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      M. 473. Apm, 16,1853.1 The Leader. 4 9 5

      m . 473 . Apm , 16 , 1853 . 1 THE LEADER . 4 9 5

      Not Signify Deficiency, But Surplus; Ort...

      not signify deficiency , but surplus ; ort lifts not the least connexion with orettan ; and both are , in fact , different forms of the same word . In Icelandic , odde is a po ? nt , cuspis : Banish , odd the same ; Swedish , udd , apoint j alsoI odd , in the English sense . In German , the primary meaning of ort , is aleo powtf . To establish a connexion between the two we must have recourse to the Bavarian dialect . In . this , ort not only denotes point , but also beginning , / the end of a thread or skein—and , wjiat is most to our purpose , ort oder eben is exactly ourjOdd or even . In odd , the idea is that of unity , a single point , hence one over ; orts are w aste or superfluous encLs 3 leavings * The latter is the German form , the former the Scandinavian , in which the r is assimilated to the following consonant by a very common process in Icelandic—e . g ., broddr ; a sting ; Anglo-Saxon , brord ; rodd , voice , Anglo-Saxon , record .

      Ruth ; a Chapter in Providence . By the Kev . John Cumming , D . D ., F . R . S . E . Hall , Virtue and Co . A thorough analysis and application of the beauful Hebrew pastoral so called . There is much skill in interpreting the living symbols , enlarging the suggestions , and tracing the vestiges of ancient truth displayed in the successive chapters into which the subject is divided . Of course , the eloquence is undoubted . The subject is divided into eleven heads , and some of them are developed with great beauty and power . The theological idea , too , of the Goel , contained in the story , is very clearly explained . But the crown of the book is the last chapter , in which Woman is the argument : — " her glory and greatness . " Dr . of the

      Cumming does not maintain the equality sexes , but holds that each is greatest in its particular way . To woman he assigns the Heart—to man the Head . " Man , " he tells us , and truly , " reasons out a conclusion , but a woman instinctively seizes it . I have been , " he adds , " very much struck by this . Before man can settle a question in ethics , even in Ins own conduct , he has to argue ; hence the long speeches in the House of Commons , tremendously long , reaeliing conclusion s not always what they should be . Noav , a woman does not reason nor argue ; she knows nothing about logic ; laut by an instinct the most subtl e * the most delicate , and always right , she sees what is duty , and decides without a moment ' s hesitancy or a doubt . " Coleridge makes a similar remark in " The Friend . "

      Wharfedale , assisting his father in his business as a SScturer of paper , and in that situation he S ^ d no mean aptitude for the successful pursuits nfirade But literature was his true vocation , and whShe found thatthe indulgence of liis enthusiam for it was incompatible with the business of a manu-Eurlr he showed the force of character which he hTd ^ h eSed from his father , by deliberately exchanffbff the comforts of home and a settled position tanff the Society of dear friends and the prospect of afflue nce , for the humble and precarious fortunes of S cler g ymen without serviceable connexions or showy sllr ^ St ^ t s ^ iis Sn , and no Greek . . ^ these languages , as weH as technical h quired such

      of Hebrew and divinity , e ac a maServ in four years by his own unaided efforts , ^ iffihe drudgery of an ushership in a school , that ^ hts ordfnSh in 1813 lie displayed an amount of knowledge that was declared by the examining cWaui to have surpassed everything that in his Si capacity , had previously come under his notice During the next twenty-five years of Mr Garnett ' s Ufe he held in succession many curacies and minor preferments residing sometimes in rural parishes sometimes in busy manufacturing towns and varying his field of ob servation accordingly . Inl 82 ohemade his first appearance as a writer , in a series of articles on the Hamiltonian system of tuition which he criticised with caustic severity ; and in the following year , when " the Catholic question , " was the question of the day , he distinguished himself in the literary branch of the controversy then pending , by exposing .

      as Southey said , « the abominable falsifications of such men , as Milner and Lingard , whom he had industry enough to ferret out , throughout all their underhand ways . " In engaging in this work , he was actuated by no feelings of religious bigotry , or of host i lity to the civil rights of the Roman Catholics , but by liis honest indignation at the disingenuousness of many of their polemical writers , and their mendacity with regard to biography and historical facts . In February 1838 , Mr . Garnett was appointed Assistant Keeper of the Department of Printed Books , in the British Museum , and he held the office until his death in September , 1850 . It was during the last fifteen years of his life that the contents of the present volume were published , some of them in the Quarterly Review , and the rest ill the Proceedings of

      the Philological Society . Mr . Garnett ' s . library is said literally to have contained examples of every printed language , and none of them were there merely for show . The mention of his linguistic attainments naturally suggests a comparison with Cardinal Mezzofanti , who may have surpassed him in the conversational use of a multitude of tongues , for we have no record of Mr . Garnett ' s powers in . this way , and the Cardinal , we know ,

