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young Kathleen O'Donnell, falls in love
with her, and would have married her, but that
Sir Maurice hearing of the circumstance orders
her to be clandestinely conveyed away to the
Continent. Thus disappointed, and stung by his
fatheEs harshness and injustice towards him, the
young man resolves on leaving home and becom-
ing the artificer of his own fortune. With this
view he adopts the medical line, and obtains the
post of naval surgeon; and his adventures in this
profession, which are related at length, and with
much graphic vigor, form by far the most enter-
taining portions of the tale. Here, there is much
various knowledge of actual daly life exhibited,
and not a few characters drawn with equal tact
and superior energy to any of Captain Marryat's
naval sketches. The tale concludes with the

hero's marriage with Kathleen O'Donnell—a re-
sult, however, which is brought about by a can-
currence of the most improbable events.

CHILDREN OF THE MOBILITY.
Bentley, London, 1841.
This is a lively and ingenious quiz upon gt
showy, fashionable Annual entitled " Children
of the Nobility," which, it may be remembered,
was brought out last year in a very splendid style,
and contained some three or four brace of aristo-
cratic portraits, to each of which was attached
some commendatory pieces of prose or verse.
In the " Children of the Mobility," we have,
instead of particular individuals, groupes of
figures of the lowest classes, sketched with great
spirit and humour by Leech, who bids fair to win
himself a name in this walk of art.. In the ease,
lightness, and occasional elegance of his touch,
he is not unlike H. 8., but he has less whim of
conception, and has yet to show that he possesses
the variety of this accomplished caricaturist.
Mr. Leech's first plate, which forms the frontis-
piece of the present work, is his cleverest, and
represents a squalid groupe of pauper children,
whose thin, pinched titces and tattered garments
present a striking contrast to the healthy, hand-
some aristocratic groupes depicted in the Annual
above mentioned. One figure, that of a young
girl, who is listening with a smile to the conver-
sation of a ragged urchin near her, is remarkable
for the ease, not to say elegance of its attitude,
though the artist, we suspect, intended to make.
the girl's figure merely. ridiculous. The bare-
legged child who stands next her, and is looking
pensively into an empty porter-pot, cannot bee
seen without exciting a hearty laugh, so exqui-
site grotesque is the would-be pathetic expression
of her countenance. The literary department of
the work is penned in a spirit of quiet, sedate
humour, which would have been more effective,
had the author thrown a little more breadth and
piquancy into it.

THE MONEYED MAN. 3 VOLT*
Coburn, London, 1841.
Mr. Horace Smith has here essayed a task in
which he is far better qualified to excel, than in
writing . imitations of the Waverley novels.
In the " Moneyed Man," he has found a subject
every way suited to his talents, for the tale is one
ofreal practical life, and deals with real characters,
and consequently has been treated con amore by an
author whose power of shrewd observation has
ever been more remarkable than his fancy. We
consider the novel before us as the best that the
year has yet produced, first, on account of its in-
cidents, which are well put together, and vigor-
ously and carefully wrought out; and secondly,
on account of the judicious reflections that are
scattered throughout it, and the praise-
worthy moral it enforces. The leading
points of the "Moneyed Man" which
assumes the form of an autobiography—
may be soon summed up. The hero, Mark
Hawkwood, is the son and heir of the richest
banker and merchant in all London, and at the
opening of the narrative has just succeeded in
obtaining a partnership in his father's house of
business. The old man, whose sole thoughts are
bent on the accumulation of gain, endeavours,
of course, to inoculate his son with the same
tastes; but the young man prefers rather to
join in the fashionable society and dissipa-
tions of the West-end, which soon involve him in
pecuniary embarrassments. While he is thus
hampered by his extravagances, old Hawkwood
suddenly dies; and then the son discovers to his
surprise and horror that, instead of succeed-
ing, as he had anticipated, to his vast
wealth, he succeeds to nothing but his debts,
for the supposed millionaire had died in
a state of absolute insolvency. Then follow in
rapid succession the usual calamities attending
such a state of things. The destitute young man
is cut by all his respectable acquaintances; the
charm that hung around his life is dispelled; his
spirits daily sink more and more; and he seems
likely ere long to degenerate into a confirmed
misanthropist. Butat this crisis, hi only sister
Edith interposes, like a guardian angel, between
him and utter, hopeless ruin. By her advice, he
looks actively about him for the means of sub-
sistence ; shakes off his lethargy; and after some
time spent in hunting about for a suitable em-
ployment, obtains a situation on a newspaper;
marries a girl with a small fortune, whom he had
occasionally flirted with in the days of his
prosperity ; and during the remainder of
his life enjoys a far greater amount of
rational happiness than he had ever enjoyed
when courted by all classes of society in defe-
rence to his father's wealth and his own expecta-

