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Among other Sketches in this Work will be found: First Week in the Service-Nights in the Guard House Journal of a Campaign at the Horse Guards-Mess Table Chat-Duelling in the Service-Absent without Leave-Recollections of the last Cam TREATISE on ENGLISH VERSIFI.paign in the Peninsula--The Hussar and the Commissary-The CATION. By the Rev. WILLIAM CROWE, Lewesdon Hill, and other Poems, printed Half-pay Captain Old Charley-Rations, or else--Infernal Duty BUC Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington Street. THE LITERARY GAZETTE, &c.] Syntax of the Eton Greek Grammar, Rule by Rule; followed by and the NETHERLANDS, in the Summer of 1835, including Tour from Mainz to Cologne. 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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. 540. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. scription. The following comparison between and is often rendered dazzling by a multiplicity Titian and Paul Veronese comprehends in a of dark-brown leaves rustling up against it; while the blue and yellow of his skies find a corresponding harmony in the green and brown of his foliage, and ground or stems of his trees. The back-ground to his Peter Martyr,' claims equal admiration with his figures. Practical Hints on Colour in Painting. Illus-very brief space a distinct and perfect character trated by Examples from the Works of the of the respective merits of those great men :Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch Schools. By "In comparing Titian with P. Veronese, John Burnet. 4to. London, 1827. Car- the first great difference which strikes us, is penter and Son. the general warmth which seems diffused over MR. BURNET has now completed his "Prac- the works of the former. Titian's objects are "The great breadth of colour and effect in tical Hints on Painting;" and a more interest-represented under the influence of an evening the few landscapes from the pencil of Rubens, ing work has never come under our notice. In sky, when the white atmosphere is filled with stamps them with that splendour which his this third and last part of it, he has shewn, the yellow rays of the setting sun, swallowing knowledge and practice in the higher departwith great ability, that, as in composition and up the little differences of colour in one broad ments of the art so easily enabled him to accomin chiaroscuro, so also in the general manage- universal splendour. The works of Veronese plish. As he has generally represented his ment of colour in a picture, the great masters possess the freshness of morn, when the dewy scenery under the influence of a rising or setproceeded upon principles varying, yet harmo- moisture spreads a delicate veil over the scene, ting sun, he was enabled to employ the most nious; and which, while they occasionally and every object glitters with pearls; or when glowing colours with a greater appearance of seemed to be in direct hostility to one another, they give out the insufferable brightness of mid- truth. The yellow light struggling amidst always tended to the same triumphant results. day in contact with masses of clear blue sky a multiplicity of delicate, purples and blues in To the professor, Mr. Burnet's remarks must This difference in the general look of their pic- the sky, assumes a deeper hue as it sheds its be invaluable; and the general observer will, tures pervades the most minute parts of the colour upon trees and herbage, until it reaches by their attentive perusal, be enabled, in most composition. We seek in vain, in the works the foreground in one mass of warm and transcases, to detect the causes of the pleasure of Titian, for those delicate gray tones which parent colour; and though the light commences which he receives from the contemplation of a we see in the flesh of Veronese: in Titian in pale yellow and white, it terminates in the fine picture; and will perhaps be surprised to they are absorbed in one general rich glaze. In foreground in rich brown and red. The find that what he may have been accustomed Veronese, the grays of the architecture, the landscape presented to the National Gallery by to consider as merely fortuitous or happy, is shadows of the white drapery, of the clouds, Sir George Beaumont, and The Wateringthe consequence of consuminate knowledge and &c. all partake of freshness and delicacy, Place,' at Montague House, are excellent exskilful combination. having a resemblance to the tender tints in amples of his mode of treating colours. In My endeavour," says Mr. Burnet in his size-colour; while in Titian they assume an this latter, the green of his middle ground and preface," has been to investigate and arrange, appearance of the same tints washed over with blue of his distance are of a more positive chaunder some tangible form, the many loose sug- a glazing of transparent yellow. That they racter; reminding one more of the colour of gestions which lie scattered in the different both reached perfection in their works may be Van Uden. His figures are generally employed wathors who have treated of the subject; to reasonably concluded from the superiority they to enable him to introduce, more naturally, his collect and commit to paper those rules of prac- still hold above all those who have proceeded strong reds or browns, as his light falls into the tice which artists are guided by, without, per-upon the same principles." shadow side of his picture; or to focus his strong haps, being aware from what source they have