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THE
INTERNATIONAL
MONTHLY
MAGAZINE
Of Literature, Science and Art.
VOLUME I.
AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 1850.
NEW-YORK:
STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 222 BROADWAY.
FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
BY THE NUMBER, 25 CTS; THE VOLUME, $1; THE YEAR, $3.
* * * * *
CONTENTS:
VOLUME I. AUGUST TO NOVEMBER, 1850.
Advancement of Learning. Portrait of Sir David Brewster, 312
Advocate, The Young.--_Household Words_, 81
_Arts, The Fine._--Elliott's Portraits, 73.--Pictures by Mr.
Kellogg, 78.--Osgood's Portrait of Captain Sutter, 73.
--Horace Vernet, 112, 175.--Mr. Healy, in Paris. 141,--
Powers's Statue of Calhoun, 174.--M. Ingres and M. de
Luynes, 207.--Gallery of Illustrious Americans, 207.--
Dr. Waagen, in England, 207.--Art in Bavaria, 269.--
Exhibition at Valenciennes, 269.--Darley's Illustrations
of "Sleepy Hollow," 269.--Chaucer's Monument, 269.--
Lessing's new Picture, 269.--Mlle. Rachel, again, 270.--
Gigantic Statue by Schwanthaler, 270.--Publications
of Goupil & Co., 270.--Mr. Powell's Picture for the Capitol,
270, 324.--German Views of Art in America, 323.--
Plans for the Promotion of Catholic Art in Rome, 623.--
Charles Muller's Group of Statues, 323.--A Hundred
Statues in Paris, 323.--Powers and his Statues, 324.--
The Barberigo Gallery at Venice, 324.--Paintings and
Sculptures of Early Northern Artists, 324.--A Statue
to Larrey, the Surgeon, 324.--The Standish Gallery,
324.--Exhibition at Dusseldorf, 324.--Works in Antwerp
Churches, 324.--Leutze's New Works, 324.--
The Colossal Frescoes of Kaulbach, 482.--Fine Public
Groups at Berlin, 482.--The Dusseldorf "Album," 482.
--Statue of Columbus, 483.--Monument to Frederick
the Great, 483.--Philadelphia Art Union, 483.--Original
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Isaac Newton,
483.--Kellogg's Full-Length of General Scott, 483.--
Mount's New Picture, 483.--Archæological Institute,
483.--Sarah Biffen, 484.--Statues of Herder, Oudinot,
Professor Cooper, &c., 484.
_Authors and Books._--Rev. Dr. Smyth, 13.--Gen. Pepe's
New Work, 13.--Mr. Mayne Reed, 13.--J. E. Warren,
13.--Dr. Hawks, 13.--The Princess Belgioioso, 13.--Eugene
Scribe, 13.--Alice and Phoebe Carey, 14.--Mrs.
Oaksmith, 14.--Prof. Nichol on America, 14.--Dr. Croly,
14.--Sir James Alexander, 14.--Mr. James and Copyright,
39.--Albert Smith and "Protection," 39.--R. H.
Stoddard, 39.--Inedited Correspondence of Goethe and
Schiller, 39.--Margaret Fuller, 39.--Dr. Hoefer _vs._ Dr.
Layard, 40.--Mr. Boker's New Play, 40.--George Sand,
71.--G. P. R. James, 71.--Botta's Nineveh, 71.--Arago,
71.--Miss Fenimore Cooper, 72.--Prof. Agassiz, 72.--
Dr. Layard, 72.--Rogers, 72.--Harro Harring, 72, 112.--
Dr. Gutzlaff, 73.--Literature in Paris, 73.--E. P. Whipple,
105.--Evelyn's History of Religion, 105.--Leigh
Hunt and the Laureateship, 105.--E. G. Squier, 105.--
Monument to Wordsworth, 105.--Francis Bowen, &c.,
105.--Mrs. Child, 112.--The Literature of Supernaturalism,
138.--Remains of Poe, 138.--Dudley Bean, 138.--
Mr. Young's "Beranger," 138.--Livermore on Libraries,
139.--Prof. Johnson, Charlotte Cushman, Elihu Burritt,
Perley Poore, Mr. Mountford, &c., 139.--Rev. James H.
Perkins, 175.--Mrs. Esling, 175.--M. St. Hillaire and
his Spanish History, 175.--The Author of "Dr. Hookwell,"
175.--John Mills, 175.--Mr. Prescott, 175.--Maginn's
Homeric Ballads, 175.--George Wilkins Kendall,
176.--Mrs. Trollope and her Son, 176.--Dr. Wm. R.
Williams, 176.--Dr. Buckland, 176.--Dr. Wayland's
Tractate on Education, 176.--Charles Eames, 176.--
Chateaubriand, &c., 176.--Parke Godwin and his Translation
of Goethe's Autobiography, 194.--A new Life of
John Randolph, 194.--Scotch Bookseller's Society, 194.
--Prof. Dickson's Return to Charleston, 194.--John R.
Bartlett and the Boundary Commission, 194.--William
C. Richards, 194.--Guilliame Tell Poussin, 194.--Dr.
John W. Francis, 195.--Illustrated Edition of Gray's
Poems, 195.--M. Libri, Burns, Dr. Wiseman, &c., 195.--
Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem, 196.--Miss Cooper's
Rural Hours, 196.--Sydney Smith's Sketches of Modern
Philosophy, 196.--Beranger and the People, 232.--
Audubon and Washington Irving, 232.--Seba Smith in
Mathematics, 232.--M. Flandin, on Persian Antiquities,
233.--Girardin and Chateaubriand, 233.--Guizot's Poverty,
233.--History of Art, by Schasse, 233.--History of
Spain, 233.--The Paris Academy of Inscriptions, 234.--
Leverrier on the Telegraph, 234.--Works of Rev. Dr.
