The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-02 00:00:00

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f Passion and rivalry to be altogether satisfactory,
proceeds slowly, and 31r. Kinglake's famous
volumes on the Crimea are criticised at some length.

The Cornhill.

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"The Small House at Allington" is continued,
and some striking scenes are introduced into its
narration. In the first place the squire makes a visit
to the Smell House, thereby greatly disturbing
Mrs' Dales mind, inasmuch as he introduces the
question of a marriage between Bell and Bernard.
14113' shows want of sense in her fussy demeanour
about Crosbie's letters, and as we are ingeniously
shown an uncomfortable kind of feeling is springing
up between her and her family, as her mother and
sister recognise too truly the unwelcome fact that
Lily's new home will be no place for them. Johnny
Eames is becoming much more spirited, and his ad-
,venture with the bull is told in a dashing manner.
Lord de Guest, for once, seemed to recognise the
services that had been rendered to him, and when
b. Johnny said he would have got to the gate without
im, his lordship curtly observed " Yes, with my
feet foremost and four men carrying me." This
author
excels in small traits of disposition
Which, unnoticed by the common observer, go
!ar to make up a character. Thus when Lord
de Guest had once before found Johnny Eames
wandering in his park, he had casually pro-
Posed his coming up to the House and
taking a glass of wine, he did not wish the young
Man to agree, and Johnny had the discernment to
refuse, On the day of the bull-fight, however, the
Proposal was renewed, and this time, " his lordship
intended that his offer should be accepted." " Aids
to Beauty, Real, and Artificial," contain some use-
ful hints. It is truly said that "the art of adorn-
ing the person is the earliest art acquired by the
savage, and the last relinquished by reluctant
old age." There are many who might profit
by the warning here tendered to them. For
instance, it is said, that fortunes are made by cos-
metics, and this wise advice is given to the would-
be beantiful. " There is but one grand cosmetic,
and that is health." Many various points come
under consideration, and are appropriately dis-
cussed in this sketch, which it would be well if many
took to heart and studied, and then we need not
fear to see them sacrifice their health iu the
adoption of absurd plans to make themselves
Other than nature has designed them, " Ro-
Itola" is continued at some length, but
it does not become less lugubrious in its progress.
This story does not at all coincide with the others
by the same author, and in its sad details and mys-
terious incidents we lack the vigour and decision of
its gifted predecessors. In this instalment Romola
bee lost confidence in her husband Tito, and is
ready to denounce him as accessory to a conspiracy.
"Relative cost of the French and British Armies" is a
readable paper, that will doubtless be attractive at
the present time when the notion of retrenchment is
so very prevalent. It is here said that "after the
authentic instances of negligence and waste which
We have described, we can be at no loss to discover
why it is that the cost of our military stores is so
enormous, and the expense of clothing our army so
disproportionate to that incurred for the clothing
of the French ;" " The Dark Church in Vienna'
is a peculiar sketch of the " Secret Society." Vari-
ous other subjects of interest are met with in this
periodical.