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      mw * go to Yeaice , and judge-him by Tintoret and . Even * ,, I 10 W 5 hie ground so firmly , that non & of his admirers : need fear the effect- on topic own minds of making the . comparison ,. Some years hay « passed since JEttjrt * death ; youDg men have rise ** , and are rising , with a wider ? and better ch , * iee , oi" subjects than his was , to do probably as good service to English A * V in their way , a * h © once did in his ; but the place tbafe he left , vacant , \* Ucaathe . brush dcopped for -. ever from . his ; hand , no man since , has . filled , Exhibit bis pictures , at this day , with any other *—English , French ; or < 3 fKman , -which you please—aad they will still stand out characteristically ali > ne . — 'tik © vrorks . of a great , original genius o » that account , if on no other .

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      The Governess And The Tradeswoman" . J&T...

      THE GOVERNESS AND THE TRADESWOMAN " . J & terml Comtek to a Daughter . By Mrs . Pullan . Darton and Co . jE ^ uc thing , most worthy of note in this little , book is its strong : common seww-tbe result of natural shrewdness and . vaccied experience combmed . The usual advice tp young Ladies , a ZaChaponek is followed by further ; advice iu ( th & stylo , of BenjamM Jfranklin . A » d this last . we recommend especially tQ . our readers , fev its , novelty as , well as- for its , practical utility . Aftesc . sjwja & ng with force and truth about the absurdity of all young women who are compelled to earn their livelihood turnings go « eraesses > when nofeone ia ion- has any inclination for the employment , and not one in a hundred the proper qualifications , Mrs . Pullaa proceeds to show in what other ways the unintellectual and the untaught may maintain themselves , and yet make themselves respected in the world : —

      It is a great pity that the science of book-keeping is not made a more prominent study with the young ladies of the present day . Very many would be earning liberal salaries-who can . now barely find bread . Why should not . an Englishwoman be as accomplished , a hook-keeper aa . her French sister ? Hew seldom . i » Bayis do we see nj £ «; acting as ., cashiers or book-keepers ia any large business , There ,. women are . aUsmed to he £ > r more ; efficient ,, more safe , and more trustworthy . Hundreds of : Pa * rtaian women earn liberal salaries as accountants . Why should , we not do tibe- same ? 3 Vle » ,. aw » required for other , labours , Ev ^ exy day they ape called on to fulfil Baore imperfcant duties , to- the state and to- themselves . Why should not : women fit tbeBaselye & fojj sadh occupations aa are not incompatible with their sex and their abilities ? ' It

      se # ms to me a libel oh both . sexes when , men are handling ribbona ana gauzes , earning vrowan ' s ' wages , and doing women ' s work , whilewomen cannot fiad . ^ piqymentJit alL Jit , is ,: a .- state of things , that must terminate if it is not to result in misery to thousajwis . At this moment , -when tens , of thousands of our strongest are engaged in war * w , hjett like numheeft are . departing fox the colonies , when labour of every sort is ber xswting too , much fiwr tlhe- number of hands , to perform it , it is . incumbent on every yeufig girl who does . not possess , a fortune to . find some channel for the . exercise , of the facn & ea with which she > i » endowed j and ^ whether in her own family or in that of a stewjger , tft h * ve . some fixed pursuit in life which shall render that life itself a bkfi ^ ing t o . tor . a # < 4 to all with whom she is connected . nd

      j ^ let' no Englishwoman , * in selecting her occupation , forget that the pride and bo ^ s * , of hoc country is its comnjerce . That all the greatest institutions of our land , it » s « heiol 8 , itft hospitals , ita Ubraries v its ; wealth at home , and the civilisation it has diffused- afero ^ d , Hi awea tftits eaerchants and its trade . In remembering all this , she -vvrijl ce / ute , to tbixtk it . a oVegradirtion to , b * termed , a tradeswoman . If-MMt-pullaTi-cowW ' s «« ee « d i » - making-hep own sex appreciate her -wisdom , we should soon see-the advertising columns of the Times shorn of t & ewf- governesses-, and the unmarried women far happier than they are .

      Mterary Faklesj Literary Julfifes+Jrom.T...

      MTERARY FAKLESJ literary JUlfifes + jrom . tbe Spanish of Yriarte * By Robert . Bockliff . Longman and Co . J \ bsxcoiu > edition of Yriarte ' s Fabulas Liteiarias" in a fitting English < 3 r « ss is proof sufficient that they are as papular as they ought to be in this iCautttry . , We , use the . word ought advisedly , for they cannot , from their nature , be universallypopular like those of iEsop and La Fontaine , seeing thafr the public which they address is restricted to the republic of letters . "VYJtjtitn that republic " ¦ every gentleman ' s , library" should contain a copy , ia Yvtayte ' s sonorous , brilliant Spanish , if the owner be fortunate enough to

      understand it ; if not , he should certainly possess himself of Mr . RockliflPs version . We confess honestly that " our havings in Spanish aro but a youngerbrother ' s portion 1 ' —not more , perh « pa , khan Shakspeare ^ s ' * havings in Greek ; therefore avo cannot say positively that the English translation is as good a » Yriarte ' s Spunish ^ but wo . can say truthfully that the fables are very good fables , and that tha English is very good English . For the variety , ingenuity * and finish of . the versification , the translator deserves great praise . It often reminds , us of our own Hood , and of all the world ' s La Fontaine ^

