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      Dr. Pickering On The Races Of Man. The R...

      to it by those avIio know what ought to be , and what actually is written upon the important subject of which it treats .

      Books On Oult Table. Mcrz. J. Goethe Von...

      BOOKS ON OUlt TABLE . Mcrz . J . Goethe von 1770-1773 oiler seine Bezichungen zu Friederike von Scscnlteim und Wei-liter ' s Lolte . JN ' umberg . London : Franz Thhnni . The secular event of Goethe ' s birthday has called forth in Germany a goodly number of pamphlets on various subjects concerning Goethp . Merz has lectured and has reprinted that lecture in the little brochure before us , on two characters , which have powerfully influenced Goethe as a man and a poet . They have both been portraited by him , as is well known , " Lotte " in Werther , " Freiderike"' in Dichtung und IVahrJieit and Faust . There is nothing new in this trait . Pfeiffer's book on i . Freiderike " contains more matter and is more poetically written ; but as Merz has arra-iged the simple facts on both " Lotfe " and ' Freidfriki " in proper chronological order , the brochure will be useful to the historian of Goethe . Jlcssenhauser . Politischer Ilausschalz fit ' r deutsche Slraatshiirger . Leipsig . London : Franz Thinini . " Wissen ist macht "—Knowledge is power , is the motto of this little lexicon on political and social science : it may not improperly be called a compendium for newspaper readers ; for it is in alphabetical order , and explains in simple and striking language political parties , events , forms , & c . now daily used by the press , such , for instance , as Aristocracy , Association , Diplomacy , Communism , Socialism , Society , Bourgeoisie , Radicalism , & c . The articles are clear and concise , and the book intended for the million . The Imperial Cycfop & dia . Part I . Charles Knight . This is the first monthly part of an invaluable work , which will , when completed , form a series of cyclopaedias . The first of these is to be a Cyclopaedia of Geography , Ancient and Modern , or universal Gazeteer , arranged from the geographical articles in the Penny Cyclojxzdia , with improvements and corrections ; and this first part opens the largest section of the work , which will comprise the British Empire . The absolute importance of having such a work on your shelves we need not insist on ; an inspection of various articles has satisfied us that it will supersede all other gazeteors . It is also handsomely printed , which is an agreeable feature in so cheap a publication . Half Hours with the Rest Authors . Parti . Charles Knight . This is the very best collection of elegant extracts ever made , and the success has been immense . Charles Knight now reissues it in the cheapest possible form in order to replace the " twopenny trash" which alone comes within the means of the poorer classes . A better sixjjcnnyworth . than this monthly part we could not name . Jane Eyre , an Aultjbiogra / ihy . Hy Ourrer Boll . Fourth Edition * Siiiitii , I'Uder , and Co . A compact , pocket volume of a novel which created a deeper and more wide-sproad interest than any novel published during t ' ic last ten years ; it is so substantial a v . ork . ihat it deserves to be rescued from the circulating library , and placed upon the sung shelves of one ' s- - own library . Mess-rs . Smith and Elder hive done \ ve )\ to oiLr it to the public hi so cheap a form . G'azjmcho : or Summ-ir Mi . nllis in Spain . 11 y \ V . d . Clark , M . A . J'dlowof Trinity Collude , Cambridge . J . \ V . 1 ' arlvor . Auvcrgne , Piedmont , and Savoy : a Summer Ilmnhla . By Charles liioliard IIclU . J . W . Parker . Co . istruclinc Exercises for Tnachini the Elements of the Lathi Ijuii gnagc on a si / stum of . // null / sis and Synthesis . With Latin lioadiu ^ Lessons and copious vocabularies . Uy John llobson , li . A . second Edition . Taylor and Walton . The White Chart / in : By tho author of The Horse Guards , The Days when He had Tails on Us , $ c . . f . and I ) . A . Darli- g . Peace Lyrics . By II . C . Adams . C . ( Jilpin . The Decay of Traditional Faith , and the Establishment of Faith ujion J'hilusup / iy . Two lectures by Henry lursuu , M . A . John Chapman . Poems . Uy John Syer IJristowo . George Bell . Portrait ' a of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain . 13 y Edmund l . odjfc , in H vols . Vol . \ Jl . " ( i - iolm ' a . Illustrated Library . ) Henry G . Jiohi .. ll ' ashiugtuii . Ire lily ' s Life of Goldsmith . ( Bolm ' s Shilling Series ) lli'iiry ( J . liulKi . l !' t . t » h ' uimtoii . // v' /> . ' . ^'' s Livs of the Successors of Mahomet . ( I ' dltti's oiiiilinu' rierics . ) Henry G . luAiu . Elementary Course , of G cuing y , Mineralogy , and Physical Gengrajjhy . liy Uavul T . AiU ' iud , M . A ., l . H . tj , Nan Voorst . An Arelic i ' o' / u' ji : to JSaJJ ' ufs Hay and Lancaster Soiind . By J « . -v . Gnnil < ii , l . iiis I ' l ' i-riilr . 'uL of the iCujui . ' liciiieal 5 >« juiety , Mi : iuliiu ' gli . Van \* . > t » r .-1 . Lcir . n nf lite Suci-i'ssurs of JUahomal . I ' y Wiiiin ^ tun Irving . ( . 'I'Le i . ; mi ; ir Library . ) ( ieorge I ' outlddye . tl " , i ^\ i , i ; ri , ni Ji iiJtiy ' s firacrbridi'd Hull . ( l '( i ] iu ! ar Library . ) l . ( . ' . ) ll ( i li . HH ii'dgf . T . ' i-: S / ri'tr / , i ' tiiii , \ ' nf ( , ' i ' itj ' rcy iUaijnn . ( JoJit . IJy \ V : i .. ; biiu ; t . ou Ii . ii . >_•" . I i '< . j > 11 : u l . i ' iij'a ry . j ( jeui' ^ i- Jln iill < d ; . ; i . ' . ' J' ! , ¦ P : i ,, / ' " .- f , '; if ' i' In f . rj / i . 'Jt Ii ! ymoln <> !/ , i ' . o : il ; iiiiiir > ' tin pv iucip . ll : i' > . ; t- ' ij 'III t . i . r i . il ill , '¦ ' )¦( ' 'k , itlid o : ! i . ; r iilli : | H . ^ iS . I . V Im-. i- . j .. . \! an ; oii . Thin ! tlinu-. aii'l . Ivlinlinrgit : JVIylrs - ! ' i' i .. i i i . - /•• ¦ ' ¦¦/ ' . 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      NOTES AND ^ XTHACTS . I Modern Sainthood . — When alt the business fine ! enterprise of life was of a kind that a pious Christian could not touch , it was r :: cusable in him to fly , and , in the absence of all worthy scope lor human faculty , make a business of religion . 13 ut what can be more preposterous than to exhibit this type of mind as a model for the emulation of the present age ?