London Reviewer (Newspaper) - October 20, 1833, London, Middlesex N THE OCTOBER THE WEEKLY Westward A Npu flanks of Ohio or by 3 man iV have rend these volumes witli fixed arid de Paulding has carried us awny him from our easy chair and warm to dark find bloody ground of old Kentucky and we have felt as if we treading with him tin great the stupendous the lowered or sailing up the Ohio on the capacious gazing upon the glorious panorama of Nature with awe and as we read his animated and spiritstirring descriptions of field and mountain and the wild lairs of and the scarcely less wild habitations of the human founders of The talc with which these animated descriptions are is natural in most and pathetic and interesting throughout the author displays considerable knowledge of the human and exhibits its workings in the characters of and Vir ginia and with excellent There is a degree of in the mystery thrown round the which is not lessened when secret is revealed but we the with the ranting preacher almost destroys we had been led to associate such high and refined thoughts with our ideas of that we could not con the of his mind receiving those im pressions which the ravings of the insane bigot make upon We should have that our readers might comprehend the that Rains ford is a man upon whom circumstances have operated in a manner that engenders that dark nnd gloomy view of Providence in its connection with wherein it appears that we are all predestined to do good or ill that we but in the theatre of the our parts in a drama written and prepared for while we were but in a state of or His grand fathers madness and death had fulfilled a malig nant beggars and the curse was supposed to remain upon the father and brothers had in a state of at the age declared in the These which were nothing more than the triumphs of terror over have led to believe himself doomed to a similar fate the period of his life approaches when the attack is and travels to divert his melancholy upon his way he meets with one of those divine perfec tions of a woman which are sometimes met with in and often in beneath whose love his dark views of his own fate are becoming scat tered and replaced by others joyful and when a raving fanatic preacher undoes the work of love and drives the fatalist mad It is at tow part of the tale we consider the ries of Nature and probability rather We ask after dispassionate to tell us whether a such an one as whom the work of Love had been as take the work wag con summated when and Virginia sat on the mossy the hallowed silence of Nature breathed and the mind of seemed to take wing to the highest and to revel in the most glorious percep With the mingled feeling of poetry and of love and he expiated on the beauty of the chaste delights of vir the labours and triumphs of well aimed and the crowning gift of immortality bestowed upon it here and Virginia sat beside leaning forward with downward face her eye raised to his in mingled admiration of his lofty and fear lest he should overleap the slippery pinnacle of and topple down on the other feeling of exquisitely mourn ful tenderness came over her and the tears flowed down her cheeks as she gazed on his was become pale with the labours of the He observed and suddenly stopping his career among the regions of the upper softly What ails Virginia Do not be For the first time since I began to live only in the bitterness of anticipated wretched for the first I have this evening suffered myself to hope for better and the new guest has made me almost giddy with we shall yet be blessed We we that Love has here BO interwoven the hearts and minds of and that every thought and every impulse must be mutual unless the author means to advocate the doctrine of which we are sure he does we do not see how he can reconcile the of his hero with this It would have been a much grander picture had Paulding finished what we must consider to have been his first of making womans love the conqueror of error this he could have easily having the power of doing We devoting too much and attaching too much import ance to an error which but slightly detracts from the excellence and beauty of the and we leave the subject without The cha racter of Virginia is very charmingly drawn her conduct is consistent and natural throughout the passage attending upon the she discovers his temporary return to aud exclaims in a burst of Oh he knows me now 1 is equal to any of the most poetical touches of the of the Bushfield is a most extraordinary and welldrawn character the fault of that of the Colonel the author perceives and endeavours to The reader will not fail of admiring and even Ulysses will conic ici no able share of There are some scenes of choice humour interspersed among the graver ones a scrap will suffice for a Hullo I did you ever happen What then I reckon you have for you never could have took at that nny We dismiss these volumes with our cordial ap proval should be as we trust will not only by nil novel renders in the be also by all those who seek information respect ing the interesting subjects connected with Old the dark ami bloody The By A modest and unassuming its very merits we Minstrel A the pro we of a young man in the scho lastic who beguiles his leisure hours in poetical and who seems to have caught not a little inspiration from the study of the glori ous old English There nre passages in this of and displaying a depth ami purity of the absence of which we have frequently in works of higher The three talcs which the poem nre simple and pathetic is a in the which we admire and although we find the work slightly disfigured by some trivial it nevertheless proves the author to ba possessed of superior powers and Reflection will induce him to guard against a certain into which he is prone to and to refrain from the use of words having no particular are These are the chief faults of this otherwise clever and interesting poem of afford space for a specimen or ITT 10 a mild fragrant the sun his disc Was now