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A Batch Of Books. Manx A Book Must Be No...
While we are dealing with ladies who write , let us anticipate the publication , in a volume , of " JTlorentiaV graceful and sprightly sketches of Italy in . Tlie New Monthly Kugazine—her glances at -the demi-monde at Florence , her very entertaining notes , social and picturesque , at the Baths of Lucca . Mr . Charles Rowcroft ' s rattling ; novel , George Wai / ford , an Emigrant in Search of a Colony , has been reprinted ( Hodgson ) . It is a book th « popularity of which increases continually . The same publisher issues , in the " Parlour Library , *' Aicbre ?/ , by the author of " Emilia Wyndham . " One of the most notable reprints of the season is an . elegant volume ( Chapman and Hall ) of Mr . Thackeray ' s Christmas Books , containing Mrs . Per 7 ri ? is ' s Hall , Our Street , and Dr . Birch . This is a publication which it is only necessary to announce . To the library of Magic-land we have a most charming contribution , Fairy Gold for Young and Old , in eighteen Tales , translated from the French of Savinien Lapointe , b Routled
y Henry F . Chorley ( ge ) . The volume is a gem . Mr . Chorley informs us that Lapointe is a shoemaker of Paris , and a teller of stories . When he published this collection , Beranger wrote to him , confessing that Lapointe had succeeded , far better than himself , in walking in the steps of Berault , King of Children . " I expect a second volume with impatience , " he added .. " Be quick over it . I am seventy-three , and children of my a <» e have not time to wait . " Mr . Chorley has translated Lapointe's " exquisite whimsies" with grace and humour . Harry and his Homes ( Routledge ) , ^ by the author of " Amy Carlton , " is a book for the young ; conventional in the manner of its morality , but agreeable and aniusing . The Itev . James White has compiled a pleasant and useful littfe book , Landmarks of the History of Greece ( Routkdge ) . It is a carefully-arranged narrative , well sifted , always instructive , and never dull . It purports to be an introduction to the Grecian annals , and as an
introduction , is admirable . The student will advance his views , as he advances his researches . Faust ( Boston : Ticknor and Field ) is an attempt by Mr . Charles T . Brooks to interpret in English the great German tragedy . There is , at least , vigour in the language of the translation . The Crystal Sphere : its Forces and its Beings , by Professor Llilton Sandars ( Bailliere ) , is a remarkably interesting illustrated treatise , somewhat affectedly named , on water ., and the creatures that haunt it . To young and amateur students Professor Sandars ' s explanations will be particularly welcome . Perhaps not so welcome , though excellent in its purpose and contents , is a simple little volume , Duty to Parents ( Hope and Co . ) , in . which a variety of maxims and reflections are set forth in favour of the text" Honour thy father and thy mother / ' Nest , we have a new book by the endless and incorrigible "Fanny Fern "—the Fluy-Day Book ; or , Little Stories for Little Follies ( Knight and Son ) . And now we take up a volume , the name of which will attract the ' youngeyed' generation . Itis The Story ofUeimard the Fox ( Boeue ) , according to
the version of David Vedder , illustrated by Gustav Canton of Munich . The narrative and the pictures are alike admirable . There is , besides , an interesting treatise on the genesis of the story , on which Goethe wrote , which Kaulbach illustrated , which has been reproduced iai every European country , and enjoys the most unbounded fame . Among new editions we have Mr . Robert White ' s Madeira , its Climate and Sce ? iery z a Handbook for Invalid , and otter Visitors ( Edinburgh : A . and C . Black ) , a manual which it is unnecessary - * a > _ reeomraend , and a third volume of Essays , Critical and Imamnafove , by Professor Wilson ( Blackwood ) , containing his treatise on the Genius and Character
