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No. 437, August 7,1858.] THE LEADER. 78!
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LIFE OF MA.KY ANNE SCHI11MELPENNINCK. Li...
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HANDBOOK TO OXFORD. Handbook for Visitor...
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ADVENTURES IN CaFFRIMa. A dventures oj M...
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THE CHESS-BOARD OF LIFE. The Chess-board...
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Her Majesty's Theatre. —The Don Giovanni...
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The Magazines. The Monthlies Are Rapidly...
most figures / by no means embody Milton ' s idea , and certainly would have beea repudiated br that sublime yet tender-souled poet . Two of Etty ' s celebrated works , "The Syren" and "The Combat , " are very good indeed . The engraving of " Napier , " l > y B . Artlett , from Adam ' s statue , is -worth the whole charge of this sterling publication . The Ladies Tkeastjry fairly puzzles us—text and illustrations . " The Reaper" is a barefooted damsel apparently in . the act of cutting her own throat -with her reaping-hook , squinting lugubriously over her right shoulder at what may be taken for reapers in the distance , or a convocation of crows over a warm cow-dab- Mr . Charles Kean s & Hamlet is certainly not the Charles Kean to be seen bodily at the Princess ' s Theatre , but , nevertheless , he cuts a very respectable figure in the ' Treasury . "
No. 437, August 7,1858.] The Leader. 78!
No . 437 , August 7 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 78 !
Life Of Ma.Ky Anne Schi11melpenninck. Li...
LIFE OF MA . KY ANNE SCHI 11 MELPENNINCK . Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , Author of " Select Memoirs of Port Koyal , " and other Works . Edited by her relation , Christiana C . Hankin . 2 vols . Longman and Co . Beyond the narrow limits of the Moravian sect , the Society of Friends , and those who take an interest in that small Jansenist settlement in ' the Netherlands ,- whose history was written with a loving hand fcy our authoress in the " Select Memoirs of Port Royal , " . few . are prolably now living who remember Mary Anne Galtow , or , under her married title ,
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck . In a certain and jiot undistinguished stratum of the literary and scientific society of the latter part of the last and the commencement of the present century , she lived , and moved from her youth upwards ; but though she numbered amongst her friends such men as Dr . Priestley and Dr . Darwin , and such women as Hannah More and Mrs . Barhauld , she made no mark in literature beyond the piece of religious history before alluded to , the autobiography now before us , and two works which are promised to follow tliese volumes , " The Principles
of Beauty , " and a series of Essays , chiefly upon architecture . Her life was not an eventful one ; she lived with her parents until her marriage with Mr . Schimmelpenninck , after which a family estrangement occurred in consequence of a dispute aboiit some property ; her husband failed as a Bristol shipping merchant ; their means were reduced , and their way of life considerably changed ; her husband eventually died , and she lived a widow till she joined him in the grave , on the 29 th of August , 1856 . This is a summary of the incidents —« 1 . ! —I . A I . L . C ( T ; f . ) J 1 . _ J . _ 1 \ C * \ i \\\ 5
uKUKjjieseui . jujicj nas 10 iay oeiorc us , one volume being an autobiography , and . the other a biographical sketch and letters . The editor of the two volumes and the compiler of-the biographical sketch , Christiaua C . Haukiu , regrets the abrupt termination of the " autobiography" at the end of the first volume , and readers of taste and judgment will be disposed to agree with her . The biographical sketch is faithfully , carefully , and conscientiously compiled , with a vieV to develop the religious side of Mrs . Schimmelpenninck ' s character ( the only thing left for an editor of a life of such limited incident to do ) , and the
letters' are also judiciously selected for that purpose , but there are wanting the easy grace of a simple , unaffected style , and the quiet , but graphic pictures of a rich Quaker ' s household seventy years ago , which make the autobiography" so charming to those who are wearied with the more ambitious , and far less pleasing productions that arc continually forced before the critical and reading world . The strong vein of poetry that runs through the book , and appears at frequent intervals upon the surface , is Hot offensive and obtrusive , because it is genuine , catholic , and tolerant , and free from prosclytism and the assumption of sanctity .