      was . a man "Who to prattle was able , All the languages spoke at the building of Babel ; but in all other respects , how immeasurably superior was tho English linguist ! The Cardinal was a gifted idiot ; an intellectual monster , with a memory for vocabularies and verbal forms prodigiously developed at the expense of every other mental faculty . His rare gift was an object of barren wonder , a thing as purely personal and incommunicable , and [ as profitless to the world , as the calculating powers of dozens of inspired arithnietipinns who have passed away , without adding one jot to the stock of numerical science . Tho Cardinal ' s acquisitions perished with him ; Mr . Garnett made his tho means of permanently onlarging the boundaries of human knowledge , < and introducing light and order into some of its most chaotic departments .

      What a paragon of lexicography would have been an English dictionary , compiled by Mr . Garnett ! It is much to bp regretted that ho did not embody that ideal of such a work , of which he has gi \ en some invaluablo hints in one of his papors > in the Quarterly . It was his opinion , expressed in the language of an Irish friend , " that tho only good English dictionary we possess is Dr . Janiidson ' s Scottitih one . " IJfo thought that , " on tho whole , Dr . AVobstcr ' s quartos wore hardly worthy being roprlntou in England . " Of Richardson ' s work ho judged moro fuvoumbly , not

      that ho considered it perfect , cither in point of plan , or oxecution , but ) ho hoped it was " likoly to become the foundation of a bettor dictionary than wo have hitherto possessed . " Will it bo our good fortune to receive such a work from the hands of tho Doan ol Westminster and liis learned coadjutors ? That will depend much on tho uso they make of the volume beforo us , both as to principles and details . To instance only tho latter—the Doan Isjtob prone to beliovo in Toolco ' s ingenious otymologioal guesses ; one which lie confidently reproduces in his " Study ol Words , " here follows with Garnott ' s correction :

      " ' O » d . Oivad , wanted to make up another pair . ' ' ¦ Out , Outs , iVoni Anglo-Saxon , orettan , doturnuru , La ., made vila or worthless '— Tooho . Just as much as Cinderella ' s cocktnllod mice wore Identical with tho cootlloe muri of Somlmmls , Odd does

      Journal of the Institute of Actuaries ; and Assurance Magazine . No . 35 . C . and E . Lay ton . Tins excellent magazine is steadily pursuing its course , and must have obtained considerable authority in the assurance world . The valuable papers read before the Institute of Actuaries are reprinted in these pages , and the present number opens with Mr . E . J . barren ' s " Essay on the Improvement-of Life Contingency Calculation , " and a second part on the System of Dependent Risks . " It is not for methods

      us to pronounce on the value of the proposed , but it must be of advantage to students to examine them . All the articles are of a scientific nature , but the one of most general interest is that on the " Decimal Sj'stcm of Measures and Coins , " by Mr . Samuel Brown , , which was read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , at Liverpool . The " Correspondence " is not the least valuable portion-of the contributions , and always contains many communications on special subjects . The Servants' Behaviour Booh ; or , Hints on Manners and Dress for Maid Servants in Small Households , By Mrs . Motherly . Bell and Daldy . Tins is a most useful manual for servants ; by the observance of these plain directions they can render their places comfortable to themselves , and their employers comfortable with them . Many of the directions may be superseded , probably by the sense of propriety which every -well-regulated servant instinctively possesses ; but still it is well to have them so sot down , that the principle of action may bo reflected on , and its application consciously referred to the actual business of the moment . Servants hereby may bo taught to think rationally of their duty , as well as diligently to perform it .

      Poerio and the Neapolitan Prisoners rransportcil ; a Drama in Three Acts , with Prologue By A . G **** . P . Uolnmli . Tuicnis is considerable clovernoss in tho manner in which tho dialogues are managod ; and tho infamous conduct of tho Neapolitan Government is exposed . Wo trust thiil ; tho dramatic form will not prevent this political brochure from being extensively road . SiborCs Wold , or Cross Purposes . A talo : by the author of "A Trap to Cuteh a Sunbeam . " Tins pretty story of modern life has deservedly got into a second edition .

      Not Signify Deficiency, But Surplus; Ort...

