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Painting on Leather (2"'^ S. iii. 229.) —■ Those 

 unlovely uglinesses at Blenheim, called " The 

 Loves of the Gods," vfhich have been so cruelly 

 fathered upon Titian, are painted upon leather. 



CXJTHBEBT BeDE. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Few of those -who differ most widely from the various 

 opinions of Mr. Carlyle would hesitate to admit that he is 

 a great and original thinker ; one who hews out for him- 

 self new and sometimes rugged images of poor human 

 nature, but never takes bad casts from stereotyped and 

 worn-out models. And if he thinks for himself, and 

 judges for himself, so does he in like manner give utter- 

 ance to his thoughts and opinions in a language and style 

 which are as unmistakeably his own. How far this origi- 

 nality may have advanced or retarded the growth of Mr. 

 Carlyle's reputation may be a question. But it is one 

 which we are not on this occasion called upon to discuss. 

 That reputation is now more than European : and when 

 all the great writers of the day are producing their works 

 in new and cheaper forms, it would have been a denial of 

 pleasure to a numerous class of readers had there not ap- 

 peared a cheap edition of the Collected Writings of Thomas 

 Carlyle. Four volumes of this new and handsomely 

 printed series have already issued from the press. Two 

 are devoted to The French Revolution ; a History, in Three 

 Farts. I. the Bastille. 11. The Constitution. III. The 

 Guillotine. And those who have never read this striking, 

 picturesque and impressive narrative of that terrible 

 time may do so now for a few shillings. The next two 

 volumes "are the first and second of that model of a 

 biography, which is almost an autobiography, Oliver 

 Cromwell's Inters and Speeches, with Elucidations by 

 Thomas Carlyle. "These authentic utterances of the 

 man Oliver himself — fished up from the foul Lethean 

 quagmires where they lay buried, washed clean from 

 foreign stupidities" — and Avhich show "this man was the 

 soul of the Puritan revolt, and that without him it had 

 never been a revolt transcendently memorable, and an 

 Epoch in the World's History "—when made clear by 

 Mr. Carlyle's elucidations, make up a picture of the man 

 and of his doings in that eventful period, as striking, from 

 the novel mode in which it is told, as it is impressive 

 from the vividness with which it brings before us, in his 

 habit as he lived, the chief actor in that mighty drama. 



We are not frequently called upon to bring under the 

 notice of our readers works of fiction : but having read 

 the new and cheaper edition of Never too late to mend, we 

 cannot refrain from expressing our conviction, that among 

 the body of social reformers has sprung up one who must 

 ere long take place in the foremost rank of English 

 novelists. We defy any one to begin this story, and 

 leave it unfinished. There is in it an amount of power — 

 a deep sense of the right and the true — and a facility in 

 bringing before the reader natural scenery, in which Mr. 

 Reade has few rivals. Never too late to mend drove us to 

 his Christie Johnson, an exquisite tale, full of the deepest 

 pathos. What his Feg Woffington may be, we have yet 

 to learn. 



The lovers of music and musical literature owe much to 

 Mr. Husk for the handsomely printed volume which he 

 has just issued under the title of An Account of the Mu- 

 sical Celebrations of St. Cecilia's Daij in the Sixteenth, 

 Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries; tq which is ap- 

 pended a Collection of Odes on St. Cecilia's Day, by W. H. 

 Husk, Librarian of the Sacred Harmonic Society. When 



it is considered that these musical celebrations were the 

 forerunners of the great musical festivals of later times, 

 and what is the influence they must have exercised in 

 bringing forth the powers of that musical giant, George 

 Frederick Handel, it must be admitted that their history 

 well deserved to be written. The task which Mr. Husk 

 imposed upon himself he has discharged with great in- 

 telligence and zeal. Every page shows how patient and 

 unwearied have been his researches, and the result is a 

 volume which must find its wa}' into every musical li- 

 brary, and ensure for Mr. Husk the reputation of a careful 

 investigator into the history of musical art. 



Books Received. — A number of works peculiarly 

 suited to the present season have just reached us. First 

 we may mention six more of the series of Leyiten Sermons, 

 viz. Alienation from God, by the Dean of Westminster ; 

 Judas Iscariot^ by Dr. Moberly ; Delay in returning to 

 God, by Dr. Heurtlej' ; The Contempt of our Lord before 

 Herod and Pilate, by the Bishop of Salisbury ; Spiritual 

 Blindness, by Canon Wordsworth ; and Our Lord^s Agony, 

 by Rev. T. T. Carter. We can here only specify the names 

 of other tracts which have come to our hands. 



Conversion, a Sermon in aid of the London Diocesan 

 Penitentiary, by the Rev. George Nugee. 



The Scotch' Communion Office and English Chapels in 

 Scotland. A Letter by the Rt. Rev. Richard Mant, late 

 Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. 



Church of England Offices for the Sick. 



Catechetical Lessons on the Miracles of Our Lord, Parts 

 1. and 2.; being Parts 9. and 10. of The Catechetical 

 Series. 



Bishop Ken's Manual of Prayers for the Use of the 

 Scholars of Winchester College. 



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We are compelled to postpone until next week several communications 

 of great interest which are m type. 



M. A. Balliol. To " grin like a Cheshire cat." See our 1st S. li. 377. 

 412. ; V. 402. 



K. H. S. (Cambridge"). Pornt/'s Heraldry. It has been highly com- 

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