marks his character, determined to send looked as high as possible, in Baffin's Bay, their mothers, and the dogs, except the female ones, home his consort, and pursue his research-if not on the coast of East Greenland. The which were indulged with a part of the beds, slunk es with one ship only during the ensuing voyage which Capt. Parry has just begun inhabited part of the huts was similar to that of the out past us in dismay. The construction of this season, and for that purpose removed to his is destined to enter Barrow's Straits, the outer apartment, being a dome formed by separate own ship all the provisions which could be most northerly western opening from Baf-blocks of snow, laid with great regularity and no spared from the other; but in the month of fin's Bay. small art, each being cut into the shape requisite to July, 1823, the scurvy appeared among The scientific observations which were form a substantial arch, from seven to eight feet both officers and crew; and he was reluct-made during this second voyage, are re-high in the centre, and having no support whatever, served for a separate publication, with the shall not here further describe the peculiarities of but what this principle of building supplied. I exception of a few incidental remarks, prin- these curious edifices, remarking only that a cheercipally geological and botanical, and occa-ful and sufficient light was admitted to them by a sional notices of irregularities in the com- circular window of ice neatly fitted into the roof passes, and of meteorological appearances. of each apartment. No general deductions can be drawn from these insulated facts; the only one of which that struck us as being of importance, is, that the aurora borealis exerts no sensible influence upon an electrometer or upon the magnetic needle. antly compelled to return to England, where he arrived on the 18th of the following September. The mercury was now ranging from 18 to 26 degrees below zero, and so used were the Esquimaux to this excess of cold, that it was actually necessary to their comfort. Afterwards, when the weather became a little milder, though the difference was not perceptible on board the ships, they suffered from the change. Though firmly persuaded that the Strait of the Fury and Hecla communicates directly with the Northern Ocean, Capt. Parry believes that it will seldom or never be navigable. We think this opinion abundantly justified by the reasons which he assigns. He says that a westerly current along the northern coast of America, has been observed by the Russian navigators The most interesting part of this work to and by Capt. Franklin, that this current general readers, is undoubtedly the account forces the ice to the western mouth of the of the intercourse between the voyagers strait, and bars up its entrance. He ex- and the Esquimaux. Of this singular peo- tions in these curious dwelling-places, either by On this account they began to make fresh alterapresses however a confident hope of ulti-ple few particulars have been hitherto building the former apartments two or three feet mate success, and thinks the most advisa-known; few, at least, were known with higher, or adding others that they might be less ble point at which next to attempt to force exactness and certainty. Differing essen- crowded. In building a higher hut, they construct an entrance into the Polar sea, is Prince tially in appearance, character, and habit over, and, as it were, concentric with the old one, Regent's Inlet, discovered in his former its, from the other aboriginal inhabit-which is then removed from within. It is curious to consider, that, in all these alterations, the object voyage. He is now gone upon another ex-ants of America, and strictly confined in kept in view was coolness, and this in houses formpedition with this object in view; and we their location, by causes which it is difficult ed of snow! cordially wish him success, though, we con- to understand, to the northern Arctic regions, or their immediate vicinity, they serve to illustrate most strongly the power which man's physical nature can exert, in accomodating itself to all circumstances and conditions of existence. Exposed, during a large portion of the year, to an intensity of cold, and surrounded by a wintry desolation, which our seasons scarcely help us to imagine, they have their own comforts, and enjoy them so highly, that they feel the greatest compassion for the more southern nations who want them. But we will describe them in Capt. Parry's words. While the vessels were fixed in the ice at Winter Island, it was reported to Parry that some huts appeared to be erected a short disLest it should be thought that this account is extance from the ships. He went immediate-aggerated, I may here state that, as a matter of culy to visit them. riosity, we one day tried how mnch a lad scarcely full grown, would, if freely supplied, consume in this way. The undermentioned articles were weighed before being given to him; he was twenty hours in getting through them, and certainly did not consider the quantity extraordinary. that when water was given the Esquimaux It is afterwards observed