The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

LITERATURE. Carded Edition of as Writings of Doronse Janson Part I. "Pasch" Alen Mr. Douglas Jerrold ha been, for something like twenty years, an active contributor to the periodical literature of the day. He now begins to gather his intellectual elope into sheaves and pile them fur posterity. We mut all be glad to see that the poblio taste is now such as to allow of this process during his life. Too often the periodical fanciful writer is like er e of those girls who sell violets in the atria t— equally conspicuous fir the beauty of his occupation sad the meanness of Lis reward. Bach a reading public as there is now, would, twenty years ago, have paved the brilliant Ilsxlitt many a heartache, sad cheered Leigh Haat in his fanciful climb up that hill of fame whirs= his old age reposes. Mr. Jerrold began his career as a dramatist, end his fertility in that department recalls the days of the old Ore he. He is the ablest writer who ever laboored at the "domestic drama"—the drama which seeks its charm in the scenes of common daily life, and which brought back nature to an age that had ceased to care for remanct. Since O•way wrote his Orphfm, which was K. brig consid. red unique, as deriving its tender ness not from the " sorptnid pall" of "g'rgeous tra gedy," hot from familial sources—no dramatist had : pounced such an effect. Mr. Jerrold left it to others' to brit g from the Hisabethans every thing bat their I spirit, a, d to " try" (a the American Lowol P .ye) 1 "to drive life into their dead forms by touctiin4 them to the blnes of those old buried prophets." He knew that wherever there is nature there is the means of making nature's effects; and that a the geolo gists ie.' us water is always to bo found by digging through a clay stratum ; so, beneath the crust of the most oroinary life, lie the springs of freshness and pathos. Hence came the success of ninny and marry a little play which still delights audiences through England; hence the popularity of that charming little drama (deriving its name from Gay, and which Oay would have loved) which lhacktray tells us de lighted the Pendentio party at the theatre of Ccetiren and Miss Fotheriegsy. Bat, tevertheleu —hers comes the important fast —tee derma is not Mr. Jerrold's firer, nor is it by his dramas that he will be principally ream hued. Of these pretty flowers many have died already. It is uuly of such writers that one can say these pert of things. It is only a gallant MThiff who can afford (with his thnughts on future victory) to bear the loss of his "pretty chicken'" with a " tune" that " goes manly." But the wan ering ' , theatre,- who picks up—as one occasionally y—e, , me pretty little drama of Jerrold's that iodic° own the stream for its Gity nights—now stranded on • book stall —sees, as he Nada at at home, its brilliant euthor . s de tieiency in the dramatic art. Mr. Jerrold 1 wants "eharactor." Ills plays have nature—that genial element of warm tender blood which makes Jun sympathise with what is said iu them—with the etnry—with the moral. But the p.rootne do not pugs 4 oily impress you with their reality. The men are g.... 4 and pisestag—so is Oberon : the women are delotiee!ol—so is Titanic! But you do not remember them as flesh-and-blood personalities. You tepeet their el) urge—you admire their doings . when, how eve T, y u r.sit them, lis as Noma visited Hgeria—to , ear ap! abaft'. voice and get instruction—not t 3 en y pi resei..l communion. This .I.tijency is a deficiency which Mr. Jerrold fe axes in common with Ben JUO•3ID, Dr) den, Addis ,o, toegrsyr , and Somidan, and we have every right to gut him in such a let. lien Joason's best plsys arc pis eisrly thole whinn arc acted now—precisely for the said deficiency. Look for example at his •ratiaine." In the last three acts where Cicero plays! meth en importaet pee, lien has eaboratcd his bist-J -* il character to the highest degree; his speeches iu tie. senate are admineld^ renderings of the orations • oose Catalina., as ally one who chooses to tempura Sem w II sac; but though the orator is there, the ems is not, and the few glimpses of him in Ilhaksorre are worth Ben's whole play. Look at dehlison'e " Cato," with its many betutien and its le 'er oblivion ! Scarcely any play (as his bivrapher, N., Arkin, observes) furnishes so many of tie best arms t quotations—it is an admirable literary per llo in.y. tv--and nobody can sit and Lear it out ! Ii anyone suppress that what we have said tends hi dimei.li Jerrold's reputation as a writ 'r, he m's bk. y lorold and mist n.lerstands us. We mark the & ..v..,1 his drainu,but we say et the same time that Oil c mein more brill but dialogue and more acute- MOP% 01:1•1 1411 V English writ. r now living cou'd pro dace. Jerrold wrote comedies', not because haegeoius Was dramatic, but because wit is an ekinent of Imp irtance in c e oodles, and he had more wit than is usually given to more than oar writer in a eertury. Wit, like in eney, moat be carried where capital is moat re roire el. The "Time works Won dars."--; he " Bubble.* of the Day"—sparkle whet , aver •.13 *ouch them, like a sea at night. They are alive e ithepigram. But there everybody is witty, and Witte .. L, Jerral ! The landlord in " Time Works W,.ria.rr " serves up his bacon and ewe in epigram- Mime siuce. The post-boy is better (ratified for a ell..er-out. In a word, each character is Hee one of er, walking advertisement* with boards in the Strand -......1y that iso has sarcasms written on them! Jeer ad's wit is a subject on which we could expo. te !.eager than anything short of the wit itself i r., Id make tolerable. It is conveyed in one of the tis cabal. styles of 'he day. Jerrold's style is il singular, sertiemiee, knotted, and gleaming, . minds us of Keate's description of the serpent 1.., 11l la@ Sow , was a Rnniiur •hapr dazallas hue, V. r rad.ua .putt. d, gc.l.ka, glen, sad blue. I La , the etrarg. at involutions—sometimes, the most Gmbh -4, knotty eoutortloas. Occayionally you have • b:llliatit jest Insult in a moot quaint and stiff sen !Le., like a Cashmere be tertly pinned to a csrd in a ere.eono. We attribute the peculiarity of Jerrald's et le NI two things—a love of irony, and the early - fluency of writers of the class of Donne, Fu;ler and C wley. 'then, again, his wit is finelfai wit—wit Wit.. wings a Protean wit, that sometimes Sums up embodied in • sarcasm, and some times .n a stroke of pathos. Some writers at e a:ways witty. Thus, Pope's Epitaphs are epigrams ; and 1 r • pious George Herbert, the psalmi s t, i s occa !tally as " quirot" as one of Shakspeare'e fools. Usualness,' which is often attributed to Jerrold, lit, from the union of wit with a grave intenti o n, A 6 4 t:uus moral. Jerrold's admirable sayirg, in " Man made of Money," that in Au s tralia " the 14 . • so kind thst, just tickle her with a hoe, and licrlos with a harvest," is quite in the styl e o f r o:d wits . There is nothing better in Butler u t, nor in Cowley as fancy. - . - e look, thraldom, on Jerrold MS a great wit and inst, who has writtri dramas and fiction. Fri ri.y he is wit and satirist—fancy emptying both hies. Often one of Hs tales touch as are found in admirable Cakes and Ale) is only an epigram ten out of thin. Often, his tales only convey sit, the Gaines traders do gold-dust, the cargo being thy fifty of the veh'.cles. But there is great in u.ty of construction in poise