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London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

LITERATURE,

The Fine Arts Quarterly Review. No. I. Royal
evce, pp. 224. Chapman and Hall.
A more admirable first appearance we certainly
cannot recall to mind, than that which here fixes
public attention at once upon this most welcome
addition to the number of our Quarterlies. It is
superbly " got up" to begin with—being exqui-
eitely printed, from a new fount of type, upon the
loveliest thick, glossy, tinted paper—illustrated
here and there with a select few of the very choicest
embellishments. As the prospectus had already
informed the public, before tt e apparitive of the
first number of this new periodical, it is ushered
into the world of letters and art under the very
highest patronage. Her most gracious Majesty the
Queen, several of their Royal Highnesses, his
eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and other distin-
guished promoters of the interests of the fine arts,
both in this country and abroad, have long since
been announced by the originators of the enterprise,
as having inscribed their names, not only readily
but eagerly, upon the list of the subscribers. The
line Arts Quarterly Review, therefore, starts
under the happiest auspices. It is secure
from the very commencement of its career,
in the front rank, among the chief of the first
class organs of periodical literature—it is secure,
from the very outset, of finding itself recognised,
and even, it may be said, gladly welcomed at all
the great public institutions, in the Royal Library
at Windsor Castle, in the Queen's Private Library,
in the libraries of almost all the Royal palaces of
Europe, us well as in many of the mansions of
the private collectors upon the continent, and in
most of those scattered throughout the United
Kingdom. Mr. Wood ward, the Librarian in Ordi-
nary to her Majesty, and officially also the Keeper
of the Prints and Drawings at Windsor Castle, has
undertaken the office of editorship to The Fine Arts
Quarterly. A guarantee of itself of the efficiency
with which it is proposed that the enterprise shall
be carried out in every department. Having pre-
mised thus much in regard to the design of this
new and most important periodical, we turn now
to the initial number of it here published, in order
to see how far that first number shows that original
design to have been, as yet, (so far as in one
number it could be) realised. Lavater has some-
where said that, if, upon first meeting any man,
you are unfavourably impressed by his bearing and
physiognomy, no matter how eharme& or fascinated
you may be by him upon a further acquaintance—
never forget that first impression! According to
Lavater's view, that first impression having about
it, in some most subtle and mystical way, an infal-
lible significance. Now, to a very considerable ex-
tent, we cannot but think that exactly the converse
to this might be maintained quite as confidently.
It certainly does appear to us to hold good, in refe-
rence to most of the new ventures in periodical lite-
rature. There was a case in point very recently,
in the instance of a weekly publication precisely
carrying out the notion expressed by Lavater's
axiom. A capital paper, in many respects, excel-
lently well written—by name " The Mirror"—and
yet, at our very first glance at the very first num-
ber, we knew for an absolute certainty that the
project mutt, of a dead necessity, fail. It had about
it that je ne sais quoi of an inexpressible something,
that told, as plainly as words even could tell, that
success in that instance was utterly hopeless. Ir
was so, we remember, also, a very few months back,
in regard to another literary weekly, still more
clever than the one already mentioned. A literal.)
weekly tailed The Budget, sparkling with wit and
fun, with humour the most original and audacious
—and yet—so manifestly incapable in its very ap-
pearance of succeeding, that it might almost be said
at its birth to have hung out its escutcheon as its
banner. With this difference only, that on its
escutcheon was nowhere legible —resurgam! Quite
manifestly the very reverse of all this, is the in-
stantaneous first impression produced by number one
of The Fine Arts Quarterly. A certainty of a success
already achieved, of a triumph already assured, is
the result of that first impression. Upon more
carefully examining the contents of the initial num •
ber we may have, as indeed we here certainly have
had, that immediately favourable first impression
corrected and modified to a considerable extent in
regard to several of the lesser particulars, or minor
details. A modification we ourselves could
here and there suggest that if adopted, even
partially, would, to our thinking, lead to
very marked improvements in respect to the
general design, or at any rate in respect to various
parts of the general arrangement. First of all,
however, we would here briefly particularize
among the thirteen principal contributions to this
first number of The Fine Arts Quarterly those
which appear to us more particularly deserving of
notice. As a comprehensive survey of the position
assumed at this epoch in this country by the most
glowing of all the fine arts, the introductory paper
entitled " English Painting in 1862" is undoubtedly
clever, is—more than that—in many respects not
unworthy of the able hand that penned it. The
hand, namely, of that accomplished and versatile
and indefatigable man of letters, familiarly known,
even to the public, as Tom Taylor, now yet more
familiarly identified upon the public placards about,
our streets with a Ticket of Leave Man, meaning
(the placard should, it seems to us, always be ea far
explained) not a veritable garotter, but an eminently
successful play, perhaps among all his dramatic pro-
ductions Tom Taylor's masterpiece. Not, however,
as a dramatist, as a writer of comedy, farce, or
melodrama, does Captain Tom Taylor, of the Rifle
Volunteers, lead off the good men and true, making
up the select,but still numerous,corps of contributors
to The Fine Arts Quarterly. His introductory
paper upon "English Painting in 1862" is penned
by him, rather, it should be said, in his capacity as
an art critic—a capacity so well known already,
and so conspicuously recognisable, that it has
long ago installed him in power among the artists
of his age, as the reviewer or art-critic upon our
chief morning contemporary. Comprehensive and
clever, though the survey here taken by Tom Taylor
in this opening paper in regard to his favourite art, it
stilt, for all that, is marred, we cannot but venture to
hint, by being at once slightly confused and some-
what superfcial. The most remarkable contribtie
lion, as it appears to us, in the whole of this initial
number of The Fine Arts Quarterly, is the one imme-
diately following—the second article,that is, descrip-
tive and explanatory of " H.R.H. the Prince
CONSORT'S Raphael Collection." Among all the tri-
butes,and some of them eminently beautiful tributes,
paid to the memory of our beloved and lamented
Prince, this little paper or treatise is unquestion-
ably about the most .neautitul. A. 3 a recognition of
his consummate taste, of his rare and admirable
enlightenment—more particularly as affording evi-
dence of his (in truth) princely munificence in carry-
ing out a singularly original and refined project for
the development of the general knowledge of art
—this paper upon his Royal Highness's Raphael
Collection is entitled to very careful attention,
and is certain, when examined, to command
the reader's highest admiration. Towards the end
of the paper it is well and most gracefully re-
marked by the writers (Dr. Becker and Mr.
Ruland, formerly 11.R.H.'s librarians) that whereas
the splendid mausoleum at Frogmore will comme-
morate the undying love of the bereaved Sovereign,
while Wulsey's Tombhouse will serve to perpetuate
the warmest affection of their children, " The
Raphael Collection" deserves to be regarded as
peculiarly and especially the Prince Consort's Own
Memorial ! And how noble, and beautiful, and
costly a memorial it will be, who may not readiey
enough conjecture when he learns that the en-
gravings and photographs and drawings consti-
tuting this literally unique Collection will extend,
when put together, to fully as many as fifty magni-
ficent volumes, destined to be received into a cabi
net expressly constructed for them by Mr. Crace—a
Cabinet that when completed and filled will as-
suredly constitute one of the art glories of Windsor
Castle, one of the most precious art treasures of the
United Kingdom. In a paper especially referring
to it, the very title chosen for the contribution
being " Points or Contact between Science and
Art," the masterly lecture delivered upon that
theme very recently at the Royal Institution by
his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, receives, what it
et, couspicuously deserves, the highest commsuda- ,

