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Leader (1850-1860), 13th November 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 1096, Untitled Article

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      the sake of Leech ' s inimitable pencil and the really useful qualities it has nor is the letter-press to be left unread , though less amusing than it used lo be . Is it really less comical , or have we become more accustomed to the tone ? A question . The Comic Almanack ( D . Bogue ) is this year edited by Robert Brough and illustrated by Cruilcshank and Hine , and is rather an improvement on its predecessor . The Farmers Almanack and Calendar disdains any attraction beyoml the circle of its solid usefulness . In George Gilfillan's Martyrs , Heroes , and Sards of the Scottish Covenant , ( A . Cockshaw , ) there is an attempt to narrate the history of the Covenanters in typical lives — a good subject , admitting of both historic and dramatic portraiture . We have not , however , read the volume yet ; it is one of those to which we propose returning .

      Hugo Keid's System of Modern Geography ( Oliver and Boyd ) seems a clear , Veil-arranged , school-book ; but , as we often say , only teachers can offer an opinion on the merit of such books , and we claim no authority . While on this subject of tuition and school-books , let us draw particular attention to Chapman and Hall ' s completion of their truly valuable Penny Maps . A handsome quarto volume is before us , bearing the title of Lowry ' s Table Atlas , which is the collected form of these Penny Maps , originally published in parts . It was a good idea , considering the indispensable nature of maps , and the great expense attending their formation , to bring the maps to so low a price as a penny each by printing them ( the them

      coloured copies are printed in colour ) instead of engraving . Something of smoothness and elegance is sacrificed , no doubt , but not much , by this process—a drawback , however , which bears no proportion to the advantage of such unusual cheapness . In thi 3 complete Atlas , we have one hundred clear and even elegant maps , at the price of fifteen shillings plain , or one guinea coloured . An ample index , giving every facility in research , gives , with tlie indication of the page , the latitude and longitude . On this subject of Maps , we may also notice the Geographical Projections to accompany Keith Johnsons Atlases ( Blackwood and Sons ) . It is a set of drawing-boards , on which the maps may be copied in white or coloured chalks—a substitute , in short , for slates , as the drawing can

      be rubbed off with a sponge when done with . It is not only a great saving in expense—it is also a more captivating method for hoys . The present series comprises the World on Mercator ' s projection , Europe , Asia , Africa , JS ortIi and South America , and the British Isles , with a blank page for laying down the meridians and parallels of any map , by advanced students . In the Spiritual Library , of which the first volume—Richer ' s Religion of Good Sense—has appeared , we are somewhat surprised to hear that •" ' the object is to lead Man back to God and the spiritual state from which he has fallen ; to prove that communication with the spiritual world , or clairvoyance , is as possible and practicable now , as it was when Abraham talked with angels ; and that Spiritual Medicine , or Mesmerism , is as potent a means of cure now as when it was practised by our Lord and his Apostles ! ! " We need only announce such an object .

      Uncle Tom ' s Companions : a Supplement to Uncle Toms Cabin , ( Edwards and Co ., ) is a volume setting forth what the author considers as ample confirmation of Mrs . Stowe's novel in the shape of a narrative of the adventures and persecutions of real negroes , Frederick Douglass , Dr . Pennington , William Wells Brown , the Rev . W . Garnet , Henry Bibb , &c . Wh © n are we to hear the last of Uncle Tom ?

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      BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . Uncle . Toms Cabin . ( liantlei / s standard NoiuJs . ) Eentley 'Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , ' With a " Preface by the Earl of Carlisle . Cico . ltoutledge Axotuvu , : m < l another ! "Tin ; cry is . still they come ! " Never in the memory <> i the oldest , inhabitant ; has a novel created such n furor as this Iliad of the Blacks , Mr . Bentley at once ; places it- among the- " Standard Novels . " An indignant preface introduces his edition . The edition published by Messrs . Koutledge is not only a handsome one , but , is prefaced by some remarks on the great topic of . slavery from the pen of the amiable Lord Carlisle . ]\ lr . HenUey , it . is understood , has given the authoress an immediate interest in the sale of his Standard Kdif . ion , in the shape of a percentage on every copy sold . This generous acl , with the other examples of the same kind on the part of Hnglish publishers , cannot fail to have the best , effect , on the solution of the copyright question in America . yjw A , //><>! , ¦ o n- Dipiaslj / , or the Ilislorji of tin ) lUmaparlc . Family . An entirely new work . Hy Ui ' e Uer ' Ucley Men . With twenl , y-l , \ vo authentic ; portruitH . John Chapman . lit . ( hi Ai'MAN sent , us , * hi > other day , Schielcher ' s Crimes da I ) eux Devr . wbrc wherein Louis Napoleon was certainly not idolized . He now sends us an American importation , which nii ^ lil , have emanated from the Klysee had it been better writ-ten . It is an elaborate and shameless ( lattery and justification of Louis Napoleon and ( hi ! whole , family . The " llerkeley Men" already . speak of him as Km . peror , and regard him as the right eons solution of the political and social problem . They have ilone well to screen themselves under the anonymous . Christinas Hooks . Wy Cluirles Dickens . Chapman and Hall . Tin : stories with which , during live successive winters , Dickens gladdened and Maddened hundreds of firesides the " Carol , " the "Chimes , " the " Cricket on the . Heart li , " I he " Battle of Lii ' c , " and the " lliuiut . cd Man" -are ben ; gathered into one volume of the C / irup /' . '

