The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-05 00:00:00

bust whatever the destiny of Garibaldi, his name
will be enshrined in the page of history as that of an ardent,
unselfish patriot, whose whole life was devoted toy he cause
of liberty, and who, when his work was accompshed, re-
tired from the scene of his emploits the same simple-minded
man, whom no victory could lintoxicate, no defeat depress.
Such instances are rare, and A has, therefore, been to us a
grateful task to lay before our readers the life of a man who
has been traduced for party pi trposes, but who now stands
forth so prominently as the cl tampion of his nation, that
no calumny can insure him, uo perversion of truth un-
dermine the glorious reputatio) a he has slowly and pain-
fully built up for himself. Acl
h tosen
life instrument
be cu tof Prhort
rovi-
dence to work out great ends, .is may
when his mission is twcomplishe‘ d ; but we earnestly hope
that he may be long spared to the world, for at the present
day we possess too few of such men. to serve as as model and
an example. •

The Cornhill Magazine.
Mr. Thackerrty's popular essays on " The Four
George's," never before publitthed, are, we are glad
to see, appearing in the Cornhill Magazine.
George I. leads off the number for July, and will
be read, as it has already been listened to, with no
small amount of interest ; but 3,et more delightful
is Mr. Thackeray's last contribution to the numberuer
—Roundabout Papers, No. V. Thorns
Cushion." The m;series of an editor were never
more whimsically, more graphically, nor, alas,
more faithfully described. " Before I was an
Editor," he writes, "I did not like the Postman
much :—but now !" Two threatening letters he
has received are given, accusing him of belying
a whole class, when he has merely alluded
to an individual member. " Suppose," he there-
upon exclaims with indignation, " suppose, for in-
stance, I had chosen to introduce a red-haired
washerwoman into a story ? I might get an expos-
tulatory letter saying, in saying that the
majority of washerwomen are red-haired you are a
liar,' &c. &c." The case is exactly analogous.
" Physiological Riddles," and " Electricity and the
Electric Telegraph," are thoughtful papers, worthy
of perusal. The former of these two last mentioned
contributions being, in truth, the commencement
of a very remarkable series of papers—penned mani-
festly (every sentence shows it) by one who is a
profound and philosophic physiologist. Are we not
right in conjecturing that this series, like that
kindred series in vol. i. of the Cornhill Magazine, may
be attributed to Mr. G. H. Lewes, author of the
Physiology of Common Life, and in many respects
one of the most philosophic thinkers and writers of
our generation ? Supposing our conjecture as to
the author's identity to be erroneous, however, the
writer of these singularly able physiological chap-
ters is certainly making good his claim to be re-
garded as one of the first and foremost among Mr.
Lewes's contemporaries. " Framley Parsonage"
continues with unabated attraction. Mark's money
troubles are gathering round his future notwith-
standing his present preferment; and poor Puck,
the pony, is beaten for evils of which he is wholly
innocent and unconscious. Among the poetical
contributions is one from Mrs. Barrett Browning.

