OF - Page logique. Par Christian Bartholméss. Paris. 1850 . 291 2. Seven Sermons preached in the Chapel of Marlborough College. By George E. L. Cotton, M.A., Master of Marlborough College. London. 1855 III.-The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. With illustrations on steel and wood by Richard Doyle. 2 vols., 8vo. IV. Selections from the Family Papers preserved at Caldwell, V.-1. The Charities of London: comprehending the Benevo- 2. The Million-peopled City. By the Rev. J. Garwood. 3. The Rookeries of London. By Thomas Beames, M.A. Kingsmill. 6. The Sorrows of the Streets. By M. A. S. Barber. 1855. 7. The Hearths of the Poor. By M. A. S. Barber. 1852. 8. Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, prin- cipally among the Dens of London. By R. W. Van- derkiste, late London City Missionary. London. 1854. 9. Sought and Saved. A Prize Essay on Ragged Schools and kindred Institutions. By G. J. Hall, M.A. Lon- 10. Ragged Schools; their Rise, Progress, and Results. 11. Social Evils; their Causes and their Cure. By Alex- ander Thomson, Esq., of Banchory. London. 1852. · 350 378 13. Home Reform. By Henry Roberts, F.S.A. London. 14. London Labour and the London Poor. By Henry 15. The Ragged School Union Magazine. 16. The City Mission Magazine. 17. The Scripture Reader's Journal VI.-1. A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon, founded 2. A Copious and Critical Latin - English Lexicon, founded on the larger Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. William Freund; with Additions and Corrections from the Lexicons of Gesner, Facciolati, Scheller, Georges, &c. By E. A. Andrews, LL.D. New York, 1851; 3. A Latin-English Dictionary, based upon the Works of Forcellini and Freund. By William Smith, LL.D., Editor of the Dictionaries of Greek and Roman An- tiquities, Biography and Geography. London, 1855. 4. A Sinaller Latin-English Dictionary, abridged from VII.-1. Euvres de François Arago, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences, publiées d'après son ordre sous la direction de M. J. A. Barral.-Notices Biogra- phiques. 3 vols. Paris, 1854-1855. 2. The Works of Henry, Lord Brougham. Lives of Philo- VIII.-Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. - 407 ART. III.-The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. With illustrations on steel and wood by Richard Doyle. 2 vols., 8vo., London, 1855. THIS is Mr. Thackeray's masterpiece, as it is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English fiction, if fiction is the proper term to apply to the most minute and faithful transcript of actual life which is anywhere to be found. The ordinary resource of novelists is to describe characters under exceptional circumstances, to show them influenced by passions which seldom operate in their excess with each individual, and to make them actors in adventures which in their aggregate happen to few or none. It is the picked passages of existence which they represent, and these again are often magnified and coloured beyond the measure of nature. Mr. Thackeray looks at life under its ordinary aspects, and copies it with a fidelity and artistic skill which are surprising. Men, women, and children talk, act, and think in his pages exactly as they are talking, acting, and thinking at every hour of every day. The same thorns, |