On this page
-
Text (5)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
now a long oblivion is yawning to received it . aSThe critic ' s scOrn of the occasional shallowness of the author , and we applaud the outspoken expostire which its receives . But then we cannot overlook the positive merits of Mr . Buckle ' s wkj * has stuff in it which will rescue it from that lunbj into which the wrathful critic so cooUy consign s it " Virgil and Tasso" isa scholarly contrast of the respective poetical merits of these ancient and modern immortals . " Goethe ' s , Ballads , and Minor Poems" enabled the reviewer to falis ^ ewhat foul of . the translators , Messrs ^ ytoun and Margin and notwithout some shadow of reason , ? ™ £ ? . * ; L " Sinlessness of Jesus"is beyond our sphere of criticism . AT « Zwmgli Reformers , " " The Senunppre Mission , " and « ThelateBaron Alderson' all extremely readable and full of information . The number altogether is a very good one . NEw Quarterly Review . —The number contains a general retrospect of the literature of the quarter , and a fair proportion of works , consisting of history , memoirs , travels , poetry , and novels . There is also a military article , "On the Armies of the Great Powers " several reviews , including Masson on Milton , L , ord Campbell on Shakespere , and the Life of Jerrold . On the last , the reviewer lays rather a heavy hand ;—too heavy . . ¦ , Eclectic . —The opening article is a fervent critique devoted to the labours of Carey , Marshman and Ward , in Serampore . Arago ' s Popular Astronomy follows . The concluding article ; is a brief notice of the late Hugh Miller ' s Sketch-book of Popular Geology . The rest of the number is composed of papers . on general subjects . Constitutional Press . —New Series , No . 1 . —This publication is now converted into a monthly ; and is to be devoted to a review of politics , literature , the Church , the Drama , and the Fine Arts . Here is a wide field of controversy ; but the critics are conservative , and therefore the field is limited in one direction . " The Reform Bill , " " The Literature of the Month , " " Various Versifiers , " " The Church , " : " Italian Opera , " The Drama , " " The Fine Arts , " " Suppers of the Tories / ' are the titles of the articles . Much of this body of writing is hi an exceedingly bad spirit ;—malignant and chilling . Journal of Psychological Medicine . —New . Series . No . XIV . —This is a publication that always contains several interesting papers . An article on " Literary Pools , " in the present number , is remarkably good . It particularly treats of Gruillaunie , Postel , and Christopher Smart . The subject is also illustrated by many other instances . National Magazine—Part XXX . —This is excellent . Mr . R- B . Brbugh ' s tale of Miles Cassidy progresses well ; and the engravings in the number are judiciously selected and skilfully executed .
Untitled Article
BOOKS RECEIVED . 2 he Broad Arrow : being Passages from the History of Maida Gwy tinhorn , a Lifer . By Olin 6 Keeze . 2 vols . Riphartl Bentley . Hollywood Hall : a Tale of 1715 . By James Grant . Routledge , VVarnes , and Co . Moutledge ' s ShaJtespeare . Part XXXVII . lloutledge and Co . The English Cyclopceclia . Part III . Bradbury and Evans . , _ ' The Virginians . No . XVIII . Bradbury and Evans . A Popular History of England , jno . XXXIX . Bradoury and Evans . The Gallery of Nature . Part VI . W . and R- Chambers . La Follot . No . CLI . Simpkin and Marslial . The Minister ' s Wooing . Parts III , and IV . Sampson Low , Son , and Co , The Minister ' a Wooing . Parts III . and IV . ( cheap edition ) . Sampson Low , Son , and Co . Songs for the Suffering . By TUomns Davis , M . A .
J .. W . Parker and Sons . Frascr ' s Magazine . No . CCCLII . 3 . W . Parker and Sons . VTrTT The Comprohvimvo History of England . Nos . XVII . and XVlil . Ulackio mid Sons . Chambers ' s . Enoyvlopcadia . Part I . W . and It . The ^ NaTlo ' nal Magazine . Part ; XXX . \ V . Kent ( 1 X 3 ( 1 Co , The Gourmet ' s Guide to Rabbit Cooking . W . Kent and Co . , , , Ten . Thousand Wonderful Things . "Ward and Loch . \ The Ladies' Treasury ., No . XXVI . Ward and Locli . The Amateurs ' Magazine . No . VII . Piper , Stephensou , and Co . The Englishwoman ' s Journal . No . XIV ., Vol . III . Piper , Stophoneon , and Co . Kimpton ' s Magazine for Boys . No . II . Boaworth and , Harrison . The Burled Titan . A Drama , by FvankUn Lolfchlld . Robert Hardwickc . . Titan . No . CLXIX . Jumps Hogg , Tho Christian Examinor . No . CCXII . Boston : Crosby , Nichols , and Co . London : E . Whltflold . iVoio Zealand and tho Canterbury Colony < , A Pamphlet , by Lord Lyttleton . JE . Stuudibrd .
