The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-09 00:00:00

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED)

FRASER.
Fraser opens this month with a graphic description
of the new Palm House at Kew-gardens. " Wander-
ings through the Conservatories at Kew," will do for
Kew gardens what Professor Wilson has done for the
Scottish lakes and moors, and will make the study of
botany fashionable. Of political articles, we have
two, one entitled " The Russians in Hungary," written
in an admirable spirit ; the other on " Financial Re-
form," full of abuse of all who dare to hint a doubt of
the perfect right of the aristocracy to plunder the
people, and of the absolute duty of the people to
submit to be plundered without complaint, and pro-
posing a union between the Protectionists and Peelites,
for the purpose of passing an Act of Parliament de-
claring the objects sought by the Financial Reformers
illegal. It is well that the people should be thus
informed beforehand of the objects of the Tory fac-
tion : having been put in possession of the informa-
tion, if they ever suffer the Tory aristocracy to
regain power, they will deserve all that they may meet
with. Morgan Rattler, that most amusing professor
of paradox, furnishes an entertaining paper on the
subject of "Music in Italy," in which he proves to his
own perfect satisfaction, and to the great amusement
of his reader, that the Italians are not only not mu-
sical, but that as a nation they are positively the most
unmusical on the face of the earth. Ensign Faunce
continues his " Peace Campaigns," and this we are
glad to say is the only continuation of the month.
The article entitled " Ulrich Van Mitten and his
Times" is a biographical account of that
celebrated reformer, who, by his writings
and his actions, deserves to be considered
as one of the principal founders of the
Reformation : more energetic than Erasmus, more
learned than Luther, he was the friend of both, and
by his attacks on the vices of the Romish priesthood,
which preceded those of either of them, he first roused
the attention of Europe to a sense of the ignorance,
the sensuality, and the tyranny of the monks, and thus
commenced the glorious movement in favour of the
emancipation of the human mind from the thraldom
of superstitition, which was perfected by Luther, Me-
lancthon, and Zuinglius. We have also an admirable
drollery entitled " Our New Curate," a well-written
paper on Aristophanes, and a careful analysis of Cal-
deron's Los Tres ilia:yores Prodigios, besides the cur-
rent history of the month.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
The proprietors of this very able periodical have
compiled a most agreeable miscellany for the present
month. The number for August is less encumbered
than usual with merely political matter, and we should
be disposed to think the omission by no means dis-
pleasing to the general reader of periodical literature.
The first paper is a commentary on the " Minutes of
Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Irish
Savings' Banks, appointed in the last Session,"
ordered by the House of Commons to be printed,
12th of February, 1849. The subject is one of great
importance to the industrious portion of the commu •
pity, and we trust Parliament will surround these
admirable institutions with all the safeguards necessary
for their security and encouragement. The next paper
is " Scenes and Stories from the Spanish Stage—The
Physician of his own Honour," from Calderon. The
Spanish scholar will duly appreciate the literal trans-
lation and close imitation of the form and variety of
the versification of the original. " Love Eternal "
Is an exquisite little poem, and we regret our
space will not allow us to transcribe it. The next
paper is a continuation of " Ceylon and the Cinga-
lese." We know not if our readers will concur in
these notions of feminine loveliness :
" A woman's tresses should be abundant, as volumin-
ous as the tail of a peacock, and es long as a palm leaf of
ten moons' growth; her eyebrows should be arched like
the rainbow, her eyes long as the almond, and the colour
dark as midnight when there is no moon. Her nose
should be slender as the bill of the hawk; her lips
full, ar.d the colour of red coral; her teeth small,
even, closely placed together, and the colour of the
pearl when it is newly taken from the oyster
and cleansed. Her throat should be thick and round,
like the stern of a plantain tree in full bearing. Her
chest should be wide, her bosom full, and the form of
a young cocoa nut, and her waist small, round, and
taper, so slender that it could be clasped within two
outstretched hands; her hips should be large and
round, her limbs slender, and the soles of her feet
without any arch or hollow, and the surface of her
person should be soft, delicate, smooth, and round,
neither bones, sinews, or angles visible. Not a blemish
on her skin, the tint of which should be bright aad
brown."
The other papers are " Italy, an Allegory," " A few
Words about Mosquitia and Musquitoes, ' by Major
O'Connor, First West Indian Regiment ; "My
Uncle Nick's Duel with Major Sabretasch, of the
Buffs," by Percy Boyd, Esq.—a story well conceived
and humorously written ; " Use and Abuse." The
Portrait Gallery is embellished with a well-
executed etching of Crofton Croker, the
well-known, able, amusing, and facetious Irish
writer. Some remarks on Mr. Grove's book,
" the Calendar of Nature," are appropriate and well
merited. " The Love Songs of Horace," by Bon
Gaultier, " The Sybil's glass," by Sidney Whiting,
" Sonnets on Colonisation," by Aubrey de ti ere ;
"Fergusson on Fortification,"—all are admirable.
Indeed, altogether, we have been much gratified by a
,erusal of the present number.

TEE BANKERS' MAGAZINE.
The papers composing the number of this useful
periodical for August are all of great importance and
clearly and ably written. The article with which it opens,
on the " Joint Stock Banks of London," will be read
by the trading and commercial interests with pleasure
as well as profit. The additional articles upon sub-
jects of practical importance, not only to the trading
world, but to the community at large—Railway In-
telligence—lnformation with regard to Savings
Banks—General Monetary Statistics—will be found
accurate and comprehensive, as usual. Altogether the
present will be found a very instructive number, and
fully sustains the character of preceding ones both in
quantity and quality of useful intelligence.

