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    children of all ages--froin six to sixty . We have inspected them with paternal not critical eyes , and made them pais through the ordeal of juvenile criticism , seldom very severe . 7 % e Village Queen ( Addey : and Co . ) is a drawing-room book , written by Thomas Millefj the basket « maker , and illustrated withi waterrcolouif •^ drawmgs by Wehhert , Absolon , Iiee , And Harrisott Weir . It is very handsome , and meant only for yoting ladies who will * 'take care " of it .

    The Little Sister ( Addey and Co . ) is calculated for a much more enduring popularity , appealing as it does to the experience of children . It is tile story , by Mrs * Myrtle , of the arrival in a young family of " a little stranger " whose career it follows through the nursery till the ffchool door closes on it . There are sixteen illustrations by H . J . Schneider : admirably designed , and inrespeOt of naturalness well executed ; butas is commonly the case with German illustrations - —the children are unpleasantly ugly , sometimes looking hydrdCephalous . The book , however , is very interesting * It was a happy idea .

    Hom _ e __ and-M& ^ Pieasure $ ^ Addey " sand Co . 7 is a collection of simple stories for young people , by Mrs . Harriet Myrtle , who so well understands how to reach the child * s interest , and illustrated with eight coloured engravings , by Hablot Browne—an artist whose works are positively disagreeable in our eyes , but who seems to please the public well enough ; and certainly the uncritical public of children will have no fault to find with him . Our Sister Lille ( De ^ a and Son ) belongs to the " old school / ' both of illustration and writing . It is but a sixpenny book , and our juveniles made much of it .

    Andersen ' s Danish Fairy Legends and Tales ( Addey and Co . ) is a book for all classes and all ages . Much as we dislike the foppery and sentimentality of Andersen ' s ambitious works , we own him as true master of Fairy Land . His stories have the true fairy music in them . It is a faculty few possess , that of writing legends and fairy tales ; out Andersen possesses it in the superlative

    degree . This edition is a very considerable enlargement on the former , containg forty-five stories ; the former edition contained only fourteen . It is , moreover , a book that boys may hug and handle without fear . No dainty gilding warns off loving fingers . That is indispensable in a book like this to be read , reread , and reread . At the same time , the publishers have not been forgetful of elegance : it is a handsome volume , not a delicate one . New

    Tales from Fairy Land ( Addey and Co . ) , though they have not the same light , fairy touch as those of Andersen , are very pretty , and fill the child ' s mind with splendid pictures . ** To those about to Marry " ( George Mann ) is a series of illustrations , meant to be comical , setting forth how the Jones's commenced housekeeping , with some account of their mother-in-law Mrs . Smith . The fun is rather drtary , and the designs have little merit of any kind .

    Child ' s Play ( Addey and Co . ) is another drawing-room book , in which grown people will take as much delight as children , if not more . It is a series of seventeen pen and ink sketches by £ . V . B . —obviously an amateur , butan amateur with considerable artistic feeling . They are all sketched with spirit and vigour , the animals especially ; and that one , " Oh that I were where I am not ! " is a pictorial poem : figure , dog , landscape , are of very unusual power . It is got up with exquisite taste , and is an elegant volume for the drawing-room table .

    Aunt Effie ' s Rhymes for Little Children , and Kindness and Cruelly , a tale ( both published by Addey and Co . ) , complete the list . The former is a very amusing book of rhymes , illustrated by Hablot Browne ; the latter is a story translated from the German , overstrained in its moral , and frustrating its object by the untruth . It proposes to instil feelings of kindness towards animals by showing the " dreadful end" to which one boy who was unkind to them came in the course of his Wicked career . .

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    BODIES ON OUR TABLE . ' ^ rl ^ n ^ Tr' M thoIr Forc 08 and » l ™ tlonp : with a Doaoriptlon of the Ma * netoeoopo : aSerioaof Experlmonta . By fcSwmSsaiSiia- x ° whioh «• * ht ^? d We read this pamphlet , and the foolish fetter subjoined with no great disposition to believe in the Boientinc results put forward by men who could write fon « S fi * JJ ° , " * ° T ° L experiments and 2 SS 2 a vomn 8 8 ' thre ( ;[* & **«** P ^ oes . . Failure oouflrw « 4 What w © puspected , Mr . Butter gets » r .

