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» vfe ^ thus * defrforablFtHtteeogmsett ; aad ? . bemg < thufrf & whasihis . extra * ^ dftiary assertionbecomes ^ o % > usrintelligiblev jpfajf are the labottnrof Buffon and Cuvier , which our zoologists ignore ? Specify them , tfo ^ mattei ? li & w ^ asuelV ; we canB < fc guess * at whatfts alluded < to * Ha * mg > specified thorn , perhapf Dr . Kuo * witt then-expta * te meaning o £ > draggjngrm' ^ f vJews ' « # Goethe , Oken , ' att 4 Spix" into the same sentence * be will explain , pfcrlyapej how * English zoologists . " are to adopts Gimers views * as- well L the views to wfich Cuvier through life was most vehemently opposed , Hewitt farther explain that ^ Milne Edwards , ! a pupil and follower of © uvieriespousiag- 'Cu ^ iei ^ s ' antagonism to the views-of Goethe , Okett , and Spixj doesfnot recognise -them * to this ^^ very wo ^ b wMcfr Dr ^ Enoxjtranslates to supersede all English looks ? The truth seems to hey that Dr . Hnox is fond offlingmg about celebrated names with an air of easy famu * ianfry , as if he were on the best terms with them ; and he does not aiWays trouble himself to-ascertain how these names are spelled . He might ha ^ e learned from Mr . Mbrley ' sLr * tbat"'Po # & M # 'the potter * was named-Balissj / . His know *
ledge of the history of science is such as one might expect 1 from one thus wmdbtaf in his names . 'Hie reader'wi » d © * well i ; o ^ pjass' *> ver > unTead ail that Djf : Enox fnmishes ' by way of' histdricaMntroduetHmy atti'devbte-himself-to the MhitualD'i . Knoxhas ( awaslatedJ In a very compact ) form' it gives a mass of "' admirably-arriaiged information , anxr is illustrated : with' five hundred woodcuts , most of them excellent . We urge the publisher , when he reprints this-volume , to suppress Dr . Knox ' s unnecessary , display of himself , and to give us- in lieu thereof" something which the book much needs—an index . Ocular Spectres and Structures as Mutual Exponents . A'Treafcise by James Jagp , A . B . ( 8 vp . Churchill ) . —We nave tried to bring within our linoits an exposition of' this- curious treatise , but the subject is aot' to be-expounded wimoutviRore refere ^^ ifi ^ pjjeferj th ^ efore ^ oi & eci ^ g ^ thev attention of our medical and speculative readers to thia ^ ttempt to expMn the anatomy of the eye by means of spectralappearances , and ^ thoseappNearances by'means'of anatomy .
Throat Ailments , more especially the Enlarged Tonsil and < Ehpgated < Uvula * By James Yearsley . Sixth edition . ( 8 vo . Churchill . )—Unhappily many of » pur readers may ? have- occasion to consult this valuable little work ; for the ;" clergyman ' s sprfe throat" is- only one ibr ; m of- the eyiL which distresses oratorsysmgeirs , actoTS , and quiet- everyrd & y . i pjepplei Tovhave an uvula so long that it is perpetually getting into a struggle with your throat , and keeping up an incessant bickering in all the parts around it , is a common case . Mr . TSearsley : hascollected a-mass of evidence ,, and has explained-the efficacy of simple treatment in such cases .- The ^ book- is- interestingr to the medical profession j deeply so to all persons with ' , delicate throats . Auiittbon ^ ijte- Naturalist in > th & Mew World : i & V adventures' and' dis ~
coverte & ii By ; Mrs .- Horace ; S & John . ( 12 mo ., Longmans . ) : —It : was an ^ excellen ^ ideavto- collect from the *? autobiographical digressions-of the great natur & iist 1 a- connectednarrative of'his * adventuress having formed this plan ; Mi & St ; John was ; further' aided ? in i ^ by-communications fro m Audubon ' s firieiidsV aM by somefM ^ ments-publKhed : "' in America ; . The plan has been less th & t ' of ; . aV ciMu ^ atanti ^ biography than of a narrative setting forth the " ' erodes of romance and discovery which constituted his career as a , naturalist . " Of course a writer has perfect right to choose his subject , and to : limit it as suits his yieyrs or his information 3 andwe have only , to accept he has he has
What he give ? us , decidiing ^ riether performed vphat attempted . But should tie present book reach a < second edition , we beg IVtrs . St ; John tp re-consider her plan , and • try ; if she cannot give us an enlarged biography , andWith ? it even xaOieof"Audubpn ^ s delightful passages about Natural History . Her graceful book is small enough to bear enlargement without fear of becoming wearisome ; the subject is - wide enough to- admit of grieat Variety . Alt present' « he worlc" reads like * a long review article , with- very-interesting passages , brightly written and sketchily put together ; We think Audubon ' s name and fame would secure an audience for a more ambitious work .
