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No. 450, November 6, 1858.] THE LEADER. ...
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social institutions , is pronounced to be marvellous . one better understood all this than Edward Thorpe , but he was a man amongst ten thousand . He remembered that this rude population had been quite destitute of in struction , secular or spiritual , time out of " mind . knew that the grossly ignorant and . rough men about him were still human ,, because he had found tham acces sible' to kindness '; tiecause he had tried kind treatment and bad found it to succeed in softening their natures at least quite as well as brutality had , previously to his time , succeeded in knocking what little sense they had left out of them . In this work of reformation amongst a people so apparently lost , Edward Thorpe intended to associate Avice with himself , and , as a preliminary step he at once formed a girls ' class in the rude primitive school-room . He had formed a right estimate of Avice' high nature , that while it -was not to be appalled by anything human , was capable of being attracted towards anything human . He knew well enough that any ordi nary schoolmistress that could be engaged would com plain bitterly of the difficulties in the way , if she did not allow them to conquer her altogether . He expected Avice to pave the way for such an inferior nature , and to perfect her own work afterwards . And Avice did not fail him . Avice has a daughter , and after about eighteen years' monotonous existence , her husband dies . There is a sort of underplot , in which a Mr . Ii y ^ croft plays a prominent part . He is a low , cunning-minded man , who contrives to ingratiate himself with old Osborne , and at Osborne ' s death is left sole guardian of the daughter , believed to have disgraced herself by an intrigue with a person below her station , and who is declared to be insane , and left in the care of Itycroft , who , however , knows that there was no disgrace , but a legitimate marriage , and a son , of whom the unhappy wife was deprived as soon as born . Many years elapse , and many new actors fill the scene , to appear and disappear , but at length Avice , who finds herself the heiress of immense wealth , left by an old . friend , meets again with Walter Osborne . And here we refer our readers to the book for the finale . C We have purposely omitted mention of nuirie- A rotis characters with which the canvas is , as w _ e li think , somewhat superfluously crowded . There w Can be no doubt about the power of the author to n < draw characters extremely well , and that he has had aJ no small experience in the various walks of life so tl well depicted . oi We inay fairly pronounce this novel to be a work ni of very considerable merit , and not unlikely to have w a run . b ( i n * - A i : I » or : :
No. 450, November 6, 1858.] The Leader. ...
No . 450 , November 6 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . list
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, GORDON OF DUNCAIRX . Gordon of Buncairn . 2 vola . " , Richard Bentley . Scotch . hovel s when it really illustrates Scotch life aud peculiarities ,. is a very good thing . But when it is only Scotch in ' names and localities , with nothing distinctive , it . is -comparatively a poor affajr . There is something racy and idiomatic in the Scotch vernacular , but when plain Cockneyism ' bald Saxon is provincialised by Scotch pronunciation and spelling , then the charm is lost . The j writer of this novel is Scotch , and had he or she , been contented with drawing all the characters , from Scotland , we might have had a warmer meed < praise to bestovy on the performance . But the i characters arc mixed and contrasted , are drawn < presumably from Scotch and English societydrawn from thence without very much skill , and * certainly with but little regard to facts presented * real life . But authors , like poets , are permitted c have a certain licence , and though the boundaries r this licence have been in this instance over- * stepped , according to critical notions , we will be hard upon national tendencies . The novel opens with Minnie and Lilias , two Scotch lasses , f ( introduced as speaking and looking' like types are not usually supposed to be characteristic { the other side of the Tweod . The young lady u Minnie , or Marion , had been picked up at sea by j ., y ' s father , Lieutenant Greet no , and adopted into n family , because he could not find out her connoxious . The eldest son , Archie Grccme , fulls in ; „ With Minnie , proposes , and is rejected . The scene changes to England . Lilias and w Archie visit ; Battcsden , the scat of their English re- q lulivcs . We are hero treated to a short dialogue at IVenoh , between the sviiiting-tnaid and Lilias , i .. relative to the best modo of dressing hair , which u , convinces us that Chaucer ' s " French atto Bowe" is if entirely a dead language . At Battcsden , among f personages ^ two destined to figure promi- a y in tho story