The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-16 00:00:00

NEWMARKET.

Newmarket for centuries has been the centre of the
racing world, and has hitherto been a guide-star to all other
places in the country where race-meetings have been esta-
blished.

Newmarket has a prestige which can never be destroyed
while a love of the sport is inherent in the English heart.
It is the spot where, par excellence, the great magnates of
the turf frequently, and almost exclusively, assemble to en-
joy and practise the sport of which Newmarket is the
centre. The power of their position is there felt more
potently tar than at any other meeting, no matter what its
locality may be. At race meetings generally, there is a
levelling of ali ranks; at Newmarket, on the contrary, there
is the elevation of one. Indeed, we might almost say that
there is but one rank there, and that the highest,

A goodly street is the main street of Newmarket.
Broad and ample, it has an imposing appearance, and can-
not but strike the stranger. But how quiet it is! No-
thing in the place appears to move, la it inhabited by a
people permanently located here ? Standing in the centre
of tau town, one might almost doubt the existence of resi-
dent Nowmarketonians. To be sure there are houses on
each side to make up the noole street, but they must have
been built to make up a show of a tuvin. There are shops,
too; they have a ghostly appearance; they never could
have been meant for customers.

The uninitiated into those more than Eleusinian
Mysteries may feel some interest in this

PEEP AT TATTERSALL9'.
We wonder what people in the country imagine Tatter-
sall's to be? What do the great bulk of the people of this
metropolis imagine Tattersrll's to be ? Surely it must, in
their Imuds, be associated with the mysterious —a place re-
specting which tt is difficult tor them to pieture anything
like the reality to themselves. Perhaps they seldom trouule
themselves to accomplish that mental operation; but still
sometimes the wonder must flash across their minds
what Tattersall's—the material Tattersall's—" the Corner"
—the great betting centre of the world—what the place
really is. The grew niejority of those a ho study Tattereall't,
perhaps seldom think 01 the place as a place; they mere')
look at the transactions, glance at the odds, compare them
Witll their books, and care little about the temple whence

issue those figures which make their winnings or their losse
solid facts. How often in years gone by have we, with that
wonder which the mysterious and unknown must ever
create in the mind, read the attractive "heading" which
appears in the morning pap3rs, and introduces the transac-
tions which "the Corner" of the night before has produced
The entrance to Tattersall's is anything but imposing or
attractive. It resembles more than anything else the en-
trance to the mews of some aristocratic square. There is a
gateway of considerable space, which any stranger would
declare led to some coach houses and stables. And so it
does, in truth, but then it leads to something else besides.
About mid% ay down this entrance passage, on the lett
hand side of the way, is a low square brick building, which
in its outward appearance resembles a lock-up house, It is
built somewhat after the fashion of a classic temple, without
the ornaments. It might be termed a rude Doric in its
character, if it be built upon any style of architecture at all,
which we doubt. It would just do as well for an enormous
sarcophagus as a subscripti9n-rootn, although it server the
latter purpose, and without complaint. Over the entrance
is an announcement in gat letters, that the building is the
subscription-room. This room is illuminated by two or
three windows, which, prison-like, are protected by strong
iron bars, from which a stranger might be led to the infer-
ence that the outsiders are of such an impetuous tempera •
ment, that without such safeguard, they would occasionally
make unceremonious incursions into the interior by means
of the so-protected windows.
The two great days upon which to see Tattersall's are the
Sunday before the Derby and the Monday after that great
race. The subscription-room is closed on the Sunday, but
in its plaae, and to supply the convenience for which it was
erected, the habitues, or rather the subscribers, assemble
upon a circular piece of ground to the left of the subscrip-
tion-room, and which is designated "the Lawn." It is
really a lawn, and is perhaps about half an acre in extent,
being bounded on one I,ide by the backs of the houses of the
north-western corner of Belgrave•square, and on the other
side by the subscription•room and the passage-way leading
to Tattersall's.

