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Serials. Blackwood Is This Month Not Qui...
Akt Joitrnai . —The LID . number commences withan article on the Prae-BaphaeUtes , and has also Inothe ? on " Rome , and her Works of Art / parti-Sly including her edifices . A long paper is hkewisf devoted to the production of « King Henry the Fifth " at the Princess ' s Theatre , which is treated in an artistic as weU as a critical spirit . The ^ number £ illustrated withPhilip ' s " Spanish Sisters , " Jacob ' s " Morning on the Nile , " and Noble ' s Statue of Barrow with smaller engravings representative of the letter-press , particularly that part which relates to Roman Antiquities . These are mainly architectural Altogether the number possesses much
interest and variety . . rr > IT vx —A great proportion of the present number is occupied with six chapters of " Getting on . " Two novels , Mr . A . Trollope ' s " Bertrams , " and " Creeds" by the author of " The Morals of May Fair " are reviewed . There is a severe paper on the Germans , and their faculty of story-telling , which is strongly denounced . Another on « The Fugitive Reminiscences of a Retired Governess is not a little satirical—not on the governess , but on society . The leading article takes the reader a tour " Across the Vorarlberg . " The number concludes with the usual book notices .
and can be the only complete edition ; its rivals contain little more than half the melodies . \ Here the public may possess every one of the melodies originally published in eleven volumes , and amongst those says the preface , which no other edition can contain , are many of the songs best known and most highly esteemed by the public . ¦ Mechanics' Magazine . —Parts in . and IV . of the new series consist of an immense variety of articles on subjects too multifarious for specification . The matter is in all cases highly valuable ; and the illustrations of the greatest available utility .
Beetom ' s Dictionary of Universal Information : S . O . Beeton . —We have received six parts of this * work , which take the reader down to Be . The whole is to be comprised in twenty-four monthly parts . The contents of the work comprise " a complete gazetteer of geography -, a perfect cyclopaedia of history ; a comprehensive compendium of biography ; an interesting epitome of mythology ; an inestimable treasury of Bible knowlege ; a reliable chronological record ; " with " the correct pronunciation of every proper name . " All this for four-andtwenty threepences is a cheap bargain , if good . We have examined several articles , and find them correct .
Universal Review . —The number consists of ten carefully-writ ten articles , including a review of " Michelet oh Love , " and an article on " French Dramatists and English Adapters . " The writer has a " fixed idea " that the drama is declining . This notion has been too frequently refuted to merit serious notice now . On the whole , however , the contents are well selected , and the subjects adequately treated . North British Review . —We have here , also , a paper on Sir W . Hamilton , and others oh Masson ' s Milton , and Douglas Jerrold ' s biography . Among recent poetry Owen Meredith claims a place . The reviewer confesses himself disappointed . Other , papers , on more miscellaneous matters , compose the bulk of the number , winch is a fair example of the modern facility in the class of essay-writing that gives birth to so many critical serials .
National Magazine . —This number contains an excellent article oh the " new poets "—Owen Meredith and Patrick Scott , to wit ; , a poem by Isa Craig , with the usual amount of varieties , all treated with remarkable elegance . Mr . Brough ' s tale of Michael Cassidy continues with increasing vigour and spirit . Tliis tale must become popular . Englishwoman ' s Journal , No . XV ., has thirteen articles of considerable merit . Kingston ' s Magazine job Boys , No . Hi ., progresses very favourably . Amateur's Magazine , No . VIII ., has some good
articles . Ladiks' TitEASURT , No . XXVII ., contains twenty appropriate papers , with some seasonable and capital illustrsitions . Kelly ' s Railway Guide for May is published with a new map of England . Part II . of Roltlkuue ' s Illustrated Natural IIistouv has appeared , with new designs by Wolf , Harvey , Weir , Coloman , and others , which are excellent . Part II . ' also of Cassell ' s Popular Natural History maintains its popular and artistic
character . Part IV . of Charles Knight ' s English Cyclopaedia air Ajits and Sciences carries the reader down to the article " Bathing . " Illustrations and letterpress are equally of first-rato quality , and the work must be regarded as a boon to the reader really desirous of acquiring knowledge . Part V . of the Works of the Rbv . Sydney Smith includes several contributions to the Edinburgh Review , and the commencement of Petex Plymley ' s Letters . RouTLKpaE ' s Shakespeare , Part XXXVHL , contains the " Winter ' s Tide , " which is agreeably illustrated by Mr . Gilbert and carefully annotated by Mr . Staunton .
