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M. liouis ViAimoT, well known liy his ex...
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M. Louis Blanc's appeal against the. Mar...
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FAIRYTALES. Four-and-Twextiy Fairy Tales...
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Wonderful For Wit, Lmmoar, Fancy, Grace,...
Wonderful for wit , lmmoar , fancy , grace , fun , arid picturesque beauty , is punch ' s Almanack for 185 S . We allude more especially to Leech ' s illustratrations , for , though the letter-press of this delightful annual is always sparkling and merry , the pictures are undoubtedly the main attractions . The publication this year is even more than ordinarily good , and tuifolds , page after page , some fresh triumph of coinie arfc . Mr . Leech has a singular faculty for seizing the happiest and most graceful phases of life , at tke same time that his humour is of the most affluent and abundant kind . The caricaturist has
hitherto revelled in the hideous , the vulgar , and the morbid : Mr . Leech , OB . the contrary , flings a ^ sunslujie of beauty aver his drawings , hut beauty of a . real , recognizable kind , not vapid idealism . His women , his children , his animals , his bits of landscape and sea-scape ,, are exquisite in their truth and gracefulness . The large centre illustration , The Mermaids' Haunt , ' in the Almanack just issued , is full of this feeling ; and so are many of the smaller ants . Even when he touches poverty and squalor ( not that he does so on this occasion ) , he elevates them into something poetical by the warmth of genius and of sympathy . And then how full of fun and dramatic truth of- character are his little bits of letter-press beneath the cuts ! In short , Leech is notHngless than a benefactor in this cold northern land ; and , thanks to him in particular , Punch ' s Almanack for 1858 will not merely make us merry at Christmas , but will leave a golden memory behind it through the comin" - year . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . . . . ¦ .. . . . . ' . . : ft Punch ' zPooket-Boolc , of course , comes with the holly , and with its store of good things is as pleasant as Christmas itself .
_ A: New Fortnightly European Illustrate...
_ A : new fortnightly European illustrated Art-Keview of a very ambitious Hud is announced for the beginning of the year in Paris . The title will be Gazette de & Reauv Arts , Courrier Europeeu de VArt et de let Curiosite , and the chief editorship is entrusted to . M . Gbables Blanc , sometime Director of the Fine Arts , whose letters on the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition we mentioned a-week or two since . The distinguishing characteristic of the new Gazette des JBeaust ; Arlsyill be a special Art correspondence from all parts of Europe . Under the direction of M . Charles Blanc , whose relations in the European world of art are , from his previous official position , widespread and influential , avLoh a correspondence will doubtless prove of high value and authority . The
title implies that every branch of pictorial , plastic , and decorative art will be represented in the pages of the Review , and it is no slight guarantee of success that it will be conducted by a critic of known judgment and experience , with so fine a sympathy for ' what is earnest , and so fine a sense of ¦ what is true in Art , as K . Chabxes Blanc , who enjoys the distinction of being not only a subtle critie , but an admirable writer . In a language singularly pure and elegant , he expresses with discrimination what he feels with enthusiasm . The illustrations are promised to be in the highest style of execution , and we are told that capital is not wanting to ensure the success of the publication .
