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Harry Rougkton ; or , Reminiscences of a Revenue Officer . By Lionel F . Hexham . Illustrated by the Author . ( Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . y—We can hardly accept this tale as the veritable reminiscences of a veritable revenue . officer . It reads rather niora like the inventions of a Cockney litterateur who has spoiled . a striking subject . Newgate literature , however , is going , if it has not already gone , out of Fashion . Smugglers ' adventures , which must all be redolent of county gaols and the gallows , can hardly expect to make their way into families where the proprieties of civilised life are esteemed .
Charles Chesterfield ; or , the Adventures of a Youth of Genius . By Mrs . Trollope . ( Knight and Son . )—This clever , production , which fairly illustrates the genius and the blemishes of this distinguished lady author , is now produced complete in one volume . In its present illustrated form it is , perhaps , superfluous to say that those who are not in possession of the original issue cannot do better than to send to the publisher for a copy . The Literary Character , or , the History of Men of Genius . By Isaac D'IsraelL Edited by his Son , the
Bight Hon . B . Disraeli . ( Routledge and Co . )—Nothing can be truer than this extract from the preface , that " the present volume , with its brother , Curiosities of Literature , now constitutes a body of reading which may awaken knowledge in minds only seeking amusement , and refresh the deeper studies of the learned by matters not unworthy of their curiosity . " The work is , indeed , full of the elements of deep thought-, full of anecdote , full of information of that kind only to be gained in a long life of learned research . It is now beautifully printed and cheaply issued , so as to bring it within the reach of all classes . '
English Country Life . " With many Illustrations . By Th . Millet . ( Rbutiedge and Co . ) — Mr . Miller is one of our best and most popular writers on moral subjects . This very handsome volume will be truly acceptable to those ¦ who love country life , whether they have tasted its beauties in person , or only enjoyed it from description . The illustrations are of unequal merit , some good , some indifferent .
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The Publishers' Circular announces that the firm of Chapman and Hall , the well-known first publishers of " Pickwick , " and other works of Mr . Dickens , and re-r ceritlybf Mr . Carlyle ' s works , have admitted into the partnership Mr . Frederick Chapman , the nephew of Mr . Edmund Chapman , who has long taken an active part in the conduct of the business : the title of the firm remains £ he same .
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BOOKS RECEIVED . A Lecture on the Siege of Londonderry , 1688-9 . By the Rev . Joseph M'Cormick , B , A . Judd and Glass . Blind Anos , and his Velvet Princi ples . By Edwin Paxton Hood .: Judd and Glass . The Edinburgh Review , or Clerical Journal . No . CCXXI . Longman and Co . The Rights of the People to Universal Suffrage , and Annual Parliaments . By the late Duke of Richmond . A Pamphlet . Eflingham Wilson . The Letters ofJETqrace Walpole , Earl of Orford . Edited by Peter Cunningham } F . S . A . Vol . IX . Richard Bentley . Passages of my Authography . By Sydney Lady Morgan . Richard Bentley .
The Assurance Magazine and Journal of the Institute oj Actuaries . No . XXXIV . C . and G . Lay ton . Mary , and other Poems . A , Hall , Virtue , and Co . The London and Provincial Medical Directory , 1859 . John Churchill . A Map of the Islands of Japan , By James Wrld . Civilised America , By Thomas Colloy Gratton . 2 vole , Bradbury and Evans . Man and hie JDweUing-JBlace . J . W . Parker and 8 ? n-The'Cavaliers of Fortune ; or , British Ileroqs in Foreign Wars . By James Grant . Routledge and Co . English Country Life . By Thomas Miller . Routledge and Co . Washington Grange : an Autobiography . By William
PJokersgUl . James Blackwood . The British Controversialist . Houston and Wright . The Post Magazine Almanack and Insurance Directory , 1869 . By W . S . D . Patoman . Poems , by the Author of Uriel . Second Edition . John Chapman . Who Invented the Locomotive Engine . By Oswald Dodd Hedly . Ward and Look . Lives for the Gentle and Loving . By Thomas M'Kollar . N . Trlibnerwnd Co . University of Oxford , First Annual Report of the
Delegacy rendered to Convocation . December 31 , 1858 , Oxford ; J . H , and , J . Parker . Eminent Men nnd Popular Books . Routledge and Oo . Twenty-seven / Sermons , and a Farewell Sermon . Preached in St , George ' s Church , Barnslej 1 - ' , by the Rev . W . J . Brook , B . A , James Blaolcwood . Journal of the Reign of King George III ., from 1771 to fll ' 7 . 88 . By Horace Walpole . Edited , by Dr . Dpran . 2 vole , Richard Bentloy . Wh * Tiiree Clerks , A Novel . By Anthony TroUape . Bicbardi Bentley .
