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Who in fpite of fhower and fleet, 
Rides the road her mother rode. 
Odin. T have {till a with to know 
. Who the guardian maidens are 
“That hover round the haunts of men? 
Vaft. Races three of elfen maids 
Wander through the peopled earth 
One to guard the hours of love: 
©ne to haunt the homely hearth, 
Once to cheer the feftal board. 
Odin. I have ftill a wifh to know 
Who fhall fway the Afa-realms, 
When the flame of Surtur fades ? 
Vaft. *Vali’s then and Vithar’s force 
Heirs the empty realm of gods: 
Mothi’s then and Magni’s might 
pe BLD Soe ee ee AND slay Be ek. oe, 
cold climate. Among favages every male is 
a foe, every female a friend.; Difpleafing and 
unwelcome objeéts therefore are in their lan- 
guages mafculine, pleafing and welcome ob- 
jects feminine. In hot countries where the 
night is more welcome than the day, an op- 
pofite allotment of gender takes place. 
* Vali and Vithar are apparently the gods 
of death and fleep. Mothi fignifes $nould, car- 
ruption; and Magni nobody: fo that thefe 
allegories obvioufly defcribe the ftate of the 
departed. 
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Sways the maffy mallet’s weight, 
Won from Thor, when Thor muft fall, 
Odin. “I have yet the with to knew 
Who fhall end the life of Odia 
When the gods to ruin ruth ? 
Vaft. Fenrir fhall with impious tooth 
Slay the fire of rolling years: 
Vithar fhall avenge his fall, 
And ftruggling with the fhaggy wolf * 
Shall cleave his cold and gory jaw. 
Odin. Laftly, monarch, I enquire 
What did Odin’s lip pronounce 
To his Balder’s hearkening ear. 
When he climb’d the pyre of death ? 
Vaft. Not the man of mortal race 
Knows the words which thou haft fpeken 
To thy fon'in days of yare. js 
I hear the coming tread of death, 
He foen fhall raze the Runic lore 
And knowledge of the rife of Gods, 
From his ill-fated foul who ftrove 
With Qdin’s felf the ftrife of wit. 
Wifeft of the wife that breathe, 
Our ftake was lite and thou haft-won.. 

* Vitnis, wolf, is here miftaken fora 
proper name by the Danifh interpreter, and 
for aname of Odin by the Englifh poet. 

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M:*: AKIN propofes to deliver a 
courfe of legtures on the Theory 
and prattice of Chemittry, with its appli- 
cation to fome of the moft important and 
interefting of the arts and manufactures. 
In the experimental part he will be aflifted 
by Mr. C. R. Arkin. The number of 
lectures will not exceed twenty-fix, to be 
delivered three times in a week, on Mon- 
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pat {even in the evening precifely, and to 
commence early in February next. Tickets 
for the courfe, at two guineas each, may 
be had at Mr. C. R. ArkIN’s, furgeon, 
No. 4, Broad-ftreet Buildings, at which 
houfe it is propofed thar the lectures 
fhould be delivered. 
Dr. ANDERSON’S Lives, prefixed to 
his edition of the ‘* Briti/h Poets,” are 
undergoing a complete revifal by the in- 
genious author, in order to form a fepa- 
rate publication. This, every poetical 
reader will be gratified to hear, as they 
combine comprehenfive and accurate re- 
fearch with much judicious critici{m, 
and candid obfervation. It is the Doc- 
tor’s previous intention, however, to 
print the Poems of Grainger ina fingts 
volume, with many unpublithed pieces, 
and others collected from printed mifcel- 
lanies, by the advice and with the affiit- 
ance of the learned Bifhop Percy. 
Mr. WILLIAM “OOKE, >F.cR;. S. 
member of the Impgrial Academy of Sci- 
ences and of the Free C&conomical So- 
ciety of St. Peterfburg, is preparing for 
the prefs ‘* A Comprehenpve View of the 
Ruffian Empire, during the Reign of Cathe- 
rine the Second,’ drawn from original. 
materials. 
Dr. E. G. CLARKE has in the prefs a 
{mall work, entitled ‘* Medicine Praxeos 
Compendium,’ which will be publifhed in 
a few days. 
The Rev. Mr. WaRNER, of Bath, 
has juft completed a Supplement to his 
‘© Walk through Wales,” being another pe- 
deftrian tour through fuch parts of the 
principality as he had not before vifited, 
including South Wales, Anglefey, &c. 
It will be enriched with two views, by 
Becker and Hulley, engraven by Alken; 
the one of Bxun Maen, a fingularly ftrati- 
fied rock in Glamorganfhire, the other of 
Mallwyd Bridge in Merionethfhire, ; 
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