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Jessie in London before the war broke'out ; loved her ; and would , bad -not duty called-him . away * declared his love . He-. gets wouwted , and as ordered home . To induce her to stay longer Without letting her know the contents ^ ot George ' letter , Griffith persuades his brothers to ioih him in writing ten stories , one to be read each of the ten nights . They demur at first , Morgan savagely , and Owen through wan : of confidence in himself . They try thenvhand however , under the tuition of Griffith , who has . in his young days written for the press , ^ and they each produce stories characteristic of their professions , and sometimes of themselves . Of course George arrives at the old tower when the stones are finished , and in the end we find the " Queen of Hearts V taking the post of honour at the breakfast table , making everyone happy around her by
her bright eyes and winning manners . The stories in these volumes are of much the same character as Mr . Collins ' s dramas ; the interest in some of them amounts almost to . fascination , and such as will become popular . But we would rather " The Queen of Hearts " had been a continuous story , and our interest and sympathies asked for the gentle old clergyman , the brusque , sarcastic old doctor , the pliable old lawyer , and the charming young Jessie . We do not mean any disparagement in speaking thus of the stories , they evidence great power of imagination . But thecharacters of the three quiet lonely old men and Jessie , are so vividly portrayed that we feel quite sorry that there is not more about them .
In Mabel Owen " we have depicted the life of a precocious young lady , who _ grows up to be a woman of no ordinary stamp . We are introduced to her when quite a child , and her actions and feelings are delineated with such truthfulness as gives evidence of a remarkable and minute observer of the workings of a woman ' s heart . Mabel is not perfection , although she is so clever ; and her character is painted for the best purposes a novelist can employ their pen—that of representing a woman as she is , so that others having the same shortcomings may profit by example . In the work before us the writer has taken care to show
the good and the evil in one person . " Mabel Owen " is an average story , but more than an average fiction . While relating the outward struggles of life the writer has not forgotten the inward straggles of the heart ; and -while showing what one woman is , she has not acted the monitor by delivering dogmatic sermons on women in general . The title of " Extremes " is suggestive of . many things , but could scarcely be more applicable than when used , as in the present case , to portray the dogmatic differences that exist in the forms of religious worship . The Rev . Frank Halstead has given him the living of Snagton-cum-Tlrwackelton , m one of the mostuncultivated parts of Yorkshire , where the people speak a language quite foreign to us . His predecessor was one of those clergymen of * li « old snhonl who nonsuited his own comfort before
attending to the spiritual good of his parish . Jtie always waited for the squire of the parish before he would allow the cermony to commence , and took so little care of the souls pf the poor , that on wet Sundays he closed the church altogether , the consequence of which , was that nearly all his congregation became dissenters , and the church furniture and church went to ruin . It may be imagined , the effect produced on the new pastor by this state of things . Halstead has imbibed the strictest feelings of His order , and the first thing he does is to get new articles for use , for which his pai'ishonei'sqall him a Papist . He thqn finds , when visiting the poor , that scarcely anv are baptised , and he makes his case worse by giving out , in the pulpit , that he jftill give no more people Christian burial who have not
been baptised . The next Sunday the few faithful followers that he has hitherto hadj desert him , and in a'fit of dospAir he writes to his friend , to give up the living . Luckily , this gentleman is a little more genial in character . He goes to' Halatead ' s assistance , and with his mediation he makes " Extremes" meet . There is of course a love story running through the volumes , the interest of which is kept up in consequence of the hero , the clergyman , navmg vowed to live a life of celibacy , and the heroine , Miss Margaret Langley , losing a suit in Chancery , which jleaves her so poor as to bo compelled to go out as a ,, governess . After many failures , Margaret is engaged in the family of Sir Henry Aston , the patron of Snagton-oum-Thwaokelton , which gives the writer ah opportunity of
giving some hard hits as to how young ladies are treated when trying for situations , and when . they get them , the hardship and treatment they endure for : such a beggarly remuneration . Margaret remains in the family till the baronet proposes to her , where she leaves and returns to Snagton , where a fever has been raging . Halstead wears himself but , and Margaret nurses him : the result may be imagined . Miss Atkinson has performed a very delicate task creditably ; . She has not forced her own opinions forward ; at the same time she has not shrunk from showing that extremes with a little friendly meditation will sometimes meet .
