The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

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LITERATURE.
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
No. CLIXVII.
A delightful paper on " Gardening"--sage, but
erossipping—leads off the present number of the
Quarterly. In it the reviewer has collected toge-
ther, in agreeable confusion, a singular variety of
knowledge relating to the science of bwany, flavouring
it with a tone of mingled pleasantry and enthusiasm.
Several of the materials introduced into this charming
olla podrida of scraps are recognised as old familiar
favourites—such, fur example, as the poetic receipt
for a salad by the late Sidney Smith. The paper
indeed sets out with a quotation fatneus throughout
all lettered England, namely, Cowley's aspiration,
addressed to Evelyn, that he might have "a small
house and large garden," a green nook, where the
carkiug cares of society might be forgotten in the
verdure and sweetness of nature. Among those who
are blessed with this most inestimable treasure, there
are some who have their employees, and others
who, with a few subor(rmates, are their own
gardeners. To each of these classes we
Would very earnestly commend the truthful and hu-
morous comparison drawn by the Quarterly in the
paper under consideration, between their respective
ieys and sorrows. Here it is, after the manner of
Plutarch :
" Perhaps, indeed, none derive so great an amount of
enjoyment from a garden as those of the every-gentle-
man-hia-ewn-gardener sort. They are Spared an im-
mense number of known nuisances, and revel in a mul-
titude of unknown delights. To be told by the men in
early spring that there is nothing in the garden, neither
for • missis' nor for `cook;' and then to come in with a
charming bunch of Russian violets, fragrant coltstour,
daphne, erica carnea, wall-flowers, polyanthus, &c., &c.,
for the cars sposa, and a punnet of the sweetest,
greenest sprouts, and the plumpest, whitest seakale, for
the emissary of him who did not send meat;—to insert
ntanu proprici a bark-bound bud on a brittle branch, and
after many months, or years, to gather therefrom a
great handful of flowers or a heaping dish of fruit;—to
be able to say,' With the sun 'shining in this manner, I
cannot go on reading and Writing, unless you lash me
to my chair—give me and
baskets—l will go and cut the
vegetables for dinner;'—to dine with a puffy specimen of
humanity, who has his pits and his pineries, and his
gangs of people at nobody knows what wages, and to
taste what he sets before you, and send him better next
day—you keeping only the man, the boy, and yourself;.—
to see the look of thankfulness in a neighbour's eyes,
when, driving to inquire after his convalescent wife or
his sinking child, you produce some horticultural dainty,
which will be enjoyed and relished because it comes
unexpected—and they have nothing of the kind just
-tow;—to attack a standard rose with a head like a
puke polonica, and leave it as orderly as a little school-
boy's on Saturday afternoon;—to sow an infinity of
aeeds, and amidst the wilderness of seedlings to discover
one which, if it is not, ought to be the best possible
her
the unapproachable exceeder of perfection—
there is no finishing the list of luxuries.
" Those delicate gentlefolks who scorn in any way to
%et as their own head gardener, have to compose their
catalogue of delightful tasks' in quite a different type.
Z. G.—To fret fur four or five days together, with com-
any under your roof, over a shabby dessert;—at last,
to ease your mind about it by telling your Scottish Chief
that though the grapes have been tolerable, the peachee
have been poor, very different fruit from what the house
promised when you were last in it; figs ditto; arid to be
answered by a remark touching the housekeeper's niece,
and her tastes—the invisible girl with gooseberry eyes
tnd her hair never out of papers, whom her aunt had
lour leave to a)k down from Londonr her health. To
?hlye to say to Mrs. Uppercrust that Mr. Mac Forcer
all, for the present, arrange his dessert immediately
before its introduction to the dining-room;—and to be
told by her, in rejoinder, a story of Mr. Blanco, who
Wanted extra fine fruit for some superb affair, and
bought in Covent-garden Market a supply which he
jwas told was the best that could be had, as they had
lust received their usual package from Mr. Blanco'e
ardecer, who spared no expense. To obtain, at a reck-
less cost, the newest thing from Shanghae or the Rime-
laYri
.ettes, which is propagated with such difficulty that you
not communicate it to your own sister or brother,
°I t
and then, next year, to see it in plenty on the other side
he garden palings of several of Mac Swill the
helper's most intimate friends. To walk in well dressed
pleasure-grounds, for whose dressing you pay something
handsome per annum, and to feel that you cannot do as
Sou like there; reproached, if you cut a bouquet of
tc3ses, with having destroyed Mac Forcer's every chance
'of the prize for half a hundred dissimilar blooms at the
Ilezt horticultural show—if you take the liberty of
sending off a dozen pot-plants to a lady-friend, nods and
,;.v.inks, and whispered wonder ' how Missis will like it?'
tt you invade the kitchen garden, and ravage it of a few
'totipers full of good edibles, to be told that it is not
perquisite, and to receive warning. To grudge
!Pending a sixpence on a garden almanack, or an hour
14 reading it, and then to perceive that the men are
Vinning while you proceed to utter some long-hatched
Ziticism on their operations."
The contrast is sufficiently striking to induce many
Choleric members of the latter section of garden-
°Wners to discharge the tyrants hitherto hired by them
for the management of their grounds, and henceforth
themselves to assume the magic wands with which we
,211,211011 up those fairies of the ground, the flowers
he °n
the rake, and the hoe. " Scotland
,Ttnwe the Reformation" presents very large and
lu (irons attractions to our compatriots beyond the
deed, and will repay their curiosity with a store of
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tettlnge facts collected together by the historical an•
urY• Another reviewer, in the course of certain
I,,,o;itoetitaries made upon the revelations given to the
isecici by "Recent Travellers in North America,"
the 3 himself not merely of extracts from
re. vbilltnes of Mr. Johnston, from those of M. Mar
from the lecture of the Earl of Carlisle, and
46'4 the work of Colonel Conynghame, but of others
tiniteulled from the latest columns of the press of the
elttioed States. The article will be found on exams
,14e ti to be one universally interesting. Subse-
410joratly,We
have an excellent. -criticism on the " Me-
beki,_°,' the Duke of Urbino," by Dennistoun, of
the „ ; followed by a very readable paper on
bliughseertiia.sorrreecBepnotnlydence of Walpole and Mason," pub .
as last year, from the original me-
ets, uPts-, Scholars will relish the chapter given later
ter Badhana's Euripides," and theologists will
rib 71th n
o little
', ""°anxiety to the two remaining con-
%lke )'e on " Rubric versus Usage," and on
Paper% s Philosophoumena." Brief though the
tileiltionPenunt," nadhaua's Euripides" is, it may be again
lUgßestive here with propriety, as the most pithy and
.Quarteri' the whole of the current number of the
rtltionof thi', therefore, we would direct the at-
ikly that ore general reader, and yet more particu•
u______rmore intelligent philologists.

