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ID r 4,1 zi(N.....__-IND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. op i N___,....).L.. 17 or v LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1855. ..,,01 Ore'l JULY. strength. His preceding works were less pretentious Queen, Charlotte, who, it Ole ; f, , --- than the two volumes which he now presents to the mind, particularly as th? Tifou sreo4 art here, young lord of summer, public ; and, in these latter, having prescribed to him- with some of her pre& fail, Beautiful July! self a more important task than any which he had imbued with many c dd 4, th-Y golden sunlight tinges previously executed, he sets about its performance with feminine virtues to All the eastern forest fringes ; y more stateliness of demeanour—more gravity of the moment she c * 4" thou flingest, glad new comer, we,purpose. From the books he has already published reader becomes Glory o'er the sky. e. welcome, lord of summer, . with such success, his name at once suggests to the morals and a 4 "nl public a writer whose mind is richly store with anec- George 111. AI Beautiful July 1 • dotes ,and all manner of scrap knowledge, along with a tentatious 1 e! ov, . .'4 solid substratum of genuine erudition, clear and well- tication ; / r meadow, moor, or valley 1); A Pour thy golden floods ; ,rl.l at noon, when heat is sorest, defined perceptions, good taste, and ready arrange-. evinced ment ; while, as counterpoises to these, may not unfre- whose w 0 ;latnae eis silence in the forest, qUently be suspected a love of display, and a rather but i' 1 t',.aving wind to sally I .I,4rfe , rout the shadowy woods, over-intention of making the very most of his .su.bject. thr In other words, as Sheridan said of the playwrights, r r_glade and breathless alley, . " He never knows* when he has too much of a good / 1,40A,4 thow:h.,:erirteehcdeloefueaprd coolness broods. thing." With these trifling drawbacks, Dr. Doran is ar / , a ilirr., _ ifti blueis drisftkiy7 author whose writings will always command descry 0 ~Isl.uughout the twilight starless, approbation among the class best. qualified to for s'litt elbt.sokiiff, care regardless, judgment of their value ; and in the wider rar readers for mere amusement they will maintain A_ yes t i leaven uplifting, tensive popularity. They generally consist of ql IltiliZl• d I lie, It_ 'thy . . . hit and richly-coloured sketches, in which it ri;i 'pith -quit. glories shifting, of feature and characteristic touch are ma' ''9,, f ' en ti, 4111 Jul ! ~ trkb y co •111,1';'4 green leaves are kissen for the higher excellences of generalisa+' ‘.,.4' Bl cO4tin breeze, and breadth of design. Like the woe ~,q masters, they are faithful represen+ 0. - ... A:n7;irthe:vt'hit%e village maiden, can be overtaken by care and displr 01 f,liti sweet 4t roses laden, heightened,- here-and-thererdayAur 0 . 41;:-. ' LAY fride.. oftly glisten caricature to relipe,thei4fKorcittl-- iy "4 she stiyith. 41e-sees,'_ • .lii-hispreient-41Trk7lie. ': el)/ ,ft/ ,Aron., e / Voice to listen Vfoco_ 6 the rtiatling•Arees. and seeming resolurtiortnraoint,.o f le Be'me then, YOunglord of summer, , . . k t, ~, autiful July ! , platebut still resi f 0,,,14, • way awhile, 0 happy vagrant! € , fake the hills anti meadows fragrant : tableailubisxj°,grlianbaoPwuhihircalch leadi• displayed, yet in whiti i 0 We • media which shall bi .), will hymn thee, gay new corner, wry vt,_ As thou passest by. we find, as it were. • ,0 . 0,,..., Welcome, welcome, lord of summer, this spot we per eV6e 'IeYP Beautiful July! dimpled chin-4. tii'' k limb, and tb ooti ' I.i R E VIE WS . apply in vai• eo N ing these ' —_ ir .-tct,,°l the a correct ev tPe hover, Queensßy of England of the House of th iro, 14 .1v ~,,,, y Dr. Doran. London : Bentley. ' Mr lie Otvllp 8 • ,ers of thewieth day have been. so really success- ' mo op t cuting pop oft., asi 11,, „, the good opinion of the reading n no ni., tlielcu_ oran. His name ris comparatively V.i 7 cliT 14 th erarY world ; and he has, as yet, done 10 ,',sl:(lwlliche wsaY of original invention—has strut' Ott: ot, genew, nail vibrate through. the soul= of s efi :tiii'llOSe wi°43--has scarcely awakened an ‘',l,„'lltlithe wide sympathies which guide the I Ii( ki,,,,tg occurs,4li tof any good or great ent e itty Aidy ea PoP.P.ar in a high degree. l rcoto.t.' ! tvtlio:f tact aarned his title to popularity _,14 bed rode kt_lst overres of small inf • ry b.tiok r. ..