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by the death of his fatterv by its noble J ^ tron , t&o stipulates that out of the income of 5 OOZ . he shall pay over yearly to bis mother 3501 . Arthur Wilkinson , somewhat tired of the bargain , and the domination exercised by Ms mother at the vicarage ffives notice that , as he is about to many he wul require the vicarage for his occupation . The indi « mant mother , who has been accustomed to regard herself as the " vicar elect" fires up at the proposition , and determines to make an appeal to the noble patron in person . She makes her way to Bower Lodge , and has a reception which entirely destroys her hopes , and wliiek we cannot brino- ourselves to believe a tme portrait of ^ English nobleman . Then , again , we have the followino- portrait of a travelling English gentleman .:
—" Let us go into some church on the Continent- ^ - iri Italy , we will say—where the walls of the churches still boast of the great works of the great masters . Look at that man standing on the very altar-steps while the priest is saying mass ; look at his grey shooting-coat , his thick shoes , his wideawake hat stuck under one arm , and his stick under the other , while he holds his opera-glass to his eyes . How . he shuffles about to get the best point of sight , quite indifferent as to clergy or laity ! All that bellringing , incensed-flinging , and breast-striking is nothing to . Min :. he has paid dearly to be brought thither : he has paid the guide , who is kneeling a
little behind liirh ; he is going to pay the sacristan who attends him ; he is quite ready to pay the priest himself , if the priest would only signify his wish ' that way ; but he has come there to see that fresco , and see it he will : respecting that he will soon know more than either thepriest or his worshippers . Perhaps some servant of the church , coming to him with submissive , almost suppliant gestures , begs him to step back just for one moment , The lover of art glares at him with ; insulted . look , and hardly deigns to notice him further : he merely turns bis
eye to his Murray , puts his hat down on the altarsteps , and goes on studying his subject . All the world—German , Frenchman , Italian , Spaniard— -all men of all nations know that that ugly grey shooting-coat must contain an Englishman . He cares for no one . if any one upsets him , he can do much towards righting himself : and if more be wanted , has he hot Lord Malmesbury or Lord Clarendon at his back ? But what would this Englishmen say if his place of worship were disturbed by some wandering Italian . "
Is this a true picture of a class , or even of an individual ? Is it not rather the portrait of some artistic " Snob , " not of the . 'travelling English gentleman ? . What we have indicated as possible blemishes many will be inclined , to view as positive beauties . The work itself will be widely and approvingly read , and lastingly appreciated .
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MAGAZINES .. Blaokwood . — " A Cruise in Japanese Waters " is continued , and forms Part IV . of the series , which is not yet ended . The description and adventures are given in a lively style . " The Luck of Ladysmede" progresses , and the story is conducted from the second to the fourth chapter , of Part II , with spirit and vigour . " A Winter Journey" takes the reader to Paris , Lyons , Nice , Gonoa , Leghorn , and Florence , in an agreeable manner . There is also a second part to ' < The Turks in Kalafat , " which it ( f
appears concludes the subject . Mr . Kaye ' s Christianity in India " supplies matter for a gootl paper . A political article , curiously entitled " A dissolving view of . money and the franchise , " sets forth that the electors in twenty years , from 1832 to 1851 , increased fully one-sixth faster than the population . What then ? Mr . Eliot's novel of " Adam Bedo " commands an elaborate review . The number closes with an astute article on " The New Reform Bill " —in which the Ministry tire counselled not to resign .
