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tion of his name. This omission is the more re-version of the critic.

I e taught, of this attractive branch of natural science.||lose its power. Schlegel, like every one else, we pre-nanced in any age or country pretending to a modeIt is abundantly illustrated with engravings, and ap-sume, thinks far better of Jonson's comic than of his rate degree of refinement. We cannot help uniting pears to us to present its subjects with simplicity and tragic powers. He observes that his characteriza-||with Schlegel in the unmeasured contempt to be ac tion, however, is better suited to serious satire than||corded to such a state of public taste, even while we LECTURES ON DRAMATIC ART AND LITERATURE-Se.playful ridicule; and he denies that he was at all know-what he seems not to be aware of that some coad Notice.—This is no common work; and while gifted by nature with that light and easy raillery, of these plays still keep possession of the theatrewhich, playing harmlessly around everything, is so though the last time one of the most characteristic we are much surprized that it has not before been republished in this country, we shall have no hesitation much the more pleasing, from seeming to be the of the class (for wit and indecency combined) was mere effusion of gayety, and which Schlegel regards represented at the Park, it was only respect for those in recurring more than once to the edition before us. In the present instance, we would make a few obser- as so much the more philosophic, as it is not the ve- who played in the Inconstant that kept the audience vations in passing, upon one department of his labors, hicle of any definite doctrine, but merely contains a from hissing it from the stage. It is a melancholy reflection that writings which contain so much witty ob. which Schlegel has managed with great comprehen. general irony. siveness and ability. It is his view of the two great Of Beaumont and Fletcher, our critic speaks in servation and so many admirable touches of character, periods of the English Theatre, the Elizabethan, or warmer terms of praise. Without attempting to dis. should have afforded the enemies of the drama the Shakspearian age of the drama, and the Charles II. tinguish the hand of either in the works they avow-most powerful weapons with which to assail it; and era, the time of the Witcherlys, Farquhars, and Con-edly composed together, or adopting the opinion of yet, so long as they are allowed to be a part of the greves. The German critie dwells with enthusiasm their contemporaries, which attributes boldness of acting theatre, they almost justify the denunciations upon the gigantic strides which were made du- imagination to Fletcher, and maturity of judgment to of those who condemn the stage as a school of de. ring the first, in an art almost previously unknown; his friend, making the former the inventive genius, pravity. They were composed in an age when the and he regards "these time-bettering days," as Shak- and the latter the directing and moderating critic, English people had retrograded centuries behind the speare called those in which he lived, as one of those he does justice to the distinguished talents that were age of Shakespeare in real refinement, while they periods when the human mind makes a spring in its united in both. He points out the want of a profound arrogated to themselves claims to a much higher state advancement, as if it had been for ages gathering seriousness of mind in their writings as the chief de-of civilization than in the age of Elizabeth. They strength for the effort. Still, we think, that with the fect; and he thinks that the presence of that sagaci- were composed in an age when that sex-whose preexception of the master spirit of the age, of whom ty in art which observes a due medium in every sent condition and acknowledged influence in society he is, if not the ablest, certainly the most eloquent thing, and keeps constantly in view the modus in rebus is next to Christianity itself in effect in rendering the and delightful commentator that ever wrote, Schlegel denique fines of fancy and passion, (if the Latin term state of mankind superior to what it was two thousand hardly does full justice to the admirable dramatic may be so applied) is all that, with their felicitous years ago-seemed rapidly sinking into the same estalent of that period. Beaumont and Fletcher, in-ease, and fecundity and flexibility of mind, is want-timate in which they were held, when in the vaunted deed, especially the last, are well treated at his ing, in a literary point of view, in their works. But days of Athenian civilization they were but the toy hands; but Massinger, in spite of his eloquence and the immodest conceptions, and licentious language and pastime of those, whose labors have made the force, his natural delineation of character, and poe. of these brother poets, meets with no mercy at the human race their debtors. They breathe an impure tical diction, is dismissed in a brief paragraph; while hands of Schlegel; and those abominable plots which spirit; they give a nauseous coloring to the heartthe elegance and elevation of Ford, his easy versifi- they contrived with so much ingenuity, as if the chief such as even that bold interpreter of sensuality, cation and harmonious language, and his deep and object of them were to outrage the commonest ideas Aristophanes, never approached in offensiveness. natural pathos, have not even procured him the men- of decency, meets with the justly indignant animad-Let them perish in their impurity—not only to prevent the gangrene of grossness from extending fur. markable, as Decker, Marston, Webster, and others It is in treating of the second period of the English ther, but that in consigning those to merited oblivion of similar note, are mentioned, though few of them drama, however, that the manly mind of Schlegel