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SCATTERED NOTICES OF ANTIQUITY, INCIDENTS, APOPHTHEGMS,
ANECDOTES, MANNERS, &c.

By William Tennant, Author of “ Anster Fair.”

from any avaricious person he happened to meet, he solicited as an alms no less than a mina, (L.3, 15s.) saying, that he begged and got smaller sums from generous persons who gave to him often, but from misers, who gave but once, he would take no less a sum than he had mentioned. When asked how he wished to be buried, "With my face downwards," he replied, " for in a little while every thing in this world will be turned upside-down." When invited by some person to supper, he said he would not go, as last time he went, the inviter was not sufficiently grateful for it. During his life, his reputation for strength of character and genius was such as to induce the victoThe rious son of Philip to pay him a visit in his tub. Macedonian introduced himself to him as the son of Philip and King of Macedonia. The philosopher announced himself very simply as being but Diogenes the Dog. So strongly was Alexander impressed with the originality of his mental qualifications, that he left him with the extraordinary expression, that, were he not Alexander, he would fain be Diogenes. It is recorded that he died on the same day at Corinth with the Persian conqueror at Babylon.

The Greeks were wont, in summer, to cool their wines

by the dilution of snow, or by dipping the wine-vessel in wells of water. It is supposed also that, in common with some people of the East, they had, in the interior part of their houses, small subterranean pits, or square receptacles, (called xazzo,) nicely coated over with very fine and impervious plaster, or gypsum, where they held their wine, as in tanks, and from which they drew out at times what family uses required. When Diphilo, the comic poet, of whose dramas the prologues were exceedingly cold and uninteresting, was dining, on a summer day, with the witty Gnathaena of Athens, she entertained him with her best and most refreshing wines, at the coolness of which the poet expressed his surprise, saying, "That her wine-tank must be exceedingly refrigerating." -"Not at all," replied the lady; "when I wish to cool my wines, I merely dip them into one of the prologues of your plays!"

One of the most fanciful dishes made use of by the DIOGENES, surnamed the Dog, or the Cynic, was a epicures of antiquity, was a whole pig, one-half of which native of Sinope, but lived for the greatest part of his was boiled, the other half roasted. Inglorious, and alllife at Athens, where his usual domicile was a tub or attempting as are our modern cooks and gastronomists, large hogshead, where he slept at night, and hovelled we know not if their ingenuity has reached a consummaduring the morning and evening, much to the amusement tion so exquisite. The whole tedious process of preparaof the Athenian boys, who sometimes pelted at and broke tion remains to us in Greek description, so that a modern down his wooden dormitory with stones. In every thing refiner may instruct his cook from it, and elaborate out this man studied eccentricity; in his dress and doctrine, | a similar tidbit. It seems to have been the most masas well as his domicile. He went about with his scripterly feat, the ne plus ultra of pristine gastrology. Whole and staff as a mendicant, at the same time that he gave public lectures on the most abstruse and sublime themes of philosophy to the enlightened citizens of Athens. He wrote some tragedies and many philosophical treatises, all of which are lost, so that nothing now remains of him but his sayings, which are quite enough to prove him to have been the most original, sarcastic, and powerful mind of antiquity. He excited the laughter of the Athenians, much to the prejudice of Plato his rival, by producing on the floor of his lecture-room a cock, denuded of wings and feathers, as an appropriate exemplification of the unfortunate definition of Plato, who had styled man a biped without wings. “Behold!" said he to his amused audience, "here is Plato's man!" His rival was so ashamed, that he corrected or retracted his definition. The eccentric sage of Sinope was wont to embrace in winter statues coated with ice and snow, to accustom himself, he said, to hardihood; for the same reason, he placed himself under roof-spouts in heavy rains to benefit his constitution with an effectual cold bath. He, in his halfserious half-jocular mendicating strolls, supplicated, sometimes, not for money, but for golden and brazen statues, that he might accustom himself to a refusal;

