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Novellettes. The Exiles Of Kali/. By C. ...
, , The Hasty Marriage : a Sketch of Modem Jewish Life . By Nathan Meritor . ( Mann and Co . )—Here is a ' boolc of a somewhat singular character . It is a lesson read to the Jewish community of our own days . Mr . Meritor urges that Jewish girls are tempted into early marriages b y the Church , and the dazzling promises of the society surrounding them , lie maintains his opinions with a good deal , of ¦ unconvincing dogmatism , and elicits an abundance of mock tragedy out of a noarriago of a Jewess with a Catholic , the ceremony being performed ... by « . Protestant minister . There is little likelihood that the denunciations of Mr . Nathan Meritor will result in a social reform among Jews or Christians . Chapel town ; or , The Felloio Students . By an English Congregational Minister . ( Ward and Co . )—This is tlie history of a local mmistration , conceived in a kindly and enthusiastic spirit , Written with propriety and feeling , and interesting on account of the obvious fidelity of its delineations
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Books For The Young. Mr. Wiixjam'chamber...
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . Mr . Wiixjam ' Chambers has published a pretty volume entitled The Youth ' s Companion a ? id Counsellorv' ( "W .. - ' and R . Chambers ) . In his early years , he says , there -was a well-known book called The Young Mail ' s Best Companion , which , as - \ ve remenr . ber , had no little pedantry in its composition . His own object lias been to combine familiar instruction with friendly counsels on a variety of topics not generally embraced in educational treatises . The most prominent sections are—on education , on the art oi
reasoning , on literary tastes and acquirements , on the care of the person , on the choice of a profession , on matrimony , character , and conduct . Topics less universal are introduced—public speaking , stenography , matters of public concern , duties as subjects , and others . All publications of this class are ballasted , more or less , by timisms , and characterized by personal sentiinents of no general value . Mr . Chambers , however , has compiled asensible and agreeable series of essays , plain , short , and practical , and we have no doubt that he will be adopted as a mentor by those young gentlemen who believe in manuals of maxims and encyclopaidias of propriet \ v
Miss Pardoe has collected , principally from the works of Oriental scholars on the Continent , a number of Oriental stories , which , she has published under the title of The Thousand and One Days : a Companion to the Arabian Nights ( William Lay ) . All wlio relish the romance of the East vill gladly revisit the glimpses of diamond suns and opaL moons—fbi-gotten , perhaps , since the Arabian Nights were laid aside , but glittering with Oriental radiance in these Ax'abian Days . Among the publications of the season , for the delight of the young , a better does not lie on our table than The TIiO 2 tsand and One Days .
Miss Anne Bowman , m TheYozmg M'iles ; or , the Wild THbes of the North { Routledge and Co . ) , takes her young heroes and heroines by the land and leads them right through . Siberia , and across the sea to the Esquimaux shore . Her tale is one of Russian exile ; and it may be imagined what use she makes , with the help of a spirited engraver , of nocturnal convict journeys , forests , mines , slavery , sledging , bears , wolves , strange discoveries , desperate adventures , escapes , and all those other incidents which appertain , theoretically , to Siberian banishments , especially when the chief actors are boys . Boys and girls , then , will be her readers , and while amused and even excited by her narration , will gain some useful knowledge on the barbarous road .
The Three Sergeants ; or , Phases of a Soldier ' s Zj / £ ( Effingham Wilson ) . The Three Sergeants do not address their book to the young only , but to the young we especially commend it . It tells how Thomas Morris , William Morris , and WiUianx Morris junior , sergeants , and wearers of clasps and medals , have seen service in Germany , Holland , Belgium , France , India , and the Crimea . The narrator is Thomas Morris , of the 73 rd Highlanders , and we assure all whom it may concern—boys in particular—that the accounts of fighting in this book are animating and admirable . The Rev . G . S . Wood , a favourite naturalist , has published a new volume , My Feathered Friends ( Routledge and Co . ) , illustrated by Mr . Harrison Weir . A book with such a title , from the author of S / cetches and Anecdotes of Animal Life , and Common Objects qf the Seashore , announces itself . 3 Nlr . Wood knows how to make every page instructive and entertaining . dwells anecdotes
While the young-eyed generation , of the weaker sort , upon of hawks and humming-birds , a bolder race may select Mr . Walter Thornbury as a Christmas historian . He brings us a new edition of The Buccaneers ; or , the Monarchs of the Main , with illustrations by Phiz ( lloutledgo and Co . ) . The illustrations alone will make the heart of ' fierce fourteen' leap with expectancy : —' Two to Fifty , ' Pierre le Grand surprising the Spanish Captain , ' the Monks compelled to carry the Scaling-ladders , ' ' Morgan and tlio Spanish Lady , ' ' Sawkins Boarding Pcralta ' s Ship , ' 'AVood Rogers brings off Alexandor Selkirk , ' and ' the Death of Blackboard . The book is not for the holidays only i it will be taken back to school , and , we fear , illicitly thumbed instead of Ince or Mavor . Mound Games ( Bean and Son ) . Wo cannot help admitting that children ' s evenings are often dull , even when the one purpose in view is gaiety . A charming little manual of suggestions -was published by Messrs . Chambers a few years ago ; here ib another of a more infantine quality , rntlici spoiled by the educational aim of the compiler .
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DEPARTURE OF THE ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY . This night , the Pvnb and II-Arkison coiupiuvy perform for the last time at the Lyceum , previous to undertaking a professional tour in tho provinces . Wo have had of lato so many demands on our space , in tlie shape of events of historical and national importance , that we have been unable to give as much attention to tho charming cntortainments provided for tho town by Miss Louisa Pjtnb , Mr . Harrison , and their comrades , as t !» eir excellence demands , or our own sense of what is duo would gladly have accorded . Tho brief season now on the point of closing is decidedly tho beat attempt that has yet been niado to establish that lor which thoro is evidently a demand when it is properly maiuixjed- ~ att English Opera , Miss 1 ' yNK is one of tho purest , sweetest , and
most entirely delightful of our native singers—equal to all the difficulties of her art , yet enchanting the popular ear by the perfection of her lyric power , her simple faculty of singing for singing's sake . Add to this—the chief element of her success—a quiet , easy self-possession on the stage , a pleasant speaking voice , and a thoroughly lady-like deportment , and it will be no matter for wonder that the Lyceum should have been crowded nightly from pit to gallery . Her sister , Miss Susa . k Pyne , must also receive a word of praise and congratulation ; and of Mr . Harrison it may f airly be said that he is not only a genial and manly singer ( though with some faults of style , which , however , appeal more to the fastidious than to the popular ear ) , but an excellent actor a veiy unusual thing on the operatic stage . Mr . Wjbiss has likewise been an able fellow-workman ; and the orchestra and chorus , under the admirable direction of Mr . Alfred Mellon , have fulfilled all that the most critical apprehender of unity of effect , or the want of it , could desire . Mr . George IIoxey has rendered good service in the way of humorous acting- ; but , if the company were permanently fixed in London , we should suggest the omission of tlie farce after tlie opera . Sucli a mixture of stupidity and vulgarity as Mr . Ed \ va . ui > Stirling ' s Pair of Piyeons should be banished to the Saloons .
_ Mr . Balfe ' s Rose ofCastille is by this time so firmly fixed in popular estimation that criticism would be superfluous . It appears to us to be hastily composed ; but it disguises an impossible libretto in a prodigality of tune , and is sparkling and felicitous from the first note to the last .
Miss Arabella Godpard. The Series Of Cla...
MISS ARABELLA GODPARD . The series of classical performances with , which , it . Jullien has concluded liia present season of Concerts has restored , for a few days , the popular prestige tliat once accompanied Ms name . We were attracted by the announcement that Miss Arabella Gonvxnv would perform the Concerto in ] £ flat on the second Beetuovex night . The professional career of this very fascinating and gift ed young lady has been one of unvarying success and increasing distinction . We confess we were at one time a little apprehensive of the effects of praise which to many may have appeared almost excessive in its emphasis and iteration . Acknowledging always the high and rare endowments of the fair pianiste , we felt that she had a just claim to the severity , and no need at ; all of the indulgence , of independent criticism , and that the most dangerous enemies of real talent were often injudicious friends . The leading critics , it is true , qualified their fully ^ deserved eulogies with seasonable advice
, and sometimes with a tone of kindly warning , but ye have always felt that in addressing praise to u nf ulfilled renown , the voice should be rather one of hopeful counsel than of indiscrinrinating compliment . Miss Ahabella . Goddaiu > may well excite the warm interest of English criticism : she long ago promised to be the first English pianiste of her day , and we are disposed to affirm unhesitatingly now , that she has fulfilled the promise of her earlier ( happily she is still--in her early ) days . Eive years since , she played with amazing skill , courage , and brilliancy ; but occasionally her experiments "were a little too ambitious , and betrayed the temerity of her years and the need of self-denying study . There was then more mechanical proficiency than feeling , without which musical art is but a sleigUt-of-hsmd . But a few years Qve believe we commit no indiscretion in saying that in' 52 Miss Arabella . Goddakd was only sixteen ) have ripened the thought , intensified the feeling , and strengthened the hand of
this gifted young goddess of the chords . It is one thing to simulate emotion , another to express it . In . her playing of the concerto the other evening there was a quiet intensity of feeling , a brave and modest air of rapt attention , an utter absence of all vulgar affectation , which spell-bound the audience in a reverential silence , and satisfied the austerest critics . We were reminded by turns of the energy and grandeur of Madame Pley : *;! ,, of the airy tenderness and morbidezza of Mademoiselle Cj-auss , of the perfect mastery and earnest simplicity of Madame Clara Schumann . We do not mean to say that she combines in an equal degree all the attributes of each of the three great players we have named , but that she is wanting in none . May we be permitted to whisper that time has also fulfilled the other promise of her early youth , and has touched the lines of beauty with that saddened grace which is but the outward and visible expression of the music of the heart ?
