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      No 457, December 24, 1858.] The Leapee. ...

      No 457 , December 24 , 1858 . ] THE LEAPEE . 1413

      Invalid—All Softness And Sensibility. Lo...

      invalid—all softness and sensibility . Lord Cony ngford , though outwardly cold and stern , i nwardly is loring and amiable . A distant relative , Edward Young , is engaged in the capacity of tutor . He is silent and impassive to outward appearance . But like his noble relative , he has a temperament deeply susceptible of female attractions . Lord Conyngford falls in love with his ward , makes a declaration of love , and an offer of his hand . His ward does not entirely approve of the alliance ; but she takes a year to think over it , and to give her final answer , Hie frail health of her brother calls for a change of climate , and accordingly * with Lord Conyngfdrd ' s consent , a party is made up , consisting of Ellen , Frederick , and their stepmother , with Mr . Young as tutor and manager of the travelling arrangements . While travelling hither and thither , the peculiarities

      AN OLD DEBT . An Old Debt . By Florence Dawson . 2 vols . Smith , Elder , and COi Had Miss Bronte never written Shirley , Miss Dawson would have gained higher praise for the originality of her novel . Not that Miss Dawaon has copied servilely either personages or catastrophe in Shirley , but as she has introduced a strong-minded tutor and a susceptible young lady pupil , the coincidence naturally solicits attention , and attracts comparison . The story worked out in these two volumes appears to be this—Ellen Scudatnore and her brother Frederick are left to the guardianship of Lord Conyngford , their relative . Ellen is beautiful and lovable , but somewhat self-willed and impetuous . Frederick is an

      of character possessed by JSllen Scudamore and Edward Young are brought out prominently . The result of the intercourse which tak . es place between all the members of the travelling party , and certain well-wrought incidents which take their rise from the course of events is , that Edward Young finds himself the rival of his patron , Lord Conyngford , hopelessly in love with Ellen , but as desperately determined to keep his secret . The year expires . Lord Conyngford makes his appearance , claims the hand of Ellen , and receives it . Edward Young quits the happy pair , but writes to Lord Conyngford a letter which lets that nobleman into the well-kept secret of his life . Lord Cpnyngford follows Edward Young , and overtakes him , but too late for earthly aid . Edward Young has expired— . we infer , through blighted hopes . The tale is worked out with cleverness and with level ability , though certainly it has no pretensions to take higher rank than that of a very good , seasonable novel .

      John Halifax. John Halifax, Gentleman. F...

      JOHN HALIFAX . John Halifax , Gentleman . Fourth Edition . Hurst and Blackett . This sterling production has reached a fourth edition . This is no more than its inherent literary merits demanded , and we may be sure that when this edition is exhausted the public will call for more editions , and the work will continue to hold the high rank it immediately attained when it was first introduced to the public .

      Messrs. Dean And Son's Children's Books....

      MESSRS . DEAN AND SON'S CHILDREN'S BOOKS . Every Child ' s Own Booh : Poetry and Pictures for Little People . The Lion ' s Grand Ball . Mrs . Dove's Party . New Mother Goose . Threp Little Kittens . Every Child ' s Own Book Primer , Funnily told Tales and Funny Pictures . Shakspearafresh Chiselled on Stone . By J . V . Barrett . The Coloured Pvcture ^ Book of Surprising Stories . Tub first seven of this Christmas issue are all admirably suited for very young children . The subjects are full of fun , and the illustrations in admirable keeping . The series are all printed and got up in superior style , and the price moderate . Funnily told Tales and Funny Pictures is a wprk of higher pretension . The binding and the illustrations are so good , and the poetical text so replete with humour , that n more acceptable Christmas gift could hardly be devised . The Coloured PicturerBook of Surprising Stories is another charming little work—a perfect treasury of enjoyment for young Indies and gentlemen who have got beyond their primer . Shahspeare fresh Chiselled on Stow consists of burlesque pictorial rcnderlnga of well-known quotations from Shnkspoarc . Children of "larger growth" of course will be beat able to appreciate properly the hunjour of the artist and the culler of quotations .

      Books Received. Tales Jhom Blaokxoood. V...

      BOOKS RECEIVED . Tales Jhom Blaokxoood . Vol . III . FcAp . 8 vo . W . Blackrrood and Sons . The Two Mottoes . By too Author of " Summerleigh Manor . " J . W . Parkor and Son .

