The Athenaeum 1853-01-01: Iss 1314

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THE ATHENAUM JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE FINE ARTS. FOR THE YEAR 1853. LONDON: PRINTED BY JAMES HOLMES, TOOK’S COURT, CHANCERY LANE. PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE, 14, WELLINGTON STREET NORTH, STRAND, BY J. FRANCIS. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSMEN IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. AGENTS: FOR SCOTLAND, MESSRS. BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH ;—FOR IRELAND, MR. JOHN ROBERTSON, DUBLIN;—FOR THE CONTINENT, M. BAUDRY, QUAI MALAQUAIS, PARIS. MDCCCLIII.

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INDEX OF CONTENTS TO THE VOLUME FOR 1853.

Abbotsford and Sir Walter Scott, 943 Abel’s King Philip, the Hohenstaufer, 407 Abernethy, Memoir of, by Macilwain, 1183 Adams’s Spring in the Canterbury Settlement, 525 Adventures in Search of Church of England, 1013 sca; Remarks on Colonization, 322. Gold Coast, Cruickshank, 520; Churi’s Sea Nile, 1088; Petermann, 99; Barth, 52, 803; Instructions to Dr. Vogel, 225; Peter- ~enn—Death or Overweg, 258; Central, Richardson, 379; Campbell’s Expedition, 501 ; Vogel, 529, 862, 1483, 1556 ; Drs. Barth and Vogel, 1159; Gossip, 1229, 1358; Eastern— Snowy Mountains of, Petermann, 1014. South, Galton, 701 Agatha’s Husband, 12 Agnes Maynard, 858 2 Agricultural Chemistry, by Normandy, 475 Agricultural Physiology, by T. L. Kemp, 475 Ailieford, 1286 Akerman’s Legends of Old London, 1220 Alain Family, by Karr, 1380 Alderman Ralph, 1355 Alfred the Great, by Thorpe, after Pauli, 737 Algeria, Military Life in, by Count de Castellane, 383 Allan, Remains of, 1592 Almanacs, &c.: 49, 134, 185, 166, 223, 224, 322, 351, 677, 704, 768, 1355, 1416, 1417, 1515, 1516 Alphabet Annotated, 916 America and G. Britain, Second War, by Ingersoll, 103 America (U.S.), History, by Hildreth, Vol. VI., 554 American Indian Life and Character, Traits of, 766 American Revolution, Correspondence, Sparks, 940 Anadol, 1587 Ancell on Tuberculosis, 289 Andersen’s Poet’s Day-Dreams, 322 Anderson’s Norway in 1852, 883 Andrews’s Four Months’ Tour in the East, 191 Annals of Roger de Hoveden, trans. by Riley, 1553 Annie Barclay, 499 Annuals, &c.: Drawing-Room Table-Book—Dial of Love, Howitt, 17 ; Lady’s Drawing-Room Book, 48; An- syreeh and Ismaeleeh, Lyde, 1029 ; Keepsake, 1416 Antiquaries of Scotland, Proceedings of, 320 Appendix to Portrait of Vittoria Colonna, &c., 1482 Archer’s Popular Economic Botany, 1063 Architectural Societies (Ass. Reports), 18, 253, 991 Architecture, Domestic, Edward I. to Richard IT., 850 Arctic Expeditions :.U.S. Surveying Expedition, 51 ; 137, 448, 529, 619, 1583; Phoenix, 193, 820, 828, 1224; Blue Book, 193; Wyld’s Chart, 1223 ; Isabel, 227, 389, 891 ; Advance, 741 ; Franklin’s Footsteps, Markham, 824; Gos- sip from Russia, 861; Discovery of North-West Passage (with Woodcut), 1224, 1293, 1323; M‘Clure’s Despatches,

1384; Arctic Regions, Petermann, 1258, 1260, 1387 ; Polar Regions, Scoresby and Woodfall, 1355-6; Whitworth, 1451; Polar Seas, 1517 ; Amphitrite, 1528; Plover, 1556 Amold’s Poems, Narrative and Lyrical, 411 Arthur Clifton, 527 Art-Student in Munich, by A. M. Howitt, 584 Arundines Deve, 1552 Astronomical Tables, Brief, by W. D. Snooke, 386 Astronomy, Descriptive, by Crampton, 943 Auerbach’s Village Stories, Vol. III., 854 Austin on Depreciation of Gold, 1323 Austin and Ralph’s Lives of Poets-Laureate, 936, 963 Australia: Clacy’s Visit to Diggings, 1314; Colonies of, Fairfax, 191; Hall’s Experience, 416 ; Visited and Re- visited, Mossman and Banister, 494; Victoria, by West- garth, 1377; Mossmann’s Letters, 1417 ; Four Colonies, 561; New Atlas, 1553; in 1852 and 1853, Jones, 1222; Freedom and Independence of, Lang, 348, 381; Expe- ditions, Haug, 828, 993, 1160; Government Grant, 1160, 1389 ; Petermann on, 1168 Autobiography of an English Soldier, 318 Autographs for Freedom, 191 Avillion, and other Tales, 1380 Ayerst’s Ghost of Junius, 219 Azeglio’s Maid of Florence, trans. by Felgate, 1007 Baillie, Land-Tax of India, 853 Bain’s Moral Philosophy of Paley, 41 Baker's Works of Seward, 1119 ord’s Account of Amos Ogden, 561 es’s Story of Corfe Castle, 847 Bannerford, 313 Barker's (E. H.) Literary Anecdotes, 916 Barker’s (W. B.) Cilicia and its Governors, 761 Barlow’s Cheshire, 1548 Barmby’s (G.) Poetry of Childhood, 412 and Bombay, by Chapman, 737 Barry Cornwall's Essays and Tales in Prose, 696 r’s Dorp and Veld, 106 Bartlett's Pilgrim Fathers, 1481 lat’s Essays on Political Economy, 322 Bathurst Bp. » Memoirs of, Thistlethwayte, 914 Battalion rill, a few Suggestions, 225 Baynes’s Evangelist of the Desert, 943 yonet Exercise, 676 dvised, 1592 8 Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, 346 Bee ty, a Poem, 412 ne (Madame Von), Haug’s Letter, 53, 112, 136; Beech’ 166; Pulszky and Newman, 226 ; 480, 918, 945, 968 her's Political Atheism, 799; The Vices, 1038

Belfast’s (Earl of) Poets and Poetry, 218, 259 Bench and Bar, Anecdotes of, by inaoe, 48 Benn’s Solitary, 412 Bernard’s Origin of Printing, 1417 Besset’s (Mrs.) Black Princess, 1385 Bezzi’s Readings in Italian Prose Literature, 351 Birch’s Princes against People, 677 Birds, Cage and Chamber, by Bechstein, 917 Birt’s Handbook of Laws of Storms, 416 Bishop’s (Anna) Travels in Mexico, 583 Blackburn As It Is, 257 Blackie’s Imperial Gazetteer, 561 Blanc’s (Louis) French Revolution, Vol. IV., 521 Blanche the Huguenot, 1592 Blanche Neville, 1592 Bleak House, by Dickens, 1087 Bode’s Ballads from Herodotus, 1515 Bodenstedt’s Morning-Land, 1089 Body, Mind and Spirit, 1255 Bonaparte (Joseph), Memoirs, &c., by Du Casse, 1251 Boner’s Chamois Hunting in Bavaria, 443 Books for the Blind, 1449 Boole’s Claims of Science, 446 Booth’s Master and Man, 1354 Bosanquet’s Fall of Nineveh, 1058 Bourne’s Giants of Patagon‘a, 560; Captive in, 769 Bouvet’s Turkey Past and Present, 1311 Boyhood of Great Men, 500 Boys and their Rulers, 1385 Brace’s (C. L.) Home Life in Germany, 1216 Bratiano’s Wallachia and Moldavia, 1038 Bray’s (Mrs.) Peep at the Pixies, 1385 Bremer’s Homes of New World, 1153, 1587 Brewster's Work, 824 Bribery : Sir J. E. Wilmot—Thoughts by Elliot, 1384 Bride of Bucklersbury, 916 Bridges of London, by Bennoch, 799 Briggs’s The Parsis, 853 Bristow’s Poems, 1552 Britons, Ancient, Suggestions, 1417 Brodhead’s History of State of New York, 1384 Broken Echo, 1592 Brooke, Sir J., Letters of, by Templer, 1552 Brown on Cholera, 1449 Brown on Life Assurance Companies, 1322 Browne’s Roman Classical Literature, 1317 Browne’s (J. R.) Yusef, 729 Bruce’s Classic and Historic Portraits, 886 Bruce’s Hadrian aud Roman Wall, 1009 Buckingham’s (Duke of), George ITT., 183, 221, 250 Buckingham’s Bible in Middle Ages, 966 Buds and Blossoms, 500 Buff’s Physics of Earth, trans, by Hofmann, 385 Bunbury’s Life in Sweden, 959 Bungener’s Preacher and King, by Potts, 519 Bunn’s Old England and New England, 1443 Burchard’s Daughters of Zion, 446 Burchett’s Plane Geometrical Figures, 1554 Burgess’s Climate of Italy, 24 Burgess, Hymns and Homilies of Ephraem Syrus, 1552 Burgundy, Mary of, by Costello, 815 Burke, Edmund, and his Writings, Montgomery, 991 ; Public and Domestic Life, P. Burke, 1447, 1476, 1512 Burke’s (P.) Romance of the Forum, 610 Burke’s (J. B.) Visitation of Seats and Arms, 413; Family Romance, 610; Peerage, 737 Burkley’s Great Cities of Middle Ages, 527 Burmese War, First, by Robertson, 474 Burmese War, Second, by Lieut. Laurie, 558 Burn’s Illustrated London Practical Geometry, 1554 Burrows’s Pitcairn’s Island, 824 Burt on Pentonville Prison, 799 Burton’s History of Scotland, 727 Bushman’s Burton and Bitter Beer, 1290 Cabinet, British, 957, 988, 1011, 1034, 1061, 1122, 1190 Calderon, Frankland, 1063; Dramas M‘Carthy, 1371, 1414 California, Mining Districts, Vivian, 50; Gossip, 892 Callery and Yvan’s Insurrection in China, 1059 Calmstorm, 991 Calvert’s (Sir H.) Journals and Correspondence, by Sir H. Verney, 1284 Calvert’s Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland, 1104, 1510; of Australia, 1136 Camden Miscellany, Vol. II., 285, 412 Cameron’s (C.H.) Address, Gr. Britain and India, 853 Cameron’s (Col.) Romance of Military Life, 1592 Cameron’s (J.) Early Musings, 1552 Camoens, The Lusaid, trans. by Quillinan, 498 Campbell’s India As It May Be, 695 Camprodon’s Flower of a Day, trans. by Parker, 1055 Cap Sheaf, by Myrtle, 224 Carlen’s Lover’s Stratagem, 47; Marie Louise, 446 ; Events of Year, 525; Maiden’s Tower, 768; John, 1515 Carlyle, Thomas, 677 Carnes’s Vo: from Boston to West Africa, 224 Carpenter on Juvenile —— es

Carter’s Avenger, 1591 Castellane’s (De) Military Life in Algeria, 383 Castile and Andalusia, by Lady Louisa Tenison, 910 Castlereagh, Lord, Correspondence, Xc., 674 Caswall’s Scotland and Scottish Church, 1450 Cat and Dog, 1385 Catalogue, London, of Periodicals for 1858, 351 Catholicism, Political, 561 Tt Dante’s Divine Comedy, 1553 Céline, by Madame Regnier, 500 Ceramic Art, Salisbury Lecture, 677 Chaff, 1417 Challenger Life Boat, Cruise of the, 500 Chalmers, Hanna, 670; Gurney’s Chalmeriana, 1449 Chambers’s Repository of Tracts, 676 Charles Auchester, 1352 Charles Claverston, 224 Charles Delmer, 990 Charm, The, 322 Chase’s Eliana, 49 Chemist's Assistant, by Woebler and Lieber, 824 Cherry and Violet, 1445 Cheshire, by Barlow, 1548 Chester, Architectural Society’s Journal, 1031 Chesterfield, Earl of, see Mahon. Chesterton’s Peace, War, and Adventure, 641 Child’s (Mrs.) Isaac T. Hopper, 1187 Children of Light, by Cheseboro, 224 China, History of, by Mendoza, Staunton, 1221; Pic- torial, 1037; Recollections of, Power, 983 ; China v. Eng- land, Thoms, 799; Insurrection in, Callery and Yvan, 1059; Is Tien-Té a Man? 1093; 1126; 1159; 1160; Chi- nese Revolution, Rule, 1322; Taking of Shanghae, Letter from R. F., 1386 Chivers’s Atlanta, 704; Memorielia, 1552 Christine van Amberg, 916 Christmas Tree, a Leaf from, by White, 17 Churchill’s Mount Lebanon, 1005 Churi’s Sea Nile, Desert, and Nigritia, 1088 City Improvements and Mr. C. Pearson, 1384 City of Gems, The, 412 Clacy’s (Mrs.) Visit to Diggings, 1314 Claribel, by Miss Stewart, 91 Classical Antiquities, Museum of, 1553 Claverston, by C. M. Charles, 224 Clintons, The, 768 Cobden on Wars in India, 964 Cochrane’s (J.) Sonnets, 1515 Coin of Sora, Letter from Mr. Pfister, 825 Coleridge’s (8. 7 Notes, 1354 Collegian, Life of, 385 Colomba, by Mérimée, trans. by Scoble, 991 Colonial Policy, see Grey. Colonies of Great Britain, Parts I., II. and IIL. 768 Colonies, West India, by a Landowner—In connexion with Slavery, by a Resident, 799 Colony, The, 351, 412 Colour Blindness, Letter from G. Wilson, 418 Colours, Ancient and Modern, by Linton, 283 Comets, by J. R. Hind, 16 Commercial Reform in England, by Richelot, 1449 Companion to Railway Edit. of Campbell’s Bacon, 991 Comte’s Positive Philosophy, by Martineau, 1546; Philosophy of the Sciences, by Lewes, 1547 [see also 1594 Conceited Pig, 109 Constituent Assembly, by Lamartine, Vol. I., 1473 Continental Countries, Run cue by Grant, 1383 Cookery, French, Crawford, 676; Manual of, 1384 Cooper's Cometic Orbits, 1553 Copyright Question: White Slave, 53; Murray v. Bogue, 111; American Treaty, 259, 290, 324, 448, 589; sper fas Som names Piney, 0 apoye a2 2 6 soe . Cornwall Polztachaic:Bddiety; 20th Pleport, Tks Corf’s ea Tei Religtous ta st “9 Costello’s (Miss) Mary of Burgundy, $15 , Couch’s<jdj2 Hogra,-4552 ° ) so, Coulton®’} ériume, $48. 2° 8, ee Cox’s Landiord and Tenanit’s Guide, 1087 Cranford, 765 bag 9 20,% 8 Cretinism in eo by’ Dr. Latham, 388 Crichton, D. M, M..Meémioit of, by. Taylor, 1193 Crime, by Frederick Hill, 350 Crime and Punishment: Burt on Pentonville Prison, 799; Carpenter's Juvenile Delinquents, 350 ; Cochin and Hamilton’s Account of Mettrai, 888; Preston House of Correction, 1063; Hill on Crime, 350; Penal Discipline, Maconochie—Prison and School, by Antrobus, 1449 Crosland’s (Mrs.) Stray Leaves from Shady Places, 888 Crowe’s Greek and Turk, 984 Cruickshank’s Eighteen Years on Gold Coast, 520 Cruikshank’s (Gs Glass and Crystal Palace, 322; Fairy Library, 888 Crustacea, British, by Bell, Part VIII., 385 Cullen’s Darien Ship Canal, 311 [see also 351] Cunynghame’s Aide-de-Camp in Servic~ of China, 616 Cwm Dhu of the Black Dingle, 159: Cyclopzedias : by Knight, E: 72 ’ a eee art [., 135

350 Cartaphilus, Chronicle of, by Hoffman, 1215, 1516 | o.% ¥ lish, 1353 ; Imperial, 49 Cyclopedia Bibliographica,

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Dallas’s Poetics, 1410 Dante’s Divine Comedy, by Cogley, 1553 D’Arbouville’s ——. Doctor, by iy Gordon, 446 Darien, Isthmus of, Canal, by Cullen—Ship Navigation, Deport of Gisborne and Forde, &c. 311 [see also 351}3 3, Letter from Mr. Gisborne, with Comments, 352 D’ Aubigné’s Reformation of Sixteenth Century, 1351 Davis, War of Ormuzd and Ahriman, 561 Dawes on Is, 1348 Day of Trial, 1592 Death of Hector, 351 Debenham’s Hero’s Child, 1552 De Bow’s Resources of Southern States, 1449 De Bury’s Princess Palatine of Bohemia, 1545 —— ny 3 Religious Intolerance in Spain, 1354 Ryots, by Green, 500 Deel oinage, Letters from A. B. G., 588, 1070 [see also 360, 447]; Parliamentary Committee, 861, 992; Letter from T. W. R. .» 1039 ; A Table—On Decimal Currency, by Galbraith—Tables, by Mears, 1384; Freeman’s Practical Suggestions—Bell’s Letter—Pounds, &c., 1385 De Felice’s Protestants in France,, 1218, 1252 De Girardin’s (Madame E.) Lady Tartuffe, 553 De la Gironiére’s Twenty Years in Philippines, 112 “oo Demetrius the Impostor, by Mérimée and Scoble, 15 Demidoff’s (Count) Travels in Southern Russia, 1036 Denman’s (Lord) Articles on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 188 Dendy’s Birth and Pilgrimage of Thought, 1384 Dennis's , 412 De Quincey’s Autobiographical Sketches, 696 Derby, Earls of, by Heywood—Chetham Society, 986 Saulcy’s Dead Sea and Bible Lands, 1029 Descartes’ Meditations, trans. from the French, 966 Des Echerolles, Private Trials, Xc., De Staél, Life and Times, by Maria Norris, 941 Destitution in Metro $e alee Report, 1322 De Veer’s (Gerritt) Cathay and China, 555 Devereux’s Lives of Earls of Essex, 7, 44, 78 Diamond Powder, Artificial Production, 1231 Diary of Ladye Adolie, 524 Diary of Martha Bethune Baliol, 525 Dick’s Beauchamp Tower, 1441, 1557 Dickens’s Bleak House, 1087 Dickins (Lady my Y Rambler, 676 Dickinson’s (A.) My First Visit to Europe, 383 Dickinson’s (J.) India under a Bureaucracy, 695 Digby Grand, by G. J. W. Melville, 224 Dioramic Sketches, Ancient and Modern, 1515 Disraeli, B., a Biography, 1584 Dominican Republic, &c., b; [pao 257 Dora Leighton, by M. A Doria’s Grammar Schools of england, 1591 Dorp and Veld, by Barter, 106 D’Orsay’s Lady .) Clouded Happiness, 1321 Dowden’s V alle after bo Flowers, 130 Dragone ofe Oxforde, 1 Drake's Memoir of a Me aphyician, 415 Dramatic Register for 1852, 256 [see also 298] Drummond's Switzerland and North Ital , 416 Drummond’s (Dr.) Ancient Irish mn sy, 74 Drury’s (A. H.) Light and Shade, 1 Druses, Adventure with, by F. B. H. Pinto, 890 | Oasse’s (A.) Memoirs of King Joseph, 1251 Dudley Ronan, 1013 Dyce’s (Rev. A.) Few Notes on Shakespeare, 671,700 Dyce ( RY on the National Gallery, 215, 255 Dyeing, Napier’s Manual of the Art of, 1254 Earl on Native Races in Indian Archipelago, 1586 Eastern Question an English Question, by Gill, 1588 Eastern Question, Hints on the Solution, 1038 Eastman’s American Aboriginal Portfolio, 1446 Eccentric Turning, Concise Treatise, 225 Edgar's (A.) Tusculana, 191 Edger’s (J. J.) Footprints.of Femous Mer, .1593 Educetion: Hivers, by; Widlasxy, 18; Govermaent Measures, 21; Reports in Iveland, 54, Zc15; 2thoels in Ireland, 167, 196, 259, 325; Schools in Goswell- street, 260; London Thurech Schoo'masters. 353: New Inspectors, 479; Irisit resulutior, 963, 998; Kiewertary Drawing, 88 [see also 11€]; Aft-Fducatior, Yapp, ‘134; S#aingham, 419; Whiston and Kochester, 137 ; Society of Acts, 197; Stockwell Green — Northcote’s Lecture, 226; Young’s Teacher’s Manual, 257; Manebestc Bducationists, Hinton, 351; Farm-School System, Fietchet®, 385; Industrial In- struction in England, De Cocquicel, 413, Government Measures, 447, 478, 501, 529, 563; Bright’s Motion, 590; Miall’s Amendment, 650; 705—Nonconformist, 740; 827, 1126 ; Kerr on Public Instruction in Bengal, 1193; Poor Children in English and German Towns, Kay, 527 ; Short- comings, Ramsay’s Letter, 560; Education as affected by P. C. Minutes, Shuttleworth, 611; Yeld’s Sunday School Teachers, 676; Lectures, School of Mines, 706; Mining School in Cornwall, 1452 ; Tangible Typography, Johnson, 769; United States, Siljestrém, 853; Advocate’s Bill, 862; Industrial Instruction, 886; Reform Soeee. 891; Temple of, Poynting, 991; British and Foreign School, 1041 ; Medicine and Surgery, Royal Free Hospi- tal, 1195; City of London Freeman’s Orphan, 1261; Schools, Self-supporting, Dawes, 1348; in Ceylon, by Muttukistna; 1384; ustrial Instruction in France, 1452 Edwards’s Intelligence of Animal Creation, 704 Electra, 965 Eliot’s Early Christians, 1319 tz, 4 ; English School Books: Outlines of Hi

Ella Muir, 351 Ellet’s Mississippi de Ohio Rivers, 769 Elwes’s Sketcher’s Tour round the World, 1549 Emigration Fields Contrasted, by rrr 527 Empedocles on Etna, &c., by we 412 a clopeedia Britannica, 8th edit. Vols. I. & IT., 1185 ai, History of, by Lord Mahon, 1090 ie lischer hatz, 412 istory of Eng- land, by Hamilton, 166; Harth and its Inhabitants, by Darton— Modern Geography, by Reid, 352; Ancient Geo- graphy, 676; Joyce’s Scientific Dialogues, 768; Youth’s Instructor, 1038; Class-Book of Poetry, 1193; Bakewell’s Electric Science—Hogg’ 's Experimental and Natural Phi- losophy—Burn’s Engineering and Drawing-book—Griffin’s Mensuration, 1255; Young’s Mensuration, 1517; Stra- chan’s Mental Arithmetic—the same Abrid Hard- castle’s Rational Arithmetic — Eschenburgh’s School Grammar — Macintosh’s Elements of Grammer, 1256 ; @ Bonnechose’s History of France, 1384; Young's Art of Questioning—Abbott’s Alfred the Great—Pyrrhus—Alex- ander—William the Conqueror, 1385; Herbert’s School Elocution, 1482; History of England, et Hunter’s Manual of Derivation-G 's Composi- tion — Boardman’s Historical ina —Lord Cran- borne’s History of France, 1593 Ephemeris, 1549 Epigrammata, 704 Epitaphs, Curious, by Simpson, 676 Ericsson’s Caloric Engine, 231 [see also Letter from Dallas], 266 Ermengarde Sydney, 1483 Erskine’s Cruise in Western Pacific, 736 Essex, Earls of, Lives by Devereux, 7, 44, 78 Euclid, by Good—Euclid, by Hose, a Europe i in 1851, by Professor Silliman, 1446 Exhibition of 1851: Official Catalogue, Supplement, 166; 291 ; Ground at Kensington (with Woodcut), 618 Exhibitions: Zulu Kaffres and Earth-men—Groom’s Tulips, 650; Aztec Children, 824, 860, 966, 1170 Exiles, The, by “Talvi,” 1413 Faber’s Revival of French Emperorship, 737 Family Economist, Vol. V., 386 Fane’s (Hon. J.) Poems, 252 Faraday (Prof.) on Table- -Moving, 801, 923 Feathered Favourites, by Wolf, 1445 Fellows’s (Sir C.) Travels, Xc., ‘abridged, 289 Fern Leaves, by Fanny Fern, 1254 Feuchtersleben’s Dietetics of Soul, 1516 Field’s Twin Sisters, 1286 Finch’s Englishwoman’s Experiences in America, 583 Five ARTs : Amateur Artists, ! Apsley House, 49 a Fairholme, 535] ‘Art Conapetitions, 1041, 1073, Ras Art in the City, 482 Art Manufacture, Keports, 647 Art-Union: Publications “of Glasgow, 423; Kensington, 1486 Bernal’s (Mr.) Drawings, British Institution, 199, 283. ; Ancient Masters, 708 ; Copies, 1392 Canino’s (Prince of} Pictures, 327 (see ~~ — 83) Carved Frecee-e of the Fejérvary Museum. pacar Sculpture, Letter from Mr. H. een, 1559, 1597 Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 389, 449 Drawing Schools, 116, 233 ; Superintendents of Practical Art, 166 ; Dean of Hereford’s Letter, 564 ; Provincial Schools, 1222; to Masters, 1452, 1520 Edinburgh National Gallery. Gibson’s Statue of Sir R. Peel, Gore House: Exhibitions of Penctionl Art, 653; Cabinet Work, 679; Mu eer Life, 863; Drawings, 1597 Louses of Parliament, 2%: Kensington Proposed N ational Institutions—Mr. Cole’s Rep., 1290 Lance’s Restoration of V .- by Henry Merritt, 776 Manchester School of Art, 568 fodern German Artists, 592 Museum of Ornamental ‘Art, 89, 202, 296, 328, ; Dxtracts from Dine Book, 204, 328; Mr. » O81, 1262, 1543, 1557,

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New Prints, &. ken and Sala’s Wel ‘ton Funeral P: i 831; Andrews's John uincy — after Healy, 1360; Bran- dard’s Views on the Rhine, after Turner, 775 ; roo e's § — peare (Chromo-Lith: phy), 113 ey! 8 's Sydney H arbour, TOIT ; Davey's Uncle Tom, after at Fceuat. after Sir E. Landseer, 1454; Doo’s Retiaclie’ 8 “Tnfant Eng ing the Cross, 423; Du Camp's Photographic Egypt, 1017 ; bach’s Adolf Overweg, after Reimer, 1102; Shi Asylum, 1360; Gauci’s Lake Scen: hart’s Nest, after Hunt, 1360—Mr. J. 1454; Holl’s Portrait of Thackeray, after L aurence, 482 ; kins's He Happy Time, after wow wos! ighton’ ton’s Two y, Turner, 423; Menor. Obsenmies ‘of Dae of Wellington, 22 ; Montpe- zat’s Jom ad Gundenbony, rinciples of Dra’ s Rietal ‘Work, Spires, 1454; watts ‘anoramas: Bu ’s Bernese nibs —Granada, 390— Mexico, 831; Marshall's am Diorama: beat Gallery of Illustrations, ail, 776—-Constantinople, 921, 1595—Aretie Regions, 1595 Raphael’s Child and Dolp! hin, 655 Royal Academy, 24,200 ; Elections, 200, 1360; Exhibition, 566, 591, 3,709 ; Prizes te Students, 1520 sta Martin’s Hall, 1422 Society of British Artists, 421 urope, 3, Weigall ice Lilustrations of English yneh’s Mr. Cobden, et al

Fine Arts—continued. Society of Painters in Water Colours, 534 Spanish Pictures, 593, 622, 655, 680, 710 e Museum, 650 former Gallery, 536, 895, 1454, 1486 oy (cdg ay Empire, from 716 to 1057, 1056 Fitzhughrs ( Ono and Sword, 1592 Fleming's Kaffraria, 131 Flight of the Pigeon, 289 a on op ee Tb: be ‘ollen’s (Mr.) New Nursery oe Sceptic, Footpath and Highway, by Moran, 383 7% Forbes’s Memorandums made in Ireland, 669 Forchhammer on Topography of Plain of Trey, ForEIGN CoRRESPONDENCE : China, 1386; — im li —Excavations at, 194, 920 ; Florence, 1263 ; — Magna Gre. cia, 142; Nantes, 1259; Naples, 264 | Royal Sculptors) 328, 920. 921, 993, 1292: Peestum, 967 Forests, English, and E ish Trees, 1120 Forster’s One Primeval Part IL, 558 Forsyth’s Letters of Sir Hu mae 791, 821 Foster’s (Mrs.) Italian Literature, 1 Foster’s (A. F.) General Treatise y, 323 Fountains of British History explored, 1158 Fowle’s Herbert Anneslie, 858 Fox (Charles James), Memoirs and Co of, by Lord John Russell, Vols. I. and IL, 551, 596 France and Italy, Spencer's Tour of Inquiry, 408 Frank Merryweather, by Young, 526 Frankland’s Outlines of Literary Culture, 1063 Fraser on Resources of Nations, 616 Freedley and M*‘Gregor’s Money, 616; 1290 French Empire and the Poles, 1193 French School Books: New Grammar, by Dr. Dubuc —Le Trésor de Pensées, by Jobert, 352; Chrestomathie Frangaise, by Vinet, 917; Naval and Military Freneh Technical Dictionary, by Burn, 1038; Macleod’s French Conversation, 1638; French » by Ahn, 1255; Series of Lessons, by Robertson—Pronouncing Handbook, by Jobert—Introduction, by Haas, 1594 French’s Royal Descent of Nelsonand Wellington, 1322 Frere’s Wonder Castle, 322 Frontier Lands of Christian and Turk, 697 Fuchs’s Medical Geography, 1224 Fullarton’s Wanderings in the British Islands, 159] Fullerton’s (Lady - 3 Lady-Bird, 46 Fun and Earnest, 3 Gallery, National, —t= 1. Dyce, 215, 255 Galtow, 3 Explorer in South Af Africa, 7 701 Galvanic ery Need Garvey’s Silent Revolution, 191 Garwood’s Meester Wan City, 858 Gautier’s (Théophile in Spain, 1138 Gazetteer, ees A. Dr. Blackie, 561 Gee’s (E. A.) Confidence, 1286 Geldart’s (Mrs.) Footmarks of Charity, 676; May Dundas, 1322 Geographical Nomenclature, by C. R. Weld, 1556 Geograph Basen F * , Peter Livingston, 943 Geology, is, 352; ee 1353 George the Third, see German Poets’ agen ee 7 of , 1417 German School Books: F. Lebahn, 509; 3, Gerstaecker’s Journey round the World, 477 Gertrude and Emmeline, by 2 Manchester Lady, 1592 Gervinus’s Introduction to History of Nineteenth Century, 1159 [see also 84, 112,,292, ac 968) Gibson's Forest and Fireside de Hours, 25 Gilson’s Czar and Sultan, 1311 Gisborne and Forde’s Report, see Darien. Godfray on Lunar Theory, 1593 Godwin’s (G.) Histo: 1 Nee Ruins, 319 Gold, Best Means of Testing, by Keates, 824 Gold, Chemistry of, 2 Nathan eae, 799 Gold, History of, by ¥ Gold-fields of Victoria, by a all, 416 Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Treland, see Calvert. Goodell’s American Slave Code, 677 Goodrich’s (A. M.) Claudia, 1552 Goodrich’s (C. A.) Select British Eloquence, 416 Gore’s (Mrs.) Dean’s Daughter, 164 Girgei, My Life and Acts in Hungary, 961; Refu- tation of Gérgei, by Kmety, 96, Goss’s Ralph and Priscilla, 1501 Gosse’s Naturalist’s Rambles, 1217 Gossip and Misceuiayga: [Im poten Paragraphs only, not entered under separate heads, are specified English—Peace Congress, 83. Law Reforms, 138. Centenary, 138, 324. Discoveriesat Leeds, 227. Meteate in San Domingo, Schomburgk, 330; Congress of Meteor ologists, 968, 1230; Medical Meteorology, 1072. NewComet, 394; 449; 1094. Planet Saturn, 1296, 1362. New Brum wiek Exhibition, 394. Bunsen’s Hippolytus, Letter from Renouf, 426 ; 449. New Streets, 683 — Whitehall and Westminster, City Companies, 480. Lord Mayor's Hospitalities, rs 740, 827, 861, 1230. Temple Bar, 1293. Milton Club, 1230. Whittington Club, 741. Booksellers’ stitution, 502. The Tower, 1041. Charitable Trusts, 56% Stereotype Moulds, Letter from Mr. Hogg, 484; from Mr, Wilson, 507, Museums of Patented Inventions, 563. Tennyson’s ‘ Oriana,’ 659. Roan’s Charity, Green- wich, 773. Weights and Measures, 778. A New,Anet

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Gossip AND MISCELLANEA—continued. thetic, 897. Park at Birmingham, 919. Substitute for Gutta Percha, 948. New Gold-crushing Machine, 971, 1196, 1422. Conway Castle, 995. Logo-Types, Major "s Machinery, 1016. Diseovery of Amber, 1018. ham Observatory, 1071, 1160, 1194, 1260, 1292, 1419. Goodwin Sands, Proposed Asylum, 1160. Grant to Sir W. S. Harris, 1161, ¢ g,’ 1196. Russell Insti- tution, Poor-Rate, 1388. Electric Clock at Exeter, 1518 ign— Assyria and Babylonia, Explorations, 968 [see also ye Assyrian Excavation Fund, 1234. Austria, Meteor- dlogical Observations, 112. Ci hip, 325. Belgi Congress of Statists, 1161. Chinese Play-Bill, 1074. Den- mark, 197. Discovery in Yhrlen, 1362. Egypt, Discoveries, 138, 202. German Publications, 1264. Bavarian New Order of Merit, 1483. Sonnets by W. von Humboldt, 1484. Berlin—Breslau, 1596. Retirement of Baron Liebig, 449. Greece, Antiquities in Bulgaria, 993. Gold in Thessaly, 1960. Marble Quarries, 1596. Naples, Pompeii, 1126. Norway, 389, 773. Rome, Republican Squibs, 773. Rus- 54, 83. Expedition to Eastern Siberia, 112. Passage ofthe Pruth, 970. Sardinia, Progress at Turin, 83, 773. Remains of Gioberti, 325. Spain, Censorship in Madrid, 1%. Tuscany, Works of Galileo, 419 American—Mr. Poole’s Index to Recent Periodical Litera- ture, 227. Panama, Railway to Pacific, 619; Exploring Expedition to Pacific, 651; Ship Canal, 773; Memorial, $24; Dr. Autenrieth’s Discoveries, 862. Abbott’s Pgyptian Antiquities, 968. Library of Congress, 1072. Expedition to Japan, 1231, 1293. Cleveland, 1016. Russian Embassy at Washington, 1094. Discovery of America, Lord Elles- mere’s Purchase, 1259. Rewards to Men of Genius, 1557. Exploring Expedition, 1484. Darien Expedition, 1488 French—Paris, Gaming-houses re-opened, 22; 54, 84, 112, 196, 227. Mignet and Jouffroy, 946. M. Langlois, Aca- demy of Medici 4. Biographie Universelle, 1329. Discovery of Historical Documents, 1358 Fine-Art—24, 56, 86, 114, 142, 200, 233, 264, 296, 328, 358, 991, 423-4, 451, 482, 505, 536, 623, 657, 681, 711, 776, 831, 864, 894, 920, 994, 1017, 1042, 1073, 1095, 1128, 1162, 1232, 1262, 1295, 1360, 1392, 1422, 1454, 1486, 1520, 1597 Musical and Dramatic Gossip—25-6, 57-8, 88, 115, 143-4, 171-2, 202, 235, 266, 297, 329-30, 360, 393, 426, 453-4, 484, 506-7, 587-8, 570, 595, 626, 658, 682, 714, 745-6, 778, 805, $32, 865, 896, 923, 948, 970, 995, 1018, 1043, 1074, 1096, 1129, 1163, 1197, 1233, 1263, 1295-6, 1328, 1361, 1393-4, 1423-4, 1455, 1487, 1521, 1560 bo . 395 Scientific 294, Githe’s Faust, by Lebahn, 500; Opinions, by Wenck- stern, 824; Poems, by E. A. Bowring, 1319 Goulding’s Young Marooners, 1593 Grant’s Jane Seton, 256 Grant’s Run through Continental Countries, 1383 Gray's Elegy, new illustrated edition, 1508 Gray and Mason, Correspondence of, Mitford, 1287 Grazebrook’s Poems, 351 Greece, History of, by Grote, Vol. XI., 673, 702; Lan- guage and Literature of, by Col. Mure, Vol. IV., 343; Hellenic Revolution, by Tricoupi, 1151 Greek, The, and the k, by E. E. Crowe, 984 Greek School Books: Aischylus, Agamemnon, by Paley, 917—Eumenides, by Miller and Drake, 1450—by Paley, 1517; Demosthenes, Olynthian Orations, by Ken- nedy, 1554; Euripides, Hecuba, by Arnold, 323—Ion, by Badham—Bacche, by Schéne and Browne, 1450; Hyperides, the Orations, by Babington, 1554; Pindar, by Cookesley, 1590; Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, by Banks and Chapman, 1517; Catalogue of Greek Verbs, by Baird, 1554; Greek and English Lexicon, by Crusius, 917; Hellenica, ed. by Wright, 1516; Poetics and Eco- nomics of Aristotle, by Gillies and Walford, 1554; Rob- on’s Constructive Exercises, 1256; Syntax, by Madvig, 1450; Turner’s Analysis of History of Greece, 1256 Greenfield’s Arithmetic, 1593 Greenwood’s (Grace) Greenwood Leaves, Childhood's Pets, 44; Tell Tale, 385 Greer’s (Mrs.) Society of Friends, 47 Grenville Papers, 607, 645; Junius, Lord Temple, 698, 733; Lord Grenville and Mr. Tooke, 259 os (Earl) Colonial Policy, 377 Grifith’s Birth of the War-God, by Kalidasa, 1515 Grimm’s Household Stories, 247, 283 Grinfield’s Jesuits, 1223 Grote’s History of Greece, Vol. XI., 673, 702 Griin’s How to make the Working Classes Moral, 135 Guide Books: Himts to Railway Travellers, 351; Bradshaw’s Continental, 799; Dublin, What’s to be seen, by Wakeman, 917; Southern Italy, 1192; Baden-Baden, Guinot, 1193; Bradshaw’s Belgium and Rhine, 1321 ; hagen, 1348; Pictures in Fitzwilliam Museum— A.B.C. Rail., 1354; Lisbon, 1384 Guynns’s 6 School for Dreamers, 134; Silas Barn- e, ede Rick oe ee a _ 8 me Stillfried, 1031 Hale's Woman’s Record, 495 Halliwell, see Shakspeare. ton’s Lamp and Lantern, 1193; Memoir of Richard Williams, 1446 Hanno, 1592 iet, Verses by, 1592 8 Lays from Mine, Moor and Mountain, 1591 ' Muir, 312 Hawkins’s Christiad, 1515 Hay’s Orthographic Beauty of Parthenon, 1553 Haydon, Life of, by Tom Taylor, 794, 816, 851 Hayman’s — —— 17 rs by a Light Bob, 1592 Hebrew Verbs, by Gregg, 917

