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tion of the best models of

literature, as well

, more abun-

ntl Foreign Quarterly

the opening article of the present
r. of Hegel's /Esthetics, is especially

from the nature of his

mally somewhat too transcendantal in his

I style, for ordinary readers, there are few whom
perusal would not be calculated to instruct and

Like most German scholars, the writer goes too
irface of every day philosophy to be at all
ithout an effort on the part of those who
ccurately to his conclusions ; yet there is

Lutiful thought, scattered like gems upon
ward even the superficial reader, if it fail to
closer examination. The review of " Viola
splays a keen discrimination of the beauty

er ; and from such a reviewer praise is
)uld be valued tenfold beyond the mere

laudations of the undiscriminating pretenders to
)f critical instructors. The political articles upon
,sian League," and " the Handloom Weavers' Re-
at the present moment extremely valuable; and
tempted at an early period to remark upon them
❑gth than we can afford space to do In our present
n. Of the remaining articles, " The Poniatowski

" Switzerland, her Political

de Rains," " Tallemant de
Ind " Passavant's Life of Raffaelle," the leisure
have had for their perusal will not at present allow

Chroniqu

d the Destinies (

Woman: (Tales of the
2 vols., post Bw.

) By Mrs. C. Baron 'Wilson

London : H. Cunninghar

son, well known as a popular lyrist, and
debilt, last year, in prose fiction, with the
He," has taken a more sustained flight in
bre us. " Popularity " and the " Destinies
minentiv tales of the world. Tke romance

Mrs. Baron Wil

ho read it properly, contains materials

s startling as any ever imagined by fancy
aring. From such materials, has Mrs. Wil-

3 stories widely differing in spirit

and style,

)od sense and intellectual grace

le has

sketched the

career, brief but

a who enters life with fortune

even while he is making a

a—experiences the trials that poverty is
ie of true love interrupted by doubts and

Is, and finally recovering station, property, and happi-
Benedick , the married man," to the satis-
mcerned. There is little intricacy in the
plot ; but the events are detailed, and the characters sketched
with a freedom and truth which few of our modern story-

faction of all c

)estinies of Woman " relates to the vicissitudes

befal tare

school Mate

Two of

;d,—thi

aird dies unmarried. Ihe two girls who

enter life matrimonial have their fates variously cast. Sun-
ights the prosperous path of one—shadows fall upon
But she battles bravely with ad-
subdues it,—and all ends happily. It is a
e character of ber sex. How
I how true are the sentiments embodied in the

st can draw the

7 are so many single women, of middle age, morose
ief-making ? Because, having abandoned in youth,
those resources which would have proved pleasures
hey-dey of life was passed, their minds have
t barren soil, and weeds have sprung up where
tight have flourished.

tions of a married and an unmarried female,
1, are very unequal: the former having
;e in the scale of earthly happiness:
kes the distinction still more unequal than

.dvantag

-five, the married woman is considered in the
; while the single one is considered as passe'e.
wife has less necessity to depend on intellectual
s resources from the lassitude of ennui. She has
luties to perform, let her station in life be what it may,
,o which the single woman cannot turn to vary the monotony
)f her existence. The matron, if she be a mother, will find
s sufficient stimulus to keep up or revive, in the early in-
itruction which it it is one of woman's sweetest privileges
:o give her offspring, the knowledge and accomplishmects
the has learned in her own youth.

At thirt

3n of lif

tt pleasure can be higher or more unalloyed to the
—what sight more endearing to the beholder—than
1, o'er whose brow the shadow of time, like that on
has passed, yet left much of the sunny light of life
leading her daughter to emulate the graces of which
is so fair a pattern ? Or to mark a son, in all the
' youthful manhood, paying back with love, little
adoration, the cares of her whose gentle instructions
d him to seek the wider paths of knowledge, and
knee his infant prayer was first breathed
er feelings grow cold—other memories pass away ;
gentle image of the mother who has watched our
d—her love, her tenderness, her unwearied devotion,
ever be mirrored in the human heart."

s of Popular People. By the Author of Random
Ilections of the Lords and Commons, &c. Loudon :

Ivv-lar

of the work before us is not altogether an un-
it, if the present number is a fair specimen of
we are afraid that it cannot be very productive
ising publisher. So far as regards the mere
iaper, and engravings, they are undoubtedly
the price charged ; but for the literary matter,
Mr. Grant, we are compelled to say that it is
ash vv‘a have recently met with.

pleasant to us to have to give expression to such a

spect to the production of any author ; and in
h a work as the one before us, had it been the

ling, unaccustomed venturer in