The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEER•
Miles opened. Receipts.

Railways. -,,..._,______,
1-1
1862* 1863. 1862.
863.
X £
Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,077 1,946
Belfast and County Down 49 ,12, 730 598
Myth and Tyne . 28 '7, 1,573 1,879
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211 5, 52 5,734
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington Bl 81 292 217
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 403 872
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 201 16,
Cork and Youghal • . 32i 324 354 380
Cornwall 534 53} 1,316 1,158
Deeside l7 17 266 261
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63, 1,293 1,239
Dublin and Drogheda 76 °a 1,486
2,465
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexf d 484 481 2,4 5 2,165
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 3„1, 1,194 1,032
Edinburgh and glasgow 1691 1092 7,267 6,867
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30 281 270
Furness, &c 5O 62 2,787 2,479
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 830 25,564 24,718
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,154 1.851
Ht. N ortlin. &W es tn. (Irel.) 7ll 462 368 304
'it.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329 7,4/9 7,792
Great Western 992 9641 56,286 60 315
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno- 861 732 1,1,67 794•
Irish North-Western 145 125 1,726
1.432
Irish South-Eastern 251 251 620 356
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Foynes 264 2B
1,841 l3B
1,493164
Llanelly
222751545130 18476005394
London & North-Western
9
LondonLondo &
London ansdoßultach-lkvweaslltern
442k54
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2ool 2111 22,817 15,49
London, Chatham, & Dover 728 ni 3,856 1,0738
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Blan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Blanch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9l 9} 1,513 1,030
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan - 2,1,4 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 6111 41,577 37,468
Blidland Gt. Westn. of Irind 2191 192 4,432 4,315
Ilionkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,226 2,433
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 894 8674 41,417 36,904
North London 9 9 3,219 2,709
North Staffordshire 254 252 8,215 7.537
Oswestry and Newton... l2, 42 1,071 591
Rhymney 194 194 853 8, 2
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 1,829 1,974
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 1321 1321 4,641 4,539
Somerset and Dorset 394 39i 341 221
South Devon
South-Eastern • • 306 306 21,949 17,267
Stockton and Darlington .... 185 161 8,3,2 8,310
Taff Vale 55 ' A
• ‘,5 6,089 5,274
Ulster
10 2,078 1,937
Vale of Clwyd ..... 10 140 154
Vale of Neath 251 251 1,762 2,102
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 292 294
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall 272 274 766 810
W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 4B 48 3,540 3,431
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 744 380
12
Whitehaven Junction 122
883 529
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 836 518

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,154 1,054
Austrian B2B 828 30,772 36,613
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 26/1 291 247
Bombay, Baroda, & L en. India 1821 1323 1,939 1,045
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614 1613 1,986 1,510
Detroit and Milwaukle
,A
18'2. 185 3,522 2,252
'
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France lO6O 47,908 47,764
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1(90 :17,209 13,513
Great Indian Peninsula 405 437/ 10,003 6,068
Great Luxembourg .... f
Great Western of Canada. - • 345 345 14,951 10,233
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant• • 436 435 17,037 14,655
Northern of Canada .... ..... . 94 94 1,878 1,487
Northern of France
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 121,164 120,3',8
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 61,347 56,408
Pernambuco 774 -- 1,091 -

Royal Danish 69 69 555 586
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,467 1,267
South Austrian .... 1474 1323 49,926 51,038
Southern of France .. 777 777 21864 25071
Welland. .. 25 25 '
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 7lB 758
36,880 33,456

The Minister of Marine has awarsied a premium
of 1,200 f. to M. Vissiere, whose chrenometer stood first in
the competition opened on the 15th December last at the
Ministry.

LITERATURE.

The Deserted House of Hawksworth. 3 coil.

Hurst and Blackett.

