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be eaten either hot or cold . It is to be adopted into the Moira cookery , and styled sauce royal . There also seems a method of dressing roast pork , -which is to be tried . Thence Lady Moira passes to the Byzantine historians . Andrew Caldwell was one of Bishop Percy ' s most frequent correspondents . Passages like the following abound in his letters : — I liave had a long , agreeable letter from Mr . Malone . He mentions a curious sale of the farrago of the famous Samuel Ireland , the Shakespeare Papers , in three immense volumes , bound in , russia , green boxes ¦ without end , with old leases , deeds , seals , and playhouse accounts , to take in hunters of curiosities . The whole produced , nominally , 1380 / ., but really 1000 J ., which appears to me pretty -well , and full the worth . The Shakespeare MS . and some others were puffed extravagantly , but it is supposed they remain on hand , and the biters were bit . ...
I have had a letter from Charlotte Smith . She is writing more volumes of the ' Solitary Wanderer' for immediate subsistence . This work I have not seen , but it is well spoken of . She is a woman full of sorrows , and I fear her misfortunes are scarcely to be mitigated- One of her daughters made an imprudent marriage ; the man , after behaving extremely ill and tormenting the family , died lately of a fever ; the widow has come to her mother , not worth a shilling , and with the addition of three young children . These are pitiable cases , and the more so where there is the genius and sensibility of Charlotte Smith . ... I hear much of an Account of the Expedition to Egypt , by Sir Robert Wilson . It is very authentic , but discloses such atrocities of Buonaparte as are scarcely to be conceived .
The ' Essay on Abstinence' I just looked into in the shop ; it is a continual succession of quotations , which of all styles in writing is the heaviest , and grows the most tiresome . I have sometimes thought , from the example of the Gentoos , that vegetable diet emollit mores ; but the people of a certain land that we know are an instance to the contrary , —as ferocious as you please , feeding entirely on a wholesome vegetable called potato . The following letter is from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Bishop Percy , and is dated February , 1783 : —
I am ashamed of not answering your lordship ' s letter sooner , but I will not fill this with apologies . I spoke to Sir Joseph Banks about it , who says , that on the receipt of Mr . Trocke ' s letter he gave the bill of lading , which he received from Mr . Trocke , to his broker ; that , on his leaving town , at the end of August , he had not received from his . broker any account of the wine being arrived ; that during his stay in the country , he having confidence in his broker and his broker in him , nothing passed between them concerning the wine ; that Mr . Trocke ' s letter of September 30 was answered , not by return of the post , as Sir Joseph thought it useless , but Avith his first leisure . On his return to town he found the wine lodged in Mr . " Colman ' s cellar , according to his orders , and forwarded , without delay , the certificate to Mr . Trocke . and
The wine was tasted at the Turk ' s He a d , the meeting before the last , was pronounced to be good wine , but not yet fit for drinking ; we have , therefore , postponed any further progress in it till next year , when , I hope , your lordship will have an opportunity of tasting it yourself . I wished to have an opportunity of sending you my last Discourse , though it is scarce wortli sending so many miles . The club seems to flourish * this year ; we have had Mr . Fox , Burke , and Johnson very often . I mention those because they are , or have been , the greatest truants . la May , 1787 , Robert Henry writes : — A rural poet , one Eobert Burns , a ploughman in Ayrshire , hath published a volume of poems , which have been so well received that 3500 copies were sold in a few weeks . And in 1785 Bishop Percy informs Mr .
