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No. 429, Joke 12,1858-] THE LliADEE. 571
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THE HEIRS OF CHEVELEIGII. T/ie Heir* of ...
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The Chase. The Horse And The Round; Thei...
< 3 \< o 7 reKtBes of Xenophon , by way of makeweight . In reference to breeding , all we think it necessary to observe is , that Henry the Second was the first of our monarchs -who made himself conspicuous in . this depai-tnxent of a sportsman ' s vocation . Contemporary annalists say that he was ^ particularly curious in his hounds that they should be fleet , and not only welltongued tut consomous . " Tbis last epithet refers to a quality now not only little esteemed , but almost extinct , namely , the deep musical tongue of the ¦ old English bloodhound : — Soflewed , so sanded , and their heads so hung With ears that swept away the morning-dew , Slow in pursuit ; but match'd in mouth like Tbells , . Each under each .
Such is -the picture drawn by a master hand . In Shakspeare ' s rural days of home , in a great hunting country like Warwickshire , the excitement of the chase afoot must have served as one grateful safety-valve for the ardent enthusiasm of his mastermind . From the above and . other collateral . authoi'itios we are taught . that " sandy coats , though now unusual , were . almost the rule in English packs of three centuries since ; and also that the } ' valued a second-rate hound at about twenty pounds : —
Saws ' t thou not , boy , how Silver made it good At the hedge coiner in the coldest fault ? . ¦ ' : I would not lose toe dog for twenty pound . ' ¦ ' ., ' ¦¦ In our more profuse age the late Lord Middleton gave Mr . Osbaldiston two thousand guineas for ten coivples of bounds out of his kennel ; and when blindness unhappily compelled Mr . Folgambe to lay aside the scarlet in . 1845 , his pack was sold for three thousand guineas . From the practice of crossing greyhounds with the English bull-dog results a breed unapproachable in form and that quiet innate courage which the high greyhound should always possess , prefering death to a
reiinquishment of the chase . The first sportsman who adopted this method of cross breed was the famous Walpole , Karl of Orford , a nobleman intensely adflicted to sylvan sports . Connected with the mention of his name and efforts in this behalf is an anecdote of very solemn import . His lordship , although in a very indifferent state of health , one day rode to the Swaffhain Coursing Match to witness the performance of his favourite , Czarina , one of the first offsprings of this novel cross between the two races . She won the cup , and the moment afterwards the earl fell dead from his horse- Referring to his delicate state of h « ealth this was indeed'" preferring death to the relinquishment of the chase . "
The Horse and Hound is an agreeable book , appropriate to the season , and may be purchased by such as are not specially devoted to the pleasures of ¦ * ' the green hue and hunting . "
No. 429, Joke 12,1858-] The Lliadee. 571
No . 429 , Joke 12 , 1858- ] THE LliADEE . 571
The Heirs Of Cheveleigii. T/Ie Heir* Of ...
THE HEIRS OF CHEVELEIGII . T / ie Heir * of Chevdeiyh . By Gervaise Abbott . 3 vols . Longman and Co . A revival of melodrama is presented in The Heirs of Cheveleigh . The novel contains all the old elements— -villany incomparable , perfidious plots , innocence striving against fraud , the pure and beautiful circumvented by loathsome attorneys-at-1 aw , and a magnificent English estate gambled , for by a sort of bloody-handed Palmer of Rugeley in the dull depths of- a German castle . Mr . Gervaise Abbott , however , has fallen into an error in attempting to rehabilitate the Radclifle idea . His story , at first commonplace , becomes ultimately ghastly , and the principal interest excited belongs to ¦ death-beds , with the average of foaming mouths and distorted eyes , and to
hideous conspiracies concocted between a solicitor in league with tlie infernal beings and a hateful mother , more like a corpse-candle than a human -existence—being pale , flickering , and tallowy—said scheme having for its object the luring and destruction of a certain Dinali , with splendid expectations . Dinah— -otherwise Lucy—is the heiress of the piece , with twenty . thousand a . year—and Mr . Harcourt—dependent upon her life asid sanity . Now her widowed mother is for the time lady of Cheveleigh , with the rents thereunto appertaining , and a particular lurcher , a legally constituted member of the learned profession , en-vying the surroundings—as spiritualists would say—of the Cheveleigh Lily , determines to become—like Love at Carlisle—the Lord of All . Accordingly , the male heir being throttled by sometlnng ^ which we surmise to have been a quinsy , the unprotected young lady is besieged by the man Butler , who marries her mamma , and being thus in possession , ties the arms and legs of Lucy , places her recumbent upon a couchimm her in castle
