The English Language. The difficulty of slowness (not above four miles an hour) of the applying rules to the pronunciation of our lan-motion produced. The discouraged inventor guage may be illustrated in two lines where the destroyed his ingenious machine; which, some combination of the letters ough is pronounced centuries later, was to become so powerful an in no less than seven different ways, viz. as agent in the arts and in navigation. Charles V., o, uf, of, up, ow, oo, and ock. however, ordered his expenses to be paid; and made him a present of 40,000 maravedis. Crustaceous Fish. A communication from M. Robineau Desvoidy was lately read at a meeting of the French ́Institute, in which the existence of the organs of smell in crustaceous fish is asserted. Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me Silk Worms. From comparative observations which have been made on the silk from Italian worms with yellow balls, and the Chinese race with white balls, it is proved that although the silk produced by the former is much more abundant, that produced by the latter is much more brilliant. Paragrèles. The utility of these instruments, which have of late years been much resorted to in various parts of the Continent, for the purpose of averting the devastation frequently occasioned by violent hail-storms, begins to be doubted by scientific men. Rice. A new machine for separating the grain of rice from its husk has been invented in Italy. It consists of two fluted cylinders, set in motion by an hydraulic wheel. These cylinders, revolving on a horizontal plan, detach the grain from the panicles. It subsequently passes across a wooden hurdle, while the straw is separated by the movement of the machine. Tides. At Leith, on the 6th, the tide, according to the almanack, should have reached high water at thirty-four minutes past seven o'clock, A. M., and at that time there was nine feet and a half of water marked on the gauge-board at the pier-end; but instead of receding, it remained stationary for about fifteen minutes, and then recommenced the flow, which continued till forty minutes past eight, when the tide had risen to eleven feet. Newspapers. We have formerly noticed the publication of an English newspaper at Singapore (the Chronicle), a copy of which has been obligingly sent to us; and it deserves to be mentioned, that we have now before us the first four numbers of another English newspaper published at Malacca! This novelty, called the Observer, was began in September last, and appears every fortnight. The paper of October 10th notices the loss of a French naturalist, Monsieur Teasie, who had been in the interior some time collecting curiosities, who was unfortunately drowned by the wreck of a vessel in which he had embarked. LITERARY NOVELTIES. ing publication, entitled, "Philosophy in Sport made SciWe have had handed to us the specimen of a forthcomence in Earnest," in which specimen are five wood-cuts, from designs by George Cruikshank, about the best and most amusing we have ever seen, even from his characteristic pencil. The object seems to be, to make marbles, blowing soap-bubbles, and other common plays, illustrate philosophical principles, and to impress them on the mind these whimsical prints. We think highly of the plan; and are sure that if the dialogue is well executed, and the drama of papa, teacher, mamma, child, pupil, &c. well sustained, it will become a very popular work. Classical Literature.-M. Mai will shortly publish, at Rome, some hitherto inedited fragments of the Greek historians Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Dion Cassius, Eunassius, and others, in one volume 4to. with a Latin translation by the editor, and some notes. This discovery, the most important of all those learned of Europe. that we owe to M. Mai, merits the entire attention of the In the press, a volume of Sermons, by the Rev. W. Dealtry, Rector of Clapham. Mr. Blackwood announces, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton. Mr. Godfrey Higgins, author of a Treatise entitled A Foreign Quarterly Review and Continental Literary Mr. Dewhurst, the author of a Dictionary of Anatomy and Physiology, is preparing a System of Osteology, illustrated with Engravings, in lithography, of the Bones, of the size of nature, from Drawings taken from the recent skeleton, and also from Cheselden's folio work on the bones. tory of Lesbos, by M. Lucien Plehn, has lately been published at Berlin. It is a very able work, and contains many curious and learned disquisitions. Lesbos.-Lesbiacorum Liber; or, a Description and His Mr. Ainsworth is preparing a second edition of Sir John Chiverton for publication. Mr. Peter Moore, it is said in some of the newspapers, promises to employ his leisure in the King's Bench prison (if sent thither for his debt as a director of one of the speculative companies), by writing first a Life of Sheridan, and secondly his own Memoirs,-time and place fitting, Mr. Gutch of Bristol has in the press a volume entitled ing Reasons for the author's Secession from the Unitarian Second Thoughts on the Person of Christ, &c.; containCommunion, and his adherence to that of the Established Church. In the Press, the Age Reviewed. A Satire. In preparation, the Book-Collector's Manual, or a Guide. to the knowledge of upwards of 20,000 rare, curious, and Contagion. The death of the Bishop of Lincoln, and the serious indisposition of other eminent personages who were at the inter-ready. ment of the Duke of York, render it desirable to ascertain if many others present on that occasion have been affected with sore throats or inflamed lungs; as we have read with some interest a little work, published by Sherwood, entitled Observations on Sound, containing objections to vaults under churches, including original views on the nature of contagion, &c. The