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    Art Journal . —The ELH . number commences Trith an article on the Pne-Raphaelites ^ and has also pother on " Rome , and her Works of Art , " particularly including , her edifices . A long paper is likewise demoted to the production of " King Henry the vmh " at the Princess ' s Theatre , which is treated in fn artistic asweU as a critical spirit , The number , frustrated withPhilip ' s « Spanish Sisters , " Jacob s " Morning on the Nile , " and Noble ' s Statue of Parrow With smaller engravings representative oi the letter-press , particularly that part which relates to Roman Antiquities . These are mainly architectural . Altogether the number possesses much interest and variety .

    and can be the only complete edition ; its rivals contain little more than half the melodies . Here the pu blic may possess every one of the melodies originally published in eleven volumes , and amongst those says the preface , which no other edition can contain , are-many of the songs best known-and most highly esteemed by the public . . — . . Mechanics' Magazine . —Parts . in . and IV . of the new series consist of an immense variety of articles on subjects too multifarious for specification . The matter is in all cases highly valuable ; and the illustrations of the greatest available utility . Beeton ' s Dictionary of Universal Information : S . O . Beetoii . —We have received six parts of this work , which take the reader down to Be . The whole is to be comprised in twenty-four monthly parts . The contents of the work comprise " a complete gazetteer of geography ; a perfect cyclopedia of history ; a comprehensive compendium of biography ; an interesting epitome of my thology ; an inestimable treasury of Bible knowlege ; a reliable chronological record ;¦ " with "the correct pronunciation of every proper name . " All this for four-andtwenty threepences is a cheap bargain , if good . We have examined several articles , and find them correct .

    Titan —A great proportion of the present number is occupied with six chapters of " Getting on . Two novels , Mr . A . Trollope ' s " Bertrams , " and " Creeds" by the author of " The Morals of May Fair " are reviewed . There is a severe paper on the Germans , and their faculty of story-telling , which is strongly denounced . Another on " The Fugitive Reminiscences of a Retired Governess" is not a little satirical—not on the governess , but on society . The leading article ta kes the reader a tour " Across the Vorarlbefg . " The number concludes with the usual book notices . Universal Review . —The number consists of ten carefully-written articles , including a review of " Michelet onLove / ' and an article on " French Dramatists and English Adapters . " The writer has a " fixed idea " that the drama is declining . This

    notion has been too frequently refuted to merit serious notice now . On the whole , however , the contents are well selected , and the subjects adequately treated . North British Review . —We have here , " also , a paper on Sir W . Hamilton , and others on Masson ' s Milton , and Douglas Jerrold ' s biography . Among recent poetry Owen Meredith claims a place . The reviewer confesses himself disappointed . Other papers , on more miscellaneous matters , compose the bulk of the number , which is a fair example of the modern facility in the class of essay-writing that gives birth to so many critical serials . National Magazine .- —This number contains an excellent article on the " new poets "—Owen Meredith and Patrick Scott , to wit ; a poem by Isa Craig , with the usual amount of varieties ^ all treated with remarkable elegance . Mr . Brough ' s tale of Michael Cassidy continues with increasing vigour and spirit . This tale must become popular . English Woman ' s Journal , No . XV ., has thirteen articles ^ of considerable merit . Kingston ' s Magazine for Boys , No . III ., progresses very favourably . Amateur ' s Magazine , No . VIII ., has some good articles . Ladiks' Treasury , No . XXVII ., contains twenty appropriate papers , with some seasonable and capital illustrations .

    Kelly ' s Railway Guide for May is published with a new map of England . Part IT . of Roctledge ' s Illustrated Natural History has appeared , with new designs by Wolf , Harvey , Weir , Coleman , and others , which are excellent . Part H . also of Cassell ' s Popular Natural History maintains its popular and artistic character . Part IV . of Charles Knight ' s English Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences carries the reader down to the article " Bathing . " Illustrations and letterpress are equally of first-rate quality , and the work must be regarded as a boon to the reader really desirous of acquiring knowledge .

