THE ROYAL VICTIM-BRIDE. BY THOMAS ROSCOE, ESQ. ADVERTISING FOR A WIFE. BY DUDLEY COSTELLO, ESQ. LITERARY NOTICES (FOR JANUARY):- LEONORA.-MR. WARREN'S "NOW AND THEN."-HAWBUCK GRANGE.- LEIGH HUNT'S "JAR OF HONEY."-HENRY DOMVILLE. THE HALL AND THE HAMLET.-WUTHERING HEIGHTS.-THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.- (FOR FEBRUARY) :-MR. BUCKINGHAM'S TRAVELS.-THE HAMPDEN CONTROVERSY.-MARK WILTON.—EMILIA WYNDHAM, &c. 267 to 268 GELA.-PRINCE TALLEYRAND.-THE HEN-PECKED HUSBAND.-ADVEN- TURES OF A MEDICAL STUDENT.-HISTORY OF FRANCE.--THE EXPE- RIENCES OF A TRAGIC POET.-THE LAST OF THE FAIRIES.-THE LIFE (FOR APRIL):—THE CHETHAM SOCIETY.-TRIALS OF DO- MESTIC LIFE. THE HALF-SISTERS. — THE RUSSIAN SKETCH-BOOK.- PAQUERETTE: THE STAR OF A Night. BY MADAME COLMACHE 115 THE DRAMA IN PARIS. BY CHARLES HERVEY, Esq. LITERARY NOTICES:-The Life of Shakespeare.-Leonora.-Mr. Warren's "Now and then."-Hawbnck Grange.-Leigh Hunt's "Jar of Honey."-Henry Domville.-The Hall and the Hamlet. -Wuthering Heights.-The Oath of Allegiance.-The Triumph AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. A NEW AND REVISED EDITION OF RIGHTON: An Historical Romance, BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, ESQ., IS COMMENCED IN THE JANUARY NUMBER OF AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. ILLUSTRATED BY HABLOT K. BROWNE. THE ROMANCE WILL BE CONTINUED IN SUCCEEDING NUMBERS UNTIL ITS COMPLETION IN THE MAGAZINE. CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186, STRAND. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. GAINS LOST AND LOSSES GAINED. BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ. WISE is the Millionaire, who, while Accounts her wealth a burthen, Still wiser he, who, losing all, Can philosophically fall, And resolutely nerve his Mind to meet his alter'd fate, Dining off delf with zest as great, The storm-toss'd mariner, who flings. With pity views the laden barque, Still doom'd, amid the tempest dark, Thus may the ruined Merchant, moored Of him, still floating, all aghast, Who struggles, but must yield at last, Our fears of ill by far exceed The ill we fear, for croakers feed On miseries ideal, Suspense removed, the mind re-acts, And men, who quailed at fancied facts, Jan.-VOL. LXXXII. NO. Cccxxv. B The merchant who succumbs to fate, In this o'erwhelming crisis, More honoured from his overthrow, Which, as it falls, still rises. Happy! who, losing all his pelf, Who, taught that Fortune's chalice Once poorly rich, now richly poor, From thine own mind thou reapest, For all that gives our life its zest, Experience-taught, from rashness free, Thy course thou wouldst renew in, Thus, their past errors all atoned, And England's self, in trial's hour, Yes-spite of all external foes, That fiercely have o'erswept her, Her world-compelling sceptre. |