1830.] Miscellaneous Reviews.-Fine Arts. Collage Poetry, contains very simple and beautiful poems, which, if they were liberally distributed, could not fail to be useful among the class they are designed to benefit. They are evidently the production of an amiable and very superior mind. The same author has published a Collection of Fables, FINE Engravings of Antient Cathedrals, Hotels de Ville, &c. by JOHN CONEY. The fifth Part of this magnificent work contains four excellent Plates: 1. S. View of Rouen Cathedral, a subject rendered familiar by Mr. H. Le Keux's beautiful engraving, from a drawing by Mr. C. Lewis, in Dr. Dibdin's "Bibliographical Tour." 2. N. W. View of Notre-Dame, Paris, a very clear and beautiful etching. 3. N. E. View of the Abbey of St. Ouen at Rouen, taken from the gardens behind the Hôtel de Préfecture. This point of view is not commonly seen by strangers, but is well calculated to show to advantage the noble central tower, which rises upwards of 100 feet above the roof, and 240 feet from the ground. In the corner is seen a curious small Norman tower, of a castellated form, said to have been part of a former church. This Plate is finely etched. The fourth and last subject in this Number is the Hotel du Bourgtheroude, at Rouen. This exquisite Plate is a fund of amusement for the lovers of antient times, Mr. Coney has well represented this very singular and interesting mansion, and has peopled the court-yard with an almost innumerable company, attired in antient costume, which add greatly to the interest of this exquisite plate. Many of these form an imaginary procession, leading the unhappy Joan of Arc to execution. Of The Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, two Numbers have been published, engraved by W. and E. Finden, in their happiest manner. The graphic abilities of Barret, Brockedon, W. Daniell, R. A., Dewint, C. Fielding, J. D. Harding, S. Prout, R. R. Reinagle, R. A., Robson, T. Stothard, R.A, Stanfield, and W. Westall, A.R.A. will be called into action; and, from the specimens before us, we hesitate not to say that the result will be most gratifying, and that a work will be produced worthy of illustrating the writings of even Sir Walter Scott, works which have afforded such universal delight. We recommend that the passages illustrated, now printed on the wrappers, should be arranged when the work is completed, and re-printed so as to bind up with the Plates. Mr. HENRY SHAW, (whose History and Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton Park we lately highly commended,) has published two Numbers, in quarto, of "Illuminated Orna 61 under the title of "Old Friends in a new Dress," which has been very successful, and is now admitted into the Catalogue of Books patronized by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. In the present little work the author has added twelve additional Fables to his former collection, in very easy verse. ARTS. ments selected from Missals and MSS. of the Middle Ages." We rejoice to see that some of the beauties which lie concealed in our ancient MSS. in endless variety, are likely to be made known to the public by a gentleman who can so justly appreciate their excellence. Mr. Shaw intends to select his examples from specimens executed from the time of the Saxons to that of the Reformstion, so that he has a wide range from which to glean amusement, and we doubt not instruction, for modern practitioners in various branches of art. To those who are not familiar with our antient MSS. a new source of innocent gratification will be opened by this publication; and those who are acquainted with them can best appreciate the excellence of Mr. Shaw's copies. The first two numbers contain specimens of borders and initial letters. We hope others will be given of whole pages, with the illuminated paintings, so as to show the combined effect of the originals. The work is well executed in lithography. There are three editions: the first plain; the second coloured after the originals, which we strongly recommend in preference; and a third, for the curious, on large paper, with the Plates highly finished in opaque colours, and heightened with gold. The work will make 12 Numbers, and contain 60 Plates. The celebrity which the former volumes of Sir W. Gell on Pompeii obtained, both in this Country and on the Continent, has encouraged the author, we are happy to announce, to favour the world with two more volumes, which will be published in 12 Parts. Three of these are now before us; and the Plates appear to be executed in the same beautiful manner as the former volumes. The Preface gives an account of all the recent