    Part V . of the Works of tiie Rev . Sydney Smith includes several contributions to the Edinburgh Review , and the commencement of Peter Plymloy ' s Letters . Routledoe ' s Shakesi > earr , Part XXXVIII ., contains the " Winter ' s Tulo , " which is agreeably illustrated by Mr . Gilbert and carefully annotated by Mr , Staunton . Crokor ' s socond edition of Bos-well ' s Johnson , Part III .: Murray . —This ' portion brings the great

    lexicographer ' s biography down to , tho 04 th year , and includes his famous journey to the Hebrides . Lord Byron ' s Poetical Works ( Murray ' s complete edition ) , Part IV ., contains his dramatic works , and is prettily illustrated by a design of WestaU ' s . Knight ' s Hist 6 uy of England , No . XL , '—This part concludes the fifth volumo , ana is occupied by a very agreeable account of social progress at tho end of tho seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries .

    The Virginians , Part XIX . —This story draws bo closely to an end that we shall defer further notice until we have it complete . Moore ' s Irish Melodies , with Symphonies and Accompaniments for tho Pianoforte . — Nob . IX . and X are just ; published , and complete tho works . . Title , preface , and contents are given with thq last number , It is needful to repeat that the present is

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    The New Apostles ; or Irvingism , its History , Doctrines , and Practices , considered by the Light of Scripture arid Reason . James Blackwood . The writer of this work seems to be alarmed at the erection of the Irvingite cathedral in Gordon-square , and to apprehend from its structure , as well as from the history of the sect , that there are certain tendencies to Romanism in their conduct and claims . According to him , the professors of this costly creed have surrendered the right of private judgment to their apostles and prophets , and are led by their credulity into dangerous errors . The Irvingites say , with the Romanists , that the exercise of private judgment is the cause of all the divisions in the Church . Our author grants this , but contends that it is also the only protection against false doctrine , error , and eori-uption . They point , he writes , " to the numerous sects in the Christian Church , and their innumerable heresies , and , in reply , we point to the

    Pictures of Country Life . By Alice Cary . London : Sampson Low , Sons , and Co . New York : Derby and Jackson . This is an American work , by an author not unknown—her ^ Clovernook" and "Married , not Mated , " having achieved their share of reputation ; and it is thrown upon the public without a word of apology or preface . Here are in fact , thirteen essays , some in the shape of stories , others of a more didactic nature , but all written in a popular and dramatic vein . There is a touching pathos in the tale of " Lem Lyon , ' simple as it is in subject , and inartificial in structure , which goes to the source of sympathy . " Alice Cary ' can command tears . In the" Married Life of Eleanoi Homes , " the instincts and intentions of the femak mind are made much of—not . too much . In otii authoress ' s estimation their operation amounts to genius . " All women , " she opines , " have more oi less genius , which , after all , is simply power of suspending the reasoning and reflecting faculties , and suffering the light which , whatever it be , is neither external nor secondary , to flow in . " Will our reader , accept this definition ? It may pass as an -example of womanly . mysticism in philosophy . Eleanoi Homes , however , shews her genius in the manner in which she dreams . Such instruction and example as was afforded by hers > would serve to regulate £ whole married life , and ensure its happiness . W < think highly of this book .

    Sketch of the Life of Walter De Merton , Lord High Chancellor of England , and Bishop of Rochester ; Founder of Merton College . By Edmund , . Bishop of Nelson , New Zealand ; late Fellow of Merton College , D . D . John Henry and James Parker . This is an affectionate tribute by . a scholar of a great e'&acational establishment to its founder . It is confessedly only a sketch , but suggests means and materials for a more complete biographical work . A complete list of the documentary and other evidence connected with the subject is given ; but the matter is so compressed , and rendered with such succinctness , that any abstract of it is impossible . It is all contained in fifty-two pages , which will be found exceedingly useful , to any intending biographer , and will not fail to please all . old and young Merton men into whose hands it may fall .

    A Statistical View of American Agriculture , its Home Resources and Foreign Markets ,, with Suggestions for the Schedides-of the Federal Census in 18 . 60 . By John Jay , Esq . - ¦ New York : Dappleton and Co . Tins is an address delivered before the American Geographical and Statistical Society , on the organisation of the Agricultural Section . Mr . Jay was Chairman of the Section . Oi' course , the interests of America arc ' those most prominently considered ; but a fair estimate is taken of her relations with the rest of the world . England and Fraiice arc spoken o , f in terms the most considerate , and the suggestions made arc those of a well-experienced anil practical mail . Statistical tables are also given of much value . . A Voice from a Bakehouse . By an Emancipated . White Slave . By Ebcnezer Stevens .

