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Hamilton 1286 THE XEA'PEB. [No. 453, Nov...
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A Memoir of James Stirling. (Scottish Te...
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BOOKS RECEIVED. The Merrie Days of Engla...
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Cookehy as one OF the Fine .Arts.— Among...
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Poetry. Lonica. Smith, Elder, And Co. Po...
we will admit—the words and thought of the forgotten but beautiful ballad " Mary ' s Dream ?" Poems , by Henry Cecil , do not rise in some respects so high iu the poetic scale as the preceding two ; and yet it would not be very difficult to pick out stanzas to prove that the author has a touch of the true poet in him , and that lie could do better things were he to trust to his own speciality and to forget his models . Pleasure is a poem of more pretension than the preceding , being not only larger in bulk , but wider in scope . A work on Pleasure , in seven books , ought not to be dismissed in as many lines ; but we are
compelled to have regard to our space , and to the claims of the numerous works soliciting notice now-strewing oar library-table . The * aim of the author is to "trace the various sources whence , in the present life , we derive pleasure . " This is a tolerable task , and the author in his preface , from which we quote , begins by asking , " What is pleasure ? " and then answers the query by admitting that as the solution is so difficult he declines to attempt it , and confines himself " to show rather why certain objects cause sensations of delight" than to consider at on . ee " the pleasures themselves . " Hence in the seven books we have such subjects brought Tinder poetic review as The Lakes of Killarney , The Rainbow , The Tails of Niagara , America , Egypt , Venice , The Stoic , England , Painting , Ambition , Napoleon ' s Retreat , Literature , Conquerors , IiOve . Temperance , Learning , The Gambler , & c .
Here is- diversity enough to satisfy the wildest craving for variety . Some of the subjects at first sight do not appear in harmony with the title or with the professed purpose of the author , but from the point of view whence Mr . Michel 1 has considered them , and the genuine ability with which he has linked them with his main object , we do not think any one will quarrel with him for the versatility of his genius ill dealing so well with apparently incongruous topics . The versification is particularly flowing " and rhythmical ; , it seems to us a judicious combination of the didactic stateliness of Pope with the level smoothness and simplicity of Goldsmith . We have no space for quotation , and -sve regret it .
Hamilton 1286 The Xea'peb. [No. 453, Nov...
1286 THE XEA'PEB . [ No . 453 , November 27 , 1858 .
A Memoir Of James Stirling. (Scottish Te...
A Memoir of James Stirling . ( Scottish Temperance League , Glasgow . )—A -work admirably adapted for Scotch tipplers . James Stirling was on the high road to become a confirmed drunkard . His good angel stepped i » at the fortunate moment , he takes the pledge , reforms , becomes a model man , and leaves behind materials which have been skilfully worked up to serve as a guide and a warning to the intemperate . The School for Fathers . By Talbot Gwynne . New Edition . ( Smith , Elder , and Co . )—We noticed this work when it first appeared with strong approbation % and our opinion has been fully confirmed by the public having rapidly exhausted the first , and now called for a second edition .
Carpenter's Vegetable Physiology , Edited by Dr . Edwin Lankester , F . K . S . ( JBobn . )—The reputation of Dr . Lankester is confined to no narrow circle . The revision of Carpenter ' s able and exhaustive work could not have fallen into more accomplished hands , and perhaps the best evidence we can produce of this fact is in the very handsome and cheap edition put forward by the spirited publishers . Anecdotes of Dogs . By Edward Jesse . With Numerous Engravings . ( Bonn . )—The dog has always been a favourite subject with anecdotical writers . Mr . Jesse has collected all the floating stories , and added a
fund of new tales , so as to form a budget that will interest every clasa ^ of readers . Sevenu of the old anecdotes , we fear , are soraewliat apocryphal . For instance , that in which the priest ' s dog , after losing his master , and becoming Protestant property , adheres , in spite of beef and mutton temptations , to the " faith , " by resolutely «• refusing to touch meat on a Friday . " If this story , however , can bo substantiated , we commend it to Cardinal Wiseman as a worthy addition to his budget of Roman Catholic miracles , and ae a striking exemplification of the orthodoxy of Popery in contradistinction to Protestantism .
Christmas Plays for Children . By Theresa Pulzky , " With Music by Professor L . Jansa , nnd Illustrations by Charles Armytago . —Threa pleasant little plays suitable for the Christmas festivities , ' and likely to be warmly welcomed by Christmas actors and Christmas audiences . The Headlong Career and Wojfttl Ending of " Precocious Piggy . " 33 y the late Thomns Hood , Illustrated ly his Son . ( Grlfijth and Farrar . )~ -Wo havo laughed load and long at the whimsicalities of admirable Tom Hood , and the no loss pictorial whimsicalities of his son . If any one is inclined to think vo romance , lot him end for the book , and if his sides do not ache before be lays it down , then wo say of such aCnesius-like sinner , " He ' s fit for treason , stratagem , u » d spoils : Let no such man bo trusted . "
Stories about Birds . By Mrs . Fairfield . ( Hamilton , Adams , and Co . )—A nice little book for children . But why refer to" a picture in an illustrated publication , representing the . scene on the reception of the pigeon express bearing the news of the capture of Sebnstopdl at the capital of Ceylon , without giving a copy of it ?
