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'' MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS . * mHE first volume of M . de Ghatelainfs Beautfehaving been devoted to X paraphrases of the worksof deceased poets , the pieces which he has chosen for translation in his new volume are nearly all from the pen of living writers . Tennyson , Browning , Longfellow and Landor have been laid under contribution to a small extent ; but the greater part of this bulky volume is adapted from the works of rhymesters who were almost as little known in their Original guise as they are likely to be when adorned with the Chevalier ' s versification . The fugitive poems of some of the rising contributors to the periodical literature of the day appear to have a peculiar attraction for M . de Chatelain , and he has succeeded in rendering these perhaps better than any other pf the poems in his selection . The new volume at any rate is fairly to be considered as an improvement Upon its predecessor—at least to English eyes ; for the comparatively feeWe lays whibh swell its pages are cvt . unly better adapted for the translator ' s purpose than the poetry of Shakespeare , Dryden , Milton , and Gray , who wear with but an ill grace the jingling fetters of French rhyme . Determined , apparently , to avoid the imputation of exclusiveness , M . de Chatelain has been very comprehensive inu his selection , and among the illustrations of Beauties pf English Poesy we find lyrics from the famous pens of Tupper , G . \\\ M . Reynolds , and Fitzball . Far be it from us to call in question the judicious ' choice made by » L de Chatelain ; but we would in friendship counsel him against invidious distinctions—if Tupper and . Fitzball are admitted to the sacred precincts of the temple of Apollo , why—oh why—is no niche reserved for the immortal Uunn ?
Trades' Unions and Strikes is a pamphlet written by the Secretary to the London Society of Bookbinders . T'ie -writer appears to be well acquainted with the subject ; he discusses it with considerable ability , and evinces a desire that it should be generally understood that working men unite to support , but hot combine to injure . Memorials of Workers , is a meritorious address , intended by the author expressly to encourage every man who is toiling to improve himself , and to benefit others . The many remarkable instances which Mr . Godwin gives of men who , without friends ^ and without the advantages of early education , have , ' by perseverance , risen to proud positions of usefulness and eminence in society , are calculated to inspire every earnest aspirant in every condition with hope . and with the assurance of success . Oliver Cromioellb
This new ; edition of the well-known . Life of , y Guizot , is published in a form and size at once handy and readable . . It is tod late in the day to criticise this work— -opinions of its merits and demerits having been long since very generally formed . It is—certainly an able work , and interesting also as the production of a man whose genius , culture and principles are essentially different from those of the men who wfere engaged in the great English revolution . So far and so well as Cromwell and ins times can be understood and appreciated by a foreigner , it has been done by Guizot , who has unquestionably displayed great ability in his work on the subject . But the men and the events connected with the Commonwealth , we cannot help saying , will , by their influence , always greatly transcend any opinion or estimate formed of them by our author .
Miscellanies^ Ess Ay-Writing Is Apparent...
MISCELLANIES ^ ESS AY-WRITING is apparently coming again into fashion ; arid we may notice wiih commendation a series of essays by Mr . Baxter , which are calculated to please on perusal , and to promote a proper understanding of the age we live in . Mr . Baxter believes that the world has greatly improved ; that we arc both better off and better than our forefathers , less superstitious , more literary , less narrow-minded , arid more free ; also more tolerant and truly religious . Mr . Baxter ' s vein flows with facility , and his style is marked by grace as well as ease . Sermonwriting , too , is regarded with more favour than formerly . The Kiev . W . < j . Barrett having succeeded , and deservedly , in furnishing the clerical profession with more than , a hundred excellent sketches and skeletons of discourses , adds to his second series more than as many more , still better , and uncommonly well-adapted to help iu pulpit composition . Dr . Schaible , too , has pffered helps in the arts of thinking and composition , which will be found especially useful to preceptors . The popularity of essay-writing is much nurtured by the brief papers jontribnfced to our journals * These are frequently collected into distinct
volumes . Mr . Wills gives us an , excellent set of such papers , under the title of Old Leaves ; and Blackwood many a pleasant story from the pages of Maga . The late Mr . De Quincey ' s Letters are of the same cha * racter , but of higher aim . Life , however , is not wholly reflective ; there are fields of action as well as of thought . Captain Hutehinson supplies us with an accumulation of minute facts in connection with the mutinies in Oude , of great service to the survivors of those who were sacrificed during the terrible conflict . He has published , with the concurrence , of the Government of India , "the most accurate
and complete information that the Local Government has been able to collect , " for the benefit of all who may have lost friends or relatives in Oude . Lieut-CoionelJohn Adye , in like manner , supplies us with an official Review of the Crimean War , in which he defends Lord Raglan and other officers against the representations of Mr . Russell . His work is illustrated with numerous coloured maps . Another useful work , is one by Mr . Glover on Harbours of Refuge . The exposure of official jobbing contained in this production is complete . - Surely , millions will not continue to be wasted in the infamous manner here pointed out . We commend Mr . Glover ' s statements to the notice of Government .
