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Theology In Nature. The Natural History ...
Even the common people took to gay-toloared dresses as before ; and a freedom of sp irits , rendered familiar by early recollection , and only half subdued by Presby terian persecution , was confirmed by a licence of tongue which the young men about court had acquired while in exile with their sovereign . " Not the Ifeasfc striking effect of the restoration of the King was the revival of the English theatres . They had been closed and the players silenced for three-and-twenty years , and in that space a new generation had arisen , to whom the entertainments of the stage were known but by name . The theatres were now re-opened ; and with every advantage which stage properties , new and improved scenery , and the costliest dresses , could lend , to help them forward . But there were other advantages equally ; new , and of still greater importance , but for which the name of Eleanor Gwyn would , in all likelihood never have reached us .
" From the earliest epoch of the stage in England till the theatres were silenced at the outbreak of the Givil War , female characters had invariably been played by men , and during the same brilliant period of our dramatic history there is but one instance of a sovereign witnessing a performance at a public theatre . Henrietta Maria , though so great a fevourer of theatrical exhibitions , was present once , and once only , at the theatre In the Blackfriars . The plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jooson , ' * Which so did take Eliza and our James , ' were invariably seen by those sovereigns , as afterwards by Charles I ., in the halls , banqueting houses , and cockpits attached to their palaces . With the Restoration came women on the stage , and the King and Queen , the Dukes of York and Buckingham , the chief courtiers , and the maids of honour , were among the constant frequenters of the public theatres . "
Kelly became an . actress , a pet of the town , and tie mistress of Lord Buckhurst ; the details of which , with much else that is curious , you must Beek in the volume before us , Here is one we will introduce for its piquancy : —• " The citizens of London were hated by the players . They had successfully opposed them in all their early attempts in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I . to erect a theatre within the , jurisdiction of the city ; and at no time had they ever encouragedthe drama by their presence . The poets and actors lived by the King and court , while they repaid their . opponents and gratified the courtiers by holding up every citissen as a . cuckold and a fool . So long was this feeling perpetuated on the stage ( it still lives in our literature ) , that Ghurick , in his endeavour to supplant the usual performance -of the ' London Cuckolds / on the 9 th of November ( Lord Mayor ' s day ) , was reduced to play first to a noisy and next to an empty house ;"
How she passed from Lord Buclchurst to the King is also told ; and the introduction of Charles upon the scene gives the author an occasion for sketching his character , and collecting together his , " sayings . " The orange-girl had become a mother- ^ -mother of the Duke of St . Albans , and her behaviour in this position has won unirersal praise . " There is no reason to suspect that either Nelly or Louise was ever unfaithful to the light-hearted King , or that Charles did not appreciate the fidelity of his mistresses . The people ( it was an age of confirmed immorality ) rather rejoiced than otherwise at their sovereign ' s loose and disorderly life . Nelly became the idol of ' the town / and was known far and near as the Protestant Mistress ; while Mrs . Carwell , or the Duchess of Portsmouth as she had now become , was hated by the
people , and was known , whereyer Nelly was known ; as the Popish Mistress . It is this contrast , of position which has given to Nell Gwyn much of the odd and particular favour connected with her name . Nelly was an English girl—of humble origin—a favourite actress—ra beauty , and a wit The Duchess was a foreignerof noble origin—with beauty certainly , but without wit ; and , worse still , sufficiently suspected to be little better than a pensioner from France , sent to enslave the English King and the English nation . " But the King died ; her reign ceased ; and in her thirty-eighth year this loving , joyous Welly died' of apoplexy . To Peter Cunningham's book we refer the curious reader . It is full ot agreeable antiquarian , prattle , and brings the period before us in a style seldom achieved by antiquaries . #
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The Suitors County Court Guide . By W . W . Charnock . C . Mitchell . We sincerely hope none of our readers will have any need of the information so clearl y and carefully compiled for them in this little Hand-book to the County Court ; but should they heed it , here it is , compact , clear , detailed , nmple . All necessary directions for the recovery of debts , damages , & c ., with the forms to be used , and the amounts of the fees ( ugly sound !) payable on such occasions . Mr . Charnock is a County Court Attorney , and teaches us how to do without him . The Emp 7 Mtio New Testament , according to the Authorized Version , comparedI with the various Headings of the Vatican MS . The Four Gospels . Edited , with an Essay on Greek Emphoste , by Joha Taylor , Author of ^»™ ^ fi . ^^ .
Although somewhat beyond our competence—our jurisdiction not extending to Theology When it traverses the limit of Philosophy—wo will not withho d our verdict on this extremely ingenious and curious work , wherein the sul ) tlo author ot Junius Identified , haa endeavoured to rostoro to the English text of the Gospels certain peculiarities of expression noticeable in the Greek text , which are not withont their significance as affecting the meaning of the text . In the execution of this design , Mr . Taylor hns undertaken a most laborious collation (/ texts ; and V the introductory essay he has enabled the unlearned reader to follow him on « is path . It is a curious book : to tho" theologian both a suggestive and useful book . Children ' s Books . . Addey and Co . ?* was « n excellent idea to bring out a collection of ^^^^ Zl *« shilling p « rt 8 , each part complete in itself ; and Messrs . Addey and Co . have £ ** to tVattmcfciveiLof their publication some humorous llmtmtions by Wehnert . The translation is new and good ; tho stories aro dohghttul .
