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THE QUARTERLIES.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. C-YCIV.
Although there are no less than ten contributions
114 the current number of the Edinburgh, we doubt
tifieh`whether a single article amongst them will
:.taio'even a temporary amount of popularity. Not
t the papers in the April instalment are altogether
,
,of talent, or that they are without being suf-
4eutly, diversified, but that the talent displayed is
,J
I?ugl.lout (for-the most pirt) dull and scholattic,
ulods ans. dogmatical. Suggested by the Nou-
Leueg Calises Celibres, the opening article, is a kind
biore:phical sketch of " Tronson du Coudray,"
Whose name we should rather have seen among the
1` Unsuccessful Great Men," who are celebrated
zin such a very congenial spirit by Pro-
-I.e.ssor Creasy. The argument upon " National
Education" which follows is a dry and
didactic repetition of facts already again and
again teiterated—from the laborious volume of Mr.
Wyse, now her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece,
down to the most recent number of some of our pro-
vincial contemporaries. To some extent, however,
iii thiS-article we can for repetition for the sake
of the".Rhilanthropy, by which it is no IeSS glaringly
distinguished. A review of "Farioi's Stato Romano,"
is followed-by a chapter on "Athenian Architecture,"
and this again, by—the most important contribution
in the present number of the Edinburgh—the paper
on " Investments for the Working Classes." The
introductOry " sentences of 'the article here particu-
larized, are, unhappily, of almost universal applica-
tiou:-=

"We have often had occasion to remark on the ohs
etacles and perplexities; the hidden perils, the opposing
riskythe surprising and unforeseen dilemmas, which
beset the path of active beneficence, especially when
attempted on a great scale. The ditfimlty of doing good
is at least equal to its ltixury. To the conscientious and
the thoughtful the path of philanthropy is one of briars
and thorns. On the one hand lies toe shame and re-
proach of witnessing a vast accumulation of misery
viithout an effort to relieve it: on the other the danger
—even Moro clearly apprehended in proportion as our
experience is wide and our inquiries deep—of aggra-
vating the evil we attempt to ositig Ars. On the one side
:t!° the sin of the Levite Who looks upon'the woine:ed and
blnrtet.eoog 'victim, and pesses by, either in shritikteg sensi-
tir. 9r in sheer despair: on the other lies the risk,
from ignorance or incaution, of pouring in oil which shall
eahsolhe wounds to tester, and wine which shall stimu-
late the fever. It is no easy matter to steer between
Boyne. and
Charybdis; and we should deal gently wiih
the Pilots if only
ho be cautisus and mod as—who, in
Shunning one peril. incurs shipwreck from the other."
root' reargus O'Connor's involvment with reference
to his land scheme,
.is, in the course of the argument,
accounted for in a.manner which is clear, without, of
?°_Tur"- , being satisfactory. After an estimate of
°lltv liriox's Liturgy," comes a criticism of M.
st.‘`,
—.7°11131 biography of "Mallet du Pan." Strangely
graceful is the opening of what, at a first glance, seems
u° be very drily suggestive, namely, the review of
Roebuck's Whig Ministry of 1830." In the course
tf, these, preliminary remarks to a political review it
lq
to in.
in reference to the respect and gra-
/ "e in. which the venerable Samuel Rogers—
sdeeistedly rara axis in terris, *rogue simillirna cygno,
171,111,a4much as he is both a Poet and a 13.inker)—is
w,,TY the public up to this very moment—" It
bruei indeed., have been extraordinary if the poet of
',Letnory should not live in our recollections." A
ntltiee of " Squier's Nicaragua" is succeeded by a
Pai Per on "Lord Derby's Ministry and Protection"—
PaPer unquestionably free trade, but also unques-
..°Ottble
Whig—as Whig as might have been expected
Vrer the livery of buff and blue. And so the num-
the ,Edinburgh., is brought to a conclusion.
' •