      JBrother Prince ' s Journal ; or an Account of the Destruction of the Works of the Devil in the Hitman Soul , by the Lord Jesus Christ , through the ¦ GospeL Arthur Hall , . . yirtuei ,-and ^ Jo . Brother Prixce , of the Agapemone needs no introduction ; he has made himself suflieiently notorious as the founder of a sect of religious eccentrics . We gather from this volume that he is a man who has been subiect to ill-health ; who , consequently , little disposed to the ordinary rough usage of . the world , has cultivated a select society of his own ; wTio , whenever he visits the larger society beyond its bounds , is shocked with the coarse language -and manners that prevail ; and , when he returns within liis own self-constituted narrow limits * cultivates his subjective moods until they attain to a complex growth , and then mistakes them for general truths . No wonder that with these habits of--thought and

      conduct , and with these surroundings , that Brother Prince discovers one of his besetting sins to be a spirit of self-righteousness . If we understand the diary rightly , it describes a course by which the journalist was delivered from this same spirit ; but , for our parts , we recognise no such deliverance : indeed , we find him more confirmed in the self-righteous conviction at the end than at the beginning of the record . He claims to have arrived at a certain Hindoo state , as it were , in which liis own life has been absorbed into that of the Divinity . This is an Oriental luxury of religious sentiment which few in our rugged clime can afford .. Brother Prince has enjoyed too much good fortune , too much leisure , and has not known how to turn it to that account by which it

      gives birth to wisdom . Much need of hard work has been his ;—the necessity of living on sixpence a-day , and earning it . Under such a condition of things his mind might have grown robust and strong ; and we should never have heard of these dreams , which are the product of an idle mind , that had to make its own occupation , and thus constructs a sort of poetical world , with which , being his own , he may dp what he pleases . We may safely leave Brother Prince to the Fool ' s Paradise of his own creation . Resident in this , he may still continue to cure himself of toothache , and the other ills that flesh is heir to , by the force of what he deems his faith . We shall doubt , However , whether external nature be subject to his prayers . In his judgment it is . Here is liis witness : — " April 12 th .

      "By the help of God I have overcome the cast wind . For three or four weeks a strong east wind has been blowing , and as this wind exerts quite a pestilential influence on my body , and has so often been the means of bringing me very low , when itbe-. gan this time my-flesh trembled . God , however , gave me faith to believe it should not injure me ; nor did . it , though I have been exposed to it daily . Yesterday , however , my faith failed , and the wind being strong and the sun very hot , I expected to be laid up ; when , lo ! the wind shifted to the north ! I have no doubt that God gave me special faith for the occasion ; and , when the faith was no longer needed , He took it from me . Neither do I doubt that I , through f aith , subdued the east wind to the glory of God . " contained in the

      This example of the fanaticism book will be sufficient to instruct the reader as to the quality of its contents and general style . Edinburgh Veterinanj Review . No . IV . A great variety of practical information is accumulated ^ -more , indeed , than we could indicate without going to great length ; and some , of it so minute that it would be impossible to transfer it to our-pages . Herein , however , lies the special value of a work like this , which is decidedly of gi oat professional utility . A Journey due North , being Notes of a Residence in Russia in the Summer of 1856 . By George Augustus Sala . Second edition . London : W . Bent ley . Tms cnpital book of travels has rapidly reached a second edition , which no one can be surprised at who has road the vivid descriptions which characterise this gifted author ' s style .

      ? 'When Numbers Aro Coiihkun'od Us Odd O...

      ? ' When numbers aro coiiHkUn'od us odd or ovon they Boom to bi > CQiinMcrod iih placed In two i' 0 \ v » \ and Ifthoouus of tlio ro \ YH mo ovuu with uuuh other , wo cull tho number ovou i 11 ' ono row projofltn uoyonil tho other , It , 1 h mi odd number i and tliu luultuuloru lmfvoyddiu , to / m ^< ioMVonui < ld . I don't think you iilltulud to tho I'NnrosHlim , udd « mid ends , which Iw » oonuuou ouo . —JLutlor J ' roin 11 , llintytvooU , linn ., to tho author .

      Irish Election News. A Third Candidate I...

      IRISH ELECTION NEWS . A third candidate is in the field for tlio representation of Wiciu . ow County in tho person of Mr . Or . Cuninghame , a supporter of tho Derby Uovoriiii . onc , against Lord Proby , tho prosout modorato Liberal Mr . Humo is put down as safo . ' , Strenuous ull'urts are being inmlo by tlio Liberal party in Bulvast to rocovor thoir lost ground , ana to recover one , at least , of tho seats . . 1 hey have cast thoir eyes on Mr . Kirk , tho sitting inombef for Newry , as a candidate likely to win tho good graces of tho doctors . . . fi ^ . Mr . John Francis Magiuro . tlio ringleader of that section of tho Irish independent Opposition which gavo a cordial and hoarty vote in favour ot tho Derby Govornmont on tho Into memorable occasion , solicits a renewal of tlio oonfldonco of tho , Dunc * auvan There are now throe aspirants for tho representation of tho small borough of Kxhbalb , vftcatedbj

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16041859/page/15/