The distinguishing qualities of the land-colours in the foreground. If his green colours been derived, but which, as Reynolds says, are sometimes more violent than, under such cir⚫ pass current from one to another;' and to cumstances, we might expect to see in nature, illustrate by slight examples, many of the In the landscapes of Claude we may per- they are kept in check, and counteracted, by arrangements of colour from the Venetian ceive a breadth and effect which has served as his warm brown colours. In this particular he hool (who, with the Bolognese school, were an example down to the present time; and has been admirably imitated by Gainsborough; the first to collect into masses their warm and which may be considered as furnishing hints whose later works possess the same brilliancy cold colours), down to the Flemish and Dutch for the treatment of subjects embracing a wide of effect, with the yellow tones approaching schools, who may be said, by the excellence of expanse of country; a softness in the colour, more to the depth of Titian." their works, to have established upon unerring either from the interposition of the atmosphere, The library of no lover of the fine arts can principles the whole theory of chiaroscuro and or breadth of shadow. His green tints are sel- henceforward be considered complete without colouring."—" If," he modestly adds, "by dom violent, and his blue of the sky and distance Mr. Burnet's work. In order that the three these few hints thrown together I have pointed is filled with retiring gray tones. His shadows, parts of which it consists may be bound toout a shorter road to the student, something if illuminated, are touched upon with cool re-gether, he has added to the last part, the has been gained; and should it stimulate his flected lights, which treatment, if it deprive general title of, "A Practical Treatise on mind to investigate the different combinations them of the rich tones arising from transparent Painting; in Three Parts ;" and, with great colour which please or offend his eye, a de- glazings, gives them that truth which they propriety, has dedicated the whole to Sir Thogree of certainty will attend his practice unat-possess in nature. At sunrise or sunset, his mas Lawrence; "who, not only in his own tainable by the mere habit of copying, either light generally possesses its characteristic fea- admirable productions exhibits the best princifrom nature or from art. I have aimed at ture, and is seldom charged with strong colour; ples of art, but warmly and generously encou establishing no theory but such as exists in the his darkest shadows are prevented from being rages the cultivation of them by others; fosarks of the best colourists, and those effects heavy, and receive a portion of air from the tering in the most liberal manner every effort in nature which are daily passing before us." introduction of figures dressed in strong blue calculated to contribute to so desirable an Extracts from the more technical portions of draperies; and the warm colours of his build-object." Mr. Burnet's work would be unintelligible with-ings and ground are focused, or rendered less at the illustration of the plates, eight in number, harsh, by figures dressed in still more positive which are executed in a very spirited, artist- colours. like manner, and which are tinted so as to con- "If we contemplate the landscapes of vay an admirable idea of above twenty of the Titian, we find in them the same greatness of master-pieces of Titian, Paul Veronese, Rubens, style in composition and colour which pervades THE name of Pickersgill is so associated with Vandyke, Rembrandt, Cuyp, Teniers, Ostade, his most sublime works. The light of his visions of oriental loveliness, that we took up De Hooge, Hobbima, &c. But we will subjoin clouds assumes a deep-toned brightness, aided this volume with feelings of no ordinary exa few passages which are of a more general de-by the contrast of his dark azure and distances;pectation; nor have we been far disappointed. scapes of Claude, Titian, and Rubens, are thus Tales of the Harem. By Mrs. Pickersgill. 12mo. pp. 191. London, 1827. Longman and Co. That exquisite Manmaddin floating on his lotus couch down the Ganges; that fair Turkish girl, with her dark dreaming eyes, gazing on her love letter of flowers;-these have been Mrs. Pickersgill's inspiration; and well has she proved that poetry and painting are sister arts. The plan of these tales is very poetical; they are told to beguile summer evenings past in marble halls, to the music of the lute and the gushing fountain. We shall catch a few notes at random. "The Indian Girl's Song. In our wreath be seen, With the champaca sweet, And yet that slender, fragile form, More like a weak, exotic flower, Her slumbers with the echoing lute; Such are the contents of this little volume, from which we cannot part without congratulating Mrs. Pickersgill on her sweet and graceful performance. Scenes and Occurrences in Albany and Cafferland, South Africa. 