The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-06 00:00:00

RIGHT HAND LEADS : I AM SECOND HAND.

53. Ace and king. I win, and if strong in trumps
continue.

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54.• Right hand wins and returns. I have best and
4 small: supposing he is player enough to have
finessed, I pass it if strong in trumps.
55. Ace, knave, and one ; the knave.
56. Ace, queen ; pass it unless he lead knave, then
play ace.
57. Ace, king, 10 ; the 10.
58. Having led from king, &c., right hand has
won with knave or 10, and returns ; put on king, the
only chance of making it.
59. Never put on queen, knave, or 10, eecond
hand.

60. King, queen, &c.: one of them if weak in trumps,
not if strong (vide 59).
PARTNER LEADS; I AM THIRD HAND.

61. It I win partner's lead with queen I don't
return, except in trumps.
62. Partner leads ace and queen. I have king and
two ; I must win his queen.
63. Ace, knave, and one ; the knave.
64. Partner leads 9 or 10 ; if I have ace I win it ;
if an honour and one, win it; if an honour and two
or three, pass it (ride 52).
6.5. Partner leads a 13th card ; it is to force the
adversary (to trump), therefore I put on a high
trump. [Keep a place in your hand for 13th cards.]
66. S,quence of 3 or more ; the lowest.
LEFT HAND LEADS; I AM FOURTII HAND.
67. I win adversary's lead ; I return unless I have
a very strong suit.
68. Left hand leads king, I have ace, knave ;

pass it.
69. Ace, queen, and two trumps; left hand leads
knave ; I pass it.
70. I have best and second best of left band lead
in order, first, that
I make one, and play a sniall,
secondl to command
partner may make third best ; y,
lefc hand's lead. This is culled under-play (vide 10)
as to the backward game.

1851.

THE QUARTERLIES.
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. CLXXV.
A harem scarem article opens the current number
of the Quarterly, being a criticism on Roualeyn Gor-
don Cumming's " Hunter's Life in South Africa." ' The
reviewer has evidently adventured upon the examina-
tion of those entertaining and remarkable volumes in
a mood singularly congenial. The result of his
inquiry into their contents is this hilarious contribu-
tion to the Quarterly, a paper to which we heartily
commend all sportsmen without distinction, satisfied
that the result of its perusal in their instance must
prove in the very highest degree satisfactory. For
the zoologist, likewise, the article will be found to pos-
sess attractions, a variety of novel descriptions of
strange members of the animal kingdom, diversifying
its agreeable particulars. After the delineation of the
African Nimrod comes a masterly essay upon " So-
crates," being a portraiture of his character. This por-
traiture, we may observe, has been by certain
portions of George Grote's " History of Greece," re-
l.:Ong to the husband of Xantippe and the son of
Sophroniscus. Whoever the Writer may he, he ma-
nifestly possesses a profound and loving appreciation
of the inane sui,Nme qualith-s united in the genius of
die great philosopher. Prior to the consideration of
hisenthrttiling topic, the reviewer draws attention

