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the country , and there was no song with which she could soothe the babe bat Marlbrook , an old ballad sung till then otily in the provinces . The poor Queen heard the air , admired , and brought it forward , making it the fashion . ' This is the only one of Madame de Peliv ^' s stories which I remember , although I was very greatly amused by them , and conld have listened to her for hours together . My admiration was also strongly extited by the splendour and varieties of her" dresses , her superb trimmings , her sleeves tied with knots of coloured ribbon , her trains of silk , her beautiful hats , and I could not understand the purpose for which she took so much pains to array herself . * ' Madame de Peliv £ was the first specimen I had ever seen of a female wholly given up to vanity , not merely to the love of fine clothes , which . I believe to be in some women a sunpla love of aceamtdating finery , but of a vanity whose end and object is to gain admiration . But , in measure' as the means of gratifying this passion becomes more scanty , it seems , alasl but to increase ha power . But I was their too young , and my parents too simrile . to resrard them * t . hincrs in their frn * Vnrht . " the
Vanity , if we mAy ^ ud ^ WifrOm evidences in the ' volume before us , was Mpra ? . ol ^ # bbd ^; S % i ] t besetting sin . We see a particular fault of char-acte in aridther very quickly ¦ when we possess it ourselves—wTiether consciously or xmbdnscipusly ; '^ Mre . SherSvoocTs vanity is pot of an . oflerisive'fkihd- ^ -b' e-< ause it WasJalways ivell fed by those around her . She gives us a glimpse of AnnviSeward and other ' * Lichfield : ! Juminaries , " which is pleasaoti Of tHCeuphonioua Anna" herself , she tells things which one does not gather from other remIrii 8 ceiic « Sjibut which is quite credible . Why should she ndt haTOrbeenoa '^ hannihg wotoan before she becaine so pompous arid stony Mi « 3 ^ Itisf strange 1 »; tli iBi fc of Mis s Seward in the light of an bbjeetionableiemanQipated female ! The straight-laccd ladies ( Especially if plain ) couldinot ^ have liked such a lady as Mf . s * SherKrood thus describes : ^ - ' - ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ $ 4 ¥ M& $ & * d&drka ** ti that periody ^ when J ' my father was a very yoahe man , between peculiar :
ta ^ t ^ and ^ tm ^ y ; for I ; l ^ waotiher precise i ^ j She had that sort of beauty wh ^ MQBis ^ rin the ; most i bry ^ nt e ^ es , glowing complexion , and rich dark ham I She was ^^ lIS ^^^^^^^*^ ^^ S , ! ^^ -Mfifc SfcftJ * * * % sainetime exceedongly greedy ; : of Jbte , admiration , of ; the other sexj and though capable of indivjic [ ual attachza ' ent , as Bhe manifested , in' after life niach . to her cost , yet iiot very nice as ^ IfieiperMn' ^ y * hom the honnag ^ fc " ^§ cwj |^; in' * wora ^ * ucbiawoman Bs ; we read of ^ m and ,-had she lived in some ; J ^ jjA i ^ of , ; the ; pa | st ; mighfcibave been- charged with sprcete ^ jEojc ^ ren , in advanced life ate « $ en Imto | way ^ fe jpa % of admiration . frpmihe young and- beautiful , and many even yfQM fascinared yhcwjaoUy condemnea her conduct . ¦ ,. ¦ .. ' ? : i ' . ~ i ¦ : ' . ' . ¦ .-. ¦ : :. ' •¦' : ! . » ¦ : ; / ' . >• . ¦ ' ¦¦ . ' ^' ' \ l a < - >?' .: ¦>;¦• . ';• : ' ¦ . - - ' -. ' ¦
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>¦ ¦ , < - ANGEIiQ . ' " .. " . ' il ^ i ^ l-Ajlbmi ^ - . " . " " . "'"'' ' ¦'¦ ' ¦ ' : . •' . ' . Bentley . ^ Mtfaxfug * jdiigplamconsiderable . rjow ^ r ^ oTh ^ aguage and description , skillin ^^^ W ^ . C ^^^^ f , ;^ oi ^ j& <| flg : rjc £ ^^^ . ; Itis un-¦ j | i | | ^ ., 'j Jfut ' haymg . ; said this , ' we g ^^^^ J ^ me ^ a ^ pi | ge ^ iPW ^^ Ife- ^ i ysl * UPl J 7 ^ taye ^ jtm ^ W inclined ^ r ^ cMt J ^ DdijiaM' ^ ur fl ^ r ^ ration . for -its fertdity of , iny j Qntion and dating ^^ g e ^| p ^^; i ^ e ^| Ptrp ible | p ^ t , ^ enrwe ( aije . fought ' tb ^ e persuaded ihajt i ?^^^^ f ^® i ^?^ jl |^ i-tW' ^ 4- ' * W ^' -. t ^ ie s ^ lJQry . is wirjtt ^ n j with ^ , an earnest aim and purfiosev a ^ iibxv ^ fiejli ^ n& ^ j ^ orification of the Protestant
