1829.] 



Domestic mid Foreign. 



457 



in Mary's reign, when he, in his turn, be- 

 came the victim of tyranny, six times re- 

 canting. The truth is, as one of the fathers 

 and founders of the Church of England, he 

 may command the admiration of blind 

 adherents; but, as a man of integrity, iirm- 

 ness, and disinterested views, he has no 

 claim to any independent man's approba- 

 tion. He must be regarded as one unscru- 

 pulously pursuing his interests and ambi- 

 tion. So often called u;ion, as he was, to 

 do what the common feelings of honour 

 must have told him were unjustifiable, he 

 yet, we find, chose to do them, rather than 

 renounce his honours. Yet this is a person 

 to be held up to admiration — " to give the 

 world assurance of a man !" 



To the reformers, generally, the world, 

 beyond all question, is largely indebted : 

 they taught men — but then tliat was not 

 their object, nor was it taught on principle 

 — to fling off the pressure of undue autlio- 

 rity, and make use of their own under- 

 standings. Though this was the effect, it 

 was not, we say, their object ; for while 

 they laboured at exposing to contempt and 

 scorn the infallibility of tlie pope, there was 

 scarcely one of them who was not disposed 

 to set up his own. M'hile contending for 

 the exercise of private judgment and the 

 eternal rights of conscience, in tlieir own case 

 an4 that of their steady followers, scarcely 

 one of them was prepared to allow the same 

 liberty to others. No ! the lives of the 

 reformers require still to be written in a 

 different tone, and their conduct measured 

 by another standard — the same as that of 

 other men. They were, for the most part, 

 vigoroas men — the natural leaders and in- 

 structors of their kind ; but their actions 

 require searching and sifting, before any ac- 

 curate deductions can be drawn from them, 

 and any useful examples be held up for our 

 instruction. 



The Female ServaiWs Adviser, or the 

 Service Inslruclor ; lii'2!) — Tliough the 

 specific services of the housekeeper, cook, 

 kitchen-maid, and maids of all sorts — 

 house, laundry, nursery, and lady's-maids — 

 are each of them separately glanced at, the 

 main object of the book is to instruct the 

 " maid of all work," wliose duties - God 

 help the poor girl — seem literally to com- 

 prise them all. .She nnist have more eyes 

 and hands than nature usually gives, and a 

 brain steatly enough to regulate an empire, 

 or a magazine. Not a moment can slie call 

 her own — every instant has its occupations, 

 from the time of lighting the kitchen-tire at 

 an early hour, to extinguishing it at a late 

 one. Nor, iw far as we can discern, is slie 

 expected to stop to cat and drink, and cer- 

 tainly engagements, enough and niore, are 

 found to leave her no time to do eitlier. 

 Any iMJor devil who honestly attempted to 

 get through the laliours inculcated as duties 

 in this managing book, nuist knock up in 

 a month ; but the truth in, not only arc 



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more imposed than can be performed, but 

 services are enforced, wliich, under the cir- 

 cumstances supposed, nobody actually could 

 ever dream of exacting. When one servant 

 is to do all, no state and ceremony can be 

 supported, and all directions which imply 

 them, are of course superfluous — muddhng 

 is inevitable. No doubt here are useful 

 hints enough, in matters both of skill and 

 arrangement; but these tilings are never 

 learned from books, and yet are as generally 

 known, as they are ever likely to be prac- 

 tised. Books, however, in our day, are to 

 do every thing — the system, at all events, 

 benefits the printers, if nobody else. 



With our fidl sense of the growing im- 

 portance of all matters of etiquette among 

 all classes of society, we ought not to with- 

 hold a little discovery — it is one at least to 

 us — we have made in this instructive book, 

 and the reader shall have it. 



Wlipre all the servanis dine toEPtlier (tliat is 

 where no second table is l^ept) they take tlieir 

 meal in the servants' hall. The hnusekeeprT sits 

 at the head, and the liutler at the liottom of the 

 talile, the cook and lady's-maid on the rijilit and 

 left of the honsekeepei', the umlei'-bnder and 

 coachman on the right and lelt of the hutler ; the 

 honse-maid next to the cook, and the kitchen- 

 maid next to the larty's-maiil — while the men-ser- 

 vants occupy the lower end of the tahle. (This 

 must mean the middle, but the inium is often the 

 medium, at least in the Latin.) The cook sets tlie 

 dinner upon the table, the under-butler draws the 

 beer, and the houskeeper carves. 



May v.e venture to suggest — the ladies 

 should sit next the butler, and the gentle- 

 men next the housekeeper ; sed ne sutor. 



Stenogiaphy, by W. TIardinr/ ; 182.9. — 

 A very neat little book, which, in about 

 thirty pages, comprises the principles of 

 Taylor's received system, and, in addition, 

 all the facilities which a long experience 

 has from time to time suggested. Taylor's: 

 work, it is known, presented no fixed mode 

 of marking the vowels — a defect which, a.s 

 well as some others, the constructor of the 

 present edition — wliich is to be regarded, it 

 seems, as a new one of Taylor's — has skil- 

 fully supplied. The principal additions 

 consist of several new and convenient pre- 

 fixes and terminations, and some useful 

 arbitraries, as the author calls them — that 

 is, arbitrary characters for words and 

 phrases. The writer has very wisely availed 

 liimself of the. suggestion of later writers, at 

 home and abroad. The preface furni.shes a 

 sketch of the history of tlie art, and a list of 

 luodeni. writers on the sul)ject, from the 

 days of Dr. Bright, in lafili, to the present, 

 amounting — " would heart of man believe 

 it ?" — to nearly, if not quite, a liundred. 

 Taylor's book costs a guinea, while this 

 may be had for a sixth of that olisolete coin. 

 Casteris paribus — the cheapest is best. 



The Last Supper, b\j the Author of the 

 " Moriiiiif/ and Kneniiu/ S/ii;i-i/!iu;" and 

 " Farcwellto Time ;" ItWO. — The elegant 



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