The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

The Graduated Series of _Reading Lesson Boot'
Book the Third. Longman.
This book is divided into four parts--Misce• 111
neous, Descriptive Travel, Natural History, 4114
Historical Narrative. The first part containl,,
variety of amusing reading, from which, notislP'__,
standing its light character, a good deal of lull.
mation is to be gathered. It concludes with ?li'
leetion of poems selected from the works 70 de.
tinguished authors. In the portion devottLoott
scriptive travel some interesting facts are u',„a7rks
to the notice of the reader. The following 1.3"'
on the Goodwin Sands is a sample
" Evnerdys. T b °dyh have
hasey heard,
strange and
dd
heard
danweild awesto,ri?efs nth, the Good
win Sat
of their danger, but of their origin. How where they 11
yawn to engulf ships, once stood firm land.—au Islay
belonging to the famous Earl Godwin, father of King U.,_lrk
rold ; and really, so rarely is tradition without truth, PM"
we are inclined to believe strong land did once lie v/11,..., e`"
now the Sands are. . If so, however, it must have beef
centuries and centuries before Godwin was born ; it rain
have happened at a time beyond all written record; et
that tradition may carry back so far is proved by the
that several nations, cut off from all the rest of the Wrio
and without a leaf of writing, repeat to their childreef
this day, some vague story of the Deluge. se'
" Old legions of the old historians, however, insist °I L%
cribing the transformation of an island to the Godtlis
Sands to the time of Earl Godwin himself. . By solevut
is said that a great feast was held on the island in hey
of the marriage of the earl's daughter; that the castle
full of noble guests, and that there was dancing, and gaiety
and all the mad frolic of the time ; that in the heigh'eu,
midnight mirth a tempest rose, and in the morning
castle and the houses were gone. and nothing left but ITd
raging sea and the gulfing sands. . Others say thatr,
earl once made an unsuccessful foray into Kent. Bew;,
in great peril, he made a solemn vow that if he were eb,
livered from the desperate situation he was then ie,9.
would build a steeple at Tenterden in honour of the
His vows were heard; and he was so absorbed in 7:,-f
building of the steeple that he neglected the sea-wall'
his island, and the sea, pouring in upon it in the heigto
a storm and earthquake, totally destroyed it. . I.rd
story, no doubt, is the origin of the story that Tenterumf.-
steeple was the cause of the Godwin Sands. Again, 1005
Boethius, a writer who lived at the close of the fift4Y3J,4
century, says, ' About the end of the reign of King WllOl.
Rufus there was a sudden and mighty inundation of b"( 1
sea, by which a great part of Flanders was drenched 4,
lost, and the same storm violently overwhelmed Earl 4.1.4„J
win's isle with a light sand, and it became a most drool'
gulf, and ship-swallower.' "
Under the head of Natural History we learn 104
the Esquimaux hunter contrives to destroy -
bear, and the care with which his dogs are tang
h
to keep out of danger while retarding the col
of the quarry, and other matters relating to quo:,
rupeds. The historical narrative is confined
'OO
sketches—which, however, are sufficiently cophe
for a work intended for general instruction. 5./
leading features of a history being once read, all'
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tion.

Plain or
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loe
Sponge's
eß7rhe author of " Handl
Tour," &c. Bradbury
Evans.
As this tale advances its aim and object become
more apparent, and the very name is vindicated be
the difficulty which Miss Rosa finds in suiting
fancy of her two lovers, neither of whom she wile
to throw over until she is sure of the other; jo
one admiring her most with her hair arrangeum.
ringlets, while the other considers it more beeto
ing when plain ; and the same idea struck
and Miss—" What if the whole thing should lfgeo,
mately turn upon the question of Plain orßingleri,
Poor Mr. Bunting's troubles with his great barn :fl,
which consisted in his being taken in by a evilev
dler's advertisement, which induced him to t,
change two good horses, with something to eso
for two broken-winded screws, though written ift;tli
off-hand, amusing style, carry a good moral v".O,
them, which ought to be of service to greenhel;o
and teach them to look before they leap. Iteiell
great pity that country gentlemen and young be
who have more money than they are fit t°y
trusted with, will not remember this truth, -,„a
good horse will always command a good pri,c
te'eit
that such animals are not given away for ha' idea,
value. On this subject the author is very dee dos
and enters at some length into the et*
operandi of the extensive family of sharrp'
No one taking either Owen Ashford or the to
quisite out of the stable on trial would hesitatebi
deposite a fifty pound note or give a cheque o that
banker if he had not the money with him flow,
amount, conditional on the safe return of the ott,
indeed would think he was let rather cheafsivlooln
for that amount. Half an hour, however, bigot
knock undeceive him, but when he came back be ,""e 00$
knock and ring a long time at 51 A before la be
admitted. Meanwhile all Sligo Mews welleroo
all alive from one end to the other, and nurrigo
would be the inquiries if he didn't wish he jog the
get it.' It may pp
aear cruel, but consider
the
torture these poor animals undergo to furbislaai"be *
up for their share in the deception, it volli to tn,e
greater kindness for a dupe to give t1T1....%, tbel!
nearest horse slaughterer rather than prerriorou:
existence by selling them back to these ro
the
ruffians. The dupe would at all eventsaids
_ceree.l:
suppression of the fraud as far as he was,t_eetive awl!,
an object that we hope to promote by. ,hicbeo
ing the adventures of Captain Cavendish
ter's horses.'
The main cause of the success of the"