BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DAVID GARRICK AND HIS WIFE.

Society of Lincoln's Inn. In 1737 he commenced a course of studies under Mr. Colson, the mathematician, at Rochester.

Shortly afterwards, on the death of his father, he commenced business as a winemerchant, in partnership with his elder brother, Peter Garrick. This partnership was however soon dissolved, and in 1741 David Garrick finally resolved upon the profession of the stage, and made his first appearance at Ipswich under the name of Lyddal, and in part of Aboan, in the tragedy of Oroonoko. In the autumn he returned to London with the manager of the Ipswich company, who was also proprietor of the theater in Goodman's Fields; and on the boards of that establishment Mr. Garrick made his first appearance as Richard III., tober 19th, 1741. The fame of the young actor, then only in his twenty-sixth year, spread in a few weeks throughout the

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To add variety and interest to the artistic embellishments of the ECLECTIC, we present to our readers, this month, a pleasant domestic scene in the life of Garrick, so renowned for his histrionic displays. Both Garrick and his wife are historic characters, which imparts additional interest to the print, which seems to tell its own pleasant story of playful affection in a retired scene of connubial life. We fancy Garrick as here represented, is musing in deep thought, and mentally arranging "his favorite scheme of the jubilee in honor of Shakspeare, at Stratford-uponAvon;" and that some of his brilliant thoughts have thrilled down to the end of his fingers, which are striving for utterance in expressive gesture, at the moment when his loving and beautiful wife trips silently along in playful mood to interrupt his thoughts in the manner so graphically presented by Mr. Sartain, in the print. We only offer a brief outline bio-metropolis; and from the time of his first graphical sketch, containing a few historic facts in addition to those to be found on pages 137-8 of our last volume, and from a different source. David Garrick was descended from a French Protestant family of the name of Garric, or Garrique, and was born on the 20th of February, 1716, at the Angel Inn, Hereford. His father was Captain Peter Garrick, of the Old Buffs, then recruiting in that city, and his mother, whose maiden name was Arabella Clough, was the daughter of one of the vicars of Lichfield Cathedral. At ten years of age he was placed under the care of Mr. Hunter, master of the grammar-school of Lichfield. Afterwards he went to Lisbon on a visit to his uncle, a wine-merchant there, and by his agreeable manners became a great favorite not only with the English residents, but amongst the young Portuguese nobility. In the following year he returned to school at Lichfield, and during occasional visits to London encouraged his growing passion for theatricals. In 1735 he became the pupil of Dr. (then Mr.) Samuel Johnson, with whom, on the 2d of March, 1736, he set out for the metropolis, and on the 9th of the same month entered himself in the

benefit, December 2d, on which occasion he performed Lothario, in The Fair Penitent, persons of every condition flocked from all parts of the town to see him, and entirely deserted the theaters at the West-End. In 1745 he became joint manager, with Mr. Sheridan, of the Theater Royal in Dublin. In 1746 he returned to England. On the 22d of June, 1749, Mr. Garrick married EvaMaria Violette, the daughter of a respectable citizen of Vienna. Her real family name was Veigel, which in the Viennese patois signifies Violet, and she assumed the name of Violette by command of the Empress Maria Theresa.

On the 7th of September, 1769, Garrick put into execution his favorite scheme of the Jubilee in honor of Shakspeare, at Stratford-upon-Avon, and produced a pageant on the subject at Drury Lane in the following October. On the 10th of June, 1776, having managed Drury Lane Theater for twenty-nine years (with the exception of two passed abroad, 1763 and 1764,) Garrick took his leave of the stage in the character of Don Felix, in the Wonder, the performances being for the benefit of the fund for decayed actors. In

1777 Mr. Garrick was honored by the command of their majesties King George III. and Queen Charlotte, to read a play at Buckingham House. He selected his own farce of Lethe, introducing for the occasion the character of an ungrateful Jew; but having been so long accustomed to the thunders of applause in a theater, the refined approbation of the royal party threw, to use his own expression, " a wet blanket " over him. In the same year he was put into the Commission of the Peace.

At Christmas, 1778, while on a visit to Lord Spencer, at Althorpe, he had a severe fit, from which he only recovered sufficiently to enable him to return to town, and expired January 20th, 1779, at his own house in the Adelphi, having nearly completed his 63d year. He was

buried with great pomp in Westminster Abbey on the 1st of February.

