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tlic sake of Leech ' s inimitable pencil and the really useful qualities it has ; nor is the letter-press to be left unread , though less amusing than it used to be . Is it really less comical , or have we become more accustomed to the tone ? A question . The Comic Almanack ( D . Bogue ) is this yearedited by Robert Brough and illustrated by Cruilcsliank and Hine , and . is rather an improvement on its predecessor . The Farmer s AlmanacJc and Calendar disdains any attraction beyond the circle of its solid usefulness . In George Gilfillau ' s Martyrs , Heroes , and Bards of the Scottish Covenant , { A .. Cockshaw , ) there is an attempt to narrate ^ the history of the Covenanters in typical lives — a good subject , admitting of both historic and dramatic portraiture . We have not , however , read the volume yet ; it is one of those to which we propose returning .
Hugo lieid's System of Modern Geography ( Oliver and Boyd ) seems a clear , well-arranged , school-boolc ; but , as we often say , only teachers can offer an opinion on the merit of such books , and we claim no authority . While on this subject of tuition and school-books , let us draw particular attention to Chapman and Hall ' s completion of their truly valuable Penny Maps . A handsome quarto volume is before us , bearing the title of Lowry ' s Table Atlas , -which is the collected form of these Penny Maps , originally published in parts . It was a good idea , considering the indispensable nature of maps , and the great expense attending their formation , to bring the maps to so low a price as a penny each by printing them ( the coloured copies are printed in colour ) instead of engraving them . Something of smoothness and elegance is sacrificed , no doubt , but not much , by this process—a drawback , however , which bears no proportion to the
advantage of such unusual cheapness . In thi 3 complete Atlas , we have one hundred clear and even elegant maps , at the price of fifteen shillings plain , or one guinea coloured . Am ample index , giving every facility in research , gives , with the indication of the page , the latitude and longitude . On this subject of Maps , we may also notice the Geographical Projections to accompany Keith Johnsons Atlases ( Blackwood and Sons ) . It is a set of drawing-boards , on which the maps may be copied in white or coloured chalks—a substitute , in short , for slates , as the drawing can be rubbed off with a sponge when done with . It is not only a great saving in expense—it is also a more captivating method for boys . The present series comprises the World on Mercator ' s projection , Europe , Asia , Africa , North and South America , and the British Isles , with a blank page for laying down the meridians and parallels of any map , by advanced students .
In the Spiritual Library , of which the first volume—Iiicher s Beligion of Good Sense—has appeared , we are somewhat surprised to hear that "the object is to lead Man back to God and the spiritual state from which he has fallen ; to prove that communication with the spiritual world , or clairvoyance , is as possible and practicable now , as it was when Abraham talked with angels ; and that Spiritual Medicine , or Mesmerism , is as potent a means of cure now as when it was practised by our Lord and his Apostles ! ! " We need only announce such an object . Uncle Toms Companions : a Supplement to Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , ( Edwards and Co ., ) is a volume setting forth what the author considers as ample confirmation of Mrs . Stowe ' s novel in the shape of a narrative of the adventures and persecutions of real negroes , Frederick Douglass , Dr . Pennington , William Wells Brown , the Eev . W . Garnet , Henry Bibb , & c . When are we to hear the last of Uncle Tom ?
1096 The Leader. [Saturday;
1096 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ;
Books On Our Table. Tincu Tom'a Cabin. (...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . TIncU Tom ' a Cabin . ( Tfentley ' s Standard Novels . ) Bontlej-Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , With n ' Preface by tho Earl of Carlisle . Geo . Roul . ledge . Another , and another ! "The cry is still they come ! " Never in the memory of the oldest inhabitant has a novel created such a furor aB this Iliad of the Blacks , Mr . Bentley at once places it among the " Standard Novels . " An indignant preface introduces his edition . The edition published by Messrs . Uoutkdge is not only a handsome one , but is profiled by some remarks on the great topic of slavery from the pen of the amiable Lord Carlisle . Mr . Mentlry , it is underslood , has given the authoress an immediate interest iu the sale of his Standard Edition , in the shape of a percentage on every copy sold . This generous act , with the other examples of the same kind on the part of English publishers , cannot fail to have the best elfect on the solution of tho copyright question in America . Tli » Napoleon Dynasty , or tho History of the Bonaparte Family . An entirely new work . \ iy tho HvrkoUiy Alun . With tironty-two authentic portraits . John Chapman . Mil . Chapman sent \ ik , thn other day , Sc . hrrlchcr ' s Crimes du jieiix J ) ccembre wherein Louis Napoleon w : is certainly not idolized . lie now . sends us an American importation , which mi ^ ht have emanated from the I 01 vf . ee had it been better writ-ton . It . is an elaborate and shameless flattery and justification of Louis Napoleon and the whole family . The " Berkeley Men" already speak of him as Km . peror , and regard him an Hit ; righteous solution of" the political and ioci .- \ l problem . They have done well to urn-en themselves under tho anonymouH . Christmas Hooks , lly ClmrlcB Dickens . Chapman and Hall . T 1110 stories with which , during five successive winters , Dickens gladdened and Maddened hundreds of firesides the " Carol , " the " Chimes , " the " Cricket on the Hearth , " tho " Battle of Life , " and tho " Haunted Man" are hero gathered into one volume of the Cheap Kditlon of bis works , now publishing by Chapman and Hall , and will form a most delightful Christina : * 1 ' resent , sis well nn a permanent " favourite . To announce flu ) fuel , of their re-puhlieution is all that in necessary .