in the Journal, to drink, they cooled it with ice to the freezing point before it became palatable. can get, and seem to regard cooking as quite They eat ravenously whatever meat they ed eight or ten pounds of solid meat in a a superfluous labour. Many of them devourday; one Esquimaux patient, in the hospital which the English established, complained bitterly of starvation, when he could get only about seven pounds of meat in twenty four hours. Capt. Parry took the pains to weigh and measure what one of them consumed. fess, without very sanguine hopes. We think that the land north of the continent of America approaches much nearer to the pole than has been hitherto believed, and that the space lying north-west of Melville Island, the farthest point attained by Capt. Parry in his former voyage, is filled up by large islands intersected by straits, some wider, some narrower, of which perhaps few if any are so wide as is Lancaster Sound at its western entrance, or so likely to be free from the ice brought into these outlets by the ascertained currents of the Polar Sea. It would occupy too long a space, were we to give all our reasons for this opinion; but that on which we lay most stress, is the greater coldness of the climate, than that of Asia and Europe in the same parallels of latitude. It is a well When it is remembered that these habitations known fact, that the sea coasts of all counwere fully within sight of the ships, and how many tries are warmer than the interior in the eyes were continually on the look out among us, same degrees of latitude; land lying in high for any thing that could afford variety or interest in latitudes, either north or south, exerts a our present situation, our surprise may in some desensible influence upon the climate of con-gree be imagined at finding an establishment of five huts, with canoes, sledges, dogs, and above sixty tiguous countries lying nearer the equator. men, women, and children, as regularly, and, to all Thus the existence of a continent near the appearance as permanently fixed, as if they had south pole was suspected long before its occupied the same spot for the whole winter. If discovery, from the fact, that the tempera- the first view of the exterior of this little village The fluids were in fair proportion, viz. ture of the southern hemisphere was lower was such as to create astonishment, that feeling was in no small degree heightened, on accepting the than that of the northern at the same dis-invitation soon given us, to enter these extraordintance from the equator. Thus the winters ary houses, in the construction of which we obare longer, it seems, at Winter Island than served that not a single material was used but snow at Melville Island, and the difference of the and ice. After creeping through two low passages, They were selfish and ungrateful, but mean temperature much less than the dif- having each its arched door-way, we came to a not ferocions, and could easily be hired to ference of latitude would have led one to small circular apartment of which the roof was a do all in their power. Some of them experfect arched dome. From this, three door-ways, expect. We lay less stress on the quanti-also arched, and of larger dimensions than the out-hibited considerable intelligence-especialer ones, led into as many inhabited apartments, one ly a woman named Iligliuk, whom the attenon each side, and the other facing us as we enter- tions of the voyagers entirely spoilt. With ed. The interior of these presented a scene no the many evil traits of character which less novel than interesting. The women were seated on the beds at the sides of the huts, each they were perpetually displaying, some having her little fire place or lamp, with all her do- good ones were intermingled. The followmestic utensils about her; the children crept behind ing extract may be interesting. ty of ice, which could not have been produced in an open sea, because it may be said, that the westerly current might bring it from the eastern coast of Asia. So far, therefore, from expecting to find a passage from Hudson's Bay, we should rather have lbs. oz. Total of solids... 10 4 Rich gravy soup 11-4 pint. 3 wine-glasses. 1 tumbler. 1 gallon 1 pint. amusing, yield to none published anywhere. This is throwing down the gauntlet, to be sure; but we shall not pursue the battle until we take it up; for we do not in the least intend to make an odious comparison between our papers and those of any other nation, under pretence of reviewing Mr Buckingham's Miscellanies. All we have to do just now, is to show how peculiarly useful his book may be here, on the ground that a far greater proportion of the best of the national intellect and learning goes to the conducting and supplying of our newspapers, than can be expected to go forth to the public in the same way in any other country. I had always entertained great objection to tak- the sledge, till, by means of laying the whip gently ing any such individual from his home, on the over each dog's head, he has made them all lie doubtful chance of benefiting himself, or of his do- down. He then takes care not to quit his position; ing any