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Recent Novels.* Rilhe Author Of Getting ...
position particularly dan ^ erpus and disagreeable . a » tt » prs , Kalin political subjects , must defy ¦«» : *«^ W hJ ^ £ ^ ^^^^ t ^ r ^^^ q ^^ mW ^^ ll ^ S animosi ties , wait patiently for the verdict of a ^ S ^ SS S ' be considered a novel of this class And the authoThYs shown considerable talent and judgment m stating his opiSisb ' -Sy , and without reference to the feelings of adverse SiSns According to him , the great stumblin-block ^ to the KorafS ^ nera tion of 'lie masses is the idol" respectability which prtventsV wearers of silks and satins from ^ g forth < j hand to raise the victims of vice , improvidence , and folly . Upon S point the hero , is decidedly an enthusiast ; and though the pic « £ which he draws of the hcmrtlessness of wealth and the misery of poverty maybe a . little severe , it is , upon the whole , only too
The story is extremely interesting . All the . characters are . well and efficiently developed ; and have the extra advantage of entirely engrossing the attention and sympathies of the reader . An outline of the plot is as follows . A young man , of good family , having imbibed opinions hostile to the class of which he is a member , early devotes his life to the moral improvement of the masses , and the destruction of " caste" as a barrier to the natural intercourse between man and his brethren . Having signified his-intention of beginning the good work by a low marriage , he becomes thereupon ca fc out and alienated from his family . This marriage , however , does not take place . The hero , now entirely dependent on his own unfavourable circumstances
exertions , enters society under very , but which do not prevent his becoming infected with the prejudges of those by whom he is surrounded ; and Ins zeal for the good cause , together with his love of the village maiden , begin sensibly to diminish .. He then introduces himself into the ranks of htera , tui-e , and becomes so successful that he quite loses ^ sightpf the object for which he had formerly sacrificed his natural inheritance . Circumstances / however , tend to the revival of the old feelings , and , in a moment of religious enthusiasm , he disposes Of all his' property , renounces , the prospects of a brilliant literary career , and goes forth , in rags and wretchedness , to , preach- the vanity of all earthly possessions to the astonished multitude . wi ¦ - ¦ - ¦ ¦
V 1 I . 1 fill T W . < w » ,. w w » . — —— . xi . _ £ - I Bike in Sicily can scarcely be called a novel . It is in tact a series of chapters descriptive of a you rig lady s tour through Sicily , and the * thong-hts and feelings called into existence by the novelty of the scenes by which she is surrounded j the whole ^ beiug . connected together by a slight underplot , in the shape of a little interesting love story . . . ,.. ,. This work is admirably written , the author powerfully delineating the national peculiarities of Sicilian life and character ; while the variety of scenery presented to the imagination of the reader is and almost tbet
given in language so vivid exciting , as o ray us into the delusion that we are visiting in person the shores ot that most delightful of European countries . The author also indulges in a detailed account of the principal edifices , temples , monasteries , palaces , & c , and that in a manner calculated to enchain the attention of even the most indifferent reader . The character of Elfie is , perhaps , one of the most beautiful and fanciful creations m writings of this class j and though such a being could never exist except m the ideal of a poet ' s imagination , yet that ideal is so ^ chaste and delicate , that the impossibility of its ever being realized fills us with
% n contrast to her stands out the less perfect character of the hero VyllerS i whose brooding , dissatisfied mind , ever / searching after the mcoxnpi'ehensible , is easily led astray by the specious doctrines ot tho Church of Bome . In fact , we can safely predict that the perusers of these two volumes will derive from them Considerable entertainment , together with much valuable information . The Ujdloto Isle Tragedy is a class novel of which we entirely disapprove , being calculated not to elevate the mind of tho reader , but rather to depress it . Wo are aware that gome of our most popular works of fiction are fashioned after tho same model , but that docs not render the model itself any the less objectionable . In the present instance the interest excited is of . a gloomy , unsatisfactory Irind . The principal personage in tho story is a young Scottish clergyman , with somewhat contracted ideas of religion in general , and who is deputed , by tho leaders of tho religious movement which , in the year 1843 , agitated tho whole of Scotland , to win over
to their cause the crude , unlettered inhabitants of Hallow Isle . ^ -There is little interest in this novel , except that kind of feverish impatience which is generally excited when' anything- in the shape of a mystery is carried Bystomatically through three long volumes ; and when , at last , the riddle is solved , it turns but to bo-x > f a nature at once revolting and degrading ,
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THE CHURCH AND THE CLERGY . * THE rapid advance in our Civilisation of lato years , the increase of popular education , the " goneval progress or the nation , and the immense and daily augmented facilities in correspondence and comnmniofttipn , have oroated a new literary want , which was no sooner folt than energetic and painstaking compilern sprang up to supply tire necessity . Tho greftfc extent of our commerce , and tho onor «
mous increase in popular journals have also lent their aid to foster a desire to be acquainted with the whereabouts and professions of those who are , or- are likely to become , our customers ; our patients ,, our clients , or our readers . To fill this void , the gigantic Post Office Directory—a wonder , of the century ^— -with all its care and minuteness of description ,. has riot , as yet / been fdurid sufficient ; though it goes on , year by year , increasing in bulk , and throwing off tributary streams of local knowledge , in the shape of country editions , which , in their aggregate almost equal the metropolitan original . Classes and professions demand something ( indeed a great deal ) more than this id supply the often -required information as to the leading or insignificant members of their own particular walk in life , and hence we have the Army and Navy Lists , containing parindividual who holds
