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story now appearing from month to month
in the Dublin University, namely, " Little
Flaggs, the Almshouse Foundling," and somewhat
later on a further continuation of the third
book of the exhaustive memoir slowly being com-
piled (we have bometimes thought by Mr. Thorn-
bury) in regard to " Sterne and his Day." A gar-
rulous Octogenarian, who appears to have a well
stored memory enough, discourses with no little
animation upon " Old Recollections and Modern
Contrasts." There is an excel;ent, and, for the
most part, very judiciously discriminative omnium
gatherum criticism in this number, it should be
observed, weighing justly and carefully in the
balance the pick of recent specimens of " Modern
Novel and Romance," such as " No Name," " Bar-
rington," " Orley Farm," " Aurora Floyd," " East
Lynne," and the "Chronicles of Carlingford." Other
varied articles there are: about the most noteworthy
among those not yet particularised being the very
last in the number, a paper upon Niccolo Macchia-

Bl zchwood's Magazine.
In the absence of any distinct political article so-
called in Maga for April, there is a very able and
readable paper on " Sir James Graham," that may
stand, for the nonce, as a capital substitute for it.
As a matter of course, it is aptopos to Mr. M'Cul-
loch Torrens' recently published biography of Sir
James—a statesman of whom it has been wittily
said that "he narrowly escaped being a great man!"
Although assuming merely to be a criticism upon a
memoir, this contribution to Ebony is a miniature
memoir in itself. Of Sir James Graham's last ap
pearance as a Cabinet Minister, the writer says—
with how much truth all who read his remarks will
very painfully remember—" When Lord Aberdeen
formed his Coalition Cabinet, Sir James Graham
returned to the Admiralty, where the Crimean war
took him by surprise, as it did all the other mem-
bers of the Administration. Sir James, however,
put a bold face upon the matter, and having selected
Sir Charles Napier to command the worst-fcand
and worst-manned fleet that ever quitted the Eng-
lish shores, he sent him, at the worst season of the
year, to try what could be done for the destruction
of Russian power in the Baltic). It was unfortu-
nate, both for the First Lord and for the Admiral,
that the Reform Club chose to give the latter a
dinner. The speeches uttered on that occasion,
and especially Sir James Graham's speech, resem-
bled more the pre tns of victors after the strife,
than the statements of men about to incur the
bezerd of a campaign ; and the abortive issue of
the expedition covered both with ridicule. It did
more, however, than this. A bitter quarrel en-
sued, which was prosecuted not very decorously,
sometimes in the House of Commons, sometimes
through the press, and which had no other
result than to damage both parties very
seriously in the estimation of the public."
Speaking of Sir I-mes himself as he looked towards
the close of his life, the reviewer observes in one brief
but sufficient, because eminently graphic sentence—
" Our latest recollection of him is in church—a tall,
handsome, yet shattered man, earnest in his devo-
tions, but bearing upon his brow the cloud which
was never to be raised on this side the grave." As
a morsel of light reading, very interesting of its
kind, the lovers of Maga will find pleasant
enough to their literary palate, the second portion
of the tale called " Mrs. Clifford's Marriage." How
well a work, intrinsically about as buoyant
as a blue-book can be turned into a lively
magazine paper, every one who cares to
know may learn upon scanning the review of Sir
R. Alcock's " Capital of the Tycoon"—this said
review here leading off the April number of "Black-
wood" under the apparently affected but very lite-
ral title of "Sensation Diplomacy in Japan." The
April number of Mega is for the most part a clus-
ter of criticisms. Another of these being dev, ted
to an examination of " Spedding's Lite of Bacon"—
a contribution likely to be more welcome to Mr.
Spedding than to the Philo.opher's arch apologist
—(the vindicator, before that, of Penn)—Mr.Dixon.
