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548 THE IiEADEB. [No. 428, Jtjne 5,1858.
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Native India.—There are thousands of rny...
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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The fifth annu...
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. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES. The chie...
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Inteliiegtua.L Education". Intellectual ...
fectlv write a neat hand and be able to write a clear and simple letter . I should expect her to know aa outline of Bible History and of tbe spread of Christianity , and to be well acquainted with the four Gospels ; she might know also something of tbe leading events of ancient and modern history , gathered from a mere skeleton narrative , aided by reading the lives of great men and perhaps committing some principal dates well grouped to memory . In the same manner she should have some slight notion of geography , partly learnt as a lesson , but in greater measure by following upon maps the travels I suppose her to read for her own amusement . I should wish her memory to be well stored with , such poetry as she is able to take pleasure in , never having learned a piece unless it has first excited her own interest .
She might have been familiarized in the French and German languages , if circumstances permitted , first by a Swiss bonne ^ and secondly by a German governess . This is going far , wlien it is added that the child should already possess some knowledge of music . From twelve years of age to eighteen a complete course of education is laid down , and most readers will be satisfied that if Miss Shirreif's instructions were curried out the young lady of eighteen would be the pride of her family ; but in saying this we do not wish to imply that her views arc particularly exaggerated . They are , on the contrary , moderate and well-considered , the only possible objection being that they seem to suppose a gener . il capacity among the young for the acquirement of formal knowledge in large quantities . We are glad to find that the writer advocates only moral methods of discipline for girls who have passed their childhood , the old fashion of physical coercion and disgrace having been worse than a universal failure . This volume on the intellectual education of women deserves the notice of all who are engaged ot otherwise interested in the training and culture of young girls .
548 The Iieadeb. [No. 428, Jtjne 5,1858.
548 THE IiEADEB . [ No . 428 , Jtjne 5 , 1858 .
Will, He Marry Her ? Will He Marry Her F...
WILL , HE MARRY HER ? Will He Marry Her f By the Author of " Too Clever by Half . " Eoutledge and Co . Will He Marry Her ? is an addition to Mr . Routledge ' s cheap series of original novels . It possesses the merit , uncommon in our days , of heing a story of Teal life . It is crowded with recognizable portraits ; many of the anecdotes will be remembered by persons belonging to the political and military classes , and , at the sareie time , the narrative is full of incident and Invention , dashing on through and round the world 3 and quite as rich in Ihumour as in situations . " The reader will not go far befox-e he penetrates the irony of the writer ' s delineation in the person of Lord Avalanche , the statesman in a homlah , lately a living topic in both houses of Parliament . 2 Tor is it difficult to guess who is meant by the gallant Indian general , for Xiord Hardinge is as plainly portrayed as even -provincials could desire
Then , again , Sir John Gay is at once identified with an actual personage of the same title arul profession , and it is obvious that all these characters have been , drawn from close and intelligent personal observation . But this is hot all . We find in Will He MarryHer / 'several descriptions of great battles in India , the particulars of which iviust have been derived from special sources of information , and when we have said this we have justified ourselves in directing attention to the novel as one of marlc , and an interest altogether independent of its melodramas . It is , besides , exceedingly entertaining ,. and abounds in well-sketched illustrations of life in our days , at home and in the East , at the university and in the field of battle , amid . \ the enei'vating atmosphere of gilded saloons ., " to quote the last romance by " the author of Coningshy—and , in fact , of the world from all points of view . Written by a man of healthy understanding , with a vigorous pen , and the faculty of story-telling , Will He Marry Her ? is wanting in nothing that should ensure its popularity .
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New Pictures At The French Gallery. A Fr...