Heinfetter’s Literal Translation of Acts, 416 Heraldry, Hamerton’s Observations, 135 Herbert's (J. E.) Ione’s Dream, 1552 Herbert’s (S.) John at Home, 1286 Hervey’s (Mrs.) Adventures in Tartary, 912 Heywood, see University. Hildreth’s United States, 554; Theory of Politics, 1354 Hill (Frederick) On Crime, 350 Hind (J. R.), The Comets, 16 Hind’s Poems, 1552 Hinricks, Of Ki 162 Historical Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire, 191; 1482 History and Social Progress, by Lucas, 884 History in Ruins, by Godwin, 319 Hodges’s Battle of Hastings, 1515 Hoffman's Chronicle of Cartaphilus, Vol. I., 1215 Holloway’s Reynard the Fox, 105 Hollway’s Month in Norway, 883 Homes of New World, see Bremer. Hopper, Isaac T., by Mrs. Child, 1187 Horace and his Friends, by Jacob, 493 Hours with the Leslies, 322 Howitt’s (A. M.) Art-Student in Munich, 584 Howitt’s (M.) Dial of Love, 17 Howitt’s (W. and M.) English and Foreign Life, 351 Hufeland’s Art of Preserving Life, by Wilson, 1316 Hughes's (E.) Scriptural Geology and History, 1554 Hughes's (T.) Vale Royal of England, 942 Humboldt and Bonpland’s Personal Narrative, 966 Hume’s (Mary) Bridesmaid, &c., 1515 Humourists, English, by W. M. Thackeray, 732, 762 Humphreys’s Coinage of the British Empire, 1509 Hungary: My Life and Acts, Gérgei, Refutation of, Kmety, 961; History of, Gedkin, 1321 ; Emigration into Turkey, 1311; Language, Grammar of, Csink, 1482 Hunt’s (Leigh) Religion of the Heart, 1322 Huntington's America Discovered, 411; Forest, 12 Huskinson's Song of the Spheres, 1552 Hutcheson’s Southern Martyrs, 1552 Thne’s (W.) History of Roman Constitution, 1587 India: Observations on, 289; Are we bound by our Treaties? by Sullivan, 386; by Von Schonberg, 415; Deccan Ryots, by Green, 500; J. Dickinson, jun.—India as It may be, by Campbell—Question in 19853, by H. T. Prinsep—Statistical Papers—Administration and Progress of, by Kaye, 695; Land-Tax, by Baillie—and Great Britain, by Cameron—Reform Tracts, 853; How Wars are got up in, by Cobden, 964; Works on, by Kaye, Marshman, Buist, Nowronjee Furdoonjee, Chaplain, Stocqueler, Capper, 1347; Western, by Mackay, 1479; Native Races of Archipelago, by Earl, 1586; Keppel’s Visit to Archipelago, 13; Archipelago, by H. St, John, 409 Industrial Arts of 1851, by M. Digby Wyatt, 730 Industrial Exhibitions: Saxe-Gotha, 138. Dublin, 138, 391, 528, 563, 587, 616; Official Catalogue, 672; Museum of Irish Antiquities, 1256 ; Close of Exhibition, 1326, New York, 168, 589, 803, 944, 1017, 1419. Paris, 619, 1557, 1595. Milan, 1016. Scotland, 1127 Industrial Instruction, see Education. Influence, or the Evil Genius, 224 Ingersoli’s War between America and Britain, 103 Inglefield’s Search for Franklin, see Arctic. Insecta Britannica, Vol. L., by F. Walker, 991 Instinct and Reason, by Gordonius, 416 Invasion of England, 704 Ireland: Forbes’s, 669; Ireland, Keshan, 416 Irving on Egypt and Bible, 1384; On Caste, 853 Italy : Climate of, by Burgess, 248 ; Prose Literature, Bezzi, 351; Von Rochau'’s Wanderings, 378; Early, 500; Literature, Mrs. Foster, 1248; History, Contributions to, Von Reumont, 1409; Six Months in, Hillard, 1590 Jackman (W.), Narrative of, 769 Jacob’s Horace and his Friends, 493 Jacobite Trials at Manchester, 1694, Beaumont, 986 Jager’s Church of France, 321 Jenkins on Colchester Castle, 257 ; Apne, 1588 Jerdan (W.) Autobiography of, Vol. 1V., 1592 Jerrold’s (W. B.) Threads of a Storm-Sail, 496 Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso), by Robertson, 1030 Jervis’s Genesis Elucidated, 527 Jervise’s Land of the Lindsays, 1350 Jesuits: Female Jesuit Abroad, by Seager—Rosalie, 823; History of, by Nicolini, 911; by Grinfield, 1223 ; Celebrated, by Rule, 944; Executorship, 47 Jewish Emancipation, 799 Johnstone’s Sabbath Day, 676 Jones’s Blanche de Bourbon, 1515 Jones's Characters of Revolutionary Period, 225 Jones's (Rev. H. B.) Adventures in Australia, 1222 Jones’s (W.) Hore Monasticee—Poems, 1591 Josephine’s My Child’s Life, 500 Jukes’s Popular Physical Geology, 1353 Junius, Identity of, —The Ghost of Junius, by Ayerst, 219; Lord Temple, Grenville Papers, 698, 733 Juvenile Delinquents, by Carpenter, 350 Kafir War, by Hill, 1323 Kane’s Narrative of Grinnell Expedition, 1583 Kavanagh's (Julia) Daisy Burns, 220 Kaye’s Administration of East India Company, 695 Keane’s P mon, 1515 Keating’s Raymond Bury, 289 Keepsake for 1854, 1416 | Kilgour on Kemp’s Agricultural Ph: lology. , 495 Kenyon’s Letters from Spain, 482 Keppel’s Visit to Indian Archipelago, 13 Ker on istration, 1322; Real —~ a 1323 Kiepert’s Map of Ancient India, 1 Mechanics’ Institutes, 1348 Kimg Nutcracker, by Hoffmann and Planché, 916 Kmety’s Refutation of Gérgei, 961 Knick-Knacks from Editor's , by Clark, 224 Knight’s Once —_ a Time, 1552 Knox's (Capt.) Six Days, 18 Kossuth’s Speeches, by Newman, 1250 _ Kraitsir’s (Dr.) Glossology, 560 | Lacy’s Visitor in Grey, 500 | Lady Tartuffe, by Madame E. de Girardin, 553 | Ladye Adolie, Diary of, edit. by Lady C. Pepys, 524 | Lake Lore, by A. B. R., 1083 | Lamartine’s Constituent Assembly, 1473 ; Restoration of Monarchy in France, 281 | Lamb (C.) and T. Moore, Letter from H. C. R., 771 | Landmarks of History, 135, 1450 | Landor’s Last Fruit off an Old Tree, 1347 Landsborough’s Arran, &c., 1063 Lang (Dr.), see Australia. Lanktree’s Elements of Land Valuation, 1553 Lanman’s Private Life of Webster, 286 Lares and Penates, by Barker, 761 Larpent’s (F. 8.) Private Journal, 313, 819 Latin School Books : Cesar de Bello Gallico, Long’s Commentaries, 323; Cicero, De Senectyte, by Alan, 1036— Selections, bySommerbrodt and Browne, 1516—Selections, by Beaven, 1593 ; Horace, Odes, trans. by Newman, 640; Juvenal, Thirteen Satires, by Mayor, 1450; Propertius, with English Notes, by Paley, 1555; Sallust, by Merivale, 323—Jugurthine War, by Jacobs and Browne, 1450; Taci- tus, by Hippersley, Books I. to VI., by Browne, 1038 ; Virgil, Literally Translated, by Wheeler, 1516—2neid, by Dibner and Arnold, 323; Donaldson's Latine Gram- matice Rudimenta — Exercises in Prose Composition, 1517 ; Chambers’s Latin Dictionary, 1593 Laurie’s Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, 1159 Laurie’s (Lieut.) Second Burmese War, 558 _ Law, German, from Bohemia and Moravia, by Rossler, 255 pea Reform, 769 or Th 1158 Laws of Thought—Logic, by Thomson, Lay of Last Minstrel fikeot edition, 1445 Lay of the Sea, 1552 Layard’ 's Discoveries in Nineveh and Babylon, 279, 316 [see also 454]; Monnments of Nineveh, 2nd series, ¥55 Leask’s Lays of the Future, 351 Leatham’s Discovery, 1591 Lebanon, Mount, by Col. Churchill, 1005; Thistle and Cedar of, by Risk-ANah, 1410 Le Duc’s Russian Question, trans. by Urquhart, 1185 Lee’s (Mrs. R.) Anecdotes of Animals, 17; Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, 223; Trees, P)auts, &c., 1481 Legend of Pembroke Castle, by F. G. Herbert, 257 Leicester’s Ahab the Apostate, 1515 Leichhardt, Fate of, Letter from Mr. H. Hely, 738 Léo on Local Nomenclature of Anglo-Saxons, 257 Lermontoff's Poetical Remains, by Bodenstedt, 885 Le Ros’s Christmas Day, 1481 Leroux’s To the States of Jersey, 1322 . | Lewes’s Comte’s Philosophy 1547 [see also 1594] Liber Fluviorum, by Turner, Ritchie, and Watts, 160 Libraries : Bath, 389, 892 ; Bolton, 1260, 1484, 1596 ; Cambridge, 651; Derby, 619; Henley-on-Thames, 479; Old Public, Lewisham, 826; Liverpool, 1261, 1526; City of London, 21, 325, 480, 1357; Reports, Manchester, &c., 418-9, 1127, 1389; Marylebone, 226, 677, 705, 862, 1484; Prof. Neander's Library, 828; Catalogue of North- ptonshire Mechanics’ Institute, 799; Peabody Library, Danvers, U.S., 1161; Salford, 1231, 1261; Shuttleworth, 650; Barrack Libraries, 291, 590 ; Workhouses, Supply of Books, 1139 ; Free Libraries in Country Districts, 564; In the North qf England, 1496; Of Trage and ony 2 10}4;

ew bey erage 9 i I rast ; ty Maeno - cenens, Swart’s Retu 7; Perliataehtary 99° Life by e Fireside, S85°°° we Lily Gordon, hy ,Cougin Kate, 1482. .,, , Lindsays,, Lara pf,“History by vervisey 1550 Linton’s‘Ahvient ng Modern Coiours,’ 233 * Literary Fund, 167; Meeting, 324 ; its Reporter, 416 ; The Report, 439; Ictie, Srom D., <°4, Tae Dinner, 590 Liturgy, Powj’s Kesons*vacticn 9 Christian, Liverpool a Few Yéara Since, 1& e Liverpool Architectural Society, 253 Loadstone Mountain, Sir R. H. Schomburgk, 738 Lochlin Dhu, 351 Locke’s (Mrs.) Rosa St. Orme, 858 Logic, Elementary, 257 ; New Introduction to, 917 ; Thomson's Treatise on, 1155 Longwoods of the Grange, 525 Loomis’s Elements of Geology, 352 Lorenzo Benoni, 585 Louis XVII., by Beauchéne, 1063 Louisa von Plattenhaus, 1549 : Lovett’s Social and Political Morality, 1254 Low’s British Catalogue of Books, Vol. I., 1290 Lowe’s (Sir H.) Letters, by Forsyth, 791, 821 Lowell’s (J. R.) Poetical Works, 315 Lowry’s Table Atlas, 917

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Life in Mission, 1345, 1381 M‘Intosh’s Alice Montrose, 165 Madden’s Life of Savonarola, 1007 Madders’s Rambles in an - City, 380 Maddyn’s Game of B Madeira, its Flora fms Toc by Lowe, 1193 Magic and W itchcraft, 289 nan A s Poems, 1515 — of Ships, by Walker, 991 on’s (Lord) Chesterfield’s Letters and Works, Vol. V., 643; History of England, Vol. V., 3rd ed., 1090 Maidstone’s eats The Deluge, 288 Maillard’s () iles on 527 Man, Natural Rights of, 1 Manning’s Outlines of Stiddle Ages, 527 Manuel Pereira, by F. C. Adams, 703 Manufactures, Connexion of Selence with, 20 Marcel’s Language Marcellus’s Policy of the Restoration, 764 March’s Walk across French Frontier, 938 Marcou’s Geological Map of the United States, Margaret, 1318 Mariotti’s Fra Dolcino, 319 Maritime Meteorological Geeiamnees at Brussels, 1354 | Markham’s Franklin’s Footsteps, 8 Marsh-Lands and London Fog, Prof, Airy, 1594 Marshall’s New Water Weed, 385 Marsland’s Musings of a 8 irit, 1552 Martineau’s (A.) Church History in England, 1013 Martineau’s (H.) Comte’s Positive Philosophy, 1546 Maud, 1516 Maury’s (Lieut.) Plan for Improving Navigation, 1154 [see also 529, 891, 968] Mayfair to Marathon, 1546 Mayhew’s (H.) Letere left at Pastrycook’s, 47 Maynard’s (Mary) Poems, 252 Mazzini Judged by Himself and his Countrymen, 676 Meagher’s Notices of Archbishop Murray, 248 Meanee, Battle of, Waddington, Napier, 135 Mechanical Philoso hy, Principles of, by Tate, 1481 Mechanics and Mechanism, by Burn, 1553 Mechanics’ Institutes, &c.: Working Man’s Lectures, Museum of Practical Geology, 138, 196, 354; Hull, 678; Leeds, 26; Dees on Leek Mechanics’ Institute, 704; Manchester — Marylebone, 1230; Northampton, Cata- logue of Library, 799; Rotherham, 1293, 1389; Salford, 946, 1231; G. W. Railway Literary Society, 7733 Report of Select Committee, 918; History and Management, by Hole, 858; What they are, by Kilgour, 1348; Glasgow Lectures, 1598; Paid Lectureship, 1419; New York Mer- cantile Literary Association, 799 Medical Books: Tuberculosis, Ancell—Diet of In- fancy, Barker—Health, Tilt—Brixton Water, Playfair and Robertson—Moral Sanitary Economy, M‘Cormac—Rus- sian Bath, Roth—Sanitary State of Belfast, Malcolm— Young Wite’s Guide, Davies, 289; Fever at Boa Vista, King—Emigrant’ s Guide, Fraser—Small Pox, George— Glycerine, Wakley and Robertson—Teeth, Jones—Phy- sical Education of Children, Hare—Cobra di Capello Poison, Cockle, 290; Pul y C » Burslem «~fcience and Avt-Wegg-—-Corns and Bunions, “Askton— Arfidcial Teeth, Fitzpgtrick--[tfanthood atid iSldhopd, Dixdn~Throat Desfness: Yearsiey—Ling's Byefen,s Roth —Climate of Jersey, by Greehhow—What is Mesmerism ? Wood—Rheumatism, Gout, Harvey—Chapters on Mental Physiology, by Holinnd: 3864 Elpetvicity in:Caxcer, Law- rance, ‘43; Achte ‘Rheumetijm, reo! ungs and - Heart, Biling—Vitalism f Le, Yan Martin—Deformi- ties, by Little—Decline, of Life, ye eet ge oe Surgery, Wa:ton—> esos OY M dart, ‘bellinghany—Change of Climate, Francis Cppsunetidn, Ce tton—Rheumatism, Fuller, 1385 ; Stemach—fophistry-of Empiricism, Routh —Homeopathy, Bushnan, 1386; Announcements, 1386, 1482 Medway’s Life of Dr. 4 Smith, 1289 Meliora, Second Series, 1 Mendoza’s History of buine Vol. I, 1281 Menzies’s Tholuck’s Circle of Human Life, + ow Meredith’s (Mrs.) My Home in Tasmania, 4 Mérimée’s Demetrius the Impostor, trans. - Scoble, 159; Charles the Ninth, 824; Colomba, 991 Merivale’s Fall of Roman Re public, 991 Meteorology, The, of 1852, 168 [seealso 202] Mexico, Anna Bishop, 583 ; Visit to, Robertson, 612 Miall’s Early Christianity, 1481 Michelsen on Moneys, 1158; Ottoman, an, 1480 Microscope, by Hannover and Goodsir, 416 Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal, 500 + asa Means of Mental Culture, 1593 | 1289 | Military ere ey cme by Stocqueler, 386 Militia Acts, by ders, 322 . Mills’s British Jews, 793 Millwright Engineer’s Companion, by Templeton, 917 Mines in Rhenish Prussia, Report by Gripe, 385 Minutoli’s Spain, 759 Mission, Camp and Zenana, see Mackenzie. Mississi, pi Valley, by Shea, 132 Mitchell on the Boomerang, 1482 Mohl’s Anatomy, &c. of Vegetable Cell, 107 Mollusca of Great Britain, by Leach, $85 Monachologia, 257 Monarchy in France, by Lamartine, 281 Money, Freedley and M‘Gregor, 616; Freedley, 1290 Moneypenny, by Cornelius Mathews, 1063 Monks of ilcrea, 1591 Mont Blanc, Story of, by Albert Smith, 937 Mont Revéche, by George Sand, 587 Monuments, Testimonials, &c.: Prince Albert, 740, 1162, 1292, 1326, 1357; M. "Arag0; 1293; Earl of Belfast, 1232; Lieut. Bellot, 1260, 1294, 1325; Bolivar, 1232; Pope Breakspeare, 776; Busts on Pincian Hill, Rome, 114; Marquis of Bute, 946; Campbell, 529; Caxton, 502; Chantrey, 142; Chatterton, 325; Chetham, 1232, 1262; 'Dalton, 167, 196, 1016, 1095; Mr. Dargan, 480, $28, 891, 1519; De Moratin, 946; Lord Chief Justice, 741 ; Gioberti, 1072; Dr. Grant—Hood, 167; Horsefield, 1358; Jenner, 480, 563, 1072; Orlando Lasso, 714; Lessing, 1422; Levi, 419; M‘Glashan, 83; Mackintosh, 329; Marochetti’s ‘ Coeur de Lion,’ 657, 704, 740 ; Moore, 505, 681; Dr. Moir, 1358; King of Naples, 200; Nelson Column, 536; Nelson, at Portsmouth, 354; Newton, 706, 773, 1389 ; Ney, 864, 1486; Orfila, 946; Peel, 1128 —Penny Subscription, 291; Dr. Pereira, 960 ; Porter Medal, 296; Duke de Rochefoucauld, 1072; G. Stacy, 54; Stephenson Statue, ot B Tasso, 419; Tegner, 864; Wellington, 86, 114, 505, 1 Moodie’s The Clearings v. The Bush, 1012 ; Mark Hur- dlestone, 79 | Moorat’s Miscellaneous Translations, 1515 | Moore’s Memoirs and Journal, by Lord J. Russell, 471, 497, 1549, 1589; [Letter from Mr. Murray, 528, Letter from H. C. R. 771); Autograph — 765, 800 Moral Philosophy of Paley, by Bain, Moran’s Footpath and Highway, 383 Morell’s Elements of nae Part I., 1516 Morlas, The, by V., 351 Morning Land, Bodenstedt, W addington, 1089 Morris’s Religion and Business, 799 Mortmain, Law of, by Finlason, 824 Motler’s Old Village Church, 1193 Mouat’s Trip to Reunion, 1321 Miiffling’s (Baron von) Passages from My Life, 253 Muirtoune’s Crosier, Shears, &c., 1591 Mure (Col.), see Greece. Murray, Archbishop of Dublin, Meagher, 248 Murray on Logical Science, 1482 Museum, British: Library Catalogue, Letter from V., 454; 501, 918, 945; Sir Hl. Ellis and Mr. Panizzi’s Return, 918; Medal Catalogue, 945; Memorial from Society of Antiquaries, 1451; Handbook to the Library, by Sims, 1475; Quarterly Review, 109; 112, 529 Museums, Libraries, Xc., by Papworth, 415 Mvsic: Amateur Society, 329, 393, 712 Best’s ym ) Organ Performance, 682 Choral Fu: 77 Cologne Singing Society, 712, 744, 777 Concerts: Anichini’s, 744. "Aguilar’s, 570. Benedict's, 777. Anderson’s— Bassano and Kuhe’s, 682. Bennett’s, 171, 265, 359 ; Mati: née, 832. Billet’s, 234, 359, 453, 745. Blagrove’s, 658. Biumen- thal’s, 804. Bohrer’s, 658. Chatterton’s, 682. Clauss’s, 744, 865. Cotton’s 359. Delamotte’s, 658. Dolby and Sloper’ 8,712. Dolby’s Soirées, 1393, 1455. Ferrari’s, 570. Kathleen Fitzwilliam, 570. Slowes 895. Galton’s, 453. Gibbs's, 1234. Glover’s, 804. Goddard's, 624. Alleyne Goode’s, 1455, Gordigiani’s, 865, 895. Greenfield, 682, 7a, 923. ee ig 923., Holzel’s, 7 Jansa’s, a % 777. Lefort and J e Lozano, 865. a }, 455. Manchest 8, 804. Michal and. Dannstrom’ ‘8, 1018, Molique’s, 713, 805. Muratori, 865. Pauer’s, 234, 297, 359. Perry, 201. Pleyel, 171. Puzzi, 682. Rainforth’s, 713, 745, 777, = 865. chards, 658, 745, 865. Salaman’s, 359, 453. Sloper’s, , 359. Staudach and Bazzini, 865. Tito Mattei, 923 Eile’s heyy Evenings, 201, 234, 297, 391 ; Musical Union, 330, 12, 506, 624, 682, 744, 804, 832, 865 Glee and "Madrigal U Union, 201 Harmonic Uhion, 114, 265, 266, 536, 570, 624, 745, 1455, 1521 H Union, a 713, 832 London Sacred Harmonic Society, 172, 658 ; Pepact, 1163, 1560 Musical Education, 1042; Letter from H. W., 1197 New Philharmonic, 57, 171, 202, 359; Cherub: ini’s * Requiem,’ 483 ; a, 682, 865 : Aguilar’s * Alpheus’ and* gt 297— Minna et et Brenda, 424. Ariel’s * Millennial Lays,’ 947, = Four Vocal Duetts,’ 424. La Still, still with thee,’ 56. t- hoven’s * Spring Time,’ 1598. Bennett's aS ee ,, Capeteddo, &c.,’ 922. rlioz’s * Bolnées d’Orchestre,’ 266. Exer- cises for ™S ’ 569—* Pi: postete dinsics 1008. Beta’s * Psalm of Life,’ shop's 's (J.) * Messiah,’ 624—' Creation,’ 1598. Siumenthal's* p.. ie,’ 1327, Bosen's (F)* Shamrock,’ 1598. * Con- gregational Chure Music, ert L,,’ 947 ; (Mr. Lowell Mason), 1233, rei’s ‘Il bel Canto,’ os’s * And: 1327. Duggan’s Songs, 56 —* The "sirens; 424 — Vocal Music, 947— . in “ Pierre,”’ * Three Song te Due 3, 1393. “incket's "dion. 1196. on ngs, Hamilton’s * Modern Instructions for ‘Preludes, Harding’s Songs, 1392. _ Heller's “Twenty-four Pr > 922—* Prome- nades,’ 1327. Hiller’s (F.) ‘Songs for a Beguene’ 56—Valse Ex- pressive, 1327. Hullah’s ‘Infant School Songs, ’569. Laurence’s Music—continued. * Jubilee Day,’ 1392. Liszt's‘ Soirées de Vi 5 ’ Ninth Symphony.’ 777. Loewe's * Becting on theSen shore st Liitgen’s ‘O Salutaris!’56. ‘ Lyra Anglo-Germanica, 1303 1393, 15g = M ’s* otions in Art of of Siaciog, 5. M ‘Symphony ina bn for Pianoforte Solo,’ 265, -potiq ns Cee eae Meare nts Compositions’ Mort's (Fo : udie’s * Songs,’ —Ni Oberthiir’s * Course of Tastrestica for the lees ce vhet Pas, 18a 1393, Parkhurst’s * Steppivg-Stone,’ 970. Pi vert 947. Pauer’s * Sonates’ vad” * Ae oh nene: Perea: Fey Kany 5 ng Music,’ 24. Perkins’s * Quartett, ” 1233. * Pian forte Player,’ No. 54, 947. el Salve poe hy 1598, Re. 4 bere y AJ A et s Reede's "My Beautiful Thro: S i le rs. Dal 1327. Songs. mhossini’ Ye Boleros 1333, G. yo a 56. Russell’s * falsman’ 's *Saltarella,’ 265—* Sonnet,’ 1598, Shelmerd eet “Chant Book,’ 947. Silas’s O, would I were yon Silver moonbeam,’ 947 — Duetts’ 1598. * Sixty Amusing Songs Say Songs,’ 1487. Sloper’s * Valse Capricieuse, 265—* Hun and Canzone Napolitana,’ 424 — mata, with Vio pmes Six Duetts, 56. Stephens's (C. EB.) Sacred Mu ling ae rtett,’ 1598. Talexy, Mayer, Crameer, Gretache « Bianoforte Music,’ 658, Tegg’s ‘Concertina Prece recephor’) " roved Pianoforte Prece tor,’ 569. Thalberg’s * Art du cn iano, ’ 922. Verdi's * 11 Trovatore, 1263. Vitelli’s* Art of Sj ing, 569. Waley’s * Caprice alla Mazurka,’ 265. Wallace’ mt iY 1327—* Songs.’ 1392. Weber's * Pianist’s Practical Pua? Willmers’s og ‘Three Lyri 1598, D Church Service, sid ‘Wills “Eycaiag oe Union, oa, 504,777 ilharmonic, 57, 358, 452, 506, 569, 624, 682, 744, = Directors for 1854, 970 S04, 638 Quartett Association, er 570, 624, 713, 777 Réunion des A: 865 Royal Academy o’ ele. 301, 536, 712, 713, Sacred Harmonic, ‘The Requiem, vi. 392, 453. ‘Judas, 265, * Israel,” 570; 624, 658. * Elijah,’ 777. Report, &c., 1393. *Sam- on,” 1455; 1521, 1560 8 St. Martin’s Hall, « pening a 1455, 1560 Society of Fem: ale usicians, 7 Wednesday Concerts. 1295, 161, 904, 1455, 1521 Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid, 351 “ My Novel,” by Pisistratus Caxton, 217 Mythology, German, by Wolf, 257 Napier’s Bacon and Raleigh, 1037 Napier’s Manual of the Art of Dyeing, 1254 Napoleon at St. Helena, 791, 821 Napoleon, Louis, Letters of an Englishman, 1013; Napoleon the Third, by M. de la Guéronniere, 133 Natural Printing, Auer’s Invention, 1453 ; 1486 [see also 1522) Naturalist’s Rambles, by P. H. Gosse, 1217 Neale’s History of the Church, for Children, 1385 Neave’s (Sir D.) Four Days in Connemara, 191 Nelly Armstrong, 445 Neukirch’s Poetic Canon, 1224 Newcomes, by Thackeray, No. I., 1158 Newman’s Horace, 640; House of Hapsburg, 881 Newspaj aper and Literary Paper, 387 New Year’s Day, 1 New York, Hievory of, by Carpenter and Arthur, 561; Brodhead, 1384 Nicolini’s History of the Jesuits, 911 Nineveh and Babylon, see Layard Nina, 165 Norman on Letters Patent, 769 Normandy’s Agricultural Chemistry, 475 Norris’s Life and Times of Madame de Staél, 941 Norway in 1852, by Sir C. Anderson—its Scenery, Price and Forester Month in Norway, Hollway, 883 Nottingham, Old and New, by W. H. Wylie, 1037 Novelties, Inventions, &c. in Arts, &c., 527 Oakfield, 1318 Osrrvary: F. B. Serene d’Acqueria, 1484; C. B. Adams, 259; Arago, 1295, 1227; Rev. T. K. Arnold, 353; A. Asher, 1161, 1193 ; Barnabas Bates, 1419; Baudry, tl; Bayard, 260; De Beauregard, 919; Madame Roni di Begnis, 805 ; Farl of Belfast, 259, 1252 ; C. Berg, 88; Dr. Bexfield, 1328, 1423 ; Blewitt, 1197 ; Blouet, 681 ; Madame Cc, Bodin, 529; Madame Boieldieu, 1560; Bonnar, 234; J. B. Booth, 26 ; Bouton, 864; G. Bradshaw, 1126 ; Bru- net, 330; De Buch, 323; Dr. Bull, 1358; Dr. Butler, 564; Signora *Carra, 25; E. es Chaplin—Dufaur Clark, 138; Lord Cloncurry, 1358; Sir R. B.Comyn, 678; B. Cooper, 993, 1014; Cottle, 705, 772, 946; J.M. Cripps, 82; Cuff, 1195; Dr. Curie, 1230; Dabadie, 714; J.8. Dalton, 53; Deville and Duret, 292; Devrient, 1043; Depping, 1160; Duller, 993; Dumont, 1262; F. Dun, 1521; Duport, 1361; Duperche, 97; Durrant, 861; G. Duval, 658; Ruth Emerson, 1484; Faucit, 1361; Mdlle. Ferenczy, Lin Fontaine, 1262; Foroni, 595; R. Forrest, 89; Fourcault, 1484; A. Fuchs, 507; Lord Fullerton, 1484 ; Furstenau, 25; Galanos, 741; Galli, 778; Gardiner, 1455; Madame Feron Glossop, 626; Dr. Graves, 419; Simon Greenleaf, 1484; Dr. G. Gregory, } De Gerville, 993; Grossi, 1556; Guillore, 1234; G. P. Harding, 1595; Rev. RB. Harington, 1518; Dr. Harless, 480; Ald. Harmer, 772; Harper, 116; Harris, 266; Col. Hawker, 995; Rev. F. Hodgson, 21; W. EF. Hudson, 862; Mrs. Hughes, 861; Jadin, 507; Dr. Jerrard, 324; Jesi, 200; Capt. Johnson, 226; De Jonghe, 862; De Jussieu, 828; Dr. Kaye, 2595 Klengel, 25; Klos, 714; w. von Kobell, 921; Lazinsky, 172; Dr. Leichardt, 111; M a, 892; Leder, 0a: Dr. iguingen, 1160; Ps L. H. M:Cracket, 772; 1197; yoo Melvin, oni, Merville, 1362; Dr. Mill, 149; Count Montholon, 1040 ; Jacob B. Moore, 1452; Sir C.J. 3, 832 Napier, 1040; Prof. Norton, 1484; Odry, 571 ; Olivier, 993; G. Onslow, 1233; Amelia Opie, 1483 ; » 353 (see also 449]; Dr. ‘Overweg, 258 [see also 1419]; ‘Ozanam, 1127; Dr. Pereira, 136, 260, 449; Pignolet, 1484; De Planard—Raimondi, 1424; Dr. Rice, 111; Duke de mont, 1094; Ricordi, 426 ; Rigel, 58; J. Roche, 448 ; Ret 360; Rev. Pr. W. Robertson, 1016; P. H. Rogers, Rollin, 681 ; Saint-Hilaire, 1195, 1228; Lady Sale, 10165 Lord Saltoun, 1018; Count C.Salluzzo, 1261; A. Scheffer, 1556; J.C. F. Schneider, 1487; Prof. Scholefield, 483 YUM

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1853 — iy it he 7F cgeg*= AE bi 3-94 & 3 86 [see 1385 il r, 561; 941 enery, TH BFE. fiir PP Fag. YUM 1853") INDEX OF CONTENTS Ww. §. Lockhart Scott, 82; E. Seguin, 115; Sewrin, 529; shaw, 1072; F. Shoberl, 324; G. Lewis Smyth, 226; southern, 353; Rabbin Joseph Spire, 1389 ; Sporle, 360; Lieut. Stratford, 448; H. G. Strickland, 1094, 1125; Gen. ge, 1484; Téroult, 86; L..Tieck, 561; Uhlig, 172; Dr. Wardlaw, 1556; Capt. Warner, 1484; Wilkins, 1074; &. Williams, 1231, 1261; 8. Woodburn, 536 ; Wooler, 1388; Zimmermann, 1361 2 3 on the Endowment of the Mind, 1060 On louse by the River, 1013 Oliphant’s Russian Shores of Black Sea, 1311 Oliveira on Resources of Portugal, 1355 Oliver's Dictio of Symbolical Masonry, 1553 Oriental Poetry, Polyglot of, by Dr. Jolowicz, 1449 Osbert of Aldgate, by Miss Stewart, 446 Qsborne’s Papers Reprinted, 1417 858 Gueley’s Mona's Isle, 1552 Qwen’s Organon of Aristotle, 1155 ington, Past and Present, by Robins, 942 i. and Lakes of ogy 2 991 iser’s Solitary Rambles, &c. in Prairies, 766 Pamphlets, Reprints, Short Notices, Announcements, 18, 133, 135, 191-2, 225, 257-8, 322, 351, 386, 446, 527, 704, 737, 769, 799, 858, 917, 1013, 1038, 1063, 1224, 1255-6, 1290, 1323, 1353, 1355, 1417, 1450, 1482, 1516-7, 1554, 1592-3 Papworth on Causes of Fire in Buildings, 1013 Papworth’s Museums, Libraries, 415 Parkes’s Poems, 412 Parkyns’s Life in Abyssinia, 1507 Parsis, by Briggs, 853 Passion and Pedantry, 288 Patagonia, Bourne’s Giants of, 560 ; Captive in, 769 Patentee’s Manual, 1255 Paterson on Fiars in Scotland, 769 Patmore’s Tamerton Church Tower, 442 Peach's Poet’s Bride, 351 Peak and Plain, by Spencer T. Hall, 224 Pennington’s Carisbrook Castle, 1591 Pensions: Mr. Hind, 21; Mrs. Richardson, 291; Mr. W.Jerdan, 324; M. Bournouf— Madame de Balzac, 678 ; Rey. W. Hickey, 1071 ; Sir Francis Head, 1161 ; Family of Lieut. Bellot, 1294; Lady Nicolas, 1419; Mr. A. A. Watts —Mrs. Hogg. 1518; Family of Mr. J.Simpson, 1557 Pentonville Prison, by Burt, 799 Percy Effingham, by Cockton, 1592 Persons and Circumstances, Monarchy of July, 913 Peterborough, Earl of, Memoir of, 639 Pfeiffer (Madame), in Sumatra, 562, 1041; in Cali- fornia, 1594 Phear’s Elementary Hydrostatics, 1593 Philippine Islands, by De la Gironiére, 1121 Phillips's Rivers, Mountains, &c. of Yorkshire, 164 Philosophers, Eminent, by Laertius and Yonge, 1553 Phippen on Discovery of Minerals, 1 Photography : Society of Arts, 23, 56, 114, 185, 535; Hennah on Collodion, 135; 200, 262, 329, 354; Paper (Mansell), 298; Stereoscope, 391; Engraving (Talbot), 450, 481, 532; 711; Mayall’s New Process, 657; Photo- graphic Society, 711; Stewart, Claudet, Glaisher’s New Process, $31, 921; Provincial Exhibitions, 968; Smith on Applications of, 262; Phillips’s Photographs of Moore, 1131; Lankester on Plates, 1167 Physiology, Comparative, by Agassiz and Gould, 416 Pidgeon’s Traditions of De-coo-dah, 473 Pitter’s Rhymes for the Times, 1591 Plan of Economy, 322 Poems, Celebrated, Book of, 1549 Porrry : Sonnets, by W. M. Anderson, 136, 561, 966; “Mid-Winter Day,” by Mary Brotherton, 1556; ** If that were true,” by Frances Brown—Sonnet, “ December,” by Edmund Ollier, 1555; Tieck’s ‘‘ Summer Night,” trans, by Mary Maynard, 769 Poet’s Dream, The, 17 Poets and Poetry of 19th Century, see Belfast. Poggendorff’s Biographical Lines, 1289 Political Economy, Essays on, by Bastiat, 322 Pope, The, in England, by P. C. Jocelyn, 824 Portugal, Resources of, 1355 Postage Question : Post-office in India, 80 [see also Mr. Hume’s Letter, 116]; International Society, 83; Post- age Association, 138, 195, 324, 502, 1230; Postage Reform, 226, 651, 1389; Postal Anomaly, 1234; Post-office, Lon- don, 260; Suburban Changes, 29]; 773; Rural Post- offices, 618; Postal Anomalies, &c. 897 ; Colonial Penny Postage, 289, 659; England and America, 290; Spain, 1485; Government Measures, 388, 479, 502; Ocean Post- age, 678; from Mr. E, Burritt, 746; Cheap Postage, 502,714, 779, 1041; Deputation, and Letter from Mr. M‘Symon, 891, 968; Prince Edward Island, 1016 ; Books for Colonies, 891, 1329; Packets by Suez, 1389; Book Post, 1456 Poste’s Britannic Researches, 1189 Poultry, Furguson’s Illustrated by Barnett, 1322; Poultry Book—Domestic Poultry, by Martin Doyle, 1355 ower’s Last Shilling, 676 Power's Recollections of China, 983 Pre- and Post-Raffaelism, by Hopley, 943 her and King, by Bungener and Potts, 519 Press, The, a Pamphlet, Price and Forester’s Norway and its Scenery, 883 incess Palatine of Bohemia, see De Bury. Prnsep’s Indian Question in 1853, 695 ys, Burnett Treatises, League Essays, 1519 Protestants in France, by Dr. De Félice, 1218 Pulleyn’s Etymological Compendium, 703 Pulman’s Rustic Sketches, 1591 Pulsky’s (F. & T.) White, Red, Black, 344 Purslo’s Government of the Heavens, 75 Queen Philippa, by Miss E. M. Stewart, 676 Quillinan’s Poems, Johnston, 473; ‘ Lusiad,’ 498 Quinlan’s Ernest de Vere, 1515 Railways: Graham's Correspondence, 18 ; Coloured Lamps, Tyndall, 136 [see also 418]; from Mississippi to Pacitic, 196; Central Station, 226; Foreign, 269, 480 Railway Reading, 992 Rainy Afternoons, 109 Ram’s Unseen Hand, 17 Ranke’s Civil Wars & ecowonngy Garvey, 1218, 1252 Rawliggs’s Shrine of Content, 1591 Raymond de Monthault, by Morgan, 1223 Read's (T. B.) Poems, 315 Reade’s Peg Woffington, 15, 82; Christie Johnstone, 1156 Records, Public, Report on, 992 Red River, Notes of the Flood, 676 Reed’s Reprint of Letters from Washington, 527 Reformation of Sixteenth Century, D’Aubigné’s, 1351 Reid’s Young Voyageur, 1593 Religion, Christian, Treatise on, 18 Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian, 9 Report on National Gallery, 981, 1543, 1584 Repulsion, Law of, Preliminary Treatise, 735 Restoration and Monarchy of July, 913 Reumont’s Contributions to Italian History, 1408 Reynard the Fox, by Holloway, 105 Rhymed Convictions, 412 Rhyming Dictionary, 135 Richards’s Summer Stories of the South, 1290 Richards’s Cobden and his Pamphlet, 500 Richardson’s Mission to Central Africa, 1850-1, 378 Richer's Key to the Mystery, 135 Ripton on Punishment of Death, 704 Roberts’s Short Hints to Students in Architecture, 18 Robertson’s Political Incidents of Burmese War, 474 Robertson’s (A. C.) Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, 1030 Robertson’s (W. P.) Visit to Mexico, 612 Robins’s Paddington, 942 Robinson’s Summer’s Day-Dream, 1551 Rochau’s Wanderings through Italy, 378 Roland Trevor, 674 Roman Classical Literature, by Browne, 1317 R of Student Life Abroad, by Kimball, 224 Roquette’s Woodreeve’s Bridal Progress, 1009 Rosalie, 823 e, Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, 412 Roses, The, 1380 Réssler’s Monuments of German Law, 255 Rule’s Celebrated Jesuits, 944 Ruskin’s Stones of Venice, Vol. IT., 879 ; Vol. III., 1249 Russel’s Great Circle Tracts, 768 H. C. R., 771,) 1549, 1589; Memoirs of Fox, 551, 586 Russell, Lord W., Life of, by Lord J., 943 Russell, Lady Rachel, Letters of, 1549 Russell’s Christian Sabbath, 1515 Russell’s Extraordinary Men, 1158 Russia: Russo-Turkish War, by Coningsby, 1588; Count A. Demidoff’s Travels in Southern, 1036; in the Right, Moseley, 1588; Shores of Black Sea, Oliphant, 1311; and Turkey, by Phillimore, 1354; Question, Le Duc and Urquhart, 11485; Russian Life in the Caucasus, 1253; Progress of Russia, by Urquhart, 1255 Ruth, 76 St. John’s (B.) Turks in Europe, 984 St. John’s (Hon. F.) Rambles in Germany, 1592 St. John’s (H.) Indian Archipelago, 409 St. John’s (J. A.) There and Back Again in Search of Beauty, 848 St. Michon’s Religious Journey in East, 1221 Salad for the Solitary, 1283 Salamis, The Battle of, Tactics of, by Blakesley, 1482 Sales: Emile, 22, 137, 1327, 1518, 1556; Duchess of Orleans’ Pictures, 24; Champion's, 56; Cruikshank’s Works, 86; Cragg’s Papers, 137; Pugin’s Library, 167— Antiquities, 233 ; Canino, 327, 358; Wilson’s Water-Colour Drawings, 328; Nelson Correspondence, 451; Louis Philippe’s Spanish Pictures, 593, 622, 655; Standish Gal- lery, 680, 710; Bernal’s, 536; Engravings, 711; Wood- burn’s, 775; Windus'’s, 776; Moore’s Letters, 765, 800, 805, 828 ; Hawtrey’s Library, 961, 1595; English Portraits, 864; Topographical Prints, &c., 920; Portrait of Pitt, 921; Pictures by Zoffany, 1042; Copyrights, 1485 Salmon, Adventures of a, 385 Sam Slick’s Wise Saws, 613 Sandys’s Christmas Tide, 17 Sans Changer, by J. W. W., 7: Savile House, by Hill, 1449 Savonarola, Life of, by Madden, 1007 Schelcher’s Government of December Second, 616 Schonberg’s (Von) India and Kashmir, 415 Schvolcraft’s Scenes in Ozack Mountains, 1223 Schouy’s Earth, Plants, &c., transl. by Henfrey, 43 Scientific Education, 258 ; Announcements, 3153 Pro-Slavery Argument, 1354 Russell’s (Lord J.) Moore, 471, 497 [Mr. Murray, 528; Scotland, History of, by J. H. Burton, 727 Scott on Married Women in the Army, 1063 Scott’s Thomas a Becket, 411 Seager’s Female Jesuit Abroad, 823 Sea Nile, Desert, and Nigritia, by Churi, 1088 Seemann’s Voyage of the He 188 Seneca, or the Twice Betrothed, 991 Sermons, &c., 1038 Seward’s Works, by Baker, 1119 Shady Side, The, 616 : Shakspeare: Notes and Emendations, Collier, 39; Letter from Turner, 172 ; Collier, 417 [see 644, 671, 677]; from Waldron, 705 ; Halliwell’s Observations, 916; Works, Halliwell, 796 ; Curiosities of Modern Criticism, Halliwell, 960; New Notes, Dyce, 671, 700 ; Reply to Dyce, 796; Kos- suth’s Shakspeare, 529, 590; Text of Shakspeare Vindi- cated, Singer, 644, 671; Emendations of Text, Thomas, 714; New Editions, 388; Shakspeare Pilgrims, 866 ; The Grimaldi Shakspeare, 987 ; German Shaksperiana, Eckart’s Dramaturgic Studies—Freiligrath’s Translation of Venus and Adonis—Delius and Leo on Collier’s Discoveries, 1187; Hathaway Bible, 1195; Character Cards, 1482 Shapter’s Sani Measures, Shea’s Mississippi Valley, 132 Shuttleworth’s (Sir J. K.) Public Education, 610 Silliman’s Europe in 1851, 1446 Simpson’s Paris after Waterloo, 161 Simms’s Norman Maurice, 1515 Sims’s Handbook to Library of British Museum, 1475 Sinclair’s (Miss C.) Common-Sense Tracts, No. L., 135; No. IL, 322; London Homes, 1223 Singer's Text of Shakspeare Vindicated, 644, 671 Sinnett’s (Mrs. P.) Child’s History of World, 1385 Sir Frederick Derwent, 768 Sketcher's Tour round the World, 1549 Slavery, Death St: les of, by Bleby, 1322 Smedley’s Fortunes of Colville Family, 190 Smith’s (Albert) Story of Mont Blanc, 937 Smith’s (Alex.) Poems, 347 Smith, Dr. Pye, Medway’s Life of, 1289 Smith’s Woman and her Needs, 351 Snowball’s Plane and er Trigonometry, 323 Societies, Literary and Scientific: Bath, 139, 389; Birmingham, 83, 419; Birmingham and Midland Institute, 1418; Bristol, 619; Camden Atheneum Institute, 353; Centralization Movement, 19, 195; Central Site in Lon- don, 590; Dungannon—Battersea, 325; Edinburgh Phi- losophical Institution, 502; Exeter, 226; Glasgow, 1596 ; Gresham College, #27; Isle of Wight, 291 ; Leeds, 227 London Institution, 325 ; Man ter, 1326 ; Marylebone 1230; Polytechnic, 83; Prize y, 651, 706; Rother- ham, 1293, 1389; Russell Institution, 1388; St. James's, 83, 291, 529; St. John’s Wood, 196, 1195 Societies: [Important Papers only are referred to.} Antiquaries—139 [see also 168), 197; Gossip, 627, 740; Report of Committee for Revision of Laws, 400 Archeological Association—Meeting at Rochester, 918, 945 Archeological Institute—198, 355, 621; Chichester, 859, 489 Asiatic—Logan on Connexion of Ganges with Indian Archi- pelago, 84; Wilson on Vedas, 139; Rawlinson on Inscrip- tions, 228; 260; Latham on Languages in Trans-Gangetic Peninsula, 420; Medhurst on Chinese Inscriptions, 503; Royle on Indian Products known to Ancients, 530; Fer- gusson on Ganges, 620; Anniversary, 741; Rawlinson on Monument of Tiglath Pileser L, 774; Bird on Seleucide, 829; Ravenshaw on Figures from Nineveh, #63; Gossip, 892; Norris on Assyrian Weights, 1420; 1519 Astronomical—1519 Botanical—229 Chemical—Odling on Salts, 1485; 1558 Entomological—85, 141, 229, 356, 481, 621, 743, 893, 969, 1231, 1294, 1390, 1558 Ethnological—141, 229, 652, 1359 Geopraphical—Brun-Rollett’s Ascent of Upper Nile, 168; 227; Allen on Wadi el Araba, 228; 292; Fitz-Roy on Cen- tral America, 355; Findlay on Oceanic Currents, 503; 565, 620; Report, 651; 741; 892; Application to Parlia- ment, 967; M‘Clure on Esquimaux, 1390; 1452, 1519 Geological—84; Wynam and Owen on Reptilian Remains in N. Scotia, 139; Wathen on Gold Fields of Victoria, 228 ; Coles on Ichthyosaurus—Bigsby on Quebec, 326; 355, 420; Duke of Argyll on Granite of Inverary—Ribiero and Sharpe on Busaco, 503; Ramsay on North Wales, 565; De la Condamine on Freshwater Deposit in Huntingdon- shire—Forbes on Fluvio-Marine Tertiaries, 620; Egerton on Affinities of Tetragonolepis and Dapedi Trimmer on Gravel in Somersetshire, 706; Morris on Oolite District of Lincolnshire, 829; 1359; Trimmer on Isle of Wight, 1420; 1519, 1558 Horticultural—140, 261, 293, 355, 481, 531, 621, 652, 830, 946, 1294, 1359, 1520 Institute of Actuaries—22; Discussion on Life Assurance Companies, 231; Hardy op Property Tax, 293; Farren on Reliability of Data, 390; Meikle on Progressive Morta- lity, 532; Bunyan on | holds, 707 ; Spens on Rate of Mortality, 830; Porter on Education, 1486 Institute of British Architects — Donaldson on French Churches, &c., 140; Hay'on Parthenon, 198; 261; Win- ston on Glass, 326, 1452; 480; Donaldson on Lille, 1390 Institution of Civil Engineers—Burt on Timber, 85, 141 ; Barrett on Fire-proof Buildings, 142; Richardson on Pneumatics, 198; 230, 262, 293, 326, 421, 450, 481, 532, 566, 622, 652; Premiums, 1329; On Ocean Steamers, 1359, 1421; 1453, 1486, 1558, 1597 Linnean—141, 198, 229, 326, 356, 450, 565, 652, 743 Meteorological—198 ; Moffatt on Potato Disease, 830 Microscopical—22, 14), 262 Numismatic—198, 292, 389, 565, 707, 829; Dickinson on Ring-Money, 1485; 1597 ; > Scinde, Upper, Lord Jocelyn’s Speech, 135 Philological—262 ; On the word ‘* Stone-henge,” 356; Malden