of them, particularly the tt Men of Characer" serifs. We long to see is republished, end are much mistaken if it does t create great surprise and delight among hundreds his have only hitherto kit own Mr. Jerrold by popu ,, d admirable (bat to our mind) unequal per mance.. Jerr•kl's public cirmr will b• found by competent prireai to have been clrrelative to his peculiar the y rmeacteriatics. Ile lye bran far too rashly " t ied with demicratic tendencies. For ourselves, ttunk his motives in these matters more esthetic sn prAitical. He has attacked 'tames, not systems. • his attacked ID his writings not what offended a et..sl as radical, but what offended a man of testa d tam"-, of quick perceptions, of an sy for marking rotouloue. When he hit, been "destructive," it beri, in a gracefil, fanciful way—he has destroyed CA hi the ancient, did the bodies of their &ad— 'utung with them shrubs and flowers, frankinores• wine. l' it a high praise of a mon to say that his boat i".ts I..ave been written against the most odious rAi. 48 Jrarold's have been. If he were less attrac at smelt be of lea consequenos to tugs the real, ' 41 7. genial good-nature of a writer so cytistantly eirieaL The ',Ueda edition of the works of Douglas ser , sl4 will make a charming series of vo:un•cs for libraries. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1851. Specimens of die Table Talk of Samoa Taykr Coleridge family by keeping a general shop. Moderate com- Teird Bdition. Murray. fort was secured to the family until the housewife Chase:ahem in Trawl, or Iles Last Days of a Philosopher. became so thoroughly en reseed by family cares as By Si, Hallam'** Darr, Bart. Fdth Edition, with to be unable to attend to the shop, when all went Illustratiose. Murray. speedily to ruin. Mr. Britton's account of life io Sehleatiese or Days o 4 Fly By Sir Ilrerunv Dave', Ban. Fourth dittos, with Illustrations. Murray. a Wiltshire village is exceedingly graphic, especially where he describes the machinery by which iatelli- Rejected Address**. By hues Smut and HORACE SKITS. Twenty-second Edition, with additional Notes. gence was circulated among the rural population : Murray. moire—TlM QUICILENER OP CILBATION. • VILLAGE IN OLD TIMIS. All these volumes belong to a series now in course no resident 'squire, clergyman, or peewits above the rank of The intimate 'curtained connexion (says Humboldt) he I In part of my boyish days, says Mr. Britton, Kington had of publication, under the advertised title of " Murray's Mien light, heat, electrvity, and magnetism, which has Choice Editions." Their claim to each a name will be recently bow so much investigated, render" it probable that fatta;r, or village tradequ aa . Th ere were ten agr i cu l tur i sts readily admitted, for they include the colloquial as the transversal vibration, of the ether which fill. celestial who kept horses, cows, and sheep, and about the a •me num riches of Celeridge e the wit and humour of the space prates' the ptraomena of light, so thermic and ber of trail , smen, or "'dealers and ehapmen . ;" bat I do not Brothers Smith, and the scientific philosophy and , electromagnetic phenomena depend on movements of an think that there wag a newspaper or msgas.se purchased by analogous kiod. Great discoveries in this field are reserved one of the inhabitants bane the year 1780, when the genial testing feeling of Sir Hurephry Davy. " Coleridge'e l TEI INQUISITION. fur the fetter*. Light, &addle radiant heat inseparable from doe riots wars talked about, and wondered at. Five or sat Table Talk" has long been in great demand at book- I Th e see thed of tortur e aid the de g ree of torture practised it, are, for all the non.lumi naus b o di es o f t h e universe, for years afterwards, th e Lady's Magazin e w as taken in b y one stalls (a sure prof:4ot broad popularity), and this re- is tee Spestola It qoisition will be well understood by tin toe surface of our planet, • prime cause of all motion and all of the farmer's naugbten, and lent by h er to my s i ster appearance of the work, in a compact six shilling I history of Isaac Orobio, accused by his servant of being a organic lite. The penetrating heat even calls forth elem . °. Eliepe , w th ,, , ;ir f, h e o r„, w a a r s ds t i o n n , d rod o u f reatodi,?.., village, of the , Bal che had open : In gaol, R volume, will gladden the hearts at d just meet tee ; Jsee- Afee' e tr: Aim of i our: mag netic e w e hich ex in et e il l e i ti l oV n e te xl ° ti r o n g i tihnefitteeernthee'ufatironfroonmotlT a n n ep e e poch—food for the goosip of the whol e ' v e ifl e 4 s e. n rar e :. r in n att e n le s, y and Ze hi pocket-money of a large circle of the disciples of the I se veraln'h er of which he was accused, discoverytn order t to his nations and decompositions of matter, upon all formative Robbins, our opposite neighbour, and Thomas, alias Tommy Iphilosopher of Highgate.. There is a timeliness, too, : ensfaaainn. he was at length earned o u t of gao l, act i v i t y in the mineral kingdom, upon the disturbance of the Collard, an old batchelor, both of whom seemed to live upon in this reprint tithe the" Table Talk," when all England ' and through several turnings brought to the pi ece atmospheric e tau:lib:iota, and upon the functioas of all ve g .- tittle-tattle, were the bearers and special messengers of all is excited by furious declamations on some of the of torture. Thu was towards evening. It was a lam table and animal organisations. In the next passage the author notices the influence such news as they could comprehend and talk about through the whole extent of Kington ; retailing it by picas and very questions which Coleridge discussed so well, and user :rou g ed room , • c , ed and the walls covered with dl ' ticks w fastened to the wall, o f t h e - - scraps at the carpenter ' s, the tailor's, and the blaelomith's discussed always with a great "moral thirst after and at one end of the room there was an enclosed a RADIATION or HEAT FROM THE STARS . shops. At each of these houses they would devote about an truth." To offer each books at a cheap rate, is the which seemed to him as the very mansion of death, it was Theo peratunis and influence of rad' them. of a fir kw . hour to social converse, or rather to collq u oc y ; amation, for the ' best possible way of checking the evil done by the terrible and awful. Here the inquisitor admonished him to problematical character than those attributed to eleetro tradesmen, if employ e d o n wor k, cont i nue d th eir dissemination of low-priced, mischievous publications. confect the truth Whore hi , torment , begin; he answered, magnetism. According to Poisson and Fowler, the tem- it , teli v r i r , e? , tr , terrnpie n l e th ed e , - lk ? 