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Fects are bad ; for the poorest whites and the shabbiest blacks will rake , srape , aad steal until-they have sufficient to purchase the twentieth partof billet , and then run -with it to the . shop \ vh « ro the flaming wheel-sign with nda a roda Iioje ( The wheel turns to-diiy ) tells them that this is the road to rtune . When such a spirit is engendered by the state , it becomes rather ffieult for the municipal authorities to put down private gambling . " The me system prevails in ITranco at the present day , and is supported l > y the overnment to distract the people ' s mind from more serious affairs , especially om scrutinizing too closely its own acts , or inquiring too minutely into eir own social and political condition . In Brazil , however , this legalized ime of speculation is played simply from that-inherent love of excitement jculiar to the natives of all southern climates ; nor would a Brazilian : ist were he not in a perpetual fever of expectation , and had bis fears and > pes regularly and constitutionally excited . When public opinion becomes ore enlightened , and the Government awakes to a sense of its duties , this jrnicious practice will doubtless be suppressed , and the energies _ of the ition directed to less stimulating but more enduring channels of gain . In the pages of Messrs . Kidder and Fletcher ' s volume the reader will find uch usefufinformation on the constitution and political aspect of Brazil , on e social and religious institutions of the country , with some excellent ac-> unts of the interior districts of the empire . The woodcuts that accompany e , work greatly assist the descriptions , and thus render valuable service to : C general reader .
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A HINDOO VIEW OF THE MUTINY . zuses of the Indian HcvoU . 13 y a Hindoo of Bengal . Edited by Malcolm Lew in . . Stanford . c would have been more satisfactory had Mr . Lewin confided to us who bis indoo is—of what caste , of what education , whether . lie wrote in English , hat credentials he bears . He lauds the essay as the most faithful and iluable exposition that has yet appeared of the causes which have led to ic Indian mutiny ; but the signature , 'A Hindoo of Bengal / is excessively igue . Nevertheless , the statement will be read with interest , except by lose , perhaps , who will suspect its authenticity . If it be a native production , is very peculiar , resembling as it does in style and substance the declaiation of certain ex-Sudder Court judges and provisional members of overnment . Mr . Lewin , in the preface , is at . his . old work , reviling the nglisli , declaring that India is a more moral country than England , and ascribing the rebels as trodden worms that have turned upon their opressors . Mr . Lewin is an oiv . cle too violent and dreary to engage our Mention long ; we pass on to the Hindoo . This gentleman assures us that ir Oriental gem of Empire is 'in a fair way of shining on another head , ' id proceeds to indicate the reasons . Firstly , at the commencement of the resent year , ' a great many colonels in the Indian army were detected in a isk not less monstrous and ai'duous than tliat of Christianizing it . ' These idividuals the Hindoo styles ' earnest but crack-brained worthies , ' and he sserts that they began preaching ' and distributing tracts among the native [ ficers and soldiers . At the outset they were tolerated ; but when their iinistration grew serious , the Sepoys took alarm . They heard Hindooism ad Islanusm denounced ; the thirty-three thousand gods of India were ¦ eated as illusions ; Rama and Mohammed were loudly insulted . The luropean officers , according to this account , promised to make every epoy that forsook bis religion a Havikhir , every Ilavildar a Subahdartajor , and so on . Great discontent was the consequence . ' The danger icreased rapidly : ' only a slight spark was wanting to ignite the whole lack Army into a tremendous blaze which not all the waters of heaven ad earth could quench ; ' and , at this moment , the objectionable cartridges ere served out to the army . It was rumoured , at the same time , that iord Canning bad subscribed largely to missionary societies , that he had ime on a special mission to convert the people ; the rebellion burst out , nd ' a hundred years of excruciating misrule is answerable for it . ' The [ indoo pvofesses to believe that the annexation of Oude was an important luse of the movement . ' Many a simple villager among us , 'who never reamt of beholding his ex-majesty of Lucknow , has wept honest tears of jty over the sufferings which a fnithful and Clnistian ally brought upon ini . Thtt writer certainly understands the law of crescendo , for " tie next ilks of ' a hundred years of unmitigated , active , tyranny , of ' a pack of reedy vultures , a ' grinding bureaucracy . and a ' career of iniquity , as mmefuced as it was miraculously interrupted . ' The English , he says , be-• re the mutiny broke out , bad ' well-nigh made a desert of a most iertile nd fair land . ' The Moguls , he adds , knew bow to govern an empire ; ' now how to keep a shop . ' Finally , the Hindoo quotes a specimen of inective from a native print : —
" knguands mission im india ! " Yes , it is the mission to rob , the mi sion to plunder , the mission to kill . Av , it the mission to degrade n hundred and sixty millions of the degraded childreu of our Father . ' It in tlio mission to hurl down to a lower deep an ulrendv lowly , groelling herd of people . It is the mission to annihilate the lust lingering hopes of a ution , to use Mr . Mucnulny ' s words respecting the Circuits , ' once the first anion ^ itiona , pre-eminent in arts , pre-eminent in military glory , ' &c . It ia the mission to ibject to worse than Mogul tyranny a line r : iee of huinga , for generations bowed Uvnto the ground under the cruel despotism of Akbar ' n descendants . It is the niison to fully extinguish the lire of u people whose Hume has already been quenched by joa of fearful oppression . It in the mission to make u . s feul tvrnnnv , who , it might Xve been supposed , bad lost all sensibility to it , after throe hundred years of mistroirnment . " J fa Mr . Lewin presents thia as the work of a Hindoo of Bengal . As such , e suppose , it must be accepted . But it is a very weak , false , and wordy leceol writing full of tlic moat glaring exaggerations , and , from lirst to ist , not fortified by a particle of evidence
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NEW EDITIONS . £ " ™ ° "t ™ J > ort ™} ? ed itj ° » published during the past week lias been te extraordinary Autobiography of LutfnU < iJty translated by Mr . Eustwiek
for Messrs . Smith , Elder , and Co . A second perusal of the book has heightened our interest in it as a perfect specimen of Orientalism . Very opportune , also , is _ Mr . lloutledge ' s cheap edition of The Pricate Life of an JSaslem King , edited by Mr . William Knighton . No one knows enough of Oude who has not read this volume . It is more valuable than a hundred disquisitions , for it tells us what Oude was under its native princes . A second volume of The Recreations of Christopher North , formin « a tenth , volume of the ' Works , ' has been published by Messrs . Blackwood , of Edinburgh . It contains the exuberant Essay on JVIay-day , Christopher in his Aviary , the Four Courses on Dr . Kitchener , the Soliloquy on the Sensona and other miscellaneous contributions . To the library of cheap reprints of novels have been added Moss Side , by Marion Harland , author of ' Alone , * &o . ( lloutledge ) , and Men of Capital , by Miss Gore , in Biackwood ' s ' London . Library . ' Chichot tJie Jester , by Alexandre Duinas ^ in Hodgson ' s Parlour Library , deserves more than a woid of notice .
