even when the prejudice is on the side of Christianity, the effect is unfavourable on a mind that is at all scrupulous about the rectitude of its opinions. E. Instrumental Music for the Piano Forte, composed by Philip Trajetta, Esq. Periodical. Book 1. Published by the Author. 1 Harold, the Dauntless, a Poem, in six Cantos, by the author of the Bridal of Triermain.' New-York, JAMES EASTBURN and Co. 12mo. p. 144. This is a Six-Canto Ballad, in the slipshod measure of modern poetry. It seems to be an imitation of all the faults, and a few of the excellencies, of all the popular rhymers of the age. The phrase, scenery, and costume are Scott's, the character is Byron's; Coleridge might put in for the plot; the agents are Lewis's-and the style halts between Southey and George Colman. It has two good things about it-the beginning and the end-but, as in a packed bale of cotton, there is a great deal of rubbish stuffed in between them. We think it probable, however, that it will fall in with the prevailing taste; and are ourselves, inclined to be in tolerable good humour, with a -Minstrel who hath wrote, A tale, six cantos long, yet scorned to add a note. E. Narrative of the Rev. Joseph Samuel C. F. Frey.—To which is now added, an account of the rise and progress of the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews. New-York, W. B. GILLET, 12mo. p. 430. novels-but we are partial to those of Madame de Genlis. She has associated her fictions with a romantic age, and names dear to chivalry. Her characters and incidents are her own. The heroes and heroines of her Jane of France, Anne of Brittany, Duc de Lauzun, Duchesse de La Valliere, &c. are the creatures of an enthusiastic imagination, that attaches itself to any trait of kindred character, and expatiates on what it loves. We have not had leisure to examine the me rits of this translation. The Ornaments Discovered, a Story in two parts. New-York, W. B. GILLEY, 18mo. P. 180. The author of this interesting little story, has shown more than ordinary knowledge of human nature, and has drawn her juvenile portraits with no little discrimination. Itcannot fail to fix the attention of those for whose use it was written and is calculated to produce a benign influence, on characters yet in the bud. E. : by an unknown Channel. Manuscript transmitted from St. Helena, Translated from the French. New-York, VAN WINKLE and WILEY, 12mo. p. 204. These memoirs may, or may not be authentic, but they are exceedingly interesting. This, however, is not surprising, for they reof this, or any other age. Besides describing late the history of the most interesting man the progress of Bonaparte from obscurity and weakness, to celebrity and power, and succinctly recounting the most prominent events of his life, as well as the most important crisis in the affairs of Europe, they abound in sententious remarks, admirable for their profundity, and for the rapidity of mind which they indicate; though they, after all, excite their peculiar interest, by explaining the real trait in the character of the man, who is the subject of them, to which he was indebted for his rise as well as fall, and which constituted his idiosyncrasy. This trait was energy of will. This in his rise, was accompanied by prudence; but success, by relaxing his vigilance, produced embarrassments in the complex plot of the sublime drama in which he was acting, and these, again, producing irritation, this energy became rashness, and wrought his fall. The style in which these memoirs are written, bears a close analogy to what we have heretofore seen of Bonaparte's style acknowledged as authentic, and appears a proper transcript of the character of the man. is brief and piquant, and has a kind of spasmodic energy and movement, much like the rapid and terrible progress of his power through continental Europe. It is occasionally elegant, and is at at all times, im pressive, if not eloquent. Lt. It Matilda, or the Barbadoes Girl, a Tale for young people, by the Author of the Clergyman's Widow, &c. &c Philadelphia, M. CAREY and SON, 12mo. pp. 175. The name of Mrs. Hoffland will become deservedly dear to the rising generation. Indeed there are many adults who might peruse, with great profit, her interesting little stories, which are not less marked with