Malone—Goldsmith has an only brother living , a cabinet-maker , who has been a decent tradesman , a very honest , worthy man , but he has been very unfortunate , and is at this time in great indigence . It has occurred to such of us here as were acquainted with the Doctor , to print an edition of his poems , chiefly under the direction of the Bishop of Killaloe and myself , and prefix a new , correct life of the author , for the poor man ' s benefit ; and to get you , and Sir Joshua Reynolds , Mr . Steevens , &c , to recommend the same in England , especially among the members of the Club . If we can but subsist this poor man at present , and relieve him from immediate indigence , Mr . Orde , our Secretary of State , has given us hope that ho will procure him some little place that will make him easy for life ; and then we shall have shown our regard for the departed Bard by relieving his only brother , and , so far as I hear , the only one of his family that wants relief . The volume contains a plenitude of similar matter , the literary gossip o ^ history .
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THE MOORS AND THE FENS . The Moors and the Fans . By F . G . Trafford . 3 vols . Smith , Elder , nnd Co . Mb . Tbaffokd has selected a strange title for his romance , which is only one of the moors and the fens in so far as it concerns the fortunes of a Highland damsel and a Lincolnshire heir to a baronetcy . The Highland ' heroine is a child of the clan Frazer , reduced by misfortune to povorty , and compelled with her mother to seek an asylum with an opulent relative inhabiting a dingy house in the dingiest square in London . Here calamity once more bel ' ala her , for at her benefactor ' s death his vast property is claimed by a separated wife , who proves in the end , however , to have been a bigamist , so that poetical justice is satisfied . In tho meanwhile there flourishes uinong tho fong u Lincolnshire baronet , a miser to tho marrow of his bonea , and his son and heir is the hero of the novel . This younjj ; man , too , is robbed of his inheritance , and the current of his life , by a felicitous coincidence , joins that of tho rnoor-brod Minn . Many telling episodes occur in the course of the narration , which is woll written , although voluminous to excess . What wo have indicated as tho loading points only faintly-6 ugges £ 4 l » aJnteri 2 aMYi ^^ conitnvod to infuse into his ingenious and original atory . Measuring it by tho circulating irbTKry standard , we may promise success and reputation to The Moors and tho Fans .
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ALGIERS IN 1857 . Algiers in 1857 . By tlio Rov . E . > V . L . Dftvios , M . A . ' Longman and Co . This is a pleasant picture which Mr . DnvieB brings from Algiers . It is brightly coloured and richly varied . Mr , Pavics points the way to future tourists , describes the climate and resources of tho country , gives special
directions to invalids , and discourses upon the enjoyments to be obtained in the French colony . He is likely , we think , to send many a summ er wanderer and winter fugitive thither , unless the new passport system excludes the world from all parts of Algeria except the Lambessan rocks and swamps , whither a Frenchman may find his way easily enough . The mean temperature of Algiers exceeds that of Malta , Malaga , Madeira , Rome , Nice , and Pau ; it is warmer in winter than Cairo , but excessive heat is as unknown as excessive cold . Upon arriving Mr . Davies and his party located themselves at first in an hotel ; but the noise and confusion speedily drove them into furnished lodgings . In this respect the French infringement upon Africa has been considerably Europeanized ; but enough of the native character remains to preserve the picturesque , and stores of good things fill the markets—fish , vegetables , fruit , game , wine , matchless coffee , milk ; the streets are scrupulously clean , and to a sensitive nose immaculate . Thus the material necessities of life exist in abundance , and if gentlemen are in
search of poetry they can discover it by mounting the roof of an empty house and gazing upon the fair Moresques disporting in gauzy dishevelment upon their terraces . Only this amusement is likely to be interrupted by a rifle ball , accurately aimed by the green eye of an Infidel . Then , in point of landscape beauty , Alg iers is unexcelled : villas and gardens cluster round the city , the sea beats transparently blue upon the shore , Moorish houses stand upon every accessible plateau , and the earth _ is tinted with red geraniums , pomegranates and myrtles , oranges and citrons , jeiyel-bright and delicious . Even the rocks wear draperies of variegatedparasites , and along well-made roads among these paradises clatter the omnibuses from the Rue
Babeloued with a Mahonese driver , a nigger huckster , and a Moorish fisherwoman on the box , and inside , perhaps , a dashing French lady in a Pompadour hoop , a solemn Bedouin Arab in a burnous , a veiled Moresque , a Turk , an Englishman , an African Chasseur . As to the general society of the colony Mr . Davies found it very animated and agreeable , while the perambulating population o f the town furnishes forth a daily masquerade exhibition of Sahara burnouses , enormous Turkish turbans , Mufti robes , the purple-and-gold-wrought draperies of the Algerine Jew , and spectral whiteclad women , whose only visible human attribute is the speculation in their unveiled eyes . Concerning the Algerine graces Mr . Davies has much to say , including two or three anecdotes of a most agreeable quality . He has written altogether an entertaining and graphic volume .
