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yo. 506. Dec 3, 1859.] THE LEADER. __ m=...
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LITERATURE.
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MR. MACHEA.DY gave a reading from the En...
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SCHILLER'S LIFE AND WORKS. By Emil Palle...
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G E It M Any. Hanovkk, Nov. Cjotli, 1830...
federal Diet , at Frankfort , shows very little business . It announces merely that at the meeting of the 17 th and 24 th inst ., only current affairs and petitions were disposed of . Among these was one from the Hessian Lower House of Assembly , praying the restoration of the Constitution of 1831 j and another ( declaration , as it is termed ) ' from the Elector of Hessia , requesting the Diet not to be influenced by the prayer of the petition of the . House of Assembly , but at the same time expressing his readiness to acquiesce in any resolution of the D iet , having for its object the restoration of the Constitution of 1831 ; provided always that everything therein contrary to the Federal laws be , _ as recommen . 'Ied by Prussia , struck out : ; and reminding the Diet that the alterations made in that Constitution , in the years 1848 and 1849 , were declared to
be at variance with the fundamental laws of the Confederation . These laws , as everybody , is aware , the people of Germany had no voice in making . The petition of the House of Assembly , on the other hand , prays for the restoration of the Constitution of 1831 intact , with the alterations made in 1848 and 1849 , submitting the whole , however , to a revision by the Diet in conjunction with a Hessian Parliament , chosen under the electoral laws of 1831 . It is the xmiversal conviction that the petition expresses the ardent desires of the entire Hessian people ; but though these desires are as moderate as they are ardent , very few anticipate their being attended to by the Diet . The whole affair is considered , to be a piggle . Nobody is deceived by it , except , perhaps , the princes and the diplomatists themselves .
An endeavour is being made to compose a congress , to sit at Wnrzburg , the object of which is the settlement of all questions pending between princes and people of Germ any , it being absolutely necessary , they believe , to se * t their houses in order , preparatory to the convulsion which threatens to shake all Europe to its base , and ruin for ever all houses divided ni ^ ainst themselves . The subjects proposed first to be taken into consideration sire tlie laws of settlement , or rights of domicile—federal courts of justice—the revision of the federal military lawsthe Hessian and Holstein questions—the regulating of the national movement , that is the Unity agitation , and the equalisation of weights and measures . The
author of this plan is Mr , Von Bj . ust , the Saxonian minister . This conference appears to be one of those pretended efforts made from time to time by some prince or the other to instil into the people the belief that he is as patriotically anxious for unity and freedom as the people themselves , but th . it a fatal combination of circumstances , over which the prince has no control , thwarts all his exertions . At present we have two liberal and patriotic princes in the field—the Prince Regc ; nt of Prussia and the Duke of Saxo Coburg . The liberal cloak sits , by no means , gracefully nor comfortably upon the shoulders of the Regent—it is much too new and stiff for him . The Duke has worn fit ' s cloak long and
well , with the full concurrence , and to tho high enjoyment , doubtless , of all his fellow princes . It matters little what the cut of go small a potentate e may be , while it , at the same time , gratifies the people . Uani £ if § r , Brunswick , Baden , Oldenburg , Weimar , and CkVourg-G-otha have declined to attend * the congress , it is said . The Hanse Towns have re-, ' ceived no invitation . There is every likelihood that © all will attend , notwithstanding their present pouting bashfulncss or innocent sulkines . s or , whiuh is more probable , the whole liflair will prove moonshine . The tho 22 nd instant
Diet of Baden was opened on . I call those plagiarisms , or caricatures of our Parliament , sometimes Diets , sometimes Chambers , sometimes Houses of Assunibly , according to their fancied resemblance with something similar that I have seen on tho Continent . They term tliuinselvos " Stlinde " whhh . I suppose , is a . word coined to translate the French words etttts , The Grand Duke imwlu his speech from the throne in tho most approved constitutional English fashion—spoke . about budget , welfare of people , Jiis endeavours to maintain the peaco of tho world , or something of tho sort—very neatly got up , but not worth reporting . tho retirement of the
A tologram announces Prussian Minister of War , Von Uonln , and the appointment in his place of Gunonil Von Herrmann . Also ,, that tho last number of the German paper , Hermann , which is published in London , has been ' confiscated . This U free and constitutional Prussia , which the United titittos Minister lately , « f . a banquet in Buiiin , designated us the btiacon-lia / it—not beacon merely---not loud-sounding enough —of constitutional freedom and progress on the Continent . The war alarm stJU ragos , and thoreare signs of n gre « t depreciation in the value of house property . The shipowners of Bromen have ndvorrisoda meeting to take pJnee on Friday next for the purpose of adv'sing upon measures for the protection of all private interests at uca in ease of war .
