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426 THE LEADE R.: / [jN t o. 423, May 1,...
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THE WEB OF LIFE. The Web of Life. By All...
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Emigration. Nova Scotia Considered As A ...
tion the exiles would gradually be surrounded Tvith all the conditions of rural plenty and prospective independence . As the season now is when anglers are taking counsel concerning congenial quarters for their summer campaign , a visit to the Acadian waters is suggested and very property recommended . In all of them , the angling is of the finest class , and totally unrestricted . A steam passage of a few days will convey the angler to his fishing ^ ground , where salmon , of the largest ¦ size , sea and common trout , the yellow perch a , nd shad , swarm during summer in the brooks and larger streams . These fish being rarely disturbed by sportsmen , and unacquainted with the " steel , " rise freely to the lure , and the fly-book-which contains imitations adapted to the lakes and rivers of old Scotland , will be found equally serviceable in Nova Scotia . Moose deer , carriboo , beat , loup cervier , fox , marten , otter , minx , and squirrel—animals valuable both for their flesh , and their fur—inhabit the forests : and autumn ,
which here has all the serenity of summer , is yet sulhciently cool to purif y and make tolerable the close atmosphere of the forest . The English public owe their'thanks to Mr . Hamilton for his very suggestive and reliable details . He describes a new and very practicable field tor emigration , adapted to the present requirements of more than one grade of society . Persons living upon fixed incomes , scarcely adequate to provide ¦ comfortably for their necessities in most countries of Europe , would find their resources amply sufficient to support them in ease and comparative influence in British North America . And as regards that unfortunately * oo numerous class who find it difficult to obtain a fair day ' s wage for a fair ¦ day ' s labour , -we repeat that the cost of emigration need not exceed oneiburth the amount required by those who contemplate a settlement in . Southern Africa or the remoter islands of the Pacific .
426 The Leade R.: / [Jn T O. 423, May 1,...
426 THE LEADE R .: / [ jN t o . 423 , May 1 , 1858 .
The Web Of Life. The Web Of Life. By All...
THE WEB OF LIFE . The Web of Life . By Allan Park Paton . Longman and Co . Iirthis story the author depends too much on melodramatic effect in . his ¦ diction and in his . incidents . The narrative is over-written throughout , and the romance deepens in intensity by degrees tintii it passes the limit of extravaganza . Thus , nothing could be more wild or unreal than the scene in which a young actress rehearses with her father a , scene from a play . They begin , torn by separate emotions , and fight a recitative duel , the daughter fulminating her blank verse with "dignity and high resolve , " an . " imploring " voice , and a pallid face , burning afterwards with an unearthly blush . Meanwhile , the obnoxious parent reads his part from a , chair , until , terrified by the young lady ' s demeaziour , he rises , and these two amateurs continue their operatic show until an awful climax arrives . Ellen ' s voice ceases , but "her . mouth remained open yearningly , and her soul itself seemed passing out of
these glorious lips . But in blood , and the next instant it was as if she had been changed into a statue of snow , and melting ; for , first one arm slackened and fell ; and then , another ; then , the head drooped ; and then , with si sweet , sad g lance from under her brow at her father , she sank to the JJoor . " Here the exaggeration is carried so far as to degenerate into ghastly absurdity . But the worst had not happened . The tragic father " started tack a step or two . Then , he glanced rapidly all about him with a vacant countenance ; then , throwing up his hands , with the fingers outspread , he drew himself up to his height , and , with a shriek that pierced the neighbourhood , cast himself upon the corpse . " There is far more of this in the -volume thaa is tolerable- The very last paragraph supplies an example of
-another kind . A personage entitled "Little Livy has certain memories of sa sweet one , Rotha : " lie remembered even an insect lilce a living ruby ¦ which she liad once raised out of the sunny gra ^ s , and allowed , for his won-• dering inspection , to course over and around her pure , liglit fingers , as if it -were the spirit of a i-ing . " Some passages of highly-wrought descriptive exhibit on the writer ' s part a more valuable faculty , and his pictures of ^ actors ' revelry , although exuberant , arc clever and entertaining . lie has -also a warm sympathy with nature , and is skilful in the use of landscape colours ; but his book is marked by all the faults of inexperience , while it has some merits which induce us to hope that Mr . Paton will study better models , literary and dramatic .
