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THE PRESS, FEBRUARY 6, 1858. I Fraser this month is scarcely an average number. We miss the natural history an r Intepreter" " Lady Strathmore's Daughter " is only msorelyiddling.The conclusion of the paper on Fielding does not strike us as anything very extraordinary, nor ran we account for the popularity of " Thorn doe" either with the English or the Scotch maga zine. No doubt there is considerable thought in some of Mr. Smith's political speculations, but it is thought of that kind which loves to dwell in the region of the merely possible. No doubt, striking effects may be produced by grouping together a cer tain number of plausible reasons for the possibility of extremely improbable events. Mr. Smith's style is we admit s good, but we must adhere to our pre viously-expressed opinion that a great portion of his earlier pages are feeble and watery. The three last articles in Fraser are the three best. " A Word about Our Theatres " is true, and especially oppor tune after recent national performances. Alter pointing out in what respect the newspapers have neglected their critical office—an evil rightly attri buted to the improper relations between critics, managers, and actors—the writer concludes as fol lows : But while the press may do much, the regeneration of the drama must, we believe, come mainly from actors them selves. As a body, they are behind the time. They have not kept pace with its culture, and they do not seem to be at any pains to make up the leeway they have lost. Their ranks have not of late years been recruited from the better educated classes, and it may be that there is little encouragement for ladies and gentlemen to join a profes sion where doubtful virtue in the one and forward preten sion in the other seem for the time to carry off the prizes, and where the class c,f plays in vogue offers so little to dignify the actor's art. But it is impossible that, pos sessing as we do the noblest drama in the world, and with the great love of the stage inherent in the people, this state of things should go on much longer. The want of a better stage is felt by all thinking men to have become intolerable. As an engine of popular education, especially of that instruction of the art which in these times is too much neglected for that of the head, it is invaluable. As an amusement, the world has never devised one that can compete with it. We waste our money on opera, but the drama is our natural element. An Englishman cannot go on for ever "laying down his understanding at the door," as Lord Chesterfield said he must do, when he enters the opera-house. At no time were good theatres more longed for. People begin to find out that they may read too much, that they may be too much alone ;—that to be transported out of the round of their own persecutit.g and petty cares into sympathy with the creatures of the dramatist's fancy, and to be moved to tears or laughter in company with their fellow-men, is better than to have a smattering of all the ologies. Most cordially, we believe, would the men who are the moving spirits of our time second the efforts of any manager who should rest his claims to popularity on good plays and thoroughly trained actors. Men of ability would then write plays, who ere now deterred from doing so, because they know they cannot be acted, and we might hope to see a drama arise which would be at once a reflex and a monitor to the times. An intelligent audience before the curtain would operate beneficially behind it, and in time a new cluster of artists would spring up to rival the Kembles, Mnndens, Glovers, and Farrens of recent times, or those great delineators of character and manners of a former period, with whom the pictorial record at the Garrick Club has made us familiar. The review of Cyrus Redding's " Recollections " is a very amusing epitothe of the best parts of the book. The sketch of Sir Charles Napier is admirable — eloquent, and at the same time, we firmly believe, just. The Dublin University Magazine, as the Irish periodical, has necessarily a heavy task to perform. It must have a flavour of nationality. It must keep its readers abreast of all the more important con temporary literature, and it must find some space for fiction and poetry. Under these circumstances, we cannot look for the same proportion of merely light and fanciful articles as we find in the English magazines. But the Dublin fulfils its mission. All the above conditions are complied with in the pre sent number. Mr. Lever's story promises plenty of romance, and a comparatively unbeaten line of country. " Irish Convict Pnsons " and the " Sani tary Condition