The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-19 00:00:00

SECOND► EDITION

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LITERATURE.

The Magi, Agar, and Is'nael, with other Poem:.
By I. M. E, B. Oae vol., pp. 63. Richards::

and Son.

Although there are but nine brief poems makir
up the sixty-three pages of this little volume—tt
poems altogether if we count the rhythmical prt
face as one—there is enough evidence of poet
merit in these maiden effusions of I. M. E. B. I
justify us in commending the work for such as it i
and in looking forward (as we are fain to do) to t 1
renewal of our acquaintance with the anonymot
writer of the ba©k through the medium of sort
more matured compositions. Without one excel
Lion, the whole of the nine poems and the Prete,
may be spoken of as of a distinctly religious charm
ter. NATURE is regarded by the author but as
medium through which to contemplate GOD. I
this the writer sedulously acts upon the advice
the Essayist on Man. If we remember rightly,
is in " Festus" that Philip Bailey, by a (knit
figure of speech, talks of the cerulean;heaven s abol
us as—" the blue eye of God." To the author
The Magi, Agar and Ismael, with other Poems—
is, if we might so express it, but as a lense throng
which the Divine Being may appear more distincv
visible to the gaze of the Soul. Eve
the second poem in the collection, the one relatir
►o " The Winds," comes under the category
" religious poems." " The Magi" is, among all a
pieces here submitted to us, at once the most variou
in metre and the most highly elaborated in it
design_ The opening apostrophe of the Prefect
expresses in a few words the whole character of th
book—in the manner following :-
0 I for a seraph's eloquence of praise,
A cherub's love to swell my tepid lays!
An angers ardour my weak song t'
That I might spread abroad my Saviour's name?
But I, small thing of nothing—what am I
Who now presume to praise the Deity;
When all his wondrous works, alcove, below,
Around, about, fail His great worth to show ?
The foregoing verses not only express the ch arse(
of the book, but the humble and reverent mind o
the author of it. As a prelude to the songs
praise and adoration the book contains, the Prefac
thus begun at once conciliates our approval.

Legal Forms for Common Use : Being 200 Prece
dents. By Jams Waiter Smith, EFT, LLD
One Vol. Pp. 188. Effingham Wilson.

Under a dozen distinct heads, the learned corn
piler of this very useful little guide-book to Leg,
Forms has cleverly and succinctly arranged hi
two hundred precedents. He has, in so doing
not contented himself with simply ai
ranging them in something like symmetrict
order. He has combined the more delicate an.
responsible duties of collation with those fa
more easily fulfilled of 'mere compilation. He hi
accompanied his array of forms and illustratiN
precedents with terse introductions and the clearet
explanatory notes. The structure and tendency c
the whole book may be, perhaps, the most readil3
as beyond all doubt it may be the most lucidly in
dicated by reference to the twelve headings pc
forth upon the very title-page. Negotiable Instra
ments, first of all—a class of Forms of which th
following, taken haphazard from the volume, ma)
be cited as a sufficiently startling exemplar :

BILL PAYABLE ON DEMAND OR AT SIGHT.
£lOO Os. Od. London, Ist Nov., 1862.

Oa demand or at sightl, pay to me, or my order [or to
G. IL or his order], Ono Hundred Pounds, value received.
WlLLl.tist SHAKSPERE.

To Mr. Oliver Cromwell,
No. 2, Fleet-streat,

Securities next. Then Receipts. and Acknowledg-
ments. Afterwards Partnership. Followed by
Master and Servant. The sixth division being
allotted to Landlord and Tenant. The seventh to
Arbitration. Then County Court Forms. Then
Conveyances. Succeeded in due course by Marring.
Articles and Settlements, by Wills, and by form
of a miscellaneous character. Added to all which
there is a Chapter on Stamps. As about th.
readiest handbook to Legal Forms ever published.
we take this half-a-crown's worth of information t
be really and truly rather difficult to appraise at it
just valuation.

The Hand-Book of Astrology. By Zadkiel Tao Sz
Vol. IL, pp. 76. Cousins, and Berger.

Our old friend of the stars seers somehow t
flourish upon his grievances. The prophetic alman,
is understood to have had a wider circulation that
ever since the famous trial came off in the Court o.
Queen's Bench before the Lord Chief Justice of
England. As many as four thousand copies beyond
the usual vast sale every year having already passed
over the publishers' counter to the believing, or more
probably we should say with the generality of
purchasers, the simply curious public. And here,
as a more substantial expression of his reliance upon
his auditory, we have the venerable Seer (now tha
he has been himself seen by the public at large, i•
actual flesh and blood, standing in a witness-bo:
in a court of law), we have the genuine origins
Zadkiel Tao SZJ (with that wonderful Hal.,
wriggling hieoroglyphic in the centre of his name
like four flies' legs making a wheel), issuink'
from the press this second volume of hi:
" Handbook of Astrology." In it, that it;
in this second-volume-extraordinary, ZAdkeil's
readers will find the full, true, and particular account
of The Dactrine of Nativities. An account, as th!
Sage himself announces upon his title page es "free
of" (meaning, freed from) " all mystery." Accordin,,
to which—though while we read we can hardl:.
believe our eyes that he should so state
—" Every man may calculate his own Nati
vity," thereby learning his own Natural Cha
racter and Proper Destiny. Than which, wha
can a man want to know more abort himself,
yvat aecarrov was never put forth surely in more
promising guise than this—as a bit of philosophical
advice, quite feasible in its way, and very readily to
be accomplished. However, here is the book pro.
fessing to inculcate it.

River Angling for Salmon and 7rout. By John

Younger. One 01., pp. 220. Rutherford.

Younger, from his photograph as the frontispiece,
looks, somehow, older than we should have expected.
Older, that is than his readers might have judged
him to be hem the freshness of his discourse upon
River Angling. A quaint old face the canny Scotch
Waltonian has, too, for that mutter. " Affectionately
yours," he signs himself (writing in his shirt sleeves
apparently, at any rate having his portrait taken
in them, and to all api,earance laughing in them
all the while)—" John Younger." The book is k
good, practical, capital book in its way. Just the
very book to drop into the angler's wallet. The
treatise, if we may dignify it with that high-sound-
ing name, is preceded by an agreeable and very
readable memoir of the author.. The edition before
us—excellently well got up altogether—is further
enhancad in value by an appended list
of the Tweed
Salmon casts.