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t
tion. It is here spoken of emphatically as a subjec
treated of by his Eminenca 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 .ay, announced at the
L-nd of each " to be continued." Of the merit of
none of these, however, will we venture to empress
any decided opinion, until the series shall have been
somewhat further advanced. One gives promise of
providing ns with a most entertaining " Early
History of the Royal Academy." Another begins
an elaborated estimate of "The Loan Museum at
Kensington." A third undertakes to analyse
the Catalogue of the Works of Visscher.
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 oyd's Theory of Proportion in Arcaitectnrai
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.

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

The extraordinary success of Dr. Hunt's treat-
ment of this unhappily too prevalent effliction 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, will 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 articulation. 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. Nimes as renowned as those of
Herodotus 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.isin. Another enumerates the surgical opera-
tions for the removal of stammering. A sixth, in
answer to the inquiry with which it is headed, " Is
Stammering or Stuttering a Disease ?" proclaims
stuttering to be no disease whatever, while it ac-
tually declares pselliam to be the cause, 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 'Tomes 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 efdiction, this little treatise deserves
what we hereby award to it, our earnest commen-
dation as the work of an energetic philanthropist.

The 7ouchstone: a Series of Letters. By Thomas
Doubleday. Bvo, pp. 189. Hard wicke.

The writer of these three-and-thirty well thought
out and carefully written letters, comes 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 long
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. They
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 of
the Chest, Brompton.

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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. Rowse'', rector of St. Margaret's, Loth-
bury ; and at Christ Church, North Br:xton, by the Rev.
J. NlTonnell Hussey, the incumbent.
From the very able discourses of the several preachers it
appeared that since the opening of the new building, in
1846, upwards of 78,000 persons had experienced the bene-
fits of the institution, viz., 10,341 as in-patients and 68,077
as out-patients. Tho patients were well and kindly cared
for, every comfort and mitigation being brought to bear on
their bodily sufferings, while their spiritual interests were
faithfully looked site' by the chaplain, patients not belong-
ing to the Church of England being 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. 'I hus,
22 years ago, this institution arose from the mere necessi-

ties of our common suffering human nature, the consumptive
patient being usually turned away from general hospitals,
from the lingering and total character of his disease. Ex-
perience, however, has shown how much could be done to
check this malady, or to alleviate the sufferings of its vic-

tims; and incurable as it was generally deemed, yet the
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 mare 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 Eo with
great earnestness and eloquence, the congregations respond-
ing liberally to the appeals. Inclusive of collections after
sermons also preached at St. John's, in the evening, by the
Rev. E. Hudson, and at Christ Church, thermal nod even-
ing, by the Keys C. E. Casher and J. M. Hussey, the
amounts realised were—at St. Paul's, Herne-hill £43 4s. -
at St. John's, Clapham, £34145. 6d.; and at Chris't Church,
Brixton, £44 14s. 4d.

COCK FIGIITTNG 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 rumour that the demesne of a certain noble
marquis was for some hours the arena for the barbarous
sport of cock fighting. L appears that information of the
occurrence having reaclicd the secretary of the Royal So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, that gentle-
man despatched two of the detective cffiecrs of the society to
the locality. The result of these investigations has led to
the laying of an information against iho noble marquis in
question and several other gentlemen of position in the
.'aunty. The cases are fixed for hearing at Loughborough,
On the 24th inst.