      The fables themselves are , as many of our readers know , sharp satires upon the faults of authors and critics . Indoed , the whole duty of critics ra »» y bo gathered from this , little volume , and all professors of the unkindly ci » ftwQuld do well to heed its ioeeonau Qur author wae well awaro that 1 » 4 countrymen are not the , only writers who might profit by his teaching . Tina nopal of his introductory fable runs thus : — My fables , in their application , Refer to every ago and nation ; For authors , just tw dull axvX vain

      , As any who atxnwti i »{ Spain , ¦ -, . Have perpetrated prose and rhyme -- ... ¦ - . ¦ In every land in every tune . : But , though I solemnly disclaim ' All personality of aim , . If any scribbler , conscience-smitten , ¦ Should wince at aught that I have written—Should find , in short , the cap to fit ,. . The fool ia welcome unto it . There are sixty-seven , of these iables- —a few of them we remember to-have seen in BlacTcwood . None of them are without the distinctive mark of the author's genius , and most of them are very witty . The following 1 is an average specimen : — THE OSTOICa , THE DROMEDARY , AND TECS FOX . Although they never meet like men To play at hazard or e * carte * , The beasts- assemble now and then , And hold in some sequester'd glen A . conversazione party . And thus it chanced one evening , that A troop of them had got together , When , after some prelusive chat—Some twaddle , just as . stale and flat As Englishmen's about , the weather—They straight proceeded to descant And comment on the different merits Which every creature—from the ant Unto the mighty elephant—According to its kind , inherits . « ' Of all tMe animals that live , " The Ostrich cried , " and with all deference For others' sentiments , I give , Without a single ' but' or * if / The I > romedary much the preference . ' * The Dswn *» daryr thus prefiferr'dt , Bepaid va kind the obligation , And said ba , language as absurd : * ' In aught that , may hecome . a bird , The . Ostrich ' whips'the whole creation . " The ^ rest , -who heard them- with surprise And hwghter which , they * scarce could smother , = "Were sowly / puazled to surmis & What motive such a pair of " Guys " Could have , for praising one another . Was it , perchance , because the twain Had scraggy necks and burry bodies- . And head * too little to contain A greater qjamtity-of brain -. ¦ Than might be lodged , within a noddy ' Or might it be that both possess'd Peculiar organs of digestion ? Or was , it—but in vain they guess'd , And tried , to solve what seenx'd , at best , A dJfficuttand doubtful question . Till jusft aa they began to pause ,. ' . ¦ Bewilel & r'd in thek speculation ^ ----- - .. TheJEos-exclaica'd ;; , itX thi ^ thjs cauae Of this , reciprocal applause Admits , of easy explanation . ** The creatures are compatriots , born And ! toed in Araby the Stony ;• And bance , despite the general scorn ^ . With faocjad charms they each adorn : And av « J ? tate their brother crony . " The Fox . conjectured not amiss ; And ,, in the commonwealth of letters , A wretched , author often is , From motives as absurd as this , Preferr'd and praised above his betters . Yriarte ' s feme as- an author ( and ho has written many things besides these Fables ) ' has not go > ne far beyond his own country . _ He is not nearly so well known in Europe as Johnson ,, Burke , and Goldsmith , whose , contemporary he was , and with whom * as a thinker and original writer , he deserve * to be classed ; although he- may not be placed side by side with Goldsmith " and Burke , as a master of style . The English and the Spaniards have sot many mental characteristics in . common , that it is somewhat surprising ; the lof ty Castilian tongue * should not be more generally cultivated among u * than it is . The gravity and the humour of Spanish authors would bo heartily relished by mauy people here , who , in their inmost brains , do nofe really care very much for the very different gravity and very different humour of th « German authors . Cervantes is really more akin to us than Jean Paul . Fashion , the only autocrat to whom tho free-born BwJpn bonds his stifl-necked mind and body , will probably set . all the young Indies and . gentlemen of the rising genovation to learn Russian—or , "h ow wrtl thay , bft able to speak with their enemy in the gate" of Sebastopol or Sfc . PetersBurgl * Wo hope sho will reuiombor how tho past generation spoko with item © ncwy , in tho last war * and will caution their grandchildren against " Tho school oC Stratford atto Bow . " We have on © other hope concerning the power of Fashion m such , mates , via ? ., that it should constrain every educated man to pq familiar vnttk Spanish—tout strong bastard Latin .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27011855/page/19/