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Sights and Sounds, the Mystery of the day-The Philosophy of

Electrical Psychology-La Danse des Tables.

Chamois Stalking and Buffalo Hunting—

Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria-Solitary Ram-

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Moore and his Contemporaries—

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore.

Recent Discoveries in Africa-

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Gold Coast of Africa-Narrative of an Explorer in South Africa.

Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox

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Recent Progress of the Indian Question-

Norton on administration of Justice in India-Baillie on Indian

Land Tax-Theory and Practice of Caste-Notes on the Affairs of

India-Chapman's "Baroda and Bombay," Anstey's "Bombay

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Khutput"-"Memoir of the Public Services of Col. Outram "

Allen on the Opium Trade-Kaye's Administration of the East-In-

dia Company-Bill to provide for the Government of India, &c. &c.

A Critical History of the Language and Literature of

Ancient Greece-The Orations of Hyperides-Australia

Visited and Revisited-A Summer Search for Sir John

Franklin-The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the

Turk-Las Alforjas-Memorandums made in Ireland in

Retrospect of the Literature of the Quarter-

the Autumn of 1852-Traits of American-Indian Life and

Character-Travels in Southern Russia and the Crimea-

Hypatia-The Young Heiress-Sir Frederick Derwent-

Cyrilla-Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances-

Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Sci

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-The English Bible-Ombo-The Dragone of Oxforde and

St. George of St. Stevenes-Thomas a Becket-Christmas
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the War-God-Old Lamps, or New?-A few Notes on

Shakespeare; with occasional Remarks on the Emenda-

tions of the MS. corrections in Mr. Collier's copy-The

Text of Shakespeare vindicated from the Interpolations

and Corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier, Esq.-

Laura Temple-Travels of Rolando-Aubrey Conyers-

Hints on Early Education-Mazzini judged by himself and

by his countrymen -The Temple of Education - The

Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United King-

dom-Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation-Notes

and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission among the Dens of

London-The Return to my Native Village, and other
Poems-The Philosophy of Atheism, examined and com-

pared with Christianity.-FRENCH LITERATURE: Résumé

-Mémoires d'Alex. Dumas-La Marquise Cornelia d'Alfi,

ou le lac d'Annecy et ses Environs-Isaac Laquedem-Le

Chevalier d'Estagnol.-GERMAN LITERATURE: Russland

und das Germanenthum- Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht

oder Vor Fünfzig Jahren. Vaterländischer Roman-Ge-

schichte der deutschen National litteratur im Neunzehnten

Jahrhundert-Geschichte der französischen Revolution

vom Jahre 1848 bis zur Wiederherstellung des Kaiser-

thums Patmakhanda. Leben und Characterbilder aus

Indien und Persien.

Stones of Venice-Halliwell's Shakspeare-Strickland's Life of
Mary Queen of Scots-Robert Haydon-"Risen from the Ranks"
-"The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon"-Story of Corfe Castle
-Cobden's Pamphlet on India-Urquhart's Progress of Russia-
Eastern Travels-Smith and Browne on Mont Blanc-Life in the
Clearings-"Cruise in the Egean"-" Lake Lore"-Bosanquet's
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in Ultramarine-Novels of the Quarter-American Reprints.
Haydon and his Contemporaries-

Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon.

The Apology for Sir Hudson Lowe-

The History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, from
the Letters and Journals of the late Sir Hudson Lowe.
Literature of the Russo-Turkish Crisis-

Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South-The Greek
and the Turk-The Turks in Europe-Russian Turkey.
The Party of Progress in China-

L'Insurrection en Chine depuis son origine jusqu'a la prise de
Nankin-History of the Insurrection in China-Recollections of a
Three Years' Residence in China-Christianity in China.

A Few More Words on India-

An Act to provide for the Government of India-Précis of the

Great Surat Case-A History of the Sikhs-Plan for the future

Government of India.

