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Two Homes, by Author of Amy Grant, 3rd edit. fep. 8vo, 2s. 6d. cloth. THE REGISTER. APRIL 1, 1861. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. THE chief literary event which has occurred since our last issue is the publication of the fifth volume of the late Lord MACAULAY'S "History of England." To the account which will be found further on of this final portion of the most magnificent historical fragment ever written, we need only add here that the last hundred pages of this fifth volume are occupied by an elaborate index to the whole five volumes, which will be found of the utmost value to all who may have reason to consult them as books of reference. Fifteen thousand copies of the volume were subscribed for before the day of publication. The "Essays and Reviews" have passed through two more editions since our last, and are now selling faster than ever. By the time these lines reach the reader the sale will probably have exceeded 20,000 copies. The article upon them which appears in the current number of the Quarterly Review has caused a demand for three successive reprints of that number, which is thus now in its fourth edition. The Quarterly has often passed into second editions; but there is no other instance on record of either it or any other quarterly review having reached a fourth. Fired by this example, many of the weekly journals are trying to turn the excitement caused by the "Essays" to their own account, the most notable instance being that of the London Review, which announces seven supplements, each to consist of a reply to one of the essayists. It is notable, too, that advertisers seem to be of opinion that the surest means of attracting attention to their advertisements just now is to head them "Essays and Reviews." In a recent Times' advertisement sheet there were not fewer than a dozen advertisements so headed in one column. Of the pamphlets, etc., which the "Essays" have already drawn forth the name is legion; but only one publication of real importance, as a reply to the "Essays," has yet appeared, that being the Bishop of LONDON'S "Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology." Another, under the title of "Aids to Faith," will shortly be published by Mr. MURRAY. It will consist of a number of essays by the Rev. Professor ELLICOTT, the Rev. Professor MANSEL, the Rev. GEORGE RAWLINSON, the Rev. Provost of QUEEN'S, and other clergymen. full credit," says our contemporary, "for his rhymes, but the dramatis persona, the plot, the situations, the minute descriptions of scenery and feelings and objects, in the French prose and the English verse are identical." The following is a fair specimen of the parallel passages quoted in proof of this assertion: Lavinia, page 278. "Des rideaux de basin bien blanc recevaient l'ombre mouvante des sapins qui seconaient leurs chevelures noires au vent de la nuit, sous l'humide regard de la lune. De petits seaux de bois d'olivier verni etaient remplis des plus belles fleurs de la montagne. Lavinia avait cueilli elle-même, dans les plus désertes vallées, et sur les plus hautes cimes, ces bella-dones au sein vermeil, ces aconits au cimier d'azur, au calice vénéneux; ces silénes blanc et rose, dont les pétales sont si délicatement découpés; ces pales saponaires; ces clochettes si transparentes et plissées comme de la mousseline; ces valérianes de pourpre; toutes ces sauvages filles de la solitude, si embaumées et si fraiches, que le chamois craint de les flétrir en les effleurant en sa course, et que l'eau des sources inconnue au chasseur les couche à peine sous son flux nonchalant et silencieux." Lucile, page 70. "In the white curtains waver'd the delicate shade Of the heaving acacias in which the breeze played. O'er the smooth wooden floor, polish'd dark as a glass, Fragrant white Indian matting allow'd you to pass. In light olive baskets, by window and door, Some hung from the ceiling, some crowding the floor, Rich wild flowers, plucked by Lucile from the hill, Seem'd the room with their passionate presence to fill: Blue aconite, hid in white roses, reposed; The deep bella-donna its vermeil disclosed; And the frail saponaire, and the tender blue-bell, And the purple valerian-each child of the fell And the solitude flourish'd, fed fair from the source Of waters the huntsman scarce heeds in his course, Where the chamois and izard, with delicate hoof, Pause or flit through the pinnacled silence aloof." Well may another contemporary observe that "whatever may be the issue of the matter, there can be no doubt that if Mr. MEREDITH'S reputation as a poet be somewhat damaged by the affair, his consummate ability as a translator is abundantly proved by it." Mr. MEREDITH's new volume, "Serbski Pesme; or, National Songs of Servia," reaches us just as we are going to press,-too late for us to give any account of it this month. Mr. GERALD MASSEY'S HAVELOCK and other Poems" will probably appear before our next issue, and the new edition of Mr. ROBERT BROWNING'S "Sordello," said to be almost entirely re-written,-is expected very shortly. Mrs. BROWNING and Professor LONGFELLOW are both said to be engaged on new poems, and the Critic tells us that Mrs. BROWNING'S will be longer than "Aurora Leigh," and that Mr. LONGFELLOW tells his friends that his will surpass all his previous efforts. Other new works of importance announced since we last went to press are "Considerations on Representative Government," by Mr. J. STUART MILL; "The Political Life of the Earl of DERBY;" "Ten Weeks in Japan," by the Bishop of VICTORIA; "Ragged London," by Mr. JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, being a reprint of his recent remarkable letters to the Morning Post on the London poor, with important additions; a Life of Lord CASTLEREAGH," by A new tale by the authoress of "Paul Ferroll" is comSir ARCHIBALD ALISON; a "History of the Greek Revo-menced in the first number of the St. James's