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SFrom-the Boston Poet.
REV. HENRY COLMAN'S NEW
.MOI )T'EdROBIE
Messrs. Little..& Zrown, of this city,
.haveinpress, an4 will soon. issue an
,exceedingly well written and interest
-ing'worki descriptive of"European Life
-and-Maniers." It is from the pen of
Rey. Henry Colman, a gentleman well
and favorably known to our readers, as
au ihtelligent and accomplished clergy
MA !and-an interesing, gifted and pow
erful writer. We have been 'fooi-ed
4bythe publishsrs with a sihbt of some
dftlid prof-shoots of the forth-coming
volumes, and are thus enabled to speak
ifth "iVowledge of the interest. which
tis iork cannot fail to create when it
shall appear. It is to appear I in ;two
large and handsome octavo volumes.
*inpIper, typography and general ex
ecution, Lit is, like every thing that
ibsued from the press of -these publish
ers;weillidone and a credit to the Bos.
ton press,. In this respect, it leaved
-nothg. to be -desired.
~With regard to intrinsic merits of the
work itself, we need notsay much. All
A9, reglermare already. aware of. the
r.markable facilities -and unequalled o
portunitiesAM. Colman has enjoyed,
during his residence in Europe, to gath
erimOst aftple'materials for a work of
this kind-, and wehave all seen that no
ian, is-better fitted by his "natural pow
ee of' observation and' hisI ease and
freed m ol tfle, to tI' h'ese rich
stores.to theiribest account., IL coitld
n6t fail, therefore, that such a bombina
tie of portunity and-ability, as'in the
preterit case, shonld result in the pro.
Action of jut such a work as the two
volumes whose proof sheets now lie upon
our tble.
t islfull of varied, interesting and
often most valuable observation. We
. forbear any more comments of our own,
d in 'evidene of the. correctness of
our 'aorible opinion of the work, de
vote the rest of our space to a few brief
'and disconnected extracts from its pa
gesiselected at random and hastily,
without, in any case, taking any pains
tos give what may seem to be the best
p-oriona.'
LONDON--ITS NAnnOW STREETS.
Bomdsof-thW' gtreets, lined,- with shops
full of thb most brilliant collectione and
-varieties of Igoods, 'and other's stretch
i2i thiscingh long ranges -of stalls anid
hp4fd4l,oef meats, vegetables, fruits
and groceries, are actual'y, by my own
rtieasurement, riet in width more thin a
foot beyond whatI conld' roach with my
entstmfetchied arns; and these places. so
tgo~1e with people 'that it requires
cousiderAN4e s ill, and a constant move
mnent onward to -avoid running other
people down or being run down your
self. 9 A street twice as wide as Thea
tro Alley 'in Boston, at its entrance
fromt Milkestreat,: with A gutter in the
middle, andslined'-with stores as thick
as they can stand, and a torrent of peo
ple pressings through tthem~in opposite
currents side by side; is a specimen 'of
dom0 of' the busiest thoroughfares' in
this inoderr'Ba3ylon. But this ls one
did6 "of the;idthrd. If London has its
doirtodrfsrbo1git has likewise its broad
ap agrii49ent passages, of a width a
t$Jgreatorthans lbroadway in New
?or, iaMs.widest/~parteranning for
miesarwith spores pa shops of .almost
dipaginable splenldirand intheir rich.
xrs an4 magnmfidonce realizing the,
Anghtest ftations of poetry..
Tus /EXTENT oF LoNnoN.N. It is
absolutely' impossible- to communicate
teens whd 'has' not seen it any just idea.
drit.' I have said to myself several
times 'werll, now.I have seen the wholo,'
ivet I soosiadd-ons itbatChilie
uothing ou b#trafrelliightailes
plantedehouses~K1ha464Wilkft~t
have ad to'sitg own dnnbtor.
step end of pure eaoideaid hge1
notgot atOaR out of the rUshug 4tide of
population.-W 1have pro dd ~tieati
ver's seat on omnibutssabd thi'
boendaeonstant subeisili(of suh'9
Park nterrades, andlc ldielsf fir'le
houses for miles, and continuoWis 166
and singlepaldoes hr the e t.
