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    contains several carefully wr itten resumes and reviews . A capital condensation of the gi'eat Cardinal Richelieu is highly interesting , and is a fine comment on his policy ' and its results . A very- curious article entitled ' ..- " The Devils of London , " affords an elucidation of their spiritual , or mesmeric , or eptliptic manifestations , which , in some shape or other , have been rife in all ages . Of course the object is to elucidate the great marvel of the present time -spirit-rapping , tableturning , &c . A clever analysis of About ' s- writings opens the number ; and a curious article on the " "Natural History of the Ancients" follows . The articles on the " House of Lords " and on "Mr . Gladstone" betray a policy we do not adhere to . A great endeavour is made to exalt Mr . "W . C * Rbscoe into a first-rate poet , bnfc hardly successfully . One of the most interesting articles is that on a " French Metaphysician of the last Age "—M . de Bivan . And , altogether , the number may be presumed to be exceedingly interesting and informing .

    Blachivoo&s Magazine . No . 53 S . W . Blaekwood and Sons . — " National Defences and Volunteers " ably opens the number , and the probabilities and possibilities of a French campaign on English ground carefully gone into , and the different movements are very cleverly discussed . It places a just reliance on our Volunteers ; and it relies more on men than on fortifications , though it does not ignore the utility of the latter in judicious places , and to a moderate extent . A tilfc is run with Lord Macauley ' s treatment of CLaverhouse , Viscount Dundee , and of course he is washed as snow white , although his garment is crimsoned with human blood . The pursuit of Tantia Topee is an able exposition of a portion of the late Indian campaign , and is illustrated by a map . An original letter recounts the horrors of the great earthquake at Lisbon , a hundred and six years ago , a somewhat antiqiiated subject , but exceedingly interesting when once fairly read into . KTorman Sinclair continues his desultory narrative ; and an article on the " Transition State of our Indian Empire" closes the varied number .

    JFrazer r s Magazine , for August , 1860 , Ifo . 368 . —This magazine sustains its well-earned reputation . The instructive and armisiiig elements are judiciously blended . The Opening article , " Concerning Summer Days , " affords pleasant , discursive , and chatty reading . In a paper " On the Relations of the Public to the Science and Practice of Medicine , '' jtby Thos . Mayo , President of the Royal College of Physicians , an important subject is discussed by one who , of all others , may be supposed to be well acquainted with it . " Novels of the Davy their Writers and Readers , ' * is an article that will be read with interest . ¦

    " The Pr 6 p " c > 8 . ed-- . iSratidhalf ; I ) efehdes ;'' - " Essays and Reviews ; " The Ireland Forgeries ; " ^ and ^ Pope ' s M . S . Notes on Tickle ' s Homer / ' all attractive in their different spheres . The two stories , ' * Gryll Grange , '' by the Author of Headlong Hall , and " Wheat and Tares , " progreBs respectively through chapters 19 to 21 , and : _ 22 to 25 , not without a maintenance of interest . The Only poetry is " A Lament , " the sentiments of which are striking and immensely suggestive . An excellent feature in this " monthly " is its ? : Chronicle of- Current-History , " wlierein a lucid and comprehensive history of the month is digested and condensed intojibout eleven clear and very readable pages .

    TJie Coraliill Magazine ^ : No . . Smith , Elder , and Go .-r-The Framley Parsonage advances its descriptiv . 3 pages , but the interest rests mainly on its ppi'traituro of character , for -there is very little of story to be interested in .. " Unto this Last , '' ia a strange , ceeentrid paper on Political Economy '; .: but with some of its denouncements of this very imperfect science we agree , although we cannot but tliink the writer grows rather wild towards the close of the article ; f < Physciological Riddles'' treats scientific matters lightly and easily , but we do not -pgrceivo finy povplty of flitliei * iWnM- * - " * '""—/ iK- ^ Ifinomination-in-. tliesepapers . We have long been told that life is sustained by the continually shovelling coals on a perpetually ' consuming fire . The Lectures of the Editor bnthe " Georges" depicts his sacred Majesty George the Second , the loverof soldiers and . the hater of " Poetry and Painting . " We do not suppose that the magazine of Cornhill is eagerly sought for in the

