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the Chinese revolution. and cautions upon
the real character of the insurrection. Alluding
to the sanguine speculations of some 11101111
enthusiasts, the writer says :

Mani. persons imagine that it is a t •IlliStl4ll 1110Veinrett,
g 1141141 awakening of the greate.t empire of the world. -a
manifestation of tin. power 41f .%Itinglity t ;oil to co erw helm
the idolatry of ages alder 41114. vast flood of imlignation.
The icasity. of till. MOIIIIIOO they stlllllOSe to he 11t1 tt
mem or enlightened, 01% at 11•1124. lialletilittlitemal. Ito
4iiiireiN idler tenth. Tien•teli, or Titi•ping-wang.— for. in
the present vontission of ideas. 114'0140 11111V4` 1144 co •to
distinguish between the living and the dead.—they hail as
1111 4•11\11, of the kinploin of heaven, one sent of 044 to
.et up that king,loin in the solid. Now, they inynnise
thentseli the millentniunt i. to begin. Five years ago
the more sanguine thought they situ the millennial glory
in the dowilfal of I.:nrollean Sovereigns but that was an
illusion. Now they think they see the milk Ig;ali u,
the kingilom of Boil coming with 01,ml-intim', not than
the West. tis in NIS, but 1.11/111 Iho East.

Uniluestionably there may be much extra-
vagance of speculation about this insurrection,
but that does not invalidate the important
fact of there being a menu movement, of a
remarkable description. amongst the Chinese.
There never yet, was any great popular change
without its full share of violence and absurdity.
but we must, not, theref►re, be blind to the
good, while we reeal the h►ul, results of a reel,-
lett' . It is well, however, to her both
sides on this Chinese revolt. Mr. Huh.
writes :

111 eggimmin with most of their profession, they not only
•111 l kit the sin of h iug tt idiom ea ia all, but the)
avow' it witlegitt shame; and it it he ihint. with a relig.
intention.—let lut• be forgiven this ant iplintsis,—ille) gl,,ry
in it. What shall we think. then, of ilke morality of it
people guided la) such leachers lin, even in England, pub•
Holt their frauds without a blush ? What, think we, may
la• the litniiilaral of l'lnistianitv where men Ill'e 1111141.
C 1161441114? 111• how east wi. trust those emissaries to
frame a stanilaril liar the neophytes they make. N
They are lint to he trusted. They Mat lilllr 01'
4..il lies( inenleatiou et•en of their alWil allael rine. but
s' one of their insist felieitions diw•mrlit•a iu Mil,
,ii/11111') ',Malice 111 In* the lira• of the apionge figi baptising
surreptitious') ; and to that gild the) hat a. latterly obtained
SIN igIN CP alital 141 (he eglillitiort ill. their agents, and
the admiration of t

Antl on the ieonochisni "of thy insurrection
he thus says
As for the iconoclasts' %Melt has appearesl, in the eyes
of some, to Is, a clianieteristie of Protestantism, a };lance
at the operations of Runtish missions in all 1011:41111 011111.
(lit'!" might suffice tio eon ince any 11111. that the worship-
pers of the crucifix are, sit all othiseN ill the world, 1114'11111A
artiVe its demolishing ON( 114.1.01Ulicil sacred by Idler
iilolithaa. With them iconoclasm is carried 4ml to the lib
Ills•mt iiraeticablis extent. X 11111.1% f.ar c‘ftiftlily,
used to delight 'dimwit' in seeing triama of children sally
forth to break down and shatter the goils of their fathers+
gin the coast of Corium:mold, and in solos,. parts of hitlill.
Tsi destroy Idols is taught as a part of I 'hi isnot' education
by the etiiiKaltlil.l4 thinl this. The Isistssry
AllWriei furnishes innumerable examples of the same
kind ; wheareas it in equally well known that Protestant
missionaries exercise a tenderness awl caution iii sill such
matters which fully exonerate them from aitspieisai is this
came. A great trimmilt over idolatry tins hotly been
aellievell in Western Allica, by the grnee of I issil ; but
there, following the advice of the Wl•4l4,,ftft mimfti•onftriem.
advice reitenitisil through a periial of many years, the con
verted heathen have solemnly surrendered the olsksists4 ut
their former worship. lost without Vi(111.111.1., and eceu with
out levity. Popular assoootles4 isn other temple*. altars, sussi
idol% than their own are mashe soul gloried in by Pionismists
and Pagans; but such Villll.lll.e has never yet been envois
raged by us. leonochun, therefore, does
PrOteStillit agency, whether it loges in the provinces
China, or any where elite.

We think it not improbable that his anti-
Romanist feelings may mislead Mr. Rule. Ile
does not distinguish sufficiently lwtween pure
and corrupt Christianity. The history of the
Chun+ ought to teach him that, unlike all
the false religions, Christianity (even when
perverted by gross superstition) has a ten-
dency to regenerate itself. Notwithstanding
his deprecatory criticisms, we are inclined to
believe that there is very much that is remark-
able in this Chinese imivenit at, and we look
with interest to its progress.

