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little mouth . Remove these native conditions , the Chinese woman is a caricature ; as the Turkish woman is a caricature , out of the harem . Dr . Yvan tells us that all the Chinese of rank wear a thick ring on the thumb of the right hand , which embraces the whole of the second joint . No mandarin in an official visit , can dispense with this ornament . It isa Tartar fashion , he says , which the conquerors have imposed on the dignitaries of the empire . What , however , he styles an ornament' is a contrivance for drawing the bowstring , which rests behind the bottom of the ring . Those terrible equestrian archers , who overturned the ancient dynasty of China by pouring into it in countless hordes , never appeared unequipped with bow and quiver and the other appurtenances of the art they loved so well . These pan-chi are of the number , being constantly retained , just as in Europe a dragoon never appears in public without his spurs . Toun , a gigantic Tartar general , the doctor says , wore an archery ring of rock crystal as transparent as the button of his cap . Inside Canton is an amusing volume , destined , of course , to be superseded by the "hosts of publications which will shortly appear from the pens of those who have had still better opportunities for research and observation—we mean the officers and private soldiers of our own expedition . Truthful yet marvellous necessarily will be the re velations of the inside life of those quaint barbarians , who amongst their other inexplicable vagaries compel every musketeer to manufacture his own poioder ! and in whose symbolical language the word ' government' is expressed by two characters signifying ' bamboo and stroke . '
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NAPLES AND THE BOURBONS . Naples and King Ferdiiiand . An Historical and Political Sketch of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies . By Elizabeth Dawbarn . Booth . A hough encyclopaedia sketch has been compiled by Miss Dawbarn from Giamone and other obvious authorities , whence , however , the kernel of Neapolitan history is not to be derived . The real chronicle of Naples is to be traced in its rich series of state documents , of which some have been edited byBelmonte , though even these , we think , have been passed over by Miss Dawbarn , who has also , it would seem , neglected Capecelatro and the Modena memoirs . From these and from the Sumonte , Reaumont , and De Santis histories , and the numerous body of collateral writings , might be constructed a narrative equal in interest to that of the Italian Republics themselves ; but the subject has never been treated by an English pen with the same felicity and critical power as the era of the Medicis in Florence and Rome . Miss Dawbarn ' 3 volume is meritorious in so far that it presents a compendious and trustworthy account of events in Napl es from the _ time of the Norman settlement in Sicily to that of the insurrectionary movements against Ferdinand II . It is neat , useful , and entertaining , and , so little Neapolitan history being extant in pur language , it has a chance of popularity . Such a book , indeed , was wanted , so that Miss Dawbarn has rendered a service to general readers . We must point out , however , that when dealing with controverted passages she follows the _ devious beaten track , and supplies only a vulgar version , as is exemplified in her notices of the Sicilian Vespers and Masaniello ' s insurrection . Her view of Masaniello's character is marked by little critical insight , since she adopts the crude prejudices of courtly historians , representing the fi sherman as totally illiterate , as weak enough to be seduced by adulation , and as the cause rather than the personification of the revolutionary spirit that made this Rienzi of the Lazzaroni formidable to the Bourbon throne . Miss Dawbarn has no historical warrant for her assertion that Masaniello ' s death was the signal of general pacification in Naples ; on the contrary , a popular ebullition , taking place almost immediately afterwards , proved * that the nation had not forgotten its wrongs although it had lost the leader who had enabled it to avenge them .
