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      IttAGMESTS PROM "MY SCRAP BOOK . " Bl GBE 4 U ) MASSET . JIOBKISO . Horn bursta tbe darfc upon her golden wings , 85 5 W bad sprang a lejel-mine ; The auick mad splendours rend and burn the gloom ; € lund after cloud lights up a rainbow-roof . * ii wtat a triumph-arch of pillar'd pomp The conquering Day doth trail her grandeurs through ! If hat living tide 3 of glory hurst and foam , And hurry along tUe starry streets of heaven ! While Earth , from morn ' s sweet sacrament of dew , lifts up her flashing face to heaven and smiles ; Clad in auroral hues aud flame-like glory . STONING . A spirit-feel is in the air to night , The flowers pwir-out their myriad vials of fragrance ; The stars are trembling through the holy hush like dew-drops in the fields of heaven , or tears That hang rich jewels on the cheeks of Xight .

      COMISG STORM . The black clouds , big with battle-thunder , lower ; ¦ Dead calm , with murther'd breath , the earth lies husht , And listens like a maiden sore afraid , Hearkening , heart-stifled , for the stealthicst tread Of one who grimly comes to ravish her , Bis purpose brooding over him a gloom To burst on her in all lust ' s bloody fire . T 4 ME . As dying liml > 3 do lengthen ont in death . Bo grows the stature of our after-fame !

      • GOD IX iU . There i 3 no heart so earthy , Imt at times Hath eager leaps to clutch at nobler life , And some blind gropings after better things . Some smiles of God live in the darkest being , And soul-ligbt glimmers even on helot-brows , like mellow moonlight silvering through a cloud ! BEVERE . VCE . The reverent heart familiarly doth take Unconscious clasp of high and holy things , lake little children plajing of old with Christ . A humble vesture is heaven's livery—A worshipful heart , God ' s own grand crowning crest . And Love—Creation ' s crowning miracle—Is God ' s high oracle to man : while Reverence Jg Man's true passport to God ' s presence-chamber .

      A BR 1 VK MiS . In the world ' s wrestling ring of mighty deeds , Be ever clutched the palm of victory : A royal , conquering heart !—the Ills that grind The many down from Love ' s transfiguring height , Aye mettled into martial attitude . THE TEACHES . He rose up as the Prophet's wings of flame Flattered within him : all hi 3 aspect burned "With an unearthly fire . lie was caught up The mount Transfiguration , with eyes fist In air , as though he talkt with one beyond ! Thu 3 he stood looking down the centuries like an hoar hill that lifts its silent peak , To catch the unrisen morn , while all the plains Are drows'd and darkling . So upon him lay The morning-glory of some distant day .

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      In an age when independence of principle consists in having no principle on which to depend , and iree-thinking , nor in thinkiBS Hands , but in being free from thinking ;—m an age When IKO trill hold any thing except their tonunes , keep anything except their word , and lose nothing- patiently , except their character ; to improve such an age must be difficult , to instruct it dangerous ; and he stands no chance of amenuing it who canuot at the same time amuse it . La Dame aux Camillas , By Dumas the Youxgeb . And the Literature of Licentiousness .

      In February , 1847 , Marie Duplessis died in her splendid apartments in the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle , Paris . She was the daughter of an ignoble Norman of Caen , called Martin the Sorcerer , a man of evil reputation among Iris neighbours . Marie wore wooden shoes , and was brought up more in fear of the devil than of God . In 1838 , Martin the Sorcerer brought the future Sorceress to Paris , where he speedily died , or otherwise disappeared . There were but two roads open to the girl—the road of Industry , and the road to Shame . Too young for the latter , Marie went to work at a dressmaker ' s in the Hue St .

      Jaques , where she was starved and beaten . At length she ran away , and , having attained the years of indiscretion , she enlisted in the service of the Students of the Quartier Latin . She now appeared at the Pradoon a Sundayin a modest little silk dress , pretty little shoes , and a coquettish little bonnet , which framed a face , then of budding beauty , Here she soon becamethe BellaDonna . A young Duke happening onemorningtopay a visit to the Prado , was struck with her beauty , and a week afterwards all Paris sang psans to the charms of the lovely mistress of the Due de Guise . For four years , Marie was the most courted , flattered , and famous courtezan in Paris . A long reign in that Metropolis of Ephemera ! But she was seized by the fell grip of disease , called bY

      courtesy ' consumption ; ' and for many months was shut up in a room , sealed from the light of day—invisible to all , even to the Count P , her then highest bidder . Oh ! what fearful mysteries and tragedies are enacted behind the curtain of life ! Here , in darkness , and in silence , the Queen of Parisian beauty languished at the throne of grim Death Only twice did she emerge from her living tomb , and it was on both occasions to go to the theatre—on her leaving which two hundred of the young aristocrats of Paris ranged themselves in her way , and bowed before that bedizened Magdalen , who swam on in her supernatural beauty , clad in waves of white satin—a jewelled mockery " ! She died ! and all Paris crowded , with hungry eyes , to pry on the abiding

      piace ot so celebrated a woman . Such is a sketch of the woman who is the heroine of Dumas' novel , which has been so successful that he has dramatised it ! Tragic enough , if that were the object ; but no —the subject is chosen for the opportunity of presenting pictures of courtezan life . And thiB terrible and fatal evil is destroying the noblest life of the -brenchnation . The ragefor the lascivious literature of licentiousness increases daily , and . French art has t ransiomeditselfintoapandartotheWasetf&flKc / ifi - and

      we roue . The life of the courtezan , with its mad ? n ° ani if ^ atingluxar y' Palace-brothels , and Aospi taUernumis , has usurped the place of noble aspu-ation battling heroism , and is Lord in the very throne of Love . It is not woman , the holy , the pare , and the worshipful , painted by the magichand « genius , and held up for admiration and chivalrous aevofaon—it is Circe , who -with her lewd enchantments turns her wretched devotees into swine . She