Mr. 'Wilkie Collins has a great deal to =ewer
for. To his wonderful excellence in that terrible
branch of art, and to the success naturally conse-
quent upon that excellence, we believe we are
mainly indebted for the modern Sensation Novel.
Nature hos (for the time being, let us hope!) gone
out of fashion, and in the world of literature now
the palm is given to the extravagant, the amazing,
and the unreal. To be surprised appears to be the
very acme of enjoyment to the modern romance
reader. A morbid craving for stimulants is not the
sign of health ; cayenne and curries may be very
acceptable as the occasional et ceteras of a repast,
but who in the possession of health and appetite
could endure to have them before him diurnally.
This feverish craving for excitement does not speak
well for the present condition of the reading public.
It is, moreover, an excitement which must defeat
its own object; it is essentially evanescent, like all
that is unreal. Not such the spells exercised by
the real romancist—by those potent magicians who
"hold the mirror up to nature," and who out of the
fulness of their own hearts appeal, and not in
va'n, to the living hearts of millions. Talk of
interest and excitement, what mysterious secret,
utterly worthless when discovered; what accu-
mulated horrors, quite innocuous because so accu-
mulated, which crowd the pages of the Sensation
Novel, can in any the most remote degree compare
with the universal interest which was felt in so
many households all over the kingdom, aye, and
even attested by tears, at the death of poor Smike,
and little Nell,and little Paul, and tiny Tim ?—What
Sensation Novel produces such sensation ! When
Nicholas administered that immortal thrashing to
Mr. Squeers, when he clung in angry desperation to
the cab-horse of Sir Mulberry Hawk, those were
indeed scenes of excitement that stirred responsive
passions in the honest indignant hearts of hun-
dreds. Do we not all remember them well? These
are sensation novels, we admit, to whose power we
cordially bear testimony, a power again and again
attested as they alternately elicit our tears and
our laughter; but such are not the tributes
accorded to the modern novel. Who ever wept over
a sensation story ? "It is very pretty poetry, Mr.
Pope, but it is not Homer," said the censorious critic.
This is very clever acting—very clever, we have no
doubt—but it is acting, and we must be pardoned
if we are old-fashioned enough to prefer truth and
nature, whether in tragedy or comedy, to art and
artifice, whether in pantomime, burlesque, extrava-
ganza, or spectacle. Having Broken so far in gene-
ralities, we must turn to the latest and not the least
meritorious specimen of its class, " The Deserted
House of Hawksworth !" The readers of the cir-
culating library may rejoice in the ample banquet
here provided for them. Horror, and mystery, and
intrigue, passion and prejudice, evil-doing, and yet
more evil revenge and tardy but triumphant retri-
bution, constitute some of the attractive features of
this novel. The author's name is not given, but it
does not read like the work of an unpractised hand.
It displays no inconsiderable ability ; some of the
characters are well portrayed, and many of the
scenes described with much spirit, and the story
possesses a certain amount of originality. We are
willing to accord to book and writer a fair amount
of praise, but the work is of a class for which we
have no sympathy. For example let us specify a few
of its contents; in so doing, we shall perhaps, in
the opinion of some, be pronouncing a panegyric.
The tale opens with the opening of the "Deserted
House of Hawksworth"—a house that for 20 years
had been walled in, and blocked up, and inacces-
sible. Twenty years before, a wedding breakfast
had been prepared in the spacious dining-room, but
the bride had married another bridegroom, and the
Master of Hawksworth, disappointed at the last
moment, had caused the hall to be walled up with
the wedding breakfast on the table—an incident
that will remind some of Miss Havisham's disap
pointment. Twenty years after the house is opened,
and its master enters it to die. Later on the real
heir is discovered by the falling of an old chiffonier
at an auction, when a paper escapes from a secret
drawer (fortunately addressed to a person who
happens to be present!) The heir with his bride
(the daughter of the faithless bride) enters the Hall
at list to reside there, and that night it is destroyed
by fire. One of the heroines, Marina Moriarty, is
a most impassioned character. Many parts of her
history would have been well omitted. De-
ceived by the faithless hero, she appears
at his wedding breakfast, terrifies the bride
almost to death, and after threatening to de-
stroy her, attempts to kill herself, and apparently
dying, charges her false lover with murder. She
recovers, however, and a little later on resumes her
old influence over her former captive, to the great
disgust of the reader, who rejoices (we speak for
ourselves) when shortly afterwards, in a fit of pas-
sion, the faithless husband is hurled over a preci-
pice by the indignant hand of his lady love, who
dies of grief, and on her tomb is recorded an epitaph
worthy of a sensation novel :

" Marina,
Aged 23 years,

Born on the ocean amidst a storm,
Died on the cold ground with none to close her eyes."
Is not this enough to justify all our remarks ?
Many we have, no doubt, will follow with interest
the tragic events here recorded, but when the sur-
prise is over and the mystery discovered, how many
will turn again and again to ponder over these
pages as we are in the habit of doing with many a
favourite work we could mention, but then they
are not Sensation Novels.

