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In the last Number of the Revue des Deux...
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In the fifth volume of Dr. Veboh's Memoi...
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The January number of Brownson's Quarter...
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M. Berryer has at last taken his seat am...
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GEOFFREY CRAYON'S NEW SKETCH-BOOK. Chron...
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W» Mentioned Last Week The Reproduction,...
W » mentioned last week the reproduction , in the German press , of those ooiaical sketches , which ,, under the name of The Governing Classes , were published ia tha Leader in the autumn of 1858 . We have since received a fresh testimony of the European reputation of these articles . At Berlin , certainly one of the most intellectual cities in Europe , a very dwtwiwwfhed professor is engaged in delivering a course of lectures upon the-entire constitutional fabric of British polity . We have before us a synopsis of these lectures on Das Heulige Einglische Staatsrecht . Nowhere , ¦ out of Germany , would it be possible to find so vast an amount of research ,
at , once discursive and profound , as the mere order of subjects and enumeration of text-books in this syllabus of Professor Kxeikst affords . The Pro fessor * eems to have omitted absolutely nothing from his investigations ; a » attentive student may here obtain an exhaustive summary of our institutions and of all the various activities , fictions , discrepancies , agitations , and traditions of English politics in the nineteenth century . Among 4 he text-books of lie lecturer on " political parties" we find The Governing Classes of Great Britain . —Political Portraits . London , 1854 . ^ We hope to be able to give our readers some account of this remarkable series of lectures delivered in the Prussian capital . For the present we are content to express
our satisfaction , in which we are sure many of our readers will sympathise , at these proofs that the good seed sown by the Leader has not been all sown upon the barren rock .
In The Last Number Of The Revue Des Deux...
In the last Number of the Revue des Deux Mondes ( February 15 ) MEdmond A boot continues his story of Roman society , Tolla Feraldi , with A fine delicacy of observation , and chastened grace of manner , which appear to us to contain the promise of a fictionist of a very rare order . ^ If we Are not mistaken , France has here another writer of decided originality to add to her rich gallery . It must be confessed that the want was beginning to be felt . All the known names are exhausted . But the most serious and important article in this Number of the Revue is one " On the Interests of the Scandinavian Powers in the Present War . " At this season , while we are
preparing for a new campaign in the Baltic , we would earnestly invite the Attention of political readers to this historical chapter on the decomposing policy of Russia pursued steadily for a century and a half towards Sweden . The diplomatic and military history of the occupation of Finland , and the joint intrigues of the Courts of St . Petersburg and Berlin in the last century , are particularly suggestive just now . In a second paper the writer promises to consider the influences at work within Sweden , which have hindered her accomplishment of liberal reforms and hampered her foreign policy—influences which it may be the work of the present war to destroy .
In The Fifth Volume Of Dr. Veboh's Memoi...
In the fifth volume of Dr . Veboh ' s Memoirs , just appearing , there will be found some curious inedited letters . of . ^^ W ^^^^ . 1 ^^^ . ^^ J ^ -and an account , by the Doctor himself , of tie Revolution of February There seems to be a rage for Memoirs in France . Madame George Sand's Memoirs are found to be the Memoirs of everyone but herself , and the Pre & se has suspended their publication in its feuilletonu The Memoirs of Auexandbe Dumas have also been discontinued , because , as be said himself , "they have been found tiresome . I am sure , however { he added ) , that the public will ask for them again when it has felt the loss . " The public , however , does not yet appear to have felt the loss . of the
The Memoirs , of M . Dupin , ex ^ President Legislative Assembly , are Announced . The biography of M . Dujpin , like that of most public characters in France , is the biography of a man who has served successive t ^ giines with equal fidelity . M . Dbpin was first known to the public , during the Hundred Days , as one of the moving men of the Liberal party ; his defence of Nbt is well known ; under the Restoration , he belonged to the moderate constitutional Opposition ; he was one of the first to give his adherence to the Monarchy of July , as he was , eighteen years afterwards , to adhere to the Provisional Government of the Republic . As the intimate legal adviser and confidential friend of the Orleans family , that part of his biography which includes the late king ' s reign ia likely to be the most interesting . As President of the Legislative Assembly , M . Dxjpin was
remarkable for his determination in keeping order , and for his petulant and pungent wit in " putting down" extravagant representatives of extreme doctrines . But iris partiality was often offensive to excess . As Procureur General of the Court of Cassation , it was M . Dunn ' s office to declare the author of the coup d ' etat an outlaw . This did not prevent him , however , endeavouring to effect a conciliation with the Usurper . He resigned his high legal position rather than Appear to connive at the decrees fbr the confiscation of the Orleans proportyj but Ha has since , wo . believe , made indirect approaches towards the existing Gomrnment , whose confidence ( fortunately for his reputation ) he has ^ not obtained . His politico-bucolic harangues to the peasantry at agricultural meetings are now his only public appearances . As a lawyer , ho is facile princepe in France—perhaps in Europe . Ho has long been the intimate
fluend of Lord Brougham , to whom , in some of the singularities of hit character , he bears a certain resemblance .
The January Number Of Brownson's Quarter...