of the Army" are two very useful papers. "Curiosities of the English Language" is mainly a review of Dean Trench's late publication. It is very sensible and able, and is a wholesome cor rective to that passion for archaisms which is just now prevalent. How true, for instance, is the fol lowing : First of all, we must settle what it is that entitles any thing calling itself a Word to be accepted as truly such. With regard to the great mass of words this point presents no difficulty. But take a term which can only be discovered to have been once or twice used, will that constitute it an element of the language, whatsoever it may be, to which it claims to belong ? If so, then the power and right of adding to a language to any extent must be held to belong to every individual. The maker of the dictionary himselt, orbis tiirnds and acinaintances, may introduce as many new words into it as they please, of their own contrivance. Many of them might be in all respects as deserving of a loption, tried by any test you will, as some of those that all the dictionaries have admitted on the strength of their occurrence, it may be, in a single passage. Many of the additional ones collected by Dr. Trench have, probably, no better claim—sucb, for instance, as henry Id ore's hiapidity and speciosity, Fuller's floireretry and fushionists, and a whole crop of hideous break-jaw monatrocities, sehleragog y, hecatontarchy, consieacle, solertioueness, dec., dec., in Bishop Hacket. If all formations similarly circumstanced with these, that is to say, wanting altogether the authori sation of general acceptance and currency, are to be recog nised as English words, then there is no innovation that any person chooses or chances to devise that is not en titled to be so recognised. Even if a legitimate extraction, accor ling to the rules or principles of etymology, should be exacted in every case, there would still be no end of the private fabrications that would thus be continually im ported into the language We should all, of course, be ready to acknowledge any word found, although once only, in any one of our greatest writers, in Spenser, or Bacon, or Milton, or Shakespeare; but what is to be said to the peculiar vocabulary of a Sir Roger L'Estrange, or a Tom Brown ? Probably very few, if any, of the strange terms found in either of these two last-named worthies are pure inventions of his own ; they are only words that have not elsewhere been employed in writing Several such words might probably be found in Shakespeare—words which he borrowed from the patois of his native Warwick, as they found theirs in the street language of London. If Shakespeare's bleaded and hollered are to be received as good English, what are we to say to the hoiking of Sir Francis Palgrave. Some prettyish verses are, as usual, to be found scattered up and down the pages of this magazine. We have a sparkling number of Bentley before us. Mr. Costello's story—the two memoirs of Rachel and Beranger—" Queen Stork," a really comic and natural sketch—and " Season the Second," a con tinuation of " Moat Grange "—are all well-chosen and well-written papers. The Indian article is tem perate and plain, though we cannot bring ourselves to agree with the concluding paragraph, or imagine that any large number of Englishmen have any faith at all in Lord Palmerston's "firmness and virtue." This is a mere way of talking. The dirge on Have lock contains some really fine lines. The New Monthly we really find it very difficult to say anything about. The commencement of a new story by the author of " Ashley " is the most noticeable thing in it. That eternal "Swedish Voyage round the World" still confronts us, and all the other articles are of such a truly level character that, with all willingness to praise, we know not what to pick out. Tait this month is very much occupied with social questions. " The Condition of Poor Woman " " Prohibited Marriages "—" The Early Marriage Question "—" The Greatest Social Evil," ctc., will, as the reader may see, fill up a considerable propor tion of the sixty-four pages. All these subjec'.s are treated with earnestness. We have some sensible observations on the social position of young men and women, and a useful protest against the cant talk of despising that position. On the other side of the question we fear the writer is too sanguine. Is there no alternative, he asks indignantly, between imprudent marriages and vice? A shrug of the shoulders is all the answer we are permitted to give to such questions. Civilisation has its penalties. Similarly on the present well-intentioned crusade against prostitution, we would say, if the thing itself can be