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and is indeed a sarcastic commentary on volumes of sarcastic invective against the bourgeoisie—viz ., that December , 1851 , teaches the necessity of an alliance between the Bourgeois and the Blouse . " The proletaires can never emancipate themselves without the aid of the shopkeepers ; the bourgeoisie can never , without the aid of the proletaires , defend themselves against the assaults of Divine Eight , which is not yet quite dead . " M . Schcelcher continues in this tone , and urges a " reconciliation , " as indispensable . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' m
_ _ . . . He then continues the narrative , and relates the various efforts of resistance in the provinces , so adroitly named La Jacquerie , by the " party of order . " He narrates the cruelties perpetrated by the Decembrizers ; examines into the pretended " conspiracy" against the President , on the part of the generals ; and draws the portraits of the Decembrizers . The book is a passionate book , but it will remain as History . Facit iudignatio lib rum ; but there is more than indignation in it—there is clear insight , and abundant detail .
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . History of the Jesuits : their Oriqin , Progress , Doctrines , and Designs . By G . BNicolini of Home , Author of " The Pontificate of Pius IX ., " &c . " &c . &c . Nisbet and Co This is a work of the required order . Curious as the least inquisitive in these reading times must be , regarding a , society winch , for more than three centuries , has figured so largely in European story , whose character has been a stone of stumbling to the theology of Christendom , and whose name is , even at the present day , mixed up with the ferments and controversies of Protestant England , there has hitherto been among us no popular history of the Jesuits . It is not that the materials are wanting . No brotherhood of ancient or modern times was ever more noticeable or noticed . Records concerning them exist in the tongue of every nation from England to Japan . Searching scholars have enquired after their doings and doctrines . Learned and laborious men have written books for and against them , which the students of history may peruse with advantage ; but for our people of plain sense and business , for the leisure hours of our knowledgeseeking youth , for the information of our reading families , there has appeared no clear and compendious narrative of a society become proverbial in their ^ daily speech . Signor Nicolini proposes to supply this deficiency . Himself an exile for the good cause of Italian liberty , which he defended by both sword and pen in his native Rome , and creditably known to the British public by a history of the Pontificate of Pio Nono , not only well but eloquently written in our English tongue , lie now addresses the reading population of town and country on the rise , progress , and working of the Jesuit order from its institution in 1540 till the present
time . The work is issued in numbers , at fourpence each ; four have already appeared . e The Glacier Law ? . From the French of Alex . Dumas . By Mrs . W . R . Wilde . ( Th Book-case VII . ) Sirnms and M'Intyro . Tiits is a translation , with some abbreviations , of Dumas's celebrated and entertaining Impress-ions de Voyage . We must call the guilty person—author or publisher—to task for the supercherie lilteraire which thus rebaptizes a book without giving any intimation of doing so . The possessor of the original may feel imposed upon , if he purchase this volume believing it to be another work . Dumas ' s book is gay enough , and this edition cheap enough , to have commanded a sale in a fair way . And while we write , - it occurs to us that there is already a cheap translation of the Impressions de Voyage , and if so , this substitution of title will be still
more inexcusable . Romanism an Apostate Church . By Non Clericus . longrnan and Co . Our readers will understand why we do not trouble ourselves with any formal notice of this book when they read its opening paragraph : — " A life of some extent , with proportionate reading reflection , mid observation , hns convinced tins Writer that no heretical form of Christianity , in iiny ii ^ c of the world , ] uih proved so derogatory to (» od , and so injurious to man , an the 1 ' ojii . sh Religion . Thin is a grave charge , and requires substantial proof , such as it is behoved will be found in the following pages . "
How religious the . spirit is may bo guessed from these headings— " Brutal ignorance of the Koniish people , " " The Bible an accuser of Rome , " " Rome the most corrupt of all cities , " " Home hates the Bible "—these sections follow in vituperative succession . And the writer prides himself on his Christianity— " none others are genuine ! " Apropos of these "headings , " the writer reminds us of a splendid epigram in Martial : a bad poet requested him to scratch out any imperfections he might detect in the poem submitted to him , and lie replied , " Una HI lira 'notest- —one erasure will suffice . " Non C / ericirs says : —
"The present work might be read in continuity ( as it waH written ) with a disregard of the lieadii / i / s or breaks , which appear to divide it into so many diHtinct paragraphs ; but , although rather peculiar , it was deemed advantageous , on this occasion , to convey an intimation ol ' the bearing of each section . Tins given a fragmentary appearance to the pages , but it . will ' liable , I lie Header to ' pass over , the More reaililj / , lho . se- parts which the least- engage- his attention . " Enable the render to skip those parts which do not enguge h ! n attention ! It will enable the reader to make ; but one skin .
