They meet, but ere the long embrace, In speechless trance one moment stand, Each gazing on the other's face,

With neek advanced, and outstretched
hand,

Unseen, forgotten all around,
Like statues rooted to the ground,
That forward bend with looks of love,
But never from their bases move.
Then gush the soul-relieving tears,
And on his cheek her lips are burning-
Who would not bear the exile's fears
To share his bliss returning!
What joy is his, as once again
Her faithful arms around him strain,
And in her beaming eye appears
Love but increased by absent years!-
This is their bridal day,-and they
From the glad rout have stolen away,
With a few chosen friends to take
A short hour's pastime on the lake:
And there becalmed they lie,
Unmindful of the passing time,
Or of yon lurid clouds that climb
So swiftly up the sky :

Now in the middle heaven they're hung,
And wide their sable folds are flung,
And twice the darken'd hills have rung
Their answer long and loud;
The lake assumes an inky hue,
The sky hath lost its laughing blue,
And holds a funeral pall to view,-
And bursting from the cloud-

O God! can love nor virtue save
The young, the guiltless, from the grave!
-That bolt hath smote the hapless boat,
And wide her smoking timbers float,
And o'er the lovers shuts the ruthless
wave!

August 21, 1817.

Echo of the haunted rock,

Heard'st thou not my Azla's song?
Sought she not the plighted oak
Cayla's sylvan banks among?
Lingers she by airy steep,
Or elfin lakelet still and deep?
Rover of the land and sea-

Zephyr! whither dost thou fly?
Bear'st thou home the loaded bee?
Or the lover's secret sigh?

Hast thou not my Azla seen Through all the mazes thou hast been? Didst thou perfume, O gentle gale! In Araby, thy fragrant breath? In sweeter Tiviot's thymy vale? On Cayla's hills of blossomed heath? Or, Zephyr! hast thou dared to sip The sigh of love from Azla's lip! Young Azla's eye of tender blue

Outvies the crystal fountain bright, Her silken locks of sunny hue,

The birch-tree's foliage floating light;

And light her form as bounding fawn That flies the plains at early dawn.

When o'er her warbling harp I've hung, '
And heard its witch-notes wildly blending
With accents of a sweeter tongue
That aye its lovely aid was lending,

I could have deem'd that minstrel fair
Some spirit of th'enchanted air!
Like youthful Spring's refreshing green,
Like dewy Morning's smile of gladness,
The radiance of her look serene

Might win to joy the soul of sadness;
But where in nature shall I find
An image for my Azla's mind!

The azure depths of summer noon

Might paint her pure and happy breast,
Yet, like the melancholy moon,
She loveth pensive pleasures best;

And seeks her fairy solitudes
Embosom'd in the leafy woods.

The melodies of air and earth,

The hues of mountain, wood, and sky, And loneliness, more sweet than mirth, That leads the mind to musings high, Give to the fair euthusiast's face The charm of more than earthly grace! But hark!--Adown the whispering grove I hear the sound of Azla's feetShe comes, my own, my only love, My fondly plighted vows to meet→→→ And, oh! her eyes that softly shine Confess that angel heart is mine!

LINES

Written in early Youth. STREAMS, whose torrent waters glide Down this wild untrodden dell, Woods that clothe the mountain's side, Winged wanderers of the fell,

Tell me in what flowery glade
Shall I find my favourite mail?

SONG.

THE seraph of the bowers above,
Array'd in robes of light and love,
Doth wander through his heavenly grove,
Than human thought more fair, Mary;

And Thou, amidst thy leafy wood,
Art all so lovely, pure, and good,
That it might seem heaven's solitude,
And thou an angel there, Mary!

Give me these fragrant birchen woods, These mountain glens, and falling floods, These wild sequester'd solitudes,

To roam with love and thee, MaryGive me, within thy hallowed grove, To live with thee, my life, my love! I'll dream-that in the bowers above An Angel dwells with me, Mary!

SONNET TO

ART thou some spirit from the realms above

That wanderest here to human ways unknown,

And, when a mortal views thee, fliest the grove?

To meet her longing mate no feathered dove

On swifter pinions flies, than thou hast flown,

Soon as thy glory on my eyes had shown, And waked my soul to wonder and to love. Ah! thou art fled, and yet thou wert so nigh,

That o'er my check, warm with the breath of May,

Thy shadow passed, and waked my halfshut eye.

Yet where, my angel, whither wouldst thou fly?