, ures a German , drives off her lover , and then , while the criminal feminine parent who has allowed him his own way consoles her conscience by drinking , Butler elaborates his last dread design . He unfastens Miss Lucy ' s wrists and ankles , he cuts the coLlar off' her neck witli * i razor , and then he leaves the razor within her reach . How little docs be calculate upon the unerring aim of vengeance and justice ! At that very moment champic-ns are on the way . He returns to Lucy ' s chamber , to make Kse of lie razor , and finds the place empty . Huneamuiiea has flown . Then he searches the vaults , loses his way , is left in the dark , falls exhausted and terrified upon the ground , and is finally punished for his crimes by a legion ol Hanoverian rats . They fix upon his vitals ; they polish his bones they carry bits of him into their secret haunts , they roll his skull about the floor , fighting for it , and an obese ruffian of a rut licks up the last splash of his brain . Mr . Gerviuae Abbott revels in this horrible burlesque of tragedy : but whatever readers pursue the windings of his romance so far , will fnevitably be shocked when they reach the scene of the gnawed attorney ^ skull , so that they will refrain , we think , from asking what becomes of Lucy after her hairbreadth -escape from Mr . Butler ' s razor
Publications And Kepulicat1ons. John Cas...
PUBLICATIONS AND KEPULICAT 1 ONS . John Casscll's Art Treasure * Kvhibition . Containing E » uravines of the Priii-S ? ll ^ AKr ^ ' ^ . Un < $ A Dutch , Pleintsh , Frenc ^ and U ern n Schools . With BiograpJncnl gketel . es of the Painters . ( L . Kent and Co . ) — . Lno biographical and critical contents of this ample volume appear to have been the work of several rapid hands . The " sketches" and " notice "
are slight in texture , and in tone elaborately common-place . That which bestows real merit upon the publicsition is the series of" engravings from the pictures of the best masters in the English , Dutch , Flemish ., French , and German schools . Not a single engraving from an Italian painter is presented in the whole exhibition ; but so far as the selection goes , it serves to familiarize in a popular manner the style and subjects of the great artists . In most instances , we regret to say , the illustrations have been , executed so coarsely and roughly , that all the delicate details are lost , the groups confused , and the human outlines blurred and broken . Of some utility to a
particular class of students , as an introduction or incentive to the study of art-history , the work is , nevertheless , too crude and superficial to be accepted as a popular educator . A Manual of Photographic Manipulation , treating of the Application of the Art , and its Various Applicatiotisto Natzcre . By Luke Price . ( Churchill . ) - — Professional as well as amateur photographers will find in this volunxe the entirety of the instructions necessary to their art . It is a clear and systematic manual , rendering even the difficulties of the subject simple , by a method of distinct and illustrative explanation . Mr . Price has made an important addition to the library of photographic handbooks .
The Butterfly Vivarium , or Insect Home , iiy H . Noel Humphreys . ( William Lay . )—This is a book about butterflies and moths , emblazoned with the gold , green , vermilion , and blue of their backs and wings , contrasted against grass colours and the tints of hedges and the pools they fringe—the author and the artist having worked with one hand to produce equivalent pages and pictures . Mr . Humphreys sets forth , for the benefit of parlour naturalists , both young and old , the processes of a new method of observing the metamorphoses of certain curious and beautiful insects , adding a popular description of their habifcs and instincts , with suggestions fox tb . e
successful study of entomology by means of a special vivarium . lEight coloured engravings glitter with the radiance of the Peacock , the / White and the Blue Butterfly , full-winged or in chrysalis , and with . ' the splendour of the Privet-Hawk Motli , the Puss Moth , the Lobster Moth , the Glowworm , and the Lady-Bird ; and with the aid of all this richness and brilliance , added to chapters of p leasant natural history , the book is made very interesting . . -. • : ¦ ¦ . "¦¦ . ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ . ¦'¦¦ ¦ . ¦ '¦ . ¦ '¦ : : ¦ ¦ ' r . ¦ - " . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ -. Mr . Bentley has issued in his series of two-shilling volumes an edition of The Cardinal , , a novel ,- by Archibald Boyd—a story in the Dumas style , full of movement , romance , and adventure .
