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We mentio * RJ < S kst week tile reproduction * m the German press , of those ooliiibal fetches , which ,, under tke name of The Gbverning Classes ^ vents paUbbediirt ; * &e Leader in ike aetumn-. of 1858 i We have ; smee > re <*« rve # V # « sa testimony of the European reputation of these artietesi j £ fc Berlin , certainly one of the most intellectual cities in Europe , a very 4 iBtHtfiui « hed professor is engaged ia delivering a course of lectares upon ** tf . . « ntfc « eowtftwrttewa * feitfrto o £ British poikyv We have before «» * syBogsis of'these lectures on iStes Hentige Enrflische Sidatsrecht . Nbwfcere , aufc <) £ ( Germany , wpuld . it be possible to find so vast an amount of research , afcvonee dfeetfrMFeitod profcHtad ^ as the mere order of * ubjects aad © nuiwera * tfeaj ? bftcxe ^ iwoks i » this syllabus of Professor Kxekts * afford * . The Pfco lessor seemfi to have omitted absolutely nothing from his investigations ; aa-attentive stwleat may here obtain , an exsbaustive summary of our instituof tt th
tion ^ asd « « various acttviiaes , ftctwaffly daserepaunciesy agrtatioras , aft * traditions of English polities in the nineteenth century . Among tlie textbooks of the lecturer on " political parties' * we find The Governing Classes of Great Britain . — Political Portraits . London , 1854 . We hope to be able to give our readers some « ecoun « of ^ is' ^ emarkable series of lectures delivered in the Prussian capital . For the present we are content to express our satisfaction , in which we are sure many of our readers will sympathise , at these proofs that the good seed sown by the Leader has not been all sown upon the barren rocks
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Ik the last Number-of the Revue des Deux Mondes ( Febrwuy 15 ) M , E&MbKiv Aootr * continues his story of Roman society , Tolla Feruldi , with A fine delicaxjy of observation , and chastened grace of manner , which appear to us : to contain the promise of a fictionist of a very rare order . If we 4 ire not mistaken , France has here another writer of decided originality to add . to her rich gallery . It must be confessed that the want was beginning to be felt . All the known names are exhausted . But the most serious and important article in this Number of the Revtie is one "On the Interests of the Scandinavian Powers in the Present War . " At this season , while we are
preparing for anew campaigninthe Baltic , we would earnestly invite the attention of political , readers to this historical chapter on the < feeomposing poUey of Russia pursued steadily for a century and a half toward * Sweden * Ttte diplomatic and military history of the occupation of Finland , and the joint intrigues of the Courts of St . Petersburg and Berlin in the last century , « ce particularlysuggestive just now . In a secondpaper the writer promises to consMer the influences at work within Sweden , which have hindferetl her accomplishment of liberal reforms and hampered her foreign policy—influences which it may be , the work of the present war to destroy .
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Ite the fiifttt volume-of Dr . Vbbo « s Memoirs , just appearing , there will bevfound some curious inedited letters of the Ministers of _ Louis Phimppe , and . an account , by tiie Docton himself , of the Revolution of February T-here see « is to be a rage for Memoirs in Franee . Madam © G-eorge Swnd ' -s Memoirs are found to be the Mfemoirs of everyone but herself , and . ttie JVajwelias suspended their publication in its feuilleton .. The Memoirs of Ajcexandbe Dumas-have also been discontittuedy because , itsh& ' aard himself , ** they Have- b > eft found tiresome . I am sure , However < 3 ie . adefed )> that the . public will ask for them again when it has fclt the loss . " The public , however , does notyet-appear to have , felt the foss ^ of the
The MtenwMr&of M . DinpiN ' , «« 2 ^ President Legislative Assembly , are announced . The biography of M : Duror , like that of most public cha-Bftotws in . Fxance , is the biography of a man who has served successive n % inos with equal fidelity . M-.. Dotin was first knowtn to tire public , -during t&e - Hundred I > ays ,-as one of tire moving men of thre Liberal party ; his defence of Nkt is well known ; under the Restoration , he belonged to tho moderate constitutional Opposition ; he was one of the first to give his adv fcterence to tine Monarchy of July , m be was , eighteen years- afterwards , to adfiere to the Provisional Government of the Republic . As the intimate legal adviser and confidential friend of tlic Or leans family , that part of his toiograpfcy which includes the late king ' s reigiv is likely to be the mowt
interesting . As President of the Legislative- Assembly , M . Dtjmit was remarkable , for his determination in keeping order , and for his petulant and pungent wit 4 a " putting : down" extravagant representatives of extreme doctrines . But Ms pftrtiaUfcywas often oflfewsive to excess . AsProcureur ^ n «? ral of the Court of Cassation it was M . Duns ' s oflicoto declare the author of the coup d'dlat JWk 4 . autlft . wi Xhifi did not prevent him , however , endeavouring to etfect a cwreiU « JI » ow-w * tfe ifoe Usurper : He resigned his high legal position ra . fchor tfeam 4 ygear to tfonnivo at the decrees for the confiscation of the Orleaws property ^ butiJQ . haa since , wo believe , made indirect , approacjies towards the existing doveenmttnty w ^ obo oonfidenoeXfortunatcly for his reputation ) ke has not < 3 / BtWWad' . HhjpbKtico ^ -bwcolic haTangueB to the peaiMrtitry at agri < yalt ? t » ral meeiftngff are now his only public appearances . As a lawyer , lie is facile princept in France—perhaps in Europe . Ho has long been , the iatuu « te
friend' of Lard ; Brougham * to wiemy in some ofi tbe 5 iugwiaUfitie » of hw character , he bears a certain resemblance .
