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ponderous in its jocularity , but , as times go an average specimen of Magazine writing . " I 3 ehind the Scenes in Paris" rises in interest as the story progresses , the poetry is very readable . Altogether , tliis number is a decided improvement on its predecessor . ¦ ¦ The English Woman ' s Journ al commences with x very sensible and suggestive article on " The Adoption of Professional Xife by Women . " " Maria Ed ° -e \ vorth" is an almost exhausted theme , and a day jehind the fair ; but the subject is tolerably -well reated . " Women in Italy , " " Mediaeval Tracts , " 'Maxims in Council , " will have their admirers ,
> ut call for no special criticism . The Dublin University Magazine . —There is 10 mistaking the position of this serial—it lias worked its way into the foremost rank , and maintains that place by the weight of its literary merits . t is totally free From that national spirit which disigures so large a portion of Irish literature . It is cosmopolitan , philosophical , instructive , and amusing ; no , in saying this , we need do no more than indiate a few of the articles for this ¦ ¦ month— " Iteliious Biography , " " Social Reform , " " Elisha Kent [ anc , " " Bides on Mules and Donkeys , " " Artist jife in Rome , " & c . —with a hearty recommendation . Ve have marked several "articles for extracts , and r hen our space is less occupied we shall give them lsertion .
The Eclectic Review—for' this month will be relcomed by a larger circle of readers than usual , ecause its * table of contents is more varied in haracter , and . less given up to polemics . ' The Drainage of the Metropolis" is a clever criticism pon sundry official reports on the great question of letropolitan drainage . Some hard and wcll-deervecl hits are administered to more than one high fficial . and the writer in a few trenchant sentences
isposes of the question -as to the true value to be ttached to official reports and Government Comlissions . " Dr . Barth ' s Travels in Africa " furnish lie foundation for an article of much interest . Lord Metcalfe " is a just tribute to one of the lost experienced and . enlightened Indian officials lat ever assisted to niark out a policy for the goernment of our Indian Empire . The review of lerman literature and several other articles will
nply repay perusal . The Art Journal , — The first illustration i . the " Marriage of . Bt * Catherine , " painted by audyck , and engraved by Ridgway . The original a fine work of art , and the engraving is ortliy the reputation of the work . " Rubens ' s arm at Lacken , " engraved by Willmore , is iso very good , but as . far as the cattle go we doubt hether Rubens ' s type of bovine excellence ould meet the requirements of a connoisseur in lort-hora breeds . The " Young Hussar " is from statue of the late Lord Fitzgibbon , by M'Dowell , ither too statuesque , but a fine , manly figure , id thoroughly ll enerraved bv MoteThe lettcr itivcu uj j i jiiicici / iu
we . - JU llluruUJJllljr wcijl cu ^ . yxv » . v ; . - ress is of the average ability . Le Follet . —Are we guilty of p rofanation in eddling with anything that so completely concerns le ladies os such abstruse matters as coiffures , > rsets plastiqucs , passementeries , and chapeaux ( 6 caniques ? VVc fear we arc on forbidden ground , id that we shall be misapplying matters in the same ay the savages did a pair of , unmentionables , jaling with tliem as a dovcring for the head in lace of an contrairc ; and so we refrain from doing ore than saying that here the very newest Parisian ishions are to bo found very nicely , engraved , and JGomnaniedby suitable literary matter .
