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NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

THE announcements of books to be published during the
coming season are not as yet very numerous, nor are they
likely to be so till towards the end of this month. The fol-
lowing are the more important of those already put forth.

Mr. MURRAY announces a "Life of the Right Hon.

William Pitt, with Extracts from his unpublished Correspon-

dence and MSS. Papers," by Earl STANHOPE (Lord

MAHON); "The Diary and Correspondence of Charles

Abbott, Lord Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons

from 1802 to 1817," edited by his Son, the present Lord

COLCHESTER ; "The United Netherlands, from the Death

of William the Silent to the Death of Oden Barneveld, with

a Special View of the English-Dutch Struggle against

Spain, and a Detailed History of the Origin and Destruction

of the Spanish Armada," by Mr. JOHN LOWTHROP MOTLEY,

author of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic;" "A History of

the Two Years' War in the Crimea, based chiefly upon the

Private Papers and Correspondence of the late Field-Marshal

Lord Raglan, and other Authentic Materials, aided by Per-

sonal Observations of some of the Early Operations of the

War," by Mr. A. W. KINGLAKE, M.P., author of "Eöthen;"

the Sixth Volume of "Supplementary Despatches of the

Duke of Wellington," edited by his Son; "A New Bio-

graphia Britannica," being a Series of Lives of Illustrious

Englishmen,-suggested, in all probability, by a recent

article in the Saturday Review; "The Sleeping Bard; or,

Visions of the World, Death, and Hell, translated from the

Cambrian British of Elis Wyn," by Mr. GEORGE BORROW,

author of "The Bible in Spain," "Lavengro," etc.; "The

Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift," preceded by a

Life of Swift, by Mr. JOHN FORSTER; "The Life of Sir

Joshua Reynolds, with Notices of Hogarth, Wilson, Gains-

borough, and other Artists, his Contemporaries," by the late

Mr. C. R. LESLIE, R.A.; "The Works of Alexander Pope,"

described as An Entirely New Library Edition, the Text

carefully Revised, with a New Life, and more than Three

Hundred Unpublished Letters, preceded by a Critical Essay

on Pope and his former Editors;" "Francis Bacon; his Life

and Character," by Mr. HEPWORTH DIXON, the biographer

of Penn and Howard, and the present editor of the Athenæum ;

"The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient World, or the

History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria,

Babylonia, Media, and Persia; drawn chiefly from Native

Records, and illustrating the various notices of those

Countries in Holy Scripture," by the Rev. GEORGE RAW-

LINSON, M.A.; "The English Cathedral in the Nineteenth

Century," by Mr. A. J. BERESFORD HOPE;

"Oliver

Cromwell, Daniel De Foe, Sir Richard Steele, Charles

Churchill, and Samuel Foote," being a series of Biographical

Essays by Mr. JOHN FORSTER; and "Lectures on the His-

tory of the Eastern Church," by the Rev. A. P. STANLEY, the

biographer of Arnold, and author of "Sinai and Palestine,"

etc.

Messrs. LONGMAN and Co.'s announcements include a new

"Historical and Chronological Encyclopædia," by Mr. B. B.

WOODWARD, the gentleman who has just been appointed to

the post of keeper of the library at Windsor Castle; "Political

Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," col-

lected and annotated by Mr. W. W. WILKINS; "A History of

Constitutional and Legislative Progress in England since the

Accession of George III.," by Mr. THOMAS ERSKINE MAY,

of the Middle Temple, author of "A Practical Treatise on

the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usages, of the House

of Commons;" "The Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the

Counties of Devon and Somerset," by Mr. CHARLES PALK

COLLYNS, of Dulverton; "Air and Water, as Sanitary and

Industrial Agents," by Dr. R. ANGUS SMITH, F.R.S; "Nar-

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Rupert's Land, from Lake Superior to near the foot of the

Rocky Mountains," by Mr. HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A., the

conductor of the expedition for the exploration of Rupert's

Land which was despatched by the Canadian Government in

1857 and 1858; and, "The Autobiography of Mrs. Piozzi,

author of 'Anecdotes of Johnson,' with a Collection of her

Letters." This autobiography has been in the possession of

the family of the late Sir JAMES FELLOWS, Mrs. Piozzi's

physician, since 1821, the year in which she died.

