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A BATCH OF BOOKS . Among the last fruits of the season are a number of miscellaneous volumes which must not be neglected , although they call for no elaborate notice . They are the works of essayists , tourists , compilers , and gossips , and represent , no doubt , considerable intelligence and intellectual activity . We have first a slight narrative of travel : China , Australia , and , tlie Pacific Isles , tn the Tears 1855-56 . By J . D'Ewes . ( Bentley . )—Mr . D'Ewes has to tell of four years ' wandering in Australia , the Friendly Islands , the Navigators . Islands , New Zealand , China , and that coronet of Asia the Malayan Archipelago . The Friendly Isles are depicted in a light somewhat different from that in which Mariner saw them . In the Navigators he saw the old bouth bea dances , while among the Malayan groups he was persuaded that a mystery enshrouds the Dutch system of government and trade , which proves that He has not acquainted himself with recent Indian Archipelago literature . But he is generally a well-informed and observant traveller , and has produced ^ a series of readable sketches . Mr . Frederic de Brabant Cooper sends in Wild Adventures in Australia and New South Wales beyond the Boundaries ( J . Black ' wood ) , a record of such wild enterprizes as are now becoming rare , It is freshly and vigorously written . With it we may class a popular little work , Wonderful Adventures of Mrs . Seacole ( Blackwood ) , probably composed for the valiant widow , yet to all appearance substantially truthful , and , at any rate , amusing . The Rev . J . G . Wood has compiled for the delectation of thosewho do not travel , but who only go Tenby or Ilfracombewards , Ihe Common Objects of ihe Seashore : including Hints forah Aquarium— -a collection of fascinating natural history outlines and anecdotes upon a subject the popularity of which is daily increasing . Far different is a blue volume by Mrs . Newton Crossland , Light in the Valley : My Experiences of Spiritualism . ( Routledge . )—It is made up of crazy and incoherent paragraphs , unmeaning arabesques , and pictures of symbols—globes , serpents , locks of hair , red , yellow , and green . The poor authoress raves at random until we are inclined to a / n-ee with the Spirit from whose dictations she writes , " Insanity is from the Inner ; Idiocy from the Innermost . " Stones of the Valley , \> y the Rev . "VV . S . Symonds ( Bentley ) , is a neat and compendious geological description of the Vale of Worcester—a book for local readers , tourists , and geological students generally . We know not to what class of readers Mr . Morgan Kavanag h has addressed An Author his own Reviewer ( J ^ R . Smith ) , a spiteful , unintelligible , and imbecile tirade against certain critics . Those who are interested in special topics , religious , historical , and scientific , may be attracted by the following titles : —The Prophecies Relating to Nineveh and the Assyria ? is , translated from the Hebrew , with introductions and notes exhibiting the principal results of the Recent Discoveries , by G-eorge Vance Smith , B . A . ( Longman and Co . ) ; Christianity the Logic of Creation , by Henry James ( White ) ; The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Blended into one Narrative ( Houlston and Wright ); The Structure and Functions of the Eye , by Spencer Thompson , M . D . ( Groombridge and Sons)—a lucid and informing essay ; Hydropathy , or the Natural System of Medical Treatment , by Edward W . Lane , M . A ., M . D . ( Churchill ); and Collegiate Instruction I ) is ~
il cussed and Elucidated in a Description of Guoll College . . This last seems to b « 0 a prospectus . Durake's Latin Lesson Book ( Houlston and Wright ) is cletu y and compendious . The Author of * The Eclipse of Faith' has edited Selections' from the Cor i- respondence of JR . 22 . H . Greyson , Esq ., in two volumes ( Longman and Co . ) . — e The letters discuss in a clever * earnest , illustrative style a . large variety o : i . topics : the Law of Association , the Language of Emotion , Hypocrisy - Novel-reading , Neologism , Deism , the Plurality of Worlds , Criminal Codes 1 Peace Principles , and others of a religious , political , philosophical , or soda r colour . They are well calculated for popularity . With these volumes mus 1 3 be ranked one by Mrs . Thomas Geldart , Memorials of Samuel Gurney ( W - and F . G . Cash ) . To the interminable catalogue of essays we may ad ( 3 Essays on the Accordance of Christianity tcith the Nature of Man , by Edwar < t Fry ( Constable and Co . )—gracefully and thoughtfully written ; Politica Progress Not Necessarily Democratic—a volume of vague and confused specu lations , by James Lorimer ( Williams and Norgate ) , Lectures and Miscellanie by H . W . Freeland—modest , intelligent , and entertaining ; and The Ques - tions of the Day by a Creature of the Hour ( Longman and Co . ) , who is ner ' fectly satisfied with his own argumentative