The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-30 00:00:00

NO ES-156.

Adderley, C. B. Galway, Viscount Montagu, Lord R.
Akroyd, E. Gladstone, if. E. Montgomery, Sir G
Annesley, Col. 11. Goddard, A. L. Morgan. 0.
Archdall, Capt Gotdncy, G. Mowbray, .1. R.
Arkwright, It. Goodson, J. Neal, Sir J.
Bare, V. Gore, J. It. O. Newdegate,C.
Bailey, Sir J. - Graves. S. it. Noel, G. J.
Ilaillie, 11. J. Greenall, G. North, Col.
Barringtoi, Via. Greene, E. Northeote. Sir S.H.
Itateson, Sir T. Gray, Lt-Col. O'Neil!, E.
Bathurst, A. A. Grey, T Facke, C. AV.
Beach, Sir M. Griffith, C. D. Parker, Major if.
Bective, Earl of Guinness, B. L. Patten, Colonel W.'
Beeeroft, G. S. Gwyn, II Peel, Gen.
lientinek, G. C. Hamilton, Lord C. Pennant, Col.
Benyon, it. hardy, G. Percy, E-r 1
Bingham, Lord Hardy, J. Powell, F. S.
booth, Sir R. G. Hervey, Lord A. Read, C.:S.
Brett, W. 11, Hay, Sir J Repton, G. W. J.
Bridges, Sir B. W. Heathcote, G. H. Ridley, Sir M. W.
Bromle W. D. Heathhcote, Sir IV. Robertson, P. F.
Bruce,Major C. Henley, J. W. Rolt, J.
Bruen, H. Henniker, J. M. Royston, Vint.
Burrell, Sir P. Itesketh, Sir T. Schreiber, C.
Cai per.. C. Heygate. Sir F. hclater-liooth, G,
Cartwright,toz. Ilildyard, T Seymour, U. H.
Cave, S. • Holtord, 11. S. Smith, A.
Cecil, Lord E. Holmesdale, Vie. Smith, G
Clive, Capt. G. W. Hood, Sir A. Stanley, F.
Cole, Hon. 11. Hope, A J. btronge, S,r J. M.
Corry, H, L. Ilornby, W. II Stuart, Lt.-Col. W.
Cover, E. 11. nors,,,h, T, B. Surtees, N. E.
Cox, if. II thaw. Lord TAylor, Col.
Crauborne, Vial. Howes. E. Tottenham, Lt.-Col
Cubitt, G. Huddlestone, J. Trecby, J. W.
Curzon, Viscount Hunt, G. W. Trevor, Lord A.
Dalkeith, Earl of Jones, 1). Turner, C.
Diml tale, R. Karslake, SIrJ. B. Vance, J.
Disraeli, B. K ,vana4h, A, Verner, Sir W.
Du Cane, C. Kekewich, S.. f. Vernon, H. F.
Duncombe, A. Kendall, N. Walcott, Admiral
Du t're, C. G. King, J. K. Walker, Major U.
Edwards, Sir 11. Kin:l, J. G. Walsh, Sir J.
lig,erton, Sir P. knight, F. AVaieiliouse, S.
Egerton, A. F. Knightley, -ir It. Whitmore, H.
Egerton, E. C. Lacon, Sir E. Wise, H.
t.gerton, W. Laird, J. Woorld, it. T.
Fang', Col. Langton, TV. G. Wyndham, if.
Fennell, J. Lefroy, A. Wynn, Sir W.
Fellowes, E. 31alcolm, J. W. J. Wynn, C. W. W.
Fergusson, Sir J. Manners, Lord TELLERS.
Floyer, J. Manners, Lord G. Selwyn, C. J.
Gallwey, Sir AV. P. Metier, AV. Gorst, J.

A grand evening concert will be given on Friday
evening next at St. Goorge's Hall, Langham-place, in
aid of the Funds for Rescuing the Homeless Boys of
London from a life of crime. The special object is to raise
funds for the purpose of increasing the accommodation of
the training-ship Chichester, in which 75 boys are at
present being trained for naval service, but funds aro
greatly heeded to extend the accommodation, and enable
them to receive the full ship's wyoplement of 125 boys.

