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JuNE 6,1857.] THE LEADER. 5 * g
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In the June number of Tie Train Mr. Edmu...
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Messrs. Matjix and Polvbi.ank have just ...
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The death of Mr. Bkimlev, Fellow of Trin...
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THE LIFE OF HANDEL. The Life of Handel B...
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In Blackwood This Month Two Old Tales—'T...
Sd Gleanings from the Itecord Office ' -a defence of Henbt VUI from T ohavee brought against him by Reginald Pole and reiterated by Dr . Ling 1 m > > of having lived in unlawful intercourse with Anne Boletn ' s sister M Tte Monthlies are taking up an important question that has for some time ccuDied the attention of the Weeklies and Quarterlies—the growth of Cotton . The Dublin University Magazine and Tait have each an article on the sub * . t That in the former is an able and elaborate discussion of the capabilities S India as a cotton-growing country , evidently written by one practically familiar with the subject . The writer seems to show satisfactorily that with a little more direct and vigorous action on the market by the consumers , and with the increased facilities for transport which the railways now in pro-ZL * . * . will Kive , we might soon become comparatively independent of the fouhern American States , which , in the present state of their ' domestic institutions ' we need scarcely say is of the utmost importance . The native noveUsts seem for the present resting from their labours , the two leading stories of the Dublin being by London men-Bx ^ CHARD Jekkoxd and SfflBLEY Bbooks . In ' The Partners ' -the title of the new story by the latter __ we are likely to have some Redpatu revelations .
June 6,1857.] The Leader. 5 * G
JuNE 6 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 5 *
In The June Number Of Tie Train Mr. Edmu...
In the June number of Tie Train Mr . Edmund Yates continues the series of ' Men of Mark' with a brief biographical and critical notice of Vilkie Coxiaw . We may speak in general terms of this notice as marked with excdlent taste , feeling , and discretion . Perhaps it would have been better to have abstained from instituting comparisons , but with tins sjng le reservation we heartily commend the spirit in which Mr . Yates has discharged a delicate and difficult office . He has proved that thorough independence of judgment , and a nice discrimination are not at all incompatible with an unaffected admiration and a cordial sympathy . The following extract will suffice to justify ^^/ fonTand careful observa tion of Mr . Collins ' s writings , I am perfectly certain Inferior thickens in pathos and humour , inferior to Thackeray m the knowledge of thelecret workinffs of the human heart , and in the popular exposition of a cymcai p ^ rsophy Sferifr to Miss Bron * in his grasp of persons and pl-es ^ s powe r o feSSsSESSSSSMflSSiaS raised to completion , he far surpasses them . We prefer to say as little as possible about the execution of the accompanying portrait , which we may charitably believe is the result of an accident to the wood-block . ^
Messrs. Matjix And Polvbi.Ank Have Just ...
Messrs . Matjix and Polvbi . ank have just added to their Photographic Gallery of Livin- Celebrities a life-like portrait of General Williams of Kars , who appears on this occasion seated , and in plain clothes . The General has a look of suppressed impatience , and at the same time of scrutinizing curiosity , which brings out the characteristics of the head with great effect 1 he portrait of W . P . Fbith , U . A ., is calm , thoughtful , and observant , The notices by Mr . E . Walfokd arc in each case careful and sufficient . The next subject in the series is to be Cardinal AViseman .
The Death Of Mr. Bkimlev, Fellow Of Trin...
