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284 THE LEADER. [No. 417, March 20, 1885...
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THE MOORS AND THE FENS. The Moors and th...
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ALGIERS IN lt?S7. Algiers in 1857. By th...
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PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS. Mr. Joh...
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be eaten either hot or cold . It is to be adopted into the Moira cookery , and styled sauce royal . There also seems a method of dressing roast pork , which is to be tried . Thence Lady Moira passes to the Byzantine historians . Andrew Caldwell was one of Bishop Percy ' s most frequent correspondents . Passages like the following abound in his letters : — I have had a long , agreeable letter from Mr . Malone . He mentions a curious sale of the farrago of the famous Samuel Ireland , the Shakespeare Papers , in three immense volumes , bound in russia , green boxes without end , with old leases , deeds , seals , and playhouse accounts , to take in hunters of curiosities . The whole produced , nominally , 1380 ? ., . but really 1000 J ., which appears to me pretty well , and full the worth . The Shakespeare MS . and some others were puffed extravagantly , but it is supposed they remain on hand , and the biters were bit . . . . She is volumes of the
I have had a letter from Charlotte Smith . writing more ' Solitary Wanderer' for immediate subsistence . This work I have not seen , but it is well spoken of . She is a woman full of sorrows , and I fear her misfortunes are scarcely to be mitigated . One of her daughters made an imprudent marriage ; the man , after behaving extremely ill and tormenting the family , died lately of a fever ; the widow has come to her mother , not worth a shilling , and with the addition of three young children . These are pitiable cases , and the more so where there is the genius and sensibility of Charlotte Smith . ... I hear inucli of an Account of the Expedition to Egypt , by Sir Robert Wilson . It is very authentic , but discloses such atrocities of Buonaparte as are scarcely to be conceived . The ' Essay on Abstinence' I just looked into in the shop ; it is a continual succession of quotations , which of all styles in writing is the heaviest , and grows the most tiresome . I have sometimes thought , from the example of the Gentoos , that vegetable diet emollit mores ; but the people of a certain land that we know are an instance to the contrary , —as ferocious as you please , feeding entirely on a wholesome vegetable called potato .
The following letter is from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Bishop Percy , and is dated February , 1783 : — I am ashamed of not answering your lordship ' s letter sooner , but I will not fill this with apologies . I spoke to Sir Joseph Banks about it , who says , that on the receipt of Mr . Trocke ' s letter he gave the bill of lading , which he received from Mr . Trocke , to his broker ; that , on his leaving town , at the end of August , he had not received from his broker any account of the wine being arrived ; that during his stay in the country , he having confidence in his broker and his broker in him , nothing passed between them concerning the wine ; that Mr . Trocke ' s letter of September 30 was answered , not by return of the post , as Sir Joseph thought it useless , but with his first leisure . On his return to town he found the wine lodged in Mr . Colman ' s cellar , according to his orders , and forwarded , without delay , the certificate to Mr . Trocke . The wine was tasted at the Turk ' s Head , the meeting before the last , and was pronounced to be good wine , but not yet fit for drinking ; we have , therefore , postponed any further progress in it till next year , when , I hope , your lordship will have an opportunity of tasting it yourself . is
I wished to have an opportunity of sending you my last Discourse , though it scarce worth sending so many miles . The club seems to nourish this year ; we have had Mr . Fox , Burke , and Johnson very often . I mention those because they are , or have been , the greatest truants . In May , 1787 , Robert Henry writes : — A rural poet , one Robert Burns , a ploughman in Ayrshire , hath published a volume of poems , which have been so well received that 3500 copies were sold iu a few weeks . And in I 785 Bishop Percy informs Mr . Malone—Goldsmith has an only brother living , a cabinet-maker , who has been a decent
tradesman , a very honest , worthy man , but he has been very unfortunate , and is at this time in great indigence . It has occurred to such of us here as were acquainted with the Doctor , to print an edition of his poems , chiefly under the direction of the Bishop of Killaloe and myself , and prefix a new , correct life of the author , for the poor man ' s benefit ; and to get you , and Sir Joshua Reynolds , Mr . Steevens , & c , to recommend the same in England , especially among the members of the Club . If we can but subsist this poor man at present , and relieve him from immediate indigence , Mr . Orde , our Secretary of State , has given us hope that he will procure him some little place that will make him easy for life ; and then wo shall have shown'our regard for the departed Bard by relieving his only brother , and , so far as I hear , the only one of his family that wants relief . The volume contains a plenitude of similar matter , the literary gossip o f history .