7r l s .7t h tru s e n r'"S be •rin o g n e d7 Philosophy in Coleridge,science in Davy,and whin the he had e e d oegr , stttimehtrauwthual.roe:tiowah,e,reuupt,nttli;linouisitor. perature of celestial space is the result of radiations of heat —,t What I . In , 0 „ ;an :Rajected Addressm,"--all in pocket volumes,at pocket- Pr° h tare tes tne holy Once would be innocent if he were to shed fjzt s t u ti re u: i s: , d ,, from .111 the sets ; Ate:shed bi:Lbso st rp• queer pie ._ . ,_. parts O'—" That Lunnun is a mortal • " Well, I shall nein r zee a*, nor any o' the me prices—must ',cure as wide a sale as the ;expo- Ida bland, or even should he expire in the torment. Wren . ere e a ten mentioneMoge a' of heat by the indent% papishee." Hunan cetholcs and devils were synooymout niment of tt eir production deserves. In estimating one he had said this they put on him • linen garment slum , and draw (Aristotle, " bleteorolgy ; " and Seneca in " Nat. Q ..,,, a ,. , ,, terms at Kinston too audit marl other count villages. I have of this collection et books we should temember,tooehat it s) close oat each side as almost west zed hi: i to death . II.,10.) In recent tinsmiths two area. French mathematicians a of:r ai se:co o i, z e n d prAd i, m o ! . ..l d e n: , i elfriet o d t m a i: heir n r d a t i l rounds, , in the "old days" when George the Third was king _a W he n he t, and 'tree ho d lee in h t o e y b o rs ht: t it h e: e ag d a t i h n . t a b e d ...odd: just mentiootd, have renewed the interest of this question a Robbins was aged, occupied a ser i ssll dairy i fa u na, which ro ad the Smiths wrote the " Rejected A .mtrration pat him to the most grievous anguish. When hen la , t heir ~r s, i , n i v , es , le ig , i 4 ti t ox, s si s aLit_lica be be te e m n ac r lur r a e le o c t lis e how ti _ a . ra s t t d but a very small portion of his time, and Mr. Collard dresses," there was no Punch, no comic writers had overcome this torture , the Venter admonition was „ pa P ee, and of th e proximate radiation a ' adiation of neat from the earth's loved up in • small annuity of about 301., and was called inundating London with their jokes, and pa - repeated that he would confess to troll in order to avoid lawless to the heavenly vault, far all the thermal relations, il an ' i ' man ' rod id everything they came across from further torture. As he persisted in his denial, they tied his and is fact fir the very inhabitablity of our planet. Accord. Mr. Britton repeats the old complaint of self-edo- Sophocles to Bann. The " Rejected Addresses" thumbs to very tight with small the blood ae sa w ed their ,a el f extra ing to Fourier's analytical theory of heat, the temperature abed men. With active and awakened &tutees, he have the merit of originating a style of literature mlnies are °IL. 'well e l r e t i e r n t au h e th w as h i pTa n ce d wi t' s pirt out is Dac e k o u t m etlesttl ;e ordil i tetary space, is Ki e r : be ha . t ow un t 4e: th a s i mea m n found no one to airect his natural tendecce s into lacy which is exercisin so great an irflnence upon the under agais the wall and fixed tenon • little bench. Into the deg* of cold c hi art probablye w d I a wl % 'at wise or profitable course. In the dark ages of encountered re by man e pale manners, conversation , and arouaementsof the present wa n sam e j eos 'sl a ys were fixed, through which Tema were region. 1800, the lame and infirm were thought to be the day. The intrinsic me rit' o f the Addresses them- drawn and tied round his body i lo several riaos,bespecially The second 'mei= discusses natural and telescopic natural instructors of youth. To repress any sponta selves, their grace, aparkle, and point, their union of hi! l i o inu rest an y d io l l e e g el, fastened Thefxe rs t a;y r. wft r t: w the n l t to trerworli, vision, the glimmering of the stars, the swiftness of neous development of cature, and impart the me every quality which can give to light literature the hg, so wi tast his bands and feet being bound so tightly, put him to light, and the results of photometry, all fruitful in chanical art, of reading and writing, was all which diguity of high art, Billy entitle them to the wide re- exquisite pain, and seamed to him ea though he had been optical questions—standing in the closest relations to any promised, and more than most performed. The putation which they enjoy. just dissolvicg in filmes. In the midst Cl these torments, the human knowledge of the heaven., and interwoven by fine pedagogue entrusted with the culture of the •••—•• torturer os • "olden ~raw the bench from under him, " . the author with most interesting references to the young Britton's mind was a rare specimen in his way. Eastiory. A Tole. By ANNA Umtata" Dart v, that the miserable wretch hung by the cord', without any. 1 of " Frienle and Fortune." Pickering . Aathore history of discovery and to his p er:one l ex p er i ence i n lie was a baptist prea c h er , name d 'M ase l ey , w h ose es thing to support him, and by the weight of his body drew I .„,. It ham long been evident that a Lincteus is the cords tighter. After this a new kind of torture succee ded: n 1 Idi erent regions of the earth. claims to be either a spiritual or secular instructor do of there was an instrument like a small ladder, made of twoln the third section ' thnumber, e distribution, and not appear, since the author can remember nothing of required to classify novels, and the vast increase upright piece, of wood and two crow ones, sberpened on the colour of the fixed stars is treated. This ceapter opens the man, except that his he ad was powdered, hie their numbers daily makes the necessity more and front ode . ; this the torturer placed over *going him, aid with the f ll • o owing passage on heir hung in long curls over his tars, and stand close , more urgent. There are two or three distinct el Mel by • ciente motion struck it with great viols we against both crept and mane-like about hie neck. Of these boyish of satirical novels—two or three of philosopeical ones 'hint, so that he received maw each of them five stroke., A PHENOMENON PECULIAR TO PIRO. —and half-a-dozen of sentimental ones. And every which put tin to such intolerable agony that he fainted If the whom heavenly vault had been covered with inch- days he has many tales to tell of field sports, to which eneseeeful novelist founds a new school of his own. y. A fter this the torturer tied ropes about Ornbio's mush!" starry cams, as with an all-covering tapestry, so, he seems to have been extremel y . partial, and it is pro- we n t,, &le and then p ut those ropes across his own back, which supposing .ight to pass through celestial space unweakened, bible that te e severe exercise to which there Beetbary is definable as belonging to the genus wa our , rd witule leather te prevent him hurting himself; would the sun be discernible only by its spots, and the moon accustomed him may have been of great use in sentimental mid species religious. IVe are glad to say, then falling backwards and patting his feet against the wall, by her dusky due, and no particular star would be distio fieing him for his future pedestrian excursions. however, that the term "religious" may be sincerely he drew them with all his might, till they cut through the guialsal b il e e in the I t l iniversal brightness.. On the high plain of .., a ti second master was one Sparrow, very unlike and fairly applied to it. It is not a fiction written victim's flesh , even is the bone , ; ,, a , nlthis tort:l ) 7ra , repeated r g I grwrieleaset7leeanptheenee'mutehooenne;:r and eno enough c r h e a m i 1•so removed the (eons that Ande rs , the baptist, for he could write a good hand, with a sectarian view,—nor, happily, at all like the tri ce , ell breadth e l ; r ue ° the h tOr n le t r u w d o e u h nd, and '' drawn wlth two finger" implied in the above speculation as to its cause, but some- kuew the common rules of arithmetic, and could little nonsensical Pose its romances lull of antiquarian violence. "But it happened, as the ropes were being drawn what resembling such • slate of the firmament in its appear. measure a field. Ile could further engrave spoons, jargon stolen from Pugin's "Ecclesiastical Antiqui- the ',mod time, they slipped into the firmer wound, sere to the eye. . For leveret months together the firmament and had been known to paint village signs. Union rise "—with twaddle for their style, and apostacy for which caused so great an effusion or blood that is veiled by • thick cloud. 