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THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

FROM AN ODE BY THE POET LAUREATE.
Mourn, for to us he seems the last:
Our sorrows draw but on the Golden Past.
0, Friends! our chief State oracle is mute :
Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood,
The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute,
Whole in himself, a common good.
Mourn for the man of largest influence,
Yet freest from ambition's crime,
Our greatest, yet with least pretence,
Great in council and great in war,
Foremost captain of his time,
Rich in saving common sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplb ity sublime !
0, good gray head, which all men knew,
0, voice from which their omens all men drew,
0. iron nerve, to true occasion true;
O fall'n at length that tower of strength,
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew
Such was he whom we deplore:

The long self-sacrifice is o'er :
The great world-victor's victor will be seen no more,

Lo 1 the leader in these glorious wars
Now to glorious burial slowly borne.
Follow'd by the brave of other lands,
He. on whom from both be? open hands
Lavish Honour showered all her stars,
And affluent Fortune emptied all her horn

Yea, let all good things await
Him who cares not to be great,
But as he saves or serves the State.
Not once or twice in our ugh island-story
The path of duty was the way to glory.
He that walks it only thirsting
For the right, and learns to deaden
Love of self, before his journey closes.
He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, which outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
Not once cr twice in our rough island-story
The path of duty was the way to glory,
He, that ever following her commands
On with toil of heart, and knees and hands,
Through the long gorge to the tar light, has won
His path upward, and prevailed.
Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled,
Are close upon the shini
To which our God Him
He has not failed ; he 1

oon and sun
ailed ;

So let the men whose hearths he saved from shame,

Thro' many and many an age
At civic revel, and pomp, and game,
And when the long-illumined cities flame,
Their ever-loyal iron-leader's fame,
'With honour, honour, honour, honour to him
Eternal honour to his name.

LITERATURE

It REVIEW, &C

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Books, New Prints, Music, &c.,
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-conrt, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
30 L STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

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Astronomy and General Physics Considered with
reference to Natural Theology. By W. Whewell,
D.D. London : Bohn.

This is another of the " Bridgewater Treatises,"
without which no family library is complete. The
public have already exhausted six editions of the
work, and this, the seventh, while it is the cheap-
est, is one of the most beautiful.

Wellington and Waterloo

martine

By Alphonse de La-

London : Vizetelly and Clarke.

A reprint from the well-known " History and
Restoration of Monarchy in France," by M. La-
martine, bearing the impress of his genius, in the
vivacity and splendour of the style, and dramatic
form of the narrative. It is well to read what even
a Frenchman has to say about that glorious victory.
Let us hear

WATERLOO WAS LOST!

" Such was the battle of Waterloo, lost, not by the
army, which was never more indefatigable, more devoted,
and more brave, but by the commission of four faults :
the tardiness of Ney, on the evening of the 16th, in occu-
pying Quartre-Bras : the indecision of Grouchy, in not
marching towards the cannon of the battle, and neglecting
Wavres ; the too great distance left by Napoleon between
the army and his right wing, commanded by Grouchy ;
finally, and above all, the loss of seven hours of daylight
by Napoleon, on tne morning of the 18th, in front of
Wellington.—fatal hours, which gave time to the Prus-
sians to arrive on the field of battle, and to the French
army a second enemy upon its flanks, before it had van-
quished the first. Of these four errors, two must be
ascribed to Napoleon's generals and two to himself—none
to the troops. Neither his genius nor his resolution are
recognised in separating himself from one-third of his
army, by an immense and unknown space on his right,
without even verbal communication with this wing; nor
when he hesitated till eleven o'clock in the forenoon
before he advanced to storm Mount St. Jean, and to
deprive Wellington of the hope of being joined by the
Prussians, already in sight on the horizon, but still three
hours' march from the field of battle. He left Ney, half
a victor upon the reverse of Mount St. Jean, to wait for
three hours the mass of the army and the Imperial Guard,
instead of profiting by the breach opened by the marshal
in the English army, to hurl upon it his centre and his
reserve, and to sweep Wellington, scarcely resisting, from
the field, before Blucher should be in a position to prevent
the defeat of the English. Finally, his decisive impulse
amidst the fire of battle could not be recognised in his
ten hours' immobility on the plateau of Rossomme, and
in his passive inertness behind the hillock of Mont St.
Jean. whilst his army was totally sacrificing itself by
mounting to the breach opened by Ney, and waiting for
nothing but the presence and example of its Emperor to
rise above itself and superior to destiny. One of these
faults alone was sufficient to ruin an ordinary army; bat
all combined destroyed that of France.

dd, in order to he just, that Wellington and
'nailed, by their intrepidity, the first generals
.once. The English general
„dnius adapted for desperate struggles
—the determination not to be conquered. His troops
Possessed the real genius of defence—passive obedience
is covered, without
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The Cryst

Palace and Park

2 1853. London

W. Orr and Co

A useful pamphlet, describing "what has been
done," and " what will be done," addressed to
intending exhibitors. It is taken chiefly from arti-
cles in the Times, and, in its present form, will
prove a well-timed brochure. It is pleasing to
know that the building is being erected, and the
arrangements progressing satisfactorily. The com-
mittee made a happy choice of a local secretary
when they appointed Mr. T. C. Archer. As an
exotic botanist we have in him rare acquirements,
and of his zeal the public have a lasting monument
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The Christian Family Advocate. Edited by Mrs.
Catherine Ponsonby. Edinburgh : Wbite & Co.
Another number, not inferior to its predecessors
in variety of matter, or subjects judiciously handled.
With a decidedly religious tone and a high standard
of the requirements of a family magazine, elevating
it above that which is frivolous or merely amusing,
the Christian Family Advocate recommends itself
to the religious community, and is worthy of libe-
ral patronage. Our satisfaction was great to see a
continuation of the article on the Twenty-third
Psalm, which breathes holy thought, not deep, but
sweet; soothing to the believer, comforting to the
sufferer, a bed-side article which the afflicted disci-
ple will much relish. The article on " Spain" will
be read with much interest.

The Scottish Educational and Literary Journal.
Edinburgh : James Hogg.

The second number of a new magazine, in which,
we presume, the proceedings of the Scottish Insti-
tute will be reported, its position strengthened, and
its usefulness promoted. There is no lack of mat-
ter in the number before us, and the reader will
find profit in its perusal.

Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg.
An excellent number of one of the ablest of our
serials, the value of which is much increased by a
fine portrait of Faraday.

The Englishman's Magazine. Nos. 3 and 4
London : Thomas Bosworth.

We expressed ourselves freely and warmly in
favour of this new magazine when it first appeared.
Since then our opinion has been further confirmed,
and our contemporaries have spoken out in a simi-
lar strain. There is a healthy earnestness about it,
and vigorous talent, which show that nothing has
been left undone to make it worthy of that patron-
age which, we trust, will be liberally extended t. it.
We suspect the writer of " Manchester and Cam-
bridge" has fallen into error in assigning certain
political articles in Blackwood's Magazine to Sir
Archibald Alison. We have reason to believe that
Professor Aytoun, and not the Sheriff, is the author.
Into this mistake—for mistake we do consider it—
many appear to have been led ; and the hereditary
honours which her Majesty's Ministers recently
bestowed upon this distinguished historian, were
thereby laid to his political support, not to his
literary merits.

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