GENERAL INDEX TO A T KINSON'S CASKET, FOR 1833. Description of the Vignette Title Page, representing the Origin of the Orders of Architecture. tell me, what is this thou hast rais | lar of the Doric order, which is formed with the proed with the mysterious magic of thy hand ? portions and strength of the body of a man; a naked It is a nero art! replied Lycidas. The forms thou simplicity rather than a finished elegance, mark that viewest around I found in nature; and this art is a plain unadorned column; it was the first I raised; it memorial of HUMAN AFFECTION. has a rude and primitive simplicity, for one never Explain thyself! said Amaryllis, with fondness and knows how to ornament a first production. The ori. curiosity. gin of the first column was the trunk of a tree; my Observe that column opposite. great difficulty, at first, was to know how high I should It is delicacy and lightness! make it; the height of the tree was too great, so I proIt is thyself! portioned it to my own height. Those long arcades Lycidas smiled, while the wondering Amaryllis lean- were imagined from a row of trees; and this dome ed over him, contemplating the column with the tre- above us, but imitates the vault of heaven. mor of delight. Divine artist! thou hast not explained that secret Yes, it is thyself! raised to thy memory, I gave it something, that silent music, which so touches and so the delicacy of the feminine character. It has all thy satisfies the soul! Nacility; it is a model of a woman with her orna. What thou fancifully callest a silent music, is the ments. The colutes at its head, twining in spiral lines, effect of a symmetrical proportion. In art, no inhar. represent thy locks curling beneath thine ear: the deep monious object is agreeable; all must be balanced, indented fluting: that run down the trunk, imitate the The height must be proportioned to the breath; tlie felds of thy flowing dress: the base, which winds like relative parts of a work are measured by the whole, twisted cords, resembles thy sandals. But the co- and the whole must be consonant to the parts. Such, lamns opposite are richer than mine. What means Amaryllis, are the concords even in marble!. that beautiful ornament, which looks like a rich foliage, This I learnt from nature, for it is exhibited in the tranching from the top. human form; there we trace an affinity between the It is designed for what it seems. One day, near the foot, the hand, the finger, and all its parts: in every cave, thou didst leave a panier on a young acanthus ; perfect work each individual member should enable the panier was covered by a tile, and the rich foliage us to judge of the magnitude of the work itself. It is of the plant grew around it; and we admired how thy thy tapering arms, winding like tendrils round my basket covered by a tile, had, as it were, become a neck; thy iwo soul dissolving eyes; and the regular part of the acanthus itself, forming a new and beauti- graces of thy well proportioned 'form, that enchant. fel object. Examine it; it is but a copy. From nature and from thee, I learnt the gradual charm Wonderful, Lycidas! but thyself, where art thou? of unity in proportion, and uniformity in variety. There, replied the first architect, pointing to a pil D'Israeli's Romances. MONTHLY EMBELLISHMENTSJanuary Number—Portrait of William Penn of Talma — Cathedral at Rheims — View of -Dartmouth College-Lausanne-Kosciusko's Mauch Chunk. Monument. July-Latest Fashions—Academie Royale de February—The Fashions, coloured-Friends' Musique-Windsor Castle-Tobacco Plant in Meeting House, Sandy Spring – Philadelphia Flower. Exchange-Tower of London. August-The Serenade-Holt's New HotelMarch-Apprehension-Erie Canal, at Little Departure of the Israelites. Falls Catholic Church at South Boston-Sta- September Portrait of Dr. Wistar-Repretue of Peter the Great-Court House at Cleve-sentation of Rotterdam-Monument to Robert land--Petrarcb's Inkstand. Burns-An Indian Battle. April-Portraitof John Hancock-Royal Cla October-Los Musicos-City of Bruges-Berence Vase-Ohiopyle Falls Coblenz-The nares, in India-Hotham Island. Mahogany Tree The Sugar Cane. November-Skin Lodges of the Kaskaias Pere la Chaise-La Grange Terrace, N.York. May-Mount Ætna-Crater of Mount Ætna December—The Peasant Boy-Ghaut of CutQuadrant, London-Fair Mount Water Works. wa-State House of Kentucky-Catching TorJune The Fisherman's Return—The Tomb toise on the coast of Cuba-City of Mecca. Burke 25 June 1922 S • CONTENTS. - 120 Duels, 529 242 Hanging of the Spy, 311 Hippopotamus Hunting, 503 515 108 Departure of the Israelites, 361 406 , 499 95 523 Irish Religion, 95 Joam of Portugal, anecdotes of 165 560 lodiana, view of the state, 178 562 Irish Trial, an 202 Indian Woman, anecdote of 262 E 278 295 Experience, my Uncle's 126 Jay, John, extract from his life, 407 Encounter with a Tiger, 422 467 66 Elizabeth's Progresses, 491 Jacqueline, Byron's Opinion of Beauty, 69 England, by Baron d'Haussez, 496 Ireland, wild sports of 504 Europe, letters from the North of 511 Irish Blackguard Snuff, Beauharnais, Hortense, me. Fashions, latest, for Feb. with 204 Kingsessing, 49 Kentucky, view of the state, 224 392 Knowledge, on 73 Kentucky Sports, 444 481 409 French and English Women, 116 120 Kentucky, State House of 553 Ferrall's Ramble in the U.S. 138 Cleveland, O. Court House, 115 First and Last Ticket, the 43 Catholic Church at South 208 262 Louisiana, view of the state, 319 Condemned, the 323 456 Life of a Sailor, 456 Chantilly in the Olden Time, 155 Clarence Vase, the Royal 165 Female Education, Florida, view of the territory, 317 Conscript and his Dog, the ange Terrace, N. York, 505 Crossing the Delaware, 230 Fashionable Vulgarities, 360 Crockett, David, Adventures of 282 Feigned and Real Attachment, 532 Mutability of Human Grandeur, 98 Mother, the, a sketch, Consumptive, the 125 Captured Indiaman, the 453 Grave, the 257 458 | Georgia vs. Down East, 521 Mahogany Tree, the Captive's Dream, the 493 Ghaut of Cutwa, Mount Eina, with engravings, 193 Dartmouth College, (eng.) 25 Hour of Fortune, Detached Thoughts, 119 Honour among the Indians, 89 Mind, original Laws of 258 280 145 Mariner's Compass, 281 186 Health, one hundred precepts of 233 Mats, Dangerous Tax-gatherer, a 215 Horse, physiognomy ot the 312 Musique, Academie Royale 313 Death preferable to Life, 231 Holt's Hotel, New York, 361 de, Paris, of Fort? } } |
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