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There is , we believe , not a soul in this country that will not be pierced with regret at hearing that the condition of Habbibt Mabtineau is such as to leave no hope that her life can last much longer . The immediate cause of danger is an enlargement of the heart , and the end may c ome at any moment . There is no indelicacy in mentioning the fact thus plainly ; because no one is more conscious of it than Miss Mabtineau herself ; and of the number that will be concerned there is nofc one that will learn it
with so much equanimity . She has , we unde rstand , busied herself unostentatiously about several final arrangements ; has exhibited the most thoughtful consideration for even the slight inconveniences that others might suffer ; and awaits the event with calmness . The number who regard her witn personal attachment is the larger , since her writing has appealed to every class , in the country . As the historian of England during the lifetime of most of us , she has addressed all England ; as a political wr iter she has had influence with influential classes ; and children love her as a second Mabia Edgewobth , with a genius of a larger and more generous kind . She has taught her readers the beautiful science of bearing infirmity and suffering without losing dignity or regard for the peace of others ; and the necessary result is , that the solicitude on her account partakes , throughout numerous classes , the feeling of personal affection .
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We said a fortnight since that M . Bebryer was to be presented to the Academy of France- on the 25 th of January . This long-expected event had been announced , and the address of the ex-parliamentary chief of the Legitimists was anticipated with lively interest by all who watch those irregular manifestations of public opinion in France , since public opinion has taken refuge in the Academy . The address to be delivered by the new Academician is submitted in due course to the Academy sitting in weekly - committee , and particularly to the President , whose duty it is to reply . It is just possible that M . Bebkyeb ' s address may nave contained allusions considered
which the prudence of the Academy , if not its patriotism , , under existing circumstances , dangerous : it is possible that M . Guizot , the President , who , on a recent occasion , declared before the Academy of Moral arid Political Sciences , that the propensity to silence exceeded even the necessity , and that the servility surpassed the tyranny , may , in his reply , have transgressed the limits of the liberty accorded even to Academicians , and that between the double impossibility of : speech and silence , the Academy may once more have resolved to defer the reception of M . Bebbyeb to " better times . " We know not : at all events , the reception has not taken place , and the eager expectations of many are suspended .
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The last number of the Revue des Deux Mondes ( February 1 ) is various as ~ uiua 1 » ~ tmt " " remarkable ^ We ^* m ^ y " particularise , however , a very interesting and original paper by the Princess Belgiojoso , " La Vie Intime , et La Vie Nomade en Orient , " introducing us to new and intimate aspects of that Oriental life which popular ignorance imagines it knows all about , af ter skimming a dozen or two flippant impressions ( with alliterative titles ) of our superficial and uncritical " doers" of the East . Let us remark that these fatigued adventurers , who carry * Pall Mall about with-the soles of their boots , have left at least one half of Eastern life a blnnlc to the inquiring reader , and the other half a mystification . We cannot expect every tourist who "does" Syria and Egypt to Orientalise himself or herself so completely as
Lady He 8 teb Stanhope ; or as that Lady E , whose Asian mystery M . Ei > mon » About so pungently relates ; or as the fearless and romantic Princess Belgiojoso ; but we should be glad to meet a little less smartness , a little more originality in our countless Eastern " doers , " comic , sentimental , picturesque , cynical , biblical , and the rest . Perhaps wo should be still better pleased if two-thirds of the " doers" in question would spare the public their impressions altogether , and leave the East a mystery , as they pretend to have found it . There are two classes of writing on the East equally
intolerable—the obligato emotion , and the nil admirari impudence . To all ¦ who are surfeited with travels in the East , these chapters of the Princess Belgiojoso will be refreshing . The Princess had opportunities of observing in detail the domestic side of Eastern life , the passion and the ennui of woman's existence in the sanctuary of the harem , hermeticnlly sealed to the profane eyes of men . After a residence in Anatolia , she pursued her adventures into the Taurus range , beyond the footsteps of the herd of European tourists . The result is a series of episodical fragments , life-like , romantic , finely observed , freshly and charmingly written .
Tolfa Feraldi , a chapter of Italian life , by M . Epmond About , 13 not only delightful as a sketch of Southern society , it deserves a word of recognition for the warmth of colour , and the easy , flowing grace > of style . Another paper in this number of the lievue we may niontion , rather for its subject and its signature than any intrinsic merits of thought or stylo , is an article by M . Albebt dh Brogue : The State of Public Opinion on the Revolution of 1789 , taking M . » e Cabnk ' s Studies on Representative Govern-
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The Prospective Review contains nothing very noticeable this month : the papers are rather meagre in quality , but genial in tone . The article on the Keligious Bearings of Physical Science in Education" protests eloquently against mechanical and materialising theories of the Universe . The Rambler , at the other pole of religious opinion , has a sensible paper on Catholic Politics and Catholic M . P . ' s , a propos of the visit of Mr . Lucas to Rome , and recommends abstinence from political intrigues . " How did Scotland become Presbyterian ? " is written with a moderation which we generally find in these dexterous arrangements of history . The " Blind leading the Blind , " is rather a coarse and ineffective onslaught on the Lectures of the Educational Institution , at St . Martin ' Hall , excepting always , need we say ? the two lectures on the Home Education of the Poor , in which " His Eminence" characteristically suggested a careful weeding of our cheap literature , while he protested against the imputation that he was proposing a censorship .
