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and is indeed a sarcastic commentary on volumes of sarcastic invective against the bourgeoisie—viz ., that December , 1851 , teaches the necessity of an alliance between the Bourgeois and the Blouse . " The prolctaires can never emancipate themselves without the aid of the shopkeepers ; the bourgeoisie can never , without the aid of the proletaires , defend themselves against the assaults of Divine Right , which is not yet quite dead . " M . Schcelcher continues in this tone , and urges a " reconciliation" as indispensable . ' . - _ a > n He then continues the narrative , and relates the various efforts of
resistance in the provinces , so adroitly named La Jacquerie , by the " party of order . " He narrates the cruelties perpetrated by the Decembrizers ; examines into the pretended " conspiracy" against the President , on the part of the generals ; and draws the portraits of the Decembrizers . The book is a passionate book , but it will remain as History . Facit indignatio lib rum ; but there is more than indignation in it—there is clear insight , and abundant detail .
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . History of the Jesuits : their Origin , Progress , Doctrines , and Designs . By G . B Nicolini of Koine , Author of " The Pontificate of Pius IX ., " & c . & c . & c . Nishefc and Co , This is a work of the required order . Curious as the least inquisitive in these reading times must be , regarding a society which , for more than three centuries , has figured so largely in European story , whose character has been a stone of stumbling to the theology of Christendom , and whose name is , even at the present day , mixed up with the ferments and controversies of Protestant England , there has hitherto been among us no popular history of the Jesuits . It is not that the materials are wanting . No brotherhood of ancient or modern times was ever more noticeable or noticed . Records concerning them exist in the tongue of every nation from England to Japan . Searching scholars have enquired after their doings and doctrines . Learned and laborious men have written books for and ngainst them , which the students of history may peruse with advantage ; but for our people of pl ain sense and business , for the leisure hours of our knowledgeseeking youth , for the information of our reading families , there has appeared no clear and . compendious narrative of a society become proverbial in their daily speech . Signor Nicolini proposes to supply this deficiency . Himself an exile for the good cause of Italian liberty , which he defended by both sword and pen in his native Rome , and creditably known to the British public by a history of the Pontificate of Pio None , not only well but eloquently written in our English tongue , he now addresses the reading population of town and country on the rise , progress , and workino- of the Jesuit order from its institution in 1540 till the present time . The work is issued in numbers , at fourpence each ; four have already appeared . e The Glacier land . From the French of Alex . Dumas . By Mrs . W . R . Wilde . ( Th . Book-case VII . ) Simms and M'lntyre This is a translation , with some abbreviations , of Dumas ' s celebrated and entertaining Impressions de Voyage . We must call the guilty person—author or publisher—to task for the supercherie litle ' raire which thus rebaptizes a book without giving any intimation of doing so . The possessor of the original may feel imposed upon , if he purchase this volume believing it to be another work . Dumas's book is gay enough , and this edition cheap enough , to have commanded a sale in a fair way . And while we write , it occurs to us that there is already a cheap