We reserve for careful notice another of Mr . Bentley ' s publications , The Ladies of Jiever IIollow , a tale of English , country life , in two volumes , by the author of " Mary Powell , " whose English pastoral scenes are seldom less than perfect in their truth and simplicity .
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. . ¦ ¦ »¦— : . ¦ THE ROYAL ACADEMY . ( THIRD NOTICE . ) The painters have fairly out-tasked their critics this year ; if indeed they have not succeeded in doing so for a number of years past . Even the few writers on art who study art , and wlio make it their business to know something about a picture before they pretend to speak of its merits and faults , are strangely idle , in a t'rne of artistic activity . It would be difficult to lay at their door any specific charge of " hypercriticisni "—not at anytime a common sin , though much reprehended—with respect to the exhibition of the Koyal Academy or the other picture-galleries now open . "When , in commenting on Maclise ' s wrestling scene , from As You Like It , two seasons ago , Mr . Kuskin showed that , amongst many instances of bad painting , the embroidery on the hem of the Duke ' s robe did not follow truly with its lines the folds of the stuff , he was angrily ridiculed b y critics who are for their own part very much above taking the trouble to discover that a circular pattern on drapery does not present segments of circles as a result of inequality of surface . Now , a painter is bound , in our judgment , to paint what he has before him . If he paints it wrong , no matter how insignificant the object , he is liable to as much censure as if he failed in the most important point of his work . Indeed , he is far more to be blamed for carelessness in little things , which are within his scope , than for failure in great things , which may possibly lie beyond it . A man who will not paint correctly a tennisball is open to severer criticism than is he who cannot put a nose straight upon a face , or keep a pair of eyes from squinting . Tl'ore is no subject on which it seems allowable for men to write more vaguely than the subject of art . Why , it would indeed bo difficult to say ; for there is no subject which demands greater carefulness of judgment nnd accuracy of terms . But to such an extent is the hnp-luizard system of art-criticism practised and tolerated , that the utmost divergence among critics will not excite any astonishment ; and indeed , after reading that " this exhibition is decidedly above the average in merit , " people will turn to another newspaper in anticipation of finding the statement flatly contradicted . SSo with single pictures ; which are often described as belonging to the highest order , and , at the same time , as being full of gross faults , without one redeeming trace of goodness . We should have thought it impossible that there could have been a question of Mr . Hakt ' b " Athaliah ' s Dismay" ( 79 ) being a very bad example of " high art ; " but , though the majority of judges have so represented it , the picture has been also noticed in the most approved language of laudatory generalization . That Mr . Uakt can paint naturally , earnestly , and effectively , is manifest in lus admirable portraits this year ; in particular , we would instance the fulllength likeness of his little Highness Toussoun Pacha , son of the Viceroy bAiu Pacha , and grandson of Mehemet Ali ( 358 ) . A brave little gentleman is XouasouN , who handles his sabre not as if it were a toy , and from whoao dark eyes flash forth a soul that is far above marbles . Gordon , Grant , and Knight supply among them a score or so of life-like portraits ; but jis theso are sure to bo picked out from the catalogue , we will draw attention to one or two others which might escape notice . Mr . II . O'N * : ii / s portrait of his brother artist , Mr . John Fhiijm i ' , A . H . A ., is , we sire informed , n most faithful likeness ; and we can veil believe it to be so , because it is in otlior respects a faithful work of art . The portrait of Mrs . Livingston , by Mr . , T . Sant , though hasty and wanting in finish , seems right as far as it goes . In a more careful though not so striking n manner , Mr . A , Ukrvikii has painted Mr . Wiixiam Coninuham , M . P . ; and so simple is tho work that , praiseworthy as it is for
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061858/page/19/
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