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Mount Lebanon-The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh-The
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Kashmir-Ten Months among the Tents of the Tuski-
Life in Sweden-The British Jews- The Stones of Venice,
Vol. II.: The Sea Stories- A History of Roman Classical
Literature-The Homeric Dialect-Šketches and Charac-
ters The Lives of the Poets-Laureate-Life and Times
of Madame de Staël-The Life and Death of Silas Barn-
starke Charles Delmer-Electra-John at Home-The
Maid of Florence-Lady Marion-The Colonel-Count
Arensberg-Christine van Amberg-Audrey - Lorenzo
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the Church in Scotland.-FRENCH LITERATURE: Made-
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-Symbolik der Menschlichen Gestalt - Gespräche mit
Dämonen-Erinnerungen eines oesterreichischen Vetera-

nen aus dem Italiänischen Kriege des Jahre 1848 und 1849.

THE

NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW.

RETROSPECT OF THE LITERATURE OF THE QUARTER.

WELLINGTON has gone down in his glory to the grave; but who are these who cast chaplets on his tomb ?*

In old days, when a hero died, the best orator proclaimed his achievements, the best poet celebrated his warlike deeds, a lofty mound was raised above him, and the best men of the surviving generation ran, fought, and wrestled in bis honour.

He who lies yonder was a giant among heroes: why do only poetic dwarfs chirp and croak about his mound? From Tennyson to Tupper it is a tiny chorus. They twitter their little songs at the feet of the Titan, and they look upwards, but cannot comprehend, in sight, or mind, or voice, or song, the vastness of the proportions of the hero. Better, far better, to leave Wellington alone. Only a genius of like stature may reach to place a chaplet on that brow: how can these pigmies hope to stilt themselves to such an altitude?

But if the poets are little, the biographers are infinitesimal. The ballads and biographies of illustrious criminals are sung and chanted in our streets with a simplicity that has some

*Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, by Alfred Tennyson, Port Laureat. Mixon.

Wellington from the French point of view, by John Lemoinne, one of the contributors to the "Journal des Debats." Parker and Son.

Wellington and Waterloo, by Alphonse de Lamartine. Reprinted from the History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France. Vizetelly and Co.

Wellingtoniana. Anecdotes, Maxims, Opinions and Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington, selected by John Timbs. Ingram, Cooke, and Co.

The Wisdom of Wellington, or Maxims of the Iron Duke. Kent and Co.

The Military and Political Life of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, by a Citizen of the World. Ingram, Cooke, and Co.

thing in it of old classic times; but the memory of a hero must be committed only to volumes. The character of these volumes is perhaps the most complimentary part of them : their whole getting up shews a thorough confidence in author and publisher that the name of Wellington was sufficient to give currency to the vilest trash. Nor is that confidence unfounded. Worn out wood-cuts, being supposed to illustrate the hero's life, are patiently re-purchased by the British public; and one ancient steel-engraving, which we knew long ago as in the habit of furnishing doubtful effigies of the late Earl Grey, suddenly re-enters public life with a substituted nose, and throws off innumerable likenesses of the illustrious Duke. Nothing hearty, sterling, and true, has yet been said or sung about this man: every thing has been trashy, cheap, rapidly run up, gaudily decked. To be consistent with the life-writers of Holywell-street and the Strand, the leader of "the first assembly of gentlemen in Europe" tarnishes the honour of that assembly, and degrades it in the eyes of civilized mankind, by stealing an old hatchment from the tomb of an obscure Frenchman, and hanging it up in the name of the English people over the tomb of Wellington.+

Of all the monodies, elegies, and biographies,

We are pleased to see that, in a debate which occurred on the 7th December, Mr. Napier, the then Irish Attorney-General, indignantly resented a similar imputation upon a far inferior topic, and characterized it as "an attack made on his character and honour as a gentleman, which, if well founded, would shew that he was unfit even to sit in that house." Yet no allusion has been made in the House of Commons to that far more humiliating theft; and it is understood that no allusion to it will be tolerated. This, however, is perhaps the most dignified method of dealing with a public disgrace that nothing could obliterate.

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the simplest and the best are the life by Mr. Phillips, which appeared in the Times, and was republished by Longmans, and the verses that appeared in Punch.

Another great man, lately dead, whose life and thoughts, as we recently took occasion to remark,† will exercise more influence over remote generations than will the acts or the wisdom of Wellington, has done as the Field-Marshal did-he has written his own life, in memoir, correspondence, and journal, and risked his memory as little as possible.

