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The Mystery Of Shakspeare. The Philosoph...
in their ewariy-wiio never lost sight of Ms purpose , or faltered in bis execution of it ; who bad fewmd a Beientiflc ground for his actions , an end for his ends ; who only affected incoherence ;; and . that it was he who was intriguing to such purpose -with the PxjweKas . Shakspeare himself was the serving-man of the ruling philosophers ; he ¦ wa s patronised by them ; he lent them his name ; they hid their Lamps under his bushel ; they sapped the basis of kingly and feudal tyranny ; they preached } terrific gospels throngh the mouths of Hamlet and Brutus ; they vrrote , ih . i private cabinets , pieces for the Globe Theatre , in which the real meaning could only be read , by the sympathetic light of some future century : —r- ¦ ¦ ' .. ' . ¦ ¦ - ¦¦¦ ^ ¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦
Driven from one field , they showed themselves in another . JJriven from the open £ eld , they fought in secret . "I will bandy with thee in faction , I will o ' errun thee ¦ with policy , I -will kiiltliee a hundred and fifty trays , " the Jester who brought their challenge said . The Elizabethan England rejected the Elizabethan man . She -would lave none of Ma meddling with her affairs . She sent him to tbe Tower , and to the block , if ever she caught him meddling with them , She buried him alive in the heart of his time . She took the seals of office , she took the sword from his hand and ; put a pen in it . She -would have of him a Man . of Letters . And a Man of Letters he became . A Man of Eunes . He invented new letters in his need , letters that -would ^ o farther than , the sword , that carried more execution in them than the great seal . Banished from the state in that isle to -which he was banished , he found not the baseborn Caliban only , to instruct , and train , and subdue to his ends , but an Ariel , an imprisoned Ariel , waiting to be released , able to conduct his masques , able to put his girdles rotmd the earth , and to *' perform and point" to his Tempest .
Indeed , the theatre was called the Globe by Raleigh , who thought at the itime - ' -of "his geographical enterprises . This is conclusive—at least Delia thinks so . We area little puzzled , however , to know what "was Bacon ' s share and what Raleigh ' s : in the authorship of Shakspeare ; at all events , it seems JShakspeare was notwritten by ¦ Colley Cibher .
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Vineyabds And Wine-Cellars. A. Pilgrimag...
VINEYABDS AND WINE-CELLARS . A . Pilgrimage into J > auphine '¦; Comprising a Visit to the Monastery of '' the . Grand * Chartreuse , $ c $ c . By the Rev . Gr . M . Musgrave , MvA . 2 Vols . Hurst and Blackett Was desire to be on good terms with Mr . Musgrave , and shall abstain as eaxefully as possible from noticing his opinions of politics or public characters . He is quite free to misunderstand French history , . manners , and men ; no great harm is done when he writes his worst concerning George -Sand . He is , specially , an artist , an archaeologist , and a collector of agreeable gossip ; so that we have found his two volumes very entertaining and doubt not that many readers will admit them to contain matter that will at once instruct and amuse . The tourist who treads in Miv Musgrave ' s steps will - find him a cheerful companion and a trustworthy guide ; stay-at-home people will welcome his chapters of purple picture and fascinating statistics of vineyards and wine-cellars . These chapters -would suffice to ensure the reception
of the bookj which abounds , however , ia pleasant- sketches , describing scenery , social habits ,, and incidents by the way . We are almost tempted to believe that Mr . Musgrave ' s political theories are only those of an artist allured by a gorgeous perspective , or an archaeologist enslaved by a reliquary show , and that h . e has never read George Sand , andslanders her sincerely . So we refuse to converse with him on these topics , and diverge into the gardens of Meaux . One species of rose derives its name from Meaux , but hundreds are produced in that paradise of pink petals , where the Giant of Battles , the Field of the doth , of Gold , and . the Q , ueen Hose are among the conspicuous varieties . The smallest is the Pompon , a tree not more than twelve inches in height 3 ^ with a tiny tufted blossom . The Greeks scented their wine with the essence ¦ of the rose , so that a brief discourse upon " the woman of the flowers" fitly introduces a memorial of Epernay , where dwell M . Moet and Madame Clicquot , sovereigns of Champagne . M . Moefc has two palaces , on opposite sides of the same street , and in one of these he lodged Napoleon on the eve of the battle of MEontmirail . In the other he dwells himself . Mr .
