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    • BY THE VERY SAD SEA WAVES.
    • OUR BOOKMARKER.
    • A BLOOMSBURY BUBBLE.
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      August 21, 1869.3 The Tqmaha Wk. 79

      August 21 , 1869 . 3 THE TQMAHA WK . 79

      By The Very Sad Sea Waves.

      BY THE VERY SAD SEA WAVES .

      As Those People Who Have Not Already Lef...

      As those people who have not already left London must have become by this time frantic to get away , it may not be out of p lac lac e e within to offer a to moderate those who distance contemp of late town a . the trip following to a waterings statement p setting forth the leading features and , principal attractions of half-a-dozen of the most popular of our seaside resorts which are just now drawing off the cream of Bayswater and the flower of tractions Bloomsbury of the from laces our deserted we name city will . make No doubt it difficult the counter for the in at- - tending holiday- p maker to arrive at a decision as to where he will go ; but we may as well point out that of course a visit to p any leasant of the than below a tri - p named to Brittany towns , is a fortni much ght more on the enjoyable Rhine , and or even a short tour in Switzerland , especially when it is clearly understood that , as a rule , the expense of staying in England is not list more which than speaks double for that itself of going : —<¦ abroad . However , here is our , Ramsgate . —A favourite bathing place , supposed to be suitable for children . High cliffs and no shade . Apartments three guineas a week and upwards . According to the the most Registrar unhealth -General y spot 's return in Eng just land published the death , Ramsgate -rate for the is three months ended the 30 th of June , last having reached the proportion of 26 * 99 in every i , ooq persons . Brightont , — -Easy of access from town . Good shops and all Bri London ghton comforts is celebrated . J ewish for its pop fine ulation sea prospect 25 , 000 or , thereabouts and the in- . decency of its bathing . Railway terminus well adapted for collisions . Herne BAY . —^ The dullest place ( but one } in England . Pier a mile or so long , but dilapidated and inaccessible . Good shingly beach . Butcher ' s meat , fish , eggs and butter fresh from London twice a week . RypE . —^ Patronized by Royalty , and extremely fashionable . A te rrific artments . Climate from re six laxing guineas . Atmosp a week here . muggy Heat . in The summer town has , however , a northerly aspect , and is nicely sheltered from the sea-breeze . Bathing dangerous . Margate . —Fine position . Good bathing at the mo , uth of the town drain . Lodgings a caution . The great resort of negro minstrelsy . Considered to be during July and August the most expensive place in England . Southen mout - h of — t Opposite he Thame s at low re . tide Pleasantl bthree y miles divided of from mud and the y return London Sou sewerage thend is the According most hea to lthy the of the Reg watering istrar-General places ' s the death , -rate for the three months ended the 30 th of June , la ugli st est being an < J onl dullest y 12 * 99 spot in in 1 Great , 000 . Britain jSouthend . is at once the our Reall Engli y , sh when sea we -side enumera towns , te when the , a beauties t the same and time advantage , we remem s of - ber Margate that is Ramsgate not more th is an onl six y times twice as as expensive dear as as Lucerne Heidelberg , that , there and that , are actually Southend onl and y about Venice the , including same price the it cost is a marvel of getting to us it that that Eng Mr . lishmen Cook finds are losing any votaries their nationality of his excursion , , or that system they . re Is - the fuse British to be taken watering in and -places done are for as ? yet Certain comparativel it is however y empty , th this at year .

      Our Bookmarker.

      OUR BOOKMARKER .

      Grettis From The Saga Icelandic : The St...

      Grettis from the Saga Icelandic : the Story by Eviikr of Grettis Maguusson the Strong and . Transl William ated Morris 1869 , . London : F . S . Ellis , King street , Covent garden . While we are patiently waiting for a second instalment of that work delightful Morri s though , we nosegay must it i $ than only of kfull poem a translation y s accept , the " , Earthl this and small onl y y Paradise partl scrap y from , of " from his his brai pen Mr n . . As might be expectedthe Icelandic tale is rendered in simple musical which superficiall can English y onl , acquainted y be prose caug , , with with ht b the y the those true grand flavour who old are of English quaint thoroughl literature anti y quity , not .

