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m THE LEADS JR. [No. 311, Satukday.
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Life In Brazil. Life In Brazil; Or, The ...
portion jof hip book , they do not fill all ; Mr . Ewbank is too good a traveller i ^ to'b ^ serve and to describe other aspects of Brazilian life , as well as the gorgeous natural scenenr < of the coast and interior . One of his chapters is pafticularlyoriginal ^; It is a study in colours—a chromatic view of the / pfeSan , with all the h ' ghts and shades , and changes noted from hour to hour . T ^ e lJrazi lians seem to hav e cau ght from the variegations of their landscapes a singular fondness for colour . They , bury youths and virgius in blue , y ^ ffqw , and scarlet coffins ,, and often dfress the dead in white , green , and giol &^ coloured silk- Their houses are stuccoed , and sometimes painted in pink , red , an «} amber panels , with gilt cornices and borders . " *"'
Mr . Ewbank was in Brazil when the Imperial Budget for 184 / -48 appeared . The lists of officials and pensioners suggested to him a chapter on Brazilian ftatnes . The results are sufficiently curious . Among " primitive parronytnieS , " we find Angelica Dead Branch , Amelia Quiet , Imogen Pilchard , Clara Qfjfche Frying Pans , Flora Scourge of the House , Claudine Little Fin , Good £ & epli < 3 rdessof 'the Coast of Navarre , Joaquim the Sucking Pig of Almeida , JfcTaries-of the Olive Tree Beautiful , Isabella of the Great Beard , Barbara of the Doorbolt , Innocencia the Torch of Arruda . Others are combinations of primitive surnames : Mary of the Partridge and Brook , Mlaurel of the Sucking Pig and Banner , Barbara , of the Latch and Spider , Anne Woe to Alencon . Still more fantastic are—Purification and Male Partridge , Purity ^ nd the Sparrow-Hawk 3 Cross-bowman of the Saints . Mr . Ewbank found a wine-merchant named Sylvan Milk , Simon of Nazareth , a gunsmith , Michael .
Archangel of Miranda , a paper-hangef , Augustus C ^ asar Orange , a customhouse clerk , and Antonio Jose of the Holy' Plovigh Tail Handle , a secretary . In the . Theatre the box-keeper was called John Aranjo of the Holy Spirit , 8 ^ scene-shifter , Joseph of the Nativity , one of the actors , A Flaw frorh a broken Pot . Certain , fathers of the Qhnrch , having eccentric appellations , »>^ t h <) tjght fit to change them ; as did . Sergius , surnamed Os Porci . Senor Sti « p ! ig-Pig , however , is not yet ashatned of his patronymic . ^ J ^ M ^ of the social aspects of J & tozu naif-way in the nineteenthL century . The report is not encouraging .
M The Leads Jr. [No. 311, Satukday.
m THE LEADS JR . [ No . 311 , Satukday .
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Th * English Xfycfopcedi * . Conducted by Charles Kiiiglit . Biography : Part 1 . >«__ .. ¦'¦ ' ¦ si ' ¦' . ' .. ' . ' : ¦ '¦' ¦ ¦ „; ' - : ,, ¦ ¦¦¦ " J , --: / * Bradbury and Eyarig . TPwo idiyisipns of Mr . Knight ' s admirable CyclqpEsdia—those comprising . NaturM . History and Geography- —being now finished , a third'is here entered upon , and wehave before us the First Part of anew Biographical Dictionary , Wch ^ when completed , will form a perfect work in itself , and will present a lar ^ e _ body of informatkrii on the personal history of distinguished men , brought down almost to the day of publication . Glancing over the instalinenii-jnst put ; forthi we find much to eoirimend- ^ many evidences that the \ vgttng is sohd , and the editorship generally careful with respect tb essentials . Altliv « xg , men . of any degree of celebrity are included in this collection , and the yerytreshestrncidents na their lives are not forgotten ; so that the Cyclopaedia almost teeps pace with the newspaper . For instance , in the sketch of the
W ^ t ^ ssian Emperor , Alexander , we have a brief mention of his visit to the Orjtnea during last November , ; an event Which , but a few weeks ago , we were f chremebng xn our news columns in the form of Latest Intelligencl from Sf $ P ™ ¦* ! ** $ ¦; The memoirs are written with a reasonable fulness of de-SSSSS ^ J ^ con < ! ^ 5 s of egression ? and . the reader will perceive ^ S ^^ S 11 * goes « ppna system oi liberal inclusiveness when we inform to ph Present part contain s a . sketch of Mr . Harrison Ainsworth . ¦ TThere is one point ; hptvever , about which we are disposed to quarrel . A W ^ PH ^ . t ^ e biogi-aphical history of mankind consists in certain xwntions our
J ^^ ° f nature , the knowledge of which it is right to ke « p from the very young , but which cannot and need not he muffled up from the eyes pf adults . Now , a Cyclopaedia ig not issued for the benefit of little boys and gjrls ; and an ultraprudery becomes absurd . But upon some such principle xt would seen » thattheBiographicalportionof the " English Cyclopeeuia" is tobe conducted , . Witness thelife ofthe infamous Pope Alexander * VL , Roderic Borgia j whose immoralities are delicately skimmed over . This is a mistake ^^ 1 W ^ flU ha ^ th ^ effecfc <> f turning History , with its grand and £ SSn les 8 on ^ . 1 \ nto me ™ family reading . We trust that Mr . Knight and ni 9 ! colleagues will reconsider the point .
