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From the 'specinaens adduced, our readers will not much more happy, as fcr example, in No. 178, for
readily, perceive that there is " much matter" in the " give me a clean glass," we are instructed to leave out
book. They must not, hoviever, imagine that the j the word clean, as unnecessary, as no one would think
royal luxury displayed in its fertile pages' are ex- of asking for a:dirty. glass. " A little knowledge of the
elusively devoted to the frivolities and unseemly excess world might have instructed our preceptor that the
alluded to in the last extract. By perusing the work j precautionary word clean is not in every instance
it will be seen that, like other savage despots, the late superfluous, as applied to glass or other vessels, and
-King of Oude, in his debaucheries, exhibited the that, too, without implying the habitual, or even.
darker and more revolting characters of rapacious ty- ordinary occurrence of dirt. With deference we
ranny in a formidable manner. The book abounds in venture to doubt that "He began to succumb," is a
interesting matter, and as such we recommend it. Scotticism, and are far from concurring in the belief
that the phrase is translated into better English than
it is by saying, as our instructor wishes us to do, "He
began to sink under the pressure of his misfortunes."
Johnson, not a Scotch auttority, defines succumb <as
"to yield, to sink under diEculty ;" but less refined
than our learned friend, who places such reliance on
the authority of the Rev. A. G. D. D'Orsay, no doubt
a decent teacher of English in the Glasgow High-:
school, Dr. Johnson does not
.make misfortune a .siate
gua.non of the sinking. A perusal, not over rigid,. of
Johnson's valuable lexicon would show the corrector
of Scotticisms, that many of the words he sets down
as Scotch were English ; experience would teach, him
that many of the phrases he condemns are neither.
Scotticisms nor vulgarisms, but expressions which,
though technical, are perfectly correct, and are such
as would be greatly impaired in expressiveness of
signification if treated in the style of namby-pamby
puerility which he recommends. If he had followed
so sensible a cause of proceeding as that hinted at
above, he might have avoided many of the blunders
he has fallen into ; but then he would have missed 'the
opportunity of applyinc, the curious philological dogma
of his friend and model,6 Mr. D'Orsay, that a
Scotticism is not so much Scottish words as English
words in a Scottish use or construction:' He has
chosen his alternative, and many will be of opinion
,that he has-done for himself what Dogberry insisted
on the clerk, or some one else doing for him-

The Career of a .Rising Man : a Novel. By M.
Viener. London : Newby.
" The Career of a Rising Man" is a regular novel of
the three half-guinea volume class, which erst used to
delight the circulating library keepers before their in-
teresting calling was broken in upon and ruined by
the flood of penny literature, which was, for a time, so
remorselessly poured upon
.the public by that society
which Cobbett, in his irate contempt, used to_designate
by a trifling play upon its title, " The Society for the
Confusion of Useful Knowledge," and its compeers.
it is a story 'of wrong, and injury, and vengeance, the
incidents of which are sketched with ready vigour,
and wrought out with painstaking fidelity. The
reader, familiar with the better class of literature of
this order, which has flourished since the days when
the " Great Unknown"— as it was the fashion- to
denominate the author of Waverley— was wont to
delight the reading world with his effusions, will not
fail to perceive in the story of Mr. Viener, a certain
family likeness to the novels of Disraeli and Bulwer,
together with a slight dash of those concocted by the
author of " Tremaine. There is a good deal of the
metaphysic mist of Mr. Ward, coupled with the ready
and glowing dash of Disraeli, and the minute life-
studies ofßulwer in these volumes. The dialogue is
clear and nervous, the characters generally well drawn,
and the plot is worked out, through a sufficient num-
ber of well-arranged convolutions. The chief draw-
backs on the excellence of the story are the affected The " Warnings of the War :" aL
.Primeetter the t
Right
elevation of sentiment 'which pervades it, and the Hon. Lord Palmerston
somewhat questionable ambition of style which marks, " A British Commoner." 'London Th.otsßteros.worThith.
and to a considerable extent mars, what would. other- This brochure, which was addressed eltotlaLcocred
acceptance be entitled to the appellation of nervous writing. merston at no long period subsequen
Taken with all its shortcomings, "The Career of a of the. Premiership, should have been.noticed grlieeer earlier;;
.Rising Man" is a good production, and one which but as its object, and its real public value, was to
fully entitles his friends to indulge in the belief that inculcate on his lordship the propriety of adopting a
its name foreshadows the literary reputation of its line of policy for the conduct of the war, against which
author, and that the -success ,of its execution places the most influential of his colleagnes.had emphatically
laim in the enviable position of a "rising man." set his face, directing attention to the pamphlet
could have had no practical utility : the extrusion of
Never Too _Late to -Learn : Scotticisms Corrected. that colleague from the public service givesrise to the
London : John F. Shaw. hope of an altered policy on- many points, and the
- -This is a little publication with large pretensions. recommendations of the "British Commoner. " may,
It has at least one redeeming feature, and that of no with propriety, be urged on: the national consideration.
small value—it aims at being useful, and frequently is The chief point of his argument is directed to show
so.l tlt consists of a series of colloquial vulgarisms, the the necessity of employing against Russia the arms
stiff rule-gathered corrections of which are given along , and energies of those nations whom the oppression of
with them. That such a book will be emi-
Russia has driven intonatural and vindictive anti-
nently useful to those who have never had the pathy to her sway and. :machinations. He advocates,
benefit of a regular education, but who are, with the earnestness. of conviction, the propriety of
nevertheless, possessed of sufficient tact to pick up, availing ourselves of the aid which might, and
willingly would be rendered by the brave and intrepid
parrot-like, -it few stereotyped phrases and use them
,
with a moderate share of propriety, is fully true ; but Circassians ; and with equal eloquence urges the
advantage of raising up the nationality of Poland as
to the conversationalist of breeding and refinement
an effectual means of cripplin the
its teachings will only bear the comparison that an g power of Russia,
epistle compiled from the pages of a " Polite Letter- Now that Lord John Russell, who was understood to
Writer" does to the 'correspondence of an educated f have insuperable objections to the adoption of this
individual—they will contain the words and phrases, course, which many, from the commencement of the
but lack the spirit which marks the emanations of a struggle, deemed indispensable, has ceased to have
any sway in our national councils, the time seems
cultivated mind. The compiler of the " Scotticisms
Corrected" honours his Caledonian friends with the . opportune for urging it, and in the pages of this
paternity of many phrases to which they can produce "letter" it is earnestly and skilfully set before the
no legitimate claim—exempli
..gratia, his illustration public.
No. 46 is " I will wait of you in the morning," which
he properly corrects by saying " wait on." In what
part of Scotland he met with such a phrase, unless he
stumbled upon a Cockney tourist, or a Derbyshire
boor, it would be difficult to point out ; at all events,
after a pretty extensive experience of all the dialects
to be met with, indigenous to Scotland, from the
Solway to the Orkneys, and from the German to the
Atlantic Ocean, we have never met with a locale
in which the phrase referred to flourished. We have
heard it frequently, however, in several of the midland
counties of England, and have been assured by a
Cockney that " he would wait of us in the morning."
Many ether of our excellent teacher's illustrations are

