The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-14 00:00:00

Sardinian"

Austrian

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Roman

A marriage has been arranged between Miss
Schenley, the eldest daughter of Mr. Edward W. H.
Schenley, of Prince's-gate, and the Hon. Ralph Harbord,
brother of Lord Suffield.
M. BERRYER as described by M. Guizot in his
new work :—lt is not only by the elevation and
flexibility of his mind, by the attraction and charm of his
eloquence, that he has surmounted the formidable difficul-
ties of an ambiguous and extra-legal part in a system of
legality, publicity, and liberty. He draws from other
sources, also, his popular influence. Although he has lived
a party man, M. Berrysr feels as a patriot ; he is no stranger
to any of the instincts, emotions, and aspirations of his
country ;not only
does he comprehend but partake the na-
tional joys and sorrows. He has sustained the rights and
traditions of past times, and, above all other men, he is a
man of the present time, attached to the rights which mo-
dern generations have conquered ; he has opposed the
freest Government France ever possessed : he loves and
sincerely wishes for freedom. Naturally liberal, prompt,
accessible, and sympathetic, he can harmonise in his mind
very opposite sentiments, and preserve, throughout all po-
litical vicissitudes, unity in his life and fidelity to his cause,
without inspiring, in the adversaries ho most vehemently
opposes, the anger and hatred he feels not towards them.

LITERATURE.

Little Golden Handbooks.

A Brief Biographical Dictionary. Compiled by
the Rev. Charles Hole, B.A. Macmillan and

Co.

The publishers, we observe, announce through
their advertisement of this little work, that they are
, sanguine as to its being welcomed far and wide by
every lettered gentlemen as a book of reference,
that he will always be glad to have lying beside
him on his writing-table, close at hand, at his very
elbow ! And with reason, as it seems to us, do
they anticipate this instant and hearty acceptance
of the compiler's ingenuity—Mr. Charles Hole's
" Brief Biographical Dictionary" being, to our
fancy, about the very handiest of all the handy
little guide books that we can recall to mind
ever having had the opportunity of welcom-
ing ! Within less than 500 tiny pages of beautifully
clear and distinct letter-press, we have the quint-
essence of the biographies of almost all the famous
or in-famous human beings who have ever lived
men and women and even (very rarely) children
(instance Chatterton)—fellow mortals of all times
and climes and countries and conditions ! The
quintescence of all these biographies, we say advisedly.
—seeing that in addition to the names we have two all-
important dates, the Alpha and the Omega, the be-
ginning and the end, the date of birth and the
date of death. Thelatter, whenever it can be given
with minute precision to the very day, is, we per-
ceive, throughout the book, alone so given. Possibly
alone so given by the reverend compiler in enforce-
ment of that exquisitely impressive line of Gray's
in the immortal Elegy—(a whole sermon in a single
verse !)
" The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
__ • _

