Tae Saturday Review has invented a new and delightful word. In the course of an article on the ethics of Mr. Bright with regard to war, entitled 'An Obsolete figure-head,' it speaks of the quality of "Brighteousness.' To understand exactly what this consists of it is necessary to read the paper itself, which is founded upon Mr. Bright's recent letter to the Rev. Mr. Rippon, a Wesleyan minister. With respect to the secession of Mr. Bright from the Cabinet the Saturday does not seem inconsolable. "Mr. Bright's familiar features and traditional broad-brimmed hat occupied, in the barque of the Liberal Government, that ornamental but not useful place assigned going vessels to Amphitrite or Arethusa, We all know the buxom, well-developed, wooden-featured ladies who keep a yood-humoured eye on all things from below the bowsprit. The figure-head does not wigating the vessel, though the superatitions Chinaman expects the painted eye on his junk to maintain a steady look-out. In the Government, then, Mr. Bright was the figure-head. Me did no work worth mentioning, but he looked well, and his presence typified the presence of Dissenting ideas, peacefulness at any price, love of American postastry, readiness to use Other popular qua-Now the presence is wil ems to weather the storm rather than it did before, and some timering radicals even hint that the dear old figttre-head was a Jonah, and that the voyage is safer since Mr. Bright went overboard." Ihe two literary events of the week are the decease of Frazer's Maya-zine and the retirement of Mr. John Morley from the editorial chair of the Furtnightly, Phe Saturday writes as follows upon the latter subject tors, inasmuch joed both of the the Fortnightly Review to lie on their tables, ith the result of being first disturbed by jar theories, and being afterwards gared by the profound polo, notices with graver amusement the restless Garly lose be deploree. Professor Clifford was pugnacity of a more serious inquirer, whose
Propagating the disbelief which he had so penetrated with a conviction of the duty of cepted for him a. Following closely the precedents of superstition, he gravely argued in favour of promiscuous Promulgation of mysteries, om the ground that reticence on such topics indicated a want of faith in humanity. Why it should be in-Gispensable to believe in so queer a deity Professor Clifford, in his youthful zeal, had perhaps not paused to inquire. Every person who suspects that some of his neighbours may possibly cheat him, or who even finds th conversation tedious, betrays a want of f in humanity.
Frazer is to be replaced by Longman's Siz-penny Magazine, the contributors to which are said to occupy a respectable rank in literature. Mr, Matthew Arnold's "new discovery" is a great godsend to all the weeklies. The public, remarks the Satiirday, is tired of sweetness and light, while culture is pretty nearly played out." What we are all in want of now—though we were not aware of our deficiency until Mr. Arnold told us of it—is "Incidity." Now everybody is in a great state of mind because he finds he is not lucid, All classes are trying to be lucid as hard as ever they can. Already there is a popular song, with the refrain, Lucidity, lucidity, Oh seek it with avidity." The Liverpool cotton-brokers are said to be particularly anxious to get lucidity, just as Caro-ian negroes are anxious to "get religion." Mr, Arnold thinks the Salvation Army sadly deficient in lucidity, one tittle of which would make the whole movement impossible. It is to be presumed, from an article which follows, that cocks are very richly endowed with this valuable charac teristic—much more so than hens, Thi is one of the brightest and most entertaining papera—' The Wisdom of Cocks'—that the Saturday has published for a long time, Mr. Knox's rather puerile and very incomplete article on Voltaire in the Nineteenth jooms to ha excised the critics, Vanity Fi " most brill its author a "slashing journalist.'
'Spectator says it reads exactly as if it had been written by a clever schoolboy, who had discovered that Voltaire was not the Evil One ina French dress, and hastened to inform his family of the fact. 'The World goes for' the Pall Mall critic very roundly, accusing hu of some of the same faults "he charges on Mr. Knox. Spectator has an article or the Recent History of Corea, in which there does not seem to be many misstatements, Tt has also a very lucid' paper headed 'Shakspeare on Death.' It has probably never occitrred to most people how very true to surgical science are the symptonis displayed. by the dying in Shakespeare's plays. Th poet always discrimi tween wounds which pierce the heart and those which low a few minut An authority is quoted as saying that "a rapid death by steel is almost painless. Sabre edge or point divides the nerves so nickly as to give little pain. A bullet lacerates." The writer ey so far as to deduce, from the context, the sort of poison from which some of the Shakespearean victims It is interesting to know that King John was poisoned by a corrosive irritant, probably mineral; Romeo by some form of hydrocyanic acid, such as laurel-water 5 Hamlet pere by yewjuice. The Spectator reviews Longfellow's posthumous volume, 'In the Harbor.' Two of the poems tracted show the poet at his best. Here is fine description of Oct.
jects are fruits; my garments O'er orchard: ede [pre Scorpion I ride, ull, and overflows Here are the concluding, Bells of San Blas. It is a pity the lin run so ruggedly "Oh bring us back once more The bands that Then from our tow We will and main command, lied kings who return To their thrones, and the people learn the Priest is lord of the Jand 1? O, Bells of Sau Blas, in vain Ye call back the Past ay Out of The world ig!
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