As an actor, Mr. Garrick's merits may be considered as summed up in the forcible words of Pope to Lord Orrery on witnessing the performance of Richard: "That young man never had his equal as an actor, and will never have a rival." As yet the prophecy is unshaken. Garrick was an excellent husband, a kind master, and a matchless companion,

Mrs. Garrick survived her husband forty-three years, and expired suddenly in her chair after a short indisposition, at her house in the Adelphi, on the 16th of October, 1822, in the 98th year of her age, having retained her faculties to the last.

Garrick's private correspondence, with a new biographical memoir, was published in 2 volumes quarto, London, 1831.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY.

As we have several times published re- tion both in classics and mathematics; views of the works of this talented man, and took his B.A. degree, but did not and have more to appear in our columns in proceed to that of M.A. For a time his future, we deem it courteous to show his intended profession was the law, but he face to our numerous readers who have ultimately decided for the church. He become our patrons since its former ap- was apointed curate of Eversley, a moorpearance. We reproduce it in this num-land parish in Hampshire; and the recber that they may read his productions

with the more interest.

tory of this parish falling vacant in the second year of his curacy, (1844,) he was Rev. Charles Kingsley, rector of Evers- appointed to the living by the patron. ley, Hants, and canon of Middleham, was In the same year he married the daughter born at Holne Vicarage, Devonshire, on of Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., many years M.P. the 12th of June, 1819. His father, the for Truro and Great Marlow; another Rev. Charles Kingsley, senior, is at pre- of whose daughters has since become sent rector of Chelsea. The Kingsleys the wife of another eminent man of letters are an old Cheshire family, tracing their of the present day, the historian and descent from before the Conquest. They essayist, J. A. Froude. Mr. Kingsley, served with distinction on the parliament- as a clergyman, belongs neither to the ary side during the civil wars, and suffer-"High" Church nor to the "Low" ed in consequence; and a younger branch of the family emigrated to America, and has left descendants there. After being educated at home till the age of fourteen, Mr. Kingsley became a pupil of the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, the son of the poet; from under whose care he removed to Magdalen College, Cambridge. Here he held a scholarship, and obtained distinc

Church, but to what has been called the "Broad" Church party; that is, his name is associated in theological and ecclesiastical matters with those of Mr. Maurice, Archdeacon Hare, and others of the same order of thought.

Meanwhile, full of the facts and of the feelings of the movement, Mr. Kingsley had published his Alton Locke: Tailor

and Poet, a novel of which a tailor was of the argument for the intellectual and the hero, and which, from the earnestness social omnipotence of Christianity. Mr. with which it treated social and political Kingsley's last publications are-Glaucus, questions, (the earnestness it was said of or the. Wonders of the Shore, 1855, (an a "Chartist clergyman,") as well as from expansion of an article on the study of its power as a work of imagination, at natural history which appeared originally once made the author's name known over in the North-British Review ;) and The the country. Alton Locke was followed Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales, (an adaptain 1851 by a second fiction, philosophical tion of some of the Greek myths for rather than political, entitled Yeast: a Children,) 1856. Mr. Kingsley has conProblem, reprinted from Frazer's Maga- tributed largely to Frazer's Magazine and zine; this in 1853 by a powerful historical to the North-British Review, and more reand philosophical romance, also collected cently to the eighth edition of the Encycloin two volumes from Frazer's Magazine, pædia Britannica. He has also delivered and entitled Hypatia, or New Foes with many lectures, some of which, in addition an Old Face, and this again in 1855 by to those mentioned above, have been pubWestward Ho! or the Voyages and Ad- lished separately or as parts of collections ventures of Sir A. Leigh, Knt., in the of lectures. Altogether, as he is one of Reign of Queen Elizabeth,, a three-vol- the most popular writers of the day, (as ume novel. In all these novels, while is proved by the sale of his writings,) so there is a singular blending of imaginative he is certainly one of the most independand descriptive power with philosophical ent and influential; and being still young, thought, and also a remarkable liberality much more is to be hoped from his farther of sentiment, there is a uniform presence | life.