discoveries, which, if possible, exceed in interest those described in the former volumes. But as it is our intention, when the plan is more advanced, to dilate somewhat at large on this beautiful and interesting work, we shall content ourselves, in the mean while, with heartily wishing it success. The first Part of Illustrations of Popular Works, by George Cruikshank, contains six admirable specimens of chaste humour by our modern Hogarth. They are designed to illustrate Roderick Random, Vicar of Wakefield, Knickerbocker's New York, and Burns's Poems. Mr. Cruikshank's very 62. Fine Arts. Literary Intelligence. clever publication only requires to be seen: it recommends itself. Mary Queen of Scots, and her Secretary Chatelard. We rejoice to see this beautiful picture, by Mr. HENRY FRADELLE, so exquisitely engraved in the line manner by Mr. A. Duncan. Though consisting only of two figures, the lovely Queen and her love stricken Secretary, the accessories of the scene are so happily disposed, and the light so well managed, that we scarcely recollect, a more pleasing picture. We believe it has been before published in mezzotinto, but we greatly prefer the present print. It measures 15 in. by 10, is admirably calculated for framing, and no doubt will be very popular. Mr. HENRY FRA DELLE has also published two beautiful Prints from " Ivanhoe," 20 inches by 15.-The first is, The Black Knight and the Clerk of Copmanhurst. "Fast and furious grew the mirth of the parties, and many a song was exchanged betwixt them." This boisterous scene between the Crusader King and the King of the Bandits, both in disguise, is well represented. The heroes are sitting at their carouse in the hermit's cell, and the light from the lamp suspended above them falls happily on their countenances. The picture is well copied in mezzotinto by Mr. W. Say. The second is, in our opinion, a more pleasing subject. It represents Rebecca and Ivanhoe. The Hero of the Romance is having his wounds dressed by the Jew, when Rebecca enters, and checks the address of Ivanhoe, "by placing her slender finger upon her ruby lips." It is a most pleasing composition, and is well engraved in mezzotinto by Mr. W. Lupton. A Portrait of Robert Burns, aged 27, from the original picture by the late Peter Taylor, in the possession of William Taylor, esq. of Leith, has been very well engraved, in the line manner, by J. Horsburgh (9 in. by 7). The Print is dedicated to Sir Walter Scott, and no doubt will be highly acceptable to the admirers of the truly national Bard. A Portrait of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, Secretary of the Admiralty, and M.P. for the University of Dublin. This picture is mezzotinted by SAMUEL COUSINS, from the Painting by the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, now exhibiting in the British Gallery. We think the painting one of Sir [July, Thomas Lawrence's happiest performances, and the print is beautifully scraped by Mr. Cousins, who has arrived at perfection in his art. The size of the print is 11 in. by 9. The Fair Penilent, painted by H. Pidding, and well mezzotinted by W. Giller, (12 in! by 10,) has had greater pains bestowed on it than the joke deserves. It is a front view of a black man seated in the stocks, with a spaniel biting at his toe; which the black seems to bear very stoically. The design might have been sufficiently repre-, sented as a common caricature. ARTISTS' FUND.-JOHN PYE, Esq.' In vol. xcvi. i. p. 449, we noticed a very clever picture, The Wolf and the Lamb," by Mulready, which he presented to the Artists' Fund. This picture has been beautifully engraved by Mr. John Pye, to whom the Artists' Fund are under various other obligations, particularly for his suggestion of the publication of plates to increase the funds of the Society. A meeting was held June 31st, R. R. Reinagle, esq. R. A. in the chair, when the chairman presented Mr. Pye with a silver vase, thus inscribed: "Presented to JOHN PYE, esq. by one, hundred and forty-three members of the Artists' Incorporated Annuity Fund, as tribute of gratitude for the eminent services he has rendered to the Society. 