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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
ling in Germany , and is altogether an excellent , pleasant , readable book . Yet it is less a volume of travels , than a collection of the author ' s thoughts on many topics , and of descriptions of many scenes to Avhich he was an eyewitness . Thus , wo find Mr . Brace to have been in Holstein during the war ; in Berlin when Prussia was summoned to repel the insidious attack of Austria upon Hcss ^ -Cassel , and in the midst of that democratic society in Vienna , which , although silenced for the presentis patientl
, y awaiting an opportunity to make head against the hated Austrian rule . On asking au actor in the late Vienna tragedy , whether he had any hopes of a second revolution , the man unhesitatingly answered , " Certainly , this war will never end until tyrants or people are gone . I know how the working men feel ; give them another chance , and they Avill fight till the last man . We cannot bear this long ! Taxes , spying , every damned annoyance of tyranny . We get little Avork , Ave have no kind of freedom ,
and then we are paying all the Avhile for the immense armies . You have no idea of the brutal oppression here . Every day women are publicly scourged . You must have seen the Hotizen on the walls ; and if I should go out in a white hat , or a long "beard , I would be in the gAAardhouse in an hour . " So he went on , in tones earnest and passionate , telling of the wrongs aud sufferings of the labouring classes ; the dark eye kindling at the thought of fighting the good fight over again Avith the
hireling soldier . A determined dangerous man for the Austrian authorities when the next struggle comes ! Miss Bunbury ' s "Life in Sweden" * deserves a good word . It is an amusing work , containing plenty of variety , and if in some parts rather
prolix , from tho length to which some of the descriptions run , this defect is compensated by the mass of matter , and the evident care bestowed upon the whole . To those Avho are desirous of picking up information about Sweden and Swedish society , diversified by an occasional digression about Norway and Denmark , we heartily recommend the volumes before us . We must now turn to the accumulation of u * orks to Avhich each
succeeding month throughout the year introduces us , on Australia and its gold-diggings , ancl , giving priority to the sex , turn over the pages of the volume which describes Mrs . Charles Clacy ' sf visit to the Eagle Hawk Gulley , in the company of her brother and the smart band of gold-digging adventurers with whom he associated himself . Fortunatel y for the lady of the party , the trip proved auspicious in more ways than one ; for besides gold , of which she got her share , she also enriched herself by bringing
home a husband . As might have been expected from the library of works on the same subject , there is not much that is very novel , yet there are many pictures of daily life in the bush , and many a rough experience , that give an interest from their very actuality , in which many other works are deficient . The roads to the diggings , Melbourne itself under every aspect , the thousand and one varieties of living , work , and accommodation , are very graphically described . The following is a fair specimen descriptive of the
first scene which the writer witnessed on anchoring off Melbourne : — " Our party , on returning to the ship the day after our arrival , witnessed the French leave-taking of all of her crew , who , during the absence of the captain , jumped overboard , and were quickly picked up and landed by the various boats about . This desertion of the ships by the sailors is an every-day occurrence ; the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
ling in Germany , and is altogether an excellent , pleasant , readable book . Yet it is less a volume of travels , than a collection of the author ' s thoughts on many topics , and of descriptions of many scenes to Avhich he was an eyewitness . Thus , wo find Mr . Brace to have been in Holstein during the war ; in Berlin when Prussia was summoned to repel the insidious attack of Austria upon Hcss ^ -Cassel , and in the midst of that democratic society in Vienna , which , although silenced for the presentis patientl
, y awaiting an opportunity to make head against the hated Austrian rule . On asking au actor in the late Vienna tragedy , whether he had any hopes of a second revolution , the man unhesitatingly answered , " Certainly , this war will never end until tyrants or people are gone . I know how the working men feel ; give them another chance , and they Avill fight till the last man . We cannot bear this long ! Taxes , spying , every damned annoyance of tyranny . We get little Avork , Ave have no kind of freedom ,
and then we are paying all the Avhile for the immense armies . You have no idea of the brutal oppression here . Every day women are publicly scourged . You must have seen the Hotizen on the walls ; and if I should go out in a white hat , or a long "beard , I would be in the gAAardhouse in an hour . " So he went on , in tones earnest and passionate , telling of the wrongs aud sufferings of the labouring classes ; the dark eye kindling at the thought of fighting the good fight over again Avith the
hireling soldier . A determined dangerous man for the Austrian authorities when the next struggle comes ! Miss Bunbury ' s "Life in Sweden" * deserves a good word . It is an amusing work , containing plenty of variety , and if in some parts rather
prolix , from tho length to which some of the descriptions run , this defect is compensated by the mass of matter , and the evident care bestowed upon the whole . To those Avho are desirous of picking up information about Sweden and Swedish society , diversified by an occasional digression about Norway and Denmark , we heartily recommend the volumes before us . We must now turn to the accumulation of u * orks to Avhich each
succeeding month throughout the year introduces us , on Australia and its gold-diggings , ancl , giving priority to the sex , turn over the pages of the volume which describes Mrs . Charles Clacy ' sf visit to the Eagle Hawk Gulley , in the company of her brother and the smart band of gold-digging adventurers with whom he associated himself . Fortunatel y for the lady of the party , the trip proved auspicious in more ways than one ; for besides gold , of which she got her share , she also enriched herself by bringing
home a husband . As might have been expected from the library of works on the same subject , there is not much that is very novel , yet there are many pictures of daily life in the bush , and many a rough experience , that give an interest from their very actuality , in which many other works are deficient . The roads to the diggings , Melbourne itself under every aspect , the thousand and one varieties of living , work , and accommodation , are very graphically described . The following is a fair specimen descriptive of the
first scene which the writer witnessed on anchoring off Melbourne : — " Our party , on returning to the ship the day after our arrival , witnessed the French leave-taking of all of her crew , who , during the absence of the captain , jumped overboard , and were quickly picked up and landed by the various boats about . This desertion of the ships by the sailors is an every-day occurrence ; the