—as if we had no more natural gymnastics for the character than were furnished in the objectless life of the monk ; no temptations without meeting -with devils in a wood ; no selfdenials without pricking our waists with sharp chainbelts , or mimicking with piercing hats the crown oi thorns ! Yet , to reawaken the English admiration for this ascetic discipline , the '' Lives of the Saints" are avowedly written ; to induce converted bankers to quit Lombard-street for a life of contemplation , to incline cotton-spinners to recite the psalter ewry day , and bring Sir llobert Peel down to the house in a hair shirt . — Westminster Iievivto . Aspects ov Socialism . — " Socialism , " remarks Mr . John Stuart Mill , in his recent wo « k on Political Economy , " has now become irrevocably one of the leading elements in European polities . " lie would be a blind man , indeed , that should deny the truth of this assertion . The time has arrived when our manner of speaking about Socialism must give place to something more discriminating . The reason of this is obvious . Socialism , as the vigilant gentleman of the Times newspaper ought by this time to have informed us , has become " a great fact . " Numerically , few creeds are more formidable . In France , the Socialists are rapidly attaining the preponderance of an efficient majority of the nation ; in Germany , and other parts of the Continent , Socialism is epidemic ; and in England , let our readers take our word for it , there are far more Socialists than people are aware of . One goes nowhere into society without meeting with Socialist ideas ; one icads no book , aud very few leading articles , that one does not see some tenet of Socialism , or some implied collateral of it , more or less timidly peep out . And then , intellectually also , Socialism must be acknowledged as holding no mean position . It would be difficult , we believe , to name men of more remarkable powers of thought , or of finer literary faculty , than some of the leading Socialists of France . For sheer intellect , for example—for sheer power of rapid and efficient cerebration ( to use a phrase characteristic of the man we speak of ) , Auguste Comte is more than a match for Cousin , and Comte divides with the Socialists on all great questions . Louis Blanc is , essentially , a much cleverer person than Thieis ; and , beside such a man as Pro'ulhon , Lamartinc is hut a poetic weakling . Nor , lustly , is it us if those who call themselves Socialists were one of Nature ' s own sects—men of similar constitution , of similar moral character , or of similar absolute aims and purposes ; so as to be disposed of in one sweeping instinctive reprobation by the rest of mankind . There are Socialists of all kinds , and of all varieties . There are Socialists that are hard-headed and logical ; there arc Socialists that are tender-hearted and mystical ; there are Socialists that are profligates and deb luchees ; and there are Socialists of ascetic habits and rigorous rectitude . There are Socialists that are Atheists , and treat Christianity as an old fable ; and there are Socialists that subject Socialism itself to the supreme test of llevelation , and that wear honourably over the red badges of their politicaL faith the gentle robes of the Church of England . Clearly , therefore , the right or the wrong of this matter i : > not prejudged in any of the controversies of the past ; but demands , and is entitled to , a specific controversy for itself . — British Quarterly Heview , May . Kcoxcii Dia'NKENNKSS . —In 1841 the population of Scotland , 2 , fi' >() , 181 , persons , consumed 5 > 595 , 1 SG gallons of spirits , while the 14 , 99 / 5 , 138 persons of the English population consumed only one-third more , viz ., 7 > 9 < 50 , 05-i gallons ; and the 8 , 175 , 121 : of Irish people consumed less than the two and a-h-ilf millions of Scotch people , viz ., G . ' 200 , 000 gallons . In Edinburgh , in 1840 , there were < J 8 G houses licensed for the title of sp irits ; that is , oi every thirty-one houses in Edinburgh , one is a spirit shop , und 43-1 of these are open on Sundays for the sale of spirits . In religious Edinburgh , it was . stated by one of the magistrates in the Town Council , the sum hpent in Sunday-drinking in the course of the year amounts to £ 112 , 810 , or about £ 2 , 1 / 0 is spent on onch of the fiftytwo sabbaths of the year in drinking whisky or other spirits . Well done , religious Edinburgh ! Petition , by all means , against the desecration of tho Sabbath-day in England by railway-travelling , and IVst-ofUoe work , for ic is . unquestionably a groat bocial , moral , and religions evil—but piuck the- beam out of your own eye ! £ 2 , 170 sterling , spent ; in ( -nbbath-uuy whisky-drinking , i « the measure—the g uig ^ r ' s test . —of tho moral , sani'ury , and religious condition of Edinburgh , cviry sabbath in the j vm ! And , in propor'ion to i op ;; lr < M <; ti , every town in Scotland is a fac-siini / i : of Jv . l in burgh ! The ) social well-being produci-d by this improvement , of driving the p > i > ulation from the laud into t 1 <¦ t < ju us , upp ( urssomewhat u'MiUful in tho fju ; c i . f . si . ch • « 'i i-, tie . ! il fact * ! It appears to be an hnprovomi nt i i' n . u \ . v ; . lU i . f tU <; few , at tiitco . st ofTh « . " . vt ' U li"iij ; r , mor . ' -, ; .:. < l : u' : iUh ol ' tin . 1 many . — Jjfiiuy ' ti Obscrcali'ijia ui ; - . ' ¦ . ' * ' '; . <; Si'M . V-f . OVJ'MlNM F . NT .--- ' : i . i ' il .-J ( -ct of ftU gi'J VCMJlllO ! , t ( iu . .. 'ht u > bo tw U ; ieh > : clj ';¦ :. ¦ . ¦ . : i ;; m'T , t ; ai . 'l tUis is wh . tl . I want , t . j tea . ' : !* you . JS <¦ •;¦< ¦ . -. ¦ . !< r iiicvaui )>(¦ omnJiiil . teil , i h .. ! :. \ e , on ibis-i . ' ¦; : r . j ( ci , liiau to If-id the labouring < - iu--.-e .-i t / , i :: ; u : riuf tlj .-U . ' ilic ; aro lo l- '» "k chiefly tor un-! ii i- \ i . mi . ii ! s iii ! ii .- 'ir cmr . ' . ' . ' ion in Ilio-i : above t . h"in , < ¦ <> ;; ! t .. "< Ht ;< j > is ii . 1 .. ms , \ o c ha rilii-s ; Mid evt-n to ]) lund < . 'r iiml s ;); iii . il nii . it is innei . 'fi a i > l- - ti ^ iji >* , 1 "J whiu-ii \ v < - ' . ' uihti ! . Mil ! i (; ii .- » iliv tbai . K <¦;¦ ... ' ! . that U »< : ri'h M . 't- < l : - 'ii fL . tleu , ,. j . fi tlieii - ' j J ' «;•• ' '" '« J '>'»' "> I'fovidt mi . il ^ 8 > st ' . -iri so J . iu-h inert' clv .-i'h than ti'iy have ewr di-ne in ai . y ] ir >; . cciiir ;;; ji ; . m \ \\ 'i . < i : —as 1 hop : ; son will—you n . iu | ; . i boojt c ,.: i ' cd ' Ivanh'ie , " which | 'ive . -: n . dcs < : H { ' 1 i-m of i : < 1 . state bdtli < ,. ' the rich and the j » i or in tiii . -. eountry about <;„; .. > i . ; i (^' - cd v < : a-j <;;;•; , whuu y > 'U read urUcr boo ! . a ly

