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Schaanyl : ike Sultan , Warrior , and Prophet of the Caucasus . Translated from the German of Dr . F . Wagner and F . Bodenstedt by LasceUes Wraxall . ( The Traveller's Library . ' ) Longman , Br < yvno , Green , and Longmans . JCettsomian Lectures on Insanity . By Forbes "Winslow , M . D ., & c . John Chnrchill « History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires , from MLVTI to MCGCCLHI . By Gteorge Finlay . William Blackwood and Sons . The Collected Worics of DugaU Stewart , Esq ., F . R . S . S ., # c . Edited by Sir William Hamilton , Bart . Vol . I . Thomas Constable and Co . History of the American Revolution . By George Bancroft . Vol . III . Richard Bentley .
The History of the Papacy , to the Period of the Reformation . By the Rev . J . E . Riddle , M . A . 2 vols . Richard Bentley . Journal of a Residence in Northern Persia and the adjacent Provinces of Turkey . By Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart , » th Light Infantry . Richard Bentley . England—Russia ; comprising the Voyages of John Fradescant the elder , Sir Httgh Willoughby , Richard Chancellor , Nelson , and Others , to the White Sea , & c . By Dr . J . Hame £ Translated by John Sfctiddy Leigh , FJS . G . S . Richard Bentley Poetical Works of William Cowper . VoL III . ^ Annotated Edition of the English Poets . } Edited % . Robert Bell . John W . Parker and Son . On , ( he Structure and Use of the Spleen . By Henry Gray , F . B . S ., & c .
... . , , John W . Parker and Son . Infidelity ; Us Aspects , Gauses , and Agencies ^ Being the Prize Essay of the British . Organisation , of the Evangelical Alliance . By the Rev . Thomas Pearson . . , Partridge and Oakey . The Poetry of Christian Art . Translated from the French of A . F . Rio . T . Bosworth . The English . Cychpadia ; a New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge . Conducted by Charles Knight . Part 14 . Bradbury and Evans . Classical Instruction : it § Use and Abuse . QLibrarv for the People- ') John Chapman . Th & Ten Chief Courts of the Sydenham Palace . George Routledge and Co . Satire and Satirists . Six Lectures . By James Hannay . . David Bogue Matrimonial Shipwrecks ? . or j ' Mere Hwman Nature . By Annette Marie Maillard . 2 vols . '' .. ; '" ¦ ¦ ... • . ¦ G . Routledge and Go The Cabin by the Wayside : a Tale for the Younp . By Lady Campbell . - ¦ - ¦ ¦¦ ' . ¦ , .. .-. . . . ¦ G . Routledge and Co .
¦ The Roving Englishman . ( Repriated from " Household Words . " ) G . Routledge and Co . The History of Magic . By Joseph Ennemoser . Translated from the German by WilEam HoWit . Vol . I . ( Scientific Library . ) Henry G . Bohn . Islamism : its Rise and its Progress , or the Present and Past Condition of the Turks . By E . A * Neale . 2 vols . James Madden » Professor ' WUson : a Memorial and Estimate . By one of his Students . John Merizies . Letters of an American , mainly on Russia and Revolution . Edited by Walter Savage Landor . Chapman and Hall . MatiketB Pdrls ' s English History , from the Year 12 S 5 to 1273 . Translated from the Latin , by £ he Bev . J . . A- ' < 3 iles , I ) . C . L . s Henry G . Bonn . Hungary and its Revolutions from the Earliest Period to the Nineteenth Century ., With a Memoir of Louis KossutL By E . C . T . .- ... ' . ¦ , Henry Gr . Bohn . Angling ; : or Bow to Angle , dn £ Where , to go . By . Roherfc Blak « y . George Routledge and Co . Hochelaga ; or ' England in the Neio World . By George Warburton . . ¦ 'I . ' . ; . , , George Routledge and Co . . TheLast ofthe Barons . By Sir Edward Bui wer Lytton , Bart , M . P . ' ' ' : ' ¦ ' George Routledge and Co . John Butt } or The Comedy of 1854 . ! T . H . Lacy . " Chamber ' s ' Repositoryof ' Instructive and Amusing Tracts . W . and E . Chambers . The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . By Edward Gibbon , Esq . , Vol . IV . Henry G . Bohn . The Works of Oliver Goldsmith . Edited by Peter Cunningham . Vols . III . and IV . ¦ ' i . -,. , ' . > John Murray . The Art Journal . George Virtue and Co . The History of Charles the First and the English Revolution , from ike Accession of Charles the First to his Execution . By M . Guizot . ' Translated , by Andrew R . Scoble . 2 vols ., ' . Richard Bentley . Alpine Lyrics . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . Sound and iti ¦ Phenomena . By the Rev . Dr , Brewer . , Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . Suggestions for the Assistance of Officers in teaming' the Languages of the Seat of War iniheEast . By Max llttller , M . A . ( With im Ethnological Map . ) 'Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . The PhifosqpJig of Education ; or tlte Principles and Practice of Teaching . In Five Parts . By T . Tato , F . R . A . S . Longman , Brown , Green , and Longmans . A HandWoTib the Peak of Derbyshire , and to the Use of the Btacton Mineral Waters By William Henry Robertson , M . D . Bradbury and Evans . Poetical Tentatives . By Lynn Erith . Sanndors and Otloy .
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' ' i , . DpyoHE tjejb First . Yormay stare , but it ' s it faot , that Iwae once nearly felling in love with a Qnakereas ! Such ajpretty , demwoydrab little creature I -with the softest , wickedest Hue eyes that woujd have seduced a philosopher , and fascinated a saint ; with infinite coquetry in He * formal attire j with coal-scuttle bonnets , the very ugliness of which only rendered her faoemore provokingly bewitching ; with such quiet , prim manners , that every instant you were nearly exasperated into kissing her , by way of breaking through that intense propriety ! A Quakeress , in short , suoh as I never saw before ( it is true I never eaw one before ) , and such aa I fervently hope , for tho sake of my virtue and celibacy , I shall never see again . If you but know tho temptations A resisted , tho perils I victoriously overcame , you would marvel that X am not at this moment the father 6 f a numerous drab progeny . She had a passion for black whiskers , and adored coxcombs—I need say no more ! vi . *' * - ?^! * W ? > Vivian , but toll us about tho water-cure . " ' A . slightly irritable voic *} , wauing from the muddiest lips in tho world , snapped tho thread of biographical reminiscences at this point . Tho divinest of
black eyes were reading over my shoulder this chaptei of youthful experience . Had those eyes been as patient as they are lovely they would have read , as you , dear reader , will , the justification of that reminiscence , and its strict historical application to the matter in hand , namely , the Water-Cure . You must knovr that at the time I speak of Hydropathy was just becoming " the rage : " everybody ' s mouth was full of cold water . I , being always of Pindar ' s opinion respecting the aristocracy of hydrated existence , had burst into sudden enthusiasm respecting the possible virtues of this new medicine . Declaiming one day in impassioned rhetoric tete-h-iSte with Deborah , she drew herself up with an indescribable air de tete , and the delicate suspicion of a sneer in her tone , informed me that she thought people , now-a-days , made too much fuss about washing themselves . " ITor my part , " she added , with an ineffable toss of the head , " I would rather read my Bible . "' This truly feminine and theological mode of putting the case suddenly shattered afl my hopes : " nipped in the bud" ( to speak po & tically ) all the ' bloom of young desire and purple light of Love ' which at that moment lent a splendour to my Deborah . I could stand her coalskuttle bonnet—I could stand being tutoye—I could stand the familiarity of " Friend Vivian "—but the state of epidermis implied in that prefereace for her Bible , opened vistas of conjugal disagreement too terrible for a man of my sensitive nature . I left her ( not broken-hearted , we will hope } , and clung more fervently than ever to clean celibacy ! On my signet ring I engraved with hidden significance ' apio-rov fitu vdcop . Thus you see how at one critical period of my life the Water-Cure was my salvation ; again , a few weeks ago , when in danger—not of matrimony , but of something almost as bad—when a congested brain , arising from protracted interviews with " The Fathers , " varied by lobster-salads at early periods in the morning , and a general tendency to dine out and sup elsewhere—at a moment when . I had serious thoughts of shaving my head and wearing gaiters—when misanthropy was settling into something more than a . mood , from which hospitable Hampshire failed towean me , and the racket of Paris brought no oblivion- —at this moment a visit from ray friend , Dr . Balbirnie , which ended in a visit to him , at Malvern , came as hydropathic salvation No . 