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    STo . 497 . Oct . 1 , . 18 & 93 THE LEADER . 1111

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    to us to have got so many characters on his stage , and being unable to move . them all with unity of action , he has been compelled to make each one tell the story of his own life . In this manner he has marred his present work , as , of course , while one story is being told the reader loses the interest that he has felt in many of the other characters of the story , and without he has paid great attention he will fail to perceive who is the hero and who for dra

    the heroine . The incidents are strained - matic effect , and the whole story too disconnected for iis to give the outline . As we have said , some the characters are well conceived , but the best parts of the work are those devoted to reflections on men and manners , which , although we do not agree with Mr . Reade in all his opinions , convince us that he his a man of refined taste , a scholar , and a gentleman , and we hope that he will take our remarks as they are meant .

    " Frank Marland ' s Manuscripts . " What Mr . Hughes has done for public schools , and Mr . Pycroft for the Ghurch , Mr . Brandt attempts to do for the law student . Though we cannot congratulate him as having gained quite so decided a , sucess as the former two gentlemen , we are willing to admit that he has a claim to be heard . The abuses practised before one can be called to the bar is a very fertile theme for the pen of a writer ,

    and it seems strange that so many writers living in the Temple should not before this have taken up the subject , seeing that we get so few reforms without the aid of the pen . In this case , however , it seems that Parliament has little right or inclination to interfere with the . " seat of law . " There is a slight story running through the volume , which of course is not very interesting . Yet the volume is worth reading for the light it throws on the life of youngmen who have to " eat their way to the bar . "

    " Henry St . John , Gentleman , " is not our Henry St . John , the accomplished Lord Bolingbroke , reader . N " or-does he bear much resemblance to the hero' of Miss Mulbch ' s pleasant novel . Both of these were gentlemen , though of a different type . But the hero of Mr . Cooke ' s novel is not a gentleman—not an English gentleman , according tojour idea : that he is an American gentleman we may not dispute , though to most of the English readers he will appear merely a fop and a dreamer . " Henry St . John " is not a bad novel , and it is refreshing , as some of our brother critics say , to receive an amusing novel from the other side of the Atlantic without it being filled with chat of the tea-and-toast rind milk-and-water

    sentiments . One half the story is devoted to the love of Henry St . John for his cousin , Miss Bonnybel Vane , a young lady of violet eyes , " given to pouting , saying smart things , " and whose " beautiful golden hair is always ' coming down' on her snowy shoulders . " In the other half is given a sketch of the War for Independence . Some of the characters are well drawn , more particularly Colonel Vane ; and the whole work gives the reader a good idea of what the colony of Virginia was according to history , at the time of which Mr . Cooko writes . The work , though here and there it has u good deal of mannerism in it , is very readable , and is the best American novel we have received for some time past .

    " My Third Book " is a collection of storiesseventeen in all , reprinted chiefly from American periodicals . We have glanced them through , and find them very good indeed .

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    MISCELLANIES . Manliness : Hints to Young Men . By John Brookes —James Blackwood . IIehb is an unpresuming little book , which is nevertheless excellent in its matter and elegant in its style . The poet Cowper is , perhaps , too frequently cited , and at too great length ; but the quotations are apposite and well selected . Mr . Brookes doflnes manliness ft 8 virtue ( from the Latin vir ) , moaning thereby heroism , courage , honour , principle , or moral excellence of every description . This is the idea of

    true manliness , but there aro many false forms of it , which he rightly condemns , as ho dooa also the misuse of words by which things are called by their ¦ wrong names ; for instance , prodigality and dissipation , liberality and high spirit ; covotousnoss , frugality j flattery , g&od breeding $ miserliness , economy ; drunkenness and gormandising , stepping allttlo boyond tho bounds of discretion ana enjoying a good dinner . Lot therefore none of the false forms of manliness bo callod by the names of the true

    things . " There is nothing manly in prize-fighting , gambling , profane swearing , obscene language , profligacy , seduction , &c . " But , as the author adds , before the great truth , that virtue and manliness are id e ntical , can be assented to generally , a mighty revolution must take place in the minds of a class , the name for which is legion . If we try people by this standard , many a biped who is six feet high , and stout in proportion , mnst be rejected with disdain , and many dwarfs in body would prove themselves giants . It is needless to say that the tone of the work is religious .

