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~ —~ " LITERARY _NOTES ETC _^ ' ~ mHE delightful stories . « Scenes , of Clerical Life , " ± and "Adam Bede , " have been made the sub- I ject of what we can only designate a Tery impudent attempt at deception—indeed a stronger term , con- » sideringall the circumstances of the case , might not inappropriately be applied . Messrs . Black wood have found it necessary to write to a contemporary to the effect that " those works are not written by . Mr . _tiggins , or by any one with a name like Iiiggins ; and if any person is receiving charitable contribu- tions on the ground of being the author of the said works he is doing so under false pretences . " They add that the author is known to them , and subjoin a note from " George Eliot , " who says "it is themore painful to me that Mr . Liggins , or any one else should be receiving charitable donations on the ground that your treatment of me has not been sum- ciently liberal , because I , for my part , can only wish that every author had equal reason to be satisfied with his publisher . If those benevolent persons who persist in attributing the authorship of the works in question to Mr . Liggins will induce Mr . _Ligcrins to write one chapter of a story , that chapter may possibly do what my denial has failed to do " The obituary of the week contains the name of a gentleman well known _andgreatly esteemed in the literary world , Mr . Charles Oilier . From the Daily News we quote the following brief account of his career :- " Those who are _acquainted with the ' literature of forty years ago will learn with regret ¦ the death of Mr . Oilier , the original publisher of all Shellev ' s noems with the _execution of « Alastnr'Vnri ft _^ _-hKS works nf P _tho _« L S £ _» _i _KeltsSSs " of _several of the writ _L o ? T _Lh Hunt '; o P f the _clSid _£ ion o _? _Ss ° _l _% _g \ and of many other productions of celebrity . Mr Oilier was the friend of all those celebrated men , for whom he acted as their business agent ; and has been the means of introducing to the public many remarkable writers of a later day ., He was also lnmself an author of unusual powers , though an _^ Su _^ _ii _ss ? _i f a ? _a ! _i _^^ . _^ Z _£ l _™™^ _K Siv _vtnZrS _^ _•« o ¦ ¦ ; _' _% Z _^^^^ _fJ _^^^ _fi _^ _, _^^™? 1 _?* ' _^ V _^^ _l _^^^^^ _^ t _^ ; » - _™? a " w _^ l ln Z " ftr _^ 1 _! _^ nfl , _^ _^ . _/ i S ? le i _eyr _Ji f _. '„ : _, n ? _kh 1 1 ? 5 and his fine _Snf P rn _" w « i _AlXnS S ? ti " WCr _f _i _?? ZVn _S _™ } Sunday at the age of S _to ! t " "„! n * . _„ _„„*•„*> _+ _i _„ _A _^ _n _* . _* _tvt - _« r _^ _tS _^ nf % n ° t _? 2 _£ f nil nn t ™? _SLtw _^ _ni _S nVj _^ _fminKU . *\« Z V * % _^ u _^ distinguished for his amiable disposition as for his 1 _Si _^ J J _??? in n _£ l T _«« _nf _^ ' _^ _V sus" _^ _ffnK _^ Vin _SiS _™! i i * ° U f r great water-colour landscape painter ; he had at- _-ri , ! _rl ! , , _r- , ' _^«» n ,, _nrn . _4 _Uf c _, ¦ ffl The Literary Gazette announces that a scientific f « n t d _J S T _^ n r _^ _i _^ nT T _^ ¦ _'^ _SM & * lttll }* rV }* n _^ H _» _fe _^ n a _^ 5 «/ l » t ffJ _™^ , 5 C ° 8 eratiO " ° f A _?!& £ rlS ? Tovrtt _^ _llZTzYlZirie Nouvelle _^ J _^? _n _^ _St _^ _Soi _^^ S _^ _? fc _&^ a _» _£ - _? q ' f ar ? T Pge ! ° J > P ° e A tx 7 ' _by ¥ Mt : r _^ ' _*! _£ _" _£ S _° ? LlJl _ffi n « _° IT 6 ™ h _f _*™*™ se prepare en Italic . 1 ' The prospectus dwells _particu- larly on the fact that the muse of M . Mcry will _ft t bo of m _? P n !' ed h < k _? % _, 1 ? V _Z , hli ° St "« S fl ' - m the seat of war . 1 he _ llrst number or " Premier Chantrot this poetical _pmodicnl , entitled "Napoleon _enItuUe . " _tpjwjji on _baturdaylast J _*' r J Ol _? , ? LT n _^!^ _Fn _^ _wfiiRninnT 1 _?^! 