" 'Incessantly . ' " ' Yes , and had you done bo , in a temporal point of view ,. you would have escaped perhaps , a good deal—bat , since jou were obstinate , it became a legitimate object to get possession of your estates . ' ....... " " ' The aim of the bod y / continued Maturing ( of which Basino was the agent , pointed as I hav « said , to your estates . It was a great oversight on your part aofc to buy GUaslyn for haring obtained this , they coveted its surroundings as a matter of course , xou were not a person to Bell or to alienate , and in Baaino's hands wese not likely to live for ever . Still vou had a nephevr and niece , and that was awkward . But mark I your nephew is fond of horses , — -do you remember a hair-breadth escape he had at Oxford about a year ago ?' "' Perfectly . ' , , / & " ' The man of whom he hired the PireHng ( rightly named was the vicious beasf ) was in pay , and it was from him he bought his Black Di , I think ?' " Yes , certainly . ' ^ : " ' And by his recommendation he hired his present groom ?' " Precisely . * . ,
" * Aud Black Di has thrown him twice , and will throw him till she kill him , if he persist in riding her . I begged him again and again to shoot h « r before I knew all this . You must see to it when you . return . ' :. » : " * But , my dear doctor , you don ? t mean to say we are always to be subject to this kind of thing . Better migrate to the antipodes—better discharge a pistol through one ' s brains at once—than live in perpetual svuspkaon of servants and fear of our life . ' " « It will end , —I will end it- ; . I have , the . means . ; But I troat I have shown you how interlaced and articulated ; is the web which may envel op families or individuals , when they offer j at once spo il for a vicious and irresponsible commu nity , and apcibulum , to private passion . It is inconceivable the extent . to which this is carried on in the Romish Church , and more particularly by that body Who are the purveyors , as it were , to the menageriethe astute jackals to the powerful and voracious lion . '"
That the aim of the whole Roman Catholic hierarchy , and of the Society of Jesus in particular , is to advance and further in every way the empire of that Church wTuch they believe to be eternal and infallible , —that m tne pursuit of this aim , and of any minor object tending towards this aim , they act with steadfast , iron determination , and often with unscrupulous disregard of the means employed , —that there may be found among their ranks , as in all great bodies of men , individuals ready to bend to private interests and vengeances the mighty powers within their hands—we . are fjilly prepared to believe ; but that the Padre Basino , the tc yillain'" of this romance , is a common type of the Jesuit priest , as the authoress of "Angelo , " in tie preface above quoted , prepares us to receive ,- ^ -that English gentlemen axe dogged and slow-poisoned for years , their servants retained as spies and murderers , their heirs supplied witb ' <} Bti ^ toi ^ : 'liQt ^ esy ' 't ^ etf- 'wives ' diriyen to distraction , if not to death , their children stolen , and halfr a-dozen suDnlementarv
murders added to this list , —and that these things are done by Jesuit priests high in the confidence of their order , professedly in the interests of the society , in reality to gratify a private vengeance of their own , —we do not believe , and we think that the spirit that can credit fellow-creatures with crimes so monstrous , is a lineal descendant of that which , under & different social dispensation , would have btirnt them at the stake . We say this from no sympathy with the Roman Catholic faith . We are proud of the name of Protestant , proud of those forefathers who had the courage to " protest" against error and moral slavery in days when such courage signified more than we ^ who have al w ays enjoyed the blessed privilege of free inquiry ' , can ever realise . Perhaps the men who fought for a free faith in the sixteenth century hardly knew themselves all they wsre ¦ winning for their descendants . W ^ e owe to that first blow , struck by them , all that freedom of opinion Which is the very keystone of progress and real civilisation . It is but natural that we should have small , sympathy with Catholicism , which is the embodiment of ideas totally antagonistic . But while we may denounce the errors , and labour against the advancement , of Roman Catholic doctrines , we have no right to deny the members of that church the possession of a belief as sincere and earnest as our own , and an endeavour to act up to the light which is in them—which , if there be any truth in religion , must be the one thing needful for Protestant , or Catholic , Jew , Pagan , or Infidel .
