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1040 THE LEADER. [JSTo. 494. Sept. 10, 1...
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NEW EDITIONS.
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ME.Vr.OntS AND RESOLUTION'S OF ADAM GKvK...
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FOPLA.K HOUSK AOADKHV. By tho nu.hor of ...
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SMUGGLERS AND FOUKSTKRS. A novVl. By Mar...
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TALES FROM " IJLACKWOOD." Vol. VI.—Willi...
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quences of ignorance, both to government...
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machinations to this desired end . How she falls , little by little , into the ways of the wicked , till she is amenable to the law ; is so forcibly and vigorously told as to convince the reader that , had Mrs Owen employed her pen in a better cause , she would have produced a novel of the highest order . Those that care only to read a novel for the excitement it will produce will be pleased with " Raised to the Peerage . " The interest never flags , and the story is worked out with great skill . It is a great pity that it contains , so little of the colouring of real life .
"The Two Homes" is , when the author does not attempt fine writing , a very clever novel . But the reader will not understand why Edward Graham's ( the hero ' s ) " heart was in his mother ' s hands ; " nor why lie has a " quivering brow ; " or , when he hears that some one has poisoned a dog , the " veins of his forehead should stand out like whipcord . " It is a pity Mr . Mathews has marred a good novel by such sentences as these . In other respects , " The Two Homes " is not by any means an ordinary , fiction . The reader may smile at some of the exaggerated language , but he will be
more than p leased with the vigorous descriptions and masterly portraits of real life . Edward Graham is the only son of Mr . Graham , of the rich firm of We . ston and Graham . The story opens soon after the death of his mother who has died of consumption . Edward inherits the disease from her , which makes him , ' poet and sentimentalist as he is , very irritable . Ilis father is a hard practical man , and wishes his son to become the same ; but Edward " detests the sight
of a shop window on account of its connexion with business . " Xet he gives way , through the kindness of his aunt Weston , whom our . author describes as being " too good to have much poetry in her . " Be this as itvmay , Miss "Weston , with the aid of Minnie , induces Edward to give up his scruples , and he devotes himself to business , and succeeds very well for some time . ilis health begins , however , to fail him , and his father's marriage w ; Jth a woman of fashion making his home detestable to him , he goes to Madeira , where he re < rmns fresh life from the beautiful , climate .
Madeira furnishes Mr . Mathews with a fertile theme for his descriptive powers . " Flor d'Oceana " is a charming piece of poetical writing . Through his wife and her aristocratic friends , old Mi * . Graham becomes embarrassed in his affairs , and Edward has to return— -now quite recovered—to manage his affairs , where we will leave him , for we must not let our readers know whom he loves and marries . The life of Mr . Graham , sen ., after his second marriage , is very abl y conceived . Miss Weston and her protege , the Minnie before mentioned , and heroine of the tale , are finished por- ? traits of two very different individuals , though both are thoroughly good .
We have read the work throughout , and have been well pleased . The dialogue is of a good order , and , what is still better , the characters all speak and act consistently with their natures .
1040 The Leader. [Jsto. 494. Sept. 10, 1...
1040 THE LEADER . [ JSTo . 494 . Sept . 10 , 1859
New Editions.
NEW EDITIONS .
Me.Vr.Onts And Resolution's Of Adam Gkvk...
ME . Vr . OntS AND RESOLUTION'S OF ADAM GKvKJIlG . OK MOSSGKAY . l $ y Mio author of " Passages in tho Life of ' . Mrs . Murg-iirot Multliiml , " " Lllllosledf , " " The DayH . of my JLlfo , " & o . A now oditlou . —Hurst nnd Bluokctt . "Adam Gb-trmh " is tho now volumo of Messrs Hurst and IJlnckett ' s Standard Library of Popular Works . It would bo dHUcult to name a more suitable work than " Adam Gnonio" for this aeries . It is a beautiful story , and perhaps tho beat fiction by tho authoress of " Mrs . Margaret Maitlnnd . " Those who have not already read it , should do so at once .
Fopla.K Housk Aoadkhv. By Tho Nu.Hor Of ...
FOPLA . K HOUSK AOADKHV . By tho nu . hor of " Mary Powoll . " Sooouil Idriitlon . Arthur Hall mid Co . " Pop & ar IIousu Acapkmy " is a much better novel than mo » t of the numerous writings of the authoress of " Mary Powell . " But it would bo rathor unfair to compare it with hor other novels , as they have mostly been written on subjects of tlio last century , wherens ' ? Poplar House " is a girl's school situated in u fashionable town of modern time , and is written for the purpose of showing tho manners and oustoins of sohool-girl life . In selecting this subject tho authoress 1 »« S not forgotten that she is writing a novel .