    wgioh of Pimlicoand BeJgravia ; though the article is sweetened with a romplimentto verging royalty . " How I quitted Naples"is an aprojyos article . " Stranger than Fiction" is a solemn asseveration of tho wonders of spirit-rapping , etcetera , Mr . Sala abates no jofc of caro m his " Hogarthian Papevs , " and they are very cleverly written ; although like " Cardinal Bembo ' s Memoirs , " they contain a great deal tie omnibus rebus , and a little bit by-the-bye about the Cardinal horo . Holidays is a good natured paper , and No . 6 of the " Round-about-Pupers " rather the reverse , giving pages where , sontences would do , to ihe flagellation of tho idle and gossipping propensities of a litterateur , who liko a literary chiffonier ' , gathers all scraps , dirty . or clean , true or false , to send to . tho incorrigible quidnuncs and dovourers of cattle in theUnitcd States . Silent contempt is the only worthy punishment for such garrulous babblers .

    Maomillatfs Magazine , for August , I 860 , No . 10 . —This number has a very martial air . '•• Tho Navies of England and Franco" are in the van , while " The Youth of England , to Garibaldi' ^ Legion" 'bring up the rear of its tablo of contents . In addition to which wo have plenty of * ' Talk about the National RiiloJAssooiation Meeting at Wimbloclon , " by Captain J . O . Tomp ler , commanding the 18 th Middlesex . " From . " War ' s Alarms" we jump to " Two Love Stories" ( a short poem ) , and a novel , "Tom Brown at Oxford , " which completes tho 24 th and 25 th chapters with eclat . Themoro serious articles aro " Frondes ' History ,

    volfl . 5 and 6 , " by the £ Rev . T . D . 'Maurico ; and " The Cardroas Case and the National Church of Scotland } " " The youth of England , " boing in ver « o-f-on&also ^~ The-MyBtery- '— -it-will-bo ^ Been-thafc-tlio-mefcrical—ele '' mont enters largely into tho composition of tho present number . The inditor , Professor MaBson , contributes an article on " Thomas Hood . " " Uninspired Prophooy" by Herbert Coleridge , is a title which of itself is well adapted to suggest curious reflexions , to the thoughtful ; und " Tho Artisan ' s Saturday Night by Percy Greg , " might ; bo rend with profit by tho class which forma tho subject of it . Altogether the pro * nenfc number is a good one . ,

    " MacMahon the 1 st , Iting of Ireland , " comes in for discussion , somewhat ere its time ; the concluding article being on " The future of Sicily . " The present number mny be said to begin and end with a prospective peep into-futurity . -. There , is an interesting paper entitled " Rienzi" by Professsor de Verieour ; " The waters of Babylon " moander through five pages of poetry ; and * ' Bonifazio" descends from it-s

    ' White pyramid of rock above The- straits between -Hie-Islands , " to appear in a , metrical form in tho pages of the periodical we are noticing . t ; Three days at IviUarnev , " would just be what we should like to luxuriate in at " t ' his present writing , " but piles of works for review hem us in in every side , and miles of " leaders" stretch between us and rustication , or any hope of the dolce far nienle . Among the articles in the present number— " Vonved the Dane , Count of Elsinove ;" " The Informer ; " " The Paris Agricultural Show ; " " A French Opera Glass ; " " Our Political Chorus ; " " A pinch of Gold Dust ; " and an " Historical Memoir of tho O'Briens , " will be found to contain mental pabiiluiu of various sorts to suit various mental palates .

    The Xortlt American Review , July , 1860 , No . 188 . —The contents of the present number are of a varied description . The first article , with a formidable Greek and Latin title in the table of contents , is on "A new Edition of the Septuagint ; " immediately following which we have " Landscape Gardening , " a much more flowery subject , if not so important a one . " Slavery in Borne " is pregnant with suggestive instruction which the reader is left to apply to existing institutions whieh , unhappily , are not in essence , however they may be in name , confined to one country in particular . " Jjatifundia perdidere Italian . —Large Estates ruined Italy . This is Pliny ' s judgment , " says the writer of the article in question , " and its truth is generally accepted - . Slavery mulermined tlte social structure , and toas ihe cluef support of a system of large estates" The scope and tendency of the article may be Into the details of the insti