12mo. pp. 214. London, 1827. W. Marsh. THIS is a delightful little volume, written with great liveliness and observation: it will be a treat indeed to fireside travellers, for the author possesses to a great degree the faculty of bringing the scene completely before your eyes; witness the following lion hunt : "Mr. S. had chased in the direction of the mimosas, trenching on the ground which our comrades were to take; he was getting closer The following extract has some truly eastern second time, when his eyes glanced on the longto his object, and was about to dismount a description: Fair was the eve; the sun's last beam Is seen so fair, so sweet an hour, In soft repose, on shrub and flower; Were struck by one who felt the pain Their slender, polished limbs they lave, animal. The last shot, however, had convinced us that our position was not safe, for the ball passed very near us. We called to inform the party of this, and they resolved on another plan of attack. They desired us to station two Hottentots on a hill above our position, and we were to join them. We crossed again through the bush, and it was then determined that we were all to dismount, and tie our This is the usual plan, and it is done to secure horses together, and then to advance on foot. any person from gallopping off by his horse taking fright or otherwise, which would induce the lion to pursue, and thus one or other might be sacrificed. We had hardly begun to tie our horses, when the Hottentots stationed on the hill, cried out that the lion was running off at the lower end, where he had attempted to escape before. We were on horseback in a se cond, but the lion had got a-head; we had him however in full view, as there was nothing to intercept it. Off he scampered. The Tambookies, who had just come up, and mixed amongst us, could scarcely clear themselves of our horses; and their dogs howling and barking,- -we hallooing, the lion still in full view, making for a small copse, about a mile antelopes on our left, scouring off in different distant, and the number and variety of the wished-for game,-an enormous lion! He was directions, formed one of the most animating walking majestically slow, but when Mr. S. spectacles the annals of sporting could produce. gave the tallyho to us, he couched, and Diederik and Mr. S. being on very spirited seemed inclined to wait, but soon afterwards horses, were the foremost, and we wondered to cantered off to the mimosas. In a few seconds see them pass on in a direction different from we were all up, at least our division. The the copse where we had seen the lion take first object was to prevent him from climbing covert. Christian gave us the signal to disthe mountain; we therefore rode through the mount, when we were, as well as could be mimosas, about three hundred yards from where judged, about two hundred yards from the he had entered, and got between him and the copse. He desired us to be quick in tying the heights. Diederik Muller and Mr. S., with horses, which was done as fast as each came up. their servants and led horses, then rode round And now the die was cast,there was no rethe little grove, whilst we were stationed treating. We were on lower ground than the where we first entered. The grove was hardly lion, with not a bush around us. Diederik five hundred yards in length, and twenty in and Mr. S. had now turned their horses, for as breadth, consequently we could by this arrange- we afterwards learned, they had been run ment command the whole of it. True to our off with in consequence of their bridles having engagement, as well as heartily wishing their broken. The plan was to advance in a body, assistance, we waited for the other party. The leaving our horses with the Hottentots, who other part of our division having rode round the were to keep their backs towards the lien, grove, came up opposite to us, but at a distance, fearing they should become unruly at the sight and as we saw them dismount we did the same. of him. All these preparations occupied but a Our situation was not very enviable; we had few seconds, and they were not completed,but one large gun, but Mr. Rennie, who carried when we heard him growl, and imagined he it, was perfectly collected. We were talking was making off again but no, as if to reto each other rather in a whisper, when Mr.trieve his character from suspicion of cowardice Rennie very coolly said, Listen, the gentle- for former flight, he had made up his mind man is grumbling.'-The sound was so very in turn to attack us. To the growl succeeded like distant thunder, that we doubted it, but at a roar, and in the same instant we saw him the same moment I caught a glimpse of the lion bearing down upon us, his eye-balls glistening walking away not a hundred and fifty yards with rage. We were unprepared; his motion from us, and he must have been previously still was so rapid, no one could take aim, and he nearer to us than we had calculated. I gave furiously darted at one of our horses, whilst the alarm, which was echoed to our friends, we were at their heads, without a possibility of who in an instant mounted and rode up to preventing it. The poor horse sprung forward, the lower end, calling upon us to advance. and with the force of the action wheeled all the We were moving down to gain a position on horses round with him. The lion likewise a little height, when a gun was fired, fol-wheeled, but immediately couched at less than lowed by four more. This convinced us our ten yards from us. Our left flank thus became We thought there exposed, and on it fortunately stood C. Muller would have been an end to our sport before and Mr. Rennie. What an anxious moment! it had well begun; but, on the contrary, the For a few seconds we saw the monster at this shots were fired not only to prevent him little distance, resolving, as it were, on whom he leaving the copse, but to prove their guns, should first spring. Never did I long so srfor a miss-fire is frequently of consequence. dently to hear the report of a gun. We looked The last shot had the effect of turning him, at them aiming, and then at the lion. It was and we now had a full view of him returning absolutely necessary to give a mortal blow, or to the centre, whisking his tail about, and the consequences might perhaps be fatal to treading among the smaller bushes as if they some one of the party. A second seemed a had been grass, reminding us most forcibly minute.