The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

Colburn's United Service Magazine.

" Continental Armies and Foreign Politics" is the
title of the opening article this month ; the Land-
wehr system of Prussia forming the special topic of
discussion. The writer of " Macaulay on Marl-
borough" defends the great general from the ex-
pressions of the great historian, and thus winds up :
—"Macaulay will be read, quoted, and honoured,
nevertheless, long after his aspersions of great
men and misstatements of public events have been
buried in oblivion. He will take his place as a
narrator by the side of Livy and Virgil, as an his-
toriographer between Shakespear and Scott. When
he ceases to be regarded as a sound historian he
will be the more loved as a delightful author,
and the memory of his mistakes will perish
when they have lost the power to mislead."
Strange to say, under the head " The Siege of Li-
moges by the Black Prince," written by M. Des-
courtieux, a Limosin, we find a justification of the
plundering and burning of that city by the Eng-
lish. The article called " The English and French
Navies," which embodies the principal points of
two articles relative to the navies of France and
England, written by M. Xavier Raymond for the
Bevue des Deux Mondes, merits attention, and
" Greenwich Characters" and " Lobscouse" will be
found readable.

Macmillan's Magazine.

What can Professor Kingsley be thinking about
in these days of social science and spirit rapping ?
He is positively trying to make As believe that
Ovid's Metamorphoses were possible. Having
drowned the little sweep ho transforms him into a
water-newt, and gravely tries to persuade his juve-
nile readers that such is the course of nature. We are
shocked at the estimate he must have formed of
the intelligence of precocious young England in this
nineteenth century. Why, we shall next find him
defending such departures from veracity as the his-
tory of Jack the Giant Killer, or that still more in-
credible legend of him of the bean stalk. In
" Women in Italy in 1862," by Francis Power
C3bbe, we find that the fair sex are at a discount in
some parts of that country. The writer says,—
" An English lady, long resident at Naples, and
married to a Neapolitan, informed me that, till
quite of late years, it was customary among the
poorer classes to hang a small black flag out of the
windows of the apartment wherein a girl was born,
to save the painful necessity of informing inquirers
of the unfortunate sex of the infant. She, herself,
after having given birth to her third child, the
two eldest being boys, was much alarmed at
finding both her doctor and nurse remaining
silent. Naturally she feared soma disaster, and,
on her urgent entreaties, they at last broke to
her the terrible information that she was the mother
of a very fino little girl !" Mr. John Taylor, in his
paper called " The Hand of Man in the Kirkdale
Cavern," states his reasons for be. ieving that the
bones there discovered were used by the Druids for
purposes of magic, and the article from the Special
Correspondent in America is strong as ever in fa-
vour of the North.

7 emple Bar.
We cannot compliment Mr. Sala upon this in-
stalment of " Captain Dangerous." In the,l first
„,,
piece he skips over fifteen years of his beroof,
taS.
and in the next he falls into the easy groove
ing about the events of the time, instead ofdeserib- '1
ing adventure or delineating character. tie must
is Ifogarth
beware lest he fall into the defect of .
papers. In " The Englishmanaiss
1857, and contain-
ing we
have an essay written as far backces no longer warrant.
allusions which eireu Install%
apologises, but re-
True, the author explains
sttaer- The second number
vision would have been
better.
French Point of View''
of "English Art fro
analysis of Hogarth's pictures,
he attributes wh
gives an interesting
hen
but the writer errs when at he

terms the "perfect state of preservation " of the
" Marriage a la Mode" to " the glass that protects
them." The glass has been. added quite recently.
It is wholly unnecessary for the preservation of oil
pictures, and it renders seeing them to advantage
impossible. Edmund Yates writes about "Our
Neighbourhood." In " Lords and Players " cricket
is discussed. "Love's Inconsistencies," by A.
Donaldson, is a graceful poem. And " Aurora
Floyd " is excellent as usual.

Bady's Monthly Magazine.

A good engraving of the Earl of Str3frord, to-
gether with a biography, arc given in this number.
" Charlie Thornhill" is continued. There is a
paper on Otter Hunting, and the usual summary
of the sporting events of the past month.

Newton's London .Tournal of Arts and Sciences.

We commend the article on "Silver and Plated
Goods at the International Exhibition." It is
well written, and is by one who evidently under-
stands the subject. In the scientific notices we
find an abstract of the lectures at the Royal
Institution; and there is the customary account
of recent patents.

Barrington: by Charles Lever. Orley Farm; by

Anthony Trollope. Chapman and Hall.

This number of "Barrington " describes the
Journey up the Rhine, and the arrival of Jose-
phine at her Irish home ; and in " Orley Faini"
we have, at length, the verdict.