DOMESTIC STOKIES . By the author of " JoUu Halifax Gentleman , " & c . & c . New edition . —Smith , KIder , and Co ; . . •¦ • ' ' . . " Domestic Stories" is the new volume of Messrs Smith , Elder , and Co . ' s cheap series . They are reprinted from the threer-volume book called " Avillion and other Tales , " published some few years back . The others , called " Romantic Tales , " were published in the same form as these , and noticed by us about tln ee months back . Although the tales are very slight in this volume , it should be placed on the table of every home .
Smugglers And Foukstkrs. A Novvl. By Mar...
SMUGGLERS AND FOUKSTKRS . A novVl . By Mary Kosa Stuart Kettle , author of . " L . ovul 1 ' astures , " " . Fabian ' s Tower , " & c . —Thus . Hodgson . " Smugglers and Foresters " is the new volume of Mr . Hodgson's scries of new novels . It is an amusing novel , but hardly equal to " Fabian ' s Tower . "
Tales From " Ijlackwood." Vol. Vi.—Willi...
TALES FROM " IJLACKWOOD . " Vol . VI . —William Blackwood uutl Sons . The tales in this new volume arc : " My Friend the Dutchman , " "My College Friends , " "The Emerald Studs / ' " Christine : a Dutch Story , " and " The Man in the Bell . " They are equal to any before reprinted , and are well worth reading .
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SERIALS .
Dublin- University Continues The Subject...
Dublin- University continues the subject of " Artist and Craftsman , " " University Essays , " "A Woman's Sacrifice , " and " The . Season Ticket . " It also introduces us to a new poetess , C . 1 \ Alexander , whose " Legend of the Golden Prayers and other Poems , " have excited unbounded admiration in her critic . Tait ' s recognises , this month , the influence of the literature of fiction , which , both in quantity and quality , it represents as equally powerful ; reviews the recent publications with favour ; and also ventures a long article on Dr . " Smethurst ' s case . Its contents are more useful than amusing .
Eclectic has a good article on Tennyson ' s " Idj'lls . " Mary Howitt contributes a paper , called " Sun Pictures , " which are both pathetic and picturesque ; and Mr . Thornbury another , entitled " The Golden Gallery , " which is 0 : 1 the top of St . Paul's , in-the apex of Wren ' s dome , whence the spectator may contemplate " the noble view of London ; " An article on the " Gospel among the Karens" merits attention . The leading article treats of Dr . Vaughan ' s " Revolutions in English History , " which it commends to the echo . Poetical , Works of Thomas Mookk have progressed to Part VI ., which contains " The i ' udge Family in Paris , " " The Fudges in England , " " Fables for the Holy Alliance , " and "Rhymes on the Road . " No * 4 of the same poet ' s " National Airs" also is published , and attests Mr . Glover ' s care in the editorship .
Kingston ' s Magazine for Boys has reached No . 7 , which contains the usual variety of entertaining and instructive matter . Ladiks' Treasury , No . 31 , rejoices in a varied table of contents and numerous illustrations . Cassbli / s ' Family Bible , Part IV ., Popular Natural History , Part VI ., and Illustrated Family Paper , Part XXI ., maintain their respective reputations . Gallery 01 ? Natukk , Part II ., both in its pictorial and descriptive departments , is highly creditable to the Rev . T . Milner , M . A ., F . K . G . S .
Studies fkom tub Guicat Masters , by William Dickea , Part VII . —Tlioso nre engraved and printed in colours , accompanied with prose illustrations . < l The Misers , " by Quiutin Matsys , and " Tho Three Maries of Caracci" furnisU tho subjects for tho month . Both pictures are admirably executed . They have been copied from the famous originals in possession of Her Majesty , and of tho Earl of Carlisle . The litcrury notices appended are appropriate and intelligent . Parents' Cahinbt ov Amusement and Instruction , No ; 10 , presents ton articles of merit , blending instruction with notion ami lively essays , of which the scientific are not the least interesting .
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quences of ignorance , both to governments and individuals , have been little less than astounding and oh reflection only appear still more appalling Xn their results . The connexion between the development of the industrial arts and pure science is most intimate . English education , however , has been deficient in its general elements . Matters have somewhat mended since ' the . 1 establishment of the British Association ; but much remains to be accomplished . Hitherto both the continent of Europe and the United States have been fur in advance of England ..