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tion. It is here spoken of emphatically as a subjec
treated of by his Eminence in that lecture with un-
usual power and felicity of illustration. Already
there are begun in The New Quarterly four series
of papers—papers, that is to Jay, aunounrA at the
end of each " to be continued." Of the merit of
none of these, however, will we venture to express
any decided opinion, until the series shall have been
somewhat further advanced. One gives promise of
providing us with a most entertaining " Eirly
History of the Royal Academy." Another begins
an elaborated estima!e of "The Loan Museum at
Kensington." A third undertakes to analyse
the Catalogue of the Works of Visscber.
The fourth, delightfully anecdotal throughout,
opens up a lively disquisition upon " The
Preservation of Paintings and Drawings•"
Besides the thirteen principal contributions,
the pick of which thirteen we have here particu-
larised, there are several minor papers appended to
The Fine Arts Quarterly—some of them, as instance
the very last, to our mind quite unworthy of being
appended to so noble a publication. Several of the
minor notices, indeed, are almost ludicrously super-
ficial and frivolous. Instance, at p. 219, that of
L ofd's Theory of Proportion in Arcoitecturat
Design. If nothing more or better could be said
of it—better say nothing! Those, however, are but
specks upon the new luminary. What we do now,
and what we here most unhesitatingly do and with.
especial pleasure, is to notify the fact of its rising,
of its radiant rising, above the horizon of art-
literature.

