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      The Sports Of Merry England. Merrie Engl...

      Turf amusements of course hold a conspicuous place in a book treating © n English field-sports . Boeing was highly in vogue as early as tke rei'm . of Queen Elizabeth , and many a wealthy lord literally brought his noble to ninepence , by an unbridled , devotion to this pursuit . Among tke most eminent personages who , during the last century , maintained a racing stud , was Charles James Fox . In 1772 , Fox won at Newmarket 16 , 000 / ., principally by betting against the celebrated horse Pincher , who lost the match by only half a neck . The king ' s messenger was sometimes obliged to appear on . the course , seeking one of his cabinet ministers among the sportsmen , to deliver despatches . The messenger , when on these errands , always concealed his badge of office the Greyhound—not wishing the public to know his errand . But Fox liked Newmarket better than Downing-atEeet .

      In August , 1804 , took place on the last day of York races a match between Colonel Thornton ' s wife and Mr . Flint , for five hundred guineas , . and one thousand guineas bye ; distance four miles . Three days before the races , the fair jockey mounted on Vingarillo , took a four-mile gallop . She was dressed in Mazarine blue , and wore a neat black jockey-cap , looked very well , and . was in high- spirits . Starting off at a canter , she sat her horse firmly , drew him out to the top of his ' speed , and showed that she had his powers perfectly in her command . All the knowing ones were astonished at the style of horsemanship in which she performed her gallop , and declared it equal to that of Chifney or Buckle . Unfortunately , when within about three distances from home ,, the saddle-girths gave way , and she came with considerable violence to the ground . By great good luck , the bold equestrian did . not sustain the slightest injury . But to the race . One hundred thousand

      persons assembled to witness it . The lady took the lead for upwards of three miles in most capital style ; her horse ^ however , had much the shorter stroke of the two , and when within , a mile from home , Mr . Flint earne up and passed her . Mrs Thornton used every exertion ; but finding it impossible to win the race , she pulled up in . a sportsmanlike style , when within about , two distances- Never , surely , did woman ride in better style . It was difficult to say whether her jockeysaip , her dress , or her beauty were most * admired . ' The whole was perfect . Mrs . Thornton wore a leopard-coloured body , with blue sleeves , the rest buff t and blue cap . The race was run in nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds . 2 s o words can express the

      disappointment felt at the lady ' s defeat . The spirit she displayed , and the good humour with which she bore her loss , greatly diminished the triumph of many of the winners . Not less than 200 , 000 ^ . were pending on this match . In addition to the subjeets-already brought under notice , there is a good historical chapter on the ancient pastime of archery , and some clever hints for successful sea fishing . We perfectly agree with the author in thinking that angling in salt water will gradually supersede the , at present , miserable pottering in fresh water streams . Fly-fishing on the sea-shore is more exciting than any sport our most carefully preserved salmon rivers can afford . The fish , instead of being reckoned at a . few score per mile of water , exist in tens of thousands . Poachers cannot diminish or interfere with our

      amusements ; . the sea is a great salt water lake , free and unrestricted for all . Merrie England overflows with racy , pungent anecdotes of a generation but just passed away , of which readers in general know infinitely less than of times and persons who nourished a century before . The book is destined to lie upon the library and boudoir tables of many a country mansion ; and its contents are specially adapted to please the tastes of those ladies who , born and nurtured among sportsmen , have learned to take an-affectionate interest in the cherished pursuits of husband , father , brother , lover .

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      Dr. Fell's Treatment Of Cancer. Report O...

