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854 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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The Musical World attacks its transatlan...
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Among the other senats. of the mosth wit...
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The Dublin University Magazine Of This M...
conceal . He was quick hi retort , and satirical , bui always generous and cheerful . He was frugal , btitr mot stingy ; vaia and obstinate ; unjust in his depreciations- of the old masters ; and arrogant 2 E opposed ' ia controversy . " In the same magazine there is a brief article ; , called ' Siaoke-Clbuds , standing up for tobacco against its present numerous enemies . We will let the smoker speak for himself , and thank him at least for the facts lie accumulates for us in the following , passage : — ' . ' The planta of God ' s earth are not given alone to blight and kill . Every jpison is a medicine to" some anitnaJ or another . Prassie acid heals , ana arSefliif sottthes . Tobacco is a safe aperient * detergent , expeefcoranfc , and diuretic . It- abates- t & e- oliolfo , aad moderates fch « agonies of spasmodic asthma . It stimulates thekidaeya and diminishes dropsy . The juice cleanses ulcers , and is useful in cutaneous diseases . It is given extensively in epilepsy ,, and hHsbeea usedto advantage in oases of lockjaw and hydrojWidfeiBt / " It is actually the base of one of the best of ouifOosmaticsa—the * BalKb of'Columbia— -it
, cures the maDge in dogs r and kills the blight on plants . " A benevolent man , who-proves his wish to SAvei time * by ifirbwhig' it away" on flfolsjjlt calculations , fcas discovered that , in forty years ,, a sm & tafettidBrotesfcfeeaty-fOQr months toi . blowing his nose . In the same time be has also spent * , we have calculated , eighteen months ' in putting oft- his stockings and pulling them off agaitf . He pioves tfetf' sn 5 ff-ta £ ers fornv » large-portion of the innaateaoPall lunaticasylumsy''so-d < vgfgetrgrdcers aal efcstermongers . _" The ^ oi ld is full of these , coincidences . How did Flint and , Steel he < $ sme partners ^ Why is Bawl ah elocution master , a , nd -why are Seston , and Coflin quack doctors E The history of-smoking is- brief . It was ittyeafed- ' fcy ^ avslgesi as tfitte sanrand-tlie lyr « - were . Sir ; Eraneis > Brakebrought the leaf to ^ ope in , 1560 ^ an * Sw Walter ^ lei ^ introduced the . practice , of smoking , it about ; 1584 . But long before this , JeaniNicot . the ; - »* ? " aaHbassadorin" Portugal ^ : had carried it to France , ana taaght Martsi- ' . & e Medicis t * take it in snnflF , ; -EiontKRcqtJ ifc derivea itsbotenical destgnaAioB , ¦ # iw « s *»^ aw & its - alias , ; tobacco , from the Indian name of the island Tobago .. That Wonderful people , the Ghine « e . : Jiovrevw
, seemed to liave always smoked-tobacco 4 and the Irish are knoyrn'to have used some hwfcx ^ es ^ ot an oldnjwument of oaef of their early kings .:. Kafeigh smoked ! in hiadungeortitttlioi Tower while the headsman was gnn ^ . his axe . King Jatries detested the ' loathaoniei tmng , andrso did hisluckless son . Cromwell' 4 ov « a his pipe , and < lictated Ms despatches toi Milb ^ over some burning TrinidadOj , or pleasant smelling I ? icotme > . ' ¦ r ^ rfepfcaemost surprisi ng thing in-literal m . all Wiakspere , although ; thB earlierSpencer meatuma . ifevseveralthaesy and the later ; Ban ! ^ of s ^ act ^ alty ; foundedplays ^ upon ; the practice . . . . . - ¦!• - ¦ ceo ]? amart ?*>* r it burns itself to ibenefili the wprldv . It perishes , . like Semefe r a wctina ^ mclove . Like all other good thifigs , it-has .: been persecuted . Potatoes were one * ¦ iur !! iea tae leaves bitterint
VhoV " t ?™ rr ' ** J Pw ' . T iway j oecause- -were touga * ana * 7 'v ' ^ PP eUrban- VII ., the old womanV published 1 -a . buUeicoinmun ^^^ tooicsnuff . da . nng divine service ; an d ' - - old womenhave ^ ifeen M ^ of snuff ever : sincei from-tha mere spirit of . opposition . TheSnltan Amnvath IVi inade smoking » capital offence ? and c Y f ? Wt- »/ or lfc ' ' **' ¦ a very capital offence , in Enssia , a snuff-taker was ingeniously ctj Je 4 ¦ - ¥ * $ habit by having his nose cut off , while smokers had a pipe bored through the same nsefntpjojectton . ¦¦ ' ¦ ' ... ' v : ¦' . ' . ' . ¦ ¦ "• .: . ¦ . . ¦ ... * ¦¦ ' ' : - . , ¦¦ . . .. ; . . .: ¦ .: : " In , 166 a , the . G ^ tbxi oC Beme intraduered art eleventh ^ shalt-irotS smoke . _ In J 719 , the wiser senate of jStrasburgproMbitedthecultivationof tobacco , fearing lfe would mterfere- \ rM corn . King James wrote abbok ' agairist it , as did his drunken bro-Ujer-otvJJania # rk ;< InieS ^ attroop of horsevweTO tpdestirorthe tobacco crops , lest they should ^ encroachon the American plantations .. There is even saidto be a law in existence , imposing a penalty of forty shillings for every rod o £ groundiplantedwithit . ¦ .