      the same writer , you will see tnat the poor , the labouring [ classes , seemed to have been looked upon as created t chiefly to administer to the luxury of the rich ; and now L we hear our great statesmen saying , in the House of . Commons , that the labouring classes are the great body . of the people , and that it is to their interests that the [ Government is bound chiefly to look ; " that there is no , class in this country that can maintain an interest sepa-. rate from the rest , that the interest of the peer and the ' . peasant are alike—from the throne to the cottage the . same . " When we hear these sentiments , and see them , in a good measure acted upon , great reason have we to ¦ be thankful , and to distrust those who tell us there is no hope but in a universal upsetting of all classes . And I believe these sentiments will increase and prevail more ; and more . But let laws and institutions be as perfect as possible—as perfect as , in a fallen world , they ever can be—let the country be raisfd to the highest pitch of ' . prosperity—let every man have good wages , plenty of employment , provisions cheap , every comfort he can require within his reach—still if lie be idle , dissolute , intemperate , or even merely ignorant , thoughtless , and improvident , you cannot secure him against misery and poverty . And hence , I say , the working classes have themselves to look to , under God , for their own . welfare . Their fate and their future is , under God , in their own hands . It is on their industry , their frugality , forethought , self-control , and perseverance , that their prosperity depends , far more than on anything that legislators or benefactors can do for them . —Compton Merivale .