crushed, well and good ; if not, let us take care we do not exaggerate its evils by futile attempts at suppression. However, as long as plain speaking is forbidden on this subject, writers do but mystify one another by these vague generalities. Some good stories, and passable verses, make up as good a number of Tait as we have seen for some time. The National Magazine, the Irish Metropolitan, the London University, and Titan, exhibit no symptoms of falling off. Each possesses some good writers on its staff and presents us with the usual combination of fiction, essay, and poetry. The National has now established a peculiar character for itself, as eminently a domestic and household periodical, and adheres to its type so closely that no special notice is required. We have a more than usual number of serials " going on " at the present time. Mr. Lever's Davenport Dunn improves ; the introduction of Davis's daughter is an agreeable surprise, and the subsequent adventure very graphically told. The Gordian Knot is written with all Mr. Brooks' sprightliness, and more than his usual power. But after all there is a something that rings false in his characters. The relations about to be established between a family like the Spencers and one like the Arundels is not according to the way of the world. To one thing, however, in this number we must call special attention—it is the last page : There was one thing more to be done before the young London gentleman could honourably proffer matrimonial vows. There was a letter to be written. _ No wrong, save of the most respectable character—so respectable that it passes in a crowd for right—shall obtrude itself in our story. But lam to tell the truth ; and the truth is, that Philip Arundel had, in decorous language, to disembarrass himself of a connection. Happily for him and his conscience in the Last Hour, the great crime that lures a helpless being to a life of igno miny is not to be laid to his charge. But in a little box like house in a suburb—a tiny dwelling, fall of comforts And not without elegancies, mostly his own presents-- 141 there waited for him, not often in vain, one whose erring but affectionate nature had been developed by his kindness —and who in future would wait in vain. There was to be an allowance, and I think a small life assurance, and a confirmed gift of all in the house ; and— you are quite right, madam—what more could a Creature expect or deserve? Nevertheless Arundel, having written his letter, gave It to his friend to be delivered—that Philip might not know the hour or the day when it would be received, and when the pang which even Creatures can feel would be inflicted in that quiet little home. Here Mr. Brooks knows what he is writing about ; anti we invite all those honest and zealous clergy men and gentlemen who are just now talking and writing so mach upon a certain subject to ponder well on this fact—i.e., that a popular writer of the day, a man whose age, and habits, and talents es pecially fit him to understand, and give a fair verdict on, such a subject, has introduced his "representa tive " young man keeping a mistress as a matter of course. Mark the words—" a wrong, so respect " able that it passes in the crowd for right"— : and will any one pretend that our language on this subject some week or two since• was too de cided? We said the world now judges more leniently of these things than it once did. Here we have at least one qualified witness who confirms our opinion. Paved with Gold—ln this number young Phil is married, but we fear we cannot say " settled." The marriage, however, is too gross a violation of pro bability to go down with any class of readers. Mr. Mayhew seems to suppose that Phil could have put on the manners and conversation of decent people as easily as he changed his clothes. Mervyn Clitheroe does not belie the expectations we originally formed of it. It continues spirited and full of incident. Of Illustrated Works, we have—let, the Art Journal, in which the illustrations of the river Thames are very elegantly continued. The artist has now got as far as Cbertsey, and Cowley's House, St. Anne's Well, Otway Stakes, &c, form his prin cipal subjects. The text contains some appropriate explanations, as well as a few useful hints to anglers. " Tombs of English Artists" is also a very interest ng paper. Many will linger over the two cuts which represent the Protestant Cemetery at Rome and the tombs of Keats and Shelley. The whole number is excellently got up, the illustrations well chosen, and the subjects selected for dissertation appropriate. 