The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

SPIEL() 1 . For, Lonth n, 1842.

This is a trans!, tion from t he Freneh of George
Sand, ont-- die nlosi v:pui.lr novelists of
"young Fance." rte v,.r-ion is r..-ndered with
spirit, and will give a t-e.ey inir idea the origi-
nal, which is a story b no means wantim;iii ab-
surdi,y, vet, fill! of regleetnii.: touches of genuine
feeling.

PARENT'S HAND-BOOK.
Lonyman, London, 1842.
A useful, unprest'udiu,i iiu.le %vork, containing
much service:ll)lc intbriinitiini on the subject of
placing out young men, aild of cducating ;heal
with a VJC tO particniar recopation,:.

PRINCE (tF TH UNT ALS S.
Wadding. London, 1842.
A poem referring to the hack nityd period of
the Crusades, pentied iii ao tiowhig style,
though modelled somewhat ti);; tiosely 0!l Lord
lit-run and Sir \Waiter Se:w. whose produc-
tioos it is cos.,: :•i au, hot is au
euthusiastv..! ado), rci

THE I. Z.-I ';,l, CoBurn, London, 1842•

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ar.• :et.- r:-braii ezikeff and his
wneve elitapi ear. .•r is traced with
teuen tuteetethe:, .:teurdion. The Prince,
as alt reaeors of thissom history roust know,
was origin. iiy au api.rei:the to a pastry-cook,
but having cittrat:ted the ito.ice of Peter by his
melodious voice, a:, be cried his cakes about the
streets, he ...Ai, tl.e Czar's expense;
and het itti-liect provieg to be citie of a very
sth,erier efdee, hr I%as rtn,,,ed by degrees to the
e!ge.ezt otrices in the State; aid at his Royal
ei::,qer'•; -death had obtained such over--
whelinieg pu em', that he procured the (Act.
ea.ejea ‘vidow Citti:eFille to the
throne, despite all the opposition that could
lic etre•i.t-O by several of the proudest and
teos; ittibteetini nobles. His i.e.xf step was to
affiance his daughter, Mary iyilenzikoil, to the
young Emperor, Peter the Second ; but before
tics could Ming his ambitious schemes to a full
atilt —ttistifetory completion, toisihrtunes, and of
the itiost crushing nature, overtook him ; his ene-
mies at Court triumphed, and he was banished,
together with his whole family, to the deserts of
Siberia, where he, his wife, and one daughter
died /soon afterwards of grief. In the first voitune
we find the Prince at the summit of his power
nod glory, and his character at this trying season
of prosperity is delineated with no ordinary skill.
The remainder of the work is occupied with de- •
tails of his conduct while in exile, and of the ef-
forts of his high-minded daughter to redeem his
fortunes. The heroic girl is ultimately successful
in restoring her family,to rank and affluence, but
not until her father has sunk under the weight. of
his afflictions. His death-bed scene is pourtrayed
with genuine pathos, and is fully equal to the
most touching incidents in Madame Cottin's
" Elizabeth." But the gem of the tale is de-
cidedly the character of Mary MenzikofF, in
whom, in fact, the whole interest of the story
centres. We care little, comparatively speaking,
for the other personages; her lover, Theodore
Dolgorouki, is something of a nonentity, and
Brukenthal a well-intentioned Bore, but Mary—
gentle, affectionate, beautiful Mary—is a pearl of
price, and will be sure to excite a deep interest in
the hearts of all novel readers.

THE ANATOMY OF SLEEP.
Churchill, London, 1842.

