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ewry Variety of magniacent and splendid objects , and such ^ things as the . eye had SStfWb j We ire also' virgins a £ d young nien ; virgias of suetr beauty that they inay be called personifications of beauty , and young men of sue * nioralUyvthat ttey SaybeSedSwonifications iof morality : moreover the beauty of the virgins and Ae-inoraUtrortbe young men correspond to each other , as forms mutually suited S * a ? tS . " Sriupon the two novitiates asked « Are there in heaven human forms riSher similar to those in the natural world ?» And it was replied , " They are alto-ether similar ; nothing is wanting in the male , and nothing in the female ; in aWd * e male is a male , and the female a female , in all the perfection of form in which they were created : retire , if you please , and examine if you are deficient in anything and whether you were not a complete man as before . " Again , the novitiates said " We tiaye been told in the wotfd we have left , that in heaven they are notgnrcu itt / nwirriage , because they are angels ;—is there then the love of the sex there ? Anc t&angelie spirit replied , " In heaven your love of the sex does not exist ; but we 5 » e the angelic love of the sex , which is chaste , and devoid all libidinous allure mlerit . " " . . ' ¦
The book before us is very curious . It contains amidst its fantastic visions and statements many wise and some queer notions . Conjugial Love is pairitea fcs Heaven and Adulterous Love as Hell . Religious writers , bowever are privileged to handle topics which journalists shrink from ; and we dare not even allude to some of the sections in this work ; not that Swedenborgis to be blamed for them . —his purpose is moral and sincere—but otfr modern exclusiveness on such matters forbids their being mentioned . Whi ^ e great stress is laid on the delights of the bodily sense . " , they are everywhere nW */» rrtfmp-r ! inferior to those of the soul : — ; proclaimed inferior to those ot the soul : — :
, But what are the delights of the bodily senses without those of the soul ? The former are animated by the latter . The delights of the soul in themselves are imperceptible beatitudes ; but , as they descend into the thoughts of the mind , and thenee into , the sensatiohsr of the body , they become more and more perceptible : in the thoughts of the ' mind they are perceived as satisfactions , in the sensations of thebqdy as delights , and in the body itself as pleasures . Eternal happiness is derived from the latter and the former taken together ; but from the latter alone there results a happiness not eternal but temporary , which quickly comes to an end and passes away , and in some cases becomes unhappiness .
Much of the book is unintelligible because it implies a knowledge of Swedenborg's doctrines , but any one may turn over its pages and pick out many curious passages . It is not a book to read , but a book to read in . On the shelf devoted to curiosities it deserves a place .
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BIRTHS , MAUKIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . ABINGDON . —In Grosvonor-street , the Countess of Ablng don : a son . 0 AVI 3 . —On the 23 rd inat ., at the residence of hor father
tho Ncwarke , Leicester , ' the wifts of Sir Myllea Cavo Browne Cavo . Bart .: a daughter . LECRONIER .-Ou the 26 Ch inafc ., at St . Holier , Jersey . tho wife of John he Cronier , Esq ., M . D .: a soil . LUSIUNGTON , —Oa tho 24 th inst ., at Lyndhurat , Lady Margaret Lushington : a son . MARRIAGES . „ _ CAWSTON-HELM .- 'On the 22 nd inat ., ftt St . Jamcas Church . Bury 8 t . Edmund ' s , tho Rev . John ^ a *" " * Chaplain Royal Wavy , to Sophia Agnes , eldest daughter Of the lato Rov . Joseph Charles Helm . M . A . , CHAPMAN—CURlANG ^ On tho 22 nd inst .. at St . Mary a Bryaiiston-uquare , JDavtd , son of Charlcv Chapman , ii « q-i formerly of Balham , Surrey , to Jane , eldest daughter ot the lato Thomau Oakley Curling , Ksq ., of tho Islo oi Thanct , Kent . '¦ ,. , „„„!„ COOKCRAFT-PAYNE .-Ou tho 22 nd iiwt . at Wyko Rog » . Colonel Cockoraffc , to Anuio J . Payne , youngest dauginur of tho lato Adminvl Charles Payne , of Weymouth .