2nd, Le Follet, with several bewitching young persons enveloped in considerable circumferences of crino line. Two out of the four toilets here given are very pretty. 3rd, Wild Flowers of the Alphabet—an in genious method of sweetening the rudiments of learning with the two more advanced studies of poetry and floriculture. Whether a child will be satisfied if, when be asks for a lump of sugar, he is given a daisy, we dont know ; but the attempt to refine his tastes is certainly praiseworthy, and has resulted in a pretty book we can recommend for the purpose. PUBLICATIONS REC EIVED:FEBRUARY 4. BOOKS. Memoirs of Rec. George Wagner, M. 4. J. N. Slmpkiit son, M.A. Macmillan and Ca Parthena. Routledp., Bothwell. W. E. Aytonn, D.C.L. Slackwoo& Tales. Professor Wilson. Ditto. T)iamonds and Spades. Hain Friswell. H. Les. Uncle Jack, the Fault-kilkr. By the Author of "Bound the Fire." Smith and Elder. _ _ _ Ma - rga;elilamillon. Mrs. C. J. Newby. Three Vole. Bentley. Parliamentary Government. Earl Grey. Ditto. The Spirit of Home. Sylvan. Saunders and Otley. Katherine Randolph. Edieed by G.A. Gleig. Hodgson. Charmione. By E. A. Leatham, M.A. Two Vols. Bradbury and Evens. Shelley and hie Writings. C. S. Middleton. Two Vol. Newby. The Shareholder's Legal Guide. Robertson. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. John Timb■, F.S.A. Kent and Co. PAMPIELETB. The Earliest Inhabitants of Italy. J. W. Parker and Son—The Life and Poetry 4 Chaucer. Ditto—The Ate Pamphlet. An Officer. Ridgway—Political Catechise. Richards—Contributions to the Ethnography of Italy and Greece. J. W. Parker and Son—lingiovensents in ddmi• nistration of India. PERIODICALS. Irish Metropolitan Magasius. Simpkin and Marshall —New Quarterly Review. Bosworth and Harrison—Wert of Scotland Magasine. Hall and Virtne--Ladid Trosorry. Ward and Lack—Cassell's .fit Treasure Exhibition. Kent and Co.—North British Review. Hamilton and Co. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. Two scholarships of the value of 521. a year, open to all persons under twenty years of age, will be filled up at Pembroke College on Friday, the sth of March. Canilidates who may desire it will be ex amined chiefly in mathematics. A scholarship of the value of 40/. a year, open to all persons educated • Boyles of "A Wamau's Thoughts about WolastO. . . , ... , THE PRESS FEBRUARY 6, 1858 1141 Fraser this month is scarcely an average number. and speciosity, Fuller's flotveretry and fashioniate, and a there waited for him, not often in vain, one whose erring e s e m iss the natural history and "The Interpreter" whole crop of hideous break-jaw monstrocities, schleragogy, but affectionate nature had been developed by his kindn ese sorely. " Lady Strathmore's Daughter is only hecatontarchy, consiuncle, solertioueness, cite., stsc., in —and who in future would wait in vain. ind " The conclusion of the paper on Fielding There was to be an allowance, and I think a small life- doeswith these, that is to say, wanting altogether the auttiori. assurance, and a con fi rme d g ift o f a ll i n th e h ouse ; an d— id nottirig. s trike us as anything very extraordinary, we account for the popularity of " Thorn- sation of general acceptance and currency, are to be recog• you are quite right, madam— w hat mo r e co u ld a Cre a t ur e rm. can raised as English words, then there is no innovation that expect or deserve? d a le" either with the English or the Scotch maga- any person chooses or chances to devise that is not en- Nevertheless Arundel, having written his letter, gave it sine. No doubt there is considerable thought in t i t l e d to b e so recogn i se d . E ven if a l eg i t i mate extract i on, t o his friend to be delivered—that Philip might not know so me of Mr. Smith's political speculations, but it is according to the rules or principles of etymology, should be the hour or the day when it would be received, and when thoug ht of that kind which loves to dwell in the exacted in every case, there would still be no end of the the pang which even Creatures can feel would be inflic te d reg i on of the merely possible. No doubt, striking private fabrications that would ‘ t v h e us e b h e on c ld on a t l i l n , u ef al e ly on i ns m e: i H n e t r h e at N q i u r i . et ß li r ttl oo e k h s ome. knows what he is writing about ; effects may be produced by grouping together a cer- ported into the languas,. e and we invite all those honest and zealous clergy- ofbe ready to acknowledge any word found, although once men and gentlemen who are just now talking and fain number of plausible reasons for the possibility only, in any one of our greatest writers, in Spenser, or Bacon, writing so much upon a certain subject to ponder extremely improbable events. Mr. Smith's