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No. 301. Oct. 29,, 1859 j THE LEADEE. ¦ ...
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THE BYE-LANES AND DOWNS OF ENGLAND, with...
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? If Mpkd'u War In Hungary, vol. 1. p. 1...
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NEW NOVELS.
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THE NUT-BROWN MAIDS; or THE FIRST HOSIER...
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History Of The War Ix Hungary In 1848 An...
provoking a boundless enthusiasm amongst t troops . « ' - ' " The first and last wound of which the coi mander-in-chief of the Hungarian armies cou boast , preserved 'him his command . The chief his staff fomented a conspiracy among the cor manders of the corps , and the Governor ' s perem tory orders for Gorgey to resign , for the army march to the Lower Danube , and for Klapka to s to the execution of these orders , were as perem ] torily disobeyed . Klapka convoked a council war ,. where it was resolved that he should go Pesth and insist on the Governor cancelling h decrees . At the moment of his departure he r ceived another decree , by which lie was ordered 1 hasten the march of the army , ' while he liimse ¦ was desired to remain at Komorn , with 18 , 000 raei The hopeless demoralisation of the military leade : is most glaringly shown by Klapka ' s ingenuous cor fession , that this order ¦ * spurred him on to greatt speed , ' and that he immediately proceeded to Pesth , His mediation sufficed to shake the Governor ' s . r « solution , and it was agreed that Gorgey should re sign his office as secretary at war , the functions ( which he had never performed , and that he shoul remain with the army and retain its command , pro vided he acknowledged Meszaros as commander-in chief and promised obedience to his orders . On th return of the negotiator to Komorn , Gorgey pledge his word that he would obey the orders of the ne \ commander-in-chief . but he knew how to distinguisi between his promise and its performance . He wa again requested to march his troops to Pestli Instead of doing this , he assembled a council of wa and proposed to lead the arrny to Xrsike Balaton This plan was so thoroughly opposed to the real in terests of Hungary , that the generals , and especially Klapka and Nagy Sandor more than suspected hi : secret intentions . " It would serve no purpose to pursue this melancholy tale to " its conclusion . The various events are too fresh in the recollection of our readers The triumph of the Austrians was most cruelly carried out . Jixecutions for political crimes were frequent , anil were also accompanied in spine cases with manifest injustice . The Hungarian war had been provoked and fomented by the Austrian Go-. vernment ¦; it was carried to the last extreme , says M . Wenkstern , "by the obstinacy of that Government , andby Mr . Kossuth ' s ambition , sustained by the devotion of an unfortunate and long-suffering people , and hurried to its abrupt termination by the pusillanimity of its civil leaders , by the deliberate treachery of Gorgey , and by the selfseeking , the greed , and the envy of others . " Many , perhaps , will disagree with the author's estimate , but all will join in his indignation and regret of the infamous manner in which Austria ¦ was conducted to absolute dominion in Hungary . A change now is coming over the dream of nations ; and it may be that the hour is at hand when these and other wrongs may meet with redress . The tinie is full of warning and preparation ; scarcely a day passes , but some new phase of events is developed , and every such phase is an instalment of Che-debt ; which despotism owes , and must pay , to the cause of humanity . ¦
No. 301. Oct. 29,, 1859 J The Leadee. ¦ ...
No . 301 . Oct . 29 ,, 1859 j THE LEADEE . ¦ __ ____^ 1197
The Bye-Lanes And Downs Of England, With...
