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    • he lias so methodically and intelligibly stated . The profession would have then also been , with the public , great gainers by a publication in noway inferior to any which has already borne the imprimatur of the learned author . The Eclectic Review . Ward & Co The number for this month is of diversified interest . ^ The clerical element , if we may use that term , not being too prominently conspicuous , and on this ground likely to please old readers better , and to attract a wide range of new . " Stanley on the Epistles "— -a review of Stanley ' s second edition of the JEpistles of Paul to the Corinthians—will chiefly have

    a relish for polemical tastes . " The Queen ' s government , and religion of India , " insists on the necessity of active interference in spreading Christianity in India , and of discountenancing the doctrine of religious neutrality . " Bad weather on the Mountains- " " Town and Forest ; " "High-water Mark ;" ¦*< Smitlifield and Bartholomew Fair- " are all sound and pleasant reading . " Dr . Thomas Guthrie , " the Scotch preacher , has an article all to himself . . " A Bide over the Rocky Mountains " is very amusing . The politics are embodied in " France , Austria , and Italy , " and the article is evidently written from an Italian nationality point of view .

    The Irish Quarterly Review . . . . . The animus of this publication will hardly permit it to become generally popular in England . The Upman Catholic spirit is too illiberal and too obtrusive for any but Roman Catholic readers , and even those readers must not be of the tolerant and liberal section . "If the various Hibernian writers could suppress or disguise a portion of that virulence with which they bespatter their Saxon and Protestant neighbours , the Utility and value of the Irish Review as a contribution to the literary wealth of the age would be greatly enhanced . The article on the Jesuit Xavier de Ravignan is a curiosity , in its "way , and is not , however , without literary ability . Jesuits and

    The purpose of the writer is to glorify Jesuitism . He does not merely aim at showing that , after all , " black is not so very black , " but that blajck i s really pure and virgin " white . " The Jesuit—not Jiavignau in particular- —is , depicted as a self-denying purist , whose simple and innocent life and actions are directed to one noble , ami able , and Christian purpose— -to save the souls and conserve the morals of the whole benighted world . We are afraid that all the charges against their ambitious views , their crafty and demoralising teaching , their abominable doctrines and hypocritical lives , are fables , invented by enemies who envy them the possession of virtues which they do not themselves display , and of learning which they cannot emulate . We wish the , writer all the success his attempt deserves , but we fear we

    can promise him but scant advantage in this heretical island . The Protestant Saxori , we fear , will not ignore history—will not believe that a race of men , bred up in the strictness of discipline , as are the ^ Jesuit youth , and set apart from the world , and associated together for a common and concealed object , under an inflexible subordination to their superiorsj —a body of men whom every Sovereign and . every people have separately and conjointly from time to time expelled from their dominions , or rooted ¦ them out like dangerous vermin—we say , we fear the , British Saxon will not accept the version of Jesuitism from a Jesuit , but will go on in his error , in trusting to the evidence of common sense and of well-established facts . The Review has some very good articles ,, and we could therefore > vish it were not

    sectarian . . JBoswe / l ' sLife ofJohnson , Croker ' s Edition . Parti . With Illustrations . John Murray . Tins is a cheap issue of the latest and best edition of the mo ^ t interesting Biography in the language . It aa to be completed in shilling monthly parts , extending over six months' issue . No work can better deserve the wide circulation it will thus receive . The North Amorican Review . No . CLXXXII j ^ n ., 1859 . Boston ; Crosby and Co . London : Sampson Low , Son , and Co . Tire publishers announce that arrangements have been jnado for the simultaneous jssuo of this lending North Amorican literary ltovioAv in Boston and

    London . This cannot fail to pleaso all hero who watch "with pleasure the legitimate growth of American literature , and especially those liberal minds which can contemplate European progress , and affairs from avn enlightened American stand-point . ** Bible Rovislon " is an oxeollont common-sense ¦ paper on a topiq admitted by all Christians to be important , and which is attracting much attention 5 n the States . The able reviewer is a great admirer of Dean Trenoli , and gathers from his experience in America , and his digest of European opinion , that some day the English Blble-r-not superseded , not disparaged , but arrayed in BtiH higher beauty than it now boasts— -will bo handed down to a grateful and

