Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-01-05
THE BRITISH QUARTERLY re-
VIEWS.

Of Miss Berry from the year 1888 to 1859. "
The book is edited by Lady Theresa Lewis,
whose recent death has been noticed by the
English journals. When that fastidious
gentleman and first-clHss gossip and letter
writer, Horace Walpole, was in the seventy
first year of his age, he met Mary Berry and
her sister Agnes both just entering the
threshold of womanhood. He wished TO
marry Mary, but size had the good sense to
reject his proposals. After the GOODNESS
incident to the REFUSAL lasting friendship |
was formed between Walpole and the sisters,
and much of the early part of Mary's jour
nal and correspondence is of and with that |
celebrated man. He died in 1897, and kindly |
remembered the sisters in his will Mary |
was born in the third year after the accession
of George III, and lived to be presented to
Queen Victoria, few months before her
death, which occurred when she was nearly |
ninety. From the age of seventeen until |
her death she lived in society both at home |
and on the Continent Besides Horace |
Walpole, she numbered among her cores
pondents, Playfair, Cell, Joanna Baltic,
Canoya, Madame de Stael the Sculptor,
Mrs. Damer, Edward Everett, Lady Duf-
ferin, Lord jeffrey, and many others who
had seen aud thought much, and had the
art of telling it we'll. The article in the
Edinburgh is quite lengthy, and copious
extracts from the correspondence are given.
Life in the Criminal Glass, " being review
of recent book by Mary Carpenter, is on
the important topic of guarding Society
from the evils of lawlessness. "Palgraves
Arabia" gives us some account of that part
of Arabia of which even the best scholars
know but little. 1.-THE Posthumous Writ
ings of Alexis de Tocqueville, +" will have
an interest to every lover of freedom. The
remaining articles in the Edinburgh are,
The Rock-cut Temples OF India; Life of Carl
Weber; Campbells Frost and Fire; The
Cromwellian Settlement OF Ireland; Sir
Thomas Wyse's Peoponnesus and Ameri-
can Psychomancy.
The Westminster Review for October is
an able number The subject of Personal
Representation receives thorough investi-
CATION in the very first article. The views
of the writer are essentially democratic, and
Englishman as he is, MS doctrines and argu-
ments might be read with benefit by those
OF our own State, who have arrayed them
selves against the plainest principles of re-
presentation. The recent work by Lecky on
the rise and influence of the Spirit of
Rationalism in Europe is boldly reviewed
in the second article. Capacities of wo-
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ment, Before much can be done for the
benefit of the sex, fields of labor must be
opened to them, and the wages of that labor
must be equal to what men now receive for
the same services. Woman is fast taking
her position in authorship, and the literature
of this country and Great Britain has lost
none of its graces under her influence. The
household is woman's arena, and would be
large enough if many of the evils of this
world were blotted out. But we have to
deal with these evils, and in order to meet
them and overcome them, all good men
should strive to enlarge the field for the ex
ercise of the capacities of women. This
may be done to greater extent than many
suppose without exposing her to the rude
conflicts of life We always read with deem
interest the review OF Contemporary Litera.
ture, one of the features of the Westmin
ster. All our education rebels against its
Theology, and particularly against the views
expressed in this number on the recent work
of Bishop Colenso. The Bishop of Natal
and the reviewer may exhibit careful re-
search and great learning in their attempts
to demolish the Pentateuch, but their labors
can produce nothing but evil. The spirit OF
skepticism-called by the polite and learned
world, Ratlonalism-is making fearful pro-
gress When the traditions and revelations
of the Bible are denied the seal of iuspira-
tion, will Christianity be any stronger in the
work of accomplishing its great mission on
the earth?
The London Quarterly Review for October
contains articles on the Cathedrals of Eng.
land; The Mariners Compass; The Re.
, sources, Conditions and Prospects of Italy
The Poetry OF Praed and Lord Houghton
Blind People; Field Sports of the Ancient
Greeks and Romans; The Gallican Church
and The Russians of Central Asia. The
article on blind People" shows their con
+, dition, and how they are taught to read anC
write. The statistics given are rather alarm
ing, but the great prevalence of blindness
$ should make all feel deep interest in til,
. subject of rendering the aflicton less bur
densome to those who have to bear anC
suffer it.
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