Miss Strickland is pursuing her historical full-lengths, and has got entangled with the last queen of Scotland. Sir Archibald Alison is exhibiting, at the commencement of a history of contemporary Europe, an equal ignorance of the rules of Latin prosody and of the existence of Shelley the poet, and Mr. Faraday the che mist. But these works are duly dealt with hereafter by their several critics. Mr. Morley's life of Bernard Palissy, also, has its particular notice hereafter. The little book which bears the name of Mr. Hallam requires no special mention, inasmuch as it is merely a collection of extracts from that great work wherewith we have all, for many years, been familiar-the "Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries."

"Görgey's Life and Acts in Hungary" is a translation published at an absurdly too high

*There are, of course, many prettynesses in Tennyson's

Ode, such as

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Not once or twice in our rough island-story
The path of duty was the way to glory.
He that walks it, only thirsting
For the right, and learns to deaden
Love of self. Before his journey closes,
He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, which outredden
All voluptuous garden-roses.

But taking the whole together, we think the subject is quite as well treated in the three following stanzas. Of most distrustful; sparing in discourse;

Himself untiring, and from all around

Claiming that force which in himself he foundHe lived, and asked no love, but won respect perforce. And of respect, at last came love unsought,

But not repelled when offered; and we knew
That this rare sternness had its softness too,
That woman's charm and grace upon his being wrought:
That underneath the armour of his breast

Were springs of tenderness-all quick to flow
In sympathy with childhood's joy or woe:
That children climbed his knees, and made his arms
their nest.

See NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. i. P. 105.

price: as a half-crown book it might have deserved some sale. The readers of THE NEW QUARTERLY will recollect that we reviewed this work when it first appeared in the original German (Vol. i. p. 329). That short review was penned by a greatly considered German writer, and we venture to believe that those who have read it will have little to learn from these two volumes.

The "Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth" is by Mr. William Stirling, not, perhaps, very much known as the author of some sketches of the lives and performances of the artists of Spain. The author's attention was drawn to his present subject during a visit he paid to Yuste in the summer of 1849, and, like most other writers upon the country that forms the theatre of his narration, he is not a little indebted for indications to his authorities to Mr. Ford's "Hand-book of Spain." The volume will be perused with interest by the careful student who loves to study all the details of historic events, and may be listlessly turned over by the mere general reader, who may find amusement for a moment in the little intrigues of the household of an Emperor déchu. From the Emperor's confessor, Juan de Regla, a monk of the order of St. Jerome, "who knew how to make ladders to place and favour out of the ropes that girt his ascetic loins," to the unruly Protestant villager of Quacos, who, "having sold the crop on a cherry-tree to the Emperor's purveyor at double its value for ready money, when he found that it was left ungathered, resold it to a fresh purchaser," all will excite interest or amusement. I

Take a specimen. The extract relates to the Emperor's ordinary diet.

In this matter of eating, as in many other habits, the Emperor was himself a true Fleming. His early tendency to gout was increased by his indulgences at table, which generally far exceeded his feeble powers of digestion. Roger Ascham, standing "hard by the imperial table at the feast of golden fleece," watched with wonder the Emperor's progress through "sod beef, roast mutton, baked hare," after which he fed well of a capon," drinking also, says the fellow of St. John's, "the best that ever I saw he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of them, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine." Eating was now the only physical gratification which he could still enjoy, or was unable to resist. He continued, therefore, to dine to the last upon the rich dishes, against which his ancient and trusty confessor, Cardinal Loaysa, had protested a quarter of a century before. The supply of his table was a main subject of the correspondence between the mayordomo and the secretary of state. The weekly courier from Valladolid to Lisbon was ordered to change his route, that he might bring, every Thursday, a provision of eels and other rich fish (pescado grueso) for Friday's fast. There was a constant demand for anchovies, tunny, and other potted fish, and sometimes a complaint that the trouts of the country were too small: the olives, on the other hand, were too large, and the Emperor wished, instead, for olives of Perejon. One day the secretary of state was asked for some partridges from Gama, a place from whence

The author deals with his subject in a stern mocking style, and with infinite disdain for the whole scene that is passing before him; evidently contrasting in his own mind throughout the greatness of the intellect of the abdicated Emperor with the meanness of the circumstances with which he was surrounded, and the abject weakness of his superstition. To us it is a sad sight-a humiliating page in the annals of great manhood which we turn over quickly, and pass on.