THE _MIRROR.
The contributions of Mr. Percy St. John, on ma
ters relating to the modern history of France, are
always welcome. Here we have two of them, the
first entitled " The Aristocrat," an interesting
tale of the Reign of Terror, and the other
a continuation of the " Adventures of a French
ofG
Republican.en eral L
"Lhaeru present
and
chapters
the
preparationt the
fo
e funeralrh
te
contest in the Cloister St. Mery. This contest, like
the affair of June, 1849, was got up by the Govern-
ment. Mr. St. John thus explains the motives of
each of these treasons against the people :
" When a Ministry has no resource left; when its un-
popularity is flagrant, glaring, evident ; when folly and
wickedness have laid it so low in the opinion of the public
that it has no hope left, it has one loop-hole. It gets up
a conspiracy or a fight, and the timid come back to it
for a while; a reaction gives it a new lease of existence.
" In June, 1832, the Government pushed on the fight
in every way in their power. They knew the Republi-
cans could not hope to rouse sympathy unless attacked
first, and the Government resolved it should be attacked.
" In June, 1849, a similar vile and disgraceful trick
has saved the Barrot Ministry. Falling before the Ro-
man crime, it got up the 13th June. Rollin fell a vic-
tim to a conspiracy got up by the police."
There is an admirable paper on " Thomas Carlyle, in
this number of the Mirror, in which the writer sets
him up as the hero of the present age, and worships
him accordingly. According to this writer, Thomas
Carlyle is the man of the age par excellence. He
says—
" It is remarkable how much is due to Mr. Carlyle, by
many who influence the age—and do not acknowledge
what they owe to him. Puseyism itself is blundering
Carlylistn. It is a hero-worship that has chosen the
wrong heroes. It is the metempsychosis of the religious
principle into an old dead body, instead of a new body
altogether. Carlyle held up his lamp—and the Puseyites
hailed the light, but took the wrong way.
" Then the Young Englanders were set going by Car-
lyle; but they, unfortunately, in their adoption of hero-
worship, committed the error of taking themselves to be
their heroes. But nothing can be hoped from them.
With them it is a fashion to be reformers. All such ape-
I like imitators of the divine contortions of the Sybil pro-
fane the sanctuary.
" The influence of Carlyle is seen in Bulwer's philso•
phy ; in Mr. Disraeli's best affectations; and in the mora
and independent tone and morality of Mr. Thackeray's
fictions. The three words on Mr. Carlyle's banner are
Wonder, Sincerity, and Work. lie has already learnt
much from his writings who looks on Nature with reve-
rence and awe, man with fearless love ; and there could
be no bette7: commendation on him, than a man with God
of
at his hetret and a spade in his hand."
There is another gentleman whose name this writer
has om itted to mention, who has been much abused
late : by
Puseyites, Young Englanders, Bulwerites,
Di sr aelites, et hoc genus omne, and whose principal
a„c7 ma is nevertheless pure Carlylism—vve mean M.
oudhon, the Communist. "It is not because of
hi s toils that I lament for the poor," says Thomas
,
iarlyle, in his " Sartor Resartus," " we must all toil or
steal (however we name our stealing), which is
worse." What is this but another version of M. Proud-
hon's far-famed aphorism, La Propriete c'est le col?

HISTORY of the NATIONAL C ONSTITU
2 Vols. By. J. F. Corhran.
ENT ASSEIIiBLY.
In these two lively and fascinating volumes—
volumes lively from their graphic excellence, and
fascinating from their romantic interesbr—Mr. Cork-
ran has produced a work destined to afford materials
of extraordinary value to the future historian. Not
the least of the many excellencies in the memorials
of the National Constituent Assembly is that,
besides containing an accurate and sequential
narrative of the events which followed upon
the first meeting of the Republican represen-
tatives in May, 1848, they comprise a vivid portrai-
ture of the many remarkable personages who fig,red
the most conspicuously in those occurrences. The
hand, moreover, which traced those outlines was that
of an Englishman whose good fortune it was to be
an eye-witness of the extraordinary results of the
Revolution of February. From an intimation con-
tained in the introduction, we obtain a knowledge of
the circumstance that the chapters placed before us
have originated from hurried notes made day by day
by the author, accordingly as events transpired, notes
put to paper 1;y hisn principally after having attended
as an auditor in one of the galleries of the Assembly.
As such, we .welcome the composition eagerly, and
on perusal we find it evidences several internal proofs
of its authenticity. Throughout the style is parti-
cularly animated; and considering the wonderful
character of the subject pourtrayed, there is no lack
of excitement during the perusal. We read on and
F°URIER'S WORKS IN ENGLISH.--It is now pro- on, enthralled scarcely less by the facts recorded than
posed to publish, by subscription,Fourier's Philosophical
tile, from La. Phalange Review, "On the Passions by the manner in which those facts are described.
Re-
of cw" Human Soul." The works of this French Socialist On entering the new-born Parliament of French
10 blicanism under the guidance of Mr. Corkran, we
ar of great interest to whoever would understand the ` u
working of continental Europe, in which the ideas pro- are not less 'struck than he is by the fact that "the
order of established Parliaments was reversed," and
pounded by this, head of the leading Socialist school
mingle us a most important element. No doubt, also,way reputation
these works contain some practical suggestions that may and eminence." All the as he expressks it,
that " the difficulties were in
facilities,the of
be of use to this country in the investigation of the were for the unknown; yet as the history developes
questions that are pressing upon its notice, as colonial itself we recognise the gradual and almost impercep-
empire, public education, public health, the peace clues- tible approach of the " moral" of those solemn and
tion, finance, and many others, of which the fertile affecting annals, that the old
ll ow reputathtions
inevita are
ble
by
genius of Fourier has treated with great originality'. degrees in the ascendan. Foing e
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