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PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . The most remarkable publication of the week , of course , has been ' 1848 : ' Historical Revelations , inscribed to Lord Normanby , by M . Louis Blanc . ( Chapman and Hall . ) This is really a volume of * revelations . ' The account of M . Louis Blanc ' s familiar intercourse with Louis Napoleon at Ham is of surprising interest . M . Louis Blanc prints a facsimile of the original proclamation of the Provisional Government to the French people . Alluding to England in his preface , in a tone of manly and touching gratitude M . Louis Blanc writes : — " It is no small honour to her that her language should be , at this moment , the vernacular of liberty , the only language in which freemen of evei'y nation can interchange ideas and print their thoughts with any chance of finding a public allowed to read them . These are the reasons why I publish this book in English and in England . " Mr . Bonn has added to his Standard Library a volume of Fosteriana , consisting of Thoughts , Reflections , and Criticisms of John Foster , the Author of ' Essays on Decision of Character . ' The present selection is edited by Mr . Bonn himself . In the same publisher ' s Illustrated Library , the la test volume is the Orlando Furioso , translated from the Italian of Arioato , with Notes by William Stewart Rose , and illustrated with engravings on steel , This edition will be completed in two volumes . A careful , elegant , and complete school edition of the Andria of Terence ( Walton and Maborly ) we owe to the refined and accurate scholarship of Mr . Newenham Travers , Assistant-Master in University College School , who contributes a notice of the life of Torenco , an introduction to the metres of' the play ( particularly well executed ) , a summary elucidation —of ^ the ^ BcenesTHfnvdnn ^^ student over nil the grammatical , etymological , and idiomatic difficulties of the text , and turning a task into a pleasure us he reads . Wo heartily welcome a new and popular edition of Barchcster Tdwers , by Anthony Trollope , author of the * Warden' and the ' Three Clerka . ' It is published by Messrs . Longman and Co ., in one neat volume , prico 5 s . Ursula : a Tale of Country Life , is the title of a now novel by the fine and delicate hnnd of the author of * Amy Herbert , ' published by Messrs . Longman and Co . It is u dainty wo must lay aside for leisurely digestion .
We have received the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews for April late , however , to do more this week than register their publication ' A new political novel has appeared—The Day After To-morrow ; or 1 Morgana , by William de Tyne , published by Mr . Routledge . It seem be a book of disquisitions on the Lords , the Commons , the Church several interests' and ' questions , ' and so far as we have dipped into ' of an original colour . We reserve it for examination next week . Sir William Williams has told his countrymen to study the Art of W That they may do this , Lieut .-Colonel J . J . Graham , late military secret to General Vivian , has written an Elementary History of the Progress of Art of War . ( Bentley . ) It is designed to explain the composition armies , the various military systems that have prevailed at different eno < and the generally acknowledged maxims of modern warfare . Thevolu however , is not one for militai * y readers only . It is popular , as wel scientific . The history of a great Indian war , well told , is completed , in a third e tion , by the third volume of the History of the War in Afglianistaii J . AV . Kaye . ( Bentley . ) Mr . Edward Sullivan , author of several light and lively narratives travel in North and South America , India , Egypt , and the Crimea , sm us Letters from India ( Saunders and Otley ) , addressed to Mr . John Tremay They contain essays on Indian political , military , and social topics , s claim from us more than a passing notice . A very fresh and cheerful book is A Tramp's Wallet Stored by an Em Goldsmith during his Wanderings in Germany and France , by William Dutl ( Darton and Co . ) Of the twenty-eig ht sketches , dedicated to Chai Dickens , sixteen originally appeared in ' Household Words . ' Full of tn and colour , the narrative is worth many ordinary volumes of tour a travel . Among the most conspicuous new novels of the week has been Sir 6 d'Esterre , by Selina Bunbury , author of ' Our Own Story '—2 vols ., pi lished by Mr . Routledge . A pleasant volume , The Sea-side and Aquarium ; or , Anecdote and Got on Marine Zoology , written b y Mr . John Harper , has been