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      Domestic Romance.* By Far The More Numer...

      as husband and father . Anyhow , a woman who could so degrade herself ; sacrificing her own innate integrity together with the feelings of othens , in order to gratify a wild , capricious fancy , we believe most people will subscribe to our opinion , deserved her fate however harsh it might appear ^ t ; ¦ We ' think the author would have done wiser , had he been a little more severe upon his heroine ' s frailties , and not have invested her with such a halo of martyrdom , as if heY misfortunes were not the result of her own misconduct , and the want of high moral principles

      as the regulators of her actions , without which no man or woman can steersafely through the perils and temptations which necessarily beset the path of suffering mortals ! We feel ourselves perfectly justified in protesting against the class of novels of which this is a specimen , as exercising a baneful influence over the minds of many who peruse them . This is the more dangerous as the majority of people seldom trouble themselves to look below the surface , but are content to accept everything according to the habit in which it is presented , and will verily believe that guilt itself is innocence provided it be clothed in the

      garb of purity and whiteness . The Voyage of the Lady is both carefully and neatly written . The description of a voyage at sea , from the shores of our own little island to those of Calcutta , is both graphic and interesting . The novelty and awe cf feelings which every man experiences , more or less , on first coining into such close contact with the mighty ocean , are here expatiated upon eloquently and gracefully , without any attempt at exaggeration . The ship in which the hero sails is appropriately termed the " Lady" on account of the swiftness of her motions . While on board the hero becomes acquainted with a Miss

      Rose Heron , a young lady travelling . with her aunt to rejoin her father at his regiment in India . Between the two a close intimacy and friendship speedily springs up , which of course ends in their becoming sincerely attached to each other ., The contents of the two volumes are entirely taken up with the particulars of this courtship , together with ' '¦ history of a miserable woman who dies on board , and other details belonging exclusively to the every-day life of a temporary sojourner on the broad seas . The whole is presented to the public in the form of a diary , and we do not think that any reader will regret the time . he has expended in perusing its

      JBengala-y an Australian romance , from the pen of Mrs , Vidal , whose name is already favourably known , also deserves especial reM ^ fef The story is well constructed , and the language easy and fl & liiiBmhough , perhaps , a little wanting in depth of thought and o ^^ Mity of style . As may be inferred from the title the scene is laidih Bengaid ,, one of our convict settlements , situate but a few miles' distance from Sidney , The authoress , has made the most of the incidents placed at her disposal , and the characters are severally well conceived and carefully developed . The story of the sufferings of Nelly Maclean , a poor , half-witted maiden , and whose faithful attachment to the coarser-minded Lynch , an English convict , might be a lesson to many a prouder and more highlygifted damsel , is decidedly the most pathetic and interesting portion of the book . There are also some descriptive scenes , illustrative of every-day life in the colonies , which cannot fail to give the highest satisfaction to the uninitiated in such subjects .

      March 24, I860 J The Leader And'saturday...

      March 24 , I 860 J The Leader and'Saturday Analyst . 283

      The Popes And The Jesuits.* Such Is The ...

      THE POPES AND THE JESUITS . * SUCH is the subject of a work very well calculated to give to its leaders all the information they may want about a society of men with whom they , as Protestants and Dissenters , have , personally and socially , very little or no sympathy or communion , and of whom their knowledge inay comprise , very ( little more than the name . To others , namely , those—* and they are legion , we should suppose , in Europe—who venerate the Pope as their spiritual head , and respect the Jesuits for the , good which , they may believe they have done—stud it is hard to hold the creed that any bodv of men have deliberately and invai : iably , through several ages , state it

      done nothing but evil—rthe present volume , and we candidly , is calculated to excite very different feelings from those of unanimity and goodwill . ' Of course such is the inevitable effect ot all Works upon subjects about which there exist opposite and generally strong opinions . On this account , however , to suppress a booh , or to stifle a conviction is one of the weakest and worst forms of moral and intellectual character . We can always maintain better relations with others , bo they friends or foes , when their precise character and opinions , are well lcnown to us . Jn our social and religious life , and wo speak now as Protestants , the Pope and the Jesuit huve practically no existence ,- — 't hey are not entities , but abstractions , occupying no place , exercising no power , wielding

      no influence among life . And ao fur us we ourselves are concerned , we know nothing by experience of the mode by which they maintain and uae any political and religions influence and authority . The Popo arid the Jesuit nvo not mixed up in our ordinary affairs—their peculiar wisdom and power have fnded altogether from tho Anglican Church and Stato ; * vnd from what we know of the tqridenqios of modern thought and opinion in the direction of equity , freedom , and intelligence , it is not likely tlmt . the Pope and the Jesuit will ever re-appear hero . It is note-worthy , moreover , that not only do there exist in o « r advanced' though ^ and opinion insurmountable barriers to their re-appearance , but in those etates whore they have held power and influence longest and strongest , they have met with ! ¦¦¦¦¦!¦¦¦ ip

      the fiercest opposition and the saddest reverses , plainly teaching to all men the great lesson , that the ambitious founders and unscrup ulous upholders of sects , systems , and societies ^ whose principles are-incompatible with the -higher sense and progress of mankind , must and will in time lose their influence , and be forgotten or contemned by the world . . : The history of the Jesuits is , -we may say , twofold—^ -first , as they appear at home , or in Europe ; secondly , as they appear abroad , 01 out of Europe . In Europe the order was founded by Ignatius Loyola , in 1539 . Disappointed in his project of going to Jerusalem to convert the Infidels in that city , he betook himself with his associates to the universities of Upper Italy , where he enlisted new members for his religious scheme , and established the order which ,