service to the public as an interpreter. so, that should the dogs set off, he is thrown upon My scruples on this head had hitherto been confin- the sledge, instead of being left behind by them. ed to the consideration due to the individual him- With heavy loads the dogs draw best with one of self, and to the relatives he leaves behind. In our their own people, especially a woman, walking a present case, however, not the smallest public ad- little way ahead; and in this case they are somevantage could be derived from it; for it had long times enticed to mend their pace by holding a mitago become evident that we should soon know ten to the mouth, and then making a motion of cutmore of the Esquimaux language than any of them ting it with a knife, and throwing it on the snow, were likely to learn of English in any reasonable when the dogs mistaking it for meat, hasten for period of time. I was, therefore, far from desiring ward to pick it up. The women also entice them to receive from Toolooak an answer in the affirm from the hut in a similar manner. The rate at ative, when I to-day plainly put the question to which they travel, depends, of course, on the weight him, whether he would go with me to kablaona they have to draw, and the road on which their noona (European country). Never was a more journey is performed. When the latter is level and decisive negative given than Toolooak gave to this very hard and smooth, constituting what in other proposal. He eagerly repeated the word Na-o parts of North America is called "good sleighing," (No) half a dozen times, and then told me that if he six or seven dogs will draw from eight to ten hun- There are very few in our land who are went away his father would cry. This simple but dred weight, at the rate of seven or eight miles an by profession scholars; few whose business irresistible appeal to parental affection, his decisive hour for several hours together, and will easily un- it is to make books, and avowedly and sysmanner of making it, and the feelings by which his der those circumstances perform a journey of fifty reply was evidently dictated, were just what could or sixty miles a day; on untrodden snow, five-and- tematically to earn their means of subsisthave been wished. No more could be necessary twenty or thirty miles would be a good day's jour-ence by literary labour. Still we have our to convince those who witnessed it, that these peo- ney. The same number of well-fed dogs, with a fair proportion of men of original talent, and ple may justly lay equal claim with ourselves to weight of only five or six hundred pounds (that of even of literary skill and accomplishments. these common feelings of our nature; and having the sledge included), are almost unmanageable, and But they are employed in the various proonce satisfied myself of this, I determined never will, on a smooth road, run any way they please, fessions of active life; our most practised again to excite in Toolooak's mind another disa- at the rate of ten miles an hour. The work greeable sensation, by talking to him on this sub-formed by a greater number of dogs, is, however, by writers as well as our ripest scholars, are, no means in proportion to this; owing to the im- with few exceptions, to be found among perfect mode already described of employing the our lawyers, our clergymen, and physicians. strength of these sturdy creatures, and to the more frequent snarling and fighting occasioned by an in ject. crease of numbers. per which we have extracted. But we must But the zeal of rivalry, and the crowding of competitors, have not as yet produced such a division of labour in the business of those whose labour is chiefly mental- The dogs used by the Esquimaux, are made by them to supply very satisfactorily the want of those animals which in other countries are used for burthen or draught. We had marked many more passages for The surgeon of the Hecla dissected one of them, and found that they were wolves in insertion, some of which, at least, might a domesticated state, as the vertebra, both have given both a more just, and a more fain number and structure, corresponded ex-vourable impression of the book than those actly with the peculiar anatomy of the wolf. They are, however, a little smaller than the wild wolves which abound in those regions, though very similar in appearance. In directing the sledge the whip acts no very essential part, the driver for this purpose using certain words, as the carters do with us, to make the dogs turn more to the right or left. To these a good leader attends with admirable precision, especially if his own name be repeated at the same Miscellanies selected from the Public Jourtime, looking behind over his shoulder with great nals. Published by Joseph T. Bucking earnestness, as if listening to the directions of the ham. 2 vols. 12mo. Boston, 1822-24. driver. On a beaten track, or even where a single foot or sledge-mark is occasionally discernible, THE design of this work is excellent; and there is not the slightest trouble in guiding the dogs; is peculiarly adapted to the literary and infor even in the darkest night and in the heaviest tellectual condition