„ . ormation, • t-z!rili 41ceeeditri; might justly der rfr) qmttv ,alid h eu. 111 worming hi, of,,t , %tltltet kavourir Completely esta" 1p au_ti4,,'lll)o4 the His success e 1a( . Vins T 1,,,'41kt e 'le His and. r 4' tiNki (11111110 n ;I i .etcl al or fare. Ir "0, 4 i.N.44 a, ommon-, , • ra,.thai' 'sit', adroitiy_m, Ati: poTtet. epu,' of the jewr I/ .e,of 4 -,laient f ete, ite t e resets ? 0;4 140 440 Ora IT sets t ) h 41 Nli 'terve 'i' 144' 4i. t.ecHltr* iti 1•44 104 e th cit of a e)- '`l,e atlectikore 111, ' Ot. It ii° th ot' trii4. %le V AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. strength. His preceding works were less pretentious than the two volumes which he now presents to the public ; and, in these latter, having prescribed to him self a more important task than any which he had previously executed, he sets about its performance with more stateliness of demeanour—more gravity of purpose. From the books he has already published with, such success, his name at once suggests to the public a writer whose mind is richly stored with anec dotes and all manner of scrap lmowledge, along with a solid substratum of genuine erudition, clear and well defined perceptions, good taste, and ready arrange-. ment ; while, as counterpoises to these, may not unfre qUently be suspected a love of display, and a rather over-intention of making the very most of his subject. In other words, as Sheridan said of the play Wrights, " He never knows when he has too much of a good thing." With these trifling drawbacks, Dr. Doran is an author whose writings will always command deserved approbation among the class best qualified to form a judgment of their value ; and in the wider range of readers for mere amusement they will maintain an ex tensive popularity. They generally consist of cleverly hit and richly-coloured sketches, in which individuality of feature and characteristic touch are made to do duty for the higher excellences of generalisation of subject and breadth of design. Like the works of the Dutch masters, they are faithful representations of all that can be overtaken by care and displayed by elaboration, heightened,- here-and-there r j ust. a • suffieient.dash-of• caricature torelip.N:e,thenl ,, fsm*th'e ell arg - e0f,,. — 0 -4 nOt`olty . .; hi- presenf:Woile,whe': enters and seeming resolutoiortnraoints..thtehn.ataskhasof-rbeenen his dering ; z t o n m- ; • b plate ut fi b isb iog l: a o p u hi r cal p till results in a series of animated tableaux, in which leading characteristics are vividly displayed, yet in which we desiderate the connecting media which shall blend and unite them in a whole— we find, as it were, here a head and there a hand—in this spot we perceive a carbuncled nose, in that a dimpled chin—the light flashes here upon a brawny limb, and there displays a graceful torso ; but we apply in vain to his canvass for the means of so assort ing these disjecta membra as would enable us to form a correct idea of the completed figure or figures to which the members respectively belong. We are furnished with no guide to the composition—no - clue to the ' moral labyrinth which he presents to view, and are unable to trace the design of the artist, or fully to comprehend the purpose of his plan. The Queens of England of the House of Hanover have not been numerous, and, according to - the testi mony of contemporary history, the influence of some of them has not been of a very salutary character. In the two lively volumes which Dr. Doran has contrived to cull out of the chequered incidents connected with their lives, we have vivid, indeed strong, if not glow ing; pictures of the - licentiousness which, little better than a century ago, pervaded, if it does not still per vade. the German Courts, of all degrees, small and great. We learn also from these -pictures that the royal ladies who were destined to perform so conspicuous a part in our social polity, -had, in numerous instances, their youthful ideas squared with the extravagances referred to. In the course of his delineations, Dr. Doran shows, that, at a comparatively early date, the tone and colour of court life at Hanover were sweetened and harmonized by milder influences than those pre valent at most of the