It is not necessary, and it is not our intention, to canvass
or describe the general character of those who visit Tatter-
sall's on the day before the Monday that precedes the
Derby. Perhaps there is no general character to describe,
for there is scarcely one amongst the crowd we see there on
that particular occasion, that is in appearance like his neigh-
bour. Members of the two houses of the Legislature are
in profusion there, for staid M.P.'s leave the study of their
blue books to personally ascertain what ara the latest doings
on the " blue ribbon of the turf." There can be no doubt
that the interest in the great race is all but universal, and
that the Derby sweeps all classes into he vortex,

The passages we have here given will abundantly
serve to illustrate Mr. Collins's smart style and
spirited descriptions. His book will certainly
amuse his readers, although we cannot bestow any
very high commendations upon the construction of
his plot or upon the catastrophe of his denouement.

Elements of the Anatomy and Diseases of the Teeth.
By H. T. K. Ktmpton, .F.L.S. One vol., pp. 173.
Hdrdwicke.
Although an elementary treatise admirably well
adapted for the Lstru.tion of junior students in

dentistry, Mr. Kempton's very readable volume is
calculated also to secure to itself the attention of no
inconsiderable portion of the reading public gene-

rally. The author has had the unprofessional
reader, in fact, distinctly in his view while writing
these pages—the style of the little work being, for
the most part, as entertaining as the information it
conveys is eminently useful. The utility of the
book for the chance reader of it, we should add, is
simply this—that it serves distinctly to hold out
a warning against ignorant neglect, otherwise calcu-
lated to be very injurious indeed in its conse-
quences. The volume is embellished with several
clever explanatory itlustrations showing the struc-
ture of the teeth and gums, as well as the nervous
system in connection with those delicate and
complicated portions of our anatomy. One omis-
sion observable in the treatise, we cannot
but regard as a mistake—although the rea-
son given by the writer to account for this
omission is comprehensible, we might even say com-
mendable, enough in itself. 'What we are referring
to, is the intentional avoidance here of any account
whatever of the various mechanical arrangements
nowadays employed in the structure and adjust-
ment of artificial teeth—a matter surely of the ut-
most interest to those (and, happily for us, we
speak not feelingly) who have reason for re-
garding the arguments here put forward with some
small amount of curiosity. Supposing this par-
ticular theme to have been treated upon, however,
Mr. Kempton acknowledges that he dreaded lest the
details must needs have proved little better than
simply unintelligible to the general reader—while,
from the necessary compression of the subject in a
popular form, it would virtually have been useless,
or at the very least have run the risk of proving
useless, to the junior student in dentistry. Notwith-
standing this twofold reason for the omission, we
cannot but think that the author would do well, in
any subsequent edition of his little work, to extend
its scope, so far as might enable him to touch upon
the subject here referred to, no matter how britfly,
in the form of an appendix or addendum.

Culture and Sefieulture. By Samuel Neil. Bvo.,

PP. 90. Houlaton and Wright.

As a motto affixed to the very cover of this sen-
sible little Guide to the Improvement of the Mind
and Life, the writer (already favourably known as
the author of " Composition and Elocution') has
selected that epigrammatic utterance of Cardinal
Wiseman's, on the sixteenth of last month, down
at Southampton—
" Self- culture is the essence of all Education."

An axiom that ought, certainly, to be taken to heart
by every student, no matter how, far• or how slightly,
advanced in his studies. A generation or two since
the guide-book in this direction was one,
even uow occasionally, to be procured for
a few pence upon the old bookstalls
work but little read, though well deserving a
rusal, we mean Watts' almost obsolete pages
'• Oa the Improvement of the Mind." Another
Samuel than Samuel Neil—to wit that healthy,
manly, heartening, writer, Samuel Smiles, has illus
trated the old theme of late years in a very remark-
able way through the medium of his delightful
chapters entitled " Self Help." He has there en-
forced by example, in fact. what was theoretically
and most eloquently maintained as a thesis the other
day by his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, in the
Institute at Southampton. As a shilling handbook
to some of the wisest yet simplest schemes of
self-culture, Mr. Neil's little treatise is worthy
of winning for itself a wide circulation. It
will induct its readers pleasantly enough into a
rational appreciation of the Elements of Self-
Culture, the Means of Self-Culture, and the
Method of Self-Culture. The three central chapters
of the five into which the treatise is subdivided,
will be found of especial interest, relating as they
do respectively to reading, to conversation, and to
thought and the culture of thoughtfulness,