• Croker ' s second edition of Boswell ' s Johnson , Part III .: Murray . —This portion brings the great lexicographer ' s biography down to the 04 th year , and includos his famous journey to tho Hebrides , Loud Byjion ' s Poetical Works ( Murray ' s complete edition ) , Part IV ., contains his dramatic works , and is prettily illustrated by a design of WoataU ' s . Kjuanx ' s History ojs > England , No . XL . —This part concludes the fifth vohime , and is occupied by a very agreeable acoount of social progress at the end of tho seventeenth and tho . beginning of tho , eighteenth conturloa .
Tub Virginianb , Part . XIX . —This story draws so cloBoly to an end that we shall dofor further notice until we have It complete . Moore ' s Irish Melodies , with Symphonies and Accompaniments for tho PionofortG .-- * NQ 8 , IX ; and X . are just published , and complete the works . Title , preface , and contents arc gfvea with tho last number , It is needful to repeat that the present is
N,. . I7o, Mat 7, 18591 Theleapkb. 587
N ,. . o , Mat 7 , 18591 THELEAPKB . 587
Tjie Newapostles; Or Jrvingism, Its Hist...
TJie NewApostles ; or Jrvingism , its History , Doctrines , and Practices , considered by the Light of Scripture and Reason . James Blackwood . The writer of this work seems to be alarmed at the erection of the Irvingite cathedral in Gordon-square , and to apprehend from its structure , as well as from the history of the sect , that there are certain tendencies to Romanism in their conduct and claims . According to hini i the professors of this costly creed have surrendered the right of private judgment to their apostles and prophets , and are led by their credulity into dangerous errors . The Irvingites say , with , the Romanists , that the exercise of private judgment is the cause of all the divisions in the Church . Our author grants this , but contends that it is also the -only protection against false doctrine ,
error , and corruption . They point , he writes , " ¦ to the numerous sects in the Christian Church , and their innumerable heresies , and , in reply , we point to the corruptions and superstitions of the Church of Rome , and have no fear of the comparison . " The author has treated the question with much calm consideration and quiet reasoning , and his book may prevail with some beneficially , and restrain them from excessive credulity . He is ho friend to pretended inspirations , and looks on such abnormal results as Morruonism and Irvingism with equal suspicion . Between the modern " Catholic and Apostolic Church" and " the Church of the Latter-day Saints" he sees little difference ; only he thinks the Irvingites the more sincere and honest . He has no faith in " supplemental revelations" of any kind ; and in the two
above-mentioned traces many points common . But he does riot enter into the philosophy of these manifestations ; and is himself perhaps not free from Bibliolatry , an error in the opposite extreme . A Volume of Smoke , in Two Puffs . With Stray Whit }' * from the Same Pipe . ¦ Arthur Hall , Virtuo and Co . Good , racy , fluent English . The verses run somewhat too glibly , and duty rather than provoke thought . The author recognises , however , in his headlong
way , that poetry is an art , though , in Ins own allusions , it is but too evident that he indulges loss in " the law of art" than " the liberty . " We . miss , uufortunutoly , tho purpose of those free and easy verses , even whore we acknowledge the power . They are evidently tho production of a scholar , also ; and wo ought to hear of their writer again . On some of the Grounds of Dissatisfaction with Modern Gothic Architecture , A Lcctare delivered at the Jtoyal Institute of Great Britain . By Edmund Beckett Denison , M . A . * Q . O .
John Henry and James Parker . Tim author is in favour of Gothic architecture in principle ; but he objects to some modern examples , including our now Ilousos of Parliament . Ho dbos not blamo , however , Sir Charles Barry . Wo should remember , he tolls us , that " tho style proscribed for his building was the latest and worst of all tho Gothic styles ; and , moreover , that it was designed nearly a quarter of a century ago , almost in tlio infancy of the Gothio revival , whori there was scarcely anything designed which its authors would not bo ashamed of now . " Stinginess is tho great causo of tho modern examples of the Gothic being sd unsatisfactory j but in some eases there has boon sad misapplication of money and ingenuity . Wo must , however , refer to tho lecture itself for details and the writer ' s poouliar opinions . w Who was Sold at the BubbUton Election f W . Kent and Co . A political squib , in which the humours of -an election contest are cloverly hit ofl " . It is conducted in correspondence , and tho characters of tlio writer are well discriminated .
