London Reviewer (Newspaper) - December 8, 1833, London, Middlesex THE DECEMBER THE MAGAZINES FOR Here is a mass of rhymes I Christopher is determined to he lively this and to make his lumbering old vehicle look light and airy with a cargo of and and Christopher himself concludes them with another dose of the Greek The middle portions Fragments from the History of John The Return of a wild Irish and another version of with an incident or two from a play called What a Blunder an mation which every body will be to after reading the story in The History of John Bull is a poor attempt at wit the doings of the Reformed Parliament are cari and the ministers are nicknamed The first chapter is described as treating of the riot on other side of the and how they tried to cozen Martin about the church Chapter the second of the proceedings of the matter of the black and how they ended to the satisfac tion of Chapter the How Johns rents began to get into and of the meeting of Dick and his friends at the The pointless shafts of ridicule aimed at the rights of the and the peoples honest and patriotic endeavours to establish those fall BO far from the that they draw from us only the smile and sigh of pity and France in has no novelty to recommend it it is the old burthen of the Tory press upon the subject of the two French which we have beard repeated over and over After drag ging himself through his tedious the author clasps his hands piously upon his turns up his and thus devoutly concludes of this we may foe well that it is not till the fountains of wickedness are closed by the seal of and the stream of thought is purified by that the disastrous consequences of two successful convulsions can be Amen say and let the writer die a good old man 1 He is a worthy soul any one can see that he writes with tears in eyes i The Sketcher is too too and flighty a being for us let him sober himself down to and we will talk with The Radical is not there is some truth in the last For he who thinks all others rogues will die a rogue line to the consideration of Christopher and all his We marvel that Christopher should have given in sertion to the Shelley him too intolerant for that we did him wrong thus and rejoice to find him engaged in spreading the glories of one of the greatest of modern We lines to our columns they describe the character of the poet and his of and which too much cannot be LINES WRITTEN IN THB FIRST BLANK LEAF OF Pause 1 and before another page yon Let Thoughts soft music on your bosom And and when the urn Of some lost Friendship makes its lone appeal Lay by all mock the gentle hrow Of Mm whose Spirit sits you Remember no modish No courtly Nor from hollow tongues That scoff they profess to sway Remember that a martyrs heart was broken To prove the faith within this volume To him sweet Poesy was no idle It was his breath and Fed by the Tiot rain from his very Yielded him odorous and enduring powers To publish And he went forth the of her The mild high Ever strong In which he Against those pyramids jf Fraud and Whose lengthening shadows wither up the world He lit his lamp at Truths Enough 1 the many warred against the one I What boots it now Fearless he fought the And if he the Loved Athenian And like that ever taught the right 1 the bright time approacheth that shall tell If for mans he with The prophets robe and poets wreath In Tain What boots it April cloud He scatterd beauty on the and past 1 f Ano Romes splendid heavens proud Their purple curtains oer his rest at hist Where TULLY lie All of their fond adorer that For You who gently oer this volume If deeply in your soul implanted springs That love of pure and passionate song which lendeth Creation half its gorgeous Fly to the green und shadowy solitudes That skirt blue brooks mid everlasting There steep your spirit in his lofty Replete with rainbow pictures from And fervid and starry dreams mortal of immortal Love 1 closing the go forth like to bless your fallen fellowmen MONTHLY sixth chapter enriches this number it is a noble piece of vivid in Here we have a ship done to the The Queen of munificence and beauty What a wonder of creation did she appear to me The most delicate and exquisite work of bands which I had ever in imitation of a was eo in a glass case a built of ivory nnd and tackled with silken a thing so beautiful in so graceful in so admirably so elegantly neat in that I almost loved as if it been some creature of endowed with a here was one which with her vastness of her admeasurement of more than two thousand her three tiers of her hundred and twenty which could rain forth a deluge of destruction nnd death by three thou sand three hundred pounds weight of in tre mendous thunder and lodging within her bowels one thousand with the immense thickness and strength of her lower and extended yards and with her teas on tons of cables and exhibited nil the ele gance of neatness of nice ac curacy of the whole fitted utility and even more perfectly than that wondrous thing of twelve inches on which I had looked with so much admiration A fairys working on gossamer and not have turned out of hand a thing of more faultless order and the mighty gorgeousness sound stirred within not a spund or sign of save the voiceless sweeping in the breeze of the stately and the fluttering of the she gazing and musing on the image of her which re worship up to her on her throne receiving proudly as her as if she asked it the homage of With how to the human matters within tells us that she was a Hell afloat So doth all beauty vanish from the Here are with oars as magical as those renowned ones of Which to the tune of flutes kept and made The which they to follow As amorous of their A says manned