Uodfti -oeduop.aqe
do not7lspeak or con r ly ~the., qt~eT
~parls,whkifoNthe- Ne their ved
dure their neatness, their' eibelisl
tments, their lakes and casoelsi, tieir.
waters' sfariiing *fili 1sh nl cbvered
itith a'great variety forwater-f9w, which
they have been ab1ato d6ziiesicatieand
their graking fioaks 6fshelpy afpd'cttle,
and their natioial monuments, aind the
multituderof wielldiressed 'destffiais,
aiid'of elegantly iounted horsemn'anid
horsewomen, and carriages and equi
pages no splendid as gold 'ad isilver
can make the, Ware beautiful bevond
even my most romantic dreams. 'I do
not exaggerate, I cannot.go beyond the
reality.
TnE WOMA* O0 ENG ANd.--The
neatness of the better clas of women
is quite st-iking. The majority of themi
wear white. cotton stockings, *-ithout
those dirty pantalets which you soe bob.
bing about the ancdea of our 4mi'enien,
and they have to mudh good sense dn
der an affected modpsty to let lieir
clothes draggle in the mud; but theyi
faise their skirts a little, and you will
see them elegautly dressed, and walk- I
ing through, and crossing the muddiest i
streets in the rain, and not a peck of
dirt upon their shoes or stockings. I
wish our ladies at home would take I
some lessons from them. Another I
thing shows their good sense. They
all, in walking, wear patterns or thick-*
soled shoes, as thick as cork shoes, or
else galoshers. India rubbers are not i
seen. They have another practice 4
which I greatly admire. They seldom
wear false curls; but women whoselhair 1
is gray wear it gray, and seem to take I
as much -pride in their silver locks as i
the younger ones do their auburn tres- I
ses. I have met a good many ladies 4
in company, but I do not find them to i
differ greatly from those I left at home
among the well educated classes. Man- 4
ners, inwever, are certainly much more I
agreeable; for they are not put on for I
the occasion, but grow up with them is
mtter-of course. Every'thing in soci. i
ety proceeds much inore quietly than i
with us. From what I can see, the 4
English women must be excellent house- I
wives, as nothing can exceed the neat- ]
ness and comfort of their establishments. 1
I do wish I could show you my bed- I
room and parlor, and let you see how I
neatly I am served. 4
CHAnITY CHILDREN.-The most in
teresting sight which I have yet seen in
England, was the meeting of the charity 1
children in London and its vicinity i i
St. Paul's church. They were from 4
about eight to ten years old; the girls i
all dressed in neat white saps, the boys I
all in dark long coats and shirts of diC
ferent colors, according to the school to
which they belonged; the red ribbons,i
some with white, and some with blue;
and here were from seven to ten thou- I
sand of them, all arranged in the centre:
of the cathedral, on seats rising one
above another on three sides of an oval,
with the audience in the centre, and4
stretching along through the great
aisle.> During the service, I went into
the whispering gallery, which is at the
bottom of the dome, extending all round
it', and directly over their heads, about
two hundred feet from them. We
could hear them distinctly, and saw
them tc the greatest advantage. They
resembled a beautiful bed of variegated
fioters, and indeed it seems to me no
thing on this earth ever appeared one
half so beautiful. I was greatly exci
te,d dnd was half tempted, in *a state
of delirium, 'to throw myself over the
railinig. How much I wished that you
and youi- mother could. have seen it.
After the service, the schools went out
in diffet ent processions and direstious,
it reqluiring a long, time to c lear the
chapel; and I Webt up to, the cupola of
the church, from which' ve could see
them' winding offihgdifferent directions,
and threadin the differ-ent atn'eete, like
so thny boautifdil ribtinde. These dhill
dron, by the benotolcnce of good chris
tian men and women, arc talken from
homelessness, and poverty, and desti
tution, and all the exposures of vice
and mnisery which attend them, and re
eive a good and useful .education, to
ta~rgngtousin so.
pso-,
A.4:t'eturned -to Mel.
rose 'aud visAitedAotbf6WW J ih is
o "1y to dayw\ Ifi, Week,*Wednepays
andri as, 1ni 5 61c. Ab.
botaford, so i'uded; beause'iear the
fordingplae ofIrver-irthree *and
a half miles fzJ 'OntMrel-s, situated on
theibanks of the'iT*ed'butiis'nw do
surrOnded' ad&embokoihud' in i-ees
that~themi'er lescai-cely visible from
hhouses.
is4lah'tati n Which' seemis qite
extensivroiwas tated-t h1ave beni rade
by Sir--Walter, Sdtot; -4t :th6 size of
many of the treeb Awould indidate an
sariler origin- The house is of stone;
Dfa dastellated form, aLid -of very miod.