It is to Heaven? O fly not then away! For Heaven is here, if thou wilt only

THE soothing shades of gloaming
With gladsome heart I see,
When by the streamlet roaming
To meet, my love, with thee.
Oh! then each floweret closing
Seems fairer than by day,
It tells, by its reposing,

Thou wilt not long delay.
Each bird, its vesper singing,
Delights my listening ear,
It tells the hour is bringing
My fairest angel here.
Methinks, more brighly beaming,
The stars look from above :
Each like a fond eye, gleaming

With joy, to see my love.

Oh! come then, love, nor linger,
For day has gone to rest,
And night, with dewy finger,

The woods in grey has drest.

The moon has sought the fountain,
Thy shadowy form to see,
And the cloudlet on the mountain,
A curtain spreads for thee.

WE have great pleasure in announcing to our readers, that Professor Leslie is at present engaged in a series of very curious and important experiments, which will throw new light on the constitution and phenomena of our atmosphere. In the prosecution of his views, he has been led to construct a delicate and powerful instrument, on which he has bestowed the name of Ethrioscope.

Dr Thomas Thomson, author of the System of Chemistry, which, with other works, has deservedly ranked him with the first of modern chemists, has, we are happy to understand, been appointed to fill the situation of Chemical Lecturer in the University of Glasgow.

Mr John Bellamy has now finished his twenty years' labour on the Hebrew Scriptures. The first portion is about to be printed, and will be delivered to the subscribers at one guinea per copy, before the conclusion of this year. We need not inform our theological and bibliographical readers, that, important as are the ancient books of divine revelation, they have not been presented to the Christian world since the second century, except through the medium of translations, made from other translations. It is believed, for example, that the first authorized English version was made for the most part from Luther's German translation, which was itself made from the Latin Vulgate. "Were a version of the Bible," says Bishop Newcomb, "executed in a manner suitable to the magnitude of the undertaking, such a mea sure would have a direct tendency to establish the faith of thousands-let the Hebrew and Christian prophets appear in their proper garb: let us make them holy garments for glory and for beauty.""Innumerable instances," says Dr Blackwall, "might be given of faulty translation of the divine original."-And Dr Waterland admits, that, "Our last English version is undoubtedly capable of very great improvements."-" Nothing," says Bishop Louth, "would more effectually conduce to remove objections, than the exhibiting of the Holy Scriptures themselves in a more advantageous and just light, by an accurate revisal of our vulgar translation.""The version now in use," says Dr Durell," does not in many places exhibit the sense of the text, and mistakes it, besides, in an infinite number of instances.""Whoever," observes Professor Symonds, "examines our version in present use, will find that it is ambiguous and incor

rect, even in matters of the highest importance."-We need not multiply opinions to the same effect, because it is well known, that the most eminent critics have been uniformly of the same opinion. In his modest prospectus. Mr Bellamy has submitted to the public a few passages, taken at random from his proposed New Translation, and the importance of his corrections will be evident to every one who will take the trouble to compare them with the authorized version.

The Dramatic Works of the late Mr Sheridan, prefaced by a correct life of the author, derived from authentic materials, are preparing for publication, by Mr T. Wilkie, of Paternoster-row. The long subsisting connection between the illustrious author and the Wilkie family, is a guarantee to the public of the genuine character of whatever work appears in which their names are topographically united.

Mr Richard Hand, glass-painter, proposes to publish, by subscription, a Practical Treatise on the Art of Painting on Glass, compiled and arranged from the original manuscripts of his late father, Richard Hand, historical glass-painter to his Majesty. The discoveries of modern chemistry, which have brought to our knowledge various new metals and oxydes, which produce by vitrification many beautiful colours necessary for painting on glass, and which were unknown to the ancients, will be duly noticed, to correct an erroneous idea that they excelled in the art; and, in opposition to the mistaken notion, that the art has been lost, it will be clearly shown that it has been continued to the present day, and that in former times it was never brought to the perfection it has now attained. The mistaken grounds on which the ancients are supposed to have excelled in the art will be pointed out, and such positive proofs of their inferiority be adduced, as will leave no further room for erroneous misconception on the subject.

A pamphlet has lately been printed in London on the subject of the Herculanean manuscripts; and M. Millin, of Paris, has published, in the Magazin Encyclopedique some account of the same. It appears that

a Dr Sickler, a Hanoverian, conceives he has invented an improved mode of unrolling them, and that he is to be patronised in his plan. Mr Hayter was, in December last, at Paris, with a view to unrol the six manuscripts given by the King of Naples to the Emperor Napoleon; but, being obliged to make use of the ancient method,

his progress, in spite of his zeal, was not more rapid, nor his success greater, than at Naples. We collect from a letter of Sir T. Tyrwhitt, that the great collection of these manuscripts remain at Naples in statu quo.

