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books. But although he tells us his lute once wrought its spell on a sweet lady 

 (vide p. 97), we must confess that we have been proof against its influence. We 

 are also led to infer that the author has known as much of substantial as " ideal 

 beauty," but we should deeply lament his singular and unhappy fate, were he 

 to " exhale," in " a pure embrace," as he hints in page 75. We know not how 

 " the sweet lady" received such confessions as this 



" Aye ! then the haunts of mirthless din 



I seek, and vex the night with riot, 

 Or drench with wine the flame within, 



And mortgage years of future quiet" p. 89. 



But let us say it is his nater 



" Quench'd did I say ? The snow-showers fall 



On Hecla's ever-burning crater : 

 It thunders when they meet but all 



Their chill dims not that torch of Nature /" p. 88. 



The Chameleon has a long tongue, as all chameleons have, and we hope our 

 fair friends (and we trust they are not a few), will allow him to chat away by 

 their Christmas fire- sides, while they smile at his poetical errors, particularly 

 as he says 



" No : I'll no more essay to sing." p. 320. 



HI9TOIRE DBS CAMPAGNES DE HoHENLINDEN ET DE MARENQO. PAR M. DE 



BULOW. 



This book must become the manual of every student of the stratagetic art, 

 and the passe-temps of every old campaigner. Bulow, an officer in the Prussian 

 service, is well known to most military men as the author of " Spirit of the 

 System of Modern War," and many other excellent works connected with the 

 profession of arms. The present volume is a valuable analysis of Napoleon's 

 tactics in the tremendous campaign of 1800. The author measures out the 

 field of Marengo, and walks calmly over the plain of Hohenlinden, with the 

 practised eye of an experienced soldier. But the chief interest of the present 

 translation is, that it contains a running commentary on the text by no other 

 than the great general himself Napoleon. These notes are furnished by Major 

 Emmett, who, during his stay at St. Helena, lent it to Count Montholon for the 

 emperor's perusal. It was returned with the numerous annotations by Napo- 

 leon's own hand. We shall not enter into an examination of the work ; 

 students of the art of war, we refer to the book itself ; the ladies, idlers, and all 

 men of peace, we send to read Campbell's soul-stirring lyric of Hohenlinden. 



MENTAL RECREATIONS, OR SELECT MAXIMS ; ANCIENT AND MODERN, 

 ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. 



" The head and front of the offending" of " Mental Recreations," are the 

 frontispiece, in which we are introduced to an angel of the feminine gender, 

 en sark, with a cat-o'-nine tails in one hand and a crown in the other, 

 apparently saying 



" Here they are both neat and handy, 

 Which hand will you have ?" 



And we are led to infer from a note to the introduction, that this emblem is of 

 the compiler's composition. We augur, however, from the sweet smile of this 

 female seraph, that in performing the boatswain's office, she would be as lenient 

 to the backs of her culprits as honest Sancho was to his own. Tearing away 

 our eyes from the pretty angel and her jellisJc, we turn to the Select Maxims. 

 The great names appended to most of these are guarantees of their excellence, 

 but besides these Mr. B. presents us with many of his own, some of which 

 are rather piquants. Like for instance 



