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Ko. 42(5, May 22, 1858.] T H E LEADER. 5...
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Mm. Blloderir On Zoology. Zoological Rec...
of old poetry and romance , yet showing that the -winged serpent of mythology has its origin in the vast amphibious animals which floundered about heavily in the mud and ooze of the infant world , and made uncouth sport amon <* the primitive woods and jungles which were petrified into coal ages before man was made . But it is not merely in this twilight region that Mr . Broderip enchains the attention of his readers . Let him come out into the broad daylight of existing animal life—let him discourse of dogs and cats , of elephants and monkeys , of cuckoos , owls , swans , and singing birds—and lie is equally delightful and instructive . He does not merely give you a generalized , scientific account of any animal ; he has an intense perception of its personal life and character , of its individuality , of that which makes it specifically what it is . Hence his book abounds with anecdotes that give a vital conception of the particular bird or beast he may be describingthat reproduce the living creature with its instincts and affections , instead of presenting you with a dry anatomy , dul y classed and ticketed in a museum . Verv interestina is his account of dogs : nnd his chapter on cats
gives some curious particulars with respect to those sleek satellites of the fireside—the most common of animals , yet the least regarded with respect to their character and origin . " We are glad to find that he vindicates the poor feline race from the charge of having no affection—a charge ^ vhich should for ever remain silent before that touching story of the cat which lay on the grave of its dead master . Mr . Broderip ' s work is so well known that it would be superfluous for us to describe it at any greater length . It is a hook for old and young—a book in which instruction , amusement , and humanity are linked together .
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PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . Mb . Ruskin ' s authoritative Notes on some of the Principal Pictures exhibited hi the Rooms of the Jloyal Academy , the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water-Colours , the Society of British Artists , and tlie French Exhibition ( Smith and Elder ) , are now looked anxiously for by a number of ductile people , as something dogmatic and decisive , from which there is no appeal . The gentler sex is naturally addicted jura-re inverbd magisti-i ; the indolent and indifferent majority of the public rejoice in ready-made opinions on pictures as on politics , and the berd of badauds are ever ready to follow any man who carries a loud voice and positive air , with true mutton-like docility . Besides , Mr . Ruskin ' s trencliant self assertion of censorship creates a sort of tumult among artists , which is caught up and echoed by people out of doors , and enjoyed with all the zest of a scandal . All these reasons are
sufficient to account for the success of Mi * . Ruskin ' Notes , and we hear without surprise that their circulation is considerable . On the other hand , it is only fair to say that Mr . Ruskin ' s authority is not wholly undeserved . A man of intellect and culture * who has devoted years of conscientious and disinterested study to Art , for its own sake , and who possesses * a . rarely equalled faculty of exposition , and a-wonderful splendour and affluence of stj'le , has fairly ' and honourably won a large and peculiar share of public attention to whatever he says on the single study of his life . We cannot , therefore , begrudge Mr . Ruskin a degree of authority which his writings , if anonymously published , might not always obtain . But Mr . Ruskin , now that he has won his spurs , seems disposed to ride the public patience and the public confidence a little hard ; his criticisms are not & whit less arrogant than in former years , and they are more and more
fragmentary and capricious . Mr . Ruskin is undoubtedly an experienced and accomplished critic , but he is more a stylist than a critic ; his intuition is keen and vivid , and often profoundly suggestive ; but it would not be difficult to convict him of inconsistencies of judgment , and of what , we may call coquetries of criticism strangely perverse . His present report of the Royal Academy Exhibition is as remarkable for its silences as for its expressions of opinion : with the latter we for the most part agree , we cannot think his explanations of the former satisfactory . In one place , indeed , he confesses that he does not know " what is the matter" with him this year ; we detect the infirmity , and can only ascribe it to a vanity condemned to suicide by self-indulgence . It is true that he describes his " Notes" sis nothing
more than "A circular letter to my friends about the pictures that most interest me in my first glance at the Exhibition . " Yet if he really believed them to be nothing more than this , why excuse himself for passing over some pictures unnoticed because lie is loth to discourage the painters by pointing out their faults , and others , because his opinion differs from the public estimate , and others , because he should be sorry to lose the friendship of the artists ? Are such excuses worthy of such a critic ? Yet they are surely unnecessary in amerc circular for the use of his friends ? Nevertheless , there are many good and true suggestions in these Notes , such as the remarks on the Pre-Raphaelite influence , its advantages and its excesses ; but Mr . Ruskin leaves us in doubt of his decision as to the true relation of a textual transcript of Nature to the proper purpose and prerogative of Art .
