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A R R • I • A' G E.
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of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
cblnprosing hurry; but the truth Iles deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
aid Social content. • The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
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the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
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Avoid," •and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
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ife, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
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MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED )
DOUGLAS JERROLD.
The best paper in the present 'number is entitled
" The Climax of the Middle Age Mania—the Exhi-
bitions- at. Westminster," being a richly deserved and
well laid-on scourging of the stupid idolatry which
the Puseyites begun, and the Puginites have consum-
mated. Listen to these words of truthful comment
anent that much-lauded and costly piece of gilt gin-
gerbread, the new House of Lords :

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" The eye is dazzled, and the imagination is for the
moment captivated ; but only for a moment; for when
the judgment begins to operat the charm is-at once
found to 133 identical with that communicated in
beholding a beautiful toy, or a cunningly-manufactured
cariosity. You find that your admiration has been won
by the finical fidelity with which the barbaric' beauty of
a past and dark ago has th ea reproduced. The associa-
doss called up by your eye, though most agreeable, are
truly discordant, when the pleasing impression sinks
into the mind, and commences the.operation of thought.
Then it is you ask, What is this?—a hall for legislative
wisdom to deliberate in, or a fairy palace?—a chamber
in which the solid welfare of a large' proportion of the
civilised world is influenced—or a fragile production of
Mr. Gunter, the confectioner—an edifice by Mr. Brad-
well, the eminent manufacturer of the last scenes of
pantomimes? _ _

"In short, when the effect of the praises which have
already been lavished by some portion of the press on
this flimsy interior has cooled off,—when the public eye
has recovered its sight after the blinding gorgeousness
of the decorations, the deplorable conviction will follow,
that the opening of the new House of Lords has
awakened the sanguine for art from a very noble vision,
and put to flight all expectation of the immediate resus-
citation of true taste. Not that the dream has been
dispelled by the rough hand of a coarse and shocking
disappointment, but by the light touch of a bright and
dazzling deception 4 for the new. [louse of •Lords, -as a
house for legislative" purposes, really is a deception; but
we must own a very pretty' one. _
" gring- the apartment to what bar you will, it is a Mis-
take—morally, hkstorically, and artistically, an error.
Let us ree how inspection of it affects the mind morally
—the very first point of view in which all works, pre-
tending to the rank of- works Of art,' should 'be consi-
dered-74pr the end of all aft is eiriotion.
"Architecture, and its, helpmate, DeePriatite Art,'
have only done their office well when they. have raised in
the mind emotions accordant with the.special purposes
for which their creations are intended. The fray deco
rations of the theatre or ball-room help on the impres-
sion of pleasure and recreation of which they are the
scenes. The sober plainness of the hall of justice leaves
the faculties to the tree exercise of the grave duties to
be performed in it; the massive grandeur of the cathedral
imparts a sentiment of awe and of veneration; but what
emotion can be expected from a House of Lords tricked
out in party colours and gold leaf ? Will the spectator
feel that be is in a chamber devoted to the performance
of the highest functions of the State ? Will it recal
the sufferings of Essex, or the eloquence of Chatham ?
Or will not the black-lea led plaster casts, the gro-
tesquely costumed figures stained-in &Liss; the dazzling
ceiling, the rose-powdered carpet, the mastic-studded
rails, and the orchestra-like reporters' gallery, put him
in mind of a modern mediaeval fancy ball, and make him
sigh for Jullien's band, and a partner in ruffle and laced
stomacher ?

" The attempt to suggest historical associations has
been made with equal ill-success. From one of the ori-
ginal specifications put forth for the instruction of the
artist-competitors by the • Royal' Commission of Fine
Arts, it was to be inferred that the hall should have been
suggestive of various periods of history, by means chiefly
of frescoes illustrating prominent events in British annals.
The house, as it is, on the contrary, is suggestive of
only one period of history—unhappily, the worst pos
sible for the interest of true art—that when Gothic art
was in its infancy ; when forms were badly con-
ceived and clumsily limned, for the want of skill ;
when kings and queens were stained on glass with
straight claws, becanse fingers and toes were beyond
the imitative powers of the primitive draughts-
man ; when the British lion was made to bear a
desperate resemblance to the equally-fabulous griffin;
when, in short, monkish art was too young to round off
the grotesque into the beautiful. The rennaissauts de•
corators have servilely copied these bad forms—and this
brings us to consider the subject in its artistic be-aringi.
" Blind to everything but the dark ages and the
blazing beauty of primitive colour and heraldic gaud,
they have produced a general effect by which it is im-
possible to lead the imagination captive through the
dim vistas of hoary antiquity;' • and this impossibility
resides in the very first principle from which they start.
Overlooking one of the true causes of the sensations
awakened by antique forms and objects•—veneration—
they have kept out of view the fact that the very new-
ness and freshness of the blazonry with which their work
is covered, destroys that emotion. They have forgotten
that no cunning of •the mortal artificer can create the
effect which the most efficient, though the slowest of all
workmen, Time, so unerringly produces. It is because
the slow destroyer has dimmed the flaring gaudiness of
medimval decorations that they please the eye of the
amateur, because Time has toned down and softened the
puerile splendours of a monkish age, which were cha-
racteristic of a state of infant art, and which are orly
interesting now historically, as indications of what art
was. But deliberately, painfully, to reproduce these
puerilities in the healthy utility and the vigorous man-
hood of this age, can only be deplored as a substantive
anachronism. Everything calculated to associate the hall
with strength and power has been 6 sicklied over' with
spangles and paint. The oak which furnishes
'The wooden walls of old England'
has contributed the throne of the new House of Lords,
but only to be concealed by gilt and coloured frippery.
The stone carvings are hidden behind red, blue and
yellow pigment, and the walls are covered with childish
legends, traced, luckily, in such extremely gothic cha-
racters, that nobody can read them. In justice, how-
ever, we must not omit a single characteristic of the
present time. One of the legends establishes a full re-
cognition of the Fifth Estate'—the Press. Over a
lobby of entrance is written in Gothic characters, To
the Reporters' Gallery.'

