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    uppn its predecessor—at least to English eyes ; for the comparatively lays which swell its pages are cfiUmly better adaptedfor the translator ' s purpose than the poetry of Shakespeare , Dryden , Milton , and Gray , who wear with but an ill grace the jingling fetters of French rhyme . Determined , apparently , to avoid the imputation of exclusiveness , M . de Chatelain has been very comprehensive in his selection , and among the illustrations of Beauties of English Poesy we find lyrics from the famous pens of Tupper , G . W . M . Reynolds , and Fitzball . Far be it from us to call in question the judicious choice made by M . de Chatelain ; but we would in friendship counsel him against invidious distinctions—if Tupper and Fitzball are admitted to the sacred precincts of the temple of Apollo , why ~ -oh why—is no niche reserved for the immortal Bunn ?

    feeWe TH E first volume of M . de Chatelain ' s Beautes having been devoted to paraphrases of the works of deceased poets , the pieces ¦ yvhich he has chosen for translation in his new volume are nearly all from the pen of living writers . Tennyson , Browning , Longfellow and Landor have been laid under contribution to a : small extent ; but the greater part of tbis bulky volume is adapted from the works of rhymesters' who were almost as little known in their original guise as they are likely to be when adorned with the Chevalier ' s versification . The fugitive poems of some of tliie rising contributors to the periodical literature of the day appear to have a peculiar attraction for M . de Ghatelain , and he has succeeded in rendering these perhaps better than any other of the poems in his selection . The new volume at any rate is fairly to-be considered as an improvement

    Trades' tJiiions and Strikes is a pamphlet written by the Secretary to the London Society of Bookbinders . The writer appears to be well acquainted with the subject ; he discusses it with considerable ability , and evinces a desire that it should be generally understood that working iiien unite to support , but not combine to injure . Memorials of Workers , is a meritorious address , intended by the author expressly to encourage every man who is toiling to improve himself , and to benefit others . The many remarkable instances which Mr . Godwin gives of men \ vljo , without friends , and without the advantages of early education , have , by perseverance , risen to . proud , positions of usefulness and eminence in society , are calculated to inspire every earnest aspirant in every conditioa with hope and with the assurance of success .

    This new edition . of the well-known Life of Oliver Cronuoell , by GuizQt , is published in a form and sizs at once handy and readable . It is too late iii the day to criticise this work—opinions of its merits and demer its haying l ^ een long since very generally formed . It js certainly an able work , and interesting also as the production of a man whose genius , culture and principles are essentially dirlerent from those of the men who were engaged iii the great English revolution . So far and so well as Cromwell arid his times can be understood and appreciated by a foreigner , it has been done by Guizot , who has unquestionably displayed great ability in his work on the subject . But the -then and the events connected with the Commonwealth , we cannot lielp saying , will ,-by . their influence , always , greatly transcend any opinion or estimate formed of them by our author . . .

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    ESSAY- vv-RITJNtr is apparently coming again ; ana we may notice with commendation a series of essays by Mr . Baxter , ¦ which arc calculated to please on perusal , and to promote a proper understanding of the age we live in . Mr . Baxter believes that the world has greatly improved ; that we are both better off and better than our forefathers , less superstitious , more literary , less , narrow-minded ; and more free ; also more tolerant and truly religious . Mr . Baxter ' s vein flows ¦ with facility , and his style is marked by grace as well as ease . Sermon-¦ vvriting , top " , is regarded with more favour than formerly . The Rev . W . G . Barrett having succeeded , and deservedly , iu furnishing the clerical profession with more than a hundred excellent sketches and skeletons of discourses , adds to ' his sscbnd series more than as many more , still better , and uncommonly well-adapted to help in pulpit composition . Dr . Schaible , too , has offered helps in the arts of thinking and composition , which will be found especially useful to preceptors .