A curious paper of its kind entitled " The Yeang-tai
Mountains and Spirit Rapping in China," we are
almost disposed to attribute to Mr. Oliphant. Just
as we half suspect Mr_ Warren's loyal pen to have
written the brief but graceful allusion to the 10th
ult., with which the April number of Maga closes,
under the pretty memorial heading of " Marriage
Bells." There is a fifteenth instalment of Sir Bul-
wer Lyttoe's thoughtful, humorous, philosophic,
carefully written series of Eeseys 'yclept " Caxto-
!liana." The twentieth Essay being "On Self
Control," the twenty-first on" Tae Modern Misan-
thrope_" In the f rmer of these. it is interesting to
Note the comments permed by the author of" Riche-
lieu" upon what Sir Edward regards as the as-
tounding evidences of a luck of self-control so often
manifested by the great Cardinal. " The Inex-
haustible Capital" is the felicitous title accorded to
Rome this month by another of Maga's reviewers.
It is the title also of the contribution that thus sig.
welly applies it to the Eternal City : a paper in
which the critic recognises the merits of Mr. Story's
" Robs di R tort." Referring to the Vexed Ques-
tion of the Age, the writer observes very forcibly
and very truthfully :
" l'eeeinee Oho Pnne. and of COTIroo *Lora io an antl fn
the grand solemnities in which he is the most prominent
figure; to the magnific nt funzions of the Holy Week, to
witness which thousands annually fl ,ck to Rome, filling to
the roof every hotel and lodging-house; to gorgeous cere-
monials, brilliant processions, and high festivals ; to the
chairing of the Pontiff and the feeding of the beggars; the
washing of feet and the sounding of silver trumpets and
the benediction from the balcuny, with its magnificent
scenic effect, with the golden chair and the peacoc k fans,
and the rest of the sumptuous and dazzling paraphernalia.
All this must of course depart whenever the Italian Go-
vernment takes its seat at Rome, unless there should then
be found some member of the college of cardinals willing to
accept the Pontiff's spiritual heritage without his temporal
sway, and to restrain his chair at the Vatican whilst a
King of Italy thrones it at the Quirinal. The installation of
a commonplace lay Government could hardly fail to dimi-
nish Rome's present attractions for foreigners."
Referring, however. later on to the book itself, and
to its author--and not to the theme of the two—
Maga remarks that—" Nobody who visited the
great Exhibition of 1862 will have failed to observe
and admire two pieces of sculpture which the most
competent critics declared to be second to none,
even if they were equalled by any of those there
collected together. The author of ' Roba di Roma,'
the foreign and fantastical name of a very English
and sensible book, might have placed upon its title-
page, had it so pleased him, by the author of
Cleopatra' and the Lybyan Sybil,' and the ad-
vertisement would have been no bad one.; for every-
body who had admired the sculptor's beautiful
statues would have been curious to see if he was as
clever with the pen as he was cunning with the
chisel. Mr. Story, however, was above seeking any
such side-wind of popularity, and proposed allowing
his literary labours to stand upon their own merits."
And these, says the reviewer, they are well able to
stand upon. As they are undoubtedly.

The Dublin University Magazine.

M. Octave Delepierre's amusing volume of
" Macaronies" has again become the theme of a
very entertaining paper by a magazine contributor.
The criticism, interspersed with a variety of
laughter-provoking extracts, leads off the "Dublin
University Magazine," not inappropriately, upon
All Fools' Day. For macaronies are just next door
to nonsense verses—the writer of macaronies in a
manner, as one may say, playing the fool with fun!
Among all the specimens of macaroni() literature
what can be funnier than the following by

Bentley's ,Miscellany.

GILBERT PBECKETT—ON THE POLKA.
Qui nunc dancere vult modo,
Wants to dance in the fashion 0,
Discere debet—ought to know
Kickere floor ouna heel and toe.
One, two, three,
Hop with me,
Whirlir;ig, twirligig, rapids.

