The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

FliAS'Eli.

The first article in the current number of Fraser
—being a comprehensive criticism headed " Recent
Travels".—is a very readable and entertaining sort of
Omnium Gatherum. It introduces the reader to
countries of the most diversified character ; through
the work of Mr. Brace to Huugary—tbrough that of
Mr. Laing to Schleswig—through that of Mr.
Hamilton to Denmark—through those of Mr.
Fortune and Sir John Davis to China—
to the Court of Nepaul under the guidance of the
Hon. Captain Egerton—to the Arctic regions by
the aid of Lieutenant Osborn and Sir John Richard-
son—through the work of Mr. Bowen into Thessaly
—through that of Captain
.Mackinnon to America
and the Americans—through that of Mr. Shortland
to New Zealand—and through that of Colonel
Mundy to Australia. Surely those are wan-
derings enough for " Once in a way," without
the necessity of vacating our easy-chair for a
steam-boat, or of kicking off our slippers
and donning the seven-leagued boots of giantlaud !
The article, although of course very cursory in its
allusions, will be found both interesting and instruc-
tive. An absolutely delicious chapter follows about
" Mullets and Mullomaniacs." It savours in every
sentence of the bon vivant. It is enough to make an
epicure out of an anchorite. The reader's mouth waters
involuntarily for a taste of the " woodcock of the sea"
as he gloats over this pleasant chapter in regard to
his favourite refection sprinkled with the daintiest
scraps from Pope and Juvenal. The Rev.
Charles Kingsley continues his " Hypatia," which,
although entitled " New Foes with an old Face," will
prove an old friend with a new face to his admirers.
The last " Musical Season," or rather the present
one, now on the eve of its conclusion, is reviewed
very judiciously—the writer rather depreciating the
value of M. Jullien's stormy lyric drama of Pietro it
Grande. M. Chamfort is reviewed (we might almost
say " somewhat humanely ") as among the
list of " Neglected French
.Authors." Captain
Rigby Grand attains the dignity of a twentieth
chapter in his lively and entertaining "
.Auto-
biography." After an elaborate paper expressive of
certain "Ethical Doubts concerning Reineke Fuchs"
—come more of the " Sketches of Rome under the
Pope and the Republic," from the hand of an eye-
witness; and after a couple of articles, one relating
to the New Orhan House at Bristol, and the other
to the "Presidential Election" for America, Fraser
closes with a very able political contribution,
entitled '° The Personnel of the new Parliament."

BEIV7'L
An excellent memoir of Lord Lnngdale—accom-
panied by an engraved hkenes3 from the cnkracter
drawing, by Gorge itiehmond—opens the Sep-
tember number of Bentley's Miscellany. A most horrid
little inTieh htteu3.!A at Wit diegmee the 280th page,

LONDON,

EVENING, SEPTEIVIBER 1,

1852.

MA., archdeacon of the Irdham Lindsay Palmes,•
East Riling MA., and George Wray,*
Edw. Churton,* M.A., arch- M.A., proctors for the arch-
deacon of Cleveland deaconry of the East Riding
Charles Hawkips, D.C.L., and Samuel Gamlen,* M.A., and
William H. Dixon, M.A., Charles Calor,* 8.D., proc-
proctors for the chapter tors for the archdeaconry of
Eon. and Rev. William Cleveland