2 . Dr . Balbirnie is a man of science , and enough ; of a man of letters to sympathise with and understand the . ills to which literary flesh , is heir . He persuaded me to come and try Malvern : the image of Deborah and my former peril rose up from out the shadowy past , and warned me to accept . I did : I went , I washed , I vanquished—not all my ills entirely , but many of them . After less than three weeks I came back " ten years younger , " according to the veridical report of friends , certainly very much better ; and if the gods had willed me to remain there another three weeks in perfect peace ,, I believe every symptom would have disappeared ; but the gods wouldn't will it : " not so , but the reverse of so , " did they will ; and , as a consequence , I feel my head in a somewhat dilapidated condition , though I eat well , sleep well , walk well , and look well ,.. ; Imperfect as the result has been , my slight practical acquaintance with Hydropathy at Malvern has sufficed to convince me of the immense benefits which literary people , and all suffering from chronic disease , will derive from that treatment when in judicious hands ; though I fancy a bungler would kill you as well with water as with calomel . It is perfectly unnecessary for me , or you , or any " unprofessional gent , " accurately to determine how much of this benefit is owing to Hydropathy ,, as a medical scheme , and to water as a curative agent , and how much to Malvern air , Mal-vern hills , strict regime ^ earlj r hours , pleasant hope , pleasant faith , and a mind relieved from the res angusta domi . As little as it matters to a " party" in the pit , who is laughing at KLeeley or crying at Mrs . Stirling , how much of the fun or pathos moving him is due to the author or actor . Men go to Malvern to be cured , as they go to the pit to be amused ; , and the pnly question to be raised is , not how tliey aw cured , how they are amused , hut whether they are so . , Next week I will describe briefly the hydropathic processes , and my sensations under them . This paper must be ' considered as preparatory : just as at Malvern , before packing you in the wet sheet , if they think you not fit to bear that process , they prepare for it by placing a wet towol or two on your chest and abdomen , so have I prepared your mind by this preparatory douche . Vivian .
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X , A . SIRENE . At last , Marie Cabel haa appeared ia one of Auher ' e operas ; and , as wo anticipated , has delighted her audience . Tho finest music she has had to sing since her appearance at tho St . James ' s Thbatbb is the mu & io she has sung best . Ze Bijou Perdu and La Promise , though written expressly for Kt a enabl ° K to do herself full justice , for the simple reason that M . M . Adam and Clapisson are not men of genius , and could not put her voice to its legitimate use—or , in other words , could not sot her the pleasant task of singing such fresh and lovely melodies as abound ir » La Strene . A hat opera is by no means the best of Auber ' s works—yefo compared with all that has been done b y the pupils of his school , what a superior and separate position it occupies ] His followors have caught much of th « grace , the sparkle , the exquisitely refined gaiety of his stylo ; but the beauty and originality of his melodies no other modern French composer hfcs so much jib approached . Profound musical authorities may talk and write by the hour together about the technicalities of the art—tho man o . f gonius is tho man who can write " a tune : " and the man of none , is tho learned musical humbug who gives us nothing to hum in the morning , as « reward for having patiently listened to him overnight . Charming " tunes" abound in La Sirhne , and all that fell to MUrie Cabcl ' s share wore clinrmingly sung . People who imagine that she is only excellent in florid and showy musw , should hoar her in tho lovely solo of the second
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Leader (1850-1860), July 8, 1854, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08071854/page/20/
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