Woods, 234.--Orville Dewey, 234.--The Author of the
Amber Witch, 235.--The Night Side of Nature, 235.--
Milne Edwards, 235.--Miss Strickland, 235.--Sir E. L.
Bulwer, 235.--Mr. Herbert's Sporting Books, 236.--
Works in Press, 236.--Meyerbeer, 236.--A German
Prince in New Orleans, 265.--An Arabian Newspaper,
265.--Mrs. Loud's Poems, 265.--Literature of Socialism,
265.--Ebenezer Elliot, 266.--Memorial to Mrs. Osgood,
266.--Rev. Walter Colton on California, 267.--Gallery of
Illustrious Americans, 267.--Max Schlesinger, 267.--
Mayo's "Berber," 267.--French Periodicals, 268.--The
Vienne University, 268.--Works of the Asiatic Society at
Paris, 318.--The French Academy and its Prizes, 318.--
Edward Everett, 319.--Mackay's "Progress of the Intellect."
319.--Lamartine, 319.--Theodore Parker, 319.--Sir
Edward Belcher, 319.--Guizot, 319.--John G. Saxe, 319.
--Eliza Cook, 319.--Institute of Goethe, 320.--Books on
the Slave Trade, 320.--Jules Lechevalier, 320.--The
Doctrinal Tract and Book Society's Publications, 320.--
Novel by Otto Muller, 320.--New Translation of M.
Rochefoucauld's Maxims, 320.--"Armanese," 320.--
Thackery on the Literary Profession, 321.--M. de
Luynes on the Antiquities of Cyprus, 321.--Sir Robert
Peel's Memoirs, 321.--John P. Brown, 321.--
Burnet de Pesle on Egyptian Dynasties, 322.--Washington
Irving a British Subject, 322.--Arago and
Cremieux in History, 322.--New Poem by Holmes,
322.--Mr. Duganne's Satire, 322.--South Carolinian
Epics, 322.--John Neal, 322.--The Baroness Blaze
de Bury, 322.--Dr. Elliot on Slavery, 322.--Dacotah
Dictionary, 322.--Judge Breeze on the History of
Illinois, 322.--Mr. Layard, 322.--Mr. Wilson's Transted
Hindu Hymns, 322.--Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, 322.--
Paris Editions of Greek Authors, 471.--MSS. of Schiller
and Goethe, 471.--Henry Wheaton, 471.--_La Hongrie
Pittoresque_, 472.--Contributions to Science
by French Surgeons, 472.--Walter Scott in France, 472.--
Herman Melville, 472.--The Original Dr. Faust, 472.--
Rev. Albert Barnes, 473.--Ledru Rollin, 473.--Mr. Bigelow's
"Jamaica in 1850," 473.--Mr. Prescott in England,
473.--Dr. Schoolcraft's Great Work on the Indian
Tribes, 473.--Schools in American Literature,
473.--Leon de Wailly's "Stella and Vanessa," 474.--
Alaric A. Watts, "in bankruptcy," 474.--"The Lily
and the Totem," by Dr. Simms, 475.--Dr. Wainwright
on the Holy Land, 475.--Mr. Raymond's Discourse at
Burlington, 475.--E. V. Childe's Translation of "Santarem
on Americus Vespucius," 475.--Dr. Latham on
the Natural History of Man, 475.--John Britton, the
Antiquary, 476.--Dr. Layard, 476.--The "Vladika,"
476.--Mr. Bancroft, 476.--Hebrew Translations at
Padua, 476.--Theories of Light, 476.--Mr. Hildreth's
History, 476.--Hungarian Tales, 476.--Yankee Hill,
476.--Criticisms by Dr. O. A. Brownson, 477.--James
Nack, 477.--New Volume of Poems by Bryant, 477.--Science
in America, 477.--Shiller's "Anthologie," 477.
Griepenkerl, 477.--Mr Kimball's St. Leger, 477.--Etchings
by Ehninger, 477.--The Weimar Festival, 478.--M.
Bastiat, 478--Edinburgh Review for October, 478.--N.
Lenau, 478.--"The Eclectic" upon Mr. Melville,
478.--"Lonz Powers." 478.--New English Reviewals
of Ticknor, 479.--M. Villaume's History, 479.--Longfellow
Illustrated, 479.--Thackeray, 479.--London Medical
Schools, 480.--Robberies of the Vatican, 480.--Mr.
Gallagher, 480.--Mr. McLaughlin, 480.--Lamartine in
England, 480.--Discoveries in Africa, 480.--Louis Nicolardet,
480.--Hebrew Library, 480.--Berlin University,
480.--New Books, by Parke Godwin, Miss Dupuy,
Timothy Pitkin, Dr. Ruffner, Mr. Putnam, De Quincy,
J. I. Bailey, Grace Greenwood, and W. W. Lord,
481.
