DOI issue:
January to June, 1847
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16544#0115
PUXCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 105
LITERATURE.
(The idea of Nature acting as a sort of a Parcels' Delivery of her own
treasures is superb and business-like.)
" To gaze upon her beauty's beam,
- In hope its light to share,
Matilda of Hungary: a Grand Opera, in Three Acts. By Alfred Though less than fancy fain would dream,
Bunn, Esq., Author of " Hollow Hearts," "Marble Halls," "Woman's : Is more than it would dare.''
Heart," " Other Lips," <fcc, <L-c. We have been g0 inspire<} by the delicacy and freshness of this sentb
hother and another" of the libretti of the ment that we have been emboldened to offer a slight imitation of it.
Poet Buxx " still succeeds," each surpassing ^ts dreamy beauty is so vague and evanescent that we kuow of nothing
its predecessor in those'points for which to equal it but this:—
notre cher gateau is eminent. Matilda of " Though one and one can make but two,
Hungary, his last—or rather we must, we WhUe there is oneto share ;
- " "\ . . , . , The jovs that other davs renew,
fear, say his latest work— commences with Are more than all W-Quld dar^.,
a chorus of Bohemian girls—no relations,
we believe, of the original old Bohemian girl t But let us turn from the lighter graces of poesy to the more sterling
who " dreanrt that she dwelt "—all request-; matter of political reflection with which this great work abounds. The
ing protection for their " Queen, in danger's Queen of Bohemia is persecuted by a minister, one Magnus, in a
darkest scene," the " darkest scene" being ; mask and ermine cuffs on his highlows, and everything ermine
beautifully contrived by the lowering of the j about him, to denote his desire to und-ermine the throne of his
foot-lights. It appears that a revolution sovereign. His political observations are marked by the keen-
is going on behind the scenes, which is j est sagacity: he observes, among other matters, that " the hand
contrived in the usual manner by sundry ; of a woman cannot govern Bohemia," and adds with much acute-
murmurs of "follow, follow, follow," the ness, that "it requires a firmer one to put down party spirit." He
striking of an occasional gong, and the : offers himself as a husband to the Queen, who is seen by Qeorgc Point-
shaking of sheet-iron. The revolutionists, j de-Brads, and recognised as the identical " beauty's beam," " idol there
in the most accommodating manner, " hold [ it met," " light he hoped to share," &c, whom he rescued from the
their noise " all of a sudden, when an inn- j back of a frisking pony in the mountains of Moravia. Magnus, the
keeper comes in to explain to the Bohemian ; minister, seeing in him a likeness to the king, requests Point-de-Brads to
girls, that one day, in a war with the Otto- remain and personate the monarch, which the latter consents to do ;
mans, King Ladislaus I. "got wedged in, observing, with much point and pathos, that "Destiny leads him on
and from that fatal moment has never been but surely Destiny never required of him to sing the ballad into which
heard of." It seems his subjects lived in ; he bursts immediately afterwards. It is something after the following
the hope that their sovereign had only been fashion :—
knocked into next week, and were always ■ ««Adieu, fair land! the hamlet, too,
expecting to see him again; but as next Where out, in youth, i hung;
week never comes, they were always doomed \ Commanding that extensive view
to disappointment
It appears that a ballad has been written
on the subject—for Bohemia as well as
I loved when I was young.
If fate turns out the gas of life,
Or turns it on, to shine
'Mid other scenes, away from strife,
I leave the mountains ; yes, I go
To seek another air ;
The country lies extremely low,
'Tis not so healthy there.
Yet, dark or light, or blue or green,
Or bistre, or carmine —
You know exactly what I mean—
Chelsea has its Bunks—and the peasantry To beam asain on thine- I To "6am *sa>a on tn'ne
ask the innkeeper to sing it, promising to < it wm be seen that the burden, the delicious
join him in the chorus if he will give them j
some wine. He replies, " Willingly," which "beam again on thine,"
proves that the Bohemian landlords are is the 0Qiy part of this ballad upon which the Poet seemg to get any
very musically inclined, for they will go so Talue> Burden is everything in a sentimental song, and not even Pick-
far as to serve out wine gratuitously to a F0RD would wish a heavier burden than a modern libretto would supply
to him.
This touching composition finishes the first scene, which, we think,
is about as large a dose as we can, at one time, safely administer. We
The ballad is in the Poet s usual sty le, may perhaps proceed with " The Mixture, as before," in our next
pledging him to nothing m particular ; tor "Number
room-full of guests, on condition of their
joining in the refrain of one of his vocal
efforts
when we have read the whole of it we can
not tax him with having asserted anything
whatever. The innkeeper having got rid
of his unprofitable customers, is visited by
f!: George Podiebrad—a corruption of the word
SCOTCH CHURCH INTELLIGENCE.
