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    233 THE LEADER. [Nq. 465, February 19, 1...

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    THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. (spconp Noxipn....

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    author ' s powers are descriptive , and he possesses a large fund of imagery . It is called a dramatic poem ; nevertheless , a large portion of it is narrative , and we think it might with advantage have been otherwise designated . A lyrical energy is displayedin some of the sections , and the whole is intended to awaken thought , But its topics are too multifarious to permit a critical analysis . .

    The North British Review . If the old " Edinburgh " does not keep a bright look out its younger rival , the " North British , " will hid fair to come in winner at the literary goal . The present number is an exceedingly good one . The subjects are judiciously chosen , properly varied , nd extremely well handled . The Algerian literature of Trance brings the reader acquainted with the merits of three French writers , whose works ought to be better known here : But of the three , "A Summer in the Sahara , " by Eugene Fromentin , is the work that will make the most lasting impression , on account of its matchless charm of style . Carlyle ' s " Frederic the Great" is somewhat too favourable

    towards the author and his much criticised work . " Figi and the Figians" is very good . " The Philosophy of ; Language" places under review Ernest Kenan ' s and Max Miiller ' s well-known works , " Sir Thomas More " and the | ' Reformation . " " The limits of Religious Thoughts Examined" will delight the lover of abstract theories and reasoning . De la Rive ' s " Electricity , " " Scottish Home Missions , " and " Reform , " are all very good in their specialties .. . . Half Hours with the Microscope ; being a popular Guide to the use of the Microscope an a Means of Amusement and Instruction . Illustrated from Nature by Tuflen West . Robert Hardwicke .

    Tins is a most useful compendium of knowledge , obtained by means of the microscope . Among the preliminary rules given for the examination of the engravings is one of great significance , as showing what practical truths lie necessarily at the head of all science . " All objects , of course , vary , in apparent size , according to the powers with which they are examined . " It is the same . with , the natural senses as with these . artificial aids ; and we may thence learn that the actual appearance of this mysterious universe is a result of con-action proportionate to the perceptive and other mental powers of the human examinant .. Were these greater than they

    are , even so would the universe itself increase in dignity to our apprehensions . This is one of the lessons taught by the microscope . 1 . Nothing to Eat ; or , Dinners at Bangkok , and Diners ' a la Russe . L . Booth . 2 . Spray . Macmillan and Co . Tun first is a satirical epistle , supposed to be written by lady Betty in town . to MissLe . ti . yin the country , describing , the state banquet in Siam , and jesting on the newspaper controversies in relation to the proposition that our fashionables should . dine' a la Itussc . The author assumes the soubriquet of Nectarine Sunnyside , and writes with facility . scries oi

    " Spray" is the metaphorical title of a frotliy verses , anonymously published , not inelegant , even sometimes classical , which may amuse the light-minded even by their frivolity . Extracts from the Works of Jean Paul T . Richter . Selected and translated by Georpfiana Lady Cliatterton . John Parker and Son . The picturesque beauty of Jean Paul Kiohter ' s sentences has been generally appreciated ; nevertheless , the rendering of them into English has been seldom happy . Lady Chattorton has not only selected well , but has translated with an case and fluency that will be perfectly surprising to those who rcgiira tho original passages as exceedingly difficult . Here they are , however , in the most intelligible and laciio English wo have ever read . Her ladyship lias indeed accomplished a marvel .

    Ike has so methodically and . intelligibly stated . The Profession would have then also bteen , with the i xbblic , great gainers by a publication in noway inferior to any which has already borne the impri--matur of the learned author . The Eclectic Review . Ward & Co . The number for this month is of diversified interest . The clerical element , if we may use that term , not lieing too prominently conspicuous , and on this ground likely to please old readers better , and to attract a wide range of new . " Stanley on the Epistles "—a review of Stanley ' s second edition of the JEpistles of Paul to the Corinthians—will chiefly have

    a . relish for polemical tastes . " The Queen ' s government , and religion of India , " -. insists on the necessity of active interference in * ipreadmg Christianity in India , and of discountenancing the doctrine of religious neutrality . " Bad weather on the Mountains ;'' " Town and Forest ; " " High-water Mark ;" ¦* ' Smithfield and Bartholomew Fair ; " are all sound and pleasant reading . " Dr . Thomas Guthrie , " the Scotch preacher , has an article all to himself . " A Hide over the Rocky Mountains " is very amusing . The politics are embodied in " France , Austria , and Italy , " and the article is evidently written from an Italian nationality point of view .

