The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-04 00:00:00

Virtue Brothers and Co.

The author of these clever little treatises has, in
compiling them, followed out an excellent gene-
ralised idea of his own. "it I were allowed," he
says, in his introduction, " to advise anyone desirous
of occupying his leisure in the study of nature, I
should say--' Take one single natural, object ; find
out all that is known respecting it, and then try
and find out something new.' " This is precisely
what he has here himself done in these hundred and
odd pages : his experiments being illustrated occa-
sionally with apt little woodcuts. Camphor and
Dew are the subjects he has selected for experiment
and disquisition. How agreeably and instructively
in the result, any reader, who cares for these kind
of philosophic inquiries, will do well to see for him-
self by a perusal of Mr. Tomlinson's volumette.

MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES.
Several of the mv,azines and periodicals having
come to hand after " Magazine Day," we are con-
strained as usual to notice nearly the pick among
them, and those even thus briefly and together.
Temple Bar (tike "Once a Week" now in this par-
ticular), finds its chief attraction in the serial pub-
lication of a new story by the authoress of " Lady
Audley's Secret." Miss Braddon's latest sensa-
tional venture, here, in 7emple Bar, being three
additional chapters of "John Marchmont's Legacy."
They will hardly add to her reputation. Mr. Sala's
seventh "Breakfast in Bed" (rather a vulgar title)
is called this month (still more vulgarly) " On
the Condition of my Poor Feet." The same pro-
lific writer has some wellstimed recollections, in
another paper, of " One Day in Denmark." Edmund
Yates contributing a vivacious article entitled,
" Put to the Test."— The St. James's can hardly be
said now to have any notable serial at all since
Albany Fonblanque's "Tangled Skein" was un-
ravelled and wound up. " Aubrey Marston," there
is, " or, The Game of Speculation"—entire and com-
plete, though not a literary chrysolite. The Hermit
of Belgravia, Masquerades at the Pantheon—Mary
Bennett sings another of those interminable wel-
comes "To Alexandra"—and other contributors are,
in turn, as industrious but not a jot more original.—
The Sixpenny Magazine is chiefly remarkable this
month for, inasmuch as it contains no less than
five more chapters of " Talbot of Earn's Cliffe,"
and as many as six more of " The Scapegoat."
Another instance of vulgarity, here, being the
twelfth illustration of Popular Fallacies, absurdly
entitled " A Rare Spree! What a Lark ! Such Fun."
Dr. Winslow's Quarterly Psychological Journal,
just published simultaneously with the April maga-
zines, leads off with an eminently philosophic paper
"On the Nature of Volition"—a metaphysical
treatise, penned by Mr. Lockhart Clarke, F.R S.
Perhaps the most interesting contribution of all in
Newton's London Journal of the Arts and Sciences
(of which, by the way, the present issue is the
"hundredth") is the notice it contains of Devey's
Life of Mr. Locke, the late eminent engineer.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right lion. Henrietta Elizabeth,
Dowager Countess Granville, late of Hereford-
street, Park-lane, was proved in London on the 19th
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£16,000. Her ladyship was a daughter of the fifth
Duke of Devonshire; K.G., and married to the late
Earl Granville, P.C., G.C.8., Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris, who died in
1846, and had issue three sons and two daughters.
Her ladyship, who died in November last, executed
ethstenri't.heLoeyxdec:ltors
her will in 1857, and two codicils in 1860-1. The
will is signed Henrietta Elizabeth, and the codicils
Harriet Granville. Her ladyship appoints her son,
the present Earl, a trustee with her other son, who
is the solo executor, and is heir presumptive to the
earldom. Her ladyship bequeaths to her son, Earl
Granville, the plate; and to her daughter, Lady
Rivers, she leaves the residue of her property. This
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is subject to the payment of five annuities—namely,
one of £3O, two of £3O, and two of £25. These are
chic left to the servants of the testatrix.
The personalty was sworn under
house, near Croydon, formerly of Greenhill, near
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was the uncle of Lord
1 Overstone, and was formerly a banker at Manches-
ter and a magistrate for the
county of Lancashire.
His will bears date 1855, and he died on the 30th
of January last, aged 83.
the interest He bequeaths to his wife
of £lOO,OOO Three per Cents., and
absolute legacy of £6,500,t0 thP ge er with a residence
and the plate and furniture; but books and pic-
tures at her decease he leaves to his eldest son, to
whom
he has devised his freehold and other
estates.
To each of his sons he leaves
a legacy of £lOO,OOO
sterling, and to each of his daughters (for whom
a prior provision has been made) a legacy of £5,000.
The will of Mr. George Forbes, of Bereleigh-
house, Petersfield, Hants, was proved in London
by the executors, Mr. James Stuart Forbes, the
testator's brother, and Mr. Daniel Boys and Mr.
Alex. Forbes Tweedie, of Ely-place, London. The
personal property was sworn under £140,000. The
testator held the office of Deputy-Lieutenant for
Middlesex and Westminster, and was a magistrate
of that city and town, also for Hants and Aberdeen.
Mr. Forbes was a son of the late Sir Chas. ForbeP,
and married in 1843, and had only attained tbe age
of 58 when he died, in January last. His will be_ life
date 1855, whereby be bequeaths to
his wife a
and
interest in his estates, both real and personal,
upon her decease be devises the freeholds to his
eldest sou or other issue; but should no child
attain a vested interest therein, then he devises his
real estates to the second son of his brother, Sir
Charles, and bequeaths his personal estate among
his (testator's) children, but, in failure, then to
hews and nieces; bequeathing to his sister,
I,ep
Katharine, and his brother, Sir Charles, each a
legacy of £l,OOO, also £lOO to each of his men-
tom—lllustrated News.