ART. VII.-Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. By S. Baring- - VIII.-1. New America. By William Hepworth Dixon. 2 vols. 2. Across the Continent: a Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax. By Samuel Bowles, 3. A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, by Jules Rémy and Julius Brenchley, M.A.; with a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on the Religious Movement in the United States. By Jules Rémy. 2 vols. London, 5. A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter- Day Saints (commonly called Mormons), including an Account of their Doctrine and Discipline, with the Reason of the Author for leaving the said 7, 8. The City of the Mormons, or Three Days in Nauvoo in 1842; and, the Prophet of the Nineteenth Cen- tury, or the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the 9. Mormonism and the Mormons: a Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Sect self-styled 10. The Mormons: a Discourse delivered before the Page 429 11. The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, a Contemporary History. Edited by Charles Mackay. London, 1851. 4th edition. London, 1856. 12. Utah and the Mormons. The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter- Day Saints. From Personal Observation during a Six Months' Residence at Great Salt Lake City. By Benjamin G. Ferris, late Secretary of Utah Territory. 13. Mormonism Unveiled, or a History of Mormonism to the Present Time. London, 1855. 14. Geschichte der Mormonen, oder Jüngsten-Tages- Heiligen, in Nordamerika. Von Theodor Olshausen, 15. Fifteen Years among the Mormons; being the narra- tive of Mrs. Mary E. V. Smith, late of Great Salt Lake City, a Sister of one of the Mormon High Priests. By N. W. Green. New York, 1858. 2. Table of the Statutes passed in the First Session of the Nineteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom 3. The Standing Orders of the House of Commons. 4. The Standing Orders of the House of Lords. 1867. 5. 'Gardner v. the London, Chatham, and Dover ART. XI.-1. Parliamentary Reform. A series of Speeches on that 2. Speeches on Parliamentary Reform in 1866. By the 3. Speeches and Letters on Reform, with a Preface. By 4. Speeches on Parliamentary Reform, &c. By John 5. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.' 3rd Series - Page 541 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-1. Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, consisting of unpublished Letters, with Sketches of his Companions. Serjeant Talfourd. London, 1848. A By 2. Charles Lamb; a Memoir. By Barry Cornwall. London, 1866. MONG the modes of expression by which philosophers have sought to classify the divisions of our species, the nickname is obviously the most convenient. It condenses the tediousness of description into the tersest compactness of epigram; and finds ready acceptance with the facile ill-nature which the learned Huet assures us is the prevalent characteristic of an intelligent public. According to that venerable authority, there is nothing which men in polite society enjoy more than unflattering representations of their fellow-creatures. This, he asserts, is the main reason why Tacitus is so popular with scholarsdispleasing likenesses of humanity being especially pleasant to the cultivators of humane letters. To a certain set of writers who flourished at the earlier part of this brilliant century, and who were supposed to live in close intercourse with each other, and to have many attributes of mannerism in common, one of the wits of Edinburgh applied the unalluring denomination of the Cockney School. It was a name sufficiently significant of ridicule to frighten away bashful admirers, and had just so much of that kind of one-sided justice which belongs to satire, as not to seem to the ordinary public an unfair definition. We know not how it is that among civilized nations England stands alone in imputing to that development of the national intellect more peculiarly metropolitan, the defective liberality, whether in the culture of letters or in the survey of men and manners which in other countries is rather ascribed to the denizens of provinces. Cicero finds a want of urbanitas,' in those writers who lived remote from the Roman capital, and narrowed their views of the world to the limited range of a coterie. It is praise to a French author to say that on life and manners he writes like a thoroughbred Parisian; it is the reverse of praise to an English author on such subjects to say that he writes like a Vol. 122.-No. 243. thoroughbred B |