Stamnzerzng and Stuttering : Their Nature and
Treatment. By James Hunt, Ph.D., F.S.A.,
One vol., pp. 256. Fifth Edition. Longman

and Co.

The extraordinary success of Dr. Hunt's' treat-
ment of this unhappily too prevalent affliction is
shown plainly enough by the rapidity with which
edition after edition is published of the work in
which he explains the philosophy of that treatment.
To his pupils the book is gracefully and very appro-
priately dedicated. They are the living illustrations
of the efficacy of the system it expounds—they are,
we may rest assured, the grateful recipients of the
blessings of which that system has already been
productive. They know the truth of every word it
contains from the title. page to the finish. The Fifth
Edition, like its predecessors, wilt be found by those
who consult it, with any previous knowledge of
those predecessors, to be but lightly and cautiously
touched up and improved here and there. The text
of the treatise is still, as formerly, subdivided into
seven chapters. The first defining Stammering and
Stuttering. The second tracing out a great variety of
external influences on articulstion. The third con-
taining within it a wonderfully comprehensive
historical review of the chief theories and modes of
treatment, of which we have any record, for impedi-
ments of speech. Names as renowned as those of
Flerodotus and Aristotle, Demosthenes and
Plutarch, and in later times of Francis Bacon and
Charles Bell, appearing in this ample survey. The
fourth chapter comprises within it the statistics of
psel.ism. Another enumerates the surgical opera-
tions for the removal of stammering. A sixth, in
answer to the inquiry with which it is headed, i‘ Is
Stammering or Stuttering a Disease P" proclaims
stuttering to be no disease whatever, while it ac-
tually declares pselliam to be the mime, instead of
the effect, of disease ! The seventh and final chap-
ter of the work explains fully, lucidly, and agree-
ably the system propounded by the author's father,
the late Mr. Hunt, and, in connexion with that, in
practical development of that, the lenghthened
practice of the author himself. Appendix A con-
tains, in addition to an interesting biography of the
late Thomas Hunt, the opinions entertained in re-
gard to him and his system by such men as Sir
John Forbes, as Robert Liston, the great surgeon,
as John Forster, the editor (during so many years)
of the Examiner, and of Robert Chambers, the
eminent author and publisher. Appendix B, with
which the volume closes, and which is certainly not
its.. least- - important section, comprises, within
three or four pages, some admirable hints to stam-
merers. For inasmuch as it deals practically with
a serious social effiiction, this little treatise deserves
what we hereby award to it, our earnest commen-
dation as the work of an energetic philanthropist.

?he 7 ouchstone: a Series of Letters. By Thomas
Doubleday. Bvo, pp. 189. Hardwicke.
The writer of these three-and-thirty well thought
out and carefully written letters, cornea before us in
no way as a stranger. As the author of the
"Financial History of England," as the Political
Biographer of Sir Robert Peel, he has been lung
known, and known favourably. The letters here
collected together and republished as a collection,
originally appeared, one by one, at uncertain in-
tervals in the columns of the Newcastle Daily
Chronicle. They there appeared, anonymously,
under the signature of Britannicus. Thep
deserved collecting and they are here collected.
The range of topics in them is curiously ample--
administrative reform, social improvement, cur-
rency revision, being among the prominent themes
here discussed. The writer deserves an audience,
and is always tolerably sure of obtaining one.