    King to back him : a pretty backer , truly ! as the reader Will exclaim after reading the twaddling solemnity of this truly unscientific sentence : — " To me no scientific truth is interesting unless it has , directly or indirectly , a moral beating . It has been usual to separate Science and . morals , " as if they had no real connection with each other ; but to me it H&s always appeared impossible to do so . " When we add that the science of these gentlemen is about as sound as their philosophy , we have said enough of Magnetoid Currents ,

    The Log of the Water Lily ( Four-oared Thames Gig : ) during a Bowing Excursion on the Rhine and other Streams of Germany . By an Oxford Man and a Wykehamist . J . W . Parker . A heavy account of an excursion up the Rhine in a four-oared gig . It is difficult to understand why it was published—surely not for the amusement of readers ? Ernest Maltravers . Part II . By Sir £ . Bulwer Lytton , Baronet . With a Frontispiece . ' Chapman and Hall . The novel usually known as Alice ; or , the Mysteries , is , in this the cheap edition of Bulwer's works , properly called the second part of Maltravers . We have nothing to say on a work so well known , unless it be that Buiwer himself regards it as his finest work of art .

    Absolution and the Lord Bishop of Exeter . The Identity of Absolution in the Roman and Anglican Churches ; its Presumption , Impiety , and Hypocrisy . John Chapman . We advise all readers of theological matters to get this extremel y able pamphlet , remarkable for its learning , its logic , its boldness , and its temper . Want of space alone prevents us making large extracts from it . » . ' Notes on Noses , ( Bentley ' s Shilling Series . ) Bentley * A shilling reissue of a curious and amusing work on Nosology which , after reading Lady Eastlake ' s article on Physiognomy in tne last Quarterly , will be as agreeable a railway companion as can easily be found .

    German Word Book ; a Comparative Vocabulary , displaying the Close Affinity between the German arid English Languages , with the Alphabet Rules and Examples for a Correct Pro-. nunciation . By Adolphus Bernays , Phil . Ooc . J . W . Parker . Professor Bernays has here given us one of the best introductions-to the study of German that can be conceived . The affinities of German and English are very great ; and by making the student pass , as it were , through English into German ; he will master a great many phrases while another man is learning der , die , das . Household Hints to Young Housewives . With Arrangements and Receipts for Forty Dinners . By Martha Careful .

    Dean and Son . Martha Careful has presented us with a shilling Cookery Book in the form of Letters to " Persons about to marry . " Among the vast stores of erudition which the Leader boasts , we are humbly to confess that culinary lore is deficient , and therefore cannot undertake to pronounce an opinion on the merits of the receipts here given . The Parent ' s Dental Guide . Being a Succinct Treatise on the Diseases of the Teeth and Gums . By Wm . 1 inrie , Surgeon-Dentist . Fifth Edition . Churchill .

    This is really what it professes to be , a Guide to Parents in the requisite care to be bestowed on the teeth of their children . It gives a brief yet intelligible account of the diseases the tooth "is heir to , " and of the general treatment necessary , as well as specific advice when to recur to a dentist—a thing usually neglected till almost too late . The Task of To-day . By Evans Bell . Second Edition . J . Watson . A second edition in a few weeks ! This indeed is good news for the lovers of freedom of thoughtshowing that the public demand for such works is large and eager . We have not forgotten our promise to review this work at length ; but we wish to do it justice , and must await the fitting time .

    Wealth ; How to get , preserve , and enjoy it . Or , Industrial Training for the People . With Engravings . Joseph Bentley . A new edition of Mr . Bentley ' e educational work .

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    We should do our uijmqottoenpourage , the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Gohthr . .

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    MAGNETIC EVENINGS AT HOME . Letter I .: —To . G . H . Lewes . You have asked me to give you an account of some extraordinary experiments in Animal Magnetism , which I witnessed during my recent Christmas visit to Somersetshire . In complying with your wish , I intend to confine myself as strictly as possible to simple narrative—or , in other words , to be the reporter , rather than the judge , of the proceedings of which I was a spectator . Had those proceedings been publicly exhibited for hire , I should certainly not have taken the notes of them from which I am

    now about to write . But they were of a private nature ; they were only shown from motives of hospitality and kindness ^ and they were directed-by -agentleman whoW character I knew to be above all suspicion . Under these circumstances , I thought it well worth while to write down , at the time , all that I saw ; and I gladly commit my materials to press , in their present form—knowing that they have been carefully collected ; and believing that they will furnish specimens of evidence , which the opponents of Animal Magnetism will find it much easier contemptuously to reject than fairly to confute .