      it is said , in consequence of a dream he called the " Society of Jesus ; " the members of which lie bound by vows of poverty , chastity , and Obedience to their superiors ^ and to repair as emissaries to any part of the world whither the Pope may choose to send them .. As soon as they became subject to the authority of the Pope begins their history in Europe ; and that history is singularly marked , it must be confessed , as the consequence of their acts , by a series of dissolutions and banishments from every land where they were known . Those , however , of . the - ' order . who went beyond Europe and carried the gospel into the Eastern world did much good . For the whole story , however , of this society in the present century we must refer our readers to Dr . JUichelsen ' s work , in which they will find it very , freely and fully told . No one but a

      bigot , a man with whom it is of no use to reason , can find fault with an author for publishing the character—the wise and foolish actions of men . It is by such means that the world , naturally and historically ^ advances in truth . Even the friends of institutions that boast of their unehangeableness , are susceptible to the healthy influence of inquiry , andy whether consciously or unconsciously ,. really exhibitiii the end si ms of improvement . And the author , who in his narrative faithfully adheres to truth , without showing any party animus , is surely entitled to a fair hearing , and should be , notwithstanding minor faults , exempt from the censures of uncandid critics , aud the denunciations of theological dissentients . What earthly interest ought any of us to have in perpetuating things that are of no service to men- —robes that they can no longer

      wear ? We presume that few men have more power and opportunity of doing good on a large scale than the Popes , would they but use it in consonance with the purer light and higher moral freedom of mankind . And were the energy , devotion , and intensity of purpose which the Jesuits have displayed , applied in the direction which the spirit of the age suggests , the world would ere long reap from them a rich harvest of political and religious liberty . But to abandon themselves to the waves when there is a good ship afloat to carry them in security over to a freer and a happier shore is , in every sense , suicidal and condemnatory . We have no space to point out more particularly the merits " of Dr . Mtchelseij * s work . Suffice it to say , the subject is important , and the book readable and instructive . -

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      y * 1— —¦ ¦¦¦¦ ' ¦¦"¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ ,... i , 3 ^ 7 ( 0 Popes and the Jeaulta < f the present Oontv . ru , By Dr . BowAno H , WlOBtsi-BEN . lioudon : Darton and Co ., Uolborn Hill .

      Miscellaneous Books * I^Ixiassify As We ...

      MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS * i ^ iXiASSIFY as we may , there will always remain over at the end of the V ^ / month or the quarter , a number of books , brochures , pamphlets and fugitive sheets , that are referrible to no particular head ; yet are indices of the direction in-which individual minds are impelled to travel by the accidental influences of the literary forces that leave their broad mark on the general body of publications that command critical attention . Here , for instance , is one which is called a Memorial of the Revival in Plymouth Church , Brooklyn , New Ygrfc' , which may be taken as an instance of that so-called Spiritualism which looks for extraordinary effects as the results of preaching , and which the scientific are now disposed to rank in the category of mesmeric sympathy . The Reverend Mr . Beecher is evidently skilled in the application ; of gentle stimulants by which the mightiest issues may ultimately l ) e affected , and will no doubt maintain and increase his popularity , to the benefit of his beam ' s . Of another little work , con-

      * Memorial Of Tho Hovhml In Plymouth Chu...

      * Memorial of tho Hovhml in Plymouth Church , Brooklyn , Nqio T ~ ork . By J . A . Siiisaumaw . ( Hall and Virtue . ) Advice to a Mothoron . the MdncufomoiU oflivr OJ / hprtnti . By Pyb Ubn » X Ciiavasse , V . li . Q H . Fifth Edition . ( John Churchill . ) On Chranio Alcoholic Into . viaatlon , '/ or , Alcoholic Slimnlanta in connection with the Narvom Si / ato \» . ; with a Synoptical Table . of Oases . By 'W . MAROKT , M . U ., F . R . B . ' ( John Ohurc , hiU . ) Goldoib JPriiit in Sil . wr Baskets . Prom JIaiuuht Bbeoubb | Stowh . ( Knight and Son . ) On th ' o Stud )/ ofModorn I *« n (/ Mff < ra hi General , awl on the ^ ng ^ J ^ f / nai / o in particular . An Essay by . Dayii > Asiihr , Ph . D . ( N . Trubner and Co . ) A aketnh nf' tha Comrtnrathe Beauties of the Fronoh and Upaninh

      Jjanauaaos . By Manveh . Mawtinbz job M ohmntin . Second ana conoiuaing Part , bdng an Answer to the " Jl ' ress . " ( Trubner and Oo . ) X > rud « me ; or , the Philosophy of Youth . A Lootnrc doliiwrod . to JToung Men . By the Xtov . Norman Glass . ( Judd and OIIusb . ) A Muwhf Book on tho Law of Mmtvr awl Sarwnt . By . TAMH 3 WtMsnn Smith , Esq ., LL . D . ( Kfnngham Wilson . ) Law awl Liberty , with J 2 npovltd Jtyoroiwo to tho Ttnnperanaa QuoaCion , etc . { hwto ; published by . Ur . V . K . Unvsa , Meauwood . ) Bonddffo in tho Bafcahoudo . By John hiLYfAhh . < Kent and Co . ) Jtovuc XwUjtondantar ( W , Joffa . ) Portrait * , donfampora Inti . Jfit / toloon If F . Par EuonNH pro MlUKpouaT . < WAUonandOo . ) '

      . . . __ . Xtottora di Vanlollo Uanin . a CHtrrnla Pallaviaino , aw Woto e . Vociunonti aulla Qvestlono Italia int . ( Torino Unlouo Tipografloo . ) Solicitors' Jtioofa-keoyinf / . By Wuu * x Maokhnj 51 B , " U \ r 'X ' jraen Office ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1860, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24031860/page/15/