Hospital for Consumption and Diseases 0
the Chest, Brompton.

Sermons in aid of the funds of this charity were preached
on Sunday morning as follows :—At St. Paul's, Herne-hill,
by the Bishop of Mauritius ; at St. John's, Clapham-rise,
by the Rev, T. J. Rowsed, rector of St. Margaret's, Loth-
bury; and at Christ Church, North Brixton, by the Rev.
J. Al‘Connell Hussey, the incumbent.
From the very able discourses of the several preachers
iit
appeared that since the opening of the new building, n.
anthde6B7lB bene-
fits 46,
of upwards
theinstitution, of 78,0 OvOi personsviz.,
03nh
aa
sd
as out..patients. The patients were well and kindly cared
for, every comfort and mitigation being brought to bear on
inex-patients
their bodily sufferings, while their spiritual interests were
faithfully looked atter by the chaplain, patients not belong-
ing to the Church of England bring visited by ministers of
their own persuasion. The institution was characterised
as one of the grandest and noblest of our modern hospitals,
and intending contributors were assured that their gifts
would be well and judiciously dispensed in the relief of a
peculiarly interesting form of suffering. The mission of
this charity was to assuage one of the most prevalent and
fatal, and, at the same time, one of the most mysterious
diseases known in this country. The temperate
climate of these islands was favourable to the growth
of a hardy and manly race; but the fitful seasons
and changeable temperature of England too often induced
ailments which became developed into consumption. '1 hug's,
22 years ago, this institution arose from the mere necessi-
ties of our common suffering human nature, the consumptive
pa‘ lent being usually turned away from general hospitals,
from the lingering and fatal character of his disease. Ex-
perience, however, has shown how much could be dune to
check this malady, or to alleviate the sufferings of its vic-
tims; and incurable as it was generally deemed, yet theY
time might arrive when, by the light of advancing science,
consumption would become rare and curable, even as those
fearful scourges of by-gone days, the plague, leprosy, and
small-pox have disappeared, or have been greatly modified.
In the winter 210 in-patients, and in summer nearly 200,
were constantly under treatment in the hospital; 1,116
cases passed through its wards during 1862 ; and 6,019 new
cases were registered as out-patients. The numbers were
steadily increasing. Many had gone from that locality, and
more and mere would apply for treatment at the hospita
now that by the opening up of the new railway they could
have easy and rapid communication with the Brompton
Hospital, a great boon to the poor consumptive invalid.
The expenses were nearly £9,000 per annum ; but the
annual subscriptions were not more than half that sum,
therefore, constant and generous support was needed to
maintain efficiently this useful institution; which benefited
persons not from one particular district, but from the entire
country at large. The bishop and the other clergymen who
had kindly undertaken to plead for the charity, did so with
great earnestness and eloquence, the congregations respond-
ing liberally to the appeals. Inclusive of collections after
thes C. E.
were—at Csat. hpesarurs and
sermons also preached at St. John's, in the evening, by the
Rev. E. Hudson, and at Christ Church, afternoon and even-
ing,HjernMelhilillusise4 4s
y 3
the
at St. John's, Clapham, £34 14s. 6d. :and at Chri;t Church,
Brixton, £44 14s. 4d.
amounts by realised llev

COCK FIGHTING BY A MARQUIS ON A SUNDAY.
—ln a quiet village in the northern part of Leices-
tershire, a few Sundays ago, considerable sensation was
caused by a rumor that the demesne of a certain noble
marquis was fur some hours the arena for the barbarous
spelt of cock fighting. It appears that information of the
occurrence having reached the secretary of the Royal So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, that gentle-
man despatched two of the detective officers of the society to
the locality. The result of these investigations has led to
the laying of an information against the noble marquis in
question and several other gentlemen of position in the
county. The cases are fixed for hearing at Loughborough,
on the 24th inst.