Books Received. The Merrie Days Of Engla...
BOOKS RECEIVED . The Merrie Days of England and Sketches of the Olden Time . By Edward M'Dernrott . 4 to . Kent and Co . Knowledge is Power . By Charles Knight . A new edition . Post 8 vo . John Murray . Once upon a Time . By Charles Knight . A new edition . Post 8 vo . John Murray . . 1 Financial History of England . By Thomas Doubleday . 8 vo . Second Edition . Effingham Wilson . Lectures arid Addresses on Literary and Social Topics . By the late Rev . F . W . Robertson . Post 8 vo . Smith , Elder , and Co . The Poetical Worts of Thomas Gray . 8 vo . Illustrated . Sampson Low and Co . L'Allegro . By John Milton . 8 vo . Illustrated . Sampson Low and Co . Variant . A Novel . Post 8 \~ o . L . Booili . A Lady ' s Captivity with the Chinese . 8 vo . Routledge and Co . The Headlong Career and Woeful Ending of Precocious Piggy . Ity the late Thomas Hood . Illustrated by Thomas Hood the younger . Griffith and Farran . The Triumphs of Steam ; or , Stories from the Lives of Watt , Arhtcright , < $ c . 12 mo . Griffith and Farran . Paul Blake . A Tale for Boys . Small 8 vo . Griffith and Farran . The Logic of Atheism . Three Lectures . By the Rev . H . Batchelor . 8 vo- Judd and Glass . . Tales of Twilight , By Joseph Verey . 8 vo . James Blackwood . The Christmas Playsfor Children . By Theresa Pulsky . 12 mo . Griffith and Farran . Mcmoiresde Vlmperatrice Catherine IT . Par M . Alexandre Herzen . Post 8 vo . Triibner and Co . Self-Made Men . By Charles B . Seymour . Post 8 vo .
Sampson Low and Co . Stanford ' s Maps of the Paths of the Comets . By James B ' ree-n . Edward Stanford . Bigg ' s Public Statutes of England , Victoria 21 and 22 , 1858 . Edited by James Bigg . 8 vo . Simpkin and Marshall . The Primeval World : a Treatise on the Relation of Geology and Theology . By the Rev . Paton J . Bloug . 12 mo . Favourite Pleasure Book for Young People . 10 mo . Sampson Low and Co . Christian Days and Thoughts . By the Rev . E . Peabody . Small 8 vo . Sampson Low and Co . Martin Rattler . A Tale . By R . M . Ballantyne . 12 mo . Thomas Nelson and Sons .
Cookehy As One Of The Fine .Arts.— Among...
Cookehy as one OF the Fine . Arts . — Among other rumours of works on the chantier , comes one of a volume which will not improbably make its appearance in the course of next year ; a bibliographical , biographical , historical , serio-comical , practical , and anecdotical Memoir of the Art Culinary . The'
achievements will Le given ,. The second part of the work will consist of a comprehensive review of the different schools of cookery , English , French , German , Spanish , Italian , Russian , nn < l Oriental—not excluding oven tho Chinese ; in fact , the cuisine of every civilised nation on tho earth ¦ will bo represented . From what has been aaid , it will be seen that the work will havo a value greatly exceeding that of a mere manual of cookery . Its interest will be literary rather than praeticul , and it will have more charms for the bibliographer and the ethnologist than for either the gastronomer or tho cook . In order to render It more attractive , it will be illustrated in the best style , and will be printed upon fino paper ; thus rendering it a Uvre de luxe for the library or the drawing-room table , and not a text-book for tho greasy thumbs of turnspits . —From the Critic .
