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    430 The Leader and Saturday Anahjst. [Ma...

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    MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.* rpHERE never was, ...

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    ;• Anecdote Biograpliy. By John Timds, F...

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    Serials. In The Korui American Bevi'eto ...

    gress of William Hogarth , " by a pen quite worthy of that inimitable master of the pencil . We next observe " Lovel , the Widower , ' Which is a good deal raore interesting than the title may indicate-But even more valuable and interesting than all these may by some readers be considered " Studies in Animal Life , " which are certainly composed in anew and most popular and attractive style . Ending with No . 3 of the " Roundabout ; Papers , " the Cornlnll Magazine for this month is , indeed , truly excellent . Macmillarts Magazine for May is rich , both as to the quantity and quality of its contents . The " Three Vices of Current Literature , " by the editor , is an article that may be read to advantage by

    any careless or commonplace writer . It would be difficult to find in the Magazine literatnre of the day the ordinary faults of composition more ably criticised than in the present article . The " Annals of an Industrial School" is likewise a paper of considerable interest . " Our Father ' s Business , Holmari Hunt ' s Picture of Christ in the Temple , " are lines of exceeding vigour and beauty . Michelet , iu the article " Spiritualistic Materialism , " gets more severely , yet , we think , justly , criticised than he has lately been . Along with these we have only to mention that "Tom Brown at Oxford " is continued , chapters xvii . and xviii . containing as pleasant a sketch of village life and the character of Harrhy Winburn as we bare ever met with .

    The Dublin University Magazine is so old and true a friend , its contents being always so satisfactory , that we are necessarily spared the time of looking deeply into it before we speak of its undoubted merit . Only that we feel it to be a duty to look before We offer an opinion , we would almost be disposed to recommend it upon its name alone . However , we can confidently tell our readers that in the Dublin University Magazine for May there is a variety of intellectualentertainments for them . To begin with , there is an admirable article on " Prior's Life of Malone . " And Part I . of "A Legend of the Golden Fawn , " " Sterne in the Stereoscope , Voyage sentimental , '' " Savoy from the Top of Mount Cenis , " " The Reform Bill and the Working Classes , " " May Morning , " " Present Politics / ' are all excellent , and yet they are but half of the contents of the current number .

    The Universal JRevieto for May contains several articles of sterling merit . The first , on " Chili , " may be very profitably read . The second article contains much curious and learned information in Notes on Names and Nicknames , " by Dr . Doran . " Sir Everard ' s Daughter : Unfairly Played arid Falsely Won , " is concluded in the present number . The article on " Amateur"Financiers" is to the purpose , and well worth attention . " Krilqff and the Russian Fabulists , " " Nathaniel Hawthorne , " and " Dark Sayings and their Interpretation , " contribute greatly to the value of this number of ihe Universal jReview . The last article ison " Mr . Disraeli / ' and it is * certainly , an able estimate of that great statesman's character , arid a lucid review of the principal acts of his political

    career . ' -The Eclectic "—this long-established review and miscellanycontains for the present month a very able article on " Owen's palaeontology , " another on "The Great Armada Fight . " " Home Tourists " is also an article of much merit by a popular writer . A question ^ hicbris ^ ow ^ xciting HEuro ^ tion and the History " of Savoy , " will be found well sketched in a brief article ; and " The Month of May , " by its poetical writing and

    sweet verses , culled from the poets , is an article that adds to the beauty of the Review . ' - In the popular miscellany Once a Week , we have " Evan Harrington ; or , He would be a Gentleman , " and " Divorce a Vinculo ; or , the Terrors of Sir Cresswell Cress well , " continued . " Your Vote and Interest , " " The Science of Matrimony" and " The Statesman , " are well written articles . There is also some good poetry and very nice illustrations in this number , which closes thefirst volume of Once a Week .

    The Welcome Guest for May contains continuations of "'Give-a Dog a Bad Name , " and " Light Literature , " "An Artist ' s Story , " German Wines , " Part I ., " Lady Chesterfield ' s Letters to her Daughter , " and "A Search after Misery , " " The Fisherman , " & c , with illustrations , which are calculated to make the Welcome Guest a general favourite . Kingston ' s Magazine for Boys continues the story of " The' Old Schoolfellows , " " The Rambles of n Naturalist , " and " My Travels . " Recreative Science , " a monthly record and remembrancer of intellectual observation , by Messrs . Groombridge and Sons , contains for Mav unusually clear and popularly written chapters for young

    people , upon the following subjects : — - " Geological and Planetary Strupture of the Earth , " " Roberts ' a Test Lines , " " Practical Photography , " "The Odours of Flowers , " " Coal nnd Coniferous Wood Tinder the Microscope , " " Lead in the Furnace , " " A Meridian Line , " " The Vegetation of a Decayed Nut , " & c . The first number of a new serial , entitled The Englishwoman s Magazine , is just published by S . O . Beeton . It is a cheap publication , and the quality of ite literature and engravings , ia excellent . It contains a good steel plojbe of the fashions , and a curious Berlin wool-work pattern of slippers , Ac . " The Family Secret , " with which it opens , is a spirited and entertaining tale . " The Domestic History of England" gives also every indication that it will be throughout deeply interesting . " Amongst the Americana , " " The Son-hv-Law , " and . "Poetry of the Months / ' show , too , that this new aerial is in no incompetent hands . ' We think there is a special place for ib in its particular sphere of magazine literature , and we wish it success , "The Art Journal" in its new series , containing the Royal Gallery , has a very fine number for May , The three chief engravings

