The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE Dec. 1.
The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, attended bl
Lady Churchill.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove
out this morning.
Prince Leopold also went out.
To-day is the birthday of the Princess of Wales.
The Duke of Roxburghe has arrived at the Castle.
The Deputy Judge Advocate-General had an audience
of the Queen.

LITERATURE.

AN EXQUISITE GIFT-BOOK.

A Book of Memories. By. S. C. Hall, F.S.A. One vol. ;

pp. 488. Profusely illustrated. Virtue and Co.
A more charmingly attractive volume than this it would
be really difficult to imagine. It is the gathering together
of a mass of the choicest personal recollections. It is the
swathing into one golden sheaf of the gleanings
of a whole
lifetime in some of the pleasantest fields of art and Mery
ture. These memories extend over an interval of no less
than half a century. They are the results of the keenestobservation. They are jottings down, not of hearsay, 01'
secondhand, but of the writer's own individual experi-
ence. It cannot but be matter of very general satisfae
tion that while they are yet vividly in his remembrance,
Mr. S. 0. Hall should have made this record of
all that he can recall to mind of his many famous
contemporaries. Among them he took his place early.
and has ever since held his ground during a long
and busy life as a cultivated man of letters, and as
skilled and gifted critic on all matters of art. A volumi-
nous author himself, and husband of one of the most de-
lightful authoresses of her time (a worthy contemporary
of Mary Mitford and compatriot of Maria Edgeworth), the
editor of the Art Journal, to whose hand we are indebted
for this singularly beautiful memozial book, descriptive
of the cultivated men and women by whom he has been
surrounded, possessed advantages peculiarly fitting bile
for their delineation, Poets, painters, novelists, preachers,
historians, essayists, what not, they were all numbered
among his own personal aoquaintance—most of them were
his friends, some of them were his intimates. Holding
their hands in his, seeing them face to face, con-
versing with them, corresponding with them, he describe
these representative men and women of the age precisely
as he saw and heard and knew them as his own living and
breathing companions. From cover to cover the book 15
made upof such animated remembrances. One by one
these renowned people are brought before us by the most
vivid word-painting ; and byway of completing the at-
traction of the record, here and there, all
through the letter-press, are scattered charm-
ingly-penoilled and delicately-engraved illustrations,
now of the features, now of the favourite haunts
one while of the birthplace, another of the deathplaee,
occasionally a fan simile of the handwriting of some
well-known contemporary. Turning over, however
casually, these doubly-pictured pages, pages rendered pie'
torial alike by pen and pencil, it is impossible not to
linger over the record thus given, it matters little where
the book by chance may be opened. Thomas Moore,
" the beloved of all circles, the idol of his own," is, first of
all delineated. And as we read about him we catch
glimpses of his homely birthplace, the house in Angier-
street, Dublin, and of his deathplaee in Wiltshire, his
charming little cottage at Slopperton. Coleridge we have
next described, and we have peeps at him both in Clevedon
and in Highgate, even (at page 39) looking in upon him
in his familiar sitting-room at the Gillman's. Charles Lamb
too, the prince and paragon of essayists, the quaint and
gentle Elia—to him we are introduced by these Memories;
we see his residence at Enfield, we pause by his grave in
the churchyard at Edmonton. Hannah More at Barley
Wood ; James Montgomery, at Sheffield ; Ebenezer
Elliott, the corn-law rhymer ; James Hogg, the
Ettrick shepherd ; Maria Edgeworth, in her library
at Edgewortlastown ; Jane Porter, at Esher;
Thomas Hood, the poet humorist ; Theodore
Hook, the brandy-bibing practical joker ; Amelia
Opie, Robert Southey, Savage Landor, Lady Morgan,
Leigh Hunt, L. E. L., 'Leman Blanchard, Wordsworth,
Wilson, Campbell, Mrs. Hemans, Samuel Rogers, Lady
Blessington—these, and a long, long procession of other
celebrities, both in art and in literature' troup past 111:
one by one.,,The author " holds us with his glittering eye,'
the very names of those he tells us about from his own
personal knowledge and recollection of them are so many
spells enchaining our attention and helping, what the veil'
manner of the writer of the book completes, to fairly
captivate our imagination. Time past lives again in these
storied and anecdotal sketches. Names long endeared to
us by writings that are familiar to our;recolleetions are
names no longer, are living and breathing fellow creatures,.
thanks to the revivifying influence of this golden Book of
Memories.

CRYSTAL PALAcE,—One Shilling Day.—Thurs-
day, December 1, 1870.- -Admissions by season tickets,
1,740; ditto on payment, 881; total visitors, 2,621.
THE LEDBUILY SCANDAL.—The Rev. J. Jackson,
Rector of Ledbury, has written to some of the papers to
return his thanks for the, kind sympathy and liberal aid
which he has received from the clergy and laity to enable
him to Garry his appeal against the judgment delivered by
the Dean of Arches to the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council some months sinoe.
" GIL BLAB" AS AN EXTRAVAGANZA.—Messrs.
Webster and Chatterton have arranged to produce an
operatic; extravaganza on the subject of " Gil Blas" at
the Princess's Theatre at Christmas, and have specially
engaged Mrs. Howard Paul to play the role of the dashing
Spanish adventurer.
ANONYMOUS BENEVOLENCE.—A second munifi-
cent donation of £l,OOO has just been contributed to the
funds of the Royal Hospital for Incurables by "B.
G. ;" and the East London Hospital for Children
has also recently received £l,OOO under the initials
" G. H."

THE BYRON TITLE.—The Times is informed that
the Barony of Byron devolves not, as stated, upon the
the Hon. and Rev. A. Byron, youngest brother of the late
peer, but upon Mr. George Byron, the son of the next
brother, the late Hon. Frederick Byron. The new Lora
Byron was born in 1855.
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