of this country. The snow-drift, there is little or no danger of their losing the road, the leader keeping his nose near the author, or rather compiler, proposes to seground, and directing the rest with wonderful sa- lect from our newspapers their most inter-ready opportunities; and they are often, if gacity. Where, however, there is no beaten track, esting articles, of prose or poetry, of fancy not generally, the best he can have; bethe best driver among them makes a terribly cir- or fact, of serious or whimsical character; cause in this country there are, comparacuitous course, as all the Esquimaux roads plainly and thus rescue from the fate to which they tively speaking, but few of those weighty show; these generally occupying an extent of six miles, when with a horse and sledge the journey are borne along by the ephemeral matters journals of literature, science, and the arts, would scarcely have amounted to five. On rough about them, all such productions as have a which in Europe exist in such numbers and ground, as among hummocks of ice, the sledge permanent interest or use, and thereby de- variety, as to absorb the talent and knowlwould be frequently overturned, or altogether stop-serve the security of a permanent form. edge which are here put forth in aid of the ped, if the driver did not repeatedly get off, and by This plan would be a good one, wherever newspapers. lifting or drawing it to one side, steer it clear of those accidents. At all times, indeed, except on a there are good newspapers; of course, it is smooth and well made road, he is pretty constantly particularly good here, seeing that our employed thus with his feet, which, together with newspapers are about the best things we his never-ceasing vociferations, and frequent use of have. Doubtless, among the myriads which the whip, renders the driving of one of these vehicles by no means a pleasant or easy task. When are perpetually poured forth from our pubthe driver wishes to stop the sledge, he calls out lic presses, there are some as bad as ever "Wo, woa," exactly as our carters do, but the at- were published, or as the wit of man could tention paid to this command depends altogether on easily devise. But, on the other hand, we his ability to enforce it. If the weight is small and have also some, which, in respect of literary the journey homeward, the dogs are not to be thus talent and skill, of original and acute specudelayed; the driver is therefore obliged to dig his lations in politics, or even in science or the arts, and in all the departments of literature which are generally interesting or heels into the snow to obstruct their progress; and having thus succeeded in stopping them, he stands up with one leg before the foremost cross-piece of It is obvious, that this state of things has within it a tendency to increase. Papers, by receiving valuable communications, are made both more worthy and more likely to receive them; gentlemen, eminent for intellectual power or culture, or both, find it a fitting and profitable employment, to edit them. In this country there are papers,common newspapers, conducted by men most distinguished as men of talent and of letters; and this we believe to be a fact In other without example elsewhere. countries, newspapers possess neither the power nor the value which they have here; as a means of political excitement, as an instrument for effecting the purposes of a party, or as an opportunity for displaying the talents and extending the reputation of a writer, they fall two or three degrees below the rank which they hold here; of course, men distinguished for genius or learning, do not there conduct or supply the pages of a newspaper, because they can find other work equally profitable, and more reputable. We regard the publication of these two volumes in the light of an experiment; and as they certainly merit, we hope they will receive a sufficient patronage to induce a regular periodical publication, that shall preserve for aftertimes, all those articles in our newspapers, which are most worthy of preservation. Such a work would be very useful, and we cannot doubt that it would be successful, if the selections were made with suitable taste and judgment. The principal fault we should find in the volumes now before us, is one which most of our readers may think no fault at all. The compiler would, we think, have added to the real value of his books, had he aimed less exclusively at selecting elegant or amusing compositions, and such as interest by the relation of extraordinary facts. We would suggest to him, if he be induced to publish more volumes of this kind, to insert the most valuable of the essays or speculations upon subjects connected with politics, statistics, or public economy, which are occasionally to be found in our newspapers. Unless we deceive ourselves, there are many such; and also many addresses, arguments, &c., which, if not thus secured, would be lost with the short-lived repositories that first contain them. There are almost no pieces in these volumes which can be considered worthless; but there is a vast difference between the best and the worst of them. We know