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mm * tiaiwttei ^ af » ew « dwdliitg too long ananytbwgthat sees . Mr . Gwlri hM plgfownod ki * difficult ^ art as translator fa * a& dUftoee creditably , —ia ; ' •'•• am ^||; laipp % ; fte book i » itltEStrate ^ by excellent engrsringB * Mi * -lllpiTOPJML ^^** ' * OTie of wll * » " * ^» honest and striking Waifi ^ Uw < wrth ifH ^ l& sibunis pf the &ocy YSeirs which or-e looked atone gwn » ttVwHbngotteo tfa > n * s * . . . . / QuHiffc « f fiteAs « e& tfce Bast closes with a X «/« of ike Sultan , fcy the Bev . Henrf-ClwistBMo . Thi 3 % one of those * 'Shilling Book * , * by which wh ! wher » arejruiniDgihemselTes with the most incomprehensible pertmacitj . Sfr ; Christmas "has the gift of compiling . He has a pleasABt , easy w * y « tf C * r *| gittg ha » feqto together ; wiea them eleveriy with anecdotes ; and awdees es « c % ^« rh « t hispoblidbEeT wawts—a readable book on « topic of genegpNMftgifc - ' ^ "l ^ l feomsehrs have he& rathar own ? than enough of "The literature of the Ufar ;* and are . to confess th& truth , heijinning to set
IigJMp ^ : $ | i& <^^ The piibdic , however , 9 NI ^ BM ^ b ^ WHiilbe - ^^ HiKsaa ^ KltefitiOOttditicA , and m » f afeiUb « athii ^; fof iofaorma iii ^ iNnr mmmem and * &m . & tlw * « Me , w « beg to report that Mr . < lhT ^ tV >>^ 1 ^ plenty of infornmtiotifbrijftgTiieitive p atriots oa she subject of : ^ $$ ^^^^^ mmmh trarollefl * and conxpilera , and ascertain what glftj ^ ip uliMCiii ^ aQ ^ to ^ Mnniie vs ^ bj . kiQltiag iutosomececeut ;» tfcfiao , on our-present list , is Katharine ^^ Ti ^^^^ - 'airtltq resa ¦ cJ ;^ An ^ r Jlerbierti ** The story is- written in a I 8 *!|!| rl ^ A&& 1 & fl eaigneij to , help «* preaaoting iaena ] y % fttli traewtf rerations TOtween toe women of the w ^ ttoer ^ faasea . who
* nd th ^ v TOBpLies e > F m ^ poor surround them . \ the booksbiOvaiHoeAobim ^ mm ^ S ^ M t < &mGtex-p ^ tiw ~^ wMte iuJte female peison-* m ' ,: ^ iigE ^^|| p ^^» . rth ^ k 1 |(? 1 a toalong .. Tb « a * ithoj 5 es » hAstliefault ^ jplft ^^ life , as it realljr »•—« he never knows mhmkteh ^* A&ae . Fiwm t ^ muog to « nA « Ji phase * of the sfc < orj are # 7 e ^ te ^ ^ th ^ the . saine n ^ rejen ^ i ^ 'jivuktit ^ ne ^ and 4 &e same perraigtent l « ' ^** Kftjian ¦ j ^ iig " ^ fcnjli * nf' riiTfanTimiri fedSaaaaMoa . f&i * £ * t * itim A * htttu \ m m -venr , | pjili !| p ^^ Ifc would afford « rafe ^ - { ilfti » ttre 5 r ^ ^ next fiction we take np
. _ . ^|^^^^ c ^^^^ ¥ t ^^^^ ^ 0 > rp «^ 33 ^^ pi ^ iOM ^<^ nieiM ^ . Sfo&iEe never once arop down to the realities of life . Here the eharacterfl « xa ideal thedwelj ^ jii pB j ^^ ^ yiMi g ^^ 4 en » dl j « ae 4 » fkbyBical ^^ h «»« ^ wjr ; W !^> ect , fW ih » autho ^ s ^^ enthwaiwesB # > w the F »© Art«—^ ae ^ wt ^ jtKW ^ tbftt « be a » an aoco £ apl *« bed *» d ; eiiitiv «»© d woman-but Ifee di «« eoeiwtie # « 1 x ^ g id < mticfe » c ^« pe ^ iw ( q ^ o « ei ^ aaa % to add , * hat fto ll «« JW ^ JM 4 bin | E into her story which we ha ¥ «; iw * pTOvioualy i » ad afeont | n fee ^ written by other wsojOe- % wnne re < fcd « r » fcowwer , tWa may not 1 4 rawbactjmMft fumex ijera