make their appearance—Sir n . Leslie Gordon of Dunciiini , Scotch ; Miss Jane g ; Osborno , English . Sir Loslio is a veritable preux J checalicr , and here again . M'c miss every distinctive Lj Scotch lineament . Miss Osborne , a " ' fust" young y , but of what class of English society she is j , supposed to bo the typo wo must , plead ignorance g i . good many pages aro consumed in showing how ,. m Osbonic , heartless mid scheming , wauling - and virtuous principles , succeeds in enling Sir Lcisjlio Gqnlou into an engagement and eventual imjmngr , ihojigh all the timo in love Lily Gnome . It is hoincwhitt perplexing to understand by what kind of psychological pocua sensitive , cultivated , observant Scotoiuniui bir Loslio Gordon is represented to bo , could ri g n 3 : if b ir 11
. . allow himself to be inveigled into matrimony with a bold , coarse-minded flirt such , as Miss Osborne is depicted , of whose conversational powers this is a sample : — "Jane ! " exclaimed her sister , with a theatrical air , " you cannot mean to give an empty hand to one who has chosen you from all the world ?" " Indeed , Fanny , the hand is emptv enough in more senses than one ; if it -were not , it might be differentlybestowed , and as for choosing - me from all the world ha ! ha ! my little sister , I hardly know where the choice lay . " " What can you mean , Jane ?" «< Why this : —that as long as my ' worshipper' had a chance of gaining that puling Miss whom we met at Battesden , he never thought of me as an ' idol . ' With , all her innocence , I suspect she was a deep little hussy ; but , if I was not deeper , I was at least bolder . I had not kept such a fish on the hook for a year and a half , and played him all that time , to let such a chit as that land my prize at last . N " o , no , I knew a trick worth two of that , so I just laid him quietly on the bank by a coup de main . " The marriage takes place , and the refined and cultivated Scotch Sir Leslie has his eyes opened marvellously by the following specimen of honeymoon conversation from his English wife . Sir Leslie , who has taken liis wife to his Scotch estate , wishes interest her in his plans and improvements . She urn ply refuses , because " the cabins , " she said , smell so fearfully of fish and peat smoke . " " And the road , as you must know , " she went on , " 13 strewed with dead fish , enough to poison a Greenlander , and children come and touch my dress with their filthy fingers . One day , thinking to " be very good , while you on the beach , I put my head into the school-room . faugh ! : —I very soon drew it back again , and , as I turned round with my handkerchief to my nose , the ill-bred imps laughed at me , and an old crone who passing had the impertinence to grin too , and mutter something in her abominable jargon , about . ? thae Saxon fine leddies . ' For my own part , I don ' t see what business Indies and gentlemen have poking into such places , and forgetting their own sphere . I have no doubt you are horridly imposed upon , by these people , who only care for wliat they can get out of you . Take my advice , Leslie , leave them to the servants , who understand them , to the clergyman ivho is paid to attend to their wants , and to that old fogey Fairburn ,-whom you are so fond of , and who seems to me fit for nothing else . What ' s the use of being rich if j'ou can't enjoy life ?" " That depends upon what we consider enjoyment , " he answered , in a tone between jest and earnest . " My idea is that making others happy and serving them is the highest enjoyment one can have ; and as for riches , do you suppose thoy were given us to be spent wholly on ourselves ? I expect Fairburn , as my steward , to account to me for what I entrust him with ; do you think I am not accountable for what is entrusted to me ?" " Oli ! if you come to that sort of cant , I know nothing about it , " was the reply . " You have plenty of absurd , stupid notions of that sort , I believe . As for old Fairburn—of course you hold him accountable , and ghtly , too , and a pretty strict account I'd make him ive , for I dare say tho old fellow knows very well how to feather his own nest . " •¦ Among the visitors invited to Sir Leslie's new mansion by his vile is Lord Charles Lascelles , a former admirer , for whom she retained a secret penchant . While riding about with Lord Charles , who pays her rather more attention than her husband approves of , Lady Leslie is thrown from her liorso and sustains severe injury . But , before this accident , Sir Leslie has become aware of his wife ' s worthless character , and her duplicity towards him the case of Lily Gnome . After Lady Gordon's ecovory , she elopes with Lord Charles ; and then vo conic onco more to the fortunes of Archie ramo and Minnie Gray . After a series of small idvcntures tho pair aro brought together again , iavc an explanation , and find out , what the reader ncw all along , that mutual lovo exists . Minnie liscovers that Sir Leslie Gordon is her brother ; course , all dillioiilties in the way of union with 'chio Grocinc vawisli at once , and tho only caro of ho author is to bring about another union betweon iirLeslio and Lilj Gncmc . This cannot bo ucoQinlishcd -while tho shameless Lady Leslie is alive . Miis obstacle is surmounted . Lndy Leslie is deerted by her seducer at Baden , is found by Sir joslio , taken back to Scotland , and dies lopenfant . Leslie and Lilj 0011 loss muhial iiHuchmcnf , and ends " as merry as a marriage-boll . "