_ ,, Bnttobadeo has hod its bards ani its defender 3 v © astor 3 ) iu : anti-TOBote verses upoa it . T horiU 8 called . it , ¦¦¦¦¦ 'Planta beata , decua terrarum . ' •? AJDatpii poet wrote an ode to it . The great took it up . Dr . Eatcliffe recommendedi snuffi to his brethren . Dr . Johnsoii kept his sno ; ff < in his . waistcoat pocket , and so-did-Frederick , the Great .: Eobert Hall smoked in his vestry ; and JTappleon took rappee . by , the haridfuL Philosophers have drawn their best similes from their pipes .. . How could they * have done-- s & had their pipes first been drawn from them ? Wo see the sparks go upwards , We ythinlc . of life ; we see the smoko-wreath fade away :, we remember tlie morning-cloud . Our pipe breaks ; we mourn the fragility of earthly pleasures ; we smoke it to ? vn end , andi tapping out the- ashes , remember ' dust we are , and unto dust we shall , return . ' If we are in- love ,, we garnish a . whole sonnet with images drawri . from smoking ; and firat fill' our pipe , and then tune itj that spark kindles like- her eye , is ruddy as her lip ; this slender clay ia white as h « rhand , and' shin as her waist : —till lier raven Iia 5 r grows grey as these ashes . I will ) love her ; : this perfume is not sweeter than Her breath , though sw « eterthan all else . This odom \ ' ascends me into the brainfills it full of all fiery delectable shapeswhich » »^^ imi •«» uniu 11 ji iun uimi uoieucaoio wwicbl
, , — ... „„„„ u .. o '" vv , no , . , uisry auapua , delivered over to the tongue ^ which is the birth , become excellent wit , ' In the smoke clouds I see ^ visions . . " This plant has been -watered more often than any other with the blood , of man ; The mailed Spaniard and red-plumed Indian have , fought round it , and gpld-seekers have drenched it with the gore of ' negroes . One whole continent has been enriched by it ) , and to cultivate it another continent luiB-beon . depopulated . Nogiroca' have prayed' to » their Fetishes beside it ; . the . ensla . ved , seainejj . havo cursed it as they toiled to strip it of the leaf . Many a dead Cacique lias smoked it at the war council , and nanny a grave grey-bearded Spaniard , who Dad iougttfc at Lopanto , or bled in the Low Countries . Old soldiers of Cromwell have smoked ifc ; whilo the Indians of Dardon bartered their gold- for English beads ; or the swarthy Buccaneers looked on , handling their drosided musketa . " We deny the necessary evils of smoking , or of anuff-raking . If spitting diminishes the salivaroqnisite for digestion , men need not spit ; if swallowing the essontial oil is injurious , men maw spit . " 0 j ,
A , second Edition of Mr . Pihixip ' s General Guide Boots to iht CrtjstalPafacc lias just been published—new plans , maps , & q . ha-ving been inserted , and the lettex-press revised throughout , and extonxietl in . some important particulaLrs . We learn , by the bye , from tlie Times , that the special handbooks , givjngjlnformation about the various departments of the Exhibition—though prepared by men of distinguished eminence —ha-vc bad but a slow sale ; the i ntellectual public , it appears , not appreciating pearls of this kind , and eren * ' the more educated and intelligent classes"' not seeming to trouble themselves with any more intimate acquaintance with the contents of the Palace than they can take by the cheap method of simply throwing their eyes over the objects . On the other hand , 100 , 000 copies o € the G-oneral Shilling
