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LITERARY NOTES OF THE WEEK .
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w . AMONG the forthcoming novelties of the month the new work entitled " A Life for a Life , " by the author of " John Halifax , Gentleman / ' is announced for immediate publication by Messrs . Hurst and Blackett . The same publishers also include in their list of works in the press , « Realities of Paris Life , " by the author of " Flemish Interiors , " & c . ; " Female Influence , " by Lady Charlotte Pepys ; " The Life and Times of George Villiers , First Duke of Buckingham , " by Mrs . Thomson ; " Raised to the P " by Mrs . Octavius Owen ; " Almost a
eerage , Heroine , " by the author of " Charles Auchester ; and new novels by Wilkie Collins , John E . Reade , Mrs . S . C . Hall , Mrs . Howitt , and the author of " Margaret and her Bridesmaids , & c . " Messrs . Saunders , Otley , and Co . announce for immediate publication , " Ladies and Leaders ; or , Plots and Petticoats , " a state novel of 1859-60 , by a distinguished writer ; " The Northumbrian Abbots , " a novel , by R . S . Werborton , Esq . ; ' " Irene , " a tale for the young ; " Satan Restored , " a poem ; "A Handy-Book for Rifle Volunteers , " by Captain Hartley . *
Upon . a recent topic which has been brought before the House of Commons" and which will probably come on again for discussion , the Critie remarks : — " Perhaps a good many of our readers -are not aware that in . 'England the privilege of printing the Bible is confined to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and tlie firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode . Protection to the Bible ( in the form of a monopot y ) still exists where , we think , free trade would be far preferable . Ot * course , objectors
I The original statue of the Greek Slave , the celebrated work by ? Hiram Powers , executed in . the purest Carrara marble , was sold on Wednesday to the Duke of Cleveland for the sum of 1 , 800 guineas . - The Liverpool Mercury announces the transfer of the Northern Daily Times to Mr . Thomas Ramsay , of Liverpool , was on Tuesday signed before Mr . Commissioner Perry . The new proprietor intends to conduct the paper , which has heretofore been Liberal . On Conservative principles . At the sale of the late Dr . Squibbs ' s library by Messrs . Puttick , an arm-chair belonging to Dr . Johnson was sold for 10 Z . 15 s . The chair is an uncouth-looking piece of furniture of ample dimensions , and such as Veil became the proportions of the leviathan of literature . Its new a . bode will be the magnificent library of Mr . Beaufoy , of South Lambeth .
urge that Bibles are now .. sufficiently cheapi and correct ; and that if any person might ,-at his option , publish them , they would scarcely be cheaper , and probably much less correct . We can only say that our-opinion , is that they would be improved in each of these points , more especially in the matter of cheapness . That Bibles are now very correctly printed in general we , willingly _ admit ; and this even though in one old edition the word " not" was omitted in the Seventh
Commandment—an error for . which the unfortunate printer atoned bitterly — and though another transformed " the parable of the vineyard " Into " the parable of the vinegar . " We maintain that Bibles might , if free trade in . them were allowed , bo printed on better paper and in larger type for the same prioe at which ain ' y of the miuutely-stnall-typed , eye-torturing editions are now sold . In Ireland and Scotland no monopoly exists . In the former country Lord Chancellor Clare , we believe , swept away , by a declaration from the woolsack , the supposed rights of the patentee in the monopoly of Bibles . We conclude that some compensation would necessarily have to be made to the
two Universities and the Queen ' s Printers ; and we think that thin might easily be done in the former case by giving up some portion Of the matriculation fees paid bv the students to Government for tlie use of the Universities ; and doubtless some arrangement could as easily bo made with Messrs . Eyre and Spottiswoodb , whose profits liave been wofully diminished since the non-renewal of the Scotch patent in 1837 . We have made these observations a propos of Mr . Buines , M . I * ., having on Monday last , in the House * of Commons , asked
the Secretary of State for the Homo Department whether it was the intention of the Government , on the approaching- exniration of the patent of the Queen ' s printer for England and Wales , 21 st January ij ^ SO , to propose the renewal of that patent so far afc it related to the printing of Bibles and Testaments . The Homo Secretary , without giving a decided answer , said that ample opportunity would be afforded to any member to bring the subject to the notice of the House of Commons before the patent was renewed . "
A correspondent of the Star says : — "The past week has been marked by the sale of two well-Itnown periodicals . The London Journa , which by no means continued its previous course of prosperity in the hands of its late proprietary , lias gone back to its old owner , Mr . Stiff , as has , indeed , been already publicly announced , on tonns which , it is rumoured , contrast somewhut with those on -which the last sale ¦ wa s made . Tins would , of course dissolve the injunction against the appearance of the Dally London Journal ; but I believe that thero is no present intention to resuscitate that Interesting patient , which expired so suddenly after a three daya' life . It did not do . The othor Is the Welaomo Quant , which has , we hear , passed fleona Mr , Vi « etolly to Mr . Maxwell , who m , we pelievo , an advertising agent , and was for a snort time one of the proprietors of the flora Id . after » tfl sale under the bankruptcy of Mr . Baldwin /'
Memoirs To Illustrate The History Op My ...