Parallel Lives. Parallel Lives Of Ancien...
PARALLEL LIVES . Parallel Lives of Ancient and Modern Heroes . ByC . D . Yongo . Chapman and Hall . A work was announced , several years ago , entitled The Scale of Nations : Outlines of Comparative History . A . similar suggestion of comparative history has been adopted by Mr . Yonge , who pursues his analogies so far as to render them parallel . Most historical and biographical parallels , however , Are forced , especially wlien distant ages , and men belonging to entirely different porioda of society , tire elaborately compared . Those drawn by Mr . Yongc are between Epaminondas andGustavus Adol phus , aud between Philip of Macedou and Alexander the Great . In the first case he presents the Ancient and modern heroes as bofch by nature and inclination lovers of peace , yet forcod into incessant Avars , and possessed of the highest military genius . Their careers as soldiers were uninterrupted courses of victory , both
were inventors of new military systems which aided them in the field , and Oustavus in Germany set an oxumplc < as illustrious as thnfc of Epaminondas at Jjouctra . EpuminondaB and Gustavua were merciful to their enemies , and in this respect contrasts to the groat commanders who preceded or vied with them ; they inspired their armies with deep attachment for their persons ; they died in the hour of triumph without reaping its fruits . Both were oloquent orators—the Thebnn in two Congresses the Swede in his Senate ; both were sagacious statesmen , and the policy of Epaminnndsis in Arcadia and at Messene was analogous to that of (« usUivuh in his actual alliance with France , his proposed alliance with England , and his development of u Northern navy . They were both patriots , and made their countries illustrious and powerful . So fur , according to Mr . Yongo , o > f whose historical viow wo have . sketched , of course , only a faint outline , buL we scarcely think liO'hus succeeded in marking an absolute parallel . With I'ei ' ereneo to I'hilm
of Macedon and Frederick the Great , they were mighty warriors and successful statesmen ; they possessed learning and accomplishments ; they were ambitious , unscrupulous , addicted to war ; they were brave and persevering , skilful in diplomacy , persuasive as public speakers , as civil governors able and vigorous , as conquerors successful . But is this a biographical parallel ? That is to say , is the life of Frederick the Great so peculiarl y analogous to that of the Macedonian Philip as to form what Mr . Yon <» e describes as " a pair ? " "We do not think this has been satisfactoril y shown the more especially as Mr . Yonge destroys his own parallels by pointing to many parts of the lines , which , are altogether tortuous , a . nd in no way corre . spond one with another . Ifc is to be regretted that these well-written and attractive biographies should have been crumped by the peculiarit y . of the author ' s plan . In general interest , however , the book , although slight , is superior to . most publications of a similar clu 3 ? , being the work of a scholar who uses his pea with grace and freedom , and for some . readers there may be a fascination in the tracing of such . parallels as Mr . Yonge has instituted between Philip and Frederick , Gustavus and Epaminondas .
Publications Akd Repubucations. Messrs. ...