" The Count de Perbuck" is a translation or an adaptation from the French of Frederic Soulie ' s novel , in nine small volumes , of the . same name . As a romance writer Frederic Soulicwas unequal to Dumas , but his works contain a greater depth of thought and more knowledge of human nature . Dumas has the advantage of him with regard to the purity of his works , while some of Soulie ' s descriptions are equal to De Balzac ' s . SoulieYell into the error common among French novelists , which precludes their works generally from being placed in the hands of our children . In the work before us , however , there is no trace of anything readers
that can offend the most fastidious of novel . There is plenty of good materials in the nine volumes of the original , when condensed and abridged , to make a good novel of ordinary length . Mr . Gooke has been successful in remodelling the work , and it comes to Us with many of the beauties and none Of the defects of the original . It is true the inci--dents sometimes appear rather abrupt , but the story is original , and the plot so novel that the reader will be too much interested to " notice these minor defects . We are not , generally speaking , partial to translations of French novels ; but we can conscientiously recommend " The Count de Perbuck . "
" Murder will Out" is the new volume of Routledge ' s original novel , published at oae shilling and sixpence . The title is the worst part of it , and will dissuade many from perusing it . The storjr is founded on the murder of Colonel Valmore , which took place in 1803 , and which caused great excitement from the fact that the murderer , Grylls , escaped punishment by concealment and disguise . It turns out in the end to be a double murder , for
when Grylls is going to be hanged , heconfessesto having strangled his wife , under the impression that the Colonel had seduced her . The subject has been interestingly woven together with a tale of love , in which Olive Grant is for some time engaged to her cousin , Lord Ardaligh , until she finds that he was the seducer of Grylls 1 wife , and then she bestows her hand on Vincent "Vyse , a clergyman .
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Dplwich College and Picture Gallery . — This celebrated collection of art treasures is now open to the public ( free ) , without the trouble of obtaining' tickets in town as . formerly , on Mondays , Tuesdays , Wednesdays , and Saturdays ; on Thursdays and Fridays a charge of 6 d . each person ia made for admission . No catalogues are required ; the subject is printed on gold tablets beneath each picture ; also the name of the artist , with the dat < of his birth and death . The gallery opens each day at ten and closes at fire . The " Star" tells us that the last order dated
from Biarritz , relates to the immediate commencement of the great work which the Emperor has long had in contemplation—the creation of the Galerae Napoleon HI ., at Versailles ; and it is understood that it is to be embellished entirely with illustrations of the reign of the present E mper . or . The pictures , of which several are already completed , are to be executed by the best artists . All those painted at the close of the Crimean war will be immediately transferred from the different Imperial residences to this new show-room of French history , and the war in Italy has alreadv found its illustrators likewise in Meissonier , Ivon , and others ^ This sudden call to arms has given an immense fillip to art , which was
sinking fast into a state of languor , and most of the great artists have hurried back to their ateliers . Couture ' s great picture of the Emperor ' s Marriage at Notre Dame will be one of the first to adorn the gallery , for it must not be supposed that war alone is to find its records under the reign of Napoleon III . — the striking features of his private life will also here find their mementoes . The various episodes which have embellished , his career will form a most interesting series . The numerous incidents of travel of which Prince Napoleon has been the hero , will . The of
likewise find their illustration . ceremony the marriage of his Royal Highness at Turin , and his reception in Paris on his return , are to be painted by Delacroix . The haste in which the orders have been given for the commencement of this great work has made many people imagine that it is desirable in high quarters to have it completed by a certain occasion—and that occasion to be no less than the visit of the Queen of Spain to Paris , which , according to rumour , is again upon the tapis , and likely to take place in January . the Statue the late