Among the works of elegant literature published since Christmas , anew edition of T 7 ic Household of Sir Thomas More , by the author of Mary Powell , merits recognition . An appendix has been added to it , in which learned notices ot Erasmus More and his daughter Margaret , and some local and other traditions are collected . We have likewise a curious work in French , entitled His to ire de la Litterature des Fous . Some of the specimens of lyrical genius possessed by lunatics are most interesting ; but the jwork is not altogether trustworthy . Among the insane , we have Thomas Wirgman , who translated the articles on Kant and Transcendental Philosophy for the Encyclopedia' Lnndinensis , and wrote many books on the same subject . He " is here stated to have retired from business with a large fortune , to have expended it in the publication of his works , and to have died in distress . r We knew the man well ,
and his productions , and can assure M . Delcpierre that he has made an absurd mistake . But we cannot account for his positive misstatements . M . Delepierre thinks he finds proof of Wiigmaii ' s insanity in his coloured diagrams and gilt title-pages ; but he seems unaware that the philosophical . system thus illustratetl is that of the great Kant , now acknowledged by , the best and soundest of metaphysical authorities a-s tlie father of modern philosophy ; and that the diagrams are not only of much use to the student , but are correctly as well as ingeniously constructed , as convenient illustrations of the : argument . To be sure ,, we gather from some previous ' remarks , that in M . Deiepierre ' s opinion , philosophy itself , even in such persons as Kant and Aristotle , is but a sort of sublime madness . A mau who .. spends his life in such a pursuit , to say nothing of his fortune , is , in Iris estimation , only a kind of rational lunatic , " . . .:
The new work On the Highlands contains a graphic account of the condition of Stratliavon and Gleulivat . The author has had ample bppdrtunities of becoming acquainted with the subject . His -father held a tract of the Grampian 'Hills , in Banffshirej including within its range * Cairngorm , famed for its gems , Beri-NVTacdhui , said to be the highest cround in Britain , the dark and awful gorge of Lochavon , on which the sun but seldom shines , Clachdian , or . the shelter-stone at Lochavon , Clachvaiij or Clach-na-Ban ( the women ' s stone , once , and sometimes even now , the , resort of females in an interesting condition , to ensure them an auspicious hour ) , and many other objects of surpassing local interest and Alpine grandeur . " Thus qualified , the writer , it may be believed , delineates with a genial pen the various features of the country he has undertaken to describe . The little book abounds in entertainment .
Passing from Scotland , to America , we notice a quarto volume of testimonials in favour of Washington Irving , which will be welcome to his admirers in this country , . We conclude this list of miscellaneous books with commending to perusal the Memoir of Emma Tathatn , a poetess little known , but not without merit . The volume also contains some poems of hers not hitherto published .
