Kitchener’s (Dr.) Cook’s Oracle, 12mo. | PRR. KITCHINER’S. ZEST.—This incompara- new, boards, ds Od 22s recoreeeceee 1531 ll 4d ble flavour fer soups, gravies, mace-dishes, game, poultry, stewed fish, &c,, the sole invention of the late Dr. Kitchiner, and re- -peatedly mentioned by him in the ‘*Cook’s Oracle,” is now prepared. from the Doctor’s original recipe, and likewise sold, by James | BuTLER, herbalist and seedsman, Covent-garden Market, who Tespectfully solicits the attention ef the public to his written signature on the label of each bettle, without which none | are genuine... The Zest is particularly: adapted for families | travelling, imparting its delicious taste en immediate application. It will keep for any time, in any eclimate.—sold also by Messrs. | Knight and Sons, 63, Gracechurch‘street ; Mr. Hickson, 72, Weibeck-street, Mr. Lazenby, 46, Lamb’s-conduit-street; Mr. G. Barron, 88, Oxford-street; and at mest Italian warehouses in the kingdom. ‘In bottles, 2s.6d. each, 797 77. os

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hi died suddenly at one o’clock on: Tuesday morning. For afew pre- vious days le had laboured under a slight. indisposition, which, how- ever, gave his friends no reason to apprehend any melancholy result. He had been dining with Mr. Branam, and returned home about 11] | o'clock, when he was seized. with a palpitation of the heart, acom- plaint to which he was subject; alter lying on a sofa jor half an hour, he‘felt better, and went 'to bed, where he was attacked still move violently.. At his own request a little brandy was administered,when

he turned his head, heaved three. sighs, and expired.. He has leit behind him one of the most valuable musica! libraries in the king- dom, consisting of the works of most of our native composers, ancient and modern. Hecomposed several pieces of music, particularly in the Opera of Ivanhoe, which have been most favourably received.— An inquest was held on Wednesday. and the evidence of his servants having corroborated the above statement, the Jury returned a yer- , dict “ died by the visitation of God.” aioe |

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Yet, through the wastes of the trackless air, Ye have a guide, and shall we despair?

Ye over desert and deep have pass'd—

So shall we reach our bright home at last!

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No. XX XI.

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TELLING STORIES.

Ir is a pleasant thing to hear a good story; but it is much pleasanter to hear a story well told. Livy and Tacitus have interested us in the history of Rome; Thucydides and Herodotus have made Grecian history a delightful study ; and, for one book that is read, for the sake of its subject, ten are read for the sake of their authors. Style is the gilding that makes half the world swallow the pill of knowledge.

The Arabs and Turks are story-loving nations ; and if we may judge from the popularity of novels, in our own country, we are not much behind them in that passion ; but we have not the amusement, in which they so much delight, of hear- ing extempore novels and romances, whose interest is increased by the de- lightful and teazing suspense of the nar- rator’s leaving off in the midst, or when the curiosity is excited to the highest pitch, and promising to renew the tale next day :—just as the stories were di- vided, in the Lady’s Magazine, about thirty years ago.

Yet we love the company of those who have the conversational art of telling a good story, or, more properly speaking, telling a story well. How few have this envied talent. Some narrators have one mode of spoiling a story, and some have another.

It is very bad policy to begin a laugh.-. able story with laughing; it may be a kind of characteristic overture, but it always spoils the effect. Horace has somewhere said something about exciting tears by tears. ‘¢ Si vis me flere, &c.” but this same principle is not applicable to laughing.

The circumstantial story-teller dilutes his entertainment in a deluge of words, leads you round and round, goes back again to correct errors, and makes a kind of minuet dance of his narrative, except that there is nothing graceful in it. He delights in digressions and leaves nothing unexplained or unauthenticated. ‘Take a specimen. |

Last Wednesday three weeks, when I Was on a visit to stop, did I say three weeks? Yes, no, no, it must have been that—well, but that don’t sig- nify. As I was saying—I was on a visit

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to——-. You know what an enter- taining man he is—it seems but the other day we were at school together, at old ——— ah, those were happy days? well while I was at his house, who should come in but young his nephew—he that married Miss of in Nor- folk—you must remember her very well —she was at school at—-at—dear me what's the name of the place ?

And so on —I might fill half a dozen numbers of the Mirror, if I were to give you one of these circumstantial di- gressional narratives at full length.

Sometimes, again, we are entertained with a story that was so entertaining :— only somehow or other, the best part of it has been forgotten. ‘Then we are told, that there was something more, but the narrator does not exactly recollect; and perhaps memory has no assistance from invention and then he laughs very heartily at what he laughed at before, and he ex- pects your imagination to supply what his recollection had lost.