Polkam jungere. virgo, via ?
Will you join the polka, miss ?
Liberiva- most willingly,
Sio agimus—then let tus try.
Nunc vide,
Skip with me,
Whirlabout, roundabout, celere.

Tuna laevs cite+, turn dextra,
First to the left, and then t'other way
Aspics retro in vultu,
You look at her, and she looks at you,
Das palmitin,
Change hands, ma'am,
Celere—run away—just in sham.

The new serial romance of " Bella Donna" is con-
tinued this month to the extent of four chapters
additional—scarcely yet, however, compenaatively
in interest for the ab4ence any longer from the
pages of the " Dablin University" of that enthral-
ling narrative of the " House by the Churchyard" re-
cently completed so very effectually by Charles de
Cresseron, otherwise J. Sheridan Le Farm. A
delightful paper has been suggested to the
next contributor by the unwonted combination
in a witty and humorous group of " Gresset, La
Bruyere, and R )chefoucauld"—names sparkling like
brilliants of the rarest lustre in the emblazonry of
French literature. As a sturdy English contrast
in every way, comes the sterling biographical com-
memoration immediately afterwards of the rise,
genius, and career of the Great, Founder of the
Railway System—" George Stephenson !" Next
we have a fourth part of the other serial

Fraser's Magazine,
Those who have acquired a relish for the strong
flavoured, racy, and vivacious fictions which have
for several years past adorned, in a serial form,
the pages of Fraser, will welcome eagerly the new
tale commenced in this April number, and entitled
" Late Laurels." As the initial instalment of the
narrative we have three chapters, headed respec-
tively—the first, " Foreshadowing ;" the second,
"La Belle Dedaigaeuse ;" the third, "Defeat."
Even from these three preliminary chapters of the
story, its character can be tolerably well appre-
mated, so to speak, in anticipation. For
its purport, or tendency, is pretty plainly
hinted at in the "Foreshadowing !" The heroine
that is to be, can be distinctly enough recognised in
Florence Vivian, otherwise "Laßelle Delaigneuse !"
While as to " Defeat," there are few readers
of one of the most animated among our modern
schools of novel• writing but will understand very
readily that it is a kind of defeat leading, in all
probability, to divers unmistakable victories—per-
haps the victory of all most coveted by the momen-
tarily defeated, to wit, Mr. Erle, the hero of the tale.
This temporary defeat of Mr. Erle being, as a mat-
ter of course to those familiar with the style of such
fietione, his refusal by Florence Vivian, "Laßelle De.
daigneuse." Mr. Ruskin pursues the devious, rather
than the " even tenour of his way" in his thought-
ful but occasionally somewhat eccentric " Essays on
Political Economy"—here continued in Fraser, as a
sequel to papers which appeared not long ago, from
month to month in the pages of the Cortzhill. From
" A Chapter on Notables" we extract the following
vivid little vignette sketch of one of those colonels
in the Grande Armee whose memory of tt e Great
Emperor survived his Downfall and his Exile as
tenderly as the passionate remembrance of the dead
lives on in the heart of a bereaved lover :
" There was another notable who used to frequent the
same cafe as ourselves. We see him still as he enters, and
passes madame with a bow and a smile ; a tall, erect figure,
with the cross of the Legion of Honour on his breast. His
entrance creates a certain sensation, for it is known to all
that he is a relic of the Grande Armee, one of those who
followed Napoleon through every change of climate and
fortune, till he fought his last battle at Waterloo. He
takes his usual place at the little table which is always re
served for him, and orders his cup of coffee and his small
glass of brandy. These despatched, he is ready for a game
at dominoes with any Englishman present, and if we allow
him to win (which we take care to do), he is supremely
happy. It is the only way I can beat you now,' he says,
with a sort of triste gaiety. And then the old colonel, con-
tent with his victory, begins to tell us of other victories far
more severely contested ; and when he comes to speak of
the heroic qualities of his great leader, and the sufferings
he endured in his sea-girt prison, his old eyes grow dim,
and tears may be seen trickling down his withered cheeks."
In this same contribution the writer is guilty of a
flagrant error when he describes M. Guizot as
present, side by side with Lamartine and
others, when, shortly after the triumph of
the Revolution of February, Mademoiselle Rachel
electeifi-d the Parisians by her memorable singing
of the Marseillaise. At that time M. Guizot was
away in London, as unmistakeably in exile as Mr.
Smith, formerly Louis Philippe, er any of the ex •
King's sons. Several fragments of verse are scat-
tered among the prose contributions making up thi'
current number of Regina. None of these howeve'
are of euy partieula. April" is vuc,
" Castelrovinato" another, "The mighty Three," yet
another: the longest and most elaborate being a sixth
portion of "Lawrence Bloemfield in Ireland," a
portion descriptive, as will be found, of Lough
Braccan. Besides which the best of all the metri •
cal effusions in this April number of Fraser,
is a most charming and me'odious translation oy
Sir Edmund Head, of the last Elegy of Propertius.
Half-a-dozen other contributions there are among
the contents of this very varied number, one of
which half-a-dozen alone, have we time or space
now to particularise. This being another of those
gossipping Essays which have, in a few
years, built up a reputation for A.K.H.8., placing
him almost upon a level as an essayist with the
gifted Clerk of the Privy Council. " Concerning
the Estimate of Human Beings," such is here taken
as the theme or text of A.K.H. B. And pleasantly
do those initials discourse about it—descanting, for
example, thus upon the Pres and Cons in regard
to Smith
"For instance," he says, " the things counting against
Smith may be these :
" 1. He has a red nose.
"2. He carries an extremely baggy cotton umbrella.
" 3. He wears a shocking bad hat.
"4. When you make any statement whatever in his hear-
ing, he immediately begins to prove, by argument, that
your statement cannot possibly be true.
5. He says tremenduous when he means tt smendous ;
and talks of a pl izenter when he means a precentor.
"6. He is constantly saying ' How very curl us 1' also,
' Goodness gracious l'
" Whereas the three things making in Smith's favour
may be these :
" 1. He has the kindest of hearts.
" 2. He has the clearest of heads.
"3. He is truth and honour impersonate."
How the ballance is struck by A.K.H.8., in re-
gard to Smith, in this matter, may be conjectured
rom the humorist's very way of putting his case.

