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£ ssisss 3 faf ?^ 5 . § by Messrs . Blackwood , at the " pinnacle of everlasting "J ™^^^ sixth volume of Chalmers ' s works by the Messrs . Constable . ™^™*™ , the Evidences of Christian Revelation , m which * e poatonsm ot ^ ^ s is conspicuous ^ illustrated . Vaulting to ^ ffifi ^ Z ? %£ letters , we find a treasure—Mr . Joha * orsters Xjtje ^ / d j Goldsmith , anew and popular edition , ^ V ?^ WndRH Hamerton Wi'ssttSffs sr- sSlls : s ii ^ s n § f # s «^ ^ FrSSe ^ tists ' totbe artisans , some skilled labourers . have aided m the -5-- ^ . ; i ? t > 7 . » n « . ;* i * l , t ? . m . nirf > Historical . Btoaravhica f , ana
Lreogra-• * . * «^ a « P "MWVmnics' Institutes . Messrs . Chapman and Hall ' s valuable TSSSk ^ sSSZi Art should be mentioned by the side of Mr . Bogue > Year Book of Facts , the gathering of scientific discussion and inquiry in 1856 . ;
hhieai ( Griffin and Co . ) In this triple encyclopaedia , Professor Creasy leads off with a review of the progress of the Anglo-Saxon race . Among his coadjutors we find Sir Archibald Alison , dull and voluminous ; Sir David B ° ewster , bold , clear , and sound ; Mr . J . A . Heraud , the Epic ahve ; Mr . Charles Knight , who is the genius of popularity ; Mr . John Hill Burton , who atones b | care for what he lacks hi impulse , and others , whose writings Tre reliable and pleasantly coloured . The design of the work is to offer a view of the great events ' of English history , a biographical catalogue of Emrlish worthies , and a gazetteer of the empire and its dependencies . As aXpanTon volume , let us particularise The Calendar of V £ ory ( Longman and Co . ) , « A Record of British Valowr and Conquest by Sea ^ and Land on everv Day in the Year , " projected and commeTiced by the late Major Johns , S continued and completed by Lieut . P . H . Nicholas of the Royal Ma ^ nes ^ Among miscellaneous didactics , we find o * t our . table New Zealand , Its Present Condition , Resources and Prospects ( Stanford ) , by E . B . Fitton-a concise and popular manual ; John H-ampden Gurney's _ £ i ; e y Recreations ( Longman aScr Co . ) -a series of varied lectures ; Pracitcal Hints ( very practicaFjfor testing Money , by Francis Playford , a " sworn broker , and The Practical Stenographer , by E . Soper ( Darton and Co . ) -the last is a guide easy to follow , and worth following . : . \ * m -a * w . S ir Benjamin Drew invites us , in a volume entitled The Refugee ( Trubner ) , to take a north-side view of slavery . He has collected the narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada , some anonymous , others improbable , many signifying nothing . Some hundreds of men and women tell us , painfully , how they were stripped , exposed , whipped , paddled , cut , bruised , and flayed , until we are sickened , more than edified , by the story . Surely the evidence is complete ; the harrow is superfluous ; let us Jiave no more of these bitter hbels , which only aggravate a formidable social difficulty , and engage ^ passion as
well as interest in the cause of slavery . Miss ? Mary ISlizabetn vvonniey , m Our Cousin Veronica ; or , Scenes and Adventures over the Blue Ridge ( Tnibner ) , follows on the same side ; but not in a newspaper narrative . Her pleadings are romantic ; she adopts the style of Uncle Torn , and writes fttcefully and maliciously against the practices of her fellow-citizens . Mary lizabeth , however , does ' not use the hickory-stick or cobbing-ladleto move us to sympathy . . . Her countrywoman , Fanny Fern , is incorrigible . 1 < anny Fein s last am is Rosa Clark , which is a romance of modern life , as per sample : — " Roll on , gentle stars ! shall not He who feedeth your never-consuming . fires yet make every crooked path Straight , every rough place plain ? What though the tores grow amid the wheat until the harvest , shall not the great Husbandman surely winnow them out , and gather the wheat into the heamiwkTn ** . .. »« j »__~ 9 D'nil * % *^ ivantm CJFO 1 . C I i 1 k u *»»«—
