The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

Bentley's Miscellany.

As we propose almost immediately to review
the whole of Mr. Ainsworth's new Historical
Romance, THE CONSTABLE OF THE TOWER, 110 W
that it has drawn to its conclusion, we shall
content ourselves with remarking here upon the
particular stage nrrived at by the narrative in the
penultimate instalment of it in the pages of
Bentley's Miscellany. The August number, just
published, comprises within it, as the closing con-
tribution, the last chapter (the tenth) of the Third
Book, and the two first chapters of the Fourth, or
final Book of " The Constable." The handsome and
ambitious hero of the tale, "The Admiral," is—as
the reader tolerably well understood the matter
last month—arrested. With him, face to face with
him, is confronted Sir William Sherington. And
subsequently, as the last incident here related,
until the readers of Bentley shall obtain the con-
cluding instalment of the story in September, the
Admiral contrives to send a missive to the fair
young Princess Elizabeth. At this moment, how-
ever, we purposely refrain from further comment
upon a narrative, the remarkable elaboration of
which, as a Historical Romance, we shall take
occasion upon the very earliest opportunity to
comment upon, as it certainly deserves to be com-
mented upon : " The Constable of the Tower"
assuming to itself high rank among Mr. Ains-
worth's many noble romances of a historic character.
As the current number of Bentley closes with
three additional chapters of Harrison Ainsworth's
"Constable," it opens with two new chapter's of
"Lorn Loriot's Adventures," the serial en-
titled " Crooked Usage,"—penned with un-
tiring vivacity by the practised hand of
Dudley Costello. The capture of poor Loriot
at the banker's when innocently presenting
the second forged cheque is capitally described.
Frederick Marshall gives us another instalment (the
fifth) of his series of papers on France—the instal-
ment this month relating to Food. A fourth
section of Monkshood's Mingle Mangle about Town
and Country sprinkles the pages devoted to it with
a shower of the daintiest poetic quotations. J. E.
Carpenter's song " The Fireman" admirably
adapted for music—has been suggested, of course,
by the melancholy fate of Mr. Braidwood. Those.
who have a relish fcr such subjects in this hot thirsty
weather, will do well to glance at the paper about
"the Taste for Wine in England." The contribution
entitled "Regenerated Almacks," smartly written
though it is, is to our mind a great deal to smartly
written for the subject. The Salons of Vienna
and Berlin," seems to hint in every word of it, of
having been penned by some young precis writer
Promoted from the Foreign-office to a diplo
tnatic post in one or other of the capitals
named, as attaché at one of the legations
Besides two other papers not here particularised
and some stanzas by Nicholas Michall, the August
number of Bentley contains one of 0,
s sparic-
ling, all but impertinent, nearly witty, invariably
amusing Historiettes of Hgh life ; this time descrip-
tive of " The Marquis's Tacticand
s, HOW they
succeeded or, A Bet I once made at the Conser-
vative." The description of the blase man of
fashion, the younger son of the
Marquis of Olen.?