by some dozen of striped kinky eh my stars what a beautiful sight it was 1 The free and unconstrained swing of their working so exactly Wrists curving with such an air of a sense that they were doing it well and two rows of elbows throwing a double range of horizontal circles from to all at with a seeming of of selfapprobation of its as each elbow rode the periphery while the oars on either side dipped their and glistening blades into the as smoothly as if they were clipping into 6il without splash or spray they fell and and struck a beautiful level line of arcs from stern to stem at at once from stem to stern again all exactly to a parallel with the horizon the oars rose and and rose There excellent in this on and a variety of other univer both in prose and This seventh volume of the now con is dedicated To the Working People of Great Britain and Ireland and let them render themselves more worthy of the honour of that dedi by diligently applying themselves to the study of the successive numbers which shall hereafter ap pear to constitute the eighth 1 On his seventh volume we earnestly congratulate the Editor it is rich in fact and imagination and Vic tory to his flag for ever 1 The Physical he the Mental the Politi cal Rights of the Working People of that is the motto on our We nail hat flag to the and will sink or with it so HELP us spirit is evaporating we find in his pages none of that rich none of that biting which used to be so excellent in their kinds as to render almost pardonable his political errors frothy declamation has superseded and in the place of humour we have a nasty tale by Fraser commenced his career with open war against the puff system behold in his one of the most barefaced puffs that ever emanated from a book sellers Some of our readers may have heard of a called Lawrie which is about the best of the literary productions of John Gait many may have that and have forgotten It the original of the hero of the tale is a simple American dealer in upon the strength of having himself put a has been silly enough to come over for the purpose of publishing his true history as if the world had not enough of it in Lawrie Todd This simple trader pub for in the a very silly the object of we and so here we have that with additions and a picture of the simple in Frasers all to make folk talk and feel an interest in But it wont Master Oliver Yorke Balaam may blow the but who will come to the Oliver Yorke In the first page of this we have a but very unread able dissertation upon the Theban Temple at which would be more acceptable to the grave old ladies who take in the old Gentlemans A very mean and absurd ushers in Gaits nasty which is called The it should rather have been called the Good Husband for the poor simple soul not only endures with resignation the torrents of his wifes but also the nastiness of a dirty baby over his best Sunday fie the squeamish reader may exclaim but really we are delicate in comparison with who describe the process with cruel His language is rather that of some old cooing than of a delicate GOD and Gait know whe ther such things be real or not if they we blush for the man who could calmly sit down to picture them if they are we would smother him in a foul The Poets of the is a regular something in the spirit of times past but the to sun dry rhymes and ingeniously as it is nevertheless destroys the effect of the The Reverend author of Christ Cruci fied is knocked on the head the mer of There is no mincing Fraser calls him a a an egregious a more than a disgrace to Alma a worse than and so How the William Ellis Wall will like we know and care not his poem is a very bad Sartor would not find a purchaser at any price among the Jews and Christians Holy sixteen pages of dull metaphysical the whole substance of which might have been given in twenty Who am I the is this MR And on he not but ques until he loses and raves more like a monomaniac than does the Reverend William Ellis An article upon Political Unions professes to describe the lives and manners of two or three of the leading members of the Northern who are after the most ap approved fashion of Household Ser by the author of Old Bailey we can readily believe to be the effusion of one used to the cells of It is a indis no a very false attack generally a meritorious class of The writer declares that all the servants in Chris are thieves and and adduces some few anonymous instances to prove That there is deal of pilfering going we believe but that it is as it is here declared to we do He would legislate upon the sub ject he would put a lawyer into every and have when they make their ap point the Lord Chancellor their in order to prevent pilfering by Bless the man Is he a monomaniac too Politicus is dull we cannot even smile at the when he runs away with Earl The Fraser Papers for December are but are a great relief after wading through the massy dulness of the rest of the Our extract is sorry enough but it may be taken as a sample of Frasers Turlurette turlurette Little Grisette Where did you get Those eyes of scorning Or are they In jetty The hearts they crack is it so Not Saucy Turlurette 1 turlurette Little Grisette How did you get That lisp so pretty That tongue so witty Yon want but And such fine The heavens to Yes Turlurette I turlurette 1 Knowing 1 I List to A poets pet 1 Who in his ditty Said she was pretty And she for this Gave him kiss I do you know Oh Turlurette 1 turlurette i Merry Turlurette I turlurette I Little Grisette 1 Thus did she get Her lisp so Her words so By kissing bard Her bard Lord pardon us Thus I Turlurette 1 Bless Grisette 1 THE NEW literary con tents of this magazine are but scanty and the only thing we