tenderness than with morality. Her Son of a Genius,' 'Sister,' &c. which we have read with pleasure, warrant us in indulging a favourable opinion of a volume, at which we have only had time to glance. E. MANUEL, a Tragedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane. New-York, DAVID LONGWORTH, 12mo. p. 64. BROKEN SWORD, a Grand melo-drama, as performed at the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane. New-York, David LONGWORTH, 12mo. p. 39. HOW TO TRY A LOVER, a Comedy, in three acts, as performed at the Philadelphia Thea The FARO TABLE, or GUARDIANS, a Comedy, as performed at the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane, by the late John Tobin, Esq. author of the Honey Moon, &c. New-York, DAVID LONGWORTH, 12mo. p. 58. The WATCH-WORD, OF QUITO-GATE, a Me- The SLAVE, a musical Drama, in three acts, by Thomas Morton, Esq. author of Speed the Plough, &c. New-York, DAVID LONGWORTH. 12mo. p. 60. EACH FOR HIMSELF, a Farce in two acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal DruryNew-York, DAVID LONGWORTH, Lane. 12mo. p. 41. The DRAGON OF WANTLEY; a Burlesque Opera, by H. Carey, Esq. New-York, DAVID LONGWORTH, 12mo. p. 12. ART. 15. QUARTERLY REPORT OF DISEASES TREATED AT THE PUBLIC DISPENSARY, NEW-YORK, DURING THE MONTHS OF JANUARY, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH, 1817. ACUTE DISEASES. NEBRIS Intermittens, 3. Febris Remit 29; Syphilis, 21; Pseudo-Syphilis, 1; Tumor, 4; Schirus, 1; Carcinoma, 2; Hydar2, fantum Remitteus, 3: Phlegmone, 6; Oph- tura, 7; Contusio, 18; Vulnus, 8; Abcessus, thalmia, 12; Catarrhus, 8; Cynanche Tonsil-16; Ulcus, 39; Pernio, 6; Ustio, 12; Odonlaris, 6; Cynanche Pharyngea, 4; Cynanche- talgia, 50; Caligo, 2, Fistula, 1; Morbi Cutanei Chronici, 148. Trachealis, 3; Cynanche Parotidœa, 5; Pnenmonia, 49; Pneumonia Typhodes, 4; Bronchitis, 3; Enteritis, 1; Hepatitis, 2, Rheumatismus Acutus, 10; Hæmoptysis, 4; Dysenteria, 9; Cholera, 4; Apoplexia, 1; Rubeola, 10; Urticaria, 2; Roseola, 1; Erysipelas, 1; Vaccinia, 83; Convulsio, 1; Hydrocephalus Acutus, 2: Morbi Infantiles, 24. CHRONIC DISEASES. Asthenia, 18; Cephalalgia, 15; Virtigo, 5; Paralysis, 3; Dyspepsia, 18; Vomitus, 4; Gastrodynia, 5; Enterodynia, 8; Asthma, 2, Colica, 2; Melancholia, 1; Mania, 1: Nephralgia, 1; Hysteria, 6; Dyspnea, 10; Catarrhus Chronicus, 12; Phthsis Pulmonalis, 23; Bronchitis Chron. 4; Rheumatismus Chronicus, 35; Pleurodynia, 5; Lumbago, 9; Cephalæa, 3; Epistaxis, 1; Hæmorrhois, 10; Menorrhagia, 3; Diarrhoea, 10: Leucorrhoea, 3; Urethritis, 27; Phymosis, 4; Paraphymosis, 2; Obstipatio, 51; Dysuria, 5; Amenorrhoea, 9; Dysmenorrhoea, 3; Plethora, 5; Tympanites, 1; Anasarca, 2; Hydrothorax, 4; Ascites, 2; Morbus Spinalis, 1; Lithiasis, 3; Scrophula, 2; Marasmus, 1; Tabes Mesenterica, 3; Verminatio, The weather during the above period, has been, on the whole, dry and clear, and with the exception of the first eighteen days of January, unusually cold, and sometimes intensely so. The winds have blown from the N. W., W. and S. W. more than three fourths of the time. The medium temperature by Fahrenheit's thermometer about 32°. On the morning of the 15th of February, the Mercury stood at 7° below Zero, which was its minimum; its maximum was 54°, and occurred in the afternoon of the 22d of March. Rain fell about the commencement of January, and smaller quantities again on the 21st, 26th, and 27th of February, and on the 10th, 23d, 24th, and 25th of March. Snow fell on the 16th and 18th of January, a considerable one on the 23d, and smaller showers again on the 26th and 29th of the same month, as well as on the 2d, 9th, 17th, 18th, 24th, and 27th of February; the aggregate measure of the whole amounting on a level to about 18 inches. The month of March, though cold, was less stormy and boisterous than common. Notwithstanding the intense coldness of the greater part of the winter, the public health has continued in a great measure un impaired, or rather has not been marked by the extraordinary predominance of any particular disease. Inflammatory complaints, the usual attendants on the winter months, have, indeed, prevailed to a considerable ex tent. Of the acute diseases reported in the prefixed catalogue, one half consisted of disorders of the organs of respiration, that is of the lungs and the mucous membrane of the fauces, trachea, and bronchiæ. In many of these, the inflammatory symptoms were extremely severe, calling for the most prompt and active treatment. Intermittent, remittent, and typhus fevers were occasionally observed. Four cases of ophthalmia resembled the purulent species of authors, being characterized by a highly suffused redness of the eyes, turgescence of the vessels, profuse purulent discharge and tumefaction of the conjunctiva. As they all occurred in the same family, there was reason to believe that the disease had been propagated by contagion. Although only ten cases of rubeola, or measles are marked in the table, it nevertheless prevailed in some degree through the winter. But as it was generally mild, requiring little treatment, and was seldom accompanied by severe pneumonic affections, the number of applications to the dispensary has been comparatively few. This disease, in one instance, suspended or interrupted the progress of hooping cough, which, however, retured again after the decline of the former. Two cases of Infantile Remittent Fever, one of Cholera, and three of Cutaneous Eruptions, were also observed as the immediate sequelae of measles, in children, for whom no remedies had been used, nor the bowels kept sufficiently open. A question naturally arises as to the cause of these morbid occurrences;-have they any known relation to the preceding disease, or are they derived from some other source wholly unconnected with the operation of the morbillous contagion? There is certainly much reason to believe that they are generally of gastric origin, and dependent on the manifest influence, that certain conditions of the stomach and surface of the body exert upon the state of each other. It is obvious from a number of circumstances, that there exists a close connexion or consent between these two parts of our system; in consequence of which impressions made upon the one, are quickly conveyed to the other, and a certain condition prevailing in the one, induces a similar condition in the other. During the operation of measles on the system, the sur face of the body becomes preternaturally excited, and the excitement there existing, produces, by consent of parts, a sympathetic action in the stomach, that must more or less derange its healthy functions; and therefore, whether this disease primarily affect the one or the other of these parts, is immaterial, for in either instance, the stomach must participate in the affection; and whenever that important organ does not recover its healthy action, on the subsidence of measles, it is easy to understand that various and different morbid effects may proceed therefrom, according to the habit of body, the constitution of the individual, and the influence and determination of other causes. One of the special effects of this deranged state of the stomach, must be a vitiation of its secretions, and perhaps those of the bowels too. These morbid contents when suffered to remain from neglect to cleanse the prima viæ, must necessarily react upon the organs that contain them. It is probably from this source, therefore, that most of the evils consequent on measles usually proceed; and if so, emetic. or purgative medicines are the proper preventive. Is it on this principle that has been founded the practice of administering purgatives after the subsidence of small pox and measles, or has their utility been established as the result of experience merely, and the bad effects that sometimes follow where their use has been neglected? A case of ascites of two months' continuance, was cured by medicines alone, consisting of active cathartics, and frequent potions. of a mixture of Sp. Æther. Nitr.-Tr. Digital. and Tr. Ferri mur. followed by the use of tonics. One of the cases of asthma was caused by an imprudent exposure to a sudden variation of external temperature, and eventually terminated in Hydrothorax; the patient obstinately rejecting the use of the lancet. Eruptive diseases have been very prevalent. No less than 148 cases of the chronic kind alone, are contained in the list; many of which were evidently the result of uncleanliness operating on debilitated and impoverished constitutions. Some of the terms contained in the Catalogue of Diseases, have been adopted from Sauvages, as being both more definite, and better adapted to practical purposes, than the nosology of Cullen. Under the head of Morbi Infantiles are comprised the disorders of infants that arise principally from dentition and indigestion, or a deranged state of the primæ viæ, and which in themselves are not sufficiently important to be entered under distinct names. JACOB DYCKMAN, M. D. New-York, March 31st, 1817. THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND CRITICAL REVIEW, No. III.....VOL. I. JULY, 1817. ART. 1. Harold the Dauntless, a Poem in six Cantos, by the Author of the Bridal of Triermain. New-York, James Eastburn & Co. 12mo. pp. 144. 6 IN days of yore, it used to be expect- marks of literature, hailed as the overed, that whoever undertook to write flowing of Helicon,-is more than we for the amusement or edification of the can patiently bear. It is evidence of public, should produce either rhyme a deeper corrosion of taste than we had or reason,' but modern genius disdains supposed to exist. such pedantic restraints, and modern To be overcome, by surprise, by liberality easily dispenses with the ob- such bandits' as Scott and Byron, is servance of so fastidious a requisition. an impeachment of no man's firmness,The very essence of sublimity, indeed, but to surrender one's judgment, at the in its most fashionable acceptation, summons of every foot-pad of Parnasconsists in being absolutely incompre- sus, is sheer dastardy. We shall be bold hensible; and the most admired amble enough, at any rate, to take the field, of a 'crop' Pegasus, is like the forc'd occasionally, in the cause of common gait of a shuffling nag.' Atheism is sense. 6 made the succedaneum of sentiment, The poem before us, we are told, is from truculence has usurped the honours of the pen of the author of the Bridal of Tri. chivalry, and Arcady' is deserted for ermain.' That was an avowed imitaBotany-Bay. All this we would en- tion,-this is an apparent one. As far as deavour to endure with resignation, in likeness is a merit, the work is entitled the confident belief, that the erratic to praise; not that it is an exact similitude meteors, whose sudden glare has daz- of Scott, or Byron, or Southey, or Colezled our sight and bewildered our un- ridge, but that it bears strong features derstandings, will soon recede beyond the of family resemblance to the whole fra sphere of our vision, and that the ele- ternity. The fault, therefore, if the ments of the moral and intellectual picture fail to give pleasure, is less in world will, ultimately, regain their the copy than in the original. It is in equilibrium, when these disturbing this light that we shall regard it. We causes shall have ceased to exert their shall attempt, then, to ascertain what the malignant influence ;-but, to be told, original really is,for we are led to as we lately have been, from a quarter suspect, from the strong coincidences of high pretension, that Pope, Swift, in the prominent traits of the heroes of and Addison,' were mere poetasters to Scott and Byron, etc. that they are only the master-spirits of our time,-to see copyists, and that they have drawn the deluge of balderdash that threatens from the same model ;-and we are inthe submersion of all the ancient land- clined to think, after having investiga VOL. 1. NO. NI. 6 Y ted the subject, that the reader will cursions, a party of marauders had, in his agree with us in assigning to GoDWIN, absence, surprised his castle, burned it to the honour, if honour it be, of having and children, and every living creature withthe ground, and savagely murdered his wife invented the character from which, in the walls. The same stroke that rendered 'William of Deloraine,' Marmion,' him childless, made him also a beggar. He 'Bertram,'The Giaour,' The Cor- had been regarded for his proceedings as an adherent of the Turkish standard, but he had sair,' Childe Harold,' and, derivativealways tenaciously maintained the most comly, Harold the Dauntless,' were all plete independence. The adversity that had taken. In Godwin's famous novel of now fallen upon him was too great. He St. Leon, we meet with a sketch of the would not become a pensioner of the Sultan ; character of Bethlem Gabor, delin- despair had taken fast possession of his heart. He disbanded the body of men he had formeated with a strength of outline and a ed, and wandered a solitary outcase upon the vividness of colouring, to the effect of face of his country. For some time he seemwhich poetry cannot add, and which ed to have a savage complacenct, in conceivimitation can never attain. We shall ing that the evil he had suffered was past all remedy, and in spurning at those palliations not apologize for extracting so eloquent and disguises with which vulgar souls are a description as the following,- accustomed to assuage their wo. Yet the energy of his nature would not suffer him to rest; he wandered an outcast; but every day engendered some new thought or passion: and it appeared probable that he would not yet quit the stage of existence till he had left behind him the remembrances of a terrible and desolating revenge. to me, Bethlem Gabor was the lineal representa tive of one of the most illustrious houses in Hungary. His vocation, like that of the majority of the Hungarian nobility, had been arms; but, in the midst of a fraternity, all of whom were warlike, he stood conspicuous and alone. His courage, though cool and It may seem strange that such a man as I deliberate, almost mounted to a degree of have described should be the individual I sedesperate rashness; and the fertility of his lected out of the whole Hungarian nation to invention and the variety of his stratagems make my friend. It may seem that his quadid not fall short of his courage. The cele- lities were better adapted to repel thau atrity of his measures was equally distin- tract. My choice would not appear strange, guished; distance was no bar to him: and he if the reader could have conversed with him, had no sooner conceived a project, however as I did. He was hideous to the sight; and arduous, than it was executed. He had form- he never addressed himself to speak, that I ed under his own eye a band of men like did not feel my very heart shudder within himself, impetuous, yet deliberate, swift in me. Seldom did he allow himself to open execution, silent in march, invincible to his thoughts; but, when he did, Great God! hardship, contemners of fatigue, and difficul- what supernatural eloquence seemed to inties, of hunger and thirst. When introduced spire and enshroud him! Not that upon such he was upwards of fifty years of age, occasions he was copious and Ciceronian, He was more than six feet in stature; and but that every muscle and every limb seemyet he was built as if he had been a colossus, ed to live, and to quiver with the thoughts destined to sustain the weight of the starry he expressed. The hearer could not refuse heavens. His voice was like thunder; and to venerate, as well as fear him. I never he never uttered a word, but it seemed to pitied him; Bethlem Gabor's was a soul that shake his manly chest. His head and chin soared to a sightless distance above the were clothed with a thick and shaggy hair, in sphere of pity; I can scarcely say I sympacolour a dead black. He had suffered con- thized with him; but, when I listened to his siderable mutilation in the services through complaints, rather let me say his invectives, which he had passed; of one of his hands I was astonished, overwhelmed and motionthree fingers were gone; the sight of his right less. The secret of the effects he thus proeye was extinguished, and the cheek half shot duced, lay in his own way of feeling the inaway, while the same explosion had burned cidents he described. Look at him, when he his complexion into a colour that was univer- sat alone, wrapped in meditation, you would sally dun or black. His nose was scarred, say, That man is of iron; though adversity and his lips were thick and large. Bethlem pour her fiercest darts upon him, he is invulGabor, though universally respected for the nerable; he is of too colossal a structure to honour and magnanimity of a soldier, was be accessible to human feelings and human not less remarkable for habits of reserve and affections. Listen to his narrative, or rataciturnity. But these habits misfortune had ther to the bursts of passion, which with him caused to become more deeply engrafted in supplied the place and performed the funchis nature. During one of his military ex- tions of narrative, you would soon confess |