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ONE PENNY. vie yet Elny LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1871.—A1l communications respecting Advertisements in the Industrial and Fine Ares Catalogues should be addressed immediately to J. M JOHNSON .+IND SONB, Printers and Publishers to H.M. Commissioners for the Official Catalogues, &c. 3, Castle-street, Holborn, Feb. 1, 1871. THOMAS A'ND Ling ave *cis are W. F . DOMESTIC SEWING- MACHINES ARE MANUFACTURED SPECIALLY FOR FAMILY USE. CO. ' S CRYSTAL PALACE. - SHILLING DAY.- I Adtnission .... 10.0 till s.BoLecture on Memory by Mr. Orchestral Band .. .. 12.30 Stokes, w ith Illustrations Lecture in War Court .. 2. 0 by his W on d er f u l Pupils, Entertainments in Opera I after Entertainments. Room — .* 3. 0 I Festival Organs.. . • ..5. 0 Original War Sketches in Picture Gallery, Fine Arts Court, Tropical Department with Giant Ferns and Palms, Techno logical Gallery, &c. N.l3—Lastweek of War Court, which w ill finall y close on Saturday February 18. ~A4 o lission One shilling , or by Guinea Seaso n rickets. Pre -316 Issue dating twelve months from February 1. THE ALHAMBRA. - THIS EVENING.- Mr. ° F. STRANGE'S GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS, the amseraolepoolfs.niala. ceg c c e e n taj rc sa s e t r ra ior au to gm an e i te y d et fo rzn in oc casion, Military Bands, and War Effects. Operatic and favourite Ballad Soloists, Immense Chorus, and a most Splendid Company of 350 Performers. TAE A.LIIAMBRA.-4 • PROMENADE CON ITRANGE'S MONSTRE MRTS.-TO-NIGHT. Mdlle. Guymar Mr. Rowland Lascelles Miss Susanna Cole Signor Bordogni Madame Fanny Ruddart Herr Jonglunanns Mdlle. Julie Luilgini . a Mr. R. Jeffries Mdlles. Sledle Mr. G. J. Bicknell Mr. T. 31 immense Chorus selected Iron principal Lon [aelagan. the Royal Italian Opera and don Theatres. IAMBRA.-STRANGE'S MONSTRE T A.4I.H PROMENADE CONCERTS.—Orchestra and Chorus of 350, ttler the direction of Mons. RIVIERE. 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Cation 3t the ed at The ing of !avre, -opose ?rince ;h full it able serted to the enemy . corn- other use he ras his " In ame," %s, has In an d," he nd its orrupt ig this mrbon Le title NICE. of the rather xpress tween when fic vio. netres, train Roofs The idst of riages, t there it the 1, and Lion at. hie of ade tcP uching as un- o were Three ble for oetitil, Yates ry, in" T two in suc- ---•-•-• ,- i, ICent G. A' geartf 11 - P 3rks ,i Esq., ° goarY wido W Lvertoil. ~_p ar lcy 1, BM' e -cE, ol tow' of the Now ready, No. 9, of T HE ILLUSTRATED REVIEW. Price Threepence. CONT: Memoir and Portrait of the late Dean Alford. LEADING ARiICLES : Usury. Tenniel's CartoonS. Valentine's Day. Unromantic Excursions. No. 1., —Rievaulx. REVIEWS : Lord Lytton's "Bing Arthur." The Paradise of Birds. The Scottish MindreL Homes without Hands (Four Illustrations). Lifeiof General Lord Fairfax. :NTS : REVIEWS (continued): Strange Dwellings. • Poems. By F. D. T Friswell's Modern Men of Letters. Old Merry's Travels A Lonely Life. Mendelssohn's Letters. Campbell's Poems—Heartsease. Memorials of S. Laurence, Jewry. Texts from the Times. February Magazines. Literary Gossip, &c. EIGHT SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATIONS. All Letters for the Editor and Books for Review to be sent to Mr. S. R. Townshend Mayer, 25, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. No. 10, ready on March Ist, will contain a Portrait and Memoir of the late T. W. Robertson, Reviews of all new Books, and Ten Specimen illustrations. London : Houlston and Sons, 65, Paternoster-row, E.C. ][B7] .. EDITIONS OF DEBRETT'S WORKS of REFERENCE of the ARISTOCRACY. They contain an immense amount of new information, changes, &c. Prices DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE, and (2) DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED BARONETAGE, with KNIGHT AGE, bound in cloth, gilt, 9s. each ; half-calf, 12s. ' • cloth, bevelled boards, 10s. 6d. • or the two volumes bound as one, half-leather, gilt edges, 17s. 6d. Office, Dean and Sons, 0, Ludgate-hill, E.C. THE BRITISH CHURCHMAN 1 FOR FEBRUARY IS NOW READY. • CONTENTS.—Judith : A Tale of the Year One. Chap. XII. By C. G. C. Dunbar.—The Conquest of Universal Wealth, and its Distribution.—A Few Days' Journey in Norway. From Chris tiania to Bergen. By L. D. P.—" Jerusalem "—The Mother of us All. By J. P. L.