*rate .dimensids A dro*d of cairia
geawas at the- ate, and we were eblig
sdte wait until :ome of the visitors came
3uty as;only one party is admitted at
b time*
At the gate h angs, bya short chain,
x coarse iron r i ng called a jug, which
was fortnerly uied at the church door,
when offender9 were collared st the
ntrance, so'; that the' congregation
night spit upio , them as they went in;
juite likely to.J call out a temner, which
wertainly was 7not in very good keeping
vith the servi.*e- in- whioh they vere
ibout to-be elngaged. Whoever looks
it such objeG ts as these-at the instru
nents of torture'in the Tower of Lon
Ion, and, abi.ove all, in the arsenal at
Venice-refilcts with the deepest de
ression and, humilitation of heart, how
iuman in re!nhity' and skill have' been
rostitutel !to invent instruments of tor
ure, and to gratify, under the profes
ed name of religion, some the worst
)assions whi ch can swell the human
reast; - A marble statue of Scott's
evorite.: dog., Maida, is placed before
he study %ir idow, to mark the purial
inace of this -humble but faithful friend.
The hall into which we enter is hung
vnth various uiteces and suits of armor,1
md istrumev.ts of war. Two statutes,
ne ropr2sentiing a knight in full armor,
nith 'a sword a o long and heavy, that it
vould seem or ily suitable for show, and
he other a -k iight in full tilting armor,
ire placed at the end of the room; and
here are 'ike'xiso shown the keys of the
ild Tolbooth, or prison in Edinburgh,
:lebrated in :the Heart of Mid Lothian.
Lhe fire place has a grate, which belong
!d to Archbishop Sharp, and Roman
tettle said to be 2000 years old, quite
ike our modern cast iron pots. The
text room showy i was the armory, filled
nith small arms of a great variety,
Lmong others a sword of Celtic origin,
if curious workmanship, presented to
'ir Walter by the city of Edinburgh.
nto this room we were allowed to look,
mt not to enter. I should have said
hat the suit of armor on one of the
mights in the entrancehall was report
d to have been found on the field of
Bosworth.
The fire-place in the entrance hall I
vas modelled after the arches in the
uins of Melrose Abbey; and a hart of I
ieiling in a recess of the dining room I
s ornamented with carved word, called
ho Star of B3ethulehem and copied from
he beautiful chapel at Roslin Castle.
We were shown, afterwards, the din
ng room in which are several most val- I
mable pictuzres; one of Oliver Cromr-ell,
Ldmirab~le and very rare; one of Charles
KII. of Sweden; one of General Fair- I
e~x; and a most touching one of the I
mead of mary Queen of Scotts after her
Ixecution-.t is an original, and Sir I
Vater Scott would never suffer a copy I
o be taken. One cannot help execra
ing the memory of.Queen Elizabeth.<
[n another room we were shown sever
d l2ictures of the Scott family; Lady <
Beott, Scott's second daughter, Anne
Scott, and an admirable portrait of I
Scott himself, by Leslie.)