'This period of the year is called , tunately for these works of rural art, they both suffered tteir object. It is a fine, pure, good-hearted book, he seemed to be dying. Upon this the physician t a l i t t e h em e p , 0 0,, d i L10 ,,, ghaensami; Hemisphere, pi n an ,a etLn o ot u t s he n b o ri , twe e t r s oi ta s, written with graceful earcestness, and as regards its and surgeon, who are always Wady , ere by the first shower of rain, which washed the white ; t I ' sent l' nor the feet of the Cen p taur a'r• out of • neighbouring apartment to as their advice whet h er . visible. p lt'is often ditticul , swan to its natural element, and changed the white seriousness and piety might be appropriately read on the torture could be continued without danger of death, lest to ascertain the situation of the moon. If the outline of horse into a zebra. With this master he remained the eve of St. Agnes by any romantic person 60 the ecclesiastical judge should be guilty of an irregularity if the sun hippen to lea discernible, it is seen as without two years as a day boarder, and was making disposed. the victim should die in hi. tormen't They, who were tar rays, just as through a darkened or coloured glass ; usual We start in " Eastbury " rather briskly—for we set from being enemies _to Oroba, answered that i i had t a yellowish-red hue, sometimes w , very hits and rarely tolerable progress, when be was called home, b y o f n a bluish-green. The sailors driven by the cold currents probably through the poverty of his parents, off from a railway station with the pretty and lively strength eeeuge rc to cc ee c ei c er c e the . re t st c o , f ,, t ,, he tutu he re al n endureit of the S uth Sea, then mistake the coast, and, unable to to spend twelve months in idleness. Subsequently heroine Julia Seymour, an enthusiast of the joyous P e _ a e re rl u ngt t hire, a ror i fi.alslenatence was tact ate i t • should take their usual observation', wit by the harbour inte he was placed under the care of a Mr. Stratton, a description, who is on her way to her home in the r` :afar them all at one time, eo that if forced to leave WI which they should enter. dull, Wilmette man, where he would have made no country. Her fellow-paseeogers are Lord Eustaoe, a through few of death, all the tortures, even those already This atmosphere, impenetrable to radiations, and progress whatever but for the encouragement and aid capital tory peer, and as fine a specimen of a protee- suffered. must be inflicted in successio n to it,,:cestriTnetisea- incapable of electrical discharge, carries the author's of Mrs. Stratton, a lady of superior attainments and tioci-t as was ever laughed at; his daughter Beatrice, te n nhe tiva lt i ro w n es th e i a n t d h e e d. to rir h e „,„ w u a po s o re h P : was bound up in erii thoughts back to the remote periods of the history of manners. A transfer to Chippenham opened his very interesting (and the interest regerding whom d this earth, when, beforo the solid, liquid, and gaseous s own clothes and carried back to - prism, and scercely healed mind to town ideas, and introduced him to new sports, steals over the reader gradually and strongly); and her of his wound. in eeventy dayr. And, insomuch ash. had elements had well aspirated, the atmosphere may excitements, and influences, but he remained here but companion, Mrs. Hargrave, • cold-blooded, scheming wn ,i n no contession under torture, he was condemned, se we have been of this heavy mixed character , not alto- for • short period, and at the age of thirteen finally old woman, eery powerfully drawn. It soon becomes not convicted but suspected of Judaism, to wear for two whel. gether obstructive of some vegetable growths, but ot left school, never having seen • dictionary or a book on evident that Beatrice is, from some mysterious Cause, years the i n famous habit railed senbenito ; and after th at a nature to shut out the stars from earthly sight. to perpetual bentshment. geography or hietery, and never having met with a under an evil influence—and that she leads • mm- . !! Respecting the number cf the stars, and their cies "The torture of the wooden horse and suffocation by newspaper or maeazine. eerable life, made worse by her father', mean and pas- sification according to relative magnitude, Humboldt water is thus described : A purchase he made about this time at a sale will sionate nature. quotes the calculations of There ss a wooden bench which they call the wooden hone, Argrlander, of Bonn. Act I recall the youthful joy of men • reader. " About The " tale" goes on in Eastbury, where the he- made hollow lite a truugh, so as to contain a man lying on cording to that astronomer there are of the first mag- thin period" ho writes, " a sale of the household effects roine's father, Sir John Seymour, resides. There is eis back at tull length, about the middle ot which a ter i• nitude, 20 ;of the second, 65 ; of the third, 100; of lea Squire Weite, w who occupied the great how, oc an excellent picture of t h eh state of a badly &clothes- laid across Li u pon this the bark o' the %Wits is solaced;laed the fourth, 423 ;of the fifth, 1,100 ;of the sixth, 3 , 200 l i curred. I was tempted to bay a lot of his broke, nine towed parish, which eddy recemmend to those ao tilt , he bis uLo t n al t u t ta i r g t r te t t ei l L s bg i n s er a 1 s t „h ;a of the seventh, 1,300; of the eighth, 'lO.OOO ; and ell in number, fe•r one chilling. Among them were agricultural constituencies who are tired of being i ng in the ninth, 142,000 of celestial bodies. The approxi- ' ' lying in with this manner, his arms, thighs, and abets are tie d 1 ' Rebinson Crusoe,' the ' Pilgrimer Progress,' and the , ill-represented. The rector, Lionel Itevis, is the round with small cords or strings, which, being draws eel) motive number of stars visible to the naked eye is i Life of Peter, Cz ir of Muscovy,' all of which volumes anthoress's hero. It is eufficieut to say of him screws placed at convenient distance from each other, cut 5,000, a number which appears at first sight far too I read with &tidily ; though often puzzled to under that he is such • clergyman se 1)r. Arnold would him to the very bone. The torturer then throws over hi. smell. The author reckons that it would take 105,291 stand their cameras. The first made me long to be have admired—which is probably the highest Itomouth and e clads a thin I' l l eth, so Tat he i;l ik icaree e a tread, i full moons to cover the be reckouing the mean on a derielate island, and meet with • ' man Friday; Praise that can h° g iven to a rhr gr aaa ad soil:141:4 so d n d e ro w p, a f:lrtro e m tre a height e miss the victim's diameter of that satellite at 15 deg. 33 min. 5 bee , whiLa the second excited • desire to encounter some et our day. . The plot turns on the tir.