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      Among the " prospects of the season" we' cannot refrain from making - particular mention of the new Scientific Library to be published by Mr . Hi&hley . Works of a high character are so ill supported in England that it is doubly incumbent on journalists to give publicity to the fact of their existence , that those who would purchase them may hear of them . The works already announced are by such men as TJnger , Scbtacht , KoLLiKEE , Gtosup Besanez , &e . We shall take opportunities of mentioning the progress of this series .

      In IVance , there are signs of activity . Guizot's Cromwell is , daily expected , and Xamaktine , after announcing three different historical intentions , has finally settled upon the history of the Constituent Assemblywe say " settled , " because , as the volume will be out in a few days , there is little probability of a new vacillation on the part of his historical muse . If you consider seriously what history is—the Geology of Humanity , so to speak—what a profound and almost awful thing it is , IiAMAETiNE ' s florid pamphlets , written not for history but for money , with the haste and recklessness of a pamphleteer , will Strike yon as somewhat unworthy of the man who held the highest rank among the poets of his nation in this nineteenth century , and who once had upon his shoulders the solemn responsibility of that nation ' s affairs ! Happily for publishers and for I ; Am : abtini ! , the mass of men do not so consider it . The mass desires to

      be amused . " Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt , Allein , sie haben schreeklich Tiel gelesen . " " It is true they are not cultivated to the highest point , but they have read so much , they are up to all the tricks of writers . " And JLamaeti ^ b will have need of all his long-resounding periods—of all his French spangles and tinsel—all his rouge and powder , to amuse them with this Assembled Constituante .

      Alphonse Karr has given us another volume , and one that can be placed in the hands of young ladies . It is called , Lettres eerites de mon Jardin , and forms a volume of charming botanical gossip , in a style which the readers of his other works , especially the Voyage autour de mon Jardin , will readily imagine . Other readers , of a graver kind , will thank us for informing them that the eminent zoologist , Pouchet , has just published a Histoire des Sciences Naturelles au Moyen Age . It is devoted to Al-BEKTtrs Magnus , and the group of thinkers who illustrated his epoch . Among German books we may mention Professor Klencke ' s MiJcroslcopiscJie JBilder ; J $ fatui * ansichten aus dem JKleinsten Hawme , in a series of letters forming a good companion to Liebig ' s Chemical Letters .

      From books to gossip we may pass with the announcement , that Dumas the elder has had his comedy on the youth of Louis XIV . stopped l > y the Censor , cause unknown . But the great Dumas is not to be stayed by a Censor , be lie even an Imperial Censor , and accordingly this is the letter in which ho declares his intention to give Fortune back her bullets with unconquerable will ; it is addressed to the Director of the Thedtre Franfais : — "My deak Director , —I have just arrived from Bi-ubhoIh , hearing that the Jeunesse de Louis XIV . is stopped by the censor . " This is Tuesday ; on Monday next I request a reading . '' I shall read you five acts .

      "What it is I shall read you I do not yet know , for the news has reached me unprepared , hut these five acts will bo entitled Jennctine de Louix X V . " I will so arrange it that the scenery you have prepared shall all be available . " It is needless to add , that in the JeunesHe de Louis XV , there will not bo a single word , not a situation , to bo found in the former piece on Lonix XfV ., which will remain intact , in case the censor should one day restore that work . " Should I bo ready before Monday , you shall hear from me . "Yours , AUSXANDUK DUMAH . " Tuesday , three o ' clock . With a littlo aotivity on your part , the ^> woo may be out in three weeks . "

      Is it not incomparable P Ho only demands a week for a nVo-iioi comedy , the vory subject / of which in not thought of ! The stylo of this letter is delicious ! Dumas the younger also , some time ago , had his dramo of La Dame aiix , Perles , stopped by tho conflor , but has cmee more brought it into what ho considers a presentable . condition as a dramn . It is now in rohoaraal . Rondort ) of tho novel La Dame aux Perlex ( notified by us recently ) -will matvel whore a dramn is to bo found in its paijrefl , but

      nothing is impossible to an adroit dramaturge ; and tho euro which the French bestow on tho reality-of . their mitte en scene renders many a piece effective which would be utterly lost with us . It may bo mentioned as an illustration of the low tone pervading French morals respect ing women , that young Dumas is said to have taken his own inistresK—a lady of high rank , and perfectly recognizable in Paris— -as the original of hia Dame ancx Perlcit t It may not bo true—but that it should bo said , and fluid without disgust , ifl sufficiently indicative .

