The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-01 00:00:00

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DITIoN

',!Pre cannot deny that a .strain of hedthy, manly thinking
vodos the article. " Robin Hood and M. ng Richard"
old
a Plua.vint imitation, even to the quaint spelling, of the
. English ballads tyle. " Cathrine, a Stimy," is a
clever tale, of the quzziesl order ;e it is, howev-r, too
long. The " Thr,:e S:-.)tin•As by Sir Morgan O'Doherty".
which close the- number, are more to be praised for
their humour than their politica.

TEE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE,
For a correct knowledge of the feudal system, as it
existed in Poa.ad so late as the middle of the eighteenth
century, tomes innumereble might be waded through
by the historical student, without obtaining half th
valuable irtfarmation contained in a single article in the
UnTersity Magivne of this mouth. This ar-
ticle is entitled " A Polish Chateau in the last Cen-
tury?, being a translation of the Journal of Fraeceise
Kr a Nish Lady of high rank, written when
she was only in her seventeenth year. Of all reeding
the. most delightful is the Journal of a young and lively
awl, bred in pod principles, and with a mind cult.-
vated b.
.0 such studies As are common to young persons
ithrothuegheourse of an elegant education. 'lnc prism
which every object is viewed imparts to it a
en°veltY, and a freshness, which redeems, :exalts, and
autifies it. We are surprised to find the most common-
Place topics interest us; and to discover ourselves coin-
i
pelled, as it were, to sympathise with the
author in
"'saPPoiritmente .them the merest tliflee. The " Women
of Ireland" is a clever sketch, but by no means So com-
Preheusive, as the subject would have warranted with-
out the poisibdity of being tedious. We select one.
Pass from it as calling for the serious attention of
nien.in every country where there aro circulating lib-
raries
" This is one great reason why much novel-reading of
abe n
y kind, and all reading of bad and trashy novels, should
carefully interdicted. They are far more pernicious to
omen than to men. Almost
every men has f necessity
much collision with the realities of life, going forth to
his work and labour till the evening, in th:s draggletail
ddisretary.dun of a workyday world, that the interference and
14bee of real business and worldly interests must
stieirviile to rouse him perforce from idle dreams, and disen.
/rant hint from any spell of re:mance in which he m.
may have
Y entang
• tercet
his imagination. But with a girl it is not
,c'eest Living at home, with no property to manage, no tin-
cultivate, no family to pro,ide for, no contentions
tilltiethe bar, no designs to fore ard at court, ii, the camp, or
c°l4ol—no bargains .to manage there wh re niers
""Antts most do congregate"—nothing, in short, which she
I.4oernot, in some measure, transform and accommodate to
L Own ideal world—she may 'very easily—if she yield to,
outer neiginvi__
pallre ses—live as it were in a dream, a
riPeee to her real dunes, and wasting all her energies
"a' sYrnpathies on unattainable combinations of eircuna.
Itances or undesirehle combinations of qualities. Thus
lia may regard her fist suitor (a short, fat, good-natured,
red, fay
man, of no particular age, and an excellent
estate in the county)
as repulsive and detestable wretch,
y whom
.a sheisto be sacrificed for money; or she may
thethy curate of the neighbouring parish, or
sighing subaltern of a marching regiment, whom she
els aethe county ball, in all the glories of one of her
Isivoured knights of romance.
self- In any else, she stores up much unhappiness for her-
