The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Dec. 10.—Scarcely anything whatever
doing, and all quotations are to a fraction near the
same as on Saturday,. the only exception being the
General Ottoman Debt, which is again in request
at 33f. 50c., with a rise of 4 per cent. French
Threes are quoted at 69f. 57ic , or 21c. above last
close, and Italian Fives at 56f. 10c., or sc. below
last close. Credit Mobilier and Credit Foncier
show no variation. Comptoir d'Escompte are 2f.
50c. higher, at 880 f., owing to the vote at the late
meeting consenting to the doubling of the shares.
Railways are likewise unvaried at merely nominal
quotations. The market closed without any change.
The last quotations are as follows :

41 per Cents 93 Bank Shares... 3625
Do. end month — Italian Loan 55 90
3 per Cents. 69 55 Do. end month 56 12i
Do. end mouth 69 07i Mexican Loan —
Credit Mobilier ... 578 7o Do. Bonds —
Do. end month ... 578 75 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier — Home Debt —
Do. end month — Deferred

LITERATURE.

The Adventures of Philip on his Journey through the
World. By W. M. Thackeray. Smith, Elder,
and Co.

Although Philip was not actually the very last
of the serial stories penned by Mr. Thackeray, it
was to our thinking the last of any importance, the
last that was really worthy of him, of his many
rare and exquisite powers as a humorist, as a genial
and (let us a thousand and a thousand times pro-
test it) not a cynical humorist. Vanity Fair first
and foremost ; then The Newcomes ; then Esmond;
then Philip; then—after " Philip "—Pendennis;
and after " Pendennis" The Virginians. Afterwards
—sed longo intervallo—such wholly inadequate evi-
dences of the genius of the great Satirist-Humorist
as The Hoggarty Diamond [though in that, by the
way, there is one of the most exquisite of all his
many true touches of nature—where the young
mother confuses her own age with that of her lost
baby 1] or again—about the last of worth among
them all—such another historiette as that about
Barry Lyndon. it is not simply the character of
Philip himself, the great, rough, tender-hearted,
tawny-bearded, outspoken, manly Philip, with all
his faults and all his excellencies, with all his blun-
derings and all his gentleness toward those who are
friends to him, it is not simply, we say, the charac-
ter of Philip that wins upon our love, and charms
us into interest in the fortunes of the principal per-
sonages of the story more directly revolving around
him as the hero of it. Far beyond anything
connected more directly with the chief sub-
ject of the narrative, in fact, is the charm attach-
ing the reader's regard and admiration through-
out to the actual narrator—Arthur Pendennis.
Pendennis, as the historian of Philip--Pendennis
wins upon us far more than he does in his own
history, that is, in " Pendennis." Here in
" Philip " the charm of the character of Arthur
Pendennis comes out fully upon our recognition.
To our fancy—as an examplar of the lettered
gentleman of the middle of the nineteenth century,
here in England, here in LondDn, Pendennis, as he
now reveals himself to us—his inner nature, his lik-
ings and dislikings, his whims and oddities, his de-
licate sense of humour—Pendennis himself as a
creation, to our thinking, is.perfect. He is as perfect
a creation of the novelist's art in his way as
—in his way—was his uncle himself, the incompa-
rable Major Pendennis of the clubs. As perfect,
as true to nature and to reality, as Colonel New-
come in his way again—or as F. B. in his—or
as J. J. in his—or, again, (among Thackeray'sfemale
characters), let us say, as either Becky Sharp or
Ethel NewOome. But--reverting to Philip, what a
delightful diversity of character on', notes therein
grouped around Philip himself and his friend and'
historian Pendennis—Mrs. General Baines, the old
harridan—the poor illiterate Little Sister—the ras-
cally, swindling Doctor Firmin, Philip's father—.
that horrible roué, blasé, hectoring, brutal
peer of the realm, who plays now and then so
conspicuous a part in the story—honest, vulgar,
good-natured Mr. Mugford of the Pall Mall
Gazette—no longer a merely fictitious contem-
porary, by the way, but a sort of posthumous ema
nation of the creative genius of the author of
Philip, our dead and gone, but not forgotten—on
the contrary, our more than ever fully appreciated
and admired Novelist, Humoutist, and Satirist,
our thoroughly Genial, Social Philosopher, William
Makepeace Thackeray.

Emblems Divine and Moral. By Francis Quarles.

William Tegg.

As beautiful an edition, we suppose, as ever yet
has appeared of " Quarles' Emblems," together with
the same charmingly quaint old Poet's School of the
Heart and Hieroglyphics of the Life of Alan has ju st
now been issued from the press by Mr. Tegg in the
form of a luxuriantly illustrated volume—internally
as full of exquisite conceits as a poppy-head is of
seeds, and externally as resplendent in appearance
as the p)ppy's scarlet blossom. It is a book equally
fitted for the library shelf and the drawing-room
table for the amateur's pocket or the traveller's
valise.

Bright Thoughts for Little Ones. Illustrated by
John Proctor. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.
A most delectable book of pictures, tales, and
verses—drawn, told, and warbled for the dear little
ones clustered about her footstool by the delight-
fullest old grandmarna ! It *ill be welcomed in
many a nursery and pored over in the glow of the
winter firelight upon many a home hearth-rug.

The Writer's Enchiridion ; or the Orthographer's
Friend. Messrs. Lockwood, and Co.
The second edition, this is, of a very useful little
pocket volume, explanatory of the more frequently
encountered puzzles of orthography.

Exuberant Groafth of Tonsils as a Fertile Source of
Delicate Health and Arrest of Development in
Young Persons. By James Yearsley, M.D.
A treatise this is that will come home to many an
anxious mother—treating, as it does, of a disease
that affects, with so many, health, hearing, and
happiness.