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JANJJ^Y 6, 1855.] THE /LEADER. 21 ¦
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE.. Essays Selected fro...
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THE WINTER EXHIBITION OF S3OETCHES. It t...
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ADELPHI. The Zigzag Travels of Messieurs...
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Illustrated Books. Jerusalem Revisited. ...
for the Handsome edition of Goldsmith ' s beautiful poem , published by Messrs . Low and Son . Making allowance for the difference between steel and , wood , and between the original artist and the engraver , the present experiment may Srly be pronounced a successful one—especially with . the landscape subjects , which come out charmingly through the new " medium . " As to printing , binding , and paper , the volume is superbly got up in'tlie best possible taste . , . ¦ . »? . » .. . ¦ " ' *¦ .. •¦ .
Janjj^Y 6, 1855.] The /Leader. 21 ¦
JANJJ ^ Y 6 , 1855 . ] THE / LEADER . 21 ¦
Books On Our Table.. Essays Selected Fro...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE .. Essays Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review . By Henry Rogers . Three Volumes . ( New Edition . ) Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . The Chinese Empire : forming a Sequel to the Work entitled , " Recollections of a Journey through Tartary and Thibet . " By M . Hue , formerly Missionary Apostolic in China . Two Volumes . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . Literary Tables from the Spanish of Yriarte . By Robert Rockliff . ( Second Edition . ) Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . The Burdens of the Church . By Thomas Latter . Adam Scott . Abdul Medjid : a Lay of the Future ; , and other Poems . By H . B . Macdonald . ¦ James Hogg . The Conduct of the War : a Speech delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday , ISth December , 1854 . By the Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , M . P ., & c . John Murray . An Essay upon the Philosophy of Evidence ; or , an Inquiry into the Process o Belief By Watkin Williams . ( Second Edition . ) James Ridgway . Robert Blake : Admiral and General at Sea . Based on Family and State Papers . By Hepworth Dbcon . Chapman and Hall . The Death-ride : a Tale of the Light Brigade . By Westland Marston . D * MitchelL Ex Eremo : Poems , chiefly written in India . By H . G . Keene . Wm . Blackwood and Sons . The Golden Age , and other Poems , dedicated , by permission , to the Earl of Carlisle , K . G . By Alexander Gouge . Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . Cain . By Charles Boner . Chapman and Hall . Studies from Nature . By Dr . Hermann Masius . Translated by Charles Boner . Chapman and Hall . The Druses of the Lebanon ; their Manners , Customs , and History . With a Translation of their Religious Code . By George Washington Chasseaud . Richard Bentley . Maternal Counsels to a Daughter . By Mrs . Pullan . Darton and Co . Russian Life in the Interior of Russia ; or , The Experiences of a Sportsman . By Ivan Tourchemeff , of Moscow . Edited by James D . Meiklejohn . ••<• Adam and Charles Black . The History of Political Literature , from the Earliest Times . By Robert Blakey . Author of the History of the Philosophy of Mind , " & c , & c . In Two Vblumes .-- ^ " - Bentley Our Antipodes ; or , Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies , with a Glimpse : the Gold Fields . By Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Charles Munday . Author of - " Pen and Pencil in India . " Third Edition . Complete in One Volume . Bentley . Food and its Adulteration ; comprising the Reports of the Analytical Sanitary Commission of " The Lancet , " for the Years 1851 to 1854 inclusive . "Revised and Extended . By Arthur Hill Hassal , M . D . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . The Chemistry of Common Life . By James F . H . Johnston . Vol . II . ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - - . Wm . Blackwood and Sons . The Monthly Journal of Medicine . New Series . Part I . Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . Cinderella and the Glass Slipper . Edited and Illustrated with Ten Subjects . Designed and Etched on Steel , by George Cruikshank . . David Bogue . Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox . Edited by Lord John Russell . Vol . III . Richard Bentley . Legends of Mount Leinster ; Three Months in Kildare Place ; Bantry and Duffrey Traditions ; The Library in Patrick-street . By Henry Whitney , Kilomath . , _ '— — ; - _ -: ! .... _ .. -.. _ - ; -.- _ ~ p .-Kennedy , Dublin .-Mother and Son . A Tale . John Henry Parker . The English Cyclopcedia . Conducted by Charles Knight . Part XXI . Bradbury andEvans . The Newcombes . Edited by Arthur Pendennis , Esq . Bradbury and Evans . The Martins of Cro Martin . By Charles Lever . Chapman and Hall . The Journal of Psycological Medicine and Mental Pathology . Edited by Forbes Winslow , M . D ., D . C . L . No . XXIX . John Churchill . Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts , including the Protectorate . By John Heneage Jesse . New Edition , Revised . Vol . I . ( Bentley ' s Monthly Volumes ) Richard Bentley . The Literary Mail Coach . No . I . Robert Hardwicke . The War ; or , Voices from the Ranks . George Routledge and Co . Hildred : the Daughter . By Mrs . Newton Crosland . George Routledge and Co . The Mouse and Her Friends , with other Stories . Translated and adapted for Children , by John Taylor . Chapman and Hall . The Curse of Gold . A Romance . By R . W . Jameson . George Routledgo and Co . Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer . Edited by Robert Bell . Vol . II . ( Annotated Edition of the English Poets . ') John W . Parker and Son . Augustin , the Happy Child . From tho French of Madame Clara Monnerod . Thomas Constable and Co . Sappho . A Tragedy . By Franz Grellparzer . Thomas Constable and Co . Charade Dramas for the Drawing-Room . By Anno Bowman , Authoress of " The Home of Wanderers . " With Illustrations . Georgo Routledgo and Co . Horses and Hoxtnds : a Practical Treatise on their Management . By Scrutator . Illustrated . Gcorge * Routledgo and Co .
