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zatibn of England , modes of combined action may be introduced to the material improvement of our social system . TJpon its processes is founded the action of the institution called " The Universal Purveyor , '' which has already achieved decided success , as we find from
the report kindly furnished to us . Of course we need hardly state that the principle of combination for general good is so decidedly Masonic as to enlist our best sympathies , even when in a nascent state , and our cordial congratulations when prosperity , as now , dawns upon its operation .
Mediaeval Popes , Emperors , Kings , and Crusaders ; or , Germany , Italy , and Palestine , from A . I ) . 1125 , to A . D . 1268 . By Mrs . William Bitsk , author of " Manners and Customs of the Japanese , " & c . London : Hookham and Sons . —The period embraced in these two volumes is one of the most picturesque of the Middle Ages , and almost coterminous witlrthe"Swabian line of Emperors . It includes all the Crusades except the first ; the rise of the Communes in
France ; the conquest of Ireland ; the reign of the Latin princes at Constantinople ; the struggles in England , resulting in the Great Charter extorted from King John ; the origin of the Mendicant Ordera and of the Inquisition ; the Persecution of the Albigenses ; the Tartar inundation ; the birth of the military orders and of
chivalry ; and the commencement of the modern languages of Europe . Mrs . Busk has performed her task well , and without ostentation has given us sound information upon the intellectual , social , and artistic state of Europe , up to the commencement of the twelfth century Some of the passages are more quaint than delicate , but serve to show the condition ^ of society at the period . Eor example , we have the following instance of
TANGIBLE EVIDENCE . " In . the first quarter of the twelfth century died a Margrave of Misnia without children , but leaying his wife far advanced in pregnancy . The collateral heir denying that she was in a state to authorise hopes of a lineal heir , accused her of intending to impose a spurious child upon the vassalage , and claimed the
margraviate . The widowed Margravine thereupon assembled the immediate vassals of the principality , presented herself before them upon an elevated platform where she was seen by all , and there dropped her garments sufficiently to display the enlargement of her person , tliat supported the truth of her assertion . The collateral pretender was immediately rejected , and the birth of her child patiently awaited . "
The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Plessington . By R . R . Madden , M . ll . I . A . 3 vols . Newby . —We reserve our full notice of this most amusing and w ell-written biography , until the completion and issue of the second edition , which will , we understand , be considerably enlarged . In the
meantime , however , we cannot forbear treating our readers to the following extract , connected with Charles James Mathews , the unrivalled high comedian of the present clay , and— -as we opine , the perusal of the following will show—one whose singular wit and humour rendered him a most desirable acquisition to the Blessingtons upon TOL . I . 2 S
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zatibn of England , modes of combined action may be introduced to the material improvement of our social system . TJpon its processes is founded the action of the institution called " The Universal Purveyor , '' which has already achieved decided success , as we find from
the report kindly furnished to us . Of course we need hardly state that the principle of combination for general good is so decidedly Masonic as to enlist our best sympathies , even when in a nascent state , and our cordial congratulations when prosperity , as now , dawns upon its operation .
Mediaeval Popes , Emperors , Kings , and Crusaders ; or , Germany , Italy , and Palestine , from A . I ) . 1125 , to A . D . 1268 . By Mrs . William Bitsk , author of " Manners and Customs of the Japanese , " & c . London : Hookham and Sons . —The period embraced in these two volumes is one of the most picturesque of the Middle Ages , and almost coterminous witlrthe"Swabian line of Emperors . It includes all the Crusades except the first ; the rise of the Communes in
France ; the conquest of Ireland ; the reign of the Latin princes at Constantinople ; the struggles in England , resulting in the Great Charter extorted from King John ; the origin of the Mendicant Ordera and of the Inquisition ; the Persecution of the Albigenses ; the Tartar inundation ; the birth of the military orders and of
chivalry ; and the commencement of the modern languages of Europe . Mrs . Busk has performed her task well , and without ostentation has given us sound information upon the intellectual , social , and artistic state of Europe , up to the commencement of the twelfth century Some of the passages are more quaint than delicate , but serve to show the condition ^ of society at the period . Eor example , we have the following instance of
TANGIBLE EVIDENCE . " In . the first quarter of the twelfth century died a Margrave of Misnia without children , but leaying his wife far advanced in pregnancy . The collateral heir denying that she was in a state to authorise hopes of a lineal heir , accused her of intending to impose a spurious child upon the vassalage , and claimed the
margraviate . The widowed Margravine thereupon assembled the immediate vassals of the principality , presented herself before them upon an elevated platform where she was seen by all , and there dropped her garments sufficiently to display the enlargement of her person , tliat supported the truth of her assertion . The collateral pretender was immediately rejected , and the birth of her child patiently awaited . "
The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Plessington . By R . R . Madden , M . ll . I . A . 3 vols . Newby . —We reserve our full notice of this most amusing and w ell-written biography , until the completion and issue of the second edition , which will , we understand , be considerably enlarged . In the
meantime , however , we cannot forbear treating our readers to the following extract , connected with Charles James Mathews , the unrivalled high comedian of the present clay , and— -as we opine , the perusal of the following will show—one whose singular wit and humour rendered him a most desirable acquisition to the Blessingtons upon TOL . I . 2 S