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546 emotion of solltr return in the way of armlet. or souo,e• kt time 4, wh..a his e'-vstssle were MOM. than commonly ' oi t tevt bona I sle, 111441 41311;t0•1' 11'0111 IS cabal of losing los 1a5t,..i11..11, 01111 bee se; with' s wood societ). hat Ise Wel so so lisle ru.t.ly all and Ili.' est.! he Colatlitt . .l to 11.1111Ple ant lii., sulvetwaries, and 11.1 tills t howls swains' t hot a. Ile Issel a talent for satiriessl %.•rse , .. I a...obi vireo lot eiu s Isis way emrivat sires whieh had at iss".l hurls ad' sticking to the hawks on hush slsry w ere ems. laments!. Wheel his passions were stoat...all —for he hail passiens sally to 111481111 A by a s' hvek for a handsome miss omit—lsis muse olive to the eels st.s. essilivi item's* of ; the knobs ledge ash' his ros ..e. its I Isis seessitsl loins nisponisy for WI pi closely Is olerissu sass MIli1110141114•4%. .%06 h« 111104 SS ready to sell Isis aatmay its hi frieselsh qt. (lonic who alionsussl Ilia ac• quaint:tote were Isis so pas douse. Isis neutrality. Thus vtressisl stet fa•.ssa 1 slersossl a n d used —phi, all with owl alt-likeil—he 1,11 the merry voteless life of It els.% :slier aaf with iii, a.m.,. sal 1.•.1 houses ever open to him. awl pre ilk.' 0411.'1' thes of the woril, swiss the w kvst , mass ev s ss.,l • MIA Illo+t, Willed palls of Stria sitts.nt i on 11l till' illtitteS, the I'llitOtS telletett of time and place, is not to be exacted front the novelist. as I lie ituthor lists so sitilei Ily ulnxell nllllolll'lll date to his I'ollllllWe, ate 1•1111110 t soverls is oh Oils. flagrant anachronism Which he has allowed himself to commit. The year ill whin hhis drama tratepires is perpetu ally iudieats.ll as being a t.ery revolt one—anil yet, \h Poulton makes his "gentlemen" bilk l oritee in 41 raWl lig-roos ti a. to sllottiti have l'ellictit lie red that lloltits.e is no longer quoted in it tlrawing-rnoin, or anywhere else out of i t university, since Peel used hint up ito eiree• tually in the House of Commons. The Bible and the Workiny Claws. fly Alex. Wallace. Fifth Edition. Edinburgh : Oli phant. Tuts work was issued under riremustances so peculiar that we may be excused bestowing some notice MI CIVIL IL filth Cditioll Or it. In Bradford, Its in other large towns, there are numbers of the working population who never think of entering a temple of piddle worship. What is to be done with such per sons? How are they to be reclaimed? You eatinot compel theta LAI COMO to church, Alla street ►reating lass tulles hlLOsuch disrepute since the tinter of Wesley and 'Whitfield, that it is no longer to be enmity(' on as a means Of influence. What Alt.. Wanner did was to deliver a course of lectures on the llible, in the theatre of the I tradfinil Aleehanies' Institute, Sunday being the day selected. Thu experiment was hazardous. but it was suecessful : he obtained large and attentive audiences, and, am we are assured, awoke a religious sentiment in minds which haul pre viously been strangers to it. The lectures, fifteen in number, are contained in this volume. As may he supposed, they are not wholly unobjectionable, but the positively good very greatly predominates over the doubtful and the bad. The consideration which originated these lectures is undoubtedly it SCHOU% one, Whitt IS to be dome with those thousands Of om eiIIiZVIIS Who systematically frolll religious worship ? Stith as they are, it is pro liable will their children be. Alan we make no effort to rouse them to II sense of their duties? Is it impossible to devise some kind of machinery whirls will make them acquainted with truths it most concerns them to know ? We do not want to coerce theill, Or ill interfere with their private freedom, but we do desire that, in some way or other, they should Is , induced to give the claims of the Bible a fair hearing. The thne is favourable tOr such experiments us .IV. Wallace suecessfully made. Infidelity is no longer lung-tongued and ; it finds refuge in the cloudy mysteries of a i t - I n v :ren. dental philosophy. Lately. when the Infidel owl Christian hare fairly met on any popular platform. the vietoiy of the latter has been shown not by argument only but by the suf frages of the auditory. We have 110 W to eon• tend with the imlitterenee of masses of our working population, not with their hostility ; and one of the great questions of our thm. is. how that indifference may be orereome, and howsueh people are to be educated to a per eeption of those great truths which alone can elevate their character, and make them under- THE PRESS. stand the tnie dignity and high destinies of humanity. There are I►assages in this volume admirably calculated to stir the heart of an ►►ssemhiy of working men, nor do we think they eoul►l be addressed in a better time and temper that► pervade the extract w•e subjoin : lint Loitit's OAT or NATrrr. Hut no one ever loved nature