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      * the Handsome edition of Goldsmith ' s beautiful poenv published by Messrs . ow and Son . Making allowance for the difference between steel and , wood , ad between the original artiBt and the engraver , the ^ present experiment may irly be pronounced a successful one—especially with the landscape subjects , inch come out charmingly through the new " medium . " As to printing , bindig , and paper , the volume is superbly got up in'tlie best possible taste . ,

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      BOOKS ON Oina TABLE .. jsayg Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review . By Henry Rogers . Three Volumes . ( New Edition . ) Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . he Chinese Empire : forming a Sequel to the Work entitled , " Recollections of a Journey through Tartary and Thibet . " By M . Hue , formerly Missionary Apostolic in China . Two Volumes . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . terary Tables from the Spanish of Yriarte . By Robert Rockliff . ( Second Edition . ) Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . he Burdens of the Church . By Thomas Latter . Adam Scott . tdulMediid : a Lay of the Future ; and other Poems . By H . B . Macdonald . ¦ James Hogg . he Conduct of the War : a Speech delivered in the Mouse of Commons on Tuesday , 18 th December , 1854 . By the Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , M . P ., &c . John Murray .

      ? Essay upon the Philosophy of Evidence ; or , an Inquiry into the Process o Belief By Watkin Williams . ( Second Edition . ) James Ridgway . < bertBlake : Admiral and General at Sea . Based on Family and State Papers . By Hepworth Dbcon . Chapman and Hall . le Death-ride : a Tale of the Light Brigade . By Westland Marston . D * Mitchell . i Eremo : Poems , chiefly written in India . By H . G . Keene . Win . Blackwood and Sons .

      ie Golden Age , and other Poems , dedicated , by permission , to the Earl of Carlisle , K . G . By Alexander Gouge . Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . in . By Charles Boner . Chapman and Hall . tdiesfrom Nature . By Dr . Hermann Masius . Translated by Charles Boner . Chapman and Hall . e Druses of the Lebanon ; their Manners , Customs , and History . With a Translation of their Religious Code . By George Washington Chasseaud . Richard Bentley . xternal Counsels to a Daughter . By Mrs . Pullan . Darton and Co . ssian Life in the Interior of Russia ; or , The Experiences of a Sportsman . By Ivan Tourchenieff , of Moscow . Edited by James D . Meiklejohn . ••<• Adam and Charles Black . e History of Political Literature , from the Earliest Times . By Robert Blakey . Author of the History of the Philosophy of Mind , " &c , &c . In Two Vblumes .-- ^ '_ Bentley .

      r Antipodes ; or , Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies , with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields . By Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Charles Munday . Author of " Pen and Pencu in India . " Third Edition . Complete in One Volume . Bentley . id and its Adulteration ; comprising the Reports of tie Anatomical Sanitary Commission of " The Lancet , " for the Years 1851 to 1854 inclusive . "Revised and Extended . By Arthur Hill Hassal , M . D . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . b Chemistry of Common Life . By James F . H . Johnston . Vol . II . ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - - . Wm . Blackwood and Sons . > , Monthly Journal of Medicine . New Series . Part I . Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . derella and the Glass Slipper . Edited and Illustrated with Ten Subjects . Designed and Etched on Steel , by George Cruikshank . . David Bogue . mortals and Correspondence of Charles James Fox . Edited by Lord John Russell . Vol . III . Richard Bentley . rends of Mount Leinster ; Three Months in Kildare Place ; Bantry and Duffrey Traditions ; The Library in Patrick-street . By Henry Whitney , Kilomath . - — , _ '— — - - _ -: ! .... _ .. -.. _ - ; -. - _ ~ p .-Kennedy , Dublin .-ther and Son . A Tale . John Henry Parker . iEnglish Cyclopaedia . Conducted by Charles Knight . Part XXI . Bradbury andEvans . s Newcombes . Edited by Arthur Pendennis , Esq . Bradbury and Evans . 3 Martins of Cro Martin . By Charles Lever . Chapman and Hall . j Journal of Psycological Medicine and Mental Pathology . Edited by Forbes Winslow , M . D ., D . C . L . No . XXIX . John Churchill . noirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts , including the Protectorate . By John Heneage Jesse . New Edition , Revised . Vol . I . ( Bentley ' s Monthly Volumes . ' ) Richard Bentley . i Literary Mail Coach . No . I . Robert Hardwicke . s War ; or , Voices from the Ranks . George Routledge and Co . ' dred : the Daughter . By Mrs . Newton Crosland . George Routledge and Co . s Mouse and Her Friends , with other Stories . Translated and adapted for Children , by John Taylor . Chapman and Hall . j Curse of Gold . A Romance . By R . W . Jameson . George Routledgo and Co . Jical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer . Edited by Robert Bell . Vol . II . ( Annotated Edition of the English Poets . ') John W . Parker and Son . yuatin , the Happy Child . From the French of Madame Clara Monnerod . Thomas Constable and Co . > pho . A Tragedy . By Franz Grellparzer . Thomas Constable and Co . trade Dramas for the Drawing-Room . By Anno Bowman , Authoress of " The Home of Wanderers . " With Illustrations . Georgo Routledge and Co . rses and Hoxtnds : a Practical Treatise on their Management . By Scrutator . Illustrated . Gcorge * Routledgo and Co .