^ ^^» ^ . ^ « f ^ , w * Jwve nothing to my ^ j ^^ Jomlv ^ . tJkJicvlpior ^ ¦ ^ £ ^ q i ^ d ^ Ter » w >»» of tL © o / owr wpa l&WviwJW the Kuaeiaa of i ^ nat ^ W ^ hAT ^ kcea w ^ t ^ iw ^ to review , Qw i » jwblisfeed by Bogue ^^ iSpflteS ^^ feW * JISBfawMHrf * l » ^ J ?« i « lM ? JWhrw ^?* aa trw !»* # by Iflmi ^ iw rrf fttk ^ , f ^ r eb ) M& > & . to the « 9 «* e « ie ^ tducb . are | W # ^ toiiMi *^ Ei ^ Man waiweQtMMi « h * racfcera ^^^ > th * Qr > ft »« jw sp ^ I na tk « fiUtj- ahtMit * h « m . Ilw aooaery w Bwwijw car twal f i tut the character * are aH ladies and ge » tJ « men whom ire nave met with at the mutor theatres , and many of the incidents "thrilled " sub in holiday-time , at Astley ' -a * nd the Coburg . The Hero of our own
Times m the sort of fanclfftvting « joundrel , who has existed , time out of xnin . d ,, in Dlays and romances all over Europe . lit one of his adventures he wowempalowtij possesses Jiimsejf of a beaiitiful slave ; wins her love , and «* a tired of her—ftftei-which sine is carried oft on horsebAdk , and stabbed , % a ferijgand Trhp » 1 & * ^ Hero" * ba 3 wronged . "What is there that ia Ktoaiau 3 © i * 5 a ^ If there be anj nationality at all in these stories , it ia XVvttcb aatfonalfof-. IFfeey acre written in the French styj © : they are full of EVendh i > 6 arer > and French dramatic efieet- ^ wild . vifrnrrtna . ffirk ^ mv rn ..
« wr ac © s , written with great mefb-dranratic « kJH ; well worthj of being read bj ^ a iH pe « p 9 e wha ^ ke a Httte strong esscitemeot ; but , a& it seems to us , not « t all instructive or chamefceristic , as pictures of Kussian life . Before reachingf-tke Emits of tins article yre must fi » d room to say a l 9 tfcw . ord or two about Mn » cEMLA 3 T « otr 3 Books as » Hkprutts —* jDevey r a LoaiCy . in BoVs PhilologJeal Library , anil the Cbtiected Works of Sir James Mackintosh ^ must be -deterred for the present , for- want of time tQ db them fhlj justice . 3 ttr . J ^) hn 9 ruee Norton wiH , we ho ^ e , excuse us for failing , juat qow , to do more Ulan announce the publication of his Letter to Mr . Robert Lowe , on the
< J , on . diti 0 o and Requirements of the Presidency of Sfadras . From Mr . Kiebol , of EdMburgit , we hare to acknowledge the receipt of tie second volume of a very handsome reprint of Cowpejrti Works ; and to Mr . Bohn we decSre to offer our heartiest wishes for the success of his new edition of Defoe . Th * first volume starts with ** Captain Singleton " and " Colonel Jack "—the latter ^ the best of Defoe's admirable fictions , after Robinson Crusoe . Mr . Rotrfltedge has sent us his Guide to tiie Ctystal Palace . We have not yet had an opportunity of testing it practically . Ivooked at it critically , however , " it seems a useful and sensible book ; clear and systematic a » to , the arrangement of information , and beginning , very properly , wi « h « i narrative of all the circumstances connected with the building of the first Crystal Palace in Hjde-park . Here , for this week , we mujst pause ; reserving the books that reiaain on our tflb-le for a second notice .