8 _* " accountof his lato visit to the _Pluljppme Islands , in her Majesty s steamer _Magicienne , with special reference to the ports of _fcaraboango , _Iloilo , and Saul , which lmvo lately been opened to foreign conirocrco . JLIFE _ANDLIUBUTV IN _AMKItlOA , OR , BKRTCHJCS OF A TOUIMS TJJM _USraiCD HTATJBa _AJ DCAN- ADA , ii » l 8 _W-8 . Uy ClmrloH _Mackny , I / L . l ) ., F . S _. A . in « volfl ., with Ten HlHStrntlonH .-Smith , Kldcr _. and Co . Tub departure of Dr . Mackay , the popular , poet , for the United States in _1807 , and the reports that were rocuivud of his progress , and his reception us a lecturer on song-writers , himself ono of the most ominout of his day , were topics of consider- able interest at the L , Wveturn a _!« o , was _wolooino both to _hwirioncls and tho public , ltwns to bo expected that he would take noto . of what he _witnoHsed on hi _« tour ; ny and print them too . And here we indeed have tliom , choicely printed ,. . in two voluuioi * , lavishly illustrated with ten tinted ongravhi « _s . Dr . Mackay _Ihvh looked on the United Ktutos will * his own oyefi , and has formed his I
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I opinion _of them from personal inspection . He went out with a _favoura"ble impression of tlie people , and returned with a better . America has in him an intelligent observer , and a friendly judge _, Dr . Mackay does not _app > ear in these _pao-es as a painter of character , a popular descriptionfst _, or a oaniinns trarplW Vnit as a _nnlitioinn xchn woo _* 3 icitous to understand the S _5 _WriJan 2 _?*^ ,, ¦ w » 2 T , 2 So r _HifV _^ _» nstitutaonai . He says much ofthem little of him- _? elf , and little of individuals with whom he came into contact . But he treats at large of things and customs and celebrated scenery , and the progress of society . He is full of details , however , of the voyage out , and the effect on shipboard of the storm which met ttem on their passage ; and spares not , when he arrives at New York , to condemn the late Rev . Sydney Smith for describing Broadway as interior to Rond-strppt He contends for its sUDerfor _Jv " Bond street ' a uotha _? " he ex _^ y ' _oncl-street . quotha . he ex- _« _?~ ¦ . _± * . ' _j * t > _j "Bond-street is no more to be compared to Broad- Wl _¥ for beauty , extent , life , bustle , and wealth , than * din _jp old farthin _£ of t ] "f reign of George III ., to a _bright new sovereign of the days of Queen Victoria There . 1 S no street m London that can be declared _f _^ P 6 _" 01 * or eve _? equal , all things considered , to _^ TO _? Ji _™ a y- It is a street _to » oenerw , _OTmbming in ltf _^ the characteristics _^ of the ( Boulevard des Itahens at Paris , and of Uieapside or ± leet-street in London , Z _^ h _¥ re and 1 * _5 ere a dasl ? of Whitechapel or the Ml i 1 ° _^ ie l _, ; - and h . ei ? and there a dash of Liverpool a _? d Dubll . n _% . Jt x * lon _? er > mo , re crowded and fuller ? f fin _® bu , l Idin S s _^ _f- n the Boulevard des Itahens ; it _^ _' _^ _Svf _' if _^^ _tM _^ _X rt _^ _Sb ? _SiS'KLurSlS wS _^ _tnoife- _"s aspect is thorougmy l arismn . \ V ere it not lor the old famihar names of Smith , Jones , and Brown over the doors of tie stores and warehouses , and the En _^ sh _placards _and _advertisementsthateve _^ where _^ «> e < _V % _^ s _^^ _|»^ _^<* him selfunder * he _^ a _^ sed goyernment and iron _^ _grip of Napo- _? eon X _" - _inst ead of ., being under that of the minim- ised and mild sovernnient of an American republic ~ a government so mfinitesimally light in its weight _^ carried on by persons _jo _^ _httle Jmown ihat _^^^ doner is of the name of the High Sheriff of Flintsliire orof the Lord Lieutenant of Merioneth . " England has given names to the people in Broad- way , but France and Continental Europe seem to ila _/ e ' given them their manners . _Flagstafts on the roof of every third or fourth house , banners flaunt- ing fr 6 m tlfe wiadowg > a constant rat-tat-too of drums as detachments of the militia regiments ( and _™ y fine regiments they are , and very splendidly accoutred ) pass to and fro , all add to the illusion ; and it is _JJ the veu . kno _^ n vernacular of the city of St . Paul ' s , spiced occasionally with the still tnoro P iquant vernacular of the city of St . Patrick ' s , that _^ ngs the cheat ( _j d fancy bac _- k to the reality , and proves to the _Englishman that _^ he is among his own i _, eopie . b " Were there anything like un i formity in the design of _itslong lines of buildings , Broadway would J ? _^ woHd t _X _^ £ ? hoS M _« _nS _^ dilS ? B for _^ chmln b _^ e _^^ _I h _^^ th _^ _SKT _inhs details , surpasses any single street that Eng- iand oir the British _Isleacan show . From th _« Bat- t _fJ the sen , where Broadway has a very _igZblT _^ mmSJ _^ _M , _Z'I _^ tyC _^ wch , there is "othtaff rcnSabl " about it , buV from Trinity Church , of brown _stono with its elegant spire , to _^ _JJJ Church ? built ent rdv of white marble , a lis _~ t _^ J _tai _^^ _SiWneartythrSi miles , and tlie » CG ° " to * Union-squaro and the statue of WftHhington Broadway oflors ono grand succession of commercial pniacos . Formerly—and perhaps wh n Sydney _^ mlth wr _oto—the houses _M-ero for tho mostl ) ftrtof brick gaily coloured , with horo and there ri house of brown stone or granite . But the briek is in gradual process of extirpation ; and white _JJUblo—pure fflittorinff , brilliant ! witliout spook or _Zlr-i * _EIpTdly _^ taking fts plac ? ' Tho St . _SKoholas Hotel , ono of the most sumptuous buildings in Now York , is a palaco of white marble , with upwards of ono hundred windows fronting Broadway . To the right , and to the loft , and in front , arc other palaces of the same material , pure as Parian—larger than the _largoHt warehouse in St . Pttul ' _s-churchyard , and dovotol to the sttmo or similar purposes , some tor _« _%£ _*» ? _£ _} good ' ° of ffo _^ _Wto _^ "SlS _™* l * ° ; ., _;^ h ° , t . " ° t i" _, _« o of this oostlv stono SJ _^ di ! , « boon ° , uul i 8 ° tho ° rago for _° S tt ° n fow yettrB ) , oncoa houso of any othor material than marbi 0 , granite , or iron will _ho-tho oxcoptiun to tho ru i 0 \ n JJro ' _adwivy and in tho main thoroughfUros loading from It to tho oiist uniUho west . Moat of _theso buildings , taken separately , aro fine spoclmons of
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architecture , but the general effect is not striking , from the total absence of plan and method , already alluded to , and which seems to be inevitable in a ¦ country where every man is a portion of the _Government and of the sovereignty , and considers himself b ° und _<*> consult nobody ' s taste but his own . But tnis peculiarity-is not confined to America , or St . _^ ul ' s-elm , ch / ard would not be what it is , and the nobl _? _Proportions of the cathedral would not be marred as they are by the too close proximity of the hideous warehouses that have been gradually piled up around it—monuments alike of commercial pride and bad taste . Brownstone edifices rank next in _sijse and number to the marble palaces ; and a few of cas iron , with elegant Corinthian pillars , add to the rarietv of architecture in the Broadway . _Conspicuous among the edifices that give its most _impps-SS _^ _Sf _^ _f' to _t _^ b W and beautiful street are Stewart s dry-goods store , the iron palace of Messrs . 