      w a goddess in the land where Joan d'Arc , with her neroifim bo startiingly beautiful , led her countrymen to victory—where Madame Roland lived , loved , and suffered , and where that glorious woman , large in heart and brain—George Sand—still liveB to write . It is the apotheosis of Whoredom at tho Carnival of Sensuality . The poetry of life , its rich and sparkling hopes , its generous affections , its wealth of pure and priceless love , and all its human nobleness , no longer please ; they pall on our diseased

      tastepaint us the life of disease , in warm , rich colours , and with all the glozing , honied , witchery of sin , and if you administer an occasional flagellation , it will enhance the zest . This is the cry of their corruption , and the response is such works as La Dame aux Camelias , ' and other pictures of courtezan life , by innumerable writers , each emulating the other «« Btll T latin S voluptuousness , and in titillating KS * ThiB Etewtaw circnlates to a fearful ^ rent among the working classes of France , and is a 2 ^ of immorality . Faint hope of a Sfl- \ - enchanted b 7 Iewd sorceries ! Its rk of fo

      S - ^ ° caterin g r toe devil limited io thrn ^ i , « v i mart the 8 limy trail of the serpent X J&JP ^ P and breadth of 0 Qr oto land , to ™? Vf CUlateBit 8 vicUmB hy thousands with of iKfli ^ ' ^* ^ * " ¦*>* the poison mi mI fMf workin s their Wood aDd S ' ft 6 ? of fte most villanous organisation , fi * tf tV "" - ?« Pren <* liters , without a aSwTS ? * J ? jV retched imposters have *« aptea and imitated tn <» wnr \ -a „« £ „ . _ i extent that each

      school of I ? - ™ \ . tl - <> « m e conrtezau ^ sstvz ?* - ™ new « * & fl ? ^ ^ - 1 a £ »«*****» more * S 5 « ft *• "pud . These circulate by ^ ear oarin ?" ! . 5 tnd these Powers for hell ment , andTg tradein &eir work ofseduction , defilekfemou 87 orr ? - ° ' ' Ut weknowhow their $ ***» £ town . 2 . f T . M y ° UDg Of the manu-^^ iS ' ! - ^ how they devour , with $ *** & ££ **• thw offal and S arbage > wnichis ktter perSbJ £ M a Bta P ifying decoction for the * Potion and consummation of robbery ,

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      perhaps murder . "We intend to treat this subject at greater length at some future time , and tear down the silken mask which hides the hideous features of this whore of the modern Babylon , her bloated , blotched , iface—the lustful glare of infernal light which lnrks m her lecherous , leering eyes , and her flesh almost quickening into reptile life , from very rottenness , even while she flashes in splendour , and sings the song of the Syren . Meanwhile , if there be any who should chance to see these words , who are in ' tho toils of the strange fascination , which this literature has for many , even liigli-natured and of noble tem-^ ? P , . ^ - . " We intend to tort this subject at

      perament , we would implore them to gather up their strength and burst the fetters which , though of silken seeming , canker and corrode to death . The banner of Democracy should bo borne aloft , eo that the pure breeze aud the sunshine of heaven may play upon it . Borne , by men who keep their hearts pure , as a holy sanctuary for tho principles which they love aad cherish . Democracy is noble and ennobling , and Us disciples should make their lives living epistles of truthfulness to all men . Patriotism and purity should ever bo found together . Democracy scorns the pandars to Lust aiid the betrayers of Ignorance . The 'Dame aux Camelius' has cot yet been adapted into English under a now name—the usual

      mode of procedure—but , doubtless , it is being worked tip , and the poor slaves of excitation will riot in their saturnalia in due . time . Better , aay we , a thousand times better , return to the ghostly horrors of Monk Lewis , The Knight-of-the-blood y-shoe-string bathos of the Badcliffes , or even sup brimful of Lloyd ' s blood-and-murder atrocities—they were far , far less pernicious and corrupting , than this Literature of Licentiousness .

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      The Comic History of Borne . By Gilbert A'Beckett . London : Bradbury and Evans . "What a different BigniBcation ouv forefathers attached to tho name of Wit' to that which it has dwindled into with us . A wit with them was a man of brilliant parts—one who could kill a « error by laughter—a man of searching , subtle humour . With them Shakespeare was a wit . With them wit meant quick understanding , sudden , luminous bursts ot

      happy thought , keen satirical allusion , naive touches of characterisation woudrously suggestive . With us it means punning , conceit , and caricature J The name of penman should be altered into pun-man at once . Everybody puns , and thinks himself a wit ! It is the age of punning—as in the time of the Encyclopsediasts it was the age of irony , and it was the fashion to sneer , and as after Byron , it was the age of misanthropy , and fashionable to be miserable . € Punch » has much to answer for in this

      punning mama and broad-grin pasquinade . If poor dear Tom Hood and Laman Blancbard could see what their flus hing merriment , and rollicKiug humour , and Bparkling wit , have ended in , what barnacles have stuck ou to the bulk of their Fame —how eagerly they would forswear their claim to the foundershi p of what is called tho " Punch " School . ' This ambition to be thought fuuny , to say smart things , is working most fatall y in the literature of the day—it is sapping at tho root of all solemn earnestness , all faith , all nobleness . Senseless levity is fast eating out the sturdy , truthful , saxon spirit , and the language of Shakespeare and Milton , and the grand Commonwealth-men , is scouted for the slang of Evans and the cidercellar !

