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PIUS THE NINTH . The History of <** Pontificate of J > ius the Ninth . Including a KaS-attve of the PoUticia Movements in Italy during the last £ ivp T ^ ars . By E . B . Nicolini , of Bome . Five X ears . 03 *> . Edinburgh : Johnatohe and Hunter . This work should be read by all who desire information regarding the causes and history of the late revolutions in Italy . Clearly and concisely written , it guides the reader through all the backward steps-and windings of Pio Nono ' s faithless and unblessed career , from the day when he was hailed as the hope and pillar of Italian liberty , till the period when French cannon cleared his way back to Rome . Signor Nicolini writes boldly and warmly , as an exiled patriot should , often attacking the advocates of absolutism and old abuses with
the weapons of stubborn fact . Sometimes sketching the leading characters of his times and country like one familiar with their bearings ; telling of all that was done , and hoped for , and suffered by his people ; but speaking of himself so rarely and so modestly , that the man appears entirely submerged in the cause . That cause the author served in Senatevjift ^ p lpmacy »^ ndjn _ hardJSghting- ; -and , carrying the same patriotic zeal into literature , he now attempts , what to many a foreigner would seem a more difficult task , namely , to address the British public in their own language on behalf of Italy . That he has been singularly successful in this attempt will be acknowledged by all wfio peruse his volume ; and he sets out with the following frank and brave declaration : —
" I do not covet praise as an elegant writer , or even as an amusing Btoryteller . I place all my glory in veracity . Of almost all the events which I relate I have been an eye-witness ; with the greater number of those who took a prominent part in the first agitation for reform , and in the subsequent more serious struggles , lam personally acquainted , so that I have not asserted anything of which I am not absolutely certain , or the truth of which I am not prepared to maintain against all impugners . " Among many curious particulars of the private life and character of Pius which are given m the course of the work , we are presented with what seems a solution of the Pope ' s incoherent policy : —
" Personally he was averse to every kind of tyranny and despotism , and inclined to grant some reforms ; but the more cunning among the Cardinals and Prelates , without openly opposing his wishes , insinuated into his timid and superstitious mind the idea that by allowing any layman to enter his councils , and by divesting the Church of any of her privileges , he would be little better than an heretic ; hence his vacillation . Count Joseph , the Pope's own brother , who had been an exile , and was a patriot , conversing upon our hopes and fears with the author of this work , aaid : — ' I am afraid they Ml work upon his feeble and timorous conscience ; u they can persuade him it is a sin to concede any reform , we are lost . ' " I To the courage , the honesty , and the enlightenment of the Italian patriots , Signor Nicolini bears tanple and most unvarnished testimony ; as well as p the perfidy and injustice by which they were purrounded and eventually crushed . Both are pow matter of history ; but his closing words , in f Passage descriptive of the defence of Rome , has [ he power and promise of Italy ' s future in it : — L " O glorious Borne ! O my noble country ! When Lut ? . l r thy he * ° fo deeds , the joyful readiness pm which thou didst sacrifice thy children to iOt ^ Zl * , Hbert y » hope lends me patience to en-E J f lQn « m «^ misery of exile . Such a people pmot long remain under the ignominious yoke of P * eignera and priests . "
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I BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . fcsfiS ^ wiaw ( SB ? ** ° ° °° k qf < t » aturati « - ^ W . J . Brod . rip , ' L t r , J - - Pwker . P * a » -SJRSS £ .-i afa 1 j £ . 2 fg | ft Ivff Z ° tter ' of JudBe Stor V- Edited byhia Son , W . Story . [ John Chapman , l «« ona edition of a UaraaHmd dogatttUtttaK :
The Life of Washington . Writtenly Himself . Comprising his Memoirs and Correspondence , including several OriginalXetters now first printed . Edited by the Reverend W . C . TJpham . Two vols . Office of the National Illustrated Library . The biography of Washington has been often written , never satisfactorily . Perhaps Guizot ' essay remains the best sketch after all . The present work is one which to English readers will tie peculiarly valuable , as embodying the most important of the passages from Washington ' s own journal and
correspondencea plan which has its merits , though it eludes the biographical difficulty * An appendix is added , with a copious index , and a glossary of such words as may not easily be understood by the young reader . When we mention that such words as bailiff , cabinet , envoy , net profit , finesse , in statu quo , refugee , and surplus , are on . the list , you can imagine it is meant for very young readers . The book is a handsome , creditable publication , and forms one of the works issued by the proprietors of the London Illustrated News ,
The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England , adapted for General Use in other Protestant Churches . Pickering . The " Book of Common Prayer" was issued in the reign of Edward VI ., 1549 . Arevision of it appeared in 1552 . A third " improvement" was sanctioned in 1559 , in the reign of Elizabeth . A fourth revision , under James , was issued in 1604 . Charles I . commanded a fifth revision in 1637 . Charles II . a sixth , which he considered a " settled" one , in 1662 . During the succeeding period of nearly two hundred years no ' * improvement" has been permitted . The experiment in this direction now before us—certainly wanted—appears to be executed considerately . We regret the attempt is anonymous .
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AQUINAS . All day Aquinas sat alone , Comprest he sat and spake no word , As still as any man of stone , In streets where never voice was heard ; With maniac front and air antique He sat , did neither move nor speak , For thought like his seem' d words too weak The shadows brown about Mm lay ; From sunrise till the sun-went out , Had sat alone that man of grey , That marble man , hard cramp t by doubt , Some kingly problem had he found , Some new belief not wholly sound . Some hope that overleapt all bound .