    The Irish Quarterly Review . The animus of this publication will hardly permit it to become generally popular in England . The Uoman Catholic spirit is too illiberal and too obtrusive for any but Roman Catholic readers , and even those readers must not be of the tolerant and liberal section . If the various Hibernian writers could suppress or disguise a portion of that virulence with ¦ which they bespatter then * Saxon and Protestant neighbours , the utility and value of the Irish Review as a contribution to the literary wealth of the age would be greatly enhanced . The article' on the Jesuit Xavier de Ravignan is a curiosity , in its -way , and is not , however , without literary ability .

    world regard the antiquities of the old . Thompson s history of bur . Lincolnshire port , from some of whose worthies are descended men honoured in the American city , is reviewed in the pages before us con amore . . Long papers are devouted to " Edmund Burke , " "Abelard , " and " De Quincey . " " Contemporary French Literature " is viewed as mirroring a lamentably corrupt state of society . A variorum edition of Shakespeare / published by Little , of Boston , U . S ., and edited by Richard Grant White , is also noticed , and would appear to be a valuable and laborious work of great interest even on this side the Atlantic . Mr . White has taken as his basis the folio of 1623 ; and while no superstitious

    reverence has chained him to its text , he has noted every deviation and chronicled every other proposed one , including the 117 admitted emendations of Collier ' s amended folio and the rest of * he suggested ones . Common sense , says the reviewer , is the characteristic of this edition ; and we confess we are anxious to see a copy of it . Stanford ' s New Map of the Parliamentary Divisions and Boroughs of England and Wales . Sheet , colored . E . Stanford . This map has been prepared with great care , to convey at one view the chief facts relating to the question of parliamentary representation . The actual boundaries of the parliamentary boroughs

    are now delineated for the first time on a general map and the extent to which the rural population contributes to the so-called borough constituencies is indicated by this map at a glance . The colors denote the number of' members returned by each constituency , as well as its topographical limits . Those returning one member—whether counties , parliamentary divisions , or boroughs—are colored green ; those returning two members , are colored pink- while those with three members , are yellow . In the table , the counties are arranged alphabetically . The towns are inserted under the counties which contain them , including all that are represented , and also those with above 8 , 000 inhabitants which are unrepresented . After the name of each constituency follows the amount which it contributes in direct

    The purpose of the writer is to glorify Jesuits and Jesuitism . He does not merely aim at showing that , after all , " black is not so very black , " but that black is really- pure andvirgin " white . " The Jesuit—not JJavignan in particular ^ is depicted as a self-denying purist , whose simple and innocent life and actions are directed to one noble , amiable , and Christian purpose—to save the souls and conserve the morals of the whole benighted world . We are afraid that all the charges against their ambitious views , their crafty and demoralising teaching , their abominable doctrines and hypocritical lives , are fables , invented by enemies who envy them the possession of virtues -which they do not themselves display , and of learn ^ ing which they cannot emulate . We wish the writer all the success his attempt deserves , but we fear we him but in this

    taxes , and the numbers of its total population , of its inhabited houses , and of its parliamentaryvoters , concluding with the number of members which it returns to Parliament at present , and the number proposed by Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham , by Mr . Bright , and by the Times Correspondent . In the notes , attention is called to various remarkable'facts , such as the total numbers of the town and county constituencies ; the urban and rural populations ; the adult males ; the registered electors ; the inhabited houses and the rated houses ; as well as other data relating to the subject . As a whole , the map is a striking proof of the clearness and exactitude with which geographical delineation i s capable of conveying facts of this nature , however complicated and various they may happen to be ; ahd it cannot fail to serve as a work of reference hi

    can i ^ roniise scant advantage heretical island . The Protestant Saxon , we fear , will riot ignore history- —will not believe that a race of men , bred up in . the strictness of discipline , as are the ¦ Jesuit youth , and . set apart from the world , and associated together for a common and concealed object , under an inflexible subordination to their superiors , ——a body of men whom . every Sovereign and . every people have separately and conjointly from tune to time expelled from their dominions , or rooted them out like dangerous vermin—we say , we fear the British Saxon will not accept the version of Jesuitism from a Jesuit , but will go on in his error , in trusting to tho ovidenco of common sense and of well-established facts . The Review has some very good articles , and wo could therefore wish it were not sectarian ,