about to hide beneath tin And things of lowest stature magnified Their shadows on the As tis in When fortune sets to men of little Their face a lengthened shade and gloom eke fort Their very insignificance of form Dilates in shadows so That they alone their being A POETS The links Of the ideal chain so quickly close And that ere we have hud time to pause And a series has been THE OF This my is merely as a A Which as you turn its leaves from right to The present and the future to the past They one upon the other close for And form a hidden mass of solid Its titlepage in baptism we Its childhood introduction Old age and its Finis death Thou thinkst thyself a gentleman And so thou een 1 will speak that truth Gentle thou art when courage should be And man thou because now full These specimens we beget a desire of further acquaintance with The Wan By John Timber A plain by a plain the tendency of which is to demonstrate that trees and vegetables derive their nutriment independently of the The author adduces a profusion of interesting that appear to establish his how ever singular it may worthy of attentive Wre perceive that some of his suggestions have already bean acted that the results have been There are also some valuable observations on decay and defects in together with a better method of pruning appended to this little which must render it particularly Several of the ANNUALS have been re and will be noticed in our next FINE The Lady Edith dropping the rose bud at the feet of the Knight of the Painted and Engraved by John A illustration of Sir Walter Scotts The Talisman there an air of solemn grandeur pervading the work perfectly in character and excellent the figures are well and the lights managed very The engraving is rough in some generally it is well the ever treed Sam Its 51 who ever said Hut did in good see Divine house floating down with the family in If I mly 1 up River I should like to wun the old sinner 1 dare say lie prayed a that he I heard him Now 1 liy me down to as he had lied my boat to top of a big a hundred Thus they communed till the blush of morning appeared in the and the gradual opening of the scene showed the swelling stream rolling down in boiling and its surface strewed with the spoils of the gigantic trees on the as they are called in the language of the stood midway quivering in the with nothing but Hie brandies The first and second hanks of the river had and wherever the hills receded from the shore the waters rolled over the sweeping ilong with them every loose tiling on its The picture of the deluge was renewed for the solid ground was no longer a place of and the scene was as solitary as which the world exhibited when all remained of its living myriads was sheltered in Noahs floating about at the mercy of a shoreless ocean that tumbled round the KATK OF A Pity the Ingens for what answered Bush Ill tell you stranger if you had lived in Old Kentuck as long as I and seen what I have youd talk other I When I remember this no body could sleep of nights for fear of the who were so you couldnt see the trees for them there isnt a soul in all but has some one of hiskin in the Ingeti or had bis house burnt over his head by these When they plough their they every day turn up the bones of their own colour and who have been and and and by these that are tun thousand times more bloodthirsty than and as cunning as pos 1 am the last of my family and name the rest are all nud not one of them died by the hand of his My grandfather and at Old my uncle was massacred at Ruddles after be had surrendered my father lost bis life at the Blue when all Kentucky was in mourning my two brothers were kidnapped when they were and never heard of afterwards mother and sister were burnt up in our while all the men were out to catch a by a party of they barred the doors and my little sister loaded the which my mother fired as fast as loaded they killed tuo of the varmints the others set fire to the house that any white man should pity an Ingen here on the dark and bloody ground L to see a snail in your travels I rather suspect j exclaimed ji I replied the stopping las tired stepped t SELECTIONS FROM NEW A SCENE ON THK From Late in the still starry as the captain and one Zephi his first sat watching the course of the while she glided by the bright beams of a the former ob served that the river was rising and the force of the current There has been a mighty grist of rain lately up and the snows on the mountains must have all melted in a I reckon we shall have a powerful said Zephi its above high water mark and rises like the water in a boiling 1 never seen it high aud that was when Orson broadhorn was curried clean over the tops of the Button aud Divine house floated all the way down to the Big with the family in whistled captain in what year of our Lord was Zeph the year you got such a licking from the Yankee pedlar at 1 Ill be if any Yankee pedlar that ever twist here and the other bide of the end of LOST anchorage in Madras Roads is very foul from the number of anchors left there though castiron is not the only metal that lies there in undisturbed for some years ago the captain of an having turned a large investment into had it secured in a strong box and sent to the The not knowing the contents of the and from its size little imagining that it could be extremely made use of the ordinary tackling to hoist it on which however was not sufficiently strong for the purpose intended before the box had been raised halfway up the ships the tackling and a fortune was in moment precipitated into the from which it was never Divers were employed without success it is still among the Oriental lady during her passage from England to was at work in her sewing some riband upon a pair of when a sudden lurch of the ship overturned her and all that was on it was precipitated through the port into the On the following day a huge shark was in the stomach of which was found her which were very little considering that they had been upwards of