with a purer, intense). love than the Savisair himself. We delight to i•auteuipluts• this featrtn• in the Saviour's Ammeter. There is 4 441 wavis ehildliltr weal pun• humanity shout it. IVlsett Ile walked by the sett (of idlikv, us lbe often dial, mid felt his jaded spirit soothed lay the refreshing sight. of its clear waters, sited the lousiest! munisur of its waves—wheal lie !sautes! hill hearers 11, the trooping ravens that Ism eresl afsove !Wu, or taa the lilies of the tidal that flecked the sides of then tttttt wisest we follow Him to the 141111.1 tails, where He loved a lei ire at the close 4 .1* the slay when Isis spirit was wearied and lanskeis d o wn by the wickedness of his age—we feel that we are in fellowship with one who, though Divine. has the laitrem 11111110 W t.lllll4llllis's not the least IlltrihtUVe and 1111011411011 sat thi.se is his intense Lae of nature. His 111 4 11111 4 111 %1141k14 L y 1111 . ao • ushon • , 111141 on the quiet skirled with t n s s, hailing insist .lerusalo•ru tip Ifrinally —his wanderings upon the mountains, mad all his many beautiful allusions 141 I liar 11111. noser•tt•ls • •for • g , dt• • u 011 . 14:4 4 1 . 4 111 uatme, lase witness to the anent love with which 11e looked upon Ilse heavens slime tustl the ga.•cu earth beneath. . 111% ItilOtiem4 spirit was in harmony with everything that was goald, and beautiful, and true Hence home ut• his most striking and apin•upriatie illustratisms we•lrt taken fosin the mountain tlou ems sir from the monrismi bills, or from the \arivel 111111114 Of plartd beauty site ta au ening grandeur which the scenery of Judea' daily braatight Indian. [lima Ile burgd the quiet, sequestered omit r•tr7t. Ili!, sym pathies for 1113111, anal everything that was human, were of the purest, the strasietest, and the most etiduringeliatracter; but lle hared the at itititill! stud till, rittlit of the mountain Nam 111 l it, or the WI pa Ay slulu•, or the margin of the niurcatoiug brook, or the bone shore Of the lake, or the peaea.fid hamlet nestled in the la,r•st shade, and rLeltereal by the towering hill, where there was little or nothing to disturb the uniform provessc4 of social lift.. l lines wr• tied Ilia Oftellt 011 the 'maintain, or by the seashaare, ot• im the shatly walk, or in the midst of the• corn•tields. llis lore of nature was intense, but not by any means tr4rate - 1111i selfish—not leading 11 ini to overlook the great interests of cuagr•gated masses in the towns and cities of his a try. llc whit was thrilled with the beautiful land scape or tai t, lake, 1 valley, of richly cultivated fields,—wlu•r• au•t haul done its utmost, ear when! nature was lett lit all its wild sind native grandeur,—that bung upon his ►iew des•euded the hit .111',4 Of Nltisitit Oliva, paused iu deepest anguish of spitit to weep over the guilty city that lay at its base. We have a (inn persuasion that whatever effort is Inutile to *thrust! Clnistianity among, those who are now without the I►ale of its intflu•nce will meet with a kill4l reception, and that the benevolence which prompts will in due time meet with hearty recognition from the 'teed which receives it. Let Veritti Stir la queslitat des Liettx-Saiats. Par Qui...1410m qui la suit. linpritai! it Nlalte. Pe 1' luiegritt: eh! Esnioi Oilintion. Par John Lemonlike. Paris: Nlichel Levy Freres. lin:sy. brochures oiler small but significant contributions to the great question of the day. Writing in the sante language, but a thousand miles apart, and with a w114.1e diameter of difference in their points of view. the conclusions enunciated by the authors almost neutralise One another. Queltpeun qni le sait"—whose epigraph is evidently not un warranted—presents us with the history of the Affair of the Holy Places." proving that among all the parties concerned—Latins, ;reeks, and Mum:minim—it was only the last. who showed common sense in the beginning of the dispute, or common honesty in its pro gress. The end, of course, he ca u ll ot f ore , ce : but he earetully points out the side to which moral ,justice would award a successful issue. M. I.emoiune, in iris pamphlet , its since iu the Pebytix, assumes that the Turk,. as a nation. are worn out —thet their oppression of the t;reek Christians is unendurable—awl leaves th e vo n e losion to be incautiously inferred that Europeans would do well to drive the last of the race over. 4.1. into, the Bosphorus w ith all eonvenient speed. l'aAvo's Powtts.