    On the first of this month , after a pleasant dinner with my Somersetshire friends , in honour of the New Year , I went to drink tea at the house of Count P—*— -, accompanied by two gentlemen—one a clergyman , the other a barrister . The Count had been known to the family with whom I had dined , for fifteen years ; his wife ( an English lady ) was a friend of still longer standing . I mention these particulars , in order td ~ show at the outset what confidence might fairly be reposed in the character of my host ; what guarantee was given me , on the

    -unimpeachable testimony of my friends and his , that , let the experiments to be shown appear what they might , they were performed by a gentleman of honour and integrity , whose position placed him above the slightest imputation of acting from a motive of personal advantage—or , indeed , from any motive at all but the wish to study a science in which he felt a deep and natural interest . We found the Count , his wife , and a young French lady who lived as companion to the Countess , seated round the tea-table when we entered . The young

    lady ( Mademoiselle V ——) had been a member of the Count ' s family for five years . She was first made the subject of magnetic experiments two years since , and certainly looked anything but a martyr to them . Her complexion was fresh and clear , her eyes lively and intelligent , and her whole appearance that of a person in the full vigour of youth and health . She described her sensations on being awakened from the magnetic sleep as invariably those of one who has enjoyed a good night ' s rest ; and told us with her own lips that , before she had been selected as a subject for magnetic influences ,

    she was pale , thin , and weakly ; and that , since that period , her constitution had altered quickly and permanently for the better . These , and all other particulars which we learnt from her , she related readily and simply . On our first introduction to her , it was not easy to imagine that this young girl , so quiet and natural in her manner , so gentle and good-humoured in her expression , was soon to display before us all the mysterious phenomena of . magnetic influence—soon to open to our view glimpses into the dim , dark regions of the spiritual world .

    During teatime I had an opportunity of ascertaining generally what our host ' s ideas were on the subject of Animal Magnetism . He very frankly described himself , at the outset , as an enthusiast for the science . " How the magnetic influence acts , " said he , " maybe seen , but cannot easily be ex-, plained . My idea about it is briefly this . We consist of three parts—the organic matter (* . e . bodily structure ) , the vital principle which animates it , and the soul . We feel that the" soul has many

    of its divinest prerogatives suspended in this life , through its connection with the Txxlily part of us . To find out such a means of acting on the vital principle , without injuring or destroying it , as to render the organic matter perfectly passive , and thereby to weaken , if not suspend , its influence on the soul , is to give back to that soul , for the time , some portion of its inherent and higher natureits immortal capacity to overstep all mortal boundaries of time and space . This object I think the magnetic influence achieves , in different degrees of perfection , as applied , to different persons = and ia

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    Thh Church and thb Wom . d . —There are two standards of judgment extant for the estimate of character and life : one set up in the pulpit , the other recognized in the forum and the street . The former gives the order in which we pretend , and perhaps ineffectually try , to admire men and things ; the latter , that in which we do admire them . Under the influence of the one , the merchant or the country gentleman is professedly in love with the innocent improvidence of the ravens . and the lilies ; relapsing into the other ; he sells all his cotton in expectation

    of ft fall , or drains his farms for a rise of rent . On the Sunday he applauds it as a saintly thing to preserit the patient cheek to the smiter j on the Monday be listens with rapture to Kossuth ' s curse upon the House of Hapsburgh , and the Magyar vow of resistance to the death , He assents when the Apostle John i « held up to his veneration , as the beloved disoiple ; but , if the truth were known , the Duke of Wellington is rather more to his mind . Supposing it all true that ie said about the vanity of earthly pleasures and ostentations , he nevertheless lets hiB daughters send out , next day , invitations to a grand ball , and makes hto house busy with dressmakers and cooks . — - Weitmitwter Review . No . III .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1852, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1918/page/19/