      Gilbert A'Beckett is a punster , one of the modern WlTir school ; and this book is intended to be fdnnv . We never waded through so much dreary fun-less ness . It has not wrested from us on . 0 hearty burst of laughter—nothing but disgust , utter disgust . JNo humour , no truth , no subtle characterisation ! And then , the sublimity of burglarious , Louis Napoleon-hke audacity , for him to parody Roman History ! " He is not a wit—M 3 work is ' not witty . He is onl y a Mud-lark , and his work is a mud-lark ! It is throwing handfuls of dirt to deface the noble features of heroic statutes , and each successful daub is a palpable hit !—a pun ! Thus some atrocious

      effigy of a jest is made to depend on the hook of a Itoman nose , and the magnificent Roman eye , that flashed lightnings and rolled red ruin on the worll , is set a glimmer with laughing gas , and blinks upon us thro' modern « blue ruin . ' Heroes , and the early gods of young imagination are presented , for the first time , for our ediflcation , iu the Nicol Paletot and the Joinville Tie ! Grand types of strength ' and beauty , and poetry , are metamorphosed into Gents , Bricks , Swells , Slow , and Fast men . Some of the vapid effusions of 'Punch * itself have been bad enough of late years—somewhat akin to the

      cachination of a galvanised corpse ; tut Gilbert A Beckett 13 worse still . He latel y defended this book with a plea that it tended to make history amusing to children , and would rivet their attention where the ordinary method failed , fancy catechising a model child thus educated ! Caius Gracchus would be a « PLUCKEr cote , ' Hannibal a « jolly bkick ' Lucrece a' stunner , ' and Quintus Curtius ' an ass •' by the bye , as a specimen not of the worst kind , this is how he caricatures that grand old legend and illustrious personification of the great and glorious spirit of self-sacrifice . 8

      QDDJTOS C 0 RTKJS— ACCORDING TO GllBBRT A ' BEeEEM . fWvTVr * ? « i » i * ioiw of febe people healed , than the city itself began to bo torn to pieces in a most extraordinary manner . Rome wag convulsed to its centre : the earth began to quake , and the citizens to tremble . A tremendous chasm appeared at length in the Forum ; and as the abyss yawned more and more , it was thought unsafe for the people to go to sleep over it . Some thought it was a freak of Mature , who , as if in enjoyment of the cruel sport she occasioned , had gone into convulsions and split her sides . Others formed different conjectures ; but the chasm still remamed-a formidable open question . Some of the people tried to fill it up with dry rubbish , but they only filled up their own time , without producing the least effect upon the cavity la vain did tho largest contractors undertake the job , for it was impossible to contract the aperture , that , instead of being small by degrees and beautiful ! v less

      grew every day large by fits and starts , and horribly fSfirf A $ i aDgur 87 ere consulted , who , taking Wnlnnn rt \*~ Vl their conviction that thl perforation of the earth would continue , and that , in fact it would become m time a frightful bore , if the most precious thing inRome were not thrown into it U ™ Sn this , » W guardsman , named Curtius , fancying there could be nothing more precious than his preciou , self , arrayed himself m a full suit of armour , and went forth fully determined to show his metal . Notice wai given Uwt ; Wft * » PM act of hmemaSlwSld be performed by M . Curtius ; and as there is *\ vJ * «» . ?" ,. tractio

      , n ma fete which puts life in jeopardy , the attendance , at a performance where death for the man and the courser was a matter of courae , was what " ™ should call numerous and respectable . All the rank and fashion of Rome occupied the front seat ? , at a spectacle thrown ? ever ? thing else into the shade , and the performedSelf £ theverycentre of the earth which was to provetohim a f ^?^ ° - t gravity - Havine cantered once or twice round the ring , he prepared for the bold plunge but his horse having looked before he leaped , boon toplrawfa a different direction , Taking another circuJ . M . ffiSK spurred on bj-ambition puthis spurs into the animal ' s side , and the poor brute was hurried into the abyss , though , had iJmnP 5 ?> T ? y ° f backi nS ou *« he ™ uld *™ eagerly Krt , S ;«; PV ^ stnanperformance was no sooner over , than the theatre of the exploit was immediatel y closed , and a lake _ arose on the spot , as if to mark the scene as

      ont Z ^ iTT 11 a continued overflow . The place ff LrffhP m * llie ^ J asCl" - »« s in Honour of the hero , thrsacrificSnn f * J aB ( 1 hh ^ ate ^ tainlv involved for it"SSh I \ ^* raost Precious articles in Rome , tfeS fc « ? M \ f ^ m ? ng the author ' s ^ st ; but , wTwnT ^ - * T ly ap P lied t 0 such * aubject We would seriousl y ask Mr . A'Beckett , as a conscientious magistrate , how he cau ever paniaa young spreeish gentlemenfor their funnvemnlovmpnt

      m wrencmng on door-knockers and brandies ? He being so palpably ak . n to his own . A fellow feeling should make him kind to them . In concCon "I see no earthly reason wh y such a work should have been published , unless some cynical enemy of the ' school' h » done it on the principle of fa old Spar tan custom , of making a slave drunk that the exhibition of his idiotcy might disgust their children with drunkenness . In such wise We a t it and recommend it as a melanchol y warning

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      Men of the Time ; or . Sketches of Living Notealles . London : Bogue , Fleet-street ; This is a sketchey attempt to give short Biographies , and other information , of the principal Men of the Time—Authors , Artists , Composers , Capitalists , Demagogues ^ Dramatists , Engineers , Journalists , Monarchs , Ministers , Poets , and others , « too numerous to mention . The idea is excellent , but the work is not so well carried out . It i 3 a kind of 'Peerage for the People , ' though many of the People ' s Peers are not to be found . j n its Hat . While