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      ADELPHI . The Zigzag Travels of Messieurs Pruth and Danube , at the Adelfhi , have been suggested , we conceive , by the prologue to the Balailte de I'Alma , which M . M . Cognard concocted for the Cihqob in Paris . The French piece was an indifferent success ; perhaps , however , the utter indifference in Paris about the war had something to do with that . At the Adelphi we waited in vain for a gleam of wit ; the puns were execrable , but not like most execrable puns , good of their kind ; and we confess that just now , when our victories over Russia are at least resultless , the feeble bravado of the one practical joke , the defeat of a troop of Cossacks by a few Wallachian women armed with broomsticks , struck us as deplorably unseasonable . On the other hand , the scenery and the acting are worthy of a better cause . .

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      ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . Mr . Frank Tawourd has , at the St . James ' s Theatre , given us a burlesque proper—that is , a correct version of a serious story , with the incidents and language adapted and coloured so as to assimilate it to the present time . The story thus chosen , adapted , and coloured , is The Sleeper Awakened , the Arabian Nights . Mr . Talfourd departs from the original story—if the expression may be allowed—before he commences it ; but this depurture serves to enlist a most elegant fairy , and also n division of cherub police , who agreeably combine the psychical with the physical attributes . The story is well known . Abou Hassan ( Miss Marshall ) pines for the position of Vizier , or even Caliph , and those two identical personages , losing their way on some Eastern Salisbury Plain , seek the hosnitalitv of Abou . and . lcarnincr his desires , resolve to gratify

      them , by way of showing how unenviable such offices really arc . They stupify him with a powder mixed with his beer , and transport him to the palace . A 8 Vizier ho is about to lose his head , when ho becomes Caliph , and thereby loses his domestic peace . Finally , all are reinstated into their natural positions . These materials arc susceptible enough of parody , and Mr . Frank Talfourd is not the man to miss the opportunity . The scenery is effective , and the murderous puns go off like a platoon of Mime ' s . If they miss flro , it is the fault of an indulgent but not lively-witted public , who 6 n fho other hand take a good deal of tho fun—for granted . We need not hero insist on our own , doubtless foolish and eccentric , aversion to burlesques in general : wo have always considered this wit of words to bo tho shabby-genteel of intellectual pauperism ; but onco accepting ( under tho lenient auspices of the season } so melancholy a substitute for wit of thought , wo will not deny to Mr . Frank Talfourd tho palm of supremacy .

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      THE WINTER EXHIBITION OF S 3 OETCHES . the reader is in the confidence of . any practical artist , ho knows how chary it artist is of parting with his rough poarle of design , to bo cast , probably , 'ore persons who are no judges of pearls , till polished and framed in gold , e reader , then , who knows this tender point with all artists , may estimate , > difficulty in tho way of an exhibition of sketches and first studies only ; and I not wonder that this , the fourth season of such an attempt , should find the inter Exhibition of Sketches confessing to cabinet pictures , and unable to iv the soft impeachment of finished paintings in water-colours . Tho Winter