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The Winter Exhibition Of S3oetches. It T...
THE WINTER EXHIBITION OF S 3 OETCHES . It the reader is in the confidence of . any practical artist , ho knows how chary that artist is of parting with his rough poarls of design , to be cast , probably , before persons who are no judges of pearls , till polished and framed in gold . The reader , then , who knows this tender point with all artists , may estimate , the difficulty in tho way of an exhibition of sketches and first studies only ; and will not wonder that this , the fourth season of such an attempt , should find tho Winter Exhibition of Sketches confessing to cabinet pictures , and unable to dony the soft impeachment of finished paintings in water-colours . Tho Winter
- , . ^ _ . :.. . , 7 — : ; : ¦ : r ' ; . —™ w ^ Exhibition of Sketches , in fact , may be now likened to an average exhibition at the New Water-Colour Society ' s gallery , with a mild infusion of talent—there are the names of Frost , Piokersgill , R . A ., Brocky , Ansdell , Sant , Glass , and Goodall—from the gallery of the British Institution next door . The real , true , honest sketches , evidently the first designs for pictures , and not mere worthless copies , made for the occasion from pictures , are , happily , by the best men . Out of the half-dozen contributions , by 'Glass , four ' are' : decidedly , studies , in the proper sense of the word . ' So are Elmore ' s two very opposite designs , the first of which "Ready for a Walk , " is a sweet bit of womanly beauty , not the less delightful for its modern and homely signification . Sketches , too , are Sidney Cooper ' s cattle scenes ; Creswick's " Footpath ; " Hulme ' s beautiful pair of landscapes , "Newark Priory , " by moonlight , and a scene on the banks of the Conway ; Herbert ' s religious " . Landscape near Boulogne ; " Poole's " Pets , " and the same artist's " Spring Garland ; " Redgrave ' s " Hay Field , " the finished picture of which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852 or 1853 ; and , though last not least , but exactly the contrary , Frith ' s study for the picture of " Ramsgate Sands "—a picture as full of life and character as a composition of Wilkie ' s , and as exquisite in its every day poetry ; as healthy , earnest , and direct in its humour , as a scene by Leech . - It is a long step from this little study to any other subject-picture here . Still , Elmore ' s sketch of a single figure , already named , displays artistic merit of the same kind , varying only in degree ; and one may match the truthfulness even of Frith ' s work , by looking among the landscapes . The last quarter of a century has brought about a complete revolution in this branch of art—a revolution which has been rather a natural and peaceful growth out of decay , than the triumph of any particular school over its antagonists . Copley Fielding ' s intensely artificial style remains as a landmark . Here are six of his elaborately weak protests against nature . No one cares to look in the catalogue , nor feels the least curiosity in these days about the initials C . F . in the corner of one of these queer relics of the Old Young Ladies' Boarding School of Art . Why doea not effete design of every class get forgotten as well as effete landscapepainting ? Will that great authority , Mr . Uwins , R . A ., condescend to inform us ? He certainly does not help to a solution of the problem , by his own picture , on a sacred subject , in this very exhibition . The more we look at the painting , the more does Echo persist in answering <{ Why ? " And while Uwins is dumb , and Echo absurd , are there any instructive facts to be got out of this collection of cabinet pictures , sketches , and water-colour drawings ? For our own part , we may truly say that we have seldom found so good an opportunity of contrasting the art that learns from nature with the conventionalism that assumes itself to be art . Putting the question of relative skill entirely aside , look at the masquerade common-place , by Pickersgill , R . A ., entitled " Lady with Hawk" / admirably tradesmanlike elimination of articles !) , and then look at Elmore's little sketch , twice before mentioned , of a lady in her every-day walking dress . Is not the one picture a fair instance of art , in its degree , truthfully reproducing a beautiful piece of life , and of natural expression ? And , on the other hand , does the conventional garb of Mr . Pickersgill ' s portraitsubjectrredeem it from the vulgarity of which the painter seems so painfully conscious that , in order to get out of it , he would get entirely out ofjiaturcv and into some such vague abstraction of grace as men of his stamp will strive to realise througlLan established pose ?