Nevertheless, as it seems to us, there can be no valid
reason whatever why the exact date of birth, when-
ever it can be given, also should not be given quite
as well as the exact date pf death. We would
seriously urge this upon the attention of both the
compiler, Mr. Hole, and the publishers, the Messrs.
Macmillan—with an eye, that is (supposing, of
course, that they should think favourably of our
suggestion) that, so far, the merits of the next issue
of this charming little biographical hand-book
might be enhanced. A very little addition
to the present width of the pages would admit of
this additional date being interpolated, without
any risk whatever of the average one-line being
flawed by over-running. For—the wonder of the little
book is precisely this—that it is on the average a
marvellous accumulation of one-lined biographies !
Instance among the long past,—
EUTYCHILTS, Patriarch ; Arabic Annalist. 876—May12, 940
Or instance again among those recently deceased,—,
HUNT, Jas. Hen. Leigh. Poet and Essayist. Aug. 28, 1859.
Nevertheless—in enforcement here of our previous
argument as to the preferability of the two precise
dates, instead of the one only exact one, the date of
death—we cannot by any means understand why
the Great Napoleon's biography, for example,
should not be summed up (tersely enough,
in all conscience, even then) in those two
dates—Born, 15 August, 1769—Died, 5 May,
1821. It is at any rate worth thinking of—whether
the value of Mr. Hole's exquisite little volume (re-
markable though that value is even now) might
not in this way very readily, and yet it should be
added very considerably also, be enhanced ? Small,
compact, condensed—the tiny volume is a perfect
treasury of information. It is as full, as an egg
is of meat—of information. It answers
instantly, pertinently, and to the point,
that ever - recurring question among all
classes of readers—on coming to this name, that
and the other—When did he live ? The span of each
life is before us, at a glance of the eye—down to the
very day when each life was " rounded to a sleep,"
as Shakspere has it so wonderfully. And—in re-
gard to the more important and interesting person-
ages mentioned in the volume, each in his due and
alphabetical position—the sources of further and
completer information are indicated by a series of
names, the names, that is to say, of the
biographers. Occasionally we find, in this, an omis-
sion of some well- known biographer's name—as,
let us say in regard to the great St. John, Henry
St. John, Lord Bolingbroke—" Life by Goldsmith,"
says Mr. Hole. He might have added, and by Win-
grove Cooke ! A careful revision of the little
volume, however, exactly as it comes before us even
now at this its first venture into publicity, may be
very easily accomplished—judging of the work
by the " few " faults, " and far between, "
that we have, upon a very careful scrutiny of
the book, been as yet able to detect in it. Brief
though the account here given of each individual,
necessarily is, purposely and designedly is, it is—for
precisely what it is intended to be—amply sufficient.
Hitherto we have only been very vaguely aware of
our want of any such book at all. Now that it has
actually made its appearance, however, we recognise
in it a hitherto but half-suspected want, a want
that—thus seen and satisfied—suddenly merges
into one the satisfaction of which must be looked
upon as henceforth a sort of necessity.

Legal Forms for Common Use, being 200 Precedents
By James Walter Smith, LL.D. Pp. 219. Effing•
ham Wilson.

A third thousand of this Legal Handbook having,
herewith, by this reissue of it made its substantial
appearance, clearly enough attests the utility of the
work and—as indicative of that utility being recog-
nised—of its unquestionable popularity. Appre-
ciated already as a very excellent and reliable com-
pilation, this little handbook of Legal Forms, ar-
ranged together in 13 chapters, by Mr. J. W. Smith,
is worthy of being yet more widely-known and yet
more fully and generally appreciated: It bears
evidence throughout of a minute and scrupulous
and conscientious revision. It is a series of deduc-
tions drawn from not less than 200 precedents.
The thirteen chapters into which the Legal Forms
under appropriate heads are distributed, will be
found upon examination to have been made very
plain indeed by elucidatory introductions, and yet
plainer still by a multitude of, explanatory notes.
Many a momentary doubt, to the man of business
who is not a lawyer, may be instantaneously set at
rest by a few moment's reference to the pages of
this excellent little guide or pocket companion—re-
ference to it being wonderfully facilitated by a
copious index, alphabetically arranged.

The Search for a Publisher. Fifth Edition. Pp. 67.

Alfred W. Bennett.

Although this very curious and interesting
pamphlet almost amounts to an independent trade
advertisement, it is so excellent of its kind, and so
directly to the purpose held in view by its author-
publisher, that we gladly direct attention to it, less
in the interests of that same author-publisher, than
in those of the authors to whom he announces him-
self as prepared to act as publisher, if they list !
" Counsels for a Young Author" is the sub-title
of the brochure. Fifth Edition, it will be recog-
nised moreover, is conspicuously enough embla-
zoned upon its title-page. Such as it is,
the pamphlet under notice is also amply
embellished with illustrations—vignette woodcuts,
steel engravings, photographs. All the mysteries
of the publishing trade moreover are here laid bare
for the information of the multitude. The printers'
art being minutely and carefully explained, in regard
to thin and thick leading and solid, to Brevier and
Bourgeois, Long Primer and Small Pica, Minion
and Nonpareil, Ruby, Pearl and Diamond. Mr.
Bennett's frankness and lucidity are alike entitled
to the young author's recognition, even, we will
say, to his grateful acknowledgment.

The Channel fleet left Portland roads this morn-
ing for Cherbourg.

