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THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood.

" Salem Chapel" still progresses with unabated
interest, and if the climax in the last chapter is
somewhat melodramatic, it is at least contrived with
consummate skill. Indeed, we have rarely met with
anything in fiction more effective than the contrast
between the seemingly successful efforts made by
the minister's mother to conceal from the Salem
congregation the nature of her son's journey, and
their utter overthrow by the sudden arrival of her
daughter. In " A Skye-Lark" we have-onlitdOtaii
of thetseeneifibriuttural history of that island—
chiefly associated in the mind of the " Southron"
with hairy terriers. The tenth part of " Caxtoniana"
treats " On the Moral Effect of Writers," and con-
tains some pertinent comments on Goethe's well
known criticism on Hamlet in " Wilhelm Meister."
" The dogmas conveyed in this criticism," says the
writer, " are neither historically nor physiologi-
cally correct. If, as Wilhelm Meister had just before
asserted, Hamlet must be fair-haired and blue-
eyed—as a Dane, as a Northman,' certainly, of
all the population on the earth, the Dane, the
Northman, has ever been the least characterised by
wavering melancholy,' or 'soft lamenting.' The
old Scandinavian vikings did not yield to any dark-
haired warriors 'in decision and impetuosity.' To
this day, those districts in England wherein the
old Danish race left their descendants—where the
blue eye and light sandy hair are most frequently
seen—as in the Scottish lowlands, the northern
border counties, in Lincolnshire, or in Norfolk
(those provinces in which Palgrave proves the
wholesale settlement of the Danes), the superior
activity,: the practical longheadedness, the ready
adaptation of shrewd wit to immediate circum-
stance—in short, all the attributes most opposed
to the character of Hamlet, are proverbially evi-
denced. Nor is it true that the fair-haired
children of the north are more inclined in
youth to be plump than the dark-haired in-
habitants of the same climates. The York-
shireman and the Lowlander are generally high
cheek-boned and lean." A discriminative review
of " Victor Hugo's last Romance" follows. " The
Rights of Women" are discussed, and the remain-
ing articles touch on "Sermons," "Across the
Channel," and "Ten years of Imperialism."

Colburn's United Service Magazine.

Several articles of considerable interest will be
found in the present number. Among them is that
on "Diving Boats and Iron-plated Ships," which
discusses the best mode of defence against future
Monitors and Merrimacs, and touches on the ves-
sels which have at various times been invented, and
seemingly with a degree of success, for submarine
service. In the " Illustrations of the Maori cha-
racter during the War in New Zealand," by Colonel
Sir J. E. Alexander, we find a high tribute paid
to the courage, endurance, and military skill
of those savages ; though the difficulty was
to persuade them to spare the wounded
and prisoners. The aim, in war, they thought, was
to destroy the enemy. " What do you suppose we
are going to Taranaki for ?" they replied. "Do
you suppose we are going to save men's lives ? We
ask for no quarter ourselves, we give none. We
only give what we ask." Under the head of " Lobs-
couse," we find a graphic description of a floating
island on fire in the Indian Ocean. And the writer
of "Macaulay on Marlborough" is rather severe on
the great historian. Thus—" It may seem too epi-
grammatic to say so, but it is in our judgment strictly
true to assert that the late Lord Macaulay's history
exhibits a combination and exaggeration of the
peculiarities of all his preceding works. It is as full
of political prejudice and of partisan advocacy as
any of his parliamentary speeches ; it makes many
of the facts of English history as fabulous as his
Lays do those of Roman tradition, and it is written
with as captious, as dogmatic, and as cynical a
spirit as the bitterest of his reviews."

Fraser.

Among the contents of the present number, the
Essay, by A. H. K. 8., " Concerning Disagreeable
People," will be found readable ; and he gives the
palm for unpleasantness to professors of religion.
He says, "I have beheld more deliberate malice,
more lying and cheating, more backbiting and
slandering, denser stupidity, and greater self-suffi-
ciency among bad-hearted religionists, than among
any other order of human beings. I have known
more malignity and slander conveyed in the form
of a prayer, than should have consigned any ordi-
nary libeller to 4the pillory. I have known a person
who made evening prayer a means of infuriating
and stabbing the servants, under the pretext of con-
fessing their sins. 'Thou knoweat, Lord, how my
servants have been occupied this day;' with these
words did the blasphemous mockery of prayer
begin one Sunday evening in a house I could
easily indicate; and then the man, under the pre-
text of addressing the Almighty, raked up all the
misdoings of the servants, (they being present of
course) in a fashion which, if he had ventured on it
at any other time, would probably have led some of
them to assault him. 'I went to Edinburgh,' said
a Highland elder, and was there a Sabbath. It
was an awfu' sight ! There, on the Sabbath day,
you would see people walking along the street,
smiling AS IF THEY WERE PERFECTLY HAPPY I?
There was the gravamen of the poor Highlander's
charge. To think of people being or looking happy
on the Lord's Day ! And, indeed to think of a
Christian man ever venturing to be happy at all!"
In the article on " The Fine Art of the Interna-
tional Exhibition," we meet with the somewhat
startling suggestion that "The truest estimate of
the whole subject
us
is t
thha
et
about the very best fine
the present day
in einveirgyhteopronsesribolfythsehogwlobe,
art practised at
decorative art of the Japanese." The articles on
tg The Reign of Terror" are co • ntmued. The scene
of this instalment of the tale called •
" A First Friend-
ship," is shifted to France, and a new tale called
" Adrian," is begun. ,

