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46 THE LEADER. [No. 459, Janttaby 8, 185...
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POEMS. Poems, By Joseph Truman. Longman ...
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LOGIC AND BANKING. The Logio of Banking,...
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CAMBMBGE ESSAYS. Cambrhhje Essays. Contr...
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Advocacy Of Necessary Reforms, Publislie...
was einployed in studying the climate of the Indian Trill countries ,. , and claims -with honest pride to have initiated , and ; better still , to have been the acknowledged promoter of the movement in favour of sanitary hill stations , and was . listened to upon other subjects lie now treats of with great attention by Lord William Bentinck in 1834 . Those , therefore , who will hear none but Anglo-Indians upon Indian topics will have farther excuse than our recommendation for perusing his energetic and feeling papers upon " The Location : of British Troops in India ; " The Recreative Employment of the Soldier j" " The Preservation of Ids Child ; " and
the most interesting and philanthropic essay upon his Hopeful Encouragement while on Service . This last it is our hope to meet again , in some more popular form . The additional rays that a tropical pathologist , like our author casts upon the position of the wretched being whom we remove from home under the influences of the beer-pot to be used up in India , serve to show that , if England continues the attempt by such means , and without better treatment of her worn-out tools , to preserve and consolidate a new empire for government by our upper classes , and for the Boeotian happiness of the natives , she is committing a deplorable fraud .
46 The Leader. [No. 459, Janttaby 8, 185...
46 THE LEADER . [ No . 459 , Janttaby 8 , 185 a
Poems. Poems, By Joseph Truman. Longman ...
POEMS . Poems , By Joseph Truman . Longman and Co . To the poetry of action , the . song of adventure by flood and field , has succeeded the poetry of mediT tation , contemplation ,. or speculation , in which the poet has delighted to show himself a theosophist or mystic of some kind , or to some degree . In different ways , . with , more or less of daring , more or less of elegance , in the form of rugged strength or that of well-polished art , Mr . Tennyson and JVlr . Bailey have been accepted as the representative types of the modern tendency . In the poems of itr . Tnimag * we have a pupil of the latter school , and a friend of the founder , to whom lie fitly dedicates his little volume ; He adopts too , we find ,
the universalist creed of Mr . Bailey , as well as the careless fashion of his metre . But his : verse is freighted with so much thought , that we little note the superfluous feet , or the unequal rhythm . The sense is far above the sound ; and though the latter be now defective , the practice of singing will correct the ear of the singer , and Mr . Truman may yet spin his lines as correctly as he now thinks strongly and speculates boldly . Mi * . Truman walks the earth erect , with his eyes raised to heaven , and guides his steps by the stars . There is , however , a human heart in his bosom , capable of loving humbly , as his soul is of daring highly . The fair young girl at the rustic stile , mth the rave true-oval feature , the bloomy tinge on either cheek , eyes of dreamy blue , hair darkest brown , '
Gathered with simple art , behind her ears , can attract not only his attention , but create a'sentiment within him . Nay , from her oonverse , simple as she ^ may be , and learned as he is , he will acknowledge Io the receipt of more education than he bestows ; deriving from her meek mind , and native woman ' s piety , " a tenderer spirit in his musing moods . " Tins growth of an individual mind , passing out of the school into the fields , coming into the presence of beauty and simplicity , and gathering " unawares , " from the contact with the merely impulsive and spontaneous , what Mr . Truman calls , in the spirit ^ of his master , ( innunciative sense Of things more noble , wider , than the apheyo Of solitary intellectual aims , becomes the more interesting to " us from its felt truth , and the stamp whiph it evidently bears of it ? having been a faot of tho author ' s experience . What follows upon the statement is in a vein of feeling , and illustrated by a simile , tlmt without further proof would entitle him at onco to a diploma from the guild of minstrels as one fitted for the practice of the art : — And so the sweetness of her humbleness Unwittingly did ahamo and subjugate Tho soholujr ' a human pride ; and where as onco He toiled And panted beyond all to / mow , Henceforward through all weariness of flesh , And . aohings of the heart , and memories Which wailed about hia brain till Iiq was wild , . Ami what remained of jqyaunco , ho passed on Inspired to more unselfishness of life By one sad , saintly mompry , and yet soothed " By beautiful , dlvinost hope . So muoh for the feeling . Now for tho simile ;—Onco thus
