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this particular period prevents us from being more detailed in piir notice . Titan ^—A very good number . " "What Helps to Cause tHe Degeneracy of the Youth of France" is an analysis oC four popular French productions , La Vie a Vingt Arts * of Michel Levy ; La Jeunesse , a comedy by E . Augier ; Le Fils Ndturel , X > y A . Dumas fils ; and Francis , by Ernest Jerret . The youth of France are judged , not by rules and standards of our own , but by the statements , disclosures , and
principles openly avowed by these French writers themselves ; The article , though severe , contains much truth , and is worth studying . " Two Christmas Times" is a story of sentiment . "A Chapter on Recent Poetry" is able and just . " Hunian Hair and its Restoratives" will interest the wigged and pwigged . " Behind the Scenes in Paris" is continued in seven chapters , and the " reviews , " including a special and elaborate notice of Philip Paternoster , are all verv well and fairly done .
Tait ' s Magazink . No . 301 .: —This number contains the usual variety of articles , as well as the "Xiterary Register" and " Political Narrative . " The chief articles are one on Reform and another upon Cash and Credit . The rest are reviews and tales . ¦¦ ' .-Journal of Mental Science . No . 28 ^—This monthly may be termed the record of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane . It contains the Reports of Lunatic Asylums published during 1857 and 1858 , and other papers on the subject of insanity , which must be interesting to those professionally engaged in such matters .
English Woman ' s Magazine . No , 11 ;—This is an . interesting number , containing a biography of Johanna Kinkel , and a smart article entitled " The Reviewer Reviewed , " besides other articles of average
merit . ' . : - ' , . ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ . Lb Follet . No . 148 , —This very pretty and tasteful magazine contains the : last vagaries of fashion . We regret to see no signs of diminished crinoline , but * on the contrary , rather an extension . The bonnets seem , however , to"be ran inch or so more rational , and the cloaks seem as if they were intended for warmth as well as show . The plates are as numerous and as good as ever . The Art JoujiNAL . No . 49 . —The plates are after Maclise ' s " Gil Bias at Penaflore , " and Landseer ' s " Marmoset tes ; " there is also a beautiful engraving of Miller ' s bas-relief ( of " Emily and her White Doe . " The wood-cuts , which are numerous and good , illustrate chiefly the works of Louis Haghe .
Cbuikshank ' s Illustrations of Tisie . —Messrs . Kent have reissued these admirable etchings , rightly considering they . must at this season of the year add to the enjoyment and mirth . They are familiar to many of the falling , but must be novel to all the rising generation ; arid their truth and charaeter prevent their ever getting old and obsolete . The British Workman—Yearly Part—deserves notice , not only from the excellence of its aim and principle , but as being a qollection of very admirable woodcuts , and a collection of interesting facts , tales , and anecdotes . Licensed Victuallers' Almanack for 1859 . —
This is a new and excellent calendar , containing a great deal of information valuable to the hotel-proprietor and the tavern and inn-keepers . It has been Very carefully compiled , and is an excellent idea well carried out . The calendar portion is filled up with valuable receipts , and , in addition , it has a hundred pages filled with miscellaneous information , including a brief history of the London Breweries and Taverns ; an account of tho admirable charities belonging to the Licensed Victuallers' Associations ; the laws affecting Innkeepers , &c .
RooTLEDqia ' s S « ak « i ? eakk . —This 38 rd Part pontains the Tempest , and is marked by the same moderate but judicious commentary that characterises this edition by W . Staunton . We have the completed second volume ( never having 1 received the first ) before us , and intend to enter into a more extensive examination of this handsome and popular edition of the wprks of the great dramatist . Thb Viroinians . No . 15 . —Mr . George Warrington . Hero No , 2 , is brought more prominently forward in this number ; and we have pictures of a
Royal drawing-room nt Kensington , and a peep at an early performance of Mr . Home ' s popular tragedy of Eougfa * . . ¦ Davenport Donn . No . lO .- ^ -This spirited story is 00 near an end that it is superfluous to dilate upon it . The reader will soon Have « n opportunity of reading it in its entirety , the only proper way of perusing a well-constructed novel . History ojt Enqlanp . 0 . Knight . No . 36 . ( Br « tfbujy and Evdna . ) -T-This number brings tho history- down to the conclusion of the Darien expedition ) and is embellished with portraits of Bollngbroke , Oxford , and Atterbury , and many excellent woodcuts .
