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    THE VOLUNTEEK REVIEW.*

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    THE NEW REVOLUTION.*

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    under an erroneous notion that the bread was being thus , as it were , " taken out of their mouths" by the cessation of all means of earning the wherewith to purchase it , the prompt interference of the magistrates ; and ultimate establishment of the inventions of modern science , is all vividly and ' graphically depicted . The author is evidently well read-up in his subject , and , without doubt , much valuable information as well as considerable amusement is to be obtained from the perusal of these three volumes . The story is , perhaps , somewhat lengthy , but this is the case with all works of fiction which deal in much historical survey of past periods of transition and popular agitation . , .. The most interesting part of the story is that relating to Marie , Duchess of Chatelherault . This youg lady is first introduced in the narrative as wedded to an old worn-out voluptuary , whose sixty

    years' experience of life , would rather have entitled him to assume a parental than matrimonial authority over his handsome bride . This marriage had been originally a matter of convenience on both sides , the young lady ' s friends looking to a title , and the gentleman , whose pecuniary affairs were almost in a state of insolvency , viewing- the lady ' s broad rupees with an eye of peculiar satisfaction . Soon , however , the fashionable roue becomes touched and fascinated by the external graces and mental superiority of his lovely partner : and he begins to repent of his folly in consigning her to her present unnatural and miserrble existence ; his originally selfish nature becomes chastened and purified by contact with one so far above him in the fair and noble attributes of heart and mind . Her simple , childlike devotedness and faith develop hidden traits in his

    character which years of sensual indulgence have failed to elicit , sq that he is enabled to work out the redemption of his former evil desires and passions , before he is called to answer for his unrepented errors at the Throtie of Grace . And though on his death-bed he cannot escape some " compunctious visitings of conscience , " yet he ultimately expires at peace with himself , and in Christian charity With all men . It may be seen by this slight analysis of a particular portion of the story > that the author has not confined himself to the dry details of an insurrectionary movement for his chief objects ; of interest in the present composition . We can conscientiously promise to any reader who shall feel inclined to devote a few hours to this " Scarsdale " -romance , that lie shall find-therein suflficient stirring incidents to ' render , it not only agreeable , but in the hiighest degree

    interesting . j . . The eighth volume of " Hodgson ' s New Series of Novels comprises two tales of Alexander Dumas , namely , " ' ¦ * ¦ Pauline ; or , Buried Alive , " and " The Still Hunt . " The former of these stories has been rendered familiar to ah English public by the popular drama of the same name , first produced by Miv Charles Kean during his management at tli 6 RoyalPrincess ' sTheatre , and which was founded upon this celebrated production . This is , perhaps , one of M . Dumas ' most stirring novels , possessing , in a startling degree , all those elements of the terrible , combined with the horrible , of which thel ' rencb . literature presents sq many specimens . Pew will be able to con these pages without experiencing that intense thrill of inward excitement and eager expectation which ever accompanies the consummate arrangement and artistic development of melo-dramatic incidents . Pauline ' s hasty marriage , her accidental discovery of her Irasband ^^ ompanions ^ nd-pureuto ^ ^ death to which Horace had devoted her , and her ultimate destiny , are all too well known to need aiiy particular characterization .

    " The Still Hunt" is , of course , a less elaborate production , being a simple tale of Scottish life , and in which we are made acquainted with the different peculiarities of our Highland and Lowland brethren . Both these tales are ably translated by J . Hodgson , jun .

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    riiHE popular narrative of the Volunteer Review , winch ap-JL ponred in the Daily Telegraph on Monday last , has , on account of ita merits , been reprinted and published by TStr . Tinsley . The author of this narrative w Miv G . A . Sala , who is . limversally known iia a writer of the highest ability in his special department of literature . We recommend the little work aa n complete , accurate , and highly interesting description and record of an event of great national importance , and aa one of the best and most perma * nent memorials of it that can be preserved .

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    templates the subject from a point of view somewhat differing from our own , enforcing views with winch our readers are familiar . He tells us , " those o ? our statesmen who discern what is impending are condemned to . silence by the very magnitude of the far-reaching series of events now opening to their view . " We do not-precisely agree with the cause of their silence . / The true reason is that our so-called statesmen are either very painful mediocrities or men of other days , who have long survived the capacity for taking m new and large ideas of human progress ; and we are ruled by notions that belong , historically , to the epoch of powder and pigtails , if not of bobwigs and swords . " Wisely or unwisely , adds Mr . Patterson , " they conceal their own convictions , and decline with the momentous

    to place the British public face to face changes in the European system Which are contemplated and , we believe , impending . " They have fears rather than convictions , and these they do not hide , but continually obtrude , sometimes m the silly whimpering of a Malhesbury , and sometimes in the gingerbread rhetoric of a Bulweb . They do not want change , and refuse the slightest particle of reform at home , in order to keep England as far as possible aloof-from the stirring interests ^ humanity , and at the dead level of the contrivances of 1815 . Palmebstox has made up his mind to be the tin kettle dragged at the tail of Imperial France , and the Tories would furbish up old muslcets to fight for the restoration of a state of things that has for ever gone by . Mr . Pattebson well remarks : — The rights of man , as understood by the Convention , was the idea developed bv the first Revolution : the rights of nations , ^ as mis the idea which the