Point-de-brads—a. man without brads, or \ X° BE FREELY PRESENTED to a Free Kirk Congregation ia
money. He is a poor man, with a good edu- \ the Isle of Skye, the use of a free Church, situated in a remarkably
cation picked up in a Moravian convent, of; fine> deep, dry, commodious gravel-pit, capable of holding two hundred
which hif father was hall porter, and he persons.^ The proprietor of the pit, in his Christian tenderness towards
gains a livelihood by his bow, so that with-1 the spiritual wants of his fellow-men, of his own will grants the above
out great care he is likely to overshoot the site for a place of worship ; a place in no manner disfigured by the
mark in his expenditure. ! Popish mummeries that, to the shame of the age, have latterly been
A beautiful conversation then ensues creeping in upon the land ; but a Church of the true primitive beauty
between the two friends, who tell each other °f the Churches of the early Fathers, inasmuch as it has the sky for a
what both are well acquainted with—for it' roof' the earth for seats, and all the winds of heaven for visitors.—
is the charming simplicity of the dramatic j APP!7 t° the Lord Macdonald, proprietor.
'f?"^tSiui,!lu1.^ ^?f?!Tio!f ^f^Sjtl t?" ™S! m CANOBIE, DUMFRIESSHIRE, a remarkably fine piece of heath,
commodiously situated on the south side of a hill, capable of containing
a congregation of five hundred persons, on their legs and without um-
brellas. The proprietor believing in the primitive meaning of the word
" Church "—that it signifies not a building, but a congregation—does,
in such sense, graciously permit the erection (that is, the congregation
on their legs as aforesaid) of any number of Churches upon his Scotch
estates ; testifying thereby his gratitude to Providence that has
endowed him with the same.—Apply to his Grace the Duke of Buo
cleuch. N.B. All letters prepaid.
•into a ballad of surpassing tenderness, the preliminary recitative of
which reminds us of the Poet of Moses, in his happiest moments.
It begins—
" One day I wandered far away,
As deer ia known to browse or stray."
How forcibly this brings back to us the celebrated lines in the last
new poem of Costume Castle—
" How pleasant 'tis to wear a coat
In winter, buttoned to the throat."
The recitative is, however, nothing to the ballad which follows.
" It was a form so finely wrought,
{What was,—eh, Bunk ?)
A look though pale so fair,
•'Paleness and fairness are by no means incompatible, friend Poet.)
It seemed that lavish Nature brought
Her choicest treasures there."
MORE PATRONAGE OF THE FINE ARTS.
The Portrait of Prince Albert, in his robes of Chancellor, for the
Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge. Tenders, stating lowest terms,
to be sent in to Buckingham Palace.
LITERATURE.
(The idea of Nature acting as a sort of a Parcels' Delivery of her own
treasures is superb and business-like.)
" To gaze upon her beauty's beam,
- In hope its light to share,
Matilda of Hungary: a Grand Opera, in Three Acts. By Alfred Though less than fancy fain would dream,
Bunn, Esq., Author of " Hollow Hearts," "Marble Halls," "Woman's : Is more than it would dare.''
Heart," " Other Lips," <fcc, <L-c. We have been g0 inspire<} by the delicacy and freshness of this sentb
hother and another" of the libretti of the ment that we have been emboldened to offer a slight imitation of it.
Poet Buxx " still succeeds," each surpassing ^ts dreamy beauty is so vague and evanescent that we kuow of nothing
its predecessor in those'points for which to equal it but this:—
notre cher gateau is eminent. Matilda of " Though one and one can make but two,
Hungary, his last—or rather we must, we WhUe there is oneto share ;
- " "\ . . , . , The jovs that other davs renew,
fear, say his latest work— commences with Are more than all W-Quld dar^.,
a chorus of Bohemian girls—no relations,
we believe, of the original old Bohemian girl t But let us turn from the lighter graces of poesy to the more sterling
who " dreanrt that she dwelt "—all request-; matter of political reflection with which this great work abounds. The
ing protection for their " Queen, in danger's Queen of Bohemia is persecuted by a minister, one Magnus, in a
darkest scene," the " darkest scene" being ; mask and ermine cuffs on his highlows, and everything ermine
beautifully contrived by the lowering of the j about him, to denote his desire to und-ermine the throne of his
foot-lights. It appears that a revolution sovereign. His political observations are marked by the keen-
is going on behind the scenes, which is j est sagacity: he observes, among other matters, that " the hand
contrived in the usual manner by sundry ; of a woman cannot govern Bohemia," and adds with much acute-
murmurs of "follow, follow, follow," the ness, that "it requires a firmer one to put down party spirit." He
striking of an occasional gong, and the : offers himself as a husband to the Queen, who is seen by Qeorgc Point-
shaking of sheet-iron. The revolutionists, j de-Brads, and recognised as the identical " beauty's beam," " idol there
in the most accommodating manner, " hold [ it met," " light he hoped to share," &c, whom he rescued from the
their noise " all of a sudden, when an inn- j back of a frisking pony in the mountains of Moravia. Magnus, the
keeper comes in to explain to the Bohemian ; minister, seeing in him a likeness to the king, requests Point-de-Brads to
girls, that one day, in a war with the Otto- remain and personate the monarch, which the latter consents to do ;
mans, King Ladislaus I. "got wedged in, observing, with much point and pathos, that "Destiny leads him on
and from that fatal moment has never been but surely Destiny never required of him to sing the ballad into which
heard of." It seems his subjects lived in ; he bursts immediately afterwards. It is something after the following
the hope that their sovereign had only been fashion :—
knocked into next week, and were always ■ ««Adieu, fair land! the hamlet, too,
expecting to see him again; but as next Where out, in youth, i hung;
week never comes, they were always doomed \ Commanding that extensive view
to disappointment
It appears that a ballad has been written
on the subject—for Bohemia as well as
I loved when I was young.
