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    \No. 309, November 14, 1857.] THE LEAi)E...

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    MAULEVEREK'S DIVORCE. Maiilercrcr's Divo...

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    THE BEITONS OF CAMBRIA. ¦Tlie British Ky...

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    A Treatise On Angling. The Angler's Inst...

    dierit to effect the grand point of keeping out of sight—the patient fisherman lightly daps his rfly upon the clear rippling -eddy , us he sees the Bisect disport itself when alive and at liberty . Roused by the slight undulation which even this delicate movement communicates to the ' water 1 * surface , 4 lie largest irout arvd grayling of the pool sally forth to reconnoitre from behind great stones , or a sunken tree , under patches of floating driftwood , . and from beneath ; hollow banks . Some , or all of these , are their chosen Jiaunts . Such is the eagerness with -which they usually dash at the lureresembling 6 oniewliatthe swoop of a hawk at hex quarry—that they generally hook themselves . If the fisherman has not forgotten to bring his landing-net , and some village urchin to assist him in its use , he "will probably succeed in transferring the best of these captures to his pannier . Without ¦ such aid , however , tie success will be mores than doubtful . It is a great mistake to defer the commencement of trout Ashing until the month of May , as is the practice of many London anglers , especially those who frequent the Thames and Uxbrid « e Oolne .

    When the alder leaf & big ub a goose ' s eye , Then the tiout is fit to fry , -says an old saw ; and that , in a forward spring , would be about the middle of February . March and April are certainly the best fly-fishing months of the whole season . Angling for pike or jack , which latter is , however , the peculiar designation bestowed on fish of a certain age only , affords much diversion iiTthe -autumn and winter quarters . The writer of this book gives a decided preference to what he calls the dead snap bait : — Taking a fancy for a day ' s pike fishing , I started off for -the river , rod in liand , and a few dead baits in my pocket . The wind > ras to iny mind , a » d tl > e water was in Hue condition . 1 speedily commenced work , and in a cast or two hooked and landed a very good tfsh , weighing seven pounds .. Just as I had done so , up came my friend .

    " That , s a fine fish , " said he . " I have fished down all this side of the water , and have not had a single run . Would you have any objection to my accompanying you ? " " None-whatever , " I replied . So we both started together , and m a short time I landed three more fish , one ' five pounds , and two three pounds each . "How is it , " ^ he said , " thiit although I throw into the same places with 3-011 , I never get a run ? " Nowmy ifrieud was trolling , or dead gorge iishing . There was a sharp stream , and over the stream a quiet spot , in which place the iish lay . He threw his gorge into the still water , but while he was permitting it to siak a little , the current pressed on the line and dragged the "bait away before , lie had the chance of-working it . My tackle was spinning , or dead snap , -which " can be worked attractively the moment the bait drops on the water , which cannot be done with the dead gorge . 1 recommended my friend to -put on a spinner , which I lent him , and at the second throw he billed a fish of six ipounds . ' ¦ /

    Mr . Bailey ' s experience of pike fishing seems to have been confined to the river Trent . The great pool of Ellesmere , situated close to the town of that name hi North Shropshire , and the property of Mr . Mainwaring , holds pike « f thirty pounds weight . The Combermere lake in the adjacent county of Chester—which is full three miles in . extent . —breeds fish even larger than those of Ellesffiere . The barbel , though coarse , and of no repute for the table , is , however , a handsome fish , large , lusty , and game . The author , who seems to have devoted more than ordinary attention to this branch of angling , thus communicates the results of his experience : —

    The water was about nine feet deep , and as clear as glass . The swim , was not -quick , and in -water-of this description I generally go up five or six yards from -where 1 stand to fish to throw in the worms , and catch the ba . rbel eight or ten yards below me , so that the worms swim fourteen or fifteen yards before they get to the bottom . Well , the first swim , my two friends both got hold together , and killed two barbel ; the next swim they killed two more , then one killed , and the other missed . "When we bad caught nine , 1 threw in a few inore worms two yards lower down than the first lot , which made the fish bite at least twenty-five yards off . This was a great distance to bit a fish , but they were hit to perfection , fora bite -was seldom missed or a fish lost . When we had fished three hours , they left off biting , and we went and bad a bite ourselves . We returned in about a couple of hours , and found them as keen and eager for the bait as when we first commenced . I must tell you I never gave them a worm while they were biting , but when I amv two or three swims without a bite , I threw in a few . By this plan I kept the fish hungry all the time . In about five hours and a half we had caught one hundred and thirteen pounds of barbel , without stirring a yard from the standing we first took up , and every fish was hooked from twenty to five-amcl-twenty yards oft " .