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      ~ ¦— ' ^—¦——undue prominence is given to names unknown to tiin people , wemissthoaeof Charles KingslBy . Maurice and many others known to Science , the Arts Demo ' cracy and the People- And why , we Would ask the compiler , why is the honoured name of John Cas ^ ll omitted ? That Howard of modern philantbopv who saves the people thousands of pounds to its pockets annually , by tho use of his incomparable coffees , and thousands of- lives annuall y by the use of his incomparable Worsdell ' s Pills . If j \ fr < Bogue would permit us , we should bo happy to write the Biography of this great benefactor of the human for the next edition of undae prominence is given to nam ^^ ZTT ^

      race this work , which is advertised to appear annually . One more omission and we have done . Our friend and champ ion Ernest Jones is not here ; aud we appeal « to tho judgment of the people , ' is not he a ' Mian of tho Time ?' ° Aud an imminent one , too ? TheD ,. why j the Editor of the ' Notes' not included in Sketches of our Living Noteables V There are also . some mistakes we could point out ; as an instance , ' Festu 3 ' is said to bo the only work of the Poet Phili p Jumes Bailev whereas he has since published 'The Angel World ' a poem of great beauty , though far inferior to ' < pWu «' Altogether tho « Men of the Time' is a book of more value as a data for writers , thau satisfactory to the general reader . . ;

      The following is an average specimen of its merits being an account of Girardin , one of the fore most names of late years that every ono has heard A man of rare energy , who once sold his own-made blacking-paste in tho streets of Paris , and has since figured prominently in the great scenes of history Many of our French friends look upon Lim as aclevoi Charlatan .

      EMILE DB GIRADIN . Emile Do Girardin , a French Journalist , was born urnbably in PftriB , about 1602 . and is said to bo the il&mate son of Count Alexander Girardin , but waS hapB ? S name of Lamotto . lie was educated in one of tho Gymna-» a of the capital , and when about twenty employed a small sum of money , bequeathed to him by his mother / in estal waning a literary journal , to which ho obtained a good HI ?™ rf i " r K- V l IilViD " Sned his articles in tho name of Girardin , his father commenced leual proceedings against him for an unlawful assumption of his name . In spite of an adverse judicial decision , Emile retained his name , and also contrived to escape the conscription from his uwbui y to give the name of his birthplace , or so much as to declare himself a Frenchman . The Revolution of February found him an Inspecteur dea Beaux AWa swnB

      after that event , he became the editor of the " Journal des Connaissances Utiies , " of the "Pantheon Litteriire "Tf tho " Uute de Families , " and of the « YohlrJ' Splay ing great industry , ami that practical tact which has always dmtmemshed him . These journals having failed one Se another , he published a book called "Emile " wh ch had no better success U Girardin had now no fortune but Ss pen , and he had lately married the clever Delphine Gay L no ?! f ? r ^ , ° - SUiOn > Under thesolcircumstances ho associated himself with an adroit man of business , one M . Boutemy , no ncher than him . elf . and the t * pro " ectH he Presse newspaper , since become so celebrated hrou hout Europe , The prospectus , written wi h a ciS audac announced

      ty , a journal which wasTc b la g and cheaper than any then published in France , and to be the property of a joint-stock company . The scheme sue ceeded , the shares sold rapidly ; in 1836 " La Presse" appeared , and took its place at once as an established neWB-? HF ? ; . ? iSS ° n ° ' ! l P J oa P fict « s is the more remark , able as , in 1832 , Oiranlin had founded a company of propnetors for the publication of a literary journal , and was prosecuted for having defrauded the shareholders by paying dividends out of capital . He waa acqnittcd of this charge by the court , and the rapid subscriptions for t \ m shares of ' Li Presse seem a sufficient answer to it on the part of the public When a year old , the newspaper reckoned as many as 15 , 000 subscribers . From the first day of its existence tne

      •• rnsse was better made un than any of its contemporaries . These were all merely political papers and relied for success upon theirleadingarticles . The '' Prcase " took care there should not be a fact of tho least importancenot a promotion in tho nrmy , the navy , the clergy , the municipal bodies-nofc a scientific , mechanical , or commercial discovery , nor an important cause pleaded , which should remain unrecorded in its columns . Girardin gave out that he would make war upon the cliqueism of the Parisian pvess as it then existed . He made a merit of being a man of no party , and took for his motto , Au jour Ic jovr . True to hia motto and the practical , money getting character of hia speculation , he has supported anil renounced , in turn , every minister and every opposition chief . To two principles only

      uus ue . ueen constant-hostility to England and advocacy of Russia . His accomplished wife came to his aid in the work of increasing the attractiveness of his paper , and wrote in the " Presse" a series of most amusing articles , entitled , « Oauseries Parisiennes , " with immense success Always busy consulting the tastes of his subscribers Girardin further invented the Roman Feuilleton , as it is cal ! ed-a novel or tale , written in an a , ' ! captandum fashion , of which about a dozen columns are published per diem . Alexandra Dumas , George Sand , De Balzac , Frederic Soulie , and other writers , were eni ? a !? ed

      at enormous rates of remuneration , and increased immensely the circulation of the journal . With increasing subscribers , the advertisements rapidly multiplied , as Girardin had foreseen . It has been said , with truth , that he was the first to teach the French public the use of the newspaper advertising sheet . In 1846 the Compagnio Duyeyrier agreed to pay a hundred thousand francs per annum for a limited number of columns . Ten years after its est Jn !! ment l "J * Press ? " was > 'ieldin * a "venue of 10 ^ 1 a year ' Its financia ' history , from 1848 to Deo . 2 , 1851 , waa probably less satisfactory to its proprietor ; at the latter date it was suppressed , with all tlieimlenendr » nt

      journals , by order of M . Bonaparte . In 1834 Girardin . obtained a seat in tho Chamber of Deputies by the influence of the ministry , of which he was then an ardent supporter , and was returned for Bourg . ineuf . In 1830 an event occurred which leaves an indelible stain on his memory . Moved , less even by personal rancour than by a desire to improve the speculation in which he had embarked , he attacked Armand . Caml , of the "National , " grossly in the columns of " La Presse , " that a duel took place m which the greatest journalist and one of tho noblest patriots France has known fell by the hand of this adventurer . He was re-elected for Bowganeuf in 1838 and again in 1839 , when the Chamber declared the return void on account of his inability to prove himself a French Citizen . He , however , found his way back into the national parliament , and during the last years of Louis Philippe'a reign gave M . Guizot , his former ally , considerable irouoie