    Henry Lea . Ever since tho lecture at llje Polytechnic Institution , Mr ; Stevens' machine-method of making broad has ¦ commanded the attention oi' the judicious . His bread is clean and puvc , mid we can speak from experience of its suitability to the palate and health . The injurious customs of the baking trade are here exposed on the authority of a practical man . The business , as now conducted , is a slow ' murder to the apprentice , workman , pr foreman of a baking establishment . Means , aro hare proposed for raising these operatives to a bettor social position , and remedying tho various evils that unfortunately exist . .

    Book-keeping for the Class-room and Counting-house , by Double ' and Single Entry , with itn Appendix on Commercial Forms . By John Maclean . Thomas Constable and Co . The compiler ' s claims to attention arc the euro ho has shown in making his work hurmoniso with , tho modern practice of tho counting-house . Merchants will find tho work a valuable book of roiorenco . There is also an educational aim in if , and therefore , the topics have been progressively arranged , to suit tho gradual stops made by the scholar in 110 attainable knowledge soug ht to ho imparted . I ho theoretical improvements proposed must , ot course , be left to the judgment of the indi * dual merchant ; but they appear to us to merit consideration . Nathalie s a Tale . By Julia Kavanagh . In 1 vol . ' Hurst and Blaokott . Messrs . Hurst and Blaokbtt liavo too well to reprint Miss Kavanagh ' e charming tale of NatlmUe , in a capital series of standard works of fiction . " Nathalie" has an especial claim to be classed in this series of novels , containing aa it does a more fliithful picture of French women and their manners , written by ^ n English lady , than any novel wo could readily name . .,

    corruptions and superstitions of the Church of Home , and have no fear of the comparison . " The author has treated the question with much calm consideration and quiet reasoning , and his book may prevail with some beneficially , and restrain them from excessive credulity , lie is no friend to pretended inspirations > and looks on such abnormal results as Mormouism and Irvingism with equal suspicion . Between the modern " Catholic and Apostolic Church" and " the Church of the Latter-day Saints" he sees little difference ; only he thinks the Irvingites the more sincere and honest . He has no faith in " supplemental revelations" of any kind ; and in the two above-mentioned traces many points in common . But he does not enter into the philosophy , of these manifestations ; and is himself perhaps riot free from Blbliolatry , an error in the opposite extreme . A Volume of Smoke , in Two Puffs . With Stray WhW ' sfrom the Same Pipe .

    _ Arthur Hall , Virtue and Co , Good , rixcy , fluent Eng lish . The verses run somewhat too glibly , and defy rather than provoke thought . The author recognises , however , in his headlong way , that poetry is an art , though , in his own effusions , it is but too evident that ho indulges less in " the law of art" than " tho liberty . " We miss , unfortunately , the purpose of those free and easy verses , even where we acknowledge the power . They are evidently tho production of a scholar , also ; and wo ought to hear of their writer again . On some of the Grounds of Dissatisfaction with Modern Gothic Architecture . A Lecture delivered at the Royal Jnstitute of Great Britain . By Edmund Beckett Doniaon , M . A ., Q . C . John Henry and James Parker .

    The author is in favour of Gothic architecture in principle ; but he objects to some modern oxamples , including our new Houses of Pai ; liament . We does not blame , however , Sir Charles Barry . We should remember , ho tells us , that " the style proscribed for his building was the latest and worst of all the Gothic styles ; and , moreover , that it was designed nearly a quarter of a century ago , almost in tho infancy of the Gothic revival , when there was . scarcely anything designed which its authors would not be ashamed of now . " Stinginess is the groat cause of the modern examples of tho Gothic being so unsatisfactory } but in some cases thoro has been sad misapplication of money and ingenuity . We must , howevor , refer to tho lecture itself for details and the writer ' s peculiar opinions . Who was Sold at the Bubbleton Election ? W . Kent and Co . A political squib , in which , tho humours of an election contest are cleverly hit off * . It is conducted in correspondence , and tho , characters of tho writer aro well discriminated . .. .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1859, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2293/page/11/