Take another specimen given at a random opening of the volume : "Martinuzzi. Why you would not pause To drain your heart's blood for your kingdom's weal? You would not play at fast and loose with duty? Hath gratitude bounds? Czerina. I've learned so much of you. When Solyman in return for his alliance Could not be grateful with her freedom, nor Nor will I They're not called for. Lightly dispense with either. Martinuzzi. Your Majesty's wit's to quick and sharp, and thrusts Czerina. 'Tis my impatience, sir, God help me! Not my wit. Honour and Freedom! But with this heart? And for my apprehension, 'T were blind not dull did I forget I am Shut from the world. I'd be a farmhouse thrall, Than Queen on this condition. Mart. Since your Grace That my blood Be it the lightning 'Tis not for thee to track its course, but shun it. And since you carry it so proudly know, My lord, I'll do henceforward just what likes me, Pursue my pleasures in what shape I fancy; Call 'em my humour, spleen, or will, I'll act them. Mart. So have you said? : Czerina. As for that forced contract, Think not but if you drive the hazard on Worse will come of it. Mart. Hath your Highness ended? Czerina. When I find breath. I've but another word. VOL. 1. (1841.) No. III. H H You've heard our regal will, Lord Cardinal; Mart. (going up to her sternly, grasping her firmly by the wrist, No more how dare you? Mart. Czerina. This to me? Mart. Why not,' my Liege? suppose I Gives to my will the impress of divine, Why not? say mine order Or that thine orphan'd years require the curb? For Hungary, or for your great defence In this my victory, when, your bulwark, I Wrestled and took in death that you may live? I might. . and none could doubt my plea were just, . I bid thee but recal my anxious care I bid thee think how once, when all besides Played there the hireling, helped your healing draught Like like your nurse, my daughter. What shall now Estrangement come betwixt my heart and thine, That from thy cradle grew before me still? And canst thou level taunts 'gainst thy confessor? "Czerina. No, not 'gainst thee. Mercy! The absolute charm Thou hast to make me weep for bitter words, Wrung from my lips by thine own tyranny! Forgive me : Let us talk of something.. something Shall be to purpose, but I cannot wed Sir Sigismund: No indeed. "Mart. This day is wasted Down to the dregs. The fountains of the light Of beamy noon hath fled up to the arch. I must be gone: Hours fly not by our wisdom, While men are sleeping; but the hopes of men O'er which the mighty bird hath ta'en his flight. Farewell then till . . until . . . You said, I think, You would subdue your pride to my great scope, Our readers will form some idea of the intellectual power and the boldness of conception which distinguish The Hungarian Daughter, from these extracts, although from their disjointed position in our pages and the want of a connecting outline of the entire plot the force and propriety of them cannot be fully apprehended. Neither do these specimens convey any notion of the action or the passion that abounds in the poem. The reading and the ardeut study of Mr. Stevens has thrown him much upon Hungarian story, and the remarkable men and events which that field so richly furnishes. He seems to think, and to feel as if he were moving amid the scenery of the country, and witnessing the very things which he portrays. Well read in the human heart, learned, earnest, and having a clearly defined purpose to accomplish, he proceeds with confident and firm steps. We have been particularly struck with the manner in which he personifies extraordinary characters and makes persons of proclaimed genius support and develope themselves. Nothing comes amiss to him in the shape of persons or things, be they beautiful or startling, grotesque or sublime. No doubt odd ideas and expressions, strange combinations, and even questionable liberties occur in our author's writings But after all he possesses much that is sterling, as well as original in the best sense of the words that he could afford to part with a considerable share of his wealth, and yet have fertility sufficient for the production of a stock-play. Having said this much in a vague manner, we shall only further enable our readers to obtain a distant and indistinct notion of the story of "The Hungarian Daughter" by quoting the author's prefatory notice of it : "I have endeavoured, but certainly with poor success compared with what I should have wished, to give life and soul to the warlike Prelate (Georgius Præsul, as he was appropriately styled by his contemporaries), who will be found a conspicuous agent, both in the following Poem and in my unpublished Tragedy of The Patriot.' I am indebted for the vraisemblance of my portrait to the biography of M. Bechet, Canon of Usez. "Cardinal Martinuzzi, towards the close of his eventful life, occupied a position in the eye of Europe, which was most interesting, and which strikes us when we look back upon it with an air of magnificence. His surpassing mental endowments seemed to have combined, by a rare conjunction, the most profound acquirement, with an unwearied, patient, and eagle-eyed energy of thought. His heart was the seat of all the finer charities of our nature. His genius, at once enthusiastic and full of judgment, might almost be deemed an emnanation of the Superior Intellect. The assassination of this great Patriot will be accounted the opprobrium of diplomacy as long as the world shall last. "The English reader's knowledge of the history of the period will be probably derived from the pages of Robertson, Coxe, and Knolles. He may, therefore, be apt to conclude that I am unwarranted in substituting to a Daughter of Martinuzzi so conspicuous and exalted a station as that in which I have introduced Czerina. I have, however, good authority for my apparent disregard of the frontier line which separates historical truths from the traditions of the legendary or the fictions of the romancer. NOTICES. ART. XV.