proud joy as he pointed to Agathe, 'Take her | brush wood in the great court, and when it was hand, Jacques; she is your sister.'

"That same afternoon, whilst the new married couple were on their road for Marseilles, the curé proceeded to Colobrières. The baron and his wife were still busy with conjectures: they had found Agathe's wedding presents on the window-ledge, but could not tell what to make of them, and their wits were perplexed with a host of conjectures, none of which approached the truth. When the curé had given a plain statement of the facts, the baron burst in paroxysms of rage and indignation, and the baroness shed tears. In spite of her natural gentleness and indulgent disposition, the good lady was also incensed against her sister-in-law, and cried out in a comical transport of anger and distress: Mademoiselle de Colobrières the wife of Pierre Maragnon! That she should have been guilty of the weakness of loving him is what I might, perhaps, conceive; but marry him-never!' "The Baron de Colobrières renounced his sister Agathe, cursed her, and expressly forbade that her name should ever be uttered in his presence. After this solemn declaration he had a bonfire made of

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well lighted, he sternly flung Agathe's presents into the blaze. The baroness sighed piteously when she saw the brave tissues vanishing in the flames, and mentally computed the number of new dresses that might have been made out of what was soon but a handful of ashes. But she knew her husband too well to venture on the least remonstrance; she knew that the worthy man would rather have seen his children clad in lambskins, like the pictures of little St. John, than decked in garments made of Pierre Maragnon's wedding presents. With a heavy heart she locked up the six livres fifteen sous which had been found untouched in the purse; and considering that all this disaster had come of the unlucky wish to spend her savings, she made a vow that she would be wiser in future. Agathe's example, moreover, was a warning to her respecting her daughters. None of the first five saw their eighteenth year under the paternal roof, but were shut up in a nunnery, and had made the last vows long before the age when their aunt had chosen to marry a roturier rather than take the veil."

Some days after, the skin of his back being healed, he would have left the hospital had he not comA JURY was impannelled on Wednesday even-plained of his left side. The pain subsequently ing at the George the Fourth Inn, Hounslow-shifted to his bowels, and on Saturday last, about heath, before Mr. Wakley, to inquire into the three o'clock, he became insensible, and died in death of Frederick White, aged twenty-six, late a the evening of the same day. He was seen on private in the 7th Hussars, who died subsequent that day by Mr. Hall, one of the staff surgeons, by to, and it was alleged in consequence of, having request of Dr. Warren. On Monday last that received severe corporal punishment. After the gentleman assisted Dr. Reid, also a military surjury had viewed the body the inquiry was ad-geon from town, in making the post mortem exami journed for a week, to allow an examination of the nation. Deceased, who was a healthy man, was deceased by a surgeon not connected with the visited while in the hospital by some of the offarmy, and for the summoning of several material witnesses. The coroner also ordered that the there was not visited by any of his relatives, cers, and never made any complaint, but while deceased man's family should be requested to neither were they made acquainted with either his attend. The following statement has appeared in punishment or illness. It is said that at the ina morning paper, but it must be regarded as alto-fliction of the punishment ten of the privates presgether ex parte. It will probably be satisfactory to all parties that the investigation could not be in better hands than Mr. Wakley's for the discovery of the whole truth :-"The deceased has been in the regiment seven years and a half, and had never before been subjected to corporal punishment; but, being given to drink, he had been subjected to extra drills, &c., as a punishment. While laboring under the effects of liquor, an altercation took place between him and Sergeant Daly, when he struck the latter on the breast with a poker. For his conduct on that occasion two charges were preferred against him, one for assaulting a non-commissioned officer, and the other for using abusive language towards him. Under a warrant issued by the commander-in-chief, a court-martial assembled at Hampton Court barracks, consisting of seven officers, the president being Captain Arthur Shirley, of the 7th Hussars, who found the deceased guilty of both charges, and sentenced him to receive 150 lashes. That sentence was confirmed at head-quarters, and carried out on the 15th ult., at Hounslow barracks, in the presence of the regiment, of Colonel White, the commanding officer, and of Dr. Warren, the head surgeon. The triangles were not used on the occasion, but the ladder,' and the whole number of lashes was given. The deceased walked into the hospital himself, after the flogging, and subsequently kept his bed for fourteen days. His wounds were first treated with fomentations, and afterwards with dressings.

