The Sun. — 1846-06-03 (London, England)

THE D.UBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. 'We are surprised that just such another article as the one entitled "forest Dreams," the first contribution in this number of the Dublin University, has not been written long since ; possibly it has, though, supposing that to be the case, we have never previously encountered so much of amusing tittle-tattle anent forest scenery and its associations grouped together in a single paper. The writer has evidently entered into the subject with genuine gusto, and' assuredly would never behold one of Gasper Poussin% sylvan landscapes unmoved. There is not to us a more glorious spectacle in inanimate nature than that or a woodland : whether it be in undulation with ail its " storm of boughs" in a hurricane, or &sting with a lustrous purple-green in the sunset, or when - the tinkling sliow'rA of autumn leaves,"  give promise of its -nakedness in winter. The dreamer of the "Forest Dreams" has entirely entered into these sentiments, and poured his whole soul out in a panegyric on the world of boughs. Cousin. germain to him in feeling is the contributor of " A Day's Deer-stalelthitbegrfwuil sethtrhibeeMarkgrafishe of Baden ;" a tfsmart,arecnuel rattling,tbyerf,m everythingrifleman w through we would a b wager. He as good a .. h medium, He has a t ;I a seeing eis a n gand gladly would we enlist him as a companionrlg on one of those husky, yellow, flannelly nights in November, when Englishmen, and especially dwellers in Cockaigne, are presumed to ave a predisposition to the commission of felo-de-se. But that we cordially believe such to be superfluous, we would recommend to his consideration as an incentive to good humour, and as a volume likely to put the surliest amongst us on better terms with each other and with existence, that most comical of all comical conceits, the Miseries of Human Life." Boz tells us, in his " Christmas Carol, —that most exquisite of his works !—that Scrooge's neice's husband HAD a laugh, he had ! and that he sometimes indulged in it to such an extent " that he such was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp !" Just another votary of jocoseness we take our Dublin Uni-• reu sl u da ipcpreoaurss, versity Sportsman to be • tiooshoimmoetoh be suggestive every gifeesisivecif P°ealleedtheinvery now and then to forsake the regular drift of his narrative for the purpose of obliging us with adventitious jokes and excrescent faceti aslVa bealree puzzled whether to regard this very peculiarity blemish or an embellishment; but, seeing ou ess. that the article has altogether afforded us a pleasant glimpse of Continental sport, we can readily afford to wake allowances for over-discursiveness, on account of the actual discursiveness of the chicumstances described. William Carleton, some of whose books will accompany those of Banim and Gerald Griffin in the library of Irish fiction, pursues the " uneven tenour of his way" as the teller of a tale of Irish famine, yclept " The Black Prophet." It promises to thrill with interest and to freeze with horror, and altogether is destined to find a numerous party of admirers among those who revel in the perusal of Mrs. Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, llarrison Ainsworth, Eugene Sue, and Mrs. Shelly. Towards the conclusion of a rather invidious criticism of " Russia under the Autocrat," a remarkable brace of volumes, -,enned by a noble Russian, named Ivan Golovine, the reviewer avails himself of the opportunity for j)anegerysing that most questionable of Autocrats, the Emperor Nicholas. As well might an innovator in natural history attempt to convince the "r-tits that the hungry wolf is compassionatet t 4eut gg4ote#ol or the carrion crow of the gramiui •  verous tribe. When the writer has proved, inathem tically, that the circle can be squared, and demonstrated in what manner, he may begin to eulogize the reigning Czar, and be in a likely way to make a multitude of converts to his opinion—not before ! " Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits" and "Pen and Ink Sketches," afford subjects for two other critical notices, which cannot fail to be perused with interest chiefly from their quotations. " Anthologia Germanica" exhibits a falling off in those translated lyrics which usually decorate the pages of this able magazine ; and the " Miscellanea Mystica," is more than ever a mere botching of very indifferent book-lore ;itis a feeble echo from the superstition of a past generation, and the particularization of which superstition appears to us somewhat anomalous amidst the sensible spirit which usually characterises the Dublin University.