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Socret1Es—continued. on Amphictyonic League—Latham on New Zealand Lan- guages, 531; Key on Imperfect Infinitive, &c., 707; ‘Wedgwood on English Etymologies, 743; 830; Key on Distinctions of Languages, 1390 . Ray Society—1094 Royal Institution—199; Faraday on Magnetic Force, 230, 262, 293, 326, 390, 421, 450, 532, 566, 622; Huxley on Plants and Animals, 652; 707; Frankland on Chemical Light, 743; Faraday on Oxygen, 774; 830, 1486 . Royal Society—55, 139, 197; Toynbee on Eustachian Tube, 260, 620, 679; Anniversary Meeting, 1452 ; 1596 Royal Society of Literature—Lloyd on Pyramids, 84; 198; Maniette’s Discoveries in Serapeum, 292; Finlay on Otto- man Turks in Europe, 420; Hincks on Arab Queens, 530; Anniversary—Biot on Egyptian Chronology, 620; Hogg on Iceland, 707, 742; 774; Hincks on Cylinder in British Museum, 892; Greenwood on Papal History, 919 ; Leake on Inscriptions in Greece, 1359; Poole on Assyrian Bowl, 1420; 1558 Scottish Society of Arts—393 Society of Arts—Centenary, 20 ; Shepherd on Electric Clocks, 85; Wilkinson on Fire-arms—Jack on Weights, Measures and Moneys, 263 [see also 778]; Lacon on Ships’ Boats, 326; Stones on Paper, 327; 390, 622, 653; Exhibitions, 679; Prizes, 744, 862; List of Lectures, 1094; Gossip, 1234, 1358; Chester’s Address, 1391; Stansbury on Pul- verizing Metalliferous Ores, 1422; Fraser on Smoke, 1453; 1520; Mechi on Agriculture, 1558; Green on Guano, 1559 Statistical—Farron Income Tax, 140, 261; Hubertz on Mental Disease in Denmark, 261 [see also 293] ; 390, 450; Neison on Railway Accidents, 530 ; Guy on Remission of Duties, 621 ; Beggs on Land Societies, 29; Levi on Congress of Brussels, 1421 Syro-Egyptian —Barker’s Description of a Cylinder, 85; Camps on the Zend-Avesta, 263, 356; Grotefend’s Deci- phering of Inscriptions, 532, 622; Account of Mr. Ar- den’s MSS., 774; Wright on Tombs at Hebron, 1391 ; 1559 Zoological—141 ; 229, 261, 481, 1421; Zoological Gardens— 110, 647 ; Ant-Eater, 1228, 1260 Britisu Assocration—Preliminary Gossip, 803, 918, 1039. General Committee, 1064 1097. Treasurer's Account—General Meeting, 1065. President’s Address, 1066. Closing Kemarks, 1229 Sxc. A.—Mathematical and ical Science.— Powell on Luminous Meteors, 1097. Sollitt on Refiecti 1 p : by on Northern Oceans, 1098. Waterston on Dynamical Sequences in Kosmos, 1099. K. Russell on Winds, 1129. Sylvester on Deter- minantse—Burgoyne on_Trigonometrical Survey—Grey on Phe- nomena on Snowdon—Welsh on Kew Thermometers, 1130. Re- port of Committee on Moon—Phillips on Photographs of Moon, 1131. Nasmyth on Drawings of Moon—Buist on indian Seas, li Brewster on’ Tourmaline, &c.—Rankine on Barometric Pendulum (see also 1231}—on Oscillatory Theory of Light, 1133. hillips oo 5 netic Phenomena in Yorkshire— Plicker on ic an tT

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irs, 1197. Watts on Parhelia at St. wo, on on edical Meteorology— Varley’s Graphic ag > ices Photometer—Scoresby on from Mr, Rankine, 1231 ons—Price on b earsall voubea of Ison Ships by Sagar Cargocs, 1 on of Iron ps by Jargoes, Leaf—Kukla on Galvanic Batteries Hodges on Flax, 1166 Src. C.—Geology and Physical phy.—Oldham on Humber, m on Humber—Kemp on Holderness Coast— oast—Denny on R ins of Hippopot Blake on Auriferous Quartz, 1102. Sedgwick on Palzozoic Rocks. 1144. Townsend and Strickland on Cleavage—J ohnson on Change in Composition of Rocks, 1135. Phillipson Erratic Kocks—on new Plesiosaurus—Calvert on Gold in Australia—Strickland on Crystals in New Red Sandstone, 1136 ec. D.— and Botany.—Allis on Reproduction in a Warm- Blooded Animal—Allman on Endochrome—Bate on Pycnogonidz —Sollitt on Diatomacese—Duncan on Ciliary Motion—F ps

on Priapulus—Allman on Fresh Polyp, Instinct in Birds, 1136. Strickland on Hali Organism: ’ " J mination of Seeds—Strickland on Vitality of Seeds—H. Salmon, 1166. Lankester on yoetegespaie Plates, 1167 Sxc. E.—Geography and Ethnology.— on Iceland, 1103, Cal- vert on Gold— Findlay on Oceanic Currents, 1104. Saunders on Climate—Latham on Varieties of Mankind, 1137. Earl on New Guinea—Scoresby on Arctic Basin—Latham on Bi-Lingual Town England— ett on Dialects of Humber—Jochmus on Bal- ia, 1168. Lynch on Tomb of Bay—Latham on Sweden, 1199 8rc. F.— ‘ics, —Cheshi: , 1104, Cooper on Cholera in Hull—Newmarch on Gold, 1138. Locke on Irish Emi- p= aye on Education in Liverpool, 1169. Neison on 7 on Nova Scotia in 1851, 1200 fechan bairn’s Address — Kankine on kill on Reaping Machinery, 1106. Oldham on Steam Navigation in Hull—Locking on New Rota- tory Valve Engine—Ward on New Thermostat, 1107. Scoresby on Railway Accidents, 1138. Bateman on Manchester Water- works, 1139. Chesney on Tubular Life-Boat, 1160. Samuelson on Tilling Land--Fairbairn on Locomotive—Thomson on Jet Pump, 1170. Rennie on Steam and Ether Engine, 1200. Fair- bairn on Metals— Ward on Semaphore—Forster on Organ, 1201 Solar System, Primary and Present State, 943 Southey’s Poetical Works, Vol. I., 1033 Southworth’s Curse of Clifton, &c., 1193; Mark Sutherland, 1223 ° Soyer’s Modern Housewife, 257 ; Saenom, 1152 Sparks’s Letter to Lord Mahon, 166; Washington Let- Letters, 916; Correspondence of American Revolution, 940 Spencer’s (E.) Tour through France and Italy, 408 Spencer’s (H.) Theory of om, 386 Spicer’s Sights and Sounds, 191 Spinoza on God, by Boehmer, 1553 Spirit Manifestations, Works on, 1323 Spooner's Trial by Jury, 416 Standards of Length and Weight, 1257 Star in the Desert, 500 State Papers, Vols. VI. to XL, 71, 249 Steinhal’s Developement of Writing, 1224 Stephens on Ecclesiastical Courts, 1323 Stifter’s Stones of various Colours, 129 Stirling’s Nations, 351 ’ Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights, 500 Story’s Guthrum the Dane, 1591 Stoughton’s Scenes in other Lands, 704 — Stowe’s (Mrs.) Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 375, 414 [see also 419 and 449]; 444 Stowell’s Tradesman’s Calculator, 1290 Strachey on Hebrew Politics, 1013 Strickland’s Twenty-seven Years in Canada West, 559 Stuart’s Naval and Mail Steamers of U. States, 610 Sullivan’s Are we bound by our Treaties? 386 Sumner’s (C.) White Slavery in Barbary States, 475 Surridge on Roman Inscriptions, 1588 Sussex Archeological Collections, 1221 [see alsg 1296] Swain’s Laura d’Auverne, 1551 Sweden, Life in, by Miss Bunbury, 959 Swellengrebel on Co-ordinates, 1224 Symond’s Lecture on Habit, 1449 Taafe’s History of Knights of St. John, 935 Tales of the Forest, 1591 Talpa, by C. W. H., 10 Tate on Industrial Mechanics, 1481 Tayler’s (Rev. C.) Truth, 48 Taylor on Abstaining from Salt, 615 Taylor's (Meadows) Cromlechs, &c., in Sorapur, 915 Tautphoeus’s Cyrilla, 557 Telegraph, Electric: Archer's Guide to, 18; Jones’s Historical Sketch, 49; Gossip, 54; Lecture on, 419; Sub- marine to India, 571; to Ostend, 618; to Ireland, 678; 993; Mediterranean — Anecdotes, 1040; Atlantic, New Invention, 1561; Dr. Bachhoffner’s Lectures, 1596 Telescope, Achromatic, by Simms, 18 Tell-Tale, by Trusta, Xc., 386 Temple Bar, 561 Tendring Cottage, 165 Terrington’s Welton Dale, 412; Christmas, 1515 Thackeray's Humourists, 732, 762; Newcomes, 1158 THEATRES : Theatrical Season, 392, 896. Press Privilege at the Theatres, 57, 87; (French Theatres), 115 [see also 144). Mr. A. Smith’s Pamphlet, 289. Gossip from Paris, 1129, 1234 Adelphi—235. Harlequin and Merry Monarch, 25. Webster te Game, 453. Merry Wives of Wind- 80) sviéve, 778. Camp at Chobham, 832. Sardanapalus, 896. What, No Cab! 970, Discarded Son, 1232. Hotel Charges, 1263. Whitebait at Greenwich, 1393 Thirst of Gold, 1457. Number Nip and Spirit Bride, 1599 Astley’s—Fortunio, 25 City of London—The Egyptian, 453. Aylmere, 1428 Covent Garden; Italian Opera—Programme, 393. Bosio’s début—La Fille mal gardée, 452. Tell, 453, 506. I Puritani: ario, o, Formes, 536. Maria di Kohan: Albini’s and Nan- tier-Didiée’s débuts, 570. Rigoletto: Ronconi, 625. Robert: J ienne, 658. i letti’s début, 682. Maria di Rohan: Medori’s début, 777. Benvenuto Cellini, 803. Le Prophete: Tedesco, Tamberlik, 832. Don Giovanni: Medori and iio, i, 865, 896. Jessonda, 969. Close of Season, 1018 Drury Lane—Harlequin Hudibras, 24. Gold, 87. Louis the Eleventh, 235. Armand—Casket of Jewels, 297. Mr. Sands —School for Kings—Turkish Lovers, 329. Talisman, 425. Civiliza- tion, 484. Summer Season. St. Mare—M. St. Léon and Mdme, Plunkett, 713. Mr. Brooke's Performances: Uthello, 1073—Lago, ; 1128, 1163; 1263; Richard the Third, 1196; 1233; The trothal, 1128. Equestrian Performances, 1295 Haymarket—Leo the Terrible, 24. To Paris and Back, 201. Not so Bad as We Seem, 234. Mr. Webster’s Retirement, 259. New Management. Kivals: Chippendale’s and Poynter’s debuts —Buckstone’s Ascent of Parnassus, 424. Elopements in High Life, 453. _Colombe’s Birthday, 537. Mousetrap, 625. Crowe's Cruel Kindness, 713. RKappings and Table-Movings,778._ Mar- ried Life, 805. Katharine Bell’s début, 832. €ure for Love— "s Opera: Miss Featherstone’s and Ormonde’s débuts, 1295, Money: Vandenhoft’s Evelyn, 1323. Pretty Piece of Busi- ness— Vandenhoff’s Claude Melnotte, 1393. Love's Alarms, 1423. Hope of the Family, 1487. Three Bears, 1598 Lyceu' ood Woman in the Wood, 24. Strange History, 425. A. 8. S.—Fast Train, 537. Trying It on, 570. Lawyers, 658 Sardanapalus, 895. Opening. Mr. Wright, 1328. How to make Home Happy, 1361. Nice Firm, 1393. Bachelor of Arts, 1455 Marylebone—Opening, 1233. Macbeth: Mr. and Mrs. Wal- lack, 1262. Othello, 1328. Bridal, 1361. Metempsychosis, 1423. Hamlet, 1455 S ; f ee Queen Mab, 25. Lilian Gervais: Miss - e:

rton, 115. Deed without a Name, 235. Life in Australia, . Miss Davenport, 297. Salvatori, 425. Uncle Crotchet— Macbeth Travestie, 537. Miller of Derwent Water, 570. Avarice, 805. Shylock: Robson, 832. The Times, 895. Boots at the Swan : Mr. Robson’s Jacob Earwig, 970. New Management, Camp at the Olympic—Plot and Passion : Mr. Robson, 1262 Opéra Comique of Paris—Halévy's Nabab, 1095 Pantomimes and Burlesques, 24, 424, 1521 Princess’s—Harlequin Cherry and Fair Star, 25. St. Cupid, 143. Macbeth, 234. MarcoSpada, 425. Anne Blake, 506. Rjack- eyed Susan: T. P. Cooke, 626. Sardanapalus, 745. Chester- field Thinskin, 922. Rivals, 1232. Lancers, 1327. Harlequin Miller and his Men, 1598 “i Sadler’s Wells—Whittington and Cat, 25. King Henry the Fourth, Part II., 392. Macbeth, 1042. School for Scandal, 1074. Virginius, 1096. Love Chase, 1197. Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1232. King Henry the Fifth, 1423 : St. James’s—The Marionettes, 25. Frenth Plays; Opening— Ravel, 235. luther, 297. Page and Lobry, 454. Contes de la Reine de Navarre—Madeleine Bro}:an, 570. Regnier, 595. Ra- chel, 682. Diane, 713. Lady Tartuffe, 745. German Plays, 832, 897,947. English Opera, 1328. Duggan’s Pierre, 1361 Strand—Civilization : Mr. Anderson, 114 Surrey—Harlequin*and the World of Flowers, 25. Tempest, 1234. Woman of Colour, 1423 Mr. Albert Smith’s Mont Blanc, 1486 Marionette Theatre—The Two Lands of Gold, 482 Salle Robin—Mr. Wellington Young, 236 ' Thistle and Cedar of Lebanon, by Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, 1410 7 Thomas’s Travels in Egypt and Palestine, 1063 Thorpe’s Yule-Tide Stories, 247, 283; Pauli’salfred The

Stephen (Sir G.) on Commercial Law, 1384 the Great, 737 Thoughts in the Night, by a Wanderer, 351 [1853

Thoughts on Man, 351 Timbs’s Year-Book of Facts, 289 Todhunter’s Treatise on Differential Cal Toussaint L’Ouverture, Beard’s Life of, 346 Town Stories, by Max Ring, 224 Tracings, by Trevelyan Turnham, 1322 Trescot’s Diplomacy of the Revolution, 386 Tricoupi’s History of Hellenic Revolution, 115] True Stories, by an Old Woman, 415 Tucker’s (Miss) Abbeokuta, 858 Tuckerman’s Memoir of Greenough, 1312 Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits, 1289 Turkey: Turkish Question, Announcements, 1354: Gill’s Eastern Question, 1588; Hints on Solution of East, ern Question—Wallachia and Moldavia, 1038; Russo. Turkish War, Coningsby, 1588 ; Russia and 4 Phil. limore, 1354; Partition of—Turkish Invasion of Enurope, Butler, 1588; Michelsen’s Ottoman Empire, 1480 Turks in Europe, St. John, 984; Russian Turkey, 1013; Gilson’s Cath ae aw Seed a ter " ; Crowe’s Greek an : Hebrew, 1583; Wyld’s Map, 919 Uns 906; Tarkand Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup, 760 Tylor’s Historical Tour in Franconia, 18 nucle Tom, Key to, Mrs. Stowe, 375, 414, 444. Uncle Tom at Home, Adams, 966; Stearns’s Notes, 1393 Universities, Colleges, &c.: Oxford Tutors’ Asso. ciation, 192; Oxford University Commissioners, Recom- mendations, Heywood, 280; Heywood’s Motion, 29) 678; Study of English Literature, 1324; Report on Re. forms, 1484; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 678; Le Bas Prize, 1389; London, 353, 449—Graduates’ Commit. tee, 564; Scotland, 354, 803; New Test Bill, 992; Glasgow, Election for Rectorship, 1357, 1889; Ireland, Dublin Uni. versity, 803, 827 ; Queen’s Colleges (Galway), 389, 1396; Wales, 1293; Toronto, 1389; Sydney, Australia, 1071; Queen’s College (Cork), 891; Eton, 54, 112; Rugby, 54, 111; List of the Queen’s Scholars at Westminst er, 109; Queen’s College (Birmingham), 909 ; Owens College, 1596: St. David’s, 89; Leeds Proprietary College, 651; Gresham College, 827; Newcastle College, 323; Rochester, 137; College of Chemistry, 919; Mill Hill, 53; Elphinstone’ College, 450; Bashforth on some Recent Buildings, 1449 Vegetable Cell, Anatomy, &c., Mohl, 107 Venice, Leaves from, 1382 Verney Family, Letters of, ed. by Bruce, 581, 614 Village Doctor, by D’ Arbouville, 446 Villette, by Currer Bell, 18 Visitation of Seats and Arms, see Burke. Walsh on Metallic Currency, 1449 Walter Evelyn, 1380 Warner on Our National Defences, 1322 Warren’s Intellectual Developement of Age, 1449 Water-Lily on the Danube, 107 Watson’s Cruise in the Aigean, 1057 Watts’s (A. A.) Biographical Sketch of Turner, 160 Webb’s Pilgrims of New England, 224 Webb’s Five-Pound Note, 1592 Webber’s Wild Scenes, 1446 ; Shot in the Eye, 1592 Webster, Dr. C., Memoirs of, by Grace Webster, 1223 Webster, Daniel, Private Life of, by Lanman, 286 Wellington, Duke of: Life of, Stocqueler,—by and Old Soldier—Ward—Story of his Life, Cooke—for Boys, Kelly—Battles of Quatre Bras, Booth, 185; Sermons and Orations, by Emerton, Maude, Manly, Gordon, 186; Ken- naway’s Law of Duty, 676; Birthplace of, Letter from Dr. Murray, 353 ; Letter from Dr. Brewster, 389 ; Biographical Memoranda of, 1193; Poems: Sonnets, Evans—Lines, by Dodd—Dirge—Elegy, 186; Apsley House, by C. A. Cols, 224; Hero’s Funeral Montgomery, 252; Tennyson's Ode, 280; Braithwaite’s Ode—Coventry’s Elegy, 412 Westgarth’s Victoria, 1377 Whately’s Conversions and Persecutions, 1321 Whitecross’s Sketches and Characters, 1255 Whitfield’s (E.) The Websters, 1482 Whittier’s Chapel of the Hermits, 411 Wigwam and Cabin, 1290 Wilfred De Lisle, by C. H. H., 1286 Wilkins’s Civilization, 1290 William of Wykeham, by Walcott, 909 Williams on Philosophy of Evidence, 1482 Williams’s Sesostris, 1515 Willich’s Income Tax Tables, 1384 Willis’s Summer Cruise, 769; Trip to Tropics, 1349 Wills and Inventories from Richmond, 1313 Wilson on Transfer of Property, 1322 Wisconsin, 1322; Geological Survey, Owen, 522 Wiseman’s Essays on Various Subjects, 881, 918 Woman and her Needs, Smith, 351 ; Record, Hale, 495 Women of England, the Laws about, by Wharton, 943 Wood’s Poems, 1552 Woolnoth’s Facts and Faces, 888 Worcestershire in 19th Century, by Turberville, 560 Working Man’s Way in the World, 385 Working Men, Six Lectures, by Conder, 385 World, The, 1515 Wormley’s Amabel, 289 Wortley ‘(Lady E. 8.) “ &e.,” 48 Wright's Genius of Wordsworth, 824 Wycliffe, De, Life of, by Vaughan, 913 Wynne’s Three Original Plays, 1592 Yapp’s Art-Education, 134 Yezeedee Poem, Letter from Mr. G. P. Badger, 860

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— LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1853. REVIEWS Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, in the Reigns of Elizabeth, James 1., and Charles I. 1540—1646. By the Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux. 2 vols. Murray. Capt. Devereux in the volumes before us has undertaken three very interesting a illustrating an important — of English his- . While not many noble houses can boast of a father and ason equally eminent,—that of the Devereux can point to father, son, and grand- gon successively holding high office, and alike distinguished by royal or popular favour,— while the latter two occupy a conspicuous place in their country’s annals, As the work is very carefully written, and abundantly illustrated by original letters derived from our public libra- ries, as well as from — collections, among which those of Lord Bagot and Mr. Hulton may be particularly noticed,—we shall go over it at some length :—especially that portion which relates to the rise and very mysterious fall of that last and most cherished favourite of Eliza- beth, the son of a favourite, and the step-son of her chief favourite, Leicester,—the favourite of the people too, of whom, singularly enough in this age of ——— no complete memoir has yet been published. The family of the Devereux, as the name proves, was Norman. The elder branch became extinct in the reign of Henry the Third; but the younger settled in the Weish Marches, where “for ten generations little need be said but that they lived as knights and nobles lived in those days.” Meanwhile they became allied to several ancient families; and quartered the bearings of , Chester, Bourchier, Ferrers, Mandeville and Bohun in their shields,—by this last becom- ing allied even to royalty. The last Earl of Essex of the Bourchier line dying childless, his sister Cecily—on her mother’s side niece to Elizabeth Wydville, and who had married John Devereux—became his heiress. Her son Walter Devereux, for his gallantry in the sea fight off Conquet, in 1523, was made Knight of the Garter,—and he was subsequently created Viscount Hereford by Edward the Sixth, in 1550. His grandson was Walter Devereux, who in the year in which Elizabeth ascended the throne (1558), succeeded his grandfather as Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier, and Louvaine,—and he is the subject ofthe first biography. ‘The Devereux had been among the earliest of the great families to em- brace the Reformed religion;’’ and “ Lord Hereford united himself more closely to the Protestants by his marriage with the daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, in 1561-62.”’ Sir Francis Knollys’ wife was niece to Anne Boleyn, and thus Robert Devereux, the favourite, and Elizabeth, were third cousins. Genealogical researches are but dry work; still, in historical inquiries—their value is very great. Thus we see that, after the death of Leicester, the second Essex was actu- ally Elizabeth’s nearest relation on her mother’s side ; while through the Bohuns,—the last sur- Viving sister of whom married Thomas of Wood- stock, the sixth son of Edward the Third,—he Was entitled to quarter the lions of England and the lilies of France in his paternal coat. Little is known of the early youth of Walter Devereux, At the age of twenty-two he married Lettice, the beautiful daughter of Sir Francis ollys, and lived in privacy for some years at i The first public service to which he was called was during the rising in the North; when he collected on his own estate 150 horse, and was appointed “high marshall of the field.” Insurgents, however, dispersed without

striking a blow; and we next find him one of che twenty-five peers commissioners on the trial of the Duke of Northumberland. Qn St. George’s day, 1572, he was made Knight of the Garter,— and in May he was created Earl of Essex. These favours show that he stood high in the Queen’s esteem ; and he began to be an object of court hostility, especially to Leicester. In order to exile him from the royal presence, an injudicious proposal was made,—that he should offer his services to reduce Ulster, now in open rebel- lion :—and “honest and unsuspicious, he saw not the pit-fall laid for him.” — “In the spring of 1573, Essex made a formal offer of his services to the Queen. The paper, with Lord Burghley’s autograph notes in the margin, is in the State Paper Office, as well as the agreement which was concluded on the 8th July, by which the Queen granted to the Earl the moiety of the country of Clandeboye, in consideration of the sur- render of his title to 800 marks land which he claimed under the will of the Earl of March. He was to set out before Michaelmas, with 200 horse and 400 foot, which numbers he was to maintain at his own cost for two years, the Queen keeping an equal number: after two years he was to maintain the same number as the Queen, not to exceed 600. All fortifications to be at equal charge between them. The Earl was to have timber out of Killulto Woods, was to pay no customs, and have free trans- port of arms, money, and all necessaries, for seven years. Old Fuller might well exclaim, ‘to maintain an army, though a very little one, is a Sovereign's and no subject's work, too heavy for the support of any private man’s estate; which cost this Earl first the mortgaging, then the selling outright, his fair in- heritance in Essex.’ The most remarkable part of the transaction is yet to be related. Not possessing funds sufficient for the large expenses preliminary to so great an undertaking, it became necessary for Essex to borrow 10,0002, and who should be the money-lender but the Queen herself! A real Jew’s bargain was made for her; ten per cent. interest, with forfeiture for non-punctuality of mars while he was to be at equal charge with her in building fortifications and garrisons, from which he would certainly not reap equal advantage; and, after all, we shall find her suffering him to be thwarted by every underling who desired to gain favour with the Leicester faction. * * It had been at first in- tended that Essex should hold a commission from the Queen as Captain-General of Ulster; but Sir William Fitz-William, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, jealous of the rank and reputation of the Earl, and dreading to be eclipsed by him, made such earnest remonstrances, entreating the Queen that she would maintain him in the full power of his office, and was so well backed by Leicester, who, though desirous to remove Essex, was not at all anxious to give him a bed of roses to repose on, that Elizabeth was prevailed on to consent that the Earl should receive his commission as Governor of Ulster from the Lord Deputy.” But neither the hardship of the bargain nor the difficulty of the enterprise seems to have oc- curred to the mind of Essex,—and heset off in high spirits. The expedition was certainly popular, —for numerous knights and nobles accompanied him as volunteers. These, however, in a few months became dissatisfied; while the Lord Deputy, by delaying sending the commission to Essex, encouraged a rumour that the expedition wos :oerely a private one. “It yore certain that Sir William Fitz-William, in his jealousy of Essex, had encouraged, if not authorized, re- ports extremely injurious to the authority of that nobleman; and there can be no doubt he was supported by a powerful faction at home, or he would not have ventured to do so.”” The ill will borne by the Lord Deputy, although certainly exhibited in an unjust opposition, was not however unnatural; for “‘here was a noble- man of high rank and reputation sent into Ireland with an independent command.” But

the Deputy’s conduct was disapproved by the

Queen, who meditated displacing him; and it was even thought that Essex ~— be appointed in his room. This was prevented by the Lei- cester faction; but some time after Sir Henry Sidney received the appointment. Meanwhile, Essex addressed a long letter to the Privy Coun- cil, which is printed here, from the copy in the State Paper Office; and to this he received a most gracious reply from the Queen, which is also given, and from which we extract the fol- lowing passage.— “ And as for your service, though the same through cross and overthwart accidents hath had hitherto very unfortunate success, yet we, acknowledging the same to have been grounded not on gain, but upon honor (an argument of true nobility), cannot, whatsoever issue the same hath had, but make account of you as of that noble man who, in respect of our service, hath rather chosen to suffer any intolerable toil in Ireland, than yield to enjoy the delicacy of England. Which rare affection, if we should not cherish, we should shew ourself unworthy of so rare a servant. There- fore, assure yourself that, as we made good account of you before, so, upon this proof given of your value, we make double account of you now; and therefore, we would not have you (though your letters received not present answers) to mistrust that the same pro- ceeded either of lack of grateful receiving of them, or of neglecting your service. You know some of them contained such matters as were not fit to be answered by every Secretary, to the contents whereof assure yourself our eyes and the fire only have been made privy. We perceive by them how careful you are every way of our service; and therefore, you may assure yourself you shall not find us a mistress void of that consideration that like fidelity deserveth.” A second letter, sent shortly after, praises him, because “ You do rather allure, and ining in that barbarous nation to civility, and ac- knowledging of their duty to God and to us, by wisdom and discreet handling than by force or shedding of blood.’’ As to the barbarism of the Trich, these letters abound with singular instances; and the character of the warfare employed against chem must have been most distasteful to civilized men. It is curious, our author remarks, to find Essex, almost three cen- turies ago, suggesting the conquest of Ulster “by cutting passes so wide, that ten horsemen might ride abreast in the narrowest ways:"’—the same <a “having been made by the great military authority of this age as the most effectual method of conquering the Kaffirs.” Essex, however, had not sufficient troops to carry on the war vigorously, although a few successes encouraged him. In 1575, the Queen, after partaking of the “princely pleasures of Kenilworth,” proceeded to Chartley, where the Countess of Essex entertained her; and from thence she ~~ oy a most friendly letter, bestowing on Essex the Earl Marshalship of Ireland, but for his life only :—while “From Dudley Castle, on the 12th of August, the Queen answered the ‘letter relating the capture of’ Raghlin Island, which had given her great and sin gular contentment. She says, ‘If you knew what comfort we take to have a subject of your quality,— so assured unto us by bond of loyalty, whereof we have always had so good a trial, and tied unto us so nearly by affinity, a note of no small assurance ;—to grow in this time when the most part of men do give themselves over, as it were, a prey unto delicacy ;— to be so serviceable in a calling whereof we may, in time to come, take so great profits you should then acknowledge that care, and hazard, and travail, is betsowed in the service of a prince that maketh as thankful acceptation of the same as any other prince that liveth.’ * * Sir Henry Sidney, who landed in Ireland on the 8th of September, writes from Drog- heda on the 28th. ‘So of the Earl I must say he is so noble and worthy a personage, so forward in all his actions, and complete a gentleman, wherein he may either advance your honor or service, as you may take comfort to have in store so rare a subject, who hath nothing in greater regard than to shew himeelf

