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presenta few facts’ not totally devoid of 
iterest, shewing “the ‘effects of different 
kinds of aliment on the digestive organs, 
and through ‘thém on the” system gene- 
rally—with some ‘unequivocal pretensions 
to chemistry. Then we haye some ac- 
count of the introduction of vegetables 
into this country, for at least the thou- 
sandth time—to which he attributes the 
flight of seurvy from the island. Ca- 
therine of Arragon, poor soul, could not 
get a cabbage till she sent for a gardener 
from: Holland. But valuable information 
follows: the best way to make a fowl 
tender is to give it vinegar a little before it 
is killed ;| which reminds us of Hoyrace’s 
friend. Catius, whose precept on this in- 
teresting point was, to drown it in Faler- 
nian; for which, if Falernian, in his days; 
was like the Falernian we once had the 
infelicity of tasting—and we suppose it 
was; for the Romans plainly drank it with 
honey—vinegar is no bad substitute, and at 
all events cheaper, and more accessible, 
and, what is most to the purpose, the pro- 
cess more prompt. We mention this par- 
ticularly as a matter worth the attention 
of our country friends, who may sometimes 
be surprised by visitors, and welcome or 
unwelcome, they must have something 
to eat. The very same motive suggested 
SS . a one 
MONTHLY THEATRICAL REVIEW. 
' ‘THE impolitic system of fatiguing the 
public with perpetual repetitions of per- 
formances, worth but little in their best 
days, and in the course of nature exhausted 
after the first week, has since the com- 
mencement of the present season been 
abandoned, and wi th valuable effect. <A 
succession of works of various degrees of 
merit, but new, and so far having a charm 
that no excellence a week too old can pos- 
sess, have been brought forward, and we 
are gratified in saying that popularity is 
returning to those benches which emptiness 
or orders had’so long made their own. 
Among our theatres, this year, Covent 
Garden has had the honour of leading the 
way, by a new tragedy. ‘To strangers of 
this rank, the whole light family of farce, 
opera, and melodrame, must 
” © Bow their plumed heads, in siga of worship wave.” 
* Foscari” has been played for a conside- 
rable number of nights. The faults and beau- 
“ties have been amply discussed in all sorts 
-of publie forms, from the stately columns of 
the Times and Courier, where it found itself 
figuring by the side of politics, the rise of 
constitutions, and the overthrow of dy- 
nasties, down to the little repositories of 
epigram and anecdote, that “teach the 
young idea how to shoot,”’ in stalls, and on 
the ten-deep placarded ‘shutters of shops 
_to whieh ‘‘ Sunday shines no holiday.”’ 
The acting of the principal parts was ex- 
Monthly Theatrical Report. 
[Bie 
the advice of ‘Horace’s. friend): ‘and packed 
by his authority, we venturé!to recommend 
the drowning, though it “be i’ vitlegar "in 
preference to administering the Vien arin 
adraft ; to Dr. Paris, of cotirse, the Tatter 
mode was’ the’ most natural suggestion— 
we are frée of all professional bias. “"' 
The processes of boiling, roasting, frying, 
broiling, grilling and baking, are’ ‘discussed 
with a degree of professional ‘dignity and 
practical skill which puts Mrs. Glass) and 
even Mrs. Rundall, ‘to shame— Dr. Kitche- 
ner may yet find his. mateh. ‘Téa, coffee, 
Hunt’s roasted, come next, with all the mys- 
teries of fermented liquors; ‘and among 
other things, we Jearn— Dr. Patis i is full of 
useful knowledge, and always § Teady to 
communicate’—how ‘porter’ came’ to be 
so called—because it was a drink’ fit’ for 
porters—an opinion in which—while’ we 
do not ourselyes dislike the” beverage, 
particularly when the small-beer barrel ‘is 
out, and the brewer forgets , to ‘call,’ or 
when we want a nap—for we do not al- 
ways read Dr. Paris’s—we entirely agree 
with him. 
The volume winds up with the’ frightful 
subject of indigestion, and a’ formidable 
vista of evils is presented to the eyes 
of all who venture to deviate from’ the 
straight line of Dr. Paris’s regimen.’ 
Toe) Mt 
vob modoid 
tremely good. Nouns inthe Doge, is;the 
finest antediluvian possible....He shakes; his 
ancient locks with formidable animation, and 
looks, in the, weight of fourseore,. still fit 
to bear the sceptre of his fierce and troubled 
little oligarchy. ‘This was altogether a new 
style of performance to; Young.,; Middle- 
aged vigour, the .sternness, of \the ,misan- 
thrope, the vexed spirit of ‘married life, or 
the haughtiness. of, the barbarian, warrior 
and king, have been all so admirably _pour- 
trayed by him, that we have. almost iden- 
tified the actor with this range of character : 
but his Doge was.a step forty years for- 
ward at once. The energy of manly, ma- 
turity was to be exchanged) for) bodily 
feebleness, in that state when /it is. sus- 
tained only by the mind, and when. the 
survival of the mind is at once.a, wonder, 
and an evidence of extraordinary. vividness 
and vigour in its earlier, career., .All.this, 
difficult to, do in any,case, peculiarly diffi- 
cult where the whole was. .a matter, of, ex- 
periment, was perfectly well. done ;),,and 
the actor has certainly added, another,,, “and 
a very marked -distinetion, to. his, fame. 
Charles Kemble’s Young Foscani was jwhat 
Charles Kemble. is. in, all, chatacters) of 
youth and youthful passion, highly; grace- 
ful, showy, and chivalric: pant .as- 
signed to Ward is unpopular i in its nature. 
No man‘can much captivate an audience, 
while all his powers are employed on re- 