CARDINAL POLE.

The noble cast of the cardinal's countenance, proclaiming
his royal descent —his reverend air, increased by the long
grey beard that descended to his waist—the benignity and
sweetness of his looks—the stateliness of his deportment—
all produced an indescribable effect on the spectators.
Lofty of s'ature, and spare of person—the result of
frequent fastings—Pole, notwithstanding the ail-
ments under which he laboured, carried himself
erect, and ever maintained a moat dignified deport-
ment. To complete the picture we desire to present, it may
be necessary to say that his garments were those proper to
his eminent ecclesiastical rank, namely, a scarlet soutane,
rocket, and short purple mantle. his silk gloves and hose
were scarlet in hue, and from his broad red hat depended
on either side long cords, ter,ninating in tassels of two
knots each. These garments became him well, and
heightened the imposing effect of his presence.
" A Bruoh with the Brigands," is the alliterative
title of an article by one who was an eye-witness of
some of the skirmishes of the "so-called Briganti,"
as he designates them in another place.
" Queen Dagmar, the Sea-King's Bride,"
is a most attractive paper at the present
day. It details to us that favourite romance of the
Danish people—" beloved as fable and believed as
truth"—the story of Queen Dagmar. " Solitude in
Crowds," by Monkshood, " The Channel Islands and
their Legends," " Saunterings in Stamboul and its
Suburbs," and a brief poem.on Astrolenka, entitled
" A Voice from Poland," are among the other con-
tents of Bentley's Miscellany for April.

