Another batch of these excellent periodic cals has reached us, and today we begin with the Quiver, because the November part is the first part of a new volume, and is the fore accompanied by a large coloured reproduction of Hunt's well-known Christ in the Temple, and contains in addition to the innumerable excellent black-and-white illustrations, a couple of pretty coloured Maid. As we have said before, the Quiver lates, Esther.and Haman, and The Captive is anything but all goody-goody. The present number opens with an instructive article on the Emperor's visit to Palestine, and there are very interesting articles on the House of Commons by Dean Farrar, "Homes of Noble Poverty," "The Colour. ed Jews," etc., etc,, while the fiction is excellent and very readable. The following extract is from the article on the " Homes of Noble Poverty"
Shortly after the commencement of his reign George III closed Hampton Court Palace as a royal residence, and from that ime private families commenced to occupy which a temperance column was a leading its innumerable rooms. These royal feature. Anyone who takes the trouble to squatters," as they have been called, at look over these early publications cannot first behaved in dou!.tful fashion. Many fail to be struck by the comprehensive and had been granted leave to stay fora few statesmanlike grip of the drink difficulty weeks, and quietly proceeded to make it a which they present. It was to John permanent residence. Worse still, they Cassell that Richard Cobden wrote in Seized additional rooms when they thought 1849:—"I don't know how it is that they could do so in safety, and sometimes I have never made the plunge and let them out at a substantial rent to their friends. News of these strange doings Doe the teetotallers. Nobody has more faith than I in the truth of your doctrine, was carried to the king, who became very both' from physical and moral point of angry, as an existing letter that he wrote view, for tye more work I have had to do shows to us. It was proclaimed that no the more have resorted to the pump and one would in future be allowed to occu suite of apartments save under the the teapot. As for the moral Bes ing of the question, it is scarcely an exaggeration Lord Chamberlain's warrant. Gradually the to say that all other reforms together would thousand rooms of the great building were fail to confer as great blessings upon the divided up into, firstly, the State apart-masses as that of weaning them from ments, and, secondly, fifty-three private intoxicating drinks." Cassell passed away suites, varying in size from ten to forty at the early age of forty-eight, on the 2nd chambers. At the present time these suite of April, 1863, on the same day us Cobden are granted, as a general rule, to the himself, whose friendship he had. enjoyed widows of men who have distinguished for nearly twenty years, themselves in the service of their country.
To no more worthy use could the Palace Work continues its educative career, and the experienced artisan may always learn been have placed; indeed, the tact and dis-something from it as well as the enthusias-crimination which been exhibited by our Queen and her advisers in the distribu-tic amateur who spends his leisure in making good material useless. The Notion of these benefits cannot be too highly vember part of the Saturday Journal is raised. About the royal pensioners of also the first part of a new volume, and for Inmpton Court many interesting and frontispiece it has reproduction of F. amusing stories are told. When debt Barnard's pathetic sketch of Little Nell brought imprisonment as its punishment, and her grandfather, Chattiness is the a certain gentleman retired to the rooms of a relation in the Palace, and claimed "note" of this periodical, but there is here and there an article with solid infor-the immunity of royal residence. The motion in it, and there are notes on well-bailiffs knew that they could not arrest known people, and stories, serial and short. him there, and hung about at the gates, while he took his daily exercise upon the The follo ing, headed Children Posing as Mysteries," is an example of the numerous roof. One day he incautiously ventured out shorter articles conveying amusement as and was arrested; but he escaped from his well as information enemies, swam the river, and got back into safety again. po rules supreme in "It is a curious fact," said a beard. the management of the royal buildings, as school master recently, " that-any number the pensioners know to their cost. Certain of school children suffer from a morbid windows, for instance, are never properly mania to be thought mysterious. A close cleaned, owing to the fact that the Woods association for several years with all ty] and Forests Department washes the out-of youngsters has made me perfectly well the Lord Steward's acquainted with this queer trait; and I Department the in As the two depart-may tell you that I believe the motive for ments rarely manage to do. their cleaning half the startling child-crimes which get on the same day, the windows are usually into papers from time to time to be simply in a state of semi-obscurity. To obtain the outcome of this youthful mania for the use of an old staircase that led from ing. About two years ago I had a case her rooms to the gardens, a Indy had to in point in my own school, A lad in one successively petition the Lord Chamberlain of the lower standards started to attract of Her Majesty's Household, the Lord attention to himself by coming every Mon-Steward and Board of Green Cloth, the First day morning in a different suit of clothes. Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works, 'As he was simply a poor little urchin off and, finally, the Woods and Forests the street,' so to speak, we were naturally curious a8 to how the mysterious change In the article headed Temperance of wardrobe was being effected; but the Notes and News," there is the following boy stubbornly refused to answer every: notice of Mr. John Cassell, the founder of question put to him. And small wonder! the great publishing house A fow months later we learned through In the story of tho.temperance reformathe police that he had been carrying tion the name of John Cassell will assuredly on a systematic series of petty thefts from ways hold an honoured place. At the nearly all the second-hand clothes-dealers 1 when he enlisted in the ranks—1835 in the town. It was proved that in the—as a youth of seventeen, the movement ordinary way the boy was quite honest, had few friends and many opponents. and that he came of thoroughly respectable Having once signed the "teetotal pledge," parents; but the temptation to mystify his Cassell never deserted, but, "on the con-teachers and the other boys in the school trary, became one of the most persuasive had been too much for him. Another advocates the cause has over He youngster in the Midlands carried out an itinerated through the length and breadth even more elaborate attempt to be thought of the land, and, under the name of mysterious. He appeared at school every "The Manchester Carpenter," gained a day in a complete disguise. Two or three large number of adherents, some of whom ood canings had no effect upon his love subsequently achieved great reputations as for masquerading: and a little later it was temperance leaders. Even before Cassell noticed that he became subject to fits of had settled down in London as a_pub-the most horrible facial contortions.. At lisher, he had learnt to value the printing, first it was. thought by the teachers that press as an aid to temperance work, anc these attacks were only feigned; but they not a few of the pamphlets, tracts, and soon proved to be real enough, and the broadsheets hich played such an import-contortions got gradually worse. "At last a ant part in the early days of the propago doctor who saw the boy declared thathe was suffering from temporary" pat initiative. \d-by he was in a position da owed their origin to his enterprising lysis of the facial "muscles; and then it to command his own printing machines, turned out that he had. been buying and and as early as March, 1846, he launched using a certain deadly drug which he had the Teetotal Times and Monthly Temperance read about in a halfpenny dreadful,' and Messenger, which was followed in July, which was supposed to be used.by all big
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