1822] 
‘Fhe king, wonder’d much thereat, and said ; 
<The goblet is your own, my lad, 
And this ring, with precious jewels adorn'd, 
I destine you also—’tis not to be scorn’d— 
If you'll try again, and let us know 
What lies at the very bottom below.” 
This with soft feeling the daughter hears, 
And turn’d on the monarch her eyes in tears; 
“Such cruel sport henceforward spare, 
Ne has achiev’d what none else would dare. 
Tf the lusts of your heart you cannot assuage, 
Let some of your knights outdo the page.” 
Then the king snatch’d quickly the goblet 
again, 
And hurl it into the whirlpool amain. 
“Tf you will fetch me the beaker once more, 
All my knights you shall stand before; 
And her,who pleads for you with loving face, 
To-nigbt, as a husband, you shall embrace.” 
Then did heavenly force in his soul arise, 
And boldness liglitened from his eyes ; 
And he saw the fair maid blushing soon, 
And then he saw her turn pale dnd swoon, 
And was mov'd the precious prize to win, 
Come life, come death! he cast himself in, 
Ebb’d had the surge, and again it flow’d, 
And the thund'ring sound announc’d it 
aloud; [bent. 
With affectionate looks o’er the chasm they 
The waters they came, and the waters 
they went. 
The waves they gush up, and the waves 
slink away ; [the day. 
But none brings the youth to the light of 
In the foregoing version, the imper- 
sonal verbs, which so remarkably 
abound in the German original, have 
been purposely retained; although in 
our language they have a less welcome 
effect : but we deem it more instructive 
to give a faithful idea of any foreign 
original writing, than to make such 
poem read like an English work of art. 
. —=ss 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE following description of a very 
simple barometer is at your ser- 
vice. 
Take a common pbial bottle, and 
eutoff the rim and’ part of the neck. 
This may, be done: by a piece of string, 
or rather whip-cord, twisted round it, 
and pulled strongly ina sawing posi- 
tion by two persons; one of whomholds 
the bottle firmly in his left hand. 
Heated ‘inia few minutes by the fric- 
tion of the string, and ‘then dipped 
suddenly into cold water, the bottle 
will be decapitated more ‘easily than 
by amy other means; even than by a 
guillotine. 
Let the phial be now nearly filled 
with common pump-water, and, apply- 
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303 
ing the finger to its mouth, turn it 
quickly upside-down ; on removing the 
finger it will be found that only a few 
drops escape. Without cork or stop- 
per of any kind, the water will be 
retained within the bottle by the pres- 
sure of the external air: the weight of 
air without the phial. being so much 
greater than that of the small quantity 
within it. 
Now let a bit of tape be tied round 
the middle of the bottle, to which the 
two ends of a string may be attached, 
so as to form a loop to hang on a nail : 
let it be thus suspended, in a perpen- 
dicular manner, with the mouth open 
downwards ; and this is the barometer. 
When the weather is fair, and in- 
clined to be so, the water will be level 
with the section of the neck, or rather 
elevated above it, and forming a con- 
cave surface. When disposed to be 
wet, a drop will appear at the mouth, 
which will enlarge till it falls, and then 
another drop, while the humidity of the 
atmosphere continues. 
To the truth of this experiment [ 
can give my probatum est ; but shall be 
glad if any of your scientific corres- 
pondents will explain more particu- 
larly the ratio of it. Why wil) not the 
water remain in the bottle unless the 
rim be cut off? which is the fact. Why 
should the water drop in moist weather, 
when (as I have tried,) holding the 
bottle before the fire will produce the 
same effect? D. G—s. 
Long Buckby, Feb. 9, 1822. 
—L>—— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
A SHORT HISTORY of the CELEBRATED 
RACE-HORSE, ECLIPSE. 
EITHER the ancient Hippo- 
drome nor modern race-course 
can furnish perhaps so splendid an 
example of superior powers as does 
the annals of the famous race-horse 
Eclipse, whose performances were. of 
a description that rendered competi- 
tion useless with the horses of his day ; 
and his pre-eminence was such, that 
he at last was suffered quietly to re- 
ceive his laurels by walking over the 
ground, where no rival appeared to 
dispute his matchless claim. The 
bones of this famous ‘horse are now to 
be sold, and would» be ‘a’ valuable 
acquisition to the hall or hunting sta- 
bles of any nobleman or gentleman 
desirous of: making so splendid and 
highly curious appendage to his esta- 
blishment, since they must ever excite 
a share of interest and curiosity. "They 
are 