I watched a woodbine casually set At foot of cedar , the grave stately growth Of many generations , glancing timidly Up all that towering altitude of gloom , Afraid to Veave its bright embraces there : Anon the woodbine shoot took heart , and . clashed The cedar , and clung climbing on , until The pillared pile of fibrous foliage dark , From mossed foundations to the spiry top , Was festooned with the fragrant saffron flowers . Manifest it is that for this true man all nature lives , and that he feels her heart pulsing in his own . We must make further acquaintance Avitli him . As we turn over the pages , we find some noble lines on the subject of " Rizpah ; " some sweet , delicate , childish fancies in a ballad-lyric called " The Wee Bit Birdie ; " ¦ some deeper reflections still in " Love and Belief ; " some powerful pleading in "A Question ; " and something very original in the following ffve lines : — . Alway imploring palms we raise toward heaven , As though we drew the consecration down ; And miss the holy wells that gush hard by . So men mistaking !} - look up for dew ,
The while its blessed mist imbathes their feet . And " beautiful exceedingly" are the lines to which these are the introduction : — Therefore , if . any flower shall breathe for thee ' A fragrant message from its pencilled urn ; If Spring airs glad thee ; if the sunset bring Into thine eyes the tears of solemn joy ; If any radiant passion come to make Existence beautiful and pure to thee ; ' If noblest music sway thee , like a dream ; If sorrow to a mournful moonlight turn Thy noon ; if something deepest in thee wake To a dim sentimeut of mystery ; If musing warm to worship ; if the stars Earnestly beckon to immortal life ;
Ponder such ministrations , and be sure . Thou hast been touched by God , O human' heart . As , we advance further in the book , we find the versification improve , but not that the poems increase in value . The metricist gains facility , but the mind struggling for expression , and deriving strength froifi the struggle , Is lost in the qasc and diffusion of the verse . But we must not criticise harshly a little book , evidently put forth with no other intent than to suggest to those who arc favourably disposed to welcome a new singer , that the writer can sing—sing sometimes wisely , and sometimes well— -sometimes thoughtfully , and sometimes melodiously- ' -but always from and to the conscience , sincerely even when not skilfully .
There is also a completeness about one poem , unfortunately too long . to quote , which is likely to satisfy the doubtful that the harpist to whom we are indebted for the " Parable "—( such is the title of the poem)—has already made considerable progress in his art , and bears about him the talisman of prbmise , that will hereafter enable him to speak in louder tones with the voice of one authorised to announce those verities in verse which prose is not privileged to utter . Our parting counsel to Mr . Truman is not to be in haste again to publishnot to bo anxious to write a new volume—but to
pause and wait until the genuine inspiration visit aim , by night or day , resigning himself rather to occasional impulse , than , seeking to show his fertility by any amount of taskwork , with whatever skill it may be produced .
Logic And Banking. The Logio Of Banking,...
LOGIC AND BANKING . The Logio of Banking , A Familiar Exposition of the Principles of Reasoning , & c . By J . W . Gilbnrt , Esq ., F . It . S . Longman and Co . Mr . Gilbart several years ago wrote a good book on . banking , and later a book on logic which hus attracted much attention . In tho present work ho has expounded tho principles of logio , and has illustrated them by extracts from his work on , banking . Ho has reproduced the best parts of the two works and united them into one . l ^ or tho produc *
viewers , who " often fall into mistakes when they attempt to describe the practical operations of banking , " Mr . Gilbart thinks his book on the subject " may be particularly useful . " We share his opinion , and are sorry to learn that'years after ifc was published , ' and even very lately , several of our leading journalists and of our authorities . have refcrred ° to " America to prove the evils-of free trade in banking , " in which such free trade has never existed . V Neither an individual nor a company , " Mr . Gilbart justly states , " can carry on banking in America without the permission of the State . All the banks in Am erica are chartered banks . " This important fact is continually overlooked ; and we readily embrace the opportunity to restate it , and declare that the persons who hereafter describe banking in America as free , are either deplorably ignorant or wilfully speak falsely . Mr . Gilbart ' sbook on banking is a standard , and its worth will not be increased , though its circulation may , by its beins ? made subservient to his book on logic .-
tion of a work on logic ho appears to have no peculiar qualities nor facilities ; for the production of a work on banking he has the experience of a life engaged in the business , and accordingly his " observations ou tho soionoo and art . of banking" aro groatly superior to his " exposition of tho principles of reasoning . " No writer has bettor explained tho art , or raoro . justly described the principles of the science of banking . Iu oonnoxion with them ho examines , as occasion , serves , the influence and bearings of sevoral laws on tho practice of banking , and describes the sovoral systems of banking wliioii prevail in England , Scotland , Ireland , tho Unifcod States , & q . & e . To statesmen , authors , and ro-
Cambmbge Essays. Cambrhhje Essays. Contr...