Author of "Ion," The. A Biographical Speech, 170
Balzac, and the Oration of Victor Hugo on his Death, 315
Beauty.--_The Leader_, 591
Belgian Lace-Makers.--_Household Words_, 123
Beranger, Jean Pierre. With a Portrait, 454
Brooks, Maria, and Southey, 67
Brougham, Lord, Anecdote of, 304
Brougham, Lord, Memoir of. (Portrait,) 305
Catching a Lion.--_C. Astor Bristed.--Fraser's Magazine_, 512
Chase, The.--_Miss Cooper's Rural Hours_, 77
Chemistry of a Candle.--_Household Words_, 292
Chinese, Remarkable Work by a 141
Church of the Vasa D'Agua.--_Eliza Cook's Journal_, 400
Class Opinions.--_Household Words_, 104
Cooling a Burning Spirit.--_De Vere_, 303
_Correspondence, Original_.--Letter from Dr. Layard, upon
Ancient Art, 5.--Rambles in the Peninsula, by John
E. Warren, 6, 37, 136
Count Monte-Leone, or the Spy in Society.--_From the
French of Saint Georges_, 494
Crime, in England and France, 224
Csikos of Hungary,--_Max Schlesinger_, 258
Death and Sleep.--_From the German of Krummacher_, 255
_Deaths Recent_--Miss Jane Porter, 10.--Matthew L. Davis,
11.--Joseph S. C. F. Frey, 11.--Count de Vittré, 11.--Richard
Wyatt, the Sculptor, 42.--Dr. Griffith, 104.--F.
Mansell Reynolds, 104.--John Roby, 104.--Professor
Canstatt, 104,--S. S. Prentiss, 140.--Nathaniel Silsbee,
140.--Sir Robert Peel, 172.--Boyer, Ex-President
of Hayti, 172.--The Duke of Cambridge, 172.--George
W. Erving, 173.--Professor John Burns, 174.--Horace
Sumner, 174.--Mr. Kirby, the Entomologist, 206.--Rev.
Dr. Gray, 207.--Augustus William Neander, 237.--Jacob
Jones, U.S.N., 237.--Julia Betterton Glover, 239.--Madame
Gavaudan, 240.--General Bertrand, 240.--Robert
R. Baird, 250.--S. Joseph, the Sculptor, 240.--James
Wright, 240.--M. Mora, 270.--B. Simmons, 290.--Louis
Philippe, 338.--Dr. Judson, 340.--John Luman, 339.--Sir
Martin Archer Shee, 341.--Gerard Troost, 342.--Professor
White, 340.--Perceval W. Banks, 342.--Bishop
Bascomb, 342.--Robert Hunt, 342.--John Comly,
342.--Count Pire, 342.--Admiral Dudley Oliver, 600.--Rev.
Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity College, 600.--Professor
Kolderup, 601.--M. Chedanau, 601.--Daniel
Belknap, 601.
Death's Jest-Book: The Fool's Tragedy, 229
Decay of Great Families.--_Burke's Aristocracy_, 260
Democracy.--_The Age and its Architects_, 592
Dom of Dantzic, The.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 43
Duke of Queensbury.--_Burke's Aristocracy_, 260
Duke Lewis of Donauworth.--_Madame Blaze de Bury_, 584
Dust, or Ugliness Redeemed.--_Household Words_, 243
Ebba, or The Emigrants of Sweden.--_E. Marmier_, 345
Egypt and its Government.--_Sharpe's Magazine_, 524
Eldorado.--_John G. Whittier_, 74
Excellent Opportunity, An.--_Household Words_, 249
Fashions, Autumn, (Illustrated,) 602
Fire in the Woods.--_Miss Fenimore Cooper_, 95
Fitch, John, Life of, by Miss Leslie, 68
Frank Hamilton.--_W. H. Maxwell_, 145
Fuller, Margaret, Marchesa D'Ossoli, 162
Estimate of her Works and Genius, _by E. A. Poe_, 162
Poem upon her Death, _by G. P. R. James_, 165
Garibaldi, Life of General, 224
George Sand and Chateaubriand, 65
German Criticism of English Female Writers, 161
Germany in the Summer of 1850.--_The Leader_, 594
Ghost Stories: The Female Wrecker, and the House
of Mystery.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 402
Greece and Turkey.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 255
Grote's History of Greece.--_The Times_, 10
Gutzlaff, the Missionary, 317
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, the _Athenæum_ upon, 102
Henry Lisle: A Story of the Civil War.--_G. P. R James_, 555
High Prices to Artists of the Opera, 165
Hunt, Leigh, Autobiography of, 35, 130
Hunter, on the Pilgrims Fathers.--_Literary Gazette_, 599
Hussar of Hungary, The Wild, 263
Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages, 69
Irving, Washington, and Campbell.--_The Albion_, 230
Is Love Blind?--_The Leader_, 536
Ivory Mine. The, a Tale of the Frozen Sea, 117, 156, 210
Jenny Lind at the Castle Amphitheatre. Illustrated, 448
Jones on Chantrey: A Biographical Criticism, 413
"Junius," New Discussions respecting, 469
Jurisprudence of the Moguls.--_Spectator_, 271
Kanasz, The.--_Max Schlesinger_, 262
Kane's Discourse on the Mormons, 36
Kemble's, Fanny, Readings of. (Illustrated,) 310
Killing a Giraffe.--_Cummings' Adventures_, 304
Kolombeski, The Veteran.--__, 304
Lady Lucy's Secret.--_The Ladies' Companion_, 409
Lamartine's Apology for his Confidences, 314
Lamartine's Introduction to "Genevieve," 132
Lamartine's "Genevieve" Reviewed, 466