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Jlohn * Ctnssienl Library—1 he . Lomedies oj I'lautiis . lly II . I ' , Kilry , it . A . V <» 1 . ' . \ . II . ( i . Holm . Jlnlm ' s I'hiloloi / ieal Library A ' Manual oj' the History <>/ ' Philosophy . II . ( I . Holm . Holm ' s Seieiilijie Library Jlriiti / eienter Treatises . II . ( I . Holm . linhit ' s Standard Library ¦ -l'Vedrika Hrcincr ' s Works . II . U . Holm . Victor // n o ' s Napoleon the I / illle . Vi / . cU'lly imil ( . !<> . ' / ' /« ' Irish Quarterly Ucriew . No . 7 . YV . ll . Kelly . ' / ' ///• Chemistry (>/ ' ( Jold . lly . 1 . Heollern , M . A ., Loml ., K . H . A . VV . H . Orr and (!<> . Tim Violin , lly < K Dulmiir ^ . ' ltolicrl . ( ' oeliH and < !<> . 'J'hvmi Years in ICiirope ; or , / 'luces I have Seen and L'titplc J have Met . Hy W . Wi'IIh Hrown . ( 'linrlcH ( iil pin . An Analysis anil Nummary of Ni t <> Tesfinnenl History . . 1 . I * Wheeler . l / istoire lies Crimes Dii Dene Deeetnhre . I'ur V . Hdlioulchl'i " . . lolin Chapman . The Vi / lai / e I ' earl : A Domistic I'oem . lly J . i ' . WilHon . . lolm < 'Uupinim . A IVim-ourse of Matters I ' e . rtaiuinij to lielii / ion . . lly . 1 . I ' urlior . John Chapman . A / i lilementan / 'Treatise on Loijie . John Cliiipniuii . Chapman ' s Library for the I'eople -The Soul ; its Sorrows and its Aspirations , liy l <\ VV . Nowinun , * John ( 'liapinnn . The Napoleon Dt / uasti / : or , the . History of the Houapartii . /•' amily . John Ohn | iiiiiiii . The Maj / dahn : ' A I ' oem . lly' ]' . I ' . Hrown . Hiinnliin , M iiimIiiiII , ami Co . J'arks and J' / eanure . (/ rounds ' . Hy ( , ' . II . J . Bmilh . Ucovo uml Co . The Restoration of He . lief . ' Miumtillan and Oo . . 77 , Deter n . Uy K . If . Kit / , williiwn . u Ahiiiuno and Co . Vukm and Ale . iiy JJuunlao Jonold . lkuiXhuvy ami Kmua .