,Studies from the Antique and Sketches from Nature.
By Charles Mackay. Second Edition. Virtue

and Co.

A manly and—to all but the " amiable cynics and
weekly snarlers," alluded to in the course of it—de-
lightful Preface of four pages, introduces to us this
Second Edition of what we are still almost disposed
to regard as Charles Mackay's masterpiece.
" Studies from the Antique and Sketches from Na-
ture" we examined in detail and commented upon
as we deemed it to d !se,rve, three years ago,
nam •Iy, at the date of its original publication.
Were we now to speak of the book once more,
as it most certainly, to our thinking, alone
merits to be spoken of, we should have simply
to say ditto to ourselves. For, upon a re-
examination of these charming pages, we only
find our former opinion of their worth con-
firmed and in a measure underlined. Sup.
posing, therefore, that we were to reprint
what we said of the original edition, we should
feel half disposed —to italicize. Contenting him-
self with the elimination of the Meander from the
poem in celebration of " Marsyas," and with the
substitution of one lyric not included in the first issue
of the work for another, we presume deemed by its
author unsuitable as an integral portion of a book
otherwise intensely poetic alike in its character
and in its treatment—Dr. Mackay gives his book
to the world once more, as a true pout should, in
its integrity. Meaning no disparagement whatever
to either " Egeria" or " Salamandrine," any more
than to " A Man's Heart" or " Under Green
Leaves"—certainly implying none at all to either
" Voices from the Crowd,"or "Voices from the Moun-
tain," to " Town Lyrics," or " The Lump of Gold"
—we cannot but recognise Charles Mackay at his
best, often at his very best, in several of these
Studies and Sketches—" Studies from the Antique
and Sketches from Nature." In the former imagin-
inga he has certainly caught the true spirit of classic
antiquity. In the latter he has embalmed many of
those tender. human sympathies with which he
observes the breathing life around him. " Flowers
and Children" might be adduced as a typical
exemplar of the more gentle among these lovely
and loving sympathies of his as a true-born lyrist—
a poem beginning : .
" Oh, the flow'rets, the bonnie wee flow'rets,
Glinting and smiling and peeping through the grass ;
And oh, the children, the bcnnie little children,
I see them and loyo them wad bless them as I pass."
Sauntering down the green lanes in the green
countryside he has an eye for all the glories
of the hedgerow—harebell and daisy, buttercup
and celandine, pimpernel and dandelion, honey-
suckle and forget-me-not. Strolling down the
city streets after nightfall, he has equally an
eye and a heart of pity for even such a faded
blossom " soiled beneath the common tread"
—as Coleridge sang of precisely such another—as
"Louise on the Doorstep." There are fragments
of " Ileartsore i❑ Babylon," as fine in their
way, as purely and intensely poetic, as the
noblest among the more classic " Studies from
the Antique"—as " Proteus" let us say, or as
" The Eumenides." Closing this welcome reprint
of his last book, we cannot but give expression to an
earnest hope that Charles Mackay will shortly col-
lect together into a singlevolume the choicest among
all his many charming and some of them we are
almost tempted to say perfect lyrics—lyrics by right
of which he will always hold his place upon the
roll of our National Poets,

Nature and Art ?" wrote Thomas flood, once, in a
letter—" What a fine edition of Nature and Art is
Stanfield !" Gene ! And many and many a dear
old day gone with him ! Bat their memories re-
main. And his memory will not soon fade out, for
he has set his mark upon the restless waters, and his
fame will long be sounded in the roar of the sen.-":"
From the current number of Dickens's " All the
Year Round."

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HER AWES IT'S LEVEE.

By command of the Queen a levee was held yes-,
terday at St. James's Palace, by his Royal high-
ness the Prince of Wales, on behalf of her MajestP
Presentations to his Royal llighness, at this Court,
are, by the Queen's pleasure, considered as cquivaa
lent to presentations to her Majesty.
'The Prince of Wales, attended by his Gentlemen
in waiting, and escorted by a detachment of La-f°
Guards, arrived at the Palace from Marlborough
House about two o'clock, and was received by the
Great Officers of State of the Queen's Household.