THE BYE-LANES AND DOWNS OF ENGLAND , with Turf Scenes uncl Characters . By Sylvauus . — Itlohnrd Bentley . This is the third edition of an amusing , and in some respects , a valuable work . 1 here are reasons , however , why it should not be dismissed in the usual summary manner , that is the natural lot of new editions in reviewing column ? . The mode of life that it describes may justly command attention , profitable , at all events , for reproof . We shall content ourselves with one pioture—of . that world , the knowledge of which appears to many so valuable . " Ono of the metropolitan corners to which tho West-end denizens of the parent nook in Fimlico resort in great force is Limmor ' s hotel , in Conduitstreet , where some heavy bye-play is done on tho few days , or rather nights , immediately preceding the Derby ; and whore tho long-room of tho hotel , the bar , and even " George ' s pantry" are crowded py nil sorts and conditions of men ; some lisping out « n abortive onth at thoir " infernal luck' * in not having backed the favourite } othors on the hovor , or crouching , ready for a spring , though apparently the most jolly , trustworthy , delightful set of fellows who oVer shared n magnum of claret , or essayed to shake n man ' s arm off . "Hither we repaired after a lute dinner , and rojoiced at meeting our amusing friend , O'JTay , at the
s in He red ° f" tne fner eef Lre ied ' lt ! is ion ¦ en ? l fc 1 in n < l he ; ss nd jr- S- on L ne a " re e 3 he doorway of the house , mellow as a nectarine in October , and , quite as delicious in the mouth . He n- was in cut-and-thrust humour , and hardly required Id interrogating before he pointed out the notables of - of the flash rendezvous , and gave us the cream of the n- news of the day . p- " 'Ah ! my rusticfriend , " exclaimed he , as I crossed to over the < s ' treet ; * en route for Epsom , and standing ee on Gaper , I suppose , as usual ? Plenty of gape-seed p- hereabouts ; but not safe to speak as well as stare , of I assure you . A pretty game is a-foot ! They tried to to burn Scott ' s stables at Leatherhead last . night ! is Cotherstone is ' potted , ' * . but will win ! Gaper is e- ' potted ; ' Old Charitie and the Atrocious Division to are upon an extreme old ' un . John Day has been If obliged to hedge 20 , 000 * . to 3 , 000 Z . with Lord George n . ( a tidy bet to make with an old servant * ) . They take rs six to four about Bowe ' s horse . Here ' s old Fatty l- inside . Two new hells open to-night . But come in r and see the fun . . * " Thus rattled on Q'Fay , and in we went . i- V The house was crammed with loungers and j- lookers-in , in addition to the few real inmates Of the > f hotel , and coffee-Toom habitues ; all more or less d speculators on the forthcoming race at Epsom , and i- endued with that dominant , if not rude and over-- bearing air , which so distinguishes every sporting- ' e man about town , who , no matter what his extraction J or propensities , has contrived , through the influence v of all-levelling betting , to insinuate himself into the ii ' Liminer Clique . 3 The entire details of the scene are most graphically presented . with personal hits , which are ' r highl y interesting ; but our limited space pre-. vents us from giving the whole series of portraits . r ¦ ; ¦ — ¦ i
? If Mpkd'u War In Hungary, Vol. 1. P. 1...
? If Mpkd ' u War In Hungary , vol . 1 . p . 150 .
New Novels.
NEW NOVELS .
The Nut-Brown Maids; Or The First Hosier...
THE NUT-BROWN MAIDS ; or THE FIRST HOSIER ! AND HIS HOSEN . A Family Chronicle of the IDays of Queen Elizabeth . —John \ V . Parker . ROCKS AND SHOAL . S . By Captain Lovesey . 2 vols . — . ' Charles "VTesterton . i BEMTLEY PRIORY . By Mra . Hastings Parker . 3 yols . Hurst and Blackett . SWORD AND GOW > . By the Author of " G-uy l ^ ivingston . "—John "W . Parker . ¦ ¦ ' > In " The Nut-Brown Maids" the reader will find genuine pictures of domestic life , at the time when Elizabeth was . in the prinie of her life and the height of her distinguished reign . Without subscribing to all the writer ' s opinions we cannot too liighly praise the manner in which he has . performed a very onerous task . The writer has portrayed , faithfully , the manners and customs of the people at the time of our history from which we date the life-blood , as it were , of our social progress , our drama , and religious principles . In Elizabeth ' s time the English nation first began to emerge from , a brutal and licentious life to feel that migbt was not ri g ht , and that moral force was far preferable to physical . But it is only in a passing notice that the writer speaks of the great names of the time— "Good Queen Bess ; " the Swan of Avon ; the bold and adventurous Drake ; the philosophic Raleigh and Bacon , the accomplished , Sir Philip Sydney ; the wayward Essex ; the , courtly Dudley , and a host of other names , all of which awaken in us mnnjr reflections , are names familiar in history and ' . fiction to all readers . The story opens with Queen Elizabeth paying a visit to Cambridge , wherein the performance of a drama her Majesty becomes interested in the food acting of Master William Lee " a distant in of our good friend and ' champion , Leo of Ditcliley , " whom she wishes to make one of her suite . Lee answers , ' . ' By your grace ' s leave , I say nay . I humbly thank you ; but I have no other nurse than Alma Mater , no arena save what her search after truth supplies . I should but disappoint your goodness , 1 crave your pardon , madam , but if I am to vindicate your gracious notice , I I must remain a scholar in the school of Cambridge . " With a token of esteem , Elizabeth leaves Master i Leo to pursue his studies , which he does with groat j success . But we are unable to follow him in these j or in his manner of courting the beautiful nnd 1 accomplished Cicely Yorko , the daughter of J Master Richard Yorke , whom he wins against the 1 rules of the University . He is expelled from the s scat of learning on account of his marriage , nnd c aftor passing through many troubles in inventing' r the Stocking-loom ,, he applies to Elizabeth for I assistaj || fe to carry out his design .. Of course , ho c did not apply in vain . Our version of * the talc is t 111 tie - Is . tt- iy ' d ie d it > t - - e e i , s t r t f f 3 . i , f j ; f . , :
