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Trussing , fyc , -by Mrs . Smith , Forty Years Frofessed Cook to most of the Leatiin" - Families in the Metropolis ( Chapman and Hall ) . The ^ Initials , by the Author of " Quits , " is a new and cheap edition ( Bentley ) of a successful novel by an English lady married in Germany , who writes with picturesque freshness and originality .
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This Atlantic Telegraph . —All the- wire of the-Atliintic telegraph is out of the tanks at ICeyhain . Aftcr tlic Niagara lias received on « hundred nnd forty-two miles from tho steam-vessel Adonis , - \ vbicli arrived from tlic Thames last Satuvday , and forty miles now in com- I pletion at the manufactory , her portion will bo on board . I l ? rom Newfoundland there is telegraphic communication i with New Orleans , dintant 8710 miles following tho j course of tho wire ; and , when the Atlantic cable is laid , , direct communication will be had with Constantinople , thus uniting the four continonts . It ; 13 calculated that ii messnge leaving the . Turlusli capital at two o'clock in the afternoon -will reach Now Orleans at six o ' clock tho same evening . The first message from Constantinople direct left on Sunday evening , May 2 , at 11 . 45 , and arrived in London at 8 . 57 in the evening of the same day , London time , beating tho sun noarly three hours . Tho departure of the ships on tho experimental crui . se will probably take place on tlio 25 th inst . Mr . Whitchouac ,. the company ' s electrician , proposes to usa on board each ship , a battery which t » hall bo so arranged as to throw a current eonatantly into the wire , and tlius keep it what is termed " permanently charged" by current equilibrium . " By this method , either vessel
; will , it is expected , be able to ascertain at any time if ( the -wire id receiving a current from tho other , without waiting for a definite signal . A Mad Lettish-YVjutku to the Quick * . —A gentleman from Hereford , who has practised ns an architect , has been arrested in London- on a charge «) f writing a letter to the Queen , in which ho required of her Majesty to render up to him her office as head of the Church , ns j Christ had specially deputed him to that service . It is needless to say that he is inaanc ; and it appears that , I since lie was taken , into custody , he has been very vio-, lent .
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- —¦ » - - London , Friday Kvoniiif-i . May 1-L Tukkij has heeii a disposition to roceijoiu the funds all tho week ; tho uncertain stato of thu Ministry , which would I . seem to live from < luy to day , and tho renewed drain of gold to the Continent are- twines thiiL explain tint weakness of tho funds . There is . doubtless , 11 vory consUlurablo Jioar
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JUUT 11 S , jMAHRIAOKS , A . S 1 D DEATHS . JHK . TUS . HAMILTON . —On the i : ith March last , at Mount Mitoedon , Melbourne , Victoria , tlio wil ' o ol Thomas lAu-rier lLiuuilton , I 0 k ({ . : 11 son . MONKLAND . —On tho 21 st March , at Bt-llur . y , Madras I ' rflNidency , tho \ vlfo of Col . Moiilthind , 74 tl > . JkliKhhuulors ; a son . ltUMUA LL — On tho 5 t . h ivist ., nt Lisbon , tho ¦ wife of ThomuM Humbull , Esq . ; imon . MARRIAGES . CROSa-ltUSSMLL . —On Timmlay , tho 4 tli inst ; ., ah Sfc , Mary ' s , Oharlmuy , Oxon , tho Jtuv . John Dross , of
Olinrlbury , to Anno Maria , youngest daughter of Thomas Rus " bell , Ks <| ,, of Chertsuy , . Surrey . SAl'l- 'MliY—DUNN . —On tho llth inst ., Joseph John , oldest son of John Sall ' ory , lOsq ., of Hackney , to Mary Elizabeth , daughter of J . M . Dunn , Esq ., of King-strout , IMnsburysciuu . ru . DEATHS . 1 JKN 1 SON . —On the 3 rd March last , at Hobarf . Town , Tosniaiiia , of inllamniivtion of tho liraiu , KoUcrl . William , eldest son of Paymaster Samuel Jicuison , of Jl . M . 's 3 'Jfch ltcKimont of Foot . MAXWKhL . —On tho 20 th March , at the , Island of St . Thomas , W . 1 ., of yellow fovoi % William i \ Iiixvv <* ll , ith olficcr in tlie Royal West India Mail NLtwim 1 ' ackct Company , in tht ) 2 * J ! tid year of his ago , Miird son of J . G . Maxwell , J 5 sq ., of OaklaiKlM , Devon .
