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world-tride celebrity , on ^ siting a parallel which was in course of completion by a party of the corps , went up to the nearest sapper to interrogate him with reference'to the work he was executing . The workman was private Solomon Whelan , ' who was not remarkable for wit or good sense . Coh : ¦ "What is your name , sir ?— -Sap .: Solomon Whelan , sir .. Col .: Well , Solomon Whelan , what slope is that ?—Sap . : A very good slope , sir . Col .: But what is its name ? —Sap .: A slope , sir . Col .: You are a very stupid fellow . —Sap . ' : Yes , sir . The colonel paused to scrutinise the - genius , and having surveyed him from head to heel , resumed the examination . Col .: Supposing the first sapper were killed , what would you do with him ?—Sap .: Stuff him in the gabion . Col .: And what would you dp with the second , if he were killed ?—Sap .: Make a fascine of him .
Others of a different class are to be found in abundance . The one headed Reading' the Mutiny Act is excessively funny , while the one called the Biter Bit illustrates another phase of life ; while iite one called The Poor Peer with a Long Pedigree is a romance in itself ; and so we might go on , naming different anecdotes as descriptive traits of all kinds of life in the ranks , not all of which would tell favourably towards the morality
of the army . We have said that as far as Quartermaster Connolly ' s work goes it has succeeded , and the work before us should greatly add to the author ' s already well-earned literary reputation . We think that the " Romance of the Ranks " -will give the civilian the best idea on the social life of the soldier extant ; and we hope , should Mr . Connolly still have time to spare , that he will give us some more of these anecdotes , only they should be collected from all parts of our army .
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Trust for Trust . By A . J . Barroweliffe , Author of " Amberhill . " In 3 vols . Smith , Elder and Co . " Trust for Trust" is a great improvement on * ' Amberhill . " When the latter was published , two or three year 3 back , we gave it as our opinion that Mr . Barrowcliffe would write better things ^ We have iiot been disappointed , and " Trust for Trust" justiv 3 Bes our expectations of the author '? abilities .. It is sometimes , we imagine , easier to write a novel than to define its purpose or character when writteneasier to invent a plot and fill in the dramatic pereonsa than to analyse it . " Trust for Trust" is a peculiar class of novel , and one that is extremely
" This little tale was written long years . ago in . an old priory on the banks of the Mole * * * *• I have tried to correct , as well as abridge this story , but it is incurably young and inexperienced , and after all top-dressing , remains but daisied meadow-grass . What memories it recals . ' I cannot be so hard on it as its demerits deserve , nor , I hope , will the reader be . " The authoress should be well satisfied with these memories . Few ¦ writers have achieved so many successes and had so few failures . As to the merits of " Village Belles , " we are inclined to think very highly , bearing in mind the very early date of life at which the work was written by the author . It certainly bears the s tamp of the writer ' s later works , although the impression may be fainter . As the work will be quite a new work to most of the novel readers of the present day , we recommend them to get it and judge of its " demerits" for themselves . We have read it through , and been highly pleased with its perusal .
The Rose of Ashurst . By the Author of " Emelia Wyndham , " " Two Old Men ' Tales , " &c . &c . Thomas Hodgson . " The Rose of Ashtjrst" is the first volume of a new series of novels , to be published monthly by Mr . Thomas Hodgson , late proprietor of the "Parlour Library . " " The Rose of Ashurst" is too well known to novel readers to require any comments from us . We think it equal to the best of Mrs . Marsh ' s pro-, ductions . To commence with ; such works as this argues well for the future of Mr ; Hodgson ' s undertaking 1 , —in wliich we wish him every success .
