"I was not quite so much in earnest as I pretended,' said Fritz, 'I rather spoke to frighten him: it is very possible he may have a leaning that way, and therefore it was he so cleverly came right round all at once when he saw how decided I was.'

"What is a jesuit my dear Fritz : I do not rightly know, though I hear so much about them.'

"The matter is rather hard to explain,' said Fritz, hesitating and with some confusion. You see, my dear, they are at any rate bad men, whose object is to pull down our church and bring us all back to superstition. They manage the thing too so adroitly that it is very hard to follow their track. They are so subtle in their proceedings that many a one is a jesuit and does not know it himself. The gentleman who was here just now has made the discovery, that the fellows come here from distant countries, disguised as if their business was to sell fish.'

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"My God! my God!' cried Rosina wringing her hands in despair, 'if you should be one of those wicked people, and I should get to be one of them without knowing it!'

"No, my love!' said Fritz, taking her hand, 'I remain true to the faith of my father, and I will make it my care that you shall not fall off from the Protestant doctrine.'

"But if you should already be such a wicked monster, without your knowing it?' she answered: what then is the real right doctrine? What is superstition all about? I do not suppose the middle age has anything to do with our village of Wandelheim, has it? My father never mentioned a word of the thing to me in his lessons.'

"It is only recently the thing is come to the worst, and I do not yet fully understand it myself,' said Fritz: 'the sum of the matter is that I feel afraid, and I will never again eat a red-herring. I always had a suspicion of them they really have a right down papist smell. The clean white salt herring is quite another creature.'

"But what is all this to us dear Fritz?' said Rosina uneasily: 'it is far worse that the old gentleman does not come back.'

"He must dress himself,' said Fritz, and so must his lady.' had not told him where our parents are stopping.

"If you

If the man is so cunning, and belongs to that hateful sect, he is quite capable of going slily to our parents and betraying us.'

"That would be dreadful,' exclaimed Fritz with a start. He went to the door; it was locked.-' We are lost,' he cried-' Imprisoned!-See now if I did him injustice to think him such a heretic ? To deceive us with a lying pretence that he would marry us, and was only going to fetch his canonicals! To bow and wheedle so smoothly, and now to show himself such a Judas. And this villian is the member of a Christian community! The weal and woe of thousands are the object of his care!'

"If you had not told him where our parents were till he had first married us!' whimpered Rosina.

"He would have found another excuse,' said Fritz, for he has the craft of the serpent.'

"Rosina walked up and down the large room, sobbing and wringing her hands. Now you will see,' she said, they will soon be here with the offi

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cers you have committed abduction Fritz; so they will load you with chains and thrust you into the darkest dungeon. Abduction I believe is a capital felony it is hanging matter, is it not? Oh, you poor unfortunate creature, what has your pure fervent love for my unhappy self brought you to ?'

"Fritz could now no longer restrains his tears. The poor young things were plunged in the deepest woe, deprived of all hope and courage. Chains, prison, pillory, gallows-all whirled tumultuously through their imaginations. Glad would they have been had it been possible for them to steal back quietly to the inn; for Fritz had quite lost all the boldness that had recently made him talk so big. Rosina chanced in her perplexity to touch a little spring in one of the panels of the wall, and discovered a small door leading to the inner rooms. They stole softly into the adjoining room, the other door of which was fortunately open, they slipped down the stairs, opened the house door gently, and were again in the street. With all speed they made for the most thronged part of the town only to get out of sight of the superintendant's house."

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ART. XVII.-The Touchstone of Medical Reform. By J. H. GREEN, F.R.S. Highley.

THREE Letters addressed to Sir R. H. Inglis, by the Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy, &c., and insisting upon high qualifications as being necessary to every member of the medical profession, whatever be the branch followed; which qualifications he would have to be tested by a State Council for Medical Affairs. The pamphlet is written with ability, and manifestly by a person who is deeply impressed with the magnitude and paramount importance of his subject. His principles are exalted, and as remote as possible from being partial or time-serving.

