Dr. Farmer's Triplets.-There were three things which Dr. Farmer, the celebrated commentator on Shakspeare, loved above all other, viz.-good old Port! old clothes! and old books! and three things which nobody could persuade him to perform, viz. to rise in the morning! to go to bed at night! and to settle an account!-Spirit of Literature. Charles the First's Portrait-In St. John's College, Oxford, there is a very curious por trait of Charles I., done with a pen, in such a manner that the lines are formed by verses from the Psalms, and so contrived as to contain every psalm. When Charles II. was once at Oxford, he was greatly struck with this portrait, begged it of the college, and promised in return, to grant them whatever request they should make. This they consented to, and gave his majesty the picture, accompanied with the request-that he would return it.-Ibid. Safety Lock.-We have been favoured with an inspection of a new safety or protector-lock, apparently of great merit. It has been declared that, however complicated may be the wards or interior of a lock, it cannot be called perfectly secure from an ingenious artist. The inventor of this new lock therefore proposes to guard the keyhole, so that any attempt to force or pick the lock, must of necessity be discovered. For this purpose a small box or chamber, with a lid similar to a snuff-box, is affixed over the front of the lock, with a key-hole corresponding in size with that of the lock. The lid of this chamber being open, the bolt is turned, and the key with drawn in the usual way; after which a small paper label is laid over the key-hole, and the spring-cover shut down, so as to prevent any possibility of its removal except by violence. The person having the key can thus, in all cases, see, before he again opens the lock, whether any attempt has been made to open it during his absence. It is the invention of a Mr. Gottlieb, who holds an appointment in the Excise-Office, -Literary Gazette. Efficacy of the Essential Oil of Lemons in some Diseases of the Eyes.-M. Werlitz cuts a slice of lemon peel and places the upper part opposite the affected eye, and, the eyelids being opened, squeezes out the little drops of volatile oil contained in the tissue of the rind into the eye. The sensation produced is acute, and continues for an hour. If the pain caused should be severe, cold applications are to be employed. The effects attributed to the oil of the lemon peel are those of increasing the capillary circulation, and causing the absorption of morbid de compositions. From experiments which have been made at Berlin, it would appear that the following diseases are remedied by this treatment :-First, Inflammations of the eyes, which are passing into the chronic state, and which affect the external parts.Second, in the rheumatic and scrofulous forms of opthalmia. Third, in pannus and pterigium.-Fourth, in albugo and opacity of the cornea. Fifth, in cases where the texture of the cornea has lost its healthy density, and becomes soft and spongy. The remedy may be employed frequently during the day, depending on the irritation it produces.-Medical Gazette. The Stage. In spite of all the odium which bigots have attempted to cast upon it, the stage is, in every civilized country, a great moral engine. It has, indeed, its defects and its faults-but ought the art of printing to be discouraged, because the press may occasionally disseminate falsehood and error?-ought the pulpit to be pulled down, because it is sometimes taken possession of by the hypocritical and the depraved? It is through the medium of our external senses that the mind is, in general, most powerfully affected; and hence the very 66 pomp and circumstances," the glitter and the show, of a theatre, are to the great majority of the audience a thousand times better concomitants to the lessons of fortitude, integrity, or patriotism, which the poet may inculcate, than the bare walls and uninterrupted solitude of one's own closet. It is upon this principle that the more sensible portion of the Roman Catholics countenance that multiplicity of ritual observances and empty ceremonies with which their religion is loaded. Abstract excellence-pure and unadorned virtue, is of too spiritual an essence to attract the regard, and fix the attention, of the multitude. The wholesome draught must be crowned with flowers and seasoned with sweets, else the goblet will be sent away untasted. It is also worth observing, that the stage invariably follows, and never attempts to precede, public opinion. It does not, therefore, so much guide, as it is guided by, the moral character of the people at large. Before the Reformation, the theatre varied little from the cathedral, for within the walls of each the rites and mysteries of Catholicism almost equally prevailed. In the dissolute and profane days of Charles the Second, the stage, carried away by the current, was obliged to admit the ascendancy of such men as Vanburgh and Congreve. In later times, as the national manners improved, the stage has assumed a purer and a higher tone, for the authors who write must invariably adapt themselves to the audiences who judge. This being the case, he who attempts to convict the stage of immorality, pronounces a libel against his fellow-countrymen. The author of a recently published work, entitled "the Drama brought to the Test of Scripture," not only declares all stage representations immoral, but is strongly inclined to believe, that every sober citizen whom one may see in the pit, or respectable mother of a family whom one may behold in the boxes, will be consigned to devouring flames through the whole course of eternity. As for the performers themselves, they are irretrievably damned; and the hackney-coachmen who convey parties to the theatre, have no more chance of salvation, than if they were so many Beelzebubs. Dramatic critics have just as little hope; and a whole convocation of bishops could not keep writers of plays one hour out of the bottomless pit. With a person who entertains such sentiments, it is hopeless to argue. Wrapped up in the hairy mantle of self-righteousness, he looks half in pity and half in scorn, on the rest of the world; and though he richly deserves an hour or two of the gridiron for his pre sumption, we think it better merely to ac knowledge that we are aware of his existence, and then to pass him by with the calm su periority of silence.