to return the treasure untouched to its owner; and secondly, at the hands of "another eminent person"-evidently a cordon bleu in his art-and who may be readily guessed at)," who by his early and uninterrupted intimacy with my brother, his varied accomplishments, and his known powers as a writer, was peculiarly fitted to be his biographer." But he, too, after some years more delay, was compelled to decline the office; and the happy result is before us: we have the materials themselves in all their simplicity and significance, in place of the showy but less useful and durable fabric. It would be difficult to point out any literary biography more to the purpose, and at the same time more interesting and valuable in itself, than these "Memoirs and Correspondence," which exhibit (for those who will take the trouble of making out its details) a much more complete and authentic picture of the career of their gifted subject, from boyhood till his premature decease, than the most elaborate "biography" could have furnished: yet is there scarcely twenty pages of the whole, that were written with the remotest idea that they should ever see the light,-the "Memoir" portion of the work comprising a very few opening and connecting passages by the editor, and a few brief extracts from the private journals of Mr. Horner himself, and the remainder being made up of "Correspondence"-chiefly between the subject of the work and that very distinguished band of friends with whom he was connected from his school-days, and was never afterwards disjoined. The chief of these are Brougham, Jeffrey, Mackintosh, Romilly, Sydney Smith, Hallam, Lord Webb Seymour, Lord Murray, Allen (Master of Dulwich), &c. The portions of this correspondence, which will probably be deemed the most generally interesting, are those connected with the history of the Edinburgh Review, of which Francis Horner was one of the projectors. But the truly and permanently, because practically valuable portions of the work are those which detail the early studies and progress to distinction of this excellent man,-than whom, though the coterie (for such after all it was) to which he belonged, included several more brilliant, not one was superior-scarcely equal-in that admirable good sense, judgment, and sound practical wisdom which, when directed as they were in this instance, by unshaken and unsullied principles of social and political action, are more valuable and available than genius, both as regards their possessor and all the rest of the world. THE WHISPERING GALLERY. THE COMET.-We are not scientific Astronomers, and cannot direct Telescopicus to the exact spot; but we understand from the Jargonists that its nucleus is somewhere in a Latin constellation, and that the tail passes through a Greek star, goes over an Arabian one, under a Hebrew one, then squeezes between two Danish ones, just brushes a Swedish one, wriggles through a High Dutch cluster, and terminates amidst a small fry of Chinese nebula. Others report that the Comet has been postponed to allow time for the Astrologers to predict it; and there is a very general impression that if the Phænomenon comes skylarking too near us, it is to be apprehended as an body." eccentric To Q.-We are not aware when the great Boys' Distribution is to take place the little Boys' Distribution will be just before the Easter holidays. ART UNIONS.-There can be no doubt but that the proposed Art Union, under the patronage of the Licensed Victuallers, will create a better style of sign-painting. The inferior" tag-rag and bob-tails of the sacred brush," as Peter Pindar called them, will naturally devote their talents to appropriate subjects; and accordingly, at the next Exhibition, the fortunate holders of prizes may expect to select from a large assortment of very superior Saracens' Heads, Belle Sauvages, Red Lions, and Blue Boars. To M.-Except the two recently come to hand, we have never received any Prints whatever for review. Mr. Templeton Spencer, who has several times requested an autograph, has not favoured us with an address. Woman's Love, by T. M. is inclosed for the author at Marlborough street. Our New York friend compels us, for want of an address, to a public answer. The supposed schoolfellowship is very doubtful. We do not remember" the noble staircase with the Homeric paintings-the fine gardens, and the grape pies," nor yet "the Wards, Slaughter, Bowick, H. Powell, and above all, the delicate Perry." The old familiar names that recur to our memory are Bumblethorpe, Pogglethwaite, Crumpe, Jiggers, and Grumpage. W.'s Epigram seems personal, but we venture to give it. ON A VERY STOUT SPINSTER. To take her all in all, Miss Rachel Paul INDEX TO THE FIRST PART OF 1843. ADAM BROWN, the Merchant, by Horace | Blanchard, Laman, Esq.-All sorts of little attentions, by, 129-Eccentri- Borrow, Mr. George, the bible in Spain, Bruce, Mr., at Constantinople, and in Bosphorus, shores of the, 9, 15 Camberwell beauty, the, a city romance, Canning, Right Hon. George, 324 Chinese treaty, epigram on the, by T. Cicero and Marc Antony, 160 Damascus, residence of Lady H. Stan- December, a farewell to, verses, by B. Deer, spotted, and samber, 210 April.-VOL. LXVII. NO. CCLXVIII. Destiny, the star of, a true tale of the crusades, by p., 334 Dharwar, in the S. Mahratta country, Dirge for a living poet, by Horace Smith, Drama, the, dress, diet, &c., 381-See Dream of life, a, by the Medical Stu- Druses of Mount Lebanon, the, 230 Elliot, captain, R.N., plenipotentiary in Epigrams, 98, 110, 177, 317 Etching moralized: to a noble lady, by Excursion with Bob Whyte, by the Me- Feejee Islands, described by Commander Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., 423 137 Gore, Mrs. the money-lender, a novel, Grosvenor, Countess of, a yacht-voyage 142 Hewlett, J., M.A,, the widows' alms- : Hunting-camp on the Black River, in Indian diary, extracts from the Old Jonnina, to, a young Maltese, by the Labanoff de Rostoff, Prince Alexander Lawrance, Miss, the history of woman Literature of the Month (for JANUARY): 143 The History of Woman, by Miss (for MARCH): (for APRIL): Hood, Thomas, Esq., Etching moralized, let, 177-An extraordinary operation, 427 Proposal for a Dictionary of a not Index. Mahanna el Faden, Arab chief, 232, 237 Medical Student, the; Granada, by, 136 Reminiscences of, No. XII., Meryon, Dr. C. L., letter of, 20-Ac- Mirabeau, remark by Rivarol on, 160 22, 254, 378, 532 Money-lender, the, by Mrs. Gore, no- Mosquito coast, narrative of a residence Natural History, Recreations in, 443 New Year's Eve, a reflection on, by Norfolk Sound, Port Mulgrave, and Oakes, lieutenant-general, governor of Eighteen - Hundred-and-Forty-Two, Observations upon Observers; with re- Operation, an extraordinary, by T. Ouseley, Rt. Hon. Sir Gore, 478 Palmyra, visit to, and descriptions of 321 565 | Parks, Mrs., epigram on her pamphlet 177 Party Spirit, an epigram, by T. H., 531 Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, 323 143 - Poor Devil, the, by Laman Blanchard, Porter, Miss Jane, and Sir Robert Ker Readings on old texts, 455 Recantation, the, by Horace Smith, Rhodes, shipwreck of Lady H. Stanhope Sandwich Islands, king and royal family Saracen's Head, the, 383 |