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    Miscellanea. The Author Of Blondelle Wen...

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    of history , and a * liv . dbjr interestfor afl . / . We congratulate Mr ; L » veli Reeve on havmg- disinterred from the columns of that venerable periodical , the Literary Gazette , a selection of articles from the pen of the lamented Professor Edward Forbes . These papers , now we may almost say first published , embrace a variety of iubiects , grave and gay . We would note more particularly the articles on «« i : ifei 4 Telopment r G «> logy , and Religion "— " England and ^ her Surveying E 3 cpedftiona -- Pseudo-Philosophers ?'—^ The Salt Lake and the Mormonites " In all of these we observe the same delightful vivacity , the same genial sympathy , the same bright flow of humour , the same , strong and clear undercurrent of various learning , the same mastery of science m its principles , the same love of science m its results . When these papers appeared in the Literary Gazette they were remarked * by the comparatively few who had Access to them , not only for their substance , but for their form ; not tor their science and learning only , but for theurgaielgrani—gramtnar . In the present volume the latter qualities- will pass unobserved for want of contrastbut the charm of style still enhances the learningand the science .

    , We have already noticed ia soaaet detaii , and with sincere praise , the exoellent edition of Chaucer , by Mr . Robert Bell . ( J . H . Parker . ) \\ e have ¦ only now to report the : appearance o £ the second volume , containing the Wife of Bath , and the Canterbury . Tales . We remark again the care and conscientiousness of an editor who does his work con amore . Mr . Constable ' s fourth volume of the Miscellany of Foreign Literature contains a selection of unpublished papers by Washington Irving . ( Chronicles of WolferCs Roost , and otherPapzr * , by Washington-Irving . Constable and Co . ) These pagers are published by a direct arrangement with the author . We shall return t & the volume . Meanwhile , we may take this opportunity to announce tfio forthcoming publication of the first number of ^ a weekly |> 2 rrodTcalin : iErauce » . whieh ., will _ be at once a miscellany of foreign literature , and a journal ia the foriaand style , of Household Words , It is the intention of the proprietors * w & believe , to devote a considerable space to translations ( by atrangement with the : authors ) of some of the . Ifcwasfc of English works o £ aotR > n « tra ^ eL and bi ography . With these selections t her e will be

    occasional papers-oh general social topics , suchi a » have established the reputation , undaittlaekigh auspicesof the editor , of Household Words . This International Magazine t & to be edited , we hear , by M . Jules Simon , sometime Professor of Mpral Philosophy , and member of the Constituent Assembly , ¦ a name and-a reputation enjoying deservedly tne cordial respect and € 3 teem of att who can . aj > preciate intellectual abilities of the highest order dignifying and adorning a blameless life . M . Jui . es Simon ' s latest treatise oni Moral Philosophy , LeD & voir r which rapidly exhausted , a first and second edition , was ' justly . considered , in the present intellectual darkness of Franco , an act of . the noblest civic courage and virtue . It was . the voice of a good man , summoning his fellow-citizens to the defence of all that rescuesi h ^ manitvL . f ^ 5 ^ tdL 6 ^ isgrac ^ . Pjr- _ k ? . ' i ! r _ .. ^® _ : ^??!? f ^® _^ iyl-ikkL

    new International Magazine ^ under such an- editorship , as a happy augury . We must dismiss ia a sentence the January number of the New Quarterly ( Hookham ) , which seems to us inferior to some of thapreceding , but clever and discursive enough to-be readable ' Putnam ? s Monthly ( New York ) , various and original m . its , topics ; the- Rambler ( Burns and Lambert ) , in many respects the ablest of the Gafcholie ovg & nsy and displaying increased strength and prosperity in a calmer tone and a > less aggressive attitude . In the present number , am artieUs . on the eternal question of the Jesuits , & ifpmpo 8 ; . Q £ thaAbbe de R & vignan ' s recent defence of the Order , deserves attentLony through it has nothing new . to tell us . We do not share the Exeter Hall horror of Jesuits , individually , t we . have been happy enough to make delightful acquaintances in . the . Order-: but we must affirm our unshaken ^ ^ m . m jm mm «<¦•' . _ _ a a * -hj « conviction

