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contains several carefully written resumes and reviews . A capital condensation of the great Cardinal Richelieu is highly interesting , and is 8 fine comment on his policy and its results . A very curious article entitled " The Devils of London , " aifords an elucidation -of ¦ their spiritual or mesmeric , or epiliptio manifestations , which , in some shape or other , have been rife in all ages . Of course the object is to elucidate the great marvel of the present time- -spirit-rapping , tableturning , & . c . A clever analysis of Aboutfs writings opens the mimber ; aHda curious article on the * " -Natural History of the Ancients" follows . The articles on ^ he " House of Lords " and on " Mr . Gladstone" betray a policy we do not adhere to . A great endeavour is made to exalt Mr . WC . Roscoe into a first-rate poet , but , hardly successfully . One of the most interesting articles is that on a " French Metaphysician of the last Age "—M . de Bivan . And , altogether , the number may be presumed to be exceedingly interesting and informing .
BlacJcioood ' s Magazine . No . 5 ? S . W . Blaekwood and Sons . — "National Defences and Volunteers" ably opens the number , and the probabilities and possibilities of a French campaign on English ground carefully gone into , and the different movements are very cleverly discussed . It places a just reliance on our Volunteers ; and it relies more on men than on fortifications , though it does not ignore the utility of the hitter injudicious places , and to a moderate extent . A tilt is run with Lord Macauley ' s treatment of Claverhouse , Viscount Dundee , and of course he is washed as snow white , although his garment is crimsoned with human blood . The pursuit of Tantia Topee is an able exposition of a portion of the late Indian campaign , and is illustrated by a map . An original letter recounts the horrors of the great earthquake at Lisbon , a hundred and six years ago , a somewhat antiquated subject , but exceedingly interesting when once fairly read into . Norman Sinclair continues his desultory narrative ; and an article on the Transition State of our Indian Empire" closes the . varied number .
Frazer " s Magazine , forAugust , 1860 , No . 308 . —This magazine sustains its well-earned reputation . The instructive and amusing elements are judiciously blended . The opening article , ; " Concerning Summer Days , " affords pleasant , discursive , and chatty reading . In a paper " On the Relations of the Public to the Science and Practice of Medicine , " Thos . Mayo , President of the Royal College of Physicians , an important subject is discussed by one who , of all others , may be supposed to be well acquaintedwith it . " Novels of the Day , their Writers and Readers , " is an article that will be read with interest . and Reviews The
" The Proposed National Defences j" " Essays ; " " Ireland forgeries ; " ' and " Pope ' s M . S . Notes on Tickle ' s Homer , ^ ' are all attractive in Jtheir different spheres ; The two stories , " Gryll Grange , " by the Author of Headlong Hall , and " Wi ujat and Tares , progress respectively through chapters 19 to 21 , and 23 . to 25 , not without a maintenance of interest . The only poetry is " A Lament , the sentiments of which are striking and immensely suggestive . An excellent feature in this " monthly" is its " -Chronicle of Current History , " wherein a lucid and comprehensive history of the month i a digested and condensed into _ about eleven clear and very readable pages .
The CornMll Magazine ; No . 8 / Smith , Elder , and Co . —The Framley Parsonage advances its descriptiva pages , but the interest rests mainly on its portraiture of character , for there is ; very little of story to be interested in . VUnto this Last , " is a strange , eccentric paper oh Political Economy ; but w } th some of its denouncements of this very imperfect science we agree , although , wo cannot but think the writer growsrather wild towards the close of the article . " Physciologicai Riddles" treats scientific matters lightly and easily , bnt we do not —perceiverany ^ oveity-t ^ eifche ^ j > apers . We have long been told that life 13 sustained by the continually shovelling coals on a perpetually consuming fire . The Lectures of . the Editor on the " Georges" depicts his sacred Majesty Greorge the Second , the lover of soldiers and the hater of " Poetry and Painting . " Wo do not suppose that the magazine of Cornhill is eagerly sought for in the
region of Pimlico and Belgravia ; though the article is sweetened with a compliment to verging royalty . " Howl quitted Naples" is an apropos article . Kl Stranger than Fiction" is a solemn asseveration of the wonders of spirit-rapping , etcetera . Mr . Sala abates no jot of care in his " Hogarthian Papers , " and they are very cleverly written ; - ' although like " Cardinal Beinbo ' Momoirs , " they contain a groat deal de omnibus rebus , and a little bit by-tho > bye about the Cardinal hero . Holidays is a good natured paper , and No . G of the " Round-about-Papers" rather 1 he reverse , giving pages whore sentences would do , to the flngollation of the . idle and gossipping propensities of a litterateur , who like a literary chiffonier , gathers all scraps , diriy or clean , true or fulse , to send to the incorrigible quidnunos and dpvourevs of cat tie in the United States . Silont contempt is the only worthy punishment , for suoh garrulous babblers .