llio society that she mingled with during licr youth , nnd residence under licr parents' root , was tlio most distinguished in and around Birmingham , where her father had an interest in a large business ; and although the Galtons were a Quaker family of strict principles , their most intimate friends wore the Berringtons , who were Itoman Catholics , ]> r . Priestly , the Unitarian , and Dr . TMrwin , the professed and somewhat ostentatious infidel . A faithful record of a childhood and youth passed within tlic calm circle of a pious , refined , and wealthy family ; a picture of tho gradual progress of n young mind under the influence of a liberal , but home education ; a career devoid of passion , where tho litllo sorrow
that came was borne with trained religious meekness and fortitude , and where the personal deprivation consequent upon an altered state of circumstances never reached higher than the breaking up of a costly establishment with carriages and servants , to live a quiet existence in some of the most beautiful places in the west of England ; a cherished intercourse with niaaiy worthy and talented friends ; a renunciation of the Quaker faith and a reception into the Moravian Church , —such is the life of Mary Anne Schimmelpen-ninck . It will fill its allotted place in literature—a place not so unimportant as many may be apt to > suppose—and by reason of its charm of style , and its pictures of a sect who do not come very often before the reading public , will secure a circulation even beyond the world of Quakers and Moravians .
Handbook To Oxford. Handbook For Visitor...
HANDBOOK TO OXFORD . Handbook for Visitors to Oxford . Illustrated by 128 Woodcuts bv Jeuitt , and 28 Steel Platesbv Le Keux . New Edition . J . H . aad J . Parker This handsome volume , with which are incorporated a , considerable number of the steel and wood engravings so familiar to those ivho are acquainted vrith Dr . Ingrain ' s Memorials , will be found a very charming souvenir of a trip to Oxford by many of the birds of passage whose longest sojourn among her courts and bowers-is . ' very often limited to a summer ' s day or two . The compiler has judiciously confined himself , with this idea , no doubt , to the University proper , not touching , upon the thick-crowding associations connected with the town .
Adventures In Caffrima. A Dventures Oj M...
ADVENTURES IN CaFFRIMa . A dventures oj Mrs . Colonel Somerset in Cnjfruria during the War . Edited by J . D . Fenton . J . F . Hope . ~ vVe are as incredulous as that ^ vorthy Bishop , who , after reading " Gulliver ' s Travels , " declared that he did hot , believe in -their truth . We do notbelieve in Mrs . Colonel Somerset , ye do 3 iot believe in her adventures , notwithstanding the familiar names of Macomo and Sandillah , and we therefore hand over the book to readers who are not so sceptical as ourselves .
The Chess-Board Of Life. The Chess-Board...
THE CHESS-BOARD OF LIFE . The Chess-board of Life . By Quis . J . Blackwood . The author in his preface says , " Will you recommend me to your friends and acquaintance , and will you , when you go into society , maintain that 1 am the cleverest writer of the day ? If you be a man of wit I ' m sure you will answer yes , if goodnatured , of course you w ill not say no ; but if you be neither one no * the other I have nothing to say to you . " Like the author , we fear we must say we are " neither one nor the other , " and decline , in like manner , to have anything to say to Quis .
Books Received This Week. Ttffff's First...
BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK . Ttffff ' s First Booh of Geography for Children . Desi gned for the Use of Families and Schools , -with Engravincs Tegg and Co . Tefff / s Second Boofifor Children , Designed for the Use of Schools anil Families , with Engravings . Tegg and Oo . The Adventvres of Mrs . Colonel Somerset in Caffrana . J . V . Hope . The Privateer . By C . Stone . J . T . Hope . Kecollections of a Visit to the United States . Edinburgh : Constable
T . . Bertha Darley . By L . IL B . James Bluckwood . Common Sense . A Poem . Monntcastle . The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings . K . G . 2 vol 8 . Snunders and Otloj * . Origin of the Scottish Language . Edinburgh : Nimmo . HumholdCs Cosmos . Vcl . V . H . G . Uohn . Book for a Comer . By Leigh Hunt . H . G . Bohn . A New Compendium of Ancient I / istonj , Geography , and Chronology . By T . Slater . Longman ami Co . Framhigh JIaTl . A Novel . 8 vols . Hurst and Wacko tt .
Extension Oh- Thk Metropolitan Elicctjuo...
Extension oh- thk Metropolitan Elicctjuo Tbi , eortAPH . —' Workmen aro now busily engaged in extending the wires of tho electric telegraph from Lothbury to K « gent-strcet . It is said to bo tho intention of tho directors to establish two new stntions upon tho route , one at the now branch post-oflico at tho corner of Southampton-street , High Ilolboni , nnd tho other at tho branch situated in Old Cnven < 3 ish-stroct , Oxford-street , near to the Court-house , Marylebono-lano . One-fourth of tho outdoor work ia already completod .
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Her Majesty's Theatre. —The Don Giovanni...