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ent fainted. The deceased was a tall, fine grown, intelligent young man, bore the infliction with stoical indifference, uttering not a word beyond requesting that the lash might not fall so frequently upon his neck. There is a young man named Mathewson, now in the hospital, suffering under the effects of a flogging. He had not joined the regiment more than seven or eight weeks before he was punished. He was one day standing in his room stooping with his head to the ground, when he heard his name suddenly called. He answered, Heigho;' and on looking up found he had been called by one of the sergeants. The latter demanded why he made such an answer? to which the former replied that he did not know it was the sergeant who called him. The sergeant still pursued the subject, until at length Mathewson exclaimed, Do you want me to go down on my knees to you?' for which expression the sergeant put him under arrest. Mathewson was subsequently taken before the commanding officer, who, after severely reprimanding him, was asked by Mathewson to tell him how he ought to have answered the sergeant, which was construed into disrespectful conduct towards his commanding offi cer, for which the young soldier was tried by court-martial, found guilty, and sentenced to receive one hundred lashes, from the effects of which he is now in the hospital."

From the Foreign Quarterly Review.

ent? Is Orthodoxy maintained by not a few, beHistory of the Indian Tribes of North America, with cause it saves the trouble and cost of original

Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, embellished with One hundred and twenty carefully colored Portraits, etc. etc. By T. L. MCKENNEY, Esq., and JAMES HALL, Esq. Philadelphia: Rice and Clarke. London: C. Gilpin.

thought? These questions sound almost monstrous: yet, much of the artistic criticism, and the motives held out for artistic effort in the present day, when stripped of the verbiage in which canters of all classes love to involve them, have no wiser principles for kernel. Yet, digressing for a moment, let us thankfully remark how-in spite of all this laziness and pedantry, this appeal to a spurious devotional spirit, which overlooks the glorification of God in the present, no less than in the past-genius is vindicating itself: how the necessities, the materials, and the social arrangements of the world are unconsciously calling forth and shaping productions, which posterity may admire as models. Those whose connoisseurship and enthusiasm, being merely an affair of precedents and synods, can see nothing of the poetry which belongs to every effort of human ambition, of the beauty which bears company with every step of civilization, will deride us as utilitarian, or denounce us as at once visionary and materialist, if, by way of illustration, we venture to assert, that in the magnificent structures which steam conveyance has originated, we have more chance of a new order of architecture, than in all the porings and pryings of the Pugin school of artists, who sanction every anachronism and inconsistency of past, half-instructed ages, on the score of a mystical sanctity, and demands the sacrifice of criticism at the altar of faith. Let all memorials of the past be reverently preserved, but preserved as memorials, not models. It should be our task, as it is our privilege, to go forward.

IN turning over the leaves of the magnificent picture-book before us, we rejoice at the opportunity it affords us for departing from the tone of censure in which we have too often felt compelled to speak of the works and deeds of our kinsmen across the Atlantic. For once, at least, they cannot accuse us of scornful disrespect, or of insular prejudice, when, according to our best ability, we recommend nationality in art, as the one thing beautiful, desirable, and needful for its permanent existence. Towards this point we would have our American friends strain every nerve. They have already proved themselves steady and enthusiastic pilgrims along the world's highways. We may mention the names of West, Washington Allston, Leslie, Sully, in proof that they can take rank among the most admirable Europeans, when they deign to paint in the European fashion; nor can the Londoners or the Florentines forget, that in his 66 Greek Slave," W. Hiram Powers has put in a very strong claim for the championship of modern sculpture, one to which the Rauchs, and the Gibsons, and the Schwanthalers, and the Bailys would find it hard to offer a rejoinder. In all revivals and adaptations, however-in all workings after this antique, or the other tradition, there is an unsoundness, and a want of satisfaction, the end of Viewed under their two-fold aspect, especially, which can be but mediocrity. It needs but to seeing that anything entirely new stands, for the walk the rounds of the churches, galleries, and present, at so heavy a disadvantage, whatsoever studios of Munich, to ascertain the limits of the enchantment of distance may do for posteritymodern, when imitating ancient art. There has all collections with regard to the aboriginal inhabibeen no want of earnest study, no want of unself- tants of America have a value, which every year ish devotion to a purpose, no want of sympathy will only increase. Perhaps never has savage life and patronage and here and there industry, inge-worn a form so inviting and poetical, as in the annuity, and sincerity have "tossed and turned" themselves, have accumulated and wrought, till the result is all but a creation-all but a work of genius. Yet the impression, on ourselves at least, of these vaunted works is saddening. It is painful to see that sympathy will not keep pace with effort; painful to be compelled to admit, (as one is compelled to do, a score of times every hour, by some flash of recollection of the glories of the ancients,) that we are only looking at an elaborate mistake; painful to anticipate a not very distant period, when Glyptothek and Basilica, Fest-bau, and Aller Heiligen Kapelle will be reviewed by the connoisseurs, as so many monuments of respectable pedantry, and school exercise; more praiseworthy for intent, but little more so in fact of artistic merit, than the follies of Louis Quinze, or than the library built after the fashion of a chest of drawers with which the great Frederick of Prussia chose to diversify the main street of his show capital!