, xe 5 iR | € ] tt # ^ WP ^^^ % & % ii not HJwteJroi *^ *^ s ^ - --prejudicial llliDerality . Among the personages of the drama we have an m ^^ m ^ Mp ^ S 9 ^^ l y ^ P * &fen 9 fp vengeance b ^ Jhe Jesuits . With theSQ elements of romance are mixed tip the recent political state of JBome , nndeziriBioINono ^ thfe ^ secret ; societies of the Italian liberalsi and the counterasiociations of the Church » party , forming altogether laaterials for an intearice ^
res ^^^ m were tbe animus _ qf' the book a less narrow" and bitter one : Bjctt jl ^ ffltre ^ e , xproc ^ ed ^ further , let us justify our . wotdisj by ithe following ejctcacts . The first , it will be obsfl « ved , is from the preface , where the writer apeaks *** - . ^'' .: > - ' ¦ . ; . " ¦ ' .. '• ¦ . - ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ • ¦ . > va « jjj i ^ mere Xiiglish reader / the worst defilements of Jesuitism are , happily , as sealed a <^ nt « r to her as to the majority of her sex ; but i /« cA « fe / , and the current litterateurs of t ^» qay on that subject , fully justify her portraiture of an infidel Bomsn Catholic priest ; a fjrp ^^ alas 1 ! of : t ^ at fearful body , who , disembarrassed of those responsibilities which reatnuo , those fears which awe , and those hopes which inspire a Christian , roam powerfully fKOtected overtbe earth , and , iii the' voice and ' accents of a religion of love , of purity , and of pja ^ , ind . te to ^ srime , and compound with iniquity . Day by day , the fearful fact becpme * ino ai 01 mmjom gume live reins almost
^ wxq pronuucnt . unac ^ cipies or every woverpment upod earth ; and ' , day by day , it becomes more and more the duty of every sincere Protestant in this favoured land , to further to the utmost , according to his station and opportunities , the growth and nurture of that eternal Truth , to the glorious influence of which he owes every political advantage , every social blessing ; and , vrhat is far dearer , more precious than thefe ^ tbat hope , which over-arches the golf of'death * and makes him a joyful inheritor of a btttmniportd . * , i »; the growth of "Eternal Truth" to be nmrtured by hatred and un-<^|^ t 4 fcb | . ^ ne ^ j ^| , . Can the sincer e believer in " a better world" really ima * aine , tbfttr U «; entrance is closed to all who do not seek it under the same banner with himself ?
; The promwe of this preface is boime out by the book . Judge , reader , for yourself : — . " ' Not at all , my dear sir ; there has always been a spy about you in Wales—rand there vrere means used to un , dermiae your health , as there have subsequently been measures taken to destroy your life . ' . , " ' It w impossible 1 I bad , I confess , an idea of tho kind once , and my sister-in-law discharged every servant we had . ' «* * very likely , and might have discharged ten sets , and yet a Jtxsuit , with a purpose in view , would always have uad one in pay . That this was the case I am prepared to prove , w ^ re it necessary , no less than the whole of what I am now goine to reveal . Padre Busino , at the time pf your marriage—the wild , but young and handsome Count Nusibo—was passionately devoted to your wife ; and . had you aot come in the way , would most likely bo have pruned down his excesses , modelled his conduct , and persevered in hia suit , as ultimately to have overcome the lady ' s repugnance , and borne off the prize . Your union put this out of the question : and . he took to his bosom two mistresses . Ambition and Revenge , and baa never for a single day deserted their service . lie entered the Church , and took tho oatba of the Society of Jesus , and thenceforward public aims and private malice went steadily side by aide . You shook tho faith of your wife in the Komiub doctrines , I believe ?'
'' * Decidedly , I did ; sho saw tlio folly of them before wo were married , and ¦ was prepared for a formal reception into our Church aa soon oa wo should take up our abode in England . " 1 That would bo a sufficient sanction to tho society for persecuting you . Nothing is more bitterly avenged than the seduction of a bouI ; L » ut , have you not been moved to join the ranks yourself r
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JULIE . Julie ; or , Love and Duty . By Emilie Flygare Oarl < £ n , Author of The Rose of Tisleton . ' * &c . ' Bentley . Wb are tempted to notice this book for the sole purpose of entering a protest against all such worthless trash . The story , if story it may be called , is so vapid , that the youngest bread-and-butter miss would never care to finish it;—the characters are " without form and void "—and there is no good scene , or description of manners—or anything like a new or sensible observation in tbe book . "Such a plentiful lack of wit" would not be tolerated in a novel of native growth , and we see no reason for treating " Julie" with , injudicious leniency , because the whole uninteresting business is supposed to be transacted on the other side of the North Sea .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 20, 1854, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2039/page/20/
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