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      possibly the receipt which we declaim against \ i ; i Lave its -admirers-. The work is illustrated with plates , and contains very easy directions for carvino-, whether fowl , fish , joint , or game .

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      Old Gingerbread and the Schoolboys . ( Smith , Elder , and Co . )—A- very pretty present for good boys—not too high-flown In its diction , simply and ' sensibly written and handsomely illustrated . A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek , Latin , and Modern Languages . By the Author of " Live and Learn . " ( J . F . Shaw . )—" Quotation is a good thiug , there is a community of mind in it ; classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world . " So said our Great Lexicographer in the last century , and few will be found disposed to question the soundness of the dictum in this . But the art of quoting- well is not easily attained . A show of learning may be made even bv the most illiterate with the help of a Dictionary of

      Quotations , but no real scholar will be imposed upon , or fail to detect the clumsy assumption of classical learning . We have a literature and a language of our owa so complete that we can dispense with the aid of Greek and Latin excerpts , and therefore to quote largely , as was the wont in the mediaeval ages , would now be placed to the seore of pedantry . But , though quotation is diminished , it is not wholly abandoned . An apt quotation very often gives force and point to an author ' s meaning . It is proper , therefore , that the unclassical should have an opportunity of clearing away , this

      stumbling-block to full enjoyment , and it is only by the resort to a Dictionary of Quotations that this object can be easily effected . The present " new dictionary" has several improvements on works of a similar kind . The number of quotations are in some respects amplified , and the explanations and illustrations are of a more detailed character . But then on a cursory glance over _ the work ¦ we detect sins of omission and commission . A "Nero" Dictionary of Quotations surely should contain some of the commonest quotations diffused over our current literature . For instance , why are entirely omitted such every-day Latin quotations as ¦ . " Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus " - ^ " Ne sutor ultra crepidam " - ^ " lncidit in

      Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim —and " Tvg > 6 l treavfov . " We could give a score of others equally hackneyed , that ought to find a place in any dictionary professing to be complete . Then again , under what form as quotations could the words " Gutta-percha , " " Grenadier , " " Inca , " " Dyspepsy , " and numerous other proper names , fairly take rank in such a work ? A little careful revision , it will be seen , is required to make this Dictionary of Quotations one of the best of its kind . Homely Ballads for the Working Man's Fireside . By Mary . Sewell . ( Smith , Elder , and Co . )—Rhymes for Little Ones . By the Author of " The Servants' Hall . " ( Smith , Elder , and C 6 . )—These are two very fresh and pleasant contributions to the happiness of the working

      or other man ' s fireside . Miss Sewell , with a large faith in the real worth , patience , and industry which animate the great mass of our industrial population , in simple verses tells stories of members of their own class , and teaches from their examples and faults the sound lessons of sobriety , frugality , and mutual forbearance . This book , introduced by the hand of charity into baskets Bent from rich to poor houses , with provisions or clothing , would give the gift a higher value . The ballads are really homely . They are not written ' , like most of those things , a ^ bout the poor , for the rich to read . They speak as much to as of the working roan and working woman . The Rhymes for Little Ones are rather for little ones whose papas and mammas can afford to bring home to the nursery tops , and mngic lanterns , and boxes of bricks . The very pictures , depicting impossible

      ninety capital wood engravings adorn this elaborate work , and will assist in giving the reader a complete idea of the curious and allegorical labours of writers oi past ages .

      pleasures , would only tantalise a poor man s child . Among other little ones , the book will be a favourite , with its score of pictures , and its blue and gold boards . The New Classical Lexicon . By T . S . Carr , M . A . ( Simpkin and Marshall . )—The learned author does not disguise the fact that it is a matter of great difficulty to bring within ordinary compass the vast amount of materials which go to form a perfect classical dictionary . But he believes that by a clear arrangement of the leading facts and a selection of the most salient pointB for illustration and compression carried to the utmost limits compatible with perspicuity may , to a groat extent , remove the difficulties . Mr . Carr has carried out his own idea in a very masterly manner . The explanations and arrangements , and general plan of the work , aro of the highest merit .

      Lebahn ' s Gorman Exercises . —The object of thla little publication is to furnish the learner of Gorman " with a series of exercises on the irregular verbs , "—and that object appears to bo carried out with great ability' —introductory exorcises on the declensions of the nouns and adjectives , aa also on the pronouns . The regular conjugation and proposition are given , and also . pieces for translation aro inserted . . . » • Holbein ' s Dance of Death . By F , Douco , Esq ., F . A . S . ( Bohn . )—Tho learned author of this dissertation appears to have collected all that is known on the subject of the " Dance of Death , " not only the popular series of Representations attributed generally to Holbein , but those of others who have worked at tho same Idea . About

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      MUSIC . Serenade pour Piano . Par E . Aguilar . ( Sebott and Co . ) Elegant and graceful , and a favourable specimen of the composer ' s style . . The Harmonised Airs from Moore s Irish Melodies With Original Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson and Sir Henry Bishop , for Two , Three , and Four Voices . ( Longman and Co . )—Moore s Melodies are the delight of all who appreciate charming music , and in no country is good music more truly appreciated than in England . These melodies are arranged for partsinging , and it is only necessary to point to the eminent musicians who have furnished the accompaniments to show that the work is worthy to find a place in every drawing-room .