difficult to describe . When the reader commences its perusal he will expect to find a story of wild Welsh life—full of the picturesque scenes and habits of the Welsh people . But as the tale developes it assumes a totally different , character . Instead of romantic excitement , we have the interest of everyday life in 1 a country town—descriptions of squabbles at veBtry elections , riots , attacks upon factories comical courtships—in fact , a little of everything , and of which the author has made good use . Anthony Forrest , the hero , is a clever young man , who marries a Welsh * girl , whom his parents have educated r and deeming himself the only man with brains in his native place , he devotes himself to his regeneration ,
he intrigues successfully , is twice elected Lord Mayor , and finally becomes the great man of Porchester . But his ideas are antiquated—his conceit is sublime , and in the end he discovers that he has been on the wrong path . His desire for fame has caused him to neglect and tyrannise over a wife who fondly loves him , and can scarcely , at first , be brought to see a fault in him . An early rival comes to the town and enters into various combinations against him—poisons his mind against his wife , circulates ajl kinds of rumours calculated to injure them both-r-runs wray with the wife under the pretext of helping her to find a child she has lost—puts a wrong construction on her flight hi a letter to her husband ; and succeeds for a time in
xmdermining their nappin ess . in the end , npwever , everything is cleared up satisfactorily , and the husband and wife see where each have " erred ; and , retiring * from the busy world , they make for themselves a home , and , ore' satisfied with quiet domestic comfort . Mr . Barrowcliffe finishes everything he undertakes : he knows his purpose and follows it up , and rarely wanders from the point . He has a story to tell , and he tells it in a straightforward manner . It is seldom we find , even fin this great age of novel writing , so much that ; Us pleasant and so little to object as there istobofoundln " Trust for Trust . " It contains much original thought and fresh humour , and we cordially -recommend it to our readers . Village Bejilea i a , Tale of English Country Life . By the . author of ** Mary Powell / ' &o . &o . A new edition , revised . 'In } Vol . Richard Bonfcloy In the preface the authoress thus feelingly speaks of the composition' and merits of " Village Belles . " —
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[ As we have no motive but to give , as nearly aa circumstances of-time and space will permit , the trutli regarding any work , we notice , we insert the following communication ; and since it contains additional information , we do so with the greater readiness . It need hardly be said that ' ¦ ¦ there is no . subject on which men ' s interpretations will more differ than Etymology . ] TO THE iDIXGS OF " THE LBADEB , " SrR , r-rlt-is indifferent to me what a reviewer may write about my work , provided he will not misrepresent me . In your review of " Local Etymology , " under Watford , the reviewer states that abranch of the Cbhie flowing through Watford is called the " Gade , " that"Watford" may be a corruption of Gade-ford , The Gade is not a branch of the Gobae , and does not flow through Watford , . Tmt falls into the Colne hear Hickmansworth , I have not derrived Runnemede as stated in the review / If the name be referred to , it will be seen that I have given two derivations ( both quotations ' ) , and the reviewer might have quoted the most reasonable—just as well
as the least reasonable—etymology . The derivation of Pimlico , from Ben Pimlico , is not mine , but ( as by referring to the name will appear ) is a quotation from " Notes and Queries . " The derivation of Woking I believe to be the correct one , and to be totally unconnected with that of Ohingham , or rather Oahingham , in Berks ; and if the history of Bucks and the other authorities had been consulted there would have been no necessity for the suggestion that the money collected by the Eton boys at the Montem was called from the locality , any more than there is for the observation that " money" is not generally called " salt , " I have not stated that money is generally , or ever has been , so called , although it is a well known fact that the Romans made ' ¦« salt " a portion of their soldiers' safarium , or
salary . I spoke of" salt money , " not " salt . " Again , notwithstanding the sneer of the reviewer , if the authorities are consulted , the derivation of Tooleystreet will be found to be the correct one , although the same would not be so apparent without the link which I have given . My work is said to be deficient in numberless English names , and that the foreign names have been selected upon no principle . Now , the British derivations amount to about 2 , 000 , and jfche foreign ones to about 1 , 000 ; and if an unprejudiced reader will look through them I think ho will say I have given nearly every name which is likely to be of interest to the general reader . I have also to complain that , in the second paragraph * of tho review , the writer appears to bo correcting ray derivations , whereas he is in reality quoting the work itself . Gray ' s Inn . R , S . Chaj [ inook .
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The colossal figure now on show in the garden of Apsley House has drawn forth the following among other critical remarks from a correspondent of the Dai . lt / Telegraph , who subscribes himself " One in the crowd . " It will be observed that the writer claims certain postulates which may , or may not ; be conceded . He considers the work to be " placed where it is , to show the public how much better a work the Baron Marochetti . could have produced than the one selected by Government , and how much better , in all cases , it would be to do as was done with the Scutari monument , viz . —give it to the duke ' s friend ; " and continues : —
" Baron Marochetti having thus thrust himself before the public ,. I think no one can complain iff Offer a few remarks oh the work itself . The paragraphs your correspondent speaks of state that this figure is intended for a Victory , and that it is to form part of a monument , to be erected in St . Paul's , to the memory of the ' Iron Duke . ' As the baron has not contradicted this , I may take it for granted that a 'Victory it is . . " The work , as an artistic production , is not good the modelling . of the flesh is bad , and the posture of the figure is constrained . A figure to represent Victory should , to my mind , convey an idea of triumph , of exultation , and should be standing , not sitting , as though ruminating on a defeat , or envious of some other ' s triumph .