-At length Christian fired; the underof the paintings we had seen of this majestic jaw of the lion dropped, blood gushed from One portrait of a Greek heroine, and we other division had joined. have done. "Fair Constance-who had seen that face Beaming with smiles, in childhood's bower, Thou daughter of a mighty race! And seen thee in thy tyrant's power,Had they not wept that one so bright Was doomed to share her country's blight! And well that country's wrongs she knew Felt how corroding were its chainsThen to its rescue nobly flew, To wipe away its hateful stains! And she has bled for that dear land, And every sterner peril dared Wielded alike the warlike brand, The battle's fiercest tumult shared! He his mouth, and he turned round with a view in the middle of one of these small bushes; and was turned adrift for letting a poor man do to escape. Mr. Rennie then shot him through at least two hundred rounds were fired without something wrong about distilling. He then the spine, and he fell. At this moment he being able to bring him down, or make him became a land-surveyor and architect for the looked grand beyond expression. Turning move from the place in which he had stationed farmers: he could farry, cure cows of the muragain towards us, he rose upon his fore feet, himself. At every shot he received, he was ob- rain, had numerous secrets about cattle and his mouth bleeding, his eyes flashing vengeance. served to blow a quantity of water into the physic, and was accounted the best bleeder and He attempted to spring at us ;-but his hind wound, and then tear up a large lump of earth bone-setter in that county-all of which heallegs denied him assistance; he dragged them to endeavour to stop the blood. The Caffers ing accomplishments he exercised gratis. He a little space, when Stephanus put a final period do the same thing when they have been shot-was also a famous brewer and accountant-in to his existence, by shooting him through the that is, tear up a handful of grass and thrust it fine, was every thing at Cullenagh: steward, brain. He was a noble animal-measuring into the wounded place; and it is thought they agent, caterer, farmer, sportsman, secretary, nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip of have learnt this from seeing the elephants do clerk to the colonel as a magistrate, and also the tail. Diederik and Mr. S. at this crisis re- it. At length the great bull dropped. The clerk to Mr. Barret as the parson: but he joined us, and eagerly inquired if all were safe. party then entered the bush, and, to their would not sing a stave in church, though he'd They had seen the lion bear down upon us, great surprise, found that the reason he would chant indefatigably in the hall. He had the and they thought it impossible but that one of not leave this spot, was, that he had there greatest contempt for women, and used to beat us must have suffered. The anxiety now was found a pool of water, with which he had been the maid-servants; whilst the men durst not to learn whose horse had been the victim, and washing his wounds. His height measured vex him, as he was quite despotic! He had a it was soon announced that it was a highly seventeen feet and three quarters, and his teeth turning-lathe, a number of grinding-stones, valued one of poor Diederik's. The lion's weighed one hundred and ninety pounds." and a carpenter's bench, in his room. teeth had pierced quite through the lower "It was impossible not to notice the ap- used to tin the sauce-pans, which act he called part of the thigh; it was lame, and Diederik pearance of the brothers Muller. They were chymistry; and I have seen him, like a tailor, thinking it irrecoverably so, determined on fine tall men, above six feet, the elder perhaps putting a new cape to his riding-coat! He shooting it, declaring that no schelm beast not forty, with particularly good and intelli- made all sorts of nets, and knit stockings; but should kill his horse. We all, however, inter-gent countenances, and famed far and wide as above all he piqued himself on the variety and fered, and it was at length arranged with two lion hunters. Amongst the stories which they depth of his learning. Under the tuition of Tambookies, that if they would lead him to told us, one was of a narrow escape of the elder this Mr. Michael Lodge, who was surnamed their kraal they should have a goat for their brother. He had marked, as he thought, the the wise man of Cullenaghmore,' I was trouble. The Tambookies had some beads given exact spot in which he had seen a lion couch, placed at four years of age, to learn as much them for skinning the lion,-which they readily and rode on with a view of alighting at a cer- of the foregoing as he could teach me in the accomplished with their assagais; my trophy tain distance; but he had miscalculated, and next five years: at the expiration of which was the under jaw, and teeth. The elements the lion darted on him from behind a stone, period he had no doubt of my knowing as much now seemed determined to crown the whole and bore him and his horse to the ground. He as himself, and then (he said) I should go to with a feu de joie, for in a few minutes we had lay