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m6 THE LEADER; [No. 476, May 7.18fiQ »¦—...
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LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, &c.
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LITEEARY NOTES, ETC. ; Ifr.
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f|3HE staple literature'of the week may ...
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GEOFFRY HAMLYN. The Bccollecttons of Geo...
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HOLYWQOD HALL. Holy wood Hall; a Tale of...
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SERIALS. Blackwood is this month not qui...
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Literature, Science, Art, &C.
LITERATURE , SCIENCE , ART , & c .
Liteeary Notes, Etc. ; Ifr.
LITEEARY NOTES , ETC . ; Ifr .
F|3he Staple Literature'of The Week May ...
f | 3 HE staple literature'of the week may be . termed ** - ¦ ¦ telegrammatic , or telegraphic . Everything but the flimsy emanations " from Mr . Reuter ' s . office " lias fallen into abatement and low price . Mr . IReuter , who is a German gentleman , is , for the time bein . iTj the funset origo of all the news stirring . Xoickily for his reputation , the announcement of ihe much-doubted alliance between France and Russia , and which caused so much ruin on our
. London Exchange , was none of his . It was a special one , received by the Times ; but with this exception he has been recently the purveyor-general of continental news to high and low , cheap and - < lear , j ournals auke . The Reuter office was organised— -we may as well tell our readers , as people are asking who this Mr . Reuter is— -now some years since , for the diffusion of knowledge about foreign price currents and exchanges among a certain number of commercial subscribers . Mr .
Keuter appointed suitable agents on every mart , who siipplied him regularly with despatches , ¦ whereof he retailed extracts or copies , as the case might be , at his telegraphic circulating library . He was ( and is ) , in fact , an importer and retailer of news . Presently . the public press , finding the costs of private telegrams too intolerable , became -customers for other than Exchange news , and a - " political" was added to the old " commercial " y & epartmentv "Whether the brokers , bankers , mer--chants , or other agents , who were great authorities about-the prices of gold , metalliques , and rentes , are the agency employed for the new work , or Ttvhether , if employed , they are to be . trusted , we lasLve all yet to learn . However , as Mr- Reuter distributes his copy without favour or affection , it . appears that , during the forthcoming struggle , the
timately acquainted with the leading litterati . of his day . A "Life of Manin " has appeared in Paris , written by Henri Martin . It gives , of course , the account of the eighteen months of revolution in Venice , and is likely to create some sensation . Alexander Von Humboldt , it is feared , is on the point of death . He was on Monday seized with a severe att ack of catarrh and fever , and , it was thought , would scarcely survive many hours . "' Idylls of the King , " Mr . Tenison ' s new poem , is printing , and will shortly be published by Moxon . The Earl of Ellesmere , President of the Genealogical and Historical Society , has invited the society to hold its ensuing Annual General Meeting at Bridgewater House . Some valuable works have made their appearance in Paris during the last few days . In "La Liberte . " M . Jules Simon completes his large and eclectic system of philosophy already partly developed in the " Devoir , " " Religion Naturelle , " and " Liberte de Conscience . " In philosophy and metaphysics also , we must noticeM . Mabru , "De Terreur aupoint de vue philosophique , politique et religieux . "— " Essai sur les premiers priricipes des societies , " by Garreau ; and by Lamarche , one of the writers of the Debats , "La Politique et les Religions . " Among many in general literature are new books " Trente et quarante , " by About , the author of . " Tolla , " " Germaine Marriages de Paris , " & c ,, & . c . ' ^ La guerre de l'independance Italienne en 184 S et 1849 , " by the General Alloa ; by Enault , " Xadejee ;" by George Sand , " Narcisse ; " by Madame Figuer , " * Mos de Lavene ; " by Jourdain , author of "La pirn losophie de St . Thomas d'Aquin . "— - " Le Budjet des cultes en France depuis le concordat jusqu ' a nos jours ; " and by Jullien , " X , es ParadoxesLitteraires de Lamotte . " ¦ M . About's work on " La question Romaine , " for which a growing interest has been long felt , has appeared in Brussels . The proof-sheets have already reached this country .