The ImsirMetropolitan Magazine is more eninl and less exclusively Irish this month . It has so a wider range of subjeots—the majority of which xrry an air of novelty with them , which , in theso ays of literary rechauffes , is no small recommendaon . The first article is " The Co urtship and Flirutions of Jqan Paul Richter . " No doubt lliohter ras a celebrity in his own country and day , and his writings made much impression on the German nind ; His fame extended also to this country , but , if course , to tv limited circle , and it is to the sympathies of that cirolo the article will prinoir
iaJl y ^ appeolr *^ uT ™ XheroTis ' tilways ' n special harm m personal relations , and particularly in Ixoso disclosures of inner life which bring the Indildual nnd Jifs mincUworkinga distinctly before the oador . This is done in the present instance , and xceedmgly wpjl done too j and what with imrraive , and what with judioioua extracts from correpondonco , joined to the ability of the compiler , uph an amusing narrative is the result as will coranily bo welcomed by a wide circle of readers
The Ballarat gold-fields may be regarded as a theme somewhat exhausted , but as additional light is thrown on the actual condition of affairs , the article may be read with advantage . " Eiizmauricc of Danganmore * ' and the " Tnsh'Brigades-man " continued , but we seldom notice a work while in progress—we wait until the whole is before us . ~ " The ltomance of Art" is From the same pen that has received well-merited marks of . approbation from the critics generally . The article lor this number does not in the least fall off in descriptive power , anecdote , and pleasant writing . " Characteristic Anecdotes of Napoleon I , " are a proof that this subject is not yet exhausted . Here is an excerpt showing that the great man in his adolescence was somewhat less of a hero than
his after-life proved him to be :- — Shortly after he had left school , he became acquainted with the daughter of Madame du Colombier . The young people ,, little more than children , fell in love , and used to contrive short meetings . " I well remember one , " said Napoleon , which took place on a midsummer morning , just a 3 day began to dawn ; all our happiness consisted in eating cherries together / " The young people parted , and it was on his way through Lyons , in 1805 , to be crowned King of Italy , that he and his first love met again . She had married M . Brissieux , and came to solicit a favour for her husband . It was granted ; and she was appointed maid of honour to one of the Emperor ' s sisters . . .
" The Chronicles of an Old Race" continues its Ossianic revelations , and here we leave the serial with arepetition of our opening remark , arid this addition , that the Magazine is all the better for it .
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3iutsoris Poems. (Groombridge And Sons.)...
3 Iutsoris Poems . ( Groombridge and Sons . ) — Mr . Matson has already made his " mark" on the public . A " Summer Evening Reverie" is widely known , and its first appearance indicated the advent of anew poet of no mediocre pretensions . The success of the original publication has ' induced the author to issue the present volume , which , in addition to the poems _ of the smaller work , comprises four times the amount of original matter . The volume is replete with -evidence of poetic feeling of the meditative and pensive character . We make room for a specimen as a taste of the author ' s quality , not the best piece in the bopk , but because its size adapts it to "our columns : — . KES 17 RGAM . ' - J- ¦ ' It is the noon of night ; The firmament is overflowed with stars ; The moon is up ; and Light Teera out , like a sad captive through his bars , U pon the darkness round . Deep silence broodeth over field and wood ; All heaven and earth seem bound , Throbbing asleep in lap of Solitude . Yet , but a little space , This sleep of Nature will be overworn ; And we shall watch , apace , Returning Day mount up the gates of Morn ; Bearing vicissitude To men ; with novel thought and purpose rife ; Stirring the boundless brood Of things ; and quickening Nature into life . II . There is a midnight , yet , That bears a deeper silence in its breath , When human hearts forget To throb with hope and fear , the Night of Death , A vague and solemn hour , When Darkness gathers up the skirts of Gloom , Infolds the mortal flower , And boars it withered to the lap of Doom . And slrtlll it then re-live , . . Odour and > . blossom . in ft brighter . day ? The spirit still survive , Whon outward loaves of life nro blown away ? Frail heart of fleah have faith , Nor deem the spirit ' s golden visions vain ! Though dark the night of Death , Bright is the morrow-morn , and thou shalt riso ngain ! Amian ami Bertha . By Edward Fox . ( T . C . Nowby . ) —Mr . Fox has some of the right sort of stuff in him , but ho has hardly done himself justice in this volume . The pJocea do not riae higher thun the respectable ; hero and there , howovor , is to bo found a thought freah , well concoived , and well esprossed . Tho Virginians , No , 11 . —Mr . Harry Warrington conluTuoTnni ^ ovinl % orecir'r ftna' * o « Vcoutat 6 r «(~ 8 otn 6 "' 'iireHlen fJ " that onablu tho author to mako pungent remarks on tho lnnnnors of tho laofc century , ami to contrast them with this , to the advantage of tho latter . Wo fanoy wo porcoivo tho commencement of ft change of character in tho hero , and . that misfortuno is beginning to giro him a salutary loason or two . Valentine Vox . l ) y Honry Cockton . ( Koutledgo and Co . )—This established favourite is now iaauod in a handsome choftp form . It will enlarge ita oirolo of readers and admirers vory materially .