A DISTINGUISHED archeologist among the Jesuits, now resident here, Raffaele Garrucci, announces as forthcoming from the Roman press a work entitled "Remains of Glass ornamented with Figures, in the Cemeteries of Rome, Illustrated." (Vitri ornati di Figure, etc.,) his original intention having been, as he informs us in the prospectus, to supply amplification of a work published in 1716 by F. Buonarruoti, with explanations, and engravings of seventy-two glass fragments found among the Christian antiquities of Rome.

THE COMET. The long-expected comet of Charles V. is beginning to enter an appearance at last. It has been detected in a faint and dim, but this time unmistakable, presence below the horizon, at the Paris Observatory. It is but fair to add that, so early as the 2d of June, Professor Donati, at Florence, had cried "Eureka," and indicated the point at which it was about to emerge.

A BERLIN letter says that the clerical authorities of that city have been informed of the period at which to offer up prayers for the happy delivery of the Princess Frederick William. The Prince and Princess live in perfect seclusion, at the Prince of Prussia's pretty summer residence, Babelsburg, near Potsdam.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO GERMANY.-The French papers publish a letter from Berlin, stating that it is believed, in court circles, that Queen Victoria will arrive at Babelsberg, the residence of the Prince and Princess Frederick William, on the 12th of August, and remain about a fortnight. Owing to the absence of the King, there will be no fêtes nor public reception.

THE fashion of crinoline has received a severe check in Vienna, where the actresses of the Carl Theater have been prohibited from wearing it. This measure was rendered necessary by the fact that an actress, who in the character of an orphan, found it impossible to realize the latter idea with was to have fainted away and fallen to the ground, any thing like nature, from being so strongly cased

in her steel-bound framework.

THE Ottoman Government, besides the punishment it is to inflict on the authors of the massacre of Jeddah, offers, it is said, a sum of 150,000f. to the families of the English and French Consuls who have been assassinated.

AN old inhabitant of Cherbourg, who was captain of the vessel in which the Emperor Napoleon I. THE PROTESTANTS OF HUNGARY.-The Protest- made his first cruise, when Sub-lieutenant of Artilants of Hungary are about to make another attemptlery, has preserved the log-book, which he intends to obtain from the Austrian government the regu to present to his Majesty at his approaching visit. larization of their spiritual affairs. A deputation is The name of this officer is Langcoin, formerly subabout to proceed to the capital of the Empire, but inspector of the works in the port. it will probably have no greater success than the other, for the address which they were to deliver to the Emperor, and which was printed in order to be delivered to the pastors of the different Protestant churches, has been seized by the police. This address, which was couched in terms full of devotedness to the Emperor, was intended only for private circulation.

A NEW East-India Company is in course of formation for trading, the formation of works for irrigation, the holding of lands, the cultivation of tea, etc.; in fact, to do all which the East-India Company was originally constituted to do, but which it ceased to carry out on assuming the functions of political authority.

REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE.-One of the I also informs me that the first thing I did was to fall most beautiful works which have lately been pub- against him, asking if I looked seedy. He answerlished, is a series of photographs from objects mag- ed: "No, you look very well." I don't think he nified in the microscope. The last number is thought so, for his own face was as white as a ghost; devoted to the bee; whose sting excels the lancet I recollect this much. He tells me my face was a in the elaboration, care, and finish of its manufac- greenish yellow color. After walking or rather ture; whose hairy tongue is like a living hair glove, staggering along for some minutes, I gradually remost elaborately designed to collect the materials covered my senses, and steered for the nearest for honey; and whose powerful wing is aided by a chemist's shop. Rushing in, I asked for eau-de-luce, mechanical contrivance of the most beautiful inge- Of course he had none, but my eye caught the nuity. Every one knows, or may know, that the bee words, "Spirit ammon. co.," or hartshorn, on a bothas two wings on each side. At the edge of one tle. I reached it down myself, and pouring a large wing runs a stiff nerve, which in the microscope is quantity into a tumbler with a little water, both of a bar. Along this bar at frequent intervals are which articles I found on a soda-water stand in the ranged semicular barbed hooks, like the half of a ring, shop, drank it off, thought it burnt my mouth and so placed that the edge of the other wing lies within lips very much. Instantly I felt relief from the the semicircles which clasp it, and at the same time pain at the chest and head. The chemist stood permit it to play freely, as the rings of a window- aghast, and on my telling him what was the matter, curtain move along the long brass bar. By this contriv- recommended a warm bath. If I had then followed ance the two wings become united as one, yet freely his advice, these words would never have been play upon different hinges. 'Design" is a human placed on record. After a second draught at the word, implying in its very nature human imperfec- hartshorn bottle, I proceeded on my way, feeling tion, yet it is the only term which we can apply to very stupid and confused. On arriving at my friend's the purpose which runs through formations like that residence close by, he kindly procured me a bottle of a bee's wing. It is the microscope with its min- of brandy, of which I drank four large wine-glasses ute search that enables us to discover this design in one after the other, but did not feel the least tipsy every thing that we can dissect-in all living crea- after the operation. Feeling nearly well, I started tures and the parts thereof, to millions upon millions, on my way home, and then, for the first time peralways tending to life and happiness. Who can ceived a most acute pain under the nail of the left examine these illustrations of the power of the thumb; this pain also ran up the arm. I set Creator and of the law which rules over his work, to work to suck the wound, and then found out and not feel an impulse to sing in his soul, "Gloria how the poison had got into the system. About an in excelsis"?-Spectator. hour before I examined the dead rat, I had been