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BOOKS ON OUE TABLE . The Iliad of Homer : with Note * . By W . G . T . Barter . Loagraan ., Brown , Green , and Longmans , Miranleaand Science . B y Edward Stracbey . Longman , Brown , Greco , ucd Longman * . Newest Cfuvrt oftko Baltic , compiled from Uie Atl > niralty Charts , ahowina the place * qf rmdasoouscifttLt Allied Fleet * , the fortifications , liahfhouaes , and all tL vljces , even those ojTmtnw tinporfance ^ to which the attention of the public has recently bem atira « tc ( * ' A . « ndC . Black .
2 t * west Chart afthe Gulf of FxdavA , complied from Admst-alty and Russian Survms and Marmm * € * arte ; contavmaanho teparaie enlarged plans ofjRum , Jhswst Par * Baltic The Prmcipka emd Practice of th » Wetter Cure and Bousekold Medical Science in Con V" ™**** «» J * jw ^ ft « y , on Pathology erthe l ?* tor * of Maea * t : and on hwesiion Nutrit * m , Hefftmtny and Diet . By James Wilson , M . D . John Oluurcnaj A Practical Dictionary of English Synonyms , alphabetically arranged . By Dr . L .
Mac-***** ' GL Willis . The Microscope : it * Bittory , Construction , an 4 AppMeation *; being a Faa / Oar Indrodttetum to the Use of the Jnstrumenl , and the Study of Microscopical Science . By Jabez H 02 !? M . R . C . S ., &c . ( Illustrated London Librairy . ) " ^' Miscellanies - . Chiefly Narrative . By Thomas De Qaincey . James Hogg Constantinople of To-Day . By TbtSophtte <} aatier . Traitslated from the French by Rober t Howe -Gould , Esq ., M . A . Oa . $ Bogae A Yacht Voyage to Ireland in 1853 . ( Railway Reading . ^ Arthur Hail , Virtue , and Co-
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE . THE & 8 BSEK . < XttHW . £ W « reprint from <^ he Appendix to the Hand-book of 4 he Greek Court in the Sydenhttia Palace the iollawing resume by Mr . G . H . Lewes , of feistoaical eyideaee in favour of the colouring of Greek Sculpture . ] The idea of the Greeks having painted , their statues is « 0 repugnant to all our pxe-judgment , that the miad is 4 » vin CttmUiarisiog i $ se £ f with th # lacti evea When indisputable evidence 3 s brought forward . The Greek * were artists of such exquisite taste , and of principles so severe , tbat to accuse them of having painted statues , is to accuse them of committing what ia oi * r day is regarded as pute "barharism . " The $ xeeka dia not aim at reality , but at idoaUtyj jmd the painting of states is thought to be only an atteaapt to imitate reality . Nevertheless , however startling , the Cact remaios : the < xceeka < tid paunt tiheir atatues . Xaring eyes . hav « seen the paint . Laving : testimoBy aupports 4 he tea . taroowy of ancieat writer * , and all that will henecessanrln thegc vases Is to of
iuinaab ^ ome principal points of ev « enc « . In th © -4 | i » t { dace , th « r » eader must get out of all « cuTptare ga ^ eriea , erase from iiis mind aM preoeHceptions derived from « nti < g ( ae remaina aad tapdem ptatices . fiarfflg-done « o , let mm reflect on the historical development of sculpture , and he will see the idea of painted figures ialling in its true place . Sexdp&txe of course begaa in Greece , aa elsewhere , with idols . It is the custom of all barbarous nations to colour their idols . TneEgypfcUaa , as we Know beyond all douht , not only coloured , bat dressed theira . So did . tiie Greeks . It way be a question , whether the Greets horrcwrea their art from the Egyptians , improving it , as they did eirerything edue . Let sehodara decide that question . -This , hovener , is certain , that in either case tfce Egyptian practice would tobtain : — .
