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850 THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 1858. we ofquarterly beenhav v e b ...---...s of the independentseercgiuva on the colonies ; and "Social Reform" a useful paper tender age when frocks and trousers are still in originally, there would have se the ascendant and a taste for raspberry-jam in full, and trouble to have te got tevsse themforform of rapidexpense time t i mie, TI on a subject that needs no recommendation, p ti a o r n tiol a . nd Th th e ei e r ol s l u ec c Bentley and Colburn keep up their distinctive cha- vigour. might i o n f t °a we racter. In the former " The Earls of Kildare "is an to their aand iIY without aa(lbreviewledl ir k ini minds,ln to minted in interesting review of the Marquis's recent work. ARE " QUARTERLY ORGANS" OF USE ? theN c v r e it itr e, ht a a s n o d pp d o ti d ity to t t o he,, I " ,, " The Guardsman in Constantinople Lida sprightly essayist writing from his study, SS h to is a o d w d n ress nam re e ati . th and amusing paper. " Lords and s " 14 a THE announcement that Mr. Bentley is about isl pretty copy of verses. And the prolific author of to bring out another " Quarterly "in the en- t a h ls e o, p w ub il l l ic w i ito " Moat Grange " commences a new series, of which the first instalment is "The Rock." In Colburn suing November has caused much interest in the responsib nsh ility of putting therAesiir namesacq composition ; and any one practically LI the author of " Ashley " (we presume a convenient literary circles. What is it to be like ? and with literature knows that it is extremely difficult be dc alias for the storyteller of the other magazine) gives what side will it take in politics ? Is it to be t o bring dis se l r i t k a e t ioanns, exhibitionpublished without gaiiery a to name, di us " Agnes Waterlow." We have also a solid paper on the Peninsular War, something about the Presi- profound, or popular ? Will it be sarcastic and at dency of Louis Napoleon, and a temperate review of savage, or judiciously moderate ? Are the claims before the public eye. A iluaretheorllydeorrsgafnoriahtois t e he on o e th g e e r ts ob a t t ain o s nc b e readers for the his in at Massey's " History of England." The other papers of Science to be specially regarded, or willth are of the regular New Monthly stamp. t D e l s t a sa e in y t e , r a r o : n y d i t s h t Literature be its chief subject for illustration ? s YE Of the remaining Magazines upon our list we have too much of this essay a only time and space to say the Englishwoman's And will the character of its writing be moulded pictures ,,But without trouble. e tro n u o b t le. p' Journal contains some very clever articles • that on the? ype of reviews (strictly so called) or of Titan contains its usual mixture of very good and essays. Such are a few of the questions asked literature. " We think so ; but the case cannot w very bad; that Tait this month is better than usual, l and the National Magazine worse. In conclusion about the advertisement from New Burlington- be helped. We have a prodigious reading public, II we would beg as a favour of the publishers of maga- street. At present it would be premature to with influential classes, and subjects requiring p zines to let us have them as early as possible to discuss the designs of the originators of that vigorous discussion. An essay literature will si insure our being able to do justice to them on the publication, produce many good writers, but it will scarcely al first Saturday of the month. profound philosophers. The latter must rs The fact, however, taken by itself, that people grow • still, as in other days, apply themselves to tree- n The Jcurnal of the Statistical Society we shall still think that there is room for an additional b notice next week. " Quarterly,' is an interesting one. Apart from tiles, and discuss their subjects exhaustively, an d Quarter with fulness of illustration. Essays alone cannot h Fiction and Professional Treatises of a technical • take the place of sound books, but essays can Adventures of Mrs. Colonel Someriet in Caffraria kind, our current English literature is taking, or achieve in circulation and in accessibility to a I during the Wb ar. Edited by I. D. Fenton. seems to be taking , a decided affection for the wide audience what they lose in depth. Essays ti essay form. After the first original successes of London : Hope. and the Quarterly and Edinburgh, the public ludo- reviews, also, are imperatively wanted for Tins is the narrative of what befell the wife of an