    terpreted by Louis Napoleon , corollary new Revolution proposes to realize . " Such a policy , if unchecked by sudden accident or wise counteraction , must , as Mr Patterson supposes , end in a great war , in which it is difficult to imagine that we can escape . Under these circumstances , the practical question for us is , shall we wait for misfortunes , or prevent them by taking up a position that Europe must respect ? Mr . Pattbkson is for action , but not very definite as to what sort it should be . The old Whigs and the Dejibt Tories would ally us again with Austria and Russia for the purpose of obstructing change , and even Lord John Russell has some thoughts of this kind , bueh conduct would be the rnosb favourable to any portion of fflapoleonic ideas that require the humiliation of England ; fpr we might as well endeavour to restore the Empire of Chariemagne , as to bring Europe back to that point where , Castlekeagh left it when he ¦

    executed arract of justice onJiimself . _ " . Our statesmen , without exception , shrink from making England the firm friend of European progress , and it is from this severance of our influence from the liberal cause on the Continent that we . are ignomiiiipusly compelled to stand by aiid see Louis IS ^ apoleox threaten , cajole , bully , and annex according to his will . We might leave open to France ample powers of beneficial disturbance , without permitting her to keep all parties in constant alarm . Our apathy leaves her Emperor the choice of playing fast and loose with both despots and nationalities . One day he can fioht against Austria , and the next he can place obstacles in the way of Italian independence . He can treat with Kqssuttt to be ready for one emergency , aud hold out opposite inducements to Russia to be ready for another . But if . we resolutely took the treTtnersfliiTewitn

    right side—thatof European ITD ^ ty ^^ n ^ rm ^ - - -us the influence over the nationalities , or abandon it altogether for alliances with despots that would ensure his ruin . _ There is nothing so contemptible as moderation when it means halting- between right and wroug , and the moderation of England has no better character than this . The Manchester School may expect to inoculate Louis Napoleon with the principles of a cotton spinner , but his career cannot possibly be limited by the laws of trade . Were he to settle down as a tradesman king , he would scarcely have time to call a cab , before a flight to LeicesterTsquare would be too late . His and

    IT is a common fallacy to regard powerful men as creating or dictating the Circumstances of their career . They do so to a small extent only , and the chief difference between them and commonplace persons , who make elevated station merely the means of rendering their mediocrity conspicuous , is , that the former embody the moving spirit of the age , while the latter seem always sitting upon donkeys and looking 1 towards the tail . Our neighbour NAPOtEON lit . owes all his importance to the fact noticed by Mr . Patterson , and which has again and again been pointed out in these pages—he represents those enduring aims and interests which lie at the bottom of the national character of the French people . Military glory , and the belief that they are leading Europe from an old system to a new , are necessary to France ;

    and Louis Philippism exploded itself into annihilation because it preferred the cant of moderation to the reality of vigorous action in the direction of national desire . Louis Napoleon has no moderation , but he has prudence , which keeps him back from purely impracticable schemes . It was not moderation that induced him to make the treacherous peace of Villafranoa , but a calculation that he was not quite strong enough to deal with the gigantic European problem which would have bee ' n ^ eeoufciou of the war . He has neither moderate hopes nor moderate desires ; but cherishes schemes of great proportions and great risks , but which nevertheless are not so dangerous as the stagnation . policy of the old , Governments , our own included . Mr . Patterson is right in looking upon Europe as upon the verge of a new revolution—a great change in boundaries , governments , and ideas , ; J and we . are glad to see an able writer who

    consafety depends entirely upon his gratifying feelings passions that prove compatible with the ultimate advancement ot Europe , but which are absolutely inconsistent with his repose . The end may be , probably will be , as tragic as Mr . Patterson supposes , for there is no element of permanent stability m the unscrupulous and dexterous cunning that cannot win confidence , because it never keeps faith . Our physical fortunes will depend upon our moral position . At the head of European freedom we should be mighty , whether for attack or defence ; with a Tory policy of reaction , or a Whig policy of sticking in the mud , we cannot conciliate respect , but may require commiseration or merit contempt .

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    616 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . |? tine 30 , 1860 .

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    • The New Revolution ; or the Napoleonic Policy in Europe . By R . K . Patterson Black wood ..

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    * A Narrative oft / to Grand Volunteer Meviow in Hyde Vark on Saturday , June the 23 rd , 1860 . By George Adodstds Sala . With Additional Particulars , eompilod from Authentic Sources . London . : William 'i'insley .

    The Volunteek Review.*

    THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW . *

    The New Revolution.*

    THE NEW REVOLUTION . *

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 30, 1860, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2354/page/16/