a large proportion of the members of our archaeological societies know nothing of archaeology but the name , and would be somewhat puzzled to define that . ^ This compact and elegant little elementary volume of Mr . Boutell ' a will assist in enlightening this contented ignorance , and at least in enabling professing archaeologists to display something better than a dinnertable acquaintance with the subject . Its simple clearness , the result of thorough knowledge in-the writer , entices , so to speak , the attentive reader into a pursuit for which it qualifies him-by insensible degrees , and the high tone of refined culture which . pervades the "book communicates an involuntary enthusiasm for a study too often allied with pedantry and curious dulness . Mr . Boutell unaffectedly speaks of his little volume as a grammar ; it is , however , not so much the accidence as the essence of archasology . The illustrations from the hand of Mr . Orlando Jewitt are executed with perfect care and intelligence .
A Popular History of British Birds' Eggs ^ by Richard Laishley ( Lovell Heeve ) . —Many of our readers , we dare say , have very little idea of the meaning and importance of Oology . The Rev . Miv Laishley ' s handbook is written in the gentle , affectionate spirit of a true lover ^ of nature , anxious to make us more kindly disposed towards our little winged fellow-creatures , and to convert the malefic curiosity of boyhood into the intelligent and inquiring- sympathy of maturer years . The study of eggs is a guide to the classificatioii of the genera of birds ; but Mr . Laishley ' s book is iii effect a description of the birds as well as of their eggs , which are prettily and accurately represented in the accompanying illustrations .
Chronology or Schools , by F . H . Jaquenet , edited by the Rev , John Alcorn , M . A . ( Longmans ) . This is a revised abridgment of the author ' s Compendium of Chronology-, with very considerable additions to the modern part , including events so i-ecent as the relief of Lucknow by Havelock , and the launch of the Leviathan . A very useful handbook for all sorts of people . Mr . Henry J . Slack's energetic and courageous Defence of the Free Press of England * a Lecture delivered at St . Martin ' s Hall , 2 Stk April , 1858 , is published for the Press Defence Committee by Mr . Pattie . This committee was organized to resist , and , if necessary , defeat the prosecutions of two publishers—prosecutions notj we believe , as yet finally abandoned—and Mr . Slack has done good service to a good cause by his bold , yet temperate , conclusive , and convincing argument . It is shameful that in England at this time of day such a cause should need an advocate ; but olsta prhicipiis is a safe watchword , and Mr . Slack ' s lecture will not have been thrown away .
Messrs . Holyoake and Co . have published a Life of Dr . Bernard * by Lancets suggested , of course , by the European celebrity attracted to the name of the exile who was lately tried for his life at the Old Bailey , at the instigation of a foreign power , most righteously baffled , in the face of Europe , by the honesty and courage of a British jury . This brief biography is calculated to gain respect for the character and conduct of Dr . Bernard , as one of those few men who in times of sycophancy and subserviency remain faithful to principles and convictions . A volume of Sowiets , hy the Rev . John Eagles , M . A ., Author of " The Sketcher" ( William Blaekwood and Sons ) , is composed partly of poetical contributions in that form to Blackicood ' Magazine , and partly of unpublished remains of the lamented essayist . As poetry these sonnets are not remarkable , but they are graceful in expression , and often striking in . thousrht .