The Case of Luigi Buranelli, Medico-Legally Con.
sidered. By Forbes Winslow, M.D., D.C.L. Lon
don : John Churchill.

The crime of Luigi Buranelli, which to all outward
appearance was that of a very atrocious murder, was
committed in London early in the month of January
of the present year. After the instantaneous slaughter
of his victim, which Buranelli effected while that
victim was locked in the arms of sleep, by shooting
him, it may be remembered that the assassin discharged
another pistol at the woman with whom Lambert (the
victim) lived as his wife, and severely wounded her
that he then rushed up-stairs, reloaded one of the
pistols—for he had two—and endeavoured to commit

suicide by shooting himself,'H
tody, recovered from the. dip&
wound, was tried for the murd(
withstanding great exertions
obtain a commutation of, the sem
Buranelli was an Italian,. had be,
with several English gentlemen-,
manners hail generally: engaged
who employedhim. Ile was als(
of them -to have exhibitnel some .
weakness.. InUnedFitely on his
for the murder ;-of Lambert
name of the. -victim of Buran
feeling of those gentlemen was
unhappy man in a very marked
were engaged for his defence ;
the highest . standing: were addf
murderer was insaneond icons e&
to the law for his acts; .in short;
ingenuity could devise and skill
rescue him from tho fangs -of ).
effect ; the jury pronounced him
tented:; to die, and ordered for
not to,/eave an effOrt - untried
friends of Buranelli besieged ti
vouroil to extort mercy for I
unavailing, and the condemned •
The object of the pamphlet h
opposition to his conviction and
the efforts to save •Buranellt. It
arraign the judge, the jury, and'
legal murderers of the blood-
execution of Buranelli," Dr:RL
we fear, be a foul stain
upon the humanity and iutelh
century.,,. Now- this, with all
we hold to he putting the:
and indecorous strength. .
insanity, although it may. b
judgment of one so deeptY,':
illusory irresponsibility as.'
looked on as at all conviocenia,
who presided, and v(ss dieted.
11‘...
jury, was flatly contra-. ,
maae
medical testimony, -4
the responsible advisers of the
upoxv,the judge, the. jury, and
the face of all this, is there no'
to indecency contßip.ed in thi
which the writer-of the pam,
"-May the intelligence, the Ir
civilization, the justice, and.
; great and justly-renowned
sullied or outraged by a rope
exhibition !"- The friends, of
exertion to, save him from a
not insane, he justly merited
laws of this country, and in of
God himself. They end
from that doom on an allegal
allegation they endeavoured '
was not deemed conclusive
jury, and the effect of which
the fountain of British legal
must be impugned, denoun(
they could not unseat their
and place on its chair the
questionable opinions of Dr.
gentlemen who participate
views.

PERIODICALS.—The Chris.
The present number is in n
cessors in talent. The first
Women," giving an account
Lions" in America, shews
boasted liberty and—slavery,
into an inferior position, ver:
liberty which they possess in
or have been, queens, prince,
wardens, overseers of the
twenty-one, a woman may hoi
to any amount, until she giv,
husband. In America, the
meat takes the line of prel
law-makers. Which of the
is a valuable paper on t
to which the livings of '
an: extract from which we
contains a learned article
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