Mus-_ grave counted ninety orange-trees in his flower garden ; not far stands the rival castle of Madame Clicquot * seated upon a high hill , and holding its machiculated and turretted battlements in huge pride above vine-covered hills , the ruins of Chateau Chatillon , and the exuberant clusters of Ai . She possesses , it is said , fourfold the wealth , of M . Moet , and her four daughters ¦ are all . married to opulent men . M . Moet , however , is considerably rich , employs two hundred workpeople , keeps a stock of three million bottles of wine , besides seven vast tuns , in which , seventy Dukes of Clarence might have been suffocated , and stores with his champagne a labyrinth of
well-ventilated vaults , some of which are fifty feet below the surJace of the ground . Here Mr . Musgrave pauses to remark that every pint and a half of Champagne wine undergoes , before it finds its way to the table , not less than a hundred and fifty several processes of manipulation . At Rheims . he resumes his notes on wine . Champagne ia seldom drunk pur © in England ; the Russians prefer it in its native state ; but for the British market , to every forty gallons of wine from five to ten gallons of brandy is added . The sweetening is artificial—white sugar from the Isle of Bourbon costing , in casks , ninepence per pound . Mr . Musgrave drank some unsweetened champagne ; " a more unpalatable drink under the denomination ot
wino I never tasted . It was like Sauterne mixed with wormwood .. ' The finest quality on the spot was sold at four shillings a bottle , the commonest ; ,, or pink champagne , at two shillings and ninepence . It is <> TUculute < l that a dozen , of the finest Rheims growth could not be delivered in London at a price less than sixty-eight shillings the dozen . But Mr . v S £ TT abs , erireB » TO * y properly , that when you have the best wine , you should have the best glasses to drink it from ; and wo hope our manufacturers may adopt the pattern of the specimen he brought from Rheims ; in the broaoV saucer-shaped glass the effervescence is speedily dead , as also in tbo oUWaslrtOued long glass in the form of an inverted funnel . The stem fma
Ti u u " ^ \ a » » approaches the circular flat upon which it stands , should be perfectly globular . As long as tins contains any wine , a column i * m 'J ° aeea pending »» d keeping up the sparkling action , not pleasant to . the eye alone , but conducive to the flavour and cordial to ' the taste .
Mr . Musgraye ' s next observations were in Burgundy , or the CVW ^ TT ' -When a regiment . on march gains first sight . & " the Clos VouW ^ f " officer in command gives orders to present arms" to acknowledge f ££ e macy of thegrape . The Chamber tin estate comprises less than twentv ^? " Golden Fields , or Golden Slopes , as . the people style them . Kear % £ V Clos Napoleon . Alter ample out-door inspections , Mr . Musgrave 3 Jh the pressoir , to examine the crushing machinery three hundred veir Jr > n a ponderous structure that exhibits no indications of decav - its rrimt , parts , the tourist says , have been but slightly altered since the mainS ^ the entire stem of a fine oak-supporting the screw apparatus was ^ 2 twenty feet deep into the ground , before Louis XLT . was born ! £ „!« richest wine does not flow from this machine ; it is the fruit of the fiit crush , the bursting of the grapes under their own pressure when lieaDert - a vat , and left for hours to distil into the trough beneath . Little of fr * splendid wine reaches England ; it is frequently stolen on the wav ilm ?! always adulterated . \ ^ "aost
An interesting account is added of the famous liqueurs made -it fl Grande Chartreuse . There are four varieties . The principal is the Elk ^ it is sold in bottles , put up in wooden cases , turned in bottleshape and si I at a high price . The Green Liqueur is as strong as Scotch Whisky or curacoa . but with no flavour of orange ; its avoma is apparently derived from angelica plant , thvme , and sweet balm-mint , compounded with various others . The Yellow Liqueur is neither so potent nor so sweet . The Whit is called also the Balm of the Chartreuse . Upwards of fifty plants seeds and flowers are used in the fabrication of these liqueurs ; the chief basi- ' being the first shoots of the pine-tree , wormwood ( or absinthe ) , mountain , pinks , mint , and balm , the essentials of which are distilled and mingled witli great art in the secret laboratory of the Chartreuse . ° We can point to Mr . Musgfave ' s volumes us particularly rich in local sketches ; the reader who can tolerate an occasional obtrusion of opinionated levity will be interested and informed .