284 The Leader. [No. 417, March 20, 1885...
284 THE LEADER . [ No . 417 , March 20 , 1885 .
The Moors And The Fens. The Moors And Th...
THE MOORS AND THE FENS . The Moors and the Fens . By F . G . Trafford . 3 vols . Smith , Elder , nnd Co , Mb . Traffobd has selected a strange title for his romance , which is only one of the moors and the fens in so far as it concerns the fortunes of a Highland damsel and a Lincolnshire heir to a baronetcy . The Highland heroine is a child of the clan Frnzer , reduced by misfortune to poverty , and compelled with her mother to seek an asylum with an opulent relative inhabiting a dingy house in the dingiest square in London . Here calamity once more belhls her , for at her benefactor ' s death his vast property is claimed by a separated wife , who proves in the end , however , to have been
a bigamist , so that poetical justice is satisfied . In the meanwhile there flourishes among the fens a Lincolnshire baronet , a miser to the marrow of his bones , and his son and heir is tho hero of the novel . This young man , too , is robbed of his inheritance , and the current of his life , by a felicitous coincidence , joins that of tho inoor-brod Minn . Many telling episodes occur in tho course of the narration , which is woll written , although voluminous to excess . What we have indicated as the leading points only faiutly-suggestahoJntGrestjyvJ ^ his ingenious nnd original etory . Measuring it by tho circulating library standard , wo may promise success nnd reputation to The Moors and the Feus .
Algiers In Lt?S7. Algiers In 1857. By Th...
ALGIERS IN lt ? S 7 . Algiers in 1857 . By tho Rev . E . W . L . Davios , M . A . Longman and Co . Tim is a pleasant picture which Mr . Dnvies brings from Algiers . It is brightly coloured and richly varied . Mr . Davics points the way to future tourists , describes tho climate and reaourcea of the country , gives special
directions to invalids , and discourses upon the enjoyments to be obtained in the French colony . He is likely , we think , to send many a summer wanderer and winter fugitive thither , unless the new passport system excludes the world from all parts of Algeria except the Lambessan rocks and swamps , whither a Frenchman may find his way easily enough . The mean tempei'ature of Algiers exceeds that of Malta , Malaga , Madeira , Rome , Nice , and Pau , it is warmer in winter than Cairo , but excessive heat is as unknown as excessive cold . Upon arriving Mr . Davies and his party located themselves at first in an hotel ; but the noise and confusion speedily drove them into furnished lodgings . In this respect the French infringement upon Africa has been considerably Europeanized ; but enough of the native character remains to preserve the picturesque , and stores of good things fill the markets—fish , vegetables , fruit , game , wine , matchless cofice , milk ; the streets are scrupulously clean , and to a sensitive nose immaculate . Thus the material necessities of life exist in abundance , and if gentlemen are in
search of poetry they can discover it by mounting the roof of an empty house and gazing upon the fair Moresques disporting in gauzy dishevelment upon their terraces . Only this amusement is likely to be interrupted by a rifle ball , accurately aimed by the green eye of an Infidel . Then , in point of landscape beauty , Algiers is unexcelled : villas and gardens cluster round the city , the sea beats transparently blue upon the shore , Moorish houses stand upon every accessible plateau , and the earth is tinted with red geraniums , pomegranates and myrtles , oranges and citrons , jewel-bright and delicious . Even the rocks wear draperies of variegated parasites , and along well-made roads among these paradises clatter the omnibuses from the Rue Babeloued with a Mahonese driver , a nigger huckster , and a Moorish
fisherwoman on the box , and inside , perhaps , a dashing French lady in a Pompadour hoop , a solemn Bedouin Arab in a burnous , a veiled Moresque , a Turk , an Englishman , an African Chasseur . As to the general society of the colony Mr . Davies found it very animated and agreeable , while the perambulating population of the town furnishes forth a daily masquerade exhibition of Sahara burnouses , enormous Turkish turbans , Mufti robes , the purple-and-gold-wrought draperies of the Algerine Jew , and speetral whiteclad women , whose only visible human attribute is the speculation in their unveiled eyes . Concerning the Algerine graces Mr . Davies lias much to say , including two , or three anecdotes of a most agreeable quality . He has written altogether an entertaining and graphic volume .
