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pera on Tuesday to hear Mariani. She is splendid--confounded plain, but that's no consequence. That Grisi screams rather too much, although she acts well, and has a pretty person, if it was washed. I believe Brugnoli's toes are made of _cast iron_. _Toe_ K--g, could make no impression upon them. You know how K--g obtained that name. He is a little puffy fellow, who goes about town, making acquaintance with every body--is endured at watering places for his poodle qualities of 'fetch and carry:' he is very anxious to become acquainted with noblemen, and his plan is to sidle up and tread very lightly upon an aristocratical toe--then an immediate apology, and the apology is followed also with the wind and weather, and the leading topic of the day, a knowledge of his lordship's friends or relations, and a good morning. The next day when they meet, a polite bow from Mr. K--g, and if an opportunity offers he enters into conversation, and thus establishes his acquaintance. "Such is his EXTREME method of introducing himself, which deserves credit for its ingenuity and exclusiveness. I once knew a man who had only one story, and that was about a gun. His difficulty was to introduce this story, and he at last succeeded, like K--g, by the use of his foot. When sitting after dinner he would stamp under the table and create a hollow sound. Then, God bless me! what's that--a gun? By the by, talking about guns--and then came his story." * * * * * THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS._ * * * * * THE MESSIAH. _By Robert Montgomery._ The subsequent passages exhibit many of the beauties and few of the blemishes of Mr. Montgomery's new poem: THE WILDERNESS. Oh, when hath mind conceived Magnificence beyond a midnight there, When Israel camp'd, and o'er her tented host The moonlight lay?--On yonder palmy mount, Lo! sleeping myriads in the dewy hush Of night repose; around in squared array, The camps are set; and in the midst, apart, The curtain'd shrine, where mystically dwells Jehovah's presence!--through the soundless air A cloudy pillar, robed in burning light, Appears:--concenter'd as one mighty heart, A million lie, in mutest slumber bound. Or, panting like the ocean, when a dream Of storm awakes her:--Heaven and Earth are still; In radiant loveliness the stars pursue Their pilgrimage, while moonli
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