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      Campaigning Hxpebiibnoids In Uajtoqtana ...

      i ^ £ STS * r togetlxer , She ^^^^ - have £ ce ? iTboon indeed . " The suggest ™ > s unsiSr ^ sSrsaa "*?? r onmess And when we throw -our Christianity , S cSsequ ^ t superiority , in their teeth on every ScaS we must recollect that we are dealing wXa people whose religious faith actuates them every hour of the day . " Mrs Duberly is a sensible writer , as well as a heroine . She thinks of the Crimea however , while in Bombay . The recollection , also , served to sustain her during severe trials . Here is an example : — "We marched into Deesa on Sunday morning , the 28 th February , at about eight o ' clock . With the exception of a few days' halt at Bhooj , we had lost no time upon the road , never marching less than nine miles , and generally doing from twelve to sixteen miles a day . Deesa being the first English station on our march , we naturally approached it with feelings of curiosity and excitement ; it was moreover the extreme frontier of the quiet districts , and its cantonments once passed , tents can no longer be sent on overnight , and no messmau will be ready to greet us with tea and coffee on our arrival in camp We were prepared after leaving Deesa to renounce all the luxuries of the campaign ; but we hardly anticipated the fatigue and discomfort that lay before us . The stern schooling of the Crimea had taught us to make light of difficulties and although ; even at this early stage of the march , w . e were glad to halt for , two or three days , we nevertheless looked forward to the future without fear or anxiety . " There is a proverb in India , that " the birds have no song , the women no beauty , arid the flowers no perfume ; " yet of the first the plumage is exceedin gl y brilliant and beautiful . Mrs . Duberly frequently saw fif teen or twenty peacocks at a time , either roosting on the trees or coming down in clusters to feed . " Then there is the Saras , * of a French grey and white colour , with red near the bill : this bird is nearly as tall as a man , and often , in the morning light / appears of gigantic proportions . The white egrets , and paddy-birds , Brahmin kites ^ and hawks , are amongst the larger birds , as well as several others , apparently of the flamingo and bittern tribes , which my ignorance does not enable me to name . Parrots , orioles , jays , mainas , t mango-birds , and others , small but brilliant , dart through the sunshine like flashes of light . Every eort of duck can be shot upon the tanks ; and a day or two before we reached this place Major Chetwodo killed an alligator which he saw basking on the bank . It moved towards the water directly it perceived win , out having a rifle , he fired instantly : the ball entered behind the shoulder , a second shot was ouickly given , but the creature , although mortally wounded , took to the water . None of the beaters cared to go in and bring Mm out . There was no time to lose : 80 Major Chetwodo , whose promptness and decision are well known amon g sportsmen , sprang after him , and dragged him on shore . Although the creature measured only about eight feet in length , I . looked with wonder into his enormous mouth , the jaws o which , if roughly closed , sounded as though made of hard wood . " Hero follows au interesting fact in natural history : — " The 95 th , 10 th Native Infantry , and the artillery , with their doolies , camels , gharrys , grass-cutters , and camp-followers , marched by our tent-door before eight o ' clock . Amongst the camp-followers was a handsome clumber spaniel which had lost sight oJ his master . He came for a momont to the shado oi my tent , and then left it in search of , his owner , I fetched a glndy full of fresh water , and had it waiting for him , for I folt sure I should boo his foolish , honest faco again , and after about half an hour back

      he came . Poor thirsty dog ! How he panted and auned and then laid down close to the water , and Sad ! Mmself quite at home till evening , when he ragged his tail to me , and wandered forth again . It Kniistaken feeling of affection which brings Eng-Lh dogs into this fierce climate . They suffer cruelly , LnSarf rarely long-lived . Even / Jim , ' the dog of many fights , who has been with the 8 tb - hussars ever since they landed in Bulgaria m 1854 , who went through the Danubian expedition , and was present at Alma and Balaklava and was mounded at Inkermann—who wore a Crimean medal for twelvemonths at Dundalk , and accompanied the SSs ^ WStfS ^ ilSS ^ s ^^ s &^ x fs ™ Sf he will fall back until he . recognises one of his particular friends amongst the men , when he puts his fore-paws on the stirrup-iron , and gets a ride on the front of the saddle . Great will be the grief universal the mourning , whenever death claims ' Jim . and sturTy and quick is the vengeance wreaked upon man or dog who presumes to molest this regimental fa wSth e this extract we must close our account of an entertaining book of travelling experiences .

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      The Fool Of Quality; Or, The History Of ...