New Views on Baldness: being a Treatise on the
Hair and Skin. By H. P. Truefitt, Pp. 264.

W. and A. Webster, Piccadilly.
A Treatise on Baldness by Mr. Truefitt is as
much comme it faut, is as entirely a something done
with the strictest regard (literally) to the fitness of
things as a disquisition by Mr. Rarey on Horse-
taming, or an account by M. Blondin (though he has
never yet, we believe, gone as far South as the
Equator) of the pleasures of crossing the line. In
regard to the particular subject the author has here
taken in hand, he may very confidently be described
as the right man in the right place—to a hair!
He might, at the risk of startling the hon. and
learned gentleman the member for Sheffield into a
momentary indignation at having his right to his
own title, seemingly, in sound at least, directly
threatened—have called his book " The History of
the Wigs." As it is, Mr. Truefitt contents himself,
we cannot but think very wisely, with the more
modest office of writing a mere abstract or gene-
ralised treatise on the Hair and Skin, distinguishing
this same treatise not more pretentiously than by
naming it, " New Views on Baldness." Any one
whose hair has been seriously thinned, whether
by the laps 3 of time, or, as it happens in the in-
stance of some, prematurely, will do well to consult
the pages of Mr. Truefitt. We are quite satisfied
of this, we would observe, en passant, quite dispas-
sionately, as mere theoretical students and observers,
in regard to the highly important section of
physiology here treated of, the most highly impor-
tant of all it should be remarked in its relative
position, being, in point of fact, above all the rest,
all the lower part, as one may say, of our human
anatomy. The work, although touching most
delicately (as such an artist's hand as Mr. Truefitt's
could alone do in the presence of such a theme),
upon the Hair and Skin—is, nevertheless, anything
but superficial. In reality Mr. Truefitt may be said
here to have sounded—mark this l—tbe very depth;
of Beauty. That is, it' the proverb is to bfe
beautyloolt
upon as in any way accurate, which speaks
as being only skin-deep. For Mr.
re-
searches penetrate through the whol Tuefites oe
depth of the
skin. It is not merely
an artist who is here dis-
coursing to us upon a matter that is, indeed, his
metier—it is a philosopher. Hear him describing
the functions of the skin for example, and giving a
succinct history of it, when chemically con-
sidered ! Listen to him when he is descanting
upon the nervous elements of the ecalp—a theme
the examination of which, as here pursued through
all its subtle mazes, would infallibly make the
mouth of a Red Indian water, out of sheer sympathy,
and induce him to relieve his excited feelings by
putting a keener edge upon his tomahawk. Deeper
and deeper into this current of his swims onward our

author when he has to descant "On Favus or Porrigo
Favosa," " Oa Scurf or Pityriasis," " On Eczema,'
44 on Impetigo," " On Psoriasis," and so forth—we
had almost written it psoforth. Having, however,
got through the more scientic part of his treatise
really very creditably, our renowned Artist in Hair.
our revered Author " Upon Baidness"—one whose
tender care for those omitted with Baldness may be
said (to use a common parlance), to reflect aqua
credit on his head and heart, or rather perhaps we
ought to say upon their heads and his heart—Mr.
Truefitt in a word (how aptly named ! ) gets at las t
upon more familiar subjects. When, for example,
he has to comment at his own free will
and pleasure on " Cutting the Hair," on
" Combing and Brushing," on Washing the Hair,
on Dyeing it—though to our mind, with such wigs
in existence as Truefitt's, the motto with the greyest
and the reddest haired among us all, ought certainly
to be " Never say Dye !" Greases, and Washes, and
all the little et ceterus of the toilet, one by one are
passed in review, moreover, by this Arcadian
dreamer—we should say this Burlington-Arcadian
dreamer upon Hair, and Scalps, and Wigs, and
Baldness. Even the most irritable of Yankees
might allow, in Mr. Truefitt's regard, that he gets
one's dander up sometimes, perhaps, with his brushes
—with his pen, never ! Only once his own may
be described, figuratively of course, as having risen
—namely, when ho burst© into a " fine phrenzy'
of indignation upon what he dubs in plain terms
(the capitals are his own) " The Folly of Shaving!"
In such horror is he at the mere notion of that
barber-ous proceeding, that one could fancy almost
" each particular hair" upon every one of his wigs
standing upon end, by electric sympathy, " like
quills upon the fretful," &c. For, in point of fact,
what after all is Shaving ? Why nothing less than
the production of—what Mr. Truefitt has an especial
horror of in every point of view, what he has here
discoursed upon so eloquently through nearly 300
pages octavo—the deliberate production of an arti-
ficial—Baldness!

