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of the heart in clever, and touched in a style highly chanteteristie of this amusing writer : During these two hoar% Fanny always suit in the little front parlour, which served for the schoolroom, and worked hard with her neetUe. Rut it is a very serious hut that Fanny made so many false stitches, and sewed tap buttons on in wrong places, Mail darned ow many 'amine loan; together in mistake for rents during these two hours, that it gave her a vital deal of trouble to mob, all her work afterwards, and do it over again. Perhaps Fanny listened torsi such to the French lelilloll, laid, 11144441, Mlle wialietl very much to aequire a knowledge of that language, tual II gist it rather hunt that her mother had never let the garret* top tooth her French in former slays. But in Fa un as aehool day* the Marsden* lived more 111111114:1 tl n o w, fear Mr. Mambo' hail not then hit upon a certain method of supplying the domestie exehtspier which he had since lowed with gnat success. Frank wax very conwientions man teacher. Ile lalsairell hard to drill the necessary knowledge into the little ittib malts he had to instruet, and he displayed gnat patientse and good temper. His pupils were not deficient in indlind abilities—espeeially Master Tommy, also was a very sharp but a great rogue in Isis small way. 11 is o....opeopiex afforded much anlasement to Frank, alto sways looked towartla Fanny as he smiles!, and then I y smiled 11140, and Fanny blushed. But Frank wryer conversed with Fanny till the two lusting' !Casein% were over, and then lie e'en/Only never left the room without addressing a few words to her; and oh, how y looked forward to that nine ! She trembled a great deal, tap, at the idea of it hut it was very pleasant, notwithstanding, Frank had such nice voice, and such a pleasing address, mid was so easy in his manner, and never paid her pourid compliments, like that humid Mr. Iti4l4lle. Frank liked his little garrets—they were always all ne at, and a., sacra. Not that he MINA " tidy •' of nun ( to use a good hiptiptewire'a favtittrite expression ) ; on the contrary, he hail as awkward habit of throwing things aboont—his rout here, his waisteoat turn', his betas some• where else, and his Klippen* anywhere. But somehow or other they always returned to their right places—the !writ, especially, were' always just where he liked them to be when he returned home tired. .Ind then his papers were never disturbed—a great sultantage ; for what caps be more distressing to a literary Male* temper than to lilad all his menionitela and loose papers, left Ipv bins in algal• rent negligence, hut in real order ter use—nil gathered up in unit !Packages, for the make of " tidiness " ? not to 'mos t on their being occasionally appropriated to lighting the tire. Imagine the hing•ronceived anti lalapiionslyit I Otkl 'el out plan 44 a liVe•art 4lratila tlirltht IketWeell the bars of the grate, and ruthlessly consumed by the slovenly lentill.oball work. Nothing of the kind ever happened to the labours of Frank's brain. Whether the w 4 old or himself womb! stlwit3s have been sufferent by s u ch an event we won't !west ttttt to guess. It was astonishing, too, how clean the et.a.ltet miti-maensmar of the old ens) chair, that had lwen m 1414.411.. his stock of furniture. always looked. lividly that stiipipb looking girl must be a very good servant. alter all, thought Frank. imple.eyed Frank Nugent! Did stupid ser vant girls ever keep potting clean anti-nitiouvoirs into ba clielors' rooms? Ilist they ever leave literary rapers Abate they ever put their slipper% NO carefully every slay into the very right place And above rill, di.lthey ever put Nina bouquet', of fresh flowers to onranseut the mine telpieee, and p ert' . the poor garret .' thillwit Frank, tot think of stupid twnputt girls! " You don't speak Frond', I think.'" said Frank to poor Fanny, one day after the lessons were o v e r, "(Ili tio--list at all—l never learnt it " replied Fanny, in her usual tremor sets hearing Frank's " nice " voice. " Sloptil4l son toot like to acquire it ?" he asked. " I shoulli like it of all things," said I' y—" " I should lie happy to teach you if you would like to leans of so bad a mambo.," said Frank. 1111, thank you—l should like so very di ; but I'm afraid —Non know—Fin afraid you'd find very stupid." " I clout believe that at all," critsl Frank, gallantly. " ton the contrary. I feel sure that pat would he a most cre• Bitable scholar. Will you try lesson now ?" Fanny expressed her gratitude and delight : but really the agitation into which slie was thrown by the Imprit t! mode her quite giddy. Frank. however, set all (l a d +ma to the score of natural bashfulness. Silly Fond( Nugent mid yell talked about a woman's heart as if you untlerstotsl it. You bad not t.