" If ( says our authoress ) we trace the effect of these evils upon the lower classes , -we shall find them operating to a . most injurious extent . So low an estimate was put on the value of an educated population , that the culminating point of most systems of agriculture was to improve different specks of cattle , rather than to give attention to the labourer and the danger of educating the lower orders was openly deprecated by their superiors in rank and position , on the ground that obedience was the legitimate offspring of ignorance . .
" The British Government neglected the . education of the people , and ignorant alike of the laws of God and man , the tiller of the soil , and the wretched denizen of the crowded city passed through life unaware that he was deprived of his most noble heritage , viz ; , the knowledge of his moral dignity as man , arid his claim to the development of his intellectual : and moral faculties . Slowly , and as yet but imperfectly , has a change been effected . Government has become aware of the mutual relation between an intelligent population and national prosperity , and a system of enlightened education is gradually spreading , its beneficent influence . But it is a singular fact , that imperfectly developed as is
the education of the poor , it has already made such progress , that it is , in . many respects , in advance of that provided for the middle classes . 'We should certainly , ' it lias been well said , " have in a very few years , a complete overturn of social order—now servant is master and master is man '—if , when the son of any poor labourer in a common parish school may attain such knowledge as the pupil teachers of any well-regulated village school now possess , the squire ' s son were to be allowed , unmolested , to enter on the quiet possession of his acres , and stand for the representation of his county in Parliament with that scanty modicum of misunderstood Latin
trrammar , and Horace committed most imperfectly to memory without being construed , which , we tear , is sometimes still dignified with tho name of education . We are confident that there are many sets of freshmen at present in our universities , who know less of arithmetic , history , geography , and , above all , of the Bible , than the first class of the parish school , frequented by their fathers' gamekeepers . Moreover , the middle schools , frequented by the children of small tradesmen and farmers , are notoriously much less efficient than our lower schools . It would not be sound policy , while we greatly improve the education of the children of the poor , to allow that of the higher classes to remain
stationary . " The consequence of this primary defect m English education is to be traced through every rank and station of English society , and accounts for the past indifference of the State , dependent though it may be , for « the full development of its agriculture , its mining interests , its manufactures , and its commerce , upon the widest extension and tho fullest cultivation of science . ' "Wo find that the executive and legislative bodies of our land had , thirty years ago , such inadequate and indistinct ideas of tho ends proposed , «\ n < j benefits to bo conferred by science , that they dm ¦ * 1 , _ _ . ... i .,.: _ . l * -1 il ^< k mill nnil " not to ui * ¦
scruple opcniy express wwn m » w •<•• . — tempt of its cultivators as dreamers and mere theorists . * Tho head of a groat military itepHrtmoM once said that he hated scientific , officers ! Any one of his officers could have told him tlmt 111010 money had been wasted nnd lives lost m tlmt uopartmont , from sheer ignorance of science , than uuy one could think of without shnino and sorroj ^ Tho question which I know to have boon asked uy another in high places , though milder in expression was not less scornful— ' Of what uso is mrionoo r It is not long since another general offlcer BftV 0 » ; as his opinion , that'tliooretionl knowlodgo was no nnnesflnrv in tho armv . An oflloer might bo ft g" ° " tno
offloev without nny education at all , though advantages of education would undoubtedly 00 01 great moment to any one . ' , , " In the life of Sir H . Davy , written by Dr . U « > the author remarks that a Govcrnmont ' that 1 " bestowed a splendid pension ( £ 1 , 200 ) lor tlio <« utruotion of human llfo , rofused to liatou to any 1 ro positions for tlio reward of one who ha I l » von J . ^ , ^ machine for its preservation . This . reversal 01 ii « j objoqts of importance oan never bo rod rossoa un tho ariBtocraoy shall bo possoHSod ot a uonn ><» ro »
Handbook of the British Association fur the Advancement of Science . By Mrs . William Ifison . Longmans . This book is dedicated to Sir Roderick Impoy Murohison . and contains an account of the rJso and progress of tho British Association . It treats also , learnedly and well , of tlio present state of scientific education in England , of tho ehangoa in universities , and tlio beneficial influence of Prince Albort , There can bo no doubt , with tho thinking minds of this generation , that science is of essential importance as an element in national progress . Tho conse-
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1859, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10091859/page/20/
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