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We should do our utmost to . encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful en ™ ,, itself . —Gokthe . ^ " -oourage
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VI . Ham , Jan . 6 , 1852 . gjg | ELL our excellent Master , my dearest Helen , that lie deserves a ^ Ksv patent of naturalization , as a freewill offering from the English Pitl nation ; bllt J Ao not know that he would get it , even if I Were © l ^ f © to make his last letter public ; for England can do nothing , except upon precedent , and by established rule . It is always so . In no quarter of the world shall you find such firm reliance upon England as
among Italians . Not the triple treachery of England , in Sicily , can destroy that faith . " It was Castlereagh , " Giorgio used to say , " not England ;'' but my difficulty has been to find that same England which is to be distinguished from Castlereagh . I begin to think that Metternich would be right , if he applied his heartless epigram to the island where I was born , and that " England is a geographical expression" —nothing more . The people that once took a share in thinking and acting for itself , even when it had less " liberty" than it now has , by favour of statutes too numerous , too contradictory , too unintelligible , and too much commented by the
judicial bench to exact very severe obedience , —that people does not now appear in public . It is busy in the workshop , or it is seized with a squeamish dislike to conducting public affairs in public—because one takes cold at public meetings , mobs speak so rudely , and vulgar patriots cannot catch the newest fashion of civilization ; which , with a bottle of eau de Cologne held to its palpitating sniff , scolds in choice epithets at swords and nasty warfare , sends a hired soldiery to clear the streets of the disarmed populace , and puts all its trust in " moral influence " —the new name for retracting your word whenever it is put to the test of deeds . But I will answer Giorgio when I have seen more of the people in its political action ; at present I have seen but little of the most numerous class , and still less of the most influential class .
I have other things to tell you both ; and this time the Padrone shall praise me , and not say that I see everything with home-sick eyes . You , dear Helen , I notice , do not say so ; but rather seem to take some umbrage at the notion that I am growing reconciled to England . If any one could reconcile me to it , you are right in saying that it would be Yseult . But you are wrong in thinking that it is only a name that binds me to her , or that it is anything different to the thing which bound me to the beloved of our house . It is her perfect loyalty . Different they are , as different as night and day ; but it is only the difference between
the sun glowing from under the deep shade of the cypress , and the sun glowing on a garden . Of Yseult aux Blanches Mains I have learned more since I invoked her aid for poor Sophy Johnson ; and the way in which she has taken possession of that family , shows the power given by her loyal and direct nature over those who are less firm and faithful . The position of the poor young lady is , in one respect , worse than I knew when I told Giorgio ; the * young shopman is married , but living apart from his wifo , nt present , " for economy . " Y ' seult judged it necessary to tell both of Sophy ' s parents : in all things , she said , truth and courage arc the
best reliance . She made uu : disclose the affair to poor Johnson , who seemed mthei relieved when he learned what it was that I had to disclose . He evidently expected the announcement of something adverse to "his interests —1 » trade ; and was perfectly reconciled when he found that it " could all be arranged "/ or him . He took some merit to himself for " not letting " make any difference in his feelings of kindness towards poor Sophy" ; sum altogether lie did credit to his own estimate of his own good sense .
What passed between Mrs . Johnson and Yseult I do not know ; I ony know they were closeted for some time ; that Mrs . Johnson looks ; islimc graver even than before , si degree more crushed ; and that she js i" (» - quiet , kind , smd diligent in her household than ever ; and I notice that ^ has taken down from her scanty shelves a book called Mason on > < 'J Knowledge—a way she has when lier kind heart feels the craving to revenge its bruises on those about her . Certain Christmas gaieties ha been deferred at Yseult ' s desire , until Sophy slmll have been earned oil ^ a round of visits ; in the midst of which she will be lost to the view o
but Yseult and Ldwardes . - "llmr * : Her visits are to begin with the place from whieh I write ai v > j ^ about twelve miles from London , and about two from Richmond , must not , " said Yseult to me , after 1 hud been talkin-to her on the allnir , ^ " you must not suppose that these poor people arc the best sj > ccnn < ^ of ' English society . Great principles are at war amongst us , and ai ^ ^ vouring the poor sheep of society , victims to a struggle which they u »< ^ ¦ ^ rather than share . The spectacle of the sacrifice of victims im ; oul l ' MlS to the sacrifice is painful and humiliating . But we have still llII" | " ^| i 0 Ill those who know the war in which they are wounded ; and many u «<> ^ the war has not yet reached . The Hcdfonls really belong to ^ » ^ ^ Ungland , ' not in the least imbued with new ( rants , or old big <> » IIS ' plain hearty good creatures . " , ^^ 0 We came down here yeaterday , lifter Edwardea had aeon
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928 fHELEABER . Esaturday
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 928, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1953/page/20/
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