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    SSSMPKfflSSfftSsS ^ ^ nthlwhole , tte author , ! ^ «^« P » pl ««« fe ******** ™ } j of wMch the first part is , str ictly speaWgvall tiwt is original ; but the ? LZaTiti £ VE * £ m > be rea * fi ^ s ^ As a faithful reeord of that strange SStSepfsSe ^ he career of Kapoleou , it ha * an historical value of Sal Sficance for politie s * readers who know whereto look for the springs of history , and a liis ^ int erest for alL . We congratulate WlicmjB Reeve on jtovmjT disinterred from the columns of that venerafete periodical ! , the . tot *« ry 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 Subjects , grave and gay . We would note more , particularly the articleson -is ^ eiopmen ^ i ami

    Expeditions"' -- " Psetrdo-Philosophers' — ~ xne oare -ase we **«* suites " In all of these we observe the same delightful vivacity , the same genial sympathy , the same bright flow of hamoor , the same strong and clear undercurrent of various learning ; , thef same mastery of science in its principles , the same love of science in its results . When these papers appeared m the Literary Gazette they were remarked "by the comparatively few who had Access to them , not only for their substa-nce , btrt for their form ; not for their science and learning only , but for tbeir gaiety and—grammar . In the present volume the latter qualities wiS pass usobserved for want ol contrast , but the charm of a * yte still enhances the learning and the science . and with sincere the

    • We have already noticed ire some det » a , praise , excellent edition of Chaucer , by Mr . Robert Bell . ( J . H . Parker . ) \ Vehaye only now to . repast the appearance , of the second volume , containing the Wife of BaA and the Canterbury Tales , We remark again the care and ^ conscientiousness of an editor who does his work con aniore . Mr . Constable ' s fourth volume of the Miscellany of Foreign Literature contains a selection of unpublished papers by Washington Irving . ( Chronicles of ' Wolferts Roost , and other Pap&s , ^^ by Washmgto » Irving : Constable and Co . ) These papers a , re published by a direct arrangement with the author . We shall return t ^ the volume . Meanwhile , we may take this opportunity to anaaimce the fartneoming publication of the first number of a weekly oirtoreilitera

    f > erTodical uM ? ranee * which wUL be at once a miscellany « n - ture , and a journal h * the : form and . style of Household- Words . It is the intention- of the propnietocs , webelie * e > to * devote a considerable spaeeto translations ( bj aanrangenienfe with tlie- attthors ) of some of the best of English worfc * © f ^ fiction , t » av ? l , and biography . With these selections , there will be occasional papens * o » geaeBal'socTal topics , such n » fee established ! the reputation , underline fcfeh axispices of ( She editor , of "Household Words . This International Magazine mio , * b edtted , we he > r , by W . Jur . ES Simon , sometime Professor of ^ brat PJijuosophy , and : member of lie Constituent Assembly , u name ahcE a , reputation enjoying deservedly the cordial respect and esteem of aflT who . can . appreciate Intellectual abilities of the highest and blameless life Simonlatest

    order dignifying , adorning a . M . Jotjes ' s treatise oil MaraL Philosophy , La , Devoir , which rapidly exhausted a first and second-. edition , was justly considered , in the present intellectual darkness of France ,, an act of the noble 3 t civic courage and virtue . It was the voice of a good , yaasp summoning his fellow-citizens to the defence of all that rescues ,, humanity , from the disgrace-of .. brutes .. r We _ . therefore , huii . this mew International Magazine , under such an editorship , as a happy augury . We must dismiss in . a sentence the January number of the New Quarterly ( Hookham ) , which sterna , to us inferior to some of the . preceding , but clever . and discursive enough to . be readable . ; Putnam ' s MoiUldy ( New York ) , 'various and originafc . uL its topics ; the Rambler ( Burns and Lambert ) , in many respects the ablest of the Catholic ; -organs , and displaying increased

    strength and prosperity m a calmer tone < and a lees aggressive attitude . In the present number ^ aw article on the eternal question of the Jesuits , * fc prop ©* « tf the Abb £ de Rayignanfe recent defence of the Order ; deserves -attention ^ though it has nothing ) new to ; tell us . We do- not share the Exeter Hall horror of Jesuits individuall y i vra hare been happy enough t& make delightful acquaintances in the Order : but we must affirm our unshaken conviction , confirmed by all hiafcoiry , , bjthe experience of States , by the textfcooka of the Jesuits themselves , that the Order of Jeauita is incompatible W& th # peace , the prqgrees , and the liberty of nations ,,, and , even of families , and thai , their statutes are irreconcilable with true Christianity . This does W » t » need wa add P preclude us- from , acknowled g ing , tho presence of many tnejk admirable foif virtue as for : Teaming , withm the celebrated Order of

    ? au -Ignatius . Jl Tpur Round m % Gavden ( Routlodge ) is a neat and careful version of 4 ^ Qh « n s 9 Karr ' a delightful Voyage autaur de man Jardiu . This translation jaflLjcevised ; and edited by thq Ravorend J . C . Wood , * © naturalist whose own works we have more than once had occasion to commend . ¦ We dare oof say that the peculiar vqin of the French humourist has been quite pro-• aenwd in . the English : form ; there remains quite enough to make the tcanslation almost as agreeable to an English reader unacquainted with the French ,, aa the original is to a reader accustomed to Alphonse Kara . Our Anglican priests , are certainly in advance of their Catholic brethren , whom wht inucacela 01 Ai