Lamennais, The Abbe. (Portrait,) 449
Landor, Savage, Letter from.--_The Examiner_, 271
Landor, Savage, upon Savage Haynau.--_Examiner_, 586
Last of a Long Line, The.--_Dickens's Household Words_, 373
Latham on the Aborigines of America, 467
Lessons in Life.--_Eliza Cook's Journal_, 241
Lewis, George Cornewell, 4
Literary Coteries in Paris, 97
Literary Prizes in France, 458
Literature in Africa, 311
Lorgnette, The. (Portrait,) 459
Loss and Gain.--_Maria J. MacIntosh_, 548
Love, Is it Blind?--_The Leader_, 536
Man Ever the Same.--_Pendennis_, 580
Mansfield, The Great Lord.--_The Times_, 419
Marks of Barhamville.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 7
Marriage Ceremonies of the Kandians.--_Sirr's Ceylon_, 590
Memnon, The Sounding Statue of.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 528
_Miscellanies_.--Lord Brougham, 8.--A Mock Guillotine,
&c., 8.--Ledru Rollin on the Decline of England, 9.--The
Catastrophe of the Griffith, 9.--Poetical Composition,
29.--Death-Bed Superstitions, 30.--Arab Game,
30.--Marriage in America, 30.--Arabian Nights, 31.--Ambassadors,
32.--Guizot, 32.--Canning, 32.--The Cell
of the Bee, 41.--Letter from the Duke of Wellington,
42.--Laughing in the Sleeve, 64.--Antiquarian Discovery,
&c., 64.--Circumnavigating a Pope, 78.--Curious
Titles of German Papers, 79.--Remarkable Trio, 79.--True
Progress, 79.--Coffee among the Savans, 79.--Bad
Cookery, a Cause of Drunkenness, 79.--The Monkey
and the Watch, 79.--A Syrian Christian and Philosopher,
79.--The British Hierarchy, 79.--French Eulogy,
96.--What's in a Name? 104.--Names High Inscribed,
104.--Golden Rules of Life, 128.--Progress of
Milton's Blindness, 128.--Once Caught, Twice Shy,
&c., 128.--A Street Character of Cairo, 142.--Mendelssohn's
Skill as a Conductor, 142.--Manuel Godoy,141.--Superstition
in France, 143.--Libraries in Cambridge,
143.--Romantic History of the Two English Lovers,
143.--Modern School of Athens, 255.--The _Athenæum_
on American Reporting, 443.--The Emperor of
Hayti, 443.--Louis Napoleon at Lady Blessington's,
443.--American Mummies, 443.--Daniel Webster in
England, 443.--Coffins of the Chaldeans, 444.--Ancient
Prices of Labor, 444.--Making the Postman Wait, 441.--The
Restaurant of the Sister of M. Thiers, 444.--Languages
of Africa, 444.--Richardson, the Traveller,
444.--The Peace Congress at Frankfort, 445.--Project
for a Zoological Garden, 445.--Is D'Israeli a Jew? 445.--Dr.
Gross, the Surgeon, 445.--The Herder Festival at
Weimar, 445.--The Wordsworth Monument, 445.--Revolutionary
Stamps, 445.--Descendants of Warren
Hastings, 445.--Mr. Pennington's Steam Balloon, 445.--Catlin,
the Indian Traveller, 445.--Ages of Public
Men, 446.--Ancient Discovery of California, 446.--Mr.
Gliddon's Mummy, 446.--Rachel, 446.--India Rubber
in 1772, 446.--Convenient Umbrella, 446.--Irish Emigration,
447.--Dwarkanth Tagore, 447.--Madame Boulanger,
447.--Traveling in France, 447.--The Lowell
Institute, 447.--M. Libri, 447.--Guizot and Ledru Rollin,
447.--Dr. Southwood Smith, &c., 447.--Anecdote of
Guizot, 601.--Dr. Spencer, as a Monk, 601.--Slavery,
treated by _The Times_, 601.--Marshal Haynau and _The
Times_, 601.--English Titles, 601.--Guizot on Politics,
601--Anecdote of Stenterello, 601.
_Miscellanies, Scientific_.--Remingten's Bridge, 12.--Paine's
Hydro-Electric Light, 12.--New Planet, &c., 12.--The
Hair, 103.--Experiments by Lord Brougham, 112.--The
Spanish Academy of Sciences, 264.--Improvements in
the Telegraph, 264.--The British Association, 312.--American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
313.--An American Academy, 313.
Morris, George P. Review of his Songs, 487
Music, or Home and Abroad, 484
My Novel.--_Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton_, 439, 566
Mysterious Compact, The.--_Dublin Univ. Mag._, 185
New Prophet in the East.--_Athenæum_, 300
Nimrod, A Mightier Hunter than.--_Household Words_, 218
Numismatic Archæology, 257
Old Brank, the Forger.--_Dickens's Household Words_, 521
Old Churchyard Tree, The.--_Household Words_, 254
Old Man's Bequest, The.--_Dublin University Magazine_, 106
Oriental Caravans.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 42
Outspreading of the British People.--_Fraser's Mag._, 593
Peasant Life in Germany.--_The Leader_, 288
Peel, Life of Sir Robert.--_The Times_, 196
Phantom World, The, 76
Poe, Edgar A.--_Rufus W. Griswold_, 325
_Poetry, Original_.--The Bride's Farewell, _M. E. Hewitt_ 37--To
----, _Mrs. R. B. K._, 37.--The Child of Fame, _Mrs.