—Great Britain and the War. German Duplicity, and False Excuses for it.—The Snowdrop.—Myreden or, Friends and Friends. Chap. 1., ll.—Onr Book Shelf.—Verdict, "Found Dead."—The Editor's Letter Box. Price Sixpence. W. T. KEITH, Red Lion Court, Fleet-street, London, E.C., And all Booksellers. Now READY, CHARLES K ENT'S POEMS. THE FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION. Handsomely bound in cloth, bevelled boards, Crown Octavo, price Seven Shillings and Sixpence. "As a poet their author must live. He has the sweetness of Wordsworth, the vigour of Southey, and the elegant versatility of Coleridge. It is, however, as a poet of the affections that Mr. Kent chiefly excels. The longer and more ambitious poems exhibit extraordinary genius."—The New Monthly Magazine. " As many of these compositions are already old acquaintances, we need only glance at the picturesque and appreciative de lineations of poets in their haunts, called 'Dreamland ;' at the rich and finished transcript from nature, entitled Fructidor ;' at the chivalrouk tone of the writer's mind and its sympathy with modern ideas, as evidenced in such poems as Lamartine in February ;' at his simple and genuine pathos, of which Amelia' is a type • and at his sympathy with the animated pleasures of rural life, in evidence of which we may cite The Morris Dancers.' Aletheia 'is the longest, and, on the whole, the noblest poem in the collection. It will be recurred to not only for its beauty of description, but for its pure and elevated philosophy. The reader will note not only the .atmosphere in which the chief figure moves, but also the full and appropriate details which enrich the picture. The high and varied merits of the book ought to insure its popularity."—Athenaeum. " Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of The Sun,' ranks very high as a poet."—Publishers'' Circular. "The versatility of style, and the fresh and vigorous writing in these poems, lend a charm which we seldom find in the poetry of the day."—Examiner. "Poems marked by grace, feeling, and strong love of nature, and a cultivated and genial spirit."—Dally News. " The poems which appear for the first time in this volume are not unworthy of the author's earlier productions."—Daily Telegraph. " Mr. Kent may not aspire to be classed among the t.Dil Majores ' of the poetic court, but assuredly he will take a very respectable position among the lesser divinities."—Standard. "There is much that is very beautiful in the poems before us—a collection of the thoughts, the emotions, the feelings of a whole lifetime."—Tablet. The "Rock" expresses its "cordial admiration for the genius And the taste of Mr. Kent as a poet of very considerable powers and culture," adding, "The i'eal vigour of Mr. Kent's poetical spirit manifests itself chiefly in dealing with the feelings. He is equally at home in pathos and in terror, and in strains that go right to the heart and stir the emotions to the lowest depths." " Mr. Charles Kent has long been known to wield a facile pen in writing poems of the class just indicated, and it is but fair to add that he takes high rank among the minor poets."— Echo. The "Westminster Review." while regretting it " cannot join in the chorus of praise, nor share in the enthusiasm which has been raised over Mr. Kent's poems," adds that it " cannot, how ever, part with the book without expressing a word of praise for its generous tone and sympathies." "Reis a true poet, and his works will live."—News of the World. "We have the pleasant task of welcoming, as a real addition to the ranks of our true poets, Mr. Kent. He is something more than a mere versifier; he is a real poet, and has proved it. `Milton at Cripplegate '—an exquisite picture of the blind old poet discoursing sweet sounds upon the organ in solitary but resigned sadness—is a poem that ought to live. Such of our readers as care for the roll of Milton's own blank verse, for thoroughly poetic fancies, for delicate imagery, and fora high and pure tone of moral feeling, we must leave to ponder over this short poem for themselves."—London Figaro. " That very graceful poem which appeared in the Times' as a welcome to Longfellow, and which, from the initials, was attributed to the author of Hypatia, was written by Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of The Sun,' and was worthy of a priest of Phoebus Apollo."