The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1835.

every word she has said, so that all that remains for
her is to begin her story anew, to be again interrupted
still more unseasonably. Were the world to lend us
an ear for a few minutes, we would tell it another
tale. We are the advocates of a mixed Government in
soci ty, but itt private families a virtuous despotism in
the husband is synonimous with peace, order, tranquil-
lity, prosperity, and domestic happiness. The other
articles are less liable to objection, and some of them
are deserving of very high praise. The notes of the
month are, as usual, written with great smartness.

COURT MAGAZINE.
Churton. Holler-street.

The most readable article in this number is
the " Sketches from Real Life, taken from the Ring in
Hyde Park," in which many of the wits and dandies
of the day are made to figure. The article is clearly
the production of one who is acquainted with the per-
sonal peculiarities of the individuals whom he pour-
trays. " The Dark Water King "is a well-told tale,
that would not have been injured if it had been a little
longer. Haynes Bayley contributes some lively stanzas
addressed to " a very young' friend." . Of the embel-
lishments we have already spoken.

UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.
E. Bentley, for 11. Colburn.

The " Anecdotes of Pod.to" will amuse a large
class of readers, especially as they are novel, for
the most part. " Polar Scenes," contains some vi
gorous touches of description ; the sketch of the
" Christmas Dinner at the North Pole," though
meant tdd Othefwisc, is quite affecting, from the
strong yearnings after social life that are unassumingly,
and, to all appearance, unconsciously developed in
them. The " Diary of a Liberator" ;: neither better
nor worse than the usual run .of military articles, that
have appeared from time to time in this periodical.

SPORTING MAGAZINE.
M. Pitman, Warwick-square.

The leading embellishment in this number is a half-
length portrait of John Holt, Esquire, who, we sup-
pose, must be a sportsman of some notoriety, to be
considered worthy to figure in these pages. On look-
ing to the Memoir of this gentleman, which is ap-
pended to the engraving, we find that he died the other
day, at the ordinary sporting age of eighty-five. Where
is the author, with the exception, perhaps, of Voltaire
and Rubelais—both immoderate laughers—who can
say as much ? The literary contents of the number
are of the usual average, except that they abound
more than usual in particulars of the winning horses at
the last provincial races.

THE MUSICAL LIBRARY, PART X., WITH

A SUPPLEMENT.

Charles Knight, Ludgate-street.

This is the completion of the first volume of this
excellent work, which, in point of selection and exe-
cution, deserves to find a place in every drawing-room
in the kingdom. The main object of the spirited pub-
lisher has been to place the music of the best masters,
ancient and modern, within the reach of families of
limited income, but with a taste for all the ele-
gancies of civilized life, and we do him but a
meagre act of justice in saying, that he has more
than redeemed his pledges to the public. Already
has he given to the world, at a price unequalled for
cheapness, the works of some of the best musical com-
posers, executed with great care and admirable fidelity.
We cannot too warmly recommend this work to the
musical world. It is really deserving of the most ex-
tensive patronage.

FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Sherwood, Paternoster-row.
The best article in the number before us is not ori-
ginal, but a mere reprint of Mr. Knowles's tale of the
" Wrecker," which, if we remember rightly, was pub-
lished some months since, in the Cambridge Quarterly
Review. The rest of the work is chiefly made up of
notices of the latest important Masonic Meetings.

BRITISH FARIf:E_RS' MAGAZINE.
Ridgway, Piccadilly.

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One essay here will well reward tii4.l
perusal of geolo-
gists; that, we mean, on the "Analysis of wails," which
is argued, in a spirit of close, scientific inquir:
would have delighted the late Sir Humphrey Davy. A
common-place engraving of the famous " Hereford
Bull" is prefixed to the number.

A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
LATE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

Published by John Weak, (Taylor's. Architectural Library,)
59, High Holborn; and by the Author.