Hewitt_, 73.--Bob Fletcher, _Townsend Haines_, 104.--Azela,
_Alice Carey_, 135.--Country Sonnets, _William C. Richards_,
136.--Retrospect, _Hermann_, 170.--Horoscope, _Elizabeth
Oakes Smith_, 264.--Friendship, _William C. Richards_, 264.--The
Balance of Life, _Herma_, 264.--Leonora to Tasso,
_Mary E. Hewitt_, 488.--Forest Burial, _Sidney Dyer_, 488.--The
Passionate Pilgrim, _Mary E. Hewitt_, 489.--A
Rainy Morning, _W. C. Richards_, 489.--In Absence, 489.--Cradle
and Coffin, _Elizabeth Oakes Smith_, 489.--The
Hermit's Dell, _Hermann_, 489.
_Poetry, Selected_.--Nineveh, _Edwin Atherstone_, 16.--The Garden
Gate, _Charles Mackay_, 29.--The Last Year's Leaf,
_Philip Taylor_, 31.--The Ship "Extravagance," _Charles
Swain_, 64.--Death, _Leigh Hunt_, 64.--Verses from the Bohemian
of Wraitsell, 70.--"Press on," 92.--Flowers,
96.--Old Feelings, 112.--To the Memory of Mrs. Osgood,
_Anne C. Lynch_, 114.--To W. G. R. with an Autograph
of Poe, _R. H. Stoddard_, 192.--Our "In Memoriam,"
_Punch_, 192.--The Actual, _R. B. Kimball_, 192.--English
Hexameters, _Walter Savage Landor_, 219.--Manuela,
_Bayard Taylor_, 221.--Morning Song, _Barry Cornwall_,
241.--On a Portrait of Cromwell, _James T. Fields_, 271.--Summer
Pastime, 287.--An Old Haunt, 303.--"Laugh
and Get Fat, _John Kenyon_, 344.--The Speaker Asleep,
Arminius, _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_, 230.--Legend of
the Teufal Haus, Stanzas written under a Drawing at
Cambridge, Ballad Teaching how Poetry is Best Paid
For, Covenanter's Lament for Bothwell Brigg, Hope
and Love, Private Theatricals, Alexander and Diogenes,
_W. M. Praed_, 396.--Cassandra, My Little Cousins,
_W. M. Praed_, 623.--The Convict, _Alice Carey_, 543.--Song,
_George H. Boker_, 546.--Helen, _R. H. Stoddard_, 546.--Twilight,
_Edith May_, 546.--The Tryst, _Alice Carey_,
546.--The First Doubt, _Grace Greenwood_, 548.--Sappho
to the Sybil, _Mary E. Hewitt_, 548.--Thoughts at the
Grave of a Departed Friend, Despondency, Thoughts
on Parting, _John Inman_, 555.--Two Sonnets from the
German of _Lenau_, 592.
"Poets and Poetry of America."--_Fraser's Magazine_, 165
Poets in Parliament.--_The Leader_, 144
Pompadour, Madame de.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 389
Porter, Jane, Life of. Illustrated.--_The Art Journal_, 201
Portrait of Cromwell.--_By J. T. Fields_, 271
Pottery and Porcelain.--_The Spectator_, 596
Power of Mercy, The.--_Household Words_, 85
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 230, 372, 523
Present Religion of Persia.--_Lieut. Colonel Chesney_, 259
Prentiss, Sergent S., Reminiscences of.--_T. B. Thorpe_, 289
Railway Wonders of the last year.--_Household Words_, 583
Religious Sects and Socialism in Russia, 461
Report of the British Registrar General.--_The Times_, 588
Rollin, Life of Ledru.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 222
Russian Serf, The, 160
Santa Cruz, General.--_Illustrated News_, 40
Serf of Pobereze, The.--_Household Words_, 177
Serpent Charming.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 470
Sketches of the Town.--_Engraving after Darley_, 33
Snow Image, The.--_Nathaniel Hawthorne_, 537
Society in Turkey.--_Princess Belgiviso_, 595
Something about a Murder.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 24
Spanish Senate, The.--_Clarke's Guzpacho_, 261
Spirit of the Annuals for 1851, 488
Spotted Bower Bird, The.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 386
Summer Night, The.--_From Jean Paul Richter_, 38
Summer Vacation.--_The Fourth Canto of Wordsworth's
Posthumous Poem_, 208
Suwarrow, The Great Marshal.--_Fraser's Magazine_, 87
Tea Smuggling in Russia, 129
Telegraph from New York to London.--_Mechanics Magazine_, 587
Tennyson's New Poem, "In Memoriam."--_Spectator_, 34
The Theatre in Russia and Poland, 225
The Three Gifts.--_By E. Oakes Smith_, 646
The Three Visits.--_From the French of Vitu_, 490
The White Lady, 309
Tomb of Lady Blessington.--_Bentley's Miscellany_, 126
Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 2
Undertaker, An, to the Trade.--_Household Words_, 93
Versification, English, 485
Virginia Two Hundred Years Ago.--_The Athenæum_, 416
Ward, the Author of "Tremaine."--_Spectator_, 113
Warilows of Welland, The.--_Household Words_, 560
Weber, Miss, and her Writings.--_Miss Harriet Sargent_, 463
Webster, as a Statesman and as a Man of Letters, 297
Wilde, Richard Henry, and Dante, 2
Wilde, Sir Thomas, the New Chancellor, 240
Willisen, General, of the Schleswig-Holstein Army, 585
Window Love.--_By Charles G. Leland_, 544
Women and Literature in France, 193
Wordsworth's New Poem.--_The Examiner_, 271
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MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER.
