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      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 by 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 Jnglis , 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 OF GAMELOT . 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 Cavielot conies 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 .

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      ONE-VOLUME ROMANCES . Frank Beresford -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 , jjnd 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 Ms profession , and is so thoroughly familiar with the wavs of

      hrnrtiorofficers abroad and at home , that he contrives to vary his story to a decree beyond all rational expectation , and the result is a book of asreeable ^ and amusing anecdote and incident , held together by a slight romantic plot . Hartley Hall . A . Novel . By James Hastings . ( James Blackvvopd . )—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 the 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 .

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      PUBLICATIONS AND REPUBLICATIONS . Mb . J . "W . Pabkdr has this week published the second volume—to be shortly followed by the third—of Mr . Massey ' s History of England during t / te Reign , of George the Third . It includes the period from 1770 to 1780 the second decade of the reign . This volume contains an interesting sketch oi 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 . Dr . Asa Gray , an American naturalist of eminence , has published ( Trubner and Co . ) a manual of botany for young people and common schools , entitled How Plants Grow : a Simple Introduction to Structural Botany , with a Popular flora . The volume is remarkably meritorious in its classilication of subjects , and its explanations , clear nnd 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 than such elementary text-books customarily are . It has been jointly compiled by Mr . Robert Armstrong , of Madras College , bt . Andrews , and Mr . lhomas Armstrong , of Heriot Foundation School , lidmburgli To students of the English 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 wonderfully-; r ^»^ S ^ S ^ . tS ^ S ^" ^^

      nS ? PreST * f af" - '"** *«* « &if « S « ZTx % ff ^ s « s ? s is but * worthless piece of patchwork . The narrative of I m . i « T ? l accession to the throne contains not the least X 8 on to l ^ cSS ^ SH or any other event of the Bonapartist December IVonSlf 7 i ' is Bimilarl y defective and calculated to iniKJ . lllrou 8 houfc » th <> volume TAe Btlle and Its Evidences , by Robert Cooner n » Mi «» . « , i l tit < x > love , and The SMettHMt of jjj Mt ^^ ^ CM ^ nu / , t'S ^ o '

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      Selmann , translated from the sixth German edition and published by Ha * 1 ton , Adams , and Co ., are works of which we can onl y quote t he tides An important work has this week been issued by Messrs- Longman and Co . —History of the life of Arthur Duke of Wellington . From the French of M . Brialmont . With emendations and additions by the Rev . 6 R . GleiJ —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 by the Troons under the Orders of Major-General Charles A . Windham , 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 the Pulpit , the 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 late been raging with solstitial severity in this metropolis . Where all the 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 Bekthoven , Handex , \ Hay » n , Mozart , and Mendelssohn are comparatively unknown , whose Imperial Academy has a repertory of about half 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 before 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 , monster , miscellaneous , promenade , arid fashionable concerts occupy every available hall and public room , morning , noon , and night ; although from Canterbury Haix to Highbury Bark 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 Tyburaia , who boasts of the familiar and significant name of Jokes , is at this moment agitating his quartier , and offering ( if they will send him to Parliament ad hoc ) to die on the floor of the Commons for their suppression ; although , in . a , word , 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 week 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 equally worthy of the high reputation of the 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 the 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 a banquet unsurpassable in variety and excellence . Not only the entire company attached to Her Majebtx ' s Theatre ( with the exception of BEtr , ETrr , absent from illness ) assisted in the performance , but Madame Viardot and Herr Joachim , amongst otliers , increased the attractions of the program rue a

      hundredfold . One entire portion of the concert was dramatic . Madlle . Titienb sang a scena from Weber ' s Oberon , and has not yet been heard , in England , in music so well adapted to her noble voice and style ; Herr Pischek , the vocal lion of some years since , contributed a powerful ecena from an opera of Mr . Benedict ' s ; and a delicious operetta of Paesikllo ' s , La / Serva 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 by the presence of Her Majestt , the Prince Consort , and the Royal Paniily of . Belgium . Herr Joachim was the instrumental solist , 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 Paubk played with the great ltussian pianist a duet by Schumann . On Wednesday , Her 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 tor the beuefit of the ltoyal Acudemy of Music . " Of course the presence of liuyalty , 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 Westmoreland had not occupied the whole of tue first ; part of the programme . A Mass by a noble Earl , a General in the Army , and a sometime Ambassador Plenipotentiary , is n musical treat of no common order . Only think of a British Earl ( G . C . B ., and half the Alphabet besides ) soiling his bouI with the vulgar art of n liitKTHOvEN or a Mozart . Let us udmit , 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 Maas 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 relief to the Kyrie Eleesons cf the noble Earl . Mr . Costa conducted with even more than his usual zeal , and Messrs . Saikton and I 3 laorovk led an orchestra which rendered tho Mass of the noble—bencliciiiry we were about to flay , forgetting tlie lloyal Acndemy of Music—quite imposing . Shall wo be considered an etrfaut terrible if we venture to ask what is tltia ltoyal Academy of Music , in behalf ot which all the machinery of lloyalty and Lodies-Pntroneascs , and a Mass by a noble Earl , were so elaborately set in motion ? Almost in tho words of 1 moma 8 Hood , we are tempted to ask—Who is its father ? -wlio is its mother f Has it a sister ? has it * brother ?—

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      620 THE LEADER . |_ No . 431 , Jtjxe 26 , 1858 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1858, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2248/page/20/