issued , w numerous illustrations . ( Edinburgh : Nimmo . ) Mr . Harper photograj the tinted world under the sea-surface , and contrives to render even p < winkles attractive . The Rev . W . II . Fox , B . A ., has edited a new and illustrated edition o valuable work , Buchanan ' s Christian Researches in-India ( Routledge and C ( with a variety of suggestive addenda . We have from Leeds the reprint of a lecture by Mr . W . S . Forster , c titled How we Tax India , professing to describe the financial system oft East India Company . To their series of Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities Mess Maull and Polyblank have added five portraits , with biographical notic by Mr . Watford . The portaits are those of Mr . M . F . Tupper , Profess Faraday , the Earl of Rosse , Mr . John Gibson , R . A ., and Mr . Charles Kes The last is among the best ; but the entire series is admirable . In chart ter and expressions the portrait of Lord Rosse is as perfect as a photogra can be . While waiting for the development of a National Portrait Gallei we have one of a popular , though not common quality here which in hang upon ante-chamber walls , or fill drawing-room portfolios , jSO as render familiar the faces of those whose names are honoured in Lnglat We must , of course , have an occasional Tupper thrown in for effect . Mr . J . G . Edgar is known as the author of a popular book entitled 1 Boyhood of Great Men . ' As a companion volume , he has written 2 Heroes of England : Stories of the Lives of England ^ Warriors by Land a Sea . ( Kent and Co . ) It contains a series of spirited biographical sketch celebrating the achievements of the Black Prince , Raleigh , Abercroinl Moore , Nelson , and other English heroes .
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE . An intelligent foreigner remarked to us the other day , that after an attonti study of musical and theatrical criticism in the English press , he noa comu the conclusion that our critics had formed themselves into a brass uaini , to Bisting of trumpets provided by the managers , concert givers , and eiuww «• «¦ and blown at their discretion in a perpetual lobgeaang . I He resuii , m agreeable combination , he added , wus somewhat monotonous , and wll 01 «^ * rash innovator ventured to play upon an instrument of Ins own ciioosn il , ever modest in dimension and melodious in sound , the effect " » ni 0 % , cordant but offensive . Whether they manage these things better nDnmu cannot any , but as it ia not our ambition to belong to the brass blind in ^ utwj wo are content to play upon our own rccordor , to govern our own ventures , give it breath with our own mouth . , * * - tun rmrul The opening of llisu Majesty ' s Tiuutuk on Tuesday last for tno ret , season wns distinguished by the production of one of those great w ° rK" " are almost identified in this country with the reputation of the } to *^ , , ' , Oi > eua . MisvERnEisu ' e masterpiece , Lu Huguenot * , is in truth a lyric ««»" manding- for its adequate representation vast resources , choral , ore esui , scenic , besides eome half-dozen flrst-rato dramatic artists in the leading pu It cannot bo put on tho stage in a haphazard experimental «« 8 l » on i JJ , Io cheval de bataillc for a particular eingor , without incurring the risKoiIit comparisons . The Opera-going public have for some years past been « " « ° to a magnificent ememlle in the representation of Le * Ifuguenut * , nnd t , io : sib by which they are likely to test a rival performance is high and «»» Vj fl d wo'COuld-lose-Biglit-of-tlus ^ tandardrwo-mighfcy-perhapa ^ bo-botterqurtU ^ do justice to the performance ) at Hrr Majesty ' s Thisatum on it « o v » u under existing circumstnnccfl , vo will elmnly pronounce an mdope dent oj » of its deserts and defects . Its unquestionable deserts are a Pf « f . " *} ' ? . * fltn | to do the best for tho opera to the utmost extent of the capabrtitics oniw tho orchestra , and tho eingors . There are now sconoa , richly P ^' vico eye to what is called < local colour , ' or cieBcriptivo fidelity 1 h ° ™ Vs , of t careful , we do not say suffloiout , drill in the chorus « nd in tho ' »«"""¦ , , , acono . There is pulnstaking zoal and forvour in tho conductor of tno oru and more than average ability in hia band . There ia a principal tunor * iw
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380 _____ THE LEADER . [ No . 421 , April 17 , 185 ft
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Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1858, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2239/page/20/
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