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" The First Printer." Wh ^ O Was Really ...
" THE FIRST PRINTER . " Wh ^ o was really « the first printer" is as vexed a question as that of who " ¦ wrote Jtjp ^ BR . Fa u st of Gutenberg is generally credited with the invention ; 5 , f npwore certain that he h , as a fair claim to it than that he dealt ia didblene with Mephistofhelbs , Haarlem , in Holland , claims the honour ipr a son ot hers , one Laurence Costar , who ( according to , the story devqutly believed in and passionately asserted by the Dutch , though denied Sn « r Cr i ™ ? cheat l ? of hia U ? eaby JoHN F ^ ust of Gutenberg , a lellow worker . Flying to Mentz , with , the secret and the first rough wooden types in . his possession , the thief , according to the Dutch story , set up a $ ! £ l ' S * - sunshine of imperial favour , and became recognised as < ft SSJS ?^ L ^ . ^ « ob , le art . ° i P »» ting /> If such he really the 18 certaml t 0 bo ?
. W ^ v . i yfifc jrankecamong the tragedies of history ; « K *^ SWg X there t aro ^ any re asons for believing it , we must always recolkct Stt ^ J ? nCV ^ ? a ^ oved- W < i aro therefore inclined to question tlie SSS ! £ ^ * ii story <; h e 8 ul ) J of a < lrama ' » 9 Mr - ToM ' ^ AV ) uon "ffi ^ Wa / i ADB liay e done at the Princess ' s Theatre , and villEPS" ^ : ?^ ? Qiftcnberg with the odium of a most execrable piece of 3 W' il-Trt * " ? lf tliere w « re no two opinions on the question of his SS « i ^'/ ? ^' ' however , that the subject , dramatically conai-SSfcKfi £ " v ** P ? 4 . S *** . »» . ¦ ¦ effective play has been produced . Weaving ^© SofSuKi ? feV °£ Co «» tes » JAcouffiLiNffi of Honancf rSteWS # v ^^^ wh 3 < ^ * endeavoured to excite againat the pi ^ ure & r ^ Si ; ri fAMR ^^» v , the dramatists have presented a lively * V ?? JfP ii ^ W- . Ajded by l » er l ^ uraWe friend , Margaret , < l « ughter of
tibe burgomaster of Haarlem , the Conrtiess ( disguised as a bov ) induces Costar ( performed by Mr . Kban ) to copy an insurrectionary placard Costar , inspired , by his love of Margaret ( Miss Heath ) , undertakes bv means of his new and secret art , to post twenty copies within an hour and whrfe he is absent , in order to put the copies on the walls , John t > f Gutcnl ber ( Mr . Ryder ) who is also in love with Margaret , induces hex and Jacqueline ( Miss Murray ) , to believe he has gone to betray them . Thev fly ; and John having abstracted the types and broken the presses , flies too But the really betrayed person is Costar , whom Gutenberg has caused to be arrested for treason ; and , with this accumulation of misery on the head of the artist , the second act concludes . In the third act , Gutenberg is holdi ™ a festtval on his inauguration as chief of the guild of printers ; but Costar tendered prematurely old by four years of imprisonment , comes accidentally to his enemy s house in a state of mendicancy . Meeting with John hi brands him with his crime , and , though not successful in establishin g' hiclaim to his own invention , obtains the hand of Margaret , and rests satisfied with love and obscurity . Such is the conclusion of the drama—a conclusion boldly repugnant to the popular theory of " poetical justice . "
Ihe play was successful , though not overwhelmingly so . The vigorous acting of Mr . Kean during the whole of the second act , and the striking termination of tne act itself , produced loud and long applause ; but the « ood temper of the audience > vas somewhat baulked by Mr . Kean's refusal present himself after the second act , though vehemently called for ; and the climax of the play was felt to be unsatisfactory , the part of Costar is peculiarly fitted for Mr . Kean , being in the best or most intellectual style of melodrama , with opportunities for strong gusts of . passion , and a prevailing picturesqueness . His grief when he finds that he has been robbed was
strikingly and touchingly delineated . Mr . Ryder , as the villain of the piece , had abundant opportunities for rant ; and it is therefore to Ins credit to say that he did not avail himself of them . Mr . Frank Matthews , in the character of the senile burgomaster , was adroit , as usual , but failed to give any speciality to a rather weak part i and Mr * Fisher did the best he could , but not very successfully , with a heavy jester who utters bad jokes . Miss Heath and Miss Murray , as the ladies , do not call for much notice their acting offered no features for objection , but—possibly owing to the slightness of the parts—lacked vigour and interest . The first act of the draina moves slowly ; but the second and third are -well wrought-up and well written . Praise must also be given to the scenerj and dresses , which are very picturesque .
