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London, England, 1841-03-17 00:00:00

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LIT EitATU

THE BOOK WITL 1(1(.17' A IVA ME. 2 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1841.
That this work is of genuine Irish manufac-
titre, no reader can doubt fur aa instant, fir its
Ter`'' title
-page is a bull, and • a bull of the richest
tliberniart quality. It purports to be " A Book
Lt a Name," and yet to this anonymous pub-
lication are prefixed the names of its joint an-
ti ors, Sit. Cl--ar!es and Lady Morgan; while, in
tmder that its anonymous character may be still
Inure strictly preserved, we find, by way of fron-
liPieee, a half-length portrait of Sir Charles
himself whose frank, sunshiny countenance, is
evidently chuckling with delight at the idea of
118 haling so ingeniously outwitted the public,
and maintained his anonymity ! If a good title-
Page, as has been observed, is half the secret of
„
S,work's success, then this " Book without a
'l. "le' ova- unquestionably make a hit, for its
itle
one of the drollest things we have
Ind et, with
for many a day. Nor does its
• net
stop here, for it abounds in lively—and
ot urt'equently witty—essays and sketches of
'aracter, many of which, it seems, have al-
A"ja(lY appeared in periodical publications. Lady
„ wgatt leads off with a smart and clever essay
the
subj ‘et of ancient and modern cool;ery,
athe Course; of which she alludes, in terms of
ictiloing veneration, to the immortal Careme—
grcatest culinary artist in Paris ; and, conse-
Zeotly, in the world, who, on the overthrow of
thaPoleon, was invited to preside over George
_
rPeurth's kitchen, but soon quitted it in dis-
-1'71) because, as he justly observed, it was far
,t„ olgar wad unscientific for a man of his tran-
i"
edant genius ! Sir Charles Moran's " ace of of Punning" is an essay lo
with
and ingenious sophistry. We subjoin
Installce in point :—"
How false is Pope's re 7
fs4rk that a little learning is a dangerous thing !"
ter a little Money dangerous or a litfle in-
or a little or est with the Treasury ? or a little health,
t
c temper, a little old wine in one's
ear) or a little woman f ,or one's wife .
fibgrcat deal of some of these good things
beard better than a little, yet who ever
drink deep, or taste not,' applied in such
dreeds? Methinks I see a man refusing a hun-
tiiiidPounds because it won't make him a Roths-
or rejecting the mistress of his soul be-
terse s,she is not six feet high, and as round as a
This is dexterously put; but Pope is
tight nevertheless. " Anecdotes and Conversa-
it,olls.
the Rev. Thomas Botherum" •is an
111 ;,,,ita,l satire, in the form of a biographical
cli;—,,;(,1”) of those grave, formal, High-Church
tts-earies—a race now almost extinct—who
414,t1 wear enormous bushy wigs, large steel
as I,,,.'"lleklocs, shapeless black coats, with pockets
ahl
1„,,y. of tithes,
jg coal-Fucks, and whose talk was invari-
the Thirty-nine Articles, and the
A• few of these clerical oddities still
bf the Isle) We believe, among the fens and solitudes
by .of Ely, where they amuse themselves
croaking in chorus to each other, like bur.-
Ittol, about the sufferings and humiliations of
to ti"r Church ; but they are rarely seen
4
tb,. le Civilised haunts of life—and no wonder,
fl
AQ,l"ley would certainly be stared at as
40rN Qulena, and subjected, as such, to all
oth,, ()1' persecutions. There are several
))ut amusing essays in these volumes,
t)kb.,4',.' have neither space nor time to notice
ho. 10 detail ; so must conclude by expressing
res,,,,,Pe„ that we shall ere long find Lady Morgan
VivTaulg her old vocation of novelist. We have
`' recollection of her "O'Donnell," and her
Hitit°l;ence Macarthy," and though we deny not
Of real 1 is an agreeable essayist, yet the novel
Yet Ilk is her peculiar forte ; and we are not
tatil rich in clever writers of fiction, that we
,T°lll to dispense with the services of one of
everest of the day.
. •