      Exhibition of Sketches , in fact , may be now likened to an average exhibition at the New Water-Colour Society ' s gallery , with a mild infusion of talent—there are the names of Frost , Piokersgill , R . A ., Brocky , Ansdell , Sant , Glass , and Goodali—from the gallery of the British Institution next door . The real , true , honest sketches , evidently the first designs for pictures , and not mere worthless copies , made for the occasion from pictures , are , happily , by the best men . Out of the half-dozen contributions , by , 'Glass , four ' are ' .-decidedly , studies , in the proper sense of the word . ' So are Elmore ' s two very opposite designs , the first of which " Heady for a Walk , " is a sweet bit of womanly beauty , not the less

      delightful for its modern and homely signification . Sketches , too , are Sidney Cooper ' s cattle scenes ; Creswick's " Footpath ; " Hulme ' s beautiful pair of landscapes , "Newark Priory , " by moonlight , and a scene on the banks of the Con . way ; Herbert ' s religious " . Landscape near Boulogne ; " Poole's " Pets , " and the same artist's " Spring Garland ; " Redgrave ' s " Hay Field , " the finished picture of which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852 or 1853 ; and , though last not least , but exactly the contrary , Frith ' s study for the picture of " Ramsgate Sands "—a picture as full of life and character as a composition of Wilkie ' s , and as exquisite in its every day poetry ; as healthy , earnest , and direct in its humour , as a scene by Leech . -

      It is a long step from this little study to any other subject-picture here . Still , Elmore ' s sketch of a single figure , already named , displays artistic merit of the same kind , varying only in degree ; and one may match the truthfulness even of Frith ' s work , by looking among the landscapes . The last quarter of a century has brought about a complete revolution in this branch of art—a revolution which has been rather a natural and peaceful growth out of decay , than the triumph of any particular school over its antagonists . Copley Fielding ' s intensely artificial style remains as a landmark . Here are six of his elaborately weak protests against nature . No one cares to look in the catalogue , nor feels the least curiosity in these days about the initials C . F . in the corner of one of these queer relics of the Old Young Ladies' Boarding School of Art . Why does not effete design of every class get forgotten as well as effete landscapepainting ? Will that great authority , Mr . Uwins , R . A ., condescend to inform us ? He certainly does not help to a solution of the problem , by his own picture , on a sacred subject , in this very exhibition . The more

      we look at the painting , the more does Echo persist in answering "Why ? " And while Uwins is dumb , and Echo absurd , are there any instructive facts to be got out of this collection of cabinet pictures , sketches , and water-colour drawings ? For our own part , we may truly say that we have seldom found so good an opportunity of contrasting the art that learns from nature with the conventionalism that assumes itself to be art . Putting the question of relative skill entirely aside , look at the masquerade common-pjace , by Pickersgill , R . A ., entitled " Lady with Hawk" ( admirably tradesmanUke elimination of articles !) , and then look at Elmore's little sketch , twice before mentioned , of a lady in her every-day walking dress . Is not the one picture a fair instance of art , in its degree , truthfully reproducing a beautiful piece of life , and of natural expression ? And , on the other hand , does the conventional garb of Mr . PickersgilTs portraitsuDJectrredeem it from the vulgarity of which the painter seems so painfully conscious that , in order to get out of it , he would get entirely out ofjiaturcv and into some such vague abstraction of grace as men of his stamp will strive to realise througlLan established pose ?

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      OLYMPIC . Mb . PtANCHE has migrated from the Lyceum to the Olympic this year . In the adaptation of Madame d'Anois' charming tale . The Yellow Dwarf , he has taken the exact measure of Mr . Robson's genius and physique . In this remarkable actor ' s best moments ( if Mr . Kobson will pardon a sincere admirer the impertinence ) there is always something diabolical . Anthropomorphically , we hasten to add : we mean nothing worse than that le Diable au corps was never more true of any mortal than of Mr . Robson . He is a walking nerve . His burlesque of the celebrated sword scene in Richard the Third'is almost as tragic as the original , and at the same time far more genuinely comic than Mr . Charles Kean . The _ pjece is so well put on the Stage that _ Mr . Planche" must have felt himself quite at homer Mr . Wigan is safe foFsometliing likefifty " nights .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 6, 1855, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2072/page/21/