—Punch. " We find in the volume a luxuriant imagery, the fruit of a life-long study of nature. As for flowers !—Mr. Kent is as well up in them as Shakspere himself. Lastly, it recommends itself to us by its historical sympathies and views, and by the charm ing pictures of domestic life, with its affections and blessings, which it frequently affords us."—The Month. - - • " When the goddess Flora appoints a poet laureate, it will certainly be Mr. Charles Kent. His poems absolutely glow with flowers in as vivid and delicate word-painting as ever depicted them. A poem of great stateliness and imaginative beauty, in which Mr. Kent vividly groups the more striking and poetical creations of Mythology, shows how their lustre, feebly illumin ing the light of the world, wanes before the radiant, approach of the Spirit of Truth, 'Aletheia.' "—The Illustrated Review. CHARLTON TUCKER, 21, Northumberland-street, Strand. WAYS AN]) MEANS. A Story of Life's Strug gles. By Mrs. C. L. Balfour. 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He has distanced the ablest of those who might formerly have been regarded as his competitors. As an artist and as a humorist he is equally entitled to our admiration. It is not merely that he has won for himself the position of the greatest of all political caricaturists. He is that, and something more. Accepting the title of car toon long applied to the weekly full-page illustration of Punch, we would prefer henceforth to speak-of Tenniel rather as a cartoonist than as a caricaturist. His draw ing is masterly and worthy of the pencil of an academician. His daring handling of anatomy, his foreshortening, his grouping, the noble pose of his allegorical figUres, the dignity, often it might even be said the sublimity, of the effects produced by him in a sketch (obviously dash4cl off with the trenchant • hand of a headsman, with the incisive stroke of a skilled and experienced executioner upon the wood-block I)—these and a multitude of other notable characteristics peculiarly his own, combine to raise him above the most rarely gifted of those who might otherwise have been regarded as his fellows, and invest him, in his aspect as a political cartoonist, with a wholly iso lated and exceptional reputation. Fortunately for us, we are, in saying' this, talking within the knowledge of everybody. There is no possibility, here of our speaking over the heads of anyone. The unlettered wayfarer in the public streets, if he knows nothing of his A B C, knows perfectly well, and is thoroughly able to appreciate, in the shop windows, week after week, those wonderful pictures " done to a T " in the pages of our " London Charivari." The most untutored and unsophisticated gamin from the gutter, who can't made head or tail of a half-penny news paper (though he can of a halfpenny) can understand and enjoy a picture put within the comprehension of the whole world by the rapid crayon of the great car toonist. As an illustrator of literature, . Mr. Tenniel has won honour to his name by many an exquisite series of drawings ; as, for example, by those contributed by him to the Gordian Knot of Mr. Brooks (not of Shef field, but Mr. Shirley Brooks) the present editor of Punch; or, as, for example, again, by his inimitable embellish ments of "./Esop's Fables" and of Moore's "Lalla Rookh." • But, admirable as those illustrations are, no doubt, in themselves, the artist, beyond all question whatever, is to be seen at his best, at his very best, when he is acquitting himself of his duties as a political cartoonist. In that capacity he exercises extraordinary power, and again and again has evidenced, in so doing, extraordinary sagacity. With his swift pencil he has, for twenty years together, helped to mould the public opinion of his time. And his hits always tell —perhaps, among many other good reasons that might be adduced, because he always strikes while the iron is hot. As a rule he always hits the right nail on the head, and in so doing runs it well home through the political Holo fernes of the hour. Heartily as we have appreciated the cartoons of Punch, week after week, we realise for the first time as it were the remarkable power they evidence when we come to loDk upon them as a whole when brought together in these two superb volumes. Then it is that we recognise more clearly than ever the accumulated force of what has been coming