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The Charm . Addev « nA r . Portrait Gallery . W ^ rr T ^ 9 ? The History of the Battles oflA gny , Quatre Bras , and Waterloo . ' ' f a"a c » Papers for the Schoolmaster . Vol . I . Simplrin and MarsWli Geographical Projections . W . Blackwood and R History of the American Revolution . By George Bancroft . Vol . 11 . Richard TRp h Excursions in Ireland during 18-M and 1850 . By Catherine M . O'Conncll . Richard Beiitl ^ A Popular History of British Zoophytes , or Corallines . By Rev . I ) . Landsborough . eu "ey Heasons for Legalising Marriage with a Deceased W \ fe ' s Sister . By Lord Denman . & U The Picture Pleasure-Boole . * Addey and Co ' Index to the Penny Maps . Chapman and Hall
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encouraees itself . —Goethe . fi
Shards And Pebbles. 1. It May Be There B...
SHARDS AND PEBBLES . 1 . It may be there be natures of such mould , That ' mid the haunts wherein your millions fare , They would be pure as white-robed angels are , And walk , dispensing blessings manifold . But he who knows the demons of his thought , And , knowing , conquers by the unswerving might Gained out of Reason ' s solemn second-sight , ( Not without aid by the world's witness wrought , ) Will pray that none who in his love are shrined May fall within such doom . Ponder aright The issues of that lot . Hatred of kind , And bestial night-black instincts , scaring light , Scorn of all sanctities , —these are the fruit Evolved in process of the Man made Brute . 11 . It is the folly of our thoughtless mood To see , when nobles hand-in-hand with boors Walk and converse , how men troop out of doors , And stare , and speak of noble Brotherhood . If thou so think , let no collyrium E ' er touch thy heavy eyelids . Sleep , nor seek To Avake in the deep-threatening time to come ; For then be sure that brother-bond will break , And all who now are pastors , guides , and stays , — All for whom privilege has cursed the world : Escocheon'd nobles , chureldy priests , and guides—Anointed guides of men , with flag unfurled , Will trample on the crew they now embrace , He shall be crowned with liberty who rides . Newenham Tbavers .
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T HE HAUNTED S II ORE . I walkt at sunset by the lonely waves , When Autumn stood about me , gold and brown ; I watcht the great red Sim , in clouds , go tlowu , An orient King , that ' mid his bronzed slaves Dies—leaning on his sceptre—with his crown . A hollow moaning from mrmmerous caves , In green and glassy darkness sunk below , Told of some grand and ancient deed of woe , — Of murdered kings that sleep in weltering graves . Still thro' the sunshine wavering to and fro , With sails .-ill set , the little vessels glide ; Mild is the Eve and mild the ebbing Tide , And yet that hollow moaning will not go , Nor the old Fears that with the sea abide . M .
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ANNE 1 J L A K E . LioinoNHTH in bifl learned , but . not allogelher lively , treatiflo Da Cacogmp hiA ( Haiav . Kill *) nniong otl »<> r profound trutliH , wiys , — " The principal < -au ^ of I tad writing in iu not , forming die cluimclrm correctly . " ( K ; < 1 () " look ho inipoNiiitf when printed iu Uiigli . sli , ami in the coluinnH of n »<> i *» - paix'i- ; hut if you could nee it , in tho ancient pngeH of a aqual ) quarto , h forth in large-type Latin !) I am much struck with tho truth of llu ' J , " - ^ whenever a dramatic work comes before ine ; and now Anne liutKi , printed repose , nolieitw my impartial judgment , I feel more unhcHitaMiij , y what I loll on tho night of . porlonimmu * . Unit the pool ; has not nttonuo . i the HUggcHtion of the learned Leiboniu * ( which m Htrantfo , « k > iihhit . iif , that , ho probably never hoard of ( . hut , luminoiiH author)—" . ! . 1 « hj 1 tIllU < '" ' been guilty of llio primary sin , and has not , formed Iuh oliaracterH coiro y-Not only " , Imi ( , he I . mh ovi < l < wit . ly paid littlo attention to 1 . Iiih lual . te character , and linn , likoaliiioHUirhin brethren , thought far more ol p <> mi » , uituaiioiiH , and inmgcH . -ill what Jn the original ooucoption o \ 'Anne herrtolf , Mnrston eortainlv luul wi iH called " a ood idea of a character . " I f o set out with that . Jjut th < h w iu not tho race , aud many n gallant atari breaks down before tho winnu h
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111852/page/20/
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