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. "IP AMONG the forthcoming novelties of the month the new work entitled " A Life for a Life , " by the author of " John Halifax , Gentleman , " is announced for immediate publication by Messrs . Hurst and Blackett . The same publishers also include in their list of works in the press , " Realities of Paris Life , " by the author of " Flemish Interiors , " &c ; "Female Influence , ' by Lady Charlotte Pepys ; " The Life and Times of George Villiers , First Duke of Buckingham , " by Mrs . Thomson ; " Raised to the Peerage" by Mrs . Octavius Owen ; " Almost a
The original statue of the Greek Slave , the celebrated work by Hiram Powers , executed in the purest Carrara marble , was sold on Wednesday to the Duke of Cleveland for the sum of 1 , 800 guineas . The Liverpool Mercury announces the transfer of the Northern Daily . Times to Mr . Thomas Eatnsay , of Liverpool , w-as on Tuesday signed before Mr . Commissioner Perry . The new proprietor intends to conduct the paper , which has heretofore been Liberal , on Conservative principles . At the sale of the late Dr . Sqiiibbs ' s library by Messrs . Puttick , an arm-chair belonging to Dr . Johnson was sold for 10 Z . 15 s . The chair is an uncouth-looking piece of furniture of ample dimensions , and such as well became the proportions o £ the leviathan of literature . Its new abode will be the magnificent library of Mr . Beaufoy , of South Lambeth .
, Heroine , " by the author of " Charles Auchester ; and new novels by Wilkie Collins , John E . Reade , Mrs . S . C . Hall , Mrs . Howitt , and the author of " Margaret and her Bridesmaids , &c . " Messrs . Saunders , Otley , and Co . announce for immediate publication , " Ladie 3 and Leaders ; or . Plots and Petticoats , " a state novel of 1859-60 , by a distinguished writer ; " The Northumbrian Abbots , " a novel , by R . S . Werborton , Esq . ; " Irene , " a tale for the young : ; " Satan Restored , " a poem ; "A Handy-Book for Rifle Volunteers , " by Captain Hartley .
Upon a recent topic which has been broujrht hefore the House of Commons ! and which will probably come ou again for discussion , the Critie remarks : — ' * Perhaps a good many of our readers are not aware that in England the privilege of printing the Bible is confined to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoodc . Protection to the Bible ( in the form of a monopoly ) still exists where , we think , free trade Would be far preferable . Of course , objectors urge that Bibles are now sufficiently cheap and correct ; and that if any person might , at his option , publish them , they would scarcely be cheaper , and probably much less correct . We can only say that
our opinion is that -they would be improved in each of these points , more especially . in the matter of cheapness . That Bibles are now very correctly printed in general we , willingly admit ; and this even though in one old edition the word "riot" was omitted in the Seventh Commandment—an error for -which , the unfortunate printer atoned bitterly — and though another transformed " the parable of the vineyard " into " the parablo of the vinegar . " We maintain that Bibles might , if' free trade in them were allowed , be printed on batter paper and in larger type for the same price at which any of the minute-Iy-small-t 3 'ped , eye-torturing editions are now sold .