      DR . FELL'S TREATMENT OF CANCER . Report of the Suryical Staff of the Middlesex Hospital uj ) O ? i the Treatment of Cancerotts Diseases on Dr . Fell ' s Plan . Churchill . The Middlesex Hospital is the only general hospital in London which has a special endowment for the maintenance of patients afflicted with cancer . On this account numerous soi-disant inventors of remedies for the treatment of that incurable disease have , during the last fifty years , addressed themselves to that institution , offering , their services ; but tbey have one and all failed to effect a real cure . Some of them , in their desire for a lucrative reputation , resorted to most disgraceful practices in order to impose upon the officers o £ the hospital ; the notorious Mr . Ashby , for example , who pretended to extraet cancerous reptiles by an application of his own , but was

      detected in putting tho worms into his specific . This and similar cases ot imposition led to the adoption of very stringent rules on the point , so that oven medical men found it difficult to gain the car of the hosp ital authorities , and therefore quite an extraordinary reputation , already gained , was necessary to induce the Weekly Board of Middlesex Hospital , instead of being applied to , to apply themselves to Dr . Fell ior assistance in their wards . At first the communication , owing , we suppose , to some formality on the part of tho hospital authorities , came to nothing ; but subsequently Dr . Fell consented to trout a certain number of cases in the hospital wards , and conditionally to- disclose his remedies , and it i » the report of the results of this treatment , published by order of the Quarterly Court , which lies now before us .

      Dr . Fell commenced bis course in the hospital on the 22 nd of January last . Twcnty-llvo cases , some of them of long standing , had been selected to test tho efficacy of the now remedy , and , ns the report of the a toff-surgeons of the hospital snye , — ^ - ^ Yery'early-in-tUe-wui'se-of-ouv . obaorvati ^^ method of treatment waa an improvement upon those previously known , but that it might prove a boon to many persona hopelessly suffering from advanced cancer . Accordingly , the principle upon which patiunta wore selected for treatment was soon oltored . Thoso flrat chosen woru , for tho most purt , / such an might huvo been subjected to a cutting operation ; and it waa otw object , as well as that of Dr . Full , to compare the results of the two modes of treatment in cuaea adapted for cither . But 'When cases , uusuited for the knife presented themsolvos , in which there appeared a seasonable prospect of conferring real , though it were only temporary , benefit by tho treatment , it was adopted in them also . Dr . Fell made no rcbervo for tho sake of

      his reputation if any amount of good could be done ; and accordingly cases will to found detailed which would never have been selected if regard had been had only t < the appearance they would make in a judicial report . , Dr . Fell ' s treatment proved a decided success . Of course we have nc space to enter into details of a purely professional nature , and are content therefore , to mention that the highest eulogium is bestowed in the Report on the new remedy : — Nothing could be more striking ( it is said there ) than the contrast between the distressed condition of patients before they were treated and their comparative ease afterwards . Every such patient restored to comfort , and with life prolonged , is a witness to the value of this treatment ; and we cannot but esteem him happy -who could thus suggest and adapt to practice a method by which life and ease are extended to many persons previously without hope of either . Whether a cancerous predisposition can be exterpated is another ques tion ; that the disease , in its active state , can be effectually arrested Dr . Fel has proved .

      An Ex-Chancellor En Deshabille. A Handy ...

      AN EX-CHANCELLOR EN DESHABILLE . A Handy Book on Property Law , in a Series of Letters . By Lord St . Leonards . William Blackwood and Sons Thteke is a dignity in the latter years of the lives of our Chancellors whicl is eminently characteristic of the unsullied integrity and incorruptible inde pendence of the administration of justice , in a land of ordered freedom . Compare the old age of a Brougham , nobly active and beneficent , with the rapacious- servility of a Dupin , and you have in ' this picture and this , ' the contrast of two governments and two nations . In the closing years of the Roman republic , when national virtue was not quite extinct , the great lawyers and statesmen withdrew ghidly from the toil and turmoil of public life into the familiar tranquillity of the Villa or the Farm , ianquam in port urn , and thereafar from the troubled winds and waves of faction , wrote and talked

