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written-, and fult-of ctiaraefeer :. It would be nothing-to say that 2 ! ue lAgkt of Other-Bays is interesting as » 8 tory , if it did not interest in a manner that sets it apart from the romances which float in andout of the circulation libraries . ¦
every year : We- willrpomfr to some- of 5 the details ¦ which mark the experimental'character of Mri Reade r s novel . The first volume opens full upon a criminal courty-where a young lady of birth and position is standing her trial for murder ; all heie is vaga-e , and the view dissolves dimly , bringing two of tfie ¦ personages-concerned upon another scene , guy with the levity of unacknowledged love , and thence the-transition is immediate to a death-bed—a group designed and painted with uncommon originality and force . It is , however , painfully , cruelly minute . Similar , though with asli <» ht exaggeration <> K tone , is the scene of Reginald Hengist ' a dismissal from bid home ; but here Mr ; Reade ' . 'dwells with an ein-p-hasis of doubtful etfeefc upun
the possibility of a personal mortal conflict betweenafather an = d his son . However , this is a part of his plan , and if the execution be adequate , the conception does not degrade the work . Two other criticisms we will venture . We do not like to meet in any- author quotations from his own works , but it must be added that M > . Reade is generous in this respect , and scatters words of ample courtesy to his contemporaries . Again , it was perliaps inevitable that such a , writer should create literary lieroes and heroines who will discourse on books and authors ; but there is an occasional l'edundanee of" his critical diatogtsev and it is ¦ questionable whether Bulwer , Dicfceos , Disraeli , and ) , other : litepary meo of our own day ought to be usheced : into a . roumntio drawing ^ room , by name ,: especially when the ttoveliat has beea included , ia the same circle with , themselves .
Lastly , Mr . lie . ade attacks his critics too vehemently .. He forces , long colloquies on the bile , -gall ,, ribaldry , and cowardice of anonymous reviewers ; he talks of bloodiess ' tyrannies ; . he impeaches " the ruffian of the neri" ' whose " ser , jienttne and malignant nature" prouipts him to attack a brother author . Against' this sort of invective introduded into . a novel , we must protest . It may add a spice , to Mr . Heade r s voluiues ; hut it is suspiciously out , of place . Mr . Reade . should know that ribald and slanderous erttMasju carries no weight , that it ia , never admitted into the columns of aay ) cMfgaoa forwliieh he or any bae else need care ,, and that constantly , ¦ when a " malignant review . "is attributed toa friend , . it has been a thankless ^ w « fk oiVeonScfonee 1 by- a strangerv Not to part in disputation with Thehighttf Other Bays , we heartily Teeomme + id it ;
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THE HISTOIIY AND ANTIQUITIES OF LAMBETH : The History and'Antiquities ( rfjLanibBik : B vJohn Tanswell , of the Inirer Temple , Member of the Surrey Archaeological Society , Gamden Society , &c . . Pickton . Saxon , chroniclers derive toe name of this parish fromtwo words , signifying 41 Ditt Haven . " Since , it is . spelt nine distinct ways ia ancient records , will Mr . Tuns well sanction © up ascent to a still higher antiquity ? In- " Dowesd *}* , " the first ay liable ia-written £ «* . May not this , ba a slight , corruption of : tbeanraenfc . British words * . Llan , a Saint , ainl betli , a , grayer —• iia ' -. ibe •* -Saint ' s grave . ' * Ask ' any Welsh' rostie for a translation of those two Eng-Msh words-into his native tongue , he will a * oncereply , " SaintV grave ? Macbeth . " Bat whatever may betlie true derivation , this portion of tbe southern bank of Old Fatter Thames is invested with the highest historical
associations from heing , the metropolitan residence of England ' s Primate . True it is * . tUat multitudes whose tUief glory is , gam ,, and traffic their religion , seeking in all tilings the positive and the useful , nuiy coldly ask of what importance ; ia a naoss-cUid . stOD < e ,, a slwtteredcalunuv or a : headless statue ? To such , a bah ); of merchaiulise is ,, doubtless , preferable to a Corinthiajt capital ; and all tfae obelisks that strew- the-sands , © f Egypt seem in their eyes- less interesting ' thai * the scutptured marble- that adorns their domestic henrth . Let not'tbeseexaniplesj h « wevers deter the enthusiastic worshipper of ' art from preserving- the purity of his faith . Wherein pursuit of his daily <; pmmcrcial avocations he hurries through the densely-packed streets of Southwark , he may spare a gl / ince at the stately tower and crumbling of