    An Inquiry into the Origin of Disease . By a practical Hygeist . This is a pamphlet in favour of the system of James Morison , the Hygeist , and names itself " An attempt to establish Certainty in Medicine by an interpretation of Nature . " The Work and the Counterwork ; or , The Religious Revival in Belfast . With an Explanation of the Physical Phenomena . By Edward A . Stopford , Archdeacon of Heath . This is the fifth edition of a publication which _ \ re therefore suppose has some weight in the question in the writerestima

    at issue . The revivals are , ' s - tion , good in themselves ; but some of the physical phenomena exhibited offend his taste , and are therefore classed as objectionable . He compares them with those witnessed in Mr . Irving ' s chapel thirty years ago , and testifies to their identity . So far as these revivals assume an hysterical form , the archdeacon ia of opinion that they are not cases to be treated by the clergy with prayer-meetings and singing ; but become cases for moral treatment by the clergy under the advice and guidance of the Christian physician ,, conversant with physiology and psychology .

    Working Men * s College Magazine . No . IX . The contents of this number are of great merit and considerable value . Lord Byron ' s Poetical Works . Parts VIII . and IX . —John Murray . ' . These contain the remainder of Don Juan , and complete the collection . Glaucus '; or the Wonders of the Shore . By Charles Kingsley , F , S . A ., F . L . S ., &c . —Macmillanand Co . This is the fourth edition of an excellent work ; with coloured engravings . Natural history thus familiarly illustrated , arid referred to principles , is the best interpreter of spiritual truth . We were particularly pleased by Mr . Kingsley ' s testimony to the merits of Mr . Qosse , though he objects in toto to his " Omphalos . "

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    w So stiffnecked is the Fine Arts dictatorship in this country that we have no hesitation in giving further currency to the report , that the notorious Herr Miindler , lately dismissed from the public service , by a special vote of the House of Commons , is about to proceed to . Madrid , in the capacity of connoisseurattache ( paid , of course ) to Sir Charles Eastlake . The pair are , it is said , to inspect the collection of Chateaux _

    a deceased Spanish virtuoso . enJEspagne are not supposed to be of any great value ; but what rubbish from their galleries may be foisted by the co-operation of Spanish need and Spanish greed upon these dilapidated critics Heaven only knows . Let us hope for the best ; but let us always be prepared , when the next Whig misappropriation bill" comes on , for the Paris embassy house , tho fine art curatorships , sundry other jobs , illiterate and inartistic , to find a handsome item for the travelling charges of tho Court picture buyers .

    We glory—sometimes—in inconsistency .. We rejoice at being able to decorate with one hand those whom with the other we have done our best to degrade . Unchequered censure ! and this lesson might be worthily learnt by many of our craft—is about as worthless as unmeasured eulogy . Wo have said much iu these columns to disparage tho M Department of Science and Art , " not of course as a department , but as a congeries of jobs . Wo still hate and fear it as an inconvenient , costly , and hyper-aristocratic institution j and long years of and amendedadministration

    approved usefulness ' ( which , thanks to press hostility , potent , though unrecognized , is not only possible , but in progress ) will bo needpd to wash out this ingrained dye . But let us , when our poor wit sees the occasion , record something to tho credit of this justly abominated department . That tho F . R , S . ' s and tho O . B . ' e of " the Department" should have condescended to gild with their approving beams tho simple natives of tho Rivoraino provinces of England , is something of itself wondrous : but that such blessed Boeotians as the dwellers in those hundreds should have been

    thus stimulated to earn distinction—not in mere maudlin , or even thorough-bred literature—not in mechanical art , but in exact science itself , shows that we , as well as others , have miscalculated the departmental power and value . On Monday last a public meeting was held at the Town Hall , Barking , amidst the flattest of Essex flats . Three youths of the district were there to receive prizes awarded them in the chemistry classes of the department , and a large gathering of their fellow students aud friends , as well as of gaping

