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of old poetry and romance , yet showing that the winged serpent of mythology has its origin in the vast amphibious animals which floundered about heavily in the mud and ooze of the infant world , and made . uncouth sport amon « the primitive woods and jungles which were petrified into coal ages before man was made . Bat it is not merely in this twilight region that Mr . Broderip enchains the attention of his readers . Let him " come out into the broad daylight of existing animal life—let him . discourse of dogs and cats , of elephants and monkeys , of cuckoos , owls , swans , and singing birds—and he is " equally delightful and instructive . " He does not merely give you a generalized , scientific account of any animal ; he has an intense perception of its personal life and character , of its individuality , of that which makes it specifically wliat it is . Hence his book abounds with anecdotes that give a vitill conception of the particular bird or beast he may be describing — that reproduce the living creature with its instincts and affections , instead of presenting you with a dry anatomy , duly classed and ticketed in a museum . Very interesting is his account of dogs ; and hia chapter on cats gives some curious particulars with respect to those sleek satellites of the fireside—the most common of animals , yet the least regarded with respect to their character and origin . We are glad to find that he vindicates the poor feline race from the charge of having no affection—a charge which should for ever remain silent before that touching story of the cat which lay on the grave of its dead master . Mr . Broderip ' s work is so well known that it would "be superfluous for us to describe it at any greater length . It is a book for old and young—a book in which instruction , amusement , and humanity are linked together .
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PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICA . TIONS . Mr . Ruskiu ' s authoritative Notes on some of the Principal Pictures exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy , the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water-Colours 3 the Society of ' - British Artists , and the French Exhibition ( Smith and Elder ) , are now looked anxiously for by a number of ductile people , as something dogmatic and decisive , from which there is no appeal . The gentler sex is naturaLly a . d . d \ cte <[ jurare in rerba maghiri ; the indolent and indifferent majority of the public rejoice in ready-made opinions on pictures as on politics , and the herd of badauds are ever ready to follow any man who carries a loud voice and positive air , with true mutton-like docility . Besides , Mr . Ruskin ' s trenchant self-assertion of censorship creates a sort of tumult among artists , which is caught up and echoed by people out of doors , and enjoyed with all the zest of a scandal . A . 11 these reasons are
sufficient to account for the success of Mr . Ruskin ' s Notes , and we hear without surprise that their circulation is considerable . On the other hand , it is only fair to say that Mr . Euskin ' s authority is aiot wholly undeserved . A . man of intellect and culture , who has devoted years of conscientious and disinterested study to Art , for its own sake , and -who possesses a rarely equalled faculty of exposition , and a wonderful splendour and affluence of style , has fairly and honourably won a large and peculiar share of public attention to whatever he says on the single study of his life . We cannot , therefore , begrudge Mr . Ruskin . a degi'ee of authority which liis writings , if anonymously published , might not always obtain , but Mr . Huskin , now that he has won his spurs , seems disposed to ride tlie public patience and the public confidence a little hard ; his criticisms are not a whit less arrogant tlum in former' years , and they axa more and more
fragmentary and capricious . Mr . Ruskin is undoubtedly an experienced and accomplished critic , but he is more « i stylist than a critic ; his intuition is keen and vivid , and often profoundly suggestive ; but it would not be difficult to convict him of inconsistencies ot" judgment , and of what we may call coquetries of criticism strangely perverse . His present report of the lloyal Academy Exhibition is as remarkable for its silences as for its expressions of opinion : with the latter we for the most part agree , we cannot think his explanations of the former satisfactory . In one place , indeed , he confesses tliat he does not know " what is the matter" with him this year ; we detect the infirmity , and can only ascribe it to a vanity condemned to suicide bselfindul It is true that he describes his Notes nothing
