(To be continued in our next.) CURIOUS COINCIDENCE OF ARTISTS' NAMES WITH THEIR SUBJECTS.

Subjects.

Artists.

Mrs. Nightingale was a prudent wife; it be a stray sweep that has mistaken like the chain-pier at Brighton, she his chimney.' made a rule never to oppose a storm. Look at the consequence: that edifice has stood firm during the late gales, where Waterloo-bridge would have gone by the board; and Mrs. Nightingale, on the day which followed the aboverecited colloquy, was authorized to write an answer to Mrs. Wendover, undertaking to accept the invitation, in a phraseology similar to that in which it was couched, with the omission of the compliments," those articles, at that season of the year, being confined to watchmen and parish-beadles in quest of half-erowns. The Wendover card stood palpable in the chimney-rack, and it was, rather unluckily, printed in huge bulbous characters, insomuch that it

eoncern.

caught the Colonel's eye every morning at breakfast. "I heartily wish," said the lord of the mansion, one morning, whilst in the act of spreading butter on a parallelogram of dried toast, “that among all these new joint-stock companies, some patriotic banker or disinterested solicitor would establish a New Grand Dining Company, with a capital of a few millions to purchase a gigantic lottery wheel." "A gigantic lottery wheel, my dear! for Heaven's sake, for what purpose?” 66 Why, to shake Loudon dinner-company in, that one might avoid the chance of meeting the same people twice. I am confident it would answer. I should have no objection to be standing counsel' to the I flatter myself I could give them some profitable hints." "I doubt whether it would always answer," said Mrs. Nightingale: "shuffle them as you will, dinner-people, like hands at whist, sometimes come together in a most unaccountable way. You observed last night at Lady Lumley's, I held the knave, ten, and four of diamonds. Before the next deal Sir Samuel Spadille shuffled the cards extremely well, and afterwards stuck them in, heads and feet, in a completely higgledy-piggledy style. Notwithstanding which I held the very same knave, ten, and four, at the very next round." "That I don't object to," resumed the husband: that's all chance: I myself entered the pit of the Opera three successive nights, and found Lindley screwing the same peg of this violoncello. But inviting one to meet the same people is malice prepense.” “They may now and then have casually dropped in," said the lady. "Phu!" ejaculated the Colonel, "nobody, now a-days, drops casually in to a gentleman's dining-room, unless

A sketch in hair, allegori-
cal of the cardinal
points (in excellent
gusto)

A perspective view of a
Convent

T

West, F.R.A.

Abbott.

Interior of a Cutler's Shop Sharpe.
A team of Oxen at plough Fielding.
A Shoal of Pilchards Sprat, sen.
Interior of a foundry near
Whitechapel

Bell.

(In this figure the general tone har-
monizes well with the principal
figures.)

Swiss peasants waltzing Turner, R.A.
An ancient building in

Bandyleg-Walk

Cruickshanks.

A West Indiaman enter-
ing the Channel, with
a Seaman at the Mast-
head looking out Land-seer.
The Head of St. John Baptiste.
Drawing a Tooth (in dis-
temper)
Lady's hands (a study) Glover
Payne.
A Manufactory in Staf-

fordshire (rather clayey) Potter.
A Country Squire survey-
ing his Estate

View of St. Paul's Cathe-
dral in November (un-
finished)

The Resurrection

The Seasons (composition
beautiful and the effect
natural)

Window

Moreland.

Fogg.
Rising.

Hayter.

Thompson,RA. A View near Eastburne Beechey, RA. The Jealous Husband (the ! yellow is rather too predominant) The Broken The Thief detected (brilliant) Boys nutting (a crackish Welsh desigu) Folding sheep scenery. Rent Day Woolley)

fi

Hurlstone.
Constable.

Laue.
Hills.

(rather

Shepherd,

Tennant.

OF KEEPING ACCURATE ACCOUNTS.

Bechanics' Oracle, and Domestic
Guide.

"Let thine Eye descend "To trace with patient Industry the page "Of Income and Expense."-Shenstone. By Dr. Kitchinér.

