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    had ample opportunities of studying the subject Snon ^ luch he professes to write , and yet lie does Ke more than throw together , witW eyen ' cSSion editoral revision , the reports of trials , S and criminal , connected with the most promi-S frauds of the last ten . years . We want no Soney-article" writer of long standing to . come from the depths of the City and parade that information beforeus , which we already possess on our newspaper file , under the taking heading of revelations , financial , mercantile , criminal . _ It is no " revelation" to trot out the threadbare , w * ll-used andperhaps ill-used % ure of Mr . George time oi

    , Hudson , M . P ., and tell us , at this me aay , that he paid dividends out of capital , and had a < rood deal to do with our early railway system . There is no mystery about the high level bridge at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , the doeks _ at Sunderland , and the seemingly permanent membership of t ' apameat , to which they seem to have given rise . There is no mystery about the disastrous chairmanship pt the Eastern Counties Railway , and the first committee of investigation in the matter of the York , Newcastle , and Berwick line , of which Mr . Hjoratio Love , the present chairman of the Eastern S ^ un-+ ! as Tf . iihvav . was the mover and originator . What

    mystery there may have been in Mr . George Hudson ' s great influence with members of Parliament and others , in whose hands rested the granting or refusing of railway bills , Mr . Evans is unable to clear up any more than the least experienced City

    mail amongst us . . It is no " revelation" to tell us once more the familiar story of Walter Watts , the felonious clerk in ilie Globe Insurance Office , who turned theatrical manager at the Olympic and the Marylebone Theatres , and general man about town , with the money of his employers . It is a : " revelation" however , to inform . us that he abstracted seven hundred thousand pminds ( sic p . 78 ) from the banker ' s balances of the company before he was detected , as Mr . Evans , orTiis publishers , will probably find before the volume reaches a second edition .. ' - As some little unwillingness was shown by the Directors of their lossand

    to retake public the exact amount , theresult of the examination which they empowered Mr .. Coleman , the accountant , to make of their books , it may be that our author is determined to arrive at an unknown quantity , by starting from a known quantity of almost fabulous amount- When the contradiction comes , as come it must , we do not think the company will own to a loss exceeding the sum of seventy thousand pounds . Considering the recent disclosures in the Coiirt of Bankruptcy and elsewhere , in re the late banking firm of Messrs . Strahan , Paul and Bates , it is no " revelation" to toll us that they broke their "backs as proprietors of the Mostyn Collieries , where they lost upwards of one hundred thousand pounds , and

    as creditors of the Messrs . Gandills , contractors , who to drain , some lake ( it must have been , lake Bullion ) , drained them of four hundred thousand pounds . That Messrs Strahan , Parti ftnd Bates , ¦ wer e convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for fraudulently disposing of property held in trust , is a fact that is known to every junior clerk and warehouse boy in the City . What wo should term the helter-speltcr transactions of Blessrs Qverlend and Co . — -we beg pardon , Messrs . Overendand Co . —with Davidson arid Gordon , and Joseph Windlo Cole , reoeive no new lights from the pen and experience of our mysterious City historian . He can only tells us that a great swindle was effected , which we know before , and then pass on to fresh fields and pastures new .

    These fresh fields and fresh performers aro the late Mr . John Sadlcir ., M . P ., and the Tipporary Bank ; the lloyal British Bank , with its originators and its destroyers ; the Crystal Palace Company , and their forging transfer clerk , William . Tamos Robson ; the Great Northern Railway , and Mr , Leopold Redpath ; tho bullion robbery on tho South Uaflcorn Railway , with Pioroo , Agar , and Burgess , and" Jim tho Penman ; " and finally tho JLomlbn a , nd Eastern , or , as it should bo callodtho

    IvouHington and Dorset Clay Banking Company , ana tho told , fraudulent transactions connected with it of Colonel Petrio Waugh . We are told by Mr . Evans , in his " revelations , " that Mr . Sadloir opminittod suioido , and that the TJyporary Bank stopped paymout : that the ¦ unjjish iJank closed its doors under the inaubi of » n Ijroimoj'ka , and a ship owner » debtor-nnsmbor ~ of-Pailiamont director ; that Mr . W . J . Ku ! v-oi > ; -itulo something a Tittle xmdor thirty thousandliouiub from

    the Crystal Palace Company , and Mr . Leopold Redpath six times that amount from the Great Northern Railway ; andthat Colonel Petrie Waagx is striking the light guitar somewhere in the Pyrenees , hayjiig abstracted the whole of the paid-up capital of the London and Eastern Bank . . . If readers of City histories wish to have the already published but scattered details of these notorious " facts , failures , and frauds , " collected in one volume , they well do well to purchase Mr . Evans ' s book ; but if they look , for any fresh information upon these cases , drawn from long personal observation , gathered by great industry , or derived from peculiar and private sources , they will be grievously disappointed .

