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    ponderous in its ¦ jocularity , but , as times-go , . an average specimen of Magazine writing . lieJnncl the Scenes in Paris" rises in interest as the story progresses , the poetry is very readable . Altogether , this number is a decided improvement on its predecessor . The English Woman ' s Journal commences with a very sensible and suggestive article on ' ¦ ' The Adoption of Professional Life by Women . " " Maria Edgewortli" is an almost exhausted theme , and a day behind the fair ; but the subject is tolerably well treated . " Women in Italy , " " Mediaeval Tracts , " " Maxims in Council , " will have their admirers ,

    but call for no special criticism . The Dublin University Magazine . —There is ho mistaking the position of this serial—it has worked its way into the foremost nmk , and maintains that place by the weight of its literary merits . It is totally free from that national spirit which disfigures so large a portion of Irish literature . Itis ^ cpsmopolitan , philosophical , instructive , and amusing ; and , in saying this , we need do no more than indicate a few of the articles for this mouth— - " ileli-S ious Biography , " " Social Reform , " " Elisha Kent lane , " ? ' Rides on Mules and Donkeys , " " Artist Life in Rome , " &c . — -with ' a ' hearty recommendation . We have marked several articles for extracts , and when our space is less occupied we " shall give them insertion .

    The B gold- may as a somewhat exhausted , but as additional light is thrown on the actual condition of affairs , the article may be read with advantage . " Eilzmaurice of l ) aliganmore " and the " Trish Brigadesman " continued , but we . seldom notice a work while in progress—we " wait until the wliolc is before us . " The Romance of Art" is from the same pen that lias received , well-merited marks of approbation from the critics generally . The article for this number does not in the least fall off in descriptive power , anecdote , and pleasant writ-ini * . " Characteristic Anecdotes of Napoleon I . " are a proof that this subject is not yet exhausted . Here is an excerpt showing that the great man in his adolescence was somewhat less of a hero than his after-life proved him to be : — „ ,

    Shortly after he had left school , he became acquainted with the daughter of Madame du Colombier . The young people , little more than children , fell in love , and used to contrive short meetings . " I well remember one , " said Napoleon , which took place on a midsummer morning , just as day began to dawn ; all our happiness consisted in eating cherries together / " The young people parted , and it -was on his way through Lyons , in 1805 , to be crowned King of Italy , that he and his first love met again . She had married M . Brissieux , and came to solicit a favour for her husband . It was granted ; and she was appointed maid of honour to one of the Emperor ' s sisters . .

    " The Chronicles of an Old Race" continues its Ossianic revelations , and here we leave the serial with a repetition of bur opening remark , arid this addition , that the Magazine is all the better for it .

    The Eclectic Review—for this month will be welcomed by . a larger circle of readers than iisual , because its * table of contents is more varied in character , and less given up to polemics . The " Drainage of the Metropolis" is a clever criticism upon sundry official reports on the great question ' of metropolitan drainage . Some hard and well-deserved hits are administered to more than one high officialand the writer in a few trenchant sentences

    , disposes of the question as to the true value to be attached to official reports and Government Commissions . " Dr . Bartli s ~ Travels in Africa " furnish the foundation for an artiele of much interest . " Lord Metcalfe" is a just tribute to one of the most experienced and enlightened Indian officials that ever assisted to mark out a policy for the government of our Indian Empire . ^ The review of ( German literature and several other articles will

    amply repay perusal . The Art Journal . — The first illustration is the " Marriage of St . Catherine , " painted by Vandyck , and engraved by Ridgway . The original is a fine work of art , and the engraving is worthy the reputation of the work . " Rubens ' s Farm at Lacken , " engraved by Willmore , is also very good , but as far as the cattle go we doubt whether Rubens ' s type of bovine excellence would meet the requirements of a connoisseur in short-horn breeds . The " Young Hussar " is from a statue of the late Lord Fitzgibbon , by M'Dowell , rather too statuesque , but a fine , manly figure , and thorouffhlv well d bv MoteThe lettcr utc icuti

    enerrave . - aiiu murougiuv wen ciigruvcu uj jju . jmt - press is of the average ability . Le Follet . —Arc we guilty of profanation in meddling with anything that so completely concerns the ladies as such abstruse matters as coiffures , corsets plastiqucs , passementeries , and chapeaux micaniques ? We fear we arc on forbidden ground , and that we shall be misapplying matters in the same way tho savages did a pair of unmentionables , dealing with them as a covering for the head in place of an contraire ; and so we refrain from doing more than saying tlmt hero the very newest Parisian fashions , are to be . found very ,, nicely engrayc . d , and , accompanied bv suitable literary matter .