      . ac tne devolution of February ho was particularly active , and received immediately from Louis Philippe the act of abdication . He failed , however , most completely in gaining the confidence of any considerable body of Frenchmen . When Cavaignac was invested with the chief authority , Girardin was confined for a time , as a precautionary measure , He continued to write without any fixed principle until Loui 3 Napoleon Bonaparte suspended his paper . . r

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      History of the French Mevolution . By Louis Blanc . Vol . 3 . London : Jeffs . Of all the French historians wo prefer Louis Blanc —• he combines the brilliant force of Michelet , the perspicuity of Thierry , tho logical acumen of Guizot , with the grace of Lamartine . Heisapoetas well as historian—a prophet as well as a painter . There is little doubt but this will be the revolutionary history of the Revolution par excellence . M . Louis Blanc

      has found valuable materials for bis work in our Museum , which is far richer in the records of that magnificent era than the Paris collection . Thus , he is enabled to shift the Conspiracy long known as that of Philip Egalite from bis shoulders to those of the Count de Province . There is no writer who so thoroughly penetrates and roveals the causes and undercurrents of Revolution as M . Louis Blanc . Witness his most masterly commencement of the History of Ten Years . '

      And as au iustance of this insight or instructive genius for that purpose , we would point to the opening chapter of this work on the sta , teof property before theBevolution , and the consequences of the fall of tho Feudal system ; after which follows the gospel before the Revolution ; then succeeds some of the most glorious writing in all history , and pictures as vivid as those of Carlyle , and far more highly-finiahed . ( How different to the humdrum prosiness of most of our historians !) There are two galleries of revolutionary portraits in the volume of most exciting interest : the one is filled with the men of the Constituent

      Assembly ; the other , with journalists , &c . Among others are Maury , Duport , Barnarve , tho Lameths , Mirabeau , Canaille Desmoulins , Brissot , Marat , and Robespierre , perfect as living DaugerreotypeB . Louis Blanc has made a noble and a manful effort to put the maligned character of Marat iu its true light , and he has succeeded . He deserves the grateful thanks of all patriots for his praiBeworthy defence . With his reputation , it is noble and chivalrous . Of this man whom Camille Desmoulins called a 'divine being 'this ' monster' whose bust was thrown into the Bewer M . Louis Blanc asks in

      conclusion—How came he to inspire so many passions in the people , a people remarkable for the constancy of their instincts ? Question profound ! Besides , what were his motives ? Ambition ? "Why , when he desired a dictatorshi p , he wished it not for himself but for Robespierre , whom personally he did not know . —Cupidity ? At his death , an assignat of twenty-five sous was all tbo money found in his house ¦—Thirst of honours ? While living he protested against the injury that would be done to his ashes if buried with the great . —The passion of glory ? He had it when young ; but had it not been violently exposed since then to many curses , and could he be ignorant that after his cries of vengeance would come to trouble the silence of his tomb ?—The taste for popularity ? Each morning he scattered bia own to all the winds . Where is room for egoism to be

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      found in the voluntary choiceTfTdark T ^ T rounded wth anxieties , alway s meS 5 ' " menaced , » nd of which the horror w « fSnW LZt f"T affection of a woman , -the second star wLcT ^ eVtt We shall only have space for the follow ^ i . * sketchofthe'Incorruptible : ' - tollow » & bnef Robeapievro was there ! Not that any one hid nt * v ^ time [ 1789 } . divined his future ascendancy . ?„ the- o !« ., < those gentlemen who , with the easy and graceful imlifforenceof men . of wit , attempted to pby the part ofrl . « Gracchi , the advocate of Avnvs was an object of rr . inh Thn Involution not being as jet transformed into his i ™™ they found Ins speeches heavy and formal . His appearance in the tribune , which afterwards made them tremble thpn made themsmile . Of all that there was of » rand and f itil in the man ,. nothing appeared : only that in every debato he went to the bottom of the question . Alone , in the midst nf 7 ~ , ¦ .. -- . - — — ~ ~ -

      men tormented with so many opposite sentiments he marched right on , without tear , without hesitation , without regard for persons or consequences , bia mental eye fixed on the horizon . The warmth which other men have in the heart he hail in the intellect . . He was impassioned bV his iniellicencD .. lit- had beliefs ; but they were a 3 solid and as cold as steel . His convictions were at the same t ' me sullen and unchangeable . It was enough for thrm to dis trust the powers of agitation that lay in him . Thev onlv learned tocomprehend him when they learned to-underatiml the Revolution itself As ho explained his ideas m p , ' found and inflexible tormulus , on all sides buM forth a pe . il ot insulting langhter . Nevertheless , on studying thoa ' p fixed maxims of lna ,-on putting his faith to the proof - on looking into his sad eres-on contemplating his thin face , of which the olive complexion became in certi n moments like tho colour of tho sea .-some of these men had a confused presentiment of his destiny . " This man " ' Mirabeau- remarked one day , in a moment oi invo ' lu ' n tary emotion , " will do something :-he believes , t . / OT , / " says .

