I hope my trick will succeed, if you praise it in a letter to me, and remark, that it gave general satisfaction, on account of its simplicity; and that you will send the rest of the text, when you learn from me that I have also been pleased with it. I will then send him the whole; and, if I succeed in cheating the fastidious critic, he will have lost for ever all character as a musical connoisseur, which he is so desirous of being thought."

PHILOHYMNOS.

POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY.

THE premature death of Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I. has been thought to bear a striking resemblance, in many respects, to the still more afflicting loss the country has recently sustained in the death of

Hume has drawn the following character of this prince: "This year (6th November 1612) the sudden death of Henry, Prince of Wales, diffused an universal grief throughout the nation. Though youth and royal birth, both of them strong allurements, prepossess men mightily in favour of the early age of princes; it is with peculiar fondness that historians mention Henry; and in every respect his merit seems to have been extraordinary. He had not reached his eighteenth year, and he already possessed more dignity in his behaviour, and commanded more respect, than his father, with all his age, learning, and experience. Neither his high fortune, nor his youth, had seduced him into any irregular pleasures; business and ambition seem to have been his sole passion. His inclinations, as well as exercises, were martial. The French ambassador taking leave of him, and asking his commands for France, found him employed in the exercise of the pike; Tell your king, said he, in what occupation you find me engaged. He had conceived great affection and esteem for the brave Sir Walter Raleigh. It was his saying, Sure no king but my father would keep such a bird in a cage. Had he lived he had probably promoted the glory, perhaps, not the felicity, of his people. The unhappy prepossession which men commonly entertain in favour of ambition, courage, enterprise, and other warlike virtues, engages generous natures, who always love fame, into such pursuits as destroy their own peace, and that of the rest of mankind."History of England, 4to. Vol. VI. c. 47.

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the Princess Charlotte. And though the two cases will, perhaps, not admit of any very minute parallel in their various circumstances, they have many claims to be often associated together in the best and worthiest of our national recollections, Both have awakened, too," the voice of song,"

not from the hireling lips alone of court minstrels, but from the woetuned harps of the noblest and the best of contemporary poets. For our lamented Princess, the patriot lyre of Campbell was first strung, and even now the notes of grief are re-echoed in a yet more touching strain by the inspired pilgrim of fallen Greece and Italy.

Nor was the Scottish Muse, in former days, backward to bedew the grave of her favourite Prince with the "melodious tears" of poetry. Sir William Alexander's "Elegie,"-Drummond's "Teares for the Death of Ma liades," and Maxwell's "Laudable Life," &c.-with a multitude of others, -are too well known to require any commemoration here. Among the rest appeared a little tract, containing a selection of the smaller pieces circulated on the occasion, which (probably from its extreme rarity) has almost entirely escaped the notice of bibliographers, but which deserves to be better known, and a few extracts from it may, perhaps, be gratifying to our readers. It bears the following title ::- "Mausoleum; or, the Choicest Flowres of the Epitaphs written on the Death of the neuertoo-much lamented Prince Henrie. Edinburgh, Printed by Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1613," in 4to, 4 leaves.The first of these is as follows:"Loe here intomb'd a peerlesse Prince doth lie,

In flowre and strength of age surprys'd by Death,

On whom, while he on Earth drew vitall breath,

The hope of many kingdomes did relie; Not without cause: for Heaven most liberally

To him all princely virtues did bequeath, Which to the worthiest princes here be

Untimely death then from vs did him take,
Our losse, and griefe, Heaven's gaine, and
joy to make.
Walter Quin.

No. 2 is in Latin, also by the same author. Walter Quin, it appears, was a servant of the Prince,—and other verses by him, in French and in Italian, on the same occasion, are known to the public.

The next three are by Drummond of Hawthornden, and were printed at the end of his "Teares," &c., from whence they were incorporated with the rest of his poems. We need not, therefore, extract them in this place. Then come the following:

"Faire Britaines Prince in th' Aprill of his yeares,

The Heaven (enamour'd with his spring

Ignoto.

We have given these four at full length, as they can be attributed only to an author well deserving of fame. This signature is the one usually affixed to the poems of Sir Walter Raleigh. As they have not yet been included in any edition of his works, and appear unknown to his biogra phers, they seem well entitled to public notice, even had they possessed no intrinsic merit.