ART. XVIII.-Illustrations of Eschylus and Sophocles. By J. F. BOYES, M.A., St. John's College, Oxford. THESE illustrations are taken from the Greek, Latin, and English poets, bringing down the last mentioned to our own times, and including the scholarship of our master spirits from Chaucer to Shelley. Mr. Boyes does not consider that similarity of thought and of expression necessarily proves plagiarism, but is of opinion that minds of kindred constitution, and placed in similar circumstances, will utter similar thoughts with some degree of resemblance of language. His comparison of minds is conducted with calm and judicious criticism, which will refresh the minds of scholars who long ago bade farewell to academy and college; and will also set younger readers upon useful and amusing trains of speculation. It is the work of a ripe scholar, and of a person whose classical knowledge and taste have been regulated by systematic study.

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ART. XIX.-Klauer-Klattowski's Educational Works. London: Simpkin. THERE are before us, W. Klauer-Klatterowski's " Key to French Practice," Key to Course of German Exercises," "Italian Practice," "Key to ditto," "French Practice," and "Progressive Exercises in Writing German." Now, when we announce these several works under the head of "Klauer-Klattowski's Educational Works," it must be understood that they constitute but a portion of his excellent productions in the department of education, for we know not how many he has published, how often most of them have been edited, or how frequently we have had to notice their appearance, and to laud their purpose and execution.

We believe we can only repeat ourselves when we declare that for the solitary student, the academical scholar, and the tutor himself, there are no elementary works which have come under our notice so well contrived, so simple and full, and be it added, so interesting and unrepulsive, as the educational books of this gentleman. He seems not only to be imbued with a taste and passion for laying open the first mysteries of the German language, and to pioneer the way to its triumphs for the simplest understanding, but to be capable of performing the same things for a number of modern tongues, French, Italian, &c. He is quite a Universalist. He has caught, or is endowed with the very genius of teaching the " young idea how to shoot," and it is with pleasure that we proclaim the efforts and his execution in this way.

There is philosophical tutorship in Klauer's educational works; for while they develop the elementary structure of a language in the most natural and perspicuous manner, they necessarily exhibit and expound the nature and processes of the human mind; and while they captivate, as they do the student, especially the self-teaching student, they institute and confirm a habit of ratiocination that must be carried into every walk of life, and into every sphere of thought and progress.

We have spoken in these general terms, because it would occupy an unnecessary space in our pages were we specially to characterize every one of the works before us. The probability indeed is, that before many months expire, we shall have new editions of several of them, with "amendments," corrections," ," "revisions," and so forth; for Mr. Klauer's exertions and self-improvements never cease. He has a hobby, and he bestrides it gallantly. Let all who have children that are to be educated on a liberal scale; let all who would be self-taught, resort to these works-to the whole of them; for they are of one frame, and exceedingly well united, and mutual exponents.

ART. XX.-The Jubilee Memorial of Rev. W. Jay. Ward. MR. JAY having on the 30th January, 1841, been for half a century minister of Argyle Chapel, Bath, a religious festival was at that date held by his congregation, and other friends, to commemorate the event, when sermons, speeches, &c., appropriate to the occasion, constituted the solemnity. A piece of plate, and a purse containing 650l. were also presented to him; all which proceedings are detailed in the small volume before us. Mr. Jay was the friend of Robert Hall.

ART. XXI.-The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. don: Longman.

Vol. V. LonTHIS volume contains Evenings in Greece, Ballads, Songs, Miscellaneous Poems, &c. Some of the songs are now published for the first time. But the most interesting novelty in this portion of the series, is the preface, in which, among sundry pleasant records, there are striking remarks on songwriting.

ART. XXII.-The Life and Remains of the Rev. R. Housman, A.B. &c. By R. F. HOUSMAN, ESQ. Simpkin.

MR. HOUSMAN was an exemplary character in a diversity of ways, each remarkable enough to justify a biography of him. He was deservedly a popular preacher, as his remains testify; his life was not only blameless but a beautiful model for Christians and ministers to copy; for although he was an early and distinguished member of the evangelical party in the establishment, his spirit was so catholic and charitable, that he never thought of, nor would countenance, the slightest political or social coercion. He was, for very nearly half a century, minister of St. Anne's Church, Lancashire.