The Mineral, Agricultural, and Statistical Particulars of Derbyshire, have with more accuracy and minutiæ been described by Whitehurst, Pilkington, Mawe, and Farey, particularly by the latter, than any ether of the English counties; in addition to which, a thick quarto volume on its Topography, Antiquities, and other Analogous subjects, will appear in a very few weeks, by Messrs Lysons, in the course of publication of their Magna Britannia, which is intended to supply similar details for all the counties. It is said to have been all along the intention of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to cause separate mineral, manufacturing, and statistical reports to be made and published, regarding each of the counties. A more fit time for prosecuting this design, than the present, has not occurred, since the establishment of this important Board; and it is hoped, that, by its means, the other English counties may, ere many years elapse, be placed on a par with Derbyshire, as to the degree of information collected and published concerning these subjects.

Among the foreigners lately arrived from Rome, says a French paper, is Mr Watson, a Scotch gentleman, who is on his way to London. Mr Watson is the proprietor of the archives of the Stuart family, which he discovered, and bought of M. Tassoni, the Pope's auditor, and executor to the will of the late Cardinal York. These papers are actually on their way to England, the British Government having sent two men of war to Civita Vecchia to transport them thither. They are numerous, authentic, and very valuable-being estimated at half a million. They illustrate every thing obscure in the history of the last Stuarts, and throw new lights on the literature, the history, and the politics of the most interesting period of modern times. In the literary part is a correspondence between King James and Fenelon, Swift, the Bishop of Rochester, Lord Bolingbroke, Marshal Keith, and other equally celebrated personages. In the political part, there are above six thousand autographs of the Stuart Family; as well as a great number of letters from Charles XII., Peter the Great, Louis XIV., and almost all the sovereigns of Europe.

Profesor Orfila, author of the important work on Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Poisons, has in the press, at Paris, an elementary work on Chemistry. An English translation will appear soon after the publication of the original.

VOL. I.

Speedily will be published, a Practical Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent Failure of the Operations for extracting and depressing the Cataract; with a description of a new and improved series of operations, by which most causes of failure may be avoided; by Sir William Adams.

M. L. Abbé Bossut is printing introductory Latin and Italian Books, on the plan of his far-famed introductory French Books. A Latin Word-Book and PhraseBook, and an Italian Word-Book and Phrase-Book, may therefore be expected in a few weeks.

The following method of curing the Stone has lately been communicated by an African negro:-" Take a quarter of a pint of the expressed juice of horse-mint, and a quarter of a pint of red onion juice, evening and morning, till the cure is perfected. White onions will not have the same effect as red. To get the juice of them, they may be cut in thin slices, and well salted, and bruised between two pewter plates. It is, however, the juice of the horse-mint which possesses the most virtue in this disorder; and a strong decoction of this will generrally, in time, effect a cure."

Don Valenzuela has discovered that meat may be preserved fresh for many months, by keeping it immersed in molasses.

A material for roofing, cheap and durable, is formed by dipping sheets of coarse paper (such as button-makers use) in boiling tar, and nailing them on boards or laths, exactly in the same manner as slates. Afterwards the whole is to be coated over with a

mixture of pitch and powdered coal, chalk, or brick-dust. This forms a texture, which completely resists every description of weather for an unknown time. Extensive warehouses at Deal, Dover, and Canterbury, and churches and farm-houses in the north, have been so roofed for more than fifty years, without requiring repairs.

Dr E. D. Clarke, in a letter to Dr Thomson, says, that in using the gas blowpipe, two precautions are necessary:First, As a precaution for his safety, the operator, before igniting the gas, should apply his ear to the apparatus, (gently turning the stop-cock of the jet at the same time,) and listen to determine, by the bubbling noise of the oil, whether it be actually within the safety cylinder. The oil may be drawn into the reservoir, whenever the piston is used, if the stop-cock below the piston be not carefully shut, before the handle is raised. If there have been a partial detonation in the safety cylinder, as sometimes happens, when the gas is nearly expended, this precaution is doubly necessary, to ascertain whether the oil have not been driven into the reservoir; when an explosion of the whole apparatus would be extremely probable. Using this pre