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The January n « toaber of Br&wnsojCs Quarterly Review ( Cv-Do ^ mAtt ) hwareached us . Thfe i ^ in many respects , the best CatfcfcKte Eevfew with which we are * acquainted . The present number contains a rather novel paper on Russia , and . the Western Powers , to which we may possibly reverts The > Know-nothings are discussed with impartiality . The philosophical oontrLbatioHS to this number are learned and refined in treatment ^ and the subjects more decidedly controversial ^ treated of course from ; fchat ultra—Romanist point of view peculiar to -converts , are nevertheless handled witl * les ^ acrimony and intemperance than we often find in Catholic publications nearer home . Each paper has the rare merit of being short . It is a singularphenomenon , a Catholic Review published in the United States , and edited , by an , ex-Tra © sce * dent * l Pantheist .
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M . Behhyer . lias at last taken his seat among the Fob . tt in the Palais Mazabin . His reception took place on Thursday last . M . de Sax . va : n 3 > y $ and not ML Gcikot , was to reply to the new Acadefiaiciaa .. Another disappointtttent , we heap , bad been apprehended in conseofffetice of objections to the reply of M . j > b Sai-vaiooy , who , although he is indebted for everything he has , and is , to the Revolution of July , had taken this occasion to confound all the revolutions which France has experienced in one commonuanatbemau Since . 1648 M % ma Sajlvandt believes in * nothing more modern than the seventeeniSi century . It is deplorable to find an amiable
and accomplished man venting his personal disappointments in these intellectualSulks * However , these objections , if they existed ; , having , been re * iwdvett , the 'G&r&mmy ; which in the midst of the ttniversal siiente is & political event , has taken place . We have only seen a portion of M . Bbbbyeb ' s address as yet . It is a somewhat diffuse and laboured eulogy on the literary ? character of his academical predecessor , M * jxa Sx&rr Pbeest . But in the course of a critical appreciatioii of M . db Saikit Pbiest ^ s Ifistoire de la Royauie , the Legitimist , ; , orator , alluding to that portion of the history winch included , the later Roman Empire , and the origin ; of the ; Christian : nations , awwedafte * * kmg-detour at the * following significant apostrophe :- — ~
In thia-craffcal stu < iy ot tlie greatest moral and political revolution that -was ever accomplished , from the commencement of the Empire as during its decadence , but foe . rare intervals of a few wise and glorious reigns , one perceives with alarm , in theabsence of a fixed law to regulate the succession to the throne * how rapid and simulr ; taneous was the degradation of the Roman people and of the masten whom it accepted or endured , whether imposed by the soMlery , or by the insensate passions and . deluded hopes of the multitude . The heart is struck with a profound melancholy , ands t < he imagination revolts at the spectacle of the terrible and stupid excesses of thesa , invaders of authority . Tlie Govermnent of Rome wa 3 given over , to the frenzy oftriumphant conspirators . To rule was no longer to enlighten , and to govern the » public thought , whatever that might be , it was deemed sufficient to flatter , to despise , or to extinguish it . It was no concern of the new sovereign to win over the intellect and the heart of tfre people ; he was powerful enough so long , as he- possessed the means of coKruption . . The . people-king had become nothing , but a . people of . slave * wlxo revelled in the follies , and the disgraces of their servitude . We hope to be able to give next week some Account ,, frond a'private cor ^ respondent who- tras present on the occasion of this interesting ; and important reception . So lottg age « 8 1714 y St . Simon ( in a note to the . Journal de Datigeaii ) complained of the tendency of the Academy to become more and more an arena of cabals ; . an ill-MS'sorte'd club ^ in which the servility of men of letters thought itself ennobled by sitting next to unlettered nobles , and the fatuity otf twnlettered noblesi . thought itself made learned by sitting amongst Academicians . Trietettd « ncy of the Atjademy to become more and more political and less and less literary , seems to be the natural result of despotism , where so much intellectual and , political activity smoulders as in France .
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GKOFFBEY CRAYON'S NEW SKETCH-BOOK . Chronicles of Wol / brt ^ s Iteott , md other Papers . By Washington Irving . Constable and O Anything written by Washington Irving is welcome at all times . To us , the competition of ?* Papers" wtich we are about to notice is dwubly and trebly welttonw just now , frotn the mere force of the delig htful contrast which AVkshiwgton Irving-, as a writer , presents to certain ^ writers of Young America , and of Young England also , whose books it is one of the misfortunes of our position to bo officially compelled to read . We have had hard work given u * to do of late by the small authors . T 4 » ere « scarcely any form of exasperating nonsense with which " rising geniuses" on bomsides of the Atlantio have not . made us more or less fanrtlw&rly acquainted ,, by meanft of a too compliant printing-press , Mrs . " Fanny Fernis lalej twkidh . we allowed to oxttoseit * own worthle » s » ess < ifort « ii ? ht simso ^ is
onlyaispeenmren oti doaens of otlwr contemporary books , just asbaxily written , ws' have- tb * boriw to nottce . After having sought in y am tt" * rtrg h thi a ^ Trafnscendxjntnl li ^ mturtj- of Young Amoncii , nnd the ftst htemtuvo . of Yotmjr Eftghtad , for thwght , feolmg , taste , and style-ami after haymg , found nothing to compensate for the want of nil fair qualities but brokenwinded " eloquence * in the American case , and eimious smartness in the , English—it is a luxury , indeed , to open the pagea of ' Wo \ f arCs Mo * h « a < J to . findWo not . only , the evidence of natural abilitreB of a vkv * "izSL iT ^' but Alio ,. in . every paragra ^ , th © most d ^ ig htful p «> oA > of J ^ wtommiltkei eAnwstaes % , f »» tMwcV * nd care ^ H «« is am aM » lwwb » 'tiu » k * j «* l y * feo ^'
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2079/page/19/
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