" If , however , I have mistaken the baron ' s intent tions , and his meaning be to represent 'Envy' or a * Rebellious Angel , ' or anything in which the baser passions are to predominate , then I should'say lie had succeeded admirably j but even then 1 should take an exception to the wings , about which there is nothing noble or elegant ; and to the treatment of long lines in the drapery , which are very pinaforish . " My opinion is , that the Baron Marochetti , having refused to enter into a competition with his brother artists , has no right now to come forward to endeavour to upset the decision which has been arrived at . And I am sure that it would not be conducive to the honour of the nation that any change should be made in the artist to whom the execution of this monument has been entrusted .
" How the Duke of Wellington can be so wanting in good taste as , to interfere in a matter in which he , above all others , should be silent , is a matter ot astonishment to most persons . Of . that , however , we' have no right to complain , unless any other means are used to influence the Government . la all cases in which the nation has to pay for an artistic production there should be a fair field and no favour , and in my opinion anything done aftera competition has resulted in an award is both unfair andungentlemanly . "
Tub last week or ton days has enriched om table with no less than three Exhibition Handbooks of different degrees of , merit . First there came the second annual number of the " Royal Academy Ke view , " being a guide to tho Exhibition of the Royal Academy , containing original , critical , wd Jflg tive notices of upwards of 250 works of art , by inn Council of Four , " published by Messrs . Kent & VO-i 80 , Fleet street . Then came from Messrs . SnU J , Elder , 8 fi Co ., " Notes on somo of tho prMP « JJ tures exhibited in tho rooms of tho Royal Academy , the old and new Societies of Painters ni wow colours , the Society of British ArUsts , an < l wo tP ^ U T ? ,, V . iK 5 f !« n 'NTr . V . -1859 . By JoWl WU 8 ,
kin , M . A ., &o ., &c » Lastly , Messrs . Arthur 1 WJ . Virtue , and Co ., in their « Review ° f * ' »« Jjffi , tion of the Royal Aoadomyand other Art Gri'enej by John Stewart . " In our opinion , the last of tliesj is , beyond all question , tho first in merit , ilW avowedly the work of a plain consulting and con tuactin / deqorator , it is asTriohIn . It- « gS rational , real criticism , as tho edict of " 1 ho Cousw of Four" is in judicious mediocrity , and tho p »» phlot of the Graduate in now flippant , now W "; . " over unsatisfying-maundering . Those V ^ ffl are , of course ,, written and prlntod with . » jw » £ s . d . j they are also to bo bought as ^ ° " l worth . iKJt us say , then , that for Ws sM " *
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T 7 w Vicissitudes of Italy since the CongnmoJn ^ Z ^ By A . L V . Gretton . Routledge and Co ! ^ ' The Royal Academy Review Mo . 2 KpvH- m j r . Things not Generally Known . Kent aJd Co d Co ' 8 V ^ e ^ nf £ ! * ° etry \ By J ° - ?^ - > HaU . Specidatvbns literary and Philosophic . By Tho « * Qumcey . James Hogg and Sons . y mos . de Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric Jam « Hogg and Sons . " - James 2 ¥ ag ^ S ^ S ^ SEL- ^ ^* ^ *»< -u ^ Bf ^/ s ^^ n ^^ gr ^ - ^*^ Clarke ' s Railway Excursion Guide for Man rc r Clarke and Co . juiMay . h . G .
BOOKS RECEIVED , The Story ' ofthQ JCife of George S ' tepJwiaon , Railway Engineer , ^ By Samuel Smiles . John Murray . Notea of the Principal Pioturoa Exhibited at the Royal Academy . Smith , Elder and ' Co . Romantic Talea . A new edition . Smith , Elder and Co . The Two Patha , being Leoturea on Art , ( to . Smith , Elder ana Co . England and Her Soldiers . By Harriet Martlneau . Smith , Elder and Co . Out qf the Dapths ; the Story of a Woman ' s Mfe . Cambridge , McMillan and Co . Manoheater Walha and Wild Floxoera . Whlttakor ana Co .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2295/page/18/
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