There is one of M . Charles Blanc ' s letters on the Art Treasures Exhibition , where he is commenting upon the fallacy of the pre-Haphaelite theory pushed to extravagance , which will give our readers a good idea of the critie and the writer . Here it is :- — Chacun s'efforce d ' etre naif , inais comtne il est difficile de le devenir , au lieu d'etre ingenus , ils sout hitliscrets . Enfants terribles de Tart , ils ne savent ai rien sacrifier ni rien taire . De meme quo l ' ooil inexorable de l ' lnstrument photograpuique nous apporte des details cloigncs que nous ne lui demandions pas , de meine le peiatrc
anglais , croyant touto v ^ ritc" bonne a dire , nous choque par mille inconvenances , met toute choee Bur le mome plan , devientfaux b . force d ' etre -vrai , et , sous iiretexte qu'ila pules voir dans la nature , il offense notre pud « ur par tous les scandales de l ' e ' cailate et de routremer . Ainsi lVcole anglaise temoigne elle-meme contre son principe en nova faiaant voir d ' une naaniere c elatante que le jjeintre ne doit pas etre le perroquet do la . nature , xaah son truchement , et que si l'idcal peut conduire au factice et au poncif , le rdalisme mine droit u la photographic , e ' est-a-dire h , la negation meme do 1 ' arL
We need not suggest that Has criticism applies only to the weaker brothers of the-. prc-Raphaelite school . Of ilie painter of the ¦' Huguenot , ' and the ' Ordcrof Release , ' it may truly be said ( taking into account the aUqnando dormitat of all great artists and poets alike ) that in the marvellous career of lus still early manhood he has already in his own person traversed , so to speak , the entire field of the struggles ¦ and the victories of Art . If he began as a contemporary of Masaccio , lie has gone on to prove himself the legitimate successor of Rapiiakl and Leonardo . Whatever may be the fallacy of the theory which the feebler men are unable to shake ofl " , it is not to be denied that the influence and example of the school have left their mark upon English art in that thoroughness of workmanship , and Hint devoted , reverential , selfdenying conscientiousness of feeling which arc becoming every day more and more , the characteristics of the English school , although it is but a school of getUfff * and has few historical commissions from the State .
M. Liouis Viaimot, Well Known Liy His Ex...
M . liouis ViAimoT , well known liy his excellent History of the Arabs and JJlbors in Spain mid his artistic Guides , has just published a very curious little "volume , entitled , Lea Jcnuiles jugvs par Us Haiti , lea Hcequea ot le Pape , Kouvelh Hisloire de VExtinction d-e VOrdrc , ecrite snr les Document Originaux .
It cons ^ ts chiefly of extracts from an elaborate " History of the JReigu of Charles III . in Spam" by Dou Antonio BfcHMWja * . Ifcq , bat forms a com , plete and interesting narrative in itself . Whea yrc consider the immense ramifications , the ^ mgenuity , the subtlety , nay , the genius and the perseverance of the Jesuits , it is not surprising that they have until now succeeded in concealing the truth as to tlie most remarkable fact in their career . We should rather be astonished that since they < came up from underground' they have not attempted to destroy , or rather to falsify , the documents contained in the Archives of Simancas , > rarMch the Spanish historian has consulted with so
much fruit . M . Ferrer del Bio , it should be observed , is a fervent Catholic and a most loyal subject . He enumerates among the crimes of the Jesuits their resistance to lawful authority and their admission of Turks into heaven as well as Catholics . As M . Viabbot remarks , such an . objector speaks with mor « authority to true believers than to sceptics . The tendency of his revelations is to destroy a great many popular anecdotes , chiefly accredited by the Jesuits , and to give to the extinction of the Order its- true dignity and importance . We cannot say that we admire his style ? of composition , and for our pleasure would have rather seen the- materials melted into shape by M . Viahdot himself ; but the solemn testimony of Don Autonio Feiirer del Kio , so pious and so niu-ch in earnest , will probably have inoye : weight with the public .
M. Louis Blanc's Appeal Against The. Mar...
M . Louis Blanc ' s appeal against the . Marquis of Normanbt will probably excite more attention than the work of the noble Gossip . It will not be a mere refutation , but a disclosure of history as illustrated by the Year of Revolution . M . Louis Blanc tells of his visit to the prisoner of Ham in M-l , and of his relations with that distinguished foreigner m London . After the events of June , 1848 , M . Louis Blanc , proscribed and chased out of Fiance stayed a short time at an hotel in Jermyn-street . The very first visit of condolence from his friends was one from the present Emperor of the . French , who burst into the room—to say he walked would faintly describe his generous fervour—and , embnaciiig the expatriated member of the Provisional Government , exclaimed , " . ^/ v &* miserables ! Us vons out jproscritJ " M . Louis Blanc may be expected to publish , for the first time , a variety of similar reminiscences .