The authors of those that come next, and make up the rest of this small but elegant collection, were Englishmen, and are well known in the literary world; Hugo Hollandus, George Wyther, Robert Allyne, George Chapman, and William Rowley. Two of these may suffice.

"Two kingdomes stroue for interest in one Prince,

Heavens claim'd me from them, and reft me hence:

Scotlande my cradle, England hath my

herse,

The Heavens my soule, my vertue's liue in verse." Robert Allyne.

"Did he die young? oh no, it could not be,

For I know few that liv'd so long but he, Till God and all men lov'd him: then be bold,

That man that liv's so long must needs be old."

William Rowley.

We cannot, we think, better conclude this little sketch, than by subjoining Campbell's monody on the Princess Charlotte, which has not yet

Fair spirit! send thy blessing from above To realms where thou art canoniz'd by love; Give to a father's, husband's, bleeding mind, The peace that Angels lend to human

kind;

To us, who in thy lov'd remembrance feel
A sorrowing, yet a soul ennobling zeal,
A loyalty that touches all the best
And loftiest principles of England's breast ;--
Still may thy name speak concord from
the tomb,

Still in the Muse's breath thy memory bloom

They shall describe thy life, thy form pourtray;

But all the love that mourns thee swept away

'Tis not in language or expressive arts To paint-ye feel it, Britons, in your hearts.

These lines, though evidently written hastily, and for a mere temporary purpose, will be found to contain, like every production of Campbell's pen, some of those sweet and tender touches which bespeak the poet who, alone in the present day, and unseduced by the popular rage for sensation, continues to sing the "bosom scenes of life," with a classic dignity and forbearance no less adinirable, than his power of high emotion and subduing pathos is inimitable and enchanting. Lord Byron's more brilliant stanzas will also be found in the present Number, in the notice we have given of his last canto of Childe Harold.

SCOTTISH ZOOLOGY.

No. II.

THE arrangement which we propose in general to follow, in this catalogue of Scottish animals, is that of Cuvier, as given in his last publication, entitled "Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son Organisation," Paris, 1817. In this work, the author has combined his knowledge of the internal structure of animals, with the history of their external characters, and has produced a system, possessing the advantages both of an artificial and a natural arrangement. He distributes animals into four groups or divisions.-VERTEBRAL,-MOLLUSCOUS, The Vertebral animals are distinARTICULATED, and RADIATED. guished by possessing a brain surrounded by a bony covering, and a spinal marrow, protected by an arti culated bony column. This division

consists of the four classes, Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes.

1. Class.

MAMMALIA.

The animals of this class possess in greatest perfection the organs of the five senses, and occupy the upper extremity of the scale of animated beings. Their blood is red and warm, they breathe by means of lungs,-bring forth their young alive and suckle them. The class consists of three subdivisions, viz. the fingered, the

hoofed, and the cetaceous.

As many of the inferior divisions have no examples among the animals of this country, we shall confine our remarks to those more immediately connected with our native Zoology.

1. Subdivision. FINGERED MAMMALIA (Unguiculata.)

The Fingered Mammalia have the four extremities divided into fingers or toes, furnished with nails or claws. 1. Order.

FERE (Beasts of Prey.) These have three kinds of teeth, incisors or fore teeth, tusks, and grind

ers.

The form of the grinders of the animals of this order, points out the nature of the food on which they subsist, and should, therefore, be carefully studied by naturalists. The cutting grinders are those which are found immediately behind the tusks, and vary in number according to the species. They are usually sharp-edged, and pointed, and are used, along with the incisors and tusks, in tearing the food. They are termed by M. Frederic Cuvier fausses molaires.

The chewing grinders are placed behind the preceding, are the largest in the jaw, and are always four in number. Their surface is uneven. When covered with sharp wedgeshaped processes, the animal is carnivorous; when these processes are pointed and conical, the animal is insectivorous; and when the processes are blunt, phytivorous or piscivorous. These are used in chewing the food, and are called by M. F. Cuvier car

are employed in bruising softer kinds of food. They are called tubercu leures.

I. Family.

CHEIROPTERA. Winged Quadrupeds. The animals of this singular famembrane, which connects the four mily are characterized by a thin feet and the tail, and enables them to fly. They sleep during the day, fly about in the evenings, live on insects, walk awkwardly, and become torpid They bring forth during winter. two young at a time. They are the prey of owls.