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In these times of war the world of literature has a hard time of it . It is , therefore , more than ever our duty to call attention to the enterprise of publishers . Nothing daunted , Mr . Bentjcey announces a new series of standard and popular modern literature , in monthly volumes , at six shillings . The two volumes we have already received of " The Court of England under the Stuarts fulfil the promise of the prospectus . The form is portable , the typography is clear and agreeable to the eye , the paper is superior , the binding elegant : the price such as to make the series accessible to a very large class of readers . A great deal of trash is published in a cheap form , with little advantage to the reading public , -and ^ with dubious results to the book trade : but every attempt to democratise a . sound , healthful , and invigorating literature , demands the encouragement and commendation of the Leader .
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THE CHINESE EMPIRE . The Chinese Empire ; forming a Sequel to the Work entitled » Recollections of a Journey through Tartary and Thibet : By M . Hue . . ' Longmans . It seems that we reading English are to continue to receive our most important knowledge about the people of China from foreign ecclesiastics . We do , indeed , boast of having blown their houses about our ears , and we continue to corrupt them by sending over opium in slashing clippers—but as regards understanding them of ^ theii ' vGiy curious civilisation ; why , whatever we do in that way , we owe to the courage and the intellect of men pitied by Cheapside , and detested by Ebenazer Chapel . Let us frankly acknowledge that to whatever " mummeries" M . Hue may be privately addicted , he has here produced a work so admirably valuable and interesting , that we declare
Ave do not expect to meet its peer during the present year ! 855 . He is the worthy successor of those marvellous Jesuit missionaries who laid the foundation of all accurate knowledge about the romantic Cathay in Europe —long-enduring , high-aspiring men , who carried the Cross into the heart of a population equal to a , third of the human race—who established a . new religion among the most conservative of all nations , and obtained honour from the most conceited of all potentates—who astonished Chinese literati by their acquaintance with Chinese literature , and corrected the calendar for the astronomers of a people which had learned astronomy almost before our ancestors had learned to cook their food—and who , finally , were always read y to lay down their lives rather than that the humblest Chinese peasant shpuld be ignorant of the teaching of Jesus Christ . M . Hue ' s courage and
sagacity entitle him to rank with these great and brave men ; and his experience of China , in consequence , has boon such , that this book of his is the highest authority on the subject of that great empire now' to bo found in Europe . Take it all in all , too , the Empire of China is perhaps the most interesting to a European of till the empires of the East . As for its extent , population , and outward features—one paragraph may convey a notion of them very satisfactorily—its area is eight times the surface of France ; its population 361 , 000 , 000 ; it is everywhere intersected by noble canals , and dotted by towns of immense magnitude ; and everywhere it is alive with the activity of a careful agriculture , and ft trade conducted with passionate energy . But nothing about it appoals inoro strongly to the imagination than its antiquity .
1 < ancy that ut this moment the only real hereditary nobility of the country is vested in the persons of the descendants of Confucius , who have enjoyed this honour since n . c . 6001 Gibbon , before giving tm account of his own family , observes , complacently , that that of Confucius is the most illustrious in the world . Indeed , the Bourbons and such families in Europe aro more parvenus in comparison—mushrooms in fact *—if placed alongside a body of gentlemen whoae family was of respectable antiquity when Socrates was a little boy .- B , ut waving this point of view—the Chinese have " State Papers" preserved in the Cliou-kiny ( or Book of History ) of Confucius , which soberly record the doings ftnd sayings of uinpcrors who flourished eight centuries before Christ . And Confucius still helps to govern them ;
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mentin France , 1789 1848 , as a . We ^ . Bboglie with any very formidable profundity or vigour in his political di squisitions . We note a certain paleness and fatigue in his manner , and in his matter ; but the paleness is not the paleness of thought , the fatigue is not the fatigue of a fine despair ; we seem to detect the premature sterility of that liberalism which is inconclusive and insincere , because it is without faith and without conviction . Nevertheless M . de Broglie , whose name at least is significant , ventures to express a hope that France is destined to possess some day political institutions worthy of confidence and capable of duration . To this broad hope we believe all sects and classes of educated men in France are ready to subscribe .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 10, 1855, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2077/page/16/
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