The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-11 00:00:00

More of the Periodicals.

BELGRAviA—for March (No. 5)—beginning the
Second Volume of this already established favourite
among the monthly periodicals—•advances the Edi-
tor's story of " Birds of Prey" but little, though Alien
Braddon as usual contrives to enthrall her readers'
attention not only by the freshness of her style, but
in a remarkable way also by the sense of cortain
oncoming mysteries and incidents by which those
same mysteries will eventually be explained. It is
rather odd, by the way, to nottce bow the younger
novelists of nowadays have some strange kind of
fascination turning them away to the selection of
mauvais subjets as the themes—as the heroes and
heroines of their imaginary narratives. In
All the Year Round, for example, we have
for many weeks past been following the
fortunes of a number of " Black Sheep" (one or
two of them very black sheep) over the world's wil-
derness at the bidding of Mr. Edmund Yates. And
now, at the instance of Miss Braddon, we are track-
ing, step by step, or rather flight by flight, such
hungry and pitiless Birds of Prey as Captain Paget,
Mr. Hawkehurst, and the two Sheldons, Philip
(that is) the stockbroker, and George, the attorney
of Gray's Inn. Among the embellishments of the
number there is a charming picture of " March, the
Hunting Breakfast," drawn by Alfred Thompson.
A tribute is offered by one of the art critics of the
Belgravia to the fecundity of imagination
manifested by young Gustave Dore. Another
contributor takes us an amusing, and, to our-
selves, a sufficiently familiar ramble from St. Paul's
to Piccadilly. There is a well- thought-out paper
on "The Decline of the Drama"—the writer's theory,
thereanent, in a very great measure accounting
for that same declension. " A Red Indian Legend"
—" Stone's Love Affair"—" Circe," and "My
Friend's Villa"—are the titles of the minor stories
here enlivening a by-no-means dull number other-
wise of Belgravia. Dr. Scoffern, beyond all this,
descants upon the horrors of " Vivisection ;" and a
manifestly skilled hand gives us as good a resume as
we have anywhere yet seen of the varied merits and
demerits of the different designs for our projected
new Courts of Justice.
CASSELL'S PENNY MAGAZINE demands a welcome,
if only for the sake of the fair fame of its enter-
prising publishers, the Messrs. Cassell, Fetter, and
Galpin, of Ludgate-hill. And number one is cer-
tainly a wonderful pennyworth—particularly seeing
that the purchaser has had thrown in, " free, gratis,
for nothink" (as John Leech had it under one of his

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comic cuts), an extraordinarily large and boldly_
executed wood engraving, taken from Ward's well-
known picture of " The South Sea Bubble ;" other-
wise, of Change Alley, as it appeared on the burst-
ing of that deplorably gigantic Bubble Company.
Printed on toned paper and embellished (besides the
gratis flyleaf just mentioned) with three large wood-
cuts, illustrative of letterpress either simply enter-
taining or instructive as well as entertaining, Cassell's
Magazine, nevertheless, seems too good in one
sense to achieve the wide success requisite
for the securing of the popularity of any
such penny weekly publication. The commence-
ment of a serial tale called " Anne Judge, Spinster,"
by the author of " Grandmother's Money," leads
off, and is followed by the initial instalment of

