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Wh . o looks out from the marble silently Along the track of his . ' shining dart Through tlie dusk of ages , —there ' s no need to speak ; The universe shall henceforth speak for you , And witness , * She who did this thing , was born . To do it , —claims her license in her work . ' —And so "With more works . Whoso euros the plague , Though twice a woman , shall be called a leech : Who rights a land ' s finances , is excused For touching coppers , though her hands be white , — But we , we talk !" ¦ - .. - " I am not sad : .. ¦' - . JSTot sadder than is good for what I am . My" vain phalanstery dissolved itself ; My men and women of disordered lives , I brought In orderly to dine and sleep , Broke up those waxen inasks I made them wear With fierce contortions of the natural face ; And cursed me for my tyrannous constraint In forcing crooked creatures to live straight ; And set th « country hounds-upon , my back To bite and tear me for my wicked deed Of trying to do good-without the churcli Or even the squires , Aurora . Do you mind Your ancient neighbours ? The great book-club teems IVith ' sketches , ' ' summaries , ' and 'last tracts' but twelve , On socialistic traublers of close bonds Betwixt the generous rich and grateful poor . The vicar preached from ' Revelations' ( till The doctor woke ) , and found me with ' the frogs ' On three successive Sundays ; ay , and stopped To weep a little ( for he ' s getting old ) That such perdition should o ' ertake a man Of such fair acres , —in the parish , too ! He printed his discourses 'by request . '" These extracts , chosen For their variety , ¦ ¦ will delight Hie reader , but tlxev very faintly indicate the wealth and beauty , of durow Leigh ,
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HOWII 3 ? S VISITS TO REMARKABLE PLACES . Visits to RerttftrJeabiePlaces : Old Halls , Batflejidds ^ andScenes Illustrative o Striking Passages in JZnglishHistory and Poetry By William Howitt . Third Edition . — " 5 Vols . Longman and Co . A THiKD edition of Mr . Howitt ' s work , in two beautiful volumes , claims more than a passing notice . More than eighty illustrations , designed and executed by Messrs . Samuel Williams , Richardson , Carmichael ; and Weld Taylor , contribute their . lights and shadows to this book of bistbry , gossip , and poetry , of twice-told taLes and cheerful reflections . Such a boot , and such a writer , we are inclined to receive in a
Christmas spirit , without casting a critical frost over the brightly-tinted fragments of history , or disputatiously examining opinions so warm , wild as they often are . When Mr . Howitt shows- us over a castle , or ; through a picture-gallery , or from point to point of a battle-field , or leads us among the hallowed memorials of patriotism or genius , it is surely unnecessary to anatomize lis * views' of YVolsey ' s character , of Charles I . ' s cause , or of Scott ' s poetry . We therefore accompany this pleasant guide from the home of the Sydneys to the grave of I ) er went water , resolved not to interrupt his ^ narrativea , familiar and fanciful as they often are , by historic doubts or prosaic analyses . It is enough that Mr . Howitt ' s work has many charms , that it is original in conception and in manner , that it is invariably elegant and interesting . It is , too , peculiarly national . Aa the Chinese visit " the
families . Not a tenth part of the field has been worked by tlie liistorii novelist . r Jho banqueting hall of Pcushurst , the story of tlie ' SheSS Lord , the hiding-places of Compton-Winyatcs , tlfc wife of DeanWhittinrfn salting her bacon in the coffins of saints , the maiden garlands still han « in mAVilton Gilbert Church , the tale of the murder aad the apparition ? Luinley Castle , the prodigality of the D el avals , iind the bloody « an in thl wall of Ahwick , are sunrgestive of far iuotg romance than ever poetsV story-tellers have extracted from them . What might not "be made f example , of Seatoiv-Dcl . iival , where the opulent lord lived like an intoxicated Venetian prince , the most hospitable , gay , reckless joker conceivable His house was a palace of vast proportions furnished with extravagant splendour and here he perpetually entertained immense crowds of company , dancing ' music , wine , and revelry , preparing the guests for frolics that would have amazed a Christmas audience at a theatre . His daughters were cynosures of beauty aud Famiettas of frivolity . They once persuaded Oarrick to lend them Drury Lane Theatre for a private performance . The bri <* hw
ot- the traces oi DeLaval was Lady lyrconnel , who had hair of such luxuriance that when she rode on horseback it iloated . on the saddle . She and her sisters and father were possessed by an overpowering predilection for practical jokes . They had trap-doors contrived under tlicfbecls of their guests , to . lower them unawares into baths of cold water . They had movable partitions between the bed-rooms which could be suddenly hoisted ut > when the ladies and gentlemen , having retired to rest , were in a state to enter their beds . Much use has been made of these palatial pleasantries by compilers and others ; but a large stox-e remains uuexausted . The most interesting , though the most painful of Mr . Howitt ' s narratives , is that concerning the ferocious John Bowes , who killed one ' wife and tried to kill another , tut lived to read his own epitaph \ yiitten by the divorced lady . Bui the work abounds in passages of varied romance , " and in its present attiactive form is sure of increased popularity .