Tho Picture Pleasure Book seems a mode of uaing up old plates m anew form ; dnldren , however , aro very glad to linger over these book *; a more interesting ** k i « that Jagorfne for chiton , The Cham , which , beside * » te pictures , contams B * orios and useful information .
The Two Book * of Francis Bacon : of the Profidence arid Advancement ofZearntng , Divine and Human . .. J . W . Parker and Son . Bacon ' s immortal treatise on the Advancement of Learning ' has here for the first tune been properly edited : the text is carefully collated , the numerous quotations which vary it have their precise reference added in foot-notes , and the contents of each page are indicated by headings . In Bacon ' s time it was thought sufficient to quotey without always indicating the source of the quotation ; the present editor has undertaken to , supply the deficiency . The volume , is compact , useful , and very cheap . A Stroll through the Diggings of California . By W . Kelly , Esq . ( The Bookcase . ) Simms and M'Intyre . Though forming a separate work in itsejf , this is really the continuation of Kelly ' s Ride Across the Mocky Mountains , and is perhaps the most interesting account of the Diggings that has yet been published . The Italian Captain : a Drama . E . S . Ebers and Co . Chambers ' * Pocket Miscellany . W . S . Orr and C (> . Blackiaood ' s Edinburgh Magazine . . W . Blackwqod and Son . Mr . Sponge ' s Sporting Tour . PartTI . Bradbury and Evans . Writings of Douglas Jerrold—Cakes and Ale . Parti . Punch Office . The Bookcase—A Stroll through the Diggings of California . By W . Kelly . Part IV . Simms and M'lhtyre . The Parlour Library—Forest Days . By G . P . K . James . Simma and M'lntjnre . Bentley ' 8 Miscellany . B . Bentley . A Theory of Population . By H . Spencer . John Chapman . Lawson ' Merchants' Magazine . R . Hastings . Witchcraft : a , Tragedy . By C . Mathews . David Bogue . The Seasoner . Part LXXIV . J . Watson . Fraser ' sMagazine . 3 . W . Parker and Son . The British ' Journal . Aylott and Jones . CoVburn ' s United Service Magazine . Colburn and Co . The Catacombs of Home . By C . Macfarlane . George Eontledge . A Life of Marlborough . By C . Macfarlane . George Routledee . The Biographical Magazine . Part VI , J . Passmore Edwards . Penny Maps . Part iSlI . Chapman and Hall . Tait's Edinburgh Magazine . Partridge and Oakey . The Charm . Part II . Addey and Co . The Valiant Little Tailor . Part II . Addey and Co . The Picture Pleasure Book . Part II . Addey andCo . Great Britain One Empire . By Captain M . H . Synge . J . W . Parker and Son . L \ fe of Napoleon Buonaparte . By W . Hazlitt . Vol . II ., Illustrated Library . The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs . Illustrated Library . Life of Gilbert Arnold . By S . Earle . »• Bentle y-Corneille and his Times . By M . Guizot . K . Bentley . Hungary in 1851 . By 0 . L . Brace . K . Bentley . Why do ' the Clergy avoid Discussion , and the Phitotophcrs diteountenance it ? By G . J . Holyoake . Vol . II . of the Cabinet of Reason . J- Watson .
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COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY . By G . H . Lewes . Part XI . —General considerations on Chemistry ; With Chemistry we enter iipon a science where the complexity of phenomena is greatly augmented , and where the nature of the phenomena are so sharply denned hy peculiarities as to seem the result of essentially different forces , although , profoundly considered , there is no further difference than the variety of direction of the forces * Physics treats of Masses acting ar sensible distances ; Chemistry of Molecules acting at insensible distances .
The Telescope and the Microscope are not more obviously separated , not more identical . Indeed , that conception of the German philosopher , which illustrates the chemical atom , by a sort of microscopic exaggeration , into the analogue of a planet , has deep meaning in it . He compares the atoms to the heavenly bodies , which are in truth but atoms in infinite space . Innumerable suns , with their planets and satellites , move at definite distances from each other , as the atoms of terrestrial masses do . The Methods in which these masses move , Science attempts to ascertain ; but in Astronomy we speak of Motion , in Chemistry of Combination : both are but Methods of the unknown unknowable Force , the variety of whose directions
constitutes the variety of all phenomena . I am only hinting here at a conception which hereafter will find its application ; and hint it that the reader may follow out this long chain of scientific evolution with some sense of continuity , and of the grand unity of Nature . Having done so , let me open Comtc ' s third volume , the first half of which is devoted to Chemistry . He commences by remarking how the science of Chemistry is less advanced in its progress and more wanting in positivism than the other
parts of inorganic physics . This is owing to its greater complexity , and to the fact that when the phenomena are intense in action they bear a striking resemblance to those of life , to which it is the very spirit of the Theological and Metaphysical philosophies to assimilate all phenomena . Chemistry labours also under this disadvantage , that a knowledge of its most important phenomena is only obtained by artificial means far from self-evident ; while those chemical phenomena spontaneously presented to observation , such us fermentation , are the most complicated , and the last in the science
to bo analyzed . And , first , as to its definition . The general character of its phenomena distinguishes Chemistry very distinctly from Physics and Physiology , between which it stands . A comparison of the three makes the real nature of this science very apparent . The ensemble of the three sciences can be conceived as having for its object the study of the molecular activity of matter in all the different modes of which it is susceptible . Now , under this point of view , each of them corresponds to one of the three principal and successive degrees of activity , which are distinguished from each other
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1852, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061852/page/19/
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