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¦gg TEE LBADEE. [No. 406, Xiwary 3, 185&
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KATHERINE. Katherine and the Moment of F...
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MANY THOUGHTS ON MANY THINGS. Many Thoug...
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CHRISTMAS SPORTS. The Sporting World. By...
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New Year's Gifts. First To All Yet Undec...
< wolf the military ass in a lion ' s skin , the ape-like widow who befools her children , the fortune-hunting fox , the blinking mole who affects to be a critic of art , the eats-paw 'Oliver Twist , the ( confidential cur in the City who pilfers from his master , tfhe puppy -menial , the starving mechanic ox repulsed iby the liveried dog in the' manger , the tortoise capitalist who beats the volatile hare-like dreamer , and the wolf burglar who cheats the crane attorney , are admirably ' translated . ' We like Mr . Bennett ' s humour , although we would hint to him to widen his field , and not take too many ¦ crops from one piece of ground .
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Katherine. Katherine And The Moment Of F...
KATHERINE . Katherine and the Moment of Fortune . Translated by Lady "Wallace . 3 v 0 ^ ntle r Xatherine is by-the author of Clara , a German novel which lately obtained « ome reputation in its own and in the English language . This new story is similar in its merits and in its faults ; there is jnuch rapid sketching ; the ^ characters are originally conceived ; humour and satire glimmer through the romantic . tissue , and German fashions and sentiments are cleverly and simply represented . The author , however , completes his narration slowly ; the parts are not kept well together ; the main point is scarcely brought out -with sufficient distinctness . It will be noticed that the best chapters in Katk & rine are those which seem to have been adapted from Clara—we mean the
the theatrical episodes , which are really admirable . Most of personages who figure in . the tale belong to the humbler ranks of life j the heroine herself , the cherry-lipped , black-eyed , black-haired ., oval-faced , graceful Katherine is a flower-seller , and daughter of a washerwoman ; but there is another beauty , Rosa by name , concerning whose relations to the ' moment of fortune ' the reader soon learns to be curious . The latter part of the liistory introduces these persons into a court atmosphere with a Regent as ihe centre-piece , and barons and ladies revolving about them in vicious , . glittering circles . These episodes and groupings are skilfully contrived , And suggest the idea that the writer is copying from living models . We have found Katherine an uncommon and interesting novel— -quite a contrast , in its spirit and simplicity , to the vapid three volumes composed of halfsentences in false French and a riot of hysterical ^ English , which are announced -as ' jaow ready' for ever .
Many Thoughts On Many Things. Many Thoug...
MANY THOUGHTS ON MANY THINGS . Many Thoughts on Many Things . Being a Treasury of Reference consisting of Selections from the Works of Known Great and Great Unknown . Compiled and Analytically arranged 'by Henry Soutbgate . Eoutledge and Co . Mb . Sotjthgate would have been judicious to have refrained from an -attempt to introduce his Great Unknowns to the admiration of the world . In most instances they are unknown , because they are not great in any sense -of the term . Instead of being a ' treasury / this massive and plethoric volume is an unwieldy aggregate of extracts , good , bad , and indifferent . Three-fourths of Mr . Southgate ' s opnscnlce should never have been detached
torn the magazine articles to which they belonged , and with which they had been comfortably buried . Many beautiful examples of thought and style are to be found , of course , among the selections , a large number of the best ^ authors having been zealously pencilled into paragraphs by the compiler ; but hundreds of his- ' beautiful passages' are atomic in their mediocrity . It is unnecessary to occupy our space with specimens of these absurdly chosen fragments , swept together without reference to their value , originality , point , truth , or any other quality entitling them lo stand apart from their -contexts . Most of that which is worth preserving , has been preserved elsewhere , while of the rest it is impossible to say more than that Mr . Southgate has heen very industrious in constructing the anthology of the Family Friend .