    The Irish Metropolitan Magazine is more genial and less exclusively Irish this month . It has also a wider range of subjects—the majority of which cany an air of , novolty with them , which , in these days of literary rechattjfts , is no small recommendation . The first article is " The Co urtship and Flirtations of Jean Paul Riohtcr . " No doubt Richter was a celebrity in his own country and day , and his writings tnado much impression on tho German mind . His fame extended also to , this country , but ,

    01 course , to a limited circle , and it is to tho sym--pathies—of—thatr ^—circle—t'he—tirtiele ~ will- ~ pi'inoi pally appeal . But there is always a special olmrm , m personal relations , and particularly in those disclosures of inner life which uring tho individual and his mind-workings distinctly beforo the reader . This is done in tho present instance , and exceedingly well done too ; and what with narrative , and what with judioious extracts from correspondence , joined to tlje ability of tho compiler , auoh an amusing narrative is the result as will oertwnly be welcomed by a wide circle of readers .

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    Deerbrook . —By Miss Martineau . ( Smith , Elder , anc Co . )—This is a cheap edition of one of the most sterling and popular novels of our daj ' k All classes have ' . now the book placed within their reach , and it would be i work of supererogation for us to bestow even a word o praise on a production that has added varied laurels t < tlie literary wreath -which surrounds the brow of one ol our most distinguished living authors . . . . * . '¦ The Historical Magazine , and Notes and Queries concerning the Antiquities , History , and Biography of 'America August , 1858 . —( Triibnerand Co . )—Were we asked tc name an English parallel for the above Magazine , we should hit upon our old friend " The Gentleman . " Mr . Sylvanus Urban possibly might not , in his palmydays , have interested himself to any great extent about r > z ) y 9 » . /»^^ v » Z- _ lii ^ Afioc TV'I * n rfincm ii ' / "StiTii + li "Flrif » r ** -n / i

    steam navigation , to reminiscences of which ( how old the " antiquities" of steam navigation make one feel , tc be sure ) our New York friend devotes his first article ; but it must be recollected that to plant laurels on the brow of Fulton has been a more intense object of American ambition than most of us here can understand . But every other department and article of the journa would have met with the warm approval of Sylvan a : and his coterie . We were surprised that " Speaking foi Bunkum" should have been thought worth a place ir our American Notes and Queries for August , 1858 . The origin of the phrase is already thoroughly , we fancy , understood in this country , but the name of the worthy senator to whom its pedigree is traceable had hitherto escaped us . It was Mr . Culpepper , of North Carolina .

    The New Quarterly Review ( Bosworth and Harrison , we should think a valuable work for the export trade . As consisting of short reviews of standard works , nearly all of which have been treated of day by day or week by week in the London and provincial journals , it is not a periodical conscientiously to be recommended' to readers at home , for who is there , at the present price of literature , who doe 3 not indulge himself with the cheap and excellent matter , reviews and all , of a legion of out younger contemporaries ? But in the backwood settlement , or even in the colonial outpost , we can readily see how welcome might be to everv educated or even simply

    Matson ' s Poems . ( Groombridge and Sons . } —Mr . Matson has already made his " mark" on the public . A " Summer Evening Reverie'' is widely known , and its first appearance indicated the advent of anew poet of no mediocre pretensions . The success of the original publication has induced the . author to issue the present volume , which , in addition to the poems of the smaller work , comprises four times the amoixnt of original matter . The volume is replete with evidence of poetic feeling - of the meditative and pensive character . We make room for a specimen as a taste of the author ' s quality , not the best piece in the book , but because its size . adapts it to our columns : —

    ¦ - .. - ' KKSVROAM . I . It is the noon of night ; The firmament is overflowed with stars ; The moon is up ; and Light Teers put , like a sad captive through his bars , Upon the darkness round . Deep silence broodeth over field and wood ; All heaven and earth , seem bound , Throbbing asleep in lap of Solitude . Yet , but a little space , This sleep of Nature will be overworn ; And we shall watch , apace , Returning Day mount up the gates of Morn ; Bearing vicissitude To men ; with novel thought and purpose rife ; Stirring the boundless brood Of things ; , and quickening Nature into life . ii . There is a midnight , yet , That bears a deeper silence in its broad ) , When human hearts forget To throb with hope and fe « r , the Night of Death . A vague and solemn hour , When Darkness gathers up the skirts of Gloom , Infolds the mortal flower , And boars it withered to the lap of Doom . And shall it then re-live , Odour and blossom in a brighter day ? Tho apirit still survive , When outward leaves of lifo are blown away ? Frail heart of flesh have faith , Nor deem tho spirit ' s golden visions vain ! Though dark tho night of Death , Bright ia tho morrow-morn , and thou shalt rise again !

