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such productions , has set forth . It is sound , succinct , comprehensive , accurate . Pictures from the Battle Melds . By the Roviisa Etf aLisniCAK . Routledge : London . — "When exasperation is engendered in a quiet , shrewdoriginal thinker , bv the contemplation of inanity in power
, Bumbledom , trickery in office , and stupidity , carefully nourished like rare exotics , in the atmosphere of toadyism , lest the winds of common sense and justice should nip the promising blossoms of abuses with which they teem , —the public may rest assured that the result will be something worth the reading . Hence , when we find such a practised and well-known writer as the Roving Englishman , purposely
engaged by the spirited publishers of this magazine " to go and see what he shall see , " in the land of England ' s anguish ^ and Lord Raglan ' s thermometry , it is not astonishing that every salient evil of our ill-worked system should be pungently hit off , —every stultified official first pinned down upon the plank of public ridicule , and then dissected to the very marrow of his useless being by the keen razor
of intelligent sarcasm . They say that even the Alps cracked and dissolved beneath the vinegar of HanniBal ; and so perhaps at last the huge mountains of national abuses will tremble and topple down , as the loud thunder of such books as this u laughs and leaps amongst them . " We wish it all success , and deeply regret that the vast amount of literary subjects this month prevents our quoting largely from it ; but we shall give some extracts from
it hereafter , as it is a work to be kept before men ' s eyes in these stirring times ; it proves what shoe pinches the people ' s foot , and by a severe but just analysis presents at one view an accurate survey of every local peculiarity , the mischiefs of our consular system , and the incompetency of our ambassadors , —Lord Eiddle-de-dee , alias Lord Westmoreland , and Sir Hector Stubble , i . e . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe . No wonder that the first edition of 2 , 000 copies was sold in
two days . The book is replete with caustic irony ; and , when joined to a description of men and places , with a wit which never flags , it will , no doubt , push the work into every homestead in the country , — but what good will it do ? The national back has one bone yet
unbent , and it must stoop lower still ; one joint by supple toadyism yet uncracked , and that must yield ; brave men yet unslaughtered , who must perish ; great minds festering in seclusion , which must wither , that fiddling statesmen and consular parasites may waste a nation ' s hopes in congresses , and sacrifice her fame for gold !
The Mir in Health and Disease , with practical Remarks on the Prevention and Treatment of Deafness . Illustrated by many fine wood engravings . By W 11 A 1 : am Habvey , F . R . C . S ., Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear , and Surgeon to the Girls ' Freemasons' School . —Mr . Harvey has long been known to the profession and the public as having assiduously and successfully cultivated one of those branches of the healing art which has been much neglected by the profession at large . This neglect has indeed some
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such productions , has set forth . It is sound , succinct , comprehensive , accurate . Pictures from the Battle Melds . By the Roviisa Etf aLisniCAK . Routledge : London . — "When exasperation is engendered in a quiet , shrewdoriginal thinker , bv the contemplation of inanity in power
, Bumbledom , trickery in office , and stupidity , carefully nourished like rare exotics , in the atmosphere of toadyism , lest the winds of common sense and justice should nip the promising blossoms of abuses with which they teem , —the public may rest assured that the result will be something worth the reading . Hence , when we find such a practised and well-known writer as the Roving Englishman , purposely
engaged by the spirited publishers of this magazine " to go and see what he shall see , " in the land of England ' s anguish ^ and Lord Raglan ' s thermometry , it is not astonishing that every salient evil of our ill-worked system should be pungently hit off , —every stultified official first pinned down upon the plank of public ridicule , and then dissected to the very marrow of his useless being by the keen razor
of intelligent sarcasm . They say that even the Alps cracked and dissolved beneath the vinegar of HanniBal ; and so perhaps at last the huge mountains of national abuses will tremble and topple down , as the loud thunder of such books as this u laughs and leaps amongst them . " We wish it all success , and deeply regret that the vast amount of literary subjects this month prevents our quoting largely from it ; but we shall give some extracts from
it hereafter , as it is a work to be kept before men ' s eyes in these stirring times ; it proves what shoe pinches the people ' s foot , and by a severe but just analysis presents at one view an accurate survey of every local peculiarity , the mischiefs of our consular system , and the incompetency of our ambassadors , —Lord Eiddle-de-dee , alias Lord Westmoreland , and Sir Hector Stubble , i . e . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe . No wonder that the first edition of 2 , 000 copies was sold in
two days . The book is replete with caustic irony ; and , when joined to a description of men and places , with a wit which never flags , it will , no doubt , push the work into every homestead in the country , — but what good will it do ? The national back has one bone yet
unbent , and it must stoop lower still ; one joint by supple toadyism yet uncracked , and that must yield ; brave men yet unslaughtered , who must perish ; great minds festering in seclusion , which must wither , that fiddling statesmen and consular parasites may waste a nation ' s hopes in congresses , and sacrifice her fame for gold !
The Mir in Health and Disease , with practical Remarks on the Prevention and Treatment of Deafness . Illustrated by many fine wood engravings . By W 11 A 1 : am Habvey , F . R . C . S ., Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear , and Surgeon to the Girls ' Freemasons' School . —Mr . Harvey has long been known to the profession and the public as having assiduously and successfully cultivated one of those branches of the healing art which has been much neglected by the profession at large . This neglect has indeed some