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the governorship of Of en will be restored . In acknowledgement of the national claims of Hungary and the population of Servia , a High Commissioner is appointed to hear the views of the leading menof the different classes , whose proposals will be submitted to the decision of the Emperor . Analogous constitutional arrangements are promised for Transylvania .
90q The Saturday Analyst And Leader. [_O...
90 Q The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [_ Oct . 97 , 1860
Miscellaneous Works. A Handy Bool On Din...
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS . A Handy Bool on Dinners ; Dinners and Diners , atflomeconl Abroad . By E . LBlanehard . London : Adamson , 16 , Brydges-strcet , fa tram ! , lbuO . We have had handy books or digests of laws by the score , and now we have a much more agreeable one in a handy book of the laws of digestion ; and what is more , it is replete with piquant plates ( as appetfcLg as the plates of another sort treated of in the letter-press ) and Choice ? uts ( asrelishing and gustative to the mental palate , as the choice cuts of the joints which form one of its topics of discussion are to the physical ) of a comical , anatomical , and gastronomicalcharacter ; the whole forming a comprehensive dining directory for all tastes andall pockets . Voltaire ( whose name is suggested to its by an interesting anecdote in this little work , to be presently noted ) having been felicitous in a good digestionmakes his Candide " find lite most tolerable
, after meals , " as Byron tells us ; while the poor poetical peer himself being cursed with a bad one , and having vegetated on potatoes and vinegar hav . e we not been told it?—to make himself look thin , pale , and interesting ( ye gods ! that the marks and symptoms of disease should be thought attractive ! ) , maunders about that celebrated lunatic , Alexander the Great , having declared that the pleasures ¦ ot feeding painfully reminded him of his mortality , when the incense with which his lickspittles and toadies had regaled him proved too light even for his god-like stomach . According to Dean Swift , however , the Macedonian maniac was so inordinately given to gorging fried eggs , that whenever he woke up after one of Ins drunken Ins ( tor rin wfi not know that
" Alexander hated thinking , Drank a bout at Council board , And subdued the world by drinking More than by his mighty sword ? " ) his courtiers bawled out « all eggs under the grate , " and that hence was derived his name . But that is neither here nor there . The fact is , that life depends on certain processes of animal chemistry , such as breathing , for example ; eating and drinking are another example and happy is the man who can perform these , processes with comfort to himself , and without annoyance to others by manifestations of ill-temper and suffering ; for verily such a man has good lungs and a good liverand what is more , shall be a long liver ; he is free
, from indigestion and bile , and asthma and dyspepsia , and his days shall be many in the land . Do not doctors and physiologists tell us that all the organs and functions o £ our system ought to be duly exercised , and that the pleasurable discharge of the hitter is a sign of health- and that the non-exercise of these functions , the non-performance ' of these natural processes of animal chemistry , is detrimental and destructive of health , just the same as excesses are ? Then let us breathe fresh air , and eat and drink , & c , not because " to-morrow we die " but that we may live long and comfortably , as nature , it she has any intentions at . all , evidently intended we should do . But to revert to our anecdote about Voltaire , — we find by this little work , nnrovos of a place wh < rj hungry men do congregate , to wit , The
Bedford Head , " Maiden-lane , Covont-garden , that the " patriarch , when on his escape from , the Bastile , ho came over here , went to live only two doors off from this resort , so dear ( in one sense , though , we beliew , cheap in another ) to " diners ; " remained there some time collecting subscriptions for his " Henriade , " and cultivating tho acquaintance of Pope , Youug , Congroro , and other contemporary celebrities . Womtinand her U ' aiitt . From Lectures on tho Fomnlo » orty nnil its Clothing . By Madame Koxoy Ann Cnj . lin . JLonaou ; Durton ami Co , M . Holborn 11111 . Most people who have frequented tho wostorn division of tho metropolis of late years must have had occasion to traverse Bernorsetrect and in thufc commodious thoroughfare * most probably have observed some feminino lay-ilgures coquettfchly attired in stays and draped with a gauzy sort of garniture . This is the temple of hygeinic dressmaking , whence the lootwes in question have emanated . In Lecture Iwo are told that " Motherhoodis the highest point to which