    volumes . Mr . Wills gives us an excellent set of such papers , under the title of 'Old Leaves } and Blackwood many a pleasant story from the pages of Maga . The late Mr . De Quincey ' s Letters are of the same character , but of higher aim . Life , however , is « ot wholly reflective j there are fields of action as well as of thought . Captain Hutchinson supplies us . with an accumulation pf minute facts in connection with , the mutinies in Oude , of great , service to the survivors of those who were sacrificed during the terrible conflict . He has published , with the concurrence of the Government of India , " the most accurate and complete information that the Local Government , has been able . collect , " for the benefit of all who may have lost friends or relatives in Oude . Lieut .-Colqnei John Adye , in like manner , supplies us with an . official Review of . tike Crimean War , in which lie defends Lord Raglan and < Jther officers against the representations of Mr . Russell . His work is illustrated with numerous coloured maps . Another useful work , is one by Mr . Glover on Harbours of Refuge . The exposure of official jobbing contained in this production is complete . Surely , millions will not continue to be wasted in the infamous manner here pointed put . We commend Mr . Glover ' s statements to the notice of Government . Among the works of elegant literature published since Christmas , a newedition of The Household of Sir Thomas More , by the author of Mary Powell , merits recognition . An appendix has been added to it , in which learned notices of Erasmus More and his daughter Margaret , and some local and other traditions are collected . We have likewise a curious work in French , entitled Hjstqire de la Litte ' raiure des Fous . Some Pf the specimens , of lyrical genius . possessed by lunatics are most interesting ; but the jwork is not altogether trustworthy . Among the insane , we have Thomas Wirgman , who translated the articles on Kant and Transcendental Philosophy for the Encyclopedia Londinensis , and wrote many books on the same subject . He is here stated to have retired from business with a large fortune , to have expended it in the publication of his works , and to have died in distress . We knew the man well , and his productions , and can assure M . Delepierre that he has made an absurd mistake . But we cannot account for his positive ruisstatements . M . pelepierre thinks he finds proof of Wirgman ' s insanity in his coloured diagrams and gilt title-pages ; but he seems unaware that the philosophical system thus illustrated is that of the great Kant , now acknowledged by the best and soundest of metaphysical authorities a ? the father of modern philosophy ; aud that the diagrams are riot only of much use to the student , but are correctly as well as ingeniously constructed , as convenient illustrations of the argument . To be sure / we gather from some previous remarks , that in M . Delepierre ' s opinion , philosophy itself , even in such persons as Kant and Aristotle , is but a . sort of sublime madness . A man who spends his life in such a pursuit , to say nothing of his fortune ^ is , in his estimation , only a kind of rational lunatic . - ' The new work on the Highlands contains a graphic account of the condition of Stratliavon and Gienlivat . The author has had ample opportunities of becoming acquainted with tlie subject . His father held a tract of the Grampian Hills , in Banffshire , including-within its range ^ Cairngorm , famed for its gems , Ben-Macdhui , said to be the highest ground in Britain , the dark and awful gorge of Lochavbn , on which the sun but seldom shines , Clachdiany or the shelter-stone at Lochavon , Clachvan , or Glaeh-na-Ban ( the women ' s stone , once , aud sPmetimes even now , the resort of females in an interesting condition , to ensure them an auspicious hour ) , and many other objects of surpassing local interest and Alpine grandeur . " Thus qualified , the writer , it may be believed , delineates with a genial pen the various features of the country he has undertaken to describe . The little book abounds in entertainment . Passing from Scotland to America , we notice a quarto volume of testimonials in favour of Washington Irving , which will be welcome to his admirers , in this country . We conclude this list of miscellaneous books with commanding to perusal the Memoir of' JBnwia Tathatn , a poetess little known , but not without merit . The volume also contains som ' e poems of hers not hitherto published .

    The popularity of essayrWriting is much nurtured by the brief papers contributed to our journals . These are frequently cpllected into distinct * XoautJs da 7 « Pa 8 ste Anglaise . Par le Ohovaiior de CnATEJCiAltf . Vol . II . London : Kola-ndi . ' . ' " Trades ' . Unions , and , IStnnkesi thair Philosoph y and Intention . By T . J . Punning .. London : Henry Hurley , Hacquet Court , Fleet Street . Memorials i » f Workers , By GEOiiaH Godwin , F . R . S . London : Robert Hardwicko . Lifo of Olivqr Oromiuoll . By F . GtrizpT . London : Richard Bontloy . t Mints to Thinkers } or , Lectures for the . Times . By W , E . Bas ; tbr > Esq . 3 M . P . lloutledge . Now S / y'cMivs and Sholotons ofSormons , Doooub and Practical } specially Prepared , and wholly Original . First Series ( seopnd edition ) , and Second Series , liy Rev . > V . G . Imiwbtt . Thos . Jopps . T > ..... . * I .... / 7 ! 1 // i >» rtti /< v *>» Til m ^ a * . i frt / ia , i * ti / 7 i » Ai \ % f *\ f * ^ filx 14 ? 2 */< ii rt Ttv Ptf A n T . Iflfl

