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become imbued with the beauties of other great composers | also, and then his own fine thoughts will run a less risk of assuming any one particular tone, or of flowing continually in the same channel. Were Mr Thomson to fix his residence on the Continent for some months, and place himself under the tuition of Hummel, Cherubini, or some other old and practised master, he could not fail to reap much benefit from their remarks on his compositions; and whilst he probably would acquire a freer and less limited style, he would, at the same time, retain and improve all his own natural taste and talent.

evenings in the week; and were it not for him, the house would, I very much fear, realize old John Kemble's prophecy, and become "a splendid desert." He has, however, merely rung the changes as yet in Richard, Sir Giles Overreach, and Othello, though he is promised in a new character, which, for the sake of the Theatre, and his own fame, he will, I hope, take time and pains enough to study well and perfectly. The subjects of the grand Christmas Pantomimes, which we, who are in the secret, may whisper to be very excellent, are, at Drury-Lane, "Jack in a Box, or Harlequin and the Princess of the Hidden Island;" and at Covent-Garden, the old nursery tale of "Who

ness and bosoms" of all its juvenile visitors.-The ponderous Mademoiselle D'jeck still continues so attractive at the Adelphi, that it is absolutely requisite to secure places ten days before-hand ;--and the Cobourg has announced another still more surprising Elephant in a new drama by Tom Dibdin, with the classical cognomen of "Siamaraindianaboo!" My next will, I expect, contain more news; and my letter therefore will be, I hope, better worth my writing and your reading.

I am extremely glad to find that Miss Smithson seem at last to have found her proper level. How the Parisians ever came to praise her as they did, was always a mystery to me, who so well remember her insipidity at DruryLane; but that she should have been praised in England, as she has occasionally been since her return, is still more enigmatical.

We have this week seen Miss Jarman again in the part of the Youthful Queen. We do not hesitate to pro-killed Cock Robin?" which must come home to "the businounce her acting, in this piece, equal-probably superior -to any thing the stage can at this moment produce. Her picture of the young, ardent, beautiful, intellectual, and impassioned princess, is the very embodyment of a poet's dream. Had Miss Jarınan made her debut in London in this part, under similarly favourable auspices as Miss F. Kemble, when she came out as Juliet, the piece would have run every night for a whole season, and we should never have heard the last of it. If the London people rave so much about Miss Kemble, who has appeared as yet only in two characters, we certainly do not see why we in Edinburgh should not be allowed to express ourselves somewhat enthusiastically regarding an actress like Miss Jarman, who is put to the severe test of taking the first female part in almost every piece that is acted, and who, although many of them are foreign to her dispositions and her genius, never fails at least to please, and more frequently to delight. We trust that Mr Murray will endeavour to secure Miss Jarman as a permanent member of his company; and at all events, we can assure him, that having accustomed us to her acting during one part of the season, he will not consult his own best interests if he does not keep her here for the remainder of it. He may have engaged the support of a succession of stars, but a single star, without the assistance which no other of the company but Miss Jarman can give, will not be satisfactory. We know this opinion to be general. Old Cerberus.

METROPOLITAN THEATRICALS.

London, December 21st, 1829.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

We have been favoured with a perusal, in sheets, of the forthcoming third volume of the History of the University of Edinburgh. It contains much curious and interesting matter, and shall be review. ed in the Journal next Saturday.

which we announced in our last, has been handed to us. It is a very

A copy of The Excitement, or a Book to induce Boys to read,

attractive and pleasing volume, and will form the subject of an in

teresting notice in our next.

Abridgement of Dr Rask's Swedish Icelandic Grammar.

In the edition of Boswell's Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, which is now in preparation by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, we understand that much new light will be thrown on the manners of the time, the state of society, and the characters of persons. Many curious and entertaining circumstances which occurred in the inter

vals of Boswell's visits to London will also be introduced.

Mr Klauer Klattowski, author of the German Synoptical Grammar, has in the press a Manual of German Literature, intended for self-tuition. The whole selection will be illustrated by copious explanatory notes, and the first portion of the work will be accompanied by an interlinear analytical translation. Mr Klauer has also nearly UPON Miss Kemble's first performance of Belvidera, ready for publication a Manual of Icelandic Literature, with an .though the free-list was suspended, yet hundreds were turned away for whom there was no room; and even the orchestra, to the exclusion of all the band, excepting some half dozen violins, was let in extra seats, to accommodate about ninety persons, at one guinea each! Though suffering from severe indisposition, all doubt was very speedily at an end respecting her renewed triumph, for never was an audience more delighted, or more unanimous. Her subsequent performances have certainly been improvements on her first; and, on the whole, she may, in the present state of the stage, defy all rivalry. new scenery is most splendid, and the other leading characters such as they ought to be, to support such a Belvidera. The Theatre, on Miss K.'s nights, still continues crowded; and, to meet the increased and increasing demand for places, one row of seats is still taken from the orchestra every evening.-Miss Foote, much improved since she was last here, is much applauded, but does not, as indeed might be expected on the bye-nights, draw great houses. The immortal" Black-eyed Susan" is yet playing, and to be played until the holidays.

