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• + nn / . fivp readme His two years' residence in America seems ? o h ^ J Sven to a loVe of the county and a mitigated tolerance of iveJV ? ut for the rest he might have been there only a few weeks and &' back as much material . His volume seems made up from ioimfals and those the journals of a not very observant min < I . The poet ™ mtSpersed among the pages is of the kid that many write , and no one re-reads . ^
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . EemarTcalle Events in the Career of Napoleon . ( The Bookcase , No . _ VI . ) M , Intyre > A htbbid of History and Romance , setting forth the main events in Napoleon ' s career : a readable book enough , but with too much effort and pretence about it . The opening sentence made us tremble : "We propose in ttie ensuing work to open out a Cycle of Life—pictures from the age of Napoleon . " The Popular Educator . Part IV . John Cassell . THIS is the fourth part ( the first we have seen ) of a new journal devoted to the education of the people . It contains short treatises on Geology , Physiology , geometry , Natural History , with lessons in Latin , German , French &c , which are continued in successive numbers . It is also abundantly illustrated with
woodcuts . Mr . Pod ' s Farliavientary Companion . New Edition for the New Fa $£ ™™ £ ^ & Co > This is the twentieth year of Mr . Dod ' s very useful , important , and well-arranged manual . He very properly alludes in his preface to absolute freedom from < party tendencies , " as the best characteristic of such a publication ; and this character « Mr . Dod ' Parliamentary Companion" has always preserved . The present is a second and completely revised edition of this year's " Companion , " rendered necessary by the dissolution of the old and the election of a new Parliament , as well as bY a change of Ministry . We find that " Two hundred and one persons who had no seat in the House of Commons at the period of its dissolution have been returned to the new Parliament , of whom 180 never were previously in Parliament , and II have onlreturned to public life after an interval of retirement . "
y ^ " The close balance of parties ( we quote Mr . Dod ) has rendered increased vigilance necessary in recording the politics of each member , and a more extended statement has been required than in the days when the short words " Whig and " Tory , " « Conservative" and " Liberal , " sufficed to classify the House . In all possible cases the exact words of the Member himself have been preferred to any other statement of his political opinions , and considerable pains have been taken to record pledges upon the leading features of the day . " We can heartily recommend this " Companion" as fully sustaining the reputation of its predecessors . Mr . Dod has performed his task with conscientious accuracy , and has produced a manual of compendious utility to men engaged in public life .
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Gold Fields qf Australia . w * L \^ 1 ^' Lives of the Sovereigns of Russia . By G . Fowler . t . : ^ Bn , « Boaue ' s Guide for Travellers—Switzerland and Savoy . No . 2 . Da ^ d -BOgue . Japan ; An Account , Geographical and Historical , fey C . M'Farlanc . G . Routledge . Gold-Minim , and Assaying . By J . A . PhillipB . £ ¦ f- &" ^ a » d Co . Bar ton ' s School Library . —The First Book qf Foetry—A Short and Simple History of England—The First Beading Book—The Elements of Geography—Exercises for the Improvement qf t / ie Scnxes—The Modern French Word Book—An Easy and Practical Introduction to the French Language . Barton and Co . ChristianiU ) in its Homely Aspects . By A . B . Evans . -iTSS rt Speech of Viscount Jocelyn . M . P ., on Ameers of Upper Scmde . Smith , Elder and Co . The Bettinq-liook . By George Cruikshank . W . and F . GK Cash .
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juswisbs © if & wiyyk »©! iu I . Brook-atroefc , October 11 , 1851 . F-g ^ gOIJLl ) I ptiint to you , my dear Giorgio , the strange cupboard in vtSl which I um not only expected to deposit myself at night , but to 9 wP % l ) eiform somo of the llcts of life ' aml thcn scml you intO my 0 Wn tlK § rooin > " mto whi <" u lmlf tllis llousc n » Bllt be laid > with 8 Pace to sPare > you would jump to the very core of the contrast that one feels in coming from Val Perduta to London . But I had better write to Helen ,
for you would not understand it without some explaining ; and so , beatrix domils , to your memory I speak from this my cage in exile . I am sitting up to write after " the family" have gone to bed , except Edwardcs , who is out . To mo is ceded " the spare bed" in the second floor buck , and you , Elena bella , cam tell the Anglomaniac Giorgio how , at first opening the door , the curtain of the four-post bed seems to forbid admission ; how the dressing-table nt the foot of the bed bars admission to the fire , which threatens the bed-curtains on the other side ; and how those solid pillars of
mahogany support the flat white ceiling above ; but you cannot tell himfor I cannot—how I have contrived to find a corner of table for my paper and a corner of floor for my chair . Now lead the majestic Giorgio into my room , and cast your eyes around ; see where the thin red frame of the irpn bed , though it would outTspan this solid piece of chintz masonry , seems lost under the vaulted roof : see where a hundred devices sport in the
ample space of the many-coloured walls—how beautiful do they seem to me as I see them from this spot ; and see , dear Helen , if the tarantula that scowled on us in lofty impunity is still clinging to the same spot in the ceiling , just by the shoulder of the Cupid in a yellow searf , or whether he has retired to his fastnesses on the cornice . The English have at least one talent—that of lilting all things together . Edwardes 1 ms promised to buvo u uiuuer party iu hib parlour , in order to » how mo how many