methods , and . hopes to satisf \ the reader . We have now upon our list several miscellanies totally dis ' similar in their object : A new foreign issue of Horace St . John ' s Li / ' . of Columbus ; Railway Scrip ; or , the Evils of Speculation , a commonplace story , by A . Macfarlane ( Ward and Lock ) ; The History of the Plague q Athens , translated from Thucydides , with remarks upon its Pathology , bj Charles Collier , M . D ., F . R . S . ( Nutt ); and The Efiglish Bread Book foi Domestic Use , by Eliza Acton ( Longman and Co . ) . Of this Bread Book ii is not too much to say that its universal circulation would be a national benefit—for is not our bread poisoned , and does not Eliza Acton teach cottagers and householders of all grades how to make it pure ? We must not close without mentioning , with a kindly word , The Hive ; or , Mental Gatherings , for the Benefit of the Idiot and his Institution ( Whiting ) , a volume of meritorious prose and verse , edited by Miss Eliza Grove . Apart from its charitable purpose , it is deserving of attention . ; !
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Tunis . —A ferocious attack on the Jews of Tunis is reported by the telegraph . The Christians also hftve been threatened . Several persons were killed , and the British Consulate was insulted . Military measures for repressing the outrage were taken very tardily . Health of London . —The deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday wore 1187 , and exhibit a decrease on those returned in the three previous weeks , when they ranged from 1209 to 1288 . In the ten years , 184 . 7-56 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1255 . But the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , and to admit of comparison the average should be raised in proportion to the increase , in which case it will become 1880 . The average rate of mortality would have produced , more deaths by 1 D 3 than the number in the present return ; but it is proper to state that , as that rate is derived in part from periods when cholera raged , it is too high as a measure of health when the population ia happily free from such calamity ; and that the mor * - tality from all causes at tho present time differs little from the ordinary amount at this soason of the year , — The deaths from diarrhoea , which rapidly rose to 802 in tho last week of July , and in the next week deolined to 268 , again exhibit a Blight decrease , tho number returned last week being 244 . Tho registrar of tho subdistrict of Woolwich Arsenal , reports a death from ' English cholera , ' after an illness of forty hours . Tho deceased was a rigger in tho dockyard , and had been employed for several days in raising the convict hulk Defence ; and it appears that he suffered extremely from what was described by him as the ' awful stench ' of tho river during tho performance of his work . —Last week , tho births of 875 boys and 748 girls , in all 1 C 18 children , wore registered in London . In tho ton
corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 , the average number was 1448 . — . From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return . A Prayer Meeting fob India . —A meeting of an extraordinary character was held on Monday evening at Bristol , when several thousand persons of all grades in society and of various religious denominations assembled in the groat music saloon of the Victoria rooms , in that city , for the purpose of joining in united prayer for British India . The meeting was convened by some ministers and laymen , and , before tho hour for commencing tho proceedings , the hall was crowded in every part , while many hundreds wore turned away from tho doors . The mooting was presided over by Charles Pinney , Esq ., of Camp House , and amongst those on tho platform wore Colonel Crawford , of Cotham Park ; Major Upfold , tho Rev . W . Bruce , Rev . Dr . Burder , Rev . J . B . Clifford , Rov . II . J . Roper , Rev . Mr . Hobditob , Rov . Mr . Hill , &c . After an address from tho Chairman , tho devotional exorcises commenced . They consisted of tho reading of Scripture and prayer , and several hymns , specially chosen for tho occasion , were sung . Among those op tho platform woro several mourners for relatives lost at Delhi and other places in India . This Chops . — Tho heavy rains occurring towards tho latter end of last week have done a groat doal of damage to tho cereal crops , especially » n tho neighbourhoods of Nottingham , Leicester and Donoastor , and it is now feared that tho hnrvost , though by no moans likely to bo bad , will not bo equal to tho sanguine expectations excited two or throe -weeks ago . by the unusually hot weather . A writov from Donoaster in tho Times , dating last Saturday , says : —" There has boon most wretched weather since tho 8 th inst ., tho rain having descended
