The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

LITERA TURE.

AUST RIA, and the POPE. A Letter to
Sir Ja.,nes Giabam, I:wt., by Joseph Mazzini.
M. illazzini lies lung bi en known to this country as
the leader end rail.) ing point of that prescribed but en-
, thusiasiie and intrepid band of patriots, who, under the
designation of " Young et- mpose a party devoted
to the aecomplishment of great social, political, and
morel reforms in the existing institutions of their noble
but unhappy country. Ile will be known to a still
larger portion of our countrymen as the refugee
foreigner especi,lly selected by the confederates of the
" Right Honourable" Secretary of State for the Home
Department, for their ingenious experiments on seal-
breaking rand letter-larceny. It is impossible to do justice,
by any abstract, or citations, to this forcible, timely, and
bitter/epistle ; but it is a singularly rare specimen of the
nervous eloquence with which a foreigner can manage to
embody the expression of his just indignation in
idiomatic English. 'There are some noble passages in
this letter—none more so than those which regard the
cruel and untimely fate visited by the relentless jealousy
of the Austrian Government—the gallant, the lamented
brothers Bandiera—tempted, cheated, betrayed into the
toils of an unsparing despotism, but nurturing, with the
effusion of their young and noble blood—we trust, we
hope, we believe—that vigorous plant which is destined,
even in our times, to become " the tree of liberty" that
shall strike deep and wide its roots into the soil, and
spread abroad the sacred shadow of its branches over all
renovated Italy! The following impassioned manifesto
of Italian nationality is conceived in a glorious spirit, and
derives some additional interest even from the very
ltalieisms of its English:—
" We are a people of from one-and-twenty to two-and-
twenty millions of men, known from time immemorial by the
same name, as the people of Italy; inclosed by natural limits
the clearest ever marked out by the Deity—the sea and the
highest mountains in Europe ; speaking the same language,
modified by dialects varying from each other less than do the
Scotch and the English ; having the same creeds, the same
manners, the same habits, with modifications not greater than
those which in France, the most homogeneous country on the
earth, distinguish the Basque race from the Breton ; proud of
the noblest tradition in politics, science, and art, that adorns
European history ; having twice given to Humanity a tie, a
watchword of Unity—once, in the Rome of the Emperors,
again, ere they had betrayed their mission, in the Rome of the
Popes; gifted with active, ready, and brilliant faculties, is not
denied even by our calumniators ; nch in every source of
material well-being that, fraternally and liberally worked,
could make ourselves happy, and open to sister nations the
brightest prospect in the world.
" We have no flag, no political name, no rank among Euro-
pean cations. We have no common centre, no common pact,
no common market. We are dismembered into eight states—
Lombardy, Parma, Tuscany, Modena, Lucca, the Popedom,
Piedmont, the Kingdom of Naples—all independent one of
another, without alliance, without unity of aim, without
organized connexion between them."

Dlt majestic Italy cannot yet be lost—she is not
" dead, but only sleepettl," who in the generous Bandieras
could boast of sons whose dying lips pronounced this
touching duclartion: —" fede rostra giovare l'ltalica
liberti morti meglio the vivi." (" It is our trust that we
shall better aid the cause of Italian liberty in our deaths
than in our lives.") No hero of Old Rome in the best
times of the Republic ever testified by a nobler death to
a nobler sentiment !

THE PRACTICAL COOK, ENGLISH and
FOREIGA. By Joseph Breyion and Anne Miller.
1 Vol.

Sublime is the mystery of good living. Sagacious
was the scholiast who defined man to be "an animal
who cooks." Great wisi.km was there in the reply
which some one made when his hostess said, " Why,
Doct,r, you actually enjoy the delicacies of the table 1"
To be sure I do. Do you think good things were made
only for fools? May I trouble you for some more of the
partridges and truffles ?"

There is much philosophy around the social table :—a
good feast, with a good many people (from 4 to 12) to
partake of it, practically carries out the utilitarian prin-
ciple of " the greatest happiness of the greatest number."
Not until the Restoration was the obese Bourbon really
entitled to the title of Louis Dix-huit ;—but, even in

exile, he had happily qualified himsel!, by mtive enjoy-
ment, for the appellation of Louis des-huitres ! \\ hat
eared the, while he feasted at Hartwell, how French-
men fought, and bled, and starved for glory ? If
the Moniteur duly recorded the triumphs of the Cor-
si( an, the exiled Bourbon could solace himself, and did,
by careful study of the Al/tau:adz des Gourmands. If,
thinking of the days when the classics charmed him, he
de,ired once more to bother his mind with a reference
to them, how natural') must he have taken up Apicius de
obsoniis et condimentes—how immediately must he have
been reminded of the epicurean philosophy, " Live while
you may."

We Have had a score of cookery books within the last
dozen years. Why, in these days of knowledge made
easy, does not some one give us a gastronomic geogra-
phy ? The pupil could readily travel over Europe on
the map. The Neva would remind him of sturgeon ;
Burgundy, Bordeaux, the Rhine, and the Peninsula, of
the wines, white, red, or sparkling ; Alencon, of geese ;
Strasburg, of a pale; Narbonne, of honey ; Parmesan,
of cheese ; Ai, of champagne ; Limoges, of oxen ; and
while chesnuts, capons, and cherries, were on the
table, what time more suitable to instruct con-
cerning the places whence they come in perfec-
tion, viz., Puy, La Fle'Are, and Montmorenci, Even
within our own " tight little island" what a charming
Tour Gast, onomique might be made ! Oxford and Cam-
bridge, if there learning had no attraction, would woo us
with their sausages and bishop. No one could visit
Liverpool without a pilgrimage to Everton, where " toff'•"
xas first produced. Ormskirk and its gingerbread—
Norfolk and her mammoth-turkies—Colchester and her
)ysters—shabby Shrewsbury with her brawn, and cakes
Ind simnel—Gloucester, Cheshire, and Stilton with their
cheese—Devonshire and her clouted cream —Scarborough
Ind her lobsters—all these are places sacred to
him who studies the geography of the table. How
.rippingly off the tongue" run the names of places
made irnmoetal by the delicacies they produce ! Burton
de, Yarmouth bloaters, Severn salmon, Banbury cakes,
Lincoln pork pies, Finnan haddocks, Bath buns,
()unstable larks, York hams, Cumberland bacon,
Dundee marmalade, Innoshawen whiskey, or the death-
less Ferintosh !