The recent appearance of some half dozen editions--some of them very
beautiful in typography and pictorial illustrations--of The Proverbial
Philosophy of Mr. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, reminds us of the observation
of Dana, that something "resembling poetry" is oftentimes borne into
instant and turbulent popularity, while a work of genuine character may
be lying neglected by all except the poets. But "the tide of time," says
the profound essayist, "flows on, and the former begins to settle to the
bottom, while the latter rises slowly and steadily to the surface, and
goes forward, for a spirit is in it." We are not without the hope that
Richard H. Dana will one day be in as frequent demand as Martin Farquhar
Tupper is now.
The merits of this "gentleman of acknowledged genius and sovereign
popularity," we have never been able to discover. If oddity were always
originality, if quaintness and beauty were synonymous, if paradox were
necessarily wisdom, we should be ready to grant that Mr. Tupper is a
wise, beautiful and original thinker. But thought, after all, is an
affair of mind, and though a man of genius may write what is far more
brilliant than common sense ever is, yet no man can utter valuable truth
on mortal and prudential subjects, unless he possesses a vigorous and
powerful understanding. Now Mr. Tupper's art consists in contriving, not
thought, but things that look like thoughts; fancies, in imitation of
truths. The Proverbial Philosophy, in fact, appears to us one of the
most curious impositions we have ever met with. When you first read one
of the aphorisms, it strikes you as a sentiment of extraordinary wisdom.
But look more closely at it; try to apply it; and you will find that it
is merely a trick of words. What flashed upon you as a profound
distinction in morals, turns out to be nothing but a verbal antithesis.
What was paraded, as a kind of transcendental analogy between things not
before suspected of resemblance, discovered by the "spiritual insight"
of the moral seer, is in fact no more than a grave clench,--a solemn
quibble,--a conceit; arising not from the perfection of mind, but the
imperfection of language. Those conceptions, fabricated by Fancy out of
the materials that Fancy deals in, and colored by the rays of a poetic
sentiment, wear the same relation to truths, that the prismatic hues of
the spray of a fountain in the sunshine bear to the gems which it
perhaps outshines. It dazzles and delights, but if we try to apprehend
it we become bewildered; and finally discover that we were deceived by a
brilliant phantom of air. You may admire Mr. Tupper; you may enjoy him;
but you cannot understand him: the staple of his sentences is not stuff
of the understanding. Take one of Mr. Tupper's and one of Lord Bacon's
aphorisms; they flash with an equal bravery. But try them upon the
glassy surface of life. Bacon's cut it as if it were air: Tupper's turn
into a little drop of dirty water. One was a diamond, the other but an
icicle: one was the commonest liquor artificially refrigerated; the
other was a crystal in form, but in its substance the pure carbon of
truth. If these bright delusions which Mr. Tupper turns out to the
wonder and praise of his admirers, were really _thoughts_, is it to be
supposed that he would go on in this way, stringing them together, or
evolving one out of the other, as a spider weaves its unending line, or
as a boy blows soap bubbles from the nose of a tobacco pipe! Fancies,
conceits, intellectual phantoms, may be engendered out of the mind,
brooding in self-creation upon its own suggestions: but _truth_ is to be
mined from Nature, to be wrung from experience, to be seized as the
victor's trophy on the battlefield of action and suffering. The flowers
of poetry may bud spontaneously around the meditative spirit of genius,
but the harvest of Truth, though, to be reaped by mind, must grow out of
Reality.
RICHARD HENRY WILDE AND DANTE.
It appears that our accomplished and lamented countryman, Richard Henry
Wilde, whose "Researches and Considerations concerning the Love and
Imprisonment of Tasso" have been made use of with so discreditable a
freedom by a recent English biographer of that poet, is--if another
pretender prove not less successful--to be deprived also of the fame he
earned by his discoveries in regard to Dante. A correspondent of _The
Spectator_, under the signature of G. AUBREY BEZZI, writes as follows:--
"The questions are, what share Mr. Kirkup had in the recovery of
the fresco of Giotto in the chapel of the Palazzo del Podesta at
Florence, and whether directly or indirectly I have been the means
of depriving him, or any of the coöperators in that good work, of
the merit due to their labors. I shall best enable those who take
an interest in this matter to arrive at a fair conclusion, by
giving a short history of the recovery of that beautiful fresco. It
was Mr. Wilde, and not Mr. Kirkup, who first spoke to me of this
buried treasure. Mr. Wilde, an American gentleman respected by all
that knew him, was then in Florence, engaged in a work on Dante and
his times, which unfortunately he did not live to complete. Among
the materials he had collected for this purpose, there were some
papers of the antiquarian Moreni, which he was examining when I
called one day, (I had then been three or four months in Florence,)
to read what he had already written, as I was in the habit of doing
from time to time. It was then that a foot-note of Moreni's met his
eye, in which the writer lamented that he had spent two years of
his life in unceasing and unavailing efforts to recover the
portrait of Dante, and the other portions of the fresco of Giotto
in the Bargello, mentioned by Vasari; that others before him had
been equally anxious and equally unsuccessful; and that he hoped
that better times would come, (verranno tempi migliori,) and that
the painting, so interesting both in an artistic and historical
point of view, would be again sought for, and at last recovered. I
did not then understand how the efforts of Moreni and others could
have been thus unsuccessful; and I thought that with common energy
and diligence they might have ascertained whether the painting, so
clearly pointed out by Vasari, was or was not in existence: several
months, however, of wearisome labors in the same pursuit taught me
to judge more leniently of the failures of my predecessors. Mr.