I ? raser , —* " Holmby House " » continuos with spirit for two chapters more , The author of "Guy Livingstone" contributes four chapters of a new tale , called " Sword and Gown . " There ia a clever essay on " Malignity and Trickory , " and nn interesting one on The Court of Russia a hundred yonrs ago , " Dr . Bi'own ' s " Horee Subseeivto " affords occasion for a philosophical ossay on' sectarianism . Somo plca ^ sant advice to travellers is given in a paper ontitled " Hints for Vagabonds . " Tho consideration of " Prussian Dinners" also loads to somo judicious suggestions on tho philosophy of the table . Tho remaining papers treat of the Eastern Pyrenees , tho death of Mr . Wm . Jno . Broderlp , and tho recent writers on reform j *—all pleasant and instsuotiyo reading . ,
Tmcan . tA very folr numbor , vftviod in its contents . "A Strange Life " gives tho biography of the wiaow of Adolph von Lutzow , wlUoh lms recently
been , written in German by Ludmilla von . Assing . William Smith , the author of Thorndale , " comes in for a castigation- ^ not very severe , however- —in which the critic is cruel only in order to be kind . "Getting On' * gets on for three more chapters . It is followed by a translation of Victor Hugo ' s " Handsome Pecobin . " The paper entitled . « Marriage Tinder Difficulties " lays bare some of the barbarism that yet underlies our civilisation . The usual extracts from new books agreeably enough close the number . . . ¦ with
JomwfAi , op Mental Science—contains , its usual records of insanity , a psychological study of King Lear , a very eloquent and thoughtful paper , in which the writer very justly combats Mr . Hallam ' s criticism , which falsely ascribes the greatness of Lear ' s intellectual manifestation to his madness ; on the contrary , liis madness merely indicates bis former greatness , the wrecks of which only it presents . Lady ' s Treasury—contains a great variety of articles of fair average merit , and is embellished with a profusion of engravings , including those relating to the fashions . also its usual ta of
Ie Follet—^ bas quo light amusing articles , and four fashionable engravings , in which the costumes are more than usually pleasing . RoTJTiiEDGE ' s Shakespeare . Part 37 . —Thisi number contains the greater portion of " The Winter ' s Tale . " The woodcuts have much character , and make us prefer Mr . Gilbert in comic rather than tragic illustrations . There are one or two acute interpretations of the text ; as in that of—" I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife . " The ViRCUNiANS . By W . M . Thackeray . No . 18 . —This story improves as it grows towards it conclusion ; and this number contains some scenes of London life in the last century , which , we may pay them the high compliment of saying , read like Goldsmith ' s . The author is certainly most successful when he exposes fools , rogues , and demireps .
Amateur ' s Magazine / has now arrived at the seventh number , and presents an agreeable variety of articles—among them a centenary poem on Burns , rather too declamatory . Christian Examiner . —The subjects of the number are important and well treated ; the : more elaborate papers are those on " Richard Baxter , " " Assyrian History , " and " The History of Methodism in England . " There are also good papers on "Dr . Ichabpd Nichols , " " Siam , " " The Condition of the free coloured people of the United States , " " Pranklin , " and " The old Rhode Island question . " The review of current literature appears to be impartial and just . .. at the second
Universal , Review has arrived number , and has the merit of treating of the literature published up to the date of its issue . Thus we find Mr . Kaye ' s " Christianity in India , " " Lord John Russell ' s " Life of Fox , " Eliot ' s and Trollope ' s novels , Mill on " Liberty , " " Sir William Hamilton ' s Lectures , " and other works reviewed in satisfactory detail . The leading artiple is on " Anglo-Roman and Anglo-Saxon History ;"— the result of much reading , and very carefully compiled , and is founded upon the new views brought forward by Mr . Hyde Clarke , in his treatise on the Application of Topographical Nomenclature of Anglo-Saxon History . The Gai ^ euy oi * Nature . — -The now edition of tins work still progresses satisfactorily .
A Popular History or England , by , Charles Knight . — Tub Comprehensive History vp EwGr ivANi > . —( Blackie and Son . )—No . 39 of tho former , and Parts 17 and 18 of the latter , main tain the character of the respective publications . Mr . Knight ' s history takes down the subject to tho death of Queen Anne in 1714 , and is illustrated with portraits of Do Foo , Bishops lJurnot and Berkeley , and embellished with engravings of Utrecht and Tournay . English Cvcloivema or Arts and Sciences , conducted by Charles Knight . Part III . carries oh tho work to nearly the ond of tho letter A , the last article being tho word Axiom . Tho different papers are written with great caro and full olaboratiou of the subject-matter .
Works oir tjih Ukv . Sydney Smith . — Part IV . gives , with other articles , those . from , the Edinburgh licobw on " Prisons , " " Tho Persecuting Bishops , " "Tho Game Laws , " "America , and Captain Rock . " Ai > ventures in Tkxas , —This forms an agroablo number of tho " Tho Talcs f tom Blaokwood . " Kklly ' h Railway Guijdis — For April , This rondiost of Railway Guides contains every month nn amount of now matter .