very imperfect—not that by giving it more fully we should be afraid of spoiling the reader ' s interest in it , but because it is better that they should read : it at first hand for themselves , which we heartily recommend them to do—not for the tale only , but for the light the work throws on domestic life during tne reign of Elizabeth . To our readers ? notice we commit the " Nut-Brown Maids ; " it is well-written , beautifully printed ( there is something in reading a book nicely " got up" ) , and altogether it is one of the most pleasant stories that ever came under our notice . " Rocks and Shoals " is written in a free and burlesque style , and the work is just long enough to beguile away a winter evening . If Captain Lovesey is never profound , he is never dull— -if he is never very serious , he is never very sentimental ; and if he ^ is never witty , he is nearly always humorous . The story opens at the end of the last century , with the hero being packed off to school for witnessing some advances to his mother from a dashing officer of dragoons , with whom she elopes soon after , on finding that her husband has become reduced in circumstances . As his schooling ; cannot be paid for , G-eoflrey runs away from the establishment of Dr . Oglethorpe , to fight his way on the rocks and shoals of London . On his journey thither he falls in with a . strolling player , who gets all his money , leaving him to pursue his journey penniless . Luckily for him , he sees some robbers attacking the mail , gives the alarm and the thieves make off ; for which service the guard gives him a " lift" to London , and assistance when there , till he finds him a situation as clerk in the office of Messrs . Hawker and Dodgeley . Here he remains long enough to find out that they are scoundrels , but not before he has had several mishaps-, one of which is being on the point of marriage with a . widow , the landlad y of the Black Swan , when . her husband the ( picture of brutality ) walks in . from America , where he has been for seven years . Geoffrey has to make his exit , and soon . after he finds his employers trying to get possession of the property of one Ursula Walnisley—who has died , . leaving the property to the heir-at-law—by forging a will . As this good lady is Geoffrey ' s aunt ; he is the heir . Another heir-at-law turns up , but whether •;• Geoffrey is able to retain the property , we will leave our readers to find out . Those who are fond of a fiction written in a humorous strain and , that rattles along something like an express train , will get the volumes , and complete the story for themselves . " Bentley Priory" is a novel treating solely of fashionable life . Generally speaking , we are not partial to fashionable novels , and have tried to write them down ; but " Bentley Priory" comes to us not so much as a type of this school as a work depicting fashionable life as it is to-day . It has the advantage of being the only fashionable novel published , this season , at least the only one that has come under our notice . Taking Mrs . Hastings Parker ' s work as truthfully reflecting life among the upper ten thousand , we consider it a very meritorious work ; and those that wish to know how the nobility beguile away their time , should- consult " Bentley Priory . Speaking of the lovera when they are " settled , " the author says they were"Gifted in an eminent degroo with the glorious privilege of ministering- to the wants of others , rogarding tho advantages of rank and fortune only as talents committed to their keeping by Him to whom one day they must rondor an account of all * they wentpa . thoir way blessing Afid blest . What say you , readers ? Most of our readers arc familiar with ' / The Sword and Gown , " it having been originally published in Frasor ' t Magazine , nnd the progress of the story notiood as it appeared in that serial . J . ue writer is a person of groat talents , and has produced a fiction of no ordinary kind , but wo regret to seem it so much slang . Tho writer , w « should say , from his acquaintance with tho technicalities of military life , is a soldier familiar with tho turf and P . R . It is true that this is part of tho writers plan ot his story , and wo are willing to admit that ho has succeeded in his object ; but did ho ever reflect on what would bo tho feelings awakened m tho minds of his readers by the present work ? By delineating only one typo of lifo in the army and tho clorgy—nnd that the knave of one nnd tho looloi tho other- —tho writer hna performed an unnecessary task , as both have boon shown up boforo , though perhaps there is more truth in tho oha-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 29, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29101859/page/9/
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