caution, the diameter of the jet may be so enlarged as to equal one-thirty-fifth of an inch. Second, If, with this diameter, the heat of the flame be not sufficient to melt a platinum wire, whose diameter equals one-tenth of an inch, the operator may be assured his experiments will not be attended with accurate results. The melting of the platinum wire ought to be considered as a necessary trial of the intensity of the heat; which should be such, that this wire not only fuses and falls in drops before the flame, but also exhibits a lively scintillation, resembling the combustion of iron wire, exposed to the same temperature. It must, he says, have appeared very remarkable, that while the reduction of the earths to the metallic state, and particularly of barytes, was so universally admitted by all who witnessed my experiments with the gas blow-pipe in Cambridge, the experiments which took place at the Royal Institution, for the express purpose of obtaining the same results, totally failed. This will, however, appear less remarkable, when it is now added, that my own experiments began, at length, to fail also. During the Easter vacation, owing to causes I could not then explain, the intensity of the heat was so much diminished in the flame of the ignited gas, that I was sometimes unable to effect the fusion of platinum wire, of the thickness of a common knitting needle. The blame was, of course, imputed to some supposed impurity, or want of due proportion, in the gaseous mixture; when, to our great amazement, the intensity of the heat was again restored, simply by removing a quantity of oil which had accumulated in the cap of the safety cylinder, and which had acquired a black colour. About this time Dr Wollaston arrived in Cambridge, and was present at some experiments, in company with the Dean of Carlisle, and our professor of chemistry. Dr Wollaston brought with him some pure barytes. It was immediately observed, that with this newly prepared harytes there was no possibility of obtaining any metallic appearance. The barytes deliquesced before the ignited gas, and drops of a liquid caustic matter fell from it. Hence it became evident, that the failure here, and at the Royal Institution, might be attributed to the same cause; namely, the impurity of the barytes; which proved to be, in fact, a hydrate; and its reduction to the metallic state before the ignited gas, was thereby rendered impracticable.

ITALY.

The present eruptions of Vesuvius are astonishing. Copper, iron, acid of soda, sulphur, sulphuric acid, clay, and sometimes ammoniac from salts, often agglomerated, and often divided either wholly or in part.

One sees that copper is a chief ingredient in the volcanic productions; one meets with it in abundance in the different species of lavas. Vesuvius, which has been in constant activity since 1813, has entirely covered its ancient crater with a thick crust, in the midst of which the new eruptions have thrown up two little transparent elevations, whence issue smoke, ashes, and stones, which are frequently vitrified, so that, after they have fallen, one finds the ground covered with threads of transparent glass. This crust is so considerable, that, unless it has some support, or if an earthquake should take place, the sinking in of the matter which composes it, will produce an effect similar to that of the eruption which took place in the time of Titus.

M. Maio, of Milan, has lately published an advertisement relative to a treatise on Virtue, discovered by him in the Ambrosian Library, and attributed to Philo, but which was written, according to others, by George Gemistus Plethon, a Greek author of the 15th century; it has even been printed long since under the name of this second author, (Græcè et Latinè, Basileæ, Oporin, 1552, 8vo. Grace cum Stobao, Antuerpiæ, Plantin, 1575, in fol. &c.) In consequence M. Maio declares, that he cuts it off from the catalogue of inedited works, recently published by him, observing, however, that it would not be impos sible to claim this little tract for Philo1st, because the Milan MS. ascribes it to him-2d, because the style does not appear unworthy of antiquity-3d, because Gemistus Plethon, who borrowed many things from ancient authors, e. g. from Aristotle, Theophrastus, Xenophon, Plutarch, and Arian, may have borrowed this tract from Philo-4th, and lastly, because Philo really did compose works upon Virtue, which we do not now possess. But M. Maio, foreseeing the answers that might be made to these four observations, and being unwilling to enter into any controversy on this subject with the learned, invites them to consider, as annulled, the edition which he has given of this little work, and of which he has distributed but a very few copies. We cannot, however, regret that M. Maio should have been induced to publish this treatise, as we should other. wise have, perhaps, had to wait till another opportunity for the valuable and most important information contained in his preface.

M. Fontani, Librarian at Florence, announces the publication of inedited letters of Poggio, in 2 or 3 volumes 8vo. He proposes also to publish the catalogue of the MSS. of the Riccardian Library. This catalogue will form 3 or 4 volumes in folio.

GERMANY.

The Emperor of Austria, desirous of advancing useful knowledge, and transplant