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      Day By Day At Lucrnow. Dayty Day At-Luch...

      tragedy short , and spare' themselves from the tortures and humiliations of Cawnpore . Sir Henry Havelock himself ; aware of the Sepoy character , wrote emphatic instructions to the Commander at Lucknow never to surrender , but to perish by the sword rather than negotiate with the enemy . Of course it would have been' necessary , had that dreadful alternative arrived , to find some death for the women in the Residency , and the Indian races would then have seen that a British garrison could perform their rite of johar and die the Rajpoot death , to disappoint the passions of an enemy governed b y no principle of civilized warfare . Mrs . Case , as she left the town , after its final relief ^ saw the bodies of two young girls newly killed in one of the principal streets . They had been prisoners probably , murdered to revenge Sir Colin Campbell ' s victory . It will be found by those who peruse this heart-stirring diary that it adds many minute but interesting particulars to the narratives already published , and that Mrs . Case , an intimate friend and associate of Lady Inglis , was a close spectator of all that passed between the Sepoy investment of Lucknow and its rescue by the British columns .

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      The House Op Camelot. The House Of Camel...

      THE HOUSE OP CAMELOT . The House of Camelot . A Tale of the Olden time . By Mary Linwood .. 2 vols . " Hope and Co . This is a tale of the very olden time , being laid among the Druids , whose manners and ceremonies deepen the colour of the romance . Miss Linwood has contrived an entertaining story , with exciting situations and mysteries , partly borrowed from legendary lore . The House of Camelot comes to us as an agreeable variation among the novels which deal with Paris and Belgrave-square . It is written with care and enthusiasm , and may be recommended to constant readers who call at the circulating library .

      One-Volume Romances. Frank ^Eresford; Or...

      ONE-VOLUME ROMANCES . Frank ^ eresford ; or ^ Life in the Army . By Captain Curling . ( Skeet . )—Captain . Curling is known as the writer of several dashing volumes of military sketches ; ' Recollections of the Mess Table , " " The Camp Club , " and " The Soldier of Fortune . " In this new book he adheres to his old style , following the adventures of certain young officers , and presents pictures of soldierly dinners , a mutiny , a march , a punishment parade , barrackrooms , reprimands , practical joking , and all else that belongs to life in town and country quarters . In such productions , when the series is lengthened , there is an inevitable monotony ; but Captain Curling has seen so much of his profession , and is so thoroughly familiar with the ways of brotherfice

      of rs abroad and at home , that he contrives to vary hid story to a degree beyond all rational expectation , and the result is a book of agreeable amusing anecdote and incident , held together by a slight romantic plot . Hartley Hall . A Novel . By James Hastings . ( James Blackwood . )—It has been the aim of Mr . James Hastings to harrow up the hearts of his readers . " At times he indulges in the pastime of humorous romance ; but the tendency of his drama is tragic . In contrast with tlie figure of the maiden schoolmistress putting on her thimble before she whips her pupils , stand many dark images , and there are horrid stains of blood upon the most elaborate scenes , besides death-dances and comparisons of living women with gibbeted felons . Mr . Hastings has been deceived by his belief in the necessity of " startling effects , " upon which he appears mainly to rely .

      Publications And Republications. Mb. J. ...

      PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . Mb . J . W . Parker has this week published the second volume to be shortljr followed by the third—of Mr . Massey's History of England during the JRetj / n of George the Third . It includes the period from J 770 to 1780 , the second decade of the reign . This volume contains an interesting sketch of the _ history of manners in England preceding a full picture ^ of the Georgian—by its flatterers called the English Augustan—era . We have laid the book aside for more ample notice . Di \ Asa Gray , an American naturalist of eminence , has published ( Triibner zr » J' ^ * mu of botany for young people and common schools , entitled How Plants Grow : a Simple Introduction to Struct uralJSotany , with a Popular I'lora . The volume is remarkably meritorious in its classification of subjects , and its explanations , clear and precise in themselves , are assisted by upwards of five hundred illustrative woodcuts

      An Introduction to English Etymology ( Sutherland and Knox ) is a volume ot more ample scope thnn such elementary text-books customarily are . It . has been jomtly compiled by Mr . Robert Armstrong , of Madras College , bt . Andrews , and Mr . Thomas Armstrong , of Heriot Foundation School , hdinburgh To students of the Engliah language it will be of peculiar value , the plan being new , and the scholarship ripe and critical A new edition , " revised and enlarged , of Mrs . Slater ' s wonderfullyingenious little book , Sentential Chronologic ^ published by Messrs . Longman and Co ., needs but to be mentioned . It presents "a complete system of ancient and modern chronology contained in familiar eentences , " and is a curiosity as well as a treasure of it 8 class

      Messrs . Longman m London and Messrs . Galignani in Paris have published a third issue and the tenth thousand of their Practical Su > i ^ G ^ a Complete Itinerary of Switzerland , Savoy , Piedmont , North and Northern a ^^ fe-AW ^ JM asass sp ^ pTiSESSSSuSSSH i . but » worthless piece of patchwork . The narrative of Juoui . ffioiw ! acce « uoa to tb « throne contain * not ( he lea » t alludon to the Coun d'Etat

      Selmann , translated from the sixth German edition and published by Hamilton , Adams , and Co ., are works of which we can only quote the titles An important work has this week been issued by Messrs . Longman and Go . —History of the Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington . From the French of M . Brialmont . With emendations and additions by the Rev . G . JR . Gleig —It will occupy three volumes , of which two are now before us . This week we simply announce the publication . We have also received , and reserve , The Defence of Cawnpore b y the Troons tinder the Orders of Major-General Charles A * Wind ham , in November , 1857 . Written by Lieutenant-Colonel John A dye , C . B ., published by Messrs * Longman and Co . Messrs . Bosworth and Harrison send us a translation from the French of The Art of Extempore Speaking—Hints for thePulpit , Me < Senate , and the Bar by M . Bautain , Vicar-General and Professor at the Sorbonne , a volume full of interesting hints and illustrations .