twentyfour hours in a place so very unfavourable to their WILD in its wild is exceedingly It is so much afraid of that it always retires whenever he approaches and nothing but some very extraordinary provo cation would induce it to make an Even when in however elephants always avoid too close a proximity to as if aware of his moral AN INDIAN One of the a woman young and beautifully fixed on her head a fillet of a strong to which were at equal twenty pieces of string of equal with a common noose at the end of Under her arm she carried a in which twenty fowls eggs were carefully Her the and the were seve rally examined by my companions and there was evidently no It was broad the basket was of the simplest construc the eggs and strings were all manifestly what they were represented to be in had the anything about her to aid had bhe been disposed to practice She advanced alone aud stood before within a few feet of where we were She then began to move rapidly round upon a spot not more than eighteen inches in from which she never for an in staul though after a few her ro tation had become so exceedingly rapid as to render it all but painful to look at She absolutely spun round lik a When her body had reached its extreme point of she quietly drew down one of the strings which had formed a hori circle round and put an egg into the noose when this was she jerked it back to its original still continuing her gy rations with undiminished and repeating the process until she had secured the whole twenty in the nooses previously prepared to receive She projected them rapidly from her hand the moment had secured until at length the whole were flying round her in one unbroken circular After the eggs had been thus she continued her motion for full five mi without the least diminution of her to our astonishment taking the strings one by she displaced the from their respective laid them in her and then in one instant without the move of a or the vibration of a as it had been suddenly fixed into A of the most novel as well as enchanting scenes in is the prairie or a distance of many It is for a considerable portion of the year one sea of one wide region of fragrance and ils features diner from those of any other lands in any other country not u is to be except upon its outer and blue horizon meets it every forming a long straight without the least appearance of irregularity or undulation as you east your rye over it is all one series of de owing to a particular state of the or the position of the dis tances and objects are increased or like the vagaries of the phantasmagoria things that are near will appear as if at a great and those a distance at other times seem as if you could almost touch them now a bird will seem as if touching the sky with its and anon the herds appear like an assemblage of of the A A sailor is all one as a piece of his as the old song and a Virginian is all one as a piece of hia He realizes the fable of the will have a horse if he has nothing else and if he cannot procure a pair of he will fasten a single one to his right justly considering that if you prick one sids of a horse the other will follow of is hardly a Turk who does not wear a to which he attaches some particular virtue capable of propitiating him in the sight of This kind of superstition is carried to such an extent that even the Sultans state barga is not considered as free from danger without a bunch of garlic being tied round the sharp point of HAMPTON immense Tine covers the back of Hampton Court facing exhibits at present a most luxurious from the thousands of large bunches of fine suspended from its branches of the finest and in the highest It ia calculated that the produce of this celebrated will weigh more than and it will be a work of some labour to collect and remove its when they are ripe for It is customary in the vicinity of Valenciennes for the youths of the male sex to plant branches of trees before the windows of young girls on the night preceding the 1st of These May plan as they are are usually of birch for those much of thorn for the and alder for the A NICE time since a gentle man farmer was bargaining with a in Dorchester market for two when the to bestow a good character on the Youll find them ere a couple of as good moral pigs as ever you clapped eyes What do you my good friend asked the your youll find em as good moral pigs as ever go where you will for the what do you mean by moral moral your as ill eat their any and do credit to their MAGISTERIAL of Cromwells who filled the important office of an Irish of the period of having occasion to write the word contrived to spell it with out using a single letter of the original word his improved orthography was When some remarks were made on similar feats he averred that nobody could spell with pens made from Irish geese following ascribed to the same worthy is said to be still in Dear send you two pups for your two sis which are two I your brethren in the OUR first of the Boyle family who went as an adventurer to in the reign of did not possess in worldly when he landed in that to the value of more than including a pair of silk or velvet which he did not forget to enumerate among the other articles of his little This by courtierlike conduct and remarkable acquired in the course of estates and lands worth a year in the reign of Charles He was raised to the dignity of Earl of Cork and had the unparalleled honour of seeing every one of his except who refused a seated with himself in the House of From the first Earl of Cork is the Duke of and it is in right of this descent that hia Grace enjoys the greater part of his Irish The main street of an American village having been undergoing material and being paved inquiries have been made when the work would be A for asked a who was busily employed in driving down when will you get this street done How did you know my name waa Pat inquired the I guessed aa much said the replied Pat since you are good at you may guesa when the street will be