to us so long piecemeal, and what has been, piecemeal, captivating at once our admi ration and our imagination. Nevertheless, in these two volumes we have, in point of fact, not by any means the whole, we have merely as it seems to us the pick of the cartoons contributed for sixteen years past, that is from 1854 to 1870, each inclusive to the first not only of English, but of all, comic periodicals. A single instance will suffice to demonstrate the fact that several of the happiest of Mr. Tenniel's cartoons have not been included in either of these collections. There was that inimitable one for example in which he depicted the Em peror Napoleon 111. (just after the publication of the Life of Julius Cesar) in a little French blouse or tunic, and little FrenCh knickerbockers, and little French tipped boots, seated on a stool at the foot of a grand colossal effigy of Julius Caesar, addressing himself to the statue, in gasps, in between the puffs with which he is endeavouring to blow out an elastic figure of Napoleon the Great, say ing thus comically—" Aha ! mon ami, I sail make him so .big as you !" Although the collection is not complete, it is sufficient. It is sufficient, we mean in this way that it proves beyond all possibility of contradiction, the pre-eminence of John Tenniel, as a cartoonist, over all preceding political caricaturists. Rowlandson, Gilray, Bunbury, H. B. even Leech, even Cruickshank, re garded simply as political caricaturists, are not for a moment to be brought into comparison with Tenniel, whose cartoons as artistic drawings, no less than as humorous hits are in one word—masterpieces. For comicality of effect, look at one of the earliest of all in these two volumes. " You are requested not to speak to the man at the wheel," the date being just the commence ment of the Crimean war, the man at the wheel being the then Premier, the Earl of Aberdeen. Or look again at " The Quaker and the Bauble." Mr. Bright, with a wrathful eye gleaming through his eyeglass on the Speaker's mace as he enacts a sort of Brumagem Crom well ! Under date March, 1863, when the hopes of Poland seemed surviving, glance then for a moment at " Poland's chain - shot," the allegorical goddess of that heroic nationality, ramrod in hand, driving in at the muzzle of a cannon the broken chains of her children ! Suggested by a famous picture in the Academy Exhibition of the season, who has yet forgotten " Disraeli's Triumph," in the typical form of " The Sphinx?" Or the laughter-moving introduction of the same great Party-Leader in a travesty of another popular picture of that season at the Academy, " Returned from Victory ?" " Mean Time at Greenwich," again, was a delightful hit —both verbal and pictorial—relating to the economic Ministerial drop of the customary whitebait banquet down the river. " The Derby of 1867," too, with Dizzy as winner, was as exhilarating as any rapid feat of horsemanship ever witnessed on Epsom Downs. For bold pencilling, more over, in the delineation of the comic and grotesque, what could be better in its way than the two-paged revelation of the scene in the political arena called " Before the Tournament"—unless it were the one constituting what may be termed the sequel, or companion to it, entitled "The Mel& ?" Earlier cartoons than those, are still vividly remembered, and always with delight—as for example the grand snow scene, " They're saved ! They're saved !" or " The British Lion's Vengeance" in bounding across the breadth of Europe on to the ravening Bengal tiger, looking up with a snarl of rage from its mangled victims at Cawnpore ! or, again, " Master Bull and the Dentist," Gladstone being the dentist and the Ma Britannia , ; or " Waiting for an Answer" when the tutelary goddess of these realms, with her grasp upon the trigger of a huge piece of ordnance,- looked calmly across the Atlantic in the midst of the Trent difficulty ; or the " Sensation Struggle in Am erica," where, holding e on by the snapping branch of the " Union," North and South in deadly grapple with each other bowie kn.! ind hand, impended frightfully over tho abyss of civil war; or " Monsieur Walker," John Bull's dangerous- Gallic neighbour, the Pyrotechnist ; besides a whole swarm of other world famous p ictures. Coming down, however, to a period more immediately within the range of popular recollection, what possibly could be better of