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brilliancy of complexion which a gallop produces on a lady ' s cheek , he adds this note : — " I / have looked in vain for the etymology of the word gallop , and conjecture it to be mtWows , the Homeric epithet of Iris . " Bravo , Doctor ! " storm-footed" our ma ¦ shall be from this day forward . ,
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . Familiar Things ; a Cyclopedia oj Entertaining Knoioledge . Being Useful Information popularly arranged . Illustrated with wood engravings . Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . No . 3 of a monthly periodical , which promises to be an entertaining work of useful information ; but not having seen the two first numbers we are somewhat in the dark as to its arrangement , whether it proceeds alp habetically or scientifically . This number contains the conclusion of a paper on the Bouquet , papers on Lucifers , Carpets , and Soap Bubbles . The Dramatic Works of W . Shakspeare . From the text of Johnson , Steevens , and Heed . Edited by W . Hazlitt . In 4 vols . ( Popular Library . ) Vol . 1 . G . Routele . se .
We presume this to be the cheapest edition of Shaks peare yet published . Four shillings for the four volumes will meet every bookbuyer ' s purse . The text is that of Johnson , Steevens , and Reed . The notes are very judiciously confined to simple glossarial explanation of meanings of words , and placed at the bottom of the pages where the difficulties occur . A Life is promised . As yet only the first volume has appeared : it contains Merry Wives of Windsor , Twelfth Night , The Tempest , Two Gentlemen of Verona , and Measure for Measure . The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith . With Thirty Illustration * by John Absolou , Birket Foster , James Goodwin , and Harrison Weir . Cundall and Addey
This is the first volume of an elegant and useful series of Illustrated English Classics . The volume is very tasteful , and yet not too pretty for use . It may lie upon the drawing-room table , but it may be put in the pocket without fear , for it is only a half crown volume—not too dainty to be handled . We insist on this as an obvious advantage over those illustrated books which cease to be books in becoming mere ornaments . The illustrations are fair , but not remarkable . Matters and Workmen . A Tale illustrative of the Social and Moral Condition of the People . By Lord B . In 3 vol * .
T . C . Newby . This is an average novel : neither better nor worse than the ordinary works which every season brings to light and every season carries back once more to utter obscurity . Our disappointment was perhaps greater than it would otherwise have been had not the title raised expectations the work never attempts to fulfil . Call it The Fraudulent Banker , or The Innocent Convict , and the novel is , as we said , like other novels . But call it Masters and Workmen , a tale of social life illustrating the condition of the people , and expectation ins'antly leaps at another Mary Barton or Alton Locke , when in truth there is scarcely anything about masters and workmen in the book more than is to be found in hundreds of other novels , and the moral and social coi . dition of the people gains no sort of illustration from Lord B . The Girlhood o Shakspeare ' . i Heroines . Tale IV . Desdomona the iMagnifico ' s Child , liy Mary Coivden Clarke . W . II . Smith As specimens of ingenuity in preparing the heroines lor their introduction on the dramatic stage—in throwing us back upon what mipfit have been the history of their early lives , these tales ' are entitled to more credit than their somewhat unsatisfactory nature can secure for them . The want of climax is only one among tlie drawbacks to their interest . All along it is less the imagination or the emotions these tales appeal to , than the critical faculty which is excited in detecting how dexterously the threads are woven ; and this we believe is aguiust their interest as tales , and sugKestH that , if the same ingenuity were employed in a more obviously critical and conjectural style— substituting essays for stories—n better result would be obtained .