FINE ARTS.
Wn,lin SS'S GALLERY OF PAINTINGeS..
Arty
ti0,,,4--ng the numerous exhibitions of the Fil Awe
ti,.2P4131 to public inspection in the metropolis, ti !)",u'l 00 one more eminently deserving of atten-
V kan the one which we ourselves have recently
),:}!,-I,ted at No. 168, New Bond-street—a gallery in
gs-tthell the proprietor, Mr. Wass, has collected to-
pitt,eri at a very considerable outlay on his own
L"edasorne ofthe greatest works of the most distin-
na de n ritish painters. Scarcely a hundred
al'llres hac)ngru on the walls of the apartment, reek-
vi 4,4 the Paintingsp altogether, yet almost every indis
1%1;4; one
amongst them is of a character so remafirkd-
ia them its excellence, that the lovefrsiofoanrttema?-cen
tq,7,111, Matter for long and delightful *4-Y fortunate in one or two other icnhsetahnlmdcepsraabthlerni:
as has
say 0... been lucky enough,. or we s say enter been
and discriminating
-valuable collec-
enough, to se-
toti t° himself perhaps the most
Irak:4 Ettys in the United Kingdom
W
ca,.8„113,1e to glance round the apartment ilthtouist
kg Ts'og this immediately. The exquisite. coonlouthre-
iast 11.°11r English Titian arrests attention
and
the
o3at fd extorts from the most phlegmaotfic
admira-
tiot, 'ious the warmest expressions
ektet Ilia roust be confessed that William Etty, to
.the
ikeni.. of his friends and admirers, has, by his demise,
U 84,411144 that claim upon vulgar praise. which is
now J derAied to the living. Hence it is that even
trade
aaa "Is Productions have very considerably increased,ih
tad are s till
vgiraduallv and appreciably increasing
Perin the- public beginning, at length, to
Ive cry generally the genius of the great artist
tiWhose del th tiroi t was, within the limits of a restricted.
e'
"" "use of such profound lamentation.
Me
ous and diversified as are the specimens of his
euwert i in Mr. Wass 's
itttt,t;
Gallery, the visitor finds his
th- ion confined very soon to one or two of
41;0°1 in particular. Conspicuous, of course,
115,Ze all the other paintings in the collection,
4,,,;(1, for their energy and their ambition,
csi 1 lis three great paintings of ~ Joan of Arc,"
thec''. 27, 28, 29), exhibited a few seasons back on
tlit Walls of the Royal Academy. The merits of
aill' extraordinary works (which have been recently
1)ow sPlendidly engraved by their proprietor) have,
ailpe%eri been so frequently asserted that it would be
caol rt."aolis to enlarge upon them under present cir-
Yet 1 ,tlces• Those, nevertheless who have not as
Wao,,lu, an opportunity of examining them themselves
m%it - nn Well to pay a visit to the New Bond-street
ode' I'l7' and there see what noble efforts have been
tio`'l' by Modern art in England. Our recommenda-
-44 ttiq BPPlies with especial significance to the multi-
of our present visitors to the metropolis, both
atEttliM and provincial. They will there see how
i,o, fly Etty has depicted Joan of Arc in three
he fig of her marvellous and memorable career—on
r Ild.
tit,t mg of the sword in the Church of St. Cathe
Pr4,s(le Pierbois—on her scattering the enemies of
Brl.`"e When leading a sortie from the gates of
' cm ns
la , lastly, when she stands upon the pile
(4 Will tlue first agonies of her martyrdom. They
4e, moreover, from the hand of' the same master
Yc(lf: 31) an exquisite " Andromeda," and what is
(N: Itier thE.l.l all, his famous " Judgment of Paris "
tla,s„. 1), Perhaps the work which posterity will de- ,
Will:, t° he his masterpiece. Besides these the visitor
lttstrerceive other minor paintings of Williana
of the
o 4 St among which are deserving of the
114 mast
Study and the fullest eulogium. Instance this
4t VOID
" Study of a Peacock " (No. 15) for the
'' 4alpoitiioll last particularised. Another eali- 1

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