• ...nu, sad P ll9 - easily sinks down through the this Oath to la the fourth section the author treats of the singu- of the adventures of ' Christian: That this work was tunes sautead sufferings of Beatrice, which term- The bottom of the throat. There is eo rseibility of breath. ler phenomena of the appearance of new stars, and an allegory, sad the first fictitious, never entered my slate in her life. These it is fur the reader to follow out, an wits the cloth; to thaLthe i„ w i re t. tet e l i e je l u s:l u r c r ib ir r on d i r ur : heavens. Tne fact of these changes was recognised He had now to prove the weariness of uncongenial exertion which will, we are sure, afford much plea. Pe ef. l out his breath in g throat , so en t t h t et l i s r . ea.y an , ear the emeations, it is many years since, by Sir Wm. Herschell, and Hum- labour , being required by his mother to assist in the sure. Let us particularise Isaac Barnard as one of the °.. all wet with blood aid water, aid is like peeling his bowels boldt has nothing to add to his statements. Tables general busman of the farm. He had also to rise at best faits portraits in the book, and add, that though earn- through his mouth. of new and chargeable stars ate inserted into this 1 four, on baking mornings, to assist in making breed, estates clarly an honourable characteristic of the Trecres who wish to learn more of the history of this chapter from Argelander, and form, together with the . some of which he afterwards carried out on horseback authoress's, and her strong point, she is In ettentlY abominable institution may march Mr. Turuley's explanatory historical notes by the author, its nre.. I to neighbouring villages and farm-houses. On re delicately humorous, and alwaye, when she stoops to volume, where they will find accounts of horrible interesting portion. The fifth and concluding chap-1 turning, he had to feed the pigs, attend to the poultry, playfulness, delightfully shrewd. cruelties perpetrated by the Rcmish priests in the t e es are devoted to a consideration of the proper mo- I groom the pony, and perform a number of miacell i nto followicg extract brings our friend the tory name of religion. lion of fixed stirs (such is the verbal contradiction 1 nems ',facts about the yard. 'rims and in play n th the into contact with Lionel Reels. Julia Seem-sue, which a premature nomenclature has entailed), thel his time spent from the thirteenth to the sixteenth the heroine, is, with his "lordship," on her way to his Memoirs of Me Opera in Italy, Fran, e, Gelman'', an d probable existence of opaque s tars, doubts on the eels- residence. once of a central orb of the entire universe', and Mr. Hogarth is • gentleman who ha s be e n longAt this period his provincial life closes. A firm "Tile POOR." They had saw entered the park, and wen within sight equally well known and respected in the world of double eters, their number and dietar.ce from each believer in ghosts, fairies, Jack-u' lanterns, ;Ind the of the horse when racy observed a mount, d figure ' meg music and letters, wherever the dull actualities of oth er ' haunted house, he was to be transferred to London,l to meet theirs. " Then some. that splendid nous I he.' life are made subservient to its graces and refinements The name of Humboldt assures us of a certain ors- which place he reached in a fast coach, that travelled noticed so many times," said Lord Eus.sce, " and I —as a high musical authority, end „ t h e frieed b eside , ginality in his mode of treating any of the natural five milts an hour. His uncle, to whom he was con ks'', to whom it belonged ; et, you tell at this distance, sciences. We must not, however, conceal that we miss of some of the most distinguiehed of his contempora-signed, apprenticed him to Mr. Mer dhsm, ot' the Miss Seymour t I suppose it if WM. one I (neon a knee." " You certainly ought, my lord," said Julia, "for it is ries,from hie Walter Scatt toC. Dickens. The two small in this third volume that freshness of thought which Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell-green, witheut once oar rector Mr. Bevil." volumes be fore us are a new edition of a more exten- distinguished its two precursors. The innumerable consulting his inclinations, and apparently without "I. it, lad. ed ?" lam very glad we have met ; I bear • sive work upon t h e ei Musical D rama ," pu bli s h e d some references and ample quotations were not needed to °sting about the result. Here, for six years, during most erre .rdiaary accowat of his abili ies ; rpm I. i nc lin e d to years si, ce—deprived of much that was needless, acd remind us that we are reading information acquired which,accordiag to his indentures, he should have been onthwiens, though, is be not?" " Very much so, I should think," said Julia, is whose at second hand. This result was in a great measure enriched with much that is interesting. Wbat Barn e y taught the art and mystery of a wine -merchant, he good and Hawkins had done before le M Hoearth has ' determined by the subject of this, the last portion of name I the days in bettliug corking and binning wines. opinion e B thi'lialla wee the eAt e: eheellehee ' .. t" s - " Kama;' which precluded the introduction of pie He • that i • ' • • ' d" ha does is immense." taken advantage of ; what they left undone he has tried . . - e declares he never was ins t ructed in any one Or. "Ah I" said his lordship, rather discontentedly, " but to supply ;at d the result is a narration of the origin and turesque desenption and personal seutial branch of the business, either in its ac ?counts, that may be carried too far in thew times especially. U . ed progress of the lyric drama brought down to the pre . contributed to the charm of the two first volumes, commercial usages, or the history, growth, In mo nomial', sir, I am very glad to be just an time to induce rent time—fluent and agreeable on style useful and Novell, too, was lacking here ; for, while geology nufacture of wines . He did not know where Lisbon, you to tune back," continuo! he, in his most gracious . . . and bola** have advanced immensely within the last if Mr . H h has here mariner , honing low I. return to Lionel '' 'Kleiman, as the =tracts's in mate ri al , . r. ogart Madeira, or the Rhine were, and never saw it later rode up to the aide of the carriaae. "This call is most and there reposed with perhaps rather too good na- few 3 ears, astronomy has com ativel no new re- Pa r y bonded cellar, a merchant's stock vaults, nor a mer kind and pastorel in your part, and I cannot afford to low tared a confidence upon stories of doabtfal authority, creations. But we believe that the chief cause of this eh„e„hip. Confinement in this cellar, broke down such an opportunity.' his main fettle at any rate, are unassailable. From inferiority lies in the tact that hitherto Humboldt has mind and body, and an appeal to his master having "You: lordship must elms as now," ssid Lim, I. I " - the variety of anecdotal matter with which the book epoken of what he has seta and experienced, con- proved unavailing, he betook himself in despair have hese waiting in your study, in hopes of your return, and am now on my way to keep as appointment." abound,' ' we select theefollowind —which may remind recquently clearly , and with directness ; while now, to reading " Dodd's Thoughts in Prison," " Hervey's "I am exceedingly ed ;is there aay.thing 1 could the read er ' of the exploits of more than one actress in to complete the circle which he ispledged to tra- " " Meditation among the Tembe, and Young's Night do for you, Mr. Ittvis t You look as if you bad come ors o u r own day : verse, - he is compelled