1 st . If the Greeks borrowed from the Egyptians , they would borrow the painting and drecsiog . 2 nd . If they did not borrow—if their art was indigenous—then it would come under the universal law of barbarian , art ; and painting would at any rate , in tbeh ^ aeUar epo&hs ,, have been employed . ( We know that both painting and dmenmug were enjoyed in nil epochs . ) This being so , and the custom being universal , unless the change-from painted to aqpunted statues had been very gradual—uasensibjy so , the man who first produced a warble statue without any addition would have been celebrated aa an innovator . No such celebrity is known .
Ancient literature abouuds with references and alluaions to the practices of painting and dressing statues . Space prevents their being copiously- cited here . Moreover , many of them axe too vague for direct evidence . Of those which * re unequivocal a few will be given . JJressiug Statues . —Pauaaaias describes anympheum , where the women assentbled ta worship , containing ; figures of Bacchus , Ceres , and Proserpine , the heads of which , alone were visible , the rest of the body being hidden by draperies . Aad this explains a passage in " Tertullian" ( "l > e Jejun , " 16 ) , where he
compare * the goddesses to rich ladles having their attendants specially devoted to drees them—swats habebant ^ matrices . For it mus t be borne in mind that the Greek idols , like the saints in CathoDc cathedrals , were kept dressed and ornamented with religious care . Hence Homer frequently alludes to the offerings of garments made to propitiate a goddess : thus , to cite but one , Hector tells Hecuba to choose the most splendid peplos to offer to Minerva for her aid and favour . Dionyeius , the Tyrant of Syracuse , according to a well-known anecdote , stripped the Jupiter of has golden cloak , mockingly declaring that it was too heavy for summer , and too cold for winter .
These dressed statues were for the most part dolls , however large . The reader must remember tbat the dolls of his nursery are the lineal descendants of ancient idol * . Each house had its lares or household gods : each house had its dressed idols . Statues in our sense of the word , were , it may be supposed , not dressed ; but that they were painted and ornamented there seems to be ample evidence . Coloured jStatues . ^~ lf we had no other evidence than is afforded in the gretit variety of materials employed—ivory , gold , ebony , silver , brass , bronze , amber , lead , iron , cedar , pear-tree , &c , it -would suffice to indicate that the prejudice about " purity of marble" is a prejudice . This critic may declare tliait a severe taste repudiates all colour , all mingling of materials ; but the Greek sculptors addressed the senses and tastes of the Greek nution , aad did so with a view to religious effect , just as in Catholic cathedrals painted windows , pictures , « . ad jeweLled Madonnas appeal to the senses of the populace .
The Greeks made statues of ivory- and gold combined . They also comHaed various metals with a view of producing the effect of colour . One example will suffice here . Pliny tells us ( lib . xjcxiv . cip . 14 ) that the sculplor of the statue of Athinas , wishing to represent t 3 io blush of shame succeeding las murder of hw son , made the head o > f a metal composed of copper and iron , the dissolution of the ferruginous material giving the surface a red glow—ut ruhig ine ejus per nitorem ( Brio relucente , exprimeretur verecundice rubor . Twenty analogous examples of various metals employed fur colouring purpose * might be cited . Quutreiaere de Quincey , iu hia greut work , " L « Jupiler Olyuipicn , " has collected many . The reader , tuuy , however , admit that statues were made of various materials , and that the bronze atutues—which were in cougar ably more numerous tiian the marble—may liave been tinted , but still feel disinclined to believe that Lho marble statues were ever puinted . A few decisive passages ehudl bo adduced .
L . « ut it he remembered lliat Socrutea was the sou of a sculptor , and that FJato hved in Athens , acquainted uitii the great sculptors and their works ; then road this passage , wherein Socrates emplojs , by wa / of simile , the practice uf painting statues : "Juat as if , when painting statues , a person should blauio us for not
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Leader (1850-1860), June 24, 1854, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2044/page/18/
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