OUVRAGES ORIGINAUX

1827. Epître au Diable.

1842. Les Glorieuses, ou Nankin et Caboul : Chant de Victoire.

" . . . . Our gratitude — for the libéral feeling that prompts a foreigner to celebrate, in such beautiful language the warlike achievements of English arms. We hope the English public will welcome the poems as they deserve." — Court Gazette, fan. 21, 1842.

" We now subjoin the * Epilogue* of this poem (* Nankin and Caboul '), and cannot, in transcribing it, forbear the expression of a wish that the truly libéral sentiments which distinguish the writings of Mr. de Châtelain were shared by more of his countrymen." — Br^Aton Gazette, Feb, 2, 1842.

"The versification is carefuUy modelled after J, B. Rousseau, Voltaire, and other French classics. There is one quality, very rare among Frenchmen, which ought to secure a favourable réception for his literary efforts in this country, and that is his kindly feeling towards Eng-

land, and the manly spirit in which he shows that he can appreciate her numberless daims to greatness." — lUustrated London News, Feb, 4, 1842.

" Those of our readers who are versed in the French language will be able fully to estiraate the beauty of some of the verses, and the libéral and enthusiastic feeling expressed by a foreigner for the glory and success of British arms." — Cambridge Advertiser^ Feb, 15, 1842.^

"The three poems under this collective title, *Les Glorieuses,' celebrate the three foUowing subjects : Nankin and Caboul — The Polish Bail— and Lord Mayor's Day. As a matter of poetry, we perhaps prefer the second, which contains some charming verses, as airy almost as Taglioni's or Fanny ElslePs steps. As a matter of amusement we confess that the correspondence between the Chevalier and the Lord Mayor (preceding the poem entitled Lord Mayor's Day), exhibiting the latter in ail the glories of aldermanic stultification, has moved our risible faculties in no small degree. We sadly fear that his Lordship has ' written himself down an ass,' beyond recovery, and that he has a poor chance of coping with his spirituel antagonist. But as a matter of serions approbation we decidedly award the palm to Nankin and Caboul, as not only the subject cornes home to our sympathies, but because we admire the libéral spirit with which a foreigner has struck the lyre to sound the praise of English conquest. We will even go a step further, and leaving the narrow circle of national vanity, we hail with yet more pleasure those larger views of universal brotherhood amongst nations, whidi the author has touched upon with so much éloquence. * Amen to that sweet prayer,' say we, and the sooner the people of the earth shall join such chorus, the better for them." — Salopian Journal^ Feb. 15, 1842.

1843. La Bienfaisance, poème dédié à la Société de Bienfaisance Française.

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1844. Mythologv explained by History. Inserted in the Monthly Prize Essays.

Cet ouvrage, écrit cette fois en anglais avec beaucoup de notes et de commentaires, est la reproduction considérablement augmentée de * Lettres à ma Sœur sur la Mythologie,' parue à Paris en 1832.

1844. HiSTORICAL ReSEARCHES ON THE PRETENDED BURNING OF THE LiBRARY OF AlEXANDRIA BY THE SaRACENS UNDER THE CaLIPH OmAR.

— A reproduction front Fr azéris Magazine^ April

1851. Rambles through Rome, dedicated to Henry Vallance, Esq.

L'édition de cet ouvrage étant depuis longtemps épuisée, nous ravivons son souvenir en citant quelques unes des opinions émises lors de son apparition première.

"It contains a variety of amusing anecdotes and information on many points not often touched upon in travels." — The Sun, December ist, 1851.

'' This book abounds in lighdy touched scènes, amusingly illustrative of the character and humours of the lower class and every day life of Rome." — Weekly Ncws and Chronide, 22ndNov. 1851.

" The reader may spend some agreeable time in the Company of the Chevalier de Châtelain." — Athenaum, 27M Sept 185 1.

" Thèse Rambles are very interesting. They bring us acquainted with many facts, and they unfold to the reader, with many incidents of real life and many unquestionably authentic anecdotes, some narrations which, however true, read like, and are fully as interesting as if they were pure romances.

"Thèse Rambles describe the manners and custoras of the capital of the Christian world ; in them we feel that our conductor is a scholar and a gentleman ; that

he sees many things with a poef s eye, and détails their most minute lines with the quickness of an artist's appréhension ; and though we may differ from him in some of his conclusions, stiU we cannot but respect him as a truthfuland candid critic." — Moming Herald^Od, 4, 1851.

" Every one is familiar with the delightful gossip of Leigh Hunfs book about ' town/ its localities, associations, manners and people, whether obsolète or in active existence and wori^ing at the présent day. Peter Cunningham's handbook of London, too, is of the same class, and contains very pleasant discursive reading, dip where you may. The volume under considération belongs to the same category — ^and we could not possibly give it higher praise — ^with a taste for the antique, the arts, ancient or modem, a quick observant eye, and a félicitons diction, which gains upon the reader as he progresses. We never perused a work which makes us so familiar with Rome and the Romans as the présent. It embraces every topic of interest within and without — internai and extemal. It is a handbook of the Etemal City, in fact And besîdes the numerous anecdotes — historical, individual, traditional, and local — ^with which it abounds, it describes the every-day life of the people with a vivacity and a truthfulness that one cannot for a moment question." — Weekly Dispaichy Sept, i^th^ 185 1.

" Ail that he does relate serves to confirm, if further confirmation were necessary, the proofs already obtained of the utterly demoraJised condition of the principal seat of the Romish Hierarchy. Although it does not leave on the mind many new ideas, the work is pleasantly written, in a chatting familiar strain, and may serve to while away agreeably a wet aftemoon. It will never take a permanent place in our literature, but it is a perfectly readabU book, and better than nine tenths of its class." — CritiCy Oct. ist, 1851.