Handbook havo been sold ; and it is hoped that , as generalities lead to particulars , the demand for the special Handbook will increase . At the some time , ifc is hinted that something more cheap and brief and popular even than the General Shilling Handbook might be found useful for the " million " —some penny or twopenny sheet witliin the roach of all understandings And-all pockets . This matter of Handbooks and Catalogues to public Exhibitions , is one which requires a good deal of loolrin-g ? into . The principle of the thing is , wo believe , that people take interest in Exhibitions only in as fort aa tlieiy previous knowledge ennblea them , to ask questions , about what ' they pee . ! Bib , xuraourccf that « " Life and Correspondence of U 10 Cbuntcae of
Bi-essingtoh is soon to be given to the world . Among the " Lives and Correspondencies" which the world is presented with every season , few are likely to interest it more . We hope it will be well edited . Some extended subjects of the biographical kind have been ruined by bad editing amongst others-the Life of Wilberforcehj hig sons , is a positive literacy parricide .
854 The Leader. [Saturday,
854 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The Musical World Attacks Its Transatlan...
The Musical World attacks its transatlantic namesake , The JSTew York Musical World and Times , ( the editor of which is the celebrated N . P . Wiulis ) , for outraging the properties of journalism— -Jirst , in accusing all the otter New York journals of accepting bribes for puffing certain musical celebrities wno iave beent " starring it" in America ; and secondly , in having published an atrocious scandal against a musical artist recently dead . We know nothing of the facts of the controversy , but we suspect the charga against tte American newspapers , of ' accepting , bribes is no bettor founded than the similar charges sometimes recklessly made against the metropolitan , press of this country ..
Among The Other Senats. Of The Mosth Wit...
Among the other senats . of the mosth witch have come under * our notice are ? r ~ Part YI . o £ the Ednd we Ewe In , ^^ devoted to iSTdrtt Derbyshire , the hosiery districts , and Hull and its ; neighbourhood ; a new mathematical number of the €$ rcfe ojFifie Seventies /& , ' ^ I ) V ) flie | tic Cookery ' number of tihe series of Houseihdld ^ JEki ^ kooks j . the first nacmb ^ c 6 £ a ^ work oat the Hut * ieiffies of \ G * e ^ number of Mir * BAaitAKO ^ TJteoi'y and 2 ? r < £ ciic & of Ea , ndsGCipe > -l *< rinling in Vfatcr-Qolovirs , also finely illustrated ; an 4 the ! cutcent numbers of the Family Friend and Home Cpmpart % 6 n all frpm tl £ e prolific press of Messrs ., Okk atid € 3 o . "We observe , by-the ^ ibyey that , in inaitation of * Ilonsehold Words , the JSoine Gompatiiort is to ~ present its readers mth a noTel , in- successive ^ numbers ; and we are glad to ftttdfthit Mr . ETannat , the yrell-knovs'a autnor of " Singleton- Fbnteroy ; " is to be tHe arxthor of the novel announced as- imxhediately fbrthcomiaiff . :
The Art-ifdurnctl far September contains three large engravings-r-f' The Gbuncil of War atTouruay , ' ' from HFaghe ' s picture in the Vernon Gallery ; ** The Autumn Grift , " from a fruit-picture of La-nce , ia the same gallery ; and an engravirig of Pyne's picture of " Windsor Castle . ^*
Hxtit^Aitran Sketches. Hungarian Sketche...