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8 THE ATHENZUM CJan. 1,°53 such an one indeed as common fame reporteth of him, which hath been no more in truth than his due deserts and painful travels in the hardest part of this miserable county have deserved.’ ” In September Sir Henry Sidney arrived in Ireland, and soon after Essex prepared to re- turn. ‘He had expended, in addition to his debt to the Queen of 10,000/., not less than 25,000/.; in return for which he received the grant of the barony of Farney, and the honour- able distinction of Earl-Marshal:—a poor re- payment for the sacrifice of youth, health and fortune. He had checked the rebellious chief- tains of Ulster, and guarded the borders of the English Pale from their ravages:. . . . but an unseen, but evil, influence was ever at hand to thwart his best attempts; and although he left Ulster quiet, no sooner had he departed than rebellion broke out again.” In November Essex returned to England; and Walsingham writes to Burghley :— “T met with a messenger sent from the Earl of Essex with letters to Her Majesty, by the which he did give Her Majesty to understand that he hath arrived within this country, and that he presently -desired that he might have leave to come to see Her “Majesty : whereupon Her Majesty willed me to signify unto him that she was glad of his arrival, and was ‘well pleased that he should repair to the Court, with condition that with over much haste he did not dis- temper his body.” Another letter, addressed to Essex, states that the Queen is very desirous of seeing him, “ not- withstanding, for that she understandeth your Lordship hath been grievously tormented on the sea, she would not have you make more speed than may stand with the good health of your distempered body;” and he adds, “I find her Majesty’s affection towards you such as your best friends can desire.” We have been rather particular in laying the foregoing extracts before the reader, since they prove the great partiality which Elizabeth certainly felt for the father,— a fact which it is important to bear in mind in tracing the history of the son. But Essex’s affairs were gree 'y embarrassed, and he ear- t the Privy Council to afford him nestly besoug their aid towards the repayment of his large disbursements in Ireland. This, however, the Privy Council were in no haste to do; while the Earl of Leicester was anxious to expedite his return to Ireland, coy! on account of the Queen’s favour towards him, but more, so said rumour, on account of his beautiful wife, who the preceding summer had been his guest at Kenilworth.— “Tt is possible that he might then have formed the attachment to that lady, so freely imputed to him by all the writers of the time; who, although in their enmity to Leicester, they hesitated not to accuse her of criminality without any proof, yet were not likely to advance a charge for which there was not some plausible foundation. Lady Essex, beautiful and high spirited, may easily be supposed to have re- quited her husband’s continued absence and real or * Supposed neglect by encouraging the attentions of Leicester; but it is not credible that Sir Francis Knollys, the strict old Puritan,—who was always at the court, and who watched so carefully over his daughter, that at a later period he insisted on her * being a second time united to Leicester in his presence, that he might be sure there was no deceit, such as ‘had been before successfully practised on unfortunate ‘Jadies by that unscrupulous libertine,—would have \been blind to, or seeing would have permitted, an intrigue to be carried on between them under his very eyes. Neither would Essex have maintained the semblance of friendship to Leicester, as he did up to his departure the second time, had thet nobleman been the seducer of his wife. But that such designs were entertained by Leicester is very probable, and his anxiety to remove her husband may thus be fairly accounted for.” Essex was, however, to be effectually re- moved ere long. In the spring he went to Chartley ; where he endeavoured to arrange his affairs, as though in anticipation of his ap- a end. He then took ship at Holy- ead ;—and, while waiting for a fair wind, wrote a letter to Walsingham, in which, after refer- ring to some conveyance of lands, he adds— “With the conveyance there is also my will; my earnest desire is that you will take them into your custody.”” On his arrival at Dublin he was received with warmest greetings; and he spent the time until the return of the Lord- eputy to Dublin in visits to his many friends. But scarcely had he been duly invested with the office of Earl-Marshal ere he fell grievously ill of dysentery; and after lingering for twenty- one days in patient suffering, he expired on the 22nd of September. On his death-bed his anxiety for his five orphan children—the eldest only thirteen years old—caused him to dictate a most pathetic letter to Elizabeth,—which is here reprinted from the Burghley papers.— “ My humble suit,” he says, towards the close, “must yet extend itself into many branches, for the behoof of my poor children, that since God doth make them fatherless, yet it would please your Majesty to be as a mother to them, at least by your gracious countenance, and care of their education and matches. Mine eldest son, upon whom the continuation of my house remaineth, shall lead a life far unworthy his calling, and most obscurely, if it be not holpen by your Majesty’s bounty and favour.”—Happy had it been for that eldest son had the royal bounty and favour never been extended to him. This letter was written on the 20th; but the writer’s life being lengthened out to the fol- lowing day, he addressed a last letter to Burgh- ley, earnestly commending his eldest son to him, and appointing him and the Earl of Sussex guardians. : As might be expected, a report was spread that Essex was poisoned,—and Leicester, of eourse, was charged with it. There seems, however, to have been no reason to suppose that his death was otherwise than natural. His remains were conveyed to Wales, to be interred at Carmarthen; when the enormous sum of 1,122/. was expended on ‘the funerals,” not- withstanding the known poverty of the family. ‘‘The little Earl of Essex,” now about nine years of age, met with much commiseration and kindness. ‘I protest,” writes a friend of the family to Sir Henry Sidney, ‘‘that I do not think there is in England this day so strong a man of friends as the little Earl, nor any man more lamented than his father since the death of King Edward.” In compliance with his father’s dying request, Burghley took the ardianship of young Robert; and after eeping him at his house for a few months, sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge, in May, 1577. The saving characteristics of the worthy Lord Treasurer are amusingly displayed in the urgent letters which are sent to him both from the poor boy in choice Latin, and from the tutor in plain English, for a suitable outfit,—“ else he shall not only be threadbare, but ragged,” as the latter plainly says; and when we find that the request is limited to “a fair ae for holidays, two doublets, three pair of hose, two pair of nether stocks, a velvet cap, and a hat,” we cannot consider these articles very extra- vagant for the young Earl whose shield bore sixteen quarterings, and among them the arms of the Plantagenets. His diet seems also to have been regulated on the same saving prin- ciple. From some curious accounts in the Appendix we find “eggs, butter, and plaice,” as his Friday night’s supper, costing the large sum of sixteen pence. ‘Mutton and beef,” are his homely Sunday’s dinner, but for supper we find “veal, lamb, pigeons, and rabbits,” The general dietary, however, is mutton and beef, alternating once or twice with veal or lamb,—while on one occasion, a solitary chicken, price sixpence, is added. Might not this hig. gardliness of his well-meaning, but mistakey guardian have actually awakened in Robert Devereux that love of display and_ princely extravagance by which, equally with Leicester, he was characterized? The young Earl continued some years at Cambridge. In July, 1581, he took his degree of Master of Arts; and the next year he writes to Burghley, hoping “‘ your L. in courtesy will pardon my youth, if I have, through want of experience, In some sort passed the bounds of frugality." What answer the frugal Burghley re- turned, we know not; but Essex seems now to have left College, and to have retired to his house at Lanfey, in Pembrokeshire,—from whence, by the urgent wishes of his mother, now the wife— although her marriage was not known until some time after—of his father’s chief enemy, Leicester, he proceeded to court.. It appears that this step was not taken without reluctance, nor until his mother’s repeated remonstrances had overcome “ the stiff aversation” which he felt to being presented by the Earl of Leicester. He was now in his seventeenth year,—and “his goodly person, and a kind of urbanity and innate courtesy combined with the recollection of his father’s misfortunes, at once won him the hearts of both Queen and _people.”— The haughty and impulsive spirit of the young Earh is very characteristically shown in the following letter, now printed from Lord Bagot’s collection. It was written on occasion of the intention of the Privy Council to remove Mary, Queen of Scots, to Chartley, the family seat. It is ad- dressed to Mr. Bagot.— “T received news by John Briton that Sir Amias Paulet was at Chartley, to prepare for the Scots queen; whereupon I sent with speed to the Court to somé who movell the Queen for the stay thereof; which she most willingly granted, and determined that it was not a fit place to keep herin. My L. Treasurer, my L. Leicester, and Mr. Secretary, assured me that this direction should be given to Sir Amias Paulet. What it is I know not, but to prevent the worst, and to have it less fit for that use, I would have you and Thos. Newport remove all the bedding, hangings, and such like stuffs, to your own house for a while ; and if she come to Chartley, it may be carried to Lichfield, or else, she being gone to Dudley, or elsewhere, it may be carried back.” A peremptory letter this, when the power of the Privy Council, and their age, and standing too, are borne in mind, for a lad of seventeen to write! Truly, in this we may well perceive how “the boy was father to the man.”—He wrote also to his maternal grandfather, Sir Francis Knollys, declaring that rather than “‘ my poor and only house should be used against my will, I will make all the means I can to prevent any such inconvenience.””—Sir Francis sent the following letter to Walsingham.— “Master Secretary,—I pray you move Her Ma- jesty to have some compassion of the miserable poor Earl of Essex, who hath but one house freely his own, from which he cannot well be barred to look unto it. And it is no policy for Her Majesty to lodge the Queen of Scots in so young a man’s house as 2¢ is. 5 Oct. 1585. “ Your’s assuredly, F. Knoiixs.” —The last remark, our author observes, doubt- less produced the effect intended,—though but for afew weeks. Mary continued at Tutbury a short time; and meanwhile, Essex having been sent, for his first campaign, into Holland with Leicester, she was removed to Chartley ;— where she remained until the September following. It isa strong proof of the high favour w Essex enjoyed, to find that this youth, who hed never seen a battle, even afar off, was honour with the title—jndeed it could have bees We 13 — toequif a well-1 who, in «50 fa hath ne tain the and mo one qui able to truths who hi who, th States, in alm¢ Day, L after w the bar that hi forwar year, Si —acir intima lost the was bu joung 1s, that exertec Winste much « to Rale at this searcel man. hated | object her sal

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Skee We 1314) THE ATHENAUM 9 pothing else—of General of the Horse! His extravagant tastes, however, led him, in addition, toequip a band of his own; for which he received a well-merited reproof from his grandfather,— who, in a characteristic letter, tells him, that “so far from being before hand, your father hath not left you sufficient lands for to main- tain the state of the poorest Earl in England,” and moreover, “‘ you are left more in debt than one quarter of your land, to be sold by you, is able to discharge.” But little were these home traths regarded by the reckless young noble; who had now constantly before his eyes one who, though not of superior rank, feasted the States, and went on progress through Holland in almost royal magnificence. On St. George’s Day, Leicester gave a s lendid entertainment, after which the young Earl made his début at the barriers, and ‘‘ behaved himself so towardly, that he gave all men great hopes of his noble forwardness in arms.” In the autumn of this year, Sir Philip Sidney received his death wound ; a circumstance which probably led to a closer intimacy of Leicester with Essex,— since, having lost the nephew whom he so greatly loved, it was but natural he should turn to the fascinating young man who was his step-son. Certain it is, that on his return from Holland, Leicester exerted himself greatly on behalf of Essex. Winstanley, indeed, says, that this was not so much out of love to him, as to be a counterpoise toRaleigh; but Raleigh, a mere adventurer, and at this time without influential friends, could scarcely excite the jealousy of so powerful a man. Besides, however Leicester might have hated the father, the mother we know was the object of his pursuit for some years. It was for her sake that he basely cast off Lady Sheffield, —and, libertine as he was, and in high favour with the Queen, actually contracted a private marriage with her in the presence of her father, two years after her husband's death. The fol- lowing extract, we think, proves his partiality for Essex. It is from Lord Bagot’s collection.— “With these views he endeavoured to obtain the rare of Essex to his place of Master of the ‘orse ; the duties of which office required close atten- dance on the royal person ; among others, to walk at her bridle rein when she rode in state. Anthony Bagot writes to his father in May, 1587;—* My Lord, his pleasure is, that I shall attend, for he told me with his own mouth, he looked to be Master of the Horse within these ten days. It hath been named to the Queen, but she saith she hath no higher a place for ny L. of Leicester, and he telleth my L. he craveth nothing but that he may resign his place unto my Lord. He hath also told my L. what the office is, and what it is worth; 1500 pounds yearly, besides the keeping of his draw horses, and his table ; thus much upon May day my Lord told mealone. Now for Her Majesty’s favor, singular countenance, and ex- ceeding good words, Mr. Littleton, at your meeting, can satisfy you.‘ When she is abroad, nobody near her but my L. of Essex ; and, at night, my Lord is at cards, or one game or another with her, that he cometh not to his own lodging till birds sing in the Morning. Sir Walter Ralegh he is the hated man of uss in court, city, and country.’ (Blithfield This, however, was not the case as respected the Queen; and the following curious letter from the Tanner MSS. gives account of what or was the first occasion of offence towards eigh,—and probably laid the foundation of t malignant hostility which pursued the hty, but open and generous, Essex to the Very scaffold.— “Mr. Dier,—I have been this morning at Win- t House to seek you; and I would have given Sthousand pounds to have had one hour's speech with you ; so much I would hearken to your counsel, and so greatly do I esteem your friendship. Things ae fallen out very strangely against me, since my last g with you. Yesternight the Queen came to North Hall, where my Lady of Warwick would needs have my sister to be. * * Yesternight, after she was come, and knew my sister was in the house, she commanded my Lady of Warwick that my sister should keep her chamber; whereupon, being greatly troubled in myself, I watched when the Queen had supped, to have some speech with her, which I had at large, yet still she giving occasion thereof. Her excuse was, first, she knew not of my sister’s coming ; and besides, the jealousy that the world would conceive, that all her kindness to my sister was done for love of myself. Such bad excuses gave mea theme large enough, both for answer of them, and to tell her what the true causes were; why she would offer this disgrace both to me and to my sister, which was only to please that knave Ralegh, for whose sake I saw she would both grieve me and my love, and disgrace me in the eye of the world. From thence ee came to speak of Ralegh ; and it seemed she could not well endure any thing to be spoken against him; and taking hold of one word, disdain, she said there was no such cause why I should disdain him. This speech did trouble me so much, that, as near as I could, I did describe unto her what he had been, and what he was; and then I did let her know whether I had cause to disdain his competition of love, or whether I could have comfort to give myself over to the service of a mistress that was in awe of such a man. I spake, what of grief and choler, as much against him as I could, and I think he, standing at the door, might very well hear the worst that I spoke of himself. In the end, I saw she was resolved to defend him and to cross me. From thence she came to speak bitterly against my mother, which, because I could not en- dure to see me and my house disgraced (the only matter which both her choler and the practice of mine enemies had to work upon), I told her, for my sister she should not any longer disquiet her; I would, though it were almost midnight, send her away that night ;and for myself, I had no joy to be inany place, but loth to be near about her, when I knew my affec- tion so much thrown down, and such a wretch as Ralegh highly esteemed of her. To this she made not answer, but turned her away tomy Lady of War- wick. Soat that late hour I sent my men away with my sister; and after, I came hither myself. This strange alteration is by Ralegh’s means; and the Queen, that hath tried all other ways, now will see whether she can by those hard courses drive me to be friends with Ralegh, which rather shall drive me to many other extremities.” —He concludes this characteristic epistle with a threat that he will go to Flushing. He set out; but Sir Robert Cary was sent after him, and persuaded him to return. The storm passed over; and at Christmas the same year Leicester received the appointment of Lord Steward of the Household and Essex that of Master of the Horse. Our next notice will bring our pursuit of the fortunes of Essex into the year of the Spanish Armada. Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian. The Trish Abroad and at Home ; in the Camp ; at the Court. With Souvenirs of “ the Brigade.” 3 vols. Bentley. TuovcH these three volumes contain some amusing and readable matter, they belong to a class of works which must be received cau- tiously. No name is offered on the title- page to guarantee the authenticity of the anecdotes recorded,—and a great deal of old matter has been mixed up by the compiler with his own contributions. The work is a gossipping one de omnibus rebus Hibernicis ; and like the printed after-dinner talk of an old Dublin gentleman chatting about past Irish celebrities, without very much regard to the historical accuracy of his stories. All the anecdotes have a second-hand appearance :— and we could ourselves trace much of them to magazines and previous gossipping writers. The title of “‘ Emigrant Milesian ”’ we take to be merely pseudonymous. The best portion of the work is that relating to the personal histories of various members of the “Irish Brigade” in the service of France.— Our readers may be interested by reading of the mysterious death of Viscount Wall, one of the Brigade, as it is related by this anecdotist.— “ ¢ Wall was one of the bravest of men. One day he desired his valet-de-chambre to put up the articles of dress and toilet necessary for a short absence from Paris, and to order his carriage for an early hour next morning. At the time indicated, the post-chaise was at the door. He told his wife that he should be absent only a day or two, and stepping into the chaise desired the postillion to drive to Fontainebleau. Having arrived at Fontainebleau he repaired to the Hotel de Turenne, where he was well known, ordered dinner, and taking his sword in his hand said he would stroll into the forest, but would be back in an hour or two. It was then about four o’clock. He did not return to dinner, nor that night, a circum- stance which caused the proprietor of the hotel, who loved and respected him, much alarm, and induced him next morning to acquaint the authorities of the town with the facts. He also apprised some friends of Wall, officers of the garrison, of his disappearance. A large party in consequence set off for the forest in the direction that Wall had taken, and there dis- persed. Fora considerable time their search was fruitless, but at length in a remote and unfrequented part of the forest they found the dead body of Wall, nearly covered by a drift of fallen leaves. He had been run through the body. His sword lay by his side; his purse filled with money was in his pocket; his watch in his fob. The body was removed to the hotel, and thence to Paris. This melancholy affair became the topic of conversation at Court, in the salons, and other assemblies of high life. In one of them a friend of Wal!, an Irishman of distinction, repelled the idea that he had fallen in a duel. “ Wall,” said he, “ was not surpassed as a swordsman : he could not have met a superior. He was basely murdered.” Next morning this person received a letter by the petite poste, couched in these terms :—“ You stated last night that Wall was assassinated. It is false. If you are a man of honour, and willing to have satis- faction for this imputation on your veracity, and at the same time avenge your friend, repair, alone, on Monday next between the hours oftwo and fouro’clock, to the Forest of Fontainebleau, route (naming it). You will,at a certain point (indicating it) find a person in a blue surtout, who on your approach will take out a pocket-handkerchief and put it to his face for a moment, and will then strike into a path leading to a fit and proper spot for the decision of our quarrel,”’ This letter was signed: “ He by whose hand Wall fell.” In England probably no notice would have been taken of a challenge of this kind, coming as it did anonymously; but at the period of which I speak, persons observant of the code of honour were more fastidious. ‘ The challenged per- son,’ coatinued Cousin Robin, ‘ sent immediately for a friend, the gallant unfortunate Theobald Dillon. “ You cannot refuse this cartel,” said Dillon, “ but I do not like the look of it. Why, require you to be unaccompanied by a friend? It suggests strongly the idea of an ambush. You must keep the rendez- yous, however, but I shall be at hand to aid you, should (as I fear) foul play be intended and offered to you.” On the day appointed Dillon and his principal repaired to Fontainebleau. When the hour fixed drew near they walked into the forest in the direction of the point named for the meeting. On their arrival near to a turning which led immediately to it, Dillon stopped. “I can go no farther,” said he, “but if you perceive anything suspicious in the manner or conduct of your antagonist, call out and I shall be with you ina few seconds.” After shaking hands, the friends separated. Dillon retired, and the challenged party proceeded. On turning the corner, before arriving at which Dillon had stopped, he perceived at a distance a man standing in the middle of the road, towards whom he walked directly. When he had come within forty or fifty yards of him, the stranger took out his handkerchief, raised his hand and pointed to a path at one side, into which he struck at a quick pace. His adversary followed. Another turn was made by the leader and another path was chosen. This was also abandoned for another, more intricate and scarcely marked, It

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10 THE ATHENAUM Jan. 1, 53 led to the Rocher Brilé, one of the most deserted parts of the forest. The leader made another sharp turn. The Irishman, now nearly at his heels, made a similar movement. He had not, however, ad- vanced three steps in this new direction when he found his collar seized by a vigorous hand. He turned to regard the assailant—it was Dillon. An exclamation escaped him. This induced his enemy to look back, who seeing how matters stood, shook his head, waived his hand and disappeared in the forest. “Why did you interrupt me?” asked the Irishman of Dillon. “To save you from the fate of Wall. This man is obviously an assassin. Your character hitherto will secure you from any reflection on your courage. Moreover, I am living to testify to it. This affair must go no further.” —There is then a very long continuation to this story, by way of suggested explanation,—ending in great obscurity, and giving no authority for the facts. The writer is occasionally affected about iving only the initials of some of the cele- frities about whom he gossips. _In this day it is too absurd when writing of the ‘Col. Luttrel”” of Junius, to use the initial Lord Cc for Lord Carhampton. There are in this volume some amusing anec- dotes of the Club of the “ Cherokees,” and of the Messrs. Mathews of Thomastown Castle.— “ They were generally speaking of the aristocratic order; and were remarkable for the personal ap- pearance of numerous members of their body, among whom were many of the handsomest and finest men in Europe. Of these several became afterwards well known in London, viz.: the Mathews, Lord Llandaff and his brother, General Montague Mathew, the Butlers, Walter and James, first and second Marquesses of Ormond, Lord Cole, the late Earl of Enniskillen, Sir Henry Parnell, Sir Wheeler Cuffe,&c. The handsome dashing Cherokees found rivals on the Continent in the descendants of Irish- men, in the persons of the O’Donnells of Spain and Austria, and of the Walls and Dillons of France. The costume of the Cherokees argued that they were in full dress at their assemblies, which would suggest that their pretensions were ultra-aristocratic. In my day, in Ireland, the Cherokee Club dress-coat of William Palmer (son of the beauty Lady Palmer, and father of the present baronet) was still pre- served. It was of dark brown cloth, lined with pink satin. The handsomest member of the Chero- kees was perhaps Walter, Earl of Ormond; but the Mathews, upwards of six feet high respectively, were finer men. Lord Cole was equally tall. There must still exist in London and Dublin the recollec- tion of Lord Mathew (the late Earl Llandaff) and General Montague Mathew. Even in St. James’s Street, every person they passed, stopped to look at and admire them. If there were a difference of opinion respecting their personal claims to admira- tion between the brothers, Montague had the advantage. The Lord wore an air of haughtiness which never appeared in the princely, manly, frank Montague (‘ Mounty’ was the pet-name by which he was known): pretension was neither requisite nor natural in him. * * Should this sketch convey an idea that the Mathews (or indeed the Cherokees generally) were effeminate, it would be a great error. Two braver men never stepped than the Mathews. Of the two the Lord was the braver. Within these forty years he proposed Mounty as a candidate for admission into the Street Club, Dublin. Mounty was black-balled. Eighty-five black balls registered the political rancour of the club, which was eminently Tory; amongst whom, nevertheless, the sons of three Roman Catholic brewers (C. F. and M.) figured; but they had been admitted because they had tixed political principles, and to give to the club an apparent claim to a character for liberality of opinion. When the numbers were declared, the great room of the club was full. Lord Mathew, or rather Llandaff (for his father was now dead), closed the door, and put his back to it. He then said in a loud voice: ‘There are eighty-five rascals in this room.’ — ‘ Llandaff! Llandaff! recall those words,’ cried several of his friends.‘ No, I will not. I repeat that there are eighty-five ——. scoundrels in this room.’—‘ Surely, my Lord, you will allow men to exercise their right?‘ Certainly I will; but I repeat my words—there are eighty-five scoundrels in this room, for every man it contains pledged himself to me to vote for my brother's ad- mission.’. The effect of this statement may be conceived. The haughty, indignant, and now super- cilious Earl, after.a pause, proceeded, amid breathless attention: ‘Montague Mathew is the only man in Ireland for whom I could not succeed in procuring admission into this club. Who among you is better entitled to the distinction, if it were one, than Mon- tague Mathew? Which of you is of a nobler family, or more illustrious descent? Who among you is more Irish, or rather more patriotic in principle and conduct, than he? Bear in mind, every man of you, that I denounce eighty-five of those who hear me as scoundrels!’ He then threw open the door, and for the last time descended the staircase of the —— Street Club.” The foregoing extracts will show the nature of this collection of Irish anecdotes ;—which often reminds us of Sir Jonah Barrington’s reminiscences, It is more calculated to please Irish than English readers:—though the latter may find some amusement in it, too. Talpa; or, the Chronicles of a Clay Farm. An Agricultural Fragment. By C.W.H. Reeve & Co. THE young and the sanguine go on rejoicing at what they call the diffusion of knowledge in our day,—while the old and the thoughtful shake their heads, and hint that diffusion is not neces- sarily progress. Where the line of separation should be drawn, is not, we believe, exactly decided; and it certainly does not help the conclusion to find Literature and Art—‘ Talpa”’ and George Cruikshank—taking up a loving abode together and turning experimentalists at Clay Farm,—situated in one of the dreariest of the bleak, high-lying districts that overlook the somewhat celebrated Pugsley Middlefen. There, however, we have found them—and capital farmers and excellent company they are. What a pestilent place was that Clay Farm when the ‘Talpa” began his underground grubbing there! How oozy, dreary, dark, and agueish it looks in George Cruikshank’s picture ! —and not much more temptingly in the little pen-and-ink sketch contributed by C. W. H.— “ Shall I add, to this subsoil sketch, a faint and feeble idea of the surface, some time about the month of February (surnamed ‘fill-dyke’ not withoutreason) ; and endeavour to paint the hopeless, currentless, re- sourceless, and pitiable condition of water, whose un- happy fate has fallen, or melted, upon fields as flat as a billiard-table, and. without even a ‘ pocket’ to run into for escape or concealment? There it would stand, day after day, and week after week, and month after month, shining along the serpentine furrows, aa if it never, never, never would go again! And the only wonder was when or how, or by what. bold amphibious being the ridges had ever been raised, which it intersected, like a sample series of Dutch canals and embankments. This was my Farm: 250 statute acres! ‘Why did you take it?? I didn't. It took me. That‘ mysterious lady’ who is painted with a bandage on her eyes, (she can see as well as you or I,) made it, with a pat on the back, my pro- perty, and shortly afterwards, with a slap in the face, my ‘occupation.’ It had been performing for a series of years a sort of ‘geometrical progression ’—down- wards. Each incoming tenant took it at about half the previous rent; dabbled about fora year or two like a duck, and retired—‘lame.’ It was but a simple equation—a very simple one—to say when the rent would come to zero. It looked on the Rental-book like an annual sum in Reduction ; facilis descensus Averni, literally translated into plain English.” Something must be done with the Farm. Greenhorns were for draining ;—“ Forty years’ experience ” said there was no fall!—so ‘‘ Talpa”’ resolved to try the spirit-level; and Cruik- shank’s illustration is spirit above the level— indeed, above proof. But we must be content with the pen-man.— “ Picture to yourself a bleak foggy Novemhe day: a long rambling space, marsh or meadow, ag you might choose to call it, of some twenty acres in extent, and about the third part of a mile in length, with a narrow thick plantation of rushes, sedges, and brooklime, and such aquatic vegetation, threading its way in one long dank line from end to end, by such fantastic meanderings, that it looked as if the hidden channel of choked moisture:it concealed had been a continued series of experiments from time out of mind in search of an outlet; and ‘after centuries of struggle and disappointment, had at length arrived quite by accident at a certain point, at one end of the meadow,—where you might see a pair of high mud. boots standing, or rather soaking, with a man in them, peering through a telescope on three legs, as if he wag watching for the total eclipse of a small boy that is to be seen—gradually sinking—about fifty yards off, and clutching in his agony a high staff by his side, figured as if for high and low water-mark.” ‘The spirit-level, however, decided inst experience,—proved that there was “a fall,”— and “Talpa”’ resolved to drain, and drain well: —laying down as his principle, that the worst- laid tile is the measure of the goodness and per- manence of the whole drain.— “ But thia of course was all theory, and theory of course was all nonsense: my practical head-drainer was quite of a different way of thinking, as his modus operandi will exhibit. The morning after he had commenced operations I found him hard at work cutting a drain, about eighteen inches deep, laying in the tiles one by one, and filling the earth in over them as he went; The field I had begun upon was very large, and very flat; and in order to increase artificially the fall I had calculated go as to make the drain eighteen inches deeper at the mouth than at the tail, I might as well have calculated the distance ofa tele: scopic star. ‘ I've been a-draining this forty year and more—I ought to know summut about it!’ Need I tell you who said this? or give you the whole of the colloquy to which it furnished the epilogue? I had begun, something in this way—‘ Why, my good friend! what on earth are you about? Didn't I tell you to lay the drain open from bottom to top, aad that not a tile was to be put in till I had seen it, and tried the levels?’ &c., &c. Old as Adam—old as Adam was the whole dialogue—it. is idle to go through it — Conceit versus Prejudice —the igno- rance of the young against the ignorance of the old—the thing that has been, and will be as long as ‘thesun and the moon endureth.’ It ended as I have said: ‘I’ve been a-draining this forty year and more—I ought to know summut about it!’ Here was a staggerer. Amongst all my calculations to think that I should never have calculated on this! I have seen the commander of a noble steamer with one parenthetical-looking point of his forefinger (caught in an instant by the helmsman) veer round a ship of a thousand tons burthen; I had seen the practical astronomer, with an infinitesimal touch of the directing screw of the telescope, bend his seareh- ing gaze millions of miles away from its first position; I had seen the mill-owner, with half a nod to his foreman, stop in an instant the hurly-burly of a thou- sand wheels while he explained to me, in comparative quiet, some little matters of new invention in the card- ing of the rough wool, or the rounding and hardening of the finished Twist. I had seen enough of the em- pire of Mind over Matter in many forms and shapes, by sea and land, to make me the devoutest of be lievers in modern miracle. Under the quiet seductive brightness of the midnight lamp, I had revelled in the mysteries of Number and of Form ; and in the working realities of daylight I had seen and stood witness to the application of those apparent mys teries to the most beautifully simple processes in production of ordinary and universal articles of human want. It had furnished me no new or di cult gratification to level and calculate to an im the amount of Fall to be obtained upon.a field, which without this precaution might indeed be called, as # had been called, undrainable; and here I was, fairly planted, at the first onset. Every inch of d was of real value at the mouth of so long a line drain. ‘Three feet deep at the outlet’ was

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B it!’ N° 1314) THE ATHENAUM 11 modest extent of my demand ; and there I stood, watching the tiles thrown in péle-méle to a depth of eighteen inches, which I was given to understand was ‘about two feet,’ with as cool an indifference to the other foot, as if Two and Three had been re- cently determined by the common assent of man- kind to mean the same thing.—‘ But I must have it three feet deep !’—‘Oh it’s no use: it’ll never drain so dip as that through this here clay ! —‘ But I tell ou it must be? There can be no fall without it.’ ‘Well, I’ve been a-draining this forty year and I t to know summut about it..-From that mo- ment I date my experience in the trials and troubles of farming: at that instant my eyes began to open to the true meaning of those ‘practical difficulties’ which the uninitiated laugh at because they have never encountered them; and which the man of science despises who has said to steam, water, and machinery, ‘do this,” and they do it, but has never known what it is to try and guide out of the old track a mind that has run in the same rut ‘ this forty year and more.” * * The evidence of a hundred Spirit- levels would have been no answer to ‘forty years’ ex- perience’ in draining and ditching. Of this I was quite sure: so we were at a dead pass. One or the other must give way ‘and be for ever fallen.’ It was easy to wish him forty years’ more experience —elsewhere—and ‘ good morning ;’ but this would be only cutting the knot, and probably entailing another insuccession. Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus! He was a good workman, and his authority over his men not a thing that it would be wise to shake, even had that been possible. A thought oc- curred to me, a very bold thought, all things con- sidered. I knew he hated the sight of the Level that curious-looking thing on three sticks,—worse than the old gentleman that walks upon two. What if I could reconcile these two great opposing autho- ities by one timely stroke--make him Master-of-arts on the spot, before the eyes of all his men? Shorter and less earned degrees have been taken in the world. The opportunity was irresistible. I had it brought ; adjusted it ; and told him to look through it and give me his opinion of the Fall. If you ever saw a dog put his nose to a wasp’s nest, you may form some idea of the mistrustful curiosity and hésitating aversion with which he brought his face into close contact with hisarch-enemy. A long indescribable process ensued: a most determined effort to close the left eye with the tight hand-—then the right eye with the left hand— then a dead stillness, and a long fumbling breathless view of the world turned upside down, and his men standing on their heads for the first time, in spite of the forty years’ experience to the contrary : and then —'‘ Well, I don’t know but what you're right, Sir: the Fall does want a leetle easing at the bottom!’ The success was complete.” —This picture is true to the life. Every man who has any knowledge of our agricultural districts must be aware that it is this “ forty years’ practical experience”’ that stands in the i, all improvement. ough the book is as amusing as a novel, we must be content with giving the reader this taste of its quality:—and shall add only some general conclusions at which the intelligent and experienced farmer has arrived, and which are of interest to all.— _ “The evil of retarded and discouraged investment inthe soil lies deep, and dates far back. It is not the fault of the Farmer: he is the subject, the time- grown and created result of the Legislation, and Custom with the force of legislation, that have made him what he is, and invested him with a step-mother telation to the soil. By the Law of primogeniture applied to Zand alone of all other kinds of property and capital, you have set on foot in this country a system which has nearly reached its climax in the amassing and aggregation of !and into the hands of few and large owners. The ancient yeoman, the owner of his own farm, is becoming or become an extinct genus animalium. By the enormous and factitious costliness, delay, and difficulty attending the transfer of land, increasing in an inverse ratio with the acreage (for the relative cost of ‘title’ to an ate is beyond all comparison with that of a hun- and of a hundred in like manner with a d), you have secretly clenched and fortified the process which entail and primogeniture had openly avowed and established; and rendered it im- possible, on the common principles of prudence or economy, for any one to buy land (except for building) otherwise than in large, and increasingly larger quantities. The tendency is not stationary ; it is still going on. The man of small or moderate capital is becoming every day more and more effectually ousted from the possibility of ownership in ‘the earth,’ which ‘ was made for all.’ You point to France and Belgium, where an opposite law com- pelling subdivision, with still more rapid evil ten- dency, exists; and talk about ‘ political expediency,’ and the mischief of ‘morcellement.’ But must you rush into one extreme to avoid the other? or is your timid intelligence so scared that it cannot pause to distinguish between a tyranny which enforces sub- division, and the middle course which would allow Land, like every other form of capital, to adapt itself to human need and circumstance, and whole- somely to exist in great and small proportions? Or is your political philosophy of such a school as to leave you in the supposition that you have the MORAL RIGHT to ‘ capitalize’ the earth, and disfran- chise seventy-nine eightieths of the inhabitants of this country by ‘Act of Parliament,’ and the ‘Custom of Conveyancers’?—[for it is authoritatively said, (and there are no statistics to disprove it!) that the owners of land in Britain do not number above two hundred and fifty thousand, out of a population of twenty millions!] Mark the consequence. Instead of the soil being, as it was meant to be, the first and best of Savings’ banks for capitals of every size; to the Peasant and the Yeoman, as well as the Duke and the Squire, you assume the audacious office of readjusting natural and common right, and pronounce for a system which agglomerates land into hands that may monopolize, but after all cannot themselves use it, and cut down the whole interest of the rest of the ‘agricultural community’ to the rank and position of ‘Tenant farmers.’ They do not, as a class, pene- trate the folly or the mischief of it: they are ‘to the manner born;’ and think it ‘all right’ if they could only get ‘ Tenant-right;’ (as if the hirer of an article of limited supply could have any ‘right’ but what the owner pleases to give him!) But then a Lease! What is the use of a Lease for the purpose of in- vestment, unless it be of long duration? Nay, it is often urged against leases, that under a good land- lord farms pass from father to son, and grandson, better without a lease than with one: then why not as property at once? Why keep up the form and farce of ‘ownership,’ if its very excellence consist in a virtual surrender of its exercise, except to receive the ‘dividends’ half-yearly, under the name of ‘Rent,’ and pay annually for the ‘repair’ of premises you never occupy. * * Why should this be? Why should Law, the instant it applies to Land, depart from its simplicity and even-handedness by making land, alone of all other forms of property and capital (that fal] under its occasional operation by intestacy or disputed right), an exception to the general rule of fair and equitable division? In the freest of all free countries, where freedom is ‘the Law of the land,’ why should not ‘the land’ itself be free? Why is it that nobody will take the pains to undwr- stand the question enough to see that ‘ primogeniture’ is a thing which families may make for themselves if they please, like heir-looms; but which the Law has no more do with than with the descent of my Lady's Jewels to the next ‘my Lady,’ though under the Statute of Distribution of the effects of Intestates they would have been treated as personalty, and divided accordingly. Again and again be it im- pressed, and understood, that it is not the compulsory division of land by law that is here advocated. It is merely the assimilation of it to every other form of capital, favouring neither its aggregation nor parti- tion, leaving it to assume its natural proportions and relation to the wants and habits of society, as the law actually does in the case of every other article in which Industry invests its savings and concen- trates its results. * * The change that we want is but little, but that little underlies and interpenetrates the whole economy of agriculture as a national busi- ness; and renders every acre uncultivated or half cultivated, through the operation of legal trammels upon the owner, a robbery upon the Labourer, the Capitalist, and ultimately on the public purse. * * Shallow draining, shallow cultivation, shallow reck- onings, and shallow knowledge of his business, are not naturally inherent in a man because he is a *Tenant-farmer:’ but in a country where the law reigns happily supreme, erroneous laws applied to the land may by slow degrees make it come to appear so. And this has been the case with us: and that in two ways, first by the enormous and factitious expense of legal proceedings, pressing with every form of costliness and ingenuity of incum- brance upon the soil, saddling every landed estate, in addition to the owner, the clergyman, the tenant, the labourer, and the poor, with the maintenance of its Lawyer,—and secondly by refusing to the vendor and purchaser, that last resource of inherited penury and embarassed ownership, a free, speedy, and inex- pensive mode of Transfer.” The volume is made up of papers which appeared originally in Zhe Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, and well deserved the honour of separate publication:—and they have been admirably illustrated by George Cruikshank. His “ Antagonism of interest and yet mutuality of object” is the best commenta we have either read or seen on that established common-place which used to wind up so many speeches from agricultural chairs on the common interests of landlord and tenant—“ the sink and swim together.” NEW NOVELS. The Game of Brag; or, the Batterary Boys: A Comic Novel. By D, Owen Maddyn. 2 vols. Skeet. Tue readers of ‘ Wynville’—the authorship of which clever, sketchy reconnaissance of literary and political society is now avowed by Mr. Owen Maddyn—will probably feel that this author writes too hastily for fame. Time, he should remember, is a necessary element to the true artist. Animal spirits, knowledge of man- kind, agraphic literary power, may enablea man to throw offa set of light, pleasant, “rollicking” magazine articles,—but they are not sufficient of themselves for the production of a high-class novel. A certain discipline of the mind,—a care- fully elaborated story,—characters, not only natural in their moral structure, but consistent with themselves in their every act and thought, —a complete subordination of minors to essen- tials, and a harmonious fitness of parts so as to produce a unity of effect in the whole,—all these are needful when the romancer aims at success in his art. Thiscare, reticence and schooling of the imagi- nation are little apparent in the new venture of the author of ‘ Wynville.’ From choice of sub- ject, the book is a disagreeable book, in spite of the writer’s cleverness, his boundless spirits, and his apparent familiarity with Irish life in London and elsewhere. Some of the incidents are formally described as ‘from nature ;’’ but the characters here selected from the “ Brigade” for exhibition and exposure are such as we have been accustomed for many a year to read of—with great distrust—in the works of Mr. Chfrles Lever. Anything more offensive than these personages—with their blustering, bully- ing, filthy habits — it is impossible to. con- ceive ;—and, in spite of the Irish authority against us on the title-page of ‘The Game of Brag,’ we have no doubt whatever that the are most unfairly exaggerated. We are indif- ferent, too, to the black eyes and fine-ladyism of the O'Hara girls,—and we certainly cannot subscribe to the favourable opinions expressed by Mr. Maddyn on the merits of Lord Shan- bally’s satirical verses.—But we will treat our calles to an example of Mrs. Councillor Moy- nihan’s power of talk.— “Scarcely had the ceremony of introduction been over when Mrs. Councillor Moynihan broke forth forty thousand strong, like an Irish rebellion of the

