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    gress of William Hogarth , " by a pen quite worthy of that inimitable master of the pencil . \ Y . e next observe " Lot el , the Widower , " which is a' good deal more interesting than tlie title may indicate , But even more valuable ami . interesting , than all . these may by some readers be considered " Studies in Animal Life , " which are certainly composed in anew and most popular and attractive style . Ending with No . 3 of the " Roundabout Papers , " the Cornhill Magazine for this month is , indeed , truly excellent . Macmillan ' s Magazine-for May is rich , both as to the quantity and quality-of its-contents . The " Three Vices of Current Literature" bv the editoris an article that may be read to advantage by

    , , any careless or commonplace writer . It would be difficult , to find in the Magazine literature of the day the ordinary faults of composition more ably criticised than in the present article . The "Annals of an Industrial School" is likewise a paper of considerable interest . ' Our Father ' s Business , Holman Hunt ' s Picture of Christ in the Temple , " are lines of exceeding vigour and beauty . Miehelet , in the article " Spiritualistic Materialism , " gets more severely , yet , we think , justly , criticised than he has lately been . Along with these we have only to mention that "Tom Brown at Oxford " is continued , chapters xvii . and xviii . containing as pleasant a sketch of " village life and the character of Harrhy Winburn as we

    Lave ever inet with . The Dublin University Magazine is so old and true a friend , its contents being always so satisfactory , that we are necessarily spared the time of looking deeply into it before we speak of its undoubted merit . Only that we feel it to be a duty to look before we offer an opinion , we would almost be disposed to recommend it upon its name alone . However , we can confidently tell our readers that in the JDublin University Magazine for May there is , a . variety of intellectual entertainments for them . To begin with , there is an admirable article on " Prior ' s Life of Malone . " And Part I . of "A Legend of the Golden Fawn , " " Sterne in the Stereoscope , Voyage sentimental /' " " Savoy from the Top of Mount Cenis , " " The Reform Bill and . the Working Classes , " " May Morning , " " Present Politics , " are all excellent ,, and yet they are but half of the contents of the current number . for of

    ave— Simplicity , " " The Ommeganek Antwerp , " " Ganymede . " The literary portion of this part is also of excellent quality . " Loinbardy and its ' Capital , " being in story and description very good ; and the " Journey ( illustrated ) in South Wales , " by Mr . and Mrs . S . C . Hall , is \ jarticuhirly interesting .- We have received No . VI . of Mr . Charles Lever ' s interesting story , under the title of "One of Them , " published by Messrs . Chapman and Hall . The May number , we have no doubt , is eagerly desired by its readers . " The Englishwoman ' s Journal" for May , published by Messrs . Kent & Co ., contains well-written articles on the following subjects , specially interesting and advantageous to every reading and intelligent Englishwoman : — " Medicine as a Profession for Women , " " Elizabeth von BVecke , " Part I ., '' Tuition a Trade ? " " Two Chanters about Charwomen , " &c .

    Part XVI . of the " English Cyclopaedia of Arts and S ; iences , conducted by Charles Knight , and published by Messrs . Bradbury and Evans , extends from Hy to J . Under the latter letter we have a very good historical sketch of the Jews . The present part of the " Popular History of England , " by Charles Knight , published by Messrj . Bradbury and Evans , ranges from 1760 to 1784 , and contains portraits of Pitt , Fox , and Grattan , with illustrations of buildings , gardens , and costumes of the period . It has also portraits of Garriek and Smollett . We have received Part X . of " Plain or Ringlets , " which contains an illustration of Appleton Hall by John Leech .

    JLeFollet for May , published by Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , & Co ., is a publication that well sustains its character for fashion , polite literature , &c . ; and while , in the present number , the " style" ladies appears to be faultless , we fancy , though it is a point about which we are not hypercritical , that the artist has improved the prettiness of face , if not of form , of his models .

    ^ The Universal Review May contains several articles sterling merit . The first , on " Chili , " may-be very profitably read . The second article contains much carious and learned information in " Notes on Names and ~ Nicknames , " by Dr >~ Doran . " Everard ' s Daughter : Unfairly Played and Falsely Won , " is concluded in ^ he - present number . Thev article on " Amateur Financiers " is to the purpose , and well worth attention . " Kvjloff and the Russian Fabulists , " " Nathaniel Hawthorne , " and " Dark

    Saybrief article ; and " The Month of May , " by its poetical writing and sweet verses , culled from the poets , is an article that adds to the beauty of the Review . In the popular miscellany Once a Week , we have " Evan Harrington ; or , He would " be a Gentleman , " and " Divorce a Vinculo ; or , the Terrors of Sir Cresswell Cresswell , " continued . " Your Vote and Interest , " " The Science of Matrimony" and " The Statesman , " are well written articles . There is also some good poetry and'very nice illustrations in this number , which closes the first volume of Once a Weclc . The Welcome Guest fat May contains continuations of " Give a Dog n Bad Name , " and "Light Literature , " " An Avtist ' s Story , " " German Wines , " Part I ., " Lady Chesterfield ' s Letters to her Dnughter , " and "A Search after Misery , " "The Fisherman , " &c , with illustrations , which are calculated to make the Welcome Guest ¦

    a general favourite . . ' . Kingston ' s Maqazine for Boys continues the story of The Old School lellbws , "" The Rambles of a Naturalist , " nnd "My Travels . ' " RecreativeScience , " a monthly record nnd remembrancer of intellectual observation , by Messrs . Groombridge nnd Sons , contains for Mny unusually clear nnd popularly written chapter * for young people , upon the following subjects : — " Geologicnl nnd Planetary Struct uro of the Earth , " " Roberta ' s Test Lines , " " Practical Photography , " " The Odours of Flowers , " " Coal nnd Coniferous Wood under tjie Microscope , " " Lend in the Furnace , " " A Meridian Lino , " " The Vegetation of a Decayed Nut , " &e . t The first number of a new serial , entitled The Englishwoman s