    tne forthcoming discussions . The Year-Booh of Facts in Science and Art . By John Timbs , F . S . A . W . Kent and Co . This " Year Book of Facts " for 1859 , is quite equal to its predecessors , and will add to Mr . Timbs ' reputation . Here is recorded , in fact , every thing that has taken place in the scientific world during the year , relative to the mechanical and useful arts , natural philosophy , electricity , chemistry , natural history , geology , mineralogy , and astronomy , including notices of meteorological phenomena , and an obituary . The notion of such a work , it must be confessed , is exceedingly happy , and Vts utility unquestionable . It is not , of course , our intention to

    JSoswell ' sLife of Johnson . Croker ' s Edition . Parti . With Illustrations . John Murray : Tins is a cheap issue of the latest and best edition ot tho most interesting Biography In tho language . It is to bo oompletod hi shilling monthly parts , extending over six months' issue , No work can bettor deserve the wide circulation it will thus receive . The North American Review . No , CLXXXII Jan ., 1859 . Boston : Crosby and Co . London : Sampson Low , Son , and Co . ' . , , Tiir publishers announce that arrangements have heen niado for tho simultaneous issue of this leading North American lltorary Review in Boston and Lon - don . This cannot iUil to please nil horo who watch

    offer an analysis of the contents of a compilation like , this ; tho number of items it contains alone renders such an attempt impossible : But in , renowing our acquaintance with these recorded facts of the past year the mind will instinctively seize on some few , and subject them to a reflective process . In this manner we could not help being struck by some remarks of Mr . Scott Russell , apropos of the paddle and the screw-propeller , that formed the subject of a paper by Mr . John Macgrogor , M . A ., who had in his researches abridged the specification of patents . Mr . S . Russell pointed attention to tho

    wit ) h plcasuro tho legitimate growth of American literature , and especially those liberal minds which can contemplate European progress and affairs from an enlightened American stand-point . *• Bible Rovision " is an excellent common-sense paper on a topic admitted by all Christians to bo important , ana which is attracting much attention in the States . Tho able reviewer is a great admirer of Dean Trench , and gathers from his experience in America , and his digest of Europoan opinion , that some day the English Bible—not superseded , not diaparaged , but arrayed in still higher beauty than it now boasts—will bo handed down to a grateful and revering posterity . It 1 b delightful to obsorvo tho continued affcctlonjfttq regard with whioh tho best spirits of tho now

    very few , out of the great number patented , that had come into actual use ; and inquired whether the audience were " not struck with tho fact that nearly all the inventions they now heard of no more seemed monstrously ingenious , whilst the inventions actually in use wore those whioh appeared to have got . rid of all , the ingenuity , and to have merely retained one or two plain , simple , common-sense elements in them , ? " The moral of this lesson we need not point out . Tho volume ig embellished with a frontispieceportrait of Sir Btoimunin Collins Brodie , j & art ., D . O . L ., and now President of the Royal Society .

    Ernest , the Pilgrim } a Dramatic Poem . By I . W , Idng . " Partridge and Co . This poem , whioh is dedicated to Alcssandro GavazzI , has undoubtedly considerable merit . The

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    THE BRITISH INSTITUTION . ( spconp Noxipn . ) Tub first picture in tho south room , " A Bye Lnnc in Berkshire , " by W . W . Gosling ( 371 ) , is very protty in subject and colour , and though at nrsc sight it rather wants repose , it improves on acquaintance . " Water Dogs" ( 379 ) , by I <\ W . Kohl , i « one of tho pluckiest works in the exhibition ? it gives a foreshortened view of several dogs swimming niter ft fowl , and is vigorously drawn nnd pahitod , Wimo on dogs , wo ought beforo to have noticed the oxcoc iingly well-expressed consciousness ot Armneiu » Culprits" ( 247 ) , a party of Skyos in a } f » V T \ iv whom one , having demolished a china plate , I » cjcnify anticipating wrath to come . Mr . Joseph Cm ** ¦ " Cottage Poor" ( 398 ) represents a countrymaiij n corduroys , tickling with hie pipo stem ™ inl " ™' whom a tomalo of uncertain ago holds up to mm . It is a ohayming little subject ; the drawing and expression of tho figures are admirable , but tho colour of tho vino leaves may be objected to as untrue to

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 19, 1859, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19021859/page/14/