Worse, still, are they who, by a very regular, sober, and promising begin- ning, promise something worth hearing, and at last fly off in a tangent, saying, I have forgotten the rest. This is inflict- ing a double injury ; it is a cruel disap- pointment of expectation, and a most barbarous loss of time.—Aut perfice aut nunquam tenta.

Have any of our readers ever been amused with two persons telling, or at- tempting to tell, the same story, both in a breath ? One stops; and the other stops —-‘¢ Well, if you can tell the story better, tell it.’ ‘Oh, no! Lf know nothing about it, you had better tell it yourself.” So, after a decent time spent in coquet- ting about it, one begins, and goes on a little way, and but a little. ‘* Here,” says the other, ‘* I am sure that’s wrong.” Then the poor hearer must listen to a long, and generally bitter discussion of some point of chronology, or some di- versity of expression, or some succession of events, which, in nine cases out of ten have little or nothing to do with the story.—There is one advantage in this ; for, if the matter is to be kept secret, it is pretty safe when communicated in this duet style; as it is no easy matter to re- member what cannot be understood.

WONDERFUL MEMORY. (For the Mirror.) TrromMaAs FULLER, author of the for.

thies of England, hada very remarkable memory, he would repeat five hundred

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strange and unconnected words after twice hearing them; and a sermon, verbatim, after he had heard it once; he undertook, after passing from Temple Bar to the farthest. part of Cheapside and back again, to mention all the signs then over the shops, as they stood in order, on both sides of the streets, repeating them back- wards and forwards, and performed the task with great exactness. P. TW.

SONG. ( For the Mirror.)

THE vesper bells are ringing In youder ancient tower ; The funeral hymn is singing— "Tis miduight’s lonely hour. The genile breeze is sleeping, The moon sends forth her charns; His watch thy lover’s keeping— Come, Emma, to his arms.

To meet thee in the bower I*ve wander’d many a mile; ?Vis past the appointed hour, Come, bless me with a smile. For thy dear sake I’ve left My father’s splendid halls; Haste, love, of fear bereft— °Tis Henry now that calls. H. K.

Select Biography. :

No. LI.

DR KITCHINER.

Tus gentleman, than whom, perhaps, there was not an individual in our popu- lous city more generally known, died very suddenly on Monday, February 26, 1827, at midnight, after having returned home, about an hour, to Warren street, from a dinner party at Mr. Braham’s. He had been in uncommonly good spirits during the afternoon, and enjoyed the company to a later hour than his usually very early habits allowed. In general very silent and timid in his manner, on this occasion, among other pleasures, the talents of his host, and the merriment created by Mr. Mathews’ rehearsing some of his new comic entertainments, seemed greatly to exhilarate the worthy dector, insomuch, that he forgot his reserve, and, in his turn, amused the party with some of his whimsical reasons for inventing odd things and giving them odd names. For, Dr. K. was completely what is called a Character. His appearance, his dress, his usages, his person, were all peculiar and quaint: but it must be said, at the same time, that kindness of heart, bene. volence of disposition, and a firm integ- rity in the graver affairs of the world,

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threw an ample and covering mantle over his innocent eccentricities and humar frailties. Many a one connected with music, the drama, and the fine arts, are under weighty obligations to him for the interest he has taken in their welfare; and many a brighter and abler man might fall out of our circle, in a momégt, as he has done, without causing such a blank to be felt, or exciting so much regret. He was, in appearance, about. sixty ;* and was partly educated at Eton. His fortune was independent. |

The writings of Dr. Kitchiner bear a striking resemblance to his ways of life; and are a curious mixture of sense and observation with little absurdities and singularity. His subjects have been of the most various kinds ;—his Practica Observations and other works on Tele- scopes——Cooks’ Oracle—Pleasure of Mak. ing a Will—Housekeeper’s Economy— é&c. &c., are books familiar to the reader; aud at this period there are nearly ready for publication, the Traveller’s Oracle, and the Horse and Carriage-Keeper’s Ora- cle, both (for we have seen parts of them) equal to their predecessors for mixed utility and whimsicality. To conclude this brief notice, we may express a wish, which we are sure will be responded to by every person of the very numerous body in whose society the individual we have just lost passed his days; that whenever we meet with an eccentrie man, he may add to his eccentricities the harm. lessness, kindliness, and good qualities ot Doctor William Kitchiner.

Since we wrote the foregoing, we have been favoured with the following addi- tions by an intimate of ours and of the deceased :—

In this age, when the customs of so- ciety so generally demand __ prescribed ceremonies and forms in visiting, ill suit- ed to men of studious habits, the loss of such a man will be widely felt. Who, after the mental toils of the day, can en- dure to dress at five, to go out at Six, to waste, perhaps, an hour in the drawing room, till all the guests arrive; then, arm in arm, to esquire some stranger partner down a chilly staircase to a freez- ing parlour, to partake of a sumptuous, cold-hot dinner ?