THE CABMAN'S ARCADIA.—A letter from Quebec,
dated the 28th of July, says :—I was amused with
the dilemma created by an intelligent, although
quick-tempered, Jehu who, on bringing me back from a
short country drive, repudiated all adherence to fares set
down in print. "It's not by the hour you'll pay me," said
he, "nor yet by the distance ! " "All right," said 1,." much
obliged for the lift;" and prepared to walk away. "You
don't go like that," exclaimed Pat warmly, "I'll charge
you whatever I wish; there's no law about it." " Then,
I'll pay you whatever I choose," was my answer. Our
conversation became animated. We repaired to the nearest
police-station, where an arbitrator was fauna who advised
timely compromise. " Sair," said he, " dere is no laws. It
true, what he tell you." And a compromise was accord-
ingly arrived at.

Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean.

(From the Buffalo Daily Courier of July 29.)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean took their farewell
benefit at the Metropolitan last night, and the dress
circle, parquette and family circle, were radiant with
the beauty, fashion, and intelligence of the city.
No matter how great the artists, the compliment
implied in such an attendance must prove flattering
in the extreme, even although it stood alone, instead
of being the last of five of the most brilliant assem-
blages that ever congregated for so many consecu-
tive nights in this city. The distinguished artists
had a right to be proud of the honour, for Buffalo is
not unnecessarily enthusiastic, and those who met
face to face in the auditorium night after night, had
as good reason for mutual congratulation over their
individual intelligence and appreciation. The season
altogether has been such as shall pass to the credit
of Buffalo as one of the foremost patrons of the arts
in the country, and as such we make record of it.
The first play on the programme last night, was
that of Shakspere's " Richard II.," with Mr. Charles
Kean as King Richard, and Mrs. Kean as the Queen.
But comparatively few theatre goers are acquainted
with it, and a goodly proportion of Shaksperean
students have overlooked it. The entire play is not
presented, but, as it is, its plot is simple ; the lan-
guage throughout is morally grand and beautiful; the
situations are intensely interesting, but the denouement
is not so agreeable as we would like ; although Mr.
Kean,with his veneration for his great master, makes
it as acceptable as can possibly be conceived. As
Richard, Mr. Kean maintained the same unswerving
consistency that characterises the unfoldment of all
his characters ; and one could readily see that he
would not part from it for applause or gold. As the
King he was regal ; as the deposed monarch he was
the moral hero, and his utterances gave an almost
divine significance to the words of the great poet.
From the beginning Mr. Kean displayed great
energy as the King, but when Sir Stephen Scroop
intimates in dubious phrase the success of Boling-
broke,Kean gives us a rendering of the following
lines which furnish the keynote to his character, in
magnificent style :
Mine ear is open and my heart prepared ;
The worst is worldly loss thou canet unfold.
Say is my kingdom lost ? Why 'twas my care,
And what loss is it to be rid of care ?
Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we ?
Greater he shall not be ; if he serve God,
We'll serve him too and be his fellow so ;
Revolt our subjeCts ! that we cannot mend ;
They break their faith to God, as well as us ;
Cry, woe, destruction, loss, decay ;
The worst is—death, and death will have his way.
The reply to Aumerle in the 'same scene- com-
mencing with the lines :
No matter where ; of comfort no man speak
Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,
was still more sublimely rendered, and with these
the audience could not help love Richard, and Kean.
The scene in which, after surrendering his crown
and glory to Bolingbroke, he looks at himself in a
hand glass, and dashing it to the ground, he ex-
claims—

"For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers,
Mark, silent king, the moral of the sport,
How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face,"

must have thrilled every one intent upon the act.

But we almost do the artist injustice in suggest-
ing a few points of interest where the whole was so
complete, yet it may not be out of propriety to aver
that a more effective piece of acting than that in
which himself and his queen are separated was never
witnessed in this city. Mrs. Kean, who played the
Queen finely, at this point displayed a power and
pathos which she could not have excelled even when
she was the pride of the stage. Mr. Cathcart's Boling-
broke was excellent, as he always is, and if we do
not mistake the temper of the audience the play
commanded their warmest commendation.
At the close of the play the artists were called
enthusiastically before the curtain, but Mr. Kean
appeared alone. He said that his wife was dress-
ing for the comedy or she would have appeared with
him. His further response was as follows :
Ladies and Gentlemen,—l beg you to accept the sin-
cere thanks of Mrs. Kean and myself for the distinguished
compliment conferred upon us by the crowded audiences
which have nightly filled this theatre during our engage-
ment. That engagement will conclude to-morrow night,
when we shall perform for the last time on the Buffalo
stage ; for after re-appearing before our kind and warm
friends in New York, we shall shortly return home, there
to take leave of public life. In our retirement the remem-
brance of seven years sojourn in this country at different
periods, will be amongst the most gratifying reminiscences
of our past lives.