      THE FOOL OF QUALITY ; OR , THE HISTORY OF HE 2 ? KY EARL OF HOEELALD . Henry Brooke Eso A new and reused edition . With a biographical preface by the Rev- Charles Kingslcy , Rector of Eversley In Two vols . —Smith , Elder and Co , 1859 . It is rather difficult to conceive why Mr . P ^ gstey h s ° r \ £ w ^«^^ mSe ? s it be to revive a school of fiction - that has not Seen popular in England since Brooke ' s time , and which assuredly we could do withoui . If so , ] Mr . Kmgsley will defeat his . own object by the reckless way in which he advocates its cause . The preface to the " Fool of Quality " is written m such fulsome and extravagent terms of praise of Brooke and his SSvdfSS it will have the very reverse effect mten The d only ^ SfSfwhich the « Fool of Quality '' has anv claim to notice , is the origmel design of the wori ? and of which it should be said that Brooke was incapable of carding out . It is certrmly-rwt a trood story , and the hero is meant to be the soul of honour and the embodiment of every accomplishment one could mention , « besides being a thorough Christian , " will appear in the eyes of most readers of the Present day what Brooke has really called hima lol We hope Mr . Brooke did not mean that his hero was a fool , or what becomes of the " good ethics and theological doctrines > ' that his lordship fs ^ o fond of discuising , and which Mr . Kingsley « so fond of parading as one of his reasons for undertaking £ sponsorship of his . offspring ? Again , that ' constant asking for admiration for the hero , ami draeffing forwards all the miseries that flesli is heir to sfthlt Henry shall act the good Samaritan , s exceedingly distasteful ; effect and sentiment instead of truth , are-the leading features of the book The fact is the ideal school of novel was about the first kind of fiction published in England and Richardson and Brooke were the founders . Then came the real , with Fielding and Smollet , t at its head , and although the former was by far the most popular at the time , the latter was most endurable . Wo are told by Macaulay , that at the time Richardson published his novels they were exhibited from the windows of private dwelling-houses , and were considered as marks of learning j and not to have read them was to be considered far behind the time in polite literature . It was a much similar case with Henry Brooke , according to , ^ r . Kingsley _ We hear of no such . popularity vouchsafed to liolding and Smollett ; wo hoar of no dissenting minister " purging" or " weeding" Fielding ' s works then , as John \ Ycsley did the " Fool of Quality . " I ^ rhaps this was one of the reasons why the work became so popular among the Methodists and the " loss thinking portion of the people , who formed that school to which Mr . Thackeray istho great ornament , and of which Mr . mngeleyis to some extent a follower . It is not oasyto give an answer to thw . e xcept it bo that the ago then was more artificial th " the ' " Fool of Quality " is reprinted to revivo the ideal school of fiction , then it is surely time we found a better modol ; and who is more able or fitting to write it than the Rector of Evorsloy ? It would have been bettor' than publishing an edition of a book that will never be oxtonsivoly read , it will appear strango to most people that Mr . Kingsloy should advooato the Brooke and Richardson schools , while ho writes the more modern . Nor oan wo agree with Mr . lOngsloy , when ho says the ago in viuon Jho " Fool S Quality" wns wfttton was more enlightened than the present , and that in tuo next generation Henry Brooke will find We real position

      in the ranks of the standard English . ne fact is that the " Fool of Quality , " viewed simply as a novel , falls far short of Our idea of what a work of fiction should be ; the characters are certainly not true to life and the hero can scarcely be said to be amodefon wMch to bring up , our sons Then the story has not unity , and if the characters are bad , the story bad , the novel is useless . This being the casVtoe " grand ethics and philosophical discussions on theologf and political economy" would have bSen better in any other form than the novel .

      ^Ss^^M^Si-O,^- - B Y The "Dennes Of Daun...

      ^ ss ^^ M ^ si-o , ^ - - B y The " Dennes of Daundelyonn" is a peculiar novel and one rather difficult to describe . It is a S ^^ SSeT ^ e ^ oT ^ r - h ^ ii ^^ r ^ z cSS and " blue" here and there , it should be S ^ wr Sf' ^ r ^ oV ^ g . j S ^^ s ^^ S superstition and growing hops £ **«* , ££ § * capacity Edward Denne Tost a fortune , the . family 3 s ¥ sf ^ Sf | Opening of the stoVy , he becomes ^ guardian of hit ^^ ^^ iP ^ B ^ ssiS -Wsg & S declare his love , because he is uncertain how he couSS provldeSop hie a home , and in fe me ^ tnne he would not like to deprive her of the ofler ot marriage from Col . Arden or my ^ . . ° f a ^ S x 3 ±% & £ Z & Z 2 * ffiffi « Z ? ££ ^ V ^>&&&& meeting Now this « Soph "is a very peculiar irsksJzzS £ *&&& ££ ^* r ^»^ £ one is hardly prepared for her being superstitious . Yet she is so , and in a remarkable degree . There are no less than seven deaths , all of winch ar e made ajrreat deal too much of . . Of these seven deaths four of the persons dying appear to Sophia—who isfrom home- ^ ust before or X ? Thevdil Now , putting aside the questionableness of such incidents at all , the repetition is absurd in the extreme . There are several other fSs that we had marked as being , to say the afsas r « 2 « $ ^ *& sMra ^ rffissXsrs £ w ^ gfeJaH we hope will , write better things than the Ucnnes of Daundelyonn . " ^ .

      11epkints. This Convalescent : His "Ambl...

      11 EPKINTS . THIS CONVALESCENT : HIS "AMBLHIS ^ JD ADss # s . x ^ r-ir ^ r - « . a . "S ^ r ^ s ^^ w T . SSSl 'S'SlfDATOWlUWT . A . ' - * «* **• Gore—Knlffht undSon . -T » Omv—b-t -h « - * f of « JJJ [ remarkasai & ss ^ is ' Ss ^^ rtoBssaa ^ s

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 13, 1859, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13081859/page/19/