History of England, from the Accession of James I.
to the Disgrace of Chief-Justice Coke. By
Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Two Vols. Hurst

and Blackett.

The period of history comprised in these volumes
is a very brief one. It extends over little more
than a dozen years, and those years are unmarked by
startling events or national crises. It may seem at
first sight strange that an historian, who was willing
to devote so much time and labour to so short a
page of our annals, did not select a passage from the
reigns on either side of his hero, and depict with
the elaborate faithfulness of his present treatise
the great statesmen who gathered in the council-
chamber of the Maiden Queen, or the sturdy
patriots who fought the battle of English rights in
the days of the Civil War. The epoch which Mr.
Gardiner has ciosen, however, is not without its
importance. It was a time of transition and uncer-
tainty. The strong hand that had so long guided
the helm of State was gone ; the honour of the
people abroad, and their liberties at home, were in
equal danger. During the thirteen years which
occupy this history, James was secretly busy in
extending the influence of the Crown, and consoli-
dating its rights and privileges. The foundation of
the fatal struggle between Crown and Parliament,
which was to be productive of so much trouble in
the succeeding generation, was even then being
laid. Mr. Gardiner goes so far as to say that, c, if
it is possible for those who begin their study of the
English constitutional struggle at any later date
to arrive at sound conclusions with respect to the
principles at stake, it is utterly impossible for them
to judge the actors fairly." It is only, he adds, by
a careful investigation of the origin and progress of
the guiding principles of a party, that it is possible
rightly to comprehend Cie feelings of the partisans,
or to draw the line which separates a blunder from
a crime. The general political history of the open-
ing years of James's reign is summed up as follows
—" At the end of 1816, the Constitution, at least
in the minds of the supporters of the Crown, had
assumed that form which ti as always defended
by them in the course of the ensuing conflict
as the true Constitution of the country,
The prerogative bad established its claim to be con-
sidered as the regulating part of the machinery.
The sittings of Parliammt had been suspended
without any immediate prospect of their renewal.
The judges had been taught by a practical example,
that they held their offices only at the good pleasure
of the Sovereign. In short, these thirteen years
and a half were years of constitutional change, no
less real because it was carried on within the letter
of the constitution. It was in them that the wea-
pons were forged which were to be used by James
and his son with such unfortunate results for them
selves. Up to the summer of 1616 it was a question
what constitutional powers the Crown would be able
to assert. At the end of the year the question was,
what use would be made by it of the powers of
which it had obtained possession." The gradual
steps by which this change was effected are well
told by Mr. Gardiner ; so is the firm stand made on
the ground of constitutional right by the Parlia-
ment. Sometimes James went a step too far, and
had to alter his position. Such was the case when
the Commons took into consideration the imposts
which the King had been levying on certain articles
of commerce. " The kings of France, Spain, and
Denmark," said James angrily, " had the right to
levy impositions, and why should not he do as they
did ? He would not have his prerogative called in
question." This unconstitutional language gave
great offence to the Commons, who appointed a
committee on the subject, and drew up a petition of
right, in which they declared that "they would not
be prevented from debating on any matter which
concerned the rights and interests of the subject."
The dispute was subsequently compromised, only to
be succeeded by others of a similar character. In
the year 1614 James was compelled by his neces-
sities to summon a Parliament. The elections were
most unfavourable to the Government, and the re-
sult was a serious struggle for supremacy. The com-
mons brought forward the public grievances, of
which the first and foremost was the impositions,
and on the refusal of the Lords to hold a conference
they postposed the consideration of the supply.
The King, incensed, dissolved the Parliament after a
very brief session, and committed four of the refrac-
tory members to the Tower, four others were struck
out of the commission of peace, and several were
forbidden to leave London. James did not venture
on summoning another Parliament until long after
the date at which these volumes close. The evil
example which he thus set to the youthful heir to
the throne was only too closely followed by
the hapless Charles the First. Of the effect
of surrounding circumstances on his nar-
row and impressible mind, Mr. Gardiner speaks
strongly in his concluding pages. Had he,
says the historian been some 10 or 15 years
older he might have learned a different
d th e
lesson. But at the dawn of his early manhoo
great men of the great days of Elizabeth.
their adsPyasTeema
away. Their policy, their princtoplfets,
of government, their know.ledgseof
thebe temper and
sinChtahrelehsicsotourlyd
past. " There
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crdohfwbeieuteh:hl less sy
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ensivbeeing led in the right path by those
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thoughts lay apart from the main
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whouosed
current of the life of the nation; and, desirable as
it is, that diversities of opinion should exist in the
body of the people, it is never with impunity that
such a separation grows up between a nation and
its rulers." Short as is the period referred to in this
work, Mr. Gardiner considers it as an epoch com-
plete in itself. With the disgrace of Coke, he says
the period of transition ends. "It is a great his-
torical landmark. Up to this time James has been
busy in acquiring the powers which were after-
wards to be used with such fatal results to himself
and his son. In two or three years James will be
the most unpopular man in the three kingdoms.
England will be disgusted by the negotiations with
Spain—Scotland will be enraged by the Five
Articles of Perth—lreland will be irritated by the
seizure the eharter of Waterford." Mr. Oardiner

