The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 5, 1853.

falls iu love with a high-born Itajahpootne
princess, marries her. and in two years after.
wards his second wife and their son die, and
" Harcourt," in 11412. closes his career in the
south-west of Ireland, where, exhausted by
his vicissitudes, he lives a solitary, amidst
wild scenery, and filially dies of disease of the
heart.
Notwithstanding the improbabilities of this
tale, there are several proofs in its composition
that it is written from the real history of some
of those Irish military adventurers who were
attracted to continental armies in the last
century. An Adelphi playwright would have
capital materials for a striking meludnuna in
" I I arcourt."
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If Colonel Cameron should eontinue his
recollections of " the romance of military life,"
we advise him to tell his tales as anecdotes,
with real names and places, rather than pub
lisp them as fictions.

&ran and her Rulers. A Brief history of Na‘ign-
lion from the Remotest Periods to the Present
Pay. By Alfred Elwes. London: Grant and

THIS hook contains 420 pages. An analytical index
occupies fourteen of thetn, and gives an outline of
its subject, which, commencing with Tyre and Sidon,
closes with Parry, Ross, and Franklin. The contents
of the book are thus clearly defined; while the diction
of the writer is generally plain and simple. The
following description of the discovery of land, the
island of San Salvador, by Columbus, may serve as a
specimen of the author's style :
" Suddenly he stopped—his keen giants) had perreived
a speck of light through the darkness, which as suddenly
disappeared. lie watched—it again heel • visible, for a
moment stationary, then tuoved, and vanished, and appeared
again, as though it were a torch carried in a personss hand,
and the light of which was at times obscured by • •
intervening objects. Fearful of trusting to his own 141`11.04.
he privately called Pedro ut t ievez, a page of Queen
Isabel's, who had accompanied 1 on the voyage. and
pointed it out. tiuttierez saw it distinctly ; and ca!ling to
Salcetlo, imp of the officers, all three saw it in that, us
if borne from ;dace to place. The cry of ' Laud !. from
the Pala, some short time after, confirmed their conjee-
tures, and was heard with the greatest joy : 1 every man
waited, in all the anguish of uncertainty and impatit•nee,
for the return of day."

The Most Holy Trinity. The Doctrine Illustrated
and Proved. By Ebenezer Soper. London : See-
leys.
THE writer of this tract has collected together all
the chief texts that allude to the doctrine of the
Trinity. In a brief preface he states that at a for-
mer period he entertained heterodox views. lie is
not a practised writer ; and it would he better for
him to exercise his pen on subjects demanding less
polemical powers.

National Adult Education. Hy the Rev. F.
Morris, B.A. London : Groumbridge and Sons.
Tins is a paper which was read before the British
Association for the Advancement of Science at their
session at Hull last September. Mr. Morris thinks
there iA now "no fear of a lack of advance in the
" right direction through any neglect of aid on the
" part either of individuals or of the Government in
"regard to the education of the young." The want
felt. is that of progressive instruction in manhood.
Mechanics' Institutions have, according to Mr.
Morris, generally failed to accomplish the object for
which they were founded. They either become
mere news-rooms, or, politics breaking in, parties
clash, and the institution falls to pieces. Mr.
Mortis proposes that Ijovernment aid should be
given, " and that in no illiberal spirit," to establish
institutions, which he suggests should be called
national colleges, as a natural sequence to national
schools—that a central board should "lend due and
" judic►ous help to bleat endeavours in proportion to
" their own exertions "—that in London a general
museum of all works of art should be formed—that
local museums also should exist wherever it is
possible to have them—that local exhibitions should
be encouraged—that by means of lectures and in
other ways instruction should he afforded to those
who subscribe to the proposed "national colleges"—
and from these measures Mr. Morris anticipates
that a want now felt will be supplied. The pamphlet
consists of twenty•three pages, and contains some
practical suggestions for carry►ng out a rather %ive
plan, or system of plans. Of course money is all
that is requisite to accomplish it.