the purpose of exposing contemporary impos- tl lently acquiesced in the arrangement that each English o ffi cer who, with her two children, was ship- tures in authorship. The article in the last ii have a quarterly representative . wrecked off the Cape. When the vessel went ashore, party should Quarterly (Murray's) puncturing Mr. Buckle's o she got separated from her children and was supposed The rise of good newspapers, and the superior reputation into a collapsed bladder could never s to have perished, as she in turn supposed them to quality of contributions to some of the daily and have been sought l for in a newspaper. For its I have done She fell in with a party of natives, who weekly press, tended much to depreciate the value composition tine and leisurely examination and a treated her very kindly, and whose wandering life of the quarterly essayists and reviews. The . . space were required. i she shared for a considerable period. At about the fact, too, which soon leaked out, that the same fulness of middle of it, she learned the terrible intelligence writers who contributed to the weekly and daily On the whole, therefore, we are inclined to i that her husband, supposing her to be dead, had press wrote very frequently in the quarterlies, believe that the quarterly form of critical publi- l married again. Upon the receipt of this news she helped to diminish the mysterious awe with cation will still be found useful by the English t resolves to continue among the savages, with whom w te 1 the o ld quarterlies were once regarded in P h I üblis. In the method of employing it, in the she passes for a great " medicine woman." Macoma, general society, their influence unquestionably de- tone to be given to quarterly observers, in the , indeed, the Claire chief, tried to make her his wife, dined, and people took to reading newspapers in- style of their writing, their adhesion to "party, but she successfully repelled his advances, and con- tinue to grow in honour and dignity. It so happened, stead. Still it was soon found that journals, or their ignoring of political connection, and in I however, that a young English officer, who had been however well written or ably conducted, could not the consistency of their views, there will be i wounded and taken prisoner by the Caffres, and been give the space required for the extended discussion grounds for difference of opinion, and much difti- I nursed by Mrs. Somerset, on returning to Cape Town of a subject with complex views and involved or culty fbr their directorial powers. But that I was struck by the resemblance between one of Co disputed facts, and the utility of quarterly organs branch of the subject would take us too much 1 lonel Somerset's daughters and the Sister of Charity, was again recognized. " behind the scenes," and we shall not discuss it. 1 as their mother had represented herself. And it The public, however, have complained of was this circumstance that awakened suspicions of the truth in the colonel's second lady, who allowed the extreme number of these organs. There WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. them so to prey upon her health that she shortly are the Edinburgh, the Quarterly, the West- found herself to be dying. On her death-bed, she minter, the National, the North British, the (From the Literary Gazette confided her suspicions to the colonel, who, shccked English, the Dublin, the New Quarterly, and Wrrn no affected and with no ordinary sorrow we at the intelligence, at once undertook an expedition others that have risen and sunk like bubbles. refer to a case which, early in the week, was tried up the country to discover the truth. Tue result Some of these organs did not represent by Mr. Baron Channell, on the Western Circuit, and need not be told. The lady was happily restored to large masses of opinion ; their views were her husband and children, and is, we balieve, at the sectional and cliquish, and from want of present moment safe and sound in this country. circulation - their p r o fe ss i onal writers were not in which the name of the oldest, and, until lately, one posed in unha assoc iation with some verses which The book is very fairly done, and, were it not for the , auequately remunerated, and their existence has Pope would h ave considered fair satire, but which fact that the recent Indian adventures of' so many Englishwomen have thrown it comparatively into the been a lingering one. It has been said, also, that the present age justly regards as foul ribaldry. A shade, we dare say it would have been more widely the Edinburgh Review