to lie under large obl ige- Thooglats." These only increasing the morbid cm some 'newt buaiuees I know already that your time is never A LOLA MINTZ& OF PRI 17T11 CENTURY. tiutill to more original inquirer.. It by no mean lotion of his mind, he resorted to medicine and swa n erd for an instant" amour the gingers of that peeled who are mentioned by however, follows that, because he does not always lowei some gallons of mixtures from aide, dis ' ipeesery in Lionel meted. " I believe nobody's Lead be, or rathet French writers, there are none whose names are worthy of !equal himself in this volume, he has been surpassed St. John's-square. Becmin useless to his master, bo g h ym n be, my teed. We us awe] , employed, either being preserved on account of tht ir Lang. talets. On of them, by any rival in this field. Humboldt is fully conscious l • hi m his l iberty ix months before the doing harm or good. however, La Msupio, tilt/ SUCCtSSIA of chols, may he , that we are . with Come, mute, my dear sir, that is a paradoxical sole noticed on am we of her wild and lowless character i still far f the • • we ti os, for which I must demand • proof. At this moment. anti strangeoess of her adventutes. She was &era i n I may be poesible to concentrate all our sensible inten- two vice's instead of the twenty which he had that we are all three doing nothing at all, how CAR WO be at 1673 , en d m a r r i e d at a very early age, but soon ran dohs to the unity of a caret? , ion of nature" (p. 101 i - - • 1 • enga e ed to do, and thus left him in the world to shift mischief. i' we wished it ?" away with a fencing master, from whom she learned accordingly he has called his work an " endeavour." I for I „,,,, nt i t. " I wish, my, lard, we could do good as easily. u —alf the . the use of the email sword. Alter remain r some I How fer he has succeeded in the attempt tee result i mischief ia the world might be traced to the bad elf. c's of t i me et m ente ill es , where she ... .1...,..., Bathe 1.1, D •'od of slavery Britton tad picked uring then' pert l ' — ''' — ' I P ea-- I will h M lel the effort of constrneti casual conversation , leaving impressions on the mind little meat resettle burnt alive for "'Wog fire to a convent , she I e °W. • "aw 1 e a g a up a few beaks, chiefly of second-rate character, teem' attended to at the time, sad very difficult to efface attar- woo, to p ar t s , appeare d en t h e opt'', neg. at t h e nre , completely articulated system out of the materials of a neighbouring stall, which served rather to keep wards." of two-and-twenty, alai was for a ronsiderab • time tae the special sciences is a certain means of revealing h i e faculties alive than add to his information. 'flis "Then, perham," said Lord Eustace, smiling, •"you are mehtsing favourite of the day. Helios on some occasion their deficienciee. " Kosmos" is a criticism of OW I friendship of William Essex was more serviceable to doing me harm at this miaow ?" bees affronted by Demean, • singer, she rut on male attire. present knowledge of nature ;itis a monument to the I him it him example , soundadvice, ,as gave • good I confess it," said Lionel : •• I am wronging your lord- I washed Ike him In the Plaza dee Victoiree, insisted on his • . ship by delaying the infortari in I came to bring. eer scieLofic of the nineteenth century ;it is an daccess to a library. It i , drawing his sword and fighting her, and, on his refusing, rae • spirit Ilia reading was reel dead- simply this—a committee is hein,: formed, by Sir John thy- sated Ida and to . k his watch sad snuff-box. Next day, also a summons to arise and possess the yet uecorquered i tory, but he contrived to pick up a quantity of mar molar and otk , r geolemen, for the aniatane• of Our poor Dumeui and boasted is the opera house that he Iv.d domain of nature. We wish the venerable author , I I ce elneelle informatinn, and to run through a variety sei t thboire who suffered hy the fire the other night; A 1 a '!-. ' defended bistseli against three men who had attempted to many more honourable e•ears, and the he may wit- of books en natural science and general literature, am dipsted to request your lordship to accept the chair. ' I . rob him, she told the whole story, and produced his watch hers the perfection of that structure which he us no; • •w betold h m uch "Tank yea. thank you, sir, you do me tot much sad sauff-box is proof of her having chastised hint as • t The reader will not require to o lunaoar," said lewd Bastasse, boveng, with an mesh' raw coward. Tbevenard, another singer of note, was nearly permitted wholly to complete. mated strength was neceesery to rapport these pieti sm' which he 'trove to conceal by chap/Jag the subject, treated i n ti , sins wanner, and had no other way of tions, sad at the same time resist all the temptations " What • noble creature that is of your's, Mr. Rens ' He : escaping but by publicly Wining her pardon, after Stamp would melee • fire-rate hunter , e "OW , my seYiell he must' hiswellia the Palale Royal Mr three weeks. At • ball gym icyraphy ofßr'ttan Parts I. I . an d . TA . Atitob . Jo/us , . , , I 111 of a tavern frequented by the loom livers of both ller risks throws away as alt Patera% occupation ~ by Monsieur, the brother et Lewis XIV., she' ppeared in I The Deers that " Old John Britton," topographer , d where no counteracting influences in favour sexes, at. lie e ie. a from • heath g seeable, 0 ,, Wi11.1 a y " said " 2 ". meas clothes, and, having behaved impertinently to a lady, and antiquary, had began to write his own life, gave ,of virtue could be t fund. keeping his keAs eye, as his custom wee, MU MI the MM. misca ll e d out b. How this pennilesi hero fell in love, walked two A tares °I hit friends, Instead of *voiding ' . • of * genuine book to stand beside the auto- ' isolates a keine, ate was addrresia? ' " had his /porting minds ors at the combat, by isco • her ....x, slie drew her sword mid preeeet I. abeyance; hut lam not hachned to titiok nowt's. killed all the three ; and than, returnieg Ily to the hi-graphies of Ltekiugton, Hutton, and Evelyn.' huedred and thirty miles to see " the lady," was co ally I le • e meditated something des and et:tooth, and be. uty welted whoa employed, however Three parts o; the promised book have appeared, and , received , oat iscou , sag ball roo m , told the story to Moo-iear, who t:Awned her per gaiety, In thew/vice of Oed and the poor."t. On in " rum and milk," we ion. After some other advestures , she went to Brumes in them are traces of the experience of the first, and I petite , and found @siva i in London, from thi s The poop," ter um g na w," ye, t h a t is the where she became mistress of the Elector of Bavaria. Tins the strong common sense of the second, with the aim. I cannot here relate. He arr i ve d i fashionable cry of the day, lir. It 'via; schools ior the pace ' m i ens , b„ ; ,,,, nnt „ ad bat for the C o untess of ,___L a at f the tl • ' All readers love now ! excursion, shirtless sod ehoelees ; and heftily was clothes for the row ; soup, libraries, gardens for ate poor . i mr by that lady'. husband • purse of 4,000 lime ( w.ts'a;ith.. ple enthu siasm o aro. of ' le• ' glad to take a situation as a cellarmao, at 15s. per we shall have pull sweats nest, I suppow, and her hlti and then to drop into the track one of these sing ! s'y order to quit Biaterle. Bat this Gingen,' heroine am thefrom starvation. will bold elrawing•toome