translation of the Impressions de Voyage , and if so , this substitution of title will be st ill more inexcusable . Romanism an Apostate Church . By Non Clericus . Longman and Co . Oujt renders will understand why we do not trouble ourselves with any formal notice of this hook when they read its opening paragraph : — "AJii ' c of some extent , with proportionate reading-, reflection , and observation , lias convinced ( he Writer tlmt no heretical form of Christianity , in any ago of the world , Iirh proved ko derogatory to ( jiod , ami no injurious to man , an the I ' ojn ' sh Religion . Tills is a grave charge ; , and requires substantial proof , such as it is believed will be found in the following pages . " How religious the . spirit is may be guessed from these headings— " Brutal \ gnovnnce of the Romish people , " " The Bible an accuser of Rome , " " Rome the most corrupt of all cities , " " Rome hates the Jiihle , "—these sections follow in vituperative succession . And the writer prides himself on his Christianity—" none others aro genuine ! " Apropos of these "headings , " the writer roinindH us of n uplendid epigram in Msirtial : a bad poet requested him to scratch out any imperfections he might detect in the poem submitted to him , and he replied , " Una . tit lira polesl . —one erasure will Biiflice . " Nun Clericus says : — "The present work might be read in continuity ( as it wan written ) with a disregard of the hemlinos or breaks , which appear to divide it into ko many distinct paragraphs ; but , although rather peculiar , it . was deemed advantageous , on this occasion , to convey n . n intimation of the bearing of each section . Thin gives a fragmentary appearance to the pages , but it will 'Diablo the Header to - pass over , the more readily , those purls which the least engage his attention . " Knable Ihe reader to skip those parts which do not engage \\\ h attention ! It will enable the reader to make but one skip . Holm's Classical JAbrarij- -The Comedien of 1 'laiittin . l ! y 'II . 1 <\ Hiley , It . A . Vol . 'i . ' . ( I . Holm . Jlohn ' n Philotoyieal ' Library- A Manual of the 1 / inlon / of Philosophy . II . ( i . Itohu . Holin ' n Neirnfijlr Lilirary Itridyewater ' 1 ' reatixcn . II . ( 1 . Holm . Ilo / iu ' s Nfaiit / ard Library J'Wdrik u ¦ Jtrcmcr ' * IVorka . II . ( I . Holm . Victor Jliu / o ' n Napo leon thr Little . VizHelly and ( Jo . The , lrixh Quarter ! 1 / . U / : i > hnt > . No . 7 . W . ' lt . Kolly . The Vhemixlry if ('/ of it . Hy . 1 . HroH'crn , M . A ., Loud ., K . H . A . W . H . Orr and Co . Tim Violin . \\ y ( I . l ) nl > ourpf . l { ol > crt . Coclui an < l Co . Three . I ' eam in Europe ; or , Placex 1 have Heen and People . 1 haw Met . \\ y VV . Wells llrown . ( , 'lmilcH ( Jiljiin . An Anith / Hin and Nummary of New Te » ta » ieiit History . . 1 . I ,. "Wheeler . . Ilin / oirti ' dim (' rimeti J > u Deu . e Deeeinbre . I'nr V . Helioclclier . John Chapman . The Vil / ai / i : Pearl : A Domentio Poem . Hy . 1 . (' . WiIhoii . . John Chapman . A Dineourne of Matterx Pertainiiiy to Uetit / ion . Hy . J . Purlwir . John Chapman . An lit tune nt art / Treatiue on Loyie . John Chapman . Chap ma n ' li Lihraryfor the People --The tioul . ; ilx Norrowt and i / u Anpira / unm . Hy K . W . JVowiiuin . ' John Chapman . The Napoleon Dt / nanfi / : or , the Ifhton / of the lionaparlt : Family . John ( Jlmpimm . The Mai / dalen : ' A Poem . \\ y 'I' . I ' . Hrovm . Ninipkin , Mai-whall , ami Co . I ' wrkii and J't « anurn ( Jroiindti . Jly C . 11 . J . Hmith . Itouvu uiul Co . Tho ItetitonUion irf' ' Ue . lief . Miicmillun nud Co . ' . ' /'« lXtium . By K . h \ JfiUwilliiun . JD'Alinaiim and tk > . Vuke » ami Atv . By JJouuluo Jorrold . Brudlmry tvml Evimu .