    ^ * , confirmed byauhistary T by the experience of States , by the text-< bjeks of the Jesuits themselves , that the Order of Jesuits is incompatible with the peace , the progress , and the liberty of nations , and even of families , and" that , their statutes are irreconcilable with true Christianity . This does not ,, need we add P preclude us from acknowledging- the presence of many men , admirable for virtue as for learning , within the celebrated . Order of St .. Ignatius . A Tour Mound , my Garden ( Routledge ) , ia a neat and careful version of j & Ijphansei Karr ' s delightful Voyage autour de mon Jardiu .. This translation is Devised and edited by the Reverend J . C . Wood , tha naturalist , whose own works we have more than once had occasion to commend . We dare not say tliot tha peculiar vein of the French humourist Juas been quite proaerraa in the English form : there remains quito enough to make the

    translation almost as agreeable to an English reader unacquainted with the French * as the original ia to a reader accustomed to Alplionsa Karr . Our Anglican priests are certainly in advance of their Catholic brethren , whom tfcex sometimes imitate : think of Alphonse Karr , the freethinker , Voltairian <» Wli core ,, translated by a clergyman of moat undoubted , orthodoxy , and snfi & en of with truth as ifcthis charming author . ^ Wh y not P There is no attack on any form of theology in this Tour Sound my , Garden , bat a general LaY » , of nature : the honest and sincere English clergyman knows how to love nature without deserting his , and Nature's , God . ¦ -4 ^<» 8 Lthot , amflH , fr . j ( we maymentioa Prince Menschikofps Carpet-Bag , £ * _ *>«*»* Qim , Gtrra ^ pondeni ( Thomas and Co . ) . an obvious jeu d esprit % bat , tMftta & . ^ mtifc a , gravity tiuite foreign to the real contents of the rrince s carpet-bag . Messrs . Orr and C « h , continue- theie elegantseries of

    The Butterflies of Great Britain ^—a charming drawmg-room book for amateur naturaKsts . The author of ' Cookery Made Easy sends us a treatise on Cheap , Niee , and Nourishing Coohery- ^ JBbw to Live Well upon a Small Income fa *** and Son ) , which recommends itself to -we regret to say—a vast maiorW of the public . The editors of tne Poultry-Booh contribute to- the numerous catalogue of almanack * a very useful and very well arranged Poultry-Keeper ' s Pocket Almanack ( Orr and Co . ) , which we confidently .-recommend to allwhom i * concerns . . Amono pamphlets , lectures , and sermons recently received , we . may mention a letter ( Ridgway ) from Colonel Mansfield of the 53 rd to the Secret . n ™ . »^ War . discountenancing the employment of the militia abroad , and ^^ . . . . _ **•¦ .

    recommending the increase of the regular army ,- a lecture on the I'heofoaical Tendencies of the Age ( Pnton and Ritchie , Edinburgh ) , by the Principal of St . Mary ' College , St . Andrew ' s , which appears to us vigorously feeble , and boldly inconclusive ; Tiuo Sermons by the Curate of bt . . Luke s , Berwick-street , on the Cholera , affectionate and earnest in tone . M . de Chatelain has translated with really singular felicity the Flower- and * f te Eea / of Chaucer . ( W . Jeffs . > It was almost impossible to render the hearty simplicity of the original •; but M . de Chatelam has wonderfully caught the spirit , and even preserved the flavour , if we may so say , of the old poet . The Children of the Street : a Tale of Birmingham Life , in Verse ^ by K . R H . ( Hardwicke ) , is a versified episode from the Birmingham Gaol Report , and relates the very common progress downwards of neglected and outcast children who have had the misfortune to be born into the midst of " Our Civilisation . " The intention of this tale , written , we are told , for the author ' s- children , and the profits of which are to be given to the Raised Schools , is so excellent , that it seems almost a profanity to confess that it reminded us once or twice of the celebrated ballad of " George Bamwell" and of the still more celebrated ballad of " Vilhkms ;"