their kind, more wise, more witty, more apt, here and there, in a manner, more distinctly prophetic, than the sketches that have been dashed off during this last half-year by the same facile draughtsman in illustration of the terrible moving panorama of the great Franco-German war not yet brought to its conclusion ? Witness this, the " Duel to the Death," between Napoleon and William, the former say ing to Britannia, who has attempted to interfere, " Pray, stand back, Madame, you mean well ; but this is an old family quarrel and must be fought out." Witness this yot more, the sequel or companion picture of " The Duel Decided, " in which William says to his opponent, "You have fought gallantly, Sir : may I not hear you say you have had enough? " whereto the Emperor replies, " I have been deceived about my strength. I have no choice." Between these two cartoons, that is between the 23rd July and the 10th September, appeared at the very opening of the war, the celebrated historical cartoon entitled "The Vision on theWay—` Beware !' " in which Napoleon 111. and the Prince Imperial, on their road from St. Cloud to Saarbruck, were confronted by the apparition of the Great Emperor waving them back from their perillous adventure ! Upon the morrow of Louis's Baptism of Fire, Tenniel gave his pathetic group of " The Two Mothers"—a peasant woman sobbing out to the Empress, who is clasping the boy prince in her arms, " Ah, madame, a sure happiness for you sooner or later. But there were dear sons 'of mine whom I shall never see again." Several grand historical groups, or heroic single figures, have also appeared in this particular series of war cartoons fall of power, of passion, of visible eloquence, and always of great artistic excellence. " Paris, 1870," was one of these, with the motto from Macbeth, " The cry is, still they come !" " France, September 4," was another with the refrain, "Aux armes, Citoyens," typical of the Revolution. An other was "The Battle of the Amazons." So also was "Ger many's Ally," meaning Famine. As a vindication of Eng land's position as a niere looker on and non-combatant, perhaps nothing better could ever by possibility be said than those words which are put into the mouth of Britannia in the cartoon entitled " A Quarter of a Million," when Germania taunts her with "Neu trality, indeed ! You ought to have helped me," and France with " Non, non. 'Tis me you should have helped "—England's reply being, as she looks up from the costly bales she is sending out turn by turn to the seat of war, "I am doing my best to help you both." The helplessness of the besieged cities, again, and the irre sistible might of the power directed against them, no description could have defined more impresively or more pathetically, than the affecting group representing Paris as the " Niobe of Nations," surrounded by the sorely stricken and dying forms, each wearing a mural crown, typifying Met; and Stiasburg, and the other beleaguered strongholds. " Demand thy Life," shewed more em phatically than any written language could have done, the implacable fury of the combatants. " The Unwelcome Guest," being La Verit4 denied admission by Gambetta, conveyed the cruellest sneer at the unreliable charac ter of the proclamations issued by the Govern ment of Defence. Another powerful cartoon was the on a entitled " Gaul to the New Cesar," repre senting the former as a prostrate warrior holding a broken glaive in his grasp, while the latter under the guise of an old Viking threatens to strike his fallen foe to the dust with a brandished battleaxe—signalizing the desperate position attained immediately before the close of the year by the infuriated belligerents. Finally, upon the very last day of 1870 there came forth, as good-huinouredly illustrative of our relations not only with the French and the Germans, but with each and all of the rest of the Great Powers, the half grim, half jovial cartoon, entitled " England's Christmas Bombardment," it being added thereupon parenthetically, like a smile through a gleam o teeth " (with ` all the compliments of the season')"—John Bull bawling out, as he hurls the plum-puddings among the representatives of the nations—" If you don't like them, we've plenty more of the same shape but a great deal harder." Russia being all but knocked off his legs by getting one slap in his chops ! France and Germany struggling