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No. 4.22, APB.II1 24, 1858.] _ _ T HE LE...
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A Lady's Story Of Lucknow. A Ludy's Diar...
wrap them in night-dresses , to tie Lice mindkerchiefe over their faces , and to sew them in white clothe and prepare them for burial . There was no fortitude upon the ramparts , no heroism at the batteries , more trying to human virtue than this . The women in Lmcknow "were consolations to one another , and became a sisterhood during their five months of affliction and tenor . The tragedy is reflected with all its terrible lights and shadows in the lady ' s diary , which contains also some very interesting passages illustrating the incidents that occurred after Sir Colin Campbell ' s arrival . When ' he was within a thousand yards of the besieged force—It was very exciting listening to the sound of the battle going on so near us . The < rentlemen spent most of the day on the top of the house looking out ; but could not distinguish anything clearly on account of the smoke . They saw our horse artillery and some of the lancers galloping about , which must have been a truly delightful sight . Our artillery must have made tremendous havoc today among the enemy . The big guns have been at work incessantly . Then came the march to Cawnpore : —
The confusion of the march is perfectly indescribable ; such a crowd of waggons , carts , camels , bullocks , elephants , loaded with baggage of every description , sick and wounded women and children , all moving along in one huge mass , without the smallest appearance of arrangement or order , could never be pictured by the wildest flight of imagination . Every ten minutes we came to a stand-still ; and waited perhaps an hour before the mass was in motion again , without knowing what caused the obstruction ; tixe dust was suffocating , the heat of the 6 un sickening , and when we reached the place appointed for encampment , where not a tent was pitched , and no prospect for the weary and hungry body presented itself , one felt inclined " to lie down and die" from fatigue and exhaustion ; only it seemed ungrateful and wrong to grumble now at any hardships after our merciful preservation , and before long our circumstances brightened ; the camels arrived , and we found our tent , got it put up , and -while that was doing received an invitation to the Artillery mess , which made quite new creatures of us ; and though the ponies with our bedding had not found us out , we were so tired that we slept very soundly on the ground , and had quite wraps enough to keep us from feeling very cold .
After all that has been written on the siege of Lucknow , this diary reads freshly , because the writer ' s sketches are taken from an entirely new point of view .
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New Novels. Sir Guy (Tjesterre. By Selin...
NEW NOVELS . Sir Guy ( TJEsterre . By Selina Bunbury , Author of " Our Own Story , " & c . 2 vols ( Routledge . )—In her new novel Miss Bunbury reopens the romance of Elizabeth ' s reign , and ventures to repeat the tragedy of Essex and the « ueen This is to be regretted . Miss Bunbury writes well , and her inventive faculty is not slight ; but it would be impossible to revive the interest of passages worn by a hundred chroniclers into dust and dulness . Everything in the career of Elizabeth that is fit for the romancisfs use is threadbare 0 stale , and dry , so that Miss Bunbury has fallen into a decided error in attempting to cast in a new form the drama of Devereux the ring , the queen , and the treacherous jealous lady . But this porfcon of her p lot is not the most conspicuous . The real hero is Sir Guy , and the heroines are Isabel and Hildawhile the scene lies in Ireland at a time when knights
, were carried off to the strong holds of wild chiefs , when maidens in antique costumes conversed daintily wi th their courtly captives , and when the bard struck his harp from the highest seat in the banqueting hall . From these materials , with a series of loves and adventures , battles , surprises , and escapes , conspiracies and coincidences , Miss Bunbury constructs a graphic tale deep in colour , full of change and movement , intelligent as a study of manners and character , and only rendered commonplace when a transition takes place from the theatre of chivalry and melodramatic situation to the court of Elizabeth , which has been described to nauseation , with its central figure , a vain , fierce , coarse old woman , made up of false hair , pigments , jewelled stomachers , ruffles , and all the other frippery starched below her shoulders and turrctcd above . _____ ni : l Life the Author of « The Ruling