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PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . Mb . John Chapman has published a work of a singular nature , Theism , Doctrinal and Practical , by Francis W . Newman . It is a development of his former work , ' The Soul / which appeared nine years ago . The form and style are peculiar , and Mr . Newman professes to have adopted his plan for special reasons , which he does not care to explain . Mr . Trubner has published a second edition of Mr . Thomas Rainey ' s valuable treatise , Ocean Steam Navigation , and the Ocean Post . Mr . Rainey
remarks , in a section headed ' Mail Steamers cannot live on their own receipts , ' "It is clear that , notwithstanding all of the advantages to be gained from increased size , steamers cannot support themselves upon the ocean . Let us examine the case of such a ship as the Leviathan . I do not see that there is any normal trade in which she can run successfully . She may transport six thousand tons of measurement goods to Australia , but it will be at the expense of fourteen to sixteen thousand tons of coal , if the passage is made in fair time . " In other respects he calculates against
the Leviathan . Messrs . Smith and Elder have published a second edition of T / te Views and Opinions of Brigadier-General John Jacob , collected and edited by Captain Lewis Felly , author of « Our North-West Frontier . ' Some of General Jacob ' s remarkable communications were recently addressed to the leader The , Memoirs of James , Marquis of Ifonlrosc , by James Grant , published by Mr . ltoutledge , we reserve for notice . Tho Rev . W . Owen has written , and Messrs . Simpkin and Marshall have published , a neat Memoir of Sir Henry llacelock , with portrait and autograph . Christian Baptism Spiritual , not Ritual , is the title of a volume by Mr . Robert Mncnair , published by Messrs . P « iton and Ritchie , Edinburgh . Messrs . Holyoake and Co . have published an English translation of ' i'k Late Genoese Insurrection Defended . Parlies in Italy , What are l / ici / r INmt have they Done ? a series of eloquent and suggestive letters by Josepn
Mnzzini . Mr . Murray has published a now edition , with numerous ill ustrations , ot Mrs . Jameson ' s charming and popular work , Memoirs of the liarh / JMu » Painters , and of the Progress of Painting in Italy . It is neat in form , won printed upon good paper , and is a very elegant cabinet volume . This week wo only announce- letters from Spain in 185 G and 1 H 57 , » Y John Loycostor Adolphus , M . A ., published by Mr . Murray . Two Important volumes have been issued by Mr . Murray , notices ot which are necessarily reserved— the late Earl of Ellesmero ' s LsMi j * on wtQM , Ji /« ffaU ! APi Oeogranltif . ISngbieoring , £ c , contributed to tho ^ l "" llQ % Extinct Volcanoes of Cent ml Franca , by George l ' oulutt bcrapc , ftl . i ., w " illustrative maps , views , and panoramic sketches . Mr . Hontley has published a now novel in two volumes , by Miss Juiu
Tilt , entitled Tho Old Palace . . The work On the Mechanical Appliances necessary for the Treatment of JJ < formitiw , by Mr . Henry Heather Bigg , noticed last week , waa stuiuu bo published by Mcasrs . Longman mid Co . It should have boon Mr . Churchill .
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284 THE LEADER . [ No . 417 , March 20 , 1885 .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1858, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2235/page/20/
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