Dublin University Atagazine.
Under the head of " The Art-Show at the Great
Exhibition," we find a critique on the art manufac-
tures and sculpture contained in the building, and
characteristics of
s
the writer bestows by no means unqualified praise
on Mr. Story's Cleopatra and Sybil. The account
fol-
lows,ccount
aonf "inTs i htsieteuHumoursutriioonu snoaws hni
ci
lning
cobfercoaonm Irish sohbo lete. Then comes
the Wake,"a Which
a critique on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, giving a
candid summary of her defects as well as merits. In
" Sterne and his Day," we have some account of that
author's ancestry ;
and the writer considers his
father, Lieut, Sterne, to have been the original of
Uncle Toby. "The Stone Lion" is a translation of
a quaint Chinese tale, showing how virtue was
aetP
re-
warded and vice
Empire
`some thousand yearn ago;
in the Celestial
o; and the elrstilael on ~
By..

gone Manners and Customs" is continued.
"Speak-
ing of the dinner table," says the writer, "the hour
for dining then was four o'clock, and at that hour
the drum beat up roast beef at the quarters of the
soldiery. That was then the hour even in the dash-
ing cavalry regiments. In town it enabled the
higher class company to attend the theatres, which
is now impracticable. In those days the histrionic
art flourished. I well remember George Frederick
Cooke as Richard the Third, the only actor that
ever performed the character to my taste. Kean,
great only by bursts, never looked the crookbacked
King; it was impossible to get over his smallness
of person. Cooke, with his hooked nose and well-
developed frame, looked the part to admiration.
He lost himself from his habit of drinking. He
was the only actor an audience ever excused for ex-
hibiting that vice on the stage, but his wonderful
power in comedy as well as tragedy obtained him
forgiveness. We once saw him stagger off the
stage and fall just within the curtain." " The
House by the Churchyard" and “ Mildrington the
Barrister," are still in progress.

Macmillan.

The part of the present number which will create
special interest is the commencement of the Rev.
Professor Kingsley's new tale, which appears under
the whimsical title of " The Water Babies : a Fairy
Tale for a Land Baby," The " Land-baby," who is
the hero of the tale, stands very much in need of
water, for he is, as • the first chapter, beginning
" Once upon a til-AgAiniorsila- us, " a little chimney
sweep, and his name was Tom." His master also,
whose suggestive name is Grimes, has no great love
for the pure fluid, for, on dipping his head into a
roadside spring after a debauch, his astonished
apprentice exclaming, " Why, master, I never saw
you do that before," he replies, "Nor will again
most likely. 'Twarn't for cleanliness I did it, but
for coolness. I'd be ashamed to want washing
every week or so, like any smutty collier-lad." We
infer, then, that the moral of the tale will be the
beauty of cleanliness—a moral the propriety of
which
reestpoongdaeintiy
tsain America," of
ats of " The New England
. The articles
by
w'S‘ cehs ,:tu'ihtareri essPpariemenicsiuepasnloitsnsegitobr, correspondent in America," of
which the present treats of "The New England
States," are amusing, not only from the information
they convey, bat from the undisguised Northern
" proclivities" of the writer. To him the demo-
cratic republican form of Government, the sweet
fruits of which the Americans are now enjoying, is
perfection. He says, "It may seem strange to Eng-
lish critics, who are wont to assume as a self-evi-
dent axiom that America is a hateful country, and
that the system of American government is repul-
sive to every educated and refined mind, to discover,
as they would by a short residence here, that men
of genius and men of letters—men whose names are
known and honoured wherever the English lan-
guage is read—feel as proud of their own country,
and as proud of their own institutions, as if they
had been Englishmen." Well, there is no account-
ing for taste, and if "men of genius" are fond of
King Mob, and choose to bow their necks to his
yoke, it is not for us to complain. We are also
told that " All over America, and, above all, in
New England, literary fame and the reputation of
learning are honoured to a degree we can hardly
appreciate at home; and, therefore, the literary
mind represents the native mind more closely than
would seem probable to us." Strange ! we always
thought that the almighty dollar ruled the land,
and that the representative of the " national mind"
was Barnum. But travellers see strange sights,
tell strange tales, and " our special correspondent"
presumes upon his privilege.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

ULSTER.

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