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BOOKS RECEIVED . Moore ' s Irish'Melodies . Nos . 6 and 7 . Longman Sc Co-Bosidell ' s Life of Johnson . Part II . Edited by John W . Cooper , LL . D ., F . R . S . John Murray . Lord Byron ' s Poetical WorJts . Part III . John Murray . Rose Coloured Spectacles . By Mary and Elizabeth . , Kirby . James Blackwood . Fanktbei ; or the San Jaointo in the Seas of India ,. China and Japan . By W , Maxwell Wood , M . DUiS . N . Sampson , Low , Son & Co . The Old Plantation , and what I Gathered there in an Autu ? nn Month . By James Hungerford , of Maryland . Sampson , Low , Bon & Co . Opportunities for Industry t and tho Safe Investments ¦ of Capital : or a Thousand Chances to Malta
Money . By Edwin F . Freedly . Sainpson , Low & Co , Rontleuye ' s Illustrated Natural History . By the Rev . J . G . Wood , M . A ., F . L . S ., &c . Part I . April . Koutledge & Co . Sketch Booh of Popular Geology . By Hugh Miller , Edinburgh . Thomas Constable . The Sanitary Condition of tho Army . By the Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , M . P . John Chnpumu . A Tab for the Pharisc . au . By the Author of Dives and Lnzarus . Judd Sc Glass . False and True . By tho lion . Lena Kdon . L . Booth . Retrograde Legislation in Bankruptcy . By E . DHolroyd , &c ., &c . Stevens Sc Norton . Tentsjrotu their Earliest Period to the Present Time A LoQtuvo , by Mnjor Godlroy Rhodes at Uuitod Service Inatltution . W . Clowes Sc Sons . The Congregational Hymn and Tune Book . By the Rev . It . II . Chopo , B . A . Bristol , J . Wright & Co . ^ hen iY
3 JSeloynua pour Piano . Par Step Jlalleiyos . *> A & 3 . Schott & Co ., 151 ) Regent atreot . ; Life ' s Foreshadowing * . A Novel . 3 vols . Hurst Sc Mooro' f Melodies , No . VIII . l ' or tho Pianoforte . Lonmnan nnd Co . „ ,, t ~ Tho Journal ; of Mental Science . No . XXIX . l . on % ~ man and Co . , „„ nr „„„ . T Tho Poetical Works ( f Thomas Moore . Part ITh ^ ffiorfa of the Rev . Sydney Smith . Part IVBlfSS d'T % clMnirgh Magazine . No . VX . XU Edinburgh : ' W . JilackwooJ auU Sons . Tales from Blaoftwaod . No , 10 : "Advontuvos in Toxa ' s " W . Uhiokwood nnd Sons . A Journey JOwi North . IJy George Augustus Sftlo . Sndoditlon . Ulclmra JJentley . . , The Lust of tho Cavaliers . $ vols . Richard JBentley
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Personal Narrative of Military Travel and Adventure in Turkey and Persia ; comprising a brief Sketch of the Chequered Life of tha Author , IJy Robert Macdonald . Adnm and Charles Blatok . Tun eon of poor but honost parents , of the clan of Mocdonald , the author of this littlo book was born in the year 18 ( M , at Bonnie-vlow on tho Braes of CUisk ,
close to the banks of the river Earn , in Perthshire-After some time , he sailed for China , and . on his return home having enlisted into the Rifle Brigade , was at length made serjeant , and was ultimately appointed with his brother to particular service in Persia . His remarks on . what he saw are shrewd , and clever , and his descriptions appear to be correctr . But of course | bis jrange of observation was limited by his position , and he regards tilings military with an eye of especial favour , and gives but a poor
account of the military discipline of the modern . Persians . The influence of Russia in Central Asia excites bis indignation . On his return home , he got implicated in the Chartist Riots in the Bull-ring , at Birmingham ; he was tried and acquitted . But the result injured his prospects in life -, ill health supervened , and he is now in adversity . We trust that this publication will be of use to him . It is throughout marked with good sense , and should ensuresome patronage to the author .
On Geological Survey : an Address . By Hyde Clarke , D . C . L . Geologist Magazine Office . This Address was delivered before tlie Geologists * Association , on Tuesday , the 8 th February last . The association , we find , has provided for the admission , of women as members ; and , according to this address , appears to be in a fair way to prosper . Aa the system wliich . it is intended to promote becomes Organised , the reports Of its proceedings will be published in the local journals . Important facts , also , will be included in a yearly report . There are many districts in which the formation of tliis society Will be welcomed as a great scientific benefit .
Robert Burns : a Centenary Song , and other Lyrics By Gerald Massey . 4 to . W . Kent and Co . Mr . Massey was one of the candidates for the Crystal Palace prize ; and , we suppose , to vindicate his claims , has published his poem . It is full ot beauty and sweetness , but it is needlessly fantastic ; and is not so constructed as to answer the purpose of public recitation . Whatever its merits , therefore , the judges could not avoid rejecting it ; but those merits they' acknowledged by proposing it for publication . Mr . Massey lms added a few other pieces of various excellence , to make , a volume .
Petronilla , a ? id other Poems . By Frederick George Lee . Bos worth and Harrison . These poems are decidedly good . The author ' s muse is sincere and earnest , and abounds in description . His religious feelings are strong . There are some lyrics , too , 'remarkable both for 2 ) ower of thought and language . The versification is Varied and skilful , and the diction polished yet vigorous .
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yo . 471 , April % 1859 . ] THE LEADED 431
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Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1859, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2288/page/15/
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