Bentley's Standard Itoveis.—The Recent S...
Bentley ' s Standard IToveis . —The recent sale of the copyrights of the collection , of the works known as Bentlcyts Standard ifovgs , has afforded Messrs . Bputledge an opportunity of carrying out their scheme for issuing the best productions of modern writers at a cheap rate . The Bulwer novels will therefore be immediately followed by a succession of fictions by Captain Marryat , J . Fennimore Cooper , Albert Smith , Gt . K . Gleig , Ingoldsby , Maxwell , Mrs . Gore , Lady Scott , and ThomasHood . The sale realised nearly £ 7 , 000 . Thus , for . One Shilling and Eighteenpence , the public will be enabled to purchase works wbich were originally published at a Guinea and a Guinea-and-a-half , and which , until now , have been thought cheap at half-a-erown or three-and-sixpence .
English Want Or Selsvresfeot. —It Is An ...
English want or Selsvresfeot . —It is an Insularity -well worth general con * Bideration and correction , that the English people are wanting in self-respect- * It -would be difficult to tear higher testimony to the merit ' s of the English aristocracy than they themselves afford 5 n not being very arrogant or iutolerant , with so large a public always ready to abase themselves before titles . On all occasions , public and private , where the opportunity is afforded , this readiness is to be observed . So long as it obtains so widely , it is impossible that we should be justly appreciated and comprehended , by those who have the greatest part in ruling us . And thus it happens that now we are facetiously pooh-poohed by our Premier in the English capital , now the accredited representatives of our arts and sciences are disdainfully slighted by our Ambassador in the French capital , and we wonder to find ourselves in such curious and disadvantageous comparison with the people of other countries . Those people may , through many causes , be less fortunate and less freo : but . they have more social self-respect
and that self-respect must , through all their changes , be deferred to , and will assert itself . We apprehend that , few persons are disposed to contend that Rank does not receive its due share of homage on the continent of Europe ; but , between the homage it receives there , and the homage it receives in our island , there is an immense difference . Half-a-dozen dukee and lords , at an English county ball , or public dinner , or any tolerably miscellaneous gathering , are painful . and disagreeable company ; not because they have any disposition unduly to exalt themselves , or are generally otherwise than cultivated and polite gentlemen , but , because too many of us are prone to twist ouraelvea out of shape before thorn , into contortions of servility and adulation . Else-where , Self-respect usually steps in to prevent this ; there is much less toadying and tuft-hunting ; and the intei-course between the two orders is infinitely more agreeable to both , and far moro edifying to both . — " iNsoiiAMTiKS . " Household Words . Tan Ooukt Newsman . —Not one of our Insularities is so astonishing in " the eyes of an intelligent foreigner , as the Court Newsman . Ho is one of the absurd little obstructions perpetually in tho way of our being understood abroad . The quiet greatness and independence of the national charaoter seems so
irreconhaving any satisfaction m the dull slipslop about slopes ana the gardens , and about the Prince Consort ' s going a-hunting and comiug back to lunch , and about Mr . Gibbs and the ponies , and aboiit the Royal Highnesses on horaoback and the Royal inftmtB talcing carriage , exorcise , and about the Blopcs and tho gardens again , and the Prince Consort again , and Mr . Gibl > B and tho ponies again , aud the lloyal Highueesos on uoi'sobook again , aud tho Royal infants taking carriage oatoroiso again , and so on for every day i » the week aud every week im the year , that in questions of importance the English aa a poople , really mias their just recognition . Similar small beer is chronicled with the greatest care about the nobility in their country-houses . Ifc is in vai « to represent that the English people don't care about theso iusignifioant dotauls , and don't want thorn ; that aggravate the miaundoretanding . It thoy don't want them , why do they have thorn ? If they feel tho effect of them to bo ridiculous , why do they consent to be made rWiculoue ? If tlioy can't help ft , why , th « n the bewildered foreigner submits that he was right « t first ; and that it 1 b not tho English people that is the power , l > ut Lord Aberdeen , or Lord Palmer » ton , or Lord Alaborough , ov Lord Knowswhom . — . " Ihsulaimtibs . " Household Words *
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1856, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08031856/page/20/
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