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An Indian Widow's Stout. A Lady's Escape...
En . a small * dirty , low * whitewashed room m a shabby little house in a back street :- ~ "I afterwards lieard that the king and queen did not live on very good terms . She said that he would still consider himself a king , and when she sent for things from the bazaar he pronounced them not good enough for him , and that he would riot smoke the tobacco when it came , because he did not consider it nice enough . He complained that she had plenty of concealed money and jewels ^ which she would not sacrifice to-. his comforts I so that Mr . Ommaney was obliged to allow him four annas a day , —about sixpence . " . _ .. _ . . .
Verily aiid indeed has the house of Tiniur come to grief . " Foui- annas a day , —about sixpence , " for table money , and never an ounce of tobacco to his likinff . One is tempted to think it just as well Major Hodson came across the old gentleman under circumstances which compelled the preservation of his worthless life . On the vexed " mutilation" question . Mrs . Coopland speaks in such a very positive manner that we give her testimony , for what it is worth , in her own words : ¦
" Dr . James and his wife stayed a few days with the Kirkes . Poor things !—they were shortly , afterwards killed in the mutiny at Sepree , in a very shocking way . I could relate many horrible things that happened to people whom I knew , and describe how they were killed , but I wish to spare the feelings of their friends at home . This I know , from authentic sources , that people were mutilated in the most frightful manner ; a friend of mine saw two ladies in Calcutta who had had their noses and ears cut Off . These facts are doubted by many people in England . "
Stroiis words , but the facts in darkness as before . - " Friends of mine , " and " authentic sources , " just the authorities that the anti-mutilationists term twaddlers , and worse . We are not—be it observed—contradicting our authoress ( though we hold a roving commission from "high authentic authority'' to challenge all comers ) ; because , though a witness , according to the opening of the above passage , she does but dwindle into a retailer at its close . " Oh , for a real witness!— -only one . A real credible soul with eyes that have seen , _ arid a tongue that will tell . We have long waited his comino- but , so far , in vain .
The pen and ink sketches of Indian hill scenery in the . " Journey Homeward" chapter are most captivating , and are a charming relief after the more exciting detail of the pages that precede it . A s a la d ies'book this work -will command much notice aniong the reading part of the fair sex , and , we may safely add , that none who take'it up will fail to admire , as well as sympathise with , the Indian widow .
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ess great care , a c fail to deeply interest the readers of either gender . Not less ably drawn are the characters of Lord Grlencarrig . and his mother . There is a touch of folly , it is true , when Lord Glencarrig is first introduced ^ that hardly harmonises with his character , as afterwards described . This same Grlencarrig has always considered himself Alice ' s lover from childhood ; his Own words will best convey to the reader the depths of his passion , and will give some idea of the writers power of writing a pathetic scene , " WTio ever grew up with my very life , grafted in my very soul ; who wandered with me through my happy childhood , hand-in-hand , an Eden of innocent delights , a heaven of joys unvalued then , 'but of which the far-vanished memory but __
is my ideal of all earthly bliss ? Who A _ Uce ever sat in my arms , or lay at my breast , when infants both we dreamed away our cloudless days in'the sunny . fields , and in the stately forests of that home which will be a desert unless you share it ? Who was my good angel , my guiding star , whose pure radiance kept me from ought that could make me blush to meet her again ; when yet a child I left her to render myself more worthy of her—for , Alice , you surely loved nie then!—and the hope of your praise was dearer to me than mother ' s praise and sister ' s kisses ? I came home to seek them , to bask in them- —home to my Paradise to find its Eve gonej ; and I tasted then , on the threshold of niy manhood , all the bitterness of a man ' s first grief . "
THE LAST OF THE CAVxVLIERS . The Last vj the Cavaliers , In 3 vols . Richard Bentley . " The Last of the Cavaliers" is a novel of more than average merit , and argues well for the writer ' s fixture efforts . It belongs to a class of productions of which Sir Walter Scott was the founder . The characters are most of them well known in history , and are reproduced ' -by a genial hand , and one that is well acquainted with the persons and times of which the author writes . There are some exaggerations , however , in tho imaginary characters that