These matters were better intended at the board of my late friend. His welcome was frank and sincere, his fare was good, his dishes were cooked according to his own maxims—-they were served orderly,

* According to his own statement he was only forty-eight ; but his dread. of death was so con- stant and imposing that this might be a sort of self-deluding ruse, tobe guile the fell tyrant,

On the 27th ult. in Warren street, Fitzroy square, Wm. Kitehener, M.D. in. his 51st year, of a disease of the heart. He had dined at Mr Braham’s, and || ireturned home ill at 11 at night. Before 12 o’clock, he rang the bell violently,

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{and told his servant to get him some warm brandy and water, and hasten for | Se enn YIN ANIA GIO aC MARES AN BASIS ia surgeon. Mr Robins was immediately fetched, but Dr Kitchener was dead |

iwhen he arrived, and the attempt to bleed him was ineffectual. The Doctor iwas the Author of a book on Cookery, and other works, and is said to have ibelonged to that numerous body of worthies called ‘heavy feeders,” whose |

ilives, we suspect, are often short, and 2,¢ merry.

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SU7DDEN , R. KITCHENER. Neca DEATH OF DR. K shh

gnke ay morning, at 10 o’clock, an ne at was held at the sign of the Marquis Cornwallis, Warren-street, Fitzroy- square, on the cause of the death of Dr. Kitchener. i | “Mr. Robins, surgeon; of 137, Tottenham-court-road, had known deceased for some years past. He was a doctor of me- dicine, but was not in practice. Witness attended him pro- fessionally, and knew him to be affected with a disease of the heart. He was also subject to frequent spasmodic affections, which witness considered would one day or-other terminate | his existence. For the last fortnight he appeared much worse, and on Monday, by desire of witness, went out to dine with Mr. Braham ; he (Mr. Robins) ‘thinking company might rouse him from a depression of spirits under which he ap- peared labouring. Ateight o’clock thatevening he called at | the house of deceased ; but finding him not returned, he sup- | posed him better, and went home. At 12 o’clock he was called | up by Dr. Kitchener’s footman, who begged him to come in- stanily, as his master was dying. He hastened to the house with all speed, and found deceased quite dead. An attempt t0 bleed him was quite ineffectual. Dr. Kitchener often de- | clared to witness that he knew his disorder would take him eff} suddenly, ie was in continual fear of death. oo In answer to questions from the jury, Mr. Robins said, | that the doctor had not practised medicine for a considerable ! time. He had devoted his time to other pursuits, principally | literary. He had published The Cook’s Oracle, An Essay on Telescopes, a large collection of national songs, particu- larly those by Dibdia, and various other works. _ reel . William Antiss, feotman to the deceased, came home with his master about 11 o’clock on Monday night, and on letting} him out of his carriage, thought something more than cont-| mon was the matter with him. They almost immediately | went to their apartments, and before 12 o’clock witness was| alarmed by the loud ringing ef his master’s bedroora bell. On reaching the apartment he found the housekeeper there, | who begged him to send up some watm water ane brandy, and hasten for the surgeon, as she feared his master was dy] ing. He immediately fetched Mr. Robins. His master had] given directions, that whenever he sheuld be taken ill, his| feet might be bathed in warm water, and a little brandy ad- mony of the last witness, aA After viewiag the body, the jury, under the direction of|

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the Coroner, returned a verdict, “that the deceased died the visitation of God.”

Phe late Dr. Kitchener was the son of an eminent coal-merchant in the Strand, who was patronized by the then Minister, Lord Shelburne, and, through this nobleman’s pow- erful infrence, pursued his business very prosperously, sup-_ plying most of the Government offices ofthat day. When he died fhe transmitted the handsome fortune which he had ho. nourably acquired (between 60,000/.and 70,000/.) to his only son, the late Dr. Kitchener. Evening paper.

Dr. Kitchiner was married many years jago, but a separation soon ensued. His wife, by. whom he had no family, is still iving. A natural son, who has been edu- cated at Cambridge, inherits the bulk of| his property. The Doctor’s will, made about sixteen years since, is as remark-| fable for its eccentricity as any of the pro-| ductions of the testator ; and it-is’ said that another, making some serious altera-| tions in the disposal of his property, was intended for signature on the Wednesday following the night on which he died.

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His remains were interred in the family vault at the Church of St. Clement Danes, but it has been announced that.a monu- ment will be erected to his memory in the| new church of St. Pancras, in which pa-

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