The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-21 00:00:00

he dubbed the peerage—where was it ? in the Book
of Snobs ? surely it must have been in the Book of
Snobs !—" the British Bible." It was, not long since,
jibed at, or flouted, or pooh-poohed, or whatever the
phrase may be, very absurdly, by one of our weekly
contemporaries, in a fit of anger, as "an obscure
guide to the peerage"—this very Debrett (teste "Don
Juan," testy reviewer !), the mere mention of
which has, long and long ago, become a very synonym
for the Peerage ! Insomuch that to talk of Debrett
is talk of " The Peerage." Just as to mention
Hansardis to mention the " Parliamentary D ebates."
Or again, just precisely as to speak of Bradshaw is
to speak of the " Railway Guide-book." Popular
as this " obscure" celebrity has been hitherto, it
has during this very season put as fair a face upon
it as ever it ha 6 done--appearing in a two-fold
form—dividing its one volume, that is to say, into
two —in other words, expanding its supplement of
a Baronetage (coupling that same with a
Knightage), into as goodly a tome as the very Peer-
age itself. And each of these two volumes, it should
be added, will be found to have been abundantly
embellished with woodcuts of the armorial bearings
of the various families of distinction whose names
are recorded in them. What is of far more imper-
tance, however, than any mere such adornments,
the letterpress-information herein stored up and
arranged alphabetically, appears to have been—
with an especial eye to its accuracy—very carefully
revised and corrected throughout.

Menzoir of H.E. Cardinal Wiseman. By George
White, M.C.P. Bvo., pp. 70. Richardson and

Son.

A very interesting memorial of a man of more
than merely titular Eminence, has here been com-
piled from the scattered particulars given at the
period of the late Cardinal's death and obsequies in
the newspapers of the day, in other words in our own
columns and in those of our contemporaries. The
brochure comprises within it —a Memoir of His Emi-
nence, an account of the religious rites which marked
the close of his career, a description of the solemn
Requiem at Moorfields, a report of the Funeral
Oration delivered, in the midst of it, from the pulpit
of the pro-Cathedral, a record of the cortege, and
of the actual interment. After which the compiler
of the pamphlet gives the completest list we have
yet seen anywhere of the literary works of Cardinal
Wiseman—from the form Syriacm, published at
Rome in 1828 (thirty-seven years ago !) down to
the lecture on William Shakespeare, published, here in
London, only the other day, posthumously. As
constituting a fitting close to this memorial, the
last section of the pamphlet (a section entitled
" The Press on the Death of Cardinal Wiseman")
gives, first of all, a collection of " Extracts from the
Leading journals of the Kingdom," among others
from the Daily 7elegraph, The Times, The Sun, The
Examiner, and others, followed by a supplementary
collection of " Extracts from the Catholic Press,"
that is, from the Tablet and its contemporaries. As
a frontispiece, there will be found prefixed to this
memorial a portrait of the Cardinal, taken from Mr.
Lynch's well-known lithograph—a sketch of H. E.,
rendered doubly interesting from its having appended
to it a fac-simile of the Cardinal's elegant signature,
with its flowing paraphe.

Laurie's Standard Reader. The Series of Six.
Cheap Edition. Thos. Murby, 32, Bouverie-

street.

We have noticed this wonderful little series of
Standard Readers (so-called) already so very fre-
quently, that it only remains for us here to welcome,
as it deserves, the re-issue of the whole set thus
in a cheap form—in a form so very cheap as to
place the work, henceforth, within reach of the
industrious artisan and of the thrifty cottager. Of
itself, it forms quite a little library, and one, it
should be said also, that will be found to be equally
varied and enthralling in its character.