The comedy of " The Wonder," which con-
cluded the entertainment, was a wonder, and de-
lighted the audience more than we have time to
state. The Don Felix of Mr. Kean and the Donna
Violante of Mrs. Kean were splendid performances.
Mr. Cathcart played Colonel Britton well, and Mr.
Everett as Lissardo displayed a felicitous humour
which we did not suspect him of. The remainder of
the characters were well taken, and Miss Bidelman
and Miss Hall are entitled to a passing word for
the creditable part they took in the play. We think
the farewell benefit of the Keans will be long and
pleasantly remembered.

To-night Mr. and Mrs. Kean make their last ap-
pearance in the great tragedy of the " Gamester,"
the former appearing as Beverley, the latter as Mrs.
Beverley. We advise our readers to look to their
seats.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

Probate of the will of the Right Hon. Henry Viscount
Maynard, of Easton Lodge, near Pipunmow, Essex, and of
38, Grosvenor-square, was proved, in the principal regis-
try, by the surviving executors and trustees, H. Gibson,
Esq., of Ongar ; and the Rev. G. E. Symonds, 8.A., of
Tilty. The other executors appointed were his lordship's
wife, Viscountess Maynard (who died in 1857), the late
Lord Braybrooke, and W. Gibson, Esq., also deceased. The
personalty was sworn under £50,000. The testator suc-
ceeded to the title on the death of his uncle in 1824 ; mar-
ried in 1810 ; and died, on the 19th of May last, at the age
of seventy-nine. His lordship was vice-admiral of the
coast, and lord-lieutenant of the county of Estex. The
will was executed so far back as 1846, and- there are six
codicils, the last dated 1861. His estates in the counties of
Essex, Leicester, Cambridge, Northampton, and elsewhere,
he had devised to his only son, the Hon. Charles Henry
Maynard, who died, on the 2d January last, without male
issue, by which the title becomes extinct, and the property
descends to the son's eldest daughter. The testator has made
provision for his own three surviving daughters, the two
eldest of whom are married ; and has left annuities to his
aunts, Eliza and Ann Barnard, and to his brother-in-law,
George Rabett ; likewise annuities and legacies to his ser-
vants. By a codicil his lordship states that he has been in
the practice of letting cottages and gardens to the labouring
poor on his estate at low rents, and was erecting other cot-
tages; and expresses his wish that the person becoming
beneficially interested therein should continue the same
course.

The will of Andrew Robert Drummond, Esq., of Cad-
lands, near Southampton, and 2, Bryanston-square, and of
Charing. cross, banker, was proved in the London Court
on the 3d inst., and the personalty sworn under £70,000,
the executors appointed being his sons, Edgar Atheling
Drummond and Alfred Manners Drummond, Esqrs.,
to whom probate was granted. The will is dated April
12, 1865, and he died on June 20, at the age of seventy-
one. The testator was the head of the banking firm of
Messrs. Drummond, and was the eldest son of the late
Andrew Berkeley Drummond, Esq., and Mary, daughter
of John, second Earl of Egmont, and married, in 1822,
Lady Elizabeth Frederica, daughter of the late Duke of
Rutland, K.G. The testator confirms the settlements
made on his marriage in favour of his wife, and adds thereto
that which will make up the sum of £2,000 per annum, and
leaves to her ladyship a choice of residence, with furniture,
carriage, &c., and an immediate legacy of £2,000. To his
eldest son, Andrew John Drummond, he has secured a
like annuity of £2,000. To his second son, Edgar, he has
devised his estate of Cadland. To his othor sons he has
made provision by way of annuities and legacies ; and, as
regards his daughters, he intimates they were amply pro-
vided for on marriage. He has left legacies and annuities
to his servants.
- -