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- ¦ » ¦ " THE EOYAL ACADEMY . ( second notice . ) No exhibition of the Royal Acadekiy , since the first year of Prc-Kaphaelisrn , and of the Leader ' s existence , lias presented so many points for notice as does the exhibition which is now open . The year 1 S 50 was not , indeed , remarkable for the number of its important pictures . On the contrary , it was a bad year for art , except—and we acknowledge the greatness of the exception—that it brought the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood before the world . Academical dulness had culminated just at that period ; and the crude , inchoate idea of Pre-Kaphaelism was , by natural consequences , the more startling . But the simple earnestness which characterized these juvenile fathers of a strange school was not long in gaining proselytes from the ranks of tlieir stoutest opponents . About midway between the Pre-Uaphael . ite year , 1850 , and the present time , it was perceived that the leaven of Pre-llap > haelism had begun to change the character of these annual competitions . And now that the fraternity has got clear of its early encumbrances , there are few who withhold from its members the credit of having , at the -very least , set tlie great body of English painters thinking how they might contrive to make their pictures more faithful to Nature . In truth , we believe tlint the praxis of Mr . Millais ( supposing him to represent Pre-Raphaelism as its original leader ) has been to a greater 01 less extent adopted by ' very ¦ many' painters whose names were famous along
Mr . Hook is clearly one of these . He may , like Mr . Paton and Mr . Lewis , « conscientiously object to being classed with the followers of Mr . Miixais ; but for all that , the pictures of Mr . "Hook are decidedly Pre-Raphaelesque . lie has ] three this year ; and it is difficult to say which is best . The beautiful and ( fitly-named " Pastoral" ( 326 ) , at once realistic and imaginative , comes with most freshness after the scenes of coast-life which he gave us last year ; but we ] -cannot pronounce it intrinsically superior to either of its fellows . What is most praiseworthy in all three pictures ia the just distribution and apportionment of work . The " landscape-painter" and the " figure-painter , " so complacently distinct as we too often find them , are blended in Mr .. Hook . The false and foolish practice of splitting art into several avocations—a practice which Mr . Thackeray has ridiculed in the person of a distinguished Royal Academician who declined to give any opinion with respect to the outline of a horse on the ground that " he was not an animal-painter "—is most glaringly j displayed in the matter of landscape-painting . Until lately , that is to say , until the principle of the Pre-llaphaelites had become dominant , it was held quite excusable in a painter of landscapes to show the most complete innocence of the human form . This has always been the one great blemish in the works of Mr . Anthony , and it may possibly explain the singular reticence of Mr . Buskin with regard to that most original and refreshing artist . To return to Mr . Hook ' s " Pastoral , " we notice with satisfaction that the poetiy , like the poetry of Tennyson ' s May Queen ., is in accord with modern objects and modern j ideas . The couplet from SSpenser , nevertheless— 1 Then blow your pypes , shepherds , till you be at home ; Tlie night highest fast , yts time to begoneseems no anachronism . The " Coast Boy gathering Eggs" ( 453 ) calls to mind ¦ JShakspeare ' s picture of the samphire-gatherer , suspended half-way down a { precipitous height . On a jutting ledge of rock nearest the spectator is a basket ; containing the eggs , perhaps a trifle exaggerated in size , which the boy is supposed to have collected . A sea-gull swirl a . at his feet , and appears to be screaming an angry protest against the spoliation . The third picture by Mr , Hook has no title in . the catalogue , but its character is indicated by the fine verse from Proverbs— " Children ' s children are the crown of old men , and the glory of children arc their fathers . " In this picture , which is numbered in the catalogue 232 , tlie artist carries out successfully a method of colouring- which Mr . Redgrave has tried with only partial effect . The tone is at once bright , deep , and full . The care so tenderly "bestowed on the painting of grasses , pebbles , moss , and other natural minutiae , never becomes dry and formal with Mr . Hook as it is apt to become with painters who finish their works very highly . Mr . O'Nbiix was always a painstaking artist ; but he never appeared to us a very powerful one until we saw his picture " Eastward Ho !—August , 18 ;> 7 " ( 384 ) . It is tho scene of troops embarking for India , with the leave-takings at the ship ' s side , down which the friends of oilicers and private soldiers are making tlieir way into the boats which are to take them back again to shore . Jn