      The Calamities and Quarrel * of Authors , # c . tfc . BY Isaac D'lsraeli . Anew Edition , Edited by bis Soiu the Rt . Hon . Benjamin Disraeli . Routledge and Co-Days of Old . Three Stories from Old English History . Macmillan and Co . Florence . A Tale . By Mr . E . Hammond . James Blackwood . The Book of Job . By T . J . Conaut . Triibner and Co . The Foster Brothers . A . Hall , Virtue , and Co . Hanworth . J . W . Parker and Son . Augustin and Wenonda ; or , Forgiveness of Injuries .

      Tallant and Allan . Ths Prayer Book and its History . By the Rev . G . Okehurst . Wertheim and Co . Memoirs of W . Beckford of Fonthilli . 2 vols . C . J * Skeet . Our Veterans of 1854 in Camp before the Enemy . By a Regimental Officer . C . J . Skeet . The Plays of Shahspeare . Edited by Howard Staunton . Vol . II . Routledge and Co . Howto Farm Profitably ;¦ or , the Sayings and Doings of Mr . Alderman Mechi . 8 vo . Routledge and Co . Moore's Irish Melodies . People ' s Edition . Longman

      and Co . * , The Kangaroo Hunters . By Anne Bowman . 8 vo . Routledge and Co . An Old Debt By Florence Dawson . Smith , Elder . and Co . , New Pictures and Old Panels . By Dr . Dorau . 8 ro R . Bentley . The English Schoolgirl . By Mra . Alfred Higginson Chapman and Marshall . Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair . By Henry Morley Chapman and HalL A Few out of Thousands : their Sayings and Doings Groombridge and Co . :

      False Appearances . By Mr * . Mackay . A . Hall , Virtue , and Co * Canadian Crusoes . A Tale . By Catherine Parr Trail ! . A . Hall , Virtue , and Co . Father and Daughter . By Frederika Bremer . Translated by Mary Howitt . A . Hall , Virtue , and Co . The English Boy in Japan . By William Dalton . Nelson and Son . Thorndale . By William Smith . W . Blackwood and Sons . The History of Moses Wimble . By Himself . C . J . Skeet . Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili , Peru , and Brazil . By Thomas , Earl of Dundonald , K . C . B ., and Admiral of the Fleet , & c . & c . 2 vols . James

      Ridgway . Outlines of Scripture History . By Rev . J . E . Riddle , M . A . Longman and Co . Chiming Trifles . By an Oxonian . W . Kent and Co . History of th * Reign of Philip II ., King of Spain . By W . H . Presqott , Vol . II . Routledge and Co . The Boys' Booh of Modern Travel and Adventure . By Meredith Johns . W . Kent and Co . Relics of Genius . By T . P . Grinstead . W . Kent and Co . ' Ballads and Songs . By Edward Capern , the Bideford Postman . W . Kent and Co . The Theory and Practice of the International Trade of the United States and England . By P . Barry .

      Trubner and Co . John Halifax , Gentleman . 4 th Edition . Hurst and Blackett . The Pulpit Observer for 1858 . Judd » nd Glass , Le Magasin de Librairie Public . Par Charpeutier . Paris : Charpentier . The I airy- Tale of Science . By John Casgill Brough . Griffith and Farren . The Logic of Banking . By J . W . Gilbarr , F . R . 8 . Longman and Co . Lays of the Middle Ages , and other Poems . By James Hedderwick . Macmillan and Co ,

      Cambridge Essays . 1858 . J . W . Parker and Son . Recollections of a Literary Life , ifc . By Mary Ruanell Mitford . R . Bentley . The Town . By Leigh Hunt . Smith , Elder , and Co . Proverbs with Pictures . By C . H . Bennett . Chapman and Hall . Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the Strand District of London . By Con way Evans , M . D . John Churchill . On Copper Smeltinq . By Hyde Clarke , Esq ., C . E . " Mining Journal ft Office , Fleet-street . Lessons on Mind . J . W . Parker .

      Music In Paris.—A Monster Concert On A S...