nals of the Indian tribes. Though hardly disposed, with the prospectus of Messrs. McKenney and Hall's work, to admit the Red-jackets and Mohongos as "Ciceros and Cæsars, Hectors and Helens;" though human conservatism, or human simplicity, could never, in their most stiff or sickly vagaries, dream of a revival of wigwams, of an extension of the picturesque birch-bark and quill manufactures; of encouraging, after the fashion of "Young England," the dances and the ballplays, with all their distinctive forms of full-dress and un-dress, (the latter, as a lady tourist has told us on some festive occasions, a mere simple osprey's wing)-though it would exceed the boldness of any Benedict to speak even leniently of squaw-dom, as an "honorable condition," in days like these, when The Schoolmistress is abroad arousing and inspiriting the "womenkind,"there is still, under every point of view, for the studious or for the sympathetic, for the antiquarian We have dwelt upon Munich because the name or for the artist, for the wild sportsman or the of this city is in every one's mouth; but it is only closet philosopher, a dignity, a charm, and a poean illustration of the spirit of the times; not a try about the Red Man, to which, not the whole solitary instance. The worthy personages, who library of trumpery of which he has been made the imagine they are advancing the cause of devotion subject can render us indifferent. The Americans, and authority, by attempting to bring back church then, are justified in calling attention to this, as a music to the barbarianism of the Gregorian chant, great national work. Few rate more highly than offer another. Why are these things? Does that ourselves the magnificence of Audubon's collecold superstitious fear yet linger on the earth, tions; the artistic power, which he has thrown which mistrusted creation and discovery as irrever- into his drawings, giving his ornithological sub

jects the attractiveness of some professed picture of matter, for the thinker, or the painter, or the by Snyders or Landseer, (distancing, let us add, philanthropist. Enough, on the present occasion, Hondeköeter, the court painter of poultry, by then to say, that the variety of materials seems in many a rifle's length)-few have enjoyed more some degree to have puzzled the writers of the heartily the admirable pages which detail his wan- Prefatory Essay, as well as ourselves. The days derings, and describe his specimens; entertaining of laborious concentration are gone, and perhaps it (to quote Johnson's anticipation of Goldsmith's were too extreme to expect that they should be reNatural History)" as a Persian tale," and poeti-vived for this occasion only, when the task to be cal as one of Christopher North's most eloquent done was merely to make up a handsome introducrhapsodies when " Ebony" was young; yet, in tion to a picture-book. If, as we believe Sir Harright of subject, we must give the handsome ris Nicholas would tell us, our lodges have somevolumes on our table a yet more distinguished times "forced their facts," in writing the bioplace. Nor can we attempt to glance at their con- graphies of our illustrious personages-if Corneys tents, without a word or two on a less important poke their heads out of remote corners to prove point, in which the Americans may legitimately that our D'Israelis are somewhat given to the take pride. Their manner of production and pub- Japanese fashion of mermaid-making, when busy lication is most praiseworthy. Mr. Wittingham over their "Curiosities of Literature"-far be it of Chiswick, it is true, might suggest that the from us, on peaceful thoughts intent, to do more type was too heavy for the paper; and it would than hint, that here or there is a flimsiness or an strike Mr. Hullmandel's experienced eye, we inaccuracy, or a want of that grasp of the whole doubt not, that in some half-dozen specimens, subject, for which the memory of a ripe scholar, among the lithographs, the grain of the chalk is and the hand of a finished artist, are alike demandtoo coarse and woolly to pass muster in these per- ed. Better than picking of notes, than complainfected days of the art. But the above objections ing of facts carelessly collected, or of style left in are trifling-hinted, peradventure, merely to the unweeded state of nature, will it be to offer the keep up our character as just critics, whose habit reader a sample of the introductory matter to the it has been, from time immemorial, to indulge volume. The following, however, is not so much their spleen by declaring "that the picture would a part of the history, as one among the pièces jus have been better painted, if the painter would have tificatives upon which it has been founded. We taken more trouble." have rarely met with a more touching and complete illustration of the strength and weakness of savage life :—