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12 THE ATHENAZUM CJ an. 1,53 good old times, before platforms took the place of batteries, and spouting at the enemy became more popular than shooting at him. ‘ Very happy to make your acquaintance, Sir,—holding out her hand. ‘Sure we ought to be old friends. My poor dear Con. went the same circuit as your uncle the Re- corder, and often I heard that if right was might, you would be Earl of Upper Ossory. For sure wasn’t your granfather Thaddeus Fitzpatrick, the son of Phelim Fitzpatrick, whose grand-uncle Sir Peter Fitzpatrick was married to the sister of Count Thomas Fitzpatrick of the Austrian Empire, whose great grand-son was brother to the Earl of Upper Ossory, who—and upon my life you have the real Upper Ossory nose, and no mistake.’—‘ Indeed, Ma’am—’—‘ Now you need not deny it, for it be- comes you amazingly. I cannot stand people making light of their own good qualities ; and let me tell you that a fine nose is now-a-days a great rarity in Ireland thanks to the Union, which took away all our good points. Ah! noses were noses then, before the country degenerated. Indeed, Mr. Fitzpatrick, an Irishman with a proper hock to his nose is a real disiradata as they were saying in Cork the other day—now Onny, you need not laugh, for Cork is Cork, and that’s all about it, as I told the Dublin lady coming over in the steamer the night before last. “So you're from Cork,” says she. “Yes!” says I, “and a beautiful place it is,” says I. “It ain’t equal to Dublin,” says she. ‘Tis ten times finer,” says I, “because much finer people come out of it; all the clever men in Ireland come from Cork,” says I, “and that everybody knows.”” “Oh! la!” says she, “how could you say that?” “Oh! la!” says I, “how could you deny it?’ “Prove it,’says she. ‘ Arts, Poetry, Eloquence, Scholarship, Cork bangs the whole world round at them,” says I, “First take the fine arts,” says I. “Look at Barry, Ma’am,” says I. “Ah! There was a man for you, who painted pictures that astonished the natives, and whose portrait you may see at the Royal Dublin Society, and no mistake about it,” says I. “And then look at Maclise,” says I, “match me the likes of him among your Dublin chipper channies, fiddling with their pencils like fine ladies ashamed of being caught picking the bones of a chicken for luncheon! And there’s Hogan the sculptor,” says I, “the man who did O’Connell—and Drum- mond—and Docter Doyle—and William Crawford, and Tommy Lyons, as large as life in marble, match me him in Dublin,” says I. “And then there’s the Drama,” says I ; “and isn’t Sheridan Knowles a Cork man, bred and born,” says I, ‘‘nursed in the suburb of Evergreen,” says I, “out near the Botanics? And as for poetry,” says I, ‘sure all the world knows that the best songs of modern times, one comic and the other sentimental, came from Cork,” says I, “ I sup- pose, Ma’am,”’ says I, “ you'll be after telling me that Dublin ever produced anything like ‘ The Groves of Blarney.’ Why sure,” says I, “everybody knows of the Pacha of Egypt, who knew no English at all, but the word blarney, thanks to the far-famed song of Milliken,’ says I. “And then,” says I, “if you have any knowledge of Logarithms, Ma’am,’” says I—“I haven't,” says she.—“ Well, if you had,” says I, “I'd ask you to calculate how many millions of Haynes Baylys could make a poct equal to writing anything like the ‘ Bells of Shandon,’ as sweetly sentimental, and as thoroughly Irish as the brogue of St. Patrick in Paradise! Match me Father Prout in Dublin,’ says I; “and then as for scholarship, do you ever read Sylvanus Urban ??—“I don’t, and I won't,” says she, very testily. — “ Because you can’t,’ says I, not a bit daunted at her airs; “but if you could,” says I, “it is then you’d appre- ciate its Cork contributor, ‘ J.R.,’ who has a memory for everything that ever was written, and has a round- about kind of acquaintance with folk that were once intimate with Methuselah. And then as for travel- lers,’ says I, “did you ever hear of our Capt. Tuckey, and the coast of Africa, and of the source of the Niger, and of Capt. Tooker’s voyage round the world ina Cork-built schooner ?”’ says I; “and as for philanthropists and humanitarians,” says I, “ isn’t it at Cork that Father Mathew made his first, and Father Arthur O’Leary his last, impressions ?” says I; “and for antiquarians, wasn’t Murphy, that wrote ‘ Antiquities of Spain,’ wasn’t he Cork all out?” says 1; “but sure, go where you will, whether preach- ing, or poetry, fighting the French, or dancing the polka, whether sleeping or waking, drinking or eating, you’ll find the Cork people beat Dublin easily,” says I; “and that Ma’am,” says I, “ you must ad- mit; but as you think that Dublin beats all Europe, and as it’s quite plain that Cork beats Dublin, by your own rule of thinking, Ma’am,’’ said J, “’tis plain that Cork beats Europe out and out,” says I. And then the stewardess was near dying of laughter; and the two ladies from Limerick, that were sick all the way over, began to laugh, and all the cabin round laughed, and I laughed; while the Dublin damsel looked as dumbfounded as Atty Haye’s goat, when it clambered up to the top of Shandon Steeple, and found no grass on the top of it.’ ” Here we have the breadth of humorous | caricature so common in the romantic literature | of Irish growth, and overflowing in almost every page of Mr. Lever’s writing. But we expected —and expect—from the author of ‘ Wynville’ writing of a higher type than the school to which works like ‘The Dodd Family Abroad’ and ‘The Game of Brag’ belong of right. Like ‘Wynville,’ Mr. Maddyn’s new novel will be read for its pungent characterization and its bold dealing with the names—slightly disguised —of living political celebrities,—and most of those who read will find in it something to ad- mire ;—but it will add little to his literary repu- tation, and nothing whatever to his character as an artist in romance. Mr. Maddyn’s pen should seek a worthier theme,—and take more time to do itself justice. Agatha’s Husband: a Novel. By the Author of ‘Olive.’ 3 vols. Chapman & Hall. Tue criticism of Goldsmith’s imaginary con- noisseur, ‘‘that the picture would have been painted if the me, we taken more trouble,”’ though put forward by him as the quintessence of inane objection, has, nevertheless, its use and application to writers such as the Lady before us. They draw upon the bank of fancy and experience more largely than they add to its stores. Having the command over certain emotions, trains of sentiment and combinations of incident, — they are too apt to produce and reproduce these, in place of studying the vast web of life and action, and endea- vouring to understand (if not to sympathize with) forms of character and phases of society widely differing from those of the circle elect. —This fourth novel by the author of ‘ Olive’ justifies us in fearing that she is in danger of becoming narrowed in her art for want of some such training as has been indicated. ‘Agatha’s Husband’ is, like its predecessors, a powerful, passionate, and poetical tale,—in passages elo- quently written :—but the readers are, we fancy, very few to whom it will present itself as a real story of real persons.—In it, sentiment is exag- gerated at the expense of truth. That whichis occasional and that which is habitual are too indiscriminately presented side by side; and the result is, that sentiment becomes wearisome —emotions cease to excite emotion—long ere the close of the narrative is reached. This we do not imagine to arise from any inherent bar- renness or meagreness of invention in the writer, so much as from a want of patience in acquiring material and an exclusive devotion to that which is striking, impulsive, and affect- ing.— The mind of man claims rest, and will not bear (Though next in power to God's) continuai care, says the poet. The work of Art must have its repose as well as its excitement,—as in song the cadences must fall as well as rise.—Here, from the first, we are introduced to what is strange, extreme, and painful. Agatha is yet another of those restless, hectic, yet noble- minded women whom the female writers of the day have produced in squadrons, She is struck by the appearance of an eccentric and inscry. table youth, and pays him a direct compliment on the expression of his countenance. Her words and looks of approval, it appears captivate this peculiar Nathanael, — and cir. cumstances urge her into making him her husband before she has in the least ascer. tained what are her own feelings with regard to him. Knowledge of his “antecedents” would, of course, be scorned rather than sought by a young Lady like Agatha :—nevertheless, the utter mystery and discomfort under which she is married are alike unnatural and gratuitous, The main incident of her unhappiness—the cause of her husband’s stern and solemn reserves from her—might with common care have been arranged so as to wear a reasonable aspect :— here it fails to produce any effect other than that of irritation, because while it involves all the misery which is intended to be the interest of the book, it has not a tittle of justification. We should not be thus plain in our fault- finding were the tale a mere common tale :— but, like its writer’s former works, it shows richly what its writer might become if she would look around her for truth instead of within her- self for something strange and exceptional. The family group into which Agatha is intro- duced on her marriage, is nicely touched. Mrs. Dugdale, with her flounces and her good humour, poor Elizabeth, the invalid, and old Squire Harper, are all good. Anne Valery, the spinster family friend, with her cherished memory of an old love, her timely beneficence, her ripe wisdom, her keenness of insight and her tenderness of heart—has been the author's favourite creation, we fancy. Though we do not see her clearly, we recognize great beauty and elevation in ie sayings and doings. The author has forgotten to make it understood how and why she and her lover were parted for a lifetime; though of course we can con- jecture, — but not without involving another improbability. Such promises as are before us suggest a reason—but quite an unreasonable one,—if we may so strain our words to suit the strain in their types. As for Agatha’s nefarious and agreeable brother-in-law, whose schemes, speculations and idle personal vanity cause so much misery,—he, too, has a duality which we fail to understand; and at the end of the tale, when his downfall comes,—and the worthy and generous are sacrificed to his comfort and pros- perity, he is dismissed in an ambiguous fashion, leaving it doubtful what the author’s intentions have been with respect to him. To sum up,—it must be repeated that the author of ‘Agatha’s Husband’ stands at a point where she cannot stand still. She has passed the limits of youth in authorship within which much is pardoned for the sake of indication :— she must now show experience in art. This so far from precluding freshness, impulse and variety, demands them in fuller company and contrast than it would be fair to expect from any poet or from any prose-writer in his or her “salad days.” It demands, too, consistency and finish in style,—increased power by the means of increasing simplicity of touch and certainty of hand. Having been among the first to wel- come the author of ‘ Olive,’—we must be amongst the earliest to warn her, and the most earnest in wishing that these graces may be added to her other gifts. Should this not be the case, the gifts themselves run the risk of degenerating into affectations. The Forest. By J. V. Huntington. York, Redfield; London, Low & Co. Wirutn these last few years we have often had occasion to remark on the signs of a coming national literature in America. Before Wash- New

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N° 1314) THE ATHENAUM 13 ington Irving’s time, it may be said, there was no distinctive history, poetry, or romance in the United States. Though there were books written and printed across the Atlantic, they were essentially English in style, tone, and thought. They described old-world scenery,—reflected old-world manners. In the centre of new in- irations, their writers were not newly inspired. e lake—the prairie—the primeval forest existed for them in vain,—were all silent oracles to men who did not woo them in the 0 of a real worship. Beauty sought its lines elsewhere, —romance writers failed to see the elements of a new order of romantic literature in the men and scenery which were about them in their daily life. Cooper was the first who clearly apprehended and boldly seized the new domain, there offered to the hand of genius :—the pic- turesque red man—the forest solitude—the wide prairie — the sea-like lake — and the jealous meeting in that border-land of the two worlds of Nature and Civilization. Many other writers have followed in the track of this pioneer; —some dealing with the more special institu- tions of the country, like Mrs. Stowe,—others working out its finer scenes, and generalizing its deeper thought, like Mr. Hawthorne,—but all feeling, that in order to take a proper place in the world’s li‘ rary hierarchy, it is first of all necessary for them to be original, national, true to themselves, to their country, and to those natural forms and social philosophies which shape the organism of American life. Mr. Huntington, a writer whom we do not remember to have met with before, works in this better spirit of his literary countrymen,— and that he-has a faculty and gifts to work with towards a good and profitable end, may be seen by any one who will read ten pages of ‘The Forest.’ His story is in no respect to our taste. The introduction of a theological discussion into novels is at all times'a mistake as to Art ;—for it is obviously impossible to dea] fairly with a great argument in the pauses of a tale of oaniiny~tek the arguments, such as they are, break up the narrative, and ‘unplea- santly prolong the uncertain fate of hero and heroine. But that which is only generally an error of Art, is in Mr. Huntington’s hands par- ticularly offensive as a matter at once of art and of taste. The writer we infer to be a man of strong sectarian views,—and he has, as we think, most unwisely made his story the vehicle of an at- tempt at spiritual propagandism. Yet, in spite of this fault, the tale is full of interest. The picture of American scenery is painted in bright and vivid colours. The characters are sketched with a nice hand. The sports, the adventures, the perils of an Indian hunting-ground are put before the reader’s mind with the sharp outlines, the humour, and the breadth of real life. The story is very simple,—-the characters are very few. Mr. De Groot, a wealthy New Yorker, lies sick in an Indian village,—and sends for his daughter, who piously sets out for the remote district. On the edge of the forest, Mary De Groot meets with Alban Atherton, an old lover, who is there with some friends—male and female—on a sporting excursion. It is neces- sary for one of the “ rifles” to become Mary’s escort through the wilderness; and, of course, Atherton offers his services, which are accepted, —and, for the sake of decorum, Mary chooses as her female travelling companion Jane Atherton, a young lady to whom Alban is at once a lover, and a cousin. Jane accedes to her friend’s desire very eagerly, from a fear of trusting her cousin alone, in such romantic circumstances, with nature and the dangerous fascinations of et de Groot. The incidents of the journey of this party through the wilderness, — the moral interest growing up like flowers, out of the commonest material facts,—are charmingly described ;—though we confess to some annoy- ance, and to still more weariness, whenever the writer brings in his sectarian ejaculations. How the journey terminates, morally and matrimo- i , for the two rivals, may be surmised. nial A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Meander. With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. B Capt. the Hon. Henry Keppel, R.N. Wit Illustrations by Oswald W. Brierley. Bentley. THERE are some peculiarities in this book which call for notice at the outset of an account of its contents. Seeing that the first volume is largely devoted to a defence of Sir James Brooke against the accusations which have been brought against him in the Dyak affair,—and that the second volume owes many of its most interesting pages to the hitherto unpublished diaries of the Rajah, — Capt. Keppel’s glowing dedication of his work to Sir James resembles a dedication to the author's self too’ closely not to excite remark. Peculiar, too, in their secondary degree are Mr. Brierley’s illustrations. Few would expect now to meet in an expensive book with lithographs little less rude than those specimens of —s on stone in Forbes’s ‘ Oriental Memoirs ’ whic made Senefelder’s discovery first known to English dilettanti. We commend the albatross in ‘The Man Overboard’ (p. 6, Vol. I.) to the manufacturers of pantomime birds and panto- mime wonders. — Want of taste, then, in more points than one may be charged against this new book of travels. But it nevertheless contains matter which may be read for amuse- ment, studied for instruction, and pondered as evidence. A strong ex parte case is here certainly made out against the Dyaks, as sea-robbers of the most fierce and mischievous quality. On the other hand, the vials of wrath are poured out as awkwardly as angrily on the head of Mr. Hume and others who, shocked at the tempta- tions of head-money, have spoken to the point (as Capt. Keppel declares) in a frenzy of closet- philanthropy and unreasoning indignation totally irrespective of fact. When all is said and done, we are curiously reminded of Lord Lansdowne’s appreciation of Warren Hastings, extracted from Moore's Diary in our last number for the last year. The great governor was by the statesman philosophically characterized as ‘an irregular man, using violent means for purposes which perhaps nothing but irregular and violent means would answer.” In the case of the Rajah, while the outrage wrought in hot blood under pretext of judiciary severity may be sternly denounced,—the motives which prompted the deed may yet be traceable to a worthy source. The question is one involving the closest exami- nation of what may be called scientific testi- mony :—and where this seems so conflicting, it will, after all, as we have on former occasions said, be best to leave Capt. Keppel’s defence of Sir James Brooke to be heard in the place where time and means shall serve for the fit arguing out of his evidence. We shall merely deal, therefore, with a few of the passages of adven- ture, &c. contained in these journals. The party pamphlet is certain to be sharply handled by other more authoritative reviewers. We do not recollect to have met with the following fact in any natural history of the feline race. ‘liger hunting at Singapore seems to be almost as indispensable to the safety of the in- habitants as the conservation of rushes along the water-dykes is to the Hollander.— “ The annual loss of humam life from tigers,” says Capt. Keppel, “ chiefly among the Chinese settlers, is perfectly fearful, averaging no fewer than 360, or one per diem. Great exertions are still making for the destruction of these animals, which is effected by pitfalls, cages bated with a dog, goat, monkey, or other restless animal, and by sundry cunning contrivances.” The tiger, when caught, is treated with the old-fashioned honours of a march to Tyburn. But this is not all.— “ There isa procession and much parade in bring- ing these tigers to the Government office. They are made to look as fierce as possible, propped up in a standing position by pieces of bamboo, the mouth open, and tail on end. The Governor kindly pre- sented me with this fallen monarch ofthe jungle, and I was astonished at the number of native volunteers for the service of denuding him of his skin, the only part I coveted, while they demanded the carcase for their trouble. But J found afterwards that they made a large profit by retailing the flesh, a belief being en- tertained by this people that the eating of it is not only a soveieign remedy for all diseases, but that it imparts to him who eats it the sagacity as well as the courage of the animal. A friend of mine belonging to the 2ist regiment, M.N.I., who was slowly recovering from an attack of fever, finding some difficulty in masticating the food before him, questioned his ser- vant as to the cause, when he discovered that the fellow had purchased a small piece of my tiger, which he had clandestinely introduced into his master’s currie. When my friend got well, young Zaddie firmly believed that his remedy had effected the cure.” A deplorable picture of the unhealthiness of Labuan is given in this book. Page after page registers the death of one fine, able-bodied young man after another, who fell victims to the “ fetid and pestilential airs’’ of these shores. At Cagayan Soloo, the Meander desired to go to market; and in fulfilment of this desire narrowly escaped from further and more fatal losses among its crew.— “ Dollars not being a current medium of exchange among most of these islands, glass beads, looking- glasses, coloured cottons, &c., had beca brought by us for purposes of barter; and, as we were very anxious to obtain a supply of bullocksto keep our men in general, as well as the sick, as much on fresh meat as possible, a boat was sent, with the purser and the interpreter, accompanied by a party of officers, to communicate with a house, which struck us in passing—from its size and the plantations around it —as probably belonging tosome chief, by whose assist- tance we hoped to get a supply of cattle. Having got inside the shoals with some difficulty, and effected a landing, our party was received in the politest manner by a fine-looking old Malay, who came down with his family to meet them. They made him to understand our wants; and he sent immediately to the chief of the district, and acquainted him with our wishes, appointing the next morning at nine, as the time to receive the chief’s answer. Our people left the shore much pleased with their friend, who, as I have before remarked of the well-bred Malays, was a gentleman, polite, easy, and dignified. The next morning the same party landed with the necessary articles of barter, expecting to meet the chief or his deputy, and to make a bargain for the cattle. Their friend of the evening before received them in the same kind manner. They waited some time in expectation of the cattle arriving, instead of which, parties of natives kept thronging in, well armed with kris, spear and shield,—their tomtoms beating outside. Aftera while came the chief with a numerous train—him- self a humpbacked ferocious-looking savage—with all his men in padded jackets, and regular fighting cos- tume. He made no reply to the questions of our party about bullocks, but kept his hand on his kris, and appeared undecided how to act. Our party were only eight in number, and destitute of arms, with the exception of one gun, the kind behaviour of their friend the night before having completely removed all suspicion of any sinister behaviour. Surrounded now by about sixty well-armed, rascally-looking thieves, of hostile demeanour, they thought it best to put on as bold a front as possible, and at the same time quietly to retire; nor did they underrate their good fortune in regaining the boat without further moles- tation, the ship being some miles distant, and shut out from view by projecting headlands. This wasa lesson not to venture, in future, out of sight of the ship

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14 THE ATHENAUM CJ an. 1,3 as much for the purpose of entrapping the weak, as o bartering with the strong.” and less placable.— evening, he believed for not saluting the Host. I immediately expressed my willingness to apply to the Governor, remarking, that he was a very good fellow, and I was sure would not hesitate to comply with my request. Accordingly, Capt. Troubridge and myself, accompanied by Capt. Staveley, returned to the Government House. Without waiting to be announced, we proceeded at once to the apartment in which we had just before left Sefior Amaral, and we found him seated with the French Chargé- d’affaires, M. le Baron de Forth Rouen. I apologised for the intrusion; but His Excellency rising accom- panied me to one of the windows. I then stated that I was come to ask a fayour—that he would be so kind as to give an order for the release of a Mr. Summers, who, it appeared, had been confined in the common prison all night, for not saluting the Host. I concluded by remarking that, in all probability, His Excellency had heard nothing of the business. To this he sharply replied, that not only did he know all about it, but that the person in question had been confined by his order. I then remarked to His Excellency that the punishment (Mr. Summers having been confined in the common jail, without food, since five o’clock the previous afternoon) had surely been equal to the offence; and I again expressed a hope that the Governor would order his release. On this he stated that Mr. Summers was sent to prison, not for any disrespect to the Host,—‘for which he (the Governor) cared perhaps as little as I did,'—but for disobeying his (the Governor's) order.—I inquired, ‘ What order?’ —He replied, ‘The order he gave him to take his hat off.” I then asked ‘whether I understood the Governor rightly —whether he could order any person he chose to take his hat off in the open streets?"—To this he said, ‘ Exactly so.’ I then said that this altered the case, and that I must now request the immediate liberation of Mr. Summers, as I could not consider that the alleged offence, for which he was imprisoned, was any crime at all. I further added, that I could hardly believe that I had heard now, in the nineteenth century, the Governor of a Portuguese settlement assert that he had im- prisoned a British subject for refusing to take his hat off in the open streets, when ordered by him through a soldier to do so: I stated that, some five centuries back, a certain Gessler had placed a cap on a pole, and, in trying to make one William Tell bow to it, he had revolutionised Switzerland.—To this the Governor replied, that I was not acquainted with Portuguese law. I said, very likely not; but that I knew what common justice was. I then bowed and retired. When I had descended half way down the ry the Governor, calling me by name, asked me if I came to demand Mr. Summers’s liberation as a right, or to ask it as a favour. I replied that, while I believed Mr. Summers had neglected to take off his hat, as was customary, on the passing of one of the religious ceremonies of the country, I had asked his liberation as a personal favour; but, since His Ex- cellency had explained that Mr. Summers was con- fined for what I conceived to be no crime at all, I really could not, in the position I then occupied, ask for his liberation as a favour.’’ among the natives of these islands without an apparent superiority of force. Their white flags were hung out Passing deliberately on his way, the com- mander of the Meander notes, in one page, a solitary Mussulman grave on “a lonely coral island,”—in another, “a magnificent circular lake of deep blue water about three miles in circumference ’”’ surrounded by beautifully luxu- riant vegetation in the island of Cagayan.—At Hong Kong, we find Capt. Keppel taking part in an affair which may figure handsomely among the May-legends so loudly applauded at Exeter Hall :—while almost in the moment of under- taking the festive duties as umpire at a regatta, got up by the United States Consul, our jour- nalist was claimed for a service more delicate “TI was met by Capt. Staveley, Military Secretary to the General commanding at Hong Kong, who requested my assistance in getting a young gentleman released, who had been imprisoned on the previous The historic allusion to Gessler did not pro- duce the desired effect. Senhor do Amaral seemed more anxious to fall back into the paper mazes of protocol and correspondence than suited the patience of an English ‘ blue jacket” when the undeserved imprisonment of an English subject was in question,— f “To dance attendance beyond this point on Por- tuguese justice at Macao seemed to me unworthy of my position, and hopeless as to the object. The judge would have referred me back to the Governor, whose tool he was, and with whom alone I could properly hold official intercourse ; in the mean time Mr. Summers must lie in prison, awaiting the ‘course of law,’ which, let me add, has within these last ten years left British subjects to die incarcerated in this very prison. I decided on liberating him at once. To do so with the least possible risk of any disastrous incident was now the great object; and I adopted the mode of proceeding which seemed the most promising for this end. A second boat being despatched to the Mzander, with directions that the signal should be made for the ‘ Boats to land imme- diately,’ I went on board the Canton steamer, which was moored off the town, and fpok my place as um- pire at the regatta, which was about to commence. We started the sailing vessels—and shortly after, ob- serving some of the boats on their way to the shore in obedience to my signal, I excused myself for a few minutes, and again landed. The first boat which arrived was the Meander’s barge, with a crew of twelve blue-jackets and six Marines; and, the other boats being some way behind, I asked Captain Stave- ley, who was with me, whether he thought he could by a coup-de-main release Mr. Summers with that one boat’s crew? ‘To this he gallantly replied that he had no objection to try—stipulating only, like a good general, that I should secure his retreat. Upon this I requested Mr. Burnaby, who had charge of the barge’s crew, to attend to his wishes. Passing quickly through a house which had a back entrance to the Senate Square, and so to the street in which the prison stood, Captain Staveley, with his party, immediately proceeded thither. The cutter from the Meander arriving next, I directed its crew to take charge of the house through which Captain Staveley had passed, placing sentries at each door. The third boat had just arrived, when my attention was attracted towards Senate Square by the report of musketry. Leaving orders with the officer in charge of the landing place to pay every attention to His Excellency, should he land before my return (which was not improbable, since he must have seen all that was going on from on board the Plymouth), I was hastening to the scene of action, when I met Captain Staveley walking down, arm in arm with Mr. Sum- mers,—the rear brought up by the barge’s crew. I immediately sent to stop the disembarkation of any more men. The whole business, from the landing of the barge’s crew until their return to the boat with Mr. Summers, did not occupy five minutes of time. The arms from the launch and barge were transfer- red to the pinnace; and the boats, with the excep- tion of those which were to pull for the prizes, were ordered back to their respective ships. I returned to the Canton steamer, and had the pleasure of seeing the two best prizes won by the launch and barge of the Meander. I learned from Captain Staveley that his party had to cross the square, to get to the street in which the prison was situated. On the left side of the square was the entrance to the arsenal, near which was a battery of four field-pieces, with a guard. When abreast of this battery, Captain Staveley directed Mr. Burnaby, with the blue-jackets, to possess themselves of the guns and remain there until his return, he proceeding with the Marines to the prison. The sentry at the prison presented his mus- ket at Captain Staveley ; upon which the corporal of Marines wounded the sentry in the arm, causing him to drop his musket ; this proved to be superfluous, as the musket was found not to be loaded. The jailor dropping his bunch of keys, and the guard having vanished, the liberation of Mr. Summers was the work of a few seconds.” A Portuguese soldier was killed on this occa- sion by a stray musket shot, which nobody further to see what became of Senhor Amaral not long after this event.— “The position of Macao is on the small peningula which projects from the large islands of Hiangshan, and is about eight miles in circumference. The narrow isthmus, connecting Macao with the remain- der of the island, is more than a mile in length, and a barrier wall runs across its narrowest part. Along this isthmus the Governor used to ride almost every day, On the evening of the 22nd of August he was takinghis usual ride. He had passed through the barrier gate, and, having given a quarter-dollar to an infirm old China woman, a pensioner on his bounty, was quietly proceeding homewards in conversation with his aide- de-camp, when he encountered a party of Chinamen, about three hundred yards from the barrier gate, coming leisurely along the road. Among them was a young man, who held in his hand a bamboo of that sort used by coolies for carrying goods. Attached to the end of it was a bunch of green bushes and flowers, which, on meeting the Governor, he thrust into his face. The Governor turned on his assailant, exclaiming, ‘you dog,’ when a dash was made at him by six other Chinamen, which caused his horse to shy to the left, where the ground was broken by an ac- clivity of two or three feet, which the pony cleared, It is probable that, as soon as he could pull upon clear ground, his first and fatal impulse was to face his pursuers. He took the bridle in his teeth, raising his only arm (the left) to take a pistol from the holsters, when they rushed upon him with drawn swords, the foremost of them cutting at his arm, by disabling which he would be at their mercy. He kept his seat for some time, although he had lost a stirrup and was but an indifferent horseman. The aide-de-camp observed him fall at length, after he himself had been brought to the ground. Having got the Governor down, the murderers cut off his hand and head,—apparently by repeated strokes from their blunt swords. ‘The lower jaw and part of the tongue remained attached to the trunk. The wounds in the body were not morta]. The murder- ers escaped through the barrier, taking with them the head and hand of their victim ; and, having ‘chin- chinned Joss’ in an adjoining house, embarked in a boat they had in waiting. The Hong Kong papers state that two gentlemen on horseback witnessed the attack from a short distance, but, being unarmed, they could render no assistance! Lieutenant J. P. Leite, the aide-de-camp, stated that, when the Governor’s horse shied from the six Chinamen, he made an attempt to go to his assistance ; on which three of them turned upon him, and cut him down from his horse: he still held the rein; but on attempting to get up he received a second cut on the head, and the pony escaped. When he was on the ground he observed the Governor falling off, but did not hear a sound from him: he saw the Chinese gathering round and hacking at the body. He then got upon his feet, and ran forward, pursued for several paces by two of the murderers. There were various surmises as to the motive for this foul deed ; and most people were inclined to believe that it had been instigated by the Chinese Government. That a murder so cunningly devised, and so boldly exe- cuted, was not the act of common robbers is evi- dent from the fact, that the murderers did not plunder their victim: a watch and other valuables were left on the body of the unfortunate Gover- nor. That it was a political murder is proved by the fact, that the head and hand were taken away, to serve for evidence that the hired assassins performed their horrid office, for which no doubt they were promised a large reward. It is pretty certain that twenty-four hours after the murder the ghastly proofs of it were in possession of the Canton patriots, and probably gloated over by Com- missioner Seu himself.” , A good deal, we cannot help fancying, may be indirectly gathered from the above stories:— some insight into the humour of the Rajah Brooke's friend and advocate,—a glimpse, more- over, at the life on a volcano (to use the fami- liar metaphor) led by those who rule in un- settled places over semi-savage populations.— In Capt. 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cS of ewe @ [~S Ww Se ee ee N 13149: THE ATHENAUM 15 to deal with the agents of Chinese secret societies, who were endeavouring to organize similar associations in his kingdom. But we leave others, as we have said, to philosophize or harangue further on these interesting matters,— and close Capt. Keppel’s book. We cannot always approve either the temper or the taste of.the writer,—but his pages are more than ordinarily amusing. Peq Woffington: a Novel. By Charles Reade. tley. Tus is a very clever, epigrammatic book,— and carries on its every page the observation of a shrewd thinker, who has succeeded in making himself well acquainted with the spirit and features of stage life in London between 1740 and 1760. The story is all but identical with the play called ‘ Masks and Faces,’ re- cently produced at the Haymarket Theatre,— and on in and out of dramatic circles as the joint production of Mr. Tom Taylor and Mt. Charles Reade. We spoke highly of the play on its Brande: wat ane! highly now of the novel ; but really we are at a loss to know to whom, and in what proportion, this praise properly belongs. Mr. Reade, whose name alone appears on the ome of the novel, speaks nevertheless of Mr. Tom Taylor as “his friend and coadjutor,” ‘to whom the reader owes much of the best matter in the tale,” and pays him with a Dedication. This seems to us something very like dedicating a man’s work to himself. Or, the terms of the dedication may imply an excess of generosity om the part of Mr. Reade. Mr. Taylor may have had a right hand or only an entire finger im what Garrick was pleased to call the “ con- coction” of the piece; and the twin stars may hereafter perce about the drama and the novel as Colman and Garrick quarrelled about their joint shares in ‘The Clandestine Marriage.’— Tanving them to adjust their rival claims as they can, we must turn to the book itself. ere has been of late ‘an amiable weak- ness” in favour of one or two once well-known actresses. Mr. Cunningham, in a biography designed perhaps to show his knowledge of the intrigues of the time of Charles the Second, gave an undue importance to Nell Gwyn,— and Mr. Reade and Mr. Taylor have certainly given more than her fair amount of consequence to Peg Woffington. Not much is known of either actress,—and Peg pape to us to have been an inferior kind of Nelly. Margaret Woffington was an Irish girl of great beauty, who came from the Dublin stage and made her first appearance on the London boards in 1740,—the year before Garrick appeared at Goodman’s Fields. She ‘‘ took” at once ;—but, asis the case with the majority of actors and actresses, there was a diversity of feeling about her. Walpole speaks of her to Mann, in 1741, as a bad actress who was much in vogue :— adding, ‘‘ but she has life.” He would seem to have disliked her from the first (but then he admired Kitty Clive); for, his friend, General Conway, writes to him in 1740,—“ So you cannot bear Mrs. Woffington ; yet all the town is in love with her. To say the truth, 1 am glad to find somebody to keep me in countenance, for Ithink she is an impudent Irish-faced girl.” She was, in short, what Tate Wilkinson called her, ‘a wanton, arch wag,”—admirably adapted for certain characters, which she both looked and acted in a way that drew down thunders of ap- bation. She died unmarried in the year 1760, lore she was forty ; and was buried in Tedding- ton Church, on the banks of the Thames :— Where her grave is marked by a modest tablet. Such was Peg Woffington’s story; and if the reader would see what she was like in face, let him refer to Faber’s engraving of her as Mrs. ord, — to Van Bleek’s engraving of her as Pheebe, in a hat,—and, better still, to M‘Ardell’s fine mezzotint of her with flowers in her hand. If from paper he is unable to conjure u the colour and complexion of the once well- known Mrs. Woffington, let him go to Bowood, —and there he will see what the Woffington was like, and how fine a portrait-painter Hogarth could be when his heart was with his subject. We remember the Bowood picture well. There Peg is—a sort of half-length,—in pink and blue, with a yellow hat trimmed with lace, a ca beneath her hat tied under her chin, and suc aface! The picture is worthy of Rembrandt,— if Rembrandt could have condescended even for once to — female beauty upon canvas. The characters in this story —as in the play— are, Peg Woffington herself,—a Mr. Vane, a Shropshire Squire, having a young and lovely wife, yet in love with Mrs. Woffington,—a Sir Charles Pomander, a second edition of Lord Foppington,—a poor poet-painter, named Triplet and his wife,—Colley Cibber,—Mr. Quin,—and a few others. The scene is laid at a time “‘ when ladies were saying things which the men of this generation only think,”—and the story turns on a liaison which calls up the better part of Mrs. Woffing- ton’s nature. The heroine is thus described in the book :—we group. the several descriptions together.— “Mrs. Woffington, as an actress, justified a portion of thisenthusiasm; she was one of the truest artists of her day; a fine lady in her hands was a lady, with the genteel affectation of a gentlewoman, not a harlot’s affectation, which is simply and without ex- aggeration what the stage commonly gives us for a fine lady; an old woman in her hands was a thorough woman, thoroughly old, not a cackling young person of epicene gender, She played Sir Harry Wildair like a man, which is how he ought to be played (or, which is better still, not at all), so that Garrick ac- knowledged her as a male rival, and abandoned the part he no longer monopolized. * * She was dressed in a rich silk gown, pearl white, with flowers and sprigs embroidered; her beautiful white neck and arms were bare. She was sweeping up the room with the epilogue in her hand, learning it off by heart; at the other end of the room she turned, and now she shone full upon him. It certainly was a dazzling creature: she had a head of beautiful form, perched like a bird upon a throat massive yet shapely and smooth as a column of alabaster, a symmetrical brow, black eyes full of fire and tenderness, a delicious mouth, with a hundred varying expressions, and that marvellous faculty of giving beauty alike to love, or scorn, a sneer, ora smile. But she had one feature more remarkable than all, her eyebrows—the actor's feature,—they were jet black, strongly marked, and in repose were arched like a rainbow; but it was their extraordinary flexibility which made other faces upon the stage look sleepy beside Margaret W offing- ton’s. In person she was considerably above the middle height, and so finely formed that one could not determine the exact character of her figure. At one time it seemed all stateliness, at another time elegance personified, and flowing voluptuousness at another. She was Juno, Psyche, Hebe, by turns, and for aught we know at will. * * Her bright skin, contrasted with her powdered periwig, became dazzling. She used little rouge, but that little made her eyes two balls of black lightning. From her high instep to her polished forehead, all was symmetry. Her leg would have been a sculptor’s glory; and the curve from her waist to her ktiee, was Hogarth’s line itself. She stood like Mercury new lighted on a heaven-kissing hill. She placed her foot upon the ground, as she might put a hand upon her lover's shoulder. * * This lady was subject to two unplea- sant companions, sorrow and bitterness. About twice a-week she would cry for two hours; and after this class of fit she generally went abroad, and made a round of certain poor or sick protégés she had, and returned smiling and cheerful.’’ Sir Charles Pomander is thus described ;— and the a is a good specimen of the smart writing throughout.— “This Sir Charles Pomander was a gentleman of vice: pleasure he called it. Mr. Vane had made his acquaintance two years ago in Shropshire. Sir Charles, who husbanded everything except his soul, had turned himself out to grass fora month. His object was, by roast mutton, bread with some little flour in it, air, water, temperance, chastity, and peace, to be enabled to take a deeper plunge into impurities of food and morals.” Here is a sample of our author's skill in bringing a dead actress—Mrs. Oldfield—into ife.— “T saw a brigadier-general cry like a child at her Indiana; I have seen her crying with pain herself at the wing (for she was always a great sufferer). I have seen her then spring upon the stage as Lady Townley, and in a moment sorrow brightened into joy; the air seemed to fill with singing birds, that chirped the pleasures of fashion, love, and youth, in notes spark- ling like diamonds, and stars, and prisms. She was above criticism, out of its scope, as is the blue sky; men went not to judge her, they drank her, and at her, and were warmed at her, and refreshed b her. The fops were awed into silence, and wi their humbler betters thanked Heaven for her, if they thanked it for anything.” Colley Cibber is thus described.— “This Cibber was the only actor since Shake- speare’s time who had both acted and written well. Pope’s personal resentment misleads the reader of English poetry as to Cibber’s real place among the wits of the day. The man’s talent was dramatic, not didactic, or epic, or. pastoral. Pope was not so deep in the drama as in other matters, and Cibber was one of its luminaries; he wrote some of the best comedies of the day. He also succeeded where Dryden, for lack of true dramatic taste, failed. He tampered successfully with Shakespeare. Colley Cibber’s version of ‘ Richard the Third’ is impudent and slightly larcenic, but it is marvellously effective, It has stood a century, and probably will stand for ever; and the most admired passages, in what literary humbugs who pretend they know Shakespeare by the cleset, not the stage, accept as Shakespeare's ‘Richard,’ are Cibber’s. Mr. Cibber was now in private life, a mild edition of his own Lord Fopping- ton; he had none of the snob-fop as represented on our conventional stage; nobody ever had, and lived. He was in tolerably good taste; but he went ever gold-laced, highly-powdered, scented and diamonded, dispensing graceful bows, praises of whoever had the good luck to be dead, and satire of all who were here to enjoy it. Mr. Vane, to whom the drama had now become the golden branch of letters, looked with some awe on this veteran, for he had seen many Woffingtons. He fellsoon upon the subject nearest his heart. He asked Mr. Cibber what he thought of Mrs. Woffington. The old gentleman thought well of the young lady's talent, especially her comedy; in tragedy, said he, she imitates Mdlle. Dumesnil, of the Théatre Frangais, and confounds the stage rhetorician with the actress. The next question was not so fortunate. ‘Did you ever see so great and true an actress upon the whole ?*—Mr. Cibber opened his eyes, a slight flush came into his wash- leather face, and he replied: ‘I have not only seen many equal, many superior to her, but I have seen some half-dozen who would have eaten her up and spit her out again, and not known they had done anything out of the way.’” The stiff compliments of the time are not ill- represented in the following passage which is put into the mouth of Cibber.— “*When I was young, two giantesses fought for empire upon this very stage, where now dwarfs crack and bounce like parched peas. They played Roxana and Statira in the ‘Rival Queens.’ Rival queens of art themselves, they put out all theirstrength. In the middle of the last act the town gave judgment in favour of Statira. What did Roxana? Did she spill grease on Statira’s robe as Peg Woffington would ? or stab her, as I believe Kitty here capable of doing? No! Statira was never so tenderly killed as that night: she owned this to me. Roxana bade the theatre farewell that night, and wrote to Statira thus—I give you word for word; “Madam, the best