secretary of the Royal Academy of Paris has written a high commendation of this little English work; and it is placed, by an unanimous vote, in the library of the AcaHalibut (in the Bay of Hammerfest), caught demy:-since which, occurrences have taken by means of hooks, sometimes attain the place in the South of France fully proving the enormous size of 500lb. weight, or even more; correctness of the theory therein advanced. and instances have been known of their Among other things, it asserts that heat upsetting the boat, when they have been in- arising from a large assemblage of persons over cautiously drawn up, without being first de- a vault, by producing a rapid evaporation of spatched. The flesh of the halibut, which is the stagnant air beneath, draws forth the known by the name of queite, is highly prized, poison from bodies that have died of mortiand esteemed a great delicacy, being beau-fication or malignant fevers; and that as soon tifully white, of a fine flavour, and exceedingly as these exhalations arrive at a certain defirm. Brooke's Lapland. gree of heat, embryo animalcula therein someSteam Vessels. In a collection of Spanish times contained receive animation, and may voyages and documents relative to the establish- therefore communicate to the throat or lungs ment of the Spanish marine, recently published at Madrid by Don Fernandez Navarrete, there is an account of a nautical experiment made by order of Charles V., which gives room to believe that the application of steam to navigation has been known nearly three hundred years. In 1543 Captain Blasco de Garay, of the Spanish Navy, requested the Emperor Charles V. to be allowed to make, in his presence, an experiment with a machine which would advance rapidly in the water without the assistance of oars or sails. Barcelona was chosen for the place of exhibition; and a vessel of 200 tons, called the Trinidad, and laden with corn, was placed at the disposal of the projector. Blasco de Garay kept to himself the means which he intended to employ; but he could no longer conceal them when on the day appointed he set them to work before the multitude which assembled on the occasion. It was observed that his principal instruments were a large copper, full of water, Mrs. Roche, in this sad situation, proposes to and two wheels placed on the outside of the publish by Subscription, "Contrast; or, Helena vessel. 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This Journal is supplied Weekly, or Monthly, by the principal Booksellers and Newsmen, throughout the Kingdom; but to those who may desire its immediate transmission, by post, we recommend the LITERARY GAZETTE, printed on stamped paper, price One Shilling. No. 532. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. 1827. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1827. PRICE 8d. imagination not flétri by a too intimate or a Our space precludes us from particularly mentoo long-continued intercourse with the mere tioning even the more prominent of these chaDe Vere, 4 vols. 12mo. H. Colburn, London, dry realities of life; a heart originally (as it racters; but it is scarcely possible to contem. appears to us from these volumes) too warm plate their portraits without feeling that many This is as it should be; the author of Tre- and too well-placed to have been either chilled of their principal features must have been mo maine having tasted of that cup of popular or indurated by the bad that may, or must be, delled from actual observations made on actual admiration offered willingly to a writer who can found mixed up with the good that is about persons: of course we say this without the make a high species of intellectual amusement us; and withal a practical sound sense that has slightest intention of impugning the positive the medium of communicating and impressing rarely been equalled:these together have assertion of the author, as to the absence of all beautiful and important moral lessons, has not enabled their fortunate possessor to produce personality in his portraits. We give implicit permitted any circumstances to keep him long what we will venture to pronounce to be two credit to the spirit of candour and good faith, from applying to the sweet draught again. most delightful works in the class to which in which (in his preface) he deprecates any In truth, it is the veritable Hippocrene of the they belong. charge of having intended to represent real poets. To the inspiration of this delicious We shall now forestall the complaints, and living, or even dead, people; and we conceive beverage, added, we doubt not, to the inward gratify the curiosity of our readers by pro- that deprecation to be in no way incompatible consciousness of possessing that power of de-ceeding at once to the pages before us. It even with the consciousness of having set down lighting and bettering his fellow-beings, we may be well to state briefly, that ambition, in what he has seen, felt, and heard, not what he owe a second work from the pen of this accom- its various classes and degrees, is the general has merely imagined. If it were not so, we plished writer. subject matter of this novel; and that the must take from him one of his chief merits, If the novel of De Vere were a first pro- value and virtue of real independence of mind and from his works one of their chief points of duction, we should deem ourselves called upon is the general moral sought to be inculcated. value, namely that power of observation to enter at some length into the characteristic The high-minded and high-descended De Vere which they so eminently display. Who will qualities displayed by its author, and entertain is born to little better than poverty. Left in deny, for instance, that, in the admirable our readers with an abstract of its plot, and a very early life almost