not, however, that it would have been expedient to lessen the size of these volumes, or practicable to have published in them many more pieces of great excellence. The poetry is peculiarly good. We are indeed surprised at finding that our newspapers could furnish so many pieces of so great power and beauty. Few books published in this country, have done so much to prove the possession and the exertion of poetical talent among us, as these two vol umes. Where Ruin makes his empire known, In Autumn's yellow vesture drest: The sprightly bird, whose carol sweet, Broke on the breath of early day; The Summer flowers she lov'd to greet; The bird, the flowers, oh, where are they! Yet, yet, the radiance is not gone, Which shed a richness o'er the scene, Which smiled upon the golden dawn When skies were brilliant and sereneOh! still a melancholy smile Gleams upon Nature's aspect fair, To charm the eye a little while Ere Ruin spreads his mantle there! Thou desolate and dying year! Since time entwined thy vernal wreath, How often Love hath shed the tear, And knelt beside the bed of death: How many hearts, that lightly sprung When Joy was blooming but to die, Their finest chords by death unstrung, Have yielded life's expiring sigh. Gathered unto the mouldering urn- The musing spirit finds in thee Of deep and stern morality; Thou teachest how the germ of youth, Which blooms in being's dawning day, Planted by Nature, reared by Truth,, Withers like thee in dark decay. We will make one more extract; from the Newburyport Herald. THE MERMAID'S SONG. Come mariner, down in the deep with me, In a cell in the Mermaid's cave. And weeps when she hears the menacing gale, Come whitening up to the shore--- Her sorrows shall soon be o'er; For the chords shall be broke, and the prisoner free, And her eye shall close, and her dreams shall be So sweet she will wake no more. We hardly know what pieces to select, so numerous are those which we should be glad to give our readers. One of the There are very many pieces quite as most beautiful is from the Commercial Ad-good as these, and perhaps some that are vertiser of New York. We can quote but a few stanzas. TO THE DYING YEAR. Thou desolate and dying year! Emblem of transitory man, Whose wearisome and wild career, Like thine, is bounded to a span: It seems but as a little day Since nature smiled upon thy birth, And Spring came forth, in fair array, To dance upon the joyous earth. Sad alteration-now, how lone, How verdureless, is Nature's breast, better. The Institutes of English Grammar, methodically arranged; with Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, Observations for the Advanced Student, False Syntax, and a Key: to which are added four Appendixes. Designed for the use of Schools. By Goold Brown. New York. 1823. 12mo. pp. 219. AMID the multitude of publications which are continually issuing from the press, in this book-making age, works of elementary instruction, adapted to the wants and capacities of our children, are not neglected; and of these, the elements of English grammar have received their full share of attention. Yearly, and we should not hazard much in saying monthly, are new compilations offered to our notice. Some, leaning for support on the authority of an established name, profess to publish an abridgment of Murray's Grammar, with improvements; others, with more confidence, are willing to rely on themselves, and with no other names than their own and the publisher's standing in capitals on the titlepage, venture their book forth upon the mercy of the criticising world. We trust we shall not be understood to mean that all the recent publications on the grammar of our language are equally worthless. We have at least an earnest in favour of the book, now under notice, in the reputation which the author has acquired as an instructer of youth in the city of New York, and in the fact that many very respectable teachers of that city have already adopted it to the exclusision of the grammars heretofore used in their schools. We regard Murray's octavo Grammar as established and admitted by the general assent of literary men to be a standard work on this subject; and we take pleasure in knowing that this gentleman, though resident in England, is not only by birth, but by education and feeling, an American, and that our country can enrol his name among those of her distinguished sons. We regard this as a standard book, not because we do not think it susceptible of great improvement, but because we have as yet seen nothing in print, which we believed to be a very essential improvement on his system. We shall take some other opportunity to express our views more fully on this subject; at present we would only notice some of the points in which our author differs from Mr Murray. We found nothing particularly claiming our notice, till we came to the chapter on verb. He has ventured on an innovation here, in the second person singular of the verbs, by omitting to vary the termination into st or est, excepting in the present tense of the indicative and in the auxiliary hast, making the three persons in all the other modes and tenses terminate alike in both numbers. Mr