MEMOIRS TO ILLUSTRATE THE HISTORY OP MY OWN TIME . By V . Guizot . Translated by J . W . Cole . Vol . II . —Richard Bentlcy . THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS . A Memoir . Translated from the French by Mrs . Austin . —London : W . Jeffd . The first of these volumes comprises the history , from M . Guizot's point of view , of the overthrow of Charles the Tenth and the establishment of Louis Philippe upon the throne of France . Five hundred large octavo pages carry us over little more than two years , and at this rate M . Guizot ' s memoirs of the ministries under the Citizen King will alone extend to nine volumes . Similar
calcuthink should have its way . Men , who had fought to get rid of Charles the Tenth , anddidhotimderstand wiry their Citizen King should only be Charles the Tenth over again , were to he " resisted ; " men who Lad : rejoiced over the new charter of liberty proclaimed in July , and could not Tinderstand that the " Charter of 1830 " meant nothing but the status quo before 1830 , were to be kept silent by force of arms ; men who fought for liberty of the press , and grumbled at finding that . « ' V % » " ,, . *__ "TUT _; 1 _ t t f * t . ¦
victory left them , still without it , were to be put down . Resistance was M . Guizot ' s motto . The word and its kindred terms are scattered over his pages like the "fratemite " and " egalite " on the buildings of Paris in 1848 . It would be wearying the reader to quote evidences of this spirit . He has but to open the book and find them on the page . M . Gruizot has onl y two opinions . The will of the governing power is alone to prevail : the governed have no duty but to submit , and spare their rulers the disagreeable necessity of reading the
riot act . The interesting , but somewhat courtly , memoir of the late Duchess of Orleans , forms a suggestive commentary upon M . Guizot ' s work . When the final storm came none stood more erect , none showed more nobly than Helen Duchess of Orleans , Her wanderings in the streets of Paris with her child , in the midst of the revolutionary mob who threatened her on all sides—her courageous , stand in the Chamber of Deputies * when those who were still more interested in the issue had given up their cause and fled , are incidents that will never be omitted in the history of those times . Yet she ,
more than any of her family- ^ -and we suspect far more than M . Guizot himself—saw ¦ the tendency of the policy which her father-in-law had adoptecL "I am saddened to the very soul , " she wrote on the eve of the revolution , " at the perturbed state of the public mind , at the discredit into which the higher classes have fallen , the general disaffection of all below them , and the sort of vague disgust which seems to have taken possession of everybody . " Truth is somewhat overlaid by the fine phrases of her biograher ; but one thing is easily discernible . The Duchess of Orleans foresaw the issue of the King ' s government , and warned her friends in vain . The result is the disheartening ;
history of the last ten years . Mrs . Austin has performed her task of translator and editor with evident care , and has herself contributed a touching memorial of friendship iu her prefatory sketch .