Sep

The Irish Quarierly Reriew. XI.
tember. W. R. Kelly.
Tuts periodival journal is one that merits
the attention of all interested in the carious
forms of " the lush question." It is eon-
ducted upon a principle perfectly novel in Irish
literature—namely, the entire avoidance of
party polities and religious controversy. It
hats both general and local aims ; and we oh
serve that nearly one half of its Friec is de
voted to literary criticism, and the remainder

given to original illustration of Irish historical
tied social SllltilletS. In the Belles Lewes of
the present number there is an interesting
essay 011 " 11114`114 of Fashioti," in which the
author passes in review the writings of Sir
Chitties Danbury Williams, l'aptain Morris,
Speneer. Monk I,t4vim, Luttrell, James
smith. Theodore Iltsok. and Haynes Bayley.
The classiliestion oil pied is too arbitrary.
" Poets of Pashion " not eonimenee with
Sir I I atiloary Williams, and neither Monk
Lewis nor James Smith hail tine special claim,"
to be ranged with Luttrell and William
Spencer. In alluding to 11.101n-11'm " Advice
to Julia " the reviewer ought not to have
omitted what Kenney the dramatist said of it—
namely, that " as a poem it was tots long, and
not broad enough" ! The writer sloes not
know the exact style of several of the social
celebrities introduced ill his essay, which, it'
intended sits we suspect) for future reprint,
should be carefully leviaed. For example, it
is it great blunder to elates " Historic Fancies "
in the eategmy of works discussed by the
essayist. The series of papers called " Thu
Streets of Dublin " litts evidently been sug-
gested by Mr. Peter Cmininglitim's excellent
" Handbook of London," but it has Move of a
IlibtOlieltl diameter than its prototype ;
we observe with pleasure that it contains
flinch 11011.4.1.11 y 111.101m1 matter. When com-
pleted, these papers will form a animistie his-
tory of Dulain, its which shape they may again
l'llllll` 11(401V us for 'wiliest notice. One of the
reasons why Irish history is 50 11111Vallilldt' in
frOln the paucity of illustrative works deplet-
ing the liersonuel of !limb public lift'. in s style
similar to the memoirs of Dill' Evelyn, Pepys,
IValpole, and others. The author Of those
papers on " The Streets of Dublin " is very
likely to fill up that great blank in his coun-
try's literature. The work of Mr. Maguire, the
member fits. Dintgarxitis, on 'lite Develop•
ment of Irish Industry," is reviewed at great
length. lint the reviewer is not Vaillal to the
subject., and is deficient. in scientific know-
ledge. The writer titlarks Sir Archibald Alison
for his strictures on the felts, and thus
says in it style that we thought was
:--
" iv slue in I rcl i ;wapiti stilAireclion ill' sit
movial iuq,rove Ito lit 1' In se is .111.1. MO in learning 810
Kirwan, last Pin is and I:11s4, eid Kan,•, inferior? I
are Ii rat tan, I liotrke. situ 1%8141441. atilt
Mill Kirwan the preacher, mad 11'1 inferior ?
111 g a, an. 'ongrove and Farquhar, awl Shutiduu, and
NI noir, and Itaniut, awl Lover, mot Slici Mon 110 itl lI'S, its
In art, lll's' Harry, anti ltteeli.e, and I tatiby , toil
Mogan, anti NI • I Wows I, inferior'' In ant iikotarian know.
bag... nye o'll •sii. I Corry. awl Paine, awl 11 o'4 'al-
litOtan tit's rior ? lit medical awl poirgival learning. not
I's. !dim, and 'ilaitek • and '4 0111g1411, NMI Ktloker, inferior'.'
In iusair, an. Caiolati awl oils. °blur lambi, tad rb•ven•
non, aid 111116% sinus ‘t al lave, inferior ? Its arms, al
lei's le I nie. at 4' women', at lon Iv Hoy, were we infErior
\re Willing'. at awl Bough inferior I lora
I I tool v the I 'cirtitio ar War ' Wellington's
emotes .how no we so. interior
To which tvc reply, that, Ho one ever denied
that Celtic tribes prothieell poets, orators,
warriors, and philosophers ; for the 411111010-
gleel question at issue in the problem is
essentially one of the ciaispanttive degree, upon
the contrast with the developments 01 other
races. Ilut the passage we have cited teems
with particular blunders iii enumerating cele-
brated Irish 11111111'14 its belonging to 4' Celts."
The family of Parsons, to which I eonl 11111040
1/001101, is one of English descent, and vililicd
in Mr. Duffy's " of the North," where
the writer talks of " Parsons' rulliatii sword."
Moyle, the philosopher, was Intim at !Anneals
Castle, but hit was essentially of English
parentage ; and we have to 11'11111111 this care-
less essayist that it is not the
but the blitinl inherited, that classifies it 11111114.11
snl'jrct t', it II It lanliii•111111' Mrs'. tie, 1111S11,
"1.11111111 Mill Were MIL The
first had El /1' his 1111 /1111'1' 1/11' Of the
secs' (11. Nlerlay, itw witch gave
Ireland many men of worth and eminence in
the last evistury ; 111111 011 1110111 iris parents'
slits' 111111.1 wits descended fllllll Anglo-Normans
fitrefittliers who Lad settled in Ireland. Con-
greve tool Farquhar were no Celts." Samin
was sprung from French Huguenots ; and if
we hail space we might go over very nearly
0v„.1.v nom, its the list, and show that its owner
had mixed blood in his veins, and that some.
like Wellinut ns and others, had no Celtic blood
at all.

At p. 111 we Owl
" 1144 .Inh• hrin.zs vss.ling slismers.
gillltlowur..•'

At p. ;•I :-

1

This Irish Quarterly Ileriew,iieverthcless,l•a•
the literary talent exhibited in its pages, is one
of the cheapest of all the periodicals; and the
annual test shillings required 14 ,e its sithserit,t•
will be laid out 14, greater advantage titan in
the purchase of the shilling trumpery with
which the railway-stalls site choked.

The Pontropheou ; or, History of Food. By M.
Soyer. London; Simpkin, and Co.
WE cannot commend this gaudy volume, in which
tile crude and ill-assorted contents of Mr. tiojer's
commonplace book are palmed off upon the public
by the arts of the typographer, the paiwrinaker, and
the bookbinder. The work is not, in any St'llS4e of
the term, a "history of foisl." It is le othing iwire
than a string of cursory remarks all the vai'''n:
kinds of comestibles that have been used in all ages,
elaborated with an alfeetation of classical knowledge,
which scholars at a glittos• will detect as of that
ready-made kind easilj supplied by lexicons, indexes,
and 41!Yell01111.11lit4. We are IMAM that the subject of
"cookery " has often been played with by phileso-
pliers and men of letters, and that, in Freneli
litentUire especially, there e‘tst several works in Whirl
the science of gastronomy is curiously gossipped
about with much hinnotir Ulla original Ittrotog.
Butt this vellum. called " .'ittErop. I
ositi" is useless
for reference, and without any charms of
style to attract, a reader. Writers of gued, honest
"Cookery Books " are entitled to their appropriate
praise ; and we would and deduct inini the inerits of
Airs. Masse, or lir. hitchiner, or e‘cn M. `oyes
himself in this rapacity ; lint we cambia l'lsoiglitso
him as iiitea for the part of a Sititgel'ilf the kitchen.
We object to compilers tricking themselves out in
old cast•off learning, furbishing up " Adams's Roman
Antiquities " with tinselled binding and whimsical
typography, and then asking to be erloWlieil With tin
laurels flue only to true versatility. It would be
easier for .I. Moyer to dress up the old leather
breeches of a French postillion, and make the Ire
tinentent or the Reform Club swallow them as
entrolettev ales pantalens braisi.s a la diligence,"
than to induce the reading publie to accept hint as a
historic el mitetevitibb or. A classical pnwerli addressed
to cobblers is also applicable to conks; and to so
deep a scholar as M. SOyer processes to Ise thieve is
no necessity for our translating it.

Pretty Les►rons la rerse for Good Children ; with
sonic Lessons in Latin in, Easy 11goyim.. Ity
Sara Coleridge. London : .loliii W. Parker and
Son.
WE have looked into this unpretending little volume
with interest and pleasrrrr•. IVe eannot say that it is
without faults—that we have not noticed some tri►ial
errors in natural histot,— that our eve Ibis not been
attracted by isolated expressions which, if admishilde
anywhere, are not certainly perinissilde in at work,
not a '• 1101)k " exeltinkel, hut intended
indiscriminately for the use ot• Little \tory:: as
well as Nlaster Ilerberts. Thus, •• kirk up a riot "
(p. -11); "phi'," instead of face (p. 4:11; jolly
nautili orange " (p. :In) ; " sneh jolly fat grubs"
(P. PO, are blemishes which should he erased. Nor
ran the fair authoress plead the rxigencies of rhyme
11.4 ale e%ellse for irrtr•odlucing them, since, throughout,
the volume generally achieles an easy ►iron.) ono' the
difficulties of verse.

At p. :IN, in describing n crib, she prettily
bay

p. .1 iAkeol cant:
Fro an 141n11HM),
1.:11. they 1.111S•111 1111. 1.11.1111 10111 C
fly ihr !Omani.: of Indio grill

(tow ility to the midst of a burning :Only.
When meadows are parelietl, And the rivulets thy."
Ally 6 certainly, in general, our driest mouth, and
the two vottpletm are rontrmlietory. Thim may lie
vonsi4lert.4l tri%iul and hyperetitieal ; but no Mayen.
nosey, still 1e.4 a row should be permitteil iu
111, for children.
At p. 41 We :
" The rig 'level locals% from hi-

Read that line t+► a quick child. familiar With a
fartnyartl. 111141 he Will ilthl ell% al IsWer, ►' Thell
that pig imist be vet, oiti% gel 4110 W hen.
ever they eon :" ►►l'. if his reasoning powers were not
far a►haneell as t►► comprelieml varieties an►l ex-
ceptions to al rule► he won't' contradict the statement.
and think lie knew Mum I hall the writer of the
book,

I sea it .l. the close of the hook, the commoner
Latin sithstaltdiVe4, With their optauititiol,
marked, are introduced in appropriate setae.