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Literary Notices.
Phantoms , " a palace Quadrille ; '' The Miser ' s Death "; and last , not least in interest , " The Boatman of the Ohio , " and other songs of tbe Ethiopian Serenaders : the whole forming a melange of most interesting entertainment .
Herald of Peace . AA'ard and Co . The recent stirring events have given the promoters of the " Peace Society" concurrent opportunities of advancing their claims to the serious attention of thinking minds ; opportunities which have not been neglected . The electors of the British empire have been especially appealed to . By a synopsis of the various classes composing the late legislative senate , it appears that there were no less than one hundred and forty members of
the naval and military profession ; and it is asked , pointedly , whether in a question of peace or war ; ivhether with a predilection of more than one-fifth , the chances are not in favour of war ? The several instances of the cruelty of the " war spirit , " as quoted from scriptural authority , as well as authentic records , and the sufferings of man , are of the most revolting kind : the Sikhs nearly filled their wells with their dead , and the British soldier had , for a time , no other water than that which was
thus empoisoned with the foetid blood of the vanquished dead , and for this they paid four rupees the draught . The AA'ar-. lemon may well be typified by Death on the pale horse . A letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the thanksgiving for the victories in India , is a lamentaide reproof to misplaced belief . Shade of William Penn , look down on these times ; and may we be led to follow the example of Him who enjoined us not to kill , but to remember that "war in all men ' s eyes shall be a monster of iniquity ! " The number for this month is remarkable for admirable observations on war records and peace incidents .
The Shakspere Newspaper . Francis Crew , London . AVe have received a copy of this tribute to England ' s immortal bard , and shall preserve it among the interesting efforts of the clay . The design is worthy of the age , and will be looked at by the admirers of Shakspere in ages to come . There is no epoch in the life of this great man omitted ; his birth , occupation , love story—all are recorded . The plates are admirably executed , and are faithful representations of the various scenes described . AVe have more than once visited Stratford , and of course the house where Shakspere was born ; and , as we look and read , all are brought vividly to the memory .
The Right ofthe Aristocracy to the Soil considered . B y John Noakcs . Effingham Wilson . John Noakes is , we presume , a " noin de guerre . " If so , in one sense ive regret it , as we are apt to associate the Jack Noakes with things of not very first-rate character . In speaking of himself John Noakes observes , " I , plebeian John Noakes that I am , have as much right to AA ' oburn-abbey and
Russellsquare as Francis Russell , commonly called the Duke of Bedford . " This short , but pithy and quaint sentence is a type of the pamphlet , which is fearfully and fearlessly written —; fearfully , because if misunderstood by its readers , it may cause them to disparage the mere pos session of property decidedly their own by time and the existing laws of the land ; fearlessly , because the truth of the original aggression by worthless kings is told without disguise . There is no fighting behind a mask . AVhat a change has come over us ! Thirty years ago , ancl such
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
Phantoms , " a palace Quadrille ; '' The Miser ' s Death "; and last , not least in interest , " The Boatman of the Ohio , " and other songs of tbe Ethiopian Serenaders : the whole forming a melange of most interesting entertainment .
Herald of Peace . AA'ard and Co . The recent stirring events have given the promoters of the " Peace Society" concurrent opportunities of advancing their claims to the serious attention of thinking minds ; opportunities which have not been neglected . The electors of the British empire have been especially appealed to . By a synopsis of the various classes composing the late legislative senate , it appears that there were no less than one hundred and forty members of
the naval and military profession ; and it is asked , pointedly , whether in a question of peace or war ; ivhether with a predilection of more than one-fifth , the chances are not in favour of war ? The several instances of the cruelty of the " war spirit , " as quoted from scriptural authority , as well as authentic records , and the sufferings of man , are of the most revolting kind : the Sikhs nearly filled their wells with their dead , and the British soldier had , for a time , no other water than that which was
thus empoisoned with the foetid blood of the vanquished dead , and for this they paid four rupees the draught . The AA'ar-. lemon may well be typified by Death on the pale horse . A letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the thanksgiving for the victories in India , is a lamentaide reproof to misplaced belief . Shade of William Penn , look down on these times ; and may we be led to follow the example of Him who enjoined us not to kill , but to remember that "war in all men ' s eyes shall be a monster of iniquity ! " The number for this month is remarkable for admirable observations on war records and peace incidents .
The Shakspere Newspaper . Francis Crew , London . AVe have received a copy of this tribute to England ' s immortal bard , and shall preserve it among the interesting efforts of the clay . The design is worthy of the age , and will be looked at by the admirers of Shakspere in ages to come . There is no epoch in the life of this great man omitted ; his birth , occupation , love story—all are recorded . The plates are admirably executed , and are faithful representations of the various scenes described . AVe have more than once visited Stratford , and of course the house where Shakspere was born ; and , as we look and read , all are brought vividly to the memory .
The Right ofthe Aristocracy to the Soil considered . B y John Noakcs . Effingham Wilson . John Noakes is , we presume , a " noin de guerre . " If so , in one sense ive regret it , as we are apt to associate the Jack Noakes with things of not very first-rate character . In speaking of himself John Noakes observes , " I , plebeian John Noakes that I am , have as much right to AA ' oburn-abbey and
Russellsquare as Francis Russell , commonly called the Duke of Bedford . " This short , but pithy and quaint sentence is a type of the pamphlet , which is fearfully and fearlessly written —; fearfully , because if misunderstood by its readers , it may cause them to disparage the mere pos session of property decidedly their own by time and the existing laws of the land ; fearlessly , because the truth of the original aggression by worthless kings is told without disguise . There is no fighting behind a mask . AVhat a change has come over us ! Thirty years ago , ancl such