Her Majksty's Theatre.—"We Are To Have, ...
Her Majksty's Theatre . —" We are to have , at Christmas I a perfect democratic and social revolution in the musical world . Mr . Lumley commands the barricades which we doubt Jiot will be necessary on the occasion . The opera at Christmas ! Think of that , limit Ton and fashionable Koutine ! Qivgixsi and JficooxoMiNi flushed ¦ with German triumphs return to London tlie week after Christmas-day , and are announce ! to appear in the Trovatore , the Traviala , and Lucia . It will bo the first time that Maulle . Piccolomini has been heard in the Trovatore in London ,. Poktija . it of Hubinstkin . —Mr . Ella lias presented the subscribers to his valuable and interesting ' Record , ' with a . speaking portrait of the young Russian pianist and composer ,-who -was the lion of tlie Musical Union last summer . The grand Bkktiiovkn brow , the deep-set eyes , tho rich , full , sensitive mouth , are all here , ¦ with that ea , £ er and earnest boyishnesh of look which adds an infinite charm to tho self-possession , the simplicity , and the thoughtful power of ltuiUNSTEiii ' s face .
The Pantomimes . —The Pantomime world is busy devising wonders for Doxing "Night . We hear great things of The iSiei ^ itt ;/ ISeimfg in tha Wood ; or , Harlequin and his jS jnttful Fairy , at the IIaymarket , produced under special direction of the author , no less a person than Mr . Buckstone himself . At tho I ' rinckss ' s the Pantomime is to be called Harlequin and the White Cat ; or , iJiu l rincess JJlunch ( flower and ( lie Fairy Godmother ; and we know -what tti expect in tlie way of scenery and mechanism at this beautiful theatre . At tlie Lyckum tho ublc and accomplished stagemanager , Mr . William Unoucir , is again the author of tlio Extravaganza which is founded on ' Lulln ltookii : ' tho very title is a fascination . 1 ' or the Olympic Mr . Koiucut Bnouon , whose name is iclentiiiotl with tlie uuccesa of thia house , has an extravaganza called , Tha Doge of Our alto ; or , 7 'hu Enchanted J £ gen , in which , course , Mr . Kobson will take tho town by storm ; aided by a powerful phalanx of beauties . At the Auklpiii the combination of extravaganza and pantomime , which has
been found to work so well , will be repeated thi * year in tho shape of nu adaptation of tho lovely legend of Cupid and Jt ' syc / te . Wo hope that in this caso at least the course of truo love may run smooth . Keturning to tho UaymiVUIvKT , we should mention that to give due effect to tho mechanical changes , Mr . ISuckstunis has leasod somo large premises adjoining the Haymahket , formerly known as Lung's Shooting Gallery , and which will now become a portion of tho theatre . The alteration in tlio price » of admission having caused so much satisfaction to tho public , to give more accommodation to tho frequenters of the lower gallery , on and after Boxing-night the upper gallery will be abolished , and tho ontiro ajtuco converted into one spacious gallery . Tho access from the pit to tho uppor boxes will from Unit night be bo arranged that stairs from the lobby of the pit will bo constructed to admit wuch of tho audience at once to the upper boxes who may wish to go thuro . It is also determined , wo aro very gl « d to hoar , that in tlie scenes of tho h : irlo < iuina < lo tlie system of making thorn tho medium of advertisement will bo utterly discarded .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 19, 1857, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19121857/page/19/
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