    gleaned from the concluding passages : — : " - tution ( slavery ) itself , and the wretchedness of its victims , we have riot thought it ^ desirable Xo enter ; it was its history , rather than its antiquities , that we wished to consider . This we have done from two points of view—the changes it underwent in form and nature , and the ruin it brought upon liberty and civilization . But : the two aspects ttave illustrated each , other , as slavery and Roman Institutions have reacted on each other . It was the degeneracy of the Roman character that made slavery so harsh ; but it was in great part slavery that debauched the Roman , character . It was tho iatifuiidia , or large estates , that gave slavery it s political power ; but slavery enabled the system of Tatifundia to develope itself .- It was slave labour that annihilated small estates m Italy j and it was foreign captives brought as slaves to Rome , that as freedmea crowded the city tribes and constituted the-city mob . It seems not too much to say that slaverv more thian aught else was the

    worm AvJiich gnawed at tlio root of ancient civilization ; its soundness and vitality gone , the whole-fabric fell . " The thing slavery itself exists at present to a much greater extent under other names than is generally ; suj ^ posed ; and to ward Otf the legitimate consequences , will taxthe abilities of our greatest statesmen and sociologists in the approaching future . Tliei'c arc several other articles on topics of interest . "An American Poet ; James Gate , Percival ; " "An American Statesman ;;; " Thomas Jeftcrson ; "' and " Margaret Fuller Ossoli , " each form the subject of a paper . ' . ¦' .. ' -Th . o is an article on " Recent French Literature ;" another on . ' , Italianauthor , " Ugo J ? oscolo . " V Influehcp of Political Economy on Legislatibn" will be read with interest ; and " Strauss and the Mythic Theory , " carries us into the hazy regions of mystical —exercitrrl ^ nT ^ vitlTTrgTndcn ^ lT xr ^ tres ^^ way cteaTrhiroF sOlfi . There are two local subjects discussed , which , however , are oi wider than local interest , " The Historv of ' North Carolina , " and " The

    Charities of Boston . ' The . ' Spiritual MagazineioY August , No . 8- —Those who desire to know the incognizable , to understand the incomprehensible , to handle the intangible , to manipulate tho impalpable , to discern things invisible , to transcend the . experiences acquired through all hitherto known inlets Of knowledge , should consult ' tin ' s sorial , which begins with quotations from Proverbs and St . Paul , and ends with punching Punch ? head , and making a Siiyors-cum-Heenan uttaek upon Mr . Cliarles Dickens . , Tho Welcome Quest . Part 10 , for August . —This " Magazine for all , " contains all eorls of reading for all sorts of persons , on all sorts ot siibjeotH , suited for all times and all places , and this is all thut we can say about it just now ; all our spaco being exhausted , as this is tho time of all others ' when we have loastto spare- —all the quarterlies , mohthheB , and weeklies , in parts , being showered in upon us from all quarters .

    Tho Leisure Hour . Part 103 ,, for July . —This sorial , tho character and purpose of which aro well-known ( it having reached its 448 th No . ) , shows no signs of uny likelihood that it will not continue to receive the patronage hitherto bestowed upon it by the reading portion of the public . One of Them . By Charles Lovor . No . 0 for August . —" One of them "—wo uso the words in tho ponso of ono of Mr . Levor ' clover productions , deservoa tho samo ample share of publics favour which has ivlwoys been accorded to tho others of this popular writer ' s amusing novels . ' Detailed criticism is in general to be reserved until tho story in its entirety is boforo the public , whonjt oan ^ bo reviewed as ^ « ¦ "whole ; ' - ¦¦—¦ ' —— T" ~ ~ rZ ~ *~~~~ " "" . . . ~' ' *~ ., .: ¦• . '

    Ze Fblfct ., for AugtiBt , 186 O . ~ Many n briglit pair of eyes will glance ovor " LtvJMpdo , " which forms tho loading arfciolo of this " leading journal , " of tho " lenders of -fashion , " and whioh is speoially dovoteil to t-bo " beaux arts" of designing and " fashioning * those " elegant nothings whioh drapo tho onohantinp ; formB of the " fominino institution j" " and whioh , spread out and expanded over the x'otund ampn- > tudo of hoops and crinoline , constitute the joll subject of three of ww nolourod illustrations or dross-maps to whioh the letter-press refers . The ^ fourth is of a moro eovero and eoientifio oharaotei " , « na may w deperibert as thonnatojnv ofdrcps elucidated by diagrams .

    Dublin University Magazine , for August , 1860 , No . 382 . —This magazine appropriately commouoos with " Tho Irish Quostion ' ( La Question Mandate ) , in tho course of which' tho contingent ; veign of

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    70 The Saturday Analyst and [ Leader . : [ Aug . 4 , 1860 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1860, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2359/page/12/