should be noticed . * Take , for instance , the puritanical Norman ' Scott , the brother of tho charming little Alice ; if he is to be taken as the type of the class , we do not agree to the conclusion at which the writer arrives . There were good men among tho Puritans , stovn and bigoted as we know them to havo beon . Were there not more good men among them than among any other sect that predominated at tho time ? " The Last of tho Cavaliers" ia no less a personacro than the " Bonnie Dundee , " known , eonago man me ¦• joonmu jl / uuuuu , ruuwu ,
perhaps , as well by his former name , Graham of CJlayerhouse , whose character is struck off with some skill and great boldness . There is plenty of materials in the life of Olaverhouso for the novelist ; ho was honourable to a fault , while his courage , abilities , and noble truthfulness commands the respeot from all those that despise the causa to which he devoted himself . Alioo Soott is a boautWul creation ; she is tho very opposite in every way to the hard Claverhouse , whoso very strength makes AHoo ' b weakness tho more palpable . 1 his part of the talo , and Alioe ' s untimely end , is conceived and earned out by the—shall wo say
We will not mar the reader ' s interest with any further detail of the plot , and shall only say , in conclusion , that the style is good , and , on the whole * we have been more pleased with the perusal Of the " Last of the Cavaliers , " than any historical novel for some time past , and shall look forward with some interest for the next work from the same pen . ; - .
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6 . Tracheotomy should be resorted to in the second or-third stage of croupal diphtheria , ; leeching , blistering , and . bleeding should always be avoided . 7 . Preventive measures should Include daily examination of the throat where the epidemic type presides , and the isolation , of the patient as soon as attacked . We have given these details at length , because there can be few of our readers who have not felt anxiety for knowledge on the subject and secondly , to help the author as we mayy to the public recognition of his services in the matter . R 'T ' T'ioTiAft'JinTn'xr aVir » iil « 1 \\ o nauAwi-nJ x _ .- %
widely ramified influence of The Lancet was of course , at his disposal , and information poured in on the " commissioner" from all quarters . Major Graham ( the Registrar-General of Deaths ) , Dr . W . Farr the well-known and . zealous member of the same department , and Mr . Stephen Hammick , their colleague , afforded great and liberal facility for search aniong the data under their control ; and the personal study of the author in London medical institutions formed the complement to his
suffi-DIPHTHERIA . On Diphtheria ; its History , Progress , Symptoms , Treatment , and Prevention . By Ernest Hart , Surgeon to the West London Hospital , & c . & c . [ Jteprinted from the Lancet . ' } In selecting Mr . Hart to investigate diphtheria ; and , for the benefit of the country and the faculty alike , to rend the veil of mystery which shrouded that destructive and apparently new complaint , the proprietors of pur - contemporary were well advised . A more eminent 'member of the " rising " rank in the profession , a more able writer they could not well have pitched upon ; and well , it seems to us , he has performed his task . The
ciency . The result is a pamphlet of some five and thirty pages , in which the history of the complaint and the author ' s deductions from the mass of facts ho collected , are lucidly and satisfactorily sot forth . The high antiquity of diphtheria has been already shown in these columns , and we should but puzzle ourselves , and possibly mislead the reader , did wo attempt to . follow the author in his purely scientific disquisition ! upon the . nature , cause , diagnosis , and treatment or the comp laint His main conclusions seem to
be—1 . That three distuiot forms of diphtheria angina , or , more briefly , of diphtheria have provailod in this country , namely : the simple , the croupal , and the malignant . . Of these the first is the mildest and the most frequent ; the second has been numerically the most fatal , being more frequent in children than in adults ; and tlio third has impressed medical observers most strongly with the active and fatal character of the diphtheric poison . 2 . That the disease is specific . 3 . It is often oonfounded with scarlatinal angina . 4 . It is propagated by infection and by contagion .