venturing upon a far bolder effort than he had yet made , this artist has relia-I quished none of his habitual care and delicacy . It is curious to observe the coincidence of subjects this year . We do not mean the old selections which ; occur regularly every year ; but themes derived from actual experience or suggested by some prevalent state of popular feeling . There are the two pictures by Mr . Ldaed , painted under the influence of the same sentiment as that which , has animated Mr . O'Neijli ,. " The Girl I left behind Me" ( 242 ) is an ambiguous name for a picture which contains two sisterly figures , embracing sorrowfully in front of a mirror , which mirror is made to reflect an open window and the street beyond , and a regiment marching past . The girls whom Mr . Luaiu > or somebody else has left behind , have , it is easy to perceive , just turned away from the window , and are preparing to indulge in decorous grief . " Nearing Home" ( 444 ) has greater merit than Mr . Luard ' s other picture . The scene is the declc of a vessel , on which , an invalid officer ^ tended . by a young lady , is taking the air . A land-bird lias alighted near his feet , and * , as well as other passengers , watches the sign with evident delight . The character of the entire \ composition is that of a picture painted by an artistic traveller rather than , a travelling artist . We believe that it ) thus describing an appearance we are indicating a fact . While-before this picture of Mr . Luakd ' s , we niay as well mention that a calmly beautiful view of Lulworth Cove , Dorsetshire ( 443 ) , hangs next it . As a piece of landscape-painting of the honest kind it will raise the name of the artist , Mr . Fjsnn . A kindred work , though the scenery is of a different character , is " The Warren" ( 526 ) , painted by Mr . Oakes . One of the ideas which , as we have remarked , have struck two or more painters ^ is the idea of Paillasse" in his private relations . It has ] been discovered that our friend the mountebank has private relations , together with organs , senses , dimensions , affections , like any other man . So the antithesis of tumbling and tribulation , of care and motley , serves the painter for easy moralizing . 1 There is the vagabond element strongest and uppermost of all the elements- in 1 Mr . Piuth ' s already famous " Derby Day" ( 2 L 8 ) , where " we-have the episode of ^ a hungry little Pierrot diverted from his performance by the sight of pigeonpie , ftliss Solomon has worked out the same little bit of cheap philosophy and » sentiment in the picture called " Behind the Curtain ( 1094 ); and then there is rick Lafe 30 much 111 the and feelin
! Mr . < Ja : r : s ' Weary . ( U ) , very style g of Miss Solomon ' s work . Of a better , truer school of thought , is that sternly sad picture , by Mr . Wai / lis , of the stone-breaker who has died at his work . Strangely , this picture has its correlative in another Pre-Ttaphaelite work ' , by Mr Brett , called the" Stone-breaker" ( 1089 ); only Mr . Biiisxa- ' s is a living stone-breaker , not a dead one . Mr . Waixis does not give any name to his picture , but quotes one of Cari / xt / e ' s grandly pathetic outbursts from Sartor Resartus . The indistinctness of the form as it lies in the gloom and awful stillness of gathering night ; the dark , silent , melancholy landscape , with its low mountain range reflected solemnly in the water and closing in the scene , are conceptions of the most truly poetical nature . One object , which we fear may be misinterpreted ( though not from any fault of the painter ) , is the lean , hungry stoat , slinking towards the dead ' mail . We do not read this incidental feature as a horrible fact , but as a profoundly suggestive type and embodiment of famine triumphing over humanity . We do not find that Mr . Egg ' s " Triptych" ( 372 ) quite justifies , oa inspection , the praise generally lavished upon it . By this time all readers know that the subject is a wife ' s frailty and her terrible punishment . The central picture contains the scene of the discovery and its first conequence ; the husband sitting at a table , his pale face fixed in an expression of unforgiving hopelessness , and sunk in a stupefaction of dismay , his hand clutching the intercepted note ; his wife , a richly dressed woman in the pride of still youthful beauty , prostrate at his feet ; tlieir children , arrested in their play , gazing wonder-stricken . On either side of this group is a scene denoting the misery which has pursued the adulteress , and the sorrow which , has fallen on her children . She herself , bearing a meagre babe at her breast , crouches in one of the horrible river-side recesses of our city ' s main thoroughfare—in one of the dark arches , that is to say , of the Adelphi . The third compartment holds a contemporary picture of the young daughters oC that wretched pair , sitting at their bedroom window and gazing on tlie same moonlit river which flows by their fallen mother ' s feet . The father lias recently died , and the orphans mourn a double loss . In carrying out hid painful theme , Mr . Egg has shown much aptitude for histrionic grouping ; but he has , in more than one point , betrayed a very careless habit of dealing with plain facts . To take one glaring instance from the middle picture : there is the card-| house which the children have built , and which ia falling beneath their hands , in an obviously symbolical , but not by any means practicable , manner . While the foundation has disappeared , the superstructure remains firmly balanced , the apex of the two top cards being preserved as rigidly as if their base re-sted on a steady , even surface . That this could not occur for the briefest possible space of time we need not insist . Each time that we look at Mr . J . Clank ' s picture , the " Doctor ' s Visit" ( 89 ) , 1 our admiration of its unaffected , simple pathos , and perfect truth of incident \ increases . It is so complete a picture that criticism is folfc to be here a matter of fact , and not in any way dependent upon mere liking of this or that school . The characteristic , indeed , of the design is , that it leaves no doubt aa to the universal approval of all who may see it .
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TSTo . 425 , Ma . y 15 , 1858 . J THE LEADER . 475
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1858, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2242/page/19/
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