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* Bcantds dp la I ' oSsio Analaiso . Par le OheraUer de CnATiSLAiw . Wl . II . London : JRolandi . ' Trades' Unions and StrUcos ; thoir I'hilosopli )/ and Intention . By T . J . DnNtm'OV London : Henry Hurley ; Kacquot vourt , Fleet Street , Momorials of Workors . By QEOitaH Godwin , F . it . 9 .. London : Robert [ Iardwioke . ¦ XAfo of Oliver Oromxooll . By F , Guizot . London : Richard Bentloy . t Hints to Thinker ? ; or , Lootnros for tho Times , By W , E . BAXTBXU Esq . M . P . lloutledge . ¦ K & io Sl : otch < ia and Skeletons of Sermons , J > ovcut and Practical ; specially J ? rcvavodt and wholly Original . First Series ( seoond edition ) , and Second
3 erios . By Hoy . W . G . BAnnuiTT . Thos . Joppa . rraatic < U Jfflamentari / Mvor (\{ 808 in tho Art of Thinking . By CiiAM . ES Soh . uiimj , Ph . D ., " M . P ., L . O . P . Aylotfc a , nd Son . Old Lpitvas tjafhoredfrom " Household Words . " By W . Henry . Wills . Chapman and' flail . Tales from " Maokwoad , " Vol . VU . Blaokwood and Sonfl . jLottcra to a i ' ounq Man whoso . "Education Una hoon nvglootod , anil other Papers . By Thomas Pb Quxnoby . James Hogg and Sons . Narrative of tho MtU-inioa in Ondo . Collected froni Authentic Records , By Cunfciiin OK IlvponiNBON . Published by Authority . Smith , Elder , und Co .
A lioviow of the Orimoan War to tho Whiter ofl 851—5 . By Jjiout .-Col , John Adtti ' ., O . B . Hurst and Blaokett . Hqrhourv qf Jtofui / o t not ' X > angorous X > etoijs , Ship-traps , nor Wracking Tools , aj yFuBP . H . " A , GiOVKft , M . A . JCilw . Stanford . Tho W . QU 8 ohqld of Sir Thomas fttoro . By tho Author of " Mary Powell , " Fourth Edition , with an Appendix . Arthur Hnli , Virtue , and Co . Hiatoiro Zitttrairo do * Fova . Par OaifAV-iii DutEPJCERnH . Triibner and Oo . JLcoturoa on the Mountain ; or , the Highland and Highlanders as they Wvra < uul as ( hoy Aro . First Sorlqa . Suundors , Otloy , and Oo . JrviiK / lana . t a Memorial of Washington Irving . New York : 0 . B , Richardson , Memoir of Minna Tatham , By Bbnjamxn GSajsaomr . IlamiHon and Oo ,
Seiuals. Nlackwood This Month Concludes ...
SEIUALS . nLACKWOOD this month concludes its didactic on " St . Stephen ' s , " and which , we perceive , is also advertised for separate publication . The third part is rougher , but more vigorous than its predecessors . The autobiography of " Norman Sinclair" is continued , and " The Luck of Ladysmede" concluded . There is a venturous paper on Fielding anil " Tom . Jones , " in which ' the modern Critic reverses the received diutum , that the novel mentioned is perfect in structure . His remarks are for the , most part sensible , but scarcely apply to true question raised . He seems to dcrivo'his notions of construction not from ancient , models , which were , of course , the novelist ' s exemplars , but from the brief drawing-room dramas of the modern French stage , where language and illustration nr « sacrificed to certa n limitations , suitable to purposes of convenience and neatness ,
which the elder masters had no motive to consider . The structure ho proposes is , in faqt , mechanical , not organic ; it is the latter which old writers , hpwevor classical , observed ; the former are the resort of the neat manipulators of French drama and nouvellctto . These limitations arc called by our new critic Economy find Selection , laws which may be admitted for the regulation of tasto , but to which genius is but seldom obedient . They may suit a Virgil or a Tnylor , but are transcended altogether by , a Homer or a Fielding . Think , for « moment , of trying" Ariosto by euch rules ! Why , even Tasso would shrink from their application . Besides , when authors have once gained thoir niolios of fame , they ate not to bo dislodged by private criticism . Individual objoctlon is lost in the universal consent .
Eraser ' s Magazine . This excellent magazjno has always a variety of interesting artioles . This number commences with several hitherto unpublished letters by Shelley , which wo must ciirefuily peruse baforo we pronounce on thoir effect on the JPoot ' s character . Mr , Peacock ' s revcalmon's hayo materially nffootcd our previous notions relating to Shelley ' s first inrrriage . A smart paper on " the Worries of Life" follows . The serials « no continued , and a now ono , by the Author of " Headlong Hall , " ia promised for next month . There is a very able article by Professor Levi on the Budget ) and altogether it is a powerful number , Dublin Univgrsity busies itself with Tennyson and . hla poetry . Hero is
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1860, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03031860/page/16/
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