With youthful fancy, or with matron taste,
'We cull the meadow, and explore the waste,-Paine.
The brightest flowers, the purest gems to save,
From the dark bosom of oblivion's wave.

Vol. I.

BOSTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1828.

No. 11.

GRATEFUL for the steady and increasing Missions, and the American Tract Sopatronage we have enjoyed, and anxious to exhibit corresponding efforts on our part to gratify the highest wishes of our friends and render them an equivalent, we have procured a correct drawing of the Hanover Church, a building much admired for its style of architecture, and have the pleasure, with this number, to present it to our readers.

ciety; and the rest, for a spacious vestry. The interior of the church is in a very simple, chaste style, and on a pian somewhat new. The floor is an inclined plane, making about 18 inches slope.There are 166 slips or pews, besides seats for the choir; the pulpit, which is uncommonly low and plain, stands partly in a lancet-pointed alcove, and projects about three feet in front of the lateral wall. The cost of the land and building was upwards of $40,000.

The corner stone of this edifice was laid June 20th, 1825; and the whole was completed, and the church dedicated, on the first of March, 1826. The walls are The general style of the exterior of of rough granite, 70 feet in front, by 71 Hanover Church, approaches to our idea in depth, and about 40 feet high, with a of the primitive Gothic, nearer, if we extower 28 feet square, and about 68 feet cept Dr. Channing's in Federal street, high. The height of the walls will be ac- than any similar building in Boston. The counted for, when it is observed by the appearance of the genuine Gothic archiprint, that a basement story, which is 10 tecture, is grand, characteristic and imfeet in the clear, occupies the whole ex-pressive. What it wants in chasteness tent of the ground; the front part of which and simplicity is made up by solemnity is occupied by the American Board of and a grace peculiarly its own.

The

Doric, an order much admired by artists gled shape, differing altogether from the and men of science, differs from the Goth-genuine Gothic.

ic, as has been justly observed, as much as Sophocles does from Shakspeare. The principle of the one is simplicity and harmony, that of the other richness and power. The one relies on form and proportion; the other on quantity and variety, and prominence of parts. The one owes its charm to a certain union and regularity

The Church in Federal

street has more of the legitimate externals of this style than the Hanover, and differs in no very important particulars; but it is not our place at present to institute a comparison between them.

A SKETCH.

of feeling; the other adds to its effect IN the centre of an apartment

from complexity and the combination of the greatest extremes.

whose walls were hung with rich cloths, and whose floors were The classical ap-spread with the most costly weavpeals to sense and habit; the Gothic or ings of the east, sate, or rather reromantic strikes from novelty, strange-clined, a knight in the half armor ness and contrast. Both however, we of the times. Before him stood a believe, will universally be considered to marble table, whose unblemished be founded in essential and indestructible surface sustained a lamp, the faint principles of human nature. The essen- rays of which shone full upon his tials of the Gothic, as put down by wri- face. Its lines had settled in the ters on Architecture, are spires, pinna-expression of suffering; and at cles, lofty pointed windows and elevation as opposed to the horizontal line of the

short intervals, tears which he impatiently struck from them, glistened in his eyes. He sighed heavGreeks. They appear to be derived, in ily, and once or twice, rose hastily almost every instance, from its type, the from his seat, as if endeavoring to pyramid or cone. Its shafts shoot up- escape from the weight that lay wards; its arches are shaped like points of on his spirit. Suddenly a narrow lancets; its windows form themselves e trance in view, opened and closed into pyramidal tracety; and has been not again after admitting a young and delicately formed female. At her inaptly compared to a grove of trees.Comparing the style of the Hanover appearance he hastened towards Church with the prominent features of the her, and raising from her face a rich veil that concealed it, he kissGothic, as here laid down, we find but ed her fervently and in silence : few of its distinguishing characteristics. then, taking her hand, he led her The windows are lofty pointed, with a to an open casement, through share of what is termed pyramidal trac- which the moon streamed in unety;' the doors are neither circular nor shadowed splendor. From thence pointed at top, but preserve a sort of me- he looked upward, aud strove to dium, and in size are, in a measure, dis-discover in the overhanging firmaproportioned to the other parts of the ment, the star which the juggling building. The door of a church should science of the age, had taught him to revere as the arbiter of his fate. be wide, to afford an easy passage to a It shone with a mild and steady multitude; and being thus, its height light; and to an unprepossessed should correspond, that its appearance mind would have suggested images may please the eye. In this church we of repose and beauty; but his dishave no spires, no pinnacles, no shafts eased imagination saw written on shooting upwards; but every portion of its placid disk, menaces of fatal the top, its tower, cornices and ornamen-import, and he shuddered as he tal work, all exhibit a cubical or right an- 'read the visionary threat.