The "Narrative of the attempted Escapes of Charles the First from Carisbrook Castle," should be read by every denizen of the Isle of Wight, and by every one who takes a truly royalist and sentimental interest in the sufferings of that fearfully-punished but guilty king. To enter into the subject would be to disinter a hundred long-buried disputes, both historical and critical, and the interest such an essay might evoke, certainly would not be commensurate with the space occupied.

Mr. Bancroft continues his "History of the American Revolution," but we cannot say that this second volume shews any increase of strength as he continues his task. There is less original information than we have hitherto met with in Mr. Bancroft's pages. His diplo

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matic position gave him facilities which no other author could have possessed, and he has shewn himself not unobservant of them. Here, however, we are thrown back upon well-known circumstances, and upon very common sources of information. He has only yet brought the story down to the repeal of the Stamp Act. When he gets thoroughly upon American ground, we expect better things of him.

"Autobiography of Henry Newcome, A.A.," is printed for the Chetham Society, and is the diary of a Manchester Minister, who lived in the last half of the seventeenth century, and knew as little of what was going on in the world during these stirring times as was reasonably possible.

The "Memoirs of the Baroness d'Oberkirch, Countess of Montbrison," are editedprobably with some professional assistance of a literary workman accustomed artistically to stick plums into unflavoured dough-by her grandson the Count de Montbrison. There were, and still are, people in Paris, who will turn out manuscript memoirs of any period at a reasonable price per volume. The trade was thriving immensely some years ago, when "THE QUARTERLY REVIEW" took it in hand, and incontinently smashed it; but not until the land was full of forgeries, and the fictions of the the Emperor remembers that the Count of Osorno once forgers had begun to ooze into history. With sent him, into Flanders, some of the best partridges in the such recollections in our mind, we cannot unworld. Another day, sausages were wanted which the Queen Juana, now in glory, used to pride her- dertake to vouch for the authenticity of this self in making, in the Flemish fashion, at Tordesillas," work without some better proof than we can and for the receipt for which the secretary is referred to gather from its pages. The old Parisian imthe Marquess of Denia. Both orders were punctually. executed. The sausages, although sent to a land supreme postures were not got up by ignorant, or even in that manufacture, gave great satisfaction. Of the unlearned men, and it took no small labour in partridges, the Emperor said that they used to be better, the collation of facts to demonstrate their proordering, however, the remainder to be pickled. per character. It is, however, not of much consequence whether these anecdotes of the last half of the last century are real or imagined. The Baroness is an Alsatian lady, a great toady of a wonderful princess, a humble friend of the Duchess of Bourbon, an immense admirer of high birth, "which is the only defect for which there is no remedy," and a tolerably agreeable relater of tittle-tattle. If the reader has read St. Simon, perhaps he may pass a vacant hour with Madame la Baronni; if not, we should advise him to go back at once to the time of the Regency. If he like this style of reading, he will find more amusement in one page of St. Simon than in a whole volume of the Baroness.

The Emperor's weakness being generally known, or soon discovered, dainties of all kinds were sent to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game were the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, and nothing was good and abundant but chestnuts the staple food of the people. But in a very few days the castle larder wanted for nothing. One day the Count of Oropesa sent an offering of game: another day a pair of fat calves arrived from the Archbishop of Zaragoza; the Archbishop of Toledo and the Duchess of Frias were constant and munificent in their gifts of venison, fruit, and preserves; and supplies of all kinds came at regular intervals from Seville and from Portugal. Luis Quixada, who knew the Emperor's habits and Constitution well, beheld with dismay these long trains of mules, laden, as it were, with gout and bile. He never acknowledged the receipt of the good things from Valladolid without adding some dismal forebodings of consequent mischief; and along with an order he sometimes conveyed a hint that it would be much better if no means were found of executing it. If the Emperor made a hearty meal without being the worse for it, the mayordomo noted the fact with exultation; and he remarked with complacency his majesty's fondness for plovers, which he considered harmless. But his office of purveyor was more

commonly exercised under protest; and he interposed between his master and an eel-pie, as, in other days, he would have thrown himself between the imperial person and the point of a Moorish lance.

