The progression of the common and leap year points out the period at which the orrery must be wound up, which occurs only once in four years.

contrivance reflect great credit on the skill of the inventor, Mr. Raingo, watchmaker, of Paris, who has obtained a patent from the French government for the manufacture of

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TO THE RIVER LEA.

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Poetry.

STILL dost thou flow, thou sullen stream,`
Thy sedgy-skirted banks along;
Still dost thou drink the morning beam,
And hear the skylark's matin song,
As when the Dane with hostile throng,
And streaming flag and banner came.
Long swept to earth, he lies among
The dead; but thou art still the same.

Though Memory brings her glass between
The silent dead, the present line,
And faithful to the ruin'd scene,

Records it on her tearful shrine:
Yet must she soon her power resign,
And fling her fading wreaths to thee,

Ere thou forbear one drop of thine,
Thou emblem of eternity.

HODDESDON, 1823.

Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand.

WITLESS WILDFIRE.

1. FRONTISPIECE

JUNE 1, 1824.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

No. XVIII.

PAGE

to face the Title

311

314

364

ib.

367

2. VIEW OF STOKE-POGIS, THE SEAT OF JOHN PENN, ESQ.
3. MAUSOLEUM AT STOKE-POGIS IN HONOUR OF GRAY THE POET
4. LADIES' PROMENADE DRESS

5.

BALL DRESS

PAGE

345

346

ib.

347

ib.

314

Curious Picture of a Princess drawn by

ib.

Herself

320

RIMBAULT'S Overture for the Piano-forte. ib.

Count Vivalda

321

GHOST STORIES.

No. VII-The Appa-

rition of Woodstock

GAELIC RELICS. No. XII.-Legend of

the Spar Cave.

326

Courtship of Mademoiselle de Montpen-

sier.

330

Playing

The Skilful Politician

. 334

Selection of Popular Waltzes

--to Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Beethoven's Grand Symphony ib.
First Rudiments of the Art of

Curious Coincidences in Dates

Christmas Festivities in the South of

Barry the Philanthropist

Maxims

The Confessions of a Rambler. No. IX.. 339 |
ANECDOTES, &c. HISTORICAL, LITERARY,
and PERSONAL The Duke d'Angou-
leme and Baron the Actor-Language
of Paradise-Molière's Grave-Acute-
ness of the Appenzellers-The Profes-
sor and the Turnpike-Gate-Cardinal
Campeius-Convincing Argument

MUSICAL REVIEW.
KIALLMARK'S " And ye shall walk in silk
attire"

Exhibition of Painters in Water Colours 360
Peristrephic Panorama

FASHIONS..

LONDON FASHIONS.-Ladies' Promenade

363

345

345

FASHIONABLE FURNITURE.-Drawing-Room
Table, Chairs, and Footstools .

367

BRUGUIER'S Arrangement of Bishop's
"Tell me, my heart"

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

"Hark, Apollo strikes the

368

¡yre"

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