JUbrhing Star'and the Daily Telegraph will enjoy jthe information collected by his staff in common Tsdth the Times , the Daily News , the Morning JEIerdld ., the Morning Chronicle , and the Morning Advertiser . What a change from the days of newspaper steam yachts and special trains ! There is , in fact , no prospect that English journalism will be adequately represented on the plains of Lombardy or Savoy . The captain of the pen who ventures ibrth must look out sharply , not for ribbands and crosses , but for drumhead and a short shrift at the affectionate hands of Austrian and French generals ; and what courtesy our liberal friend of Sardinia -would extend to a vagroia newspaper man may be gathered from the following Turin proclamation , ¦ which has a schedule of penalties , annexed to it for the guidance of his own faithful subjects . ' 1 . Henceforth and during the war the publication ( except bjr the Government ) , whether by the aid of * he printing press or other mechanical or artificial means of reproducing thought , of any news or reports in any way bearing upon the armies or the progress of the war , and not officially communicated , is forbidden . " 2 . It is forbidden to hawk printed matter of any description in the streets or in any public place , or to post any kind of placard without special authority . "
Our readers will therefore observe—the usual sources of newspaper information being , quoad the war ,. dammed up— -how such persons as the Horr Reuter become powers : how it becomes those who circulate their notes to make sure of their good faith ; and how much the public in general are interested in watching their operations very narrowly . K < The lato Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid , though principally known as a capitalist and n " pillar of the commercial world , " rendered no small service to
literature in his time . He assisted in the foundation of Mechanics' Institutions , the formation of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , and , ip , fact , in every attorapt mode within the last lialf-¦ c pntury for the social and intellectual advancement Of the masses . The establishment of Univereity CpUegQ vras also mainly owing to the exertions of : tfoia Wpvthy mWi and hjis services are handsomely acknowledged in the last Annual report of the counr * # U He was a E ' ellow of the R ^ yal , the Geological , and many other scientific societies , and was An *
Geoffry Hamlyn. The Bccollecttons Of Geo...
GEOFFRY HAMLYN . The Bccollecttons of Geoffry Hamlyn . By Henry Kingsley . In 3 vols . Cambridge : Macmillan and Co . This work presents to our mind a variety of reflections ;'< and awakens hi us a great degree of sympathy , but it can scarcely be said to accomplish the end which a novelist generally sets up for himself . Indeed , after the first volume it ceases to
his door , wayworn and travel-stained , aj ves ^ author the opportunity of presenting us " vith one of the best pieces of dramatic writing ' we . have read for some time . The vicar survives only long enough to recognise his daughter , and here the story may be said to end ; for when -vye enter upon the second volume we find that Mr . Kinsley has a purpose to exhibit his experience as a traveller and we have , accordingly , page after page of the author ' s own Australian adventures , and exhibitions of his knowledge of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the bush . Mr . Kingsley possesses the true ; materials for the novelist ; he has plenty of good stuff in him , as is shown in the ability with which some of the characters are drawnbut in the present work he has suffered his imagination to lead him into strange vagaries , The tale is wild and eccentric , and so disjointed , that we are unable to give the little story there is after the first volume . But even where the nan-ative is told without breaks , if chills the blood , and raises in the reader a morbid excitement , to leave him at length in a state of bewilderment . The rapid succession of events ( in the third volume ) , the lofty flights of imagination , and the varied tones and colours and style indicate clearly the presence of a man who can and will eventually write better things . We trust the author will receive our remarks , as intended , in kindness- To persevere in pi-oducing such a lieterogenous work as the present will , be inevitable failure : but to modify his vigour and to labour for a purer style will lead this young unpractised writer to great success .