Macmillan ' s Maqazinc , for August , 1850 , Ko . 10 . — This number has a very martial air . " Tho Navies of England and Franco" aro in the van , while " The Youth of England to Garibaldi' ^ Leg ion" bring up the rear of its tablo o £ contents . In addition to which wo have j ) lonty of " Talk about tho National EifloJAssociation Mooting nt Wimbledon , " by Captain J . O . Templor , commanding tho 18 th Middlesex . " From " War ' s Alarms" we jump to . " Two Love Stori & B ' ( u short , poem ) , and a novel , " Tom Brown at Oxford , " which completes tho 24 th and 25 th , chapters with eolat . Tho moro serious articles are " Froudos' History ,
vole . 5 and 6 , " by tho ^ Rev . T . D . 'Maurico ; and " Tho UardronsCnso and 111 © National Church of Scotland ; " " Tlio youth of England , " being in versejaudalso - " The Myotcsry "—it will b ( veeen-tha ( i tli « meti'i < ful « lemont enters largely into the composition of tho present , number . The editor , Profosaor Masson , contributes nn article on " Thomas Hood . " " Uninspirod Prophooy" by Horbort Coloriclgo , ia a title which of itself is well adapted tp suggest curious voiloxiona to tho thoughtful } and " Tho Artisan ' s Saturday Night by Percy Greg , " might bo rend with profit by the class which fonm tho subject of it . Altogether I ho prosent number is a good one .
Dublin irniversity Magazine , for August , 1860 , No . 8 » 2 . ~ This magazine appropriately commences with " Tho IrMi Question" ( J 4 < t Qimtion IrlamUihe ) , in the course of which the contingent reign of
" Mac Mahon the 1 st , King of Ireland , " comes in for discussion , somewhat ere its time ; the concluding article being on " The . future of Sicily . " The present number may ^ be said t o begin and end with a prospective peep into futurity . There is an interesting paper entitled " Itienzi" by Professsor de Vericour ; " The waters of Babylon meander through five pages of poetry ; and " Bonifazio' descends from-its ¦ ¦ ' ¦ " White pyramid of rock above Tho straits botweou the islands , "
to appear in a metrical form in the pages of the periodical we are noticing . " Three days at Killarney , " would just be what we should like to luxuriate in at " this present writing , " but piles of works for review hem us in in every side , and miles of " leaders" stretch between us and rustication , or any hope of the dolce far nienle . Among the articles in the present number— " Vonved the Dane , Count of ElsinOre ;' " The Informer ; " " The Paris Agricultural Show ; " " A French Opera Gla 3 s ; " " Our Political Chorus ; " "A pinch of Gold Dust ; " and an " Historical Memoir of the O'Briens , " will be found to contain mental pabvli ' . ni of various sorts to suit various mental palates .