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      ^ The Lyitic Drama. With Respect To The ...

      ^ THE LYItIC DRAMA . With respect to the two Opera-houses , we have only this week to say that there is nothing to say . ltepetitions of familiar works have formed the entertainment . Verdi ' s Due Foscari and Ernani have reappeared at her Majesty ' s Theatre , to the dismay of the habitue ' s . We had hoped that our too-talented young friend had retired from the glare of public performance , and that we had ceased to be bored by his ambitious crudities . Let us hope that we have now heard the last of him . On Thursday the Puritani was given—Sontag appearing for the first time as " Elvira , " and Baucarde as " Arturo . " The tiltra-florid music of Elvira is well suited to display the style of Sontag to advantage , and she appeared even more brilliant than usual . Her " Son vergine , " was a true ** blaze of triumph . " 13 aucarde , as " Arturo , " succeeded in impressing upon the audience , once more , that he has a charming voice , with incomplete dramatic knowledge . The popular bellow " Suoni la tromba , " was given with all possible power of lungs by Signori Lablache and Colletti . After all , the ballet is still a grand attraction at the Hay market operatic establishment . All the world goea to see the new pas da trois , Les Graces , in which Uarlotta Grisi , Marie Taglioni , and Amalia Ferraris delight the initiated in this branch of human endeavour . The pretty snow scene , " Les plaLsirs d'hiver , " also maintains ita ground . At Covent Garden we are promised , for immediate performance , Meyerbeer ' s llobert le Diable , with Formes as Bertram . " This will be worth seeing , and hearing , and meditating upon .

      The Drama. The Drury Lane Season : The V...

      THE DRAMA . THE DRURY LANE SEASON : THE VIlINCESa ' s . Drury Lane has terminated its lingering and profitless existence ; yet not profitless if managers would learn a le . sson from its fate . Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of its opening , and the success was immense ; but Mr . Anderson , instead of gaining courage by success , slept upon it . His whole ma- nagement was singularly injudicious . He produced but one new play—and such a play ! His revivals were neither well chosen , well mounted , nor well played . The pnntbmimo and Easter piece were got up with m . si « , Miifk'enco , and thoy drew audiences . ] Jut his revivals were costly , and profitless . Again , we must insist upon this obvious fact : a theatre can only prosper when it has line acting , magnificent spectacle , or novelty . The acting was mediocre ; the . spectacle ( except in tho Easter piece J was not gorgeous enough to be attractive , und was , therefore , only a heavy expense ; und novelty there wus none . Mr . Chaiie'N Kc . ' in , who is about to open a et . mpnign at the'Princess ' s Theatre with every chance m his favour—and the public decidedly with him—will do well to ponder on the fate of Drury Lane . lie has determined , wo hear , upon one excellent prin-!•!! , ]( . ' , that of giving nove . Uias of various Kindts , IJulwer , tlorioM , und Lovoll having , as we stated weeks ft . go , already furnished him with pieces to lu . 'g iu upon . We suggest that thii experiment bo juifly tried , and that in lieu of spending thousundf . upon ihitonitionhj , ho spend half tho sum on m-w piuyn , for \ v opli * will g <> to s »; o a nrjin play ; whereat ., howovt r they may bo delighted wit . li it when they bee it , tlu .-y < lo not go merely for tho " getting up . " Splendid scenery and costly dresses druw down m' > - irujni / iry nlnudits and pnvngraj'liH from tho papers ; bur , unii-. ss ihe spoutarJo bu so extraordinary a , s to c-xcito a sensation—like the inland of Jewels , for example --not u soul enters tho theatres drawn there by

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 11, 1850, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11051850/page/17/