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426 THE _ Ij _ E AJPjB B ^ ___ [No. 423, M^t 1 ? 1S58.
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THE WEB OF LIFE. The Wei of Life. By All...
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Emigration. Nova Scotra Considered As % ...
tion the exiles would gradually be surrounded with all the conditions of rural plenty and prospective independence . As the season now is when anglers are taking counsel concerning congenial quarters for their summer campaign , a ; visit to the Acadian waters is suggested and very properly recommended . In all of them , the angling is of the finest class , and totally unrestricted . A steam passage of a few days will convey the angler to his fisiting-ground , where salmon of the largest -size-, sea and common trout , the yellow perch and shad , swarm during summer in the brooks and larger streams . These fish being rarely disturbed by sportsmen , and unacquainted -with the " steel , " rise freely to the lure , and the nyrbook which contains imitations adapted to the lakes and rivers of old Scotland , will be found equally serviceable in Nova Scotia . Moose deer , < sarriboo , bear , loup cervier , fox , marten , otter , minx , and squirrel—animals valuable both for their flesh and their fur—inhabit the forests : and autumn , which here has all the serenity of summer , is yet sufficiently cool to purify and make tolerable the close atn > oephere of the forest .
The English public owe their thanks to Mr . Hamilton for his very suggestive and reliable details . He describes a new and very practicable field for emigration , adapted to the present requirements of more than one grade of society . Persons living upon fixed incomes , scarcely adequate to provide comfortably for their necessities in most countries of Europe , "would find their resdu rces amply sufficient to support them in ease and comparative influence in . British North America . And as regards that unfortunately too numerous class who find it difficult to obtain a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s labour , we repeat that the cost of emigration need not exceed onefourth the amount required by those who -contemplate a settlement in Southern Africa or the remoter islands of the Pacific .
426 The _ Ij _ E Ajpjb B ^ ___ [No. 423, M^T 1 ? 1s58.
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The Web Of Life. The Wei Of Life. By All...
THE WEB OF LIFE . The Wei of Life . By Allan Park Paton . Longman and Co . In this story the author depends too much on melodramatic effect in his diction and in his incidents . The narrative is over-written throughout , and the romance deepens in intensity by degrees until it passes the limit of < extravagmnrza .. Thus , nothing could be more-wild or unreal than the scene in which a young actress l'ehearses with her father a scene from a play . They begin , torn by separate emotions , and fight a recitative duel , the daughter fulminating her blank verse with " dignity and high resolve , " an " imploring " voice , and a pallid face , burning afterwards with an unearthly blush . Mean--while , the obnoxious parent reads his part from a chair , until , terrified by the young lady ' s demeanour , he rises , and these two amateurs continue their operatic show until an awful climax arrives . Ellen ' s voice ceases , but "her
mouth remained open yearningly , and her soul itself seemed passing out of these glorious lips . ! But in blood , and the next instant it was as if she had been changed into a statue of snow , and melting ; for , first one aim slackened and fell ; and then , another ; then , the head drooped ; and then , with a sweet , sad glance from under her brow at her father , she sank to the floor . " Here the exaggeration is carried so far as to degenerate into ghastly absurdity . But the . worst had not happened . The tragic father " started back a step or two . Then , he glanced rapidly all about him with a vacant countenance ; then , tlirowing up his hands , with the fingers outspread , he drew himself up to liis height , and , with a shriek that pierced the neighbourhood , cast himself upon the corpse . " There is far more of this in the
volume than is tolerable . The very last paragraph supplies an example of another kind . A personage entitled " Little Livy" has certain memories of n sweet one , Rotha : "he remembered even an insect like a living ruby 'which she had once raised out of the sunny grass , and allowed , for Lis wondering inspection , to course over and around her pure , light fingers , as if it were the spirit of a ring . " Some passages of highly-wrought descriptive exhibit on , the writer ' s part a more valuable faculty , and his pictures of actors' revelry , although exuberant , are clever and entertaining . He lias also a warm sympathy with nature , and is skilful in the use of landscape colours ; but his book is marked by all the faults of inexperience , while it has some merits which induce us to hope that Mr . ]? aton will study better models , literary and dramatic .
