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in a small , dirty , low , whitewashed room in a shabby little house in a back street : — - "I af terwards heard that the king and queen did not live on very good terms . She said that he would still ; consider himself a king , and when she sent for things from the bazaar he pronounced them notgood enough for him , and that he would not smoke the tobacco when it came , because he did not consider it nice enough . lie complained that she had plenty of concealed money and jewels , which she would not sacrifice to his comforts ! so that Mr . Ommaney was obliged to allow him four annas a day , r-about sixpence . "
Verily and indeed has the house of Tiniur come to grief . " Four annas a day , —about sixpence , " fbr ° table money , and never an ounce of tobacco to his likinsr One is tempted to think it just as well Major Hodson came across the old gentleman under circumstances which compelled the preservation of liis worthless life . On the vexed " mutilation ' ¦ question Mrs . Coopland speaks in such a very positive manner that we give her testimony , for what it is worthy in her own words : — -
¦ " Dr . James and his wife stayed a few days with the Kirkes . Poor tilings !^—they were shortly afterwards killed in the mutiny at Sepree , in a very shocking . ! I could relate many horrible things that happened to people whom I knew , and describe how they were killed , but J wish to spare the feelings of their friends at home . 27 «> I know , from authentic sources , t hat people were mutilated in the most frightful manner ; a friend of mine saw two ladies in * CaIcutta who had had their noses and ears cut off . These facts are doubted by many people in England . "
Strong words , but the facts in . darkness as before . " Friends of mine , " and " authentic sources , '' . are just the authorities that the anti-niutilatiqiiists term twaddlers , and worse . We are not—be it observed- —contradicting our authoress ( thotigh we hold a ro \ -ihg commission from "high authentic authority" to challenge all comet ' s ) ; because , though a witness ,-according to the opening of the above passage ,. she does but dwindle into a retailer at its close . Oh , for a real witness !—only one . A . real credible soul with eyes that have seen , and a tongue that will tell . We have long waited his Coming but , so far , in vain .
„ . The pen and ink sketches of Indian hill scenery in the " Journey Homeward" chapter arc most captivating , and are a charming relief after the more exciting detail of the -pages ' that precede it . As a ladies' book this work will command much notice among the reading part of the fair sex , and , sve may safely add , that none who take it up wi . l Fail to admire ,- as well . as sympathise with the Indian widow .
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TI-IE LAST OF THE CAVALIEllS . The Last of the Cavaliers . In 3 vols . Richai'd Bentley , * ' The Last of the Cavaliers " is a novel of more than average merit , and argues well for the writer ' s future efforts . It belongB to a class of productions of which Sir Walter Scott was the founder . The characters are most of them well known in history , and are reproduced by a genial hand , and one that is well acquainted with the persons and times of
• which the author writes ^ There ave some exaggerations , however , in the imaginary characters that should be noticed . Take , for instance , the puritanical Norman Scott , the , brother of the charming little Alice ; if he is to bo taken as the typo of the class ^ we do not agre e ' to the conclusion at which the writer arrives . There were good men among the ^ Puritans , stem and bigoted ^ as we know thorn to have been . Wove there not inoro good men amon « them than among any other sect that predominated at tho timo ?