Messrs. SMITH, ELDER, and Co. announce "Turkish Life

and Character," by Mr. WALTER THORNBURY, author of
"Life in Spain;" "Shakspeare and his Birthplace," by Mr.
JOHN R. WISE; the concluding volumes of the well-known
"Life of Mahomet," by Mr. WILLIAM MUIR; the concluding
volumes of Mr. CAREW HAZLITT'S "History of the Venetian
Republic;" "Ethica, or the Characteristics of Men, Manners,
and Books," by Mr. ARTHUR LLOYD WINDSOR ; and "Stories
in Verse," being a second series of "Homely Ballads" by
Mrs. SEWELL. Mr. BENTLEY announces "A History of
English Literature, Critical and Anecdotical;"
English Satirists, from Hall to Byron;" and the Second and
Concluding Volume of Lord DUNDONALD'S Autobiography.
Messrs. SAUNDERS and OTLEY have in the press the Second

"The

and Concluding Volume of the Autobiography of Dr. WOLFF; do not wish to be made public, and who help to libel and oppress, -even to plunder within the bounds of the law, any victim of Messrs. W. H. ALLEN and Co. announce "The Russians at British and foreign jesuits who dares to unmask “ secret policy" Home," by Mr. H. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS, and "A History plots in order to save Protestant England from the Catholic limbo of Chess," by Dr. FORBES; and Messrs. GROOMBRIDGE and her foes have prepared for her, yet I resolve once more to try SONS are about to publish another volume by Mr. JOHN if you will prove an exception to the aforesaid editorial foes of the HOLLINGSHEAD, author of "Under Bow Bells." Mr. HoL-liberty of utterance and the press, of which they palm themselves

LINGSHEAD's new volume will be entitled "Odd Journeys In and Out of London." It is a reprint of papers from Household Words and All the Year Round, and is said to include accounts of "journeys by all kinds of conveyances, from a locomotive to a canal boat."

WE willingly render what help we can to the Stratford-uponAvon Shakspeare Committee, by publishing in this place their advertisement, which runs as follows:

SHAKSPEARE'S HOUSE.-In the year 1848, in consequence of the ready help vouchsafed to them by a generous public, the Shakspeare Committee at Stratford-upon-Avon were enabled to purchase the house in which their illustrious townsman was born. In the year 1856, its dilapidated condition having rendered its reparation essential, the late John Shakespear, of Worthington, Leicestershire, in promotion of this object, deposited in the hands of the Committee the sum of £2,500, which was expended, under his direction, in the purchase and removal of the adjoining premises, to prevent risk of fire, and towards the restoration of the house. In the same year, by his will, dated 17th November, he bequeathed a further sum of £2,500 to the same Committee, to enable them (among other things) to form a museum at Shak. speare's house for the reception of Shakspearian relics (which sum he directed should be paid before any other legacies), together with an annuity of £60 for the maintenance of a custodian, which he charged upon his Langley Priory Estate.

Assured by high legal sanction of the validity of the bequest, and relying on the funds they supposed secured to them, the Committee, under the auspices of a distinguished architect, continued the work which they knew the testator to have had so much at

heart, and thereby contracted a considerable debt.

The Court of Chancery, in a suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining a judicial decision upon the construction of the will, with great regret pronounced the bequest void for uncertainty, and the annuity invalid under the Mortmain Act, and thus the well-known intention of their benefactor was frustrated.

The Committee, thus unexpectedly involved in debt, have no alternative but to APPEAL to those who, grateful for the inheritance Shakspeare has left them in his writings, can sympathize with

the Committee in their difficulties, and in their desire to

carry

out the laudable intentions of the testator, who so fully evinced his appreciation of the honour of inheriting the name of Shakspcare.

Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard-street, London; at the Old Bank, Stratford-upon-Avon; by Mr. John S. Leaver, Secretary; or at Shakspeare's House, where a book is kept to record donations.

A SERIES of articles, founded upon the "Three Hundred Unpublished Letters" which are to appear in the new edition of Pope, mentioned above amongst Mr. MURRAY'S announcements, has been commenced in the Athenæum. The first article of this series discusses a long-disputed question, "seriously affecting the moral character of the poet," namely, the question as to whether or not he first satirised the Duchess of Marlborough in the "character of ATOSSA," and then received a thousand pounds from her grace to suppress the satire. The writer in the Athenæum brings a verdict of "Not Guilty," and establishes that it was not the Duchess of MARLBOROUGH, but the Duchess of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, that "ATOSSA was meant for.

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upon the world as the champions. I can furnish facts to corroborate the above positive charges; now I must confine myself to the subject in question.