I. Genus.-RHINOLOPHUS. Incisors in the lower jaw, four, in the upper, two; nose with two membranes, the posterior erect; ears single and separate; two pectoral and two inguinal teats.

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1. R. ferrum-equinum. Horseshoe Bat. Front grinder in the up. per jaw small, simple, truncated; tusks simple; ears acute, reflected; above cinereous, beneath grey. Length 34 inches; extent of wing 14 inches.

Penn. Brit. Zool. I. p. 147, tab. xiv. First observed in Britain by Latham. In caverns in the south of England.

the

2. R. hipposideros. Lesser Horse-shoe Bat. Front grinder in base before and behind; tusks in the upper jaw acute, notched at the lower simple; incisors in the upper upper jaw notched in front, in the jaw concealed. Smaller than the preceding. Easily tamed.

Montagu, Linn. Trans. Vol. IX.
p. 163. Vesp. minutus.
Leach, Zool. Mis. Vol. III. p. 2,
tab. 121.

First observed in Britain by Mon-
In caverns along with the pre-

tagu.

ceding.

It is considered expedient to add to this list those animals which are found in other parts of Britain, although they have not hitherto been detected in Scotland. The reader will thus be made acquainted with those species which, upon diligent try. Lest any confusion should arise with search, he may expect to find in this coun regard to the actual extent of our Fauna, care has been taken to add an asterisk to all the species which are at present considered as of extra-Scottish extraction.

II. Genus.-VESPERTILIO. Bat. Incisors in the lower jaw six, approximate, bifid; in the upper, four, in pairs, cylindrical, pointed; nose plain; ears separate, with an internal auricle.

3. V murinus. Common Bat. Ears the length of the head, oblong; auricles semicordate; fur reddish ash above, paler beneath. Length, two inches and a half; wings, nine inches. E. Futter-mouse or Flitter-mouse, Rear-mouse; G. Jialtag, Dialtag

This species is very common, inhabiting caves and old buildings, and has been long known to naturalists.

4. V. noctula. Great Bat. Ears shorter than the head, triangular, bellied on the anterior margin; auricles semicordate; fur brown; length four inches and a half; wings fourteen inches and a half; weight nine drachms. Penn. Brit. Zool. I. p. 146, tab. xiii. No. 38.

V. auriculatus, Walker's Essays, p. 472.

First observed in England by the Rev. G. White of Selborne, and in Scotland by Dr Walker. It inhabits old buildings, and flies high in the air.

5. V. emarginatus. Ears oblong, of the length of the head, with a notch on the exterior margin; auricle subulated; fur above, grey, with a tinge of red; beneath ash-coloured.

M. Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. Vol.
VIII. p. 195. Tab. 8.

In the animals of this family, the entire sole of the foot, which is bare, and consists of five toes on each foot, is placed on the ground when walking. They have no cæcum; feed chiefly during the night; and many of them become torpid during winter.

IV. Genus.-ERINACEUS. Urchin.

Two middle incisors long, distant and cylindrical in upper jaw; in the lower jaw approximate; body covered with spines above.

8. E.Europaus. Urchin or Hedgehog. Ears short; snout lengthened; length ten inches; tail one inch. G. Graineag.

Found near hedges and thickets of furze; feeds on insects and roots; makes a nest of leaves, and becomes torpid during the winter.

V. Genus.-SOREX. Shrew.
Two middle incisors bent and not-

hair.

9. S. araneus. Common Shrew. Dull brownish red above; paler below; length of the body two inches and a half; tail one inch and a half. E. Shrew mouse. Hardy shrew. S. Erd shrew. G. Daullag.

Frequent in old walls and grassy banks; formerly supposed injurious to cattle; an annual mortality prevails among them in August; young five.

10. S. fodiens. Water Shrew. Black above, with a small white spot above each eye; beneath, including the inside of the toes and feet, white; length of the body three inches; tail two inches; weight three drachms. E. Blind-mouse. G. Luch-uisque.

Penn. Brit. Zool. I. p. 126. tab. xi. No. 33.

This species is indistinctly noticed by Sibbald. It is found among grass