who prostituted their abilities in rearing these lain complimentary terms. The comic talent of Chap-gives fullest vent to the emotions excited by some of mentable memorials of their age, men may learn, man, the translator of Homer, and the power of Hey. the most vaurted productions of the English theatre. that however the power of wit may be temporarily ward, the author of Woman Killed with Kindness, in He traces briefly but vividly the effect of a grossly increased by exercising it for the amusement, and domestic tragedy are both commended; but the other immoral court upon the stage, when the theatres, adapting its sallies to the taste of a Sybaritic Prince cotemporaries of Shakspeare, whose names we have after being closed for a period of thirteen years, were and his lewd associates, the soul whose influence just mentioned together, are both summarily, and thrown open at the accession of the profligate Charles is to survive the grave must never sparkle in the perhaps justly classed in a fraternity of imitators; II. to the throne of his unhappy father. The influence breast of a parasite, but shine out from the bosom of while Lilly and Marlowe, his two most noted pre-of that worthless and contemptible Prince's habits one who looks beyond the countenance of a King or decessors, are brought into most dangerous juxta upon a whole nation, can hardly, even at this distance the favor of a coterie. The most undoubted proof position, for the reputation of the latter. The line of time, be contemplated with patience. The age of of genius-that of being in advance of the age in is distinctly drawn, however, between the author of Louis the Fourteenth was no where imitated with which it has its birth—is wanting in these writers. Euphue, (from which we presume Scott's Sir Piercie greater depravity than at his abandoned court.They were but portrait painters of pitiful originals; Shafton, like most of the courtiers of his time, bor-"The prevailing gallantry," says Schlegel, "at the and though the fresh vigor of their pencil at one time, rowed the tone of his stilted phrases) and the pathe-court of France was not without reserve and without and its felicitous ease at another, may have im tic writer of Edward II. Lilly is called by Schlegel a tenderness of feeling; they sinned, if I may so parted consequence and grace to features essen"a learned witling, but in no respect a poet" and, speak, with some degree of dignity; and no man tially vulgar and contemptible, their delineations though he professes himself unable to conceive how ventured to attack what was honorable, though his of character, are now as offensive to the eye of Ben Jonson could have used the expression, "Mar-own actions might not exactly coincide with it. The taste as the hoops and towering head-dresses of the lowe's mighty line," yet the flowing verse, the artless English played a part which was altogether unnatu- women of quality, and the huge perukes, wide manner, the truth and simplicity that probably awa-ral to them. They gave themselves heavily up to sleeves, and ribbon-knots of the fine gentlemen kened "Rare Ben's" admiration, are far from thrown levity; they everywhere confounded the coarsest whose manners they depicted. away upon one whose sensibility to poetic beauty is licentiousness with free mental vivacity, and did not We have perhaps delayed somewhat too long upon so delicate as Schlegel's. As for Jonson himself, it perceive that the sort of grace which is still compati- these two periods of the British stage: but our obcan hardly be expected that so stout a stickler for ble with depravity disappears with the last veil which servations are comprised within the least possible the rights of Shakspeare as our commentator, will let it throws off." The coloring of this picture, though limits that a just attention to the text (which we one who tried by the most unworthy means to pluck it be strongly drawn, can hardly seem too heavily have endeavored closely to follow,) would allow. the budding laurel from his brow, escape without charged to any one familiar with the memoirs of that undergoing the most rigid critical discipline. His day, or who allows the comedies of the time to be a fair The Music sent to us during the week, from Hesuccess in that species of composition where the un-presentment of the then condition of society. A witt & Co.'s warehouse, is-The Merry Swiss Girl; derstanding comes in for the greatest share, and ima. complete collection of these plays (Bell's British The Minstrel's Tear; The Mistletoe Bough; Can I gination and feeling are merely subordinate, is fully Theatre) is at this moment before us; and turn-again that look recall; all arranged for the guitar, by allowed; but his pieces are pronounced deficient ining over the pages that have so entertainingly be- Otto Torp; Cielo a miei lunghi spasimi, an aria (itis soul-in that nameless something, which always con.guiled many an hour, and with all the fondness nothing more nor less than the well-known air of tinues to attract and enchant us, for the very reason of early association for the celebrated names of "Home, sweet home,") from the opera of Anna Bo. that it cannot be defined, but, like the irregular out. Witcherly, Congreve, Farquhar, Vanbrugh, and their lena, as sung by Madame Pasta; La voix de ce qu'on line of a chain of mountains, or the undefined glades compeers, we cannot help uniting with the honest aime, a romance, of which the words and music are of a forest, leads away the eye with images, whose German in his astonishment that the audacious rib-by Amédeé de Beauplan; The Young Cavalier, comgrace hardly disappears as they fade into indistinct-aldry, the moral scepticism, the most unblushing in-posed by C. E. Horn, and sung by Miss Hughes, and Boss, or lures it into recesses where it delights tolldecency of those writers could have been counte. Mine alone, a tyrolian air, by C. de Beriot.