Brown is a Quaker, and argues that his brethren alone use the second person; wherefore their use of it must be considered correct. Now we are perfectly ready to admit that Horace's rule is the true one-in all languages: harsh and uncouth terms. But he relies says, We have been somewhat accustomed to hear that language spoken, and we think from our own observation, that he has gone farther than the facts would authorize. Had he confined his omission of the terminal st in the second person singular to the past tenses, and left the future and the present of the auxiliaries as other grammarians have given them, we think this change would be entitled to less qualified approbation. Thou shalt and thou canst are still used, as we believe, by all whom even Mr Brown would call good authority. We observe that nearly all the examples which are cited in the note are of the past tense; we think, quite all which ought to be admitted. Our brethren of the rhyming race will feel under peculiar obligations to Mr Brown on this subject; some of whom have thought it necessary, in order to avoid the uncouthness of these terminations, to change from thou to you while addressing the same person and even in the same sentence. Take an example from Gay. When I thy humbler life survey'd, You dragg'd a slow and noisome train. "Oh Thou, my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire," could no longer be cited as an instance of false grammar. "The distinguishing characteristic of bourhood; the list of characters includes a this participle is, that it denotes an unfin- Southern planter, who is a very fine gentleished and progressive state of being, action, man, his daughter, who is a spoilt child, and or passion; it is therefore properly denomi- altogether weak and wicked, till just at the nated the imperfect participle." Our in- close of the book, some Yankee yeomen, ference is, taking his own definition, that several heroes and heroines, who are it is therefore properly denominated the much like others of the same class, an present participle. Which of these in- English officer, who is just nothing, an old ferences is the most logical, we should be woman, who is a little bit of a Meg Merwilling to let Mr Brown himself decide. rilies, one Indian, and some Shakers. Much Unless he can give some better reason for beautiful scenery is beautifully described, this change, than any which suggests itself to some striking incidents well told, and some us, we hope to see the present participle very interesting though not peculiarly orirestored, in his second edition, to the place ginal characters well portrayed. The which it has held in all grammars of all Shaker establishments are visited, and the languages, with which we are at all ac- condition, principles, habits, and, in some quainted, this one only excepted. We measure, the history of this strange sect, must do our author the justice to say, that are well illustrated. this is the greatest fault, and indeed the only fault of any magnitude, which we have found in his book;-while its merits are of a decided and valuable character. Redwood; a Tale. In two Volumes. New York, 1824. We find it difficult to select, for quotation, passages which may give our readers a just idea of the author's powers and manner. To make the following extract intelligible, and we cannot but injure its beauty by separating it from the context,-we will state, that Ellen Bruce, the heroine, awakens some suspicions by certain solitary walks, and absences from home, at hours when young ladies are usually found there, and thereby gives occasion to Miss Caroline Raymond to scandalize a little. The mystery is thus explained. THE literary character of this tale is high- 'Caroline, Caroline, do you hear that?" asked Mr Redwood, impetuously. We now come to another alteration, of which we cannot speak so favourably. The participle ending in ing, which has been considered the present participle from time immemorial, he calls the imperfect; with no good reason whatever, that we can perceive, but in despite of a great many excellent ones. That it is an innovation, is of itself one objection; for we are opposed to all changes merely for the sake of change, or without some substantial reason for making them. On this occasion our author abandons his own definition of the imperfect tense previously given, viz. "The imperfect tense is that which expresses what took place within some period of time fully past," and seeks in the etymology of the word "imperfect"-unfinished-an apolo- We shall make no abstract of the story; gy for calling that which is now passing, for it is a little intricate, and we could not the imperfect. We will add the definition in a short space, array the facts in such of the present tense in our author's own form and order as to make them even inwords, viz. "The present tense is that telligible to our readers; and moreover, the which expresses what is now existing or author would hardly thank us for leaving taking place; as somebody is coming" no curiosity for his or her readers to find and leave it to be decided by his own re- pleasure in gratifying. Suffice it to say, marks on this participle, while contending that the scene shifts from the banks of Miss Redwood's generosity than the child, for she for its being called the imperfect, to which Lake Champlain to Lebanon Springs, and was voluble in her thanks; and then proceeded to of the two tenses it properly belongs. He the Shaker establishments in their neigh-say that Miss Ellen, not satisfied with doing so 'Lord, papa, I am not deaf-certainly I hear.' 