senseless from the fall; the lion leaped on school to teach the master. This idea of just over us a tremendous peal of thunder!" him, and would immediately have destroyed teaching the master was the greatest possible The chance extracts which we subjoin will him, had not his attention been caught at the incitement to me; and as there was no other give a further idea of what these pages con- moment by the rapid advance of the brother child in the house, I never was idle, but was as tain :Christian, who, afraid of firing at a distance, inquisitive and troublesome as can be imagined. lest he might injure his brother, boldly came Every thing was explained to me; and I not close up to him, and shot the monster through only got on surprisingly, but my memory was the heart." found to be so strong, that Mr. Michael Lodge told my grandfather half learning would answer me as well as whole learning would another child. In truth, before my sixth year, I was making a very great hole in Mr. Lodge's stock of information (fortification and gunnery excepted), and I verily believe he only began to learn many things himself when he commenced teaching them to me. He took me a regular course by Horn-book, Primer, Spelling-book, Reading-made-Easy, Esop's Fables, &c.: but I soon aspired to such of the old library books very large History of the Bible, with cuts, was my constant study. Hence I knew how every saint was murdered; and Mr. Lodge not only told me that each martyr had a painter to take his likeness before death, but also fully explained to me how they had all sat for their pictures, and assured me that most of them had been murdered by the Papists." We have met with many more scientific and many more voluminous travellers; but few more amusing, or more calculated for general readers, than the one we now dismiss with most cordial praise. "They went up to the dead elephant, merely to examine it; for the Hottentots leave the tusks till the flesh becomes softened, as it would take up too much time to separate them. One of these men took out his knife, and cut a circular piece off the head, about an inch deep; he then pointed out a dark spot, similar to what is called the kernel in beef; this he probed with his knife, and brought out a small part of a twig; but it was broken. He distributed a little piece as a great favour, then carefully wrapt the remainder up, as they have an idea, OUR readers could not fail to perceive by our that whoever wears it, can never be killed by previous quotations that the author was a caan elephant; and this valuable charm was trans-pital story-teller; one who colours highly, and ferred by my friend to me. It is remarkable will not miss a point by adhering too tenaciously as had pictures in them; and particularly a that no naturalist has ever noticed this circumstance. There is no outward appearance, and it is impossible to imagine how it becomes enclosed, or of what use it is to the animal." Sir Jonah Barrington's Sketches. to the actual common-place facts of the case. They must also have seen that his descriptions of manners, persons, &c. partook largely of that peculiar richness which belongs to the genuine "On our return to the house we saw his Hibernian style. We have heard of an Irish danghter, who was lately married. She had musician who blowed the flute with a brogue; drawn a crowd of admirers round her;-not and Sir Jonah paints one of his countrymen as less than seventeen candidates met together at being so entirely Irish in gait, as well as in her father's house one Saturday night, which accent, that he had the brogue in his shoulders. is the usual day for courtship. She was inex- A hit of this sort is worth a picture; but his orable to the whole, and fixed on a neighbour- whole-lengths are also good. Ex. gr. his first ing youth. They appeared in court, and were teacher was Mr. Michael Lodge, of whom he to be married in three weeks. Again she re-relates :fused to buckle to, and fixed on another, to "I never shall forget his figure! he was a whom she was just married, at the age of six- tall man, with thin legs and great hands, and teen. The court, on her appearing a second was generally biting one of his nails whilst emtime, fined her £50 for her indecision. Her excuse was, that when her lover saluted her one morning, he smelt of brandy. Whether this was a sufficient apology, or whether it was on this ground, is hard to say-but the fine was remitted. The discarded lover, in order to prove his indifference, prevailed on a nymph in the vicinity to console him for his loss, and the two couples were married at the same time." **One large bull elephant stationed himself ployed in teaching me. The top of his head At Dublin, whither he went to complete his studies, his second master was the Rev. Patrick Crawly, Rector of Killgobbin, whose son (he says)," my schoolfellow, was hanged a few years ago for murdering two old women with a shoemaker's hammer. My tutor's person was, in my imagination, of the same genus as that of Caliban. His feet covered a considerable space of any room wherein he stood, and his thumbs were so large that he could scarcely hold a book without hiding more than half the page of it :-though bulky himself, his clothes doubled the dimensions proper to suit his body; and an immense frowzy wig, powdered once a week, covered a head which, for size and form, might vie with a quarter-cask. Vaccination not having as yet plundered horned cattle of their disorders, its predecessor had left evident proofs of attachment to the rector's counte |