^ Tories St . Mary , Qvery , and recal' its legend . How Overs , the Thames ferryman , and has dau ^ ttter . Mury » having , amassed wealth by their joint ibboW at thuft ow 1 ( dfcjvote . < d a portion of it to God % andiounded a . " llouae of Sisfcern" near the spot vrhorcthutveay chuixh of St . Iklaiy Overy now stands . Hurrying- onwards through the squalor and sordid aspect oi' Kent-street , he will recal to min « l that he treads tlie same l-ond wbicbjcigrliteen centuries ago , echoed with th ^ me « 8 nred tramp of Ccesar ' s victorious colxn'ts marching upon the hero CassibcIIan ' s-last retreat ^—London—his- " cit y , in the wood . " Unmindful , too , of-the foul atmosphere , the filth and vice of " Lock ' a-neldathe Alsatia of La mbeth—he thinks only of the time when , standing there on the green tur £ the broad shadow of many a stately tree above them , the bowmen of WalAvorth
Ckpt into the clout at twelve score . The placo was , set apurt for them by act of Parliament , and is still distinguished by itflL anciettt-epithet-t . '' Ncwingtoa Butts . " It is very deaimble . that ail the suburban meU'opolitan , districts should find an historian , once in every- quarter , of a , eeutuiry . The chunges which have occurred ' in Lambeth evou vrithin . that short period strikes us us something marvellous . Wandering through its tortuous street and b }' - iraysv with Mr . Tanswell a book aa his guide , the explorer , be ho parochinl or extra--parocWnl , must derive much instructive amusement in comparing London it and is
as was now . Where glass-houses , gasometers , factories <> t white lead , shot , and pottery now taint the atmosphere and obscure the heavens above ,. some of the rarest and most solitary of our British fauna once ranged at large . The manors of Lambeth were well btocked with every kind of giuno and animal of chase . Andrew Perne , 1 ) . D ., J > ean ol Blyk had Uo « n « e to appoint one oi" Ins aetvanta , hy special nauxo , to shoot therewith uny craassbow / kanxlgonne , &c , at all imuuusv of dead marks , a * vr ^ ws , corunortntfsykytes , andoucb like ; buetarda v wyld swans , bttrnacled , * teal , ducks , coots , fen-fowls , wild dovea ^ small bi rds ^ &c ; and at all manner of deare , red , fallow ^ mvJ . ro e ^
" " will not soar above the forests of masts in the ^ pool / ' to lave their pinioios in that black and fetid stream above , Westminster ^ whi ca erst was , the " silver Thames . ' So rare is the bustard beeojiae . that a . solitary speeimen saen any where « t the . present day , evea ia the central wastes of Salisbury Plain * would summon to bis destruction every . " hand <* oiinet " in the county of Wilts ; and the cool , stony creeks , overhung with verdure the la > wns and hazel woods , must havo enjoyed ia Lambeth a silence and a seclusion we cannot now realize even in idea , to . have given conwenial harbour to the antlei-ed stag— " , fallow , or . roe ^ " Yet so it wasi ° A j * ood denl of the best portion of Mr . Tanswell ' s book ia devoted to thte episcopal paJace , founded by the Italian' Archbishop Bomface , in 1202 , a ? an expiatory oflering . During a visit to the Priory of St * Bartholomew ia Smithfield , he was so exasperated by a ' certain reply of the sub-prior ^ that he siwote him on the face , saying ,... " Indeed , indeed , doth ; it become voo
lde swaniMsa Uhe sight of a yellow-footed kite wheelUjg with airy circles , high in the deep blue azurer—as is her wont—would at the presen-t daji . cause a jnither serious obstruction on Lambeth-causeway . Cormorants , barnacles and
English traitors to answer me V Thus raging , and with oaths not to-be repeated , he rent in pieces . tl » e rich cape of the sub-prior , trod it under his feet , and thrust ^ him against a pillar of , the chancel with such violence that he almost killed him . But the canons , seeing their sub-prior thus almost slain , came and plucked off the archbishop with sucli force , that they overthrew him backwards , whereby they might see he was armed and prepared to fight ! The canons , getting away as well as they could , ran , bloody and miryv rent and torn , to the iiishop of London , but they got no redress . U e have here as pretty an arcWiepiscopal set-to as the reader would desire to see of a suni » mer ' s day . It reminds us forcibly of the doings of a certain Bishop of Winchester , whom Shakspeare introduces picking a qutirrel with liumphrey Duke of Gloucester , ahout the flight of a falcon : " Down at the old oak , whispers the pugnacious prelate , tor the king was within earshot , " bring with the thy two-handed sword . "