DEATHS . , . BROUGHAM .-On the 2 fith in » t ., Mary , only dwiglitor « i tho lato II . Jlrougliani , Esq . . of BroiiKham , Wcsti uor « lon « i . LITTLE . —On tho JWth iriBt ., at Xoignmonth . Captain Tlioinaa Sargent Little , l * t « 10 th Huflsara . ftged 87 . LUCAS . —On tho 23 rd inat ., at Pau , Basses P . vr 6 no « s , wlntlicr ho had gone for the benefit of hiH health , Phillip Ho »» " * LuoaH , iittq ., V . U . C . BM ., Ac , in the 02 nd year of hi « nRo . MONEY .-Lost , on his paa » a « o to Bombay , in the » h | l > »' ; Al ) bs , in Juno , 1 S 05 , Lilian * Iroimtde Money . Cwlot iiitno H . E . i . C . S . Service eldest son of tho Rev . William Money , aged 10 .
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THE AMATEUR PANTOMIME . This event is to come off on Monday evening 1 , at ' the I / ycEOM Theatre . Every seat is taken , and , we believe , the tickets ; Applied for would fill a theatre of twice the size of the Lyceum . The Court is to be present , and no sort of eclat will be wanting to the performance . The subject of the pantomime is "William Tell ?' the introduction , which is almost a play in itself , is the work of many hands . The comic business is very highly spoken of , and the Epilogue is said to be v « ry neatly and happ il y written . Not so the Prologue , which , we regret to hear , is written in the tone of the court rhymers of the second French Empire , consisting mainly of a series of personifications of the European revolutions , with a good
deal of vapid sneering at patriots and republicans , and an equal dose ot flatteries to all royalties , past , present , and . to come . Now this may be , for aught we know , a very ingenious and felicitous appeal to the approbation of the Courtbox , with its sprinkling of German princes , but we take leave to doubt if it be a tone that tells much for the self-respect of English writers ( be they even comic writers ) , or that will be found most agreeable to an intelligent English audience . The English nation , without being revolutionary or republican , ia not , in spite of unpl easant appearances , a nation of sycophants , and will hardly tolerate a burlesque of its great historical figure of Oliver , CBoaiwELt , because it may be good " business" in the presence of a Court-box .
We have heard of a certain foolish couplet in this Prologue , which , besides being sufficiently stale and weak , i s a libel on a noble nation . It i s neither very courageous nor very apropos just now to be levelling compliments at the Emperor of the French at the expense of the French people ; and if this silly couplet gets wafted over the water to the ears of the Parisian !* , it will not , \ re are persuaded , contribute much to that good feeling between the educated classes in the two countries which can alone enable the alliance to survive the present form of government in France . We trust this couplet may be omitted in the representation , it has neither novelty nor wit of thought to recommend it , and can only disgust every man in the audience who is not a valet at heart .
Having discharged an unpleasant duty , let us add that Mr . Albert Smith's William Tell is admirably funny , au ^ i that an eminent High Sheriff is made a great hit of as the Arjg $ ^ ; . [ Let us not forget to p « rise the fpiftl which presides over this union of men of wit and pleasure in the service ^ charity . It is proposed to devote the proceeds of this and of future performances of a similar character to the collection of a fund 4 for the instant and unquestioning relief of literary men who may be overcome by sudden and peremptory needs , without exposing them to tha necessary , but often painful formalities through which the benefits of an Insti . tution are reached . This appears to us a most noble purpose * and we heartily wish its promoters and abettors every success in their good works .
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Madlle . Cekito has made her rentrec at the Botai . Italian Opeba in the ballet of Eva , which has been restored for the occasion .
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MADAME RISTORI . 8 IGKOK FUSCO ' S READING 8 . Last week we announced Count Arbivabbnb ' s intended series of illustrative readings on the Italian drama at the Dudley Gallery , preparatory to and illustrative of Madame Kistobi ' s performances . This week we find Signor E . Fusco , an Italian exile , a gentleman of superior culture and a remarkable linguist ( he is now Italian master at Eton ) , announcing a series of four explanatory readings of the plays in which the Italian tragedienne is about to perform in London . These explanatory readings will be delivered on the days preceding Madame Ristoiu ' b performances . They will " not be critical , " Signor Fusco tells us , " either as regards the artist or the authors , but will have for their object to give a brief sketch of the plot , to elucidate tho meaning of Clio poet , and occasionally to translate the more difficult passages . " This is a happy thought , and we are glad to find that it will not be the fault of her compatriots if Madame RistoiU should fail to make the same sensation in London as in Paris . At all events , our Italian friends are patriotically resclved that their eminent countrywoman shnll not suffer from our constitutional ignorance of foreign languages .
