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    of the parish ? So m this borough of Willowaere we see heartburnings , Jealousies , intrigues , combinations , heroisms displayed as vividly as if , instead if a quarrel about a bridge , the story had moved through a quarrel of cabinets . Here the skill of the author is tested . He makes us interested in his characters ; we ; espouse , their likings and their hatreds ; we take sides in the / marrel ; we get anxious about the " Bridge-Deed ; " and we never pause to ? 3 k whether the story be worth telling because of its importance , assured as ^ e are that it is worth listening to because of its interest . From this noTel , which might have been written in the last century , it is piquant to fall upon the pages of something so thoroughly in the tone of 1853 as Maud—the tone , we mean , of the library . There a young lady of ? Tip incornptise school , a young coquette of the purely unreal school , a young

    gentleman who plunge 3 into German poetry upon the smallest provocation , an 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 carries you through 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 than 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 , * 3 pecially by one in our hardened condition .

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    A Treatise onihe Law and Practice relating to Letters Patent for Inventions . By Joan Paxton Norman , Esq ., M . A ., of the Inner Temple . Butterworths-Among apopulation 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 Parliament which James I . summoned to Westminster , on the 19 th of Februaryr 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 fnanner of new manufacture . " Prior to this , in ... the good old days of the of all

    Tudors ^ monopolies kinds , including even articles of primary importance were granted by the Crown to its favourites or instruments without restraint , and of " divine right ; " and even the staple commodities of leather , coal , and iron , were only to be purchased of the farmers of the grantees at " famine prices' ' artificially produced . Until 1852 no material alterations / for Lord Brougham ' s valuable Acts of 183 S 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 . Norman has rendered good service to all interested in the subject , and particularly to the practitioners in this department of the law , by the publication of his Treatise , embodying the alterations made by the late Act . Not is this its only merit ; for in a simple and unpretending , and yet m a < jlear and accurate manner , it instructs the reader m the various brandies ot * he entire system—first elucidating the law regulating their grant and validity , and then explaining the mode of obtaining Letters 1 atent tor 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 Iimdmarch ; but to the artisan it is a sufficient substitute for , and to the lawyer ii necessary supplement to , that valuable book .

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    BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . On the Necessity of Principles in Teaching Design , being an Address ^ J ^^ KJ ^ SJ ; Pantomime Budgets ; a Ttte-a-tUo between Sir John Barleycorn and # "™* * f / & ° S Threadnecdlc Street . •» < ? * osa . ° »* , - The Poetical Works of Robert Burns . ( TJie Universal Library . ) Nathaniel Cooko . Too Clever by Half ; or , the Harroioays . By Tho Moftissilito . Nathaniel Cooko . The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope . Vol . III . Nathaniel Cooko . HocHnaham : or , The Younger Brother . By tho Author of Elocfra . ( Theltoihoav Library ) " itouuou £° yjO - Ned Myers i or , a Life before the Mast . ( Bentley's Railway Lihrar U- \ J ^ J ^ f ^^ A Letter to His Grace tho Archbishop of Canterbury . By John W . Colcnso B . D ., Bishop Designate of Natal . M - f " - Bom * Thought * . Vol . I . _ A " ™ * F ° '

    Customs Reform : Report of City Committee . M . I . Iliekerby Young ' s Night Thoughts ; with Life , Critical Dissertation , and Explanatory Notes , lly tho Her . G . GiUlllan . J' Niohol . The Portrait Gallery . W . S . Orr and Co . Tait't Edinburgh Magazine . Fartrulffo and Oakoy . Chambers ' * Edinburgh Journal . W . and R . Chambers . Chambers ' * Pocket Miscellany . W . and It . Chambers . Chambers ' * Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts . W . and It . Chambers . Idnny Loclcwood ; a Novel . By O . Crowe 3 vols . G . Jtoutlougo and Co . ^ Strugg les for Life ; or , the Autobiography of a DissSnting Minister . W- and i . ' . U . Cash . Tho Autobiography of William Jerdan . Vol . IV . Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . Justin , Cornelius Nepos , and JSulropius . Tramdatcd by tho Kov . J . S . Watson . ( Bohn ' s Classical Library . ) ll - - *«>«»• The Usurer's . Daughter . By tho Rev . W . J . Senrgill . Clarlco , B « oton , and Co . Home Pictures ; or , the Map of Life . By Mrs . IS ,. A .. Doniuon . Clailio , Bcoton , and Co . Tho Christian JVxaminer . JohnOlmpman .

    Two PHzu Essay * on Juvenile Delinquency . By N . Hill , E » q ., and C . V . CornwalliH . Bmitli , Wider , and Co . JSummer SkoteJita , and other Poems . By B . It . Fnrkos . John Olinpnian . Inscriptions and Devices in the Beauchamp Tower , Tower of London . By VV . It . Diolc . 1 * . Jtamago . The Private Letter * of Sir James Brooke , K . G . H ., Rajah of Sarawak , narrating the Mvonts of his Life from 1883 to tho FresentTimo . By J . ( J . Tomulor , I < 1 «< 1 . a vola . It . Uontloy .

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    It is no sound of laugh or jest , No burst o heedless mirth , That sends the Old Year to his rest , And greets the New Year ' s birth ; 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 hreatlie 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 Come sounds of strife and fear ; And as thine early boyhood plays 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 ; . '" ~ - 2 Tor 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 For j'ears that follow thee , And Peace and Plenty chant the song That greets their infancy . D .

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    We shouia do o-ur utmost to enccyurage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itselt . —^ Goetke . '

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    CHRISTMAS WEEK AT THE THEATRES . Christmas is here ; and , to quote the brilliant distich , of a poetic grocer , " The time again hath come For line Roast 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 oflice , never a sinecure , now becomes a pastime compared with , which breaking stones on the Queen's highway would be luxurious , and reading Martin JFarquliar Tuppcr a delight . O yc 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 read Xiphilin f Then again to write about Pantomime requires a special erudition . Now as it may be safely assumed that when a man has written n 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 cost ) may legitimately be said to know nothing whatever of tho subject . Ergo , I seek the assistance of a more impartial ig norance , which I find in tho person of my respected friend " Q in the corner . " To him I conhdo tho 1 antomimes of the JLUymmuugt , Piuncics . s ' h , Sadie ' s Wurxs , and Dauay Lanb . The last-named theatre proven what prophetic instinct our " Swan possessed when he made the bad tragedian Macbeth trcmblo m his lult , iervently That Barnum would not como to Drury Lane , The poet is certainly a Vntes . .. . _ The Lycjcijm ia a bad theatre for the critic at Christmas . Xhmgs arc done so oxaspcratingly w there , that nothing vanes the knekneyod praise but the power of " pitching iuto" Plnnclrf . What ia one to say ot Bevorley , I should like to know ? Hyperbole * are not hyper enough ; and blame ia impossible . He has the secret of tfairy Land . He has tasto as exquisite as hia invention is exhaustless . The great round O ot ( xiotto is not round enough for admiration . In Once upon a time there were Iwo Kings , I will not say he has surpassed himself , for u man cannot see tho top of hw own head but I will suv that if he were not Ueverlcy ho would be Oberon . Most of

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1853, page 1267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2019/page/19/