Wilde put Moreni's note before me, and suggested and urged, that
being an Italian by birth, though not a Florentine, and having
lived many years in England and among the English, I had it in my
power to bring two modes of influence to bear upon the research;
and that such being the case I ought to undertake it. My thoughts
immediately turned to Mr. Kirkup, an artist who had abandoned his
art to devote himself entirely to antiquarian pursuits, with whom I
was well acquainted, and who, having lived many years in Florence,
(I believe fifteen,) would weigh the value of Moreni's testimony on
this matter, and effectually assist me in every way, if I took it
in hand. So I called upon him, either that same day or the next;
and I found that he, like most other people, had read the passage
in Vasari's life of Giotto, in which it is explicitly said, that
the portrait of Dante had been painted with others in the Palazzo
del Podesta, and was to be seen at the time the historian was
writing; but that he had not read, or had not put any confidence
in, the note of the Florence edition of Vasari published in
1832--1838, in which it is stated, that the Palazzo del Podesta had
now become a prison--the Bargello; that the Chapel had been turned
into a _dispensa_, (it was more like a coal-hole where the rags and
much of the filth of the prison was deposited); that the walls of
this dispensa exhibited nothing but a dirty coating, and that
Moreni speaks of the painting in some published work; the annotator
concluding thus--'It is hoped that some day or other we shall be
able to see what there is under the coating of the walls.' So
everybody hoped that some day or other the thing would be done, but
nobody set about heartily to do it; and it is inconceivable to me
that Mr. Kirkup, who shows in this letter, if it be his, such
jealousy for the credit of the recovery, should have lived so many
years in Florence either entirely ignorant of that which every
shop-boy knew, or knowing there were chances of bringing such a
treasure to light, that he should have never moved one step for
that purpose. That Mr. Kirkup took no active part in this matter at
any time, is quite proved by two admissions I find in the letter of
your correspondent. He first says, 'I remember that the first time
I passed to the Bargello to see it, I found Marini on a scaffold,'
&c. The fact is, that several months had elapsed between the first
presentation of the memorial and the erection of the scaffold,
during which Mr. Kirkup admits that he never thought of visiting
the place, while I had spent hours and hours there, under not very
pleasant circumstances, and had detected raised aureolas and other
evidences of old fresco. But he continues--'Marini was permitted to
return to the work on account of the government; and at that point
Bezzi returned to England. It was _some months afterwards that I
heard that Marini had found certain figures_, and soon afterwards
the discovery of Dante himself" (sic.) These two passages
sufficiently show the nature of Mr. Kirkup's labors, and how far he
was really eager in the pursuit of this object, both during the
time when I was most deeply engaged in it, and also for 'some
months' after I had quitted Florence. But to resume: Mr. Kirkup,
however ignorant, or culpably negligent, or a little of both, he
might previously have been on the subject, yet when I brought it
before him, he at once admitted its importance, and made a liberal
offer of money, if any should be required, to carry out the
experiment. Thus encouraged by Mr. Wilde and by Mr. Kirkup, I
sought and found among English, American, and Italian friends and
acquaintances, many that were ready to assist the plan. Then it was
that I drew up a memorial to the Grand Duke; not because I am an
'advocate,' as your correspondent is pleased to call me, for that
is not the case, but simply because, having taken pains to organize
the means of working out the common object, the coöperators thought
that I could best represent what this common object was. In the
memorial, I stated that, according to what Vasari, Moreni, and
others had written, it was just possible that a treasure was lying
hidden under the dirty coatings of the walls of the dispensa in the
Bargello; that a society was already formed for the purpose of
seeking with all care for this treasure; that all expenses would be
gladly borne by the society; that should anything be found, we
would either leave the paintings untouched, or have them removed at
our expense to the gallery of the Uffizi, and that we begged of the
Grand Duke the necessary sanction to begin our operations. The
answer was favorable, and I was referred to Marchese Nerli, and to
the Director of the Academy, to make the necessary arrangements.
Then the real difficulties began: first, I was put off on account
of the precautions that were to be taken in working in a prison;
then, the Director was ill, or unavoidably engaged, or absent; I
found, in short, that the object was to tire me out, and that I had
to contend with the same power that had defeated Moreni and my
other predecessors in the attempt. This battle continued many
months. I have already spoken too much of my share in the pursuit
of this object, and I will not enter into further details--some of
them ludicrous--of this contention; but I will say explicitly,
that, besides his encouragement, and his repeated offers of money,
(which were not accepted because money was not wanted, at least not
to any amount, and what was wanted I furnished myself,) Mr. Kirkup
did not afford me any assistance. At this stage of the business, I
met indeed with a most valuable ally, without whom I believe I
should have been beaten; and that was Paolo Feroni, a Florentine
nobleman and artist, to whom I have before expressed and now repeat
my best acknowledgments. At the end of this long contention against
obstacles which often eluded my grasp, the Grand Duke, in
consequence of a second memorial I presented to him, issued a
decree appointing a commission to carry out the proposed
experiments. This commission was composed of two members I had
myself proposed, viz. the sculptor Bartolini, and the Marchese
Feroni, of myself, of the Direttore of the Edifizi Pubblici Machese
Nerli, and of the Direttore of the Accademia delle Arti, the two
latter ex-officio: further, the decree declines the proposed
voluntary subscriptions, and places at the disposal of the
Commissioners a sum of money which proved more than sufficient to
cover all the expenses of the restoration of the fresco. The
Commissioners employed the painter Marini, and the happy result of
his carefulness and ability is now before the world.