In Ireland and Scotland no monopoly exists . In the former country Lord Chancellor Clare , we believe , swept away , by a declaration from the woolsack , . the supposed rights pf the patentee in the monopoly of Bibles . We . conclude that some compensation would necessarily have to be made to the two Universities and the Queen ' s Printers ; and we think that this might easily be done in the former case by giving up some portion of the matriculation fees paid l ) v the students to Government for the use of the Universities ; aud doubtless some arrangement could as easily be made with Messrs . Eyre and Spottiswoode , whose profits have been wofully diminished since the non-renewal
of the Scotch patent in 1837 . We have made those observations a propos of Mr . Baines , M . P ., having on Monday last , in the House of Commons , asked the Secretary of State for the Homo Department whether it was tho intention of the Government , on the approaching expiration of the patent of tho Queen ' s printer for England and Wales , 21 st January 1860 , to propose the renewal of that patent sofur as it related to the printing of Bibles and Testaments . Tho Homo Secretary , without giving a de * cidpd answer , said that ample opportunity would bo afforded to any member to bring the subject to tho notice of tho House of Commons before tho patent ¦ was renewed . "
A correspondent of the Star says : — "Tho past week has been marked by the sale of two wellknown periodicals , Tho London Journa , which by no means continued its previous course of prosperity in the hands of its late proprietary , has gone back to its old owner , Mr . Stift' , as has , indeed , been already publicly announced , on terms which , it is rumoured , contrast somewhat with those on which the last sale was made . This would of course dissolve the injunction against tho appearance of tho Daily London Journal j but I believe that there Is no present intention to resuscitate that interesting patient , which expired so suddenly after a three days' life . It did not do . The other is tho Welcome Guest , which has , wo hear , passed from Mr . Vizetolly to Mr . Maxwell , who is , wo believe , an advertising agent , and was for a short time one of tho proprietors of the Herald , after its sale under tho bankruptcy of M > . Baldwin /'
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MEMOIRS TO ILLUSTRATE THE HISTORY OF MY . OWN TIME . By F . Guizot . Translated by J . W . Cole . Vol . II . —Richard Bentley . THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS . A Memoir . Transluted from tbe French by Mrs . Austin . —London : " VV . Jeffs . The first of these volumes comprises the history , from M . Guizot ' s point of view , of the overthrow of Charles the Tenth and the establishment of Louis Philippe upon the throne of France . Five hundred large octavo pages carry us over little more than two years , and at this rate M . Guizot ' s memoirs of the ministries under the Citizen King
will alone extend to nine volumes . Similar calculations were suggested to us the other day in reviewing the first instalment of the Memoirs of Lady Morgan , which would have required about forty volumes to be completed on the scale in which they begun . If every man and woman of mark should take it into their heads to write memoirs in this fashion , how are readers to keep pace with them ? - —and there are other things to be read beside memoirs . Let any frequenter of the library of the British Museum glance at the shelf where M . Guizot ' s collected works are placed for reference , and ask himself how long it would take him to read and digest that close -printed formidable row of hooks on history , science , biography , art , philois
think should have its way . Men who had Fought to get rid of Charles the Tenth , and did not understand why their Citizen King should only be Charles the Tenth over again , were to be " resisted ;* ' men who had rejoiced over the ne-w charter of liberty proclaimed in July , and could not understand that the " Charter of 1830 " meant nothing but the status quo before 1830 , were to be kept silent by force of arms ; men . who fought at that
for liberty of the press , and grumbled nnding victory lef t them still without it , were to be put down , Resistance was M . Guizot ' s motto . The word : and its kindred terms are scattered over his pages like the "fratemite" and " eg-alite" on the buildings of Paris in 1848 . It would be wearying the reader to quote evidences of this spirit . He has but to open the book and find them on the page . M . Guizot has only two opinions . The will of the governing power is alone to prevail : the governed have no duty but to submit , and spare their rulers the disagreeable necessity of reading the
riot act . The interesting , but somewhat courtly , memoir of the late Duchess of Orleans , forms a suggestive commentary upon M . Guizot ' s work . When the final storm came none stood more erect , none showed more nobly than Helen Duchess of Orleans . Her wanderings in the streets of Paris " with her child , in the midst of the revolutionary mob who threatened her on all sides—her courageous stand in the Chamber of Deputies , when those who were still more interested in the issue had given up their ; cause , arid fled , are incidents that will never be omitted in the history of those times . Yet she , far
more than any of her family—and we suspect more than M . Guizot himself—saw the tendency of the policy which her father-in-law had adopted * " I ara saddened to the very soul , " she wrote on the eve of the revolution , " at the perturbed state of the public mind , at the discredit into which the higher classes have fallen , the general disaffection of all below them , and the soft of vague disgust which seems to have taken possession of everybody . ' ^ Truth is somewhat overlaid by the fine phraseS-of her biograher ; but one thing is easily discernible . The Duchess of Orleans foresaw the issue of the King ' s government , and warned her friends in vain . The result is the disheartening history of the last ten years . Mrs . Austin has performed her task of translator and editor with evident care , and has herself contributed a touching memorial of friendship in heir prefatory sketch .