'Go on, good woman,' said Mr Redwood. The child's quickness, sir,' continued the aunt, seemed a miracle to me, for, God forgive me, I had never thought of her learning any thing. Peggy, get those bags you made, that Miss Ellen said you might sell. The child instantly produced the bags, which were made of pieces of calico very neatly sewn together. Caroline interrupted the story while she bargained with the little girl for the bags, for which she paid her most munificently. The aunt seemed more sensible of the extent of much, brought Doctor Bristol to look at Peggy's eyes. Doctor Bristol,' she said, had come to live in Eton since she had given up Peggy's eyes as quite gone, and therefore she had never shown the child to him. But Doctor Bristol had learned some new fashioned ways that other doctors in the country knew nothing about, and as soon as he looked scream. I fell on my knees, and heard nothing and We think there is one error in this work at the child, he said one of the eyes might be re-ways and fashions are a little caricatured; her to strawberries and roses, and every thing that was most pleasant to the senses the poor thing had left-and she would say that her voice was sweeter than the music of the birds, or the sound of the waters breaking on the shore, when a gentle breeze came over the lake of a stil evening, for that was the sound she loved best of all, and would listen to it sometimes for an hour together without speaking or moving.' It seemed that Miss Redwood's patience could no longer brook the minute and excursive style of the narrator, as she proposed to Mrs Westall in a whisper, that they should cut the woman's never ending Story short and pursue their ride. Mrs Westall acquiesced, with a 'just as you please, my dear; but Mr Redwood, guessing the purport of his daughter's whisper, interposed with a request in a low voice, that she would not prolong their delay by interrupting the good woman's story, as the pain in his arm warned him that it was time for him to return; then turning to the aunt, he asked her how she brought the girl finally to consent to the opera tion?' parents, their frequent cautions against breaking or bruising it, whilst the danger of its dislocation was an early and favourite metaphor for the probability of disgrace. And the experience of riper years makes us so sensible of its value, and jealous of its integrity, that an attempt even to touch it, by any but the members of privileged professions, is often resisted with as much that of Hafen Slawkenbergius. indignation in our own time, as it was in We are persuaded, therefore, that a brief account of the process of restoration, as successfulAn Account of two Successful Operations for history of the operation and the physiologly practised by Mr Carpue, as well as the restoring a lost Nose. By S. C. Car-ical principles upon which the redintegrapue, Member of the Royal College of Sur- tion of this and other valuable ornaments geons of London, and formerly Surgeon of our physiognomy, such as lips and ears, to the York Hospital, Chelsea. must depend, will be agreeable to the genTHE very respectable Mr Peregrine Touch-eral as well as the professional reader. wood, who figured rather conspicuously at In Europe, this art seems first to have "St Ronan's Well," cannot be forgotten by been practised in Naples, Sicily, and Calaour readers. In one of his pleasant con-bria, by one Branca, his son Antony, and Versations with Mr Cargill, minister of that a family of Boianis. Calentius, a Neapoliplace, he took occasion to remark that he tan poet, in the fifteenth century, writing had "dined with Sir Sidney Smith's chum, to his son Orpianus, who had lost his nose, old Djezzar Pacha, and an excellent dinner invites him to come to Branca at Naples, we had, but for a dessert of noses and ears with the encouraging assurance that he brought on after the last remove, which might "go home again with as much nose spoiled my digestion. Old Djezzar thought as he pleased." Their manner of operatit so good a joke, that you hardly saw aing is not described. But Alexander Benman in Acre whose face was not as flat as edictus, a teacher of medicine at Padua the palm of the hand. Now I respect my about the end of the same century, gives a Oh, it was Miss Ellen that made her consent, olfactory organ, and sat off the next morn- particular account of the practice of cerand she would only do it by promising that she would stay by her and hold her head. God knows I ing as fast as the most cursed hard trotting tain skilful persons of his time, by which a could not have done it, well as I love her, to have dromedary, that ever fell to poor pilgrim's portion of the skin of the arm was transsaved her eyes, for I was in a shiver