The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-05 00:00:00

on " The Revivals of 1859," has some sensible
comments on its peculiar features, but the quota-
tions made from a work by President Edwards
on the same subject contain passages not more
shocking and repulsive to the common sense and
feeling of human nature than they are diametri-
cally opposed to the letter and spirit of Christian
teaching. Who, for instance, can read of his asser•
tion that, " Innocent as children seem to be to us,
yet if they are out of Christ, they are not so in
God's sight, but are young vipers and infinitely
more hateful than vipers," without recalling the
words of a greater Teacher, " Of such is the king-
dom of Heaven." The extracts here given add to
the many melancholy instances where the carrying
out of a theological system of human framiig have
left their followers further removed from the true
spirit of the Divine teaching than the heathers
they endeavour to convert. An article on classical
music discourses on the antipathy felt by some
to the severe school of music. We are glad to
think, however, that the appreciation of this style
of music is largely increasing among us. Mr.
Smiles's valuable work on " Self Help" furnishes
matter for an interesting article.

The Cornhill Magazine.
Mr. Thackeray's magazine justifies the promises
with which it opened. We hardly thought No. 2
qUite equal to No. 1, but No. 3 is again an im-
provement on its predecessors. The serial tales by
the editor and Mr. Anthony Trolloppe continue
with unabated interest—the interest in both cases
appertaining rather to the manner than the matter
of the narration. As a story-teller Mr. Thackeray
is one of the most inartistic, rambling, colloquial,
delightful gossips possible. Rightly does he call
himself in another series (the Roundabout Papers),
Mr. Roundabout, for he encircles his subjects with
all possible involutions, but so attractive is his
manner that we follow him through the maze with
fascinated attention. Mr. Trolloppe, on the other
hand, relates his history in a quiet, business-like,
unaffected manner, which has a charm about it,
already recognised by many admirers. " Studies
in Animal Life" introduces us this month to many
unheeded marvels of the animal world, among
others the star-fish, familiar to the wanderers by
the sea-shore, and which so long dwelt in the
boyish reminiscence or David Cepperfield. "A
Winter Wedding-party in the Wilds is an amusing
sketch, as natural as if drawn from reality—which
perhaps it partly is. The " National Gallery diffi-
culty solved," is a subject to which we shall probably
again refer. The paper is illustrated with various
plans of proposed alterations. The second chapter
of William Hogarth, describes him when Mr.
Gamble's apprentice. Sir Joshua and Holbein is
an article full of interest and well worthy of a
thoughtful perusal. Speaking of Sir Joshua's style
the critic says "He is lily-sceptred, his power blos-
soms, but burdens not. All other men of equal
dignity paint more stoutly ; all others of equal
force paint less lightly. Tintoret lays his line: like
a king marking the boundaries of conquered lands;
but Sir Joshua leaves it as a summer wind its
trace on a lake ; he could have painted
on a silken veil, where it fell free, and.
not bent it." Nevertheless, the same critic
goes on to prove that while Reynolds was so happy
in his drawings of ladies and gentlemen, he could
not paint heroes, nor saints, nor angels. The Italian
masters " painted not the court, nor the drawing-
room, but the earth, and not a little of heaven
besides, while our good Sir Joshua never trusts
himself outside the York palings. He could not
even have drawn the strawberry girl unless she had
got through a gap in them." The poetic contribu-
tions to this number consist in a pathetic little his-
tory of " Mabel," and some mysterious musical
verses, entitled " The Ebingeburg."

Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and .Pastimes,
and Racing Register. Baily Brothers and Co.
This record of sporting events gives fair promise
in its first number of becoming both an interesting
and instructive periodical, It commences with an
engraving and biography of Vice-Admiral the Hon.
Henry John Rous, as the first of a series of distin-
guished sportsmen ; followed by the first chapters
of the adventures of Sydney Godolphin Yahoo, Est.,
by Francis Francis, a tale of the Moors, the beau-
ties of which may, perhaps, be forthcoming here-
after. The history (for we can call it by no other
name) of the English racehorse, by the Hon. H. J.
Rous is'given ; like the English people, it has been
produced by the combination of various and anta-
gonistic races, and mongrel though it be, challenges
the world, and has yet to find a conqueror. The
first mention of horse races which is known,
according to the author, was in the reign of Henry
the Second, " when the Court and nobility attended
the tournament at Smithfield during Lent, where
the London citizens desported themselves in mar-
tial attire on horseback, and races were the order
of the day." " From Oxford to St. George" is the
beginning of a free and easy sketch of University
lite, the writer of which wishes to impose on the
present students of Oxford schoolboy restrictions,
which when he was himself at college he would
have been the first to kick against. All ruinous
credit would be put a stop to if the heads of the
University would protect its members, and discoun-
tenance any tradesman who should endeavour to
recover at law a debt incurred by any member of
the University while in static pupulari. The evil
would work its own cure, and parents, guardians,
and greenhorns would be thus saved vast inconve-
nience, and the character of our Universities main-
tained. We should much prefer the use of an in-
telligible S in this magazine rather than the obso-
lete, old-fashioned form in use in the past century.