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      THE COUNTESS OP RUD OLSTADT . [ Sequel to " Consudo . " ] , Br Gkobqb Sand . Consublo was born in Spain , in what part she knew not Her mother was « i wandering gipsy , living by her songs . ' When Consuelo was a child , she was , with her mother Entertained hospitably at a Chateau in Bohemia , where a handsome youth , the lord ' s son , treated them kindly . Tim chateau , was Giant ' s Cnstlo , of which she was one dny to refuse to become the chatelaine . That youn * lord was Count Albert of Rudolstadt , whose wife she was to be . At ten years of age she begin to sing in the streets oi Venice ; and there the justness of her voice attracted the attention of Master Porporina , who placed her in one of the free schools of music . # She then loved Anzoletto , an orphan j but ho , becoming jealous , wished to break with her , and Consuelo ffcd to Bohemia .

      She was welcomed by the Rudolstadts , at Giant ' s Castle and became the governess of the Baroness Amelia , the old Count ' 3 niece . Here she was beloved by Count ' Albert who passed for a crazy man , but who possessed , i mind poetically exalted far above those that surrounded him One day tho perfidious Anzolctlo arrived at Giant ' s Castle , with the intention of carrying Consuelo away from Albert ; but , becoming awaro of his design , she left the chateau early in tho mornine , ami travelled to Vienna on foot , to seek her old master Porporina . Thinking Consuclo ' s love foolish , Porporina suppressed their correspondence . When she again saw Albert he was on hia donth-bed ; she became his wife , and when his spirit had passed away , her master dragged her from her husband s corpse , and she returned to the stage .

      Having , with Porporina , left Vienna for Berlin , Consuelo met the King of Prussia , disguised as the Baron de Krontz at the chateau of Roswald , in Moravia , where she pievented the assassination of . Frederick . Porporina was m t allowed to cross the Prussian frontkv , and Consuelo was compelled to go on alono to Berlin , to fulfil his enca « ement . b a One evening at the Opera , Consuelo saw the pale face of Albert looking down upon her from the first tier of boxes ; and , some days afterwards , Cagliostro , a sovceror , having promised to show her the person of whom she then thought , showed her , not the Porporina whom she had figured in her milbut

      n ., Albert . She again saw tho same face at the entrance of the Cabinet of Curiosities in the Royal P-ilace . This mystery was , however , cleared up when she " learnt that this apparition was no other than Trismegistus , a man consulted as a sorcerer by tho Princess Amelia , ami who was an associate of tho famous Cagliostro . Tho Princes Amelia had long loved the colebrated Baron Trenck , pvoseribed by Frederick for presuming to love the sister of a King I Consuelo had become the confidant of this unfortunate passion . Watched by tho emissaries of Frederick her secret , relations with the Princess and her lover were doomed ; and the despot determined to punish her . *

      TIIK ARREST . When Consuelo awoke in the morning she found a wreath of white roses suspended above her head , round the crucifix which sho inherited from her mother , and from which she had never parted . At the same time she remarked that the branch of cypress , which , from a certain evening of triumph at Vienna , when it had been thrown on the stago by an unknown hand , had never ceased to ornament the crucifix , had disappeared . In vain she sought for it on all sides . It seemed as if in placing this fresh and sparkling wreath in its stead , this mournful trophy had been purposely removed . Her servant could neither tell her in what way , nor at what hour this exchange had been effected . The flowers were as fresh a 3 though they had only been gathered the moment before , and as full of perfume as if it were in the midst of summer . Consuelo sighed bitterly as she thought that such beautiful roses were to be found at this season m no other place than the royal greenhouses , and that her maid might well attribute this homaee to the kin ? .

      am yet he did not know how much I valued my cypress , " thought she ; " why has he taken it from mo ? Wherefore , indeed ! Accursed be the hand that committed this sacrilege , to whomsoever it may belong ! " But as Porporina angrily threw the crown far from her , a small pieco of parchment fell from it , which having picked up , sho read the following words in an unknown hnndwritingli-very noble action deserves its reward , and the only reward worthy of groat minds , is the homage of sympathetic spirits . Let the eypvess aiaappear , generous sister , and let these flowers bind your brow , if it be but for a moment . It is the diadem of your bethrothal ; it is tho token of your eternal league with virtue , and that of your admission to the communion of believers . " ^ Consuelo , stupified , examined the characters for some * ime , Her imagination in vain trying to detect in them some resemblance to the writing of Count Albert . In spite Oftnedl 8 trustin 8 niradbythecircumstimco 3 in which she was placed , and without clearly knowing m'nv . sha nhnvfld

      the affectionate injunctions of these unknown friends . She placed tho wreath upon her disordered hair , fixing her eyes upon a class , as though she expected to see a beloved and cherished shade behind her . Her revery was broken by a violent ring at the bell , which ?/ j S , remble nnd a servant came to inform her that M . de Buddenbrock had a message to give her directly . This message was delivered with all the arrogance of a king ' s aidede-camp , when he is no longer beneath the eyes of his master . " Mademoiselle , " said he , as soon a 9 he had entered the salon , " you must follow me directly to the king ; make haste , for the king must not be kept waiting . " " I shall not goto the king in my slippers and dressinggown , " replied Consuelo . "I will give you five minutes to dress yourself , " returned Buddenbrock , drawing out his watch , and making her a sign to withdraw into her chamber . ' Before the time , Consuelo reappeared before Buddenhrnnk .

      S > he appeared so calm and undaunted , that he begun to fear that her influence with the king might bring him into dis . grace for his bad treatment . He , therefore , became bumble and said to her , hat in hand , in his most pnlite manner - " This , Mademoiselle , is a magnificent winter ' s morning " " Certainly , ftir baron , " replied Consuelo , with an ironical smile j ' * the weather is magnificent for a drive outside the Walls . » While saying this , Consuelo thought that she might , indeed , pass the rest of this magnificent day on the road to some fortress . But Buddenbrock thought that she threatened him with that fate ; and in spite of his anxiety to please , he could not conceal the anguish he felt . Consuelo was shown into a small and dirty apartment , where she heard the king declaiming to Voltaire against female conspirators . After a quarter of an hour of painful anxiety , the terrible Frederick at last appeared , frightfully disfigured by passion .