far the poor . and then will be a pane at tag Count ' s bead, telling Lim it was • recompecae • Minded men, like old Izaak, who, by the side of a week, as a re fuge MOS at St. 011./ s and Kessaltgreen, as we I Babe we.r• , worthy of lash a switadrel as himself . S m afterwards re-from the miler to the attorney's gliding stream, in a quiet rustic walk, or in the shade His next move was l sereaame. sad Hydepark. Ivory age hoe its y, acid ' turned to the Par:sian stage, which the left la 1705. The ot • ble rain , make us forget quarter- dota l ' desk. His peamansh4) here stood him instead, and Ws. is peculiar to the preasat •" conc l us i on if such a life Is not the I art ez!Ts6rdinary part GI botches' bills, and " all the dail imperenerae of life." his situation, although tot more lucrative, was Isis 're. saucer in which-gentlemen of his lordship's She became at last very devout, and, having recalled acquired, and will be per- • 01111)1.10 than before, and he improved his more class cry out at the word e poor "—as in this well. her husband. qt.'s whow she bad bean long separated, lived Mr•Britton's 'fame wan ant leisure by more extensive reading. The t . ted, by the real monuments of antiquarian and : abundant drawn scene—reminds us of Harpagon, in Mel. fire ' s w at it t l i t i Vra f i c a cc a 1 igu u s ch n i a i n i n b er . o Ile r clea'h in 1707, at the &gm pe tut . l ' le h ath of his employer in 1790 threw him again upun phicai earning wtc t ramp an en ustas ! e L'eleare, when his servant asks for money : t• Quit Labord y e sod Other writers ; a is a t d! ' ee 'N ` 4 l7,t o laLar l e':.°,.L b t°P coua rr r a ear. The man was born to the kingdom, ' the world ; s but he subsequently obtained a situation efiegir ! tort jours de ra rg e n g !—,l e ear9i Of .' T•tii . ...i4lS no reason for &atria g its truth. ' " shillings a week. in order to trace ruins, inspect rolls,survey cathedrals, ! at the improved salary of twenty porter de V or t ient .' " Mr. Hagar:lt has recently tree. appointed -ea also secretary , and embalm the glories of a past age. Bat before he' s Here he met with an acquaintance who took him to All true novel eerier. wi;l be glad to learn that to the Philnarmonic Society . II i one o f the . could enter upon this his peculiar vocation, what a d. bating secieties, where he became a great orator, this estimable elergym AU marries the heroine, at the . brat of our daily musical entice, his good nature being succession of experiences awaited him! It is this : and was received with vociferous and clamorous &p -dose ot this well-ietentloned and welt-executed book. modified only by his high standard of taste. i battle of life we find told in his autobiography, and pianee. I 't is this which will interest the majority of readers. We are brought thus far by the autobiographical Popery ie. Power, or. Me spud of OW rofirow• by KOSPOWS By kurt. vow 1101111OLDT Part I, Vol. 111..1 narrative withwhich the firs t part of the work is Joseph Turnlsy . ES glum Wilmot,. , From part Lof the work before us, w hichis , as Cotta, Bmttgart, 1860. Nothing can be more natural teen that at the iesued Notice.; yet, incomplete, we learn that John Britton was born I occupied. The preface informs us that the publieation lent moment Englishmea should wish to recall to ! The concluding part of " Kosmos" contains an in. at Kington, in Wiltshire_ , July 7, 1771, the son ot a of the remainder is delayed by the illness of the mind the manifestatio n s of pal try in power. A troductien. which gives an hiatorical survey of the small farmer, whose wife aided the income of the author, who in his eightieth year cannot afford to set work which should assist them to do this could not fail to be welcome. The pretensions of the Romish Church, the vastness of the papal system, the long-preserved seemsy of its ramifications, and the terror of its in strumentalities, are subjects which would be interest ing at any time, and read with the " apostolic letter " of September still ringing in the ears, would awaken a moet powerful excitement. That Mr. Turnley has written such a work is more than we can affirm. He has treated a subject above all others requiring com pression and arrangement, in the loosest manner, has introduced a variety of subjects remotely, if at all, connected with the subject; and in one part actually Ends room for a drama in the midst of his history. A quotation will show the author's style: Imany attempts which have been made to present the system of nature as a connected whole—a chapter rather literary than scientific. The subject of the first section is celestial space, and the conceivable existence of a fluid medium tilling the intervals not occupied by the stars. It is Baroil Humboldt's belief that we stand on the verge of• greet discoveries re- Ispecting this at present hypothetical fluid : at nought those hygienic counsels which younger writers are too much in the habit of despising. We trust that Mr. Britton's health may permit him to resume the narrative, which has a m,re than literary interest; displaying as it does the triumph of manly virtues over hardships and obstacles before which hundredsdaily quail. Mr.Britton haat:nun from the lowest point, and by resolute devotion to one object has execa it d great and su betel, tial works. The lemon of ! such a life is not confined to a class, but is applicable to every condition and calling of life. That lesson is, that nu man need lie down in the idleness of despair, and that 0 steady purpose is capaio!e of beading the nr:st adverse circumstances, and even making them contribute to the improvement of the struggler. Mr. Brittod may be smiled at by some, be accused of dulness by others, but no one can rt.ny that he has lived a life if great literary labour, and deserves the honour due to all who strive to do tLeir best iu their generation. The Court Album : Fourteen Portraits of the Female Arit• r•eraey. Engraved by ibe best crusts, from drowivge by JOHN HANTER. Bogue. Although everybody praises the beauty of English women, it is only on returning, after a long absence in other countries, that one discovers how b. autiful they are. Of England, London is the head-quarti re of beauty ; and of London the Opera. In the height of the lesson there are here gathered together more lovely faces than can be accumulated in any other part of the world. We would, however, advise the poet or the at t ibt who may wish to satisfy himself on this point, to choose a subscription night for his purpose, and avoid a "l o n g nursday " above ad things. Otherwise he will very probably—if he is a man of taste—returns disappointed to his habitual Camden town, under the impres-inn that some possible Miss Jones of the Minories is Lady Claud Hamilton, ar.d some probable Nliss Nobel' of Mile-cud I. the Marchioness of Watt rford. Wilh regard to the fourteen fair faces a hich have suggested the above observations, all we can say is that they are flowers worthy of the parterre from I which they spring ; aid that Mr. Hayter is a very fortunate man to hate had so plemant a teak and so successful a rerult. Die descriptions and historical letter-press which accompanies each portrait, is read able and appropriate. The Art Journal. Volume the Eleventh. Virtue., Though a single number of the Art-Journal gives a great idea of the beauty of the publication, it is necessary to me a volume to appreciate fully the comprehensiveness and abundant