    Amiiin and Bertha . By Edward l « ox . ( T . u . JNowoy . ; —Mr . Fox lias soino of tho right sort of stuff in him , but ho hns hardly done himself justice in this volume . The pieces do not rise higher than the respectable ; hero and there , however , is to be found a thoug ht fresh , well gonceived , and well on pressed . ^^ : / tg-Y-ivyim « mJ $ ^ ix . ~ m . Jlmy ^ Xmk \\ sm . , ( iw-, tinues his jovial career , and encounters some incidents tlmt onablo the author to make pungent remarks on tho manners of tho last century , ami to contrast thorn with this , to the advautngo of tho lnttor . "Wo fancy wo percolvo tho commencement of ft change of character in the horo , and that mlafortuuo is beginning to give him a salutary lesson < or two . Valentino Vox . By Henry Cookton . ( Routlodgo and Co . )—This established favourite is now Issued In a handsome cheap form . It will enlarge Us circle of readers and admirora very materially .

    inquisitive person such a condensation of literature as is presented in the pages before us . A variety of hands are , of course , employed ; some of them , we should say , green enough . In a fifteen-line notice , for example , of Colonel Addison ' s Traits and Stories of Indian Life , we find the work described as a rechauffe of old jokes , as almost uniformly of a . gloomy and melancholy cast , and as not otherwise than amusing . The editorial Homer , however , we suppose , must , elsewhere as here , slumber occasionally . But with such trifling reserva- ^ lion , we certainly incline to " summarising" for the million who have not time to read in extenso .

    Davenport Dunn , No . 15 . —This number is principally occupied with Mr . Davis , alias Grog Davis , who makes a confidante of his daughter , and a confession that would have convicted him before any tribunal , even of blacklegs . Routledge's Shakspeare , Parts 27 and 28 . —This is a double number , and it concludes Timon of Athens , gives the whole of Richard HI ., and commences Measurefor Measure , The illustrations to Richard HI . are effective , though Richard is too old and too stagy a villain ; we prefer the vignettes , which are pretty and illustrative . The remarks nre sensible and well selected , and the paper and printing all that could be wished .

    Tnteiviational Handbool ; No . 3 . —A mixture of railway tables , neatly set-up advertisements , and a selection of miscellaneous paragraphs , de omnibus rerum . It has a distinct little map , and is not a bad companion for the rail or steamboat . National Magazine , No . 23 . —The sayings of Jerrold are continued . Tho woodcuts are numerous , and are after interesting pictures , and ore very artistically executed and beautifully printed . The literature is various both in quality and aubjject . The most important paper is tliat by Mr . SutlieiTarid 'EdWeird . * , on Russia ;

    The Progress of Agiifiitlture . ( Houlston and Wright . ) —This is from tho larger work of the History of Progress in Great Britain , by Phllp . For the convenience of tho farming interest the section of tho work is published soparately , and no doubt it will bo well received , as its merits entitle it to wide patronage . A Guide to Bntish Columbia and Vancouver ' s / stand With Map , &c . By John Dower . ( W . H . Angel . )—A very accep ' . ablo work nt tho very right time . Tho information in this cheap publication will be found of the utmost value to manufacturers and exporters , to erai-Kranf a nnj | , | q 9 Y 9 ryo » lo ^ y ^ p , takes an interest in tho

    fortunos of this rising British dopondoncy . Law and Lawyers : a Sketch-booh qf Legal Biography Gossip , and Anecdote . By Arohor Poison . ( RoutledffO and Co . )—A capital ahitfing ' fl-worth . Tho notices nre lively , but brief , Tuia ia one consequence of tlio largo numbor of celebrities , living and tload ,. brought Into good-natured and acceptable notice . Handv Helps to Useful Knoioledge , No . 13 ( W . H . Ansel . ) A full anil clear account of the Aquarium , and of tlio Insect Vivarium , and the Water Garden .

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    allarat fields be regarded theme / Ko . 441 , September A , 1 B 58 . ] THE LEAD 909 '¦ " ' ( mi -r % ii -i _ i i z » : _ l 1 ¦ ¦ J 1 ..,. -.. —1 « ., ! ~« x / ± l »«« .- »« .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 909, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2258/page/21/