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16 THE ATHENAZUM CJ an. 1,°53 judge we have, has decided in your favour. I shall never play second on a stage where I have been first so long, but I shall often be a spectator, and me- thinks none will appreciate your talent more than I, who have felt its weight. My wardrobe, one of the best in Europe, is ofno use to me; if you will honour me by selecting a few of my dresses you will gratify me, and I shall fancy I see myself upon the stage to ter advantage than before.” ’—‘And what did Btatira answer, Sir?’ said Mr. Vane, eagerly. ‘She answered thus: “Madam, the town has often been wrong, and may have been so last night, in supposing that I vied successfully with your merit; but thus much is certain—and here, Madam, I am the best judge—that off the stage you have just conquered me. y shall wear with pride any dress you have honoured, and shall feel inspired to great exertions by your presence among our spectators, unless, indeed, the sense of your magnanimity and the recollection of your talent should damp me by the dread of losing any portion of your good opinion.’ *—* What a couple of stiff old things,’ said Mrs. Clive.” Here is Vane’s description of Mrs. Woffing- ton.— “ He drew Pomander aside. ‘ What a simplicity there is in Mrs. Woffington!’ said Vane; ‘the rest, male and female, are all so affected; she isso fresh and natural. They are all hothouse plants; she is a cowslip with the May dew on it...‘ What you take for simplicity, is her refined art,’ replied Sir Charles. —‘No!’ said Vane, ‘I never saw a more innocent creature!’ Pomander laughed in his face; this laugh disconcerted him more than words; he spoke no more—he sat pensive. He was sorry he had come to this place, where everybody knew his goddess; yet nobody admired, nobody loved, and alas! nobody respected her. He was roused from his reverie by a noise; the noise was caused by Cibber falling on Garrick, whom Pomander had maliciously quoted against all the tragedians of Colley Cibber’s day. ‘I tell you,’ cried the veteran, ‘ that this Garrick has banished dignity from the stage, and given us in exchange what you and he take for fire; but it issmoke and vapour. His manner is little, like his person, it is all fuss and bustle. This is his idea of a tragic scene: A little fellow comes bustling in, goes bustling about, and runs bustling out.’ Here Mr. Cibber left the room, to give greater effect to his description, but presently returned in a mighty pother, saying: ‘“‘Give me another horse!” Well, where's the horse? don’t you see I’m waiting for him? “Bind up my wounds!” Look sharp now with these wounds. “Have mercy, Heaven!” but be quick about it, for the pit can’t wait for Heaven. Bustle! bustle! bustle!’ The old dog was so irresistibly funny, that the whole company were obliged to laugh.” A good scene in the novel, as it was in the lay, is that wherein Vane’s wife arrives in Frhe, and is accidentally present when Mrs. Woffington and some other of the dramatis persone are guests at her husband’s house. Here is a portion of it.— “*T beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you will forgive me. It issix monthssince I saw him —so you understand—I warrant me you did not look for me so soon, ladies ?°—‘ Some of us did not look for you at all, Madam,’ said Mrs. Woffington.—* What, Ernest did not tell you he expected me?’—‘ No! He told us this banquet was in honour of a lady's first visit to his house, but none of us imagined that lady to be his wife.’ Vane began to writhe under that terrible tongue, whose point hitherto had ever been turned away from him. ‘He intended to steal a march on us,’ said Pomander, drily; ‘and with your help, we steal one on him;’ and he smiled mali- ciously on Mrs. Woffington. ‘ But, Madam,” said Mr. Quin, ‘the moment you did arrive, I kept sacred for you a bit of the fat; for which, I am sure, you must be ready. Pass her plate!’—‘ Not at present, Mr. Quin,’ said Mr. Vane, hastily. ‘She is about to retire and change her travelling dress.’—* Yes, dear; but you forget, Iam a stranger to your friends, Will you not introduce me to them first?‘ No, no!’ cried Vane, in trepidation. ‘It is not usual to intro- duce in the beau monde.’—‘ We always introduce ourselves,’ rejoined Mrs. Woffington; and she rose slowly, with her eye on Vane. He cast a look of | abject entreaty on her; but there was no pity in that curling lip and awful eye. He closed his own eyes, and waited for the blow. Sir Charles threw himself back in his chair, and chuckling, prepared for the explosion. Mrs. Woffington saw him, and cast on him a look of ineffable scorn; and then she held the whole company fluttering a long while. At length: * The Honourable Mrs. Quickly, Madam,’ said she, indicating Mrs. Clive. This turn took them all by surprise. Pomander bithislip. ‘Sir John Brute—’ —‘ Falstaff, cried Quin; ‘hang it.—‘Sir Jobn Brute Falstaff,’ resumed Mrs, Woffington. ‘We call him, for brevity, Brute. Vane drew a long breath. * Your neighbour is Lord Foppington; a butterfly of some standing, and a little gouty."—‘Sir Charles Pomander.’—‘ Oh!’ cried Mrs. Vane. ‘ It is the good gentleman who helped us out of the | slough, near Huntingdon. Ernest, if it had not been for this gentleman, I should not have had the pleasure of being here now.’ And she beamed on the good Pomander. Mr. Vane did not rise and embrace Sir Charles.” A more touching scene is that between Sir Charles Pomander and Mrs. Vane—Sir Charles is in love with Mrs. Vane.— “Now, Sir Charles was naturally welcome to Mrs. Vane; for all she knew of him was, that he had helped her on the road to her husband— Pomander. ‘ What, Madam! all alone here as in Shropshire ?°\— Mabel. ‘For the moment, Sir.-— Pomander. ‘ Force of habit. A husband with a wife in Shropshire is so like a bachelor."—Mabel. *Sir!’"—Pomander. ‘ And our excellent Ernest is such a favourite!‘—Mabel. ‘No wonder, Sir,’— Pomander. ‘Few can so pass from the larva state of country squire to the butterfly nature of beau.’°— Mabel. ‘ Yes,’ (sadly) ‘I find him changed.’— Po- mander. ‘Changed! Transformed. He is now the prop of the ‘ Cocoa Tree,’ the star of Ranelagh, the Lauzun of the green room.’—Mabel. ‘ The green room! Where is that? You mean kindly, Sir; but you make me unhappy.—Pomander. ‘The green room, my dear Madam, is the bower where houris put off their wings, and goddesses become dowdies; where Lady Macbeth weeps over her lap-dog, dead from repletion; and Belvidera soothes her broken heart with a dozen of oysters: in a word, it is the place where actors and actresses become men and women, and act their own parts with skill, instead of a poet's, clumsily..Mabel. ‘ Actors! actresses! Does Mr. Vane frequent such—’—Pomander. ‘ He has earned in six months a reputation many a fine gentleman would give hisears for. Nota scandalous journal his initials have not figured in; not an actress of reputation gossip has not given him for a con- quest.’ How dare you say this to me?” cried Mrs. Vane, with a sudden flash of indignation, and then the tears streamed over her lovely cheeks; and even a Pomander might have forborne to torture her so; but Sir Charleshad no mercy. ‘ You would be sure to learn it,’ said he; ‘and with malicious additions: It is better to hear the truth from a friend.\—‘ A friend? He is no friend to a house who calumniates the husband to the wife. Is it the part of a friend to distort dear Ernest's kindliness and gaiety into ill morals; to pervert his love of poetry and plays into an unworthy attachment to actors and—oh !’ and the tears would come. But she dried them, for now she hated this man; with all the little power of hatred she had, she detested him. ‘Do you sup- pose I did not know Mrs. Woffington was to come to us to-day ?’ cried she, struggling passionately against her own fears and Sir Charles's innuendoes. ‘What!’ cried he; ‘you recognized her? You detected the actress of all work under the airs of Lady Betty Modish? —‘Lady Betty Modish!’ cried Mabel: ‘that good, beautiful face !"—‘ Ah !° cried Sir Charles,‘I see you did not. Well, Lady Betty was Mrs. Woftington!"—* Whom my husband, I know, had invited here to present her with these verses, which I shall take him for her;? and her poor little lip trembled. ‘ Had the visit been in any other character, as you are so base, so cruel as to insinuate (what have I done to you that you kill me so, you wicked gentleman!) would he have chosen the day of my arrival ?°_* Not if he knew you were coming,’ was the cool reply.—‘ And he did know—I wrote to him.’—‘ Indeed!’ said Pomander, fairly puzzled. Mrs. Vane caught sight of her handwriting on the tray and darted to it, and seized her letter, and said, triumphantly: * My last letter, written upon the road—see !’ Sir Charles took it with surprise, but turning it in his hand a cool satirical smile came to his face. He handed it back, and said coldly; ‘ Read me the passage, Madam, on which you argue.’ Poor Mrs. Vane turned the letter in her hand, and her eye became instantly glazed; the seal was um broken! She gave a sharp cry of agony, like a wounded deer. She saw Pomander no longer; she was alone with her great anguish. ‘I had but my husband and my God in the world,” cried she. ‘My mother is gone. My God, have pity on me! my husband does not love me.’” There is a mistake in this book which the author will do well to amend in another edi- tion. The very clever scene in which Mrs, Woffington imitates Mrs. Bracegirdle’s acting, and leads Cibber to believe that the real | Bracegirdle is before him—could not haye occurred, we conceive, as far as Cibber wag concerned.— What! Mrs. Woffington, who had never seen Mrs. Bracegirdle act, deceive by an imitation of that lady the best judge of actin —witness the famous Apology — that this country has yet seen! The thing is impossible; —for Cibber had acted in the same plays with her hundreds of times, and had his eyes and his senses to the last. Mr. Vane might have been deceived,—but not Colley Cibber. The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise upon those Bodies, §c.—An arenical Vocabulary, §c. By J. Russell Hind. Parker & Son. Tue first work suppliesa want which haslong been felt. Any inquiring spirit desiring information on “ those celestial monsters of prodigious mag- nitude, fearful and terrible stars,” could acquire it only by reading through several treatises on astronomy—and examining the Transactions of learned Societies. In the work now before us Mr. Hind has collected all the information on which reliance can be placed,—and arranged it in such order, that the history of the appear- ances of comets and of their peculiarities is readily obtained. As an elementary treatise on these iy lacing before the reader a popular account of the discoveries which have been made in the cometary department of astro- nomy, the work may be strongly recommended. The style is concise and clear,—conveying all the really important information in the fewest words.—The following remarks on the physical constitution of these ‘‘ bearded stars,” and on the probability of a collision with the earth, may be taken as an example.— “With our present imperfect knowledge ‘of the nature of the matter of which these bodies are com- posed, it is not to be expected that we can gain a clear insight into the laws of the forces exercised upon it, through which the envelope and tail are formed. The nucleus, or more condensed part of the head, appears to possess the power of throwing off towards the sun a portion of the cometic atmo- sphere, which, before it can attain any great distance from the nucleus, is driven backward in two streams passing on either side of the head, and ultimately blending into one to form the tail. This repulsive energy must very far exceed the force of gravitation. Generally speaking the axis of the tail preserves a rectilinear form throughout the greater part of its length, a curvature of the extremity being only occa- sionally seen, and probably attributable to the failure of the repulsive force, and the gradual effect of a re- sisting medium upon these distant and exceedingly rare portions of the train. The disappearance of the tail, as the comet recedes from the sun, may be owing either to its being attracted into the nucleus 48 that luminary loses its power upon it, or it may be partly dispersed in the surrounding space. In case of bodies like comets, moving through the planetary spaces in every direction, it cannot & denied that there is a possibility of the earth’s coming in collision with one of them in the lapse of time; but we are able to show from legitimate rea- —We of the any 0 celesti Mr. the E lating conch helion tion b bein chat” 1858, Th little | in use

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SRaereeoaetne a= 0 a 7 N° 1314) THE ATHENAUM 17 soning that the chance of such a catastrophe is very gmall indeed. M. Arago has calculated that the bility against it is greater than 250,000,000 to one. We know that the earth had one or two narrow escapes within the last two centuries, as in 1680 and 1832, when comets crossed the plane of the ecliptic almost on the path of our globe, though at these times we were, perhaps, fortunately removed many millions of miles from the dangerous part of the orbit. The comet of 1770 has approached nearer to us than any other of those bodies whose elements have been sufficiently well determined. On the Ist of July it was distant from the earth only 363 terrestrial semi-diameters or 1,438,000 miles. The great comets of 837, 1402 and 1472 must have come within a very short distance from our globe, and another small one, which was observed by Flanger- es in 1826, seems to have made a close appulse. Others mention several which have crossed the ecliptic at points not far removed from the annual track of the earth— Terrestrial semi-diameters. The comet of 1684 approached within 216 That of 1805 “ 261 That of 1742 “ 331 That of 1779 ” 37.” —We need not, therefore, be under great fear of the collision of our locomotive earth with any one of these eccentric wanderers of the celestial spaces. Mr. Hind has entered into a consideration of the Expected Great Comet; and, after calcu- lating all the known causes of perturbation, he concludes that it should again reach its peri- helion on the 2nd of August 1858,—the revolu- tion belonging to the major axis at that epoch being 308,784 years.—It is, however, admitted that there is an uncertainty of two years— 1858, 1860—as to the time of its appearance. The ‘ Astronomical Vocabulary’ is a valuable little work :—being an explanation of all terms in use amongst astronomers at the present day. CHRISTMAS AND GIFT BOOKS. Tuart the charities, sports, and hospitalities which mark the close of the year are not ex- hausted as a subject, we have palpable and palatable proof in Christmas-Tide ; its History, Festivities, and Carols. By William Sandys, F.S.A. Russell Smith.—This is a handsome book, put forth under the auspices of an anti- uarian publisher,—and therefore, as is befitting e dignity of his press, solid in matter, though not heavy of digestion. It would cost the most mercurial collator a good month of this new year to go through the pleasant pages of Mr. Sandys and ascertain how much, if any, novelty he has brought thither, in addition to the truths, the’ rhymes, the legends, and the usages col- lected in former years by the Hones and the Herveys who have written of Christmas customs for the Christmas folk. Yet, without such col- lation, we dare not pick out a single plum from the pudding in the rational hope that it has not been some twenty times laid on the reader's plate. The world, therefore, must be pleased to accept from us recommendation, without specimen-matter by way of warrant. The volume is illustrated with graceful designs by Mr. James Stephanoff (an artist of whom we have lately lost sight),—some spiritedly cut ol wood,—others less satisfactorily put on stone. The Drawing-Room Table-Book. Author of ‘Mary Powell.’ Virtue & Co.—The idea of this handsome volume (not to speak of its form and appearance) was probably sug- By the gested by ‘The Drawing-Room Scrap Book,’— since here is a miscellaneous collection of showy ehgravings—some of them the worse for wear— which have done duty in other publications— With illustrations in prose and in rhyme by one and the same hand. It cannot, however, be admitted that the author of ‘ Mary Powell’— gtaceful as she proved herself in imitation of “ Lady Willoughby,”—possesses either the grace or the versatility which would enable her to compete with L. E. L., or Mrs. Norton, or Mrs. Howitt, to whom was intrusted the task which is here copied, or continued.—The writer must be reckoned with who publishes such com- monplaces in rhyme as are put forth ‘On seeing the Portraits of Wellington and Napoleon Bona- parte.’— Look upon this presentment, and on this, And tell me, whether there is more moral beauty In him who lived for selfish purposes, Or him who merged his glory in his duty ? —The first stanza will suffice,—the subsequent ones are worse, and harder to understand.—In other sentimentalities — those, for instance, addressed to the Royal Children in illustration of Mrs. Thorneycroft’s statuettes—there is a homeliness, meant, possibly, for humour,— which in reality is only a rather bold display of “the spirit of heaviness.” Christmas charity must not make us totally indifferent to the quality of the fare laid on our tables,—and this letter-press is unusually poor and dismally droll. Among the most elegant looking gift-books of the season must be commended V'he Sala- mandrine. By Charles Mackay. With Illus- trations drawn by John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Ingram, Cooke & Co.— Something may be said on a future day regard- ing the uses of illustration—and in comment on the manner in which it is applied at pre- sent. For the moment, however, let us content ourselves with a remark intended to convey comfort to the bibliomaniacs. When the reign of cheap literature began, they were afraid, and would not be consoled. “The days,” they said, “‘of curious printing and choice paper were over for ever. The great epic of the future would come out on a collection of tea-bags coarsely stitched up,—the world-wonderful his- tory of the Victorian era would no less surely be snipped up into waistcoat- pocket volumes excruciating to the eye.” Dolorous old gentlemen and ladies—if any such there be still holding these sad superstitions—are invited, by way of re-assuring themselves, to inspect this gorgeous edition of ‘The Salaman- drine.’ Let them compare it with the luxurious books of poetry got up by Walpole and his printer Kirgate at the press of Strawberry Hill, —or the less distinguished editions of poems belonging to the second class—by Crowe and Bowles, and even better men—which were so complacently accepted, and their appearance not thought to foreshadow the decay or extinc- tion of typographical art. But enough of this comparison put forth to satisfy dismal fore- boders.—Mr. Mackay’s poem was reviewed in the Atheneum on its Fest appearance,—and honour was lately paid to Mr. Gilbert as a de- signer, when the new edition of ‘The Lady of the Lake’ was spoken of. ‘Then, we cautioned Mr. Gilbert against superhuman height in his figures :—here we can commend him withont re- verting tothe caution. The artist’s mastery over composition, grouping, and picturesque detail — which has been elsewhere shown with an afflu- ence almost sufficient to make us forget its merit —is here graciously displayed. With all Mr. Gilbert’s well-known bravura, there is more than Mr. Gilbert’s ordinary taste in these illus- trations. Let us expressly commend his oblong vignettes which head certain of the pages. The three processions in particular (pp. 69, 70, 71,) are almost worthy of Stothard,—with more care- ful drawing than of late Stothard indulged in. The execution of the wood-cuts is excellent ; erring, it may be, on the side of super-delicacy. On the whole, it may be repeated, that few poets ever went forth in such elegant and valu- able Christmas garments as those worn on the present occasion by Dr. Mackay. The Poet's Dream: a Tale of Christmas. With Illustrations by S. Mayson. Houlston & Stoneman.—This “ little work, designed” (says the dedication) “ to illustrate the sufferings and vicissitudes of authors,” was written (states the Preface) “ in humble imitation of that very beau- tiful and tolerated little volume which was the pioneer to this class of literature,”—after the attern, that is, of the Christmas books by Mr. ickens. Enough has for the present been said and sung of the grievance here selected to make holida folk merry withal. The poverty of the poet es been sufficiently harped upon: —who (to turn the metaphor) has taken fair count of the riches which lie in his possession of the harp? Surely there has been too much of enfeebling and melancholy sentimentality on these subjects,—too little high-hearted and — encouragement for the gifted to draw ope and enjoyment from their own gifts. Till this doctrine be widely preached and willingly accepted, a spirit of despondency and self-in- dulgence which is morbid, mournful, and maud- lin will be kept alive in the Poet’s “life, man- ners, and conversation,” — calculated neither effectually to improve his own lot, nor right- eously to castigate the idle world of mammon- ecilinees and lion-hunters. OUR LIBRARY TABLE. Curistmas Books ror CHILDREN.—The Dial of Love: A Christmas Book for the Young. By Mary Howitt.--Here are the first six numbers of the magazine forchildren which, as was mentioned some months ago, Mrs. Howitt has undertaken to edit, — bound up together, and making one of the most de- lightful gifts that can be hung to the branch of a Christmas Tree, or put under the pillow of a small rson, to surprise the same when waking on a New- ear’s morning.—To town children, especially, the book will be welcome: since it is full of country pic- tures, and country pleasures, —and of artless, intelli- gible, yet poetical verses, such as will fix themselves in the memory as easily as the veriest jingle, while the thoughts and images will not tarnish in after years. Why will no one treat life in a town with so much heart, honesty, and nature, for the delight of country children !—Cowper’s well-known line is, after all, but a poetical fallacy. There is many a thing and thought of beauty in the midst of crowded streets and aie chimneys.—Perhaps Mrs. Howitt may “follow our lead” in some future volume of her “‘ Dial.” Few are capable of following it more skilfully than herself.—A Leaf from a Christmas Tree, from the German, edited by the Rev. Gilbert White, is a translation of some little tales, made— the editor informs us—by a German lady resident in England, with the idea of improving her for- tunes, These argumenta are hardly fair to the average class of workers,—who are contented to labour, without bespeaking favour on the plea of poverty. Retail Mammon ; or, the Pawnbroker’s Daughter. By Henry Hayman, M.A.—This is a distasteful book. The preface apprises us, that Mr. Hayman’s tale contains a moral ‘imperfectly developed.” — We can warrant the ‘ imperfection” to the fullest : —stating that a more tiresome, puerile, vulgar, and unreal story than ‘ Retail Mammon’ is seldom perpetuated in print. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals. By Mrs. R. Lee.—Some twelve months since this little volume received our word of welcome. As it has re-appeared on our table, it must, we pre- sume, be considered as a biennial,—not an annual. —In either case, it will be welcome at the fire-side around which so many of our holiday friends are now assembled. The Unseen Hand ; or, Episodes in an Eventful Life. By the Rev. Stopford J. Ram, M.A.—The Rev. Mr. Ram introduces this not very well written tale with a Preface of blank credit to him- self and flat condemnation of many contemporary tale writers. He assumes that, with the view of making his readers better and his religious novel saleable, he is justified in showing up “‘ the ways

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18 THE ATHENAUM [Tan 1,58 and manners of a wicked world:”—and thus he does not shrink from such scenes as the interior of a gin-palace, a university debauch, &e. He further assures his public, that ‘each of the leading cha- racters has been carefully drawn from life, as also most of those who hold a less conspicuous position in the narrative.” What a pleasant task is here unfolded for the private friends and acquaintances of the Rev. Mr. Ram,—what an edifying occu- pation for the social circles that gather within the here of his pulpit to guess who was meant by that Sinner, and to determine which out of a family of well-known and not very popular young ladies was the other worldly young woman, held up as a warning in ‘The Unseen Hand’ !—Neither as matter or manner is this tale to our liking; and it may, therefore, pass to the limbo of Phari- saical literature appealing to the sympathies of Pharisaical readers. Liverpool a few Years since. By an Old Stager. —We have here the reprint of a series of articles which originally appeared in the Liverpool Albion, —making a book for the public of Lancashire rather than for the public of England. Persons within the circle of local interests will like to en- counter the old familiar names in print,—and for the sake of the charm of such a meeting will over- jook the slightness of the form of presentation. But those to whom Molineux, Ashton, Ewart, Moss, and the like, speak no more intimately than the names of so many Kentish hop-growers or Cornish miners, will find the record too meagre to give them much pleasure or to increase their stores of provincial tradition. In the rapid rise and almost fabulous increase of Liverpool—in the decay ofsome trades (the West Indian trade, for instance) —in the illustrations vf speculation which the annals of its intereourse with America would afford —in its having taken the initiative in railway con- struction, at a time when grey-headed engineers shook their grey heads over the scheme as an insane dream—in the fiercely-marked strife of party politics,—a philosophical historian might find a capital subject. Nor would there be wanting such humours as belong to a race of homely, long- headed, munificent, imperfectly-lettered, energetic, prejudiced, hospitable men,—for as such, without extenuation or malice, the men of Lancashire, be- longing to a former generation, may be generally characterized. So far, however, as this little good- natured book is concerned, the topic is a virgin one,—and thus our notice, though not unfavour- able, is naturally brief. The Six Days. By Captain Charles Knox.— This is an endeavour to reconcile the history of creation as given by Moses with the advancing discoveries of geology. Hypothetical from be- ginning to end—taking just such passages from the pages of Humboldt, Herschel, Lyell, and the “Vestiges of Creation’ as will dovetail in with the imagination of our captain, who admits that “this is of course mere conjecture,”—the ‘ Six Days’ will do little towards solving a difficulty which need not have been raised. Truth can never be opposed to truth ;—but the attempt to generalize on an outline penned with direct rela- tion to the conditions of a peculiar race alone, may succeed in rendering even the truth obscure. This is all that Capt. Charles Knox has done. Correspondence between the Board of Trade and F. Graham, Esq., Chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Company, on Railway and Canal Combina- tion.—It would appear from this correspondence, that in some parts of the country where there are both canals and railways combinations have been effected between the several bodies of proprietors to put an end to the cheaper transits by canals, in order to throw the whole carrying trade of the dis- trict on to the railway lines. Such combinations are undoubtedly a public evil,—and the same law which has declared combinations of workmen illegal should look to these combinations of the rich in time. Members of Parliament would do well to make themselves masters of the facts and arguments here adduced in favour of free compe- tition in the transit trade. Guide to the Electric Telegraph. By C.M. Archer. —This little book undertakes to show ‘‘the prac- tical utilities and advantages, social, commercial and domestic, available through the medium” of the electric telegraph,—and to give a scale of charges, a list of stations for communication, mode of operation, and other general information about working the instrument. pages is added a goodly crop of telegraphic anec- dotes and illustrations, gathered from police and other sources. A Historical Tour in Franconia. By Charles Tylor.—Last year Mr. Tylor had occasion to de- liver some lectures on German History,—and this, as he tells us, begot in him a desire to see the places of which he had to discourse. Consequently, he steamed up the Rhine into Bavaria,—sauntered about its picturesque cities for a few days,—and came home to write a book about his ‘ travels.” Mr. Tylor might have learned his motto from Sir Charles Coldstream :—literally ‘‘ there is nothing in it.” He says of it himself—‘‘It is not intended asa manual of Franconian history: it is simply designed as a contribution for the general tourist.” We advise the general tourist to take ‘ Murray’ in preference. Short Hints to the Student in Architecture, with some useful Annotations on the Art of Architectural Mensuration. By J. B. Roberts.—This unpre- tending writer addresses himself to the young only; his idea being, to call attention to such points of the education of young architects as in his practi- cal experience he most frequently found neglected as of little moment. The work is very plainly written,—and formally disavows any pretension to ‘*the deep research or scientific discovery so in- separably connected with architectural literature.” Treatise on the Christian Religion. Edited, with alterations, from the French of Athanase Coquerel. —A very clear and well written abstract of Chris- tian doctrine and of the story of Christianity. M. Coquerel, the original author ‘‘from” whom it is edited, is the celebrated Protestant preacher of Paris,—and the work has the point, finish and lite- rary art so usual in French writers of all classes. The Achromatic Telescope, and its various Mount- ings, &c. By William Simms, F.R.S.—As the result of the long experience of a thoroughly practical man, this treatise will be acceptable to all who are engaged in astronomical observations. Those to whom the use of instruments for examin- ing the arcana of space may be new, will find in Mr. Simms an excellent guide through those small difficulties which constantly beset the ama- teur. At the same time, the experienced astro- nomer will find in this book many suggestive hints for improving the working order of his instruments :—particularly as regards the me- chanical arrangements of the adjustments of the equatorial, and the arrangement of private ob- servatories. Reports and Papers read at Meetings of the Architectural and Archeological Societies of North- ampton, York, Lincoln, Bedfordshire and St. Albans, during the years 1850 and 1851.—This is a collection of the proceedings and productions of several smaller Societies for investigating matters connected generally with antiquities. The reports and papers belonging to each Society not being of sufficient length, and possibly not of sufficient im- portance, to be printed separately, these bodies combine, and divide the expense of publication according to the space severally occupied by the proceedings of each.—The longest and most elabo- rately illustrated contribution in this volume is by Mr. J. W. Hugall, entitled ‘Yorkshire Ecclesi- ology.’ To this we have only one objection :—that the author has bestowed great pains and displayed considerable learning upon a set of churches that seldom merit notice. He has a ready pencil,— perhaps too ready, for had he less facility in the use of it, he would have bestowed more labour on his drawings. The effects, however, are usually good, —and perhaps this was nearly all that was aimed at. We can especially praise the Rev. H. J. Rose’s paper ‘On the Hebrew coins called Shekels,’— which evinces much learning ; although it must be admitted that the subject hardly comes within the purview of the Bedfordshire Society. If the writer had not been a man of great attainments, he would have been rash to speak so decisively upon the discoveries, real or supposed, of foreign scholars To these nine useful | Sha and numismatists. He has a peculiar knack of making abstruse questions not onl intelligible but very readable. The information which he gives makes it more than ever disputable whether kspeare intended to use the word “‘shekels” in ‘Measure for Measure,’ since so little was known regarding that coin even by the learned in the reign of Elizabeth.—The volume, as a whole, ig highly creditable to the different Societies contri. buting to its pages; and we cannot but approve of this mode of combined and cheap publication, by which much money is saved for more important and valuable ——— than the display of what by some might be called dandified ‘ypography. Hints on Education. By William Willasey.— A long experience in teaching youth of both sexes, is the sufficient reason given by Mr. Willasey why he should have a hearing on this well-worn subject. In a sub-title he describes his book more at len as ‘‘ A Treatise on an improved and comprehensive system of National Education, adapted to the pre- sent state of society in the British Isles, and cal- culated to discover and encourage the rising geniuses of the realm.” The details put forth in the shape of “hints” seem to us worthy of attention from those practically concerned. Of the following list of works we have the second editions now before us :— Visiting my Relations and its Results,—A Treatise on Investments, by R. A. Ward, enlarged according to our former suggestion, —The Stepping Stone to the French Wy]ld’s Notes on the Distribution of Gold throughout the World, including Australia, California and Russia, with five illustrative maps,—Mr. M. Dunn's Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries,— the first volume of Dr. Benisch’s Jewish School and Family Bible, containing the Pentateuch,—Mr. George Coode’s work On islative Expression ; or, the Language of the Written Law,—Sir Wood- bine Parish’s Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, from their Discovery and Conquest by the Spaniards to the Establishment of their Political Independence,—the Rev. Henry Caswell’s America and the American Church,— Modern Geogruphy i, with brief Notices of European Discoveries, — Mr. Connor's System of English Grammar, founded on the Philosophy of Language,— Mr. Edward Costello’s Adventures of a Soldier, written by himself,—and Dr. Cox’s Female Scripture Bio- graphy..Among second editions may also be num- bered a small volume of Dr. Arnold’s Travelling Journals, with Extracts from his Life and Letters, —a collection of ‘‘ thoughts that create thoughts” judiciously selected from the larger Biography,— it is to be presumed “‘with permission.” —We have received third editions of each of the following :— Dr. Forbes’s Physician's Holiday,—Prof. Creasy’s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,—The Rev, Derwent Coleridge’s Lay Sermons,— A. Alison's Universal Free Trade, —A practical Manual of Photography, by a practical Photographer,—a a Guide to Photography, by W. H. Thornthwaite. —We have a fourth edition of Mr. Campbell’s Farmers’ and Cottagers’ Guide,—of Mr. Bromley’s History and Grammar of the English Language,— and of S. T. Coleridge’s work On the Constitution of Church and State according to the Idea of each.— To these we must add, a fifth edition of Davidson's Practical Mathematics,—an eighth edition of Pot- ter’s Discourse on Church Government,—anda twelft edition of the Rev. W. Blood’s Mercy to the Ohief of Sinners.—Mr. Bohn, as we see, has added to his “Tllustrated Library” the second and concludi volume of Joseph Allen’s Battles of the Brit Navy,—and to his “Scientific Library,” besides the volumes already noted, H. Staunton’s Chest Tournament, a Collection of Games played at this celebrated Assemblage, illustrated with copious Dia- grams and Notes, critical and explanatory, —and the second and completing volume of Kirby's Bridgewater Treatise On the Power, Wisdom.and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation of Animals and in their History, Habits and Instincts. —Mr. Murray has brought out in his “ ; for the Rail” a third edition of the Quarterly article on Theodore Hook,—and another article from the same Review, entitled The Honey Bee. —_, .

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TAIetet st ssre ids RRP PRE SPRPISIFSSSSAAeerl al Seem Ss Bae’ 2s a ees eS, N° 1314) THE ATHENAUM 19 “ LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Altar Stones, 32mo. 6d. swd. ‘armstrong’s (R.) English Compecition, Part 2, 12mo, 2s. cl. Baptist, Reporter, 1852, 8vo. 58. half-bd. : Barnes's Notes on New Testament, 6 vols. 34s. 6d. cl. (Blackie.) Berridge’s Christian World Unmasked, by Guthrie, 12mo. 28. 6d, cl. Bohn’s Antiq. Lib. * Yule-Tide Legends, edit. by Thorpe,’ 58. cl. Bohn's Class. Lib. * Lucan’s P ia, trans. by Riley,’ 5s. cl. Bohn’s Philo. Lib. * Turner's Notes on Herodotus, 2nd edit. 58. cl. Bohn’s Scien. Lib.* wo Treatise, Chalmers On Nature,’ 53. "g Standard Lib. * Foster’s Life, Vol. 2,’ 3s. 6d. cl. (Rev. H.) A Stranger Here, fe. 8vo. 58. cl. Rev. H.) Story of Grace, new edit. 1Smo. 22. cl. Seats of Nobility, Vol. 2, royal 8vo. 2le. cl. new edit. 8 vols. 2s. 6d. each swd., 38. - cL. .¢ Magazin Pioneer, Vi. 6, 12m swd. Stanley ; or, a Summer among the Hills, 1smo. 2s. 6d. cl. 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Our publication this week falls on the first day ofa New Year,—and the first day of a New Year presents a sort of ’vantage ground on which men | are apt to pause and take a look around ;—back- ward along the road which they have travelled— | all whose landmarks and sinuosities they now | know,—and forward into a limited future lying wexplored and indistinct in the first young light | ofa New Year’s morning. There are few men who do not on this day pause and ponder more or less | on the reckonings of the memory,—and enter on the solemn, and almost always sad, office of “ taking stock” of the heart.—These, which are the sugges- tions of the day to the individual in his private re- lation, suggest to the journalist in his character of reporter a similar retrospect over the an- mualfield just explored,—and a glance forward into coming year, wherever the lights from the past over it and afford an accidental indication of the ground about to be travelled through. When we look back and ask ourselves—what are leading literary facts of the past year in this | country '—it is not easy to fix on any fact, or set of fuets, which assume their places as first and fore- most in the historical niches. Literature has kept ahigh and level course. No great literary figure appeared on the horizon : but there have been ‘me worthy additions to our standard library in these twelve months—especially in the more grave ments of history, biography and science. Poetry‘and fiction—the literature of the imagination, @distinguished from that of fact—have not dis- played a large activity, or been more than ordinarily fruitful in works of merit; but the latter at feast contributed some volumes which may expect o take their place in that department of the of the future. ere is, we think, a perceptible elevation of ne in the light literature that passes current with the young and idle like the small talk of con df - A year since, there were still remnants & galvanized and spasmodic species of letters | of history. | even now making arrangements for a speedy break , France. | Tival in every sphere of intellectual labour—is for : tradition. , have been already named,—but who is to succeed that affected to be comic, and was much in fashion with certain thoughtless readers two or three years ago. These broad grins and this ponderous light- ness, which at one time threatened to invade the serious sections of our literature, have happily dis- appeared. As regards what may be called the politics of literature, there is not much to record. Two facts, however, stand out from the rest:—the progress of our State negotiations for a general adoption of the principles of intellectual copyright,—and the position gained by the promoters of an agitation against taxes on knowledge. These questions have made considerable progress during the past twelve months. Several European States have voluntarily come in to the English system;—France in this one respect has taken a higher tone, and forced con- cessions in a certain quarter ;—and the natural growth of opinion in America and the increasing importance of American authorship have done much to advance the day for a final settlement of this long-agitated question. Equally satisfactory is the state of things at home. The fine which governments have levied on knowledge—on facts, on intelligence, on appeals to the public—has been considered and condemned; and one Prime Min- ister at least has expressed himself favourable to a | revision of those taxes, with a view to lighten the burthens on literature. Before another New Year’s Day shall come round, the duty on advertise- ments will in all probability be amongst the things Indeed, we hear that Government is up of that department of the public service. It is sad to turn from our own country to That brilliant and lively land—once our the moment blotted out from the list of literary nations. All the Muses are silent on her soil. Her poets are exiles,—her wits and orators silent, Her historians—with one bold and noble excep- tion—are abashed and idle. Never was prostra- tion of mind more complete than in this utter forgetfulness of a lorig and glorious line of literary The successors of the military empire to the intellectual empire of France, the drugged nation rises not up from its narcotic sleep to inquire. What is true of literary France is true in its degree of almost every other country on the con- tinent of Europe. In Prussia, the Muses have been gagged—as Freiligrath would tell us did we need his word for such a fact ;—in Austria they have been sent to jail;—in Italy they have been shot in almost every market-place. It would be amusing were it not for all which it implies of terrible—in the past and in the future—to record that in Dessau the village schoolmasters have been ordered anew to ring the bells, sweep the church, and wind up the clocks— duties from which they were relieved some years ago,—as a check on the pride of intellect. The training school for teachers is to be removed from Dessau to a rural town :—for the powers that be have found that living in a capital city is injurious to the simplicity of life and modesty of opinion which should characterize the instructors of youth. Dessau, be it said, is a wretched little town in Anhalt, three or four miles from the Prussian frontier,—about as big as St. Albans, and quite as dull.—There are things on which satire is utterly lost. These Dessau doings in the matter of lite- rature and education may be stated—but they cannot be quizzed. The mask which they show is more grotesque than anything that can be said about it. From scenes like these—showing intellect chain- ed, or banished, or on the rack—or the seaffold— it is a pleasure (yet not altogether unmingled) to turn our eyes to America—every day growing more and more worthy of the pride which England feels in her prosperity and power. There, at least, there is a home for free thought and the free pen. The world has one government besides our own that does not tremble at the moving of a feather or shrink before a dash of ink. Though its whole army does not number 11,000 men,—and 8,000 of these are stationed in Texas and California to pro- 1 tect the frontiers from ] Indian 1 ravages,—literature is uncontrolled. There are 20,000,000 of muskest scattered throughout the homesteads of the Re- public ; yet no one there dreams of gagging the village teachers or preventing jurists from discuss- ing philosophical questions, as in some parts of Europe. The glory of America might rest on this broad basis, had it no other. But its fearlessness is not the only feature of its litera- ture. More than once of late we have had to speak of the evident growth of new and finer ele- ments in the literature of that great saggy, elements of nationality and imagination. e old objection to American books, that their themes were borrowed and their treatment was dry and literal, has every day less force. American authors have learned to lean on their own genius,—to trust for interest to the scenery of their own country and the emotions of their own hearts. The morals of the great Transatlantic Continent begin to look with the eyes of the American Muse,—the native and peculiar music of its boundless spaces to speak by her tongue. Thus, by the side of a material activity never surpassed, the land has not waited to grow old for expressions of its own picturesque. The steamer, the railway, the telegraph conduct to realms of fancy as well as to realms of fact. The wood nymphs have found their way into the glades of the primeval forest,—the sylphs have made a new home on the mountain tops. The muses of song and reverie are daring to build their temple close by the shrine of the “almighty Dollar.”—They are doing more :—they are lifting up their voices of denunciation and of prophecy against the great social sore and moral crime of the land. The ery of their indignation has come over the great waters —and stirred the English heart,—and its echoes are returning to them from the fatherland, softened and saddened by the memory of our own scarcely expiated sin. There, as here, the Muse shall finally prevail. The minstrel chord and the material chain can scarcely exist together. The minstrel breaks the chain,—or, the chain binds the minstrel. THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, As the geographical census of the residences of the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society residing in London, according to Mr. Airy—as + stated in his letter to us last week—shows so large a proportion residing east of Charing Cross,—and as Mr. Airy thence hints an inference against that proposition, in the Report of the Royal Commis- sioners for the Exhibition of 1851, which avers as to the members of the Scientific Societies generally, that the majority reside west of Charing Cross,— we have been at the pains to make a similar exa- mination and analysis as respects the list of the constituents of another Society, the Royal :—and we think it will be allowed, that the result, at the least, reinstates the question on the ground whereon the Commissioners had placed it. The Royal Society is, we presume, peculiarly eligible for such a comparison with Mr. Airy’s figures. It ranks as the head of our Scientific institutions; —and it has apartments under the same roof as those occupied by the Astronomical Society,—and so, may fairly be supposed to be equally affected- by a proposed removal to the westward of Charing Cross. We find that, including the City addresses of Fellows—which apply, as is well understood, to their business-offices, their residences being in all probability (though not stated) at the West End, for few business-men live in the City—out of 436 Fellows to whose names London addresses are at- tached, 314 reside west—and 122 east of Charing Cross. If we were to include the country Fellows,— who, when they visit London during the season, are almost invariably located in lodgings or hotels to the west of Charing Cross,— we should add considerably to the proportion in favour of the West End ;—but. the figures as they stand are sufficiently emphatic to support the statement of our correspondent to whose letter Mr. Airy alludes, to the effect that. the West end of London is the more usual resi- dence of the members of Scientific Societies. It is evident with respect to the Royal Society, that

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its Fellows would be greatly benefited—even on the very ground taken for objection—by the So- ciety’s place of meeting being removed to the west of Charing Cross. Whether Kensington Gore be the best locality is another question; but bearing in mind the continual and rapid migration of the upper and middle classes to the westward—ex- cepting always, as demanded, the eastern (fixed- star) Astronomers,—it may be, we repeat, a ques- tion worth serious consideration (and not easily to be foreclosed by a premature agitation), whether an opportunity which may be offered of bringing the principal Scientific Societies into juxtaposition hereafter, should be hastily and unnecessarily de- eided in the negative now.

“ EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA, ANOTHER packet of letters from Drs. Barth and ‘Overweg in the interior of Africa has just been received :—from these I have extracted the follow- ing information for your readers. From my last communication [Athen. No. 1309], rt will be recollected, that the two travellers had left Kuka at the end of last March on two distinct journeys ;—Dr. Barth going in a south- easterly direction towards the Nile,—and Dr. Overweg in a south-westerly direction towards the Kawara. The latter returned after an absence of two months,—having successfully performed an important journey. Dr. Barth’s return was not until the 20th of August last. He had been fortunate in exploring a portion of Baghirmi,—a powerful kingdom be- tween Lake Tsad and the Upper Nile, which had never previously been visited by any European. For this reason Dr. Barth met with some diffi- eulties ;—particularly as the Sultan was absent on a campaign in the far South. He had, however, without much impediment, reached Masefia, the eapital of the country, by the 28th of April :— which place formed his head quarters during the three succeeding months. It is situated on the river Shary, or Asu ;—which has there a direction due south and north, and subsequently runs into ‘Lake Tsad. The river which runs through the country of Loggene (Denham’s Loggun), situated to the west of Baghirmi, is not the Shary, as hitherto sup- posed,—but only one of its tributaries. The real name of the river of Loggene is Loggeme, and Serbenel in its upper course ;—and it is the same river which was traced by the travellers in their previous journeys as far as the country of the Tuburi, beyond Musgow. The Loggeme unites with the Shary a little below Kusseri,—a place already known through Denham. The latter is 600 yards broad at Masefia,—has a current of three English miles per hour,—and is altogether a magnificent river, extending to the basin of the Nile. Dr. Barth collected a large mass of valuable information respecting the history, geography, and ethnography of Baghirmi and Waday,—which he has embodied in an account addressed to the Foreign Office. During his stay in Baghirmi the Doctor expe- rienced the rainy season, which there begins in the early part of April. When he made his return to Kuka—in the beginning and middle of August,— the countries which he traversed wore the most fertile appearance,—while the rivers had con- siderably swollen, and much increased the diffi- culties of his journey. He safely arrived, however, in Kuka,—and joined his companion in the best of health and spirits. The two travellers intended to make another attempt to explore the countries on the eastern side of Lake Tsad direct from Kuka. After that, their energies will be directed towards the south— in the hope of reaching the Indian Ocean. The friends of this Expedition have reason to be satisfied with its success. The excellent health and undaunted spirits of the travellers, especially, must be a matter of congratulation. They have made it a rule to pass the dangerous season after the rains anywhere but on the borders of Lake Tsad,—that great receptacle of the immense volumes of water collected from the most distant

recesses of Inner Africa. The result shows, that, by a careful observation of the climate and seasons, the dangers even of such a region as Tropical Africa may to a great extent be avoided. Further communications from this important Expedition may now be daily expected. AvGUSTUS PETERMANN. Dec. 27.