entirely dependent on sketch of Wentworth, the brilliant kit-cat of sketch of its various characters, incidents, and the will of a tyrannous and overbearing elder Cleveland, the masterly outline of Sir Wm. so forth. But in the present instance we feel brother, his character becomes so modified by Flowerdale, or the highly-finished whole-length that all this would be superfluous, and that the early scenes and circumstances in which he of Clayton, every trait might not be traced to our task in presenting this early notice of is for a long period placed, that when he after-some one or other of the political leaders or De Vere is at once plain and easy. We wards, by the death of that brother, comes out followers of the last thirty or forty years ? have nothing to do but to say in what re-into the world the representative of a noble But who shall say that, therefore, any one of spects it resembles and in what it differs from name and the possessor of a small competency, these are portraits of actual persons? The its well-known predecessor, Tremaine; and he knows as little of the ways of that world, imputation would be no less illogical than then to call out a few of the most "noticeable" and is as little disposed to avail himself of his unfair. We will even go farther, and state passages, with the view of furnishing an high connexions for walking advantageously in our distinct belief, that notwithstanding the early foretaste of the feast to which the those ways, as if he had been bred in the wilds deprecatory passages alluded to, the author million" will speedily be invited, and at which of Siberia or the valleys of Arcadia. The himself would not be disposed to deny that we can assure them they will find food which, struggle between his settled determination to much, for instance, of the admirable sketch though dressed for the most part au naturel, preserve an honourable independence of spirit, of his great political leader, Wentworth, is combines, in no ordinary degree, the highest and his instinctive desire to raise and renovate modelled from the joint characters of the late and most delicate flavour with the most whole- the fallen fortunes of his house, form the main William Pitt and his present distinguished some and nutritious qualities. thread of the story-which thread, however, successor, Mr. Canning; that the excellent De Vere, or the Man of Independency, will is broken towards the close of the work by Herbert would never have existed but for be universally recognised as a companion work fortune flowing in upon the hero from an un- the previous existence of the still more exto its predecessor, Tremaine, or the Man of expected quarter, and thus permitting him to cellent Dr. Cyril Jackson; and (may we venRefinement. By this we do not mean to in- compass all the wishes of his heart and mind ture, without the imputation of impertinently dicate that there is any formal or purposed without any struggle or compromise at all. overstepping our office, to guess?) that not a resemblance between them, but merely that There is of course a lady in the case-beau- little of the charming touches included in the the same style of composition has been adopted tiful and immaculate as the heroine of such a episodes called "the Man of Imagination” in both, the same kind of material chosen, hero is bound to be; and, moreover, able by and "the Man of Content," might be traced the same class of figures introduced, and even her wealth, and evidently not ill-disposed by to the actual history of the author himthe same description of scenery and tone of her taste and discrimination, to do away all self. We might even go one step farther, and colouring employed. To drop the pictorial the scruples and difficulties of the said hero, by at least inquire, whether the amiable Lady metaphor, and indeed all metaphor, as ill- sharing her fortunes with him. But against Clanellan does not find something like a proasserted with the simplicity of the subject under this his pride and sense of independence rebel, totype in the equally amiable Duchess of notice,-De Vere is, in all the best and none no less than the real truth and delicacy of his Buckingham. But we should here be touching of the worst senses of the phrase, a novel of love:-and out of these adverse feelings grows on the precincts of private life; and this real life; the obvious and avowed object of the strongest and most interesting struggle, alone to say nothing of our limits for obwhich is to instruct through the medium of which lasts (to say the truth) somewhat longer servation being more than exhausted-warns amusement: and the means used for pro- than it need do namely, long after fortune us to confine the remaining portion of this viding both the instruction and the amuse- has set him on as perfect a level with the notice to illustrative extracts. ment, have been found in the extensive op- lady in wealth as he before was in birth and portunities which the author has evidently breeding. 66 enjoyed of looking at human nature as it is So much for the hero and heroine. The modified by the existing state of manners and other principal characters, some of which act society; and in a sagacity and penetration scarcely less prominent parts in the business of which have enabled him, in so looking, to the work, are all represented as more or less pierce beyond the mere surface of that nature connected with the political proceedings of the so modified. These advantages, added to an day in which the events are supposed to occur. Perhaps we cannot do better than begin by a passage which is evidently intended to fix upon the reader's memory the chief locality of the story. It is the family residence of the De Veres. De Vere and his biographer are riding together through a wood, in a hot summer's day. "The whole place looked so venerably in |