Mr. Ainsworth's historical romance is full of in-
cident this month. Book 11. relates how Philip,
with some four and-t wenty noble guests, dined at
Arthur's Round Table, in Winchester Castle. The
scene is quite in Mr. Ainsworth's favourite style.
Here is a picturesque glimpse of

RING AILTHIIR'S ROUND TABLE.
" Mindful of his promise to the Duke of Norfolk to feast
his grace at Arthur's Round Table in Wincheater Castle,
Philip appointed the day before his departure for the ban-
quet. Twenty-four guests were invited, half of whom were
English nobles, and the other half Spanish grandees.
' In the midst of the great hall of the castle, which was
more than 150 feet long, and with a lofty roof of open
rafters, richly sculptured, was placed
- the prid of warlike years,

Old Arthur's board---
in other words, the famous Round Table, at which King
Arthur and his illustrious knights had often feasted.
" Framed by Uter Pendragon, Arthur's royal sire, who
flourished early in the sixth century, or more than twelve
hundred years ago, this wondrous table was given by him
to King Leodegraunce of Camelyard, who held it in high
esteem. When Leodegraunce bestowed his fair daughter,
the lovely but erring Guenever, upon Arthur, he sent him
at the same time, as the richest present he could bestow,
the royal table, causing it to be conveyed by a hundred
knights, Er chanted with the gift, Arthur forthwith in-
stituted the order of the Round Table (the earliest military
order of knighthood), and had the places appointed for
himself and his twenty-four knights blessed by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. So runs the legend. But by whom-
soever fashioned, the Round Table was at least remarkable
for antiquity in the time of Henry VIII., who had it fresh
painted for use at the banquet given by him to the EirPt?"
ror Charles V. It still exists, as we have already idn in
mated, and is constructed of stout oaken planks, painte
parti-coloured rays, on the borders of whic
awes renowned,
In marks obscure, of Arthur's deathless peers.
"Obscure as ata the characters, the names of Sir Tris-
tram, Sir Launcelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, Sir
Gawaine, Sir Ector, Sir Bora, and other peerless knights,
may be read upon this scroll of fame. In Cromwell's time
the Round Table narrowly escaped destruction from the
Parliamentary soldiers, who never list an opportunity of
committing sacrilege of some kind. They set it up as a
target, and perforated it with bullets. In the centre of the
board is the Tudor rose, and the sovereign's place is indi-
cated by a full-length portrait of Henry VIII., seated under
a canopy with an ermine mantle over his shoulders, and
holding the orb and sword,
.4 The great hail in which the Round Table was set was
hung with ancient and somewhat faded arras, representing