      , imperishabiy on the science of politics , on public law , on letters , philosophy , and art , and . sometimes on the highest and grandest hopes and speculations of humanity . These conversations , these letters , h . ive outlived the glory and the decadence of Rome republican and imperial , and . are text-books of line thought and familiar wisdom for the select minds of all nations and all times . In our own England , which has so much of ancient Rome in its public spirit and temperament , many of our great statesmen and lawyers have been even more honoured in retreat than in power . Rising calm and clear above the mists of party , the light of ' their patriotism and intelligence has shone like a sunset . We may be pardoned for a somewhat digressive introduction to the very small ,, but very useful book which has suggested the historical comparison . One of the most consummate lawyers that ever occupied the woolsack , aud whose treatises on real property are among the very

      hig hest authorities on all that important branch of English law , has lately sat down in the leisure of his home to give a friend , possessed of an estate , and unlearned in the law , and ( in the latter sense at least ) aptly representing the general public , a few clear , practical notions on law and ' legal points ; ' more particularly on the law in its relations to real property , and in all its manifold dispositions in the nature of contracts , sales , purchases , mortgages , leases , settlements , wills , trusts , & c . & c . Into twenty-five clear , concise , and familiar letters , Lord St . Leonards has compressed the pith and essence of the law on all these matters . How inestimable such precepts from such a hand , to every man who , as Lord St . Leonards says , ' ¦ cannot always have his solicitor at his elbow , ' it were superfluous to say , and the precepts , omitting nothing , explaining everything , are conveyed with a lig htness and ease—we were going to say a friskiness—of style which irresistibly remind the reader ( be it said with all reverence ) of a fine old hunter turned out to grass and kicking his heels at the sound of a horn . We are not so gratuitously sceptical as * to imagine that the matter is from one hand and the manner from

      another ; we gladly attribute the useful and the pleasant to the same admirable pen . In the presence of this happy mixture of sterling wisdom and quiet wit , we seem , mutatis mutandis , to be listening to a delightful old lady teaching social tactics to au enterprising granddaughter . What treasures of learning and sagacity condensed into a few light tripping sentences , and what a fine vein of irony penetrating the stratum of accumulated experience I Difficult as it must be to know so much , it is even more difficult to bear such a weight of knowledge so gracefully and , as it were , so unconsciously . Lord St . Leonards's Handy Book will be read by lawyers with pleasure , and read again and again by laymen with pleasure and profit , livery one , it has been said , has some interest in real property : cither the interest of a defender of a fortress , or of an assailant ; while the lawyer , perhaps , may be said to feel the interest of both . The Letters on Wills , on Trustees , on the Rights of Husband and Wile , on their several Properties , on Judicial Separation and Divorce , have a special value at tho presout time , when the new legislation on those subjects is coining into force .

      Republicat1ons. Messrs. Bjla.Ck.Wood Hav...

      REPUBLICAT 1 ONS . Messrs . Bjla . ck . wood have reprinted from BlaekwootPs Magazine , in two volumes , Mr . George Eliot ' s Scene * of Clerical Life , including ' The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton , ' * Mr . Grilfil ' d Love Story , and 'Janet's Repentance' Their quiot and original humour , the delicate insight into character displayed , thu tender and subtle pathos of the several stories , have gained for Mr . Eliot a considerable and not u common reputation , which will of course bo largely increased now that Scenes of Clerical Life have pasued out of a magazine into tho circulating libraries . _^ AnQther ^ Qpub ) lii , Q ^ pjuX . i !^ tPZ ^ Ui ^ L ° i ? roador ? j Ml ' ; 7 G > J . Whyte Melville ' s The Interpreter rcTTBrdflhTWarrv ^ ^ vhima ^ omr'Fras ^ Magazine by J . W . Parker and Son . It is a . thoroughly vigorous and dramatic narrative , with fliuthea of admirable writing , and an abundance ot incidents and telling skutchesof ehuructer .

      Mr . Murray Bfcnda us a vory acceptable reprint in one neat volume , price eix shillingfl . It is tho » StafF-Ofncor ' s' Letters from Head . quarters , a book which haa called forth no little discussion , and i » one of tlio f « w valuable contributions to the history of the campagu in tlio Crimea , aa conducted by

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09011858/page/19/