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    THE THREE PATHS . The Three Paths . By Herbert Grey , M . A . 2 vpls . Hurst and Blackett . Mb . Ghet writes well , and when he has had more experience he will write better . He belongs to a . school , we suspect , that places itself beyond criticism . It is the transcendental—th . e super-sentimental—the { Esthetic- —or something of that sort ; the school that loves to make reflexions on life , rather than to depict life . To our taste this school wants ' manliness ; and yet there are iinmistakeable evidences that Mr . Grey thinks and writes in a manly style , whenever he is inclined to shake off

    the trammels of those teachers to whose teaching he has evidently relinquished his literary idiosyncrasy . He eschews old names and fames , deposes them ruthlessly from their pedestals , to elevate more modem immortals to their vacated places . Take tins sentence as a key to Mr . Grey ' s mental bias : — " May we not rejoice that , as painters , moralists , and satirists , Fielding and Smollett are replaced by Thackeray and Dickens ? " To this dictum we modestly beg to demur . We confess to three

    a settled preference for those founders of - fourths of the novel-writing race of the present generation . It is difficult to discover the connexion between the title and the execution . Wherethe ' three paths " are to be found we are at a loss to understand ; orr if they are to befoundj we cannot understand to what they were meant to lead . But " The Three Paths " is , nevertheless , a good novel- —the production of a scholar and a refined man , and its perusal will yield both pleasure and profit .

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    THE MAGAZINES . Blackwood . — Excellent throughout the number . < Chalons , or the Camp , " is a pendant to .. '" Cherbourg 1 "—the one a standing naval , the other a military , menace . The writer lias looked at the matter from a national and liberal point of view , and in his gyapMc narrative has furnished the British public with materials of a suggestive and premonitory character . " Clothes and Scarecrows" be studied with advantage by tho " Brummels " the minute . One part has our special approval ; that in which the writer condemns the relic of original Scotch poverty and barbarism—tlio indecent " kilt . " An Englishman parading sujis culottes through the streets of London , would deservedly have to expiate this offence against public decency should Scotchmen

    by a visit to the treadmill 5 why be exempt from similar consequences , on the false and nonsensical plea of tlio " nationality of the costume ? " If Scotchmen will showthoir scmi-civUisation , lot them at least confine their fancy to their own localities , Tho •' Turks at Kalafat" promises to bo a very amusing article Tho " Castos and Creeds of India " will assist to open tho oyes of tho Britjsli public to one , and not tho least , of tho difficulties of tho India question . Tho " Luck of Ladysmore " is tho commencement of an historical tale , very good as far as it ? goes . u Italy ; her Nationality and Independence " is a compendium of tlio case of franco v . Austria , and throws much light on tho complications of the vexed question of Italian nationality . " Napoleon III , and Europe , " isa trenchant and searching urticlo on tlio future of Franco . is to nmko tho

    T ^ an determined this month charge of hoaviness impossible , The bulk of tho articles aro unmistakeably intended for light reading . This will create no objection on tho part of tho friends of this serial—on tho contrary , wo think it will prove a recommendation . But in what class of light reading must wo placo tho vulgar and silly artloki , " All tho BUorsBit ?" ¦ Jb ' iueroB . —Tho nuinbor opens with an lulnnrablo papov from tho pon of Mr ,. Holps , entitjoil " , \ Vur j an Essuyand Conversation j '" and Is 01 iu , wo are told , of tv now series of his delightful " iVlonds in Council , " tho publication of whloh ho hits pormittod to bo anticipated . Tho subject is o ' ousUloriul in tho

    same philosophical and interesting manner with which the readers of bis former works are so well acquainted , and the conversation which follows the essay is brilliant and illustrative of the subjects The pages of Fraser have not ; for a long time , been graced with so delightful a contribution . ¦ 'f The Shark" forms the subject of the natural history article this month , which is of average excellence . Captain Whyte Melville appears to us more at home in delineating the manners of our times than those of our ancestors ; " HolmTjy House , " nevertheless , goes on with spirit . An exceedingly witty , gossiping article on "Venice , " the mysterious story of " SchlosSj Eishauseri , " a review of " Muirhead ' s Life of Watt , " and a learned paper on Greek literature , makeup the number .