has brought his task a thorough knowledge of his
subject, to a spirit of fair and careful investiga-
tion, laborious research, and temperaance of tone•
His style is always clear and even, never iisiug into
eloquence or sinking into mediocrity. Yet he eau
seal cely expect his work io be extensively popular.
It required the reputation and the genius of a
Macaulay to make the general public interest them-
selves in a few outwardly uneventful years. It
demands an historical student like himself to appre-
ciate and to value his labours. It needs the same
sp:rit of patient inquiry by which he is distinguished,
to read carefully these two bulky volumes, only to
trace the origin of the great facts which casual
observers learned long ago. Yet every careful and
authenticated work of the class is a gain to our
standard literature, and though perhaps unread by
the mass of superficial readers, the thoughtful
student will be tempted to place this work on his
shelves as a contribution to his light apprcciatioa
of the history of his countrymen.

Memories of the Past and Thoughts upon the Present
Age. By J. Brown. Longman.

This work contains some very interesting essays
on various topics, and the author informs us in his
first article that he is approaching his eightieth
year, but still preserves unimpaired his memory.
Thus he can compare the storms of the present day
with those on which his young eyes opened. He
has a perfect remembrance of the sensation which
was made by the capture of Louis XVI. A
brief but emphatic account is given of the varied
feelings produced in the minds of men by the
changing aspects of the French Revolution. At
first it was supposed to be the dawn of a great and
glorious era, and on all sides it was hailed with en-
thusiasm.

"O'er the vine-covered hills and gay valleys of France
See the day-star of liberty rise,"
sang the poets of the day, but afterwards men be-
came disgusted at the extremes to which the advo-
cates of liberty went in the pursuance of their pro-
jects. Passing onwards in his cursory glance at
historical events, the author mentions Mr. Buckle's
History of Civilisation, and dissents from the opi-
nions therein expressed. There is a good deal on
the subject of America, and at the conclusion he
considers the present social position of England.
He says that if we would rightly depict the mind
of England, we must consider loyalty and patriotism
the prominent characteristics. He aptly refers to
the prevalent sentiments of the last generation, and
suggests that to illustrate his meaning any senior
of our community should call up before his mind's
eye the condition of the country at the time of
Queen Caroline's trial, and compare what he then
saw with what he now witnesses. "How was this
manifested when Prince Albert, the great, the good,
passed from among us to brighter realms." While
on this subject Mr. Brown mentions an interesting
occurrence which took place more than twenty years
ago, when he, as mayor of the town, presented an
address to the late Prince Consort. He says that,
looking up at the Prince, he recalled the words of
the greatest historian of all antiquity to his fa-
vourite hero, " You would readily believe him to be
a good man, you would wish to believe him a great
one." Finally, the work winds up by declaring
that England is at this moment in the van of the
civilisation of the world. Nor does there appear
any reason to fear her decadence, sirce nations fall
from their sins. "Rome fell because her very con-
stitution was a vile conspiracy against the rights
and liberties of all the rest of the world." In our
country, on the contrary, it is not probable that
civilisation will become retrogressive, and as our
policy, international and domestic, is founded on
right and justice, we may foresee for its future "
long career of happiness and prosperity."