It seems an Irish beginning to open the third volume first; but the reason is ready in the "History of the Indian Tribes" contained therein, and "Certain murders were committed at Prairie du our visit is merely a passing one. For if the Chien on the Upper Mississippi, in 1827, by a physiologists, philologists, and other "cunning party of Indians, headed by the famous Winnebamen" of science, have failed to ascertain, past con- go chief, Red Bird. Measures were taken to captest, whether the American Indians were or were ture the offenders, and secure the peace of the not of the Tartar stock-if the signification of the frontier. Information of these movegreat coincidence between the word "ha, ha," as ments was given to the Indians, at a council then a definition of an English park ditch, and the same holding at the Butte des Morts, on Fox River, and appellation given by the Sioux to the falls of St. of the determination of the United States governAnthony, is still far from being duly appreciated: ment to punish those who had shed the blood of -if antiquarians are not precisely agreed how far our people at Prairie du Chien. The Indians were the hieroglyphical paintings of the Mexicans, and faithfully warned of the impending danger, and the uncouth symbols and effigies which emboss the told, that if the murderers were not surrendered, Yucatan temples, "coincide" with the patterns ra- war would be carried in among them, and a way ther than drawings on the buffalo-skins of the West- cut through their country, not with axes, but ern Indians-if, to quote the author of the Intro- guns. They were advised to procure a surrender ductory Essay before us, nothing can be more of the guilty persons, and, by so doing, save the uncertain, and more unworthy, we will not say of innocent from suffering. Runners were dispatched, credit, but of consideration, than their earlier tradi- bearing the intelligence of this information among tions, and probably there is not a single fact, in all their bands. Our troops were put in motion. The their history, supported by satisfactory evidence, Indians saw, in the movement of these troops, the which occurred half a century previously to the storm that was hanging over them. On arriving establishment of the Europeans;-wherefore should at the portage, distant about one hundred and forty we vex our readers with splitting theories, and miles from the Butte des Morts, we found ourspinning disquisitions? Again, to touch the mod- selves within nine miles of a village, at which, we ern history of the Indians-were it ever so sketch- were informed, were two of the murderers, Red ily-would lead us into a review of Mr. School- Bird, the principal, and We-kaw, together with a craft's interesting collections, and Mr. Stone's large party of warriors. The Indians, apprehendspirited and elaborate histories and biographies;ing an attack, sent a messenger to our encampinto glancing over such memoirs of the war-time as ment. He arrived, and seated himself at our tent the Mrs. Grants and Mrs. Bleekers contributed door. On inquiring what he wanted, he answered, (since woman's testimony has always its special value, as embracing points which her lordly master disdains to observe.) We should have to crystallize into the smallest solid space the amount of facts and features to be got out of the writings of Fenimore Cooper, the Irvings, and Bird. A more romantic library still remains to be ransacked, that of missionary enterprise, somewhat sentimentally opened, some fourteen years since, by Mr. Carne; but containing, we apprehend, abundance

'Do not strike. When the sun gets up there' (pointing to a certain part of the heavens) they will come in.' To the question who will come in?' he answered, 'Red Bird and We-kaw.' Having thus delivered his message, he rose, wrapped his blanket about him, and returned. This was about noon. At three o'clock another Indian came, seated himself in the same place, and being questioned, gave the same answer. At sun-down, another came, and repeated what the others had said."