If fate turns out the gas of life,
Or turns it on, to shine
'Mid other scenes, away from strife,
I leave the mountains ; yes, I go
To seek another air ;
The country lies extremely low,
'Tis not so healthy there.
Yet, dark or light, or blue or green,
Or bistre, or carmine —
You know exactly what I mean—
Chelsea has its Bunks—and the peasantry To beam asain on thine- I To "6am *sa>a on tn'ne
ask the innkeeper to sing it, promising to < it wm be seen that the burden, the delicious
join him in the chorus if he will give them j
some wine. He replies, " Willingly," which "beam again on thine,"
proves that the Bohemian landlords are is the 0Qiy part of this ballad upon which the Poet seemg to get any
very musically inclined, for they will go so Talue> Burden is everything in a sentimental song, and not even Pick-
far as to serve out wine gratuitously to a F0RD would wish a heavier burden than a modern libretto would supply
to him.
This touching composition finishes the first scene, which, we think,
is about as large a dose as we can, at one time, safely administer. We
The ballad is in the Poet s usual sty le, may perhaps proceed with " The Mixture, as before," in our next
pledging him to nothing m particular ; tor "Number
room-full of guests, on condition of their
joining in the refrain of one of his vocal
efforts
when we have read the whole of it we can
not tax him with having asserted anything
whatever. The innkeeper having got rid
of his unprofitable customers, is visited by
f!: George Podiebrad—a corruption of the word
SCOTCH CHURCH INTELLIGENCE.
Point-de-brads—a. man without brads, or \ X° BE FREELY PRESENTED to a Free Kirk Congregation ia
money. He is a poor man, with a good edu- \ the Isle of Skye, the use of a free Church, situated in a remarkably
cation picked up in a Moravian convent, of; fine> deep, dry, commodious gravel-pit, capable of holding two hundred
which hif father was hall porter, and he persons.^ The proprietor of the pit, in his Christian tenderness towards
gains a livelihood by his bow, so that with-1 the spiritual wants of his fellow-men, of his own will grants the above
out great care he is likely to overshoot the site for a place of worship ; a place in no manner disfigured by the
mark in his expenditure. ! Popish mummeries that, to the shame of the age, have latterly been
A beautiful conversation then ensues creeping in upon the land ; but a Church of the true primitive beauty
between the two friends, who tell each other °f the Churches of the early Fathers, inasmuch as it has the sky for a
what both are well acquainted with—for it' roof' the earth for seats, and all the winds of heaven for visitors.—
is the charming simplicity of the dramatic j APP!7 t° the Lord Macdonald, proprietor.
'f?"^tSiui,!lu1.^ ^?f?!Tio!f ^f^Sjtl t?" ™S! m CANOBIE, DUMFRIESSHIRE, a remarkably fine piece of heath,
commodiously situated on the south side of a hill, capable of containing
a congregation of five hundred persons, on their legs and without um-
brellas. The proprietor believing in the primitive meaning of the word
" Church "—that it signifies not a building, but a congregation—does,
in such sense, graciously permit the erection (that is, the congregation
on their legs as aforesaid) of any number of Churches upon his Scotch
estates ; testifying thereby his gratitude to Providence that has
endowed him with the same.—Apply to his Grace the Duke of Buo
cleuch. N.B. All letters prepaid.
•into a ballad of surpassing tenderness, the preliminary recitative of
which reminds us of the Poet of Moses, in his happiest moments.
It begins—
" One day I wandered far away,
As deer ia known to browse or stray."
How forcibly this brings back to us the celebrated lines in the last
new poem of Costume Castle—
" How pleasant 'tis to wear a coat
In winter, buttoned to the throat."
The recitative is, however, nothing to the ballad which follows.
" It was a form so finely wrought,
{What was,—eh, Bunk ?)
A look though pale so fair,
•'Paleness and fairness are by no means incompatible, friend Poet.)
It seemed that lavish Nature brought
Her choicest treasures there."
MORE PATRONAGE OF THE FINE ARTS.
The Portrait of Prince Albert, in his robes of Chancellor, for the
Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge. Tenders, stating lowest terms,
to be sent in to Buckingham Palace.