tions. The main object of the tale is to show that
riches are by no means indispensable to felicity,
but, on the contrary, are too often destructive of
it ; and this useful moral is enforced through the
medium of the hero's own confessions, who,
as a rich man, is a very selfish, heartless, ar-
rogant fellow ; but when brought to his
senses, and sobered by misfortunes, seems to
change his very nature and to become calm,
amiab!e, contented, and happy, because then,
for the first time, he enjoys—what Pope has so
beautifully called—the " eternal sunshine of the
spotless mind." The delineation of this charac-
ter, in the various phases of its idiosyncrasy, is
admirably true to, nature, and induces the suppo-
sit ion that some particular individual, with whom
the author was acquainted, sat for the portrait. In
th e course of the narrative we have brief glimpses
of several personages of more or less note in their
day—such as the Prince of Wales, Beau Brummell,
and Barrington the pickpocket, which last genius
had the finest conception of a petty larceny of any
artist that ever existed, though it has been objected
to him, by some fastidious critics, that his style
of execution was monotonous and wanted versa-
tility. We close this hasty notice with the re-
mark that the " Moneyed Man " isincomparably
the most thoughtful, spirited, and entertaining
novel that has yet appeared from the pen of Ho-
race Smith.

SCEIVERY AND ANTIQUITIES OP
IRELAND. Pear I.
Virtue, London, 1841.
We have here the commencement of another
work on Ireland, resembling in its plan and mode
of publication the one now editing by Mrs. Hall,
but certainly not possessing—so far at least as
we can judge from a first number—the claims of
that excellent work on popular favour. Mr. Wil-
lis is the editor of the present publication—an
American gentleman who has written some small
poems of a very Grub-street order of imagina-
tion, and one or two volumes of travels in which,
mixed with same lively descriptions, there is an
infinite deal of pert twaddle. His cursory
sketches, in the Part before us, of the scenery in
the neighbourhood of Belfast, are passable
enough, and his account of the city of Belfast is,
we have reason to believe, strictly accurate.
" No town," he says, " that I have since visited,
is so un-Irish in its appearance, or in the
character of its inhabitants. Industry, tem-
perance, and frugality seem to be the guid-
ing principle among every class. Business
is life here, and life is business; we find none of
the deep drinking and careless merriment of the
South, which leave to-morrow to do for itself.
A shrewd calculating spirit pervades the whole
mass of the community, proving in contestibly
their genuine Scotch descent. Yet, with all
their money-getting habits, the people of Bel-
fast are not so engrossed by business, but that
they can afford a large portion of their time
and money to the advancement of literature and
the fine arts." The embellishments of this Part
are six in number, and furnish us with a vivid
idea of some of the loveliest landscapes in Ire-
land. The best in point of subject and execution
is a view of " Clew Bay, from West Port,"
which, with its gleaming water dotted by syl-
van islands, bold mountain-shores, r.nd far-
stretching promontories, realizes all our notions
of the sublime and beautiful in nature. By way
of frontispiece, we have a half-length portrait of
Mr. Willis, in which that gentleman is trying
hard to look like a man of genius, but, we are
sorry to say, without effect.

HE SPAS OF ENGLAND.
Colburn, London. 1841.
After visiting- in succession, and describing
with much minuteness of detail, the most cele-
brated Spas of Germany, Dr. Granville has now
turned his attention to those of England and
in the prespnt volume has given an ac-
count of those of our northern Spas which
are most frequented by invalids. His de-
tails of Harrogate—a watering-place whose
springs still retain all their old efficiency—
of Scarborough, Redcar, and Hartlepool, are
full of curious local matters, and we hope will be
the means-of drawing an increase of visitors to
these delightful spots, and checking the preva-
lent mania for resorting to foreign Spas, as if