    Tcvering posterity . It is delightful to observe tho continuod aflTootion-» te regard with which tho best spirits of tho now

    is also noticed , and would appear to be a valuable and laborious work of great interest even on tliis side the Atlantic . Mr , White has taken as his basis the folio of 1623 ; and while no superstitious reverence has chained him to its text , he has noted every deviation and chronicled every other proposed one , including the 117 admitted emendations of Collier ' s amended folio and the rest of the suggested ones . Common sense , says the reviewer , is the characteristic of this edition ; and We confess we are anxious ,

    world regard the antiquities of the old . Thompson ' s . history of our Lincolnshire port ,-from some of whose worthies are descended men honoured in the American city , is reviewed in the pages before us con amore . Long papers are deyouted to " Edmund Burke , " " Abelard , " and "De Quincey . " " Contemporary French Literature " is viewed as mirrori ng a lamentably corrupt state of society . A variorum edition of Shakespeare , published by Little , of Boston , U . S . and edited by Richard Grant White ,

    to see a copy of it . Stanford ' s New Map of the Parliamentary Divisions and Boroughs of England and Wales . Sheet , colored . E . Stanford . Tiiis map has been prepared with great card , to convey at one view the chief facts : relating to the question of parliamentary representation . The actual boundaries of the parliamentary boroughs are now delineated for the first time on a general map , and the extent to which the rural population contributes to the so-called borough constituencies is indicated by tliis map at a glance . The colors denote the number of members returned by each constituency , as well as its topographical limits .

    Those returning one member—whether counties , parliamentary divisions , or boroughs—are colored green ; those" returning two members , are colored pink ; while those with three members , are yellow . In the table , the counties are arranged alphabetically . The towns are inserted linder the counties which contain them , including all that are represented , and also those with above 3 , 000 inhabitants which are unrepresented . After the name of each constituency follows the amount which . it contributes in direct taxes , arid the numbers of its total population , of its inhabited , houses , and of its parliamentary voters , concluding with the number of members which it

    returns to Parliament at present , and the number proposed , by Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham , by Mr . Bright , and by the Times Correspondent . In the notes , attention is called to various remarkable facts , such as the , total munbers of the town and county constituencies ; the urban and rural populations ; the adult males ; the registered electors ; the inhabited houses and the rated houses ; as well as other data relating to the subject . As a whole , the map is a striking proof of the clearness and exactitude with which geographical delineation is capable of conveying facts of this nature , however complicated and various they may happen to be ; ahd it cannot fail to serve as a work of reference in

    tne forthcoming discussions . The . Year-Booh of Facts in Science and Art . By John Timbs , F . S . A . W . ' Kent and Co . This " Year Book of Facts " for 1859 , is quito equal to its predecessors , and will add to Mr . Timbs' reputation . Here is recorded , in fact , every thing that has taken place in the scientific world during the year , . relative to the mechanical and useful arts , natural philosophy , electricity , chemistry , natural history , geology , mineralogy , and astronomy , including notices of meteorological phenomena , and an obituary . The notion of such a work , it must bo confessed , is exceedingly happy , and its utility unquostionable . It is npt , of course , our intention to

    offer an analysis of tho contents of a compilation like this ; the number of items it contains alone renders such an attempt impossible . But in renewing our acquaintance with those recordod facts of the past yoar the mind will instinctively seize on some few , and subject thorn to a'roflectivo process . In this manner we could not help being struck by some remarks of Mr . Scott Russoll , apropos of tho paddle and the screw-propeller , that formed tho subject of a paper by Mr . John Macgregor , M . A ., who had in his researches abridged tho specification of patents . Mr . S . Russoll pointed attention to tho

    very few , out of tho groat number patented , that had como into actual use ; and inquired -whether the audience were " not struck with the fact that nearly all tho inventions they now hoard of no more seemed monstrously ingenious , whilst tho inventions actually in use wore those which appeared to have gofc rid of all tho ingenuity , and to have merely retained one or two plain , simple , common-Honso elements in them ? " . Tho moral of this lesson wo need , not point out . The volume is embellished with a frontiepieceportrait of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodio . J 3 ax % D . C . L ., and now President of the Royal Soofoty .

    Ernest , the Pilgrim ; a Dramatic Poem , By I . W King . Partridge and Co . This poem , which is dedicated to Alcesandro Gavazzi , has undoubtedly considerable merit . Tho

    author ' s powers are descriptive , and he possesses a large fund of imagery . It is called a dramatic poem nevertheless , a large portion of it is . narrative * and we think it might with advantage have been otherwise designated . A lyrical energy is displayed in some of the sections , and the whole is intended to awaken thought . But its topics are too multifarious to permit a critical analysis . .