Untitled Article
The second volume of the translation of Shakespeare ' s works , by Francis Victor Hugo , has been published by Pagnerie , of Paris . M . de Chasseloup Laubat , the new Minister of Algeria , has decided that he will in future appoint military and naval officers to be governors of
coloes . The Marquis of Waterford is the third peer who , within a short period , lost his life from hunting . The late Earl of Harewood and Lord ITitzhardinge died from bad falls in the field . The French , ship-of-tlie-line Alexandre , having been fitted out for sea at Cherbourg , has been placed under the orders of Admiral Jehenne , and is to proceed with him to the Mediterranean . According to the latest intelligence received from Gorruckpore , the Nana is encamped at the foot of the hills , with 3 , 000 troops at the outside . It is reported that he has now no power , but goes about from place to place disguised , and is known to very few of the rebels . He now fears treachery .
The French screw transport Entreprenante , which has her guns protected on the new system , is about to be dispatched on a special mission to the Indian seas . The Moniteur de la Girande publishes a letter addressed from MM . Petin , Gaudet , and Co ., of JRive-de-Gier , on . the subject of the Armstrong cannon , and which they claim as being their inven-On Sunday morning , at 8 o ' clock , the tower of the parish church of Basford , near Nottingham , fell with a fearful crash , burying with it a portion of the edifice . The church had for the past two years been undergoing restoration . The damage is great , being estimated at 2 , 000 ? .
. Mr . W . F . Pinlaison , of the Home Circuit , a barrister of 15 years ' standing , and author of several legal works , has announced himself as a candidate for the judgeship of the Sheriffs' Court . It is said that the Kev . Alfred Poolc , late curate of St . Barnabas , intends appealing to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against the Archbishop of Canterbury ' s recent decision . On Wednesday several gentlemen were . invited to a private view of a new type composing machine , in practical operation in the printing establishment of Messrs . Bradjbui'y and Evans , Whitefriars . The machine is tho invention of Mr . Robert Hattersley , of Manchester , and seems to be simple in construction and efficacious for its purpose .
The members of Fitzrqy Episcopal Chapel have presented the Rev . William Yates Rookor , with a testimonial of tlieir affection for his character and estimation of his preaching . The testimonial consisted of a facsimile of the Bible presented by the Bible Society to her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and a purso containing 125 guineas . Cardinal Wiseman , on Sunday last , in the chapel of the Convent of Mercy , Blandford-squaro , ordained live gentlemen as priests of the Roman church :- * - William Manning , John Richards , R . Bowden , — Gouch , and Cyr . iL Forster , all convertato tUolioman Catholic faith .
Letters of a roconit date from Teheran announce tho determination come t 0 ky the Persian Government of extending the commercial relations of the country with ISurone . With this view Mr . W . J . Stevens has been appointed Consul of his Majesty , the Shah , at Malta . Tho Pays , aftor decrying several oi , the warlike discoveries recently brought into notice , and especially the Armstrong gun , tolls us that no faith ought to bo placed in Captain Norton ' s liquid flro , a vast amount of exaggeration respecting which has pro vailed . Tlio Pays q . uostious a truth which every chemist admits ..
, A monument is to bo erected in St . Paul ' s to tho lato Bishop of London , a sum of i , 2 U ( r t , being nt tho disposal of a committee for tho purpose . They luvvo issued , invitations to compete to no lower than eighteen artists ,
Mr . R . Hitchman , chief constable of . the Devon-r port Constabulary force , has ueeh appointed chief constable of the city of Norwich Police force . Mr . Hitchman was formerly an active member of the metropolitan police court , , A return of the names and locality of all the literary , scientific , and artistic institutions which have obtained from the certifying barrister certificates of exemption from local rates , has ^ Ocnprinted on the motion of Mr . Cowper , M . P . The list of . tho institutions fills a . space of nine pages .
