Title:  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 344 (Supplementary Issue)

Author:  Various

Release Date:  January 17, 2004 [eBook #10730]

Language:  English

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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

Vol.  XII, No. 344.] Supplementary number. [Price 2d.

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EHRENBREITSTEIN ON RHINE.

[Illustration]

  Here Ehrenbreitstein, with her shattered wall,
  Black with the miners’ blast, upon her height,
  Yet shows of what she was, when shell and ball
  Rebounding idly on her strength, did light;
  A tower of victory! from whence the flight
  Of baffled foes was watched along the plain: 
  But peace destroyed what war could never blight,
  And laid those proud roofs bare to summer’s rain,
  On which the iron shower for years had poured in vain.

  Childe Harold.

SPIRIT OF THE “ANNUALS.”

We have the pleasure of presenting to the readers of the mirror, the completion of our notices of these very elegant publications; and in pursuance of the plan of our former Supplement, we are enabled to assemble within the present sheet the characteristics of eight works, whilst our quotations include fourteen prose tales and sketches, and poetical pieces, of great merit.

The above engraving and its pendant are copied from the Literary Souvenir, specially noticed in our last Supplement.  The original is a drawing by J.M.W.  Turner, R.A. and the plate in the Souvenir is by J. Pye—­both artists of high excellence in their respective departments:—­

The waters of the Rhine have long maintained their pre-eminence, as forming one of the mightiest and loveliest among the highways of Europe.