11 _^ 7 °° * _? nd C ° u > s T uc ]} . hotels as thc St - Nicholas , the _Metrofohtan , the _Laffarge House , the St . Denis , the Clarendon , the New York , and the Astor House _, The last-mentioned was some years ago the boast and pride of New York , and the wonder of strangers t but the city has outgrown its southern limits , and stretched itself far away into the north and northwest , and new hotels like the St . Nicholas and the Metropolitan have dwarfed the Astor House in size and eclipsed it in splendour . The St . Nicholas makes up from 500 to 700 beds , and the Metropolitan nearly as many . Both of these , as well as the others mentioned , represent the magnificent scale on which the New Yorkers do business , as well as the more than Parisian publicity with which families eat and drink and pass the day . " Dr . _Madcav , of course , as a poet , was bound to describe . _' Hiagara . He has laboured hard to say , . 4 < = „ it „ d ; f t _ PW tobe at something sinait upon it , and , it not new , to _oe at least original . Helms succeeded eminently , where it was difficul t not entirely to fail . He dwells much on the _fascination which the vision of the mjghty waterfall exercises over the spectators _mjnd . It also , he says , bewilders the senses ofits too pa 3 Sionate admirer . Dr . Mackay had not , owing to the season of the year , the advantage or _disadvantage of a guide , and was therefore left to own dominion ; and I ruled over it unadvised , untroubled , and undirected . I discovered its beauties gradually as best I could , and made my way from place to place with as much of the true spirit of discovery an < l adventure , latent and stirred within me , as moved the first white man who ever gazed upon its marvels . And , instead of narrating how and in what way I saw them , let me , for the benefit of any future travellers who may read these linps , explain in what sequences of grandeur and beauty they should explore the stupendous scenery of the river , the islands , . and the falls , so as to reacli the climax where the climax should be naturally expected , and to go on , from good to bettor , and from better to best in one grand and harmonious crescendo , and thus extract from it a music of the mind sufficient to make even the _subUmest harmonics of Beethoven appear tame and common-place . " The f _oUowiA » _~ mOpks ° Ontam _" _^ ° bvi ° U * bUt . ? nognUloeut truth :-" I _« a distance of three-quarters of a mile thc Niagara Hiver gallops down nn incline of fifty-one feet . Such a bubbling , boiling , frothing , foaming , raging , and roaring as occur in that magnificent panonu _. ia _, it was never before my good fortune to see or hear . Wore there nothing but the sight of these Rapids to repay the traveller for his pains , it would bo worth » U the time anil cost of the . voyage across the Atlantic . It _wus like looking up a mountain of furious water to stand upon the bridge _tm . _l gaze towards the torrent . I will not call it angry , though that is thu opitlict which first _suggrosts itself . Anger is somatliing s . liarj > unu short , but this eternal thunder is thc voicei of a wllling obedience to unalterablo law . 1 / icro is no caprice or _rago about it s —nothing but the _triuinplMUitwnff of gravitation , that J ,. w of Jaws , which maintains the earth in norpctual harmony witli _heuvon . On the »» do of _tlio " City " were sovoral mills for flour , corn , and paper , which _hadborrowca an oxtorior _thronu from thc mighty wob ol witters to help in performing tho operations _otJiiiinaninaustry . But those _acnrcoly _""/ _JJ'J " 1 . . _"'? .. _^ I _^ fnV _rdlna a conand wore to _JJ" _™" ? 5 _^ 0 _^ _^ _ESkS _- _^ _ft _^^^^ _Tt _oo' p _!^ _^ _julvnntugo of tho havoc mailo by the _wutors in _JEj _?! _i . fo _by-perhups five l . _undrud _tho . _immd yearn _ago-swpDortud it partially on a groat rook HttlnB its head it fbw ioo ( , abovo tho loam \ and standing at this point , 1 countod tlio l _» h } tH BQattcroa on en her slilo _, anil _etrotohing downwards to the yory brlnlc oftjioftill . Ik-sides Uout Island , ubout a mile in ¦
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Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_11061859/page/9/
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