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The Dreamer and the Worker . A Story of the Present Time By It . H . Home , i ! vols . 11 . ( , ' oll . ui n Man ; Natural and Spiritual , liy Huuku 1 ' anand . C \ Gilpin Ctiildhood Hours . I 5 y Mra . Harwell . Chapman anil Hull , Knig ht ' * J'iclorial Shukspeare . ( Merchant of Venice . ) 1 ' arl 10 . <" . Jviii ^ ht . Half Hours with the Hat Authors . I'art 1- ' . U Kni ht . J'ictorial HnlJ Hours l ' .. rt . 10 . < :, KiiifjM , Knighi ' s Cyclopedia of London . Part 4 . <; , Knight . Knig ht ' s Cyclopedia oj Industry . Part , 4 . C . Knight , Knight's Excursion Companion . Part : ! . C Knight . The Knmith Inquisition as adopted by the Weileyim Conference , beina a Narrative of Events , a Collection of iJorumenlx , and a
View of the Arguments connected with that Subject , lly Jnm » - » llroinley . J . huyc and Co . Christian Socialism and its Opponents . A I , crime delivered ut the Oflflco <> f lh « i S <> ciet \ for I ' r oinothijr Working Mcii ' m Ahmociution * . Hy J . l . ullnw , Km | . J \\ r . I ' mkcr . letter to the Iteverend John Cumminy , I ) I ) ., on the subject oj his Lecture entitled ( . ' oil in Science . II . llaillu-re . The Signs of the Tipwit ; or , the 1 ' opery of Protestantism . II J . (; ii > i . H . linylith Principle over-ridden by Mitred Priestcraft . A Tulr of lVtH «!< . iition unil Op | ir « 'sttion . Dedicated ( without . | ie nnh-nxm ) to lh <> Lord liiuhop of London . \ V . and 'I ' . Piper . The , Mitre , and the . Woolsack ; or , the Lord . / ic / ibhhoji oj '' ( Janterhury , and the . Lord Chancellors Tiuro and ( Jottviiuain . II . J . <; iI >! iH .
Andrew Claiborne . A Tale of Kiicumlxtriid J '' ut , ittcp . ItyOlticiiH Pun . 1 . II . J . ( iibl ) H The Weileynn Review and Kvitn / fclical Kcview . No . 3 . J . knyo mul Co The Weileyan Itrfoniuir . No . . 'I . J . Kayo and Co The Mirror < j / lhn Time . The Weslei / an Juvenile Penny Magazine . No . J .
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Gokthe .
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SKETCHES FROM LIFE . By Harriet Martineatj . VIII . THE CONVICT . Reuben ' s father was a farmer . The farm , was a small one ; but there was more work to be done than the father and son could easily get through . When Reuben was a child he had worked by hia father ' s side ; and as diligently as he could , because he was told that his two elder brothers must go away , and work for themselves when they became men ; and he must qualify himself to supply the place of one of them . The brothers did go away ; and the two sisters married ; so that Reuben and his father were the only ones left in the old house . The remembrance of the dead wife and mother seemed to revive then , and become very painful ; for the lad saw how his father ' s spirits drooped . The sighs that came from him in the evenings , and the disheartening words that he dropped , made the poor lad ' s heart very heavy ; and at times he wondered how it was all to end , or w hether their home was to be like this for
ever . The end showed itself at last . The intimation came one day in the field that their home was no longer to be like this . His father was going to marry the widow Robertson . Reuben did not know whether to be glad or sorry . His father ' s happiness would be taken out of his charge : and this , as he had found his insufficiency to make his father happy , was a relief ; but , then , he did not like the widow Robertson , and his father was aware that he did not . None of the family had known much of her , but they did not admire her face , and report said that she was very ' near " about money matters . When his fathei
read a joke in the newspaper one day , about a woman in America who had such a sour countenance , that she made a profit of it , and hired herself out by the day to make pickles by looking at cucumbers , Reuben and one of his sisters had exclaimed , at the same moment , " Widow Robertson ! " and Reuben now feared that his father had not forgotten this . However she was thoroughly respectable , neat , housewifely , and said to be clever . In a comfortable home she might prove more amiable than phe looked . Reuben made many resolutions that she should have no reason to complain of him ; and ho told his father , in all sincerity , that he would da all in his power towards the happiness of the household .
Nobody , however , could make any happiness there after the new wife crossed the threshold . The state of things was worse than anybody had anticipated . Reuben was the chief victim of the woman ' s tongue and temper , and of her virtues , such as they were . She could not bear to see dirty shoes ; she could not bear the smell of the stable ; she could not bear to see his clothes wear out , as clothes will wear out under field labour . She was perpetually vaunting her muking and mending , mid cleaning , and complaining that she saw no end to her toils . Sometimes
her husband protected Reuben , even to the point oi silencing her , but then she sulked ; and for so long u time together that the poor man became discouraged , and let her have her own way . Then Reuben began to give way , in spite of all rcHolutionti . When in the field , he could not help thinking of the sharp replies , true enough , that he might make to her insufferable speeches : he thought them over , a ^ ain and agnin , till they were at his tongue ' s end ho that they would
come out when the tauntH were repealed . She shamed him before the neighbours ; hIh : scolded him till in the summer evenings he burst out of the house , and in the winter evenings he plunged into bed , and muffled his ears in the bedclothes . " The voice of scolding was even as the voiee of a waterfall . " Hut we will not dwell on an aflliction which is at once one of the commonest , and one of the most unendurable of human troubles .