    rustics and incredulous scoffers , were on tiptoe verify the fact that these marshland " boys , " honoured little enough among their own people , were thought worthy by the commonwealth to be publicly decorated . Let us not suppress their names . They were—Rust , a plumber ;—Gilderson , a wheelwright ;— -Lake , a draper ' s assistant . Mr . Wingfield Baker , an excellent speaker and sound politician , sometime member for , but now rejected by , South Essex , an excellent gentleman , who threw the latform that he had

    so much oratory away on p none left for the House , was the chairman of the meeting , and performed his office like a man , a gentleman , and a possible candidate , and a large assembly were delighted . A world of common-p laces will do no more to help our readers to their own reflections than the simple announcement that government prizes were publicly awarded to the . plumber , the wheeler , and the drapes , and that a politician squire of ten thousand a-year felt proud and happy to assist at the ceremony .

    A collection of valuable drawings and MSS . by Michael Angelo have been discovered at Florence . A letter from Florence says that the Government have appointed a commission of inspection and arrangements , and that works of high value have been brought to light . Among these are drawings and prose and poetical compositions by Michael Angelo , as well as letters by persons of merit and condition who flourished in his time .

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    The Dublin Freeman of Tuesday last is our authority for stating that the no less amiable than acconxplished Swedish Nightingale was welcomed on her arrival at Dublin by an overflowing audience , both in point of nuinbers and goodwill . The presence of the Lord-Lieutenant and his suite , which confers the highest honour in the power of the Irish Government to bestow on any public representation , added eclat to the occasion , and did no less than merited honour to the yet unimpaired singing of Mdme . Iand-Goldschmidt . _ this

    Royax Engmsh Opera . —The programme of enterprise for the season of 1859-60 is in general circulation , and we are glad'to observe that the production of Meyerbeer ' s " Dinorah" is definitively assured . We have already , on more than one occasion , expressed our opinion that the part of the heroine is admirably adapted for the voice and style of Miss Louisa Pyne , and we await with confidence a new triumph for this eminently gifted artist . The Covcntino of the cast will be Mr . Harrison , who will be heard to the best advantage if he sing ; ks he will , without sham or effort , the music written for the baritone . Among the first appearances , are those of Mademoiselle Parepa , who appeared at the Royal Italian Opera in " I Puritani , "

    in 1857 , and in " Zarapa , " in 1858 , and has been a star of magnitude at the Crystal Palace and other high-class concerts . It is whispered that this lady will appear in " II Trovatoro , " and that Mr . Henry Haigh , a tenor singer with some admirable notes within his range , may be the Mernrwo to her Leonora . Miss Thirlwall , Miss Fanny Cruise , and Mies Pilling , a Yorkshire contralto , aro also debutantes . Messrs . Balfe , Mellon , and Vincent Wallace are engaged upon tho music ; and the repertory , it will be remembered , included , at the ond of last season , at least one now and unperformed work « Rip-van-Winkle , " which , though in a perfect state of preparation , was not produced , owing to tho wondrous success of Balfo ' s " Satanclla . " _ , m

    R oyaj , SunnnY Gaiiukns . —Tho entertainments at this popular place of amusement have been somewhat interfered with in consequence of tho inclement weather which set in on Monday , tho evening fixed for Mr . Boys' ( tho secretary and treasurer ) benefit ; on which occasion an ample and pleasing programme was provided . Among the singers was M ea Pool © , who attended at tho Music Hall specially to do honour to Mr . Boys . Owing , however , to tho state of tho weather , it waa impossible to have any of the outdoor amusements , and notice was given that all tickets issued for Monday would bo available last tn

    evening -, but hero again tho visitors , although o attondanco was most numerous and select , were doomed to disappointment , except aa regards the concert , which was excellent . Theee concerts have attained a high reputation on account of tUo judi-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1859, page 1111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2314/page/19/