vtiiiy grtuiiuy J . VUJujuj j ^ u . »^ Roll on , Fanny Fern ! Harriot K . Hunt , though an " M . D ., " appears to be a woman . Her Glances and Glimpses ( Trubner ) , disclose " fifty years ' social , and twenty years' professional , life . " Her criticisms appertain to diseases of the mind and body ; but , she tells us , her father was named Joab , and her mother Kezia , which may account for her Puritan fury ; she scathes with the malignity of Agag those " dicers for office" who play " with loaded majorities ; " she affirms that " aex is to be felt , not talked of ; " she apostrophises "the frost-bound freshets of sorrow ; " she invites us to inspect " the statue of her life " in so many attitudes , that we are embarrassed , and wonder what that society can be in which Miss Harriot K . Hunt not only studies , but practises , the medical art . To these unmanageable miscellanies let us add a few light items of literature -. —Old Jarvis ' s Will ( Parker ) , a tale of real life ; False Honour ( Parker ); Wyndecote Hall ( Parker ); The Duke , by Mrs . Grey ( Routledge ) ; The Watchman , bv J . Mmtland fRoutledcre" ); The Hidden Path , bv Harland ( Routledere );
My Brother ' s Wife , by A . B . Edwards ( Routledge ); a new American edition of Mr , Horace St . John's Life of Christopher Columbus ( Low ) , and of Mr . KnigJIiton ' s Private Life of an Eastern King . Messrs . Kent and Co . have published a remarkable collection of advertisements , disjecta membra of living romance , under the title Pufs and Mysteries , and Tracings from the Capital of the Second Column of * The Times . ' It is ai flippant but amusing volume . Mr . George Measom'a Official Illustrated Guides to the London and North Western , and the Brighton Railway ; Mackintosh nnd Kemp ' s British Year-book for the Country ; Mr . C . J . Jones' Account of the Queen's Visit to Paris ( Ward and Lock ) , —lively and foolish ; The Family Friend ( Ward and Lock)—a treasure of amusement and information ; Enquire Within ( Kent and Co . ) , an universal receipt book ; nnd Mitchell ' s Newspaper Directory for 1856 , —essential to largo advertisers ; may all be registered seriatim . _ With these wo , mny rank The Home School , or Hints on Home Education , by Norman Me-Lcod ( Edinburgh : Paton and Ritchie ); Zopthnath Paaneah , or the History / of Joseph ( Freeman ) , by the Key . Thomeley Smith , and / in Ad ~ drvss on Mechanics Institutes and Popular Education , by Richard Dawca , M . A .,, Dean of Hereford , This laafc we commend to nW presidents and com-
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From an Unpublished Volume of Alexander Herzen ' s Memoirs . 1825-1826 . One winter morning a senator visited our house before the usual hour , and , with a mysterious expression on . his countenance , entered my father ' s library , and motioned to me not to follow . I remained in the saloon , wondering- what he had come to tell . Fortunately , I was not longJtaA m doubt , fof a door opposite me operand the roundface of the s ^ ator in nis nuuiyuiiuwutuvvu
lacquey appeared as it rrameu - v ~ . «~ — made me a sign to draw near the door . " You know nothing ? " he said . « Of what ?" " The Emperor is dead , at Taganrog I I was astonished and excited by the news .. I had never before conceived the possibility of Alexander ' s death ; they who , from infancy , had surrounded me , had only imbued my mind with veneration of the Czar . I called to recollection the last occasion on which I had seen him , just before his depar-^ He ^ as ^ on ^ horseback , riding slowly from a review near the Barriere de Tuer , and was accompanied by two generals , one of whom was Diebitch . His face was calm , and mild ; he seemed weary and pensive . I took . off my hat , he smiled , and returned my salute . How ^ different from Nicholas , who