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The Hasty Marriage : a Sketch of Modern Jewish Life . "¦' . By Nathan Meritor . ( Mann and Co . }—Here is a book of a somewhat singulai * character . It is a lesson read to the Jewish community of our own . days . Mr . Meritor urges that Jewish g irls are tempted into early marriages by the Church , and the dazzling promises of the society surrounding them . He maintains his opinions with , a good deal ' of unconvincing dogmatism , and elicits an abundance of mock tragedy out of a marriage of a Jewess with a Catholic , the ceremony being performed by a Protestant minister . There is little likelihood that the denunciations of Mr . Nathan Meritor will result in a social reform among Jews or Christiana . Clmpeltown . ; or , The Fellow Students . By an English Congregational Minister . ( Ward and Co . )—This is the history of a local ministration , ¦ conceived in a kindly and enthusiastic spirit , written with propriety and feeling , and interesting on account of the obvious fidelity of its delineations .
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BOOKS FOE , THE YOUNG . Mk . Wit . wam Chambers has published a pretty volume entitled The Youth's Companion and CottnseUor ( W . and R . Chambers ) . In his early years , he says , there was a well-known "book called The Yo ? ing Man's Best Companion , which , as wu remember , bad no little pedantry in its composition . His own object has been to combine familiar instruction with friendly counsels on a variety of topics not generally embraced in educational treatises . The moat prominent sections are—on education , on the art of reasoning , on literary tastes and acquirements , on the care of the person , on . the choice of a profession , on matrimony , character , and conduct . Topics less universal are introduced—public speaking , stenography , matters of public concern , duties as subjects , and others . AH publications of this class are ballasted , more or less , by truisms , and characterized by personal sentiments of no general value . . Mr . Chambers , however , has compiled a sensible and agreeahle series of essays , plain , short , and practical , and -we have no doubt that he will be adopted as a mentor by those young gentlemen who believe in manuals of maxini 3 and eiicyclopajdias of propriety .
Miss Pardoe has collected , principally from the works of Oriental scholars on the Continent , a number of Oriental stories , which she has published under the title of The Thousand and One Days : a . Companion to the Arabian Nights ^ William Lay ) . AJl who relish the romance of the East will gladly revisit the glimpses of diamond suns and opal inoons—forgotten , perhaps , since the Arabian Nights were laid aside , but glittering with Oriental radiance in these Arabian Days . Among the publications of the season , for the delight of the young , a better does not lie on our table than The T / iousand-and One Days .
Miss Anne Bowman , in The Young Exiles 3 - or , the Wild Tribes of the North { Routledge and Co . ) , takes her young heroes and heroines by the hand and leads them right through Siberia , and across the sea to the Esquimaux shore . Her tale is one of Russian exile . ; and it may be imagined what use she makes , with the help of a spirited engraver , of nocturnal convict journeys , forests , mines , slavery , sledging , bears , wolves , strange discoveries , desperate adventures , escapes , and all those other incidents which appertain , theoretically , to Siberian banishments , especially when the chief actors are boys . Boys and girls , then , will be her readers , and wlile amused and even excited by her narration , will gain some useful knowledge on the barbarous road .
The Three Sergeants ; or , Phases of a Soldier ' s Life ( Eifingham Wilson ) . Tlie Three Sergeants do not address their book to the young only , but to the young we especially commend it-. It tells how Thomas Morris , William Morris , and William Morris junior , sergeants , and wearers of clasps and medals , have seen service in Germany , Holland , Belgium , France , India , and the Crimea . The narrator i $ Thomas Morris , of the 73 rd Highlanders , and we assure all whom it may concern—boys in particular—that the accounts of fighting in this book are animating and admirable . The Rev . G . S . Wood , a favourite naturalist , has published a new volume , Mr / Feathered Friends ( Routledge and Co . ) , illustrated by Mr . Harrison " Weir . A book with such a title , from the author of Sketches and Anecdotes of Animal Life t and Common Objects of tlie Seashore , announces itself . Mr . Wood knows bow to make every page instructive and entertaining .