      Grettis From The Saga Icelandic : The St...

      Morri Occasional s's command snatches over of old rhyme Icelandic as well songs as rhythm give . scope for Mr learnedl have We always will y about not been Icelandic enter content into sagas to treat the , for story them a very . as We tales good cannot and reason not discourse , that as phi we - lological or ethnological studies . " Grettis the , Strong" has all which the charms to us constitute of vivid the verisimilitude charms of these and credulous old tales . simplicity , seeming There vul is gar one , if sentence it is not which so . we At must page decidedl 255 we find y object : " And to , as in such wise did Thomatian . keep it going till the evening . " We must sense protest most horribl against such indeed a phrase the whole , as jarring of the latter on one ' art s artistic of the tale reads like a modern y ; French , novel in antique disguise p . It is admitted by the translators in the preface to be very inappropriate , if not unnecessary . Perhaps this feeling led them into the error of admitting such a blemish as the above . This book like all which Mr . Ellis issues , is got up with the greatest ele- , gance and in the best taste . We wish he would publish more .

      The Religion Of The World. By H. Stone L...

      The Religion of the World . By H . Stone Leigh . foundered This is a in book the on depths a very thereof deep subject . It is , an written attempt by one to who make has a compromise between the barest Deism and true Christianity . It is an unsuccessful attempt . Such a work as this injures religion and does not benefit morality . Much that the writer advances is true and just ; but the way to purify the religion of man is not by bringing down every aspiration of the soul to the level of the human intellect . You will not advance truth by destroying humility and reverence . If men would try and act up to the Christian religion , they would find their time better employed than in trying to drag it down to their own level .

      Meletce. Poems By Joseph Ellis. London :...

      Meletce . Poems by Joseph Ellis . London : Basil Montagu Pickering . 1869 . A COLLECTION of slight pieces in the main , interesting only to friends , but some of which show elegance and refinement of thought . Mr . Ellis would have done well to have got a stranger to select from his verses those most suitable for publication . As it is , he has apparently followed Wordsworth ' s example so far as to publish all he has written , though he often writes when he has got nothing to say . There are frequent instances of the liberty of inverting words , strained far beyond its just makes limits us . forg On ive page the 185 writer is an " even Impromptu such ineptice " of four as lines the , which " Impromptu " on the opposite page . There is throughout the book evidence of a thoroughly good and genial nature . O publishers ! would you but learn from Mr . Pickering the true delights of a m all arg in ts ! and The sizes ocean . We of pure hate white the miserabl is the fit y setting narrow for marg gems ins of the present day .

      A Bloomsbury Bubble.

      A BLOOMSBURY BUBBLE .

      Last Week A Meeting Was Held To Commemor...

      Last week a meeting was held to commemorate " the union of at the " Pol Diet and , of Lithuania Lublin in , and 159 6 Ruthenia on the princip into one le of commonwealth the free with , we the read free , of of the equal affair s with it was the eq a matter uals . " of In pleasurable the first instance surprise , when to us that the Russian Government , had so far relaxed its rigour as to allow such an assembly for such a purpose \ but at the same time we trembled for the safety of the promoters of the demonthe stration penalty , who of would their temerity , no doubt . We , sooner might or , however later , we , have feared spared , pay it ourselves the that trouble the Council of being was either held surp at rised a lace where alarmed nei ther for Russian appears spies nor Muscovite policemen possess p any terrors . In other wordsthe commemoration took place at the Cleveland Hall It is , Fitzroy difficult S to , quare see . the object of the proceedings on the occasion and in at question all that even the ; ts but , Emperor if they is satisfactory did of no All good the to they Russias be able certainl will to y conclude not did no take harm that the , , exuberant nationality of his absent subjects too much to heart . have One fac very t is little worth to do noting if they , — waste that Polish their time refugees in unavailing in London and can unremunerative chatter .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 21, 1869, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_21081869/page/5/