y - gence . " " as more than "A circular letter to my friends about the pictures that most interest me in my first glance at the Exhibition . " Yet if he really believed them to be nothing more than this , -why excuse himself for passing over some pictures unnoticed because he is loth to discourage this painters by pointing out their fnults , and others , because his opinion differs from the public estimate , and others , because he should be sorry to lose the friendship of the artists ? Are such excuses worthy of such a critic ? Yet they are surely unnecessary in a mere circular for the use of his friends V Nevertheless , there are many good and true suggestions in these Notes , such as the remarks on the Pre-Raphaelite influence , its advantages and its excesses ; but Mr . lluskin leaves us in doubt of his decision as to the true relation of a textual
transcript of Nature to the proper purpose and prerogative of Art . Mr . Charles Boutell ' s Manual of British Archeology ( Lovell Reeve ) has the rare merit of being precisely what it pretends to be , and of working out its modest design with brief but ample completeness . We have heard that
a large proportion of the members of our archaeological societies know nothing of archaeology but the name , and would be somewhat puzzled to define thai . This compact and elegant little elementary volume of Mr . Boutell ' s will assist in enlightening this contented ignorance , and at least in enabling professing archaeologists to display something better than a dinnertable acquaintance with the subject . Its simple clearness , the result of thorough knowledge in the writer , entices , so to speak , the attentive reader into a pursuit for which it qualifies him by insensible degrees , and the high tone of refined culture which pervades the book communicates an involuntary enthusiasm for a study too often allied with pedantry and curious dulness . Mr . Boutell unaffectedly speaks of his little volume as a grammar ; it is , however , not so much the accidence as the essence of archaeology . The illustrations from tlie hand of Mr . Orlando Jewitt are executed with perfect care and intelligence .
A Popular History of British Birds' Eggs , by Richard Laishley ( Lovell Reeve ) . —Many of our readers , we dare say , have very little idea of the meaning and importance of Oology . The Rev . Mr . Laishley ' s handbook is written in the gentle , affectionate spirit of a true lover ^ of nature , anxious to make us more kindly disposed towards our little winged fellow-creatures , and to convert the malefic curiosity of boyhood into the intelligent and inquiring sympathy of maturer years .. The study of eggs is a guide to the classification of the genera of birds ; but Mr . Laishley * s book is in effect a description , of the birds as well as of their eggs , which are prettily and accurately represented in the accompanying illustrations . Chronology for Schools , by P . H . Jaquenet , edited by the Rev . John Alcorn , M . A . ( Longmans ) . This is a revised abridgment of the author ' s
Compendium of Chronology , with very considerable additions to the modern , part , including events so recent as the relief of Lucknow by Havelock , and the launch of the Leviathan . A very useful handbook for all sorts of people . Mr . ¦ Henry J . Slack ' s energetic and courageous Defence of the Free Press of England , a Lecture delivered at St . Mai tin ' s Hall , 28 th April , 1858 , is published , for the Press Defence Committee by Mr . Pattie . This committee was organized to resist , and , if necessary , defeat the prosecutions of two publishers—prosecutions not , we believe , as yet finally abandoned—and Mr . Slack , has done good service to a good cause by his bold , yet temperate , conclusive , and convincing nrgument . It is shameful that in England at this time of day such a cause should need an advocate ; but obsta principiis is a safe watchword , and Mr . Slack ' s lecture will not have been
away . Messrs . Holyoake and Co . have published a Life ^ of Dr . Bernard , by Lancet ' , suggested , of course , by the European celebrity attracted to the name of the exile who was lately tried for his life nt the Old Bailey , at the instigation of a foreign power , most righteously baffled , in the face of Europe , by the honesty and courage of a British , jury . This brief biography is calculated to gain respect for the character and conduct of Dr . Bernard , as one of those few men who in times of sycophancy and subserviency remain faithful to principles and convictions . A volume of Sonnets , by the Rev . John Eagles , M . A ., Author of " The Sketcher" ( William Blackwood and Sons ) , is composed partly of poetical conti'ibutions in that form to JiUicl-wood ' s Magazine , and partly of unpublished remains of the lamented essayist . As poetry these sonnets are not remarkable , but they are graceful in expression , and often striking in thought .