" Hère we hâve an author of unusual liveliness, almost too gay for many of the scènes which he describes, for

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he tells of the Camival in the Corso, and high mass in St. Peter's in the same light débonnaire strain. On the spot we Would choose a graver guide, but for fireside rambles the Chevalier's book is an acceptable cornpanion." — Literary Gazette^ Oct 18M, 1851.

" Voici par exemple, un voyageur qui a pris au

sérieux une excursion en Italie et l'étude de la ville étemelle. Le Chevalier de Châtelain ne prend ni la poste ni le bateau à vapeur de Marseille. Il part de Paris, comme partaient jadis les pèlerins, à pied, sac au dos, bourdon en main, tablettes dans la poche. Il traverse la France, franchit les Alpes, descend en Lombardie, suit les Appennins et arrive à Rome après avoir butiné sur son chemin comme butine ime abeille laborieuse.

" Une fois dans la ville étemelle, notre touriste s'éprend de son sujet, et l'aborde avec ardeur. Ruines, monuments, places illustrées par l'histoire, palais, temples, églises, édifices anciens et modernes, villas des monsignori, prisons, hôpitaux, simples habitations du Transtevère, le Chevalier de Châtelain examine, étudie, compulse tout. Egalement versé dans l'histoire ancienne et dans l'histoire moderne, il fait ressortir les mille contrastes des deux civilisations greffées l'une sur l'autre et encore aux prises après dix-huit siècles de lutte et de travail d'assimilation.

" Le passé ne l'éblouit pas à ce point de méconnaître la situation présente. Il voit Rome telle que l'a faite la domination des Papes; il indique les transformations morales et sociales dues à l'action du christianisme et du gouvernement théocratique ; il trace enfin le tableau le plus exact et le plus véridique de la société romaine.

" Ni sécheresse, ni lyrisme dans le livre * Les Promenades dans Rome.' Après avoir rappelé une réminiscence fameuse ou cité un fait illustre le Chevalier de Châtelain laisse courir sous sa plume l'anecdote ou le trait de mœurs, la description familière ou la narration simple et vraie de quelque épisode amusant. Enfin, son

livre n*est pas seulement une œuvre conscienscieuse, oh l'esprit d'observation abonde, où les peintures de moeurs ont le relief des maîtres, c'est encore le meilleur r^ade muum du voyageur dans la ville étemelle." — C&ur^^ier de VEuropiy \st Nov, 185 1.

''Although M. de Chatelain's rambles did not occur during the late most stirring and eventful period in the political history of Rome, we can nevertheless trace in the remarks he makes, and the anecdotes he relates, the germs of a coming crisis. ... As a literary work, M. de Chatelain's ' Rambles through Rome ' is entitled to the highest commendation ; his familiarity with our language, as a foreigner, is truly surprising ; and the whole style of his book évidences the author to be a person of enlightened mind, much discrimination, and considérable knowledge of character. The work now before us is an admirable description of Rome under the rule of Pope Léo XII, and will form a valuable addition to historié literature." — Reynolds s Newspaper^ 14M S^t, 185 1.

" The book, in fact, is one of * Life in Italy,' drawn in a séries of sketchy, racy, dashing, and, now and then, coarse and clumsy détails, which, nevertheless, strike for their truth, and perhaps for their smell — rank as the garlic and faint as the melons that load the air of Italian popular assemblies. . . . ' Rambles through Rome ' will attract attention, and gratify curiosity at the présent period, when every eye is directed thither in anxious expectation of the next outburst of popular indignation, and the next effort of the friends of liberty." — The Momif^ Advertiser^ i\th Sept. 1851.

" The opening chapter of this volume is sufficient to fix the attention of the reader, and to induce him to read on to its completion. A more eamest and painfiil history of the spiritual bondage of the Roman people has scarcely ever been written, and the succeeding description of the social, political, and ecclesiastical condition of the city and its inhabitants, thoroughly fulfils the

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promise of thèse introductory pages. Whilst the Church of Rome is making such violent efforts to regain her lost ascendancy in this land, and too many — seduced by the Mies she speaks in h)rpocrisy* — are inclined to lend an ear to her blandishments, a work like this is most serviceable, for it opens the secrets of the delusions which are practised to gain an end, and tells the feaifiil taie truly and honestly how tyranny prevails, and grinds down the spirits of ail it tramples upon, wherever the Papal System prédominâtes." — BdPs Weekly Messenger^ 13M Sept 1851.

" The Chevalier de Châtelain has undertaken a difficult task, but he has performed it well. He has added a fresh interest, by the novelty of his mode of description, to the scènes of immortal grandeur which we hâve delighted in traversing with Corinne and Lord Nelvil, and to which Byron has etemally allied the glory of his genius. The romance in real life with which thèse rambles commence is exquisitely told, and contains a harrowing instance of the tyranny, villany, and hypocrisy of the Romish priesthood. The history of the banker, Torlonia, is almost without a parallel, and will be read with marvellous avidity. . . . The inconsistencies of the midnight mass are severely reprehended, and Easter Sunday in Rome is magnificently described. The faithfulness of the détails, the interest of the narrative which runs through the whole work, and the impartiality of the Chevalier's judgment, render his 'Rambles* through Rome ' the best handbook for pilgrims to the Etemal CxtfJ'—The Britannia, 6th Sept 1851.