of Burns , his criticism on Coleridge , and his " forty stripes" with a prickly rod , adjuged to the unfortunate Tuppeiv From Scotland we receive also a volume of special interest to a numerous class of readers—Patrick Hamilton , the First Preacher ami Martyr of the Scottish Reformation—n \\ historical biography , is compiled from original sources by the Kev . Peter Lorimer ( Constable and Co . ) . Messrs . Low publish The Rifle , Axe , and Saddle-Bags , and other Lectures , by YV . II . Milburn , the blind American preacher , whose writings have been competently edited by the Rev . T . Biuney . A strange sort of book , intituled Immortelles from Cliarles Dickens , by " Ich" ( Moxon ) , is a compound of vague criticism and
miscellaneous extracts from the works of Mr . Dickens . " Ich" aits at the feet of his favourite novelist , and eccentric is the form in which he bodies forth his admiration . A plainer book , with a plainer meaning , is The Gates of the East ( Ward and Lock ) , by C . L . Kenney . It is a plea in favour of the Suez Canal , clear , brief , and readable , though to us not convincing . Still plainer , and still more practical , is a volume published for the London and Brighton Railway Company ( Waterlow and Sons ) , containing the By-laws , Rules-, and Reflations to be observed by the Company's Servants . We must not omit from our catalogue The Year-Book of Science and Art for 1857 ( Bog-ue ) , one of the universally useful , well-stored , companionable volumes prepared by Mr . John Timbs , " with power to add to their number . " Another , in fact , comes to hand—Curiosities of Midori / , with New Lights ; a Book for Old and Young ( Bogue )—a cabinet volume , by Mr . Timbs , well stored , well arranged , pleasant to road , useful to consult — a book of historical varieties . It contains a multitude of historical elucidations , neatlstated stated
y , and judiciously crouned . Who teas t \\<\ Man with tho Iron "tauy , and judiciously grouped . Who was tlm Man with the Iron Mask ? is a tea-table question of the commonest occurrence . Take down Itmbs . Matthioli , thu Mantuan Senator , imprisoned for having deceived Louia XIV . What was the story of Essex and Queen Elizabeth ' s ring ? In limbs you . find it explained , clearly enougli , that the whole story , the Countess of Nottingham ' s treachery included , is as fanciful as " Midsummer Night's Dream . " Also , that Wolsey is by no means proved to have been the son of a butcher . Also , that Jane Shore did not perish of hunger , or give a name to Shoreditch ; that Clarence was not drowned in malmsey ; that Joan of Arc wus alive eight yea re after history suva she was burned , history fixing 1431 as the date of her martyrdom , whereas , in 1439 , she received a public reward from the Council of Jiouqn . We must ; note , also , The History of the Decline and Fall of tin ; Roman Umpire . By Edward tubbon . Abridged by William JSmith , LL . D . ( Murray . )—Dr . Smith has
incorporated with his abridgment the researches of recent commentatorsjns notes to the complete addition with those of Milman and Guizot . lie "as entirely omitted Gibbon ' H dissertation on the causes of the spread of Christianity , and his accounts of tho theological disputes of the Oriental sects . In fact , he has mutilated Gibbon instead of epitomizing him . Better wave written a new book ; for this is neither Gibbon's nor Smith's , but a
compound of both , the one being very unlike the other . Mr . Murray has published , moreover ^ Poetical Works of Lord Byron , in one volume , « a new edition , carefully revised , with a portrait . " The type is small , but clear , and the form of the volume is very convenient . We iecominend this volume to all readers who have no "Byron . "
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Eebrtjary ? ,. 1857 j T H E LEABE B > . 139
Geography Of.North America. Black's Atla...