‘ tot learnt its alphabet. After the long spell of dull novels during the last year, those in want of light reading will do well to put upon their lists, along with " Chris tie Johnstone" anti Mr. Coulton's " Fortune," the two interesting fictions that we have here noticed. rate Trinh i►t ('rimi►tal (avg. London : Butterworth. Tuts is a pamphlet of twenty-one p►ges, in which Nome of the arguments in favour of and against new trials in criminal eases are discussed, while the eon• elusion at which the author tuTives is that they ai 1,1 be granted. in page 1 he says, " All human tribunals are fail " little. Judges are liable to error, and juries may "occasionally be mistaken. it is on this pre.nmp• " tion that in civil eases the litigant parties are not " left without a remedy. Then why should a ills " tinetion be made in criminal ?" One reason is, that in civil cases the law is com plex, anal in criminal cases generally simple ; and in an immense majority of eases new trials are granted on points of law, which render necessary new deci sions on issues of fact. In criminal cases a new THE PRESS. trial could scarcely ever be granted, except on a question of fact alone. The ground on which new trials are asked for is that human tribunals are fallible. So they are; but multiply them ad iujinieunt, and still the gist of the author's argument would re main us strong as ever. But being only human beings, and therefore fallible, we legislate bearing that circumstance in »rind, and are content with reasorable securities against error. There is this broad line of distinction between civil and criminal cases—that in the former private rights only are concerned ; in the latter public as well as personal interests. Thus, a crime is committed; society is outraged, and society demands justice for the outrage. All that should delay that reparat . is unwise, provided sufficient precaution has !peen taken to present innocence starring. In criminal cases the issue is always one of fact ; and all ac quainted with the criminal administration of justice are aware that, if anything, too great a chance is given to the prisoner of escaping deserved punish ment. Should a point of law be raised, a ease for the Court of Criminal Appeal is granted, and the questitth ilisellNNed and determintsl; but so simple is the cr►minal law, that the proportion these questions of doubt bear to the cases tried is trifling. Should Carts Ito discovered after the trial, the Secretary of State is not slow to investigate them. In England, if there is a fault on either side, it is in favour of the prisoner. We need only add, that all the judges, save one, are of opinion that new trials in criminal cases are inex pedient, so that it may seem presumptuous in us even to say we agree with them. The Chrixtianity of Cirilisation. By 6. T. Abruliatii, Esq. London: Piper. _ . Mrt. Aug it with broad outline and glowing colours, exhibits the grandeur of the great empires of the ancient world—his design being to show that, " apart from Christianity, the highest social refine " ment, instead of truly elevating human nature, will " but lead to its deeper degradation." Under Augustus, Roman refinement reached its height, yet what a curious social state is disclosed by that allu sion of the poet to the folly of the man who should order his slave to be crucified for licking gravy front a dish ! The lecture is thoughtful and earnest, but we should have liked it better hail the style been pitched in a lower key. The concluNion, from a fair survey of ancient civilisation, he takes to lie " that the extension of secular education is of infinitely " less moment than the religious training, which can " alone make it a blessing to society." The Cross and the Crescent ; or, Religious View of the Eastern Question. London : Ilarrison, Tins is a pamphlet of sixteen pages, in which the writer attempts to prove, that if all which time Em peror of Russia demands from the Sultan were con ceded to him, he would not possess " a protectorate " over ItI,N10,11111) Christians." To establish this point he analyses the different sects in the East, to set forth their numbers and opinions. Ile further seems to think that the demands of Russia are wry reas►mable, and cites Horace Walpole's saying, " that half the mischief in the world arises " from taking things for granted." Assuredly, then, there is no danger of mischief arising from this pamphlet from that, cause. PERIODICAL LITERATURE. The Quarterly Review. No. CLXXXVI. September, - 1s5:1. London: John Murray. Tun present is a good average number of the Quarterly—solid, learned, and, upon two or three of its topics, valuable. The review of " The Life of llaydon" may fall somewhat flat after criticisms to a similar effect in the newspapers; but the explanatory theory of " Electrolliology and Mesmerism" is filled with pertinent facts and amusing illustrations. The papers on " Becket" and " Casanhon" are at least carefully compiled ; that on "The Dauphin in the Temple" restates the points in the narrative of M.A. de Ileaueliesne ; but the most interesting articles to our taste are those on " The Institute of France" and " The Holy Places." In the former of these the late M. Arago (who is stated in a note to have died after the article was in type) is deservedly inculpated for his importation of political feeling into the regions of science. The obligations of the Institute to the Lepublican party of the first revolution are thus estimated:— " The extreme Republican party hare often Appealed to the man tttt of the institute as nn 'mid, proof of the Sfilicithile felt by the tioverninent of 1793 for the proe i s .ress of knowledge. To appreciate the justiee of the pre• tension it is stitfieient to remark that it was not Ow Na. *hlal Convention in the days of its dreadful poser and si. 111~l el' SPleiideiti'.—it Was not the National Conventhui .