The January number of Brownson ' s Quarterly Review ( C ~ Dolman ) has reached us . This iB , in many respects " , the best Catholic Review witfc : which we are acquainted . The present number contains a rather novel paper on Russia and the Western Powers , to which we may possibly reverti The Know-nothings are discussed with impartiality . The philosophical contributions to this number are learned and refined in treatment , and the subjects more decidedly controversial , treated of course from that ultra-Romanist point of view peculiar to converts , are nevertheless handled with less acrimony and intemperance than we often find in Catholic publications nearer home . Each paper has the rare merit of being short . It is a singular phenomenon , a Catholic Review published in the United States , and edited by an ex-Transcendental Pantheist .
M. Berryer Has At Last Taken His Seat Am...
M . Berryer has at last taken his seat among the Fohti in the Palais Mazarin . Hts reception took place on Thursday last . M . de Salvakdt , and not M . Guizot , was to reply to the new Academician . Another disappointment , we hear , had been apprehended in consequence of objections to the reply of M . » e Salvandy , who , although he is indebted for everything he has , and is , to the Revolution of July , had taken this occasion to confound all the revolutions which France has experienced in one common anathema . Since 1848 M . dk Sai / vand * - believes in nothing more modern than the seventeenth century . It is deplorable to find an amiable
and accomplished man venting his personal disappointments in these intellectual sulks . However , these objections , if they existed , having been removed , the ceremony , which in the midst of the universal silence is a political event , has taken place . We have only seen a portion of M . Berrtbr ' s address as yet . It is a somewhat diffuse and laboured eulogy on the literary character of his academical predecessor , M . » b Saint Priest . But in the course of a critical appreciation of M . jde Saint Priest ' s Histoire de la Royaute , the Legitimist ^ orator , alluding to that portion of the history which included the later Roman Empire , and the origin of the Christian nations , arrived after a long dStour at the following significant apostrophe : —
In this critical study of the greatest moral and political revolution that was ever accomplished , from the commencement of the Empire as during its decadence , but for rare intervals of a few wise and glorious reigns , one perceives with alarm , in the absence of a fixed law to regulate the succession to the throne , how rapid and simultaneous was the degradation of the Roman people and of the masters whom it accepted or endured , whether imposed by the soldiery , or by the insensate passions and deluded hopes of the multitude . The heart is struck with a profound melancholy , and the imagination revolts at the spectacle of the terrible and stupid excesses of these invaders of authority . The Government of Rome was given over to the frenzy of triumphant conspirators . To rule was no longer to enlighten , and to govern the public thought , whatever that might be , it was deemed sufficient to flatter , to despise , or to extinguish it . It was no concern of the new sovereign to win over the intellect and the heart of the people ; he was powerful enough so long as he possessed the means of corruption . The people-king had become nothing but a people of slaves who revelled in the follies and the disgraces of their servitude .
We hope to be able to give next week some account , from a private correspondent who was present on the . occasion ofthis interesting and important reception . - So long ago as 1714 , St . Simon ( in a note to the Journal de Dangeau ) complained of the t endency of the Academy to become more and more an arena of cabals ; an ill-assorted club , in which the servility of men of letters thought itself ennobled by sitting next to unlettered nobles , and the fatuity of unlettered nobles thought itself made learned by sitting amongst Academicians . The tendency of the Academy to become more and more political and less and less literary , seems to be the natural result of despotism , where so muoh intellectual aud political activity smoulders as in France .
Geoffrey Crayon's New Sketch-Book. Chron...
GEOFFREY CRAYON'S NEW SKETCH-BOOK . Chronicles of Wolfert ' sJtoost , and other Papers . By Washington Irving . Constable and Co . Anything written by Washington Irving is welcome at all times . To us , the collection of " Papers" which we are about to notice is doubly and trebly welcome just now , from the mere force of the delightful contrast which Washington Irving , as a wr iter , presents to certain writers of Young America , and of Young England also , whose books it is one of the misfortunes of our position to bo officially compelled to read . We have had hard work given ua to do of late by the small authors . There w scarcely any form of exasperating nonsense with which "rising geniuses on both sides of the Atlantic have not made us more or less familiarly acquainted , . _ ,. , .,. HT— - U 'EV . — mr WV » l'r »' c" iJllff . too jms / «» -
----by moans or a compliant printing-press , - «»«««*• . , which we allowed to expose its own worthlessncss a fortnight since , is only a specimen of dozens of other contemporary books , just aa badly written , wiuon we have forborne to notice . After having sought in vain through the Transcendental literature of Young America , and the fast " ^ P ™ . ° * Young England , for thought , feeling , taste , ami style-ami after having , found nothing to compensate for the want of all fair , qualities but brokenwinded " eloquence" in the American case , and « mioua smartno » in the , English-it 18 % luxury , indeed , to open the pages of'Wolferes Roost andLto findthere not only the evidence of naturul abil . tios of a rare and high oider , bSt aU ? o ?? a every paragraph , the most delightful prooflr of workmanlike . eWstneMT pSncS , a £ d c ^ o . Here is an author who tlunka juaUy , feel ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24021855/page/19/
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