" Mit what is the use of a reporters' gallery within
walls where the cry of • Hear ! hear !' is uttered in vain
—where eloquence might as well have no tongue—and
where he that hath ears to hear can not hear ? It is
said, that the Frenchman who first made sugar from
beet-root produced a capital article—to look at. It was
exquisitely white; its crystallization was dazzlingly per-
fect; it had, in short, only one fault—it was not sweet. The
story applies to this new hall for oratory and audience ;
nothing can be prettier to look at, but it is adapted for
many things better than for speaking andhearicg."
The adventures of Young Watson are continued up
to the periol when he sought refuge with Mr. Holl
in Camden-town, and Mr. Horne gives us an addi-
tional chapter of his " Dreamer and Worker," and
Paul Bell another of his amusing " Illustrations of
Social Life." There are several other excellent papers
in this number, but no continuation of " Juniper
nuexst hmopoenththoant
tthheeelceaebtimonasn. will
"comelledgehoougt. t r o gie"t

COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Gilbert

Abbott a'Bschett. Fart XIV.

In this number we have the oonclusion of the
reign of Bloody Queen Mary, and the commence-
ment of that of Elizabeth ; and Mr. a'Beckett does
full justice to the characters of each of these vixens.
They were both of them " Father's own children."
Of Mary he says :

" Miserable and middle-aged, detested and dropsical,
this wretched woman was tormented by every kind of
reflection, from that presented by the mirror of her own
mind, to the dismal prospect shadowed forth in her look-
ing-glass. She had lest Calais; but, as the audacious
Strype has boldly suggested, she might have become cal.
lous to that, had she not known the fearful fact, that her
husband Philip declared he had had his fill of double
cursedness, and intended to try in Spain what a timely
return to single blessedness might do for him. All these
troubles proved, like herself, unbearable, and on thed
yeth
of November, 1558, she expired, after a shortaneleren
too long a reign of five years, four months, and
of her age,
days. She had reached the forty-third
and must have made the most of
b ined so much
least; for no woman of her age had
.
hrtioroyeta,eain one way at
odium of a durable quality, as she in her comparativily
short life bad acquired.
,4 If we were to draw a faithful character of this
Princess, we need do nothing
n caus
snore than upset our ink.
stand over our paper,
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eorn.
se
typeeno r
cmoruitil
ds
script to be transferredatoouthratpangoeps
black blot; for we are sure
furnish a type 'of the persons whom we have the horribly
black job of handing down—or rather knocking down—
to posterity. Those- indefatigable readers who are de-
sirous of having the appropriate epithets which Mary's
character deserves, are requested to take down the dic-
tionary, and having selected from it all the adjective ex-
pressive of badness that the language contains, place
them in a string or a series of strings, before the name
of Mary.
To look for her virtues would require the aid of one
of those solar microscopes which give visibility to the
merest atom, and the particle, if even discovered, might
be deposited in the mectal eye without its being suscepr
tible of anything having entered it. She Seems to have
posaes,ed some sincerity; but this only gave a certain
degree of vigour to her evil propensities. She was per.
haps susceptible of some attachments, but so is a boa con-
strictor, though few would conceive it a privilege to be
held in the firm embraces of that paragon of tenacity to-
wards those with whose fate it happens to twine itself.
She hail a certain vigour of mind, just as the tiger has a
certain vigour of spring, a parallel the force of which her
victims very frequently experienced.
" The loss of Calais was, perhaps, one of the most im-
portant events of Mary's reign, and it is said to have had
such an effect upon her, that she'declared when she died
the word Calais would be found engraved upon her
heart; though we are quite sure, that if the word had
been found at all, it would not have presented itself as
an engraving, but as a lithograph."
To Elizabeth be is not one whit more complimen-
tary,
and more than insinuates that she was the Mrs.
Skewton of public life. This is a glorious nutnbiT.