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¦ particular wants of its population becomes , he says , absolutely necessaryand the second object is attained by an equilibrium between the wages of the individual worker and the price of the necessaries of life . Thus the duty of the'government is to give the individual such protection as will ensure him the ' equilibrium . ' The thougbt , it must be confessed , is not altogether new , but was long ago expressed by the old war-cry of ' A fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work . ' M . JLe Bastier proposes to bring his economical equilibrium into action by the sole < means of taxing the community . Taxation in manifold shapes and forms will level the unequal components of society . Taxes become , in consequence of a natural force of things , the chief instrument by the aid of which the government of a community will be able to realize those conditions of protection and of economical equilibrium , for by the very action of the tax itself this equalization can be brought about without direct interference in the reciprocal actions between individual and individual .
A celebrated socialistic author , whom nobody can deny originality and dej th of thought , exclaimed in one of his open moods : " Give me the right of taxing , ami I will make a revolution !" Taking the £ orm end the groundwork of his thought , we say : " Give us the right of taxing , not socialistic taxation , or property tax , nor even progressive contributions , but simply taxation in its actual form , and we -will make at our will cither a happy and prosperous nation or a people plunged into profound social m isery . " Indeed , the inevitable result of taxation , under whatever form it be levied , is to react on the price of all products and tilings used , and , by the force of this reaction , to regulate and to check the rate at which production and consumption arc going on . Thus it may be made either to strengthen or to -weaken the reciprocal equilibrium of two kinds of manufactures , or , in other words , te dry up or to fertilize the sources of well-being and prosperity of a country .
This may sound well in the ears of Birmingham Conference men , but we wonder what Mr . Toulmin Smith would say to the enemy of both political economists and socialists , which M . Le Bustier professes to be . To us he appeal's to start from a fundamental blunder . The law should interfere with men as little as possible—not at all , except to counsel the maintenance of national government , to enable those who arc willing to act together , to restrain those who would assail others in person , property , and rights . This is free trade , ' the fundamental principle of which is applicable to most social and political relations besides commerce .
SOCIAL PROBLEMS . Thdofie de PEquilibre Economigue . Par Jules Le Hastier . Paris : 1858 . M . Le Bastieb is an eloquent antagonist of the laissez faire school of . political economy , as well us of socialism . According to him , the disciples of both opinions draw erroneous conclusions irom known facts . The calculations of the laissez faire economist have regard only to the individual man , forgetting that the interests of the individual are often opposed to those of society in general , while the socialistic economists run into the opposite extreme 'by simply looking at mankind in "the eolleativeform . This iorgetffulness on both sides of a very important fundamental principle is the cause of all the mischief , inflicted upon the world bv the practical adherents of eitiher of those schools . However , the doctrines of the laissez faire economists are far more dangerous to the human family 'Chan those of ultra socialistic dreamers ; because they are more selfish and unprincipled . It is that school which M . Lo Bastier chiefly attacks in the present work . See the fruit fjhe exclaims ] of these doctrines , which reduce social progress -to a mere development of industry , -trade , and wealth , unmindful of the indissoluble interdependence between production and consumption . . . . . God liaa eaid to men : "( Be fruitful and multiply , " —they have invented 4 ho ' moral ecuf-conatraint . ' > Our forefathers considered a numerous ( population a source of strength and imjpoxtianac to ( countries , —they have organized emigration . Jfonmer statesmen believed agriculture to be the fundamental basis of a state , — they have . put / this basis at the top of their building . ¦^ - ^ li e . jnfl ^ M'L C ^ » b that moderation is a virtuo , —they have ¦ created an unmeasured tendency to luxury , Philosojphy teaches that true happiness consists , not in the ponsosslon of great riches , but in the exorcise of wisdom and goodncHs , —they have fosterod a burning thirst for wealth , have eroctod torn plea to Mammon , and made Law their high prioat . They 'linvo sown matorialiem , —they have earned corruption . To remedy this vicious state of society , M . Lo Baatier demands a restoration of whnt ho calls tquilibro £ eonomi ( j « e , that ia , an organization of human activity under o- twofold aspect , first , in regard to anon in their oolleotivo ¦ e xistence , and secondly in respect to individual interests . To realize the first problem , an exact balance ' between the natural wealth of a country and tue
Christmas Sports. The Sporting World. By...
