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the river and the nearness of the forest . " Here he built a castle ; but of its dimensions and form we know nothing whatever , and in all probability no remnant of it now exists . This castle Henry I . began , ^ tie commencement of his reign , to rebuild ; and in th ose days it was considered a place of great strengm . Frbmit the perfidious John went to Kunhirnede , —a spot regarded with veneration by every true lover of liberty—to sign the Magra Charta , by which he secured to the church her liberties ; stipulated that , except to ransom the king , to marry his eldest daughter , or rnjake his eldest son a knight , no money should be levied from his vassals , without the consent of the great council of all the tenants in chief of the crown ; that right or justice ? ' should not be sold , denied or delayed , " to any one ; and , most important of all , guaranteed that '" no freeman should be apprehended , imprisoned , disseized outlawed , banished , or in any way
destroyed ; nor will we go upon Mm , nor will we send upon him , except by the legal jiid gmmt of Ms peers , or by the law of the land . " ¦ ¦ These concessions , " observes an acute writer of the present century , show , in a very strong light , the iniquitous practices and violent sway of the Anglo-Norman princes ^ " Henry III . made extensive alterations and additions to the castle , and so did Edward III ., at the suggestion , it is said , of the kings of Eraiice and Scotland , whom he brought as his prisoners to Windsor wherein 1369 his beloved wife , Queen Phillipa , breathed her last . We find many references to other sovereigns , to the unfortunate Henry VI ., to his
successor Edward IV ..,. to Henry VIII ., to Elizabeth , to Charles . '" the Martyr , " whose mortal remains were deposited in the vaults of the castle , and to others , which are both interesting and curious . William of Orange greatly neglected this abode of sovereignty ; but it was the favourite residence of
George III ., who restored the chapel , and employed West to paint the windows . Messrs . Tighe and Davis deserve great praise for the perseverance with which they have collected such a curious medley of facts , extending over nearly 1 , 500 pages , and we recommend the work to our readers as one from which both instruction and amusement may be derived .
Rita : an Autobiography . In two vols . London : Bentley . —We cannot commend the author of " Rita" upon having discovered a very original subject . Indeed , we scarcely remember having come upon any novel lately , so devoid of new features and new characters . In " Rita" we have the old incidents put to the old uses . We have a dissipated father and a lazy—or as the author desires us to imagine—weak mother , very fond of themselves and appearances ; and sacrificing their children accordingly . We have ,
moreover , a daughter , the heroine Marguerite , who has a taste for painting , and who , by means of her artistic talent , contrives to pay some of the debts which her extravagant and reckless father has contracted with livery stable keepers and horse jockeys . Her genius in the paintingart brings her into the company of queer characters , from whose society she manages somehow or other to escape scatheless . This is all very pretty and very filial , and so forth ; but unfortunately in real life young ladies cannot turn their talents so readily to account ; and very rarely , if ever ,
earn so much by their earnings as to enable them to pay off the large debts of their parents . However , we will pass over those parts which are simply not in accordance with nature , and turn to those which , while they are natural , are exhibitions of gross bad taste . Probably when married men have lost all shame , and openly flirt about town with other women than their wives , they are not sufficiently decent to keep their daughters from contamination . But certainly , in a novel which is intended for the perusal of young ladies—for they are the great novel consumers—it is not very
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the river and the nearness of the forest . " Here he built a castle ; but of its dimensions and form we know nothing whatever , and in all probability no remnant of it now exists . This castle Henry I . began , ^ tie commencement of his reign , to rebuild ; and in th ose days it was considered a place of great strengm . Frbmit the perfidious John went to Kunhirnede , —a spot regarded with veneration by every true lover of liberty—to sign the Magra Charta , by which he secured to the church her liberties ; stipulated that , except to ransom the king , to marry his eldest daughter , or rnjake his eldest son a knight , no money should be levied from his vassals , without the consent of the great council of all the tenants in chief of the crown ; that right or justice ? ' should not be sold , denied or delayed , " to any one ; and , most important of all , guaranteed that '" no freeman should be apprehended , imprisoned , disseized outlawed , banished , or in any way
destroyed ; nor will we go upon Mm , nor will we send upon him , except by the legal jiid gmmt of Ms peers , or by the law of the land . " ¦ ¦ These concessions , " observes an acute writer of the present century , show , in a very strong light , the iniquitous practices and violent sway of the Anglo-Norman princes ^ " Henry III . made extensive alterations and additions to the castle , and so did Edward III ., at the suggestion , it is said , of the kings of Eraiice and Scotland , whom he brought as his prisoners to Windsor wherein 1369 his beloved wife , Queen Phillipa , breathed her last . We find many references to other sovereigns , to the unfortunate Henry VI ., to his
successor Edward IV ..,. to Henry VIII ., to Elizabeth , to Charles . '" the Martyr , " whose mortal remains were deposited in the vaults of the castle , and to others , which are both interesting and curious . William of Orange greatly neglected this abode of sovereignty ; but it was the favourite residence of
George III ., who restored the chapel , and employed West to paint the windows . Messrs . Tighe and Davis deserve great praise for the perseverance with which they have collected such a curious medley of facts , extending over nearly 1 , 500 pages , and we recommend the work to our readers as one from which both instruction and amusement may be derived .
Rita : an Autobiography . In two vols . London : Bentley . —We cannot commend the author of " Rita" upon having discovered a very original subject . Indeed , we scarcely remember having come upon any novel lately , so devoid of new features and new characters . In " Rita" we have the old incidents put to the old uses . We have a dissipated father and a lazy—or as the author desires us to imagine—weak mother , very fond of themselves and appearances ; and sacrificing their children accordingly . We have ,
moreover , a daughter , the heroine Marguerite , who has a taste for painting , and who , by means of her artistic talent , contrives to pay some of the debts which her extravagant and reckless father has contracted with livery stable keepers and horse jockeys . Her genius in the paintingart brings her into the company of queer characters , from whose society she manages somehow or other to escape scatheless . This is all very pretty and very filial , and so forth ; but unfortunately in real life young ladies cannot turn their talents so readily to account ; and very rarely , if ever ,
earn so much by their earnings as to enable them to pay off the large debts of their parents . However , we will pass over those parts which are simply not in accordance with nature , and turn to those which , while they are natural , are exhibitions of gross bad taste . Probably when married men have lost all shame , and openly flirt about town with other women than their wives , they are not sufficiently decent to keep their daughters from contamination . But certainly , in a novel which is intended for the perusal of young ladies—for they are the great novel consumers—it is not very