    The author of this little book , is a professional angler , residing where Trent doth spread His thirsty arms along the indented mead , and his proximity to this , one of the most famous of English rivers , has , of course , largely contributed to perfect his experience . The observations on ground-bait , and the directions for its advantageous employment , not only as a subsidiary Jure for the coarser species of fresh-water fish , but for trout and grayling also , are new and valuable . They will be eagerly perused and as eagerly adopted by nil anglers , when the opening spring shall again invite them to try their fortune m the sharps and shallows of their favourite streams .

    \No. 309, November 14, 1857.] The Leai)E...

    \ No . 309 , November 14 , 1857 . ] THE LEAi ) EE . 1 AQQ

    Mauleverek's Divorce. Maiilercrcr's Divo...

    MAULEVEREK'S DIVORCE . Maiilercrcr ' s Divorce : a Story of Vfamuiis Wrongs . Hy the Author of " "Whitefriars , " " The City IJankor , ' & e . 3 vols . Skeet . " Wk have been a little perplexed by this novel . It professes to have been " written "by a woman , and seems to hear in its composition the traces of a woman's pen . An < l yet wo had imagined the authorship of IVhite / Hurs to have been not unknown . Whitpfriurs , If'hitchatf , Wesh / iinster Abbey , and Cccsar Jlorj / ia form a characteristic cluster of historical romances which have retained their popularity through many seusons , und are continually reprinted . They were well studied , dramatic , and vigorous . The City Banker bolongcd to a different and , in our opinion , an inferior cluss . The story was original in its conception , and ran on rapidly from beginning to ond , but it wns less a work of art than VMlc / riars , less graphic than Ccesar Borgia . Mintlecercr ' s Divorce is again tho exemplification of a new style adopted by the writer . It has a definite social purpose ; it bears upon a question of the divy ; it abounds in apostrophe and in fervid declamations .

    Its most prominent fault as the tendency to long interludes of soliloquy on the part of the lady who is supposed to presenter autobiography . Many readers will think the introductory chapter almost entirely superflUo ^ Occasionally , too , the author ' literary theory is illustrated by lZ ™ of speech which we cannot but rank as barbarisms . The writing , bCe ^ er has character , and the narrative is constructed with peculiar ^ kil L ^ l merous readers , no doubt , will follow with euriosiiy the vicissitudes of the Maulevemr career , parallel as they probably are with those ofT

    The Beitons Of Cambria. ¦Tlie British Ky...

    THE BEITONS OF CAMBRIA . ¦ Tlie British Kymry ; or , Britains of Cambria . Outlines of their History and Institutions , from the Earliest to the Present Times , By the Rev . K . $ L Morgan , P . C . Tregynon . Author of 'Christianity and Infidelity , ' & c . & c . . ltuthin : J . Clarice ; London : Hardwieie . The history of the great Gomeric or Kinabric race constitutes one of the grandest dramas of old or modern times . It is the primogenital family of mankind ; and as such we find its various divisions established under the same or very slightly modified names iu different countries , in the earliest dawn of tradition and letters . Around the shores of the Black Sea they were known as Cimmei-ioi ; in Caucasus , Armenia , and Bactria , as Gormarui ; in the Baltic , Chersonese , aud Scandinavia , as Cimbri ; in Italy , as Chumbri ov Vmbri ; in Britain , as the Kymry . From them sprang the nations which .