66 May 31st, 1830." Also, a vellum inscription, with the autograph signatures of the 143 subscribers to the Vase. The following is written on the vellum: "The Members of the Artists' Incorporated Annuity Fund, whose names are hereto subscribed, present to JOHN PYE, Esq. a piece of Plate, as a tribute of their regard, and to commemorate the many services he has rendered to the Fund by his zealous and able discharge of the several offices he has honourably held. "It is their desire to express, in the strongest terms, their sense of the obligation he has conferred on the Society, by originating and indefatigably assisting in bringing to maturity, a plan to increase the annuities of the superannuated members and their widows, by the publication of prints; and it is with high satisfaction they here record, that the first Plate produced an augmentation to the funds of nine hundred pounds. "May 31st, 1830," LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Works announced for Publication. caster. . A Geographical and Topographical Work on the Canadas, and the other British North American Provinces, with extensive Maps. By Lieut.-Col. BoUCHETTE, the Surveyor General of Lower Canada. Lady MORGAN has just committed to the press her new work on "France, in 182930," containing the substance of her Jour nal kept during her recent residence in that Country, with the striking changes which have taken place within the last fourteen years. Editions are to be published simultaneously in London and Paris. Boswell's Life of Johnson, complete in one smail octavo volume. Mr. JOHN ABRAHAM HERAUD, the author of the "Descent into Hell," is engaged upon another poem, in terza rima, to be called "The Resurrection," the argument of which will commence where that of the "Descent into Hell" concludes. Flora Oxoniensis, &c. Phænogamous Flants of Oxfordshire, and its contiguous Counties. No. I. of Views in India, from Sketches by Capt. R. ELLIOT, R. N. The Anatomy of Society, by Mr. ST. Јону. A Memoir of his late Majesty George the Fourth. By the Rev. GEO. CROLY, A. M. A Brief View of the different Editions of the Scriptures of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches.. Prince of Killarney, a Poem, by Miss BOURKE. The Northern Tourist, or Stranger's Guide to the North and North-West of Ireland. By P. D. HARDY. Six new Lectures on Painting. By the late HENRY FUSELI. Mr. BRITTON'S Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages, including the Words used by Old and Modern Authors. Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829. By J. E. ALEXANDER, 16th Lancers, A Memoir of the Rev. T. Bradbury, Author of "The Mystery of Godliness.' Christus in Coelo, &c. By the Rev. J. BROWN, of Whitburn. 1 London in a Thousand Years, and other Poems, by EUGENIUS ROCHE, late Editor of the Courier. Popular Lectures on the Prophecies relating to the Jewish Nation. By the Rev. HUGH M'NEILL, M.A. Rector of Albury, Surrey. The Greek Testament, with Critical and Explanatory Notes, in English. By the Rev. EDWARD BURTON, D.D. Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford. A Narrative of the Peninsular Campaigns, extending over a period of nearly six years' service in Spain and Portugal, from 1808 to 1814. Lord Byron's Cain, with Notes, vindicatory and illustrative, in 1 vol. 8vo. By HARDING GRANT, The Journal of a Tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, the Spanish Minstrel of 1828 and 1829, through Great Britain and Ireland.. Select Works of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Withers. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, LL.D. 63 Schola Salernitana, a Poem on the Preservation of Health, written in rhyming Latin verse, by Giovanni di Milano, in the name of the School of Salerno, and addressed to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an Introduction and Notes, by Sir ALEXANDER CROKE, D.C.L. and F.A.S. A Physiological History of Man, tracing his gradual progress through the various stages of animal existence, from his first formation to the destruction of his body. By H. W. DEWHURST, Esq. LONDON UNIVERSITY. prizes to the Students took place this day. July 14. The annual distribution of complimented the authors of the prizes, Mr. Denman presided on the occasion, and which were thus distributed: Latin-1. A. Allen. 2. S. Price. Greek--1. J. W. Donaldson. fan. 3. J. C. Meade. 2. A. AI English, "On the state of Euglish Literature in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the causes of its sudden advancement at that period"-1. R. W. Royson. 2. C. Demaine. 3. C. Duncan. Mathematics-The first class received cer tificates instead of a prize. The members Powell. The second class prize, J. Chance. were, Couut Corlas, W. A. Turner, Natural Philosophy-1. Count Corlas. 2. Powell. Botany-1. F. Taylor. 2. Professor's prize extraordinary, W. Griffin. Hebrew-W. C. Young, of Essex-street. French-1. Clowes, of Parliament-street. Law-1. R. D. Creagh. 