, a woman ' s ambition oan soar . Thorp is glory m many things which wo can do , literature and art are open to us , and we are justly proud , oi tho success of many of tho iirsfc writers of this ago , who are the distinguished ornaments of oui' sexj but tho mothers of England , with tlioir millions of beautiful daughters and noblo sons , have a higher and a holier fame . " Of ooureo , if ono is suro of producing eons and daughters that aro noble < md beautiful , and if ono bus the . moans of bringing them up to bo happy and useful mombora ol sooioty , " motherhood , " ami " fatherhood , " too , aro very creditable things , but there is nothing special in which tho formor is more estimable or more useful than tho lattor ; nor is there anything m cither that should cuuso it for itsolf alone , as an aim and object ill itsolf , instead of tho moans to an end , to bo considered . " tho noblest point" to wluoh any sensible person ' s " ambition can soar . " There aro oasoa in which tho noblest point to which a woman ' s for a man ' ] ambition could bou
soar" would bo found in that gonorous and oxnltwU , spirit ol - eaoriftoo and dovotion to tho gonorul good in which motherhood and fathorhood would bo excluded . Aro thoro not pooplo with mortal ana deadly malmlioa tho hereditary transmission of which to thou' children is inoviablo ? Whore is tho heart , tho sonso , tho fooling of thoso who would irivo birtli to a procony striolton in tho very germ with a tatal andng ^ Sing dtamso I More « artificial inatinol , » {« tho Times calls It ) , factitiously produced by habit and cu-oumstanops , and prejudices ovfginating in times of ignorance and barbarism , mixed wiliaoonedoAbk sploo of selfish vanity and egotism , ayo too often at tho bottom of what pooplo mistake for a " noblo ambition . " We asU ifc in very bittovnoBB of spirit—but how about tho mothoi'fl of tho pariah , tho
predatory and prostitute classes , of those who have been driven to their frightful calling by inability to obtaiu work , or who when fully employed , like the multitudes of famishing needlewomen , cannot earn enough to keep soul and body together , and . are compelled to cko out their wretched existence by the proceeds arising from various kinds of illicit acts ? If the parents of theso unfortunates think they have reached the " noblest i ^ oint to which a woman ' s ambition can soar , " we do not envy their feelings , nor the feelings of those who may agree with them . These lectures have the merit of being calculated to make young women conversant with the construction of their own organism —a subject on which they have hitherto been absurdly and criminally kept in the dark . And thus it has come to pass that multitudes of young women , from a sheer want of information on the construction of their own frame , have , through tight lacing and other pernicious practices , entirely deranged the healthy action of their bodily functions , and entailed the most fearful consequences on themselves and their children . Nay , there are even now frumpish people in the world with antidiluvian notions , who think it absolutely immoral for women not to lace themselves up after the ridiculous fashion of a former period ; and any young woman who attires herself in a comfortable and natural way is stigmatized by them as " fast , " & c . In tending to cure this evil , Madame Caplin ' s lectures will havo a very good effect , and we commend them to the speoial attention of the gentler sex . SERIALS . KortJt American ' Jievieio . No . 189 . Oct . 18 G 0 . Boston , U . S ., Crosby & Co .: New York , II . H . Dexter < fc Co .: London , Sampson Low < £ Co . —The present number of this standard Keviow contains papers that will be interesting to every class of readers . The philologist , the critic , the classical student , will Und suitable mental pabulum in ' " Homer and his Heroines , " a paper on the Hon . W . E . Gladstone ' s " Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age , " . also in articles on " The English Language in America , " and " Edmund Waller ' s Poetical"Worksj " the historian will turn to the articles on " The Life and Labours of Richard Prince , " the " Memoirs , Letters , and Speeches of Anthony Ashley Cooper first Earl of Shaftesbury , " " Palfrey ' History of New England ; " the diplomatist and politician will be attracted by " Hush ' s Occasional Productions ; " the . naturalist ,, savant ,- and the medical man will select the papers on " Climatology , " " Quarantine and Hygiene , " ( in which , among other topics , Dr . Babington ' s work on " The Epidemics of the Middle Ages , " is discussed ) , and that , most interesting question , " The Origin of Species , " at the head of which stand the nanies of Professor Agassiz and Professor Parsons , as " representative men" in the discussion of the matter , though ,, of course , the name oi ' Mr . Darwin . who has placed the subject in a more complete and satisfactory form than it had ever previously assumed , will occupy a principal share of the reader ' s attention . In addition to the above , there are a paper , the subject of which may be inferred from its title , "An Inglorious Milton , " " Critical Notices , " and " New Publications . " It will be seen that the subjects of the articles contained in the present number are of a pecnliarly varied and interesting nature . The Leisure Hour . ' Part 1 OG . October , 18 G 0 . London : Religious Tract Society , 56 , Paternoster-row ; and 1 G 4 , Piccadilly . —This- "liinuly journal of instruction and recreation , " well fulfils its " speciality . The present part contains an interesting paper , illustrated with suitable cuts , of the total solar eclipse which occurred on the 18 th . ot . 1 uly last ; "A Summary of Neapolitan History" possesses peculiar interest , tro .-n current events ; it is illustratedB by a map of Southern _ I inly . Jlow to use the Baromoter " ( also appropriately illustrated ) , is ; i very useuu contribution . The " Story of the Crooked Sixpence prugress ^ through chapters 8 to 15 , both inclusive , in the present part ; and " The Black Country , " which commences in it , proceed * as iur as chapter 4 . There aro , besides , a number of well written article * wuO we must dispose of en masse by recommending tho publi < Mtu > : i tor general perusal . In " Missionary Itineration in India , ' it is curious to uoto , in the graphic illustration given , how travellers rule m vi'Iikm ?* <» Europoan shape but not drawn by European methods ot tnu ' U ; n . Bipodal—in liqu of quadrupodal or stoam—motive power is in lv . jiiis .-tion . Two running natives each tako a shaft over Ins gluuikicr , a .. u two moro push behind ; and this is tho way they got over tho gruuj . a in India ; tho equine population of India is scarce , tho mileuUuuM bipodal race is superabundant ; voila , tho secret .
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RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL . Last week closed with Consols down at 07 7-8 to t ) 3 . The nrUa ! and anticipated suspension of diplomatio relations betweon Sai-iun : a a . m ,-tho pro-Neapolitan States , had a prinoipal shuro in this ll ' /; ' "" % p . , ' Wo have , wo rogrefc this weak to add tlio name of tlio DuUc ui Hi , i ^ mond to tho obituury of well-known public men who have dud u ; un . , tho present autumn . ,,, ,. 11 , ; ,,,. Lord Bury , who is well known as a social rcformor , has ollou . i . u . » solf as ii ' oaiulidrtto to tho couaUUumcy of tho Wick Uurgln . _ The Session at tho Central Criminal Court wus rosunu- I 011 . u " ;„ •¦' . ' Tho important oosos of tlio nmrdors at Slopnoy , Lou-bri . If , ' . , •'•; . ¦ „ » .. » ' ^ noticed under thoir spooillo hoads . Tlio index of crime , iu < iv : i . i ¦> ¦•• _ Surrey Soesions , sooms to show a somowhat favournblc etato ( -1 111111 * . ^ Uy fhni . nnimtv . nttvibuLod bv tho oliainuiui to tlio ho I ill . 1 ry »•¦•'
bonofioont rosulte of rnggod-aphoola « nd rcformntory instilu idiim . The now Socroturv of tho Troiifiiry , U Mr . Froiloricl-. »• ^ ' * - . , Tho criminal roo ' ord of tlio woolc , is »\ vollon by n ino . l . Inyii l-jtrugody at Bradford . A Mrs . Gowland has inurdorod Iu ; r I " " ' '• ' ' dren . Tho inatrumonfc of dostvuetion wae a razor , with" wliu-M buo i » . thoir throats . Sho thon altomntod suioitlo . A truo bill was found against Mullins , in Iho cuso of tlioblirmy murdoi , ou Tuesday . . ... ..... Tlio charge against W . B . Webb , of having munlorod ^ •»' ° , ;^ ; . tho high eons , has i ' allon to tho ground , tho grand jury having liuown ° Ae Mffards Stvoot-vnUways , an . apnlioation having boon wmlo to Hjo Oommiseionore of Sowove , by Mr . Train , for lonvo to introduce thuu ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101860/page/12/
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