as to attach itself to any gentleman's face, and shave him without his knowing it.

A distillery has been erected in the state of Vermont, for the purpose of extracting ardent spirit from brickbats and old blue stockings. Report speaks highly of the quality of the liquor obtained from these economical materials.

The streets of Washington were lighted for the first time last week with glow worms and fire bugs. Five hundred of these insects being confined in every lamp, emitted so brilliant a light during the whole night, that people in their houses did not know when the sun rose. The breed of glow worms is found to be much improved by admixture with the humble bee or apis terrestris. Experiments with the photometer shew that those which are five eighths blooded emit in the space of an hour three rays and a half more than the full blooded.

FEMALE EDUCATION.

In his "History of Great Britain," Milton describes "Earl Godwin's daughter" as "commended much for beauty, modesty, and beyond what is requisite in a woman, learning;" upon which Gilbert Wakefield, writing in the margin with his pencil, makes this apostrophe, "John, John, I blush for thee."

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE ROSE.

From the French of Bernard.

OFFSPRING of Aurora's tears,

Object of the zephyr's vows,
Queen of flowerets Flora rears,
Haste, thy bursting bud unclose.

Ah, enthusiast word be lost!
Be thy riper bloom delay'd ;
One short hour marks thy boast,
One short hour sees thee fade.

Mary smiles, a flower new-blown;
Rose, to share her lot is thine;
Soon like hers thine hour is flown,
Ah, too soon her charms decline.

From thy thorny birth-place speed,
Go, her graceful form adorn;
'Tis thy matchless beauty's meed,
Fairest of the flowers of morn.

Go, on Mary's bosom die,

That thy throne, and that thine urn;
Thine envied fate shall prompt a sigh,
Thy bliss to prove alone I burn.

Thou some day a sigh may'st feel,
In that soft asylum blest,
O'er thy form enlivening steal,
If a sigh can swell her breast.

Love shall teach thee to recline,
Plant thee on the warmer side,
In her bright eyes mildly shine,
Grace her bosom-do not hide.

Rudely free, lest any hand
Dare thy sacred seat to scorn,
On the meddling rival band,

Let my vengeance turn a thorn,

H.

SELECTED POETRY.

"THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA."

From Mr. Heber's Palestine.

"YET not from Israel fled the friendly light, Or dark to them, or cheerless came the night.

Still in their van, along that dreadful road,

Blaz'd broad and fierce the brandish'd torch of God.

Its meteor glare a tenfold lustre gave

On the long mirrour of the rosy wave:

While its blest beams a sunlike heat supply,
Warm every cheek, and dance in every eye.
To them alone-for, Mizraims wizard-train
Invoke for light their monster gods in vain :
Clouds heap'd on clouds their straggling sight confine,
And tenfold darkness broods above their line.

Yet on they fare by reckless vengeance led,
And range unconscious through the ocean's bed;

Till midway now-that strange and fiery form

Show'd his dread visage lightening through the storm;

With withering splendour blasted all their might,

And brake their chariot-wheels, and marr'd their coursers' flight

"Fly, Mizraim, fly !"—The ravenous floods they see,

And fiercer than the floods, the Deity.

"Fly, Mizraim, fly !"-From Edom's coral strand,
Again the prophet stretch'd his dreadful wand.
With one wild crash the thundering waters sweep-
And all is waves-a dark and lonely deep.

Yet o'er those lonely waves such murmurs past,
As mortal wailing swell'd the nightly blast;
And strange and sad the whispering surges bore
The groans of Egypt to Arabia's shore.

Oh! welcome came the morn, where Israel stood,
In trustless wonder, by th' avenging flood!

Oh! welcome came the cheerful morn, to show
The drifted wreck of Zoan's pride below;
The mangled limbs of men-the broken car-
A few sad relicks of a nation's war:
Alas, how few!-Then soft as Elim's well,
The precious tears of new-born freedom fell.
And he, whose harden'd heart alike had borne
The house of bondage, and th' oppressor's scorn,
The stubborn slave, by Hope's new beams subdu'd,
In faultering accents sobb'd his gratitude."

THE

BOSTON REVIEW,

FOR

OCTOBER, 1810

Librum tuum legi, et quam diligentissime potui annotavi quae commutanda, quae eximenda arbitrarer. Nam ego dicere verum assuevi. Neque ulli patientius reprehenduntur, quam qui maxime laudari merentur.

Plin.

ARTICLE 11.

Report of the committee to whom was referred, on the 25th of January, 1810, the memorial of William Lambert, accompanied with sundry papers relating to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States, at the permanent seat of their government. Folio. pp. 36.

THE titles of these papers are:

1st. Mr. Lambert's memorial.

No. 2. Abstract of calculations to determine the longitude of the capitol, in the city of Washington, from Greenwich observatory, in England, founded on an occultation of n Pleiadum (Alcyone) by the moon, which was observed near the president's house, on Saturday evening, October 20, 1804.

No. 3. Rules and series for computing the moon's longitude, latitude, right-ascension and declination, and its hourly velocity, at any intermediate time between 0 and 12 hours, having the positions given as stated in the nautical almanack, or Connoisance des temps.

No. 4. No. 5. Concerning the spheroidal form of the earth, and the proper method of reducing the latitude of a place, by observation, and the moon's horizontal parallax, as referred to the earth's centre, according to any assumed ratio of the equatorial to the polar diameter.

Two tables of logarithms.

As this work is not for sale at the bookstores, and as the subject is of considerable national importance, we shall, for the information of our readers, give the whole of the memo

rial, and the report of the committee, and such extracts from the other papers as will be necessary to give a full view of the subject.

The memorial is as follows:

"To the honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled,

"The memorial of William Lambert, of the state of Virginia, respectfully sheweth :

"That the establishment of a first meridian for the United States of America, at the permanent seat of their government, by which a farther dependence on Great Britain, or any other foreign nation, for such a meridian, may be entirely removed, is deemed to be worthy the consideration and patronage of the national legislature.

"That your memorialist having lately collected, and, in some instances, formed rules and series for a solution of useful cases in oblique angled spherical trigonometry, which may hereafter be offered to the American publick, has, also, made the necessary calculations to determine the longitude of the capitol, in the city of Washington, from Greenwich observatory, in England, by one of the most approved methods of computation hitherto devised; an abstract of which, together with some explanatory remarks connected with the subject, are contained in the paper No. 2, accompanying this memorial. But however correctly the data and elements afforded by a single observation may be ascertained, the result ought not to be depended upon as conclusive, without the aid of a sufficient number of observations; especially, when a first meridian for any country is proposed to be established.

"The moon's true place in longitude, latitude, right-ascension and declination, being of great use to the mariner, as well as to the geographer, some rules are given in the paper No. 3, to find all or any of those elements with great accuracy, by interpolation from successive differences, extended to the fourth order, for any intermediate time between 0 and 12 hours.

"Your memorialist respectfully submits these papers to the legislature of the union for their consideration, with a request, that such proceedings may be had therein, as to their wisdom shall seem meet. WILLIAM LAMBERT.

City of Washington, Dec. 15, 1809."