HXTIT ^ AItrAN SKETCHES . Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War . From tlie Hungarian of Moritz Jbkai . . Constable and Co , Akother series pf ^ Foreign Literature . HTew ; competitors with the ettterprisirig publishers who have : won ,. fame and fortune by graffcihg on the English mind the thoughts of men of other lands . Messrs . Constable announce their intention "to present to the British public a series of the most popular accessions which the literature of the globe is constantly receiving . " The series will include works from all parts of the world * Prom the north and east of Europe , from th <* less fertile field of Asia , and from America , tlve English reader will be xaade acquainted wi = th the current literature . We do not fear that the market will be overstocked ; and it is important to announce , in the first instance , that the cost of each . volume -will be throe
shillings and sixpence—a . price -winch sufficiently points out tlie class of readers to whom this fuesh appeal is . made . The opening volume'of the series is well chosen . Its title is an adequate description of its contents . It is what it pretends to be , u dozen sketches of Hungarian life at one of tlie most interesting periods of . Hungarian history . The author , by name Moritz Jokai , is one of the most popular among tlie Hungarian novelists who appeared before the revolution of 1848 . The stories now before us " embody descriptions of several of the direst scones of the civil war which devastated Hungary from 1848 io 1850 . " It is only of late years that Hungary can be said to have possessed a national literature-Almost up to the year 1825 , the nobles had spent their time in luxurious indolence , supported only by the labour of the peasant . For the last quarter of a century a great change has boon visible ; Noble counts have ^ v Kfm ^\ f * # ^\ % t ¦ ^» f I Mi ^ % ^^ . ^ m «« . I ^ mt * i I h r ^ . ¦ 1 y ^ h # ^ k « m « ^ w ¦ m 1 b « a «« ^ . ¦ - ¦ « ^ , m n a J . ** + 4 ^ -1 V . 1 ^^ . ^ v f ^ . k « % WV iu wmu iviaiLiu 111 iiturin uiaui aiiu iuu unuuuriiis
^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^ *^ ^^ ^*^*^ uujiiuuauuuucvi vuij ^ nuy . y ^ La , ^ - ment they afforded to the latent genius * of - their countrymen produced tlie most astonishing results . But Hungany had no sooner risen from her intellectual sleep , than she encounterad fresh obstacles . The Court of Vienna could not tolorato this growth of public opinion . Slaves of a foreign yolce , the children of the conquerors of Euuope , onilnrcd , in their turn , thocursciOt conquest , Nofc only did their rulws exclude from public office all who were distinguished for their assertion of national rights , but an omnipotent censorship was presently established to crush or weaken the attempts to create « . national literature . And yet , —wo quote from , a preface by Emoric Szabad" SuoU was tho montnl notivily of tlio pvosonb generation , tlmt Hungarian litonifcuro , desjiuo tho numerous obstacles it and to encounter , inado rapid progresa , and created in tho minds of tho pcoplo a spirit of inquiry nnd « . dusiro nft < ir intolkotutu purauits hithento unknown . Novor buforo had tho cultivated tongues of tho Woat been so much studied , or so mnnv valuable translations imide from tlio ( Jiontmn , Fronoh , and English litonitures . That
tho inftuenco ol' tlio first vrna originally tlio strongoat , nnd tlmt acvorftl of tho leading wi-itora in philosophy and . liiutory toolc for their modol tlio Gonnan school , will appear no mutter of surprise . 'JLho riainp ; writers of a moro rocont date , howovor , inuanaibly turno < l thoir attention to tho moro lively literature of Franco , and afterwards to that ot" Dritain ; and wliilo some rend with rupture the flotionH of Sootfc , Bulwov and Dickens , politicians lownod to adiniro tho dootruios of Adam Smilh nnd Joromy Konthmn . Qt' poets , none wero moro oxtoiiHivoly road mid moro gonorally admivod tlmn Byron and Moore . Thus did tho moroJy literary progress-march on lioldly and coinUine with tlio new political movomonb to furtlior n ohango whioli liad already m : jd « it ^ olf folt i » ovoryRrudo of ' aoeloty , nnd whioli w « b thomflro ronmrkublo and . wtiafaotory from having followed a too Uma ; perM of stagnation . " Among the youn ^ H ^ mgarinin writors , Morifcz Jolcnt 1 holds a * prominant place . Ho has achieved remarkable succesfs among His countrymen us an author of prose fictions—a spocioa of national literature which can souvcoly date back more than fifteen youra , and which possesses a peculiar iutoreat
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 9, 1854, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09091854/page/14/
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