Parallel Lives. Parallel Lives Of Ancien...
PARALLEL LIVES . Parallel Lives of Ancient and Modern Heroes . ]> y C . D . Yongc . Chapman and Hall A wonic was announced , several years ago , entitled The Scale of Nations : Outlines of Comparative History . A similar suggestion of comparative history has been adopted by Mr . Tonge , who pursues his analogies so far as to render them parallel . Most historical and biographical parallels , liowever , are forced , especially when distant ages , and men belonging to entirely different periods of society , are elaborately compared . Those drawn by Mr . Yonge are between Kpaminond as and Guatavua Adolphus , and between Philip of Macedon and Alexander tlie Great . In the first ciise he presents the ancient and modern heroes as both by nature and inclination lovers of peace , yet forced into incessant wars ^ and possessed of the highest military genius . Their careers as soldiers were uninterrupted courses of victory , both
• were investors of now military systems wliich aided them in the field , and Guatavus in Germany set an example as illustrious as that of Kpum ' mondus at Leuctra . Epaminoudus and Gustuvus were merciful to their enemies , anil in this respect contrasts to the great commanders who preceded or vied with them ; they inspired their sinnies with deep attachment lor their persons ; they died in the hour of triumph without reaping its fruits . 15 oth were eloquent orators—tlio Theban in two Congresses , the Swede in his Senate ; both were sagacious statesmen , and Lhe policy of Epamiuondiis in Arcadia and ali jYles . sene was analogous to that of Gustavu . s in hit * actual alliance ¦ with France , his proposed alliance with England , and his development of a Northern navy . They were both patriots , and niado their countries illustrious and powerful . So fur , according to Mr . Xongo , of wlio . se historical viow we have . sketched , of comse , only a faint outline , but we scarcely think he hue succeeded in marking uu absolute parallel . With reference to Philip
of Macedon and Frederick the Great , they were mighty warriors and suecessful statesmen ; they possessed learning and accomplishments ; they were ambitious , unscrupulous , addicted to war ; they were brave and persevering , skilful in diplomacy , persuasive as public speakers , as civil governors able and vigorous , as conquerors successful . Jiut is this a biographical parallel ? That is to say , is the life of Frederick the Great so peculiarly analogous to that of the Macedonian Philip as to form what Mr . Youae describes as " a pair ? " We do not think this lias been satisfactoril y shotrn the more especially as Mr . Yonge destroys his own parallels by pointing to ninny parts of the lines which are altogether tortuous , and in no-way cor respond one with another . It is to be regretted that these well-written : ind attractive biographies should have been cramped by the peculiarity of the author ' s plan . " In general interest , however , the book , although . slight , is superior to most publications of a similar class , being the work of n . scholar who uses his pen Avith grace and freedom , and for some readers there may be a fascination in the tracing of such parallels . as Mr . Yonge has instituted between Philip and Frederick , Gustavus and ICpaminondas .
Publications And Republicatioxs. Messrs....
PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIOXS . Messrs . Smith ani > I ^ i / dkk have added to their cheap series of standard books a volume welcome to all classes of readers ,. The English LliiMuehta of the Eighteenth Century , being a reprint of j \ lr . Thackeray ' s most ' genial ami delightful lectures . We have already noticed a cheap edition of the Rev . J . G . "Wood ' s charming manual of natural history , lhe Common , Objects of thr Country . IVEr . Routledge has now published the book in a , new form , with illustrations b ^ Coleman , printed in colours by Evans , and the pages are alive and bright with butterflies , moths , beetles , and lace-ilies , in all the glory of their spotted wings , vermilion , violet , purple , green , golil , and yellow . These illustrations are among the inost beautiful of their kind we have seen , and the volume is a wonder of cheapness .