2. J. Robinson. WINCHESTER, July 24. The Warden and Sub-Warden of New College, arrived at Winchester College, for the purpose of electing scholars. They were received at the entrance by the Right Rev. Warden (the Lord Bishop of Hereford), with the other members of the institution, and welcomed in a Latin oration, delivered with much spirit, by Mr. Hall, son of Dr. Hall, Master of Pembroke College. The following gentlemen obtained medals for their respective prize compositions, Gold Medals.-English prose: "On the necessity of moral courage in the conduct of life." Palmer. Latin verse: lowes. "Pharos Edystonia." Fel Silver Medals.-"T. Quinctii Oratio ad Populum Romanum." Gunner. Lord Erskine's speech upon the proseButler. cution of the Age of Reason."" COLLEGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. A College has been founded at Sydney, in New South Wales. The first stone was laid on the 26th of January last. The following inscription (iu Latin), engraved on a brass plate, was inserted in it: "This foundation-stone of Sydney College—an institution founded for the vigorous and pious pro motion of polite literature and the liberal arts among the youth of Australia —— was laid by Francis Forbes, chief justice of New South Wales, on an auspicious day, viz. the 26th January, in the year of our Lord 1830, in the happy reign of George IV.; Lieut.Gen. Ralph Darling being Governor of New South Wales." THE BYZANTINE HISTORIANS. The collection of the works of the Byzantine Historians is publishing under the auspices of Mr. Niebuhr, and other able philologists. Georgius Syncellus, and Nicephorus C. P., have recently appeared at Bonn. Syncellus has been entrusted to the revision of M. Dindorf, whose works have rendered him justly celebrated. In a short ANTIQUARIAN Some workmen digging out clay from a ditch in the neighbourhood of Kertch, a seaport and fortress of European Russia on the east coast of the Crimea, discovered in the month of March, 1829, three antique tombs, upon which were placed ten little statues in terra-cotta, with six vases of the same material (the form of one of which was most elegant), and a quantity of small articles of mother-of-pearl, ivory, and glass, belonging to the ornaments of a female. Some metallic articles, discovered in the same ditch, were so corroded by time, that they broke with the slightest effort. The statues, which are more or less injured, all represent the figures of women. Six of them are draped, and possess no attribute by which to recognise what divinities they personify. The four others form a kind of group, representing Venus and Love. The most remarkable of these pieces, and that which at the same time is the least injured, shews the goddess of Cytherea, seated on a rock, partially covered by fine drapery. By the side of the goddess stands on the rock a Term, surmounted with the head of Serapis, with the modius; and at the foot of the Term is the child of Venus, standing in a very graceful attitude. Below the rock are two Cupids, mounted, the one on a dolphin, the other on a swan. This composition is in a good style; and wants only the fore-arm of Venus, and the head of one of the Cupids. The Museum of Antiquities at Kertch has also made another new acquisition. M. Poumentsoff, Captain (jessaoul) of the Cossacks of the Black Sea, residing at Temruk, in the district of Tamane, has presented the Museum with a marble, having an ancient Greek inscription, containing a consecration or oblation to Hercules, and which bears the date of the time of King Perisade, the son of Spartocus. Unfortunately the part of the marble on which was the commence *Near this place stood the ancient town of Panticapæum, distinguished by the death of Mithridates. [July, preface, M. Dindorf states that he has availed himself of two manuscripts in the Paris library. The one served as the basis of the first edition published at Paris in 1652, by Father Goar; the other is men tioned in Bredow's Parisian Letters. M. Dindorf calls Goar mediocri homo doctrină, artis critica facultate nullâ, negligentiâ incredibili: but has nevertheless re-printed his Chronological Canon, his Notes, and even his Index! The republication of Syncellus must, however, be very serviceable at the present moment, facilitating as it does a knowledge of the dynasties of Egypt. As for Nicephorus, that Archbishop of Constantinople merely gave a chronographia com pendiaria, an abridgment, in which facts have been intercalated posterior to his epoch. RESEARCHES. ment of the inscription has been broken and lost. The following is the preserved part, the letters of which are very beautiful and distinct - ΑΔΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΣΠΑΡΤΟΚΟΥ ΑΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΚΡΑΤΟΥ ΗΡΑΚΔΕΙ King Perisade, the son of Spartocus, who is not mentioned in history, and who is known to