artistic riches of the work. In the days of the annual., it was thought wonderful to find in a guinea WA a dczen good engravings on capper or steel ; in the Art J'urnal volumes we have thrice the number, thrice the size, to say nothing of a very multitude of wood-blocks, and some four hundred pages of literary matter. In a journal devoted to art, a record of contemp , rary advance must of course occupy a conspicuous place. Accordingly we find in Mr. S. Carter Hull's volumes Latices of those numerous exhibitions of painting whose rh.l d'a•tir-es have till lately Well the staple of critical journalism. In addition to there, the Art- Journal contains a description of every work having claims to excellence of pictorial illustration, with selections, in many cases, from the best engravings. Hut no feature of the work is more promi.ent than the innumerable original designs for objects of every day use, intended to promote the naturalisation of grace and beauty on the parlour table, the aide-board, and even the kitchen dreraer. The producer, of our " art-manufactures " certainly cannot complain that their taste and industry have been neglected or unappreciated. Mr. Robert Hunt. of the Museum of Economic Geology, centributee a number of article., deserving specific praise, in which the resources of science aro unfolded in relation to tit, as in other columns art is exhibited in its appli cations to mauufacturre. Amorg these are papers on " Plastic Clays," " The Chemistry of Colours," Magneto-Electric Plating," and " Artificial Stone." While, on one baud, modern science is invoked to furnish new aids, on another the treasures of classical and mi &meal invention are explored, not in the narrow lone of mere antiquarianism, but in the pure eclectic spirit of universal ar t. N or are the labours of our Teutonic cousins, in elaborating, defining, and directing the Besot art, ignored, for Mrs. Jameson, in " Letters to the Uninitiated," resumeathe views of Schelling and Schlegel with English clearness and womanly grace. Biographies and poi traits of the most emir cat artists of our own country form another attract ton, evecially when autobiographic d, as in the caw of Mr. Ray. " Passages from the Poets" is the running beading for a beautitul aeries of wool-cuts. The great distinguish ' ing feature of this volume, however, is a series of engravings from the Vernon-gallery, appro priately led off by a portrait of the donor ' of that now national collection, the lute Mr. Robert Vernon. The volume for 1849 contains twenty-five of these engravings from the Vernon pictures, among ' which we have Turner's "Venice," Landseer's " High and Low Life," Mmlise's "Malvolio," Ward's " Fall of Clarendon," and Cooper's " Cattle." The multipli cation of the works of our great modern artist, by the graver is, to a large section of our countrymen, an event scarcely less interesting than the original for ' I maim of the gallery they compose. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Marcp IVordt. By BUHL/ MACIRONI. Candid' and Addey. A pair of lovers—a father and daughter —a lather and 6011-0,0 estranged from one snot' if, though some of the thou and and tee CMOs which destroy the tranquillity of so many happy homes. All aro unhappy; none will acknowledge faults or entreat forgierrese. Boene chance words utterred by a child and an o!d woman awake better feelings in the hearts of the.a whose duty it is to make submission. Words—" magic words"—of kiariness and concilition, are uttered, and a general union and reconciliation takes place at the Christina. festival Bach are the simple materials not of which Miss Mammal his woven an interesting tale, which from i , s natural grace and unafferred simplicity is better worth reading than manly ' Christmas Backs " of tar higher pretensions. A HATCH CHILDSLIEIeg BOOKV. rho Story of Jack and toe Giants. With forty illustrations by RICIIAILD Dorca. Enoraved by 0. and E. Dabiol. Smell 4to. Caudell and Addeo. A Troaturu of l'kasure Books fir Fanny mei Old. A New B..ti•e. With thirtprix illustrations, by ECIWAILD H. WEHNIRT and il•litlift/M Wilk. &Mll OCIATO. SM. publi.b.rs. Merry T ales for Lilt!. Edited by Madam De CHATELAIN. Forty favourite tiles, with two hundred pieturos. flax* p ablishors Phonons, of the Country. BY Mn. BAItRIET MYaTLI. With 8 illustrations, by Joan GILNCIIT. 4to. Bants _ . TAt Peacock at home. Ily Yrs. Dosawr. 11lutttatod with 12 alumina,. d loorders, printed by M. sad N. Ssahart. New EAiti. n. S..rae puAliebare. TAe Patent Indestreetiqe Aipaabet. Illustrated with 26 pie!urts, by Jottx AIISOLON. Arid TAe Patent Inisstruct liblePrimer. Idastraird with 40 pictures, by Drama/A. (17 111I h t ose is p r e n t sc .u ren t ti t o o us da see d an es.i util on s fro li m ke M r . Punc Ri h eb is ata gen De erell yk y . known) busy disseminating his rich (monis among children. His Glustrations to 't Jack and the Giants," nig be accepted ea epee:nun. b ith of his fine ertiatie lading and hie command WWI' the difficult materiel through the agency of which has creation. are multiplied for popular distribution. His tempts his been followed by Mr. Harrison Weir end Mr. E. 11. Waheart; whose drawings of animals worthily replete those rude conceptions which formerly defaced the bar lie prepared for children. John Gi.bert's illuatrations to Mr.. Harriet Myrtle's book, though gracefully penciled, lack th e vividnese and farcy of Mt. Doyle. The Peacock et Home," claims a word of areas., for the beatifies of its typography and illsminations; w hilst the " Indestructible" books for children are noticeable for the care with which they an printed upon linen ' to resist the &Weenies propensities of the students of A B C. lite books foe children issued of late years must have satonisbed those elderly people who remember the grotesque horn books from which the children of thirty yeses ago leant their elementary lessors . The curiously contrived Berate who for centuries repiceented the letter B to child to d, the ill conditioned hone, that was described as "a noble animal," the archer who stood for A, are characters b which the adult, of Bugled are more familiar than are their children. Children received thtir brat impreuiona of art from ill-esectited drawing., the tendency of whin was undoubtedly to deaden rather hen to torture that feeling for the beautiful which forms lo important a concomitant of sound m . ael training. It is only of late years that artists of note have deigned to illustrate books of instruction ; it is only of let.: years that the importance of cultivating in children a sentiment for the beautiful has been recogaised— with shit effect experience only may prove, bat certainly the sensitive eye is linked more or less citsely with the sent , 'tee bean. APOTUECASIBI? HALL.—Nemes of gentlemen who pus d their ezmninati at in the science and practice of medi cine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, Jan. 2, 1851 :—Oliver Cooper Pollard, Chorley, Lse whirs ; John Dozen Ward, Maccitester ; Charles Robert Thompson, W. sterkam, Kent ; Henry Parke r, Sheffield, Yorkshire. and 11,1- PrVI, Irod [Weir Direr ' the lAA, I.IY. -air od a T be datt the ao. mg's, IP sir NW. nit, 4 th. and herd t nig Th. . who .Isnd whirr. !mut, fib. ; iti Ise N. nwall pasta 29.77 'Gory f.md t:•ur 10( at grest reg. 4.114 01 1.1 It el. Tsv 1 4 131 doff,r erg.' S. is . over heft boo at bull 'ob tot of lewd, thitt be rt and I. me', p..ce• 1