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ONLY ONCE A YEAR! The Pantomime has clai...
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A PUBLIC DISCUSSION between Mr. GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE (editor of the Iteagoner) and RevBHBWIN GRANTBA(editor of the Bible and the
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Chapter I. Durability Of Pictures In Oil...
bad treatment . The cartoons of Raphael , at Hampton Court , are a painful case in point . If the whole series of that work had been preserved , as , by chance , some favoured parts have been , it is clear ; that the whole would now be almost as perfect as when they left the master ' s pencil . Eight pictures , forming part of the national collection in London , were cleaned during the past year , 1852 . The result gave great dissatisfaction , and called forth severe censures from several eminent critics . With the alleged failure we , at this stage of our inquiry , have nothing to say . One fact is evident to the spectator , to wit ; six of the eight pictures , in their renovated state , are wondrously brilliant in colour , The Claude landscapes are bright to a fault , inasmuch as the eye suffers in looking at them , which is more than the master intended . There is one cheering fact , however , made evident by the picture cleaning in question—the several paintings present striking instances in point of the durability of colours which have been laid on for nearly two centuries .
46 The Leader. [Saturday ^
46 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ^
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ONLY ONCE A YEAR ! The Pantomime has claimed me once again ; Wherefore I lay my load of trouble down , And follow with the childish laughing train . My faitb revives in Harlequin and Clown , And my heart yearns towards my uncle Brown , Who took me first to see the Christmas show .
The brightest jewels yet in Pleasure ' crown Are those which sparkled in it long ago ! I think , 'tis the best fooling , when all ' s done , To laugh with children at our childhood ' s fun . The fairy queen ascends her silver cloud , Which rises with her at the prompter ' s call ; . The nimble lovers thread the elfin crowd ; The rest pursue , with many a trip and fall . Shrill laughter follows those misfortunes all , And tiny hands applaud , with wondering glee , When Harlequin leaps through the canvas wall Or Columbine stands tip « -toe on his knee . Tricks , changes , motion , noise ; bustle , and strife , Keep one from thinking , as they do in life . The play is done , and sooth it were to say , How like a very prodigal I feel . ( If I should call on Uncle Brown some day , I wonder would he welcome me with veal ?) The curtain falls upon the final reel , Just as the crimson flame will rise no more ; The last spark flickers from the fiery wheel ; The fiddlers drop out through the little door . Rest , rest to Harlequin ' s tee-totum head ; Peace be with antic Clown stretched on his garret bed . Q .
The Protestants In Mart Tttdor's Day.—Th...
The Protestants in Mart Tttdor ' s Day . —The conduct of the Protestants in the two months which elapsed before it assembled ,, is a most curious evidence of the temper of the time , and of itself is sufficient to explain many things . They had as yet no reason to complain of persecution , but Popery with them was in real truth a doctrine of devils , and it was little to them to be allowed their own religion , if they were to be prevented from trampling * out the other . The fierce annals of the Israelites provided them with ample precedents of what was lawful for saints in dealing with idolaters—and the arms of the Reformed Church militant were by no means those of peaceful and mild persuasion . The reverend the vice-chancellor of Cambridge , afterwards bishop and archbishop , preached a seditious sermon , and when called in question for it , drew his dagger in the senate house , and was only held back by two grave doctors of divinity from doing prompt execution with it . Strange scenes took place in the churches , priests and parsons scuffling for the pulpits , and the conqueror taking possession of the conquered citadel with a flourish of rapier and pistol . One priest of Baal was stabbed at the altai-, his blood running over the chalice and mixing with the wine ; a dagger was hurled at a second , and a musket fired at a third . Elsewhere , the consecrated wafer was seized by a desperate iconoclast and trampled under foot , as he cried , between bis teeth , " If thou be the Son of God , save thyself ; " and even the mild Archbishop Cnunner , within a few weeks after the remission of his first treason , composed a declaration , which , although it was in fact made public by accident , lie acknowledged that he had intended to have fastened against the door of St . Paul ' s ; wherein , after setting out the virtues of Henry and his son in promoting the Reformation , he ascribed the reappearance of the idol of the Mass to the devil , of cour . se in the form of Queen Mary . — Wvslmhislc . r ]{ , < - view