style ' admit, good, but we must adhere to our pre - la, we or Milton, or Shakespeare; but what is to be said to the well y , a o n ni this swfhaecst whose . e e . ~ andt hat a habits,pop u pesuliar vocabulary of a Sir Roger L'Estrange, or a Tom larandwritatelernotsf the es- articles viously-expressed opinion that a great portion of his Brown? Probably very few, if any, of the strange terms earlier pages are feeble and watery. The three last found in either of these last-named worthies areda ecially fit him to understand, and give a fair verdict pure in Fraser are the three best. " A Word inventions of his own ; they are only words that have not P about Our Theatres "is true, and especially oppor- elsewhere been employed in writing Several such words on, such a subject, has introduced his "represents,- tune after recent national performances. Atter might probably be f ou nd i n Shakespeare—words which he tive " young man keeping a mistress as a matter of poi nting out in what respect the newspapers have borrowed from the patois of his native Warwick , as they course. Mark the words—" a wrong, so respect. • ht buted to the improper relations between critics , " neg l e cted their critical office—an evil rightly attri- found theirs in the street language of London. If " able that it passes in the crowd f or Shakespeare's blended and boltered are to be received as good and will any one pretend that our languag e rte .... . English, what are we to say to the hoiking of Sir Francis this subject some week or two since* was on man agers, and actors—the writer concludes as foltoo de- Palgrave. lows : tided? We said the world now judges more le n i en tly Some prettyish verses are, as usual, to be found But while the press may do much, the regeneration of of these things than it once did. Here we have at the d r ama must, we believe, come mainly from actors them - scattered up and down the pages of this magazine. least one qualified witness who confirms our opinion. selves. As a body, they are behind the time. They have We have a sparkling number of Bentley before us. Paved with Gold—ln this number young Phil is not kept pace with its culture, and they do not seem to be Mr. Costello's st o ry—the two memoirs of Rachel married, but we fear we cannot say " settled." The at any pains to make up the leeway they have lost. Their and Beranger—" Queen Stork," a really comic and marriage, however, is too gross a violation of pro. ranks have not of late years been recruited from the better natural sketch—and " Season the Second," a con- bability to go down with any class of readers. Mr. educated classes, and it may be that there is little tinuation of " Moat Grange "—are all well-chosen Mayhew seems to suppose that Phil could have put encouragement for ladies and gentlemen to join a profes- and well-written papers. The Indian article is tern- on the manners and conversation of decent people sion where doubtful virtue in the one and forward preten- perate and plain, though we cannot bring ourselves as easily as he changed his clothes. sion in the other seem for the time to carry off the prizes, and where the class of plays in vogue offers so little to to agree with the concluding paragraph, or imagine Mervyn Clitheroe does not belie the expectations dignify the actor's art. But it is impossible that, pos- that any large number of Englishmen have any faith we originally formed of it. It continues spirited and sessing as we do the noblest drama in the world, and with at all in Lord Palmerston's " firmness and virtue." full of incident. the great love of the stage inherent in the people, this This is a mere way of talking. The dirge on Have- state of things should go on much longer. The want of a lock contains some really fine lines. Of Illustrated Works, we have—tat, the Art better stage is felt by all thinking men to have become The New Monthly we really find it very difficult Journal, in which the illustrations of the river intolerable. As an engine of popular education, especially to say anything about. The commencement of a Thames are very elegantly continued. The artist of that instruction of the art which in these times is too new story by the author of " Ashley "is the most has now got as far as Chertsey, and Cowley's House, much neglected for that of the head, it is invaluable. As an amusement, the world has never devised one that can noticeable thing in it. That eternal " Swedish St. Anne's Well, Otway Stakes, &c , form his prin- compete with it. We waste our money on opera, but the Voyage round the World" still confronts us, and all cipal subjects. The text contains some appropriate drama is our natural element. An