The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-03 00:00:00

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE.

We have two additional chapters of " St. Giles and St.
James" in the present number, in which the plot thickens.
Snipeton has removed Clarissa from Dovesnest, and
has taken a cottage for her at Hampstead.
Old Cressbone visits them there, and in pursuance of his
plan to raise himself in the world by aiding in the de-
signs of St. James or Clarissa, he persuades old
Snipeton that it is absolutely necessary for her
health that she should take horse exercise, and
induces him to take St. Giles into his service as groom.
Crossbone takes St. Giles with him to the inn, at Hemp-
stead, to give him instructions, and while there a man,
who has fallen from his horse, is brought in senseless.
Among the crowd assembled is Tom Blast, who under pre•
tence of assisting the wounded man picks his pocket, and
offers a portion of the plunder to St. Giles, who indig-
nantly rejects the offer. Just at that moment they
learn that the man has recovered and Blast goes off,
not however without reminding poor St. Giles that " he
shall always know where to come upon him,"
and poor St. Giles feels that he is in the vil-
lain's power, and seems to exist only by suffer-
ance. Juniper Hedgehog this month addresses
his epistle to Lord Nugent. The eccentric cabman is
eloquent in his denunciations of death punishment.
Nothing will satisfy him but the total and immediate
abolition of the gallows. " Benjamin's Mess," by Paul
Bell, is a withering piece of sarcasm on the mock
philanthropists—the quack humanitarians, who make a
trade of their pretended love for the poor, by selling it,
diluted into a three-volume mawkish novel, at the rate
of 1/. 11s. 6d. a lot. The " Researches in Belgravia"
are anittsing; while the paper, entitled " The Present
and the Future," furnishes matter for deep thought. As
a sample of the poetry, we quote the following sonnet
by E. M. Collins :
JUNE.
Summer, and stillness; ev'ry joyous bird
Pours a half-wearied song; the leafy glade,
Panting with flowery fragrance, to its shade,
Invites the wayside wanderer: there is heard
No sound amid the forest depths, save when
The rushing streamlet by the breeze is stirred;
Or the bee murmurs in the meadows, furred
'With mess and starry flowers; or, from some glen
The tired cuckoo lifts a pleasant voice;
Or the lone woodlark sings his hidden strain.
Oh ! bid the prior, the lowly one rejoicer—
Upraise him from his penury and pain;
That from the choking ctairts and alleys dim
lie may come forthl and join the universal hymn!

In addition we have two very interesting tales,
"Drs. lidensis Sixpence," and the " Star in the Dark,"
besides a goodly colledtiOri of criticisms on new books

THE D.UBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
'We are surprised that just such another article as the
one entitled "forest Dreams," the first contribution in
this number of the Dublin University, has not been
written long since ; possibly it has, though, supposing
that to be the case, we have never previously encountered
so much of amusing tittle-tattle anent forest scenery
and its associations grouped together in a single paper.
The writer has evidently entered into the subject with
genuine gusto, and' assuredly would never behold one of
Gasper Poussin% sylvan landscapes unmoved. There is
not to us a more glorious spectacle in inanimate nature
than that or a woodland : whether it be in undulation
with ail its " storm of boughs" in a hurricane, or &st-
ing with a lustrous purple-green in the sunset, or when
- the tinkling sliow'rA of autumn leaves,"

give promise of its -nakedness in winter. The
dreamer of the "Forest Dreams" has entirely entered
into these sentiments, and poured his whole soul
out in a panegyric on the world of boughs. Cousin.
germain to him in feeling is the contributor of " A
Day's Deer-stalelthitbegrfwuil sethtrhibeeMarkgrafishe of Baden ;" a
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gand gladly would we enlist him as a companionrlg on one
of those husky, yellow, flannelly nights in November,
when Englishmen, and especially dwellers in Cockaigne,
are presumed to ave a predisposition to the commission
of felo-de-se. But that we cordially believe such to be
superfluous, we would recommend to his consideration
as an incentive to good humour, and as a volume likely
to put the surliest amongst us on better terms with
each other and with existence, that most comical
of all comical conceits, the Miseries of Human
Life." Boz tells us, in his " Christmas Carol,
—that most exquisite of his works !—that Scrooge's
neice's husband HAD a laugh, he had ! and that he some-
times indulged in it to such an extent " that he
such
was
obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp !" Just
another votary of jocoseness we take our Dublin Uni-•
reu sl
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versity Sportsman to be •
tiooshoimmoetoh be suggestive every
gifeesisivecif P°ealleedtheinvery now and then to
forsake the regular drift of his narrative for the purpose
of obliging us with adventitious jokes and excrescent face-
ti
aslVa bealree puzzled whether to regard this very
peculiarity blemish or an embellishment; but, seeing
ou ess.
that the article has altogether afforded us a pleasant
glimpse of Continental sport, we can readily afford to
wake allowances for over-discursiveness, on account
of the actual discursiveness of the chicumstances
described. William Carleton, some of whose books will
accompany those of Banim and Gerald Griffin in the li-
brary of Irish fiction, pursues the " uneven tenour of his
way" as the teller of a tale of Irish famine, yclept " The
Black Prophet." It promises to thrill with interest and
to freeze with horror, and altogether is destined to find
a numerous party of admirers among those who revel
in the perusal of Mrs. Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, llarrison
Ainsworth, Eugene Sue, and Mrs. Shelly. Towards
the conclusion of a rather invidious criticism of " Russia
under the Autocrat," a remarkable brace of volumes,
-,enned by a noble Russian, named Ivan Golovine, the
reviewer avails himself of the opportunity for j)anege-
rysing that most questionable of Autocrats, the Em-
peror Nicholas. As well might an innovator in
natural history attempt to convince
the "r-
-tits that
the hungry wolf is compassionatet t
4eut gg4ote#ol or the carrion crow of the gramiui •