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IV TENTS AND TENT LIFE . ° , cl : Tents and Tent Life , from the Earliest Ayes to tlie Present pi Time . By Godfrey Rhodes , Captain , H . M . ' s 94 th cto Regiment . Smith , Elder , and Co . „„ Captain Rhodes was a sufferer by the great hurri- in cane that tore up by the roots the British camp to before Sebastopol , oil the 14 th of November , 1 S 5-1-. of On that occasion three tents only , of all occupied st < by the head-quarters staff , and guard ., weathered no the gale , and one of these belonged to a non- op combatant , who had picked up a few wrinkles about hit camping out on his travels in Asia and America , tin Qur author determined , if possible , to "improve" of the occurrence , as somo folks would say , and having Mi thoroughly got up ancient and modern " tentology / ' Lil finished by becoming an inventor . The advantages his he claims for his patent tent are its great lightness uc : and stability , the ease and rapidity with which it lov may be pitched and struck , tho economy of space ' gained by the absence of any centre pole , and tho Ari ventilation this absence also admits of . Its form , lati a curvilinear octagon , obviously offers Itjss resist- in ance to the wind than cither tho perpendicular rcli wall of the marquee , or tho conical side of the cor single-pole bell tent now in use . It liaa jointed not Nexible ribs , whoso upper ends fit into sockets on otli the periphery of a wooden disc , tho centre of which nei bomg suitably pierced , admits of mi ascending Lei current , and thus of a fire . Tho butt-ouds of those Osl ribs puss through equidistant oyes in an endless chc hand or ring of rope , and are thrust eventually into Sec Jjolos driven m tho ground . The skeleton of the lad ' tent , therefore , resembles that of mi expanded , sun stieklcss umbrella . The canvas cover ia put on / like q cap over tho erected frame , and strapped to Mie tho ground ring . Additional security i 3 lent by virt storm ropes radiating outwards from tho cover , fam llio system is claimed as applicable to every eve ! description of tont and marquoo , and must , bo espo- wit I piaUy so to tho largo ones used for flolil hospitals , und il , ns the author avers , ho cim provjdo for one Jim-i hundred siok men on tho area now occupied for tho ' ag I of in to of not that of Lil his love in not other nentl lad A Miss virtue tang with Imnly as
No He - , , , s - - y v m fr accomodation of only twenty . To be critical , it strikes us that if the butts were keyed into flight metal screw sockets , on Mitchell ' s system , which we would at all events see adopted for tent pegs , the gallant author's plan would be , if possible , even nearer perfection . The excess , weight of such appliances over the ordinary pegs he proposes to apply to his ground or base ring , would be immaterial , while a hurricane-proof degree of stability j wouldj we think , be attained . Captain Rhodes also contemplates applying his j curvilinear system to the construction of tunnelshaped endless tentage on the principle of the French tenle d'abri , so that soldiers halting may , by c uniting their several portions , instantaneously pitch 1 a camp without dependence upon the uncertain a arrival of a military train . He has also written an b entertaining and careful disquisition , illustrated by u many drawings , upon the civil and military tents of a all nations and tribes from the time of Jabal , called : in Genesis "the father of such as dwell in tents , " ^ to the present year , when out of 410 , 000 people in the Australian colony of Victoria not less than 135 , 000 are so dwelling-. Foreign governments have helped him to perfect this portion of his work by allowing him every facility for contrasting tl \ eir w service tents with our own , and he has generously * not ignored the plans of other inventors and _ i patentees . He concludes with an essay on ancient L and modern camps and encamping . "With this he incorporates our War Office regulations , and some stl professional papers by the late Dr . Jackson , some- th time Inspector General of Army Hospitals , and the fin Baron Larrey , a French surgeon employed near the we person of the Emperor at the Chalons " camp . The — work , may , on the whole , be fairly pronounced well lUi worthy the attention of military men and amusing llt to the general reader . wa SOI it ht ch js , en ch to n . j ! ie y h n n y | f 2 , j * ; , to . pi [ " ' '• the ¦ were — little was
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/11/
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