The practicability of the Aerial Navigation has been solved by me in 1845. From those quarters, to whom I have communicated the realization of this long-wished for locomotion, I have experienced nought but most contemptible opposition, carried on in an indirect way. To pay for giving publicity to what I considered to be for public good, and above all, for the safety of Protestant England,-in case of the contemplated and well-schemed aggression now gleaming in the future,-this I deemed not to be com patible with my views of the duty of truly English and patriotic editors. I resolved to abide my time, and to preserve my invention for the honour and benefit of my own native country. On reading the reports about the intended "aerial crossing of the Atlantic" by an American professor, I replied to that gentleman through the editor of the New York Times, telling him of my suc cess, and detailing my reasons which precluded the possibility of his achieving his aims. They must have been conclusive, as since that time nothing was heard about this matter. Scores of to facilitate the search after Sir John and the discovery of the times I took up my pen to write to Lady Franklin on this subject, northern passage, but as often I laid it down, owing to the annoyance and discouragement I had experienced formerly. During "the panic," effected by diplomatists to feel the pulse of John Bull, and now during the parliamentary discussions "on national defences and erection of strongholds," I often wished to draw public attention to the services which an aerial ship could render to this country, in case of an attack from the continental friends hence the most dastardly persecutions. and allies of British jesuits; yet I desisted, from fear of indirect,

tance of a rifle range. There are means with which even another

My

Fortifications are certainly useful for keeping in submission the natives, as is the case in all continental countries swayed over by imperial terrorists,-but they can never prevent invasions nor subjugation of the whole country, especially where native dunces, entrapped by political visions and religious vagaries into imperial snares, are prepared to abet the alien focs, who assume the mask of friends and liberators, to deceive the better. Imperial brutes and Catholic sanfedists, who swear to butcher all non-imperialista and non-Catholics, cither "for glory," the glory of murder, or for the preservation of priestly enormities, forgeries, and corruption, may be kept aloof from this island without raising unnecessary, and to people's liberty dangerous, fortifications. Every hedge, wall, ditch, hill, river, wood, barn, and house, can be transformed into a stronghold, which no imperial army could ever invest, because of its capabilities of advancing or retiring according to emergencies, always keeping the foc at the disCatholic armada may be easily forced to the bottom of the sea, either in its own harbour, or on its way to these shores. "Aerial Orb" is one of these means. As "Old England" has been the bulwark of tyranny, ignorance, and priestcraft, so Protestant England is the bulwark of Christian institutions, moral liberty, and justice. To preserve this bulwark from the ruin which British and foreign jesuits have prepared for it since 1835, this is the duty of every truly Christian and just man, no matter to what country he may belong. Such is the reason why I have steadfastly resisted to disgrace myself by accepting wealth, dignities, copower, which await me even now, more than ever, in the camp of the foes of Protestant England, hence the foes of mankind at large. This is the very reason why I now, at the eleventh hour, try to proclaim publicly my readiness of undertaking to counteract the already ripe plots of England's foes, and to defend her Protestant throne and institutions from all invasions without asking for personal remuneration, without squandering millions of public money in those ramparts of despotism,-fortifications. The five millions which will be required to secure actually a lasting peace, by removing the causes of bloodshed, rapine, revolutions, and incursions, I will charge myself to re-imburse with contributions from the then grateful nations of the continent. It must be understood, that only under certain Christian conditions, calculated to promote truth and justice, I can be induced to aid in carrying out my proposals.

Now to the "Orb." M. Dueros, a French aeronaut of great experience, in his last report to the Academy of Science, declares, "That unless the car were placed in the centre of the machine the problem shall not be solved. This once done, we will be then in the same position as boats upon water." I have solved this problem fifteen years ago, I repeat. I begin my operations by constructing and equipping the boat or car with the utmost attention to its centre of gravity, on the most minute exactness of which depends the possibility of navigation. Next, I do the rest; and, in God's

name, "up and go a head." With this " Orb" (so called) and two hundred thousand riflemen, all imperial foes of Protestant England will be kept at bay, or soundly thrashed, and, if needs be, destroyed, should they venture to leave their gory lair for this

THE LATE ROBERT B. BROUGH. BY JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, AUTHOR OF "UNDER BOW BELLS," "ODD JOURNEYS ABOUT LONDON," ETC.

land, which, for the sake of its own existence and happiness, FEW things contain so much falsehood, or do so much harm,

must become in fact what its leaders and masses assume that it is at present. X. 2.

Derby, August, 1860.

May we whisper in our correspondent's ear a gentle doubt as to whether he is quite correct in attributing to the motives set forth in his letter the refusals of various editors of newspapers to publish elsewhere than in their advertising columns the announcements which he seems to have sent to them of the discovery which he believes he has made? If an editor refuses to believe, on the bare assertion of a correspondent who is entirely unknown to him, and of the soundness of whose judgment he can, therefore, have no knowledge, that the said correspondent has discovered the means of effecting what the Times has declared would be the only wonder that could astonish us in these days,-a marvel which men in all ages have sought to accomplish, but which has baffled the ingenuity of the whole human race till now,-surely the hypothesis of the editor's being an ally of "despots, jesuits," etc., is not the only one on which the refusal can be accounted for. If, instead of mere assertions respecting the value of his plans, our correspondent would send a description of them, he may rest assured that every editor to whom they might seem at all practicable would be eager to give them publicity. He will find that this is the method adopted by the contributor of the article on this subject which is crowded out of our present number, but will appear in our next.