„ . .
incidentally to the astonishing difference existing be-
tween the stirring age of Locrntes and Demosthenes,
Which witnessed the career of Plato, and the chilling
though tranquillizing effect of the Macedonian empire,
which sheltered the rise of Aristotle. This he does
with a view to explain the amenity of the latter and
the girding antagonism which characterise the latter
in all his relations with his-fellow-citizens. Remind-
ing his reader of the endurance shown by Socrates
when serving as a common soldier in the winter cam-
paign in Potidasa, the critic calls to our re-
collection the fact of the young philosopher
bearing away on his broad shoulders, from
the field of Delium, the form of the youthful
Xenophon. In its impassioned earnestness the close
of this admirable contribution calls to mind the pero-
ration of the famous essay on Milton, contributed by
Mr. Macaulay to the pages of the Edinburgh, and
though the last-mentioned immeasurably surpasses
the former in the splendour of its rhetoric, the fol-
lowing passage will be found to possess many of the
most bewitching among the charms of eloquence :
”He no longer stands amongst us. Yet we can fancy
what would result were he now to visit us—were he
once more to appear with that Silenic physiognomy,
with that eccentric manner, with that indomitable reso-
lution, with that captivating voice, with that homely
humour, with that solemn earnestness, With that siege of
questions—among the crowded parties of our metro-
polis, under the groves and Cloisters of our universities,
in the midst of our political, our ecclesiastical, our reli-
gious meetings, on the floor of our legislative assem-
blies, at the foot of the pulpits of our well-filled
churches. How often, in a conversation, in a book, in a
debate, in a speech, in a sermon, have we longed for the
doors to open, and for the son of Sophronisetis to enter—
how often, in the midst of pamphlets, in the heat of
angry accusations, in the discourses that have darkened
counsel by words without knowledge, during the theo-
logical controversies of the past year, have we been
tempted to exclaim, 0 for one hour of Socrates!' 0
for one hour of that voice which should by its searching
cross-examination make men see what they knew, and
what they did not know—what they meant, and what
they only thought they meant—what they believed in
truth, and what they only believed in name—wherein
they agreed, and wherein they differed. Differences,
doubtless, would still remain, but they would be the dif-
ferences of serious and thinking men, not the watch-
words of angry disputants. The voice of the great
Cross-examiner himself is indeed silent, but there is a
voice in each man's heart and conscience which, if we
will, Socrates'has taught us to use rightly. That voice,
more sacred than the divine monitor of Socrates him-
self, can still make itself heard; that voice still enjoins
us to give to ourselves a reason for the hope that is in
us—' both hearing and asking questions.' It tells us that
with all those imaginary troubles wherewith we vex our-
selves without inquiry, ' it shall be like as a dream when
one awaketh, so shall there image be made to vanish out
of the city.' It tells us also that for that fancied re-
pose, which self-inquiry-disturbs, we shall be more than
compensated by the real repose which it gives instead.
A wise questioning' is indeed the half of knowledge.'
A life without cross-examination is no life at all."

An erudite commentary on the various editions
printed of the " Ignatian Epistles" follows the bio-
graphical sketch of Socrates—the genius of the
Christian sage agreeably absorbing the notice of the
Quarterly after that of the Pagan philosopher. A
slashing paper on the administration of Lord Tor-
rington as Governor over the Cingalese, gives a digest
of the Blue Books and other official documents
relating to, the unfortunate transactions which in
that quarter of the world have cast such
odium upon the British Government. A small por-
tion of the Quarterly is devoted to a most eulogistic
notice of the Hon. E. Stanley's pamphlet on the
6' Claims and Resources of the West Indian Colo-
nies." The criticism is headed, somewhat significantly,
" Cheap Sugar and Slave Trade." A laboriously
considered, and lucidly compiled, paper on the "Bri-
tish Mu, eum," presents to the attention of the curl-
ow, but indolent, the very marrow of the voluminous
reports published by order of the Legislature, on the
mechanism of this great national establishment. As-
sisted by this article in the Quarterly, the reader may
spare himself the trouble of wading through a heap
of dry and cumbrous folios ; and, at the same time,
exult in the acquisition of a great mass of information.
Germany and the King of Prussia, by General Ra-
dowitz," is the comprehensive heading of an admirably
sedate and reflective chapter on the political difficulties
of the Confederation. Then comes a copious criti-
cism on the " Life and Letters of Southey," fol-
lowed by contributions relating to " The Ministers
and the Pope," and to " Sir Francis Head on the
Defenceless State of Great Britain." From these
miscellaneous and suggestive themes it may be ima-
gined that much interest must be imparted to the
number of the Quarterly recently given to the public
with the commencement of this second half of the
nineteenth century. The conjecture will prove to
be verified by an examination of the principal among
these ten contributions.