pigs boiled were very common, both at Greek and Roman tables. It was, perhaps, first of all a Macedonian dish. The pigs were stuffed with thrushes, fig-peckers, yolks of eggs, oysters, &c. A dish of this description was called by the Romans The Wooden Horse, their imaginations, from the multifarious ingredients, assimilating it to the armour-crammed horse of Sinon at the siege of Troy. This was a favourite mess with the pontifices or priests, the most accomplished epicures of that capital of the world, who new well, by experience, all the best meats and best wines to be found throughout the world. Peacocks were also a favourite dish among the Romans. It was the luxurious orator Hortensius that first presented a peacock at one of the augural suppers, and his example was rapidly followed, so that immense numbers of these birds were reared at Rome and its neighbourhood, to supply the tables of the rich. After they had become somewhat plentiful, they sold at about L.1, 15s. each, and their eggs at nearly 3s. 4d. each.

Joyous as were the preparations, and magnificent as was the sport of the Olympic Games, the character of society in Greece must needs have been injuriously affected by them;

and, in comparison with the polish of our modern modes, their manners must have been, in no little degree, deteriorated and debased by the estimation and rank held by their Olympianica-the conquerors at these games, their wrestlers, their pugilists, quoit-throwers, foot-racers, chariot-racers, and so forth, whose names, however vulgar the actors, were covered with glory, and considered by all ranks as elevated to a summit of reputation equal to, or above that of, the greatest warriors, poets, and philosophers. For the designations of these persons, who had fed and nourished themselves up to the top of their profession by dieting on the flesh of swine and oxen, were enrolled in all the public annals, to commemorate eras and dates, and were identified with the most important public transactions; the men, on their entry into cities, were honoured with the acclamation of crowds, and with golden statues erected to ensure their immortality; they were maintained at the public expense; they sat in theatres, along with ambassadors, in the foremost and most dignified seats; their children were ennobled ; they were invited, however barbarous in their speech, and stupid in their understandings, to the tables of kings; hymns were indited, by the first lyric poets of their age, to embalm their memories in the incorruptibility of song; -in short, they were considered nearly in all respects as the pre-eminent and all-glorious beings of their generation. It is manifest, when such unequal honours were paid to men who acquired celebrity merely by robustness of limb or agility of sinew, that the whole tone and bearing of society must have been injured, in a degree corresponding to the prepossessions entertained for such plebeian and brutal qualifications. Yet we find few or any of their philosophers, however full of invective they may be at the barbarous modes of those whom they called barbarians, taking any notice of their own barbarous practices. Anacharsis, a native of Scythia, and Diogenes, a native of Sinope, are the only philosophers that seem to have taunted the Greeks on the rudeness of their games. Of their own native writers, Euripides, the most philosophical poet of antiquity, was the only man that was bold enough to denounce them. That elegant poet appears, from the sentiments of the subjoined extract, to have anticipated the opinions of the moderns on those subjects; and by expressing, in contradiction to received opinion, such elevated sentiments, he must have incurred, perhaps, part of that unpopularity which led his countrymen to underrate, during his life, his poetical merit, and bestow upon him less honour than he undoubtedly deserved.

Of Greece's thousand ills and thousand shames,
The champion-tribe the loathed precedence claims;
Men crown'd for eminence of fist or foot,
Honour'd as more than men with gods' repute,
Though, less than men, they borrow from the brute.
For how, to barb'rous combats school'd, can they
Pursue fair Virtue's peace-pursuing way?
How can the man, his gullet's pamper'd slave,
Who feeds to fight, and crams but to be brave,
Tame down to industry his loose desires,
Or add to the possessions of his sires?
Less can such men, submitting to be poor,
Comply with fortune, and her shifts endure;
For, vice-inured, with luxury their nurse,
When fortune waxes bad, they too wax worse;
In youth they glitter, gorged with meat and praise,
Idols of cities, and the Forum's gaze;
But in old age's bitter day of care,

Their splendid cloaks wax tawdry and threadbare,
And through back lanes they slink, no more the rabble's

stare.