in one place the interview of the twelve Roman knights another with a jacket, a third with a pair of trousers, anti so
with Arthur, and in another the renowned British king te- on. They do not fit, these garments, but that is nothiry
ceiving his sword Noalibut from the Lady of the Lake. the purpose. Appearances are disregarded. The capitalisis
Five and twenty slits of armour of colossal size were placed is to be got out into the town, guy or no guy ;
and he
on stands against the walls, w bile the intervals were filled got out accordingly. Ho be hav es in almost every in
to
as
with trophies composed of shields, spears, swords, battle• like a man; that is to sty, he freely gets chunk, and
axes, meets, and other weapons. The cushion of each liberally spends his money for the gratification of his new-
chair was embroidered in letters of gold with the name of found friends and their new-found wives. Small sums are
its occupant. A curiously carved oak chair, in which bluff borrowed of him with the affability of friendship and
sol the
King Hal had sat, was assigned to Philip. On his right bonhomie of brethren in arms; and not till the young
sat the Lord Chancellor, and on toe left the Duke of Nor . dier refuses, or till his inclination to "stand a drain" can no
folk. lhe place next to Gardiner was allotted to the Duke longer be stimulated, is he allowed to perceive that his com-
of Alva, while Norfolk's neighbour was the Duke of me- panions are all the while laughing at him as an innocent,
diva Celi. In this wise were the twenty-four guests dis- as a greenhorn, as a thaw-bacon. It is not an uncommon
posed—English and Spanish nobles alternately." thing for
uit a comrade
last in more friendlyof some an the rest to leave
After these and many other festivities in honour of
the recrh mat the hands
ktfemalle abcrraeihto-
the Royal marriage had taken place, Philip and
returnsneetwho
to abarracks.nages to
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(ere nextt morn-
Mary made their public entry into London. A ing, penitent and apprehensive, he is forthwith placed un-
scene, vividly portrayed in the gorgeous
der arrest, for "stopping absent," while the obliging com-
colouring of three ceLturies back, which will rade goes off to share the spoils of victorious Beauty.
recall to many a reader the public entry Besides the foregoing, there are, in the Cornhill for
only the other day of another Prince and Primes, April, a curious chapter on " Corpulence," a rapid
a Royal bride and bridegroom. Qaeen Mary, " Run Through the Southern States," by anEnglish
the usual groups of startling "Notes on
splendidly attired in cloth of gold, blezing with officer,
jewels of inestimable value, sat in a gilt chariot, Science," a reprobation of
" Oaths" and a tribute of
drawn by six horses in housings of white satin admiration and sympathy to the people of Poland.
embroidered with gold, ridden by pages in crimson
satin ; while her Royal consort, mounted on a fiery
Andulasian barb, trapped with black taffetas and
silver lace, rode by her side, attended by fifty horse-
men in trappings of crimson velvet. Gorgeous as
the spectacle may have been, we doubt if the num-
ber and interest of the spectators could in any way
compare with that marvellous gathering of the
7th of March, which has for ever immortalised
that day in the annals of London pageantry !
The chief feature, however, in this instal-
ment of " Cardinal Pole," is the arrival in
England of the Cardinal himself as legate from the
Holy Sea. Here is an apparently life-like per
,rait of—

Macmillan's Magazine.
Although it is one of the briefest papers in the
current number of " Macmillan," Dr. Hamilton's
"Marginalia of Lord Macaulay" is one of the most
valuable, as it is certainly also one of the most
amusing. It has ieference to the marginal notes
discovered in the pile of shabby books, which as
recently as the Ch of March was scattered under
the auctioneer's hammer, books constituting,
as the advertisement intimated, very attractively a
portion of Lard Macanlay'slibrary. "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 materials for elucidating his own mental his-
tory are thus irretrievably scattered. Not only do
these books threw 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 nidus
where many a gem was found, now speaking in ,Ais
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, how-
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 Charles Reade's novel of " Very
Hard Cash"—how spicy these marginal notes of
Macaulay'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 Nile countenance ;
the face of an impudent buffoon." With all pos-
sible respect for the Dean of Canterbury, we would
hope that that learned divine may henceforth erchew
rhyming, if " Be just and fear not," is in any way
to be regarded as a favoutable specimen of his
rhythmical powers. The fourth line in the sub-
joined quatrain will be recognised as an almost
exact plagiarism of the second in one of Campbell's
stanzss in his poem on the Rainbow.
Show thou thy light. If conscience gleam,
Set not the bushel down :
The smallest spark may send his beam
O'er hamlet, tower, and town.
Here follows Campbell's.—

How glorious is thy Odle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town,
Or mirrorred 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 Macmillan's is very various—John Ruf-
fini giving three more chapters of his clever serial
story, " Vincenzo, of Sunken Rocks"—the piece de
resistance of David Masson's Cambridge Magazine !
Thomas Hare descants soberly upon a certain
" Ideal of a Local Government for the Metropolis."
Goldschmidt tells very agreeably a Danish
c`oty scent '.111) Uncle and his Hou.e." While Miss
presents us with a strange paper about a
school, under the fantastic title (the paper not the
cbool) 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 m ire impressive, under the
circumstances, about Poland and the Poles.