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      Concerts. The Concert Epidemic Has Of La...

      CONCERTS . The Concert epidemic has of late been raging with solstitial severity in this metropolis . Where all tlie audiences come from , and , we may add , all the celebrities , vocal and instrumental , engaged in these annual campaigns , is a question we have never been able to solve . The Parisians < to whom Beethoven , Handel , Ha-vdn , Mozart , and Mendelssohn" are comparatively unknown , whose Imperial Academy has a repertory of about lialf a dozen operas , and scarcely a tolerable singer ) , are kind enough to regard us with compassion as mere outer barbarians in musical taste and intelligence ; although the greatest works of the immortal Masters are being hourly performed kefore crowded and discriminating audiences ; although we have a public for three Italian Opera

      Houses ; although classical chamber concerts attain to the dignity of institutions ; although tnonster , miscellaneous , promenade , and fashionable concerts occupy every available hall and public room , morning , noon , and night ; although from Canterbury Hall to Highbury Barn the evening : air is heavy with horns and dizzy with fiddles ; although street organs have defied the hereditary gout of the Peers , and an eminent inhabitant of Tyburnia , who boasts of the familiar and . significant name of Jones , is at this moment agitating his quartier , and offering ( if they will send him to Parliament adhoc ) to die on the floor of the Commons for their suppression ; although , in a wordi we are the most music-ridden people on the face of the earth . The present week has seen the Concert epidemic at its height , and it has certainly been a Veek distinguished by the best concerts of the season . On Monday Mr . Benedict ' s concert , one of the two great musical events ( or , as our lively neighbours would say , "

      solemnities" ) of the summer ( Mrs . Anderson ' s concert is the other ) , took place at Her Majesty ' s Theatre . The audience and the performance were equallyworthy of the high reputation of tlie justly . admired composer and professor , and well-esteemed gentleman who was . the giver of the feast on the occasion . The aspect of the aristocratic theatre , thronged from floor to ceiling with a brilliant display of beauty such as only London at the height of the season can show , arrayed in all tlie panoply of bewitching bonnets and muslins as many-coloured as azaleas , was a gratifying tribute to the beneficiary , of which . Mr . Benedict may well be proud . But it is fair to say that he had provided % banquet unsurpassable in variety and excellence . Not only the entire companyattached to Her Majesty ' s Theatre ( with the exception of BELTJEirr , absent from illness ) assisted in the performance , hut Madame Viardop and Here Joachim , amongst others , increased the attractions of the programme a

      hundredfold . One entire portion of the concert was dramatic . Madlle . Titiens sang a scena from Webeb ' s Oberon , and has not yet been heard , in England , in music so well adapted to her noble voice and style ; Herr Pisohek , the vocal lion of some years since , contributed a powerful scena from an opera of Mr . Benedict ' s ; and a delicious operetta of Paksikli , o * s , LaServa Padrona , enabled many among the audience ( whose religious scruples forbid them to attend the theatre proper ) to discover Madlle . Piccolomini dressed a la Watteau , warbling very prettily , in music happily within the compass of her bird-like voice , and , we need scarcely add , coquetting with the audience most unmercifully . The whole concert was remarkable for the selection of pieces , and was incomparably successful . On the same evening , the sixth and last concert of the Philharmonic Society was honoured b y the presence of Her Majestt , the Prince Consort , and the Royal Family of Belgium . Hcrr Joachim was the instrumental soliat , and

      Miss Louisa Pvne and her sister were the singers engaged . On Tuesday , at the " Musical Union , " in St . James's Hall , Rubinstein and Joachim were again found in harmonious conjunction , and Herr Paver played with the great Russian pianist a duet by Schumann . On Wednesday , Hub Majesty and the Court , surrounded by a bevy of Ladies-Patronesses ( who had contended for the best seats with alL the vivacity and eagerness of humble folk ) , presided at a " Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert for the benefit of the Royal Academy of Music . " Of course the presence of Koyalty , almost in State , and the solicitations of noble Ladies-Patronesses would have been sufficient to attract a splendid company even if a Mass by the Earl of Westmohelawd had not occupied the whole of the first part of the programme . A Mass by a noble Earl , a General in the Army , and a sometime Ambassador Plenipotentiary , is a musical treat of no common order . Only think of a British Earl ( G . C . B ., and

      half the Alphabet besides ) soiling his soul with the vulgar art of » Ueethoven or a Mozaiit . Let us admit , however , to the credit of the noble Earl , that he has not disdained to walk in the steps of his untitled predecessors , and that his Maes displays something more than a mere bowing acquaintance with their works . The second part of the concert was miscellaneous , and was felt by the audience , albeit aristocratically and exclusively composed , to be a relict to the Kyrie Elceions of the noble Earl . Mr . Costa conducted with even more than his usual zeal , and Messrs . Saimton and BrAonove led an orchestra which rendered the Mass of the noble—beneficiary we were about to say , forgetting the Royal Academy of Music—quite imposing . Shall we be considered an enfant terrible if we venture to * sk what is this Koynl Academy of Music , in behalf of which all the machinery of Koyalty und . Ladies-Patronesses , and a Mass by a , noble Earl , were bo elaborately set in motion ? Almost in the words ot Thomas Hood , ve arc tempted to atk—Who is its father ? who is its moth « r t Una it a sister ? bat it ft brother ?—

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1858, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26061858/page/20/