    , The Christian at Hume ( Fowler ) is a series of mild and unexceptionable reflections * moral and religious , in prose and verse , deserving of all respect ; as are also the Burdens of tlie Church ( Adam Salt ) , by the author of the True Ytne and the Branches ; and theMonopolist , or the Power of Conscience Surely this is a sufficient certificate . _ __ ., „ Flor ine , Princess ' of Burgundy : a Tale of the First Crusades . By William Bernard Mac Cabe . ( Dublin , James Duffy . ) It would seem , that history and' romance are only to be found united in the early ages , or that age gives » tone of romance to history . At all events , the writers of historical

    romance prefer the dark ages , as subjects upon which to cast no light . But , as light is occasionally bewildering , we are well content to be amused and interested by the combination of such elements under the experienced construct ion - . ; of Mr . Mac Cabe ^ who has acquired no mean reputation ia the field of history proper . In his present work he has done something more . He has given a likeness to life—a reality and a human interest even to a story of the Crusades , without plagiarising Ivanhoe ^ viA , wejnay add , without having perused Moredun . There is the siege of Antioch , described with vivid and picturesque power—the famine in the Christian camp—Zara , an

    enchanting Oriental youn g lady-7-a real magician , a crafty Greek , and endless horrors ^ suited to a period before the age of chivalry wasgone . We recommend admirers of stirring descriptions and good love-passages to read the work ; those with Hibernian sympathies will be glad to learn-that , some centuries back , the kings of Meath were descendants of certain celebrated characters whose fortunes are so skilfully sketched in Florine . By the way , we never had an Irish friend ( if big . name commenced with an exclamation ) who was not in some manner descended from an Irish king of the Siluriaa period —it may be permitted to Mr . Mac Cabe to be national , even in Palestiuei . An . Irishman , in faet , had better be national anywhere than ia Ireland . As- the only controversy in ^ the book is between pure Christianity and pure Mahomniedanism , the most Protestant readers need notHie afraid of their " sympathies being jesuitically seduced-, Only Anglo- Catholica think of luring you to Rome by the novel road .

    Horaes and Hounds : a Practical Treatise on their Management . By " Scrutator . " ( Uoutledge . ) At the sight of the familiar green and red of the chase we expected to meet our old friend Harry Hieover . " Scrutator , " however , is equally welcome ^ , as he writes about a subject he knows thoroughly , and gives us the advantage of considerable experience in the field , the stable , and the kennel . The chapters oa " How to form a Pack of Fox-hounds , " with anecdotes of the most celebrated kennels ; , on the breeding and management , the " rounding" and education of young hounds ; on * the duties of the- huntsman and whipper-in , are particularly valuable to the class of readers to whom the volume is addressed . There is plenty of spirit and adveatuce in the book to amuse even those who have never " sported a pink . ' Such a book may be called , national , and among Anglomaniac sportsmen ia France would be regarded withi religious awe . The illustrations , are ; by Harrison Weir ; that is . as much as to say that they ore to the life .

    The \ Treasury of Rampsmitus . By John Smith Phillips ,. M . A . Illustrated by Iiine . ( Bogue . )> A . alice of Herodotus is here , turned into Ingoldsby versea—which , are rapidly becoming the last refuge of the destitute of humour . A word of recognition may be given , to the illustrations , in which th & regular , imbecile-looking Egyptian figures are rendered even more j imbecile hy being * dnawn . in the usual ( or unusual ) positions of life . Perhaps the : mysterious Egyptian prototype of tha conventional modern . j" Snooka" is a little too freely employed in this burlesque . , March Winds and April Showers . Btdng Notes and Notion * on a Few

    Created Things . B y "Achetu . " ( Lovcll Reeve . ) The increasing class who delight ia natural history will be glad to meet with . a work which , combines easy knowledge -wiAht agreeable- writing . As might be expected firom the ielegant enigmatical titlo , the subjects treated are insects , birds ,, water-plants , trees , and Nature ' s . wonders generally . There is also an introductory chapter , in which , by the rather worn-out machinery of Neve idea and . Tritons , a graceful moral ia taught . Sea-flowers , aud fifty similar things which , will flaah across , the mind at their suggestion , are described , in a calm , and thoughtful manner , at once devotional and poetic . The unobtrusive illustrations ore nomiean ornaments of the book . They are beautifully executed , and in many instanced are excellent ia conception ; - thai o £ the awl , listening

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20011855/page/18/