Inauguration op or General Neill at Ayb . —The ceremony of inaugurating the statue of the late General Neill was performed at Ayr on Tuesday in a very imposing manner , and under highly favourable circumstances . The statue has been erected in Wellington-square , in which Brigadier-General Neill was born on May 27 , 1810 , and is in commemoration of his services to his country , and chiefly of the gallant and noble part which he enacted in the late rebellion in India . The subscriptions amounted to upwards of £ 1 , 250 , and the execution of a bronze statue was entrusted to Mr . Noble , sculptor , of 13 , Brutonstreet , Berkeley-square , London . The statue is cast t
in gun-metal , which was supplied by Governmen at the same time that a similar grant was made for a statue of General Havelock , and for a monument < at Chatham to the Royal Engineers . The metal , alone is of the weight of H tons , and of the value of £ 360 . The figure is of colossal size , 10 feet high , and stands upon a pedestal of granite , 12 foot high , The incideht seized on by the artist is that wluoii occurred at the railway station at Hawraw , when General Neill and the Fusiliers , being about to pror cecd to quell the mutiny at Benares , a portion ot tne regiment not having arrived when the train . was about to start , and the railway official jnsiatingupon it proceeding without them . General Neill immedi-Him arreetea whwu
ately and on the spot hncl ; nnu $ e soMiers coining up shortly afterwards , the Fusiliers started for tho scone of danger , and , under their great commander , speedily restored tho disturbed district to tranquillity . One hand of tho ffeneral rests firmly on his sword , the other is extended in an attitude of command , and is pointing * energetically , while he seems to be addressing orders S his Sen . Behind aud at lu » feet are a broken cannon , a pith helmet , and a round shot , emblematic of the extremity of tho crisis when General Neil
appears first on the ecene . Tho whole attitude and bearing of the statue is singularly commanding and life-like . Immediately below , upon the pedestal , the following inscription runs : —• " James George Smith Neill , C . B ., Alde-de-Oamp to the Queen , I 4 euten » nt-Oolonel in the Madras Army , Brigadier-General in India , a brave , resolute , self-reliant ; eoldior . univorflaUy acknowledged as the first ? who stemmed tho -torrent of rebellion in Bengal . He fell gloriouoly . at the relief of Luoknow , 85 ta < fieiktombQr > 1807 , * gea 47 . "
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Another Ioee Nafoleonibnne . —Among the various scions of the glorious house of Buonaparte is a son of old Iiucien , the Prince de Canino . This young man is a priest of the Romish Church , and being a personal friend , protegd , and favourite relative of his Imperial cousin at Paris , has seen himself speedily raised from one clerical dignity to another , till at last the influential post ot private secretary and almoner to Pio Nono himself was , op rather had to be , accorded to him . Nothing else stands between him and the purple of the Cardinal than the paucity of his years , which do not as yet number thirty , and the law which forbids the surrender of the Cardinal ' s hat to any one so young . Nevertheless , it is
apprehended here that as there are no rules without exceptions , and as laws are formed for the good of the makers , means may be speedily found to effect the promotion of young Lucien Buonaparte before the expected decease of the present Pope , Should this bo the case , a master-stroke of Napoleonic policy would have been accomplished . With a Napoleon as member of tho College of Cardinals , the rest of that august body would be constrained to raise to the office of Head of the Church tlie fortunate cousin of its protector . As it cannot bo anticipated that young Canino , who has hitherto been one of the
most pliant instruments of Louis Napoleon , would be inclined to alter his sentiments in the grand position that awaits him , not only the Governments of Italy , but also tho Koman Catholic communities all over the globe , would then havo been brought into a state of virtual subjection to the scheming Emperor of France . The eventuality of so undo-Birftblc a fulfilment of Napoleonio hones la oven now being taken into account by the statesmen of Austria > but it remains to be seen whether they will be strong enough to prevent its realisation . For the rest , there is little known of Prince JLuoien Napoleon Buonaparto Canino
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1859, page 1159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2316/page/19/
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