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DREAM.

FIORELLA.

Young Lesbia slept. Her glowing cheek
Was on her polished arni reposing,
And slumber closed those fatal eyes,
Which keep so many eyes from closing.
For even Cupid, when fatigued

Of playing with his bow and arrows,
Will harmless furl his weary wings,

And nestle with his mother's sparrows. Young Lesbia slept-and visions gay

Before her dreaming soul were glancing, Like sights that in the moon-beams show, When fairies on the green are dancing. And first, amid a joyous throng,

She seemed to move in festive measure, With many a courtly worshipper,

That waited on her queenly pleasure. And then-by one of those strange turns

That witch the mind so when we're dreamingShe was a planet in the sky,

And they were stars around her beaming.

Yet hardly had that lovely light,

(To which one cannot here help kneeling.)

Its radiance in the vault above

Been for a few short hours revealing:
When, like a blossom from the bough
By some remorseless whirlwind riven,
Swiftly upon its lurid path,

"Twas back to earth like lightning driven.
Yet brightly still, though coldly, there
Those other stars were calmly shining,
As if they did not miss the rays

That were but now with their own twining.
And half with pique, and half with pain,
To be from that gay chorus parting,
Young Lesbia from her dream awoke,
With swelling heart and tear-drop storting.
INTERPRETATION.

Had she but thought of those below,

Who thus were left with breasts benighted,
Till Heav'n dismissed that star to earth,
By which alone our hearts are lighted—
Or, had she recollected, when

Each virtue from the world departed,
How HOPE, the dearest, came again,

And staid to cheer the lonely-hearted: Sweet Lesbia could not thus have grieved, From that cold dazzling throng to sever, And yield her warm young heart again, To those that prize its worth forever.

MARRIAGES.

On Tuesday the 7th instanst, by the Rev. Joel T. Benedict, of Philadelphia, ERASTUS C. BENEDICT, Esq. to Miss CAROLINE M. BLOODGOOD, both of this city.