CHRISTMAS SPORTS . The Sporting World . By Harry Hieover , Author of ' . Table Talk and Stable Talk , ' Hints to Horsemen , ' ' Sporting Facts and l ' ancics , ' & c . & c . Kewby . Earei Hieovek begins his work by alluding to the prevalent false estimate entertained by the citizens of this metropolis respecting the character and pursuits of sportsmen . Knowing little of rural amusements , and with ideas based upon the delineations of Squire Westerns in novels of a past age , many of them , he remarks , anil the fair sex especially , place a foxhunter in the same category with an ourang-outang or New Zealand savage . Addressing her female coterie , the lady blesses Providence that spared her the calamity of having a fox-hunter for a husband : she is truly thankful Mr . has no taste that way . A pretty life for her and her family ; obliged
to rise the saints only know what hour , to get him hot water to shave , aud for breakfast . Then off he goes to join his brother sportsmen , as he styles them , whooping and hallooing all over the country , breaking down farmers' fences , riding over and destroying ' tteir wheat . At night the genl . leman comes home , entertains his wife with an account of the run , as he calls it , if he has had good sport ; if not , he is cross , and walks oil" to bed , or goes fast asleep in his chair ., either of which is vastly agreeable to his wife . Perhaps , indeed , he brings some companion home with him , and then they arc noisy enough , telling how such a one rode , or speaking of another who got a fall , which anyone with proper ieeling would shudder to hear of ; they laugh , and term it a ' purler , ' or some such detestable low term . This they carry on all the evening , instead of making up a nice little rubber , ifcc . Faugh 1 sportsmen—Mercy defend her from all such . '
But , if our lady-cits thus superciliously regard the followers of St . Hubert , their own peculiar caste is not over-indulgent to each other ' s chosen pursuits . Thus , the stag-hunter , whose quarry is the antlered monarch of thu waste , maintains , sit the best , but a sort of patronizing air towards him of the fox cover , He , in turn , estimates a gallop with harriers , when a gallop can bo obtained , as very slow work indeed . Nor is the master of a pack of harriers less prompt to retort good-humoured raillery at the expense of his assailants . Perhaps he singles out a neighbour , known to be present at his meet only because the fox-hounds do not hunt on that day . Allusive to a particular run , blazoned abroad as something exceedingly fust , ho obsorves , " I suppose you hud some fine riding over so choice a country V " ? ' Oh , yes . Gihnour took the lead , and kept it for a time , in spilo of ius nil . Forrester went as straight as a bird . Stratfnnoro knocked up his iirst horse , and nearly brought his second to a standstill . Stubbs—( nolle / voce ) Ginger
Stubbs—went remarkably well . Wilson , on his brown horse , navigated tlio brook beautifully , skimming it like a swallow . Will , the whip , got in , took a cold bath , but , getting Ins horse out , went ; at a pace that shortly warmed him and himself ugain . Stimdish went " " Bless me , " interrupts tbo Squire , " you must have had a hundred eyes to have eeen whit the hounds were doing and watch the exploits of so many riders so closely . 1 urn na old-fashioned fellow , and have the antediluvian idea that , when we go hunting , the hounds have some little claim on our attention . Yoi ! Joker and Jovial ! " cried he , seeing both hounds feathering about an extremely likely ^ laco ^ oi ^ -a-liara ^ o beroi i ^ o- > hnye-rtioeiilly « 'booiu ^ J-oviul . g » vo . onu ^ otUiis , U , cui ) ^ bass assurances of a find , and Joker , putting in his treble , corroborated tlio fact . " Hark , Jovial and Joker 1 " cried tlio Wquiro . "Goo , hnrk together j hoik I" responded the huntsman . A crack from the whips , and " Loo on " " Loo on" sent the stragglers up to the loading hounds .
The vexed question respecting the right the landlord possesses in gamo reaned and fed upon his estate is thus impartially canvassed . The proprietor feeds the game , or rather , they feed themselves from the land , and arc , therefore , his by . custom . Mox'e than thin , they . are his by the law of equity . When he roars poultry by his own or servant ' s hand ; no one disputes his right
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02011858/page/18/
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