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TVe «^ important news this we m ootmexion English literature , is that anew edition of Tjbnxxson ' s Poemsisshortlytobe published , illustrated KridawataU thefiuaous artists of our time and nation . Each poemis to have one or *^ iHusteatwiw , drawnoa the wood-block by the artist ' s own hands Sn-Eswrn Lasdsbb ^ . Macihse , Jomr MrcxAisi Stasmkuj , and Cbbswick jaaVbe named among the fflasfcrlous painters who are engaged to illustrate oar greatest living poet . The volume to be thus produced with every techntcfli advantage { of the finest [ engraving , paper , and typography , will , we are assiwed , be . something unique even among all the wonders of illustration mft ^ & aveiawaad Scobo . the press of late years .
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Mr . Luke BuatE , known as the editor of the Ethnological Journal , is now delivering a course of leetanre * at the . Marytebone Literary Institution , of which the second Tras given on Thursday , the 11 th instant . The subject iftdfc « PrinMeval World * * and Me Bobkii may be described as a root-andbranch kuaowrtojc ia the matter < a £ our general opinions upon the worlds earty history . H © maintains that vast errors as to facts , as to chronology , as to the order of events , abound in history as it is generally written and accepted ^ ' * T » the . first lecture Mr * Bttekjb took as a subject those well-known massive
remains of . early architecture , the "Cyclopean monuments of Southern Europe and Asia . Minor , " wiih regard to which he maintains that ; they prove Greece aad Italy to be older than Egypt . In conjunction with them , fee dealt with the " Cromlech mounds" found ia so many parts of Europe , and argued that the Cyclopean era would never have existed if Egypt had praeeied it ; that a certain stage of civilisation must have existed among the builder * © f these monuments ; and that had Egypt been then what she was supposed to be , traces of her influence would have been found among them- He . was of opinion that Egypt ' s place in history was much lower dsKTrni than it was supposed to be * and that wherever civilisation began , it
did not begin there . ' : ' ' jEte second lecture . comprised a critical examination of the " Roman Car l ^ adac , " with a . view to show that the common accounts of classic history SB 9 full -of ewoBS and absurdities . Mr . Bcjbke denies that the Romans at anytime counted by the lunar year- —holding "the " -ten months-of tine ** yew . of"Bojiuiln 3 to . have been in reality ten divisions of a solar year . fija dejswa that it ia possible that the pontiffs were ever in the habit of a » Mag ^ intercalations , for purposes of their own , as is asserted . He attributes tfhese and" similar statements to the wish to account , for the tradiU « n by which the splar year was in reality the established way of meafluting from times of the most remote antiquity . The result ( as he holds ) of ^ the misapprehension of chronology by the classic writers , has been that thgre , are . palpable gaps in various periods of classical history , when there Httjsfc have been ages of time which the common narratives skip over .
As arguments > of thtS ' description can only be made impressive and intelii ^ ble - by - details - ^ we lshall . ^ not - pretend -that our- brief notice does any justice either to Mr * Bubkb ' S ; matter or his manner . We commend his lectures , . to t & e curious in , such , subjects . His information is large , his opinions earnest , Ms style clear and fo rcible . The succeeding discourses ar , e . announced Jtbx l & a 18 th and 25 th inst .,, and the 1 st . of February .
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JExpeweuce has a little : shaken our faith in practical treatises . We have learnt b y their help , and at different timesj Photography , Fly-fishing , Phren , ptyj > ics ( on the . plan of Major- Besuowski ) , Thorough-bass , and the noble a ** . , of Self-defence . Presuming on . oiw minute acquaintance with these subjects , we have ventured , praoticnlly on each ; and on each we have been , with the least possible loss qf tttntsj emphatically and decisively , " floored . " Koviertheless we are ,. far ibona saying , there is , no usa whatever in pnactieal tttBjUuae ^^ ey ^^ praotioaUirf considered . Were , we at all disposed to make so bold and sweeping an assertion , a single glance at the now complete—« twl beautifully compete—work on landscape Painting in Water Colours ¦/ ptfthltfhed undo * the direction of Mr . W . S , O * w , would give us pause .
Chpomo-LUjhogmph y—* meohanical process now rendered so perfect that ttye prized , "' effects" of the most original painter may be snatched from his jfc » qfc > Ms keeping , analysed , decomposed in , a , totally different manner , but with the . some / rftsuKv ami finally multiplied : many hundred-fold ^—has been the principal means of giving to- this book such completeness as we have reniarked wi £ h admiration . Mr . Geobcub Babnaki > , the drawing-master at B « gjby ,,. and the . author of several Handbooks on , Landscape and Foliage , supplies-the matter , both literary and pictorial . We do not profess to give A . i | udi » ment regarding , his theory . In order to verify that , we eho-uld learn vmtOT-coloiir painting froui his treatise—* , task which , for reasons already gtvao , we shook iron * . Bui it would be an impertinence to * question the ability of a teacher who has shown us so well , at oyery stage , what ha ha » himself learned from that moat practical of books- ^ -Natare .
The Firat Number Of The Artist Appeared ...