rE ,LIT6RATURE.
JESUIT IN INDIA. One Volume. Burns

d Lam
curious volume,an
in somebert.
respects really extra-
Ltdiriary in its revelations, is the one here published.
litire,.."°unts the progress made by the Jesuit mission-
the" in Southern India during the last few years,
bakivWriter--evidently a man of singular intelligence-
-4...14g qualified himself for the task of inditiog the
141,K-4147's by four years spent in the midat of the
°lll3 he enumerates. Sir Harcourt Lees is dead,
ills true, but we have still amongst us men interested
Lwatching the movements nearer home than the
schira mission of the disciples of St. Ignatius de
Y°l.o. Indeed, the development of the Society of
4,s to England is amongst the number of those
tmakable events which arrest, by the force of
oeiLve.r.Y, singularity 'and importance, the atten-
rof, most indifferent spectator. • During
u 'era' years the Jesuits have extended,
.._flebserved, it may be, but none the less securely
t" -that account, the wondrous influence exercised by
theta.tannw-a-days scarcely less effectually amongstf
the Penple of these islands than amongst any other o
e. various races of Christendom. It behves every
4-, therefore, really solicitous to forward the cause
truth in religion to scrutinize keenly the course
tiprrseuseadintey this unassuming but dominant association.
g their ranks over the whole of the habitable
of the globe, the Jesuits are every where ac-
itiewQ by the same motives, swayed by the same
Theystruggling towards the same achievements.
'gy are differently clad, it is true, in different re-
-100., speakiog in those different regions a different
guage, and adopting towards their different inhabi-
tants very different kinds of demeanour. But in all
Other respects the Jesuit is still the Jesuit, nothing
more' and nothing less than the Jesuit, be he in
the trainthe
leofe his General at Rome, be he a resident at
Stonyhurst, be he in the streets of
aria, or in the solitudes of Hindostan, floating over
the oriental seas, or threading .the forests of America,
Passing
under the luxuriant foliage of the south or
ever
-.the sterility of the northern snows. it i., con-
ierjllY, not waste of toil to pore over the pages
eve" let us into the secret movements of the Society,
.'1:1 When these movements are so far removed from
4 Own observation as the southern portions of the
static continent. We remember the almost inspiringawe-
e effect of that scene in the Jail Errant, in
~.„"11 Eugene Sue described M. Rodin as bending
1,-.17! a globe representing the earth, the surface of
tZS,,h was marked in red dotted lines, with the
j-: e 4 of the footsteps of these übiquitous
4114 missionaries. Here, at any rate, is a
utile which enables us to trace those
footstepsdirection,
somewhat more comprehensibly in one
jereectinn, namely, into the southern quarters of our
`4'an territory. The scene of the missionary la-
bours: there, described by the anonymous traveller,
jernbrsnes part of the Carnatic, the province of Tan-
r,e,s. and the country down to Cape Comorin, coin
taing, in fact, the southernmost extremity of Ilin-
sfstnn, and being designated the Viceriate of Madura.
thlatuateditt from about 7.51 to 11.50 north 1 ititude,
i;;:',..cklinaate is very relaxing, from the perpetual heat
ing sometimes 100 Fahrenheit in the day time,
and falling only l'2 degrees by midnight—cholera
Ptevaleet, and &most luvariably in its most dais-
Itliaern"" intensity, by reason of the previous exhaus-
-I.4:.(::ritehree iris that the missionaries are described as
ssieh au .d
the Preserver
un°4l4-13-ahma the Creator, V h
not merely in
, and i .Siva,olatryor believing
but,heldes these,
selected
'Sometimes, as in-
by the most Schew , the Destroyer—
: estroyer—
symbols
worshipping
llotl Sal. grovelling fetichism.
the instance of the petrified shell
-granan, this idolatry descends even to the
inetle,a deification -of the freaks of Nature, branching off
mythology altogether so intricate as to render
all°
Other Mythologies numerically insignificant by
rnparison. According to the account given by this
,"tie volume, the temptations to adventure upon the
ishours of Christianizing the. Hindoos—fcr the Mus-
roalen, in the present state of things seem to be
Peless—are anything but persuasive in a worldly
tense; the dwelling of the adventurer 'being a mud-
"t) thatcte4 with palm leaves, his bed a mat spread
°„llPtenks, his food rice, occasionally accompanied by
the flesh of some lean and tough poultry. Yet, by
/teane such as these, it is dteslared that upwards of
. is" 0,000 idolaters in that quarter of the globe alone
ye been 'redeemed to a belief in Christianity.
K °weeer, the matter here considered is one demand-
`ng the serious attention of the public—aiding them,
as these statements cannot fail to do, in their effort
tO
n ",nlPrehend the progress of the Jesuit party in
11--gi.i.and by watching the movements of their brethren
-etneostan.

ZLE A
"K HOUSE. .No. 111. By Charles Dickens.
• IVlAtared and raeltowed in style, " Boz" is as fresh as
flyer
h in on Bleak House, which seemed i
° two first numbers to commence in a subdued
to
4111 auch as even filled our mind with disappoint-
81ft+ has already in the third number developed it-
with a
vigour and rapidity that promise to ren-
der 4 trot Unworthy of the pen of our incomparable
aovelist"--one who, without extravagance, may b
csll
d.._e.d the Le Sage of his generation.. Extrci3ing
ofalng his lifetime an influence that Le Sage never
tried—read by thousands and thousands almost
the instant of publication—his green numbers
059ng simUltaneously on the tables of the artizin and
the patrician—we exult to find a genius possessini
~0139.w"sibility,sr in some respects so very solemn in its re.
always displaying itself in the inculk
',On.
or, the worship of the gooq, the gentle, and the
u'autitul. Seldom has the large heart of Charles
rtl
kc,
4.'lens revealed this tendency more conspicuously
lar, i.. n the May instalment of hia new fiction.
Esther. becomes more loveable than ever (uncon-
eivusly to herself) in the writing of her autobio-
L'PV. Mr. Jarndyce himself, capital fellow
bgla he is, with his perpetual terror of the ess.--
4) and his uncomfortable liability to he "floored
-g'lrl" his his nose put out .of joint by his friend
former school fellow Lawrence Boythorn, who
literally
bursts into the narrative, takes the reader's
Partiality by
storm, and gives promise of being one
of the most glorious creations of the author, to whom „
world is already indebted for such beings as Old
iValler, and Tom Pinch, and Captain Cuttle, sad
Trari.ll
—mon, and John isMr.jultellini, tuid_