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ANTIQUITY OF PLACING THE BIBLE IN CHURCHES. -In the register of wills at York, it is recorded that Thomas de Farnylaw, Chancellor of the Church at York, bequeathed at his death, in 1878, a Bible and Concordance to the Church of St. Nicholas, at Newcastle, "there to be chained for a common use for the use of his soul." Ceolfrith, Abbot of Wear mouth, having caused three copies to be made of the entire Bible, sent one as a present to the Pope, and placed the others in two different churches, "to the end that all who desired to read any chapter in either Testament might be able to find at once what they desired." And King Edgar transmitted to every county in his kingdom, copies of the Holy Scriptures for the instruction of the people.

THE POISON OF THE COBRA DI CAPELLO.-In dissecting a rat which had been killed by the side of a cobra, anxious to see if the skin itself was affected, I scraped away parts of it with my fingernail. Finding nothing but the punctures, I threw the rat away, and put the knife and skin in my pocket, and started to go away. I had not walked a hundred yards, before all of a sudden I felt just as if some body had come behind me and struck me a severe blow on the head and neck, and at the same time I experienced a most acute pain and sense of oppression at the chest, as if hot iron had been run in and a hundred-weight had been put on the top of it. I knew instantly, from what I had read, that I was poisoned; I said as much to my friend, a most intelligent gentleman, who happened to be with me, and told him if I fell to give me brandy and eau-de-luce, words which he kept repeating in case he might forget them. At the same time I enjoined him to keep me going, and not on any account to allow me lie down. I then forgot every thing for several minutes, and my friend tells me I rolled about as if very faint and weak. He

cleaning the nail with a penknife, and had slightly separated the nail from the skin beneath. Into this the rat's skin to examine the wound. How virulent, little crack the poison had got when I was scraping therefore, must the poison of the cobra be! It already had been circulated in the body of the rat,

from which I had imbibed it second-hand.-Buckland's Curiosities of Natural History.

ICELAND FROM THE SEA.-The north-west divi. sion of Iceland consists of one huge peninsula, spread out upon the sea like a human hand, the fingers just reaching over the Arctic circle; while up between them run the gloomy fiords, sometimes to the length of twenty, thirty, and even forty miles. Any thing more grand and mysterious than the appearance of their solemn portals, as we passed across from bluff to bluff, it is impossible to conceive.Letters from High Latitudes.

JENNY LIND IN LONDON -The London Critic says: Jenny Lind has come to live amongst us. It was announced that she had resolved a long time ago, after she had given up her projected journey to Russia, to leave her present residence, Dresden, and settle in England. This intention she has now carried out. After all her furniture in Dresden had been disposed of, no inconsiderable number of packages, with articles of value, etc., were forwarded last week, vid Hamburgh, to England, where Jenny Lind will repose in retirement on her laurels at a villa near London. Since the appearance of that paragraph, the great cantarice has arrived with her husband and two children. The whole family have taken possession of a neat villa, called Roehampton Lodge, situated near to the south side of Barnes Common, and about a mile from Putney. The house is in a retired position, and in the immediate vicinity of Putney Common and the picturesque village of Roehampton.