The will of James Henry Crawford, Esq., formerly of
Bombay, but late of Brighton, was provedin London under
£20,000 personalty, the executors nominated being his son,
James Alexr. Crawford, Esq.; his nephew, Robert Wigram
Crawford, Esq.; and Henry Ray Freshfield, Esq., solicitor,
Bank-buildings. The testator has liberally provided for
his daughters. His daughter Henrietta received her por-
tion on marriage. To his daughter Mary he leaves the
interest of £6,000 for her life; and a sum of .0,000 is left
for the advancement of such of the sons of his late daughter,
Helen Cruickshank, as may require it. He has also made
provision for her daughter, appointing his said son John
residuary legatee, and to whom he has made specific be-
quests of plate, &c., presented to him by native friends at
Bombay, as well as of several silver cups won by his horses
at the racecourse at Bombay.

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`,The Queen's Visit to Germany•

ANTWERP, Aug. 9.
Her Majesty the Queen arrived at Antwerp at
half-past six o'clock to-day in the royal yacht
Victoria and Albert, after a fine passage from the
Thames.

Soon after the royal yacht had come to anchor
his Royal Highness the Duke of Brabant and her
Imperial Highness the Duchess of Brabant visited
her Majesty on board.

Her Majesty proceeds this evening, with the royal
family and suite, in a special train to Darmstadt,
and will leave Darmstadt to-morrow evening for
Coburg.

DARMSTADT, Aug. 10.
tiler Majesty, with the royal family and suite,
arrived here shortly after nine o'clock this morning.
The Queen and princesses, attended by the
Duchess of Roxburghe, drove to Kranichstein to
pass the day.
Prince Leopold and the remainder of the suite
went to the Grand Duke's palace in Darmstadt.

Her Majesty continues her journey to Coburg
to-night.

The Duke of Somerset came to town on Satur-
day from Portsmouth, and left his official residence yester-
day, accompanied by Lord Edward St. Maur, to embark at
that port to-day with the other Lords of the Admiralty to.
visit Cherbourg.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester entertained.
last week, at Kimbolton Castle, during the Huntingdon
race meeting, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Maria
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of West-
morland, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Viscountess
Grey de Wilton,. Lord and Lady rroby, Mr. H. Chaplin,
Mr. Charles Leslie, &c.

The Marquis Conyngham, who arrived in town
on Friday from Cowes, Isle of Wight, left on Saturday
evening for Holyhead, whero he meets his yacht to take
him to Dublin, on his way to Slane Castle, county Meath,
Ireland.

The Marchioness of Huntly and family arrived
last week at Aboyne Castle, for 'the autumn, from Orton-.
Longueville, near Peterborough.
The Earl and Countess of Coventry have arrived
at Thomas's. Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Norway.
The Earl of Sandwich received a large party
during the Huntingdon races, at Hinchinbroke. The
Duke of St. Albans, Count Batthyany, Lord and Lady
Cecilia Bingham, General Peel, Mr. and Lady Louisa
Mills, Mr. H. Greville, &c., were among his lordship's
guests.

The funeral of the Dowager Countess of Shaftes-
bury took place on Saturday at St. Giles, Dorset. The
Earl of Shaftesbury and other sons of the deceased countess
attended the funeral, which was of a strictly private cha-
racter.

Viscountess Amberley was safely delivered on
Saturday morning of a son and heir at Alderley Park.
Both her ladyship and infant are doing well.

Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald left town on
Saturday on a visit to the Duke of Leinster, at Carton
House, Maynooth, Ireland.

Lord Henry Bentinck has arrived at his shooting-
box in Scotland for the season, and has already had good
sport in deer-stalking.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood and Mr.
Wood have arrived at Homburg, where they intend to re-
main for a month. Lady Mary Wood and Mies Wood had
previously arrived at Homburg from London.
_ _

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left town on
Saturday evening for Falloden, Northumberland.

The Earl of Leicester and the Tenantry
upon the Holkham Estate.
Lord Leicester has issued the following address
to his tenantry:—

" HOLICHAM, AUG. 11, 1865.
" Gentlemen,—On my return from Norway I saw, for the
first time, the circular which had been issued during my
absence from the Holkham-office, and sent to each of my
tenants. I learnt, moreover, from report, and have read
with my own eyes, the indignant expressions which it has
called forth both within and beyond the county ; and I
needed no information from friends or other quarters to
acquaint me with the feelings of surprise and pain which
it must naturally have excited in my tenantry.
" The judgments of the public or political opponents I
must bear. Ido not, and perhaps cannot, complain that,
with a somewhat ungenerous haste, they have attributed to
me, on the ground of this document, an attempt to coerce
my tenants in their political action in a manner utterly at
variance with the principles and practice of myself and my
house.