NEW PICTURES AT THE FRENCH GALLERY . A fresh batch of pictures has arrived at the French Exhibition in Pall-Mall East . The three most important addition ^ are M . Gerome's " Tragedy and Comedy , " M . Edoua . r » Freiik's " Little , Drummer , " and a meritorious picture by M . Louis TA . ht . Aiv , representing a scene at the grate of an Austrio-Italinn dungeon , between sin old man , imprisoned within , and a young one , who clasps the withered hands through the spaces of the bars , and who expresses in his face a mingling of sorrow and indignatkni . The word " Patria" is rudely cut into the masonry outside . The colouring of this picture , somewhat of the dark and massive kind which characterizes the works of our countryman Mr . J . PHii . r , ii ' , is its principal recommendation to us ; for ( here is little novelty in the arrangement of the . subject , « nu that has no novelty at nil . It is seldom one feels , in looking at a picture , that the artist has thoroughly and exactly done what he meiuit to do . This fact more than any other strikes
us when we look at M . Gerome ' s duelling scene with the antithetical ftT above named . The picture is not new to the London public , having been a Minted in the same gallery on a previous occasion . We are , therefore deter a from entering into a minute description of the work , which , owing to ' the-sfp simplicity and truthfulness of its incidents , is easy enough to describe It -n suffice if we remind those who have only heard of the picture ( and -who has nnm that it represents the termination of a duel ,. on a winter ' s morning betwl masqueraders . One of them , in the loose , fantastic white dress of Pierrot mortally wounded . His adversary , habited as a North American Indian « walking off arm-in-arm with Harlequin towards a hired carriage in waitino I the skirt of the wood . The poetry of this painful scene consists in the momPnt of change being caught and retained by the painter ' s skill . The face oftlm dying man is smeared with paint , at the same time that it is bedabbled with a death-sweat ; and here a physical fact subserves imagination ; for it benw natural that the traces of the paint should first disappear from the central an ! prominent parts of the face , and should hang round about the extremities so it
is , at the same tune , a grand conception of such a death to make tragedy ' disneZ comedy in this awful manner . Again , in the dress we have the s ^ me idea car ried out . The white skull-cap which Pierrot wears tightly drawn over his head seems , by the slightest accidental disarrangement , to have entirely altered its cha racter , and looks like the head-dress of an Invalid . It is scarcely necessary to point out , after this , the same grotesque parody of a sick man ' s robe , in the loose white , dress of Pierrot . Those of our readers who have not seen this extraor dinary picture ought , if possible , to do so . It is , we hear , to be engraved- but the painter's touch willbe missed in a greater degree than is common in ' such reproductions . Of M . Fkeke ' s little picture , we will just say that it is more highly finished , than any of his other works this year , and is more cheerful in colour ; that the subject is a little boy being taught , by a boy not so little , how to play the drum ; and that it will be found under a glass in the same frame with two miniature works by Meissonieb .
Native India.—There Are Thousands Of Rny...
Native India . —There are thousands of rny countrymen who hear of ghat murders , and other horrors of India , but few realize them . L « t me just give them aw idea of tlio reality . At present 1 um residing near tho Hooghly , not far from Calcutta , and scenes like tho following constantly occur under our windows . For example ., about midnight wo hear tho noise of a number of natives going down to the river , there is « . pause , then a slight muttering , and sometimes you may catch tho sound of some one as if choking ; it ia truly a human being , a . man who ia having Uis mouth crammed with mud and dirtyT & ater by " his friends . " " Hurree bol 3 " hurreebol ! " they urge him to repent , and when he appears dead thoy push his body into tho stream , then , singing some horrid song , thoy depart . Soon tho tide washes tho body ashore , ami then wo hear tho < lo # s and jackals quarrelling over their horrid meal , as they tear the > corpse limb from limb . In tho morning a few vultures are sitting around the spot , and nothing remains but a few bonca to attest one murder out of lmndreds , perhupa thousands , committed every night on the course of this dreadful river ! Within one-eighth of a mile , I have counted tho remains of bIx
human bodies , and it is said that when property is in ' question , it is not always a sick man who is thus trenttd . \ Every one knows that tho bodies of men , women , and children pass constantly to and fro in the river ; and all this goes on under the shade of our mission church and schools , where one or two persons are spending their lives to rescue a few of the millions who are en-r gaged in these abominations . —Letter from a Missionary in the Times .
The Photographic Society. The Fifth Annu...
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY . The fifth annual exhibition of this society is now open at No . I , New Coventrystreet , ^ Piccadilly . It is a most interesting : and instructive display , as regards both the variety of subject and the illustrative value of the photographic specimens . Mr . F . Frith , the younger , exhibits a noble series of views in Egypt , one of the most remarkable being the Hall of Columns at Karnac . Mr . Frakcis Bkkford , commissioned by her Majesty to photograph the town of Cobourg at every point , has brought castle , palace , market-place , garden-terrace and cascade at Rosenau , and Tower of St . Maurice , faithfully before the eyes of Her loving subjects . Mr . Roger Fknton has been prolific , and his architectural views * re of great value ; but we are sorry to have to say they are all , more or less , out of focus ; a drawback attributable to his having obeyed a general demand for large-sized studies . The Galilee Porch of Ely Cathedral positively bulges at the sides to such an extent as to look dangerous . Were we not
acquainted with the true cause of this alarming sign , which only exists in Mr . Fenton ' s sun-picture , we should draw the venerable bishop ' s attention to the subject , with a view to having the porch immediately shored up . Of all the landscape studies , Mr . Thtjrstoit Thosipsoh ' s trees are most commendable ; and of all the portraits , those by Mr . May alt . are ( with the exception of some coloured specimens ) most to be condemned . As Mr . Mayall seems to be extensively taken on trust as a brilliant photographer , we think it worthwhile to point out the false ground on which his reputation stands . It will be observed that nearly all his portraits are /^ touched . " They are more than touched ; they are altered in essential particulars . The original backgrounds are removed and false ones are substituted ; the effect of which is to give a sharp edge to the object . Without describing the photographic process by which this tasteless operation is conducted , we need merely say that it is precisely equivalent to cutting out a head or figure , and sticking it upon something to which i t docs not belong .