Englishman cannot go the other articles are of such a truly level character explanations, as well as a few useful hints to anglers. on for ever "laying down his understanding at the door," that, with all willingness to praise, we know not what " Tombs of English Artists" is also a very interest- as Lord Chesterfield said he must do, when he enters the to pick out. ng paper. Many will linger over the two cuts which opera-house. At no time were good theatres more longed Tait this month is very much occupied with social represent the Protestant Cemetery at Rome and the for. People begin to find out that they may read too much, questions. " The Condition of Poor Woman e— tombs of Keats and Shelley. The whole number is that they may be too much alone ;—that to be transported „ p roh i b ited Marriages "—" The Early Marriage excellently got up, the illustrations well chosen, and out of the round of their own persecuting and petty cares Question "—" The Greatest Social Evil," itsc w Ques.t .l ill w ill , the subjects selected for dissertation appropriate. into sympathy with the creatures of the dramatises fancy, and to be moved to tears or laughter in company with as the reader may see, fill up a considerable propor- 2nd, Le Follet, with several bewitching young persons their fellow-men, is better than to have a smattering of all lion of the sixty-four pages. All these subjec's are enveloped in considerable circumferences of crino- theirfellow-men, olives. Most cordially, we believe, would the men treated with earnestness. We have some sensible line. Two out of the four toilets here given are very who are the moving spirits of our time second the efforts observations on the social position of young men pretty. 3rd, Wild Flowers of the Alphabet—an in- of any manager who should rest his claims to popularity and women, and a useful protest against the cant genions method of sweetening the rudiments of on good plays and thoroughly trained actors. Men of talk of despising that position. On the other side learning with the two more advanced studies of ability would then write plays, who are now deterred from of the question we fear the writer is too sanguine. poetry and floriculture. Whether a child will be doing so, because they know they cannot be acted, and we Is there no alternative, he asks indignantly, between satisfied if, when be asks for a lump of sugar , he is might hope to see a drama arise which would be at once imprudent marriages and vice ? A shrug of the gi ven a daisy, we dont know ; but the attempt to a reflex and a monitor to the times. An intelligent • audience before the curtain would operate beneficially a ll shoulders is the answer we are permitted to give refine his . tastes is certainly praiseworthy, and. has behind it, and in time a new cluster of artists would spring to such questions. Civilisation has its penalties. resulted in a pretty book we can recommend for the up to rival the Kembles, Mnndens, Glovers, and Farrens Similarly on th e p resent well-intentioned crusade purpose. of recent times, or those great delineators of character and against prostitution, we would say, if the thing itself ... PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED: FEBRUARY 4. manners of a former period, with whom the pictorial record can be crushed, well and good ; if not, let us take at the Garrick Club has made us familiar. care we do not exaggerate its evils by futile attempts BOOKS. Memoirs of Rev. George Wagner, M.A. J. N. Simpkia- The review of Crus Redding's " Recollections "is at suppression. However, as long as plain speaking son, M.A. Macmi ll an and Co. a very amusing e p itome of the best parts of the book. is forbidden on this subject, writers do but mystify Parthena. Routledp. The sketch of Sir Charles Napier is admirable— one another by these vague generalities. Some Bothwell. W. E. Aytoun, D.C.L. Blackwoo& eloquent, and at the same time, we firmly believe, just. good stories, and passable verses, make up as good Tales. Professor Wilson. Ditto. a number of Tait as we have seen for some time. Diatnonds and Spades. Hain Friswell. H. Lea. The Dublin University Magazine, as the Irish The National Magazine, the Irish Metropolitan, Uncle Jack, the Fault-killer. By the Author of " Round periodical, has necessarily a heavy task to perform. the London University, and Titan, exhibit no the Fire." Smith and Elder. It must have a flavour of nationality. It must keep symptoms of falling off. Each possesses some good Margaret Hamilton. Mrs. C. J. Newby. Three Vols. its readers abreast of all the more important con- Bentley. writers on its staff, and presents Us with the usual temporary literature, and it