THE CONNEXION OF SCIENCE WITH MANUFAC- TURES—SOCIETY OF ARTS. THE Society of Arts this year enters on its centenary. At its establishment it embraced within the sphere of its operation the entire circle of “‘ Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.” During the century, however, a large number of institu- tions have been established, each in the special in- terest of one or other of the numerous sections which its original prospectus embraced :—the Royal Academy, which was formed, and held its early Exhibitions, in the rooms of the Society of Arts, -—the Institution of Civil Engineers,—the Royal Agricultural Society,—the Institute of British Architects,—and many others. This subdivision was the natural result of the growth of inquiry,— and represents in Science that subdivision of labour which has done so much for manufacturing art. It has had its effect on the Society of Arts:—which having to compete with these special institutions, has been led, most fortunately, to narrow its field, —and in so doing has gained in distinctness of purpose and efficiency of action. The division of the artistic, scientific and indus- trial world into special classes still left the neces- sity for a connecting link,—and the supply of that link has become the special object of the Society. It may be looked on as one of the chief means of communication between the abstract and the prac- tical; and considering the urgency of such a bond, —a matter on which we have dwelt too frequently and too recently to leave it necessary that we should further illustrate it now,—the Society has before it a vast and most important field of action. We noticed some time since [Athen. No. 1286] that the Council of the Society had appointed thirty Committees, corresponding with the Classes into which the objects of the Great Exhibition were divided, for the purpose ot collecting the materials for statistical information which should at once mark the condition of each individual branch of industry and point out its requirements. The list of subjects for premiums, now before us, has been based upon the same plan. We have, first, a list of forty desiderata connected with Raw Materials and Chemical Combination ; secondly, thirty-three important wants in connexion with Machinery ; nine in connexion with Textile Fabrics; twelve in the classes of Metals, Glass and Porcelain Wares ; eleven in Miscellaneous Manufactures ; and, lastly, seven under the head of Fine Arts. In some cases the premiums are offered for new discoveries or importations, or for practical applications, —in others, for accounts of processes and for essays on special subjects. The list attracts special attention from the fact that it is the result in a great measure of the ex- perience gained in 1851—a key to our practical wants,—and as offering inducements to inventive and suggestive talent. We will illustrate this posi- tion by reference to a few of the instances. In the first division, we find several premiums offered*for the importation of raw materials from our own possessions abroad,—including one for the import of well-dried plantains or bananas from the West Indies. The Society many years ago rewarded the importation of small quantities of these articles,— and at the Great Exhibition there were several important examples ; so that the premium is offered for that which is known to be probable,—a sort of prophecy with the event in sight,—and in the pre- sent instance, all the more important on that very account. Again, a premium is offered for the im- portation of not less than ten gallons of olive oil the produce of Australasia or any other British possession. In this case there is good promise of the premium being claimed; for several very fine samples have been obtained,—and the publication of such a demand will very probably lead to an efficient supply. The premium offered for the best

sample of any new ornamental wood suitable for the manufacture of furniture, falls within the same category. Visitors at the Exhibition will not haye forgotten the very many specimens of strange and beautiful wood which were to be seen in the Cana. dian as well as in several of the Australasian de. partments. Their positive existence being thus proved, the Society wisely holds out an induce. ment for ascertaining their availability and pro. bable value to the manufacturer. <A premium jg offered for the importation of not less than one Pipe of wine, of good marketable quality, made from the produce of vineyards in Australia. The introduc. tion of the vine into our colonies in Australasia has frequently been spoken of in published books, —and the subject has already attracted some atten. tion. Several small casks were brought over for the Exhibition, but they were excluded by the conditions imposed by the Royal Commissioners. We had the opportunity of tasting samples of the several so and we can bear grateful testimony to their effect upon cur own palate. It is a noticeable fact, that the cultivation of the vine in Australia was com- menced, and is still pursued, by the sons of Capt. M‘Arthur, who placed the first sheep in that colony where such enormous flocks have since been created. It is believed by many that eventually the later introduction will also be the origin of an im- portant staple article:—at any rate, the Society invites attention to it.—The remarks which we have made on these four items apply to a con- siderable number in the list of the premiums refer. ring to raw materials. Amongst the premiums offered for the produe- tion of a new and improved article from old mate- rials, there is one for an unguent suitable for lu- bricating machinery. This points to an entirel new and very important series of processes which have been invented to supply a loud and general demand amongst mechanicians. The watch-maker and the fabricator of all sorts of delicate machinery and instruments require oil or some other lubri- cating substance of great purity, without which the finer parts of their work would suffer materially, and the accuracy and efficiency of the instruments become seriously impaired. They are obliged to use the finest oil that they can get, and to pay a very high price for it. The engineer does not absolutely require such purity in his lubricator—though even to him comparative purity is an important matter, —but he is compelled to use such articles in whole- sale quantities. Witness the box full of a mixture resembling palm oil—of which, indeed, we believe it is partly composed—from which the railway attendants supply, with a click and a tap, the little iron boxes over the axles of the engine and car- riages when passengers alight at the various sta- tions,—or those huge kettles full of simmering tallow which we see when we take a peep at the engine on board a steamer. In both these cases, though in different degrees, cheapness and purity are essential qualities ;—and ingenious men have turned their attention to the clarifying of the grosser vegetable oils and animal fats to render them fit for the purposes of the engineer, the ma- thematical instrument maker, and the watch and chronometer maker.—To this important object the Society’s premium is directed.—This matter of un- guents is one of the important minor matters which probably much may be done by stimulat- ing working men’s minds, and turning their atten tion to the improvement of those articles with which their occupations bring them into frequent contact. The premiums offered in the departments of Machinery and Manufactures illustrate in the same manner as those in the first section the lessons learnt from foreigners in 1851, the faults dis covered in our productions, and, generally, an extensive acquaintance with the wants of manufac: turers, and with the efforts that are making to supply those wants, or to carry out improvements already commenced. In some few cases prizes are offered for accounts of what has been done in other countries on cer tain heads,—such, for mstance, as the construction of saloon steamers on American rivers, and ‘ adaptation of the principle to European river am ocean navigation ; and as, recent improvements 1

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N°’ 1314] THE ATHENAZUM 21 the manufacture of carpeting by steam power, in which America has been very busy of late. In the last section—that of Fine Arts—the Council of the Society have confined themselves almost entirely to matters which are not attended to by other institutions :—such as botanical and structural drawings of trees and plants,—anatomi- cal drawings of animals,—large drawings or dia- ms suitable for lecturers in illustration of any special branch of natural history, as the hemp or the flax plant, the silkworm, the cochineal insect, ke. ;—also, diagrams in illustration of any piece of machinery, as a loom, steam-press, paper en- ne, &e. The list concludes with a very important “‘ Spe- cial Prize” relative to a subject which we have more than once referred to in connexion with this Society :—‘‘ The Council offers a Medal and the sum of 50/. for the best, and a Premium of 25/. for the second best, Essay on the History and Manage- ment of Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics’ Insti- tutions; and especially how far and in what man- ner they may be developed and combined, so as to promote the moral well-being and industry of the country.” In spite of the comparative or total failure of many of these institutions—in spite of the fact that their modes of management are various, con- tradictory, and in some cases objectionable,—we know that among the various means of civilization which have assisted in the improvement and ele- vation of the people during the present century, few can claim to rank higher than Literary and Mechanics’ Institutions. Many have failed from waat of experience in their projectors and managers; but the experience resulting to the individual in- stitutions from such failures as well as from suc- cess,—the education which they have thus under- gone for themselves, and the examples which they have offered to others,—have been among the im- portant agencies in creating a feeling of self- dependence and a spirit of self-improvement in the breasts of the working classes of this country. There seems to be just now a crisis in the affairs of institutions generally ; 2nd perhaps the little paragraph which we have above extracted may be the herald of the teacher. We do not look for the enunciation of a system upon which such institu- tions are all to be managed. We have little faith in lans for universal reform in matters of the intel- t;—but we trust that the attention of thinking men may be drawn to a subject full of interest and importance. When the principles on which such institutions should be founded can be ascertained, each will still have to adapt its own constitution to the atmosphere and incidents by which it is individually surrounded. The little paper on which we have based these rewarks contains much promise ; and if the Society of Arts should succeed in rendering their 99th Session, just commenced, as remarkable as was that which preceded it, the Council will have cause to be proud and the members to be grateful. OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP. Tae New Year opens with some announcements of promise in our own literary world. Mr. Bentley amounces the Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox on which the late Lord Holland was understood to be so long engaged. The work however, is now to be edited by Lord John Russell, —and to extend to two volumes octavo. The same publisher promises a history, in one large volume, of The Administration of the East India Company, by Mr. Kaye, author of the History of ‘The War in Affghanistan,’— and a History, in two volumes octavo, of The Colo- nial Policy of the British Empire from 1847 to 1851, by the present Earl Grey.—The fifth and concluding volume of The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield, including some new letters now first published from the original MSS.—under the ditorship, as before, of Lord Mahon, will, we be- lieve, shortly appear.—Two volumes of Letters of the Poet Gray, so often announced by Mr. tley, are tocome out at last during the present Season. They will be edited by the Rev. J. Mit- ford, author of ‘The Life of Gray.’—Nor is Mr. Murray without his usual attractive bill of fare for the literary appetite. The Lowe Papers, left in a mass of confusion at the death of Sir Harris Nicolas, are now nearly ready; and the St. Helena Life of Napoleon will appear, it is said, for the first time as far as Sir Hudson Lowe is concerned in its true light. The Castlereagh Papers (now in Mr. Murray's hands) will include matter of moment connected with the Congress of Vienna, the Battle of Waterloo, and the occupation of Paris. The same publisher announces The Speeches of the Duke of Wellington (to which we called attention some time back):—also a work by Mr. George Campbell, called ‘India as it may be,’ — and another by Capt. Elphinstone Erskine about the Western Pacific and Feejee Islands.—The Messrs. Longman announce a Private Life of Daniel Web- ster, by his late Private Secretary, Mr. Charles | Lanman—and a new work by Signor Mariotti, ‘An Historical Memoir of Fra Dolcinoand his Times,’— Mr. Bohn will have ready in a few days ‘ Yule-Tide Legends,’ a collection of Scandinavian Tales and Traditions, edited by B. Thorpe, Esq.—Messrs. | Hurst & Blackett—whose names now take the place ' of Mr. Colburn’s, as his successors—are about to— publish Memoirs of the Court and CabinetsofGeorge | the Third, to be compiled from original family docu- ments by the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. —Announcements like the above, and the general report of our columns, will show our readers how the field of literature is extending on every hand. | While Lords are lecturing to Mechanics, and Mechanics willingly listening to Lords whenever the topic is literary or educational,—the list of noble authors and editors is swelling to an unpre- cedented extent. Almost the only man who shows no disposition now-a-days to write a book is Col. Sibthorp. All this is an expression of the imme- diate age in which we are living even more remark- able and important perhaps than—though by no means unconnected with—its scientific triumphs. The “ good old English gentleman” looks like a ghost in the morning lights of the time. Contrary to long cherished and highly respectable theories, too, maintained by traditional saws and watered by elderly gentlemen’s tears, — no dangerous symptoms have yet ensued. A perception of the community of the intellectual faculties is the new birth of the present century,—and society is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances. A condition of the body social from which the gene- ration that went out with Lord Eldon (save for a lingering shadow or two that creeps about, pale and bewildered in the sunlight) would have fled as from the plague, is found to be remarkably counter-irri- tant and anti-phlogistic. For the comfort of the daily decreasing number of those who still use the word “democratic” as the word ‘ wolf” was used in the fable,—it is found practically, that this universality of intellectual pursuit serves rather to define and harmonize than to confound the social gradations,—to extend and fortify the basis on which distinction rests rather than to disturb the distinction itself. The title which the multi- tude may share in common with the few calls at- tention to the other titles by the side of which it is worn,—and makes them respected. The laurel twines gracefully with the strawberry leaf,—and consecrates it in the popular heart and mind, when both these have been first duly taught to value the laurel. The obituary of the week contains the name of Francis Hodgson, so well known in his earlier time to the readers of the Byron memoirs, and of late years Provost of Eton College. He died on the 29th of last month in his 72nd year. Mr. Hodgson was not only a friend of the author of ‘Childe Harold,’ but a brother poet. His poem on Lady Jane Grey is perhaps the most notable of his original efforts,—-but his most accepted work is the translation of Juvenal. Of late years Mr. Hodg- son had ceased his exercises in English verse. He contributed, however, numerous pieces in Latin to the ‘Arundines Cami.’ Few additions that have been made of late years to the pension list will meet with a more general and unquestioning concurrence than that which assigns to Mr. Hind an annuity of 2007. This isa true case of “ planetary influence ;’—though the Earl of Rosse is said to have—very character- isticelly—backed it. It is not very frequently that the citizens of London afford an opportunity to a literary paper for a word of praise about what they have done. It is with real pleasure, therefore, that we announce a considerate and proper act now on the eve of accomplishment by the citizens of London, through the good sense of one of their committees. Many of our readers are doubtless aware that this great City possesses a most curious Library relating to London matters, —that it is annually adding to its stores,—and that it is in possession of a fund fully adequate to the acquisition of fresh curiosities.— But how few have ever consulted its shelves,—or, indeed, been within its walls? This Library, so little used for the purposes of research by literary men, has lately attracted the attention of the present chairman of the committee (Mr. William Williams); and the result has been, that cards of admission have been sent—or rather, are now on the eve of being sent—to every author of distinction whose habits of research are at all likely to render the collection of use to him. A new printed Catalogue of the Library will, as soon as completed (and it is nearly ready), accompany every ticket,—so that, an author may consult the catalogue in his own room—and on finding what he wants, wait on the Librarian with his ticket, and see at once what he wishes to see.—This good example should be copied by the authorities at Oxford and at Cambridge, at Lambeth Palace and at Sion College. The question of National Education is one of the topics formally put forward by the new Cabinet. No details are as yet given,—and probably the | Government is unprepared with a definite scheme : —but we have Lord Aberdeen’s assurance that this is one of the subjects the necessity for an early consideration of which in Parliament is recognized by the administration. To use the language of the new Premier—and we put the words on record for future use and reference,—a system of national training for our youth ‘has become a want—a want which the country strongly desires to see supplied, and which has e the attention of all who have undertaken the direction of public affairs.” Lord Aberdeen continues, in the same spirit, and by way of expla- nation :—‘‘I am old enough to remember the intro- duction into this country of the Bell and Lancaster system of education, and I well remember the apprehensions it excited, the opposition it met with; but, by degrees, the only difference now amongst usis, not whether or no education should be general and universal, but the mode in which it can best be carried into effect.” —This is sufficiently true to be almost common-place. The mier, however, alludes to the difficulties of the subject, and the obstacles to be overcome. The obstacles —so far as they are not personal and within his Cabinet—the Minister is perhaps disposed to over- estimate. With the philosophical editor of Hobbes and the author of the ‘Letters on Naples’ at the same board, it may not be easy to arrive at a common issue of opinion on a point like this; but we shall be somewhat mistaken in our view if the objections to a wise system of secular teaching shall be found insuperable out of doors. The debates, the agitations, the example of the past four or five years cannot have been thrown away. The case has reduced itself to the simplest form. Education is necessary. But there are two modes of education—the sectarian and the secular. Some persons think that as a matter of theory the sectarian mode is best. We do not,—this is the argument of others:— but nearly all are now agreed. that, whether best or worst, it is impossible. However long the argument—however circuitous the reasoning—to this conclusion we must all come at last. Education is necessary,—and in the present state of public opinion any other than secular education is impossible. A Minister may have his preferences—his prejudices if he will ; bat in prac- tice he must conform to the conditions amidst which he labours.—‘‘It is undoubtedly my great desire,” says Lord Aberdeen, “recognizing as I do the vital importance of the religious element in all education, to see the due influence of the

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Church exercised in a manner consistently with that perfect right of freedom of opinion which all men are entitled to expect in such matters in this country, and which it has long been our pride to acknowledge.” — With such a saving clause, we will not object to this expression of a desire; but when measures are brought forward in the House of Commons embodying the policy here dimly sha- dowed out, we shall expect to find a liberal inter- pretation put on the clause of “consistently with that perfect right of freedom of opinion” by acabinet in which the late chairman of the Leeds literary soirée also holds a prominent place. A copy of the third and fourth volumes of ‘Emile,’ of the edition of 1762, were sold last week at Messrs. Sotheby & Wilkinson’s for 42/. The volumes had belonged to Rousseau himself, and their margins were covered with materials for a work on Philosophy in his clear and well-known autograph. The Birmingham manufacturers, who, in the language of Lord Granville, ‘‘ were the first ona large scale who encouraged the people of this country to believe that an Exhibition of the manufactures of this country would succeed,” are again on the alert, —and will join issue at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853. A Corre- spondent from the Warwickshire town informs us, that Messrs. Elkington & Co. have been induced to send a collection of their electro-deposit bronzes, and objects in electro-plate, —the Mirfields s and gas-fittings,—Mr. W. Potts, small bronzes, &c.,—Hardman & Co., ecclesiastical de- corations and metal work,—Westley Richards, guns,—Chaucy & Fresnels, lighthouse apparatus, &c.,—Jennings & Bettridge, papier mAché goods, —Rice Hains & Son, specimens of their coloured and pressed glass. Contributions from the Messrs. Richardson, Greathead & Green, of Stourbridge, —Mr. Frederick Walton and Penny & Co., of Wol- verhampton will also be sent.—The old glories of the Crystal Palace will thus in part be realized, and help to gladden the eyes of the Irish people. Dr. Max Miiller has been appointed to a lec- tureship of modern literature at the University of Oxford. The sale of autographs forming the collection of the late Baron de Trémont—the returnsfrom which are bequeathed to various charities—has just ter- minated. The best classes of autographs have brought good prices; and in spite of the new fashion in favour of royal and imperial personages, literary celebrities have here kept their ancient lace at the head of the auctioneers’ lists. A olitre autograph brought 430 francs,—while a Louis Quatorze went for 40. King Leopold brought 6 francs, and Abd-el-Kader the same amount ;—La Rochefoucauld, 300 frances, — Galileo, 206 francs,—and Bayard, 311 francs. An auto- hh of George Monk realized 3 francs,—a Crom- well, 72 francs,—a Pope Alexander VI. (Borgia), $4 francs,—a Frederick the Great, 150 francs,— and a Leo X., 157 francs. These examples will be sufficient index to the general run of prices ob- tained at the latest sale of autographs in France. One of the best services done to morality in France by the republican press under the reign of Louis Philippe was, the successful crusade which it weniaatel against the gaming-houses of Paris. The nuisance was put down by law. Europe re- joiced at the triumph of reason and morality over the inertia of governments. Enlightened French- men congratulated themselves on the withdrawal of so much seductive patronage from the execu- tive power. The friends of persons visiting Paris no longer feared the contagion of the fatal passion of play. But with new men come new ideas, Under therevived Empire the public gaming-houses—with all their vices—are, it is said, to be restored, and with a splendour unknown in previous times. If anything could add to the disgust of serious minds at this most wicked tampering with public morals, it is the pretence that these saloons will be a gain to the Arts, and lend a new embellishment to the capital. The announcement is made in the Revue des Beaux Arts,—the Count de Nieuwerkerque’s journal ;— and the rooms will be as grand and terrible as gilt can make them and guilt will leave them. It is characteristic of the spirit in which

power is now wielded in F rance, that the Govern- | ment which is about to restore public gaming- | houses to the Boulevart is, at the same time, putting forth proclamations in which it claims for itself the title of ‘‘ saviour of public morality !” A Correspondent informs us that Dr. Budge— reported in our columns last week as one of the prizemen of the French Academy—is not an English physician—as the paper from which we = our information stated,—but a Professor at nn,

THE WINTER EXHIBITION of SKETCHES and DRAW- INGS, comprising choice Specimens by leading Artists, is NOW OPEN, at the GALLERY, No. 121, Pail Mall, opposite the Opera House Colonnade, from Ten till dusk.— Admission, 1s. Gallery, 121, Pall Mall. JOHN BRITTEN, See. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—Three Exhibitions daily.—The Diorama illustrating the WELLINGTON CAMPAIGNS, with the additional Pictures—-WALMER CASTLE, the DUKE’S CHAM- BER, LYING IN STATE, FUNERAL SESSION, and INTERIOR OF ST. PAUL'S, with Vocal and Instrumental Music, is now exhibiting daily during the Holidays, at Twelve, Three and Eight o’clock.—Admission, 14., 28. 6d., and 38. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent Street.

THE GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA.—This NEW MOVING PANORAMA, Painted, from Sketches made upon the spot, by J. 8. Prout, ber e New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is EXHIBITED daily at 309, Kegent Street, next the Polytechnic. Among the principal Scenes are Plymouth Sound — Madeira — Cape of Good Hope— South Sea ale Figpine— ictouene—Gesiens— Tee Road to the Diggings — Mount Alexander—Sydney—The Blue Mountains—Summer-hill Creek — Ophir — Encampment of Gold Diggers by et — Admission, ls. ; Central Seats, 2s.; Gallery, 6d. At Twelve, Three and Eight during the Christmas Holidays.—The Descriptive Lec- ture is given by Mr. Prout, who resided many years in the Colonies.

Mr. ALBERT SMITH’S ASCENT of MONT BLANC every evening at 8 o’'Clock.—Stalls, 38. (which can be secured at the Box- Office every day from 11 till 4); Area, 28.; Gallery, 1s.—A Morning Performance every Tuesday and Saturday, at 3 o'clock. EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.— ENTIRELY NEW EXHIBITION.— An OPTICAL and MUSICAL ILLUS- TRATION of‘ A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM,’ the Word: from Shakspeare, the Music by Horn, Stevens, Bishop, H. Buck- land, and Dr. Cooke, Mornings and Evenings.—LECTURES : b: J. H. Pepper, Esq., on the Endless AMUSEMENTS of CHEMIS- TRY, adapted to a Juvenile Audience.—By Dr. Bachhoffner, on the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC a peg Mr. Crispe, on BALLOONING and the PROSPECTS of AERIAL NAVIGATION, illustrated by a beautiful Model of POITEVIN’S PARACHUTE, GREEN’S GUIDE-ROPE, TAYLOR'S PRO- PELLERS, DIAGRAMS, &c.—DISSOLVING VIEWS, includ- ing Day and Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, WALMER CHURCH, &e.—Admission, 18. ; Schools, and Children under ten years of age, Half-price.

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. MicroscoricaL.—Dec. 30.—G. Jackson, Esq. in the chair.— Messrs. Highley, Barlow, W. Adams, W. Crozier and E. Truman, and Prof. Pohl, of Vienna, were elected members.—A paper was read by Mr. Busk ‘On the Structure of the Starch Granule,’—in which he pointed out that the lamination usually observed in starch grains dis- appeared under the influence of heat, sulphuric acid, and other re-agents. When thus treated, the granule enlarges and presents the appearance of an irregular compressed bag or vesicle. This vesicle did not present a membrane independent of the starch—as had been stated by some writers, —but assumed an appearance which justified the view originally taken of the starch granule by Leeuenhoek.-—Mr. C. Brook exhibited a moveable arm for the compound microscope, by which object- glasses of differing focal distance might be em- ployed without having recourse to the present method of screwing and unscrewing. He also ex- hibited a portable stand which could be carried in the pocket, and which was adapted for use with a pocket lens. INsTITUTE OF AcTUARIES.—Dec. 27.—J. Finlai- son, Esq., President, in the chair.—‘On the ob- jectionable Character of certain Methods, very generally practised, for determining and dividing Surplus in Life Assurance Companies,’ by C. Jellicoe, Esq.—The author first drew attention to the well-known mode of valuation by the North- ampton table,—and showed that from a pecu- liarity in the construction of that table, the results obtained by it were never to be depended upon, more particularly as the use of it led in certain circumstances to a very considerable under-estimate of the liability of an assurance society. Adverting, then, to the modern system of estimating the in- comes of such societies at their true value as nearly as possible, instead of at a fictitiously depressed one, as advocated by the more old-fashioned prac-

= - = ——$— titioners,—he pointed out the great advantages of the former mode as regarded clearness and precision and as giving a complete insight into the condition of an assurance society. He showed that the ob. jections now being urged to it by one or two writers apparently arose from their not under. standing how to use the means it afforded; and made it appear that it was especially calculated to remove the very evils which they charged against it, and which the old system advocated by them was in reality productive of. Turning, then, to the subject of the division of surplus, the author de. scribed three of the methods commonly practised at the present day to effect that object :—viz., the distribution according to the amount at interest of the premiums paid,—according to the value of the assurance,—and according to the difference between these two ; comparing the results obtained by these methods with such as arose from the use of that which he had on a former occasion demonstrated to be the true one. He made it appear, that all three erred considerably, and very nearly in the same way:—viz., in giving much too large a portion of the surplus to the older members at the expense of the younger ones. After briefly ex. plaining the cause of this similarity in their opera. tion, he concluded with a statement which went to prove that if the additions made to assurances u to the present time were taken at the moderate sum of 4,656,000/., then that the part of it unduly assigned to the older members at the cost of the younger ones could not be less than upwards of half a million, or more nearly 530,000/. sterling.

MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Mow. Entomological, 8. — London Institution.—‘ Whale Fishery.’ Tues. Pathological —(Election of Officers.) Wep. Geological, ~ a On the Geology of Labuan and Neigh- bouring Islands,’ by — Motley, Esq.; Communicated by Sir H.T. De la Beche.—‘ On the Occurrence of Insect Remains in the Tertiary Class, and {the Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorsetshire Coast,’ by the Rev. F. B. Brodie. Tuvnrs. Harveian, 74.—(Council.) — Zoological, 3. ‘ yal, 84. Frit. Archeological Institute, 4. Sat. ical, 8.

FINE ARTS NEW PUBLICATIONS. Obsequies of His Grace the late Illustrious Field- Marshal the Duke of Wellington, &c. Drawn on Stone by A. Maclure. Tue most striking features of the funeral pro- cession of the 18th of November are represented, under the above title, in a series of six lithogra- phic drawings,—executed with vigour, finish and truth. The first of the series, the ‘‘ Lying in State,” has already come under our notice as a separate plate ; the remainder consist of views along the line,—from the temporary place of de- posit of the coffin at the Horse Guards to its final resting-place in St. Paul’s Cathedral.—There is also a portrait of the Duke,—which is firmly drawn, and a good likeness.—‘‘ The Departure from the Horse Guards”’ presents an extensive bird’s-eye view of London, looking eastward, with the river, the bridges and St. Paul’s in the dis- tance, the Horse Guards and adjacent public buildings in front, and in the immediate fore- ground the troops drawn up in serried battalions, with the Rifles just filing off. Before the Horse Guards, on theleft, stands the marquee under which the car was placed,—mourning coaches are ap- proaching on the left,—and the movements of the staff in the centre indicate the moment of depar- ture.—‘‘ The Car passing Apsley House.” This view, which embraces Piccadilly and London east- ward on the right, has the Duke's residence and part of Hyde Park in front, being sketched from the top of the arch on Constitution Hill. — “ Passing Trafalgar Square.” Here we have the car immediately before Lord Nelson’s column, —the head of the procession having disappeare¢ along the Strand.—‘ The arrival at St. Paul's’ is a most effective view of the metropdli- tan Cathedral from the top of Ludgate Hill— The “Interior of St. Paul’s” shows the last act of the mournfnl ceremony, with the countless specta tors who were assembled beneath the dome.—This series collected into a portfolio forms a very inter- eating memento of the event which it records. It

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Ne 1314] THE ATHENAUM 23 should be observed, nevertheless, that owing to the manner in which generally the points of view are obtained, the procession everywhere an in- -onificant relation to the architectural lines along ich it passes,—and the details of that which is really the immediate subject are made the least important feature in the record. “Jack on Guard against the French Invasion.” | P Painted by the Comte de Montpezat. Engraved by G. Zobel. Tas is a well-executed mezzotint engraving, intended as a quiz upon the national susceptibility with respect to apprehended invasion from our Gallic neighbours.—A Scotch terrier, squatted on his hind-legs, costumed in a sailor’s straw hat, with a cigar in his mouth, and grasping his mas- ter’s gold-headed and well-tasselled cane—after the fashion of “‘the bear and ragged staff,”—is doing coast-guard duty with very praiseworthy earnestness on the sea-beach :—let us suppose the locality the back of the Isle of Wight. The satire is very harmless,—and the engraving is much too good for the subject. EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. Tus Exhibition—the first of its kind in London —has proved eminently attractive; and deserves notice both for its novelty and for its intrinsic value. The collection is a bo | large one,—including 774 specimens ;—the results of the several processes known as Talbotype or Calotype, Waxed Paper, Albumined Paper, Albumenized Glass, and Collo- dion. They have been contributed by French, German, and English photographers. The examples date from the year 1840 to the present time, — and thus furnish an illustrated record of the art which they represent from its very commencement.—First in order of date is a curious collection of Photographs from ferns, grasses, and flowers, contributed by Capt. Ibbetson, andentitled ‘Le premier Livre imprimé par le Soleil —L. L. Boscawen Ibbetson, Esq., 1840.’ The title is borne out by the fact, that the title-page itself, as well as the preface, is sun-printed.—Mr. Fox Talbot exhibits a very interesting book containing specimens of his productions from 1841 to 1846 inclusive. In this there are specimens of the ap- plication of the art to objects of almost every class; and although many of them are imperfect, — there are some which may be compared without disadvantage with the best of recent specimens.— Capt. Ibbetson in his Preface refers to the experi- ments of Prof. Gerber of Berne,—who, it is said, had for many years been endeavouring in vain to d some mode of rendering permanent the pic- tures which it was known to chemists that the sun was capable of producing. Mr. Fox Talbot's first communication to the Royal Society on the subject was in 1839. The specimens produced by the several processes which we have named above do not present any such distinctive features as would warrant the conclusion that either is greatly superior to the rest in respect of the effect produced. The important differences lie in the facilities of execution,—not in the results obtained:—which alone are of course evident to the public. This similarity of result makes criticism very difficult,—and the large number of fine specimens renders it an invidious task to make special mention of any. Looking, however, to the importance of the specimens to Art as well as to their general excellence, wefind several features of the Exhibition rving of especial notice. The value of Photo- graphy as a means of collecting truthful examples of architectural details—especially in the case of ¢ florid ornaments of the ecclesiastical and other tdifices of foreign countries, and indeed of our own also,—which could be transferred to paper only by first-rate drafismen and at a great expenditure of time—is admirably illustrated by this collection. € see there specimens of the most beautiful and tastic carving in stone transferred to paper with tdoubted accuracy,—and in many instances with the most delightful artistic effect. Very many éxamples are marred, it must be admitted, by the mtensity of the shadows, which completely hide that part of the work upon which they fall. This seems to arise from there having been too strong a light on the building at the time of taking the photograph. In the case of works in low relief the amount of sunshine would be of less importance; —but where the surface exhibits great inequalities, such deep shadows are ruinous to the effect of the icture. This fault is, however, by no means uni- versal; and the following examples, among many others, prove that it does not appertain to any of the modes, but is accidental :—Mr. Fenton's pic- ture of ‘The Gateway at Tewkesbury,’ on waxed paper, No. 79 in the Catalogue; Mr. Sandford’s ‘ Canterbury Cathedral Gateway’ (84) by the same process; M. Pecquerel’s Cathedral at Bruges and Chartres (111 and 129), also by the waxed paper process; Mr. De la Motte’s two ‘ Views of Croxton Abbey’ (166 and 209), by the collodion process,— in the former of which the figure of the ‘‘ boy in the arch” is very beautifully rendered; Mr. Talbot’s ‘Queen’s College, Oxford’ and ‘Gate of King’s College, Cambridge’ (188 and 208); ‘The Quad- rangle of Arundel Castle’ (246), by Mr. Buckle, on paper; ‘Notre Dame’ (415), by M. H. Le Secy, on waxed paper; ‘The Fountain in the Place Sulpice, at Paris’ (483), on albumenized glass, by M. Ferrier; the beautiful figures from Strasbourg Cathedral (505), on waxed paper, by M. Le Secy; ‘The Entrance to Holyrood’ (638), onalbumenized paper, by Messrs. Ross & Thomson; and the Views of Melrose, Edinburgh, &c. (640 to 646), by the same gentlemen. There is a large number of pictures of celebrated buildings, equally valuable to the architectural student and pleasing to the eye of the general observer. The following are among the most pro- minent :—‘ The Louvre’ (117), by Mr. F. Martens; ‘The Kremlin’ (135), and ‘Tintern Abbey’ (212), by Mr. R. Fenton ; ‘ Ratcliffe Library’ (195), by Mr. B. Jones; ‘ Venice’ (267), and ‘The Arch of Vespasian’ (268), by M. E. Constant; ‘ Peter- borough Cathedral’ (269), by Mr. S. Buckle ; ‘The Forum at Rome’ (285), by M. Pecquerel ; ‘ Fon- tainebleau’ (287), exhibited by M. Ballitre; ‘Man- sions at Venice’ (288 and 294), by a French artist, exhibited by Mr. Owen Jones ; and ‘Tours Cathe- dral’ (360), by Mr. Fry. Amongst the architectural specimens it would be unjust to omit notice of several interiors by Mr. H. Owen (Nos. 140, 223, 225, &c.). The difficulty of obtaining photographic pictures of the interiors of buildings is very considerable. It is frequently not easy to obtain a good position for the Camera, as regards focal distance; and the distribution of the light within a structure adds to the inconve- nience. One difficulty will probably be overcome, or at least materially reduced, by the Collodion process :—which occupies a much shorter time than the paper processes, Mr. Owen’s views must have taken some hours to produce, — while by the Collodion process the picture would probably be obtained in a minute, or even less. There are some beautiful pictures of the ruins of Nubia, Syria, and Upper Egypt (Nos. 106, 109, 118, 119, and 284), by M. Du Camp :—forming part of a serial work published in Paris. The details of the interesting remains are given with great beauty, and the effect of the photographs is excellent. There is a peculiarity, however, in these productions, which we think might be advantageously avoided. The colour is a beautiful bright grey, and the tint is unusually smooth; but they have rather the appearance of lithographs, and are not to our eye so pleasing as the warm sepia tint seen in many excellent speci- mens around them. The colours of M. Constant’s Roman Views (271, 272), M. Renard’s ‘Court of the Louvre’ (500), M. Marten’s ‘Louvre’ (525), and M. Pecquerel’s ‘Cathedral of Chartres’ (526), are to us much more pleasing and artistic. The ‘Triumphal Arch at Rome’ (390), by M. E. Constant, and the ‘Coliseum’ (501), by M. Flack- eron, are splendid specimens in every respect. The production of extensive views by means of the Camera offers great difficulties, —and no won- der that many of the specimens are imperfect. There are, however, some exhibiting a high de- gree of excellence—great mastery in the manipu- lation of the art. M. Pretseh’s Views of the City of Vienna and of the Church of St. Stephen’s (98; 625 and 626) are very remarkable productions, So also are Mr. J. Stewart’s Scenes in the Py- renees (180, 191 and 194), and M. Regnault'’s Views in France (676 and 679). The smaller landscapes, rustic scenes, and masses of trees exhibit very satisfactory progress in tone and in aérial effects.—Some of the trees are ad- mirably rendered ; and give such a representation of the elegant as well as the grotesque forms of nature as the most practised artist could scarcely hope to produce.—In this class the following de- serve especial notice :—‘ Mill Stream’ (110) and ‘ Rustic Bridge’ (120), by Mr. G. Shaw,—‘ Forest Scene’ and ‘ Pollard Willows’ (112), by Mr. Sher- lock,—‘ Scenes in the Isle of Wight’ (142 to 145), by Sir W. Newton,—‘ The Stable Door’ (162), by Mr. Fox Talbot,—‘ The Church Oak’ (175), ‘ Old Farm House, Worcestershire’ (179), ‘Lyn Hall’ (182), ‘Scotch Firs’ (190), and ‘A Photographic Truth’ (193), by Mr. B. B. Turner,—‘ Cottages in Jersey’ (230 and 241), by Mr. R. S. Bingham, —‘ Windmill near Arundel’ (245), and ‘ Smacks at Shoreham’ (265), by Mr. Buckle.—‘ The Loch’ (258), and ‘Sluice at Orton’ (274), by the same gentleman, deserve special attention for the com- paratively satisfactory manner in which the water is represented :—a rare feat in photography. ‘The Village Stocks, Prestbury, near Cheltenham’ (281), by Mr. B. Jones, is a delightful mass of trees, and a very artistic picture. ‘Scotch Firs overthrown’ (303), and a ‘ Brook’ (396), by Mr. A. L. Cocke, —and ‘Greenwich’ (706), by Mr. Wilks,—are very pleasing productions. There is a considerable number of portraits in different styles :—many very clever productions, Two remarkable frames exhibit ‘Types.of In- sanity’ (169 and 197), by Dr. Diamond.—These are taken by the Collodion process ; by which the Doctor has been enabled to produce a group of portraits of insane and idiotic people who could probably not be induced to remain quiet long enough to be taken by the other processes. i is but one of many ways in which photography may be made subservient to science.—The repre- sentation of the ‘Larva of an Insect under the Microseope’ (270) is another indication in this direction. —The photographs of animals in the Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park (654 to 674), executed by an amateur (Count de Montizon), are also highly interesting in both a popular and a scientific point of view. The Giraffe, the Hippo- potamus, and especially the Polar Bear, are admi- rably represented. One of the pictures represents a fish swimming in a glass fern case :—being pro- bably the first actual portrait that was ever exe- cuted of a fish in its native element. Besides a large number of specimens from the Great Exhibition, the collection includes a number of Photographs of the old and also of the new Crystal Palaces, by Mr. De la Motte. Of these, No. 233 is very remarkable for the peculiar effect caused by the shadow of a tree falling upon the men and machinery beneath it. The present Exhibition has evidently been arranged somewhat hurriedly,—and the collection is not, therefore, as complete as it might have been had more time been allowed for the purpose. This is evinced by the fact, that since the opening the number of specimens has been doubled. The Catalogue, indeed, enumerates only 397 out of the 774 specimens exhibited:—we are informed, however, that a new Catalogue is just ready.— The idea of such an Exhibition is due, we believe, to Mr. Cundall and Mr. De la Motte; and these gentlemen, together with Mr. Fenton, who read a paper on the subject at the opening Soirée, have given great assistance to the Council of the Society in the execution of the project. There is one omission of some importance, which it might not perhaps be too late even now to supply :—namely, the exhibition of the various stages—and, as far as possible, of the several processes—side by side. Throughout the whole collection we could find only one instance (758) of a positive Photograph exhibited side by side with its negative. Considering how little is known about the art itself, we cannot help thinking that a small collection of materials, instruments, and

