natured race; it is true t eacurn objected to some one or ticles, and t tions, taken in te,  almost to a total condemnation of  t icularly praised; and t off against tions, s deserts.

    * Closing tion.

    ing muc follo o may seem a mans o if ray. ion t ermined for a time to govern ; but  to a stand by trariety of excellent counsel. One kindly advised o avoid to sic; a t olerable at description, but cautioned o leave narrative alone; y knack at turning a story, and ertaining aken if o possess a spirit of humor.

    turn closed some particular pat left o range in,  to follo, be to stand still. ime sadly embarrassed,  struck o ramble on as  ten for different  could not be expected t any one  t if it sain someto suit eacely anss sit doo a varied table ite for every dis ed pig; anotter abomination; a t tolerate t ?avor of venison and ruly masculine stomacempt on ticle is in condemned in its turn, and yet amidst ty of appetites seldom does a disable  being tasted and reliss.

    itions ures to serve up terogeneous ; simply requesting to please o rest assured t it ten expressly for intelligent readers like  entreating o dislike, to tolerate it, as one of ticles e for readers of a less re?ned taste.

    to be serious: ts and imperfections of tle s of autuation. ing in a strange land, and appearing before a public  feelings of ao deserve tion, yet ?nds t very solicitude continually embarrassing  case and con?dence ion. Still, treated encourages o go on,  in time eadier footing; and turing,  une and  emerity.