All day Aquinas sat alone , No answer to his question came , And now he rose with hollow groan , And eyes that seem'd half love , half flame On the bare floor he flung him down Pale marble face , half smile , half frown , Brown shadow else ' mid , shadows brown . «'• O God , " he said , ' it cannot be , Thy morning star with endless moan Should lift his fading orbs to Thee , And then be happy on thy throne . It were not kind , nay , Father , nay , It were not just , O God , I say ; Pray for the devil , Jesus , pray !"
" How can thy kingdom ever come While the fair angels howl below i-All holy voices would be dumb , All loving eyes would fill with woe To think the lordliest Peer of Heaven , The starry leader of the seven , Would never , never , be forgiven . " " Pray for the devil , Jesus , pray , O word that made thine angel speak ! Lord ! let thy pitying tears have way . Dear God ! not man alone is weak , What is created still must fall , And fairest still we frailest call , Will not Christ ' s blood avail for all r "
" Pray for the devil , Jesus , pray , O Father think upon thy child ; Turn from thy own bright world away And look upon that dungeon wild , O God ! O Jesus I see how dark That den of woe , O Saviour mark p How angels weep , how groan , Hark , l \ ark ! " He will not , will not do it more Bestoro him to his throne again , Oh open wide that dismal door Which presses oh tho souls in pain ; So men and angels all will say Our God is good . Oh 'day by day Pray for the devil , Jesus , pray . "
All night Aquinas knelt alone , Alone with black and dreadful Night , Until before his pleading moan The darkness ebb'd away in light , Then rose the saint and " God , " said he , " If darkness change to light with thce , The devil may yet an angel be . " M
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THE MAKIONNETTES . According to promise , I went the other night to the Marionnette Theatre , and was not surprised to find a crowded and intellectual audience theie . Jones will , of course , think such an entertainment *? veryfrivolous ; " Smith wilt sneer at the idea of grave men sitting out a performance of the kinfl ; Brown and Robinson will " wonder at me" fir being amused . Frivolous ? That depends up * n the mind which thinks it so ? "There ' s nothincr grave or gay but thinking makes it so . " I could
show you , were my mood cynical , the nothingness of Life itself , and write a tremendous tirade on the Frivolity of the Universe ! I could prove , by arguments which would perplex Archbishop Whatele ^ j that the ancient King , whose passion for Marionnettes , Diodorus Siculus tells us , made him neglect all state affairs , was , after all , not-a greater ass than kings are allowed to be . Puppets moved by Wires—are they not satires , and symbols ? Frivolous , indeed ! I assure you there is profound meaning in these Marionnettes , and I advise you to find it out .
To begin . What are Puppets ? You will stare , perhaps , when I tell you that they are vulgarized gods . Yes , gods ; nothing less ! The symbolical instinct which we see active in childhood—and the childhood ofnations—wrought , for its satisfaction , rude images or symbols of the Powers which transcended sense . The Idol of the savage was at first a hideous caricature of the human form ; in time it lost somewhat of this hideousness ; until we see it , in Greek sculpture , surpassing humanity by its beauty . Before it reached this perfection of form there were rude attempts to give it the symbol of life and power—Motion . The History of Idolatry is crowded with curious illustrations of the use made by priests of moving Idols .
But how , you will ask , do I connect these Idols with the playthings of children—how make the descent from Gods to Puppets ? To trace this descent would be a longer story than these columns can contain j but I will take the shorter route ^ f analogy . You know that the Drama was every- where , in its origin , a solemn religious festival ; you know that it set forth the story of Christ ' s Passioi or Temptation , as in early Greece it had set fortfe the episodes of Bacchus ' s career ; you know that i hurches
was or iginally performed by priests , in c , as supplementary church service . Having Recalled these facts , let me ask you whether there / can be greater difficulty in tracing the Marionnett 38 from Idols than in tracing our modern farces a id burlesques from Mysteries and Moralities ? Jn each case the process has been one of vulgarization—the religious element has been gradually replaced by the human element ; till not only has the interest become wholly human , but has descended from the heights of tragedy and comedy to " fast" farce !
The passion for Marionnettes has been universal . The Greeks and Italians—our masters in all Artseem to have thrown themselves into this amusement with a deliberate energy which would amaze the sneering Jones . If we are to trust to a passage in Homer , several passages in Athenoeus , and the description of the figure introduced at the famous ( and tiresome ) supper of Trimaleion , celebrated in the Saiyricon of that dissolute delight of bishops Arbiter must have
and professors , Petronius , they carried these things in Greece and Rome to a perfection unapprgached and unatterapted by moderns . I could write a whole feuilleton about the ayatyaro . vei / po < rjra < rra , or " thread-moved images , ' * but Jones would call me pedantic as well as frivolous , and would hate me for the Greek he doesn't understand I I could tell him how Plato and Aristotle , ffenerallv considered as " perfectly respectable "
authorities , did not disdain these puppets , and that Goethe was from infancy to old age their constant patron . I could tell him how the learned Jesuit Lupi spent many years of his life in researches for his dissertation Sopra i burcittini degli antiohi ; and I could tell him how grave politicians , novelists of genius , statistical writers of terrific tabular force , critics of sceptical and UasS tempers , and children of all ages , have sat out these performances at the Adelaide Gallery with unfeigned and
unshamed delight . These puppets are two feet and a half in hei g ht , well proportioned , splendidly dressed , and immensely absurd . They walk { such walking !) , they dance , they Bit , they sing , they gastuhte ( as a is
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1852, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24011852/page/21/
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