Hence, chief in this the men of Greece I blame,
That, flocking in from far to public game,
They congregate for banquet and for show,
Giving to useless sights and pleasures low
What honours they to godlike virtue owe;

Does he, whose lead-encumber'd hand has weight
To crush to death his adversary's pate,
Who at the wrestle struggles till he trips,
Who on the race-ground toils till he outstrips,
Who hurls the quoit with unsurpass'd renown-
Does this man, honour'd with a laurel crown,
Or bless or benefit his native place or town?
Shame to the land of learning and of arts,
To blend the sage's with the fool's deserts!—
His be the laurel-leaves, who, just and sage,
Illumes with splendid righteousness his age,
Who rules like a divinity his land,
Mixing meek mercy with unblamed command;
Whose gifted tongue soothes down blood-breeding jars,
At home averts all feuds, abroad all wars :-
Such are the gifts that yield a blest increase,
Good for each town and land, and good for Greece;
Such are the gifts from gods and men that claim
True crowns of laurel and true wreaths of Fame!

EDINBURGH DRAMA.

SOME geese will have it, that Kean ought not to have returned to the stage. This is just reversing the order of things he ought not to have left it. He may-from our recollections of his last visit-he must have failed in physical strength, so as to incapacitate him for the perform ance of some of his parts, but there is still a wide range left for him. His Shylock, on Wednesday evening, was masterly and overpowering as ever. Then as to what is said of his moral conduct, we have no wish to know about it no right to know about it-we will know nothing about it. It is Kean the actor that we care for, and him only we wish to see. Lastly, in regard to his huffs, and pets, and bullying of the audience, we can take it at the hands of Edmund Kean. He is a spoiled child, but we will not deprive ourselves of the pleasure of seeing him because he is foolish occasionally. That ebullient temperament which creates his genius transports him at times beyond himself, makes him forget where and what he is, leads him to swagger and bluster out of time and place. But his own after-reflections will be punishment enough -we will not add to their stings. We are happy that he has taken the rue after his premature abandonment of the stage-we are happy to see him once more among us and we will be happy how soon the manager's interests and his own convenience shall render a repetition of the visit expedient.

We have many faults to find with Kean's acting. We can admire the performances of his rivals—their thorough conception of a character-their taste, passion, and energy; but yet we feel, whenever we see him, that he has that within which places him immeasurably above them all. It is true genius. Others have high talent sedulously cultivated-they have worked themselves up to eminence-but Kean's greatness is a spontaneous effusion of nature. We admire them, but he rules us, overwhelms us, bears us captive along with him. To the finest passages of others we can say that is admirable, because ——: but Kean incapacitates us for the moment from reasoning about him. His flashes are the lightning of the mind, and jar us as with an electric shock. Shylock is the only character in which we have yet seen him. We fear he is too weak to do himself justice in Richard or Sir Giles. His Macbeth, although adorned with passages of surpassing beauty, we never much cared for. His Othello is yet before us. But his Shylock was worthy of his best days. It was a mighty nature warped by circumstances relying upon its innate strength amidst oppression and indignity-feeling itself loosened from the obligations of faith and charity by injustice, but neither quailing before nor bending beneath it. was a marked difference in his bearing before the young spendthrift who came to borrow, and the wealthy, powerful, and brow-beating merchant. His deportment to

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wards the former was unabashed, unconstrained-to- O gaudy Noon! I love thy form of light,
wards the latter he was all smiles and courtesies. But
the keen fierce eye of the famished lion glared through
the tender foliage. He was ready to spring, and but
waited till he saw his bound would be effective. When
he made his appearance after his daughter's escape, he
reeled and staggered as if the blow had struck him with
blindness. The intensity of his curses was withering-
his triumph fiendish. In the trial scene he stood unas-
sailable by supplication, triumphantly conscious of his
power. At times, however, his hatred and loathing would
break out, and then it was like the snarl of a starving
wolf. Throughout, the sarcasms in which Shylock so
frequently indulges, were given with all the intensity of
one who wished to sting. There were moments, too, of
redeeming human feeling-as when cursing his daughter,
he interrupted himself, with a faltering voice, "No, no,
no:" and in many of his bold appeals to the immutable
principles of justice, we felt that this bold bad spirit was
still a man. His action throughout was free, vigorous,
and beautiful; and the low notes of his voice are mellowTo thy seer-gifted eye; or on the gale