Englishmen can be stowed , "in comfort , " within twelve feet by thirteen , without flattening their ribs . You are surprised that I say nothing of Julie ; but , aftfc * all , she is not coining till the spring . As I supposed , her letter was written before she had mine , and after stopping in Paris , only time t 6 write those two lines to you , I found in London , instead of Julie , a second letter by the same mail to say that she should wait . I found , indeed , something more , and that was—a hearty welcome . Escaping from steam-boat , custom-house , railway , and a London drizzle
grasping Edwardes ' s manly hand , I felt myself ushered out of the narrow passage into the fire , and into the presence of a most engaging and genial young lady , whose softer hand was almost as cordial in its grasp as her husband ' s . Scarcely had my luggage subsided to quiescence , and my host and hostess to the interrogatory stage of p . welcome , ere the door opened again , and a tea-kettle , hissing from the kitchen , attended by a comel y handmaid , proclaimed its right of way to the fire ; and Mrs . Edwardes was again on her feet , making tea . " How familiar and how strange it all seemed ! Boxed in between four walls of paper , and window curtains ;
lounging on a sofa , one end of which flanked the tea table , while the other was burning at the fire ; the air perfumed with coal and tea ; that comel y maid , quiet and well appointed ; that blooming hostess , quiet , rosy , beaming with kindness ; Edwardes before me , with just the professional allowance of whisker , straightforward , gentlemanly , intelligent _ the bread and butter , the " tea-things , " the beef-steak on a tray , with a cloth—all so English . You will see the whole scene . Edwardes sate with his legs squared , his hands on his knees , his whole attitude an interrogation . Mrs . Edwardes talked and busied herself . The very handmaid laid down the adjuncts to
the tea-table with an emphasis of implied welcome . If there is a thing respectable in England , it is home ; and here 1 was , in the very thick of it . And no wonder that an Englishman values it—as I did . It is a changing climate , and home " shuts out the weather . " An English home is a residential umbrella . Tea was long , talk longer ; bedtime indefinitely deferred . Edwardes you may remember a boy—if you can remember him at all . I remember him random
later ; but he is altogether different from tbe wild , , " youngman , and has settled into a pleasant , gay , serious man , of strong-boned mind . The changes that had happened since I was last in England , he told in the trenchant , explicit , concise style of a report on a " case . " . And when he had done , his wife , who had now learned whereabouts I was m English and domestic matters , took up the story . For all her gay face , she sees deeply . At last , Edwardes himself , presuming my fatigue in the teeth of fatigues , exclaimed , " Come , Yseult , we must not keep him up : time enough for
talking before us !" " Yseult ! " You may imagine how the name struck on my ear . 1 remembered that I knew it , when Edwardes wrote to me of his marriage ; but how little written words affect one ! The coincidence struck me then ; but now , how many changes give it a new force ! Yseult herself , the name of a memory ; this Yseult , no longer a name , but a living woman betore me ; so different from the other , and yet possessing the same strange name . You may guess how different is this one from what I have already said ot her rosy cheeks and her fair hair . And yet , although so totally unknown , how much did that name appear to be at once the challenge and the ngnt of a better knowledge ! . ^
. . . , _ This morning ' s breakfast was but the renewal of the evening ' s impres sion , in a new shape—so essentially English . Edwardes has three children —two Edwardeses in different stages of growth , and a httle Yseult betwee them , who is called Marianne . English children ^ -fair , clean , rosy , any , and good-humoured . I am struck with a sort of « spick and span cono tion all round , from the fire-irons to the children ' s pinafores . After hrernfast , Edwardes hurried off to see his patients ; and I to see Beddowes
anybody else that I could get at on this dull Saturday . London looked to my unfamiliar eyes one crowd waiting untl » omnibuses should have passed by in order to cross over m the mud . not tell you what omnibuses are . Three things struck me on tins ms * jthe downrightness , the placid frankness and fairness of the tradesp v ' who have only one price for their goods ! Also , the general air ot i pendence ; and the dull countenance of everybody . You see new i i lying about in all directions , with the fresh remarks on Governnieitit , j tics are the second or third subject in every conversation—the weatn ^ ^ the first , as of old ; and no one looks round to see who is in coi J ^ Nevertheless , although they are so well off and so free , the i ^ V t , _ look at all as if they appreciated the blessings . They do not look an ^ they do not look gloomy , nor stupid ; but a certain dulness is tn ' ^^ expression . Eater any omnibus , survey any crowd as it passes , ai ^ either side of the counter ; and you will find that the . people > » io > jy lefl if they were thinking of nothing in particular , — certainly of not *> sant ; a shade graver than indifference . ' < Merry Old Jwigland is * 1
to puzzle a stranger on first seeing the English countenance . ^ Late and tired " home" to Kdwardcs ' a—a late tea and agai ^ ^ chat . Mrs . Edwardes improves upon knowledge . At last u us off to bed—he going out to see a patient . ^ friendly He lias just returned , and invades my door with a knoCK ^ ^ ^ injunction to go to bed : " It is not wholesome , " he says , jjng lisU late . " Wholesome ! The word seems to be common m tw 0 or mouth ; for I romomber to have heard it used often witum w
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We should do our utmost to enconratjn the ; Beautiful , for the Useful encourage itself . — Qoktub .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 808, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1948/page/20/
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