Fairytales. Four-And-Twextiy Fairy Tales...
FAIRYTALES . Four-and-Twextiy Fairy Tales , selected from those of Perrauit , and other Popular Writers . Translated , fcy J , K . Planch ^ . With . Illustrations "by .-Godwin , ' Corbould , and Harvey . Koutledge and Co . L ? there ever was a . writer whom the whole world of English juvenility ought to deify , and at whose shrine they sliould offer yearly sacrifices of eafces and oranges , it is Mr . Planehe . Not content " ( so in appeasable is his benevolence to the young-eyed generation ) with delighting crowds of happy holidaymakers at Christmas and Easter by his exquisite : extravaganzas * which sparkle with , airy wit , exhaustless animal spirits , and "buoyant fancy , he has of late put his claims to the gratitude of the young into more enduring forms , by translating those charming stories wLich have been the origin of his chief dramatic successes . Between two and three years ago , h © gave us a collection of Mauaiate d'Aulnoy ' s fair / - lege » ds ; and he . now issues a coHipanion volume , containing the analogous creations of Perrauit , the
Countess de Murat , Mademoiselle de la force , Mademoiselle de Luberfc , Madame de Villenenve v the Count deCaylus , & o . la these volumes > Airicb bod of fairy notion is presen t ed to the English public , by one whom nature aiul art seem to have specially endowed for this delicate and xadiaotfUagjree work . Mr . Planehe is deeply read in old Preach literature ; he is , a master of his own native English ; he has an intense sympathy with , th » world of enchantment , and particularly with that province which cosabiaea : tlwj wonders of ma » ic with the formal etiquette of' courts ; he has qualities of hi » own , kindred to those which he finds m the original stories ; and tbe bright stream of French blood running in his veins , from the Protestant ancestor who iled into England about the time when this species of literature was firet developing itself in Paris , has probably quickened and nourished the original tendency of his mind . In connexion with these actions , therefore * we have in Mr . Planchc emphatically the right man in the right place . Madume d'Aulnoy was one of tlie earliest , and perhaps the best ,, of these novelists— -for such they may be called ; but Perrauit and the other authors whose fictions have contributed to the work now before us were
worthy labourers in the same field , and some of their tales have acquired a European reputation . ' Blue Beard , ' f'jr instance , is the work of Perrauit . This azure-chinned Sepoy appears to have some connexion with a real person —one Gillcs dc Laval , Seigneur de llaiz , created Mardchal de France in 1429 . Air . Planche * , yyho appends some interesting notes to Ins volume , gives a few details of this Chevalier ' s life . Laval made himself famous by his defence of Orleans against the English ; yet he was a consummate knave , notwithstanding , and became so odioua in Britlany that he was tried , found
guilty , hanged , and burnt . But , inasmuch as he had exhibited some signs of repentance at the last ( extorted from him , probably , by fear ) , his body was taken out of the Hames , and buried in the chureh of the Carmelites at Nantes . He was a great libertine , and so extravagant that he never travelled without being accompanied by a great retinue of cooks , musicians , and dancers of both sexes , by packs of hounds , and two hundred saddle horses . His name ia a bugbear in JBrifctany to this day . It was Coleman the Younger , in his play on the subject , who first turned Blue Beard into a Turk .
Among the other talcs in th ' i 3 volume known of old to the rrurseiy and play-room are * The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood , ' Puss in Boots / ' Cinderella , ' ' liiquet with the Tuft , ' arul ' Beauty and the Beast . ' What memories and visions cling to those names I How we used to withdraw ourselves , with an abstraction now hardly possible , into those rich and golden lauds , those true El Dorados , those veritable Fortunate Islands and moro
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26121857/page/15/
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