for the posses sion of one that has fallen between them ! Jonathan, on the broad grin, making a most ludicrous catch at it, his long legs and short trousers displaying his ill-fitting Wellingtons, almost as conspi cuously as Mr. Squeers displayed his upon the occasion of his memorable war-dance in the doorway at Nicholas Nickleby's cottage residence. Altogether, as a pictorial history of the times in which the artist flourished, Tenniel's cartoons are as valuable as they are delightful. They are equally honourable to his genius as a humourist, to his sagacity as a politician, to his power as a satirist, and to his patriotism as an Englishman. GREAT GUNPOWDER BLAST. A gunpowder blast was fired successfully at Borraw Granite Quarries, Argyleshire, on Monday. The mines for this blast have been in course of formation for eighteen months. The face of the rock that was operated upon ran in an angle of 45 degrees from the sea at Loch Elive, which at that point washes the base of the mountain. Ben Durinish, in which the granite quarries are situated. At a distance of sixty feet from the end of the rock next Loch Elive a horizontal entrance mine was driven in from the face of the rock to a distance of fifty feet. This mine was about four feet in height by two feet six inches in the centre, terminating in a narrow bottom, giving it the form of an egg-shaped sewer. It was situated about nine feet above the level of the quarry floor, and had a superincum bent mass of rock above it about eighty five feet in height. At the inner end of this mine a heading was branched off to the right, thirteen feet in length, from it the gunpowder chamber was excavated. This chamber was nine feet in length, by five in breadth, and four feet high ; and in it were deposited two-and-half tons of gunpowder. A heading was also formed to the left of this mine, twenty feet in length, and a gunpowder chamber excavated, seven feet long, five feet . broad and four feet high in which there were deposited 1 3 / 4 tons of gunpowder, the charge being in all four tons. The head ings and the mine were all carefully built up with rubble stone, and Roman cement, into which building the electric wires were placed, protected in wooden casements. On the stemming up of the mine a powerful galvanic battery was erected 100 yards distant from the mouth of the same. From this, point Mr. Sims, the lessee of the quarry, crossed the loch to go to the island twenty yards distant,with the cord for working the battery. Shortly before two o'clock the signal shot was fired to intimate that all was ready. At two o'clock the battery was set in motion ; and instantly the whole mass of rock operated upon was on the move. There was no report or noise, merely a silent bursting and pressing forward of innumerable pieces of as it existed in its natural formation. The quantity o: displaced is computed by measurement to be eighty thousand tons, being the largest quantity which Mr. Sims has had displaced during his eighteen years' experience of this system. Augustus Applegarth, the inventor of the steam printing-press, died at Dartford on Friday, at the age of eighty-four. For his invention of Bank-notes that could not be forged he received from the Bank authorities £lB,OOO. He also invented a machine for printing six colours at once. The Prussian cadet colleges are hencefotth to admit day scholars in addition to the regular boarders. The object of this regulation is to provide for the many vacancies caused by the war. It is the first time, says a Berlin correspondent, that the sanctum of military schools has been thrown open to the public, and it indicates the greater want of officers, as a Prussian need not have been to a military school to be qualified to pass his examination as a lieutenant. On Monday evening a collision of a calamitous nature occurred on the river Mersey, near Egremont Ferry. The Guion steamer Wyoming, bound for Arderica, was s winging to the flood tide, and while so doing the Morocco, one of the Cunard Company's Mediterranean boats, with a cargo ;on board valued at about £150,000, in attempting to pass her stern, had her deck swept fore and aft on the starboard side, and her water-tight compartments ripped open. The Morocco immediately began to sink, and was towed on to the beach, where she disappeared in four fathoms of water. 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