The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 13.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied ly her
Royal Ilighnes Princiss Loaise, drove in the
grounds yesterday afternoon.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went
out.

LITERATUff E.

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The Last Century of Universal History, 1767-1867.
By Alexander Charles Ewald, F. S. A. Frede-
rick Warne and Co.
As wonderful a record this is as the world hal
ever seen published. It is an epitome—admirably
arranged for reference—of the most astonishing
century (humanly speaking) in the annals of
our race. Within the space of these hundred
years last past mankind has made visibly and
appreciably the most astounding advance in the
development of knowledge, in the mastery of the
forces of nature, in the.expansion and application of
all the material resources of modern civilisation.
During the earlier half of the century the grandest
political movement related in all history, whether
ancient or modern,.was commenced and accomplished.
A new epoch in effect dates from it—from the
commencement and accomplishment of the French
Revolution a movement, in point of fact,
through which all Europe was in a manner
revolutionised. During the earlier part of
this century again the world witnessed the rise and
the fall of—not to use the words in any invidious
sense—the greatest and the most astonishing of all
Adventurers. The Child of the Revolution. Its
incarnation. Hero, Conqueror, Lawgiver. A new
Sesostris, with the chariot of his triumph drawn by
Kings. At one time—namely, when his success was
at its highest—virtually rater or lord paramount of
the whole Europe an continent. A leader of meo
cast is the mould of Plutarch. An imperial warrior,
whose fame and whose achievements are by conemou
consent ranked side by side with those of Cae3ar, of
Alexander, of Charlemagne. One the history of
whose life is of itself the most wonderful of all
romances. Born in the island of Corsica on the
15th of August, 1769—dying fifty-two years after-
wards (and, of those tifty-two years, six in exile after
the actual completion of his public career at the
early age of six and forty) on the sth of May, 182.11
oa another island far away in mid ocean, an
island still haunted by his memory, although bile
august remains have long since been removed fro
it—the islan i of St. Helena. An event like the
French Revolution, a ruler of men like Napoleon
Bonaparte, ushered in this wonderful century--the
later half of which ham been illustrated by aellieve-
mente iu their way quite as extraordinary. AA the
close of the hundred years which have elapsed be-
tween 1767 and 1867 what marvels, in truth, he"
there not been accamplislied ! Fro a our prdseut
standpoint in 1863—with ~),Le Ewald's " Universal
history of the Last Century" held in our grasp s 6
a guidebook to the wonders it recounta—Wil3t i 4 it'
in effect, anaong the crowd of marvels thin achie
that we behold? Why, as a matter now, literally
of every-day occurrence, we know that thought, 031
articulate speech, is running to and fro through
the earth, and over it, and under the depths of the
ocean, with the speed, on the wings, 11
actually with the very throb or pulseC.,
the lightning ! We know, moreover, that 013"
has long since harnessed to ;the carriages drn""
ing both himself and his merchandise, a fiery
dragon of his own manufacture, and one that is I 0
31,
more docile in its obedience to his will than te,
fleetest charger, a creature of iron, with a breath
• of steam flying over the ground with a id
ustau a
speed like that of the famous racehorse BeliP3d
—a mile a minute! While we have thus on hen
.
our railways and our locomotive steam-engloes
while we have at sea our steam packets incleVa;
dently gliding over the ocean in defiance alike °
wind and of tide—while we have the electric tele-
graph, so to speak, everywhere, trailCi over 01c
housetops, under the pavem en is we walk uP°3
our crowded cities, strung from pole to pole alol
all the lines of our r tilroals—we have our portrait!
taken as if by magic in a few seconis by the Penell
of a sunbeam—we have our woven fabrics Pr°
duced. no longer by the old-fashioned bean' 39('
shuttle of the hand-weaver, but, on the coati-a:slit
through the all but sentient agency of mechanics
contrivances, wonderful alike for the SvilfGues
the
accuracy, intricacy, and yet, in another souse, -0r
equ Lily marvellous simplicity of their operatioes• j
have been enabled to demonstrate the revolutioo
Dew
the earth upon its axis by the oscillations of a e.oi
dulum. We have been enabled to test the phis'
the
properties of the fixed stars through ,b 0
medium of spectrum analysis. Sounding ;be
depths of space in another way, WI as
aid of gigantic reflecting telescopes 80" we
Kepler and Galileo never dreamt of, nee
have been enabled to resolve supposed 00,
bu'R into incalculable myrials of constellatluot
We have been empowered to weigh the Oh: the
the planets, and their satellites, one by one, 111000
balance, with as much precision us though We 00,
calculating the weight respectively of a Pulacied
of so many apricots, or of so many ebr,sucterS
currants. And so on—the catalogue of 7004
achieved within this last and (again I) °taxies
speaking) most astonishing of all the c..°o, way
might be extended here beyond a length ill of the
reasonable. To them— to all the molels
century (1767 to 1867) Mr. Ewald 's gelerei:st,
Book now under notice is the readiest, the ha° 0,
and the most comprehensive guide ever 18:ci
• _I W
to a
piled. It is ingeniously subdivided
e 0
annotated Table of Chronology,
into of
arf
Contemporrery Sovereigns, into a Diction of
Battles and Sieges, and into Biographical sags frees
happy thought most admirably came
Eminent Individuals. The work spri.nage
oftirr.dite
deserves a place on every library table, side P:f
with Mr. Frederick Martin's annual issne,_„best
Statesman's Year-Book. It reflects the rl'reji
credit upon the compiler's industry, and la h
Con'
of the Author of the Digest of the Ears
stitution.

The Chandos Byron. One Vol. Pp. 65°'
Warne and Co. esdiog
Last year Mr. Murray astonished the
r log
public by issuing a beautiful edition of the
hole
Lord Byron's Poems in one volume for Poo
crown. This year Messrs. Warne and Co. sad
astonished us still more by publishing th theca
Poems complete, exquisitely printed, ties,, cod
volume of their " Chandos Classics," at t_l`7, fig
of merely a shilling. The edition is really, to
we have said, exquisitely printed. It is ce„,1130;
" containing the whole of Byron's P_." io
published during his lifetime." And Yttniedici
purchasables for a shilling. As another ‘11,',.6 tato
'hilling's worth it cannot but command Ill° / 130'
the
predecessors—the Shilling Shakspere Lod L eotee;
ling Longfellow—what can alone repay teost 13'
prising firm from which it emanates for the il
its production at so cheap a rate, nrnelY' t:t cef;
meuse circulation. That circulation it 01°6- toll;
tainly deserves, and that circulation, we are
convinced, it will obtain.

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his correspondence with John Dright, 113.11 ,7_, to o,°:
others,
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