      , » j * au > tt » attentivel y ! " he said to Consuelo , darting a dreadful look at her ; " you are unmasked , you are lost ; you have but one means of saving yourself , that is , to confess all this very moment , honestly and unhesitatingly . " And as Consuelo was preparing to reply : " On your knees , unfortunate creature ; on your knees ! " heeded , pointing to the ground ; " it ia not standing you can make such a confession . Your brow should already be humbled to the dust . 10 your knees , I tell you , or I will not listen to you . "As I have absolutely nothing to tell you " replied Consuelo , in a calm tone , " you have nothing to hear ; and as forkneeling before you , you will nev * ,. mJL mo ^ a « n . "

      For a moment the king thought of Iramplipg ^ be neath & Ja . -v 9 on 8 uel < i voluntaril y looked at Frederick ' s 5 . « : Zi 1 ? f WCr ? ^ Convulsively towards her , till she almost fancied she could see his nails lengthen and stand out from his fineers like the claws of a cat about to XVI ' ^ T *! *! ' tho royal claws were as quickly sheathed Frederick , m the midst of his meannesa , had } n ° «? wB gr n S , mm * n « n «» lf not to admire courage far £ feeling . 8 mil ° d " ^ * ^ a contempt he was ' Miserable child ! " said he , with an air of pity ; " they ffJm « m ee f ed m maI ? a fanatic <> f you . Bu listen ! s ?; P ^ Tff tta ^ si ^« s ^ r-sw *^ ^™ ™

      , threat Mlft ff Consuelo , indignant at a h ? to e « o , ? on i ° . ^ JttPoaalble that he could carry SdtoWgSnhe" ? . ° h 8 he Sieved to have been de ^ " Be silent and take time for reflection " said tha kini ? SSffiS !! ° n- de 8 k > SSS « SdSriSS ^ S ^^^ t ^^^^ reons , now Incorporated with tbU journal .

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      The king continued to read for some time , while Conauelo resolved to bravely beard the tyrant and treat him with contempt . w " Have you come to a resolution V ho asked , at last laying down his book and crossing his legs , hia elbow leaning On tho table . <( "I have no resolution to come to , " replied Consuelo ; 1 am under the dominion of injustice and violence , and nothing reuninsfor me but to submit to tho consequences . " ( i w it I whom you tnx with violence and injustice ?" whicl * i k ° not you ' ' ' the absolute power you exercise ment" grades your character and misleads your

      judgforgettinVti yow take U P yoursolf tojudgomy comiuct , from death " ^ o ' * momeilts t 0 save yourself ynvrr suliW - ! . ^ r ight to dispose ot my life ; I am not much the woi ^ f i f you violate the rights of tuitions so than live ono , 1 . you- As for ' »< - ' . I would rather die " Your hatred I ?®* , Ullder ? oul > kws !" said tho king ; "butv mo . is : it il 11 events ingenuous , " of nations ami humauh ^ n ! l ( l > nl (! d with the rights to put to death whoever- ' ' * re'sn has the right against him . " comcs »» to his states to conspire " I conspire ? " cried Consul sciousne » s of truth , and too in ii cavnc ( 1 away by the conami sh « turned away tS'laIl . KtMl P iltelierMlf J knowing clearly what sho was iboul * 0 Uld depiU ' t > nOt onnSSS ; . ' ** * " Sai < < hc ki "S- *«* with he , * "I am « o . » j ; to prison , to the scaffold nv -i wjsh , provided only that you . ^ tJihS £ SZ Z "You-are in a passion , " replied the kin * win , , j laugh . " Shall ! tell you why ? It i booaiJeVo u JZ here o play the part of a heroine before me , 2 * we that your acting only serves mo as an amuI-mX ? tottTi" ^? ^^ eSpeCiali }> f 01 > a " MtflW . &

      Consuelo , disdaining to reply , crossed her arms and looked fixedl y at the king , with an assurance wl . ich all bufc disconcerted him . To smother the passion which was once more swelling within him , he was obliged to break tho silence and fall back upon his raillery , always hoping to irritate the accused , and lead her to lay aside her reserve and distrust in self-defence . However ,, he was at last overcome by tho dauntless Consueiio , and caused her to bo conducted to another oham-¦ ' " * B the bell , and the aide-de-camp hastened to oative Kins a PP eared softened nnd

      commuuicreaturfli A ? n > 8 a ! d ll 0 ' " this Sirl is an « "ta" ™ blo f ^ " ? ' At Rome she would have deserved a triumph , Ph-Uo * \ eight homs and crowns of oak ! Cause a Post town »» j & ready , conduct her yourself outside the S , f pu , 5 "ndcr a good escort upon the road to B' ! bete ahufc U P and sheeted t » the discipline of state prisoners-do you hear V ' " Yes , sire . " Pn ' tEi ?' m / Get i , ntotll ° cnvriagewith her as yon So Wft i > an ( l , S htcn her by your conversa"On . It will do her good to make her think she is to bo

      S . T " /* executioner and flogged over all the cause-5 Cr ° JhiVr ^' ^ P'wtice in the time of my Xmw ? w B " > whil ° tellin S lier these talcs , remember that you are not to hurt a hair of her head and put on your glove when you offer her your tad . Go and ™ ' ? fY ° U *? miw her stoical devotion , how to conduct yourseit towards those who honour you with their confidence , fnat will do you no harm . "