It went on for two years , by which lime Reuben wan eighteen . One afternoon , his father , who had been absent all day at market , came home , and found Reuben ut the gate of the furm-vard looking for him impatiently . " Good bye , father , ' ' miid he , " I have milked the cowh ; and Jackson will look to them in the morning , und till you can find Homebody to do my woik ; nnd "
M My boy , what do you mean ? " said his father . " Come in and tell me all about it . " No , —Reuben never would enter the house again while his stepmother was in it ; and when his father heard how she had been insulting him , he did not wonder , and indeed could hardly ask him to remain . Reuben declared that he knew of a place , in a somewhat distant county , where it was probable that he should find work . Seeing him bent upon this , " having really nothing better to propose at the moment , his father told him he might take the old grey mare and the old saddle ; and went into the house to see how much money he could spare .
It was very little;—so little that the father s heart sank ; but the son ' s did not . He was confident he should do very well ; gave his father a hearty grasp of the hand , and rode off . The grey mare was terribly old . She stumbled and jogged along over the rough moorland roads till her rider was almost as much tired as herself ; and it was late before he , having walked a great part of the way , got to a place where he could obtain food and a resting-place for both . The next morning she was so lame that the boys in the road laughed as
Reuben led her away . It was a weary day . After alternate walking , riding , and resting , he found himself , late at night , in a wild moorland country , under a loweiing sky , miles from any known resting-place , and the mare utterly unable to proceed . Unhappily , a temptation too strong for his virtue presented itself at the moment of his deepest depression . No one who had ever looked in Reuben's open face , and known his simple habits , could have supposed him
capable of being a thief . But he now became one ; and by a single act ruined his life . Through the gathering darkness he saw , within a rude enclosure , a considerable number of horses—this being a season when they ranged the fells in the day-time , and were brought together at night . Reuben led in the poor mare among them , put her saddle on the back of one of the best horses he could find , and rode off , striking fire on the stony road for miles .
Before he was out of the county he was caught . His surname was a common one , and he had been christened John as well as Reuben ; and he was tried under the name of John . He afterwards said that he would not have been tried tinder a false name ; he had done badly enough in stealing a horse , and he was not going to add a lie to the mischief . For the same reason he withstood all arguments about his
plea , and chose to plead " guilty . ' He was anxious to the last degree that his father should not hear of this terrible failure at the outset of his scheme of life ; and not a word could be got out of him as to where he came from , or anything about his former life . The police of the district knew nothing of him , of course . He was put into prison ( no matter where ) for a long term .
No matter where : but it matters much that it was a good prison . The officers were good , and the system worked well for Reuben at least . He was kept separate from all other prisoners ; and so effectually that no one of his unhappy comrades knew of his existence ; and he had no knowledge of any one within the walls but the officers and the chaplain . They were kind to him , and he saw them often ; but he said little to them . The chaplain lent him books ;
but he did not care to read them ; he was provided , at his own request , with work—shoemaking , in which he was properly instructed ; but he worked listlessly at first . The person to whom he opened his heart at last was n lady , to whom the prisoners had occasionally the opportunity of speaking , if they liked , or being silent , if they chose . To this lady lie never told his father ' s residence ; but he soon became perfectly open about everything which could not involvo disclosures about his family .
At first there was a . painful liritlesimesB , showing deep heait-fcickneHB . Ho made only three shoes 11-week : he did not know why he did not make more . Soon it was evident that there was Home great idea in bis mind , which annihilated bis imerest in everything else ; and in 11 little while , out came this idea . With his head drooped , on his breast ,
and his face red and pnle by turns , lie whispered hia question whether tho lady thought lie should get out soon . At first hIio did not understand ; but she found that poor Reuben had not tho remotest notion what law was , and what punishment wan for . JIo knew that people " got punished" for offences ; but ho thought it wan all bap-hazard whether they went to priuon or over tho sens , or whether they got off , «<>
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Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1851, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15031851/page/16/
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