•f Robespierre awl I)l%l'l.m—but the National 4'4,m...tin...1 sinking beneath the weight of its own unp..pularity, uud impelled by a destli-hed repentanee--which fittualed the luatituty. It would by difficult to believe that a political SATURDAY, a ssembly which listened to Mend and the butcher Le. gendre. which admired the tulle of Pile Du e l leshe an d sent Make Cheitier to the gniilotine, could take much in terest in literature ; or that bows of scieneeclhiw u l i tte r shed the blood of avoisier after attempting to him, have massacred Reilly, and forced Condorcet to com mit suicide. No tinge of scholarship could hare remained among legislators who, not content with hating closed all the educational establishments, burned or pillage' the most valuable libraries and archives, and seriously asked is r a collection of the Laws of Minos to assist them in fr • g a constitution. The Republic of 1793, that Re public of which France is incessantly reminded by the selfcalled pure Republican party, detested literature, leant. ire:. and science, and, in founding the Institute on the last lay of its vNistence, the Convention only yielded to the outcry of tlw public, who reproached it with having Sigh presstsl, by a barbarous decree, the academies which had ••• shed such lustre on France.'' The historical importance of the Latin and Cireek controversy on the subject of " The Holy Places" is indicated as follows : "The dispute of the. Holy Places' is a result and an epitome of that (Timid'. within the crusades which forms so curious an epioaste in that eventful drama. We are there reminded of what else we are apt to forget, that, the chivalry of Europe were engaged, not only in the mighty contliet with the followers of Mahomet, lint a l s o ilk a con , strut under-struggle with the emperors of the great city they encountered in their midway progress. The capture of Constant • pie by the Latins in the fOurth Unmade was lint the same hard measure to the Byzantine empire which on a smaller scale they had already dealt to the By zantine Church, then, as now, the national Church of Pa lestine, as it is generally of the East. The Crusaders, by virtue of their Coluittest, occupied the Holy Places which had previously been in the hands of the tireeks; and the i;reeks in turn, when the Crusaders were ultimately ex pelled by the Turks, teak advantage of the influence of wealth and neighbourhood to regain from the conquerors that share in the sanctuaries of which the European princes had deprived them. Copt and Syrian, fieorgian and Armenian, have, it is true, their own claims to main tain, tOt disSelltere. front the main Byzantine establishment front which they have successively separated. But the one standing i-inflict has always been between the descendants of the crusading invaders, aupported by France or Spain, and the descendants of the original ("reek occupants, sup portediby the great northent poser which assumes to have succeeded to the name and privileges of the Eastent Ctesars. Neither party can ever forget that once the old sanctuary was exclusively their'', and, although France and Russia have doubtless interpomed on behalf of their respective na tional ereeds from political or con iiiii Tele' motivea, yet the religious pretexts have arisen front the previous juxtaposi tit ii of two great and hostile Churches—here brought to getlwr within narrower bounds than any two sects else where in the world. Once only besides has their contra). versy been waged in equal proximity ; namely, when the Latin Chnrelt, headed by Augustine, found itself, in our own island, brought into abntpt collision with the customs and traditions of the tireeks, in the ancient British Chinch founded by Eastern missionaries. What in the extreme \Vest was deeioltst once for all lay a short and bloody struggle, in Palt,istine has dragged on its weary length for many era tunes. And this long conflict has been further compli eated by the Tons treaties which, from the memontble epoch when Francis I. startled Christendom by declaring himself an ally of the Sultan, have been concluded between France and the Porte for the protection of the Frank set tlers in Syria ; and yet again, by the vacillations of the Turkish thovernment, partly from ignorance, and partly f • weakness. as it has been pressed on one side or the other by the claims of two powerful parties in a question to the rights of which it is by its own position entirely in different." The entire article on " The Holy Places" is of permanent interest, though it does not affect to en tertain the question of the recent disputes, or the grave consequences they portend to Europe. Tutna►n'e Jlontl►ly Maga:ine of American Literature, Science, a►►d Art. October, 1853. London : Sampson Low and Co. T►ns magazine contains seventeen articles, Judi ciously selected. The first is entitled " What Im pression do we and should we make Abroad'" and contains so many plain truths and home thrusts directed against the breast of the American eagle that had they appeared in any European journal, that lusty young fowl would have shrieked with in dignation. To heal the wounds his stabs lime made, the writer sums up the latest glories of America, and thus crowns them : But no event, we suspect, Nut been of more efficiency in awaking the OM World to a C4IIV.C . sues oC our exist enee than the prompt, decided, and glorious net of Cap tain Ingraham, when, in the tare of the Austrian fleet, he threw the national agis over the prostrate form of a poor Hungarian exile, and pointed to his guns." The Austrian fleet consisted, we believe, of one vessel, of force inferior to that commanded by the redoubtable Ingraham ; but exaggeration is a ne cessary ingredient in the pabulum of Brother Jonathan. PUBLICATT()NS RE( 'EIVEP. if rn men/ e' //HIM. tiir C.. 1. Nitpier. C. Westertom owirs Cenrirteti Priamsers. Itev. Wertheim Itlid 31ilitary Life. O. F. Cameron, c.ll. (i. Cox ,