      -. . ing piiison . cirrtaM tw i" ca T v back t 0 her lo ^ 'nge in the samo nl 2 Th ! w ° ? \ ltbcp t 0 f'o palace . Two guards wero mVkA 2 ' I ; ° e LrU ( ld enl > i'ock gave her « n hour to wnnlri Z P ^ T !? - , warnin S 1 'or that her packages aZuUothahit ? ^ th ° k ^ " Of tbe ^» " » ' - hJ m ! ° » - ° f hw lY ?^ Via i * «» orokon opon , and all her manuscripts and jewo s carried away , by the rapacious ! fi « Y « . Eeovc ? pollne > wh " ' bein « powiy Paid > w « o allowed thus to inako up for the smulkess of their salenes . Her crucifix , however , had been left , and Consuelo took it down , and put it m her pocket . She next examined tllO crown of roses , which Ivy faded upon the floor , nndiremarked with affright that tlio slip of parchment containing the mysterious encouragements was no longer there . As this was the only thing which might seem to connect her with

      any conspiracy , she sought anxious ' y for it , and it last , chancing to put her had in her pockot , found it there . Reassured on this point , she hastened to put tocether tho articles necessary for an absence , the duration ' of which it was impossible to tell , Suddenly , the noise of something heavy falling in the middle of the chamber attracted her attention ; it was a large nail run through asmall noto . The style was laconic : — " Do you wish to escape ? Show yourself at tho window—in three minutes you will be ia safety . " . . ' The first impulse of Consuelo was to run to the window . But she stopped half-way , as she thought that her flight , in case it could be effected , would seem like the avowal of her culpability , and such an avowal , in such a case , always supposes accomplices . 11

      Oh ! Princes Amelia ! " thought she , " if it be true that you have betrayed me I will never betray you ' . I will discharge my debt to Trenck . Ho saved my life ; if it must be so , 1 will lose it for him . " Animated by this generous idea , she finished her package with great presence of mind , and was quite ready when Buddenbrock came to warn her that the time of departure had arrived , she thought his manner more hypocritical and disagreeable than usual . Ho did not forget the instructions of Frederick , and < 13 they rode through the streets of Berlin , ho laboured to terrify her with tho prospect of infamous punishments in atore for her .

      Whori they reached the gate of Berlin , one of the granadiei'B , who accompanied the carriage on horsoback , approached the opposite door , and said to her rapidly in a low voice : " Be easy , signora , much blood will be shed before any evil is allowed to befal you . " . In her confusion , Consuelo failed to distinguish the features of the unknown friend , who immediately withdrew . The carnage took the road to the fortress at full gallop , and in an hour Consuelo was incarcerated in tho chateau of Spandail with all th . 9 customary formalities , or rather with tho few formalities , which absolute power has occasion to employ . During her first night in prison she was troubled by fearful dreams . She had just awoke , when three knocks at tho door were heard , and the keeper cried , in a loud

      voice" Prisoner , No . Three , get up and dress yourself ; 1 shall return in a quarter of an hour . " # Upon his return , the jailor , wliose name was Schwartz , informed Consuelo that she might live here as well as at home , at her own expense . " But , " said Consuelo , " my purse has been taken from mo ; I have no money . " " Well , madame , " replied Schwartz , not without a visible effort over himself , I am going to prove to you that my family is honest , and that you have to do with worthy people . Your purse is in my pocket ; here it is ! " and he Bhook the purse before the eyes of Consuelo , and then quietly replaced , it in his pocket .

      " May it profit you ! ' said Consuelo , astonished at hia impudence . Schwartz then proceeded to say that he would keep the money and supply all her wants ; and that her harpsichord and music would bo sent to her chamber . ( To be Continued . )

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      The current number of the " Quarterly Reviftw contains an interesting article on " Recent Epic ? , " in which hia magniloquent reverence , Robert Montgomery , gels unfrocked of his ( poetic ) Divinity , after a glorious dressing . One of General Washington ' s state papers , the "Farewell Address , " accounted one of his choicest and most masterly compositions , is discovered to have been written by Mr . Hamilton . In " Frazer , " Kingsley ' s tale of " Hypatia" moves along Bpal . l ngly , evincing at every page his knowledge of human nature , especially in its religious development and its fanaticism . The critics , however , will have it that the subject is a failure . We shall see . Macbeth and Shylock would have been predicted failures to our dramatists , only Shakespeare has succeeded with them .

      We think No . II . of the " Westminster Revww" au improvement on the first . The crack articles are on lC Physical Puritani m , " by Dr . S . Brown , and the new lt Theory ef Population , deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility , " by Herbert Spencer , and ll Europe , its Conditions and Prospects . " There is also a very clever article by G . H . Lewis , on "Shelley and the letters of Poets . " The BummarieB of contemporary literature—English , A . merican , Trench , and German , are too Short and Bketchey , Mr . Horace Mayhew has delivered three lectures at Edinburgh , on " Hidden Life in London . " Subjects— " The Poor , " " the Workmen , " and " the Thieves . " Among forthcoming literary novelties , it ia announced that Jerrold has a story in preparation , and that Thackery ; that twin Hogarth and Fielding , of our century , will have his new work out in four or five weeks from this time .

      Among the novelties already issued , is a work on " Salt ;" in which the author asserts that the true meaning of the myth of the pillar of salt , into which the self-willed spouse of Lott was transmogrified , is , that Bhe killed herself with eating salt . Indeed , according to ihis philanthropist Howard yclept ) salt , is roan ' s ' original depravity . " Who know but he may be the " coming man , " destined to realize Fourrift ' s prophecy , and turn tbe Ocean into a "bowl ol punch ? " Pray God he may . Lamartine is writing a serial work , called the " Civilizer , " in which he proposes to write the History of Humanity ! ( Modest man !) in the livea of its great men , from Moses to Napoleon . The " Revue des deux Mondes" contains a beautiful por . trait of the German poet , Henri Heine , and & notable article on Margaret Fuller . How are the mighty fallen I Douglas Jeirold is installed Editor of " Lloyd s Weekly Newspaper "

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      A little boy , ten yeara old , drowned himself in Derby on Wednesday last , from mortification at his mother having discovered that ha stole sixpence .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1675/page/3/