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116 THE LEADER. ¦ ¦ .[No. 358, Saturday,
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A NEW ILLUSTRATED SHAKSPEARE. jRoutledge...
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Advice To Officers In" India. Advice To ...
battle and under fire . " Lord Raglan had enjoyed that experience , but it does not appear the medical profession have any great cause to canonize his lordship . It is , therefore , by no means certain that either of the other great commanders would have displayed any very fruitful gratitude in Teturn for the amputation of their limbs . Incidents of this nature usually leave unp leasant associations , and the skilful operator is regarded with almost less favour than the unseen enemy who inflicted the wound . However this may be , it is gratifying to learn that in the Hon . Company ' s service no surgeon , ¦ who knows his duty need be embarrassed by the dread of responsibility . "When the public stores are not available , he buys -what he wants , if he can , and his contingent bill , when forwarded through the proper channel , is paid . " The descriptions of the Indian , hill sanitaria are also both useful and interesting .
116 The Leader. ¦ ¦ .[No. 358, Saturday,
116 THE LEADER . ¦ ¦ . [ No . 358 , Saturday ,
A New Illustrated Shakspeare. Jroutledge...
A NEW ILLUSTRATED SHAKSPEARE . jRoutledge ' 8 Shakespeare . Edited by H . Staunton . Illustrated by John Gilbert , Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel . London : Routledge and Co . We have before us the first parts of a new illustrated Shakspeare . The Two Gentlemen of Verona and love's Labour ' s Lost—the latter not quite completed in Part II . —are the plays already put forth ; and from these we are enabled to form some judgment of the general character of the issue . And first , to speak of the illustrations ; for , without any disrespect to Mr . Howard Staunton , it is plain that the publishers rely mainly on the pictorial embellishments as the special recommendation of this particular edition . "We are rather ostentatiously informed that " no less than six thousand pounds " axe to be spent on the illustrations alone . About twenty are to be assigned to each part , and they are to farm " the most perfect G-allery of Shakspearean Portraiture ever yet produced . " These preliminary trumpet notes are rather injudicious . They have the effect of lowering our confidence in the
proportion in which they were designed to raise it ; and the money which the publishers guarantee to put into the pockets of the designer and engravers is no test of excellence . - The woodcuts in these parts , however , are really graceful and elegant ; containing dainty little bits of landscape C notably , the brigand ' s forest in The Two Gentlemen of Verona , and a wood scene in Love ' s Labour ' s Lost ) , several well-drawn human figures , an apparently careful reference to costume , and some quaintly fanciful tail-pieces . What we doubt is , whether Mr . Gilbert has sufficient knowledge of human character to give a' proper reflex of the marvellously varied world of Shakspeare ' s men and women ; and we must warn him to be careful lest he split on that rock which has proved the ruin of many previous illustrators of our great national poet— -the tendency to an exaggerated mannerism , suggestive of the foot-lights . We throw out these hints rather as suggestions than criticisms ; and we shallwatch with interest , and no doubt with pleasure , the artist's progress in his work .
The typography of this new edition is extremely beautiful , and apparently very correct . Mr . Staunton ' s notes are carefully and sensibly compiled ; and the text is not overlaid with comment—indeed , we could occasionally wish for a little more elucidation . There is something , however , unnecessarily punctilious in . the distribution of the editorial remarks into footnotes and notes at the end of each play ; the former , again , being divided into those which are referred to by the letters of the alphabet , and those which are indicated by stars , daggers , & c . We must also ., by the way , object to a suggestion thrown out by Mr . Staunton with respect to the concluding line of the celebrated description of the laughers in Love's Labour ' s Lost : ¦ — In this spleen ridiculous , appears , To check their folly , passion ' s solemn tears . Mr . Staunton " cannot help believing the line should run— To check their f olly ' s passion , & c . ' " ' But why ? Surely , the line as it stands is good sense in the first place , and fine poetry in the second . The edition is issued in Monthly Parts , at One Shilling each ; but would it not be as well to complete each play in a single part ?
The Wedding Guests. Tie Wedding Guests; ...