_Yobly False. A Novel. 2 vols. By James
M'Grigor Allan. Newby.

This is a very peculiar work, that is not likely to
be pleasing to the general reader, on account of its
being more the exponent of ideas and the enunci-
ator of theories than a reflection of society and a
chronicle of the lives of individuals. Gerald, the
hero, is one of those wild erratic young men who
are always supposed to be doing something great,
but unfortunately never succeed in achieving any—
thing in a small way that can win for them true
renown, or gain respect from sober-minded people.
In religion he tried all creeds, till he appeared to
be too good for any at last. In politics he was also
most skilled in detecting frauds and fallacies, till he
ended his first attempt in that line by being ea-
rested as the leader of a Chartist mob and creating
riots in his native town. He was not more happy
in his affections than he had been wise in his public
career or notable in his form of worship. He ruined
the peace of an innocent girl, who was deeply at-
tached to him, and she became so confused by the
conflicting claims of right and wrong that she
poisoned herself. Then in his marriage Gerald put
the finishing stroke to his long career of blunders.
There are some minds that get so infatuatei
with their notions of broad views, liberal principles,
and unprejudiced opinions, that they end by be-
coming as rooted in their unaccommodating dogmas
as any of the bigoted classes they despise and de-
nounce. Gerald is a good prototype of such
individuals, and the extremes into which he went
may serve aptly to portray the evils they occasion
and the errors they. fall into from their extreme
views.

Essays and Reviews; their Origin, History, General
Character and Significance, Persecution, Prosecu-
tion, the Judgment of the Arches Court, Review
of Judgment. By the Rev. R. B. Bernard, M.A.,
Oxon. Hardwicke.

In all probability every one has heard enough,
and more than enough, of the subject of this volume,
but as the author has been at considerable pains to
collect the diverse intelligence that he imparts in
these pages, some may be induced to give them theit
attention, and be instructed and interested thereby,
even though they should not agree with the tenets
of the writer. In the preface we are told that the
work is put forth with the hope of dispelling the
cloud of prtjadiee and misrepresentation through
which the volume of "Essays and Reviews" has
hitherto been regarded. "For this end the writer
has endeavoured to point out the true place of that
work in the history of religious thought, its
in the inductive method introducedd
its more immediate antecedents and special
day." This
provo-
catives in the literature oft the
purpose, at all event,
is straightforward and tto the present
that those who have
and although it
etitemself delusion of the
recognised from tihsenooutsevt
e now under discus-
sion,writers of that celebrated .
Blaring errors into which they have
and the search
their so called
after truth, 'will be
fallen in
influenced by any ingenious arguments to change
opinions, still all
their Wh3 honestly state their
views are entitled to consideration, and the
of this o little book appears t be author
more moderate in
his tone and less bitter
cuss theological questions.
id -

Aaa Pm tescue—A Novel. By the author of 4, The
Dairy mples," &e. 3 vols. Newby.
This is a very romantic tale that is well calculated
to please those readers who love excitement. The
incidents are very strikingly told in some parts, and
there are many individuals introduced into these
pages, Ada is an interesting heroine, and although
bhe was most culpable in entering into an engage-
-1 ment in so clandestine a manner, and particularly.
in her secret marriage, still we cannot but sympa-
thise with her in her sad trials. It was a very hard
lot for one reared in luxuries as she had been to be
cast so friendless and unprotected on the world. Her
adventures at Mrs. Robertson's are very ably nar-
rated, and it is to be feared that they furnish a true
picture of the existence of many unfortunate go-
vernesses who are domiciled beneath the roof of un-
feeling women like her whom poor Ada had to serve.
It was a most unwise thing for Ada to assumessed
in a
different name, but nothing could have x
A
Mrs. Robertson from behaving suchaasylee
e Lid do
exchanged one tyrant for another, but she
is much town-thank her own folly for going to live with such a an
as Mr. Snell. On the whole tmheeroe
of the secondary
to
in these volumes, anhdasso
gLucy Melville, are
personages introduced, suethin
very refreshing in;
amid the artifi-
attractive. There is
.Borne
yo?ng
A lady,idtae and e o n e
wl u
we
i areon i s
left a the appearance of this
cial scene of fashionable Need.
much i
of foreign
happy one for
.the
in the supposition that the rough usages
imparted to Edward Messenger,
warfare 11°4 eked at the that
wisdom which he a outset of the tale.