The death of Mr . Bkimlev , Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge and sometime librarian to that distinguished Society , will leave a blank in a largo but select circle of the world of literature which it would be difficult to fill with equal worih and excellence again . Not to us belongs the enviable but melancholy privilege of speaking of the deceased with the votcc of intimate and familiar sorrow ; but we cannot forget that it was under the auspices of his genial and graceful hospitality that we were lint acquainted with he University which he adorned . In the noble labour and tranquillity of that dignificd existence , Mr . Biumlky lived a life of studious refinement , of scholarly serenity , of elevated thought , of unresting and devoted work , surrounded by the affection and esteem of friends whose society was n solace , and whoso sympathy was a reward . A ripe and rare scholar , a vigorous thinker , a correct and polished writer , a critic endowed wilh I lie nicest taste and the truest judgment , and enriched wit h the most delicate sensibilities , Mr . Biumlkv was one ol thoso men , so frequent in our country , who are the unacknowledged legislators of public opinion and nutlioritativo criticism ; but how few there aro among tho many that have been instructed , nml elevated , and delighted by tho subtle thought , the piercing logic , tho line and delicate feeling , and tho penetrating charm of style , who imagined t hat the thinker , ami the writer , and tho toucher , was tho quiot Follow of a College , sitting far apart from tho turmoil and the BtrifoP Ilia early death will bo no surprise to thoso who know how cheerfully and contontedly the sufforing and tho weariness wore borno ; but the cessation of a life so nobly lavished , if it docs not tnko us by surprise , shocks us by its Buddcnnossj by tho suddenness , wo mean , of tho vaoancy it leaves bohind .
The Life Of Handel. The Life Of Handel B...
THE LIFE OF HANDEL . The Life of Handel By Victor Schoelcher . Trtbiijr iuid Go . Whatever the Germans may have to say upon this point , we think that we can fairly claim George Frederick Handel as an Englishman . True he was horn at Halle in Lower Saxony , was educated at Berlin , made his debut m thTmusicalworld Zviolm di % ieno in the Hamburg Theatre ; true that af ter hfsretrn from Home the Elector George ( afterwards George I . ) made him chapel-master-all these matters are of small account in our eyes before the undeniable facts that it was to Eng and that his steps were aSSibyan-irwMliWe impulse ; that it was in England that he spent three fourths of his life ; that it was in England that he produced all the works which have immortalized his name ; that is was the people of England who adopted him as titeir composer of all others , doing him honour and brinfffner him profit during his life , and continuing to worship his genius with aTd ty whic h has grown ever stronger and stronger ; and that it is in En « xland thai his glorious works ( inexpressibly the greatest expressions of murfcal poetry that Lave ever been heard ) are best known and most reverenced . And if even stronger evidence be wanting of our claiml to consider Handel as a fellow-countryman , can we not find it m the fact that this work o ? M . Schoelcher , himself a foreigner , makes its ^ W ^ ce m the En-lish tongue , and that ( according to his confession ) it ism England alone that the authorship of such a work is possible ? The nformation hitherto attainable by the general reader as to Handel and his works is to be derived from the Memoirs by the : Rev . ^ John Mainfe ^ SSiWJ ^ ffl ^ AS ^ fflgJ ¦ Sw ^ w ^ ^^ c « kS which rons over seven well-filled pages , bears ample testimony to the extent of M . Schoelcher ' s enterprise ; but the field in which he has worked has not been a very open one , nor has the labour which has been expended light ; cyclopaedias and pamphlets , musical dictionaries and memoirs , works of aU desSions in English , French , and Gernxan , collections of newspapers and SKd ^ KSt-2 : ass * ftv ss ? Jpas JfuUtaiCwe cannot # ut accord a high measure of esteem to an mdustry and a sa ss : s s , ssS JS ^ . ; u ««« . s ^™^ T & SfcgStt £ e « S £ i » « on ^* Z * 3 ~~ ^^^ r ^^^ o ^^^ p ^^^ liilliS ^ lps ^ immMmmm nurse ' conUning a hundred sequins ; ' whilst his oratorio the ^ recz ^ om win fbi ™ 5 n the flriend 8 hip and esteem of the greatest princes of the Roman Churoh From this time forward his career was triumphant . In 1710 he pnid htaflrit ^ St to London , and in February , 1712 ho p e' ™^ *" ^ Ke Rinaldo ( his first opera produced in fengland ) appeared ^ on the . 24 ih of February 1711 , with immense succesa . Here let us record for the infoin ation ml we have no doubt to the astonishmont , of most of our readers , tTa t Ilnndel " vrote thirty-nine Italian operas during his rcsu «»^ ^^ X land , all of which are known , and only four of which lmyo «»* » eon puy f ^ s ^ hs ^^^^& for one of tho royal pic-nics , and the result was a pension ot -uw ., iouow
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/17/
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