-A Treatise on the Copyright of Designs in Printed Fabrics. By J. EMERSON TENNENT, ESQ. M. P. Smith and Elder. THE title of the Honourable Member's volume, and the nature of parts of its contents, induce us to notice preliminarily the fact that a bill for the regulation of Copyright, in works of literature, science, and art, has been introduced into the French Chamber of Deputies, by the Minister of Public Instruction; the provisions of which are not only generally framed with an anxious desire to effect an equitable compromise between the rights of individuals, and the interests of the public; but, in certain cases have been drawn with a view to the facilitating of such future arrangements for the general protection of international copyright as France may be able to effect with her neighbours, in the spirit recommended by her booksellers, and partially acted upon already in the States of the Germanic Confederation. The leading booksellers, it is also stated, have petitioned the Chamber, to add, at once, and unconditionally, to the new law, a clause recognizing the rights of authorship in foreign works, and thus to extend all its provisions to the foreigner. But what has the House of Commons just done with regard to Serjeant Talford's Copyright Bill? Why, refused it to be brought in and decently discussed, presenting an extraordinary contrast to the French. But to come to Mr. Tennent's " Treatise on the Copyright of Designs in Printed Fabrics; with Considerations on the necessity of its Extension,' together with his "Copious Notices of the State of Calico-printing in Belgium, Germany, and the States of the Prussian Commercial Leage," we have first to mention, that he differs from others whose reports we have lately noticed concerning the rivalship which this country has to contend with, and to fear from foreigners engaged in the cotton trade. In fact, he shows, or is persuaded that he shows, that England is not endangered by Belgium, Prussia, or Saxony; and not even by America. As to the Copyright of Designs for Prinetd Fabrics, a Bill for the regulation of which has been brought into Parliament by the Honourable gentleman, the reader will find in the volume before us, reasoning as well as many facts that are valuable and interesting. A committee sat on the subject last session, and Mr. Tennent's examination of the evidence then adduced is able, full, and clear. Our readers are to understand, that London was originally the seat of the manufacture of Printed Fabrics, the productions of that early period being still looked upon as "those of the old masters of the English school of calico-printing." But when Lancashire, in consequence of Arkwright and Watt's inventions in machinery, made sudden and prodigious strides in cotten manufactures, the designs of the Londoners were unceremoniously pirated, and the old masters nearly driven out of the field; so that at length an act was passed which secured a copywright for three months in any new pattern, a period deemed sufficient to protect the London printers; or, in other words, to extend over the London season. This was the act of 1794; but since that time, London has had to contend with many other markets throughout Europe, and in the United States of America; and three months constitute a period that is far too short to protect new designs, whether the article be for foreign or English consumption; for if the manufacturer has produced a pattern in the autumn for the foreign market, his copyright expires before the time that the London season commences; and thus he may have been putting himself to much expense, and indulging in anxious speculation for the benefit of mere copyists at home; or, if at another period of the year he has been preparing for the home trade, a similar use will be made of his exertions and ingenuity at the end of three months, and in a very short time he may be undersold, the plagiarists not only having been saved the bulk of his expense for designs, but generally contriving to manufacture an inferior article after his pattern. All this operates injuriously and grievously to the proprietor of the invention. Then the consequences to the interests of art are serious, occasioning a great inferiority to the French in respect of designs, although the English surpass our Gallic neighbours in the matter of cheapness. Now the alteration proposed by Mr. Tennent is, to extend the Copyright from three to twelve months, which he considers will be sufficient protection, and by no means unfair to the public; the same period being already allowed to some other kinds of fabrics with colours. But we shall not go further into the subject, except by presenting two passages from the volume before us. From the former it will be seen, that not only very considerable expense attaches to calico-fabrics arising from the cost of designs, but that great uncertainty exists with regard to the success of any one new pattern:"As even the most experienced judgment cannot, from the mere inspection of a pattern upon paper, form a correct decision as to its precise appearance when transferred to cloth, and cannot possibly anticipate all the caprices of public taste on which the favourable reception of a pattern depends, it constantly occurs, that of the number even of those selected designs, only a proportion attains a successful sale, the remainder either never being in demand at all, or only to such a limited extent as to be unremunerative to the producer. "Thus, of five hundred patterns produced in one year by one house, one hundred alone were decidedly successful, and only fifty moderately so, the |