And voice sweet as the sounds that zephyrs shake
From their wings o'er a slumbering sunny lake,-
I love thee for thy eye so blue-so bright.
But, O pale, pensive Night! more tenderly
I love to walk with thee in solitude,
Clad in the dark robes of thy widowhood,
When the weird, wither'd moon is in the sky;
And, where the willow sighs and nettle waves,
Weep with the moon o'er dew-besprinkled graves.

as ever.

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OH! ever thus to lean and look on thee;
With streams of liquid light thus gushing down
In kindness from thy lustrous eye's deep brown!
Oh! ever on those red, red lips to see

That witching smile! Though sweet thy voice to me
As the skylark's, oh! keep thee silent now!
For ever let me gaze upon that brow-
Those cheeks, and those dark locks that glossily
Wreathe down thy neck, as to my upturn'd face

Thou thus declinest thy head! In such a mood-
In such a waking dream, the Latmian boy
Gazed on the moon, as she her quiet pace
Went through the blue, and from her orb a flood
Of bliss poured on him-faint beside my joy.

TO A LADY, ENCLOSING A POEM OF SOME LENGTH.

By George Winter.

When May's soft falling showers and kindly sun
Bring o'er the earth the fresh and juicy green,
It is their fostering gives the seemly scene-
A gladsome change from the dead clammy dun
Of winter fields! If poisonous plants outrun
In growth the good, the soil must bear the blame
That yields no better to that sweet-urged claim.
And if these plants of verse which have begun
Their growth in me, (by thy mild constant eyes,
And by thy voice, which on me listening fell
Like softest showers of music, made to arise,)

Have aught of beauty in them, let me tell-
Should any deign to hear-that beauty 's thine:
If they prove valueless the fault is mine.

PREFERENCE.

By J. B. Thomson.

O fair-hair'd Morn! I love thy countenance,
When thou goest, in thy steps of loveliness,
To greet the mountain's forehead with a kiss,
And bathe all in the beauty of thy glance.

TO A RAVEN.

By Thomas Brydson.

With short, deep cry, and quickly moving wing,
There passest thou, impatient to forsake
This peopled plain for the wild heights which make
An upper world of solitude, and bring
The clouds of heaven betwixt thee and the vale.
Where hast thou been, old haunter of the dead?
Perhaps some scene of coming doom was spread

The breath of dissolution floated by,

From the domains of human mansionry,
Whispering of ghastly form, laid far away

Among its rocks.
In grim repose, where the snow whirled like spray
Oh! horrid sight, to see
The features of the dead glare up at thee!
Oban.

LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

PARIS and London, a satirical novel, by the author of the Ex. quisites, &c., is immediately forthcoming.

Henry Lawes Long, Esq., is about to publish The Route of Han. nibal from the Rhone to the Alps.

Mr Bernays has in the press a series of Familiar German Exer. cises.

Mr J. F. Pennie announces by subscription, and under the pa tronage of the king, a volume entitled "Britain's Historical Drama," intended to illustrate the manners of different early eras in Britain.

The Rev. George Garioch, Minister of Meldrum, has in the press a volume of Sermons, on various subjects of Christian Doctrine and Practice.

Miss Landon's forthcoming prose work is to be entitled "Ro mance and Reality."

Mr Ross Cox is about to publish "The Columbia River," inclu. ding a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky Mountains, together with a journey across the American conti. nent.

Victor Hugo has lately presented the Parisians with a novel, entitled "Notre-Dame de Paris," which has met with the most rapid sale, having, during the month, arrived at a fifth edition. The reader is carried back to the age of Louis XI., and the French critics say, with the magic of Sir Walter.