Macmillan's Magazine.
The paper on Swiss-French Literature, and the
Writings of Madame de Gasparin, by S. M. Ludlow,
after dwelling on the early progress of Switzerland
in literature, and how Protestantism first found a
stronghold at Geneva, where the persecuted French
reformer could find refuge, reviews at some length
the writings of Madame de Gasparin. " The Fair
at Keady," is an amusing account of, an Irish
row, a subject which, although often described,
always contains matter for the novelist to work
upon. An article "On the Social and Economical
Influence of the New Gold," by Henry Fawcett,
treats partly on the currency and partly on the
social benefits derived by the opening up of a new
field for labour. " The Volunteers' Catechism," by
T. Hughes, Captain, .19th Middlesex Rifles,
vindicates the majority. of the volunteers
from the charge of having joined the ' move-
ment to play at soldiers, four-fifths of whom
be declares have not yet overcome their
mauvaise honte at wearing their uniform
in the streets. If such-really be the case we are
sorry that so many of our countrymen should be
afflicted with such uncalled-for bashfulness. " Tom
Brown, at Oxford," is continued. The captain has
become a great favourite with the undergraduates,
and looks upon all connected with the university
with a satisfaction which will not be gainsayed—
everything is right, everybody clever. Tom writes
a letter to his late mistress bidding her farewell—
but the affair will not end here, or we Are much
mistaken. The scene then changes to Engle•
bourne, which must be a relief to most readers, for
notwithstanding the thorough knowledge of univer-
sity life which the author possesses, his characters
are not such as are to be found amongst the class of
men who constitute the body of under-graduates.
The conduct of Hardy is manly and straightfor-
ward, that of Tom weak and vacillating—both
characters are to be found in most colleges, but the
way they are made to work together is rather far
fetched. At Englebourne Harry Windbourn's
friends have been endeavouring to forward his suit
with old Simon the Gardener's daughter, but there
are many obstacles to be overcome—first and fore-
most, the dislike that old Simon entertains for
Harry. But his patroness, Miss Winter, is deter.
mined to succeed. The honest constable and tailor,
bent on the same object, seeks the hayfield where
Harry is mowing to advise him. He is troubled in
mind by certain events which have occurred, but
on reaching the stile' which divides the hayfield
from the road his spirits revive :
"As children, we stumble about the new-mown hay,
revelling in the many colours of the prostrate grass and
wild flowers, and in the power of tumbling where we please
without hurting ourselves—as small boys, we pelt one
another and the village school-girls and our nurse-
maids and young lady. cousins with the hay, till,
hot and weary, we retire to tea or syllabub be
neath the shade of some great oak or elm stand-
ing up like a monarch out of the fair pasture ; or, following
the mowers, we rash with eagerness en the treasures dis-
closed by the scythe-stroke—the nest of the unhappy late-
laying titlark, or careless field-mouse : as big boys, we toil
ambitiously with the spare forks and rakes, or climb into
the waggons and receive with open arms the delicious load
as it is pitched up from below, and rises higher and higher
as we pass along the long lines of haycocks : a year or two
later we are strolling there with our first sweethearts, our
souls and tongues loaded with sweet thoughts and soft
speeches ; we take a turn with the scythe as the bronzed
mowers lie in the shade for their short rest, and willingly
pay our footing for the feat. Again, we come back with
book in pocket, and our own children tumbling about as we
did before them; now romping with them, and smothering
them with the sweet- smelling load—now musing and
reading and dosing away the delicious summer evenings.
And so shall we not come back to the end, enjoying as
grandfathers the lovemaking and the rompings of younger
generations yet ?
" Were any of us ever really disappointed or melancholy
in a hay-field ? Did we ever lie fairly back on a hay cock
and look up into the blue sky, and listen to the merry
sounds, the whetting of scythes and the laughing prattle of
women and children, and think evil thoughts of the world
or our brethren? Not we lorif we have so done, we ought
to be ashamed of ourselves, and deserve never to be out of
town again during hay harvest."
" Reminiscences of American College Life " de-
scribes life in an American college 20 years ago,
and the manners and customs of the students. The
article by the Rev. F. D. Maurice on the " Female
School of Art and the Lectures and Writings of
Mrs. Jameson" shows what progress had been made
by the institution, and the benefits derived from
Mrs. Jameson's lectures and writings. The num-
ber is concluded by a paper by Aurelio Saffi on
gs Garibaldi and the Sicilian Revolution," and some
verses from the Italian, entitled " The Boot."

The Constitutional Press Magazine: a Review o,
Politics, Literature, the Church, the Drama, and
the Fine Arts. Saunders and Utley.
The peculiar powers that distinguish the author
of " Heartsease are brilliantly displayed in this
new work of " Hopes and Fears." She does not at-
tempt to make dashing sketches or to create strik-
ing scenes to begin with ; bat she gradually and
almost itnperceptibly, as it were, lets her characters
develop themselves, and hence the story to some
may appear somewhat tame ; but those who
persevere
will fin.findthat it is a true exposition
of human nature in many instances, Phoebe. is a
maiden, and she is most
very delightful young
The present instalment is the
artistically drawn.
tl bou ht
more attractive attractive as she is prommucien y. r g
'go ward, and and the irritating Llla is altogether
ignored. She,* in her way,
is a
sonatlon of a spoilt disposition ; butod it is p
far
more pleasing to study Plumbe • No wonder
the unfortunate Sir Bevil was struck by
the contrast of her fresh young beauty and charm-
ing temper, in comparison with Julianna's faded
and sharpened features, and worse still, her discor-
dant disposition. He felt himself bound in honour
to fulfil an engagement conditionally made ten
years before, but he could not help casting a long-
ing lingering look behind to the days of yore, when
his affianced bride had appeared like her young
sister; and he had never thought that she possessed
those fatal qualities that undermined her good feel-
ings even more than they spoilt her pretty features.
Robert is an admirable character, but not at all
a pleasing one ; he is too cold and stern, and he
seems to afford an instance of how much the really
excellent may mar their prospects of doing service
to others, and reaping the rich harvest cif good
works for themselves, by an overdrawn precision
and an unsympathising manner. With the
various characters so ably delineated, and with the
impressive style of the writing, this story is now
0, decided success, and a great acquisition to this
periodical. There is an article on the question of
Religious Census," which is very fairly written.
It is decidedly against the measure ; it states that the
plan is distasteful, on the two grounds that " we
shrink from the introduction of vulgar competition
with those who oppose the Church ; and we c&n-
not quite see what practical good will arise from
It goes on to state, " the system
the investigation..'
of dissent exhibits its whole ztrength in its congre-