This little work, which is to be continued in
monthly numbers, is from the pen of Mr. Britton, the
Antiquarian, and Mr. G. Brayley. It contains sketches
of the Houses of Commons and Lords, as they ap-
peared immediately after the late conflagration, and
slight literary explanations of their earliest origin, and
of the various architectural alterations that they have,
from time to time, undergone. By those who are in-
terested in such matters, the book will be worth
purchasing.

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FAUST: A SERIO-COMIC
B. B. King.—London,lB34.
The illustrations to tttis,Pcierri are etfiiifill; Aiiddo
credit te, the talents of that practised Caiidatiiiigt,
Alfred Crowquill. They are twelve in number, and
turn the diablerie of Goethe's Faust to irresistible ac-
count. Something there is in their fanciful extrava-
gance that reminds us of Cruickshank ; but there Is
also a natural humour, and above all a human interest
about them, of which, except perhaps in his delinea-
tions of drunken Irishmen, adage eannot boast. The
first illustration shows Faust in the act of selling his
soul to the Devil. Both parties are evidently doing
their best to cheat each other, but the conjuror is riO
match for Satan, and looks far more bewildered than
convinced by his logic. Faust and the Devil in the
Tavern is a scene of rare humour and confusion. The
first sits quietly swilling his glass in a corner of the
room ; while his master-fiend is preparing to pay the.
reckoning—no uncommon occurrence, by the bye, for
there has often been the Devil to pay in a tavern
before now. Faust and the Devil in the witches'
cave, deserves praise for the grotesque face-makings
and attitudenizings of the conceited old conjuror; who
with spectacles on nose, is admiring his wrinkled
countenance in a mirror, and stroking his chin with an
air of much self-complacency ; while Mephistopheles
sits behind him in an easy arm-chair, smoking his pipe,
and looking towards him with an expression of coun-
tenance that seems to imply, a Ilah, bah, Master
Faust, I have you now,
with sugary flatteries, and you have bit like a gudgeon !"
Faust seeing Margarets s
• exqui-
site scene of flirtation.for I have baited my hook
aura fno assurance w the
thei ltifi Irvst
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mixed
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sheepishnessdandified conj mi.' a"
re
his rrm I Liston never developed rarer grace.
of sentiment on the stage than Andrew Crowquill's
hero
loverierois liere. doing. " Will she not yield, when thus
pleads ?" Margaret meeting Faust in the
I)Bnel:fir
,eire.•-etous,
:, is another clever illustration, and the
ngrin° in at the door while the fond couple
are V.llfi
and cooing, a nd kissing each other, inspires
the profoundest feelings of commisration for those who
have been thus disagreeably surprised. No gentleman
Illges to be detected in -the overt act of kissing a lady,
'least of all by the Devil I Valentine fighting with
Faust, that is to say, one coward attempting to out-

bully another, is as good in its way as Smollett's
famous scene where the painter challenges the physi-
cian on the ramparts; or where Captain Bluffe revenges
his honour by a sudden assault and battery on Sir
Joseph Wittol's nose ; or where " fighting" Bob Acres,
feels his valor " oozing out at his fingers' ends," at the
sight of Sir Lucius O'Trigger's tremendous horse pis-
tols, " which never missed their mark I" Poor Valen-
tine looks like Falstaff, in the act " of dissolution and
thaw," and Faust, as if he were on the eve of under-
going a process of utter evaporation. Their bellige-
rent mustachios lend additional piquancy to their dis-
play of terror. Of the burlesque poem which accom-
panies the illustrations, we can merely say that it is
passable. Here and there we meet with a smart
couplet ; but as a whole, it is neither above nor below
common-place. The embellishments are in outline,
after the manner of Retsch, and the volume is hand •
somely got up.

HYACINTHE; OR THE CONTRAST.
Cochrane.—London, 1834.
A pleasing tale, written in a plain, unassuming man-
ner, and with the best intentions, that of inculcating,
through the medium of fiction, a sound and serviceable
moral. It is the work of the author—we believe, we
should say authoress—of Alice Seymour.