The Library of the British Museum opened to the public on Saturday last for the first time, and will continue open, in future, at the usual hours, on Saturday, as well as other days throughout the year, excepting three weeks holydays-at Easter, Whitsuntide, and Christmas.

FRENCH POPULAR LECTURE.-The want of room prevented us, last Saturday, from noticing a lecture on French Historians, recently delivered before a numerous audience in the Hopetoun Rooms, by M. Surenne, of the Military Academy. The way in which the French historical writers of the 17th and 18th century were noticed by the lecturer, was luminous and comprehensive; and, as far as we can judge, the historical extracts were as remarkable for the effective and impressive manner in which they were delivered, as for the eloquence of their composition. At the close of the lecture, the pleasant scene of awarding prizes to gen. tlemen who competed in writing an essay, the subject of which had been fixed by M. Surenne at the close of his last course of lectures, ensued. We cannot conclude without saying, that this new method of promoting French literature has our unqualified approbation.

CHEROKEE INDIANS.-The progress in civilisation made by the Cherokees is altogether unexampled. The bulk of the people live in comparative ease; many of them even in high style. Colonel Gold, of Connecticut, who resided eight months amongst them, was witness of many of their works during that period; of the cultivation of land, of the building of houses and boats, and many improvements. The education of the children particularly attract.

ed his attention. Religious instruction is gradually spreading amongst them. We have seen many letters written by young Cherokees educated in the schools of the missionaries. They are well written, and the spirit of piety which pervades them proves evidently, that they who have taken charge of these children have not neglected their most precious interests. A great number of families are occupied with the manufacture of wool and cotton for their own use, and also for exchange. The wheel and loom are found in almost every house. Colonel Gold possesses specimens of their work, which will bear comparison with the best of the kind. Their roads are attended to, and in good condition. The colonel has travelled in a carriage through all parts of the country. He was present at a meeting of the general council of the nation, and was surprised at the order and regularity which was preserved in the deliberations, and at the talent exhibited by many of the members. Every thing we learn respecting the Cherokees proves to us, that these Indians have abandoned their nomadic life for domestic habits; that they have exchanged the tomahawk and the carabine for the plough, the hoe, and the loom; and that they have already arrived at a surprising degree of civilisation, the more extraordinary, that it was thought these sons of the forest could never relinquish their natural inclinations.Courrier des Etats-Unis, 17th July, 1830.

CHIT-CHAT FROM GLASGOW.-Miss Turpin and Mr Horncastle are with us. The lady-like grace and the beauty of the former, as well as her vocal talents, have made a pleasing impression. Mr Horncastle was popular before among us.-Emigration is now the order of the day, and every one is setting off from town that can possibly escape. The demand for summer quarters on the coast never was brisker; and, as the steam-boat tax is not to be levied this year, we are likely to have a merry summer-if a brief one, for it has not yet begun-the weather still retaining all the chill of February, while the sun shines with a May-day length and brightness. But still we are glad to escape from the festivities, so named, of "the Season."-The Evening meetings of Anderson's University are about to close. Mr Atkinson read, on Monday night, a disquisition on the present state of the law of Literary Property, in which he espoused, if not the doctrine of perpetual copyright, at least the policy of a great extension of the privilege of authors, and most stoutly opposed the "Claims," as they are called, of the eleven public bodies to gratis copies of every new work. In these days of renovation, and with a reformed Parliament, the re-agitation of this interesting subject is likely to lead to a final settlement of the vexatious question between aggrieved bibliopoles and authors, and the universities and the public.

PAISLEY SOCIETY OF THE FINE ARTS.-A society, with the honour. able object of propagating a taste for, and consequently promoting the progress of, the Fine Arts, has recently been established here. The first aim of its members was to procure materials for an Ex..