perpetually carried Medusa ' s head , half bald , and looked round him with a serpent ' s fierceness , whether in the streets or at the palace among his officers and ladies of honour ! Nicholas sought continually to emulate the boa-constrictor , and to freeze the blood in the veins of those with _ whom he spoke . Had Alexander's affability been assumed , I should have esteemed such hypocrisy preferable to the insolent candour of absolutism . _ - . While in all the shops portraits of " the Emperor Constantme" were exhibited ; while the crowds rushed to the churches to swear allegiance to ^ him , the rumour of his abdication spread . The senator's lacquey , mdeed ^ announced to me that there was an insurrection at St . Petersburg , and that cannon had been fired on the Place de Traak . _ The next evening , General Count ComaroSfsky visited us . He came trom St . Petersburg , where he had been a witness of the insurrection . He described it to us , and I in amazement , listened . A new world seemed to open , , };„ , , - «^« fi « o « i v « t ci'AR' ^ " ^* - *¦<* fill tyiv imagination . of and
In Tfew da ^ began a series ar / ests domiciliary vxsits throughout Moscow Mothers and wives trembled ; all seemed at once to become gloomy To the nation at large Nicholas was utterly unknown ; while Alexfide ? rei-ned he lias been nothing ; -he had . been seldom mentioned . Now , ev ^ y one v 4 s interested in him . * The officers , of the Imperial Guard were anxiously questioned , and from thena the public began to learn some traits of Tis coldly-cruel , vindictive , implacable charactei-, ^ traits which were Speedily exemplified . Once , while yet only a Grand Duke , havmg cjip lamfe tSmake against an officer , he seized him by his collar . VFbe officer sad sternly , <« Your Highness , do not forget that I have a sword in my hand ! Nicholas recoiled , but he did not forget him . Upon becoming Emperor , he asketl , two or three times , whether that officer had not been detected among the conspirators . _ __ __ ,. . . . . j ,. ^ i ;^ nis ^ CU
The officer , Count Samiloff , threw up comnusawu , « u wu ™ ~*^ in retirement at Moscow . Nicholas recognised him at the theatre , and remarked that he was dressed with an approach to foppery . He at once expressed his august desire to turn him into ridicule . Accordingly , the manager directed an actor to imitate the dress and the manners of Count Samiloif , and the mimic acquitted himself to perfection . After the performance , the real count went in search of the manager , and demanded an interview with the ready-witted actor , declaring , however , that he would do him not the slightest harm . As the request waa made m public , ^ manager dreading a quarrel , called the actor forwardv Samiloff thanked him for lus clever imitation , but remarked that he wanted one ornament to complete it-So savins , he took off the splendid diamond that glittered on his breast , and said , "Permit me to offer you this ; every time you are ordered to nuauc me , do me the favour to wear it . " Then , bowing , ne . ^ y ™^^^ ™* * Nicholas , perceiving that the laugh was not with him , forbade a repetition ot the farce . . , r » iwn-nisftt . inn of that tne iwjiuiu v » w 7
One of the earliest acts oi young - .. *» «« — , ;~ - rformidable gendarmerie , which , centmUsednearhispalace , ™^^ $%$£ throughout the empire . The secret police of Alexande , 2 ° ' S £ ^ hs ^ s ^^^ Tss ^ pQsSSSh SS ^ SSS ^ SS ^ ffl M « , l * m « TvasbelF Her story is fctw * interesting to be omitted . , S 5 ss * £ = ^^ -L ^ gaMsac of the great conspiracy , ho was condemnedj to civil tleatb , . * " « , ^ forced labour in perpetuity . Hia father had a natural son to whom he bequeathed the * family estate ^ beseeching him , however , not
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 16, 1856, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16021856/page/19/
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