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working community. The habit that prevails in
some establishments, and was referred to in a letter
recently published on the subject, of supposing that
all the young persons employed must have friends
to receive them on Sundays, is a most objectionable
one. Mr. ISAACSON, in his letter the other day, re-
marked that the young ladies could not go out in
the evening because it was not proper for them, but
this rule applies with much greater force to the
practice referred to. It is putting them wilfully
into temptation of all kinds, and no reprobation can
be too strong for those who, instigated by the idea
of a paltry saving, allow young persons who are in
their charge to be exposed to evil. The whole mode
of procedure is bad in the extreme, whether we con-
consider the insufficient ventilation, the over-
work in the bad atmosphere, the want of
exercise in the open air, and, lastly, the
custom of turning them out in the world when their
fingers cannot be employed, the system adopted in
these establishments is objectionable from first
to last. It is a melancholy retrospection to calcu-
late the condition of so many young persons,
whose whole lives have been rendered a burden to
themselves by the ills that have followed in the
train of these numerous hardships. What numbers
have been forced to give up their employment
altogether, and how large a portion fill untimely
graves, it would startle some indifferent and igno-
rant parties concerned in the transaction to be
told. The present is not rendered the easier to these
sufferers, because of all the excitement that has re-
cently prevailed on the subject. While tha world
has commented on the system, and bewailed its vic-
tims, the busy toil and traffic has gone on
the same. There has been no diminution of
labour, and no improvement in comfort to
this unhappy tribe of workers. It remains, then,
for those who have the means to use them, for those
who are able and efficient, to relax in no effort, and
to heed no discouragement, until they can rest
assured that something has been done in the right
way, and that the good cause is at least advanced in
some degree.. it is too much. the practice with well-
intentioned persons to lament over a calamity at the
time of its occurrence, without afterwards concern-
ing themselves,' any more about it. When
the horror has passed away, they go
on unheeding until the - next miofortune
occurs. But this sad case of the dressmakers' anis
tants has been too often the subject of cowmen

and the object of scnemes and investigations, not
to have now attained a degree of importance, and to
have been invested with an interest that will not

easily allow it to be forgotten. It cannot be that,
when the season is over for the busy and the gay,
these unhappy creatures are to know that

:heir relaxation is never to come. There must be

some individuals too just to allow this hardship to
be definitely prolonged, and some hind hearts who

will not readily remain in inaction while these

cruel sufferings continue. No improvement was

ever easily made, and no real good ever obtained for

the industrial classes, without opposition having to
be encountered. There are necessary evils to be

endured, but none who earnestly take up this cause
will deny that the success will be worth the

struggle. The end that will crown their work will
be a noble one, and it is only surprising that more

has not been done in this quarter, considering the

claims of its sufferers and the long time it has been
before the public in various forms. However, there

is now sufficient evidence to suit the most sceptica

and sufficient reason to rouse the most inert to take
up the cause with energy, and to continue it with

zeal, secure that they can never find a better object
for their cares, or effect more substantial benefits

by their success.

Recent Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. By
Captain C. C. Chesney, R.E. One vol., pp. 230.
Smith, Elder, and Co.
The author of this exceedingly clever, and in
some parts very brilliant summary of General
Pope's and General M•Clellan's operations during
1862 in Virginia and Maryland, has regarded those
hapless Federal campaigns from a purely military
point of view. In this precisely consists the dis-
tinctive value and interest of the volume here sub-
mitted to our consideration. Brief though it
is, extending as. the work does to no more

then ten rapidly-written chapters and a postscript,
the book we cannot but pronounce, at once, a highly
creditable performance on the part of Captain
Chesney, whether regarding him as an Author or
as a Soldier. To the student of the science of stra-
tegy, it holds out very conspicuous attractions. By
them especially its pages are secure of being scanned
with eager eyes of interest. How far the writer is
qualified to descant thus currente calamo upon
themes of such manifest complication, and
of such inst4ntly recognisable importance,
the very title page of the volume indicates to
the reader, immedicely upon his openingit, and be-
fore commencing its perusal, there being attached
to Captain Chesney's name, the reminder to us of
his being already installed at Sandhurst Colleg,
as the Professor of Military History. To his Royal
Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief, the book is, as a parenthesis informs us
H.R.H.'s gracious permission)" respectfully
dedicated, as to one " übder whose direction the study
of military history has first been introduced [surely
it ought to have been said systematically and not
altogether!] into the education of the British officer!"

After giving a very lucid, and yet at the sametime a
very comprehensive description of the seat of war—

that is to say, in Virginia and Maryland—Captain
Chesney describes in this rapid survey the opposing
armies and their respective Leaders. He tnen re-
lates the circumstances of M'Clellan's advance upon
Richmond, followed, soon enough, by his retreat
from Richmond. Pope's campaign in Virginia is
then sketched with a few swift, but some of them
masterly touches. The invasion of Maryland,
the fall of Harper's Ferry, the battle of
Antietam, Lee's retreat into Virginia, and the
fourth invasion of that ravaged State, lead the
reader on, at last, to the superseding of M'Clellan
by Burnside, when ihe base of the Federal ope-
rations was altogether changed. The narrative
closes, so to speak, as we pause before Fredericks-

burg. Ceptain Chesney in it has contrived to tt row
much light upon the course of re cent military
events in the melancholy war still raging between
Federals and Confederates. And he does this
simply, if one may say so, without appearing Thereby
to depreciate the merit of his labours as a military
historian, by systemising, within the compass of a
little more than 200 very readable pages, ourhitherto
somewhat confused recollections of the war as it
began in Virginia and Maryland. •

Old New Zealand, By A Pakeha Maori. One

vol. Pp. 216. Smith, Elder, and Co.