    are— " Simplicity , " " The Ommeganck at ; Antwerp , " and " Ganymede . " The literary portion of this part is also of excellent quality . " Lombardy and its Capital , " being in story and description very good ; and the " Journey ( illustrated ) in South Wales , " by Mr and Mrs . S . C . Hall , is . particularly , interesting . We have received No . VI . of Mr . Charles Lever ' s interesting story , under the title of "One of Them , " published by Messrs . Chapman and Hall . The May number , we have no doubt , is eagerly desired by its readers . _ " The Englishwoman ' s Journal" for May , published by Messrs . Kent & Co ., contains well-written articles on the following subjects , specially interesting and advantageous to every reading and intelligent Englishwoman : —" Medicine as a Profession for Women , " " Elizabeth von Biecke , " Part I ., " Tuition a Trade ? " " Two Chapters about Charwomen , " & c .

    Part XVI . of the " English Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences , conducted by Charles Knight , and published by Messrs . Bradbury and Evans , extends from Hy to J . Under the latter letter we have a very good historical Bketch of the Jews . The present part of - the ' . ' Popular History of Euglaiid , " by Charles Knight , published by Messrs . Bradbnry and Evans , ranges from 1760 to 1784 , and contains portraits of Pifcfc , Fox , and Grattan , with illustrations of buildings , gardens , and costumes of the period . It has also portraits of Garrick and Smollett . We have received Part X . of " Plain or Ringlets , " which contains an illustration of Appleton Hall by John Leech .

    JLeFollet for May , published by Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , & Co ., is a publication that well sustains its character for fashion , polite literature , & c . ; and while , in the present number , the " st y le" for ladies appears to be faultless , we fancy , though it is a point about which we are not hypercritical , that the artist has improved the prettiness of face , if not of form , of his models .

    430 The Leader And Saturday Anahjst. [Ma...

    430 The Leader and Saturday Anahjst . [ May 5 , 1860

    Miscellaneous Books.* Rphere Never Was, ...

    MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS . * rpHERE never was , we think , anything great achieved , or a - * - readable book produced , except of course that which comes from the pen of a privileged medium of spiritualism ,-without a good deal of painstaking a » d premeditation . Now , the book which we have just been reading , entitled "Anecdote Biography , " is , to our thinking , a proof of what we say . It supplies us plentifully with anecdotes about the celebrated statesmen , William Pitfc Earl of Chatham and Edmund Burke , both names so deeply ploughed into English history , politics , and literature ,- that so long as these shall survive the names of Pitt and Burke will be familiarly remembered ; nay more ,-, they must have a positive intellectual existence and influence in the nation . Mr .

    Timbs has given the biography of the great men we have mentioned pleasingly and instructively , in a series of anecdotes , in chronological order . He has done his task well , and the reader will , we doubt not , rise from the perusal of the volume satisfied that he is well acquainted with Pitt and with Burke , and also with the affairs of the age in which they lived and were chief workers . ° The volume is very handsomely got up , with portraits of its -great-subjects , the Earl of Chatham , Edmund Burke , & o . Whoever may be fond of legendary law , arid lew , we thinkTeveirin these riiatter-of-fact and utilitarian times , do not like to listen to the tales of witches , sprites , and goblins , and the mischief they have

    done " poor mortals , " may find some good stories in the Lectures on the Mountain ; or , the Higldands and Highlanders . They who desire more solid -stuff than legends are composed of , will find it in a series of chapters on the agricultural , social , arid moral statistics of Strathspey and Bndenoch , which render this work as useful as it is entertaining . Moreover , it contains some useful military statistics , and the history of the family of Grant and collateral branches of the family , — -battles , seats of families , eminent men , and warriors . There is also a chapter on ecclesiastical statistics . By this second series of lectures , sufficient interest is thrown around the "Highlands and Highlanders " to call for another series from the same pen . The reader will be amply rewarded by the perusal of the present lectures .

    ;• Anecdote Biograpliy. By John Timds, F...

    ;• Anecdote Biograpliy . By John Timds , F . S . A , London : Richard Benfcley . Lectures on the Mountains ; or , the Highlands and H anders of Strathspey and Badenooh , as , they Were and as they Are . London : Saunders , Otley , and Co . The Causes and Treatment of Imperfeat Digestion , By AUTHOR Leaked , M . B ., M . B . I'A . London : John Churchill . On Consumption , its True Nature and Successful Treatment . By Godwin Timms , M . D . London : John Ohurohiil . The British Volunteer of Yesterday and To-day .- a Bulwark for Europe's Peace . By Major Walter ( of Fourth Division of Lancashire Artillery ) . London : W . O . Mitchell . The History of the Unreformed Parliament , ami its Lessons , An Essay * By Walter Baobuot . London : Chapman & Hall . Books and Libraries . A Lecture . By Sir Joutt Simeon , Bart ., M . A . London ; John Parker and Son . Criminals , Crimes , and their Governing Laws , as demonstrated by th « Sciences of Physiology and Mental Geometry . By FREDERICK BttlDOBU . London : George Philip and Son . Declaration of the Clergy against Alteration of the Book of Common Prayer , $ 0 . London : Bell and Daldy . Breton Legends . Translated from the French . London : BurnB and Lambert . Evenings with Gratulpapaf or . Naval Stories for Children . By IlARR *** M . Oarby . London : Dean & Son .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1860, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05051860/page/18/