    • auwBuuwH : ^ K pnonse Jvarr , the trecthinker , V oltairiun * # . « u , pre . traflsLMied by , a , clergyman of most undoubted , orthodoxy , and * ni&mo £ with truth as this charming author . " Why not P There is no mwkm any form of theology in this Tour Sound my Garden ,, bnt a genera ! Jam of nature : the honest and sincere English clergyman knows how to lore nature without deserting his , arid Nature ' s , God . AwQua th * awaUft 7 wo may mention Prince MensaUkoff ' a Carpet-Bug , toOw ^ itonqpndenA ( Thomas ana Co . )> an obvious jeu tPetprit , w « Ma « mk w * k A armhy quite foreign to the real contents- of the fnnco 0 carpet-bag . Messrs . Orr and Co . continue theiireWad aeries of

    The Butterflies of Great Britain—a . charming awing-room amateur nattmrtttts . The author ^ of Cookery Made Easy sends u 3 a treatise on Gtawi mee , and Nourishing Cookery-Koto to L ™ e Well upon a Small In-££ , 7 Wand Son ) , whtch -Vecotnmends itself to-we regret to say ^ -a vast maioferof thepubKc . The editors of the Poultry-Booh eontrrbute to the numerous catalogue of armanacks a very useful a ^ nd very ^ 11 arranged Poultry-Keeper ' s Pocket Almanack ( Orr and Co . ) , which we confidently recommend to all whom ife c&nceirna . Among pamphlets , fectwres , and sermons recently reeevred , we _ may mention alette / cRidgway ) from Colonel Mansfield of the 53 rd to the Seere-K . rr . ^ . WM . discoxmtenancinff the employment of the militia abroad , and fheolo

    recommending the increase of the regular army ; a lecture on the - aical tendencies of the Age ( Paton and Ritchie , Edinburgh ) , by the Principal of St . Mary ' s College , St . Andrew ' s , which appears to usjigofously feeble and boldly inconclusive ; Two Sermons by the Curate ot bfc . Jjuttes , Berwick-street , on the Cholera , affectionate and earnest in tone . M de Chatelain has translated with really singular felicity the Flower and the Leaf of Chaucer . ( W . JeflTs . > It was almost impossible to render the hearty simplicity of theoriginal ; but M . de Chatelain 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 , m Verse , by H 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 Ragged Sehoots , is so excellent , that it seems almost a profanity to confess that ifr Teminded us oaee or twice of the celebrated . ballad of George Barnwell" « nd of the still more celebrated ballad of " Villikms ;

    , The Christian at Home . ' ( Fowler ) is a series of mild and unexceptionable reflections , moral and religious , m prose and verse , deserving of alt respect ; as are also the Burdens of the Church ( Adam Salt ) , by the author of the True Vm * and the Branches ; and the Monopolist , or the-Power of Conscience Surely this is a sufficient certificate . , „ .,,. Florine , 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 a 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

    construction of Mr . Mac Cabe , who has acquired no mean reputation in 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 ItranJioe , and ,-wemay 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 young lady- —a real magician , a craf ty Greek , aud endless ^ horrors , suited to a period before the age of chivalry was gone . 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

    centuiiries . back , the kings of Meath were descendants of certain celebrated characters whose fortunes are so skilfully sketched in Florine . By tae ^ way , we never had an Irish friend ( if bia name commenced with an exclamation ) who was not in some manner descended from an Irish king of the Silurian period —it may be permitted to Mr . Mac Cabe to be national , even _ in Palestine . An Irishman , in fact , had better be national anywhere than in Ireland . As the only (^ txovexsyia the . book is between pure Chriatiaiiifcy and pure Mahonxmedanism , the most Protestant readers need not be afraid of their sympathies being jesuitically seduced . Only Anglo-Catholics think of luring you ta Rome by the novel road .

    Horses and- Hounds : a Practical Treatise on their Management . By " Scrutator- " ( ltontledge . ) - At the sight of the familiar green and red or 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 on " How to forma 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 tfee volume is addressed . There is plenty of spirit and adventure in the book to amuse even those who have never " ¦ sported a pink . ' Such a book may be culled notional , and among Anglomaniac sportsmen in France : would bo regarded with religious awe .. The illustrations are by Harrison Weir ; that is as much as to say that they are to the life .

    The . % reaau * y of Mampainitue . By John Smith Phillips , M .. A . Illustrated by Hiue ; ( Bogue . ) , A slice of Herodotus is here turned into Ingoldsby veraes—which are rapidly becoming the last refuge of the destitute of humour . A word of recognition may be given to the illustrations , in which , the regular imbecile-looking Egyptian figures are rendered even more imbecile by being ; drawn m the usual ( or unusual ) positions of life . Perhaps the mysterious Egyptian prototype of the conventional modern . " Snooks" is a little too freely employed in this burlesque . March Winds and April Showers . Being Notes and Notion * on a Few Created Things . By "Acheta . " ^ LoveU Reeve . > The increasing class who

    delight in natural history will be glad to meet with a work which combines easy knowledge with agreeable writing . As might be expected from the elegant enigmatical title , tike subjects treated are insects , birds , water-plants , trees ,, ami Nature ' s wonders generally . There is also an introductory chapter , in which ,. by the rather worn-out machinery o £ Nereides-and Tritona , & graceful moral is taught . ' Sea-flowers , and fifty similar things whid * will saah across the mind at their suggestion , are described in a aalta and thoughtful- manner , at once devotional and poetic . The unobtrusive illustrations are no mean ornaments of the book . They are beautifully executed , and in many instances are excellent in . conception ; thai of the owl ; liatening

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2074/page/18/