A Ctn > von Italian SYJirATinaiucH . — Wo wore crossing a street of Pompeii , when wo witnessed a , disgraceful scene , which X omitted mentioning in its place . A welldressed man , an Italian , was upbraiding his coaohinan for having promised to ' make him dino in Pompeii , which is royal property , and will not permit such liborties ; but not satisfied with reprimand , he raised his cane , and struck him severely . The unfortunate vetturino screamed and jumped with pain . Our guido frownod , and , looking at us , edid , significantly , " Gentlemen wonder when they got a stab of the knife now and then . " Thoro was the whole social system in tho words . The Insolent oane on the sldo of Btrongth—tlio perfidious , revengeful knife on the sido of the weals . —Julia Kavanqglfs " Summer and Winter in the Two Sioiltes . "
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. princess ' s theatre . Sharspeake ' s elegant comedy , Much Ado About No thing , was produced at this theatre on Saturday hist- * with Mr .-and Mrs . Charles Kean as Benedick and BeaUnce , Mr . Ryder as Leonatp , Messrs . F . Matthew * and Meadows as Dogberry and Verges , Mr . Cuthcart as Claudio , and Miss Heath as Hero . It is almost needless to say that the intelligence of the manager effected as complete a success as on the occasion of his former production of the play three years aso All that rich and elaborate ) y-studied « costume " artistic scenery , and good music can add to the framework fashioned by the dramatist are brough t to bear on this ' as on all others of Mr . ' Kern ' s charmed
" revivals . " We were with this gentleman ' s own reading of Benedick , tlie self-deceivingwould-be . misogynist , who fulls so simply into the flimsy trap set for him by the matc'h-malcinociders . No liyper-sentimental lecturer is he * who wearies us with his anti-matrimonial phil losopliy , but a free-spoken , plain-mannered , bachelorly-inclined gentleman , blest with some wit and a keen ^ sense of the comical . His delivery of the soliloquies approaches , as near as may be , to perfection ; and in the last scene of the second act , he ventures upon the hazardous step of communicating' with tlie audience by mere facial play , but so admirably and successfully , as to produce . unanimous satisfaction and a round of applause . Nor can weomit to notice the highly comic power ' and effect with which the artist depicted tlie bewilderment of
Benedick on his receipt of the invitation through Beatrice . Wo are disposed , on the whole , to consider this as the most entirely satisfactory of Mr . Keari ' s impersonations . In it , he disappointsneither "in physique , conception , nor elocution—the craving for super-excellence created by highly finished ensemble . We arc more disposed'on the strength , of it to allot to him a first place among great actors , than on that of sonic of his more intense efforts in tragedy .
Mrs . Kean is seen to no less advantage as the sarcastic , strong-minded , but truly womanly Beatrice , who , with all her taste and talent for tormenting ; men , is no less ready than Benedick to stand aad deliver at the first summons of Cupid . Mr . Frank Matthews makes a racy Dogberry . This capital actor ' s version of the " Wise fellow , rich fellow , fellow that has had losses , —that hath two gowns and everything . handsome about him , " is fullflavoured , but clear of all vulgarity The Verges ot der
Mr . Meadows is a mere trifle too senile . Mr . Hy makes an admirable Lconato . Miss Heath made the most of Hero , an insignificant part upon the whole . Messrs . Cathcart and Graham are no less valuable auxiliaries in their several characters of tlmidtoand Antonio . Stevens ' s sweet glee , " Sigh no more , ladies , " was so delicately sung in the garden ¦ scene , without accompaniment , as to be very heartily encored . The play wr . s extremely veil received by a full house , Mi * . Kean being called—in vain thougJi with much vigour—after the second act , and at tlio
conclusion . _ ,. ., v , Mr . Madison Morton ' s new farce , Thirty-three Aaa Birthday , produced on Monday , was a success , us plot turns on thnt of a certain MUt Uavoe ( Miss Murray ) , who having passed her thirty-second birtttday without receipt of a , business-like offer of marriage , resolves on obtaining at least a declaration ot passion from some man , animal , or other , oynsiaiDinir the part of a married lady , bho P « £ ' «« " uncle
accomplice in the person of her , ^' J ^ JJaZ ( Mr . Cooper ) , who passes for the husband , ana in less than no time a braco of admirers , in Jlojsrj Benson ( Mr . Everett ) and Cachh-bevvy ( Mr . Tm * Matthews ) . A greut deal of amusement is created by tho development of these gentlemen a oppoij o characteristics : tlie one being shy . and cautio ? ,, mo other nrdent and impetuous ; one ? intending : onoui able mntriinony , and the other mere y flirJ ^ n , m a pastime , in the intervals of a genuine attic- mont to another liuly . In time , however , the I trcr » Hareyfled , nnd brought under complete coi troim his nmner fair one . and tho BOTUnulona OicUtbtiU
is carried off in triumph by the heroine . U > o ft " ' * of all concerned is us good ns tlio farce--w ^ ( moral e npnrt ) is unosecptionnblo—Mr . *• •> " »" ., OBpccially keeping tho aiulienco in a r , ^ ^ Ja . delineation of Mr . CacM * boriy « many httlo pctu liurltiea . STIIAND TIIRATHM . . . j A new farce by Mr . Mudison Morton , nn old > 'jj « - whoso namo-r-if ft is not-w ,. swont to Co nine point ! of SUCQQ 89 , wae produced hero on Moiuiny . ' ' ^ SavagvU written to bring prominently xor-wi » tnlonts of some such , naive and snuoy noUoa" mi nf «« S ,, TKTIM . ^ ,-. ... wl Om iinrh 1 ) O 11 IT lUlOttCU H » U '
young lady , slio dpos tho autlior and the plit « o J justice . A ^ lio llltlo Biivuge , " Kate D « In ^ fc ' ¦ «» « Il . co and hoirces of Major Chotor , ? y " ^ tl » o Jaiuob Bland ) . To sock her luinU— oocji «»"
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111858/page/14/
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