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Register of Inventions and Improvements. To the Mechanics of the United States. -In this populous and enlightened country, almost every description of persons can obtain knowledge and amuse- I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasses ment, connected with their peculiar pursuits, through the have been preferred by my assistants generally, to any others Medium of the Journal or Magazine especially devoted to in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other detheir interests. The Theologian, the Farmer, the Philo-cription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the rails sopher, the Sportsman, and even the Plough-Boy, has each on this Road. his journal, where he can find a record of the passing events of the day, connected with his peculiar avocations, and recreation. Hitherto, the Mechanics (who form a large and most important portion of the community) have had no Journal to which they could turn, with the certainty of finding that information they desire-no periodical, of which they could with confidence say,

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telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the engineer This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing scarcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to later a angles of any simple and chea instrument that I have yet seen, and I cannot big believe it will be preferred to all others now in use for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, I think it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying. Respectfully thy trend, JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction In the hope that the attempt to supply such a want, at a of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. price so reasonable as to be within the reach of all, will Philadelphia, February, 1833. Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. meet with your active support, the subscriber proposes to Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be publish on the first day of each month a "Mechanics' Mag-lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, azine." It will contain a well digested selection of the now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to Enmost useful and interesting articles from the London Me-gineers and Surveyors. E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. chanics' Magazine, London Register of Arts and Sciences, Germantown, February, 1833. Repertory of Inventions, Library of Useful Knowledge, Journal of the Franklin Institute, and other works connected with the Arts and Manufactures published in this country and in Europe, accompanied with numerous well executed engravings. Its pages will be open for the communications of all, and especially for those of the Practical Artisan, to whose interests it will be more particularly devoted.

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Norwich and Worcester Railroad; Quinebaug Bank;
South Carolina Railroad, &c.....
On the Use of Wheels of Large Diameter; On the New-
York Guard Rail......
Improved Carriage Wheel Guard; Specification of a
Patent for propelling Locomotive Engines over Hills
on Railroads (with an engraving)...
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Architecture; Cape Fear and Yadkin Railroad, &c-...309
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Meteorological Record; Self-steering Ship
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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1833.

the railroad and the bank will be opened for
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QUINEBAUG BANK.-This bank was incorporated by the Connecticut Legislature in May, 1832, with a capital of $500,000, to be located at the city of Norwich, in that state. The bank 313 is required to subscribe to a part of the stock of .314 the railroad from Norwich to Worcester; and .315 316 in consideration of that subscription, the stock .318 of the bank is to be exempt from taxation until the united capital of the bank and railroad shall pay six per cent. The bank is said to be AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. eligibly situated for the transaction of business,

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and the route of the railroad very favorable and
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[VOLUME II.-No. 20.

SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.-We have been politely furnished with a copy of the Report the South Carolina Railroad, on the first Monmade by the Directors to the Stockholders of day of the present month, from which we learn the present condition of that important work. It is our intention to give it entire in our next; but for the satisfaction of those who have felt a deep interest in its success, we give the following extract to show the regularity and certainty of the performance of the engines:

The performance of the West-Point during the 120 days has been as follows:

60 trips to Branchville, each 62 miles, is 3720 52 trips to Midway, each 72 miles, is 3744 Aggregate, 7464 (The West-Point lost 8 days occupied in repairs.)

The performance of the Phoenix during the 120 days has been as follows:

amounting in all to
60 trips to Branchville, each 62 miles,
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stand (says the Charleston Mercury of May 7) stockholders of the South Carolina Canal and that at an annual meeting, yesterday, of the Railroad Company, the reports of the Direction and the Commissioner presented a most gratifying prospect of the speedy completion of this laudable enterprize, and afforded every reasonable encouragement to the stockholder of realWe commence in this number the publica-izing a fair remuneration for their patriotic in-ring the 120.) The total number of miles performed by the tion of Mr. BABBAGE's work on the "Economy vestments. of Manufactures," which will be continued from data offered by the statements contained in According to the deductions drawn from the West-Point and Phoenix is 15,648, in 120 days. The number of passengers that arrived and time to time until the whole is transferred to these two valuable papers, our information has departed during the above period, (exclusive of our columns. It will be completed in the cur- come to a conclusion which will be gratifying attendants, officers of the company, clergy, to the pride of every true lover of his native contractor, and workmen, who had, during the State, and enable the historian to give her progress of the work, 'passed free,) is 4109, or NORWICH AND WORCESTER RAILROAD. We pre-eminence amongst the foremost and most on an average 34 per diem. Cash receipts for understand that the returns have just been re-active in the introduction of this novel and freight and passage money, $11,526 78. By a reference to the detailed statement marked (B.) ceived from the engineers who surveyed the delightful mode of intercourse. In South Carolina the Locomotive travels and hereunto annexed, it will be observed that route of this road during the last season, and over a great extent of Line of Railroad daily in there has been an uniform increase in the pasthat they concur with previons surveys in show-consecutive miles, than is or can now be done sage and freight money. On referring to preing the route to be extremely eligible for the in any part of the world. South Carolina ran the three first months of the present year to be vious cash receipts, I find the amount received construction of a railroad. The country through railroad 18 months previous to any other state greater than the amount received during the an engine successfully and profitably on the which this road is designed to pass is said to be in the Union. The U. S. Mail and stage pas-tions were chiefly confined to the transmission six last months of the past year. The operadensely populated, and very fertile, as well as sengers were transmitted on it 9 months be- of one of the most extensive manufacturing re-fore any other company transported it on a passengers, staple production of the country, Norwich to Worcester is sixty miles, and, ad.line of communication of an efficient and per-vehicles for travelling, staves, shingles, and gions of New-England. The distance from railroad; and it is questionable if any extended light merchandize, and materials to advance the completion of the work. Horses, cattle, ded to the Boston and Worcester road, makes or canal, has been executed in so short a time, other commodities of less profitable transporthe distance from Norwich to Boston about 103 or at a cost approximating so nearly to the tation, were necessarily declined. miles. Liberal charters are obtained from Mas-original estimate. We understand that these This road, in connection with the line of sachusetts and Connecticut, and the Connecti- documents are ordered to be published, and steam packets from New-York to Charleston, we shall take the first opportunity of laying them cut Legislature has granted a bank with its before our readers with such remarks as the will add greatly to the facilities for travelling, stock free from taxation, and with a capital of occasion may require. The cash receipts for to those who, for business or amusement, wish $500,000, to aid the railroad. The books of April, freight and passage, upwards of $3600.

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d years or more; whereas atise, when adverting to the s of wrought iron, mentions resulting from a renewal of s every fifteen or sixteen years. ualities is that by this combiire can commence in the lower , without drawing the wrought and even if from any cause the t of a rail should become cracked, of the wrought iron rod alone, in edge of the rail, is sufficient to susil in place for use.

he comparative compressing force of of wrought iron, to which he alludes, it to be matter of no consequence: there e no danger of the upper edge of a cast rail yielding to compression, whereas ught iron rails, as appears by publications England, do so far yield to compression as o take a set curve when overstrained, even when placed on foundations only three feet apart.

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In allusion to the destructive quality of wrought iron rails, as stated by numerous authors and engineers, to be "partly in consequence of the great weight of the wheels, ought which, being rolled upon the rails, extends the at, too, lamina composing their upper surfaces, and it were alat length causes those upper surfaces to break n were une-up in scales," U. A. B. stated that Mr. Wood, in the second edition of his Treatise on Railroads, ures, he seems page 45, speaks thus, "It has been said by some that a heated engineers, that wrought iron rails exfoliate, or only be "strained separate in their laminæ, in that part which arly or quite tearing is exposed to the pressure of the wheels. This be drawn to slender I pointedly deny, as I have closely examined i wire without "tearing rails which have been in use many years, and e, in practice, in the forma- on no part are such exfoliations to be seen." Rails," whether the wrought | If U. A. B. will again refer to Wood's Treatise, ed with a casing of cast iron, an he will find that Mr. Wood is not author of the 1inch or an inch in thickness, I find above stated remarks: he will find that the be as perfect in its exterior appear-remarks were made by Mr. G. Stevenson, of if it were made entirely of cast iron. Newcastle. This abrupt denial of Mr. StevenA. B. in his communication also stated son, in the face of numerous, no doubt respectat soon after malleable iron was first usedlable, engineers and authors, who stated their

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