find among is a charmingly told by Miss called Hester one of lifes standing out in surpassing beauty and brightness from the caricatures and sil with which it has the misfortune to be asso Miss Landons tale we are given to founded upon a which strikingly illustrates the state of our criminal law the cha racter of Hester is sketched with force and and A the slight part which her mother is made to take in the is displayed the knowledge of the human heart and its There are also some Stanzas by same in this and The rest is hut inferior Notes on Periodicals merely shadow forth the fears of a who shall be and serve to puff a few penny obscurities into a little longer As to the Useful Knowledge Society having no thing to do with Charles Knights Penny Maga the public has been acquainted with the fact for some time and yet the pennyworth trash as it is which proves that the Useful Society is a greater humbug than Charles Knights puffs and if there was not authors of of the modern novels would Colburn we could scarcely tell 1 It is amusing to see the pot kettle at French Libels on is a double review of two which upon our and which we extracted for some months past the castigation given to the French is not But what shall we say of Simon a miserable and paltry libel upon human nature we are bad enough in heaven and want no such pictures as the pen of Poole to make us appear more con to the with the immediately 1 John Joness Pic is tf a rather better order there is humour in some of the ideas that of a lady taking a picnic party the ball of is laughable enough and the gossiping way in which the story is makes it readable and Lady Blessington here brings her series of to a God forgive her ladyship for painting the devil blacker we would still hope than he is 1 That Byron was some such heartless coward as Lady is pleased to represent we are reluc tantly compelled to allow that he was the the the social pantaloon her ladyship paints him we Thus her ladyships last chapter There are two blessings of which people never know the value says Byron health and re Did we want a ghost to tell us or Lady Blessington We remember writing some thing very like it in our copybooks at It is as old as the hills 1 if her ladyship had nothing better to put into the mouth of her she had done well had she suffered him to remain with closed There is another passage upon which we must and then we shall have Byrons anticipation of bis daughters read ing him in his is a pretty conceit hut when Lady reminds him of Don and he begins to and wish he had never written a line of our fancy pictures a suffering under the and we grieve that a lady should have degraded Lord Byron tothe association with such Would that I had never written a line Soft penitence I Ill never do so any morel Lady Blessington should thus have finished the Mrs hai written some halfadozen or fdt pages they are passable we cannot award them higher There is Martins article on State of Great and in a sorry thing called The Government and the Trades the allusion to Earl Greys Fabian policy is amusing Haynes ditty on December is fit There is nothing more remark able in the article on the Progress of Music than the authors that Moores may be safely pronounced to be the most the most and the play in the English language 1 11 Poor gentleman The most touching What would be to a blacksmiths hammer We are compelled to go back to Lady article for an extract the reader may believe the or as be pleases BYRON ON There is something tender and beautiful in the deep love with which poor Byron turns to his lost restingplace and on her heart hashe cast his last anchor of When xme reflects that he looks not to consolation front her during his as he believes her mother im and only hopes when the grave has closed over his child will his over his it is impossible not to sympathize with his Poor Byron I why is he not always true like excite even when one knows him to be erring I have been accused Byron of thinking ill of This has proceeded froth roy sar castic observations on them in much more than from what I have The fact I always say whatever comes into my and very often say things to to whom 1 am If I meet a romantic with what I call a too exalted opinion of women I have a peculiar satisfaction in speaking lightly of them not out of pique to your but to mortify their champion as I always that when man overpraises he does it to convey the im pression of how much they must have favoured to have won such gratitude towards them whereas there is such an abnegation vanity in a poor devils decrying such a proof positive that they never distinguished that I can overlook People take for gospel all and go away continually with false Mais it will render the statements of my future biographers more amusing as t flatter myself I shall have more than the more the say One will represent me as a sort of sublime with moments of kind par is my favourite Another will pourtray me as a modern Don Juan and a third as it would be hard if a votary of the Muses had less than the number of the Graces for his biographers it is to be if only opposition represent me as an illused more sinned against than if 1 know I should that I have no character at By the this ia what has long as I lost as an Irishman would before had That is to my reputation was according to the good natured before I arrived at years of dis which ia the period one is supposed to nave found joking what 1 think of myself that I am so being ever y thing by and nothing am a strauge melange of good and that it would be difficult to describe There are bnt two senti ments to which 1 am strong love of such a thing as gullibility ia the what the and a detestation of and neither is A