"But my relations to my tenantry are of a different cha-
racter, and the necessity of an explanation to you directly
is apparent ; the circular was addressed to you, was issued
with apparent authority, and called forth feelings of sorrow
and mortification which I both respect and justify.
"Explanation is indeed to me most simple; though, in
offering it, I may seem to reflect upon the discretion of an
agent in whom I repose great confidence.
The circular, as I have said, I never saw ; the spirit of
it is in flagrant contradiction to the principles and practice
that have been professed and followed on the Holkham
estate for nearly a century, and I feel it due to myself hero
and at once to disown and disclaim it.

At the same time, gentlemen, I would have you think
considerately of Mr. Shellabear. Immediately after the
meeting of the Liberal party of West Norfolk, held in Lon-
don, at which Sir W. Jones was unanimously selected to
be tho second candidate, I wrote to my agent to inform
him of this resolution ; I urged on him the necessity of
prompt and_ vigorous action from Holkham. I was the more
decided in my expressions to him, inasmuch as rumours
were prevalent in the county not only that I was indifferent
to Liberal opinions, but that I even secretly desired the
success of the Conservative party ; I counselled, not dicta-
tion, not coercion in any form, but the adoption in common
with my tenantry (whose political sympathies as a body
are strongly and avowedly with the Liberal cause) of every
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and not given in detail, and the heat and fervour gene-
rated in an election, the battle of which had to be fought in
the course of a few days, ledhim to issue the circular which
has caused so much scandal—the iinpolicy and unfitting-
ness of which no one now sees more clearly than himself.
And now, gentlemen, a word more. Coercion of the
political views of the tenantry has never existed on the
Holkham estate. My fathered gathered round him a body of
tenantry who were attached to him by a community of son,
timents. He and his tenantry were devoted to the Liberal
cause; their united action in times past powerfully swayed
many a hardly-contested election in Norfolk, a fact recorded
in the political history of our country. An honoured rem-
nant of that tenantry still exists on the estate. Sons and
grandsons occupy the places of fathers and grandfathers
who are gone. Like myself, they have inherited the same
great political principles, and I have a proud consciousness
that no estate in England has a tenantry with more united
sentiments, even in politics ; that with us Liberal principles
are an heirloom and a tradition, and that coercion, always
a crime, would be to you an unparalleled blunder and folly.
—I am yours truly,

LEICESTER.,

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middle of last week a man called on Mr. Ward and re-
quested to be supplied with an order for the delivery of
the picture referred to, so that it might be removed from
the premises in Trafalgar-square. Mr. Ward was engaged
at the time, and believing that the demand came from his
frame-maker, and was made in the manner commonly
practised by such agents, as all artists know, had no hesi-
tation in giving the order required. In duo time this
document was presented at the Royal Academy and ex-
changed for the picture to which it referred. Inquiries
have been made for the lost work, but at present without
effect ; it is believed that the police are not at fault in the
search.

AN ODD ADVERTISEMENT that, according to the
Examiner, there is no Standing or Understanding
either.—Amongst tho curiosities of the educational adver-

tisements of the Times we see a "Professor of Standing."
Dancing masters call themselves professors of dancing, but
what in the name of wonder is a professor of standing ?
Is it the opposite to dancing, or what ? During the elec-
tions we might have supposed that candidates might take
lessons from the professor of standing, as to the places for
which they might stand in the hope of sitting, but that
solution cannot be good now. We must refer the question
to "Notes and Queries," and we should be glad at the same

time to learn how it is that the educational advertisementS
aro about the worst written that appear. Is it to give fair
warning of the sort of instruction to be expected ? If so,
the thing is well done in its way, and the caution in the
slip-slop tongue could not be conveyed in fewer words.
In justice we must, however, note a difference between the
male and female professions—the schoolmistresses having
much the advantage of the schoolmasters. The former use
and abuse a few fine words that might be well spared, but
we have never seen them promise the services of a professor
of standing.