It is rare indeed that we meet with a "work at once so happy in plan and excellent in execution , as -the ; Mttnnaiqf Marine Zoology for the British Isksi . By * P-. HiiQosse ., Part . 'h ( 12 mo . Van-Voorst . )—Without being . paastoTiatelylfondof moluacsf ( and we know estimable persons with \ ' a quite mediocredhtetestin'thosecpiilpy ^ masses ) ,, the reader e ? ocs-recreate < himself at the seaside every new and then . , Lifeia ; not , impassioned "by the \ sad . seat wave ;? - The daysiaje longv . Xhe ^ circulatin © library . iB ^ bat . a feeble enjpyment , You lounge-along ; tliC 58 hoFC j ) inn very ? listlessness ' . yoa pickiup a bLtof seaweedy . or-ja ) iioveirbit'alYe ) 5 you ! l 6 ok < . at ? it awbile , 8 curious but igporant , and < because ignorant you * speedily fling lit dn > wu again » and > . humming * casta diva , lounge . away > to " freshiweeds . and molluscs new . " ! Now > only suppose your knowledge o * t little increased ^ wlint : a 1 fund ofv enjoyment would that ' lounge bringtwith db' ! ¦¦ Thiatyoufjadmiti But how get the-little knowledge * in nw easy way , ? i JSTay » even supppsingyjpur . niind " has * already , had , ¦ a strong / bias for nafctroaii . history ^ ' aajdnypur onwoaiOy / been-. ' greatly ^ aroused respeotine- , these
wonders or the deep , howtarcyou , unless m company vntlDa / zoologist , to recogniso the species-youMmay-jfind ? HeperMri Gosse steps ' in * We owe , hint imvch- fdn ixi ^ VivaviUm ; he is de * - t < wniined \ 'we shall owe * him . more . Thisds ^ the first part of ¦ ay book which will go . intoyourpockety and . will > . enable you to . identify any animal you miayimeet with on thBiBritiBhcoaBta ^ except , oficowrsei af ' ^ swell ? ' or a * ' lion , " oitvanimala * ofiatJeaaidefcermihate zo 6 logioichiaraotep ) . i Thirty ; pounds would nottpurchase ' tflie ^ worksAnecesaary ? for / auch > identification *; and Mr . Gobsoi for a ' few ; BMllingasvwill supplyvtheiwant'iw * at- pooket . ManuaU He ^ givesr a > figure of ; ? t » y genua named byilritn ^ making three ' hundred and thirtyt-five illustrations ^ Wtjttie ^ pttrt alone ; . andu the a descriptions : enable- you ' , to- < identify the > species . TjbfiaitextUH n / isimple and lucid texplanation of > the physiological nndnnatomical chapactJersj with 1 brief descriptions , of : theivarious 1 species * Wo repeat , the ' ¦ * J ^ s ^ l '"> PT * yi and 'the ; estecutib > n exoBllonfc lfi ourneaders gio to the seaside witaout > a-oppy in ) thein portmanteau , ' they will commit a serious oversifrhfc . tt . ' i . iJt ! .. j < . °
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diarists , fromraanals ^ arehivesi and * in this- instance from . those mountains of ZS « f * W P > th , f + f l r ^ chivab y- Having , i * fortnerbooksi dis ! coursed of taWes ^ and the delicious things vihat weie spread upon them or saidaround tlitem ,-. having m- some chapters of agreeable levity described the dresu » s . oflameS « of . « a they appeared" auytvhtere in ^ public ^ and havine thirdly , compounded certain nreinoirs of the' Hanover queens , fuU of amushS Apoeryph » i Dr ; Doraff , u - m &" — = —^—must tell a-tale of chivalry , For large white plumes are dancing in his eye :
But his anecdotes are more modern than we expected from one who knows all glossaries by rote . Of coursei Gyxony Arthur , Lancelot , and the knights of ancient orders , « ome upon the-scene > with their sparkUng arms ; but Dr . Doran has a tendency to wander away from the-chivalric epochs , from the heroie ages which never existed , and from the middle ages , to the romantic scandals and ^ nvohties of the last century . He has " read" more of that period than j W 1 > o * ™ ^ queen-memoirs , and must disburse both anecdote aad allusion , ua illustrative periphrases > sometimes very artificially dovetailed /
However , D * . Doran takes'tip ' histopic in tie spirit of a true historian , by putting previous historians in contrast . Lingard , wbo has lately enjoyed a revival , prescribes the spurred and belted orders as destitute of most " knightly \^ f ? ' ' a Hallam regards them as the great schools of moral discipline in the Middle Ages ; and Hallam , we are inclined to thinlc , is in the right ; The champions of the distressed often used theii steong arms and their good swords- in behalf of' their own profane audacity , and against the horioui ? 1 of maidens and the rights of the poor ; but these are the very fellows whom we find in" the ^ historiea brought to the ground covered with blood and dust , by strange knightsi in flock or ^ shining armour . Dti I >« ran illustrates his peculiar theory , by spattering AchiHes « with uncourtly epithets , but , where Achilles is called a "bully , " Ruy Diaz does not gain much by being called a hero . It
