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THE QUARTERLIES.

The New Qua,'terly. No. X.

There is no perceptible diminution in the vivacity-
and enterprize with which this New Quarterly inau-
gurated its establishment. If its con tri butorsaxe the
same they have not yet become hackneyed. At the
same time the freshness of their style is in no way
marred by the ripening influences of practise and
experience. Of all the quarterlies, the one before
us, the youngest of them all, contrives to keep its
readers most au courant with the current litera-
ture. This advantage results not merely from the
comprehensive " Retrospect of the Literature of the
Quarter" prefiied to each instalment of the periodi-
cal, but also, and in an especial manner, . from the
subsequent and more elaborate contributions. For
example, in the number before us, while the
" Retrospect" already mentioned ranges over a
series of works as various as the Memoirs of Lord
Holland and the Speeches of Macaulay, as Farini's
Rome, and Guizot's Cromwell, extending down-
wards to reprints and pamphlets, and works of a
miscellaneous character, whole departments are
exhausted one by one in the subsequent contribu-
tions. Take, as an excellent illustration of this,
the elaborate criticism on " The Literature of the
War"—referring to Curzon's "Armenia," to Lagny's
" Knout and the Russians," to Hammer's " His-
toire de l'Empire Ottoman," to O'Brien's " Jour-
nal of a Residence in the Principalities," to Ches-
ney's " Russo-Turkish Campaigns," to Slade's
" Travels in Turkey," to Smith's " Year with
the Turks," to Hill's " Travels in Russia and
Siberia," to Urquhart's " Progress of Russia," and
to a number of other productions of a similar kind
published anonymously. Again, there occurs later on
in the New Quarterly, a department devoted to
" Travels," through which the reader is introduced
one after another to various works, such as Forbes's
" Norway and its Glaciers," and Lloyd's " Scan-
dinavian Adventures," and Blanchard Jerrold's
" Brage Beaker with the Swedes," and Mansfield
Parkyn's " Life in Abyssinia," and Clacy's "Visit
to the Gold Diggings of Australia," and Bonelli's
" Traiels in Bolivia," and Davis's " Evenings in
my Tent," and other books of a like description.
It is thus in like manner in regard to Novels—the
collection of the most recent, of which here criticised
includes "Ladd Lee's Widowhood," and " Ticon-
deraga," and "Florence the Beautiful," and " Pro-
gress and Prejudice," and "Lismore," and " Agnes
Valmar," and " Reginald Lyle," and " Maud,"
and " High and Low," and the " Star Chamber,"
and " Charles Stanly," among these, as will have
been observed, the latest effusions of James, and
Ainsworth, and Miss Pardoe, and Bail lie Cochrane.
In a supplementary portion of the New Quarterly,
we have an intelligent résumé of the French cur-
rent literature, and of the current German litera-
ture. An attractive paper is devoted to the
analysis of Mr. Macaulay's powers as an Orator.
Another refers to the deplorable squabble over the
grave of Moore—between Mr. Croker and Lord
John Russell. We find in another article " A
Word to the Opium Eater," and in another an
agreeable comment on the Hon. Grantley Ber-
keley's " Sporting Adventures." A second portion
of the argument relating to " Authors and Pub-
lishers," follows hard upon a Note that should not
on any account be overlooked, a Note to the remark-
able seriesof papers published in successive numbers
of the New Quarterly, in reference to our Asiatic
possessions. Besides all which may be mentioned,
in conclusion, a chapter on " Modern Comforts,"
and a variety of notices delightfully miscellaneous.

The British Quarterly. No. XXXVIII.

Among the more accomplished contributors to
this able and independent periodical, we fail to re-
cognise the writer of that brilliant criticism in a
recent instalment in rote-fence to the subject of
" Portrait Painting in History," or of that still
more brilliant essay descriptive of the poet
" Horace," his life, genius, and character. Alto-
gether the number recently issued is, to our think-
ing, less vivacious in the style and less varied in
the subjects of the different contributions. Yet
several of these, too, are highly meritorious—some
of them peculiarly instructive, if they are none of
them particularly entertaining. Three men are
treated of very carefully in separate papers, Comte,
Turgot, and Herbert. Each of these articles, of
course, partakes at once of the characterof a criticism
and of a biography. The essay-on "Auguste Comte"
takes into consideration successively his religion
and his philosophy. That on " George Herbert"
weighs in the balance, not only his own claims to
admiration, but those also of the religious poets
who were his contemporaries. That on " Anne
Robert James Turgot," comprises a review of his
life, and an analysis of his writings. In a masterly
treatise on " The Philosophy of the Senses" it is
well observed by the writer of it—" The cerebral
pulp is not the soul : it is merely its chief organ
and prime corporeal minister." The necessity for
the education of the organ or rather of the sense
of sight, is thus clearly indicated :