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> MADLLE . PICCOLOMlNl . —IiA TRAVIATA . Maplle . Piccolomiki has succeeded in fluttering the somewhat jaded pulses of the audiences at Her Majestt ' s Theatre . If she has not been called forward thirty or forty times of an evening , or serenaded afterwards , we can only attribute it to the difference between London and Sienna in population and in temperature . Certainly she has achieved a success not merely due to her romantic story and her noble birth . She has made a sensation , and in the intervals of the Old Bailey , the fireworks ^ and Epsom , La Traviata has been almost the talk of the town . Some interest was occasioned by the production of that forbidden play La Dame aux Camillas in the tliin disguise of an Italian libretto , which follows t , he French original scene by scene , and , in some places , word for word . The absurdity of throwing back the action to the year 1700 ; for the sake of the costume , we suppose , since a Traviata of a . d . 1700 very much resembles morally , at least , a Traviata of the year 1856 , involved the ludicrous discrepancy of beards . The critic of the Times , who , we observe , has recently taken to the moral as for virtue
well as the musical sciences ,-and who has nearly as fine an eye as ear for Verdi , regrets that , the Traviata was : not converted into a young lady of fashion , broken-hearted by a gay deceiver , in the conventional way . of good society . For our own wicked part , we cannot see how that vulgar kind of infidelity in love would be more moral or more affecting than a " lost one" purified by sacrifice and redeemed by deatti . More than one great writer has shown us the profoundly touching and tragic aspect of the " Fille Publique , " and unless , with the critic of the Times , we are to ignore these creatures of our civilization altogether , they will always invite the sympathy of the drama , and of romance . We do not wish to be understood as approving the subject of the JDame awe Camillas—in the novel there are incidents thnt disgust—but we protest against this prudery about the story of a Traviata in the thick df oat 'dramatid ' atmosphere of seductions and adulteries . With this preface let us bay ; in spite of the howl of the scientific objectors to VKfewr , that the rtuMc of La Trtmata is pleasant and brilliant throughout , and if thera is nothing so , distinctively popular as the " Donna e mobile " and the " Belle figlia d'amore" in Rigoletto , still there is more than enough
of melody to send the audience home humming to their beds . This is recommendation we are weak and ignorant enough " to acknowledge . Madlle PlccoLOMiNi has two defects as a dramatic artist on so large a « tage : she is too pitite in person , and she is too veak in voice , and the re $ ulti is a degree of effort inner singing sometimes pamfuL But she has youth , beauty , ardent sympathy and a deep devotion to her art ; she can be tender-and spirituelle as well as pathetic nnd powerful ; and in the last act of the ZYavictta , a very touching situation , she acts and sings with real passion , and carries away . the audience ia a manner not evidenced by bouquets and applause , ! but : by a holding of the breath , by silence , and by tears . What a pity that Madlle . FiccoLoin > -i should not be singing at the Lyceum ! We fear that with such exertions as she is ofei ligedto employ at * Her Majesty ' s Theatre , her voice cannot last three years * it is already hard and piercing in the high notes' : only the exquisite method will preserve it . The reception of this distinguished and interesting young lady has been most cordial , and Z < z Traviata is thoroughly . enjoyed ..
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Thunderstorm . —A very heavy thunderstorm passed over the West Kiding of Yorkshire on Thursday week . At Bradford-moor , the thunder and lightning were fearful , and a man named John Blakcy , aged sixty-three , was struck dead as he was coming out of a public-house . The > Midland . Railway waeflooded in two or three places , and' the traffic was obstructed at Calvcrley-brielge . Several villages ia low situations were also temporarily inundated . ¦
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Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1856, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2143/page/20/
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