" Mrs. Malachite's Maxims." There is a curious
account of the Rise of the Great Plague in London
two hundred and odd years ago in kshlin's-place,
Drury-lane—a srcap of verse--a bundle of anec-
dotes, sonic of them rather old and threadbare—
and (to finish up with) the moiety of a tale about a
Lighthouse. Still—for all that—it hardly looks
like a permanence. The toned paper, we can't help
thinking, has been rather over-done of late among
the periodicals—besides which, the wood engrav-
ings, as they here appear on the toned paper, look
smudgy and indistinct. Why not revert to old-
fashioned white, and crown each number with a
simpler, bolder, blacker, and less filagreed heading ?
THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW—now in the third
number of the New Series and the Fortieth of the
Old—continues still under the Editorship of John
Morley to flourish as a monthly misnomer. The
misnomer, by the way, being none the less of a mis-
nomer by reason of the curiously-worded intimation
heading each fresh issue of this now strictly inter-
calary publication for the first day of each succeed-
ing month, to the effect " The Publication on the
15th for the present suspended." According to the
system, therefore, now regulating the issue of The
Fortnightly so-called—its mode of appearance is
one, as just now remarked, not so much inter-
mittent as intercalary. As a Fortnightly, it holds
on to its original title, so to speak, by the eyelashes
—the publication which could alone justify its con-
tinued claim to the title of Fortnightly being, as
naïvely intimated, "for the present suspended."
Apart from the mere name of it, however,—and
according to the trite Shaksperian deprecation of
blame of any kind ever being supposed for one
moment to accrue from any such comparative trifle
as a Name, as hinted by Juliet's old threadbare
query, " What's in a Name ?" apart from the mere
title of it, this soi-disant Fortnightly assumes t°
itself still, by right, a very high place among the
ablest of our more intellectual periodicals. That
high position it assumed at once upon its being first
of all inaugurated among those first-class periodicals
as a sort of English double to the Revue des Deux
Mondes, under the direction of Mr. G. H. Lewes,
the Biographer of Goethe and the Historian of
Philosophy. That position it steadily maintained,
and, in some respects, at intervals, materially
strengthened and widened during the period of his
responsible Editorship. At the turn of the year,
however, came that change in the fortunes of the
Fortnightly which resulted, by reason of the failing
health of its main projector and conductor from its
very commencement, Mr. G. H. Lewes, in the trans-
ference of the Editorship from his more than simply
competent hands to those of Mr. John Morley, not
of Mr. Henry Morley, but of Mr. John Morley, s°
his successor in the conduct of the new periodical.
The third instalment of the publication under 13i5
management shows him to have fairly warmed to
his
work both as Editor and as one of his own priociPa,
contributors. The Second Portion of his series 01
biographical and critical papers on Edmund Burke
evidences this more especially. It is rather too dis-.
cursive, however, in the manner of its treatment of
the theme taken in hand to our thinking—being
almost valueless, indeed, as a consecutive narrative.
Captain Whyte Melville's " White Rose" is ad-
vanced by four additional chapters. Miss Cobb:
weighs in the balance of her judgment two rather
pertinent queries now in the latter half of the nine-
teenth century—,4 What is Progress ? and, Ara
we Progressing?" Frederick Harrison, following ill
the wake of Mr. Bagehot, descants upon " Our
Venetian Constitution." Besides these, and a
cluster of minor notices, there is a very curious paper
in this new number of the Fortnightly, by Professor
Beesly, on the " Amalgamated Society of Carpeo-
ters," and a review, by J. Cotter Morrison, of Mr'
Hepworth Dixon's "New America," under the more
exact title of " Religious Utopias cf the united
States."
VACHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANJON is hardly
as well up to time as usual—the new issue of 1:
for March making no mention whatever of the W
important Ministerial changes, but announcing, s_
hitherto, that Lord Carnarvon has the Colonies,
Sir
John Pakington the Admiralty, Lord Cranboroef
India, the Duke of Buckingham the PresidencY
je,
the Council, Stafford Northcote the Board of Trau.
before
and so forth. A revised edition would be most 31'
ceptable to the subscribers to Vacher long ,t
April, and it is much to be hoped, therefore, that
will be speedily announced.

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HER MAJESTY, do-

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sunday.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Christian, High-
princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, Princess Beatrice, an
at 20 minutes
Prince Henry of
Prussia, arrived at Windsor Castle
past six o'clock last evening from Buckingham
Palace. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess
of Roxburghe, Lady Susan Melville, Lady Caroline
Barrington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon.
Florence Seymour, Major-General Hon. A. N.
Hood, Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge, Mr. Legg, and
Capt. Schroetter.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle last even
ing from Greenwich-park. °
The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princes
Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and
gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this
morning in the private chapel.
The Rev. C. Kingsley, chaplain in ordinary to the
Queen, preached the sermon. nd
Lady Bagot arrived at the Castle yesterday', 3 a
t.
had the honour of dining with the Queen and t'
royal family.
The Rev. C. Kingsley also arrived at the Cast l°
yesterday.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
MONDAY,II
a.111'.0
We have authority to state that the paragraPll I,_
one of our contemporaries this morning, relatinfile:
the Princess of Wales, is not authorised.
Royal Highness is suffering much from the rhetllllo` t
tism in the knee, from which, as stated el"r"
the I
bulletin, the recovery must necessarily be
There is no foundation for the report that "
Queen is coming to London to-day.
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The Prince Teck has been elected a mew"
White's Club.
The Duchess of Marlborough will have asseill-
blies on the 20th and 27th inst. (I 00°
The Duke de Frias, a grandee of Spain, an— ith
of the richest men in the country, has arrived in Paris W to
his wife, formerly Lady Crampton, and who was I°3°°lo
ethmeinmeunstiEcanlgwliosrhldcoams
composer.
The Balfe, daughter a t
The Earl of Malmesbury is obliged to s°io
from his official duties by the very precarious illness of tl':
countess at Heron Court, near Christchurch. For 1419111
days past all hopes have been given up of her recoveri•
„re
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bulwer Lytton 11%.
arrived in town from Lisbon, and are stopping at the Al°
andra Hotel, Knightsbridge, W. rittthe ell All
ARCHBISHOP MANNING bas recently vi--- ii,..
essay on Rationalism in England, which will forml
troduction to the edition the Archbishop has boo-, 6"er..
f
intending of the Charge lately delivered by the
Ilisbing lop
.°t.
Orleans on Atheism and the Social Perils at
This work will be published by Mr. Bentley. nazi'
Lady Franklin, wife of the celebrated n
gator, is now in Rome with her 1110003 NINO Cracroft.