    have led , and still Jead , the destinies of civivuization- —the Persian and Parthian in ancient Asia , the [ Roman in Italy , the Norman of the mediaeval , the Briton of the present , era . Of this ^ family , the Keltic race of France , Spain , and Ireland are junior branches . The Druidical religion was brought into Britain by tlie Gomeridai from , the mountains of JNoah or the Caucasus , at the first emigration under Hu Gadarn . Its leading principles were as follows : —" God is an Infinite Spirit , whose nature is wholly a mystery to man in his present state . He is self-existent \ from him all ; creation emanated , and into him it will always continue to resolve itself . To the human mind , but not in himself , he necessarily presents a triple aspect in relation to the past , pi'esent , and future —the Creator as to the past , the Saviour or Preserver as to thepresent , the

    Re-Creator as to the future . In the lie-Creator , the idea of the Destroyer was also involved ; The Druidic names for God were Duw , Deon , Dovydd , Ceii , Tor , Perydd , Rhun , Ner . The sacred animal of their religion was the milkwhite bull ; the sacred bird , the wren ; the sacred tree , the oak ; the sacred plant , the niisletoe ; the sacred herbs , the trefoil and the vervain ; the sacred form , that of the three divine letters or rays , in the shape of a cross , symbolizing the triple aspect of God ; the sacred herbs and plant , "with another plant , hyssop , the emblem of fortitude in adversity , were gathered on the sixth day of the moon . The great festivals of Druidism were three , the solstitial festivals of the rise and fall of the year , and the winter festival . At the spring festival , the baltan , or sacred fire , was brought down by means of ii burning glass from the sun . No hearth in the island was held sacred till the fire on it had been relit from the baltan . The baltan became the

    Easter festival of Christianity , as the mid-winter festival , in which the misletoe was cut with the golden crescent from the sacred oak , became Christmas . The niisletoe , with its three berries , was the symbol of the Deity in . his triple aspect—its growth on the oak ,, of the incarnation of the Deity in man . The canonicals of the Arch-Druid were extremely gorgeous . On liis head he wore a tiara of gold , in his girdle the gem of augury , on his breast the ior moraiti , or breast-plate of judgment ; below it , the glati neidr , or draconicegg ; on the forefinger of the riglit hand , the signet ring of the order ; on the forefinger of the loft , the gem of inspiration . Before him were borne the coel bren , or volume of esoteric mysteries , and the golden crosicir with which the misletoe was gathered . His robe was of a white linen , with a broad purple border .

    " Prior to Cajsar , " observe the classic authors , " no foreign conqueror had ever ventured to assail the shores of Britain . " There the warrior , for the first time , saw the chariot system of Troy , familiar to him hitherto only in the descriptions of Homer , in actual operation . The heroic and historic modes of warfare were pitted against each other . Tho admiration of the lloman general—already the hero of thirty victories on tho continent of Gaul—for the war-car , as distinguished from tho cavalry system , appears to be based on solid grounds . It embodied the two essentials which military scienoe seeks to combine in & perfect branch of service , the rapidity of cavalry and the stability of infantry . The chariots were built of light , well-seasoned wood , many of them richly blazoned and adorned with the precious metals . They generally held two , sometimes four , combatants , and were drawn by two horses abreast , so thoroughly broken in to their work that Cicsar declares in descending a lull full speed they would , on a motion of the charioteer , wheel round and

    retrace their course , scarcely slackening their pace . The charioteers themselves frequently leaped irom the chariot upon the polo , rearranged the harness and returned to their place . They drove standing . From the axletrees of the chariots keen falchions of greut breadth projected , indicting the most ghastly wounds , and rendering it a matter of no small peril to attempt to attack tho chariot on the Hank . They drew up in divisions , each under its own commander , and nil of them under the Pendragon . One of the divisions commenced the action by bearing down on some ^ iven point of tho enemy ' s line . The spectacle of the charge itself , tho cheers ol" the oojubatanls , tho rush of tho horses , the roar of so ninny wheels , juiinjled with tho clang of anms , rarely failed , before a blow was exchangud , to disorder tho ranks of the best disciplined troops opposed to them . A passage being Ibrcod , the combatants , as circumstancca pointed out , oither quitted their chariots and formed in a body in tho contro of the enemy , or broke out at some other point , discharging , as they swept on , tlioir heavy javelins , and re-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14111857/page/19/