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      THEATRES AND PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS . Drort Lane Tueatke : Pyne and Harrison Company . — On Monday last , Flotow ' s opera Martha was produced at this theatre , and has since been played on alternate nights with the Jiose ofCatt ' dle Playgoers who remember the ballet of the Ladg Henrietta , or the plot of the Maid of Honour—and there . are ' few ,. we apprehend , to whom one or other is not familiar— -will not require to be reminded of the plot . Other readers must be informed that the the of of

      interest turns , first upon sorrows a youth low degree , who tails in love at a statute fair with a lady of high birth and position , who has gone thither with a female friend in quest of distraction , and a new sensation . The hero of the tale , Lionel ( Mr . Harrison ) , and his intimate friend , Tlunt-et ( Mr . J . G . Patey ) , hire these ladies as servants , pay them earnest-money , according to the custom of the country , and insisting Upon the fulfilment of the bargain , in which they are supported by the sheriff , finally take them home . They soon find they have caught a brace of Tartarsand the ladies , that they are not unlikely to

      in reparation of his father's wrongs , by the Crown and a peer of England . Henrietta has had this intil mation from the Queen herself , to whom she bor& the token ring , and is now ready and willinjr t 0 b » his , and so » 0 n . It is Lionel ' s turn to coquet ? shetries again tho fascination , of the " Last liose of Summer , " but ho is obdurate . His " Yes , I hato thee , " is a most effective morceau , and bein <» set rather low , and sung without the slightest vocal strain , made a deep impression . He departs , Henrietta despairs , and affairs seem at a dead-lock ; but Nancy and Plunkct make up their own match ' less sentimentally ) and find a way out of the wood for the others in a very light , pretty duet , " 1 know well fanciful strain

      —I know too ; " as a , and us iiimsily scored withal , as may be heard at the Lyri que or the Bouffes at Paris . The last scene introduces a troop of very pretty girls in fanciful costume , who go through some pleasing evolutions in sections and open column , and repeat the scene of the statute fair by order of the lad ies , to make an imprcsssion upon Lionel . He enters despondingly enough , and is welcomed by a soft melodious chant . The stratagem succeeds ; he cannot resist tho spell , and again yields himself and his affections captive to the •• . Last Kose of Summer . " Although we il-el we have hardly done justice in our resume to the many quiet and unobtrusive graces of this work , though . we have named oiie or two of the more prominent

      pieces in the last two acts , we are at present unable to do more than promise ourselves a return to the subject in our next impression . The opera , on the whole , is a charming nujlange of the sympathetic and the comic , of . solo and concerted music , and cannot , we thinkj fail to win its way to an extended ^ popularity . Or-YMPic Theatre . —Last Monday night , a dull rumour crawled out and about that a piny had been damned at the Olympic . They said that , in spite of the propitious stalls and boxes , an elaborate attempt to take the town by storm had been crushed' into the general jam . of medriocrity by a few warning hisses from some nobodies . And so it was . These

      common geese asserted for the millionth time the fusty-musty old Horatian saw , which we are -ashamed to quote-, but which an over-weaning trust in his own power or luck had betrayed the author of the Hcl Vial into ignoring . The maxim has worn well now some eighteen centuries and a half , and may about as wisely be flouted by a dramatist as the mariner ' s compass by ah Argonaut . His experiment must have cost the amiable author sonic pain , and the management of the Olympic- too ; for though the offensive climax has been cut aw a }' , a prejudice has been created against the work— natural it may bebut still excessive and regrettable . As our subscribers will , no doubt , expect of us some slight ; V . <« hh ' of the

      incidents depicted , we must now proceed as brkfiy as we may to report of the amended version of the AW Vial . Isaac Rodenbero ( Addison ) , a merchant of Frankfort , has for h ' is partner in trade on « M ™ Keller ( F . Vining ) , and for his housekeeper a Mudoma liergmann ( Mrs . Stirling ) , the widow of an eminent chemist . A marriage is on the tapis iK-twcuii Keller's handsome son Karl ( W . Gordon ) and the Willow BerywaiiH ' s pretty daughter . \ tuint ( . Mi's Marston ); and the opening shows iho ¦ parents a tho young couple engaged in the negotiation oi preliminaries . Tho 4 i ! i of June being »> " I l " } ' ? happy clay , and the interview being endeJ , ' '• liodenbcrg appears , and announces to the wniuw A * V ^ I . * V ! # i M \ r ' " / l »|» M » . HI » 9 »¦•»» ¦•— .--. -. , d the accounts