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Mr. Machea.Dy Gave A Reading From The En...
MR . MACHEA . DY gave a reading from the English Poets , at the Town Hall , Weston-Super-Mare , on Thursday last , for the benefit of the Working Men ' s Institute and other educational societies . The visit of this gentleman attracted one of the most crowded gatherings ever held in Weston , including members of almost every leading family
in the town and neighbourhood . Mr . Macready read the story of Le Fevre , from Sterne ' s " Tristram Shandy . " Campbell's " Exile of Erin" followed with amazing pathos , eliciting unbounded applause . He next read a passage from the Fifth Book of Milton ' s " Paradise Lost , " including Eve ' s Dream and Adam ' Morning Hymn . Campbell ' s " Lord Ullin ' Daughter" was the next selection . The reading concluded with an act from Shakspere ' s " Henry IV . "
" George Eliot" complains thus in the Times . Mr . Newby , the publisher , in issuing a work under the title ' A Jam Bede , Junior , has not only made use of my title , but has so worded his advertisement as to lead many persons into the belief that I am the author of his so-called " Sequel . " The extent to which this belief has spread urges me to come forward with a public statement that I have nothing whatever to do with the work in question , or with Mr . Newby . I am not the first writer who has had to suffer from this publisher ' s method of trading . The readers of Currer Bell ' s life will remember a very unpleasant illustration of it .
The Government of Madras has taken legislative action in the matter of . Romanising native words . It has directed , all officials to adhere to the following rules : — " 1 st . —When native terms can be suitably represented in official correspondence by English equivalents the English word should be used . 2 nd . r—When native terms are introdueed into official correspondence they should be expressed in English letters , according to the system originally recommended by Sir William Jone ? , and since adopted , with partial variations , by the Asiatic Society , the Madras Literary Society , and b }'
Professor Wilson in his glossary of Indian official terms . 3 rd . —No letters should be introduced into any native word which do not exist in the original , and those which do exist should be expressed strictly in accordance with the scheme .- ' 4 th . —The only ^ exception from this rule should be in the case of the names of particular places , which have become stereotyped by long usage in a conventional form , such as Negapatam , Mussilipatam , Vizagapatam , & c . " That officials may learn Sir William Jones ' s system ,. the Government promise to publish lists of words and a vowel scale , but conclude the order with that remark . .
Messrs . J . W . Parker and Son announce a volume of Essays and Reviews by Rev . B . Jowett , M . A ., Regius Professor of Greeek , Oxford ; Rev . Rowland Williams ., D . D ., Vice-Principal , Lampeter College ; Rev F Teni ]> lc \ T ) . T ) .., Head Master of Rugby School ; Rev . B : \ de-. t Powell ,-M . A ., P . R . S ., Scivilian . Professor of Gerxnetry . Oxford ; Rev . Mark Pattison , B . D . ; C . , W . Goodwin , M . A . ; Rev . II . B Wilson , B D ,, Vicar of Great Staughton , Hunts . A few evenings ago , B . Waterhouse Hawkins , Esfq , delivered a lecture ( the first of a scries ) to the members of the Athenaeum , at Bury St . Edmunds , upon "The Age of Dragons in Great Rrit . un ; being an inquiry how far the fables , legends , romances , and traditions about dragons arc founded on truth . " Mr . Alfred Tennyson is writing a new poem for ' ¦ Macmillan ' 5 Magazine , " to be entitled "Sea Dreams :
an Idyll . " Four shares in the Globe evening newspaper were offered for sale this week . The proprietary shares are sixty-two in number , the dividends on which have been . £ 84 , but the average for the last three years has been . £ 40 per annum . The auctioneer stated that the last shares sold in that place , about two or three years ago , produced . £ 500 per share , and the proprietors' present pre-emption priue is £ 400 per share . The highest bid was . £ 127 10 s . per share , and this offor being under the reserve price fixed by the Court of Chancery , no sale was effected . It was reported in the room , but not officially , that the reserve price was £ 250 per share . schools in Paris for the
The opening of the new study of the living Eastern languages is announced for Monday next . This foundation , due to the activity of the Convention , was first endowed on the . 10 th Germinal , in the third year of tho Republic , with three professorships for the Ar . ibio , lurkish , and Crimean Tartar l . ingu . iges . Nine chairs have been instituted since that time , ami bestowed on tho most learned m vans of our timo . The ancient school founded by Louis Quatorzc for the education of interpreters , destined for the divers missions in the Levant , is still in existence , and still furnishes the dragomans for the embassy at Constantinople . The now schools have boon erected clO 90 to the Bibliothoque Imperial . The course of lectures on Himlostani language and literature is conducted by Monsieur Garein de Tnssy , whose translation of all the great Hihdostani works has done so much for tho study of
the language in Europe . Tho work o ( M . Coulvior-Gravicr , on " Shooting Stars , " has been received with the greatest honour in tho world of science . The question of the formation , the purpose , and tho final destination of ino vast quantities of shooting stars , whose existence has hitherto presented the greatest difficulty of explanation to the astronomers of all ages , is hero solved by M . Coulvior-Gravicr , wliose appointment to a most important post at the Obsorvatoire has given universal satisfaction . ?