Book-keeping for the Class-room and Counting-house , ui / Double and Single Entry , with an . Appendix on Commercial Forms . By John Maclotin . Thomas Con stable and Co . The compiler's . claims to attention arc the cure ha has shown in making his work hiirniuiiiyo with the modern practice of tho counting-house . Merchants will find tho work a valuable book of reference ? . Thorc is also an educational aim in it . an . I therefore , tlio topics have been progressively jimmgeei , to suit tho gradual steps made by the scholar m tho attainable knowledge sought to bo imparted . X . He theoretical improvements proposed i > ilist , ot couisc , bo loft to tho judgment of tho mdlridiuU merchant ; but they appear to us to merit consideration . Nathalie ; « Tale . By Julia *™^ LWvol . Messrs . Hu rst and JBlaokett haves done well to reprint Miss Kavanagh ' s charming talc of Natlwjto /' In ft capital scries of standard works ot fiction . " Nathaliu" has an especial claim to bo classed in this scries of novols , containing as it doos a more faithful picture of French women ivnd their inaunors , written by an English , lady , than any novel we could readily namO .
Pictures of Country Xife . By Alice Cary . London : SampsonLow , Sons , and Co . New York : Derby and Jackson . This is an American work , by an author not unknown—her " Clovernook" and "Married , not Mated , " having achieved then * share of reputation ; and it is thrown upon the public without a word of apology or preface ; Here are hi fact , thirteen essays , some in the shape of stories , others of a more didactic nature , but all written in a popular and dramatic vein .. There is a touching pathos in the tale of " Lem Lyon /' simple as it is in subject , and inartificial in structure , which goes to the source of sympathy . " Alice Cary " can command tears . In the " Married Life of Eleanor
Homes , " the instincts and intentions of the female mind are made much of—not too much . In our authoress ' s estimation their operation amounts to genius . " All women , " she opines , " have more or less genius , which , after all , is simply power of suspending the reasoning and reflecting faculties , and suffering the light which , whatever it be , is neither external nor secondary , to flow in . " Will our reader , accept this definition V It may pass as an example of womanly mysticism hi philosophy . Eleanor Homes , however , shews her genius in the manner in which she dreams . Such instruction and example as was afforded by hers , would serve to regulate a whole married life , and ensure its happiness . We think highly of this book .
Sketch of the Life of Walter De Mcrtcn , Lord High Chancellor of England , and Bishop of Rochester ; Founder of Merton College . By Edmund , Bishop of Nelson , New Zealand ; late Fellow of Merton College , D . D . John Henry and James Parker . This is an affectionate tribute by a scholar of a great educational establishment to its founder . It is confessedly only a sketch ,, but suggests means and materials for a more complete biographical work . A complete list of the documentary and other evidence connected with the subject is given ; but the matter is so compressed , and rendered with such succinctness , that any abstract of it is impossible . It is all contained in fifty-two pages , . which' will be found exceedingly useful to any intending- biographer , and will not fail to please all old and ' young Merton nien into whose hands it may fall .
A Statistical View of American Agriculture , its Home Besources and Foreign Markets , uiith Suggestions for the Schedules of the Federal Census in . 1860 . By John Jay , Esq . ' ' New York : Dappleton and Co . Tins is an address delivered before the American Geographical and ' Statistical Society , en tlio organisation of the Agricultural Section . Mr . Jay was Chairman of theSectkm . Of course , the interests of America are those most prominently considered ; but a fair estimate is taken of her relations witli the rest of the world . England and ITranoe arc spoken of in terms the most considerate , and the suggestions made arc those of a well-experienced and practical man . Statistical tables are also given of much
value . A Voice from a Bakehouse . By an jCi . utnciputed White Slave . By Ebenezcr Stevens . Henry Lea . Eviat since the lecture at the Polytechnic Institution , Mr . Stevens' machine-method of making bread has commanded the attention of the judicious . His broad is clean and pure , and wo can speak from experience of its suitability to the palate and health . Tlio injurious customs pf the baking trade aiv here exposed on the authority of a practical man . The 1 business , as now conducted , is a slow murder to tho apprentice , workman , or foreman of a bakinyostublishmont . Means are here proposed for raising those operatives to a hotter social position , and remedying tho various evils that unfortunately exist .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07051859/page/11/
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