when lot, could contrive to tramp." We have ferred to the place required. saw the doctor fix her by that window, and Miss fortunately no Djezzar Pacha among us, But the author of the most elaborate Ellen stood behind her, and Peggy leaned her head but if all tales are true, it might occur to work on this subject, as well as the ablest back on to Miss Ellen's breast, and one of Miss Ellen's hands was on the child's forehead, and the a fellow-citizen,-somewhere this side the practitioner of the art at that period, was other under her chin, and she looked, God bless Rocky Mountains,-to have his most promi- Gaspar Taliacozzo, a name, which, if origiher, as white as marble and as beautiful as an an- nent feature bitten off, and even masticat-nally spelled Tagliacozzo, as is not unlikegel. I had but a glance at them, for when the doc-ed and swallowed; in which case it is ob- ly, would seem to have some ludicrous affintor took out his long needle, covered my eyes till vious that the previous owner must give it ity to his favourite profession. He is better I heard them say it was all over, and Peggy had not made a movement or a groan. Miss Ellen bade up as entirely lost. Such circumstances known, however, by that of Taliacotius. me not to speak yet, and the bandage was put over must always occasion regret; but this re- He was professor of anatomy at Bologna, the child's eyes, and she was laid there on the bed, gret may be much lessened by knowing and his book, printed at Venice in 1597, and Miss Ellen motioned to me to go out with her, that the manufacture of actual, sentient, contains a detailed account of his method and as I stepped from the door, she sunk like a dying living, and breathing noses, is an affair of of operation, which was similar to that person into my arms; but still it seemed she could so little comparative difficulty, that if the abovementioned. He dissected a portion only think of Peggy, for she put up her hand for a sign to me to be quiet, and then the breath seemed demand for the article in these christian of the skin, not the flesh, as has been somequite gone out of her. I laid her on the turf and countries could ever become great, we have times supposed, of the arm, and applied it fetched some cold water, and she soon came to her- no doubt it would soon be brought to such to the remains of the nose, which were self, and bade me say nothing of it to the doctor, perfection, that a fashionable nose might first pared with the knife. The arm was and she came in again and told the doctor she be fitted to the wearer as readily as a fash-confined immovably to the face for twelve should come back in the evening and sit the night with Peggy, for she would trust no one else ionable pair of boots, and possibly with as for the first night, for the doctor said all depended little torture. But though the nature of on keeping her quiet; and the last word she said, our institutions seems to preclude the poswas to beg he would not tell any of the family at sibility of any considerable consumption; Mr Lenox's that she was coming here, for they, she we cannot but think that this demonstra said, fancied she was not well and would not per- tion of the possibility of supply in case of mit it. At this simple explanation of the absence which Caroline had placed in a suspicious light, need, cannot but be interesting to the comher father turned on her a look full of meaning- munity. This noble organ, so distinguish she blushed deeply, but neither spoke, and the aunting a characteristic of our species; span-ply the loss of the lips and nose; that of proceeded. All went on well to the third day, and then Miss Ellen came with leave to take off the bandage, and she asked Peggy what she wished most in the world to see. Oh you, you, Miss Ellen,' she said; and then the dear young lady stood before her, and took off the bandage; and then, bless you, ladies, her piercing scream of joy when the light touched her eye-oh!-I heard my father curse poor Fanny--I saw her die in a strange land; but never any thing went so deep into my heart as that I days, when the part of the skin, which had been left continuous with the arm, was cut through, the patient released from his uncomfortable posture, and the nostrils properly modelled. He describes the peculiarities of four sorts of skin, as occurring in different parts of the body, and supposes that of the arm to be best adapted to supning, as it were, with wide arch the human the ears is to be supplied by the skin imface divine, and exposed by its very eleva- mediately behind them. The skin of the tion, as well as the grandeur of its propor- forehead he expressly rejects, as alien to tions, to casual, and, as commonly supposed, the nose, and not to be commodiously joinirreparable demolition, has always been to ed to that part when defective. He takes mankind an object of that solicitude and notice also of the shrinking of the artificare, which is naturally bestowed upon cial nose, and directs the surgeon rather to such invaluable appendages. We can all take too much than too little skin. A recollect among the first advices of our fac-simile of one of the engravings con |