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f The third volume of Bulwer ' s Poems and Dramas ( Chapman and Hall ) is not simply a reprint , it contains a large proportion of new poems and ? ite ^ i 7 erS 1 . 9 ™ old ' . We will not by a passing sentence anticipate the . deliberate criticism which we may attempt on the completion of this edition of our versatile author ' s poetical works 5 enough for t ] ie present if wenotice that this third volume closes the division of Poems , and that tne fourth will commence the Dramas . In the > , Companion to the Railway Edition of Lord Campbell ' s Life of Bacon ( Chapman and Hall ) , the student will find a microscopic detection of errors promulgated by Lord Campbell , showing how careless in many respects , and m many respects how unveracious , was the biography which that " canny Scot" had swept together into a chapter for his of
J ^ tves the Chancellors . Lord Campbell ' Life has more serious faults , in our eyes , than errors of fact ; but this terrible exposd o ? his deliberate falsification of the evidence before him ought to be read by all his readers j and we hope that all who have bought the one book will also buy the other . The writer is known to be a gentleman who has for many years been engaged on a life of Bacon—one to vindicate that great thinker from all the calumnies which have clustered round his memory . Apropos of Bacon , let us direct attention to the compact and carefully edited volume , issued by J . W . Parker and Son , in an eighteenpenny form , The Essays , or Counsels , Civil and Moral . It is revised from the
early editions , with a few notes by the new editor , Thomas Markby , who has added accurate references to the many quotations gleaming among the wisdom of the text . It also contains The Colours of Good and Evil , which were not reprinted by the author after 1597 , at least in English , he having incorporated them in his De Augmentis . Mr . Markby digresses in his preface upon a subject of great importance , but one scarcely suitable as a prefix to Bacon's Essays—viz ., the miserable condition of our private schools , and the shameless want of proper qualifications in
the masters . " While a government commission is busy with an ; inquiry into the static off otfr universities , no one is busy with the state of our " academies for young gentlemen . " ' Fvoyo . Bacon to Shakspeare is an easy transition—they are both peers Here is a little , volume ^ The Wisdom and Genius of Shahspeare , edited by the Rev . Thomas Price , ( Adam Scott and Co ., ) wherein the moral sentences , aphorisms , and many of the striking passages are classified . Afar better book might have been produced , and one with less pretension ; but it will have its service and its charm .
Mr . Cayley ' s agreeable work , Las Alforjas , or the Bridle Roads of Spain , ( Bentley , ) more than justifies its epigraph , wherein Cervantes declares , no hay libro tan malo que no tenga alguna cosa buena ( there is no book , however bad , which has not its merits ) , for although we cannot call it a good book , it has very many merits . It is bright , pleasant , rambling ; treats of a country the charm of which is inexhaustible , the very names of its places sounding like "the shores of old romance ,- " treats of this country , too , in a free , independent style , and carries more material , suggested and implied , than its artificial air would lead a careless reader to suspect . The defect of the work is , that there is too much writing for effect ; the traveller gives place to the litterateur , and the UttSrateur is often at fault .
Professor Newman has compiled a serious and telling little work , TJie Crimes of the Souse of Hapsburg against its oton liege ^ subjects , ( John Chapman , ) in which , after first laying down in a few decisive paragraphs what constitutes political crime , he proceeds to track the rise of the House of Austria , and its conduct towards its numerous subjects in Spain , Bohemia , Netherlands , Belgium , Poland , Hungary , Croatia , Italy , &o ., and a very ugly catalogue of crimes it is ! The volume appears in Chapman s Library for the People , where also wo have to notice the appearanco of Emerson ' s Essays , with Carlyle ' s preface , in a cheap and elegant form . t Another cheap reprint is The Con cessions of an English Opium Mater , fSimnkin . Marshall , and Co ., ) in a pocket volume of very great elegance .