We have recently stumbled across one of the strangest volumes of verse ever written. It is called Songs of Satan, and is described as being "a brief history of temptation-combats and interviews with demoniacal spirits; containing also a series of lyrical and dramatic poems, embodying the faith and philosophy taught by the evil spirits, and laying open various methods by which they delude the human mind." Most of the pieces in this singular volume are parodies of previous compositions. Here is one,-a parody of the wellknown song in The Bohemian Girl:

"I dreamt that I dwelt in fiery halls,
With a serpent by my side;
She wound me in her venomed coils,
I had a demon bride.

She spoke with lips like snakes that stung,
And breath of poisoned flame,-

You ruined me when my heart was young,
But I love you all the same.

"My heart is now an adder's lair,
My body turned to mould,

I sit alone in dark despair
Within the devil's fold.

For you I drank the cup of doom,
The harlot's sinful shame,

Come, clasp me in our fiery tomb,
For I love you all the same.
"We drank of passion's cup, alas!

And reap what we have sown;
And see in hell's huge looking-glass
What beauties we have grown.
You are the corpse of manhood now,
In spite of all your fame;

But, foul deceiver, hear my vow,

I love you all the same.

"I'll make your heart my dressing-gown,
And on it I will sit;

And, like a rat, your soul I'll drown

In hell's unfathomed pit.

Take back, take back those fires of lust,
In wreaths of snaky flame,

I spit on thee, thou devil's dust,

But I love you all the same.""

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as clever sayings. They deceive the mind by jingling in the car, and so cause antithesis to be taken for wisdom. They prove nothing, except that their authors have a certain com. mand of words, and the power of placing these words in the most glittering position.

Charles Lamb has given us much for which we are grateful, but he has saddled us, at the same time, with one false and misleading saying. In writing to Bernard Barton,-a pleasing, but feeble poet, who had consulted him about leaving a banking-house desk to start as a professional author,— he said, "Literature is a very bad crutch, but a very good walking-stick." This phrase has been echoed and re-echoed, until it has passed into a proverb. It is small, compact, and nicely balanced. The weakest memory can hold it without trouble. It is taken as containing the life-long experience of Charles Lamb the author, although it was written by Charles Lamb the city clerk. The occasional essayist, who never threw away the corks,-who never struck out to sink or swim in the business of literature,-is giving an opinion upon the trade of authorship forty years ago, and this opinion is held to apply to the present hour. No account is taken of our great and growing periodical press,-of shoals of weekly magazines, which now stand in the place of the old "monthlies" and "quarterlies,"-of a list of newspapers in the United Kingdom which numbers between ten and eleven hundred, and of a metropolis supplied with at least two dozen merely parochial organs. No account is taken of those daily increasing trade journals, price lists, shop circulars, call them by what name you will, whose managers allow no question of money to interfere in engaging the scientific literary talent they think necessary for their pages. This altered condition of things must be familiar to scores of working authors, and yet the old crutch and walking-stick antithesis is still quoted, as if "Grub-street" had not changed since the days of Richard Savage.

ness.

The late Robert B. Brough, the subject of our paper, has often been pointed at to prove that literature is a bad busi. In moments of ill-health and dejection he would point at himself; and his death, with the circumstances connected with it, may give another excuse for pointing. He died insolvent, without mincing words, as thousands of doctors, lawyers, and tradesmen have died before him. He has left a wife and three young children totally unprovided for, as thousands of great merchants, statesmen, and generals have left their families before him. The author with his little debts and his puny indiscretions is not alone in the world; there are plenty of respectable people to keep him company. In going over the few points in the life of the late R. B. Brough, and reading them by the light of his character and constitution, it can easily be shown that the trade of literature was his best "crutch," and that he would have broken down years ago if he had selected any other.

He was born in London some time during 1828, and he died in Manchester, on his road to North Wales, on the 26th of June, 1860. Though only thirty-two years of age, he looked, at least, ten years older. His constitution was radically bad at starting; he took no pains to preserve or improve it, and was always suffering from a variety of internal complaints that only doctors can name. The stomach makes the man, and Robert Brough had a faulty stomach. This was at once his misfortune and his excuse. Many broken appointments, much work left unfinished, loose arrangements with certain publishers, and even ill-digested plots of novels, may be referred to this cause. A want of health is the great weakener of moral principle.

Much of his early life, up to the age of fifteen, was spent amongst the coal-miners of Pembroke. From Wales he was transplanted to Manchester, where he entered a corn-factor's office, and tried to become a clerk. This position was soon given up, and he accepted a situation in a print warehouse. He showed no aptitude for business, either in the countinghouse or the sale-room, and if he had chosen commerce for his "crutch" he would hardly have earned a bare living.

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