sophy , politics , et quibusdam dies ? One thing quite certain—the gentleman who , half a century ago , was known as the well-informed man , is a character which must soon become extinct . The Broughams , Gaizots , Walpoles , and such voluminous authors , must mark out more work for them every year , till no man can pretend to kno \ v anvthing more than a moment in history , a point in philosophy , a single life in biography . The man of general information who had read the Classics—( you could get through them)—who had -what , before Mr . Grotc , might have been considered a good notion of the Greeks—had acquired a little of English history and law , and a few other tilings " that every gentleman ought to know "—will be himself a historical character .
M . Guizot ' s Memoirs , however , are curious and instructive , and must grow in interest as they approach nearer to these times . Herein the observant reader may trace the true causes of revolution , and learn that lesson which even revolutionjios not taught the writer . This is , indeed , the most curious fact which these volumes yield . For every step of retrogade policy which M . ( Juiziot ' s master couuselled from the very first by M . Guizot himselfadopted on the morrow of the revolution of 1830 , and pushed on to an end wliich appeared to other eyes inevitable , M . Guizot has an apology , or wo should , perhaps , rather say that ho scarcely dreams that an apology ig necessary . Ho boldly takes upon himself the '' responsibility of that tighthanded rule which so bitterly disappointed all
parties in France , gave more placemen and pedantic statesmen , and made tho " Charter" the eternal object of the ridicule of Victor Hugo and the sneers of Bnlzac . Reviewing his career here in exile , after a revolution which sent his master forth a wanderer to die , and blighted the hopes of the Orleans family—which plunged , France into jnore strife , and brought it under a still more intolerable despotism—after ten years wherein to reflect upon the lustory of his ministry , M . Guizot still congratulates himself upon having been the minister of reaction . If there is indeed one thing of which he is proud , it is that ho—he more than all others . —supported the " policy of resistance , " a "boast which ought to sound , strangely in tho ears of Englishmen , for M . Guizot had nothing to " resist but that national will which -we are accustomed to
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A TOUR IN DALMATU , ALBANIA . AND MONTENEGItO ; With an Historical Skotch of the Ileputyic of IUffusa , from the Earliest Times clown to its Filial Fall , By W . F . Wingiield , M . A ., Oxou ; M . l > . Pisnn . JUcharcl IJentlcy . The -work consists of letters written by the author in Southern Austria , and originated in a desire to detail certain facts at the crisis of 1833-4 , relative to the condition of Christians in a Turkish province , and to draw attention to the Slave nationalities on the eastern shores of the Adriatic , important from their connexion with that widely extended family of which Russia is the acknowledged head . Dahnatia , is a place that 1 ms long borne the same nanie and character . " It is always the provincia l first of Rome ; then of Rome's eastern alter ego , Constantinople ; then of Rome ' s eldest daughter , Venice ; and even now , though temporal Rome has passed away , mid Constantinople is Turkish , and . Venice no more , as if by a sort of destiny it hung to the last vestige ot tho Roman name and power , it is still the province of the Romischer Kaiser , by which title , the fcmporor of Austria is to this day prayed for at liomo . Originally , however , ' Dolmntin appears in history as an independent kingdom . It was Orooilius Metellus who reduced Dalmatia formally to a Roman province ; and subsequently tell to Augustusira the division of the Roman provinces made between tho senate and himself , ^ t is also commonly reputed to hove been tho birthplace of bt . Jerome-, wliich was probably Strogna , in Istna . Our tourist describes the church of St . Simeon , the patron saint of Zoro , the capital of Dalmatia , whoso entire body is said to be there preserved m n magnificent silver sarcophagus presented by Queen Elizabeth of Hungary . Tho anterior of the edifioe is very fine . The dresses of the people are ornamental . The men often exhibited the old Austrian pigtail , tied with ribbon , appearing from beneath n red or black and gold-embroidered ana
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Ko . 486 . July 16 , 1859 . 1 THE LEADER . 845
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Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2303/page/17/
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