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      The Charm . aaa » Portrait Gallery . . w £ ** & aid Co . The History of the Battles gfZigny , Quatre Bras , and Waterloo . ' £ Co . Papers fen- the Schoolmaster . Vol . I . Simpkin and Mar ^ n " Geographical Projections . W . BlacljvvooH » r ? A I * * - History ofthe American Revolution . By George Bancroft . Vol . II . EicWrt ? f Sons - Excursions in Ireland during 1844 and 1850 . By Catherine M . O'ConneU . ltichard f , 1 ^ - A Popular History of British Zoophytes , or Corallines . By Eev . D . iandsborougn ¦ Ueut ley . Reasons for Legalizing Marriage with a Deceased Wife ' s Sister . By Lord Denman . ^ aD ( ^ ^ ° " The Picture Pleasure-Book . - . , ^^ dderanfr Index to the Penny Maps . Chapman Trtd HaSi

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      "We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful enrmwor , itself . —Goethe . ^^ ujagea

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      SHARDS AND PEBBLES , i . It may be there be natures of such mould , That ' mid the haunts wherein your millions fare , They would be pure as white-robed angels are , And walk , dispensing blessings manifold . But he who knows the demons of his thought , And , knowing , conquers by the unswerving might Gained out of Reason ' s solemn second-sight , ( Not without aid by the world ' s witness wrought , ) Will pray that none who in his love are shrined May fall within such doom . Ponder aright The issues of that lot . Hatred of kind , And bestial night-black instincts , scaring light , Scorn of all sanctities , —these are the fruit Evolved in process of the Man made Brute . ii . It is the folly of our thoughtless mood To see , when nobles hand-in-hand with boors "Walk and converse , how men troop out of doors , And stare , and speak of noble Brotherhood . If tliQu so think , let no collyrium E ' er touch thy heavy eyelids . Sleep , nor seek To wake in the deep-threatening time to come ; Por then be sure that brother-bond will break , And all who now are pastors , guides , and stays , — All for whom privilege has cursed the world : Escocheon'd nobles , churchly priests , and guides—Anointed guides of men , with flag unfurled , Will trample on the crew they now embrace , He shall be crowned with liberty who rides . Neweniiam Tkaveks .

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      THE HAUNTED SHORE . I walict at sunset by the lonely waves , When Autumn stood about me , gold and brown ; I watcht the great red Sun , in clouds , go down , An , orient King , that ' mid his bronzed slaves Dies—leaning on his sceptre—with his crown . A hollow moaning from innumerous caves , In green and glassy darkness sunk below , Told of some grand and ancient deed of woe , — Of murdered kings that sleep in weltering graves . Stilt thro' the sunshine wavering to and fro , With sails all set , the little vessels glide ; Mild is the Eve and mild the ebbing Tide , And yet that hollow moaning will not go , Nor the old Fears that with the sea abide .

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      ANN E n L A K E . TiRinoNrus in his le * imecl , but not alfcogollior lively , troalARe J ) o Crnjof / rttp ^ ( IJatav . 1 <> 4 : *) ainoiitf other profound trutliH , miyH , — " The I"' '" " ! " , ( )( VSU of bad writing in in not forming the eharacXerH correctly . ('; ( ' , . look bo imposing when printed in Kiitf li . sh , and in th <» cohnnijH ol : l s (>() paper ; but if y ou could no <> it in the ancient p . 'i < reH of a squall < iuai - »' ^ forth in hu-tfe-typ e Latin !) I am much . struck wil . li the truth ol Uu ^ (/ ^ ; ,, whenever a dramatic work coinen before me ; and now' Aim <^ . ' ^ J ' , riy p rinted reposes solicits my iiiipartial jud ^ nuMit , I . (< ' <•! more ""'" '"V . wlcdto M'bat I felt on the ni ^ hfc of performances , that Iho jionfc lias n <><< llM . | ( . ri )) K tUc Hii ^ oHtion of the learned Loibonius ( which ih Htran ^ e , roi ^ | iftH that he probably never heard of that luiiiinoiiH author ) - - ! Iwl «• ' '' 1 ( i ( i | y . been guilty of tlin primary nin , and hut * not forrned bin chanu ; U ; rH ' i ( . ()( Wot only ho , but he Iimh evidently paid little , attention to thin ii - u > charact (^ r , and lias , like almoHl , all Itin broMirnn , thought far J »<>*« I wituatiouH , and ima ^ cH . . , i ( | wind In tli «) orig inal ( roiwuiption of Anne hoi-Hell " , Marion <^ ; "" -y ijl ( . start i * called " a ^ ood idea of a character . " 11 o wot out with that- 1 JJ" - ^ in not tho rucc , and many a gullaut atart hioaka down bviovo mu

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 1096, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1960/page/20/