" Tho Last of the Cava . liers" is no loss a personage than the ' * Bonnie Dundee , " known , perhaps , as well by his former name , Graham of ClaVerhouse , whose character is struok ofl * with 8 omo skill and groat boldness . There is plenty of materials in the life of Claverhouso for the novelist ; he was honourable to a fault , while his courage , abilities , and noble truthfulness commands tho respect from all those that despise tho cause to which ho devoted himself . Aliqo Soott is a boautUul creation ; she is the very opposite in every ¦ way to the hard Olaverhouso , whoso very strength makes Alice ' s weakness the more palpable Huh part of the tale , and Alioo ' s untimely end , is conceived and carried out by the—shall wo sny
authoress ? with great care and ability , and cannot fail to deeply interest the readers of either gender . Hot less ably drawn , are the characters of Iiprd Glencarrig and his mother . There is a touch of folly , it is true , when Lord Glencarrig is first introduced , that hardly harmonises with his character , as afterwards described . This sanie Glencarrig has always considered himself Alice ' s lover from childhood ¦; his own words will best convey to the reader the depths of his passion , and will give some idea of the writers power of writing a pathetic scene , " Who ever grew up with my very life , grafted in my very soul ; who wandered withme throuo-h my happy childhood , hand-in-hand ,
an Eden of innocent delights , a heaven of joys unvalued then , * but of which the far- vanished memory is my ideal of all earthly bliss ? Who but Alice ever sat in my arms , or lay at my breast , when infants both we dreamed away our cloudless days in the sunny fields , and in the stately forests of that home which will be a desert unless you share it ? " Who was my good angel , my guiding star , whose pure radiance kept me from ought that could make me blush to meet her again ; when yet a child I left her to render myself more worthy of her—for , Alice , you surely loved me then !—and the hope of your praise was dearer to me than mother ' s ' praise and sister ' s kisses ? I came home to seek them , to bask in them—home to my Paradise to find its Eve gone ]; and I tasted then , on the threshold of mv / manhood , all the bitterness of a
man ' s first , grief . " We will not mar the reader ' s interest with any further detail , of the plot , and shall only say , in conclusion , that the style is good , and , on the whole , we have been more pleased with the perusal of the " Last of the Cavaliers , " than any-historical novel for some time past , and shall look forward with some interest for the next work from the same pen .
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DIPHTHERIA . On Diphtheria ; its History , Progress , Symptoms , Treatment , and Prevention , By Ernest Hart , Surgeon to the West London Hospital ; , Sec . Sec [( Reprinted from the Lancet , ] In selecting Mr . Hart to investigate diphtheria , and , for the benefit of the country and the faculty alike , to rend the veil of mystery which shrouded that destructive and apparently new complaint , the proprietors , of our contemporary were well advised . A more eminent member of the " rising " rank in the profession , a more able writer they
could not well have pitched upon ; and well , it seems to us , he has performed his task . The widely ramified ¦ influence of The Lancet was of course , at his disposal , and information poured in on . the " commissioner" from all quarter * . Major Graham ( the Rcgistrai ' -Grenernl of Deaths ) , Dr . W . Farr the well-known nrid zealous member of the same department , find Mr . Stephen Ilammick , their colleague , afforded great and liberal facility for search among the data under their control ; and the personal study of tho author in London medical institutions formed the complement to his
sufficiency . The result is a pamphlet of some five and thirty pages , in which the history * of the complaint and the author ' s deductions from the mass of facts he collocted , arc lucidly and satisfactorily sot forth . The high antiquity of diphtheria has been already shown in these columns , and wo should but puzzle ourselves , and possibly . . mislead the reader , did we attempt to follow the author in his purely scientific disquisition upon tho nature , cause , diagnosis , and , treatment of the complaint His main conclusions seem to be—I . That three distinct forms gf diphtheria angina , or , more , briefly , of diphtheria have prevailed tho
m this country , namely : tho simple , croupal , and tho malignant . Of these the first is the mildest and tho most frequent ; the second has been numerically the most iatnl , being more frequent in children than in adults ; and the third lias impressed medical observers most strongly with tho active and fatal character of . tho diphtheric poison . 2 . That the disease is specific . 3 . It is often confounded with scarlatinal angina . 4 . It is propagated' by infection and by contagion . 5 . Tho treatment should include the local application of a' solution of nitrate of silvor , Beaufoy ' s chloride of sodium or hydroohlorio aoid , and tho internal exhibition of emetics in tho oarly stage of tho oroupal varioty , and the tincture of flosqui-ohloiudo or iron , " with chlorate of potash .
6 . Tracheotomy should be resorted to in the second or third stage of crbupal diphtheria ; leech ing , blistering , and bleeding should always he avoided . -7 . Preventive measures should iuclude daily examination of the throat where the epidemic type presides , and the isolation of the patient as soon as attacked . We have given these details at length , because there can be few of our readers who have not felt anxiety for knowledge on the subject ; and secondly , to help the author as we may , to the public recognition of his services in the matter .