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      RUSKIN'S LAST VOLUME . The Stones of Venice . Vol . III . The Fall . By John RuskLn / toith Illustrations drawn by the Author . Price 31 s . 6 d . Smith , Elder and Co . The volume now before us completes Mr . Ruskin ' s last , and , in the opinion of many of his admirers , greatest work . It is not our purpose to examine closely into its teclinical details , nor to enquire how far lie has succeeded in proving what he arrogantly informs us ( p . 254 ) it has been the object of the book to prove , "that all the architects and all the architectural teaching of the last three centuries , have been totally wrong . " There could be little doubt that a theory so comprehensive in its condemnation , would find critics and antagonists enough ; and Mr . Jiuskin . can probably

      boast of fiercer opponents and wanner partisans than most writers . The technical objections of his adversaries do not , at present , concern us : the charges of dogmatism and intolerance , of hasty generalization and arrogant self-assertion , cannot so lightly be set aside . They proceed , in great measure , from the strength of the faith that is in him . " Genuine belief , " says a very eloquent writer of our time , " ended with persecution ; " a notable saying ! Few men have looked more ^ lovingly into Nature , and listened more reverently to Art , than Mr . Jfaiskin ; and it is hard for him to believe that eyes and ears which do not receive interpretations so clear and palpable to lvim , are not wilfully closed .

      The present volume is , perhaps , not so rich as its predecessors in those wonderful word-j > aintings for which the author is celebrated , and which fairly dazzle our mental vision , as we read . To our fancy the style is somewhat shadowed and subdued , in accordance with the period of which it treats : no longer Venice in her prime , and in the glory , and brightness , and magnificence of her prosperity , —but Venice in her decline , in the decay of all that was great and noble , the moral no leas than externalmoral , therefore external—decadence , set forth sadly and simply in this title-page , as her " Fall . "

      The volume contains two great divisions , Roman Konaissanoe and Grotesque Kemiissanoe . Many pages are dedicated to the consideration of tho artist , his education , duties , and requirements ; and others to an enquiry into the old , the inexhaustible , the evor-ihtereHting subject— -tho causes of the decline of art . It is difficult to make extracts , where the subject-mutter must provoke criticism , without injustice to the author ; but whether we ¦ are prepared to go all lengths with Mr . Huskm , upon artistic ; education , or not , there is muck to interest all'rcadora , in . his view of TIIH ARTIST ' S MISSION . " Tho whole function of tho artist in tho world is to bo a Hoeing and feeling creature ; to bo an inKtrumont of Mich tendernoHH and euniMtivoneHR , that no shadow , no hue , no lino , no inntantanoouH and evanescent expression of tho visible things around him , nor any of tho emotions which they aro capable of conveying to tho ftpirit which Jitw boon given him , shall either bo loft unrecorded , or fiwl «

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      Critics are not tfhe legislators ' , "but tie judges atid police of literature . They do ' not make laws—th . ey interpret and try to enforce then ! - —Edinburgh Review . ,

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      October 15 , 1853 ] THg LEADER . 1001 - - ' r - 'i r' ¦ i ii- k .. i ¦ ' J . \ f , . ' •*! . * 1 '' ¦ SX . . ¦ ' i ¦ ' J i''' ''"' . ' " ' ¦ - - ¦¦¦¦¦ .. « 1 .