PUBLICATIONS AKD REPUBUCATIONS . Messrs . Smith asv Elder have added to their cheap series of standard books a volume welcome to all classes of readers , The English Jlumoi'isls of ' the EighteenthX Century , being a reprint of Mr . Thackeray ' s most genial and delightful lectures . . We have already noticed a cheap edition of the Rev . J . G . Wood ' s charming manual of natural history , ' Hie Common Objects of tlie CoioUri / . Mr . Routledge has now published the book in a new form , with illustrations by Coleman , printed in colours by Evans , and the pages are alive and-bri ght with butterflies , moths , beetles , and lace-flies , in all the glory of their spotted wings , ' vermilion , violet , purple , green , gold , and yellow . These illustrations sire among . the most beautiful of their ; kind-we have seen , and the volume is a wonder of cheapness . The twelfth and last volume of the collected edition of Professor Wilson ' s
works , edited by Professor Ferrier , has now been published by Messrs . William Blackwood and Co . It contains the poems , The Isle of l'ah / is ,. The City of the Plague , and a large variety of miscellaneous pieces , sonnets , and legendary and saered lyrics . We have received from Messrs . Longman and Co . the sixth volume of the cheap edition of Lord IMacaulay ' s History of England , it brings down the narrative beyond the massacre of Glencoe , and reiterates the accusation of faithlessness against Penn . Colomiu the Fainter : a Tale of Italy and the . Arts , forms the second sixpenny volume of'fiction- ' , reprinted . by Messrs . Blackwood and Co . from JBlackicdod ' s Magazine . This story was much admired by Coleridge , who gave the world two stanzas from his translation of Goethe ' s song of " Mignor ., " then unpublished , to stand as a motto . From Mr . Jair . es Blackwood we liave a volume of didactic moralities , - often trite , but generally well selected , entitled Read " i ?/ gsfor Young Mm , Merchatits , and Men of Business . ¦
Ihe authoress of several popular tales , including " A Trap to'Catch a Sunbeam , " has published a new story , Coming Home ( Wright and Co . ) , written in her peculiarly earnest and graceful manner , with a moral pervading the narrative , but not burdening it . * We reserve for future notice M . Miehelet ' s new volume of his History of France during the seventeenth century , Richelieu ct la , Fronde ( Paris : Chamerot ) . Twenty-four woodcuts from Albert Durer , with a scriptural text , edited by John Allen , jVI . A ., Archdeacon of Salop , preclude criticism by their cheapness . They appear under the title , The Gospel for the ' Unlearned , and are published by Messrs . Itoutledge and Co .
I he new novel , The Cnulesl ll roi / g cf All , by the author of "Margaret ; or , Prejudice at Home , " has been published this week by Messrs . Smith , Elder , and Co .
A Litehary Vagary. Dr. Tbesham Dames Grk...
A LITEHARY VAGARY . Dr . Tbesham Dames Grkgg , whose King Edward the Sixth we noticed a few weeks ago , sends us another play entitled Mary Tttibr , First () neeit Regnant of England : an Historical Drama in Five Acts , after the Elizabethan Model . ( J . Kendrick . ) Wo-have already shown our re . uh'rs what Dr . Gregg understands b y " the Elizabethan model , " and need now only suy that , blank as we found bis former work , we find this even more so . Not merely is the vorse blank ; the book is blank in every respect , ami ( like mutter in the opinion of tlve Csibalisls ) is only one remove above nonentity . The Doctor is displeased with our treatment ; of his former phiy , and has mumbled some incoherent verses on the subject . The poor gentleman ' s friends ought really to look after him .
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THE ROYAL ACADEMY . —Pjuvatk Vii : \ y . Anoxiikr exhibition of the lloyal Academy ; another year , juuI its urt-gathorinRS from studios near and fur , but principally near , ub we see by glancing owr tho alphabetical list of exhibitors and their places of abode . How uumy artists are there hero in London , whoso niune . s the present writer , anil ninety and ton in tlie hundred of lii . s vendors , wot not of , who immune to live , ami live well , by the nso of ilioii' ri ^ ht bunds ! Wlio shall say avo are not us n nation lovers ol " art ¦ when we pay lor it nt this rate , and do not eonnidor that our houses arc properly furnisliiHl without pictures on tlie walls of the principal rooms ? Of tlio six or woven hundred productions in oil colours , to say nothing of drawings and mini « tums , . jilarge proportion may bo regarded uh manufactured slock , waiting purchasers from amonj * tho moneyed clashes . We turn from this iinpkniHUiit consideration to iho inoro Ljrutelul tank of delecting n few pictures Cor not . ico , on uccouLit of their noBaessintj ; other qualities than those which will find thuiu « -
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_01051858/page/18/
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