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WOODLEIGH . Woodleigh . By the Author of " One and Twenty . " In 3 vols . London : Hurst . and Blacketfe Woodlejgh is a good novel , and one that will be read with interest not merely for the story—the interest of which is admirably kept up to the last —but for the knowledge of human nature and lifelike characters it contains , with the sound common sense that is so deficient in most novels , but which is one of the especial attractions of the author of " The Wildflower . " There is no high flown description of beautiful heroes and heroines ; the characters are all .-poor earthly . mortals , as plain as people one meets in every-day life ,- ¦ and painted with all their imperfection ' s- on their heads , as a waminsr to others with the same faults- —as novel
characters should be . Robert Woodleigh , the hero , is a youth given to have the ¦ ¦ last ' word with his senior ? , is not particularly civil e breaks windows , fights with all the neighbours' children that want " to bounce . over him , " fought tSvice with the squire ' s son and once gave him a black eye that " he might be proud " of , but was never a bad boy , —who can say he was ? The character of Mr . Mnrkingliain , who assumes the philosopher in distress , 'but who throws off the mask in affluence ,, is " , perhaps ,, the most ably drawn portrait in the book . Then are plenty of Markinghams in the world , and . let them sink to the greatest poverty , they are always gentlemen—some are rather troublesome . '
Mr . BoAvden , the burote- 'l Wcsleyan Methodist , is another good character ; . but there Ls not the truth , we think , about him that there is in the sketch of Mnrkinghain . ? len very seldom alter their opinions after they turn thirty . 11 is horror of works of fiction is true of the chi * s and sect to which he belongs ; but it seems very unnatural that , ' because his ' daughter Avritos a < rood novel , he should alter his opinion of novels in general . Richard Woodleigh is a complete vagabond ; his selfishness amounts almost to madness ; he never bestows u thought ou his poor simple . mother , who dotes on him , its mothers generally < lo the black sheep of the family . Very dHIereiU is Tom Arrow . Tom is the vury picture of a gooclniirurcd tooi , Uiem is
., ^« a « ^ :. ^ , v .. ^ . ^ -.. r -. wn-. nii . iiMtios . nnd ouo of' them is possessing JV few peculiarities , nnd one ot doing compound addition best while singing a comic song . , , - ' Woodlei'rh is not a novel to be road and thrown aside ¦ it > yill bo found quite ns interesting in tho second perusal . There is a ( pjiet vomoi satire running- through the work that is n ( once pleasing and" amusing . The author pemwcs . 4 wo excellent qualities requisite . for tho novelist , "M ^ p- * groat knowledge of character and tlio art of ( vllxnira story par excellence , and these q" « ty J > £ JT drawn on \ cvy freely for nmlermK J" . >> oou " loitfh . " ' : ______
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L Uille ' Love nwlq ""' Dy a § K «? a 5 ? cS : TmlVono of tho slightest of Mr . llciule '« i l » ! f > 9 : tions . With all liis pcculianiiea o pH , " wants the constructive -power of «»» o ol J"w HR works . A beautiful , refined , ijnj l iu'co « j | l »« g girl , Lucy Fountain , i » leftto the joint ffunrdiwieWP of a married and an unmarried undo . ' 11 « *** « t » l tl mill-nun JiuvA iui uimiiuwv" - . . i lior toei to
; n the married uncle schemes to unite n a ' banker ' s son ; the uninon- 'iod uncle u « efii uu >» l portunities to got his niooo allied to u won ! t y nuxn of anciont race , anything but an amiable el ainciw A ¦ etiawart , handsomer fid < Uo-phvying i » ato m an Indiaman , takes tho mw \ of tl . o m * *™™ rival candidatos ibr Lucy Fountmn * iftjouj" . Lucy at first refuses the sailor , though at ony struok with his fine person aiul mnnly nuanw . Like all woll-educated , shrew d young lml ce m rightly ostiinotos the oontraHt wliirli Uov o , ' P tion iu society and that of tho siulorc nlloxus
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^ SB ^ JEB I < E A DiOEi jR , f ^ o . 47 % Abkel 3 Q , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2292/page/14/
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