—ln ottr recent roview of the poems of the late W. Mack worth Putted, as collected and published in America, we ex pressed some regret that 110 English $lllll 4•0111plete edition of the w o r k s o f th a t gifted author was in existence. We have been informed that such tut edition is preparin:z. under the best possible conditions for ability and coup pleteness, and will be published by .lessrs. Parker in the ensuing setwni. SATURDAY, Harold. By Sir E. B. Lytuni, Ilart., M.P. London Chapman awl ANOTHEU Volume of the cheap reissue of the work of Sir E. B. Lytton, who defends himself in his pre face from the strictures of reviewers who were more eager than competent to invalidate Isis claims to research. This pendant to " The Last of the Itarons" is the sixteenth of a series of romances which will be completed, for the present at least, by 6 ' Lucretia.' Ix/louts of Old Loudon. ity John Yonge Akerman. London: loan, Virtue, anti Co. A riii:‘e reprint, paper and type being taken into account, of various tales by Mr..lkerman intended to illustrate subjects of archaeological interest ill connec tion with the metropolis. These tales form a volume of railway mauling to which there is, by way of intro duction, ti brief but amusing history of the principal changes which London bus undergone "We hold (sa y s the writer) with the author tat' u most sensible paper it Itielt appears in a recent vol u me Of t h e An•liaidsigia,' that lionatit 144111414bn nt first clobracett l i nt II SHINJI im,etion of what at a litter period was till:10/0AI IA Willi the city Willis. Following this suggestion, there appears to its the best reason for Li-liming that the rox/a.1141 id' the int oilers, however it may have been enlarged 11112% bOlifillell On the south by the Thames, a neutral bulwark, and on the 1 1 0111 1 by that marshy land Si Welt of old time gave the iiiiine to l'enchurrh- , freet, and watered by the little strestut the memory nr which is perpettutteal in the wind of Lang- Isairsie ; that, its western • was WalbrOOk, where Sioogl I ktowgette, mot—as the old chroniclers state, following each ether like sheep leaping after the bellwether through it gap in the hedge—nut tot the banks of the river, but chose to this stream, for nearly three centuries shut out front cockney view, though, as hottest Stow tells us, in his time so swoillcu occaisitinally by the rain as to become dangerous to pedestrians. 'I he Human ril.lllllo, we agents with our antiquary, terminated eastward near the Custom house ; and Here we Mid Billingsgate, not it water-gate, lint, like that at the other vita, an approuLli by land. Thu obvious Saxon name of this erection invites N more plausible illustration 11611 that proposed by the chroniclers. If these rolljtMttllreS as to the 111-St HoIOKO Mat' in London be admitted, we may suppose that Klistcheap stud Can kkk I l estreet, in which we lima I,llllllioll Shine, was Btu Iliglestreet or principal thentughtitre. The ',tilling down of the handlings or the south stale of Calmat-street at this time has elicited further pox& as to the eorrectiiess of this hypothesis, slime it has brought to light numerous vestitt..s of Boman 'minion." It is a comfort in the menacing aspect of affairs to know that we have the guarantee of old Mother Shipton that itt.forc the gothic via, of this kili g ,l,4ll undoes, Iligligitte-tall utlutd in the iiii.lo.lt.St of Laudon." In the interim mom than one generation of Londoners will have the advantage of illustrating its ratio of increase by the help of these amusing stories of Mt. Akertutw. ittliey's Modoe, awl Thohtba the Destroyer. Cheap Edition. London: Vizetelly. Tar: above are two voltunes of a cheap reprint of Southey's poems, which have hitherto been withheld from the circulation which is proper to theta by their number, length, and comparative costliness. What ever estimate we may form of Southey's pretensions to the dicinifs ajfiattot, there can be no doubt as to the richness and rarity of the materials employed in 116 fictions; and, in respect. of the extraordinary knowledge of old-world marvels contained in the copious notes he appended, and which are hero properly reprinted with the poems themselves, the public will find reason to welcome this edition. The Chinese Rerolution : The Causes which Lcd to It, Its Rapid Progress, and Anticipated Result. London : I leery Vizetelly. OntENTvi, newspapers, the rebel proclamations, and the volumes of Messrs. gallery and Yvan, are the only sources from which Europeans hitherto have derived any knowledge of the principles or of the pro gress of the Chinese revolution. Neither of them, perhaps, can be relied upon to furnish materials for authentic history. lint such as they are they have been industriously explored by the writer of the work bet; we us. The result has been the production nr a earitals aunt luc►d natrative, put together with considerable care, and presente►l in a ferns at once attractive and cheap. The Winne mut the Bee. Hy the Rev. W. 11. Ilewslur. New•nmarket. A LITTLE tract, aiming at a proper object—the im priaentent of the position of curates—but of no literary pretensions. Der , : TI, it !Wits, Managentent, and Treatment. Ity the IZev. ti. Wood. London : ticorge Routledge and Co. ruut would be agonished and delighted with this little volume, which shows how much modern science and ingenuity have done to improve his favourite study.