GEOGRAPHY OF . NORTH AMERICA . Black ' s Atlas of North America . A Series of Twenty Mapa . Drawn and Engraved by John Bartholomew . Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black . No North' American atlas in existence can compete with this . The maps are complete , careful , beautifully executed , and furnished with an elaborate index . The first represents the region of North America generally , the second , British America , with all the discoveries in the Arctic up to 1856 . The third and fourth are devoted to the several provinces of Canada , New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , and Newfoundland . The United States are then , arranged in groups , and occupy fourteen maps , an additional sheet containing Central America , with a distinct plan of the Panama railway , Mexico , and the West Indies . A chart is appended , in which are traced the lines of communication between Europe , North America , and the Pacific . The work must be invaluable in political , commercial , and pro » fessional libraries , no less than to tutors in colleges and schools . It is difficult to realize in the mind an adequate conception of the vastness of the
territory known as North America . The Danish possessions in Greenland appear paltry in comparison with the massive continent itself , yet its bulky coast , heaped almost for ever with white ice and snow , stretches , in aii unbroken line , nearly twelve hundred miles along Baffin ' s Bay . How disproportionate , however , its area to its population . Not many more than nine thousand souls , including a"bouttwo hundred and fifty I > an . es and other Europeans , inhabit its frozen immensity . Far different are the natural and social aspects of the Hudson ' s Bay empire—for an empire it is , in its magnitude . Over Labrador , over the prodigious extent of country round Hudson s Bay , to the Arctic and Pacific , the jurisdiction of this extraordinary company has been established . Parliament has been incited by Government to investigate the condition of the territory and the settlements it comprises ; such an investigation , is , indeed , necessary , for very little is reported in England , from . Hudson ' s Bay , except as to the enterprise of the trappers and traders in fur . The area of the Hudson ' s Bay dominion includes two millions and a half of square miles , ot considerably inore than , a fourth of tie whole surface of North America- The United States are
scarcely more extensive . The western parts of th e dreary region are occupied or intersected by numerous rivers , lakes , and marshes ; the ground , though in some places densely wooded , is generally barren . ; the contiguous sea is only open froni June to October ; the water in the lakes freezes eight feet thick in winter ; brandy congeals ; the solid rocks are split by the cold . Nevertheless , a great variety and abundance of berries and culinary herbs are yielc ^ ed by this rigorous soil , and in this capricious climate . Barley and similar crops flourish , along the Red River borders . Buffaloes , reindeer , fallow deer , musk oxen , beavers , wolves , foxes , and other animals find plentiful pastures in the plains ; on the northern and eastern coasts , the Esquimaux tribes are numerous , in the interior and the south , the American Indian still retains possession . The Hudson ' s Bay Company , itself , has its
head-quarters at York Factory , five miles from the mouth of Hayes River . About a thousand persons are employed in its service , the retired officers and servants liaying formed a distinct settlement far up the Red River . The whole territory is distributed into districts , each administered by a governor , who , presiding over a local council , is vested with a criminal as well as a civil jurisdiction over the inhabitants . It is time that some exact information should be obtained as to the spirit in which these privileges are exercised , and as to the extent to which the available resources of th < s Hudson ' s Bay region are developed . The introductory description , prefixed to Black ' s Atlas is only an outline ; but is , nevertheless , a very creditable performance . It is at once concise and satisfactory . But the maps themselves are admirable , and we commend them to all students of modern geography .
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^ ¦ Theatrical Notes. A Ditama. In Three...
^ ¦ THEATRICAL NOTES . A DitAMA . in three acts , called The Black Book , was produced at Dkuky Lane on Monday night . It unfolds a story of disputed possession of some estates in Germany , to -which a young lady named Minu , performed by Miss OLivisn , has the rightful claim , but is unable to prove it , becauso there is a doubt about her father ' s marriage with her mother . A benevolent gentleman , in the person of Mr . Chaklks Matiirws , who appears at a masquerade in the costume of a friend , contrives by several ingenious methods to establish the young liidy ' s ownership and her mother ' s marriage . Finally , in dramatic fulfilment of tho gossip which he lias denied in its niatter-of-faet bearing , ho marries Miss Olive n—that is to say , the young liaroness , Mina . Mr . and Mrs . Baknky Wiu-ums returned to tho AuELrni on Mondayevening , and received a hearty welcome .
A play in three acts , by Mr . Leigh Hunt , entitled , Lover * Amazements , or How will it End ? is to he produced at tho Lyceum . There arc but four characters , which aro to be performed by Mr . and Mrs . Chaiilics Dim ., on , Miss Wooi . gak , and Mr . Ljcioji Momwy . The play lias already been printed in tho pages of a periodical . All lovers of delicate poetry , generous emotion , and fino wit , will rejoice in this announcement , though they would have been better pleased if Mr . Hunt's satisfaction at again delighting a theatrical audience were not at the present moment contradicted by u heavy domestic ullliction . The Haymauiuct , on Wednesday , completed the One Thousandth night of its season , which , during a period of more than throe yearn , has been continued without any other interruptions than thoso prescribed by law . Mr . Buok .-si'ONK and his company may be congratulated upou this evidence of their success . Within those three years tsomo changes have come over the great world —and some over the IIaimahket world , since , in tho first months of that long scuson , Mrs . FmswiL . L . iAM hud not yet succumbed to cholera .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1857, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021857/page/19/
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