The great hall of Lambeth Palace , restored , by Juxoa after the Restoration , has often been the scene of a pr incely genial hospitality . Bishop Parker there kept open house . His stewards , a-nd gentlemen who were his attendants , -with , a large body of clergymen , sat at long tables extending the entire length of the hall , profusely covered with every kind of- delicate and substantial viantls . The fragments of these banquets furnished daily food to hundreds of poor men and women , who , at an appointed how ,, aissemoled respectfully around the palace-gate . Such , two centuries ago » was the " old world" hospitality of an English Primate . The hall , Mr . Tanswell says , is now used as a library , rich in MSS ., valuable to the topographer , the Biblical student , the genealogist ^ the general antiquary , &c . &c . Amongst them is a superb copy of the Koran ^ taken from Tippoo Sultan at Seringa patantu . '¦ ' /' ¦ '¦'¦ ¦ . ¦"¦ . ' ' . ' . . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' . . " ¦ ' ¦ - .. ¦ ' . On the ground-floor of the liollard ' s Tower ,, that theatre of Cbiehely ' s barbarous persecution of the heretical followers of * Sir John Cobiului is the / named from
• jfostuooKso a pillar to winch they were bound when subjected to the torture of the lash . Above is the Lollard ' s prison . Eight huge iron rings attest the number of . its -victims , and the rigulness of their incarceration . On the wainscot , imperfect sentences and initials- are , ruuely scratched . They are all nearl y ^ illegible . " Could we but know , " siiya the author , " all the separate histories ottlie men whose handwriting lies onthe wall of this strange-looking , room , what glorious revelations into the . dim but holy recesses of the human heart might be given to us . " Contemporary writers denounce , in a fierce spirit of vengeance , the lives and tenets of these eaJ"ly Reformers ) yet nothing can be more unexceptionable tbun those they have delivered for them . William Tailour was oonfined in the Lollard ' s prison , by Archbishop Chiohely for preaching that ppayer ought to be addressed to God only ; and that the worship of any created being was mere idolatry .
Lambeth . Palace is situated amidst delightful gardens and park laid out with all the taste that modern horticultural science can supply , and together comprise an area of full eighteen acres , secluded from , popular intrusion bv its lofty ivy ^ crown ed bound ary wall . Mr . Tanswell dedicates his book to his Grace of Canterbury . It is the carefully executwl production of a well-known ami highly dbtiuguished archaeologist , whose contributions to the Cainden Society are of rar . j Titerary value . The author mentions that he publishes by subscription ; and the book seems far too handsomely printed and illustrated to be remunerative at the price charged . Indeed , we are told that it has not yet proved so . Lambeth is a very large parish , and , speaking generally , a very weal thy- one . Every resident o { pretensions to literary taste should at once place it on hia shelves . It would be a source of much satisfaction if this cursory notioe should assist in augmenting its popularity .
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DAY BY BAY A / I ? LUCKNOW . J > ay byDaynl Lucknow . A Journal of the Siege of Lucknow . By Mrs . Caao . UentlcT . Mbs . Case is the widow of Colonel Case , of the mutilated 32 nd , who fell at tup unfortunate battle of Chinhut . During the siege of Lucknow , she kept this jounml , connecting the tirst incidents of the struggle with the last , with a short interval , which has been filled up by a number of interesting letters from Miss Dickson , opp-arently her relative , to a friend . There has been no attempt ut etf ' eetivo writing . Every word in the volume appears genuine . It ia a book of a hundred anecdotes , overy one illustrating the
tremendous character of the conilict wa ^ od and the wondrous bravery , not of tlie garrbon only , but of the besiegers . It adds nothing to the glory of Sir Henry Lawrence , Sir John lnglis . Sir Henry Hnvelock , or the officers and man under their command , to disparage the military conduct of the Sepoys . It is true that their numbers were overwhelming , but their rushes aguuiBk the fortified Residency were characterized by a vulour amounting almost to frenzy . So Iiopelesw did the garrison grow , that once , an Mrs . Ciise relates , a council of ladies was held to deliberate upon tho bout course to pursue should tho ; enemy force their way in . Some then toll their companions hrow > they carriwil pruesio acid on their persons , to out tfco
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Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1858, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2248/page/19/
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