Several books relating to New Zealand, and the
recent wars in New Zealand, have latterly, one after
another, made their appearance. Among these more
than twice-told tales, however, this new volume
without difficulty. And this mainly, we would
upon the self-same occurrences, will hold its own
say, by reason of its vivacity. Past and Present—
New Zealand and the New Zealanders stand before
us vividly, here, in lively contrast. The Mariner,
as the voyageur to our antipodes, who writes
the fifteen amusing chapters, here under notice,
needs must be as such—we ourselves " needa Must
hear," as inevitably as the wedding guest was con-
strained to listen t,.) the Ancient Mariner in Cole-
ridge's eltrich ballad. That is, we needs
must hear, or rather read, the Pakeha Maori
who here discourses to us, if we but once fairly
begin turning over his pciges and reading them with
an attentive eye. Scenery
sham fighting and real fighting,
and dress, mernaaids
and melons,
flotsam and jetsom, these and countless other
matters are sketched in by the Pakeha Maori with
a pen in its way almost as vivid in its picturesque
touches as though it were a pencil, and that pencil,
too, a coloured crayon ! Unadorned by a single
engraving, or even woodcut illustration, the volume
so far resembles one of the famous storybooks of
Hans Christian Andersen, inasmuch as it is to a
certain extent also a picture-book without pictures.
By the mere vivacity of his style the writer is his
own illustrator.

A KNOUT AND KNOUT SCOUNDREL.--General
ouravi eff —Fun.
EUGENE SUE, writes Captain Gronow, in his re-
cently published volume of small-talk, entitled
"Recollections and Anecdotes," was the very reverse of
Balzac, both in appearance and manner. Nothing could
have been more correct and scrupulously neat than his
dress, which was rather dandified, but in good taste, ac-
cording to the notions of 20 or 30 years ago. He wore
always a very broad-brimmed hat, of glossy newness, and
remarkably tight, light-coloured trousers; which, by-the-
by, were not particularly becoming to a man built in a
stout mould ; but a Frenchman who cannot diminish the
rotundity of his abdomen, generally revenges himself upon
his legs, which he circumscribes in the smallest possible
compass, giving himself very much the appearance of what
we Englishmen are taught to believe to be his national
characteristic and prototype—a frog. . He was
remarkable for the beauty of hia horses; his cab was one
one of the best appointed in Paris; his house in the Rue
de la Pepiniere (*.ow an asylum) was a perfect " bonbon-
niere," and his dinners were renowned for their excellence.
He was supposed (and to my knowledge with considerable
reason) to lead a very Sardanapalian life. Strange stories
are told of his castle in Sologne, where he was waited on
by a number of beautifni women, of all countries, and of
all shades of colour.

DEERFOOT CONTESTING A RACE ON BOARD TPe
GREAT EASTERN.—Daring the passage of the
monster vessel there was a continual succession of sports,
games, and diversions among the thousand passengers and
the crew, Running matches, purses for walking, jumping
in sacks, steeplechases on all fours, and—name it not to the
police—" cock fighting" prevailed• The whole was con-
cluded, while the ship was going up the Sound, with a
race for a purse between Deerfoot and Mr. Rafferty (engi-
neer's steward.) The distance was three times round the
dock—about three-quaeters of a mile. At ten o'clock on
Wednesday, May 27th, the pedestrians appeared at the
starting-place. Deertoot was the favourite, although un-
used to the sea and running on planks, whore Rafferty, who
is accounted a capital pedestrian, was quite at home. Deer-
foot, however, won easily by ten yards.
THE QUEEN OF SPAIN A kIuMCEOPATHIST.—For
years past the honlosepathists have had a royal patron in
the Queen of Spain. Latterly her Majesty has entirely
broken with the allopathists and all other ists, and trusted
herself entirely to homoeopathy. As a consequence, most
writers of homoeopathic books now send a book to Madrid,
and in return mostly receive a Spanish decoration of some
kind or other. Thus the order of Charles 111. has just
been bestowed upon two French pupils of Hahnemann,
Messrs. Jahr and Peroussel,.

It is proposed to erect in Westminster Abbey a
bust and tablet in honour of the late Sir George Cornewall
Lewis.

Their Royal Highness9B the Duchess of Cult-
bridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge will honour
Lady Howard with their company at her morning party at
Craven Cottage, Fulham, to-morrow (Thursday), the 2d
inst.

battle, and the nenes connected with it, Lord Wil-
liam, although wounded at the time, was through-
out a prominent spectator. Lord William's
mother, it should be remembered, was the

Duchess of Richmond, who gave that ever-
memorable ball on the eve of the battle—" when
Belgium's capital had gathered there her Beauty
and her Chivalry." The second volume finds
Lord William au officer in the Horse Guards, and
a page at the coronation of George IV. Then as
we turn over the succeeding chapters what a be-
wildering variety of scenes and characters pass
before us. The leading stars of the theatrical
and musical worlds, Kean and Kemble, Vestris and
Malibran—the wits and humorists of the past
generation—Theodore Hook and Charl.s MAthews
the elder, and among others Count D'Orsay and
the men of fashion! The marriage of King George
IV., the death of the Princess Charlotte, the publi-
cation of the Waverley novels—such are a few
among the remarkable incidents and events with
which these two volumes superabound. It is true
the work, as a whole, is (almost inevitably, per-
haps), somewhat superficial in its style, and ephe-
meral in its character; but it is written throughout
in a kindly, genial tone, and cannot fail to afford
pleasure to those who read it. It will amuse all,
and will certainly interest the majority of those
who may happen to make its acquaintance.