t • For at the best, and supposing no actual imprudence
t'ori.esult, she must at length wake up, as a married woman,
„, butcher's bills and brewing, to suckle babes and chro-
nicle small beer, to plaguy servants, smoky chimneys,
squalling children, and, above all, to imagined neglects or
want of enderness and lover.like attention on the part
°E itr good man. Cauca and ftnt then carry on their
action and re-action. But the natural death of
)ee is an ungrateful and ungracious theme, on which we
sir- riot to dwell. It fret aril worries (and injures us,
xil'oaot)ure a
to,
despicotnlay hollow,llthatseems best and most amiable in our
and fugitive, and iilusery. It is
quite atiother thing to guard against misapprehension and
rnisteke—tit teach the fanciful arid, perhaps, wayward girl
thetshe must open her eves upon the ups and downs, the
cleude and sunshine of married life; which, for our last-
ing good are so diversified, and from which solid happi-
tle'sB may be extracted by a well-regulated spirit, well
really reesonable expectations; but which yet is so unlike
e cloudless paradise of a dreamy girl's imagination, that
the knurl who hits dwelt in th it intoxicating atrn,sphere,
is a creature helples,ly unfit to live and breathe in the
terrestriel air of connubial reality.
' 'What is, perhaps, still more to be deplored is, that
such an one undertakes her character in the chang-
ing drama of life, ignorant of its duties, and but coldly
disPoF,ed to the performance of them, when the unwilling
knowledge is forced upon. her. They are too humble and
unostentatious for her excited spirit. The sacrifices they
require am.• too pee y, too ingkeious, too unseen for her to
take any delight in their performance. Re it life proves
to her, as it were, a cheat and a fraud. The lesson of
ditappoiniment may p-ove too hard Lr a mind an undisci-
plined and - ntetbien, and thee there is great danger, that
instead of unravelling the dreams of her youth, rind sub-
miring cheerfully to the un-xpected and uninvi:ing c.lls
of duty, sbe may coldly retire into her own storied
chum-
Jim of imagery, become soured in her temper and peevish
is Net and voice, withdrew from all uer social duties and
afections, and abandon herself to the seducing dr ems of
romantic excitement tha: load the book•shelv.-s of her
closet. Some, at least, we know there are, v‘hc, have suf-
fered years to glide away in a dreamy state of suspended
animation as to all the useful purposes of their menial ;
who have fed upon scenes, and events, and enjoyments of
their own unressizahle creation, till they have even reduced
to the pei hie but criminal condition of turning a deaf
;lar, an enfeebled intellect, a cold heart, and a reluctant
rand to the real calls of duty—till they have derived
ITie pleasure from the mixed and me&rate enjoyments
7, 1 life, and found aggravated and exaggerated bitterness
e Its common disappointments."
," Sch ilieo the Painter," is one of those tales of
Getman Dial:lt-tie, which the admirers of Lewis's aud
4Adeliffe'e romances will peruse with thrilling interest.
It borders, however, too'much on the horrible, and the
Intwat, if any
cull be sought to be conveyed by it, is radi-
-3' Lase, ant(aid
consequently evil. Thu political broad-
, e from the Orange Camp fired at the Irish Adini-
lllste •
°lon of Lord Normanby, comes too late. It
td;' 111(1 have accompanied Lord Roden's motion, and it
rirmeht have been brought to bear upon the whole Cabi-
tlet at the critical moment. The collection of verses is
~t‘ltnerou.s, and. most of them are not without merit.
reviews of " Miller's Modern History," and " Dr.
alue
"tells Political Medicine," are well writteen, but in
e Party and
political spirit.