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KELLY'S RAILWAY GUIDE . Kelly ' s Railway Guide for January , 1859 . Kelly and Co . Tins is a well-printed Guide , on the alphabetical principle . The great advantage of this kind of work is its clear and correct printing , and in these particulars it is excellent . It has a capital map , and the advertisements—which in themselves give much information—are interspersed with lively reading , and altogether it is worthy of the patronage of all railway travellers .
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LESSONS ON MIND . Introductory Lessons on Mind * By tho Author of " Lessons on . Reasoning . " ' J . W . Purkor and Son . TifEitE is much shrewd remark in this little work , not unuseful nor unskilfully arranged , but its dicta should not be accepted with implicit confidence . Tho author prefers a physiological view of mind , and evidently inclines to a phrenological classification and definition of tho mental faculties and powprs . He compares the mind " to tho eye , which sees other objects but does not see , itself . " Of course , he cannot
expoct the metaphysician to concur in such an illustration . — -wo mean the metaphysician , properly so called , who necessarily assumes tj \\ at the mind } s a Holf-conacloua subjept . The whole of this Uttje treatise is written' in the spirit of this analogy . The mind is treated as an objqtit , not as a self-intelligence . Yet the writer appears , and no doubt is , desirous to avoid materialism , to which , he says , the usual definition of the faculties has a tendency unconsciously to load . The terms employed are metaphors borrowed from physical rclationo , which it requires great care to distinguish from the psychological
conditions which they are employed to express . As this book is evidently intended for the instruction of youth , we could have well wished that it had been written on a broader plan and a more satisfactory theory . But the half view which it presents is carefully wrought put , and so far it will aid the student who seeks for information .
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JULIUS HALL'S INDICATOR . Julius HaWs Indicator and Almanack for 1859 . . J . Hall . This is one of the best contrivances for indicating the day of the week , month , and year at a glance . The usual niodes require too much shifting , so that they often mislead . The present one merely requires the turn of a couple of . buttons , and the indications are made in prominent red letters . The almanack is concise , and contains all the requisite information of a calendar . .
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AUSTRIA . Nothing more is said of the Cracow conspiracy , but there is reason to believe that it has ramifications in Posen and in Russian Poland . A day or two ago an accident happened on the Vicnna-Linz Railway . The train which left this city in the morning got off tho rails near the Loosdorf station , and a part of it slipped off an embankment which is about live feet high . None of the passengers were injured , but a porter was killed , and one of the guards wounded . There . is now no difficulty in obtaining silver for banknotes , and tho confidence of tho public in . tho solvency of tho Bank is fast returning , During the lust two days the demand for tho now one-florin notes has been very great , but private persons have almost ceased to apply to the Bank for silver .