Tlie Xorth American Review , July , 1860 , No . 188 . —The contents of the present number are of a varied description . The first article , with a formidable Greek and Latin title in the table of contents , is on "A new Edition of the Septuagint ; " immediately following which we have " Landscape Gardening , " a much more flowery subject , if not so important a one . " Slavery in Rome" is pregnant with suggestive instruction which the reader is left to apply to existing institutions which , unhappily , are not in essence , however they . may be in name , confined to one coimtrv in particular . " Latifundia perdidere Italian .- ;—Large Estates ruined ' Italy . This is Pliny ' 9 judgment , " says the writer of the article in question , " and its truth is generally accepted - . . , Slavery undermined the social structure , and was the chief support of a system of large estates . " The scope and tendency of the article may be Into the details of the insti
gleaned from the concluding passages : — " - tution ( slavery ) itself , and the wretched ness of its victims , we have not thought it desirable to enter ; it was its history , rather than its antiquities , -that we wished to consider . This we have done from two points of view—the changes it underwent in form , and nature , and the ruin it brought upon liberty and civilization . But the two aspects have illustrated each other , as slavery and Roman Institutions have reacted on each other . It was the degeneracy of the Roman character that made slavery so harsh ; but it was in great part slavery that debauched the Roman character . It wasthe laiiftddiai or large estates , that gaye slavery its political-power . - ; ' but slavery enabled the system of latifundia to develope itself . It was slave labour that annihilated small estates in Italy ; and it was foreign captives brought as slaves to Rome , that as frcedmen crowded the city tribe 3 _ and constituted Jbhe city mob . It seems not too much to say that slavery nadre than aught else was the soundness
worm which gnawed at the root of ancient civilization ; its and vitality gone , the whole fabric fell . " The thing slavery itself exists at present to a much greater extent under other names than is-generally supposed ; and to ward oif the legitimate consequences , will tax the abilities of our greatest statesmen and sociologists in the approaching future . There are several other articles on topics of interest . "An American Poet ; James Grate Percival ; " " An American Statesman ¦; ... " Thomas Joitbrsonj" and " Margaret Fuller Ossoli , " each form the subjeot of a paper . There is aii at'ticle on " Recent French Literature , " another , on an Italian author , " TJgo Foseolo . " c < Influencb of Political Economv on Legislation" will be read with interest ; and " Strauss and the .. Mythic Theory , " carries us into the hazy regions of mystical t ? xerCTta ± imir ^ ithra-guide ^ self . There aro two local subjects discussed , which , however , are of wider than local interest , " The " History of . North Carolina , " and « The
Charities of Boston . Tho Spiritual Magazine for August , No . 8 . —Tlxose who desire to know the incognizable , to understand the incomprehensible , to handle tho intangible , to - . manipulate tho impalpable , to discern ¦ things invisible , to transcend the experiences acquired through all hitherto known inlets of knowledge , should consult this serial , which begins with quotations from Proverbs and St . Paul , and ends with punching Punch a head , and nuiking a Sivyers-cum-llcennn attack upon Mr , Charles Dickens . The Welcome ¦ G-nest . Part 10 , for August . —This " Magazine for all , " contains all sorts of reading for all sorts of persons , on all sorts oi subjects , suited for all times and all places , and this is all that wo can aay about it just now ; all our space being exhausted , as this is the time of all othera ' when wo havo least to spare—all tho quarterlies , monthlies , and weeklies , in parts , being showered hi upon us from all quarters .
Tho Leisure Hour . Part 103 , for July . —This serial , tho character and purpose of which are woll-known ( it having readied its 448 th No . ) , shows no signs of nny likelihood that it will not continue to receive the patronngo hitherto bestowed upon it by the reading portion of tho public . OimofTlicii . By Charles Lovor . No . 0 for August . — " One of them "—wo uso tho words in tho sonso pi" ono of Mr . Levor ' s clever productions , deserves the same ample share of public favour which has always boon ucoorded to tho others of this popular writer ' s amuanig novels . Detailed criticism in in general to bo reserved until tho story in its entirety is boforo tho public , when it can bo reviewed as a wholt ? v— - — ~ -- ' -- — " : :
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J > FollH , for August , 1860 . —Mnny a bright pair of eyes will S . } 00 over " La Mode , " which forms tho lending nrticlo of this " leading journal , " of tho " loaders of fashion , " and which is spooially dovotcd to tlio " boaux aria" of designing and " fashioning" thoao elegant nothings which drapo tho onchnntintf forma of the " fominino institution ; " nntl which , spreud out and expundod over tho rotund unmlituflo of hoops and erinolino , constitute tho joli subject of three of the coloured illustrations or drcBS-mnpB to which the lottor-pross rofcrs . Thotfourlh is of u moro sovoro and scientific chnraotor , and may P » described as tho anatomy of dross elucidated by diagrams .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04081860/page/12/
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