Scraps from the Kit of a dead Rebel . ByC D . L . ( John Chapman ) . — These metrical , sometimes unmetrical , fragments read like the unquiet selfquestionings of a ¦ brain tossing on a restless and uneasy pillow . They assume the form of verses rather for the sake of concision than from any poetical ambition in the writer : nervous , abrupt , agonized , vehement , they disclose the wrestlings of an ardent and mournful nature with the mysteries and perplexities of the life that is , and is to be . A dry subject is not necessarily uninteresting , and even a technical work may be made agreeable to an untechnical reader if the writer avoid the mistake of confounding weight with strength and dulness with profundity . We have before us an example of a technical subject made generally readable , without any sacrifice of" accuracy , in an Italian book recently published at Mantua ( Negrctti : Mantova ) , Cenni di TopograjUi Medico-Igenica tmlla ciita di Mantova , by Guiseppe Soresina , M . D . Here we find science and erudition tempered by an elegant facility of style which invites the unlearned while it satisfies the learned reader .
We were saying last week that the destiny of Piedmont is an object of unceasing interest to England . We need scarcely do more than name M . Louis Chiala ' s recently published volume , Une Page il ' Histoire du Gouvernement Jiepresenfatif en Piemont ( Turin : Botta . Paris : Duprat ) , to recommend it to the attention of our readers . M . Chiala , who is a young publicist in high repute at Turin , has written this tvork in French with a view to the widest possible publicity , and he proves himself thoroughly well qualified for the accomplishment of a discreet and delicate purpose . We shall examine it in detail at an early opportunity .
Mr . Charles Boutell ' s Manual of British Archceology ( Lovell Reeve ) has the rave merit of being precisely what it pretends to be , and of working out its modest design with brief but ample completeness . We have heard that
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I ' — ^ ~'" London , Friday livening , May ' 21 . Tun close of tho week shows improved quotations in funda , and the marfeots generally hnvo a more animated appearance . Consols opened this morning at the closing price of yesterday , mul close » 7 f to I for the account ,. ami U 7 i for money . ' Ycslurday notice was given that tho Juno Exchequer Hills ( 1 S 57 ) were to loo sent in nt'xt month for renewal or to be paid oil" , the terms of renewal to bo 11 or - £ l . 5 s . 7 JU . per annum , this caused Hon > o disappointment to tho holders who did not nxpect so heavy a reduction . At a niceting of the Provincial liank of Ireland on tho 20 th iiist . a dividend of 10 per cent , for tho lialf-year ending in Juno waa doclared . Hlaekburn , DJ , 101 ; Calodonian , 85 J , 85 J j Chester and Holylioad , : >& , !! 7 ; Kiistorn Counties , ooi . Oli j Groat Northern , 101 J , 101 ; Uront Sout . horu and Woatarn ( Ireland ; , 102 , 104 ; ( .-Srciat \ Vestnrn , nni , r > 0 ; IjanoaHhire and Yorkshire . 5 ) liJ , 0 'J ]; London nnd Ulaelcwall , 0 , 61 ; London , UriRlitou , ami South Coast , 107 , 10 l »; London uud North- " \ Vestorn , l > 3 i , 91 ; London and South-Western , f ) . > i , 00 J ; Midland , !>»
i > 3 J ; North-Kasteru ( Uerwick ) . « J 2 , 03 ; South - Enstern * ( Dover ) , 60 , 70 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , & f , G ; Untch Rhenish , 5 , 4 . J , dla . i Kastern of Franco ( Paris and SlranliourR ) , 24 J , 245 ; Great Central of France , ; Great Luxembourg , 7 J . 8 i i Northoni of Franco , SHi , a 7 i ; l ' arin and Lyons , ' 2 > tf , 20 J ; Royal Danish , ; Royal . Swedisli 1 , 1 ; Sanibro and Alouse , 75 , 8 , x . d .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1858, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22051858/page/21/
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