      Music in Paris . —A monster concert on a scale of monstrosity never before heard of is projected for April next . 208 choral societies , numbering among them 7000 performers , aro to bo congregated within tho walls of the Crystal PaUco in tho Champs Elysdes . M . Delaporto , the President of tho Choral Society of Paris , nnd M . Vautin , a Hdacteur of the Orphion and of tho , Pays , nro tho leaders of the enterprise , -which Is sold to bo patronised by Moyorboer . Afuican Immxqimtiox , —The commission on the immigration of negroes Into tho French colonies is about to examine the Bishop or Martinique and the Bishop of Gabon both of whom happen to be in Paris .

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      The Society For The Encouitagejient Of T...

      THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOUItAGEJIENT OF TUB FINE ARTS . This new society is now fairly launched , and ap parently under the most favourable auspices . Upwards of . eight hundred persons , ladies 'and gentlemen , all in evening dress , responded to tho invitation of the council , and attended the provisional meeting at the Hanover Square Rooms on Friday evening last . Mr .. H . Ottley , the honorary corresponding secretary , in his address on behalf of

      Ms colleagues in the council , referred with especial gratification to this circumstance , which he accepted as a proof that the promoters of the society " were not far wrong in the leading idea upon which i t was based ; namely , a conviction , of the existence in the minds of the public of a living and growing interest in the fine arts . " It is a prime feature in the principles of this society , that it includes all the sisterhood of the fine arts , and another , that it

      invites rather the community who have a taste for the enjoyment , of one or all of those arts , than the professions of the arts themselves . A large general constituency is thus sought to be secured , which , whilst i t gives might and importance to the action of society , will probably avert that tendency to " cliquisni , favouritism , and partisanship , " which has been the ruin of so many purely art institutions . That tlie professions of the arts , and those practicall y and commercially connected with thenv are not illdisposed towards this new catholic organisation , nor unmindful of the influence it will probably exercise upon their interests , may be judged from

      the alacrity and unanimity with which they came forward to give their aid in honour of its inauguration . Mr . Martin , the lessee , lent the Hanover Square Rooms without charge ; the singers , including the Orpheus Glee Club , sang gratuitously ; and the owners of pictures came forward to lend the pick of their collections to decorate the walls . Sculptors , too , were there in the lower room ; so that , altogether , au evening ' s entertainment was produced which : may'be pronounced as unique as it was varied in character , and which went off without a hitch , to the evident satisfaction of all concerned .

      As for the business part of the proceedings , it chiefly went to setting before the public a resumd of the progress and intentions of the society , points which , as they have already been discussed in these columns , we need not again , enter upon in . detail . Viscount Ranclagh , one of the vice-presidents , who took the chair in the unavoidable absence of the Earl of Carlisle , the President , gave a matterof-fact statement of the declared views of the promoters , as set forth in the programme , and plainly put the question , " Was there room for such a society ? " his affirmative reply to which

      was ratified by au impressive cheer from the audience . Then came Mr . Ottley ' s address , which was listened feo with attention , and gave general satisfaction . In the course of it the speaker candidly referred to the conditions necessary to ensure public support to any project of this kind , and whilst lie put forth pretensions to enjoy it , he judiciously disclaimed all intention of rivalry with any other existing body : — We cannot be blind to the fact ( ho said ) that , in this plain-speaking , plain-going country , the public , when appealed to by the promoters of any undertaking upon

      public grounds , are accustpmed instinctively to hold a little aloof—to exercise a wise reserve , hesitating to accept and ratify the proposition until well satisfied , of the ingenuousness and bonajides with which it is brought forward , nnd tho probable means of its eventual successful accomplishment . "Wo do not complain of this ; on the contrary , we gladly accept the condition—the only sure title to success is to deserve it , and that we hope to do . We aro well aware , also , that in this advanced age there is scarcely any field of intellectual enterprise which is " not to a certain extent , and under certain

      modifications , already oooupied , and that a natural joalousy is excited in tho minds of thoso who bo occupy the position of all who are supposed to meditato invading it . Allow mo then , on tho part of the council of this society , to invite the public to apply tho most rigid scrut ny to our scheme . If they sco thut it is a good ono , and likely to prove of use , lot them ndopt it } if otherwise , let thorn withhold thoir support . Wo know tho result , aud aro prepared to abldo by it . And with regard to all thpso , whether publlo bodies or Individuals , taking an active part in anything relating to the interests of Art , let vi

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1858, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121858/page/13/