While the young-eyed generation , of the weaker sort , dwells upon anecdotes of hawks and humming-birds , a bolder race may select Mr . Walter Thornbury as a Christmas historian . He brings us a new edition of The Bticcaneers j or , the Monarchs of the Main , with illustrations by Phiz ( Routledge and Co . ) . The illustrations alone will make the heart of ' fierce fourteen' leap with expectancy : —* Two to Fifty , ' Pierre le Grand surprising the Spanish Captain , ' * the Monks compelled to carry the Scaling-ladders , ' ' Morgan and the Spanish Lady , * Sawlrins Boarding Pcralta ' s Ship , ' 'Wood Rogers brings olF Alexander Selkirk , ' and l the Death of Blackboard . ' The book is not for the holidays only ; it will be tsiken back to school , and , we fear , illicitly thumbed instead of luce or Mavor .
Round Games ( Dean and Son ) . We cannot help admitting that children's evenings are often dull , even when the one purpose in view is gaiety A chai'niing little manual of suggestions was published by Messrs . Chambers a few years ago ; here is another of a more infantine quality , l-athcr spoiled by the educational aim of the compiler .
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MISS ARABELLA GpDDAltD , The series of classical performances with which M . Jcllieh lias concluded his present season of Concerts has restored , for a few days , the popular prestige that once accompanied 'his name . We were attracted by the announcement that Miss Arabella Goi > x > Aitr > would perform the Concerto in E flat on the second Beethovek night . The professional career of this very fascinating and gifted young lady has been one of unvarying success and increasing distinction . We confess . we were at one time a little apprehensive : of the effects of praise which to many may have appeared almost excessive in its emphasis and iteration . Acknowledging always the high and rare endowments of the fair pianiste , we felt that she had a just claim to the severity , and no need at all of the indulgence , of independent criticism , and that the most dangerous enemies of real talent were often injudicious friends . The leading critics , it is true , qualified tlieir fully-deserved eulogies with seasonable advice ,
and sometimes with a tone of kindly warning , but we have always felt that in addressing praise to unfulfilled renown , the voice should be rather one of hopeful counsel than of indiscriminating compliment . Miss Arabella G-oddabd may well excite the warm interest of English criticism .-she long ago promised to be the first English pianiste ofher day , and we are disposed to affirm unhesitatingly now ,. . ' . that slie has fulfilled the promise of her earlier ( happily she is still in her early ) days . 3 Tive years since , she played with amazing skill , courage , and brilliancy ; but occasionally her experiments were a little too ambitious , and betrayed the temerity of her years and the need of self-denying study . There was then more mechanical proficiency tlian feeling , without which musical art is but a sleight-of-hand . But a few years ( we believe we commit no indiscretion in saying that in . ' 52 Miss Arabella Goddard was only sixteen ) have ripened the thought , intensified the feeling , and strengthened , the hand of
this gifted young goddess of the chords . It is one thing to simulate emotion , another to express it . In her playing of the concerto the other evening- there was a quiet intensity of feeling , a brave and modest aar of rapt attention , an utter absence of aU vulgar affectation , which , spell-bound the audience in a reverential silence , and satisfied the austerest critics . We were reminded by turns of the energy and grandeur of Madame Plevel , of the airy tenderness and morbidezza of Mademoiselle Clatjss , of the perfect mastery aud > earnest simplicity of Madame Clara Schumann . We do not mean to say that die combines in an equal degree all the attributes of each of the three great players we have named , but that she is wanting in none . May we be permitted to ¦ whisper that time has also fulfilled the other promise of her early youth , and has touched the lines of beauty with that saddened grace which is but the outward and visible expression of the music of the heart ?
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Her Majesty ' s Tiiuatke . —We are to have , at Christmas ? a perfect democratic and social revolution in the musical world . Mr . Lumley commands the barricades which we doubt not will be necessary on the occasion . The opera at Christmas ! Think of that , Uaut Ton and fashionable Routine ! Giuglini and Piccolomini flushed with German triumphs return to London the week after Christmas-day , and are announced to appear in the Ti-ovatore , the Traviuta , and Lucia ,. It will be the first time that iUadlle . Piccolomini has been heard in the Trovatora in London . Portrait of RunrasrisiN . — -Mr . Ella has presented tlte subscribers to his valuable and interesting ' Kecord , ' with , a speaking portrait of the young Russian , pianist and composer , who was the lion of the Musical Union last summer . The > grand Bkethoven brow , the deep-set eyes , the rich , full , sensitive mouth , are all here , with that eayer and earnest boyishnesh . of look which adds a . \\ iufmitc charm to the self-possession , the simplicity , and the thoughtful power of Rubinstein ' a face .