Mr LIFE, BY AN EX-DISSENTER.
The • Fraser, London, 1841.
re Is a one-sided spirit in this book which
the more
not recommend it to the favour of
~l-Churchmen
liberal and enlightened class of readers.
jae,,,l-Churchmen and Tories, to whose pre-
be h,--es it makes a strong appeal, will, no doubt,
16-`llell pleased with it, but those who are above
eles-.Purblincl views of party, whether lay or
Whrinieal) will be apt to get disgusted with its
as " esale attacks on the Dissenters. Regarded
littia literary production, the volume possesses
4e merit.
;14 7.,
' OF NAPOLEON.—PART XXVI.
Th Tyas, London; 1841.
e labours of the author of this Life of
Poleon are now drawing fast to a close, for
IViithas reached the period of the battle of
c-,;e,,t1°0, an account of which decisive conflict
'"lneneed in the present part, and will, we,
1-111)14144'e)--be- conclude in the next. Of all the
thate,rons cheap Lives of the French Emperor
ko. nay
,„ „ e appeared since his death, this, by Mr.
the Llussey, may deservedly take rank among
iilll,,ue.t) for the tone that pervades it is rigidly
olit",rtial, and there are abundant proofs through-
't that the biographer has consulted au-
a--,tic documents instead of contenting himself
so many of his predecessors—with taking
on mere hearsay. We could wish, how-
of 1.;, that he had deferred less to the authority
10;"zlitt, whose opinions he is fond of quoting,
011 every subject connected with Napoleon,
111„1.()se memory he idolized, notwithstanding he
hp-t stilt Was a hater of despotism, Hazlitt is too
tNii to be carried sway by his prejudices; and
tells Ber he meets with a strong fact that
oft kagainst his pet hero, he either softens it
that dint of ingenious sophistry, or, when
1441'4[1mA safe'y be done, dismisses it in a few
has Leary words, as a matter of less moment than
,fide en generally supposed. A sterling bona
by h Life of Napoleon is yet to be written, and
so cme Could such a task he undertaken with
ip j;i propriety as by Colonel Napier, who,
Penis succinct and spirited " History of the
flan nlsular War," has shown that he possesses
°f the requisites for the task.
4.ORIAL SHAKSPEARE.- PART XXX.
Ip
PT inter'
C Knight, London, 1841.
the pis Part is contained the entire play of
ilpB Tale; together with an " Intro-
Notice"---Las the Editor calls it—in which
Intlnerous beauties of the drama are pointed
much taste and perspicuity. The em-
and ii:.ments, as usual, are of superior merit,
44 is tie text is not unduly burdened with notes,
that „le ease with several editions of Shakspeare
tlo b'eire vogue several years ago. We have
11,s wilc't that, When completed, the work before
"04 will
be regarded as the standard edi-
. (4. our great dramatist's plays.

eve LIFE OF WILLIAM HUTTON.
"rief ,"ave here, as the Editor observes in a
reface, " the history of a poor and most
oy V° man who rose to opulence and eminence
vn merits alone." William Hutton, who
tiut,,Own. biographer, was a bookseller and sta-
ll'ar(K: °f Birmingham, who died in 1815; at up-
-43f ninety years' of age, and recorded from
1,'44(-tAtilne the events of his useful. and ho-
"vel.s.'"'e life, in a style remarkable for its attr.ac-
Ne -11°Plicitv. The work is a highly interesting
injulcates in every chapter the bone-
"4o:al that honesty is the.best policy.

LOl VI) ON. No. I.
lti, C.'. Knight, London, 1841.
ytb: Preulature yet to pronounce an opinion
ee'ls Work, as the first Number only has yet
Rot -„l"blished, but from the glimpse we- have
Ittly„?)Ave should be disposed to augur favour-
(-'4/%.:'' its success, for it describes our great,
Iv'ts,'"rs,('N'l Babylon, not only as it is, but as it
‘4'oss ,-11" Y hundreds of years ago, when Charing-
tol-teas a village, and Holborn and its busy,
444 -us IleighbArhood were a cluster of daisied
tioQtsews through which wound—what pastoral
the 3,°11111 call—a "purling stream" from which
,eeet
1144,that
rsuerives its name. The various wood
sii;
krnament the Number, are for the most
executed.

CONRAD TVALLENROD. •
,Con Fraser, Edinbur9h, 1841.
'atc, 114'1 Wallenrod is an historical poem, tra.. ns-
tc_ll4l°,,, English prose -by. Leon Jablonski, from..
,'")1.1aduls"11 of Adam Mickiewicz. The poem. is
‘11(1 sZ, on the.ancient struggles of Lithuania
44 as-We can judge from a translation,.
'11)1Wt -;
1111101 genuine feeling, and a patriotic
Clit• 1,,.°1.0137 of all commendation. In a neatly
48 Preface, we are assured that Mickiewicz
itir,Qlkunder of a new school in Polish litera-
i)x,?,,nYviving " the ancient remini,:cences,
-ive le'rends, and the popular traditions

t)rd,r nuI.r,"ANT M'Coam tctc.—A copy of the
°Mc:f r March, 1840, granting a pen-
:: ft,he .)tuinds r ceivA in Canada, has
tel to p,rrij'Ai"or,„t. It appears that he is a
l''ej.7,cerl l'eci called on by the Local Go_
Th.ll Lac',l,niserve in the attack on the steamboosut„dC.arwolhiu,
1,,,"° full e, he received several severe w _
a,
limb':
th3' end Permanently equal to the loss f.
ll•l'CreSe NLj• sty' Council settled on him ss. a
•
l'te tEW°" HOUSE.—The Earl of Harewood
cell 'f,,c‘,r town the week of er Faster. The Hon. W. S. Las-
titw !L:, and Lady C r Lasceleg, left early. in the
v e-- i"r town. Idy 81,°11%. Cavendish and family air;
v,:oWednes.tay fitui Aoshsfoard Hall, Derbyshire. e
rge Cavendish, M.P., will join his lady next week.
, understand Lord Crewe is about to be
Iv''idt-To.rilAtilal.tt3tillOtl. Miss l_ittleton, eldest daughter of Lord
votlatts, N'ten, and sister of 9ie Countess of Cavan 411 d
eNtrk.