    Magazine , is just published by S . O . Beoton . It id a cheap publication , and the quality of its literature nnd engravings is excellent . It contains n good steel plate of the fashions , and a curious Berlin wool-work pattern of slipporfl , &c . " The Family Secret , " with which' it opens , ia a jjpirited nnd entertaining tale . " The Domestic History of England" gives also every indicatio . rTthat it will bo throughout deeply interesting . " Amongst the Americans , " " Thd Son-ih-Law , " nnd " Poetry of the Months , " show , too , thut this new Berinl is in no incompetent bunds . Wo think there is a special plnce for it in its particular sphere of . magazine literature , and wo wish it success . # ,, '¦»> i " The Art Journal" in its now series , containing the Royal ^ Gallery , has a very fine iuimber for May . The three chief engravings

    ¦ Ings and their Interpretation , " contribute greatly to the value of this number of the Universal Review . The last article is on " Mr . Disraeli , " and it is , certainly , an able estimate of that great statesman ' s charactciyand a lucid review of the principal acts of his political c&rGcr * 'f The Eclectic "—this long-established review and miscellany- — contains for the present month a vory able article on " Owen ' s Palaeontology /' another on ' "The Great Armada Fight . " Home Tourists " -is also an article of much merit by a popular writer . A question whlchis now exciting European interest , namelyr ^^ l'he-Anwexa tion and the Historv of Snvoy / Lwill be found well sketched in a

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    rjlHERE never was , we think , anything great achieved , or a - *¦ readable book produced , except of course that which comes from the pen of a privileged medium of spiritualism , without a good deal of painstaking and premeditation . Now , the . book which we have just ^) een reading , entMeck" Anecdote BiograpHiy , " is , to our thinking , a proof of what we say . It supplies us plentifully witli anecdotes about the celebrated statesmen , William Pitt Earl of Chatham and Edmund Burke , both names so / deeply ploughed into English history , politics , and literature , that so long as these shall survive , the names of Pitt -and Burke

    will-be familiarly remembered ; nay more , they must have a positive intellectual existence and influence in the nation . Mr . Timbs has given the biography of the great men we htive mentioned pleasingly and instructively , in a series of anecdotes , in chronological order . He has " done his task well , and the reader will , we doubt not , rise from the perusal of the volume satisfied that he is well acquainted with Pitt and with Burke , and also with the affairs of the age in which they lived and were chief workers . The volume is very handsomely got up , with portraits of its ^ i ea 1 r ^ bgectsrthe ^ Ettrl-of ^^ — - — -... Whoever may be fond of legendary law , and few , we think , even in

    these matter-of-fact and utilitarian times , do not like to listen to the tales of witches , sprites , and goblins , and the mischief they have done " poor mortals , " may find some good stories in the Lecturos on the Mountain ; or , the Highlands and Highlanders . They who desire more solid stuff than legends are composed of , will find it in a series of chapters on the agricultural , social , and moral statistics of Strathspey and Budenoch , which render this work as useful as it is entertaining . Moreover , it contains some useful military statistics , and the history of the family of Grant and collateral branches of the family , —battles , seats of families , eminent men , and warriors . There is also a chapter ou ecclesiastical statistics . By this second series of lectures , sufficient interest is thrown around the " Highlands and Highlanders " to call for another series from the saino pen . The reader will be amply rewarded by the perusal of the present lectures .

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    • Anecdote Biography . By John Timbs , F . S . A . London : Richard Bentley . Lectures on the Mountains ; or , the Highlands and II nmlers of Strathspey and Badcnoch , as they Were and as they Are . London : Saundcra , Otley , and Co . The Causes and Treatment of Ttnperfect Digestion . By AuTnCK LEAKKD , M . B ., M . R . IA . London : John Churchill . On Consumption ; its True Nature and Successful Treatment . By Godwin Timms , M . D . London : John Churchill . The British Volunteer of Yesterday and To-day : < t Bulwark for Europe ' s Peace . By Majoxi Walter ( of Fourth Division of Lancashire Artillery ) . London : W . O . Mitchell . The History of the Unreformail Parliament , and its lessons . An JUssay . By Walter Baobhot . London : Chapman & Hull . Books and libraries . A Lecture . By Sir John Simkon , Bart ., 31 . A . London ; John Parker and Son . Criminals , Crimes , and their Governing Xrrit'S , as demonstrated hy the Sciences . of 'Physiology and Mental Geometry . By FitHDKiUCK BRIDGESLondon : " George Philip and Son . « Declaration qf the Clerqy against Alteration of tie Book of Common Prayer , Sfc . London : Bell and' Duldy . Breton Zegenda . Translated from the French . London : Burns and Lambert . JSoeninga with Grandpapa- / or , Naval Stories for Children . By IlAniUET M . Cauky . London : Dean & Son .

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    [ at and 430 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . May 5 , 1860 ^

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1860, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2346/page/18/