must find some space Parliamentary Government. Earl Grey. Ditto. combination of fiction, essay, and poetry. The for fiction and poetry. Under these circumstances, The Spirit established pecu li ar of Rome. Sylvan. Saunders and Duey has now haracter we cannot look for the same proportion of merely for itself, as eminentl y a domestic and household Katherine Randolph. Edited by G. R. Gleig. Hodgson. light and fanciful articles as we find in the English (Sherri:lone. By E. A. Leatham, M.A. Two Vols. magazines. But the Dublin fulfils its mission. All periodical, and adheres to its typo so closely that no Bradbury and Evans. • the above conditions are complied with in the pre- special notice is required. Shelley and his Writings. C. S. Middleton. Two Vole. New. sent number. Mr. Lever's story promises plenty of romance, and a comparativel unbeaten line of We have a more than usual number of serials The Shareholder's Legal Guide. R oberts on . country. " Irish Convict Prison y , s " and the " Sani- g going on "at the present time. Mr. Lever's The Year-book cl Facts is Science and Art. Joie* Timbs, F.S.A. i Kent sad Co. Davenport Dunn improves ; the i ntroduction of 'Airy Condition of the Ar m y " are two very useful PAMPNLETS. Davis's daughter is an agreeable surprise, and the papers. " Curiosities of the English Language " is The Earliest Inhabitants of Italy. J. W. Parker and mainly a review of Dean Trench's late publication. subsequent adventure very graphically told. Son—The Life and Poetry 4 Chaucer. Ditto—The Blae The Gordian Knot is written with all Mr. Brooks' It is very sensible and able, and is a wholesome cor• Pamphlet. An O ffi cer. Ridgway—Political Catechise. rective to that passion for archaisms which is just sprightliness, and more than his usual nower But . • Richards—Contributions to the Ethnography of Italy and after all there is a something that rings false in his . Greece. J. W. Parker and Son—/mek•oventents is /Mini- now prevalent. How true, for instance, is the fol- characters. The relations about to be established :tiara/ion of India. lowing : between a family like the Spencers and one like the PERIODICI.I2. First of all, we must settle what it is that entitles any Arundels is not according to the way of the world. Irish Metropolitan Magazine. Simpkin and Marshall thing calling itself a Word to be accepted as truly such. T in this number we must call —New Quarterly Review. Bosworth and Harrison—Wed With regard to the great mass of words this point presents o one t hing,. h owever , . . special attention—it is the last page : of Scotland Magastne. Hall and Virtue—Ladies' Daemons, no di ffi culty. But take a term which can only be discovered Ward and Lock—Cassell's Art Treasure Exhibition. to have been once or twice used, will that constitute it an There was one thing more to be done before the young Kent and Co.—North British Review. Hamilton and CO. element of the language, whatsoever it may be, to which it London gentleman cou l d honourably proffer matrimonial claims to belong ? If so, then the power and right of vows. There was a letter to be written. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. adding to a language to any extent must be held to belong No wrong, save of the most respectable character—so to every individual. The maker of the dictionary himself, respectable that it passes in a crowd for right—shall OXFORD. orbis trisnds and acenaintances, may introduce as many obtrude itself in our story. But lam to tell the truth; Two scholarships of the value of 521. a year, open new words into it as they please, of their own contrivance. and the truth is, that Philip Arundel had, in decorous to all persons under twenty years of age, will be Many of them might be in all respects as deserving of language, to disembarrass himself of a connection. filled up at Pembroke College on Friday, the sth of adoption, tried by any test you will, as some of those that Happily for him and his conscience in the Last Hour, the March. Candidates who may desire it will be ex- all the dictionaries have admitted on the strength of their great crime that lures a helpless beiug to a life of igno- amined chiefly in mathematics. A scholarship of , occurrence, it may be, in a single passage. Many of the niiny is not to be laid to his charge. But in a little box- the value of year, - . 40/. aopen to all persons educated .., additional ones collected by Dr. Trench have, probably, no like house in a suburb—a tiny dwelling, fall of comfortsy better claim—such, for instance, as Henry More's hiepidity and not without elegancies, mostly his own presents— • Review of "A Woman's Thoughts about Woman" . • • • , At ... .