The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

Macmillan's Magazine.

Although it is one of the briefest papers in the
current number of " Macmillan," Dr. Hamilton's
111,erginalia of Lard Macaulay" is one of the most
valuab!e, as it is certainly also one of the most
amusing. It has reference to the marginal notes
discovered in the pile of shabby books, which BR
recently as the Ch of Mitch was scattered under
the auctioneer's hammer, books constituting,
as the advertisement intimated, very attractively a
portion of Lord Macaulay's library. "Whatever," says
the writer, "may be the gratification of individuals in
thus obtaining personal relics of our great histo-
rian, we cannot help regretting that some of the
best materi,ls for elucidating his own mental his-
tory are thus irretrievably scattered. Not only do
these books throw light on his studious habits—on
the heroic industry and lynx eyed watchfulness
with which he ranged over all the realms of litera-
ture—but they reveal the sources from which his
own wondrous wealth was gathered, the nidua
where many a gem was found, now speaking in is
own matchless mosaic. And, with his habit of
marking the day when he began and finished a
volume, had they been kept together, these books
might in some degree have supplied the place of a
literary journal." It is a lost opportunity, now-
ever, that it is vain now to lament over, for it is past
recovery. How "spicy"—to use a vulgarism that
would have been reprobated as slang by the fine-
lady mother in Caarles Reade's novel of " Very
Hard Cash"—how spicy these marginal notes of
Nlacaulay's are, at times, may be conjectured upon
our quoting just one of them. It is a verdict upon
the portrait of Bishop Horne—"A a ile countenance ;
the face of an imputient buffoon." With all pos-
sible respect for the Dean of Canterbury, we would
hope that that learned divine may henceforth eschew
rhyming, if " Be just and fear not," is in any way
to be regarded as a favoure)le specimen of his
rhythmical powers. The fourth line in the sub-
joined quatrain will be recognised as an almost
exact plagiarism of the second m one of Campbell's
stanzas in his poem on the Rainbow.

Show thou thy light. If conscience gleam,
Sat not the bushel down ;
The smallest spark may send his beam
O'er hamlet, tower, and town.
Here follows Cdtripbelt's—
Rnw glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town,
Or mirrornd in the ocean vast
A thousand fathoms down.
What, possibly, Dr. Bowring can be about in
writing such antiquated twaddle, as the little paper
of his entitled " A Bewitched King," we cannot for
the life of us conjecture. The rest of the April
number of Nlacmitlan's is very various—John Ruf-
fini giving three more chapters of his clever serial
story, " Vincenzl, of Sunken Rocks "—the piece de
resistance of David Masson's Cambridge Magazine !
Thomas Hare des.ants soberly upon a certain
" Ideal of a Local Government for the Metropolis."
\lr. Goldschmidt tells very agreeably a Danish
story anent" M 3 Uncle and his House." While Miss
Muloch presents us with a strange paper about a
school, under the fantastic title (the paper not the
school) of " Children of Israel." Besides which a
Servian Senator has something here to say about
his own country, and Dr. Abdy something else fully
,s appropriate, and still more impressive, under the
tircumstances, about Poland and the Pules.

London Society.

Ephemeral though the letter-press of London
Society is, for the most part, it is innocent and
amusing from first to last. While as an illustrated
chilling periodical it is really and truly sme-
lling marvellous. "Most of the embellishments are
:harmingly well done—the eff:ct of each number,
IA whole, being absolutely brilliant. Few will
reel any surprise, however, at the fact being as we
ere put it quite truthfu:ly, when it is found, as in
:he April nuruber bilore us, the " Court Number" as
t is appropritely called, an artist like Edward Cor-
muld has contrihu'ed the first and the last picture
',tit of a throng of bnuliful illustrations : the first
')eing a p strait of the Queen, the lest
f the Princess Alice. Both most gracefully
'rown ; and each of them an admirable
.keness. Besides these, there are in this " Court
-umber" of London Society portraits of the Prince
find Princess of Wales side by side (very in-
iifferent likenesses, these), and—upon opposite
pages— portraits of the Prince and Princess
'hristian of Denmark. Besides which engrav-
ings apropos to the late royal marriage, there are
ethers more or less directly associated in subject
with it. There is an interesting drawing of the
wedding gift from the King of Denmark to
the Fair Young Bride the already famous
Digmar cross and necklace. There is a
ketch of the interior of St. George's Chapel,
it Windsor, as it appeared during the breath-
ess interval of expectation when the Bride-
:;room was " Waiting for the Bride." Kenny
Vleadows has a ridiculous little picture—full of
mannerisms at every touch—and entitled, without
!ny apparent meaning whatever, "The Sea Kings'
Daughter; or, Bridal Greetings." An oddly-ima-
.4ined, boldly-drawn jumble of horses and men
is the one called "My First Court Suit." While
"Going to Court—How I went," both the writer
with his pen, and the artist with his pencil may be
'escribed as good humouredly poking fun at the
Fashionable&

Good Words,
Daring though the title is in its assumption, it is still
~ot unworthy of its name. The literary contents for
the most part continue to reflect honour upon the
ditorial discrimination of Dr. Norman Macleod, and
upon the abilities of his skilled and many of them
eminently gifted contributors. In this April num-
bar alone there is an "Essay for Sunday Reading"--
an admirable substitute for a sermon, written by
Dr. John Caird, the author of the far-famed and
beautiful discourse upon " The Religion of Common
Life." Dr. Caird's subject in this fourth essay of hie
in Good Words is—withncss to the segson, the incident it refers to having
paper
The Alabaster
Box of Ointment." There is a paper also in this
immediately precededtheaPn
the Parables one afterr
worthy of the
mßster-f.and that wrote it—a paper penned in fact
uanuotthhreier:
number upon "The Sun "—a
by Sir John Hernhel. Dr. Henry
asesxiognis7 aPPropriate-
Rogers gives us a
learned disquisition upon " Coat," D ri •
comments, this time, upon the ever-lovely parable
of ~ The Good Samaritan." Mr. John Ho!lingshead,
as becomes so practised a man of letters, writes
currents edam() and with
1 exhilarating ease a
genuine magHzine tale, d
Pettie, called " Not Aboverolly illustrated by John
his Business." Among
th, illustrators of G
no+4lll
, -.A name, _••‘‘ Good Words still we find the
J E.
miitais. stilt we recognise the notable hand of
"I.ittt . The Scotch Collier-Poet's ode to his
• e Wile"—we mean David Wingate's, of
Blackwood—has quite . . manifestly suggested the re-
train of the petty stanzts about " Cousin Winnie :"
to
which T. Morten—apparently makingsketched his design
with a blunt slate pencil—has a rough but
gracetul embellishment.

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