lations were suggested to us the other day in reviewing the first instalment of the Memoirs of Lady Morgan , which would have required about forty volumes to be completed on the scale in which they begun . If every man and woman of mark should take it into their heads to write memoirs in this fashion , how are readers to keep pace with them ?—and there are other things to be read beside memoirs . Let any frequenter of the library of the British ' Museum glance at the shelf where M . Guizot ' s collected works are placed for reference , and ask himself how long it would take him to read and digest that close-printed formidable row of books on history , science , biography , art , philor sophypoliticset quibusdam alies f One thing is
, , quite certain—the gentleman who , half a century ago , was known as the well-informed man , is a character which must soon , become extinct . The Broughams , Guizots , Walpoles , and such voluminous authors , must mark out more work for them every year , till no man can pretend to know anything more than a moment in history , a point in philosophy , a single life in biography . The man of general information who had read the Classics—¦ ( you could get through them)—who had what , before Mr . Grote , might have been considered a good notion of th < i Greeks—had acquired a little of English history and law , and a few other things " that every gentleman ought to know "—will be himself a historical oharacter .
M . Guizot ' Memoirs , however , are curious and instructive , and must gr . ow in interest as they approach nearer to these times . Herein the observant reader may trace the true causes of revolution , and learn that lesson which even revolution has not taught the writer . This is , indeed , the most curious fact which these volumes yield . For every step of rotrogade policy which M . Guizot ' s master counselled from the very first by M . Guizot himselfadopted on the morrow of the revolution of 1830 , and pushed on to an end which appeared , to other eyea inevitable ,, M . Guizot has an apology , or \ ro should , perhaps , " rather say that , he scarcely dreams thajji an apology is necessary . He boldly takes upon himself , the responsibility of that righthanded rule which so bitterly disappointed all
parties in Franco , save mere placemen and pedantic statesmen , ami made the " Charter" the eternal object of the ridicule of Victor Hugo and the sneers of Balzac . Reviewing his career here in exile , after a involution , which sent his master forth a wanderer to die , and blighted the hopes of the Orleans family—which plunged Franco into more strife , and brought it under a still more intolerable despotism—after ten years wherein to reflect upon the history of his ministry , M . Guizot still congratulates " himself upon having boon the minister of reaction . If there is indeed one thing of which he is proud , it is that ho—he more than all others —supported tlio " policy of resistance , " a boast whicn ought to sound strangely in the ears of Englishmen , for M . Guizot had nothing to »• resist but that national will which wo we accustomed to
A Tour 12? Dalmatia, Albania, And Monten...
A TOUR 12 ? DALMATIA , ALBANIA , AND MONTENEGRO ; With an Historical Sketch of the Republic of Kag-usa , from the Earliest Times down to its Filial Fall . ByW . F . Wingfield , M . A-, Oxon ; JI . D . Tisun . Kiohard Bentley . The work consists of letters written by the author in Southern Austria , and originated in a desire to detail certain facts at the crisis of 1853-4 , relative to the condition of Christians in a Turkish province , and to draw' attention to the Slave nationalities on the eastern shores of the Adriatic , important from their connexion with that widely extended family of which Russia is the acknowledged head . Dalmatia is a place that has long borne the same name and character . "It is always the provincial first of Itome ; then of Home's eastern altar ego-, Constantinople ; then of Home ' s eldest daughter , Venice ; and oven now , though temporal Koine has passed away , anil Constantinople is Turkish , and Venice no more , as . if by a sort of destiny it hung to the last vestige of the Roman name and power , it is still the province of the Romisoher Kaiser , by which title the Einparor of Austria is to this day prayed for at Koine . Originally , however , Dalmatia appears in history as an independent kingdom . It vas Cn ? cllius Metellus who reduced Dalmatia formally to a Roman province ; and subsequently foil to Aujrus us in the division of the Roman provinces made between the senate and himself , ft Is also common y reputed to have been the birthplace of bt . Jerome , which was probably Strogna , in lsfcria . Our tourist describes the church of St . Simoon , the patron saint of Zaro , tho ^ capital of Dalmatia , whose entire body is said to bo there preserved w a magnificent silver sarcophagus , presented by Queen Eliaabetk of Hungary . The interior of the edifice is very fine . The drosses of the people are ornamental . The men often exhibited the old Austrian pigtail , tied with ribbon , appearing from beneath a red or black and gold-embroidered and !
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16071859/page/17/
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