1822.] 
When towering clouds o’erswarth the sky, 
When loudly bellowing thunders roll, 
Each heart in secret owns 
The fearful might of fate. 
But e’en from cloudless heights 
Can kindling lightnings plunge ; 
E’en in the sunny day 
Bale-breathing plagues may lurk. 
Fix not on transient good 
Thy trusty heart : 
Let him who has, prepare to learn to lose ; 
Him who is happy learn to bend to grief. 
Beside composing these tragedies, 
Scbiller altered the Nathan of Lessing, 
and the Phaedra of Racine, and trans- 
lated the Macbeth of Shakspeare, and 
the Turandot. of Gozzi, for the theatre 
of Weimar... His reputation gave suc- 
cess to every thing; he married; and 
he enjoyed, both at the court and in 
the private societies of the place, a 
flattering reception. Goéthe was his 
most intimate friend. 
The: last and best of his tragedies 
was, entitled ‘“‘ Wilhelm Tell :” it dra- 
matizes the revolution of Switzerland, 
and is become a truly national work of 
art. Indeed it may be doubted whe- 
ther.any gothic tragedy (we do not 
except “‘ Macbeth,” or the “‘ Conspiracy 
of Venice,”’) is equal to this, for ma- 
jesty, of topic, for compass of plan, for 
incessancy of interest, for depth of 
pathos, for variety of character, for do- 
mesticity of costume, for truth of na- 
ture, arid for historic fidelity. Of this 
noble drama, the story of which is well 
known, our literature does not, we 
believe, possess a version: the beau- 
tiful versification deserves to be stu- 
died and transferred by some rising 
genius of a superior class. 
In 1808 Schiller was collecting his 
various works, and had not completed 
his editorial task when he died, in con- 
sequence of a pulmonary disorder. 
His friends thought that a severer re- 
jection of his minor compositions would 
have been more expedient. Non omnis 
moriar ought to suffice for the motto 
of a voluminous author: the less the 
alloy, the more prized is the gold 
which glitters in his collective works. 
And of fine gold Schiller has produced 
much which will ever be prized by the 
friends of freedom, of wisdom, and of 
virtue. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ( 
S the season has now arrived 
when that voracious little ani- 
mal, called the gooseberry caterpillar, 
Schiller concluded.— Gooseberry Caterpillar. 
403 
commits such universal devastation 
in our gardens, I have taken the 
liberty to send you a particular de- 
scription of the fly from whence it 
proceeds, together with a remedy for 
preventing its ravages; and, if you 
think that so much said about so di- 
minutive a creature is worthy of a 
place in your Miscellany, it is at your 
service for publication. 
The caterpillar is too well known to 
need any description, but it does not 
seem that the fly from which the cater- 
pillar proceeds is: I am sure that it is 
not; and that many people imagine 
thatit comes from a moth or butterfly, 
which I know it does not; and I am 
quite sure that the following account 
is correct. Nor has there been, that 
I have ever seen, any published 
account how its depredations may be 
prevented ; and, from the observations 
which will be presently made, if the 
suggested remedy should not prove 
effectual, it may open the subject to 
the minds of those who may discover 
something that will. 
Tn the first place, I will give the de- 
scription from Sturt’s “ Natural His- 
tory of Insects,” 2. b. 166:— 
“93. Phalaena wavarla—Gooseberry M. 
Wings cinereous*; the upper ones with 
four abbreviated unequal black fuscie.t 
Inhabits Europe. 8B. The caterpillar 
feeds on the currant and gooseberry : it is 
somewhat hairy, green, and dotted with 
black; having a yellow line along the 
back, and two on the sides. About.the 
middle of May it goes into the ground, to 
change into a naked brown-pointed pupa. 
About the middle of June the moth ap- 
pears, which is very common.” 
Now the above description is ex- 
tremely imperfect, as well as mate- 
rially incorrect; at least. for the 
southern and warm part of Devon- 
shire, where the fly from which this 
destructive little animal proceeds first 
appears about the latter end of 
March, or the beginning and through- 
out the month of April, just as the 
gooseberry leaves have attained a 
sufficient size for them to deposit 
their eggs on, and to supply their 
young with food; which’ eggs are in- 
variably placed on the inside rib of 
the leaf, and the flies always first se- 
lect those leaves nearest the ground, 
which proceed from the rank water- 
* Cinereous—having the appearance of 
being covered with ashes. 
t Fascie—a broad transverse line. 
+ Pupa—the aurelia-anturisalis. 
shoots 