    Tait ' s . —The articles are various in this number , and , of course , the leading one- is upon Reform . It bases its urgency for a genuine reform in our representation on the extravagance and inefficiency of the present governing system , and makes out a strong case . It states that four . millions of money have been wasted on the navy ; and that a hundred thousand deaths a year take place for want of proper sanitary legislation . The other articles are miscellaneous and entertaining . The Eclectic ' . Review . — . The most important article is that on the " Limits of Religious Thought , " taking for its text Mr . MansePs book ; the most interesting is that on the " Times of King George III . "— taking Walpole ' s " Journals , " just published , as its basis . The article on the " . Newspaper Editor " is scarcely uncoloured .

    Le Folet for March' —The fashions seems a little modified ; but crinoline has the honour of a poem , showing its origin . The p lates are as pretty and bright in colour as ever . Bonnets the same ; cloaks longer . The Virginians .. By W . M . Thackeray . No . 17 . —In this number Harry ' s war achievements and George ' s love are developed , together with the performance of the tragedy , with success ; and thus the lingering tale winds towards a Conclusion . Davenport Duxs . By Charles Lever . Part XX . -r-This very life-like , spirited story is fast drawing to a conclusion . Some important events are revealed in this number ; but we will not spoil the reader ' s pleasure by stating them .

    Knight ' s Popular History of England . Part XXXVIII . —This number is occupied with Marlborough ' s Blenheim campaign , and tlie union with Scotland . The portraits are those of George I . and George II . . The Englishwoman ' s Journal . No . 13 . —The dozen articles in . this magazine are of average merit ; some are of practical valve , as that upon " Training and Employment of Nurses , " and " Fashion versus Health . "

    Kingston ' s Magazine for Boys . No . 1 . —This is a new candidate for tho favour of Young England , issued by Messrs . Bos worth and Harrison . The editor is the author of several popular Christmas books , viz ., " Mark Seaworth , " " Blanco , " " Blue Jackets , " &c , and has thus proved ho is well calculated , to cator for boys . It is veTy nicely illustrated by woodcuts , after designs toy Harrison Weir , &c . The article on " Fancy Pigeons" will be hig hly

    popular . Woitics op the Rev . Sidn-ey Smith . Part III . — Contains several of tho vitty Reverend ' s contributions to the Edinburgh lievipw , and ,, aniongst others , ji celebrated one on " Anastasius , " Tub Art Journal for March . —Tho Engravings are excellent this month ; comprising a Mother and Child , after Van Eyckcn ; and a Landscape , after G . Achcnbach . Tho spulpturo illustration is Marshall ' s Statue of Jonner . Routledois ' s Shakespbaru . Edited by H . Staunton . Parts XXXV . and XXXVI .-This double

    number contains the conclusion of " Lear , " and the whole of " Coriolanus , " with tlio usual amount of Notes and extracted Coinnaentary . The Editor has bestowod tho utmost caro on the notes , fully feeling tho responsibility of editing this tremendous play , luo Artist's illustrations to " Coriolanus" aro numerous , but not particularly" characteristic , as in avoiding the hook-nosod idea , of tho liomnn ( vulgar enough ) , ho has given ralhov a Grecian look to ins hero . The Woman Hutor ' , or , True and Feigned Lout , i a dramatic Tale . By Captain A- IP . ^ gngj

    Unuer this titlo wo havo a talo wall imagined and artistically told , and oorialiily convoying a moral . Mordaunt , tho hero , in lutroil | iou . l- to tho i-oador s notice , young , and in love , an untluiblastlo admirer and believer in woman . Harriett Luurlngtou , tho object of his attachment from hifl airlJost years ( a beautiful creaturo , » poilu < l byoduoatlou . and a worldly mothor ) , ong ' agos horfltilf to MordamiL . tlumyh her honrt isin . tho kooping of an unprincipled row ( Langloy ) . Mr . Timothy Truirian , Mordatiiit ' H undo , an eccentric but worthy old buoholor , undortaUos to break oil the

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    No , 467 , March 5 . 1859 . 1 LTHE LEADER 301

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 5, 1859, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2284/page/13/