" Having now glanced briefly at the nature of the
organ required for the purpose of vision, let us suppose it
duly fastened into the head of our embodied phantom. He
begins to see, but at first is conscious of nothing more than
an overpowering sensation of light ; no object can be indi-
vidually distinguished. Images float before him in a con-
fused and indefinite manner ' • all of them seem to be in a
state of incessant movement. After a while he becomes
able to discriminate between well marked forms; he can

perceive a difference between a church and a windmill,
between a man and a chair; but at first everything ap-
pears either to touch his eyes, or actually to form part of
himself, ',re cru:s d'abord' (as Adam is represented saying
by Buffen, when the latter describes the .supposed sensa-
tions of the first man), `que thus ces objects a taient en
moi, et faisaient partie de moi-meme.' For some time also
everything appears flat ; an animal is only a plane surface
like an outline cut from pasteboard; a marble is only
a wafer ; and the human head is no more than a thin
irregular disc. He has, in fact, no correct notion of a
solid or projecting body ; and all nature presents the ap-
pearance of a painting without any perspective. Being ig-
norant of the idea of distance as derived from sight, the
neighbouring hut seems to be as large as the remote castle,
yon far-off mountain is not a whit taller than the tree
which grows beside him. Every object which approaches
him appears to expand in its dimensions, and a pigmy be-
comes a giant by striding a few steps towards him. Like
Butt'on's Adam, he cannot comprehend how his hand, it
lifted towards his face, stiould attain such a frightful size ;
and when he glances at his body, he is startled to find it
d'un volume (morale, et si grand que toes les objets qui
avaient frappe ses yaux no le paraissent en comparaison que
des points lumineux.' At length, however, his vision
clears, and experience soon corrects the little mistakes to
which he is at first exposed. The eye needs training before
it is perfect in its performances; it must serve a sort of
apprenticeship (as every infant is seen to do), before it can
„carry au. the business of vision with prfictical effieiency
` To the (Cid', .saye Muller, ` everything appears equally
distant, and it grasps at the moon as the nearest object."'

An elaborate paper is devoted to the subject of
" Religious Worship aid Religious Ministries."
Another review somewhat kindred to these relates

to the "Phases of Faith and the Eclipse." There
are two contributions appropriate to this time of
war—one on " Christiaus under the Sultan," and
the other on " Balance of Power and Russian
Aggression." Added to If hich eight articles, there
is the British, Quarterly s customary epilogue on
" Affairs and Books," a resume of all that has
occurred during the past three months, of any par-
ticular note either in regard to politics or in regard
to literature.

Brownsoi's Quarterly. No. VI.

A very remarkable paper adorni the current,
number of Broimson's Quarterly—a masterly and
impartial reply, to the question, " Where is
Italy ?" In the production of his elaborate argu-
ment the writer has dispassionately consulted the
opinions put forward by men as opposite in their
views as Gioberti and Mariotti, as Cercia, and Tom-
maseo, and Torricelli. We would in fair play
urge those who have read Mazzini, and listened
to Gavazzi to examine for themselves what is here;
put forward in reference to Italy and the Italians
by an eloquent Catholic writer in Brownson's
Quarterly. It is but justice to act thus, if only
in obedience to the old dog's-eared scrap of latiu
wisdom—Audi alteram partem. Hear it, as we
have heard it, and we will engage the reader shall
find ample matter for after meditation.

The Law Magazine. No. CM.

Conspicuous among the ten important contribu-
tions comprised in the new number of the
Law Magazine, the quarterly revi:w of juris-
prudence, are two deserving of very general
consideration. The one is an eloquent and
touching tribute to the merits of " The late
Justice Talfourd"—the most perfect biography yet
written of the poet-orator-philanthropist. The
other paper referred to is a reprint of the last of
his paid cantributions—an article " On the Prin-
ciple of Advocacy as developed in the Practice of
the Bar," a brilliant treatise inserted some time
back in the Law Magazine, and which cannot fail
now to be read with peculiar interest once more by
those most familiar with the contents of the quar-
terly review of jurisprudence. Read this anybody
who, strange to say, knows little of Talfourd, and
love the memory of the man henceforth :
"It has been truly remarked to us by one who knew
him well and served him well during nearly the whole
period of his successful career, and who stood by and re-
ceived his dying breath, that "no doubt his greatest cha-
ractelistic was earnest affection. His beneficence was un-
bounded and unostentatious." One trifling incident will
illustrate this noble attribute;. and we select it out of
many such for record heia. Most passers-by, who frequent
Russell-square, have observed an old woman, sitting with
a basket of faded fruit, against -a lamp-Post, opposite the
judge's house. Almost daily she was fed from his table
with food helped by his own hand. On ono occasion on
going out he saw her sitting, in a drizzling rain, at her ac-
customed spot. Shortly after he came back with a new
umbrella, which he had bought expressly for her ; and she
has it still. He had a heart for the high and lowly, but
most of all for those who, with any kind of merit to com-

mend them to his sympathy, were struggling against any
manner of adversity.'
Besides these two enthralling papers—one ema-
nating from, and the other relating to, the late
lamented Justice Talfourd—the Law Magazine
contain; !gin interesting sketch by an eye-witness of
note—a twin sketch of Lord. Tenterden and Lord
Ellenborough.