Tho Journal de Francfort , an organ of Count Buol , has the following : ' — " Austria is strong enough in Italy to meet any eventuality , and showed it in 18-4 . 8 ; nor has she lost anything o her strength , as backing her is all Germany and Prussia at its head . Yos , Prussia at its head . Neither journals nor events will balio this assertion . That power neither wishes nor can v Isn a remodelling of Italy , out of which a general war must rise , in which Germany itself would have to bo remodcllod-r-our common country . It was Prussia ' s King who addressed the first thanks ' to Radctzki for defending tho cause of order , European equilibrium , and tho integrity of Germany , which cannot bo upheld on the Rhino if abandoned on tho banks of tho Po . "
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SONGS OF A SONG-WRITER . Songs of a Song- Writer First Hundred . By W . C . Bennett . Chapman and Hall . Mr . W . C . Bennett has been well advised to collect his various songs . The only difficulty that could lie in his way was their number . He has endeavoured to solve this by experimenting first of all with a specimen of his quality . He has selected from his large store a hundred ; and here they are in a handsome volume' which' ought immediately to
become popular . We find here many old acquaintances and some new facesj but everywhere the same grace , melody * and Saxon purity of language . A little more accuracy and finish , and Mr . Bennett might rank as the Beranger of England . Here we find the sweet song of " Baby ' Shoes , " on which Miss Mitford bestows such high commendation , and which has been so freauently quoted with enthusiastic
recognition ; andthat Beranger-like " -London Lyric , From a Garret , " which so rationally aud heroically moralises the distinction between true and false riches , and defies poverty altogether . -. To this . we \ yould add " The Dressmaker ' s Thrush . " Fine , too , is the song inscribed "To the Memory of Hoberfi Burns , " a just tribute from one whose own writings reflect so much of the influence derived from those of the Scottish bard . It is one of the most ambitious poems in the collection . in l
Other poems of Mr . Bennett ' s show , yrical form , a fine degree of political shrewdness , and a scorn of mere partial prejudices , whether national or social . Witness those capital " friendly hints to Transatlantic friends , " which he lias headed with " God save ¦ ¦ the ¦ . Queen . " \ The shrewdness of those hints must bite , like a frost , our cousin Jonathan ; in truth , we know how he has " wineedV" like " the galled jade , " tinder their , application . Nevertheless , justice is impartially administered ; the faults of England are as unsparingly exposed ; aud " our own withers" not " unwrung . " Yet , the poet ' s patriotism is undoubted ; for , by simply giving the second place in each stanza to his own country , he secures her triumph . - __ _ . , .
For the most part , Mr . Bennett ' s songs deal with facts , the stern , hard facts of the Mammonridden world ; but there are , nevertheless , some most delicious fancies . scattered between . Mr . Bennett has borrowed largely from our old poets , and sometirhes indulges freely in their wildest conceits . His mind is not simply a mirror purely reflecting nature and society ; but lie has coloured it with innumerable associations , both ancient and modern , so that his subjects always derive some attributes from the media through which he perceives them . Though a self-taught , he is a highly educated writer , and to some extent , therefore , his treatment of his themes is artificial ; there ia , however , always a basis of originality in all he writes , for lie is not a mere mocking-bird , but a genuine ¦ poet .
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Leader Office , Friday Evening , January 7 th . FRANCE . The Moniteur of this day has the following : —" For some days public opinion has been agitated by alarming reports , to which it is the duty of the Government to put an end , in declaring that nothing in our diplomatic affairs authorises the fears which these rumours tend to create . " . Punch and the Sun were seized on Thursday . A Paris letter in the Independance , says : — "At tho reception at the Tuileries on New Year ' s-day , Prince Napoleon , 'in the course of a long conversation with Lord Cowley , is stated to have announced that the Imperial Government was ready to abandon the existing- system of immigration provided Great Britain would frankly undertake to assist France in obtaining coolies from the English possessions for her colonies . His imperial highness is even said to have proposed to Lord Cowley to allo \ y England in return to make engagements of coolies in the French ports in India , and to have added that the operations of both countries should be subjected to all the control that could be required . Lord Cowley naturally received with respectful attention the overtures of the Prince , and said that he would transmit them to his Government . " The 5 th . of May next , the anniversary of the death of Napoleon I ., is fixed on for the transfer of the -imperial coffin to St . Denis .
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LOMHAtfDY . Letters from Milan , of January 8 , apeak of tho agitation in that city as being continually on tho increase . Many families aro leaving Milan . Tho Archduke Maximilian , who was to have accompanied tho Archduchess Gharlotto to Trieste , to moot tho Bavarian princess who is to bo tho future Duchess of Calabria , did no t think it right to leave tho scat of his Government .
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SARDINIA . twl Tho Times correspondent at Turin writes : — " Either there is to bo wnr between Franco and Austria , or Napoleon III . is duping tho Sardinian Government , or this Government Uas taken leave of Its sonsos . It Is quit * evident to everybody hero that this Government dosiroi ww , moans war , anU In confident that war is at hand . Tho Ministerial party , tho Intimate friends and dally companions of tho Mlnletors , make no secret of tuis
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4 g THE LEADERi [ No . 459 , January 8 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2276/page/16/
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