      that the firm has been plundered , an falsified . She directs his suspicion upon // " / w <"''"" ( Robson ) , a half-witted chamberlain , whom \ ' im ~ berg had delivered from a madhouse , and the omy one of whoso coherent faculties is his « ratiiutu Hut suddenly called upon for a jlacon ol salts , biucreates suspicion against herself hy producing , » - stead , a phial of uliciuicul fluid , marked with direououa for decolouring writing . Taxed with the crime oy her master , she confesses it , hud by her P ««* loll " ° appeals on her daughter ' s account , induces ' •• " *¦ ¦<« . / to allow her timo for replacement of tho live tli »» J « J " thalors . This restitution , it is a greed , is to nu »« place on tho eve of tho day appointed lor wo > y- " ding of Ninna and Karl . Meanwhile , Hn-HiinJ falls sick . lie is watched by Hum with oik- *¦ ¦ "

      merit—by Madame Jiergmunn with another . I '"¦ ' happy woman at last , finding all her ellorts luu '" raise tho money—her own exposure and punwnim . and poor Niwufs blight and destitution >'' liuim '" ,, * resolves to cut tho knot of her troubles by mam »» away with her good employer , J . Jer ' » " * '"" , " casket of chemicals lays to her hand , bho > "' that ten drops from a certain red vial win (« » and she mixes them with tho Blek inwi " w " " ado . But tho eyo of Hans is upon " 0 | - '' , ' too , fluda hia way to tho casket , and »» in it a certain antidote , which will throw >•» " «? takos it into a traneo llko doatb . Helloviiig tU . it J « widow has administered poison , Han * w \ f , " master this liquor . Ho furiously quusf » ° »» f . W ^ JJergmawnx tohor doalingH with tho v als . Wil «" porute aoolnoM eho assures him thut the rod one con talus a roBtorativolhiuoronly ; and tho second nci

      , pay dearly for their frolic . Their employers insist upon teaching them to spin flax , which gives opportunity for the no w celebrated spinning-wheel scene , and for several quartetts , duos , and airs , including our own " Last Kose of Summer , " which Ilerr Flotow has taken for the backbone of the opera , and which he lias complimented our national repertory by thoroughly popularising throughout Germany . The spinning-wheels and the household being at last put to bed , Henrietta and Nancy are rescued from their embarrassing position hy-Lord Tristan , a fussy old gentleman who had accompanied them to the fair and been turned out of it by the peasantry for

      his interference with the usual course ot business . But they have not passed unscathed through the furnace of admiration ; for though Mr . Plunket consoles himself at a roadside pothouse with a colourless buffo song upon tho noble theme of Beer , Misses Henrietta and Nancy no sooner get back to the aristocratic glades of Richmond Park and the company of their friends , than they find themselves , if not in love , at least in what they are pleased to term an enigmatical state of feelings . But tho footsteps of tho love-sick Lionel and liis friend straying that way too , a meeting takes place . Tho former offers his lovo to Lady Henrietta , and taking tho liberty of a kiss , gets repulaed . Ho then claims her as his servant , very much of course to tho Burprine of Lord Tristan , tho Pulonius of the hunters

      play , and of tho chorus of servants and . These take him into custody on tho spot for his impertinence , but Henrietta orders hia release , and he departs , leaving behind him a ring—proof of his noblo birth—just as a very beautifully arranged royal hunting procesfiion crosses tho scene . In the last act wo are again introduced to Pluuftefa farm-house , and to Lionel in a state of mortal love-sickness . Ho is in such a bad way that Plun / tet deplores hia imminent death , and prays Heaven for mercy in one of tho moijt delicate- ballads of tho opera . v Lionel will eurely die , " is a melody of the modern German school , eminently adapted for tho drawingroom , but being almost too refined to catch tho ear of tho multitude , did not receive an encore . Henrietta and Nancy next come tp the rescue Having wrought poor Lionel to distraction , they now console him with the intolligoiico that ho is Karl of lX'rwont , enriched ,

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      1094 T HE LEADER . [ No . # 7 ^ ctoj 3 erJj 6 , _ 1858 .

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      Mr . Ckockford has announced that he is about to remove the Critic and the other publications which he has for many years ¦ conducted , to 19 , Wellington-street North—next door to the Morning Post offices . The Field is about to shift its quarters from Essexstreet to D'Ovley ' s Warehouse , No . 3-iG , Strand .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 1094, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2264/page/14/