The firat number of the Artist appeared last Saturday . A journal so
well named is one of those too obviously good * hat are sure to occur to the men most capable of working them out . We wJl not judge hastily , but we perceive very faint signs of any working-out , m , tlus first number To be sure we are told , in language more fluent than precise , that « they who m * ay regard with dissatisfaction this first sheet of a work devoted to so extensive a subject , will do well to consider that Art , both intellectually and morally , is inimitable ' , and that to fillup the outline thus faintly shadowed forth , is necessarily the work of time . " Well ! Let the proprietors get rid of Phuocritos , and , the tavern sign on the front of their journal ; and these necessary measures being taken , they may go on filling up an outline which , with perfect truth , they describe as being " faintly shadowed forth . "
Social Aspects Of German Life. Germany- ...
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF GERMAN LIFE . Germany- from 17 « 0 to 1814 ; or , Sketches of German Life from the Decay of the £ m & re to the Expulsion of the French . By Mrs . Austin . Longman and Co We have but one objection to make to Mrs . Austin ' s work , and that objection is a compliment , namely , that she has given us too httle . Very curious it is that in spite of the innumerable books produced by Germans upon innumerable subjects , there is no one work which sets forth even m outline the state of society , manners , and customs during the eighteenth century . They wiii fell you how the Phoenicians lived , and what the Egyptians thoueht ; they will tell you what scholiasts have discovered , and wha ^ they hsE ^ e discovered in scholiasts ; they will offer you libraries on the Greek drama or on the Faust legend ; but anything so near to living interests as tiiA * f oafce of German social life in the eighteenth century they unanimously
aoree to avoid . This work by Mrs . Austin , therefore , although very mcomrfete , and not professing to be complete , is something that they have not got even in Germany , and we ought to be very grateful to her for having produced it . Taking as a basis several memoirs and autobiographies , sne contrives by means of extracts and reflections to . set before us certain aspects of this eighteenth century . She makes us aware , by contrast , of the progress made £ a England in all that conduces to the splendour , comfort , and convenience of physical life ; indeed , in Germany this progress has been comparatively very slow , and at the present day the Englishman finds aWdsnt remains of the domestic life of his own country in the last century . He is , as Mrs . Austin remarks , still continually reminded of the customs and traditions of his childhood , especially if that childhood was passed in a in
provincial town . He meets , and is pleased to meet , everywhere Germany some custom , some rarity , some implement , dress or viand- —perhaps some sentiment or opinion , forthesej too , have their day—of which he has heard his parents talk-with the fond recollection of early years . He finds the garment for which his mother's hoards were ransacked , and which , once the dress of the higher classes , isjnow become the distinctive costume of a retired peasantry . He hears ' with surprise the traditions of his paternal house and the sayings of his old nurse . In one district he finds the simple faith of his forefathers , in another district the feudal attachment to the immediate lord , or the blind and affectionate loyalty to the hereditary ruler , for which lie must look through a long vista of centuries at home . He ^ wili see the coarse , substantial comfort and strict adherence to the manners and
pleasures of his class which once characterised the English citizen . Elsewhere she remarks how , the more we go back to the recollection of what we heard in our childhood , the nearer do we approach to the manners of Germany at the present day , and still more to the manners of the eighteenth century . The Germans are generally not aware of these resemblances , the more so because they take their idea of England from novelsnot a very accurate daguerreotype of English life . The similarity alluded to'is 7 of'CoursT ^ and peculiarity . Thus , on comparing the domestic life of the two countries , we observe the ties of blood possessing a force in Germany which they had
in Scotland , but never in England . And upon this Mrs . Austin makes the excellent reflection , that " The obligations of kindred have been made a pretext , often a justification , for as many base and unjust acts as any set of motives whatever . The morality of women has especijflly been contracted and perverted by it With an ordinary mother , as with a thorough-going sectarian ,, all means are good that lead to the desired end—the prosperity or fancied happiness of her children . There is no immorality like that which . is practised , with a quiet , nay , with a complacent conscience ; and the permanent interests of mankind are then often sacrificed to the duty of providing for one ' s family . " These ties of blood often assumed a somewhat tyrannous . forni '; the power of fathers and even brothers over the women of
the famil y was absolute . The deference paid , externally at least , was very frea t . Even in England it was much greater at that period than it is now , ut the universal sprit of freedom , the independent manners of our public schools , and the dogged rebelliousness of the Briton , prevented that deference from ever being so great as it was in Germany and Franco . Madame Schopenhauer has in her Memoirs ^ given a striking illustration of this patriarchal authority even in the nineteenth century . It is the so-called family tribunal ( Familien Gcricht ) , over which the head of the family presided , and to which every member of the family was amenable . She describes going once to this awful assembly . She went in full dross , and found an old man of eighty seated * in an arm-chair at the top of the room , and the
other members of tue family arranged in a semicircle on either side , accox'ding to age and precedence . Two very young men of the family wore then called up by the patriarch , and were severely reprimanded for their misdemeanour , which was getting into debt . They stood perfectly abashed and pale as death . Their parents sat by scarcely less so * but not daring to interpose a word in their 1 behalf . The xebuko ended , they were dismissed . The national dance , the Allemande , as the slow waltz at that time was called all over Europe , has undergone a change symbolical pf many other changes . It has degenerated—young ladies wUl say , been improved—into the dizzy whirl of the Deux temps , which sacrifices grace to rapidity j and many other good things of Germany have degenerated also into the " fast *" If we English often think the German " slow "—and it must be owned ' that
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13011855/page/18/
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