THE WEDDING GUESTS . Tie Wedding Guests ; or , The Happiness of Life : a Novel . By Mary C . Hume . 2 vols . J . W . Parker . Two groups occupy the foreground of Miss Hume ' s picture ; the one composed of Cissy and her bridesmaids , the other of the bridegroom and his friends . All these people become entangled , one with anofchor , by feelings of unchangeable affection , and there seems no human cause why Horace Bhould not marry Ida , Frank marry Florence , and Bernard many Helen . Frank , indeed , does marry Florence , but dies of consumption , somewhat hecticall y described by Miss Hurao . Then , Bernard ultimately does marry Helen , but the interval is full of abysmal looks , piercing glances shot from strange eyes , faces blanched by emotion , foreheads , cheeka , and necks crimsoned by confusion , doubt , agony , and death . And why ? Because Miss Hume , casting about for a reason why Helen should be so bewildered , and Bernard so miserable , has been so simple as to adopt the old conception—hereditary insanity . Why , wo could send to any country library for two or three novels , in which the hero gnaws his golden link oi
love in silence and secrecy , because his may be a lunatic ' s doom . Be f known , also , that Consumption , as a rivet in the machinery of a romance I thoroughly worn out . Nor can it be too emphatically said , that dissolution and ! frenzy—inarticulo and de lunatico—are very improper materials for the novelist to work with . It might be imagined that Miss Hume had gone through a course of death-bed studies , or taken photographs of the mentally afflicted'to judge by the slowly-traced story of Frank Littleton ' s decay , and the minute record of the half-maniacal comings and goings on Bernard Huntley ' s face But Miss Hume is easily relieved from such an imputation . A hundred volumes of fiction were at hand which she could consult for the diagnosis of insanity , and the development of consumptive disease . The only seri ous question affecting her book is , whether it be readable ? We warn such persons as may be tempted to try , that it is an unnaitigatedly painful and disagreeable book , with just a simmering sort of interest , spoiled by an incessant cross-fire of dialogue . In the last chapter , the morbid Huntley and his magnanimous wife vanish into obscurity . They have been enjoying themselves ; nothing is said about any illness ; Huntley tells Helen a dream of garlands and perfume , and radiant little girls and boys : —
" Bernard ! " exclaimed Helen , wlio had long been listening with more and more rapt attention , and now started forward with clasped hands outstretched trembling towards him ; " Bernard ! Florence is gone !*' " Home !" ¦ returned Mr . Huntley , in a low , soothing voice , bending forward to support his wife in his arms , as fearing the possible effects of agitation on her frame . " Yes , home ! " murmured Helen , laying her cheek to her husband ' s , while the bright tears fell from her eyes like rain . " Home , God bless her !" " God has blessed her ! " was the earnest rejoinder . " Finis" follows ; and what are we to understand by it ? Miss Hume writes in sympathetic ink , and unless the reader be intense enough , he may have a difficulty about her meaning .
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Katherine And Petruchio On Horseback. Th...
KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO ON HORSEBACK . The Astiex ' s management is setting a strange fashion in Shakspeauean revivals . We have heard a good deal , in theatrical slang , of a new production of Macbeth , Richard the Third , or -what not , being ' well mounted ; '' but in the Westminster Bridge-road the epithet indicates an absolute fact . Nay , we might aver that this is the only house in London for high tragedy and comedy , since the actors and actresses address the audience from an equine altitude not hitherto attained at any other establishment . These centaur-like performersthese 'half horsy ' people—are charging into all our old pedestrian notions of ' the legitimate' at a hand gallop ; they are making a veritable Balaklava onslaught , only with greater success . Mir . Kean , and other painful peregrinators on shoe leather , -will speedily be obliged to knock under before this gallant
company of histrionic cavaliers ; and , unless Mr . Phelps consent to ' witch ' Islington and Pentonville by some ' nolle horsemanship , ' we foresee that the denizens of those localities will shortly emigrate to Lambeth . The late Lord George Bentinck himself had clearly nothing like so stable a mind as Mr . Cookb , —the gentleman on to whose shoulders has descended the classic mantle of Docrow , and who , had he lived in the days of Plato , and set up a seminary in the groves of Academia , would not have' taught his pupils while "walking , Irut while riding—inculcating the whole duties of man in a series of hippodramatic scenes . There is no saying to what extent Astx . e *' s may not revolutionize tlie stage ; and we therefore advise all our dramatic writers to illuminate their knowledge of the unities by some acquaintance with the mysteries of the manege- It is possible that the days of the peripatetic school of the drama are numbered . .
These few remarks—in which we merely profess to have cantered lightly over a very wide course—have been suggested by the production on Monday evening at Astletc ' s of Katherine and Petruchio on horseback . We have not yet witnessed it , but promise ourselves great pleasure whenever we do . For the piesent , however , we cannot help indulging in a few anticipatory remarks . Of couise we are introduced to that marriage horse of Petruchid'a , to vivaciously described by Biondello as " hipped with an eld mothy saddle , the stirrups of no kindred : besides , possessed with the glanders , and like to mose in the chine ; troubled with the lampass , infected with the fashions , full of windgalis , sped with spavins , raied with the yellows , past cure of tne fives , stark spoiled with the staggers , begnawnwith the bots , swayed in the back , and ehoulder-shottcn ; ne ' er logged
before , and with a half-checked bit , and a head-stall of sheep ' s leather , which , being restrained , to keep him from stumbling , hath been often burst , and now repaired with knots , & c . " We trust the management lias searched through all the knackers' yards and cab-stands of London , to find a steed which sliall combine in his one person this astounding complication of all tho ills that hoiseflesh is heir to . Likewise , we take it for granted that the equine incident recorded by Grumio—the lamentablo fall from her horse of Katherine when descending " a foul hill , " the running away of the beasts , the bursting of the bridles , and the loss of Grumid ' s crupper—will be introduced bodily for the delectation of the audience . If all this be carefully carried out , let Mr . Kean look to his laurels , and give place next year at Windsor Castle to . Mr . Cooke .