5 . The treatment should include the local application of a solution of nitrate of silver , Boaufoy ' n olilorido of sodium or hydrochloric acid , and tho internal exhibition of emetics in the onrly Btago of the oroupal variety , and tho tincture of sosqui-ohlorWo of iron , with chlorate of potash .
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WOODLEIGH . Woodleigh . By the Author of " One and Twenty . " In 3 vols . London : Hurst and Blacketfc . Woodleigh is a good novel , and one that will be read with interest not merely for the story—the interest of which is admirably kept up to the last — --but for the knowledge of human nature and lifelike characters it contains , with the sound common sense that is so deficient in most novels , but which is one of the especial attractions of the author of " The Wildflower . " There is no high flo \ m description of beautiful heroes and heroines ; the characters are all poor earthly mortals , as plain as people one meets in every day life , and painted with all their imperfections oh their heads , as a waminir to others with the same faults—as novel
characters should be . Robert Woodleigh , the hero , is a youth given to have the last word with his seniors * is not particularly civil , breaks windows , lights witli all the neighbours' children that want "to bounce over him , " fought twice witli the squire ' s son ' and once gave him a black eye that " he might be proud " of , but-was . ' never a bad boy , —who can say he was ? The character of Mr . Markiiigham , Avho assumes the philosopher in distress , but who throws . off the mask in affluence , is , 2 " > erliaps , the most ably drawn portrait in the book . There are plenty of Markinghams in the world , and , let them sink to the greatest poverty , they are always gentlemen— -some are rather troublesome !
Mr . Bowden , the bigoted Wesleyan Methodist , is another good character ; but there is not the truth , we think , about him that there is in the sketch of Markingham , Men very , seldom alter their opinions after they turn thirty . His horror of works of fiction is true of the class and sect to which he belongs ; but it semis very unnatural that , because his daughter writes a good novel , he novels
should alter his opinion of m general . Richard Woodleigh is a complete vagabond . ; his selfishness amounts almost to madness ; be never bestows a thought on his poor simple mother , wno dotes on bun , as mothers generally do the blacJc sheep of the , family . Very dim-rent is Tom Arrow . Tom is the very picture of ai goodhatured . tool , possessing a few peculiarities , and nnc oi them is doing compound addition best while singing a comic song . , . , .... , „„/¦ novel to bo read
Woodleigh is not a ana thrown aside ; it will be found quite as interesting in the second perusal . There is a quiet vomol satire running through the work that is at onpc pleasing and amusing . The author possesses two excellent qualities requisite for tho novelist , namely , —a great knowledge of character and the nrtol tellinga story par excellence , and these qualities ho l »« drawn on very freely for materials in - » oouloigh . " '
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Love ^ w Little , Leva me Long . B ^ Charlos ^ IteadC . TKi 8 te onb of the slightest of Mr . Koiulo '« r ^ ductions . With all bis peculiarities o fOK . ^ wants the constructive power oi some ol' >' W ^ works . A beautiful , refined , nml ac « oi p lwhea girl , Lucy Fountain , is loft to tho Jo' ^ e ^ S ^ f of a married and an unmarried uncle . U « o wile w tho married undo schemes to unite her » tc ° ™ a banker ' s « on ; tho unmarried undo u « e * l " JJ portunities to got his niece aU . cd to a wot y » n amlablo
of ^ K rac ^ . uiytlu ^ l ^ an cb-jjt-g A stalwart , handsome , fuldo-p ^ f J ^ £ an Indiaman , takes the wind of the siuIh o « rival candidates for Lucy fountains li wmj Lucy at first refuses the sailor , tho'ig li %$£ struck with liia fine person and manly H ™ 111 ^ Like all well-educated , shrewd ymwa ' ¦<« ' rightly estimates tho contrast wlilc ' lu-i '« f t 0 tlon in society nud that of the sailors « IIv"W
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30041859/page/14/
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