    The North British Review . If the old " Edinburgh" does not keep a bright look out its younger rival , the " North British , " will bid fair to come in winner at the literary goal . The present number is an exceedingly good one ! The subjects are judiciously chosen , properly vari ed , nd extremely well handled . The Algerian literature of France brings the reader acquainted with the merits of three French writers , whose works ought to be better known here . But of the three , " A Summer in the Sahara , " by Eugene Fronlentin , is the work that will make the most lasting impression , on account of its matchless charm of style . Carlyle ' s " Frederic the Great" is somewhat too favourable

    towards the author and his much criticised -work , " Figi and the Figians" is very good . "The Philosophy of Language" places under review Ernest Kenan ' s and Max Miiller ' s well-known works ; " Sir Thomas More " and the " Reformation . " " The Limits of Religious Thoughts Examined" -will delight the lover of abstract theories and reasoning . De la Rive ' s " Electricity , " " Scottish Home Missions , " and " Reform , " are all very good in their specialties . Half Hours with the Microscope ; being a , popular Guide to the use of the Microscppe as a Means of Amusement and Instruction . Illustrated from Nature by TufFen West . Robert llardivicke .

    Tins is a most useful compendium , of knowledge , obtained by means of the microscope . Among-the pretiminary rules given for the examination of the engravings is one of great significance , as showing what practical truths lie necessarily at the head ot all science . " All objects , of course , vary in apparent size , according to the powers ' with which they are examined . " It is the . same with the natural senses as with these artificial aids ; and we ' may thence learn that the actual appearance of . this mysterious universe is a result of con-action proportionate to the perceptive and other mental ' ' powers ' -of the than

    human examinant . Were these greater they are , even so would the universe itself increase in dignity to our apprehensions . This is one of the lesson ' s taught by the microscope . 1 . Nothing to Eat ; or , Dinners at Bangkok , and Diners ' a la Russe . L . Booth . 2 . Spray . Macmillan and Co . Thk first is a satirical epistle , supposed to be written by Lady Betty in town to MissLetty in the country , describing the state banquet in . Siain , and jesting on the newspaper controversies in relation to the proposition that our fashionables should dine u la Uusse . The author assumes the soubriquet of Nectarine

    Sunnyside , and writes with facility . " Spray " is the metaphorical title of a series of frothy verses , anonymously published , not inelegant , even sometimes classical , which may amuse the light-minded even by their frivolity . Extracts from the Works of Jean Paul F . Iiichter Selected and translated by Georgiana Lady Chatterton . John Parker and Son . Tins picturesque beauty of Joan Paul Riehter ' s sentences has been generally appreciated ; nevertheless , the rendering of them into English lias been seldom happy . Lady Chatterton lias not only selected well , b ' ut has translated with an case and fluency that will be perfectly surprising to those who regard the original passages as exceedingly djflicult . | 1 ctc they are , however , in tho most intelligible and iaqlQ English we have over read . Her ladyship nas indeed accomplished a marvel .

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    THE BRITISH INSTITUTION . ( SECOND NOTI 0 M . ) T The first picturo in tho oouth room , " A Byo wu » t in Berkshire , " by W ., W . Gosling ( 371 ) , > u veiy pretty in . subject and colour , and though at iirsi sight it rather wants ropose . it improves on necmuuuanco . " Wator Dogs" <; 37 !>) , by JB \ W . Kohl , i » ff of tho pluckiest works m the exhibition ; t Si ™ foreshortened view of several dofffl swimming « u . T "

    fowl , and is vigorously drawn and painted , www on dogs , we ought JM ' oro to havc'uoUood tho oxolwingly well-expressed consciousness ot Ariunu « ° "Culprits" ( 247 ) , a party of Skves in a ] mnp ><™ whom one , having demolished u ufuna plate , is « w « 'v anticipating wrath to come . Mr . Joseph CM [* » •' Cottago Ddor" ( 308 ) represents a countryman »» corduroys . tickling withliis pipe stem an inmnj whom a fomalo of uncertain ago holds up to . row . It is a charming little subjeot } the drawing M" \ JJ pression of tho % urea are admirable , but thoi colour of tho vino leaves may bo objected to as untrue w

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    ^ 38 THE LEADEB . [ No . 465 , February 1 & I 859 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 19, 1859, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2282/page/14/