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The Art-Union of London , now in .. its three-andtwentieth year , lms issued a line engraving ( of somewhat more than average quality ) of Mr . Prith's well-known picture " Life at the Sea-side . " The work was purchased from ; the walls of the Royal Academy by her Majesty , and has by her been lent for the purpose of engraving . Specimens of the print are to be seen under the colonnade of the Royal Exchange , and at the office of the society in the Strand .
The Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851 having repaid the Government advances to the extent of 120 , 000 / ., have acquired full posses ^ sion of the Kensington estate . A sum of about 4000 ^ . has been expended with great rapidity in building more temporary galleries , at which men have lately been at work day and night . It is supposed that the pro-Brompton clique intend by a smart coup de main to acquire possession of the Marlborough House collection , the National Portrait Gallery , or , in fact , any odd lots of public property , thev may chance to hear of . This done ,
and the thin end of the wedge well got m , the suspected plot is that the Trafalgar Tsquare gallery may be made to follow . But if the party in question have commenced any such manoeuvre in fond hope of secrecy they are sadly mistaken . The footsteps of Lord . Manners , too , are narrowly watched . No builder ' s ladder maybe planted in the public works department—no axe may ring in wood or forestbut the eye of at least one faithful admirer of his predecessor is upon him . However , it is to be hoped that this Brompton matter will be disposed of once and for all when Parliament opens . The present administration already stand pledged that the" whole of the National Galleries shall not be banished from London to the quiet solitudes of
Brompton , and thus to a great extent purified of the profane vulgar , be more enjoyable by the Brahmiuieal classes . This obstinacy is t-he more marvellous considering last year ' s Mundler demonstration . They seem to forget that the unlucky Hcrr suffered not for his own offences , but for the sins of his party and his employers . An interesting novelty must be noticed in connexion with the venerable Societ y of Arts . At the usual meeting ou Wednesday night , the paper of the evening was in the French language- It was entitled " Les Arts , les Artistes , et l'lndustrie en
Angleterre , depuis la derniere moitie" du dix-liuitieme siecle jusqu ' a ce jour . " The author , M . Thdophile Silvestre , explained that he was in England as an agent or emissary of the French Government charged to study the English School of Art . He began , cunning man , with a laboured panegyric of the good old body under whose roof he had the gratification of lecturing , and he concluded with a highly polished peroration in praise of the encouragement given to art by the people of England . In the body of his discourse , which in conlormity with the rule of the Society was not of a length to turn the subject round in , he touched upon the works of jBritis . fi painters , from Hogarth , whom ho calls the true foundor of our school , to Wijkie , whose inferiority , to the former artist he pointed out , while fully admitting all the
beauties and excellences his most devoted British admirers could claim for him . The creation of the modern school of portrait painters he ascribed to Sir TJiomas Lawrence . Wilsonj Reynolds , and James Barry , and Flaxman all camo too briefly under review , and to givo time to the Society for discussion , tho paper was so curtailed that the Constable , Turner , Etfcy , and other groat modern masters , could only be alluded to by our talented visitor . M , Silvestro announood , by the way , that he is preparing a critical work upon tho English school of to-day . We wish him health for the work , and shall anxiously look for it , If he have tho courage , as he lias tho knowledges , it will bo of much value and interest .
In conformity with tho custom of the Society to summon a jury of exports , or noted amateurs in any branoh of art referred to in the papers read before thorn , a number of gentlemen connected with tho fine arts were present , and talked tho matter over , ftmonff whom wore Mossrs . John Boll , Ohavlos Dilko , William Ilawes , James Holland , Sir Thomas Phillips , . Digby Wyafcfc , and last not loasfc . Sir Charles Eastlake and Mr . Rqdgrwvo , of tho Royal Academy .