THE SPORTSMAN. Two vvry handsome engr ivivga etubillish this Num-
ber ; the
" Fruits of the Chase," by Beckwith, from a
Painting by Rhodes, and " Trout Fishing dTri l'ak:"," by the same artist, from a paintingp by
right t' ,11'1 e lite.; try artic!cs are conceived in the
are brief, h
pwviii the ri-ppprobalion of sportsmen. The)
spirits like the winqing
'''f' -"' foil ?f fun and froiic, and rouse the
horn at day-
break, of a huntsman's

NE 6V SPO G MAGAZINE.
There are two skilfully-engraved plates in the current
number of this Periodical—one headed " The LsA
I/iy of the Thoroughbred," which is an illustration of
13ihd;ii's affeetiatt Fong; of the " High Mettled Racer ;"
and the other, " Girrier Pigeons," the back-ground of
which is as picturi.sque as one of Turner's. Amon.:
the Liter,try conti•nis, we fiact -a lively lA:wm, entitl,d
" oa the Greensward."

C 0 Ul?7' Ad.‘ D LAD Y S MAGAZINE.
This nuitibor is enibeliisued with a coloured en-
graved portraitls„b,ila Stteirt, Duchess of Brittany,
daughter of James the First of Scotland. The portrait,
which is a fivi-length, is taken from an oiiginal paintiin4
preserved in the collection of the King of France. The
literary department of the Numbr.r is better than usual,
mid contains a spirited tale entitled the " Confetsi9 of Cotifes9or." n

MONTHLY LA TV HA GA ZINE.
Tor )isoi L.self in the most rd;;,pant form in
this periodical, ti hich is thing but the grave, dull,
Plodding periodical that it might, from its title, be sup.
Posekl to be. On the contrary, it is written in a fe4.less,
caustic spirit, and were its polities as goon{ as its style.
should have nothing to object to it. The " Metro-
p" itan Police Bill," which of course abuses Ministers
'4tth right good display; no slight power of cutting
liTrlpy. The
is banter :bout the Lord Mayor and the
cap
‘-'ororation ital.

DIIE NETT MONTHLY BELLE ASSEM.
• BLEE.
zold pls%l)le eollecti,n of original tales and verses,
ilt 11 ptiet' go very moderate, as to place it within the
're"ch of the humblest admirers of light literature. We
fancy' most of the contributors are amateurs, and so
erLY"i'g as hardly to have experienced the influence
h the pzission which forms the subject of the bu'k of
their effusions, Youth is the most melancholy season
"--th" season of tears and tomb-scAing ; and
wherever we find stanzas about broken hearts, we think
of authors of eighteen or twenty at the utmost. To
this rule
ceptiens. the love verses of older authors are but ex-

TIIE FARMER'S MAGAZINE
tPrY useful publication to farmers generally, but
on„
twilich we cannot wish to see extensively men-
n'e,,4 "long agriculturists, as it advocates the conp-
nee of the present Corn-law starvation system.
wa. remera arc not a remarkably clear-beaded race, cud
fa!' n once they have imbibed notions which they
„,ncn3', or are toll, square with their interests, subse-
e
t reasoning, in any form make but a slight t4lllortss:on up on them. The number is embellished
fwoirt.lll an engraving; of a very fine specimen of the Hat-
ux.

TEE ASIATIC JO URNAL.
We have remarked for a long time an extraordinary
e4ning to Russia in the articles on Oriental politics
which appear in this periodical. Why this is so we do
net know, fur we do not credit those reports which
appear to have made such an impression upon Mr.
Attx'o4, of Russia having direct organs among the
Periodical press of this coun!ry. The object of this
we qinark is not to excite a prejudice against a generally
ll
conduct monthly journal, but to call the atten-
the of
4tV,s-edia.a
ant rropretors to the
ftalaslng rPcerLi F..3ch
t4i.l4ges,..eknPulEr;-: ppoir.traeats
; ".,0043tony
:..1 ortutie-ilaracirs, t..thd injia

Zhe article on the " Cultivation of Tea in British
India" derives a considerable interest from the recent
suspension of our trade with China ; and the public
will learn with delight that we shall not long continue to
be dependant for a beverage, now become one of the
rt-ceisaries of life, upon the caprice or jealousy of the
Chinese authoMies. The tea plant is now not only cul-
tivated extensively in the district of Assam, but has
been found to flourish in several other regions of British
India ; and there is reason to hope that with proper en-
ceur_tgement enough of it can he produced a a sof&
c'eidly low price to equalize its consionipion i.m.ing all

..iasses of our fellow-countrymen. " On the Literary
taste of tiv. Orientals," is a sketch abounding in striking
anecdotes connected with the progress of li:eraaire in

the East from the rise of Motiarnmedism to the doNnfall
of the Kbalifat of Bilgdad. OF Oriental
gleaned from the Indian Press, there is an abundant and
choice selection in this number. As a whole, however,
it is less varied and interesting than usual. -