(Continued from page 351.)

Pray do not think this business beneath your Attention-it will save You many pounds, and Your Table will be supplied with much better Provisions into the bargain;-it will afford you an opportunity of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the Nature and Cost of the various things You purchase, which you cannot by any other means obtain ; and also, of acquainting those who furnish them, with Your attention to Housekeeping, by expressing your approbation or the contrary of the Quality and Price of the several articles which they have sent to You-and, amiable Reader, as I dare say that you have often felt "how pleasing 'tis to please,' you will of course take every opportunity to Praise Them when they Please YouYou will find that kind acknowledgements and good-natured expressions are so gratifying to them, that, to do their best for You, will be their Pleasure as well as their Business. Don't give them an opportunity to quote against you the ungracious Adage,

"When I did Well, I heard it never;
When I did III, I heard it ever."
AT THE END OF EACH MONTH

Balance All your Accounts, and carry them to

THE ANNUAL ABSTRACT, that you may see how far your Expenses agree with the Estimate You have made, and the means You have provided to discharge them.

AT THE END OF EACH YEAR tie up your Bills and Receipts, and keep them for Ten years, or longer if convenient.

The general arrangement of a Housekeeper's Account Book has been to print about 20 of the Articles most in request, and include all the rest under the head of "Sundries,"--but

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they are never Daily, and very seldom Weekly purchases.-Economical Housewives buy these things in Large Quantities; many of them are much better for being kept a certain time before they, are used, and most of them may be bought much cheaper by purchasing a Quantity, and paying Ready Money:the Small Shopkeepers in the Suburbs, and in Villages, may reasonably charge somewhat higher for their Commodities than the Wholesale dealers in the City," and their Customers, who cannot resort to the distant Market without incurring both Expense and loss of Time, are reby the increase of Price. paid in Convenience for what they suffer

POULTRY, FISH,
FRUIT, &c.

are also items in the common Diariesbut such a general description has been found to be extremely unsatisfactory.

In order to exhibit a clear view of these and other

SUNDRY MISCELLANEOUS EXPENCES, I have left Plenty of room for the entering and describing of them particularly.

Plan of Registering Household ExThis Plain, Easy, and Infallible penses, with only

ONE HOUR'S ATTENTION IN A WEEK, will enable you to balance all such Accounts with the utmost Exactness. Each of the Double Pages exhibits at one view the Weekly and Monthly Expense of each article, and a comprehensive Abstract of the whole of the Outgoings of Each Week and Each Month.

The Half Years will generally be found about equal in Expense, because, if a larger portion of Coals and Candles are consumed in the Winter, in the Summer there are many salubrious temptations to purchase cooling Fruits and fresh Vegetables-and Poultry and Fish are more desirable than Butcher's Meat, which in Summer can seldom be kept till sufficiently tender. Mrs. Managewell told us that the only way of getting Meat in perfection, is to beg your Butcher to choose your Dinner for you, and to send whatever joint he has in the best condition.

Nothing can be more inimical to the comfort of the Table than the bargain which some parsimonious Housekeepers make, to have all kinds of Meat, at one price, or to have Roasting and Boiling. at the same price-in that case, the Butcher of course will take care of himself-all kinds of Meat vary from 3d. to

although most of them are in Daily use, 4d, in the pound-and every body knows

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1. THE FLOWERS OF LITERATURE, II. THE SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES,
IL THE WONDERS OF NATURE AND ART.

IV. THE ESSENCE OF ANECDOTE AND WIT. V. THE DOMESTIC GUIDE.'
VI. THE MECHANICS' ORACLE.

No.CVIII. Or No. 21 of FORMING ALSO No. 125 OF THE HIVE.

IV.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1825.

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11

PHANTASMAGORIA.

