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Decembeb 31, 1853.] THE .LEADER'- 1267
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Two Novels. Alderman Ralph': Or , The Hi...
© f the parish ? So In this , borough of WIHowacre we see heartburnings , Jealousies , intrigues , combinations , heroisms displayed as vividly as i £ instead < £ a quarrel about abridge , the story had moved through a quarrel of cabinets . Here the sfcfll of the author is tested . He makes us interested in his characters \ . we espouse their likingsand their hatreds ; we take sides in the quarrel ; we get anxious about the " Bridge-Deed ; " and we never pause to ask whether the story be worth telling because of its importance , assured as xtq are that it is worth listening to because of its interest .
From this novel , which might have been written in the last century , it is piquant to , fell upon the pages of something so thoroughly in the tone of 5 JJS 53 as Maud—the tone * we mean , of the library . There a young lady of 4 jha incomprise schoolj a young coquette of the purely unreal school , a young o-entleman who ? plunges into Grerman poetry upon the smallest provocation , 4 n elderly observant gentleman who loves meekly and in , silence , faint watercolour sketches all of originals familiar to the readers of fiction , are exhibited with a skill which carrier you throug h , the three volumes . You admire the . authoress more than her book , for the obvious marks of superiority she displays ; but you also read the book . You say , " I should like to talk to her better than to read her ; for the tone and talent shown in her book are better Chan the book itself : when she is inventing , she is not so clever as when she is reflecting . " However , it is something to get hold of a novel one can read , 4 Rpeciatty ' by one m our hardened condition .
Decembeb 31, 1853.] The .Leader'- 1267
Decembeb 31 , 1853 . ] THE . LEADER ' - 1267
A Treatise On The Law And Practice Relat...
A Treatise on the Law and Practice relating to Letters Patent for Inventions . By John Paxton Norman ^ Esq ., MJL , of the Inner Teraple . Botterworths * Amosxj a population so active and enterprising as our own , and at a period when these qualities are so stimulated by competition , the laws by which the property in inventions is regulated are of the highest importance . The principles upon which the system even now in force is based were enunciated by the Parhament which James I . summoned to Westminster on the 19 th 43 f February , 1623 . Suffering from the extortion of the " monopolists , " the Commons obtained the assent of the Crown and the Lords to their declaration , "that all grants of monopolies were contrary to law , except only under certain restrictions—letters patent for fourteen years or under , for any manner of new manufecture . " Frior to this , in the good old days of the
Tudors , monopolies of all kinds , including even articles of primnry importance , wer & granted by tiie Crown , to its favourites or instruments without restraint , and of " divine right j" even the staple commodities of leather , « oal , and iron , were only to be purchased of the farmers of the grantees at "famine prices" artificially produced . Until 1852 no material alterations ^ fbr Lord Brougham ' s valuable Acts of 1835 were additions only ) were engrafted on the statute of James I . ; but by the Patent Law Amendment Act of last year many alterations and some improvements were introduced . It is true that much remains to be done to put the Law of Patents for Inventions upon a sound footing , such as the exigencies of commerce _ and the rights of inventors demand . Grants are still insecure and expensive , and obtainable only after compliance with some unnecessary and some clumsy formalities . Still , steps have been taken in the right direction , and we trust that further advances will be made ere long .
Mr . N " orman has reiidered ' good service to all interoeiod in the-subject , and particularly to the practitioners in this department of the law , by the publication of hia Treatise , embodying the alterations made by the late Acty Nor is this its only merit ; for in a simple and unpretending , and yet in a clear and accurate manner , it instructs the reader in the various branches of the entire system—first elucidating the law regulating their grant and validity , and then explaining the mode of obtaining Letters Patent for Inventions , and the means by which the rights they confer are to be protected and extended .
Mr . Norman ' s work is not intended to displace from the library the more elaborate work of the author ' s able predecessor , William Matthewson Hindmarch ; but to the artisan it is a sufficient substitute for , and to the lawyer a necessary supplement to , that valuable book .
Books On Our Table. On Tlie Necessity Of...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . On tlie Necessity of Principles in Teaching Design , boing an Address . By U . Redgrave , R . A . - Chapman and Hall . Pantomime Budgets ; a Ttte-a-ttto between Sir John Barleycorn , and the Old Lady of llireadneedle Street . J- Cross and Son . 27 *< j Poetical Works of Robert Burns . ( The Universal Library . ) Nathaniel Cooko . Too Clever by Half ; or , tlie JIarroways . By The Moftissilito . Nathaniel Cooko . The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope . Vol . III . Nathaniel Cooko . ROckingham ; or . Tho Younger Brother . By the Author of Mectra . ( The Hallway Library . } ** . Routlodge and Co . Nad Myers ; or , a Life before the Mast . ( Bentloy ' s Railway Library . ) By J . Fenimoro Cooper . ' Itiohurd JJentloy . A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury . By John W . Colenao , B . I ) ., Bishop Designate of Natal . G - BolL Home Thoughts . Vol . I . Kenfc and Co - Customs , Reform : Report of City Committee . M . I . Itickerby . Young ' a Night Thoughts ; with Life , Critical Dissertation , and Explanatory Notes . By th « j Rer . G . Gilflllan . J- Niohof .