The

Drury-Lane's bad taste, and ill success in novelties, still seem to attend her; since, only on Saturday last, a new drama by Douglas Jerrold, somewhat quaintly styled in the bills," entirely new and original," was most decidedly and deservedly condemned, under the title of the "Witch Finder," although the talents of W. Farren, Harley, Cooper, Sinclair, &c. were all exerted to the utmost to make it palatable. Kean continues to draw for three

Early in January will be published, Part I. to be completed in about 12 Parts, of a new and highly embellished edition of Walton's and Cotton's complete Angler, with Illustrations by T. Stothard, R.A., and original Memoirs and Notes by Nicholas Harris Nicholas, Esq. In the Appendix, the celebrated Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, by Juliana Berners, will be printed entire from the Book of St Albans.

Mr Robert Montgomery's new poem, entitled Satan, will make its appear.nce next week.

Mr A. G. Stapleton, formerly private secretary to the late Mr Canning, announces the Political Life of that distinguished individual, from his acceptance of the Seals of the Foreign Department in September 1822, to the period of his death in 1827.

The next volume of Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, to be published on the 1st of January, will be the first volume of the History of Maritime and Inland Discovery.

Mr Sotheby, the ingenious translator of Oberon, is about to send. to press a new translation of the Iliad, which, we understand, possesses merits of no mean order.

The first volume of the Family Classical Library, commencing with the Orations of Demosthenes, translated by Thomas Leland, D.D., will be published on the 1st of January.

Number I. of Gray's Illustrations of Indian Zoology, consisting

of coloured figures of Indian Animals, unknown or not yet publish

ed, will appear on New-Year's-Day.

The Rev. Hobart Caunter is preparing for publication a poem, entitled "The Island Bride," with an illustration by Martin.

Among other interesting new works announced by Mr Murray of Albemarle Street, we observe,-Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher, by Sir Humphry Davy. A Memoir of the Life and Public Services of the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. The Book of Psalms, newly translated from the Hebrew, and with Explanatory Notes, by W. French, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and G. Skinner, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati. The Life of Julius Cæsar, by the Author of the Life of Alexander the Great. Financial Reform, by Sir Henry Parnell. The Kirby Letters, a Family Tour from Yorkshire to Penzance. Principles of Geology, by C. Leyell, F.R.S. The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, comprising a great part of his early Correspondence, by Dr Paris.

The Mirror of the Graces, or the English Lady's Costume, is announced for early publication, by a Lady of Distinction.

Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, by Eliza Flower, are announced.

Anecdotal Reminiscences of distinguished Literary and Political Characters, with Autographs, is announced by Mr Leigh Cliffe.

The Poetry of the Magyars, with an account of the Language and Literature of Hungary, by Dr Bowring, is in the press. A poem entitled the Reproof of Brutus is announced, which will contain appeals, on the state of the country, to Mr Peel, Sir F. Burdett, Messrs Hume, Horton, and Sadler, the Archbishop of Canterbury, &c.

Among other novelties, a complete edition of the poetical works of the Rev. George Croly is preparing for publication. Mr Croly deservedly holds a very high rank among our living poets.

TIME'S TELESCOPE -We are requested by the editor of the first sixteen volumes of this work to state, that he is in no way connected with the forthcoming volume for 1830.

JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.-Mr Knowles is delivering his Lectures on Dramatic Literature with great success at Manchester. It is stated in one of the Manchester papers, that his observations on various points are calculated to produce as strong an effect on the judgment of his audience, as the beautiful readings and recitations with which his Lectures are interspersed produce on their feelings.

LADIES' TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.-The New York Observer informs us, that the ladies of a town in Ohio have formed themselves into a Temperance Society, and adopted the following constitution: "We, the subscribers, having witnessed and heard of many cases of misery and ruin, in consequence of the free use of ardent spirits, and desirous to prevent, if possible, so great evils, have resolved--1. We will wholly abstain from the use of ardent spirits on all occasions, except when prescribed by a temperate physician. 2. We will discountenance all addresses in any of the male sex, with a view to matrimony, if they shall be known to drink ardent spirits, either periodically, or on any public occasion. 2. We, as mothers, daughters, and sisters, will use our influence to prevent the connexion of our friends with a man who shali habitually drink any kind of ardent spirits." We leave our readers to draw their own inference in regard to these reformadoes (as the Baron of Bradwardine sayeth); but we should merely like to know what were the characters of the ladies before the above resolutions were entered into. To say the least, it looks a leetle suspicious.

A KNOWING EDITOR.-In La Belle Assemblée for December, the editor of that fashionable work thus displays his acquaintance with the state of affairs in the literary world :-" We certainly anticipated the extinction this year of some of the mob of the annual pretenders. Whether the Keepsake is amongst the dead and forgotten, we have not been informed; we only know we have not seen it; if gonepeace to its manes! The Landscape Annual, about which so much fuss was made, has not yet appeared; and, for aught we know, will not be published at all (!)" All the world of course knows, with the exception of this editor, that both the works he mentions have been printed, published, and reviewed nearly six weeks ago. Does the editor of La Belle Assemble live at Timbuctoo?