A Family Of Howards—Not Belonging To The...
A family of Howards—not belonging to the Ducal house of Norfolk , but to democratic America—have been performing at the Maiivlebonje this week in a new version of Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , in which a little girl ( JMiss Cohdklia Howard ) performs the character of Eva , and her father and mother thoso of St . Clair and Topsy . The exhibition is wild and peculiar ; and , Mr . Emcebv may claim to have introduced a novelty to London audiences .
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vcyors iiud builders—Thomas Lane , Into of Birmingham , now of WiLton-lodKO , New-road , Hammersmith , janannor — James Wootxox , Oxford-street ; , Leicester , builder—itiiciiAiiu ]) avib , Onru id ' , Glamorgan , ship broker and commission agent — I ' limnutioic JLaavson JIanks , Bhefllold , common brewer—Hjdwaud Von Daduj . skun , Liverpool , niotal broker—JouwCIlaiwi'onk , Liverpool , iioufouudor and ship nml anchor smith—Wiiixakkh Himcy , Manchester , calico printer—William IIidltsy Oakii and Henry tfiumKiuoic Scott , Wallnend , Northumberland , iron mat ' iunurturors and coko bumuru—Titos . JLaidlkk , Jurrow , Durham , coke humor . SOOTOlI BliQUKfJTltATION . —Jaaieb OAtuim , Brochhi , draper . Friday , January 30 . i ^ NKIUJPTOY ANNULLED .-Joiin BAH / KY . of Oalccn-SY-i 5 ri ? y ™ -lG-M « ors , Lancashire , cotton manufacturer . BANIiU . Ul > TS , ~ G ) KOiiOi 5 GitooM , Norwich , boot and nhoo
WHOM . THE LO N DON GA Z ETTE . Tuesday , January 27 . JtA-NKRUPTCY ANNULLED . — Husky Eiuianni Fl # fi ? i ? £ fti ? ftc 1 Rc < i k * - ^* ^ . Holl ) ofti , Hour merchant . BANKRUPTS . —Josispu Low . , Hroad-street-buildinga , City merchant ami counniHsion aRcnt-MAXiMiUAN Low 40 , Broad-atrcct-buildniBs , City , merchant and commission agont-AViLMAM Wiiitk . Ntnv Crane-mill . Shadwell , miller —• John Atkinson , Queon's-gardons and Wcatbourno-grovo Bayswator . bin dor -- John OcnaE , 4 * . UaHhiKliall-stveot ! City , dealer in X ' ronoh china and jewellery— . Town Bunxon Ooofkr and Hrney Bunton Coopru , r > , Uontloy-pluco . Kingaland-rood , Middlesex , pawnbroker—Anduew Phuiars , Houao or Commons-inn , Cambridge , licensed victualler—Thomas Cook , Vliorpo-lo-Sokon , Essex , boot and shoo mttkor-JAMKa Ma-iixin and Edwin Maukwiok , Upper Nortli-strcot , and Itound-hLU-nark , Brighton , uur-
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factor—James Pki , l , Liverpool , tea dealer—John Jones , Proaton , tailor—William . Dona and Jount SjKBWOff , -Ncwcastle-upoti-Tyne , timber merchants—EmvAitu Cnow'Titi'ii . Manchester , merchant and commission a ^ ont — ¦! amiio Butcher , Church-strcot , llncknoy , licensed victim Her John Adoh Pishvanouin , Union-court , Old Uroiul-stree * , merchant—William Woods , Unioit-slrcut , South-warn , hook and eye manufacturer—William Wjiitk , Now Crano Mill , Bhadwull , miller— Ki / eanou Poutjiu , Nowiiinrjcei , Suffolk , Krocor—Joseimi Thomab Lawhknck , . Sho reiliicn , uphnlMtorcr — CSkokoh ISaskervajm . k , ' falk-on-tlic-iiui , StaiJTordHhiro , innlccopor—William IJuut , Saint ( stovtus by Launcoaton , Cornwall , builder .
Births, Marriages, Anj) Deaths. Births. ...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , ANJ ) DEATHS . BIRTHS . ,, „ ,,, ADAMS . —On tho i ) th iust ., atItowncy Mundcn , Mrs . o » mutl AdauiH . prematurely : twin hoiih . stillborn .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1857, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31011857/page/20/
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