has completely changed poetical career which begun in lids has endured known. its tone, and that it no longer supports the tradi- until 1857 ; but, alas, into what a quagmir e has the tions of its founders. It was for twenty years aged poet at last strayed ! scoffing and sceptical on religion, and in our own Pebbles and Shells. By Elizabeth Wilmshurst if Walter day it has taken up a Protestant and a religious e l little ttl e Savage that French. London : Hardwicke. defence—in an action brought against him by a tone. Its Scotch character has ceased altogether, L w a a n s d o d r o n h e as fo b r ee h n ira th c e an de b f e en e d al a l n e t d -- 1 " THAT the following verses," says the authoress, and it is entirely unlike the journal which wi fe. These s!anders la " may drop into oblivion from the press, I feel to be Jeffrey, Sydney Smith,and Brougham ' luau- against the plaintiff's sent to the clergyman of Bath, named Yescombe,,for_slanwdeers_ couched in verses, some of which were " very possible ; but should they be so fortunate as guested. "to obtain readers, I trust that, among many faults, w• " there may be found some thought, some cadence, Nevertheless, it is certain that an able article on " Dry Sticks Fagotted by W. S. Lan don " of which " that may linger in the memory, though the source a current subject published in one of the leading lady, while others were published in a book called . to the publication of the libels in resp ect " whence it is derived be forgotten." 'We can quarterlies will still excite great attention. The Slade, assure her that this humble aspiration will not be famous article on the Crimean campaign pub- the statement of the plaintifrs h co h un 1 the jury gave their verdict, Mr. Landor, se according assure MN' disappointed. Among her verses are every here and lished in the Quarterly Review (Mr. Murray ' s) put forth a pamphlet in whic e d remarried) there to `3e found very pretty passages. Such as the produced vast effect onpublic opinion, d an Yescombe (who had been a widow, an ry purloin following :— with six o ff ences, among which were peryu , 10 _ quickened the public mind towards demanding in and swindling. For this onslaught an a . c! by The sweet and unsuspecting intercourse the withdrawal of the Duke of Newcastle frombrought , but when near trial it was stayed 10. Of neighbours and of lovers, day by day, was' the War-office. It contained original facts, the mediation of Mr. John Forster. ;dorr.tling to Found them together, in the shady lanes, And purple clover-Helds of summer ; thus drawn up on the spot by an eyewitness, who had They sat together on a grassy bank, excellent opportunities for observation; and its h i c o y one, to Mr. Forster, to remember, and to lie' the In the light evening, when all soon Is were still'd writing was calm and moderate, and free from it remembered, that he did his utmost to save . It will ever be a satisfaction, though but a me an' Save the late whetting of the mower's scythe, the " splendid slapdash" of Mr. Russell of the aged poet from further error and from And pluck'd the brier-rose from its pendent bough, icitude, le• te Times. The late Mr. Conybeare's article on It is to Mr. Forster', exertion and sol a complete And wove in playful chaplets for each other. owe " High,Broad, and Low Church," in the Edin- titled by Mr. Landor himself, that we ' time t" The lady is, perhaps, not a poet, but the verses are written with taco and feeli n g. burgh, hadgreat moving force on the public mind. edition of the works will be shown 01 We might cite other memorable articles which in come due and grateful recognition , _ se sa f e for ---- a less degree had also great utility, the affectionate care that collected, an a mau have been lust t° The Girl's Own Book. By Mrs. Child. Re-edited The public seems to wish that certain subjects ever, gems that might otherwise our treasury of English thought. To his nic d °' by Mrne. de Chatelain. London : Togg and Co. should be treated of argumentatively at moderate with the present of a mask on a ring, Tins is a very elegant and complete little volume, in length, and for that purpose quarterly organs are wrote, — which all kinds of children's games and employments of value. If the article on the Crimean cam- Forster! you who never wore are described and illustrated. It would form a paign, or that on " High, Low, and Broad Any kind of mask before, Yet, by holy friendship, take Iluinilia.tio:L. very nice little present for all young ladies of that, Church," had been published in a separate form We, sad wear it for my sal?.