us only lately, by a similar inscription found at Kertch a few years ago, and afterwards transported to Theodosia, reigued over the Bosphorus, after the Year 284 before Christ; the epoch at which, according to Diodorus Siculus, Spartocus IV. died. VENETIAN ANTIQUITIES. Dr. Labus, of Milan, (says the Revue Encyclopedique) has just published a series of very curious observations on some Latin inscriptions recently discovered at Venice, or in its neighbourhood, and particularly on an antique altar which was found last year in repairing the altar of the ancient chapel of the baptistery of the basilic of Saint Mark. In raising upon that occasion the valuable table of oriental granite which forms what in Italy is still called, after the usage of the primitive church, the mensa, or sacred table, it was discovered that it rested on an antique altar, dedicated to the sun, as appears from the following inscription, engraved in very beautiful Roman cha racters : SOLI Q. BAIENVS PATER Dr. Labus's explanations with respect to this monument and its inscription have for their principal object to show the worship 1830.] Antiquarian Researches.-Poetry. for which the altar had been used, and the title by virtue of which it was erected. He establishes, by a number of analogous ancient inscriptions of the same age, that the monument in question was consecrated to the worship of the Sun, revived in the east from that of the Persian god Mithra, and that it was one of the ministers of that worship, termed pater nommius, or, as Dr. Labus interprets it, legitimale father, consecrated father, who erected this monument of one of the oriental superstitions which longest and most obstinately disputed the ground with infant Christianity. Dr. Labus remarks, that the expression nomimus, hitherto unknown to Latin lexicographers, is only the Greek voos latinised, according to a custom of which the inscriptions of the same age furnish numerous examples; and that this expression answers to those of pater and sacratus, which appear by themselves in several Mithriac inscriptions. Dr. Labus might have added, that the title which seems to have been the most eminent in the Mithriac hierarchy, that of pater sacrorum, which is to be met with in several inscriptions of the second and third centuries, is probably the same which is expressed in this altar by the words pater nomimus ; since the Latin qualification of pater sacroTum cannot be rendered into Greek in a more precise and exact manner than by πατὴς νομίμων, words which re-appear, almost identically, under a Latin form, in the words pater nomimus. PHOENICIAN INSCRIPTION. A Phoenician inscription, says a French Paper, has just been found in Sicily, of the 65 year 2025 before our era, accompanied by a later translation in Greek. It speaks of a great famine in Canaan, and the emigration of a part of its inhabitants, who fixed themselves in the dominions of an Atlantide Prince who was then reigning, but whose name is unfortunately effaced. ANTIQUITIES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. On the 16th of June, as some labourers were digging on the common between Fulbourn and Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, they discovered a bronze battle-axe, or spear-head, in a fine state of preservation. Some human bones were likewise found, and several iron links, much corroded, near the spot. The bronze weapon is now in the possession of Mr. W. Hancock, of Fulbourn. Some few years since several ancient warlike instruments were found near the same spot; drawings of them were taken by the late Rev. T. Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A. and an acE. D. Clark, LL. D. and published in the count of them was written by the late Archæologia, vol. xix. p. 46; there were five in number, and all of them consisted of bronze, namely, two swords, a spear-head, and two forrules. In the year 1819, as some labourers were trenching up a yard upon the estate of Mr. Fromont, of Fulsurrounded and covered with bricks in a bourn, they discovered an earthen pitcher very careful manner. It was given to the late Rev. R. Fisher, the rector of Fulbourn. The "Fleam Dyke," beginning at Balsham, and ending at Fen Ditton, runs contiguous to the place of these discoveries. SELECT POETRY. AN ECLIPSE. HEAVEN'S flame-fring'd orb curtails its When incense woos the morn; Of Sol's transcendant blaze; The mountain capp'd with haze. Its snow-gemm'd forehead shrin'd in tears. GENT. MAG. July, 1830. 'Tis an Eclipse, of baneful sadness, That dark eclipse which soon comes on, A few brief hours, and Sol resplendent E'en thus, Sin's dread eclipse departs, June 22, 1830. RICHARD JESSON. |