Magazine. lution," by Mr. GEORGE FINLAY; and "The English Cathe-Three other famous female novelists will shortly be in drals of the Nineteenth Century," by Mr. A. J. BERRESFORD the field again. Mrs. STOWE is to commence a new HOPE, M.P. story in the May number of the Atlantic Monthly; a new The rumour that Lord BROUGHAM is writing an autobiog- novel by Miss MULOCH is announced for early commenceraphy has been contradicted, upon authority. It is said that the correspondence of the late Mr. LEIGH HUNT is being collected, for publication, by his son, Mr. THORNTON HENT. The Literary Gazette has pointed out that a great part of Mr. OWEN MEREDITH'S poem, "Lucile," is nothing more nor less than a marvellously exact translation from GEORGE SAND'S "Lavinia." "We give Mr. MEREDITH ment in Good Words; and "Silas Marner, the Weaver of Ravenloe," being the new story by the authoress of " Adam Bede" to which we alluded last month, will be published to-morrow, in one volume, by Messrs. BLACKWOOD and SONS. The Morning Chronicle, once the most influential and important journal in the British Empire, has recently passed into the hands of Mr. STIFF, the proprietor of the REGISTER OF FACTS AND OCCURRENCES RELATING TO [APRIL, 1861, not long resist. The hand unwillingly put in the pocket, and the objecting face, tell the story capitally. London Journal, who, beginning with its issue of March Of the books issued since our last which are not noticed EMINENT LIVING ARTISTS.-MR. A. EGG. MR. AUGUSTUS EGG, R.A., was born in London, and descended from the celebrated family of gun-makers. whose name ranks with those of Manton, Purday, and Colt, and has long since acquired a European celebrity.Whether Mr. Egg inherits a mechanical skill and correct eye from this constructive family habit of mind, I do not know. It is sufficient for me to say that in 1838 Mr. Egg exhibited at the Academy, and that he was elected associate in 1818; and this fact of his election proves that the ten years that had elapsed from his first exhibited picture were no ill-spent. Mr. Egg seems at first not to have ventured much out of the conventional path of the Gil Blas and Don Quixote school, and to have followed in the steps of Smirke, Newton, and Leslie. A critic of 1856, in one of those partizan biographical collections that are published at certain intervals with loud flourishes of the Paternoster-row trumpets, calls Mr. Egg "a clever painter of scenic and humourous subjects." his fame. Five years have done much for We all know Mr. Egg now as a thoughtful painter, who is not without his deep tragic moments, though he is full of humour, and a practical comedian by instinet, as those who have seen him perform with Mr. Charles Dickens in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour well know. At first, before venturing on history, Mr. Egg tried his strength on Shakspearean comedy, and drew several scenes from Le Sage's Frenchified Spanish novels, and from the delightful memoir writers of the seventeenth century. In these experiments, the colouring is low toned, yet rich and solid, the drawing good, and the expression admirable; yet the manner was not original, and the subjects were hacknied. There is a very good example of Mr. Egg's early manner in the Vernon Gallery. It is a scene from that series of cynical tableaux which Le Sage entitled the Lame Devil. The painter has called his picture the Victim. gallant has been treating two Spanish courtezans to a supper much grander than he can afford; and now he is A green protesting to the landlord against the charges, which at the same time you see he cannot escape paying, and will nauseous because it is unvarying and unrelieved. He uses his pretty faces to tell a story, and where ugly faces Mr. Egg never tires us with a prettiness that becomes are needed he has the courage to introduce them. arrangers of the gallery of modern pictures. He (short and dark) might have been seen there leading in bands of At the Manchester Exhibition, Mr. Egg was one of the workmen, or balancing himself acrobatically on impossible and alpine flights of steps. He did his work with taste and energy. His own pictures were hung in, the most self-denying way. They struck every visitor as low-toned and sombre in effect, but solid and strong. Great sees Catherine, his future Empress, for the first time. In 1850, there appeared his great work, Peter the This was a very pure and admirable picture. It is a tent scene, and Catherine,-Catherine, the serving girl, the poor parson's daughter,—is bringing in a bottle of schnaps to Peter the Great, and her master, the aide-de-camp Menschikoff. The moment given is Peter's first glance of awakening love. Menschikoff already sees that he will force, that is perfectly incomparable. have to surrender his pretty Catherine. The uniforms and dresses are painted with a simple, manly, dramatic ill-chosen subjects of 1848-9,-Queen Elizabeth discovers This picture was thought a great advance on the rather bye, the great parsimonious queen never did make; and Henrietta Maria released by Cardinal de Retz. Technically, she is no longer young,-a discovery which, by-theit was better painted than its predecessors. more character, more truth, reality, and ease of action. It went far beyond the frontier of the old Smirke region. This was like a sentence of Macaulay, painted by a mind It had, too, Taylor, lavished very just praise on Mr. Egg's Music Lesson Scene, from the Taming of the Shrew. Bianca, he of large calibre. One of our best critics, Mr. Tom says truly, is so radiant with "lady-like good-humour." Mr. Egg has learnt the difficult art of painting ladies and gentlemen, and he has a keen eye for the graces and witcheries of society. We only wish he would plunge more boldly into modern life. more serious mind, Mr. Egg has great tragic power. intriguer of the Fronde, De Retz, Mr. Egg next took up ing Mr. Pepys, the Duke of York's humble friend, to steal But Mr. Egg's greatest efforts were his two pictures, |