-Edinburgh Literary Journal. Anecdote of Bunyan-Banyan may be supposed to have been always vehement and vigorous in delivery, as he frequently is in his language. One day, when he had preached with peculiar warmth and enlargement, some of his friends came to shake hands with him after the service, and observed to him what " a sweet sermon" he had delivered. "Ay!" he replied, " you need not remind me of that; for the devil told me of it before I was out of the pulpit." This anecdote authenticates itself.- Southey's Life of Bunyan. Improvement in Lithography.-Senefeldor, the inventor of this art is now at Stutgard, where he is busily employed in bringing to perfection a new invention, which is of the following nature:-By means of a single plate he prints off a painting in oils, and is thus enabled to illuminate either an engraving on copper or from stone, in all the modifications of its shadings. We are told that he has already made such progress with this invention, as to afford the promise of re sults, which bid fair to form an era in the art of illuminating prints. He has also invented artificial plates of stone, which are a most essential improvement upon the natural plates hitherto made use of; inasmuch, as their portability and cheapness will greatly reduce the expense of the plates, and, at the same time, give facilities of transmission and carriage, which the ponderous stones at present employed have never possessed. Athenæum. END OF VOL. IV. Animation, how to restore when suspended, Antediluvian remains, 32 Apoplexy, 507 Apple pie, 119 Buddagurs, mode of salutation by them, Burns, songs of, 263, 438 Burns, efficacy of flour in, 416 Burning springs in South America, 400 ones, 318 Byron, his poetical character, 168 Cambridge, three years at, 393 Cavalry tactics, 402 Celeric rave, to dress, 507 Cherokee newspaper, 32 tree, the experimental one at Goll- China, wells of salt and fire in, 505 nitz, 508 Blood, transfusion of, 463 Chinese dainty, 185 Christiania, 93 Chronometers, Captain Owen's plan for Ciphering, Egyptian method of, 95 Clapperton, note on his journey into Africa, 544 Clubs in London, list and number of them, Coals, tax on, art.-" Good Fires," 149 Cochineal, method of its being inoculated Coffee, wholesomeness of, 415 Cold in Norway, 185 effects of it when intense, 474 Combustion, spontaneous human, 441 Compression, theory of it applied to discover Blue appearance of the heavens, cause of the, Consumption, experiments on the production of, 58 extravagance, 318 Delivery of goods, nature of evidence on, Gibbon's history, 348 -, sagacity of, 96, 182 Gluttony, 252 Good sort of people, 241 Gooseberries, method of retarding, 508 Gooseberry wine, French way of making, 507 Gross-beak, the, 27 Donkin, Sir Rufane, on the course of the Grottos of Pratolino, 412 Etna, 397 Evangelical ladies, 89 Extracts from a sea book, 496 Eye, curious account of the regeneration of two remarkable cases of insensibility of Famatina, the two miners of, 214 Fever, recollections of a night one, 302 Fire wells in China, 505 arms, improvement in, 318 Fires, dress to walk in, 128 -, good, 149 First and last crime, 121 appearance, 175 kiss, 370 Fish, re-animation of frozen ones, 415 Flour, efficacy of it in burns and scalds, Flowers, love of, 159 Landscape gardening, on forming artificial Laocoon, occurrence, similar to it in reality, Foot-marks of cattle, skill of the Boyeros in Law making, English, 57 tracking them, 127 Foster, Mr. Leslie, 82 Lawyer, notes of one, 94, 126, 157 Fractured limbs, Arabian method of curing, Leeches, reproduction of, 384 384 France, the Anglo-mania in, 128 French criminal trials, 351 Fruit, how to preserve without sugar, 350 Fuseli the painter, 173 diseases communicated by, 349 Liabilities of husband and wife after a sepa- ration, 94 Libel, law of, 157 Linnæus, anecdote of, 349 Lisbon, mode of knocking at large houses Parr, Dr., the life and writings of, 476 Liquors, 243 Locked jaw, improved sand bath for, 30 Londonderry, Marquis of, remarkable cir- Magnetic needle, experiments with it, 202 Malt, the sweet potatoe a substitute for it, Man Mountain, the, 85 Manners make the man, 156 Marine animals, poisonous effects of fresh , eruption of them on one side of the body only, 508 Mesmerism, 129 Milton, French critique on, 442 Molluscous animals, 209 Monkey, anecdotes of a Diana one, 25 Monsters with two heads, 542 Mortality, law of, 443 Murderer's last night, the, 466 Musical fame, instability of, 39 instrument, new, 256 Mutton hams, 542 Partridges, the snaring of, 127 Perouse, discovery of the fate of, 491 Lines, 132, 147, 280, 282, 313, written in a cemetery, 166 On a modern Orpheus, 143 Song, by T. Campbell, 70 To Egeria, 380 Who loves me best? 218 Poisons, the guaco a cure for, 56 Pompey's statue, 508 Portrait painting, on, 504 Potatoe, the sweet one, a substitute for malt, Pratolino, the grottos of, 412 Prescribers, gratuitous, 17 --, chapter on, 433 Prussic acid, experiments with, 251 -, efficacy of in various diseases, 442, 508 Northern languages, on the study of them, Quarters, recollections in, 49 |