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- T ? HB CRYSTAL -PALACE .. — -SUNDAY OPENING . THETeaalt of the poll on , the motion for rescinding the resolution authorising the admission of sharesholders to the Crystal Palace and grounds- on Sunday afternoons was declared on Wednesday as follows : — For rescinding the Resolution . Personal Votes ,. ; . ¦ . 6 , 733 Proxies 69 , 02 G Total ............ 75 , 7 ( 54 Against rescinding the liasohction . Personal Votes ..... 16 , 26 Proxies .............. „ .. ; .......... 76 , 517 Total .... 92 , 785 showing a majority against rescinding the resolution of 17 , 021 . Hence it appears that of the 2 ; i 0 , 0 di > shares into which the company ' s stock is divided , no less than 168 , 5 * 9 have expressed themselves in favour of the rational proposition that members of a corporation as well .-as individuals may have the use and enjoyment of that which is their own , even on the Sabbath . But the opposition are determined not to ltjt the matter drop . Oft their behalf Captain Young gave notice that he would renew his motion for closing at jthe next half-yearly meeting . The vexatious proceedings of the Scotch Sabbatarian railway shareholders are then to be reproduced here . It is regrettable that the uneasy consciences of certain sinners should refuse to be calmed except by thus letting out the Waters of strife ; but antiphlogistic treatment , in the shape of private pecuniary costs , may be found of great value . Notice was given by some clear-headed shareholders that if the aggravating Captain continued his crusade , they should move the ' majority to impose the costs , as well as the honour upon him . It is more than probable his standard would be speedily deserted were he to call upon his disciples to pay _ for his diversion . But as long as the unfortunate estate is charged by both parties with the printing , travelling , law , and other charges incidental to . these mad contests , there are plenty of amateurs who will keep , up the ball . It seems questionable , whether , as proposed by a shareholder , any question can be adjourned for . five or any number of years ; but for the peace of individuals and the prosperity of the concern , it were to be desired that some major force or wit would work a composition of the strife . ¦ ¦ ' ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE . We were gratified on Saturday last to find that several of our contemporaries had viewed the Dodd correspondence in precisely the same light as ourselves . We hope that the subscribers and the less impetuous members [ of the committee may be led to pause a while , arid perhaps regain the way their precipitancy has lost them- —and , perhaps again review temperately the whole scheme . It rnay be questioned whether in its present form it ever w . ould prove such a , very great blessing to the'profession as is alleged . The Morden and Dulwich Colleges are , we believe , no bowers of bliss to their inmates , The almshouse system of benevolence is nt best but a little less repulsive than that of tho union . Out-door relief , far more ennobling to the giver , is infinitely less onerous upon him that takes . Wisely conducted charitable guilds have kept this ever in view . Enabling or assisting their incumbents to remain in the scenes and amid the associations of their life , undistinguished by tho badge of alms , unnoted by the painful finger of pity , they far better promote their happiness than by numbering , ticketing , and packing them together in model lodgings but of town . As wo write we have in our mind ' s eye one ancient and feeble actor , the place of whom now , alasJ knows him no more . Gentle ho waa and a man of an older world , who , aided by a fund ha had in his best days helped to accumulate , span out his distaff peacefully within the classic circle of Cpvont Gordon and in congenial company . To him and many such your Gerrard ' s Cross Or Langloy solitude . — tho ambient shade of Gray , tliQ over-present churchyard , and the vicinity of Stoke Pogjs notwithstanding - — wore a mockery of relief and consolation in age . When wo think of our old acquaintance , his modost " moans , yot innocent , tranquil life , we are ft ^ fc to rcyoice that ho At least was not doomed to inhabit such a charitable penal settlement . Many of us have hoard of a Guild of Literature and , Art , for which amutours uoted plays , about which a groat sensation was made , and whoso funds , in fact , arc neither yqt spent nor distributed . Among the schemes promoted in connexion with it , wo remember one for tho erection of n . Literary Working Man ' s ^ College . " Tho present Colonial Minister was to find some laud on his estate in Hertfordshire , and tho literary beadsmen woro to bo planted thereon to wlmlro ana
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110 THE LEADER . [ Ko . 461 , January 22 / 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2278/page/14/
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