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24 THE ATHENAUM CJ an. 1,°53 illustrations of the modes of operation would be highly welcome to a number of the visitors :— and as the Exhibition is to remain open until the 8th inst. there would be time for the addition. Frixz-Art Gossip.—Mr. Burford spent his last summer on the Faulhorn mountain of the Bernese Alps; and the drawings which he made there he has now, with the assistance of Mr. Selous, transferred to canvas and to his pano- rama in Leicester Square. Seldom, indeed, has he been happier than in his present work. He has caught the jugged and snow-capt heights with great skill,—given us a noble sky-line,— and worked both in his foreground and in his middle distance with the feeling and skill of a faithful and accomplished artist. The summit of the Faulhorn from whence the view is taken is above 8,000 feet in height,—and has long been considered one of those glorious spots which the traveller was told not to miss seeing.—We can commend Mr. Burford’s ‘Bernese Alps’ as an excel- lent painting,—and a capital prelude, or close, to Mr Albert Smith’s ‘ Ascent of Mont Blanc.’ It may be convenient to some of our readers if we state, that the Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, Mr. Cockerell, will commence his annual course of lectures on Wednesday next,— and continue them on the five following Wednes- days. The collection of pictures belonging to H.R.H. the Duchess of Orleans — to which we alluded last week—will be sold by auction in Paris on the 18th of the present month.—The whole phantasma- goria now passing before our eyes in that capital is so like some mocking dream—in whose reality we refuse to believe even while we are dreaming it,— and involves such outrages to justice and humanity —that one tragical and sorrowful incident can hardly add to the universal sense of wrong. Yet even amid the many hard knocks and grotesque trans- formations of this French pantomime, we feel a new shock in the thought that this innocent and most unfortunate lady—by no fault of her own, and in enhancement of the long sorrow of her widowhood—should find herself in such a condi- tion as to think it her duty to part with these last relics of her former high and happy estate :— relics doubly dear and sacred as chosen by the husband whose sudden and violent death was the first in the long series of calamities that have since overtaken France.—‘“‘ The entire collection of the Duchess of Orleans consists,” says a correspondent, ‘of sixty pictures. Her Royal Highness retains only two pictures :—‘ Les Saintes Femmes,’ by Ary Scheffer, and the portrait of her husband, by Ingres. There are besides, four by Scheffer : —the ‘Giaour’ and ‘ Medora,’ in his earlier os eg beautiful ‘Francesca di Rimini,’ to which we have already alluded, —and the ‘Christus Consolator.’ This latter is the pendant to the ‘Christus Remunerator,’ in the possession of Mr. Naylor of Liverpool. One, or both, of these noble pictures has, we think, been engraved. —There are two pictures by Ingres :—the ‘Ckdipus,’ —and the ‘Stratonice.’ The latter is a highly- finished picture, painted while he was Director of the Ecole de Rome, and purchased by the late Duke of Orleans.—Delaroche’s ‘ Mort du Duc de Guise’ is known to, and admired by, most lovers of Art. There is but one voice as to its high merits of colour, composition, and execution.— There are, also, Delacroix’s fine picture, ‘La Mort de l’Evéque de Liége,’—and some excellent pic- tures by Decamps.—These are a few of the choice specimens of French art which the taste and munificence of the ill-fated Prince collected, and bequeathed to his widow. They are but fragments of the mighty wreck in which are involved not only the fortunes of a family, but all the intel- lectual freedom and nobility of France. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA NEW PUBLICATIONS. Remarks on the Protestant Theory of Church Music. By Stewart Adolphus Pears, B.D.—This newest of many pamphlets on a subject which has been generally treated with a curious lack of reason, is not the most reasonable of the series. — The assistant master of Harrow School, to whom we are indebted for it, does not seem to recognize Music as among the arts. If he do, he is placed in the dilemma of recommending that ig- norance, not instruction, should take part in the prayer and praise of the Temple. The attempt to sing unisonally on the part of a congregation is tantamount to a repetition of the responses by those who cannot read. Be it observed, that the artistic side of the question alone is here under consider- ation,—not the battle betwixt Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy—Psalter against Hymn-book—-intona- tion against common speaking. These are so many sectarian squabbles—so many wranglings about the form, not the spirit of Religious Art,—the decision of which we leave to authority or to private judg- ment. Declining, as we do, for obvious reasons, to measure and appraise the emotions of those who follow the mass, or those who sing in the chaunt or psalm,—we still hold fast to the principle that if intellectual cultivation is admitted to have a function and a duty in public worship, the defence of what may be called artistic barbarism is, to say the best of it, illogical. Te Deum : composed for Solo Voices and Chorus, | and the Accompaniment, compressed from the Score, | for the Pianoforte or Organ. By Edward Francis | Fitzwilliam.—There is skill in this ‘Te Deum,’ | but it is skill strangely rather than seriously used. The composition strikes us as deficient in devo- tional unction. We do not hereby intend to pass | judgment on the style chosen for the service, | believing that a Pergolesi can be sacred in his | florid fashion though a Palestrina is also sacred | in his sainted solemnity. We do not recognize one | final and immutable pattern, for religious music of every century; nor see any orthodoxy in barring out of the Temple modern discovery, for the sake of leaving its altars free to the sole homage of ancient tradition. But Mr. Fitzwilliam is apt to be odd and unmeaning in his devices to a point which argues want of sincere meditation, and, consequently, of reverence. The very opens ing symphony of his composition is theatrical,— suggesting the mustering of a stage-chorus in reply to an appeal. The burst upon the word “Sanc- tus” is a suspense, not a satisfaction, to the ear. The subsequent verse, ‘ Pleni sunt ceeli,’ is the completion of what is incomplete, not the ampli- fication of a triumph already enunciated. We are at a loss to understand why ‘Te per orbem’ should have been set in a style so unmis- takeably pastoral as it is here :—how that long | shake on the word “eternum” in the mezzo- soprano Solo (p. 30), could have been permitted place in a composition where musical punning would be most reprehensible, and, moreover, | where, as we have said, any very intimate refer- | ence of sound to sense has not formed part of the | composer’s plan.—There is weak and formal writing | in the final chorus, ‘In te Domine speravi,’ which | might pass in the essay of a student of fugued | composition,—but which is not worthy of Mr. | Fitzwilliam. For the conceit and carelessness | complained of we are sorry in proportion as our ex- pectations have risen above the average regarding our author’s powersas a composer. This ‘Te Deum’ contains pages of a better quality. The bass Solo, No. 3, ‘Tu ad liberandum,’ is a fine song of its kind. The Quartett, No. 5, ‘Te ergo quesumis,’ though too light, is elegant,—and throughout, an individuality of hand is evidenced which we are disposed to set great store by in days when every English composer seems to be satisfied only in proportion as he can resemble some distinguished foreigner. PANTOMIMES AND BURLESQUES. More than usual cost has been this year lavished on the Christmas entertainments. Such, indeed, is now-a-days the excess of embellishment excited by theatrical competition, that it becomes with the least pretending no less than the most impor- portant houses a serious affair of capital, not only at this festival season, but on most occasions of novel production.—The Lyceum this time bears away the bell in this ‘ respect,—and leads us therefore to commence with the Burlesques. Mr. Planché has gone to Madame La Force for his story—‘ La Bonne Femme’. and worked it up into a charming and almost classical travestie, entitled ‘The Good Woman in the Wood,’ The acting, as usual here, is the best of its kind ; and illustrated as it is by admirable ictures from the pencils of Mr. Beverly and Mr eadows,—the whole drama forms a charming spectacle. HayMarket.—A piece of the same class, frog} the pens of Mr. F. Talfourd and Mr. Stirling Coyne, but Jess gorgeous in its accessories, was produced on Boxing-night at this theatre under the title of ‘Leo the Terrible.’ The piece of which Leo ig the hero is an Aisopian fable, in which the persong wear masques representative of the heads of anj- mals. Human beings, it is explained in the pro- logue, are doomed to this sort of punishment in Hades,—-exchanging the ‘‘human countenance divine” for that of brute according to their pro- pensities in a former state. Such a theme is a difficult one for stage developement ; and we can. not congratulate the authors on having quite ful- filled the conditions implied. The drama, however, is good up to a certain point,—but too simple to sustain the prolonged interest attempted. The hand of Leo’s daughter is claimed by Jsegrim— the Wolf;—and her father (Mr. Bland), terrible only in name and in mane, is fain to accept the aid of a Yachting Norval (Mrs. Buckingham) and his crew concentred in one member, Potts, a pot- boy (Mr. Keeley), just arrived on the Stygian shores, and at first alarming the Court of the Leonine monarch with the terrors of a Napoleonic invasion. Isegrim proves almost too much -for these heroic youths ; and in the disguise of a pious clerk leads them into a rocky defile used as an ambush for his wolfish companions in arms. Norval is defeated, but Potts puts Isegrim and his herds to sleep by reading a dull tragedy ; whereupon Noval cuts off Isegrim’s head.—But, in vain :— for the immortal Wolf in sheep’s clothing leads on his troops without his head, and thus the more appals his enemies,—bringing Leo and his Court to the necessity of yielding to ‘‘Common Sense,” and sanctioning the marriage of Isegrim with Leonilla,—Such are the two Burlesques of the season. The remaining pieces that we have to notice are all Pantomimes. Drury Lave takes the lead; and merits priority, as having produced a pantomime of but average merit as a composition on more than an ordinary scale of expenditure in its scenery and ornaments, The title is, ‘Harlequin Hudibras ; or, Old Dame Durden and the Droll Days of the Merry Monarch.’ In the piece there is a mixture of periods,—that of the Civil War being blended with that of the Restoration of the Monarchy. A compact is made between Antiquity and Improvement as the theme of the action ; and ‘The Fairy Palace of the People by Moonlight” (at Sydenham) forms one of the earliest scenes,—with a grand ballet fantastique m celebration of Art, Science, and Progress. Next in effect to this is Dame Durden’s Farm at Sun- rise in the Village of Sumware; in which we are introduced to the fugitive Prince as Master Row- ley. After this, we follow him to the Oak in Penderell Plantation by Sunset. Then, reverting to the Hudibras portion of the plot, we make acquaintance with the great Kitchen in Boscobel Manor-house :—having previously been presented with the famous adventure of the Bear and Fiddle. At length, we arrive at Old Cheapside and Conduit in 1660,—and witness the coronation of Charles the Second :—whereupon the usual transformations take place. And here we notice an addition to the characters. We have not only Columbine, by Malle. Louise Blanche,—but a Harlequina, by Miss Julia Turner, who had previously enacted the part of Anne Page :—why, in either character she is there we know not,—though as a dancer she is mo welcome. Tom Matthews was Clown; and to him were added two eccentrics,—one, the London Gent, by Herr Deulin,—the other, a Sprite, by_Signor Devani, whose contortions were surprising. +” profusion seems to be the order of the day— rather, night—at Drury Lane. The tricks mo few, and not very pointed :—owing perhaps tot able succes to the Ade known,—* reciate contribute ment. OLyMPIi for this es to Shaks Queen M: sub-title c

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N° 13149 THE ATHENAUM 25 city of topics, political allusions generally Peving been prohibited. Some of the mechanical sontrivances, however, were of an intricate and magnificent description:—and the concluding scene, ting the Palace of Poetic Invention, justified the epithet in the lay-bills of ‘ nt.” Princess’s.—‘ lequin Cherry and Fair Star; or, the Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the Singing Silver Tree,’ is the title of the pantomime st this house. Mr. George Ellis is both author god producer of the piece. The subject is not new to the boards. The Nursery in the Royal Palace of Cyprus forms one of the most effective es,—full of bustle and of characters:—in the nidst of which Djinn, the evil genius, carries off the Princess Fair Star. Prince C pursues her into the nether regions, through wonderful and incomprehensible adventures; until, in the Peri Palace of Peacocks, all the persons of the drama undergo transformation. The chief feature of the formance was Mr. Huline as Clown. He is an able successor of Mr. Flexmore,—who has migrated tothe Adelphi. Mr. Cormack’s Harlequin is well known,—and Miss Leclerq’s Columbine is always reciated. Mr. Paulo was the Pantaloon,—and contributed much to the success of the entertain- t. *Ourarve.—Mr. Nelson Lee has been the caterer for this establishment, and resorted for his subject to Shaks' Queen re’s ‘Romeo and Juliet :’—‘ Harlequin ab and the Land of Dreams’ being the sub-title of the pantomime. The chief demoniac agent is the Spirit of Poison,—who provides Romeo, through the Apothecary, with a bottle of British brandy; but Juliet, under the protection of Queen Mab, is saved by a dose of chloroform. —Miss Marie Charles is Columbine, and had for Harlequin, Mr. A. F. Forrest; while Mr. Edwin Edwards made an excellent Clown. The hits are numerous, and some of the tricks and scenes are dever and striking. The piece closes with the “Magic Halls of Light;”—the brilliancy of which commanded immense applause. SapLER’s WELLS.—The old argument of ‘ Whit- tington and his Cat’ suffices this now time-honoured theatre for a theme; but it has been treated by Mr, Greenwood with great stage-tact, and woven into one of the most effective pantomines of the season. The fortunes of the hero, with his purchase of the Cat, and his dream at Highgate, are cleverly in- dicated,—the latter by some pleasing panoramic senes.—Mr. Fenton is the Harlequin, and Miss Parkes is Columbine. For Clown Mr. Nicolo Deulin replaces poor Stilt,—and he, and Herr Deani as the Sprite, contributed to the amuse- ment of the audience by their respective eccen- tricities The house was so crowded, that the tragedy of ‘ Douglas,’ which preceded the panto- mime, was acted in dumb show. Of the other pantomimes of the season a mere cursory notice must serve.—That at the ADELPHI takesforargument ‘Nell Gwynne; or, the Harlequin Merry Monarch,’—and has been prepared by Mr. Nelson Lee :—to whom also the public are indebted for the pantomime at AsTLEy’s, ‘Fortunio and his Horse Comrade and the Seven Gifted Men.’ —The SurREy piece (by Mr. Blanchard) is elegant both in structure and in subject,—the title being ‘Harlequin and the World of sem 3 or, the Fairy ofthe Rose and the Sprite of the Silver Star.’ The latter is in love with a mortal maiden whom the ip destines for a humble gardener. The scenery s splendid,—and the whole piece has been “‘got up, regardless of expense.”—At the St. Jamzs’s the Marionettes have undertaken the representation of ‘The Forty Thieves’—a miniature spectacle, with sme singular scenic effects—for the entertainment of the Holiday folks. They constitute a curious amusing variety. Musica, AND Dramatic GossiP.—It was last Week announced in the Atheneewm that Art had got into the Mansion House, in the form of a com- mission to the sculptors of England. In conse- quence of this, with a persistence as reasonable at as that of certain fur by year, brin amen, sure of fi onourable Members who, forward the same measure in nding themselves in a minority one,—do we open a new year by reiterating our earnest wish that the City and the City Com- panies, with their hospitable propensities and their immense revenues, would do themselves credit, and add elegance, variety, and renown to their entertain- ments, by opening their magnificent halls to music in some other form than that of the after-dinner glee. One first-class concert in the year would not be too much to ask,—and as this might involve a commission to a first-class musical composer, there is nothing Utopian in fancying Whittington’s kingdom becoming a spot of as much European interest as the Grand Opéra of Paris, or (to come home) the Town Hall at Birmingham. When we think of the tasteless plate which no one sees-—of the gallons of turtle soup which bring distempers along with them—and reflect, on the other hand, how little either show or appetite need be mulcted —we cannot but wish that Music had a Beaufoy on its side to take its part in the City of London, —and that our hints might entice some spirited member of some Company to make himself and his guild honourable by a small bestowal of such wise patronage as in former days induced Handel to set Dryden’s ‘ Alexander’s Feast’ to immortal music. Meanwhile, the manner in which Music is pushing out shoots in every corner of this vast metropolis ought to quicken the emulation of all who are ashamed te loiter behind their time. The adver- tising columns of the Times that announce the finishing of St. Martin’s Hall and the preparation of the New Philharmonic Hall under the auspices of Sir Charles Fox, advertise also ‘‘New Music Rooms” in Euston Square, and a new “ Victoria Vocal and Instrumental Society” in formation towards Chelsea. The Panopticon in Leicester Square is in the hands of the decorators; and from the preparations for the new organ that are in progress there, it appears as if gigantic ‘*demonstrations” are contemplated,—since from the arrangement of the manuals it is obvious that three players are to be employed simultaneously. As for the ‘“‘ Amateur Choral Meetings,” ‘Club Concerts,” ‘‘ Lectures on Church Music,” “ Ballad Entertainments,” &c. advertised, to keep pace with them is obviously not possible. It must suffice us to remind ‘priests and people” that never has there been in England a time so propitious for the furtherance of sound musical objects as the time present, — while we point out that never was success more impossible to high profession without perfect performance. We hear from entirely opposite sides of the musical world, of two English ladies entering the field as contralto singers, with more than the ordi- nary chances of success.—One is Miss Felton, who sang the other evening in ‘Elijah’ when it was given by the London Sacred Harmonic Society.— The other is Miss Huddart, who is familiar to London playgoers as a well-esteemed actress. Her past studies of verbal declamation may be turned to good account should she decide on becoming a singer. The charge of coldness brought against English vocalists, in nine cases out of ten, arises merely from habits formed in early youth,—which connect the idea of ‘‘ conspicuousness” and immo- desty with emphasis in utterance. Let the sotto voce tone of English social intercourse be ever so agreeable to persons of sensitive nerves, —observers must be satisfied that it has cost the world many an impressive and interesting artist. Another new English Oratorio, Mr. W. Glover’s ‘Emmanuel,’ is advertised as about to be performed by the Cecilian Society in the course of the season. —A concert for the purpose of presenting a testi- monial to M. Jullien, previous to his departure for America, will, we perceive, be shortly given by the members of M. Jullien’s orchestra. The musical journals of Paris—and private letters in concord with their tone—announce that a real success has been gained by ‘Marco Spada,’ the new opera by MM. Scribe and Auber. This has been just produced at the Opéra Comique of Paris, with Mdlle. Duprez as heroine. The story appears to be new in its catastrophe, inasmuch as its brigand hero dies with a lie in his mouth —by which he assures a brilliant position to his surviving daughter. The music is said to be good, vigorous and interesting :—including, we observe, a romance from the defunct ‘Corbeille d’Oranges,’ (which opera also was hailed in its time as being , thoroughly successful). Mdlle. Duprez seems to | have pleased her publie as much as we fore- , told that she should and would please the | public of the Opéra Comique. A private letter speaks of her as “a brilliant, graceful, dis- | tinguished singer—but delicate.” We hope that this delicacy will be judiciously watched over : and that no overwork of any kind may add the young | lady to the too long list of modern singers who have ‘‘a short life and a merry one.”—‘ Tabarin,’a new opera, by M. Georges Bousquet, has just been given at the Thédtre Lyrique. The Journal des Débats mentions, on the autho- rity of a correspondent at Venice, that the musical world there was expecting with impatience the début of a new prima donna, daughter to Signor Donzelli, and endowed, like her father, with “a treasure of a voice.” Then comes the old story over again, that Signor Rossini was so seduced by the promise of the new aspirant as to have com- pleted her vocal education :—and that he was about to travel from Bologna to Venice to witness her first appearance. Whether Signor Rossini’s journey will turn out to be a truth or a fable we cannot guess:—but the maestro’s lessons to the young lady we imagine to have been given in one of those air-castles which furnish such ample matter for report to foreign journalists. The advertise- ment is frequent; but more uent still are private reports to be relied on which announce Signor Rossini’s rupture with all musical occupation to be as real as it is extraordinary. The Vienna Correspondent of Le Journal afore- said announces the coming début at Carlstadt ofa Negro songstress, Miss Greenfield. Can this be the lady engaged by Mr. Lumley for Her Majesty's Theatre, who, in those days of promotion, was fitted out as the “ Malibran noire” ?—A Negro actcz, Mr. Ira Aldridge, who has been exciting some sensation in Germany, has been just playing Othello at Leipsic, without much success. A correspondent, at Paris assures us that the new MS. violin Concerto just introduced there, at his first concert, by M. Vieuxtemps, has created a real sensation. ‘Les’ Huguenots,’ translated into Hungarian, has been given at Pesth,—with Madame Hasselt Barth and M. Young (*) as hero and heroine.—The tenor, Signor Carrini, who was mentioned last week as singing with applause in the ‘ Mosé’ of Rossini at Milan, appears to be a Spaniard, and his real name is Carreon. The announcement of the death of Herr Klen- gel, organist to the Court of Saxony, which is advertised as having just taken place at Dresden, will say little to the generality of our readers. But many musicians ‘of the old style” will bear us out in asserting that, though Herr Klengel had long disappeared from the world of activity, exhi- bition, and almost of intercourse, he was still a man of no ordinary mark. Born at Dresden in 1784,—the son (M. Fétis tells us) of a painter,— Herr Klengel fell early in life under the notice of Clementi, by whom he was instructed, — with whom, at sundry different periods, he travelled,— and whose thorough knowledge of the piano, and ripe and complete musical science, he was held, by no mean judges, to have inherited. He published some instrumental compositions, Pianoforte Con- certos, Trios, &c. &c. in the free style, which now live only in the pages of the old catalogues of the Leipsic publishers. Later in life, he addicted himself to the composition and polishing of stricter music, and produced a collection of Canons, fugued pieces, &c., which we have been assured exhibit genius and knowledge in no ordinary com- bination, This work, however, though well known to ‘the select few,” still remains in manuscript. —Herr Furstenau, long known in the army of players on the flute as a first-rate professor of his instrument, and who (if we mistake not) accom- anied poor Weber on his visit to this poo be also just died at Dresden,—aged, say the journals, eighty-nine years. | Another death which comes within our record— and which was accompanied by unusually painful | circumstances — is announced im the Prussian

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26 THE ATHENAZUM CJ aw.'1, "53 journals. This is the suicide of Signora Carra, : lady belonging to the Italian Opera Company in — mg the latest news of last year—there are sidings net the death, in America, of Mr. Junius Brutus Booth, the well-known actor who for awhile seemed disposed, in London, to dispute = throne of Tragedy with Kean the elder,—and ho signalized himself by as much eccentricity behind the curtain as power and passion on the stage. He had lived for many years in America, occasionally acting and taking part in theatrical speculations :—and had just before his decease, returned from San Francisco, in California, where one of his sons is manager of the Jenny Lind Theatre. The American journals remind us that Mr. Booth was a Londoner :—having been born in St. Pancras, on May-day, 1796. MISCELLANEA Leeds Mechanics’ Institution.—From the Report of the Institution, over whose annual Soirée Lord John Russell lately presided, —it appears, that this is the largest and most flourishing establishment of the ki nd i in the kingdom. The number of mem- bers and subscribers, which has for several years been increasing at the rate of about a hundred a year, is now upwards of 2,100. Besides numerous journals and eriodicals, the library contains nearly 9,000 volumes. The funds are in a pros- perous condition, and the committee are contem- lating the erection of a more commodious build- ing. Mr. Baines adduced as a proof of the increasing interest felt in Mechanics’ Institutions, the unanimous resolution recently passed by the House of Commons to appoint a Committee for considering the propriety of sending Parliamen- tary returns, reports, and other documents to these institutions free of expense. Art-works in Progress at Rome. —A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says :—‘‘Gibson’s statue of Sir Robert Peel, to be placed in Westminster Abbey, is in course of execution. It will be finished in three months.—The sculptor is likewise engaged on another work of national interest. It is to be of colossal proportions, representing Her Majesty Queen Victoria seated on the throne, with attendant figures at each side, the one of Clemency, the other of Justice. The statue of the Queen is at present being raised in clay.—The United States’ national monument to Washington is being exe- cuted by Mr. Crawford, an American sculptor. It will be the largest monument of the kind existing. Rauch’s statue of Frederick the Great, at Berlin, is of considerably less proportions. The base of the Washington monument is a complete circle : on this a star with six points is raised, and on this rises the actual base to the equestrian figure. Six eagles surround the steps on the circle, and six colossal statues of eminent Americans surround the pedestal—Henry, Lee, Mason, Marshall, Allen, and Jefferson. The whole is on a gigantic scale, from 60 to 70 feet high. The figures of Jefferson and Henry are completed,—and forwarded to Miil- ler’s foundry at Munich, to be cast in bronze. The artist is raising the figure of Washington’s horse, — a mound of clay. The Papal government last year made a donation of an immense block of marble for the works.” To ConresporDENTs.—An Irishman—T, C. L.—H. C. B.— J. R.—Le Comte de M.—received. G. J. F.—We had made the reference for ourselves,—and 80, it must be supposed, had Mr. Moore ; but the disloyalty insinuated under cover of the direct meaning was still evi- dently intended by the English poet to remain as the point of the aneedote against the Scotch one. 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Just published, price 2s. 6d. HE PHILOSOPHY of GEOLOGY. By A. C. G JOBERT. Third edition, containing a new —— London: Whittaker & Co. published, with Map, price 1s. us ISTHMUS of DARIEN SHIP CANAL. By Dr. COLE? late of Bogota and Darien. Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. ROARA a ABTS, SCIENCE, and MANU- of this New Periodical, Raited b i PROFESSOR ¢ PANTINGTON, is just published. The Work is ae a bey en oe character, and consists of thirty-two 1 er: A nig YW aeeiok ane, Paternoster-row; D. Francis, 21, Mile ‘ica, and all Booksellers. WORKING MEN’S EDUCATIONAL UNION. Now ready, HE DIAGRAMS on the CATACOMBS at ROME; comprising, View of Gallery—Tombs and Graves— ee ee eee ety yates foand in te — Phonetic. atac tacombs—Fresco yo~ ty and Bas- relied is, chiefly of Scripture 61 distinct su he gry in all. on-subscribe:

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(Janel [HE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. 5 1836, 8& tap La gto oat, Kvempens, and 20 om. Poultry, 1 Reserv. afhtistmas Bali sh — should be renewed within een p in the Agents i at h and abroad beral oa le Policies, when ‘en out under Tase 2, have fixed guaranteed to them, not, contingent bewes 54 of of partnership to the assured, om a — oderate prensa pectuses, and alt information, may be had on pplication, BENJAMIN HENDERSON, Resident Secretary, SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company, is, BOVIDSH® LIFE OFFICE 50, REGENT-STREET ; CITY BRANCH: 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDING, Established 1806. Invested Capital, £1,311,761. Annual Income, £153,000. Bonuses Declared, £743,090, Claims paid since the establishment o ofthe meen 087,738, President. The Right Honourable EARL GREY, William H ——.,. Chairman. m Henr ne, Henry B. Alexander, Esq. Deputy-Chairman. Beousy Pienweee Churchill, Esq jamin Bev ig ¢ Dacre, Esq. | Wiliam Bou ipa Want am judd, Esq Apsley Peat Esq. 4 Richard D. > King. Bart. George R d: Ese, The Hon. A rd, M.P. | The Rev. James Sherman, Thomas Maugham, Esq. Esq Frederick yh Esq. Physician—J ohn Maclean, M.D. . a 29, U entaguesteet Montague-s souls

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E yernas 0 seore gianes + do: THE ELE taxvacrunina SILVERSMITHS, HS, BRONZISTS. &e., asers to t each article pastel nt Mark," & CO. ieoaeae as no others fact trequsatly 80 set tote of of ide being plated by“ Elking- Mie fet rea -F-4 of the quality, - "aumerou 8 rers re licens "7 by the them to use manufacture, pay thereon.” — process, but without the metal ~ or produ NT eT REET eT, } LONDON; 'WHALL-8 L-STREET, BIRMINGHAM. rawings. rices sent free by post. Replating and Gilding as usual. ATHERSTON & BROGDEN beg to cures te Fete nina Se ReaD SOE CHAINS and PO 2 . 80 ex’ vend yp

ay ane A f= no) of the pattern.—An He 4 antes of or all made at ae Memuieeeey, Pda SOVENT-GAKDEN. lished ap. 1798. OHN MORTLOCK’S CHINA and EARTH- ENWARE BUSINESS is CARRIED ON in OXFORD- STREET only. The premises are the most extensive in London, and contain an ample assortment of every description of goods of the first manufactures. A of D: at Four Guineas each.—250, Oxford-street, near Hyde Park. SLERS’ TABLE GLASS, CHANDELIERS, LUSTRES, &c., 44, Oxford-street, London, conducted in con- nexion with their Manufactory, Broad-street, Birming Esta- blished 1807. Richly cut and engraved Decanters variety. J. Wine Glasses, Water Jugs, Goblets, and all kinds ¢ o! Table Glass | 3 -room Chan- at exceedingly moderate prices, Crystal glass Drawii A large stock of Foreign Ornamental hing orders with d h

deliers, with glass arms. Glass always on view. Furnis! (Gf EAss AND CHINA, 58 and 59, Baker-street, Portman-square, APSLEY PORLATS & co. Proprietors. stablishment = for & Seapetten e largest assortment Ain 4 The Rooms being rustic, ssed unless asking information ; and the Prices in plain figures ~~ to the — ‘intending pur- chasers may at thei: reexamine and form a correct opinion of price and quality. No abatement or discount from the marked anufactory and Show Rooms for Chandeliers, Falcon Glass Works Holland- street, Blackfriars. UTLERY WARRANTED.—The most varied assortment of Sine CUTLERY in the world, all war- ranted, is on ~ ated ad LIAM 8. BURTON’S, at that ome of the !argeness of the sales. 34-inch

ENNETT’'S MODEL WATCH is a combi- | Ar of all the recent improvements for Performance, d Econom ing to the wearer the indispensable eat ot ag ect ‘Rime. In_ Silver C from 5 guineas; Gold Cases, from 12 guineas.—JOHN BENNETT, Manufacturer to the Koval Oheerrats Ory, Board of Ordnance, Admiralty, and the Queen. —65, ce, ENT’ S PATENT CHEOROMETERS, Cc mck DENT leave to biti uo ties b th ih ANARDED t EDAL AL ofthe xhibition of 1851 the 4 ven in aie he Eee tors; alsoa Prize Medal for his =. ‘ariner's Compass ; — has just received, by order of the remium price for the i of his Chrono- maga te Royal Obse Observatory in 1851 and 1 ually requests an a. of his extensive Clocks. Ladies’ elegant Gold Watches, eight ; 's, guineas ; Youths’ Silver Watches, four : strong Lever Watches for Engineers and others, six h. Pee Watch and ge ha cunctntnent to the H.R.H. Prince d, yt Tk te aE roha - 61, Stran (clock-tower area). Large Church-Clock M vharf, Strand. MERICAN CLOCK WAREHOUSE, enhancing every vari: ald of wont prod “Time Pieces,” y from ee ol > blished factory, enabling us to them ope thisd ae San price. Day Clocks from gy 9 Eight-Day = ‘Also, th diinp's a anew American invention for the amusement and exercise of chi ldren. It combines the e and by graceful exercise promotes muse e arms ond chest. Net urers and Importers, ROGERS & CO., 545 5546, sa NEW OX! OXFORD-STREET. ILVER PLATE, New and Sosend-hand.- T. COX SAVORY & ‘co. *S Pamphlet of Prices, with Out- lines, may be had gratis, or will be sen: Rt it post free if applied for Wapaid letter. The contents are the pe prices, weights, an imam new and second-hand Silver © Forks ; new and second- niters, "iihcaeen zed eee | Goods, Speons and Forks. — Cox

OYAL SILK TAPESTRY HANGINGS, for f interior Wall Decorati hi P igs are usually resorted to. Noblemen, gentlemen, and through the tT. of their ‘arenioesta, rers.—E. ARCHER, Inventor and Patentee, 4 451, A reet. MPROVED MODERATOR LAMPS.— THOMAS PEARCE & SON recommend their LAMPS with meat confidence to the notice of the Public. They are made realy for their House, and bear T, P. & Son’s name. Besides being cheaper, they possess the advantage over those usuall. for sale of being on an improved principle,—are finished with more are—and the patterns are in much better taste; while their cleanliness, simplicity of management, and the extreme eqeeny da brilliant and unfading light are generally acknowledged. THOMAS PEARCE &80N,2,Ludgate-hill, HEAL & SON'S a get iy ar CATA- any A of BEDSTEADS, at wo cuntginn ces of upwards of One Fm different Bed- —y Fe their priced List of Bedding. They have iikewise io ion to their usual stock, a io varies of PA AN BEDSTEADS, both in wood and iron, which they —y just HEAL & SO Manufact » ¥ t Sleken Orrerek Ot Betting an urers, 196, THE M MOST APPROVED STOVES.—The demand for the CHUNK and yuera rar (separately Minted) still continuing unabated, numbers having been wold last all upwards of 14,500), —— the patronage of rience of their pre-eminently useful URTON has renewed confidence 4 te Public supplied ic 4 -F

valid, affording a uniform tem- =f. he with one sone expaly¢ of fuel, Parti it postage free. ik, 308, to phi Vesta, fro from 25s. ; Stoves for warehouses, be. from 108. eac Patent Fuel “4s. 6d. per , - sealed bag. all AM 8. a RTON Thas’ a a SHOW-ROOMS } oper: uni: exclusive of the Shop. devoted solely to the ie of GENERAL, FURNISHING IRON MONGERY (includ- Matlery, Ld pan | and Japanned Wares, Iron and asers may and at once make their — es with Engra’ E post) free. The money poe eye sopreret Newman-street) ; Nos. 1 & 2, STREET; and 4& 5, PERRY'S] PLACE YEN ORANGE MARMALADE—BATGER & CO.8—the purest and best, is now ready, and to be had of pea 15 and 1 With id of ow a out, and o!

are rane > table e knives with a shoulders, 108. per dozen ; desse: to match, 98. f to balance, 1s. per dozen extra; casvers, 3a, _rtk pair 3 A in exact proportion, to 25s, See if extra ag? with ry Saute, from 368.; white bone table knives, 68. per dozen; desserts, 44; carvers. bs. per pair ;, black horn table knives, 7s. 4d. per dozen ; d , 68. ; carvers, 28, 6d. : black wood-handled table "icuives and forks, Gs. per dozen ; table steels from 18. each. The largest stock of plated a knives = fe cases and otherwise, and of the new plated existence. Also a large assortment of RAZORS, PENKNIVES, SCISSORS, &c., of the t best quality. ISH COVERS and HOT-WATER DISHES in every material, in great variety, and of the newest and most recherché Tin Dish Covers, 68. the set of six ; Block Tin, lle. 6d. to 258. the set of six ; ;, elegant modern pat 8. to 638. the set; Britannia M>tal, with or wiht Jag ‘plated hen dies, 68e. to 102s. the set; Sheffield plated, the set ; Block Tin pices SS Dishes, with wells for hang 5 is te 252. ; bri- tannia Metal, 32s. to Sheffield lated, full WILLIAM 8; BURTON has T EN LARGE SHoOW-ROoMS (all communicating), cusesive « of ti Sep, Coveted solely to the show of GENERAL FURNIS WING: TRO ONGERY (includ- ing, Gates, Nickel Silver, Plated a ng Wares), Lron rass Beds 8,80 arrang o l that p = = oni 6 “ once make their selections. a } Eageavings, sent S sper "post) free. The money cle aD DT Ox forever erie. (corner of , ee Nos. 1 and 2, NEWMAN-STREET : and 4 and 5, PERRYS PLACE. Fs Charge for Stamping Note Paper and Envelopes with Crest, nitial, §c., at LOCK WOOD'S, 75, New Bond-street. ELF SEALING Phe y 6d. per 100; Cream-laid Note Popes uires for 6d. ; ‘Large size ditto, 5 coer for a ae =~ ax, 14 sticks. ae ls. Card Plate i rinted for 2s. 6d. Dressing wed fo’ Writin ok fi teal ork —— Perey pone. Books, Tn ing Case, Wo aM LO 75. New Bond-trcet, near $2.03 wis 3 t carriage free.

Bt ot wooD for 308. sen’

AFETY for STREET DOORS.—CHUBB'S PATENT LATCHES, with very small and neat keys,are fectly safe from the attempts of picklocks and false keys. They are very strong, not liable to get out of order, and the price so low as to p m within the reach of x. asses. Chubb’s Patent Fire-proot & ~y- and Boxes form a com wan Ty for eee. ae. ¢. from fire and Tony Chubb & pen, © — ‘aul’s Churchyard, London ; 28, Lord-street, a Se sneer and "Horsley Fields, W olver 1h r sent free by post for seven stamps, RIMMEL ' PERFUMED ALMANACK, beautifully Printed in Oil Colours, imparts a delightful and lasting scent to pocket books, card cases, desks, &c., and forms a acceptable present to friends at home i abroad. sid by E. Rimmel, Perfumer, sole proprietor of the Toilet Viee r, 39, Se -street, Soho, and by ksellers, Perfumers an EW FRUITS—JUST LANDED. New Masestele, 4lb. boxes, 28. each ; 6lb. 1% fine to finest, 38. 9d. The finest Eleme Figs, large boxes, 3s. and 3a. 3d. eac' Imperial Plums, in os ¢ boxes, 18. 6d. to 208 Valencia and Sultana Raisins, Patras and Zante Carante, at —-. 308. Table Pooks Table Spoons pa Tea and Coffee Sets, Waiters, Candlesticks, as. of roportionate prices. All kinds of re-plating done by the patent Propo porto CHEMICALLY PURE NICKEL NOT PLATED. Fiddle. Thread. King’s. Table Spoons and Zecks. full on, per és. 12% .. 288. .. 308 Dessert ditto and dit 108. sce 498 . 56s. 55a, Teaditto ........ ey 5, BURTON has bid pomy — enow 4 coment ting), ne lusive of devoted solely f of GENERAL FURNISHING TRON MONGERY linctude ing Cutlery, Nickel Silver, Plated and Japanned Wares, Iron and Brass Bedsteads rranged and Sane that purchasers may es, with RS ings, se! sent ( post) free. The mone: le not approv: nt (Per ad r ure XFORD-S' REET (corner of Newman-street); Nos. 1 and 2. NEWMAN. STREET ; and 4 and 5, PERRY'S. PLACE. ° ) Rit MPANTS NEW FEEDING BOTTLES. ie Lancet :—“ We have — rs “y 7 mn cnzent ing so beau- tiful s as yy nursing dott oduced of Oxford- street.” They are adapted to milk, Mecutte, — all kinds of food, are the most perfect “ artificial mother ” ever inv vented, have an elastic soft nipple, very clean] greaae oy “ie no infant wil} refuse, and whether for wean roories b7 and, or occasional feeding, are quite unrivalled.— ENJAMI ELAM: 196, Oxford- street.—7a. 6d. Each is stamped with my name and address. Beware of imitations. [DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA, an excellent Remedy for Acidities, Heartburn, H endache, Gout asa mild Aperient it is — ada oe for F and Children.—DINNEFORD & Chemists, 17 +2. Ne 4 Bond-street. (General lout for for the | Horse Hair Gioves and Belts.) FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. R. ROBERTS'S CELEBRATED OINT- MENT, called the“ POOR MAN’S FRIEN D,” is confidently recommended to the public as an unfailing remedy for Wounds of every description, a certain cure for Ulcerated Sore of twenty years’ standing ; Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Bruises, Chilblains, Scor- outic Eruptions and Pimples in ne Fe Soreand Inflame Sore re B: Pi d Cancerous Humours; and isa specific for those afflict Seon that sometimes follow vaccination. Sold in pots, at 1s. 14d. and 2s. 9d. Also, his PIL ULE ANTISCROPHULA, confirmed by more than forty years’ expe- ence to be without exception ~ of the best alterative medicines ever omens: for Purifying the —: and assisting nature in all her © Hence they are useful in Scrofula, Scorbutie i Glandular Swellings, partieulariy those of the neck, &c. They form a mild and superior family aperient, that may be en at all times without yw or change of diet. Sold in at le. * ,d., 28, 9d., 48. 6d.,1 d 228. each. Sold wholesale by the Proprietcin BEACH and BARNICOTT. at Pat Dispen- sary, Bridport, and by the London houses ; retai all respect- ine venders inthe —y- d Kingdom. be TF o medi- cine sold under the above possibly be genuine unless and Barnicott’s, Inte D Dr. Roberta, Bridport,” is engraved ), 80 easily and at once make their selecti: Latal

and printed on the stamp affixed to OLLOWAY’S OINTMENT and PILLS for the CURE of SCROFULA. —Eetreet of a letter from Mr. Pemberton, of Cape Town :—* Dear Wilfred,—During the voyage the steward of the vessel, 0 observing that I suffered severely fie ‘rom scrofula, recommended me to try Holloway’s Cine and Pills, informing me that a former passenger h. by these in- valuable medicines, and as you had kindly given =e a good supply, , and in a few found such an

ies’ work, one pattern with pW 5b at 288; a the Ladies”’ Housewives, the Scotch Wood Articles, and 8’ Razors, ves, Pen Machines, Scissors, ressing-cases.— “3. SAVORY, 46, Cornhill.

improvement in ay eneral a continued directed, and s kno be pleased that Iam fect]. red. A”—-Bold t by all druggists; and at Professor Holloway ecatablishment, ® 244, Strand, London.

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39 THE ATHENZUM CJan. 1,59 INGRAM, COOKE & C0.’S LIST OF NEW. WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Elegantly and profusely Illustrated Books for Christmas Presents. A HOLIDAY BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR, Containing TALES, MUSIC, POETRY, PICTURES, &c. &c. SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THE SEASON. One Volume, large folio, elegantly bound, 240 pages, and about 250 Engravings, price One Guinea. «This is indeed a supevb annual.”—Critic. ‘As a cheap Christmas present it can stand a comparison with any holiday book for «“ The book is rich throughout in matter of entertainment most various and attractive.” | the current season; while most certainly no work is better calculated Pleasantly to while “A noble folio book.”—Morning Advertiser. Examiner. away an unoccupied hour either in the cottage or in the palace.”—Observer. “ A magnificent volume.” —Athengum. THE SALAMANDRINE; OR, LOVE AND IMMORTALITY. By CHARLES MACKAY, L.L.D. New Edition, with upwards of Fifty Illustrations by Joun G1LBERT, engraved in the first style of the art by Messrs. Dauzren. Super-royal Sve. enamelled boards - ses ° ” gilt edges, One Guinea; morocco elegant, gilt sides, One Guinea and a Half. Pere «« ¢ The Salamandrine '—full of simple beauty of thought and happy turn of fluent vers- | and the typography is the perfection of clearness and precision. But it is in the illustra. ficati at once attracted the attention of all admirers of imaginative verse. The story | tions that the new edition mainly shines. Of these there are no less than forty-six, all by has an easy and unencumbered flow—it is ingeniously conceived and neatly put together— | Mr. Gilbert, and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. When we say that in these pictorial the el its of the ch ters and the moral lesson intended to be wrought out, are never | gems Mr. Gilbert appears to have put forth the utmost efforts of his vigorous yet grace- lost sight of; and a pure, high, and delicate essence pervades the tale from end to end. | ful pencil; that he has exerted all his fancy and exhausted his admirable power of dray. Without pretensions to anything like fierce or passionate energy—without laying claim | ing the human figure ; of effectively grouping his personages, and pouring around thems either to any dazzling glitter of original imagination, or any subtle gropings into the | rich luxuriance of antique accessory and adornment—we have partly characterized the doubtful regions of psychological mysticism—‘ The Salamandrine’ is full of sweet and | style of the art before us.”—Morning Chronicle. gentle thoughts, of richly col d and animated descriptions, of snatches of rhythmical “ Most gorgeous of the Christmas Books is Mackay’s ‘Salamandrine,’ with its gold em. melody—charming in their easy n¢glig¢ of ever-changing versification, and every now and | bossed covers and graceful illustrations. If it achieved success in its humble Suise, surely then vivified into a gental glow of honest feeling, the instinctive impulse rather of heart | it will be a welcome Christmas visitor in its gay attire and glory of hot-pressed paper and than head. * * The edition before us is one of the most beautiful books of the season. It | profuse illustration, The poem in its new shape has all the freshness of novelty.” is printed upon the largest octavo satin paper, most delicate and delightful to the touch, . Daily News. THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE ART OF WRITING. 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