The 2 iti HuZndTaJVovel of Rea . By Passiin . '' 3 vols ( Skeet . ) -The author of " The Ruling Passion" attempts in The Rich Husband to describe the social fashions of to-day . Two varieties of liib fre depicted , the poor and the proud , with dashes of vulgarity in both and a strong spice of modern mclodrn . ua to keen the narrative m mot on The result is that , while somewhat tediously elaborating her p . o-Srcs the author writes a vivacious and amusing story , sprmlded with happy Sts of maUce against the flying follies of our generation , and so developed as at the end to npress a J ^ t proper moral , and to enforce heroics justice by el utUn- up the g ? and mansions hitherto maintained , regardless ofexpendfture by ^ eax-tless an d opulent men , and driving the villains abroad to end tS careers ponaUy . At the same time , it is proved that innocence is the Eni aSit & shown that gentle readers way be enter tuned by a
novelist without having their morals corrupted . T-wbert Ivors " Ursula ¦ a Tale of Country life . By the Author of Amy Herbert , lvois , & c * vol ? ( Lon-man nnd " Oo . ) -Hcre we have a sweetly written story of dLesV . e life a book to warm the . family affections of English homes , a tale tlmt mints the puHty of religious oarnitness , and that is ^ together excellent fir the vou g lo read . The author has a delicate and graceful hand a * a noveL aXlTere is a Gainsborough truth and richness " ^^^ ^ of English country landscapes , with their cheerful glimpses of nncestiul as wellnfof co ^ agVinteriora and their living . groups drawn tenderly from SSiro . Some of the family scenes arc exquisite m their worm isirophoiy and it is hi-h praise to sny that , with a distinctly religious purport , Unttla Sne 1 vdidactic nor wearisomely serious . The author though capable ol real pathos , writes often with a gay heart that gladdens the ™ ' ^ \ f SeSaff MalletMPfor Boldboroughon' the tujuno SlaWW «» o iwi
Mr . , .. , jivxr . oerieuui . ««» i * .. * . » . «~ . ~ - o » . w in ; ,,,,, , i ,, " » ,,, » British Nation and of the Human Knee . Edited by V \ illiam cu , lyne . SoutleOac ISd Co " -Announced ns a political novel , this » not a novel . « t all With aomihin- of originality in its plan it is one of the inost fatiguing oooto eVerSt & d . The Mr / Scrjount Mallet whose opinion * are set f 0 r ° r « % l » t ovorfl 6 w the « o » ith with his prolixity . And th j- garrnloua . abun « - ance of solemn talk seldom contains a suggestion . Iho shal ow ness o pla U tudo meanders elugtfisuly through four hundred iwgos , evidently wiougut
with intense labour but frequently unreadable . Not that Fata morgana is destitute of ability . It has its points of merit , and is no doubt the production of a zealous mind , but the form of the work is repulsive , while its substance is of little solidity or lustre . It would be easy for any writer having read a selection of histories and essays to construct a volume on this plan and call it a political novel . Mr . William de Tyne prophesies fearlessly , and in a free , liberal , confident spirit , and there is much in his view that entitles him to respect and sympathy ; but , unfortunately , this large disquisition would be a burden upon the patience at least of indolent readers .
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PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . A katheu remarkable new edition is before us—Letters , Conversations , and Recollections of S . T . Coleridge , edited by Thomas Allsop ( Groombridge and Co . ) . —We reserve it for notice next week , but it may be as well to mention that the editor ' s brother , Mr . Robert Allsop , republishes the work as a presumptive proof of Mr . Thomas Allsop ' s innocence with respect to the crime of the 14 fch of January . A second edition of a very different character is Mr . Edward Kemp ' s useful and pleasant volume How to Lay out a Garden : intended as a General Guide in Choosing , Forming , or Improving an Estate with Reference both to Design and Execution . The work , published by Messrs . Bradbury and Evans , has been greatly enlarged , and is illustrated with numerous plans , sections , and sketches of gardens and garden objects . What Bacon called " the joy of a "arden" is doubled by the possession of a manual like this .