tombs ot their fathers , the English visit all those homes and haunts that are called ancestral . Tew , perhaps , are aware how powerful Is * this sentiment , of which Mr . Howitt is the representative . When an Englishman gropes in Pompeii or stares in Rome , we are sure to hear of it , since he is privileged to write a volume ; but hundreds of a more domestic order are perpetually rambling ; , at home , from ruin to relic , from Norman to Saxon shrine , among the castles , abbeys , halls , and churches of England , lovingly admiring them , and falling into raptures and speculations which happily remain unpublished , though the Mechanics' Institutions suffer for it . To modest wanderers of this class the Visits to Remarkable Places is a handbook past ¦ valuing , while to the less enthusiastic and more leisurely peoplo who read of Florence by their own firesides , and never travel out of their own
countries , except as they travel into antiquity or the middle-ages—at homo in octavo , cloth , they supply a series of historical and local illustrations quite as amusing as a novel—ought to be . The hereditary habitation of the Sydneys ; Bolton Priory , where lived the famous Countess of Pembroke - rHampton Court ; Compton-Winyntcs ; Tintagol , thirteen centuries old / that saw the hospitality of Kin «* Arthur and the beauty of Queen Genevra ; and Wotton Hall , around which lingers the tame of Alfieri aad Rousseau , are among the old English homes the traditions of which are collected by Mr . Howitt . His- ' favourite ' battle-fields are Culloden , Flodden , and ; Ed gehil ! He has a feelin-g , also , for ecclesiastical antiquity , and dives into the chronicles of Winchester , Durham , and JaTrow . Occasionally , he passes from under the shadow of castle and cathedral walls to explore the scenes of Shalcspeare ' s boyhood , or to follow Marmion through the « epic'of Sir Walter Scott ; but , obviously , ho has heraldic tendencies , and assimilates in the choice of his pursuits with Ulater . ^ S _ Arms , llural life maybe Mr . Howitt ' s suhief . t : h « mn . v rloliMih and
m ^ laudcs Titians , in the remains of old pastoral customs , and in the monuments of an age of architectural glory ; but he is a Sir Bernard Burko fWA , ™?* ' ? 1011 * ° barouia ^ records . Not all the . works of Rembrandt or ^ orroggio have bo much attraction for him , apparently , as an original nor-IheSh fl rhnnSS A * ^ » ^^ *» && **¦ *>/ certain memorial of SSioriS rfSff ? J } I > w « rt'i " « » evidently moved by the sight of the ™ Zn £ til ttf f S ?? - . Moreover , hia volumes prove what a wealth of romantic lore and of historic *! , detail belongs to theae oW habitations of old
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THE PARAGREENS AT PARIS . The Paragrccns on a Visit , to the Paris Universal Exhibition . By the Author of " Lorenzo Benoni" and "Doctor Antonio . " With Illustrations by Jolm Leech . ¦ . .- '¦' ¦ .. ¦ ¦ . - ''¦ . .., ¦ ; Constable and Co . The author of Lorenzo Jienoni achieved a wide and instantaneous reputation , which Doctor Antonio did not diminish , although not increasing it . J 3 ut if lie publish aaother such a work , as this . Visit of the Paragreens , he will-speedily lose all the prestige he has gained .. ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ ItIs everyway unworthyof him ' , except as another remarkable illustration of his power over tlie English language
, which he writes as few Englishmen can write it . The book is poorly conceived ; it is a trafle admissible into a magazine , but not worth republicatiotu The idea of a London cit visiting Paris with his family , and while there displaying the arrogance and ignorance of John Bull out of his own meadow , the dupe of shallow swindlers and his own tuft-hunting vanity , is surely so threadbare as only , to be justified on its reappearance by some _ peculiar richness in the clothing . "A Dickens or a Thackeray might treat this old topfc so as to ma&e us forget how old it was ; but the Paraffjeens , although pleasantly and even humorousl } ' written , has none of the overflowing fun of Dickens , or Tlackerxiy ' s incisive case of satire .