The supplementary exhibition of French photographs , in an upper room , is for the most part excellent . It includes many copies of pictures little "known in England . This of itself is an inducement to visit the gallery .
. Theatrical And Musical Notes. The Chie...
. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES . The chief theatrical event of the week is the closing of the Adelphi Thkatrb on Wednesday evening with a speech from Mr . Wkbstek . After existing for some half a century , the old Adelfhi— scene of so many melodramatic ami farcical triumphs—is to be pulled down , but only that a larger and bettor theatre may rise on its site . At the Haymarket , Miss Amy Sedgwick has reappeared , after her indisposition , in the Unequal Match . Popular Italian opera ( almost wholly Verdi ' s ) is nourishing , at moderate prices , at Dnuitv Lane . Mozart ' s Nozze di Figaro , with Mademoiselle Titiens as the Countess , has been reproduced at Hun Majesty's Theatke ; and Lucrezia Borgia , with Grisi and lioNCONr , has again delighted the frequenters of the Covent Garden house . Boots at the Swan has at length reeled out of the playbills of the Oi . ymp . ic , giving place to a revival of Daddy Hardatre ; and sit the Sxnand Miss Swa ' n-BonouGH lias produced a new burlesque by Mr . Bvkon—a travestie of his illustrious namesake ' s Bride ofAlj / dos , pleasantly acted by the fair lessee , Miss M . Ternaw , Miss Hughes , Miss Oliver , and sundry gentlemen .
U1kths , Makriages, And Deaths. Births. ...
U 1 KTHS , MAKRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . BRIDGE R . -pn the 30 th May , afcCliapol Mouse , Worthing t « ll « of W . M . Bridger , Esq .: a dauglitcr . UNWIN .-On Monday , tho Slab May , at 5 , MonfcpclierwVTT-S ?? : wifo ° r ' - W .. Uuwin . Haq .: a daughter . WILSON . —On tho 31 st May , nt 3 , Sea View-terraco , Donnybrook , near Dublin , tho wifo of J . P . Wilson , Esq .: a Bon . . „„„„„„ „ MAUltlAGES . AMBROSE—POVAH . —Ou tho i « t iuBt .. nt St . Saviour'B . Bouthwark , l » ovali Ambrose , Ksq ., of Port LouIh , MnuHuus , to Joyce , daughter of tlno late John rovah , Eau ., of llaiTinstcad , MiadPcHex . yOUJSG-WALTON .-On TiuiBday , tho lot inst ., at Kcwcliuroh , Islo of Wight , E < hvin , youngest sou of tho Into
! Johii Young , Usq ., of Maida-hill , to Elizabeth , ontf surviviiiR duu-ghter of James Walton , Esq ., of Spencerroad , Rydc . DEATHS . GARY . —On tlie 2 nd insfc ., at Wootirord , Essex , in his lSlh year , and after a short illness , Willin . ni Henry , the tliinl son of W . H . Cary , Esq . rOR-T .-On tho 2 ud inst ., at 10 , Prior . v-strcot , Chcltcnliam . Anno Port , tho beloved wil ' o of t ' ho llcv . GcorRO I ' oit . rector of tirafton , Flyford , Worccslorshire , in her 80 th year .
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?— - London , FiiJay Evening , Juno 4-The price in tho FundB ia lower this -week , and generally tho tone in not so couddont . Tho irritation felt i » New York , and tho chequered complexion of Indian all airs , operate . aRiunat tho cauo of money , and tho prospects of an admirahlo hay nml corn harvest . There ia a sciiaihlo ucpressiuu in all nlocks and sliarcs thronnhout tho Bxohn !> f ?(!> tit o : itj time Uu ; ro Heemed ureaction in Indian andBra / . ilinu linen , but ithnu pnsoedofl ' . ' Dover . * andCalcdoniansarc wotto —all tho heavy nhnrt's hang on hand . Jn Miscellaneous ami
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Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05061858/page/20/
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