History Of The English Constitution. A C...
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . A Concise History of the Enffl & h Constitution . By Edward Howley . London . 1857 . Longman and Co . This book would be more interesting if it were less professional . It is the misfortune of men engaged in one pursuit that they parade that pursuit in the most ordinary events of life . The soldier judges civil affairs invariably according to the articles of martial law . A learned schoolmaster is generally a pedant . Divines view the most trivial matters .-with a theological eye , whilst actors and actresses enter society with the strut and the elocution of the stage . Mr . Howley is no exception to the general rule . Had we opened his book and read the first few sentences of it ¦ without remarking the " of the Middle Temple , Barrister-at-Law" appended to his name , we should at once have divined the author to be a memher of iM
wig-and-go"wn fraternity . This is an objection / a strong objection to a book evidently written with the purpose of its becoming popular . We believe that even the History of the English Constitution is capable of being written in an easy , dear , and popular stylo , and , therefore , regard the work a failure which is too incomplete for the incipient barrister , and too overcharged with the jargon and mannerism of law-books to be acceptable to the general reader . If an Englishman be asked what is his Constitution , he -would be puzzled to tell what it is . He would probably . metaphorically answer , that it was a stately tree the growth of ages , whose roots had struck deep into the immemorial customs and usnges of the country , overlaid , of course , with a stiff stratum of statutes and precedents , and whose branches happily sheltered all -who lived under it from the blasts and the heats of tyranny .
This is practically well ; but is it not an anomaly that those who enjoy the greatest amount of freedom of any people under the sun should not be able to define what their Constitution is . Ask an American , and he will unrol to you a parchment sacredly preserved in the archives of his country and containing not many clauses and sections . lie will tell you , This is our Constitution ; it is this that we will ever preserve as the palladium of our liberties . It is surprising how incapable arc even those studied in the statutes and usages of the country of giving a clear and comprehensible definition of the English Constitution . " As it substantially exists , " says Mr . Howley " it may he defined as the aggregate off tlic laws , that determine the political relations between the bodies that share in sovereign power and between that
those bodies and all subordinate legislatures , together with the laws regulate the political relations "between the sovereign bodies , the subordinate legislatures , and the individual members of the community . Aggregate of the laws ! What a hopeful prospect for the young student to be told that his Constitution is the aggregate of the laws that determine the political relations between bodies , & c , when he remembers the volumes upon volumes of statutes that encumber the shelves of our law depositories , andj moreover , when he ia informed that the amount of incoherenijy and inconsistency , not to say contradiction , in these statutes is ao great that it requires all the learning as well as all the practised acumen of a judge to bring these anomalies into harmony , and decide what is constitutional am
wliat is not . Mr . Howley begins Ins exposition of the British Constitution by an inquiry into the origin and extent of sovereign power . - In England ., we nna that from the earlicBt times this power has been considerably limited . iae trial by jury proved always a safeguard to the liberty of the sulyeoc . Contemporary with the Flantagonets , a French gentleman or nobltsumn ww liable to be called before a single judge under the influence ol the King , and , being pronounced guilty , without any formal process of law , mign ? •>' put in a sack during the night , and thrown into a river . It is true tuu legal irregularities did occur even in this country under regal nutiiouiv , but the king suffered for it in one way or another , or obtained , iiuiemiuy for himself and his accomplices from the Parliament . Never was thei voy » prerogative stretched to such unwonted length as by the mlatuaw-Charles 1 . This prince , under some fatal hallucination , persisted m exorow-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/18/
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