Mr . Paragreen is a retired cork-mcrcliant living at reckham , and vkituig Paris with his wife and four- children ,. in order principally to xistonish Peckham with recitals of the splendours witnessed . lie mistakes a bazaar for the Exhibition and is large in contempt . At the hotel'where he stops there is a swindler , who , passing himself oil" as a prince in exile , bewilders the Paragreen family "by his condescension , and cheats them out of money . Two otlier swindlers , personating a marquis and a Lord , extract money from Mr . Paragreen ; and a young Dentist , makes love to Miss Paragreen , therehy raising hopes in the maternal breast of a great matcli , until the real position of the lover is disclosed . The treatment is , as we said , pleasant and humorous , with ' some good touches of observation , but there is no invention displayed , nor is there any novel observation of character . A fair specimen of tlie . whole may-be taken from the early chapter when the Purugreens arrived in Paris , vainly seeking a lodging : —
But , by this time , tlie last omnibus for conveying travellers to hotels lisul been gone more than half an hour , leaving no other alternative than to sen J for a couple of citadiacs , in which , after the family with their addenda of simill packages , four trunks , and three carpet-bags , had been placed , there still remained throe of the trunks , six bonnet-boxes , and a curpet-bag to bo disijoacd of ; and a third citadiue had to be procured . " All right ! " snidMr . Ptxragrcon , in a cheerful voice , after giving the address of the hotel whero lie intended to stop , and the three vehides set oil ' , tlio bulk of the luggage in the first , Mr . and Mm . Puragrccn with Arabella in the second , Tobo , Miss Pavagrccn , and Emma in the third . It was eight o ' clock in the evening . Crowds of people were snimtfiing iu the streets and on the Boulevards , glad to breathe tbo cool air of evening after the sultnfront of
ne 33 of the day—cro-wds of people sat enjoying their cotlcc and cigars in < afes—crowds of omnibuses , hackney-coaches , cabs , and private equipnges of every Iind , crossed and re-crossed in every direction . English , l ' Ycnrch , Sardinian , anu Turkisli flags ivere streaming out from shopa and balconies . Paris , in fuct , was looking as lively , coquettish , and bewitching , aa only Paris can look ivhi ! n she chooses . But most of the witchery of the scene—keenly enjoyed , though , by tho younger Paragreena—was lost for tho nonce on their respectable parents , who sat with their heads out of opposite windows—one watching with anxiety the dtudinc in the va » —tho other tlie citadine in the roar . In this attitude they reached tlus U ^ l < o lfl Cigognc , Rue St . Honored , recommended by Mrs . Purngrecn ' d cousin , Aldi-rnmn Joli » ct who hail spent some days there , and whose lips had pronounced the dictum of ft clean , respectable , reasonable house , " so rcverentiully inscribed in Mr . 1 ' iuajjrccn 8
note-book . , Mr . Parngreen being a practical man who left as little as possible to chance , ahghtca and said ho would see the rooms- with his own eyes , and settle with the landlor i before any of tho others got out , or nny of tho boxoa were touched . Tlie head walt * oC tho Hotel do la Cigogne , in shirt-slcevea , wliito cniA'at , and red slippers , vt sitting astride a chair , hia face to its back , miffing away at a cijjar . The advent o tho tlvrce citadinea did not occasion any change in hia posture—he did not ov wink , an ominous sign indeed to tho initiated . " Avcz-vouh les nppurteincng 9 ' asked BIr . Purugrcen , walking straight up to thia composed personage . " 1
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1 : 170 _ THE I . EADEB , [ No , 350 , ' ., Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 1170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2170/page/18/
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