ticulars of the rank and services of every Her Majesty ' s commission ; the now venerable Law List , in its . dingy red binding , seems each year to acquire fresh vigour—and , notwithstanding the vast increase of candidates for the mysteries of Themis , gives in each new issue fuller information as to thehpst of barristers and solicitors , whose mighty mass is besieging the courts of Chancery or Common Pleas in the hope of extracting a living income therefrom ; and the Medical Directory supplies a list of the duly qualified to advise , blister , bolus , or heal its . Then there are the Royal Red Book , or the Court Guide , for your . fashionable readers ; the Teerag-e , for your noblemen aiid your flunkeys ; the Parliamentary Guide for your politicians .- All " these had been completely and well put together , . and their various compilers had spared no time or
expense to make them as near perfection as possible . One profession , alone remained without a perfect register ; there was no book extant wliicli could be depended upon to give a complete list of the English clergy , with their antecedents and present rank . True , there were the old Clergy List , the ; University Culendars , and ParliaiTientiu-y Blue Books for the . curious aiid persevering ; but no work had appeared , containing , in one compact mass , the information that had to be elaborated from these various sources , until the projectors of the volume before us took the matter in hand . The Clerical Directory" is certainly as fully entitled to the rank of a standard work of its kind , as the most careful and copious of its
contemporaries of the other professions ; and , indeed , with some few exceptions , we have seeii / nothing to equal it in point of information . An irate ecclesiastic here and there may be found , no doubt , ready to excommunicate Mr . Croekfbrd , and may write to the papers because the cotnpiler has accidentally overlooked the fact of his reverence . being 1 a member of the Statistical , the Entomological , or the Svro-Egyptian societies , or that he carried away the gold medal somewhere for something fi fty years ago ; but the bulk of the ecclesiast ical profession will , we have little doubt , fully appreciate the labour and carefulness which have brought together such tin enormoxis mass of facts with so few trifling errors and omissions .
This Directory has not attained its present value all at onee- ^ -the present is the sixth year of publication , and each annual lias been rendered superior to its predecessor , until at length it may fairly be considered as indispensable to every one whose profession or taste lead them to study the details Of our influential and extensive hieiv arehy . Here are ' the Christian and surnames of every clerk in holy orders , from the Primate of England tp the humblest Welsh curate , with the alma onater who fostered his education , the list of his college honours , and the date of his admission to each succeeding rank in tho Church . If he be clothed with civic dignity as a rural magistrate ; here it is set forth ; if he wield the scholastic birch , or ( forttunaius minium } -be an inspector of schools , a surrogate , a rural deanor a chancellor , it shall be found drily chronicled in these
, pages , which also furnish to the inquisitive the gross amount of his income , —as far , that is , as it can be . ascertained , —and likewise what share he has taken in that making of many books of which Solomon tolls us " there is no end . " And here we cannot but remark upon tho enormous addition to the stores of the bookseller ( or of the trurikmakor ) which our reverend brethren cOntribute- "Out of some eighty thousand names before us , at leaat a sixth of the number have , dabbled more 91 * less in printing ink ; the outpourings of some boing confined to a small extent , while in other cases a column or a column and a half is required to enumerate the mere titles of tho priestly author's writings . Curious contrasts abound in every page j take one example , in which wo find the names of " Donaldson , John William , D . D ., " and " Doria , Samuel , "—the former , among a host of lf
similar works , distinguished as the author of the Theatre of tho Greeks / ' the ( f NewCratylns , " " Varronianus , " and as tho tranalutQrof the"Pook of Jashar "—while ho of tho noble Italian patronymio warbles mildly , " The Sunday School , a Poem ; " ¦ " The Grammar / School , a Poem ;'' and an "Ode on the Cryetal Palace ! " The bulk of this body of- ' writing consists of practical or argumentative treatises upoiidivinity and doctrino 5 though there are those who , wooing the muses , trend in tho stops of Milman , Oroly , or Kingsley ; arid not a few lonrnedly discourse of chemistry , geology , or astronomy . Contrasts , too , of a less welcome kind are found in turning the pages ot tins instructive find London
and suggestive volume as for instance when wo one Vicar at tho head of a parish which brings him a couple of thousands a year , enjoying in addition a canonry of a thousand per annum ; while another London Vicar ( without any oanonry ) has exactly forty pounds a year—his gross income , . according to our guide . Hero wo Una n rural incumbent attending to the spiritual wants of a population often thousand souls , his remuneration being some two hundred and fifty pounds a-year , and in tho next page we stumble upon mother country parish whoso rootor ' s gross income is quoted at & 56 G , while his flock number just five hundred and forty / our . When too , wo find the lay impropriatorls share of the tithes to bo £ 350 ,... a 00 » tain parish and tko rector ' s share to bo only twelve pounds , wo mo not
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* Crook ford ' a Olertoal XHrooCorj / for 1800 : boin / j a jBioarajphical and Statistical Jiooh qf Meforonpe for JTaais rolatlnff to tho Qlorgy and ( 7 io CIvm'qJi . Published Annuftljy . London ; John OrooJtford ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 11, 1860, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11021860/page/17/
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