INDEX 84 531 Anacreontic. By Geo. Hill, Esq., 26 Death of Lieutenant BURTS, - A Midnight Chaunt for the Dying Dewey's Discourse: the Lexington, 158 41 Diary of Capt. MARRYAT, - - 161 A Leaf from ‘Down in Maine,' 42 DECATUR, Anecdote of, - - 261 471- Dirge for a Young Girl, - - 485 A Visit to the Lackawana Mines, - Death of an Actor on the Stage, - 529 Davis's Travels, . Daguerreotype Likenesses, . 535 A Poet to his Sieter.' By F. W. Editors' Table, 76, 163, 255, 348, 445, 525 233 Earle's Visit to Insane Asylums, 250- A True Poet. William Pırt Pal Ephraim Pipkin. A New-England Anecdote of M. de Fontanes, . 229 Editor's Drawer, . . . . 446 F. A Song of the Fairies. By H. W. Farewell, Old Year! By GRACE 9 98 472 Fame: Dum Vivimus Vivamus,' 151 484 Abderahman of Spain. By Wash France : its King, Court, and Go. A Tribute to FITZHUGH SMITII, 442 Gimcrackery. By 'Harry Franco,' 182 Grime's New System of Phrenology, 343 403 Guizot's History of Civilization, 443 Glorious Companionship of Books, 533 499 - A Gossip with our Contributors, . 539 A Word to Delinquents, - - 510 Henry of Guise. By G. P.R. JAMES, Harpers' School Library, - • 155 Heaven's Lesson. By Mrs. SIGOUR- Bells and their Associations, - 152 NEY, BLAKE's Biographical Dictionary, 162 Hymn of Nature. From the Ger- Better Moments. By H. T. Tuck- ERMAN, Esq., - - - - 183 HAGUE's Historical Discourse, - 347 Holbrook's North American Her- Ball at Thram's Huddle. By MARY petology, - - - International Copy-right Law, - 529 Chivalry and the Crusades, . . Cabinet Pictures. By 'Quince,' CHANNING's Discourse on Homeo- 343 4 72 280 L. M. 108 191 357 426 107 257 Letter from WASHINGTON IRVING, 79 The Bermudas. By WASHINGTON IRVING, - - , Three Kings of Bermuda. By Geor- FREY CRAYON, The Contrabandist. By GEORGE Letter. Bag of the Great Western, | The 'Alm hy Dollar, ..." Leaves from a Georgia Lawyer's The Great Descender. By 'Flaccus,' 61,119 Port Folio, • • • • The Poet's Tribute, Life's Mysteries, - 72 . Time's Council, - - - - -Lessons of Cleanliness, • . 521 The English Language, . - 89, 212 The Knight of Malta. By Wash- INGTON IRVING, ... - The Grand Prior of Minorca. By The Haunted Merchant. By 'Harry Melancholy Story, etc. 'By Geor- Madame Tussaud's Reminiscences, Mr. WINTHROP's Address, - - The Swiss Light-House, .. . 144 Memories of the Dead. The Devil, His History, -Moral Reflections, etc. By John The Last Look. By 'FLACCUS,' - Theodoric, or the Siege of Rome, New-York Review, • • - The Engulfed Convent. By Wash- INGTON IRVING, - 81 - - New-Year Verses by a Bachelor - - Notes on the Netherlands, - 145, 190 The Passaic : A Group of Poems, Nearness of Spirits. From the Ger- 422 261 The English and the War-Time, The Iron Footstep. By 'JOHN Old and New New York, - The City by the Sea. By 'Ione,' 135 The Nautilus : a Lesson in Nature, 297 | Time's Vista. From a ms. Poem, 303 Ollapodiana. By Willis GAYLORD, The Great Mississippi Bubble. By 338 WASHINGTON IRVING, - - 305, 450, Our Village. By the 'American in The Early Lost, 387, 501 | The American Bald Eagle, - 337 The Pathfinder. By J. FENIMORE Cooper, Esq., - - 344,449 Perou-rou, or the Bellows-Mender, 45 Tribute to the Late Dr. FOLLEN, - 355 Pelayo, etc., by WASHINGTON IRVING, 65 To Lucifer. By Alfred B. STREET, 394 Phrenology and Animal Magnetism, 98 The Last of the Mandans, - - 396 Triumph over the School-men, 421 Philadelphia Casket, - - - The CRAYON Papers : Letter from 497 GEOFFREY CRAYON, - 427, 513 The 'Postillion' at the Park Theatre, 419 Rights of Women. By Miss SARAH The Storm at Sea, • • • - - - Reminiscence of the War. By Geo. Reddes Dulce Loqui, - 461 The Dream-Omen. From the Ger- 534 Recollections of Elias Hicks, .. Spearing. By ALFRED B. STREET, Taking of the Veil." By WASHING- Song By Col. WILLIAM L. STONE, | The Charming Letoriéres. By Do., The late Rev. John Owen Colton, 535 SPENSER's Poetical Works, LONGFELLOW, - - Spring: in Imitation of the German, 331 Sixteenth Volume of the KNICKER- 540 ) Works of CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, 157 82 284 P. 134 514 17 81 162 THE KNICKERBOCKER. Vol. xv. JANUARY, 1840. No. 1. CHIVALRY AND THE CRUSADES. 'A GENTLEMAN of excellent breeding, of admirable discourse, of great admittance ; authentic in place and person, generally allowed for many war-like, court-like, and SHAKSPEARE. learned preparations.' We propose, in the present paper, to present to our readers some account of the institution of Chivalry, and of the times that produced it. The theme may to some appear trite. To us it is not so ; and we trust, before we have done, to bring others to our mind. In turning to the records of chivalry, we feel, (and we have faith we are not alone,) as if recurring to the pleasant dreams of our youth. Nor do we envy those whose imaginations never kindled, and whose hearts never beat thick, at the recital of the pomp and pageantry, the brilliant daring and gallant exploits, of the old chivalrous times. The knight so brave and yet so gentle ; in the battle-shock a tower of iron ; in lady's bower, swayed, like his morion's plume, by the faintest breath of beauty; the tournament, with its ring of loveliness, and its champions proving in friendly conflict their strength and skill in arms, amid the exhilarating shouts of the multitude, and beneath the glances of bright eyes,' which Rain influence and award the prize ;' the knight's adventurous wanderings in quest of opportunity to right the wrong, to spoil the spoiler, to chastise the oppressor, and to throw over innocence and weakness the protecting shield; all this furnishes a picture well fitted to captivate the fancy of our early years. Still farther : the old chivalrous and feudal age, with its sharp contrasts, its strong lights and deep shades, its exaggerated strain of sentiment and feeling, and its unsettled, revolutionary state; how striking a counterpart to the imaginative mind of youth! For has not youth its romantic visions; its dreams of glory to be achieved, and beauty's smile to be won; its eager wishes and resolves to crusade against cruelly and oppression, and be a right arm of defence to the innocent and weak ? Imagination, and Love, and Hope, are the feudal lords of the youthful spirit, and the whole troop of thoughts and passions are their loyal retainers, prompt to dare, at their behest all deeds of 'high emprize. The chivalrous spirit, then, instead of having gone long since to its cemetery, yet lives and abides in every VOL, XV. |