    ,, * Soiiaiulh , 1 'h . D ., M . I 5 ., L . O . P , Aylott and Son . Old Leaves yatliorodfrom " Housohold U ords , " By W . PlBNttY Wills . Ohapmnn and H » ill . Talon from " Jilaokwood , " Vol . VII . Blaolswood and Sonp . Lottery to a " i ' tmnq Man whoso Mdycation ha $ been nogleatod , and other Papers- By Thomas Dh Quinoby . Jjimea Hogg (\ nd Sons . Narration oftho Mutinies in Ondo . Collected from Authentic Records . By Captain 0 . HUToniNSON . Published by Authority . Smith , Elder ; tvnd Co . A Kavloto of the drimoan War to the Winter (^ 1 , 854—5 . By Lieut .-Ool . John A 0 Ti ' , ' O . B . Huratand Blftdcotb . Harbours < f J&tfuqo t not iPanqorous Deooj / s , Ship-traps , nor Wroohin < f I ' oola . By FitBD . It . " A . GfcOVEJR ,, M . A . JKd . w . Stanford . . The J-lousoholcl . of Sir Thomas Mora . By thu A uthor pf " Mary Ppwell . " Fourth Edition , with an Appendix . Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . tlistpiro UtMrairo dos J ? ow . Pur Ooxavb Dklbjpihjvub . Tnibner and Co . ... . _

    Lectures o »» the Mountains ; or , tho Highlands and Tfjghlandors as they Wtwo and as th « i / Aro . First Series , Siumdars , Otloy , and Op , Xrvinqianat rr Memorial of Washington Xrving . Now York s C . B . Richardson . ,, ... , « Memoir of JSmma Tatham . By Bbnjajvun Ojwcoory . HaraiUon and Co .

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    l ^ LAOK WOOB tliis didactic on "St . Stephen ' s , " ¦* and which , we perceive , is alsp advprtised fpf separate publication . The third part is rougher , but more vigorpiis . than its predecessors . The autpbipgraphy of " Norman Sinclair " is cPntihued , and " The Luck pf Ladysmede" cpnclude ( L ^ here is a ventivrpus paper pn Fielding and " Tom Jones , " i » i which-the modern critic reverses the received dictum , that the novel mentipned is perfect in structure . Jflis remarks are fpr the most part sensible , but scarcely apply ' to the questipn raised . He seems to derive ^ his nptipus of construction not from ancient models , which were , of cpurst £ the npvelist ' s ex « mplurs , but from the brief drawing-room dramas of the modern French stage , where language and illustration are sacrificed to certain limitations ,- suitable to purppses of convenience and neatness ,

    which the elder masters had no mptivo to CPiisider . The structure he preppses is , in fact , mechanical , not organic ; it is the latter winch old writers , hpwover classical , observed ; the former are the resort of the neat manipulators of , French drama and nouvellette . These limitations arc called by our new critic Economy and Selection , lavrB which may be admitted for the regulation of taste , but to which genius is but seldom obedient . They niay suit a Virgil or a Taylor , but arc transcended altpgether by a Homer or a Fielding . Think , for a moment , of trying Aiiosto by such rules ! Why , even Tasso would shrink fronj thoir application . Besides , when authors have once gained their niches of fame , they are not to bo dislodged by private criticism . Individual objection is lpst in the universal consent .

    leaser ' s Magazine . This excellent magazine has ail ways a variety of interesting articles . This , number commences with several hitherto unpublishedl ' ettdrs by Shelley , which wp must carefully peruse before wo pronounce on thoir effect on tl » c Poet ' s character . Mr , Peacock ' s . reveal * men's have materially affected our provipus notipns relating to Shelley ' s first mrrringo . A smart paper on •• tho Worrlea of Life" follows . The serials are continued , and a new ono , by the Author of " Hoadlpng Hall , " is promised for next month . There is a very able article by Professor Lovi on the Budget ; and altogether it is a powerful number . Dublin University busies itself with Tennyson and Ida poetry . Wore is

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    212 The Leader and Saturday An [ Maech 3 , 1860 *

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1860, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2336/page/16/