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      BOOTES' OtJR TABLE . Memoir * qf 'John Abetnethy , &H . S . By G . STaeilwain , F . R . C . S . 2 vote . 21 » . ¦ mm- ' . < , ~^ ¦ « i » ¦ t » n t r Ti -d t > -nr » ¦ Hurst and Blfickett . Memoirs qf Thomas Chalmers , D . I > ., LL . D . By Rev . W . Hanjia , Ll . D . 2 s . 6 d . L . ~ ' . ~ . ¦ ¦ - nn ~ m :- ¦*>•** -r * T ~ Thomas Constable and-. Col The Travellers lAbrary—The Chose tn Brittany . By J . Hope . Is . ¦ The Young A * a Modem Fo « n . By Edward Winde ^ T ™ ' ** " >• Green ' " * # 5 g 38 r Poetical Works of George Herbert ; with Life , Critical Dissertation , and Explanatory Notes By . Rev . G . Gilfifian . 3 s . 6 d . . James Nichols . Tlie English Cyclopeedza . Part 5 Is . Bradbury and Evans . Writings of Douglas Jerrold . Flays . 7 A ^ Bradbury and Evans . Paul Peabody ; or , the Apprentice of the World . By P . B . St . John . No . I . 6 rf

      The Parlour Library ^ -The False Bevr . By < x . P . R . James . 1 » . 8 rf . Simms and Mcliityre The Son of Man . By W . Porster . 3 d . w Freeman The Mission of Jems . By W . Porster . 3 d . W . Freeman . The , Indwelling Word . By W . Porster . 3 d . W . Freeman . The Knowledge of Jesus . ByW . Forster . 3 d . W . Freeman . The Charm . 6 d . Addey and Co . Sortie Thoughts . 2 d . Kent and Co . The A B C , or Alphabetical ItaiVway Ghiide . 6 a . W . Tweedie Defects , Civil and Military , of the Indian Government . By Sir C . J . Napier . Is . Qd . Charles Westerton . The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and n uliam Mason . With Notes . By the Rev . John Mitford . 15 » . R . Bentley 8 Domestic

      Englishwoman ' Magazine . Is . Clarke , Beeton , and Co Clouded Happiness . A Novel . Translated from the French of Ube Countess D'Orsay . Henry VLzetelly , Madoo . By Robert Southey . Is . 6 d . Henry Vizetelly Thalaba , the Destroyer . By R . Southey . Is . Qd . Henry Vizetelly The Chinese Revolution . Is . Henry Vizetelly The life ! and Adventures of 'Dick Diminy , the Jockey . By Priam . No . I . 6 d . Sat ing Ti mes Office JBohn ' s Antiquarian Library . —Ordericus VitaU ' s History qf England and Normandy . Vol . I 5 s . H . G . Bohn Hohrts Classical Library . —The Treatises qfM . T . Cictro . Translated by C . D . Yonge . 5 s . H . G . Bohn . Bohn ' is Standard Library . —The Theory of Moral Sentiments . By A . Smith . 3 s . 6 d .

      H . G . Bohn Bohn ' 8 Scientific Library . —Comte ' s Philosophy qf the Sciences . By G . H . Lewes . 5 s . H . G . Bohn , The IllustiratedLondmi Magazine . Qd . Piper , Brothers , and Co The Ethnographical Library . —The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago Papuans . By G . \ V Earl . 10 s . 6 d . H . Bailliere Alderman Halph . By Adam Hornbook . 2 vols . 7 s . G . Routledge and Co The Manual qf French Cookery . Chapman and Hall Harold , the last of the Saxon Kings . By Sir E . Bulwer Lytton . Chapman and Hall The Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis . By J . H . Itennett . Sutherland and Knox

      The Twin Sisters . A Novel . By Lucy Field . 3 vole . 11 . Us . 6 d . John Chapman A JRetrospect of the Meligimos Life of England . By John James Tayler . John Chapman The Religion of the Heart . A Manual of Faith and Duty . By Leigh Hunt . 6 s . John Chapman The Poultry Book . 2 s . Qd . W . S . Orr and Co The Portrait Gallery . 2 s . Gd . W . S . Orr and Co Chambers ' s Pocket Miscellany . 6 d . "W . and R . Chambers , Chavibers ' s Repository qf Instructive and Amusing Tracts . Is . W . and R . Chambers , Chambers ' s Edinburgh , Journal . Id . W . and R . Chambers Electoral Reform . By W . J . Isaacson . Butterworths True Account of the Horrible System of Discipline at the Borough Gaol , Birmingham . By Mr . Joseph Allday . Is . F . Pitman .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1853, page 1001, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2008/page/17/