The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-08 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

HEINRICH STILLING. 2 Vas.
Hamilton, London. 1835.
A translation, by a gentleman named Jackson, of
the autobiography of Heinrich Stilling—a work well
known throughout Germany, and which, on its first
appearance, had the honour of receiving the marked
approbation of old Goethe. The first part of the book
is strictly a prose pastoral, adhering closely to nature,
and furnishing the reader with delightful specimens of the
better class of German peasantry. The characters of
the author's family, and the descriptions of his own
early wanderings and studies, are given with a minute-
ness to which nothing but their extreme beauty and
delicacy could reconcile us ; but indeed Stilling, like
our own Goldsmith, adorns every thing that he
touches—so fertile is his fancy, and so picturesque his
power of narration. It is greatly to his credit, too,
that, though his book is impregnated with a strong re-
ligious feeling, and his Scriptural allusions are inces-
sant, there is no cant or affectation of superior virtue
about him. Piety, in his estimation, is a thing to feel,
not to talk about ; hence he recommends himself to all
classes of readers. But the main charm of his book
is its unaffectedness, in which quality it may vie even
with the Robinson Crusoe of Defoe.

COLBURAT'S MODERN NOVELISTS. VOL. X.
11. Colburn : London, 1835.

Each volume of:this collection is, it seems, for the
future to comprise one entire tale—a great recommen-
dation, both as regards price and convenience. The
volume before us, which is the tenth, contains Captain
Marryatt's novel of " Frank Mildmay," one of the
earliest and most popular of his fictions, and which
has been subjected to his most careful revision. By
way of frontispiece to the work, we have a half-length
portrait of the author, which expresses much shrewd-
ness and energy of character, but none of that light
easy humour in which the gallant author is so well
known to excel. The volume, considering its price,
only six shillings, is got up in very superior style.

NATURALISTS' LIBRARY. VOL. 111.
Lizars : Edinburgh, 1835.

The present volume consists wholly of descriptions
of the natural peculiarities of British butterflies, from
the pen of an able entomological writer, Mr. James
Duncan. Some of these descriptions are full of inte-
resting, and, to us, novel, matters of information, re-
specting the chrysalis, or transition state of the tor-
toise-shell butterfly, one of the most beautiful and
singular of the species. A Memoir of the celebrated
Naturalist, Werner, is prefixed to the volume, which
is profusely embellished with a variety of coloured
woodcuts, in many of which the soft,. powdery wing
of the butterfly wears all the appearance of reality.
A. still farther recommendation to the work is, that it
is perfectly free from all prosing and superfluous di-
gressions.

THE REGISTRATION.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY OF LONDON.
(Before Mr. CRAIG.)

The Court having sat at the usual hour,
Mr. CRAIG said he had given the greatest attention to
the objection taken to the claims of the Learned Judges of
the land, to vote in respect of their Chambers in Sergeants'
Inn. The question to be decided was of a very particular
nature, viz. : whether these Learned Dignitaries of the law
had a personal, or merely an official residence, in . these
chambers. He was at present of opinion that they had a
personal residence. Chambers in Inns of Court were en-
titled to certain privileges, and were considered different
from other tenements,
,and in all decisions to which he had
referred, had been termed and treated of as houses. He
had no doubt, when they were occupied day after day, they
came within the waning of the Reform Act ; and gave a
qualification to vote. If no precedents of a contrary nature
were cited to him, which induced him to change his opi-
nions, he would to-morrow give judgment in favour of the
claimants. -
The Learned Gentleman said he would deliver his
judgment in the cases of Two-penny Post Receivers, to-
morrow morning.