for January . PiriLU" of Spain ' s First PitooifKHS . —On the Monday evening , they were to meet at Winchester ; and tin ; long Hiimnier'n day would only be long enough for the slow magnificence of the procession , in which tlio bridegroom was to inarch thither from Southampton . lie had brought with him a glorious retinue , decked out in all the nplendour . s in which they had been wont to glitter up and down under the blue sky of Castile . The choicest chivalry of Kuropc were there in choicest holiday costume , with gold , and pearls , and . silks , and volvetH , and plumes of gorgeous birds of l ' liindise , from the forests of the , now world . Southampton bad never neon such a troop of cavaliers as on that . Inly morning wound along her streets ; ami well might Southampton
Hland and gaze , and wonder at them , for never before or since were so inniiy men worth marking seen together there . Alva was among them , and ( ! ount Kginont , and , greater tbun cither , William Prince of Onmgc , and Count Horn , four men whose equals were not perhaps nlivo in Europe , or in the world . Poor Kngland , and htill inori ) the Knglinh climate , which . showed such weak perception of the honour done to it ! The hud , at leant , did not rare to look * at them , however the people did . Swithin lying there in Ins shrine at Winchester would not Hiioiilieo one hour of his moist rites . Down fell the rain , » h if the whole torrent of the forty days were streiuning into one ; down it fell , hopeless , choorlOBH , incorrigible . The gay feathers dangled in the
"bonnets ; the drenched horses drooped their heads , trailing their gaudy caparisons as they waded through the chalk slush of the roads ; but no horse might quicken its pace , and no outward composure be disturbed : on they paced , slow , solemn , and most miserable . We can fancy how the Hampshire peasants stood grinning under the dripping eaves of the cottage porches , and bare-legged urchins darted out with disrespectful capers , as the last horse went by . We can
fancy the oaths which were muttered between Philip s yellow lips at all England , weather , marriage , queen , and the whole accursed connexion . And the rain was not the worst . To propitiate the god of his new subjects , he had drained in their honour , before starting , a huge tankard of " the wine of the country "—Hampshire ale—the flavour and the properties of which alike displeased his inexperienced stomach ; and , within and without , he was drenched in wretchedness . — Westmins ter Review for January .
The Human Hair Divine . —I wish some one would write a good treatise—how well the writer of some articles in the Quarterly would do it !—on hairdressing . How often do we see a really good face made quite ugly by a total inattention to lines . Sometimes the hair is pushed into the cheeks , and squared : it the forehead , so as to give a most extraordinary pinched shnpe to the face . Let the oval , where it exists , be always preserved ; where it does not , let the liair be so humoured that the deficiency shall not be perceived . Nothing is more common than to see a face , which is somewhat too large below , made look grossly lurge and coarse , by contracting the hair on the
forehead and checks , and there bringing it to an abrupt chock ; whereas such a face should enlarge the forehead and the check , and let the hair fall partially over , so as to shade and soften ott" the lower exuberance . A good treatise , with examples in outline of the defects , would be of some value upon a lady ' s toilet , who would wish to preserve her great privilege—the supremacy of beauty . Some press the ; hair down close ; to the face , which is to lose the very characteristic of hair—ease and freedom . Let her locks , says Anacreon , lie " otv SeAouoi , " as they like ; the ( Jrcek gives them life and a will . Some ladies wear the ; hair like blinkers ; you always suspect they will shy if you approach them . " ¦ ¦¦ ¦ Jilactcivood ' s M . aijnzinr for January . - * - ¦ - . ~
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A Public Discussion Between Mr. George Jacob Holyoake (Editor Of The Iteagoner) And Revbhbwin Grantba(Editor Of The Bible And The
A PUBLIC DISCUSSION between Mr . GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE ( editor of the Iteagoner ) . > . ! !> .. « m ? Ii' \ XrT > T flilAMT Tt A f < srli < v \ y rtf t . lin Tiihln uitil the
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Subject : — " What advantages would accrue to mankind generally , and to the working-classes in particular , by tho removal of Christianity and the substitution of Secularism in its place ?" Doors open at Seven , Discussion to commence at half-past precisely . Admission Tickets for tho course , Is ., to he had of Messrs . Wnrd and Co ., Paternoster Row ; and of ATr . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage . Single- Admission , 3 d .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1853, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011853/page/22/
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