Her Majesty ' s Theatre . —The Don Giovanni , in all but perfect entirety , attracted a large audience on Saturday last . Mada . me Titiens , whose appearance recalled , the grand portraits of Vandyck or Lely , acted , sang , and looked beautifully as Elvira . Her " Non mi dir" was magnificent ; but it appeared to us that the Piccoloiwini , as Zerlina . was perha-ps a Little too artiBcial . Gatxery of Illustration : Mr . asdMks .
German Reed . —The close of the dramatic season , lias induced these enterprising artists to reinforce their bill of fare by the addition of various new Bongsand characters . The roniping hoiden of Mrs . Be « d is an excellent delineation of maid-servant life . We are strongly reminded of tlie Thackeray ballads and Policeman X in the ditty of the lovelorn niaicl-ofall-work , wluch draws an encore on every occasion of its performance . Mr . German Reed is excessively entertaining in the medley-song with which h « beguiles the intervals in his gifted partner ' s varied performance .
Crtstai . Palace . —Mr . Benedict ' s second festival concert , on Friday , the 30 th of July , attracted no less than 11 , 000 visitors , and was a decided success , the programme having been reasonably curtailed from its former enormous length . The overture to Guillanme Tell was admirably executed . Mr . Sims Beeves was heard to perfection in the impressive composition known as " Martin I . utlieT ' s Hymn , " and Miss Pyne , although indisposed , executed the most popular morceau from the Crown Diamonds of Auber witli her usual admirable facility . That unrivalled pianiste , Arabella Goddard , played sin accompanied choral fantasia in her own irreproachable style , and the celebrated Macbeth music of grand
old Matthew Locke was as much admired as ever . A ballad , entitled " Who shall be fairest ? " procured an enthusiastic encore for Mr . Sims Reeves , and this valuable singer , with Mr . Weiss , infused all their power into the "To arms ! Britons , strike home" Purceilw- ^ -On Thursday tlie new picture-gallery at the Crystal Palace was opened for private view ^ and we have to congratulate the directors upon this great addition to the already varied attractions « f their splendid enterprise . We shall take an early opportunity of reporting at some length upon the collection of British and foreign pictures exhibited , as well as upon the very interesting series of photographs , photographic portraits and busts , removed from , various parts of the building .
Thk Rotal Sitrrbv Gardens , under tie very able management of Mr . E . T . Smith , continues to attract tlie transpontine public and great numbers from this side to whom the late hours of the now fashionable Cremorne are inconvenient . It is , perhaps , a needless expense to have an outdoor dancing platform in addition to the ball in the grand salle , but by this means the crowd of visitors is certainly divided and all have the opportunity of enjoyment . Tl'e opera , recitals are an excellent idea as affording all the pleasure of delightful musie to the Surrey million whom circumstances debar from visiting the distant liaunts of music on this side the water . On the occasion of our visit we heard a selection from Linda di Chamcuni , supported by artists of no less repute than Madame Persiani , Madame Poraar ,
Signor JNaudin , and Mr . Charles Braham , led by the talented young conductor , Signor Vianisi , and Mr . George Hnyward . Madame Persiani aod Signor Naudin were encored in the duet , "Da qu « l di , " in their best style , and tho latter artist found scope in " Linda !—si retiro" for the best part of his register . Madame Pomar was very successful in Alexander Lees ' s " Scottish Blue-bells , " as was also Miss Laura Baxter in the beautiful and romantic " Cars Luoghi " of Donizetti . The Zampa overture , perhaps the most popular of its class , was well played at tlie opening of the tliird part , and the most genuine encore of tlie evening was extended to Miss Laura Baxter ' s rendering of the ever charming " Where the Bee Sucks . " Wo have sufficiently indicated that tho entertainment olFored toy Mr . Smith is of a high class and merits extensive patronage .
Mb . and Mrs . Howauo Paul ., at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , commenced on Monday their pleasing entertainment called Patchwork . This production , contrary to usual custom , has received its impersonation in the provinces , where it has been exceedingly successful . It consists of about a dozen characters , half of which are performed by tho lady and half by the gentleman . The most successful of Mrs . Paul ' s were the Trish Nursemaid ( a capital piece
of personation ) and Miss Gushington , a ln « ly who recites tho BtoTy of her infatuation with a French count , who turned out to bo n shoplifter , and , what thola < ly thought was worse , a journeyman biscmtbaker . Mr . Paul is clever in his impersonations , and as a Poor Eolation and as n very old gentleman of the very olden time , was extremely successful . MrB . Paul ' s fine voice ia a great aid to her , and altogether Patchwork is likely to take its place amongst work of a more pretentious kind .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081858/page/21/
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