s „ The Krcws Zeltung states that tho marriage at Munich of Ivan Golovin , tho well-known Ilturary refugee , was telegraphed to the Emperor of KiiHsia , and-his Majesty immediately replied , » My imperial , paternal blessing . All is forgiven , all lorgottort . "
Schiller's Life And Works. By Emil Palle...
SCHILLER'S LIFE AND WORKS . By Emil Palleske . Translated by Lady "Wallace . 2 vols . —Longman , Green , Longman , and Roberts . The Life of Schiller is mainly valuable as illustrating the rise and growth of German drama ; and it fortunately happens that this is one of the mam points in the new biography of the poet by Emil Palleske . Mr . Thomas Carlyle ' s Life , with all its merits , was necessarily crude , and showed no sympathy with the stage . It was rather a psycholog ical rhapsody on the inner life of the poet than a critical account of the career of the dramatist . The translations , too , from the plays were harshly , even unrhythmically rendered , and did in all respects injustice to tlie original . Mr . Cax-lyle was no metricist , and absurdly unskilled in the treatment of blank verse . Regarding ' the technical structure of a drama he was especially ignorant . The only good quality , of- tlie book was an easy , readable style , -which , however , he soon afterwards abandonee !; and , altogether , it may be qualified as a young scholar ' s , creditable essay on a subject comparatively hew , an 1 in which lie gave much information to those - who ' were ignorant of German—at that time tlie larger portion of the British public . For a new Life , and precisely such an one as that before us , there was therefore room . We receive the book with a hearty welcome . In Germany dramatic art and Protestantism had progressed together . Luther had given his testimony in favour of the stage , and venerable theologians had corroborated , the same with their own . Nevertheless prejudice existed against it among German pietists as among English ; even Schiller himself , though aiming at the stage , undervalued its professors . He was , nevertheless , forward to defend the institution , advocated its utility to the State , and proved that it tended to ennoble man . Lessing , however , ridiculed the notion of creating a national theatre in Germany , when the Germans were not even . a nation . Nevcrth less , as our biographer observes , JLussing wrote his " Nathan . " Schiller met Lessing's objections somewhat m the following manner : — " ' If in all our pieces , ho says , ' one leading idea prevailed , if our poots were r , o agree among themselves , mid cling toother in faithful alliance for this purpose , a severe selection guiding their works , and their powers of ifi & lliieatipu being : only devoted to events connected with the people ; ina word , when wo at last succeed in cmiblishing a national stage , then we shall be in reality a nation . '" To this remark we are bound to add those of Pullcskc himself : — " How enn uny one he so blind as to deny this ? I-Iiivo not Kijtitolmo and his imitators depraved tho national feeling ? Tho evil effects that a theatrecau produce on a nation , load us to conclude tlmt it would bo equally capable of producing beneficial ° " ? Thusthe stnga by means of tho Hamburgh school destroyed the sway of tho French , iinil bclnllor m Carlos ' and WallonsJoin , ' In . lood in all liIn pieces , f which uro not merely oxporimentun , hid begun to rour tho fabric of the groat principles ( s < i ( flip an a stage may do bo ) on which a nation is foundedfreedom of thought , Individual power , jusioo , o 5 courage , and political liberty and unity Jfavo Fronoo nnd England , although l , hoy are great nations , over boasted of more than , n , Bingo tor their capitals , not for the nation at largt ? and with the solitary exception of Shakespeare , whose principal works ?' Ilumlet , ' ' Lear , ' Othello , " Komeo and
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03121859/page/17/
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