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MILITARY THEATRICALS.-I spent a pleasant day or two with Captain whose brigade is quartered at Galleges, a few leagues on the Portuguese side of Ciudad Rodrigo. A large barn in this village has been converted into a temporary theatre, and the company has had the honour, during the winter, of exhibiting a number of pieces to "overflowing and brilliant houses." Captain is their chief man, stage-manager, and actor of first parts. A few weeks ago he appeared in "Zanga.' Lord Wellington and his staff were present. On the next day his Lordship took the field with his-fox-hounds, and in the ardour of the chase, Captain as thrown from his horse into a river. Lord Wellington witnessed the catastrophe, and asked who it was. "" It's only Zanga washing his face, my lord," said Colonel who was riding by.-Adventures in the Peninsula.

A GERMAN LITERARY CHARACTER.-Hoffmann could not do without society, without excitement, and now not well without exclusive admiration. His old friends he had not forsaken, for he seldom, and with difficulty, got intimate with a stranger; but their quiet life could not content him: it was clear that the enjoyment he sought was only to be found among gay laughter-loving topers, as a guest at their table, or still better, as their sovereign in the wine-house. "The order of his life, from 1816, downwards," says his Biographer, "was this:-On Mondays and Thursdays he passed his forenoon at his post in the Kammergericht; on other days at home, in working; the afternoons he regularly spent in sleep, to which, in summer, perhaps he added walking: the evenings and nights were devoted to the tavern. Even when out in company, while the other guests went home, he retired to the tavern to await the morning, before which time it was next to impossible to bring him home." Strangers who came to Berlin went to see him in the tavern; the tavern was his study, and his pulpit, and his throne; here his wit flashed and flamed like an Aurora Borealis, and the table was for ever in a roar; and thus, amid tobacco-smoke, and over coarse earthly liquor, was Hoffmann wasting faculties which might have seasoned the nectar of the gods.

Poor Hoffmann was on the highway to ruin; and the only wonder is, that with such fatal speed, he did not reach the goal even more balefully and sooner. His official duties were, to the last, punctually and irreproachably performed. He wrote more abundantly than ever; no magazine editor was contented without his contributions; the Nachtstücke (Night-pieces) were published in 1817; two years afterwards, Klein Zaches, regarded (it would seem falsely) as a local satire; and at last, between 1819 and 1821, appeared in four successive volumes, the Serapionsbrüder, containing most of his smaller tales, collected from various fugitive publications, and combined together by dialogues of the Serapion-brethren, a little club of friends, which for some time met weekly in Hoffmann's house. The Prinzessin Brambilla, (1821) is properly another Fantasypiece The Lebensaussichten des Kater Murr (Tom-cat Murr's Philosophy of Life), published in 1820 and 1821, was meant by the author as his master-work; but the third volume is wanting; and the wild anarchy, musical and moral, said to reign in the first two, may for ever remain unreconciled.

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Meanwhile, Hoffmann's tavern orgies continued unabated, and his health at last sank under them. In 1819, he had suffered a renewed attack of gout; from which, however, he had recovered by a journey to the Silesian baths. On his forty-fifth birth-day, the 24th of January, 1822, he saw his best and oldest friends, including Hitzig and Hippel, assembled round his table; but he himself was sick no longer hurrying to and fro in hospitable assiduity, as was his custom, but confined to his chair, and drinking bath water, while his guests were enjoying wine. It was his death that lay upon him, and a mournful lingering death. The disease was a tabes dorsalis; limb by limb, from his feet upwards, for five months, his body stiffened and died. Hoffmann bore his sufferings with inconceivable gaiety; so long as his hands had power, he kept writing; afterwards, he dictated to an amanuensis; and four of his tales, the last, Der Fiend (The Enemy,) discontinued only some few days before his death, were composed in this melancholy season. He would not believe that he was dying, and he longed for life with inexpressible desire. On the evening of the 24th of June, his whole body to the neck had become stiff and powerless; no longer feeling pain, he said to his doctor, "I shall soon be through it now."-"Yes," said the doctor, "you will soon be through it." Next morning he was evidently dying; yet about eleven o'clock he awoke from his stupor, cried that he was well, and would go on with dictating the Fiend that night; at the same time calling on his wife to read him the passage where he had stopt. She spoke to him in kind dissuasion; he was silent; he motioned to be turned towards the wall; and scarcely had this been done, when the fatal sound was heard in his throat, and in a few minutes Hoffmann was no more.-Carlisle's Specimens of German Romance.

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

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VOL. VII. NEW SERIES.

ALMACK'S, a novel, reviewed, 103.
Alma Mater, or Seven Years at Cam-
bridge, reviewed, 441.

Burmese War, Narrative of the, re-
viewed, 232.

Blue Man, the, 244.

Benyowsky, (Count de) account of the
death of, 261.

Buckingham's Mesopotamia, reviewed,
536.

Cranbourn Chace, 309.

Curious Religious Controversy between
the Chief Chaplain of the Grand
Signior, and Panaiotti Nicussio, Inter-
preter to the Grand Vizier Kiopruli, in
the
year 1662, 325.
Calamities of London, 333.
Corn Law, the New, 524.

Don Quixote, Episode of the, No. II, 11.
Diary for the month of December, 119-

for the month of February, 406-for
the month of March, 505.
Disinfectant Agents, newly discovered,
reviewed, 250.

Daw's Reminiscences, 494.

France, Sketches of Manners in the South
of, No. I, 19-The Roussillonais, 20—
their habits, ib.-civil and penal law,

21-dress, 23-amusements, 24-No.
II, 145 The Republic of Andorra,
ib.-judiciary power before and after
the French Revolution, 146-indolence
of the Andorrans, 148-contraband
trade between France and Spain, ib.-
curious appearance of the streets and
houses, 149-description of an inn,
150-superstition, 151.

Funds, Prices of the English and Foreign,
144, 288, 440, 592.

Fragment of a Letter from a young Artist
in Rome to his Friend in Venice, in
1575. Translated from a Foreign Ori-
ginal, 483.

Germany, Periodical Literature of, 1.
General Trader, the, 92.

Game Proprietor, the Troubles of a, 152.
Gondola, the, reviewed, 354.
Greece, Adventures of a Foreigner in,
No. VI, 73-defence of Missolonghi,
ib.-departure of Mavrocordato for
Tripolitza, 74-author's blindness and
cure, 75-history of Nicholas Sciutto,
76-Marco Bozzaris, 78-his conduct
at Missolonghi, ib.-his attachment to
his Suliots, 79-ingratitude of the Mis-
solonghites, io.-brevet of generalis-
simo conferred on Bozzaris, 80-his
refusal of it, ib.—his gallant attack on
the enemy's camp, ib.-death and fune-
ral, 81-author quits Missolonghi,
goes to Clarenza and Castugni, 82-
history and character of Sussini, gover-
nor of Castugni, ib.-wretched condi-

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