As he receives no answer to this question, the snakes are declared useless; and, flattered with his success on this point, he propounds a similar inquiry, touching the utility of the beef-eaters, who were acting as his ciceroni.

Qui me dira aussi pourquoi ces ridi. cules hallebardiers nous accompagnent? Est-ce que nous avons besoin d'eux pour traverser des cours où il n'y a personne? Sans doute on ne craint pas que nous emportions un canon, ni une caisse de fusils, ni les beaux instrumens de torture de la flotte invincible, ni les joyaux de la couronne, qui ne se voient qu'au travers d'une grille de fer, (who knows but the beef-eaters may have taken him for a second Colonel Blood.) Sommes-nous

des Parlementaires qui se présentent dans une place assiégée, ou des étrangers qui viennent visiter un etablissement public? The only answer which the inexorable beef-eater made to this appeal was, to demand a douceur of a shilling for showing him the spot where Lady Jane Gray and Anne Boleyn were beheaded.

Of the state of English literature, or politics, he seems to be prefound ly ignorant; but he has the good

sense to say nothing about them; an example which it would be well if other travellers, "foreign and domestic," as the journals say, would more frequently imitate. He visits the theatres, however, walks over the Parks, peeps into Westminster Abbey, and performs the other visits of ceremony, which a residence of a few days in London enables a man to accomplish. He then sets off for Brighton, and closes his book with a compliment to France.

We do not know how the book may do in France, but we have seldom seen one in which, with so little that is actually false or disagreeable, there is such a complete absence of any thing that can be of the slightest service in conveying to the French an idea of the actual state of England. Except the outside of towns and public buildings, he seems to have seen absolutely nothing; and, with the assistance of Forsyth's Beauties of Scotland, the Picture of London, and a common road-book, might, have manufactured his tome equally well, without having ever quitted the Marais, or endangered his person in the Hibernia steam-boat.

MARGINAL NOTES TO MR ROGERS' " HUMAN LIFE."
(First Edit. 12mo.)

Page 8.-" A FEW short years-and then these sounds shall hail," &c. &c.

The idea of the ringing of bells attending each particular epoch of life, is most simple and beautiful. There could not possibly have been a more appropriate commencement for a poem like " Human Life.”

Page 16.-" Long with his friend, in generous enmity;
Pleading, insisting in his place to die."

Mr Rogers is an admirer of Dryden, and not unfrequently copies his very faults. The first line of a couplet should never terminate with a syllable that must be pronounced short, as does the one above. Dryden and Rogers commit this repeatedly. A trisyllable ends a verse occasionally in a very pleasing manner, but then it must be the last line of a couplet,-as, a little below:

Page 17.-" Sun, moon, and stars—the land, the sea, the sky,
To him shine out as 'twere a galaxy."

And here, as it is cited, I will remark, that the expression Ishine out" (which form has sometimes been censured) is perfectly classical. See Esch. Prom. 1119. (Ed. Blomf.)

ἕλικες δ' ἐκλάμπουσι

στεροπῆς ζάπυροι.

Page 18." Making night beautiful."

Similarly saith Shakspeare:

"What may this mean?

That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous?"-Hamlet:

Page 31.-" Then come those full confidings of the past."

This is a golden line. Those of Mr Rogers' readers, who are under the influence of the tender passion, will find in it food for much agreeable meditation.

Page 33.-" Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."

In the second edition, 12mo, Mr R. here inserted the following lines:(I quote from memory.)

"Winning him back, when mingling in the throng,

Back from a world we love, alas! too long,

To fireside happiness and hours of ease

Blest with that charm, the certainty to please."

Page 35.

So Coleridge:

"with gentle violence."

"The gentle violence of joy."-The Kiss, p. 44.

I have seen the expression elsewhere.

Page 36." These, with unequal footsteps following fast."

"sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis."-Virgil.

Page 46." Under the beech tree."

In the 2nd edit. 12mo, Mr R. altered this to "elm-tree."

Page 48.

"In autumn at his plough."

An elegant allusion to a well-known historical fact.

Page ib." Met and solicited, behold him now."

Here, in 2nd edit. 12mo, several lines were added. They are the following:-(I quote from memory.)

Page 49.-.

"Quitting the humbler scene his fathers knew,
The scene that Wisdom loves and Virtue too;
She who subsists not on the vain applause,
Misjudging man now gives, and now withdraws.
"'Twas morn; the sky-lark o'er the furrow sung
As from his lips the slow consent was wrung,
As from the fields his fathers till'd of old,
The plough they guided in an age of gold,
Down by the beech-wood side he turned his way:
And now behold him, in an evil day,

Serving the state again, &c."

"To his hearth again, Again with honour to his hearth restor❜d."

Mr R. seems to delight in this kind of repetition. See last line, p. 31— 11th 1. p. 38-11th 1. p. 41-13th 1. p. 42-3d 1. p. 48-4th 1. p. 49-7th 49-3d 1. p. 50-12th 1. p. 56-11th 1. p. 59.

1.

p.

Page 50.-" The humbiest servant," &c.

In the 2d. ed. 12mo. Mr R. substituted the word "lowliest" for "humblest. There is a refined accuracy in this alteration, for the term "humble" is most properly applied to the habit of mind, and "lowly" to condition,

or station.

Page 52.-"Years glide away untold-'Tis still the same,

As fresh, as fair, as on the day it came!"

Rogers, even in his "Human Life," appears as the Poet of Memory. This is one instance of it; and the observing reader may select numeroas others from the pages of that interesting poem.

Page 53.-"The village-clock strikes from the distant tower."

Is not the sound in this line remarkably suited to the sense? Several similar examples are to be found in the poem.

It is scarcely necessary to remind the classical reader of Bn daxsuv x.Th., τριχθα τετραχθα κ.τ.λ., Αυτίς επειτα κ.τ.λ., procumbit humi bos, ære cicre viros, amica luto sus, &c. &c. Our minds are palled carly enough with those trite, however beautiful, passages.

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