The Pantomimes . —The Pantomime world , is busy devising wonders for Boxing Night . We hear great things of The Sleeping Beauty in tkti Wood ; or , Harlequin mid his / Spiteful Fairy , at the Haymakiuct , produced under special direction of the author , no less a person than Mr . Buck-stone himself . At tlio Princess ' s tho Pantomime is to be called Harlequin and the White Cat ' , or , the Princess Blanche flower and tfic Fairy Godmother ; and wo know what to expect in the way of scenery and mechanism at this beautiful theatre . At the Lycuum tlie able and accomplished stagemanager , Mr . William Bitouan , is again the author of the ICxtravaganza which is founded on * Lalla Itookh : ' the very title is a fuscination . For the Olympic Mr . Roukrt BnouGii , whose name is identified with the success of this house , has an extravaganza called , The Doge qf Duralto ; or , The Enchanted JSi / es , in which , of course , Mr . Robson will tnke the town by storm ; aided by a powerful phalanx of beauties . At tho Auelphi the combination of extravaganza and panto mime , which has
been found to work so well , will bo repeated this year in tho shape of an adaptation of the lovely legend of Cupid and Psyche . We hope that in this case at least tho courao of true love may run smooth . Returning to the Haymarickt , wo should mention that to give duo effect to the mechanical changes , Mr . Ufcicsrosiis has leased somo large premises adjoining tho Haymakkict , formerly known as Lang ' s Shooting Gallery , and which will now become a portion of the theatre . The alteration in tho prices of admission Laving caused so much satisfaction to tho public , to give more accommodation to the frequenters of tho lower gallery , on ami after Boxing-night tho uppor gallery will bo abolialwd , and the entire spuco converted into one Hpuciuua gallery . The access from the pit to tho upper boxes will from that night bu so arranged that stairs from the lobby of the pit will bo constructed Lo admit tmcli of tho audience at once to the uppor boxes who may wiah to go there . It is also determined , we are very glad to hear , that in the scenes of the harlequinade thu system of making them tho medium of advertisement will be utterly discarded .
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« DEPAimJKE OF THE ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY . This night , the Pvnk and Hakhison company perform for the last time at the Xycecm , previous to undertaking a professional tour in the provinces . We liave had of late so many demands on our space , in the shape of events of historical and national importance , tliat we have been unable to give as much attention to the charming entertainments provided for the town by Miss Louisa Pxne , Mr . Hahrison , and their comrades , as their excellence demands , or our own aense of what is due would gladly have accorded . Tho brief Hcason now on tho point of closing is decidedly the best attempt that lias yet been made to establish that for which there is evidently a demand when it is properly mauag « il—aa Eugliali Opera . Miss Py . ne is one of tho purest , sweetest , and
most entirely delightful of our native singers—equal to all the difficulties of her art , yet enclianting the popular ear by the perfection ofher lyric power , her simple faculty of singing for singing ' s salce . Add to this—the chief element of her success—a quiet , easy self-possession on the stage , a pleasant speaking voice , and a thoroughly lady-like deportment , and it will be no matter for wonder that the Lyceum should have been crowded nightly from pit to gallery . Her sister , Miss Sosan Pyne , must also receive a word of praise and congratulation ; and of Mr . Harrison it may fairly be said that he is not only a genial and manly singer ( though with some faults of style , which , however , , appeal more to the fastidious than to the popular ear ) , but an excelLent actor a very unusual thing on the operatic stage . Mr .- Weiss has likewise been an able fellow-workman ; and the orchestra and chorus , under the admirable direction of Mr . Alfeed Mellos , have fulfilled all that the most critical apprehender of unity of effect , or the want of it , could desire . Mr . George Honey has rendered good service in the way of humorous acting ; but , if the company were permanently fixed in London , we should suggest the omission of tlie farce after the opera . Such a mixture of stupidity and vulgarity as Mr . Edward Stirling ' s Pair of Pigeons should be banished to the Saloons .
Mr . Baize ' s Rose of Cast Hie is by this time so firmly fixed in popular estimation that criticism would be superfluous . It appears to us to be hastily composed ; but it disguises an impossible libretto in a prodigality of tune , and is sparkling and felicitous from the first note to the last .
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Ko . 404 , Deckmber 19 , 1857 . 1 1 H E LB A D E '& . 121 q
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 19, 1857, page 1219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2222/page/19/
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