verous tribe. When the writer has proved, inathem
tically, that the circle can be squared, and demonstrated
in what manner, he may begin to eulogize the reigning
Czar, and be in a likely way to make a multitude of
converts to his opinion—not before ! " Gilfillan's
Gallery of Literary Portraits" and "Pen and Ink
Sketches," afford subjects for two other critical notices,
which cannot fail to be perused with interest chiefly
from their quotations. " Anthologia Germanica" ex-
hibits a falling off in those translated lyrics which
usually decorate the pages of this able magazine ; and
the " Miscellanea Mystica," is more than ever a mere
botching of very indifferent book-lore ;itis a feeble
echo from the superstition of a past generation, and
the particularization of which superstition appears to us
somewhat anomalous amidst the sensible spirit which
usually characterises the Dublin University.

DOLMAJ'I'S MAGAZINE.
Sterling as hath been the ring of the literary metal
in former numbers of this periodical, the one for the
present month, the sixteenth of its publication, is, with-
out any shadow of a question, the ablest that has hi-
therto appeared. Some amongst the contributions would
have adorned the pages of our oldest magazines ' - and
the remainder do not dwindle into insignificance by the
juxta-position. What we may mention as the peculiar
feature of Dolman is, its combination of brilliancy and
sparkle with solidity and research ; besides which it has
acquired the least attainable of' all polemical celebrities,
that of being an enthusiastic exponent of the religion
which it under takes to advocate (the Roman Catholic),with
out in any degree insulting those of a different Creed. It
would, however, be most erroneous to imagine that
the magazine under notice is of an exclusively
clerical character ; it is more strictly speaking of an
essentially literary character, the literature being in its
instance coloured with the sentiment of the Roman
Catholic Church, imbued with the notions peculiar to
that extraordinary Church, even in its ejaculations
breathing the spirit which appertains alone to those
religionists. If merely for these reasons, Dolman's
Magazine must undoubtedly attract the curious perusal
of all who are interested in the variety of phases as-
sumedtshuerenlyu 1
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been tending. In the editor of Q.facitrtithotarmasetilfatnhisne
reli-
gion towards which all this ecclesiasticalf.) agitation has
for the conduct of such a publication Gerald Reon, we recognise a mind peculiarly
. fitted
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so, we are arguing merely from what he b9asinZeyaidng
accomplished in its regard. He has, for example,y
grouped together its constituent parts so as to impart to
the entire number one appropriate and pervading tone ;
iond:mactnnd, Mr. Miles
and this quality is, moreover, accompanied by a most
agreeable variety both in theme and composition. " The
Drunkard's Death," with which Dolman commences, is
a stern but moving picture of the woes that supervene
upon that sin, of the moral bla ins with which it infects its
victim, and of the villain Jus degradation of those who
habituate themselves to its commission, more likely to
render sobriety popular with the lovers of the wine cup
than a dozen sermons from the pulpit—saving only
when those sermons are nerved with eloquence as
homely, as earnest, and as poetical as that of Dr. Ulla-
thorne, from which the superscription to Mr. Price's
story is transcribed. " Facetiie of the Bench and Bar"
is a lively packet of bon-mots, unlike many similar
efforts at drollery, which are formed of vapid quibbles
and abortive puns. The essay upon the " Dramatic
IGenius of Sergeant Talfourd" is forcibly conceived, and
though we do not precisely look, with its writer, for
Taltourd's bust "among those of Euripedes, of Sophocles,
and of .iEschalus," we are such sincere and earnest lovers
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We perceive that the writer of this article coincides with
the opinion which we ourselves expressed immediately
upon the publication of that remarkable poem, namely,
that it proceeded either from the pen of Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton, or from that of some most accomplished
imitator. The character and the alternations of fortune
peculiar to Sir Thomas More—the purest name in our
English annals !—occupy the present part of the series
upon " The Vicissitudes of Illustrious Men." We must
accord the author of these papers every encouragement
for the mass of authorities brought to bear upon the nar-
rative, as well as for the enthusiasm displayed towards the
character of his hero and towards the Genius of Truth. The
editor's contribution, quaintly headed " The Expediency
of Transferring the Holy See to Leeds" is a masterpiece
of argument ; it has a singular beauty from its logical
simplicity, and a singular power in its accumulation of
facts. We are not desirous of having our word taken for
granted in speaking thus emphatically ; but entreat our
readers to refer, themselves, to the original for the corro-
boration of our remarks. Whatever may be our diffe-
rences of opinion upon religious points it is impossible
to deny Mr. Kson the possession of more than ordinary
powers as a controveisialist. Seeing the keenness of his
retorts, and the lucid arrangement of his subject, an
orthodox phrenologist would scarcely hesitate to pros
nounee his "development" as equally remarkable with
that of Mr. Newman. If continued thus Dolman is cer-
tain to secure a wide circulation.