There is to be a new current of emigration from the British Islands to the Cape of Good Hope , Thousands of persons , therefore , may be supposed to be interested in knowing what manner of country South Africa is . They could have few more experienced or trustworthy instructor than Mrs . Ward , who , to give her pictures a popular colour , has painted them as Hardy the Hunter : a Story for Boys ( Routledge and Co . ) , dashing and graphic , with illustrations by Harrison Weir . The following titles explain themselves : —The Street Preacher : being the Guthrie Edin
Autobiography of Robert HocMart , edited by Dr . Thomas ( - burgh : A . and C . Black ) . The Familiar Ejuslles of Mr . John Company to Mr . John Bull , reprinted from Blac / cicood ' s Magazine ( W illiam Blackwood and Sons ) . The Speech of Edwin James , Esq ., Q . C ., in Defence of Dr . Simon Bernard , carefully revised and edited by Mr . James Gordon Allan , and published by Effingham Wilson . The Web of Life is the title of a tale in one volume by Allan Park Jraton , published this week by Messrs . Longman and Co . By a glance we ascertain that it is a work of peculiar tone and form ; but we must delay our
criticism . . Mr . Mead ' s volume , The Sepoy Revolt : its Causes and Consequences , has been republished in a cheap form by Messrs . Routledge and Co . Mr . Churchill sends us a volume of peculiar interest to medical and physiological readers—T he Ganglionic Nervous System : its Structure , Functions ^ and Diseases , by James George Davey , M . D ., M . R . C . S ., who appears to have studied minutely and exhaustively the special subject of the present treatise from the earliest period of his professional career .
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The Society Of British Artists. We Have ...
THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS . We have a generally accurate knowledge of what we are going to see when we go , every spring , to the Suffolk-street exhibition . British Art in Suilfolk-street is a more distinct affair even than in Pall-Mall ; and tho nationality of these British artists is more sectional than that of the National Institution , which Promotes the Fine Arts , in its peculiar way , at the Portland Gallery . Of course at all these exhibitions will be found a family likeness in tho conventionalism which makes up more than three parts of the tale of contributions . We shall at that
see Interiors at this gallery which we can almost swear to having seen . Very still life will remind us ( not , alas ! forcibly ) of a stillness which we hare met often and often before . Dead game will appear as dead , and as much entitled to bo buried , in one place as another . Cavaliers and Puritans will be humorously contrasted ; Cardinal Wolsey , Boadicea , Shvlock , and Sasoho Panza will probably be found among other well-known characters ; and scenes from the Decameron , from Gil BUts , the Vicar of Wakefidd , ParadUe Lost , the Bonrgeola Centilhomme , the Faerie Queen , und Pitmoek ' s Goldsmith ' s Abridgments of Roman and Pnalteh History , will be correctly represented in one particular set of rooms , just as tho same thing is annually accomplished over tho way or round tho corner . But turning from the level dulnoss to the ealiont points of each ox hibltion , wo find that these last are to be counted upon with much greater cer-Britons than in the of other
tainty in the case of the Suffolk-street cose any body British and artistic . We know that wo shall find several of Mr . Himtstonb ' s compositions looking as if they had been left over from last season , and had not been dusted . AVo know that Mr . Woolubb ' s gossamer gaieties , and Mr . Zbmtbb ' s mad pranks of colour , and Mr . Hawkins ' s portraits in this stylo two guineas , and Mr . Salthr ' s inefluhlo reminiscences of Emmei . d ' 8 '& pea >«« . and Mr . Buckhbu ' s fashionable ideals , and Mr . Wmht ' s mealy torrents , and Mr . Eaiu / s terriers , and Mr . Pynu ' b learnedly unlike landscapes , and Mr . Shaybus comatose cows , and Mr . ConiiK-rr ' s fresh-coloured peasantry ( in clean rags cluoson ' wTflr ^ noH ^^ ton ' s ' Tourist ' s Companion' stereotypes , and tho doleful additions to tho comic and sentimental departments of doiuostie art , by Messrs . liuas , 1 ' idmwo , and Clatku , will all bo true to us , and will have undergone no change ol any kind since last year ' s exhibition . , It is customary to refer to some imaginary ntandard in noticing those annual displays , and to say whether or not tho ' average merit' of tho gallery has boon
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041858/page/19/
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