CAMBMBGE ESSAYS . Cambrhhje Essays . Contributed by Members of the University . John W . Parker and Son , The present scries concludes the publication of these half-amateur , half-prizc-cssay contributions to the periodical literature of the day . The first article is written by A . J . B . Ben-ford Hope , M . A ., M . P ., upon the subject of " Newspapers and their Writers . " Though , proi \ <* culy belonging to the same party iu politics as the "Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , he is . diametrically ppjuscd to this gentleman , in his views upou the desirability of abolishing anonymous journalism . His principles are sound , though his style of enforcing them is diffuse and wordy . The whole question lies in a nutshell .- Idle curiosity may cause a desiic in
individuals to know who wrote such aud such an article , but there would be no more real publicgcoil produced by making this knowledge open to the world than by compelling Mr . McClibe , the eminent watchmaker , \ o put the name of each journey :.. an . upon the pieces of workmanship which he guarantees . In departments of newspapers ( such as that of dramatic criticism ) where the anonymous character of the writing is in some measure destroyed by .. , the knowledge of who is the accredited critic , the open system of journalism shows premonitory symptoms of weakness . It is not too much to say Unit , this section of newspaper writing lias lost its influence over the public mind , and chiefly from the general belief winch oxists that ' a man who is known . cannot
be so free as a man who is not known . The money article writers are peculiarly open to suspicions of interested advocacy , especially since the melancholy suicide of Mr . Alsager sonic years ago , and it is only the leading article writers who retain . their power undiminislicd , simply because tlu v work under the corporate title of the journal , and never lift the impenetrable veil which covers 1 hem in wholesome obscurity ., Mr . Hope ' s aspirations for making journalism , even to its , lowest members , one of the liberal professions , arc well meant , but , to some extent ,, visionary . Journalists cannot be raised in crops , like barristers or clergymen ; and with
regard to their " social position , " they nro very happy as they are . Their independence and force would not be incroascd by a constant course oil " simpering in gilded saloons , " and if their profession is not gontccl enough , at present , to at tract those members of the anstocrncv who foci a rail to instruct mankind in the broad sheet of type , these latter must be content to confine themselves to those milder ami more refined regions of literal tire , a specimen of whoso products is before us in tho present volume Tho second Essay , by It . A . Slmfto Ail hi r , M . A ., upon " The National Defences ami Organisation ot tho Militia , " is a mixture of quotations and i ' unk .
It is the old , old story of a probable foreign invasion by our buccaneering cut-throat neighbours , tho French , There is nothing like leather . Tlio o il admiral , coughing and promenading at . -Hiitlj , suggosts more ships > tho contractor , looking at thu war-profits niado by his father before him , mig ^ tta rnoro forts , einbiuikmonts , and towers ; whil ^ oleiiiii oraolos connected with tho military profession nro seen by thoir admirors . to shako their hoailn , nnci hoard to mutter in olub-houso oornors , " inuro
soldiers . " Tho militia warrior may bo u very patriotic individual , but he is very costly , ns ho in generally taken from labour which is three tunes moro productive than thai , onoo followed by tho regular rooruito of the lino . While ho i » boiupr
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011859/page/14/
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