DeerbrooTc . — By Miss Martineaii . ( Smith , Elder , and Co . )—This is a cheap edition of one of the most sterling and popular novels of our day . All classes have now the book placed within their reach , and it would be a work of supererogation for us to . bestow even a word of praise oil a production that has added varied laurels to the literary wreath which surrounds the brow of one of our most distinguished living authors . ¦ ¦ The Historical Magazine , and Notes and Queries concerning the A ntiquities , History , and Biography of America . August , 1858 . —( Triibher and Co . )—Were we asked to name an English parallel for the above Magazine , we should hit upon our old friend " The Gentleman . " Mr . Sylvarius Urban possibly might not , in his palmy days , have interested himself to any great extent about
steam navigation ,-to reminiscences of which ( how old the " antiquities" of steam navigation make one feel , to be sure ) our New York friend devotes his first article ; but it must be recollected that to plant laurels en the brow of Fulton has been a more intense object of American ambition than most of us here can understand . But every other department and article of the journal would have met with the warm approval of Sylvanus and his coterie . We were surprised that "Speaking for Bunkum" should have been thought worth a place in our American Kotea and Queries for August , 1858 . The origin of the phrase is already thoroughly , we fancy , understood in this country , but the name of the worthy senator to whom its pedigree is traceable had hitherto escaped uSi It was Mr . Culpepper , of North Carolina .
The New Qvarterjy Review ( Bosworth and Harrison ) we should think a valuable work for the export trade . As consisting of short reviews . of standard works , nearly all of which have been treated of day by day or week by week in the London and provincial journals , it is not a periodical conscientiously to be recommended to readers at home , for who is . there , at the present price of literature , who does not indulge himself with the cheap and excellent matter , reviews and all , of a legion of our 3 ounger contemporaries ? But in the backwood settlement , or even in the colonial outpost , we can readily see how welcome might be to everv educated or even simply
inquisitive person such a condensation of literature as is presented in the pages before us . A variety of hands are , of course , employed ; some of them , we should say , green enough . In a fifteen-line notice , for example , of Colonel Addison ' s Traits and Stories of Indian Life , we find the work described as a rechauffe of old jokes , as almost uniformly of a gloomy and melancholy cast , and as not otherwise than amusing . The editorial Homer , however , we s \ ippo 3 e , must , elsewhere as here , slumber occasionally . But with such trifling reservation , we certainly " incline to " summarising" for the million who have not time to read in extenso .
Davenport Dunn , No . 15 . —This number is principally occupied with Mr . Davis , alias Grog Davis , who makes a confidante of his . daughter , and a confession that would have convicted him before any tribunal , even of blacklegs . IioutleJge ' s Shakspeare , Parts 27 and 28 . —This is a double number , and it concludes Timon of Athens , gives the whole of Richard HI ., and commences Measure for Measure . The illustrations to Jiichard III . are effective , though nichard is too old and too stagy a villain ; we prefer the vignettes , which are pretty and illustrative . Tho remarks are sensible and well selected , and the paper and printing all that could be wished . .
International Handbook , No . 3 . —A mixture of railway tables , neatly set-up advertisements , and a selection of miscellaneous paragraphs , du omnibus rcrum . It has a distinct little map , -and is not a bad companion for the rail or steamboat . National Magazine , No . 23 . —Tho sayings of Jerrold are continued . Tho woodcuts are numerous , and are after interesting pictures , and aro very artistically executed and beautifully printed . The literature is various botli in quality and subject . The most important paper is that by MK Sutherland EOwords , on' Russia . The Progress of Agriculture . ( Houlaton and Wright . ) —This is from the larger work of the History of Progress in Great Britain , by Philp . For the convenience of tho farming interest the soctipn of tho work is published separately , and no doubt it will be well received , as its merits entitle it to wide patronage .
A Guide to British Columbia and Vancouver ' s Inland . With Map , & c . By John Dowor . ( W . H . Angel . ) ---A very acceptable work nt tho very right time . The information in this cheap publication will be found of the utmost valuo to manufacturers nnd exporters , to emiifrantai and 1 to ever yonei whoJjakqs an interest in tho for- ; tunoai ' of tliis " rising '! Brlt'Uli dbneiulency .
Law and Lawyers : a Sketch-book of Legal Biography Gossip , and Anecdote . By Archer Poison . ( Routledfio and Co . )—A capital shilling Worth . The notiooa are lively , but brief . This is one consequence of the large numbor of celebrities , living and doad , brought into good-natured and acceptable notice . Handy Helps to Useful Knowledge , No . 18 ( W , H . Angel . ) A full and clear account of tho Aquarium , and of tho Insect Vivarium , and tho Water Garden
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091858/page/21/
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