I HAVE already stated that De Philipsthal made the RED WOMAN the second part or act of his exhibition; her appearance was, as far as the exhibitor's imperfect acquaintance with the English language would allow, intendVOL. IV.

ed to explain by a striking example, the facility with which spectral appearances of the most astounding, and seemingly inexplicable character might be manufactured! His management of the figure was thus:-A mask of linen formed on a mould of any required form in the usual way, made of fine linen, or even of muslin, is, instead of being stiffened in the common way with glue 2 A

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scream of a few ladies in the first seats of the pit induced a cry of lights" from their immediate friends, which it not being possible instantly to comply with, increased into an universal panic, in which the male portion of the audience, who were ludicrously the most vociferous, were actually commencing a scrambling rush to reach the doors of exit, when the operator, either not understanding the meaning of the cry, or mistaking the temper and feeling of an English audience, at this unlucky crisis once more dashed forward the Red Woman. The confusion was instantly at a height which was alarming to the stoutest; the indiscriminate rush to the doors was prevented only by the deplorable state of most of the ladies; the stage was scaled by an adventurous few, the Red Woman's sanctuary violated, the unlucky operator's cavern of death profaned, and some of his machinery overturned, before light restored order and something like an harmonious understanding with the cause of alarm. I need scarcely say that this accident spread the astonished Frenchman's fame over our wondering city like magic; he had made his exhibition in Paris during an entire winter, without any remarkable impression, and without sufficient remuneration. The Red Woman's dash into the pit of an English theatre, mainly by his ignorance of our language, from that eventful night crowded his little theatre to suffocation, and, before the close of a short season of four months, produced to his treasury the actual sum of eight thousand pounds!

whitening, and other thick opake mate-
rials, rendered of sufficient stiffness to
preserve its features by repeated coats
of a varnish composed of white wax
dissolved in spirits of wine, or spirits of
turpentine, laid on at first while the
mask is yet standing on the mould, and
after removal coat after coat, as each
becomes hard enough to bear the repe-
tition. When the mask is thus of suf-
ficient firmness, and is cold and hard, it
is painted or tinted to its intended ef.
fect, with any transparent varnish co-
lours, or the finest oil colours in small
bladders, as they are sold in the colour-
shops. These are worked either in tur-
pentine varnish, or in mastic varnish,
diluted to the required consistency with
spirits of turpentine. The mask then
prepared is closely fitted to the front of
a plain tin lantern, having a close shut
ting door at its back, a socket for an oil
lamp within, and a short tube or socket
on its under side, in which may be
fitted a staff, or a short handle, as occa-
sion may require. The front of the lan-
tern is finished with a head-dress ap-
propriate to the character of the spec
tre, as a shroud, thick locks of black
horse hair, a black, white, or a red
wrapping garment of ample dimensions,
so as completely to cover the operator,
whose business it now is to carry it,
In the example of Philipsthal on his
stage, the lantern was held by him by a
short handle, the garment was of close
and small dimensions, and of a light
black stuff; the face was closely sur-
rounded (as by a shroud cap) with a
small quantity of the same material.
The operator himself, dressed in black,
without shoes, or his tread further
deadened by shoes of thick and soft
woollen, crept on from the back towards
the front of the stage, bearing in his hand
and immediately before his head, the
Red Woman. The spectre thus arrived
within a few feet of the front row of the
audience in the pit, in complete dark-
ness, except the lurid glare of her own
countenance, and in deadly silence,
was, by a sudden forward motion of the
operator's carrying arm, made as it were
to spring or fly at the spectators with a
faint scream, and, sinking instantly to
within two feet of the ground, was co-
vered in absolute darkness by a sort
of extinguisher of black opake cloth,
which during its progress the bearer
had held over its head in the way of
a cap. The effect was electrical, and
scarcely to be imagined from the effect. If
of a written description. I was myself
one of an audience during the first week
of its exhibition, when the hysterical

The Engraving in Number CVI. of the Conversazione gives a view of De Philipsthal's Red Woman, with the operator himself, which, with reference to this description, will make its construction and management perfectly intelligible.

The present Engraving represents a more effective and perfect instrument of the same nature, but capable of amusing variations of great interest and curiosity, of which in our next.

ON SEEING TWO MAIDS KISS EACH

OTHER.

How much dear maids you'd be delighted,

While each caresses dear,

you in love could be united,
As Iphis and Ianthe were.