day after day in tho heaviest torrents , and flooded the country in all directions . None of tho oldest farmers in this neighbourhood remember such a continuous and tremendous fall of rain . It is no exaggeration to say that every ear of wheat in tho district is in a measuro spoilt . Wo are not awaro that a single stack had been garnered , although an immense breadth had been cut , and the corn left in sheaves in tho fields has sprouted to an incredible extont , while even the standing crops have grown again , throwing groon shoots out of tho car an inch long . A fortnight ago there was a prospect of reaping the finest crop of wheat , as rogards tho quality of tho grain , ever cut in this part of tho kingdom . It is now certain there will not bo one goodsample throughout the district . Barley is , in many places , in much tho oamo condition as wheat , and is extensively sprouted . Some oats had boon secured , but tho rest are greatly deteriorated . Beans have also suffered much from the effects of tho flood . " In many districts , howover , the damage has been much loss considerable ; and in flome tho crops had been safely housed before the bad woathor set in . Tho wet has boon very advantageous to the groon crops , and tho condition of tho hop plantations has beon greatly improved . An Ox Impai-kd in Covknt-Gauuicn . —An ox , which was being drivon from tho cattle-market to tho Southwestern Railway , took fright and rushed through Groat Quoen-stroot and Russell-street , into Covont-gnrdoii , whore , finding itself stopped by an iron gato erected across a roadway in front of the Bedford Head Tavern , It attempted to leap tho obstacle , and In bo doing became . Impalod on the spikos . Tho struggles and roarings of tho animal soon drew a large crowd , and it was at length , with great difficulty , removed and taken away in a van to bo killed .
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\ THE C LOSE OF THE MONT BLANC SEASON . London is about to undergo its usual autumnal eclipse—the temporary withdrawal of Mr . Axbekt Smith from that charming Swiss chalet of his , which , by a pleasing incongruity of association , he has established in the Egyptian Hall , Piccadilly . In other words , the so-called Mont Blanc Diorama is about to close for the next few months , in order to enable its author to recruit his health , and gather fresh ideas for our amusement and delight . Mr . Albert Smith ' s entertain * naentnow belongs as much to the nation as Parliament itself does ; and , like Parliament , it is prorogued at due seasons . To-night is the last performance for the present . " The ever-buoyant lecturer is . about to proceed to Italy , and to asceud Mount Vesuvius , to which he will introduce his friends when he comes back- —not , however , to the exclusion of the famed White Mountain . Albert Smith , indeed , is the veritable King of that mountain ; and he has such loyal , loving , and self-taxing subjects at Chamounix that he is obliged to carry with him , when he goes there , all the necessaries and luxuries of life , as the inhabitants positively will not allow him to pay for anything ,. This feeling of regard is shared by all frequenters of the Egyptian Hall . To pay a visit there is like passing an evening in the best of company at the most delightful of houses with tbo pleasantest of hosts . May the shadow of the Piccadilly Mont Blanc never be less—nor its sunshine ! Mh . Anderson , ' the Wizard of the North , ' has been giving some of his performances at tho Lyceum , to the great delight of British youth , and of British manhood too . Tho ' Professor' works such strange effects in the nature of things that he might take for his motto the words of his semi-mythical countryman ( as chronicled by the divine Williams ) : —' And nothing is but what is not . '
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We have purposely refrained from noticing - Mrs . Robinson s politica narrativeT be ^ au ? e—to use her own phrase—her «' proclivities are _ to SSSSSatWe do not question the truth of her statements so far as the STbut ^ Sey are evidently incomplete . It is clear that the townof ^ Law fence was m a state of rebellion , and that her husband usurped the govern Sent So doubt the pro-slavery party was guilty of most unjustifiabL Scenes , butit is equally certain tna £ the free-state men were the aggressors Mrs . Robinson is shocked at Colonel Burns , of Missouri sending _ h . s com pliments to Colonel Lane , of Lawrence , with " a small limb of a tree wit a b 3 in it and hemp bound round it . " But the good lady chuckles ove : thereply given by her husband to some one who asked what answer h « would make if the governor ' s people demandedjiis arms . « I would pro pose a compromise measure , " he said ; " keep the rifles and give them th < contents . " Like Peachum and Lockit , they were both in the wrong , e ambo pugnare jparati . .
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No . 387 . Atopst 22 , 1857 . 1 THE LHADJE . 813
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 813, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2206/page/21/
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