ART. XXIII.-The Progress and Prospects of Society. London: Saunders and Otley.

WE, at first, thought that the author of this Utopian dream was quizzing; but after a little more examination than of the titles of his chapters, we rather incline to look upon him as a sincere visionary. We cannot take time to tell what are the beauties and blessings which are to characterize the full and proper development of society; but this much may be said as to the practical results contemplated, there shall be equality among mankind, there shall be no diseases, nay, nor want of the necessaries of life,— labour shall cease, and all shall go naked. In short, a heaven upon earth; and yet man's soul to continue embodied.

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ART. XXIV.—A Summer's Day at Windsor, and a Visit to Eton. By ED. JESSE. Murray.

ANOTHER of the guide-books by the Surveyor of her Majesty's Parks and Palaces, giving an historical sketch of the places named, as regards antiquities, architecture, pictures, adjacent scenes, &c. Numerous wood-cuts and etchings illustrate the details of a charming little tome on engaging subjects.

We object, however, to the author's unsparing outpouring of incense upon royalty. On the other hand we generally coincide with him in his criticisms relative to architectural objects and arrangements, and other points where the connoisseur's taste is particularly concerned. His historical notices are also judiciously selected, so as to add much to the curiosity which visitors, after reading his pages, must feel when surveying the objects, the localities, and the vicinities identified with Windsor and Eton. Now, that the famed spots can be reached at a trifling expence of time and money, no doubt his

book will greatly increase the number of Londoners who during Summer have become passionate in their love of rural beauties and ancient grandeur; and also correctly instruct tourists from more remote parts of this great breathing world.

ART. XXV.-The Works of Montaigne, Part I., Edited by William Hazlitt. Templeman.

THIS edition is to present the only complete collection of the works of Montaigne that has hitherto appeared in an English dress. It is to contain,1st. A Biographical notice of Montaigne; 2ndly. A Biographical notice of his Works; 3rdly. The Essays (Cotton's translation, with Mr. Hazlitt's amendments and corrections) with the notes of all the commentators; 4thly. Montaigne's Letters; and 5thly, the Journey through Italy. This first part begins the Essays; but we have not had time to compare the editor's corrections of Cotton's masterly translation of the prince and founder of the French school in this department; although we are unwilling to let the opportunity escape of announcing the appearance of the instalment, which is handsome and cheap, being uniform with the " Percy Reliques," &c., by the same publisher.

ART. XXVI.-The World in the Year 1840. London: Fraser. A "RETROSPECT of the Chief Events, Civil, Political, and Religious, of the Past Year, in Chronological Order," which appeared in the successive. numbers of the Britannia, a Saturday Newspaper, "established for the purpose of advocating the old and honest cause of Church and State." The politics of the pamphlet are sufficiently indicated by what we have copied ; while the ability, and we must add, the gentlemanly character of the partytone, will be also correctly anticipated by all who have any knowledge of the "Britannia" weekly journal.

ART. XXVII.-Bishop Heber's Poetical Works. Murray.

A COLLECTION of Bishop Heber's Poetical Works, into one volume, both such as are known and duly appreciated, and others which have not before been publicly given as his. Every one of the pieces has merit, were it but the refined piety of the author which breathes in every verse. But still, those which formerly appearedunder his name are most worthy of perusal.

ART. XXVIII.-My Life. By an Ex-Dissenter. London: Fraser. 1841. THE EX-Dissenter's paternal grandfather was an Episcopalian; but because foiled in his ambition for the post of Churchwarden, he determined on leaving the establishment, without, however, any fixed notion with regard to the sect he should join. On lending a hearing to all the dissenting preachers in his vicinity, without any potent theological reasons, he selected an Independent congregation, chiefly because on the first vacancy in the office of deacon, he had the prospect of being elected senior deacon. The grandfather's dissent is the most home-thrusting and gravely satirical part of the volume. The father follows in the tract chalked out for him by the grand