Scraps from the Kit of a dead Jiebel . By CD , L . ( John Chapman ) . — These metrical , sometimes unmetrical , fragments read like the unquiet selfquestionings of a brain tossing on a restless and uneasy pillow . They assume the form of verses rather for the sake of concision than from any poetical ambition in the writer : nervous , abrupt , agonized , vehement , they disclose the wrestlings of an ardent and mournful ' nature with the mysteries and perplexities of the lite that is , and is to be . A dry subject is not necessarily uninteresting , and even a technical work may be made agreeable to an untechnical reader if the writer avoid the mistake of confounding weight with strength and dulness with profundity . We have before us an example of a technical subject made generally readable , without any sacrifice of accuracy , in an Italian book recently published at Mantua ( Negretti : Mantova ) , Cenni di 2 ' oj ) ograjia Medico-lgenica . sill / a cilta , di Mantova , by Guiseppe Soresina , M . D . Here we find science and erudition tempered by an elegant facility of style which invites the unlearned while it satisfies the learned reader .
We were saying last week that the destiny of Piedmont is an object of unceasing interest to England . We need scarcely do more than name M . Louis Chiala ' s recently published volume , Utie Page d'llistoire du Goitvemement Itepre ' sentatifen Piemont ( Turin : Botta . Paris : Duprat ) , to recommend it to the attention of our readers . M . Chiala , who is ayoung publicist in hijjh repute at Turin , has written this work in French with a view to the widest possible publicity , and he proves himself thoroughly well qualified for the accomplishment of a discreet and delicate purpose . We shall examine it in detail at an early opportunity .
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BIRTHS , MABRIAGES , ATSfD DEATHS . STEPHENS . —On tho 15 th inst . ' , at tho Hollins , Staly-Y' » jfe tho wifo of the ltev . J . It . Stephens : % son . ? o m *~ " 5 ? ! ind » y . tho lCth iust ., at St . Mary ' s , Isles of Scilly , U » o Wifo of Compandor James Volt eh : a son . IIARPER-HAItVHY . -On tho 15 th " inst ,, at Nice , Edward llarpor , J . Bq . of York , barrister . at-law , to Laura Anna . S ' lioSifll Morrison Harvey / Esq .. of Thorpe ) SMlTIl-JlALlJlDAT .-On tho 18 th inst ., at Wargravo « ork » . WilHa . n JLojRh Smith . Msa ., of Gloi £ Xnu butjscx . to C j uorgliia Mary , oldest daughter of tlio late iiionoi iiailiuay . DKATHS BANKES . —At Lucknow , on tho CLIi April , from tho offeola of Hovcn-o wound * i received in action on th « 10 th March , I lllw » GporKo Hwwtroy Hanks . Cornut 7 th Hussars , IUiJ nSaT g 80 nOf > OlatC 1 UKht llo "'« eorgo Banko " , S 1 fcnrV ° i ° ! n ! V' ? ln lho offocta or n fall from G \ tuwE ? Wn b 0 nn H-M . S . Leopard , oil' Heli / . o , Robert bitiirko , lt . N ., second kou of Rydiuiy Smytho , JWsq ., A . R .. A .
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I London , Frulny Kvoninp ; , May 21 . Tjik close of tho wouk shows improved quotations iu funds , I mid tin ) markets generally havo a more animated appearance . Consols oponed thia morning' at the closing price of yesterday , and close l > 7 § to { for Uio account , and D 7 i for money . Yesterday notice was given that tho J uuo Exchequer Bills ( 1857 ) woro to bo sent in msxt month for renewal or to hi ; pnid oil " , tho torms of ronuwal to be \{ ov ' 2 . 1 . 5 s . 7 jd . p « r annnin , this caused sonic disnnpointment to tho holders who di < l not oxpeet ho heavy a reduction . At a mooting ; of tho Provincial Bank of Ireland on tlio 20 th inst . a dividend of 10 per e 2 ]; London and Hhu ; k \ vall , ( i ; ( Hi London , liriKhton , and South Coast , 107 . 11 ) 1 ); London nnil North-Western , 034 , 94 ; London and South - AVostorn , S ) 5 J , «« i ; Midland . Da
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1858, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2243/page/21/
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