In this work, somepornons of which evince no
ordinary research, the writer gives the following
receipt fnr procuring sleep :—" Let the patient turn
on his right side, place his head comthrtably on
the pillow, and then, slightly closing his lips,
take rather a Cult inspiration, breathing as much
us he possibly ca, through the nostrils. Having
taken a full inspiration, the lungs are then to be
left to their own action. The attention must now
be fixed on the action iu which the patient is
engagtd. He MUM depict to himself that he
secs the breath passing from his nostrils in a
continuous str..ant, mid the very instant that he
brings mind to cnneeive this, apart front all
other ideas, consciousness and memory depart;
imagination slumbers; fancy becomes dormant ;
thought subdued; the sentient faculties lose their
susceptibility; the vital or ganglionic system as-
sumes the sovereignty; and he DO longer wakes,
but sleeps!" This is, without exception,
the drollest laid most original receipt fbr
procuring a nap, we ever heard or read of'.
Imagine a man coaxn,g himself at midnight into
a conviction that he sees tht., breath passing out
of his nose in a continuous vapour ; and the
instant. he has become convinced of this striking
fact, dropping 4.41 into a slither as profound as
it" Ii hill the porw,tl or the " Om-
ni;:,s.otte of ;he .I)en:y !" lit. this is not tile
host cArtiett.: The pa-
dein., it 4e,:.ntx7 ct);noteJice his experi-
men! wHI
in.,. especially
he happen to intv-t:! a wnt-, .ft,r a bed-
fellow, who is of a nervous and irritable
temperament! The author appears to entertain
no doubt of the efficacy of his receipt; but we
question nnuch whether it would answer in the
case of a man business who had a bill to make
up ott Coe morrow, and no means of meeting it ;
we fear that air individual so situated ould
have little chance of obtaining sleep, by merely
fancying that he could see his nose smoke like a
brewery ! If any gentleman is sincerely desirous
of procuring the luxury of a sound nap, we re-
commend hint, not to fix his " precious eyes"
on the steam at the tip of his snout, but to go
through a course of Sir James Graham's pam-
phlets on the Corn-laws.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A BOY.— SINGULAR FATA-
LITY.—On Tuesday Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey,
held an inquest at the Sea Lion, Wootton-street,
Lambeth, on the body of Robert Fitzgerald, aged 14,
of 22, Little .Windmill-street, Cornwall-road. Eliza-
beth Fitzgerald, sister of deceased, said, that on Sunday
last she went to St. Thomas's Hospital to see her
mother, who had been n that Institution since the pre-
Wednesday, and found that she had just died,
of dropsical disease of the chest. On her return
home she found the deceased, who had been ailing all
the week previously, suffering from pain in the
chest and various other parts of the body. At bed-
time he complained of cold, and at eleven o'clock
he threw up about a quarter of a pint of blood. He
continued to grow worse, and at two o'clock next
morning he expired in his father's arms. On account of
the lateness of the hour she could not find a surgeon
until after deceased's death, which affected her father
so much that after bewailing he ran out, taking ,
the direction of Waterloo-bridge, off which he
would have jumped had it not been for the interference
of three policemen, who brought him home. Soon af-
terwards he again attempted suicide by throwing him-
self from the window, but the witness prevented him.
A witness, named Mary Clarke, said she saw deceased
on the afternoon of Sunday, when he appeared ailing,
but that he had injured himself about twelve months
ago by jumping over a post in the street, which had
affected him ever since. By the Coroner—l was
present w hen the surgeon, 111 r. Avis, came, who
pressed deceased's chest, and caused water to issue
from it through the mouth, and said that deceased had
died of water on the chest, the same complaint of
which the mother died but a few hours before.
Verdict, "Natural death from disease of the chest."
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about
four o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at
Nieholson's Wharf, Lo%ier Thame3-street, to a lad
named James Wilkuns, 13 years of age,
the wharf. It appears that he was at work iyn the
third floor of the loftv range of warehouses, and
whilst in the aet of giving emploed at
lo m
ophole to the en below. he overbalanced himself,
and fell the some directions from the
pavemeni from a 'lei*, of between
50 and 60 feet. He was immediately picked up by
the workmen, and conveyed by Mr. Nicholson in a
coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired in
a few minutes after his admission. He had been
about twelve months on the premises, and repeatedly
cautioned by the foreman and others to be careful
tow he approahed the doorway of the loft.