The Cookery book before us, a joint-stock concern, by
Hr. Bregion and Miss Miller, is an improvement, in
•ome respects, upon many of its class. It Las an abun-
lance of old receipts adapted to the present time and
caste ; and (what is really curious and may be useful) a
variety of receipts in the cookery of France, Germany,
Russia, Spain, Poland, Holland, Switzerland, India, and
America. Among the last-named receipts we have
one for making the far-famed " mint julep" which Mar-
ryatt and Dickens have attempted to describe—one might
as well try to paint a perfume ! but oh ! not one word
as to the constituent parts of a " sherry cobler." That
the public may not languish for this exquisite drink, we
here annex our own receipt :—" Pour into a large tum-
bler about half a pint of brown sherry ; add half-a-
dozen spoonfuls of powdered lump-sugar'; fill up with
Wenham-lake ice, broken small ; pour the contents
of this into another tumbler, and keep on shifting
he mixture from tumbler to tumbler until an in-
crustation of ice gathers on the outside of the
glass ; rub the lips of the vessel with a lemon,
cut transversely ; put a straw into the golden-
hued mixture, through that delicate medium gently and
luxuriously imbibe !" The mint-julep is made in the
same way, equal parts of brandy and rum being substi-
tuted for the sherry, and a few mint-shoots, just squeezed
once, to emit the more delicate flavour of the herb being
held iu one tumbler, while the other contents are
shifted about from vessel to vessel to insure the
perfect blending of the whole. By the way, " The
Practical Cook" omits the " to be well shaken;" yet,
on this deperels the perfection of the delicious com-
pound. Let them amend this in their next edition. Dr.
Kitchener (what an appropriate name for a gourmand!)
never published a receipt until he could say—probaturn

The thoroughly English receipts are the best in this
volume :—the French ones are very good, also, and
comparatively inexpensive, which is a great point. To
use the authors' words, we have thus united "all that is
best in the substantial solidity and simplicity of the
English kitchen, and all that is most varied, delicate,
and harmoniously combined in the kitchen of the French."
—There are some sensible remarks on wines, and hints
as to the difficult and desirable mode of making coffee.

TII.B BRITISH MAGAZINE for August.
The best thing in this number occurs exactly where
it ought to do. It is the first, as well as the best, of the
papers. We like the truth-hitting simplicity and honest
strength of the editor's "Short Way with the Puseyites."
Take this sample of his mode of handling that pink of
TracLirian Protestant repudiation—the Rev. Mr. Oake-
ley. It is taken from his eighth chapter on " Modern
Hagiology :"
" The aim and object of these tamperings with Holy Scrip-
ture are here purposely kept out of view, because it would be
totally contrary to the writer's design, and a great misrepresen-
tion of his own judgment in the matter, were he to lead his
reader to suppose that he considered the moral of Mr. Oakeley's
fables the point of primary, or even secondary, importance.
Mr. Oakeley, of course, as well as Mr. Newman and the
writers of the Lives of the Saints, mean to advocate Romanism,
or, more truly speaking, Popery. This is their object;
they make no secret of their intention; and, however plainly
irreconcilable with common honesty ad their obligations as
clergymen of the United Church, their conduct and principles
appear, still one has no desire whatever to forget, even for a
moment, that they have a Master to whom alone they must
give account of their treatment of their conscience. The Ro-
manizing tendency and object of the movement is now fully
developed, and Mr. Oakeley's practical mode of handling the
sacred narrative is only the result of a theological system of
which he openly avows himself the advocate:"
By the publication of such truths as these the Bri-
tish Magazine is doing good service to the cause of
morals, of religion, of the Established Church. In this
conviction we abstain from indicating, here and there,
leaven of something like intolerance in this clever review.

THE ADVENTURES OF AN UMBRELLA.

By G. Herbert Rodwell. Rut 1.
Mr Rodwell has been long known to the public as a
musical composer of great talent, to whose genius we
are indebted for sonic of our most delightful melodies.
He now comes before us in the character of a novelist,
and has bid fair to b, come a most successful one. The
idea of making an umbrella relate its own adventures is
a very happy one, and it has so far been cleverly worked
out. His sketches are extremely graphic. Old Stutters,
the returned nabob, is the most entertaining of oddities.
But it is not alone in depicting the broadly humorous
that Mr. Rodwell excels ; his description of the gaming-
house and its inmates is one of the must harrowing ever
penned. We extract the following graceful tribute of
respect to one to whom we, in common with thousands,
have been indebted for some of the merriest hours of our
existence, and corlially do we join in the prayer with
which it concludes :

" In passing a very pretty, low, white-fronted house, facing
Hyde-park, who should I see reading at a window, but one that
must ever be dear to the whole sacs of umbrellas. I trust I
shall not offend in mentioning big; name, but it would appear