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VI . ' Ham , Jan . 6 , 1852 . ggg ^ ELL our excellent Master , my dearest Helen , that he deserves a jjll ^ patent of naturalization , as a freewill offering from the English illf § nation ; but I do not know that he would get it , even if I were < HJ § H to make his last letter public ; for England can do nothing , except upon precedent , and by established rule . It is always so . In no quarter of the world shall you find such firm reliance upon England , as among Italians . Not the triple treachery of England , in Sicily , can destroy that faith . "It was Castlereagh , " Giorgio used to say , " not England- "
but my difficulty has been to find that same England which is to be distinguished from Castlereagh . I begin to think that Metternich would be right , if he applied his heartless epigram to the island where I was born , and that " England is a geographical expression" —nothing more . The people that once took a share in thinking and acting for itself , even when it had less " liberty" than it now has , by favour of statutes too numerous , too contradictory , too unintelligible , and too much commented by the judicial bench to exact very severe obedience , —that people does not now appear in public . It is busy in the workshop , or it is seized with a squeamish dislike to conducting public affairs in public—because one takes cold at public meetings , mobs speak so rudely , and vulgar patriots cannot catch the newest fashion of civilization : which , with a bottle of eau de
Cologne held to its palpitating sniff , scolds in choice epithets at swords and nasty warfare , sends a hired soldiery to clear the streets of the disarmed populace , and puts all its trust in " moral influence "—the new name for retracting your word whenever it is put to the test of deeds . But I will answer Giorgio when I have seen more of the people in its political action ; at present I have seen but little of the most numerous class , and still less of the most influential class . I have other things to tell you both ; and this time the Padrone shall praise me , and not say that I see everything with home-sick eyes . You , dear Helen , I notice , do not say so ; but rather seem to take some umbrage at the notion that I am growing reconciled to England .
If any one could reconcile me to it , you are right in saying that it would be Yseult . But you are wrong in thinking that it is only a name that binds me to her , or that it is anything different to the thing which bound me to the beloved of our house . It is her perfect loyalty . Different they are , as different as night and day ; but it is only the difference between the sun glowing from under the deep shade of the cypress , and the sun glowing on a garden . Of Yseult aux Blanches Mains I have learned
more since I invoked her aid for poor Sophy Johnson ; and the way in which she has taken possession of that family , shows the power given by her loyal and direct nature over those who are less firm and faithful . The position of the poor young lady is , in one respect , worse than I knew when I told Giorgio ; the young shopman is married , but living apart from his wife , at present , " for economy . " Yseult judged it necessary to tell both of Sophy ' s parents : in all things , she said , truth and courage are the
best reliance . She made me disclose the affair to poor Johnson , who seemed rather relieved when he learned what it was that I had to disclose , lie evidently expected the announcement of something adverse to " his interests m trade ; and was perfectly reconciled when he found that it " could all be arranged" for him . He took some merit to himself for " not letting 'U make any difference in his feelings of kindness towards poor Sophy "; i « altogether lie did credit to his own estimate of his own good sense . What passed between Mrs . Johnson and Yseult I do not know ; I only know they were closeted for some time ; that Mrs . Johnson looks a shade is
graver even than before , a degree more crushed ; and that slu : nunc quiet , kind , and diligent in her household than ever ; and I notice that she has taken down from her scanty shelves a book culled Mason on ai'J Knowledge—a way she has when her kind heart feels the craving to i - vengc its bruises on those about her . ' Certain Christinas gaieties hiiv ^ been deferred sit Yseult ' s desire , until Sophy shall have been curried of ! i <» J a round of visits ; in the midst of which she will be lost to the view of » but Yseult and Edwardes . Her visits are to begin with the place ; from which I write—a vm » K ' about twelve miles from London , and about two from Richmond .
must not , " said Yseult to me , after I hud been talking to her on the aihiir , " you must not suppose that these poor people are the best special * - * of English society . ( Jreat principles are at war amongst us , and nr rather than share . The spectacle of the sacrifice of victim * iiM : oHip « tci » j to the sacrifice is painful and humiliating . Hut we have still ainongs J ^ those who know the war in which they are wounded ; and many also w » ^ the war has not yet reached . The Hcdfonls really belong to ' ffooU o England , ' not in the , least imbued with new cants , or old bigotncH , plain hearty good creatures . " more We came down here yesterday , after Edwardes had seen the m
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25091852/page/20/
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