'Constantia,' he said, address-one, whose love was intense as the ing his companion in hollow, trem-worship of holy things-whose ulous accents, the conclave have boundless security required all the met, and the humble knight whose power of the darkly predictive best distinctions was your love, words she had just heard, to chill has, by their election, been made and to break it. She had been the equal of rulers and kings. But sailing on a quiet sea, in a barque, the gift of power is not without its teeming with soft sounds and alloy, and in becoming the guide pleasing emotions, and now was of others, I have ceased to be my stranded on a lone shore with nothown. The gaze of the multitude ing to greet her sense but the mois on me, and follow me from the notonous discord of an angry scene of public functions to the ocean. She might not unaptly be solitude of these recesses; nor is compared in her present hopeless it fitting that the leader of Mal- and solitary condition, to a travelta's chivalry should ever enjoy ler who having smoothed his pilsofter endearments than may be low at night on one of those verreaped from the austerities of mo- dant spots that adorn the barrennastic devotion, the pageantry of ness of the desert, with living rills the tournay, or the hazardous rev- gushing around him, and fresh elry of well fought fields. So, at leaves waving over him, awakes least say the hoary-headed fools of on the morrow to the horrors of our conclave; but you know me endless and burning sterility. She too well, to believe that their words strove to speak, but the words ratalone could persuade me to talk of tled hoarsely in her throat, and separation to you. Separation; the effort spent itself in inarticufrom whom? If the gray dotards late sounds. But there was a could but imagine the fervor of proud spirit in her eye, that gave my attachment-the blandish-promise of early and greater selfments of your tongue-the softness command: and well was that promof your bosom, and the high he- ise kept. roic heart that throes beneath it! If they knew but how often when the call to arms has found me in the retirement of your bower, you have lent me a nobler impulse than I owned without you, and buckling on my armor, have bid me be a true knight; and how often, its hazards over, my dearest reward for the valor all men praised, has been your gentle welcome; would they wish me to leave you ?-Constantia, the contumely of these men were nothing to me; but the stars themselves, those potential rulers of earthly destinies demand it from your lover. Will you pardon him that he dare not refuse?'

'Godfroy,' she said in low but distinct accents,' when your summons caine, I was alone in the solitary chamber, which to be near you, I have chosen instead of my father's free hall. I was alone with the dishonor for which I bartered a spotless name, and yet when your messenger's step awoke the sleeping echoes of that silent room, I knew that he came to guide me to your presence, and I was happier in that reflection, than the fame or love of kindred could have made me. But you say aright; the companion of your obscure days, deserves not to share in the splendor of your future lot. He ended, and the youthful girl The hand that led me by mine whom he addressed, stood pale from my youthful home, had no and motionless as marble. It was other trust than the bridle reigns, in truth, a harsh revealment to and a good sword. A weightier

care is in store for it and I resign injurious suspicions were levelled its protection. Say I not well, at his kingly competitors in fame, love?' She crept into his bosom, from which his followers were only and lay there with an eye as caim won by the absorbing interest of and as bright as ever shone on hap- the approaching strife. It came at pier days. Then rising, she look-last, and thousands who on that ed up in his face earnestly-ten-day saw the sun rise bright and derly. unclouded, lay stiff and cold, ere 'Godfroy,' she continued, 'lend its beams were quenched in night. me your poinard, I know it is ever The dawn marshalled them forth by your side, and as a parting gift-followers of the cross and the I would weave around its hit a crescent. The middle hour found ringet of the poor bair you have them contending. But we are no praised so often.' She received fit chroniclers of the events of that the dagger from him. It had been conflict. A single feature of them won in strife from the infidel, and however, we would fain commemwas enchased with rich jewels.-orate. Her dark hair was twined around it. The moment after she buried it in her side, and fell bleeding at his feet! Quick as thought, he upraised her inanimate body. He bound up its wound, and warmed her faded tips with his kisses, till they blushed again with the sanguine die of the rose. Hope reiluminated his eye for a moment, but gradually left it as those lips resumed the ashy paleness of death. He took that white and lifeless hand and sighed over it his last adieu. That blow-that blow! It has killed us both, Constantia.'