Theatrical Gossip.-To show that there is no slight diversity of opinion regarding the merits of Miss F. Kemble, a friend to whom we expressly applied for a verdict concerning her, thus writes on the subject:-" Fanny Kemble I saw (in company with a judicious friend) play Juliet. We agreed in thinking it a most audacious humbug. The name of Kemble and the newspaper trumpery led the miserable Cockneys. The newspapers, one and all, I know, and a precious knot they are. Take it as an infallible rule, that their ecstasies are the agonies of truth and taste." We hope this is a little trop fort. Of the performances of the Adelphi elephant, which we shrewdly suspect is little better than a large humbug, also, the Court Journal furnishes the following account:-"The drama which introduces this enlightened foreigner to an English audience, is modestly composed, so that there may be no jealousy between the Elephant and the author, the whole merit being left to the quadruped-who presents posies to the ladies of the harem-car ries a letter from a distressed damsel to her lover incarcerates a whole body of traitors-and, when two hostile armics are a

the point of joining issue, majestically walks between them, and does as much as to say, Put up your swords,' which they readily do. The sagacious arbitrator of war must have his banquet after such a toilsome exhaustion of the animal system and of the mental faculties, and he accordingly rings his bell, for dish after dish, and bottle after bottle, which, with his napkin under his chin, he consumes with evident satisfaction. Next he dances what may be well called a pas seul, for one leg most reluctantly follows the other, leaving it seul for no short period. Finally, when the legitimate and the usurper are crossing blades, the Elephant majestically enters, takes the crown from the head of the latter, like a good and loyal lifts in the air, bearing him out of danger; and afterwards he cargentleman,' places it on the head of the rightful sovereign, whom he ries the rightful King and his mistress upon his back in grand procession, a living sign of the Elephant and Castle.' In fact, the Elephant is well introduced, and between the narrow scenes he looks of an enormous bulk. In certain lights, his skin seems of a dark mouse-colour, and instead of the unpleasant appearance of the hard encrusted testaceous hide, it looks from above as if it had a fine coat of down. The house, this week, has been filled to overflowing, and with really good company."-On the recent occasion of Mr Vandenhoff's benefit at Liverpool, he received a substantial proof of the high estimation in which he is held by the patrons of the drama there. The house was crowded in every part; so great was the pressure in the pit, that numbers received back their money, and retired. The receipts amounted to L.275.-There has been a terrible row at Manchester between De Begnis and the Manager of the Theatre-Royal. The latter, however, has made good his point, and prevented the Italians from performing operas in the minor theatre, which he looked upon as an infringement of his patent. They now give only concerts.-Master Burke, who has called himself ten years of age, for the last fifteen, is playing at Carlisle.-Alexander has opened the Theatre-Royal, Glasgow, with applause, but with a very indifferent company. We regret to learn that Mr Macready is still in bad health, having been threatened with the return of an alarining constitutional complaint.-" The Youthful Days of Shakspeare," a new drama, which has been successful at Covent-Garden, is to be produced here next week; also the Christmas pantomime.

WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES.
Dec. 19-26.

SAT. The House of Aspen, & the Youthful Queen.
MON. Do. & The Robber's Wife.
TUES. Do. & The Noyades.
WED.
Do. & The Youthful Queen.
THURS, Do. & The Magpie and the Maid.
FRI.
(Theatre closed.)

TO OUR READERS.

IN our next Number, which will commence the Third Volume 01 the LITERARY JOURNAL. We shall take an opportunity of informing our Readers of our projects for the future.

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

WE regret that, notwithstanding our double Number, we have been obliged to omit this week several articles by esteemed Corre spondents, which are in types, and will appear speedily.

Our table is covered with new books, all of which we shall over take in our next, and succeeding numbers.

We shall be glad to hear again from "Astolpho" at his convenience. The Memoir of the late Mr Hacket of Inveramsay may be forwarded to us at any time that is most agreeable.

The Stanzas by "G. B." of Stonehaven, and "W. S. M." of Thurso, shall have a place.-Of many other poetical favours we can dical Advice," and an “ Epitaph," by "J. D." of Leith,—“ Epitaph at present only acknowledge the receipt. Our list includes" Meon a Lady of Quality at Bath,"-" Song," by "C. W."-" A Poetical Epistle to the Editor,' ,"-" A Poem, consisting of forty-one stanzas of ottava rima, written in pencil,"-" The Vision," by " E. P.," and "Woman," by "W."

Of the Poems transmitted to us from West-Houses, we shall in a week or two insert, with a few alterations, that entitled "The Witch Dance." The others will be returned. Our opinion upon the longer poem alluded to is at the author's service.

ERRATA IN OUR LAST NUMBER.-In Mr Tennant's Remarks on the Psalms, for "paraphrases," read periphrasis; for "plethargy," read plethory for "disturbed the image," read distorted the image ; and for " concerned to accompany,” read conceived to accompany.

[No. 59. December 26, 1829.]

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