The" Colloquies of Edward Osborne," citizen of books we do not much admire. Half the and cloth-worker of London, is one of a class average middle-class readers who conned over "Mary Powell," took it for what it pretended to be, an actual historic memoir; and although the author may feel complimented by the suc-1 cess of the deception, we are not inclined to

admit that successful deception is very laudable in such cases. Nor can we award much credit to such success: a much more bungling imitation would have been quite sure to "take in" the ill-read mass of our British public. In this book, however, the subject is more fairly chosen. Edward Osborne is a London 'prentice, who, by industry and good conduct, marries the daughter of his master, Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. It is a careful portraiture of the manners and customs of the London citizens during the first half of the sixteenth century, and, as such, it may be read with pleasure and profit. We do not care to dwell upon a few slight slips made by an author, who has evidently studied his subject, and is generally correct.

"Captain Doveton" has given us an account of the Burmese war of 1825-26, which will be especially interesting to those who may have relatives engaged in our present feebly-conducted octogenarian operations against the same people.

Of the "Travellers," several will be found in subsequent pages.

"Parisian sights and French principles seen through American spectacles," is one of Sir Francis Head's faggots taken to illumine the hearths of the French population. The lively Yankee was in Paris during the coup d'etat, and describes it not in quite so serious a vein as the numerous ex-representants who are now so vehemently declaiming on that page of Parisian history, but he tells the story much more pleasantly, seasoning his volume with good bon mots and many a social anecdote.

The "Lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope," is a volume by a Scotch minister, one Dr. Aitoun, who accompanied his daughter in her overland journey to India, whither she went to join her other relatives, as far as Suez. The doctor is much too doctrinal for us. In spite, however, of a great deal of twaddle, and a considerable spirit of dogmatism, the volume may be read and skipped with some amusement, and is fairly entitled to circulate in any book society, the members whereof are tolerant of Presbyterianism.

Miss Catherine M. O'Connell's " Excursions in Ireland" is a book whereon we forbear to speak until we have some further assurance that the authoress is really a recognised member of the O'Connell family. The interest of the work depends entirely upon this fact; for its intrinsic merits are not great, and we are not conscious of having derived any information from its pages.

Sir Francis Head's book on the same subject will be found duly noticed in its proper order.

The works of fiction throng the Publishers'

Circular in such unconscionable numbers, that one would suppose that Fielding, Smollet, Scott, and Bulwer, had written in high Dutch; that there were no novels, tales, or romances in the English language; and that all AngloSaxon humanity was about to addict itself to nothing else but reading love-stories in one, two or three volumes. Many of these have been brought to our notice only by the advertising columns of the newspapers; and if we should have a sentimental spinster among our readers who can devour three volumes between bed-going and sleep, and who dreams only happy dreams of the sorrows of heroines, we beseech her to consider, that if we were obliged to review thirty novels at full length in one Number, we should be in a much worse scrape than ever beset the great Amadis de Gaul himself. We exhort her, moreover, to believe that those we have passed over are very likely to be very dull and very trashy; and those which are mentioned are quite enough of love and mystery to be taken into any one mind of ordinary strength during the three ensuing months.

Great as is the quantity, the quality of our acquisitions in this domain of fiction is by no means above the average. The most successful are undoubtedly "Henry Esmond" and "Reuben Medlicot.'

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Of Mr. Thackeray's novelty we have spoken at large elsewhere. Some critics affect to find in this work great lack of originality. We confess we cannot agree with them. An author, who takes his hero through three volumes of trials, dangers, and self-denials, and at the end of his tribulations marries him to a jealous old lady, somewhat pitted with the small pox, and who had the happiness to be a doting wife and a fond mother considerably more than a quarter of a century before, cannot, we think, be fairly charged with any want of boldness or originality. If Mr. Thackeray borrowed at all, it must have been from Voltaire. The poetical justice that falls upon Henry Esmond has no precedent that we are aware of, except, perhaps, in the case of Dr. Panglos.

"The Gossip," by "the Honourable Mrs. Erskine Norton," is noticeable only for the correspondeuce it has occasioned. Messrs. Saunders and Otley chose to advertise it as the work of "the Honourable Mrs. Norton." Now these publishers could not have been so ignorant of their trade as not to know that every individual reading that advertisement would be led to believe a falsehood. "The Honourable Mrs. Norton" means that smart she-Sheridan who writes such pungent stories about gentlemen's tempers and gentlemen's vices; who shews us what brutes all men are in general, but what especial brutes husbands are in particular; who wrote three volumes not long since, whereof the chief moral was, that

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