Overpowered by numbers, and oppressed by long continued exertions, the knights of St. John were slowly retiring before the countless myriads of the east, when a remarkable incident gave them anew the advantage of the fight. At this critical period when retreat was rapidly assuming the characteristics of flight, a knight apparelled in sable armor, and bestriding a noble animal of the same color, appeared amongst them. He shouted the war cry of the order, and urging his horse at full speed against the nearest assailants, struck them down in his The sultry plains of Syria were progress. Long and unimpeded, crowded with the array of war. he kept on his victorious way till The crescent and the cross waved the boldest of his followers tremin deadly hostility over its parch-bled at his rashness. ed soil. Around the banners of trophe was however at hand, and the turbaned Prophet, were gath- the blood that bedabled his armor ered the bravest of his worship-testified that he had not pursued pers the swarthy Bedouin, the his stern career unharmed. The melancholy Turk, and pale, ener- stroke of a battle axe parried on vate Persian. Opposed to them his sword, had shivered it to pieces: was the flower of Christendom- he drew from his bosom a poinard the hosts of France and England, whose jewelled hilt was encircled of middle Germany, and Venice with a single tress of raven hair. the mistress of the seas. Malta's (Was it Constantia's?) He raised best lances were there, but with-it aloft to strike a last blow, but out their legitimate leader. God-life waned in the effort, and horse froy, the grand master of their or- and rider came to the earth toder, had mysteriously disappeared gether to rise from it no more. from amongst them. Dark and N. Y. Minerva,

The catas

NEW WAY

TO OBTAIN A HUSBAND.

intentions. No aspect can be more hideous in the eyes of a prisoner, than his prison. Bring me liberty and you will appear charming indeed. If you should favor me with a visit, you will see a young man, twenty-five years of age, who has, among other advantages, that of a tolerable person, with a mind proper to meet worldly success.

He has moreover the honor to declare his most ardent vows. FOLLEVILLE.

P. S. Be so good as to request the goaler of the Conciergerie to lend his parlor for our interview.'

Or all the stratagems resorted to by female ingenuity to obtain a suitable husband, we know of none so extraordinary as that of the French lady who gave out that her head resembled a Death's Head.' Among the numerous lovers, who, in consequence of the immense wealth she was reputed to possess, aspired to the honor of her hand, in spite of the terrors of her face, there were reckoned no less than five hundred and nineteen reformed rakes, and two hundred ruined gamesters. She showed to a person who was in her confidence, twenty-five or thirty letters which she had received from Belgium, written by certain well known characters, who said they would never revolt, though she should prove to be the most hideous object in the world. They were disposed to flatter, caress, and wed the plague itself, so they could procure abundance of gold. All their letters she left unanswered, but to a few who solicited her hand in a gallant style, she was generous enough to order her sec-displayed in her conversation, that retary to return thanks. Her friend was permitted to take a copy of the following:

The mind of the young lady did not tend to a union, in consequence of the above invitations; yet her heart was not insensible. In the brilliant circles in which she moved, covered constantly with a mask, she distinguished a young man of noble and interesting countenance, whose mind had been well cultivated. He had a fortune which placed him above interested views. The young man, on his part, was so much charmed with the graces and delicate sentiments which the young lady with invisible features

he at length declared all his happiness depended on a union. She did not deny the impression he Madam.-Report has doubt- had made on her heart, nor conless painted you less handsome ceal the pleasure she should feel in than you are; but none at least, acceding to his proposal, but exwill refuse to admit that your pressed to him, at the same time, physiognomy is expressive. I the dread, that he would repent should have had the honor of pre-on beholding her face, which she senting myself before you, and of described to be that of death in its declaring my passion, had not pit- most terrific form. She urged iless creditors detained me in the him to beware of rashness, and Conciergerie. I must beg you consider well, whether he could will have the goodness to pay me bear the wretched disappointment a visit, to receive the proposition he might incur. Well, well!' said I am so anxious to make. Though the young man, accept my hand, you may have shewn a little of the and never unmask to any but the coquet, in order to set yourself off eyes of your husband.' 'I conat the best advantage, that is not sent,' replied she; but rememthe fault of nature; consequently, ber, that I shall not survive the it can make no difference in my appearance of affright, and dis