That man ia to be envied who sits down to road this marvellous work lor the third time ; but he who sits down to it for the first . . . . ! We have so recently spoken here of Do Quincoy , that a mere announcement of this republication must suffice . , » -.,, i i i Two welcome translations of Prosper MonmeVs novels , may also bo named here . Colomba , that delightful Corsican story , almost a model storv and The Chronicle of Charles IX ., that graphic and exciting historical romance , which no one reads and forgets Both have boon translated by Mr . Andrew Scoblo , and published by Mr . Bontley , in half-crown volumes , admirably adapted for railway reading , by their bold , handsome tvpo , and portable shape . . . w ! l rLnohar 5 Jerrold has accomplished a feat m his Threads of of
a Storm Sail . The directors of the BirkbocJ ? bile Assurance company fiu ^ es ted to Mm that ho should write a work on tho bonohts life r fi sTanco--awork which would familiarize tho minds of men with the SX of Zntanco , and persuade them , through their emotions and rTfhouihSCry readable book , wliioh will bo acceptable to those hyo , Y 1011 ^! :. '' . to be instructed in tho bonofite of hf « aBSiiranco but Inrtilutions , ( IMK ?™ 'f . ^ Sri , L pronoLl tf . o , > mo for tho bast » n ,, ction of . '" ^'"^ ^ . H ^ t ' i ^ nmv bo miuiofiod m n » to promote work , Bhowir . how [ . »<¦* ™ ' >' ' ™ ' ^ ' ° Our readers aro tolerably £ S wSSV " - m £% & r ^ i / and political ^ » ad
his position as honorary secretary of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics ' Institutions , gives to his opinions a special authority on a topic like this . It is a very able essay . The hovel of Wealth and Labour , by Lqr 4 B ******* , ( T . C . Newby , ) would have produced / a greater sensation had it appeared during tne months of excitement when the great question of '• masters and workmen , " was directly agitating society , ( indirectly it must always agitate , ) but in these calmer days of prosperity and high wages * the novel must rest solely on its claims as a novel—that is to say , must take its place beside the ordinary publications , worse than many , better than most ; readable , but not memorable .
A line must suffice to record the republication of Carlyle ' s Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question , ( Bosworth , ) as a set-off to the Uncle Tomitudes vexing the public ear . We thought it fiercely irrational when it first appeared ; we now think it fierce and irrational , but welcome as a strong counter-statement . Messrs . Simms and M'Intyre have added G . P . R . James ' s novel , Sir Theodore Broughton , and Captain Mayne Reid ' s exciting romance , The Rifle Rangers , to their Parlour Library Messrs . Clarke , Beeton , and Co . have added Captain Rafter ' s The Guards ,
or the Sousehold Troops of England ; and Headley ' s The Adirondack , or Life in the Backwoods , to their illustrated library of Readable BooTcs . This list must be concluded with the announcement of JW yld ' s pocket map , Plan of the Encampment at Chobham , a very serviceable publication . And now , if the reader casts his eye over the names of the books briefly noticed in this article , he will appreciate the necessity for our brevity ; fifteen books , besides five reprints , and almost every book claiming an article as long as the one we devote to the whole fifteen ! When works accumulate in anything like that ratio , the Critic is forced to retire , and give place to the Taster .
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourage itself . —Goethe .
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OMITTED PASSAGES FROM A BOY'S EPIC II . Love and the Faun . Under the shadow of that antique tree Lounged the blithe Faun , and thus the God began : " There is a maiden in the Cretan isle , Who with her grief and beauty touches me . Once wilful grace was hers , with frolic love Of freedom , yet she listened evermore To gentle fears that beat about her heart , As some soft woman bathing in lone seas Hearkens to every faint and far-off sound . She loved ; and yet I think it was not love , For that was never love that loveth all .
The birds that balance on the slender spray Bent like a sickle held athwart the sky ; The lamb that trockt her footsteps o ' er the thyme , And playful followed her : the butting goat , With silky hair and beard of silver grey ; Meek cow with fragrant breath , and glittering fish That leaps half out of his pale element , Were dear to her ; dear every flower and tree . Now such a general lover pleased me not , A woman ' s heart I thought to nobler love
Is set ' , to nobler love and nobler cares ; And such a love should Ariadne know . Success soon crowned desire . A stately fleet , Led by Prince Theseus , anchored on these shores And who so fit to freight young hearts with love As that imperial shape . For many days He dwelt with Minos , as kings dwell with kings . Meantime Love fell upon the maiden ' s heart , Like sunrise over snow . Then Life was sweet , And morn and eve , and every common thing
Seemed beautiful , as if the eternal Gods Had newly fashioned them , and all the world Were only made for the fair sake of Love . But after rise and set of many suns , The Prince , impatient for heroic deeds , Ami swift and restless us the climbing flame , Called by the Gods , forsook the Cretan shore , And hopeless Ariadne sighs alone For Theseus and the golden days of love . " ' M .
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THE PJIOPHETE . On Tnesdny Tamberliic played tho Prophete for the second time , and assured his triumph ; in fact ho did all that was expected of lrim by hjto admirers . In tho opening aria TJn' impero piu soavo ho was no move to bo compared with Mario than Mario ia to uo compared with him in the splendid declamation of tho Re del del which oloaee the second act , wJioro tho glory and tho powor of Tamborlik ' ^ voice makee yevoot 1 heart
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July 9 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 669
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Leader (1850-1860), July 9, 1853, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1994/page/21/
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