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NEW NOVEL . Howard Plunkett ; or , Adri ft in Life . A Novel . By Kinaban Cornwallis . 2 vols . Whittaker Mr . Ki ^ ahan Cornwallis is a -writer -who must be taken in time . We hope he is young . In fact , he must be very near the age at which schoolboys become midshipmen . But he has published already , Yarra-Farra , and . this Howard Phmkett , and he announces that which we had hoped never to see again—a book in four volumes quarto , to be called The Cosmopolite ! lteally , Mr . Kinahan Cornwallis is a formidable individual . Especially so , if the four quartos are to be in the style of these two post octavos . The stupid and crazy story is one of elopements , disguises , changelings , false heirs , murder , suicide , wreck , and spasm . " Kapidly has he thought—impetuously as he moulded , " says the author concerning himself . " Here at length , in all the palpability of type appears one woven thread of thought , ' one long continuous plot , ' but one only , the rest are for the hereafter . " We hope ' the hereafter'is not in a hurry . Not heated is the brain of Cornwallis , we are assured n&t morbid is his soul , nor is this work ' his chef d'eeuvre—no that is also reserved for the hereafter . ' The present will content itself , perhaps , with a title of nectared love , in which Angelina surrenders ' the clay of her lifetime to that of the grave , ' in which selfslaughter stains half the book with blood , and we have the following remarkable chapters : — CHAPTER XXIX . ! ! ! I ! ! ! ! CHAPTER LI . ! ! ! . ' ! ! ! ! ! CKAPTEK LIX . ECCE HOMO . Behold the Man—Colville O'Brien Pluukett ! ! ! ! ! ! ! CHAPTER LXXVII . THJJ PARRICIDE . ¦ ¦ * * * ' * ¦ ¦ * . # * * ' * * * - * ¦ *• And so on . Light reading this ! The hero , after three or four imprisonments in the House of Correction , one private whipping , several episodes of hard labour , and a term of transportation , is discovered to be heir to a gigantic fortune , is married to a peerless beauty ( possessor of 250 , 000 / . ) , dressed in a rich white poult de soie , amidst a bevy of bridesmaids with mantles of l'Ju « e ' n £ blue velvet , lined with white silk , and bonnets of white crepe , triaimee with taffeta . We hope the author will not be so mad as to publish his four quartos ' with illustrations on steel , ' or the chef d ' eeucre , which be reserves for ' . linrfinffm * '
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THEATRICAL NOTES . A nkw comedy was successfully produced on Monday night at the Olympic founded on a story by the Countcsa x » ii Muhat , and also dramatically derived , we believe , from a French original . Mrs . Leveson ( Alia . Stxhlinu ) , a rich widow , has n son Frank ( Mr . G , Vinino ) , who ia the willing cuptive of Edith JBaljorl
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FARLS DINNERS . On the Search , for a Dinner . By W . 11 . Hare . Hope and Co . Tiiovjtiii Mr . Hare announces himself as the author of this little volume , we fancy it is at least an adaptation from the French . At all events it ia made up from French materials . But that is of little consequence . The book is amusing in itself sis descriptive of certain phases of Parisian life with all of which even residents are not familiar , while by tourists they are generally unknown . There is the Fountain of the Innocents where , under long poles surmounted by impervious canopies ai * e ranged Madame liobert ' s tables and benches , at which the ragged poor sit down . Here , upon payment of-four sous , they receive a plate of soup , a piece of bread , a pinch of salt , a solid slice of beef , and a glass of wine . Six thousand workmen dine daily at this place—so states Mr . Hare , or his original . Next in order is the dinner at eight sous . This hi eaten under a more substantial roof , off a more polished table . It consists of soup , beef , a stew of cabbages , potatoes , carrots or beans , bread , and a glass of wine . Hising in the scale , we have the ' Diner a hi Seringue , ' at which the visitor ' s soup is pumped up for him by means of a gigantic syringe ; he must pay on delivery , or the syringe will withdraw the soup from his plate . A twenty-one sous dinner nnians a half-bottle of wine and two plates of viands ; but we arc now getting upon hi g h ground : the three-franc dinner is before us—soup , stew , iish , p ' oultry , salad , cheese , wine , demi-tasse and jwtit-verre . Above that most people know what is to be hail in Paris , and if they do not , Mr . llare ( if Mr . 11 are it be ) is not a very practical guide . He is purely and simply a gossip , tolerable lor hiilf an hour .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 1027, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2215/page/19/
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