is to be suspected that our lively table-talker knows more of Christian than of Pagan chivalry . At all events ^ the real kaight was brave and pure , of the type of Gyron . le Courtoisi wlio dfed in defence of a lady's fame . The lady , seekmg him in a forest ? , found his body , and ; uttered over it such funeral jeloquence as Spencer might have turned into a golden canto . She knelt by the dead knightj-kissed his swordj and died upon . his breast . That her virtues were not mere ballad idealism , Dti Poran shows from a-dedieation of Jordano Bruno ' s poem to Sir Philip Sydney , in-which he says he has tasted all sorrows but one , "that of finding . false a woman ' s love , " which could not have been said by King . Arthuri . whosewife Guinever , is presented in" Sir Lancelot du iLac" as the image of beauty j boldness ^ and corruptiori ;
Treating , in due order , of knightly costume * weaponsj armorial signs ; and creations , Dr . Doran opens his second chapter with an account of the training of pages , whk ) se happiness he- contrasts' with the- woes endured by college scholars . But , if certain French and Dog-Latin historians are to be credited , the pages used to receive at the ! hands , or , uaider the eyes , of their mistresses , such harsh corrections as the poor students in the butteries , only they were more elegantly and tastefully applied . Be this as it may , when the youths did not cross their ladies ^ wishes > they lived in the houses of knights and nobles alifeof easy freedom , engaged in gentle duties ; or in the impertinences of idleness ; From the -Knights of the Round Table ; who first sat down at King Arthur's-suggestion to feast off a roasted- ox , the generations of chivalry appear to have'revelled'throueh their niahts and davs amid all the varieties
of romance and pleasure . Dr . Doran describes tliem at home , with interludes of' horror for the sake of contrast . Among other stories , he tells-that of the Kniglit of Cheiri , who forced his wife to hang her lover , with her own hands , and watched her until she was starved to death in the presence of that corpse . Also he relates , how the Landvogt Hugenbach , the ducal Lord of Burgundy , gave a splendid entertainment , to which he invited all the beautiful ladies of the district with their husbands . In the course of the festival the ladies were conducted into a gallery , where they were reduced to a statuesque condition with the exception of a veil over the head . The husbands were then called in ,, one by one , to identify their wives . Those who » succeeded- were forced to 1 drink enormous flagons of wine , but those whovcould not * recognise * their Eveswere flung headlong down the staircase . This fine career'ended on the scaffold } but for tv long time the Burgundians ^ who 1 loved tc right and order , " worshipped the memory of the Landvoght' Hugenbach ;
A chapter on the * loves of knights introduces a series of pleasant episodes , and in another on duelling , death , and burial , a variety of details not altogether consonant with the popular notion of knightly heroism . With the " shirt of need" wovem by pure maidens , " in t ] ie name of the devil , " they also wore masses of jointed armour , sometimes , so strong and compnet , that when unhojsed , and helpless on the ground / the lenight could only be lulled by the stab of a " mercy knife" driven through the bars of his visor , into his eye . After the battle of Pavia , ' the peasantry collected on the field with axes , and , hewing , through the armour of the wounded knights , dispatched them . But in their own encounters , conducted in knightly style , there was little courtesy * and . still leas magnanimity displayed . Even the mighty Gyron , when he had prostrated his foe , jumped upon him , stamped in his face , battered the most vulnerable , parts of his armour , stripped off hi a helmet , and-worked uponulus head with the pummel of his sword , until by these bar * barous means lie had dispatched him . Bayard himself considered it not unmanly to strike a fallen enemy . Other champions of great fame and prowess grew wenry of their crusades , and retired into the shadows of
peace ; some put-away the helm > » nd took the cowl , under cover of which wo find them , in certain records not quoted by Dr . Doran , exercising upon the mnidens who would have recalled them to the world , the birchen rigours bestowed by the grAnd ladies upon their pages , and even , according to Biwotonie , upon -their handmaids . Dw Damn ' s lively chapters ar « headed successively , " Female Knights and ' Jeanne . D'Arcj" *» tho > Champions- of Oliristenclom , " "Sir Ouy of Warwick , " " Garteri & na , " . " Foreign Knights of'the Garter" containing nn citation of historical orrPif' against Mr ; Macnulay— - * ' The Poor Knig hts of Wlmlaor and their Doings , " "the Knights of the ' H 6 ly Ghost , " and " Jacques do Lclaing . " From the adventures of the knigiitly Jacques bo proceeds to
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Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1856, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15031856/page/18/
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