February, 1830, moved for leave to bring in a bill, the object of which he stated to be, "to take away from managers of theatres the right of acting plays without first obtaining the consent of authors." The bill also provided that when a play shall be once acted, "it cannot be represented at other theatres without a like consent on the part of the author." Leave being given, the bill was brought in by Mr Lamb and Sir James Mackintosh. It was read for the first time on February 24; for the second, on March 4; it passed the committee of the House on March 8; and the report was ordered to be brought up next day. Its recommitment was deferred from time to time, and it ultimately fell through. The subject is to be renewed in the ensuing Parliament by Lord Mahon. -When Kean leaves us the benefits will resume their course. Pritchard's comes on on Monday, " under distinguished patronage"-which being interpreted, means-of the officers of the Dragoon Guards. Of course our most efficient and indefatigable actor will have a good house.

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hibition of the Works of Living Artists, and especially to foster THE FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the

native talent. In this they have upon the whole been successful, considering the novelty of the plan, and the limited nature of the field of operation, and of the funds at their command. The Exhi bition opened on Thursday last. It contains above 200 picturesmany of very considerable merit, and even the average above par. Graham has one fine portrait; Gibson, two; and Macnee the same number. Kidd contributes two very striking landscapes, and Donaldson more than one. Henderson has sent the beautiful Flute Player. The artist, named Innes, whom no one seemed to know, has some capital little pieces. Henning of London has sent his native town a set of miniature casts from the Panathenaic Procession; and Mr Fillans has a striking bust of the handsome and popular Sheriff Campbell. Upon the whole, the Exhibition, in getting up, &c., reflects great credit on the good town of Paisley. The "head of an old shepherd" was picked up by Mr Atkinson, who "hanselled" the Exhibition, by being the first purchaser from it. We fervently trust his example will be followed-nay, far outdone; for, after all, buying is the way to patronise and promote the arts; and Paisley, which has been long famous for the delicate and tasteful fabrics it manufactures, may be greatly benefited, even in a commercial view, by a diffusion of sound principles of taste among its community.

Theatrical Gossip.-There has been nothing new at either of the great houses since our last. Charles Kemble has entered into an alliance with Ducrow, with a view to the production of a spectacle termed Napoleon. Charles has announced that the actors shall perform in the identical costume, and the London wags are making a sad hand of him in consequence. One has pursued the manager in his researches through all the rag-fairs in France for cast coats of the Emperor, and even up-stairs to Prince Talleyrand, when he went to borrow a pair of his Highness's small. clothes. Catalani has taken up her residence at Florence, where she has founded a school for the education of young females in singing, who are provided for during their instruction, and engagements afterwards procured for them, when they are to ap pend to their family name that of Catalani.-The French plays, at the Haymarket, continue to attract.-It will be in the memory of some of our readers, that the Hon. George Lamb, on the 224 of

ACADEMY, for the WORKS of LIVING ARTISTS, at the Rooms of the Academy, 24, WATERLOO PLACE, Will CLOSE on SATURDAY, the 21st current.

By order of the Council,
D. O. HILL, Secretary.
Admission 1s.-Season Tickets 5s.—Catalogues 6d.
Edinburgh, 6th May, 1831.

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A new Farce, by Dibdin, first time in this Theatre, entitled,
MY SPOUSE AND I !!!

After which, Mr Pritchard will recite a new version of
BUCKS HAVE AT YE ALL,

Being the picture of a Play House; or,

Bucks in the Boxes-Bucks in the Upper Boxes-Bucks in the PitBucks in the Gallery.

The favourite Overture of Tancredi.

The performances will conclude with (by particular desire, in con sequence of the flattering reception it received on the occasion of Mr Pritchard's benefit last year,) THE BRIGAND.

The Brigand, Mr Pritchard,

In the course of which, Mr Pritehard will sing
"Love's Ritornella."

An Allemande de Trois by Miss Fairbrother,
Miss C. Fairbrother, and Mr Pritchard.
Tickets to be had, and places for the Boxes to be taken, of Mr
KENNEDY, at the Box Office, Theatre-Royal, from 10 till 4 o'clock,
and of Mr PRITCHARD, 25, St James's Square.

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FROM HENRY AND SCOTT.

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