Olympic. Mb. Ptanche Has Migrated From T...
OLYMPIC . Mb . PtANCHE has migrated from the IiYCEcm to the Olympic this year . In the adaptation of Madame d'Anois' charming tale , The Yellow Dwarf , he has taken the exact measure of Mr . Robson's genius and physique . In this remarkable actor ' s best moments ( if Mr . Robson will pardon a sincere admirer the impertinence ) there is always something diabolical . Anthropomorphically , we hasten to add : we mean nothing worse than that le Diable au corps was never more true of any mortal than of Mr . Robson . He is a walking nerve . His burlesque of the celebrated sword scene in Richard the Third is almost as tragic as the original , and at the same time far more genuinely comic than Mr . Charles Kean . Thejpjece isjiq well . put on the jtage that _ Mr . Planche" must have felt himself quite at home . ' Sir . Wiganis safe for " something like "fifty " nights . """"""
Adelphi. The Zigzag Travels Of Messieurs...
ADELPHI . The Zigzag Travels of Messieurs Pruth and Danube , at the Adelfhi , have been suggested , we conceive , by the prologue to the Balailte de VAlma , which M . M . Cognard concocted for the Cibqdb in Paris . The French piece was an indifferent success ; perhaps , however , the utter indifference in Paris about the war had something to do with that . At the Adelphi we waited in vain for a gleam of wit ; the puns were execrable , but not like most execrable puns , good of their kind ; and we confess that just now , when our victories over Russia are at least resultless , the feeble bravado of the one practical joke , the defeat of a troop of Cossacks by a few Wallachian women armed with broomsticks , struck us as deplorably unseasonable . On tho other hand , the scenery and the acting are worthy of a better cause . *
St. James's Theatre. Mr. Frank Talfourd ...
ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . Mr . Frank Talfourd has , at tho St . James's Theatre , given us a burlesque proper—that is , a correct version of a serious story , with the incidents and language adapted and coloured so as to assimilate it to the present time . The story thus chosen , adapted , and coloured , is The Sleeper Awakened , of the Arabian Nights . Mr . Talfourd departs from the original story—if the expression may be allowed—before he commences it ; but this depurture serves to enlist a most elegant fairy , and also n division of cherub police , who agreeably combine the psychical with the physical attributes . The story is well known . Abou Hassan ( Miss Marshall ) pines for the position of Vizier , or even Caliph , and those two identical personages , losing their way on some Eastern Salisbury Plain , seek the hospitality of Abou , and , learning his desires , resolve to gratify them , by way of showing how unenviable such offices really are . They stupify him with a powder mixed with his beer , and transport him to the palace . As Vizier ho is about to lose hia head , when ho becomes Caliph , and thereby loses his domestic peace . Finally , all are reinstated into their natural positions . These materials arc susceptible enough of parody , and Mr . Frank Talfourd is not the man to miss the opportunity . Tho scenery is effective , and the murderous puns go off like a platoon of Minims . If they miss flro , it is the fault of an indulgent but not lively-witted public , who 6 n fho other hand take a good deal of the fun—for granted . We need not hero insist on our own , doubtless foolish and eccentric , aversion to burlesques in general : wo have always considered this wit of words to bo tho shabby-genteel of intellectual pauperism ; but onco accepting ( under tho lenient auspices of tho season ) so melancholy a substitute for wit of thought , wo will not deny to Mr . Frank Talfourd tho palm of supremacy .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 6, 1855, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06011855/page/21/
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