"I will now conclude by asserting, that I had nothing to do with
what has been said or written at Florence of this recovery, either
in the _Strenna_, or at the meeting of the Scienziati, which was
held in 1841, I believe, and at which the fresco of Giotto was
naturally a great object of interest. I left Florence in May 1840,
before the portrait of Dante was actually uncovered, so that I only
saw a portion of the fresco. I have never heard, or read, or said,
or written, anything tending to disparage the real coöperation of
Mr. Kirkup, or of my late lamented friend Mr. Wilde, or of anybody
else in this matter,--nay, that it was at my request that the
editor of the English translation of Kugler's Handbook of the
History of Painting, published in 1842, has in the preface of that
book mentioned Mr. Kirkup as having assisted materially in the
recovery. Besides the Marchese Feroni and the artist Signor Marini,
there are many disinterested witnesses who have stated, and if
called upon will repeat again, all the material points of my
narrative; but, better than all, there is now in London an English
gentleman, whom I am happy to be allowed to call my friend, who was
in Florence part of the time, and saw with his own eyes the share I
had in this laborious undertaking, which ought not to have brought
this bitter contention upon me: he was an intimate friend of Mr.
Wilde, with whom he had a long correspondence on this very subject,
after Mr. Wilde's return to America."
We believe Mr. Bezzi is in error as to the incompleteness of Mr. Wilde's
Life of Dante. Mr. Wilde, more than a year before his death, informed us
that his work was nearly ready for the printer; and at the same time he
confided to us for perusal his admirable translations of specimens of
Italian Lyric Poets. We hope the descendants of our learned and
ingenious friend will place these works, so creditable to his temper,
scholarship, and genius, before the world.
GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS.
A work on _The Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion_ has lately
attracted much and apparently well-deserved attention in England. It is
by George Cornewall Lewis, M.P. for Herefordshire, and Under Secretary
of State for the Home Department. He is the eldest son of the Right
Honorable Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, Bart., M.P. for Radnor District,
was born in London, in 1806, and received his school education at Eton,
which he entered in 1819, and where he was a pupil of Doctor Hawtrey,
the present head master. The _Illustrated London News_ furnishes the
following particulars of his subsequent career:
At Christmas, 1824, he left Eton, and in the following year entered
Christ Church, Oxford, where as a student he was one of the few who gave
attention to modern languages, and especially German, from which,
jointly with Mr. Tufnell, he translated Müller's "Dorians." In 1828 he
took his University degree as a first-class man in classics, and a
second-class in mathematics. In the same year he entered the Middle
Temple, and in 1831 was called to the bar, and joined the Oxford
Circuit. He had studied for the bar with no less diligence than at the
University; but in consequence of weakness of the chest, was obliged,
after his first circuit, to abandon the profession, in which, had health
allowed him, his success was certain. In 1835 he was placed upon the
commission of inquiry into the relief of the poor, (on the report of
which was founded the Irish Poor-law,) and the state of the Church in
Ireland; and afterward drew up an able report on the condition of the
Irish in Great Britain. In 1836 he was appointed, with Mr. John Austin,
a Commissioner to inquire into the Government of the Island of Malta,
especially as to its tariff and expenditure. The Commission laid an
elaborate report before Parliament, in accordance with the
recommendations of which, such reductions were made as rendered the
tariff of Malta one of the least restrictive in the world, and
materially extended its trade; and they succeeded in establishing the
freedom of the press in the island.
In January, 1839, Mr. Lewis was appointed a Poor-Law Commissioner, and
held the office until July, 1847; when, determining to enter Parliament,
he resigned, and was returned, with Mr. Joseph Bailey, Jr., and Mr.
Francis Wegg Prosser, both Conservatives and Protectionists, without
opposition, for Herefordshire. In November, 1847, he was appointed joint
secretary of the Board of Control, with Mr. James Wilson, M.P. for
Westbury, and early in the following year made his first speech in the
House, in opposition to a motion for the production of papers in the
case of the lately deposed Rajah of Sattara. In April, 1848, Mr. Lewis
was appointed Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, and was
succeeded in the secretaryship of the Board of Control by the Hon. John
E. Elliot, M.P. for Roxburghshire. In his present office Mr. Lewis has
served on the Smithfield Market Commission, appointed in November, 1849,
which has just brought up its report; and upon that subject, the Irish
Poor-Law, and Mr. Disraeli's motion as to local burdens, has spoken in
the House. Last year he brought forward a road bill to consolidate the
management of highways, and dispose of the question of turnpike trusts
and their advances. The bill was not proceeded with last session, and
has again been brought forward this year, with reference, however, only
to highways. Mr. Lewis has earned reputation as the translator of
"Boukli's Public Economy of Athens," which, as well as the "Dorians,"
has become a textbook, and passed through a second edition; and is known
as author of an able essay on the "Use and Abuse of Political Terms,"
published in 1832; on the "Origin and Formation of the Romance
Languages," published in 1835; on "Local Disturbances in Ireland, and
the Irish Church Question," in 1836; on the "Government of
Dependencies," in 1841; and "On the Influence of Authority in Matters of
Opinion," in 1849.
ORIGINAL LETTER FROM DR. LAYARD UPON ANCIENT ART, &c.
We present in this number of the _International_ a communication from
the most celebrated traveler of the nineteenth century, AUSTEN HENRY
LAYARD, upon the sources of _Ancient Art_. It was addressed by the
distinguished author to his friend and ours, Mr. MINOR K. KELLOGG, the
well-known painter, who was for some time with DR. LAYARD in the East.
* * * * *
MY DEAR FRIEND: