LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. The mania for sea-bathing is well treated of, and the author learnedly has proved how different must be its effects on different constitutions: he quotes the practice in Dublin of the children belonging to a House of Industry, brought regularly down to the sea-side, there to be immersed every morning all indiscriminately. Many of them, pale and shivering with fear, that frequent The Mother's Medical Assistant ; containing Instructions for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diseases of Children. By Sir Arthur Clarke, M. D, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. &c. &c. London, 1 vol. 12mo. THIS work is one of the best among the several that have lately been published relative to the treatment of children during infancy, and ought to be prized and duly appreciated by those to whom it is parti-highly interesting and useful work, by ar cularly dedicated, namely, "tender and affectionate mothers, whose happiness is involved in that of their children." Sir Arthur Clarke commences his useful work with treating of the diseases incident to a child from the first month, and then, through progression, to its early years of childhood: he wisely displays the absurdity of some yet prevailing customs observed by nurses, in the moulding of children's heads, &c. This learned physician is an utter enemy to drugs; and it is worthy of observation, that those mothers who are continually physicing their children, are seldom blessed with those that are healthy. Sir Arthur strongly recommends animal food as more nutritive and healthy for nurses than broths or soups; and to vary their food sooner than to live too exclusively on one kind. Above all things, cleanliness and exercise are particularly recommended; while we are happy to find so able a practitioner explodes the bathing in cold water, experience daily shews that the tepid bath is the most healthful practice ever yet resorted to, both for infants and adults. We would wish schoolmasters, and those who are in the habit of coercing children, to peruse the pages 80 and 81 of this work with particular attention: a practice of boxing the ears, as it is called, often strikes heavy on the organs of the head of a child from a strong muscular hand; and these blows are sometimes not confined to this habit, but other parts of the head have fre- || quently been known to have been struck by an enraged pedagogue: to this, Sir Arthur Clarke attributes frequent disorders of the brain, which often end in hydrocephalus, or water on the brain. habit cannot conquer, become victims to their terror for the remainder of their lives. We shall close our remarks on this dently recommending it to the perusal of all mothers, and also to medical men. Petrarch and Laura; translated from the French of Madame de Genlis. London, 2 vols. 12mo. IN one of our preceding Numbers we noticed this work in the original French; we have but little farther to remark on this, except that we sincerely congratulate Mr. Colburn on having obtained so excellent a translation; which, as Madame de Genlis is well skilled in the English tongue, must be highly gratifying to her, as not only the purity of her language, but the harmony of her style, are so well preserved in this translation. The story on which Madame de Genlis has founded her romance, seems to be an Enfant Cheri of the author; in a dedica tion, addressed to the Countess de Choiseuil, she thus expresses herself—" You will often read this work, and always with affection; you will retrace in it my thoughts, my opinions, my sentiments, my entire soul; in short, all that has attached us, by sympathy, to each other. A portrait, a resemblance of mere features, is only a weak and fugitive resemblance, so short a time may rob it of its likeness; the soul neither sleeps nor dies; and in that absence, the name of which makes us start, all that it possesses of goodness, generosity, and tenderness, not only remains, but must become purified and exalted; for such a soul to pourtray itself in its productions, is for it to leave to friendship the only remembrance that can never fail: it is thus that we are enabled to live always with those we love." but Petrarch is almost the God of Madame to regard the Solitary in the light of a deliverer. de Genlis' idolatry; she exalts his literature, the father of Elodia are all confiscated; even beyond what it really was, and she || and by a chain of circumstances which takes an extensive license as a romance renders Elodia an orphan, she is brought writer, against what was actually historic in the lives of Petrarch and of Laura; on which, however, we have commented before, in our review of the original work; ́and we merely now have to repeat our praise on the very correct and elegant translation of these two interesting volumes. FRENCH LITERATURE. Le Solitaire; by M. le Vicomte d'Arlin court. Paris, 2 vols. 12mo. THE Scenery of this romance is laid in Switzerland, and transports its readers to the fifteenth century: the Solitary is an historical personage, the contemporary of Charles VII. and Louis XI. The virgin of Underlach, the orphan Elodia, is the daughter of a nobleman beJonging to the court of Burgundy. We will let the Solitary speak in his own words-"Alas!" he says, "I have known grandeur, and I have learnt to despise it; I have possessed riches, and I have thrown them away; I have been the favourite of glory, and I have execrated it." However, the Solitary does not embrace a monastic life. The following extract concerns the young female orphan, the heroine of the work: "Elodia had just attained her eighteenth year. Brought up in solitude-simple, pure, and artless-she bad heard much of the world, its pleasures, and its grandeurs, without being able to attach any idea of them; the valley of Underlach was to her the whole universe; it was sufficient for all her desires. She had heard other climates vaunted of, and other lands, without her feeling a wish to explore them. One only spot on this globe she found worthy of exciting her admiration; as the single name of God is sufficient for that soul that gives itself up to religion." It is now time to present to our readers the father of Elodia. A model of duty, he was pointed out by him who, in the end, is called the Solitary, as the chief of a revolt, and he is sacrificed. It is requisite to add, that he was the former friend of the Prince. One crime always brings on another. The possessions belonging to In spite of the horror with which the chief character is apt to inspire the reader, there are few books read with more avidity than Le Solitaire. If the terrific and pathetic are carried up to the highest degree-if horrible pictures and frightful catastrophes are sometimes presented, the reader is also regaled by some delightful scenes. The following is a beautiful reflection on solitude : "To contemplate nature by a magical prism, what is there requisite to man, thrown amongst his fellow men? A heart that beats responsive to one's own. He only is desolate who wants sensibility; he only is truly proscribed who is forgotten." If any one is desirous of knowing the talent possessed by the Vicomte d'Arlin court as an historian, let him read the following portrait of a King, contemporary with the Solitary :— "Louis XI. a professed master of dissimulation, was never more formidable than when he appeared gentle. The more expressions of friendship were found playing on his lip, so much the more was his heart replete with hatred. Jealous and perfidious, he could never pardon superiority and power in another. To humble grandeur, and aggrandize meanness, was his constant system. Ambitious, perjured, and sanSuperstitious without piety, he was neither a guinary, he affected the noblest sentiments.good son nor a good father, a husband or a friend." One of the most interesting passages is the refusal of the nuptial benediction to the Solitary, when it is discovered what rank and title he formerly bore among mankind. The style of M. d'Arlincourt accords well with his subject. Endowed with feeling and imagination, he possesses the twofold talent of exciting emotion, and of captivating the attention of his readers. WORKS IN THE PRESS. In the mouth of May will be published, The Privateer, a Tale, in two volumes, foolscap 8vo.-It is proper to state, that the above Tale was written, christened, and sent to the press, six weeks before the announcement of the new romance entitled The Buccaneers; by that powerful writer, the author of Waverley, &c. The publisher feels himself called upon to make the above statement, that the public may not for a moment consider either the author or himself capable of using the synonymous title or subject for the interested and disreputable purpose of deceiving. A new edition of the Pleasures of Home, a Poem, with corrections and improvements; and additional pieces by the same author, is in preparation. Speedily will be published, a new edition of Chefs d'Euvre of French Literature, consisting of interesting extracts from the classic French writers, in prose and verse; with biographical and critical remarks. Memoirs of the Revolution of Mexico; with a narrative of the campaign of General Mina, anecdotes of his life, and observations on the practicability of connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean, by means of navigable canals. By W. D. Robinson. REVIEW OF NEW MUSIC. Give me again that look of love. THERE is a very sweet and tender softness in the preludio to the charming commencement of the pleasing words, written by Miss M. L. Rede, of this air. We have ever admired the fair poet's powers; and the composer, Augustus Voight, has done justice to her numbers. The latter part of this composition, like the words, display all the innocent and playful kind of purity of love in its spring, particularly in the expression given to "One little kiss, and then good-bye"Now gentle dreams be thine love!" EXHIBITION OF ENGRAVINGS, BY LIVING BRITISH ARISTS. WE received a notice last month of this interesting display of British talent being || about to be opened in the middle of April, under the patronage of his Majesty, but which notice came too late for our insertion. The Exhibition will consist of the works of living British engravers; and it has met with every encouragement, not only from its royal patron, but from very many of the nobility and gentry. A committee of eminent Engravers superintend this institution, which is effected by general subscription, and will be opened in the most eligible part of Soho-square. At No. 9, in the same square, communication may be had with the gentlemen forming the committee. father has bad children, than that a wicked parent is blest with a virtuous offspring. It is better to lose an advantage through procrastination than to run into an evil by precipitation. A scrupulous apprehension of wounding the feelings of others, is liable to be construed into a servile attempt to conciliate universal favour The most candid dispositions will find it necessary, in its intercourse with the world, on