The Madras 2 Hmes . mentions a rurnour that the leading Hindoos and Mahomedans at the Presidency have arranged the preliminaries for a monster anti-missionary meeting . For the redress of their supposed wrongs , and the attainment of their remedy , a memorial is to be presented to the Secretary of State for India . The Staffetta of Turin states that a society of ladies has been formed in that city to supply the military hospitals and ambulances with lint and linen bandages in case of war . the
The Pope a . ^ i > Fishkkmex . —On the 25 th the final trial was made of the railway from Civita Veccliia to Rome . The chief contractor , M . Debrousse , with three carriages and 250 fishermen , performed the journey in 2 f hours . This gentleman seems to have sincerely believed that the successor of St . Peter was a fisherman . Impressed with this happy idea , lie supplied himself with a quantity of fish , and presented himself to the Pope and the Cardinals with , this merchandise , to the surprise of all Rome . The Holy Father received M . Debroussc , the fishermen , and the fish , in the Ducal Salon . He smiled , it seems , according to custom ; tapped his
stomach , according to custom ; and bestowed plenary indulgences upon all who liked to pick them up . Then , by way of . completing his generosity , he gave to each of the 250 fishermen a small copper medal of the Immaculate Conception ! The men , who expected a very different sort of gift , were , it appears , terribly chopfallen . " He would have done better to give us a ' papetto ' to drink his health with , " some of them said . One even talked of taking back liis fish , and the re st seemed disposed to follow the example . M . Debrousse , seeing the position of affairs , quelled the disturbance by crying- aloud , " Now , my lads , come along with me , and I'll pay for a breakfast for you . " After this all - murmuring
ceased . -T . P . VDDY Tuhxeu Ixiiun . —A correspondent of the Daily Ifews , exploring the Fraser River , in company with some British officers , had got awfully drenched , and were in a sad plight , when they came upon , a small Indian colony . " After a demonstration of signs , gestures , and broken English on our part , and a series of grunts and ventriloquial mutterings on theirs , which did not seem to bring about a mutual ' understanding , a voice , issuing from , beneath-a dirty blanket on one of the sleeping shelves , asked , 'If it ' s lodgm ' s we were afther ? ' The speaker then an ^ riouueed , by way of introduction , that he was Miirty Kelleher . from Macroom , in county Cork . Mr . individual
Elvvyn suggested that perhaps the was a travelled Indian ; to which Muvty Kelleher replied , ' The devil a bit , but a real wandering Irishman . ' Murty then turned out , and explained the mystery . He and his mate , an American , had been frozen up in the neighbourhood , and having no other resource they put the palaver on the Indians , and by way o f requiting them for their hospitality they took wives a-piece for the winter . Murty had the sunny side of the bargain , for liis companion was a really comely lass , who seemed to hang with rapture on his eouxing smiles and mellow tones . Nothing could exceed their kindness a attention , and we reluctantly bade adieu to Murty and his nut-brown niiurt , who stook upon the bank wafting kind wishes in our
w&lcc . '' Wajxino fou a . Tuaits . ' —I don't know anything so tedious as waiting at a second-class station tbr a train . There is tho ladies' waiting-room into which gentlemen may not go , and the gentlemen ' s waitingroom in which tho porters generally smoke , and tho rcircslimont-rodm , with ita dirty counter covered with dirtier cakes . And there is tlic platform , wliieJi you may walk up and down' till you tiro tirud . i ou go to the ticket-window half-a-dozen Union ' ^ your ticketha boon wornod by tho conipany « MiJa
, ving that you must l > o prepared to start at leas en minutes before the tmin is duo . J 3 ut tlio mi nsido knows bottcr , and dot-s not upon tlio Jitllo lio o , to which you Imvu to stoop your J . oi , » two minutes before tho lime >»« " »« l ^ yuui Obpavture . "J'hon tlioro arc livo fat Inrmors , tluoo oia wonioii ami u butcher at the apoturo , and not lud-ZZo ^ loU ^ Zl to struggling « 7 "» »» Xl aI nlacse vou make up your uilud to be MX behind . At CT howovir you So get your ticket just as the nnco «« ip but hearing that oxeitlng sound , vo norvouBly omm your oluwgo Into your pocket WSiSSt ooiintiiiir Jt , and nftorwnriU feel quito con wSJSrtlmt jSuLvo luBtu shilling in tho truiisoe tion .- — Tr ollops .
Knnrt! Vvn Xiuwivo Xilj^Iji, V Xuu
Wet and X > ry , or the DocJis of London . By Caple Court , Esq ., of the City . Baily Brothers . The London , Review . No . XXIII . Alexander Homceojmthic Harid-bQok and Guide . W . Freeman . O'Byrnes' Post-qffice Directory for 1859 . O'Byrnes T ^ iYstlicrs ' ' Foot-path ' s bettoeen Tmo - Worlds , &c . Bell and Daltlv . The Westminster Review . No . XXX . John Chap-The British Quarterly Review . No . LVIIT . Jackson and Walford . The National Review . No . XXVI . Chapman and Davenport Dunn .. Nos . XXI . and XXII . Chapmanand Hall . .
Untitled Article
Ho . 472 , ApkIL 9 , 1859 . 1 T B E LJS AD E B , 463
Untitled Article
MISCELLANEOUS-ODDS AND ENDS
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1859, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2289/page/15/
-