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His father was concerns of others, or of making out independSir John Stanley, of Alderley, and his eldest ent pursuits of our own-a superior stamp of brother became afterwards Lord Stanley, of do fulfill their vocation in any of these senses, mind not easily suited. And when single women No. 2. Alderley. Edward Stanley may be described their duties are as arduous and important as any rather as a persevering and steadily-rising being in some degree more voluntary. To the married woman's, and involve the more merit as man than as a remarkable one. His dis- highly gifted minds there is the enjoyment of courses were able and good, though not leisure for improvement, and devotion to intelabove the average; and the interest which and from close connection with what has a right lectual pursuits; freedom from domestic cares, 19 his high family connections afforded him to clog every exercise. . . . In those whose ex20 may possibly have had as much to do with cellences lie in the heart and disposition, there is something very beautiful in the unselfishness 21 his appointment to the see of Norwich as which devotes itself to the general good of the his personal and intellectual capacity for whole without a personal property in it. SONNETS TO ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. Paul WORLD BIOGRAPHIES. Rose Porter TABLE-TALK. Humboldt and Bayard Taylor BOOK BUYING THIRTY YEARS AGO. Justin Winsor NEWS AND NOTES NEW PUBLICATIONS CONTENTS OF THE PERIODICALS 19 20 22 22 that post. In our opinion, the most inter 23 The little memoir, as a whole, is much to 23 esting portion of the volume is that relating be commended, and will take a distinguished 23 23 23 to his wife, whose maiden name was Cath-place among the books of the present season. erine Leycester, and whom he married in MEMOIRS OF THE STANLEYS.* IT T is almost a pity that Dean Stanley did not publish this memoir of his parents several months age; for, coming after the Memoir of the Taits, which has been so universally welcomed and read, this biography excites less interest than it would otherwise have done. However, it will not fail to find its readers and admirers in the clerical world, as well as in social circles of almost all classes; for many remember with affection the late Bishop of Norwich, Edward Stanley, and his talented and influential wife, and are unwilling that their memories should pass into oblivion. VARIETIES OF CHARACTER. ... MABERLY'S PRINT COLLECTOR.* THE fashion of print-collecting was prob ably more in vogue during the last generation than it is in the present, though the price of old and rare prints has steadily increased and has never been so high as at this moment. With the assistance of science, modern short-hand and cheap processes of reproducing works of art have tended to supplant the laborious processes of skillful handiwork which in the old time elevated engraving to a high rank among the fine arts and made its masters famous. It is at this point that the modern spirit wages most successful war against the development of art; but the revival of interest in the graving tools and their work which is now promised, especially in the department of etching with the dry point and with acids, may soon turn the scales and give better trade to the print-shops. Nobody believes in another person's experience. There is a prejudice conceived on a first superficial glance of people and circumstances, which nothing but your own observation can correct; and then you look back with wonder to 28 recover the trace of why you thought so. People 28 are so proud of penetration, of detecting char29 acter at a coup d'ail that they seem to forget 29 how many little details go to form anything like a just estimate. It seldom happens that, when a violent like or dislike is conceived on first acquaintance, further knowledge will not qualify the one or soften the other, till sometimes the balance of liking is not only modified, but entirely changed. Then again there is a great difference in the use we are to make of people which has greater need of guidance than There is no craze for collecting, however, their relative position with regard to us; such a one is dull as an acquaintance, disagreeable in this which deals with the contents of old general society, unattractive in casual inter-portfolios. Our fathers were set upon the course; but, on the other hand, has got those daily life, and vice versa. The question of how Adam Bartsch, Wm. Young Ottley, Joseph lovable qualities which make the comfort of right track by the exhaustive labors of you like a person should be answered not by a Strutt, the Rev. Mr. Gilpin, and divers single negative or affirmative-"very much," or "not at all"— but by defining how, in what way, we like or not-as what and for what. Many nés, covering the history of engraving and enother patient compilers of catalogues raisonmistakes might be saved thus; many might come mistake because they confound terms, and talk practical service than J. Maberly, whose to a right understanding who are only under a gravers. Among these, none rendered more of the quantity of liking, when they ought to elegant little treatise on print collecting define the quality of it. For instance, I like A has become so scarce as to be practically to live with constantly; B as my companion at dinner; C as a companion in a walk; D to be inaccessible. This book embraced an exmerry with; E to be grave with; F to consult; cellent and readable résumé of knowledge G to look at; H to listen to; K to listen to me; L to call out my mind; M to do my heart good, on this subject, together with copious references to authorities sufficient to open the whole subject to the student whose means, taste, and leisure happily combined to render the quest and care of old prints a matter of interest and importance. His more modern A single woman's character has often very successor may now enjoy the same and great beauties. There are often many interest- greater advantages in the first American ing points involved in the very circumstance of edition of this precise and garrulous antibeing single (supposing any degree of attraction appointment, and some touching history; a cer- Hoe, Jr., and elegantly published with eight to exist): there is the probability of early dis- quary, enlarged with useful notes by Robert tain degree of fastidiousness, and delicacy of character which has rejected common offers from a high feeling of what was necessary in Edited suitability; an absence of all the vulgar wish to West-be married anyhow; a power of self-occupation and amusement, of interesting one's self in the Edward Stanley's youth was characterized by a passion for the navy, which, in spite of the opposite calling that his circumstances led him to adopt, followed him through life; much as a similar unsatisfied enthusiasm for the army is known to have been entertained by the celebrated preacher, Frederick Robertson, of Brighton, whose career Mr. Stopford Brooke has so nobly portrayed in a work which finds its place in most American and English households. The late Bishop of Norwich was born in 1779, and, after going through the ordinary course of college training, succeeded to the family * Memoirs of Edward and Catherine Stanley. by their son, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of minster. London: Murray. 95. etc. We feel inclined to make many more extracts, but we must conclude with a few words of Mrs. Stanley's on the subject of SINGLE WOMEN. *The Print Collector. By J. Maberly. With an Ap pendix containing Fielding's Treatise on the Practice of Engraving. Edited, with notes, by Robert Hoe, Jr. Dodd, Mead & Co. $6.00. |