some occasions to conceal what it does feel, and on others to assume what it does not. The two vices that are most prevalent in the world are selfishness and ingratitude. BIRTHS. In Duchess-street, Lady T. S. Rice, of a son. In Charles-street, Berkeley-square, the lady J. Neville, of a daughter. "At Teignmouth, the lady of Sir E. F. Stanhope, Bart of a son. other children. He is succeeded in his titles by Lord Castlereagh, now Marquis of Londonderry. At her house in Southampton, the Right Hon. Lady F. James, aged 46 years. At her seat in Hampshire, in her 52d year, the Right Hon. Dowager Viscountess Gage. At Stanmore, Lady C. Finch, youngest sister to the Earl of Aylesford. The Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth, wife of Gore Townsend, Esq. of Honington-hall, Warwick, and sister to the late Earl of Plymouth. At her house in Park-street, in her 89th year, Viscountess Pery, relict of Viscount Pery, and mother to Viscountess Northland and the Hon. Mrs. Calvert. At his house in Pall-mall, Sir T. C. Bunbury, Bart. in the 81st year of his age. At Brighton, Sir C. Edmonstone, of Dunheath, Bart. M. P. for the County of Stirling. At Bath, Mrs. Twisden, daughter of Bishop Twisden, and sister to the Dowager Countess of Jersey. At Florence, Captain W. R. Boughton, R. N. C. B. and Colonel of Marines. In Wardrobe-place, Doctors'-Commons, in his 80th year, W. Cox, Esq. Deputy of the Ward of Castle Baynard, which Ward he had represented In Green Park Place, Bath, the lady of Major in the Court of Common Council for 44 sucP. F. Thorne, of a son. The lady of Sir P. V. Broke, Bart. of a son. MARRIED. At Cirencester Church, Gloucestershire, Lady F. C. C. Talbot, eldest daughter of his ExcelJency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Earl of Dartmouth. The Rev. P. W. Pegus, to the Countess Lindsey. After the ceremony they left town for her Ladyship's seat, Uffingham, Lincolnshire. Lately, at the Palace of Canino, near Rome (the residence of Lucien Bonaparte), T. Wyse, Esq. jun eldest son of T. Wyse, Esq. of the Manor of St. John, near Waterford, to Letitia, daughter of L. Bonaparte, Prince of Canino. Dr. Warburton, of Clifford-street, Bond-street, to Ann, eldest daughter of J. Abernethy, Esq. of Bedford-row. DIED. In the 838 year of his age, at Castle Stewart, in the County of Down, the most noble the Marquis of Londonderry. His Lordship was twice married: first, to Lady Sarah Frances, sister to the Marquis of Hertford, by whom he had issue Viscount Castlereagh; and secondly, to Lady Frances, sister to the Marquis of Camden, by whom he had issue Lord Stewart (the present British Ambassador to the Court of Vienna), and cessive years. Suddenly, Charlotte, second daughter of the Right Hon. Sir J. Mansfield, Knt. at his house, in Russell-square. At his house, in St. James's-square, after an illness of several years, R. Calvert, Esq. brother to the Member for Southwark. Dr. Gregory, the celebrated Physician and Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. At her house at Boguor, Mrs. Trowbridge, in her 67th year, sister of the late Admiral Sir T. Trowbridge, Bart. In Dublin, R. M'Donnell, Esq. well known as a zealous advocate for Catholic Emancipation. Lately, after a long illness, Baron N. Edelcranz, President of the Board of Trade, the most learned and indefatigable of the political economists of Sweden. At Greenwich Hospital, Admiral Sir J. Colpoys. By this event the Governorship of that Asylum becomes vacant. Sir J. Colpoys stood fourth on the list of Admirals of the Red. At his house in Berners-street, after a long and painful illness, James Bartleman, Esq. the most eminent musician and vocalist of the age. He joined to unrivalled powers of voice a superiority of true science and taste, which placed him above all competitors in his profession. London: Printed by JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this MAGAZINE, and of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, and Published at No.4, Brydges-street, Covent-Garden. BEING Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, FOR MAY, 1821. A New and Improved Series. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. A correct Likeness of MISS DANCE, of the Theatre Royal Covent-Garden. 2. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a PARISIAN DINNER-PARTY DRESS. 3. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in an ENGLISH COURT DRESS. LITERARY CONTENTS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DIS-Suppression of Religious Houses in England 204 TINGUISHED AND ILLUSTRIOUS CHARACTERS. Revenues thereby annexed to the Crown Such Husbands are Scarce. .... 205 Meeting between the Major and Clementina 205 between the Husband and the Lover 206 The Widow and her Son, The piety of the poor The Gleaner's Porte-Folio. A Mother's love 196 Reflections on a Ship ib. Woman's affection ib. ib. ib. ib. Sketch of the Revolution at Naples. Carbonari formed into Provincial Militia ... 212 Fatal accident History of Amelia. Curious Letter and sham Marriage 197 ............ 216 Eccentricities of literary Men Letter to the Editor. Dangerous Neighbours A Valetudinarian. Fancied attractions A Tour through London. Freedom of relatives A careful Servant Sketches of Public Characters. The late Granville Sharp, Esq. .... Feelings of Mr. Sharp on the American war His belief in the Millenium ib. Monastic Institutions. Different Orders The impostor Perkin Warbeck Essay on Newspaper Reading The Trifler. Fashionable Education Letter from Censor The Listener. A polite Husband 919 |