be a romance . It lapses into a book of travels . Had the work been modified and g iven to the public as the travels of Henry Kingsley , from Devonshire to Australia , it would have been a good addition to our knowledge of Australian life , but as it is , it is neither a fine work of fiction nor an interesting book of travels . Striving for incident and dramatic effect in the former case has distorted the facts that would have been valuable in
'the latter . The first scene of the tale is laid in Devonshire , ¦ where there are four young men paying court to the vicar ' s daughter , Mary—a " poor , pretty f ool , " who cares for no one but hez-self , and would rather break heir father ' s heart than sacrifice her own feelings . As is often the case , she chooses from among her admirers the one who is the least reputable , Because ho has a handsome face and black curly hair . In this young couple consider * able interest is excited . We feel ourselves . carried forward and wrapped up in the narrative of their feelings and actions . The father of George Hawker , the favored suitor , ia living in sin with an old gipsy woman , and George is her child , although the old man thinks that ho is the son of his wife , dead some yeWs before the talc commences . When Mary ' s father hoars that George is a bastard ho forbids hini to see his daughter , or to come to the house ; and then follows , as might be supposed , a aeries of secret meetings , which ends in the ** pretty fool , Mary , " eloping with her lover . To provide funds for . this purpose , George forges his father's name for three or four hundred pounds , and at the end of the first volume we find him transported , for forgery and coining , and his wife on her way from Condon to Devonshire , with her firstborn tied on Her back in true tramp fashion , The meeting with her father when she is found at-
Holywqod Hall. Holy Wood Hall; A Tale Of...
HOLYWQOD HALL . Holy wood Hall ; a Tale of 1715 . A Novel . By James Grant . . Eoutledgo and Co . The rebellion of 17 i 5 is the theme of "Holy-wood Hall . " We have history served up in a new dress , with old characters and ' new properties . There is abundance of bustle and incident , with a sub-plot of mystery which carries the reader on to the end with feelings of unabated interest . The Scottish element is somewhat too favourably delineated , but this is a fault common to Scotch writers , who
may be pardoned for evincing clannish feelings , which is a national characteristic . Hut we must protest against that slashing and superficial style ol reproducing what we are told to regard as " history , " a practice but too common among writers of fiction . And we recommend Mr . Grant , Who is deservedly a favourite with the Briton public , not to mar his well deserved fame by permitting exaggerations to appear in his Productions , which merit , and will obtain , something beyond an ephemeral reputation .
Serials. Blackwood Is This Month Not Qui...
SERIALS . Blackwood is this month not quite so attrne tiyci m its light papers ; but in itapolitical articles , wh chft c marked by a certain air of moderation , it i » m » JJ force . There is a capital reflective article , entitle « Only a Pond . " The belief in witchcraft 1 orm 3 tUe subject of another article , under tho title o Jig Witch of Walkernc . " The leading article Oegg with "Popular Literature" in ^^ ""^ JS eally of Tracts . " The remaining , urtic e > me continuations-Part V . of "A Cruiso in W » ° J Waters , " and Part III . of " The Luck of Lartjs mode . " _ . . . . „ . , . .. .,, un * with off the munber
F « ASEu . ~ -Mr . Puckle leads ^^ an article on Mill on Liberty , " w ^' fjja severe on men of genius who arc nn ** 1 ' 80 " 1 , ^™^ ness . Mr . Chprley ' s " Notes on tho N ««« JjJAjSt ? Spain "is in a more genial spirit . " Holmby m >™ ,, is continued ; so likewise is « Swor < ni « Go ^ yn . The other , articles are of average "teniry moxit . Eoleoto—Commences with ft caustic a » cl ° ° J Mr . Gladstone and his Homer » a more ajf ™« f £ One follows , on Sir W . Hamilton A poJio on a » giarlsms a ' nd ^ Literary Coincldoncos 1 ub jorn ^ fitorary interest , but many of tho insiwitw familiar . There Is a long artlolo ^ w on Itvyw the Italians ; " and many shorter papora of iv ^ orftg m TAix ' s indulges this month in its ^ opinions on the war , « nd 'has some clover articles , both in vorso prose , inoluding the usuiil proportion of ^ JJa . » Scenes from the Prama of Life" are continue s
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Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07051859/page/10/
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