Ihe twelfth and last volume . of the collected edition of Professor . AVilsbn's works , ' edited by Professor Ferrier , has- now been' published- !> y Messrs . ¦ William Blackwood and Co . It contains the poems , The Isle of J ' a / uis , The City of the Vlagiu \ and a large variety of ' miscellaneous pieces , sonnets , and legendary and sacred lyrics . . We have received from Messrs . Longman and Co . the sixth volume of tlie cheap edition of Lord Macaulay ' s History of England . It brings down tlie narrative beyond the massacre of Glcncoe , and reiterates the accusation of faithlessness against Penn . Colonmt- the Paintes : a Tale of Italy and the Arts , forms the second
sixpenny volume of fiction reprinted by Messrs . Blackwood and Co : from JStac / cicoocTs Magazine . This story was much-admired by Coleridge , who gave the world two stanzas from his translation of Goethe ' s sony of ct Mignon , " then unpublished , to stand as a motto . From Mr . Jaiv . es Blackwood we have a volume of didactic moralities , often trite , but generally well selected , entitled ll-ualaigs for 1 ' ouuij . 1 ft '// , Ufa refunds , caul 31 en . of JJnsiness . The authoi'ess of several popular tales , including " A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam , " has published a new story , Corning Home ( Wright and Co . ) , written in her peculiarly earnest and graceful manner , with a moral pervading the narrative , but not burdening it .
"NY " ts reserve for future notice M . Michelet ' s new volume of his History of I ** ranee during the seventeenth century , lllehelieu ct Uc Fronde ( L ' aris : Chamerot ) . Twenty-four woodcuts from Albert Duror , with a scriptural text , edited by John Allen , M . A ., Archdeacon of S . ilop , preclude criticism by their cheapness . They appear under the title , The Gospel for the Unlearned , and arc published by Messi * s . Itoutletlge and Co . The new novel , The Crudest . Wronr / of All , by the author of " Margaret ; or , Prejudice at Home , " has been published this week by Messrs . Si nil !) , [ Elder , and Co .
A Litekary Vacja11y. I>K. Tricsitam Dame...
A LITEKARY VACJA 11 Y . I > K . Tricsitam Dames Gkisog , whose King EcUoard the Sixth wo noticed a few weeks ago , sends us another play entiLled Mary Tudor , Jury / i ) io > e , i lley nan I of England : an Historical Drama in luve Acts , after tlie Elizabethan Model . ( J . KendricU . ) We have already shown our readers what 3 ) r . Gregg understands by " the Elizabethan model , " and need now only say that , blank as we found his former work , we find this even nim ' u bo . Not merely is the verse blank ; the book i . s blank in every respect , and ( like matter in the opinion of the Cabalis ( s ) i * only one remove above nonentity . The Doctor is displeased with our treatment of his former play , and has mumbled some incoherent verses on the subject . The poor gentleman ' s friends ou < v | it really to look after him .
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THE 11 OYAL AOAl ) KMV .-rKivATuVii : \ v . Anotiikk exhibition of the Jioyal Academy ; anoLher year , and its art-i , al la-rin ^ 'S from studios near ami far , but principally near , as we fjco l > y {^ humin ^ ovi- r the alphabetical list , of exhibitors anil their places of abode . How many art i .-us are there here in London , whose names the present writer , and ninety ami ten iu the hundred of hi : ; readers , wot not of , who nia . nnj * e to live , anil live well , by the use of ilu'ir riyht hands ! Who shall sny we stre not as a nation lovers of urt when we pay for it at this ruto , and do not consider that our houses avu properly furnished without picturns on the walls of tlie principal rooms ? ( ) f the six or neven hundred productions in oil colours , to wiy nothing of drawings and miniatures , si large proportion may ho regarded jih uninufaeturf . d stock , waiting ptirchaHci'H from ainon ^ ( . he moneyed eliUM's . \ Vc turn from this unpleasant coiisidei '; ilion to the more . unilelul tank of selecting a lew pictures for iwtkii , on account of their possessing other ( jLuiiliiies tlmu those which will lind them a .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01051858/page/18/
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