Publications And Republications. Mr. Joh...
PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . Mr . John Chapman has published a work of a singular nature , Theism , Doctrinal and Practical , by Francis W . Newman . It is a development of his former -work , ' The Soul , ' which appeared nine years ago . The form and style are peculiar , and Mr . Newman professes to have adopted his plan for special reasons , which he does not care to explain . Mr . Triibner has published a second edition of Mr . Thomas Rainey's valuable treatise , Ocean Steam Nacigatiou , and the Ocean . Post . Mr . Rainey remarks , in a section headed ' Mail Steamers cannot live on their own receipts , ' " It is clear that , notwithstanding all of the advantages to lie gained from increased size , steamers cannot support themselves upon the ocean . Let us examine the case of such a ship as the Leviathan . I ( lo not see that there is any normal trade in which she can run successfully . She may transport six thousand tons of measurement goods to Australin , but it will be at the expense of fourteen to sixteen thousand tons of coal , if the passage is made in fuir time . " In other respects he calculates against
the Leviathan . Messrs . Smith and Elder have published a second edition of The Views ami Opinions of Brigadier-General John Jacob , collected and edited by Captain Lewis Pclly , author of ' Our North-West Frontier . ' Some of General Jacob ' s remarkable communications were recently addressed to tho Leader The Mehioirs of James , Marquis of Mont rose by James Grant , published by Mr . Routledgo , we reserve for notice . Tho Rev . W . Owen has written , and Messrs . Simpkin and Marshall have published , a neat Memoir of Sir Henry Hacelock , with portrait and autograph . Christian Baptism Spiritual , not lliluul , is the title of a volume by Mr-Robert Mncnair , published by Messrs . Pat on and Ritchie , Edinburgh . Messrs . liolyoalce and Co . have published an English translation of The hate Genoese Insurrection Defended . Parties in Italy , IfViat are theyr I'M have they Done ? a scries of eloquent and suggestive letters by Joscjib Mazzini .
Mr . Murray has published a now edition , with numerous illustrations , o Mrs . Jameson ' s charming and popular work , Memoirs of the harly IKtim Painters , an'l of the Progress of Painting iu Italy . It is neat in form , wcu printed upon good paper , and is a very elegant cabinet volume . This week we only announce Letters from , Spain in 1856 anil 1857 , ty John Lcycoater Adolphus , M . A ., published by Mr . Murray . Two important volumes liavo been issued by Mr . Murray , noticos ot which are necessarily reserved—the late Earl of Elloainerc ' s Essays ; on wfor / A-Mio / mw / i / A Qeogmphv , Engineering , A-c . contributed to thu H" (" u " f , Extinct Volcanoes of Central France , by George Poulutt bcropc , M . A ., illustrative maps , viows , and panoramic sketches . Mr . Uentley linn published a new novel in two volumes , by Mihs Juni Tilt , entitled The Old Palace . Tho work On the Meohanhal Appliances necessary for tho Treatment of ' " / bnnities . by Mr . Henry Heather Bigg , noticed lust wcolc , was statoci bo publitthwl by Muasrs . Longman and Co . It ahould have boon Mr . Churchill .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1858, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20031858/page/20/
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