T1he next room shown us was the Ii- I
rary, containing some thousand vol
rnmes, carefully guarded from removal
by a wire grating. Hero was a finei
bust of Wordsworth, one of Shakspoaro,
taken from his toeub at Stratford, and
Above all, of Scott himself, by Chantry,
Full of life and expression. In this room
was a set of ebony chairs and an ebony
writiung-desk, of most curious and cx
pnisite workmanship, said to have be
Longed to George II., and presented to
Sir Walter by George IV. The next
room shown to us was the sanctuary of
Scott, his private room of. study, with
the chair remaining in the position in
which he sat, the desk at which ho
wrote, and, in an adjoining closet, the
clothes which he last were. The walls
Df the room are lined with books, with a
small gallery running round the whole,
and a pnivato stair-case. bv which h
caie froin his bed o
He -foldI the Iuehds Ik ~
th l Mto Ifo~gi
d b h as i hpleased,
oe the w1isi- or '
she rpliod Is- iinligisble;,'
most gace complimeand appg,
ciated by Sir Walter. Fhe ioo ;ha
a double window, tt6 refektsth'ed
and noise. . This aparthehe lfufl
interesting :associations. Ve
.he iguide aafil, itk oza
ter's thaWr; as if;per
they inight catch som0
There is a melanichdai f n
sitting where he sat, a ai9Qrtempl
tiri the books he bandledhand tile
des on which h e penned iang .f
immortal works. -a
The amounit of thatial jabor I Per'
formed by this great man seesA
He, and almost to have auhe
powdrs of aTi individual c 'aely
Dnd who dischartged the dutes otiute'
I
public offices, and gave, of nece'i'ty, 'o
much time to his family and t general
Society
Large numbers of persons were flock
g to0 the house when we *ere leavi h t
it, and so for years, pe-haps for 6eniu
Hies, to come, it must continue to ,e vi
inted.'by pilgims to the shrine "of that
raregenius, which has adhieved for it
ilf an earthy immortalitg.
Scott ivas' a n'ost eminent benefactor,
not'to the world at large merely, in the
imount of pleasure which he diffused,,
md the curiosity which he gratified
ut to Scotland, especially, in a more
iumble and'pecuniary sense. He,,nay
se said to have illum nated every place
which he touched, and to-have threwn
in interest around, in .a word, t
nade alive, every object which he de.
icribed. Interesting and delightful as
iociations are now connected- with in
iumerable places and spots, loqhs and
;lens, crags and caves, castles: and
-ins, churches and abbeys, before
icarcely known, but now eagerly sought ,
ifter by the admirers of his works; and t
iow Scotland actually swarms with
ourists, attracted by his descriptions, y
eautiful and enchanting as they are
xith all the eagerness and enthusiasm
>f the most impatient curiosity. Their
lisbursements in the coumtry must a.
nount to a very large aum. It is eta
ed that Cadell, tho bookseller and pub- w
isher of his works in Edinburgh, has "
-ealized from them no less a sum than 4
a]
9179,000 sterling.
At one time the antograph mimi
cripts of Sir Walter were to be seen at
his person's place of business. He a 6" P1
ince removed them allto his housein' a
he country, it is said, to avoid tie a'
ronble of showing them. He is d& t'
erving of severe censure, if for no bet. 0'
er reason than this, after making so t
plendid a fortune from them, he denies
ie public reasonable gratification ' of st
eeing them, though it might have cost
lie entire attention of a man devoted to h
xhibiting them, whose services the pub. a
ic wouti have most cheerfully and li- W
erally compensated. la
Blen Johnson was born in Westmninis-s
or, England, in 1574, and was des- h
ended from a Scottish family. His fc
'ather died before he was born, and Ben '
was educated at WVestminister School 'i
vhiile the great Camden was head mias- a
or there. His mother marrying again,
e was taken from school to work at his P
tep-iiather's trade, which was that ofa a
ricklayer. Not being captivated with
his employment, he ran away and ~
rent to the Low Countries, wherb he N'
lisdinguished himself in a mility ca- i
acity. On his return to Englahd,..
ntered St. John's College, wibr[d"e t
nd is said to have narrowly ecuon
or having killed a person in a duel.
Ie afterwards became an actor, and in
his connectioniwas intimate with' Shak- '
peare. His "Alchymisat" gained' him I
uch reputation that ho was, in 1619, a
nade poetlaureat to king 'James ., avid Ii
WIaster of Arts at Ox ford. Or' the k
ieath of James, lhe became poor, and
oe died in August, 1687, ad 68 1
years, with the reputation of being one a
>f the greatest dramatic poets of the 8
ime. He was buried in Westmi'se -
A~bbey with many honors. U
A' fastidious young lady was greaty fi
ihocked the other day, on r'eading that b
nale and female strawberry plants an a
frequently found occupying the same s
ed.
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