The Portrait Gallery . W . S . Orr and Co , Tait ' a Edinburgh Magazine . Partridge and Oakoy . Chambers ' m Edinburgh Journal . w - and K - Chambers . Chamber *' * Pocket Mi * cvllany . "W . and It . Chambers Chambers ' * Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts . ~ W . and It . Chambers Linny Lockwood ; a Novel . By C . Crowe . 2 vols . G . Routlodgo and Go . Struggles for Life ; or , the Autobiography cf a Dissenting Minister- W . and l' \ G . Cash . Tha Autobiography of William Jordan . Vol . IV . Arthur Hall , Virtuo , and Co . ¦ Justin , Cornelius Nepos , and JSutropius . TranHlatod by tho Itov . J . S . Watson . ( Bohn's Classical Library . ) ll - G . Bohn . Tlie Usurer ' s Daughter . By tho Rev . W . J . Scargill . Clarke , Beoton , and Co . Homo Pictures ; or , the Map < tf Life . By Mrs . M . A . Doninon . Clarko , Beoton , and Co . 2 ? ha C'JirUtian Mvoaminer . JohuChapman . 2 Wl > rizo Essays on Juvenile Delinquency . By N . Hill , Esq ., and O . V . Cornwallia . Smith , Wider , and Co . Swuvutr Sketches , and other Poems . By B . R . Parkos . John Chapman . Inscription * and Devices in the Beauchamp TowerTower of London . By W . R . J ) iek . . _
, - , . . r Jiamngo . The Private Letters of J 3 ir James Brooke , K . ( 7 . 7 / ., Mai ah of Sarawak , narrating the Jitomts of his Life from 1838 to the I ' rosontTime . liy J . C . Xonuplor , Ehc * . a vola . . R . Bontloy .
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages . itselt . —Goethe .
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It is no sound of laugh or jest , No burst of heedless mirth , That sends the Old Year to his rest , And greets the New Year ' s birth j Famine and War , those phantoms grim , The dying vigils share , . Their voices chant the natal hymn That hails the infant heir .
O new" born year ! we may not breathe Soft lullabies to thee ; No festive garlands may we wreathe To deck thine infancy : Thy lot it is , ill-fated son Of many an erring sire , Their sin and weakness to atone By penalties of fire . No cradle song of joy and peace May greet thy listening ear , For now on every Eastern breeze Gome sounds of strife and fear ; And as thine early boyhood playa Among the flowers of spring , Brighter will burn the battle ' s blaze , Louder the trumpet ring . And when the summer shall unfold Its blossoms fair to see , Each one some omen dark will hold Of dread calamity ; ITor thee the crimson of the rose The battle stain will wear , And the white lily will disclose The blanched cheek of despair . Thou wilt but hear the fall of tears In the thick autumn rain , And when the glancing sickle shears The ranks of golden grain , Before thy darkened gaze will rise A distant battle plain , Whereon that bloody harvest lies Which nations reap in pain . Yet may this hope a pale , faint glow Upon thy birthday cast , That from the scenes of war and woe , Through which thou shalt have passed , A brighter future may be wrung Por j'ears that follow thee , And Peace and Plenty chant the song : That greets their infancy . D
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CHRISTMAS WEEK AT THE THEATRES . Chbistmas is here ; and , to quote the brilliant distich of a poetic grocer , " The time again hath como For line Boast beef and Pudding of the plum . " Christmas without Pantomimes is a Pudding without plums : hence all the theatres burst into sudden g lory of tricks , tumblings , and transformations . The critic ' s office , never a sinecure , now becomes a pastime compared with which breaking stones on the Queen's highway would be luxurious , and reading Martin Farquhar Tupper a delight . O ye innocents who fancy " doing the theatres" is a gay and graceful office ! who know not how one has to fortify one ' s mind in contemplation of " forthcoming novelties !" Picture to yourselves the amount of preparatory erudition which is required from the critic when Managers rend Xiphilin !
Then again to write about Pantomimes requires a special erudition . Now as it may be safely assumed that when a mim haa written a history of any thing , he is ipso facto comprehensively ignorant of it , so I , having written a History of Pantomime ( as you , reader , know to your coat ) may legitimately be said to know nothing whatever of tho subject . Ergo , I * seek the assistance of a more impartial ignorance , Avhich I find in the person of my respected friend " Q in the corner . " To him I confide the Pantomimes of the IIaymabicjct , Fiunckss ' s , Sawmsb ' s Wklm , and Dbuby Lanjd . The last-named theatre proves what prophetic instinct our " Swan" possessed when he made the bad tragedian Macbeth tremble iu his kilt , fervently That B « rnum would not como to Drary Lane . Thepoet is certainla Vutcs .
y ,.,,. .. _ ™ . Tho Lycmum is a bad theatre for tho critic at Christmas . Things are done so exaspcratingly well there , that nothing varies the hackneyed praise but the power of " pitching into" Planche " . What is one to aay of Bevcrlov , I should like to know ? Hyperboles are not hyper enough ; and blame ia impossible . He has the secret of Fairy Land . He has taste as exquisite as his invention is oxhaustless . The groat round O of Giotto ia not round enough for admiration . In Once upon a time there were Two Kings , I will not say ho has surpassed himself , for a man cannot see the top of hia own head , but I will sav that if ho were not Beverley he would be Obcron . Moat of
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1853, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31121853/page/19/
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