other German Courts ; but still he makes it plain enough, that the, manners of even that comparatively pure court stood much in need of refinement, that the prevalent sentiments might well improve by elevation. After tracing the lives and characters of the wives of George I. and George 11., as well as descanting pretty freely upon the coarse ness and questionable morality of those sovereigns 7— tracing 'their antecedents and connections, and doing the same by their royal consorts—he arrives, by a natural sequence,_at the epoch of George 111. and his JULY. TH OU art here, young lord of summer, Beautiful July l thY • golden sunlight tinges All the eastern forest fringes ; 44 (1 thou flingest, glad new comer, ~, Glory o'er the sky. . el eonie, welcome, lord of summer, Beautiful July -Ire r Meadow, moor, or valley Pour thy golden floods ; 41 1 at noon, when heat is sorest, There is silence in the forest, ' f at a waving wind to sally .1,4 r F rom the shadowy woods, glade glade and breathless alley, • Where deep coolness broods. "°t a single clo - ud is drifting A 5 thCPer the f ar b lue sky; IQ a ~r . ° ° 2,t out th e t w ili g h t star l ess , quiet 4 tet eight skiff, care regar d less, L., °: to heaven uplifting, 411 e14 11,11 Y I lie, litt:.thY glories shifting, "hen ti 's ' l% " h u t i J ul y ! , -Y11, 1 . - . green leaves are kissen oMeth d 4 tin breeze, With An the the village maiden, '•• her sweet lt4t roses laden, - Y e tt:so see ftly'glisten Lrld e - - • BUe stayi; t , n 'itfon„, th e "y voice to Hate WelCoMe, th'en, rustting•trees. YO unglord of summer, • B eautiful July! • 'lay awhile, 0 happy vagrant! ,2 4 ake the hills anti meadows fragrant : "e will hymn thee, gay new corner, As thou passest by. Welcome, welcome, lord of summer, Beautiful July! 4i N REVIEWS. k b , ct: l o „p"te Queen s of England of the House of t 'elv -'''' 1 3y Dr, Doran. London : Bentley. o kt 4 '"rriters of the day have been so really success 4ttliN aSgeeu,rhag the good opinion of the reading 4 4 Z to -- ti, r. Doran. His name ris comparatively tu i 'llh lt "ihue literary world ; and he has, - as yet, done ktiell, oraZ . ,the way of ori • invention—has struck o ',,y. ge tu ch shall vibrate through . the soul of sue t'44'T thosierations--has scarcely . awakened_ an echo ht,,14 ti,, e wide sympathies which guide the human 4el4ellaeteDeursuit of any good or great enterprise ; ki0,,,4 f a : l 2, °Me popular in a high degree . N , az ,ni sa.,, ore : 'lt s 'EY 04'1 earned his title to popularity. By PI tv,tllose s ac t t, and not a little ingenuity in the mingling he - 14ot 2 r es of small information, which a critic,. lZtet,N ,„" v er rigid, might justly denominate gossip, , a4leeeded in worming his way . to popular a NiN fa y has completely established . himself as Nk, iipoeurite. His success depends, in an eminent e SiNw r li the nicety and. raciness with - which h . Iliti4tkce°ll:llnon fare. In his hands, a bit of ordi • t or common-place .gossip assumes_ the , ), 14 thZ t L tn._ '4 all adroitly -managed intrigue. With him ' m gst e ' cisrit of the jewel consists in its setting ; and, I. poi t . t t , r. le, of :rtuleut of literary art, he is, indeed, a ' 4 te tor te-SetB the questionable trinketry of Wal hlll.°l4iclwelli.lierreY, or of Miss Burney, in such deli- . ;4401 K irki Of th eCnltrlYed bezils—picking out the smallest 1 Of , e gek-he surrounds it with such a com h'ilre 411 a.. 111 5 -"4 f3 ,4 - ti ..l „ e fila,s-ree, that it assumes a new and ' 'qot t mluing character. His dressing is to It tlis l l , t ‘ he 1)40:4 the parties referred to what the . spices ises tils.etcuP, or the banquet to the wine : .LL grossness without impairing their Queen, Charlotte, who, probably, a woman of narrow mind, particularly as that was measured in comparison with some of her predecessors, was, nevertheless, finely imbued with many of the womanly feelings and truly feminine virtues to which they were strangers. From the moment she figures in the pages of this book, the reader becomes familiar with an improved tone in the morals and a purer air in the narrative. That both George 111. and his Queen were of simple and unos tentatious habits, is too well known to require authen tication ; and it is also known that both of them evinced considerable partiality for the sect of Quakers, whose simplicity of manners seemed akin to their own; but it may not be so extensively familiar to our readers that, among the first visits of the youthful Queen Charlotte, accompanied by her royal husband, on their visits to London, was one to the house of a Quaker ; nevertheless, so it was. After passing, as Dr. Doran graphically delineates them, the various city formalities at Temple Bar and St. Paul's Churchyard, the royal pair proceeded, not to Guildhall, but to the house of Robert Barclay, patent medicine vendor, ancestor to the head of the firm of Barclay, Perkins, and Co. Robert, who was in his eightieth year; was the only surviving son of that Robert Barclay who wrote the celebrated " Apology for the Quakers," and who was also a pro genitor of the famous Captain Barclay, the noted pe destrian and zealous patron of athletic sports. The occasion of the royal visit to the city was a "Lord lifayor;s l pa,P,: : and- the -prefercnce apcorded to-- the . Qtt,akers,Transion appears haie been higklappre ciaed"by' "'the hearty old man," - who had keviously enterlained.both- the preceding Georges, and also' by his family. Of this. fact Dr. Doran gives interesting testimony in the following ACCOUNT OF A ROYAL VISIT, BIC A QUAKERR3B. Queen Charlotte and George 111, were the last of our sove reigns who thus honoured a Lord Mayor's show. And as it was the last oceasion, and that the young Queen Charlotte was the heroine of the day, the opportunity may be profited by to show how the royal lady looked and bore herself in the estima tion of one of the Miss Barclays, whose letter descriptive of the scene appeared about forty-seven years subiequently, in 1803. The following extracts are very much to our purpose : "About one o'clock papa and mama, with sister Western, to attend them, took their stand at 'the street-door, where my two brothers had long been to receive the nobility, more than a hundred •of whom were then waiting in the ware house. As the royal family came, they were conducted into one of the counting-houses, which was transformed into a very pretty parlour. At half-past two their majesties came, which was two hours later than they had intended. On the second pair of stairs was placed our own company, about forty. in number, the chief of whom were of the Puritan order, and all in their orthodox habits. Next to the drawing-room doors were placed our own selves, I mean papa's children, none else, to the great mortification of visitors, being allowed to enter :- for as kissing the- king's hand without' kneeling was an un exampled honour, the king confined that privilege to our own family, as a retiirn'for , the trouble we had been - at. After the royal pair had shown themselves at the balcony, we were all introduced, and you may believe, at that juncture, we felt 'no small palpitations. The king met us at the danr, (a condel cension I did not eipect,) at which place he saluted us with great politeness. Advancing to the upper - end of the room, we kissed the queen's hand, at the sight of whom we were all in raptures, not only front the brilliancy of her appearance, Which was pleasing beyond description, but being througheut her whole person possessed of that inexpressible something that is beyond a set of features, and equally claims our atten tion. To be sure, she has not a fine face, but a most agreeable countenance, and is vastly genteel, with an air, notwithstanding her being a little woman, truly majestic; and I really think, by her manner is expressed. that complacency of disposition which is truly amiable ; and though I could, never perceive that she deviated from that dignity which belongs to a crowned head, yet on the most trifling occasions she displayed all that easy behaviour that negligence can bestow.l Her hair, which is of alight colour, hung in what is called coronation-ringlets, encircled in a band of diamonds, so beautiful in themselves, and so prettily disposed, as will admit of no description. Her clothes, which were as rich as gold, silver, and silk could make them, was a suit from which fell a train supported by a little page in scarlet and silver. The lustre of her stomacher was inconceivable. The king I think a very personable man. All the princes followed the king's example in complimenting each of us with a kiss. The queen was up stairs three times, and ; 4 :t: 01! ;‘ ,:. ; , ,e 4 r t e l c 'e